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Conversation with Andy Brunning
February 2, 2015 October 19, 2016 Maxine Hyndman2 Comments
Last month I had an email chat with Andy Brunning, owner of the site Compound Interest, a blog about "…creating graphics looking at the chemistry and chemical reactions we come across on a day-to-day basis." Andy is also teacher* of chemistry in the UK.
I fell in love with his infographic The Chemistry of the Smell of Decomposition explaining the chemistry behind the odour of decaying things because I was thrilled to have scientific confirmation of something I've been coming across again and again in my perfumery education: that the molecule Indole, found in decaying matter, is also present in many alluring, sexy, provocative white flowers like "… jasmine, gardenia, tuberose and orange blossom to a lesser degree; but also in honeysuckle and lilac, technically not white flowers at all) doesn't really smell of poop in isolation. On the contrary if I were to give it a common reference I'd compare it to the stale yet curiously "fresh" (as in sharp, penetrating, energizing instead of pacifying) scent of mothballs." (Fragrantica)
And check out the Scents of Christmas graphic that to date has received close to 3,000 shares on FaceBook:
Being that I approach perfume formulating from a chemistry point of view — it just seemed to be the most natural, instinctive way that is evolving for me — I try to find harmonies between similar and juxtaposed chemical components in my compositions, Compound Interest has been a total trip for me and I had to find out more. I had to find out why a teacher would be interested in breaking down chemistry into understandable bits for some of the more chemically-challenged among us, which led to this conversation.
If you're a perfumer who is at all interested in the molecular aspect of perfume making then you'll probably enjoy this conversation with Andy:
Her Two Scents: I love your info graphics as a tool for simplifying chemistry! How did you come upon this idea, how did Compound Interest start?
Andy Brunning: The infographics actually came out of me just making a set of classroom posters on the different groups of elements. I'd wanted to make a selection of them to brighten up my classroom, and also to have something on the walls that wasn't just there to take up the space, but was instead crammed with interesting information. Some of my friends who are also teachers then asked me to share them with them, and I figured that putting them online and making them available for free was the easiest way to do that, so the Compound Interest site was born!
Most of the graphics I make now are primarily intended for the website – I really enjoy taking a subject, then distilling it down into a page of information that gives a succinct but detailed overview on that particular aspect of chemistry. I still use them occasionally in the classroom too, and it's gotten to the stage where my older pupils will quite often ask me in more detail about some of them, so I like to hope I'm making it easier for them to find out more about aspects of chemistry they maybe don't study as part of their course.
H2S: There are two very passionate camps in perfumery, those that embrace composing strictly with naturals and those that see nothing wrong with aroma chemicals and include them in greater or lesser degrees in their creations. How would you put the use of synthetic compounds into perspective from an educational point of view?
Andy: Generally speaking, when it comes to natural vs. synthetic, there still seems to be a lot of misunderstanding out there. I've had discussions with followers of the site who've not realised that a synthetic version of a compound is identical chemically to the natural version. Of course, in perfumery, it's maybe a little more complicated than that; synthetic imitations of a particular essential oil will probably focus on the main character-impact compounds that give a good imitation of that scent, whereas the essential oil will contain a more complex mix of compounds. A good example is that of jasmine; jasmone and methyl jasmonate are the primary character-impact molecules of the essential oil, and it's these that a synthetic imitation will focus on. So, there is a difference between the essential oil and the synthetic version, but only in that the synthetic version is focusing on the key compounds that give the essential oil its aroma.
H2S: Regarding those aroma chemicals that can have a disruptive effect on the body, like some nitromusks, how should the perfumer approach the use or not of these materials?
Andy: I'll admit to not knowing a great deal about the regulatory system in the perfumery industry, aside from recalling that it has its own regulatory body, so I don't know what safeguards and recommendations are in place for families of chemicals like the nitromusks. However, I do know that they've been mostly superseded by other alternative compounds, such as the polycyclic musks. That shows the importance of the role of chemists in the process, being able to supply alternatives to chemicals used in personal care products and perfumery that can have undesirable effects. I suppose it's then down to the perfumer to have a good knowledge of these alternatives.
H2S: Hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters and ketones! It can be quite confusing for the self taught perfumer with no previous experience in chemistry. Could you suggest a systematic approach to understanding these elements better to help with their compounding? What approach do you teach your students?
Andy: Our students have to know a number of different types of organic compounds for their course, so I've put together something of a 'cheat sheet' for them to help them memorise the different ones. Being able to recognise these groups in a molecule is a very important factor in organic chemistry, because it determines a multitude of different information, such as the name of the compound, as well as its properties.
When our students are first introduced to organic chemistry, we'll start out drawing and naming the simplest of these, and gradually work towards more complex molecules as they progress. I always like to throw in contextual uses of the compounds they're drawing as well to try and help them remember!
H2S: In your opinion as an educator, what is the benefit to a perfumer in understanding organic chemistry and therefore the chemistry of essential oils and aroma chemicals?
Andy: Whilst as a perfumer it might not be necessary to be able to interpret the chemical structure of a particular molecule, being able to recognise functional groups in a molecule can sometimes tell you a little about the type of aroma it possesses. Functional groups are basically specific arrangements of atoms within an organic molecule that give it its reactivity, and can also influence its aroma. For instance, molecules containing an solely an ester functional group can often have quite pleasant, fruity smells, whilst compounds with an aldehyde functional group can also be very fragrant. It's not always that simple – there are some horrible smelling esters! – but I could certainly see how having that knowledge could be beneficial for a perfumer.
H2S: Why do you think so many people are afraid of chemistry?
Andy: I think it could partly be down to a lack of context when they've studied chemistry in the past? A lot of the content in textbooks is largely removed from context, or provided with a few limited contextual examples. Whilst it's not necessary to understand the content, I think it does help in appreciation of the wider applicability and relevance of chemistry when you're actually able to link it to your daily life. Pupils learn about methods for extracting metals and crude oil, which are obviously important parts of modern society, but aren't really something they can directly relate to.
The plethora of 'chemical free' sloganeering in marketing doesn't help the reputation of chemistry either. 'Chemical' has become something of a tarnished word, with sinister and unpleasant implications. Whilst I think the majority of people probably do have an appreciation that everything is made up of chemicals, for some the use of the word 'chemical' still instantly brings to mind those negative connotations. That's something I hope that the Compound Interest site is making progress with, but it's only a small corner of the internet, so I think there's still a long way to go to escape the 'chemicals = bad' association!
H2S: Are you working on anything to help the self-taught perfumer better comprehend chemistry?
Andy: I've actually been working on a graphic looking at the key components in essential oils for a little while now – the trouble is trying to fit all the compounds on in a way that they're still visible without a ridiculous amount of zooming in! At this stage I think I'm probably going to have to consider splitting it up into a series of graphics – but I'm hoping it'll provide a bit of insight into the chemical structures behind a variety of fragrances.
H2S: Freaking finally!!! I can't wait!
I would like to thank Andy for making chemistry something fun for me, for breaking down molecular concepts and turning them into a visual that I can use as a mental map during olfactory training, categorising and combining that form the heart of this never ending process of learning perfumery.
If you aren't yet familiar with Andy's really cool graphics and want to know where to start to get your feet wet, I would recommend checking out the infographics describing the Scent of the Sea, the Aroma of Chrismas Trees and the Aroma of Fresh Cut Grass.
* An earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that Andy is a professor.
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Auction Cuts to Breathe New Life into EU Carbon Markets
London – The European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) has been widely criticised for failing to provide sufficient incentive to stop the region's generators burning coal rather than gas or other cleaner fuels. However, from next Wednesday, the EU ETS is set to change radically, according to research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
On March 12, the EU will start to "backload", or delay, many of its auctions of carbon permits, restricting by more than 50% the number of carbon allowances coming onto the market and presenting both utilities and industrial companies with a radically different emissions trading environment compared to the one that has prevailed in recent years.
Konrad Hanschmidt, head of carbon market analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said, "After a difficult period for the EU ETS, in which there was abundant supply of allowances and the price for a tonne of CO2 emitted fell as low as EUR 2.41 at one point last year, we will now see a much tighter market with new pressures on both utilities and industrial companies."
As a result of the backloading plan approved by EU member states this month, and due to come into effect from next week:
Governments will cut the supply of new carbon permits by 53% in an effort to bring it closer to balance with demand, and to ensure higher prices. These plummeted from a high of EUR 29/tCO2e in 2008 to an average of EUR 4.46 in 2013 as a result of the economic downturn that followed the financial crisis. The auctions that are delayed from 2014 to 2016 will be rescheduled for later in the decade.
The price of carbon permits has gained 40% to EUR 7 per tonne since the beginning of this year in anticipation of the backloading measure.
Reduced auction supply means that utilities burning fossil fuels will have to buy carbon permits from the surplus that has been built up since the 2008 financial crisis. This surplus amounts to around one year's worth of emissions, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates that industrial companies, mainly in the steel and cement sectors, hold around a quarter of this surplus.
Governments will sell only 343m carbon permits from mid-March to December this year. Hanschmidt and his colleagues estimate that power companies will seek to buy 730m carbon allowances over the same period, suggesting that they will have to incentivise holders of the historical surplus to part with 387m carbon allowances, or rely on their own reserves. This gives industrial companies unprecedented market power.
"Backloading" will only have a temporary impact according to the new legislation, as the backloaded carbon allowances will have to be sold in 2019-20. The EU is, therefore, likely to turn its attention to implementing further reforms that would have a more permanent impact on the carbon market.
Itamar Orlandi, lead EU ETS analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance commented, "Carbon prices in Europe will increasingly depend on industrial firms' willingness to sell surplus permits that they received for free in the past. The prospect of further, more ambitious reform to the EU ETS means that many of them will demand substantial premiums over the current price level. Power companies will prefer to pay such premiums as long as it remains cheaper to produce power with coal than to switch to lower-emitting gas-fired generation."
Hanschmidt added, "By agreeing to backloading, the EU has given a huge vote of confidence to carbon markets. Policy-makers should now use this momentum to pass further reforms in order to provide investors with greater confidence that carbon emissions will carry a meaningful cost in the region over the medium and long term."
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Q: Performance degradation in mongodb aggregation-framework I am using mongodb 3.6.8.
I have a collection (called states) with an ObjectId field (sensor_id), a date, as well as a few other fields.
I created a compound index on the collection:
db.states.createIndex({ "sensor_id" : 1, "date" : 1 });

I am using the aggregation framework with a match stage, for example:
{
  "$match" : {
    "sensor_id" : { "$oid" : "5b8fd62c4f0cd13c05296df7"},
    "date" : {
        "$gte" : { "$date" : "2018-10-06T04:19:00.000Z"},
         "$lt" : { "$date" : "2018-10-06T10:19:09.000Z"}
    }
  }
}

My problem: as the states collection gets bigger, the pipeline aggregation gets slower and slower, even when the documents that are added fall outside the dates in the match filter. Using this index, I really expected performance not to vary very much as the collection gets bigger.
Other info:

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*The states collection does not have very many documents (about 200,000), of which about 20,000 are matched by the above filter.

*The indexes in the collection (and other collections) are just a few megabytes and easily fit in memory.

*The aggregation pipeline does not insert any documents in the database.

Can anyone suggest what I should investigate to explain the pretty drastic fall in performance as the collection grows (with new documents outside the date range in $match)?
Thank you.

A: Solved. Another stage in the pipeline was treating every more data, as time evolved. Nothing wrong with the indexes.

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Being given a gift by Matsurika is such a rare moment that it's one that should probably be treasured for the rest of your life, particularly if your name is Kanako and you're more used to being mercilessly insulted by her. Thus, our protagonist is more than a little thrilled to receive a rosary as a gift from her friend... except, of course, it turns out to be a cursed rosary from Matsurika's father.
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The challenging reads we need right nowon July 6, 2020 at 9:20 am
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Cameron Laux picks out reading that can help us focus our attention – and glimpse the sublime – including a quarantine list of reads from Zadie Smith.
There are many skeletons in our literary closets. Novels like Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace or Herman Melville's Moby-Dick often put people off because of their length, and may linger on our reading lists for years, or decades. Others, like Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time or James Joyce's Ulysses, have become a byword for daunting, modernist, experimental writing that is unintelligible without resorting to scholarly notes – pushing the novel form to its limit. Especially these days, who is going to question your desire to sit and binge on crime thrillers, if that's what you want? And yet, what if we treat the current crisis as an opportunity to put aside our aversion to 'the challenging read'? Is now the time for us to pay some attention to other things, including attention itself?
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In her 2014 book Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill recounts an anecdote: "The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention. The visitor was displeased. 'Is that all?' So Ikkyu obliged him. Two words now: Attention. Attention." Offill writes magnificent, terse, oracular books which enact the idea that worlds can be opened up by paying close heed to things. I propose that we consider the possibility of recalibrating our minds and focusing on demanding writers. Two key thinkers on this subject are Jenny Odell – whose revolutionary book How To Do Nothing encourages us to wake up to, and resist, all the petty 21st-Century demands on our attention – and Zadie Smith, who is a wonderful novelist, but also a patient and intelligent critic (she has even managed to write a collection of essays during lockdown, due to be published on 28 July). Odell encourages us to make space in which to think. Smith encourages us to use it.
By rethinking our ideas of contemplation, and shifting our attention, we can tackle more demanding books (Credit: Getty Images/Javier Hirschfeld)
Odell urges us to approach with strong scepticism the 'attention economy' that is manifested in our smartphones and is designed to attack the very ideas of contemplation and of personal space. Smith is an indefatigable contemplater. Her range of reference is huge, and she inspires me to broaden my own. For example, she turned my view of the famously daunting writer David Foster Wallace on its head. Not long after the US author committed suicide in 2008, Smith wrote The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (which is in her collection Changing My Mind). It helps us to reassess DFW, often regarded as an obscure, uncompromising, avant-garde geek who wrote impenetrable tracts. Smith says, "To appreciate Wallace you need to really read him – and then you need to reread him. For this reason – among many others – he was my favourite living writer."
Wallace, who committed suicide at the age of 46, once said that good writing should help readers to "become less alone inside" (Credit: Getty Images)
Smith is captivated by the short stories in DFW's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). I never 'got' DFW until I started reading The Pale King (2011), the book he was working on when he died, and which was published posthumously. Then I had an epiphany. This is a book about the heroism of late capitalist boredom, an exquisite appreciation of dullness. It is set in, and steeped in the culture of, an Internal Revenue Service centre. The structure of the book is polyphonic and fragmentary: I suggest you try chapter 19, in which people trapped on an elevator have a civics discussion, or the formally mind-blowing chapter 25, in which nothing happens but the turning of pages, and yet there are ghosts, and everything happens. At this moment I can't think of a better example than The Pale King of what the contemporary novel can do when it throws caution to the wind.
Smith's 2008 essay Two Paths for the Novel (reproduced in her collection of essays Changing My Mind) dented my view of realism in fiction. In it, Smith suggested that a certain predictable "lyrical realism" had become the acceptable face of contemporary fiction (she takes Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, 2008, as an example) at the expense of a more stringent metafictional tradition (eg Virginia Woolf, Joyce, and Samuel Beckett), which poses difficult questions about reality and human psychology, and the ability of words to describe them (she uses Tom McCarthy's Remainder, 2005, as an example).
Often viewed as impenetrable, Joyce's Ulysses is nevertheless so admired that it's part of Dublin's tourist trail (Credit: Getty Images)
Smith says that lyrical, realist novels offer "the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren't neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling". In other words, the author projects themselves poetically, the more poetically the better, on to their subject, and mistakes the procedure for meaning. In O'Neill's book, which is set in post-9/11 New York, the destruction of the Twin Towers portends the collapse of a marriage, among other things. Books like this don't always require our full attention. Of course there is also much to be said for permitting your mind to surf on a book, as there is for letting your mind move over any art form and pick up sparks from it.
Rethinking 'reality'
The approach of a McCarthy novel, in contrast, is more dicey. A writer and artist, steeped in 20th-Century French thought, he issues ironic, artistic edicts, such as calling for "all cults of authenticity to be abandoned". (Don't worry, McCarthy has a sense of humour.) Book reviews have called him a latter-day Franz Kafka and a new Thomas Pynchon. I always think: okay, but what was wrong with the old ones?
In Two Paths, Smith says that McCarthy's project is "to rid the self of its sacredness" – a campaign that so far extends over four novels. She calls Remainder "one of the great English novels of the past ten years". It is written with a sparse elegance that makes few traditional concessions to the reader. The book's main character, who isn't named, suffers a blow to the head in an unspecified accident, and after seeing a crack in the plaster of a bathroom wall, begins to obsess about whether reality is real. He uses his large insurance settlement in increasingly elaborate attempts to stage an authentic reality. We never have a sense of who he is because he doesn't know who he is, and never finds out.
In a 2014 article called Writing Machines: On Realism and the Real, McCarthy protests that "Time and again we hear about a new desire for the real, about a realism which is realistic set against an avant-garde which isn't". He goes on to argue that a writer (artist, etc) can never know the real; that what they imagine to be the real is always inauthentic; and that the real can only assert itself as "rupture" of our expectations. It is in the nature of art to crack and fragment; acknowledging the unreliability of our perception might be a good thing.
David Cronenberg adapted JG Ballard's novel Crash into a film in 1996 (Credit: Getty Images)
Both Smith and McCarthy are drawn to JG Ballard's novel Crash (1973), an intriguingly warped book about the intersection of sex, death, technology, psychology and loss of meaning, that provoked the establishment of the time to froth at the mouth about pornography. It is now seen as a classic. In her introduction to the 2009 re-issue, Smith talks about how radically the book reverses the relationship between man and technology: instead of the former using the latter, the latter uses and defines (and empties) the former. For all that, Crash is an oddly humane book. It is definitely not comfort reading.
And its characters are a puzzle; we can't ever entirely know them. This is a characteristic of what are loosely called the postmodern novelists (in the sense that postmodern means being self-conscious about the business of being an author). Some people find this lack of narrative bearings frustrating, but I find it inspiring. I am happy to get lost in these books and work for my glimpses of the sublime. If you're patient, they always deliver. Vladimir Nabokov is one of the fathers of playful, humane metafiction. Everyone talks about Lolita, but in many ways he is at his best in Pnin – which Smith also cites as one of her favourite books. The gradual sketching in of the main character, Timofey Pnin, is a confusing delight.
Harold Bloom, one of the greatest of literary critics, who died last year, talks about a canon of the "American sublime" that encompasses the great postmodern writers: Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth. Bloom especially settles on Pynchon, grand master of the glorious, writerly tailspin, the first author sleepy readers say they want to avoid. There will be no surfing on Pynchon. Either you control your breathing and give his sentences your full attention, or you put the book down, pick up some genre fiction (my poison is epic fantasy at the moment), and come back to him another day. Bloom loved all of Pynchon, but he singled out the novella The Crying of Lot 49 as an important artefact, and that may be the best place to start.
Of course, there are those who disagree. In a now-famous essay, the high-profile critic James Wood sets out to damn the likes of Pynchon, DeLillo, DFW, and Salman Rushdie. He implies these writers, with their vertiginous lack of artistic boundaries, are dysfunctional and need to seek treatment. (This move: I'm not crazy, you're the one who's crazy!) He says: "An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. That lack is the human."
A second version of Wood's essay, published in The Guardian, blames DeLillo for everything: "Lately, any young American writer of any ambition has been imitating DeLillo"; his technical virtuosity in extremis, his fiddling while Rome burns. The Rome in question is the US after 9/11. Yet no writer has anatomised the US since World War Two more convincingly and devastatingly than DeLillo: its paranoia, violence, egotism, consumerism.
Now 83, DeLillo has been described by The Guardian as "America's weathervane, its Geiger counter, mapping the landscape in pin-sharp prose" (Credit: Getty Images)
One way into DeLillo's work is via his 1997 magnum opus, Underworld: parts of it previously appeared as short stories. Instead of trying to swallow the whole thing, like a snake eating a buffalo, it is possible to sample the book instead. The Prologue, about baseball, is one of the great bravura performances of modern prose. But Part One, Long Tall Sally, is more accessible, and more likely to pull you in. The sustained pitch of his imagination, of poetry, throughout the book is just astonishing. In a love letter to DeLillo about Underworld, DFW wrote that it was a book "in which absolutely nothing is skimped or shirked or tossed off or played for the easy laugh, and where… you've taken some truly ballsy personal risks and exposed parts of yourself and hit a level of emotion you've never even tried for elsewhere" (his praise for the novel continued for two pages).
One of the best recent examples of this kind of risk-taking is in a novel that Smith herself wrote. In 2012 she published NW, perhaps the most experimental of her books so far and, it could be argued, one of the defining novels of its time. NW is also polyphonic – it shifts through multiple points of view in multiple authorial styles. The book is a collaboration between Charles Dickens and Woolf, with Smith providing a marvelous ear for dialogue. It is a complicated combination of serious and funny, what Smith calls "laughter in the dark", quoting Nabokov. (She talks about her reference points in a rejoinder to Wood that comes from the heart.) NW gently unfolds a partial picture of the lives of its characters. The effect is devastating. It is a 'challenging read', a subtle and beautiful book, that is worth picking up – even if it demands your full attention.
In her 2007 essay Fail Better, Smith argued that, in reading, "both the writer and the reader must undergo an ethical expansion – allow me to call it an expansion of the heart"
This is increasingly a stumbling block for many of these more demanding books. In the digital era, fragmentation has become a way of life. The attention economy, aided by our smartphones, is geared to destroy mental focus. There are ways we can opt out, of course. Odell warns of the "context collapse" fostered by social media, and enjoins us to turn away and open up "contemplative space". She quotes the composer John Cage: "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."
Finding a focus
Odell's How to Do Nothing is a great, radical book. Who would have thought that sitting in a rose garden and listening to the birds, as Odell talks about doing, could become such a political act? One of Cage's most famous pieces, 4'33", consists of a pianist playing nothing: it dares the audience to sit still and listen to the texture of collective life: coughing, farting, snoring, fidgeting, whatever. Phones going off. Odell says: "Unless we are vigilant, the current design of much of our technology will block us every step of the way, deliberately creating false targets for self-reflection, curiosity, and a desire to belong to a community."
Being aware of the quality of one's attention, and regaining control of it, are good first steps in approaching challenging fiction. It is also a good idea not to bite off more than you can chew. One reader got through Roberto Bolano's hefty masterpiece 2666 by reading a few pages a day over the course of months. As with many of the experimentalists, parts of that book seem designed to test and break one's patience, and yet the reward for opening your mind is a glimpse of some kind of sublime.
I asked Smith for her retrospective thoughts on Two Paths. She said "I wish I hadn't used Joseph [O'Neill] as a straw man". She called the essay "a provocation which, like provocations, has its limitations and excitements". She also said this: "I don't think in those terms any more. Even as you list the supposed forms of the 'avant-garde', the excitement drains out of me and I'm left only with 'genres', fixed modes etc. There is no fixed mode for unusual or interesting writing – perhaps the very definition of fresh writing is that it is sui generis [one of a kind]. With that in mind, so far in quarantine I've found these books very interestingly shaped: Humiliation by Paulina Flores, Stick out your Tongue by Ma Jian, Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, New Waves by Kevin Nguyen, Endgame by Beckett, most of the stories in the anthologies Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International, Catholics by Brian Moore, The Collected Grace Paley, the stories of Tillie Olsen, and Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. I am aware that… many of [these people] would not think of themselves as 'experimental'. But in the structure of all of them, there's something curiously shaped and unexpected and, to me, beautiful."
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Edsal is the market leader in steel shelving products for garages, tool sheds and basements. The company sells steel shelving through the home improvement and mass retail channels under the Muscle Rack, Edsal and private label brands. Edsal also manufactures and supplies steel cabinets and lockers for homes and small businesses, industrial racking for commercial customers, free-standing metal toolboxes, and a variety of products that help customers organize their space.
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We also collaborate with a variety of health care entities in the community such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, insurance payers, physician medical offices, and home health agencies to educate them on our equipment on how it can serve their clients. We also work directly with the families and caregivers of our patients to ensure they understand the full extent or our services. At Fort Medical Equipment, it is our job to provide the tools that clients need to maintain a high quality of life and stay independent in the home.
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As we prepare for an in-person Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition, August 11 - 13, the health, safety and security of our community continues to be our top priority. Our team is working closely with local Atlanta authorities, including the Georgia World Congress Center and related hotel partners, as they develop new best practices and implement their re-opening plans. We are monitoring the situation daily and will ensure our plans follow the recommendations of public health experts and the standards set-forth by the CDC and federal, state and local governments.
We want to ensure EXPO continues to help you make the connections you need to boost your business and build your brand. As such, we will continue to update this COVID-19 FAQ page to keep you up-to-date on the latest plans for the show.
Information Updated: July 31, 2020
Exhibit Hall Expand
Q: Will attendees have to register for a specific day or days they are planning to attend to keep crowds down?
A: No, attendees will not be required register for specific days.
Q: Is a maximum number of attendees being contemplated?
A: No, there are currently no limitations on the exhibit floor.
Q: Will booths decrease in size to allow for wider aisles or two-way traffic down aisles, or will you set up one-way aisles? Will my booth change if you adjust the size of booths?
A: Existing booths will not be redrawn or adjusted to allow for wider aisles or traffic flow management and booth numbers will therefore not change. Expo may implement one-way and two-way aisles.
Q: Do you foresee the allowed time for set up and dismantle to be lengthened or affected in any way?
A: No, currently we do not foresee any changes to the set up and dismantle schedule. We are working closely with GES and will notify exhibitors if this changes.
Q: What is the plan for the virtual extension of EXPO 2021 and when will it be announced?
A: We are in the process of exploring a virtual extension that will provide the best possible experience for attendees and exhibitors. The extension will include exhibitor engagement, networking, education and more. Details will be provided later this year.
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Q: How will exhibitors be notified if EXPO is cancelled?
A: In the event EXPO is cancelled, all exhibitors will be notified by mail and email. A cancellation notice will also be posted on sfpaexpo.com.
Q: What is the refund date in the event EXPO is not cancelled, but I no longer wish to exhibit?
A: If an exhibitor withdraws their application to exhibit prior to March 1, 2021, the amount of deposit paid by the exhibitor, less the nonrefundable portion of the deposit (50% of the total cost of the exhibit space), shall be returned. If an exhibitor withdraws their application to exhibit on or after March 1, the exhibitor shall forfeit all monies paid.
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A. Information about the GWCC and their COVID-19 response may be found online at: https://www.gwcca.org/returnplan


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Since its establishment in 1864, Fee Brothers continue to expand with a portfolio boasting over 80 drink mix products. The company presently has six different bitters. Up until now, some of these ingredients have been difficult to find despite being essential for many classic cocktail recipes which are returning to popularity. In general, we've found the Fee Bros. range of bitters to be more pungent than other bitters on the market, so they offer fantastic value for money by being used sparingly.
Like adding vinegar to temper the sweetness and round out the flavour of certain dishes, adding bitters to cocktails provides balance and complexity. But unlike Peychaud's and Angostura brands, Orange Bitters has been almost impossible to obtain for decades. Now a renewed interest in classic cocktails has brought it out of retirement. The primary ingredient in Fee Bros. Orange Bitter is obtained from the skins of oranges grown in the West Indies. There are many recipes that call for Orange Bitters, however, we suggest you try a dash in your next Martini. You'll never want one without it again! 9.0% Alc./Vol.
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Explore the Coast
The coast near NewcastleGateshead boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the UK and charming towns and villages well worth exploring.
Category Newcastle Newcastle City Centre Gateshead Quayside Ouseburn Jesmond Tynemouth Coast Countryside Hadrian's Wall Further Afield Northumberland Sunderland County Durham
View down the Northumberland coastline from Holy Island.
The North East coastline is famed for its beauty and is a great draw for people wanting a day out of NewcastleGateshead.
From bustling seaside towns like Tynemouth to the rugged and isolated stretches of Northumberland coast north of NewcastleGateshead, the North East coast boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the UK and charming towns and villages ready to be explored.
Seaside towns like Tynemouth, Whitley Bay and Cullercoats are linked by a number of metro stations, bus routes and even a ferry which explains their popularity for weekend visitors and holiday makers. Whether you want to enjoy the views with a tasty portion of fish and chips or get out into the water and experience the thrill of surfing, paddle-boarding or kayaking - the North East coast is waiting for you to explore.
Spanish City, Whitley Bay
The up-and-coming town of Whitley Bay has a reputation for quaint cafes, quirky micro-pubs and independent shops as well as the spectacular Spanish City where visitors can find award-winning fish and chip restaurant Trenchers, as well as a champagne bar and dining hall beneath its splendid white domed roof. The 19th century St Mary's Lighthouse and Island off the Whitley Bay coast provides spectacular views over the rocky coast in the summer, allowing bird-spotters to indulge in some coastal twitching.
Drive up the coast into Northumberland and you'll find a stretch of quaint coastal towns and increasingly dramatic coastline at Cresswell, Alnmouth, Craster – home of the region's famous smoked kipper – and Bamburgh where visitors can enjoy a visit to its historic castle.
Head south of the River Tyne to popular seaside resort South Shields - famously the finishing point for the Great North Run - and you will be impressed by the stunning sandy beaches which meet soaring cliffs and beautiful bays. Take a walk along the prom and through the beautiful seafront parks, have fun at Ocean Beach Pleasure Park, enjoy award-winning fish and chips and take in one of the many events that take place.
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What's On in NewcastleGateshead: 2021 Highlights
Author: Hannah Lambert
Post date: 25th December 2020
Read on for your guide to 21 things to do and reasons to visit NewcastleGateshead in 2021. From major sporting events to live music, theatre productions and art exhibitions to new hotels, restaurants and a chance to rediscover our region in a safe way.
How to enjoy a night in NewcastleGateshead from the comfort of your home
If you're looking for ideas for how to spend an evening, from the best places to get takeaway pints, scrummy food delivered to your door and the best entertainment from the comfort of your own home, then look no further. From beers to burgers and theatre performances to escape rooms, we can certainly promise you a night like no other – and supporting local in the process.
Winter walking trails in and around NewcastleGateshead
There is no better way to escape the everyday on a crisp winter's day than putting on your walking boots and heading out for a refreshing stroll. In NewcastleGateshead we are spoilt for choice with urban, rural and coastal walking routes all just a hop, skip and a jump away.
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Northumberlandia is a unique piece of public art set in a 46 acre community park...
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MacDonald Linden Hall Golf & Country...
Hidden away amongst 450 acres of fine park and woodland in mid-Northumberland, Linden Hall is...
The Angel's Way
One of six Northern Saints trails long distance walking routes, the Angel's Way takes in...
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In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the organisers of Lindisfarne Festival, have decided to...
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The Alnwick Garden Treehouse restaurant is an enormous and beautifully crafted structure. Built from sustainably...
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Look at that gorgeous herb. Do you know what it is? It's savory, also know as sarriette. I never saw or heard of it before but I found it at the health food store the other day and it looked so beautiful I had to bring some home. It reminds me of thyme and rosemary but it's not exactly either one. More, it's like the best of both. It's earthy, woodsy and savory! It will be great in so many dishes – stuffing, roasted potatoes, tofu, tempeh – I can't wait to start using it.
This soup (or stew you could call it because it is really thick) is delicious. My husband usually likes to add spice/salt/pepper after I serve him whatever I have cooked that meal but today he ate not one, but two bowls without adding anything! That's a huge win for me and this soup!
Prep the mise en place: dice the onions, carrots and celery. Try to get the dice the same size so they cook at the same rate.Use a rasp or garlic press to prep the garlic. Finely chop the savory.
Place the vegetables into a dry soup pot and sweat them on a low flame until just softening and the onions are translucent. Sprinkle with a generous pinch of salt.
Add the garlic and savory and mix well.
Add the lentils and toss around to coat with the vegetables.
Add the water or stock and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook until the water is mostly absorbed or until the lentils have become one big mush and you can no longer see the individual lentils. Enjoy hot!


The U14 hurlers also won their first round of the U14A championship last weekend. They defeated Cratloe in Clooney last Friday. Though there was a late surge by Cratloe in the second half the home side took all the points. They will play Clarecastle on Friday evening April 12th in Clarecastle at 6:30pm and the U14 Academy team will play their first game Sunday against Sixmilebridge in Clooney at 12 noon.
The U14 academy hurling team play visiting Shinty team Bewley from Scotland Saturday evening in Eire Og. The team Scottish team were travelling around playing a number of challenge games over the weekend. Well done Matthew Jordan Allen who was man of the match for the Academy team game.


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The conceptualisation and delivery of family support in Europe
A review of academic literature
This paper presents a review of recent academic literature which considers the ways in which formal family support is conceptualised, developed, and delivered in the European context. It is the result of work done for a year and a half in EuroFamNet and Parents International is proud to be a co-author if it.
Even though children are active agents in their own right they remain a vulnerable group dependent on adults to protect, support, nourish and educate them. In certain circumstances and for a myriad of reasons, some families' capacity to provide for and care for their children can be reduced or compromised, and as a result they require support and assistance in carrying out this fundamental function. Family Support is one way in which children's well-being can be protected and promoted. However, the way in which this mode of support is conceptualised and operationalised can vary within and across jurisdictions. For instance, family support approaches can be framed by concerns about care or control, can take a child-based or parent-oriented perspective, and may be targeted or universal in terms in eligibility.
This report is part of a wider programme of work in the EuroFamNet COST Action which aims to provide an innovative conceptual framework relevant to the delivery of family support in Europe. In order to provide insight to this project, this document presents a review of recent academic literature which considers the ways in which formal family support is conceptualised, developed and delivered in the European context. This includes literature from member states of the European Union, and adjacent countries from the continent that have special relationships with the Union. Much of the literature in this review stems from the UK, but it also comes from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, France and Italy, as well as Cyprus and Croatia.
This literature review aims to:
1. Identify and examine similarities and differences in the meanings and applications of 'family support' as a key concept within and across European countries.
2. Consider similarities and differences in national approaches to family support and family support services for children, parents and families across European countries.
3. Present a review of how the literature in these areas has conceptualised, evaluated and theorised these similarities and differences.
Devaney, C., Christiansen, Ø., Holzer, J., MacDonald, M., Matias, M., Piessens, A. & Salamon, E. (2021). The conceptualisation and delivery of family support in Europe: A review of academic literature. EurofamNet.
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Q: Iterating over a list in python using for-loop I have a question about iterating over a list in python.
Let's say I have a list: row = ['1', '2', '3'] and want to convert its element to integers, so that: row = [1, 2, 3].
I know I can do it with list comprehension:
row = [int(i) for i in row]

or for-loop:
for i in range(len(row)):
    row[i] = int(row[i])

My question concerns range(len(row)) part. Can someone answer in layman friendly way, why I can do something like this:
for i in row:
    print(i)

But I can't do this:
for i in row:
    row[i] = int(row[i])

A: When you do for i in row, i takes the values in row, i.e. '1', then '2', then '3'.
Those are strings, which are not valid as a list index. A list index should be an integer. When doing range(len(row)) you loop on integers up to the size of the list.
By the way, a better approach is:
for elt_id, elt in enumerate(list):
    # do stuff

A: When you do
for i in row:
    row[i] = int(row[int(i)])

i is the element in the array row. Therefore, i will be '1' then '2' then '3'.
But indexes have to be integers and i is a string so there will be an error.

If you do:
for i in row:
    row[int(i)] = int(row[i])

It will still be an error because i is the integer of element in the array row. Therefore, i will be 1 then 2 then 3.
But row[3] will cause a IndexError because there are only 3 elements in the list and numbering starts from 0.

While in the other case(the first case), i becomes 0 then 1 then 2 which does not cause an error because row[2] is valid.

The reason is :

range() is 0-index based, meaning list indexes start at 0, not 1. eg.
  The syntax to access the first element of a list is mylist[0] .
  Therefore the last integer generated by range() is up to, but not
  including, stop .

A: Here's an example from IDLE:
>>> row = ['1', '2', '3']
>>> for i in row:
    row[i] = int(row[i])

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 2, in <module>
    row[i] = int(row[i])
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

The items being iterated over are not integers, and cannot be used as an index to the list.
The following will work for some of the time, but throw an IndexError at the end:
for i in row:
    i2 = int(i)
    row[i2] = i2

A: Given row = ['1', '2', '3'], each item inside row is a string, thus it can be easily printed:
for i in row:
    print(i)

However, in your second example you are trying to access row using a string. You need an integer to access values inside a list, and row is a list! (of strings, but a list still).
for i in row:
    # row[i] = int(row[i])  -> this will throw an error
    row[int(i)] = int(row[int(i)]) # this will throw an error


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using namespace fluid_base;

class OFClient : private BaseOFClient, public OFHandler {
public:
    OFClient(int id, std::string address, int port, uint64_t datapath_id,
             const struct OFServerSettings ofsc = OFServerSettings().supported_version(0x01).supported_version(0x04)) :
        BaseOFClient(id, address, port) {
        this->ofsc = ofsc;
        this->datapath_id = datapath_id;
        this->conn = NULL;
    }

    virtual ~OFClient() {
        if (conn != NULL)
            delete conn;
    }

    virtual bool start(bool block = false) {
        return BaseOFClient::start(block);
    }

    virtual void start_conn(){
        BaseOFClient::start_conn();
    }

    virtual void stop_conn(){
        if (conn != NULL)
            conn->close();
    }

    virtual void stop() {
        stop_conn();
        BaseOFClient::stop();
    }

    // Implement your logic here
    virtual void connection_callback(OFConnection* conn, OFConnection::Event event_type) {};
    virtual void message_callback(OFConnection* conn, uint8_t type, void* data, size_t len) {};

    void free_data(void* data);

protected:
    OFConnection* conn;
    uint64_t datapath_id;

private:
    OFServerSettings ofsc;
    void base_message_callback(BaseOFConnection* c, void* data, size_t len);
    void base_connection_callback(BaseOFConnection* c, BaseOFConnection::Event event_type);
    static void* send_echo(void* arg);
};

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Trigone chooses Waga Energy
The mixed-economy company Trigone, which manages water, waste and sanitation in the Gers department, called on Waga Energy to upgrade landfill gas from the Pavie landfill site.
Under an agreement signed on 16 May 2017 in Auch, Waga Enery will invest €3 million to bring a WAGABOX® into service on the site in June 2018. This unit will produce 98% pure biomethane from biogas naturally generated by the break down of organic matters. Biomethane will be injected into the natural gas grid to supply about 1,500 households, while avoiding 2,200 tons of CO2 emissions each year.
Francis Dupouyen, President Trigone, is signing the contract with Waga Energy to installed a WAGABOX® on the Pavie landfill.
Francis Dupouey, President Trigone: "Recover energy from waste is one of Trigone's major challenges. This is the reason why we have chosen a high-performance solution that will replace the equivalent of more than one million litres of fossil fuel each year with renewable energy. Trigone is the very first local authority to engage in such an innovative project in France. We hope that this will serve as an example, as waste treatment is becoming an important environmental issue".


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Q: Switching application to use Constraint based kerberos I have an old application that we setup with delegation based kerberos. Everything with the application worked fine till we tried it out on one of our new Windows 10 machines.
After awhile, we finally figured out that Credential guard is not playing nice with this old application.
According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/credential-guard-considerations

Kerberos Considerations
When you enable Windows Defender Credential Guard, you can no longer
  use Kerberos unconstrained delegation or DES encryption. Unconstrained
  delegation could allow attackers to extract Kerberos keys from the
  isolated LSA process. Use constrained or resource-based Kerberos
  delegation instead.

We have to switch our implementation to use Constrained based Kerberos.  I'm at a bit of a loss on how to do that.
Our current SPN are set against the web application name - (Scenario 2 from this link - https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/929650/how-to-use-spns-when-you-configure-web-applications-that-are-hosted-on)
setspn -a http/WebSiteName webServerName
setspn -a http/WebSiteName.domain.com webServerName

The application only talks to Active Directory.  No database is involved.  The site is currently running the application pool with a domain account.
When I try commands like
$comp = Get-ADComputer DcOrAnotherComputer
Set-AdComputer -identity webServerName -PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount $comp

I get the following powershell error.
Set-AdComputer : The attribute cannot be modified because it is owned by the system
At line:2 char:1
+ Set-AdComputer -identity hql-dmeds01 -PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount $comp
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (hql-dmeds01:ADComputer) [Set-ADComputer], ADException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryServer:8369,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADComputer

I've boiled down the application to an example that works on Win7/win2012 but not on win10 with credential guard.
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%

' Create the connection the AD
    set con = createobject("ADODB.connection")
    set Com = createobject("ADODB.command")
    con.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
    con.Open "Active Directory Provider"
    Set Com.ActiveConnection = con

    dim ldapCall
    ldapCall = "SELECT ADsPath, distinguishedname, displayName"   &_
                   "  FROM '" & "LDAP://DC=mydomain,DC=com'  " &_
                      " WHERE objectClass = 'group' AND name = 'SomeTestGroupName'" & _
                     " ORDER BY displayName "
    'response.write ldapCall

' Execute the search call
    Com.CommandText = ldapCall
    Set rs = Com.Execute

    if not(rs.EOF) then
        response.write "SomethingHappended<br />"
    else
        response.write "Why don't you work???"
    end if

%>

Update 1 -
Answer to T-Heron's question
Here are the results of doing
setspn -q http/WebSiteName.domain.com  -
Checking domain DC=Mydomain
no such SPN found.

if i do
setspan -q http/WebSiteName- I get the following

Checking domain DC=Mydomain
CN=Webserver,OU=OuLocation,DC=MyDomain
        http/WebSite.myDomain
        http/WebSite
        CmRcService/Webserver
        CmRcService/Webserver.myDomain
        WSMAN/Webserver.myDomain
        TERMSRV/Webserver.myDomain
        RestrictedKrbHost/Webserver.myDomain
        HOST/Webserver
        WSMAN/WSMAN/Webserver
        TERMSRV/WSMAN/Webserver
        RestrictedKrbHost/WSMAN/Webserver
        HOST/Webserver

update 2-
the reason the -q in update 1 didn't work was that the spn was set
to
http/WebsiteName.domain.com
and not http/WebsiteName.a.b.domain.com (which is what i was trying)
So all the -q commands work now.  But the problem persists
Here's the screenshot of the delegation tab.

Update 3 -
Here's a new picture of the delegate tab
I tried it both with "Use Kerberos Only" and "Use any authentication protocol" after doing an IISReset, i get the same issue.
(i added the webserver when I pressed the "add" button.
in the picture,
the red boxes where entries with the webServername
the orange boxes where entries with the spn setup (beside HTTP - service type)

A: Ok, so I was able to get the test page above to finally work.  T-Heron's comments were on point, I just added the wrong services to delegate.
Once I added the ldap service from the domain controller then the test page started working.
(Our domain controllers had 2 ldap services.  One with a guid and one with the domain name.  I chose the domain one).
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Update 1- the testing for the solution was initially done on win2k8.  Doing the same on win2k12 didn't work.
I ended up having to change my application pool to the built-in ApplicationPoolId (or localsystem) to have it work.


Some of you may remember that I gave a lecture on the making of my Drabbles portrait series about a month ago. Well my good friends Dan and Claude used their nerdy might and recorded it for your viewing pleasure. It was, as you would expect, quite dark in the room, but I've gone in and inserted full screen images of what was on the screen for your viewing pleasure.
About 45 minutes of photoshop post-production and compositing goodness. If you ever wanted to know how I pulled a lot of them off, this is your chance to find out.
I could embed it here in a smaller size, but go over to vimeo and watch it at full-size instead.
I hope you enjoy, and please spread it around.


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Tour Guide: Submit a Concert Review
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Write your review here, no HTML code, plain text only! Please include a setlist if you wrote it down.
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The cryptocurrency markets are showing promising hints towards an exciting 2019 with increases in trading volumes, prices and interest.
While November might initiated what looked like a disastrous end to the year, it seems the last few weeks of December are offering a spot of recovery in the cryptocurrency markets.
The flashes of green have emerged into waves, and the market is showing hope before the new year.
As it stands, Bitcoin has crawled back to a $4,000 USD mark and seems to be staying between $3800 US and $4200 USD. This, after sinking from to a 2018 low of around $3200 USD following a somewhat stable few months of between $6,000 USD and $6,500 USD. The last week of moderate increase could be a hint that an upward trend might be on the rise.
Ripple is also facing an increase – a more significant one of 13.56% in day-on-day trading at the time of writing and is valued at $0.4296 USD.
Ethereum, which once was in the market's second rank, is also promising growth with more than a 10% increase. Boasting a 10.11%, the token is sitting at $144.85 USD.
Although a green market is a hopeful sight just before the year wraps up, the crypto market is volatile. Although cautious, if a Santa Claus rally is on its way; the industry is in for an exciting 2019.


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May 9, 2017 NoCal, SoCal, WoodFlock, Caddy Shack.
May 15, 2016 McNevin in Roseville, Altadena, Poway, Livermore, Vegas, and Utah.
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My story......? Well, let's see. I am a devoted wife, daughter, mother, grandmother and sister. I have always worked hard and after 28 years in public education, I retired. I have always loved to serve others and be involved in various activities in my community and church. After retirement, I have kept myself busy but wanted to do more. I want to enjoy life and not be limited by working for someone else. So I searched for an opportunity that would allow me flexibility, fulfillment, and beauty while supplementing my income. Along came Paparazzi Accessories with affordable and beautiful pieces to make every woman feel special and beautiful. My goals are simple. Enjoy what I do, Provide beautiful jewelry and accessories to others and connect with others. I hope your shopping experience with Paparazzi is wonderful and that along the way a little BLING will brighten your life. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity.


In this massive wave of the opiate epidemic washing over pain patients, people are asking what is there to replace the treatment we had that is effective. I have been asked a few times with all the articles about people suffering horribly as their meds are taken from them. And we all know about the suicides… and there must be far more no one is talking about. It is dire times for pain. And they should have a plan of action… right? Right?
So what Are they saying would replace opiates for everyone?
Unfortunately, the answers I have found in many articles are a) things we were already doing With opiates to manage our pain and b) a whole lot of out of pocket alternative therapies they used to call the placebo effect until they decided opiates were evil.
Cognitive therapy- Now here is the thing, with proper pain medication, cognitive therapy is beneficial in helping us learn ways to cope with the pain we have as well as help us with the negative thoughts that happen with pain. CBD is something I recommend, with proper pain management.
Acupuncture: Funny story, this causes my vertigo to go nutbars. Also, there is a lot of research suggesting it is a) placebo or b) the response to a compassionate acupuncturist. And now they recommend it. Out of pocket of course. But this does indeed help some people.
Massage therapy- A lot of us use this when we can afford it. And it helps somewhat with our medication to relax the tension built up from tensing due to pain. I find it excruciating myself with my fibro.
Botox injections- which this is at least a viable thing to try. I use it for chronic migraine and it reduces intensity for some migraines but not frequency. I am still daily and a lot of the migraines are still up in the 8 and 9 on the pain scale.
Meditation- There are some studies to show this helps with pain perception. I love it to relax the tension I have in my muscles from pain and to de-stress.
What people get is there is nothing wrong with these treatments. One or more even. I do meditation, physio stretches, exercise when I can, have tried everything on this list in my life of pain and did cognitive therapy for years. And the only way I manage pain is With those And medication. And I manage. It isn't eradicated by any means. But it is managed somewhat. I mean, without effective pain management I was suicidal. I don't think yoga and meditation are going to help when the pain makes me want to die. And I mean that. All those things are great aspects to an effective pain management strategy but pain medication can also be part of that strategy.
And for those of us already using one, two or more of these strategies with pain medication we are very aware those same strategies will not be sufficient by themselves but are also useful. However, that isn't to say for some people more than one of these strategies will not work effectively for their pain management. Only my point is, one must have an effective pain management strategy in place that works for that person while slowly decreasing pain medication to see if those strategies are sufficient for them. Not just take people off meds and let them just wing it. For some people, this is literally impossible. Their pain is far too immense to not be managed with opiates. For some of us, we use a lot of things and a little pain medication. For some of us, all sort of strategies works without pain medication. You have to consider every single patient as an individual with an individual strategy without being so intimidated you cannot comprehend they need also opiate treatment.
And clearly, that is not their strategy. It is just take people off their meds and just leave them to figure out something to make their life bearable. Which means some people with managed pain now have nothing and some of those people are now unable to work when they could before.
I work with a great pain clinic that has worked out a good strategy for me and for that I am grateful. But I will tell you this: I am keenly aware that could change in a second. No one wants to exist in the hell they had before proper pain management. That is literally a real worry of mine.


The Soho couple couldn't do enough for me. They kept offering me food, water, anything they could think of. They wanted to do something to help. They let me use their telephone, and I called Catherine's office. Her secretary answered and said she wasn't there, then hesitatingly asked who I was. When I said I was her husband, she became ecstatic. She explained that Catherine had gotten off the train at Union Square and would be checking back with her in a little while. I asked her to tell Catherine that I'd meet her at her office.
After I hung up, the Soho couple asked me to sit for awhile so they could make sure I was all right. The television was on, and I saw the instant replay of my building collapsing. It was 10:00 am and I had been in that building less than half an hour ago.
I asked if I could make another telephone call, this one long distance to Chicago; I wanted to let my mother know I wasn't dead. I knew that if I was watching a replay of my building falling down, she had seen it too. The Soho couple said yes, by all means, please go ahead and make the call. I made the call. When I heard my mother's voice, I could tell she had thought I died in the building. She thanked me several times for calling her. I asked her to call my brothers and sisters to let them know I was okay because I didn't have time right then; I had to go find Catherine. After I hung up, I left, but this time I took the stairs down, not the jolting elevator. The Soho couple wished me luck. I never saw them again.
When I got to Union Square, there were thousands of people going every which way. Usually the streets were not this crowded during working hours, but this was not a usual day. Several times I called out Catherine's name. I figured I might as well try. This was where she had gotten off the train. Maybe by now her secretary would have told her that I knew she was in Union Square. It was a long shot, but I had nothing to lose.
As I approached Petco, I turned to see the WTC. I could see neither tower. Picking up bits and pieces of conversation around me, I pieced together that now both towers were down. Petco was just locking their doors as I started north again, going up Broadway.
One September morning when I was still working at HarperCollins, I went through my normal morning routine. Showering. Dressing. Preening. As usual, I was late getting out the door. My husband Charlie, as usual, was early. He had left 30 or more minutes before me.
It was a beautiful early autumn day. The sky was so blue. Even half asleep walking to the subway station, I made note of it. I always took the Q train to HarperCollins, and my commute was typically only about 40 minutes door to door. Every now and then, however, there were delays. Trains backed up, or there were switching problems, or track fires. Or the worst: a sick passenger. If a passenger got sick on a train up ahead, you could sit on the bridge or in a tunnel for half an hour or more. The last thing you wanted to hear over the intercom was the conductor saying there was a delay due to a sick passenger.
That morning, there was a delay on the Q train. At first, the conductor didn't say anything at all. I suspected there was a sick passenger on a train up ahead. It was a long delay. All we passengers could do was sit or stand, hoping whatever it was cleared up soon. I hadn't even gotten a seat that morning. All the seats were filled. So I stood in the middle of the train, holding on to the middle pole, and reading a book by one of my authors ( Brothers Below Zero by Tor Seidler). I wasn't particularly enjoying it. I didn't feel like reading. Putting my weight first on one foot, then the other, then back again, I was feeling restless and bored. Finally, the conductor decided to make an announcement. But his announcement didn't really offer any information. All he said was that there was a delay *due to an incident at the World Trade Center .* In my ignorance, I thought, *Good. At least it's not a sick passenger.* But by then, I knew I was going to be extra late getting to work. We hadn't even reached the Manhattan Bridge yet. We were stuck in the tunnel.
The train inched along at a snail's pace. The conductor kept saying the delay was *due to an incident at the World Trade Center.* I continued to try to read.
It took what felt like forever to get out of that tunnel. I was in the middle of a sentence when daylight fell across the page. We were finally on the Manhattan Bridge. I didn't look up. I just decided to keep on reading. At first no one noticed anything. We were all operating at slow speed, I guess, not unlike the Q train we were on.


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La chiesa di San Benedetto, già chiesa del Santissimo Sacramento, è un edificio di culto cattolico sito a Cortona, in provincia di Arezzo.

Storia
La chiesa (XV secolo), nel 1650 venne affidata alla Compagnia di San Giovanni Evangelista, sostituita dai Padri Scolopi che nel 1722 la ricostruirono a pianta ellittica in una scenografica posizione.

Descrizione
La compatta muratura, priva dell'originario intonaco, presenta tre finestroni fortemente strombati e senza cornice, ai quali si aggiunge il quarto collocato come cimasa sopra il portone d'ingresso, il cui architrave è sorretto da due consistenti mensole.

L'interno è ricco di decorazioni: quattro lesene in stucco dipinto a finto marmo spartiscono la superficie muraria e, interrotte da un'alta trabeazione, si trasformano nelle costolature della copertura a padiglione. Nell'altare centrale è collocata la eicentesca statua del Cristo flagellato.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Benedetto (Cortona)
Cortona

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Prime Minister wants "strong, prosperous" and democratic Libya.
The Prime Minister David Cameron today used a surprise visit to Libya to make his second pledge in 24 hours of closer security ties between Britain and North African countries on the newly declared front line in the battle against Islamic extremism.
Hot on the heels of his announcement of a new security pact with Algeria, Mr Cameron arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli this morning to pledge that Britain will provide training and advice for police and the army to bolster the country's recovery from decades of dictatorship.
The Prime Minister said he wanted to do more to help the new Libyan government, which is facing continuing problems with the disparate militias that helped depose Muammar Gaddafi amid a continuing struggle to establish a functioning democracy.
The visit to Tripoli, which took place despite to the British embassy and consulates in Libya, included a walkabout of the city's Martyrs' Square amid heavy security after Mr Cameron had arrived from the airport in a 16-car convoy.
Mr Cameron is due to hold talks Libya's recently-appointed prime minister, Ali Zaidan, who is seeking to build a government of national unity and disband the militias. He will also meet President Megarief while in the country.