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class SBSubscription(Resource):
    """Description of subscription resource.

    Variables are only populated by the server, and will be ignored when
    sending a request.

    :ivar id: Resource Id
    :vartype id: str
    :ivar name: Resource name
    :vartype name: str
    :ivar type: Resource type
    :vartype type: str
    :ivar message_count: Number of messages.
    :vartype message_count: long
    :ivar created_at: Exact time the message was created.
    :vartype created_at: datetime
    :ivar accessed_at: Last time there was a receive request to this
     subscription.
    :vartype accessed_at: datetime
    :ivar updated_at: The exact time the message was updated.
    :vartype updated_at: datetime
    :ivar count_details: Message count details
    :vartype count_details: :class:`MessageCountDetails
     <azure.mgmt.servicebus.models.MessageCountDetails>`
    :param lock_duration: ISO 8061 lock duration timespan for the
     subscription. The default value is 1 minute.
    :type lock_duration: timedelta
    :param requires_session: Value indicating if a subscription supports the
     concept of sessions.
    :type requires_session: bool
    :param default_message_time_to_live: ISO 8061 Default message timespan to
     live value. This is the duration after which the message expires, starting
     from when the message is sent to Service Bus. This is the default value
     used when TimeToLive is not set on a message itself.
    :type default_message_time_to_live: timedelta
    :param dead_lettering_on_message_expiration: Value that indicates whether
     a subscription has dead letter support when a message expires.
    :type dead_lettering_on_message_expiration: bool
    :param duplicate_detection_history_time_window: ISO 8601 timeSpan
     structure that defines the duration of the duplicate detection history.
     The default value is 10 minutes.
    :type duplicate_detection_history_time_window: timedelta
    :param max_delivery_count: Number of maximum deliveries.
    :type max_delivery_count: int
    :param status: Enumerates the possible values for the status of a
     messaging entity. Possible values include: 'Active', 'Disabled',
     'Restoring', 'SendDisabled', 'ReceiveDisabled', 'Creating', 'Deleting',
     'Renaming', 'Unknown'
    :type status: str or :class:`EntityStatus
     <azure.mgmt.servicebus.models.EntityStatus>`
    :param enable_batched_operations: Value that indicates whether server-side
     batched operations are enabled.
    :type enable_batched_operations: bool
    :param auto_delete_on_idle: ISO 8061 timeSpan idle interval after which
     the topic is automatically deleted. The minimum duration is 5 minutes.
    :type auto_delete_on_idle: timedelta
    """

    _validation = {
        'id': {'readonly': True},
        'name': {'readonly': True},
        'type': {'readonly': True},
        'message_count': {'readonly': True},
        'created_at': {'readonly': True},
        'accessed_at': {'readonly': True},
        'updated_at': {'readonly': True},
        'count_details': {'readonly': True},
    }

    _attribute_map = {
        'id': {'key': 'id', 'type': 'str'},
        'name': {'key': 'name', 'type': 'str'},
        'type': {'key': 'type', 'type': 'str'},
        'message_count': {'key': 'properties.messageCount', 'type': 'long'},
        'created_at': {'key': 'properties.createdAt', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'accessed_at': {'key': 'properties.accessedAt', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'updated_at': {'key': 'properties.updatedAt', 'type': 'iso-8601'},
        'count_details': {'key': 'properties.countDetails', 'type': 'MessageCountDetails'},
        'lock_duration': {'key': 'properties.lockDuration', 'type': 'duration'},
        'requires_session': {'key': 'properties.requiresSession', 'type': 'bool'},
        'default_message_time_to_live': {'key': 'properties.defaultMessageTimeToLive', 'type': 'duration'},
        'dead_lettering_on_message_expiration': {'key': 'properties.deadLetteringOnMessageExpiration', 'type': 'bool'},
        'duplicate_detection_history_time_window': {'key': 'properties.duplicateDetectionHistoryTimeWindow', 'type': 'duration'},
        'max_delivery_count': {'key': 'properties.maxDeliveryCount', 'type': 'int'},
        'status': {'key': 'properties.status', 'type': 'EntityStatus'},
        'enable_batched_operations': {'key': 'properties.enableBatchedOperations', 'type': 'bool'},
        'auto_delete_on_idle': {'key': 'properties.autoDeleteOnIdle', 'type': 'duration'},
    }

    def __init__(self, lock_duration=None, requires_session=None, default_message_time_to_live=None, dead_lettering_on_message_expiration=None, duplicate_detection_history_time_window=None, max_delivery_count=None, status=None, enable_batched_operations=None, auto_delete_on_idle=None):
        super(SBSubscription, self).__init__()
        self.message_count = None
        self.created_at = None
        self.accessed_at = None
        self.updated_at = None
        self.count_details = None
        self.lock_duration = lock_duration
        self.requires_session = requires_session
        self.default_message_time_to_live = default_message_time_to_live
        self.dead_lettering_on_message_expiration = dead_lettering_on_message_expiration
        self.duplicate_detection_history_time_window = duplicate_detection_history_time_window
        self.max_delivery_count = max_delivery_count
        self.status = status
        self.enable_batched_operations = enable_batched_operations
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Mingling estate pieces with modern gems by contemporary masters, our collection is united by a similar ethos of craftsmanship. Whether vintage or new, the rings, brooches, earrings, and necklaces that call to us are those that whisper rather than shout. For example, old diamonds are faceted differently than those of today, and imbued with the softness and captivating quality of an old silvered mirror. We are drawn to stones that seduce with unusual cuts and luscious clarity rather than bulk or bombast.
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Her Day in the Sun
Posted by: A. Kori Hill on January 05, 2022
In July 1936 composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue Florence B. Price was once again the focus of a profile in the Chicago Defender. Since 1918 her affiliations and accomplishments had garnered the publication's attention, attention that increased with her professional achievements in Chicago, earning her the moniker "Dean of Negro Composers of the Middle West." The profile featured standard biographical information, career details, and Price's response to the question, had "her current success brought great satisfaction?":
"I feel deeply thankful for progress but satisfaction—no, not satisfaction. I am never quite satisfied with what I write. I don't think creators ever are quite satisfied with their work. You see there is always an ideal toward which we strive, and ideals, as you know, are elusive. Being of spiritual essence they escape our human hands, but lead us on, and I trust, upward, in a search that ends, I believe, only at the feet of God, the One Creator, and source of all inspiration."
Price's statement reflects her pragmaticism, gentle self-criticism, and modest aspiration on her creative process and the push and pull of developing musical ideas. Hers was a conscientious practice of close study and subtle innovation in a style that incorporated African-American folk idioms in Western classical forms. Price's aesthetic ties her to the syncretic roots of American composition and her career made her a central figure in the classical arena of the Black Chicago Renaissance. By her untimely death in 1953, Price had composed 300+ works, some of which had been championed by figures such as Marian Anderson, published by G. Schirmer, and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. These moments of mainstream acclaim did not also translate into consistent support, programmatically or financially. Price was likely not satisfied with her professional accomplishments in the mainstream, constantly navigating the racist, sexist, and altogether exclusive networks of classical music performance. But what she did accomplish was no small feat or lesser in impact: defining a major period of American and Black-American composition; inspiring and mentoring others; and inclusion in the Black classical music canon alongside her colleagues and contemporaries William Grant Still, Harry T. Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Margaret Bonds.
Florence B. Price was born Florence Beatrice Smith in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1887. The youngest child of Dr. James Smith, a dentist (and writer, historian, and painter) and Florence Irene Gulliver, a music educator (and real estate proprietor), Price came of age in the twilight of Reconstruction and in the early stages of discrimination and disenfranchisement under Jim Crow. Little Rock was an ideal city for middle-and-upper class Black Americans during this period, but segregation was still a reality. Price graduated from the all-Black high school and studied at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) from 1903 to 1906. NEC was not only one of the few music conservatories that admitted Black students, it was also located amidst the highest pedigreed classical music figures, ensembles, and networks of the early-20th-century United States.
Florence Price (second row, third from right) in her New England Conservatory class photo from 1906. Photo: New England Conservatory Archive
While pursuing a degree in organ performance and a diploma in piano pedagogy, Price also studied composition with NEC founder and director George Whitefield Chadwick and counterpoint with Frederick Converse. Following graduation, she worked as a faculty member at Arkadelphia Academy and Shorter College in Arkansas until 1910, when she relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to serve as dean of Clark University at Atlanta's music department until 1912. That year, she married civil rights attorney Thomas J. Price and moved home to Little Rock. There she had three children, raised two daughters—Florence and Edith—after losing her son, and searched for a stable and supportive musical community.
By 1920 she was a registered member of the newly established National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM). She founded the Little Rock Club of Musicians several years later, likely around the time her application to the Arkansas Music Teachers Association was denied because of her race. As Jim Crow laws became more entrenched, racial violence and terrorism followed. Following the lynching of a middle-class Black man, Price's eldest daughter, Florence, became the target of a White mob. Price took her daughters and fled to Chicago in 1927, joined soon by her husband. The swift relocation proved to save the life of her daughter, aided Price's extraction from an abusive marriage in 1931, and re-invigorated her career aspirations.
Joining two of NANM's Chicago branches, Price became a core part of Black Chicago's classical music network, and in 1932 she submitted her Symphony in E minor (1931) to the NANM co-sponsored Wanamaker Competition. It won first prize in the symphonic category. The Symphony in E minor was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933 on the Century of Progress program at the World's Fair. In June 1934 Price premiered her Piano Concerto in One Movement as soloist with the Chicago Musical College's orchestra. In August she participated in two more performances of the work: one in Pittsburgh as the soloist and Margaret Bonds on the piano reduction, and another as conductor on the "O Sing a New Song" concert series, another Chicago World's Fair event celebrating Black music history and culture. The work was performed with Bonds as soloist and the Woman's Symphony of Chicago in October.
The first page of the manuscript score of Florence Price's arrangement of the spiritual "My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord."
One of her most popular art songs, "Song to the Dark Virgin," was published in 1941 by G. Schirmer, thanks in no small part to the championing work of Price's colleague and collaborator Marian Anderson. Anderson also recorded and performed Price's arrangement of the spiritual "My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord," selecting the work to close her legendary Lincoln Memorial concert in 1939. In addition to her classical works, Price composed popular songs under the pen name "VeeJay." She also expanded her network, joining the Musicians Club of Chicago and the Chicago Club of Women Organists, becoming the first Black member of each music club.
In 1940 the Detroit Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony No. 3 in C minor. Like her First Symphony, Price drew upon African-American folk idioms and expanded her stylistic pallet to include jazz progressions, tango rhythms and instrumentation, and more adventurous orchestration. Her use of juba dance—an enslavement era music-dance form of African origin—for the third movements of her symphonies, quartets, and quintets, reflects an engagement with standard practice for a modern purpose: formalizing an African-American concert tradition.
The early 1950s saw Price composing as much, if not more, than she had in previous decades. She was determined to reinvigorate her critical success of the 1930s. In 1951 she had planned a trip to England to hear the premiere of her concert overture commissioned by the Hallé Orchestra, but a health scare postponed the trip. By 1953 the trip had expanded to a multi-city adventure with stops in France and England, until Price checked into a hospital and 10 days later passed away.
The Philadelphia Orchestra's recording of Price's First and Third symphonies was nominated for a GRAMMY Award. Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Just as Florence Price was less than satisfied with the progress of her professional career, it is not hard to be less than satisfied that she did not have more time. But with the time she did have, she contributed to nearly every classical genre besides opera and composed and helped define one of the most exuberant periods of American composition and Black culture. She remains a major musical figure in music departments of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and is once again getting her just due from the classical music mainstream.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra are playing a leading role in this mainstream resurgence through programming and recording Price's symphonic repertoire. They join Marian Anderson, Price scholar Rae Linda Brown, Black classical artists, HBCU music teachers and students, and many others in the essential mission to keep Price's music on the stage for decades to come.
A. Kori Hill is a Cincinnati-based music historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focus spans Florence Price, Black composer networks, and 20th-century Black modernist culture.
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Den Bosch will meet Telstar at their De Vliert in 's-Hertogenbosch to play the game of the 30-th round of the Dutch Eerste Divisie.
Den Bosch sit on the fourth place in the standings with 52 points after 29 games. The Blue and White Dragons had their wonderful winning streak of eight matches. They won even over the current leader FC Twente. Actually the hosts demonstrate an unstable performance with a win over Helmond Sport 3:0, draw against Jong Ajax 2:2 and loss to NEC 0:5. Totally, their statistics include 15 wins, seven draws and the same number of defeats.
Nowadays Telstar are playing exceptionally with under 2,5. Recently the White Lions beat Jong Utrecht, Dordrecht and Jong AZ with the same score 1:0. Earlier they lost to Top Oss and Jong Ajax, 0:1 and 0:2, correspondingly. Totally, the guests earned 34 points after 29 matches. They are sixteenth in the league of 20 clubs with ten wins, four draws and 15 losses, 28 goals for and 44 goals against.
Telstar have one of the weakest defensive line in the league. We expect both sides will not exceed over 3,5.


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PETER LUCAS: Democrats need a 'name' changer in governor's race
By Peter Lucas
Yo, Maura Healey, your party is calling. They want you to run for governor. Please respond.
Otherwise Charlie Baker, the RINO incumbent, is going to get what amounts to a free ride, because right now, barring a climate change apocalypse, there is no Democrat currently running for governor who can beat him.
And the only Democrat who did beat Baker -- former Gov. Deval Patrick, in 2010 -- did not even attend the Democrat Party's issues convention at the DCU Center in Worcester a week ago.
So it might be time for Healey to ask not what the party can do for her, but what she can do for the party.
On convention day, Patrick was a no-show. Instead of making an appearance, the former two-term governor attended a convention of his own, this one of beekeepers in Greenfield.
Yes, beekeepers. It seems that Patrick, who was once known for raising taxes, is now raising bees at his home in Richmond.
It is a shame the apiarist Patrick did not attend because no one could turn on a crowd the way he could. He may not have been the best of governors, but he certainly was the best campaigner.
Also, a Worcester appearance by Patrick would have set the convention abuzz, so to speak, and given Jay Gonzalez a boost. Gonzalez, one of three candidates running for the Democrat nomination, served as Patrick's secretary of administration for four years. He is now running as Patrick-lite.
The other two Democrats running are Setti Warren, the mayor of Newton, and Robert Massie, who ran for lieutenant governor in 1994.
Although it was an issues convention, and not a nominating one (that comes next year), it still was an opportunity for candidates to set the DCU convention hall on fire, the way Patrick used to do.
But nobody succeeded in doing that, and maybe nobody can. Patrick is a tough act to follow.
The way the 2018 election is shaping up is reminiscent of what happened in 1994 when popular Republican Gov. Bill Weld ran for a second term. Baker, just as popular as Weld was -- if not even more so -- is Weld reincarnated.
Baker has raised an enormous amount of campaign cash, which is a necessity for a Republican running in a Democrat state. He has also put together a sold campaign team. He has the power of incumbency and the patronage that goes along with it.
Like today, there were then three relatively unknown Democrats fighting it out for the gubernatorial nomination against Weld.
They were George Bachrach, a former state senator; state Sen. Michael Barrett, who is now back in the Senate; and state Rep. Mark Roosevelt.
Roosevelt, who had the famous name, if not the cache that went with it, won the Democrat primary but was easily beaten by Weld. Now none of the three Democrats running even have the name.
Hopeful Democrats believe that the 2018 re-election campaign of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren will have a coattail effect and benefit the Democrat gubernatorial candidate.
But coattails do not often work out. In 1994, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy was on the ballot, but that did not generate any support for Mark Roosevelt. While Kennedy beat Republican challenger Mitt Romney by 58 percent to 41 percent, Weld got 70 percent of the vote to Roosevelt's 28 percent.
Weld's margin of victory was the largest in Massachusetts history.
Charlie Baker is no Bill Weld. But he is the closest thing around. Like Weld, Baker also appeals to a lot of Democrat voters, not to mention the independent voters who put him over the top four years ago when he ran against then Attorney General Martha Coakley.
Which brings up Maura Healey, the lady in waiting.
Healey's appearance at the convention was enthusiastic and well-coordinated. She is clearly a party favorite. She needs no coattails.
While she insists she is running for re-election, with no Republican opponent even in sight, it is clear by the reception she got that she would be the front runner if she decides to run for the Democrat nomination for governor.
Any one of the three Democrats now running would fit in nicely as her lieutenant governor running mate.
She can raise money and is a terrific campaigner. She not only would be the first woman governor in Massachusetts, she would be the first openly gay governor.
And she hates Donald Trump. So, what's not to like?
Yo, Maura, your party is calling.
luke1825@aol.com


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About CVO / News / College Council maintains position on medically unnecessary veterinary surgery
College Council maintains position on medically unnecessary veterinary surgery
The Council of the College of Veterinarians of Ontario (College) does not support unnecessary surgery on any animal. This position was re-confirmed in a discussion on medically unnecessary veterinary surgery at its fall Council meeting.
"Our Council understands that animal owners and veterinarians have strong feelings on this topic. Our role is to manage the risks in veterinary practice and consider the best options for animal health and welfare," said Dr. Patty Lechten, President of the College of Veterinarians of Ontario.
Medically unnecessary veterinary surgeries include procedures performed on companion animals and livestock, such as declawing, tail docking, ear cropping, tail nicking. The College Council has held a position on this topic since 2011.
"Council is clear and consistent in its position that these surgeries are unnecessary. However, if a client decides, after consultation with a veterinarian, to move forward with the procedure on their animal, it is in the animal's best interest that the procedure is performed by a licensed veterinarian," said Dr. Lechten. "We, as veterinarians, have the skills and knowledge to help our clients make these decisions about their animals. Council respects the professionalism that veterinarians bring to their relationships with clients and their commitment to animal welfare."
Prohibiting veterinarians from performing a procedure that is currently legal in Ontario has the potential to create a harmful environment for animals.
"As a regulatory body, the College can permit or prohibit veterinarians from performing specific procedures, however, that is not a common use of regulatory authority. Further, prohibiting veterinarians from performing a surgical procedure does not make medically unnecessary veterinary surgery illegal. Prohibiting unnecessary procedures on animals would require changes in animal welfare legislation. To ban veterinarians from performing a procedure may not effectively eliminate the procedure but rather move it to an "underground" environment where the risks to the animal likely increases exponentially," said Jan Robinson, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer at the College.
The College's job as the veterinary regulator is to understand current and emerging risks in veterinary practice and implement strategies to protect the public and their animals from potential harm. The public trusts the College to ensure safety and quality in the veterinary services they seek. As a regulated profession, the College's governing Council is comprised of 13 elected veterinarians and five public members, appointed by the provincial government. Supporting the work of Council are five Statutory and two Standing Committees, with membership composed of veterinarians and public members.


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Photo : Dr. RamachandraRao, Dr. Navendu V. Page and Ms. Mansa Srivastav.
In the coastal parts of Karnataka, we now have a new species of Mopane paddle pod plant, which was left unnoticed all these years. A woody climber with looping branchlets and tiny green flowers, the Mopane paddle pod plant is found in parts of Africa and south-east Asia. The newly discovered species, fit to be classified as critically endangered, is endemic to the coastal regions of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka and is not found anywhere else on the planet. This species was discovered by the collective efforts of a team of researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, - Dr. Navendu Page, Dr. G. Ramachandra Rao and Ms. Mansa Srivastav.
Reissantia sessiliflora is known to be found only in the sea facing lateritic scrubs of Uttara Kannada district with an estimated extent of occurrence to be less than 100 sq km. Being a rare plant species, it has a slightly erratic flowering and fruiting season which makes it harder to discover.
When asked about how this species was discovered, Dr. Rao narrated an interesting tale behind its discovery. "I and Navendu had collected the plant from Honnavar and Bhatkal areas respectively. At the first look, the plant looked very similar to R. indica. However, due to its sessile flowers, leathery leaves, coiled nature of branchlets, and entire leaf margin, we had reservations about it being R. indica. These features stood out when compared to R.indica, and we could arrive at the uniqueness of this species. The flowers are small, beautiful, greenish-yellow or rust coloured and the fruits are probably the biggest in the genera", he says.
Ecologically, this new species plays an active role by hosting the larvae of many butterflies, moths and other insects. The plant, belonging to the family Celastaceae, is known to be used widely in Indian folk medicine for the treatment of respiratory troubles and injuries.
While the complete list of possible medicinal and ecological values of this plant can be revealed with further research, most of the areas where this plant has been found are already been destroyed by human disturbances, which has forced the categorisation of this species as critically endangered.
"We have been able to locate only a few populations of Reissantia sessiliflora, growing sparsely in coastal sea facing-lateritic scrub and nearby fringes of semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forest. Many of these areas are now in their last phases of death due to heavy human disturbances and if immediate steps are not taken to protect and restore these last remaining patches, we have little chances in protecting it", explains Dr. Rao voicing his concerns.
The researchers also suggest a way to protect this species and others that may be lurking in the forests of this region. "These are one of the few species that is peculiar and endemic to these highly fragmented and scattered coastal vegetation patches. These coastal habitats and forests are not part of the existing protected area network and are under tremendous pressure from anthropogenic activities. Hence many of these areas have to be immediately brought under community reserve and sufficient awareness given to local public about the threatened nature of this plant", recommends Dr. Rao.
On the brighter side, this plant is a climber with attractive flowers and fruits, making it a good candidate for ornamental plants in households. So how can the public help in its conservation? "People should take pride in this fact and try to ensure that any development activity does not jeopardize the survival of their unique neighbours. Local public can collect its seeds/saplings and plant this species in their homes or gardens. By doing so, they may very well save a new species from extinction in the absence of any current protection efforts by the government. Local schools can also carry out plantation drives of these rare plants so that they get new homes and hence better chances of survival. Such plants also make up for great gifts", signs off Dr. Rao.


Some 100 firefighters protested in Leicester last Saturday against cuts.
Bosses at Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service want to sack a third of staff, close two stations and replace some fire engines with smaller vehicles.
Tim Roache has been elected as general secretary of the GMB, the third largest trade union in Britain.
Roache, the GMB Yorkshire and North Derbyshire regional secretary, won with 15,034 votes. His challenger Paul McCarthy, head of the North West and Irish region, garnered 11,454.
Dozens of water workers joined a protest outside Northumbrian Water's headquarters in Durham last Saturday.
The GMB and Unite union members are fighting plans slash their pensions. They have been taking action short of strike since 20 October.
Will bus stoppage get drivers a break?
Over 200 Arriva bus drivers in Medway, Kent, have begun a ballot for industrial action over the introduction of new timetables.
Their union Unite warns the changes mean unrealistic running times on routes.
Drivers are also being kept at the wheel for five and a half hours with as little as four minutes "recovery" time.
The ballot closes on Wednesday 25 November.
A 48-hour strike by train drivers at Arriva Wales last week was suspended following "important progress in last minute talks" the drivers' RMT rail union said.
The dispute is around pay and safe working conditions.
Around 30 teachers met last Wednesday to launch a London teachers housing campaign.
NUT union deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney introduced the NUT's survey of young London teachers. Only 3 percent said they could afford a home, and 20 percent lived with parents.
Other speakers included Eileen Short from Defend Council Housing.


As a design team member for Retro Cafe Art Gallery, I get to do a post once a month using some of their fabulous designs. I have long admired the beautiful crowns made by other team members, but I never tried my hand at making one of my own. When I tried to come up with a design, I began dreaming and quickly fell down the rabbit hole... then this happened. This would make a darling cake topper, party favors or table decoration for a Mad Hatter Tea Party.
The crown itself starts with a chipboard piece that hooks together with a brad (you can also glue it, I do both), then you begin painting.
This was my first attempt with Patina Paste and it is ridiculous how easy it is to use to achieve so many beautiful effects.
The first thing I did was to smooth and attach the crown together with glue and the brad. Then I used the Blue paste patina covering the crown back and front. Once dry, I added another layer using the Brass patina paste. While that was drying, I added two strips of Dresden Foil trim around the bottom of the crown and then glued on some jewel embellishments.
Next I took the Alice in Wonderland Chipboard cut outs and painted them with acrylic Metallic paint on the back and the front I just painted the edges.
Once dry, I glued the Alice in Wonderland paper cuts to the matching chipboard pieces. Then I took some of the Brass patina paste and went around the edges of each figure to give it the appearance of brass.
The little figures are so adorable, (insert tip here...you can also get the stands for them so they stand alone). The next step was to decide which ones I wanted to use and where to place them on the crown. I made the choice to glue them from the inside so they didn't cover up any of the crown's design. I like to use the clear adhesive (E6000) for attaching pieces like this, it dries quickly and is strong.
Falling down the rabbit hole while dreaming is not all that bad.. Thank you for visiting today.
I'm so glad you fell down the rabbit hole! Your crown is exquisite! What an awesome combination!
This is awesome! I do not remember right now the name of the blog, but every year around Aug. Sept. She hosts a huge mad tea party blog hop. This would be great on your table!
Thanks Sue! I would love to see that blog hop! Let me know if you come across it again!
Fantastic, Kim! I love everything about it - you ROCK!
You are so amazing! Thank you for your sweet compliment!!


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Lou Hays: winner of DogTime's Unsung Hero award
By Leslie Smith
At 65, Lou Hays has earned the right to finally take it easy. Instead, he works 40 hours a week in an environment that can be both physically and emotionally draining — and takes home no paycheck.
Hays is a volunteer for the Humane Society of Cherokee County (HSCC) in Oklahoma, a community about 70 miles from Tulsa. When he and his wife — and two dogs — moved there 14 years ago from Dallas, no official animal shelter existed. A year later however, his house was home to nine dogs, and Hays was part of the team working to establish a local rescue facility.
By 2004, their goal was realized, and the group broke ground on a piece of land in Tahlequah, OK. The shelter, which has never received government funding of any kind, had its work cut out for it. Fortunately, Hays was just getting started. There were grant applications to write, medications to administer, hoarding case victims needing extra care and comfort. Hays proved proficient — and passionately dedicated — in each arena.
By all accounts, Cherokee County is not a wealthy area. It is a constant effort, according to Hays, to find space — even temporary — for the strays, surrendered, and lost animals that find their way to the shelter. Until HSCC came along to establish a spay/neuter campaign, the numbers of homeless dogs and cats grew at staggering rates. Overpopulation is still a big issue.
Hays had an idea: transfer the many deserving companion animals in the county to nearby regions that could accommodate the surplus. In 2007, he reached out to low-volume shelters in Colorado and Illinois, offering to bring them healthy but needy dogs and puppies. They agreed, and Hays has been single-handedly coordinating the program — and driving animals to their new beginning — regularly ever since.
It's no easy task, but the long hauls are the least of the challenge. The paperwork and logistics are much more complicated than the driving, Hays says. Still, he ensures the opportunity for adoption for 30 to 35 dogs each month. He transports them himself to the receiving shelters — some, hundreds of miles away. It's what he does; it's who he is.
In October, DogTime Media named Lou Hays its Unsung Hero of the year as part of its Petties celebration. Well over 1,300 nominations were submitted from around the country, but Hays was chosen to receive the honor, which includes a $10,000 donation to the shelter of his choice. Naturally, he picked HSCC as the beneficiary.
True to his heroic spirit, Hays accepted his award with humility and genuine surprise. "I was returning from a dog transport to Chicago when I got the news, and I nearly ran my transport van off the road!" he told us.
Here at DogTime, we had the privilege of communicating with Hays frequently in the days following the announcement of his selection as Unsung Hero. In each phone call and in every email, Hays was effusive. Thank you, he said, more times than could be counted.
No, Lou Hays, thank you.
Lou Hays, winner of the Unsung Hero award.


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The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism
A True Psychology of African American Students
by Kevin O. Cokley
More than five million African Americans now hold college degrees.
Topics Psychology/General
Hardcover: £32.00/35,00€/A$53.00
Why do students who belong to racial minority groups—particularly black students—fall short in school performance? This book provides a comprehensive and critical examination of black identity and its implications for black academic achievement and intellectualism.
No other group of students has been more studied, more misunderstood, and more maligned than African American students. The racial gap between White and African American students does exist: a difference of roughly 20 percent in college graduation rates has persisted for more than the past two decades; and since 1988, the racial gap on the reading and mathematics sections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has increased from 189 points to 201 points. What are the true sources of these differences?
In this book, psychology professor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology Kevin Cokley, PhD, delves into and challenges the dominant narrative regarding black student achievement by examining the themes of black identity, the role of self-esteem, the hurdles that result in academic difficulties, and the root sources of academic motivation. He proposes a bold alternate narrative that uses black identity as the theoretical framework to examine factors in academic achievement and challenge the widely accepted notion of black anti-intellectualism. This book will be valuable to all educators, especially those at the high school through undergraduate college/university level, as well as counselors associated with academic and community institutions, social service providers, policy makers, clergy and lay staff within the faith-based community, and parents.
Uses African American identity as the framework to understand academic achievement and to expose the biases of "deficit thinking" that presumes that under-achievement among black students is related to deficiencies in motivation, intelligence, culture, or socialization
Presents information and viewpoints informed by empirical research in a manner that is accessible to general readers and non-specialists
Uses personal anecdotes and examples from popular culture to connect with readers and better illustrate the validity of the author's strengths-based approach rather than the conventional deficit-based approach
Challenges the idea that black students are inherently anti-intellectual and do not value school as much as their non-black peers
Kevin O. Cokley, PhD, is professor of educational psychology and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology. His published works include the article "What Do We Know about the Motivation of African American Students? Challenging the 'Anti-Intellectual' Myth" and the chapter "The Impact of Racialized Schools and Racist (Mis)Education on African American Students' Academic Identity" in the book Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings. Cokley holds a doctorate in counseling psychology from Georgia State University.
"Kevin Cokley's The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism is an important contribution to our understanding of African American students, their diverse incentives for learning, and the effects of the academic environments in which they learn. Cokley's text accomplishes what few in the field even attempt—it renders black students as full, complex human beings. In a compelling combination of autobiographical journey and scholarly inquiry, Cokley tests multiple hypotheses of identity, race, bias, and achievement to provide a full picture of the complicated educational world black students navigate."—Melissa Harris-Perry, Presidential Endowed Chair in Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University; Director, Anna Julia Cooper Center; Host, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry


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As I have mentioned in previous posts, when photographing sporting events, I especially like to isolate individual athletes to present action portraits. However, I also enjoy capturing moments that display the athletes' abilities but also include the emotional reactions of people in the crowd.
While I photographed last night's game with Valparaiso University against a highly touted St. Louis team, I caught this image of a Valpo player blocking a St. Louis shot with only 1.0 second left on the game clock and the score tied. The athleticism of the play is remarkable, but I also appreciate the expressions of the fans in the stands at this dramatic spot in the evening.
In photos like this one, I feel satisfied that I am able to exhibit the energy and skill of the players combined with the emotion and exuberance of the fans.


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Steamboat Springs children's author Avi and Denver sixth-grader Sive Kelliher at CPR.
"When we do wrong, we bind ourselves to other people who do wrong." That's a line from a new novel from Newbery-Medal-winning children's author Avi. It's called "The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts" and is out May 16.
The book opens in a seaside town in England. The year is 1724 and 12-year-old Oliver wakes up to discover his home has flooded and his father has disappeared. He finds a note saying that his father has left for London, where his sister, Charity, is in some kind of trouble. Oliver sets out to find his family. During his journey, he encounters an array of criminal masterminds who foil his attempts to reunite with them.
Avi, the pen name of Steamboat Springs writer Edward Irving Wortis, spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner and 12-year-old guest host Sive Kelliher, who is in the sixth grade at Denver School of the Arts and a winner of the Rocky Mountain PBS StoryMakers writing contest.
In Which I Introduce Myself after Which I Immediately Plunge into a Desperate Situation.
On November 12, 1724, I, Oliver Cromwell Pitts, lay asleep in my small room at the top of our three-story house, when, at about six in the morning, I was shocked into full wakefulness by horrible sounds: roaring, wailing, and screeching.
Confounded by such forceful clamors, I was too frightened to shift from my bed. Even so, I listened hard, trying to make sense of what was occurring. It did not help that the room in which I lay had no windows, so I could see little. Then I realized that my bed — in fact, our entire house, an old wooden structure — was shaking. The combination of darkness and dreadful sounds made everything worse.
I dared not move, in hopes that by remaining still, I might diminish both noise and quivering. Yet as if to mock me, the uproar only grew louder and more frenzied, rising to a horrifying crescendo.
Desperately wanting to see something, the better to gain intelligence as to what was occurring, I reached toward the floor where I had placed my candle and flint box the night before, only to discover they were not there. The shaking of the house was so forceful it must have tumbled them away. The next moment I heard a slapdash thumping directly overhead, as if stones were hitting our thatched roof.
Midst all this confusion, I recognized the boom of crashing waves. Even this familiar sound was no comfort: My family home in the English town of Melcombe Regis was a tenth of a mile from the sea. I should not be hearing such near water. I had to investigate.
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Tempests often struck the Dorset coast, but in all my twelve years I had never experienced one so violent. The storm must have hit the shore at high tide — under a full moon — a linking of meteorological conditions, which now and again brought flood. I truly wondered if the world was coming to an end. And, if not the entire world, surely my world seemed to be collapsing fast.
Little did I know how accurate that notion would come to pass.
At that immediate moment, however, my concern was this: I must warn my sister of the danger. Charity — for that was my beloved sister's name — had her room below mine. Yet, no sooner had I thought of cautioning her, then I remembered she — six years older than I — had thankfully gone to London two months ago to live with our uncle Tobias Cuttlewaith.
Good, I thought. She, at least, was safe.
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"Father!" I cried again, but received no more reply than before.
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In short, I was in grave danger of drowning right in the middle of my own home.
From The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts by Avi. © 2017 by Avi. Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Young Readers. All rights reserved.


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Q: Proof of Different Polynomial Decompositions into Linear Factors From G. Polya "Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning" p. 18.
How do you prove that provided the roots of a polynomial are different from zero,
$$a_0 + a_1x+a_2x^2 + ... + a_nx^n$$
$$\,= a_0\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_1}\right)\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_2}\right)...\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_n}\right)$$
with $\alpha_1, \alpha_2,...\alpha_n$ corresponding to the polynomial roots.

A: \begin{align}
&a_0+a_1x+\ldots+a_nx^n=\\
&\qquad=a_n(x-\alpha_1)\cdot\ldots\cdot(x-\alpha_n)=\\
&\qquad=a_n\alpha_1\frac{x-\alpha_1}{\alpha_1}\cdot\ldots\cdot\alpha_n\frac{x-\alpha_n}{\alpha_n}=\\
&\qquad=a_n\alpha_1\cdot\ldots\cdot\alpha_n\left(\frac{x}{\alpha_1}-1\right)\cdot\ldots\cdot\left(\frac{x}{\alpha_n}-1\right)=\\
&\qquad=(-1)^n\,a_n\alpha_1\cdot\ldots\cdot\alpha_n\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_1}\right)\cdot\ldots\cdot\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_n}\right)
\end{align}
Setting $x=0$ results in:
$\qquad a_0+a_1x+\ldots+a_nx^n\,=\,(-1)^n\,a_n\alpha_1\cdot\ldots\cdot\alpha_n\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_1}\right)\cdot\ldots\cdot\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_n}\right)$
simplifying to
$$a_0=(-1)^n\,a_n\alpha_1\cdot\ldots\cdot\alpha_n$$ Therefore:
$\qquad a_0+a_1x+\ldots+a_nx^n \,=\,a_0\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_1}\right)\cdot\ldots\cdot\left(1-\frac{x}{\alpha_n}\right)$

A: It's not clear what you actually want shown. That the polynomial has $n$ roots is a consequence of the fundamental theorem of algebra. That the factors $(1-x/\alpha_i)$ have the form they do is actually the factor theorem in a different form. Then the left-hand side divided by all the $(1-x/\alpha_i)$s is a polynomial of degree $0$, i.e. constant. You can therefore find the constant by setting $x=0$, so all that is left is $a_0/1=a_0$.

A: We assume that we are working in the complex numbers, or the reals, or the rationals.
Let $P(x)$ be the first polynomial, and let $Q(x)$ be the second. Each has degree $n$, and they have the same roots, counting multiplicity.
Let $D(x)=P(x)-Q(x)$. Then $D(x)$ has degree $\le n$. Note that $D(x)$ has at least $n+1$ roots, since the constant term of $D(x)$ is $0$.
Any polynomial of degree $\le n$ which has $\ge n+1$ roots, counting multiplicity, is the zero polynomial. The result follows.

A: As an appendix to the initial question, and as a matter of conceptual proximity in the derivation of Basel problem solution the proof offered as a response can be applied to the following situation:
If the polynomial is as follows:
$$b_0 - b_1\, x^2 +b_2\,x^4-\cdots+(-1)^n\,b_n\,x^{2n},$$
there will be $2n$ roots coming in pairs $β_i$ and $−\,β_i$.
As before the factorial decomposition can be expressed as the product of linear factors:
$$b_n\,\left(x-\beta_1\right)\,\left(x+\beta_1\right)\,\left(x-\beta_2\right)\left(x+\beta_2\right)\, \cdots\,\,\left(x-\beta_n\right)\left(x+\beta_1\right)$$
And multiplying numerator and denominator by $\frac{\beta_i^2}{\beta_i^2}$,
$$b_n\,\frac{\beta_1^2}{\beta_1^2}\left(x-\beta_1\right)\,\left(x+\beta_1\right)\,\,\frac{\beta_2^2}{\beta_2^2}\left(x-\beta_2\right)\left(x+\beta_2\right)\, \cdots\,\,\frac{\beta_n^2}{\beta_n^2}\left(x-\beta_n\right)\left(x+\beta_n\right)$$
which simplifies to:
$$b_n\,\beta_1^2\,\beta_2^2\,\cdots\,\beta_n^2\left(\frac{x}{\beta_1}-1\right)\,\left(\frac{x}{\beta_1}+1\right)\left(\frac{x}{\beta_2}-1\right)\, \left(\frac{x}{\beta_2}+1\right)\cdots\,\left(\frac{x}{\beta_n}-1\right)\left(\frac{x}{\beta_n}+1\right)$$
and changing the order within the parentheses:
$(-1)^n\,b_n\,\beta_1^2\,\beta_2^2\,\cdots\,\beta_n^2 \left(1-\frac{x}{\beta_1} \right)\,\left(1+\frac{x}{\beta_1}\right)\left(1-\frac{x}{\beta_2}\right)\, \left(1+\frac{x}{\beta_2}\right)\cdots\,\left(1-\frac{x}{\beta_n}\right)\left(1+\frac{x}{\beta_n}\right)$ or
$\\$
$(-1)^n\,b_n\,\beta_1^2\,\beta_2^2\,\cdots\,\beta_n^2 \left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_1^2} \right)\,\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_2^2}\right)\, \cdots\,\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_n^2}\right).$
As before when $x=0$, we'll prove that $b_0=(-1)^n\,b_n\,\beta_1^2\,\beta_2^2\,\cdots\,\beta_n^2.$ Hence,
$$b_0 - b_1\, x^2 +b_2\,x^4-\cdots+(-1)^n\,b_n\,x^{2n}=b_0\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_1^2}\right)\,\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_2^2}\right)\, \cdots\,\left(1-\frac{x^2}{\beta_n^2}\right).$$

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Interview Laura Laine: "Men are boring.." | WRITTENONSKIN.
Inspired by fashion illustrations (got a few tattoo's from illustrators on my body) I interviewed Finnish illustrator Laura Laine for Styletoday. I truly love her drawings and outspoken personalities.
What made you decide to start illustrating?
In an interview you mentioned that fashion is extremely inspiring. Can you explain?
Can you describe your signature? What's typical Laura.
You only draw women. Why is that?


The white monkey balm is perfect for your medicine cabinet. Effective for relieve backache, sprains and stuffy nose.
White monkey balm is one of the most famous medical balms Thailand. The picture of the white immortal monkey squatting taking a fish symbolizes longevity in Asia. It is used throughout Thailand for muscle aches and fatigue. It is used throughout Thailand for muscle pain, fatigue, against insect bites, and sprains. It can also be inhaled or deposited under the nose to relieve congestion. Used before intense workouts to increase circulation in the joints and muscles to warm up before exercise.
Indications: Against insect bites, pain and fatigue and muscle sprains.
Use: Gently massage on the parts of the skin you want to process.
Monkey white balm is used for muscle pain, fatigue, against insect bites, and sprains. It can also be inhaled or deposited in the nose to relieve congestion. Used before workouts to increase circulation in joints and muscles to warm up before exercise. This product is combined with traditional Chinese herbal ingredients that relieve many discomforts, aches and pains of your body. It also has a Thai FDA no.2A73/37. This balm is an external ointment for a relief of bodily aches and pains of muscle due to simple backache, arthritis, strains sprains, and stuffy nose. It has exactly the same benefit as Tiger balm as you may notice.
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Disney and fairy tales go together like strawberries and cream and so a film musical that features many of the best loved fairy tale characters of all times seems a natural fit. When the musical in question though is Steven Sondheim's Into The Woods, which takes a darker look at the cost of 'happily ever after', the match is slightly less obvious.
Though there are elements here that have been toned down for a family viewing, Rob Marshall's cinematic adaptation of the stage hit works for multiple age ranges. Children will find plenty to enjoy without suffering too many sleepless nights while adults will find plenty of wry amusement in Sondheim's witty and observant musical numbers.
As a host of fairytale characters set out on individual quests to find happiness it soon becomes clear that their respective paths may not be as straight forward as first seemed. A childless baker and his wife must find a series of objects to free themselves from a witches curse, Cinderella needs to find out if her Prince is actually charming and Jack needs to decide if his beloved cow is worth magic beans. As each seems to gain their happiness they are left to ponder at what cost.
On stage Sondheim's piece is often described as two separate but linked acts, one story arc resolved in act one and then a darker unravelling in act two. The cinematic version avoids this and does offer a coherent whole, not entirely venturing down the sanitised Schools stage version which dispenses with the darker second act, instead offering somewhere in between.
Marshall's direction build on his previous screen musical success with Chicago to once again delve deep into a musicals power to look inside the human psyche. There's a strong focus on character and a sense that, despite their fairy tale backdrop, these are real, everyday people – albeit in a strange land.
Marhsall has assembled a cast, often unknown for their musical background, but a cast that acquits themselves well with Sondheim's complex score.
James Corden as the Baker guides us through the piece and offers a real charm to the rôle. Alongside Emily Blunt as the Bakers Wife the pair offers the real heart to the piece. The two could easily be upstaged by the ultimate screen presence that is Meryl Streep but Streep's performance is beautifully measured but imbibing every single word with raw emotion as the Witch. Streep's singing, the cause of much debate in previous outing Mamma Mia, works surprisingly well here. Streep's ability to capture the sheer emotion of a scene mirrored well in Sondheim's Score.
There's a fine vocal performance from Anna Kendrick as Cinderella although Chris Pine as her Prince seems somewhat uncomfortable in the musical numbers. There's also a fine supporting cast with Tracy Ullman wringing the comedy aspects out of Jack's Mother, Johnny Depp making a brief, but effective, appearance as a lecherous Wolf and Christine Baranski's Stepmother bringing some vulgar glamour to the palace ball.
Marshall's direction goes for the traditional, its rural setting could be the European heartlands of many of these stories traditional setting. There may be magical powers at play, marauding giants and maidens locked in towers but the whole piece is played almost entirely with a sense of realism. The moments when this is abandoned is when the film slightly stumbles. And in a bizarre twist for a film aimed at a family market it is the younger rôles that seem more problematic. Lilla Crawford's New York Red Riding Hood jars against the otherwise rural European setting while Daniel Huttlestone's Jack seems thinly drawn.
Given its family audience target market there has been some softening of the source material. Fans of the stage show may wince at the sugaring of the plot but overall the changes help drive the cinematic narrative, though the removal of No More from the end of the show does rob the piece of some dramatic climax.
It was never going to be an easy production to transfer to the stage, but as audiences return to the cinema after over indulging on festive sweets, Into The Woods offers a chance to feast again, though this time being forced to confront what our wishes really cost.


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