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Cirl Bunting photographed at Pleinmont on 16/4/2019 Photo: © Mike Cunningham (visit site)
The Cirl Bunting's breeding distribution covers the south-western Palearctic extending from Brittany, south-west to Spain and north Africa and eastwards to NW Turkey. The Channel Islands are on the northern edge of its breeding range. Despite having been a regular breeding species in Jersey until recent years, Cirl Buntings have been proved to breed in the Bailiwick only once and have always been a rare passage migrant and winter visitor. The breeding record comes from a series of records in the 1970s which led to one pair successfully breeding on Sark.
The first Bailiwick record is documented by Smith and is of one or two birds seen in Sark by Blaythwaite in March 1898. This was followed by another bird at the end of May 1903. Other records confirm its scarcity. In Alderney, Thompson killed one bird on December 24 1913 and saw a flock of 12 on April 20, 1914, and several more or the same birds on subsequent days. He saw two more on on January 21, 1919. In Sark, Dobson records a few birds seen by by Tucker from July 14 in the summer of 1923 and remarks that it is doubtful that these birds were bred locally and that they were migrants from the continent, although this now seems an early date for a migrant bird. The first Guernsey record is of two birds caught in a glasshouse in St Martins in early January 1930. They were kept in a cage for two weeks after which they both died.
Since Dobson's publication the Cirl Bunting remained a scarce visitor. In 1950, a small flock of birds were recorded at Pleinmont in a mixed flock of Yellowhammers and Linnets on 7 April and a bird was seen in Alderney near the St Anne's War Memorial on 12 April. Six years later, two males were seen at Grande Havre on 28 January 1956 and was believed to be the second record for the island but was, in fact, the third. In 1961, a male was seen at Vazon on 1 April and in 1964 a male was seen on Herm on 7 April and in Alderney at Val de Fontaine on 24 April. In 1966, breeding was suspected at Delancey Monument. Burridge wrote in the Transactions 'A lone male was seen in the vicinity of the Delancey Monument, St Sampson on July 27th and 28th; there appeared to be some evidence that it was holding territory but no nest was located nor was a mate seen at any time.' It seems that, during the 1960s, Cirl Buntings changed from being an extreme rarity to an irregular migrant that may have bred.
Since 1960, Cirl Buntings have been a rare winter visitor and vagrant apart from an influx in the late 1970s when one pair bred in Sark. Apart from a series of wintering records in the late 1970s there have been only 5 records from 1980-2000. The series of records from the late 1970s started with a spring record of a bird at the Dell Nursery in May 1976 (7th Guernsey record). In the autumn of 1976, four males and 2 females were seen at the Casquets Lighthouse on 14 November, and on the same day 1 male and 2 females were seen at Les Fontenelles in Guernsey. The wintering flock of 7 birds was concentrated in the vicinity of Delancey Park and were first were seen on 23 November. All 7 birds remained until the end of January 1977, when three birds disappeared and four remained until 14 February.
The next year, 1977, saw an impressive series of records. Over the first winter period records of birds came from five sites. In January, 10+ were seen at Le Petit Hurel on the 3rd, 9th and 16th, 2 were ringed at Les Landes, St Peters on the 3rd , 1 was seen at Beau Sejour on 28 January and 2 were seen north of the Reservoir on 31st. In February, pairs were seen at the Reservoir on 6th and at Bon Porte on 5th. Only one bird was seen in summer and the record of a sinigng bird at the Vaux de Monel on 12 May suggests that some of these immigrants may have attempted to breed. This, or another bird remained at the Vaux de Monel throughout the summer and winter and was seen on 22 October 1977 and also the following May (17th). In Sark, a pair bred and were seen on 12, 13 & 19 August, They were successful and a male was seen feeding a juvenile on the second of these dates. This is the only confirmed breeding Bailiwick breeding record.
In 1978, the two birds were seen at Jerbourg on 27 August, and again a bird was present at the Vaux de Monel on on 15 April and at Pleinmont on 10 June. The records from Pleinmont were all of single males and may well refer to the same bird. This remarkable series of records ended with 2 birds being seen at Vazon on 4 November 1978. The pattern of sightings suggest a major influx of birds to Guernsey in November 1976, some of which remained the following summer and winter. However, none were proved to breed, and the influx was not sufficient to establish a popuplation. Since this influx there have been only been five records to 2000 (CHECK), one at Pleinmont on 2 September 1982, one at the Vaux de Monel on 1 April 1988 and one feeding in a garden along the Pleinmont road between 5-8 April 1994, one at Corbi�re on 28 February 1997 and one at Les Sommeilleuses on 31 May 1998.
This pattern of records shows the Cirl Bunting to be typically a spring migrant with most records occurring during April and May. The irruption in the winter of 1976/77 was exceptional and has not been repeated. Birds were seen at scattered localities and so the influx must have been widespread.
Cirl Bunting photographed at Pleinmont on 16/4/2019. Photo: © Mike Cunningham (visit site)
Cirl Bunting photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 23/4/2019. Photo: © Dave Carre (visit site)
Cirl Bunting photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 19/4/2019. Photo: © Anthony Loaring (visit site)
Cirl Bunting photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 14/4/2019. Photo: © Andy Marquis (visit site)
Cirl Bunting photographed at La Congrelle, Pleinmont on 8/4/2019. Photo: © Wayne Turner (visit site)
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As The lights dim and the black backdrop is lifted to reveal "EZRA" up in lights a sense of anticipation ripples around Colston Hall. The band walks on, followed by the man himself – looking as calm as ever as he strolls up to the mic. He puts his mug of tea down and casually introduces himself, "Hello… so my name is George Ezra and this is my lovely band… the first song we're going to play for you is Cassy O'". It's this relaxed approach that Ezra takes that allows everyone in the crowd, of all ages, to feel personally welcomed. In a matter of seconds Ezra has managed to turn a show that's sold 2,000 tickets into a very intimate affair.
Halfway through, the band leaves the stage as Ezra plays 3 acoustic songs including Bob Dylan's Girl From The Northern Country, after which he cheekily quips: "I didn't write that just in case you thought I was that good". Throughout the acoustic stint, twinkling star-shaped lights behind Ezra mesmerise the crowd, as his unmistakable voice fills the auditorium with ease, sending the gig into a dreamlike state. The return of the band quickly brings the room back to reality as the tempo is picked up with Stand By Your Gun – much to the delight of one lone, middle-aged fist pumper in the crowd.
Whenever there is a pause in the music, the silence is quickly filled with a chorus of wolf whistles which Ezra shyly ignores as if he is embarrassed by the attention – something you would think he would have gotten used to in the whirlwind two years he's been on the scene; yet despite all the blatant female adoration, Ezra remains modest throughout the evening, politely thanking the crowd after every applause.
The show ends with chart-topper Budapest, to which the crowd all join in with the infamous "oohs" before returning to play 3 final songs for his encore. George then proceeds telling the humbling story of how he saw the hall for the first time 4 years ago in a lecture and thought: "wow, who gets to play there" – it would seem, George, that you do. And very deservingly so.
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Le monastère de la Sainte-Croix de Fonte Avellana (ou ermitage de la Sainte-Croix), sis à Serra Sant'Abbondio dans la province de Pesaro et d'Urbino (Marches), en Italie, est une fondation monastique camaldule remontant au . Devenue abbaye en 1325, le monastère connut un déclin et fut supprimé au début du , mais reprit vie avec les moines-ermites camaldules le réoccupant en 1935 et y rétablissant l'office divin. Elle est toujours « abbaye vivante ».

Histoire
Les origines du monastère remontent à la fin du premier millénaire et sont étroitement liées à l'histoire de la Congrégation bénédictine des Camaldules. Un groupe d'ermites de la région adopte la règle des bénédictins-ermites de  saint Romuald vers 980 (les Camaldules). Une grande impulsion fut donnée au monastère par l'arrivée de saint Pierre Damien qui y devient moine en 1035, et prieur en 1043.  Impulsion spirituelle de ferveur et d'austérité autant que matérielle : de nouveaux bâtiments sont construits, le nombre de moines étant en rapide augmentation. Culturellement et spirituellement le monastère-ermitage (alliant cénobitisme et érémitisme comme le veut la tradition camaldule) devient un centre influent. Quelque soixante-seize saints et bienheureux auraient vécu comme ermites dans ce monastère.

L'ermitage est mentionné dans la Divine Comédie de Dante Alighieri (au chant XXI du 'Paradis'), ce qui peut laisser  penser que le poète y fut reçu comme hôte.

Érigée en abbaye en 1325, Fonte Avellana devient une puissance économique importante. Cependant, un demi-siècle plus tard (en 1392) elle tombe sous le régime de la commende. Cela dura deux siècles : . En 1569, la Congrégation autonome avellaine qui avait jusqu'alors régi le monastère est abolie ; celui-ci passe à la Congrégation de Camaldoli. Quarante ans plus tard, en 1610, elle devient cénobitique et se joint à la Congrégation cénobitique camaldule de San Michele di Murano.

Fonte Avellana reste sous le régime de la commende jusqu'en 1700 et bien que certains de ces abbés commendataires - particulièrement le cardinal Julien della Rovere (futur pape Jules II) - aient eu souci de l'embellir d'édifices nouveaux, il n'en reste pas moins qu'elle subit le sort de toute abbaye commendataire. Par manque d'authentique direction spirituelle, la vie monastique se relâche: la décadence est lente mais inexorable.

Ce déclin se conclut avec l'expulsion des moines de l'abbaye en 1810 par les troupes napoléoniennes. Elle est supprimée par l'autorité de la nouvelle Italie en 1866. Cependant les moines camaldules la réoccupent, la rénovent et y rétablissent la vie monastique et l'office divin en 1935. L'abbaye a retrouvé une nouvelle vie, tant spirituelle qu'architecturale.

Le  le pape Jean-Paul II visite Fonte Avellana lors des célébrations fêtant le millénaire de sa fondation par  saint Romuald. À cette occasion l'église abbatiale fut élevée au rang de basilique mineure.

Patrimoine
 L'église, de plan à croix latine, est de style roman. Son sanctuaire surélevé est construit au-dessus d'une crypte, qui était probablement l'église primitive. Un monumental crucifix en bois domine l'maître-autel : une œuvre de Francesco Tiraboschi de Pavie, qui date de 1567. Derrière l'autel se trouve le chœur des moines. Construit en 1854 il est de style néoclassique.
 La bibliothèque fut par deux fois vidée de ses livres, lors des deux suppressions de l'abbaye : en 1811 par les troupes napoléoniennes et en 1866. Le monastère a cependant récupéré l'ensemble de ses livres en 1933. Le fonds de bibliothèque s'élève à quelque , le document le plus ancien étant un incunable de 1470.
 Le scriptorium (dédié à saint Pierre Damien) est une des pièces du monastère qui ont subi le moins de modifications au cours de siècles. Il est pratiquement encore tel qu'il était à l'origine. Les moines y passaient de nombreuses heures de leur journée à y recopier sur parchemins des textes classiques et patrologiques, grecs et latins.
 La salle du chapitre du monastère date du . Sur son plafond des fresques du  sont à peine visibles. Les usages divers auxquels fut soumise la salle, particulièrement au , les ont fort endommagées.
 Le jardin botanique des moines, ouvert au public depuis 2007.
 La crypte (du ) est la partie la plus ancienne du monastère : sans doute première église ou chapelle de l'ermitage primitif. Elle est le lieu de culte le plus ancien de Fonte Avellana. Son austère sobriété donne une image, belle et solide, de l'ambiance de ces constructions anciennes consacrées à la prière et recueillement.

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Details, Criticism Of How Class Action Attorneys Charged $75M Might Be Kept From Public
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In Boston federal court, attorneys took $75 million from a $300 million settlement with State... [+] Street. A retired judge investigating why, however, has asked that his findings be filed under seal. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
The public might not get to view the findings of a special master tasked with examining why a $300 million class action settlement included inflated hourly rates and a suspicious $200,000 payment to a public defender who is the brother of one of the lead plaintiffs lawyers.
The report from retired Judge Gerald E. Rosen in the securities class action against State Street Bank and Trust probably won't paint the Thornton Law Firm and other firms that divvied $75 million in fees in a favorable light. Their practices were uncovered by the Boston Globe's Spotlight team in 2016.
Rosen, appointed as a special master by U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf of Boston, earlier this year asked for more time to prepare his report, which apparently includes an unfavorable opinion of the plaintiffs lawyers from NYU Law School ethics expert Stephen Gillers.
But Rosen on May 14 asked Wolf to enter his report and recommendations under seal. His brief motion also asks that the exhibits and evidence compiled to not be available to the public.
The Center for Class Action Fairness, which has sought to intervene in the case as either a friend of the court or as a guardian for the interests of class members, says it opposes the report being filed under seal.
The Boston Globe articles detailed practices that are widespread in class actions, in which plaintiff lawyers spread their court-approved fees among a wide collection of firms, stating hourly rates of $400 or more for the services of contract attorneys who are paid as little as $20 an hour.
Other firms working on the case included Labaton Sucharow and Lieff Cabraser. The Boston Globe articles revealed how several lawyers were reported to the court as having worked for Thornton and Labaton simultaneously, which the firms have dismissed as a mistake.
The firms have objected to the analysis from Gillers of their fee-sharing practices, calling them "novel."
"We of course do not agree with that characterization," Rosen wrote earlier this year.
The articles also revealed that the Thornton firm, recently cleared in a campaign finance investigation, allowed Michael Bradley, the brother of Thornton partner Garrett Bradley, to bill more than 400 hours to the class at $500 an hour when his normal practice is serving as a public defender for a tenth of that hourly rate.
The Globe articles showed that Garrett Bradley listed 24 staff attorneys with hourly rates of $425, a total of $4 million in costs. One of the lawyers said he was paid an hourly rate of only $30, and 23 were found to be listed as lawyers for the other firms working on the case.
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2019 Past Programs
NEW YEAR'S DAY, Tuesday, January 1, 2 to 5 p.m.
'Come Calling' on New Year's Day
Paying calls on friends and family on New Year's Day was one of Old New York's most cherished customs. The Tredwells' elegant parlors are decorated with swags of evergreens, brilliant holly berries, white mistletoe, and red-leafed poinsettias – and a table top tree festooned with ribbons and candles.
Join us for tours of the house, walking tours of the NoHo neighborhood, 19th century readings about New Year's Day celebrations, and hot cider and cookies, as we continue the 19th century tradition of renewing, reviving, and reaffirming friendships. Exhibition on view: At Home with the Tredwells: A 19th Century Christmas.
"New York seemed to enjoy a general carnival. Broadway, from one end to the other, was alive with private carriages, omnibuses, cabs, and curricles, and lines of pedestrians fringed the carriageways." From the Diary of Philip Hone, 1844.
$20, FREE for MHM Members.
HOLIDAY RAFFLE drawing at 4:30 p.m. Win Two Tickets to HAMILTON on Broadway, and lots and lots more! All proceeds go to our Legal Fund to defeat the developers.
Exhibition Open Friday, November 23, through Monday, January 7
At Home with the Tredwells: A 19th Century Christmas
Step back in time to the 1850s and join Seabury and Eliza Tredwell as they celebrate the season with elaborate holiday parties, festive food, and gift giving. Their elegant parlors are decorated with swags of evergreens, brilliant holly berries, white mistletoe, and red-leafed poinsettias – and a table top tree festooned with ribbons and candles. In the kitchen, the Irish servants are preparing the plum pudding, shucking the oysters, and readying the punch bowl. Upstairs in the bedrooms, the gifts for relatives and friends are set out and the Tredwell daughters are dressing in their finest silks.
Discover how many of our modern holiday traditions, from table-top Christmas trees, to presents and stockings, Christmas carols and songs (and Santa Claus, too) originated in mid-19th century New York. Included with regular admission.
Charles Dickens Performs 'A Christmas Carol' in New York, December 1867
In December 1867, Charles Dickens arrived in New York City for a month of sold-out performances of his beloved 1843 holiday classic, A Christmas Carol. Dickens performed at the 2,500 seat Steinway Hall on 14th Street, the center of cultural life in the city, and just a few blocks from the Tredwell home. And the critics raved: "The Christmas Carol becomes doubly enchanting when one hears it performed by Dickens." (New York Herald, 1867)
Wednesday, January 9, 6:30 p.m.
The NEW New York: Immigration, 1820s-1880s – An Overview
Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square at 7th Street
Immigration in the 19th century brought diverse cultures together, illuminating global struggles, triumphs, and movements, and made our neighborhoods what they are today. This talk will focus on the microcosm of Bond Street, an exclusive area east of Washington Square, developed in the 1820s by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant. The neighborhood was a residential enclave for wealthy merchant families, notably the Tredwells on East 4th Street, whose roots ran deep in English soil. Their lifestyle was assured only by the existence of domestic servants, many of whom were Irish immigrants.
SJ Costello will explore the motivating push-pull factors that led Irish, Germans, Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Italians to emigrate. In the coming months, each of these immigrant groups will be explored in depth.
SJ Costello is a Senior Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, illustrator, and general story-teller. SJ's work focuses on public history and narratives centered in 19th and 20th century America.
Co-sponsored with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
Hosted by The Cooper Union.
FREE. Reservations are required.
Opens Thursday, January 17, through Monday, April 15
Exhibition: "Finest Surviving:" Ornamental Plasterwork at the Merchant's House Museum
The 1832 Merchant's House is one of only 120 buildings in New York City distinguished as an exterior – and interior – landmark. Its intact original ornamental plaster work is considered the "finest surviving" from the period. Learn how the plaster walls, ceilings, and ornamentation in the Merchant's House were created in the 19th century. On display, original 1832 plaster fragments and molds and plaster casts created by sculptor and ornamental plasterer David Flaharty, who used the same methods as the early 19th century artisans during a house-wide restoration in the 1970s. Included with General Admission.
Friday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Dark Days of Winter Candlelight Ghost Tour of "Manhattan's Most Haunted House" (The New York Times)
Doors slam, floorboards creak, voices call into the dead of night. Venture into the shadows of history to see the house where seven family members died and hear true tales of inexplicable occurrences from the people who actually experienced them.
"#1 Most Haunted Place in NYC" (TimeOut New York)
50-60 minutes. $30, $20 Members.
Upcoming Ghost Tours: Friday, February 15, March 15, April 19, May 17, June 21, July 19.
Saturday, January 26, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Behind-the-Ropes: Insider's Tours of the Merchant's House
First in a Series – The Architecture of an 1832 Landmark (Manhattan's First)
Saturday, February 23: Changing Tastes in 19th Century Furniture
Saturday, March 30: 100 Years of Domestic Lighting
Join us for a series of rare off-hours tours of the Merchant's House. We'll explore in detail the architecture of the 1832 Merchant's House, one of only 120 buildings designated an interior and exterior landmark in New York, and examine the finer points of the original Tredwell family collection of furniture and domestic lighting.
We'll gather in the 1850s kitchen (bring your own coffee) for an overview of the landmark Merchant's House and intact collection of more than 3,000 objects owned by the Tredwell family. We'll then tour the house, including the rarely seen bedrooms on the 3rd floor (now staff offices), even peek up into the attic. We'll pull out drawers to show furniture construction details, remove shades of lamps to see the workings, open locked doors … and more. From late Federal to Greek Revival, Duncan Phyfe to Rococo Revival; whale oil to gas to kerosene, you'll gain new perspectives on these unique insider's tours, learning about changing period styles and technologies and how they reflect the attitudes and values of the merchant class in mid-19th century New York City.
Anthony Bellov: Bachelor's in Architecture from Pratt Institute, Graduate in Museum Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, long-time volunteer and board member of the Merchant's House Museum and an aficionado in 19th Century American Decorative Arts and Architecture.
$30, $25 Members. Limited to 20 participants.
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 p.m.
Illustrated Lecture: Just Another Brick in the Wall: The Mating of Brick and Terracotta in Six Great New York Buildings
Brick and terracotta are the chocolate and peanut butter of architecture. Fine each on its own, together they create something uniquely delicious. In some cases, the combination was a means of achieving sumptuous effects without the use of expensive stone. Stanford White was the master of this approach. In other cases, the materials were used for their own beauty. Little sets the architecture buff's juices flowing as does elegant brickwork, and New York architects' wildly varied uses of terracotta have given this city some of its most exquisite and exuberant decoration.
This illustrated lecture will explore the properties of these materials, and architects' uses of them in combination, through a look at six buildings: Babb, Cook & Willard's DeVinne Press Building (right at the Merchant House's corner), Bruce Price's St. James Building, William B. Tuthill's Carnegie Hall (one of the most underrated buildings in New York), Ralph Walker's 60 Hudson Street, McKim, Mead & White's Judson Memorial Church, and Henry J. Hardenbergh's Schermerhorn Building (just down the street from the Merchant's House).
A collaboration with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
$30 General Public, $20 MHM & ICAA Members.
Seating is limited. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Francis Morrone is a renowned architectural historian and writer. The author of eleven books, including, most recently, "Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes" (W.W. Norton, 2013). Morrone has also written highly regarded architectural guidebooks to Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. His writings have appeared in many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the New Criterion, City Journal, Humanities and the New York Sun, where he was an art and architecture critic. He teaches architectural and urban history at New York University, and is the recipient of the university's Excellence in Teaching Award. Travel + Leisure magazine named him as one of the 13 best tour guides in the world. Other awards include the Arthur Ross Award of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.
Through Monday, April 15
Exhibition: "Finest Surviving:" Ornamental Plaster Work at the Merchant's House Museum
The 1832 Merchant's House is distinguished as one of only 120 interior landmarks in New York City. Its intact original ornamental plaster work is considered the "finest surviving" from the period. Learn how the plaster walls, ceilings, and ornamentation in the Merchant's House were created in the 19th century. On display, original 1832 plaster fragments and molds and plaster casts created by sculptor and ornamental plasterer David Flaharty, who used the same methods as the early 19th century artisans during a house-wide restoration in the 1970s. Included with General Admission.
Through Monday, May 20
Exhibition –
The Changing Silhouette of Fashion: The Decade of the 1890s
Day Dress, MHM 2002.0830
The Tredwell Costume Collection comprises more than 400 articles of clothing. The core of the collection consists of 39 dresses documented to have been owned by the women of the family. The Changing Silhouette of Fashion is a changing exhibition featuring Tredwell dresses from each decade of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These dresses show the changing silhouette of fashion over 100 years, and tell us about the women who wore them and the society in which they lived.
Next in the series is a two-piece cotton day dress from the early 1890s. The dress has leg-of-mutton sleeves, which was one of the defining characteristics of ladies fashion during this decade. It also features an even-length hem with no train, making it a more practical option for outdoor activities, such as walking, visiting friends, or shopping. Included with general admission.
The Merchant's House Museum will close at 5 p.m. on Thursday, February 14, for that evening's Love in the Parlors concert.
Thursday, February 14, 7 p.m.
Love in the Parlors — A Valentine in Concert
The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society presents a gala concert of lush, romantic vocal music performed in the Museum's elegant Greek Revival double parlor. Singers Anthony Bellov, Amy Gluck, Jane Elizabeth Rady, and Dayle Vander Sande perform rarely heard gems by the world's greatest 19th-century composers: Schumann, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Amy Beach, Johann Strauss II, and others. Chosen by NBC Online and TimeOut NY as a top pick for Valentine's Day.
90minutes. Very limited capacity.
General admission $50, VIP (first 2 rows) $65
MHM Members $30, VIP $45.
Friday, February 15, 6:30 p.m.
Upcoming Ghost Tours: Friday, March 15, April 19, May 17, June 21, July 19.
The Museum will be OPEN on President's Day, Monday, February 18, from 12 to 5 p.m.
Thursday, February 21, through Monday, May 20
Saturday, February 23, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Second in a Series – Changing Tastes in 19th Century Furniture
Next up: Saturday, March 30: 100 Years of Domestic Lighting
Join us for the second in a series of rare off-hours tours of the Merchant's House. We'll gather in the 1850s kitchen for coffee and a focused overview of the landmark Merchant's House and its intact collection of more than 3,000 objects owned by the Tredwell family. We'll then tour the house, including the rarely seen bedrooms on the 3rd floor (now staff offices), even peek up into the attic and open locked doors … and more. From late Federal to Greek Revival; Duncan Phyfe to Rococo Revival; whale oil to gas to kerosene, you'll gain new insight and perspectives on these unique insider's tours, learning about changing period styles and technologies and how they reflect the attitudes and values of the merchant class in mid-19th century New York City.
Changing Tastes in 19th Century Furniture
In this tour, we'll discuss the finer points of the original Tredwell family collection of furniture and what it tells us about both the tastes and values of Antebellum New Yorkers and how growing international connections made lasting impact on design, trade, and international relations.
Sunday, March 10, 12:30 p.m.
Second and Fourth Sunday Walking Tours resume!
In the Footsteps of Bridget Murphy: A Walking Tour of Historic 19th Century Noho
Join us for a journey back in time to the elite 'Bond Street area,' home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the Merchant's House. You'll see how the neighborhood surrounding the Tredwells' home evolved from a refined and tranquil residential enclave into a busy commercial center. Visit important 19th century landmark buildings on this tour through 21st century NoHo.
In this special walking tour, we'll explore the world of Irish immigrants, who flooded into New York City in the 19th century to escape famine and hardship in Ireland; in 1855, approximately 24,000 Irish immigrants worked as servants for wealthy families like the Tredwells. We'll explore the world of these immigrants and see sites associated with a servant's life outside the walls of her employer's home.
Tour is one hour and begins promptly at 12:30 p.m.
Promenaders will return to the Museum in time to take the 2 p.m. Guided Tour if they wish.
$15; FREE for Members.
Next walking tours: March 24; April 14, 28; May 12, 26; June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Friday, March 15, 6:30 & 7 p.m.
"Spirit of the Irish" Candlelight Ghost Tour
Includes the 4th Floor Servants' Quarters!
Doors slam, floorboards creak, voices call into the dead of night. Venture into the shadows of history to see the house where eight family members died and hear true tales of inexplicable occurrences from the people who actually experienced them. Many of the most peculiar occurrences have been related to the Tredwells' Irish servants, and so this special tour will include the 4th floor Servants' Quarters.
50 minutes. $40, $25 Members. SOLD OUT!
Sunday, March 17, Guided Tours at 12:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
St. Patrick's Day: A Tribute to the Tredwells' Irish Servants with Bridget Murphy
Join us for a back-stairs tour and experience the Merchant's House through the eyes of the Irish immigrants who worked as domestic servants for the Tredwell family. You'll climb the narrow staircase to the fourth-floor servants' quarters and see where the Tredwells' four Irish servants lived and did some of their work, "arguably the oldest intact site of Irish habitation in New York City" (Time Out New York). You'll meet Tredwell servant Bridget Murphy, who will play traditional Irish airs on the harp and entertain guests with her singing. She'll also tell you the many reasons why it would have been impossible to run a home like the Merchant's House without her.
Included with General Admission. Reservations not required.
Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m.
Illustrated Presentation
The NEW New York: 19th Century Irish Immigration and the Revolution
This talk will look at archbishops, saints-in-waiting, gangsters, rogues, jesters and other colorful characters. There will be a special emphasis on "Fenian New York," a refuge for Irish revolutionaries since the failed Rising of 1867.
In Fenian New York you'll meet the likes of John Devoy, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1916 martyr Thomas Clarke (the only American citizen executed by the British in 1916), and Sir Roger Casement, who since his death has not only become a patriot but a gay icon. It should also be remembered that Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland, was born in New York in 1882 and spent several crucial years in New York between 1919-20.
Dermot McEvoy is the author of six books including the novels, The 13th Apostle: a Novel of Michael Collins and the Irish Uprising, Our Lady of Greenwich Village, and the forthcoming True Tales of Irish New York. He is a frequent contributor to IrishCentral.com where he writes on history, politics, and culture.
NOTE LOCATION: 6th Street Community Center, 638 East 6th Street
FREE. This event is fully accessible.
Presented in partnership with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
A Walking Tour of Historic 19th Century Noho
(Second & Fourth Sunday of Every Month)
Tour is one hour and begins outside the Museum. $15; FREE for Members.
Upcoming walking tours: April 14, 28; May 12, 26; June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Saturday, March 30, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Third in a Series – 100 Years of Domestic Lighting
We'll gather in the 1850s kitchen (bring your own coffee) for an overview of the landmark Merchant's House and intact collection of more than 3,000 objects owned by the Tredwell family. We'll then tour the house, including the rarely seen bedrooms on the 3rd floor (now staff offices), even peek up into the attic. We'll pull out drawers to show furniture construction details, remove shades of lamps to see the workings, open locked doors … and more. From Duncan Phyfe to Rococo Revival; whale oil to gas to kerosene; late Federal to Greek Revival, you'll gain new perspectives on these unique insider's tours, learning about changing period styles and technologies and how they reflect the attitudes and values of the merchant class in mid-19th century New York City.
About presenter Anthony Bellov: Bachelor's in Architecture from Pratt Institute, Graduate in Museum Leadership from Bank Street College of Education, long-time volunteer and board member of the Merchant's House Museum and an aficionado in 19th Century American Decorative Arts and Architecture.
Sunday, March 31, 3 p.m.
Walking Tour: Spiritualists & Suffragettes of NoHo
With Boroughs of the Dead
Discover a forgotten aspect of women's history on this spirited walking tour! The 19th century saw an enormous wave of interest in spirit communication, with women at the forefront of the American Spiritualist movement. New York City, unsurprisingly, was a hotbed of both serious spiritual inquiry and curiosity-seeking spectacle, and the Bond Street area, now known as NoHo, contains a plethora of locales associated with the Spiritualists of the 19th century.
Even wealthy New Yorkers like the Tredwells hosted neighbors and friends in their homes to showcase the latest in psychic entertainments. This 90-minute walking tour will lead you into the realm of self-styled mediums, spirit photographers, radical suffragettes and Spiritualists, including Tredwell neighbor Victoria Woodhull (first woman to run for president), as we explore the link between Spiritualism and the beginnings of the women's movement in America.
Boroughs of the Dead walking tours explore the haunting, macabre, and overlooked histories of New York City. They are NYC's top ranked ghost tour on Trip Advisor, and are rated among the top ten ghost tours in the country by USA Today.
Tour begins at the NE corner of 1st Avenue and 1st Street (Peretz Square) and is approximately 90 minutes; less than one mile of walking. It is fully accessible. Tour ends on Bond Street.
$25 General; $20 MHM Members. Capacity is limited.
Sunday, April 14, 12:30 p.m.
Tour is one hour and begins outside the Museum.
Upcoming walking tours: April 28; May 12, 26; June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Friday, April 19, 6:30 p.m.
"April is the Cruellest Month" Candlelight Ghost Tour
$30, $20 Members.
Upcoming Ghost Tours: May 17, June 28, July 19.
Friday, April 19, 9 p.m.
Special Candlelight Tour!
Is the Merchant's House Haunted? Only a (Ghost) Tour Will Tell!
Join renowned paranormal investigator Dan Sturges (founder of Sturges Paranormal and featured on the Travel Channel's new series, Paranormal Caught on Camera) for a rare late-night ghost tour of "Manhattan's Most Haunted House." He will lead you through the house, lit only by the flickering of candles, discussing his methodology and sharing his eerie-est findings. Come with your questions for one of the most knowledgeable specialists in the field!
Dan Sturges is the founder of Sturges Paranormal and appears on the Travel Channel's new weekly series, Paranormal Caught on Camera.
Tour is 75 minutes; capacity strictly limited to 20. $45, $35 MHM Members.
Doors open at 8:50 p.m.; NO LATE ENTRY once the tour begins.
Upcoming: June 28
The Museum will be OPEN on EASTER SUNDAY, April 21, 12 to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, April 23, 6 p.m. Reception – drinks available for purchase; 6:30 p.m., Presentation
Stoops to Conquer: The Evolution of the New York Townhouse
New York City in the popular imagination may be defined by the skyscraper, but in reality, our city's landscape is dominated by a grid plan that minced most blocks into a staggering number of narrow lots. These produced entire neighborhoods of narrow residential buildings, making the townhouse the true vernacular architecture of the city.
Join architect Richard Sammons as he traces the origins and evolution of the ever-present townhouse in New York City. Townhouses give so many historic neighborhoods their charm, but what are the weaknesses of the form? And how can modern architects and city-dwellers improve upon this classic architectural style to bring the economical, adaptable, and sustainable townhouse into the 21st century?
Richard Sammons is a principal at Fairfax & Sammons Architects, whose offices are in New York and Palm Beach. Richard is an award-winning designer, having designed and rehabilitated dozens of townhouses in his career.
NOTE LOCATION: Salmagundi Club, Lower Gallery, 47 Fifth Avenue
FREE. This event is not fully accessible.
Presented in partnership with Village Preservation
Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m.
The NEW New York: 19th Century Immigration — Kleindeutschland: Little Germany in New York City
Illustrated Presentation by Richard Haberstroh
This talk will explore a detailed history of the development of the German American community in New York City and the East Village/Lower East Side, within the larger context of 19th-century immigration as a whole. Various aspects of society and day-to-day life in the German community in New York will be discussed, providing insight into specific characteristics of this particular immigrant experience in the city, some physical remnants of which still remain more than a century later.
Richard Haberstroh is a native New Yorker, whose six German ancestors arrived in New York between 1835 and 1852 and resided in Kleindeutschland. He lectures and publishes broadly on various topics including the story of German immigration and settlement in New York City. He is also the author of the book, The German Churches of Metropolitan New York: a Research Guide.
NOTE LOCATION: Third Street Music School, 235 East 11th Street
Presented in partnership with Village Preservation.
Upcoming walking tours: May 12, 26; June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Through Monday, June 3
"Finest Surviving:" Ornamental Plaster Work at the Merchant's House Museum
Thursday, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
The NEW New York: 19th Century Immigration
Fighting Anti-Asian Discrimination in 19th Century Greenwich Village
Illustrated Presentation by Dylan Yeats
Following the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Acts, thousands of Chinese Americans moved to New York City to escape the increase of racist violence sweeping the nation. Here, they formed organizations to defend their rights and assert their interests. While most of this took place in what would become Chinatown, Greenwich Village was also a center for Chinese American organizing in the late 1800s.
Join Dylan Yeats, Visiting Scholar at the Asian/ Pacific/ American Institute at NYU, for a talk about the Chinese American immigrant-rights activists who lived and worked in Greenwich Village 130 years ago. These young men and women worked with neighborhood churches and institutions to try to protect and extend equal rights for all races. Learn how their under-recognized victories and defeats shaped a formative moment in U.S. history and continue to resonate today.
Co-sponsored by Village Preservation.
NOTE LOCATION: Bahai Center, East 11th Street. This event is accessible, with four stairs in the lobby.
Every Saturday, starting May 18, 2 to 5 p.m.
Sidewalk SALE to SAVE the Merchant's House!
Decorative items, china, glass, collectibles, costume jewelry, antiques (non-Merchant's House!), all at bargain prices to benefit our Legal Fund to Defeat the Developers.
Or pay double as a donation!
Sunday, May 12, 12:30 p.m.
Upcoming walking tours: May 26, June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Friday, May 17, 6:30 p.m.
Candlelight Ghost Tour
Upcoming Ghost Tours: June 28, July 19.
May 1 – May 30
Annual Lower East Side History Month
Festivals, Performances, gatherings, gardens & much more.
Click here for calendar and information.
Saturday, May 25, 2 to 5 p.m. (and every Saturday in June)
Upcoming walking tours: June 9, 23; July 14, 28.
Through Monday, August 26
Lingerie Dress, MHM 2002.0824
The Changing Silhouette of Fashion is series of exhibitions featuring a Tredwell dress from each decade of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Taken together, these dresses show the changing silhouette of fashion over 100 years, and tell us about the women who wore them and the society in which they lived. On display: the "lingerie dress" of the 1900s.
Free with admission.
Through Monday, September 16
Our Stuff, Ourselves: An Intimate Look at the Tredwells' Private Lives
On display: a selection of the Tredwells' personal items from the collection, a doorway into their private lives that reveal the tastes, interests, and values of a prosperous merchant family in 19th century New York. What does your 21st century living space say about you?
Thursdays in June, until 8 p.m.
Summer Evenings in the Garden
Join us in our "secret" 19th century garden at its most verdant. Take a guided tour of the house at 6:30 p.m., if you wish, or take a self-guided tour. On view, two exhibitions: Our Stuff, Ourselves: An Intimate Look at the Tredwells' Private Lives (open through September 16) and The Changing Silhouette of Fashion: The Decade of the 1900s (open through August 26). Rain or Shine.
Admission $15, $10 Students & Seniors, FREE for Members.
SPECIAL $1 admission for the museum's good neighbors (zip 10012 and 10003)
Saturdays in June, 2 to 5 p.m.
Decorative items, china, glass, collectibles, costume jewelry, antiques (non-Merchant's House!), all at bargain prices to benefit our Legal Fund to Defeat the Developers. Or pay double as a donation!
Tuesday, June 4, 5:30 – 8 p.m.
5:30 p.m. Walking tour – Meet at Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street
7 p.m. Panel talk and tours of the Vault at Pfaff's – Sweetwater Social, 643 Broadway
Celebrating Walt Whitman's 200th and Village Gay Bars from Stonewall to Pfaff's
In an unfinished poem from the early 1860's, Walt Whitman memorialized the vault at Pfaff's, home to New York's first self-described bohemians, as a place "where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse." Take a walking tour from the present to the past, celebrating what the Stonewall Inn, at 50, continues to be and what Pfaff's beer cellar was. Then, join historians at the subterranean Sweetwater Social (the original Pffaf's), where "overhead rolls Broadway–the myriad rushing Broadway," to learn about Whitman's Village and his time at Pfaff's.
FREE (one drink minimum at Sweetwater Social). Limited capacity.
Register here for the 5:30 p.m. Tour
Register here for the 7 p.m. Panel Talk
Co-sponsored by New York Preservation Archive Project, NoHo Bid, Village Preservation, and Walt Whitman Initiative.
Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m.
Film Screening of The Heiress
To Benefit the Merchant's House Museum Legal Fund
Based on Washington Square, Henry James's classic novel of mid-19th century New York City, The Heiress (1949), winner of four Academy Awards, tells the haunting story of young love – and a dominating father who didn't approve.
Set design based on the Merchant's House.
Come See the House … Then See the House in The Heiress!
5 to 7 p.m., Reception in the Garden, Tours of the house and bubbly in the garden
7 p.m., Film Screening of The Heiress
With introduction by three-time Oscar winning director William Wyler's daughter, Catherine Wyler, and Judith Goetz Sanger, daughter of screenwriters Ruth & Augustus Goetz
Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square
Click here to purchase tickets and Save the Merchant's House.
Friday, June 7, 7 p.m.
Spring into Summer: The Song Is on the Rose
As summer draws nigh, and roses bloom, the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society revs up with balmy airs in a gala salon of parlor songs that the Tredwells may have heard wafting through the house during their 98-year residency. Music by Johann Strauss II, Brahms, Liszt, Grieg, Tosti Irving Berlin, and others.
75 minutes. FREE (donations welcome). SOLD OUT.
Sunday, June 9, 12:30 p.m.
Upcoming walking tours: June 23; July 14, 28.
Tuesday, June 18, 6 p.m.
The NEW New York: Italians in the Village
Illustrated Presentation by James Nevius
After the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants came to America, most of them making New York City their first stop. While the Lower East Side and Little Italy are well-known for their immigrant history, many may not remember that the area south of Washington Square was one of the most densely populated Italian precincts in the country.
This illustrated presentation will look at how the Village came to be separated into a wealthier area north and west of Washington Square and a more working-class neighborhood to the south and east. We'll look at who paved the way for Italians in the district and talk about the importance of holding on to the Italian places that still exist in the area — RIP Trattoria Spaghetto — so as to preserve this heritage.
James Nevius is a historian focused on issues related to architecture and urbanism. His work appears regularly in Curbed and The New York Post. With his wife, Michelle, he is the co-author of Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers and Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City, which is now in its 11th printing. He's currently researching a new book on America's love affair with utopianism.
FREE. Email nyc1832@merchantshouse.org to register.
NOTE LOCATION: Washington Square Institute, 41 East 11th Street. This event is fully accessible.
Co-sponsored by Village Preservation and the Merchant's House Museum
A "Spirited" Summer Saunter with Boroughs of the Dead
7 p.m, Reception in the Garden; 7:45 p.m., Walking (Ghost) Tour
Join us for an enchanting summer evening in our "secret" 19th century garden, followed by a Greenwich Village ghost tour. Arrive at 7 p.m. for light refreshments in the twilight in the garden, then, when darkness begins to descend, follow your guide into a world of ghosts and chilling tales as we visit some of the historic neighborhood's most notoriously haunted locations. Hear stories of the Merchant's House's own strange and inexplicable occurrences; find out whether Washington Irving's specter still visits town; meet the ghostly acquaintances of John Jacob Astor; discover Henry James's real-life connections to the spirit world; delve into the dark life of Edgar Allan Poe … and more.
Walking tour lasts approximately 75 minutes, and covers 1.2 miles. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
$30 per person, includes admission to the garden and walking tour.
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Upcoming walking tours: July 14, 28.
Friday, June 28, 9 p.m.
Candlelight Tour with Paranormal Investigator Dan Sturges!
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Q: subplots in matplotlib using histogram diff  = [[10,20,30],[40,50,60],[70,80,90]]
comp = ["foo","bar","baz"]
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
for foo in range(0, len(diff)):
        x = [diff[foo]]
        name = comp
        color = ['0.1', '0.2', '0.3']
        label = ['1000000','1200000', '1400000']
        y = zip(*x)
        pos = np.arange(len(x))
        width = 1. / (1 + len(x))

        fig = plt.subplot(3,1,foo)
        for idx, (serie, color,label) in enumerate(zip(y, color,label)):
                ax.bar(pos + idx * width, serie, width, color=color,label=label)
        fig = plt.gcf()
        fig.set_size_inches(28.5,10.5)

        ax.set_xticks(pos + 1.5*width)
        plt.ylabel(name[foo])
        ax.set_xticklabels(comp)
        ax.legend()
        plt.gray()
plt.savefig("file" + '.jpg', bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0.5,dpi=100)
plt.clf()

I want to subplot foo bar and baz. But when I try to do that using the above code. The data is not being displayed on the graph. Any idea why?

A: You are replacing the first fig when you call subplot inside the loop, here is a fixed version. See that ax returned by subplots is a np.ndarray, so you have to give an index ax[foo] to obtain the AxesSubplot object.
diff  = [[10, 20, 30], [40, 50, 60], [70, 80, 90]]
comp = ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(3, 1)
for foo in range(0, len(diff)):
        x = [diff[foo]]
        name = comp
        color = ['0.1', '0.2', '0.3']
        label = ['1000000', '1200000', '1400000']
        y = zip(*x)
        pos = np.arange(len(x))
        width = 1. / (1 + len(x))
        for idx, (serie, color,label) in enumerate(zip(y, color,label)):
                ax[foo].bar(pos + idx * width, serie, width, color=color,label=label)
        fig.set_size_inches(28.5, 10.5)
        ax[foo].set_xticks(pos + 1.5*width)
        plt.ylabel(name[foo])
        ax[foo].set_xticklabels(comp)
        ax[foo].legend()
        plt.gray()
fig.savefig("file" + '.jpg', bbox_inches='tight', pad_inches=0.5, dpi=100)
plt.clf()

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-Hello, I'm Luke Westaway for CNET, here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We're in the Nokia stand taking a look at the Lumia 520. Right now, Nokia promises that this is going to be the most affordable Windows phone that it's made yet. So, what you're looking at here is a real budget smartphone. So, what do you get? Well, there's a 4 inch display which has a 480 x 800 pixel resolution. It's not the brightest, sharpest, clearest screen I've ever seen but for the price, it's maybe not too bad. All right, it's got a 1 GHz dual core processor. Again, not the most powerful processor on paper but as you can see, when I swipe around, everything's moving quite fast. So, it doesn't really feel like there's any lag or stuttering which is definitely good. Around the back, there's a 5 mega pixel camera. There's no front-facing camera, though, unfortunately. So, video calling will be slightly out of the question. This phone costs only a â?¬139.00, which means it's a very cheap way of getting hold of a smartphone. So, I think what Nokia's hoping is, if you're new to the world of smartphones, this could be your first one or that if you're looking for, perhaps, a cheap second phone, even, then you might want to give the Windows phone interface a try. Obviously, when you're spending lots of more cash, you wanna go with something that's better known for having loads and loads of apps. But, when you're not spending very much cash, I think this could be quite a compelling option. So, the design and the hardware aren't so luxurious but the price is definitely attractive. This phone is gonna be on sale by the end of March. I'm Luke Westaway for CNET and this is the Nokia Lumia 520.


Thank you to everyone who made Night on the Farm 2017 a success! — World Hunger Relief, Inc.
Thank you to everyone who made Night on the Farm 2017 a success!
Thank you so much to everyone who made it to Farm Night this year!
We had 100 people come to the farm for great local food and wonderful fellowship.
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On 27 October 1980, IRA members Brendan Hughes, Tommy McKearney, Raymond McCartney, Tom McFeeley, Sean McKenna, Leo Green, and INLA member John Nixon, began a hunger strike aimed at restoring political status for paramilitary prisoners by securing what were known as the "Five Demands".
After a 53-day hunger strike with McKenna lapsing in and out of a coma and on the brink of death, the government appeared to concede the essence of the prisoners' five demands with a thirty page document detailing a proposed settlement. With the document in transit to Belfast, Hughes took the decision to save McKenna's life and end the strike after 53 days on 18 December.
In January 1981 it became clear that the prisoners' demands had not been conceded. On 4 February the prisoners issued a statement saying that the British government had failed to resolve the crisis and declared their intention of "hunger striking once more". The second hunger strike began on 1 March, when Bobby Sands, the IRA's former Officer Commanding (OC) in the prison, refused food. Unlike the first strike, the prisoners joined one at a time and at staggered intervals, which they believed would arouse maximum public support and exert maximum pressure on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Baseball: Courier News Roundup for Friday, May 17
Lauren Knego
Courier News and Home News Tribune
EDITOR'S NOTE: Results will be added as they are reported, so please consider revisiting this page. Thank you for following our scholastic sports coverage.
Union 9, Union Catholic 7: Christopher Tomalavage hit his first career home run for Union Catholic (12-9). Jaden McReynolds doubled and had two RBI. Patrick Hartnett went 3-for-4 with a triple, a double, three RBI and two runs scored. Dylan Donahue, Michael Fox, Richie Gonzales and Alex Gorodensky scored.
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Rutgers Prep 14, Manville 3 (5): Benjamin Cuccolo went 3-for-3 with a double, two RBI and three runs scored as Rutgers Prep (16-6) clinched the Skyland Conference Mountain Division title. Andre Sheflen went 3-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs scored. Jack Sandstedt went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run scored. Ryan Montalvo went 2-for-3 and scored twice. Kyle Johns went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run scored. He also allowed three runs, two earned, on seven hits, walked three and struck out four. Cam Withum scored a run and had two RBI. Oscar Vargas-Pacheco and Austin Johns each had one RBI and scored a run. Bryan Flanagan scored.
For Manville (7-11), Gabriel Van Buren went 2-for-2 with a double and one RBI. John Sharbaugh went 2-for-3 and scored a run. Clete Meyer went 3-for-3 with two RBI. Jake Sanders and Donald Hujber scored.
Franklin 11, South Brunswick 11: Avery Myers went 2-for-3 with three RBI and one run scored for Franklin (7-12-1). Joshua Kuroda-Grauer homered, drove in three runs and scored twice. Gabe Perez went 2-for-4 with two RBI and one run scored. Nick Rosikiewicz scored twice and had one RBI. TJ Rivera scored twice. Danish Nadeem doubled and drove in a run. Taj Muhammad, Dylan Millman and Ryan Hanna scored.
Oratory Prep 6, Rahway 3: Ryan Beenders went 4-for-4 with a double, one RBI and one run scored for Rahway (1-18). Joey Dunaway and Chris Sola each had one RBI. Kyle Costello and David Shepherd scored.
Brearley 3, Bound Brook 2: Brearley scored all three of its runs in the bottom of the sixth to rally for the win. Brandon Quinones and David LePoidevin III scored for Bound Brook (10-9). Patrick LePoidevin, Nick Mandato, Brett Miller, Justin Miller and Anthony Molina singled.
Somerville 14, Bernards 7: Patrick Noone went 2-for-3 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored for Somerville (15-6). Vincent Mele scored a run and had three RBI. Joe Brong went 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, two RBI and two runs scored. Dante Bozzuti had two RBI and scored a run. Joe Ciempola and Joe Tutunjian each scored twice. Devin Hack had one RBI and scored twice. Matt Miceli and Jack Anglim scored.
For Bernards (9-11), Ryan Falduto went 3-for-4 with two doubles, three RBI and one run scored. Andrew Holmes hit a three-run home run. James Kessler and Joey Bilotti doubled and scored a run. Eddie Gambelli, David Iaione and Chris Reyda scored.
Plainfield 21, Linden 9 (6): Toran Smith went 3-for-4 with two doubles, three RBI and four runs scored for Plainfield (12-10). Skyler Frye went 3-for-3 with a double, two RBI and four runs scored. Carlos Acosta went 2-for-3 and scored three runs. Melfry Batista went 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored. Lucas Kidder scored three runs and had two RBI. Tyshan Denny went 2-for-3 with one RBI and two runs scored. Bryan Williams had two RBI. Ryan Pernell had two RBI and scored a run. Andy Cruz and Shane Kidder scored. Eury Infante had one RBI.
Gov. Livingston 5, New Providence 1: Drew Compton and Andy Serretti homered for Governor Livingston (17-4). Ryan Davey allowed one earned run on six hits, walked one and struck out three in 4 2/3 innings. Joey DeFeo allowed three hits, walked three and struck out two in 2 1/3 innings.
For New Providence (8-12), Chris Kubas went 2-for-4 and drove in Anthony Iannacone. Nate Scott doubled. Jack Connor, Thomas Friscia and Dylan Bedder singled.
Scotch Plains-Fanwood 8, High Point 4: Matt Delgado went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and one run scored as Scotch Plains-Fanwood (16-8) has won 14 of its last 16 games. Chris Smith went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run scored. Willy Gale had one RBI and scored a run. Angelo DiNizo, Hayden Widder and Tyler Stines scored.


Akshya Agarwal didn't want to in a corporate office and earn a monthly payroll. She wanted to do something where she could unleash her creativity in a productive way. Soon after her MBA, instead of taking up a job, she plunged into entrepreneurship.
The love for gemstones made her start a business in home decor industry. That's how she founded Acasa Desain, a brand primarily sells gemstone door knobs and pulls, agate slices, gemstone coasters and essential oils.
Akshya crafts her home decor products with superlative creativity and design. Handcrafted with semi-precious gemstones and a blend of wood and brass, Acasa Desain's products transform your home into a aesthetically sounding special place.
She is also into manufacturing eco-friendly, scented candles made from soy and bees wax. What does it take to helm a luxurious home decor business in a price-sensitive market like India? Akshya shares her insights and unfolds her story.
After getting the idea of a corporate culture in my MBA, I quit placements and thought of moving into a business which should be something creative and unique from What Jaipur brands are offering. So, I thought of going –Eco-friendly with Soy and bee wax aroma candles under my brand "ACASA DESAIN" It is 100% natural, Organic, and majorly it doesn't provide any black soot which is harmful for health.
Apart from this, I'm brought up in a jeweler family. So my love for natural gemstones like lapis, rose quarts, Turquoise & Green turquoise being my favorite.. I moved on to a new range of wooden and brass knobs with natural gemstones which people loved specially the target market : interior designers, hotels and premium customers.
It basically emphasis on making your home look beautiful with its handmade designer wooden door knobs, gemstone coasters, and fragrant with its 100% eco-friendly aroma candles and natural essential oils.
Because People are now becoming more knowledgeable these days, they are more concerned for their health and more aware which product to use so, "eco-friendly" is quite trending. And People are willing to spend more for quality instead of quantity.
They always wanted me to start something on my own, So, they were equally excited and supportive about whatever I was doing, Though they are the backbone of me.
We learn from mistakes so, mistakes are there always whenever we do something either in production or finishing the order but its really nice to learn from these small mistakes for future growth.
Currently I'm selling on my own website, and major International platform like Etsy so, My major obstacle is to cover more cities as the motto is to spread it internationally. By doing exhibitions in other cities and more international platforms.
Getting feedback is really important, if it turns out to be negative, improving it and it's positive, taking things to another level by getting new product range.
I am a proactive person and meeting deadlines is one of the great habit I feel I have which literally contributes to the little success.
I would be doing little more research for the brand building before I start my brand again.
I find my inspiration in different places and new people and taking ideas from my father.
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Akshya put her heart and soul into building Acasa Desain. It was indeed a herculean task. But she had a vision. Now Acasa Desain has got a unique spot in India's luxury home decor landscape. She is now on her way to take her brand to the global market. We wish her all the best!


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Cyber Forza, Inc. Announces a Strategic Partnership with Japan Radio Co. Ltd (JRC) to Bring Cognitive & Adaptive AI-Based Secure Communications to Japan and Worldwide Public Safety
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Japan Radio Co., Ltd (JRC) owned and operated by Government of Japan and a leader in Advanced LTE Network in a Box Products and cloud RAN application with integrated security solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Cyber Forza, global provider of AI-driven, prevention-first security solutions. This strategic partnership will enhance JRC Advanced LTE Box Solution and Cloud Communication Solution with the additional benefit of Cyber Forza's AI-driven threat detection to proactively prevent advanced threats, Ransomware, and malware in Advanced 4G/5G network and cloud applications related to Public Safety.
The use of JRC Advanced LTE Box Solution and cloud RAN applications including Cloud Communication Systems of JRC, has become nearly ubiquitous in organizations of all sizes and as a result, threats from Ransomware, Advanced malware and phishing attacks are increasing in scale and complexity. Cyber Forza's CISS Defender adoptive AI-based threat detection adds enhanced protection against advanced threats often missed by traditional security technology. By leveraging the Advanced Communications Network in a Box with integrated Cyber Intelligent Security Software from Cyber Forza Inc., Government and non-Govt. organizations can better protect their Communications Infrastructure. Cloud RAN applications gain greater visibility and control using Cyber Forza CISS Defender.
"Advanced Ransomware threats and malware are continuously evolving to be much more difficult to detect," said Dr. Katsuhiko Sato, General Manager, Global LTE Business Development Group, Business Operation Division – JRC. "With Cyber Forza's powerful AI-based Ransomware and advanced malware detection integrated with JRC LTE Box Solution we can counter these threats. JRC Advanced Solution with cloud RAN-native implementation offers enhanced communications infrastructure cyber security protection. We can offer customers the ability to not only detect but to prevent advanced malware penetration of customer data, cloud assets and their proprietary business information."
"We are excited that JRC has selected Cyber Forza to provide their customers with our Cognitive & Adaptive AI-based prevention technology," said Dr. Venkat Rayapati, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cyber Forza. "Our Adaptive AI-based security technology, coupled with our prevention-first approach to cybersecurity, has permanently reinvented how businesses address network infrastructure end to end security today."
About Japan Radio Co., Ltd
Japan Radio Co., Ltd. (JRC) is a Japanese company specializing in the field of wireless electronics for the communications industry. JRC manufactures and sells radio communications equipment worldwide. The company offers remote maintenance systems, such as voyage data recorders; marine satellite communication devices; multifunction display radars; scanning sonar for small vessels; and VHF radiotelephone devices.
It also provides meteorological radars, x-band compact meteorological radars, dam management systems, discharge alarm systems, telemetry systems, landslide and disaster monitoring systems; wireless LAN systems, wireless IP network products, conferencing support systems, digital broadcast wireless systems, digital land mobile radio, and PHs terminals. In addition, the company offers digital TV relay transmitters, TTL devices for TS transmission, medium-wave broadcasting products, and satellite communication systems; maritime security systems, driving simulators, RC radars, and land mobile radio; and tunnel radio rebroadcasting systems, road information management systems, railway safety systems, and devices for motorcycles.
The company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. JRC is a subsidiary of Nisshinbo Holdings Inc.
For more information, visit www.jrclte.com.
About Cyber Forza Inc.
Cyber Forza is the first company to apply Cognitive & Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and innovative methods to cybersecurity to prevent from the most advanced security threats in the world. Built on a breakthrough, Cyber Intelligent Security Software using Cognitive & Adaptive AI Platform serves as a foundation for External, Internal, and End Point Protection.
The company's advanced products, CISS Defender, CISS Interceptor, and CISS Forza Client Protects, quickly and accurately identifies what is benign and what is a threat and prevents Ransomware and advanced malicious code from ever executing on a targeted system by coupling advanced adaptive artificial intelligence with a unique understanding of an attacker's behavior.
Cyber Forza provides technology and services that are truly predictive and preventive against the most advanced global threats.
For more information, visit www.cyberforza.com.
Eron Heard – CRO
Cyber Forza
eheard@cyberforza.com
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5/12 Somerville Gardens, Parap NT 0820 was last sold in 2013 and 14 other 2 bedroom unit in Parap have recently been sold.
In this building, the most recent rental of another unit with 2 beds, 2 baths, 2 parking spaces was unit 3, which leased over 1 year ago.


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Home Country Focus Zimbabwe President Calls for Lifting of Sanctions at UN
Zimbabwe President Calls for Lifting of Sanctions at UN
Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa used the platform of the United Nations to deliver a clarion call for the removal of historical sanctions against his country. Speaking at the General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, he said the sanctions imposed against former president Robert Mugabe in 2003 by the United States and EU were now counter-productive, hurting Mnangagwa's reform efforts to turn Zimbabwe around after decades of isolation and mismanagement. Mugabe died earlier this month.
"These sanctions constitute a denial of the human rights of the people of Zimbabwe, to develop and improve their quality of life. Furthermore, the sanctions are slowing down our progress, inhibiting our economic recovery, and punishing the poorest and most vulnerable," President Mnangagwa told UN delegates.
The government's tight fiscal austerity has already resulted in balanced books, sustained primary budget surpluses, and a degree of fiscal discipline unseen in Zimbabwe for decades. The country is meeting the fiscal and monetary targets agreed with the International Monetary Fund, despite reeling from drought and Cyclone Idai in March that have left 5.5 million people in need of food aid. And it expects to reduce the budget deficit from 12% of GDP to 5% in 2019.
President Mnangagwa pointed out: "The task facing us is great, the road is long, winding and at times bumpy. But so is our potential and determination to succeed… Zimbabwe deserves a restart."
The government has begun to crack down on corruption, initiated the process of compensating white commercial farmers who lost their land during Mugabe's Land Reform Programme. It is also modernising 30 Mugabe-era laws to meet Western standards, replacing controversial emergency and media laws with new legislations that are currently in Parliament.
The progress made by Zimbabwe was acknowledged by Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland, who met President Mnangagwa on Monday.
"I think there are a number of areas where Zimbabwe has made real reforms. No one is perfect and it is a journey," Baroness Scotland said, noting that the process of re-admitting Zimbabwe back into the Commonwealth was being "accelerated as quickly as possible".
President Mnangagwa agreed, calling on all UN members: "Zimbabwe is reforming and undertaking a shared journey towards a better and more secure future… I urge the world to be patient with us, to support us and join us on this new and exciting journey."
The Southern African Development Community has expressed solidarity with Zimbabwe, calling for an end to the crippling sanctions. The group of 16 nations announced in August that the Mugabe-era sanctions were no longer acceptable, hurting the growth of the new republic, and hampering the development of the entire region.
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class DWordDevice;

class OrdCommand : public Command
{
public:
    OrdCommand(std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> leftDevice, std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> rightDevice, std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> destinationDevice) :
        Command(),
        mLeftDevice(leftDevice),
        mRightDevice(rightDevice),
        mDestinationDevice(destinationDevice)
    {}

    virtual ~OrdCommand() {}

    virtual void execute(CommandExecutionContext& context) override;
    virtual std::string print() override;

protected:

private:

    std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> mLeftDevice;
    std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> mRightDevice;
    std::shared_ptr<DWordDevice> mDestinationDevice;
};

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Q: Hibernate order-by removing rows I have a one-to-Many Set defined in my mapping file, and when I use the order-by property the data in the Set will be missing rows depending on what property I use to order.
<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="domain.StudentUser" table="student_user" >

....

    <set name="studentCourseses" inverse="true" order-by="import_date ASC">
        <key>
            <column name="student_userid" length="15" not-null="true" />
        </key>
        <one-to-many class="domain.StudentCourses" />
    </set>
</hibernate-mapping>

public StudentUser findById(java.lang.String id) {
    log.debug("getting StudentUser instance with id: " + id);
    try {
        StudentUser instance = (StudentUser) getSession().get(
                "domain.StudentUser", id);
        return instance;
    } catch (RuntimeException re) {
        log.error("get failed", re);
        throw re;
    }
}

Here i use import_date, but this table has about 15 properties and certain properties will cause rows to be missing from the Set while others don't.  It doesn't seem to be data-type specific as I have the issue with a String property but then another String property will work fine and all data will be there.  It is always the same rows that are missing no matter the sorting property used, so its not random rows.
The majority of the student_user have data missing, but not all.  The rows that end up missing have nothing abnormal about them, meaning no NULL's or anything like that.
As of this point, i just removed the order-by attribute so I can get my app working property, but I still need to know why these issues are happening.  So far I have not noticed this behavior in any of the other Set's that i use the order-by attribute with, just this one.
I am using Hibernate 3.5.3 and in case it's helpful, here is the mapping file for the StudentCourses table
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="domain.StudentCourses" table="student_courses" >
    <id name="id" type="integer">
        <column name="id" />
        <generator class="native" />
    </id>
    <many-to-one name="classLevel" class="domain.ClassLevel" fetch="select">
        <column name="class_level_code" length="2" not-null="true" />
    </many-to-one>
    <many-to-one name="academicTerm" class="domain.AcademicTerm" fetch="select">
        <column name="academic_term_id" not-null="true" />
    </many-to-one>
    <many-to-one name="studentUser" class="domain.StudentUser" fetch="select">
        <column name="student_userid" length="15" not-null="true" />
    </many-to-one>
    <property name="academicYear" type="integer">
        <column name="academic_year" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="term" type="string">
        <column name="term" length="8" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="title" type="string">
        <column name="title" length="64" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="prefix" type="string">
        <column name="prefix" length="8" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="courseNum" type="string">
        <column name="course_num" length="8" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="suffix" type="string">
        <column name="suffix" length="8" />
    </property>
    <property name="sectionNum" type="string">
        <column name="section_num" length="8" />
    </property>
    <property name="units" type="double">
        <column name="units" precision="4" not-null="true" unique="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="letterGrade" type="string">
        <column name="letter_grade" length="6" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="qtrGpa" type="double">
        <column name="qtr_gpa" precision="4" scale="3" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="cumGpa" type="double">
        <column name="cum_gpa" precision="4" scale="3" not-null="true" />
    </property>
    <property name="importDate" type="timestamp">
        <column name="import_date" length="19" />
    </property>
    <property name="sourceFileName" type="string">
        <column name="source_file_name" length="128" />
    </property>
    <property name="timeStamp" type="timestamp">
        <column name="time_stamp" length="19" not-null="true">
            <comment>on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</comment>
        </column>
    </property>
</class>

Update (More Info):
If i directly query the StudentCourses table (CORRECT) vs getting the StudentCourses data from the StudentUser mapping set (INCORRECT) gives me different results, they should match
for(StudentCourses course : getStudentService().retrieveStudentByID("861043440").getStudentCourseses()) {  //MISSING DATA
        System.out.println(course +" - "+course.getTerm());
    }

    for(StudentCourses course : (List<StudentCourses>)getStudentService().getStudentCoursesDAO().findByProperty("studentUser.studentUserid", "861043440")) {  //ALL DATA CORRECT
        System.out.println(course +" - "+course.getTerm());
    }

A: Turns out it had nothing to do with sorting, as adjusting the sorting only fixed the issue for some but not all.  The problem was that I had overriden the hashCode method of the StudentCourses object and it was causing collisions when the Set was being populated from the StudentUser object.  I fixed this and everything is good now.


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