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Party City mobile tour brings Halloween shopping experience to Las Vegas families
Contactless Halloween shopping during pandemic
Party City's Halloween-themed mobile tour has landed in Las Vegas and operators say it's helping kids find costumes, while reducing their risk of catching COVID-19 in the process.
By: Ross DiMattei
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Americans love Halloween, but the pandemic has canceled so many popular events this year, many are wondering whether Halloween is still happening and what it will look like.
For those who say Halloween isn't happening this year, no one told the hordes of families who have been showing up at local Halloween Town pumpkin patch locations. 13 Action News spoke with Amanda Rodriguez, a celebration specialist with Party City, about this year's shopping trends, some safe ways to celebrate during this pandemic, and how Party City is bringing the Halloween shopping experience to you!
More mobile billboard than brick and mortar store, Party City's Halloween-themed mobile tour has landed in Las Vegas. Rodriguez says it's helping kids find costumes while reducing their risk of catching COVID-19 in the process.
"They can't actually try on the costumes here at the truck because we actually launched a new scan-and-go purchase and pick-up system," said Rodriguez.
By scanning a QR code in front of the Party City bus, families can browse and buy anything that's in the truck. Then, they can pick up their purchases from the bus when they're done at the pumpkin patch.
"With a lot more folks no longer leaving their home or going to the store, we want to bring the store to them," said Rodriguez.
When it comes to costumes, Rodriguez says, this year, kids are sticking to the classics.
"Especially your movie classics: Spiderman, Captain America, those are all still really popular. The new Wonder Woman movie is coming out, so the new Wonder Woman costume for girls has been very popular," said Rodriguez.
As for the adults, a recent survey from the National Retail Federation found only 58% plan to celebrate Halloween this year. That's down 10% from 68% last year because of the pandemic. But for the adults who do want to dress up, a witch, vampire, or cat costume are most common this year. And Rodriguez says it's easier than ever to dress up.
"Now that we offer so many more different types of accessories, adult costumes have become a lot more popular since you don't have to wear a full-blown costume just to dress up," said Rodriguez.
Even though the CD. and Southern Nevada Health District don't recommend traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating this year, party planning experts like Rodriguez say there are safe ways to get in the spooky spirit.
"This year we have actually launched new decorating kits that allow you to decorate your home, which gets everyone in the Halloween spirit, both inside and outside. Also, we've developed new car decorating kits where families can partake in a Halloween parade. They can still dress up, decorate their car, and drive around their neighborhoods to take in all the spooky sites. You can get into the spirit, even if it is just staying at home and decorating and getting your costumes and creating a little haunted house within your own home," said Rodriguez.
The Party City mobile tour is going to be busy in the days leading up to Halloween. This week, you can catch it at the haunted western drive-thru hosted by Whitney Ranch Recreation Center in Henderson.


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The regular monthly events continued to be well supported and were clearly welcomed by those attending. The following events took place:
An Evening with Prof. Duncan Dowson, preceded by dinner
Pre-Bonfire Night Spectacular (Mike Hoyland)
AGM, Dinner and Speaker (Professor John Holman)
Furnaces and Fuel: New perspectives on the mediaeval and early modern iron-industry of Bilsdale and Rievaulx, North Yorkshire (Jane Wheeler)
Finding my feet as an MP (Greg Mulholland)
The Move to the Left in Latin America (Richard Gott)
Science Fair in 'The Light'
Great Art: Great Stories (Edward Reed)
The Votes for Women Campaign 1905-14: Yorkshire's Rebel girls (Jill Liddington)
Between the Poles (John Lydon)
Visit to Burton Agnes Hall and The Deep
The Arts of the Post Reformation Church (Professor Graham Parry)
Prizes and Grants
During the year the following prizes and grants were awarded by the Society:
Arthur Chadwick Prize (University of Leeds): Ryan Cawood
Modern Language Prize (University of Leeds): Annie Ring • Support of the Leeds Festival Chorus
Towards the George Baxter Exhibition at the Leeds Art Gallery • Towards the costs associated with a theatre play associated with Dorothy Squires and Maria Callas
Support of publication of biography of William Turton, Leeds tramways pioneer
Further support of interactive CD of the Leeds mummy by Thomas Small
Support of a study of the early history of the Society
Printing costs of four display panels in the Health Sciences Library of The University of Leeds
Towards the second phase of the dragonfly conservation project at the Rodley Nature Reserve Trust
Towards the Thoresby Society's exhibition, The Borough of Leeds 1207-2007
Support of the Ilkley Literature Festival
Prizes for Leeds Peace Poetry Competition 2007 • Support of exhibition Form, Shape and Space at the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive
Towards the publication costs of Weighing the World: The Reverend John Mitchell of Thornhill
Towards costs of Arts to Share project
Support for the creation of IT software to catalogue the historical science, medicine and technology holdings of the University of Leeds
Support of Leeds Astromeet 2007
Support of the Wetherby Arts Festival
Towards the production costs of the satirical revue, Blackout, Blowout and Beyond by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka
Towards the costs associated with a conference devoted to the music of Emmanuel Nunes
The Society had no publications of its own during the year. However, it supported the publication by the Thoresby Society of The Monuments of the Parish Church of St Peter-at- Leeds. The Society has entered into an agreement with EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich, MA, USA whereby the Society's publications will be made available online.
Leeds Museums
The Society continues its active involvement (together with the Friends of the Leeds Museums, the Thoresby Society, and the Leeds Civic Trust) in the planning and the development of the Leeds Institute building as the new Museum, and the preservation and conservation of the museum collections. Members of Council have had the opportunity to visit the new Museum following its handover by the contractors to the Museum Service prior to the fitting out phase. Council members have been impressed with the successful modification of

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Oxford County Fair: Free lunch comes with a cowbell and a smile
By Leslie H. Dixon, Staff Writer
OXFORD — Dr. Lawrence Murch, a Mechanic Falls optometrist, has served lunch with a cowbell in one hand and a smile on his face to thousands of people at the Oxford Fair over the past 25 years.
Murch, one of 10 directors on the Oxford County Agricultural Society board, is the driving force behind the popular and free Community Day luncheon.
"It's only money," said Murch, who pays for the luncheon himself, buying most of the food at Future Foods, an independent grocery store in downtown Mechanic Falls.
Murch began the event in 1991, first catering to senior citizens and later to anyone who wanted to come under the big, white tents to enjoy a free meal, usually with offered music and raffle prizes.
"It's community service, hopefully making a difference," said Murch, who carries a cowbell with him to ring when he wants to quiet down the lively chatter to say something to the crowd or to announce the winner of a raffle prize. Each director of the Oxford County Agricultural Society is obligated to perform some sort of community service.
Murch provides the same free luncheon for the Waterford World's Fair each year.
The menu at the Oxford Fair luncheon is usually ham and beans or potatoes, rolls, soda, water and of course, cake for dessert.
"He tells me the old people love cake," Donna Yates, manager of Future Foods,said. Murch, of course, is one of those senior citizens, she said.
Yates said her crew was up at 3:30 a.m. Thursday baking 30 packages of rolls for the event. The six blocks of ham, about 30 pounds, is prepared the day before.
"We want to make sure the rolls are fresh," she said of the early-morning baking.
At 6 a.m. Tim Cote, another member of the Oxford Fair board of directors, was at the store, ready to pick up the food and take it to the Oxford Fairgrounds off Pottle Road.
Despite rain Thursday, a large crowd gathered under two tents to enjoy the food and camaraderie before they headed off to enjoy the exhibits and demonstrations.
"I want it to be a place where the community can spend quality time at a reasonable price," Murch said of the fair that has undergone extensive revamping in the past few years to bring it back to its agricultural roots.
The four-day fair will continue Friday with the popular Woodsmen Day and many other events including demolition derbies, harness racing and pig scrambles.
On Saturday, events will continue all day with tractor pulls, beef and heifer shows, the 4-H market lamb show and the popular pig scramble.
Oxford County Agricultural Society Director Lawrence Murch presents Shirley Stevens of Oxford with a cane carved in Arkansas with the inscription "Oxford County Fair 2014" during Thursday's community luncheon. It was one of a dozen or so canes raffled off.
Oxford County Agricultural Society President Jackie Young, right, made a surprise presentation Thursday to Lawrence Murch, a member of the society's board of directors and host of the annual community luncheon, to acknowledge his longtime contributions to the Oxford County Fair.
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So let me give you another Christmas recipe. Those jam biscuits are amazing with milk or hot chocolate in the Christmas morning unwrapping Santa's gifts.
Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5. Cream butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy. Sift flour and add, mixing well. Shape dough into 3 cm diameter balls and place on baking trays. Press your thumb in the center of each one to make an indentation. Fill with your strawberry jam. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown at the edges.
You can use any jam. Enjoy!
Oh my, these look delicious! I've been looking for a new Christmas cookie to try this year, and these fit the bill perfectly! Is vanilla essence the same thing as vanilla extract?
Your photos are lovely. I just made a batch of strawberry jam. I may need to try out your recipe.
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At 2.2 billion years old, 51 Aurigae has evolved off from the main sequence and is now a K-type giant star. It is 1.58 times as massive as the Sun, 24.5 times as wide, and 178 times as luminous. It emits radiation from its photosphere with an effective temperature of about 4,277 K.

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Coroner gives verdict on patient death after 'wellness scan'
By Philip Ward, AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writer
November 23, 2021 -- A coroner plans to refer two Melbourne doctors -- including a radiologist -- to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) after finding their actions and those of several companies contributed to the death of a patient who suffered an allergic reaction during a CT coronary angiogram organized by her employer, according to a local media report.
In a long-awaited legal ruling that may set a precedent, coroner Simon McGregor said an inquest into the death of Peta Hickey, 43, had uncovered a screening regime and an industry that put profit over patient care. He called for federal Health Minister Greg Hunt to undertake an audit of all Australia's private radiology clinics, stated a report published on 22 November in the Age.
"The snapshot provided by the inquest has revealed an industry putting profits over patients," McGregor said. His 175-page report outlines a string of bad practices and poor standards and confirms that emergency practice drills for managing emergencies had not taken place.
Fatal reaction
Hickey's exam was suggested by her employer, Programmed Skilled Workforce Limited, on 1 May 2019, the Age reported. The company had begun a testing regime for all senior staff after a colleague suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest while on a work trip to Japan in 2018.
The mother-of-two had no history of heart problems, but she had an anaphylactic reaction to contrast injected as part of the CT coronary angiogram under the care of radiologist Dr. Gavin Tseng, and she died in hospital eight days later. She had never met or spoken to the doctor who signed her referral, Dr. Doumit Saad, the article stated.
Dr. Gavin Tseng. Photo courtesy of Paul Jeffers.
The coroner has reportedly called for EpiPens to be made available at testing sites and for a nationwide audit of all radiology clinics after finding there was a widespread acceptance of incomplete radiology referrals.
"Peta died as a result of substandard clinical judgment from doctors at the beginning and the end of the [heart check] program, combined with the misalignment of incentives amongst the various business entities that facilitated the process," McGregor said.
Tseng administered the contrast at Future Medical Imaging Group at Moonee Ponds. Soon after the injection, Hickey complained of dizziness and shortness of breath before losing consciousness. Tseng said he didn't give her potentially life-saving adrenaline because he could not do two things at once, the Age reported.
Two teams of paramedics attended the patient (the first crew did not give adrenaline, but the second did), but Hickey suffered multiple organ failure and died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital eight days later. A postmortem revealed a normal heart and coronary artery and no evidence to suggest a history of symptoms or signs relating to cardiovascular disease.
"Her subsequent anaphylactic relation to the contrast dye was poorly managed by Dr. Tseng, and there was nothing the other radiology staff or the emergency services personnel could do to reverse the situation," the coroner said. "The conduct of Dr. Saad and Dr. Tseng departed from normal professional practices."
McGregor said he would now notify the AHPRA of the two doctors' "insufficient and unsafe" actions. He noted that Saad authorized the compiling of referrals using his signature for patients he had not seen, failed to halt the testing program when he learned his signature had been used, and failed to apply ethical standards, seeing people as clients or candidates rather than patients, according to the article.
The coroner also said that not only did Tseng continue with Hickey's scan despite her invalid referral but he also undertook a CT scan in similar circumstances only days after the patient's severe contrast reaction.
McGregor made 40 recommendations involving 15 entities, giving them three months to issue public responses, the Age stated. The report includes some discussion of the clinical value of CT coronary angiography for screening, even though guidelines do not support this use.
In the case, the radiology company's lawyers appear to have attempted to lay the blame on the radiologist. Kathryn Booth, medical negligence principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers in Melbourne, reportedly said this was a case of corner-cutting and of subjecting patients to a dangerous procedure without assessing them for risk factors. In his report, however, McGregor criticizes the radiology company for not ensuring all staff were adequately trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
A full copy of the coroner's report is available for download.
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New Nuclear Medicine Tracer Will Help Study the Aging Brain
A new PET imaging radiotracer could help researchers understand neurodegenerative disease and the aging brain. The study is featured in the October issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Past studies have shown a reduced density of the α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α4β2-nAChR) in the cortex and hippocampus of the brain in aging patients and those…
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New Nuclear Medicine Method Shows Promise for Better Detection of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Researchers have shown that a new nuclear medicine procedure could safely and more effectively detect cancerous gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors than current methods. The study is featured in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can occur in almost any organ, but they are most commonly observed in the pancreas…
By Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | May 1, 2018
Novel Theranostic Approach for Treating Pancreatic Cancer Patients Shows Promise
German researchers have developed a novel diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostic) procedure for patients with ductal pancreatic adenocarcinoma, a deadly cancer with an extremely poor prognosis (five-year survival rate of less than 5 percent) and limited treatment options. The study is featured in the May issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. In early preclinical studies with…
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Novel PET Imaging Agent Targets Copper in Tumors, Detects Prostate Cancer Recurrence Early
An Italian study featured in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine demonstrates that a novel nuclear medicine imaging agent targeting copper accumulation in tumors can detect prostate cancer recurrence early in patients with biochemical relapse (rising prostate-specific antigen [PSA] level). Copper tends to be more concentrated in tumors, making it a good…
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The moans and groans that were so audible at Old Trafford on Saturday during Manchester United's uninspired 2-1 triumph over West Ham came from multiple sources and points of frustration.
Many of the whines were released in response to the erratic passing and bewildering decisions made by United players in possession, while one corner of the ground added their own key to the harmony when unleashing their ire at the match officials.
However, the most ominous tones were the melancholic laments of a support united in a horrible, shared moment of clarity.
"We're still f*****g miles away".
That was the stark truth staring the watching masses in the face at Old Trafford on Saturday, as Marcos Rojo, Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and the rest of United's misfits were shanking passes and falling over their own feet against West Ham.
With 4 defeats from 6 and a spate of worrying team and individual performances, the thin veneer of positivity restored by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 2019 has been cracking and separating at an alarming rate in recent weeks.
The good news is however, that the Norwegian is just as aware of United's malaise as the club's beleaguered fanbase.
Those words suggest that the baby-faced assassin's weapon of choice this summer will be an axe, and that plenty of heads at Carrington will be rolling during what looks certain to be United's most important summer window in a decade.
Read the latest Premier League news, match previews, betting tips and special offers here.
Solskjaer's overhaul of the playing staff at United started as early as January, when as interim-manager he approved the sale of Marouane Fellaini to Chinese Super League club Shandong Luneng.
In many ways, the awkward Belgian was the personification of everything that had gone wrong at United post-Ferguson, and his exit hinted at a long-overdue shift of direction at the club.
Long-serving Ecuadorian and club captain Antonio Valencia was informed that his time was also up at United, and the veteran full-back will leave Old Trafford when his contract expires in the summer.
Fringe players Matteo Darmian, Marcos Rojo and Eric Bailly (Bailly to Arsenal – 2/1 with Betvictor) are all almost certain to be shown the door too, while Spanish workhorse Ander Herrera is close to inking a free transfer to PSG.
The perennially ineffective Juan Mata (Mata to Valencia – 6/4 with Betvictor) could also follow his compatriot out of the club, while Romelu Lukaku's agent has been making noises about a possible move away from United for the bumbling Belgian.
United supporters aren't likely to be fussed about any of the names on the long list of probably departees, and in truth, many of them are concerned that the club isn't been ruthless enough.
For the majority of those fans, the new deals handed out to Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Ashley Young since December heightened fears that the club will never cold-blooded enough to weed out the deep-rooted mediocrity.
The over-paid and drastically underperforming Alexis Sanchez is also seen as a priority problem that needs fixing, and there is hope that the Chilean's ejection could restore some sensibility to wage demands elsewhere at the club.
The Old Trafford decks look set then, to be cleared and stripped back to raw wood. But with the number of outgoings conceivably hitting double figures, how many replacements are likely to arrive?
Read about United's pursuit of a top 4 Premier League finish here.
Fresh reports last week intimated that 5 new players, at the very minimum, could be signed by Solskjaer this summer in his attempts to injected some life into a United squad severely lacking in stardust.
Other media briefings also suggested that United's transfer policy will revert back to the recruitment of younger, hungrier players whose best years lie ahead, rather than the big-money readymade superstar policy that had been favoured in recent summers.
That would seem then, to rule out long-term target Gareth Bale, who looks destined to finally leave Real Madrid this summer, while links to the Welshman's teammates Toni Kroos, Raphael Varane, and Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi feel similarly tenuous.
Reinforcements in defence are urgently required, though long-standing interest in Napoli's Kalidou Koulibaly (4/1 with Betvictor) seems to have cooled, while Leicester City's valuation of Harry Maguire (6/4 with Betvictor) is likely to scare any of his potential suitors off, including United.
A move for Tottenham's Toby Alderweireld (1/1 with Betvictor), who will be available for just £25m this summer, has been muted, while links to RB Leipzig's exciting young centre half Dayot Upamecano (4/1 with Betvictor) have also started to surface.
At right-back, PSG's Thomas Meunier (5/2 with Betvictor) has long been touted as a solution to United's problems, though Crystal Palace's Aaron Wan-Bissaka (3/1 with Betvictor) fits the Solskjaer-signing profile much more snuggly.
Further up the pitch, the emergence of Scott McTominay and improving performances Fred have reduced the need for a radical midfield revamp, though United still lack quality and energy in central areas.
Links to West Ham's Declan Rice (8/1 with Betvictor), Lyon's Tanguy Ndombele (6/1 Betvictor) and Barcelona's Philippe Coutinho (5/2 Betvictor) feel like the strained attempts to join the dots by a media largely kept in the dark however, and it's in this area that United are most likely to spring a surprise or two.
In attack, United continue to be mentioned as a possible destination for Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho (4/1 Betvictor) and Benfica's rising star Joao Felix (5/1 Betvictor), but with valuations of over €100m place on the emerging talents by their respective clubs, any move is likely to be for one or the other, with the cost of signing both prohibitively high.
With links and rumours ranging wildly from flimsy to plausible, from to laughable to credible and everywhere in between, predicting United's summer moves with any certainty feels like an exercise in futility.
What is much more probable however, is that the United team that takes to the field at the Nou Camp in the second leg of the team's Champions League Quarter Final with Barcelona on Tuesday, will look almost unrecognisable in just a few months' time.
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Alongside reading and writing books, travel is one of the most important things in my life. Each activity is an inspiration and a compulsion that works seamlessly side by side. I see them as inextricably linked, for they're all about the stories we seek, the stories we gather and the stories we tell.
As a child, I read voraciously: poetry, myths and legends, novels, real-life tales, encyclopedias, fairy tales, dictionaries, and even the back of cornflake boxes. I used to devour National Geographic magazines from cover to cover, dreaming of where I could go and what I could experience. And then I used to jumble them up with the everyday to make my own adventures. Stories were my world.
Even now, I find it impossible to live without stories. The books I read, the tales I write, the journeys I take, the thoughts that tangle up in my brain: they entwine into a narrative that is, essentially, my life. Without any of these elements, I would feel unable to breathe. Suffocating in the minutiae of the everyday. Don't get me wrong; I have chosen to live in a beautiful part of the world (West Cork, Ireland) and I adore it. But there's a part of my personality that always feels restless.
This restlessness is what compels me to travel. Some people love routine; it helps them find their stride and provides them with comfort. For me, routine feels like being stuck in a bog, desperate to move but unable. It's uncomfortable and frustrating so I try to avoid routine at all costs. Isn't it wonderful that we're all so different? That's what makes our lives, our stories, so vivid.
I've eaten deep-fried beetles and tarantula legs in Cambodia, snails and frogs in France. I ran with bulls in Andalucia and skydived above its scorched countryside. I swam with sharks in Australia and stingrays in the Bahamas. I've hiked to incredible sky caves in Thailand and along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland. I've helped with rescued elephants and I've visited incredible museums and galleries around the world, seeking out the bizarre, magnificent and beautiful. And everywhere, every time, I breathe deeply, making records and notes: hunting and gathering words, details, and ideas.
But even at home, I travel every day – and I don't even drive! In the wilds of West Cork, I pull on my walking boots and hike the local countryside, looking for new boreens and pathways to explore. I find the physical act of movement as important as the exploration of new things. Motion stirs the body and brain and blows away cobwebs, allowing for solutions and creative sparks. So if, like me, you hate routine, walking is a good way to make every day fresh.I often take chunks of time away from home to travel and concentrate intensely on my writing. This year, I spent month-long writing residencies in Iceland and Australia. On both occasions, rather than travel around the country, I immersed myself in the local area and explored the landscape on foot, just like I would at home. In Australia, I watched bowerbirds try to impress a mate with intricate decorations and in Iceland, I saw the Northern Lights dancing across the sky. Half of my day was spent hiking and observing, and the rest involved reading, writing, thinking up fresh ideas and unravelling problems while creating new ones.
The pocket watch owned by my character Uncle Cornelius (Nine Lives Trilogy) is an actual pocket watch I bought in Krakow, Poland – it's brass, engraved and broken. I also based the description of his face on a random man who fell asleep in front of me on a train.
A seventeenth-century handwritten recipe book that I was shown in the National Library of Ireland sparked the cookbook idea in Caramel Hearts. The bullying scene is something I witnessed when I was a teenager.
The basking shark, Cedric, (Nine Lives Trilogy) is based on a shark that visited us every day for a fortnight when we were fishing in our little punt off the coast of West Cork (the shark was bigger than the boat). The submarine bit came from a visit to the Maritime Museum in Sydney.
An award-winning short story I wrote, The Books, They Cry, was based on a chat with a friend about her experience of the Bosnian War, followed by watching lots of documentaries and reading letters written by soldiers.
Not once did I know that any of these things would be relevant to a story. I didn't set out to find any answers – I simply set out to explore and enjoy, and this, in turn, infused my work. So by living the life that makes sense to me, I grew. And so did my stories.
So if are interested by the fresh and unexplored, new cultures and experiences, then immerse yourself in that life. Read widely and ferociously, seek out art and myths, try new things, even if they make you feel a bit uncomfortable; soak up all there is around you and beyond and then let your imagination wander on the page, building your own worlds and tales through the stories only you can tell.
E.R. Murray lives in West Cork, Ireland, where she fishes, grows her own vegetables and lives for adventures and words. Elizabeth is an award-winning writer of novels for children and young adults. She also has short fiction and poetry published in literary journals across Ireland, the UK and Australia, as well as numerous shortlists in fiction competitions including Aesthetica Creative Works, Francis McManus and Penguin/Irish Times. Her debut novel, The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 was the 2016 Dublin UNESCO Citywide Read for Children, while The Book of Shadows – Nine Lives Trilogy 2 was shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Book awards. She has also performed in the live writing installation Train: Ciudades Parallelas at Cork Midsummer festival and co-created/performed Things That Go Bump in the Night, an interactive storytelling event. Her residencies include Varuna (Australia), Gullkistan (Iceland) and la Muse (France).
Steeped in the enchanting landscape and language of European fairy tales, these six stories, stunningly illustrated by Richard Collingridge, make for an utterly enthralling, inclusive reading experience. In her preface, author Jamila Gavin explains that she sought to expand the scope of European folklore: 'I wanted to create stories which extended the European image, so that more diverse children could look at the heroes and heroines and say, "That could be me"', and so Jamila's fabulous heroes and heroines have skin 'as black as midnight', or the colour of 'polished bronze'. Among the cast of characters is Blackberry Blue, who emerges from brambles in the Cinderella-esque title story, and then there's Abu, who battles to save his sister from the clutches of a Pied Piper type rogue in The Purple Lady. Magnificently menacing, and mesmerisingly magical, these tales are a triumph.
In his foreword to this soon-to-be-classic collection of stories based on the Scandinavian myth cycle, Carnegie Medal-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland explains that 'Norse myths are brilliant, fast-moving, ice-bright stories', and the retellings within this gorgeously produced tome more than meet that description. There are action-packed adventures featuring warring gods and goddesses, and an abundance of ancient magic, all framed by timeless truths ('Fair words often conceal weaselly thinking'; 'Be generous, be spirited, and you'll lead a happy life'). And the frost-crisp language is given an additional dimension by Jeffrey Alan Love's sublime illustrations.
What an inspired combination of author, illustrator and story, and no surprise that this deliciously dark interweaving of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty was awarded the 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Brimming with wit and wonder, this spellbinding story sees a young queen set out to rescue an enchanted princess from the depths of the Sleeping Kingdom. After replacing her fine robes with a suit of chainmail, the queen ventures into a mountain with her 'tough and hardy' dwarf companions, making unexpected discoveries along the way. This cleverly quirky quest has much to satisfy readers of every age.
Always thought-provoking, and often brutal, this brilliant book about love, loss and the horrors of war was inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's The Tinderbox (remember those dogs with the monstrously massive eyes … ?). After defying Death, war-traumatised solider Otto is drawn down a dark path of danger, a path along which he meets all manner of variously mysterious and terrifying beings, from the pure-hearted Safire, to the petrifying Lady of the Nail, and then there's the wolves … This powerful allegory for older readers is the perfect partnership of words and illustration, and makes for an exquisitely immersive experience.


Sunday, October 14th is Pie and Placement Night!
This is a very important event to attend if you are interested in singing in the Messiah this December.
At this event, our choir director, Paul Dankers, will position singers into groups and then into sections, according to vocal tone, to ensure everyone is in their proper places before Messiah rehearsals officially begin on October 21st. This is not an audition, but rather a fun night of socializing before we get to the serious stuff. Delicious homemade pies and ice cream make this a very special "Don't Miss" Aspen Choral Society event. Please bring a pie or treat to share, if you are able.


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COVID-19 in Spain sewage brings origin of virus a step closer
By Liu Caiyu Source:Global Times Published: 2020/6/27 20:53:40
A fishmonger wearing a mask serves a customer at a local market in Barcelona, Spain on March 18. File photo: AFP
The presence of COVID-19 in Spain's sewage offers a clue on the virus' existence, either in people or animals, before China reported its first COVID-19 patient in December 2019, Chinese experts said, after Spain detected the presence of the novel coronavirus in March last year, and Italy made similar findings.
Research led by the University of Barcelona showed the presence of the virus in samples of wastewater in Barcelona in March 2019, and infections were present before knowing of any case of COVID-19 in any part of the world.
The University of Barcelona released the findings in "SARS-CoV-2 detected in wastewater in Barcelona on March 12, 2019" on its website on Friday, and the findings were also published in medRxiv.
The source of COVID-19 is slowly being unearthed, as the virus may have existed in other countries before the first case was reported by China. These findings may alter the chronology on the evolution of the COVID-19, experts said.
The presence of the virus in the sewage offers us a clue about the existence of the virus in Spain, either among people or animals, before China reported its first COVID-19 patient in December 2019, Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert at Peking University First Hospital, told the Global Times on Saturday.
coronavirus Photo:VCG
China reported its first COVID-19 case on December 31, 2019, and Europe reported its first case in France in late January 2020.
When the novel coronavirus spread in Spain in March last year, the virus may have been less contagious, which explains why it took such a long time to find a COVID-19 patient in Europe. It then became more infectious as it mutated, Wang said, urging researchers to examine the virus' full genome sequencing to track the virus' origin.
The findings confirmed the existence of the virus in human or animal excrements, Yang Zhanqiu, the deputy director of Wuhan University's pathogen biology department, also said.
But Yang told the Global Times that the detection of the novel coronavirus in the sewage doesn't mean the virus could spread through water or alter the fact that the virus is spread mainly through droplets.
Scientists in Italy had found traces of the virus in sewage collected from Milan and Turin in December 2019, Reuters reported. The report said many nations are sampling wastewater to track the virus, as research in the Netherlands, France, Australia and elsewhere has found signs that the virus that causes the epidemic are found in waste water.
Wang is also urging China to conduct wastewater-based epidemiology of the virus in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province to prove that Wuhan was not the origin of the epidemic.
The US government is making China the scapegoat for its own failure in combating the epidemic, and is blaming China for spreading the virus, media reported.
Detecting the origin of the disease is of great scientific importance, and reflects the consciousness of the scientific community in the face of US attacks on China, Zeng Guang, a chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Global Times on Saturday.
The Spanish research quoted Albert Bosch, president of the Spanish Society of Virology, as saying, "Those infected with COVID-19 could have been diagnosed with flu by mistake in primary care."
In March, when asked if some people in the US died of coronavirus rather than influenza last year, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield admitted that some cases were wrongly diagnosed.
Australian military deployed to assist with state virus outbreak
Beijing's swift response lauded as mixed virus infection routes emerged at early stage
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Autumn Statement / Budget Switcheroo Explained
Philip Hammond woke everyone up when he said this was his first Autumn statement but it would also be his last… "Mr Speaker, I am abolishing the Autumn Statement!" The Autumn statement will now be in Spring and will be a response to the OBR rather than an opportunity to announce new policies, the Budget will be moved to the Autumn. Less pulling out rabbits, more moving the hats…
mdi-timer 23rd November 2016 @ 2:11 pm 23rd Nov 2016 @ 2:11 pm mdi-comment Comments Minister Slammed Letting Fees Ban Just 8 Weeks Ago
The big Autumn statement announcement pre-briefed to today's papers is that the government is banning letting fees. This is yet another u-turn by Theresa May – just 8 weeks ago her housing minister Gavin Barwell publicly dismissed the proposal as a "bad idea". Such a bad idea that May herself voted against it in 2014, and the Tories voted the same policy down again in 2013. Kate Andrews from the Institute for Economic Affairs says:
"The Chancellor can come in and not have to commit any of his own spending to do something that seems like it's trying to help those who are just managing. But of course this is him skirting around the issue of the housing crisis altogether… Politicians will implement the dumbest policies to avoid actually addressing the issue."
As the National Landlords Association explains, tenants will still foot the bill:
"Philip Hammond lacks any understanding of how the sector works. Agents will have no other option than to shift the fees on to landlords, but adding to landlords' costs will only push more towards increasing rents."
Yet another Miliband policy gimmick pinched from Labour's 2015 manifesto. The politics make sense, the papers have written it up kindly, but even the minister knows the policy is a dud.
UPDATE: Barwell speaks:
"It is the nature of the job that you have to defend current policy even when you're working to change it."
mdi-timer 23rd November 2016 @ 8:42 am 23rd Nov 2016 @ 8:42 am mdi-comment Comments Autumn Statement Panned on Inside Pages
Look only at the front pages and you would think Osborne's Autumn Statement had been met with almost universal approval. Delve inside and the analysis is very different. The Telegraph's business team in particular are scathing, with Ambrose Evans-Pritchard calling for "a change of course":
"For sheer brass, it is hard to beat the mellifluous assertions of the Chancellor. "We do not shy away from the problems that remain unresolved in the British economy," he began. From there George Osborne escalated to an outlandish claim. "Out of the red and into the black for the first time in a generation, a country that inspires confidence around the world because it seeks to live within its means." This comes a day after Société Générale said the UK "cannot compete", is on an "unsustainable" course and has carried out "zero structural reform" – a view held to varying degrees by a great number of economists around the world. Britain has a current account deficit of 5.2pc of GDP, in spite of the post-Lehman devaluation. It is the worst of any major country, and just about the worst in our peacetime history. The Office for Budget Responsibility has now raised its estimate of the likely deficit by 1.5pc of GDP annually to 2018. It is becoming entrenched. This is prima facie evidence that we are not in fact living within our means."
Allister Heath meanwhile condemns the new wealth tax on homes:
"this improvement [to stamp duty] has been ruined by the fact that George Osborne has conceded the philosophical ground to the property and wealth-hating Left and turned stamp duty into a horrendously graduated tax. People with more expensive homes will pay cripplingly large amounts to the Exchequer for the privilege of buying a home, a move which is bad on all levels. The top marginal tax rate will hit 12pc; time and again, it seems, the Government adopts Labour or Scottish National Party policies. For decades, property transactions were rightly barely taxed; now they are a milch cow."
And Jeremy Warner isn't exactly impressed:
"Listening to the Chancellor's statement, the overriding sense was of déjà vu. Rewind five years, and almost exactly the same things were being said. There was George Osborne announcing plans to close the Budget deficit within the five year lifespan of a single parliament. There was his then Labour opponent, Alistair Darling, saying it couldn't be done, would send unemployment rocketing, would destroy the fabric of society, and to boot would undermine growth and therefore prove self-defeating. And here we are again today, listening to much the same script, only with the positions reversed; Mr Osborne has had nearly five years as Chancellor, and Labour is in opposition. It scarcely needs saying that in terms of what the Government said it would do back then, it has failed."
The Sun's Pol Ed has a pop:
"It's also quite a left wing move… what effect will all this have on economy with a new housing and mortgage debt bubble now possible, you may well ask? Well that's a problem for after the election, of course."
As does their City editor:
"For the moment George is still borrowing tens of billions a year to make ends meet. The Government can borrow more easily than families because it sets its own interest rates. But this is still a colossal bet that we will all, somehow, get much richer soon, and be able to pay the debt back. The Chancellor's failure to cut the deficit as much as he hoped is a black mark against him. Cute ideas about a "Google tax" or a cut to stamp duty on cheaper houses can't disguise that."
Osborne will take the splashes, but will hope no one reads too closely inside…
mdi-timer 4th December 2014 @ 8:42 am 4th Dec 2014 @ 8:42 am mdi-comment Comments
In Numbers: Stamp Duty Savings Explained
Read the Autumn Statement in full here.
Tories claiming savings for 98% of buyers.
UPDATE: People seem happy:
We are moving home next week. Osborne just saved us £400. I'm calling our new fridge freezer George. #AS2014
— Tom Whipple (@whippletom) December 3, 2014
mdi-timer 3rd December 2014 @ 1:46 pm 3rd Dec 2014 @ 1:46 pm mdi-comment Comments Everything You Need to Know About the Autumn Statement
Helpfully compiled by the BBC.
mdi-timer 3rd December 2014 @ 1:24 pm 3rd Dec 2014 @ 1:24 pm mdi-comment Comments Osborne's Poll Ratings Slide As Conservative Lead on the Economy Grows
As Osborne delivers his Autumn Statement today, a YouGov poll for the Sun finds his personal ratings have dropped from -3 to -8 over the last nine months. Optimism that the economy will improve is down from 39% to 25%, while pessimism is up from 23% to 32%. The Chancellor's credibility will hardly be helped this afternoon when he announces OBR numbers confirming he has missed his deficit forecasts and that there is a £50 billion black hole in public finances, when in the same speech he pledges:
£3 billion extra cash for the NHS
£15 billion for road improvement infrastructure spending
£400 million extra to the British Business Bank
£500 million of new lending guaranteed
No fresh cuts
Cynical Neo-Keynesianism nevertheless appears to be paying electoral dividends for the Conservatives, proving once again that voters prefer jam today to jam tomorrow. This generation of voters prefers to put the burden for its profligacy on the next generation…
The Times leader puts it plainly: "What is clear is that he has decided to risk what progress has been made towards repairing the nation's finances on an electorally inspired spending spree that will have to be funded… at least partly with debt." Douglas Carswell has a point when he says Osborne will today deliver Gordon Brown's 18th Autumn Statement…
mdi-timer 3rd December 2014 @ 8:44 am 3rd Dec 2014 @ 8:44 am mdi-comment Comments


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Kirchen offers a rare combination of guitar virtuosity, a mastery of roots rock 'n' roll, and an almost magical connection with his audience. Finally with Seeds and Stems, due out on Proper Records on June 18, 2013, he has an album that captures all of this.
One of those reinvented songs is a Kirchen classic "Womb to the Tomb." Originally a fast-paced dieselbilly rocker, the new version is slower and bluesier with a gravelly, pounding beat well suited to tell the tale of a lonely trucker's brush with the supernatural. Kirchen conceived the changes through an immersion in Louisiana culture that came about when he was teaching an Early Country Music class at Augusta Heritage Center that happened to coincide with their Cajun and Zydeco week. "It's a ghost trucker song set on I-10, which runs right through the bayou. Because I'm an outsider I didn't want to just shove an accordion on it, so I tried for the aura of Louisiana." And he succeeds: in this new arrangement you can almost feel the steam rising up from the asphalt.
The opening track, a rocked-up "Too Much Fun," is a Kirchen favorite from his early days as singer and lead guitarist for Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. It was one of the very first songs he ever wrote, with fellow Airman Billy C. Farlow. "It was my first real success as a songwriter, and I called my own band that for years. It's still a good song," says Kirchen, a master of the understatement. Another track from the early Cody days is "Semi-Truck," also written by Kirchen and Farlow. The complete title, "Here I Sit, All Alone With a Broken Heart, I Took Three Bennies and My Semi-Truck Won't Start" is proof that, aside from pioneering new connections between the worlds of rock, folk, boogie-woogie, swing and country, the Cody band had another unique aspect for their time: a sense of humor. "We had a humorous component," says Kirchen, "but it wasn't too arch, it wasn't smirky. We were playing the hard-core stuff, and we aware of its irony with a supreme affection for it. The people who wrote that stuff — they had perspective too. I'm not the first to notice that these cornball tear-jerking songs are not only cornball and tear-jerky, they are also fabulous." The title cut, "Down to Seeds and Stems Again," by Commander George Frayne and Farlow, is surely in the running for the saddest country song ever written. Kirchen's delivery is up to the task at hand.
Kirchen's Cody days began in 1967 when he co-founded Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. They recorded seven albums for Paramount and Warner Brothers, one of which (Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas) rightfully made Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Best Albums of All Time." The original band established its place in the infancy of the Americana movement by being one of the first and only rock 'n' roll bands to infuse their honky-tonk sound with pure, blood-and-guts country roots and Western swing. It's Kirchen's indelible guitar licks that define their top-ten charting hit, "Hot Rod Lincoln," a song that eventually took on a post-Cody life of its own.
Before Bill Kirchen ever picked up a Telecaster he was a classical trombonist. That's what he was studying as a teenager at Interlochen Center for the Arts in the early '60s when he first fell for the guitar, in part due to the blossoming "folk scare" [his words] and in part thanks to his guitar-playing cabin counselor, Dave Siglin (founder of The Ark in Bill's hometown Ann Arbor, Michigan). Just turned 16, Bill rescued his mom's old banjo from the attic, got a copy of Pete Seeger's How to Play the 5-String Banjo book and hitch-hiked to the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. Kirchen: "I witnessed stuff that knocked me out — Lightnin' Hopkins, the Kweskin Jug Band, Son House, Johnny Cash, the Staples Singers, my original guitar hero Mississippi John Hurt. The top of my head flipped open and it's never shut." He'd head for New York when he could, hanging out in the Village and letting the whole scene wash over him. When he went back to Newport in '65 and saw Dylan go electric, then on to New York City to see the Lovin' Spoonful at the Night Owl, it "ruined me for normal work." His strikingly powerful Dylan covers are staples of the live show to this day, and this CD includes "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," perhaps the most moving and sublime of the bunch.
After the California-based Cody band split, Kirchen started his own band, The Moonlighters, and cut two more albums before relocating to DC in the mid-'80s. There he started his Too Much Fun trio, released ten more critically-acclaimed albums and began his robust touring schedule of 200-plus dates a year around the country and as far afield as Lapland, Israel and Palestine.
In 2001, Kirchen received a Grammy nomination for his instrumental "Poultry in Motion." The following year he was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame, neatly sandwiched between John Phillip Sousa and Dave Grohl. He has played and recorded with a long list of luminaries, including Nick Lowe, Doug Sahm, Elvis Costello, Link Wray, Emmylou Harris, Hoyt Axton and Gene Vincent. Bill is pretty sure that he is the only person to have, in a single year, stood on stage and played with both Ralph Stanley and Elvis Costello.
Now living in Austin, Kirchen maintains his rigorous and far-reaching tour schedule and also teaches at Augusta Heritage Center, Centrum Voiceworks and Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch. Jorma was called in to fingerpick on the new release's bonus track, the song that asks the musical question, "Are You Talkin' About Love or Are You Talkin' About Chicken?" It's practically a true story written by Bill and Louise Kirchen and Sarah Brown, and inspired by their dog Rufus.
Bill Kirchen's latest, Seeds and Stems, takes a fresh approach to many of the songs that were planted at the beginning of an incredibly full career, songs that grew into classics and branched out across the variegated styles of Americana and roots rock 'n' roll.


Prof. Reichman's research focuses on cultural responses to economic change, especially the anthropology of trade and globalization in Latin America.
He has conducted field research in Honduras since 2001, focusing on emigration to the United States, the coffee industry, and evangelical religion. His book, The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras (Cornell University Press, 2011) is an ethnography of one Honduran town's transformation from a coffee-growing economy to a migration-based economy. The book was awarded 3rd prize in the 2012 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, awarded annually by the society for Humanistic Anthropology.
Coffee farm Garça, SP. Brazil 2013.
In 2008, he conducted research on Central American workers in the Maine seafood industry. He is currently studying how traceability systems are transforming food industries, with a focus on coffee. In 2013, he began comparative research on coffee production in Brazil. As a Fulbright scholar in Brazil in 2016, he conducted an ethnographic and historical study of the city of Santos, the largest industrial port in Latin America and the historic center of the global coffee trade. He is currently writing a book called "Time in the Balance: Histories of Progress in a Brazilian Port"
In addition to his academic publications, Reichman occasionally writes in the popular media on immigration and other current events related to Latin America. He has consulted on Central American immigration for the United Nations and other institutions.
2011 The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration and Globalization in Honduras. Industrial and Labor Relations Series. Cornell University Press.
2018. Big Coffee in Brazil: Historical Origins and Implications for Anthropological Political Economy. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.
2016. From the Social Production of the Person to Transnational Capitalism: Parsons, Turner, and Globalization. Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: 14:2, Article 154-163.
2014. Information and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade. In. Food Activism: Agency, Democracy, and Economy. Carole Counihan and Valeria Siniscalchi, eds. Bloomsbury.
2013. Entrepreneurship in a Pickle: Innovation and Arbitrage in the Sea Cucumber Trade. Anthropological Quarterly. 86:2. 559-588.
2011. Migration and Paraethnography in Honduras. American Ethnologist. 38:3.548-558.
2008. Justice at a Price: Regulation and Alienation in the Global Economy PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31:1.134-149.
2016. "Is Brazil the Albany of South America?" Op-ed. NY Daily News. April 20.
"To Be a Man Here, You Have to Go to the United States." Politico Magazine. August 18, 2014.
2013. Honduras: The Perils of Remittance Dependence and Clandestine Migration. Migration Information Source (online journal of the Migration Policy Institute). Special Issue: Regional Migration Perspectives: Trends, Patterns, and Policies in Central America, Mexico, and the U.S.
2008. Coffee as Global Metaphor. Invited Paper for The Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University - Occasional Paper Series (No. 9) February 2008.


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Феодосий Максимович Гуменюк (р. 1941) — советский и украинский живописец, график. Народный художник Украины (2009).

Биография
Родился 6 сентября 1941 года во временно оккупированном фашистами селе Рыбчинцы (ныне Винницкая область, Украина). Учился в Днепропетровском художественном училище, где был учеником Якова Калашника, выпускника Латвийской академии художеств в Риге. В 1965 году он пытается поступить в ЛИЖСА имени И. Е. Репина, который тогда считался лучшей живописной школой в СССР. На обучение в этом институте претендовало 350 человек, из которых приняли 28, в том числе Гуменюка и еще восемь украинцев. В 1971 году он окончил институт, потом учился в мастерской И. Серебрянского, написал для Переяслав-Хмельницкого музея полотна на историческую тематику. Преподавал в ленинградских художественных учебных заведениях, работал на художественных комбинатах Ленинграда.

Кроме живописи, Гуменюк занимался изучением истории и традиций своего народа. Там он изучил историю запорожского казачества Д. И. Яворницкого, все издания М. С. Грушевского, «Историю русов» Г. Конисского.

В 1973 году вступил в брак с художницей Натальей Павленко. Через два года у них родилась дочь Ульяна.

В 1975 году на выставке нонконформистов были замечены его работы с изображениями казаков. Художника обвинили в национализме и лишили ленинградской прописки, поэтому Феодосий с женой и дочерью переселился в Днепропетровск, где пробыл шесть лет, работая над эскизами витражей. Также подготовил «Украинский календарь» на 1977 — 1978 годы для одного из издательств в Варшаве. В 1983 году Гуменюки снова оказались в Ленинграде, где Феодосия тепло встретили художники и сразу пригласили принять участие в выставке «Группы четырнадцати».

В 1988 году его выставку экспонировали в залах Национального архива Канады в Оттаве, в Украинском музее в Нью-Йорке. Там же, познакомившись с местной украинской интеллигенцией, художник смог ближе увидеть жизнь диаспоры и запечатлеть ее на холсте. «Пасха в Торонто» — одна из композиций «канадского» периода.

Позже было участие в выставке работ украинских художников в Гранд-Пале, в Париже; персональная выставка в Национальном художественном музее в Киеве, где была представлена целая галерея гетманов.

В 1992 году возвращается на Украину. С 1993 года работает в Национальной академии изобразительного искусства и архитектуры, возглавляет учебно-творческую мастерскую исторической живописи; с 2000 года — профессор кафедры живописи и композиции. Член СХУ.

В 2010 году киевская галерея «АВС-арт» издала альбом о творчестве Феодосия Гуменюка (редактор-составитель А. Марычевская). В издании возложены аналитические статьи о мастере всемирно известного искусствоведа С. Я. Гординского, художественных критиков Владимира Овсийчука, Владимира Подгоры, Григория Мищенко и других исследователей его творчества, как украинских, так и в диаспоре.

Награды и премии
 Народный художник Украины (2009)
 Заслуженный деятель искусств Украины (1995)
 Государственная премия Украины имени Тараса Шевченко (1993) — за серию портретов исторических деятелей П. К. Сагайдачного, П. Л. Полуботка, И. С. Мазепы, М. Чурай, Д. И. Вишневецкого, С. Наливайко, И. Гонты, М. Железняка

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Источники
 Обличчя України.  Феодосій Гуменюк
 Серія «Імена» поповнилась альбомом Феодосія Гуменюка
 Біографія Феодосія Гуменюка на сайті Національної академії образотворчого мистецтва і архітектури
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 «Чего изволите» — здесь не проходит (стаття в газеті «Зеркало недели» за 23 грудня 1995 р.)
Козак Голота. Київ, Веселка, 1990. Художник Феодосій Гуменюк.

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Выпускники Санкт-Петербургской академии художеств имени Ильи Репина
Выпускники Днепропетровского государственного театрально-художественного колледжа


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Jonathan Groff's Character In Resurrections Is Confirmed By Matrix 4 Images
Jonathan Groff's role in The Matrix Resurrections has been confirmed by new photographs published for the film.
It's been more than 20 years since The Matrix first broadcast, forever altering the science-fiction genre.
The Wachowskis' first film, written and directed by them, introduced the world to Neo, "the One" destined to liberate humanity from the machines, and Agent Smith, a sentient software tasked with stopping him.
The Matrix's enormous success inspired two sequels, Reloaded and Revolutions, as well as a comic book and video game spinoffs.
The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth installment in the legendary sci-fi franchise, will be released this month.
Lana Wachowski co-wrote and directed Resurrections, and several cast members from the previous films, including Keanu Reeves as Neo and Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, will reprise their roles.
New characters, such as the one played by Jessica Henwick, will be introduced in Resurrections. Some cast members, such as Groff, were confirmed for the film without revealing their roles.


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Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter's Message Is The BEST Graduation Speech You Would Ever Hear!
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's characters had attended San Dimas High in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"
Actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter delivered a message to graduating seniors of high school their characters attended in "Bill & Ted" movies.
Their characters had attended San Dimas High in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", and the 1989 hit movie's stars Keanu Reeves and Alex honoured it by delivering a message to graduating seniors of the school, reports dailymail.co.uk.
"We know that it's a tough time right now and you're having to do this virtual graduation,' began Alex Winter.
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"We want to wish you the best of luck moving forward."
Keanu Reeves wore a T-shirt that read, 'Be Excellent to Each Other,' a line from the sci-fi film series.
He told the students: "Congratulations to the graduating class of 2020. Well done."
Added Alex Winter: "San Dimas High School football does rule. But most importantly, we wanted to tell you to be excellent to each other."
"And party on!" Keanu concluded the message with another reference to the film.
The first film in the comedy franchise followed Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) who travel through time to assemble historical figures for their high school history presentation.
The duo also starred in "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" in 1991.
A third film, "Bill & Ted Face the Music", is scheduled to be released later in 2020.
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class TrackingCode < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :order
  belongs_to :shipping_carrier

  #validates_presence_of :shipping_carrier_id, :tracking_code

  # Pretty primitive, but mostly effective provided that tracking_base_url end
  # in a query string (e.g. http://www.foo.com/tracking?blah=lala&foo=)
  def tracking_url
    if is_complete?
      return "#{shipping_carrier.tracking_base_url}#{tracking_code}"
    else
      return false
    end
  end

  def is_complete?
    !tracking_code.blank? && !shipping_carrier_id.nil?
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end


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THE SHED | A new venue with a mission
We're 18 months out from America's next Presidential election and lecterns bearing the names of candidates with bold visions are 10 a penny. Familiarity with the sheer number of campaign launches that have been photographed, streamed and reported over the first 3 months of 2019 therefore lent some camouflage to just how heavily The Shed borrowed from the political playbook throughout its press launch this week. Then again, this is entirely apt for the plucky new cultural contender with civic, national and indeed global ambitions — the candidate's name on the lectern this week was 'The Shed'.
Putting its best foot forward, the launch of New York's latest cultural institution ties in to three crucial areas of political success: policy, personality and philanthropy (cash money). The first of these dominated the podium section of the launch. The team at The Shed has carefully built an institutional philosophy that offers a framework for collaborating artists, a brand for New York's audiences to latch on to and a yardstick by which success can be measured. To this end, it was set out that the venue is to give a sense of ownership and collaboration to the city it stands in and the creative contributors it welcomes. This is to be a venture that champions risk taking, curiosity and adventure. A beacon of innovation on the West Side of New York that reaches out to all of the boroughs as to fund creativity and facilitate exploration. There will be no high and low culture at The Shed, only culture — a message reminiscent of David Cameron's 'Big Society' message that got so horribly mangled in the UK's 2010 election. Speaking to this point specifically, Tamara McCaw —The Shed's chief civic program officer— borrowed from Nina Simone to say that they aimed to 'reflect and respond' to the communities of New York City.
On personality, the backers of The Shed are hoping that their institution's name and reputation becomes synonymous with the celebrated creative DNA of Alex Poots. The founder of Manchester International Festival has proven on more than one occasion that he has the trust (another popular buzzword throughout the launch) of artists, audiences, funders and administrators. Moreover, he's demonstrated what alchemy can be achieved with this level of artistic belief. Speaking confidently without notes, Poots was compelling and clear about how he sees The Shed's mission and is convincing on the topic. Perhaps one of the star qualities that would prevent him from running in an actual Presidential race but makes him the perfect candidate for this one is his European-ness. In fact, of the four artistic curators that sat in a panel during the launch of New York/America's new arts centre, three were European (Emma Enderby and Hans Ulrich Obrist completing the group with Tamara and Alex). The Shed seem to be betting on this transatlantic skillset bringing international flare to the venture, not an uncommon leadership skillset pursued by New York's established Anglophilic art centres such as The Metropolitan Museum and most recently Lincoln Center.
It was however left to the bonafide politician in the room to say the word that was being skirted around in all the artistic conversations, a word that underpins the ability to get to the point of launching any ambitious American candidacy. Mid-speech, Dan Doctoroff —Michael Bloomberg's former Number 2— stumbled momentarily saying that it took 'so money…I mean, so many people' to pull this all off. It was a moment of accidental humour, a Freudian slip that was disarming in its brief, truthful nudity. It has taken so much money to make this all possible. It was $45million from Frank McCourt that got the ball rolling, a $25million gift from Ken Griffin that kept it on track and the priceless use of City Land that motivated countless other philanthropists, sponsors and supporters to generate an initial budget of over $500million. That's the money that's giving the Shed a chance to disrupt the US arts scene and put the wind up veterans such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and BAM. That's the money that brought in the architectural invention of Liz Diller and David Rockwell to craft a positively European space capable of delivering a mission more akin to London's Barbican or Southbank Centre. That's the money that has filled their offices with superstars like Poots who can bring in super-duper stars like Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones to advice that they should bring in yet more star power, lending this clout to the newest addition to an already bulging cultural scene.
Every good political campaign needs a soundtrack; Bill Clinton harnessed the power of Fleetwood Mac's 'Don't Stop' and Obama's 'Yes We Can' mantra was fashioned into a harmonised battlecry by will.i.am. To that end, The Shed's quest for the hearts and minds of New York and the world beyond really gets going in the 5 shows that comprise Soundtrack Of America: tracing the family tree of African American music as performed by the next generation of that mighty organism (a concept devised by Poots and McQueen). Will it be the soundtrack to launch the sort of career that all at The Shed are hoping for? They've given themselves every chance of success, it only remains to be seen if the following years deliver the diversity of voters…I mean audiences from the cross-section of their immediate society (and the world) that they've so clearly set their sights on.
Explore the length and breadth of The Shed's inaugural programme here.
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Our final trek out of Patagonia — we did it!
We returned from our trek with no plans for the next 2 weeks. We dreamed of hopping a boat up through the glacier-filled lakes of Patagonia, grabbing an amazing last minute deal on a camper van through the Chilean Lakes district, and tasting wine at intimate family vineyards.
Not a single one of those scenarios happened. However, we did discover delicious micro-breweries, watched house-sized chunks of glacier crash down, biked Argentinian mountains, and watched an active volcano explode. Spontaneity for the win!
Biking the mountains of Bariloche, Argentina.
Our first stop back from the W was another couple nights in Puerto Natales to do some much needed laundry and our sort out our next steps. While I was impatient to get on the road, I can't say I was bummed that we got a little extra time in this outdoorsy town near the bottom of the world.
One last sunset in Puerto Natales, Chile.
With help from a friendly Argentinian working at our hostel, The Singing Lamb, we decided our best bet for seeing more of the South (and not totally breaking the bank) would be to bus our way up through Argentina. We were a bit wary of so much bus time after our epic 52 hours through the northern part of the country, but our new friend promised that buses in Argentina would be a bit more luxe. Bussing up would also allow us to check out some awesome sites along the way. A bit of research and a few more recommendations and we quickly settled on El Calafate and Bariloche for our first two stops in Argentina.
And so, we bought our first ticket paid our online reciprocity fee (US passport holders, take note!), and set off the next day.
The bus ride was rather uneventful, and the boarder crossing in Argentina looked more like a forgotten ranch house than an entry point to South America's second largest country. Still, processing a full bus of people through customs does take awhile so we had plenty of time to admire the desert scenery. Amazing how hot and dry everything was, less than 100km from the snow-capped peaks of Torres del Paine where we were drenched in daily rain/snow/sleet storms!
Traffic jam at the border crossing.
The view from hostel I Keu Ken in El Calafate.
a major grocery store and free breakfast made up for the small-ish shared dorm rooms. After an expensive week on the W our budget needed the recovery as much as our sore muscles!
Our first task: currency exchange and booking a bus out to Perito Moreno glacier, the reason for our stopover in this town. Happily, our hostel was able to take care of both for us. Argentina was the first place where we didn't just hit up an ATM for cash (our Schwab bank card reimburses all ATM fees, which means we usually just get cash directly from a local ATM). However, currency controls have made it much more advantageous to exchange dollars for pesos at local businesses, a tip we received from other travelers that ended up saving us quite a bit.
Sunset over the lake in El Calafate, Argentina.
With bus tickets and Argentinian pesos in hand we set off early the next morning to see our second glacier of the trip.
The Perito Moreno glacier is one of only 3 in Patagonia that is growing (yes, it's getting bigger!). Our first glimpse of Perito Moreno was a lookout point where we could see it spread all the way across Argentino Lake, essentially splitting the lake into two. Continuing on a bit further we were dropped off at the visitor center, and spent the next couple hours on the great network of walking trails that wrapped around for close-up views. It was an unusually warm fall day, and the heat from the sun was creating a pretty spectacular show: huge, house-sized chunks of glacier would sporadically come loose and crash down into the lake below with a dynamite-force "boom"! It was so incredible to see an entire side of the glacier just slip off, it's power reinforced by the waves that raced in tsunami-fashion away from the spot where it hit.
The next day we had a few hours to check out the town on our way to the bus. The town caters pretty exclusively to tourists with lots of souvenir shops, ski shops, and restaurants. We found a cute little cafe with a back patio where we sampled the local food and beer and enjoyed a bit of sunshine before the next leg of our journey.
The bus to our next stop, Bariloche, would be the longest since our epic Peru-Santiago trip. Thankfully, Argentina's bus network is pretty well established and we were able to secure ourselves more luxurious "semi-cama" seats that reclined enough to almost resemble a bed for our 24-hours on the road.
Bariloche was another town recommended to us by the Argentinean host at our Puerto Natales hostel, and it did not disappoint. Described as Argentina's ski vacation destination it immediately reminded us of one of our favorite local spots: Lake Tahoe. Because it was fall the mountains were not yet covered with snow, which for us meant low season prices and lots of outdoor fun!
Bariloche's gorgeous lake, surrounded by wooden houses and plenty of scenic lookouts.
We stayed at Green House Hostel a few miles outside of town. The house was cozy with a friendly house cat, and the lake was just a quick walk down the street. I happily took advantage of the lake-side trail for a morning run.
In addition to it's winter-time fun, Bariloche is also known for it's mountain biking trails, chocolate, and micro-breweries. Fueled with confidence from our hiking adventures earlier in the month we decided to tackle the much lauded 25 mile loop around Lago Moreno Oeste. The sweeping vistas were unparalleled…as were the hills we climbed to reach them! My perspective may be a bit skewed, though; my last time on a bicycle was a year and a half earlier during an adult learn how to ride class on the flat paved paths of Golden Gate Park, a far cry from the winding mountain roads in southern Argentina!
The next day we opted for a bit less strenuous activities, and set off for a self-guided walking tour of the town which culminated in lots of chocolate tasting, a vegetarian lunch, and happy hour at La Cruz, our new favorite micro-brewery. While there are plenty of options for beer aficionados in this town we found ourselves coming back to La Cruz. The beer was excellent, the patio perfect for admiring Argentina's brightly hued sunsets, and lots of friendly locals.
Sorbet-colored sky, no filter needed.
Next up: back across the boarder to Chile as we continue our journey North.


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Q: Select N random rows from a 3D numpy array I have a 3D array that I want to take random 'sets' (note: not a pythonic set) from axis 1, N times. I can achieve this via nested For loops, but I will need to do this at least 10000 times, so I need to find a vectorised solution if possible.
I will try to explain this using an example. If I want to retrieve N sets of data, I want to select one random index from axis 1 in my 3D array, for every element in axis 0. E.g. In the first of my N sets I randomly select indices [0, 2, 1], this correlates to the three different array positions: [0, 0, :], [1, 2, :], and [2, 1, :], respectively (i.e. axis 0 increments by one each time, and axis 1 is based on the randomly selected indices).
Below is a numerical example in pseudo-code:
# Create some arbitrary data (EDIT: based on mozway's answer)
a = array([[[ 0. ,  4. ,  8. , 12. , 16. , 20. , 24. ],
            [ 1. ,  5. ,  9. , 13. , 17. , 21. , 25. ],
            [ 2. ,  6. , 10. , 14. , 18. , 22. , 26. ],
            [ 3. ,  7. , 11. , 15. , 19. , 23. , 27. ]],

           [[ 0.1,  4.1,  8.1, 12.1, 16.1, 20.1, 24.1],
            [ 1.1,  5.1,  9.1, 13.1, 17.1, 21.1, 25.1],
            [ 2.1,  6.1, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 22.1, 26.1],
            [ 3.1,  7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1, 27.1]],

           [[ 0.2,  4.2,  8.2, 12.2, 16.2, 20.2, 24.2],
            [ 1.2,  5.2,  9.2, 13.2, 17.2, 21.2, 25.2],
            [ 2.2,  6.2, 10.2, 14.2, 18.2, 22.2, 26.2],
            [ 3.2,  7.2, 11.2, 15.2, 19.2, 23.2, 27.2]]])

# Define the number of requested sets
N = 2

# Define the chosen data per 'set' (normally would be random)
idx = [[0, 2, 1], [1, 3, 3]]

# First set would give (with choices [0, 2, 1]):
arr = [[ 0. ,  4. , 8.  , 12. , 16. , 20. , 24. ],
       [ 2.1,  6.1, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 22.1, 26.1],
       [ 1.2,  5.2, 9.2 , 13.2, 17.2, 21.2, 25.2]]

# Second set would give (with choices [1, 3, 3]):
arr = [[ 1. ,  5. ,  9. , 13. , 17. , 21. , 25. ],
       [ 3.1,  7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1, 27.1],
       [ 3.2,  7.2, 11.2, 15.2, 19.2, 23.2, 27.2]]

# So, the final output would combine all sets:
arr = [[[ 0. ,  4. , 8.  , 12. , 16. , 20. , 24. ],
        [ 2.1,  6.1, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 22.1, 26.1],
        [ 1.2,  5.2, 9.2 , 13.2, 17.2, 21.2, 25.2]],

        [ 1. ,  5. ,  9. , 13. , 17. , 21. , 25. ],
        [ 3.1,  7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1, 27.1],
        [ 3.2,  7.2, 11.2, 15.2, 19.2, 23.2, 27.2]]]

A: Original answer  before the question was clarified, see new answer for a independent sampling
You can get random indices and slice:
N = 2

# get random indices on the first dimension
idx = np.random.choice(np.arange(x.shape[0]), size=N)

# slice
x[idx]

example output (shape: (2, 3, 7)):
array([[[ 1,  2,  5, 10, 17, 26, 37],
        [ 2,  3,  6, 11, 18, 27, 38],
        [ 3,  4,  7, 12, 19, 28, 39],
        [ 4,  5,  8, 13, 20, 29, 40]],

       [[ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7],
        [ 2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8],
        [ 3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9],
        [ 4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10]]])

Example on other dimensions:
# second dimension (axis 1)
idx = np.random.choice(np.arange(x.shape[1]), size=N)
x[:, idx]

A: Given the clarifications of your question, you want to select N random rows in a 3D array on axis 1 (second dimension), but independently on axis 0:
Let's call a the array and x,y,z its 3 dimensions.
An easy way is to select N*x random indices so that there is N per x. Then flatten the array on the first 2 dimensions and slice.
Example input (note the x/x.1/x.2 to track the originating dimension):
array([[[ 0. ,  4. ,  8. , 12. , 16. , 20. , 24. ],
        [ 1. ,  5. ,  9. , 13. , 17. , 21. , 25. ],
        [ 2. ,  6. , 10. , 14. , 18. , 22. , 26. ],
        [ 3. ,  7. , 11. , 15. , 19. , 23. , 27. ]],

       [[ 0.1,  4.1,  8.1, 12.1, 16.1, 20.1, 24.1],
        [ 1.1,  5.1,  9.1, 13.1, 17.1, 21.1, 25.1],
        [ 2.1,  6.1, 10.1, 14.1, 18.1, 22.1, 26.1],
        [ 3.1,  7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1, 27.1]],

       [[ 0.2,  4.2,  8.2, 12.2, 16.2, 20.2, 24.2],
        [ 1.2,  5.2,  9.2, 13.2, 17.2, 21.2, 25.2],
        [ 2.2,  6.2, 10.2, 14.2, 18.2, 22.2, 26.2],
        [ 3.2,  7.2, 11.2, 15.2, 19.2, 23.2, 27.2]]])

Processing:
N = 2
# sample with repeats
idx = np.random.randint(y, size=N*x)
corr = np.repeat(np.arange(0,(x-1)*y+1, y), N)
idx += corr
# sample without repeats
idx = np.concatenate([np.random.choice(list(range(y)), replace=False, size=N)+(i*y) for i in range(x)])
# slice array
a.reshape(x*y,z)[idx].reshape(x,N,z).swapaxes(0,1)

possible output (N,x,z) shape:
array([[[ 0. ,  4. ,  8. , 12. , 16. , 20. , 24. ],
        [ 1.1,  5.1,  9.1, 13.1, 17.1, 21.1, 25.1],
        [ 0.2,  4.2,  8.2, 12.2, 16.2, 20.2, 24.2]],

       [[ 3. ,  7. , 11. , 15. , 19. , 23. , 27. ],
        [ 3.1,  7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 19.1, 23.1, 27.1],
        [ 1.2,  5.2,  9.2, 13.2, 17.2, 21.2, 25.2]]])

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The River Mease was designated as SSSI/SAC as it represents one of the best examples of an unspoilt meandering lowland river, which supports characteristic habitats and species.
There are opportunities to make the river even better to support more wildlife and to ensure these important species continue to thrive and are more resilient to climate change.
Modifications such as weir construction, over-deepening of the channel, land use change and agricultural intensification have, in combination, led to a reduction in the diversity of natural habitats. The restoration of a more naturally functioning channel and the reconnection of the river to the floodplain will help to provide more suitable habitat for wildlife. Restoration would also help increase resilience of the river system to the more extreme high and low flows expected in future because of climate change.
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package is.artefact.flume.interceptor.rewrite;

import is.artefact.flume.interceptor.rewrite.Rewrite;

import org.apache.flume.Event;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.Before;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.any;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.never;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public class TestRewrite {

  private Event event;
  private RewriteConfig config;
  private Rewrite rewrite;

  @Before
  public void setup()  {
    event = mock(Event.class);
    config = new RewriteConfig();

    config.setSourceHeader("source");
    config.setDestinationHeader("destination");
    config.setPattern("o");
    config.setReplacement("0");

    rewrite = new Rewrite(config);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  @Test
  public void testApplyMissingHeader(){

    Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<String, String>();

    when(event.getHeaders()).thenReturn(headers);

    rewrite.apply(event);

    verify(event, never()).setHeaders(any(Map.class));
  }

  @Test
  public void testApplyRewrite(){
    Map<String, String> inputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Map<String, String> outputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Event interceptedEvent;

    inputHeaders.put("source", "foo");

    outputHeaders.put("source", "foo");
    outputHeaders.put("destination", "f00");

    when(event.getHeaders()).thenReturn(inputHeaders);

    interceptedEvent = rewrite.apply(event);

    assertEquals(event, interceptedEvent);
    verify(event).setHeaders(outputHeaders);
  }

  @Test
  public void testApplyRewriteOverwrite(){
    Map<String, String> inputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Map<String, String> outputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Event interceptedEvent;

    config.setDestinationHeader("source");

    inputHeaders.put("source", "foo");
    outputHeaders.put("source", "f00");

    when(event.getHeaders()).thenReturn(inputHeaders);

    interceptedEvent = rewrite.apply(event);

    assertEquals(event, interceptedEvent);
    verify(event).setHeaders(outputHeaders);
  }

  @Test
  public void testApplyIneffectiveRewrite(){
    Map<String, String> inputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Map<String, String> outputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Event interceptedEvent;

    config.setPattern("x");

    inputHeaders.put("source", "foo");
    outputHeaders.put("source", "foo");
    outputHeaders.put("destination", "foo");

    when(event.getHeaders()).thenReturn(inputHeaders);

    interceptedEvent = rewrite.apply(event);

    assertEquals(event, interceptedEvent);
    verify(event).setHeaders(outputHeaders);
  }

  @Test
  public void testReplacePeriod(){
    Map<String, String> inputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Map<String, String> outputHeaders = new HashMap<String, String>();
    Event interceptedEvent;

    config.setPattern("\\.");
    config.setReplacement("/");

    inputHeaders.put("source", "sarenza.eulerian.raw");
    outputHeaders.put("source", "sarenza.eulerian.raw");
    outputHeaders.put("destination", "sarenza/eulerian/raw");

    when(event.getHeaders()).thenReturn(inputHeaders);

    interceptedEvent = rewrite.apply(event);

    assertEquals(event, interceptedEvent);
    verify(event).setHeaders(outputHeaders);
  }

}


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John Roemer Appointed as President/CEO of Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union
Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union
Law Enforcement Credit Union anticipates continued success with highly experienced executive
VAN NUYS, Calif., Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union (LAPFCU) is proud to welcome John Roemer as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective January 23, 2023. In his new position, Roemer is responsible for operations and administration of the 43,000-member organization, which has $1.4 billion in assets, and addresses the savings and lending needs of law enforcement communities in Southern California.
Roemer joins LAPFCU with more than 35 years of financial institution experience and a wealth of related industry expertise. Prior to joining LAPFCU, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Communications Officer at Logix Federal Credit Union. Roemer also held several executive leadership roles in market research, marketing and strategy, operations, payments, member experience, business intelligence, and service quality at Logix and other financial institutions.
"We are excited to welcome Mr. Roemer to LAPFCU," states Andre Plummer, LAPFCU Board of Directors Chair. "John's proven leadership skills and extensive knowledge strengthen our commitment to enhance the quality of life for law enforcement professionals and their families. John has shown an impressive dedication to member service and organizational growth and stability in his past positions. We look forward to future success with John at the helm."
"I appreciate the confidence that the board has in me to lead LAPFCU. Our members are true heroes. They are also people with financial dreams—of homeownership, a better quality of life, secure retirement, and more," Roemer says. "We are here to provide them with the tools they need to succeed and help them achieve those dreams. I look forward to continuing LAPFCU's already strong performance by focusing on an unmatched membership experience. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to focus exclusively on the needs and wants of our law enforcement community and make a positive impact on their future."
Roemer earned his bachelor's degree in Accounting from Marquette University and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Columbia University.
Roemer replaces Ed Hada, who is retiring after serving as LAPFCU's CEO for five years and prior to that, 10 years as Chief Financial Officer.
About Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union
Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union was founded in 1936 and is based in Van Nuys, California. The Credit Union, with assets of $1.4 billion, currently serves 43,000 members, exclusive to law enforcement personnel and their family members in Southern California. LAPFCU provides an expansive roster of financial products and services. For more information, visit lapfcu.org.
Attn. Editors: A photo of Mr. Roemer can be found at the link below:
https://lapfcu.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/John-Roemer.jpg
Contact: Matt Dalton
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
mdalton@lapfcu.org
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SOURCE Los Angeles Police Federal Credit Union


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The Helsinki Ice Challenge was a series of two ice hockey regular season games (one for the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and one for the SM-liiga respectively) which were scheduled to be played outdoors. Jokerit played against SKA Saint Petersburg in the first match  and the second match was HIFK playing against Oulun Kärpät. Both games took place at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland on December 2 and December 5, 2017 respectively.

The Games
Bolded teams denote winners

References

Outdoor ice hockey games
December 2017 sports events in Europe
2017–18 in Finnish ice hockey
2010s in Helsinki
Sports competitions in Helsinki
Liiga
2017–18 KHL season


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