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Q: Exibir modal ao enviar um formulário Como faço para exibir um modal no momento em que envio um formulário para cadastro? O conteúdo desse modal será apenas uma mensagem. Acontece o seguinte, nesse formulário é enviado um arquivo e umas informações. Como geralmente demora alguns segundos para realização do upload, eu gostaria de lançar um modal com uma mensagem de "Aguarde", para que o usuário não mude de página enquanto o upload é realizado. No momento, não há nenhuma informação sendo exibida.

A: Se você estiver usando jquery pode usar:
$("form").submit(function(e){
        //Ação para abrir o modal
});

Assim que for clicado no botão ele vai exibir o modal e assim que for feito o post a pagina vai ser atualizado para o action do form.

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Daisy Jones & The Six: The Band I Wish Was Real
By Lexi KakisPosted on April 2, 2019 January 9, 2021 3
If you're keeping up with the modern literary world, then you've probably seen Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
It's all over social media. It was selected as Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick for March and Book of the Month featured it among their five choices. It's rumored that Reese Witherspoon's production company Hello Sunshine is slated to produce a 13 episode television show. If you're on the fence about reading it because the format and style is different then what you're used to, that's fair. I was hesitant too.
Daisy Jones & The Six is an oral history of a 1970s rock band chronicling all things sex, drugs and rock and roll. Perhaps the most mesmerizing and equally infuriating part of this entire book (at least for me) is that Daisy Jones & The Six is not a real band. This book is so well written and so expertly developed each character that it made me wish I could stream their music on Spotify.
Taylor Jenkins Reid brilliantly crafted relationships between her characters that was matched with the kind of complexities and intimacy that makes classic music so great. It was clear she was inspired by artists whose chemistry was undeniable to the point of becoming romantically involved with bandmates. It had the creative intensity that fueled bands like Fleetwood Mac woven into every page.
Courtesy of @She_Who_Reads_ on Instagram.
If you are still undecided about picking up Daisy Jones & The Six, try the audio book.
The writing style can be difficult to read. Try the audio book if you find this to be true for you. I have recently started to dabble into audio books. I actually wrote about the paperback versus Kindle Paperwhite debate. However, I still think there is a magic in being able to hold on to a book and flip through its pages. I prefer audio books for certain genres, though. Memoirs read by the author feel far more intimate than if a voice actor was reading words off a page. When I'm home, I like to fill the silence with music, a television show, podcast or audio book. This is especially true when I have to multi-task. It makes me feel productive, so I roll with it. The listening time for Daisy Jones & The Six is 9 hours and 3 minutes.
While I haven't listened to many audio books, this one stood out. Each character had his or her own voice. It featured Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Pablo Schreiber and Judy Greer. It was so well-written that I felt like I was listening to a documentary. In my mind, the magnificently written questions and answers pieced over footage and b-roll. I can't praise this audio book enough because it gave depth and dimension to these characters. I could visualize everything as they spoke. They felt natural and real, which is an extraordinary feat, considering its centered around an entirely fictional band.
Have you read Daisy Jones & The Six? Let us know what you thoughts are!
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Shelley Wallace Nelson says:
I'm just getting started on this one, the first chapter is great! I fill my days with audio books! Mucking horse stalls, pulling weeds, cleaning the house. I have listened to many books that use different people for the voices it's wonderful! I just finished "The Nightingale" ,by Kristen Hannah. It's read by one woman but she does a wonderful job. The story should be read or listen to in our schools. Lest we forget.
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Thanks for your comment, Shelley! We hope you like the book! Also, we have never read "The Nightingale", but it seems like a very important read. Thank you for the suggestion! We are looking forward to reading it 🙂
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We all have been blessed with more gifts and talents than we can use in this lifetime.
The challenging thing is to know for sure what our talents and gifts are.
What a waste of a precious life.
You dear one are unique in the whole world. You have different gifts and talents than I have, than others have. And most importantly you should remember you don't have to do what everyone else is doing.
You don't have to follow in the footsteps of others, most of the time, they don't know where they're going.
And it is up to you to develop the spiritual gifts and talents you've been given, not follow someone else's path.
But first let's discover what they are.
Do you have the gift of teaching, of loving, of caring? Or something more practical in nature?
Whatever spiritual gift you've been given, and all gifts are spiritual in nature, you and only YOU can develop it, and awaken to your life purpose.
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And honestly, hand on heart, I was truly blown away by the results of this quiz. It was something that is totally true about me, and never before have I seen it as a gift.
All I can say is wow...you have to try this one…I think you'll love it!
A Blurry Hazy View Of Life.
Amazing! I came out as a "dreamer" "Dreamers have the special gift to receive messages and reveal truths in their dreams." This is so true for me. Thanks, Elle.
No surprise there Sandra…I was a dreamer too! And whilst it's true that I have unusual dreams, sometimes prophetic, sometimes spiritual messages and sometimes totally lucid. I never thought of them as a Spiritual gift. 🙂 . How interesting that once again you and I are on the same page.


You often see 'The file is too large for the destination file system' error message when trying to copy a file larger than 4GB to a USB flash drive in Windows 10 or earlier versions.
E.g. if you try to copy a 5GB video file to an empty 16GB USB flash drive, the error message appears – even though there is plenty of free space available on the USB drive.
The error occurs because USB flash drives come pre-formatted in the FAT32 file system which has a maximum single file size limit of 4GB i.e. you can't copy a file larger than 4GB into a FAT32 formatted drive, no matter how much free space is available.
So the error message is correct in saying that the file (4GB or more) is too large for the destination (USB drive) file system (FAT32). But it's annoying that Microsoft won't change the error message to clarify and tell you how to fix it!
FAT (File Allocation Table) is a type of file system and FAT32 is the latest version. It was commonly used on hard drives in Windows computers before XP, which introduced a newer file system called NTFS – still used today by Windows 10.
Supported by almost all modern operating systems – so it is a good file system for sharing data between different computers like PC and Mac or other devices like cameras and TVs.
Single file size limit – 4GB so FAT32 is best suited to relatively small storage devices like USB flash drives and memory cards for phones/cameras.
Improved performance, reliability and disk space use – so it is a great file system for larger capacity hard drives in modern Windows 10 computers.
To be able to copy a file larger than 4GB, you'll need to convert the USB drive from FAT32 to the NTFS file system.
Because NTFS realistically has no single file size limit, files of any size can then be copied to the USB drive.
1. Plug in your USB flash drive. For safety, take a backup of all files on it (e.g. copy them to your computer) before proceeding to the next step.
W7 or earlier – press Start then right click 'Computer' and select 'Manage' to open the Computer Management window.
W8/10 – right click on the Start button then click on Computer Management to open the Computer Management window.
In the left panel, choose Device Manager (under System Tools).
Right click your USB flash drive and choose 'Properties' to open its Properties window then select the Policies tab.
Now you can change the file system on the drive to NTFS in the next step.
There are two alternative ways to do this – the first tries to keep all data on the USB drive (no guarantees) but the second will delete all data on the USB drive. Whichever method you choose, if you didn't take a backup earlier, do it now to avoid data loss.
Click 'Start' and type CMD into the search box. Right click on the 'CMD' program in the search results and select 'Run as administrator'.
You may now see a User Account Control message asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?". Click on 'Yes' to confirm.
In the command prompt window, type convert x: /fs:ntfs then press Enter where x: is the drive letter of your flash drive.
Note: if there was not enough free space on the Flash drive, the conversion will fail – either delete some data from it and try again or skip to the next method which deletes all data on the drive.
Close the Command Prompt window. The drive is now using NTFS so you can transfer files larger than 4GB to it.
This opens the Format window as shown below. Change the 'File system' from FAT32 to NTFS.
16GB+ flash drives are now common but they still come pre-formatted to the FAT32 file system for best compatibility with a range of computers and devices.
As we may now need to copy ever larger files (e.g. videos) to flash drives, this error is increasingly common. However, the limitation of the 4GB file size is easy to resolve by converting the file system to NTFS.
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Thanks so much! This was so easy to follow and it solved my problem! Interesting information.
Thank you , this was exactly what was wrong, I'm just moving the files over in sections instead of a group, perfect!!.
What about when you have a 16GB flash drive (NTFS formatted) with about 9GB free and you are trying to transfer a 4GB file and Windows 10 tells you there is not sufficient space? I have this problem all the time since upgrading to Windows 10 and sometimes it's with smaller files and the entire flash drive is free. This happens on multiple flash drives.
Has anyone else had this problem and found a workaround? I haven't seen any responses from Microsoft about this issue.
Clear, complete, successful. Thank you!
Thanks!!!! No one else could tell me HOW to change to NTFS. Fantastic!
This was a HUGE help. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Now I can transfer a 5G file over! Thank you!
If you definitely mean total space (i.e. total capacity, not just free space) then the drive may be faulty or a fake size – see https://techlogon.com/test-a-usb-flash-drive-for-errors-or-fake-size/ to test it.
But i got a problem….my flash drive of 8 gb space shows only 100mb total space what is the problem????


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Two of the suspects, Malcolm Wood and Kielah Parsons, made their first court appearance on Monday and were charged with second-degree murder.
An elderly woman's grandchildren, accused of shooting a man in the face over the mistaken belief he had harmed their grandmother, made their first appearance in court on Monday, according to reports.
Malcolm Jammal Woods, 27, and Kielah Shanae Parsons, 34, now each face second-degree murder charges in the death of 38-year-old Brandon Arndt, who was fatally shot on Sept. 10 after opening the door of his mobile home parked in a Rochester, Minnesota, trailer park, local newspaper the Post Bulletin reports. Additionally, 19-year-old Darien Kristopher Klindworth-Woods also faces second-degree murder charges, according to jail records.
While a warrant for Klindworth-Woods' arrest has been issued, he is currently being held in Blue Earth County over a different incident, according to the Post Bulletin.
All three suspects are the woman's grandchildren; Woods and Klindworth-Woods are thought to be half-brothers, while Parsons is their cousin, according to The Free Press, a local South-Central Minnesota publication.
Just two days before the shooting, Arndt had checked in on his elderly neighbor, who was the suspects' grandmother, and had gotten her some water and her prescription pill pack, the Associated Press reports.
The victim had reportedly helped the woman since she had moved into the mobile home park a month before.
However, after the woman fell ill and was later taken to the hospital, others mistakenly thought Arndt may have harmed her.
Shortly after she was sent to the hospital, six men reportedly confronted Arndt and accused him of giving the woman illegal drugs, according to AP.
Police later spoke with the woman, however, and don't believe Ardnt did anything wrong.
"There were assumptions made in how this medical condition occurred, and from that we have a tragic set of circumstances that unfolded," Rochester Police Capt. John Sherwin told AP.
During the early hours of September 10, surveillance footage allegedly shows Woods, Parsons and Klindworth-Woods leaving the hospital where their grandmother was staying, according to AP. Authorities say the three then drove to a convenience store where Parsons is seen buying snacks and taking extra plastic bags—"more than were needed for the items she purchased," the complaint viewed by AP said.
The trio then reportedly went to the mobile home park, where Woods allegedly put the plastic bags on his hands and feet and then shot Arndt at his home. A suspect can be seen in surveillance footage wearing plastic bags on his feet and fleeing the scene of the crime, according to the complaint.
Woods was given a $2 million unconditional bond, after Assistant Olmsted County Attorney Eric Woodford argued that he could be a flight risk. He called circumstances around the killing "as serious as they can be," according to the Post Bulletin.
Parsons, meanwhile, was given a lower bond of $500,000.
"She did not pull the trigger but helped in other ways," Woodford said of her role in the crime.


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General Practitioners at the Deep End work in 100 general practices serving the most socio-economically deprived populations in Scotland (where 44-88% of registered patients live in the 15% most deprived data zones).
Deep End Projects, including the Community Link Worker Programme, Govan SHIP, the GP Pioneer Scheme and the Parkhead Financial Advice Project have all been based in Deep End practices serving areas of "blanket deprivation".
The majority of people living in the 15% most deprived Scottish data zones are not registered with Deep End practices, however, and are registered with about 500 other practices in Scotland, serving various degrees of "pocket deprivation" (i.e.1-43% living in the most deprived data zones).
Although the Deep End Projects have been based in Deep End practices, it is clear that many of the findings, and especially those concerning individual patient care, are relevant to patients living in deprived circumstances throughout Scotland.
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Woman Convicted In Fiancé's Death Entitled To Portion Of His Life Insurance
Monday, August 13th 2018, 10:24 pm
The woman who pulled the plug on her fiancé's kayak during a paddle on the Hudson River was back in court Monday, fighting for money from his life insurance policy. CBS New York reports that after months of negotiations, attorneys announced a settlement.
Angelika Graswald walked out of the Dutchess County courtroom without a word, but with a decision. She is entitled to at least a portion of her deceased fiancé's life insurance payout.
"There is a financial settlement, the amount of which is confidential," said Anthony Piscionere, Graswald's attorney.
Graswald pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide in June 2017. She pulled a drain plug in Vince Viafore's kayak while the couple was paddling on the Hudson near Bannerman Island on April 19, 2015. She was 37 at the time, while Viafore was 46. "48 Hours" investigated the case in the episode, "Death on the Hudson."
After watching him drown, she reported her fiancé missing. His body was recovered nearly a month later.
In her plea, Graswald admitted to failing to perceive that her actions would lead to his death.
"The criminal plea did not disqualify our client from taking these funds. They still had to prove that she recklessly or intentionally committed this murder, and I think that was going to be a very high bar for them to meet," Piscionere said.
Graswald served less than three years in prison before she was released in December 2017. In New York, the maximum sentence for this type of crime is four years.
The judge had been planning a hearing, saying, based on the charges Graswald pleaded guilty to, one was needed to determine if she was entitled to the life insurance money.
Viafore's family had been trying to block any sort of settlement and his mother previously had said they would consider pursuing a wrongful death suit in civil court.
"There's nothing worse than losing a child, and that is something you will never get over. You have to live with it every day," Mary Ann Viafore said back in January.
But the family's hard-line stance seemed to soften a bit in the days leading up to Monday.
"It's time to let this family move on," said Allan Rappleyea, the attorney for the Viafore family, said.
Rappleyea informed the family of the settlement after a closed meeting with the judge, which he said addressed other loose ends in the case.
"Including that Ms. Graswald will not be pursuing the disturbance of her criminal conviction," Rappleyea said.
He said the family is "happy it's behind them." The family did not respond to requests to talk about the settlement.
"This was done with the assistance of the court. We didn't have any direct conversation with them," Rappleyea said.
We don't know how much she'll get, but Viafore had named Graswald beneficiary of 45 percent of his death benefit, a little more that $491,000.
The life insurance money has been in the court's possession since the lawsuit to stop disbursement was filed. Now it will be distributed according to the confidential settlement.
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The woman who pulled the plug on her fiancé's kayak during a paddle on the Hudson River was back in court Monday, fighting for money from his life insurance policy.


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TOP 4 Reykjavik Volcano hikes in 2023
by Best Pub Crawl | Jan 25, 2023 | Top lists
Welcome to Reykjavik! This city is the perfect place for anyone looking to explore, take in stunning views and get closer to nature in an incredible way. One of the best ways to do that is to embark on the Top 4 Volcano Hike in Reykjavik. This is an exciting, guided tour that will take you to four of the most spectacular volcanoes in the Reykjavik area. You will be given the chance to explore the diverse landscape, from the rolling hills to the majestic peaks, and to learn about their fascinating volcanic history. Along the way, you will also have the opportunity to take in breathtaking views of the city and surrounding landscape. This is a fantastic way to experience the natural beauty of Reykjavik, and you don't want to miss out on this amazing opportunity!
Tour #1: Advanced Meradalur Volcano Tour
Embark on an unforgettable adventure and explore the majestic volcanic landscape of Meradalur! On this Advanced Meradalur Volcano Tour, you'll have the unique opportunity to witness a volcanic eruption up close. As you make your way across the rugged terrain, keep an eye out for the red, molten lava spilling down the mountain.
Your expert guide will give you valuable insights into the science behind volcanic activity and share fascinating stories about Iceland's natural history. You'll also get the chance to explore the ancient lava fields and observe some of the fascinating wildlife that inhabit this remote region.
This tour is perfect for those seeking an authentic Icelandic experience and a chance to observe nature in its rawest form. Prepare to be amazed by the sheer scale of the landscape and the fascinating wildlife that call this place home. As you make your way back, you'll be left in awe of the raw, natural beauty of this stunning place.
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Tour #2: Merdalir Volcano and Blue Lagoon Day Trip
Explore Iceland's spectacular natural wonders with a day trip to the famous Merdálir volcano and the beautiful Blue Lagoon. On this full-day tour, you'll get to take in the breathtaking landscapes of the Reykjanes peninsula, including the iconic Mount Keilir and Lake Kleifarvatn.
You'll start your journey at Merdálir volcano, which is located close to Reykjavík. Here you'll get to experience the unique geothermal features that are so characteristic of this region, including steaming hot springs and bubbling mud pots. You'll have time to explore the area and take in the awe-inspiring views of the surrounding landscape.
Next, you'll head to the legendary Blue Lagoon, one of Iceland's most iconic attractions. Here you'll be able to take a dip in the milky blue waters of the geothermal hot spring and enjoy its mineral-rich waters. You'll also get to experience the lagoon's luxurious spa facilities and enjoy a delicious lunch at its restaurant.
Finally, you'll return to Reykjavík, where you'll have plenty of time to rest and admire the stunning views of the city and the surrounding mountains. With its unique combination of sights and activities, this Merdalir Volcano and Blue Lagoon Day Trip is the perfect way to experience Iceland's beauty and culture.
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Come explore the Reykjanes peninsula, where you can witness the amazing power of nature. On this tour, you will visit some of the most incredible volcano sites in Iceland, including the famous eruption site of Sveinagja from 2012.
You will be led by an experienced guide who will provide interesting details about the history and geology of the area, as well as share tales about the eruptions that have occurred here. Along the way, you will also be able to observe the magnificent landscape of Reykjanes and its diverse wildlife.
On this tour, you can expect to explore some of the most fascinating parts of Iceland's nature, such as lava fields, geothermal activity and snow-capped mountains. You will also have the chance to take in the stunning views of the surrounding area.
At the end of your tour, you will visit a local hot spring and get to take a dip in its hot waters. This is a great opportunity to relax after a long day of exploring volcanoes and Reykjanes' natural wonders and to get a unique taste of Icelandic culture.
Join this tour to witness the amazing power of nature and take in the stunning views of Reykjanes!
Tour #4: Golden Circle, Volcano Crater & Blue Lagoon Small Group Tour 2023 – Reykjavik
Discover the best of Iceland on this small group tour of the Golden Circle, Volcano Crater and Blue Lagoon. Begin your journey in Reykjavik and explore some of the country's most iconic attractions. Visit Thingvellir National Park and its dramatic landscape formed by the tectonic plates of Europe and America, including the Geysir Hot Springs and Gullfoss Waterfall.
Continue to the Kerid Crater Lake, formed by a volcano eruption some 4,000 years ago. Marvel at the lake's remarkable features, including the vivid blue hues and colorful volcanic rocks. Afterwards, find yourself in the magnificent Blue Lagoon, where you can relax in the natural geothermal baths and experience the warm waters for yourself.
On this small group tour, you'll explore some of Iceland's most amazing sites with a knowledgeable guide and small group of like-minded travelers. With round-trip transportation from Reykjavik included, you'll have a stress-free day to make the most of your experience. See all that Iceland has to offer on this once-in-a-lifetime tour!
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Make Reykjavik Volcano Hike part of Your Next Adventure
The Reykjavik Volcano Hike is an adventure like no other. From the breathtaking landscapes of the Reykjanes Peninsula to the geological wonders of the area, this hike has so much to offer. With the help of experienced guides, you will be able to explore some of the most stunning natural areas in Iceland. So, if you're looking for an exciting and unique way to experience the Icelandic countryside, make sure to include a Reykjavik Volcano Hike on your itinerary! With a little planning, you can make the most of your experience and enjoy the beauty and wonder of the Icelandic landscape.
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Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures, Analyze human behavior or social relations, Communicate effectively through writing and speaking, Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures, demonstrate advanced knowledge in Women's Studies, demonstrate knowledge of basic feminist ideas/analyses, demonstrate understanding of the relationship between feminist practice and feminist theory, especially across cultural or linguistic differences, Interpret quantitative information or demonstrate the methods of inquiry appropriate for investigating the natural world, Learning Outcomes, Summit, Summit 400 Learning Outcomes, Women's Studies Learning Outcomes
Reflection: An interview with my Grandmother
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This reflection fulfills the following SUMMIT 400 Learning Outcomes: 1) Interpret quantitative information or demonstrate the methods of inquiry appropriate for investigating the natural world, 2) Analyze human behavior or social relations, 3) Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures, subcultures or groups, 4) Communicate effectively through writing and speaking, especially across cultural or linguistic differences
This reflection fulfills the following Women's Studies Program Learning Outcomes: 1) demonstrate understanding of the relationship between feminist practice and feminist theory, 2) demonstrate knowledge of basic feminist ideas/analyses, which necessarily includes analysis of not only gender, but race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and ability, 3) demonstrate advanced knowledge in Women's Studies.
"As we move toward creating a society within which we can each flourish, ageism is another distortion of relationship which interferes without vision. By ignoring the past, we are encouraged to repeat its mistakes. The 'generation gap' is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, 'Why?' This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread." – Audre Lorde, "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference," in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1984)
As Lorde points out, the generation gap is a tool of repression. Slim communications between generations contribute to a fragmented picture of our histories. Causing every generation to face the same challenges, or a Lorde puts it "reinventing the wheel". In this paper, I will try to bridge that gap by interviewing my grandmother, Marian Vita, and analyzing our conversation. The interview covered gender roles, gendered messages, family, education, health, religion, media and work. Marian is a retired nurse, graduate from Yale University, and mother of six. She grew up in upstate New York in the '40s and was raised in an Irish-Catholic family. She now resides in Ohio and has enjoyed a long retirement. The interview puts into perspective some of the important topics covered in my classes, like the United States Fluctuating Wealth inequality and gains in the women's movement regarding job opportunities and birth control.
The top things Marian thinks of as women's issues are unequal pay and sexual harassment. Overtime she has become more concerned about equal pay since more women are supporting families by themselves. When speaking about harassment she is also focused on the workplace stating: "Women undergo harassment at work that seldom affect men in the same way." The interviewee's concerns about women's wages and the more common occurrence echoed a sentiment in Dill's Our Mother's Grief: "The rise in female-headed households, therefore, reflects the instabilities and insecurities introduced into women's lives as a result of the changing social organization of work." (Dill 302) Our economic and social organization has evolved and changed over the years; the interviewee experienced the cult of domesticity, waves of feminism, and rising divorce rates. The role of women has been constantly changing from a secure the but docile homemaker to independent women.
The interviewee believes that boys and girls should be raised identically because they are being prepared for the same world. When she thinks of feminism, she thinks it is too focused on women's problems and too militant, although she does believe there still needs to be a women's movement specifically to address sexual harassment so that women feel free to report complaints without waiting years. Marian has noticed so many changes over her life for women, but most prominently the number of women in office. She still sees that there are obstacles like the glass ceiling but is impressed by the work of Hillary Clinton.
The interviewee self-describes as living in a home with strict gender roles but notices the ways in which her chores fall outside of those lines. As a child, her father was the head of the household. Marian's Mother and Grandmother were the only ones allowed to cook, and her older sister did the dishes. The interviewee referred to herself as the 'boy of the family' because she was delegated tasks like taking the ash out from the furnace and shoveling snow. These 'boy' tasks are more dirty and physical than those of her other family members. In the kitchen, she was only allowed to dry the dishes. When asked to compare her experience to male peers, she could not, saying she did not spend much time with boys or even think of them until high school. Even without contact with young males as a child, the subject was able to recognize that some chores she completed were more on the 'boyish' side. This shows that there were ideas of how each gender was expected to contribute to the family in terms of chores, tasks, and financial contributions.
As a 14 year old Marian had her first job wrapping up china at the department store where her father worked. For this labor, she was paid $0.35 per hour. During the summers she worked as a lifeguard and after turning 18, she taught swim lessons. These summer jobs are still common ways for teenagers to earn money over the summer. The biggest difference is pay, which has changed in relation to inflations. In the interviewee's time, a girl was expected to get a job after high school or go to college if her family could afford it. Marian graduated from college magna cum laude and found a job shortly after in the filing department of a company. At this job she felt confined to a position in the filing department while male peers who were less successful in college were promoted. She describes this treatment as her most prominent experience with sexism.
Marian developed an interest in nursing during college, and shortly after her first post-graduate job, she went to nursing school. Upon completion of nursing school, the interviewee was appointed assistant head nurse in the infectious disease ward. She dealt mostly with child polio and other illnesses that are now preventable through vaccines. The professional options available to her were limited, nursing being one of the most prestigious. It was, at the time, almost exclusively female. While today it remains a stereotypically feminine career, there are more representations of male nurses. Nurse is labeled feminine since it is a care-centered job, and historically the labor of care has fallen on women.
For most of her child-rearing years she did not work, it was not until her eldest sons got to high school that she began to work again. She became the school nurse and stayed in that position until the football coach asked that the nurse be at football practice after school. This would prevent her from being home when her youngest daughter got out of school at 3:15pm, so she left this job. From this it seems that her job came second to childcare duties, but whether on or off the clock she was attending to the wellbeing of children.
Many women would go to secretarial school or finishing school. Some of her peers would attend four-year colleges in the hopes of finding a husband. Marian values education greatly and says she inherited this trait from her father who read often. Her father stopped attending school after grade 6, when he had to start working to help his family. Her mother stopped going to high school after 10th grade then began secretarial school. Even though both of the interviewee's parents did not graduate from high school they still believed education was very important. Marian still believes this and thinks that it is becoming even more important. When she was in college there were many World War II veterans enrolled in school because the military was paying for their education and she admired their dedication. Now she believes it is even more important for young people to be educated, even beyond college.
After this, she enrolled in Yale to pursue nursing. Many of the other students were women who had been rejected from medical school just for being women. At this point in the conversation, she recalls there were two black students referred to as "tokens". This was different from when her son applied to Yale in the '80s when she noticed the school actively recruiting black women. Over the course of her lifetime, she has seen many more opportunities open up for women. Specifically mentioned careers were medicine, law, and politics. Now she has a granddaughter applying for engineering school, a field that women of her time would even think to apply to.
At her nursing job, she met Dr. Martin Vita, her eventual husband. The interviewee married at age 24, which she considered late. According to the U.S census from 1950, this was a little later than the average of 20 years old, today the average is 27. At that age, she worried she would never find someone as her friends had gotten married right after college. Her first child was born a little less than a year after marriage. Among the interviewees peers, six or seven was an average number to have. When prompted, Marian defined a family as two parents with two or three children, indicating a shift in desired family size from when she started having children to now.
Since Marian grew up during World War II, under strict rationing, there was not much of a focus on beauty and fashion as there is today. The one memory that sticks out is having to paint her legs to make it look like she was wearing stockings because nylon was not available. It was considered indecent to not wear tights, but with limited resources, painting them on became just as good. This was the most shocking part of the interview for me, I can only compare it to getting a spray tan or other types of modern body make-up. The interviewee did not have much interest in beauty and fashion but notes that blonde was the most popular hair color. She never tried to bleach her hair, so there was not much pressure to conform. Marian does not approve of modern fashion, she believes women should dress more chastely, especially in the media. She is astounded by how much skin women show on TV. This opinion is backed up the recent slip-dress trend, where it has become fashionable to wear a slip as a dress which to Marian was quite literally underwear.
As a child, she never received a sex talk, and there was no talk of hormonal birth control because it had yet to be invented. She points out this is very different now because children get taught in school in 5th grade about sex. The interviewee remembers first hearing about the birth control pill when her daughters were teenagers in the '60s, meaning that the only birth control option introduced to her was abstinence. She also remembers the Roe v. Wade decision and mentions that it was controversial because the women eventually changed her mind. She states that despite her Catholic beliefs, she does not think all abortions are bad. In the previous questions about sexual health the subject treats the topic just as a neutral health topic, but when talking about abortion the interviewee is conflicted between her social and religious beliefs. Marian first went to the gynecologist after getting married and felt she had exceptional health care because she was at Yale. She notes that other women of her generation might not have had the same experience.
As previously mentioned, the subject sees her abortion views as contrary to her religious beliefs but finds common ground between the two in supporting women. Religion is something that the interviewee learned from her mother and believes it helped shape her as a woman. She attended church and Sunday school. Religion affected her life in other ways because the church would put out its own ratings of movies and this would dictate what she was allowed to watch. She lists Mary, Mother of Christ as her role model.
This interview has put into perspective how quickly some of the societal changes I have studied for my major have come about, how drastically the social position of women has evolved, and the great number of opportunities which opened up for women. The interviewee has strong opinions about two of the most publicized issues: sexual harassment and equal pay. While she grew up in a home with strict gender roles she now believes that boys and girls should be raised identically. Marian came of age during the 'rosie the Riveter' years so the idea of women working has always been a constant for her but the jobs available have expanded greatly. Education was highly valued in the interviewee's house hold, and continues to be important to her today. But what has changed is the level of education needed to get a job. The average family size has changed, and the interview demonstrates this trend. Women are presented in the media wearing less than ever before, but along with this have come stricter beauty standards. In Marian's tim,e the only makeup she remembers using is stocking paint, while now many teen girls wear lots of face makeup just to feel comfortable in school. The interviewee has a privileged experience with access to health care, and notes developments in health education. Religion has always been important to the subject, and she must balance her beliefs with more liberal ideas about bodily autonomy. Communicating histories like this between generations is vital to understanding the history of the position of women and the women's movement. This prevents what Lorde warns when she says: "we find ourselves having to repeat and relearn the same old lessons over and over that our mothers did because we do not pass on what we have learned, or because we are unable to listen" (Lorde, p. 117). A women's studies class is incomplete if it does not include personal stories and intergenerational communication. This kind of sharing contextualizes theory and provides a framework for understanding the recent history of the women's movement.
Lorde, Audre (1984) "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference," in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press
Thornton Dill, Bonnie. Our Mother's Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families In Andersen, Margaret L. & Collins, Patricia Hill (2016). Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology 9th Edition. Boston: Cengage Learning
U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Censuses, 1950 to 1990, and Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements, 1993 to 2018.
3) Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized culturesAnalyze human behavior or social relationsand abilitybut race/ethnicityclassCommunicate effectively through writing and speakingdemonstrate advanced knowledge in Women's Studiesdemonstrate knowledge of basic feminist ideas/analysesdemonstrate understanding of the relationship between feminist practice and feminist theoryespecially across cultural or linguistic differencesInterpret quantitative information or demonstrate the methods of inquiry appropriate for investigating the natural worldnationalitysexualitysubcultures or groupswhich necessarily includes analysis of not only gender
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Critically examine the relationship between dominant and marginalized cultures
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demonstrate advanced knowledge in Women's Studies
Demonstrate knowledge and skills essential for global engagement
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Lets say I got an update for Go Launcher EX.
I go to it's market site on my SGS2 and as I try scrolling down It just freeze.
I can't do anything and after ca 10sec it reboots..
Been happening since the last 2-3 updates of Miui.
Same problem here.. Noticed that with miui v1.12.16 too... There are some solutions, please?? Other things are working well!!
I have the exact same problem, its quite annoying!!
Same problem here. MIUI 1.12.23 (and .30 version reported) have this issue on SGS2. I don't know if it's got broken with MIUI weekly update or Market App update itself (current version 3.4.4). You can replicate this bug while browsing the Market. After a while it will freeze, reboot and drain some battery. Needs to be reported and fixed!
In my experience it does seem to work if you wait until the program site you are on i market is loaded. Try to wait and move down SMOOTH. No reboot since I started doing it.
It ONLY freeze inside a programs site, never anywhere else. Same for you guys/gals?
Somehow the Market App v.3.4.4 is b***ed on MIUI. Downgrading to earlier version solves the problem (for now) - tested myself - no reboots since using the earlier version of Market App.
I did a factory reset and still problem with Market.
I'll just stop browsing market and only update on it.
I have only experienced freezing as i scroll up or down fast.
TheWierd: Downgrade the Market App - older version does not freeze/reboot the phone.
Do you got an link for how to do that matee89?
1. Running version 2.1.6 on galaxy s2 the market gets stuck sometimes when browsing descriptions, screen stays on cannot access any hardware buttons and phone does not reboot either only method is to take out the battery and restart again i have found no solution to this problem and this is a ongoing problem in miui. The problem is it does not happen every time but once every 2-3 days it does happen and i have to take out the battery.
2. Battery drain is 1% every 1 minute while screen is on, set on auto brightness however i managed to lessen the battery drain with set cpu app by lowering the frequencies and applying certain profiles to meet my requirement and it worked so now i have less battery drain but i believe the kernel needs improvement and better management of battery life overall.
It does work but its not a good solution because you will be stuck on the old market version and this market version works very well in miui roms thats the only working fix there is unless anyone knows of a better solution downgrading to anything higher the 2.3.6 does not work even if u freeze the updator in TB or disable it in TE only this version works and you can probably get the apk for 2.3.6 somewhere on the net.
just stuck in market without reboot .. so I have to shutdown my SG2 and restart it again to make my day.
if this is a bug, it must be work on it fast because it's most important than other fixes, and if it's not, then please tell me what's my problem!
I have this problem too, freezing on market when scrolling through screenshots, phone re- boots but with massive battery drain sometimes up to 50%.
Works on SGS2 and should work on any other devices if the newest Market App is problematic.


The top prosecutor in the Maldives has filed money-laundering charges against Abdulla Yameen over allegations the former president was the recipient of $1m stolen from state coffers in the country's biggest corruption scandal.
The charges, which carry a jail sentence of up to 15 years, were filed on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the prosecutor general's office told Al Jazeera.
Yameen, 59, who suffered a decisive defeat in last year's presidential election, has denied any wrongdoing.
The case was the subject of the Al Jazeera investigative documentary, Stealing Paradise.
In secretly filmed interviews, associates of the former president said they delivered some of the stolen cash to Yameen's residence in black bags.
"For the president, it was even difficult to carry those bags," said one of the three men who delivered the cash.
The charges filed against Yameen on Wednesday relate to claims he received the money through SOF Private Limited, a private company linked to his former deputy, which was used to launder tourism revenues from the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation, the country's tourism board.
The amount was deposited into the former president's personal bank account at the Maldives Islamic Bank in October 2015.
In a statement last week, the police said Yameen was told to return the amount following an investigation by the country's independent anti-corruption watchdog.
The former leader claimed he returned the money, but police said its investigation found he "did not return the money as ordered and instead conducted financial transactions from which he obtained profit".
Lawyers for Yameen, in a statement last week, dismissed the charges against the former president as an attempt to influence the Maldives's upcoming parliamentary elections, set to take place on April 6.
The Anti-Corruption Commission "has so far failed to prove the $1m transferred to Yameen's account by SOF Pvt Ltd was state funds obtained through corruption", the lawyers contended.
Yameen told reporters in January that the $1m deposited to his private account at the Maldives Islamic Bank was given to him by "various parties as campaign funds". The money was his, he added, saying he did not return the amount because there was no proof it was government money.


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Q: Mysterious empty database entry In the comment leaving system on part of my website there is a weird blank entry that always remains above the latest real entry. I've looked in the database directly and there isn't a blank entry. Yet, on the top of all my comments, there is always an empty box that is formatted the same way as the rest of the comments. Where is this coming from and how do I get rid of it? Here is the php:
$query = "SELECT * FROM catharsis";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$num = mysql_numrows($result);

mysql_close();
echo "
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ul.comments {
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position: relative;
right: 2.5em;

}

ul.comments li {
list-style-type: none;
background-color: c0dbff;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
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padding: .4em;
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A: $query = 'SELECT message FROM catharsis ORDER BY id DESC';
$result = mysql_query($query);
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echo '
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A: I believe it comes from the first time this line is executed:
$name = mysql_result($result,$num - $i,"message");

Since your results are indexed from 0 to $num-1 you won't have an entry with the index $num-0.
Change that line to read
$name = mysql_result($result,$num - $i -1,"message");

or start $i at 1 and let it run up to <= $num

A: Can you confirm that if you echo $num it is zero?
You don't want to be printing a ul when you don't have any li entries anyway so you'd want something like this:
if ($num > 0)
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        echo "
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Landing in Gizo: Understanding the Solomon Islands
Edith Bowles
The country is often dismissed as the Pacific's failed state, yet conversations with community members and officials reveal clear visions of what a state can provide in terms of services and a role in community life.
The Gizo airport in Solomon Islands has no parking lot, because there is no road – only a jetty out into the lagoon. It took me several minutes and a walk around the solitary airport building to work this out, by which point my plane had already headed back to Honiara, the country's capital.
The Gizo airstrip, reportedly built for a visit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in the 1970s, occupies the entire length of the island of Nusatupe – as a quick look at Google Maps confirms. It is located picturesquely, if ultimately somewhat inconveniently, about two kilometers from the provincial capital island of Gizo. As I was beginning to wonder how I was going to make my way to Gizo, a team from the Government's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock fortunately pulled up in an outboard motorboat.
In December, just three months after my arrival in the Solomon Islands to serve as the World Bank's country manager, I chose Western Province for my second trip out of Honiara. One of the main goals in my first year on the job is to visit each of the nine provinces to begin gaining some understanding of this small but complex country.
We spent part of one day visiting communities affected by the tsunami in 2007. Our first stop was to Bush's fuel station, which could be reached through a maze of backhoes, graders, and steam rollers succumbing to various stages of rust. Mr. Bush, the owner, however, had no fuel, so we placed our faith in the Ministry's pickup truck, despite its long dead fuel gauge.
Western Province is the largest center of private sector activity in Solomon Islands outside of Honiara. On our second day there, we headed off to Kolambangara Island to visit Kolambangara Forest Products Limited, the only sustainable plantation forestry company in the Solomons and one of the biggest employers in the province. The trip took us past Kennedy Island, where John F. Kennedy was shipwrecked during World War II. We passed a school of small dolphins, flying fish, and frigate birds.
I chose Western Province for my second trip out of Honiara. One of the main goals in my first year on the job is to visit each of the nine provinces to begin gaining some understanding of this small but complex country.
We also visited Noro, home to the Soltai Tuna canning plant, a rural training center, and the United Church headquarters – the church oversees the majority of schools in the province.
With its great beauty, Western Province is also the center of the Solomons tourism industry, which has slowly been regaining ground after a steep drop in arrivals during tensions. Small boutique resorts occupy some of the little islands around Gizo and Marovo Lagoon, one of the largest lagoons in the world. All travel is by boat, and I was comfortably perched on my newly procured life jacket.
The days spent in the outboard boat going from island to island were long, salty, and instructive. The country is often dismissed as the Pacific's failed state, yet conversations with community members and officials revealed clear, and not unreasonable, visions of what a state can provide in terms of services and a role in community life. Systems and institutions exist, although undermined by lack of resources and the years of conflict.
Having an office in the country for the first time will hopefully allow the World Bank to better understand these aspirations and support them through programs like the Rural Development Program (which I plan to write about in a future blog post), along with projects in the areas of energy, health, telecommunications, and justice. Service delivery and economic development in many parts of Solomon Islands where travel takes place largely on the water is a challenge to the imagination. I hope through the new office, which opened in November 2008, we can work with government and donor partners to rise to this challenge.
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One should not confuse the city of Gizo (which is the capital of the Solomons' Western Province) with the island of Ghizo (in which such city is located.
I was told there once that Ghizo was the name of a local chap famous for his head-hunting abilities. This practice, common in Melanesia, extended into the Solomons, as attested by Skull Island as well as the head-hunters of Malaita described by Jack London in "Cruise of the Snark" (his non-fictional, sailing adventure in the South Pacific).
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Thanks Edith for the entry, I am a new entrant to the field but appreciate the effort that the Bank is making to increase its level of awareness of issues in the Pacific region. Such a beautiful place that has opportunities for development.
I agree that the title 'failed state' is wrong and it is better to view the Solomon Islands as an 'emerging state' with ample potential - just lacking the institutional capacity to undertake the range of reforms and policy developments that we consider to be important for a modern state.
I look forward to more entries from Bank staff on the Pacific as it is an area that can be easily overlooked when lumped with East Asia.
Solomon Islanders are nice people but Honiara is a disaster. Centralised government is a foreign concept and can not work in Melanesia. RAMSI can do no more and should leave quietly. The Solomon Islands government is only becoming more aid dependent and the people on the islands get very little.
Mr. Raybould, Thank you very much for commenting on the blog and sharing your experiences from Solomon Islands, a decade before independence. Even though the 21st century has arrived in form of mobile phones, Western Province remains a beautiful place where it is a privilege to work. Kind Regards, Edie
John L Raybould
Fascinating reading! In 1961 it was my privilege to spend a year in Western Province under the auspices of VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas), at what was then the Methodist Mission on New Georgia, Choiseul and Banga.
In 1991, my wife's brother, a town planner, volunteered for VSO and was posted to Gizo as Principal Planning Officer.
We had wondered how to celebrate our 1991 Silver Wedding so then we knew!
The 20th century had arrived in the Solomons with satellite communications and tiny airstrips for a 12 seater prop aircraft on the 7 main islands. My fears that the late 20th century had spoiled the islands were allayed. The only noticeable changes were that most of the dugout canoes have been replaced by fibreglass canoes with an outboard motor. Otherwise, the people and the scenery were as unspoilt as they were 30 years before - a forgotten paradise indeed!
Now long retired in Suffolk, England, I have some personal photographs, slides, prints and video of Skull Island but locating where they are in my tip of a study would be a challenge and I could only send you scans of the prints. However, while they seem to have disappeared from the web, I have some © images by Mike McCoy, Rob & Jimmy and John Bantin should anyone wish to see them.


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20 Spirited Style Lessons from Elizabeth Taylor
She captured imaginations and hearts like no other. On the anniversary of her birthday, we celebrate Elizabeth Taylor's unapologetic and decidedly bold life and looks.
By Rachael Burrow
There is no doubt that the British-born actress, who went on to star in films like National Velvet, The Taming of the Shrew, A Place in the Sun, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and won two Oscars—both for Best Actress—left a mark on not only the film industry, but the cultural psyche of the world, that continues to reverberate today. While Elizabeth Taylor's film credits shot her to the center of stardom (and the tabloids), it was her insatiable appetite for astonishing jewels and her love of love that resulted in many rollercoaster marriages and romantic dalliances. Plus, her undeniably glamorous style and beguiling beauty enraptured millions then and still today.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1932 to an art dealer father and actress mother who were based in London, but her American parents moved their family back to the States in 1939, settling in Los Angeles. After a friend's suggestion that the young Elizabeth take a screen test, the burgeoning actress began booking parts, landing with her first film role in 1942.
Beautiful even as a child, Taylor was captivating, with mesmerizing violet eyes, thick lashes (thanks to her having distichia, a genetic mutation that causes double eyelashes), and dark locks. Taylor was married eight times to seven different men throughout her lifetime, kicking off her first union with hotel heir Nicky Hilton when she was just 17 years old. The most talked-about of these marriages were those to Mike Todd, which left her a widow following his untimely death in 1958; to Eddie Fisher, Todd's best friend, with whom she had an affair while he was married to her friend and actress Debbie Reynolds; and Richard Burton, the man behind the headline-making love affair that began on the set of Cleopatra and resulted in several world-famous jewels landing in her possession. All of these relationships served to further catapult Taylor from mere stardom into the realm of super-stardom.
Here, a look at some of the actress and jewelry collector's most alluring moments that still offer style lessons in the realm of sophisticated and mysterious dress. They say clothes make the woman, but in this instance, we can all agree that this world-famous, globe-trotting, fearless woman definitely made the clothes.
The London-born actress who moved to Los Angeles shortly before WWII rides her bike, looking demure and fresh-faced dressed in a plaid button-up with rolled sleeves.
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The larger-than-life actress, who secured her first film role in There's One Born Every Minute at the age of 10 years old, poses for a portrait with her signature beauty look on display: a saturated red lip, bold eyebrows, and just the right amount of dark eyeliner.
A full-skirted polka dot dress offset with a bold chain-link cuff is a classic choice, nodding to the style of the decade for a portrait of Taylor.
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Here, acting in the film Giant, in which she played Leslie Lynnton Benedict, Taylor wears a white evening gown and sheer scarf over her signature perfectly coifed dark hair.
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Arriving to the airport with cropped hair and dressed in a textured cape coat, vest, skirt, and black turtleneck, the actress plays the part of chic traveler perfectly.
Taking a moment to relax betweens takes on the set of director George Stevens's Giant, Taylor, who was known for her say-anything personality and many marriages outside of her acting credits, looks effortlessly stylish here in a cardigan, full skirt, and rose headscarf.
Here, Taylor and her third husband, producer Mike Todd, prepare to board a plane for Mexico City. Taylor and Todd had just gotten engaged, and she raises her gloveless left hand to show off her 29-carat ring while also wearing an elegant black overcoat and cream turban-like headpiece.
Taylor basks in the sun in an emerald green sundress, pink headscarf, and striking gold jewelry. Taylor had a love affair with jewelry throughout her life and was the lucky owner of some of the most magnificent jewels, including the Krupp diamond, the La Peregrina pearl, and several other important emerald and sapphire pieces from Bvlgari and Cartier.
Taylor is pictured here wearing a black-and-white checked set on the arm of her fourth husband, Eddie Fisher (Mike Todd's best friend, whom she married after Todd's tragic death in a plane crash). It is said that of all her husbands, Taylor was most content with Todd, and her and Fisher's love of him is what brought them together.
Taylor sits with her Oscar for Best Actress for the film Butterfield 8 at the 33rd Academy Awards. Long evening gloves, diamond-and-pearl drop earrings, and her classic updo complement her butter yellow gown.
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Taylor, who dealt with many health issues and was said to have been blessed with nine lives, exits a Via Appia villa in Italy after leaving the hospital in Rome. A luxurious leopard coat, matching flats, and black headscarf make for the chicest hospital uniform ever.
Cleopatra, the film directed by Joseph Mankiewicz that has become a cult classic (and brought Taylor and Richard Burton together), features ornate costumes and dramatic makeup that perfectly complemented Taylor's porcelain skin, dark hair, and violet eyes.
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Here, Welshman Richard Burton chats with Taylor at their first wedding in 1964. The actors had a passionate relationship and were married twice, with both unions eventually ending in divorce. Irene Sharaff (the costume director for Cleopatra) created Taylor's yellow babydoll dress, which she decorated with her famous Bvlgari diamond-and-emerald brooch. Lilies of the valley and hyacinths were woven into her hair.
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Sometimes, less is more—but only when less is a feathered headpiece, silk evening gown, and a Bvlgari diamond-and-emerald brooch that was Burton's gift to Taylor in lieu of an engagement ring. Burton once said of the actress that "the only Italian Elizabeth knows is Bvlgari."
Taylor and Burton pose for a portrait on the set of The Sandpiper. Burton wears a gray-blue jacket and pants, while Taylor makes a statement in a fiery red coat and stacked rings.
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A more relaxed look for Taylor here encompasses a cashmere sweater and her hair down rather than swept up in her normal updo. And, in the actress's true fashion, what's a casual outfit without a dramatic chandelier earring or two?
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The ultimate vacation look: Here, Taylor dons a patterned, breezy kaftan while sailing with Burton on their yacht, Kalizma, off the coast of Sardinia during filming for Boom!.
Here, while in Budapest celebrating her 40th birthday, Taylor shows off the 33.19-carat Harry Winston Krupp diamond that Burton purchased for her. It was reportedly her favorite piece of jewelry that she owned and was later referred to as the Taylor-Burton diamond.
Taylor and Burton make quite the pair on the set of Boom!, the film directed by Joseph Losey. The actress looks the part of a Mediterranean heiress dressed in a linen jacket and wide-legged pants, airy headscarf, and diamond jewelry galore.
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Taylor, pictured here with Spanish actress Agatha Lys, attends the San Sebastian International Film Festival wearing a dramatic green patterned dress and shawl.
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Rachael Burrow Senior Style Editor Rachael Burrow is the Senior Style Editor at VERANDA, covering the latest design and market trends, from jewelry to fashion, tabletop to furnishings, and everything in between.
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Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial district, has been appointed as the director in charge of civil societies and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and campaign spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The appointment was made by the National Executive Council of the opposition party on Thursday, November 29.
He was appointed alongside other 154-member campaign councils.
Reacting to the appointment, Melaye, on his official Twitter page expressed gratitude to the party, assuring it of victory in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
He wrote: "Thank you PDP for my appointment as Director incharge of Civil Societies/ NGO'S and Campaign Spokesperson in the PDP Presidential Campaign. We shall usually overcome.
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A coalition of long distance telephone companies, including MCI, Sprint and AT&T, accused Bell Atlantic yesterday of hindering their efforts to compete in the local calling market by limiting access to existing phone networks. Bell Atlantic still controls 99.69 percent of the state's local calling market, even though the market was deregulated in 1996, said Al Smith, a vice president of AT&T.
Tim Ireland, a spokesman for Bell Atlantic, called the accusations ''completely false.'' It is the long distance carriers, not Bell Atlantic, that are trying to stall deregulation of local calls to protect their share of the long distance market, Mr. Ireland said. Under the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, he said, Bell Atlantic cannot enter the more lucrative long distance market until the local calling market is deregulated.


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Excellent photography and very valid points.
I love your garden shots.


"Earth" floating at 80-120V ... why?
I noticed that a light switch back box measured around 100V ac w.r.t. the cold water tap in our recently-purchased house. I checked the earth bonding on the metal pipework for the hot and the cold tap and the radiator; all are at the same zero volt potential. I checked the earth of a nearby mains socket and saw no p.d. between it and the pipework mentioned. I looked around the house and I see lots of earth bonding that has been carried out within the last 3-4 years.
Measuring a current flow to ground from this "dodgy" earth, I see a couple of hundred microamps flowing (actually about 275uA). Not enough to hurt but you can just about feel a "buzz" on your finger tip.
I shall start trying to trace the lighting ring main back, but I am puzzled as to why this lighting ring earth should float when a nearby socket ring main earth doesn't. I am yet to carry out furthr investigations i.e. other looking at other ring circuits.
Maybe this is a simple fix but I'd appreciate some guidance before I get up loads of floorboards etc.
You really need to make all measurements from one reference point and that should be the consumer unit earth, so you probably need a long cable of some sort to do that.
The sort of numbers you are quoting suggests the voltage is simply induced from the live running adjacent to the earth. I would probably be prudent to check the resistance of the earth from all lighting switches and lights, to gain a better idea of what is wrong.
If the wiring dates back to the 1960's, it was not unusual for the lighting circuits not to be provided with an earth. Later mods and improvements to the circuits might mean metal boxes installed, but with no earth.
D'oh! Yes, an obvious contributor. Thanks - I shall pick up on your other points (common reference via long lead etc.) and start afresh tomorrow. I tyake your point regarding 1960s wiring and I shall look into the earthing of the lighting rings.
thanks for the feedback. Time for some sleep!
Another thing to consider is the sensitivity of the volt meter, The more ohms per volt, the more you are going to get confused.
I've seen early 60's wiring with metal backboxes for the light switches and no earth, the wiring being double insulated either in singles or zip connected doubles.
For a start, lighting circuits ain't rings - they are radials.
How old is the house? Earths haven't always been required on lighting circuits. Even although TW&E may have been used to wire them.
Most likely cause is it either isn't connected or is broken somewhere. Especially where a ceiling rose has been replaced with an alternative fitting which doesn't have the required terminals.
Rather than lift floorboards etc, you can do plenty of investigation with a few simple tests first.
The lighting circuit will be a radial - with each lighting position connecting on to the next (usually at the ceiling rose). The last one will only have two sets of cables at the rose - one in, and one to the switch.
To check the earth continuity you can disconnect the live at the circuit breaker or fuse, and temporarily join it to the earth wire for the circuit. The using a DMM on ohms range measure the live to earth resistance at each lighting position (or switch). You should soon be able to find where in the circuit you have a disconnection. Chances are it will be at a ceiling rose somewhere - leaving the remainder of the circuit with a floating earth.
Which would still leave the neutral connected and the neutral connected to earth at the sub-station. One or more lights in the circuit left on and the live will have at least some sort of connection to earth - enough to cause some confusion when using that method.
There were two standard methods to wire the lighting circuits using T&E. The current method is from the Dis-board then lopped into each ceiling rose in turn, then down from the ceiling rose to its associated switch. The older method was similar to the above, but a joint box was used as the central connection point for each section of the circuit.
If wired using the later joint box method it could well be that the break in the earth is at one of these under floor joint boxes.
Yes, sorry I did not explicitly say - turn the CU off at the main switch.
There are plenty more than two out there! Loop in is the most common, but JBs and looping through the switch positions is are also fairly frequently found.
Could be - but you should still be able identify in what section the fault is from tests on what you can get access to at the light and switch positions.
Guess what job I am doing later in the week?
I got a phone call off a bloke complaining the metal backbox in the new bathroom shaver point that he has fitted lights up his neon screwdriver. His further tests showed that the same happens in one of his bedroom lightswitch metal backboxes.
I am glad that he has taken his girlfriend away for a long weekend as his words "You do not get a shock when you poke the backbox with your finger" did worry me a little.
My first test will be an earth loop test on the new shaver socket.
I thought these days one was supposed to use insulated sleeves when poking boxes of any orientation.
Glad you wrote that, just remove any ambiguity.
So did you ask if she did ?
After meeting her I bet she does.
I had something vaguely similar a couple of years back on my fathers home, 200 miles away from me and in the middle of nowhere, overhead power lines.. He was getting tingles of anything that should have been earthed. Kitchen sink, water radiators, metal clad switches etc. It was "interesting"
Measuring between live and earth in the CU showed only a couple of volts.
If it had been the old days when he had a lead water pipe then it would have either blown a fuse or warmed up the water!!
The reason for all of this was that in his green house he had trapped a cable under a propagating frame and the VERY old rubber cable had disintegrated inside and the live was short to the earth. There was no separate earth to the green house it relied on the house earth via the SWA that connected the two. The couple of volts measured at the CU were I assume the drop in the SWA.
The moral of this is that a) equipotential bonding works! Fine in the main house, not so sure about the green house though with all its water and wet floors. b) don't trust elderly, 90 year old, fathers to look after their own electrics. c) there is a God out there looking after gardeners.
Yes. What were his power bills like?
Wireless motorized valve controllers ?
More light entertainment for the planet earth.
Floating neutral or wiring problem?
Using generators with class 1 equipment - earth spike?


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