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KICKING OFF: Romo set to make preseason debut at home
A look at tonight's NFL preseason matchups:
ROMO READY TO GO
Dallas quarterback Tony Romo will make his preseason debut at home against Miami a week after his top option, receiver Dez Bryant, made a surprise appearance and scored a touchdown in the first game in Los Angeles since 1994.
Romo should be joined for a brief appearance by tight end Jason Witten, but rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott will wait another week for his first pro outing. The fourth overall pick in the draft was slowed by a mild hamstring injury in training camp, which wrapped up Wednesday in California.
It will be Round 2 for Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill and crew after gaining 8 yards on seven snaps in an exhibition opener more notable for three Miami takeaways in the second quarter of a 27-10 win over the New York Giants.
The Miami offense is much more unsettled than Dallas in terms of who will start, including a competition at running back between Arian Foster and Jay Ajayi. Foster, limited to four games because of torn Achilles tendon in the last of his seven seasons in Houston, sat out the preseason opener.
"It's been a while since I've been hit," said Foster, a four-time Pro Bowler. "In games, it's different. You want to get that feel of getting hit week in and week out again."
REDSKINS HAVE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden didn't even need to think about what he wanted to see his team improve in its second preseason game against the New York Jets: the running game and penalties.
The Redskins had 79 yards rushing on 24 carries, a 3.3-yard average that was stunted by four tackles for loss. Two carries by No. 1 running back Matt Jones went for a combined 1 yard, and Gruden didn't want to use the absence of left tackle Trent Williams and left guard Shawn Lauvao as an excuse.
"I think we should be good," Gruden said Wednesday. "We're going to keep trying to push it. The Jets are excellent against the run. If I recall last year, we couldn't run the length of my arm against them. They're very physical. They play some fronts that are very difficult to run against. So it will be a great test for us — our physicality — and see if we can get anything going."
Gruden wants physicality without flags after Washington racked up 123 yards on 14 penalties in its preseason-opening 23-17 loss at the Atlanta Falcons last week. Allowing a touchdown on a kick return wasn't great, either, so all facets of the team have something to work on.
"You want us to play a clean football game and you want us to improve on our physicality and obviously eliminate the big plays on defense," Gruden said. "You need to take away the big plays and the penalties, play a pretty good game."
A WEEK AT THE BEACH
After a week in San Diego, a trip that included the hospitalization of their coach, the Arizona Cardinals plan to play most of their starters no more than 16 to 18 plays in their preseason game against the Chargers.
Coach Bruce Arians is back with the team after spending Tuesday night in a San Diego-area hospital with a stomach ailment. He later called the episode "no big deal."
New right tackle D.J. Humphries and rookie cornerback Brandon Williams are the starters who will play a little more because they need the experience. Arians wasn't concerned with Arizona's 30-10 loss to Oakland in its preseason opener last week because the starters played well in their brief time on the field.
The Cardinals and Chargers held joint practices on Tuesday and Wednesday and players on both sides said it was helpful to go against someone besides a teammate for a change.
San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers said the practices had a game-like feel.
AP Sports Writers Stephen Whyno in Ashburn, Virginia; Schuyler Dixon in Irving, Texas; and Bob Baum in Phoenix contributed to this report.
AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL
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Diesel fell 3 cents to $3.919 a gallon, its third straight decrease and the biggest single-week downturn in five months, while gasoline fell 7 cents to $3.425, its lowest price since January, the Department of Energy reported.
The diesel decline — the biggest since a 3.1-cent downturn April 29 — followed last week's 2.5-cent decrease. The price is now in its longest streak of weekly declines since June.
Diesel is 16 cents below the same week last year, DOE figures showed.
Gasoline's decrease was its largest in seven weeks and the fourth consecutive decline, DOE said. It is at its lowest level since Jan. 28, when it was $3.357.
Despite the recent slides, trucking's main fuel has held at or above $3.90 a gallon for the past seven weeks.
Each week, DOE surveys about 400 diesel filling stations and 800 gasoline stations to compile national average prices.


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Q: Getting XML back from a web service when it should be JSON I am a noob to ASP.NET/C#.  I am trying to use a web service to return a JSON object from the database.  I am getting an error in Firebug that I am creating a circular reference.  The stack trace is in JSON format.  When I view the web service directly in the browser, it is returning valid XML for some strange reason.  Here is my web service.
[WebMethod]
[ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
public DataSet Posts() {
    string connString = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["XXX"].ConnectionString;
    SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connString);
    string sql = "SELECT * FROM Posts";
    SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter(sql, conn);
    DataSet ds = new DataSet();
    sda.Fill(ds);
    return ds;
}

I'm new to C# so I don't know if this is written correctly.  What I want is a DataSet in JSON format.  Am I doing this correctly?  Here is the jQuery that is calling the web service.
<script>
    $(function () {
         $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "WebServices/MessageBoard.asmx/Posts",
            data: "{}",
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            dataType: "json",
            success: function(data) { console.log(data) },
            failure: function (msg) {
                //alert(msg);
            }
        });

    });
</script>

A: The reason you're getting XML is because the the DataSet serializes to XML. However, you can use JSON.NET to turn the XML into JSON. Here is an example:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var dataSet = new DataSet();
        var dataTable = new DataTable();
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { dataTable.Columns.Add(string.Format("Column{0}", i), typeof(string)); }
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            var vals = new List<object>();
            for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++) { vals.Add(string.Format("Value {0}", j)); }
            dataTable.LoadDataRow(vals.ToArray(), true);
        }

        dataSet.Tables.Add(dataTable);
        dataSet.AcceptChanges();

        Console.WriteLine(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dataSet));
    }
}

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Section 3.4 – (lien avoidance) Please include the dollar amount of the exemption in column 4 as well as the appropriate statute. Also, in the last column, please use "100%" or "all" instead of a dollar amount, as the claim may not match your figure.
Under Bankruptcy Rule 3015(c), nonstandard provisions must be set forth below. A nonstandard provision is a provision not otherwise included in this form or deviating from it. Nonstandard provisions set out elsewhere in this plan are ineffective.
The following plan provisions will be effective only if there is a check in the box "Included" in 1.3.
If the date you file the Amended Plan is less than 28 days prior to the original confirmation hearing, then there isn't enough time for it to be heard on the original hearing date. Therefore, you will need file and serve a new Notice of Confirmation Hearing along with the Amended Plan, choosing the next available hearing date that is more than 28 days after you file the plan. You have to serve all creditors with both the new plan and the Notice of Confirmation Hearing. Make sure the Notice of Confirmation Hearing includes the date of the plan it refers to.
After the original confirmation hearing has already occurred, but before the case is confirmed, every time you file a new plan, you will also need to file and serve a new Notice of Confirmation Hearing along with the Amended Plan, choosing the next available hearing date that is more than 28 days after you file the plan. You have to serve all creditors with both the new plan and the Notice of Confirmation Hearing. Make sure the Notice of Confirmation Hearing includes the date of the plan it refers to.
After the case is confirmed, every time you file a new plan, you will also need to file and serve a Motion to Modify Plan After Confirmation and Opportunity for Hearing along with the Amended Plan, choosing the next available hearing date that is more than 28 days after you file the plan. You have to serve the Amended Plan together with the Motion to Modify only on creditors who are or may be adversely affected by the modification.
THE PLAN DATE MUST ALWAYS BE INCLUDED IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF THE NOTICE OF HEARING.


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Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 155,34 km/h 10 Dec 2017 Sibylle Andresen (GER) ratified - current record African 18356
Gliding D1-M Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 114.96 km/h 07 Dec 1978 Willibald Collee (FRG) ratified - superseded since approved World 10230
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Gliding D15 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 158,43 km/h 18 Oct 1998 Terrence Raymond Delore (NZL) ratified - superseded since approved World 5767
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Gliding D13 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 110,20 km/h 20 Nov 2016 Stefano Ghiorzo (ITA) ratified - current record World 19457
Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 147,99 km/h 07 Jan 2016 Anja Kohlrausch (GER) ratified - superseded since approved African 17796
Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 128,19 km/h 12 Dec 2013 Margherita Acquaderni (ITA) ratified - superseded since approved African 16997
Gliding D15 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 141,6 km/h 26 Nov 2002 Gillian Spreckley (GBR) ratified - current record World 7572
Gliding D2 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 140,07 km/h 17 Nov 1977 Edward Mouat-biggs (RSA) ratified - superseded since approved World 5494
Gliding D1 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 140,33 km/h 31 Jan 1975 Malcolm John Jinks (AUS) ratified - superseded since approved World 10039
Gliding D1 Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 103.33 km/h 25 Dec 1963 Anne Burns (GBR) ratified - superseded since approved World 10133
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Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 500 km 139,20 km/h 03 Jan 2014 Susanne Schödel (GER) ratified - superseded since approved African 17017
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Gliding D15 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 116,10 km/h 01 Dec 1999 Hana Zejdova (CZE) ratified - superseded since approved World 6345
Gliding D1 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 9 119 m 13 Jan 1961 Anne Burns (GBR) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 4404
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Gliding D2-M Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 144,67 km/h 10 Jan 1992 Hans-Werner Grosse (GER) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 428
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Gliding D1 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 125,218 km/h 30 Dec 1978 Hans Werner Grosse (FRG) ratified - superseded since approved World 10048
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Gliding D15 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 149,06 km/h 05 Dec 2015 Johan Luyckx (BEL) ratified - current record African 17758
Gliding D2 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 157,25 km/h 11 Jan 1988 Hans Werner Grosse (FRG) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 354
Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 169,72 km/h 05 Jan 1995 Helmut H. Fischer (GER) ratified - current record World 5009
Gliding D1-M Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 109.94 km/h 31 Dec 1979 Fritz Rueb (FRG) ratified - superseded since approved World 10235
Gliding D1 Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 98,54 km/h 18 Jan 1977 Hans Werner Grosse (FRG) ratified - superseded since approved World 10046
Gliding D1-M Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 155,00 km/h 02 Jan 1993 Tilo Holighaus (GER) ratified - retired by changes of the sporting code World 402
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Gliding DO Speed over a triangular course of 1 000 km 152,72 km/h 14 Aug 2016 Alan M. Polinsky (USA) ratified - current record North-American 17919
Gliding D2 Straight distance to a declared goal 619,995 km 27 Jun 1964 Zinaida Solovey (URS) ratified - superseded since approved World 10151
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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\Tests;

use DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\BooleanToYesNoSubscriber;
use DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\BooleanType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Test\TypeTestCase;

/**
 * @covers \DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\BooleanToYesNoSubscriber
 *
 * @uses \DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonFormTypes\BooleanType
 * @uses \DarkWebDesign\SymfonyAddonTransformers\BooleanToValueTransformer
 */
class BooleanToYesNoSubscriberTest extends TypeTestCase
{
    /**
     * @dataProvider provider
     */
    public function test(?bool $value): void
    {
        $form = $this->factory->createBuilder()
            ->add('isActive', BooleanType::class)
            ->addEventSubscriber(new BooleanToYesNoSubscriber(['isActive']))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit([
            'isActive' => $value,
        ]);

        $this->assertTrue($form->isSynchronized());
        $this->assertSame($value, $form->get('isActive')->getData());
    }

    public function testDataNoField(): void
    {
        $form = $this->factory->createBuilder()
            ->add('isActive', BooleanType::class)
            ->addEventSubscriber(new BooleanToYesNoSubscriber(['isActive']))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit([]);

        $this->assertTrue($form->isSynchronized());
        $this->assertNull($form->get('isActive')->getData());
    }

    public function testDataNotArray(): void
    {
        $form = $this->factory->createBuilder()
            ->add('isActive', BooleanType::class)
            ->addEventSubscriber(new BooleanToYesNoSubscriber(['isActive']))
            ->getForm();

        $form->submit('not-array');

        $this->assertFalse($form->isSynchronized());
        $this->assertNull($form->get('isActive')->getData());
    }

    public function provider(): array
    {
        return [
            'true' => [true],
            'false' => [false],
            'null' => [null],
        ];
    }
}

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Section:Children, young people and families
Coronavirus (COVID 19) information about services for children and young people
Coronavirus (COVID-19) information about services for children and young people
Information about the delivery of essential Lambeth services for children and young people during the coronavirus pandemic.
We appreciate that this is a difficult and challenging time for Lambeth families. We are working hard to keep essential services running, however many services have been reduced or stopped due to staff illness, or closed, to slow the spread of coronavirus.
We will give you as much information as possible to help support you through this pandemic. This page has been created to keep you informed about changes to services for children and young people.
Services may change due to staff availability and changes to government advice. Please check service provider websites to confirm services are still running before you attend.
The measures put in place to keep children safe when at school include staggered starts, as well as changes to breaks and lunchtimes. Children will sit in rows rather than face to face, and stay in their own learning groups or 'bubbles'. They will be encouraged not to mix with other 'bubbles' to reduce the number of unnecessary contacts. Schools have also been in direct contact with parents and carers to explain any changes to maintain the safety of children and staff during the pandemic.
Better Start Children's Centres
Better Start Children's Centres in Lambeth are offering a limited range of face-to-face services by appointment.
Better Start staff will continue to provide services and support online or by phone.
Please visit the Better Start Children's Centre page to see the services available this summer.
Lambeth's Parenting Team provide free parenting support across the borough for Lambeth families. Whilst face-to-face interventions are not possible, we aim to offer families virtual, online or telephone support.
If you would like to find out more, please complete our online referral form and we will be in touch with you soon.
You can also access helpful tips for parenting during COVID-19 in over 50 languages from Parenting for Lifelong Health.
Youth and play
Stay safe, healthy, positive, active, connected and informed. #StayInPower
Even though we can't deliver face-to-face and group activities from our youth and play services, most providers are now offering their services online. Lambeth's Family Information Directory now contains helpful listings of the services, activities, support and resources available for young people during the coronavirus pandemic.
We've launched a young people's guide to coronavirus. It's a one-stop-shop for up-to-date information, advice and great ideas for making the most of lockdown. The guide contains everything they need to know, all from trusted sources, without the fake news, and is presented in seven sections for young people.
Go to the young people's guide to coronavirus
In line with the current government guidance, Ofsted registered childcare providers, such as nurseries, preschools, childminders and after school clubs, remain open during the coronavirus pandemic.
If you are looking for childcare, you can search the online Family Information Directory to get information on childcare and places where you can use your funded early learning and childcare hours each week. Please visit:
childcare providers registered for two-year-old free early learning
childcare providers registered for 30 hour three and four-year-old funded childcare.
If you want a childcare place for your child but haven't found one yet, contact the Families Information Service at fis@lambeth.gov.uk as soon as you can. We can help you to find approved childcare providers who have vacant places.
If you need childcare for a vulnerable child aged 0-5 or for those children of key workers, please apply for childcare using this online form. Once we have received your completed form, we will help you to find suitable childcare in your preferred area in Lambeth. If you are not able to access the online form, please email Kathryn Shaw at kshaw2@lambeth.gov.uk.
See the following useful information for parents and carers from the Department for Education (DfE):
Guidance for parents and carers of children attending out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
What parents and carers need to know about early years providers, schools and colleges in the autumn term.
All group short breaks activities are currently suspended and Lambeth is operating a core short breaks service, which is mainly virtual. Please see the Local Offer for further information about current short breaks.
If you are a parent or carer of a child who receives short breaks services, for specific advice, we would recommend that you contact your social worker or the Children with Disabilities Duty Social Worker on 0207 926 6916.
Parents and carers may find the following links helpful:
National Autistic Society – guidance and helpline for parents, young people and staff.
Mencap - easy-read guide to coronavirus.
Carers UK - guidance for carers.
SEND support or EHC plans
We are working with partners across Lambeth and London to ensure that children with special educational needs in Lambeth are supported during the coronavirus outbreak. Read more information for parents of children with a SEND support or EHC plan.
If you have a non-emergency concern about a child's health, it is best to contact NHS 111, or online, in order to speak with a health professional.
Please do not attend activities and events if you or your child are unwell. If you or your child develop new symptoms of a persistent cough and/or temperature, please follow government guidance on self-isolation. Find out more about coronavirus and how to self-isolate.
Concern for a child's safety
Making sure that children and young people remain safe during this time is of paramount importance. If you believe that a child or young person is in immediate danger then you should call 999 straightaway.
Concern for a child's mental wellbeing
The Young Minds Parent's Helpline is available to offer advice to parents and carers worried about a child or young person under 25.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4.00pm
More support organisations to help with your child's wellbeing can be found in our Young People's Essential Guide to the Coronavirus.
Domestic & sexual violence
Survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence may feel particularly alone and at-risk during self-isolation.
If you're in Lambeth, the Gaia Centre can help. They offer confidential advice and support by phone, text or email – whatever's safest. Gaia can support with options around safe housing and legal advice for survivors.
Telophone: 020 7733 8724
Email: lambethvawg@refuge.org.uk
The Gaia Centre Website
For 24/7 advice for yourself or someone else, contact the freephone National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247
National Domestic Abuse Helpline
If you are in immediate danger, always call the police on 999.
For more information, resources and support options, please see the Lambeth Council VAWG web pages.
These pages are regularly updated as the local and national situation develops. We will use social media to alert families to changes and disruptions to local services. Follow the Family Information Service on Twitter @LambethFIS and for updates on all council services, follow the main council Twitter account @Lambeth_Council.
Need a translation? You can translate the Lambeth Council website by selecting your language at the bottom of any page.


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Q: Redux best practices: subscribe once, or as needed? Is it best practice, to subscribe once to the store and re render the whole app, on every dispatch.
index.js:
...
const render = () => {
  ReactDOM.render(
    <Provider store={store}>
      <App />
    </Provider>
    document.getElementById('root'),
  );
};

store.subscribe(render);
render();
...

or does it make sense, to subscribe where the changes are required?
MyComponent.js:
const MyComponent = () => {
  ...
  store.subscribe(handleStateUpdate);
  ...
}

A: Re-rendering the entire app on every dispatch is a horrible idea and should never be done.  On top of that, you should not be manually calling store.subscribe() in your own code. Instead, you should be using our official React-Redux library, which handles all the store subscription work for you.
Note that per https://redux.js.org/style-guide/style-guide#connect-more-components-to-read-data-from-the-store , we recommend calling useSelector in many different components across the UI to access data as needed for that component.


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Though not without its charms, Apple TV+'s new dramedy takes far too long to get where it's going.
posted by Joe Reid
Friday 11/12/2021 at 3:00AM EST
Photo: Apple TV+
From the moment that podcasts became the hot new venue for watercooler storytelling, it was a forgone conclusion that they'd start getting adapted for TV. Some, like the groundbreaking Serial were expanded into televised documentaries. But others — the ones that played like regular installments of a dishy soap opera — were scooped up for dramatized adaptations. The blockbuster true crime podcast Dirty John was turned into a Bravo TV series, and now, from the same podcast studio comes Apple TV+'s new series The Shrink Next Door, an intriguing true tale reported in podcast form by New York Times journalist Joe Nocera. In adapting the ten-part podcast into an eight-episode TV series, though, we start to see how the podcast medium and that of a streaming TV series may not always be so compatible. Where the podcast leads with the fascinating hook of the story, the TV series builds to that hook, sometimes slowly, turning what had been the audio equivalent of a page-turner turned into yet another streaming dramedy (albeit an incredibly well-cast one) that requires some patience before we get to the good stuff.
The good stuff, as anyone who's listened to the podcast willl tell you, is that one day Nocera was invited to a backyard gathering by the man who he assumed to be the gardener at his neighbor's fancy vacation home. It turned out that the assumed gardener was Marty Markowitz, the home's owner, and that the man Nocera had been assuming owned the place — because that's how he carried himself as he was throwing parties and hobnobbing with famous people — was Ike Herschkopf, Marty's psychiatrist. Naturally, this dynamic fascinated Nocera, and the more he poked into it, the stranger it got, uncovering a years-long history where Herschkopf had taken advantage of Markowitz, ingratiating himself into every aspect of his life, taking over his financial holdings, alienating him from his family, and moving into his home. And it turned out Marty wasn't the only patient he'd taken advantage of.
In the podcast, this all unfolds with an investigative thrill, peeling back layers en route to the source of it all. On the Apple TV+ series, adapted by Georgia Pritchett (a writer for Veep and Succession) and directed by Michael Showalter (The Big Sick; The Eyes of Tammy Faye), we begin with a flash forward to a Hamptons party where a graying Paul Rudd greets guests and hobnobs with the fame-os (a Real Housewife makes a cameo); that night, a man whose face we don't see starts wrecking the outdoor decor and ominously digging a hole in the backyard. This is meant to be provocative, but it's made mostly redundant after we flash back to the 1980s, where Marty Markowitz (played by Will Ferrell) first encounters Dr. Ike Herschkopf (Rudd). The series proceeds to unfold chronologically from here, an uncomplicated structure that nevertheless forces us to wait a loooong time for things to get truly interesting.
Because at the beginning, Marty definitely needs to see a shrink. The man is a mess: indecisive, weak, plagued by nervous bowels. He's struggling to run the fabric company that his parents left him, leaning on his sister Phyllis (a fantastic Kathryn Hahn, best in show, as is her wont) to be his backbone. She's the one who suggests he see a psychiatrist in the first place, a suggestion that she'll come to regret, and one that will end up getting thrown back in her face more than a few times.
Dr. Ike is initially quite helpful to Marty. He helps him stand up to an ex-girlfriend who's been demanding he pay for a vacation to Mexico he promised her when they were dating. He gets Marty to stop blandly protesting that things are fine. He gets him to recognize some unhealthy patterns he's fallen into with his family. He also seems a bit too familiar for a shrink, and doesn't seem to believe in keeping traditional doctor-patient boundaries. He convinces Marty to throw an adult bar mitzvah for himself to exorcise the terrible experience he had at his childhood bar mitvah, which gives Phyllis pause enough to ask around about this shrink. And that's where the sketchiness starts to come in, as Dr. Ike attempts to drive a wedge between Marty and his sister.
Suddenly, Ike is planting ideas to Marty that his relationship with Phyllis might not be so healthy. That alone would be limited to the realm of poor professional behavior until Ike finds out that Marty is rich. By the third episode, Marty has begun to reveal the extent of his inherited wealth — including jewelry, stocks, bonds, accounts in Zurich, and a swanky house out in the Hamptons. The first time Marty takes Ike to the Hamptons house, Marty is panicked that he's been robbed, and he goes to check on the valuables, but the camera stays on Ike, touring the grounds, his eyes getting wider with avarice at every moment.
The problem is, we're three episodes into the series and we still haven't gotten to the premise of the show yet. If this were a movie, Dr. Ike's shadiness could build and wrap itself around Marty's life, like the encroaching vines in the opening credits, and by the end of two hours we'd have a full picture of this insidious story. At eight episodes — which are nominally half-hour length but which regularly stretch out to 40 or 50 minutes — the whole thing is a waiting game to get to the fascinating part, where Dr. Ike has taken over Marty's life. For as much as I often find myself complaining about how so many modern TV dramas have decided to tell their stories along multiple timelines, this is a show that could have benifitted from such a structure. In removing Joe Nocera's perspective entirely, The Shrink Next Door is missing that rubbernecking, "how could this have happened?" incredulity, something that might have been mitigated by having two timelines — one in the present (with Ike living high on the hog on Marty's dime) and one in the past, showing how we got there.
The show's other problem lies with Marty himself. Ferrell does a solid job playing outside of his usual comedic persona, but this character ends up being really hard to root for, even as his life is being encroached upon by the unscrupulous Ike. Marty starts the show as a spineless whiner, and then when Ike starts to encourage him to have some backbone, he becomes kind of insufferable. You don't want to see him lose everything and become subservient to this svengali of his, but after watching how easy it is for Ike to get him to ice out Phyllis, it's hard not to end up resenting Marty.
There are things to recommend here. Paul Rudd is excellent playing the subtle insidiousness of Dr. Ike. Hahn, as mentioned, is fantastic as the big-haired, constantly perturbed, keenly perceptive Phyllis. And Casey Wilson shows up as Ike's wife. But ultimately, after only a handful of episodes, I started longing to dip back into the podcast so I could cut to the chase already. Life is short. Let's get on with it.
The first three episodes of The Shrink Next Door premiere on Apple TV+ Friday, November 12th. New episodes drop Fridays through December 17.
Joe Reid is the Managing Editor at Primetimer and co-host of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The A.V. Club and more.
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Similarities of Ancient Hebrew and Greek Religion – John R. Salverda
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The Council of the gods
The contention here being that Greece was colonized largely from Israel, let us look among the Israelites for the origin of the Olympian concept. We won't have to search Israelite theology for long to find such a thing as the Greek "Olympus," the idea of a heavenly council of the gods, who spoke with one voice from a certain sacred mountain, these concepts surely did not originate in Greece. Not only did the Israelites have such a mountain based heavenly council of the gods, but they even called it by the same name! The term that was used among the Israelites for "the gods," was "Ha Elohim." The Greeks borrowed the Hebrew word, and it wasn't just the word that they borrowed.
In the Hebrew scriptures, the gods are not called the Olympians, they are the Elohim, but to the Greeks Olympus was more than just the gods, it was the kingdom of the gods, the Heavenly Kingdom itself. The actual circle of the heavens is naturally divided into its twelve sections by the number of months in a year, because animal shaped gods have been assigned to each section of the sky, it has been called the Zodiac (zoo-dial). Accordingly, the Greeks have twelve members of their heavenly kingdom, Olympus (like the Hebrew tribes, the list of Olympians sometimes changes, but the number always stays at twelve). The nation of Israel is also known as the Kingdom of Heaven, thus there is also the requisite twelve part division, the tribes. Many have made this connection between the tribes and the Zodiacal signs already, (with varying degrees of failure and success,) by conveying a sign of the Zodiac to each of Jacob's inheritors using the poetic language of each individual tribal blessing, (Gen. 49) where indeed it can be said that some animal comparisons are drawn (Judah is a lion, Issachar is an ass, Dan is a serpent, Naphtali is a hind, Benjamin is a wolf.). The point is, that the Olympian gods were like the tribes of Israel, not only in that there happen to be twelve of each, but also because they share the same reason for being so divided, they each stood for the dozenized Kingdom of Heaven. Both groups of twelve were the children and grandchildren of a single patriarch, Israel for the tribes, and Kronos for the Olympians. Kronos and Israel have been identified elsewhere.
Both kingdoms were divided amongst the siblings by lot. Also, it is not insignificant to note, that in each case, the twelve are set up so that one of them is king over the other eleven. The gods of Olympus, like the Elohim of Israel, spoke with one voice, it can therefore be said, that for the Greeks, "Olympianism," was an obvious step toward monotheism. The same thing could be said about the effects of "Elohimism" on Israel, for the term obviously retains its original plural form. It is not unreasonable therefore, to conclude that the Greek term, "Olympus" derives directly from the Hebrew word Elohim, (appending the usual Greek "-us" of course,) meaning, "the gods." Another correlation that becomes apparent when we compare the Hebrew Elohim, with the Greek Olympus, is the fact that they both shared the same serpentine antagonist.
The Idea that there was a great dragon/serpent opponent to the Most High is not foreign to the Hebrew Scriptures, the Biblical dragon, was named "Rahab," and this was apparently the same monster that was also called, "Leviathan." The Hebrew name Rahab, means "storm," and it is perhaps worth mentioning that storm is also what the name of the Greek dragon "Typhon" means. The name Typhon probably derives directly from the Hebrew name of a mountain called "Baal-Tsephon," that was located at the Red Sea crossing, where the Pharaoh met his death (Ex.14:9). There is also extrabiblical evidence for equating Tsephon with Typhon for the name can be recognized amongst the Ras-Shamra texts that were found at the site of ancient Ugarit. There we find that Mount Tsephon is the place from where Baal rushes out to defeat his serpentine foe, whose name we also recognize even in its Canaanite form "Lotan." The name Leviathan, was probably known as well to the Greeks, although altered slightly in form. The name "Python," of the contender with Apollo, if it did not derive from the usual Hebrew word for a cobra, "pe'then," is probably just a clipped version of the Hebrew name, Le-"viathan," (There is also "Phaethon," who was likewise shot down by Jove amidst a similar traumatic geological upheaval, he was not a dragon, but he was, like the Pharaoh of Egypt, the son of the Sun god Helios, after whom the Egyptian city of Heliopolis gets its name.) the Greeks also had the serpent Ladon. The Greek Ladon was a many headed serpent that guarded the way to the tree of the valued fruit in the ancient garden of Hesperidies, the Greek Typhon too, was many headed. According to Psalm 74, verses 13 and 14, the Biblical serpent, there called Leviathan, also has several heads. We learn something more from Psalm 74, for the Arabic Targums here use the phrase, "the strong ones of Pharaoh," in the place where, "the heads of Leviathan," usually appears.
Obviously the Hebrews did not believe in real dragons, the story of God's battle against the great dragon was typical Hebrew poetic symbolism, and in this case it was used in association with the exodus of the twelve tribes from Egypt. The Targums also substitute the phrase, "the Egyptians," for the name "Rahab," at Psalm 87 verse 4. Isaiah even symbolizes the Pharaoh and his Egyptian army as the great serpent Rahab, at chapter 51 verses 9 and 10, also at Isa. 30:7. Well, most of us know what the Bible says, but did you realize that the Greeks and Romans probably did not believe in real dragons either, and that they knew that their great dragon contender with god was, in reality, named after an actual ancient Pharaoh of Egypt? So says the Roman Pliny in book 2, section 91, of his great work, written in 77 AD, and entitled "Natural History." Now, how many ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, who were symbolized as a great dragon, and had a battle with the highest G/god, were there? Surely these two stories were referring to the same event.
The heavenly twelve were in the land of Egypt at the time that Zeus battled Typhon, they had, according to the myth, fled there to hide from the dragon, and while the twelve tribes had gone to Egypt merely to avoid a famine, in each case it was a forced exile with the hope of finding haven among the Egyptians. The twelve had to remain in their Egyptian exile, until the final defeat of the serpentine antagonist by G/god, at which time, both groups of twelve, the Olympians and the tribes, were able to come up out of the land of Egypt.
The Greek variant that mentions the Egyptian exile of the heavenly twelve, has considerable antiquity and has been attributed by others to a lost work by Pindar, a Greek who wrote as early as about 500 BC. Herodotus wrote a book that wasn't lost, in his "Histories," near the beginning of book three, written almost as long ago, about 450 BC., he locates the burial place of Typhon, under the water of a great lake (called Lake Serbonis) at the Syrian border with Egypt. Herodotus also notes that these "Syrians," the Syrians of Palestine as he calls them, wore the sign of the circumcision. Take note, that this is not simply in the same geographical area, but just as the Scriptural Pharaoh of the Egyptian Exodus lies buried under water, so lies this Typhon in the Greek myth about the Olympian exodus from Egypt. That area of the world was well known in ancient times as the location of Typhon's defeat, the Greek geographer Strabo, in book VII of his, "The Geography," even refers to the Egyptian shore of the Red Sea as "Typhonia." Apollodorus and Ovid both tell this story of the Olympian's Egyptian sojourn, the story was fairly well known and wide spread, but the most recent versions of the myth, always seem to mention one weird detail of the story, namely, that the gods took on the shapes of animals while they were in Egypt.
Much of the Greek myth conforms nicely to the Hebrew story of the Exodus, but the Idea that the, usually human shaped, gods had a metamorphoses into animal shapes, seems too crass for a rational explanation. Modern scholars have called this part of the story an etiology, a clumsy attempt, they say, by later mythographers, to explain the origin of the animal shapes in the zodiac. These emphasize that Pan became Capricorn the fish-goat, and that Venus and Cupid became the two fish of Pisces. Others claim that the myth is an attempt to explain the animal companions that attended many of the Greek gods, these cite the raven of Apollo for example, or the goat of Dionysus. Still others say, that the story shows how the animal headed gods of Egypt originated, these point out that Zeus became a ram and then equate Zeus with Ra-Ammon, and also, that Hera became a cow and then equate Hera with Hathor or Isis. I consider the last of these three theories to be the most accurate, however, I don't think that the "animal gods" part of the myth was a later addition, but rather, that it was as ancient as, and was part of, the original story, for the Hebrew scriptures, which I believe has a source in common with the Greek myth, includes a very similar tale.
Human sacrifice was widely practiced in the pre-Exodus times, and also after that, Abraham, the grand patriarch of Israel, had preached against sacrificing the son of man, the image of God, and in favor of animal substitutes, such as, the Abrahamicly authorized ram. It is certainly no mere coincidence that the main god of the Egyptians, Ra-Ammon, was zoopomorphized by them, as the same animal that was suitable for an Abrahamic sacrifice, the ram. It won't surprise us to find that the Egyptians, having lived with the Israelites for several generations, and having witnessed the lessons of the Exodus first hand, should have learned something about the practice of the true religion. Accordingly, Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians didn't engage in human sacrifices, he says that even for the animal sacrifices, which they did perform, the sheep and bulls, first had to be rigorously inspected by the priestly class, having to pass certain tests for cleanness.
The eminent mythologist, Sir James George Frazer shows, in his most renown work entitled, "The Golden Bough," that the sacrificial victim of those ancient rites, was originally meant to represent "the god himself" (Ch.XLIX,4,Pg.551). Perhaps the idea that the highest God would accept animal substitutions for human sacrifices was at first ridiculed by some, as changing the "image" of god. Thus the introduction of the Abrahamic religion into Egypt may have given rise to the Greek myth, a lampoon as it were, where, in Egypt, the gods took on the shapes of animals. Still, it was no lampoon to the Egyptians themselves, who, most reverently it seems, assigned an animal head to practically every god they had. An even closer parallel to the Greek myth can be drawn from the story of the Hebrews themselves. Consider this, the twelve members of the Kingdom of Heaven (the tribes not the Olympian gods,) had an anthropomorphic God when they went into Egypt, while there, they took up representing Him as an animal, thus the calf god. They stayed in Egypt until God "crushed the heads of Leviathan," where upon they came up out from the land of Egypt and abandoned their bovine image of God. Now, read the Greek "myth" about the divine metamorphoses again and wonder no longer as to its origin.
Numerous Biblical scholars, examining the use of the name "Elohim" in the Pentateuch, have concluded that the source of this, "Elohimism," was an author, or authors, who lived during the Omri dynasty about 850 BC., in the area of Samaria the capitol of the northern ten tribes. Elohimism, so say these scholars, was the theological point of view of the house of Israel, as opposed to the house of Judah. With this, I must concur, but only partially. I do find it very likely that the Elohimistic view was, at least codified at that time and place, perhaps even by King Omri himself, who as we know from the Scriptures, (Mic.6:16) wrote at least one work, therein referred to as, "The Statutes of Omri." However, the religious system of Israelite Elohimism had its origin long before the days of Omri. A study of the Greek myths will make it evident, that Elohimism was most likely set up back in the days when Moses and Joshua destroyed the Amorites, at which time it directly superseded the older Amorite religious system, for the error of the Amorites had come to completion (Gen.15:13-16).
To the Greeks, the battle between god and the dragon, their Zeus verses Typhon, was the religious turning point of the Greek religion, it was the establishment of Olympianism. The Olympians had to defeat the giants, whom they called "the Titans" before they could establish their own suzerainty, and Typhon fought on behalf of the giants. The battle between Zeus and Typhon, was considered by some to be the final defeat of the giants. The fact that the Greeks have many names for the giants, (besides the Titans there were the Earthborn, and the Aloeids) and several versions of their final defeat, should not deter the biblical scholars from an identification between the Greek giants and the Hebrew giants, on the contrary, this apparent confusion is just another thing that both sources have in common. The Scriptures have, the Nephilim, the Rephaim, the Zamzammim, the Emim, and the Anakim; the first were destroyed in Noah's flood but apparently not entirely. The Rephaim, the Zamzammim, and the Emim were wiped out by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer in the days of Abraham at the battles of Ashtoroth-Karnaim, Shaveh-Kiriathaim, and Ham (Gen.14:5), except for Og (and apparently his brother Sihon) who was called the last of the Rephaim when he was killed by Moses seven generations later. The Anakim were destroyed by Caleb after the death of Moses, and yet there were still a few giants left in the days of David for him to him to earn the Messianic attribute of giant killer. Enumerating the Greek confusion in this regard is equally as complicated; the Titans, like the Nephilim, were confined to Tartarus but were released and then re-confined. The Earthborn Giants revolted against Olympus on behalf of the Titans, their brothers, but were summarily defeated. Then Typhon was born in order to avenge the giants on the Olympians but he was killed as well. The Aloeids were a pair of gigantic brothers, like Og and Sihon, but the Olympians thwarted their rebellion also. Suffice it to say that, in both cases, the war against the giants lasted many years and involved several battles before Olympianism, or in the case of the Israel, Elohimism, could be firmly established.
Furthermore, the Greek kingdom of heaven was represented by a mountain, in much the same way that Israel is represented by Mount Zion. To say that Olympus is like Zion is to emphasize the obvious, and may seem to be an insignificant point, after all they were both mountains and many diverse nations had holy mountains. Perhaps an ancient memory of Mount Ararat is responsible for such a wide dispersal of the "holy mountain" motif. Mountains are awe inspiring, they are closer to the heavens and therefore seem "sacred" automatically, especially to worshippers of the god of heaven. But beyond this, the Scriptures tell us much more about the intricate theological symbolism connected to Mount Zion. It's not just a mountain, it's God's abode, it's His people, it's their city, it's the bride of God, and she even has a daughter. Its location is no less ethereal than its symbolism is esoteric. There is a Heavenly Zion as well as an Earthly one, the prophets have it rising above all other mountains in the latter days, while the evangelists have it coming down from the Heavens to establish itself at the end times. Mount Zion had a cosmogonical existence as well as an apocalyptic one. God had a "Holy Mountain" even before David established it at Mount Zion. The Garden of Eden was in God's Holy Mountain, there was Mount Sinai, and Mount Moriah, even the Amorites had their own holy mountain, which the Hebrews called, "Mount Herman," but others, perhaps even the Amorites themselves, called it Mount "Sion."
We know a bit less about Mount Olympus, but what we do know is no less enigmatic. It was the abode of the gods, the bronze floored mansion of Zeus, the mansions of the Muses and all the "shining mansions of the gods" were imagined to be upon the snowy peak of Olympus. Of course, the Greeks knew that there were no real mansions on the actual mountain that they called Olympus, the concept of "Olympia" was not confined to a mere mountain. In Homer, Zeus threatens to pull Olympus up with a golden chain and hang Heaven and Earth from it. Homer usually had the gods living upon the mountain but sometimes he locates them in the sky, which he often distinguishes from Olympus. The concept of Olympus was an abstraction, like the concept of Zion, the literal mountain was only a symbol. Many nations, in order to justify their suzerainty, claimed their own Mount Olympus. There were rivals to Zion as well, and it is apparent that the direct prototype for the Greeks was not Mount Zion at Jerusalem itself, (Athens was already named after Zion,) but a more direct predecessor to Olympianism was the Elohimism from one of the famous rivals to Mount Zion, Mount Gerizim at Shechem.
Nothing in all of Israelite history resembles the Greek story, about the establishment of Olympian order over the Titanic chaos, quite like the account of the convocation at Joshua 8:30-34. Moses directed Joshua to assemble the twelve tribes at Shechem for the convocation, a kind of ceremony of confederation, where blessings for obedience were read to six of the tribes who were gathered together upon Mount Gerizim, and curses for disobedience were read to the other six who were gathered upon Mount Ebal. The spectacle of the twelve tribes taking their places at the Shechem mountains, from which they could look North and see the mountain of the defeated giants, the Amorite's Mount Herman, has everything that the Greek myth needs. Shechem became the capitol of Israel at least four generations before King David captured the Jebusite stronghold of Salem. However, the Shechemites incurred the malediction that was outlined in the very same "convocation of the tribes," that argues for their precedence. (Deut. 11:29; 29:26-28) The Shechemites worshipped foreign gods, and not only Baal-Berith either. A study of the Greek myths about the establishment of Olympianism makes it evident that the Israelites of Shechem had set up a system whereby each of the twelve tribes of Israel was represented by a god, or a goddess, and all agreed to abide by the word of one voice.
Like the Hebrew city/mountain of Zion, there was a Greek city also that was named after their mountain and called "Olympia," while this city wasn't in the vicinity of any mountain, it was none the less, founded to portray the abode of the gods. Here was the Temple of Zeus, with its famous statue by Phidias, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Here too the Olympian games were celebrated, this was due largely, we are told in the Greek myths, to the efforts of Pelops himself, after whom the whole "Peloponnesus" was named. The Achaeans of Pelops, these were the champions of Olympianism in ancient Greece.
-John R. Salverda
For more articles by John R. Salverda on the Hebraic Connections of Greek Mythology, see:
"Helleno-Yishurin. The Hebrew Origin of Greek Legends"
And from: http://binnallofamerica.com/eso4.30.7.html
…. Across cultures mountains have been revered as abodes of the (g)ods; dwelling places of strange beings. In the Book of Enoch, Mount Hermon is said to be the place where the Grigori (Watchers, or Fallen angels) fell to earth and dwelled for a time thereafter. Jesus is said to have transfigured on one of the summits of Mt. Hermon. God himself once came down to walk on Mt. Sinai.
In Hindu mythology there is Mount Meru, the mountain at the center of the Universe. It too was the home of the (g)ods and many depictions of it can be seen today at such sites as Angkor Wat and various Hindu temples.
Did such a place exist? Is it possible that maybe our ancestors derived the idea of the pyramids from such mountains. A Pyramid is in essence a perfect representation of a mountain, with a peak, a slope and a summit.
In Greek mythology we have Mount Olympus, also a dwelling place of the (g)ods. The pattern is undeniable. Mountains and (g)ods have an apparent connection. But why? Mount St. Helens is associated with the (g)ods as well. Gods at war were used to explain Mt. St. Helens unpredictable eruptions. Mount Shasta was the home of a Chief/ God who descended from heaven.
Over and over the story repeats itself. ….
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Rohit Khandelwal Bio,Wiki,Biography,Age,Girlfriend Details| Mr World 2016: Rohit Khandelwal is a popular Indian model, actor and television personality. He won Mr India 2015 and Mr World 2016, and become first Asian to be crowned Mister World in 2016. Rohit Khandelwal has worked in many TV commercials and acted in some television serials. Now, he become a well known face in India after won the pageant titles and appeared on TV serials. Get here complete information about Rohit Khandelwal wiki, biography, age, girlfriend, bio and many more details.
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Rohit Khandelwal Biography: Rohit Khandelwal was born on 19 August 1989 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He is best known for won the beauty titles – Mr India 2015 and Mr World 2016. According to Wikipedia, Rohit Khandelwal was not fluent in Hindi so he had to take Hindi diction classes to learn the Hindi. He made his debut on TV from Episode 76 of Yeh Hai Aashiqui on Bindass. After that, he played the role of Bhuvan in Million Dollar Girl on Channel V. He has worked in many television advertisements. His first television advertisement was with Kareena Kapoor Khan.
Mr India 2015 and Mr Word 2016: Rohit Khandelwal was first rose to fame after won the Mr India 2015 title on 23 July 2015 at Club Royalty in Mumbai, Maharashta. In 2016, Rohit Khandelwal became the first Asian to win the title of Mister World at a ceremony on 19 July 2016 at Southport Theatre, Floral Hall, The Promenade, Southport.
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For Many CEOs, Obama-Era Healthcare Benefits are Here to Stay
Political wrangling over the direction of national healthcare policy doesn't just have big implications for individuals. Businesses, too, could be set to benefit from lower cost burdens, should the Affordable Care Act be repealed and replaced.
For many CEOs, however, whatever happens in Washington today won't make much difference. That's because the need to attract and retain talent, and keep workers engaged, may prompt them to continue following some of the Obama administration's rules, even if they no longer have to.
"As we see an increased focus on employee productivity, employers will be careful about the implications of change, not just from a dollars and cents perspective, but in terms of employee perceptions," said Julie Stone, national healthcare practice leader at London-based consultancy Willis Towers Watson.
The House is set to vote this afternoon on a revised repeal-and-replace bill that some Republicans are confident will pass this time around. "Would you have confidence? We're going to pass it," House majority leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters last night.
"Even if caps are placed on the amount of premium dollars from which employers can gain tax exemptions, just 16% of respondents said they were "very likely" and 31% were "somewhat likely" to make changes to their policies."
Successful passage would have positive implications for other Donald Trump policies, such as tax reform, though the healthcare bill would still need to get through a potentially more hostile Senate.
If it does, employers are unlikely to make changes to their broader healthcare strategy, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey of 666 U.S. companies with more than 200 staff.
Just 6% said they were "very likely" to make changes if the so-called employer mandate is repealed. The mandate requires companies to offer affordable, minimum-value coverage to all full-time employees or pay a penalty. Some 13% of respondents said they were "somewhat likely" to make a change.
Respondents also were three times more likely than not to keep unlimited lifetime benefits in place, even if they're repealed. They also were six times more likely than not to maintain contraceptive care coverage.
Ross Kelly is a London-based business journalist. He has been a staff correspondent or editor at The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance and the Australian Associated Press.
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2018 Volunteer of the Year | Tenie Chicoine
AVON — Alternately described as the "SWAG Queen" and the "Mom" of the massive Vail Valley Foundation volunteer group, Tenie Chicoine says what she'll be missed for most when she hangs up her volunteer spurs this year is her brownies and her dry socks.
Retiring Tenie Chicoine named Volunteer of the Year by Vail Valley Foundation
A 21-year veteran of the VVF volunteer cast of hundreds that steps up year after year, event after event, Chicoine, 74, is "retiring" from volunteering to focus on the family business in Gypsum and on her actual family here and in California. But the 2018 Vail Valley Foundation Volunteer of the Year will miss her extended family of brownie consumers and sock-wearers.
"I have a fantastic crew of people, and we do this all together," Chicoine said. "It's like family, and we just have a good time doing events. We're all on the same page, we're here to help out and to have a good time — and we do."
Chicoine started with the Vail Valley Foundation as a way to meet people after first moving to the valley in 1996, and her first event was a World Cup mountain bike race in 1997. Soon, she was coordinating and dealing with all the products coming in from the sales force — the goodie bags, gifts, sponsor materials, volunteer uniforms. Basically, the SWAG, or "Stuff We All Get."
"She has more energy than any other person I've ever met. She runs circles around like 20- and 30-year-olds. It's just incredible," said the Vail Valley Foundation's Jen Mason, who has organized the nonprofit's volunteers for more than a decade. "Tenie has a big truck and trailer and she's constantly running, going to Denver and picking up large shipments, all the products. She's literally like a machine, like the little engine that keeps us all going. We'll miss her. We love her. She's going to leave a large hole in this organization."
A large hole figuratively but not physically. A Louisiana native, Ernestine Chicoine came by her nickname "Tenie" because of her diminutive frame and huge heart, but she credits everyone else in the organization for winning the volunteer award.
Chicoine is also the first person to win the award twice — first in 2005, and in 2018 a second time as a special way to send off this one-of-a-kind, veteran volunteer.
"It's been a fantastic run. I enjoyed it. I appreciate everything everyone's done," Chicoine said. "I mean, without the team that I've had through these years, I could have never done it. Everything's a team effort; it's not just me. It takes the whole group."
That means 650 volunteers for the annual Birds of Prey World Cup ski races and nearly 3,000 for the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships — second only to the Winter Olympics in terms of prestige. Chicoine also worked at the 1999 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek.
"It's been a fantastic experience, meeting people from all over the world," Chicoine said. "Having lived all over the country, it's amazing the amount of volunteers we have up here that we can count on for any event we do. And that's something you don't see in other parts of the country. That's what this community is great at doing."
Chicoine also loves how volunteering for the VVF is the great equalizer.
"It doesn't matter here who you are, what you've done, everybody just chips in and everybody's even," Chicoine said. "That's the biggest thing. And all sorts of backgrounds and walks of life, from all over the country and from all over the world even."
But in the winter months during a major international event, Chicoine says some of the construction workers and other younger volunteers, who remind her a lot of her own two sons and grandsons, need some reminders at times.
"I'm the first one to yell at the boys because they're wearing wet socks or other kids going out there without sunscreen and stuff like that," Chicoine laughs. "Come on, guys."
Chicoine says she's passing the products torch to Jim Lee, who she's been working with for six or seven years (he can have her brownie recipe, too), and she's confident the show will go on without her. But she will miss her extended family.
"What I say is, this is the longest I stayed with any particular thing in my life, except being married to my husband," Chicoine said.
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