Pessoas me perguntam qual o sentido de ouvir música nu, chorar pelado, essas coisas.
Difícil explicar em palavras, é apenas uma necessidade incontrolável de se livrar das vestes pra viver em plenitude os sentimentos.
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A capa da Veja dessa semana não me deixa mentir, convenhamos.
Deitado no chão e nu, releio esse blog impresso em papel reciclado, empapado das mais salgadas lágrimas que esse hemisfério já sentiu banhar sua mata.
as fotos serão exibidas aqui?
Perigo espalhar fotos de Nu na Web. Acho que as fotos serão exibidas no podcast mesmo.
"no quarto, um convite a nudez / e alguém pedia um agasalho com rapidez"
então o público terá que implorar ao arrependa.se@gmail.com pra ver as fotos?
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What was New Zealand's first fully protected native bird?
By: Colin Miskelly
On: 3 Jul 2014
I suspect that this is a question that few people have given much thought to. The answer should be as much a part of our conservation heritage as our first national park (Tongariro, 1887). The national park answer can be found in many conservation reference books and websites, but few authors have attempted to name our first fully protected native bird.
Before 1903, the only legal mechanism used to protect native birds was to add them to the native game list, then to exempt them from hunting. To list a rare native species as 'game' is contrary to modern understanding and sensibilities – but the alternative at the time was year-round slaughter. Native birds were killed for food, sport, feathers, and as desirable specimens for museums and private collectors – and for the latter at least, rarity commanded a higher price.
The huia was one of New Zealand's first fully protected species (in 1892), but this was not enough to save it from extinction. Image: Te Papa
Understanding when a species crossed the threshold from 'protected' (i.e. on the native game list) to fully protected (exempt from hunting year round) requires a bit of sleuthing. Finding additions to the game list is quite straightforward – they were either listed in legislation such as the Protection of Certain Animals Act 1865, or were added to the game schedule via notices published in the New Zealand Gazette. Checking whether birds were protected in each and every hunting district (there were up to 30 such districts in New Zealand) year after year takes more effort. There were 418 game hunting notices published between 1877 and 1903 alone, and not one of them as yet is searchable via the internet.
The March 1885 New Zealand Gazette notice that added white heron and crested grebe to the schedule of native game. Image: Colin Miskelly, Te Papa
The first native birds to be added to the game list in order to protect them from hunting were the white heron and crested grebe in 1885 – and some authors have suggested that they were our first fully protected birds (i.e., protected in 1885). This is incorrect on two counts. Both species were protected at the behest of the Otago Acclimatisation Society, who noted that "they are fast disappearing". But it took a further three years before all acclimatisation districts exempted them from hunting – just in time for the 1888 game season. By this date, one other native bird species had been fully protected for a decade. This was well understood at the time – by politicians, naturalists and hunters – but appears to have been forgotten or overlooked by authors and researchers in the 108 years since most of our native birds were protected in 1906.
White heron and crested grebe – both fully protected nationwide since 1888. Images: Glenda Rees and Craig McKenzie, New Zealand Birds Online
The unlikely answer to the riddle is the tui – now one of our most abundant and widespread native birds (unless you happen to live in Canterbury). The tui was added to the native game list in 1873, when it was listed in the Protection of Animals Act 1873. Five years later, the Wellington Acclimatization Society [yes – they alone spelt it with a 'z'] requested "We should also wish the Tui to be excepted from native game"(in a letter to the Colonial Secretary, 4 March 1878). Not only was the tui exempted from hunting nationwide in the 1878 game season, but the exemption was applied in every acclimatisation district in every year until the tui (along with kiwi, kakapo and many other species) became absolutely protected in 1906.
The tui – New Zealand's first fully protected native bird. Image: Tony Whitehead, New Zealand Birds Online
For more information on the history of protection of New Zealand wildlife, see this recent Te Papa publication:
Miskelly, C.M. 2014. Legal protection of New Zealand's indigenous terrestrial fauna – an historical review. Tuhinga 25: 25–101.
For more quirky information on tui, see New Zealand's favourite bird.
Tagged: crested grebe, huia, kotuku, legal protection, NZ Birds Online, tui, white heron, wildlife
Great research. Thanks Colin 🙂
Some surprises in there.
What ever happened to Rosie the Black Robin? Did she disappear?
🙂 – R.
Rosey D
Thanks very much Rosey
Rosie hatched in late 1983. She was very productive, laying seven clutches during the 1986 & 1987 seasons. Perhaps this wore her out, as she was among the birds that died during the 1988 winter. This is a fairly typical life span for a small forest bird, although Rosie's remarkable grandmother Old Blue lived to be at least 12 years old.
This information is recorded in the book "The black robin; saving the world's most endangered bird" (David Butler & Don Merton 1992).
Colin Miskelly

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UPDATE: Departure time updated to noon.
UPDATE: Departure updated to 1:00 pm now. Hmmm. Might need to grab lunch soon. It's fun watching the enormous snow blowers!
UPDATE: The plane we're supposed to get on has left the airport where it made it's impromptu stop (actually only about 20 minutes away). Looking outside right now though, I really don't see how it can land. It's a bit of a blizzard out there! I think I'll make the executive decision and grab a beer.
Nope, I chickened out. I don't really want to chug a beer if it turns out I have to board quickly. If it gets delayed again, I'll go drink and eat.
Gak!! My leg is asleep! Been sitting on the tile floor too long. Why am I sitting on a tile floor, you ask. I'm charging my computer and the only outlets are not near the chairs. But why am I still sitting on the tile floor…?
It's quarter after one. Plane was supposed to land at ten after one. Shoulda had a beer. You know, there's so many delays today. and I KNOW that all I can do is wait. Worrying about my train ride at the end of the day will get me nothing. I won't be able to pre-pay my phone today. Who knows if I will catch a bus to Vistgården tonight. But what I CAN do right now is relax. Hooray for knitting.
Just tried to put the headphone jack in my ear. Was a little uncomfortable, but mostly hoping that no one saw.
There's a baby standing beside me, watching TEDtalks with me. I hope she doesn't puke on my keyboard.
Ha haaa! Now a 25 minute (or more!) delay on in the plane while we wait for them to clear the runway.
Finally in Oslo now. Found some brown cheese to take home! Getting a reindeer pelt to bring home! Woot!
And the last big question of my journey: Will I make it to the train on time?
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Celebrating a legend on the stage, on the red carpet, and on the street, in all her best outfits.
The five-time Grammy winner first captured our hearts in the '90s with her glittery couture gowns and signature scrunchy curls, but lately, Celine Dion has been stepping out in a more sophisticated yet edgy look on the red carpet and streets. (Dion has famously worked with Zendaya's stylist, Law Roach, for the last year.) Her decades-long fashion evolution has spanned from white pantsuits to floral trench coats and over-sized Vetements sweatshirts. Here, all her best looks.
Outside of the Hotel de Crillon in Paris.
In Yves Saint Laurent while out in Paris.
Shooting a commercial in Paris.
Arriving to Taiwan in a sequined Alberta Ferretti tracksuit.
Outside the Giambattista Valli show during Paris Fashion Week.
Leaving her hotel in Paris.
Wearing a dress from the Gucci pre-fall 2017 collection while out in Paris.
Wearing Ralph & Russo Haute Couture and carrying a Celine bag while out in Paris.
Wearing a Yves Saint Laurent top while out in Paris.
Wearing a Dice Kayek blouse, Celine pants, and Celine Dion collection bag while out in Paris.
Out in Paris, wearing an Ellery suit.
In Dior sunglasses, a Dice Kayek ensemble, a Saint Laurent bag, and Casadei heels while out in Paris.
Out in Stockholm, wearing Filles A Papa's Never Forget sweater, a Mugler skirt, and Christian Louboutin boots.
At the opening night of her Celine Dion Live 2017 tour at Royal Arena in Copenhagen.
Out in Paris, wearing a Roberto Cavalli trench, jacket, and wide-leg flare pants.
Out in Paris, wearing a tuxedo coat from Balmain's pre-fall collection.
Out in Paris, wearing a Gucci dress.
At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, wearing a Stephane Rolland Haute Couture gown in Los Angeles.
At Disney's Beauty and the Beast premiere wearing Christian Siriano gown in Hollywood.
At the Celine Dion Collection First Handbag and Accessory Collection press conference, wearing an Elsa Schiaparelli couture set, in Las Vegas.
At the 59th Grammy awards, wearing a Zuhair Murad gown in Los Angeles.
At the Stayin' Alive: A GRAMMY Salute To The Music Of The Bee Gees in Los Angeles.
Performing a sound check in a custom Off-White embellished denim two-piece.
Out wearing a Titanic sweatshirt by Vetements.
Out in Paris, wearing a white trench coat.
At Dior Haute Couture fall/winter 2016 show in Paris.
At Giambattista Valli fall/winter 2016 show, wearing a Giambattista Valli gown with a pink Roger Vivier bag in Paris.


I use 160gsm for printing out both digi stamps and papers and they work fine.
These are all fab Lesley, but I think this one has to be my favourite!
Sorry Dawn, I can't help but it's nice to see you are still around. I thought you had packed in, have you got rid of the web site?
Topic: Are you knitting atm?
Re: Are you knitting atm?
I'm knitting a baby hoodie at the mo to go in my next Kids Co parcel.


This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers 1965-1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era writers such as Toni Morrison Alice Walker Toni Cade Bambara and Paule Marshall fictionalized the black community in critical ways that called for further examination of progressive activism after the much publicized 'end' of the Civil Rights Movement. Through their writings the authors' confronted marked shifts within African American literature politics and culture that proved detrimental to the collective 'wellness' of the community at large.


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Q: PostgreSQL indexed columns choice I have these two tables :
CREATE TABLE ref_dates(
    date_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    month int NOT NULL,
    year int NOT NULL,
    month_name CHAR(255)
);

CREATE TABLE util_kpi(
    kpi_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
    kpi_description int NOT NULL,
    kpi_value float,
    date_id int NOT NULL,
    dInsertion timestamp default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
    CONSTRAINT fk_ref_kpi FOREIGN KEY (date_id) REFERENCES ref_dates(date_id)
);

Usually, the type of request i'd do is :

*

*Selecting kpi_description and kpi_value for a specified month and year:

SELECT kpi_description, kpi_value FROM util_kpi u JOIN ref_dates r ON u.date_id = r.date_id WHERE month=X AND year=XXXX

*

*Selecting kpi_description and kpi_value for a specified kpi_description, month and year:

SELECT kpi_description, kpi_value FROM util_kpi u JOIN ref_dates r ON u.date_id = r.date_id WHERE month=X AND year=XXXX AND kpi_description='XXXXXXXXXXX'

I tought about creating these indexes :
CREATE INDEX idx_ref_date_year_month ON ref_dates(year, month);
CREATE INDEX idx_util_kpi_date ON util_kpi(date_id);

First of all, i want to know if it's a good idea to create these indexes.
Second of all and finally, I was wondering if it's a good idea to add kpi_description to the indexes on util_kpi table.
Can you guys give me your opinion ?
Regards

A: It's not possible to give exact answer without looking on data.
So it's only possible to give an opinion.
A. ref_dates
This table looks very similar to date dimension in ROLAP-schemas.
So the first what I would do: is change date_id from SERIAL to:

*

*DATE datatype

*or even "smart integer": integer datatype but in form YYYYMMDD. E.g. 20210430. It may look strange but it's not uncommon to see such identificators in date dimensions

The main point in using such form is that date_id in fact tables became informative even without joining to date dimension.
B. util_kpi
I suppose that:

*

*ref_dates is a date dimension. So it's ~365 * number of years rows. It could be populated once for 20-30 years for future and it's still will not be really big

*util_kpi is fact table. Which must be big like "really big" - millions and more records.

For `util_kpi' I expected id of time dimension but did not found it. So no hourly stats are supposed yet.
I see util_kpi.dInsertion - which I suppose is planned to be used as time dimension. I would think to extract it into time_id where put hours, minutes and seconds (if milliseconds are not needed).
C.Indexing

*

*ref_dates: it does not matters a lot how you index ref_dates because it's a relatively small table. Maybe unique index on date_id with INCLUDE options for all fields would be the best. Don't create individual index for fields with low selectivity like year or month - it will not make much sense but it will not harm a lot too.

*util_kpi - you need an index on date_id (as for any foreign keys to other dimension tables that will appear in future).

That's my thoughts that based on what I supposed.

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What drugs do people buy off the darknet?
/ Alcohol & Drugs, Featured, Infographics
/ darknet, Economist, Gorilla Glue, Silk Road
Fascinating exploration of the most popular darknet purchases including detailed analysis of the popularity of different drugs.
Drug dealing goes online
Although online markets still account for a small share of illicit drug sales, they are growing fast—and changing drug-dealing as they grow. A recent article in the Economist reports that sellers are competing on price and quality, and seeking to build reputable brands. Turnover has risen from an estimated $15m-17m in 2012 to $150m-180m in 2015.
The latest Global Drug Survey found that almost in 1 in 10 participants (9.3%) reported ever buying drugs off the dark-net with those reporting last year dark-net purchase rising from 4.5% to 6.7%.
Since the launch of the Silk Road five years ago, dark-web markets have represented a shadowy and much-maligned corner of the internet. And the secretive nature of such sites makes them difficult to study. But last year a researcher using the pseudonym Gwern Branwen cast some light on them. Roughly once a week between December 2013 and July 2015, programmes he had written crawled 90-odd cryptomarkets, archiving a snapshot of each page.
The Economist extracted data from the resulting 1.5 terabytes of information for around 360,000 sales on Agora, Evolution and Silk Road 2. There are, inevitably, flaws in the data. Mr Branwen's scrapes probably missed some deals. The Economist excluded any sale that was more than a week old when the scrape took place. If a price was absurdly high, it was ignored; such "holding prices" are used by dealers to indicate a lack of supply. Vendors may fake sales (though probably not often, since cryptomarkets take a cut) or reviews (though dissatisfied real customers would soon catch outright fraudsters). The volatile exchange rate between bitcoin and dollars means price conversions are not completely accurate. Yet the data still reveal a lot about the workings of a once-shadowy industry.
In total the deals were worth around $50m. Of those MDMA (ecstasy) sold the most by value while marijuana was the most popular single product, with around 38,000 sales. Legal drugs such as oxycodone and diazepam (Valium) were also popular. A third of sales did not belong in any of these categories: these included drug kit such as bongs, and drugs described in ways that the Economist's data analysts didn't understand (I'm not quite sure why they couldn't use Google to work out that Gorilla Glue is high potency cannabis).
The infographic they produced makes for very interesting perusing:
Seven things I learnt from the 2019 Global Drug Survey
GDS2019 provides new data on the latest drug trends and crucial public health and policy issues, as well as a range of fascinating facts.
Eight things I learnt from the 2018 Global Drug Survey
GDS2018 provides new data on the latest drug trends and crucial public health and policy issues, as well as a range of fascinating facts. Let's face it, where else would you find out that 30% people can get cocaine delivered more quickly than a pizza?
Drugs and the darknet threaten health and security
EMCDDA/EUROPOL report identifies growing use of darknet for drug dealing and calls for international co-operation to prevent continued growth.
10 things I learnt from the 2017 Global Drug Survey
Brits are using more MDMA and psychedelics, are more likely to buy drugs from the darknet and more likely to be hospitalised after using purer cocaine.
Buying and selling drugs in cryptomarkets
New research from Judith Aldridge and Rebecca Askew examines how drug dealers and buyers operating in darknet drug marketplaces avoid detection and arrest.
Interesting drug and alcohol facts September 2016
Latest round-up of drug & alcohol stats from Andrew Brown focuses on the number & types of online drug sales and emergency hospital admissions for drug toxicity
Asher Swope says:
HOW do people buy drugs off the dark net?
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Derrick Seaver and Josué García:…
Derrick Seaver and Josué García: Santa Clara Valley Water District should support twin tunnels
By San Jose Mercury News, San Jose and The Mercury |
PUBLISHED: February 12, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 6:41 a.m.
There has been a lot of discussion about the California Water Fix, the plan to update aging infrastructure that brings water to Santa Clara County from the Sierra Nevada Mountains through the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta.
Our organizations strongly urge members of the Santa Clara Valley Water District to support this project. It is absolutely vital to ensure reliable, secure water for our region and to protect the health of the failing Delta.
There are some efforts to falsely position this project as a North vs. South debate. The simple fact is that Santa Clara County is more reliant on this water source than perhaps any other region in the state.
More than 40 percent of the county's water supply is delivered through the Delta. In summer, it represents as much as 80 percent of our local supply.
Zone 7 Water Agency is in a similar situation. It serves 220,000 people in the Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore and Dougherty Valley areas and provides water to major employers including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Oracle, AT&T, and many biotech and medical research firms. Eighty-three percent of Zone 7 water comes through the Delta infrastructure.
Unlike Southern California water districts that get water from both the Delta and the Colorado River, these Bay Area districts have few other sources beyond what flows in local streams or is stored in aquifers underground.
Some groups advocate investments in projects to increase local supplies. We support these efforts. But you cannot fill local storage facilities, or invest in local water recycling projects unless you have a base supply of fresh reliable water.
That's why we need to support the California Water Fix. With this plan, the administrations of President Barack Obama and Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. propose to build new intakes and tunnels in the Delta for the federal and state water projects that serve the East Bay and Silicon Valley.
Building a modern pipeline below ground to distribute water from the Sierras will help restore more natural river flows above ground to protect fish and wildlife. The project would protect endangered and threatened fish by diverting water supplies in the north Delta, where Delta smelt do not typically congregate in the winter. New intakes on the Sacramento River would be screened to protect young and adult migratory salmon. That's a far better system than the current diversions on dead-end channels in the south Delta, which create reverse flows that take migratory fish off-course and draw them toward the pumps.
The plan would make other environmental improvements that scientists have been recommending for years. The EcoRestore plan aims to stabilize the Delta's vulnerable ecosystem by restoring 30,000 acres of wildlife habitat.
The underground pipelines would protect our water supplies from a catastrophic disruption should multiple levees break in the low-lying Delta. Experts have been warning of the risk of failing Delta levees after an earthquake for decades.
The project is affordable to the residents and businesses of the East Bay and Silicon Valley. According to reports by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, it would cost $3 to $8 per month for the average residential customer.
We know that special interests from the Delta are resisting the plan. The truth is that the status quo is creating more damage with an old pumping system that degrades the environment.
Local leaders need to understand that doing nothing threatens the well-being of the people they serve. They need to do what's right for our area: support the California Water Fix.
Derrick Seaver is executive vice president of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce. Josu Garca is CEO of the Santa Clara & San Benito Counties Building and Construction Trades Council. They wrote this for this newspaper.


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Newcity Stage
Theater, Dance, Comedy and Performance in Chicago
About Newcity Stage
Unprecedented Arrival: A Review of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at Court Theatre
March 25, 2018 at 12:05 pm by Kevin Greene
by Kevin Greene
March 25, 2018 March 30, 2018 Filed under:
Sydney Charles, Bryce Gangel and Michael Aaron Pogue/Photo: Michael Brosilow
I left the opening night performance of Court Theatre's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" feeling like the play's affable whiskey priest: the cockles of my effusive heart warmed all the way through. Though it wasn't so much because of the story, which has aged less like Camembert and more like Kraft Singles. Rather, it was the actors on the immaculately decorated stage, their portrayals as rich, savory and full of complex racial history as chicken fried steak and collard greens.
Originating as a movie from a screenplay by William Rose, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" premiered in 1967 at the height of the civil rights movement. And while it's tempting to credit its trio of lead actors—Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier—for engendering a mountain of goodwill large enough to endear this portrait of interracial love to a market audience, a reevaluation fifty years later suggests that "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" gets by on more than just charm.
While Todd Kreidler's adaptation, which premiered in 2013, elicited verbal reactions throughout the night, its fixation on the blind spots of white liberalism lacks the impolite wallop the original may (or may not) have had in the late sixties. The erasure of Black Lives Matter in the media, the dearth of intersectionality in the Women's March and #MeToo movements, along with the endless sensitivities of well-meaning white folks who are quick to play devil's advocate and slow to call out their racist relatives are points of ongoing shame for the very same people who find comfort in the notion of the "right side of history" and the security of their place in it. "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" might actually be less popular now than it was in 1967, although for reasons that underline the shifty allegiances of white people more than any significant changes in mentality toward people of color.
The play is situated in that bastion of sunshine and liberal thought: California. On multiple occasions, it highlights the fact that its black and white characters are separated by a distance of nearly one-hundred miles, the length of a drive from Sacramento to San Francisco. A play with many knowing lines, at one point Christina (Mary Beth Fisher), the wife of a newspaper man, Matt (Tim Hopper), who prefers his race relations theoretical, and the mother of a daughter, Joanna (Bryce Gangel), who has brought home both a beau and a racially charged "situation," addresses the mother of her daughter's love interest saying, "I wish we had met under different circumstances." "How?" she responds, the simplicity of the line cutting through the work's exposition-heavy plotting. The two families here never had any reason to meet, not then and not now, separated not so much by miles and freeways but by a history that has systematically disempowered one to the immense benefit of the other.
In contrast to the work of a playwright like Ike Holter, whose plays are not only rooted in geographic specificity but also feature black and brown characters who are ethically compromised and morally complicit, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is a relatively polite and at-times painfully tidy work. Part of the reason why it was so digestible to a mass audience in 1967 (the movie grossed $56.66 million, more than sixteen times its budget) is the cleanliness of the black man standing next to the white woman at the play's center, the latter being arguably more in the spotlight than the former. While Dr. John Prentice (Michael Aaron Pogue) is the source of Matt's chagrin and much of the play's conflict, he is a character without blemish, a narrative invention that has proved particularly insidious ("Driving Miss Daisy," "The Shawshank Redemption," the list of Morgan Freeman movies goes on). But this was not Dr. Prentice's movie and it is not his play. His own parents (played perfectly by Jacqueline Williams and Dexter Zollicoffer) outshine him in their willingness to speak personal and national truths. Even his bride-to-be, a young, "aggressive optimist" with every silver-spooned reason to be so, overshadows him. Though we may want very much to see premonitions of "Get Out" (which will be screened as a part of the production's supplementary programming), the play keeps its sympathies straight by continuing to deprive Dr. Prentice of the nuanced humanity that it endows its white characters with bountifully.
And yet for all its dramatic and ideological shuffling, this production is a must-see. Court has procured the ugliest furniture and best acting talent money can buy. While the veterans are predictably impressive, it is the young talent, still thrillingly evolving, that makes the show unforgettable. Bryce Gangel and Sydney Charles, in particular, are electrifying, Gangel for elevating the purity of Joanna's heart into something transcendent and Charles for her ability to do more with an unblinking stare than most of us can do with our entire being. Not to mention her enviable comic delivery and a singing voice weathered and toned beyond her years. She is given the play's emotionally loaded final moment; she deserves it and so much more.
If not for the fact that we live in a town where we can easily locate restlessly engaging new work (although finding theatrical work of any kind on the city's South and West Sides is an ongoing embarrassment for a theater community that labels itself progressive), this is the rush that theater can provide, the thrill of watching talent develop through sheer determination, will power and well-timed opportunity. Enough credit cannot be given to these young actors, who are worth seeing on any stage though the inspiring power of seeing them on a stage of such literal and figurative size cannot be understated. An appreciative acknowledgement is due to director Marti Lyons and associate director Wardell Julius Clark (both of whom demonstrate that they too deserve these assignments and designations), casting directors Cree Rankin and Becca McCracken, and the artistic staff of Court Theatre who continue to look hopefully forward even as they gaze wistfully back. (Kevin Greene)
Court Theatre, 5535 South Ellis, (773)753-4472, courttheatre.org, $44-$74. Through April 15.
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Het jaar 390 v.Chr. is een jaartal volgens de christelijke jaartelling.

Gebeurtenissen

Italië
 18 juli - De Gallische leider Brennus verslaat in de Slag aan de Allia, een zijrivier aan de Tiber, de Romeinse legioenen onder Quintus Sulpicius.
 De Galliërs belegeren Rome en plunderen de stad. De Romeinse inwoners vluchten naar de stad Veii, het Capitool wordt bestormd.
 Na zeven maanden komen Brennus en de Romeinen overeen het beleg te beëindigen, hij eist duizend pond in goud aan losgeld.

Griekenland
 Atheense soldaten behalen een overwinning op de Spartaanse hoplieten nabij Lechaeum op het schiereiland Peloponnesos.
 Xenophon trekt zich terug op zijn landgoed te Scillus, nabij Olympia in Elis. Daar schrijft hij het beroemde boek de Anabasis.
 Het heiligdom van Delphi wordt verrijkt met een rond gebouwtje, een Tholos.

Geboren
 Artaxerxes III (~390 v.Chr. - ~338 v.Chr.), koning van Perzië
 Hyperides (~390 v.Chr. - ~322 v.Chr.), Atheens politicus en redenaar

Overleden
 Andocides (~440 v.Chr. - ~390 v.Chr.), Atheens redenaar en politicus (50)

Jaar in de 4e eeuw v.Chr.

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#ifndef V_SERVICE_H
#define V_SERVICE_H

#include "kernelModuleI.h"
#include "v_participantQos.h"

#if defined (__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
#include "os_if.h"

#ifdef OSPL_BUILD_CORE
#define OS_API OS_API_EXPORT
#else
#define OS_API OS_API_IMPORT
#endif
/* !!!!!!!!NOTE From here no more includes are allowed!!!!!!! */

/**
 * \brief The v_service cast method.
 *
 * This method casts an object to a v_service object.
 * Before the cast is performed, the type of the object is checked to
 * be v_service or one of its subclasses.
 */
#define v_service(o) (C_CAST(o,v_service))

/**
 * \brief The v_service constructor.
 *
 * The constructor will create a new v_service object and a
 * corresponding v_serviceState object.
 * The extStateName parameter can be used to create the instance
 * of a subclass of v_serviceState. This can be used by services
 * to store their own state information in the kernel. Only the attributes
 * defined in the v_serviceState class are initialised. It is
 * up to the service to initialise all attributes of the subclass.
 * The given lease period is a contract between the service and the
 * kernel. This contract specifies that during the given period the kernel
 * will keep all resources. When the lease/contract is not renewed, all
 * resources used by the service are removed from the kernel.
 *
 * \param kernel      The kernel
 * \param name        The name of the service.
 * \param extSateName The name of a subclass of v_serviceState
 * \param leasePeriod The duration of the validity of this service.
 *
 * \return NULL if memory allocation failed, otherwise
 *         a reference to a newly created v_service object.
 */
OS_API v_service
v_serviceNew(
    v_kernel kernel,
    const c_char *name,
    const c_char *extStateName,
    v_serviceType serviceType,
    v_participantQos qos,
    c_bool enable);

/**
 * \brief The initialisation function, which can be used by classes that
 *        extend from this class.
 *
 * \param service     The service object to operate on.
 */
OS_API void
v_serviceInit(
    v_service service,
    const c_char *name,
    const c_char *extStateName,
    v_serviceType serviceType,
    v_participantQos qos,
    c_bool enable);

/**
 * \brief The v_service destructor.
 *
 * The object is really freed, if no more references to this object exist.
 * The function v_serviceDeinit is called to free all used
 * resources by this object.
 *
 * \param service the service object to operate on.
 */
OS_API void
v_serviceFree(
    v_service service);

/**
 * \brief The de-initialisation function, that frees all used resources
 *        by this object.
 *
 * This function is called by v_serviceFree, but can
 * also be called by destructor's of subclasses. All used resources by this
 * object are freed.
 *
 * \param service the service object to operate on.
 */
OS_API void
v_serviceDeinit(
    v_service service);

/**
 * \brief Returns the registered name of the service.
 *
 * Each service is uniquely identified by a name.
 *
 * \param service the service object to operate on.
 *
 * \return a reference to the name of the service.
 */
OS_API const c_char *
v_serviceGetName(
    v_service service);

/**
 * \brief Changes the state of a service object.
 *
 * The state kind indicates the state of the service. The following
 * table defines the state transitions that are allowed. The row of
 * the table defines the current state and the column represents the
 * new state (i.e. the state to transfer to).
 *

 *

 *

 *
 *   STATE_NONE
 *   STATE_INITIALISING
 *   STATE_OPERATIONAL
 *   STATE_TERMINATING
 *   STATE_TERMINATED
 *   STATE_DIED
 *

 *

 *   STATE_NONE
 *   x	x	-	-	-	-
 *

 *

 *   STATE_INITIALISING
 *   -	x	x	x	-	x
 *

 *

 *   STATE_OPERATIONAL
 *   -	-	x	x	-	x
 *

 *

 *   STATE_TERMINATING
 *   -	-	-	x	x	x
 *

 *

 *   STATE_TERMINATED
 *   -	-	-	-	x	x
 *

 *

 *   STATE_DIED
 *   -	x	-	-	-	x
 *

 *

 *
 *
 * \param service   the service object to operate on.
 * \param newState  the new state for this service.
 *
 * \return TRUE,  if the state change is allowed and succeeded.

 *         FALSE, if the state change is not allowed.
 */
OS_API c_bool
v_serviceChangeState(
    v_service service,
    v_serviceStateKind newState);

OS_API void
v_serviceFillNewGroups(
    v_service service);

OS_API c_iter
v_serviceTakeNewGroups(
    v_service service);

/**
 * \brief Renews the lease of the service.
 *
 * This method renews the lease of the service by adding the
 * lease period to the current time.
 *
 * \param service The service to operate on.
 */
OS_API void
v_serviceRenewLease(
    v_service service,
    os_duration leasePeriod);

#undef OS_API

#if defined (__cplusplus)
}
#endif

#endif /* V_SERVICE_H */


October 12, 2015 by Vinay Leo R.
Today morning, some of my bibliophile friends and I were having a discussion. It was on which we prefer, paperbacks or eBooks. A month back, I might have closed my eyes and told without an ounce of a doubt, "I do not like eBooks. Give me paperbacks any day of the week." But over the last month, I've read books on Kindle Fire, Nook Reader and of course, gone and taken the jump to buying my own Kindle Paperwhite. So I know there are advantages and disadvantages to both.
I'm currently reading the epic fantasy series – "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George RR Martin. Now when I say epic, I mean it. For those who are not familiar with the series, each of the five books released so far has 700+ pages at the very least. To read such a bulky book, the Kindle is quite helpful, because it's light and I can read at a stretch without putting it down. Yet, the feel of paper, and reading a paperback is blissful. Before I read, I have a habit of breathing in the fragrance of that paper. It's divine, and something the Kindle cannot recreate. So yeah, given a choice between the two, and convenience of course, I'd still say I prefer reading paperbacks. My mother might fret about the space it takes up, but my bookshelf is a thing of pride in my room.
Happiness is… rearranging my bookshelf, and reading random pages from random books as I do. Each page has the fragrance of a memory. And that makes each book quite priceless.
I do that too, whenever I rearrange my books. A random page, always brings back a lost memory.
Yeah, Sreedeep. Fragrance is quite special, as are the covers! 🙂 Rearranging books is my favorite chore. Though my idea of how it should be arranged, and my mom's idea of how it should be arranged differ. so it's a conundrum.
Keep your fav books safe for me Vinnie!
For Calvin? Definitely. 🙂 By the time he reads, they might be classics, no? 😛 What say, Mummy Mins?


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Los Gatos, Saratoga: South Bay Musical Theatre…
Los Gatos, Saratoga: South Bay Musical Theatre presents Tony Award-winning musical, 'Hairspray'
By Shannon Burkey | Bay Area News Group, MediaNews, Saratoga News, Los Gatos Weekender
PUBLISHED: June 3, 2015 at 12:08 pm | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 1:41 am
The South Bay Musical Theatre will take audiences on a dance and musical journey back to the 1960s with its production of the Tony Award-winning musical "Hairspray" running through June 13 at the Saratoga Civic Theater.
"It's a very exciting show, and we thought it would be a good choice for us," producer Jay Steele said. "It's a very lively, upbeat and energetic show, and it's just a lot of fun to sit and watch."
Set in 1962 Baltimore, "Hairspray" is the story of plus-size teenager Tracy Turnblad, played by Marisol Urbano, who dreams of dancing on the Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program. Tracy wins a role on the show, becoming an overnight celebrity, and meets and dances with a colorful array of characters before launching a campaign to racially integrate the show.
"Hairspray," with book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman, opened on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre in August 2015, running for over 2,500 performances and winning eight Tony Awards. The musical is based on John Waters' 1988 movie, which starred Ricki Lake.
Steele says the show's message is as relevant today as it was in the '60s.
"It's got two elements. You can sit back and look at it like it's a fun dance show, and it is, and there's great music, but it has a very serious theme," Steele said. "In 1962 when it takes place, segregation was the rule. The show reflects a real-life story about the movement to integrate one of those popular afternoon kids' dance shows. It has real heart and a real message to it."
Auditions for the show, directed by Walter M. Mayes, took place this past fall, and Steele said there was a large turnout of actors from all over the Bay Area.
"We were very lucky and had a fantastic turnout," Steele said. "We have a great group of diverse actors playing the various roles and dancing their hearts out."
The 34 cast members have been rehearsing the show since early March to perfect the numerous song and dance numbers.
"It's a very dance-heavy show, and that's generally the thing that takes the most time because dances have to be worked on and fine tuned," Steele said.
Steele added that for a show like "Hairspray" to be a success, it needs a choreographer with the vision and capability to make the dances exciting and correct to the time period, and he found that in the show's choreographer Lee Ann Payne.
"When we had auditions, she was just over the moon excited at the quality of people she had to work with," Steele said. "She realized she was going to be able to take her dance vision of the show to the highest level because these dancers would be able to execute it and pull it off. I can't praise her and the dancers enough. They make it look so much fun."
The South Bay Musical Theatre's production of "Hairspray" is being staged at the Saratoga Civic Theater, 13777 Fruitvale Ave. Performances are June 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13 at 8 p.m., and June 7 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $26-$35 with a $2 discount for seniors, and $20 for students with ID and children. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit southbaymt.com.
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and the view's so nice
Wednesday 04 May 05
did you ever wonder how the famous piece of london 'graffiti' on Primrose Hill got there ? here's the exclusive !
i took a picture of it almost exactly a year ago when i went for a lunchtime walk.
i had an email earlier today from the artist who created it. she's never told anyone this story before and was happy for me to publish it. So we've got a funkypancake scoop – thanks Angela !
It's from Angela, now resident in Australia:
It's really not that exciting…I've been a big blur fan of old (though I gave up when Graham left the band). Somehow as an Australian living in the UK for a number of years I found myself in a bedsit in Primrose Hill (as you do). My then boyfriend and I had just painted the kitchen cupboards in gloss yellow and decided one drunken night to get creative on the hill.
So champagne bottle in hand, we stole up the path, in the dark, just before bonfire night. This meant that there was lots of equipment around for the firework display as well as plenty of bizzies cruising (oops, some Scouse slipped out – I moved to Toxteth from Primrose Hill). So Tony, the then boyfriend, was acting as scout as I got busy with the paintbrush (the little love heart over the 'i' was for him… I was quite soppy for him in those days).
It took quite a while as I'm sure you can imagine, and Tony was much more interested in watching the paint dry than doing his job of scouting, so when we turned around on completion of the job we were surprised and obviously a bit freaked out to see a panda car all of 50meters away. Fortunately, we managed to hide the paint tin and brush and look like a young couple on a midnight stroll. The police drove right over it and you can still seetheir tyre tracks going up the hill.
Many an occasion after that I would spend sitting on the hill watching people stop to read the sign or take a photo. I left London early in 2002, and the UK late in 2003 and was told by friends that the council had finally succeeded in covering it over. But then, by chance, an old colleague who has just gone over to work in London tells me that not only is it still there, but people have been touching it up to keep the spirit alive. Joy! Power to the people!
So I googled 'primrose hill' and 'the view's so nice' and got your website (along with a few others, though yours was the most popular). And as it was the first time I'd seen it on the internet since I created it all those years ago it fair made my day. So thank you!
Oh and I might add that it was mentioned in an interview with Damon in Q magazine, August… I think 2001. He says how he and Graham were strolling along the park, debating whether the band should stay together or not, and then 'there's this huge grafitti. If that isn't a sign that we should keep making music together, I don't know what is'. Not many people can claim to have gone to such lengths to keep their favourite band together! (unsuccessfully as it turned out).
So as I said, not that interesting, but definitely a cheerful turn to my afternoon. Next on the agenda is convincing Camden Council to give me a grant for restoration (including return airfare from Melbourne to London, obviously).
Hmmm… Thanks funkypancake Dave for listening; you're the first person that I've 'come out' to.
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4 thoughts on "and the view's so nice"
rascle Wednesday 04 May 05 at 13:24
Now just once in a rare while one hears a 'positive' graffiti story (instead of the usual wholly negative ones), and what a great one that one has turned out to be.
Meg Friday 06 May 05 at 00:58
Well I can certainly vouch for the artist. She's an extraordinary girl with a mind that defies normality. Ange told me about her "artwork" when she found out my sister was living in Primrose Hill. Unfortunately when my sister went to confirm it was still there the council had attempted to remove the art. I'm very happy to see it's still exists as I am off to Primrose Hill next month, and I can't wait to admire her artwork personally 🙂 MEG
charleshawtrey Tuesday 17 May 05 at 14:01
strange how people feel they're somehow entitled to deface other people's space/environment on the strength of liking Blur
funkypancake Tuesday 17 May 05 at 14:27
graffit itself is like that though isn't it (without the Blur bit).
there's the mindless scrawl variety, but occasionally there's really beautiful/moving/thought inducing stuff which definately falls in to the 'art' category.
i like this bit of art. i don't think it detracts from the environment.
whatever you think about it, it's fascinating to know the story behind its appearance (as articulated by Rascale in his comment)
previousthe word on the street – was probably written with this pen
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