Termites, called in the common people "white ants", are herbivorous insects, which are actually related not to ants , but to cockroaches . Termites are the only insects that in a short time are able to destroy any wooden buildings , since their main food is cellulose, which is included in each cell of trees and other plants. Now in your residence in Oxleyif you face with the complications because of the termites, calling the termites pest control services. They have all the perfect soltuions for the issue.
The secretive way of life and the special way of absorbing the wood, leaving the front surface of the wooden structures completely untouched, lead to the fact that termites can live in the house for a long time, remaining unnoticed. Sometimes from the moment of termite intrusion to their detection there passes not less than five years. This is the reason that the termites control services should be called at least once in a year in these areas.
Safety actions are essential. This mainly includes starving meals, cautious cleanliness and excellent air flow. Furthermore, closing joints and breaks and saving meals in awesome manufacturing facilities. This is where an examination of the products to be obtained is possible. Insect management will also always first thoroughly examine the roaches, on the foundation of this examination advice and management will be handled by pest control. In case of excellent protection of roaches, management is also necessary. After a thorough examination by pest control in the building / space, a wet or dry management is selected. Adhesive blocks can also be placed. After 2 to 3 weeks, an after-treatment will take place if necessary.
One of the best means of combating termites is boric acid , which exerts a depressing and dehydrating effect on them. A boric acid powder can evenly process wooden surfaces or make baits on its basis. Ready baits must be placed either directly in the nest in which termites live, or place them in the immediate vicinity of the house. The bait must be regularly checked and supplemented with boric acid.
On the Internet, you can find many recipes for the preparation of coatings , which can handle the location of dangerous insects. Sometimes fumigation (gassing) of an insect-occupied space is carried out. As a poisonous agent, it is recommended to use hydrocyanic acid or carbon disulfide. But if your are busy and need a proper professional service completing the work for you, then the professional termites treatment services are the best options that you can opt for.
We are here with other pest control services rather than this one as well.


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Национальные удостоверения личности выдаются гражданам в большинстве государств-членов Европейской экономической зоны (страны Евросоюза, а также Исландия, Лихтенштейн и Норвегия). Граждане стран-участниц могут использовать их не только в качестве документа, удостоверяющего личность в своей стране, но и в качестве документа, подтверждающего право на свободное посещение стран Европейского союза и Швейцарии.

В настоящее время, четыре государств-членов ЕЭЗ (Дания, Исландия, Ирландия, Норвегия) не выдают своим гражданам национальные удостоверения личности. Это означает, что граждане этих государств могут использовать только паспорт при посещении стран ЕЭЗ и Швейцарии.

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 Паспорта граждан стран-членов Европейской экономической зоны
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 Европейская экономическая зона
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For the React framework, we have the next. Angular is from Google and React is from Facebook. Those developers who have been working in the C background are likely to as it helps to share a lot of features and also shapes the future of Angular developers. Source: HackerNoon In comparison from application size point of view, the especially for the. Angular: In Angular, components are referred to as. That way, when both are replaced by a BetterFramework.
So, the tip 1 is to actually determine your needs and then match it with framework capabilities. To know more about Angular vs React 2018,. You need to consider all the parameters and project requirements while. The comparisons between Angular and React are many but it is their differences that must be considered to enlist one of them. As we can see, Angular is more popular in several dozen times than React. Some of the are React-router, Fetch for https requests, and Enzyme for unit testing utilities. And, choosing the best programming language is a lot like choosing a favorite candy from a store.
Both Reactjs and Angularjs are open-source products and when it comes to the popularity of React vs Angular, both are used by major brands. Among the most prominent of these front-end technologies are Angular and React, that have taken the web by storm. This gives you the ability to develop features without degrading the loading time. If dependence on libraries could be desirable then React is a better choice from this aspect and requirement of out-of-box functionality may be driving the use of the Angular platform. Angular vs React 2018 Every developer has to keep his pace up with the evolving technology trends. React Native is a platform developed by Facebook for creating native mobile applications using React.
Type of Features The second most important thing you should look for is the kind of features the tool offers. You have to pick one React, MobX, etc and add it to your application. However, learning to use React does not necessarily mean that you are using. A component generally gets an input, and changes behavior based on it. It has been changing since it has been released, of-course for better, but what does this mean for the developers. There is a that works on the console to assess the status of your app. The programmers can choose from the number of libraries in React.
It really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Instead of keeping the state in a single immutable store, like Redux does, it encourages you to store only the minimal required state and derive the rest from it. Just always remember to use these tools to help your development process and not make it more complicated, at the end of the day, these are not magical tools from the outside world, they are tools that you could reinvent theoretically at least, it would take you forever to do it practically, and might not be as neat so try to make the best use out of these tools and also try to be thorough learning and using a certain tool instead of jamming your application with tools that need not be there. It provides a set of decorators to define observables and observers and introduce reactive logic to your state. About Angular Framework The Angular is an efficient tool that is based on TypeScript and was developed at the end of the year 2010 and currently, it is maintained by Google. But over the course of 2018, we saw a growth of interest in a third player called Vue.
From the statistics, all three projects show significant development activity, and this is surely going to continue in the future — just these statistics cannot be the basis of not deciding to use either of them. The double braces are used to interpolate the value of the message. React on the other hand is easier to start with, has demonstrated a better learning curve for developers. The Typescript is also influenced by Java and. As a result of that, you will get a properly functioning application simple to support and scale. Otherwise, it can bring unwanted complexity to your project.
A sudden shift in the number of stars of Vue occurred in mid-2016 and, recently, Vue has been up there with React as the most popular frameworks. This can be both a good and a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. Complex syntax although uses Typescript. The latest stable version is Angular 7, which was released in October 2018. Now, from our last blog, you already know that Vue. Even people with a backend development background and limited experience in frontend development were able to catch up quickly.


Hi Friends! I'm coming to you from a hotel room in Montana. Day three of my road trip is just about to start. As soon as I finish sipping my coffee, writing this blog post and studying a few maps, I'm jumping right back into my car and continuing East. Adventure awaits!
So in an effort to get a decent start to my day, I'm going to keep things short and sweet.
In my opinion, Fall salads should be hearty and something that you can really sink your teeth into. Because you know, it's colder now and we need to bulk up and prepare for hibernation. At least that's what I like to tell myself. Warning: don't take health advice from me!
My Pear, Spinach and Quinoa Salad with Apricot Dressing contains lots of good-for-you ingredients. And it will help fill you up, without completely weighing you down. It's a salad that I consider to be a "main meal" type of salad, and it's one that I enjoy often for dinner this time of year.
The apricot jam is a fun addition to the dressing that gives an extra boost of flavor and sweetness. I've also successfully made this recipe with both plum and fig jam. So feel free to choose whichever jam you like the best. I'm confident that it will be great!
OK, I better get moving now. Bye!
Cook the quinoa. Combine the quinoa and water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and then reduce the temperature to maintain a low simmer. Cook for 15-17 minutes, covered, until the water is absorbed. Remove from the heat and let stand covered for 5 minutes. Then fluff with a fork and set aside to cool.
Make the dressing. In a small bowl whisk together all of the ingredients. Set aside.
Combine the cooled quinoa, pears, spinach, walnuts, gorgonzola and dressing in a large bowl, tossing gently until everything is well coated. Serve and enjoy.
This salad can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 1 day.
Love this dressing! Have a great time in your adventure today!
Oooh, Montana! What a beautiful place to be right now 🙂 And this salad is absolutely gorgeous–loving that apricot dressing!
Thanks, Amy. Montana is soooo gorgeous!
Thanks, Jennifer! Pears are so good right now!
Thanks for the well wishes, Katya!
Thanks, Trang. You should definitely start making your own salad dressings. It's so easy to do and it's fun to play around with the flavors. I hope you try it out!
This salad has so many of my favourite things. Pears! Walnuts! Blue cheese! Quinoa! What an amazing combination! Thanks for the inspiration, and for the gorgeous recipe.
Thank you, Katie! I hope you enjoy it!
Love fruit, nuts and cheese in salads – and adding apricot preserves to the dressing is a great idea. Looking forward to trying this.
I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by, Geraldine!


J Biol Chem. 2012 Mar 2;287(10):6979-90. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.330845. Epub 2012 Jan 10.
A conserved lipid-binding loop in the kindlin FERM F1 domain is required for kindlin-mediated αIIbβ3 integrin coactivation.
Bouaouina M1, Goult BT, Huet-Calderwood C, Bate N, Brahme NN, Barsukov IL, Critchley DR, Calderwood DA.
Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biology and Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and Therapeutics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
The activation of heterodimeric integrin adhesion receptors from low to high affinity states occurs in response to intracellular signals that act on the short cytoplasmic tails of integrin β subunits. Binding of the talin FERM (four-point-one, ezrin, radixin, moesin) domain to the integrin β tail provides one key activation signal, but recent data indicate that the kindlin family of FERM domain proteins also play a central role. Kindlins directly bind integrin β subunit cytoplasmic domains at a site distinct from the talin-binding site, and target to focal adhesions in adherent cells. However, the mechanisms by which kindlins impact integrin activation remain largely unknown. A notable feature of kindlins is their similarity to the integrin-binding and activating talin FERM domain. Drawing on this similarity, here we report the identification of an unstructured insert in the kindlin F1 FERM domain, and provide evidence that a highly conserved polylysine motif in this loop supports binding to negatively charged phospholipid head groups. We further show that the F1 loop and its membrane-binding motif are required for kindlin-1 targeting to focal adhesions, and for the cooperation between kindlin-1 and -2 and the talin head in αIIbβ3 integrin activation, but not for kindlin binding to integrin β tails. These studies highlight the structural and functional similarities between kindlins and the talin head and indicate that as for talin, FERM domain interactions with acidic membrane phospholipids as well β-integrin tails contribute to the ability of kindlins to activate integrins.
a, the domain structure of talin head and kindlin. Schematic representation of talin head and kindlin domain structure. The individual domains: F1, F2, and F3, that make up a canonical FERM domain are shown in green, yellow, and blue, respectively; the F0 domain is shown in red. The kindlin PH domain is indicated by a brown box. The unstructured F1-loop region is shown in gray and other unstructured regions are in white. The position of the long C-terminal talin rod is indicated. The horizontal scale in both schematics is the same. Sequence alignment of kindlin FERM domains showing the F1 sequence (green background) bordering the F1 insert (gray background). Highly conserved (>90% identity) residues are colored in red, residues with >50% identity are colored in blue, and other residues appear in black in the kindlin sequence. # is any NDQE. Kindlin sequences from NCBI data base were processes by Multalin server. b, the probability of disorder for mouse kindlin-1. Mouse kindlin-1 full-length sequence (NCBI data base NP_932146.2) was submitted to the RONN (Regional Order Neural Network) server to predict natively disordered regions based on the amino acid sequence. The 117-amino acid F1 insert (shown by the red line) comprises residues 141–249 and contains >80 of these inherently disordered residues. Prediction false positive rate was set at 5%.
J Biol Chem. 2012 Mar 2;287(10):6979-6990.
The kindlin-1 F1 loop is required for αIIbβ3 integrin activation. a, CHO cells stably expressing αIIbβ3 integrin were co-transfected with GFP or GFP-tagged talin head (residues 1–433) and DsRed or DsRed-tagged kindlin-1 cDNAs as indicated. Activation indices of αIIbβ3 integrin from co-expressing cells with similar fluorescence of GFP and DsRed tags were calculated using either PAC1 IgM or PAC1 FAb as indicated and normalized for integrin expression (see "Experimental Procedures"). The results represent the mean ± S.E. (n ≥ 3). Results that are significantly different from DsRed + GFP-talin head (t test p < 0.05) are indicated (*). b, kindlin-1 F1 loop is not required for kindlin-1 binding to β3-integrin tail. Pulldown assays using wild type and mutant recombinant αIIb or β3 tail proteins were performed with CHO cell lysates. Binding of overexpressed kindlin constructs was assessed by Western blotting. Loading of each tail protein was judged by protein staining. Lysate represents 10% of the starting material in the binding assay. c, binding of different kindlin constructs was quantified by densitometry and normalized to the lysate control (n ≥ 3).
The kindlin F1 loop interacts with negatively charged membrane phospholipids via a positively charged sequence at its N terminus. a and b, wild type kindlin F1 loop (residues 141–249; 0.15 mg/ml) (a) or kindlin F1 loop containing mutations in the polylysine motif (b) was mixed with vesicles (0.5 mg/ml) consisting of PC, PS, or a 4:1 ratio of PC:PS and then centrifuged. Protein present in the vesicle-containing pellet (P) or the vesicle-free supernatant (S) was assessed by SDS-PAGE and protein staining. c, sequence alignment of kindlins showing the N-terminal part of the kindlin F1 loop bordered by F1 sequence (gray). Positively charged amino acids, arginine (R) and lysine (K) are in bold. Kindlin sequences from NCBI data base were aligned using the Multalin server.
The lipid-binding polylysine motif is required for kindlin-1-mediated αIIbβ3 integrin activation but not integrin β tail binding. a, CHO cells stably expressing αIIbβ3 integrin were co-transfected with GFP or GFP-tagged talin head (residues 1–433) and DsRed or DsRed-tagged kindlin-1 cDNAs as indicated. Activation indices of αIIbβ3 integrin from co-expressing cells with similar fluorescence of GFP and DsRed tags were calculated and normalized for integrin expression (see "Experimental Procedures"). The results represent the mean ± S.E. (n ≥ 3). Results that are significantly different from DsRed + GFP talin head (p < 0.05) are indicated (*). b, pull-down assays using wild type and mutant recombinant αIIb or β3 tail proteins were performed with CHO cell lysates. Binding of overexpressed GFP-kindlin-1 wild-type or F1 loop mutant recombinant proteins was assessed by Western blotting. Loading of each tail protein was judged by protein staining. Lysate represents 10% of the starting material in the binding assay.
The kindlin F1 loop poly-lysine motif is required for FA targeting of kindlin-1 in adherent cells. Images of CHO cells stably expressing αIIbβ3 integrin transiently transfected with (a) GFP-tagged kindlin-1 wild type and F1 loop mutants or (b) GFP-tagged kindlin-1 wild type and W612A mutant expression constructs after plating on fibrinogen coverslips. Kindlin-1 wild type but not kindlin F1 loop mutants nor kindlin-1 W612A co-localizes with vinculin at focal adhesions. White bar = 10 μm.
Kindlin-2-mediated αIIbβ3 integrin activation requires F1 loop lipid-binding polylysine motif. a, similar to a. CHO cells stably expressing αIIbβ3 integrin were co-transfected with GFP or GFP-tagged talin head (residues 1–433) and DsRed or DsRed-tagged kindlin-2 cDNAs as indicated. Activation indices of αIIbβ3 integrin from coexpressing cells with similar fluorescence of GFP and DsRed tags were calculated and normalized for integrin expression (see "Experimental Procedures"). The results represent the mean ± S.E. (n ≥ 3). Results that are significantly different from DsRed + GFP-talin head (t test p < 0.05) are indicated (*). b, similar to b. Pulldown assays using wild type and mutant recombinant αIIb or β3 tail proteins were performed with CHO cell lysates overexpressing GFP-kindlin-2 wild type or F1 loop mutants proteins. Binding of kindlin constructs was assessed by Western blotting. Loading of each tail protein was judged by protein staining. Lysate represents 10% of the starting material in the binding assay.
Swapping the F1 loops between talin head and kindlin-1 impairs their ability to activate αIIbβ3 integrin. a, GFP empty vector, GFP-talin head (residues 1–433) or chimeric GFP-talin head (kindlin-1 loop) cDNAs were transfected into CHO cells stably expressing αIIbβ3 integrin. Activation indices of αIIbβ3 integrin from expressing cells with similar GFP fluorescence were calculated and normalized for integrin expression (see "Experimental Procedures"). The results represent the mean ± S.E. (n ≥ 3). Results that are significantly different from the GFP-talin head (t test p < 0.05) are indicated (*). b, similar to a, CHO cells stably expressing the αIIbβ3 integrin were co-transfected with GFP or GFP-talin head (residues 1–433) and DsRed, DsRed-kindlin-1, or chimeric DsRed-kindlin-1(talin loop) cDNAs as indicated. Activation indices of αIIbβ3 integrin from coexpressing cells with similar fluorescence of GFP and DsRed tags were calculated and normalized for integrin expression (see "Experimental Procedures"). The results represent the mean ± S.E. (n ≥ 3). Results that are significantly different from DsRed + GFP-talin head (t test p < 0.05) are indicated (*).


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Woods development camp coming up
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, June 16, 2010
By Michael Kerekes
NATCHEZ — If you hang around former Natchez High track coach Henry "Doc" Woods long enough, you're bound to hear the word "elite" a time or two.
Even though he's retired from coaching full-time, Woods is still in the business of developing elite track athletes. This summer, he's looking to once again put on his annual development camp, even though dates for it have not been set.
"We'll do registration (in the near future) and then get started. We'll probably do it from 9 to 11 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. We're going to try to get at least three weeks out of it," Woods said.
The goal of the camp, Woods said, is to provide each athlete with the proper discipline as far as the general upkeep of the body.
"We can develop the arms, legs and body by way of stretching and running. This develops a good, flexible athlete. We also teach them about proper dieting, because as the saying goes, you are what you eat," he said.
Woods plans to use the track at Natchez High School, and the running hills behind Trinity Episcopal as the two main sites for his camp.
"Having a new track will help. We can use it because its (lanes are marked off), and we can learn the technicality of proper lanes. We can also teach endurance, because having 400-plus meters, we can mount up and keep times," Woods said.
"With the hills, it's nothing like a straight plane, because hills will develop your total body."
Woods said the camp has been happening annually for over 25 years, and usually results in Woods sending his campers to the Southern Association of Track and Field regionals. However, Woods said he wouldn't be sending them this summer.
"We're late doing it, so we'll focus on development only this summer. We'll probably get them earlier next summer in order to run and prepare them for that type of competition," Woods said.
For more information, Woods can be reached at 601-660-1139.
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The Churchill Factor
How One Man Made History
By: Boris Johnson
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On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, and written in conjunction with the Churchill Estate, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion - a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity.
Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he embraced large-scale strategic bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect.
Tigris Gunboats
By: Wilfred Nunn
Mosquito to Berlin
By: Peter Bodle FRAeS, Bertie Boulter DFC
From Borneo to Lockerbie
By: Geoffrey Leeming
Bourlon Wood
By: Nigel Cave, Jack Horsfall
Bletchley Park's Secret Room
By: Joss Pearson
Carthage's Other Wars
By: Dexter Hoyos
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Cadaeic Cadenza
This article relies too much on references to primary sources. Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. (August 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
"Cadaeic Cadenza" is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is an example of constrained writing, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. It is also one of the most prodigious examples of piphilology, being written in "pilish". The word "cadae" is the alphabetical equivalent of the first five digits of Pi, 3.1415; a cadenza is a solo passage in music.
In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works, of different types and pieces of literature ("The Raven", "Jabberwocky", the lyrics of Yes, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", Rubaiyat, Hamlet, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme.
1 The limitations
2 Near a Raven
The limitations[edit]
When the number of letters in each word is written out they form the first 3835 digits of pi.
One / A Poem / A Raven / Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5
While in this example each word is the same number of letters as the next digit of pi (and ten letters for the digit 0), some sections use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit:
And fear overcame my being – the fear of "forevermore".
where 11 represents two consecutive digit "1"s in pi.
Taking "A" as 1, "B" as 2, "C" as 3, etc., the name of the piece itself is based on pi, as "Cadaeic" is the first 7 digits of pi, when rounded to that number of significant digits.
C a d a e i c
3.1 4 1 5 9 3
Near a Raven[edit]
The first part of Cadaeic Cadenza is slightly changed from an earlier version, "Near a Raven", which was a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".[1]
The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary,
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".
—  Mike Keith, First verse of Near a Raven
Six nines in pi (handled at the start of chapter 2, "Change")
^ Near A Raven, cadaeic.net Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (1845)
The Raven (1915)
Evil Calls: The Raven (2011)
Barnaby Rudge
The Blessed Damozel
The Raven (Lou Reed album)
"The Raven" (The Alan Parsons Project song)
"That's How the Story Ends" (Five Iron Frenzy song)
Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight (play)
"Treehouse of Horror"
The Raven (painting series)
The Pigeon
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Ali Shafeya Killed, AiB to Continue...
Ali Shafeya was killed on December 14th. I've listed the details of his death below as they appear on Alive in Baghdad's blog. We're determined to continue and will be raising money for the future of Alive in Baghdad via a new ChipIn widget soon. We raised $2500 to cover the costs of his funeral and support the family. We hope you will continue to support Alive in Baghdad as it continues. You can also call the Committee to Protect Journalists and ask why they did not list Ali Shafeya in their annual list of Journalists killed in 2007. Here is their phone number: 212-465-1004 Thanks again for all your support.
***Original Blog below***
Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi was born in 1984 on December 16th, he was killed on December 14th, 2007.
We are collecting donations for the funeral and his family. You can make a donation via Paypal to smallworldnews (at) gmail.com . If you would like to make a donation by mail or via a different payment service please email us directly at the previous address. We have raised nearly $600 until now, but more will help. His mother and sister are displaced Iraqis leaving in Syria without employment.
Ali lived in Habibya, it's considered as a part of the Sadr city. On Friday the 14th at 11:30pm Baghdad time, Iraqi National Guard forces raided the street where Ali's house is, one of the neighbors heard a gun firing after 15 minutes from the arrival of the Iraqi National Guard convoy to the street, the force left at 3:00am. His neighbors kept calling Ali's phone and it was switched off all the time, so they called his cousin Amar because he lives one block away from where Ali lives.
Amar arrived in Ali's house and found Ali shoot dead in the living room, Amar called the Iraqi Police and told them the story as he heard it from Ali's neighbors. At 8:30 am Baghdad time the Iraqi Police took Ali's body to the morgue, his two uncles received the body at 10:00am and they headed to Najaf to bury him.
Amar said the neighbor who lives in the front of his house was shot dead too during that raid, the guy's name is Hussein and he is 26 years old. He was in his place along with his brother and nephew. The brother and the nephew disappeared after the convoy left.
The morgue report says that Ali took 31 bullets between the chest and the head and died immediately. He will be missed and remembered. His two brothers were killed in the Firdos Square bombing in 2005. He is survived by his mother and sister. As written above, we are collecting donations for his family via Paypal and mail at smallworldnews (at) gmail.com No amount is too small, and anything will be appreciated.
Link: http://smallworldnews.com/blog/ali-shafeya-killed-aib-to-continue
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With high levels of product category variability, SuperATV uses Searchspring to adjust their merchandising and navigation in response to how customers shop.
"Searchspring gives you the flexibility to organize your products in a way that makes sense – not only to you, but also to your buyers. It's the most consistent platform I have seen that integrates with Magento."
Josh South, Director of Marketing and Technology, SuperATV
Automotive & Powersports
www.superatv.com
In the first year after integrating Searchspring, SuperATV's revenue increased by
SuperATV is an off-road brand specializing in aftermarket accessories for UTVs and ATVs.
With parts stocked in over 3,000 dealerships across the U.S., the business also sells products direct-to-consumer and via Amazon and eBay marketplaces.
While now well-established across multiple channels, the brand began with a single homemade lift kit, designed by Harold Hunt for his own Polaris Sportsman. "His buddies liked it so he built some for them too," says Josh South, Director of Marketing and Technology at SuperATV. Soon, he was selling his kits on eBay, and the business took off from there.
Over 15 years later, all parts continue to be designed, engineered, and manufactured in Madison, Indiana, and the business is still family-owned and run. "We're not allowed to have meetings on Friday afternoons because Harold goes out riding," says Josh. "It's definitely a lifestyle brand, we're enthusiasts at heart and we try to instill that in all of our employees so that they carry it over to our customers."
SuperATV's online shopping experience has evolved considerably since the early days, and keeping up with the demands of the industry is always a challenge, says Josh. "The machines are constantly changing, and so is the way people find products for their machines."
More recently, the brand experienced a surge in new business during the COVID-19 outbreak, which Josh attributes to renewed consumer interest in outdoor activities. "People couldn't go on vacation or get out and go places, so they bought off-road machines."
Platformed on Magento, SuperATV initially relied on Elasticsearch to support their online shopping experience. "We didn't really have a lot of success with Elasticsearch because it's all based on weighting certain attributes within Magento," says Josh. They progressed to InstantSearch+ but ran into issues with speed. "InstantSearch+ was slow interacting with Magento and we had a lot of problems with the data transformations back and forth between the two systems."
With B2B sales accounting for up to half of their business, the site also needed to cater to the differing shopping needs of dealers. "Our B2B customers tend to search by product SKUs, which we couldn't do well with InstantSearch+ because of the parent-child relationships within Magento. It was a big selling point for us that Searchspring allowed us to search for child SKUs within parent listings."
"I saw some Searchspring demos and right away knew this was probably the product for us. From the capabilities to modify faceted searches, to creating merchandising campaigns, to the reporting. The primary driver for us was just the speed and consistency within the data transformations," says Josh.
With high levels of variability in their product categories, the SuperATV team uses Searchspring to adjust the merchandising and navigation experience in each category to reflect how their customers shop. New products are released regularly, and they circumvent the traditional restrictions of sorting products by either newness or popularity with a custom approach.
"Searchspring allows us to display a mix of our popular products per category as well as newer items that don't have a sales history. It gives us control over the search results to show the customer what we want at any given time."
The brand also draws actionable data from the platform's insights, particularly the zero results report. "It has driven new product development within the organization because it showed us that people were on our site looking for certain products that we didn't have."
"SuperATV's average order value and search revenue have grown because more shoppers are finding relevant products, faster," says Searchspring Customer Success Manager, Mike Masten.
"Josh achieved this by setting up rules to order the site by sales data, and by organizing facets in a way that made sense for the shopping experience. When you have more people interacting with a smarter algorithm, it empowers them (the shopper) to make a buying decision."
In the first year after integrating Searchspring, SuperATV's:
AOV increased
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increase in traffic.
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Q: Browser Restart Using Geb & Spock within same test I would like to be able to restart my browser session mid test using Geb and Spock Framework.  I no howto close the browser and update after test compltion etc,  but when i close during the test and try and re use the browser object i get a session error thrown by selenium.  Below is the base outline i am trying to execute.  NB never allows me to navigate to the new StoreHome and if i try and use just Browser i get error thrown.
@Category(High.class)
def "TC1: Verify Browser Restart"() {
    when: "On my StoreFront HP wait until title displayed"
    to StoreHomePage
    waitFor { homepagetitle.displayed }

    then: "Update your site picker"
    mySitePicker.click()
    waitFor { myNewHomePageTitle.displayed }

    when: "Close the browser and insure on restart new page is loaded"
    browser.close()
    browser.quit()

    def nb = new Browser()
    nb.to(NewStoreHomePage)

    then: "Validate on New HP"
    asset myNewHomePageTitle.displayed
}

A: It's as simple as doing the following in your spec:
resetBrowser()
CachingDriverFactory.clearCacheAndQuitDriver()

After that any code that tries to access browser will trigger automatic creation of new WebDriver and Browser instances.

A: This is how you force a new driver:
CachingDriverFactory.clearCache()

I tested it, it works beautifully. This hint can also be found in the Geb manual.

Update 2017-02-07 15:10 CET: Thanks for the follow-up question. Well, my brief answer was made under the assumption that the command is issued at the end of one feature method and the next feature method starts with a new browser session. In order to do this mid-test you would have to create a new WebDriver instance manually and somehow trick Geb into updating its browser session.
Because this is tricky at least and I do not know how to do it, I recommend using two separate feature methods for testing what should be tested before and after quitting the browser. You can share state between them via @Shared members, if necessary. This also had the advantage that if you let Geb create the new WebDriver and browser session for you, everything configured in GebConfig.groovy, such as browser type and capabilities, will automatically be considered. If you would create a driver manually, you would have to parse the Geb config by yourself - ugly!
But the main problem with this approach is: How to assure that the feature methods are executed in the (lexical) order of declaration? Normally tests should be runnable in any order, so you cannot and should not rely on a specific execution order. Spock offers the Stepwise annotation to adress the rare case in which you want to enforce execution order, but this would lead to the same problem as in the mid-test situation because Geb implicitly assumes that it should continue to test in the same session. I.e. we need a trick to enforce lexical execution order without using @Stepwise.
Another problem is that if your spec extends GebReportingSpec because you want to take screenshots, Geb fails to take the last screenshot at the end of the feature method with the browser gone. Now you can configure Geb not to take screenshots if the test succeeds via reportOnTestFailureOnly, but that still leaves us with failed tests. So I added an override for the report method with some additional exception handling.
The full solution looks like this, derived from one of my real-life tests:
package de.scrum_master.tdd

import geb.driver.CachingDriverFactory
import geb.spock.GebReportingSpec
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys
import org.spockframework.runtime.model.FeatureInfo
import spock.lang.Shared

class SampleGebIT extends GebReportingSpec {

  @Override
  void report(String label = "") {
    // GebReportingSpec tries to write a report (screenshot) at the end of each feature
    // method. But because we use 'CachingDriverFactory.clearCacheAndQuitDriver()',
    // there is no valid driver instance anymore from which to get a screenshot. Geb is
    // unprepared for this kind of error, so we handle it gracefully so as to keep the
    // test from failing just because the last screenshot cannot be taken anymore.
    try {
      super.report(label)
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println("Cannot create screenshot: ${e.message}")
    }
  }

  // We cannot use 'specificationContext' directly from 'setupSpec()' because of this
  // compilation error: "Only @Shared and static fields may be accessed from here"
  // Okay then, so use we a @Shared field as a workaround. ;-)
  @Shared
  def currentSpec = specificationContext.currentSpec

  def setupSpec() {
    // Make sure that feature methods are run in declaration order. Normally we could
    // use @Stepwise for this, but because @Stepwise implies staying in the same
    // browser session, it would not work in connection with
    // 'CachingDriverFactory.clearCacheAndQuitDriver()'. This is the workaround for it.
    for (FeatureInfo feature : currentSpec.features)
      feature.executionOrder = feature.declarationOrder
  }

  def "Search web site Scrum-Master.de"() {
    setup:
    def deactivateAutoComplete =
      "document.getElementById('mod_search_searchword')" +
      ".setAttribute('autocomplete', 'off')"
    def regexNumberOfMatches = /Insgesamt wurden ([0-9]+) Ergebnisse gefunden/

    when:
    go "https://scrum-master.de"
    report "welcome page"

    then:
    $("h2").text().startsWith("Herzlich Willkommen bei Scrum-Master.de")

    when:
    js.exec(deactivateAutoComplete)
    $("form").searchword = "Product Owner" + Keys.ENTER

    then:
    waitFor { $("form#searchForm") }

    when:
    report "search results"
    def searchResultSummary = $("form#searchForm").$("table.searchintro").text()
    def numberOfMatches = (searchResultSummary =~ regexNumberOfMatches)[0][1] as int

    then:
    numberOfMatches > 0

    cleanup:
    println "Closing browser and WebDriver"
    CachingDriverFactory.clearCacheAndQuitDriver()
  }

  def "Visit Scrum-Master.de download page"() {
    when:
    go "https://scrum-master.de/Downloads"
    report "download page"

    then:
    $("h2").text().startsWith("Scrum on a Page")
  }
}

BTW, I tested this successfully with several browsers on my Windows 10 machine:

*

*HtmlUnit (with activated JavaScript)

*PhantomJS

*Chrome

*Internet Explorer

*Edge

*Firefox

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(Denver, Colo.) — The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at Metropolitan State College of Denver has been awarded a five-year $2.2 million grant renewal from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Migrant Education.
In operation at Metro State since 1999, CAMP has served more than 400 students to date. The program is designed to meet the academic, financial and social needs of migrant and seasonal farm workers and their children in pursing higher education. The program provides compressive support services to about 30 students per semester during their first year of schooling or until they have earned 30 academic credit hours.
CAMP provides students with 50 percent reimbursement for tuition and fees for their first year. Depending on the student's specific circumstances, an additional living expense stipend of $150 per month and health insurance can be provided if needed. Students are expected to strive to obtain GPA's above 3.0 and also are shown how to apply for scholarships and financial aid to maintain momentum upon completion of the CAMP program.
The program seeks to not only retain students, but more importantly to teach them life skills that will make them self sufficient on many levels. They participate in special activities designed to ease their adjustment to college life and are expected to establish a peer support structure, which is done through team-building activities on campus and in Denver's urban core.


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La temporada 2016 de la Primera División de Venezuela fue la 60ª edición de la Primera División de Venezuela desde su creación en 1957. El torneo lo organizó la FVF y la Asociación de clubes del fútbol venezolano.

Un total de 20 equipos participaron en la competición, incluyendo 18 equipos de la temporada anterior y 2 que ascendieron de la Adecuación 2015 de la Segunda División.

Debido al cambio que sufre la liga de calendario Europeo a Calendario Anual esta fue la única temporada en que la Copa Venezuela fue al final de temporada.

La temporada arrancó el 28 de enero de 2016 con el Torneo Apertura y culminó el 11 de diciembre de 2016 con el Torneo Clausura.

En esta temporada tuvo la transmisión del canal de televisión GolTV (Latinoamérica) por primera vez.

Aspectos generales

Modalidad
El campeonato de Primera División constará de dos torneos: Apertura y Clausura; y cada uno con una Fase Final. Los Torneos se jugarán en un solo grupo de 20 equipos, todos contra todos a una vuelta cada uno, con tabla de clasificación independiente. Los mejores 8 en cada torneo Clasifican una liguilla para definir al campeón.

Al final de la temporada, los cuatro equipos con menor puntaje en la tabla acumulada descienden a la Segunda División de Venezuela.

Clasificación a torneos continentales

La clasificación a las distintas Copas Internacionales será de la siguiente manera:

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{| width="100%"
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Equipos participantes

Equipos por región

</center>

Relevos

Para el Apertura y Clausura

Información de los equipos

Final del Campeonato Nacional
La final de Campeonato Nacional o final absoluta la disputarán el Zamora FC, campeón del Torneo Apertura 2016 y el Zulia FC, campeón del Torneo Clausura 2016

Ida

Vuelta

Tabla Acumulada

Tabla de Goleadores

Referencias

Véase también
 Primera División de Venezuela
 Segunda División de Venezuela 2016
 Tercera División Venezolana 2016
 Copa Venezuela 2016
 Temporada 2016 del fútbol venezolano
 Copa Bicentenaria (Venezuela)

Fútbol en Venezuela en 2016
Deporte en Venezuela en 2016
2016


Hey Gang! It's Irwin the Disco Duck and the Wibble Wabble Singers and Orchestra bringing you those great disco tunes you know and love! Actually, I was disappointed to find that Irwin only sings on the first song. However, he does introduce all the other songs in that wonderful fake Donald Duck voice of his. If you didn't know what the songs were, you'd be hard pressed to figure out what the heck he was saying. To me, "Silly Love Songs" sounds like "Suey Buzzsaw", and "Kung Fu Fighting" sounds like "You're Too Fatty"! What song titles can YOU come up with??
THANK YOU!!! I've been hoping someone would post the Disco Duck albums and you've answered my prayers. If you ever happen to come across either the Star Wars-themed or the Sesame Street-themed DD album (or hopefully both), please post them. This child of the late 70's would greatly appreciate it. And congrats on such a great site!
Tony, do you know whether "Irwin the Disco Duck" was, as I suspect, obscure-music expert Irwin Chusid? The latter Irwin has a show on WFMU-FM, which has regularly featured Duck voices (such as a duck-voiced version of the very-scary Christian hand puppet anthem "Diary of an Unborn Child").
ohmigod, i wore this record out when i was little! brings back good memories!
holy crap. thought i was the only one too. i am in agreement with the first poster. i had the star-wars themed album a million years ago, then broke it somewhere down the line. i found it again in university at a chance encounter at a thrift store, and my friend promptly sat on the record 5 hours later. *argh.* this was back in '02 - i am still scouring thrift stores.
Do you by any chance have the "Mickey Mouse Disco" album? That was one of my favorites!! It had the songs "Macho Duck", "Mousetrap!" and even a disco remix of "Chim-Chiminy"!
I have been looking for this for soooo long! My brother and I had chicken pox in the 70's and thought the cure would be to put peanuts in a teeny dixie cup with water on the record spinnin' on our fischer price record player and make special "soup" that would cure us...maybe it worked?? (Although my brother did get a second batch of chicken pox, so maybe not.) I remember the cover like it was yesterday. Although I am convinced that the song Car Wash on it. Am I thinking of another album with a duck on it, or am I wrong?


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Training a new generation of computational neuroscientists bridging neurobiology
Wang, Xiao-Jing Ma, Whee Ky
New York University, New York, NY, United States
Search 139 grants from Xiao-Jing Wang
Search 32 grants from Whee Ma
Search grants from New York University
Development of antibacterial agents and materials
Feasibility of Telehealth CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder
Remodeling of the M. tuberculosis cell wall during infection
Birational Geometry and Bridgeland Stability Conditions
Targeted Nuclear Drug Delivery for Cancer Chemotherapy
Data Management and Analysis Core
The Training Program in Computational Neuroscience (TPCN) will support integrated undergraduate and graduate training in computational neuroscience at New York University. The program will be hosted by the Center for Neural Science (CNS), with participation of faculty in the Departments of Psychology, Mathematics, and Computer Science, and the Institute of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine. The TPCN will fit well with NYU?s unique strengths and recent developments: (1) NYU is one of a few universities with a critical mass of computational neuroscientists. NYU has had a Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience since 1994. In the past three years alone, NYU has hired three computational neuroscientists. (2) CNS established an undergraduate major in neuroscience as early as 1992, and thus has a long track record in undergraduate education, it now has 136 students in the current academic year. (3) Recent faculty hiring in CNS, Psychology, and the School of Medicine has greatly expanded our teaching and research capabilities in the neuroscience of cognitive functions and their impairments associated with mental disorders. (3) As NYU is undertaking a merge of two historically separated neuroscience graduate programs (at CNS and the School of Medicine), this training grant will ensure that computational modeling, which has become indispensible in neuroscience, will be front-and-center in the integrated graduate program. (4) NYU is a major center of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, with close links to Facebook?s AI Center and the Simons Center for Data Analysis. Our training faculty together with these connections will give our students ample opportunities to acquire machine learning techniques for data analysis and learn about brain-like AI algorithms. The proposed training program will support coherent undergraduate and graduate training in computational neuroscience at NYU. It will have several unique features: (1) Innovative mentorship methods: For example, (a) graduate trainees will mentor undergraduate trainees, (b) faculty will explicitly discuss human factors in academic practice; (c) there will be post-mortems after seminars by outside speakers. (2) Computational psychiatry: We propose new courses and research opportunities that are designed specifically to link cognitive function and the neurobiology of neural circuits. We propose innovative education in the nascent field of Computational Psychiatry, to bring theory and circuit modeling to clinical research in mental health. (3) Broad preparation:
We aim to prepare trainees for jobs not only in academia, but also in medical and industry research. To achieve this, we will utilize our strength in machine learning and data science to broaden computational neuroscience training. The Program Directors have complementary strengths and will have complementary roles in the program. Wang will supervise graduate trainees and focus on training in mechanistic/circuit-level side of computational neuroscience as well as computational psychiatry. Ma will supervise undergraduate trainees and focus on the computational/behavioral side.
This grant will support training of a new generation of graduate and undergraduate students in computational neuroscience, which has become increasingly important to meet the challenges of making discoveries with new data analysis tools and of understanding highly nonlinear complex neural circuits. A salient component of our program is training in the nascent field of Computational Psychiatry, bridging basic neuroscience and clinical research on mental disorders. Therefore, the proposed program has the potential of making a significant impact on mental health.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Interdisciplinary Regular Research Training Award (R90)
1R90DA043849-01
Special Emphasis Panel (ZDA1-SXM-M (11)R)
Volman, Susan
Schools of Arts and Sciences
R90 DA Training a new generation of computational neuroscientists bridging neurobiology
Wang, Xiao-Jing; Ma, Whee Ky / New York University
Wang, Xiao-Jing; Ma, Whee Ky / New York University $204,981
Okazawa, Gouki; Sha, Long; Purcell, Braden A et al. (2018) Psychophysical reverse correlation reflects both sensory and decision-making processes. Nat Commun 9:3479
Witthoft, Nathan; Sha, Long; Winawer, Jonathan et al. (2018) Sensory and decision-making processes underlying perceptual adaptation. J Vis 18:10
Li, Hsin-Hung; Rankin, James; Rinzel, John et al. (2017) Attention model of binocular rivalry. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:E6192-E6201
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He's growing corn again in the field by my old house.
Been a few years since it was planted last.
Leafy green contrails lolling behind.
All of this regrowth comforts me.
A crop rotation is patience.
a Good Farmer must envision the layers yet to come.
and know it's worth the wait.
There is no nostalgia for a Good Farmer.
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It is almost embarrassing how many posts I've done over the last five years that all in some way relate to the men's locker room. There are even multiple story lines going on at this point. One story line began way back in February of 2010, and it involved a hairy but wonderful man who was in the foul habit of hanging his dirty wet bathing suit on the outside of his assigned locker. You can read about him here. Eventually, I got so perturbed by this imposition that I began tying knots in the strings of the suit. At some point, it even felt like I was not the only one in on the game.
As time went on, my misdeeds came back to me in the form of back pain and then later surgery. I'm not usually this hokey about karma, but I had wronged and I was willing to take my punishment. Not only did I take it, I learned from it. That was the last time I even thought about terrorizing fellow locker-goers, and I simultaneously decided to stop writing about specific people in the locker room. Until now . . .
When I was in high school, my family and I took a trip to Chicago to visit my paternal grandmother. As younger kids we often took trips to the Midwest to see my father's relatives, but as my brother and I got older the frequency of these trips fell off. I was still too young to understand the politics of families of origin, so I just assumed the downtick in travel was random.
It had been a good five years since I had been to the Windy City, and as a 16-year-old, a plethora of new family friendly activities were available. Having visited the Museum of Science and Industry on our last visit, I cast my vote for the Museum of Contemporary Art. My choice had less to do with an affinity for modern art and more to do with a firm distaste for old portraits of America's White forefathers.
As you might imagine, my Mom and Dad had a parentgasm at the sound of their child asking after modern art. During these celebrations they never paused to remember that they had already banned anything "fun" like going to the movies or an arcade.
"You can do that at home," they'd reply.
"But you don't let me!" I'd snap back defiantly.
To my displeasure, the topic was no longer open for discussion.
My new library is much more grand than the last one. It exceeds its predecessor in both stories and stories. The carpeted floors creak like the hallway of your family's house. The wooden panels giving way in sound rather than in movement to the countless footsteps of history that pitter-patter and click-clack unaware upon the threadbare oriental rug.
Constructed in 1896, this postcard is dated "Aug 29, 1906"
My new library smells like the cumulative human experience; like a mold problem that was discovered and taken care of. The wood banisters in the stairwell slide across my fingers as if they came from the past and will carry up up up into the future. There are books, of course. But the books are merely wallpaper towards a greater end. A marketplace of realness where you can find free internet and chairs to sit in. We are all equals at the library, all they ask is that you stay within the boundaries of polite etiquette.
an oak tree in the moonlight.
No leaves, but acorn rich.
Many of my long time readers will remember my series of pieces all set in the locker room of the UMass pool gymnasium. To be clear, I'm not talking about the new multi-million dollar Athletic Center where everyone on campus goes to exercise, but rather the building that now holds only squash courts, physical fitness classrooms, and a state of the art pool that seems totally out of place. The pool is the last remaining sentinel of the gym that came before. This used to be where students worked out 20 years ago, but now the place is deserted save for the swimmers forced into occupancy because of the lack of an aquatic center in the new building . . . so far. As it stands, the locker room is an elephant graveyard of grey beaten lockers, and the shower room is straight out of a Revenge of the Nerds script.
A few weeks ago I signed up for my summer membership at the pool, and was handed a padlock and a locker number. I loaded my suit, towel, and deodorant into the locker that time forgot. I wrote the combination on the back of my Faculty ID.
Last Thursday was my fourth visit to the pool. As I flopped down on the bench in front of my locker, my eyes were still fighting against gravity's insistence that they close. Once I hit the water, gravity's force would no longer apply to me. My weightlessness in water kept the lids permanently lifted. These were the benefits of weekly exercise and a surge of adrenaline.
I twisted the padlock to zero. I got lucky in this regard, my combination actually starts with zero -- so centering the dial served a double purpose. I lazily cranked the dial around to the next two numbers and then yanked downward. Nothing. I repeated the sequence again with the same result. The third attempt I held the lock in my left hand as I carefully entered the combination. I pulled harder than was necessary. Still locked.


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Helen Wolff (27 July 1906 – 28 March 1994) was a German – American editor and publisher.

Biography
Helen Mosel was born to a German father and a Hungarian/Austrian mother in Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906. The family spoke German, Turkish and Serbian. They spent time living in Üsküb. Wolff attended boarding schools in Vienna and learned English. She discovered her gift for languages. In 1927 Wolff worked in Munich where she went from trainee to being in charge of art books for Kurt Wolff Press. The Pantheon imprint where she worked was sold to a Parisian company, and Wolff went there as part of the deal. In 1933, she married Kurt Wolff in London and their son, composer Christian Wolff, was born in 1934 in Nice. Kurt Wolff had two previous children from his first marriage. The Nazis closed the publishing house and the family fled to the United States via Italy and France. They arrived in New York in 1941 almost penniless. They founded a new imprint of Pantheon Books in 1942. In 1959 Wolff moved to Locarno with her husband. The Pantheon line became an imprint of Random House and in 1961 they established the A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book  imprint at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Wolff had an advantage when selecting books from Europe, she could attend the Frankfurt book fair and read the book in German, French, Italian or Turkish, getting an advantage over other publishers.

Kurt Wolff was killed in a traffic accident on his way to a meeting in 1963. Wolff continued running the imprint until she retired in 1986. The imprint continued after she left. Wolff was awarded the Inter Nationes Award for Literature and the Arts by the West German Government in 1981 as well as the Goethe Medal in 1985. Wolff died in Hanover in 1994.

They published a number of notable works including Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Georges Simenon, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea. Wolff never published any of her own work. She wrote, but believed a publisher shouldn't publish. However, after her death, her novel Hintergrund für Liebe was published in 2020.

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1906 births
1994 deaths
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German emigrants to the United States
Yugoslav emigrants to Germany