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WORLD HISTORY | December 19, 2018
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1931: Al Capone, in court during his trial, Chicago, 1931. Sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and one year in county jail. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)
Gangsters, especially those in the mafia, did not see themselves as breaking the law. In their eyes, they were just protecting their family and their business. Al Capone, for example, considered himself a businessman just like any other businessman.
Born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, Capone was part of a large poor Italian family and one of nine children. Dropping out of school in the sixth grade, he began roaming the streets with street gangs and later took a job as a bouncer on Coney Island. He later relocated to Chicago, which was notably worse of a crime area, especially in the Levee District. During the war (World War I), the government banned drinking and started revoking licenses. By 1920, the government passed the "Prohibition" law which made drinking illegal. With the war ending, things began to shift. There were those who wanted to "enjoy" life again with partying and drinking. Capone and his cohort, Johnny Torrio, were happy to oblige them. With legitimate business owners out of the competition, they were able to corner the market. Expanding their bootlegging "business" to include other cities, they eventually had a connected underground network.
Seeing himself as a big fancy businessman, Capone was totally shocked when he was arrested for tax evasion and received a sentence of 11 years. Other members of his gang had received only two to three years for the same thing. The jury had been handpicked by the judge who wanted to make an example of him, so they "threw the book at him."
Lucky Luciano (Photo from Pinterest)
Lucky Luciano was born in Sicily, Italy in 1897 and was quite instrumental in helping to bring about the national crime Syndicate almost single-handedly. Moving to Manhattan with his family at the age of 10, he was quickly recruited into gang life. Like Capone, he got started around 1920, when he was recruited as a gunman, working for first Masseria and then Arnold Rothstein. With bootlegging profits, he was making millions by the mid-1920s.
When Rothstein was murdered in 1928, Luciano returned to work for Masseria; but when a gang war broke out between Masseria and Maranzano, he was not loyal to Masseria. In fact, he set up his assassination in 1931. With no loyalty in the mafia, Luciano also betrayed Maranzano and assisted in having him "knocked off." The committee of the Five Families established by Maranzano then fell into Luciano's waiting hands which was later renamed to "The Genovese Family." A few years later, his leadership came to an end in 1936, when he was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to 30 to 50 years. Luciano turned over his leadership to Frank Costello. Sometime later, striking a deal with the government, he was eventually deported back to Italy where he later died in 1962 of a heart attack.
Mob boss Frank Costello voluntarily testifying before Congress in 1951. Photo credit: Library of Congress
Frank Costello
In Italy in 1891, "Uncle Frank" Costello was born as Francesco Castiglia. Moving to Manhattan in 1895, he got involved in the same gang that Lucky Luciano did. From 1908 to 1918, he was arrested for assault, robbery, and weapons possessions four different times. When he got married, he was determined not to ever carry a gun again and he successfully avoided jail for the next 40 years. Like Capone and Luciano, he also got involved in the bootlegging racket. After Luciano became the leader of the "Commission" of the Five Families, Costello became his top adviser. He helped Luciano to expand their operation to Louisiana, bringing in slot machines. Before Costello was left in charge of the Five Families, Vito Genovese was in charge but only until he was arrested on murder charges and fled to Italy. Eventually, he was taken back to New York to face the charges but when witnesses were murdered, he was released and wanted control back from Costello. He did get control back when; in 1957, he ordered a hit on Costello. Even though the shot in the head did not kill him, it was too close for comfort for him so he relinquished control. Costello later died of natural causes in 1973.
Carlo Gambino under arrest in 1970 (Photo from mafia.fandom.com/wiki)
Carlo Gambino
Born in 1902, in Palermo, Sicily, "The Godfather," Carlo Gambino was a teenage hitman in Sicily and came to the United States in 1921 at age 19 to become part of the Mafia. He went to work for his cousins, already connected to gangs in New York, specifically "Toto" D'Aquila. After D'Aquila was killed by Masseria in 1928, Gambino became part of the Masseria gang and later became a member of one of the five crime families that belonged to Vincent Mangano. In 1951, Mangano and his brother were killed by order of their underboss, Anastasia. Six years later, Gambino ordered the murder of Anastasia and took control, which he held for the next 19 years. In 1976, he died of heart problems in his home and left the leadership to his brother-in-law, Castellano who later was murdered by order of his underboss's pupil, Gotti.
Bugsy Siegel (Photo from theclio.com)
Bugsy Siegel
Born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel grew up in New York but ended up in California. He got his nickname from fellow gang members who said he was as crazy as a bedbug. Siegel left the gang "Bugs and Meyer" that he had established to work for Luciano as it was known that Luciano's enemies would die rather violently. It was speculated that Bugsy had a hand in the death of Masseria but that was never proven. Due to Bugsy's violent nature, murders have been pinned on him that may not have been committed by him. This was why he relocated to the West Coast. With his accumulated wealth, he was able to establish operations there. Dating actress Virginia Hill, he took over construction of the Flamingo hotel but the price was too high. Over budget, the mob who were financing it were not happy. That, along with other possible motives, brought about the incident that took place in June of 1947, when gunfire came through Bugsy's girlfriend's living room window, striking him several times with two fatal shots to the head. His death is still an unsolved mystery.
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About the Customer
Based in Mississauga, Canada, Invatron Systems Corp is a leading technology company providing Fresh Item and Scale Management software solutions for the food retail industry. Invatron's Periscope and E-Plum solutions are deployed collectively in over 20,000 supermarket stores worldwide, actively supporting the in-store execution of Fresh operations across order replenishment, production planning, scale management, inventory management and compliance & regulations.
The company enables its customers to maintain strong leadership in their fresh food offering by providing predictive demand forecasting, data integrity and decision support tools to increase sales, reduce shrink, and improve margins. Invatron's software solutions empower food retailers to achieve efficient operational practices to keep the "fresh" in fresh throughout the day, all while maximizing financial performance in the highly competitive grocery market.
Initial Project Management Environment
Invatron offers a broad set of solutions for retailers that help grocery retail chains with fresh ordering management, production planning, financial inventory, and more. These are sophisticated products with multiple teams working on them. Invatron also provides unique setup and maintenance services to skyrocket customer success. All that needs to be managed properly, and Invatron team has chosen Planner as a system where they manage most of their work.
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The big reason for this update was the Galaxy SII issue, which was resulting in a black screen similar to Chroma Wave. We were, again, using a RGB render target. In this case that wasn't the only incompatibility though.
For whatever reason rendering the fish was breaking everything, even once we got the buffer format switched. A lot of poking and prodding eventually demonstrated that the Mali 400 (The SII's GPU) has drivers that seem to stick very strictly to the OpenGL spec. As it turns out, we weren't properly unregistering our attributes when switching shaders, and as best I can tell all the other drivers just go ahead and do that for you, so it was never an issue previously. We now unregister all our attributes and uniforms whenever we switch shaders, and everything's fixed now.
Why was it the fish breaking everything? They use animation blending, so they register an extra set of attributes for the blend frame's positions and normals. Those stuck around when we switched shaders, and the data they had wasn't relevant for the new model, so things broke and rendered black.
Going back to the other updates in this, uh, update: You can now add water plants to the scene! There's a slider in the settings menu letting you go from just a couple all the way up to 16. These are affected by the water distortion currently, which isn't entirely correct but looks much better than the first draft that wasn't. We'll investigate having them float on top the water and respond more appropriately eventually.
Lots of people didn't think the fish feeding worked, and I largely chalk it up to the fact that the fish food blended in quite seamlessly with most of the backgrounds. To that end, any fish flakes that spawn now cause a water distortion. In addition, we've dyed them blue for better visibility.
While all the rest of this was going on I adjusted the handling of the koi's angular acceleration. I think it's a notch smoother than it was before, please let me know if you disagree.
The main reason for this update is to get the Galaxy S II working. On those devices we'd end up just showing a black screen, and it took a while to work out why this is.
Basically, despite having multiple layers of blending going on, Chroma Wave saves a ton of fillrate by rendering into a lower-res buffer first, then scaling that up to screen size. The artwork is soft-edged so this is basically invisible.
The render buffer use for this was set to RGB, and apparently that doesn't play nice with the Galaxy SII's current drivers. We ended up fixing the issue by setting our render target to RGBA, which isn't really ideal but at least it works.
I actually didn't get a chance to make a post about this earlier, but wanted to mention we handled development of the Captain America wallpaper that's currently on the Market. We were approached by Disney Interactive to make something Android-specific to help promote their game (published under the Marvel banner), and though we had rather a lot going on at the time I was really excited to make something for them.
After some initial discussion we decided to keep it reasonably simple, and focus on a nice looking treatment of the shield, with some additional motion to help keep things active. The artwork is based on the original film shield and turned out very well, I think, and you get bullets bouncing off as you interact with it.
Hopefully everyone likes the result!
This is basically the same round of updates as we did previously with NA flags, plus some general technical improvement besides. All the flag art is higher res and reads noticeably better on a Xoom or similar tablet, and the performance in that situation is greatly improved as well.
I did mess up at one point with this update -- the initial version I uploaded didn't have the GLES version requirement set in the Manifest. This means for about two minutes I had an update posted that requires OpenGL 2.0 but didn't say so, which means some folks with phones that don't support OpenGL 2.0 might've ended up downloading and update that doesn't work on their hardware.
I suspect this isn't goo much of an issue, but there are some devices out there that support Live Wallpapers but only OpenGL 1.1. So long as the GLES version flag is proper, they'll simply keep going with the older version so far as I can tell. Breaking them is definitely not something I wanted, hopefully this didn't cause any long-term issues.
My name is Bill Roeske and I've been handling most of the low-level and graphics programming duties here at Kittehface since the beginning of April. I've also contributed to wallpaper design, coding, and art - particularly for NA and EU Flags, Dynamic Paint, Easter Meadows, Prismatic, True Blood, Chroma Wave, and Koi.
Like Jeremy and many others, I came to mobile development from the video games industry. Being only a five-year veteran before making the change, I feel extremely privileged to have worked with some really fine people on the Rock Band, Halo, and Bomberman franchises.
Most of our work here has been on Android Live Wallpapers, which isn't as different from developing video games as it may seem. Both need to run fast and smooth. Both need to present graphics that look good. Both are at their best when they're highly interactive. Quite often in both, your work only has a few seconds to prove itself or be discarded in favor of something more interesting.
The big differences? Well, at the moment, mobile projects generally don't take years to develop. Some of our wallpapers don't even take over a month for the initial version. Product updates are a breeze to deliver, which directly results in more frequent updates driven by feedback from all of you.
Finally, for Live Wallpapers anyway, we get to cheat a whole lot. Like, a ton. Most games offer a whole world with intricate detail from every angle and infinite ways to accidentally break it. A Live Wallpaper scene is more like a diorama, which actually works out the best for everyone. Detail is focused where people will see actually it, and because of that laser focus, we can get a great looking scene running smoothly in the background of a phone. Generally without the world-destroying bugs, too.
As you can probably tell at this point, my posts will most likely explore the more technical side of what we do. I hope that it's something you are interested in reading about, because there are some pretty cool things that happen under the hood every once in a while. And as people around me well know, I generally can't shut up when I see or do something that I think is cool!
We've been working on this one on and off for over a month. It's still got some features I'd like to add, but the current version's already very good looking with some beautiful water surface response, so I think it's time it went out and met the world.
Koi is exactly what it sounds like -- colorful fish exploring their pond. You can customize your fish population similar to Aquarium, can select from ten different backgrounds, and can double-tap to feed your koi. Plus, you can interact with the water surface. It even fully supports multitouch! If you explore the settings you can also enable raindrops and pressure sensitivit.
This turned out very well in my opinion, and I'm excited to hear what folks think!
* A koi pond with interactive water Released!
* An abstract color-mixing wallpaper Released!
* Update to both flags applications Released!
A couple of these are actually more or less done, but the big thing we're currently looking at is a rewrite of our underlying wallpaper service. You may have noticed that sometimes when returning to the home screen you get a one-frame blip of black -- our big target is to fix that, and to otherwise make sure we have a solid handle on everything happening at that level.
So, we're hanging back on releasing these things until we have confidence in our update. It'll improve our whole product line so seems worth the trouble, though I hate the radio silence meanwhile.
We'll try to do a couple blog posts about any snags we run into here.
It's Canada day! We've been asked for it a bunch of times, and since we have a better handle on file size now it seemed like a good idea to finally get flags in for all our friends in the great white north.
In addition, we had a question a few days back about making the wind speed go lower. To that effect I've updated the wind speed pref with a six-position slider. The low end is about a third slower and the high end is about a third faster. Enjoy!


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Teams to battle for top spot in MWC
The Horned Frogs play Colorado State on Saturday with a chance to do what no TCU football team has done in almost 50 years-: win an outright conference championship."I told the guys that they have a chance to do things that teams with LaDainian Tomlinson couldn't get done," said head football coach Gary Patterson. "You have a chance to do things that teams with Aaron Schobel, with Bo Schobel, couldn't get done."
But if TCU beats the second-place Rams on Saturday, the Frogs will clinch a Mountain West Conference title in only their first year as a member – and they'll do it at home.
"The thing we like best is we have the game here," Patterson said. "There's nothing better than trying to close it out at home."
Colorado State, despite a misleading 5-3 record, has the offensive firepower to compete with a potent TCU offense. The Rams are tied for second in the league in scoring offense with a 30.5 points per game average, behind only TCU, which is averaging 31.9 points per game.
Colorado State's offense only becomes more dangerous as the game goes on; The Rams have outscored its opponents 111-66 in the fourth quarter this year.
Patterson said both teams will look to take the late advantage.
"We kind of mirror each other," he said. "We both play well from the middle of the third quarter on. They get stronger and have a good running game and can wear people down."
Senior cornerback Quincy Butler said the Colorado State offense is the most explosive one the Frogs have faced so far. Ram quarterback Justin Holland is currently fourth in the nation in pass efficiency.
"He's definitely the most accurate quarterback we'll play this season," Butler said.
Holland is assisted by wide receiver David Anderson, CSU's all-time leader in receiving yards and catches. Anderson needs four more touchdowns to break Colorado State's single-season touchdown record of 23.
Even though Anderson is 5-foot-11-inches, substantially shorter than some of the other marquee receivers the Frogs have faced this season, Patterson said Anderson plays bigger than his size.
"He's not small. He's very physical," Patterson said. "He's very stocky and deceptively fast. He's one of those guys that knows how to go out and make plays."
TCU is coming off a week where it exploited a weak San Diego State run defense for 291 rushing yards on 58 attempts. Colorado State's run defense, however, is even worse: 103rd out of 119 Division 1-A teams.
Junior running back Robert Merrill said the team still needs equal offensive contribution to win.
"We're just going to keep doing what we've been doing," Merrill said. "If everyone keeps scoring, we have a chance to win."
The game will kickoff at 6 p.m. Saturday at Amon Carter Stadium.
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Carolyn Wood's Devotional – May 22, 2021 – "Abide With Me"
ABIDE WITH ME – 1847
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. John 15:7
As we face difficult times or decisions it is easy to simply "pick up our suitcase filled with learned behavior" and apply it to our life in the present. This is a picture painted in my brain by Pastor David some years ago and repeated for emphasis in later sermons. I agreed when I first heard the concept and do so even more today. It's the easiest answer for most of us – just head straight for the quick solution, never pausing to seek guidance from the best and most powerful source — GOD!
Reading the words of today's hymn gave me such comfort and peace of mind as I was reminded of God's constancy and life-changing power. He never changes. His steadfast love surrounds and supports us through the joys as well as the difficult times of life; if we but take the time to acknowledge and listen. The path becomes clearer and all the clutter of our lives simply melt away as we invite Him in to abide with us; live in us; sit beside us and guide us in all things. When we abide in Jesus, we are rooting His word in our hearts, creating intimacy with Him through worship and allowing Him to work in and through our lives and obeying Him. It might be easier to just pick up that old suitcase of the familiar and move on, but, oh, how much more glorious is life abiding in Him!
Henry Francis Lyte, vicar in the fishing village of Lower Brixham, Devonshire, England, ministered faithfully for twenty-three years to his seafaring people. Though a humble couple, he and his wife Anne, lived in an elegant estate, Berry Head. It had reportedly been provided by King William IV, who had been impressed with Henry's ministry. At water's edge, its coastal views were among the most beautiful on the British Isles. Henry laid out walking trails through the estate's forty-one acres and enjoyed the tranquility of the house and grounds. There he wrote most of his sermons, poems and hymns.
But Henry's lung condition hung over the home like a blackening cloud. Lower Brixham suffered damp winters, and while in his early fifties, Henry realized his lung disorder had deteriorated into tuberculosis. On September 4, 1847, at age 54, he entered his pulpit with difficulty and preached what was to be his last sermon. He had planned a therapeutic holiday in Italy. "I must put everything in order before I leave," he said, "because I have no idea how long I will be away."
That afternoon he walked along the coast in pensive prayer then retired to his room, emerging an hour later with a written copy of "Abide With Me." Some accounts indicate he wrote the poem during that hour; others say that he discovered it in the bottom of his desk as he packed for his trip to Italy, and that it had been written a quarter century earlier. Probably both stories are true. It is likely that, finding sketches of a poem he had previously started, he prayerfully revised and completed it that evening.
Shortly afterward, Henry embraced his family a final time and departed for Italy. Stopping in Avignon, France, he again revised "Abide With Me"—it was evidently much on his mind—and posted it to his wife. Arriving on the French Riviera, he checked into the Hotel de Angleterre in Nice, and there on November 20. 1847, his phthisic lungs finally gave out. Another English clergyman, a Rev. Mannnig of Chichester, who happened to be staying in the same hotel, attended him during his final hours. Henry's last words were, "Peace, Joy!"
When news of his death reached Brixham, the fisherman of the village asked Henry's son-in-law, also a minister, to hold a memorial service. It was on this occasion that "Abide With Me" was first sung.
May you find inspiration and peace for the day through the words of this amazing poem penned so many years ago. I love all of the verses, but especially the third verse:
I need Thy presence Every passing hour.
What but Thy grace can Foil the temper's power?
Who, like Thyself, My guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
Audrey Assad's very simple rendition which reminds me of the singing in my childhood church by my Mom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84YASWe3_2Q
City Choir, Dunedin, Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUVw2jXjAk
Grace, Peace and Joy to you as you listen!
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Auchentoshan is Gaelic, and translates into "The corner of the field". The distillery is located in the North-Western Lowlands, in Clydebank on the outskirts of Glasgow.
Founded in 1823 (it had been operating before, but was granted the operating license in 1823) by John Bulloch, the distillery changed ownership quite a few times. During the war, the site was hit by a German Bomber, which destroyed most of the history of the distillery, as the archives were destroyed in the resulting fire. The crater caused by the bomb nowadays contains water, which is used by the distillery for cooling and condensing.
All Auchentoshan whiskies are Triple Distilled, taking them up to 81% Alcohol By Volume at the end of the distillation cycle. This makes it the highest distillate of any single malt distillery in Scotland! The first distillation takes place as normal, in the Wash still. Auchentoshan employs the use of an 8,200 liters intermediate still, which is key to their triple distillation. In the intermediate still, the result at 19% ABV will be mixed with the last 10% (low tails) of the previous distillation in the intermediate still. The remainder of the intermediate distillation (at 55% ABV) will be fed to the spirit Still, where it will be mixed with 50% of the last distillation run of the spirit still.
The triple distillation, apart from raising the alcohol level, also serves to remove impurities from the liquid, ending in fruity and citrus flavors.
Classic – A triple distilled whisky, that matures in American Bourbon casks.
Three Wood – This whisky starts off in American Bourbon casks, then moves to Spanish Oloroso Sherry casks, and finally is laid to rest in Pedro Ximenez Sherry casks.
If you're lucky, you might be able to find some of the Limited Edition Auchentoshan whiskies, which are indeed special treats.
1999 is another cask strength non-chill filtered spirit, but has been laid to rest in Bordeaux casks.
1974 was distilled in that year, and has matured in American Bourbon casks.
1975 was a production of 500 bottles, that slumbered in Oak barrels.
1979 is a spirit that has spent over 32 years in first-fill Sherrycasks, and then was bottled at cask strength.


Geez, rough qualifying effort for the #24 team this weekend. Makes you wonder how the #48 got the pole and the #24 is starting 31st on a road course. Hardly seems right.
That's what happens when you have to turn right!
I love it when cars turn left and right!
Jeff Gordon and Sam Hornish Jr. had the worst wreck at Watkins Glen I've ever seen today. To top it all off, Stewart won the darn race and broke Jeff's win record at the track. Couldn't have gone any worse.
Plus it would help to guarantee that my husband would get home from the track late Sunday eve., as opposed to late Monday.
Yeah - just busy - my dad has had multiple operations and we've been on vacation and busy with the kids - life, basically .


I've ordered firewood (which has burned great) from here several times. I also got a load of stones once. Each time Cory has delivered the order promptly and cheerfully. He's one of those rare businessmen to have a genuine concern for quality and customer service. Will keep him in mind for other projects!
Cory and his team have been fantastic to work with now for our second year. Our most recent order was. For a 1/2 cord of wood. I ordered online, which was SIMPLE, and they delivered and stacked perfectly about a week later (see picture). Great communication (that is the key to making me happy), and they have always delivered the product exactly as they said they would. A class act that my wife and I will continue to use.
Wow! Cory you rock! Not the best communicators but worth the wait. You will get my business every year. I ordered online. Paid by CC# and when I didn't get a call or email on when it would be delivered I was worried. I called a few times and left a message. Out of the blue Cory calls says to me. Hey sorry we have been real busy. We will get you in about a week or so. Waited a week and emailed to find out if I was on the schedule and when. Cory emails me back says he is out on deliveries and would look at the schedule tonight. He shows up at my house around 6:30pm. Said he was sorry about the communication breakdown. He unloads and stacks the best Half a Cord 4X4X2 racks on my patio. We need to support this company. Hard working great people.


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Family and consumer science is an academic discipline that combines aspects of social and natural science, and deals with the relationship between individuals, families, and communities, and the environment in which they live. The field represents many disciplines including consumer science, nutrition, parenting, human development, interior design, textiles, apparel design, family economics as well as other related subjects. Family and consumer science is also known as home economics.
One of the first to champion the economics of running a home was Catherine Beecher (sister to Harriet Beecher Stowe). Catherine and Harriet both were leaders in the mid 1800s in talking about domestic science. They came from a very religious family that valued education especially for women. The Morrill Act of 1862 propelled domestic science further ahead as land grant colleges sought to educate farm wives in running their households as their husbands were being educated in agricultural methods and processes. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were early leaders in offering programs for women. There were women graduates of these institutions several years before the Lake Placid Conferences which gave birth to home economics movement.
The home economics movement started with Ellen Swallow Richards, who was the first woman to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later became the first female instructor. Through her chemistry research she became an expert in water quality and later began to focus on applying scientific principles to domestic situations. At the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, she designed the Rumford Kitchen, which was a tiny kitchen that served nutritious meals to thousands of fair goers, along with a healthy dose of nutrition education. She shunned an invitation to participate in the Women's Building as she said none of her research was just women's work, but rather information for all.
Late in the 19th Century, Ellen convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for many individuals and families. They met at pristine Lake Placid, New York at the invitation of Melvil Dewey. Over the course of the next 10 years, these educators worked tirelessly to elevate the discipline, which was to become home economics, to a legitimate profession. Ellen wanted to call this oekology or the science of right living. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment, was also a name of her choice, but home economics was finally selected.
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February 14, 2017 in Biography, Essays, Fiction, Latin American Literature, Memoir, Op-Ed
Remembering a Visionary of Argentine Letters
Originally published on Literary Hub
Where others see oppositions, great writers see the possibility of intertwining forking paths. Like kids in front of a stereogram, they are able to shift their gaze in ways that allow them to read the history of literature otherwise and, in doing so, write beyond the dead end of tradition. Ricardo Piglia, the monumental Argentine writer whose recent death coincided with increasing recognition of his work in the English-speaking world, was without a doubt one of these great visionaries.
For many years in the 1960s and 70s, Latin American literature seemed confined to the territory defined by the work of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer whose stories about libraries, encyclopedias, and mirrors also foreshadowed the postmodern fiction that marked writers and philosophers from Foucault to Foster Wallace, from Pynchon to Italo Calvino. Borges, whose stories abound with conceptual mazes, had sketched such a perfect a labyrinth with his work that Latin American writers felt that they had to write either with him or against him. Either erudite, conceptual writing like the master's, or a commercial brand of magical realism that was nothing but the insipid offspring of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
In the turbulent atmosphere of the Latin American 1970s, a writer's relation to Borges was seen not only as a choice between high- and low-brow, but also as a political decision. Borges, the old blind master who had failed to condemn the atrocities committed by the Argentine dictatorship, was inevitably seen by the progressive younger generations as the dusty librarian of a reactionary tradition. Only a reader and writer as capable as Borges himself could salvage him from the mausoleum he seemed bent on building around himself. It took Ricardo Piglia to prove that, beyond the false oppositions between Borges and the left, between Borges and the people, there lay an unexplored fictional territory. Today, when the name of Roberto Bolaño runs the risk of being tamed by canonization, it seems to me crucial to return to Piglia, for in his works we find the keys for liberating Latin American literature from the stereotypes that always threaten to imprison its radical potential.
In his 1988 Theses on the Short Story, Piglia famously stated that every short story recounts two stories: a visible one and a subterranean one. Every story is a double story, with a hidden, secret reading. Eighteen years before, he had stormed the Argentine literary scene with a debut novel demonstrating this principle. Artificial Respiration (Duke UP, 1994), first published in Argentina in 1980 during the military dictatorship, opened up the unforeseen possibility of writing simultaneously with Borges and beyond Borges. Piglia, an avid reader of both hardboiled detective fiction and James Joyce, of both Dashiell Hammett and Franz Kafka, had conjured a novel that owed as much to the blind master as to the low-life scenarios depicted in the novels of another Argentine writer: Roberto Arlt. Every literary tradition, the novel seemed to suggest, hides beneath it a secret treacherous counter-lineage: a line of flight that opens it to the future.
Piglia, who was fond of Faulkner's famous statement "I wrote The Sound and the Fury and learned how to write," had inventively reimagined literary history in a novel; in bringing Borges into contact with everyday reality, the book uncovered his works' latent political dimension. In the years to come, in novels like The Absent City (Duke UP, 2000), Money to Burn (Granta, 2004), or Target in the Night (Deep Vellum, 2015), Piglia would continue to explore this double tradition's inherent possibilities while simultaneously emerging as one of his generation's fundamental literary critics. "Criticism is a form of autobiography, a critic writes his life when he describes his readings," Piglia would often mention in his books and classes. His novels and essays, within which the protagonist is the reader-as-detective, attest to a life dedicated to exploring fiction's political limits. In the tradition of other great Latin American experimentalists like Sergio Pitol, Sylvia Molloy, Enrique Vila-Matas, Margo Glantz, and Roberto Bolaño, Piglia's writing forces the reader to redefine that subtle frontier that separates fiction from criticism and literary history.
For an avant-garde writer interested in displacements, duplicity, and recontextualizations, it is no surprise that the first and perhaps most important shift marking his literary career happened at the level of his name. Born Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi, Piglia decided—as early on as 1967—to imagine, under the name of Emilio Renzi, the alter ego that would later traverse his novels as their hero. By following Renzi's intellectual odyssey, his works sketched a subterranean autobiography whose allure grew exponentially throughout the years, particularly with regards to a rumor that began to spread across the Latin American and Spanish literary circles. It was said that there lay hidden something more impressive than his transgressive novels or his brilliant critical essays, a secret work of even more transcendence: his diaries.
By the time I shyly entered his classroom as a student at Princeton, where he was teaching a course on the avant-garde novel, Piglia was already a living classic. A legend who, each year, spent a couple of months in a small town in New Jersey, perhaps in an attempt to hide from the fame that seemed to persecute him in Latin America. With his characteristic humbleness, at Princeton he seemed bent on making himself anonymous. Never did he speak of himself as an author, nor did he ever refer to his own writing. And yet, most of us—his students—couldn't help feeling that we were in the presence of an idol. We knew his "secret," and we could see it in each of his gestures. By the time I met him, Piglia was already Piglia, the literary icon who had written some of the most important books in Latin American literature. The man who had changed the way a whole continent read and the clearest heir of Borges. And so, hearing him speak about Borges, Joyce, or Kafka—accompanied by those hand gestures that were undoubtedly his—we couldn't avoid thinking that literary history was happening in front of our eyes. Literature, he used to say, sketched a parallel society: a secret society that plotted against official culture. Secretly, we all felt part of Piglia's plot to overtake the literary establishment.
During those years before his retirement we heard him sketch—with his classical phrase "It would be interesting to one day write…"—hundreds of invisible books, as if he were handing us the task of writing them ourselves. Somehow, he knew that the time had come to tackle the one work that would consecrate him as the classic he already was. It was time to revise the 327 notebooks that comprised his diaries, which he had started to write more than half a century early, in 1956. By then the diaries had reached mythical status: we all knew of them, we all speculated about them, but none of us had read them, with the exception of a brief fragment he had published years earlier in a book of essays, with the audacity of the fisherman who leaves the caught fish hooked in order to catch a larger one. Piglia had staged his visible work as an excuse for the one work that lay beneath it all, the one work that finally made Emilio Renzi and Ricardo Piglia coincide. In the tradition of Pavese, Kafka, and Gombrowicz, the diaries were the culmination of a life dedicated to thinking of literature as a way of life.
In these days after his death, I have been revising the notebooks containing the notes I took during the two years I had him as a professor at Princeton before his retirement. In them, I found a page with an underlined title painfully relevant today: "Last Class with Piglia." Beneath it, a phrase that is unmistakably his: "What is at stake in endings is the production of sense." As I read the sentence, I understood that, somehow, Piglia had read and edited the narrative of his life as if it were a novel. Always attentive to form, always conscious that literature is a form of life, Piglia remained contemporary up to the very end. Where other writers had given up to old age and to the mediocrity that sometimes accompanies public exposure, he had remained actual and relevant, and the younger generations thus saw him as their direct influence. I couldn't help but think that he had made sure, conscious as he was that endings condense meaning, to leave for the end of his life the publication of those diaries; they somehow rounded up a life dedicated to thinking through that project so central for the avant-garde: the project of turning life into art.
Within the same notebook, in an entry about his beloved Macedonio Fernández—the Argentine writer he took to be Borges's true teacher and avant-garde predecessor—I have found another one of Piglia's signature dictums: "True legibility is always posthumous, reading is always tied to posterity." When, in 2015, already ill, he began publishing his diaries under the title of The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (forthcoming from Restless Books), Piglia was setting the conditions for the posthumous rereading of his works. Always on the verge between autobiography and fiction, without ever falling prisoner to dead-end alley of "autofiction," Piglia had left behind the biographical clues for understanding a life devoted to reading literary history otherwise. A life devoted to reading literature against the grain.
"Each epoch dreams the one to follow," Piglia liked to quote, referencing the work of one of his favorite philosophers, Walter Benjamin. Today, in his absence, I feel that the time has finally come for us to read and reread him thoroughly, for his writing always faced the future and not the past. A body of work that seems destined to blast open the doors of the literary establishment and to help us awaken from the historical nightmare that Joyce once envisioned and which threatens to become a reality.
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Photo Gallery: Restless Women Travelers at The Mount
June 25, 2014 in Travel, Essays, Biography, Memoir, Events
On Sunday, June 22, we had the rare thrill of celebrating our series Restless Women Travelers at one of the most beautiful places in the country: Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires, The Mount.
Speaking at the event were three travel writers who kept the audience at rapt attention as they discussed what it means to be a travel writer, how to succeed as a woman traveling alone, and how to remain open to new—and sometimes frightening—experiences: Lavinia Spalding, author of the introduction to our edition of A Motor-Flight Through France, Marcia DeSanctis, who's just finished a book called 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, and Colleen Kinder, who teaches travel writing at Yale.
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The vaccines are there. We need to talk about side effects
Since Monday, impatiently expected, Covid-19 vaccines entered the arms of healthcare workers in the United States, the first slim slice of millions of doses to come. But the joy that greeted the arrival of the blows is already stifled by concerns. Billions of dollars were spent to make the formulas. Preparing the American population to receive them has attracted much less attention.
This may turn out to be a mistake. Documentation provided by Pfizer and Moderna to the Food and Drug Administration indicates that both vaccines have side effects – minor which wear off after about two days, but which occurred in substantial percentages of people who received them within testing – and some serious reactions has been postponed. Descriptions of these side effects are starting to circulate, via new reports and also social media accounts written by trial participants.
These descriptions reach the public in the absence of any effort to contextualize or counter them. There has not been, at this point, a coordinated national campaign that reassures people that the vaccine not only works, but that it is safe to take and will not cause long-term illness. Planners and health researchers are concerned that it is already late to start.
"It's really important, at this point when the vaccines are about to be released, to talk to people about the expected side effects of the vaccine," says Eric Toner, physician and principal investigator at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. "The worst-case scenario would be if we didn't tell people that, and they have a reaction, and they either believe they got Covid out of the blue or there is something wrong.
This is an urgent concern, for two reasons. First, the fear of side effects turns out to be one of the main reasons people doubt these vaccines. And second, mistrust opens the door not only to confusion, but to armed disinformation, and it will prevent people from getting the vaccine they need.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor, an ongoing survey of 1,600 people aged 18 and over that was launched this week to provide an ongoing measure of public sentiment, finds that, overall, people feel more positive about the photo than 'they weren't earlier this year. In November, 71% of participants said they would be likely to get the vaccine, up from 63% in a survey in September. But the remaining 27% said they probably or certainly never would take it, a proportion that rose to 33% among black adults, 33% among essential workers and 29% among those working in healthcare. For those who hesitate, the main concern was the fear of side effects.
This is a difficult thing to reassure, because the side effects are real. Although the Pfizer vaccine is not granted emergency clearance last weekend, and Moderna's not yet licensed, tens of thousands of people received them earlier this year in clinical trials. In the news and on social media, participants described having lived "a severe hangover, ""fever … fatigue and chills, ""Covid-like symptoms. " A participant Told CNBC he shook so hard with chills that he cracked a tooth.
These accounts correspond to data submitted by companies to the FDA's Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biologics, which reviews safety and efficacy. According to the backgrounders, the Pfizer formula caused fatigue in 59.4% of trial participants after their second dose, headache in 51.7%, muscle pain in 37.3%, joint pain in 21.9%, chills in 35.1% and aches head at 15.8%. The figures of the Moderna formula, which were released Tuesday, are similar: fatigue in 68.5% of recipients, headache in 63%, body aches in 59.6%, chills in 43.4% and fever in 15.6%.
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Budget still fuzzy for emerging county EMS service
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BY CHUCK VANDENBERG
PCC EDITOR
LEE COUNTY – The financial picture of a county run EMS ambulance service is starting to take shape but almost half the revenues are classified as "Miscellaneous reimbursements".
At Monday's regular meeting of the Lee County Board of Supervisors, the board got an update on funding the purchase of six new ambulances.
The county is entering into a six-year lease agreement with North Central Emergency Vehicles to purchase three Type II and three Type III ambulances at a total cost of $1,089,399.
According to Lee County Auditor Denise Fraise, the annual payment on that lease would be $199,914 for six years at 1.64% interest for a total cost of $1,199,484.
Supervisors thought last week that the lease agreement would have to go in front of voters, under the same guidelines as a general obligation bond, but Iowa Code 331.301 says as long as total county lease payments don't annually equate to more than 10% of the last certified budget, the county can enter into the agreement without voter approval. The last county budget was certified at approximately $17 million.
"If we enter into that lease agreement it can't be 10% over the last certified budget balance which was about $17 million, Fraise said.
"This won't be that much so we just need to have a public hearing."
According to a preliminary budget worksheet presented to supervisors last week, an advisory board working to bring the ambulance service under county operations is projecting a $300,000 shortfall in the first year of operations.
County Budget Director Cindy Renstrom told Pen City Current that $300,000 would be made up out of the $900,000 used to subsidize the current Lee County EMS operations through June 30, 2021.
That would make a total annual county contribution of about $500,000 for the first six years until the lease payments drop off. Prior to the 2020-21 current fiscal year, the county had contributed $421,000 to subsidize Lee County EMS Ambulance, Inc. operations.
The county is also currently negotiating a purchase price for Lee County EMS Ambulance Inc. with negotiations scheduled in the next few weeks. No dollar value has been estimated publicly on the cost of that acquisition. Six ambulances, property, and equipment could all be part of the assets of the acquisition.
The proposed budget shows projected expenses at approximately $2.8 million, while revenues come in at $2.5 million. The expenses did not reflect the lease payments on the ambulance nor the estimated cost of acquiring the business.
However, $1.24 million of the revenues are categorized as "miscellaneous reimbursement."
Renstrom said that would be revenues from the current ambulance service that would be paid to the county.
Calls to Lee County EMS Director Dennis Cosby to clarify what revenues made up the miscellaneous line went unreturned Monday.
Other revenues for 2021-22 Fiscal year include $113,490 in Medicaid reimbursement, $683,773 in Medicare reimbursement, $427,629 in private reimbursements, and $85,259 in "insurance from individuals."
A line item for Miscellaneous Federal grants and reimbursements was left blank.
One such grant revenue stream could include the state's Ground Emergency Medical Transportation Program (GEMT) that provides subsidies from the Iowa Department of Human Services for certain medical transports under federal Medicaid, Title 19, and Affordable Care Act programs.
The program is only available to publicly owned ambulance and EMS services.
Supervisor Ron Fedler said things were looking bad on last Wednesday following the ambulance budget workshop.
As the previous chair, Fedler ushered in the move to a county-owned service last year.
Keokuk and Fort Madison city officials tried to put together a proposal to run EMS services in the county, as Lee County EMS Ambulance Inc, faced financial failure.
"After Wednesday's meeting it was looking pretty grim and we were looking at a vote of the people. I didn't sleep very well," Fedler said.
"This was my main concern that we could not get into this bind of not having service. I was so relieved that we are now going to have service offered by the county. In the long run this will save the county money."
In other action, supervisors:
• approved a 2% across the board increase increase for elected officials in the county. Chair Matt Pflug said supervisors haven't taken a pay raise in more than six years.
• heard discussion on savings from the solar panels that were placed at three county buildings in 2020 of more than $20,000 and an additional $12,000 in savings from lighting upgrades at the Lee County Jail and Keokuk Heritage Center.
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Our Mission: OCTA provides quality, accessible, cost effective, and safe public transportation for Ottawa County.
The Ottawa County Transportation Agency operates with a seven-member transit board appointed by the County Commissioners. In 2015 our Board Chair is Sue Lohr, Jennifer Kirby is Vice-Chair and our other board members are Stephanie Kowal, Lori Clune, Bob Eickel, Joseph Majce and Christopher Malfara.
OCTA is Ottawa County's general public transit system that provides demand-response, curb-to-curb, advanced reservation, shared ride service to anyone in the county who wants transportation for any reason. OCTA has vehicles operating from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Our office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
OCTA accepts reservations during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday. Fares are reasonable and discounted fares are offered to senior citizens and those with eligible disabilities.
Along with providing general public service, OCTA contracts with the Ottawa County Department of Job and Family Services, Ottawa County Senior Resources, and the Ottawa County Board of DD to provide transportation for their constituency.
OCTA maintains its own vehicles in its maintenance shop and also provides contract maintenance for other county offices as requested.
OCTA is funded by the Federal Transit Administration, Ohio Department of Transportation, agency contracts, sold maintenance, advertising, donations and passenger fares.
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The Ottawa County Transportation Agency (OCTA) is a general public transit system that provides curb-to-curb, advanced reservation, shared ride service to anyone in Ottawa County who wants transportation for any reason.
OCTA vehicles operate from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. seven days a week.


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Just Flight's Traffic Global Releasing This Month + More Questions Answered
Just Flight has published a further video dedicated to Traffic Global, following the release of many screenshots, videos and information since its announcement in January.
The video, titled 'Traffic Global X-Plane - Key questions answered,' does what it says on the tin. The first such question is whether it is difficult to set up, which simply required an agreement to the license terms and conditions, and clicking install. No further setup is required after that. The video then proceeded to show X-Plane 11 loaded at London Gatwick Airport, with Traffic Global's aircraft placed accordingly.
'Is it going to kill my FPS?' was answered with a comparison with Traffic Global turned on and off. Both cases displayed a steady frame rate of just under 20 fps, but this might in fact be caused by Vsync settings or something else.
To end, the video showed X-Plane 11 loading up with and without Traffic Global installed. In the latter case, it took 2 minutes and 31 seconds to load the sim, and an additional 12 seconds to load with Traffic Global installed.
The video can be watched below. Previously, we reported on another video showing the plugin populating large airports with airliners.
For further information about Traffic Global, check out the product page here.
Gaya Simulations Releases More Kos Previews
Plugin Update
Reality Expansion Pack Version 4.3.3 Released


The purpose of the grease management program is to establish uniform permitting, maintenance and monitoring requirements for controlling the discharge of fat, oil, and grease (FOG) from food service facilities into the City's wastewater collection system. Wastewater discharges containing high concentrations of FOG from food service establishments, such as restaurants, schools, nursing homes, day cares and other similar public facilities, contribute to more than half of the blockages or overflows in the City's wastewater collection system.
For more information on the Grease Management Program or to report a grease violation, please call 404-546-1400, or email us at coafog@atlantaga.gov. You may also visit our website and related links for additional information.


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The strength of the Icelandic economy is also its weakness. It is a small economy, it is thin and it is snappy. However, the last year was not the best one in our economic history, the GDP Growth was 4.9% 2007 and the Current Account Balance was -15.4% of GDP which was much better than the year before.
For the last few years, the Icelandic economy has been doing quite well and has been in the spotlight of late. According to Frederic S. Mishkin and Tryggvi T. Herbertsson, authors of a thorough report on the subject, Financial Stability in Iceland, this is good news in some ways and bad news in others. However, last year was terrible for both Iceland, the land of Ice and Snow, and Icelanders, and the next two years will be the same. The main reason for the crisis in Iceland is corruption.
According to the statistics, there is no corruption in Iceland, (according to Transparency International) but as we Icelanders know, at least now, the Icelandic society is like Rumania just before Ceausescu left 1989! Let's hope that the same fate will not befall the Icelandic politicians... According to the International Monetary Fund, IMF, the dept of Iceland will amount to 108% of GDP for the next two years (2009 and 2010), but according to Moody's, it will be much higher, or 150% of GDP.
Iceland is the smallest economy in the world to have its own currency and a flexible exchange rate. Ups and downs, in other words. Flexibility has been an asset. Iceland is also considered to have excellent institutions, high education and freedom of the press. Furthermore, the country's financial regulation and supervision is generally considered efficient. Iceland's fiscal position is superior by far to that seen in countries such as the United States, Japan and Europe.
Iceland is a small and young economy, and therefore vulnerable when the impact of financial flows is taken into account. A small change (as a percentage of overall flows in international markets) can have a huge impact, and flexibility is not always an option.
To put it bluntly: Icelandic economy is unique in size, its framework is outstanding, its fiscal position has been pretty strong so far, and its financial system is quite unique. The outlook used to be bright, but is very bleak for the moment. The International Monetary Fund, IMF, is running the country, like in the old days, when we had to sit and stand just like the Danish king told us to!
In other words, Iceland was an advanced country with excellent institutions. Its GDP per capita, adjusted for PPP, ranked fifth highest in the world. Other figures speak for themselves: longevity is highest for males and the third highest for females. Unemployment used to be unknown, much lower than the natural rate, but the crisis has changed that too. Net government debt used to be close to nil, labour force participation among older workers the highest in the world, and that of women the highest in the OECD (nearly 80%, compared to an average of 56% in the OECD).
According to figures published by Statistics Iceland, 71.1% of children aged 0 – 5 placed in day care spent 8 hrs. per day or more in day care centers in the year 2005. compared to 40.3% in 1998.
Iceland's fiscal position has been strong during the last decade or so. The government has shown a surplus in the budget for most years. Iceland is not threatened by a pension crisis, as a reform of the pension system, initiated in 1969, has led to stability and had a healthy influence on the banking system. However, the baby-boomers are now starting to retire and we will have some trouble with the working force, yet less than the countries in "old" Europe!
Every wage earner must contribute at least 4% of his earnings to an occupational fund of his choice, most of the time one indicated by his trade union. The employer, on the other hand, contributes 8% of the total contribution. The risk of poverty is low in Iceland and the standard of living is very high. Therefore, the labour cost is high in Iceland, but the Icelandic workers keep a greater part of their wages than the workers in the EU.
The financial sector in Iceland is quite unique! In the course of 120 years, it has grown from a primitive barter market to a full-fledged liberal market. What happened? Well, the EEA-agreement was the key factor, but the overall liberalization of the economy, privatization, and globalization have had an impact as well. However, the privatization was done the Russian way, i.e. the politicians actually gave banks and companies to their friends, who started a kind of money laundering machine and moved all the nation's treasury to the Cayman Islands!
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Blue Water-speedwell is not easily confused with other wild plants on this web site.
One of the prettiest members of a family of extremely good-looking wildflowers, Blue Water-speedwell bears its pale blue flowers (5-6mm) in spikes and is usually found close to streams, rivers and ponds. The stems ascend to about 40cm, and the flowers, between 10 and 40 to a spike, emerge from the axils of both of a pair of opposite leaves. Each of the flowers has petals with veins which come almost to the edge of the petal. Each flower is on a stalk which is longer than the tiny bract which emerges with it from the axil. The leaves are sessile, oval to lanceolate, pointed and barely toothed. The fruits are rounded and their stalks are spreading and erect. The flowers can be seen from June to August. This is a native, annual plant which belongs to the Plantain or Plantagiaceae family.
I first found Blue Water-speedwell near Tomhaggard in Co Wexford in 2015 when I also photographed it.


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Progressing to 50/50 - In Conversation with leading Irish political voices
by Women for Election
Tue, 14 December 2021
Join us for a conversation with some of Ireland's leading political voices to hear about how we achieve gender equality in Irish politics
Women for Election invites you to our online end of year event: Progressing to 50/50.
Ireland has come a long way in terms of gender equality, but when only 23% of our TDs are women, it is evident that we still have a lot of work to do. As we come to the end of 2021, this conversation will take us through developments made during the year, and look to the future on what needs to be done where we can truly see an Ireland with full participation by women in Irish politics.
Hosted by award winning Irish journalist, author and broadcaster Dearbhail McDonald, it's an evening not to be missed!
#gender_equality
Organiser Women for Election
Organiser of Progressing to 50/50 - In Conversation with leading Irish political voices
Women for Election is a non-partisan organisation whose vision is of an Ireland with balanced participation of women and men in political life.
Women for Election
Speaking Out of Place: A Conversation on Reclaiming Our Political Voices
Dance and the Politics of Irish Womanhood
A More Equitable London through Political Participation and Leadership
Fri, 11 Feb 12:00 pm
Leading from the Middle - Power and Politics
Anne Frank's Europe: Before, During and After Her Diary - Livestream Tour
INSEAD Workshop: Venture Capital, Business Angels, and Starts Ups


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Q: SQL query fetching data and insert to db Table employeeAccount:
CREATE TABLE employeeAccount
(
    employAccID NUMBER(2),
    emplyUsername VARCHAR(20),
    emplyFirstName VARCHAR(20),
    emplyLastName VARCHAR(20),
)

INSERT INTO employeeAccount(employAccID ,emplyUsername ) VALUES (1,'TestAccount1')
INSERT INTO employeeAccount(employAccID ,emplyUsername ) VALUES (2,'TestAccount2')

Table JobRole:
CREATE TABLE Jobrole
(
    jobNo NUMBER(2),
    jobName VARCHAR(20),
)

INSERT INTO Jobrole(jobNo ,jobName) VALUES (001,'Admin')
INSERT INTO Jobrole(jobNo ,jobName) VALUES (002,'CEO')

And here is my employeeJob code:
CREATE TABLE employeeJob
(
  empid NUMBER(2),
  empjob NUMBER(2),
  CONSTRAINT pk_employeeJob PRIMARY KEY(empid,empjob),
  CONSTRAINT fk_empassignjob1 FOREIGN KEY(empid) REFERENCES employeeAccount(employAccID),
 CONSTRAINT fk_empassignjob2 FOREIGN KEY(empjob) REFERENCES Jobrole(jobNo)
)

Below is the insertion query:
INSERT INTO employeeJob(empid,empjob)
VALUES (1,'001')

Any idea how do I make it automatic take all the data like emplyFirstName, emplyLastName from employeeAccount table & insert to employeeJob. How should I do that to make it auto insert other data that existing from employeeAccount duplicate to employeeJob table?

A: Yes you can,
INSERT INTO table2
SELECT * FROM table1
WHERE condition;

You can populate table2 automatically from table1. If you want all the records, ignore the WHERE condition. However, if you want to automatically populate only certain records from table1 to table2 write the condition in WHERE statement.

A: You can create a trigger on the employeejob table on insert like
Create trigger trgGetOtherDetails
On employeejob AFTER INSERT -- the AFTER key word is Necessary
AS
BEGIN
Declare @emplyFirstname   varchar(30),
@emplyLastname   varchar(30),
@empId      varchar(5)

select @empId = empId from inserted

Select @emplyFirstname = emplyFirstname, @emplyLastname = emplyLastname from employeeAccount where employAccID = @empId

Update employeejob
Set emplyFirstname = @emplyFirstname,
emplyLastname = @emplyLastname
Where empId = @empId

END

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The Blues Come Pouring Out Of The Latest Album From John Fusco and the X-Road Riders
Bluesman John Fusco and his band, the X-Road Riders wasted no time making their sophomore album "John The Revelator," which will be released on July 31 through Checkerboard Lounge Recordings. Not only was is written, recorded and produced in less than a year, it is also a double album that features two different line-ups of the band, the Southern Chapter and the Northern Chapter. Musician/producer Cody Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars) is once again behind the mixing desk producing the album and adding whatever special touches were need to make the blues come bleeding from your speakers.
The first disc of this new double album centers around the "Southern Chapter" and starts off with the traditional tale of "John The Revelator," as Fusco sings with a passion and anger that lifts the spirits of the past. The album continues with the stark, raw blues of "Baker Man," before the band adds an edgier rock vibe to "Bone Man." John Fusco does his best Randy Newman impression with the poetic-piano ballad "Ophelia (Oh I Feel Ya)," while "Don't Mess Up A Good Thing" has a swinging, New Orleans jazz feel, as Fusco and Risse Norman duet wonderfully on the track. The first disc wraps up with the slow-moving, ten-minute blues jam "Bad Dog" and the piano-solo "Snake Oil Man," which highlights Fusco's songwriting talents.
Disc two aims at the "Northern Chapter" of the blues, beginning with New York City-style blues of "Song For Peter," as John's ruff vocals adds that extra feel of emotion to the song's storied lyrics. The band brings in some of that southern style blues during the swampy sound of "Hottest Part Of The Flame," while "Fools Fire" carries a little touch of gospel mixed with the blues. John Fusco pours his soul and emotions into the heartfelt ballad "Baby, Let's Not Borrow," before finishing up his new double-album with the big rock sound of "Good Money After Bad" and the quieter, uplifting flow of "The Sun Also Rises." To find out more about John Fusco and the X-Road Riders and their latest release "John The Revelator," please visit facebook.com/XRoadRiders.
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I recommend Sin and Syntax to my seniors and freshman honors English classes. And we used it in class to demonstrate the contrast between flat, dull writing and writing that makes use of a full range of techniques.
I have used the exercises in "Constance Hale's Lesson Plans for Teachers" as daily warm-ups. There's one additional exercise I've developed that I'd like to share: I teach my students to identify Greek and Latin morphemes in English words throughout the year.


KETTERING - Pleasant lost the first set 25-16 and trailed 16-11 in the second, but the Spartans rallied by Anna (18-9), taking the next three sets 29-27, 25-23, 25-18 to win the Division III regional semifinal volleyball match 3-1 Thursday night at Trent Arena.
No Pleasant volleyball team has ever made the Elite Eight.
The 14th ranked Spartans (24-3) will play the regional final Saturday at 2 p.m. with the winner earning a berth into next week's state tournament at Wright State's Nutter Center.
Pleasant will face No. 18 Versailles (17-10), the defending D-III state champions. The Tigers dispatched unranked Miami East (18-9) 3-0 by scores of 25-11, 25-21, 25-16.
Making its first-ever regional appearance, unranked Northmor fell to No. 4 Tinora 25-16, 25-18, and 25-22 in a D-III semifinal at Lake High School near Toledo.
Aly Blunk and Donner each had 10 digs, while Lily Tate was 22 of 23 setting with eight assists, Miracle 46 of 50 setting with 11 assists and Donner 10 of 10 setting with 5 assists.
Tinora (27-0) will face No. 2 Liberty-Benton (27-0) in Saturday afternoon's final at Lake after L-B eliminated No. 3 Huron 3-1.
Come back to MarionStar.com and its app for more on this match.


Located in Shively, a section of Louisville with a legendary whiskey heritage, Michter's Distillery is a 5.6 acre, 65,000 square foot facility. A fully-licensed distilled spirits plant (DSP KY-20003), the facility is currently home to all of Michter's processing and bottling operations, as well as two of its small pot stills. Additionally, in October 2014, Michter's installed a custom-built 32 inch diameter, 46 foot high copper column still with a distinctive copper pot still doubler. Designed by Vendome's Rob Sherman, Michter's Master Distiller Pratt, and Michter's Distiller Pam Heilmann, this new still will allow Michter's to eventually bring more great whiskey to the market to satisfy growing demand.
Michter's is in the long-term process of renovating the historically and architecturally significant Fort Nelson Building at 801 West Main Street in downtown Louisville. Located on Louisville's Museum Row, directly across the street from one of Louisville's top tourist attractions, the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory which attracts nearly 300,000 visitors a year, the Fort Nelson building's striking exterior is a classic example of 1890s cast iron architecture.
The US 1 expressions, so named to honor Michter's heritage harkening back to America's first whiskey company, consist of some of the finest single barrel and truly small batch whiskeys available. Distilled to Master Distiller Willie Pratt's exacting specifications, no US 1 whiskey is ever released until Willie and the Michter's tasting panel deems it ready.


Believe It or Not is an easy contemporary lyrical solo ideal for late beginners of all ages. This uplifting solo is a great introduction to syncopation and appropriate for many performance occasions. Part of the Easy Spotlight Solos songbook.
This is a perfect recital piece for my shy young man who is dying for a piece that is uplifting! Thank you!
I never thought I could feel so freeFlying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be?Believe it or not it's just me. I thought how that could really inspire them to applaud their achievements. Anyway, thank you for putting out such a great variety of pieces.


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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe Instance::UserInvitation, type: :model do
  let(:instance) { Instance.default }
  with_tenant(:instance) do
    describe '#generate_invitation_key' do
      it 'starts with "J"' do
        expect(subject.invitation_key).to start_with('J')
      end
    end

    describe 'validations' do
      context 'when there is a previous invitation with the same email' do
        let(:email) { generate(:email) }
        let!(:previous_invitation) do
          create(:instance_user_invitation, *invitation_traits, instance: instance, email: email)
        end
        subject { build(:instance_user_invitation, instance: instance, email: email) }

        context 'if the previous invitation has been confirmed' do
          let(:invitation_traits) { [:confirmed] }

          it { is_expected.to be_valid }
        end

        context 'if the previous invitation has not been confirmed' do
          let(:invitation_traits) { [] }

          it { is_expected.not_to be_valid }
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Sharon Jemutai Cherop (* 16. März 1984) ist eine kenianische Marathonläuferin.

Die Dritte der Leichtathletik-Juniorenweltmeisterschaften 2000 über 5000 m siegte 2007 beim News and Sentinel Half Marathon und wurde Vierte beim Philadelphia-Halbmarathon, bevor sie bei ihrem Debüt über die 42,195-km-Distanz Dritte beim Twin Cities Marathon wurde. 2008 wurde sie Vierte beim Nashville-Marathon und 2009 Dritte beim Nairobi-Marathon.

2010 siegte sie beim Hamburg-Marathon, verbesserte dabei ihren persönlichen Rekord um mehr als fünf Minuten und lief über eine Minute Vorsprung heraus. Ein weiterer Leistungssprung erfolgte beim Toronto Waterfront Marathon, bei dem sie mit 2:22:43 h die bislang schnellste Zeit einer Frau auf kanadischem Boden lief. Im Jahr darauf wurde sie Dritte beim Boston-Marathon, gewann Bronze bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften in Daegu und wurde Zweite beim Delhi-Halbmarathon.

2012 wurde sie Siebte beim Dubai-Marathon und siegte beim Boston-Marathon. 2013 wurde sie Dritte beim Boston-Marathon und Zweite beim Berlin-Marathon.

Ihr Ehemann Matthew Kibowen Kosgei ist ebenfalls als Marathonläufer erfolgreich.

Persönliche Bestzeiten

 3000 m: 9:09,23 min, 31. Mai 2004, Rehlingen
 5000 m: 15:40,7 min, 22. September 2000, Nairobi
 10.000 m: 32:03,0 min, 15. Juli 2011, Nairobi
 Halbmarathon: 1:07:08 h, 27. November 2011, 27. November 2011, Neu-Delhi
 Marathon: 2:22:39 h, 27. Januar 2012,	Dubai

Weblinks

 Athletenporträt auf marathoninfo.free.fr

Fußnoten

Marathonläufer (Kenia)
Halbmarathonläufer (Kenia)
Leichtathlet (Kenia)
Kenianer
Frau
Geboren 1984

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How KKR perform well even without high-profile cricketers?
Kolkata Knight Riders don't have any big guns like Gayle, AB de Villiers or Brendan McCullum, still they have performed consistently well across IPL seasons. How have they been performing well even without the so-called superstars?
Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa have been consistently performing well at the top. Though they are not giving any explosive starts, they set a solid platform for guys like Andre Russel and Yusuf Pathan to explode later in the innings. Gambhir also holds the record of most 50+ scores in IPL, which speaks volumes of the kind of consistency he has shown over the years.
You can't get a better T20 bowler than Sunil Narine. He bowls economic spells and picks up wickets at regular intervals. He bagged 74 wickets at an impressive economy of 6.01 and average of 18.09 in IPL. If a bowler concedes less than 8 runs in an over in T20s, he is considered as a good bowler, but this guy from West Indies concedes only 6 an over, mind boggling!
We don't need any introduction for the hard-hitting ability of West Indian batsmen, Russel is no exception. He hits sixes at ease and even his mishits go for boundaries. His strike rate of 180+ is the highest by any batsmen in IPL.
He is more than handy with the ball and his athletic ability in field marks him as a complete package for any captain.
Yusuf Pathan doesn't score 30+ every day, but when he scores he makes sure that he makes it big. He is the one who led Rajasthan Royals to the first-ever-IPL title. He performed well even after being drafted to KKR.
The best thing happened to Bangladeshi cricket in the last decade is Shakib Al Hasan. He is the No.1 all-rounder in limited overs cricket. He replicated his international success to his IPL franchise too.