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RECOMMENDED READING LIST OF PROFESSOR TIMOTHY J WINTER
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Timothy John Winter (born 1960), aka Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad, is a British Muslim thinker, professor, and translator. Winter has written about the interaction between Islam and secular issues spanning a wide range of disciplines. He has held a number of lectureships and administrative posts in British academia having to do with theology, the intellectual history of Islamic civilization, and international academic cooperation…[Read More]
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Maqsood, Ruqaiyyah Waris. The Muslim Marriage Guide (London: Quilliam, 1995).
Masri, Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad. Animal Welfare in Islam (3rd ed. Leicester: Islamic Foundation, 2007).
Murad, Abdal Hakim. Muslim Songs of the British Isles, Arranged for Schools (London: Quilliam Press, 2005).
al-Nawawī, Yaḥyā Ibn-Šaraf. Al-Maqasid: Imam Nawawi's Manual of Islam. trans. Noah H. Keller (Evanston: Sunna Books, 1994). English translation and appendices by Sheikh Noah Ha Mim Keller.
Schleifer, Aliah. Mary the Blessed Virgin of Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998).
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Tawfiq, Idris. Gardens of Delight: A Simple Introduction to Islam (London: Stacey International, 2007).
Winter, Tim, and John A. Williams. Understanding Islam and the Muslims: The Muslim Family and Islam and World Peace. (Louiville KY: Fons Vitae, 2002).
Wolfe, Michael. The Hadj: an American's pilgrimage to Mecca (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993).
Wolfe, Michael, ed. Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim their Faith (New York: Rodale, 2002).
Yusuf, Hamza. The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi (Hayward CA: Zaytuna, 2007).
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Akhtar, Shabbir. A Faith for All Seasons: Islam and the challenge of the modern world (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990).
al-Akiti, Shaykh Muhammad Afifi. Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians (U.K.: Aqsa Press, and Germany: Warda Publications, 2005).
Asad, Muhammad. The Message of the Quran (new edition, London: The Book Foundation, 2008).
Ayub, Muhammad. Understanding Islamic Finance (New York: Wiley, 2008).
Burckhardt, Titus. Art of Islam: language and meaning. Commemorative edition (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009).
Esposito, John and Mogahed, Dalia. Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think (New York: Gallup Press, 2007).
Hallaq, Wael B. Islamic Legal Theories: an introduction to Sunni usul al-fiqh. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
al-Hanbali, Ibn Rajab. The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom (London: Turath Publishing, 1428/2007).
Helminski, Camille Adams. Women of Sufism: a Hidden Treasure (Boston: Shambala, 2003).
Izetbegovic, Alija. Islam between East and West (Indianapolis: American Trust Publications, 1984).
al-Jawziyya, Ibn Qayyim. The Invocation of God: al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al- Tayyib. Tr. Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and Moulay Youssef Slitine (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2000).
Kamali, Mohammed Hashim. The Dignity of Man: An Islamic Perspective (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 2002).
Legenhausen, Muhammad. Islam and Religious Pluralism (London: Al-Hoda, 1999).
Lumbard, Joseph E.B. ed. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition (Bloomington IN: World Wisdom, 2004).
Mahmutcehagic, Rusmir. The Mosque: the heart of submission (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2007).
Momen, M. An Introduction to Shii Islam (London: George Ronald, 1999).
Roald, Anne Sofie. Women in Islam: the Western experience (London: Routledge, 2001).
Sheikh, Aziz and Gatrad, Abdul Rashid. eds. Caring for Muslim Patients. Second edition (Abingdon: Radcliffe, 2008).
Siddiqi, Muhammad Zubayr. Hadith Literature: its origin, development and special features (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1993).
Tura, M. Nusret. The Path of Love (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
Winter, Timothy. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Yaran, Cafer S. Understanding Islam (Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2007).
Açar, Halil Rahman. Is Scientific Knowledge Rational? (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
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Akhtar, Shabbir. The Quran and the Secular Mind: A Philosophy of Islam (London: Routledge, 2007).
Bakar, Osman. Classification of Knowledge in Islam (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1998)
Hacinebioglu, Ismail Latif. Does God Exist? Logical foundations of the cosmological argument (Istanbul: Insan, 2008).
Iskenderoglu, Muammer. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi and Thomas Aquinas on the Question of the Eternity of the World (Leiden: E.J.W. Brill, 2002).
Jackson, Sherman A. On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Faysal al-Tafriqa (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Kamali, Muhammad Hashim. Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1997).
Koshul, Basit Bilal and Kepnes, Steven, eds. Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter: Studying the 'Other', Understanding the 'Self' (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
al-Misri, Ibn Naqib. Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law. Trans. Nuh Keller (Beltsville: Amana, 1993).
Murad, Abdal Hakim. Bombing without Moonlight: the Origins of Suicidal Terrorism (Bristol: Amal Press, 2008).
Murata, Sachiko. The Tao of Islam: a sourcebook on gender relationships in Islamic thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein and Leaman, Oliver, eds. History of Islamic Philosophy (New edition. London: Routledge, 2001).
al-Said, Labib. The Recited Koran: a history of the first recorded version (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1975).
Sentürk, Recep. Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
al-Shafi'i. Al-Shafi'i's Risala: Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic Jurisprudence, tr. Majid Khadduri (Repr. Cambridge: Islamic Texts Society, 1987).
Shihadeh, Ayman, ed. Sufism and Theology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007).
Shihadeh, Ayman. The Teleological Ethics of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Leiden: E.J.W. Brill, 2006).
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Assalamu alaikum. Thanks for this post; this list will be very beneficial In Sha Allah. If there are any books written after 2009 that the Shaykh recommends, please let us know. Jazakallah Khairan
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [2018] Review – A Poignant and Hilarious Jaunt through the Old West
by Arun Kumar
Like the works of many independent film-makers, the films of Coen brothers (Ethan & Joel) are an acquired taste and its reception on few occasions are something of a mixed bag. In fact, the brothers' last film Hail Caesar! (2016), a screwball comedy set in Old Hollywood, although received critical acclaim left lot of viewers cold. Now with the digitally shot and Netflix-distributed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) the Coen brothers offer an interesting conceit: a feature-length portmanteau of the Western genre. The project was initially pitched as a six-part limited series, but then the half-dozen episodes were shortened and jam together to make up a single feature. Nevertheless, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs doesn't wholly come across as a bagful of half-baked ideas. Furthermore, it deftly touches upon the film-makers' existentialist themes with much verve, black humor, and aesthetic inventiveness.
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The film is only the second Coen brothers' feature to be set in the Old-West (after 2010's True Grit), keeping intact the old-school Hollywood film-makers' (like John Ford, Howard Hawks) vision of American frontier – lone gunman, disorderly saloons, fearful coach rides, and magnificent scenery – but also persistently glimpses into some of the darker reality of the setting. The film opens with the image of a tattered, green-colored, hardback book, suggesting that the six tales we are about to watch are plucked out from an old volume of frontier literature. Four out of six tales however, are original stories of Coens while two others are inspired by stories of Jack London and Stewart Edward White. In the opening eponymous tale, Buster Scruggs (slickly played by Tim Blake Nelson), a cowboy cloaked in a clean white attire, atop a white horse, rides through Monument Valley singing a cheery melody. He breaks the fourth wall and addresses us: "Out here in the West the distances are great and the scenery monotonous."
Buster Scruggs holds up a 'Wanted' poster and without shedding off his mile-wide smile brags about being the best marksman in the frontier. Being the fastest gun around, Buster Scruggs leaves a trail of bodies, the result of pointless shootouts. The episode culminates with a strangely comical ending as Scruggs ascends to a different world, the same beatific smile bedecking his face, after being challenged to shootout by a young sharpshooting hotshot. At the end of the episode, there's a shot of book's page being turned, the fleeting glimpse at the diction even though doesn't seem as delightfully abrupt as the visuals. In the next tale, James Franco plays a bank robber who attempts to hold up a remote bank branch, but only confronts the tough defensive mechanism cooked (which includes an armor suit of pans) up by the bank's lone employee (Stephen Root).
In 'Meal Ticket', Liam Neeson plays a rusty traveling impresario whose shows' sole attraction features a limbless man (Harry Melling). The unfortunate young man advertised as the 'Wingless Thrush' recites everything from Shelley, Shakespeare to Bible verses and Lincoln's Gettysburg address with startling clarity and exquisiteness. However, the act becomes less popular as the duo move from one outpost to another. The rough audiences doesn't spare a change for listening to the eloquent speeches. There does seem to be some warmth in the relationship between the showman and artist, although they don't talk much. But considering the abrasive nature of Old West, money issues easily triumphs over warm human connection. In the next episode, Tom Waits plays an old gravelly-voiced prospector, who invades a pristine, edenesque landscape to stake his claim on gold mining. While the first two tales were bit of a goofy fun, the third one was profoundly sad. With 'All Gold Canyon', Coen brothers' offers a sedate tale of adventure.
The fifth episode 'The Girl Who got Rattled' features wagon trail romance as Zoe Kazan plays Alice Longabaugh, a shy maiden with money troubles. Few days into the wagon-train journey, Ms. Longabaugh loses her only living relative: her unwise elder brother. The affable wagon-trail leader Mr. Knapp (Bill Heck) attempts to help the maiden, but unfortunate circumstances piles up throughout the journey. In the last episode, Brendan Gleeson and Jonjo O'Neill play a pair of exuberant bounty hunters traveling in a stagecoach on an eerie night. Accompanying them in the coach ride are trio of mismatched people – weary old fur trapper (Chelcie Ross), a French gambler (Saul Rubinek), and a self-righteous Bible-thumping woman (Tyne Daly). They philosophize and squabble a lot over their viewpoints of human life. Despite razor-sharp wit, eye-popping visuals (of the mansion), and eerie atmosphere, this episode comes across as the least interesting of the six.
As far as anthology feature-films go, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs isn't extremely uneven and is constantly upheld by the brothers' stupendous aesthetic sense. In their second collaboration with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel (after 'Inside Llewyn Davis'), Coen brothers brilliantly render the details of 19th American frontier with exquisite care. Bruno Delbonnel not only offers colorful snapshots of the country's past, but also adds to the narrative's emotional depth; for example, the shot of limbless thespian catching snowflakes on his tongue or the image of old prospector cheerily stumbling across his gold treasure. Although there's not a theme or character that loosely interlinks these episodes, the brothers' penchant for pitch-black humor flows throughout. As always the film-makers' cheekily inflicts cruelty on their characters. In spite of compassion and sunny optimism, people die in an endlessly comical and sad manner as the violence that pervaded Wild West often targets innocent by-standers.
The Coen brothers' view of frontier isn't entirely a reconstruction, but simply offers a de-glamorized perspective. The narrative, however, at times strictly attunes to pulpy, fire-side-tales depiction of West with Native Americans captured as 'savages'. Hence this glimpse into darker reality of the West eschews certain vital historical truths (though this may not be deliberate as the film-makers have repeatedly focused on existential rather than historical or political dimensions of a setting).
Anthology films unmistakably incite our temptation to rank the stories. In this case, my most favorite is the wagon-train tale. It's the longest and most powerful of the stories, which skillfully rearranges the ideas of romance and heroism in the Old West. All of these tales observe how the efforts taken to survive another day in the harsh atmosphere keep the individuals detached and emotionless. In 'The Girl Who Got Rattled' those codes of human exchange or lack thereof seems to gradually relax, up until the grim reality erupts with full force. This episode also largely eschews the brothers' trademark macabre humor and solemnly depicts the tentative relationship between Alice and Billy (aided by terrific, low-key performances from both Kazan and Heck). Therefore, the cruel trick dealt by life at the tale's denouement brings upon profound sadness. Tom Waits' gold-seeking curmudgeon and the lamentable downfall of 'the Wingless Thrush' are my next favorite episodes. Moreover, these three seems to be evenly written and staged, unlike the feel of watching a darkly funny yet under-cooked vignette picked off from a larger tale, which the other three tales gives off.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (132 minutes) elegantly puts us through remarkable variety of moods with its six lyrical tales chronicling woeful human existence in the American Frontier. Not a masterpiece like No Country for Old Men or The Big Lebowski, but still a fascinating addition to the maverick film-making brothers' enchanting oeuvre.
★★★½
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Q: My sister has an upcoming marriage in our Catholic Church in the USA. She is divorced for about 8 years now from her civil marriage. She did not tell her priest she was civilly married because she did not think it mattered since in the Church's eyes a civil marriage is invalid (or so we read).
It obviously is too late to cancel her upcoming nuptials since we are a month away, can she get married and tell the priest about her prior marriage after the wedding and go through the annulment process then. There is no way she can get an annulment in a month and right now her focus is seeing that her wedding day goes through smoothly.
Can annulments be done after one's second marriage? Will she have to let the priest know since he will be sending out her marriage license? Will they now have to get remarried after the annulment comes through so the church considers her marriage valid? –Laura
A: Every so often a question arrives that would make the angels weep, and this is one of them. Let's take this situation apart and examine each piece of this incredible situation, before drawing conclusions.
Laura's sister is Catholic, was previously married in a civil ceremony, and is now divorced. As regular readers are well aware, Catholics are required to marry in a Catholic wedding ceremony, in accord with canonical form (c. 1108); and if they marry in a non-Catholic ceremony without first having obtained a dispensation from canonical form, the marriage is considered invalid in the eyes of the Church (as discussed in "Can a Catholic Ever Get Married in a Non-Catholic Church?" among many others). It would appear that Laura's sister did not obtain a dispensation in advance, and for that reason, the Church would not consider her marriage to have been valid.
But as we saw in "Why Would I Need an Annulment, Since My Civil Marriage Was Obviously Invalid?" Catholics can't just decide for themselves about the validity (or not) of their marriages. Canon 1060 tells us that marriage enjoys the favor of the law—which means that when in doubt, the validity of a marriage must be upheld until the contrary is proven. In other words, unless and until the Church declares that a marriage was null, we are to assume that it is valid. It is the purview of ecclesiastical authorities to make this sort of declaration in an official way, even if it is perfectly obvious to everybody that someone's marriage couldn't possibly be valid.
This is why the parish priest asked Laura's sister if she had ever been married before, even if only civilly. Catholic priests routinely ask this question of prospective spouses who seek to marry in a Catholic ceremony, and we see what Laura's sister did: she lied. Laura can try to sugar-coat her sister's action if she likes ("she did not think it mattered since in the Church's eyes a civil marriage is invalid"); but if she didn't think it mattered, then why didn't she simply tell the truth?
So right away, we can see that the priest who is planning to celebrate the wedding of Laura's sister has absolutely no idea what he is really dealing with! He naturally believes that the bride-to-be is able to marry validly in the Church, because he was deliberately provided with false information. If Laura's sister continues to maintain this fraud, and goes through the wedding ceremony, it will be invalid—and she knows this. If she didn't, why would Laura even be asking this question?
Let's pause and think for a moment about what this means. Laura's sister is planning to exchange vows invalidly with her fiancé—who might be completely in the dark about all this!—and celebrate what she is well aware is an invalid sacrament. In so doing she is not only perpetrating a fraud on everyone present at the non-wedding (possibly including the fiancé, as just mentioned), but she is also deliberately mocking God. Note that if the ceremony takes place within the context of a Mass, Laura's sister will presumably also be receiving Holy Communion during this invalid celebration, which will be an additional sacrilege. After the non-wedding takes place, Laura's sister will then live as husband and wife with a man who she knows full well is not her husband at all.
And she is planning to do all of this, because "right now her focus is seeing that her wedding day [sic] goes through smoothly."
We can see how much these two women think of the mind-numbing outrage the bride-to-be intends to perpetrate: she wants to tell the priest later that "oh, by the way," she was really married before and so her Catholic wedding was invalid, and she now wants the Church to give her an annulment and fix her second, invalid wedding in the Church. Both Laura and her sister apparently take it for granted that the Church will readily acquiesce, and give her what she wants, when she wants it—because she wants it.
But here's the greatest irony: if Laura's sister were to tell the parish priest the truth before the wedding ceremony, it's very possible that he himself could declare her first marriage to be null for lack of canonical form right away, without even taking the case to the diocesan marriage tribunal. As we saw in "Why Can a Parish Priest Annul This Marriage?" many bishops permit their parish priests to handle lack-of-form marriage cases themselves, and it generally takes only a few minutes. In other words, Laura is absolutely wrong that "there is no way she can get an annulment in a month"—and if her sister had told the truth from the beginning, this presumably would have already been taken care of long ago.
If Laura's sister fails to tell the parish priest about this in advance, and willfully celebrates a sham wedding, try to imagine (if you can!) how the parish priest will react when he finds out what really happened. Some of his indignation will probably be personal, since of course nobody likes to be deceived—but some of it will be due to the grave moral evil that Laura's sister has committed before God Himself. As Saint Paul put it, "Make no mistake: God is not mocked" (Gal. 6:7).
It's impossible to predict with certainty how the parish priest and the diocesan marriage tribunal will react to this hoax; but it's pretty safe to say that things will not proceed as effortlessly as Laura and her sister seem to assume. That's because it's painfully obvious that Laura's sister doesn't think much of either the Church's moral teachings (like telling the truth) or the integrity of its sacraments. As we saw in "Why Can't He Get Married in the Church, If He's Got an Annulment?" the Church can, when appropriate, acknowledge that a person's prior marriage was in fact null—but if there is no reason to believe that the problem which led to that nullity will be rectified in the future, it can prevent one or both ex-spouses from marrying again in the Church. This is known as a vetitum (cf. c. 1682).
It could conceivably happen that the parish priest and/or the diocesan marriage tribunal will conclude that the main reason why Laura's sister married invalidly in a civil ceremony years ago involved her failure to appreciate the serious spiritual ramifications of marrying in the Catholic Church. If that's the case, it seems fairly obvious that she doesn't take the Catholic sacrament of matrimony any more seriously now! So while we can't know for certain how this would play out, it's not unreasonable to conjecture that Laura's sister might find herself on the receiving end of a vetitum; and the burden will then be on her to convince the Church somehow that her mindset has changed, and she is now more mature and serious enough to marry validly in a Catholic ceremony. Sadly, all this could easily be avoided, if Laura's sister would simply own up to the truth and have an honest discussion about the real facts with the pastor of her parish before her wedding day.
While we're on the subject of last-minute revelations before a wedding, it's worth mentioning that the Code of Canon Law does include a provision for pastors who discover an impediment only when everything has already been prepared for the ceremony (known as omnia parata cases, c.1080.1). The canon does not apply in the case of Laura's sister, since it applies only to those impediments for which it is theoretically possible to receive a dispensation (see "Marriage Between a Catholic and a Non-Catholic" and "When Can You Get a Dispensation, and Who Can Grant It?" for more on what a dispensation is and how it works). A couple of fictitious examples should serve to clarify how this canon can apply.
Let's imagine that Margaret and Sam have been engaged for well over a year, and their wedding is scheduled for next Saturday. They diligently cooperated with their parish priest in all the required preparation and investigation, and the priest determined that they are free to get married in the Church. But let's say that a distant relative finds out about the wedding, and comes forward with evidence that Margaret and Sam are actually first cousins! The couple honestly never knew this before, because Sam's father died when he was a baby and nobody was ever really sure of his family background.
As we saw in "Can Cousins Marry in the Church?" an impediment exists to Margaret and Sam's marriage, since they are related within the fourth degree of the collateral line (c. 1091.2). But the Church holds that this impediment can be dispensed, to permit the marriage to take place.
Ordinarily, it is necessary for the parish priest in such cases to approach the diocesan bishop and request that a dispensation be granted—but Margaret and Sam's bishop is currently in another country undergoing medical treatment, and there is no way to contact him before the wedding. In this situation, the parish priest himself could grant the dispensation, and inform the bishop as soon as possible (cf. c. 1081). The wedding can then take place in church without any problem.
But by way of contrast, here's a different scenario. Let's pretend that Brenda and David are planning to get married next month in their parish church, and they have gone through all the necessary marriage preparation in advance. The pastor of their parish determined that nothing stands in the way of their marriage in church. Out of the blue, however, one of the invited guests contacts the priest to say that David already has a wife and three children living on the other side of the globe, and he abandoned them years ago when he moved to his current home. For unknown reasons, this marriage was never reported to the parish where David had been baptized, and so it isn't noted on his baptismal certificate (see "Canon Law and Marriage Records" for more on this scenario, which unfortunately happens far too often). It turns out that David has been lying to both Brenda and the parish priest from day #1 about his marital status.
Everything is already prepared for Brenda and David's wedding. Can the parish priest grant them a dispensation from the impediment of prior bond in David's case (cf. c. 1085)? Absolutely not. The Catholic Church teaches that if you are validly married to one spouse, you cannot validly marry again while the first spouse is living. Only if the Church determines that the first marriage was invalid for some reason, can you marry someone else in the Church. The validity of David's first marriage would have to be adjudicated by the diocesan marriage tribunal, and he would be free to marry Brenda (assuming she still wants to marry him!) only if and when his first marriage is found to be null. Put differently, there is no way to "dispense" anyone from this impediment, because the Church holds that it is a matter of divine law.
This second, imaginary case is canonically similar to the situation of Laura's sister, and for that reason canon 1080.1 does not apply. But as already discussed above, the fact that her first marriage involved a complete lack of canonical form means it is probably very easy to get it annulled right away.
We can see here that the Catholic Church bends over backwards in order to help the faithful celebrate the sacraments validly, so long as it can do this without jettisoning fundamental Catholic teachings. But despite the Church's willingness to help, there are Catholics out there who can't be bothered to cooperate, and are perfectly amenable to offering grave offense to God by treating the sacraments He graciously gave us as nothing more than a game. Let's all pray for Laura, her sister, and the rest of the family, that they may realize that they are playing with fire—and make the effort to rectify this sad situation before it's too late.
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	"github.com/docker/docker/client"
	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/stdcopy"
	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/stringid"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

type logsOptions struct {
	noResolve  bool
	noTrunc    bool
	noTaskIDs  bool
	follow     bool
	since      string
	timestamps bool
	tail       string

	service string
}

func newLogsCommand(dockerCli *command.DockerCli) *cobra.Command {
	var opts logsOptions

	cmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:   "logs [OPTIONS] SERVICE",
		Short: "Fetch the logs of a service",
		Args:  cli.ExactArgs(1),
		RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
			opts.service = args[0]
			return runLogs(dockerCli, &opts)
		},
		Tags: map[string]string{"experimental": ""},
	}

	flags := cmd.Flags()
	flags.BoolVar(&opts.noResolve, "no-resolve", false, "Do not map IDs to Names")
	flags.BoolVar(&opts.noTrunc, "no-trunc", false, "Do not truncate output")
	flags.BoolVar(&opts.noTaskIDs, "no-task-ids", false, "Do not include task IDs")
	flags.BoolVarP(&opts.follow, "follow", "f", false, "Follow log output")
	flags.StringVar(&opts.since, "since", "", "Show logs since timestamp (e.g. 2013-01-02T13:23:37) or relative (e.g. 42m for 42 minutes)")
	flags.BoolVarP(&opts.timestamps, "timestamps", "t", false, "Show timestamps")
	flags.StringVar(&opts.tail, "tail", "all", "Number of lines to show from the end of the logs")
	return cmd
}

func runLogs(dockerCli *command.DockerCli, opts *logsOptions) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	options := types.ContainerLogsOptions{
		ShowStdout: true,
		ShowStderr: true,
		Since:      opts.since,
		Timestamps: opts.timestamps,
		Follow:     opts.follow,
		Tail:       opts.tail,
	}

	client := dockerCli.Client()

	service, _, err := client.ServiceInspectWithRaw(ctx, opts.service)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	responseBody, err := client.ServiceLogs(ctx, opts.service, options)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer responseBody.Close()

	var replicas uint64
	padding := 1
	if service.Spec.Mode.Replicated != nil && service.Spec.Mode.Replicated.Replicas != nil {
		// if replicas are initialized, figure out if we need to pad them
		replicas = *service.Spec.Mode.Replicated.Replicas
		padding = len(strconv.FormatUint(replicas, 10))
	}

	taskFormatter := newTaskFormatter(client, opts, padding)

	stdout := &logWriter{ctx: ctx, opts: opts, f: taskFormatter, w: dockerCli.Out()}
	stderr := &logWriter{ctx: ctx, opts: opts, f: taskFormatter, w: dockerCli.Err()}

	// TODO(aluzzardi): Do an io.Copy for services with TTY enabled.
	_, err = stdcopy.StdCopy(stdout, stderr, responseBody)
	return err
}

type taskFormatter struct {
	client  client.APIClient
	opts    *logsOptions
	padding int

	r     *idresolver.IDResolver
	cache map[logContext]string
}

func newTaskFormatter(client client.APIClient, opts *logsOptions, padding int) *taskFormatter {
	return &taskFormatter{
		client:  client,
		opts:    opts,
		padding: padding,
		r:       idresolver.New(client, opts.noResolve),
		cache:   make(map[logContext]string),
	}
}

func (f *taskFormatter) format(ctx context.Context, logCtx logContext) (string, error) {
	if cached, ok := f.cache[logCtx]; ok {
		return cached, nil
	}

	nodeName, err := f.r.Resolve(ctx, swarm.Node{}, logCtx.nodeID)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	serviceName, err := f.r.Resolve(ctx, swarm.Service{}, logCtx.serviceID)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	task, _, err := f.client.TaskInspectWithRaw(ctx, logCtx.taskID)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	taskName := fmt.Sprintf("%s.%d", serviceName, task.Slot)
	if !f.opts.noTaskIDs {
		if f.opts.noTrunc {
			taskName += fmt.Sprintf(".%s", task.ID)
		} else {
			taskName += fmt.Sprintf(".%s", stringid.TruncateID(task.ID))
		}
	}
	padding := strings.Repeat(" ", f.padding-len(strconv.FormatInt(int64(task.Slot), 10)))
	formatted := fmt.Sprintf("%s@%s%s", taskName, nodeName, padding)
	f.cache[logCtx] = formatted
	return formatted, nil
}

type logWriter struct {
	ctx  context.Context
	opts *logsOptions
	f    *taskFormatter
	w    io.Writer
}

func (lw *logWriter) Write(buf []byte) (int, error) {
	contextIndex := 0
	numParts := 2
	if lw.opts.timestamps {
		contextIndex++
		numParts++
	}

	parts := bytes.SplitN(buf, []byte(" "), numParts)
	if len(parts) != numParts {
		return 0, errors.Errorf("invalid context in log message: %v", string(buf))
	}

	logCtx, err := lw.parseContext(string(parts[contextIndex]))
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}

	output := []byte{}
	for i, part := range parts {
		// First part doesn't get space separation.
		if i > 0 {
			output = append(output, []byte(" ")...)
		}

		if i == contextIndex {
			formatted, err := lw.f.format(lw.ctx, logCtx)
			if err != nil {
				return 0, err
			}
			output = append(output, []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%s    |", formatted))...)
		} else {
			output = append(output, part...)
		}
	}
	_, err = lw.w.Write(output)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, err
	}

	return len(buf), nil
}

func (lw *logWriter) parseContext(input string) (logContext, error) {
	context := make(map[string]string)

	components := strings.Split(input, ",")
	for _, component := range components {
		parts := strings.SplitN(component, "=", 2)
		if len(parts) != 2 {
			return logContext{}, errors.Errorf("invalid context: %s", input)
		}
		context[parts[0]] = parts[1]
	}

	nodeID, ok := context["com.docker.swarm.node.id"]
	if !ok {
		return logContext{}, errors.Errorf("missing node id in context: %s", input)
	}

	serviceID, ok := context["com.docker.swarm.service.id"]
	if !ok {
		return logContext{}, errors.Errorf("missing service id in context: %s", input)
	}

	taskID, ok := context["com.docker.swarm.task.id"]
	if !ok {
		return logContext{}, errors.Errorf("missing task id in context: %s", input)
	}

	return logContext{
		nodeID:    nodeID,
		serviceID: serviceID,
		taskID:    taskID,
	}, nil
}

type logContext struct {
	nodeID    string
	serviceID string
	taskID    string
}

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Carew fails Inter medical
By Joe Wright
The club have confirmed that they will not be signing the former Aston Villa forward as he would require a lengthy fitness programme before being ready for first-team action
Inter have confirmed that Norwegian striker John Carew will not be joining the club, having failed his medical checks.
Reports first emerged on Tuesday that the former Aston Villa striker was being targeted by the Nerazzurri, before coach Andrea Stramaccioni later confirmed that the player would be given a trial before a decision was made on whether or not to sign him.
However, the 33-year-old has since failed to pass fitness tests and will therefore not be offered a contract with the club.
A statement on Inter's official website on Wednesday afternoon read: "Inter would like to thank Norwegian striker John Carew for the great dedication and professionalism he demonstrated.
"His current athletic condition, however, would require a medium to long period of specific individual work, which is not compatible with the needs of the club."
Inter have been seeking cover for their forward positions ever since Diego Milito was ruled out for the season with a knee injury, and have also been linked with the likes of Angelos Charisteas and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Carew, who has been without a club ever since he left West Ham United last summer, has previously played for Aston Villa, Stoke City, Olympique Lyonnais, Valencia and Rosenborg.
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I heard that you were playing at Smiley's this Tue, Feb 5. However, did not see you on the Smiley's schedule. Are you playing that night?
Hey yes I am playing at 7 pm during the dinner crowd. I am performing just my originals and one Paul Overstreet cover song. I hope to see you there !
I knew you would make it big. Congratulations on your music success. Still remember the pool parties at the Steeple Chase apartments in Hope Mills, NC. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much! FUN TIMES! SORRY for the delayed response didn't see this !Have a great day!
It was such a pleasure to meet you yesterday at The Blockhouse and I look forward to seeing you again!
Awe thanks so much! So great meeting you as well. Sorry for the delayed response, I missed that notification. You are awesome have a great day! I am playing at Smiley's this Tuesday at 7 pm! I hope you can come out!
The day we became friends has blessed and enriched my life in-ways you'll never know. I will always support you and the music that is so close to your heart. I was your cheerleader in the beginning and I will be until your last note and breath on this earth.
Thank you Jerry! That really brightened up my day! I appreciate the support! It's not always easy in this business to have people stand by you! So I appreciate you more than you know! I will keep making music and hope you love it! You rock!
Hey Morgan.... You'll recall me as a member of the George Tate Monday dining gang. Best to you! We are so proud of you!
Of course I could never forget you guys! Thanks so much for the support! Miss y'all!
How Was Your 4,th Of July Holliday Did You Spend It With Family.
It was good I had a show but my family showed up! We got to swim and enjoy fireworks after I performed! ?
Just want to say that I'm praying for you , Cousin, May the Lord grant you that special song that will break you into that great place in country music. My wife and I pray for that song that will launch your career into stardom someday. Keep doing your best and may God answer your every need. Cousin Keith.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the prayers! God has been great! I am super excited about my new music coming soon?✝??❤?????
Happy 4,th Of July Morgan Hope You Enjoy The Holliday And Enjoy The Fireworks.
Thanks so much! Had a great July 4th I hope you did as well??


The leap from classroom learning to real-world practice can be bridged using simulation training, as Mandy Langfield explains.
Time pressure, seriously injured patients and minimal equipment mean that medical crew members onboard air ambulance helicopters have to think fast, adapting to their given mission parameters in seconds. While much can be learnt in a classroom, simulation training is an essential part of ongoing education. Simulation allows participants to practise the non-clinical parts of their jobs in addition to taking care of a patient – so medical procedures, crew communication, situational awareness, and the need for fast decision making under stressful conditions, are all being practised at the same time.
Training courses that provide simulation scenarios are indispensable for air ambulance operators, notes Brad Matheson of US-based Priority1 Air Rescue, as it's difficult in the commercial HEMS world to provide pilots and helicopter medical personnel with the flight-time experience they need to practise all the skills that enable them to perform as an effective aircrew member, such as crew resource management, situational awareness, confined area landings, scene location/searches, landing zone selection and co-ordination and night vision goggle operations.


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CAA 2023 Allows for Telehealth Relief
January 4th, 2023 in Compliance
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA23) was signed into law on December 23, 2022. One of the health provisions contained in the law was the long-anticipated relief on telehealth coverage offered through High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs) that combine with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).
Typically, HSA-qualified HDHPs cannot pay for covered services, except for specified preventive care, until the individual satisfies the plan's deductible. The CARES Act that passed into law in 2020 permitted people who have coverage through a HDHP to receive telehealth care at no cost, regardless of the plan's annual deductible, without impacting their eligibility to contribute to an HSA. This provision was set to expire on December 31, 2022. Now, the CAA23 creates a safe harbor for first-dollar telehealth coverage offered through an HDHP for plan years beginning after December 31, 2022 through December 31, 2024.
Plan sponsors can only begin taking advantage of this new relief once their plan renews after December 31, 2022. This means that groups with plans renewing on January 1, 2023, can offer the relief immediately, whereas groups with plans that renew in a different month of the year will need to wait until the start of their 2023 plan year to begin offering it.
The way the legislation is written, there is a small gap for non-calendar year plans. The new extension applies for plan years beginning after December 31, 2022. For example, an HDHP with a plan year beginning June 1 could not offer telehealth before the deductible for the period from January 1, 2023 through the end of May 2023. Any HDHP that does not have a calendar plan year would have a similar gap between January 1, 2023 and its plan year start.
The telehealth relief is optional for plan sponsors. Group plan sponsors are not required to offer their participants access to telehealth coverage at all, nor do they have to offer it on a first-dollar basis for any type of plan offering, including HDHPs. If a group decides to adopt this relief, they also need to make sure their plan documents are amended accordingly.


A couple of weekends ago I flew up to Reno to visit one of my best friends for her birthday. On my first day there we basically went on a mini road trip through all of the surrounding towns. I was in shock at how 'Little-House-on-the-Prairie' everything seemed (not sure if that's the right reference, but I'm going with it). I can't wait to visit again and explore more unknown hiking trails, drive through more haunted towns (that's another story), and of course, eat my way through ALL of the buffets ha!
It's my favorite time of the year! The Food & Wine Festival has been back at Disney California Adventure for the past month and I was lucky enough to visit on Easter weekend (thank you, Aimee!). Now normally I'm all about the food, but on this particular trip I'd have to say that my favorite highlight was seeing Black Panther's entrance into the park (Wakanda Forever!). The Dora Milaje came out first and their overall demeanor was just so fierce and amazing. One of them stared right at me while I was taking photos and I kind of freaked out haha.
PS If you're interested in going to the Food & Wine Festival, it's running until April 12th which is this Thursday, so hurry and go!


Here's a recap of our Christmas this year (better late than never, right?).
I have to say: Christmas with a 5 year old is a LOT of fun. Iyla was over-the-top excited about every.single.thing this year, and it was so awesome to experience the magic of the season through her eyes.
We kicked everything off December 1st with the arrival of our Elf on the Shelf. We'd never done this American "tradition" before, but I have to say it was a big hit!
Basically the Elf arrives as a scout from the North Pole and watches it's family's children throughout December to make sure they are on their best behavior.
Hello golden BLACKMAIL tool! Ha.
We used that to our full advantage, often telling Iyla at bedtime that Elfie (her name for him) was watching to see if she went to bed quietly. Each night Elfie would 'fly' to the North Pole to report to Santa, then be back in a new position and location the next morning for Iyla to discover. It was a lot of fun (and a good challenge to BC's and my aging minds to REMEMBER to move that dang thing every night)!
I also got Iyla a chocolate Advent calendar to count down the days to Christmas, and that was a big hit as well! This kid LOVES her chocolate.
We were gifted on December 7th with SNOW in Austin, which is a rarity- and hasn't been seen here in 4 years! Iyla was on Cloud 9, and the following morning the girls and I ventured out to explore. Their favorite part hands down was EATING the snow (luckily it was mostly fresh!). Iyla lamented that there wasn't enough snow for a snowman or snow angels, so we promised that some day we'd take her to a REAL winter.
We took our annual trip to the Driskill Hotel to meet Santa, and Iyla was SO EXCITED! It took about an hour to get our turn with the big guy, and Eloise was losing steam quickly. When it was finally time, there was NO WAY she was going to sit on his lap without me there- so I ended up getting in the official photos with the girls. Iyla requested a stuffed tiger family, and Eloise just stared at him.
And of course we had to take some shots with the gorgeous Driskill tree!
Sweet sick buddy watching videos. Even sick this kid has style with her sparkly star pants and jewels!
Iyla LOVES going to her Mimi and Grampy's house, where there are always new toys to play with and 4 cats to torture love on.
The next morning Eloise awoke with a fever, which would continue for 3 days and end up with a case of Croup. Merry Christmas?
Then it was then time for presents!
Happy (belated) Holidays, dear readers!


Have you been to Salem First Trunk or Treat? Then share photos of your experience!
Join us for a fun night of Trunk-Or-Treating in the Salem First parking lot. We cannot wait to see all the fun themes that people use to decorate their vehicles, and you will not want to miss it! If the night gets wet, we will be inside in our New Gym.


Overview. Dr. Kenneth J Tourgeman, MD, is a Nephrology specialist in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. He attended and graduated from medical school in 1999, having over 20 years of diverse experience, especially in Nephrology.


This zine is a collaboration between myself and Rachel Garner, educator and animal science writer (whyanimalsdothething.com), who contributed captions.
The animals were drawn from life at the Toronto Zoo, and later digitized into risograph files.
It ended up as a 40 page zine, risograph printed with 4 inks (black, yellow, blue, red) on ivory vellum paper.


There's an abundance of applications you can buy to edit your photos. Adobe's Photoshop is at the top of the heap.
But if you don't have the time to learn or the money to spend on Photoshop or any of the other fine photo-manipulative products out there, there's a Web site that lets you do a variety of those photo-enhancing manipulations. And right now, picnik.com is completely free.
Picnik.com uses a Web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer to do its thing. You just log onto the picnik Web site and begin. When I surfed on over, I began by clicking on the "Upload Photo" button. A dialog box appeared on my computer, and I selected one of the photos I had on my computer's hard drive. Picnik.com uploaded the image to the picnik Web site, and I was presented with an editing screen that displayed my photo.
A series of tabs above the image let me select from a variety of features. The Edit tab offers abilities like Rotate, Crop, Resize, Exposure, Colors, Sharpen and Red-Eye. All of these abilities are fairly self-explanatory but picnik.com let me easily experiment without the worry of corrupting my original photo, which was safely stored on my computer.
Clicking on the Exposure button for example brought up two sliders: one for Brightness and the other for Contrast. As with everything on picnik.com, sliding either of them instantly reflects the changes to the image. An Auto-fix feature lets picnik.com do the adjustments for you. In fact, there's an Auto-fix for Colors as well as a master Auto-fix that does a good job of making your original photo look its very best.
With every adjustment is an Undo and Redo button as well. In no way, shape or form are you burning any bridges here. Besides, you still have your original photo safely on your computer. Everything you are doing on picnik.com is with a copy you uploaded to the Web site.
The Creative Tools tab offers additional special effects like converting the photo to black and white. Others are Sepia, Boost, Soften, Border, Tint and many more.
The last tab is Save & Share. This lets you take your adjusted photo, define its size and file type (jpeg, TIFF, etc.) and save it back onto your computer's hard drive. Other options let you save the photo to Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, e-mail it or send it directly to your computer's printer.
The Web site says picnik is currently in public beta, so all of its special features are available free. After the beta is over, many of the features will remain as a free service. Others will become part of their extra service, which may have some kind of charge. And by the way, picnik.com truly understands the concept of the Internet being platform-independent as all of this works on computers running Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
In the meantime, if you have photographs you've taken with your digital camera, scanned in or already have on your computer, picnik.com is a cool way to enhance them without having to buy more software.
Craig Crossman is a national newspaper columnist and host of the radio talk show Computer America.


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Home / Daily ETF Watch / 'NERD' ETF Debuts
'NERD' ETF Debuts
Today ETF newcomer Roundhill Investments, a registered investment advisor focused on creating financial products for the next generation of investors, launched the market's second fund to target the esports space. The Roundhill BITKRAFT Esports & Digital Entertainment ETF (NERD) covers video game developers, platforms, and event and league operators, among other corners of the online gaming space.
NERD comes with an expense ratio of 0.25% after a 0.25% waiver set to last through June 30, 2020. It lists on the NYSE Arca.
"Over the past few years, the gaming landscape has evolved," said Roundhill CEO Will Hershey in a press release, quoting data from Newzoo. "Technological advances in streaming have transformed video games into spectator sports, with more than 450 million viewers worldwide." He also notes that $4.5 billion was invested in esports last year.
"My favorite statistic is that, in 2017, more people watched gaming and esports than HBO, Netflix, Hulu and ESPN combined," Hershey added. He says his firm defines esports as "competitive gaming in front of a viewing audience." That definition can encompass watching a favorite competitor on your home computer as well as attending a championship game at a stadium.
According to the fund prospectus, the underlying index can include companies that are video game developers or publishers; operate video game streaming platforms; organize video game tournaments and related events; operate or own video game teams; provide gaming hardware and technology; and those involved in other aspects of the digital entertainment industry. Companies are classified as pure play, core or noncore.
Eligible companies are scored on how involved they are in the digital entertainment space based on keyword searches of regulatory filings, analyst reports and other publicly available sources.
The highest-scoring companies are classified as pure plays, while the lowest scoring companies are excluded from the index. The number of pure-play companies generally determines the total number of components in the index, with 25 companies set as the minimum, the document says.
According to Hershey, companies' scores also influence their weightings, with the pure-play stocks weighted at 1.5X the core stocks, which are weighted at 1.5X the noncore stocks.
There's a heavy influence of non-U.S. stocks in the ETF, as online gaming as a spectator sport really first found its foothold in Asia, and is only just getting stated in the U.S. Hershey notes, "Much like traditional sports, the games that are popular here are different from the ones that are popular in the EU, and are different from the ones that are popular in Asia."
Last year, VanEck launched its own esports ETF, the VanEck Vectors Video Gaming and eSports ETF (ESPO). The fund comes with an expense ratio of 0.55% and currently has nearly $24 million in assets under management.
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The tech sector is on track for its best return in 10 years, trouncing the performance of all other sectors.


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Q: How to order fill variable in a particular way I am creating a dot plot using ggplot2 something like this:
ggplot(data=GraphData, aes(x = VisitXC, y = DoseNormConc, fill = Study)) +
  geom_dotplot(binaxis = 'y', stackdir = 'up', dotsize = 4,
               position = "dodge", binwidth=5) +
  scale_fill_manual(values = c("blue", "red","green", "purple", "orange"))

I am currently stuck in two things:

*

*How to order the Study in a particular order as currently it is displaying in alphabetical order, and I need to display the dots in a specific Study order

*I was able to display N on top of each dotpot using the following
Code:
geom_text(data = GraphData,
          aes(x = factor(VisitXC), y = 1200, label = paste0("N=", NSub), color = color),
          position = position_dodge(width = 1), show.legend = F)

but the color of each N=XX on top of the dots are not consistent with the colors I have chosen to display.

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Таємна рада Англії (, ) — державний орган, який консультував суверена Англійського королівства. Його членами були високопосадовці Палати лордів і Палати громад, а також провідні церковні діячі, судді, дипломати, воєначальники.

Таємна рада була могутньою установою. Відала питаннями здійснення королівських прерогатив і надання королівських хартій, видавала спеціальні розпорядження, виконувала судові функції.

Примітки

Королівство Англія

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Not Your Mom's Playlist
"Dude, your mom has the best playlist!" – Wellesley College Student
History of NYMP
Tag: rising artist
Pop Music, Rising Artist, Singer/Songwriter
Song of the Day – "San Francisco" by Courier (feat. Sidney Rudder & Josh Gabbard)
Three guesses where I am today? 😉
This is a song and an artist that are new to me and I really like both. This song is catchy, with a cool beat and great lyrics. Courier is the musical name of Nashville singer-songwriter, Blake Mundell. In early 2017, Courier released his LP, The Present Tense. It was a concept album with all of the songs written about the lives of his 13 closest friends. He says that his musical influences include Mat Kearney and Paul Simon … no wonder I like him. In a blog post he wrote at the end of 2016, he said the following about the album,
"In a year that felt lonely and isolating at times, I hope that this record helps remind us how vital community is."
Would love to hear your thoughts about the song today. I am surprised that this is the first I have heard of this musician, but I plan to keep my eye out on this rising artist.
November 4, 2017 Blake Mundell, Courier, Nashville artist, rising artist, San Francisco, Singer-songwriter, songs about friends, songs about San Francisco, The Present TenseLeave a comment
Alternative, Rising Artist, UK Artists
"Worry" by Jack Garratt
I just got home from visiting my son in South Carolina for a few days for his 16th birthday. It was awesome to get to spend time with him! I have been trying to decide if I came home less worried or more worried about him. Haha!
It is such a strange feeling to go visit your teenage boy in his "apartment" and say "yep, that is how I would keep my space." Yikes! Teenage boys are messy. He keeps reminding me that his apartment was one of only two that passed house inspections … so I should be pleased. Hmm …
Anyway, he is doing incredibly well at his new school and loves it. He is happy, settled, social, and motivated! As much as I miss him, this makes me very happy. I am very proud of him, even if I do worry about him and miss him every day.
The alligators down there also worry me! 🙂
I have been wanting to post this cool new song and I thought the title was just perfect today. Jack Garratt is a young artist from London, England who just released his first EP, Remnants, a few months ago. His music is very unique and is difficult to box into a genre. He has an incredible amount of soul and emotion in his music. It is an interesting song to add to my playlist, but I think Jack Garratt is extremely talented and creates incredibly interesting music. Listen to the unique beat, rhythm, and lyrics that he uses in his music. I hope that you enjoy this new song by a young, rising artist. I am sure we will hear much more from him in the future.
October 7, 2014 September 29, 2017 England, London, Music, Remnants, rising artist, South Carolina, UK, worryLeave a comment
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SONG OF THE DAY – "LET IT GO" by James Bay
Just a quick note tonight with a song by one of my favorite new artists – James Bay. I have posted a song by him before ("Need The Sun to Break" back on February 3, 2014 where I give more background on the artist) and love his music. This is an incredible song and James Bay makes amazing music. I love a guy with nothing but his guitar and a voice that expresses vulnerability, depth, and passion. I could listen to this song over and over again … which, to be truthful, I often do. It has become one of my favorite songs.
The song is from his new EP, Let It Go, which was released this summer. This is his third EP and I can only imagine the hype when he releases his first full length album.
James Bay is a young British singer-songwriter from Hitchin, UK who is one of the most awesome acoustic performers I have heard. The lyrics to his songs are honest, emotional, and introspective and the music is incredibly smooth. His performances are raw and unforgettable. He is currently on tour and if you are lucky enough to score a ticket (he is touring with Hozier and the tickets are selling fast!), it would be quite a performance. Just watch this incredible performance below and see if he does not become one of your favorite new artists, too!
Can I also just say, I LOVE his hats – he wears them even better than Pharrell.
September 25, 2014 acoustic performance, British, Hitchin UK, Hozier, James Bay, Let It Go, Music, musician, Need The Sun To Break, rising artist, Singer-songwriter, UK artist, vulnerableLeave a comment
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Mary Jo Eustace (born August 19, 1957) is a Canadian actress, singer and sous-chef best known as co-host of the Canadian cooking TV series What's for Dinner? and, more recently, as the former wife of Dean McDermott.[1]
Eustace was born and raised in Toronto. She attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute and McGill University studying English. She later graduated from George Brown College's culinary program.
Eustace moved to Los Angeles when McDermott went south to develop his acting career. They had two children, Jack Montgomery (born October 1998) and adopted daughter Lola (born July 2005). However, McDermott left Eustace to marry Tori Spelling and quickly became tabloid fodder. Eustace has since returned to Canada with her children and completed the adoption of Lola as a single parent. Eustace wrote about the break-up of her marriage in the book "The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal".
Eustace appeared on What's for Dinner?, one of Life Network's most popular series, with Ken Kostick throughout its run during the late 1990s. Later, she served as a regular on Canada AM. In April 2007, Eustace reunited with Kostick as the original morning hosts of What's for Breakfast on new Toronto radio station PROUD FM, a station licenced to appeal to the city's LGBT community. Mary Jo stepped down from the show in June 2008, and subsequently co-hosted He Said, She Said with Ken and Mary Jo, a cooking show similar to What's for Dinner? on W Network which debuted in July 2008.
In 1994, Eustace recorded a solo musical album entitled Bone & Marrow.
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