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China's 'Three Adventures of Brooke' to Hit French Theaters (EXCLUSIVE)
By Rebecca Davis
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Midnight Blur Films has signed a deal with French distributor Les Acacias to release Chinese arthouse drama "Three Adventures of Brooke" in France this year, the Chinese production company told Variety on Saturday. A release date has yet to be set for the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and stars Chinese newcomer Xu Fangyi and French actor Pascal Greggory.
"We chose Les Acacias because we have been following their lineup for a long time, and we admire their taste and their cooperation with renowned filmmakers like Hong Sang-soo and Wang Bing," Midnight Blur's co-founder and head of international sales Cao Liuying said, adding that the Paris-based distributor had offered "a satisfying minimum guarantee."
Midnight Blur is registered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou and has agents in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Les Acacias has a track record of distributing artistic works by Asian directors. Titles include Korean arthouse darling Hong's "Yourself and Yours" and "Grass"; Wang Xiaoshuai's 2016 thriller "Red Amnesia"; and a number of films by acclaimed Chinese documentarian Wang Bing, among them last year's Cannes premiere "Dead Souls," a look at testimonies from survivors of Chinese labor camps.
"Three Adventures of Brooke," a Chinese-Malaysian co-production, tells the story of a young Chinese woman named Brooke who travels alone to a small town in northern Malaysia. The story splits into three different versions of what happens after her car gets a flat tire and she uses different identities to introduce herself to those she encounters. It's the debut feature of Chinese writer-director Yuan Qing.
Veteran French actor Greggory is known for starring in a number of Eric Rohmer-helmed films and his work with French directors such as Luc Besson and Olivier Assayas, among others.
After its launch from the Lido last September, "Three Adventures" went on to screen at China's Pingyao International Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival and in competition at the Festival de 3 Continents in Nantes, France.
Midnight Blur Films
Three Adventures of Brooke


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Para-Archery is a test of accuracy, strength and concentration and is open to athletes with a physical disability (including spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, amputee and other) in two functional classes (W1 and Open) catering for Recurve and Compound disciplines.
The international governing body for Para Archery is World Archery, which manages this archery discipline working with the International Paralympic Committee. All shooting rules follow the World Archery Shooting Rules in conjunction with Para Archery Rules and are generally aligned.
World Archery conducts Para Archery World Championships and the Paralympic Games. Within Australia, Para-classified athletes can generally participate in all archery competitions, although equipment and rules can be modified for Para athletes.
Competitors in Para archery shoot the same rounds, distances and events as other athletes.
Para Archery has a unique place in rehabilitation medicine - it was the first sport introduced to disabled veterans after World War II at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the UK, as part of a patient rehabilitation program. Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist established a program where physical activity and organised sports were used as a therapy for building physical strength and self-respect.
In 1948, disabled athletes competed in the first Stoke Mandeville Games. These games were run in parallel with the Olympic Games and by 1960 grew to become the Paralympic Games.
Australia was represented in Para archery at the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960 with Ross Sutton winning gold and Daphne Ceeney winning silver. Australia has won medals at subsequent Paralympic Games. At the most recent Rio Paralympic Games, Australia is represented by Jonathon Milne in the male Open Compound Division.
To compete as a para-archer, athletes must be classified to determine their level of ability and to enable them to be accurately classified into one of the recognised classes. Classification at the national level is conducted by a panel just prior to the annual National Para Championships. Before competing at international level, athletes must be classified by an international panel of classifiers. The classifiers will allocate the class to the athlete and issue a classification card showing the class and the assistive devices the athlete is allowed to use.
Archery Australia offers Para-Archery competition at National Championships and encourages RGBs and Clubs conducting tournaments to also offer these events.
More Information See World Archery Para Website CLICK HERE
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My Brother and Sister-in-Law found out yesterday they are having another GIRL! I couldn't be more excited for them. I am anxious for this fall to meet our newest addition to the family.
50 Shades of Grey. Can we say obsessed? I am absolutely IN LOVE with this trilogy. I got through the first two books so fast but this last one I am reading a chapter at a time every other day or so and savoring each moment. I just know that I am going to feel like Christian and I broke up.
YAY nieces are the best! So fun. You will love it!!
I still need to finish the 50 Shades trilogy! Yay for your new niece on the way!!!
I literally have not read any of book 2 for like 2 days because I don't want it to end! I legit feel like he is my boyfriend, too! My hubby hates Christian. Congrats on your niece!! I have that I believe in pink quote on my daughter's wall in her nursery:) My favorite!
Ahhhh! I love my niece and 50 shades!!
I've got to try this iduck!
yay! congrats on another girl. i just got back from vacation and i totally agree i want a summer long vacation grown up problems indeed!
I am about half way through book 3 and keep putting off finishing it because I don't want it to be over!! Stopping by from WILW!
congrats to your brother..so exciting! I saw that iduck on pinterest and wondered if it really worked..might have to buy that for my bf!
i want to start reading that! it sounds so good!


Jayden Scrubb comes down with a rebound in the second half Saturday.
CARTERVILLE -- Seven players reached double figures as the John A. Logan College men's basketball team cruised to a 108-56 win over Southeastern Illinois College on Saturday afternoon at Brewer Gymnasium.
Jayden Scrubb, who was doubtful with a thumb injury, came out on fire and scored 18 of his 22 points in the first half, including four 3-pointers. Scrubb also had 10 rebounds.
Vonnie Patterson matched Scrubb for game-high honors with 22 points, while David Sloan also posted a double-double with 10 points and 10 assists.
Three players added 11 points each: Antwan Campbell, Chris Harris and Jonah Jackson.
The last player to reach double figures was Marion's Justin Saddoris, who netted a career-high 10 points with two 3-pointers and a pair of layups.
The Vols jumped out to a 17-2 lead and led 57-31 at halftime.
Logan, which was most recently fifth in the NJCAA Division I national rankings, is now 21-3 overall and 12-1 in the Great Rivers Athletic Conference. The Vols were coming off a loss at Wabash Valley but remain in first place in the conference.
Southeastern Illinois, which has lost 13 straight, is now 3-20 overall and 0-13 in the GRAC. The Falcons were led by Demaris Nance with 19 points.
In the early game, the SIC women defeated Logan, 73-64, to drop the Lady Vols to 13-11 overall. Johnecia Kyles led Logan with 18 points and Lyric Campbell had 15.
Logan's men play at Lewis and Clark on Wednesday night, then both teams play this coming Saturday at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville.


The Customer Invoice document is used to create the invoices sent to external (non-campus) customers for goods and/or services sold by the university.
The department creates Customer Invoice documents.
The department prints invoices (only fully approved invoices can be printed).
The department mails invoices to their customers.
Customers remit payment and remittance stub to the Cashier's Office. Alternatively, customers can make wire payments.
The Cashier's Office records the payments, the Customer Invoice initiator receives an e-mail notification, and the customers' records are updated in KFS.
If the customer does not pay the invoice, the department sends Billing Statements to the customer, and attempts to collect the debt.
On the Main Menu, in the Accounts Receivable section, click on the Customer Invoice link in the Reports area.
Enter your desired search criteria.
Click the Generate Print File button at the bottom of the document.
On the Main Menu, in the Accounts Receivable section, click on the Customer Invoices link in the Lookups area.
Locate the Customer Invoice from the list of results.
Confirm the quantity of the item to be billed before the invoice is generated. The additional time double-checking could prevent the need to make adjustments later.
Generate the invoice as soon as possible after the work has been performed. This will encourage prompt payment.
Sending the invoice to the customer via e-mail may result in payments being made more promptly than if hard copy invoices were mailed.
What happens after invoices are sent?
Send billing statements to customers further along in the AR process. Hopefully, customers who receive invoices and/or billing statements will remit payments; otherwise, they'll enter the collection process.
If an invoice has had no payments issued against it, you can Void it. In order to void a Customer Invoice, search for the Customer Invoice. At the very bottom of the document, click on the Void button. From there, click on the Submit button to initiate the document routing which will be the same as it was for the original Customer Invoice.
Dollar amounts for voided Customer Invoices are negative (-), so you can locate any voided Customer Invoice documents by doing a Document Search on Document Type INV and enter Total Amount of <0 (less than zero) to retrieve only negative dollar (voided) Customer Invoice documents.


The Ash Township Special Board meeting was called to order at 6:45 p.m. in the Ready Road Hall by Supervisor Carmack.
Motion by Booth supported by Grabetz to Approve $20,000 from Water Fund to Contribute to the MERS Retirement Fund.
Motion by Grabetz supported by Booth to Approve $20,000 from General Fund to contribute to the MERS Retirement Fund.
Motion by Carmack supported by Grabetz to move $20,000 from 101-523-805 to 101-103-717 Retirement.
Motion by Carmack supported by Grabetz to adjourn the meeting at 7:00 p.m.


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Support dwindling for blackface Zwarte Piet
Support for Sinterklaas character Zwarte Piet in his traditional blackface form is dwindling among the Netherlands public, according to a poll of nearly 2,300 people by I&O Research. Four years ago, 65 percent of Dutch wanted Zwarte Piet to remain in his blackface form. This year it is 39 percent, NOS reports.
According to the researchers, the biggest shift in opinion happened among older Dutch over the past years. In 2018, 62 percent of people over the age of 65 were in favor of blackface Zwarte Piet, now that is 44 percent. Support also declined among people between the ages of 50 and 65, though this group more often wants gradual changes than the younger age groups.
In the past, it was mainly people with a higher education that wanted Zwarte Piet to lose his racial stereotypes. But a shift can now also be seen among people with lower levels of education, the researchers found. In 2018, over two thirds of people with a low level of education wanted Piet to stay in his blackface form, now it's half. Among people with a secondary education, support for blackface Zwarte Piet decreased from 58 percent to 45 percent.
A survey by the Volkskrant among over 300 primary schools across the country also showed that most schools will not have blackface Zwarte Piet at their Sinterklaas celebrations this week. 88 percent of primary schools will have no blackface this year, 54 percent of them for the first time.
The I&O researchers also polled Netherlands residents on their political preferences. As can be expected, the vast majority of voters for far-right parties PVV and FvD are in favor of blackface Zwarte Piet, while the vast majority of voters for left-wing parties PvdA, GroenLinks and PvdD are against. A majority of D66 voters is also against. Surprisingly, the two super-Christian parties are on both sides of the spectrum, with a majority of SGP voters being for blackface Zwarte Piet and a majority of ChristenUnie voters being against. Among voters for SP, CDA and VVD, just over half want to change Zwarte Piet's appearance.
The researchers asked respondents whether they were planning Sinterklaas celebrations given the coronavirus pandemic. Just over 40 percent said they will celebrate Sitnerklaas this weekend, though many said their parties will be on a smaller scale than in previous years.
Read from source: https://nltimes.nl/2020/12/02/support-dwindling-blackface-zwarte-piet
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THE DEEP – International Marine Research Centre / Marie Zeen Eriksson
Marie Zeen Eriksson
Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden
Interview: Marie Eriksson, Master Graduate
Course: Master Thesis, Studio 12
Marie Eriksson is a Swedish graduate who completed her master's in architecture from Umeå School of Architecture. Her work mainly focuses on climate-adapted interventions and sustainability in large scale structures, biotechnology, biodiversity, green buildings/ infrastructure and urban planning. Marie is an experimental and design-driven architect that position herself in a strong belief that form, and function are of equal importance, each, with the complexity to perform innovations within the architectural field.
1. What prompted the project?
Since many oceans today are poisoned and plagued with major environmental problems such as acidification, death of seabed and plastic debris, I wanted to create an architectural intervention that could help teach and preserve marine animal life and prevent destructive processes in the context of aquatic life. This project is my master thesis
2. You talk about parametric as a tool of adaptation, how does this apply to your project?
Due to climate changes and sea-level, rise in the upcoming decades in addition to the growing population in coastal areas, the built environment needs to adapt to this situation. Parametric design can solve problems using measurable factors and variables where these features can be adjusted to generate different climate-adapted unique solutions. Investing in environmental adapted architecture and infrastructure not only contributes to maintaining the standard of living but can also help to avoid material and human losses caused by extreme weather such as flooding. The control of mass is critical in the engineering of floating structures and to be able to produce economically sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions based on the ability to predict and evaluate flood risk, and to calculate climate adaptation costs – parametric digital tooling is crucial to predict risk assessments and to clarify decisions of future investments. In this way, errors can be detected early in the design process before it goes into production, saving both time and money.
3. What is for you the architect´s most important tool?
A tool should never be a limitation to creation – but facilitate and enable the design. With digital tooling, one can create complex patterns, shapes, and structures, not possible to implement analogously. However, the analogue method is still important at an initial stage and for certain impacts during the design process, building models by hand, etc.
4. From analogue to digital – what tools did you use in the development of the project?
Adapting to nature, a fish cell structure became an initial architectural element defining the spatial conditions for plans to celebrate the marine life in the ocean. The digitally tooled plasma membrane was modelled/ scripted in Rhino/ Grasshopper, as a double curved skin façade made of upcycled ocean plastic debris separating the outside from the inside. Simultaneously, the scale and site through its tectonic conditions were also to be clarified and to perceive these parameters I walked a track in the snow at the Umeå river – literally sketching the 1:1 footprint with my feet. Further design developments such as photographs, models, sketches, drawings, computer models, mappings and computational scripts became an interrelated narrative process including technical physical experiments of platform floating behaviour. Further explorations of patterns, units and typologies were digitally processed into 2D plotted or laser-cut units and were assembled into physical models or 3D printed. The project is mainly modelled/ scripted in Rhino / Grasshopper, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Revit, V- ray, Unreal Engine and Lumion for final renderings.
5. What case studies did you look too for inspiration and reference, you mention cities like New York and Copenhagen are reorganizing, could you dwell on this further?
Initially, within the discourse of climate-adapted architecture I was using references from Bjarke Ingels, BIG and their proposal for flooding barrier systems in New York. I also took inspiration from Ramboll's Water Park in Nörrebro, Copenhagen in which they have proposed for a park that can turn into a water reservoir in heavy rainfall. Cities like New York and Copenhagen are
implementing new strategies, reorganizing themselves in developing new and innovative architectural solutions in urban planning due to their exposed situation caused by climate and changed weather patterns. I was also investigating a lot in plastic ocean debris and different floating structures, using references from Richard Sowa´s floating pet bottle island and readings about The Uro people in Lake Titicaca, where they live on floating islands made of Reed.
6. How and to what extent was the design of the structure crafted to diminish energetic consumption and with the context in mind?
Regional differences are relevant. For example, snow and ice during the winter months in northern Sweden is a challenge. Coastal constructions in Sweden must, therefore, be able to withstand increasing windiness, diagonal rain, ice, and snowstorms. With floating structures, we can meet climate challenges that require adaptation in coastal zone areas. Water supply and wastewater management can be integrated into the structure and take benefit in the capacity of the water. Since the winter season in northern Sweden is rather long and dark, it became a prerequisite to invent a structure that could utilize the few sun hours where the skin of the building is a double-curved skin streamlined façade optimal for daylight performance. The Deep has a policy of minimizing its resource use and thereby limiting emissions to the greatest possible extent considering animal and human well-being and uses its surrounding resources such as collected rainwater and water from the Gulf of Bothnia in aquariums and for cooling systems which is being purified before the water returns to the Baltic Sea in a looped system supported by wind power. The environment and nature together are at the same time pushing the boundaries of structure and building capacity.
7. What defined the programmatic distribution of the structure/ What is the ultimate objective of the research centre and what is the user experience?
The main purpose is to distribute and disseminate knowledge about the water and its wildlife globally to a wide audience about the secrets and possibilities of maritime life and aquatic environment. All experts connected to The Deep are collaborating with both Swedish and foreign researchers. The Deep is hosting two full-scale open water deep sea aquariums to encourage visitors to be connected to the life in the water as well as take part in aquatic learning.
Dive to the depth of the ocean
From the two full-scale open water pools at first-floor visitors can enjoy traveling vertically via our deep-sea submarine elevators exploring the magical life under the ocean surface. The deep-sea pods are air-conditioned and can host up to three people at the same time, diving down at the depth of 1,000 meters.
Marine Education
The Deep children school service is focusing on the students' concept development and understanding, where living animals always are included in the teaching. Employees in the children school service must, therefore, have an appropriate education with a natural and didactic focus and presenting the animals in an easy, accessible and engaging way.
All guides at The Deep are storytellers that through programmed speaks, shows and activities care for meeting with our visitors and to work purposefully to get the hearts of children and adults to beat for the fantastic life in the water. The animal stock is communicated to the public in a clear and understandable way and hopefully will increase the interest of aquatic environment. In this strategy, The Deep undertakes to include stories about the threatened aquatic species and the environments in an activating, courageous and action-oriented way. The animals used in The Deep school service is provided by two full-scale deep-sea water pools and a saltwater atrium aquarium which are selected in collaboration with the Swedish animal department. The animals inside the Deep are handled with care, always underwater based on their hardiness. For example, a hummer can be held while fishes are not allowed.
The marine environment is constantly changing – partly because of the climate and human impacts such as the use of nutrients in agriculture and overfishing. That is why all restaurants and cafes at The Deep only is serving locally certified food which is controlled and are following the ISO regulations in both production and production methods.
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Like in Medicine, experts and consultants need to manage two languages, one to deal with the diagnoses and one to communicate with "patients".
Medical practice deals with an extremely complex adaptive system: the human being. Therefore physicians need to mange two languages: one to deal with science and one to communicate with patients.
Medicine, as all the activities that deal with adaptive systems, requires the use of two languages: one to mange the "system" and one to deal with the "patient".
The same happens with the unicist approach, it requires the use of conceptual language to deal with the business objects and plain language to communicate with clients.
Managing unicist ontology based and object driven technologies requires the use of conceptual language. It generates The Power of Technology.
The Power of Simplicity can only be achieved using plain language. Finally, The Power of Action uses factual language.
Therefore, when credibility is given, users do not need to mange the unicist technologies, just their applications. That is the way results are achieved.
What is the Unicist Approach to Talent Development?
The discovery of the unicist ontogenetic intelligence of nature allowed defining the triadic structure and the complementation and supplementation laws that underlie any entity.
1) The discovery that the concepts individuals have drive their attitudes.
2) The knowledge of the conceptual structure of the different roles included in business processes.
3) The knowledge of the concepts that sustain the talents of individuals and how to empower them.
4) The diagnostics of the talents individuals have based on the facts they produce.
5) The possibility of developing individual talent development programs.
6) The use of the unicist ontology of learning to manage adaptive aspects of businesses.
7) Unicist coaching processes based on functional fallacy-shooting.
The Unicist Confederation is a multi-local, cooperative confederation. It is the business arm of The Unicist Research Institute (TURI), a pioneer in complexity science research that developed the unicist approach to businesses and became a world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems.
More than 4,400 unicist ontological researches were developed from 1976 to July2012 inthe field of individual, institutional and social evolution. The main countries that originated these researches were: US, DE,UK, FR, JP, SE, CA, CH, IN, BR, AR, CAT, RU, CN, AU.
Unicist Confederation's members install spin-offs of business object driven solutions for the adaptive aspects of start-up, medium and large companies.
The professionals who participate need to have the necessary technical-analytical and fundamental knowledge in order to deal with the adaptive aspects of businesses. Naturally, there are four types of professional attitudes: fundamentals driven, diagnostics driven, objects driven and results driven.
The market expansion is organized based on corporate and professional spin-offs. Corporate spin-offs are business units that are installed in companies to provide solutions for their markets and activities. The business units might be insourced or outsourced.
NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became a global decentralized world-class research organization in the field of human adaptive systems.
They allow having the necessary critical mass to trigger the buying process.
They accelerate the marketing process shortening the time between the marketing stimuli and the buying action.
Saving energy in the marketing process which makes it more efficient.
The object driven marketing process depends on the product or service, the market segments, and the lifestyle of the environment. The core of marketing actions is that they have the necessary critical mass to trigger a buying action.
Drivers, to guide the business process and ensure the existence of critical mass.
Entropy inhibitors, to sustain the focus during the buying process and the fidelity of the buyers.
Catalysts, to accelerate the buying process.
This technology manages the algorithms of the buying process that corresponds to the category of product/service and includes the business objects in the process in order to ensure the results.
The Unicist Standard (US) to manage the nature of businesses has been developed for diagnosing, strategy building, conceptual design and conceptual planning. The final objective of the US is to develop objects that are necessary to drive and catalyze processes.
Dealing with the nature of businesses implies necessarily managing a fundamental approach and a technical analytical approach.
The US provides taxonomic methods to approach businesses integrating the fundamental and technical analytical approaches.
The US in a specific field, such as business strategy building, is sustained by the Unicist Standard Language that allows dealing with the fundamentals and the ambiguity of reality.
In this book you will find the structure of the fundamentals of the Unicist Standard in order to have a conceptual guide of how to use it to diagnose, build strategies, develop conceptual designs and define conceptual plans.
The e-book on Unicist Market Confrontation by Peter Belohlavek has been presented and will be integrated in the Unicist Strategic Marketing Search Engine.
This Confrontation Strategy is one of the tools that have to be managed by the members of the Unicist Confederation in order to be able to compete in the global market.
Conceptual planning is a self-evident activity when using the Unicist Standard. Its goal is to integrate the long term planning with the concept of today's actions.
Next week we will be presenting the conceptual planning model that has been used for more than 25 years.
The conceptual planning model is a taxonomy driven model that allows managing the integration of the life-cycles of any business activity with the country scenarios and the technological trends.
The unicist standard in conceptual planning integrates the concepts of what is being done today with the evolution of these concepts in the short, middle and long run.
It is a tool that will be provided to manage growth programs of companies. There is also a homologous tool for the planning of countries' evolution.


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WASHINGTON – National Right to Life applauds U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt's decision to deny a request by Planned Parenthood of Indiana for a temporary restraining order against a new Indiana law that denies state-directed funding for businesses and organizations performing abortions in the state. Judge Pratt's order allows the funding cuts passed by the Indiana legislature and signed by Governor Mitch Daniels earlier this month to immediately take effect.
According to Planned Parenthood Federation of America's annual report for 2008-2009, which reported over $1 billion in revenues, the amount it received in "Government Grants & Contracts" has grown from $165 million in 1998 to $363.3 million in the organization's fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. During the same time, and at roughly the same rate, abortions have more than doubled at Planned Parenthood, from 165,509 in 1998 to 332,278 in 2009. With just over 1.2 million abortions performed annually nationwide, abortions done in Planned Parenthood clinics account for more than 25% of the national total.
"Using the average estimates for the cost of a first-trimester abortion ($451), Planned Parenthood clinics derived more than one-third ($149.9 million) of their reported $404.9 million in income from abortions in 2008-2009," Tobias noted.
Editor's note. In Part Two, you will find a "Q &A" with Dr. O'Bannon which provides further background on the nation's largest abortion provider.


This is the outfit I wore to work on Saint Patrick's day, which was almost a month ago, oh my. I don't remember how many years it has been since it was or felt this cold for St. Patty's. Besides the very crisp frozen snow on the ground, it was a very cold low-temperature kind of day. I totally needed to add that Long Cardigan (Coatigan) to my look. Plus it pulls together the entire outfit, don't you think?!
The outfit I wore features many shades of green with pops of gold and for Saint Patrick's is the right outfit to wear. It is also different, stylish, modern and fun. My coatigan, striped blouse, statement earrings, clutch and even my ponytail holder were all green - albeit different shades of green. But they all worked great together. I feel that you can totally do a monochromatic head to toe look with different shades of the same color, like I did. These Gorgeous New Jacquard Cropped Pants by Gap have a gold design on them, which has a green undertone. Pairing them with the Gold Louboutins was a great idea. I also love my Cropped, Ruffle-Sleeve Button-Down Shirt by Who What Wear for Target which you may still find in the stores, probably on clearance. It is quite Springy and I picture it with a Midi A-Line Skirt for Spring and Summer. The coatigan and clutch are by Target, too. My New Crispin Ball Hunter Green Earrings by Francesca's were the perfect earrings to wear with this outfit, too.


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KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Work to redevelop part of the Western Michigan University campus into the new South Neighborhood kicked off this month with two input sessions and an online survey designed to get campus community views on what amenities should be included within and surrounding a new student center and campus housing.
Two community input sessions were held April 12 in the Bernhard Center lobby. A third input session designed for students is set for 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 3, in 157-159 Bernhard Center. The session will focus on using design scenarios that demonstrate how attributes like multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion can play out in the design and amenities included in the new student center.
In addition to the input sessions, an online student survey has been launched covering a variety of topics such as housing options and amenities, sustainability, shared facilities and parking.
The sessions and survey are the first steps in an initiative announced last fall to transform the area of campus adjacent to Stadium Drive into a new campus gateway that is more connected with the community and offers eye-catching appeal to prospective students and campus visitors.
Information from the input sessions and survey will be used by campus planning staff and teams from CannonDesign and Stantec Architecture, consulting firms hired to help develop the new center and housing. Representatives of the firm Perkins+Will also were present at the feedback sessions to solicit input on the sub-campus master plan.
"The firms we're working with are truly excited about the opportunity to work together and leverage the elements to the South Neighborhood work in a way that will give us something pretty phenomenal," says Dr. Diane Anderson, vice president for student affairs. "They're feeling real synergy that has been enhanced by the terrific input we're getting from students, faculty and staff, as we all work to create space that will be adaptable and can truly transform our campus."
Demolition this May of Elmwood Apartments.
Construction of new student housing in the Elmwood footprint, with groundbreaking set for spring 2019.
Construction on both the student center and the new student housing is slated to begin in 2019. Future plans for the South Neighborhood include additional student housing and other mixed-use facilities.
"We're just getting started with planning for the student center and the South Neighborhood housing," says David Dakin, director of planning, space management and capital projects. "We want to get everyone's best thoughts and ideas on what the facilities will be like."
Dakin says websites for the various projects are under development and will include online feedback mechanisms for the campus community.
The first sign of this work will be the removal of the Elmwood Apartments this summer. This, as well as future building, will require the removal and relocation of some trees. The University practice of planting two trees for every one removed will be implemented; one student suggested concentrating these to form a park.
The WMU Build Facebook page is also available to follow progress on the projects.


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BUHARI ORDERS IMMEDIATELY REMOVAL OF TRUCK AROUND APAPA
"A Presidential directive has been issued for the immediate clearing up of the Apapa gridlock and the restoration of law and order to Apapa and its environs within 2 weeks," the presidency tweeted.
"The directive mandates the immediate removal of all trucks from the bridges and roads within Apapa and all adjoining streets leading into the Apapa axis," it added.
The presidency said it has directed "operators of trucks and tankers have also been directed to vacate the Port Access Roads within the next 72 hours."
The directive followed an emergency meeting convened by Buhari and chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on the 25th of April, 2019.
The presidency said "the meeting proffered lasting solutions to the gridlock around the Lagos Ports, as the traffic congestion has continued to restrict all operations and livelihood in the area."
The taskforce will "report directly" to Buhari in the development of an efficient and effective management plan for the entire port area traffic, including the cargo, fuel distribution and business district traffic; enforcing the permanent removal of all stationary trucks on the highway, and the development of an effective manual truck call-up system, pending the introduction of the electronic truck call-up system.
"It also includes the implementation of a workable Empty Container Return and Export Container Truck Handling Policy, amongst others."
Members of the taskforce, he said, included Mr. Kayode Opeifa, former Commissioner of Transport in Lagos State, as the Executive Vice Chairman; a representative of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC); the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA); and the Nigerian Shippers' Council (NSC).
Other members include a special unit of the Nigeria Police Force led by a Commissioner of Police, representatives of the Truck Transport Union, the Lagos State Government through the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), and other relevant MDAs.
"In addition, LASTMA has been authorised to move into Apapa as the lead traffic management agency, while the NPA is to commence the immediate use of the Lilypond Terminal and Trailer Park A as a truck transit park," it added.
In 2018, Vice President Osinbajo ordered a 72-hour operation to clear the gridlock in Apapa. However the gridlock problem caused by tankers and truck persisted.
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Irmin Schmidt (Can) has announced "5 Klavierstücke", an album of five piano pieces recorded last year. "5 Klavierstücke" is out on Mute in conjunction with Spoon Records on November 16. The album coincides with events centered around his works occurring later this year including the Braunschweig International Film Festival and the Volksbühne in Berlin.
"5 Klavierstücke", was recorded and produced by Gareth Jones in the South of France on Irmin Schmidt's two grand pianos, a Pleyel piano and a 100-year-old Steinway. All ambient sounds were recorded on site – around Schmidt's studio – and there are no other instruments or electronics of any kind.
This is Irmin Schmidt's first solo release since "Electro Violet" – a collection of his entire solo work – in 2015.


This week's hours-long Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage was caused by an incorrectly typed command that forced inadvertent restarts of key Amazon S3 subsystems, the company said.
In its postmortem report released Thursday, AWS explained the chain of events that led to the outage, which bogged down much of the Internet -- including many of AWS' own applications -- for roughly four hours on Tuesday.
The outage affected the Amazon S3 storage service in AWS' Northern Virginia region, which houses a significant portion of the vendor's total cloud infrastructure. It lasted between 9:30 a.m. PST to just before 2 p.m. PST.
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) team was debugging an issue causing the S3 billing system to progress more slowly than expected. At 9:37AM PST, an authorized S3 team member using an established playbook executed a command which was intended to remove a small number of servers for one of the S3 subsystems that is used by the S3 billing process. Unfortunately, one of the inputs to the command was entered incorrectly and a larger set of servers was removed than intended. The servers that were inadvertently removed supported two other S3 subsystems. One of these subsystems, the index subsystem, manages the metadata and location information of all S3 objects in the region. This subsystem is necessary to serve all GET, LIST, PUT, and DELETE requests. The second subsystem, the placement subsystem, manages allocation of new storage and requires the index subsystem to be functioning properly to correctly operate. The placement subsystem is used during PUT requests to allocate storage for new objects. Removing a significant portion of the capacity caused each of these systems to require a full restart. While these subsystems were being restarted, S3 was unable to service requests.
AWS said that while Amazon S3 subsystems are designed to withstand "the removal or failure of significant capacity," the subsystems in some of its larger regions have not been restarted for many years.
The Northern Virginia region is considered to be AWS' densest in terms of how much of the company's overall cloud infrastructure is located there; AWS doesn't provide official figures, but a 2012 study by Accenture Technology Labs estimated that Northern Virginia accounted for 70 percent of AWS' total server racks at the time. It's also AWS' oldest region, having opened in 2006.
"S3 has experienced massive growth over the last several years and the process of restarting these services and running the necessary safety checks to validate the integrity of the metadata took longer than expected," the company said.
AWS outlined the steps it's taking to prevent similar outages in the future -- for instance, modifying its processes to make sure that technicians can't remove too much server capacity too fast and cause a restart.
It is also making refactoring the S3 service into smaller, easier-to-manage "cells" a priority. Dividing services into cells lets technicians easily test for problems and minimize downtime, AWS explained. While S3 had already undergone a certain degree of refactoring, AWS promised to do "further partitioning" in the wake of the outage.
AWS also addressed one glaring casualty of the outage: its own Service Health Dashboard. Used by customers to check the status of individual AWS applications, the Dashboard was rendered basically useless for a good part of the outage, incorrectly showing impacted services as "operating normally."
"From the beginning of this event until 11:37AM PST, we were unable to update the individual services' status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard (SHD) because of a dependency the SHD administration console has on Amazon S3," AWS explained. "Instead, we used the AWS Twitter feed (@AWSCloud) and SHD banner text to communicate status until we were able to update the individual services' status on the SHD. We understand that the SHD provides important visibility to our customers during operational events and we have changed the SHD administration console to run across multiple AWS regions."
Major Web sites -- including Expedia, Medium, Slack, Imgur, Trello, GitHub, Docker and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission -- experienced major slowdowns or were unable to load altogether during Tuesday's outage. According to Web site analysis firm Apica, 54 of the Internet's top 100 retailers experienced performance declines of 20 percent or more, with load times being severely impacted for some. Target.com, for instance, loaded 991 percent slower due to the outage, according to Apica, while DisneyStore.com loaded 1,165 percent slower.


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Q: Dynamically getting a checked input's value and send with AJAX I'll start of telling that I'm using Bootstrap 3 and its button system for radio buttons:

So whichever of these buttons is clicked, the other button will be unclicked.
So what I'm struggling with is getting the value of the button that is checked and send it through an AJAX call to a PHP script. My problem is pure jQuery/Javascript though, I've been trying to alert() the correct value, but I can't get it there.
So the problem occurs as follow (demo try):

*

*I click one button

*I alert its value

I get the wrong result each time. So when I click 130 I get 110, then I continue to 160 and I get 130 and so on. I'm always one step back.
In the real world project, I need to take this value and send it with my AJAX call so I can determine something based on this number in my PHP script.
The way I tried to do this is create an JS Object like:
var selected_thumbwidth = { width: 110 };

And then change its value like this:
$('.thumb-sizes .btn').click(function() {
    selected_thumbwidth.thumbWidth = $('.thumb-sizes .active').children().val();
});

Then alerting this outside the click callback gives me the results I described above. Why am I selecting the .active class? Well, whenever a button is clicked, the .active class shifts to that button, making it look pressed. That's from Bootstrap.
I want to be able to take selected_thumbwidth.thumbWidth and put it in the data option of $.ajax, which I guess is irrelevant to mention.
This is how the HTML looks like:

                <input type="radio" id="width-90" value="90">90
                <input type="radio" id="width-110" value="110" checked>110
                <input type="radio" id="width-130" value="130">130
                <input type="radio" id="width-160" value="160">160
                <input type="radio" id="width-200" value="200">200

                 <button type="button" class="close" aria-hidden="true">×</button>

        <button type="button" class="close pull-right" aria-hidden="true"> ×</button>
         <input class="form-control input-sm pull-right resize_width" type="text" pattern="[0-9]{0,5}" placeholder="New width (px)">

Please note that there's more HTML than I showed in the image above. The complete HTML design looks like this in the real world:

I'm not very familiar with these reference techniques in Javascript, but I'm really interested on learning it and get out of this stuck-zone.

Update - 02/02/2014
I have followed code-jaff's answer and this is my code right now:
var selected_thumbwidth = { thumbWidth: 110 };

$('.btn input[type="radio"]').on('change', function() {
    selected_thumbwidth.thumbWidth = $(this).data('val');
});

Please note that I'm not submitting a regular form, I just didn't want to complicate my question above as I thought it was irrelevant, but I guess it is. I'm using a jQuery plugin, named jQuery File Upload and I need to send the selected number along with the form. This is how I do it:
$('#upload').fileupload({
    dropZone:                   $('#drop'),
    pasteZone:                  $('#drop'),
    url:                        'upload.php',
    type:                       'POST',
    limitMultiFileUploads:      10,
    fileInput:                  $('#upload_button'),
    formData: {
        upload_type: 'local',
        thumbnail_width: selected_thumbwidth.thumbWidth,
        resize_width: $('.options .resize_width').val(),
    },
    ...

I thought that using an object enables me to assign a value by reference, so when clicking a different button, I pass the value of the radio button to the object's thumbWidth property and then it would automatically submit the changed value with the AJAX request.
In my case, it keeps sending 110 all the time, even though I click a different button.
I'm assuming that assigning by reference is not the solution here.

A: Here is a simple solution, will get you to the actual solution for your issue
HTML

    <input type="radio" name="options" id="option1" data-val = "110"> 110

    <input type="radio" name="options" id="option2" data-val = "120"> 120

    <input type="radio" name="options" id="option3" data-val = "130"> 130

JavaScript
$('.btn input[type="radio"]').on('change', function(e){
    alert($(this).data('val'));
    console.log($(this).data('val'));
});

demo
As per the question update, you need to set the data on upload start - I've just gone through the documentation
$('#upload').on('fileuploadsubmit', function (e, data) {
    // other options go here
    // ...
    data.formData = {
            upload_type: 'local',
            thumbnail_width: $('.btn.active input[type="radio"]').data('val'),
            resize_width: $('.options .resize_width').val(),
    }
});

A: Here's your simplified html
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="110" checked>90</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="110">110</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="130">130</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="160">160</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="200">200</input>

Add a javascript function
onclick="alert(this.value)"

attach to each input.
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="110" checked onclick="alert(this.value)">90</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="110" onclick="alert(this.value)">110</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="130" onclick="alert(this.value)">130</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="160" onclick="alert(this.value)">160</input>
    <input class="btn-xs" type="radio" name=btn-xs value="200" onclick="alert(this.value)">200</input>

If you want to get fancier (and cleaner), look up how to attach a click function to elements as selected by class name (jQuery is easiest). Here's a link.

A: This is wrong ! You should make use of the browser capabilities ! The radio box can be checked and unchecked if you specify a name group to all of your radio buttons ! Then in CSS you can design unchecked and checked radio button.
Another solution is to remove all active class to all the radio button of your group and to assign the class only to the selected one.
Here is an example:
http://jsfiddle.net/xQ2HL/1

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
  <title></title>

    90: <input type="radio" name="group1" value="90" />

    110: <input type="radio" name="group1" value="110" />

    130: <input type="radio" name="group1" value="130" />

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The other option for income investors is to accumulate dividends in cash until a certain level of money is reached, and then buy shares in an attractively valued stock. The difference from automatic dividend reinvestment is that you take valuation into account, and do not mindlessly reinvest dividends. This way, you are not overpaying for future income, and could actually may be stacking odds of success in your favor. It does make a difference to long-term results if your future income is purchased at a lower price. Notice that the selective dividend reinvestment method does not mean that you should not reinvest dividends regularly – it just tells you to be mindful of valuations when reinvesting distributions.
While automatic dividend reinvestment does compound your income, it does not make much sense to automatically reinvest dividends into a security that sells for 30 times earnings for example. Right now, shares of Brown-Forman and Automatic Data Processing currently sell at over 25 times earnings, and offer low yields in the process. Investors in McCormick (MKC) , Brown-Forman (BF.B) or Automatic Data Processing (ADP) should be better off accumulating dividends in cash, and then reinvesting them in attractive opportunities selling below 20 times earnings. With the manual dividend reinvestment, you allocate your capital in the best opportunities at the moment. This reduces risk, since you can potentially end up investing those dividends in more new companies, which increases portfolio diversification. One downside for this method is that it is a little more time consuming than the first.
However, if your portfolio is not large enough, it might take you a lot of time before you accumulate enough dividend cash in order to allocate to a full position. I would not advise anyone to pay more than 0.50% in commissions when purchasing dividend paying stocks. Therefore, if you are paying a $5/trade commission, you should be spending at least $1000 per each position. If your portfolio value is $30,000, and it yields 3%, it might take you a little over one year before you can put that money to work. So there is an opportunity cost in waiting, as you might have been better off dripping automatically. This could be an issue for portfolios where no new money is going to be added. Once you reach critical mass in a portfolio, which is usually around $100,000, it could potentially self-fund 3 – 4 purchases/year, just from dividends alone.
For portfolios where you are still adding regular contributions however, you can simply combine your deposits with the dividends received. As part of a monthly process, you should have a criteria that would allow you to be searching for bargains, and then use that list to research those candidates. For those that meet your qualitative criteria, you should put them on your shopping list. Depending on the level of capital you can deploy, existing portfolio weights, you can then choose the ones on the list that make sense to be purchased.
In my taxable portfolio, I have always tried to accumulate dividends in cash, and then deploy them in the best ideas I have at the time. Over the past 8 - 9 years I always combined those dividends received with any deposits I put in my accounts. So in essence, I was still reinvesting those dividends, just not in the companies that paid them. I also managed to reinvest those dividends usually within 3 - 4 business days from receipt. This was possible because I was making several purchases per month with new deposits and dividends received.
Regular readers know that I have taxable and tax-deferred brokerage accounts. For those tax-deferred accounts where critical mass has not been achieved, I reinvest dividends automatically. This includes my legacy Roth IRA, where new money used to be deposited once per year. It is cost effective to do so.
If a Roth IRA reaches critical mass in a decade or so however, it may make sense to allocate the cash manually in the best opportunities I identify. Because of the constraints on the account, it made sense to automatically reinvest the dividends. It would have been too costly to sit and wait for months, until I accumulate enough dividends to go ahead and manually put them to work.
In my 401 (k) account, I reinvest dividends automatically, because I am limited to the investment options there. I can only buy funds for now there.
The one important lesson to consider with dividend reinvestment is that you will pay taxes on dividends received in your taxable brokerage accounts, whether you reinvest them or spend them. As a result, you should consider whether it makes sense to put as much of your investment savings in tax-deferred accounts as possible. This could save money from taxes today, and any distributions you receive won't be taxable until you start withdrawing the money. Therefore, if you are still in the accumulation phase today, and plan to be there for several years, try to determine if your target retirement date won't be sooner if you used tax-deferred accounts.
To summarize, there are generally two methods to handle dividend reinvestment. Your decision to embrace either method will be dependent of different constraints such as account type, account size, valuations, whether you are contributing to an account and the level of involvement you are willing to allocate to your portfolio.


If a traveler happens to be in Cancún, it is a mortal sin not to visit the what it used to be the New 7 Wonders of the World of 2000-2007, the Chichén Itzá in Yucatan and since it is located in Yucatan state, make sure to do a side trip to Tulum. The Mayan Cities of Chichén Itzá and Tulum are the most famous tourist destinations in the Yucatan Peninsula. These attractions are just 2 hours away from Cancún.
I was already in Cancún for my spring break so, I made sure to include the Mayan ruins in my travel itinerary. I stayed in Cancún for about 5 days and I scheduled my day trips to Chichén Itzá on day 3 and Tulum ruins the next day through the help of Viator.com. Well, here it goes.
On my 3rd day, I took advantage of the early access to Chichén Itzá with a private archaeologist guide to beat the crowds, to gain essential information of the Mayan city, and to have a personalised touch of the exclusive tour. The tour bus came a little late to pick me up in the hotel at 0530H. It should have been 5:10AM but it was a great coincidence since I was inebriated the night before the tour. I came back in my room at 2AM and fell to bed without changing clothes. I woke up at 05:25AM, without even washing my face or changing my clothes from yesterday, I hurriedly went down to the lobby to find out that the tour bus hasn't came yet. That was a relief but I still missed an important equipment for that trip, I forgot to bring my camera yet I have my mobile phone. Anyway, few minutes, they came and I got to the tour bus. The bus drove all the way to downtown Cancún since we still have to pick up some other travelers to Chichén Itzá. It was already around 6AM when we left Cancún and most of the time I was asleep. When I'm awake, I'm battling hangover of trying not to puke in the bus. I was successful though. At 0845H, we got to the Yucatan state few miles from Mayan city of Chichén Itzá.
About 10 minutes, we have arrived to our destination and was welcomed with this sign. This sign was very important for it was our meeting point after we were done touring the Mayan ruin. We also waited here for our tickets to get inside. Good thing that they have a tourist center so, guests can purchase food, souvenirs, sunblocks, sun protectors like umbrella, hats and of course, an access to toilets. After being relieved from human nature calls, I got these.
The guide then split the guests to two groups, the English speakers and the Spanish speakers. After getting the groups, then off we go. As we entered the city ruin, we were astonished on how beautiful the sight was.
Chichén Itzá was a major focal point in the Northern Maya history and was one of the largest Maya cities. It has been one of the mythical great cities and has been a factor to contribute to the variety of architectural styles at the site. Chichén Itzá is one of the most visited archaeological sites in Mexico; an estimated 1.4 million tourists visit the ruins every year.
Chichén Itzá has a long story and it is very intriguing. According to Marco, our archaeologist guide, Chichén Itzá's Kukulcán pyramid is not a temple but some sort of a stage. If a person is standing at the ground facing the staircase and makes a handclap, it will make or resonate a bird chirping sound. Every staircase has a different bird sounds.
More intriguing is that, it used to be open to the public years back wherein guests can climb up Kukulcán pyramid and at that time, they tried the same thing making clapping sound at the ground and other guests were in the halfway to the top in the staircase and can't even hear a sound. But what is more fascinating is that if you are on top of the block of the pyramid, you can talk and everyone in the ground can hear you. The late Luciano Pavarotti had a concert in Chichén Itzá back in 1997 and everyone can hear him. It was then thought that Chichén Itzá's Kukulcán pyramid is indeed a stage for the emperor to tell his followers his rules and their duties. The snake head on the foot of the pyramid is the head of Kukulcán. The Mayans worshipped the snake which gives blessings to the land and fertilises everything down in earth. Marco tells a really long story about the Mayan history and it is really amazing but I can tell only few of it and it's for you people to hear it.
The Mayans were really wise and we can't even figure it out how they were able to build such advance ways and techniques without the help of technology in that era. In this ball court, the emperor sat on that big square while the guests which was written on the blocks of the wall as foreigners, e.g Spanish, Romans sat on the other end of the court. The guide called one of the tourists to stand in front of the emperor's seat while we were on the other end. Marco whispered the name of the tourist and Jordan was able to hear him which was a mile away. We were shocked. The guide was really knowledgeable about what he is doing and he told that the emperor can hear all the words the foreigners were talking when they were invited to watch the pok-ta-pok game. The pok-ta-pok game consists of 2 teams. Each team has 6 players and a captain. The winning team captain was then offered to the gods as a gift for being the best to the bests.
In the entrance of Juego de Pelota, it clearly depicted on the wall that the Mayans interacted with outsiders such as Romans and Spaniards.
Here are the other photos I've taken during my Chichén Itzá trip.
It was a very long, informative, fascinating and intriguing day in Chichén Itzá. But the experience was beautifully amazing. To summarise the whole trip, a day wasn't enough. The story behind the Maya civilisation is really interesting that I just want to time travel and witness it with my two eyes but that ain't possible. So, if you want to travel to Chichén Itzá, make sure to hire a knowledgeable archaeologist and tour guide. I recommend Marco from viator.com.
I'll leave you with a picture of me in Chichén Itzá.
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A: The counter in your loop (i) is a global variable. On each iteration of your loop, you are creating a promise. By the time your promises have resolved, the loop is complete, therefore i is the final value.
The solution is to save the value of i in a scoped variable. This can be done in a few ways, here are two:
You can use let (depending on ES6 support)

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Or you could store the value of i in a scoped variable by creating a function:

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Replica of Sistine Chapel takes a trip to Mexico
Copies of the original paintings by Michelangelo are assembled on the eve of the inauguration of a full-size reproduction of the Sistine Chapel at the esplanade of the monument to the Mexican Revolution in Mexico City, on June 07, 2016. PEDRO PARDO / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Mexicans don't need to fly to Rome to marvel at the Sistine Chapel's famous frescoes. With the Vatican's blessing, a life-size replica was installed in Mexico City.
It is the first time that the 15th century church, with its ceiling painted by Michelangelo, takes a trip abroad, albeit a virtual one.
While the original was built over eight years, it only took one month for Mexico's capital to get its own Sistine Chapel, which was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Republic Square, facing the Monument to the Revolution.
But a painter was not hired for the modern version of Michelangelo's masterpiece. A closer look shows that the frescoes, including of God and Adam, are actually images printed on canvas.
For the reproduction, photographers worked inside the Sistine Chapel for 170 nights.
"In total, 2.6 million images were used to create the replica," said Antonio Berumen, the project's director, who is from Mexico.
Berumen said the idea of making a replica came to him two years ago, when he saw an elderly Mexican woman weep inside the real Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
After that, he made it his "mission" to bring the chapel to Mexico, the world's second biggest Roman Catholic country after Brazil.
The project cost more than $2 million, mostly paid by private partners.
"I felt as if I was in the Sistine Chapel when I went through the door," said Father Manuel Corral, a priest visiting the replica.
The 27-meter (88-foot) tall structure chapel will remain at the square until June 30, with free access to the public through reservations.
The structure will then be taken apart and taken on a nationwide tour over the next three years
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City Council repeals 'Big Box Ordinance'
by Cassie Dickman January 16th, 2023 January 16th, 2023
The Walmart store on Trinity Parkway in Stockton
Warehouse retail stores may soon be expanding into Stockton once again following the City Council's decision to repeal an ordinance that had previously kept many large retailers out for nearly two decades.
In August 2007, Council passed an ordinance banning superstores larger than 100,000 square feet with 10% or more floor space dedicated to nontaxable items such as groceries in an attempt to protect "existing neighborhood-serving shopping centers" centrally located in the community from being overtaken by "discount superstores."
Dubbed the "Big Box Ordinance," the original legislation came about as a direct response to public opposition at the time to Walmart building a new store in South Stockton, The Record previously reported in 2015 when the ordinance was brought back before City Council for discussion.
However, the ordinance stayed on the city's books until last week, when the Council unanimously voted Tuesday to repeal the ban at its first regular meeting of the year.
"Stockton is open for business," Councilmember Kimberly Warmsley, a proponent of bringing the ordinance back before Council, told Stocktonia Friday.
A conversation about food insecurity and injustices that she was having with the rest of Council at a meeting in September naturally brought up the ban, Warmsley said. The District 6 councilmember represents the most southern areas of the city, where many communities often experience economic hardship.
According to a presentation made to Council last Tuesday, the city's General Plan in 2018 directed staff to explore and examine the ordinance's usefulness. Michael McDowell, Stockton assistant director of community development, told Stocktonia that the City Council Legislation/Environmental Committee also last year directed staff to open the door back up once again for large warehouse retail stores.
The new ordinance first went to the city's Planning Commission, which voted unanimously in December to recommend the ban's repeal, sending it back to City Council for a final vote last week.
Though Council passed the commission's recommendation, it amended city staff recommendations to reject keeping the ban in place for Stockton's downtown corridor, dismissing the notion that parking would present a barrier as other cities have found their way around such issues by building parking directly beneath retailers.
Councilmembers and staff have also noted that there is no immediate interest from any of the previously barred retailers to start building as of yet. The move to get rid of the ban is just meant to serve as an open for the possibility, while any big-box store that wants to build in Stockton will still have to go through the regular permitting and approval process.
"We don't want like five Rite Aids on one block or area. We just want to have potential, see what's out there," Warmsley said. "We know that small businesses are the heart of Stockton. And so we will work closely to ensure that we're preserving the integrity of small business all the time."
From an economic standpoint, repealing the ban on large warehouse stores could eventually provide benefits for the city in the form of both jobs and sales tax dollars, McDowel said. He noted that the retail industry as a whole has changed, including the rise of mail-order groceries, and if Stockton shoppers go to Manteca, Lathrop or elsewhere to buy goods then the city loses that revenue.
"What I've heard from the folks in south Stockton is that's where the choices, alternatives for shopping are," McDowell said.
Warmsley, who grew up in south Stockton, says her district has not had the same retail growth opportunities seen in other areas of the city.
"Unfortunately, south Stockton has its unique challenges, and food deserts and food insecurities are all intersectional with a lack of retail development," she said.
But repealing the city's Big Box Ordinance doesn't just provide opportunities in her district, Warmsley says. It gives the whole of Stockton the opportunity to be competitive with other developments in sister cities.
"The council all approved and all agreed that we want to provide this opportunity for retail to come knock, knock on our doors," Warmsley said." And we want to make sure that there's business equity and development on all areas in Stockton. Regardless to what part of Stockton we're talking about, every aspect of Stockton should get the same opportunity to thrive with retail development."
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BlakeHunter says:
A positive impact of this is giving Costco Warehouse the chance to build a more modern retail shop for their consumers here in Stockton. The current one in Stockton is rather cramped and the city has outgrew this location in the early 2000s. Add to the recent modification to the parking lot near the gas station, reducing parking spots, the location is bursting at the seams.
It'll be awesome to see more store locations in South Stockton and Downtown Stockton as well. The locations are in dire needs of shopping revenue.