Rich is a great ambassador, and a gentleman. Thanks for the post.
I knew this one would speak to you, Steve; as a fellow expat, you know what I'm talking about! Thanks for your kind words, I'll pass them along to Rich.
Great food for thought as we contemplate our next moves.
I hear a lot of talk about Americans moving abroad in 2017. Here's hoping you've got Seville on your short list, Denise.
Oh, yes, to so many of the observations and experiences. We've had much the same in Greece. One of the things that always amazes me is that comment about Americans as we've heard it ourselves many times. Now that we are getting to know other non-Americans better it is interesting (no, make that rather sad) to hear what they thought we all were like or worse to hear of their experiences in traveling in America. Not always that warm welcome that we've received on this side of the Atlantic.
Clearly we all have a lot of work to do as ambassadors of goodwill, Jackie!
We're thinking about spending more time at our place near Nerja. Who do you recommend we consult about the bureaucratic intricacies of residency in Spain?
Start with the Spanish consulate nearest you in the US. They can give you all the paperwork — and there is quite a bit of it! But it is all manageable, you just go through it step by step.
Thank you, Karen. Our closest one is in Los Angeles. I understand from another US expat in Spain that the consulates don't take/make appointments. You just have to hope they will make time for you after you've traveled (375 miles in our case) to see them.
Alicia, I'd call and check about the appointment; each consulate may have its own policy, and you could at least find out when they're least busy. Also, ask them if there is an online source for the forms, so you can arrive with the paperwork started. When we did our initial long-term visa application, we had to go to Chicago twice — and the second time they forgot to give us part of the paperwork and tried to make us return for it. But as we were flying out to Spain the next day, they finally agreed to FedEx the papers to us. The package arrived in a snow storm literally one minute ahead of our ride to the airport. Added a lot of spice to the departure!
He's right about the burritos!
Rich is a man who knows good food when he munches on it!


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The peanut/groundnut oil mill plant we supply can be used to extract oil from various kinds of oil seeds.The peanut/groundnut oil mill plant starting with the peanut oil press workshop and endding with the peanut oil refinery workshop.
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Mumming at the American Folklife Center
December 24, 2013 by Stephen Winick
The 2013 American Folklife Center Mummers. Front Row, L-R: Nancy Groce, Eric Eldritch, Maggie Kruesi, Christy Chason Lavelle. Middle Row, L-R: Stephanie Hall, Hope O'Keeffe, Hannah Santino, Ann Hoog, Theadocia Austen, Jennifer Cutting, Catherine Hiebert Kerst. Back Row: Stephen Winick.
Every year, in the week before Christmas, staff members of the American Folklife Center put our research and performance skills into play, bringing collections to life in a dramatic performance that tours the halls of the Library of Congress. Dressed in costumes that range from striking to silly, we sing, act, rhyme, and dance for other Library staff members and for members of the public. Our performances are based on the ancient tradition of mumming, which has come down to our archive in the form of play scripts, songs, photos, and other items collected in the early twentieth century.
In traditional European cultures, "mumming" involves disguising oneself, going door to door, and performing songs, dances and plays in neighbors' homes and in public places. It's a very old and widespread custom, going back at least to the Middle Ages. As a general practice, mumming can be found throughout Europe and the European diaspora, from Bulgaria to Ireland and from Australia to Newfoundland. It has also given rise to such offshoots as the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, which combines traditional elements with modern music and showmanship.
Seated group of mummers. Photograph from AFC's James Madison Carpenter Collection.
The type of play we perform, which is often called a "mummers play," is somewhat less ancient and less universal than the general practice of mumming. In fact, it may not go back any further than the eighteenth century, since earlier English-language references to "mumming" either are vague about the exact type of performance, or are clearly a different kind of play. But it still has interesting resonance with ancient themes as well as obvious connections to older mumming traditions. Characters in traditional mumming range from Napoleon to Cromwell, and from "The Duke of Blunderland" to a bloodthirsty soldier called "Cutterman Slasherman." (Nowadays, you can also find Mummers Plays about Captain Kirk, Dracula and other heroes of postmodern pop culture.)
Mummers plays have a basic recurring plot that is used as a launching-pad for the actors' rhyming, singing, and dancing. The plot involves a fight between two champions, who can be any of the ones named above, but who can also be St. George and the Dragon, or St. Patrick and the Turkish Knight, or any other combination of historical or fantasy characters. In the fight, one of the combatants is killed. A doctor then arrives. After being accused by the others of being a quack, the doctor proceeds to revive the dead hero, which results in celebratory songs and dances.
This drawing by stonemason George Baker, whose father was a mummer in the English Cotswolds around the turn of the twentieth century, depicts the leader of the mummers, Father Christmas, knocking on the door to ask admittance. From AFC's James Madison Carpenter Collection.
Mumming in the English-speaking world mostly occurs around the Winter Solstice, which makes the death-and-resurrection theme resonate with the world outside the play, which is undergoing its own death and rebirth. It also places the play at a time of year when the nights are long and boring; in the days before electricity this meant that people particularly appreciated entertainment. Finally, it occurs when the harvest is over and the growing season is a long time off, so many members of the community are facing lean times. The play is often performed in exchange for food, drink or money, so it allows people to informally redistribute wealth toward those who need it, a traditional form of charity that spreads holiday cheer throughout the community. Although we perform our play for free, some of the performances occur at Library of Congress office holiday parties where the various divisions offer us food and drink, keeping us in touch with these ancient roots of the mumming tradition.
In their death-and-resurrection theme, and their timing near the solstice, mummers plays clearly resonate not only with Christian beliefs, but also with earlier pagan beliefs, leading some to theorize that they are vestiges of a pre-Christian pagan ceremony. However, given the almost thousand-year gap between the Christianization of England and the appearance of the plays in the written record, it seems more likely that the plays reflect vestiges of pre-Christian thought within Christian communities and Christianity itself. This would make them pagan in flavor but Christian in origin, a solution that's supported by the prevalence of Christian Saints as characters in the plays. Plays of this type are widespread throughout the English-speaking world, including Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, Kentucky, and the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
James Madison Carpenter, who collected hundreds of folk play texts in Britain in the 1930s. AFC holds his extensive collection (which includes this photograph) in our archive.
The American Folklife Center is lucky to have a collection particularly rich in mummers play texts, the James Madison Carpenter Collection. During his fieldwork in Britain in the 1930s, Carpenter collected over five hundred texts of folk plays. He also collected photos of some of the prominent mummers' groups, and drawings by George Baker, a dry-stone mason who lived near Stow-on-the-Wold in the English Cotswolds, and whose father had acted in the local mummers plays.
In 2009, it occurred to Folklife Specialist Jennifer Cutting to adapt a new version of the mummers play from the Carpenter materials. She enlisted my aid, and the two of us produced the first script in that year. The following year, we changed it, adding new characters as well as topical references, which are a traditional aspect of mummers play performances. Now we change the play each year to reflect what's on our minds; our 2013 play was influenced primarily by our dual roles as library professionals and federal employees, with the growing challenges of managing digital data forming the basis for the conflict and the recent government shutdown and furlough of employees providing much of the humor.
This photo was taken at a mock wedding in New Leipzig, North Dakota, in 1960. Courtesy of newleipzig.com
Since our play depicts the need for data to be described and controlled by metadata, an important aspect of our work life in the largest library in the world, we didn't want to end with data and metadata in continued conflict. To reconcile them, we used another traditional dramatic genre usually not connected to British mummers' plays: the mock wedding. Mock weddings are performances that make fun of traditional weddings by subverting elements of the ceremony, especially the wedding vows, and using them to highlight common or stereotypical conflicts between the sexes. In typical examples, the "woman" (often played by a man) vows to take charge and make the man miserable, and the "man" (often played by a woman) vows to give up all fun and submit to his wife. Some of the mock wedding lines we used in St. George and the Data Dragon were collected in North Dakota by Michael Taft, retired head of the AFC's archive. By adding a mock wedding to the end of our play, we reconciled data and metadata, suggesting a harmonious relationship in the future. More importantly, we kept it lighthearted and amusing–or, at least, we hope we did! Because our St. George was played by AFC intern Hannah Santino and the Dragon was played by VHP staff member Christy Chason Lavelle, we even preserved the gender-bending nature of many mock wedding texts!
Another of George Baker's drawings depicts St. George and the Dragon, typical antagonists of English-language mummers plays. From AFC's James Madison Carpenter Collection.
Many elements of our play, including the songs, dances and costumes, as well as the text itself, combined old elements with new ones to bring the mummers play into the modern world. In addition to a traditionally-attired Father Christmas and St. George, the play featured a "Digital Assets Manager" whose digital nature was represented by a breastplate of CDRs. The songs were updated from old texts to remove references that would merely confuse modern audiences. Nevertheless, we attempted to keep the spirit and the flavor of traditional mummers plays intact.
By performing our mummers play, the AFC mummers (including some friends from other divisions of the Library) hope to show that folklife is more than old-fashioned recordings and manuscripts contained in the archive. It's also a set of living cultural practices that have proved useful to people in addressing recurring social situations for hundreds of years. One of those situations came up for us: how do we entertain our friends at holiday time? Drawing on a long heritage of folk performances and celebrations, but making sure we addressed people's current lives and concerns, we put together our play.
The next post on Folklife Today will include the text of the 2013 AFC mummers play.
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Does anyone know if there is a cultural link between the Mummer's plays and the traditional Cajun Mardi gras? Both have the characteristics of the timing during lean times (relationship to death and resurrection), groups traveling the community begging, and the charity of giving.
Stephen Winick
Thanks for your question, Sheridan. There almost certainly is a connection, going back to the Middle Ages. As I mentioned in the post, the word "mummer" goes back in English longer than the play texts themselves, and some of the earlier uses of the word "mummer" refer to customs similar to French and German Carnival traditions. In particular, John Stow mentions in his 1598 Survey of London the night of February 1, 1377, on which "one hundred and thirty citizens, disguised and well horsed in a mummery" rode into Kennington palace, where the new Prince of Wales (later Richard II) was living with his mother and his uncle, John of Gaunt. According to Stow:
The prince, his mother, and the lords came out of the chamber into the hall, whom the said mummers did salute, showing by a pair of dice upon the table their desire to play with the prince, which they so handled that the prince did always win when he cast them. Then the mummers set to the prince three jewels one after another, which were a bowl of gold, a cup of gold, and a ring of gold, which the prince won at three casts. Then they set to the prince's mother the duke the earls and other lords to every one a ring of gold, which they did also win. After which they were feasted and the music sounded, the prince and the lords danced on the one part with the mummers, which did also dance, which jollity being ended they were again made to drink and then departed in order as they came.
The association of mummers with dice was also a feature of continental Carnival celebrations, in which mummers traveled from house to house and played dice with the inhabitants, a custom known as mummenschanz. In 1377, February 1 was only about a week before Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras. This suggests that the event involving mummers and dice represents an English version of mummenschanz, which would be a direct connection between English "mummers" and European Mardi Gras.
Even if the specific connection above seems tenuous, there is also a tradition of another English mummer's play, usually referred to as the "Pace-egging play," which occurs at Easter. This shows that the English custom of mumming is not confined to Christmas, and can become attached to any festive season. Mardi Gras house-visitors in Cajun country, and even Halloween "trick-or-treat," share common roots with these Christmas and Easter mumming traditions, and would have been recognized in the middle ages as "mummery."
Joe Hickerson
The "Gower Wassail" remains my favorite of them all. Great range, minor melody, and harmony possibilities.
Long live the AFC Blog!
Yes, Joe, we love the Gower Wassail too. It also has some lovely poetry:
We know by the moon that we are not too soon,
And we know by the sky that we are not too high.
We know by the stars that we are not too far,
And we know by the ground that we are within sound….
We'll think about doing it next year!
Steve, Thanks for you response. I also notice that the costumes in the Bampton, England pic of mummers are similar to Cajun Mardi Gras e.g., tatters & the large conical hat (mimicking medieval ladies). The cajuns also wear the crown and the mortar board hat, as do the mummers.
The play in Cajun Mardi gras is the riding of the mardi gras (revellers) around the countryside to beg for food. They are accompanied by musicians playing the Mardi Gras song. The mardi gras are very mischevious (dancing with farmer's wives, stealing etc) and are "herded" by "Capitaine". There is also the custom of throwing up a chicken for the coming of age boys to chase and retrieve. The relevellers return to the town with all the collected food for the gumbo pot. Music, dancing, and eating ensue. I understand that this tradition has it's roots in medieval France.
Susan West
Reading this made me wonder if the rolling of dice could be related to the rolling of the dreidel at Hanukka.Wildly different holidays but folklore can sometimes move in strange ways.
Sue West
Thanks for your comment, Susan. Yes, these traditions are definitely related. The dreidel doesn't appear to be a very old Hebrew tradition, but rather one that Jews adopted from their European neighbors. The spinning of a top with letters on the sides directing you to put one in the pot, take half the pot, take all the pot, or do nothing, existed in England and Germany before we find reference to it it among Jews. In English the top and the game were called teetotum, which ultimately comes from the Latin for the instructions. The earliest teetotums would have been made by simply drilling a hole through the center of a die and putting a stick through it–in other words, the ancestor a dreidel is a die.
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Persistent public scrutiny is essential to build community confidence in An Garda Síochána (AGS) but also provides a platform for the Garda Commissioner to respond to public concerns, the Policing Authority says in its new strategy document for the period up to year-end 2021.
The oversight body says that senior garda appointments are an important cultural lever for reform, along with the code of ethics established by the Authority.
The body will continue to push for the ethics code to be fully embedded into all aspects of police work, it says.
Chair Josephine Feehily writes that the Authority will pay particular attention to overseeing how AGS perform in the context of their human rights obligations.
One of the performance indicators for this goal is an established culture of accountability and openness in the force and timely and effective disciplinary systems and appointments and promotion mechanisms based on merit.
It wants a garda culture that embodies the highest ethical standards, embraces diversity and vindicates the human rights of each individual.
Section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Act 2014 provides that public bodies must have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity and treatment and to protect, promote and fulfil human rights.
The Policing Authority stresses the right to fair procedures, the right to privacy, equal access and equal treatment.


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How do I determine which size of helmet I need?
To ensure a maximum protection, the proper helmet size should be chosen for each user. To choose your size, measure the circumference of your head approximately 2 cm above the eyebrows, and select the size of helmet that corresponds to your measurement (in cm). When the helmet is on your head make sure there are no large empty spaces or pressure points.
How do I correctly wear a helmet?
Put the helmet on your head with the front and back at the same level, so the helmet is parallel to the ground. Adjust the fit system of the helmet so it is securely and snug on your head, but still comfortable.The helmet should be properly adjusted on the head, meaning the straps should not cover your ears, the buckle should not be covering the chin and the buckle and straps should be firmly, but comfortably adjusted. The same applies to the adjustment around the perimeter of the head. The helmet should always be fixed on the head by securing the chin strap attached under the chin.
In order to get the most from your helmet, follow these simple steps: Keep it in a helmet bag. Some come with a bag, or you can use a water-resistant drawstring bag to ensure nothing leaks onto/into your helmet when traveling (chain lubricants can damage the EPS structure). Pack it on top. When packing your car or a bag for travel, always store your helmet on top. It's made to structurally protect your head, not to bear unusually high loads that can occur during transit (always check it for damage after a long trip). Keep it clean. If scrubbing it from time to time seems like a chore or hard to remember, take it into the shower with you from time to time and rinse it there. Check the padding. Padding inside a helmet can become dislodged. Take a photo of the inside of your helmet when it's new and make sure the pads are present and properly positioned every so often. If you don't shower with your helmet, remove the padding and wash it separately, but be sure to return all the bits in their correct places.
Even with no hard bangs, you should replace your helmet every three years (on average) to ensure that the helmet you're currently wearing is best able to do what it was designed to do – protect your brain from injury. Your helmet may look quite fine after three years. You may never have had a tumble where your helmet took an impact. But helmets are made of materials that are intentionally light to ensure comfort while protecting your head. Unlike a pair of hardy Shimano SPD pedals, these materials in modern helmets don't last forever. Significant changes in temperature as well as lengthy exposure to UV light can degrade the EPS (expanded polystyrene), which is the core/shell of the modern cycling helmet. Some sunblocks contain substances that can erode EPS and sweat can also gradually wear into your helmet's EPS and affect its structure. By replacing your helmet every three years, you are giving yourself both peace of mind as well as optimal protection.
There is a winter liner for my helmet, what is this and how do I install this?
Some Lazer helmets are designed to be used all-year round and have an accessory called winter liner. With some quick adjustments you can use your helmet no matter what the conditions are. How to install: Remove the original padding from the helmet by pulling it away from the helmet, until there are only velcro strips left in the helmet. Put the helmet straps on the outside of the helmet so there is nothing inside the helmet. Align the winter liner with at the front of the helmet and gently push the liner down until it sticks to the velcro. Pull your helmet straps through the loops that are on the outside of the ear flaps of the winter liner. The winter liner should now be installed and ready for use.
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Last week's LAVNCH WEEK was huge for both THE rAVe Agency and the industry. In fact, it was the largest virtual AV event, ever, with five days, 36 presenters and 20 hours of streaming — all in one platform. Let's jump into the numbers.Here are some interesting stats:We streamed 15 terabytes of data over five daysWe had more than 10,100 total registrationsParticipants answered more than 35,000 poll questionsWe issued more than 8,000 hours of AVIXA CTS RUsWe moderated more than 1,530 chat discussionsWe had attendees from more than 90 countriesIf you are a member of the LAVNCH platform, you get EXCLUSIVE access to our LAVNCH events. That means, if you attended LAVNCH WEEK last week, you still have access to all the content from last week's event! So, if you missed a session or want to rewatch something, you can go to https://theraveagency.com/lavnch-week anytime to review any and all of it.We've had a lot of requests to release a couple of keynotes from last week's event — the one from AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes and the one from bestselling book author Bill Ammerman, who spoke on the impact of AI and voice on the future of tech. So here they are:Save your spot for LAVNCH WEEK 2.0Like what you see? Attend LAVNCH WEEK 2.0. It starts on June 22, and you can sign up here. read more
Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools?
New Caledonian crows are known for their toolmaking, but Alex Taylor and his colleagues wanted to understand just how advanced they could be.Crows from New Caledonia, an island in the South Pacific, can break off pieces of a branch to form a hook, using it to pull a grub out of a log, for instance. Once, in captivity, when a New Caledonian male crow had taken all the available hooks, its mate Betty took a straight piece of wire and bent it to make one."They are head and shoulders above almost every other avian subjects" at toolmaking, said Irene Pepperberg, an avian cognition expert and research associate in Harvard University's department of psychology. "These crows are just amazing." Read the whole story: The New York Times More of our Members in the Media > read more
WHO reiterates high risk of polio from central AfricaThe detection this week of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from Equatorial Guinea in Brazilian sewage and the virus's movement from Cameroon into Equatorial Guinea point up the high risk of international spread of the virus from the western portion of central Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.On Mar 17 the agency had elevated its risk assessment of polio spread from central Africa, particularly Cameroon, to "very high." In a Jun 23 statement, the WHO said the WPV1 detected at the Viracopos International Airport in Campinas in Sao Paulo state closely matches the virus circulating in Equatorial Guinea.The WHO also noted in today's update that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed four WPV1 cases this year, the country's first since 1999. The most recent occurred on Apr 3. "Genetic sequencing indicates these cases are linked to an ongoing WPV1 outbreak in Cameroon (Cameroon's most recent case was on 31 January 2014)," the agency said. The country has implemented vaccination campaigns and other control efforts.The importation of WPV1 from central Africa to Brazil "demonstrates that all regions of the world continue to be at risk of exposure to wild poliovirus until polio eradication is completed globally," the WHO said. "It is important that all countries, in particular those with frequent travel and contacts with polio-affected countries and areas, strengthen surveillance for polioviruses."The agency said that, given Brazil's high polio immunity levels, the risk of spread of the disease there is low.Jun 25 WHO update Salmonella cases linked to Foster Farms chicken top 600California has reported 27 new cases of salmonellosis linked to Foster Farms chicken products since the latest update from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), raising the outbreak total to 601 cases, Food Safety News (FSN) reported yesterday.In confirming the new cases today, a spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) told CIDRAP News, "They include case patients who became ill in April through June. CDPH's investigation of the Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak associated with Foster Farms chicken is currently ongoing, and additional details cannot be provided at this time."The new cases raise California's total to 468. FSN said health departments in Washington and Oregon reported no new cases.In its most recent update, on May 27, the CDC reported 574 outbreak cases, 441 of which were in California. The state with the next-highest count was Arizona, with 25 cases.No products have been recalled because of the outbreak. Federal officials have isolated one of the two outbreak strains from Foster Farms chicken. Jun 24 FSN story May 27 CIDRAP News scan on most recent CDC update read more
Saudi Arabia reports MERS case, weighs camel import ban
Saudi Arabia reported one new MERS-CoV case today, and a top Saudi health official told Reuters that the country is considering banning the importing of camels from the Horn of Africa because of worries about the virus.The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) said a MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) case was identified in a 58-year-old expatriate in the city of Bisha. The patient, who is not a healthcare worker, is in a hospital intensive care unit.The man's illness raised the ministry's MERS tally to 711 cases with 292 deaths. No new deaths were reported today.Camel ban consideredMeanwhile, Tariq Madani, who heads the scientific advisory board overseeing the MOH's control center for MERS-CoV, said the Saudi agriculture ministry is considering a ban on camels from the Horn of Africa, according to a Reuters story today."We do have suspicions that the disease may have been imported through camel trade from the Horn of Africa, but we haven't proved it yet," Madani told Reuters. He said camels are now being tested at Saudi seaports before being allowed into the country.MERS-CoV is known to be fairly common in dromedary camels in the Middle East, and one recent study found the virus in Egyptian camels that had been imported from Sudan or Ethiopia. Other studies have detected MERS-CoV-like antibodies in camels in Kenya, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The animals are believed to be an important source of human infections, but how the virus jumps from camels to humans has not been pinned down.Lisa Murillo, PhD, a virologist and affiliate scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, told Reuters that she has analyzed data on MERS cases in the Middle East and camel imports from the Horn of Africa and has found striking correlations.She said scientists should be looking for MERS-CoV in camels and humans in the Horn of Africa. Madani said Saudi scientists are doing that, by taking samples from imported camels at seaports and from their human handlers.The story said Somalia is a major exporter of camels to Saudi Arabia, and a Saudi ban on the imports would be a major blow to Somalia's fragile economy.See also: Jun 27 Saudi MOH statementJun 27 Reuters storyRelated May 7 CIDRAP News item read more
New Mexico COVID-19 Cases Now At 10,065 With 5 More Deaths And 4,351 Patients Recovered
Los Alamos County remains at 7 cases that have tested positive for COVID-19.Today's update includes 5 additional deaths reported in New Mexico related to COVID-19.The New Mexico Department of Health reported today the most recent cases: 20 new cases in Bernalillo County2 new cases in Chaves County3 new cases in Curry County18 new cases in Doña Ana County6 new cases in Lea County20 new cases in McKinley County1 new case in Otero County2 new cases in Rio Arriba County8 new cases in Sandoval County13 new cases in San Juan County6 new cases in Santa Fe County1 new case in Valencia County30 new cases among individuals held by federal agencies at the Otero County Processing Center8 new cases among New Mexico Corrections Department inmates at the Otero County Prison FacilityThe 5 additional deaths in New Mexico reported today include:A female in her 90s from Bernalillo County. The individual had underlying conditions and was a resident of the Village at Alameda facility.A female in her 70s from Cibola County. The individual was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.A male in his 40s from McKinley County. The individual was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.A male in his 50s in Otero County. The individual was hospitalized and was a federal inmate at the Otero County Prison Facility.A male in his 70s in Sierra County. The individual was hospitalized and had underlying conditions.The number of deaths of New Mexico residents related to COVID-19 is now 452.Previously reported numbers included five cases that have been identified as duplicates (one in Bernalillo County, one in Doña Ana County, two in San Juan County, one in Santa Fe County) and one case in McKinley County that was not lab confirmed – these have now been corrected. Including the above newly reported cases, New Mexico has now had a total of 10,065 positive tests for COVID-19:Bernalillo County: 1,752Catron County: 2Chaves County: 61Cibola County: 186Colfax County: 8Curry County: 92Doña Ana County: 676Eddy County: 48Grant County: 16Guadalupe County: 20Harding County: 1Hidalgo County: 23Lea County: 55Lincoln County: 6Los Alamos County: 7Luna County: 32McKinley County: 2,968Otero County: 31Quay County: 4Rio Arriba County: 61Roosevelt County: 53Sandoval County: 651San Juan County: 2,140San Miguel County: 16Santa Fe County: 182Sierra County: 4Socorro County: 55Taos County: 33Torrance County: 34Union County: 5Valencia County: 94County totals are subject to change upon further investigation and determination of residency of individuals positive for COVID-19.The Department of Health currently reports the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by federal agencies at the following facilities:Cibola County Correctional Center: 2Luna County Detention Center: 1Otero County Prison Facility: 275Otero County Processing Center: 138Torrance County Detention Facility: 24The Department of Health currently reports the following numbers of COVID-19 cases among individuals held by the New Mexico Corrections Department at the following facilities:Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Valencia County: 1Northwest New Mexico Correctional Center in Cibola County: 1Otero County Prison Facility: 306Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe County: 1As of today, there are 161 individuals hospitalized in New Mexico for COVID-19. This number may include individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 out of state but are currently hospitalized in New Mexico. This number does not include New Mexicans who tested positive for COVID-19 and may have been transferred to a hospital out of state.As of today, there are 4,351 COVID-19 cases designated as having recovered by the New Mexico Department of Health.The Department of Health has identified at least one positive COVID-19 case in residents and/or staff in the past 28 days at the following long-term care and acute care facilities:Advanced Health Care of Albuquerque in AlbuquerqueAlbuquerque Heights Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in AlbuquerqueArtesia Healthcare and Rehabilitation in ArtesiaAvamere Rehab at Fiesta Park in AlbuquerqueBear Canyon Nursing and Rehab Center in AlbuquerqueBeeHive Homes of Farmington in FarmingtonBeeHive Homes of Gallup in GallupBelen Meadows in BelenBonney Family Home in GallupBrookdale Tramway Ridge in AlbuquerqueBrookdale Santa Fe in Santa FeCamino Healthcare in AlbuquerqueCamino Retirement Apartments in AlbuquerqueCasa De Oro Center in Las CrucesCasa Del Sol Center in Las CrucesCasa Maria Health Care Center in RoswellCedar Ridge Inn in FarmingtonCentral Desert Behavioral Health in AlbuquerqueClayton Nursing and Rehab in ClaytonDungarvin New Mexico, LLC in GallupGenesis Uptown Rehabilitation CenterGood Samaritan Society in GrantsHeartland Continuing Care Center in PortalesThe Jim Wood Home in HatchLaguna Rainbow Elderly Care in Casa BlancaLa Vida Llena in AlbuquerqueLegacy Santa Fe in Santa FeLife Care Center of Farmington in FarmingtonLittle Sisters of the Poor in GallupMcKinley Care Center in GallupMission Arch Center in RoswellMorningStar Assisted Living & Memory Care of Santa Fe in Santa FeNamaste House Assisted Living in FarmingtonPacifica Senior Living Center Santa Fe in Santa FePrime Care Assisted Living in AlbuquerquePrinceton Place in AlbuquerqueRed Rocks Care Center in GallupRetirement Ranches, Inc. in ClovisRobin House Assisted Living Center in AlbuquerqueSan Juan Center in FarmingtonSouth Valley Care Center in AlbuquerqueSpanish Trails Rehabilitation Suites in AlbuquerqueSundance Care Home in GallupTohatchi Area Opportunity Services (TAOS) in TohatchiThe Village at Alameda in AlbuquerqueThe Village at Northrise in Las CrucesWellbrook Transitional Rehabilitation Center in FarmingtonThe Department of Health has detected community spread in the state of New Mexico and is investigating cases with no known exposure. The agency reports that given the infectious nature of the virus it is likely other residents are infected but yet to be tested or confirmed positive. To that end, all New Mexicans have been instructed to stay home except for outings absolutely necessary for health, safety and welfare. These additional restrictions have been enacted to aggressively minimize person-to-person contact and ensure spread is mitigated. New Mexicans are strongly urged to limit travel to only what is necessary for health, safety and welfare.The New Mexico Department of Health has active investigations into the positive patients, which includes contact-tracing and swabs of symptomatic individuals who have had contact with the positive cases.Every New Mexican must work together to stem the spread of COVID-19. Get tested. Stay home, especially if you are sick. Wear a mask or face covering when in public and around others.New Mexicans who report symptoms of COVID-19 infection, such as fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and/or loss of taste or smell should call their health care provider or the NMDOH COVID-19 hotline immediately (1-855-600-3453).Thanks to increased statewide testing capacity, the following people may now be considered for COVID-19 testing: Asymptomatic people who are close contacts or household members of New Mexico residents who have already tested positive for the coronavirus;Asymptomatic residents in nursing homes;Asymptomatic people in congregate settings such as homeless shelters, group homes, detention centers;Asymptomatic people who are currently working;Symptomatic people displaying the COVID-19 symptoms of cough, fever, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and/or loss of taste or smell.New Mexicans who have non-health-related questions or concerns can also call 833-551-0518 or visit newmexico.gov, which is being updated regularly as a one-stop source for information for families, workers and others affected by and seeking more information about COVID-19. STATE News:SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials have announced this afternoon 138 additional positive tests for COVID-19. read more
Domestic Violence Task Force Formed
Melissa DeRosa, secretary to Governor Andrew Cuomo, along with the New York State Council on Women and Girls, launched a new task force May 20 to find solutions to the spike in domestic violence reports since COVID-19 "shelter-in-place" guidelines took effect. The task force aims to look beyond the scope of traditional services."While we have already taken aggressive actions to help some of our most vulnerable New Yorkers get the help they need and get away from their abusers, there is more that we can do to modernize the services we provide as we begin to enter a new normal," Cuomo said. "I look forward to reviewing the innovative solutions that Melissa DeRosa and the entire task force come up with and putting together a new action plan to help stop this dangerous uptick in domestic violence."Due to pandemic-related social distancing guidelines, domestic violence reports have increased, as victims are unable to get away from their abusers. Compared to the same time in 2019, incident calls made to New York state police were up 15 percent in March, calls to the state's domestic violence hotline were up 30 percent in April, and intimate partner victimizations saw a 12 percent increase in the first quarter, reported by large police departments outside of New York City.Since PAUSE orders went into effect the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence has been actively placing information across social media accounts of public utilities or tax/finance — places it would not typically be available — along with flyers for hotline numbers in grocery stores, pharmacies, and home repair locations. When numbers began to increase in April, the state launched a text message confidential service directing victims toward help."During these unprecedented times, New York has led the way in providing survivors of domestic violence access to the critical services they need to get help," said DeRosa, who is also the New York State Council on Women and Girls' chair. "Unfortunately, the reality is that we are still seeing an increase in the number of reported cases of domestic violence across New York as this pandemic continues — we need to do more to help women who are stuck in dangerous situations. I am proud to be working with this diverse task force to develop recommendations for the governor so we can creatively address domestic violence."The domestic violence task force will present recommendations to Cuomo by Thursday, May 28, upon which the governor will make a final policy decision.Additional task force personnel will be prominent members, experts, and founders from domestic violence organizations, such as Scott Berkowitz, founder and president of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network; Ruth Glenn, president and CEO of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Peg Hacskaylo, founder and CEO of the National Alliance for Safe Housing; Joe Torre, co-founder and chairman of The Safe at Home Foundation; Joan Meier, director of the National Family Violence Law Center at George Washington University; and Karol Mason, president of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.New Yorkers in crisis can call 1-800-942-6906, text 844-997-2121, or chat with a professional form the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence on the confidential website www.opdv.ny.gov. Services will be staffed by experts 24/7.nicole@nidyeastend.com Share read more
Consultant forgot client had paid £900 into personal bank account
A consultant solicitor who arranged for a client to pay a £900 bill into his personal account has been fined £15,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.Alexander Zivancevic told the tribunal he had forgotten about the payment from June 2013 and had acted only because he was concerned the client might leave the country without settling the invoice.Zivancevic, a solicitor for 13 years, was a consultant with London firm Hoffman-Bokaei-Moghimi Solicitors when he was instructed to advise on a housing dispute in March 2013. After the payment was made into his account, he failed to account for the monies until after he left the firm four years later, at which point the managing partner reported the matter to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.The regulator alleged he had acted dishonestly and without integrity, and had intended to retain the money for his own personal gain.Zivancevic told the tribunal that the client had informed him on a Friday he wanted to settle the matter and intended to relocate to the USA two days later. Due to the time of this message and the immediacy of the situation, he did not have the firm's client account details to hand and instead gave his own personal account details.He submitted the request was a 'matter of expediency' and his failure to account to the firm was an 'oversight'. He had simply forgotten that he had personally received the payment from the client.The tribunal said it was 'very concerned' by the request from Zivancevic and asserted there were no circumstances in which a solicitor should act in this way. It did not accept it was impractical to notify the firm and found him to have acted without integrity.The tribunal did not find he acted dishonestly, saying it could not be sure that Zivancevic had not simply forgotten about the payment due to pressures of work and his lack of experience in accounting. It was found he had genuinely believed that due to the pressures of circumstances that, as an interim measure, he was entitled to make the request he did.In mitigation, the solicitor pointed to his unblemished career to date, the one-off nature of the midconduct and the relatively small amount of money involved. The tribunal accepted this was a one-off episode but said the misconduct was serious and involved an improper payment requested from a client to a personal bank account. Zivancevic was ordered to pay a £15,000 fine and £5,750 costs. read more
Lighter wagons
A new range of high-strength steels developed by SSAB Swedish Steel offers the promise of significant savings in wagon tare weights, with improved payload and lower operating costs. The company is proposing to adopt designs based on automotive engineering, using hot-rolled Domex steel which has a yield strength of up to 750N/mm2 and cold-rolled Docol steel with a tensile strength of up to 1·4 kN/mm2.SSAB Swedish Steel, SwedenReader Enquiry Number 147
NTV unveils Italian AGV livery
ITALY: The red and gold colour scheme which will be carried by the 25 AGV trainsets ordered by Europe's first open-access high speed operator was unveiled in Roma on July 15. Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori announced in January that it had chosen Alstom's Automotrice à Grande Vitesse design for its high speed fleet, which will be used on 300 km/h open-access services within Italy from 2011. The €650m contract covers the provision of 25 11-car trainsets, with an option for a further 10. Alstom will assemble 14 at its La Rochelle plant, while 11 will be produced at Savigliano in Italy. NTV plans to operate services on the Torino – Milano – Napoli – Salerno, Roma – Bologna – Venezia and Roma – Napoli – Bari routes. A maintenance depot is to be built at Nola near Napoli, and Alstom will be responsible for maintaining the trains for 30 years at an additional cost. The colour scheme was unveiled by NTV's Italian founders, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Diego Della Valle, Gianni Punzo and Giuseppe Sciarrone, along with Alstom Chairman & CEO Patrick Kron, and Chairman & President of Alstom Transport Philippe Mellier. Rolled out in the presence of President Sarkozy on February 5, Alstom's seven-car AGV demonstrator train Pégase is currently undergoing dynamic trials on the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic. read more
Passenger trains to return to Chartres – Voves route
FRANCE: RFF President Jacques Rapoport joined François Bonneau, President of the Centre region, on January 21 to lay the first stone for a new control centre at Voves station, marking the start of work on a €71·7m project to reopen the 25 km Chartres – Voves route to passenger traffic. The project is due for completion at the end of 2015, when three daily return services are due to be introduced between Chartres and Voves, used only by freight trains since 1942. A wholescale programme of track renewals is being undertaken to raise the linespeed on the single-track non-electrified route from 50 km/h to 100 km/h, involving the replacement of 30 000 sleepers and laying 36 000 m of rail 'recycled' from LGV Atlantique. Nine of the route's 23 level crossings will be fitted with automatic barriers and the remaining 14 abolished. The Centre region has provided €4·2m for studies and is funding €66·2m of the cost of the works programme. The national government is contributing €1·3m towards the works, and is meeting in full the estimated €15m cost of building a new rail bridge to replace a level crossing on the Chartres ring road which is currently used by 40 000 road vehicles a day. read more
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Autumnwatch Tower is a pair of abandoned towers located south of Ivarstead.
Before the dragons' return, the towers are occupied by a group of bandits. There are two bandits at the bottom of the northern tower, a bandit outside the southern tower and a bandit chief at the top.
There is a dragon guarding the word wall, which teaches part of the Marked for Death dragon shout. The dragon will likely detect you before you ascend the towers, and can sometimes detect the undead of Arcwind Point and will fly off to deal with them. There is a silver ore vein located at the base of the southern tower.
The dirt path leads to the southern tower and there is a stone path branching to the north that leads to the northern tower. Stairs lead up towards the north tower, past an old extinguished campfire, with a food sack and various items of clutter nearby. There is a non-respawning patch of imp stool on your right and a tanning rack just to the right outside the entrance.
Another tanning rack is just inside the north tower, with a set of shelves to the right and a cooking pot in the middle of the first floor. The shelves hold two deer hides, two leather strips, and a blacksmith's elixir. Climbing the spiral stone stairs leads directly to the top floor, where three unowned bedrolls can be found. There is also an enchanted pair of hide boots and a hide helmet on a crate beside a straw bale. There is a copy of the Light Armor skill book Jornibret's Last Dance and a bottle of alto wine on the small crate by a chair.
On the bottom floor of the southern tower are two imp stool fungus, several food sacks and barrels, a loose piece of firewood, and a woodcutter's axe on a wooden block. On the second floor is a bedroll, a random rare book, and a wooden bowl holding a chicken egg beside a bale of straw. On the other side of the bale is a food barrel with an apothecary's satchel on top. On the top floor, there is a skeleton that can be looted for a copy of Physicalities of Werewolves beside a crate with a bottle of Nord mead on top and an unlocked chest. In an open crate beside the skeleton are two bowls of vampire dust, and in another open crate on the other side of the chest are two samples of slaughterfish scales. There is a stone bridge crossing the gap to the word wall.
A quicksilver ore vein is located 210 ft southwest of the tower.
If you fall off the stone bridge to the word wall, there is a small point in the rocks where you may get trapped and be unable to escape from. Luckily you can still fast-travel from here.
The dragon at Autumnwatch may be killed by undead south of the cliff overlooking Autumnwatch.
Autumnwatch Tower can be reached from Arcwind Point via a wall of dark, sloped rock on the road to Arcwind directly south of the Tower. Descending from this point lets you quite literally get the drop on the Autumnwatch dragon.
The word may not appear on the wall, leaving you unable to learn the entire Marked for Death shout. There does not appear to be a definite fix for this, though loading from a previous save may cause the word to appear. You will hear the background music/chanting, and the sound that plays when you learn a word will play, but you will not learn the word. The chanting/background music will continue to play every time you visit the site. ?


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void main() => runApp(MyApp());

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    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'PageView Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: 'PageView Alignment'),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  final String title;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(title: Text(title)),
      body: PageView.builder(
        itemCount: 5,
        itemBuilder: (context, i) => Container(
              color: Colors.blue,
              margin: const EdgeInsets.only(right: 10),
              child: Center(child: Text("Page $i")),
            ),
        controller: PageController(viewportFraction: .7),
      ),
    );
  }
}

this is the result the above code produces

I want the PageView to be aligned to the left of the screen, or at least that first page, i.e to remove that blank space at the left of Page 0. I s there any PageView parameter I'm missing? Or does some other component exists that produces the result I'm looking for?

A: Setting the PageView's padEnds property to false should do the trick .
...the property probably didn't exist in the past.

A: After making a deeper analysis on my own needs and checking the source code for the PageView widget, I realized that that I needed a scrolling widget that works in a item by item basis, but at the same time I needed that the space given to every item was the same as a normal scroll, so I needed to change the ScrollPhysics of a normal scroller. In found this post which describes scroll physics in flutter at some extent and was close to my needs, the difference was I needed to add space at bith sides of the current visible widget, not only to the right.
So I took the CustomScrollPhysics in the post and modified it in this way (the changed parts from the post code are sourrounded withh <-- and --> comments:
class CustomScrollPhysics extends ScrollPhysics {
  final double itemDimension;

  const CustomScrollPhysics(
      {required this.itemDimension, ScrollPhysics? parent})
      : super(parent: parent);

  @override
  CustomScrollPhysics applyTo(ScrollPhysics? ancestor) {
    return CustomScrollPhysics(
        itemDimension: itemDimension, parent: buildParent(ancestor));
  }

  double _getPage(ScrollMetrics position, double portion) {
    // <--
    return (position.pixels + portion) / itemDimension;
    // -->
  }

  double _getPixels(double page, double portion) {
    // <--
    return (page * itemDimension) - portion;
    // -->
  }

  double _getTargetPixels(
    ScrollMetrics position,
    Tolerance tolerance,
    double velocity,
    double portion,
  ) {
    // <--
    double page = _getPage(position, portion);
    // -->
    if (velocity < -tolerance.velocity) {
      page -= 0.5;
    } else if (velocity > tolerance.velocity) {
      page += 0.5;
    }
    // <--
    return _getPixels(page.roundToDouble(), portion);
    // -->
  }

  @override
  Simulation? createBallisticSimulation(
      ScrollMetrics position, double velocity) {
    // If we're out of range and not headed back in range, defer to the parent
    // ballistics, which should put us back in range at a page boundary.
    if ((velocity <= 0.0 && position.pixels <= position.minScrollExtent) ||
        (velocity >= 0.0 && position.pixels >= position.maxScrollExtent)) {
      return super.createBallisticSimulation(position, velocity);
    }

    final Tolerance tolerance = this.tolerance;
    // <--
    final portion = (position.extentInside - itemDimension) / 2;
    final double target =
        _getTargetPixels(position, tolerance, velocity, portion);
    // -->
    if (target != position.pixels) {
      return ScrollSpringSimulation(spring, position.pixels, target, velocity,
          tolerance: tolerance);
    }
    return null;
  }

  @override
  bool get allowImplicitScrolling => false;
}

In summary, what I did is to take half of the extra space left by the current visible widget (i.e (position.extentInside - itemDimension) / 2) and add it to the page calculation based on the scroll position, allowing the widget to be smaller that the visible scroll size but considering the whole extent as a single page, and subtract it to the scroll pixels calculation based on the page, preventing a "page" to be placed past or before the half visible part of the widgets at their sides.
The other change is that itemDimension is not the scroll extent divided by the element amount, I needed this value to be the size of each widget in the scroll direction.
This is what I end up with:

Of course, this implementation has some limitations:

*

*The size of each element in the scroll direction must be fixed, if a single element has a different size, then the whole scroll behaves erratically

*The size must include the padding in case there is some, otherwise it will have the same effect that having widgets of different sizes

I didn't focus on solving this limitations and having a more complete widget because this limitations are ensured in the case I need this widget for. Here is the complete code of the above example.
https://gist.github.com/rolurq/5db4c0cb7db66cf8f5a59396faeec7fa

A: Flutter Added New Property padEnds Set it to False


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