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Mirkarimi Request To Delay Removal Vote Denied
The San Francisco Ethics Commission today rejected a request by suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi to postpone sending his administrative case to the Board of Supervisors until after the November election.
Mirkarimi's attorneys submitted the request on Monday, arguing that the board's vote on whether to permanently remove him from office should not take place while many of the supervisors are running for re-election and subject to political pressures.
Benedict Hur, chair of the city's Ethics Commission, denied the request in a two-page response issued today, calling Mirkarimi's arguments "speculative."
Hur wrote, "There is no evidence suggesting that any member of the Board of Supervisors will disregard the facts and the law and instead vote to sustain the charges based upon perceived political pressure."
The Ethics Commission was tasked by the city charter to conduct fact-finding hearings in the administrative case against Mirkarimi, who was suspended without pay by Mayor Ed Lee in March following his guilty plea to a false imprisonment charge in connection with a Dec. 31 incident in which he grabbed and bruised his wife's arm during an argument.
On Aug. 16, the commission voted 4-1 to recommend upholding the official misconduct charges against Mirkarimi, with Hur as the lone dissenter.
The commissioners earlier this week ratified their decision and approved the transcripts from the various hearings, but delayed a decision on the postponement request until today.
Hur wrote that the commission will "send the record and its recommendation to the board promptly upon completion."
Mabel Ng, deputy executive director of the Ethics Commission, said the panel hopes to send the documents to the board by next Tuesday.
Attorneys for Mirkarimi were not immediately available today to comment on the commission's decision.
Once the commission submits the case to the supervisors, the board has 30 days to vote on whether to reinstate or remove the sheriff. The decision to oust him from office would require the approval of nine of 11 supervisors.
Dan McMenamin, Bay City News


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Batam Set To Be 'Paradise' For Foreign Energy Investors
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The National Gas Company (PGN) has targeted Batam, Riau Islands, as the centre of natural gas supplies and hopes developments will see the region become a 'paradise' for energy investors.
PGN Infrastructure and Technology Director Dilo Seno Widagdo said Batam will soon be known as Indonesia's city of natural gas.
Batam's high potential of gas reserves has long attracted the interest of local and foreign investors. Strategically located near Singapore, a hub for international trade, and with infrastructure developing investor interest is expected to increase.
To date, PGN serves 3,497 households, 53 commercial enterprises and 42 industry and power plant customers in Batam alone. The firm services 19 cities over 12 provinces.
"Since 2004, we have been developing distribution networks for our customers in Batam. PGN directly supply the gas to the industries, commercial enterprises and even to power plants and households," Widagdo said, as quoted by Okezone.
PGN is also set to soon finish the Sub Sea Tie In transmission pipe project, which was assigned by the national government.
"We believe that this project will bring Batam another benefit, which is as alternative supply of gas to various areas in Riau Islands, especially Batam, Bintan and Karimun. This will also serve as our contribution to support government's programme to improve national energy resilience and independence," Widagdo said.
When the pipe project is complete, PGN in Batam will have a capacity of 40 Billion British Thermal Unit per Day (BBTUD) in total. The project can improve natural gas volume up to 100 BBTUD for the next several years, adjusting with the increasing consumer demand for gas.
With a large availability of energy support in Batam, the local government has turned to foreign investors to develop commercial, industrial and electricity sectors to improve access and the economy in Batam, Bintan and surrounding areas in Riau.
"PGN is growing along with its customers and stakeholders in improving national competitiveness independently through reliable integrated gas infrastructures and supplies. We believe that it's not impossible for Batam to be a paradise for foreign investors to invest their capital here," Widagdo said.
See: Pelindo II To Foster National Ports Cooperation With International Players
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One of the legends of pugilism, Sugar Ray Leonard was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses. Winning world titles in five different weight divisions by defeating greats of the sport, Leonard was named the Boxer of the Decade for the 1980s. An ideal boxing speaker for events and functions, Sugar Ray talks on a number of motivational topics including overcoming adversity and maximising success. Making his professional debut in 1977, in front of a crowd of 10,270 in Baltimore, Maryland, Leonard defeated Luis Vega in six rounds and received $40,044 for the fight.
By 1979, after fighting world ranking opponents, including Floyd Mayweather, Leonard had accrued a record of 25-0 with 16 knockouts. To consistently perform under the pressure of a boxing environment makes Sugar Ray one of the most formidable characters of the sport, an attribute he talks about with detail during his time as a boxing speaker. Challenging for his first world title in 1979 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Leonard battled Wilfred Benitez for the World Boxing Council (WBC) Welterweight Belt. Leonard defeated Benitez in the fifteenth round after one of the hardest fights of his life, stating "no one, I mean no one, can make me miss punches like that".
Sugar Ray speaks passionately about overcoming adversity in order to achieve goals as an after dinner speaker, drawing upon many examples of his times in bouts against some of the most formidable boxers of the age. A multiple award winner, including Fighter of the Year by The Ring and Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated, Leonard was a remarkable athlete and perhaps one of the most highly respected athletes in boxing.
Multiple comebacks saw him defeat giants of the sport including Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran. Retiring for the final time in 1998, Leonard had left a legacy of a career, recording 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts. Leonards ability to maximise success over such a length career makes him a remarkable example of huge drive and determination, two attributes that are relatable to both business and social environments alike as a sports speaker. Perfect for events and conferences, Leonard enjoys interacting and engaging with the crowd as an after dinner speaker, immersing the audience in his life story as the greatest boxer in the world. A consummate professional, Ray's ability to use both anecdotal examples and invaluable advice during talks will ensure he is a hit with the crowd.
How to hire Sugar Ray Leonard
Contact the Champions Speakers agency to provisionally enquire about Sugar Ray Leonard for your event today. Simply call a booking agent on 0207 1010 553 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
When he's at corporate events, Sugar Ray is known to cover the following topics:
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1988 - Won the WBC World Light-heavyweight and inaugural WBC World Super-middleweight titles
1987 - Won the WBC and Ring Magazine World Middleweight titles
1981 - Won the WBA World Welterweight title
1981 - Won the WBA and Ring Magazine World Light-middleweight titles
1980 - Won the WBC and Ring Magazine World Welterweight titles for a second time
1979 - Won the WBC and Ring Magazine World Welterweight titles
1979 - Won the NABF Welterweight title
1976 - Won an Olympic Gold Medal at the Montreal Games
1975 - Won the Pan American Games
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Maine's annual high school rock off takes place in Portland May 11
Camden's teen band The Extension Chords aims to slay at the MAMM Slam competition
Kay Stephens
The Extension Chords (l to r) Owen Markowitz, Katherine Bowen, and Myles Kelley
CAMDEN — The jazz-inspired trio The Extension Chords, representing Camden Hills Regional High School, is the only Midcoast band competing in the Maine Academy of Modern Music's annual rock off dubbed the MAMM Slam to be held at the Empire in Portland on Saturday, May 11.
Myles Kelley (keyboard), Katherine Bowen (electric bass) and Owen Markowitz (drums) make up the ensemble.
The band name came out of a musician's worst fear: Right before their first public gig, they forgot the extension cords in order to plug in their instruments.
"It was eventually resolved," said Myles, "but that provided the band name."
Here's a video of that exact moment after they got their electrical issues fixed.
All three met and began playing together at the Midcoast Music Academy. Owen, 15, is a sophomore and Myles and Katherine, are both 16 and juniors at CHRHS.They were only a handful of students through MMA playing jazz and naturally, the school put them all together. For the last two years, they've been working on original songs and standards. And, they just like to hang out together.
To get a sense of their style, listen to their Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/theextensionchords
If you want to hear some complicated and sophisticated arrangements, listen to Freedom Jazz Dance. For a little sweet nostalgia, check out their cover of My Funny Valentine. And for a fantastic keyboard cover of Stevie Wonder's classic hit, listen to You Are The Sunshine of My Life.
It's no surprise that all three students began their musical careers early, in elementary school. Given such talent at such a young age, their choice of musical style begs the question: why jazz? Why not rock or hip hop?
"I think jazz is coming up more, like more of a popular form," said Owen.
"In jazz, you have to learn a lot of the basics, that you'd find in other genres, like rock," said Myles. "It's not easy, but it makes for a better transition when playing other styles."
The kids point to Anderson Paak as one of their musical inspirations for jazz being played in a modern way. In the NPR Tiny Desk video embedded in this story (warning: some explicit language), it's evident what they find exciting about his music. Paak plays drums in some funky, hip hop jazzy dragged beat while effortlessly rapping and singing.
"You can tell this is exactly where our inspiration comes from," said Myles.
"And a lot of hip hop is also our influence," said Owen.
As the only Camden band to register for the MAMM Slam, The Extension Chords guaranteed a spot to compete among nearly a dozen bands. In fact, they may be Camden Hills Regional High School only teen band that participates in professional gigs.
All three know this is one of the biggest tests of their music careers this coming weekend that on top of the fact that it's a heavy testing week at school for them. They only have a few minutes to play their set have to bring their A game. As an instrumental band, they are fairly that they won't be nervous once they get on stage. (Although Katherine admitted she and Myles do have a little work to do when it comes to stage presence.)
The winners of the MAMM Slam will not only take home a $1,000 cash prize, but will receive a slew of opportunities to boost their career.
No matter what happens, The Extension Chords already have gigs lined up afterward, and plan to play in an upcoming performance at the new "Jazz In June" Festival slated to be held in Camden this summer.
Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com


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Today I share another card we made at my last class. This was another technique using the Stamparatus and a template to create this wreath style with the Varied Vases stamp set.
I created the template by cutting a piece of 3″ x 3″ cardstock and placing it in the centre of a 8″ x 8″ piece of window sheet over the grid paper. Using the more solid lines of the grid paper, I lined up the square and using a black biro, traced around the square. Then I rotated the square 45 degrees and repeated the process. I also did the same with a 4″ x 4″ on the same template.
Place this template onto your Stamparatus and place the 3″ x 3″ whisper white cardstock into the centre of the coordinating square. Work out your design. I had the flower image on one plate and the leaves on another. I inked the flower in Lovely Lipstick and stamped, then the leaves in Call Me Clover and stamp. Rotate the white card one rotation and repeat your stamping. Continue this process until your card is complete.
I have used two new colours for my base card and layers; Highland Heather and Soft Sea Foam. They are gorgeous together!
I used some Wink of Stella on the flowers and the leaves to blend a bit of the colour and add a little sparkle. The sentiment is stamped in Highland Heather on Soft Sea Foam card and cut out using the Classic Label Punch before being added with dimensionals. I sponged the edges of each layer of cardstock.


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Welcome to this portion of the website, which will be devoted to all of the Outer Banks events, attractions and outdoor activities that the OBX is so well known for. You will want to visit OBXING often, as new additions to this section will be frequent.
Why commit so much time to developing non-real estate related information? The answer is simple. My clients know me to be a full service Outer Banks realtor®, and often, part of my service means assisting new home owners in becoming more familiar with the Outer Banks, and all that it has to offer.
Well, rather than provide this information one on one as I have done in the past, I've decided to dig a bit deeper and make this as fun and informative an experience for you as I can. Once you realize how varied the Outer Banks is, you will find new ways to appreciate this beautiful area, and you may even take up a new hobby or two!
My approach in this section will be radically different than what you will find on other websites. I intend to provide you with information in a format that is real, that is local, and that is first-hand. Moving forward, I will be stepping outside my comfort zone in some areas in order to provide you with as rich an experience as possible. I'm looking at this as a personal adventure, and anticipate finding new ways to deepen my own appreciation of the Outer Banks, which I am so fortunate to call my home.
So come along with me in my many exploits (just as soon as the weather warms up a bit), and find out what it is really like to be 'OBXING'!


Teacher of twelve different classes in Television department. Classes' curricula include all steps of pre-production, production, and post-production process, from concept through completion, as well as the study of aesthetics and storytelling. Faculty supervising producer for department's sketch comedy program.
Teacher of two classes in department of Communications, Media & Theatre: The Art of Film & Video and Introduction to Video Production. Class curriculum for The Art of Film and Video includes study of history of film, as well as aesthetic study of film, including composition and codes/conventions of cinema. Class curriculum for Introduction to Video Production includes all steps of pre-production, production, and post-production process from process through completion. August 2005-Present.
Ability to Operate: Avid Video Editing System, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, several models of DV, HDV and HD cameras.
Most recent clients include: America's Film Fund, Exclaim, National Louis University, McDonalds, A & E Network, Allan Kartun – Director of The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, Anixter, Inc., Monsanto Corporation, CORE Africa, Abbott Laboratories, Allstate, Frame One, Inc., Konami, Medline, Pivot Point International, Edward Heart Hospital, Allstate, The International Culinary Academy, National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency, Partnership for Food Safety Education, Hazelden Corporation, and National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
Governors State University, University Park, IL. May 2008 – Present. Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0.
- MFA Candidate in Independent Film and Digital Imaging.
Columbia College, Chicago, IL. September 1993 - January 1995. Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0.
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Fall 1988 - Spring 1992. GPA in Major 3.6/4.0.


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I have to be honest, I only wear pieces that truly match with my personal style. Maybe the best way to understand what kind of style I like is to check out some of the videos from 27 seconds category. I like to feel good and look even better in each outfit I wear, so I pay attention to choosing. Now, let's have a look at the outfit I chose.
How I chose the outfit?
First of all, I ask myself: How do I feel today? Am I in a mood for some classic or some casual elegant style? What kind of activities I have in my schedule? After all of those are being answered, I let my creativity suggest. Trying out, maybe adjusting a bit with some details, and here it is: outfit of the day.
What are the main pieces of my style?
Each girl just needs to find a perfect pair of jeans. When you have one, it is easy to make a combination and look confident, with such kind of ally!
It is just an incredible part of the outfit. It perfectly matches almost any kind of style, no matter if you go to some day activity or to dinner, or even a night out. Blazer is like a chameleon, it will adjust to any occasion you need to attend.
Aren't you in love with laced sandals? I definitely am, they are so adorable and stunning! Couldn't resist buying these ones from amazing Aquazzura's collection. Combination of the good denim and high-heel sandals really looks special, don't you think so? That was the classy and cool moment which I mentioned at the beginning, and it is just about combining certain pieces together and playing with styles.
If you read my article 10 Facts About Milan Fashion Week, you probably noticed the Croco Bag from THE COLLECTOR, Genève brand. Well, I am officially such a huge fan of those high quality, croco & python bags, so it is no wonder that I am wearing another one from their collection. A girl can never have enough bags, do you agree?
I have one rule here: keep it simple. Lead by that, I've chosen this black and white T-shirt, as it gave kind of street style vibe to my combination.
Last but not the least, you have to wear your outfit with confidence, otherwise it is not a style, but just random pieces of clothes gathered at one place. Be stylish by being smart in choosing not only what you like, but also what suits you. Having said that, I would add just one more thing: take your sunglasses put a smile on and you are ready!


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Brendan is a multi-disciplinary designer from Brooklyn, NY. He is the co-founder and CCO at Dexter, a platform for creating and managing powerful automated conversational interactions. He leads in the experience design of Dexter, develops the feature set for its users and creates engaging products for brand partners.
Prior to Dexter, Brendan co-founded Mayday, a boutique creative agency in NY. As partner and production director, he worked on everything from UX design and technical direction to creative production and account management. He led projects that spanned both vertical and client size, including award-winning digital campaigns for Comedy Central, brand showcases for Marriott and Levi's, and product design for startup stage entrepreneurs.
Brendan received his Master of Science degree from Northwestern University, where he concentrated in interactive production, and a BA from New York University. He lives in Park Slope with his wife and two cats, and watches far too many Mets games for his own health.
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Harold Stokes: Dr. Superman
To demonstrate the force of atmospheric pressure in his physics classes, Dr. Stokes shoots a Ping-Pong ball through a vacuum cannon. The cannon is fired first at the wall, then at a piece of 1/8-inch plywood (which it easily breaks through), and then at his stomach.
Bravely wearing an apron with a large target, Professor Stokes stands in front of the cannon without any artificial protection, except what he calls his "natural padding."
At the end of the demonstration, Stokes admits he does have one secret protection, and then opens his dress shirt to show a bright blue Superman T-shirt underneath.
Despite his steely response to the impact, he confesses to his class, "Actually, that really hurt." He then reveals a large, red welt on his stomach. While a Ping-Pong ball is lightweight, once it gets going at 70% of the speed of sound, it's bound to make an impression. However, Dr. Stokes is less worried about the pain and more interested in the impact it makes on his students.
"I always try to put twists in the demonstrations like that," Dr. Stokes said. "I add little, unexpected things if possible and relate it to physics."
Born for Physics
Harold Stokes considers himself a natural physicist. In high school he knew he wanted to be a physicist, and he never changed his mind. From Long Beach, Calif., Stokes came to BYU as an undergraduate and loved every minute of it.
When he needed to use computer calculations in his undergraduate research, he bought a book and taught himself how to program computers. This self-training has been instrumental to Stokes' career as a computational physicist.
After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Utah, where he met his wife, Stokes completed his postdoctoral program at the University of Illinois before being hired as a professor at Brigham Young University.
"I have never regretted the decision to work here at BYU," he said, "I have had a wonderful 30 years getting paid to do something that I love so much."
The Man Behind the Clicker
A sign hanging in his office serves as Stokes's personal career motto. It reads, "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
One way his love of career is manifest is in his efforts to improve teaching through various technological innovations. He was the first professor on campus to use clickers, electronic remotes that allow professors to instantly quiz students and record their scores digitally.
Several years ago, Dr. Stokes worked with the Information Technology to set up this technology. Originally using infrared clickers, BYU classes now employ clickers with Radio Frequency, which requires much less infrastructure. These are now used throughout campus giving all students a voice, regardless of the class size. This has altered classroom structure by increasing interaction, all because of Dr. Stokes' persistence and foresight.
Additionally, Professor Stokes implemented a system for privately posting scores and grades online. He also uses a PC tablet, a touch screen device that combines handwriting and slides, in the classroom instead of using classic overhead transparencies or Power Point slides.
When he attends national physics teacher conventions, Professor Stokes is always looking for new technology to bring back to Provo. Recently, he found something else that may be implemented in the future: a device that allows a portable tablet to project on classroom walls via WiFi.
Living with Prosopagnosia
"When I was younger, I didn't know what was wrong," said Dr. Stokes. "I didn't know why I wasn't recognizing people. I didn't know it was a real disability that I had."
Dr. Stokes deals with a disorder called prosopagnosia, which impairs his ability to recognize faces. "It takes me all semester to learn 15 faces," he said. "And sometimes, I still can't recognize them by the end of the semester."
Though this disorder has led to some embarrassing situations, Professor Stokes said that he has basically learned to live with it. "I'm a physicist, and we tend to not let social situations get us too embarrassed. We generally lack social skills already. So, in some ways it fits in with my profession."
The Future of Dr. Superman
Many ask Stokes if he will ever complete the Ping-Pong cannon experiment again.
"My wife hated it whenever I shot myself," he said. "Last winter I taught two sections of Physics 105, and I decided that I didn't want to shoot myself twice in the same day. That gave me reason to videotape the demonstration."
Now that he can use the video to complete the demonstration, Professor Stokes does not plan on shooting himself again anytime soon. "I've lost a lot of weight since then," he said. "I'm afraid I don't have enough natural padding now."
Written by: Alysa Hoskin (CPMS Frontiers, Fall/Winter 2011)
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Siemens overhauls VoIP/unified communications platform
Siemens Enterprise Communications, which is rebuilding itself in the U.S. for the past few years, emphasize the idea that it deserves another look through its recent announcement of the Version 7.0 of its OpenScape UC suite that enables its VoIP platform to support 500,000 users.
Complementing a leap forward from a maximum of 100,000 users in previous versions is a taste of Openscape's new capabilities in unified communications, including the UC federated support to extend online presence, chat and other core functions of other domains, support for MacOS, and some smooth handoff call capability between different types of devices and networks.
"We were once a $6 billion company, but business is declining 10 percent annually for the last 10 years," company President Chris Hummell says. "Now we have a $3 billion company. Many things have to change." Siemens Enterprise Communications is only second in the communications market with 1.5 percent market share here today, and the 8th or 9th on the list of global market share, Hummel said. But it is a global company and tops the charts in Germany, Brazil and Western Europe, and second or third in market share worldwide basis. "We need to get bigger here in the U.S.," he said. "We are first, second or third, but we have to do better."
Hummel says the company hangs its hat on advanced technology, but with a compelling cost advantage as well. "With a $200,000 deal, there's not going to be much of a difference in pricing between vendors," he said. "But $5 million to $10 million, the cost separation really start to be obvious."
In a recent win of $50 million contract to modernize a large network of state with 60,000 points, Hummel says Siemens Enterprise came to 25 percent less than what Microsoft bid. Othersvying for the coveted contract are Cisco and Avaya.
While this is an impressive win in the biggest names in business, it's going to be difficult for Siemens Enterprise to compete with industry powerhouses, says Kerravala Zeus, the founder and principal analyst of ZK Research. "This is home turf for Avaya and Cisco, Microsoft is coming on strong, and Huawei is making a big push. It is difficult for Siemens to grab share easily."
'Tech by Siemens is up to date, Kerravala said, but one thing that concerns potential customers is the fact that they are now private and it is difficult to clarify their financial health. Their best bet is in vertical markets that are driven by state enterprises as mentioned above.
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Maison Jean Cocteau
Dandy-Dilettante or Multifaceted Genius ?
June 22, 2010By Heidi EllisonMuseums
Jean Cocteau in front of his house in Milly-la-Forêt on July 24, 1963. © KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Keystone/Eyedea Presse.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is a slippery character. It's hard to get a grip on who he was and what he did, partly because he did so many different things – he was a poet, artist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, screenwriter, set designer and more – and partly because he didn't always seem to care about the preservation of his work – he would draw on a blackboard and erase the results, for example, and often instructed assistants to destroy original manuscripts and drawings (they often disobeyed).
At the opening yesterday of the Maison Jean Cocteau in the town of Milly-la-Forêt, about an hour from Paris, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand described Cocteau as "insaisissable," or elusive, which seems to me the mot juste.
Curator Dominique Païni decried the fact that Cocteau is so "poorly known," which surprised me, since references to him seem ubiquitous in Paris – his sketches adorn the menus of restaurants he frequented, and the Palais Royal is never mentioned without his name (along with that of Colette, the other famous resident) coming up – but Païni noted that the Centre Pompidou doesn't have a single work by Cocteau in its collection, although it devoted an exhibition to him in 2003, which he also curated (the Pompidou's curators "practically held their noses," he said). He also said that Cocteau would have received much more attention if he were alive today, calling him the "Jeff Koons of his day," which not everyone would take as a compliment.
So, was Cocteau a talented dandy-dilettante or a multifaceted genius? His brilliance and creative energy cannot be denied, but he left no consistent œuvre to judge him on: he won acclaim for his films La Belle et la Bête and Orphée, which are still shown, but does anyone read his poetry or novels today? He had a wonderful facility for drawing and adorned nearly everything he wrote with sketches but created no major works of visual art. An early adopter of new technologies (as soon as felt-tip pens became available, he used them instead of pastels, and he took part in television shows right from the beginning of the medium), he liked to work fast and move on to something else.
The house in Milly-la-Forêt that Cocteau bought in 1947 as a refuge from the Palais Royal is a fitting tribute to him, containing references to all these aspects of the man. Three rooms – the living room and his bedroom and study – were locked up by his companion (and adopted son), Edouard Dermit, when Cocteau died in 1963, and left untouched until Pierre Bergé (the business and life partner of the late Yves Saint Laurent), who was a friend of Cocteau, bought the house and its contents with the help of the local councils in 2002 and had it renovated.
The furniture and objects in those three rooms have been minimally restored and cleaned (except the fabrics, which were in bad condition and had to be replicated). What do such rooms tell us? In this case, the small, rather fusty rooms are conventional in a way, with all the usual furnishings – a sofa, a narrow four-poster bed, etc. – yet hyper-kitsch (was Cocteau the inventor of kitsch?) and filled with bibelots and tchotchkes. The walls, ceiling, daybed and lampshades in the study are covered in leopard-skin-patterned paper and fabric, and a rather hideous painted plaster-relief image of a hot-air balloon surfing on a stormy ocean hangs over the mantelpiece. A dildo on the mantel is juxtaposed with an image of Christ. The living room boasts two enormous metal palm-tree lamps and a large painting by Christian Bérard, while a rather mundane mural depicting a château on a hill, perhaps painted by Cocteau's lover, actor Jean Marais, covers one wall of the bedroom.
The leopard-skin-lined study in Jean Cocteau's country house. Photo: Erica Lennard. © ADAGP, Paris 2010/Avec l'aimable autorisation de Monsieur Pierre Bergé, Président du Comité Jean Cocteau.
Other rooms have been converted into temporary and permanent exhibition spaces, and a library/gift shop. The permanent show presents portraits of Cocteau by some of the leading artists of the 20th century, who were also his friends: Picasso, Modigliani, Man Ray, Buffet and more. The current temporary exhibition, which will change annually, traces Cocteau's life story through his works, including drawings, books, photos, excerpts from his films, interviews, etc. The photos document his affinity for very handsome young men, while the drawings offer some surprises: a wonderful portrait of Colette in charcoal and flour done on a wooden tabletop; a pencil and ink sketch of his neurasthenic friend Marcel Proust all bundled up in a hat and big overcoat with a fur collar and a mysterious object sticking out of his pocket; and sketches documenting Cocteau's opium addiction and withdrawal from it.
Cocteau certainly had a genius for friendship. At the opening, Pierre Bergé, who was talking about how incredibly kind and polite Cocteau was, told a story about taking a two-hour walk with him one day. At the end of the walk, Cocteau said how wonderful it had been to wander like "two old Mandarins" exchanging confidences with him. "We hadn't exchanged anything," said Bergé. "He never stopped talking for a minute, but he was polite enough to say that we had had a dialogue."
Cocteau, who died in the house, is buried in Milly-la-Forêt's tiny 12th-century Chapelle Saint-Blaise des Simples, now open to the public, whose walls he decorated with frescoes. A recording of the gruff voice of Jean Marais describes its contents, and it is surrounded by a garden of "simples," plants grown for their curative powers.
A highlight of a visit to the house is its enormous garden, crisscrossed by the moat of the charming small château next door, and the small wood behind it.
Chapelle Saint-Blaise des Simples: Tel.: 01 64 98 83 17. Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-noon and 2:30pm-6pm March 1-October 30; Wednesday-Sunday, 2pm-5pm November 1-January 15. Closed Monday and Tuesday and January 16-February 28. Admission: €2.50. www.chapelle-saint-blaise.org
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Myanmar: Britons urged to leave as violence escalates and UN expert warns of 'crimes against humanity'
Campaigners say a dozen more protesters were killed in the country on Thursday as a brutal army crackdown goes on.
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Image: An anti-coup protester peeps from makeshift barricades in Yangon
Britons have been advised to leave Myanmar as violence in the southeast Asian country continues after a military coup.
Twelve more protesters were killed on Thursday, taking the total to more than 70, according to Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).
UN experts say evidence is mounting that crimes against humanity could be taking place.
'I need to be part of this fight' - resistance to coup grows
Violence has escalated since the army took control on 1 February, declaring a state of emergency and detaining leader Aung San Suu Kyi and party officials.
The UK Foreign Office said British nationals should leave Myanmar "by commercial means, unless there is an urgent need to stay".
"Figures in the Civilian Government, civil society and a foreign national have been detained by the military," said a statement.
"Political tension and unrest are widespread since the military takeover and levels of violence are rising."
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It also cited a nightly internet shutdown, problems with phone networks, a nationwide curfew between 8pm and 4am, and difficulty getting cash.
Image: Protesters stay low in Myaing on Thursday - when eight people are said to have been killed in the town
The Foreign Office said if people couldn't leave they should "stay home and stay safe" and avoid any crowds if they do go out.
Thursday's violence was among the worst since the military seized power and came hours after a call from the UN Security Council for restraint.
Eight of the 12 killed were protesters who were shot in the central town of Myaing, said the AAPP.
Image: Protests and clashes have been going on since the military seized power in February
UN experts believe there is now "growing evidence" the military regime is "likely engaging in crimes against humanity".
Human rights special rapporteur Thomas Andrews said on Thursday that crimes may include murder, enforced disappearance, persecution, torture, and unlawful imprisonment.
"There is shocking video of the aftermath of attacks, including fatal gunshot wounds to the heads of protesters, and video of soldiers dragging or carrying away the dead bodies of their victims," Mr Andrews told the UN Humans Right Council.
He said there were "credible reports" that security forces had murdered at least 70 people.
Nun begs Myanmar police not to open fire
Myanmar's army has also made new accusations against detained leader Ms Suu Kyi.
It claims she accepted 11kg gold and illegal payments of $600,000 while in government - dismissed by her lawyer as a "hilarious joke".
The army justified their power grab by claiming there was fraud in November's election - won by Ms Suu Kyi - but Myanmar's electoral commission has rejected that assertion.
The country's state of emergency will last for a year, according to the military.
It says it will only be in charge until fresh elections are held, but so far hasn't set a date for a new vote.


Thanks to all who attended this morning webcast 'Under The Hood of SQL Server – Checking Out Internals'. This mornings webcast was a complete success. The number of people attending was fantastic, and some excellent questions were asked. If I remember correctly there were about 140 people in attendance. For those who weren't able to attend the webcast this morning, it was recorded and as soon as it's published I'll post the link to the video.
If you have a question specific to the webcast please email my good friend Andy Grant with your questions and he will route them to myself or Jason Hall.
Don't forget to check out the tech brief which we were talking about.
For those that don't get the Tech Net news letter Microsoft and Seagate are producing a new comic strip called Heroes Happen Here. It's published on the Tech Net blog here. You can also grab the RSS feed in your favorite RSS reader here.
So far it shows some promise and I've gotten a good laugh out of it a few times; I am a pretty major dork some times though.
Virtualizing servers is huge right now. And thanks to VMWare it is very easy to build virtual machines. In most of IT virtualizing servers is a good think. In the database world, that isn't always the case. As we know SQL Server uses a lot of memory and CPU resources. If you try to virtualize a high load SQL Server you could end up with all the resources of the virtual server being used by the single virtual server.
Now don't get me wrong. If you have a small server with low load which has a SQL Server on it, such as a Blackberry Enterprise Server, that may be an excellent server to virtualize. Your production CRM database, probably wouldn't be a good server to virtualize as it probably needs more CPU and memory resources than your Virtual server would be able to afford to give it. Now that said; if your VM Servers are huge servers with hundreds of Gigs of RAM and lots of CPUs (such as the new HP DL 580 and 585 models) and rack space is tight, then virtualizing SQL Servers might be a good plan provided you can deal with any disk IO issues.
In addition to the CPU and memory concerns there are the disk performance issues to look into. Typically when setting up a virtual machine, the disk drives are also virtualized. This means that to the virtual server host the virtual machines disks are simply files stored on the file system. This probably isn't the best way to store SQL Server databases (or any system which uses the disk subsystem a lot). If you can setup your disks to be mapped directly to physically SCSI arrays you can remove this potential problem. Check your VM solution to see if this is supportd (VMWare does, I don't know about Microsoft Virtual Server). If you can provide information about this feel free to post as such in the comments.
I found this great little MS KB article today. It's got all the SQL Server 2005 post SP2 host fixes including bug numbers and descriptions of the bug. The MS KB article ID is 937137.


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HomeArts & Entertainment'Batman v. Superman' stumbles DCEU start
'Batman v. Superman' stumbles DCEU start
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Courtesy of DC Entertainment Following up on "Man of Steel," "Batman v. Superman" is the second entry in the DC expanded universe. Similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DCEU ties in multiple films and characters into one continuous series.
By Zachary Landau | The Duquesne Duke
Courtesy of DC Entertainment
Following up on "Man of Steel," "Batman v. Superman" is the second entry in the DC expanded universe. Similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DCEU ties in multiple films and characters into one continuous series.
Let's just get this straight: "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is not bad. Despite all the critics hailing it as the second crucifixion of Christ, there really was no totally offensive content on display here.
It is possible that the reason for this backlash is because of how excited people were to see three titans of the comic book industry, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, on-screen at once. DC was obviously complicit in this; it hyped "Dawn of Justice" to the moon and back as the beginning of its own cinematic universe to rival Marvel's own multi-movie endeavor. Unlike Marvel, however, DC has not been careful in planning for this project, and this carelessness is evident in every second of "Dawn of Justice."
It should be taken as tacit that a super-hero movie would be about the super heroes, but somehow "Dawn of Justice" manages to make men clad in ridiculous costumes completely uninteresting. It should be applauded for how quickly the film can kill intrigue; within the first five minutes of the film, I was rolling my eyes at the blatant, messianic imagery being employed instead of actual story telling.
Speaking of heavy-handed symbolism, most actors lean heavily on the reputation of their characters instead of actually developing their personalities, relaying on one-note performances for the entirety of the film. Infuriatingly, this is not the actors' fault, but rather the writers'. Jesse Eisenberg, for example, could have been a fantastic self-centered, super nerd, but the writers forgot to give him a motive. The entire film goes by without giving him a proper reason as to why he does anything.
Nothing of consequence happens in this two-hour odyssey, and the only bits of excitement that can be gleamed from this tedious mess come at the end when Wonder Woman shows up. For a brief 10 minutes, the film becomes tolerable enough to penetrate the boredom that had settled in at that point.
The film lifts some of DC's biggest moments from the 1990s, creating an amalgamation of the worst parts of the Batman and Superman legacy. I don't feel bad "spoiling" this for a number of reasons, but this is necessary to talk about because that era was very significant. The reason it was so significant was because the comic industry nearly died at the time, and the fault for that crash falls squarely on the shoulders of the publishers.
Nowadays, the comic-book industry is not in such a desperate place thanks to excellent adaptations coming out of Marvel and Image. DC, however, is not as well-secured as its rivals, and the reason why is readily apparent in this movie: It has no idea what it is doing anymore. DC has become a shadow of itself, desperately chasing after trends in order to stay relevant in a world that is changing around it too quickly for it to follow.
"Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is the epitome of irrelevancy. Everything from the story to the themes to the messages are of no consequence to anyone in the film or in the audience. "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is a movie that will be forgotten within a year.
But please, just give me a Wonder Woman movie already.
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id: bad87fee1348bd9aed308826
title: Apunta al padre de un elemento usando jQuery
challengeType: 6
forumTopicId: 18321
dashedName: target-the-parent-of-an-element-using-jquery
---

# --description--

Cada elemento HTML tiene un elemento `parent` (padre) del cual `inherits` (hereda) propiedades.

Por ejemplo, tu elemento `jQuery Playground` `h3` tiene el elemento padre de `<div class="container-fluid">`, que en sí mismo tiene el padre `body`.

jQuery tiene una función llamada `parent()` que te permite acceder al padre del elemento que hayas seleccionado.

Aquí hay un ejemplo de cómo usarías la función `parent()` si quieres dar al elemento padre del elemento `left-well` un color de fondo azul:

```js
$("#left-well").parent().css("background-color", "blue")
```

Dale al padre del elemento `#target1` un color de fondo rojo.

# --hints--

Tu elemento `left-well` debe tener un fondo rojo.

```js
assert(
  $('#left-well').css('background-color') === 'red' ||
    $('#left-well').css('background-color') === 'rgb(255, 0, 0)' ||
    $('#left-well').css('background-color').toLowerCase() === '#ff0000' ||
    $('#left-well').css('background-color').toLowerCase() === '#f00'
);
```

Debes usar la función `.parent()` para modificar este elemento.

```js
assert(code.match(/\.parent\s*\(\s*\)\s*\.css/g));
```

El método `.parent()` debe ser llamado en el elemento `#target1`.

```js
assert(
  code.match(/\$\s*?\(\s*?(?:'|")\s*?#target1\s*?(?:'|")\s*?\)\s*?\.parent/gi)
);
```

Solo debes usar jQuery para agregar estas clases al elemento.

```js
assert(code.match(/<div class="well" id="left-well">/g));
```

# --seed--

## --seed-contents--

```html
<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#target1").css("color", "red");
    $("#target1").prop("disabled", true);
    $("#target4").remove();
    $("#target2").appendTo("#right-well");
    $("#target5").clone().appendTo("#left-well");

  });
</script>

<!-- Only change code above this line -->

<body>
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <h3 class="text-primary text-center">jQuery Playground</h3>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-xs-6">
        <h4>#left-well</h4>
        <div class="well" id="left-well">
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target1">#target1</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target2">#target2</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target3">#target3</button>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="col-xs-6">
        <h4>#right-well</h4>
        <div class="well" id="right-well">
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target4">#target4</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target5">#target5</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target6">#target6</button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
```

# --solutions--

```html
<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#target1").css("color", "red");
    $("#target1").prop("disabled", true);
    $("#target4").remove();
    $("#target2").appendTo("#right-well");
    $("#target5").clone().appendTo("#left-well");
    $("#target1").parent().css("background-color", "red");
  });
</script>

<!-- Only change code above this line -->

<body>
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <h3 class="text-primary text-center">jQuery Playground</h3>
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-xs-6">
        <h4>#left-well</h4>
        <div class="well" id="left-well">
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target1">#target1</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target2">#target2</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target3">#target3</button>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="col-xs-6">
        <h4>#right-well</h4>
        <div class="well" id="right-well">
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target4">#target4</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target5">#target5</button>
          <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target6">#target6</button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
```


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Vans accepting entries for their Musicians Wanted 2021 competition
The Vans' Musicians Wanted 2021 contest is a big one. It's for new acts from all of Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region, across all genres, and over twenty thousand acts applied last year. For the 2021 iteration you have until July 23rd to submit, and the prizes range from useful gear, Spotify playlisting to performing with Yungblud at a show in 2022.
The top five from each genre will perform in September 2021 in a series of virtual gigs. Final judging comes from Denzel Curry, Julia Michaels, Sean Miyashiro and Yungblud himself. Pretty big stuff.
Apply on this website, and remember, all genres are open.


When Dr Mahathir Mohamad was last Prime Minister of Malaysia, Lee Hsien Loong was not yet Prime Minister of Singapore, and social media was not yet the phenomenon it is today.
But it seems that the Singapore government is treating Dr Mahathir the way it did some 20 years ago: Let Mahathir be Mahathir, let him say and do what he wants, we'll keep mum and we'll only cross that bridge when we come to it.
With the social media, everything that Dr Mahathir says becomes instantaneously widespread. His remarks that "the people of Singapore, like the people of Malaysia, must be tired of having the same government, the same party since independence," immediately became the talk of the town. Thanks to the fact that it was all over the Internet and social media applications such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp in double quick time.
Singapore's mainstream media did not even touch on those remarks. Because Singaporeans are not supposed to know? Because they would be deemed offensive by the government? Needless to say, such censorship does not hold sway anymore.
The government has always been quick to rebut criticism and unseemly comments, especially those seen as meddling in internal affairs. But it has kept mum about Mahathir's provocative remarks about Singaporeans being "tired of having the same government" and about plans to build an island near Pedra Branca.
Dr Mahathir has tested the waters and sent out signals that he going to be combative, especially the way he called off the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high speed rail project – unilaterally, without even an official word to the Singapore government, displaying trademark nonchalance and disdain.
Dr Mahathir has a fundamental strategy not unlike that of the one that has served President Donald Trump very well. He keeps saying he wants to Restore Malaysia's Glory (Trump's motto is Make America Great Again). Dr Mahathir is moving at breakneck speed, racing against time to do what he tells Malaysians is necessary to bring back the glory days. What he says is gold and he has the backing of his countrymen and women because he is seen as a saviour who can do no wrong – at least for now.
Singapore's strategy of letting things simmer down and take its course may no longer be relevant because the 92-year-old is a man in a hurry and the 24-hour news and social media cycle suits him just fine.
Clearly, the government is still trying to grapple with how to manage relations with Dr Mahathir. The strategy of two decades ago must be reworked.
Beyond showing their mettle and resolve, Singapore's leaders also need to raise their game when it comes to agility and speed of response and communication.


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A Story From The Bible…
Posted on March 11, 2014 by Neil
Luke 10.29-37 accurately translated from the original Greek
…And so Jesus told them a story to explain what he meant:
"There was," he said, "a young man called Jerry Cohen who was making his way across the city late at night when he was set upon by some yobs. They kicked him to the ground, stole his wallet and phone and left him for dead. He lay in the doorway of a shop, blood seeping from the deep cut to the back of his head and pooling into the shadowed corner. With his teeth broken and ribs cracked, Jerry slipped into unconsciousness.
By chance, a group of people from a local church were out that night witnessing to the young people partying in the bars and pubs of the district and for whom, let's be honest, this was an unwelcome intrusion. Some of these well-meaning church-folk noticed Jerry lying in the doorway as his life ebbed away, but as they couldn't see all the blood they simply assumed he had passed out from an excess of alcohol. They decided to leave him where he was to sober up. 'Let's give him the Good News to read when he does,' said one, tucking a tract called Salvation through the Redemptive Power of the Cross into his top pocket.
Minutes later, an evangelist happened to pass Jerry, still curled foetally on the floor, and noticed that the premises next to where he was seemed to be one of dubious repute. Its lights blazed even at this late hour and there were over-sized, suggestive pictures of athletic-looking young men in the windows. He didn't want to look too closely because he didn't want the taint of sin to cling to him but it seemed obvious that if the shop was what he thought it was, then the boy next to it could only be a homosexualist, hell bent on foisting his perverted lifestyle on everyone and destroying traditional marriage in the process. And so he walked swiftly on, quietly quoting Romans 1.27 to himself: Men commit shameful acts with other men, and receive in themselves the due penalty for their error. 'If ever there was a sign that the end times have arrived,' he thought to himself, 'it's the likes of that degenerate individual over there.' As he crossed the road, he failed to see another young man approaching in the opposite direction.
Sam Harrington wasn't a homosexualist either – because really there's no such thing – but he was a homosexual. He'd had been working late and was eager to get home so he too was taking a short cut through the centre of the town. He spotted Jerry in the doorway and before he could even think what he was doing, he had pulled his phone out of his pocket and had dialled the emergency number. While he waited for the ambulance to arrive, he cradled Jerry's head in his lap, holding closed the gash to stop further blood loss and helping it start to heal. When the ambulance arrived, Sam went with Jerry to the hospital where he sat anxiously in Accident and Emergency for two hours, waiting to hear how he was. When, finally, a nurse came to tell him that now the young man's jaw had been wired together and his head stitched there was every chance he would pull through, Sam wept unashamedly.
With the last bus long gone, he began his long walk home. He didn't have enough money for a cab and he didn't like ringing his partner in the early hours of the morning to ask for a lift."
"So tell me," Jesus said finally, "which of the three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the yobs? Who showed him real love?"
His followers looked around blankly at each other, for surely this was a question that was impossible to answer.
This entry was posted in Christianity's failure to deliver, Christians and homosexuality, Moral Authority? and tagged Christian love, homosexuality, Jesus, Luke, Morality by Neil. Bookmark the permalink.


These are partial views from my apartment windows.
It's a very old place, on the top of 6 fights of cement stairs (no elevator).
I love it! Haven't lived IN a big city since Tokyo, and the view makes climbing all those stairs and being stared at by Chinese neighbours who aren't accustomed to Westerners, worth it.
Inside, it's comfortable, but also kind of, umm, "interesting" in how the restoration of the place was done. If you're inside and look around a bit, you'll see huge wholes filled in with plaster and uneven floor tiles, etc., but I don't look too closely. It all works and feels charming! It's a great place to come "home" to for a year. I hear children singing at a near-by preschool every weekday morning, traffic pretty much all the time (which I can close the door to anytime and it becomes soft, white noise in the background), with kids and folks chatting and playing below, outside my kitchen window.
Here's where I proof read, work on power points, etc. A lot of what I want to do is blocked by China, so that's a hurdle to overcome. I should FINALLY be able to do the teaching demo next week! Was supposed to do during the first week. Too sick (having left the states taking antibiotics for pneumonia) and too overwhelmed by the new tech, lesson format, etc to accomplish the task any sooner, I was given more time. Gettin' there!
which is great, since there's so much I don't know!
won't show up on a photograph taken with my iPhone.
About Chinese food in reality. Many things are mislabeled. According to this packet of something like 12 flavored soy nuts, there are nearly 500 calories--yes, I converted Kj to calories--in these 2-3 bites. The melon next to it (Tian Bao, I think?) is mildly sweet and 100% edible. It's a happy new discovery! But, what's served in most cafeterias and for dinner at our work is generally so full of sugar, msg, grease, other fillers, and what seems like fake food, I usually get sick again if I eat more than a third of what I'm served.
Rather than embarrass anyone by taking photos of my food, I found this image on line. It looks a lot like something I like and eat (minus some of the unidentified stuff). But, that orange colored liquid is oil. It sticks to your teeth, mouth, throat, and, it seems, my lungs. I cough more at night, after eating any of these foods, than I do at the beginning of the week, when I've been careful to eat soup, honey and fruit over the weekend. So, yes, the FOOD in Beijing is a rude surprise. I believe that Chinese food, in its original form, IS healthier than American's tradition of meat and potatoes. But not anymore. I'd feel much better after a burger and salad on the side, even if it's just lettuce.
bc they accept my credit card.
These 2 boys helped me find the store yesterday.
They walked a mile out of their way to help the confused American woman! The long walk started off by my trying to find a bus that goes there (tired of paying for taxis--that's another blog. Cheap, but "iffy" drivers. The worse they are, the more you pay). Ended up walking, seeing something of my neighborhood, and getting lost. I am so impressed with the youth in China!
Most people aged 30 and younger will do whatever they can to help you.
bc. they're so much richer in protein and everything else, than white rice or rice noodles.
Also, purchased raw, skinless chicken with no fat, and eggs. Adding these to the ingredients I brought home of Friday (cabbage, mushrooms, onion, tofu...), was able to make a super healthy soup. It's delicious! Besides, determined to stop feeling so lousy for over 1/2 the time! If you ever come to Beijing, throw out the idea that you're coming to the land of healthy eating. Not right now. There's no regulation and, unless people suddenly start dying (like the time, I hear rumors, that baby powder laced baby formula started killing babies), no accountability for whatever nutrition is or isn't included in whatever you're served. I'm not a picky eater.
feeling sicker after eating most of the foods available.
Oh, and a lot of the water's pretty lousy. Even after boiling it 10+ minutes, it doesn't taste ok.
Guess what? Knives aren't sold commonly. They're considered to be weapons.
I couldn't even find a table knife to help me chop up stuff for my soup.
Yep, it's a pie server! I felt the edges--sharp and rough. This'll work, I thought. It does! Craziness.
I could easily off someone with this thing....shhhhh! I didn't say that!
These are a few "modern" rickshaws, that can be seen everywhere, carrying everything and everyone that might fit into or on them. You'll notice that some are pedalled manually. Most are motorised. They all have 3 wheels. A silver one carries people (I took this photo in the parking lot).
This one has plants and flowers for sale. The lady in the back buys some.
Here's a bright teal-colored tiny version of a truck/wagon. The driver's napping.
And the streets are swept up by the kind you see in this photo. I was waiting for my bus.
Let's end with some photos of traditional architecture tucked in here and there in a mostly modern city. I'm delighted whenever I see little touches like this. I don't want to be anywhere in any city.
China is where I am and what I want to see!


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26247 Doleonardi è un asteroide della fascia principale. Scoperto nel 1998, presenta un'orbita caratterizzata da un semiasse maggiore pari a 2,3781228 UA e da un'eccentricità di 0,1520071, inclinata di 2,24536° rispetto all'eclittica.

Collegamenti esterni

Corpi celesti scoperti nel 1998
Doleonardi

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Lemko Company of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Lemkivska sotnia UPA). A military unit of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) organized in October 1945 in Lisko county, Lemko region. Composed mostly of local peasants with no military training, it was assigned to Captain V. Mizerny's (nom de guerre: Ren) battalion and given the code names 95a and Udarnyk 5. Its zone of operations was the 26th Tactical Sector of the UPA. Under Lt Stepan Stebelsky's (Khrin's) command, the company expanded quickly, and by the spring of 1946 it had six platoons and approx 260 men. In April 1946 two of the platoons were detached to form the company Udarnyk 8. The Lemko Company became widely known as an active fighting force. In the first 18 months it fought more than 100 engagements with Polish army or police units. The most famous of them was its successful ambush on 28 March 1947 of Gen K. Świerczewski, Poland's deputy defense minister. In April–June 1947 the company suffered severe losses in almost continuous combat with Polish units, which were conducting Operation Wisła, and on 29 June it was forced to retreat into the USSR. After several weeks of skirmishes with NKVD border guards, it was strengthened with soldiers from the demobilized Udarnyk 8 and reorganized into two platoons. On 15 August 1947 it was placed under Lt Stakh's command and sent into western Drohobych oblast. On 10 September 1948 it was demobilized, and its soldiers were assigned to the armed underground.


Join us at Crossroads, the Diocese Camp, for our Elementary School Retreat! Look forward to meeting new friends, exploring faith, great food, and tons of fun! Arrive at 7:00 p.m. on February 19 and pickup will be February 21 after lunch. Chaperones are provided by St. Luke's. For additional information, please contact Director of Family Ministries, Kathy DeWalt, at dewalt@slechurch.org. For more information about Crossroads, please call 908-832-7264. Crossroads Camp and Retreat Center is located at 29 Pleasant Grove Road, Port Murray, NJ. You may also email officemanager@crossroadsretreat.com for additional information.


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Venue: Ashe Center (Richmond, VA)
2010 – Atlantic East division champions, playoff appearance
Away: 7-7
Average Attendance: 3,055
The Richmond Revolution was a brand new IFL team in 2010. The league headquarters was also in Richmond. The team was quarterbacked by Bryan Randall. He threw for 2,195 yards, 61 scores, and 16 picks. He also led the running game with 12 rushing scores. Damon Thompson was the leading wide receiver with 20 scores. The team won 13 of its 14 regular season games, with the only loss coming on the road to Rochester. The team qualified as the first overall seed in the playoffs and hosted Rochester in the first round. The two teams played in their final regular season games, as well, with Richmond winning 46-33. However, Rochester was able to win a 26-24 playoff contest. The Revolution scored just three points in the second half of the game. The Revolution returned in 2011, but many of the players and coaches left the team to go to the SIFL Richmond Raiders. The Revolution were also forced to play outdoors for all of their home games, as the Ashe Center was under construction until 2012. The Revolution were quarterbacked in large part by Monte Purvis, who threw for 1,000 yards, 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. Purvis also led the team on the ground, racing for 400 yards and eight touchdowns. Wide receivers Scorpio Brown and Josh Crawford combined to score 18 times and amass 884 yards. Daninelle Derricott led the defense with five interceptions. The Revolution defense only managed ten sacks. Five of the team's eleven losses came by eight or fewer points. However, the most interesting game of 2011 for the struggling franchise was the final game of the regular season played at home against Reading. The game was played in a driving rainstorm, in which lightning struck and shorted out the scoreboard before a kickoff that was delayed by approximately 75 minutes. Torrential downpours also took out live stats and kept the America One camera crew from covering the game. Richmond returned a missed field goal for a touchdown in the first half and ultimately won the game 21-14 after losing in Reading 46-7 just seven days prior. The team folded following the 2011 season.


Acceleration for Results was a programme aimed at shifting MSD providers to results-based contracting models.
This programme has now concluded. In its wake, an insight into the fundamental messages behind the AfR programme can be viewed below.
Under the Community Investment Strategy, MSD was committed to shifting all its service providers to results-based contracting by July 2018. Results-based contracts are focused on the results or outcomes providers deliver, rather than the amount of activity they undertake. This change aims to better align funding to those most vulnerable in the community, and to services and providers who are able to demonstrate they are meeting these needs, with evidence about what works.
MSD initiated this programme to produce learnings and test ideas on how MSD and other providers could best transition to results-based contracts. This programme worked with a small number of existing MSD providers and their respective MSD Community Investment Advisors at MSD to prototype, test and refine approaches to results-based contracting.
Accelerating for Results used a human-centred design approach to identify the obstacles to results-based contracting on both provider and MSD sides, and then worked together to find solutions. This meant exploring the wide range of factors that influence our collective readiness for result-based contracts.
For providers this meant a chance to influence and shape the future in how MSD engages with providers, and how it measured results across different areas. It was also a chance for providers to receive support to build their capability to move towards results-based contracts and better understand the outcomes of their services.
The programme ran in multiple stages from November 2016 to June 2017, with a small number of providers added to the programme in each stage.


'Gays' to YouTube: Don't let anyone see THIS!
The newest battleground over the California legislature's decision to establish a day to honor homosexual activist and politician Harvey Milk is YouTube.
SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson says YouTube recently pulled the video simply because homosexual activists complained.
Thomasson says his organization is working to get YouTube to reinstate the video. He says that in the meantime, SaveCalifornia.com is running the video on its website.
Thomasson says his short video was produced with a mission in mind.
"People around the world – they're getting a one-sided and biased, incorrect picture of Harvey Milk. Harvey Milk is being called a hero and a role model. Actually, he was a sexual predator," Thomasson said.
Thomasson added that the 2008 movie about Milk was largely fictional.
"It doesn't show all of the young boyfriends Harvey Milk had. It made him look like he had only one steady, older boyfriend. It doesn't talk about all of the boyfriends who went and killed themselves because they got AIDS and so forth," Thomasson said.
"The film was a positive portrayal of Harvey Milk that didn't talk about his negative things," Thomasson said.
Pro-family Capitol Resource Institute spokeswoman Karen England, of Sacramento, Calif., agrees that most homosexual lobbying groups try to hide the truth about homosexuality.
"Oh, absolutely, they're trying to hide the truth, especially in the schools. They're completely intolerant of anyone with a viewpoint that isn't pro homosexual," England said.
"They don't want the truth told about the lifestyle, about the unhealthiness of it. They continue to introduce bills that promote the lifestyle, especially Senate Bill 48 that forces schools to promote homosexual and transgendered figures and prohibits anyone talking about them in a way that affects them adversely," England said.
Thomasson is asking California parents to take a stand against Harvey Milk Commemoration Day.
Thomasson said Milk was an adversary of Christianity.
"He attacked religion. He was a very bad role model for children then and continues to be even in death," Thomasson said.
England said her group is watching the schools and asks parents to do the same.
"We encourage parents who are in districts that celebrate Harvey Milk to find out what their schools are doing and either demand that their children be opted out of the events or to keep their children home from school that day," England said.
"We also suggest they withhold any funds that would be used to fund those activities on that day," England said.
England said there are plenty of reasons for parents to take these actions.
"If their children are going to be held captive to a social agenda, and the schools hide that social agenda, then the parents need to be more responsible and keep their kids home," England said.
Thomasson emphasized that Harvey Milk is not a good role model for children, and the programs are designed to condition children to think positively about Milk's activities.
"With Harvey Milk attacking marriage, family, morality, and God's values, children as young as kindergarten will be taught to believe what Harvey Milk believed and what he stood for and even be taught to believe that what Harvey Milk did personally and publicly as something they might emulate," Thomasson said.
"Harvey Milk stood for Gay Pride Parades. He marched in them. And the law calls for children to recognize the life and contribution of Harvey Milk. Honoring what he stood for means that anything he stood for is what the kids are taught to stand for," Thomasson said.
Thomasson said there are other things parents can do.
"So we're calling on parents to visit SaveCalifornia.com and get informed and keep your child home from the government and get a taste of academic freedom and opt out of all eight of California's homosexual indoctrination laws." Thomasson said.
England also believes parents should have the final say in the children's education, even if it involves homeschooling.
"This has been a fight in California every year. There have been attacks on parental rights and the ability of parents to privately make decisions about how they want to school their kids," England said.
"We're encouraging homeschool families to get involved with HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association)," England said.
Thomasson said there's a serious trend towards homeschooling.
"Homeschooling is growing in popularity. More people are homeschooling all the time. The curriculum is better than ever and there is a greater need than ever for parents to have 100 percent academic freedom to implement their God-given right and obligation to raise and educate their children," Thomasson said.