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Diplomacy in times of COVID-19
Maricela Muñoz
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly shaken up old structures and accelerated 180-degree changes and innovation. Diplomacy and multilateral systems are no exception.
Against this backdrop, diplomats are facing multiple challenges, which encompass a broad range of elements, including access to adequate technology, the re-shaping of communication protocols, and the need to continue their work in virtual negotiation settings. The impossibility to meet face to face, given the confinement, social-distancing, and other sanitary measures, has demanded an overnight transformation of the diplomatic business as we know it.
Virtual diplomacy
Technological platforms have made it possible for diplomats from all over the world to continue discussions and advance the multilateral agenda across the United Nations, and more broadly, the international community. Representatives from larger and smaller delegations have gathered in front of their screens, and found themselves negotiating in a whole new environment, one that is evolving at a very rapid pace. Sometimes delegates do not have the possibility of consulting with their capital-based experts as the negotiation period gets shortened. Different time zones and the lack of systems that may provide for simultaneous interpretation have also hindered the participation of technical experts, academics, the civil society, the private sector, and other representatives that are based outside multilateral hubs.
Delegates are now required to think on their feet and oftentimes react on the spot to new proposals and developments as meetings have been reduced to address a much more prioritised agenda and within shorter time frames. In this sense, we are probably witnessing the surge of a specialised diplomacy, one that requires further technical knowledge and boosted innovative thinking.
Nonetheless, it has become clear that delegations from the developing world are underrepresented in virtual gatherings. Not only are governments focused on tackling the pandemic back home, but non-effective access to technology and the lower numbers of personnel have negatively impacted their engagement in the digital realm.
The role of governments
There is no doubt that governments undertake a tremendous amount of work in times of crisis. In this context, delegations in multilateral hubs such as Geneva, New York, and Vienna, are responding to a more dynamic environment, with their role becoming more salient as permanent missions are called to engage with specialised agencies in the search of solutions to the health crisis, to further promote international co-operation, and to participate in the reactivation of commerce.
In other words, there is a need to keep the momentum going for multilateralism, as we all have asserted that no country is safe until all countries are, and global responses must show us the way to recovery.
On the other hand, and almost overnight, diplomats have been asked to become advanced users of virtual platforms. As stated before, challenges such as the gap in digital skills, meaningful connectivity, and other matters pertaining to the digital divide, may have placed participants from the Global South in a disadvantageous position.
As the United Nations is looking for ways to increase the efficiency and optimisation of regular procedures, while respecting established protocols and developing blended mechanisms in a sort of hybrid diplomacy, we shouldn't forget that inclusiveness, transparency, and a broader participation of all states must be guaranteed. Moreover, the multilateral system is debating over the identification of situations in which virtual diplomacy mechanisms are feasible, without losing sight of conferences and meetings where physical presence and human interaction remain irreplaceable. In this regard, the meetings of groups of governmental experts come to mind, as they usually demand a higher degree of technical expertise and interactive discussions.
In terms of participation, the inclusion of all multistakeholders must be addressed. Effective access of all interested parties to multilateral decision-making processes, in face-to-face and virtual settings, will certainly amplify the opportunities for results and outcomes to produce greater impact.
Forward-looking reflections
As the pandemic continues to intensify the social, economic, and environmental crises, we will probably bear witness to reductions in financial and human resource allocations for diplomatic hubs, coupled with increased demands. It will then be natural to streamline our resources as we navigate through these uncharted and unpredictable waters.
On the upside, virtual meetings will allow for reduced travel budgets, especially as travel restrictions remain in place in many parts of the world, and as hybrid settings will permit the continuation of multilateral discussions and dialogues. Notwithstanding, there may also be a need for improved access to technological tools and working methods. Diplomats may benefit from broadening their skill set, among others, through improved digital capabilities and experience in virtual negotiation rooms. In the end, multilateralism and diplomacy will continue to play a key role in tackling the pandemic, while the promotion of increased trust and co-operation will be fundamental pillars of the global response to our shared challenges.
This article reflects the personal views of the author.
Ms Maricela Muñoz is Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva and is a member of the IGF/Multistakeholder Advisory Group. She has more than 20 years of experience in multilateral diplomacy, working with governments, international organisations, the private sector, and civil society organisations, particularly in the areas of climate change, disarmament and non-proliferation, and the advancement of more peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.
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I have a lot of favorite Instagram accounts that I follow. However, over the past week or so, I have been glued to the Humans of New York IG account all thanks to one young man named Vidal. A week ago, he was featured on the HONY account and shared how his principal, Ms. Lopez, had influenced his life.
Brandon (HONY) partnered with Vidal's school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, to raise money to send each sixth grade class to Harvard and funds to help support summer programs for students. Within days, over $600,000 was donated via an online fundraiser. As of today, that number is over $1 million – all motivated by Vidal's story and Ms. Lopez' passion.
If you haven't been following this series on the Humans of New York page, then you have to check it out. Almost every post has made me teary-eyed, especially the teachers' stories. Public school teachers often get a bad rap, but we also don't acknowledge what they go through every day. These posts have opened my eyes to both the challenges and the beauty that accompanies the role of educator. Ms. Lopez and her staff have inspired me in ways that I can not express. In fact, sometimes all I can do is cry. With all of the craziness that our children face, it is a blessing for the scholars at Mont Hall Bridges Academy to have these adults on their side… and in their corner.
However, now their support system has grown exponentially and hundreds of thousands of people are rooting for their success. This is how you truly break the internet.
Brandon, thank you for your always incredible photos.
Ms. Lopez, thank you for inspiring your students and the world.
Vidal, thank you for reminding outsiders that kids from our communities can love school, be motivated by their educators, and, most importantly, make a difference.
I was visiting Vidal today when we remembered that he was going to be making his big newspaper debut in the Daily News. So we ran across the street to the corner store, and sure enough, there we were! Right under the naked women.
To make a donation to this school, you can check out the fundraising page here.


On Guard Duty is a beautiful depiction of a male quail "on guard duty" while the female sits on the nest. The pictured art piece has been made with a single layer of steel which has been cut, torch heated, and airbrushed to achieve the beautiful colors. A hanging bracket has been welded on the back so the art is ready to be placed in your home or office for a touch of nature indoors.


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Els tumors de Pancoast porten el nom de Henry Pancoast, radiòleg dels EUA, que els va descriure el 1924 i 1932.

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Discover your future as a young rural change maker
Rural young people are being encouraged to sign up for the Young Rural Change Makers Programme, focused on leadership and enterprise skills, being, run by the Rural Youth Project.
The five-week, participative training initiative has been designed to support young people to build their confidence, develop new skills and be part of a network to help them thrive in their own rural area.
Starting on Friday 16 October, and running every Friday thereafter, the programme will be delivered by external trainers in a series of masterclasses with experts in leadership, community building, enterprise and communications and will include vital one-to-one support for young people.
Rural Youth Project Director, Rebecca Dawes said, "From our experience, young people in rural areas are incredibly resilient, and are full of creative and inspiring ideas. The challenge that many of them face is having the confidence to turn their idea into a reality and knowing where to start their journey.
"Whether it is a community project, commercial business or social enterprise, this programme will give young people the time to learn from each other, build their network and benefit from the expertise of the coaches who have been at the forefront of rural life working with Growbiz, Smart Village Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Rural Action and Jane Craigie Marketing to name just five organisations."
It is estimated that due to the current pandemic, young people will be the hardest hit with career paths abruptly disrupted; this programme aims to tackle this concern head-on Ms Dawes adds.
Luke Taylor from West Lothian launched his own podcast to share experiences with countryside rangers across the world, after attending a Rural Youth Project workshop.
"The Young Rural Change Makers Programme offers the opportunity to reassess your future, in my case as a seasonal worker, and offers the support and skills that you need to make your own idea come true, without limitations or restriction," explained Luke.
The Rural Youth Project hopes to unite youngsters who complete the programme in 2021 at a free event, to celebrate their 'graduation' and further their networking opportunities, if Covid-19 restrictions allow.
The Young Rural Change Maker's Programme is free to any young rural person between 18 and 28 years of age, thanks to funding from the LEADER Programme 2014-2020: The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas. Five LEADER LAG areas – Angus, Lanarkshire, Outer Hebrides, Rural Perth and Kinross, and the Scottish Borders have come together to fund the project. Priority places will be given to individuals from these areas, however, this should not stop anyone from applying, as spaces may be available for youngsters out with these areas.
Applications can be submitted here and anyone interested can contact the Rural Youth Project with any questions at hello@ruralyouthproject.com.
Programme Timetable:
Welcome/ Leadership Workshop – 16 October 9:30am till 12:30pm
Community Building Workshop – 23 October – 9:30am – 11:30am
Optional Ideas Café – 28 October – 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Enterprise workshop – 30 October – 9:30am – 11:30am
Communications Workshop – 06 November – 9:30am – 11:30am
Graduation/Final Workshop (face-to-face, if possible) – Jan/ Feb 2021 – 9:30am – 11:30am
About the Rural Youth Project and LEADER fund:
The Rural Youth Project was founded in 2018 by Jane Craigie and Rebecca Dawes of Jane Craigie Marketing. Launched to 'plug the knowledge gap' about the rural youth (18 to 28 years of age) in Scotland and other countries in the UK and around the world, the project commenced with an online survey completed by 755 young people. It has also engaged with 20 young people who are sharing their story by video logs, hosted an Ideas Festival for 80 young people in 2018, held a parliamentary reception at Holyrood, delivered presentations at over 30 events including internationally and organised a learning journey to the Netherlands to look at the Urban-Rural relationship.
The new LEADER, ('Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l'Économie Rurale'), Rural Development programme for Perth and Kinross was launched on Thursday 14 January 2016.
Approximately £3.8 million of EU and Scottish Government SRDP (Scottish Rural Development Programme) funding is being invested in the local area between 2014 and 2020, bringing a boost to communities and the rural economy.
The funding will be directed towards the priorities identified in the Rural Perth and Kinross LEADER Programme Development Strategy and Business Plan, with the aim of helping to create a long-term legacy of vibrant, healthy and inclusive rural communities.  The priorities include Community Capacity Building, Rural Broadband, Youth Initiatives, Farm Diversification, Rural Enterprise and there are Open Challenge and Co-operation Projects Funds also.

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Do you see people flick up into handstand with ease and grace in class, yet when you try it is like an elephant has taken over your body, you become heavy and earthbound? Contrary to what a lot of people believe, handstand is not just about physical strength; it requires a certain amount of shoulder flexibility and a lot mental belief that you can do it. If you can do half handstand with your upper body parallel to the wall, then it is your mind that is stopping you from kicking up in to handstand not your body. Practice this sequence daily for a month and see the change, from ground bound elephant, to handstand queen.


Claire Ridley discovers the charm that this lesser known island in the Caribbean has to offer for adventure-loving newlyweds.
Disembarking the small LIAT aircraft at Douglas-Charles airport on the northeast coast of Dominica, the warmth of the early evening heat and view of the lush green surroundings on this volcanic island, known as the nature island, immediately greeted me. I was already in love with this tropical paradise that sits on the eastern side of the Caribbean, just a few miles from Martinique to the south and Guadeloupe to the north.
During the two-hour road trip across the island to my hotel, the vibrant colours of the painted houses and shops provided a cheery welcome while the local towns offered a laid-back vibe. I was ready for some sun, black sand, sea and adventure. I wanted to explore every part of this country where honeymooners searching for an authentic Caribbean experience with a slice of adventure can now enjoy the new Adventuremoon packages on offer.
My first day in paradise started with a visit to the glistening Champagne Reef Dive & Snorkel which attracts an abundance of sea life and has underwater springs where you can watch bubbles rise from the seabed that's warm to the touch – hence where it gets its name (www.champagnereef.com). My knowledgeable guide, Bert, took me to a snorkelling hotspot where I saw many types of aquatic life including French Angelfish, Pufferfish, and a Queen Parrotfish. Wearing a life jacket (which is highly recommended) I was able to gently float and relax, taking it all in.
Next was a visit to Bubble Beach in the village of Soufriere to relax in the natural hot sulphur spas, said to do wonders for the skin. This was followed by a trip to nearby Scott's Head Pinnacle where the panoramic view of the Caribbean Sea meeting the Atlantic Ocean is an Instagrammable moment! Honeymooners looking to spot sperm whales (who reside all year round in Dominica) should spend an incredible afternoon at sea whale watching with Dive Dominica (divedominica.com). Every Sunday at 2pm, the boat heads out and regularly spots these giants of the ocean.
Day two saw a visit to Titou Gorge and the entrance to the Boiling Lake. Famous for hikers seeking a six-hour walk through the rainforest, the Boiling Lake is the world's largest and is found at the end of Dominica's most demanding trail. I opted to relax in the freshwater pool surrounding Titou Gorge instead, where an exhilarating jump into the deep waters below and short swim through the gorge reveal a hidden waterfall. Swimmers need to be aware that the currents are strong so wearing a life jacket and swimming with a guide is essential.
Those in search of this natural wonder without getting wet should head to Trafalgar Falls, a spectacular twin waterfall where the viewing platform is accessed by a short walk. Lovers wanting to find that romantic, tranquil spot (à la Tom Cruise in Cocktail) should visit Emerald Pool located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Morne Trois Piton National Park – a waterfall grotto where the shimmering fresh water appears green in the filtered sunlight and is warm and inviting to swim in.
Being a spa lover, I was eager to visit the natural spa village of Wotten Waven and I wasn't disappointed. An afternoon spent relaxing in the sulphur baths at Tia's Bamboo Cottages (said to have medicinal qualities) was needed after the amazing sights I'd just seen (www.tiasbamboocottages.com).
This island has so much to offer and the highlight of the trip for me was yet to come. Being a Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom fan (well, who isn't!), I was excited to take a trip down the scenic, Mangrove tree-lined Indian River, an eco-site and the widest river in Dominica flowing to the Caribbean Sea where they filmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I met my charismatic guide with Cobra Tours (www.cobratours.dm) and climbed aboard the wooden, hand-oared boat to set off up the river. A birdwatcher's paradise, there are so many types everywhere you look, not to mention endless varieties of flora and fauna. You really do feel like you are in the middle of nowhere, until you reach Bush Bar & Botanical Gardens where you can stop for a peanut, coconut, and passion fruit rum punch! Finally, we reached the tree house of Tia Dalma from the film and stopped to capture it all on camera.
There's much to explore on this paradise isle. The capital city of Roseau and the island's second largest town Portsmouth are not to be missed, neither is a visit to the Kalinago Barana Aute (www.kalinagobaranaaute.com) for a cultural tour to experience the last remaining Kalinago people of the Caribbean. It really will be the trip of a lifetime and a honeymoon that dreams are made of.
Fort Young Hotel (www.fortyounghotel.com) in Roseau is one of Dominica's best-known luxury hotels. Located opposite the palatial President's residence, it offers large rooms with sea-facing balconies. The Palisades Restaurant serves traditional specialties including Kingfish, plantains and black pudding for Sunday breakfast! Bala's Bar serves the best rum punch and the nightly entertainment is traditional West Indies music and dancing.
Another luxury resort is Rosalie Bay (www.rosaliebay.com), an eco-boutique resort with a focus on wellness where honeymoon accommodation comes in the form of nine cottages housing 28 luxurious rooms and suites providing a romantic hideaway. The hotel's best feature is the opportunity to watch endangered sea turtles nest on the black sand beach as well as their spa, a sanctuary nestled on the Rosalie River. Relaxing and rejuvenating treatments using natural products including detoxifying volcanic mud, papaya and handmade coconut oil can be enjoyed in this oasis of calm.
For rooms on the water's edge, Dominica's longest sandy beach to be precise, Picard Beach Cottages are private wellness eco cottages set on an old coconut plantation, home to many different flowers, fresh fruit and coconut trees (www.picardbeachcottages.dm). The cottages are named after the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest after they all stayed there and house a separate bedroom, bathroom, living area with kitchen and a stunning sea-facing deck. Kick back and relax under the swaying palms or join in the social scene at the lively restaurant and bar.
You could also spend a night at Secret Bay, an award-winning hotel with eight sustainable luxury bungalows and villas (www.secretbay.dm), at Papillote Wilderness Retreat offering the typical exotic honeymoon getaway with lodging, dining and a spa set in magical natural surroundings (www.papillote.dm) or at the elegant Beau Rive, a boutique hotel offering a home from home with its library, bar, lounge area and rooms with verandas boasting far-flung ocean views (www.beaurive.com).


Just as trade, finance, information, and technologies are moving rapidly across borders, so too have labor markets and transnational migrant communities. Migrants are sending large quantities of money back to their countries of origin in the form of philanthropy, remittances, and commercial investments. They are also sharing knowledge and skills learned or developed abroad. Is greater global equity an inevitable consequence of such diaspora philanthropy, or can this giving actually aggravate inequity? Diasporas and Development examines the positive—and sometimes negative—impacts of diaspora engagement in Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean.
How can the equity impact of this global giving be maximized? Might creative intermediary mechanisms or public policies help channel diaspora philanthropy in positive directions? They also explore motivations for the dark sides of diaspora engagement such as support for extremist organizations, organized crime, ethnic violence, and even civil war. Diasporas and Development aims to deepen the understanding of the promise and pitfalls of diaspora philanthropy and how it might help bridge the distances between societies in an unequal world.


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Q: DSolve returns no results for two simple non-linear ODE I have the following two first order non-linear DEs that I denote as system
system = {A1'[x] == I*α11/2*A1[x]*Abs[A1[x]]^2 + I*α11*A1[x]*Abs[A2[x]]^2, A2'[x] == I*α22*A2[x]*Abs[A1[x]]^2 + I*α22/2*A2[x]*Abs[A2[x]]^2, A1[0] == Sqrt[P10], A2[0] == Sqrt[P20]};

where P10, P20 are the initial conditions (real and independent of x) and α11, α22 are real parameters that are independent of x. I proceed to solve them with
DSolve[system, {A1, A2}, {x}]

but I'm returned with
(*DSolve[{Derivative[1][A1][x] == 1/2 I α11 A1[x] Abs[A1[x]]^2 + I α11 A1[x] Abs[A2[x]]^2, Derivative[1][A2][x] == I α22 A2[x] Abs[A1[x]]^2 + 1/2 I α22 A2[x] Abs[A2[x]]^2, A1[0] == Sqrt[P10], A2[0] == Sqrt[P20]}, {A1, A2}, {x}]*)

which is pretty much the same thing as my system. In other words, Mathematica isn't solving it at all and is regurgitating system, yet it doesn't return as an error or warning. Furthermore I'm surprise that DSolve is unable to solve relatively simple systems of ODEs. I am confident that an analytical solution exists as these corresponds to pump amplitudes equations for travelling waves.

A: Based on my answer to 229656, the solution is
s = {A1 -> Function[{x}, Sqrt[P10] Exp[I α11 x (P10/2 + P20)]],
     A2 -> Function[{x}, Sqrt[P20] Exp[I α22 x (P20/2 + P10)]]}

as can be demonstrated by
Simplify[system /. s, P10 > 0 && P20 > 0 && (α11 | α22 | x) ∈ Reals]
(* {True, True, True, True} *)

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Welcome to Travel Non-Essentials, where T+L editors Mark Orwoll and Nikki Ekstein sound off on a different breed of travel product—sometimes ingenious, sometimes just plain odd. Today: Snoozies, slippers designed specifically for airplanes and hotel rooms.
What They Do:Snoozies ($10-$14.99) are comfy, packable, slipper-like footwear for wearing on airplanes and in hotel rooms. Orwoll and Ekstein check it out to decide if it's a must-have, or just a nice-to-have.
Mark Orwoll: We've got a pair that fits Nikki's feet and a pair that fits my feet.
Nikki Ekstein: Mark, I think I like yours better.
MO: The nice thing about them is they're very flexible. They're almost like heavy socks, except they don't go over your ankles. Mine are lined with some fuzzy fleece-like material. The idea is that you get on an airplane, and most people on long flights take off their shoes because they're just too uncomfortable. Your feet swell up a little bit. And then you walk around in your socks. But frankly, I get kind of grossed out walking around an airplane in my socks. The aisles are filthy because everybody's been walking in them and they've been pushing the carts up and down. Wearing your socks to the airplane bathroom is extra gross. So having something like these is nice. What do you think of the ones you're wearing?
NE: They're really warm and cozy. The nonskid sole is nice. When you get up to go to the bathroom and there's turbulence in the cabin you're not going to fly through the aisles to the back of the plane because you were wearing slippy-slidey little slippers.
MO: There are all kinds of designs available, some aimed at men, some aimed at women. Mine happen to be golf balls and colorful golf tees.
NE: I've got little starfish and sand dollars. They're not hideous. I could see a designer coming out with a version of these that was actually really cute and that you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen in.
MO: Well, there's a whole selection of styles. Yours is just one. Another nice thing about them is they're cheap! Suggested price is 10 to 15 bucks. And for what they do, I'm definitely going to use them. And they're comfy.
NE: Very comfy! And machine washable, which is key. After a couple of days of travel you're definitely going to want to pop these in the wash, no question.
MO: I'd buy a pair for somebody in my family for traveling if they felt that they wanted to have something on their feet other than socks.
NE: Yeah, I dig it. Why not!
VERDICT: A must-have (if you can find a pattern you like).


This table has attitude und provides endless room for long legs!
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27 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman, Christopher A. Rodger: Resolvable gregarious cycle decompositions of complete equipartite graphs. Discrete Mathematics 308(13): 2844-2853 (2008)
26 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: Equipartite and almost-equipartite gregarious 4-cycle systems. Discrete Mathematics 308(5-6): 696-714 (2008)
25 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Benjamin R. Smith, Dean G. Hoffman: Equipartite gregarious 6- and 8-cycle systems. Discrete Mathematics 307(13): 1659-1667 (2007)
24 EE Christopher A. Rodger, Dean G. Hoffman: Preface. Discrete Mathematics 284(1-3): 1-7 (2004)
23 EE Dean G. Hoffman: The real truth about star designs. Discrete Mathematics 284(1-3): 177-180 (2004)
22 EE Dean G. Hoffman, Charles Curtis Lindner, Christopher A. Rodger: A partial 2k-cycle system of order n can be embedded in a 2k-cycle system of order kn+c(k), kgeq3, where c(k) is a quadratic function of k. Discrete Mathematics 261(1-3): 325-336 (2003)
21 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: Decomposition of complete tripartite graphs into gregarious 4-cycles. Discrete Mathematics 261(1-3): 87-111 (2003)
20 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: Trade spectra of complete partite graphs. Discrete Mathematics 250(1-3): 23-39 (2002)
19 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: Trades and Graphs. Graphs and Combinatorics 17(1): 39-54 (2001)
18 EE Darryn E. Bryant, Saad El-Zanati, Charles Vanden Eynden, Dean G. Hoffman: Star Decompositions of Cubes. Graphs and Combinatorics 17(1): 55-59 (2001)
17 EE Jean E. Dunbar, Dean G. Hoffman, Renu C. Laskar, Lisa R. Markus: alpha-Domination. Discrete Mathematics 211: 11-26 (2000)
16 Dean G. Hoffman, K. S. Kirkpatrick: Another Doyen-Wilson Theorem. Ars Comb. 54: (1999)
15 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: The intersection problem for star designs. Discrete Mathematics 179(1-3): 217-222 (1998)
14 Darryn E. Bryant, Dean G. Hoffman, Christopher A. Rodger: 5-Cycle Systems with Holes. Des. Codes Cryptography 8(1-2): 103-108 (1996)
13 EE Dean G. Hoffman, C. A. Rodger: On the number of edge-disjoint one factors and the existence of k-factors in complete multipartite graphs. Discrete Mathematics 160(1-3): 177-187 (1996)
12 K. Gopalakrishnan, Dean G. Hoffman, Douglas R. Stinson: A Note on a Conjecture Concerning Symmetric Resilient Functions. Inf. Process. Lett. 47(3): 139-143 (1993)
11 EE Dean G. Hoffman, Christopher A. Rodger, Alexander Rosa: Maximal Sets of 2-Factors and Hamiltonian Cycles. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 57(1): 69-76 (1993)
10 Charles J. Colbourn, Dean G. Hoffman, Rolf S. Rees: A New Class of Group Divisible Designs with Block Size Three. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 59(1): 73-89 (1992)
9 Charles J. Colbourn, Dean G. Hoffman, Kevin T. Phelps, Vojtech Rödl, Peter Winkler: The number of t-wise balance designs. Combinatorica 11(3): 207-218 (1991)
8 EE Dean G. Hoffman, Charles C. Lindner, Kevin T. Phelps: Blocking sets in designs with block size four II. Discrete Mathematics 89(3): 221-229 (1991)
7 EE Elizabeth J. Billington, Dean G. Hoffman: The number of repeated blocks in balanced ternary designs with block size three II. Discrete Mathematics 92(1-3): 25-37 (1991)
6 EE Charles J. Colbourn, Dean G. Hoffman, C. A. Rodger: Directed star decompositions of directed multigraphs. Discrete Mathematics 97(1-3): 139-148 (1991)
5 EE Dean G. Hoffman, Paul J. Schellenberg: The existence of Ck-factorizations of K2n-F. Discrete Mathematics 97(1-3): 243-250 (1991)
4 EE Amanda G. Chetwynd, Anthony J. W. Hilton, Dean G. Hoffman: On the Delta-subgraph of graphs which are critical with respect to the chromatic index. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 46(2): 240-245 (1989)
3 EE Dean G. Hoffman, Christopher A. Rodger: Class one graphs. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 44(3): 372-376 (1988)
2 EE Alexander Rosa, Dean G. Hoffman: The number of repeated blocks in twofold triple systems. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 41(1): 61-88 (1986)
1 Dean G. Hoffman: On the Spectrum of n Quasigroups with Given Conjugate Invariant Subgroup. J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 35(1): 98-99 (1983)
1 Elizabeth J. Billington [7] [15] [19] [20] [21] [25] [26] [27]
2 Darryn E. Bryant [14] [18]
3 Amanda G. Chetwynd [4]
4 Charles J. Colbourn [6] [9] [10]
5 Jean E. Dunbar [17]
6 Saad El-Zanati [18]
7 Charles Vanden Eynden [18]
8 K. Gopalakrishnan [12]
9 Anthony J. W. Hilton [4]
10 K. S. Kirkpatrick [16]
11 Renu Laskar (Renu C. Laskar) [17]
12 Charles Curtis Lindner (Charles C. Lindner) [8] [22]
13 Lisa R. Markus [17]
14 Kevin T. Phelps [8] [9]
15 Rolf S. Rees [10]
16 Christopher A. Rodger (C. A. Rodger) [3] [6] [11] [13] [14] [22] [24] [27]
17 Vojtech Rödl [9]
18 Alexander Rosa [2] [11]
19 Paul J. Schellenberg [5]
20 Benjamin R. Smith [25]
21 Douglas R. Stinson [12]
22 Peter Winkler (Peter M. Winkler) [9]
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McCormick Cream of Tartar is an essential ingredient for any cook to have on hand. It helps keep egg whites for meringues or other desserts from falling, and it also helps keep homemade whipped cream from falling flat. You can even and it to the water you cook vegetables in to help keep their colors bright.


The development world knows it wants to attract institutional investors and private capital, but lumping this huge amount of capital into a single, homogeneous group is a dangerous oversimplification. The term institutional investor is a catch-all, encompassing everything from pension funds, such as CalPERS, with its over $1 trillion in assets, to consultants (Cambridge Associates, Hewitt) to mutual funds, etc. Each has different restrictions in terms of acceptable size of investment, risk/reward, liquidity and volatility, requiring products that are not one-size fit all. This webinar focused on defining the various groups, their risks tolerance, what they often look at in-terms of acceptable rewards and how they might be best incentivized to help the development players achieve their goals.


Healthcare is something we are lucky enough to take for granted. As much as we like to complain about the mile long waiting lists and dark and dingy waiting rooms in our local hospitals, ultimately if we are ill, we will – at some point – be seen by a doctor who has the intent of making us better. This basic right to health, however, remains unobtainable for millions of women, men and children over the globe.
Over the last century, huge health advances have occurred, mainly in wealthy countries – but many of the diseases that are no longer a problem for rich countries, continue to devastate people in the developing world. More recently, global health has come to the forefront of many debates and large investments by governments, charities and private companies are beginning to make an impact. For example, programmes which fund childhood vaccines have pushed basic immunisation rates to all-time heights.
Health, however, is not only a subject for doctors, nurses and research scientists; health is also related to basic issues such as sanitation, clean water supply and stable infrastructure. Without these essential factors – global health aims cannot be achieved. It is therefore essential for these issues to be focused on, not as separate problems – but as one with health management.
Global health is a complex subject, which rapidly changes as global politics, lifestyle choices, ageing and many more factors become involved. As global health is increasingly getting the attention it deserves, research becomes more and more essential to the development of effective and affordable solutions. Improvements in the health of people worldwide is slowly making global health become what it always should have been – a basic human right.
A health promotion specialist – working to improve the health of the population as a whole through education, or working to improve the health of individuals and helping to increase their control of it.


Taking into account gifts from family, friends and friendly strangers dressed up as the Easter Bunny at Bunnings, my tornadoes are exposed to a lot of chocolate each Easter. I have nothing against giving chocolate. I'm a bit of a chocoholic myself. Sometimes it's just nice to think outside the box and give something different (but appreciated just as much).
I hope you enjoy my annual bumper selection of over 30 non-chocolate Easter gift ideas ranging from craft to clothes, books, toys, accessories and other goodies.
I've tried to keep gifts affordable and practical. It can be all too easy to overlook the true meaning and spirit of Easter so there's no need to go overboard. You'll also notice this gift guide is a stuffed toy free zone. No soft and fluffy plush bunnies in this bunch. I always hesitate giving stuffed toys as gifts – most kids are inundated with them. They may look cute but usually end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Too many stuffed toys is the reason I started this blog!
Keep kids busy with some crafty gifts this Easter.
These Tiger Tribe bunny erasers are almost too cute to use!
Make it yourself crochet chick kit – ok, these are technically stuffed toys but require kids to crochet so I'm classifying them as craft!
Items that will be worn and enjoyed well after Easter celebrations have finished.
Something special to celebrate baby's first Easter.
Don't forget books! Always a favourite gift of mine to give, you can't go wrong with a book.
My favourite bunny book for the very young would have to be That's Not My Bunny, a fantastic board book with touch and feel pages for stubby little fingers to explore. For older kids, Ruby Red Shoes has a beautiful story promoting kindness and I love the stunning illustrations.
There's many more titles I could mention but for one of the best round-ups of children's books for Easter, check out Megan from Children's Books Daily and her Literary Easter Gifts post. So many wonderful books which would make perfect gifts to be enjoyed at Easter and well into the future.
Phew! That's a lot of gift ideas for one blog post. Hopefully you will find something to tickle your Easter fancy. With just over two weeks to go until Easter, you'd better hop to it!
What's your favourite thing about Easter?
Do you like to give gifts other than chocolate at Easter?
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Wholesome Pizza Is Not an Oxymoron!
"Wholesome" and "Pizza" do not normally go collectively. Grease-drenched paper plates, dripping wax paper, or oily deep dish pans plainly reveal why pizza is often regarded as a meals to keep away from if you're trying to keep a wholesome way of life, drop some pounds, or hold kilos away. The carbohydrates, energy, ldl cholesterol, and saturated fats content material on an ordinary pepperoni pizza actually justify this frequent view papa johns coupons.
However there's such a factor as wholesome pizza. Even fast-food pizza shops now serve wholesome, low-calorie pizzas. Gourmand pizzas, too, are sometimes a lot much less oily, and vegan pizzas minimize out the ldl cholesterol and convey down the calorie rely considerably, particularly when no cheese is used (as with the genuine Neapolitan Marinara pizza).
So far as well being is worried, pizza, in spite of everything, does have the as soon as conventional "4 principal meals teams": meat, dairy, greens, and breads. Wholesome pizza, nevertheless, could have these substances in the suitable proportion, and likewise of top quality (natural, recent, and so on.).
Whether or not you make pizza at house, shopping for frozen pizza, or consuming out, there are rules for wholesome pizza that you must remember.
(An excessive instance could be seen in 8oz, or two slices of Domino's Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza, which has 780 energy, 37g of fats, 15g of saturated fats, and 1,940mg of sodium.) As a normal guideline, a serving of tasty, wholesome pizza (2 small to medium slices) needs to be 200 energy or much less. Certainly, some delicious vegan pizzas have a lower than 100 energy per serving.
Toppings: Maybe the best issue within the calorie rely of pizza is whether or not you should have cheese or not. A cheeseless pizza is sort of by definition a wholesome pizza. Every ounce of mozzarella, as an illustration, accommodates 80 energy, 5-6 grams of fats, and 25mg of ldl cholesterol. No-cheese pizzas could appear unusual in North America, however the truth is the unique Italian pizza, the Marinara was made with out cheese, simply crushed tomato sauce, garlic, oregano, and a skinny crust, baked in a wood-burning oven. In case you go to an genuine Italian pizzeria, you possibly can order one to attempt for your self. (Utilizing high-quality substances makes all of the distinction in these pizzas.) Many pizza specialists contemplate this their favorite pizza, and the European Union has formally recognised the Marinara pizza as a European Conventional Meals Product (TFP).
Low-fat mozzarella or vegan cheese substitutes can be utilized if most popular. Nevertheless, these should not normally accessible at eating places, until the restaurant is a vegan one. Furthermore, the calorie and fats rely of those substitutes will not be a lot totally different from extraordinary mozzarella. The principle distinction with the vegan cheese is the absence of ldl cholesterol.


has been a smashing success. It's Chevrolet's best-selling vehicle around the world, and sales recently surpassed the 3.5-million mark, a milestone that arrives just as Chevrolet is preparing to launch the new, next-generation Cruze in less than a month, on June 24.
The Cruze is sold in 155 countries around the world and its top markets include China, the United States, Brazil and Canada.
Canadians have continued to warm to the Cruze and sales have steadily grown over the past three years. Plus, 30 percent of all Canadian buyers are new to the brand. As a matter of fact, of those who trade in a Cruze, almost 70 percent stay with GM while another 50 percent traded in their vehicle for another Cruze.
So, what can we expect from the new 2016 Chevrolet Cruze?
The new Cruze plans to elevate the success of the current model by offering more standard features that are important to customers. It will be larger yet lighter than the outgoing model, with new technologies, new powertrains and a bunch of additional safety features planned.
, which were all unveiled this year. The 2016 Cruze will also be one of the first Chevrolets to offer Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
We expect the next-generation Cruze to hit our showroom early next year. Stay tuned for lots more on the incoming Cruze. In the meantime, check out our first teaser of the new Cruze above.


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Researchers scramble to find alternative or organic methods to control costly crop pests.
A tiny fly that lays its eggs in still-ripening fruit has begun to wreak havoc on small fruit crops in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, leaving growers few options beyond additional pesticides for controlling it.
The newcomer is the spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii). Originating in Asia, the fly made its way into the United States in 2009. It has traveled up both the West and East coasts, and appeared in Virginia in the summer of 2011. It has since showed up in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware.
As with any new pest, researchers are scrambling to provide growers with alternative or organic methods for protecting their plants while equipping them with the best tools available for now.
Unlike the average fruit fly, the female spotted wing drosophila has a saw-like ovipositor that she uses to cut into soft-skinned fruit, planting her eggs into the berry or grape before it's ready for harvest. The growing larvae are not obvious to the naked eye as they eat away at the inside of the fruit, turning healthy looking produce from the market into mush in a customer's fridge.
in many fruit-growing regions around the country.
In the mid-Atlantic growing region, the bug joins a long list of other pests and environmental factors, like humidity, that already make growing produce without the use of pesticides difficult.
The brown marmorated stink bug became a significant agricultural pest in Virginia in 2010, though researchers think it first began appearing in 2004. It's been known to snack on and damage around 350 species of plants, including key agricultural crops like soybeans.
The invasive stink bug has had a greater impact in the Chesapeake Bay region than anywhere else in the United States, where it was first spotted in Pennsylvania in the late 1990s. It is considered a severe agricultural pest in every watershed state except New York.
On a fall day, the almost flat, arrow-shaped bugs form thick clusters on trees and the walls of homes in some areas of Virginia, particularly near farm fields with wooded buffers, said VTU entomologist Tom Kuhar.
This stink bug is susceptible to the existing arsenal of pesticides used to ward off other stink bugs, but "the sheer number of them was something we hadn't dealt with before," Kuhar said.
But the types of insecticides that are effective against the bug are not the type entomologists like to use. Broad-spectrum insecticides like neonicotinoids and organophosphates will kill the bug, but they also kill pollinators and other beneficial insects.
As for its impact on specific crops, Pfeiffer said there's really never been a pest as bad as the new fruit fly.
"On very vulnerable crops like raspberries, growers may need to spray weekly or more often. In my career, there's never been anything like this on these crops," he said.
Berries account for a small percentage of total agricultural acres in Virginia, but grape growing for the state's burgeoning wine industry is on the rise. Around 2,500 acres of grapes were harvested in 2008, according to the latest agricultural statistics, with almost all of them going into wines.
Virginia ranks fifth in the country for the state with the most wineries at 240 and is tied with Texas as the fifth largest wine-producing state. The industry contributes almost $750 million to the Virginia economy, according to a 2012 economic impact study.
The new fly poses a particular threat to wine grapes. Its larvae's eating habits inside the fruit can cause the grapes to rot or break down, creating acetic acid or vinegar. While crushed grapes may not show the presence of the pest, a change in the juice's acidity can present problems for winemakers.
Tonkins, who's president of the Virginia Vineyards Association, said growers didn't know much about the pest until Pfeiffer alerted them to its presence.
Christine Vrooman, owner of Ankida Ridge Vineyards in Amherst, VA, said it didn't take her long to find the SWDs in her vineyard after she started looking. She sent Pfeiffer pictures to confirm and, sure enough, "our days of little to no insecticide this season were finished," she wrote in a recent newsletter.
Vrooman has since been working with Pfeiffer and his researchers to find more organic solutions for the pest. She experimented with using essential oils to ward them off, but the treatments didn't have much effect.
Vrooman's team had some success with an organic, clay-based product called Surround, but she was waiting to see how the product might affect the winemaking process.
Pfeiffer said organic controls will continue to be a challenge for this pest, but research is ongoing.
A coalition of researchers on the East Coast is looking at a series of biological controls, including using natural enemies or pheromones to draw the pests to trap trees, non-fruit-bearing trees that have been sprayed.
Similar methods have begun to work with the invasive stink bug. Kuhar said some parasitoids that naturally attack the existing species of stink bugs in Virginia have begun to attack the new species. Researchers have brought the stink bug's natural enemy from China for experiments in quarantine that will determine whether releasing it would be a helpful control.
Research to see whether other host plants, such as sunflowers, can lure the stink bug from valuable crops and into traps or sprayed areas is under way as well.
Kuhar said discoveries that stink bugs first attack the outer edges of a field have allowed growers to contain additional sprays to those areas, reducing the overall use of insecticides.
He said the pest has hit organic growers the hardest as they are left with few options for controlling it. One organic vegetable grower in Rappahannock County found the most egg masses of the stink bug researchers had ever seen on a single tree on the property.
"The potential is a vast majority of our agricultural crops in Virginia could be impacted. Right now the only option is really chemical control, which means increased spraying of things that you might not have sprayed much before," Kuhar said.
It's not clear the effect such an increase in pesticides might have on water quality, or when it might appear. A coalition of 25 organizations called the Maryland Pesticide Network is working to better track the use and impact of pesticides in the state and watershed.
Ruth Berlin, executive director of the network, said pesticide use often increases with the introduction of new invasive species, and there's not specific knowledge about how that impacts the ecosystem.


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These 128 Delaware real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available.
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Q: How to define varchar and enum in TypeORM? I have database structure need to declare the variable into varchar, int, and enum using TypeORM in TypeScript. But in TypeScript doesn't have data type varchar and int. How do I declare it?
Database structure
import {Entity, PrimaryGeneratedColumn, Column} from "typeorm";

@Entity()
export class User {
    @PrimaryGeneratedColumn()
    id: number;

    @Column()
    account_id: varchar;

    @Column()
    email: varchar;

    @Column()
    phone_number: varchar;

    @Column()
    address: varchar;

    @Column()
    status: enum;

    @Column()
    current_id: varchar;
}

A: Column types in the database are inferred from the property types you used, e.g. number will be converted into integer, string into varchar, boolean into bool, etc. But you can use any column type your database supports by implicitly specifying a column type into the @Column decorator.
import {Entity, Column, PrimaryGeneratedColumn} from "typeorm";

@Entity()
export class Photo {

    @PrimaryGeneratedColumn()
    id: number;

    @Column({
        length: 100
    })
    name: string;

    @Column("text")
    description: string;

    @Column()
    filename: string;

    @Column("double")
    views: number;

    @Column()
    isPublished: boolean;
}

Since you are already using typeorm you can use types defined here: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/blob/master/docs/entities.md#column-types


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and so inspired that you invite us over! & do all of the work!


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If you're piling your hair on top of your head or aggressively towel drying it after the shower, you're washing your hair wrong. Here's how to really wash your hair to help prevent damage and leave it clean and looking great.
So you're lathering in your shampoo – but if you pile your hair on top of your head, you can create tangles that never come out.
It's something known as "birdnesting" and does permanent damage to your hair.
Instead, work the lather from root to tip, following the same direction your cuticles face – that way you'll actuallywork tangles out rather than create them.
It's tempting to work the lather through the hair, but the best place to focus is the scalp.
This is where lots of oil and dirt build up so you need to keep it clean.
If you focus only on the hair, the shampoo will wash off without getting to the scalp. Focus instead on the scalp and gravity will do the work as you rinse, taking the shampoo along the hair and cleaning that too.
If you've ever tried washing a greasy pan with cold water, you'll know that it doesn't work very well!
Warmer water helps loosen the bonds between the dirt and grease on your hair and scalp. That allows the shampoo to bind better to themand then rinse it all away.
But don't turn the temperature up too high – water that's too hot can aggravate a sensitive scalp.
Keep it around 100°F – that should be high enough to get a great clean but low enough not to aggravate your scalp.
Easy on the towel drying… and the hair dryer!
A lot of people towel-dry their hair – but a vigorous rub with a towel is actually a terrible idea. All that movement can knot the hairand even damage it.
So, you're probably thinking to reach for the hair dryer instead. Just be careful – too much heat can also damage your hair and scalp.
The best way is to gently pat your hair or tie it up with a towel to get the excess water off and then, if you can, let it air dryafter that. If you do want to blow dry it, avoid the highest heat setting to minimize damage.


Stardust Memories sees Woody Allen at his most reflexive, Fellini + Bergman worshipping mode. By the film's end, I found myself frustrated with the similarities to 8 1/2, but when does homage turn into downright rip-off? Even if it isn't original, this transgressive film from the funny New Yorker is on of the best in his early, middle-career period.
Allen stars as pusillanimous, token-neurotic filmmaker/leading man Sandy Bates. Sick of creating the sort of comedic tripe that has made him a universally reknowned figure, he premieres his latest, more serious movie at a weekend film festival dedicated to honouring his alleged genius. Amongst the new admiration from artsy types, and harsh criticism from mainstream patrons of his "earlier, funny films", Bates' artistic flare is quashed by his run-ins with the three women in his life – the married French mistress Isobel (Marie-Christine Barrault), intelligent new flame Daisy (Jessica Harper), and the sweet ex-girlfriend who haunts his subconscious Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling).
It's interesting to see Allen being his harshest critic. Following on from his first foray into serious filmmaking with Interiors, and the career best/his most hated movie Manhattan, Stardust Memories is Allen's lucid critique of stardom and celebrity. Throughout the film, we see Sandy stopped every thirty seconds by an adoring fan, desperate for a photo or autograph, a fledging writer wielding a script in front of his eyes, bigshot producers wanting a piece of Sandy's lucrative pie, or a flirtatious young plaything wanting one night of steamy passion with…Woody Allen. It may sound tiresome and egotistical, but Allen is wryly, and boldly sidestepping the industry that has made him a household name, and looking at it through a wide-angled lens for all it's sycophantic ugliness.
Like many of Allen's films, Stardust Memories lacks a cohesive narrative drive, which often ends up leading to absurd asides or irreverent sketches. On the most part, it all comes together pretty well (one with a fantastical monster that embodies Sandy's subdued anger and goes on a murder hunt is particularly great). Bates/Allen has space to massage his ego, or self-deprecatingly wear it down, but such erratic focus on this one complex individual means that the ancillary characters – i.e. the women – are slight. The ravishing Rampling in particular is criminally underused as a pretty marionette device for Sandy to go reflect on the life he once had.
It's the most divisive, pretentious and borderline grouchy movie I've seen of Allen's to date, but Stardust Memories is still a hilarious, cathartic exercise on the magic of the movies, and the hardship one goes through to make them.
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Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet of the 16th century who enjoyed the privileged position throughout most of his adult life of being a favoured poet of the Kings of France. He was generally accepted as the leading writer amongst a group of Renaissance poets called La Pléiade, a collection of talented poets of the time that included Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baif. The members of this group tended to write in a fanciful, graceful style exhibiting the language to its best effect, introducing vivid imagery where possible and endeavouring to use a graceful variety of meter at all times. Ronsard was born in September 1524 at Le Manoir de la Possonnière which was...
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Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet of the 16th century who enjoyed the privileged position throughout most of his adult life of being a favoured poet of the Kings of France. He was generally accepted as the leading writer amongst a group of Renaissance poets called La Pléiade, a collection of talented poets of the time that included Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baif. The members of this group tended to write in a fanciful, graceful style exhibiting the language to its best effect, introducing vivid imagery where possible and endeavouring to use a graceful variety of meter at all times.
Ronsard was born in September 1524 at Le Manoir de la Possonnière which was in a village called Couture-sur-Loir. His parents were of noble blood and he spent his early years being educated at home but was sent to Paris at nine years old to study at the College de Navarre. He was selected to act as a page at the wedding of James V of Scotland and Madeleine of France and this was the start of a period of much travel for the young man taking in Scotland, England, Flandres and Holland before he finally returned to France.
He was employed in a number of diplomatic posts including acting as Secretary to Lazare de Baif who was the father of Jean-Antoine, one of his fellow members of La Pléiade. He was also attached to Cardinal du Bellay-Langey's staff for a time. All of this diplomatic activity contributed to his general education and, of course, enhanced his standing in royal circles. He was becoming a hugely popular poet and was growing prosperous as a result.
He maintained his status as favoured royal poet despite more than one change of sovereign and King Charles IX looked after him very well. As well as allowing Ronsard to take rooms at the royal palace, he granted him other properties and honours including abbacies and priories. A man in such a position was bound to attract enemies of course, and the Huguenots disliked him intensely. They tried their best to discredit him as a libertine at every opportunity and put forward their own poet as a worthy rival to de Ronsard. This was a man called Du Bartas. Written and verbal attacks though were only a part of their campaign against him. They even tried to have him assassinated which was, in truth, fairly typical behaviour of that time.
An example of Ronsard's lyrical style of poetry is translated below and is called Sur La Mort de Marie. It is possible that it is dedicated to the mistress of the Duke of Anjou. Marie de Clèves died in 1574:
Ronsard was prolific in his writing, often by royal command. King Charles commissioned a work called the Franciade in 1572 but this was not one of his best, by any means. A significant feature of this publication was that it coincided with a particularly bloody period in the French Religious Wars that were going on at the time. The St Bartholomew Massacre took place just before it and featured the persecution and violent deaths of thousands of Huguenot supporters at the hands of the Catholics. Not surprisingly the "royalist" Ronsard's efforts were looked down upon by the survivors of this massacre.
During the last decade of his life Ronsard moved away from court life as his health declined. He spent his last days mostly at one of his houses in the Vendôme and sometimes with a friend in Paris (Jean Galland). He continued to write almost to the end and it is said that some of his best work was done in his final years. He was in ever increasing pain though and he calmly prepared himself for death at his priory in Saint-Cosme, Touraine.
Pierre de Ronsard died in December 1585, aged 61.
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Saavedra surprises with Verizon P1 pole award for Grand Prix of Indianapolis
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Chevrolet adds Dragon to roster for Indy 500
Dragon's Leaders Circle designation explained
Saavedra joins Dragon Racing
IndyCar News/Releases, IndyCar team PR — By More Front Wing Staff on February 12, 2013 7:40 pm
[Source: Dragon Racing press release]
LOS ANGELES, CA. (February 11, 2012) – Dragon Racing and TRUECAR, Inc. today announced that they have added Sebastian Saavedra to their 2013 IZOD IndyCar Series championship program. Saavedra will pilot the #6 TRUECAR Dragon Racing Chevy entry, competing alongside teammate and 4-time champion Sebastien Bourdais, who will once again be at the wheel of the #7 Dragon Racing Entry.
"We are very excited to have Sebastian join Dragon Racing for 2013 and beyond," said Jay Penske, Owner and President of Dragon Racing. "I have been watching Sebastian's rapid progression through the various series' and I truly believe he is the perfect teammate for Bourdais. I look forward to seeing the results of their collaboration, and seeing them both on the podium many times this year."
"Like TrueCar, Jay Penske and Dragon Racing have always been on the cutting edge of technology, business, and motorsports," said TRUECAR CEO Scott Painter. "Sebastian has excelled at every level of racing in which he has competed-and we expect 2013 to be Sebastian's finest year yet."
"It has been a long off-season for everyone who loves racing, and I have been ready to get back in a car since Fontana," said Sebastian Saavedra, the 22-year-old Colombian native.
"I'm extremely excited on this new chapter in my life, and very thankful to everyone who made it a reality. Together with TRUECAR, Sebastien (Bourdais) and Jay's dynamic approach to building a winning franchise, [it] makes me a strong believer in Dragon Racing's future, and our ability to win championships together. I want to sincerely thank TRUEcar and Dragon Racing for giving me this opportunity and all my Colombian supporters; Coldeportes, Marca Pais, Autoniza, Postobon, Seringel and Sumimed, who have supported me since the beginning."
Dragon Racing has recently expanded its operations to include a facility in Indianapolis and will make several personnel and sponsorship announcements in the next few weeks as it prepares for the first race of the 2013 season on March 24 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Simple, Dragon and Penske f—-d over Katherine in a deal that was supposed to last for 2 years. I realize the deal was done between Dragon and TrueCar, but it is another chapter in the novel that is Jay Penske being an a—–e……….. And believe me, I have seen him work first hand if anyone wants to disagree..
Could make team communications interesting during a race…
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Сѝмница (; ) е село в Северна Македония, в община Гостивар.

География
Селото е разположено в областта Горни Полог южно от град Гостивар в подножието на планината Буковик.

История
В началото на XIX век Симница е албанско село в Гостиварска нахия на Тетовска кааза на Османската империя. Симнишката джамия е паметник на културата. Андрей Стоянов, учителствал в Тетово от 1886 до 1894 година, пише за селото:

Според статистиката на Васил Кънчов ("Македония. Етнография и статистика") в 1900 година Сибница има 500 жители арнаути мохамедани.

В манастира в Симница "Свети Симеон" рисува известният български зограф Данаил Несторов.

В 1913 година селото попада в Сърбия. Според Афанасий Селишчев в 1929 година Симница е село в Церовска община в Горноположкия срез и има 102 къщи с 467 жители албанци.

Според преброяването от 2002 година селото има 430 жители.

Личности
 Родени в Симница
  Джемаил Хасани Джемо (1908 – 1945), албански революционер, ръководител на Бали Комбетар в Гостиварско

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Села в община Гостивар


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Throughout the last year, my fiancé and I have been enjoying working our way through "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Event s" on audio while on vacation and visiting out-of-town family members. Needless to say, we were pretty excited when we heard that Netflix would be giving the series new life.
mony Snicket used grammar and vocabulary in a humorous way and I loved the Baudelaire orphans – how resourceful and brilliant they were! When we began watching the Netflix series in January, I was struck again by a 3rd aspect of the books that had bothered me while we were listening: ADULTS.
Evil – This would be the category for Count Olaf and his gang, all of those people who were actively helping him to achieve his terrible ends.
Incompetent – I think Mr. Poe would fall into this category. He's been given the task of ensuring these kids make it into safe families, but he consistently fails to do this.
"Good" but Silent – There are quite a few characters who would, in other situations, probably be very likeable and "good" people. However, when they are presented with situations in which there are pretty clear indicators that something is at the very least amiss, they lean into whatever barriers they have instead of protecting these children.
I feel like I care about these kids (and they're children), so to see so many adults a) deny that there is a problem and then b) watch the misfortunes that are thrust upon them and choose to do nothing (I'm talking to you, Josephine and Charles!) is really frustrating.
Maybe it's so frustrating because I can't help but compare this in my head to Green Dot and the situations we see and hear students talk about every day. So many of them face bullying from classmates or abuse from loved ones. When the stakes are so high, I can't highlight the importance of knowing our options enough. I understand how difficult barriers can be to overcome. I definitely have my own with which to contend. Josephine suffers from par alyzing fear and anxiety. Charles is worried about what his partner will think or do if he does something. These are tough – they are probably two of the most common barriers we hear when we talk with high school students and adults. Aren't there options, though? Couldn't Josephine reach out to one of the locals for help? We know her fear does not keep her from interacting with other folks in the village regularly. Or couldn't Charles create some kind of distraction that would at least let the Baudelaires escape? He doesn't have to confront Sir. He can even pretend to be just as distraught once they're gone.
This does make me curious. Are there other great examples from television or movies where you've been frustrated by a bystander's inaction? What are their barriers? More importantly, how could they potentially work around them next time? Also, now that "A Series of Unfortunate Events" has been confirmed for a second season on Netflix, I'm curious: Will inactive bystanders continue to the be the norm?!


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An Improving Trade Picture
A weaker dollar and more domestic energy production are taming the U.S. trade deficit, says Lord Abbett's Ezrati.
By Milton Ezrati | September 18, 2012 at 07:16 AM
This country's balance of international trade just keeps on improving. Long in deep deficit, which is frequently considered a sign of fundamental economic problems, the United States' tendency to import more than it exports persists. But the trade deficit has nonetheless narrowed considerably of late. Part of the improvement reflects the currency, for the dollar, though up recently against the euro, has fallen long term against almost all other currencies, relieving American producers of a long-standing pricing disadvantage. Part of the improvement, and the factor that has dominated most recently, stems from the new fracking technology for natural gas and oil extraction and its impact on petroleum imports. This favorable influence promises to become still more dominant in coming years.
Overall, the global economic slowdown and the disappointing pace of expansion in this country have slowed the growth of both exports and imports. Until recently, both seemed to boom with the economic recovery, anemic as it otherwise was. Between mid-2010 and mid-2011, the country sucked in almost 13% more imports of both goods and services, while the rest of the world bought about 14% more from the United States. But in the 12 months from mid-2011 through June, the most recent month for which complete data are available, exports have expanded barely over 7%, while imports have grown just 2.2%. The imbalance of imports over exports has shrunk from a monthly deficit of $50.3 billion in June of 2011 to $42.9 billion this June, an improvement of almost 15%.
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Q: Download json file from REST API I am trying to export a build pipeline from Azure DevOps using the REST API provided by them. I am able to download json file using below sample url which contains the build definition in json format.
https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/definitions/{definitionId}?api-version=5.0-preview.7

But when i try to download using powershell i get HTML file with html tags. But i need just the Json file which will be actual Build definition file to be downloaded.
Below is my powershell code . I also tried using  -ContentType "application/json" but it didn't resolve it.
$strURL = "https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/definitions/{definitionId}?api-version=5.0-preview.7"
$filePath="C:\Pipeline_export"
$fileName=$filePath+"\build.json"
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri $strURL  -OutFile $fileName

A: the html is propably an error-page saying you didn't authorize correctly.
I use the following code for rest-api requests:
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f "",$connectionToken)))
$result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $finalUrl -ContentType "application/json" -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)}

$finalUrl is the url of the resource, $connectionToken is my PersonalAccessToken

A: According to your code, you may lost authorized token in your code. So that it does not work using -ContentType "application/json".
On the other hand, we can also use another way to get code authorized: just enable Allow scripts to access the OAuth token and the script could access the OAuth token through the System.AccessToken variable.
Here is the completely code that can get the Json file correctly which modified on the basis of your code(with System.AccessToken not PAT):
 $strURL = "https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/definitions/{definitionid}?api-version=5.0-preview.7"
 $filePath="D:\"
 $fileName=$filePath+"\build.json"
 $pipeline =Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $strURL -Headers @{Authorization = "Bearer $env:SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN"} -Method GET -OutFile $fileName

Before download the Json file locally, you can use
Write-Host "Pipeline = $($pipeline | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100)"

to check whether the output in PowerShell Script logs is what you want.


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As well as producing artwork, Jon shares his passion and enthusiasm for clay with tens of thousands of workshop participants a year.


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Kristen Wiig and Matt Damon have no idea how small-minded people can be.
(2017) Science Fiction (Paramount) Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier, Søren Pilmark, Jayne Houdyshell, Jason Sudeikis, Maribeth Monroe, Phil Reeves, James Van Der Beek, Alison J. Palmer, Tim Driscoll, Kristen Thomson, Kevin Patrick Kunkel, Patrick Gallagher, Linda H. Anderson. Directed by Alexander Payne
This is an example of a movie that doesn't know what it wants to be. Alexander Payne is one of the finest filmmakers on the planet but I suppose even the best have off-projects. This is his.
In Downsizing, scientists looking at Earth's environmental challenges of climate change and limited resources come up with a solution – smaller people. Norwegian scientists Dr. Asbjørnsen (Lassgård) and Dr. Jacobsen (Pilmark) make a startling breakthrough – a machine that can shrink people to about five inches tall. A colony is founded in Norway by Dr. Asbjørnsen and his wife (Egeberg) and leads to colonies for the downsized as the folks who have been shrunk are called.
There are some incentives to do that. Because their need for resources is less, their wealth is stretched much further. Someone who has $30,000 in savings can be a millionaire. Financially strapped couple Paul (Damon) and Audrey (Wiig) Safranek decide to take the plunge but at the last moment Audrey changes her mind, leaving Paul five inches tall and about to be divorced. Audrey gets half of everything in the settlement which means that Paul can't live in the palatial mansion he'd purchased but has to move to an upscale condo while working as a phone salesman for Land's End.
One of his neighbors is Dusan Mirkovic (Waltz) who is everything that Paul isn't; outgoing, a bon vivant, adventurous and a risk taker. Dusan makes income on the black market, supplying luxury items like cigars and champagne for the various Downsized developments. Through Dusan Paul meets Ngoc Lan Tran (Chau), a Vietnamese activist whose political activities got her forcibly shrunk and a leg removed. She is walking around on a poorly constructed prosthetic that causes her to limp and is likely to cause some damage to her hips in years to come. Paul at first offers to help her get fitted for a better prosthetic but quickly finds the woman abrasive and pushy. He also finds that she has a generous soul that is all about helping those around her. Paul realizes that he has found a calling for himself, something he'd always missed as a normal-sized guy – but events in the larger world are putting all of his plans for his future into turmoil.
The first part of the movie seems to be a comedy and that's how the movie was marketed but it really isn't that. The movie seems to be an environmental call to arms but it isn't that either. This simply put smacks of studio interference but the trouble is I'm not sure which part of the movie Payne is responsible for. The two sides certainly don't integrate well.
That's a shame because there are things to admire in both sides of the film. There are some very salient thoughts that this film forces the viewer to think about; there are also some genuinely funny moments. There was a chance to give the viewer a sense of wonder, seeing the world from a different perspective but Payne didn't seize the opportunity and so basically the perspective is just the same as it would be from a normal perspective.
There are also terrible lapses in logic; the world of the very small isn't well thought-out. The Norwegian colony should have had issues with insects and other pests; nope. We see butterflies from time to time but what about bees, wasps, mosquitoes, house flies? Not to mention beetles, bugs and spiders. It rains a lot of the time in Leisure World. Wouldn't the rain drops seem bigger to people who are smaller? They look like regular rain though.
I also had trouble with the Ngoc Tran character. You can accuse me of cultural insensitivity if you like, but she is so pushy, so aggressive and so demanding that I can't for the life of me figure out why someone as white bread as Paul would fall in love with her. It doesn't make sense and the relationship is central to the movie.
I really wanted to like this movie and it had everything going for it; a terrific cast, a great concept and one of the best directors in the world. It just doesn't work at all for me and has to be one of the biggest disappointments of 2017.
REASONS TO GO: The movie does have some thought-provoking moments. At least Payne doesn't do what you expect him to in terms of where the plot goes.
REASONS TO STAY: The movie loses cohesion in the second half and nearly falls apart. There are too many lapses in logic.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a fair amount of profanity, some sexual references, graphic nudity and drug use.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The production crew used an actual Omaha Steaks plant for filming and employees were used as extras in the scenes filmed there.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 2/9/18: Rotten Tomatoes: 50% positive reviews: Metacritic: 63/100.
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