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Stanford Repertory Theater showcases a trio of works on the environment and social justice
The Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT) has launched its annual summer festival with "Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond." The polished reading from nearly a hundred writers, thinkers, scientists, and politicians, compiled by the Artistic Director Rush Rehm and Charles Junkerman, Stanford's dean (emeritus) for Continuing Studies, ends tonight, alas! But other shows on this year's theme, "The Environment and Social Justice," will debut in the coming weeks. Go here to read about two new plays, Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids, by Vincent Terrell Durham, and Anna Considers Mars, by Ruben Grijalva. SRT also hosts a popular film series.
"Voice of the Earth" was a moving tribute to our planet. However, the first quarter-hour made me wonder if the seven performers/readers could keep the show together for 90 minutes, entirely on snippets from the 7th century B.C. to now. Yet they did!
I had some quibbles about the tendentiousness – Reagan, Bush, Nixon, and inevitably Trump were excoriated, with satisfied groans from the liberal audience. But what about Obama's complicated relationship with fracking? And were the Native Americans really all peace and love and Great Spirit? (One quote referred to whispering to the bears, rather than killing them. Do not try that at home.) There's always a danger of sentimentalizing, even kitschifying nature, extracting the roughness and toughness of our familiar earth – it's radical foreign-ness.
I was happy to see a number of Stanford "Another Look" book club author's featured: J.A. Baker, Joseph Conrad, W.H. Hudson. And a few personal friends and favorites – Richard Wilbur, too.
Kudos to cast members Gianna Clark, Thomas Freeland, Jake Harrison, Sequoiah Hippolyte, Brenna McCulloch, Emma Rothenberg, Gabe Wieder.
I picked out a few quotes from the evening. Here they are:
"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste . . . "
– Wallace Stegner (from a letter)
Rilke, in a painting by Leonid Pasternak
Do you still remember: falling stars,
how they leapt slantwise through the sky
like horses over suddenly held-out hurdles
of our wishes—did we have so many?—
for stars, innumerable, leapt everywhere;
almost every gaze upward became
wedded to the swift hazard of their play,
and our heart felt like a single thing
beneath that vast disintegration of their brilliance—
and was whole, as if it would survive them!
– Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Edward Snow
"… I lay on the bowsprit, facing astern, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight, towering high above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment I lost myself – actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of man, to life itself! To God, if you want to put it that way. Then another time, on the American Line, when I was lookout on the crow's nest in the dawn watch. A calm sea, that time. Only a lazy groundswell and a slow, drowsy roll of the ship. The passengers asleep and none of the crew in sight. No sound of man. Black smoke pouring from the funnels behind and beneath me. Dreaming, not keeping lookout, feeling alone, and above, and apart, watching the dawn creep like a painted dream over the sky and sea which slept together. Then the moment of ecstatic freedom came. The peace, the end of the quest, the last harbor, the joy of belonging to a fulfillment beyond men's lousy, pitiful, greedy fears and hopes and dreams! And several other times in my life, when I was swimming far out, or lying alone on a beach, I have had the same experience. Became the sun, the hot sand, green seaweed anchored to a rock, swaying in the tide. Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again."
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Tags: Brenna McCulloch, Charles Junkerman, Emma Rothenberg, Eugene O'Neill, Gabe Wieder, Gianna Clark, Jake Harrison, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rush Rehm, Sequoiah Hippolyte, Thomas Freeland, Wallace Stegner
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Two plays, two very different women: Euripides stars at the Stanford Repertory Theater
Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Doomed Polyxena (Lea Claire Zawada) mourns the life she will never have. (Photo: Frank Chen)
Euripides's play Helen is the most lyrical and tender of the playwright's canon, and the most surprising as well. Here's the story: Helen was never carried off to Troy by Paris; she was whisked away by the gods to Egypt to cool her heels while the Trojan War raged. (She is, after all, the daughter of Zeus … or maybe Tyndareus.) In her place, an eidolon – a specter, a lookalike, a double – went to the doomed city. Now the war is over. Menelaus is presumed dead. And the King of Egypt wants to marry Helen, twenty years older but still a humdinger. She's clinging to a sacred shrine that offers sanctuary against his unwanted advances. What's a queen to do?
Joe Estlack as Odysseus, Polymnestor, Menelaus (Photo: Zachary Dammann)
The story has its precedents. Herodotus advanced the same tale in his Histories. And the poet Stesichorus said the same in his Palinode. But Helen – almost a romantic comedy, really, but too tinged by tragedy to make it so – is most memorably told by Euripides. Too bad it's not told often enough. So that's one reason to see the Stanford Repertory Theater's current production, Hecuba/Helen, in the Roble Studio Theater. It opened last weekend and runs through August 19.
"Like the Odyssey and, even more, like the late Shakespearean romances, Helen has in some ways 'got back to the fairy tale again,' with its sunlit clarifications, reunions, and happy ending," wrote poet Rachel Hadas about the play. "But its brightness is porous; plenty of suffering makes its way through. The enormous and tragic waste of the war, the pain of exile, isolation, and blame – the beauty of Helen shines through these elements without ever avoiding or denying them."
The play is ingenuously paired with a very different offering from Euripides, Hecuba. Like the tragedian's Trojan Women, it's a rending, agonized lament from the female denizens of Troy, now orphaned and widowed and childless, as they are about to be hauled into slavery and worse. The threnody is interrupted occasionally by men, kings, soldiers, messengers, coming to relate the latest disastrous news or murderous decision. It's one steady momentum downward, to Hecuba's final revenge against her betrayer, before the Trojan queen's descent into becoming, as prophesied, a howling dog.
African American poet Marilyn Nelson describes Hecuba as "the distillation of the pain described in the slave narratives" – "Her children dead or stolen, her husband slain, her homeland lost forever, her nobility reduced to rags: again and again, I read Hecuba's stories in the slave narratives. Children torn from their arms and sold, lovers beaten and sold or murdered, no place to run, no place to hide, their very bodies a badge of inferiority." And so it is.
Courtney Walsh as Hecuba, Doug Nolan as Agamemnon. (Photo: Zachary Dammann)
All the roles are doubled up, or trebled up. Stanford Rep regular Courtney Walsh revels in the exhausting challenge of playing both Helen and Hecuba – though I think her touch is made for the dark-edged comedy of Helen more.
Two men in particular give an array of arresting performances – Doug Nolan as Agamemnon a hardened soldier softened by the surprise of love. Less than an hour later he is the bullying Theoclymenus, the duped King of Egypt, alternately petulant and belligerent. Joe Estlack is the stalwart yet doubting Spartan king Menelaus – and also the oleaginous traitor Polymnestor. (He won me over when he inventively and energetically portrayed an entire shipwreck all by himself, with gurgling, coughing, spitting, and sputtering.) Props to Jennie Brick as the chorus leader and also the lippy portress-cum-bouncer at the Egyptian palace. And Stanford undergraduate student Lea Claire Zawada makes a moving and anguished Polyxena, whose life is sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles.
Thank you, sir.
The epigrammatic Greek Chorus is always a challenging convention in modern drama. Aleta Hayes's choreography updates the concept while hewing to its origins. It's effective, though my own preferences run towards a plainer, less stylized interpretation, where the chorus women deliver their lines simply, singly, as lookers-on and occasional participants. The projections on the screen were more distracting than helpful, and opened the drama outward when it needed intimacy and tension.
The doubling and trebling of roles, as we watch very different characters and emotions shine through the same faces we saw minutes before, remind all of us how we each take so many roles in a lifetime – all but the best and worst of us swing from hero to villain, buffoon to sage, and back again. During Hecuba/Helen, a killer becomes lover and then a killer again, the powerful are humbled, a betrayer becomes the betrayed … and the smart-mouthed portress who kicks Menelaus away from the threshhold morphs into the benevolent prophetess Theonoe.
As the "Nevertheless, She Persisted" theme of the double show demonstrates, Euripides was an early champion of women. He was also deeply horrified by war, having lived through the long and bitter struggle between Sparta and Athens. Euripides shows both in the case of the Trojan women of Hecuba, and in Helen, which showcases a woman who been scapegoated for a war she never caused, and just wants to go home to Sparta.
Artistic director Rush Rehm translated these texts from the Greek for this production, and the final piece is stageworthy, more so, perhaps, than the more lyrical rendering of poets who have tried their hands at the task:
The gods reveal themselves in many ways,
bring many matters to surprising ends.
The things we thought would happen do not happen.
The unexpected gods make possible,
and that is what has happened here today.
Courtney Walsh (Hecuba), Lea Claire Zawada (Polyxena), and in the chorus Emma Rothenberg, Jennie Brick, Brenna McCulloch, Gianna Clark, Regan Lavin, Amber Levine. (Photo: Zachary Dammann)
Voices from the chorus: Brenna McCulloch, Amber Levine, Regan Lavin (Photo: Zachary Dammann)
Tags: Aleta Hayes, euripides, Rush Rehm
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Another Look book club spotlights Joseph Conrad's Shadow-Line on May 10
Joseph Conrad (foreground) on board the special service ship Ready in 1916. He wrote The Shadow-Line on his return from the voyage. (Image credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)
The author Joseph Conrad insisted his work The Shadow-Line: A Confession was not a book about the supernatural. But sometimes the real can be spookier than the imagined, and what we observe outpaces our worst nightmares. So it is with Conrad's late novella.
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness," Conrad said a few years before World War I. Certainly the rest of the century bore out his conclusions.
The Another Look book club will discuss Conrad's 1917 novella and the Polish author at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the Bechtel Conference Room of Encina Hall. The Shadow-Line is available at Stanford Bookstore, Kepler's in Menlo Park and Bell's Books in Palo Alto.
The panel will be moderated by Another Look director Robert Pogue Harrison, an acclaimed author and professor of Italian literature. Harrison is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Booksand the host for the popular radio talk show Entitled Opinions. He will be joined by drama Professor Rush Rehm, artistic director of the Stanford Repertory Theater, and Monika Greenleaf, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature.
"I chose this short novel because of its exquisite prose and quintessentially Conradian drama," Harrison said. "It probes the enigma of fate by putting circumstance, landscape and depth psychology into play all at the same time."
He added, "Conrad is a master when it comes to putting his characters through trials. The Shadow-Line is one of the most intense of Conradian trials of character. It is not one of his best known novels and is certainly deserving of another look."
Conrad's short masterpiece describes the "green sickness" of late youth, when a young man desires to "flee from the menace of emptiness." The unnamed narrator's flight ends when he is captain of a merchant ship in Southeast Asia; the terrors of sickness and the sea bring him to grief, maturity and wisdom.
In a two-page author's note, Conrad denies the supernatural has anything to do with his story. We are meant, then, not to draw a line between the mate's superstitious and feverish fear of his former captain, buried at sea, and the destruction of the ship to weather, wind and contagious fever. The mate says the ship will not have luck until it passes the spot where the reckless and demented captain was put overboard.
(Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
The Shadow-Line can also be read as a psychological study of the disintegration of an entire ship's crew. That would be in keeping with Conrad's worldview; he once called life a "mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself – that comes too late – a crop of inextinguishable regrets."
The year The Shadow-Line was published, The Argus praised the novel: "It holds the reader under a spell so strong that the book must be finished at one sitting, and even when it is laid aside it keeps its grip on the memory, and the impression left remains with a curious persistence."
The Sunday Times wrote, in 1917, "Mr. Conrad is an expert in the business of suggesting mystery and the action of malevolent agencies and the endurance of a man under the buffets of fate. Not even Coleridge has held passers-by more spellbound under a tale of horrors on the ocean than does Mr. Conrad in this work."
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski – Joseph Conrad – was born in 1857 in a largely Jewish village in territory that is now Ukraine; it had been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Respublica before partition, and at the time of his birth was part of the Russian Empire. His father was a Polish patriot and man of letters, and the family had a migratory existence. Conrad began a seafaring career as a teenager, and eventually joined the British merchant marine and became an English citizen.
He was one of the very few writers to establish his literary reputation in a foreign tongue. (Vladimir Nabokov comes to mind as well, but the author of Pale Fire and Lolita was reared in an aristocratic Russian family; however, he later claimed English was the first language he learned in his trilingual household.)
World War I was much on Conrad's mind as he wrote Shadow-Land, and the book is dedicated to his son Borys, a soldier. By the time it was published, Borys had returned from the front, shell-shocked and gassed in the new technology of warfare. The war's end would change forever the face of the Europe Conrad remembered.
Shortly after the war, a visitor to the Conrad household observed: "Conrad spoke fluently, but his accent, his manner of expression were such as I observed among the inhabitants of the south-eastern Polish borderlands. One felt clearly that when he thought of Poland, it was of a Poland of half-a-century ago. When I listened to him, I could not evade the impression that I am being carried back in time and talk to one of the people of long ago."
Another Look is a seasonal book club that draws together Stanford's top writers and scholars with distinguished figures from the Bay Area and beyond. The books selected are short masterpieces you may not have read before. This article is republished from my Stanford Report piece here.
Tags: Another Look, Joseph Conrad, Monika Greenleaf, Robert Pogue Harrison, Rush Rehm, Vladimir Nabokov
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Stanford Repertory Theater performs Noël Coward's Hay Fever – but who was the real Judith Bliss?
The Bliss Family: David (Bruce Carlton), Judith (Courtney Walsh), Sorel (Kiki Bagger) and Simon (Austin Caldwell).
Playwright and songwriter Noël Coward spent a single weekend in the home of actress Laurette Taylor and her husband, the playwright J. Hartley Manners. The visit was such that he later, in three feverish days, wrote the play for which he is arguably best known, Hay Fever. Taylor made a big target: her larger-than-life personality was renowned, along with her theatrical moods and eccentricities. She was the sort of person who, we would say today, sucked all the oxygen out of the room. The play was a hit from the moment it opened in 1925. There were casualties, however. To put it mildly, Hay Fever strained the friendship.
Ungrateful guest.
The Stanford Summer Repertory production, which opened last weekend, continues through August 9, with Courtney Walsh as Judith Bliss, Kiki Bagger as Sorel Bliss, Richard Carlton as David Bliss, Rush Rehm as Richard Greatham, Catherine Luedtke as Clara, Austen Caldwell as so-so novelist Simon Bliss, all under the direction of Lynne Soffer – tickets and info here. You can't really call a family dysfunctional when they're so pleased with themselves, can you? The Bliss family likes itself, even if no one else does.
The play has been described as a cross between outright farce and comedy of manners. Stanford weighs in for the former, sometimes to its detriment. I could have used a slower pacing in the opening scenes, to hear the dialogue more clearly and get a feel for the characters before the comedy builds its own momentum. Sometimes the performers don't seem to be actually listening to each other, or minding the cigarettes they light up and stub out every few minutes.
Judith Bliss is not just living in her past but the past, a different era of theater altogether. Perhaps a modern audience wouldn't have understood the distinction, but it's part of the fun of the play. The central character, matriarch Judith Bliss, is an actress who is past her heyday, hungering for a smashing comeback and longing for the return of melodrama with its clichéd gestures and formulaic plots. That era had given way with an excited crash to the brazen sexuality of the jazz baby. (Remember 1925 was the magic year of both Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Great Gatsby.)
She really did make a comeback.
This production builds heat as it moves, trust me (and kudos to costume designer Connie Strayer). Two characters to watch in this production: Berkeley Rep veteran Deborah Fink excels as vamp flapper Myra Arundel. She's sleek, smug, and self-contained as a cat, and doesn't begin to unravel until the very last scenes. Another scene stealer: Kathleen Kelso as ingenue flapper Jackie Coryton. She's making her Stanford Repertory Theater debut. The tall, willowy blonde sways uncertainly like a tall narrow tree in a high wind. The face under the cloche hat is constantly on the verge of crumpling into tears. She's already unraveled, the moment she steps into the country house.
The original Judith Bliss, Laurette Taylor, was an actress from a previous era, more of the generation of Mary Pickford than Anita Loos or Clara Bow. Was Laurette Taylor the has-been that Noël Coward immortalized? Not quite. She finally did make her comeback in 1946, but not in the revival of a cheesy melodrama. She was the original Amanda Wingfield in an unforgettable performance of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams's "sad, delicate drama of a struggling family in extremis was greeted with modified rapture by most of the critics as a new voice, a potential turning point for a tired commercial theatre," according to Robert Gottlieb in The New Yorker (here):
But the true rapture was reserved for the play's star, Laurette Taylor, reappearing after a difficult interlude of alcoholism, but still a revered name in the theatre. Her biggest success, decades earlier, had been in the comedy Peg O' My Heart, which she performed for years both in New York and around the country, and in a movie adaptation. Now, as Amanda Wingfield, first in Chicago and then on Broadway, she emerged as an actress without peer, her performance referred to again and again as the greatest ever by an American actor. When I saw her, I knew it was the finest acting I had ever seen, and, more than sixty-five years later, I still feel that way. But why? What did she do that made her acting so unforgettable?
She simply didn't act. Or so it appeared. She wasn't an actress; she was a tired, silly, irritating, touching, fraught, aging woman with no self-awareness, no censor for her ceaseless flow of words, no sense of the effect she was having on her children—or the audience. It was as if you were listening in on the stream of her consciousness. Her self-pitying yet valiant voice, reflecting both the desperation of her situation and the faded remnants of her Southern-belle charm, was maddening, yet somehow endearing. You wanted to hug her, to swat her, to run from her—in other words, you reacted to her just the way her son, Tom, did.
Actress Patricia Neal called it "the greatest performance I have ever seen in all my life." Sometimes there really are happy endings. Even for drama queens.
Dysfunctional family? Maybe not. Richard Carlton, Courtney Walsh, and Kiki Bagger in "Hay Fever."
Tags: Laurette Taylor, Noel Coward, Rush Rehm
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A rare chance to see Orson Welles' Moby Dick – Rehearsed. Take it.
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
The madness of Ahab. (Photo: Frank Chen)
"The soul is a sort of fifth wheel to a wagon."
The protagonist, of course, is the sea – murderous, obsessive, monotonous, devourer of lives, sanity, and time, time, time. The sea is the pervasive, melancholy backdrop for the Stanford Repertory Theater's compelling production of Orson Welles' Moby Dick – Rehearsed, mercifully without intermission, which would only have diluted the oceanic severity of Welles's wonder of a script. The "watery part of the world" is countebalanced by a quieter antagonist, the human soul itself, that "fifth wheel to a wagon," as the mad prophetic sailor Elijah says early in the play. Welles whittled Herman Melville's 700-page metaphysical novel into a relentless and lyrical 90-minute show – it's a daring choice for the artistic director Rush Rehm, and a rare opportunity. (The production continues through August 10 – tickets here.)
Call him Ishmael. (Photo: Stefanie Okuda)
The hard heart of the inventive production is Rod Gnapp, a Bay Area veteran of ACT, Berkeley Rep, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and others, who turns in a stellar performance as one-legged Captain Ahab. The captain is misguidedly bent on killing the whale who maimed him, his twisted face locked in a grim and grizzled rictus of resentment. His short exchanges with the upright Quaker first mate Starbuck (played by Peter Ruocco), who finally cries, "I disobey my God, obeying him!" are among the highpoints in a drama that has many of them. Here's another: thanks to composer/sound designer Michael Keck and music director Weston Gaylord, the haunting, a cappella hymns and sailors' songs are a delicious descant to the drama – in the end, a haunting lament for those who have given their lives for the sea.
The script itself has an interesting history. The original production took place at the the Duke of York's Theatre in London, with a cast that included Director Welles, Gordon Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, and Joan Plowright. Welles eventually filmed about 75 minutes with the original cast, then abandoned the venture when he was disappointed with the results. Others, including McGoohan, thought the short film was impressive. We'll never know. The film was lost when a drunken Robert Shaw was smoking in bed at Welles's Madrid home. The house burned down, along with the only copy of the film. The Munich Film Museum owns a shorter film of excerpts from the play, filmed by Welles in 1971.
Moby Dick – Rehearsed is commonly said to be blank verse, which obviously isn't true. At best, it's broken iambics and prose – it falls off the metrical horse too often to be anything more. Just fine for theater, since the ear isn't counting off metrical feet, and the irregular rhythms throw the emphasis on a hypnotic tale about a monstrous obsession. It's a lyrical, meditative script, with lines like this one from the narrator, from the young, inexperienced sailor Ishmael (played by Louis McWilliams):
"Our souls were so possessed that Ahab's hate
was almost ours, and the white whale
our foe as much as his…"
Or from the spiritual insightful Starbuck:
"a vulture feeds upon his heart forever: –
that vulture the very creature he creates."
Or from hell-bent Ahab:
"…How d'ye know that some
entire, living, thinking thing
may not invisibly be standing
there, where you are standing?
In your most solitary hours, then
don't you ever fear the feel of eavesdroppers?"
I have some quibbles. Welles' show-within-a-show convention was already shopworn when Welles's wrote it, and adding a few lines about deconstruction and cellphones (already a bit stale themselves), add little comedy or humor. I'd rather cut to the chase. Also, the mad characters should dial it back a bit: they're often loud and hard to follow, which is too bad, because the delivery muffs some of the most moving and poetic lines in the play. Besides, I've seen insane, and that's not all of it. Insanity is scariest when it whispers, calm and confident as a megalomaniac in a boardroom. "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me," announces the captain. Ahab is insane.
Interesting production video below. It doesn't quite capture the power and desolation of this drama – how could it, really? See the real thing for yourself.
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Moby Dick onstage with Stanford Repertory Theater
It's been a busy weekend, too soon over and too little accomplished, but I did get an opportunity to see Orson Welles's Moby Dick – Rehearsed, Stanford Repertory Theater's current production, which opened this weekend. I'll have more to say in the coming days about Welles's little-known and little-performed masterpiece – meanwhile, I highly recommend that you get tickets while you can here. It's a magnificent and moving show, under the direction of Rush Rehm, and I very much doubt you'll find much else to top it in the Bay Area this summer. With Herman Melville and Orson Welles as your starter kit – how could you possibly go wrong? The play runs July 17 to August 10, Thursdays to Saturdays at 8 pm, Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at Pigott Theater, Memorial Auditorium, on the Stanford campus. Stay tuned in the coming days for more …

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When you've been brought up a Parsi, nothing holds your imagination quite like cars, bikes, dhansak and English music do.
Ryan, who crossed over to the wedding sphere about five years ago, highlights the role his indie band, Something Relevant, had to play in the move. "The band was around for about 10 years and, initially, we'd write our own songs. We never played too many covers…so when we started getting wedding gigs, it was our chance to play not just our songs but also all the songs we loved and grew up with such as those by The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, MJ and Prince," he explains. But even though he's a much-sought-after musician, the 33-year-old's upbringing has resulted in him being rather selective about the gigs he takes up. "I don't perform at too many weddings in a season because I don't enjoy playing Bollywood stuff — can't relate! I do about two weddings a month, on average," he states. But you'll definitely want him to play Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing on your big day because it's his favourite, "especially the Hot 8 Brass Band version that was used in the movie Chef (2014)".
With big wedding performances lined up November onwards, Ryan sure has his hands full. But that doesn't stop him from getting out and enjoying himself. "I love the outdoors and am a complete sports freak. Scuba diving, trekking, kayaking, running, tennis…you name it!" he signs off.


Until recently I would use the OpenVPN package that is available in Synology's DSM for network storage (NAS). But after upgrading to the latest DSM version 6, disappointingly few packages did work as they should. So I figured it was time to move OpenVPN over to the home server — afterall, the Synology solution had always been surprisingly slow when not connecting for a while. It could take up to a minute, and quite a few retries, to at all get connected.
Looking at alternative setups, Fedora has a dedicated page about OpenVPN. But the installation is anything but intuitive. Apparently it is needed to hack both iptables and firewall-cmd. I did not even bother to try this procedure.
Seemingly there is something called OpenVPN Access server straight off openvpn.net, and which comes in a number of flavours. Not surprisingly I would go for the Fedora version, which comes in both 32 and 64 bit editions.
Installation was also surprisingly straight forward using the rpm. Everything seemed to work, so it was just to head over to the web admin interface at localhost:943. I had to specify what authentication method to be used (I chose local), in addition to a few other parameters.
I also just discovered that the server does not start automatically on reboot, but has to be started through the web admin interface. I have not been able to find a startup service to be performed through systemctl yet, but apparently there should be a way. Will include this when found.
Update 2016-05-19: running ./scripts/sacli start will startup the server when computer has rebooted.


Here we have gathered petrol prices from around the world. Petrol prices have come down from their highest levels while, some will find it surprising, it's even more expensive in many other European countries than in the UK. This is partly due to the fact that the sterling has weakened against both the dollar and euro during the autumn.
Petrol prices change quickly so the table below should be seen more as a comparison. Prices can also vary within the country. We update prices about once a month.


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package infrastructure

import (
	"image"
	"image/png"
	"net/http"
)

// ImageFetcher implements the ImageFetcher usecases interface
type ImageFetcher struct{}

// Fetch fetches and returns the image found at url, error otherwise
func (i ImageFetcher) Fetch(path string) (image.Image, error) {
	resp, err := http.Get(path)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	return png.Decode(resp.Body)
}


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PCPNDT Act
MTP Act
Silvassa NIC
VIOLATIONS UNDER THE PNDT ACT AND THE PENALTIES
Any medical geneticist, gynaecologist, registered medical practitioner or any person who owns a Genetic Counselling Centre, a Genetic Laboratory or a Genetic Clinic or is employed in such a Centre, Laboratory or Clinic and renders his professional or technical services to or at such centre, Laboratory or Clinic, whether on an honorary basis or otherwise, and who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to Ten thousand rupees and on any subsequent conviction, with imprisonment which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.
The name of registered medical practitioner shall be reported by the appropriate authority to the State Medical Council concerned for taking necessary action including suspension of the registration, if the charges are framed by the court and till the case is disposed of and on conviction for removal of his name from the register of the counsel for a period of five years for the first offence and permanently for the subsequent offence.
Any person who seeks the aid of any Genetic Counselling Centre, Genetic Laboratory, Genetic Clinic or ultrasound clinic or imaging clinic or of a medical geneticist , gynaecologist sinologist or imaging specialist or registered medical practitioner or any other person for sex selection of for conducting pre- natal diagnostic techniques on any pregnant women or for the purposes other than those specified ill sub-section (2) of section 4, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a team which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees for the first offence and for any subsequent offence with imprisonment which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.
If they insist doctor to do the test of sex determination then the doctors are instructed to record the conversation and the case can be files against them .They can also be punish for 3 years rigorous imprisonment and fine of Fifty Thousand rupees.
All the associations of the doctors like IMA/FOGSI/MOGS/AMC and radiological associations etc.. should take the action of suspension or cancellation of registration of doctors if the doctor is caught of found conducting sex determination or convicted by the court.
SECTION/RULE OF THE PNDT ACT
Minor Offences
Non-availability of copy of the PNDT Act in the registered centre
Non- Display of registration certificate in the centre.
Non-Display of Board in the premises in English and Local Language that 'Disclosure of the sex of the foetus is prohibited under law'.
Rule No. 17(2)
Rule No. 6(2)
Case may be launched in the court of JMIC u/s 25 of the Act. Punishment may extend to 3 months or with fine, which may extend to Rs. 1,000/-for first offence. Additional fine upto Rs. 500/- per day for the period of contravention for subsequent offence.
Show cause notice u/s 20(1),(2) for temporary suspension of registration.
Under Section 20(3)
Advertisement relating to pre-conception and pre-natal determination of sex.
Section 22(1), (2).
U/s 22(3) of the PNDT Amendment Act, imprisonment which may extend to 3 years and with fine which may extend to Rs. 10,000/-
Case is to be launched in the court u/s 28 of the Act
Unregistered centres.
It includes all such centres where any portable equipment capable of detecting sex before or after conception is used. The owner of such equipment may be having a registered facility somewhere else.
under SECTION/RULE OF THE PNDT ACT it should be Section 23 instead of 3 and in penalties it should be u/s 23 instead of 28.
Irregularities in registered centre
Owner/employee conducting the ultrasonography not qualified.
More ultra sound Machines /equipments where as less number register.
Minor deficiency in record Keeping.
Section 3(2) and Rule 3(b).
Under Rule 4.6 and as per Form 'A'. Sr. No. 8
Under rule 9.
The Appropriate Authority or person authorized thereupon may:
Issue show cause notice u/s 20(1)(2) of the Act and with the endorsement of the Advisory Committee, may suspend (for a reasonable period) or cancel the registration, as per the magnitude of the violation.
May take Suo Moto action u/s 20(3) and suspend the registration without issuing show cause notice.
1.During the period of suspension of registration, the equipment needs to be sealed and signed and kept with the owner. After cancellation of the registration, the equipment has to be sealed and seized.
Any body aggrieved by the above decision may appeal to the higher-level Appropriate Authority within 30 days of the action. The appeal shall be disposed of by the higher authority within 60 days of its receipt.
Irregularities in record keeping as per revised form 'F' are a major offence.
Section 4, 29 and Rule-9.
Contravention (a major offence) of provision of section 5 and 6 of the Act and punishable U/s 23(1) of the PNDT Act.
Section 3A. 4(5). 6 read with section 2(0)
Violation of section 5 and 6 of the Act and punishable u/s 23 of the Act.
Note:-
All offences under the Act are cognizable, non-bailable and non-compoundable (Section 27).
Even a case has been registered by the police, no court shall take cognizance except the complaint has been filed by the AA or by the person/group who had served a legal notice of 15 days to the AA already (section 28).
Action u/s 20 and filing of criminal complaint u/s 28 can go simultaneously (section 20).
PCPNDT Act - Guidelines
Forms and Formats
Documents & Checklist for Application
PCPNDT Act 1994 and Amendments
PCPNDT Act 1994
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Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped another Indonesian sailor in the Sulu Sea where numerous seafarers have been abducted by Islamist extremists in recent months, officials said Sunday.
Ten Indonesian sailors abducted by Abu Sayyaf Islamic militants were freed in the southern Philippines on Sunday after five weeks in captivity, Philippine police said.
Gunmen have abducted four Indonesian sailors and shot and wounded one crew member on the high seas off the east coast of Malaysia's Sabah state, waters where Abu Sayyaf militants are known to operate, a senior police official said Saturday.
A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected militants left a Philippine hospital Saturday a day after his ordeal ended, looking frail though officials said he was in good health.


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Our ATV rentals in Logan, Ohio are Kawasaki Brute Force 300s and Suzuki Kingquad 400s. They are great for both beginner and expert riders. You go through a complete orientation where our expert guides teach you the correct riding methods. Ride through roughly 14 miles of trails with difficulties ranging from beginner to expert. ATVs are a great way to get your family together for some real outdoor fun!
4-seat buggy rental is our most popular vehicle for families!
After parking, come into the front. We will check in your group and verify all of the driver and/or passenger information provided during booking (name, age, weight). Being safe is our number goal, so after checking in we go over a training course on how to drive and ride in our ATVs. This includes time spent with our expert guides who also take the time to fit you and your party with all the necessary gear, including helmets. Afterward, you and your party are free to explore our exciting 14-mile course with your ATV rental and our guides may even accompany you!
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Cross the vortex event horizon into gravity's playground where the unexpected becomes expected. The Moonshiners' Mystery Shack is naturally abnormal. No high tech trickery, just nature running amok.


It's difficult to play down the influence of marketing in the digital age, such is its ubiquity. From the most blatant of banner ads to the most subtle of product placements, it permeates the digital experience to such a degree that many of us can no longer tell the difference between what is marketing and what isn't.
This omnipresence has exponentially intensified the impact of marketing on the organisational bottom line. Never before has there been so many marketing channels available, never before has there been such control over the audience that's targeted, and never before has an advertiser been able to instantly modify and enhance campaigns in real time. Any company worth its salt has realised that in order to survive and thrive in today's commercial climate, it needs to make a serious investment in its marketing.
Top tier marketing talent, therefore, is in high demand. While the Digital Marketing Institute found that 52% of companies believe recruiting digital talent is critical in the next two years, a survey by Deloitte found that 75% are struggling to recruit the required talent. The digital skills gap is real, and is predicted to get worse before it gets better. So how does an organisation ensure that they're the preferred employer for the finest marketing minds?
Let's take a look at five reasons why your organisation might be failing to attract top marketing talent, and how these problems can be fixed.
Many organisations have their sights set on a marketing unicorn – the complete professional package who'll instantly solve all of their marketing woes.
Parallels can be found between shopping for a new home and shopping for marketing talent. There's inevitably a trade-off when house-hunting; house A has three bedrooms but no garage, while house B has a garage but just a small second bedroom. There's no ideal home in your price-range, so you simply choose the best possible fit for you. A refusal to do so will see you house-hunting ad infinitum, treading water instead of moving forward.
In the hunt for marketing talent, inflexibility equals stagnation. By being adaptable in your talent search you'll hire quicker, and subsequently see a swifter return on your recruiting investment. Smart recruiting will see you identifying not just the top tier candidates, but those with potential, who will grow into a role and offer exponential returns on your initial investment. Be sure to research the market, and gain an understanding of expected salary and benefits.
Perfect doesn't exist. But a pragmatic attitude to recruiting will help you get close.
Marketers – the desirable ones at least – are passionate about marketing. They seek to constantly challenge themselves by learning new skills, using new technologies and testing out new methodologies. So, will your organisation allow them to grow?
Be it through formal training or a more autonomous working environment, professional development opportunities will be high on the preferred employer checklist of top marketing talent. Formal education courses provided by the likes of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, The institute of Direct and Digital Marketing and Digital Marketing Institute can prove quite the carrot, as can specific skills courses on topics like Google Analytics or copywriting. Networking will also be high on the agenda of top tier talent, so consider providing the opportunity to go to events and seminars such as TFMA or the B2B Marketing Expo.
How do outsiders perceive the experience of working as an employee of your company? This, in essence, is the idea behind your employer brand, a concept that is coming into ever sharper focus as the competition for talent heats up.
•	Provide website content, such as blogs, videos, pictures and interviews, that paints a picture of what it's like to work within the walls of your organisation.
•	Use social media to share the fun side of your company – the Friday drinks, staff trips and in-office perks that will help to make you a preferred employer.
•	Take your organisation's Glassdoor profile seriously by responding to any negative feedback, and by actively encouraging current employees to review your organisation.
•	Don't disregard the experience of those candidates who unsuccessfully apply for a position – they can be just as influential in shaping your employer brand as your actual employees.
Good talent doesn't stay on the market for long. If your recruitment process is eight weeks long, the candidate will have already accepted an offer by the time you're ready to act.
Again, winning the services of top talent requires flexibility and pragmatism. If you find the right candidate, you must be prepared to hasten the application, interviewing, and onboarding processes. Don't let the slow-turning cogs of organisational bureaucracy deny you the services of in-demand talent.
A full scale overhaul of your current recruiting processes may be in order, but you'll soon identify inefficiencies and excesses that are stymying your hiring efforts. It could be as simple as ensuring that those responsible for pushing the process forward regularly put time in their diaries to do so. Aim to be as efficient and nimble as possible, without compromising on due diligence.
What opportunities (beyond the opportunity for self-development mentioned above) are you offering marketing talent? If you were to switch seats, would you be excited by what your organisation has placed on the table? Marketers are passionate about marketing, and they want to know that you'll be fostering that passion.
Why should they join your business? What does the opportunity look like in the long term? What will they be working on, and who will they be working with? Will there be a mentor to help fast-track their development? What marketing technology is your organisation looking to utilise in the future?
Sell them the big picture at interview. Spell out the opportunity that lies before them; the exciting new channels, technologies and people that they'll work with, and the vital role that you hope for them to play in driving the organisation forward. Remember: you're likely selling to a candidate who is being courted by a handful of other suitors, so ensuring that they understand the potential of the role you're offering – without stretching the truth – is crucial.
Low unemployment means that today's job market is steadfastly candidate driven, but in the case of top talent, and in the face of a serious digital skills shortage, this effect goes into overdrive. You no longer get to cherry-pick the finest candidates from the pool of marketing talent. This talent now picks you. Thus it has never been more important to be seen as a preferred employer.
While such a reputation isn't earnt overnight, by acknowledging this new paradigm, and doing all that you can to recognise and avoid the pitfalls mentioned above, you'll be far more likely to land that most prized of modern day team members – the marketer.


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Q: Remote server command execute What would be the best way to execute shell commands on remote servers and get output without actually logging in.
Maybe with shh keys. Preferably with python.

A: You mean without logging in manually? Because a server that actually let you execute commands without logging in at all would be a humongous security risk.
It looks like in the area of Python interfaces to SSH, Paramiko is what everybody's using these days. Here's a nice introductory article I found through Google:
http://jessenoller.com/2009/02/05/ssh-programming-with-paramiko-completely-different/
In order to avoid entering a password every time you log in, you would indeed want to set up an SSH key pair on your computer and send the public key to the server. The method of doing so depends on what SSH client you use and what SSH server software the server uses.

A: I'm assuming you want to streamline your usage of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
In that case I suggest Fabric.

A: Paramico is the most convenient way to use SSH with Python that I've found so far.
Good luck!

A: Paramiko is really good and convenient for transferring files and executing commands in remote server.
But, the problem is that we won't be able to catch the output of the command. It will be difficult to understand whether the command executed properly or not.

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On an average day approximately 5,000 people visit The Forum for a wide variety of reasons, which makes our main Atrium an excellent event venue.
The Forum will also help you market your event, via our website, social media and quarterly event guide. This is included in the venue hire price.
The Forum has a dedicated car park offering convenient parking for your event and Norwich city centre.
Please contact our venue hire team. If you would like to see the facilities first hand, we would be very happy to show you around.


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Nobles County approves three new positions
The positions include a deputy auditor-treasurer at a cost of $64,903, an assistant jail administrator at the Prairie Justice Center at $77,436, and a facilities maintenance technician to primarily work at the PJC, at $61,187.
WORTHINGTON — Nobles County commissioners unanimously approved three new positions during their Tuesday board meeting. The positions will cost a combined $203,526 for 2020, which equates to a 1.5% levy impact, if they are all filled by Jan. 1.
The positions include a deputy auditor-treasurer at a cost of $64,903, an assistant jail administrator at the Prairie Justice Center at $77,436, and a facilities maintenance technician to primarily work at the PJC at $61,187.
With Auditor-Treasurer Joyce Jacobs and County Administrator Tom Johnson making the case for their requests in a previous board work session, the majority of the discussion Tuesday focused on Sheriff Kent Wilkening's request. Wilkening previously told commissioners the assistant jail administrator position is required by the state when 60 or more inmates are consistently housed in the jail.
"We built the jail with the intention of being a regional facility," Wilkening said. "I've done everything I could to follow the wishes of the board at that time to make it a regional facility."
There were 69 inmates housed in the jail as of Tuesday morning, Wilkening said. It's been as high as 82.
With contracts to house inmates for other entities — Rock County and the Minnesota Department of Corrections being the largest supplier of inmates — Wilkening said the completion of the Minnehaha County Jail in South Dakota has resulted in a reduction of inmates coming from South Dakota's Lincoln County.
That reduction has also resulted in a revenue reduction for the jail this year.
Wilkening said even without contracting with other agencies to house inmates, Nobles County is encroaching on that 60-inmate count.
"As of this morning, there were 55 inmates that were just Nobles County," Wilkening said. "If we just held county inmates, that would get you by without an assistant jail administrator. Then, you will have to go to the budget and cancel $600,000 in revenue because I'd have to cancel contracts for every other entity."
When board chairman Matt Widboom asked if creating the new position would make it feasible for the jail to consistently house more than 80 inmates, Wilkening's response was that the position gets the county into compliance with the state.
In response to a question from Commissioner Justin Ahlers about the position alleviating any overtime pay within the jail, Wilkening said, "I doubt it."
He did say that if the inmate population exceeds 82, which is what the jail is currently licensed for, it may require a relicensing. That, in turn, may require additional staff.
"If we were to go above 82, I'd have to add bunks," Wilkening said, noting everything is in place to add bunks if needed. The jail was built for a maximum capacity of 104.
In the end, all three of the positions were approved, effective Jan. 1.
In other action, the board:
Authorized Public Works Director Stephen Schnieder to begin planning for three road improvement projects in 2020 — County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 1 within the city of Brewster, CSAH 31 within the city of Lismore; and CSAH 29 within the city of Wilmont. Each of the projects will be a mill and overlay of the street, as well as updates to sidewalks to make them ADA-compliant.
The county has $870,000 in municipal state aid funding to put toward the three projects. Schnieder said the county could borrow from its 2021 state allotment to finance any amount over what is in the account.
Approved a retainer with Scott Anderson of Rupp, Anderson, Squires and Waldspurger P.A. to continue to provide advice and consultation on zoning issues, as well as ongoing training for the county's Board of Adjustment and Planning and Zoning committees. The retainer is $4,800 for 2020, a $600 increase over the 2019 rate.
Approved final payment of $26,160.60 to Gag Sheet Metal, Inc. to close out the Prairie Justice Center roof project.
Tabled discussion on the purchase of a floor scrubber for the Prairie Justice Center. Johnson was directed to compare prices on new versus used scrubbers, and to see if any private businesses provide these services.
Awarded a bid to Behrends Signworks, Worthington, to make signage for installation on the entrance to the Prairie Justice Center. Behrends submitted the lowest of three local bids, at $988.23.
Related Topics: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Julie Buntjer became editor of The Globe in July 2021, after working as a beat reporter at the Worthington newspaper since December 2003. She has a bachelor's degree in agriculture journalism from South Dakota State University.
Navigator withdraws Illinois carbon pipeline application but plans to refile
Navigator CO2 Ventures is hoping to streamline the application process in Illinois as they add an additional pipeline to the mix.
By Jeff Beach
Jackson man dies in North Dakota snowmobile crash
The North Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating the Wednesday, Jan. 25, crash.
By Forum News Service
Resolution on Jan. 6 rally struck down unanimously by South Dakota House's top legislators
Testimony to the top House committee from a convicted attendee of the Jan. 6 rally focused on the "inhumane" treatment of Jan. 6 defendants. The committee rejected a resolution on the matter 12-0.


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Q: PHP - strtotime() and datetime strange behavior I have a some dates formatted as string in this format: 18-04-17.
I want to convert them to dates.
At first I used strtotime() to change it to date:
$timestamp = strtotime($row['reqEndDate']);
$newdate = date("d-m-Y", $timestamp);
echo $newdate;

This outputs: 17-04-2018. As you can see it mistakes the day with the year.
Next I tried to use datetime, as follows:
$newdate = datetime::createFromFormat("d-m-Y", $row['reqEndDate']);
echo $newdate->format('d-m-Y');

This outputs: 18-04-0017 .This method gets the day correctly, but instead of 2017 it prints 0017.
Is there any reason for this behavior? Maybe some settings in my php setup to look for?

A: Uppercase Y will produce 4 digit year. Lowercase y produces a two-digit year. Your code with DateTime should be:
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d-m-y', $row['reqEndDate']);
echo $date->format('d-m-Y');

You can read about supported formats in PHP's manual page about date.


WINNIPEG -- The Winnipeg Jets took the first step toward reinforcing their lineup by signing forward Drew Stafford on Tuesday.
Stafford, 29, avoided free agency and signed a two-year contract with an average annual salary of $4.35 million.
After the Jets acquired Stafford in a multiplayer trade with the Buffalo Sabres on Feb. 11, he had nine goals and 10 assists in 26 games. Stafford, who led Winnipeg with a nine-game point streak this season, played left wing and right wing, strengthened the second line and helped the Jets qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2007 with a franchise-record 99 points.
"It was an extremely easy choice," Stafford said Tuesday. "It was the offer I wanted. I'm extremely happy to be coming back. The bottom line is I'm coming back to an organization where I'm extremely comfortable. I love the city. The fans were unbelievable to me."
Stafford had 18 goals in 76 games with Winnipeg and Buffalo this season. He was the 13th pick in the 2004 NHL Draft by the Sabres and had 154 goals and 341 points in 589 NHL games. He scored an NHL career-high 31 goals with Buffalo in 2010-11.
Stafford stressed his desire to remain with the Jets after being swept by the Anaheim Ducks in the Western Conference First Round. Stafford arrived in Winnipeg with defenseman Tyler Myers; each player quickly adjusted to the Winnipeg dressing room and provided a veteran presence to a young team in the final two months of the regular season.
The contract term is shorter than what might have been expected for a 29-year-old who had found a fit with a team, but Stafford said he was comfortable with it. The contract could allow him to test free agency in 2017 when he will be 31 years old.
"I think the term works well for both sides," Stafford said. "I'm all for the challenge of raising my game. I feel like I've got a lot left to prove. I still feel like I've got a lot left to show. The term and the money made sense for both sides.
"If it's still a good fit [in two years] we can maybe talk then about where we're at."
Stafford is the first major name crossed off general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff's summer to-do list. Forwards Michael Frolik, Lee Stempniak, Jiri Tlusty and Jim Slater each can become an unrestricted free agent Wednesday. Cheveldayoff did not speak to the media Tuesday.
Captain Andrew Ladd and defenseman Dustin Byfuglien could become unrestricted free agents after next season.
Cheveldayoff being able to maintain and improve the Jets' depth will be critical this summer in the highly competitive Central Division. The Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild are among the teams in the division that have been able to retain key players or make improvements with a trade.
But Stafford said he believes the Jets can duplicate their success.
"We have the type of team where I feel like we can do some damage," Stafford said.


Looking after the soil is a perhaps the most important long-standing tradition of sustainable farming practice, but only recently has the wider agricultural community started waking-up to this fundamental need. An expansive, cultural "war on soil" has been under way for millennia and is deeply embedded in our psyche. Truly sustainable economics and widespread prosperity can only be based on the viability of the land and its soil. The inclusive application of the full spectrum of beneficial farming methods now available to us could achieve this very end.
Rivers Trusts' Chief Executive, Arlin Rickard, asked at their 2012 Exeter conference, "What has happened to our soil science in the UK?" We might also ask, "What has happened to our agriculture?" as there is perhaps no better illustration of our wider economic mess and the irresponsible culture that has been created than in this sector.
It has been understood for over half a century that both ploughing and chemicals destroy soil structure by degrading and oxidising microbial activity—the two basic practices that underlie our conventional food production, but which in turn destroy the maintenance of our vital water cycle on which it depends. Yet, by ignoring this, or worse, suppressing the knowledge of it, we have allowed a succession of flawed farming practices—of which GMOs are only the latest—in over 5,000 years of a "mining-the-land" mentality, which we can now no longer afford to maintain.
Presently in the Cotswolds, up to 70 tonnes of topsoil per hectare per year are now being lost in the worst affected areas2—valuable carbon (humus) that could have aided rain-water infiltration to recharge the aquifers is simply lost. Consequently, normal or "base" flows in rivers have reduced by 20% in just two decades—in places, the rivers themselves are clogged with topsoil, and the fisheries destroyed.
Rivers Trusts, along with the Environment Agency and our monopolist water companies, are struggling to deal with the consequences of modern farming. Large grants are distributed to deal with the effects: Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs), Catchment Sensitive Farming, biofilters for pesticides, field buffer strips, cover crops, and so on; all instead of actually addressing the fundamental causes—i.e. the continued and widespread use of farm chemicals. As the toxic farming practices that cause these problems are subsidised, this approach rapidly descends into the economics of the madhouse—not dissimilar to our wider economy.
After nearly two decades of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones, 69% of these show no improvement in water nitrate concentrations, while 31% show a significant worsening3—the authorities do not even appear to understand the reasons why.
Agricultural chemical contamination that accumulates in our aquifers is a major limitation on, and incurred cost for, the UK's public water supply, with at least one major UK water company now doubting its future commercial viability as a result of consumers' inability to pay the higher bills incurred. (Reflected in 2014 by below inflation rate rises in water bills; with water company staff layoffs).
Increased flood and drought risk arises directly from this degraded farmland, as does the soil's inability to properly recharge the aquifers. All UK household insurance is now surcharged to meet the cost of the resulting raised flood risk, while those 20% of UK properties at risk are increasingly forced to install and maintain expensive Individual Property Protection measures, in addition to all the stress and misery involved—just some of the concealed costs of chemical agriculture.
Self-interest and partisan thinking can blinker us all—however, traditional farming wisdom has long held the answers, not least because it is founded on carefully crafted environmental knowledge developed over countless generations, and thus different from the widely broadcast, yet selective and incomplete science led by profit and politics that prevails in government planning today.
Dealing with the effects rather than the causes has become central to our economic activity. Our healthcare costs are inflated by obesity and the many other effects of nutritional breakdown. Medical and agricultural "progress" may be based on very impressive science, but much of this is the wrong science—a science that cannot possibly connect the dots to address the interdependent nature of all these growing and costly problems.
The EU is little different—at the very least, as a simple result of government incompetence.
Tough economic conditions, climate change, and poor soils are all vital prompts for change, and now all this is becoming familiar in Europe. In Australia, these factors have long combined to create new agricultural ways of thinking. The continent that brought us Yeoman's Keyline System and Mollison's Permaculture continues to innovate in natural farming practices by adapting other techniques, such as Mob Grazing and, from Japan, Higa's Effective-Microorganisms (EM or Bokashi)—all with good success, and which could be complementary to existing Biodynamic approaches.
Gloucestershire farmer (and Nuffield Scholar) Rob Richmond has applied US and Australian Mob Grazing on bio-diverse pastures with low levels of additional nutrient (composted manure at rates as low as 1 tonne per hectare) to enhance the soil microbiology, and as a great way to improve livestock nutrition and health, while transforming soil carbon (humus) content—increasing it at 0.8% per annum. This typically adds 200,000 litres of rainwater storage per 1% carbon added per hectare (which is variable according to the soil type and temperature).
A dynamic "Carbon Farming" movement, which turns the problems of Climate Change into opportunities, is growing around the world. Networking knowledge is one thing—cycling nutrients (which directly relates to both carbon and energy use) is quite another; yet both need a fundamental basis of goodwill to succeed—a novel social concept in our present culture.
A key element of restoring soils is availability of natural nutrient to negate the need for energy intensive and soil degrading artificial fertilisers. Livestock are the main potential providers; but two other major potential natural sources—green household waste and sewage—are problematic. Aerobic composting can be tricky on a municipal or urban basis, with diligence required for controlling malodorous fumes, flies, rodents, and associated pathogens. Problems which, understandably, require the Environment Agency to exercise great caution before approving the siting of new composting schemes, but more often not doing so, and thus depriving farmland of the bulk of available green waste, further burdening landfill and encouraging incinerators.
Higa's EM, increasingly known as Bokashi composting, is a multiple-use, symbiotic consortium of beneficial bacteria, yeasts, and fungi, producing an anaerobic fermenting process, but so different from the putrefaction normally associated with septic breakdown of waste. An immediate benefit is that this fully contained process reliably overcomes the potential odour, pest and pathogen problems that can otherwise limit the siting of them in urban situations.
Bokashi composting appears to offer a practical way of engaging people in understanding and rebuilding a relationship with soil and water—a transitional step towards recycling-networks, with allotment groups and community supported agriculture schemes.
The need for practical solutions is important in the vast expanses of Australia, where sufficient animal manures are often not available in the arable farming areas, nor urban waste streams. But here, EM is brewed into activated liquid biological fertilisers using either waste produce from farms, or organic molasses, and sometimes used along with artificial fertilisers.
This delivers a more natural and complete nutrition to the plants than the pure chemical form, which also makes much more efficient use of the available nutrient, and also maintains plant vigour and increases plant sugar content, while deterring weeds, and growing soil carbon content.
Not qualifying for organic accreditation does not seem to worry the Aussie practitioners of this particular method. Their main interest is the long-term viability of their farms and the overcoming of otherwise severe operational challenges. In this, there may be some important lessons for European agriculture.
Benign and beneficial farming methods should not need excessive regulation. These are mainly required for the toxic farming practices (and associated problems) that have arisen during the past half century and that have become a huge burden to all farmers as well as the taxpayers. Standards for maintaining or increasing soil carbon content while growing more nutritious food are important—areas where Biodynamic farming has long excelled.


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package org.commcare.suite.model;

import org.javarosa.core.services.storage.Persistable;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.DeserializationException;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.ExtUtil;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.ExtWrapList;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.ExtWrapMap;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.ExtWrapMapPoly;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.PrototypeFactory;

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Vector;

/**
 * Suites are containers for a set of actions,
 * detail definitions, and UI information. A suite
 * generally contains a set of form entry actions
 * related to the same case ID, sometimes including
 * referrals.
 *
 * @author ctsims
 */
public class Suite implements Persistable {

    public static final String STORAGE_KEY = "SUITE";

    private int version;
    private int recordId = -1;

    /**
     * Detail id -> Detail Object *
     */
    private Hashtable<String, Detail> details;

    /**
     * Entry id (also the same for menus) -> Entry Object *
     */
    private Hashtable<String, Entry> entries;
    private final HashMap<String, List<Menu>> idToMenus = new HashMap<>();
    private final HashMap<String, List<Menu>> rootToMenus = new HashMap<>();

    private Vector<Menu> menus;
    private Hashtable<String, Endpoint> endpoints;

    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    public Suite() {

    }

    public Suite(int version, Hashtable<String, Detail> details,
                 Hashtable<String, Entry> entries, Vector<Menu> menus, Hashtable<String, Endpoint> endpoints) {
        this.version = version;
        this.details = details;
        this.entries = entries;
        this.menus = menus;
        this.endpoints = endpoints;
        buildIdToMenus();
    }

    private void buildIdToMenus() {
        for (Menu menu : menus) {

            List<Menu> menusWithId = idToMenus.get(menu.getId());
            if (menusWithId == null) {
                menusWithId = new ArrayList<>();
                idToMenus.put(menu.getId(), menusWithId);
            }
            menusWithId.add(menu);

            List<Menu> menusWithRoot = rootToMenus.get(menu.getRoot());
            if (menusWithRoot == null) {
                menusWithRoot = new ArrayList<>();
                rootToMenus.put(menu.getRoot(), menusWithRoot);
            }
            menusWithRoot.add(menu);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getID() {
        return recordId;
    }

    @Override
    public void setID(int ID) {
        recordId = ID;
    }

    /**
     * @return The menus which define how to access the actions
     * which are available in this suite.
     */
    public Vector<Menu> getMenus() {
        return menus;
    }

    public List<Menu> getMenusWithId(String id) {
        return idToMenus.get(id);
    }

    public List<Menu> getMenusWithRoot(String root) {
        return rootToMenus.containsKey(root) ? rootToMenus.get(root) : new ArrayList<Menu>();
    }

    /**
     * WOAH! UNSAFE! Copy, maybe? But this is _wicked_ dangerous.
     *
     * @return The set of entry actions which are defined by this
     * suite, indexed by their id (which is present in the menu
     * definitions).
     */
    public Hashtable<String, Entry> getEntries() {
        return entries;
    }

    public Entry getEntry(String id) {
        return entries.get(id);
    }

    public Endpoint getEndpoint(String id) {
        return endpoints.get(id);
    }

    public Hashtable<String, Endpoint> getEndpoints() {
        return endpoints;
    }

    /**
     * @param id The String ID of a detail definition
     * @return A Detail definition associated with the provided
     * id.
     */
    public Detail getDetail(String id) {
        return details.get(id);
    }

    @Override
    public void readExternal(DataInputStream in, PrototypeFactory pf)
            throws IOException, DeserializationException {
        this.recordId = ExtUtil.readInt(in);
        this.version = ExtUtil.readInt(in);
        this.details = (Hashtable<String, Detail>)ExtUtil.read(in, new ExtWrapMap(String.class, Detail.class), pf);
        this.entries = (Hashtable)ExtUtil.read(in, new ExtWrapMapPoly(String.class, true), pf);
        this.menus = (Vector<Menu>)ExtUtil.read(in, new ExtWrapList(Menu.class), pf);
        this.endpoints = (Hashtable<String, Endpoint>)ExtUtil.read(in, new ExtWrapMap(String.class, Endpoint.class), pf);
        buildIdToMenus();
    }

    @Override
    public void writeExternal(DataOutputStream out) throws IOException {
        ExtUtil.writeNumeric(out, recordId);
        ExtUtil.writeNumeric(out, version);
        ExtUtil.write(out, new ExtWrapMap(details));
        ExtUtil.write(out, new ExtWrapMapPoly(entries));
        ExtUtil.write(out, new ExtWrapList(menus));
        ExtUtil.write(out, new ExtWrapMap(endpoints));
    }
}


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A Healthier and Stronger Community
I have been leading a life of public service in Ventura County for decades and I am proud to have served the residents of Oxnard since 2010. I am now seeking your continued support in my run for Supervisor.
I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley with my six siblings and enjoyed a semi-rural childhood which has influenced my life and values. I have been a homeowner in Oxnard since 1992 and have worked in Ventura County since 1978.
In 1978, I began my career in Oxnard as a legal aid attorney working to protect the health and economic well-being of individuals and families before government and in court. My office was right here in Oxnard at Channel Counties Legal services, where people came for help with education, housing, and employment. For 16 of those years, I served as Director. Then for nine years, I worked for the Superior Court of Ventura County in Colonia helping Spanish-speaking residents understand their rights and responsibilities.
In 2007 a giant corporation wanted to endanger our community and our ocean by putting a Liquified Natural Gas terminal right off Ormond beach. I led the fight alongside many community members to defeat that polluting project.
Since then I have fought for environmental justice and proper economic development for Oxnard, leading the charge against building in our community already overburdened with polluting industries a fourth power plant. I have been working hard for you since taking office in 2010, and together we have made so much progress.
I helped lead the way in strengthening our community's resilience, infrastructure, and environmental health.
I worked hard to stop the construction of a polluting natural-gas plant, clearing the way for a new clean energy system instead.
I voted for accountability by ending no-bid contracts and holding our city to high standards, providing incentives to local companies that hire locally.
I have supported enhanced fire and police services to ensure our first responders have the best resources.
I have supported youth services to keep Oxnard's young people thriving.
When polluting industries wanted to abuse Oxnard, I voted to protect your health, your children's health, and the health of our environment.
We have worked together to strengthen our community and restore trust in this city, but there is much more progress to be made.
So, it is with gratitude for your past support, a passion for the future of our community and the encouraging endorsement of many Oxnard residents and civic leaders, that I announce my candidacy for Ventura County Supervisor District 5.
I am dedicated to placing the health of the community at the center of every decision I make.
Our community has faced difficult challenges in the past, and I have made decisions with only your best interests in mind. I pledge to continue doing that for you at the county level.
Between now and election day on March 3rd, 2020 we have a lot of work to do, but it will be worth it for our future!
So, join me in this fight for a healthier and stronger community!
Forward together,
Carmen Ramirez for Supervisor 2020
2081 N. Oxnard Blvd #150
www.Carmen4Supervisor.com
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Rūta Meilutytė (* 19. März 1997 in Kaunas) ist eine litauische Schwimmerin und Gewinnerin der Goldmedaille über 100 Meter Brustschwimmen bei den Olympischen Spielen 2012 in London. Mit 1:04,35 min über 100 m Brust sowie 29,48 s über 50 m Brust hält sie die derzeit gültigen Europarekorde.

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Rūta Meilutytės Mutter starb im Alter von 34 Jahren 2001 bei einem Autounfall. Meilutytė wuchs mit zwei älteren Brüdern Margiris und Mindaugas unter Aufsicht ihrer Großmutter und ihres Vaters Saulius Meilutis auf. Meilutytė lernte an der Milikoniai-Mittelschule in Šilainiai. Sie spielte vier Jahre Basketball, beendete das Training aber nach einem Beinbruch.
2008 zog ihr Vater nach England, um dort mit Behinderten zu arbeiten; 2010 folgte ihm seine Tochter.

Sportliche Karriere
Mit Schwimmen begann Rūta, als sie sechs Jahre alt war. Neun Jahre lang trainierte sie in einem veralteten und für internationale Wettkämpfe nicht geeigneten Schwimmbad aus sowjetischer Zeit in Šilainiai. Ihr erster Trainer in Litauen war Giedrius Martinionis.

Meilutytė trainiert gegenwärtig mit einem Sportstipendium im Rahmen des Leander Swimming Programme am Plymouth College im englischen Plymouth.

Ihre ersten internationalen Erfahrungen machte Meilutytė im Rahmen der International Children's Games 2010 in Manama/Bahrain, wobei sie zwei Goldmedaillen sowie eine Silbermedaille in den Disziplinen Brust und Freistil gewinnen konnte. 2011 sicherte sich Meilutytė beim Europäischen Olympischen Sommer-Jugendfestival 2011 in der nordosttürkischen Stadt Trabzon einen kompletten Medaillensatz und siegte dabei über die 100 m Brust. Sie qualifizierte sich anschließend für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012 in London, ohne jemals zuvor an Welt- oder Europameisterschaften teilgenommen zu haben. Im Halbfinale verbesserte sie ihre Bestzeit auf einen neuen Europarekord und zog überlegen ins Finale ein. In diesem startete sie auf Grund ihrer Vorleistungen als Mitfavoritin und konnte vor Rebecca Soni, der amtierenden Weltmeisterin über diese Strecke, gewinnen. Meilutytė ist die erste Schwimm-Olympiasiegerin des unabhängigen Litauens. Über 100 m Freistil schied Meilutytė wenige Tage nach ihrem Olympiasieg mit dem 29. Platz im Vorlauf aus. Auch über die halbe Distanz kam sie trotz persönlicher Bestleistung nicht über den Vorlauf und Platz 26 hinaus.

Bei den Kurzbahnweltmeisterschaften 2012 stellte sie im Halbfinale mit 29,51 s einen neuen Europarekord über 50 m Brust auf, den sie bei ihrem Sieg im Finale nochmals um sieben Hundertstelsekunden verbesserte. Auch über 100 m Brust gewann sie erneut in Europarekordzeit von 1:03,52 min die Goldmedaille. Zudem belegte sie über 100 m Lagen den zweiten Platz.

Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2013 in Barcelona stellte sie im Halbfinale mit 1:04,35 min einen neuen Weltrekord über 100 m Brust auf und wurde später Weltmeisterin. Im Halbfinale über 50 m verbesserte sie mit 29,48 s den erst einige Stunden vorher von Julija Jefimowa mit 29,78 s in einem Vorlauf aufgestellten Weltrekord.
Im Finale gewann sie knapp hinter Jefimowa die Silbermedaille. Beide von Meilutyte aufgestellten Weltrekorde wurden inzwischen von der Amerikanerin Lilly King verbessert. Im Oktober 2013 verbesserte sie beim Schwimm-Weltcup in Moskau den von Rebecca Soni 2009 aufgestellten Kurzbahn-Weltrekord über 100 m Brust um 34 Hundertstelsekunden auf 1:02,36 min.

Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2015 in Kasan gewann sie über 100 m Brust in 1:06,36 min die Silbermedaille hinter Jefimowa. Bei den Kurzbahnweltmeisterschaften 2018 wurde sie Vize-Weltmeisterin über 50 m Brust.

Im Mai 2019 teilte die Fina mit, dass Meilutytė innerhalb eines Jahres dreimal nicht für eine Dopingkontrolle angetroffen wurde. Am 22. Mai 2019 beendete sie ihre Karriere aus persönlichen Gründen. Später entschied sie sich, ihre Karriere doch fortzusetzen, und nahm 2022 an den Weltmeisterschaften in Budapest teil, bei denen sie eine Gold- und eine Bronzemedaille gewann.

Bis 2018 war ihr Trainer Paulius Andrijauskas, bestellt vom Litauischen Schwimmen-Verband (LPF). Seit 2018 arbeitete sie mit David Marsh (University of California, San Diego) in den USA zusammen.

Rekorde

Auszeichnungen
 2012, 2013, 2014: Litauens Sportler des Jahres
 2012: Piotr-Nurowski-Preis

Weblinks

 Facebook-Seite von Rūta Meilutytė

Einzelnachweise

Schwimmer (Litauen)
Olympiasieger (Schwimmen)
Weltmeister (Schwimmen)
Europameister (Schwimmen)
Olympiateilnehmer (Litauen)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Jugend-Sommerspiele 2014
Sportler (Kaunas)
Träger des Ordens für Verdienste um Litauen
Litauer
Geboren 1997
Frau
Sportler des Jahres (Litauen)

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Nine months after Brittney Brashers met fellow Airman Robbie Walters while on duty in Iraq, she was dead - apparently killed as their car crashed after a late-night drinking session.
But detectives arriving on the scene thought something didn't look quite right - and questioned whether Brittney was in fact already dead before the moment of impact.
Now, 48 Hours has detailed the couple's violent relationship, the troublesome investigation into her death and the eventual murder conviction against Walters - which was granted after he admitted strangling her while his wife secretly recorded him.
Her family has also revealed the heartbreaking moment they found out about her death - and how the life sentence for Walters will never be enough for taking Brittney from them.
Brittney was found injured in her car's driver's seat on November 17, 2009, with her on-off boyfriend beside her. She was pronounced dead at the Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado.
The death came after Brittney had enjoyed a successful career with the Air Force. She had signed up aged 20, three years after her mother died of cancer and she fell in with a bad crowd.
And she immediately excelled as a technician at the Air Force dental lab in Colorado Springs, her boss, Master Sgt. Art Figeroa, said.
In February 2009, Brittney was deployed to Iraq and assigned to non-combat security, and met an Airman from southern California named Robbie Walters.
As their relationship blossomed, Brittney was stunned when she learned Walters was married - but he assured her it was solely for the separation pay and he was devoted to his new girlfriend.
Kicked out: Walters was discharged because of discipline problems and they reunited in the U.S.
But he was kicked out of the forces due to his disciplinary problems and, when Brittney returned to the Colorado lab after four months of service, Walters was there to meet her.
Peeples said it was at that time that she started to dislike her friend's new boyfriend. The couple would break up and then get back together - and Walters became increasingly violent, she said.
'He would do crazy things like park her car in the middle of a four lane in traffic with her in the passenger seat, take the keys out and run with her sitting there in the car,' Peeples recounted.
Then, during an argument outside Brittney's home in October 2009, he hit her and left her with bruises. She called the police and Robbie spent a few days behind bars.
Three weeks later, after she had started playing with a girls' football team, Walters said he wanted to see her again, and she relented.
He joined her at a photo shoot for her football team, where the girls stripped naked but used each other's body parts to maintain their modesty for the camera.
Investigators believe seeing Brittney remove her top with other people in the room pushed Walters over the edge - and led to him killing her just hours later.
Drunk, they left the photo shoot after midnight - but an hour later, the car slammed into a parked vehicle on a dead-end street, alerting neighbours to call authorities. Brittney was killed in the crash.
Detective Troy Bisgard told 48 Hours that Walters' story that they had been falling asleep initially made sense, but something didn't look right - so they called in a homicide team.
'They're the ones telling me, "Look, it was a car accident but it wasn't so significant that she should be dead from it",' Bisgard said.
A medical examiner found Brittney had alcohol in her body, but only just over the legal limit. There were no drugs in her system.
They also found that she didn't hit windshield that hard and had been left with no significant injuries of her organs, neck, spinal cord or brain.
Yet, strangely, she did have bruising around her temple and upper right cheek. In further signs that she could have been strangled, there were hemorrhages on her skin and around her eyes.
But medical examiners came against an odd problem when trying to find if she had been strangled; because of her anatomy, she was missing a piece of cartilage in her throat that is usually crushed if someone is strangled. So the manner of death was ruled as 'undetermined'.
Detectives were dedicated to finding out the truth about her death.
Despite his earlier protestations that his marriage to his wife, Elena, was nothing, Walters returned to her in California. When detective Bisgard heard he had had a big fight with her, he gave her a call.
With barely a prompt, Elena told him Walters had confessed to punching and strangling Brittney and covering it up with the accident. As he confessed, Elena had pressed 'record' on her mobile phone.
He added that he held down his forearm against her neck to kill her.
Walters was arrested but said he had not been telling the truth in the recording. He insisted his wife had started the conversation and he 'just agreed with her to get the conversation to end'.
In August 2011, the case went to court, where prosecutors said Brittney had been driving, they swapped seats and he began punching her, before moving her back into the driver's seat for the accident.
They presented other evidence, including how 911 callers had seen the car erratically braking on the highway, suggesting times he had been hitting her.
There was also blood in the car that had not splattered as she hit the windshield.
He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life without parole - and her family said they felt 'instant relief'.
Walters said he will appeal the conviction as his wife recorded him without her knowledge, which is illegal in their home state of California. He added that she schemed against him out of revenge.
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Tomorrow I am taking my daughter to the local County Convention for our chosen political party. We probably won't stay long – her little activity backpack doesn't keep her occupied forever in a crowded auditorium on a Saturday – but I will consider every minute of the experience an important act of parenting.
It is very important to me that my daughter grows up understanding the importance of the democratic process, rather than partaking in widespread apathy. To that end, she has often attended the polls with me over the years and we even snagged her a sample election ballot to take to school for show and tell when it was time to study the letter E at the same time as a local election. She has attended two precinct conventions with me and this will be her second county convention. Maybe not enough involvement to be elected Party Chair, but it's pretty good for a kindergartener whose parents are not politicians.
We also encourage her to write letters to "her" elected officials when she has a concern, and she is building up a pretty good scrapbook of responses. We have lively discussions about the pros and cons of various political and economic systems, about why children aren't allowed to vote, about why my husband and I aren't voting for her friend's mother…you get the idea.
Good citizens don't grow on trees; they grow in families who model good citizenship. If our children are the future, they must learn to shape it. We can't expect civics class to do it if we won't. We're the ones they're watching.


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require 'thor'
require 'thor/group'

module Spontaneous
  module Cli
    module TaskUtils
      # include Thor::Actions

      def self.included(base)
        base.class_eval do
          def self.banner(task, namespace = true, subcommand = false)
            "#{basename} #{task.formatted_usage(self, true, subcommand)}"
          end
        end
        base.class_option :site, :type => :string, :aliases => ["-s", "--root"], :default => ".", :desc => "Site root dir"
        base.class_option :environment, :type => :string,  :aliases => "-e", :required => true, :default => :development, :desc => "Spontaneous Environment"
        base.class_option :mode, :type => :string,  :aliases => "-m", :default => :back, :desc => "Spontaneous mode ('front' or 'back')"
        base.class_option :help, :type => :boolean, :desc => "Show help usage"
      end

      protected

      def fix_schema(error)
        modification = error.modification
        actions = modification.actions
        say(actions.description, :red)
        say("Please choose one of the solutions below", :yellow)
        actions.each_with_index do |a, i|
          say("  #{i+1}: #{a.description}")
        end
        choice = ( ask "Choose action : ").to_i rescue nil
        if choice and choice <= actions.length and choice > 0
          action = actions[choice - 1]
          begin
            Spontaneous::Schema.apply(action)
          rescue Spontaneous::SchemaModificationError => error
            fix_schema(error)
          end
        else
          say("Invalid choice '#{choice.inspect}'\n", :red)
          fix_schema(error)
        end
      end

      def prepare(task, mode = "console")
        if options.help?
          help(task.to_s)
          raise SystemExit
        end
        ENV["SPOT_ENV"] ||= options.environment.to_s ||
        ENV["RACK_ENV"] = ENV["SPOT_ENV"] # Also set this for middleware
        ENV["SPOT_MODE"] = mode.to_s
        chdir(options.site)
        unless File.exist?('config/boot.rb')
          puts "=> Could not find boot file in: #{options.chdir}/config/boot.rb\n=> Are you sure this is a Spontaneous site?"
          raise SystemExit
        end
      end

      def prepare!(task, mode = "console")
        prepare(task, mode)
        boot!
      end

      def boot!
        begin
          require File.expand_path('config/boot.rb')
        rescue Spontaneous::SchemaModificationError => error
          fix_schema(error)
        end
      end

      def chdir(dir)
        return unless dir
        begin
          Dir.chdir(dir.to_s)
        rescue Errno::ENOENT
          puts "=> Specified site '#{dir}' does not appear to exist"
        rescue Errno::EACCES
          puts "=> Specified site '#{dir}' cannot be accessed by the current user"
        end
      end
    end

    autoload :Assets,   "spontaneous/cli/assets"
    autoload :Console,  "spontaneous/cli/console"
    autoload :Fields,   "spontaneous/cli/fields"
    autoload :Generate, "spontaneous/cli/generate"
    autoload :Init,     "spontaneous/cli/init"
    autoload :Media,    "spontaneous/cli/media"
    autoload :Migrate,  "spontaneous/cli/migrate"
    autoload :Server,   "spontaneous/cli/server"
    autoload :Site,     "spontaneous/cli/site"
    autoload :Sync,     "spontaneous/cli/sync"
    autoload :User,     "spontaneous/cli/user"

    class Root < ::Thor
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Console,  "console",  "console",           "Gives you console access to the current site"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::User,     "user",     "user [ACTION]",     "Administer site users"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Generate, "generate", "generate [OBJECT]", "Generates things"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Site,     "site",     "site [ACTION]",     "Run site-wide actions"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Init,     "init",     "init",              "Creates databases and initialises a new Spontaneous site"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Server,   "server",   "server [ACTION]",   "Launch development server(s)"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Media,    "media",    "media [ACTION]",    "Manage site media"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Sync,     "sync",     "sync [DIRECTION]",  "Sync database and media to and from the production server"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Migrate,  "migrate",  "migrate",           "Runs Spontaneous migrations"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Assets,   "assets",   "assets [ACTION]",   "Manage Spontaneous assets"
      register Spontaneous::Cli::Fields,   "fields",   "fields [ACTION]",   "Manage Spontaneous fields"

      desc :browse, "Launces a browser pointing to the current development CMS"
      def browse
        prepare! :browse
        require 'launchy'
        ::Launchy.open("http://localhost:#{::Spontaneous::Site.config.port}/@spontaneous")
      end

      map %w(--version -v) => :version

      desc :version, "Show the version of Spontaneous in use"
      def version
        require "spontaneous/version"
        say "Spontaneous #{Spontaneous::VERSION}"
      end
    end
  end
end