Yay we've got a bit of a thaw!
Which means we've got water lying on top of packed ice on some roads.
Sounds like you need skates instead...much easier than autos on slick ice.
Just got the first of many blizzards on Saturday, 10.6" (approx.50cm?) officially, 5' drifts around the abode. Took most of the day to remove/keep up with the snow. Now we are expecting -25F wind chills in the a.m. The hoary beast has arrived!
@Dwatina: Single digit temperatures are thaw-temperatures. Currently, I'd even consider positive single-digit temperatures subtropical and therefore unwanted. I want ICE!
@Badgerbait: Central New York has been nailed with a lot of snow so early in the season. I hate lake effect snow. Where abouts are you?
@Master of Puppets: single-digits are thaw-temperatures? Brrrrrr.
Right next to Lake Michigan, WI side.
I know what Northwest winds on open water does in winter .
Ah, I remember living in the Land of the Chosen Frozen. We did have a hard freeze last night but tomorrow the forecast is up to 71 degrees Fahrenheit.
@Dwatina: Yes, a positive single (or multiple) digit temperature means the temperature is above the freezing point of water, therefore it's thawing.
You mean Celsius...right? when it's +1 here that's great ice making weather!
It's still cold no matter what.
It's bleedin' taters where I am.
We had our share yesterday. My better half needed 5 hours for an 80 km drive home last night. (normally 45 minutes to 1 hour) The west and middle part of Holland grinded to a complete halt during the evening peak.
@Badgerbait: Of course, there's no other normal way of expressing temperatures Especially when it's weather-temperatures, a system based on the freezing-point of water is logical, right?
I like Kelvin...+295 degrees is comfortable.
We have plenty of snow in southern Quebec, and it's mild where I live today. It's -5C and I heard that on Wednesday, the temperature is rising to a balmy 0C! Time to break out the tees and shorts!
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Riyadh: Christmas with the Neighbours
PEOPLE OF MANY DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES TAKE PART IN THE DINNER RESPECTING THE TRADITIONS OF EVERY RELIGIOUS BELIEVE
RIYADH'S METRO LINE THAT SALINI IMPREGILO IS HELPING BUILD WILL RUN ABOUT 41 KILOMETRES AND COST $5.94 BILLION
Conscious of the norms of the host country, Valerio Zangoli and his family try to celebrate Christian holidays like Christmas in the most respectful – and inclusive - way possible. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the Italian infrastructure Group is involved in the construction of a massive $20 billion metro network, they plan to celebrate it with other foreigners inside the housing compound where they live.
They are in luck this year because Christmas falls on a Friday, the day of rest in the Muslim world. This means that Zangoli, an Italian business development manager, can spend the entire day with his family and friends, enjoying a Christmas meal together.
Although many of his co-workers are returning home for the holidays, he will be working through the festive season. It helps having his family with him in Riyadh.
Elias Daher, a construction manager for the consortium to which Salini Impregilo belongs, is also staying to work. Since he'll be alone on Christmas Day, the Lebanese-Italian Orthodox Christian plans to go to a restaurant with whoever else remains at the construction site. Since it's a Friday, he will ask his colleagues of other nationalities to join him.
The consortium has a $5.94 billion order to build the longest of the network's six lines, running at about 41 kilometers. With workers from many nationalities on the site, Salini Impregilo and its partners manage a multicultural environment that is unusual in a single country with a single religion. The comradery that develops among the workers often extends into their private lives.
As he has done in the past, Zangoli will invite his Muslim friends to join them for the Christmas meal. "It's like Thanksgiving (in the United States)," says Zangoli, who had spent some time in America and was struck by how inclusive was the autumn celebration, with families opening their homes to strangers. Christmas is obviously different, but he likes to repeat that spirit of inclusiveness with people from different creeds and cultures. "It's the spirit of sharing something together," he says.
Zangoli's wife, Nisansala, says they and their three children will be celebrating Christmas Day by preparing with their neighbors a big lunch to be held outdoors under the palm trees of the garden inside the compound. Given the nature of the compound, they have become friends with everyone who lives there, forming a tight community. Nisansala says each family will bring a dish representative of the cuisine of their country. "There will be pasta, rice, meat, plantain…" she says. "It will be a fusion of different traditions and foods."
Although she is Sri Lankan, Nisansala will prepare either gnocchi or tagliatelle – both of which are Italian dishes. "The one thing that my husband asks is for fresh pasta to be made for Christmas," she says. At the table will be people from a variety of countries: Spain, Greece, Venezuela, Lebanon, Pakistan, India... "We like it here because we are all together," she says. "It's very multicultural."
A Saudi Muslim family who lives in the compound will also join them, she adds. No salami or alcohol will be served in respect of the local norms. This sense of inclusiveness is also on display at the construction site.
Mohammed Aljuaid, a Saudi quality assurance and quality control engineer, said he liked how the company accommodated the needs of its employees. Whenever workers of a given country or religion need to observe a celebration, it adjusts their schedules or tries to meet their requirements. "If India is having its national holiday, it adorns the site with flags of the country," he says.
In Aljuaid's case, it allows him to take time every day to pray. "I feel like the company takes care of me," he says.
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package io.hekate.messaging.internal;

import io.hekate.cluster.ClusterNodeId;
import io.hekate.codec.CodecException;
import io.hekate.core.HekateException;
import io.hekate.core.internal.HekateTestNode;
import io.hekate.core.internal.util.ErrorUtils;
import io.hekate.messaging.MessagingChannelClosedException;
import io.hekate.messaging.MessagingChannelConfig;
import io.hekate.messaging.MessagingException;
import io.hekate.messaging.loadbalance.EmptyTopologyException;
import io.hekate.messaging.loadbalance.LoadBalancerException;
import io.hekate.messaging.loadbalance.UnknownRouteException;
import io.hekate.messaging.operation.SendFuture;
import io.hekate.network.NetworkEndpointClosedException;
import io.hekate.network.NetworkFuture;
import io.hekate.test.HekateTestError;
import io.hekate.util.async.Waiting;
import java.io.NotSerializableException;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

public class MessagingChannelSendTest extends MessagingServiceTestBase {
    public MessagingChannelSendTest(MessagingTestContext ctx) {
        super(ctx);
    }

    @Test
    public void testNoWait() throws Exception {
        List<TestChannel> channels = createAndJoinChannels(3);

        for (TestChannel from : channels) {
            for (TestChannel to : channels) {
                from.channel().forNode(to.nodeId()).newSend("test-" + from.nodeId()).submit();
            }
        }

        for (TestChannel to : channels) {
            for (TestChannel from : channels) {
                to.awaitForMessage("test-" + from.nodeId());
            }
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendReceive() throws Exception {
        List<TestChannel> channels = createAndJoinChannels(3);

        for (TestChannel from : channels) {
            for (TestChannel to : channels) {
                String msg1 = "test-" + from.nodeId();

                from.channel().forNode(to.nodeId()).newSend(msg1).sync();
            }
        }

        for (TestChannel to : channels) {
            for (TestChannel from : channels) {
                to.awaitForMessage("test-" + from.nodeId());
            }
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testUnknownNode() throws Exception {
        TestChannel channel = createChannel().join();

        try {
            channel.channel().forNode(newNodeId()).newSend("failed").sync();

            fail("Error was expected.");
        } catch (HekateException e) {
            assertTrue("" + e, e.isCausedBy(EmptyTopologyException.class));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testIdleSocketTimeout() throws Exception {
        repeat(3, j -> {
            int idlePoolTimeout = 20 * (j + 1);

            TestChannel sender = createChannel(c -> c.setIdleSocketTimeout(idlePoolTimeout)).join();

            TestChannel receiver = createChannel(c -> c.setIdleSocketTimeout(idlePoolTimeout)).join();

            awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

            MessagingClient<String> client = sender.impl().clientOf(receiver.nodeId());

            repeat(3, i -> {
                assertFalse(client.isConnected());

                sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId()).newSend("test-" + i).sync();

                busyWait("disconnect idle", () -> !client.isConnected());

                assertFalse(client.isConnected());
            });

            receiver.awaitForMessage("test-2");
            assertEquals(3, receiver.received().size());

            sender.leave();
            receiver.leave();
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testReplyIsNotSupported() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();

        TestChannel receiver = createChannel(c -> c.setReceiver(msg -> {
            assertFalse(msg.mustReply());

            assertResponseUnsupported(msg);
        })).join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        repeat(5, i -> {
            get(sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId()).newSend("request").submit());

            receiver.checkReceiverError();
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testNetworkDisconnect() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
        TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        MessagingClient<String> client = sender.impl().clientOf(receiver.nodeId());

        List<NetworkFuture<MessagingProtocol>> closeFuture = client.close();

        for (NetworkFuture<MessagingProtocol> future : closeFuture) {
            future.get();
        }

        repeat(5, i -> {
            try {
                sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId()).newSend("request" + i).sync();

                fail("Error was expected.");
            } catch (HekateException e) {
                assertTrue(ErrorUtils.stackTrace(e), e.isCausedBy(NetworkEndpointClosedException.class));
            }
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testChannelCloseDuringRouting() throws Exception {
        repeat(3, i -> {
            TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
            TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

            awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

            CountDownLatch routeLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
            CountDownLatch closeLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);

            Future<SendFuture> future = runAsync(() -> sender.channel()
                .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> {
                    routeLatch.countDown();

                    await(closeLatch);

                    return receiver.nodeId();
                })
                .newSend("test")
                .submit());

            await(routeLatch);

            Waiting close = sender.impl().close();

            closeLatch.countDown();

            close.await();

            try {
                SendFuture sendFuture = get(future);

                get(sendFuture);

                fail("Error was expected.");
            } catch (HekateException e) {
                Throwable cause = e.getCause();

                assertTrue(getStacktrace(cause), cause instanceof MessagingChannelClosedException);
            }

            sender.leave();
            receiver.leave();
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testTopologyChange() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
        TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        repeat(5, i -> {
            say("Topology change on join.");

            CountDownLatch beforeJoinLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
            CountDownLatch joinLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
            AtomicInteger joinInvocations = new AtomicInteger();
            SendCallbackMock joinCallback = new SendCallbackMock();

            runAsync(() -> {
                sender.channel()
                    .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> {
                        beforeJoinLatch.countDown();

                        joinInvocations.incrementAndGet();

                        await(joinLatch);

                        return topology.youngest().id();
                    })
                    .newSend("join-request-" + i)
                    .submit(joinCallback);

                return null;
            });

            await(beforeJoinLatch);

            TestChannel temporary = createChannel().join();

            awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver, temporary);

            joinLatch.countDown();

            joinCallback.get();

            receiver.awaitForMessage("join-request-" + i);

            assertEquals(1, joinInvocations.get());

            say("Topology change on leave.");

            CountDownLatch beforeLeaveLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
            CountDownLatch leaveLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
            AtomicInteger leaveInvocations = new AtomicInteger();
            SendCallbackMock leaveCallback = new SendCallbackMock();

            runAsync(() -> {
                sender.channel()
                    .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> {
                        beforeLeaveLatch.countDown();

                        leaveInvocations.incrementAndGet();

                        await(leaveLatch);

                        return topology.youngest().id();
                    })
                    .newSend("leave-request-" + i)
                    .submit(leaveCallback);

                return null;
            });

            await(beforeLeaveLatch);

            temporary.leave();

            awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

            leaveLatch.countDown();

            leaveCallback.get();

            assertEquals(2, leaveInvocations.get());
        });
    }

    @Test
    public void testLoadBalanceFailure() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
        TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        repeat(3, i -> {
            SendFuture future = sender.channel()
                .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> {
                    throw new LoadBalancerException(HekateTestError.MESSAGE);
                })
                .newSend("failed" + i)
                .submit();

            try {
                future.sync();

                fail("Error was expected.");
            } catch (HekateException e) {
                assertTrue(e.isCausedBy(LoadBalancerException.class));
                assertEquals(HekateTestError.MESSAGE, e.getCause().getMessage());
            }
        });

        sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId()).newSend("success").submit().get();
    }

    @Test
    public void testLoadBalanceReturnsNull() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
        TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        repeat(3, i -> {
            SendFuture future = sender.channel()
                .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> null)
                .newSend("failed" + i)
                .submit();

            try {
                future.sync();

                fail("Error was expected.");
            } catch (HekateException e) {
                assertTrue(e.isCausedBy(LoadBalancerException.class));
                assertEquals("Load balancer failed to select a target node.", e.getCause().getMessage());
            }
        });

        sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId())
            .newSend("success")
            .submit()
            .get();
    }

    @Test
    public void testRouteToNonExistingNode() throws Throwable {
        TestChannel sender = createChannel().join();
        TestChannel receiver = createChannel().join();

        awaitForChannelsTopology(sender, receiver);

        ClusterNodeId invalidNodeId = newNodeId();

        repeat(3, i -> {
            SendFuture future = sender.channel()
                .withLoadBalancer((msg, topology) -> invalidNodeId)
                .newSend("failed" + i)
                .submit();

            try {
                future.sync();

                fail("Error was expected.");
            } catch (HekateException e) {
                assertTrue(e.isCausedBy(UnknownRouteException.class));
                assertEquals("Node is not within the channel topology [id=" + invalidNodeId + ']', e.getCause().getMessage());
            }
        });

        sender.channel().forNode(receiver.nodeId())
            .newSend("success")
            .submit()
            .get();
    }

    @Test
    public void testNoReceiver() throws Exception {
        TestChannel channel = createChannel(c ->
            c.withClusterFilter(n -> !n.isLocal())
        ).join();

        try {
            get(channel.channel().forNode(channel.nodeId()).newSend("test").submit());

            fail("Error was expected.");
        } catch (HekateException e) {
            assertTrue(e.getCause().toString(), e.getCause() instanceof LoadBalancerException);
            assertEquals("No suitable receivers [channel=test-channel]", e.getCause().getMessage());
        }

        try {
            channel.channel().forNode(channel.nodeId())
                .newSend("test")
                .submit()
                .sync();

            fail("Error was expected.");
        } catch (HekateException e) {
            assertTrue(ErrorUtils.stackTrace(e), e.isCausedBy(LoadBalancerException.class));
            assertEquals("No suitable receivers [channel=test-channel]", e.findCause(LoadBalancerException.class).getMessage());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testClosedChannel() throws Exception {
        TestChannel channel = createChannel();

        channel.join();

        get(channel.channel().forNode(channel.nodeId()).newSend("test").submit());

        channel.leave();

        try {
            get(channel.channel().forNode(channel.nodeId()).newSend("test").submit());

            fail("Error was expected.");
        } catch (HekateException e) {
            assertTrue(e.getCause().toString(), e.getCause() instanceof MessagingChannelClosedException);
            assertEquals("Channel closed [channel=test-channel]", e.getCause().getMessage());
        }

        try {
            channel.channel().forNode(channel.nodeId())
                .newSend("test")
                .sync();

            fail("Error was expected.");
        } catch (HekateException e) {
            assertTrue(e.getCause().toString(), e.getCause() instanceof MessagingChannelClosedException);
            assertEquals("Channel closed [channel=test-channel]", e.getCause().getMessage());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testNonSerializableMessage() throws Exception {
        createNode(boot -> boot.withMessaging(messaging -> {
            messaging.withChannel(MessagingChannelConfig.of(Object.class)
                .withName("test")
                .withReceiver(msg -> {
                    // No-op.
                })
            );
        })).join();

        HekateTestNode sender = createNode(boot -> boot.withMessaging(messaging ->
            messaging.withChannel(
                MessagingChannelConfig.of(Object.class).withName("test")
            )
        )).join();

        repeat(5, i -> {
            MessagingException err = expect(MessagingException.class, () ->
                get(sender.messaging().channel("test").forRemotes().newSend(new Socket()).submit())
            );

            assertSame(err.toString(), MessagingException.class, err.getCause().getClass());
            assertTrue(err.isCausedBy(CodecException.class));
            assertTrue(err.isCausedBy(NotSerializableException.class));
        });
    }
}

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First of all, an employee should be allowed time to vote. Many people like to vote early to avoid the crowds on Election Day. But, if an employee has not already voted, the employee is entitled to take time off for voting on Election Day, unless the employee has at least two consecutive hours to vote outside of the employee's working hours. Second, an employer may not retaliate against an employee who voted for or against a particular candidate or who refused to reveal how the employee voted.
An employer should also set the tone for any political discussions held at the workplace. Employees should be encouraged to keep their discussions courteous, respectful, and focused on the issues. Of course, if it is appropriate, an employer should stop employees from holding political discussions in front of customers or if the discussions are keeping employees from getting work done.
To speak to Mr. Clouse or to another Dallas employment lawyer at his firm, Clouse Dunn LLP, send an email to [email protected] or call (214) 239-2705.


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To deal with a student population projected to rise by as much as 9,700 students in the next 10 years, the Midland ISD Facility Master Planning Committee has presented a plan that calls for $545.8 million bond
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Born in Rome in 1978, Ruffo continues to live and work in Italy's cultural capital. After studying Architecture at the University of Rome, Ruffo was selected for a research fellowship at The Italian Academy for advanced studies in America, (Columbia University, New York), in 2010. Working in a variety of different media including intricate drawing and sculptural works, Ruffo's practice is meticulously manual. His interests in philosophical notions of freedom and political ideologies are intrinsic to his engagement with his craft, reflecting his intense social and moral concerns and his passionate stance on ethics. He perceives his work as being in a constant state of process-based research, leaving pieces open for viewers to read into the deeper implications behind them. His debut exhibition with Blain|Southern (2012) consisted of a series of large-scale, intricate drawings that explored the concepts of freedom, presented by a number of American moral and political philosophers, creating a satirical optical illusion with raised passages taken directly from influential texts. In 2009 he won the Premio Cairo Award (Italy) and in 2010 was awarded the New York Prize, bestowed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His work is held in several public and private collections, including Deutsche Bank Foundation, New York, IL, M.A.M.B.O Museo d'arte moderna di Bologna and MAXXI Museum in Rome.
Your work often deals with political and philosophical ideas of freedom. What does "freedom" mean to you?
The concept of Freedom is universal, but so unique to each of us that it intrigues me. After studying the teachings of Isaiah Berlin, I created a project in 2010 called "Six enemies of human freedom": six lessons that Berlin had given on BBC radio in 1952 on six philosophers of the French Revolution, and how their theories, (though based on sound principles) had become inspirational to authoritarian regimes in the twentieth century. Berlin then, with his 'two concepts of freedom', provides an interesting theory on the division of the two blocks during the Cold War period.
After further investigation into the term 'Freedom' and with my own understanding of it, I decided to write a research project for Columbia University in New York on similar Liberal American philosophers.
Tell us about how your academic studies in New York have had an impact on your work. Do you continue to study and incorporate philosophy in this way?
In 2010 I spent a semester as a researcher at The Italian Academy of Colombia University in New York. This period was crucial for me in fully understanding how the concept of Freedom in the United States was historically rooted and defined as opposed to the concept of slavery. You are free if you are not a slave, therein you are free from a 'master' or an authoritarian state, this is a concept known as 'individual freedom'.
This is something very different from the concept that accompanies the history of European philosophy, where the idea of freedom is intrinsic to the nature of man. It's not something that somebody gives you and that you are, you must cultivate together with the people around you in order to create a free society (collective freedom). For what is my freedom if the person next to me is not free?
In New York, I had the opportunity to conduct different interviews with people from all over the world and understand how the concept of freedom is still a geographic concept, completely different depending on the country you grew up in.
How has the current political climate affected your thinking as an artist?
During the last year of such worldwide political upheaval I have been working on a project looking at migration with a historical perspective. The project reflects on the fact that the current political upheavals and instability our governments are facing is in reality the true engine of our shared history.
The delicacy of your paper extractions, the way you cut the paper on which you work, creates a fragility that provides a stark contrast to the images of strength and power that your work portrays. To what extent do you see your work as playing with notions of power and weakness?
The dichotomy between the fragility of the paper material and the power of the message that the work expresses, creates a great deal of force. This notion can take the form of a religious text, an act of war or a peace treaty. This is why I also create war machines, such as a World War II tanker or a World War I airplane; even though these machines still exist, the material used evokes childhood games, which emphasises the fragility of conflict.
Tell us a bit about your choice of medium. Why paper?
The use of paper comes from my training as an architect. When you start a project, the first thing you do is look at the planimetry and aerial photogrammetry of the site that will house your project. The map of the area can tell you many things including who has drawn it, the commissioner of the drawing, and the historical period in which it was created. In my work, I look at the world through maps, through the eyes of geographers of different times. By analysing these maps I can understand a lot about history, conflict and the relationship between people.
Colour often plays a pivotal role in your work, most notably in your 'Atlases' series. Where does this interest in colour psychology come from?
My grandfather was a great teacher of art and was a theorist of colour, and, in 1978, introduced his new chromatic circle. This was the first time that this had been done, revolutionising theories of colour from Newton onwards. Colour has therefore always been an important aspect of my training as an artist. In my Atlas series for instance, I took statistical research linking colour and emotion between different people.
By raising your cut out drawings above the surface of your work, you create optical illusions where the boundaries between two dimensional drawings and three dimensional objects are called into question. Tell us a bit about your decision to do this.
My works are made up of a lot of different layers of design and carvings. In every work there are always different stories that overlap. I think this idea of stratification comes very much from the city where I was born and raised, Rome.
Rome is a town where the materials and symbols of previous centuries merge and regenerate continuously, each building is composed of layers of history. Each building speaks to multiple senses on different levels, just as my artwork aims to do.
How do your studies in architecture affect your artistic style?
My art practice is organised as architecture studios were, with several people each working on a specific task, all working on several projects at the same time. I love to work in a group where everyone brings something personal to a project, we share the birth of each piece.
What was the experience of working on the Piazza Mignanelli like? Were there any difficulties when working on such a large scale piece?
The creation of the scenery at Piazza Mignanelli for the 2015 Valentino parade was an incredible experience. It was like being one-centimetre tall and walking within a carved world of scenery with many levels inside. I've rarely experienced such a thrill as something that involved more than 100 people working on the site. It was a colossal installation which kept me awake for more than six months and when the parade started lasted only 15 minutes.


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#ThrowbackThursday: David Beckham finds his way back to the Philippines
He scored a screamer against the Azkals back in 2011, he helped the victims of super typhoon Yolanda as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 2014, and now, for the third time around, David Beckham visits the Philippines for yet another meaningful day for the Filipinos.
What started out to be a prospering partnership between the 7's Football League headed by former Azkals defender Anton Del Rosario and Philam Life was solidified even further when the latter held their #LiveBetter Expo last October 19, 2019.
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The Philam Life 7's Football League served as the jump-off point for the Manchester United legend as they have conducted a football clinic at around eight in the morning.
As the excitement built up inside the McKinley Hill Stadium, Del Rosario and his mates composed of current and former national team players Phil and James Younghusband, Misagh Bahadoran, Aly Borromeo and Roland Müller kicked off the clinic with some warm-ups.
They're also joined by Daniel Matsunaga and Nico Bolzico, TV stars and also a lover of the sport. By the time people recognized that a van accompanied by police convoys are coming in, we knew this is the moment.
Beckham then came out of the van sporting a simple white Adidas shirt, jogger pants and stunning red kicks which made him look like 20 years old despite his tender age of 44.
We thought he's just going to be there to give some inspiring words or just supervise the clinic but when he started moving around the pitch, at that moment, we saw the man who conquered almost the entire planet in terms of the beautiful game.
WATCH: David Beckham now in Manila for a wellness summit organized by Philam Life. He is having a football clinic Sunday morning in Taguig. | via @cedrickkbasco pic.twitter.com/xjDNaAF1rT
— ABS-CBN News Sports (@ABSCBNNewsSport) October 13, 2019
"It's been amazing," said Beckham about the welcome he received. "Someone said to me earlier you must be exhausted, you must be tired. Actually, it's been an amazing day," he added.
It's as if the owner of Inter Miami FC didn't break a sweat during the football clinic early in the morning, he showed up in the press conference looking dapper as ever sporting an alpha male suit.
"To be able to spend the morning with the kids, just seeing the smiles on their faces, it really energizes me," said Beckham regarding the earlier football clinic.
His visit to the country might not be football-centric but he was still able to kick a ball around and spend some time with a lot of kids aspiring to achieve what he was able to do so.
Big thanks to Philam Life for having the #LiveBetter Expo which paved the way to bringing a living legend back to Manila. It will be an experience the kids and most certainly, this writer will never forget as David Beckham was the inspiration behind Tito in terms of playing and starting to love football. 'Till next time Becks!
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Book Reviews: Album Beauty
Album Beauty. Edited by Erik Kessels.
RVB Books, 2012.
Album Beauty
Reviewed by Karen Jenkins
Edited by Erik Kessels.
RVB Books, 2012. Hardbound. 140 pp., 98 color and black & white illustrations, 5x8-1/4".
The phrase 'found photography' seems entirely too passive a label for the anonymous images that Eric Kessels has culled from so many antique shops or auction lots and presented anew in Album Beauty. Anyone who shares his enthusiasm for vernacular imagery will recognize some recurring themes among those orphan photos and albums collected within, including the ill-conceived vacation snap, the propped-up baby and the often stilted formal wear by mantelpiece portrait. When found individually, these wayward photographs are fodder for fanciful musings on their path through the world and many echo something of the earnest energy of a runt puppy vying for selection (Pick me!). Discovery of an intact album feels like both a lucky break and a violation of the semi-private aspect of this form. Album Beauty is crafted from both these singular images and unaltered album groupings to delineate Kessels' conception of beauty as particularly manifest in this mode of collection and display. Christian Bunyan provides a brief articulation of Kessels' view in the book's few paragraphs of prose, describing a beauty tied not to the flawless, but to the rare. The reward is found within the inevitable "cracks" in these constructed best versions of self and family, rooted in the belief that such idealized views will hold up to scrutiny and time.
Album Beauty, by By Erik Kessels. Published by RVB Books, 2012.
These access points – be they technical flaws, errors in taste, or awkwardness of pose – provide a certain thematic structure that recalls Kessels' wonderful series In Almost Every Picture, and connects the otherwise unrelated singular images in Album Beauty. The full album pages carry these themes, but are also revealing of a wealth of unintended meanings via the idiosyncratic choices of the makers of these volumes. Some feel immutable in their careful curation of every angle on a prized car while others are fixed in a rigid chronology born of the gradual, cumulative filing of each year's school portrait and other predictable photographic commemorations. In one spread, a piece of interleaving tissue provides some modesty for a figure dressed in a towel, and in a bathtub; making these photos more suggestive in both their partial shrouding and situation opposite utterly banal, fully clothed shots of the same. Album Beauty also emphasizes the voids within – those gaps and blank spaces that mark revisions of sentiment or shifting taste and stand in for images yet to come. And peppered throughout are the altered photos that remain after someone has been cut out of a group shot, prompting a questioning of whether those who remain were the chosen or the rejected.
Bunyan's essay also contrasts the album's traditional audience and ways of meaning with contemporary digital capture and online image sharing. In Album Beauty, Kessels emphasizes both the tactile, ephemeral qualities of the photo album as object and the intimacy of the viewing experience – from the quaint paisley cover of this small book to the tears and stains that mark each photograph's physical vulnerability. Image "sharing" in the twenty-first century is often instantly far-reaching, decidedly less private and no longer ties album viewing to a physical proximity to its creator. While the album has evolved via web platforms such as Instagram and tumblr, its twenty-first century form perpetuates Kessels' notion of album beauty as a combination of propaganda and unintended revelation. Just as interesting to me is thinking of Kessels' publication in light of the trend of creating vernacular photo books via website such as Blurb or Shutterfly. There is a messy, overlapping and unexplored continuum from the traditional amateur's album to more sophisticated self-published photo books and I enjoy how Album Beauty hearkens to both.—KAREN JENKINS
KAREN JENKINS earned a Master's degree in Art History, specializing in the History of Photography from the University of Arizona. She has held curatorial positions at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ and the Demuth Museum in Lancaster, PA. Most recently she helped to debut a new arts project, Art in the Open Philadelphia, that challenges contemporary artists to reimagine the tradition of creating works of art en plein air for the 21st century.
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The condom maker has committed to donating $5 million to The Global Fund via 2020 to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa (BTW — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed to match that donation). Plus, a percentage of proceeds from sales of the RED condom might be donated on to a program in South Africa referred to as Keeping Girls in School. For every 42-depend pack and 12-depend pack of RED condoms sold, $0.84 and $0.35 might be donated to the group, respectively. Keeping Girls in School seeks to decrease unwanted pregnancies and HIV infections in younger ladies by making sexual well being and reproductive serves more accessible. The final aim is to allow those women to continue pursuing an training.
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One purpose for this is that they depend on study members accurately reporting their use of condoms, frequency of sex and the HIV status of their sexual companions. People is probably not entirely sincere about such points if they worry judgement from researchers, which is able to skew results.
It's necessary to note that HIV is not the identical as AIDS, contrary to a typical misconception, and it's potential to have HIV without having AIDS. While there is no treatment for HIV presently, tens of millions of people are nonetheless capable of live healthily with the virus. The only way to know your status is to get tested, and the CDC recommends that anybody between the ages of 13 and 64 gets examined a minimum of once for HIV, and anybody who has unsafe sex will get tested no less than once a year. One of the primary behaviors that places folks at a higher danger of contracting HIV is having unprotected sex. One of the world's greatest condom producers has right now launched a marketing campaign encouraging folks to 'have intercourse to save lots of lives'.
Courtesy of DurexHIV/AIDS continues to be a serious public well being challenge across the globe. The French Get Eco Conscious About Sex Accessories for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that greater than 1.2 million Americans thirteen years and older are living with HIV.
The survey conducted by the world's leading condom brand said solely 21% Indians have had least unprotected intercourse without knowing their companions��� sexual historical past, as against the worldwide average of 47 per cent. "If the 60 per cent of younger people who find themselves uncomfortable discussing safe intercourse are higher in a position to talk about it using the unofficial protected intercourse emoji, that could be a great point.
Figures for the frequency of condoms breaking, slipping off or leaking vary extensively between research. In Sanders' evaluate , between 0.8 and 41% of individuals had ever skilled a condom breaking. While a few studies report much larger rates, the breakage rate per sexual act in most research was between 0 and four%. In the 2016 evaluation, the protecting Ohio Escorts Strip Clubs Massage Parlors And Sex Shops effect of constant condom use was slightly larger when the male rather than the female companion was HIV positive. There was also geographic variability, with a lot greater levels of protection reported in two Asian studies than in eleven research performed in North and South America.
He estimated that, if constantly used, condoms stop 92% of HIV infections in anal sex between men. While condomless intercourse with an HIV-optimistic high is extra dangerous than condomless sex with an HIV-constructive bottom , in this study an infection charges weren't statistically totally different between receptive and insertive partners. Analysis discovered that amongst those who reported constantly using condoms (i.e. one hundred% of the time), condoms prevented 70% of HIV infections.
For anal sex specifically, utility of further water-primarily based or silicone-primarily based lubricants to the surface of the condom as soon as donned is beneficial to help reduce the risk of breakage or slippage of the condom. Malaysia's Karex Bhd makes one in each five condoms globally. It has not produced a single condom from its three Malaysian factories up to now 10 days due to a lockdown imposed by the government to halt the unfold of the virus.
Interestingly, all via yesterday, Durex provided condoms on the worth of Re. 1 per piece, on DuexIndia.com and on its partner portals Snapdeal and Flipkart. The model has also partnered with MTV, popular youth leisure channel, to launch a talk present referred to as 'Rex Talk'.
People notably vulnerable to HIV are males who've intercourse with men, Black Africa heterosexuals, and individuals who share needles or syringes. Durex revealed the cash raised from its new range of condoms would go instantly in the direction of the 'Keeping Girls in School' marketing campaign in South Africa. 'It is empowering that we will all assist to protect ourselves by having protected intercourse, and at the similar time, be a part of the struggle to finish AIDS through serving to women in South Africa who really need our help.
The service now has a number of services that patients can access from their own properties. With talks of purity, chastity and a woman's virginity nonetheless headlining conversations between dad and mom of potential partners, I suppose Durex could also be onto something. But it's not a lot about 'making sex adventurous' to sell condoms, as it is about dismantling decades of patriarchy and pushing for the sexual empancipation of marginalised communities. The Durex intercourse survey, primarily based on a 2017 report, requested 1,006 Indian respondents about their sex lives.
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Lacey Turner has responded to backlash she received over taking a second round of maternity leave 14 months after giving birth.
The 32 year old gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Dusty, in August 2019 and recently revealed she is now expecting her second child.
EastEnders star Lacey, who portrays Stacey Fowler on the hit BBC One show, has just returned to screens as the fiery character but will, rightfully, soon be departing once again as she prepares to give birth for a second time.
The brunette beauty joined Kaye Adams, Nadia Sawalha, Jane Moore and Coleen Nolan on Friday's Loose Women and admitted she takes it as "a compliment" that people are angered she'll be disappearing once again.
Lacey was oblivious to fact she had received complaints about taking more maternity leave until she saw a debate on the topic during a previous episode of the ITV daytime show last week.
She said: "It's funny because actually I had no idea, because actually I was watching Loose Women with my dad in the kitchen and I was like, 'Hold on a minute dad, I need to watch this' because I had no idea what was going on. So I did.
"I don't read anything about myself. I put things on Instagram every now and again and I sort of see the short bit you see underneath.
"I don't really get a chance to read all the comments and they all just are lovely, the bits underneath.
"I had no idea until watching your programme so I had a little look after I found that out. I was sort of in shock really.
"I was surprised that people were… I was trying to figure out why people were so angry, but at the same time I took it as a compliment that maybe you miss having Stacey on the Square so much that, you know, I just take it as a compliment.
"I don't know if people thought I was being paid while I was off. You know, I'm just not quite sure what they were angry about. But people will get angry at anything these days."
Lacey announced her second pregnancy in an exclusive interview with OK! magazine alongside her husband Matt Kay last month.
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She told us: "I was over the moon. I had an inkling I was pregnant, so I took the test at home and it was positive.
"We feel so lucky to be expecting our second, as it took so long and there was so much heartache getting Dusty here."
Stay at home dad Matt added: "When Lacey told me, I was so happy. Having Dusty was the best thing that ever happened to us, so to have another baby is only going to be amazing."
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I Got Jay Reatarded Last Night
August 4, 2008 nathan.lankford 2 comments
It's less than twelve hours since I walked away from the scuzzy walls of Red Seven, and still my ears are ringing from the sheer level of noise that I gladly witnessed, as rock n' roll returned once again to my life. It's funny, I listen to a lot of music, but its seems rock has become less of a staple in my music dietary supplements. I would like to extend my gratitude to Jay Reatard for reaffirming my belief in it's greatness – even with possible hearing loss.
The opening bands were good enough. Manikin and Golden Boys seemed a bit sloppy, but I did enjoy Cheaptime. None of the bands were over-bearing, in the sense that I felt they intruded upon my rock. But, lets face it, I came to see Jay Reatard. I had looked forward to seeing him for a long time, and I sipped my Lone Star in waiting.
The Reatard three piece took to the stage at midnight, sporting enough hair to share with dozens of my bald friends–okay, I only have two, but its was a lot of hair. "Bloodvisions" began the night, as the guitars screamed through the speakers. Almost a minute later, the song was over, and they were on their way to playing "Oh, Its Such a Shame." Then, onto "My Shadow." Four and a half minutes after they had begun, they were well into their fifth song. The sheer speed with which they played reminded me of watching early Ramones videos, where the band blasted through their recorded material so fast that the audience was left breathless, mostly because they had left us little room to breathe. The rest of the set consisted of what I believe were fifteen total songs. I particularly enjoyed "Nightmares" and "See/Saw," which comes from Jay's limited 7′ series. The total time of the set was possibly thirty minutes long, though I counted off twenty-eight minutes.
You'd think I would be disappointed in such a short short show, but I only paid $10, so I can't complain too much. Not to mention, he played all the songs I wanted to hear–the list I had in my head anyways. My girlfriend said I should have been disappointed, and so I started to think about why I liked the rock so much.
Jay Reatard did only play thirty minutes, but he played with such ferocity, that it would be difficult for anyone to complain about his set. Then, throw on to that the fact that the front fifty people were going crazy, dancing and jumping about as if they were teenagers–they weren't. Jay has somehow found a way to the hearts of the older indie kids. Sure, it was an all ages show, but I left with the impression that meant all ages were required to dance and scream back at the band. For the rest of the month, I just want to rock, and that's all due to Jay Reatard.
Again, I started questioning my tastes in Jay, and I found another old punk band to help draw back the connection for me. Jay is a rock n' roll man, but he has the kind of pop sensibility that the Misfits had. Sure, they wrote some grotesque lyrics, and had some sort of fascination in skulls and such, but at the bottom of the rock, they were just a pop band. They wrote the sort of songs that anyone could love, and this is what Jay Reatard has done. Songs like "Nightmares" or "My Shadow" definitely bring on the rock element, but they also bring out the pop goodness – it makes rock so much more fun.
I think my only complaint about the show was the sound. I would have liked to hear the vocals a bit more, but its almost as if that didn't matter – I knew the words anyways. Bottom line: Jay Reatard and band played their hearts out at Austin's Red Seven, and they turned me back into the rock n' roll kid I used to be–what else could I guy ask for?
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Jay Reatard is a dick. Skipped Dallas because he was coked up, angry, and felt like tripping on LSD with an underage girl rather than honor his commitment to play a show.
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August 7, 2008 10:26 am
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Keeping games behind closed doors fuelling social isolation in Clare
Published on 11/09/2020 in Home/News/Sport by Páraic McMahon
As Clare prepares for a bumper sporting weekend, increasing calls are being made for restrictions on games being held by closed doors to be lifted.
Clare camogie's showpiece annual event is fixed for Saturday with the senior championship final pitting favourites Inagh/Kilnamona against Newmarket-on-Fergus while throughout the weekend eagerly awaited semi-finals in the Clare SHC, SFC, IHC and IFC are down for decision. The county Junior B football final between St Breckans and Shannon Gaels is scheduled to proceed on Friday evening.
Government guidelines on the advice of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), dictate that supporters be they long-serving club members, players' family and friends cannot attend any of the ties.
It comes despite Professor Pete Lunn of the ESRI Behavioural Research Unit telling Monday's Department of Health press briefing that findings on confirmed cases of COVID-19 highlighted that meeting outdoors "makes a big difference" in combatting the virus. "Getting outdoors and having social interactions outdoors reduces the risk more than the public think it does," he stated.
Speaking to The Clare Echo, Chair of the Oireachtas COVID-19 committee, Michael McNamara (IND) outlined that the 'behind closed doors' stance was a further example of mixed-messaging from the Government and NPHET. "People should meet outdoors but not meet outdoors, people aren't going to meet in the stand in Cusack Park if there isn't a match on. The whole thing seems to me to be increasingly devoid of coherence".
Deputy McNamara added, "We've been told all along that outdoor meetings are safer than indoor ones, that's why the sudden decision at the end of August to ban all spectators at GAA games and other types of games came as a surprise to me. Obviously I had expected that there would be greatly reduced capacities and the sort of thing like a full house in Croke Park was not something I was expecting but to not let a couple of hundred people could go into Cusack Park to see teams play in a county final is a very big surprise".
With "a long Northern European winter" approaching, the Scariff native highlighted that a sense of social isolation is already creeping into rural communities. "Matches were one of the places that people would always meet, why they didn't allow bars to serve outdoors is beyond me, that is what they started with in every European country. COVID-19 is obviously a risk but it's not the only risk to people's health and wellbeing. We are social beings, they seem to completely neglect the societal implications and the implications on people's sense of well being and their mental health is taking a hammering".
Manager of the Sixmilebridge senior hurlers, Tim Crowe told The Clare Echo that members of their backroom team have been unable to attend knockout ties due to the 40 person limit. "The minute the game starts there is so much interaction you don't miss it," the 2019 Clare SHC winning manager said of the absence of the crowd.
When Éire Óg played their opening game of the Clare SHC, Cllr Pat Daly (FF) received one of the 50 tickets on behalf of the club. When they play their first semi-final since 2003, he will be forced to watch a live stream. He described the continued rule as "absolutely ridiculous" and outlined that social distancing of "at least 200 people" can be safely maintained at Cusack Park
"Between 50-70 people are allowed in Penneys at the same time yet crowds aren't allowed across the road in Cusack Park where there is a much bigger capacity, it is crazy stuff," Cllr Daly told The Clare Echo. "I've been going to matches for the last 50 years, I never missed a championship match that Éire Óg played and here we are in a county semi-final and I can't go, I've missed the Cratloe and Feakle matches, it's my first time missing matches and there are hundreds of people like me".
Lahinch based Fr Enda Glynn admitted that not being able to travel to games has been "very difficult". "I've been going to Cusack Park since 1955, I remember seeing Jimmy Smyth score five goals and five points against Westmeath when I was about six years of age. I always feel that walking to Cusack Park from the Queens Hotel you're almost in communion with all the supporters and hurlers that have walked down there since the founding of the GAA. There have been many magic moments in Cusack Park, it is a special place. I love going to the club matches, to miss that is a huge change, there would have been so many great matches there".
Fr Glynn praised Clare GAA for the innovative streaming product which he has viewed weekly. "I know they say the open air is the safest place to be but the virus is very rampant at the moment and it is increasing in Clare. Health of the people is a supreme virtue".
Revenge or ratification awaits in Clare SHC semi-finals
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