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Emilio Strafelini, a letter from Gurs camp
Emilio Strafelini
Emilio Strafelini was born in Rovereto in 1897 into a rather well-to-do family, but by 1915, as a rebel and lover of learning, he had deserted from the Austro-Hungarian army [the Trentino region was only annexed by Italy after the First World War]. In Rome in 1916 he joined the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). As a dyed-in-the-wool antimilitarist, he did not go back to Rovereto until 1919, during which year he and other comrades founded the Rovereto branch of the PSI. Working in partnership with the International and serving as a councillor on the Camera del Lavoro and Social Brotherhood, like many another, Strafelini was exposed to the early violence of the fascist goon squads that wrecked the local Camera del Lavoro in the Piazza Rosmini on two separate occasions at least. A rallying point for Rovereto's antifascists, it then relocated to his father's home in the Piazza San Marco. Persecuted and unemployed, Emilio was arrested first in Milan before fleeing to the Isère department in France, before moving on to Lyon and joining the coal miners of Terrenoire and then the glassblowers of Saint Etienne. He was secretary of the Loire departmental Inter-Union Committee of the French CGTU and a signatory to the antifascist manifesto released by the Italian syndicalists abroad. Towards the end of 1925, he slipped back into Italy – apparently to attempt the life of Mussolini, just as many other anarchists had tried and would yet try to do, but to no avail. Discovered in Rome in 1927, he was beaten and tortured while being interrogated by the fascist police. Sentenced to 5 years' internment [internal exile], he was sent to Lipari. Ever the libertarian, Strafelini espoused an unmistakably anarchist line. He was back in Rovereto in 1932, under special surveillance and given a "warning" [the fascist equivalent of a 'caution']. Giving the surveillance the slip, he was active in the Vallgarina valley, secretly organising a branch of the IWA-affiliated USI [Italian Syndicalist Union], the libertarian trade union outlawed since 1925. In a report that he was to forward to the IWA from Paris in August 1933 through the Emigre Committee in the city, his frantic activity and that of his comrades is evident, as is the social situation in Rovereto – distribution of underground leaflets, agitation in the factories and in the countryside against enrolment in the fascist syndicates, against taxes and the seizure and sale of crops confiscated from the poor. In one factory, a subsidiary of the Pirelli group, thirty one workers were sacked for refusing to pay dues to the fascist syndicate; and only two out of sixty printing workers agreed to pay their dues. The Rovereto branch was in touch with many other Italian towns which were still active despite the arrests, isolation and the growing tide of exiles. However, Emilio tried to set up a clandestine press in Muline de Villa Lagarina. Strafelini added to his 1933 report a note on anarchist armed attacks on the fascists covering the 1923-1933 period.
Risking arrest, in April 1932 Strafelini fled to France via Austria and Switzerland. He was a member of the IWA and of the Antifascist Union (Concentrazione Antifascista) formed by the Rosselli brothers. In 1936, he was one of the first to rush to Spain to defend the anarchist revolution there from the forces of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Some seventeen volunteers from the Trentino region were to join the Garibaldi Brigades. In Spain, as a member of the libertarian CNT union, Strafelini sampled not just the Francoist terror but also the betrayal and execution of anarchists and independent communists at the hands of Stalinist thugs who were more afraid of anarchist revolution than of Francoist victory (the signing of the notorious Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939 was no fluke). After antifascists in Spain were defeated, Emilio fled to France together with huge numbers of militians, only to be welcomed into the very republican concentration camps prepared for them. The letter below was written in the Gurs camp. The 'Lionello' to whom it was sent was the Rovereto antifascist and Communist Party member, Lionello Buffatto. In 1938 Buffatto fled Italy for France with his wife and their son, Uliano. He was unable to make contact with Strafelini at that point since Strafelini was in Spain at the time. But contact was obviously established when a letter from Buffatto reached Strafelini in the Gurs camp.
Gurs [Internment] Camp (France)
Dear Lionello,
Correspondence connecting and bringing comfort to the ideals of those who struggle, soldiers for a common idea, is sacred and there isn't a prisoner or down-and-out whose heart does not skip a beat when a letter, a line arrives. Neither indolence nor idleness bothers me; I thank you and let me answer straight away. I am not, and never will be, sectarian. Watch and note that I am never categorical, dogmatic or axiomatic in what I say; I merely set out my very modest opinion, my thoughts. As I see it, the individual ought to be a self-propelled molecule. Neither inspiration nor talent can be summoned on command, to order. Art itself thrives on freedom, licence, hit-and-miss experiments and individual imaginations.
When I think of Stalin, I see the ghost of tsarism but also I see the medieval autocrat, Ivan the Terrible. The marxism of Marx and Engels is no social philosophy. It's a religion: a secular religion, materialism made god. Messianism. And this special character is down to Marx's Jewish roots. He was a prophet possessed of certainty, even to the point of adopting the fierce eloquence of the Bible. He looked forward to a golden age of equality, earthly paradise and revolution, fire and blood seemed to him to be legitimate and necessary means for forcibly creating human happiness. In the build-up to this mysticism, Marx [analyses the] economic system and class struggle. Not in order to destroy capitalism, but in order to relocate it to the paradise-State by doing away with property and freedom of the individual. Marxism, overtaken and refuted by many aspects of the modern world, refuses to be tinkered with or amended, because it is a religion; and, like all religions, marxism regards as heretics any who challenge it and it deforms actions and human beings in order to tailor them to its needs. Increasingly less experimental, it conjures up ideological myths. The 'bourgeois' and 'proletarian' types are abstractions, just like the "noble savage born virtuous and corrupted by society" associated with Bernardin and Jean-Jacques [Rousseau]. Life has no reliable examples to show and many things fall outside such a crude social psychology. Lenin followed after Marx and, though born well after the Inquisition, was no less fanatical, no less fiercely convinced of the need to punish heretics and apostates with fire and sword. Russia has her revolutionary saints … and the ultimate ikon is Lenin's mummy, on display for the crowd to kneel before. [This is] a religion that rules out all charity.
Lenin always despised philanthropists, consolers and benefactors, looking upon them as hypocrites hindering the attainment of his paradise; which is to be brought about, after the massacres, by the inescapable force of dialectics alone.
Stalin has jettisoned this mysticism and introduced a neo-tsarism; he has outlawed and exterminated the Trotskyists, the generals, Lenin's collaborators, etc., with ruthless cruelty.
But to hell with polemic.
And this famous proletariat, what has it done, in practical terms, to help Spain? And can it be unaware of the mass executions in Catalonia and elsewhere? And when the SIA (International Antifascist Solidarity) in Paris called a protest rally over these and even graver matters, how many turned up? 2000. Yet nearly a million rush to clap the military parade on 14 July. There's the rub [the cause]; the effect. So much for the internationalism of the class as inculcated under the sway of Stalinist, social-patriotic propaganda paving the way for imperialist war.
And don't start me to talking about the war in Spain. What I witnessed down there was horrific. Take it from me, because I tell you this sadly, with hand on heart. You know that I have always sought unity; in Livorno* and afterwards and at all times. But union with mutual respect and with no treacherous back-stabbing. I believe in communism, but a communism without compromise, without opportunism, without the belief that the bourgeois are about to help me bring it about. Our future depends entirely upon us.
You know my background; could I have lifted a finger or fought just to gain an extra plateful of spaghetti? Only freedom, a feeling for what is fair and humane, could have given me the strength to face up serenely to everything that I have suffered. And that flame will be snuffed out only by death. Which is precisely why I have never been corrupted by position, honours, wealth or privilege. I have welcomed my place in the ranks of the exploited and humiliated, knowing of the dangers … and I lead the way, because it is only right to set the example and forge a better society for the sake of the hundreds of little Ulianos**.
I am no conformist. Not one to play along. I am a refractory. And don't think that I flatter myself that I can bring about anarchy like that; unless we are sorely mistaken; unless all who profess to be anarchists are sound or know what they need to know. No, no! Men are what they are: but I would ask you to heed, to monitor a man's actions, his life rather than swallowing the mumblings, party newspapers or watchwords laid down by a party. Let a man act out as much as he can of what he preaches. Labels mean nothing; a label is only a shop label.
Thanks for your news. With all my heart and mind I am in the mountains of Trentino. I have suffered much there and part of my heart lies there.
Kiss your son for me. Best wishes to friends and your family.
Yours, fraternally,
Emilio Strafelini.
* Livorno. The reference here is to the Socialist Party congress from which the Communist Party of Italy emerged. Strafelini was at that point identified with the revolutionary faction of the party.
** Uliano . Lionello Buffatto's son.
From: Adesso (Rovereto) Italy, 9 March 2004. Translated by: Paul Sharkey.
Italian anarchists outside Italy
Strafelini, Emilio (1897-)
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Meltzer, Albert. 18 The CNT between Death and Birth; The Re-Birth of the CNT; The Phoney CNT; The Orkneys; Cienfuegos Press; The Wooden Horse .
Marzocchi, Umberto. Remembering Spain : Italian anarchist volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (second edition) .
Sacchetti, Giorgio and Victor Serge. Otello Gaggi, An Exemplary Case (an Italian anti-fascist in Russia) .
Petrini, Alfonso. A letter from Petrini .
Bortolotti, Attilio and Rossella Di Leo. Between Canada and the USA : a tale of immigrants and anarchists .


So, our agenda for this week's blog was completely different.
But then, we spent three hours tonight reviewing Animal Petitions, updating ourselves on related news, reading related articles, looking at pictures, and going through our e-mail.
When it comes to Animal Welfare, it's very rare that I come away from the computer or telephone feeling upbeat. Yes, there are animal related victories, and we are grateful and celebrate every one. But more often then not (so much more often), the things we learn, hear and share are horrendous. And the most tragic thing about everything that we learn, hear and share is – it's preventable.
And so many people aren't listening or aware, or care. SO MANY.
A lot of what we learn, hear and share is preventable RIGHT NOW.
And yes, there is a lot (a lot) that will take more time to change and prevent.
Unfortunately, the mentality of many people is that if they can't immediate change a situation – or the world – on a grandiose scale, then any effort is not worth doing. So, many RIGHT NOW preventable situations are not having anything done about them, which is a shame.
We keep saying it – ANY effort to save or better the life of ANY animal is worth it. It doesn't matter WHAT the effort.
And you know what? You don't have to love animals to make something right.
Well, then YOU can JUST DO SOMETHING.
Maybe, if we ALL took a moment to JUST DO SOMETHING, we would have less horror to learn, hear and share, and more happy information to pass around.
All it takes is YOU, US and WE.
So start somewhere. Make that effort. JUST DO SOMETHING.
Because every day, so many animals are waiting. We know – because we have the Animal Petitions, related news, articles, pictures, and e-mails to prove it.


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When Alan Patricof, the managing director of Greycroft Partners, was looking to lease space for his technology oriented venture capital firm, he was laser-focused on finding an office in a hip Manhattan neighborhood with a Silicon Valley vibe.
But after searching for five months, Mr. Patricof had come up short, deterred by skyrocketing rents and poorly-planned spaces.
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A lost sheep was found wandering on Metro-North tracks.
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NYU's controversial Greenwich Village expansion plan got the green light from the courts. A state appellate court ruled that NYU could go ahead with a plan that would infringe on a community garden.
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The city asked advertising company Titan to remove transmitters that could track people's movements from phone booths around Manhattan. The beacons were intended to provide free Wi-Fi in public areas.
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Seven years ago, a report commissioned by Michael Bloomberg, warned the city was in danger of being dethroned as the world's financial capital by London. Which financial center is in the ascendancy? Will Asian hubs in Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai compete for the title?
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This year's alphabetical list of Best Places to Work are reflective of the city's economic diversity. Among the honorees are AOL, Silverstein Properties and WilmerHale. Rankings of Nos. 1 through 100 will be revealed in December.
Congratulations to ZogSports, one of Wharton Property Advisors' clients.
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On January 13, 2013, Chevrolet will unveil the long awaited C7 Corvette, which is the next generation of America's greatest sports car.
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But we couldn't wait until 2013 to get behind the wheel, so we said pish tosh to GM for making us wait and snuck in a (virtual) test drive last night. So is the 'Vette still raucous and scary, or is it calm and sedate? Yes and yes.
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As we told you yesterday, the C7 'Vette was announced as a free download in Gran Turismo 5 from the Playstation Store at the LA Auto Show. As GT5 creators Polyphony Digital have done in the past with the Nissan GT-R, the Corvette Prototype is wearing the camouflage that has been on all the test cars we've seen running around.
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In the styling department, the front end looks quite similar to renders some random car blog on the internet (READ: It was us) showed a year ago. Headlights look longer and more pronounced, and there is definitely a hood scoop. But around back, the styling may have changed slightly.
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The 'Vette in the game definitely has four circular LED taillights, not the square Camaro-esque tails that we saw a year ago. Hey, things change!
But who cares about all that, what's it like to drive? Not too shabby. I found a bit of understeer on corner entry at Spa and the Nurburgring, along with a tendency to wiggle its hips on corner exit. It can be a bit of a handful as weight transfers over crests and rises, which made for some 'oh shit' moments coming out of Eau Rouge. Instead of being super aggressive, smooth, gentle inputs on my Logitech steering wheel were the best way to tame the beast.
I ran one very sloppy full lap at the 'Ring and had a time of about 7:50. If I didn't go off into the gravel trap and overdrive it, I'm betting a time in the 7:30 range is within grasp. To put that into perspective, the Corvette ZR1 I have in the game has run a 6:59 at the 'Ring with slightly stickier tires, and the new C7 feels more composed than that car without sacrificing that rawness that makes the Vette so appealing.
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Flower power: Gustav Klimt's Bauerngarten sold for £48m at Sotheby's in London last March.
"Nostalgia", as they jokingly say, "is not what it used to be." That, perhaps, helps sum up the international art market of this past year – a year in which a handful of price records were set for a few artists, but a year in which the market as a whole recorded something of a downturn. It was a year in which sales of works by some of the renowned old masters, of the impressionists, of the modern artists and of the contemporary artists hit the headlines. But it was also a year in which prices that failed to reach estimates were swept under the news carpet.
To gain an initial understanding of how some records were broken, take a look at the year-end edition of Antiques and the Arts and its headline 'Records were made to be broken.' There, they listed, an eclectic number of pieces knocked down for as much as 10 times their pre-sale estimate.
But there was more to the record-breaking end of the market. As Reuters, the BBC, Artnet and others report, in March, Gustav Klimt's Bauerngarten (Farmhouse Garden) sold for £48m at Sotheby's in London – reportedly the third-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction in Europe. At the same sale Picasso's Tomato Plant reached its pre-sale high estimate of £17m and Oskar Kokoschka's Orpheus and Eurydike sold for £3m, virtually twice the price the seller had paid for the work in New York in 2010.
Sellers' commissions and buyers' premiums
If we ignore sellers' commissions and buyers' premiums that's an annual compound growth rate of 8%. Taking the selling and buying costs into account, the seller was largely retaining wealth. All of this was headline-grabbing news, but tucked away in reports on the Sotheby's March auction was the fact that Edgar Degas's pastel of a Woman's Back was knocked down for less than the £6m pre-sale estimate. Perhaps that was no surprise, the work had failed to sell at its reserve price in an earlier auction and had only been offered in London at a lower reserve in March.
Nationalistic flag waving or whatever, as The Art Newspaper reports these days New York far surpasses London for auction records. Back in May Claude Monet's Meules was knocked down at Sotheby's for $110m, the highest price paid for a painting all year. But that sale, the last with spectacular prices before something of a decline set in ahead of mid-year, wasn't a complete slam dunk even if it was at the height of the year's excitement.
The year's second highest price
The day before, at Christie's Jeff Koons's Rabbit sculpture fetched the year's second-highest price of $91m – and there were others. But then there was William Bouguereau's Youth of Bachus, a work with more male and female naked flesh than virtually any other known painting, offered at Sotheby's in May at an estimated price of between $25m and $35m. Bidding stalled at $18m, well below the reserve price, and the painting was, in auctioneers' language 'bought in'. Are art buyers becoming prim as the global economy enters unknown waters?
As 2019 was drawing to its close, a question being asked was: "What new styles or schools offer the best opportunities for profit?" If that sounds crass, it's not intentionally so. But those investing with an eye to prices more than a couple of decades ahead need to be aware of growing trends. Take the reports by Art Critique and Artnet on the Sotheby's early-December sale of Australian Aboriginal art in New York. That's trying to introduce the style to buyers in America – a genre that has been promoted with varying success over the years in Europe and in its homeland, Australia.
Aboriginal art might scarcely be mainstream, but it is perhaps down the mainstreams' tributaries that tomorrow's greats will be found. One is that of young, modern artists – the generation reported by Mutual Art. It chooses as an example the works of three young Belgians, each investigating modernity through the lens of traditional painting.
What was that we were saying about nostalgia?
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NORTHWEST ARKANSAS, September 14, 2017 – Niall Horan is the first artist to be announced on the 2018 Cox Concert Series at the Walmart AMP. Horan is bringing his Flicker World Tour with special guest Maren Morris to the Walmart AMP on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Doors open at 5:30 pm, and music starts at 7 pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 22 at 10 am.
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Horan has sold more than 70 million records as part of the all-conquering group One Direction and has toured the globe numerous times.
He has spent the past year working on Flicker, his debut solo album set to release Friday, Oct. 20 on Capitol Records. His latest single, "Too Much To Ask," was co-written with long-time collaborator Jamie Scott.
Horan launched his solo career with his debut platinum single "This Town," released in 2016, which sold more than three million track equivalent units globally. Combined streams now surpass 350 million worldwide. The Los Angeles Times said, "The guitar ballad is a tender, swoon-worthy number" and Entertainment Weekly hailed it as "a wistful tale of young love lost."
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Architectural firm has quietly built a reputation for innovative buildings that have shaped the look and feel of the county's wine industry
By Janis Switzer
Special to the Tribune
San Luis Obispo County has seen an explosion in the number of new wineries and tasting rooms in the past decade.
Many of these wineries "Bianchi Winery, Robert Hall Winery, Justin Winery, and Baileyana Winery" feature some of the most innovative, creative and striking architecture on the Central Coast. Behind the architecture of these new structures is one firm: Steven D. Pults, AIA & Associates of San Luis Obispo. A Cal Poly graduate, Pults started the firm out of his second bedroom in 1980 after working as an architect for three years in Santa Maria. Initially focused on commercial, industrial and office building projects, he eventually got into medical facilities and residential design.
In 1986, Pults hired fellow Cal Poly graduate Tim Woodle. A native of Sonoma County, it was Woodle who one day would lead their "winery team," catapulting the firm into the winery-design business. "We first started about 12 years ago," remembers Woodle, "with a small Santa Maria project for Kendall-Jackson." The success of that project led them to design Kendall-Jackson's huge new winery south of Salinas in Monterey County. A cover story in Practical Winery magazine about the project put the architectural firm front and center in the winery design business.
Pults and Woodle have been partners since 1996, and the firm employs 16 people, mostly Cal Poly graduates. The list of winery projects completed by the firm in the past 10 years is impressive. About 20 winery projects have been completed, including: Domaine Alfred, Orcutt Road Cellars, Edna Valley Vineyards and Alban Vineyards in Edna Valley, and Bianchi Vineyards, Justin Winery and Robert Hall in Paso Robles. "With all the buildings I've built in Minnesota and Arizona," Robert Hall says, "I realize we are so lucky to have a firm of such quality and integrity right here in this area. "I would recommend them for anyone who needs a lot of creativity and a lot of hard work." The Robert Hall project included a winery, 19,000 square feet of caves, and a recently opened hospitality center that includes a large tasting room, dining room, 200-person amphitheater and winery offices.
Pults and Woodle have a staggering 27 winery projects in the planning process. Some are simple tasting rooms, while others, such as the Vina Robles project on Highway 46 East in Paso Robles, are huge. The four-phase Vina Robles complex includes a 14,000-square-foot tasting room with banquet facilities, an 85-room high-end hotel, a state-of-the-art winery and a spa. Construction is to start "any day" on the tasting room, with the winery plans starting this spring, and the hotel starting in the next four to five years. According to Hans R. Michel, president and managing partner at Vina Robles, the complex will have "mission- and hacienda-style architecture." He also praises Woodle as "very good to work with."
Other projects under way by the Pults firm include major facilities at Linne Calado Winery, Niner West Estates, Opolo Winery, Rotta Winery and York Mountain. The firm does no advertising and relies on word of mouth for gaining new business. "We've been extremely fortunate," Pults says, "the more work we do, the more opportunities we get." Pults and Woodle estimate that they have worked on 80 percent of the county's winery projects in the last 10 years. One advantage Woodle brings to his winery clients is his own understanding of the winemaking process. Making wine himself at his Templeton home, Woodle has a unique appreciation of his customers' needs. "Architecture is an extension of their personality and the personality of their wines," Woodle says. A winemaker's "architecture is one of their marketing tools." Woodle notes that, in the case of Justin Winery, the wines, labels, marketing materials and building carry the same look and theme.
Beyond the design of a building itself, Pults and Woodle also focus on the mechanical winemaking facilities inside the structure, from presses, pump systems and conveyor belts to fermentation tanks and waste water ponds. The pair believe they are most successful when they are pulled into a project from the beginning, so they can be involved with the design of the winery, inside and out. Regarding future design, they say the importance of "green building" in which the focus is to reduce energy reliance and maximize renewable and eco-friendly resources, is the way of the future. Talking of both design and function, Woodle says "as residents of this county we feel we have a responsibility to do these (winery) facilities as well as can be done," adding "we take design very, very seriously."
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County Armagh (named after its county town, Armagh) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 1,326 km² and has a population of about 174,792. County Armagh is known as the "Orchard County" because of its many apple orchards. It is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, as well as part of the historic province of Ulster.


With Progfest 2018 only a few weeks away, we sat down with some of the stellar acts on this year's lineup to get to know them better. This edition of Mixdown's Progfest Preparation features Meniscus.
Who are we chatting to and what do you do in the band?
I'm Dan. I play guitar, loops, and program the synths/samples ... and make weird faces.
Fleetwood Mac for their use of melody and hooks, Nirvana for their visceral, yet beautifully simplistic sound, and COG for paving the way for modern rock in Australia. In terms of live influences, I have never seen a more impressive live act than At The Drive-In circa early 2000's.
For me, music is a vehicle for the expression of emotions. Being able to translate what you're feeling/thinking about into something tangible, and have that output connect with someone else, regardless of who or where they are, is the most rewarding aspect of making music.
What drew you to progressive music?
The fact that prog is a broad term and that truly anything goes. Musicians in this genre are probably technically some of the best in the world, and continue to push boundaries and inspire each other.
I'd like to have had the opportunity to meet Dave Gilmour around the time Pink Floyd were making Dark Side Of The Moon. I'd probably be too embarrassed to show him our stuff, but I'd love to have been able to sit down for a cup of tea and pick his brain about a bunch of things, like which leg goes first when he puts his jeans on in the morning, and if they believed that Dark Side would go on to be one the most influential and enigmatic records of our time.
It's an honest, passionate, and energetic show. We leave it all up there on stage, and people seem to resonate with that. Playing live is about you pouring everything out while simultaneously struggling with your instrument. If something hasn't broken, or I'm not in pain after the gig, then we haven't done it right.


Even iron is not plentiful with them, as we infer from the character of their weapons. But few use swords or long lances. They carry a spear (framea is their name for it), with a narrow and short head, but so sharp and easy to wield that the same weapon serves, according to circumstances, for close or distant conflict. As for the horse-soldier, he is satisfied with a shield and spear; the foot-soldiers also scatter showers of missiles, each man having several and hurling them to an immense distance, and being naked or lightly clad with a little cloak. There is no display about their equipment: their shields alone are marked with very choice colours. A few only have corslets, and just one or two here and there a metal or leathern helmet. Their horses are remarkable neither for beauty nor for fleetness. Nor are they taught various evolutions after our fashion, but are driven straight forward, or so as to make one wheel to the right in such a compact body that none is left behind another. On the whole, one would say that their chief strength is in their infantry, which fights along with the cavalry; admirably adapted to the action of the latter is the swiftness of certain foot-soldiers, who are picked from the entire youth of their country, and stationed in front of the line. Their number is fixed,—a hundred from each canton; and from this they take their name among their countrymen, so that what was originally a mere number has now become a title of distinction. Their line of battle is drawn up in a wedge-like formation. To give ground, provided you return to the attack, is considered prudence rather than cowardice. The bodies of their slain they carry off even in indecisive engagements. To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.


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I have worked in Human Resources for 12 years, 8 of those years helping churches with their HR compliance and staff pain points. I often see passionate, hard-working, well intentioned ministry staff getting burned out. When things aren't right with the staff internally, it reflects externally and people are driven away from ministry, the church, and even God.
I started working in ministry when I was 19 years old and directly experienced situations where the church did not do things well in regards to their staff. It was very hurtful. It drove me from away from church for 2 years and from ministry for over 6 years. Then I started working in HR for churches and when the shoe was on the other foot, I knew there had to be a way for ministries to do better.
Starting in 2014, I worked hard to earn my PHR (Professional Human Resource) and CRPC (Chartered Retirement Professional Counselor) certifications. In 2015, I began the process of creating a non-profit HR Network called HR Ministry Solutions to help simplify HR compliance and staff pain points for churches and ministries. This allows their culture to be healthy and sustainable. I finally moved full time into my role of Chief People Person of HR Ministry Solutions. I am confident that this is where God called me to be.
Since founding HR Ministry Solutions, I have helped many ministries with HR compliance, labor law, and staff issues. Many faith-based organizations will put HR and staff issues on the back burner because their plate is already full with trying to fund and grow their ministry. I ensure that this doesn't happen.
— Sam Chand, Bigger Faster Leadership.
This is what I do and I look forward to serving you.


Wendy Andrade (UK) proved with her first book 'Fresh Floral Jewellery' that floral jewels can be real gems. In her second book, 'Floral Accessories', she presents not only beautiful, inspiring jewels but also floral accessories and matching bouquets (see bridal bouquets). More than 40 exciting new ideas with fresh flowers, decorative greenery or succulents: each creation is explained step-by-step in great detail and with pictures. There are simple models for beginners as well as more complicated creations. Gorgeous ideas for every occasion!


Hope you all had a great week and weekend! We have been busy debating again, receiving bills from the Senate, talking budgets and taxes. It's always a whirlwind of activity and I enjoy every minute. Speaking of wind…have we had enough?!
The House had several very large bills that I will try to explain, but first did you see the news that U.S. News and World Report named IOWA the Best State in America? The rankings include all 50 states and used 77 metrics and thousands of data points to come to a conclusion we already knew. We are #1!
Their report said we are ranked #1 in Infrastructure, #3 in Health Care, #4 in Opportunity, #5 in Education and #9 in Quality of Life. We are all a part of these rankings and it goes to show each of you doing your part, makes us the best.
We have received many awards in the last six months which highlight our strong fiscal management, education and affordability for families. We been named #1 state for middle class families, #1 for high school graduation rates, #3 best managed state, #4 in K – 12 funding increases and #4 for retirees. This is our good news story and we are all making it happen. Thank you.
One bill that is of particular interest is HF2468 which increases penalties for mistreatment and neglect of and provides for rescue of animals by local law enforcement. The bill enhances penalties for animal abuse, animal neglect and animal torture. If you are interested in reading that bill, you can find it at https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=87&ba=hf2468. I'm hoping it moves forward.
Okay, this week we passed out of the House two good data privacy bills, HF2354 and HF2423, to keep your and your child's personal data safer. We passed out HF2367 which sets up a Veteran's fund that will accept donations and bequests to be administered by Veteran's Affairs for hyperbaric oxygen treatment to veterans with traumatic brain injuries and PTSD. Plus two additional water quality bills, HF2407 and HF2440, which address pesticides in lakes and water quality programs.
We passed out an insurance bill requiring payment for certain telehealth services and a Utilities Board bill that deregulated rural and municipal telecoms. A mental health bill that is much needed went over to the Senate, HF2456. This bill builds on Iowa's community based mental health system and reduces the fragmentation of services. I receive many concerns about our mental health services and this comprehensive piece of legislation should help.
There were many more, but these are the highlights. If you have any questions or concerns, you can email to dawn.pettengill@legis.iowa.gov or call to 515-281-3221.


The Chus Burés Studio often receives commissions. When institutions, businesses or individual clients get in touch with Chus to commission work, Chus never wavers in his pursuit of absolute creativity and rigorously maintains his unique creative personality and originality. He has designed veritable works of art such as trophies, wine tasting glasses, cutlery and original innovative creations such as the Geocepa which was designed for Bodegas Álvaro Palacios. And of course, such an outpouring of creativity and artistic talent is always well-received.
This silver wine tasting glass was designed in 2005 as a tribute to Custodio Zamarra, the legendary sommelier at the Zalacaín restaurant in Madrid. Burés designed a unique wine tasting glass for the occasion, which looks like a deconstructed diamond and enables both the light and the clarity of the wine to be appreciated.
Wine specialist Alvaro Palacios owns wineries throughout Spain and channels both his passion for wine and extensive knowledge into producing wine, like an alchemist of yesteryear. Burés therefore designed a geometric, abstract vine for Palacios which would encapsulate both the history of the winery and his passion for wine and he named it Geocepa or Geovine.
Thai Gardens was one of the first Thai restaurants in Madrid. It is famed for its haute cuisine and its carefully-designed exotic ambiance. Chus Burés was commissioned to design silver cutlery for the restaurant but being well-versed in Thai customs, Chus knew that people in Asia don't use cutlery but do often hold paintbrushes. Hence he decided to link both cultures and design some items of cutlery with paintbrush-like handles and others with western-style features.


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Створена в грудні 2016 року. 2 червня 2017 було представлено логотип і лівреї авіакомпанії. Логотип компанії поєднує символіку міфологічної священної птиці Сімург, представленої у формі азербайджанського орнаменту бути.

Перші польоти авіакомпанії почалися восени 2017 року.

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Вартість авіаквитків Buta Airways починається від 30$ в один бік. Найдешевший тариф при цьому не включає ручну поклажу.

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В Україні компанія виконує рейси з Баку до Києва, Харкова та Одеси. З 23 грудня 2019-го запускається рейс Баку-Львів, ціна в один бік починається з 29 євро.

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Like your design very much!
Hands are itching to print the parts. Is it OK to print "final set of version 2 changes" ?
Thank you for hard work and all the thought, that went into designing 3DR "Simple".
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Big Irish priest, you take upon you the sins of the world,
go have a drink instead
dir: John Michael McDonagh
We all know how awful the Catholic Church's legacy of abuse and corrupted silence is. At least, those of us who aren't apologists for the Church realise that. And it's also uncomfortably part of the present, because many of the Church's victims are still alive, some of the abusers still live, and many of those whose job it was to threaten, cajole, or bribe people into silence still reign, and are in wonderfully lofty positions still in the Church's hierarchy.
But going over that is a very different story from the story Calvary wants to tell. It's impossible to tell the story of a Catholic priest in Ireland without that awful legacy looming over everything, but the point of Calvary is very different. Its central character is a good priest (Brendon Gleeson). He doesn't apologise for or deny what went on before; he strives to minister to the people of his tiny village in County Sligo despite their seeming complete indifference to the religion they purport to be a part of.
He, doggedly, refuses no-one, no matter how outright contemptuous they are of him or his faith, or how awful their crimes.
The problem is that he is a good priest. Someone from his parish who suffered awful abuses as a child comes to the confessional to confess a crime they are soon to commit. This happens in the first minutes of the film, so it's not really a spoiler, because it's the entire plot: this victim of the Church decides he will enact retribution not on the evil priest who abused him, but on a good priest, being Father James.
He, the unseen and unrepentant killer, tells Father James he has a week to set his affairs in order. It's a pretty rough week that follows.
Father James spends that time doing virtually nothing different from what we are meant to believe is his usual weekly routine. Being a small Irish town on the east coast, he seems to get personally involved in people's lives, perhaps moreso than would be seen as wise. When doling out wafers during Communion, he spots that one of his parishioners sports a black eye (Orla O'Rourke), and he takes steps to enquire as to who did what and why.
Why? I dunno. Perhaps because he sees the lives and wellbeing of these people as his responsibility, despite the fairly obvious fact that they don't see it as such. At all. In the slightest. When he asks the husband, who is the local butcher (Chris O'Dowd), he denies it and mumbles about his enjoying her spare time with other lovers, one of whom probably did it. He asks the wife, and she laughs it off, implying that she gets off on being slapped around. He visits one of her lovers (Isaach de Bankole), and he flicks a cigarette at the priest for his troubles.
Father James might see these people as his flock, and they all, inexplicably, attended mass on that first Sunday, but they all seem to regard the priest as an unwanted anachronism at best, and a symbol of all the misery the Church has perpetrated at worst.
And yet he soldiers on. He has, apart from the death sentence looming above him, the personal drama of a daughter (Kelly Reilly) who's recently attempted suicide, and here, too, his advice is unwanted and his solace is unappreciated, though there is still clearly love between the two.
Wait, Catholic priest with a daughter? This goes to part of why Father James is such a great character. His story is that he'd had a life, what we would regard as a worldly life, prior to hearing the call of his vocation. It just so happens that he heard the call after the death of his wife. This calling of his has had an effect on his daughter, of that we have no doubt, as she explains in the film's most affecting scenes.
There are plenty more people who pick at him, who need him and needle him, who scorn him, but he doesn't turn away from any of them. He knows who plans to kill him, but we don't. So when he interacts with most of them, the men at least, we wonder which one of these men is dropping hints of what they're going to do in their misplaced desire for justice.
One of the most venomous, who isn't really a member of his parish, but who is part of the community, is a caustic doctor who works at the local hospital (Aidan Gillen). An avowed atheist, he picks at the good father, for no other reason, it seems, at first, than amusement. All the priest was doing there was giving last rights to a man who sustained mortal wounds in a car accident, and offering what consolation he can to the man's soon to be widow (Marie-Josee Croze), and for that he has to endure more abuse. It doesn't help that the actor plays the character with the same silky malevolence that he plays the character of Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish in Game of Thrones. If anything, he's a little more evil here, but not because of anything he does, but because of the relish he takes in saying awful things aimed at the priest.
This isn't even the worst of it. Other characters, like the local publican, blame the priest for stuff neither the Church directly nor even tangentially has anything to do with, like the impending foreclosure of his mortgage. The shitty publican even says outright, with loathing in his voice, that people in the near future won't even be able to able how foolish the people of the past were to believe in the fairy tales of Christianity.
That's a bit harsh, isn't it? Well, this flick is a bit harsh, and some far harsher stuff happens, harsher stuff is said, and the good priest bears it all. Because this priest is a man, and not a saint, even he has a breaking point. He lashes out at people, eventually, but you could hardly blame him, considering the week he's been having.
It's the worst week of his life, possibly, and the fact that almost everyone around him is so awful, emotionally detached, or just selfish transcends the fact that he's surrounded by sinners who sin without remorse, and don't feel bad about it.
This is called Calvary, though, and like the example set for him, the priest soldiers on to his Golgotha, to his crucifixion, knowing the fate that awaits him, knowing there are steps he could take to avoid his suffering, but choosing to go through it anyway like his saviour before him. What a fucking martyr.
Sure, at least I know what to get him next Easter: couple o' nails and a few planks of wood, he'll love it and it'll come in extra handy since he so obviously wants to get nailed up.
Just kidding, kidding because I love. No, he's not particularly martyrish, but he is being asked, by the film, to suffer for sins he's not responsible for. Nothing he's done either while we're watching or from what we hear of his past implies that he is in any way deserving of suffering, that he should have to suffer because of the multitude sins of the Church, the sins of the shitty village, or our sins. He suffers because someone has to. He suffers because he's good, not in spite of it.
It's not as bleak as it sounds. I did find it a bit exasperating, though, and depressing to see the contempt, and, in one instance, fear with which he is treated, because he tries to give solace to literally anyone and everyone, even an awful serial killer at one point (very oddly played by his own son Domhnall Gleeson, with a Spock haircut). He's great, and Kelly Reilly as his daughter is great too, but the entire flick isn't entirely convincing, if you catch my drift.
This McDonagh chap, and his brother Martin, who's responsible for In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, are too clever by half, they're both too clever for their own good by half. They also write their screenplays like they're writing plays. Much of what happens has the beats and the feel of a stage performance rather than a film, sometimes. And there's an awful (for me) undermining moment when father and daughter are trying to speak honestly and openly to each other, and they both quip before and after it that it's like a third act revelation in a play, which is less meta than it is just distracting and contrived. Took me out of the flick entirely, and it took me a while to get back into it after that.
There are also these strange sections with a gay hustler/coke dealer who speaks like a 1930s Edward G Robinson style gangster, that made no sense to me, and were even more contrived than anything else. Other than indicating that almost everyone in the town is a sinner at best or a criminal at worst, I'm not sure what point he served.
Contrivance entirely abounds in the story, rendering many of the characters less than characters, and just makes them plot devices for delivering examples of sins or selfish behaviour, but none of this really sinks the flick because the acting performances are generally so strong. There is humour, sly humour, almost enough to undercut the bleakness, but not enough to make it any less depressing, especially at the end.
It's almost enough to make you stop believing in an Almighty God who cares about every little shitty thing we do.
7 times Brendan Gleeson and John McDonagh came up with the idea for this when they were getting horribly drunk together at a pub, and it still works anyway, out of 10
*after a character is caught doing a line of coke* "Oh Father, it's purely medicinal" – of course it is - Calvary


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The Cunningham Project is a collaborative effort started in 1925 to factor numbers of the form  bn ± 1 for b = 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and large n. The project is named after Allan Joseph Champneys Cunningham, who published the first version of the table together with Herbert J. Woodall. There are three printed versions of the table, the most recent published in 2002, as well as an online version.

The current limits of the exponents are:

Factors of Cunningham number
Two types of factors can be derived from a Cunningham number without having to use a factorisation algorithm: algebraic factors, which depend on the exponent, and Aurifeuillian factors, which depend on both the base and the exponent.

Algebraic factors
From elementary algebra,

for all k, and

for odd k. In addition,  b2n − 1 = (bn − 1)(bn + 1). Thus, when m divides n, bm − 1 and bm + 1 are factors of bn − 1 if the quotient of n over m is even; only the first number is a factor if the quotient is odd. bm + 1 is a factor of bn − 1, if m divides n and the quotient is odd.

In fact,

and

Aurifeuillian factors

When the number is of a particular form (the exact expression varies with the base), Aurifeuillian factorization may be used, which gives a product of two or three numbers. The following equations give Aurifeuillian factors for the Cunningham project bases as a product of F, L and M:

Let b = s2 × k with squarefree k, if one of the conditions holds, then  have Aurifeuillian factorization.
 (i)  and
 (ii)  and

Other factors
Once the algebraic and Aurifeuillian factors are removed, the other factors of bn ± 1 are always of the form 2kn + 1, since they are all factors of . When n is prime, both algebraic and Aurifeuillian factors are not possible, except the trivial factors (b − 1 for bn − 1 and b + 1 for bn + 1). For Mersenne numbers, the trivial factors are not possible for prime n, so all factors are of the form 2kn + 1. In general, all factors of (bn − 1) /(b − 1) are of the form 2kn + 1, where b ≥ 2 and n is prime, except when n divides b − 1, in which case (bn − 1)/(b − 1) is divisible by n itself.

Cunningham numbers of the form bn − 1 can only be prime if b = 2 and n is prime, assuming that n ≥ 2; these are the Mersenne numbers. Numbers of the form bn + 1 can only be prime if b is even and n is a power of 2, again assuming n ≥ 2; these are the generalized Fermat numbers, which are Fermat numbers when b = 2. Any factor of a Fermat number 22n + 1 is of the form k2n+2 + 1.

Notation
bn − 1 is denoted as b,n−. Similarly, bn + 1 is denoted as b,n+. When dealing with numbers of the form required for Aurifeuillian factorisation, b,nL and b,nM are used to denote L and M in the products above. References to b,n− and b,n+ are to the number with all algebraic and Aurifeuillian factors removed. For example, Mersenne numbers are of the form 2,n− and Fermat numbers are of the form 2,2n+; the number Aurifeuille factored in 1871 was the product of 2,58L and 2,58M.

See also
Cunningham number
ECMNET and NFS@Home, two collaborations working for the Cunningham project

References

External links
Cunningham project homepage
Brent-Montgomery-te Riele table (Cunningham tables for higher bases)
Cunningham tables on Prime Wiki

Number theory


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Around the World in a Dozen Dates
From MORE, May 2006
by Laura Fraser
I wasn't in Sydney for more than a few seconds when the phone in my pocket started vibrating. Already, four Australian men in their forties had left messages, eager to show me around. I was a bit disoriented, halfway around the world, armed with only a guidebook, a list of e-mail addresses from Match.com and a mad plan to date as many men as possible in six weeks. I took a deep breath and started calling them back. I scheduled my first cocktails at six, hoping that I didn't look too much like I'd just spent the last 18 hours in economy.
It's not that there aren't any good men left in the United States. But in the eight years since my divorce — after countless blind dates, parties, art openings, and salsa lessons — I haven't met a single man who offered even the remote possibility of a long-term relationship. I'm tired of dating people who are threatened by my worldly tastes, shocked by love handles, or happy to have sex but looking to settle down with a woman in her thirties.
Foreign men, on the other hand — especially those from countries where flirting and romance are well-developed arts — have always made me feel vibrant. When you are traveling and open to chatting with attractive strangers, exciting liaisons can land in your lap, like the time I fell for a French professor on the Italian island of Ischia, and ended up having a three-year love affair. Or the time I met a scruffy artist in a duty-free shop at the Frankfurt airport. He called me at home that week, and in what seemed a Sex in the City episode—flew me to Spain for his art opening at the Guggenheim in Bilbao.
Those chance encounters, marvelous while they lasted, made me wonder: Could I set out traveling with the deliberate intention of finding romance? I picked three cities where I wouldn't mind living forever and booked my flights, imagining a Mystery Date archetype for each locale. In Sydney, he would be good-natured and outdoorsy, with a wine cellar packed with Shiraz. In Buenos Aires, he'd be intellectual and romantic, quoting Borges and sweeping me off my feet on the tango floor. And in Rome, he'd call me bella and whisk me away to his weekend place by the sea. Daydreaming, I packed my bags—tossing in some sexy sandals, and, because you never know, sassy lingerie.
FIRST STOP: SYDNEY
Sophisticated, easygoing and built on a beautiful bay, Sydney has a lot in common with San Francisco. I set out from my hotel, wandering from the Harbor Bridge to the spectacular Opera House, which looks like it's about to set sail, I repeated to myself: "I love this Sydney!"
When I wasn't fielding calls from men I had contacted through Match.com, I tried running into them randomly while swimming in the city's seaside pools, taking surf lessons, even going on a singles' sailing cruise. One cute, if rather inebriated, puppy on the boat asked me out, but before he could get my number, he lurched aside to heave his lunch overboard. Another flirted with me at the hotel bar, but he was wearing knee socks — with shorts.
I needed to refine my search, so I went back to the Internet. The Aussie Match.com profiles seemed less than exciting—most emphasized that they were "normal guys" who liked sports — but by filtering out those who weren't college graduates, I did uncover a few with cultural know-how. I indicated that I was an outdoorsy type with a love of fine dining, a traveler who was looking for some locals to show her around. I tried not to give the impression that I was game for a quick fling, because I long ago learned that not even heart-thumping sex is worth waking up next to a stranger.
Geoff, a 46-year-old musician who leads walks into the bush, seemed the most promising. He picked me up in a car that looked like it had spent 30 years in the outback and took me to a jazz club downtown. A skinny guy with over-sized glasses, Geoff mentioned that I wasn't cuddly, as my profile had indicated—who knew cuddly was Australian for obese? — then invited me to a nude beach.
Next was Peter, 44, a "screenwriter" who turned out to be a carpenter with aspirations. He took me on a bike ride and showed me the underside of Sydney, stopping in a sketchy area to point out a run-down Victorian, where his ex- girlfriend lived. "She was a Scottish prostitute who went off to do some Indonesian generals and they wouldn't let her back into Australia."
"Uh… which way is my hotel?"
I pedaled back as fast as I could for my date with Bill, a 49-year-old divorced insurance salesman. After Peter, I was ready for someone more conventional. It turned out that Bill was witty and well-traveled throughout Asia. We ate oysters and drank Australian Sauvignon Blanc on the Circular Quay, watching the boats come in and out of the harbor until the sun set orange, casting a glow on the sails.
"Sydney is so perfect," I said. "Like San Francisco but with warm water."
"We try to keep that a secret," he said with a sly smile.
I was reluctant to part after lunch, but I was meeting someone for drinks. (What made me think that RealMan4U would be a viable prospect?)
Bill and I agreed to go to the northern beaches the next morning. That's when he presented me with a small package. "I brought you flowers," he said. I opened the envelope and found a quarter ounce of sticky-budded marijuana. One thing those Sydney boys have in common: They sure like to party. In his spare time, Bill also happened to be a deejay at rave parties. I thanked him, but told him that I couldn't possible take his lovely gift back on the plane—or use it all by Monday.
We drove an hour out of Sydney to a wild coast, where we bodysurfed until it was time for another long lunch. Bill was a wonderful guide and full of youthful spirit, but I'm old enough to know that a charming boyfriend like him would mean a lifetime of Al-Anon meetings. It was becoming clear that Sydney men were a little too far from the world's cultural centers and a little too close to the bars at closing time.
My last date in Sydney was with Raul, who was actually from Buenos Aires. From the moment we met, I could tell I wasn't the mini-skirted blonde he had in mind. He told me about his passion for tango—dancing close and yet distanced, embracing a stranger until the musical "curtain" falls, and then going back to your seat alone. "If you go to Buenos Aires," he said, hugging himself, "you have to try the tango."
A WEEK IN ARGENTINA
It takes a lifetime to learn to tango, but I did my best in the three weeks before my next trip, to Buenos Aires. I took classes, bought sexy skirts — and found out you can tango every night of the week in San Francisco. I became addicted to the dance, which allows you to indulge, if just for a few minutes, in complete flirtatious femininity.
I told a friend I had recently reconnected with about my plan to meet a hot dancer in Buenos Aires. Evan, an all-American engineer—not exotic, and not my type—was curious. I showed him how to hold me in a tango embrace, and his goatee tickled me.
"I like that," he said, his hand lingering on my waist. "We should go dancing sometime."
Had a straight man in San Francisco just asked me out? The bar was noisy; I must not have understood correctly.
If Sydney is light, clean, modern and extroverted, Buenos Aires is the opposite, but no less seductive. BA is a faded beauty, with elegant, decaying European architecture mingled with concrete high-rises. The Argentines have weathered political and economic tragedy, which partly explains why there are more shrinks per capita than even in New York. So although my Spanish was rusty and my tango rudimentary, I was convinced that I was more likely to find a soulful, romantic man in BA than in Sydney.
I stayed at the Mansion Dandi Royal Tango Residential Academy in San Telmo, a once-seedy neighborhood where the dance was born and still thrives in late-night bars, so I could take lessons and slide right into the scene. The hotel proprietors made me feel at home amid the worn velvet drapes, spiral staircases and chandeliers. I loved the cheap glamour of the place.
Every evening I went to a tango lesson at the hotel, where I met other touristas tangueras and locals who were willing to spin a beginner around the floor. Swedish Anders, while too young for me (barely drinking age), was a perfect partner, leading me assuredly across the floor. I also met Claudia, a 42-year-old Mexican film location scout, who drifted with me from tango practice to the milonga (tango dance), stopping to drink Malbec wine and eat grass-fed steaks when our feet were sore.
Claudia and I went daily to La Confiteria Ideal, a grand ballroom with tarnished mirrors, worn tablecloths and white-jacketed waiters. We would sit on the sidelines, nervously sipping water, and wait for a nod from one of the men across the room. The dapper, aging gents gave courtly advice and called me "niña" — "little girl." But I sat out a lot of dances. Tango is a meritocracy: Men choose partners not for their beauty or youth but their ability to meld into the man's lead. The woman who got the most danceswas a short, stout señora in her seventies, with a sparkling blouse and a skirt slit to the knee.
Discouraged, I went back to Match.com. Several men had e-mailed virtual besos, but most wanted quick sexo. I tried calling a couple, which seemed to shock them into silence—either the cell phone reception was really bad or I had violated some cultural rule. One man finally said that he wanted to take me to a ranch, but I wasn't about the set out for the distant pampas if he wouldn't meet for coffee first.
The only date worth mentioning was with Juan Miguel, a 50-year-old, cue-bald architect who teaches yoga. He took me to a trendy restaurant, reached for my hand over dessert, and made poetic comments about my appearance. "Piel como terciopelo." Skin like velvet. "Ojos como topacio." Eyes like topaz. He correctly guessed my astrological sign—"You're such a free-spirited woman, you must be Aquarius" — which made him think we might be fated for each other.
But it was not to be. After dinner, we went to a crowded milonga, where Juan Miguel drove me around the dance floor like a bumper car, crashing into other couples, whose female partners adroitly jabbed me with their spiked heels. No mas.
I packed up my own heels, realizing that the tango is no way to meet an Argentine to date. For one, there's a generation gap: It's either men over 60, or twenty-somethings who are trying to be part of the retro trend. And while I danced with dozens of men, each two-minute encounter was like a one-night stand — physically close, but emotionally distant. Only such a strict indifference allows people to rub their chests close and intertwine their legs, moving across the floor like caressing skin.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME
I came home asking myself: "Perchè non sono andata in Italia?" Why hadn't I just gone to Italy? I am fluent in Italian, have friends in Rome, and love the city's food and the statues that surprise you around every corner. Surely, if anywhere, I could find romance in the city that is practically my second home.
I decided to go for three weeks, and threw an Italian-themed party the night before I left. Evan lingered afterward, but I shooed him out the door with a peck on the cheek, Italian-style. I checked Match.com one last time in the morning. Sixty men had e-mailed. I deleted all of those whose photos showed them shirtless, wearing more than one gold chain or standing next to their mother. That left six.
As much as I love Italy, I have never had a romantic relationship with an Italian man, and I was beginning to realize why. Despite the many responses to my profile, it was even harder to arrange dates here than in Buenos Aires. The very concept of dating is strange to Italians, who go out in big groups until they marry, at which point they go live with a big group of relatives. My smart Italian women friends complain that Italian men are either married, philanderers, or still living at home. They laughed like opera singers at the idea that I was coming to Rome to try to find a single forty-something man.
My first date was with Maurizio, a literary type in his early fifties who works at La Repubblica. Maurizio regarded me with disappointment, maybe because I'd cut my long hair since the photo. He wasn't the journalist I thought he was, either—in fact, he sold ad space. We shared a pizza as I listened to him explain why Italian men think Italian women are real ball-busters. "It makes sense that Italian men go to prostitutes who are transvestites," he said, chain-smoking. "Even if the femininity is artificial, it's still femininity." Ciao, ciao, ciao.
Antonio, a surgeon in his late forties, was testy when I was five minutes late. He warmed up over wine at the out-of-the way Roman trattoria he'd picked for drinks, which turned into dinner. We had homemade pasta with pork cheeks and a meaty conversation. Antonio was on his way out of town, but promised to call me so I could visit his beach house. I imagined myself, married, watering the geraniums on the terrace overlooking the Mediterranean. Non c'è male. Not bad at all.
I tried to meet more men through friends. At one party, the married couples departed early, leaving a group of 10 women dancing by themselves (it might as well have been New York). One invited me to a party the next night, where the only single man, a writer and publisher, talked solely about himself. When I mentioned that I had also written a couple of books, he didn't even pause in his litany of accomplishments, adding, "Well, my first book was in English." Basta.
I gave up and headed for one my favorite islands, Filicudi. As usual, I flirted casually with the local men. Paolo gave me a kiss with my cappuccino, mentioning that as long as a good-looking woman like me was on an island with a man like himself, we should take advantage of the situation. "You're married," I said. He spread his arms wide and declared, "All the interesting men in Italy are married." True enough. Antonio didn't call again; I suspect he was married too. I spent two glorious days by myself then boarded a plane to California.
LAST STOP: SAN FRANCISCO
I had set out to find the man of my dreams, but discovered that you can't force fate. I have always found men when I wasn't looking, when I've been busy pursuing my own curiosity and alive to my own desires. It's one thing to meet somebody by serendipity, and quite another to make the locals a major tourist attraction. I'm afraid that I also lived up to the stereotype of the businesslike aggressive American woman: Several men sensed that I had an agenda, including the Italian who said that I "scared him." And since my mission wasn't a quick shag, most of my dates had no idea what to make of me.
Back home, Evan invited me to a baseball game. I walked to the ballpark under a clear sky, watching people happily making their way to the stadium by the bay. I spread out a tablecloth on the bleachers and surprised Evan with a picnic: Australian wine, Italian prosciutto, pecorino, and olives. "I love you," he said, which I took to mean, "I love this picnic," and he kissed me on the lips.
As we walked toward the bus after the game, the Bay Bridge glittering in the background, Evan put his arms around me. "I would love to go traveling with you," he said. "Where in the whole world would you like to go?"
"How about dinner at my house?" I asked, and he gave me another kiss.
Update: "Evan" and I did go to Peru together, climbing the Inca trial to Machu Picchu, which was amazing. It was fun, but it didn't last. Next.
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The first and second hotel had excellent breakfasts and good service. Third and fourth were average.
All meals were authentic Japanese food unique to the area.
Akiko was well informed of each location's history and background.
Good that there were many good spots to take good pictures.


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Where Should The Insides Sales Team Live Within Your Organization?
Some argue marketing, some argue sales. No matter where inside sales lives, both marketing and sales play a critical part in this team's success. Tune in to this month's episode of Revenue Rebels as Rhoan Morgan sits down with David Priemer, Founder and Chief Sales Scientist at Cerebral Selling to discuss where inside sales fits in and how marketing and sales must bridge the gap to support this team.
From his early days tinkering with test tubes and differential equations as an award-winning scientist to leading top-performing sales teams at high-growth tech start-ups, David Priemer brings a lifelong passion for uncovering the hidden insights in the world around us, to his practice as the founder of Cerebral Selling. Often referred to as the "Sales Professor", David helps organizations supercharge revenue growth, people development, and culture by combining the core principles of science, empathy, and execution. The result: an empowered organization of modern sellers who think like their customers, learn fast, and win! Previously, David held several executive leadership positions at leading technology companies including Salesforce, where he was the Vice President of Commercial Sales and creator of the Sales Leadership Academy program. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University.
David holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Atmospheric Science from York University and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto. When he's not thinking about Sales, David loves to cook, write, and spend some quality family time with his wife and three girls.


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Q: I have a conflict with a dependent select I have some issue with grouped_collection_select in rails 4, so I need your help.
I have this models:
class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :appointments
belongs_to :user
scope :evento_sin, -> { where(available: "1") }
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :events
has_many :appointments
devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
     :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable
     def medic_with_spec
        "#{especialidad}, #{name} #{lastname}"
     end
end

and my view have:

<%= f.label :user_id, "Médicos" %>

<%=select("appointment", "user_id", @usuarios.collect {|p|     [p.especialidad+" - "+p.lastname + ", " +p.name, p.id ] }, { include_blank: true }) %>

<%= f.label :event_id, "Consultas Disponibles" %>

<%= f.grouped_collection_select :event_id, @usuarios.order(:name),
:eventos.evento_sin, :id, :id, :start_time, include_blank: true %>

but I receive: undefined method `evento_sin' for :events:Symbol
What happen with this code?
Thanks for you help

A:
undefined method `evento_sin' for :events:Symbol

You have a scope :evento_sin defined in your Event model and you are using it like this :eventos.evento_sin which doesn't make sense.
Your grouped_collection_select should look like this
<%= f.grouped_collection_select :event_id, @usuarios.order(:name),
Event.evento_sin, :id, :id, :start_time, include_blank: true %>

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Excerpted from an upcoming ISIS electronic book on case studies of illicit procurement, with a focus on Iraqi activities in the 1980s.
By late 1988, Iraq was in possession of detailed designs of many centrifuge parts, a guide to key suppliers, on-going technical assistance, and aid with its foreign procurement efforts. An immediate outcome of the assistance provided by the H+H team was that Iraq decided to implement quickly the Al Furat project, also called project 112, to create an industrial infrastructure to make thousands of Zippe-type centrifuges.
Iraq recognized that it was unable to make these centrifuges without extensive foreign assistance and procurement. The Iraqi centrifuge experts had matured through their own centrifuge efforts. One of the lessons was to understand their own limitations in making high-precision centrifuge components. Local manufacturing of centrifuge parts for the Beams-type centrifuge during 1987-88 demonstrated the problem of obtaining the accuracy and tolerances for each component. The reasons included poor quality machine tools, inadequate quality control, and a lack of experience in high-precision manufacturing.
However, Iraq's decision to procure the machines needed to make the new, Zippe-type machine was controversial and debated extensively. At the time, Iraq was far from having a tested centrifuge prototype. Should they seek only to acquire important components for a prototype, or should they simultaneously procure manufacturing equipment and raw materials? There were risks with either approach. If the design changed significantly, Iraq could waste both time and money procuring items that would not be necessary in the end. But delay in procuring manufacturing equipment could give Western intelligence agencies more time to learn about Iraq's secret effort and take steps to complicate foreign procurement.
At a key meeting in late 1988, the Iraqi centrifuge officials decided on a plan of action. After balancing options, Iraqi centrifuge officials decided to procure manufacturing equipment and materials before a prototype was developed.
Al Furat Project The goal of this project was to establish a modern facility able to make initially 1,000 centrifuges a year and later 4,000 centrifuges a year. Iraqi planners wanted such a high throughput to account for an anticipated high reject rate in centrifuge components. Given the initial Iraqi Zippe-type centrifuge designs, 1,500 centrifuges operating together in a cascade could produce about 15 kilograms of weapon-grade uranium a year, or enough for one nuclear weapon per year.
From the end of 1988 through mid-1989, Iraq signed most of the important contracts for the Al Furat project. Because the project was based on manufacturing maraging steel rotors, Iraq ordered flow-forming equipment, heat treatment furnaces, materials, specialized welding equipment, and high accuracy computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) machines.
A modern centrifuge plant also requires a specialized working environment with controlled temperature and cleanliness. Al Fao Establishment was made responsible for the engineering design and construction activities at the site, which was at Yousifiya, south of Baghdad. The site had been a mechanical training center, and already had many buildings and utilities that could be adapted relatively easily to the centrifuge plant.
However, Al Fao had no experience in "clean-room" technology or construction. As a result, it contracted with the British company ITSC and the German firm Interatom to build two clean room buildings. Both contracts were signed in the fall of 1989.
In November 1989, Iraq contracted with Interatom to construct building B01, also called central workshop T1250. Iraq knew that Interatom had built clean rooms for centrifuge manufacturing plants and was easy to approach through its office in Baghdad. The value of the contract was about 25 million DM. Iraq did not tell Interatom the true purpose of the building; it declared this building as a tube manufacturing workshop. In reality, B01 would have been dedicated to piping for centrifuge cascades, mechanical testing of single centrifuges, and balancing and final assembly of centrifuges. It was also designed to hold a test cascade of centrifuges. The contract envisioned that construction would be finished in October 1990, although this date would not have been met.
The design of building B01 took months to accomplish, which helps explain the delay in both signing and fulfilling the contract with Interatom. Iraq needed to design the rooms in the building for a purpose that was not stated to Interatom. In this difficult effort, Iraq needed to take special precautions, such as isolating its centrifuge people so that Interatom would not inadvertently learn the true purpose of the building.
In addition, Iraq was constantly learning more about centrifuge manufacturing, requiring changes in the building designs or the specific purpose of rooms. For example, in early 1990 Iraq decided to install a larger cascade of centrifuges in the building. Instead of 36 centrifuges, it decided that it wanted to install a test cascade of 120 centrifuges, able to make one kilogram of 93 percent enriched uranium each year. This change required that the room had to be enlarged and other rooms reduced in size. In the process, the designers had to ensure that other rooms were not reduced to the point that they could not hold the necessary equipment. In another case, Interatom recommended pouring a concrete floor for the entire B01 site to a depth of 80 centimeters. The Iraqis concluded, after lengthy discussions that this procedure would not work in the cascade room, and told Interatom that the floor in this particular room should not be poured uniformly. In the end, the floor is poured concrete but with pits for centrifuge mounts.
Al Fao contracted with the British firm ITSC to design, supply, and erect the utilities and mechanical equipment for building B02. It in turn subcontracted another firm to provide the clean room technology and items. The total contract had a value of about 10 million British pounds. This building was planned to house rotor manufacturing and assembly, bearing assembly, and chemical cleaning and treatment of surfaces. The contract called for construction to be finished by December 1990, but construction was behind schedule.
The other main building was B00, which was a modified building that was part of the original facility. It was intended to hold machines to make specific centrifuge components and manufacture the motors.
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Had a wave of 2007 nostalgia while playing Subnautica Below Zero demo. Hands down my favorite Toa design, hands down the most fragile.
This....is amazing! I'd love seeing the other Toa Mahri!
Your art is so good.
This makes me want the set even more! It's very well-drawn!
Thank you! I've already got Toa Nuparu sketched out, might do the full team.
This is amazing. The Mahri are my favorite toa designs. Fantastic work.


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