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Rodrigo De Vivar Resort
Piazza Della Rocca 18-19, Ostia Antica, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
Al civico 7
Via del Forno 7, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
With a stay at this apartment in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be within a 15-minute walk of Ostia Antica and Castello di Giulio II. This apartment is 11.5 mi (18.4 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization and 12.1 mi (19.4 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Domus Gratiae
Via Arturo Evans, 18, Ostia Antica, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
With a stay at Domus Gratiae in Rome, you'll be 3.7 mi (6 km) from Castelfusano and 10.8 mi (17.4 km) from Atlantico. This bed & breakfast is 11.1 mi (17.8 km) from PalaLottomatica and 11.7 mi (18.8 km) from Roma Convention Center La Nuvola.
La villa del Patrizio
21 Via di Castel Fusano, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00124
With a stay at La villa del Patrizio, you'll be centrally located in Rome, within a 10-minute drive of Ostia Antica and Castello di Giulio II. This townhouse accommodation is 12.2 mi (19.7 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls and 12.2 mi (19.7 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization.
Roman Country Residence
Largo Pasquale Testini 13, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
Il Melograno Bed & Breakfast
Via Enrico Josi 35, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00124
Rodrigo de Vivar
Via Rainaldo 18, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
Located in Rome (Ostia), Rodrigo de Vivar is convenient to Ostia Antica and Castello di Giulio II. This 4-star farm stay is within close proximity of Roman Ruins of Ostia Antica and Parco Leonardo.
Ostia Antica Suite BB
VIA ANSELMO BANDURI 57 ostia antica, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
With a stay at Ostia Antica Suite BB in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Ostia Antica and PalaPellicone. This bed & breakfast is 10.9 mi (17.5 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization and 11.5 mi (18.4 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Ostia Antica Park Hotel
Viale dei Romagnoli 1041/A, Ostia Antica, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
Located in Rome (Ostia), Ostia Antica Park Hotel is convenient to Ostia Antica and Castello di Giulio II. This spa hotel is within close proximity of Roman Ruins of Ostia Antica and Parco Leonardo.
Gens Mundi B&B
Via Edoardo Gatti 60, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
With a stay at Gens Mundi B&B in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Ostia Antica and PalaPellicone. This bed & breakfast is 11.8 mi (19 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls and 11.8 mi (19 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization.
A casa tua Ostia Antica
via giuseppe lugli 161, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
With a stay at A casa tua Ostia Antica in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be a 4-minute drive from Castello di Giulio II and 8 minutes from Ostia Antica. This apartment is 9.6 mi (15.5 km) from Parco Leonardo.
Tourist House
Via giuseppe lugli 161 b, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00191
With a stay at Tourist House in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Ostia Antica and PalaPellicone. This apartment is 11.4 mi (18.4 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization and 12 mi (19.3 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Viale Dei Romagnoli, 1041/A - 00119 Ostia Antica, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00119
B&B Rome Airport
Via Della Scafa 441, Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00054
Hillary House
Via della Scafa 441 B, Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00054
With a stay at Hillary House in Fiumicino, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Ostia Antica and Castello di Giulio II. This guesthouse is 7.2 mi (11.5 km) from Parco Leonardo and 8.9 mi (14.3 km) from Fiera di Roma.
Isola Verde Guest House
Via Monte Cauriol 35, Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00054
With a stay at Isola Verde Guest House in Fiumicino, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Ostia Antica and Fiera di Roma. This guesthouse is 6.3 mi (10.1 km) from Parco Leonardo and 16.8 mi (27 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization.
Property With 4 Bedrooms in Rome, With Wonderful Lake View, Furnished
Via Monte Cengio 102, Fiumicino, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00054
Located in Fiumicino, Property With 4 Bedrooms in Rome, With Wonderful Lake View, Furnished Terrace and Wifi - 4 km From the Beach is a 3-minute drive from Necropoli di Porto Isola Sacra and 8 minutes from House of Love and Psyche. This apartment is 17 mi (27.4 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization and 17.1 mi (27.6 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
Agriturismo Il Casale
Via Del Fosso Di Dragoncello, 52, 00124 Ostia Antica, Roma Rm, Italy 00124 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00124
Relais Il Casale
via del Fosso di Dragoncello 52, Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy, 00124
With a stay at Relais Il Casale in Rome (Ostia Antica), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Ostia Antica and PalaPellicone. This country house is 10.6 mi (17 km) from Museum of Roman Civilization and 11.4 mi (18.3 km) from Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
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"I can't promise that Iran will walk through the door that they need to walk though, but that would be very much the preferable option," Obama said.
After Obama's re-election, the reactions in Tehran were reserved, but not negative. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's mouthpiece, the IRNA news agency, said that the country hoped that a second term would bring "positive effects and developments."
The rial, the Iranian currency, has lost a third of its worth since the beginning of the year. Official figures cite an inflation rate under 30 per cent, but in reality it's over 50 per cent.
Flights within the country are 70 per cent more expensive. The government forbade the import of "luxury goods" like coffee, soap, shampoo and toilet paper, in order to protect the currency.
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Reports: Cavaliers near deal to sign David Nwaba
By Kurt HelinAug 1, 2018, 2:58 PM EDT
David Nwaba is developing into a respectable NBA role player. The shooting guard out of the Big West and Cal Poly SLO showed promise with the Lakers a couple of seasons ago after a stint in the D-League, bringing real energy and defense. He lost out to the numbers game in Los Angeles but was picked up by Chicago where he averaged 7.6 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game playing 23 minutes a night.
However, he got squeezed out by the roster numbers game again, and Chicago pulled his qualifying offer this summer, making him a free agent.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are going to sign him, first reported by Shams Charania of The Vertical at Yahoo Sports.
Free agent David Nwaba has agreed to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
Nwaba and the Cavaliers are still working on the final details of the deal, league sources said. The Cavaliers have remained in touch with Nwaba since the first day of free agency, recruited him over the past month and met with the 6-foot-4 swingman last week in Las Vegas, sources said.
This has been confirmed by others as well.
David Nwaba has agreed to join the Cavs, a source said. I wrote July 21 there was mutual interest. @ShamsCharania was first to this news today. The sides are still finalizing terms of the deal
— Joe Vardon (@joevardon) August 1, 2018
As of now, the Cavaliers will star J.R. Smith as their two guard (his name has come up in trade rumors) and will likely play Jordan Clarkson some there off the bench next two rookie point guard Collin Sexton. Nwaba's defense and grit should help him carve out some reserve minutes in Cleveland and fill a role.
Nwaba shows promise, but he has no shooting range that he trusts yet. Last season he took 83 percent of his shots within 10 feet of the basket, as a two guard the more he can space the floor the more he can stay on it. With the Bulls he took less than one three per game, but he hit 34.6 percent of the ones he took. If he becomes more comfortable with his shot, his value will skyrocket. Tyronn Lue will give him that chance.


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Technology has changed the way society and individuals communicate. What used to be hidden years ago behind long distances and language differences easily becomes news via 24-hour cable channels and videos captured using cell phones and broadcast over the internet. As a result, a broader range of customers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gain access to more information about what happens within supply chains, those networks of companies that products go through – from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer retailing – before distribution. Thus, companies are held accountable and need to ensure that issues like poor worker conditions in suppliers' facilities are addressed. Concerns include the use of sweatshop labor, the provision of safe working conditions, and the payment of a living wage to their employees.
In response, a growing number of firms are exploring how to identify, assess, and monitor supplier-related social issues and practices. My research looks at the various management systems that can be put in place to improve social performance in the supply chain. These supplier socially responsible practices can be divided into four categories.
First, a firm can establish supplier human rights practices, which reduce the possibility that suppliers employ vulnerable groups of people, such as children. A firm can also put in place supplier labor practices to assess the conditions in which employees perform their duties, and how an employer contributes to the overall welfare of employees. Supplier codes of conduct ensure that specific procedures are explicitly spelled out by the focal to guarantee that suppliers adhere to ethical expectations. Finally, the firm can conduct supplier social audits to monitor suppliers and ensure their adherence to social expectations or, in a similar vein, use a certification provided by an independent third-party, such as Fairtrade or the Rain Forest Alliance.
I'm currently working on a research project with Professor Robert D Klassen of the University of Western Ontario in which we examine what drives firms to adopt socially responsible practices. This study is based on responses from a survey of 1,209 Canadian manufacturing plants in the food, chemicals and transportation industries. The survey results indicate that the level of involvement in supplier codes of conduct was the highest, followed by supplier human rights, then supplier labor practices, and finally supplier social audits. This points towards a progressive development from practices that are internal to the firm and where the firm has a lot of control (i.e., supplier codes of conduct involve both the buyer and supplier), to supplier-oriented practices (i.e., supplier human rights and supplier labor practices), to verification of practice (i.e., supplier social audits). In essence, operations managers are beginning to address social issues by trying to get their own operational practices in order, as supplier codes of conduct ensure that buyer's employees have procedures and practices to deal with suppliers ethically. Additional practices then engage and push suppliers to improve their human rights and labor practices. Finally, operations managers put supplier social audits in place to ensure that suppliers are adhering to these new social practices.
Various factors in the supply chain can drive a firm to adopt the different supplier socially responsible practices, and my research examines in depth the three specific dimensions of the supply chain, namely transparency, dependency, and distance. When considered within the context of supply chains, transparency captures the extent to which information is readily available to end-users and other firms in the supply chain. Dependency represents the degree to which a firm relies on other members of the supply chain for critical resources, components, or capabilities. Distance can refer to differences because of the cultural differences, geographic distance, or simply the number of firms in the supply chain. A supply chain made up of many firms – from raw material extraction through consumer retailing – is often more complex and difficult to manage.
Only one dimension of Distance has substantial impact on the adoption of supplier socially responsible practices. In the study there was a strong relationship between the adoption of supplier socially responsible practices and the numbers of firms in the supply chain. The longer and more complex the supply chain, the more likely a firm was to adopt these practices. However, there wasn't a strong relationship between the other distance dimensions or dependency and the adoption of supplier socially responsible practices. There are a number of explanations for this. First, some firms might not have sufficient influence to drive change back through the supply chain to all suppliers. Second, the cultural norms and expectations for improving human potential vary by industry, customer segment, and marketplace. Third, as more manufacturing and supplier sourcing has shifted overseas, the geographic distance, and length of supply chains (i.e., tiers) between supply chain partners has also increased. Furthermore, the costs associated with adoption practices to deal with social issues might be prohibitive.
One of the very strong relationships was identified between visible brands and the adoption of supplier socially responsible practices. This points towards the notion that managers with valuable, highly visible brands do not want their brand images tarnished by improper practices in the supply chain. Therefore, these managers are more likely to invest in practices that help protect that brand. By putting these supplier socially responsible practices in place, it is less likely that improper practices in the supply chain would occur. Furthermore, managers that currently have supplier socially responsible practices in place can promote these practices to their customers to further differentiate the firm and give it more of a competitive advantage.
There could be two drivers for investments in supplier socially responsible practices. First, the firm could be seeking new opportunities to position its products and brands, and minimize the risks of criticisms and concerns from NGOs, the public, and customers. Also, by investing in supplier socially responsible practices, the firm can mitigate the negative outcomes of unexpected events and/or revelations in the supply chain. Our analysis also suggests that supply chain transparency drove the adoption of supplier socially responsible practices. By extension, firms with well-developed supplier social practices can launch educational programs for consumers to illustrate the tangential social benefits embedded in their products and supply chains. Of course not all competitors have the management capabilities or economies of scale essential to replicate socially responsible practices in a cost effective manner. Thus, socially responsible practices simultaneously achieve social gains, blunt potential criticism, and provide the firm with a competitive advantage that is difficult to imitate.


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, of plotting to cause constitutional crisis in Rivers state.
The party is alleging that the minister, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is seeking the supreme court to overturn its earlier judgement disqualifying the party from participating in the general election and ordering a fresh poll.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had delisted the APC from the parties participating in the polls after the apex court ruled that it did not conduct credible primary elections.
Nyesom Wike, incumbent governor and PDP candidate, eventually won the governorship poll in the state.
But addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman, alleged that Amaechi as well as Abubakar Malami, attorney general of the federation, of plotting to pave way for a fresh election in the state.
According to Ologbondiyan, "the PDP has information of how Rotimi Amaechi has been going around in Rivers State, giving assurances that he has the ears of the supreme court under the leadership of Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Mohammed, and that the supreme court will reverse its final judgment on APC primaries and create the way for fresh elections in Rivers state, in which the APC will be allowed to participate.
"The supreme court is the highest temple of justice in our country and as such must protect itself from all forms of manipulative tendencies of the APC," the party added.


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ON 21 AND 22 SEPTEMBER THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE DYNASTIC ORDERS OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY WAS HELD IN NICE. IT WAS THE MOST ANTICIPATED ANNUAL EVENT FOR THE DAMES AND KNIGHTS BELONGING TO THE ANCIENT AND ALWAYS NEW KNIGHTLY FORCES OF THE ITALIAN ROYAL FAMILY. MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED MEMBERS GATHERED TO SHARE THEIR IDEALS AND EXPERIENCE ONCE AGAIN THE SPIRIT AND ATMOSPHERE OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER.
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On the auspicious 630th anniversary of the foundation of the County of Nice and of its common destiny with the House of Savoy, H.R.H. Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Grand Master of the Dynastic Orders of the Royal House of Savoy, convened in Nice on 21 and 22 September 2019 the General Chapter of the Knightly Forces that abide by the glorious motto "Savoye, bonnes nouvelles".
On 21 September the ceremonies began with the remittance of the diplomas of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus and of the Order of Merit of Savoy, which took place at the Hyatt Hotel theatre in Nice and saw the participation of a large number of members who came with their families and friends.
At the sound of the Royal March, H.R.H. Prince Vittorio Emanuele, Grand Master of the Dynastic Orders of the Royal House of Savoy, H.R.H. Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, Prince of Piedmont and Venice and H.R.H. Prince Serge of Yugoslavia entered the hall and were greeted with affection and devotion to the Dynasty. H.E. the Grand Chancellor of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, Johannes Theo Niederhauser, was also present. He welcomed those present with a warm welcome speech.
At the end of the awarding ceremony, H.R.H. Prince Emanuele Filiberto presided over the General Assembly of A.I.C.O.D.S. during which a video was shown summarizing the charitable work the association has done over the last year. The results achieved are excellent, with over one million euros destined for charity projects. The August Prince reiterated the importance of promoting so-called "zero-mile" charitable initiatives in the territory, supporting and enhancing small community-rooted charities.
On the evening of Saturday 21 September, the members and their families gathered again for the usual gala dinner in the evocative setting of the Chateau of Cremat, on the hills over Nice. In addition to the above-mentioned RR.HH., H.R.H. Princess Marina of Savoy, H.R.H. Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parme, H.R.H. Princess Eleonora of Yugoslavia and H.R.H. Prince Michel of Yugoslavia were also present.
The proceeds from the gala were used to finance a major child surgery project in Africa for five consecutive years in favour of Mercy-Ships, a Swiss association that operates in more than 50 countries worldwide, whose representatives participated in the evening illustrating the charity's work.
On Sunday 22 September, at the Church of Notre-Dame de Nice, H.R.H. Mgr. André Marceau, Bishop of Nice, presided over a solemn Eucharistic celebration, which was attended by around 1,000 people.
At the end of the service, a charity party was held at the Hyatt hotel.
Once again, the Dynastic Orders of the Royal House of Savoy testify to their active presence in the world with over 1 million euros destined for charity projects. The objectives that the Orders have set themselves for next year are even more important: new Delegations and Vicariates will be born and communication strategies will be improved.
Several challenges and new solidarity goals await us, so that we can give hope and dignity to those most in need.


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Killeen Murder-Suicide Under Investigation
Toni Gee Published: February 24, 2021
A Killeen man is believed to have shot and killed his wife late Tuesday night before turning the gun on himself, taking his own life.
According to a press release from the Killeen Police Department, a couple was having a domestic dispute when things took a horrible turn.
Officials arrived at the couple's home in the 3900 block of Tatonka Drive at 11:54 PM Tuesday, February 23 after receiving a 911 call in reference to a shooting.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the female victim and the male were involved in a domestic disturbance when the male produced a handgun and shot his wife. The male was in the garage when officers arrived. Police say he shot himself while police were at the scene.
Unfortunately, there were three children in the residence at the time. Thankfully, police say they were unharmed.
Authorities have identified the husband as Archie Andrew Mitchell, 40 and wife as Tiffany Shaquina Shepard, 34.
Justice of the Peace Gregory Johnson pronounced Shepard deceased at 2:12 AM and Mitchell at 2:14 AM. Johnson ordered autopsies to be performed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences in Dallas.
The investigation is on-going by the Killeen Police Department, but they do not plan to release any further details involving the case.
It's absolutely heartbreaking that children were in that home when a fight turned violent and, ultimately, fatal. Although police say they were unharmed, doubtless they will psychological scars that we can't see from the outside.
Police have not said if the couple had a history of domestic violence, but if you've been a victim, please reach out for help before things escalate.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached anonymously at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
If you have secure internet connection free from the prying eyes of your abuser, you can also reach out to them at thehotline.org. The NDVH encourages you to delete your browsing history after vising their site if you feel your abuser might check your history.
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CCPL & SC State Library Exhibit Works of Photographer Cecil Williams
Williams (Credit: CCPL.org)
The Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) and the South Carolina State Library are hosting a special exhibit featuring the works of photographer, Cecil Williams, who is known for his documentation of the civil rights movement in South Carolina. The exhibit, "Unforgettable: Celebrating a Time of Life, Hope and Bravery," will be displayed in the lobby area of the Main Branch, located at 68 Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston, between July 1st and September 30th.
The exhibit showcases a prelude to Williams' newest publication, "Unforgettable." The collection of 40 images provides a rare glimpse of events, portraits, and moments of significant social change during the 1950s through the 1970s. The noble subjects and pioneers captured in Williams' images depict the unforgettable waves of change that impacted the world during that era.
This exhibit will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike movement, (1968-1969) by featuring several of Williams' images from the strike.
The public is invited to a special reception and book talk, where they will have the opportunity to hear the legendary photographer, publisher, inventor, and author speak on July 30th between 6 pm and 7:45 pm at the Main Branch in downtown Charleston.
Williams will also be signing his book, "Unforgettable." Refreshments will be served after the presentation. The event is free, but registration is encouraged. To register for the event, visit click here. Attendees may also register by calling (843) 805-6904.
This project is made possible with LSTA funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and administered by the SC State Library, and through the generosity of Cecil Williams. For more information about this exhibit, visit www.ccpl.org/cecilwilliams.
Cecil Williams Bio:
Cecil Williams, a native of Orangeburg is a professional photographer, videographer, publisher, inventor, author of six books, and architect of six residences that became his home and photography studio. In May 2006, he published a photo-documentary entitled "Out of the Box in Dixie." "Unforgettable," the sequel to that publication, was released last year. Williams received a degree in Art from Claflin University.
He is a member of the coveted American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and a Getty Images contributor, an honor attributed to only a select number of photographers worldwide. In January 2016, the South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation honored Williams with the prestigious Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. Trailblazer Award, an honor previously received by Congressman James E. Clyburn, Mayor Steve Benjamin, and Judge Matthew Perry.
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'He was just crying': Doctor in PPE hugs elderly COVID-19 patient who was missing wife on Thanksgiving
by: Darcie Loreno and Nexstar Media Wire
Dr. Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Houston, Texas. According to reports, Texas has reached over 1,220,000 cases, including over 21,500 deaths. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images)
HOUSTON (WJW) — A photo of a Houston doctor hugging a distressed patient in a COVID-19 ICU unit on Thanksgiving has gone viral.
The photo of Dr. Joseph Varon was taken by photographer Go Nakamura at United Memorial Medical Care on Nov. 26. Varon is wearing full PPE in the photo.
Varon told CNN it happened after he noticed the man was out of bed, crying and trying to get out of his room.
"I was just recollecting all the patients that I've had to do similar things with… because they truly need somebody."
Houston Dr. Joseph Varon, who has worked 256 straight days, was seen comforting an elderly Covid-19 patient in a widely-shared photohttps://t.co/TZFrzscle0 pic.twitter.com/2YUImD7lT0
— New Day (@NewDay) November 30, 2020
"He said he wants to be with wife," Varon told CNN. "I grabbed him, I hold him. He was just crying and eventually he felt better and he stopped crying."
In a Facebook post, Nakamura said: "Dr Joseph Varon comforts a patient with coronavirus disease. I am grateful to witness a wonderful moment and I thank all the medical staffs for their hard work even during the holiday season."
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Good Morning America reports that Thanksgiving was Varon's 252nd consecutive day of work.
"He was very sad because he's in a room where he knows nobody," Varon told Good Morning America. "We come in dressed like astronauts, and even though I usually have my picture with me so they can know who I am when I go to see them, it's very frustrating for the patients, and he was very emotional. And just when I heard [his emotion], I hugged him."
by Sydney Snow / Jan 18, 2021
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Massachusetts now has its first confirmed case of the COVID-19 variant, the same variant that was initially discovered in the United Kingdom.
National and local health officials say they are taking this very seriously because this variant is so contagious, and even though this case is in Boston residents in western Massachusetts are scared.
by Kristina D'Amours / Jan 18, 2021
East Longmeadow, Mass. (WWLP) - Starting Tuesday, it's back to the classroom for some western Massachusetts students. It will be hybrid learning for the time being.
"I am looking forward to being in school and seeing my friends," said Emma Carrillo, a student from East Longmeadow.
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Drinking Water: A History
When you turn on the tap or twist the cap, you might not give a second thought to where your drinking water comes from. But how it gets from the ground to your glass is far more complex than you might think. Is it safe to drink tap water? Should you feel guilty buying bottled water? Is your water vulnerable to terrorist attacks? With springs running dry and reservoirs emptying, where is your water going to come from in the future?
In Drinking Water, Duke professor James Salzman shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time - from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change - and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.
Bloody conflicts over control of water sources stretch as far back as the Bible yet are featured in front page headlines even today. Only 50 years ago, selling bottled water sounded as ludicrous as selling bottled air. Salzman weaves all of these issues together to show just how complex a simple glass of water can be.
Drinking Water: A History (Unabridged)
A Level History: Audio Guide Collection - Various
The Lost History of Dreams
The Economist : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE FUTURE
Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today's Revolution - Susan Stryker
Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted Paperback
Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted - Ian Millhiser
At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
Lies My Teacher Told Me Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
The Untold History of the Potato - John Reader
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia - James D. Bradley
Touching History: The Drama that Unfolded in the Skies over America on 9/11 - Lynn Spencer
The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told
The Secret History of Twin Peaks - Mark Frost
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born - Tina Cassidy
Time Travel: A History - James Gleick
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War - Fred Kaplan
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution - David Wootton
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter - Colin Tudge
Strategy: A History - Lawrence Freedman
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life
BBC Radio 4 - The History of Titus Groan
A Short History of Nearly Everything
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE VIKINGS:
A History of Ideas
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
iCon Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Big History -The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity
A History of the Brain: Complete Series
James Salzman - Drinking Water: A History
Burying Water (Burying Water #1) - K.A. Tucker
DRINKING: A LOVE STORY
The Water Knife
Into the Water
How To Read Water: Clues, Signs & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea - Tristan Gooley
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
History Is All You Left Me


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Acquittal: A verdict in a criminal trial in which the defendant is found not guilty of the charge.
Appeal: A legal action in which a litigant asks a higher court to review and reverse a lower court's decision.
Appellant: The litigant who brings the appeal.
Arraignment: A defendants initial appearance before the court for a traffic or criminal offense. At this hearing the defendant is advised of their rights, the nature of the complaint that has been filed against them and the potential penalties they could face if they are convicted of the offense. The defendant can ask for a short continuance if they wish to speak with an attorney. If the defendant does not want to speak with an attorney then they are expected to enter a plea; plea options are Not Guilty, No Contest or Guilty. For more information see the Traffic\Criminal Court Guide.
Bail: A thing of value -- for example, money or the deed to a house -- given to the court to ensure a defendant's appearance in court. If the defendant appears at all court proceedings as required, the bail is returned at the end of the case, subject to all outstanding costs being paid. If the defendant fails to appear as required, the bail may be kept by the court.
Bench: The place where the judge sits. It also is another word for the court itself.
Bench Trial: A trial decided by a judge instead of a jury.
Burden of Proof: The duty of a litigant to prove or disprove an allegation in court.
Case Law: The body of law created by judges' written opinions.
Conviction: A verdict in a civil or criminal trial in which the defendant is found guilty of the charge.
Damages: Money awarded to a plaintiff in a civil case. Damages are assessed against the defendant who is found by the jury or judge to have been responsible for the plaintiff's injuries. See Injury.
Defense Attorney: The lawyer who represents the defendant in any legal proceeding.
Desk Review: An action by court personnel to review the defendant's payments towards outstanding fines. This is not a formal hearing therefore the defendant does not need to appear. If payments remain consistent the defendant will remain on desk review. If the defendant misses payments then the defendant will be reset for a Status Conference hearing and will be required to appear. Notices for Status Conference hearings will be mailed to the defendants last known address.
Docket: A list of cases on a court's calendar, or schedule.
Evidence: The information used in court to prove or disprove an allegation.
Grand Jury: Twenty-three people impaneled to hear evidence presented by a prosecutor to determine if there is enough evidence to bring a person to trial for a crime.
Hearing: A court proceeding in which evidence is presented to determine facts that are in dispute.
Hung Jury: A jury that is deadlocked and cannot agree on a verdict.
Indictment: A formal, written accusation issued by a grand jury charging someone with a crime. An indictment is not proof of a crime.
Injury: Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Jury: See Grand jury and Petit jury.
Jury Charge: The judge's address to the jury after all testimony has been heard in a trial. The charge explains the law that the jury is to apply in deciding on a verdict.
Lawsuit: A civil action brought in court in which a plaintiff seeks a remedy provided by the law, such as damages.
Litigant: Someone who is a party to litigation. The litigant can be the side bringing the lawsuit or the side being sued.
Litigation: A legal dispute between parties argued in a court.
Mistrial: A trial that is terminated by the judge before a verdict is returned. For example, a judge might declare a mistrial if the jury is deadlocked and cannot reach a decision.
Opinion: The written explanation of a court's decision in a matter.
Petit Jury: A group of citizens summoned to and sworn by the court to hear evidence and render a verdict in a trial.
Plaintiff: The party who has initiated the litigation.
Plea Bargain: An agreement between a criminal defendant and a prosecutor in which the defendant admits having committed a crime. In return, the prosecutor asks the judge to impose a less severe sentence than had the defendant been convicted at a trial. The judge is not bound by the terms of a plea bargain. A plea bargain ensures that a guilty defendant is punished.
Pro Se: An individual who appears on their own behalf without a lawyer.
Prosecutor: The lawyer who represents the State or City in a traffic/criminal case.
Settlement: An agreement between the plaintiff and defendant in a civil case to resolve the dispute without a trial.
Sentence: The punishment a judge imposes on a person convicted of a crime.
Status Conference Hearing:
1) For Traffic/Criminal cases a Status Conference hearing is a mandatory hearing. At this hearing the defendant appears before court personnel and reviews their progress towards paying on their fines and establishes a reasonable payment plan for the remaining balance. If regular and consistent payments are made defendants will be moved to a desk review hearing.
2) For Civil cases a status hearing is scheduled once a defendant files bankruptcy and is waiting for the bankruptcy to be finalized. Neither party is required to appear for the hearing, however the Court does expect to receive updates from one of the parties regarding the status of the bankruptcy. If neither party appears or updates the court then the case will be dismissed.
Statutory Law: Laws, or statutes, enacted by legislatures, such as the Ohio State Legislature or the United States Congress.
Subpoena: An official notice requiring someone's appearance in court.
Testify: The act by which a witness offers testimony in court.
Testimony: Statements made by witnesses in court.
Verdict: The decision of the jury in a jury trial, or of the judge in a bench trial.
Witness: Someone who offers evidence in court.
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I know a fellow who is writing songs that sound like good 70's Folk Rock but problem is all that is being played on the charts these days is heavily produced, Electro/Glitch/anti-Pop, whatever that stuff is called.
As a songwriter/band/musician is it challenging to know how to pitch your work when all around you people are saying what is good and what is bad. It seems as if what is good can be presented and what is bad is denied space in the playlist. I have had my work cut from a playlist after less than a minute simply because it didn't match what the kids expected. It hurts. An artist can change himself or change the world – which should an artist do?
Initially this article may seem an old-guy rant. Well some of that, but like all my articles I explain the background theory too to help you understand it better. If you don't want to know that then skip to the bits you want to read (just don't call the bits you don't want to read bad).
Now we do need to define "Good". Most people will say a song they like is "good" and ones they don't are "bad". That is not useful for our purposes as songwriters and artists. Personal preference cannot define validity. Right now Media Center is playing me "A Ray of Sunshine" from Wham's "Fantastic" album (1983). That was a good name for that record as it was fantastic, whatever you may think of Wham personally. I write this as I want you to have the reaction you are having right now. Hold it for a while so you can question it as this is a perfect example.
So let's first look at who is telling you what to think about Wham and why. Marketers believe in "Scarcity" and "Tribes" so they manipulate perception of good and bad. Marketers wanted you to identify with being either "a Soul Boy, a Dole Boy, a Hip Hop guy with a jet black vibe" or part of the "Metal Militia" tribe. Metal marketers trained fans to think of Wham as homosexual* wimps so the limited amount of money a fan had to spend on music went to Metallica's "Kill Em All" instead of the Wham record. I won't say that is bad as that is part of what it takes to sell stuff that people don't know yet. Downside is that type of marketing ends up defining a lot of what we think is good or bad music, which in turn makes it hard to be authentic when we want to step up as an artist to present our own story.
Turns out "Fantastic" and "Kill Em All" are both good records. I own two records each from both bands and all four get about as much play as each other.
Now to really put the cat among the pigeons: ELP's 1994 "In The Hot Seat" may not be as cool as the 1970 self-titled "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" but I like it. The songs are nice and the performances are solid (if a little safe). However, "In The Hot Seat" seems to have mortally offended every reviewer I have read, with at least one critic going so far as to say ELP should never have made the record. I'm glad that guy doesn't rule the world as I still enjoy listening to "Hot Seat" as I'm sure many other fans do – generally quietly so they don't get accused of having no taste by everyone trying to line their own cred.
Don't believe too much in critics and other self-appointed advisers. Most critics in the papers, forums, or at concerts are just trying to be accepted in the cool tribe. Adam Ant was panned as a no-talent by many of the same critics who lauded him after he became huge.
Fashion defines art no matter what you want to think. You can't fight it and win as you are one dude and they (the marketers, reviewers and general population) are many. Use fashion instead like a sailor uses the wind. A sailor can make headway no matter which way the wind is blowing.
Close Haul against the wind: However if, like me, the current in-thing makes no sense to you, causes you pain even, then Tack. Tacking is deciding that you are going where you are going despite the winds and using the wind to push you left-right, left-right till you get there. Be so incredibly true to your story, the traditions of your style, that you are a pioneer or neo-traditionalist. Let your marketers rail against how crappy and corrupt the status-quo is so that you become the alternative. The alternative is always either the next fashion in-waiting or traditional product for the people who can't take moving on. Either way there is enough audience for you on the edges of the bell curve and when the winds shift you might just be the next big thing.
There are plenty of examples of bands who have done each of these things so there is no right or wrong as such. In 1983 Wham had the wind behind them and Metallica were tacking. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that either will be easy. Wham & Metallica both worked really hard and had to write good songs. Wham had to be consistently Whamtastic and Metallica had to be consistently high-tensile (which makes little sense in terms of head-banging). Poison moved to LA to join the Glam Metal scene and got huge; till the wind changed (in favor of Metallica). The wind came back and now they tour again doing the Poison thing for fans happy to see them again. The common thing here is to be consistent.
So my advice to you, my friend the Folk Rock singer is: look at what is happening in fashion and decide if that is you, or if in-fact what you are writing already is your authentic story. If you are the latter then be exactly that, learn from the masters who went before and do what they did (except do it on YouTube too) and get out there and build a set of people who like your songs.
Set your course and head for it. Be authentic. I can't promise you will get fame or fortune but at least you are making good art and ultimately good art lasts. Even better, good art tends to get multiple chances to be in the sun.
* double standard seeing Rob Halford of Judas Priest was gay and none of the Metal marketers were questioning Priest's right to be selling lots of copies of "Screaming for Vengeance" in1983.
** I once saw Richard Marx on TV denying that he wrote a song sung by Kenny Rogers even after the interviewer held up the record with the credit. Kenny was considered un-cool to the Rock audiences at the time. I have never forgotten. I thought that was un-cool as Kenny gave Richard a start and put money in his pocket as he was on his way up.


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Legislators Past & Present Home
Name Search:
Segal, Gloria M.
Sessions Served Other Information
House 1983-92 (District 44B)
Party when first elected: Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Counties Served: Hennepin
Date of Birth: 4/??/1928
Birth Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Birth County: Hennepin
Birth Country: United States
Religion: Jewish
Reported Minority: None Reported
City of Residence (when first elected): Saint Louis Park
Occupation (when first elected): Business/Investments
Minneapolis North High School; Secondary; Graduate
University of Minnesota; B.A.; Business
Metropolitan State University; B.A.; Business
Harvard University, Graduate School of Business; Fellowship; Small Business Management, Bush Fellowship
OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
State Board/Commission/Council: Minnesota Commission on the Economic Status of Women; 19?? to 19??
State Board/Commission/Council: Minnesota Governor's Mental Health Commission; 1984 to 198?
Spouse: Dr. Martin A. Segal (married in March 1949)
Children: Four children: Nolan, Thomas, and Robby (sons); Susan (daughter) (one of her children struggled with mental illness issues)
Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature:
She "shined a light on mental health issues and championed women's rights" (Star Tribune, November 9, 2019).
She won the election to House seat district 44B on November 3, 1992. She resigned on December 14, 1992 due to health reasons related to a cancerous brain tumor. The legislature convened on January 5, 1993.
She died from complications related to a cancerous brain tumor at home in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Her funeral was held at Temple Israel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Religion provided by the Jewish Community Relations Council.
Total Days Served: 3633
SESSIONS SERVED
77th Legislative Session (1991-1992)
Body: House
District: 44B
Elected: 11/6/1990
Residence: Saint Louis Park
Term of Office: 1/8/1991 to 12/14/1992 (unfinished term)
Counties Represented: Hennepin
Occupation: Legislator
Party: Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Committees:
Appropriations: Human Resources Division
Economic Development (Chair)
Economic Development: International Trade and Technology Division
Financial Institutions and Insurance
Health and Human Services: Social and Family Services
Reason for unfinished term: Resigned
Session Notes: She resigned due to health reasons related to a cancerous brain tumor.
Term of Office: 1/3/1989 to 1/7/1991
Appropriations: Health and Human Services Division
Economic Development: Community Stabilization and Development Division
Economic Development: Enterprise Development
Health and Human Services: Family Health (Chair)
Occupation: Business
Education: Joint Senate/House Library (Chair)
Health and Human Services: Physical/Mental Health (Chair)
Local and Urban Affairs
Transportation: Highways and Motor Vehicles
Occupation: Business/Investments
Crime and Family Law
Crime and Family Law: Criminal Justice
Education: Higher Education Division
Education: Joint Senate/House Subcommittee on Libraries
Health and Human Services: Health Care
73rd Legislative Session (1983-1984)
Commerce and Economic Development
Commerce and Economic Development: Economic Development
Education: Joint House/Senate Subcommittee on Libraries
Energy: Energy and Economics
Articles & Books About
Ojeda-Zapata, Julio. "Ex-Lawmaker G. Segal, Advocate for Women, Children, Dies at 65 (Obituary)." St. Paul Pioneer Press, October 29, 1993.
Pheifer, Pat. "Former Rep. Gloria Segal, Champion of Programs for the Mentally Ill, Dies at 65 (Obituary)." Star Tribune, October 28, 1993.
"Gloria Segal Honored for Service in House." Session Weekly, St. Paul: Minnesota House of Representatives Information Office, February 19, 1993, p. 4 and Cover.
Parsons, Jim. "Tumor Causes Segal to Leave Legislature." Star Tribune, December 15, 1992, p. 2B.
Gloria M. Segal Papers, 1981-1992 - Available in the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections.
The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library has collected newspaper articles on legislators since 1973. They are available in the Library.


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Sit and Let Me Tell You a Tale
DERAILED IN KLAMATH
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A swear to God disclaimer- This is a completely true story.
I parted the brush into the Hobo Jungle looking for a tramp to tell me which track would take me north from Oroville to K Falls. No one was there, but the clearing was better than most camps. There was a well-made fire pit, the ashes cold to the touch, and on a nearby tree hung a piece of mirror-wedged between two limbs. At about five feet it was at a just right shaving height. There were two cans of Vienna sausages left on a felled tree that served as a bench near the fire and there was fairly clean cardboard laid out on the edge of camp that a tramp could roll a bedroll out on.
I started a fire and filled my beat-up tin coffee pot with my water jug. From the side pocket of the Korean War era rucksack that I carried, I pulled out a pouch full of coffee. The pouch was half a clean tube sock stuffed with coffee and tied at the top. I got the water to boil and dropped the pouch in the water, put a lid on it and set it away from the direct flame to simmer slow.
"You've been taught well."
I looked up when I heard the voice and saw a very old man not twenty feet away from me. It rocked me back on my heels because I hadn't heard him or seen him walk up. I definitely should have – he had one eye, one hand, and one leg on opposing sides of his body. He was leaning on a crutch, and alongside him was a small three legged dog with no tail. May God strike me dead if I'm lyin'.
He asked if he could join me and I nodded. His stride, with one leg and a crutch, was synchronized so smoothly that it looked like no effort at all. He dropped his duffel near the fire and sat on it across from me. I offered coffee, and he produced a battered tin cup.
The tripod dog layed next to my foot, apparently diggin' the idea of hanging with new company. The old man didn't seem to mind. I watched as he layed out a paper on his knee, added tobacco, and massaged the paper into a good looking smoke, as quickly as would have with two hands.
"How old are you, boy?"
"Nineteen."
He chuckled then and said that the dog was nineteen. She'd had a much rougher road than me, by the looks of her.
He knew which track to watch, he was going to K Falls too, so we waited for a train to be built there, in the meantime we smoked and drank coffee while he told me stories and gave me tips about riding the rails. While telling his tales, he said that he had lost his leg under a train. There was a knife scar above and below his milky eye, so I guessed what happened there. He never mentioned what happened to his hand and I never asked.
"The dog just found me in another jungle when she was a pup. I don't know what hell she went through."
A part of the train being built rolled up about one in the afternoon. The old man made his way to the door of an open box that had doors open on both sides, threw his duffel in and grabbed the big iron door handle and vaulted himself in with just the upper body strength of one side of his body and a great leap with his one leg.
"What about the dog?"
"She'll jump up here when it starts moving."
It was about a three-foot grade to the box car, and another four feet to the floor of the car. I couldn't imagine her making it.
A while later, after being banged around back and forth as the train was built, we heard the air being forced in to the brakes in a chain reaction all the way down the track. There were four iron horses at the front blowing diesel smoke, the engine in front revved hard and the train started moving.
The little dog got up from the shade of a big rock and took-off after us. Her two back and one front leg busted ass up the tracks. When she caught up, she hunched her back legs on the fly and leapt the seven feet and landed on the metal floor three legs down, the momentum caused her to slide across and almost out the other door, but the old man stopped her with his crutch across her chest.
"She does that all the time."
We got drunk on Night Train and smoked and told lies while we steadily climbed into the Klamath Mountains. The railroad tunnels were bored into mountain sides, the diesel smoke from the engines filled the tight space and we choked through handkerchiefs in pitch black darkness until we saw daylight. The more we climbed, the worse the tracks got and it got so that a constant swaying and jerking was just going to be the way of it. The old man said we would get there about 1 a.m., so we drank 'till we passed out. It was the only way to survive the ride.
When I woke-up it was daylight, the train wasn't moving, and there was a mad racket outside. It was supposed to be one in the morning. I was hung-over, still drunk, dehydrated and I had to piss, so the mystery of the unidentified loud noise that I was hearing, and the sun glaring into the box-car would have to wait until I could whip it out and get my relief.
I stumbled toward the door, leaned on the wall and let fly out the door into…nothing. Wide open sky with no land in sight. A bout of vertigo caused me to let go of myself and grab the door frame with both hands. Just then, the old man and the dog came up along-side me and we all stared for a moment.
"Damn chopper woke me up. Were the hell is it?"
All three of us stepped a little closer to the edge and looked down. We were looking almost straight down the side of a mountain. About one thousand feet down lay freight cars crashed through the tops of ponderosa pines and boulders. Our train. The one we were on.
I looked down the side of the car and saw two cars behind us and the Caboose. In front of us were three cars and a curving quarter mile of destroyed twisted tendrils of track and dislodged railroad ties leading into a tunnel. The train had derailed. The rest of it was down the mountain. There was a helicopter up-righting some of the cars with a big claw, and loading them onto flat-bed trucks. About a dozen hard-hats were milling around the wreckage and one of them looked a thousand feet up the slope at a young tramp with his dick hanging out, an old hobo with missing pieces, and a three legged dog. An image, I'm sure, that would stay with him forever.
The hard hat yelled something to us and started trekking up the slope, waving his hands. Eventually he quit waving, the ground had become so steep and treacherous that he need both hands for the climb.
The old man handed me a bottle, I took a long pull, zipped up my pants, and we both sat in the doorway and rolled cigarettes and smoked while the upset hard hat bitched and cursed his way toward us. The dog laid her head down on her paw and went to sleep.
It took the guy about ten minutes to get up the slope and when he got up to the train he put his hands on his knees and gasped out words to us,
"What the hell… are you men alright? How..shit, I can't breathe, did you get here?"
I handed him the bottle,
"We got on in Oroville."
"Well, you can't be here."
"But we are." I handed him the end of my cigarette and he declined.
"Nobody got hurt?"
"We were drunk," the old man and I said in unison.
"Christ."
He got on the radio then, explained us to his boss, re-explained using different words, and then repeated it one more time. There was radio silence for about ten long seconds and then the boss came back with,
"Another train coming in twenty on track two, put them on it, in the back engine and tell them not to touch a damn thing."
Hard hat jumped up in the car with us and sat next to the dog. She didn't budge. Just slept.
Another Burlington Northern iron horse roared through the open mountain tunnel and slowed around the bend towards us. As it pulled up we could see the engineer with his mouth agape as he looked at the wrecked track next to him and the cars down below.
Hard hat talked to the engineer for a while, then came back and showed us which engine to load up on.
"There's cold water bottles in coolers in there, and a toilet under the front end. Don't touch anything. Don't drink, don't smoke and if the dog messes, clean it up."
We threw our bedrolls on the floor and kept our heads down as the big diesels roared to life and the air was put to the brakes. When we got to the yard at Klamath Falls it was night, and we didn't want to meet the local law that we figured must be waiting, so we used the darkness to slip off the train while it was still moving about five miles per hour. The old man stepped down the stairs and leaned into a slow shoulder roll down a grassy slope. He rolled once and was on his knees when I stepped off with all my gear and stayed on my feet at a trot. The little dog jumped and I lost sight of her in the thick dark bushes.
We woke up at the local Rescue Mission the next day. I was feeling like a new man after a night on a real bed. After a breakfast of donated day-old Quarter Pounders and day-old donuts I was ready for whatever was next…after I rolled another smoke.
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import (
	"fmt"
	"sort"
)

// The Sequenced interface represents a piece of data belonging within a
// sequence.
type Sequenced interface {
	// Pos represents the current position in the sequence.
	Pos() int64
}

// SequencedSlice is a slice of Sequenced instances, implementing the
// sort.Interface interface.
type SequencedSlice []Sequenced

// Search finds the provided Sequenced instance in a sorted
// SequencedSlice, using the sort.Search function.  If found, it
// returns the current position of the item and true.  If not found,
// it returns the position where this item would be inserted into the
// sorted slice, and false.
func (ss SequencedSlice) Search(seq Sequenced) (int, bool) {
	pos := seq.Pos()

	i := sort.Search(len(ss), func(i int) bool {
		return ss[i].Pos() >= pos
	})

	exists := (i < len(ss) && ss[i].Pos() == pos)
	return i, exists
}

// A Sequencer receives Sequenced instances out of order, and produces
// them on its channel (C) in order.
type Sequencer struct {
	// C is a channel which produces Sequenced items in order as
	// they become available.
	C chan Sequenced

	// NextPos indicates what the next expected value is for a
	// Sequenced Pos() call.  This defaults to 0, but may be set
	// by callers prior to calling Add().
	NextPos int64

	queue SequencedSlice
	done  bool
}

// NewSequencer creates a new Sequencer, initializing the C channel.
func NewSequencer() *Sequencer {
	var s Sequencer
	s.C = make(chan Sequenced)
	return &s
}

func (s *Sequencer) insert(i int, seq Sequenced) {
	s.queue = append(s.queue, nil)
	copy(s.queue[i+1:], s.queue[i:])
	s.queue[i] = seq
}

func (s *Sequencer) send(seq Sequenced) {
	s.C <- seq
	s.NextPos++
}

func (s *Sequencer) drain() {
	for len(s.queue) > 0 {
		seq := s.queue[0]

		pos := seq.Pos()
		if pos != s.NextPos {
			return
		}

		s.send(seq)
		s.queue = s.queue[1:]
	}
}

// The Add function adds a Sequenced instance to the Sequencer.  Items
// can be added in any order.
//
// If an added item's Pos() is equal to NextPos, it is immediately
// sent on the Sequencer's C channel.  Queued items that follow are
// also sent.
//
// If an added item's Pos() is greater than NextPos, it is queued up
// to be sent as soon as it can.
//
// If an added item's Pos() is lower than NextPos -- indicating that
// it is a repeated value -- it is discarded.
//
// Add panics if Done() has previously been called on it.
func (s *Sequencer) Add(seq Sequenced) {
	if s.done {
		panic("cannot add to a closed sequencer")
	}

	pos := seq.Pos()

	switch {
	case pos < s.NextPos:
		// Ignore re-delivered messages with lower sequence
		// numbers than we're expecting

	case pos == s.NextPos:
		s.send(seq)
		s.drain()

	case pos > s.NextPos:
		i, exists := s.queue.Search(seq)
		if !exists {
			s.insert(i, seq)
		}
	}
}

// Done tells the Sequencer to close its channel.  Any attempt to Add
// following this call will panic.  This function will return an error
// if there are any items queued that could not be sent to the
// channel.
func (s *Sequencer) Done() error {
	close(s.C)
	s.done = true

	if len(s.queue) != 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("Never got item at position %d", s.NextPos)
	}

	return nil
}

// QueueLen returns the current number of items blocked in the queue,
// waiting for the value at s.NextPos.
func (s *Sequencer) QueueLen() int {
	return len(s.queue)
}


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What was the first occurrence of background music turning out to be diegetic music for comedic purposes?
There are a lot of music which have this joke:
The actor moves through a scene with background music playing, when the actor acknowledges the musicians in the scene for comical effect. I think by now you could call this a trope. The latest scene where I've seen this is this scene from Blazing Saddles.
But I wonder which was the first movie to come up with this trope?
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Reminds me of this scene from Bananas, but I'm sure there are earlier examples. Does it have to be humorous\ironic, BTW? – Walt Nov 24 '16 at 15:06
Yes, I can't really imagine such a scene not being humorous. The "reveal" of the musician is what really makes out these scenes for me. – hgiesel Nov 24 '16 at 15:28
I'm sure the Marx Brothers did this in the 1930s but I can't find the scene. – Chenmunka Nov 24 '16 at 15:48
There are non-comedic examples, I'm certain... and there are also examples where the music turns out to be on the radio, for instance, not played by "live" musicians. They do this often with intro credit sequences. – Catija♦ Nov 24 '16 at 16:10
re: non-comedic - There's a beautiful one at the beginning of the 1981 French film 'Diva' which is not only an actual surprise [well, not now I've told you] but is also central to the entire movie plot itself. – Tetsujin Nov 24 '16 at 16:48
This can be seen in the 1929 movie The Cocoanuts by the Marx Brothers. The full movie can be seen on this site (The youtube version I found did not feature the full credits). In the initial scenes following the credits, there are several different beach scenes, and briefly at 3:12 into the video, you can see that it is an orchestra providing the music.
While it is not acknowledged by the characters as the other examples, the book "After the Silents: Hollywood Music in the Early Sound Era 1926-1934" does consider this to be an example of diogenic music.
After several such shots, the image briefly reveals an unobtrusive conductor and small orchestra buried in the top left corner of the frame apparently providing music to the couples nearby.
It also details a second scene (Song "Where my Dreams Come True" ) in which this occurs, and concludes:
In both cases the filmmakers display little interest in tying music to onscreen sources. Instead, the music seems to be channeled from the filmmakers directly to the film audience.
Further reading on the page attributes it to the Marx Brothers' vaudeville background, which regularly engaged the audience in the act.
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Although, to be fair, I don't know if this example is specifically comedic, although there are a few examples in the movie where it plays to the audience rather than being an integral part of the movie, such as a dance number that plays to really nobody in the hotel. – JohnP Sep 20 '19 at 15:56
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Palestinians: Qatar first Arab country to endorse Trump peace plan
A senior State Department official told reporters that Washington sees Qatar as another Gulf country potentially prepared to normalize relations with Israel.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Published: SEPTEMBER 21, 2020 08:40
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomes Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to launch the third annual U.S.-Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department in Washington, U.S., September 14, 2020
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Palestinian officials expressed concern that Qatar may be headed toward normalizing its relations with Israel and said such a move would facilitate the implementation of US President Donald Trump's vision for Middle East peace, Peace to Prosperity, also known as the Deal of the Century.
Last week, the US and Qatar issued a joint statement after holding their third Strategic Dialogue on September 14-15. The two sides highlighted the strength of the bilateral relationship, opportunities to further deepen cooperation to benefit both countries.
The two governments expressed concern about the detrimental security, economic and social impacts of the Gulf crisis on the region and affirmed their continued support for a strong and united Gulf Cooperation Council. They focused on promoting peace and a prosperous future for all in the region, and on countering regional threats. In addition, the UA and Qatar discussed issues of regional security, including joint efforts to defeat ISIS; working toward peace and an end to the conflicts in Libya, Syria and Yemen; political developments in Iraq; and prospects for a negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as outlined in the US Vision for Peace.
A senior State Department official told reporters that Washington sees Qatar as another Gulf country potentially prepared to normalize relations with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
"Qatar has a track record of working with Israel that we think will eventually get them to a broader agreement with the Israelis," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tim Lenderking was quoted by Bloomberg as saying. "We think there's a lot to build on, every country will move at its own pace on normalization, according to its own criteria, but we're eager for that to happen sooner rather than later."
Qatari Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Alkhater said this week her country won't establish diplomatic relations with Israel until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.
Palestinian officials said that the joint US-Qatar statement, which talks about resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of the Trump peace vision, is a Qatari endorsement of the plan, which has been rejected by the Palestinians.
The Palestinians have denounced the Trump peace vision, unveiled last January, as a "conspiracy designed to liquidate the Palestinian issue and national rights."
The Palestinians have also been boycotting the US administration since December 2017, when Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and decided to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Relations between the Palestinian Authority and Qatar have been strained in recent years due to Doha's ongoing financial and political support for Hamas.
Monir al Jaghoub, a senior official with the Palestinian ruling Fatah faction, said that Qatar appears to be afraid that it will miss the train of normalization with Israel.
"Our people and leadership have categorically rejected Trump's plan," al-Jaghoub commented on Twitter. "The Palestinian leadership cannot enter into negotiations based on this plan, which poses a threat to all the peoples of the region, because it ignores the essence of the conflict, which is the Palestinian people's right to freedom within an independent and fully sovereign state with east Jerusalem as its capital. This is not a step towards peace."
PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Majdalani, who heads a group called the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, also accused Qatar of endorsing the Trump plan, "which is rejected by the Palestinians and the international community."
Majdalani said that "there will be no security or stability in the region without ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state."
He added that the continued American pressure on some Arab countries to follow suit with the UAE and Bahrain is increasing before the upcoming US presidential elections.
Bassam al-Salhi, Secretary-General of the Palestinian People's Party and member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that Qatar has become the first Arab country to officially endorse the Trump peace vision.
Referring to the joint US-Qatar statement, al-Salhi said: "This is a very dangerous development that confirms the importance of expediting the implementation of all that was agreed upon in the last meeting of the Palestinian factions, and most importantly, mobilizing the energies of our people to confront the dangers and renew our national project and the institutions of our people."
Walid al-Awad, another senior official with the Palestinian People's Party, said that Qatar's "endorsement of the Trump deal represents a declaration that it has decided to join the path of normalization [with Israel]."
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Every month this year, I'm dedicating myself to getting into a new band. By 'new band', what I really mean is an old band who I've known of for awhile but have for one reason or another never checked out. Maybe they were a genre I wasn't into, maybe they were the favorite band of someone I didn't like, maybe I was just lazy. Whatever reason, I'm going to spend the month trying to get into them.
If, at the end of the month, I find myself enjoying the music I'll buy an album. And if not, I'll save my money for something else.
My New Band for March is:
From the wiki page:
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
The E Street Band has been rock musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.
My personal history with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band:
Uh, Born In The U.S.A. Seriously, that's pretty much it. I mean, like anybody who has spent any amount of time in a bar in the last, oh, I don't know, 30 years, I've heard my share of Bruce Springsteen. Yet, I can't really claim to know many of his songs and have never listened to him on my own. Seriously, check out my Last.fm if you don't believe me (one random play must have snuck through on their streaming radio).
I don't know that there's any great reason for it. I was born right at the beginning of Springsteen's rise to success, but by the time I was paying attention to music on my own, it was the 90s, and 80s rock was replaced with Nirvana and sarcasm. That, of course, hasn't stopped me from becoming a later-in-life fan of other 80s stalwarts like Talking Heads or The Cure. No one in my life ever really listened to 'the Boss', so I never felt any inclination to care.
Which is why it's always sort of blown me away how absolutely beloved Springsteen is throughout the country. Obviously in New Jersey he's bigger than Jesus, but people love this dude's music all over the place, and while I can drunkenly mumble along to a few of his hits with the best of them, I have pretty much no knowledge of his vast library.
And vast it is. Fugazi has a solid number of albums, but only a few that seemed 'vital,' and Digable Planets only produced two albums. Having a representative experience of both band's respective discography in a month was reasonable. That won't be the case with Bruce Springsteen. I'll likely focus on his most revered period, specifically Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A., but I know his fans would tell me there are a dozen other albums worth checking out (including a new one this month, I just realized; kismet).
I fully expect my frame of reference by the end of the month to be woefully incomplete, but I'm going to do my best. Maybe by March 31st, I'll see what I've been missing all these years, or maybe I'll realize why I've never felt compelled to give the music a chance. We'll see.
Feel free to explore with me, or rediscover him if you've always been a fan. And if you have suggestions for future bands I should feature, please mention them in the comments.
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Whether you take a tempered approach to holiday dressing or can't fight the urge to wear sequins head to toe, you can't deny that holiday party outfits require an extra dose of opulence. But there are a couple common sartorial hiccups when it comes to glitzy holiday attire: Spectacular pieces of the designer variety can be pricy, and more budget-friendly items don't always look quite as luxe as you want them too. But don't fret, if you're wondering how to make a holiday outfit look expensive without going overboard, retail buyers, fashion directors, and editors have a few pro tips with high-wattage results.
From velvet to lamé and sequins (so many sequins!), fanciful pieces make it easy to take the simplest of outfits to the next level like a crewneck sweater and jeans or a slip dress and blazer. The key to making an outfit come off as luxe is to pick a particular item as your focal point — a mashup of razzle-dazzle pieces can easily skew inelegant — whether it's a rhinestone-decked bag, glittering drop earring, or shimmering dress. "With so many events happening throughout December in the lead-up to the holidays, I feel the clever approach is to focus on accessories as a means of achieving the kind of impact you're looking for," says Celenie Seidel, market editor at the retailer, Farfetch.
Yes, crystal-adorned pumps and metallic-flecked sweaters offer restrained takes on seasonal shimmer and shine, but for a more unexpected approach, Seidel is in favor of bold, sculptural earrings, nostalgic hair clips like a feminine bow, and modern evening bags in sumptuous velvet. "A rotating series of these smaller pieces mean that, combined with existing ready-to-wear pieces from your wardrobe, you should be able to fully furnish all your event dressing needs," Seidel says. Another directional sidestep is to swap traditional holiday colors for unexpected shades like mustard yellow and lilac. In soft, silky fabrics, they feel equally festive and look elegant as ever.
For a low-key take on holiday dressing — which is perfect for those looking to dress up jeans or leggings — Kingham says to "accessorize with hair clips for an elevated, super-chic look and make sure you have a fabulous bag and shoes!"
When a cocktail dress is a must, Barneys New York fashion director Marina Larroudé says that the best and most luxe-looking styles are all about fit. "You want to look cool and age appropriate, it's not about looking expensive. You can look your best and very polished wearing outfits that suit your body and represents your true self." Larroudé's top picks include wrap silhouettes, glittering mini and midi dresses, and sleek fabrics with sheen.


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The Comstock House is a private family home in Santa Rosa, California. Recently restored with the intent to return the exterior to its original 1905 appearance. The house is named for the Comstock family, who lived here for 74 years.
Comstock House would be noteworthy if only for its link to the illustrious family, but it is a remarkable example of early 20th Century architecture that remains in mostly original condition. The main rooms of the house were never remodeled, and still appear almost exactly as they did in 1905. Also rare is that the original blueprints and the architect's directions to the contractor have been preserved (both documents available for download from this web site). In 2012, Comstock House was listed on National Register of Historic Places (NRIS 11001053).
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ISLAMABAD: Former captain Zaheer Abbas on Sunday pinned his hopes on leg-spinner Yasir Shah saying he will play a vital and match-winning role in the series-deciding third and final Test against New Zealand starting in Abu Dhabi from Monday.
Pakistan beat New Zealand in the second Test by an innings and 16 runs while the Kiwis were victorious in first Test when they beat Pakistan by 4 runs.
Talking to APP, Zaheer, who had two stints as captain of the national team in 1981 and 1984, said leg-spinner Yasir Shah will be the key in the series-deciding third and final Test against New Zealand.
Yasir who is set to become the fastest to reach 200 Test wickets needs just five wickets to break Australian leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett's record of completing 200 wickets in 36 Tests, way back in 1936.
Yasir's 14 wicket match haul outplayed New Zealand to an innings and 16 runs defeat in the second Test in Dubai, he said.
Zaheer, also known as the Asian Bradman, said Pakistan team will have an upper hand over New Zealand in the final Test.
Pakistan will win the series after beating New Zealand in the third Test, he said.
Pakistan team's confidence and morale is high after winning the second Test therefore we can expect a good outcome from our players in the final Test, he said.
Zaheer, also called the 'Run Machine', said Pakistani players must play the final Test with the same passion and zeal as they showed in the second Test.
There is a chance that Shaheen Afridi will be played in the final Test due to Muhammad Abbas's injury, he said.
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Same-Sex Marriage, President Obama, and the Golden Rule
By Tito Edwards on May 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM
President Obama said many things last Thursday in regard to his support of same-sex marriage. Let us break down what our president said in regards to the Golden Rule and ancillary Christian motifs. In doing so, I will take liberty of using devastating rebuttals by a Catholic priest and a Catholic professor in fleshing out the mendacity of President Obama's statement.
The Golden Rule was invoked by President Obama as cover in approving (again) same-sex marriage:
. . .In the end the values that I care most deeply about and she [Michele] cares most deeply about is how we treat other people and, you know, I, you know, we are both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others but, you know, when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is, not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it's also the Golden Rule, you know, treat others the way you would want to be treated. And I think that's what we try to impart to our kids and that's what motivates me. . .[1]
Msgr. Charles Pope, pastor of a vibrant black parish, succinctly deflated the statement above in the following:
It is a common problem today that people often present simplistic portraits of Jesus Christ to support a variety of agendas. And the portraits of Jesus are not only simplistic, they are incomplete (usually intentionally so), and fail to accept that Jesus cannot be reduced to a simple sentence or two.
I would argue this is what the President is doing here. As if to say, "Jesus, was basically a nice and affirming person, who spoke of Love, and so beautifully and taught us to do unto to others as we would have them do to us. "Surely," the thinking goes, "this Jesus would affirm and rejoice over two Gay people getting "married."" It is as if this were all Jesus was or said, "Love…Do unto others". Never mind that he had some pretty high standards when it came to sexuality (Matt 5:27-30; Matt 15:19; Mk 10:11; Rev 22:15; Rev 21:8) Never mind that he told his apostles he had other things to teach them and would send his Holy Spirit, and never mind that His Holy Spirit inspired the Epistles writers like Paul to speak clearly in the ancient Biblical tradition about the sinfulness of homosexual activity, fornication, and adultery "Never mind all that," says the modern world, and our President, "I chose the Jesus who said only, 'God is love, and be kind to one another.'"[2]
Basically President Obama is picking and choosing here, the textbook definition of heresy. Saint Thomas Aquinas defines heresy as "a species of infidelity in men who, having professed the faith of Christ, corrupt its dogmas"[3]. Emphasis mine.
To delve further into the theology of President Obama, Francis J. Beckwith, Ph.D., a professor at Baylor's Institute for the Studies of Religion, explains how President Obama errors in his theological reasoning:
. . .The Golden Rule – "do to others whatever you would have them do to you" (Mt. 7:12) – is not a quid pro quo for preference satisfaction reciprocity. Otherwise, it would mean that if one were a masochist, for example, then one should inflict pain on others.
When Christ offered the Golden Rule as part of his Sermon on the Mount (Mt 5-7:27), he knew his listeners would understand it the same way they understood the other parts of that homily, including this question: "Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread?" (Mt. 7:9a).
If the Golden Rule were just about a mutual self-interest pact to protect everyone's preferences, then a good response to Christ's question would have been, "But Jesus, what if my son did ask for a stone because he preferred to eat the stone rather than the bread?"
This would be a foolish question because the Golden Rule is not about merely protecting your neighbor's preferences, but rather, advancing your neighbor's good. The president, ironically, must rely on this latter, and ancient, understanding in order to make sense of the appeal he makes to his responsibilities as a "dad" and "husband." For the received meanings of these terms are embedded in an inherited moral tradition that he did not invent, but now rejects.[4]
We could also address the fact that he claims to be a "practicing Christian", but non-believers as well as Christians know that this is a farce, so there is no need to address this issue.
It's incomprehensible to understand the Presidents thinking using the examples he stated. If he would have simply said "I changed my mind because I 'feel' that same-sex marriage should be allowed", then we all would understand better his reasoning.
But to dress it up by invoking the "Golden Rule" and restating that he is a "practicing Christian" is simply untrue.
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[1] Obama: 'I Think Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married', ABC News
[2] The President, Gay unions, and the problem of selective Christianity, Msgr. Charles Pope. Archdiocese of Washington. May 10, 2012 AD.
[3] Heresy, Wilhelm, J. (1910 AD). The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
[4] The President, Jesus, and the Golden Rule, Francis J. Beckwith. The Catholic Thing. May 11, 2012 AD.
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