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The forgotten stories of the Jews leaving Wales after a century
A century ago, thousands of Jews lived in small but thriving communities dotted around Wales yet few are left
Anna LewisReporter
Some of the graves in the Jewish section of Brynmawr Cemetery, Blaenau Gwent (Image: Richard Swingler)
At 79 years old, Anthony Morris is the last trustee of the Jewish cemetery in Brynmawr.
Originally there were three men on the burial board, the retired solicitor explains, but, in what is sadly a growing occurrence in the ageing Jewish community in Wales, one has died, and the other has moved to Israel.
Now, living 150 miles away in London, he is the only one left.
But for him, keeping a connection to the place which holds so much of his ancestry remains an important part of his life today.
"It's sentimental," the retired solicitor answers thoughtfully, when asked why he keeps his role going.
"I'm looking for someone to take it over from me as I'm approaching 80 and as much as I want to go on forever I don't know if I can.
"I have asked my son if he would take it over but he also lives in London and I don't know anyone locally."
Perched on top of a hill overlooking the Blaenau Gwent town, the cemetery is now maintained by the local authority.
The Jewish prayer house where the final farewell was once held has been lost and there is now only a shelter (Image: Richard Swingler)
A grave at the Jewish section of Brynmawr Cemetery in Blaenau Gwent. This one displaying 5682 was put up in 1922 (Image: Richard Swingler)
All the gravestones except one point the same way, allowing those buried there to lie with their feet pointing towards Jerusalem.
According to Anthony, it is thought that the one gravestone breaking the tradition belongs to a woman who died in mysterious circumstances.
Sadly, the prayer house once there has been removed due to anti-social behaviour, and replaced by a shelter to allow respite from the wind when a burial takes place. If there is one.
"My role is just a figurehead," the grandfather-of-16 and great-grandfather-of-12 explains.
"If there was a problem with the cemetery, if there was vandalism, the trust would have to come out of hiding and do something about it but we are nominal
"[Former trustee] Gerald Robinson used to deal with it if anyone wanted to be buried there but I don't think anyone has been buried there for quite some years."
Dotted across the south Wales valleys, cemeteries such as the one at Brynmawr are only one way of quantifying just how big the Jewish population once was.
While many towns had their own synagogue, most have now been converted, left derelict or simply re-built.
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In 2016, the once striking synagogue in Merthyr Tyfil was put up for sale for less than £300,000 after ending its life as Christian community centre, and later a gym.
In Swansea, the old synagogue on Christina Street is now a Welsh language book shop.
Underneath the ground floor is an area where Jewish women once used to bathe, while the alley behind served as the site where chickens were prepared in the Kosher way.
Now, thanks to an unprecedented oral history project by the Jewish History Association of South Wales (JHASW), the stories of the families at the heart of such places have been brought to light once more.
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By 1918 the Jewish population of Wales had reached around 6,000 people.
Between 1881 and 1914 anti-Semitic pogroms, persecution and economic hardship had seen mass migration from Tsarist Russia.
Then, between 1933 and 1939 more Jews fled to the UK from Nazi-controlled territories to escape persecution.
At the time, common stories passed down the generations tell of ancestors arriving in Wales, believing it to be America after being missold tickets.
Of those, many have unimaginable tales to tell - including Anthony's own grandfather.
Speaking from his London home, he said: "My father's father went to Warsaw to be an apprentice to a watchmaker and the watchmaker's son was called up to the Polish Army.
"When he came back his hands were hard and calloused and he wasn't able to deal with the tiny precious metals. He hung himself.
"My grandfather decided he wasn't going to do that and got smuggled out of Russia [in about 1900] travelling by night and sleeping in barns by day. He got shipped to Hamburg I think, and caught a boat to London.
"He walked straight to the east End in London and got a job with a watchmaker.
"After a year or so, the business went bankrupt and my father went out to Ebbw Vale. He saved up some money, came to London to buy old clocks and watches and took them to back to repair them."
Anthony Morris (right) with Newport toastmaster Harry Poloway (Image: JHASW)
This photo is believed to be Anthony's grandfather's parents in Russia (Image: JHASW)
And this Anthony Morris's grandfather Jacob and his brother in Kiev (Image: JHASW)
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Like many Jews arriving in Wales at the time, Anthony's grandfather made an income by peddling before saving enough to settle down and open his own business.
Now owned by a different company, the original clock still hangs on the shop wall on Bailey Street in Brynmawr as a tribute to the tobacconist, jewellers and sweet shop once so central to the town.
Run by the businessman right until his death, his story is one of a man fully integrated into Valleys life.
Anthony said: "Even in the time I remembered him my grandfather lived at the top of the hill in on Harcourt Road and would go to the shop in the morning, work until 12.50pm, shut up shop and the bus would wait for him on Market Square to take him back up.
"After lunch he would come back to the shop to his comfortable chair in the back room and have a snooze. If people wanted him they would come wake him up, that's what business was like in the valleys."
Anthony as a young boy with his grandmother
This is Anthony's father with his brother and sister dressed up for Purim. (Image: JHASW)
Anthony today with his granddaughter (Image: Anthony Morris)
Among the tales from the Welsh man's family history, however, are some memories, and characters, not typically associated with the south Wales industrial age.
By 1901, the Jewish population of Brynmawr had grown so quickly that a synagogue had opened on Bailey Street.
For Anthony, passed down within his family, there was the story of one man who would faint, like clockwork, during the afternoon of the annual 25-hour fast to mark the Day of Atonement.
Every year, the congregation would get a chair and a bucket of water ready for the inevitable, despite his protestations that it wouldn't happen again.
Then there was local figure Icky, or Isaac Isaacs, who give children Anthony's father's age threepence every year for visiting the synagogue on the anniversary of his parents' deaths - affording those from Brynmawr an extra two mornings off school.
Anthony said: "I remember I was there for Passover in Brynmawr and going to the synagogue which was lit by big gas lamps.
"In my father's day there was quite a big community but it gradually declined so by the 1950s or 60s it had ceased.
"I married in 1964 and I came back [to Brynmawr] a couple times after that and it was becoming less and less."
The synagogue in Merthyr (Image: Collect unknown)
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In 2019, there are only three synagogues in south Wales.
One remains in Swansea, while one orthodox and one reform synagogue survive in Cardiff.
The Kosher butchers have long shut down and deliveries come from London to Cardiff only once every two weeks.
While there was once a time where Jewish families lived in the valleys in their dozens, today there is no functioning community left.
According to Klavdija Erzen, project manager at JHASW, there is no one reason for the decline over the years.
She said: "[With] the mines were closing down there was less economic prosperity, so that's when some people would be forced to close their shops.
"There was also a change in occupation as first generation Jews would be peddling and selling goods but they didn't want the same for their children.
"They wanted them to be a lawyer or doctor. Education was of paramount importance so they would sacrifice everything for their child to go to school. Some doctors would return to set up practices but very often the nature of the occupation meant that people would settle elsewhere and not come back."
Stephen Hamilton as a child and his father Leslie
Originally from Merthyr, Cardiff accountant Stephen Hamilton knows better than most how things have changed over the years.
Now a member of the orthodox synagogue in Cyncoed Gardens, his family were quite literally at the heart of the community in its heyday - through both the best and worst of times.
In 1848, Merthyr became the first place to boast an established synagogue in the south Wales valleys.
By 1939, there were 175, in 1959, there were just 40 and in 1999, George Black "the last Jew in Merthyr", died aged 82.
Stephen, 65, said: "My father's grandfather came from eastern Europe, Belarus, I think at the turn of the century.
"All I know was that his name was Himmelstein and during World War One the police came to him and basically said with such a German-sounding surname we think you had better change it.
"His grandfather asked what do you suggest and it was the policeman who said Hamilton.
"He was an optician, jeweller and was a magistrate. He was doing all three at the same time. I can remember as a young kid when he was approached, it was a big honour.
"My dad was the local GP and his brother was the local chemist."
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Like everyone else living near Aberfan at the time of the disaster, Stephen remembers exactly where he was when the news hit.
The father-of-two said: "A lot of people caught up were former patients [of my father], so he went up there on the Friday because he had heard that the headmistress had been brought out alive, which sadly was not true.
"At the end of the day all he could do was help identify bodies. I went up with him.
"I was just sitting in the car for what seemed like an age, not knowing what he was doing. I had this terrible fear that it had collapsed again.
"My grandfather's brother was also a local solicitor, but more importantly he was the coroner at the time.
"He was the one who decided that the cause of death was accidental death. There was an outcry that it was not death by murder."
Stephen's father helped to smuggle Jewish prayer books into Russia while working for Cardiff City FC (Image: JHASW)
In the time that Stephen was growing up, it was becoming clear that the Jewish community in Merthyr was beginning to fade. In youth clubs, or in Sunday school, there would only be a handful of children, compared to "scores" over in Cardiff.
At age 10, his parents made the decision to move to Cardiff, to be nearer other young families like his.
There, his father found a role as the doctor for Cardiff City, and the friendship of kit manager Harry Parsons.
Stephen, who is now part of the Chevra Kadisha organisation that prepares Jewish bodies for burial, said: "My father became a doctor for the team in 1965 and in those days Cardiff City played a lot in Europe.
"In the late 60s, early 70s, they played in Moscow. At the time there were thousands and thousands of Jewish people who wanted to get out of Russia and were denied a lot of basic stuff.
"They concocted this plan to get these great big wicker containers and create false bottoms to hide jeans and Jewish prayer books.
"The surreptitiously had secret meetings with these people and handed them over. Harry always said if he was caught he would end up in the salt mines."
Mervyn Joseph remembers a slowly declining population in Merthyr growing up (Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne)
Alongside Stephen, fellow Merthyr boy Mervyn Joseph has a better idea of what it was like to be one of the few Jewish families left.
While his family also took the decision to move to Cardiff, he remembers the struggle to get enough men in the town together for minyan - a quorum of 10 men needed to worship in synagogue.
Mervyn, 81, said: "A lot of people like my grandfather...they didn't really know where they were going. They were sort of scattered in Wales, Bargoed, Brynmawr and places like that.
"Some thought they were going to America and ended up in Pontypridd."
As a child, Mervyn's memories of Merthyr life are vivid. Looking back, he describes in detail running down the street chasing a turkey he had the responsibility of taking to slaughter.
Mervyn Joseph now lives in Cardiff after leaving in the 1950s (Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne)
The grandfather-of-two said: "In Merthyr when I left in the mid 1950s there were probably, I'm not sure, but no more than about 40 Jewish people."
"I went on a regular basis to the synagogue. For a full service you have to have a quorum of 10 so people like myself would, as soon as we became 13, became a very useful member.
"I would go with my friends and the minister at that time but if they couldn't get 10 people they would send me and my friends down into town - there were Jewish chemists, furniture shops, opticians - to go round them up.
"Eventually, it ended up without a minister. There was still a certain number of Jewish people left in the town without a synagogue.
"The last Jewish person or so I understand in Merthyr was a barber and that was 20 years ago, maybe more. He moved away when he was in his 80s."
Now also a member of Cardiff United Synagogue, he added: "The one thing that really stands out looking back to my Merthyr days was that the Jewish people really took part and were very much an active part of the community.
"When you think about it, even in the early days in Merthyr there were probably no more than 40 families but each one were very much part of the working of the town. There was three doctors, two pharmacists. Proportionally, it was huge."
Stephen Hamilton and Mervyn Joseph are among the 72 Jews who have shared their story with the Jewish History Association of South Wales (Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne)
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Among more than 70 oral histories painstakingly compiled as part of the JHASW project, memories of anti-Semitism are thankfully rare.
While the accounts depend on memory and interpretation, established Jewish communities in places like Swansea, Pontypridd and Tredegar flourished.
However, for those like Anthony Morris, family memories of the so-called anti-Jewish riots of 1911 live on.
Anthony recalls: "My father was born in 1908 and remembers the riots. He said he was sent out of the house to the maid's house - all Jewish children were sent out.
"All the shops were boarded up but it stopped just outside Brynmawr.
"My grandmother's father had a shop in Tredegar which apparently was badly looted. Apparently he had a stroke as a result of the damage."
On one August night in 1911 a crowd of around 200 young men and women took to the streets in Tredegar, marching into the town's thoroughfares.
Newspaper reports at the time suggest the group's first port of call was to "attack" a Jew's residence in Salisbury Street and "terrify" its occupants.
A number of Jewish shops were damaged in riots in Tredegar in 1911 (Image: Getty Images)
Anthony Morris's father remembers shops being boarded up (Image: Getty Images)
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Since then, debate about the true motive for the unrest continues, with suggestions it may have been aimed at landlords instead.
While Jewish historian professor Geoffrey Alderman describes the events as "anti-Jewish", others do not.
Anthony said: "The problem was that landlords were turfing people out of their houses when they couldn't pay rent and they resented that.
"They were the ones that rioted and it so happens that the landlords were Jewish..which is why it became known as anti-Jewish."
Out of those who have shared their stories, perhaps no-one has done more to promote education and understanding of Jewish communities than Swansea's Norma Glass.
As well as a 40-year member of women's volunteer organization Soroptimist International, the mother-of-two and interior designer has also spent time as the Board of Deputy representative (the only democratically elected, cross-communal, representative body in the Jewish community) and works with Race Council Cymru and Community Security Trust.
Norma Glass has dedicated her life to educate others about the Jewish community (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
At one point, as part of her involvement with Swansea peace organisation Peace Mala, Norma welcomed 300 pupils every day into the synagogue to improve relations between Jewish and non-Jewish communities alike.
Sadly, in 2002, it was on one of those days that she made the gut-wrenching discovery that someone had vandalised the now only Jewish synagogue on Ffynone Street.
Of all the hundreds of years of Jewish history in Swansea, however, she is keen to stress that such an incident is far from the norm.
Speaking from her Sketty home, Norma said: "They integrated very, very well. They call Swansea a city of sanctuary now but it was always a welcoming city. In fact Jewish people couldn't carry anything but their education with them and weren't allowed land so most did go into business.
"Down in Wind Street in the core of the city they had a synagogue at the back of someone's house and had a jewellers shop, a pawn shop. They became very important to city life."
Norma Glass once welcomed 300 children a day into Swansea's surviving synagogue (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
Recalling the vandalism, she added: "For 50 years I've been and in and out of schools, I used to have 300 children a day come into the synagogue. They came from all over Wales because I was the only Jewish person that did it.
"One day I went along to talk to a group and when I got there, it was awful, awful. It was all on the walls, f*** the Jews and a Terezin sign (concentration camp), so it was people who knew they were doing.
"I always had one scroll out that was slightly damaged so I could use it to show children. They took it out of the ark, did their business and tried to set fire onto it. I've always believed in dousing flames not putting oxygen on so if there's anything [like that] I don't give a reaction."
Now 80 years old, Norma can only be described as a powerhouse. Barely passing five foot in height, she is quick on her feet to busy a tray of tea and coffee before sitting down to chat.
Her attitude, it seems, is something she shares with her grandmother, a remarkable woman on every front.
Norma's parent's wedding photo. Her grandmother is the woman on the far right in the top row (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
Norma said: "[My grandmother] was the only Jewish farmer in the country, a woman farmer. You can see on the milk bottles they had, M Wyman, proprietor of the first TB-tested herd in the country
"She was a man among men. When I think about it now she would get up at 5am and be there milking the herd with the men and they would be frightened of her."
Originally from Lithuania, Norma's grandmother was called over to Wales in what can only be described as an unusual matchmaking affair.
After escaping the Russian army where he would otherwise be conscripted for life, Norma's grandfather had found himself in Wales, and from there directed to help a struggling widower with her shop in Penrhiwceiber.
But after falling in love, he was told that the woman's sister would be a more sensible match instead - and Mary was duly sent from her home to Wales to meet him.
The milk bottles produced to sell the milk from Norma's grandmother's farm (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
Norma said: "My grandfather never stopped moving of thinking and moving and said to my grandmother one day that he had bought a farm in Caereithin, north of Swansea.
"It was tenanted and they went to have a look at it. She was appalled by the state of the animals and said they would live there for six weeks to sort it out.
"Well those six weeks ended up a lifetime and that's how she ended up running it. My grandfather, who wasn't a farmer, built some houses on the land and they had Stars of David on the front, above the bay window. I think there's still one or two that are still there."
With a Jewish cemetery dating back to 1768, Swansea boasts the oldest Jewish community in Wales.
But for Norma, growing up as the only Jew in her area her childhood was not quite the same as others in the city.
With a wicked smile, she explains: "You know [the saying] the only gay in the village, well I was the only Jew in the village.
"The house that my grandfather designed [for us]...he decided he wanted it to be like a home in Israel with a flat roof. I was known as the one with the Jew's house. It had a lot of leaks!"
Norma describes herself as the 'only Jew in the village growing up' (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
After a quick pause, she adds: "We were the only Jewish people in what was a very poor area in those days.
"I was in school with a lot of children, some of them who really didn't have shoes or if they did they weren't their shoes and of course I was looked after so well.
"When it rained, my parents, who were very good parents, would give me wellingtons and a mackintosh.
"As soon as I got to the first puddle in the road I would swish the wellingtons through the water and drag the mac so I was soaking wet. When I arrived in school, the teacher would tell anyone who as wet to come and sit by the fire so I could be like everyone else and sit around the fire.
"I felt very Jewish in my home, but when I was with my friends I wanted to be like them I suppose. And there was that difficult time when they were all talking in November, December about what they were going to have for Christmas.
Norma's children, Deborah and Judith Glass pictured with her parents (Image: www.adrianwhitephotography.co.uk)
"Fortunately I was born in December which was perfect so I learnt to say what I wanted to have or the things I was expecting for my birthday and I never let on that it wasn't Christmas."
In 2009, shortly before his death, Norma's husband Martin gave the Jewish community in Swansea a legacy which will continue for years to come.
Thanks to his hard work, their base in Ffynone Street was sold to the LifePoint Church, on the arrangement that one room inside could continue as a synagogue for the 30 or so that still attend.
Norma explains: "My husband predicted [the Jewish community] would only be around for another five to seven years but it's been 10 years since he sold the synagogue and we are still going, but it is coming to and end.
"[The synagogue] was a white elephant for the number we were but the LifePoint church are brilliant. It's an example of the best of race relations."
Swansea's Jewish community now use a room inside the LifePoint church (Image: Google)
In Cardiff, Stephen and Mervyn estimate that the population has dropped from 3,000 families in its height to no more than 300 people now.
Whereas those in the valleys would visit Cardiff to socialise, Mervyn's granddaughter now goes to Manchester or London to meet new Jewish people through youth clubs and groups.
And while Stephen and his family try and support the Kosher deliveries in Cardiff, there is no denying the ease of getting the essentials while visiting his family in London, and the luxury of picking his own meat from behind the counter.
Reflecting on the community in Merthyr, Stephen said: "It's sad, obviously, but it's a fact of life and sadly Cardiff is going that way but we try and put a positive slant on it. People love Cardiff when we have visitors.
"I don't want to give the impression that we are insular. A lot of our friends are Jewish but we have non-Jewish friends here as well."
Over the last two years, Klavdija and her team at the JHASW have heard the stories of 72 Jews from across Wales. Since that time, seven people have died - proving just how instrumental their work has been.
Rather than lamenting what has been lost, however, she believes the research is also an opportunity for celebration.
The Voices and Images of the south Wales Jewish Community project will celebrate Jewish history rather than lament its loss (Image: WalesOnline/Rob Browne)
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The project manager said: "We want to present how rich Jewish lives and heritage are, and what they have contributed to Welsh society.
"Many people have very traditional images of Jewish people, what they are supposed to look like and supposed to do and a lot of stories that we collected would probably be a surprise.
"We have stories of amateur theatre, we have businessmen who brought trade from Japan. It's much more than just not driving on a Sunday or having a kippah.
"Many things make you laugh and make you cry...and it's about sharing that with the wider public outside the Jewish community and enabling them to learn about Jewish life, work, and its part in the Welsh landscape."
As part of the Voices and Images of the south Wales Jewish Community project, JHASW is hosting a major touring exhibition across south Wales.
Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Jewish Historical Society of England, and donations from individuals , the exhibition will launch at Neath Library on June 17.
For more information, and a full list of touring dates, go to: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/31091
You can also follow the JHSAW on their Twitter account here.


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Five surprising things we learned about Robbie Williams from his 15-minute chat with Stokie mum
He certainly hasn't forgotten his roots even if he's more used to hob-nobbing with royalty than the Potteries hoi polloi these days
Hayley Parker
"Stoke-on-Trent? Isn't that where Robbie's from?'"
The chances are that this is the first question any Stokie is asked when quizzed about their home city.
Robbie Williams has lived his life in the spotlight ever since shooting to stardom at the age of 16 as the youngest member of Take That.
Such is fame, his daughter Teddy was even a bridesmaid at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding last year and he's been awarded an OBE.
Not bad for a lad from Tunstall, eh?
Yes, there's no doubt Robbie's on stage persona exudes arrogance but away from the glitz and glamour which comes with being an A-lister, he's just an ordinary bloke.
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And the 45-year-old's down-to-earth nature was clear for everyone to see in his Instagram video chat with Abbey Hulton mum Steph Cresswell and her husband Lee last Saturday night.
What's most clear is that former Margaret Ward Catholic School student Robbie hasn't forgotten his roots... even if he is now more used to hob-nobbing with royalty than the Potteries hoi polloi.
Here we take a look at the five surprising things we learnt about Robbie.
1: He's a secret Stoke City fan!
Robbie Williams with Sir Stanley Matthews at the Victoria Ground
Robbie may be well-known for his love of Port Vale. But despite his allegiance to the black and white side of the city, he wants Stoke City to do well and even watches the occasional game.
He said: "They had a win today (Saturday) which was good, 4-2 away at Barnsley. It's a bit weird how far they've fallen in such a short time.
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"I know that I'm a Vale fan but if Stoke are in the Premiership it's good for the city. Could you imagine Joe Allen playing football in League One? It's unthinkable. Hopefully it won't happen.
"I watched the game the other night, the West Brom game, it was depressing. West Brom scored and then there was not even half a stadium and it was depressing so I turned it off."
2: He loves High Lane Oatcakes
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High Lane Oatcakes is a bit of an institution round these parts - and Robbie and his family can't get enough.
Robbie said: "I have oatcakes all the time. I have them in Los Angeles and here in the UK. My mum gets them from High Lane Oatcakes. I've got no oatcakes in at the moment but when my mum comes down or my dad they bring them down."
And Robbie hinted he was more of a red sauce kind if guy - but would be willing to give brown sauce 'a go'.
3: He used to enjoy nights out at Ritzy's and The Place
The Place nightclub, Hanley.
Nearly every Stokie of a certain age has danced the night away at one of these two institutions in Newcastle and Hanley - and it seems Robbie was no exception despite achieving fame before he was legally old enough to drink.
He said: "When I was growing up, a happy night was The Place or Ritzy."
4: Robbie likes to keep up with what's happening in Stoke-on-Trent
Robbie loves to keep up with what's happening in Stoke-on-Trent - by reading The Sentinel
Whether he keeps up-to-date on StokeonTrentLive or prefers to sit down with a copy of The Sentinel, it isn't clear.
But nonetheless, he likes to know the goings-on in the Potteries - whether that's in 'rough' Abbey Hulton' or the 'posh' Westlands.
He asked: "Wasn't there like a shooting in Bentilee? Like two weeks ago or something."
5: He's actually a really nice guy!
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Robbie's well-known for his charity work - whether that's through his Give It Sum charity or Soccer Aid.
But he also lives up to Stokies' reputation as being the friendliest people.
It's clear to anyone who's seen the video how much it meant to mother-of-two Steph, who has battled with extreme anxiety. In fact, she was so ecstatic after hanging up, she ran around the house screaming and didn't hear Robbie say these kind words.
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He said: "What a lovely couple, Steph and Lee. Steph breaking out, doing her own thing, making it happen, doing her nails from her house. Bold move. But that's what you've got to do if you want to make your life work. She was in an office and went 'f**k that'. She bought herself some kit and learned how to do it in Hanley and there she is. She's a mum and a hero and and an inspiration."
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State senator wants to close executive sessions to the media
By Abbie Petersen
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - On day five of the Nebraska Legislature, the rules committee heard proposals for rule changes. One had to do with the media.
Nebraska's Unicameral has always allowed members of the media access to executive sessions, but that could change.
Executive sessions are something congress does in secret. Nebraska's Unicameral does not. But that could soon change.
What exactly happens in executive sessions? Well, that's when committee members meet to decide if a bill is advanced, amended or killed.
Senator Dan Hughes said they're not trying to be sneaky but feels like lawmakers hold back because of the media.
"Whenever there is press in the room, I have held back. I have not put forth my best arguments to craft the best possible legislation that we can in our process," said Senator Hughes.
Senator Hughes said one reason behind this, is because he's been "burned" by the media in the past, after he said something he didn't expect to be published.
But, an editor for the Lincoln Journal Star said conspiracy theories grow in the absence of facts and that is the last thing the state needs right now.
"Don't tell your constituents that you want to conduct more of their business behind doors. You are people of integrity and we know that," said Lincoln Journal Star editor, Dave Bundy.
A member of Nebraska ACLU said if they adopt this rule change, people would assume they're being secretive.
"Transparency is critical. The public needs to know what the legislature does," said Nebraska ACLU, Spike Eickholt.
Another senator proposed a rule change that said if the media is allowed in executive sessions, the public should also be able to be there.
"I think that people hold back because the media is there, it won't make any difference if the general public is there, people will still hold back, but it will be an opportunity for the general public to see what we say and do," said Senator Steve Erdman.
As for what's next, the legislature will decide on which rules they will adopt later this month.


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Buhari Government Lacks Capacity For Needed Economic Policy – Atiku
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By Amos Dunia, Persecond News
Abuja – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken a swipe at the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying that it lacks the capacity to formulate sound economic policy for the country.
Atiku, who last week dump the All Progressives Congress (APC), noted that since he took interest in active politics about 28 years ago, he has never witnessed the present challenges confronting the nation.
He noted that Nigerians are going through excruciating pains, adding however that only a sound economic policy would put the nation in the right direction and alleviate the sufferings of Nigerians.
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Atiku, who is also the Wazirin Adamawa, stated these when he received in audience a delegation of Middle Belt Publishers and Media Managers Forum, noted that economic policy is key to development as it affects every aspect of governance.
According to him; "I am sorry to say that is there is one critical thing this government does not have is its lack of capacity to fashion out an economic policy that is required for any government to use to address challenges."
Making veil reference on his decision to dump the APC, Atiku said that in his over 28 years in active politics, he has come to the realization that there is no political decision taken that would attract 100 percent acceptability.
He said that most people criticising his decision to dump the APC are talking from either weak or sentimental point of view which he said is permissible in democracy and as part of freedom of speech.
According to him; "It is a question of views but matters most is having a superior point of view over what is being publicly expressed from an inferior point of view. I don't lose sleep as a result of such comments any longer."
He commended the Middle Belt media chiefs for their steadfastness in pursuing the truth and supporting his aspiration, saying that what matters to him most is a sound economic base for Nigeria to be able to create jobs, provide needed infrastructures, qualitative education, better welfare for Nigerians amongst other things.
Earlier, spokesman of the delegation, Dr. Cletus Akwaya, who is also the Publisher of Daily Assets newspapers, said the leadership qualities of Atiku is presently needed by Nigerians at this critical point in the nation's history.
Akwaya said the media is beginning to question the rationale why some political elites in Nigeria are against tested and dependable leaders like Atiku that can deliver the needed goods from becoming President, stressing that the narrative just has to change in the overall interest and common good of Nigerians.
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In the Pit Lane: Sauber's Game Plan
5 January, 2021 | Garry Sloan | Last Updated 2 weeks ago
F1 commentators were surprised with the announcement that Mick Schumacher had signed for the Haas team instead of what was believed to be the better option of the Alfa Romeo team.
Alfa Romeo team boss Frederic Vasseur said he was not sure why Ferrari has placed Mick Schumacher at rival Ferrari-powered team Haas for 2021 and beyond.
Vasseur told the Blick newspaper, "Beats me." adding, "Maybe it made more sense for Ferrari to bring Mick to Haas and keep Giovinazzi with us. For stability in the team."
The truth of what lay behind the decision regardless of Vasseurs 'bewilderment' is what dictates most decisions in F1 – money!
Alfa Romeo is of course the Sauber motorsport team with Alfa paying for the team to be named Alfa Romeo.
With one seat at Alfa Romeo assigned to Ferrari as recognition of the relationship the question asked is why did Giovinazzi retain his seat after a lacklustre 2020 season?
The ultimate decision will have been taken by John Elkann, the president of Alfa Romeo, Chairman of Alfa's parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Chairman and CEO of Exor which holds the controlling stake in Ferrari, and Chairman and now CEO of Ferrari – you get the picture!
Elkann with his Alfa Romeo hat on was persuaded by the argument that Alfa Romeo needs an Italian driver to bolster their marketing efforts, especially in their crucial home market.
To highlight the significance of the 'Italian' connection it is worth noting Alfa's worldwide sales are valued at $2,827m with Italy accounting for $1,086m.
The Alfa deal is only for the 2021 season and the future will be subject to the strategy decided upon after the upcoming merger of Alfa's parent Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the PSA group to be known as Stellantis.
So, Elkann sanctioned the resigning of Giovinazzi and despatched young Schumacher to the Haas team.
It now seems Ferrari is concentrating on Haas moving forward with team principal Binotto confirming several Ferrari employees will work on the design and development of Haas's 2021 car – at Maranello in a completely different building to where Ferrari works.
Binotto insists that Haas remains a Ferrari 'customer', but he admits that the teams will be more closely aligned from 2021.
So how does all this play out for Sauber and what could their next move be?
P.R. coming out Hinwil is of speculation that Sauber will split with Ferrari completely in the near future.
Vasseur has mused, "We are tied to Ferrari until the end of 2021, then we have to go over the books because the next contract should be from 2022 to 2026 with the new cars.
"Until now, Ferrari has mainly been a solid partner."
The words "until now" speaks volumes.
Swiss-based Sauber is owned by investment firm Longbow Finance which under Swiss legislation is not required to disclose financial statements or the identity of its shareholders.
The original motivation for the purchase of Sauber back in 2016 is believed to have been to secure the race seat for Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson.
Ericsson's backers were believed to be the Swedish Rausing family, co-owners of the Tetra Laval packaging empire and/or Swedish billionaire Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of clothing giant H&M.
With Ericsson no longer a factor is Longbow now ready to do what investment firms do – realise a profit?
Well, the signing of the new Concorde Agreement establishes a budget cap and a more equitable sharing of the revenues.
Additionally, the 'dilution' fund now increases the valuation of a F1 team the so-called franchise effect.
Longbow will have been encouraged by the purchase of the Williams team and the substantial investment into the McLaren team so for them, the issue is stability ahead of a sale.
To this end it was important to keep Alfa on board hence the reluctant resigning of Giovinazzi, this mindset was further evidenced with the resigning of Robert Kubica as test driver enabling PKN Orlen to continue as title sponsor.
Kubica like Giovinazzi was a critical factor for the sponsor with Polish oil retailer PKN Orlen's president Daniel Obajtek confirming "It pays off for us. The advertising equivalent alone amounts to about $100m."
"This also affects our retail sales. Robert is very well received by Poles and abroad, with as many as 70 percent of respondents associating him with our brand."
So, Longbow's focus is on creating stability ahead of a potential sale in 2021.
There would be several interested parties but maybe in a wildcard don't discount a joint Michael Latifi and Sylvan Adams bid after the Williams takeover may have scuppered their plans for drivers Nicholas Latifi and Roy Nissany respectively.
On a footnote: Kimi Raikkonen has taken one for the team with the announcement his new family car is the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Veloce and in a press release obviously written for him Kimi proclaims,
"After this intense season, it's nice to get back to a regular life with my family. I still don't want to give up the pleasure of driving, though, and choosing the Stelvio Veloce means that I can do so in absolute safety, even in the snow of Finland."
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Here's the final video clip from my play "Max Dix, Zero to Six" first produced in 2008. This is the Telephone Call scene as the play nears its end.
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Somehow I had sucked a virus into my system that had affected my hearing. It turned voices into a muffled mumbles way in the distance. Sounds became indistinct mysteries. To most everyone who tried speaking toward me, I said, What? a lot.
I was prescribed medicine. Bit by bit I heard the world again, until I stalled at the last 20% of my hearing. Seemed the last 20% was the most difficult to get back. Time and medication. Then, during a movie, I heard a pop and more sound suddenly was there in my ear. Later that week, there were a series of underwater notes, a clearing, and everything seemed back to normal.
But the body, being holistic, with the whole ear, throat, nose combo involved, other mysteries happened.
Because when my hearing kicks in again, my sense of smell kicks up a couple of notches.
Getting out of my car, my head shifts like a dog's, aiming my nostrils high and slanted. It could also look like a blind person listening to a voice. I sniff.
And they are, a few houses down on the opposite side of the road in someone's back yard.
I go into a house and there's a huge bunch of flowers and it overpowers me, a sickly scent like a decrepit person slapping on too much lotion. I have to stand by an open door to get relief.
"Someone's cutting wood," I say another time, walking down my street, I eventually pass an open garage where someone has recently buzz-sawed some two by fours.
The world has become wider through my nostrils; I am smelling a lot of things that other people don't detect.
I even smell things that you aren't supposed to to be there.
I'm next to the person who is full of love for me. She smiles benignly upon me.
"What?" she asks, with only a hint of alarm.
I smell her throat, bury my nose in her hair, sniffing like a dog wild on the trail of a favorite prey.
She giggles and her love fills my nasal passages, until my insides become like a series of mini-waves, creating the kind of ripples that happen in the middle of a wide lake right after you have thrown your heart in.
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I've never been a huge fan of the wirebound planner. I don't have anything against them, but in the past I've found they don't work for me. In saying that, I've learnt a lot about myself over the past year as a planner.
Ordinarily I use my filofax for work, but each year we're given a planner at work as standard and this year I'm loving it!
My filofax has a week to view, using dodo pad inserts. They're colourful and fun as you can see, but sadly there's not a lot of room to write anything down.
However my wirebound has a day to view page, so I've used post it notes to colour code what I'm doing in each part of the day. In addition to that I use smash page flags to keep a record of meetings, training and planning. I've also got a page marker from me and my big ideas, it has a great selection of flags for things I need to do and reminders. Now I've just got to tinker together a dashboard.
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Q: Circular linked list c#, object reference not set to an instance of an object I get this object reference not set to an instance of an object error when I call constructor for CircularList.
Element:
 class Element
{
    public Element next;
    public String data;
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List:
class CircularList
    {
        public Element[] arr;

        public CircularList(int n) //capacity
        {
            arr = new Element[n];

            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
            {
                if(i==n-1) arr[i].next = arr[0];
                else
                arr[i].next = arr[i+1];

            }

        }
    }

A: Your array isn't initialized:
  class CircularList
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      public Element[] arr;

      public CircularList(int n) //capacity
      {
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          for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
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          for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
          {
              if(i==n-1) arr[i].next = arr[0];
              else
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          }

      }
  }

this will make sure you have valid items in it.

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Q: Passing arguments to both Bash and awk with $, references the wrong thing I'm trying to write a bash script to accept multiple sample names as parameters in order to call the files they correspond to and run a series of steps on those files. I know the steps work when running each step individually, but I'm trying to make things more automated.
I won't paste all of the steps here so it doesn't get too jumbled, because it looks like it's failing at the awk step in the following script because it's not substituting the right things in the right places.
I want $SAMPLE to come from inputs from the command line, and I want $1 to reference the first field in the file I'm trying to call.
#!/bin/bash

for SAMPLE in "$@"
do
    echo 'awk -F '\t' '{print $1}' /path/$SAMPLE/path/$SAMPLE_filename.txt > pattern.txt'
    awk -F '\t' '{print $1}' /path/$SAMPLE/path/$SAMPLE_filename.txt > pattern.txt
done

When I run this, I get the following errors when the program fails:
awk -F '\t' '{print 10-23Aug-PI}' /path/10-23Aug-PI/path/.txt > pattern.txt
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/path/10-23Aug-PI/path/.txt' for reading (No such file or directory)

Obviously it's putting the file name as $1 and then nothing as $SAMPLE unless I input multiple samples names when running the script.
So is there a way to rewrite the awk script or use something other than awk so that I can extract the first field in a file, but still pass parameters to the bash script from the command line?
Thanks!

A: There is only one problem in your script. the variable $SAMPLE_filename is undefined. I assume you meant ${SAMPLE}_filename. That is the reason why you get a file .txt and not 10-23Aug-PI_filename.txt,
The reason why $1 is substituted is due to the single quotes. If you count correctly your echo line, you notice that $1 is unquoted, and hence substituted by the value $1. The awk will work as expected.
A corrected version of your script could be :
#!/bin/bash
for SAMPLE in "$@"; do
   echo "awk -F '\t' '{print $1}' /path/$SAMPLE/path/${SAMPLE}_filename.txt > pattern.txt"
   awk -F '\t' '{print $1}' /path/$SAMPLE/path/${SAMPLE}_filename.txt > pattern.txt
done


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Themes by Means of Unique Style- Bishop Essay
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Elizabeth Bishop is known to get using the same recurring styles throughout her thought-provoking beautifully constructed wording. Some of these styles include years as a child experiences, travelling, the natural world, loneliness, detachment as well as the art of writing by itself.
Each of these styles has introduced themselves to her by way of personal experience throughout her life. In her poems, she stocks and shares these particular issues with the reader by means of different styles. A number of her poems offer suggestions of particular themes, tend to be not certainly prominent within the first examine, While many of her different poems will be based exclusively on a particular issue through the entire whole composition. These elements of theme and elegance make her poetry a very interesting examine. In my essay, I am going to talk about the styles and style during six of Bishop's poetry; The Fish, The Prodigal, Questions of Travel, Sestina, First Death in Volkswagen Scotia and Filling Station.
Elizabeth Bishop was once quoted to have said I just like painting probably better than I prefer poetry. The Fish is certainly a very visual poem. I believe among the predominant themes in this composition is the organic world.
Her love with the natural community and its creatures is evident throughout because she explains the seafood. Bishop grabs this fish but does not carry out typical of what any other person would do with the intention of finding a fish and succeeding to do so. Rather, she research the fish. She looks and that, and looks deeper until she can come plan some kind of conclusion about the dog. She uses clear image detail to describe the seafood and paint a brilliant picture inside the reader's brain of what this seafood looks like and what it have been through.
Here and there his brown skin put up in whitening strips like historical wallpaper, as well as pattern of darker dark brown was like wallpapers. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime scale, and infested with little White Ocean lice, and underneath several rags of green pot hung straight down. An additional theme which i noticed throughout this composition is the popularity of a survivor of life's battles.
Bishop personifies the fish in lots of ways throughout the poem, portraying it to have human-like traits and characteristics which it is just like a human in its ability to go through and learn from that suffering. A five-haired facial beard of knowledge trailing from his hurting jaw. The word wisdom makes me feel that fish has been through a large number of ordeals during its existence and is now wise from having discovered how to deal with the suffering it has endured. Bishop makes the fish look honourable. She appreciates this fish and looks approximately it for surviving life's battles.
Like medals with their ribbons'. She actually is referring to the pieces of doing some fishing line addicted onto the fish since rewards and proof this fish got the strength to handle the fear it had been through. I likewise noticed some helplessness and defeat throughout the poem.
The fish seemed helpless, want it had given up fighting due to its freedom, the evidence shown by the hooks in the mouth as well as lack of struggle when it was caught. It was as if the fish experienced accepted defeat once and for all. It had fought as hard mainly because it could through its life for its freedom, but generally there seemed to be simply no fight left in him. He didn't fight. This individual hadn't fought at all.
Bishop appeared to be helpless or in other words that she could bum for this seafood. As the girl sat there, examining every single inch than it, realising his experiences and unravelling his pain, there is not much your woman could carry out to help him. She experienced effectively removed his liberty.
Fortunately, Bishop, as reliant as the lady was, discovered that letting the fish move was the finest decision to make. She would not want to make this fish suffer anymore. Until everything was rainbow, range, rainbow! And I let the fish go. The Prodigal is a composition based on an individual who was required to live among the list of pigs this individual looked after.
The complete themes through the entire poem are alcoholism and depression. This could well have already been written by Bishop to show her earlier experiences while she battled with the same mental issues. In many ways, this kind of poem may represent the lining turmoil the girl may have observed when dealing with these illnesses. The main persona in the composition is looking at his area through a drunken state of mind.
Bishop uses comprehensive descriptions to describe the unpleasant surroundings the alcoholic has to endure daily. In many ways, the messy and dirty surroundings could be a reference to how an alcoholics head is organised. The floor was spoiled; the sty was covered halfway plan glass-smooth muck. In this poem, the alcoholic has companionship with the pigs.
They are his only friends, as disgusting and foul smelling as they are. One of the pigs particularly, the plant that ate her small, seems to be an extremely close friend from the alcoholic. These types of pigs could be seen to represent the liquor in this person's life. They can be false good friends. They represent short term happiness, short term companion pets, but in the finish they are zero benefit for this mans life whatsoever.
Instead, they are most often encouraging him. The pig's eyes adopted him, a cheerful stare- Even towards the sow that usually ate her young. The character in this poem seems to be marginalised, like Bishop was throughout her struggle with depression and alcoholism.
He could be unnoticed by society. No person wants to help him. Instead, everybody likes to leave him wallowing in his own pigsty of a existence, leaving him to do when he pleases.
This may be similar to just how Bishop experienced when going through similar issues. She is portraying her struggle through this grubby man, who have leads a grimy life. One more theme which i noticed in the poem can be hope. This kind of man features ruined his life and well-being for the sake of drink. He lives a dark frustrated life, his only companion's alcohol and pigs.
Nevertheless , nearer for the end of the poem, wish springs since this gentleman re-evaluates his life and decides to produce a change for the better. He is going to face his pride, go home and kind himself out and restoration his interactions. But it was a little while until him a long time finally to create his head up to go home.
Questions of Travel is a poem that demands questions about traveling. Why do we journey to the ends of the earth? Can we learn equally as much when we're in front of the TV watching the Discovery Channel?
Bishop is viewed to be thinking about the pros and con's of travel, considering them in her mind and going to a summary. And the interesting thing is that she never fully answers any of her questions regarding exploring the world. The major themes from this poem are travel and exploration, nevertheless the poem also includes hints of numerous themes, including nature and culture. Bishop introduces the poem simply by describing the other Brazilian landscape around her.
The applicable theme in the first stanza of the composition is nature. She uses detailed explanation to paint a picture of the area around her. She uses colour, texture and interesting comparison to explain the panorama. But in case the streams and clouds maintain travelling, exploring, the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships, slime-hung and barnacled. Someone learns quickly that this panorama is not what Bishop is used to.
She feels out of her comfort zone in this area. Perhaps the girl had substantial expectations of travelling and she was fiercely disappointed, resulting in her questioning as to why people bother travelling. There are too many waterfalls right here; the crowded streams be quick too quickly down to the sea.
After describing the scenery, Bishop introduces the theme of travelling through a selection of rhetorical questions that she demands herself. The lady questions why we should travel to the ends of the the planet just to find basic everyday normalities in several cultures that people can't see in our very own countries. It appears as if she actually is disappointed using what she has seen since she gets been on her behalf journey, and this is why she is questioning her decision to ditch her country. What childishness can it be that while there's a breathing of existence in our bodies, our company is determined to rush to find the sun vice versa?
Following she completes questioning why people travel and leisure, she begins to question how come they shouldn't. Again, the lady uses rhetorical questions to present her theme of travel around. Although the girl seems disappointed in what she gets travelled around the world for and seen, she begins to think that it would have already been a shame not to have experienced what the girl did onto her travels, whether or not they weren't as she expected.
But surely it might have been a pity not to have seen the trees along this road, really overstated in their natural beauty, not to have observed them gesturing like commendable pantomimists, robed in red. The finish of this poem comes down to her making her conclusion regarding travel. Even though she will not directly solution her individual questions, you gets the impression that the durability of her questions as to the reasons we should travel seem to override the concerns as to why we shouldn't. Your woman ends her poem with a snippet of writing which she details as a traveler writing in the notebook.
This particular part of all of them poem shows the reader that the con's of travelling include won in the pros. Should we have stayed at home, where ever that may be? Sestina is a poem about time, secrecy and loss. The dominant theme throughout the poem seems to be loss and grief. However , there are many other designs throughout the composition such as weather, secrecy and family.
The poem opens with an autumn motif and also talks about the weather, environment the picture and mood for the rest of the poem. A grandmother sits down in a home and Bishop also lets us know that the mild is slipping, already producing the composition dark and cold and giving you the impression that it is not going to be an upbeat composition. She uses household subject to bring the theme of friends and family into the first stanza. The old grandmother sits in the kitchen while using child beside the Little Wonder Stove, reading the comedies from the almanac.
Secrecy and hidden everything is also included because themes throughout the poem, shown in the initially stanza even as are informed that the grandma laughs and jokes while using child to hide her authentic emotions. These kinds of sad feelings are at odds with the sunniness of the grandmother laughing and joking while using child and the day to day comfortable objects. The newest theme of time enters the poem, while using mention of the grandmother's sadness by the almanac. She thinks that her equinoctial tears and the rain that beats on the top of the house had been both foretold by the almanac.
The theme of weather is usually mentioned once again as Bishop describes the rain on the house because dancing helps you to maintain the overall dreary feelings of the poem. Bishop as well compares the rain to the soft holes of steam on the pot, keeping the theme of sorrow ingoing throughout. But the child is watching the teakettle's tiny hard tears dance like mad within the hot black stove, the way the rain must dance for the house.
The poem concludes with all the personification of the almanac which is portrayed to be all-knowing. The themes of loss and grief will be dominant because Bishop explains how the kid shows her drawing for the grandmother as well as the grandmother laughs but is constantly on the cry. But secretly, while the grandmother busies herself regarding the range the little moons fall down just like tears.
First Death in Nova Scotia is a composition referring to the death of any young child and how a family will be dealing with his death. It is based in the removal of the lifeless child and Bishop their self narrates as a child. It may be discussing memory in her years as a child. The dominant themes in this poem are death, loss in innocence and childishness. Stanza 1 units the scene in the parlour where the corpse is laid out.
The atmosphere is usually cold since there is repeating of the expression cold. The theme of years as a child is generated within the poem as Bishop, as a child, is conveying her surroundings in a very childish way. Fatality is quickly prominent inside the poem while she childishly tries to be familiar with loon. She attempts to spell out the moon like stuffed parrot. It is quiet and Bishop does not discover why.
He hadn't said a word. The kid does not manage to understand loss of life which is why the lady cannot discover why the parrot is silent. The stuffed loon provides a distraction coming from her deceased cousin, Arthur.
The image from the loon is definitely sinister and cold. The girl seems to be haunted by its presence. The cold atmosphere is introduced again while the loon watches above Arthur. And the red-eyed loon eyed it from his white, frozen pond.
Childishness is reintroduced when bishop uses the metaphor of the cake to spell out Arthur's coffin. It seems as though it is the only comparison your woman can make since she would not understand the reality of the condition. Arthur's coffin was A very little frosted pastry.
Finally, in stanza four, the speaker focuses on Arthur's corpse. Her explanations of him are childlike and faithful as she compares him to a toy. She also pertains the fatality to Jack Frost, showcasing the theme of childishness while she endeavors to deal with Arthur's death. Jack Frost experienced dropped your brush and remaining him white colored, forever.
The poem ends with Bishops childish panic. The girl does not realise why they are mailing Arthur up to now away in the deep snow. But how do Arthur get, clutching his tiny lily, with his sight shut up so small and the streets deep in snow? Filling Station is a poem about Bishops experience halting at a web-based filling place and reviewing it because she holds back.
The styles in this composition are along with mockery. The poem unwraps with Bishop describing the station with distaste. She sets the tone as she explains the dirt of the stuffing station and the old, petrol covered items that she can see.
Oh, but it is dirty! This little filling up station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, total black translucency. Bishop the procedes describe those she can see at this filling up station, combining the concept of the family in the poem through description. She describes 1 fat guy which the lady assumes is definitely the father and owner of the station, and also describes his sons.
The description the lady gives towards the sons makes them appear since quite cheeky, which is the stereotypical perspective of fresh boys. Your woman mocks the lazy, casual attitude of males due to the absence of a female figure. Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked goof suit that cuts him under the biceps and triceps, and several quick and saucy and oily sons aid him.
Bishop after that begins to problem whether these individuals live in the filling train station, once again incorporating the theme of family in to the poem while she updates certain family members elements in the station. Your woman mocks the truth that every thing seems to be greasy and soiled in the filling up station. And on it a collection of crushed and grease- impregnated wickerwork; on the wicker couch a dirty puppy, quite comfortable.
Bishop then begins to notice the female presence inside the poem, re-introducing the theme of family into the poem and maintaining their importance. Although she does not experience the woman, she can see that there is a mother's appreciate and contact somewhere in the background of this grubby little filling station. The poem demonstrates even in filth and disorder a trace of love is still apparent. Why the extraneous grow? Why the taboret?
So why, oh how come, the doily? To conclude the poem, Bishop experience a moment of epiphany. She realizes though she may well mock this filthy tiny filling station, there is more to it than olive oil permeated wickerwork and fat. She realises this is a household filling station, and through the day to day work that goes upon here, there is also a mother estimate the background. She realises the minute details of the decorated fibule and the extraneous plant is due to a mother's take pleasure in.
Somebody enjoys us all. To conclude my personal essay, I would agree that Bishop truly does explore a variety of different themes through her poems; however these types of themes will be recurring during her beautifully constructed wording and may have more than one composition. She uses interesting variations to bring in these styles to the audience, such as rhetorical questioning, representation, detailed symbolism and also speaking from a person else's point of view.
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Developer Westlake Urban is close to approval on 197 apartments at its San Leandro Tech Campus, as a decade-long effort to build next to the BART station gains momentum.
The City Council will vote to potentially approve the housing project at 601 Parrot St. on Monday. The project requires a plan change in the San Leandro Tech Campus, which is approved for up to 500,000 square feet of office space but no housing.
A rendering of a proposed 197-unit apartment project next to San Leandro BART station.
The tech campus complex includes a 132,000-square-foot building at 1600 Alvarado St. leased by tech firm OSIsoft that opened last year. A second 130,000-square-foot office building is under construction with no tenants and asking rents of $39 per square foot. JLL is the broker.
San Leandro's transit-oriented development strategy around its BART station was approved in 2007, but the recession delayed new construction. San Mateo-based Westlake Urban initially had approvals for 700 housing units, but switched the plan to office space. It's now seeking to build a portion of that housing.
If approved, Tong hopes to break ground on the seven-story housing project in the spring of 2018 and open by early 2020. The budget is $75 million to $80 million. TCA Architects designed the project.
The third commercial building planned for the site could be either office space or a hotel with around 150 rooms, said Tong. He's seeking final approvals for that building in the next nine months.
Westlake Urban dropped plans to build a 460-unit project at San Francisco's Kirkham Heights, the largest housing proposal in the Sunset district. It has sites in Foster City, Oakland, San Jose and Walnut Creek where it may pursue projects, but it is being more careful about picking its next projects.
As a result, Gaye Quinn, a Westlake Urban managing director, recently left the company. "Projects she was working on might not be going forward," said Tong.
Tong said her departure was amicable. Quinn didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The hypercasual genre was the largest category in mobile games in 2020. According to the research data analyzed and published by Safe Betting Sites, it accounted for 31% of all downloads during the year. Games in the top 1,000 titles under the genre accumulated a total of 6.3 billion downloads during the year.
Based on a study by Deconstructor of Fun, Voodoo was the top hypercasual publisher during the year. From slightly over 1 billion downloads in 2019, the publisher had almost $1.6 billion installs in 2020, up by 52% YoY.
Top genre by revenue, RPG racked up $18.7bn, 29% share of total
According to Statista, Voodoo was the top game publisher on iOS in January 2021. During that month alone, the publisher had 24.65 million downloads. The figure was close to double the 13.06 million downloads that second-placed Lion Studios had. Tencent Studios was third with 10.09 million.
In February 2021, Voodoo had 28 million downloads on the App Store and 78 million on Play Store. Other mobile game categories that performed well in 2020 included Arcade and Puzzle games. Arcade game downloads grew by 33% YoY to four billion downloads and had a 15% share of the total. Puzzle games grew by 78% YoY to 3.7 billion downloads and had a 13% share.
On the other hand, RPG genre took the lead in terms of player spending. It accounted for a 29% share of total revenue from the top 1,000 titles, generating $18.7 billion. Compared to 2019, that was a 26% increase in spending. The Strategy genre was second with a 21% share and $14 billion in revenue. Puzzle games came in third with a 13% share and total revenue of $8.3 billion.
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WASHINGTON -- OraSure Technologies Inc.'s (OSUR) request to extend approval of its rapid HIV test was granted by the Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, just one day after OraSure made the request.
"It was stunning," said OraSure Chief Executive Mike Gausling.
When the OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 antibody test won approval in November, the government allowed only 38,000 certified laboratories to administer the test.
At the time, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson urged the company to apply for a waiver that would allow the test to be given in 100,000 locations nationwide including clinics, doctor's offices and counseling centers.
Without this waiver, "this test would be limited to use in laboratory settings where many high-risk people do not go for testing," Thompson said in a news release Friday.
The 20-minute HIV test uses a finger stick device similar to the type used by diabetics to test blood sugar.
The rapid results, the government hopes will encourage more people to find out their HIV status. Each year 8,000 HIV-infected people visit public clinics for tests, but do not return the next week to learn the results. The HHS estimates 225,000 Americans are HIV-positive, but don't know it.
OraSure submitted six, one-inch binders to prove the OraQuick test could be given easily and correctly, said Gausling.
To win the waiver, Gausling said, the company had to show that someone with at least a seventh grade education could follow the product's instructions.
In four locations, OraSure pulled 25 people "literally off the street" to administer multiple tests, Gausling said.
Gausling expects OraSure's sales to grow 25% this year, mainly because of the rapid HIV test. The OraQuick will be distributed by both OraSure and Abbott Laboratories (ABT).


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Throwing it down: The men's and women's track and field teams raced to fourth and sixth, respectively, in the NESCAC Championship on Saturday at Trinity. John Pietro '18 had a spectacular performance, winning both the shot put and hammer throw. On Tuesday, Pietro was awarded the NESCAC's Sabasteanski Award as the Most Outstanding Male Performer in the conference. It is the first time a Bowdoin athlete has won this award.
Gone with the wind: The sailing team came in tenth overall in the New England Dinghy Championships for the Coast Guard Alumni Bowl at Brown University this past weekend, putting them just outside of contention for the ICSA National Championship. After the championships, Matt Kaplan '19 was named to the All NEISA Skippers Second Team.
Heading for home: The baseball team swept the Colby series this weekend, improving its record to 14-17 (NESCAC 7-5). The team finished third in NESCAC East, and missed qualifying for the NESCAC tournament. On Monday, Eric Mah '18 was named the NESCAC Baseball Player of the Week after batting .700, hitting three doubles and a home run, scoring seven runs and knocking in four RBIs.
The golden boys: Although it lost in the quarterfinals, the men's lacrosse team had three members honored in All-NESCAC Awards. Matthew Crowell '18 and Parker Sessions '18 were named as First Team Selections and Sam Carlin '19 was named to the Second Team. Crowell finished the season tied for most goals at 25 and Sessions led the team in caused turnovers at 17. This is Carlin's first postseason award after he won 197 of 327 faceoffs this season.
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Provincial law grads rule 2016 Bar Top 10
Christopher Lloyd Caliwan-PNA
MANILA, May 3 — For the first time, no Metro Manila-based school landed in the top 10 of the 2016 Bar examinations, according to results released by Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Presbitero J. Velasco Jr. said a total of 3,747 out of the 6,344 examinees who took the 2016 Bar examinations passed and this figure translates to 59.06 percent of the total examinees.
"I am happy and pleased to announce that the country now as 3,747 new lawyers. This represents a passing percentage of 59.06 percent. I congratulate and doff my hat to the 3,747 successful candidates. Mabuhay po silang lahat. They deserve to be members of the prestigious legal profession," Velasco said.
He noted the figure and percentage are higher than the 26.21 percent (1,731 out of 6,605) who passed the 2015 Bar examinations.
He said the highest passing percentage in the history of the bar exams from 1946 to 2015 is 75.17 percent in 1954 while the highest passing percentage with the passing average of 75 percent was attained in 1998 with 39.63 percent.
"In 2016, the passing percentage is definitely the highest with the remarkable 59.06 percent based on the grade of 75 percent," he added.
Atty. Christina Layusa, the Bar Confidant, pointed out that "it is the first time that not a single Metro Manila based school placed in the top 10."
She said that University of San Carlos had four graduates in the top 10 while Silliman University had three graduates in the top 10.
Karen Mae L. Calam, a graduate of the University of San Carlos, topped this year's Bar Examinations with the highest over-all rating of 89.0500% followed by Alanna Gayle Ashley Khio of Siliman University with 88.95 while Fiona Cristy Lao also of University of San Carlos and Athalia Liong of Andres Bonifacio College shared the third spot with a rating of 88.80 percent.
In 4th place is Allana Mae Babayen-On of University of San Agustin with a rating of 88.75 followed by Justin Ryan Morilla of Ateneo de Davao University with 88.40, Mark Dave Camaraol of Northwestern University with 88.10, Anne Margaret Momongan of University of San Carlos with 87.80, Jefferson Gomez also of University of San Carlos with 87.70 while Nia Rachelle Gonzales of the University of Batangas and Marie Chielo Ybio of Siliman University shared the 9th place with a rating of 87.50.
In 10th place is Andrew Stephen Liu of Siliman University with a rating of 87.45.
Absent from the list of the top placers are the usual top law schools in the country — University of the Philippines College of Law, Ateneo de Manila University and San Beda College.
Layusa said that bar passers may secure their clearances from the Office of the Bar Confidant beginning on May 8-21, 2017.
Oath-taking of the successful Bar candidates will be held on May 22, 2017 at 3 p.m at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena. Registration will start at 11 a.m..
"The oath taking ceremonies will take place on May 22, Monday, at the Mall of Asia Arena, because of the large number of successful candidates, we are to get a bigger venue. Since it is a big venue, we are allowing the successful candidates to bring or invite at least two or three candidates for this momentous event," he noted.
The bar examinations are given annually in the course of one month, spread over four Sundays. It is the only professional licensure examinations which require the examinees to answer open-ended questions written in long hand. These questions, formulated by the bar examiners for each subject and selected personally by the Bar Committee Chair on the day of each examination, are formulated to test analytical ability, facility in expression in terms of written argument, comprehension of basic principles of law, and grasp of jurisprudence.
Due to the scope and difficulty, the bar examinations are regarded as the most prestigious professional licensure exam in the country. It is also the only licensure examination that is not administered by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC).
The 2016 Bar Examinations are the 115th to be held in the Philippines. The exams were held at the University of Sto. Tomas in Manila and were administered by the Office of the Bar Confidant headed by Deputy Clerk of Court and Bar Confidant Atty. Ma. Cristina B. Layusa.
For the 2016 bar examinations, a total of 6,924 filed their applications; of this number, 21 applications were denied, 72 applicants withdrew their applications, leaving a total number of 6,831 who were admitted by the Supreme Court En Banc to take the examinations.
Of the 6,831 admitted to take the exam, 477 examinees did not show up on the first Sunday of the bar, leaving 6,354 who actually took the exams on the first Sunday. After the fourth Sunday of the bar, only 6,344 examinees completed the examinations, i.e., showed up for all Sundays. Of this number, 3,747 passed.
Of the 6,354 who took showed up for at least one Sunday, 3,208 were new candidates while 3,146 were repeaters, i.e., those who had taken the bar examinations at least once previously.
The Bar examinations are given only once every year at a designated venue under the supervision of the Supreme Court which designates an incumbent Justice to chair a committee consisting of eight examiners, one for each bar subject.
The Chair of the Annual Bar Examinations is given the discretion by the Supreme Court to choose the eight bar examiners who are considered as experts in their particular fields and, during the entire duration of the bar examinations, are bound by strict confidentiality. Christopher Lloyd Caliwan/ with Julianne Nicolle Moral-OJT/PNA
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Does Harbor Point Environmental Regulation Rest On Residents?
Published October 17, 2013 at 7:00 AM EDT
"Toxic Metals in Wells and Air" might be the least welcome headline ever if you were developing a site where the toxic materials were found. Readings in and around the Harbor Point development site--a chromium processing plant for 140 years until the 1980s--produced numbers of concern to the city. Some measurements were three times higher than federal standards.
With construction once scheduled to begin October 15, the publication of chromium pollution in the air and water give a whole new significance to the word "groundbreaking." The construction work will require disturbing the ground around a cap to that contains the harmful chemical.
"Alarming," said Edward Bouwer, a Johns Hopkins University scientist who wonders if measures taken to contain the pollution are working. Bouwer's concerns appeared in a report in the Baltimore Sun.
Other experts minimize the likelihood of a real threat to humans living in the area. But Councilman James Kraft, quite rightly, insists on more tests to rule out a human health hazard. The Exelon Corporation plans a new, 22-story office building on the site. The development includes plans for some housing, a promenade, and small parks.
People are already working or studying on the property. A school is there. And a Morgan Stanley office building stands adjacent to the property--all of which must surely heighten concerns.
It also raises questions: How did we get so far down the road without knowing whether the safety issues had been resolved? There was the impression that a cap over the polluted soil gave the site a clean bill of health. But apparently there had been no final go-ahead.
All the parties were to have met on the issue last week, but the government shutdown meant federal officials could not attend. Councilman Kraft hopes to reschedule. Beatty Development Group, developers of the Harbor Point project, agreed to delay the groundbreaking.
Neighborhood groups pushing for more assurances turn out to be the regulators of last resort.
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