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Author: Gianpiero Pescarmona
Depression is a term that can refer to a wide variety of abnormal variations in an individual's mood
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anatomical (due its structure)
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*STRESS-INDUCED DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS* , DARKNESS AND DEPRESSION, POSSIBLES ROLES OF MELATONIN., Hypothyroidism and Depression, Post Partum Depression, STRESS-INDUCED DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS, Seasonal Affective Disorder bis
Tryptophan: the Mood Nutrient
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Serena Masellis 12/01/2014
VITAMIN B 12 AND DEPRESSION
The role of the deficiency of Vitamin B 12 in the insurgence or the worsening of the Major Depressive Disorder isn't still totally clear, but it is related with the biochemical metabolism of this vitamin and its role as cofactor in the metabolism of the amino acid "Methionine":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine.
MethylCobalamin and Methyl tetrahydrofolate are necessary cofactors that permit the transmethylation of Homocysteine in Methionine. Methyltetrahydrofolate, in fact, delivers methyl groups to form the active methyl form of vitamin B12 that is required for methylation of homocysteine. Deficiency of vitamin B 12 or folic acid causes increased levels of circulating homocysteine (E. Reynolds—Vitamin B12, folic acid, and the nervous system).
The role of vitamin B 12 in depression is due to its action in transmethylation reactions, which are crucial for the formation of neurotransmitters (e.g. serotonin, epinephrine, nicotinamides, purines, phospholipids).
Low levels of folate or vitamin B 12 can disrupt transmethylation reaction, leading to an accumulation of "homocysteine": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homocysteine (hyperhomocisteinemia) and to an impaired metabolism of neurotransmitters (especially the hydroxylation of Dopamine and Serotonin from Tyrosine and "Tryptophan": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan), phospholipids, myelin, and receptors. The lowering of the synthesis of neurotransmitters, expecially of Serotonin and Dopamine, causes a lower release by neurons and this is one of the principal causes of the insurgence of the Major Depressive Disorder.
Low plasma B 12 and low plasma folate has been found in studies of depressive patients. Furthermore, some studies have shown that low folate levels are linked to a poor response of antidepressant treatment. Other studies also suggest that a high vitamin B 12 status may be associated with better treatment outcomes. The increment of the vitamin B 12 levels in the treatment of this neurogical disorder has been associated through clinical trials in the improvement of the result of the farmacologycal treatment in the patients (Durant et al.--Psychiatric manifestation of vitamin B12 deficiency: a case report).
Some Clinical Trials made on patients affected by depression have reported results that show how a supplement of Cobalamin in patients which had not responded to the anti-depressive treatment, improved their results (N. Kate et al.--Does B12 deficiency lead to lack of treatment response to conventional antidepressants).
See also Vitamin B12
2010-03-27T13:44:25 - claudia bartoli
Correlation between depression and folic acid pahtways.
There are a lot of studies in the letterature about this point.
We have selected some examples:
Association between depressive symptoms and serum concentrations of homocysteine in men: a population study (2004)
The thermolabile variant of MTHFR is associated with depression in the British Women's Heart and Health Study and a meta-analysis (2006)
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) Genetic Polymorphisms and Psychiatric Disorders: A HuGE Review (2007)
Homocysteine and Depression in Later Life (2008)
There is a current Australian trial that want to demonstrate the benifit of folic acid and B vitamin supplementation in the MDD terapy!!!!
The B-VITAGE trial: A randomized trial of homocysteine lowering treatment of depression in later life (2010)
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We begin with deep research into the specific area(s), involving communities and other stakeholders in the need assessment process and in project design. The projects are adapted to the ecological and climatic requirements of the area, the interventions are designed with focus on making them sensitive to the local socio-political context, and the content and methods are localised, incorporating local cultural elements.
We work to develop alternative methods such as for delivering education and health services, which would suit the different socio-ecological conditions of the remote regions that we service. Similarly, we modify available technologies (such as for water and energy) to adapt them to the geographical context of the regions we work in, and simplify them to make them suitable for rural application. Pragya also has deep value for local, traditional knowledge, and blends these with modern, scientific methods for maximum effectiveness.
Our interventions are holistic in nature, spanning multiple sectors, in order to address all associated issues in a comprehensive manner. We understand that in the less-developed, fragile ecosystems of the world in particular, development efforts should also help to achieve the goals of conservation and equity. Pragya initiatives therefore, are aninextricably woven blend of development and conservation elements.
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The Flight Attendant (no Brasil: A Comissária de Bordo) é uma série de televisão americana via streaming, baseada no livro de mesmo nome escrito por Chris Bohjalian e lançado em 2018. É estrelada por Kaley Cuoco no papel principal e estreou na HBO Max em 26 de novembro de 2020. Em dezembro de 2020, a série foi renovada para segunda temporada. A segunda temporada está programada para estrear na primavera de 2022.

Sinopse
Cassie Bowden é uma comissária de bordo que é uma alcoólatra imprudente, inclusive bebendo durante os voos, que passa seu tempo entre os voos se relacionando com caras aleatórios, incluindo clientes que ela conhece durante os voos. Ela acorda em um quarto de hotel em Bangkok, com a ressaca da noite anterior, com o cadáver de um passageiro de seu último voo deitado ao lado dela. Com medo de chamar a polícia, ela continua sua manhã como se nada tivesse acontecido, juntando-se aos outros comissários e pilotos que viajam para o aeroporto. Em Nova York, ela é recebida por agentes do FBI que a questionam sobre sua recente escala em Bangkok. Ainda incapaz de juntar as peças da noite, ela se pergunta se poderia ser a assassina.

Elenco

Principal
 Kaley Cuoco como Cassie Bowden
 Michiel Huisman como Alex Sokolov (primeira temporada)
 Zosia Mamet como Annie Mouradian
 Rosie Perez como Megan Briscoe
 T.R. Knight como Davey Bowden (primeira temporada; recorrente: segunda temporada)
 Michelle Gomez como Miranda Croft (primeira temporada)
 Colin Woodell como Buckley Ware (primeira temporada)
 Merle Dandridge como Kim Hammond (primeira temporada)
 Griffin Matthews como Shane Evans (primeira temporada)
 Nolan Gerard Funk como Van White (primeira temporada)
 Mo McRae como Benjamin Berry (segunda temporada)
 Callie Hernandez as Gabrielle Diaz (segunda temporada)
 JJ Soria como Esteban Diaz (segunda temporada)

Recorrente
 Bebe Neuwirth como Diana Carlisle
 Yasha Jackson como Jada Harris
 Stephanie Koenig como Sabrina Oznowich
 Jason Jones como Mr. Bowden
 Deniz Akdeniz como Max
 Terry Serpico como Bill Briscoe
 Ritchie Coster como Victor
 Ann Magnuson como Janet Sokolov
 Cheryl Hines como Dot Karlson (segunda temporada)
 Jessie Ennis como Jenny (segunda temporada)
 Mae Martin como Grace St. James (segunda temporada)
 Margaret Cho como Utada (segunda temporada)
 Santiago Cabrera como Marco (segunda temporada)
 Shohreh Aghdashloo como Brenda (segunda temporada)

Episódios

1.ª temporada (2020)

2.ª temporada (2022)

Produção

Desenvolvimento
Em 27 de outubro de 2017, foi anunciado que a produtora de Kaley Cuoco, Yes, Norman Productions, havia adquirido os direitos do romance The Flight Attendant.  O romance seria desenvolvido em uma série de televisão limitada com Cuoco como produtor executivo. Em 1º de julho de 2019, foi anunciado que Greg Berlanti havia se juntado à série como produtor executivo através da Berlanti Productions.  Em 1 de julho de 2019, foi anunciado que a série se juntaria ao novo serviço de streaming da WarnerMedia, HBO Max.

Em 18 de dezembro de 2020, a série foi renovada para segunda temporada. A segunda temporada está programada para estrear na primavera de 2022.

Seleção de elenco
Após o anúncio do desenvolvimento da série, Cuoco também foi escalado para estrelar a série limitada. Em setembro de 2019, Sonoya Mizuno foi escalada para estrelar ao lado de Cuoco. Em outubro, Michiel Huisman, Colin Woodell, Rosie Perez e Zosia Mamet juntaram-se ao elenco da série. Em novembro de 2019, Merle Dandridge, Griffin Matthews e T.R. Knight juntaram-se ao elenco da série. Em dezembro de 2019, Nolan Gerard Funk se juntou ao elenco. Bebe Neuwirth foi adicionada em um papel recorrente em fevereiro de 2020. Em agosto de 2020, Michelle Gomez se juntou ao elenco da série, substituindo Mizuno. Em outubro de 2020, Yasha Jackson se juntou ao elenco em um papel recorrente. Em setembro de 2021, Mo McRae, Callie Hernandez e JJ Soria foram escalados como novos regulares da série, enquanto Cheryl Hines, Jessie Ennis, Mae Martin, Margaret Cho, Santiago Cabrera e Shohreh Aghdashloo foram escalados em papéis recorrentes.

Filmagens
As filmagens começaram em novembro de 2019 em Bangkok, Tailândia, antes de continuar em White Plains,Nova York, em dezembro. Em 12 de março de 2020, a Warner Bros. Television encerrou a produção da série devido à pandemia de COVID-19. A produção dos dois episódios restantes da série foi retomada em 31 de agosto de 2020, em Nova York. Para a segunda temporada, a série mudará sua produção para a Califórnia para aproveitar os incentivos fiscais fornecidos pela California Film Commission.

Lançamento
A série estreou em 26 de novembro de 2020 com os três primeiros episódios disponíveis. Em 20 de outubro de 2020, um trailer oficial da série e o plano de lançamento dos episódios após a estreia foram lançados;  dois episódios estão programados para serem lançados em 3 de dezembro, seguidos por mais dois episódios em 10 de dezembro, e então o final da série em 17 de dezembro.

Recepção
A série foi aclamada pela crítica. Para a minissérie, o site agregador de resenhas Rotten Tomatoes relatou uma taxa de aprovação de 98% com base em 42 resenhas, com uma classificação média de 7,42/10. O consenso dos críticos do site diz: "Kaley Cuoco brilha como uma bagunça quente em The Flight Attendant, uma fatia viciante e intrigante de polpa cheia de estilo que trará aficionados por mistério ao Cloud Nine." O Metacritic deu à série uma pontuação média ponderada de 76 de 100 com base em 19 análises críticas, indicando "análises geralmente favoráveis".

Revendo a série para a Rolling Stone, Alan Sepinwall deu 3,5 de 5 estrelas e disse: "Cuoco é nítida e agradável do começo ao fim, dois ingredientes necessários para interpretar um personagem que faz uma cena onde quer que vá."

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Тяженка (Тяжинка) — река в Московской области России.

Протекает в северо-восточном направлении по территории Можайского и Волоколамского городских округов. Берёт начало у деревни Старая Тяга (отсюда образование гидронима), южнее села Болычево впадает справа в реку Искону.

В среднем течении, у посёлка Тяженка (до 1999 года — посёлок рыбхоза «Осташёвский»), образовано водохранилище с площадью зеркала 1,13 км². Длина реки составляет 8 км.

См. также
 Список рек Московской области

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Реки Можайского района
Реки Волоколамского района


Some notions die hard. Can you believe that in the 21st Century, employees are still referred to as "servants" and employers are called "masters" under the law? Well, if you're an "at-will" employee these terms are accurate.
Over 60 million Americans go to work each day and turn their lives over to the whims of their boss. Over 2 million are fired each year and an estimated 200,000 are never given a reason according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
At-will employment, and its legal underpinnings, began early in the history of our country. The term arose from the need to differentiate between slaves, indentured servants and "free labor." The legal relationships between slaves and their masters and indentured servants and their masters were easy to define. These workers had no rights.
However, free labor had the right to quit – a big step up from slavery and servitude – while the master retained the right to fire. This became known as at-will employment. In the 1800s, some workers began to sue their employers and the courts largely dismissed their cases citing at-will employment. Thus, the term worked its way into our legal framework.
Now, jump ahead to modern America.
Imagine that you are injured at work and you need a few days to recover. You file for workers' compensation benefits and think that when you've recovered you can return to work. But, the boss fires you! What do you do?
You hire a lawyer. You believe that in America you can exercise your legal right to file a claim without retaliation. But, the court sees things differently and rules that you have "no legal standing" because of your at-will status.
In August 1997, this is exactly what happened to a Pennsylvania man. The Pennsylvania Superior court ruled that as an at-will employee, not covered by a contract (such as a union contract), the "employer may terminate an employee at any time for any reason or for no reason".
Organize under the IAM banner.
While some laws may protect you from certain forms of discrimination or whistle- blowing, if you're lucky enough to be covered, you'll probably have to hire an attorney to pursue the case. Organizing a union and bargaining an employment contract is your best protection against employment-at-will. Plus, you'll no doubt improve your pay and benefits. It's win-win – for you!
To find out more about how you can protect yourself, e-mail us at District711@iamaw711.org or call us at (615) 292-4508 today! We will help you mount a successful organizing campaign at your place of employment.


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The loss of population in Spain in recent years as a result of the migratory balance and low birth rates have triggered questions regarding how future pensions will be paid if this trend continues.
However, the demographic behaviour of recent years was strongly influenced by the economic crisis, but in the coming years should be "normalised".
According to the Independent Authority of Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), far from losing population, Spain will continue to gain population in the coming decades thanks to the increase in fertility and, especially, thanks to immigration, which will provide between 7 and 10 million people through 2050.
The AIReF considers that the total population of Spain will increase between 4 and 13 million people in 30 years, so that it will reach between 51 and 60 million people by 2050. Immigration will be "fundamental" to maintain this population gain.
The Fiscal Authority considers that Spain will continue to attract migratory flows since it will have labour needs and that its income will continue to be higher than that of the countries of origin (especially Africa and Latin America).
This will allow about 270,000 net immigrants to arrive in Spain EACH year (mostly from Northern Africa, as we have reported recently).
This means that immigration will contribute about eight million inhabitants in the next three decades (estimates range between 7 and 10 million). As a result, the proportion of immigrants over the total population will increase from the current 10% to around 15%.
As has been noted before, studies say once a country's Muslim population reaches 16%, the takeover by Islam can no longer be reversed.


Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing: Mighty Read Alouds!
Carmela's post began the celebration, and Esther read poetry aloud to her grandson via Skype with glee!
I thought you might be interesting in a few treasures I found this week.
One of my favorite sites, A Mighty Girl "… embraces the value of reading aloud for all of its practical merits, but just as importantly for introducing high-quality Mighty Girl literature into the lives of children everywhere. With that in mind, we've expanded our Read Aloud Collection to include 212 high-quality books all starring smart, confident, and courageous Mighty Girl characters. The featured stories are perfect for reading aloud with older elementary-aged children or as independent reading for kids." To browse their special feature on "212 Read Aloud Books Starring Mighty Girls," visit here. No doubt you will see a few familiar titles, including my own Big River's Daughter!
For younger children, you'll discover hundreds of girl-empowering picture books in their "Picture Book Collection" here.
What are your favorite stories to read aloud?
Terrific resources and quotes, as always, Bobbi!


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Transhumanism and the Image of God Areopagite Sapientia
Transhumanism and the Image of God
Nathan Barczi
The Goodness of Creaturely Limitations
Dialing Up the Contrast
Jeff Hardin
Made in God's Image in Order to Become More Like Christ
The Frailties of Embodied Existence
Image and Transhumanism
Stephen Williams
Jeff Hardin | February 28, 2022
I'm a big fan of science fiction, because it can spotlight the possibilities and liabilities of technology. There is a comfort in Sci-Fi, of course: it's fiction. Not so in the case of transhumanism: Humanity+ and other transhumanist organizations seek real transformation of the human condition through technology.
The transhumanists of Silicon Valley tend towards a materialist, ontologically reductionist view of human life summarized by others. For them, human flourishing is inherently limited by humanity's physical limitations, which can be remedied by what Ted Peters has called "techno-can-doism." Augmented reality, pharmacological enhancement, nanotechnology, lifespan extension, and reanimation of cryogenically frozen patients are all part of the transhumanist agenda, as is morphological freedom: a fundamental human right of individuals to change their bodies in any way they choose. As Yuval Noah Harari has it, "organisms are algorithms" and they will soon be ripe for an upgrade: "Homo sapiens as we know it has run its historical course . . . we should therefore use technology in order to create Homo deus – a much superior model." Ray Kurzweil suggests that eventually we will achieve the "singularity," a time when our consciousness can be uploaded to a supercomputer to usher in a new era.
It is easy to lampoon some versions of transhumanism. As a biologist, to me they seem naïve. Take the notion that tweaking the human genome will lead to better humans. The advent of genome editing makes it conceivable that tweaking will be possible, but devilishly difficult. While a few traits can be traced to the activity of single genes, most traits, such as intelligence, are polygenic. Intelligence involves thousands of genetic elements spread across the genome, and only explains a fraction of the variability among those studied. "Better living through chemistry" is similarly challenging. The movie "Limitless" envisions a single "personality pill" as the secret to unlocking untapped potential in the human brain, but the reality is that pharmaceutical "adjustment" always involves tradeoffs, as D. Gareth Jones has pointed out.
And yet, as agnostic philosopher Michael Sandel said in The Case Against Perfection, "There is something appealing, even intoxicating, about a vision of human freedom unfettered by the given." Indeed. I think there are at least two ways in which the siren song of transhumanism can be useful in helping the imago Dei speak to this gravitational pull.
Transhumanism As a Set of Conceptual Guardrails
First, transhumanism can serve as a via negativa (with apologies to Dionysius the Areopagite and Nicholas of Cusa), helping us to say "no, it's certainly not that" as we ponder the telos of humanity. We could quote the Westminster Shorter Catechism at this point about the "chief end" of human beings and stop there. We could do much worse. But transhumanism can spur a more proactive response from Christian orthodoxy. Much as National Socialism acted as a foil for the Confessing Church in the Barmen Declaration, it can help us to say "instead it's something like this." This should be true whether we construe the imago as one or more of the standard "three Rs" (rationality, relationship, or regency), or a combination thereof.
"Do-it-yourself eschaton" vs. gifted glorification
Denis Alexander has likened transhumanism's vision to a "DIY eschaton." Contrast this with the biblical vision of glorious gift: "His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness" so that we might "become partakers of divine nature" (2 Pet 1:3–4). Secular thinkers resonate with this notion. Michael Sandel says, "Appreciating the gifted quality of life constrains the Promethean project and conduces to a certain humility. It is in part a religious sensibility . . . eugenics and genetic engineering . . . represent the one-sided triumph of willfulness over giftedness, of dominion over reverence, of molding over beholding." Instead of a bald assertion of morphological freedom, Christians assert that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" (2 Cor 3:17), and that Christ's likeness is the ultimate human pattern: "we all . . . beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another" (2 Cor 3:18). Christians should declare that this is the only transformation that matters.
Digital gnosticism vs. embodied souls
The Kurzweilian version of transhumanism envisions a future of disembodied intelligences stored in a vast super-cloud of immense proportions. This gnosticism for the digital age is clearly at odds with the Christian vision. Even in the age to come, we will each have a "spiritual body" (σῶμα πνευματικόν; 1 Cor 15:44). The details are mostly inexpressible, but "we shall all be changed" (1 Cor 15:51). Whatever else we may say about glorified bodies, such as Jesus' with its continuity with the old (Luke 24:39–40, 42–43) and remarkable new abilities (Luke 24:31; John 20:19), they are most definitely bodies. The Christian telos is always an embodied one. There is good work to be done in envisioning better what role our bodies will play in the New Creation.
Rationalistic naïveté vs. biblical realism
Transhumanism seems naïve in another way: it fails to reckon with the propensities of post-Fall humans. Transhumanists are "confirmed children of the Enlightenment" (Ian Curran). They have indefatigable confidence in human reason to "do the right thing" with technology. This Star Trek notion of technology as savior is interesting but misguided. The biblical picture is more realistic. Before the tragic misuse of knowledge in Genesis 3, human knowledge was already limited (Gen 2:17). The transhumanist vision would, in Ted Peters's words, "give corruption an everlasting license."Ted Peters, "Imago Dei , DNA, and the Transhuman Way," Theology and Science 16.3 (June 2018): 1–10. It is a Promethean future of enhanced people bearing much more resemblance to the fallible residents of Mt. Olympus than to the biblical notion of redeemed and ultimately glorified people in a genuine eschaton. We fallen creatures should have deep wariness of technological salvation.
Our own image vs. the eikon of Christ
In 1 Corinthians 15:49, Paul makes another point: "As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven." We can't understand the glorified endpoint of the imago Dei apart from its prototype in Christ. As Helmut Thielicke noted, attempts to do otherwise fail because "what these all have in common is that they construct their image . . . not from what man was intended to be, but from what he presently is; they take fallen man as their model and idealize him."Helmut Thielicke, Theological Ethics, Vol. 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1979), 613. We need, in Paul Tillich's words, "a transcendent [vs. trans!] humanism, a humanism which says that Christ is the fulfillment . . . of the Adamic nature."Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 45. Italics mine.
Self-deification vs. theosis
How could the technological self-aggrandizement of Harari's Homo deus drive us to reconsider a divinely instituted sort of "non-self"-deification? The notions of theosis in the East or divinization in the West are not topics evangelicals tend to discuss (we like sanctification more), but the early Fathers grappled deeply with how the Incarnation proleptically enables those in Christ to ultimately become like him. Athanasius, riffing on Irenaeus, famously said that "Christ was made man that we might be made God." This Christian vision is diametrically opposed to self-centered, Silicon Valley transhumanism and its pretentions to autonomy. Christians are to be united with Christ who was the self-emptying one (Phil 2:5-8). Christians need to advocate for this better, more human, vision.
Transhumanism As a Warning
In addition to serving as a foil, transhumanism also serves as a warning. How might we in the church be imperceptibly exchanging a biblically grounded vision of the human for transhumanism's technological one? We affirm that "salvation can be found in no one else" but Jesus (Acts 4:12), but we need to ask in what ways we have drifted into a mindset of salvation by self-improvement, mastery, or unfettering of limitation.
The deformative effects of technology
As Jacob Shatzer has pointed out, technology alters humans deeply and ineluctably. Contemplating the less-than-palatable transhumanist endpoint may be useful for assessing the deformative effects of technology in the present. How might we be subtly embracing a "Humanity+-light" view of human persons by trusting in chemical or, one day, nanotechnological treatments that lead us away from the biblical notion of the human? These are important practical questions.
Therapy vs. enhancement
Another difficult issue is the line between legitimate therapy and enhancement. Take genome editing. Current discussion, such as by the U.S. National Academies of Science and Medicine, surrounds correcting devastating genetic diseases caused by mutations in single genes. But there will be great temptations to move beyond therapy to enhancements great and small. For MIT Molecular biologist George Church it is all too natural to move from repairing defective genes to little genetic "fixer upper" projects. Christians have an opportunity to provide a winsome, wise counterpoint in these discussions.
These are deep and important questions regarding the imago Dei in an era of biotechnology. My hope is that as we in the church wrestle with them we will be the salt and light the world needs.
Jeff Hardin (PhD University of California-Berkeley) is Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of numerous scientific research articles relating to embryonic development. He also serves on the national advisory board for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship's Faculty Ministry and as faculty advisor for the Navigators and InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship on the UW-Madison campus.
Suffering and Flourishing
Eleonore Stump

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The units are organized into three main fields: hospitality management education, which remains the core mission of EHL, international activities and the campus.
EHL Haute Ecole delivers university-level education corresponding to the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences & Arts (HES), leading to state-approved undergraduate (Bachelor) degrees and post-graduate (Master) degrees.
EHL Academia delivers higher vocational studies that prepare students for entry into higher education courses in hospitality and service management, amongst others.
EHL Hospitality Services designs, produces and commercializes products and services relating to the hotel industry, such as F&B, the organization of banquets and events, as well as maintenance and reception services.
SSTH delivers both initial vocational education and advanced professional education for the tourism and hotel industries.
EHL Real Estate encompasses activities relating to the acquisition, renovation and management of real estate and is involved in the development of the new EHL campus.
LHC focuses on executive education and consulting related to the following industries: hotel, hospitality, catering, tourism, healthcare, outsourcing and other service sectors that rely on important human resources.


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Financial Aid Rules & Guidelines: Assistantships
Responding to your offer
Please accept or decline your offer as soon as you are able to give us a reply.
For offers issued between Jan. 1 and Apr. 1, for awards beginning in the fall term, you have until April 15 to respond. If your reply is not received by April 15, the Graduate School may rescind the offer.
For offers issued on or after April 2, you should respond within 2 weeks of receipt of the award letter, or the Graduate School may rescind your offer.
Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Resolution
Acceptance of an offer of financial support (such as a graduate scholarship, fellowship, traineeship, or assistantship) for the next academic year by a prospective or enrolled graduate student completes an agreement that both student and graduate school expect to honor. In that context, the condition affecting such offers and their acceptance must be defined carefully and understood by all parties.
Students are under no obligation to respond to offers of financial support prior to April 15; earlier deadlines for acceptance of such offers violate the intent of the Resolution. In those instances in which a student accepts an offer before April 15, and subsequently desires to withdraw that acceptance, the student may submit in writing a resignation of the appointment at any time through April 15. However, an acceptance given or left in force after April 15 commits the student not to accept another offer without first obtaining a written release from the institution to which a commitment has been made. Similarly, an offer by an institution after April 15 is conditional on presentation by the student of the written release from any previously accepted offer. It is further agreed by the institutions and organizations subscribing to the above resolution that a copy of this resolution should accompany every scholarship, fellowship, traineeship, and assistantship offer.
This resolution and a list of members and institutions that support it are on the CGS website in PDF format.
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Award duration and renewal
Normally, assistants are appointed for the months August – May. The assistants' departments determine the specific beginning and ending dates of the appointments.
Future assistantships are not guaranteed or renewed automatically. You must apply for continued support and be considered along with new applicants. Award decisions are based on academic credentials, not on financial need. Some programs renew assistantships for the duration of their students' programs; and some have limits on the number of assistantships a student may receive. Students should not assume that their awards extend to any terms not specifically stated in their award letters.
To reapply for an assistantship, fill out this online Financial Aid Application for Admitted Students form. Or print this PDF and fill out and return to the Graduate School by the appropriate competition deadline below:
Fall: February 15
Spring: November 15
Assistantship Rules and Guidelines
The following describes the rules and guidelines that apply to your award. By accepting your award offer, you agree to the rules and guidelines below.
Disbursement of Your Scholarship
Your scholarship will be applied to your Bursar account or show up as an anticipated payment, after we receive your acceptance of your offer and after you register for classes. Actual posting of scholarships typically is done one week before classes start. If you receive a scholarship after you already paid for your courses, you will be notified by the Bursar when you may receive a refund.
Employment Documents
Federal law requires verification of employment eligibility for all employees within 72 hours of employment. You must submit a completed I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form to the Graduate School. You are required to present specific documentation IN PERSON to the Graduate School. Refer to the reverse side of the I-9 for a listing of acceptable documentation. In addition to submitting an I-9 form, international students must also submit a letter of employment eligibility from Marquette's Office of International Education. International students may not begin working until both documents are on file in the Graduate School.
Assistants should complete the W-4 Employee's Withholding form (on the Payroll website).
All assistants must have, or must have applied for, a social security number.
English Proficiency/English as a Second Language (ESL) Courses
All TAs with native languages other than American English are required to attend the International Teaching Assistant Orientation Program and take an English proficiency test on campus during the first or second weeks before their first semester. Based on the test results, TAs may be required to take one or more ESL course. Students may use their regular tuition scholarships to pay for the courses if required.
Full-Time Enrollment Status
Assistants must be registered full-time during the fall and spring semesters of their awards.
Graduate School of Management Students
Awards to students in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, and Human Resources are jointly administered by the Graduate School and the Graduate School of Management. GSM students are expected to follow the rules and guidelines in this document. I-9 forms for GAs are distributed and collected by the GSM and not the Graduate School (see section on Employment Documents). Additional conditions may be placed on awards by the GSM. If that is the case you will be notified in writing in your award letter, or separately. Requests for waivers of any of the rules in this document must receive the approval of the GSM.
Identification Cards/Key
Graduate assistants are issued Marquette ID cards that can be used to obtain discounts on purchases from the MU Spirit Shop and the Haggerty Museum of Art, and receive additional on campus printing privileges. If an assistant resigns or is terminated, they must return their keys and their assistantship ID cards to their departments. If the student is continuing his/her program, a new ID card will be issued at no charge.
Involuntary Terminations
Assistants are retained only if they are doing acceptable work, maintaining a 3.0 GPA (each semester and cumulatively), making progress towards their degrees, and are meeting their obligations to their departments and to the university in an acceptable manner. Before recommending a termination, the department chair or director of graduate studies shall, in most cases, inform the student in writing that there is danger of termination as soon as it becomes evident that his/her performance is unsatisfactory. The warning letter should:
Outline the assistant's deficiencies.
Suggest required remedies.
Set a date when the matter will be reviewed to recognize improvement or recommend dismissal to the Graduate School.
In serious cases, a department may recommend to the Graduate School that an assistantship be terminated effective immediately. In these cases, the department is not obligated to use the above warning procedure. After making such a recommendation to the Graduate School, the department may immediately suspend any/all duties of the assistant pending the Graduate School's decision regarding termination. Serious cases include, but are not limited to, violations of university policy/procedures and violations of ethical or professional codes or standards. Termination appeals should first be made to the student's department then to the Graduate School. All stipends end on the date of termination.
Unless prohibited by a funding sponsor and notified in their letter of award, domestic students with a full-time (50% effort/20 hour per week) TA/RA/GA appointment at Marquette may, at their discretion, be employed up to 10 additional hours per week outside of the University. Students electing to have such outside employment up to 10 hours/week, do not need to inform the university, but should consider the following:
Working for a company fully or partially owned by the Chair of the student's dissertation or thesis committee represents a possible conflict of interest. In such cases, the student should either not accept the outside employment or find a different chair for the thesis or dissertation committee.
Student should not seek outside employment at an organization/company that already funds that student's assistantship or research.
Students should not seek outside employment at an organization/company that directly competes with the organization that funds the student's assistantship or research.
Students wanting to work more than 10 hours per week, must disclose their arrangement with the Graduate School by completing the "Declaration of Outside Employment Form" The Graduate School will then facilitate a discussion between the student, and either the student's mentor, DGS, or Department chair (the student can choose) to ensure the additional employment is not hindering the student's academic progress or completion of assigned duties. If the department offers the student a TA/RA/GA appointment, the student understands that duties of the appointment take priority over any external employment.
Due to Federal Regulations, international students here on a student visa cannot work on-campus more than the time dedicated to their full-time TA/RA/GA appointment. With respect to off-campus employment, the Marquette Office of International Education has published guidelines for F-1 Student Employment
Policy approved by UBGS on 4/22/2020.
You must register no later than the last date of registration of the first semester of your award term. If you fail to do so, your award may be rescinded.
Departments count on the services of their assistants for the entire academic year. If an assistant resigns, they must:
Discuss the resignation with his/her department chair or director of graduate studies well in advance of the resignation.
Submit a signed letter explaining the reason(s) for and exact date of the resignation to the Graduate School.
Return their assistantship ID card and all issued keys to their department.
Stipends will be ended and final checks will be prorated to the date of resignation.
Stipend Payments
Checks are issued bi-weekly and disbursed in 10 payments each semester, over the academic year (August-May) unless stated otherwise. Assistants must sign up for direct deposit online via Through MyJob. Instructions are available on the Payroll Department's web site.
Your stipend is taxable income and is reported to the IRS. You will receive an earnings statement from Payroll in January to submit with your income taxes. FICA taxes (social security) are not deducted from fall and spring stipends. FICA is charged to the stipends of assistants in summer unless assistants are registered and provide proof of their summer registration to the Payroll Department.
All assistants must complete Title IX and FERPA training and participate in assistantship orientation programs offered by their departments. Additionally, new teaching assistants are required to participate in mandatory TA training from the Graduate School.
Tuition Scholarships
Most full assistantships include tuition scholarships to pay for 9 credits in fall and 9 credits in spring. The dollar value of your award is stated in your offer letter. Your award will not pay for more than this amount. You must pay for all charges taken that exceed the dollar amount of your scholarship and for tuition/fees related to courses that are not covered by your scholarships.
Your award letter shows the amounts of your scholarship allotted to fall, spring, and summer terms. Unused scholarship money from one term is not automatically carried forward to following terms. You should contact the Graduate School to request the transfer of scholarship money from one term to another. Award money cannot be transferred from one aid year to another. Each aid year begins with the fall term and includes the following spring and summer terms. Scholarships will not pay for more than 6 thesis or 12 dissertation credits.
Scholarships may only be used to pay for valid courses that are directly related to your degree.
Valid courses include:
Graduate-level courses numbered 5000 and above that count toward your degree.
Invalid courses include:
Audited courses.
Undergraduate-level courses taken for undergraduate credit including prerequisites or deficiency courses.
Personal preference courses within or outside of your discipline that will not count toward your degree and that have not been approved for scholarship coverage by both your department and the Graduate School in writing.
Work Hours and Duties
Assistants are required to work approximately 20 hours per week. Starting and ending dates, duties, distribution of hours over the semester, and assignments to faculty are made by each department chair or director of graduate studies. Some departments may also require that their assistants work during regular university recesses such as winter and spring holidays. F-1 visa students may not work more than 20 hours per week while school is in session.
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You can live without one or two teeth without major consequences, but losing several teeth at once requires the jawbone to be reshaped to prepare for a dental bridge or dentures. There is no clear rule on the number of teeth that can safely be extracted in one sitting.
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45 rpm EP, Edie Sedgwick, Record collecting, Record cover art, Record sleeves
The complete Cult single "Edie (Ciao Baby)"
July 18, 2014 rockdoc999	Leave a comment
The Cult's "Edie (Ciao Baby)" single is often offered for sale as an "Andy Warhol cover". The only Warhol connection is through Gerard Malanga, who took the photo of Edie Sedgwick that was used on the cover. It comes from the film "Ciao! Manhatten", directed by John Palmer and David Weisman. Thus Andy Warhol was not involeved in any way.
This homage to Warhol superstar and poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick was released in 1989, eighteen years after Edie's suicide in 1971. The song was included on The Cult's fourth album "Sonic Temple". Ian Astbury, vocalist and songwriter has said the song was inspired by the film Ciao! Manhatten and the image on the cover of the single is said to have been taken from the film. It was photographed by Gerard Malanga, another of Warhol's co-workers and Factory acolytes.
The single was released on 26th July 1989 and a promotional 7″ was released a week earlier. In addition to the promotional single, there was a gatefold numbered 7″ released in an edition of 5000 copies (with "Bleeding Heart Graffiti" on the B-side) as well as a 12″ three-track single (with the added tracks "Sun King" and "She Sells Sanctuary"). The 12″ was also released in a black plastic slip envelope with a hologram image.
Promotional 7″ single
The 7″ single's front cover.
The hologram slip case for the 12″ EP.
The cover of the limited edition 12″ with the hologram slip case. Malanga's portrait of Edie seen through a window in the cover.
Here are the song lyrics:
Always said you were a youth quaker, Edie
A stormy little world shaker
Oh, Warhol's darling queen, Edie
An angel with a broken wing
The dogs lay at your feet, Edie
Oh, we caressed your cheek
Ooh, stars wrapped in your hair
Ooh, life without a care
But your not there
Oh, caught up in an endless scene, Edie
Yeah, paradise, a shattered dream
Oh, wired on the pills you took, Edie
Your innocence dripped blood, sweet child
Ciao baby
Shake it, boy
Oh, sweet little sugar talker
Paradise dream stealer
Oh, Warhol's little queen, Edie
An angel with a broken wing, oh
Oh, we caressed your cheek, well
Stars wrapped in your hair
Why did you kiss the world goodbye?
Don't you know paradise takes time?
Ciao, yeah
Ciao baby, yeah
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The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" singles and EPs
March 18, 2014 rockdoc999	1 Comment
In a previous post, I promised a continuation of my list of 45 rpm discs with Andy Warhol cover art. Well, I'm still working on the list, which continues to grow as I do more research.
The Rolling Stones released their "Sticky Fingers" LP with cover photography by Andy Warhol and package design by Craig Braun on 23rd April 1971. The cover art and packaging received a Grammy nomination in 1972 – but did not win. However, the album cover was later voted No 1 in VH1's list of the best record sleeves of all time.
The design concept was by Andy Warhol and many credit him with the photography, which according to others, was by Factory associate Billy Name. Sticky Fingers was the first LP released on the Rolling Stones own record label.
Here I will only discuss the various versions of The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" single and EP with Warhol cover art. There are many issues from all over the world with either generic company covers or alternative cover art.
The original single was released in the UK on 16th April 1971, one week prior to the Sticky Fingers LP, as a three-track single with "Brown Sugar" coupled with "Bitch" and "Let It Rock". The covers for the UK and US singles used a photograph by American photographer David Montgomery (thank you Guy Minnebach for this information.) The rear cover used the same photo as the "Sticky Fingers" LP with a jeans-clad posterior. Interestingly, the German version of the single had the Montgomery photograph reversed on the front – that is with Jagger apparently standing at far left instead of at far right as on the UK and US versions.
In addition to the standard single, there was a shaped picture disc (SUGAR1).
"Brown Sugar" was released in Mexico both as a single (coupled with "Perdida" (Bitch)) and as an EP (coupled with "Caballos salvajes" ("Wild Horses") and "Ecos de mi onda" ("Can't You Hear Me Knocking")) both had a fold-over covers that bore the "Sticky Fingers" artwork on the front.
The "Brown Sugar" single was re-issued in it's original cover for Record Store Day in 2011 as a numbered edition of 10,000 copies. My copy has number 7385.
45 rpm EP, Andy Warhol, Bootlegs, Joe Newman Octet, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Uncategorized, Velvet Underground
Four more Warhol covers for my collection
October 30, 2013 rockdoc999	2 Comments
It feels like Christmas when four additional Andy Warhol covers can be added to my collection. Two are releases I had not been aware of until very recently. The four covers are:
1. Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto played by Erica Morini and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Desiré Defauw.
2. The Joe Newman Octet – I'm Still Swinging, double gatefold EP – 45 EPB-1198.
3. Velvet Underground – Paris 1990 – Bootleg "promotional" LP.
4. The Falling Spikes (Velvet Underground) – Screen Test: Falling in Love With the Falling Spikes (1987 re-issue):
1. The Byron Janis recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" coupled with Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite" on the RCA Victor Bluebird label has an illustration of a piano and orchestra generally accepted as being by Andy Warhol. This recoeding was released both as a 12″ LP and a three 7″ EP box. Its sister release, the recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto by Erica Morini and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Desiré Defauw, on the same label has an illustration of a double base done in the same style and probably by Andy Warhol. I have a copy of the 12″ LP, generously given me by Frank Edwards. Until recently, I had not been aware of a three EP box similar to the Byron Janis recording, then one came up on Ebay and found its way into my collection.
2. The Joe Newman Octet's "I'm Still Swinging" has been released as a 12-tract LP and an 8-track double EP and single EPs. I have one of the single EPs and recently acquired the German pressing of the single EP. Now I succeeded in finding the double EP version.
3. A short while ago, Guy Minnebach told members of the Warhol Cover Collectors Club about a Velvet Underground bootleg of a live show recorded in Paris on 11th June 1990, cleverly entitled "Paris 1990". I was lucky to find a mint copy from a seller in Texas. This cover has a reproduction of an early Warhol flower on the front cover and a portrait of Warhol on the reverse. The images fluoresce in the dark! So cool!
4. Frank Edwards discovered the re-issue version of the bootleg album by the Falling Spikes, later to metamorphose into The Velvet Underground. The re-issue "Screen Test: Falling in Love With the Falling Spikes" LP has the same detail from Warhol's "Flowers" painting as the original 1985 release, but has a red card cover and includes two postcards. I found this one on Discogs and made a good deal with the seller. So now I have all three versions; one with the black and white cover, one with the blue flower and now even the red cover.
It seems a stranghe coincidence that I should receive the two Velvet Underground albums just days after founder member, Lou Reed, died. Anyway, four interesting and unusual additions to my collection.


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Posted on November 11 2014 by Fernando Trejos
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What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?
Ott, K. (2009). What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?. Press releases, 2. (12), 1-2. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:117335
Ott, Katarina. "What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?." Press releases, vol. 2, no. 12, 2009, pp. 1-2. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:117335
Ott, Katarina. "What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?." Press releases 2, no. 12 (2009): 1-2. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:117335
Ott, K. (2009) 'What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?', Press releases, 2(12), pp. 1-2. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:117335 (Accessed 28 January 2023)
Ott K. What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?. Press releases [Internet]. 2009 September 09 [cited 2023 January 28];2(12):1-2. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:242:117335
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Title (english) What is the Condition of the Croatian State Budget after as Many as Three Revisions?
Due to irresponsible fiscal behaviour of the previous Croatian governments in the years of economic prosperity and of the present government in the planning and revision of the 2009 budget, the Croatian state budget deficit has increased from 2.4 billion kuna projected at end-2008, to 9.3 billion kuna projected in August 2009.


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Queensland Police-Citizens Youth Welfare Association mission statement is -in partnership with government, community, business and families – achieving excellence in youth development by encouraging participation in recreational, sporting, cultural and welfare programs.
PCYC facilitate and encourage participation in sporting, recreation, cultural and welfare programs with an aim to improving the lives of individual members and the development of local communities throughout the state.
PCYC's are a great place to come and socialise, play sports or learn something new. We offer affordable activities for all ages, ranging from fitness, martial arts and sports to dance classes, music, and bike safety education. We also organise various seasonal events such as dance parties, festivals and sporting competitions.
Our community facilities include indoor and outdoor sports areas, areas suitable for different types of activities, before and after school care, and youth spaces – dedicated areas for young people to hang out in a safe environment equipped with video gaming, pool tables, even DJ equipment in some clubs.
In 2012, the Quadric Project Donated $360 to the Disadvantaged Children's Christmas Circus.


Prague – yes, we made it. We've arrived home yesterday after having spent five nights away with Paul's cousin Margaret and her husband Geoff. Two nights were spent at the airport hotel at Gatwick, and the remainder of the time exploring beautiful, old Prague.
Prague absolutely lives up to it's reputation. We arrived around mid-day, and had three nights, and three and a half days there.
About 4.30 in the afternoon – already dark, and freezing. First day there and I bought a much needed fur trimmed hat.
Firstly, for anyone who plans on going to Prague and happens to be reading this I'm going to start with the 'could have, should have, would have'. The most important thing I'd recommend is to make sure your accommodation is district 1. There is an abundance of choices to fit most budgets. We booked through a local travel agency and having done some homework, asked for accommodation close to Old Town Square. Old Town Square is virtually in the central point of all there is to see in Prague. We were offered a couple of options, both of which were in district 2. They looked relatively close on the map. Ha ha – if you haven't guessed already, the map was very deceiving. We were at least a half hours fast paced walk from Old Town Square. As I'm not the fastest of walkers, it was closer to an hours walk for me.
Prague is definitely a 'walk around' city, and even if we had wanted to use taxis, we never saw any available for hire. With our accommodation so far from the centre it meant it wasn't viable to go back for a mid afternoon rest and freshen up. We were leaving our hotel around 9.30am and pavement bashing continuously for 12 – 13 hours. Had we been near Old Town Square all of the sites we visited were no more than 30 – 40 minute walk away. We could have given far more time to actually seeing what there was to see rather than spending time and energy getting to the starting point. And we could have had that all important afternoon 'time out' back at our digs.
And now onto Prague and it's Christmas markets. What a joy. The Christmas markets are set up everywhere, but nowhere better than in Old Town Square. Whilst I'll post a photo there is no way a photo can do any justice to the experience of actually being there. Firstly the smells….. Legs of hams being rotisseried over wood fires, the heavenly, sweet aroma of their special cinnamon scrolls, sausages (real sausages, more like a salami than what we know as a sausage) also cooked over wood fire pits, and spicy hot wine and cider everywhere. Yes, we had a few. Then there's the Christmas lights, and the huge Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is the biggest I've ever seen and the lights are synchronised with very powerful orchestral music. Absolutely amazing. And all this is set up with the back drop of glorious Gothic and Baroque architecture that Prague's so famous for. It was all very magical and almost surreal.
What a tree. What a church in the background. What a place.
Cinnamon rolls being cooked over hot coals – taste as delicious as they smell.
On the second day we joined a tour which was mostly walking, but included an hour boat trip, about an hour for lunch, and a short tram ride up to the castle district. The tour provided a great snap shot of the main tourist attractions in Prague.
After day two we were at a bit of a loss, and spent the rest of the time pretty much aimlessly pavement bashing over already well walked territory. We planned to explore the Lessor area more thoroughly but somehow lost our bearings and never quite got there. We forgot we had a map, and had we remembered and taken a look, we were only a street or two away from where we were trying to get to. We didn't look at the map until after we had returned to Old Town. Grrrr!!!!
So – if we could do it all again, what could we do differently. Of course the main thing is to stay close to Old Town Square, and for preference somewhere between the square and Charles Bridge. The first afternoon I would have spent exactly as we did spend it, just meandering around Old Town Square and Winceslas Square and generally getting our bearings. Then, rather than doing a walking tour that encompasses everything in a snap shot six hour tour, I'd spend the second day doing a tour of just the Castle area and perhaps the Lessor town area only. The castle area isn't just a castle, it's almost a village, and the same with the Lessor town area. Both areas are across the river from Old Town with a few available access bridges. The most famous is the Charles Bridge – stunning. On our walking tour we spent no more than two hours perusing these two areas, a full day is needed.
Surreal Gothic archetecture – Where's Rapunzel?
Neo gothic addition to the gothic church in the Castle area. The first part of this church was built in the 13th century. This addition was completed in the early 1900s. More than 500 years to completion.
Then there's the Jewish quarter, which we hardly saw at all and I'm sure a half day wouldn't go astray perusing the buildings and museums there. We only briefly passed it on our tour.
Most days there seems to be a number of classical performances in one of several spectacular venues. We didn't do any as we only really became aware of them when it was too late. And we didn't do the Kutna Hora area, which involves a trip out of the city into the surrounding countryside, and includes a visit to the famous bone church. There is a 6 hour bus tour for Kutna Hora, which I mentioned a few times to my fellow travellers, but no-one seemed to be interested, so I put that idea aside. However, late on our last day Paul said that we should have gone there… again, Grrrrrr!!
So, thats what we did as apposed to what we could have done, should have done, and in hindsight would have done. So hopefully by writing this, someone reading it has a chance to learn from it and won't end up wasting two days as we did. Staying in district one would have allowed us to make the most of our time there. I think we could have seen most of what there is to see and done justice to it all in the time we had.
So, I know this sounds like I'm grumbling a bit. I had a fabulous time. I just didn't make the most of it and it's unlikely I'll get a repeat chance.
< Many days and many miles later….
You are so fortunate to have seen the places you have seen!
It is Diane. It was like something out of a fairy tale.


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I happen to believe that David Cameron will go down as one of the worst Prime Ministers in British history. His decision to hold an EU referendum would have been fine if he had a plan for afterwards. He didn't. He just scarpered and "put his trotters up in Cannes" – to use the immortal words of Danny Dyer.
Andres Allemand in the Independent describes the Swiss referendum model:
…it is not uncommon to vote again and again on the same issue. The most dramatic example is maternity leave. It took six votes and 60 years for the country to agree on its position.
The British do not have a history of referendums. We have only actually had three national referendums ever: The Common Market one in 1975, AV in 2011 and EU in 2016. Yes, just three (all the others you might remember were regional polls).
The problem is that once we start doing referendums, then we need to go the whole hog and do it like the Swiss.
As the above quote suggests, it would be very usual for the Swiss to have a referendum on the deal to leave the EU, even after having voted initially to leave the EU. It is part of the Swiss process.
What is maddening about the current situation is that there are still people who think that democracy started and ended on June 23rd 2016. But that was only the start of the process.
You either have a representative parliamentary system or you go the full hog and have a referendum system. But if you have a referendum system you have to have lots of referendums, or at least two in the current Brexit situation.
As it is, we've ended up with an outrageous situation. Theresa May boxed herself in with her red lines and then tried to find words to come up with a soft Brexit without actually saying so. "Frictionless border" being the top one. Ridiculous. So she's painted herself into a corner. Her deal is ludicrous. Her delay on the vote on the deal is ludicrous. She is holding parliament to ransom with the deadline of 29th March 2019.
The whole thing is a disgrace. At the risk of repeating this: there is only one way out of this and that is for the people to decide whether they want May's deal or whether they want to remain in the EU.
I don't personally think that "no deal" should be on the ballot paper with a leaving date of 29th March 2019.
As Gina Miller put it, "no deal" is fine, as long as we have ten years to prepare for it!


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Q: Is is possible to call function from another domain? I have 2 domain and i want to move a php file from domain 1 to domain 2.
The purpose of the file is get user input, get data from database and etc.

The reason i want to do this is i dont want anyone can view the file in domain 1.
Is it possible to do that?

A: You need to pass your data using cURL from your 2nd server to the PHP file in your 1st server and process the data there and then read the data sent back.
This is an example:
Assume: example.org is the domain of your your 1st server.
$ch = curl_init("https://example.org/check.php");

$data = array(
    'username'      => 'JohnDoe',
    'password'      => '2hAreZ08npmv'
);

$data_json = json_encode($data); //Convert the array into a JSON string format

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  $data_json );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_json))
);

$result = curl_exec($ch); //Returned value (echo) from the PHP file in your 1st server

Your 1st server will receive the username and password via POST method in JSON format. Like this:
{"username":"JohnDoe","password":"2hAreZ08npmv"}

Which you can decode and convert it to an array and use it in your function in the 1st server:
$data_received = "{"username":"JohnDoe","password":"2hAreZ08npmv"}";
$data_array = json_decode($data_received, true);

echo the result in the 1st server and you will receive it in $result variable that I used in the above code. The value of $result can be something like 'true' or 'false' or any other string that you echo.
This is a simple way to communicate between two servers using cURL in PHP.

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Hausschild steht für:

 Hausschild (Beschilderung), eine alte Beschilderung (auch Hausmarke)

Hausschild ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Sonnhilde Hausschild (1935–2007), deutsche Skilangläuferin

Siehe auch:
 Hauschild


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import jjv = require('jjv');

// create new JJV environment
var env = jjv();
var errors: jjv.Errors;

// Register a `user` schema
env.addSchema('user', {
	type: 'object',
	properties: {
		firstname: {
			type: 'string',
			minLength: 2,
			maxLength: 15,
		},
		lastname: {
			type: 'string',
			minLength: 2,
			maxLength: 25,
		},
		gender: {
			type: 'string',
			enum: ['male', 'female'],
		},
		email: {
			type: 'string',
			format: 'email',
		},
		password: {
			type: 'string',
			minLength: 8,
		},
	},
	required: ['firstname', 'lastname', 'email', 'password'],
});

// Perform validation against an incomplete user object (errors will be reported)
errors = env.validate('user', { firstname: 'John', lastname: 'Smith' });

errors = env.validate({
	type: 'object',
	properties: {
		x: { type: 'number' },
		y: { type: 'number' },
	},
	required: ['x', 'y'],
}, { x: 'a' });

if (errors.validation['x'].type === 'string') {
	console.log('x is wrong type');
}

if (errors.validation['y'].required) {
	console.log('y is required');
}

env.defaultOptions.checkRequired = false;

env.validate('schemaName', {}, { checkRequired: false });

env.addType('date', (v: any) => !isNaN(Date.parse(v)));

env.addFormat('hexadecimal', (v: any) => (/^[a-fA-F0-9]+$/).test(v));

env.addCheck('exactLength', (v: any, p: any) => v.length === p);

env.addTypeCoercion('integer', (x: any) => parseInt(x, 10));

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