For nearly 20 years I've chased the bass of Marben Farms. Of course, almost no one calls it that anymore, since the State of Georgia purchased the land 21 or 22 years ago. But at one time, one family owned everything for miles around. The Marben family named each pond – Dairy, Stump, Otter – and each dirt road that criss-crossed their land. There's an old cemetery there, near the road between two of the larger ponds. It's so old that many of the graves are marked with concrete boxes that sit above ground – a tradition I've not seen very often in the Deep South. But the cemetery is posted now, like so much land in so many other places these days.
Yes, Marben Farms and I go way back. I caught my first bass there in 1992, and my largest – an 8 pound female full of eggs, in '95. In those days, there weren't many people fishing the ponds because word hadn't gotten out yet. With the city of Atlanta a short hour drive away, that would all change in the late 90's, though. By the mid-90's there were more and more folks coming to Marben. They were mostly after catfish and bream and crappie – but for a bank angler, it made working around them a bit tough sometimes. A friendly "How ya doin?" or "Catchin' any?" made it easier to share the water with people. I've yet to meet anyone there who was unfriendly and that alone could make a place pretty special these days.
Crowded or not, each winter as spring approached I'd check the TV at least twice a day, counting the days between cold fronts on The Weather Channel.(It's funny to me today, with the internet in full force and weather at your fingertips, to think about all the time I spent waiting to see my local forecast.) Two day warming trend? Not quite enough – but the next week there might be three warm days together and I would plan a trip to Marben. That first trip was usually full of muddy tires, dirty boots and disappointment – but my daydreaming of spring and hungry bass would usually get the best of me and I'd make that first trip every year way too early. I still do it to this day, truth be told.
However, on the second or third trip I'd often hit it just right, and have one of those days you dream about your whole life. I once caught over 60 bass in a day there, and three of them were over 5 pounds. It's not uncommon in the South to catch a bass that weighs 5 pounds but it was very uncommon for me to catch one, much less three in the same day! Marben offered up catfish too, and crappie and several types of sunfish – bluegills, redbreast, shellcrackers and "warmouth bream" whose mouths are so large they chase down 4 inch bass plugs with reckless abandon. Marben Farms still offers all that and alot more as "Charlie Elliot Wildlife Center" but to me it will always be "Marben",… the place where my winter blues got washed away each year.
So that brings us to this winter; this spring and this year's bass fishing season. And for whatever reason, I've decided that this year for the first time ever, I'll fish the lakes and ponds of Marben Farms with only the long rod and fly. I have no doubt that the fish will be willing, because they see few flies among what must be thousands and thousands of offerings each year – but I do have a little doubt in my ability to entice them with "just flies." But that's part of the fun isn't it? The challenge of something you haven't tried before! A new species of fish, a new place to catch them, or a new way to do it! The making of a totally new tradition, perhaps? There's almost nothing sweeter than the hurried goodbye to another winter, and the warm embrace of a long, beautiful spring.


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Баткак — поселок в Новомалыклинском районе Ульяновской области. Входит в состав Новомалыклинского сельского поселения.

География
Находится на расстоянии примерно 13 километров на восток-юго-восток по прямой от районного центра села Новая Малыкла.

История
В 1990-е годы работал СПК «Берлек».

Население
Постоянное население составляло 52 человека (татары 98%) в 2002 году, 27 по переписи 2010 года.

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The Cross D Bar Trout Ranch
Dick Mandel '51 transforms his cattle ranch into an outdoor oasis
by Jeanne M. Nagle
A family ski trip to Colorado in the mid-1960s altered the life of Dick Mandel '51 in a big way. It was during this mountain vacation with his wife, Margaret, and children that Mandel, a petroleum engineer by trade, decided he wanted to lay claim to a portion of the paradise that surrounded him. So he purchased a cattle ranch called the Cross D Bar, located near Westcliffe, Colo.
Dick Mandel '51
Today the 1,000-acre spread has undergone a transformation of sorts, attracting anglers instead of cowpokes. The Cross D Bar Trout Ranch offers city slickers weary of the urban grind a place to pull a little lip ("go fishing," in layman's parlance) and experience a number of other adventures in the great outdoors.
At first Mandel's purchase of the ranch was more tax dodge than Dodge City. "There are lots of good [tax] advantages to being in the cattle business," he says. Being something of a tenderfoot in most matters bovine, he partnered with a seasoned local cowhand named John Carlson.
"He was the last of a breed of the old-time cow punchers," Mandel says of Carlson. "He was fiercely protective of the ranch. He wouldn't let anybody set foot on it."
When Carlson died in the late 1980s, Mandel decided to expand ranch operations to include fishing on the property's four lakes. Three of the four had originally been dug as cattle watering holes, and were subsequently enlarged to accommodate a stock of fish.
Over time the ranch's cow-and-calf trade has dwindled. "At my age I figured that was a little too much," says Mandel, "so now I just lease out the grazing to a number of my friends in the cattle business."
The fishing and recreation aspects, however, are chugging along nicely. The Cross D Bar features an RV park and guest cabins. Activities for guests on the ranch include hiking and mountain biking. Rafting, horseback riding, golf, tennis, swimming, and mountain climbing are available nearby and can be booked through the ranch. Mandel hires retired couples from "hot states" such as Texas and Mississippi to help run the operation from Memorial Day through Labor Day. There is also a ranch manager and his wife on site.
In 1989, Mandel created the Cross D Bar Recreation Foundation, designed to serve the elderly and disabled. Working with volunteers from local chapters of Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Fly Fishers, and in cooperation with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the foundation hosts a number of outdoor events each year. Developmentally disabled individuals, area nursing home residents and disabled Armed Forces veterans from nearby Fort Carson take advantage of these programs.
"Over the lifetime of the foundation we have serviced more than 35 institutions and organizations," Mandel notes proudly. At present, the future of the Cross D Bar Trout Ranch is something of an unknown. Mandel, who is still active on the boards of several small oil companies, ceded ownership of the ranch to his children about a decade ago. He has gone over all their options, including slimming down operations or taking an environmental easement, which would protect the property from development.
"The sentiment that I get is they don't want to sell it," says Mandel. The tone of his voice hints that keeping the ranch open—in perpetuity—would suit this oil man turned cattle rancher turned entrepreneur and philanthropist just fine.

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The Global E-waste Monitor 2017 reports that, "All the countries in the world combined generated a staggering 44.7 million metric tonnes (Mt), or an equivalent of 6.1 kilogram per inhabitant (kg/inh), of e-waste annually in 2016, compared to the 5.8 kg/inh generated in 2014. This is close to 4,500 Eiffel Towers each year. The amount of e-waste is expected to increase to 52.2 million metric tonnes, or 6.8 kg/inh, by 2021."
The average amount of annual e-waste per person in the world is forecast to grow 11.5% from 2016 to 2021. This compares to 5.2% from 2014 to 2016. Per capita growth appears to be slowing, but an increasing population will drive e-waste growth 16.8% from 2016 to 20121.
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Many individual countries from all regions generated more e-waste per inhabitant than does Europe as a whole. We count sixteen countries that generate 20+ kg/inh annually.


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An ACAT assessment is an incredibly straightforward process and is nothing to be nervous or worried about. One of the ACAT team will visit you and ask you questions that pertain to how well you manage in your daily life. We can be there with you, if you'd like a little extra support.
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Vote Fraud Revealed...
News Hawk Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:19 am
MIAMI (CBSMiami/The Miami Herald) — One of Congressman Joe Garcia's former chief of staff is going to jail for orchestrating a fraudulent, online absentee-ballot request.
The crime took place during last year's elections, according to CBS4 news partner, The Miami Herald.
Jeffrey Garcia, 41, no relation to Congressman Garcia, will spend 90 days in jail as part of a plea deal he reached with the Miami-Dade state attorney's office, the paper reported.
The deal, which is expected to be inked Monday, will require Garcia to plead guilty to requesting absentee ballots on behalf of voters, which is a felony.
Prosecutors said phony ballot requests were submitted by Jeffrey Garcia on behalf of unsuspecting voters and without their permission.
In February, the Herald reported almost 500 of the August 2012 primary ballot requests in Garcia's congressional district were able to be traced through Internet Protocol addresses in Miami.
Investigators reopened their probe after the Herald report.
Florida elections law prohibits anyone other than voters or their immediate family members from submitting online ballot requests.
Continuing the investigation, the Herald reported, in June, Jeffrey Garcia might have secretly funded bogus tea party candidate Jose Rolando "Roly" Arrojo in 2010 to siphon conservative votes from Republican David Rivera.
Rivera lost to him in 2012.
The FBI is now investigating Jeffrey Garcia and Arrojo, the paper reported.
Rivera is also under criminal investigation for his possible ties to another ringer candidate, Democrat Justin Lamar Sternad, who ran against Garcia in 2012 and has pleaded guilty to federal campaign-finance crimes.
Rivera and Garcia denied connection to the phony candidates.
Garcia has not been implicated in the absentee-ballot scheme. The congressman did not respond to the paper's requests for comment Sunday.
In May, Jeffrey Garcia was fired as chief of staff. The firing came after investigators raided the homes of the cousin of Giancarlo Sopo, the congressman's communications director, and the family of John Estes, the congressman's 2012 campaign manager.
Garcia admitted he had directed the others to submit the online ballot requests, the paper reported. Sopo was placed on unpaid leave, then resigned in July.
After Garcia's dismissal, investigators searched the home of a staffer for then-Miami mayoral candidate Francis Suarez in an unrelated case. That staffer, Juan Pablo Baggini, submitted ballot requests on behalf of 20 voters and it was determined the voters had given Suarez's campaign permission to do so.
Baggini and Esteban "Steve" Suarez, the campaign's manager, received probation in August. Francis Suarez, a sitting city commissioner, dropped out of the race a few days later.
In December, State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle convened a grand jury that managed to reveal the Miami-Dade elections department had flagged thousands of fraudulent online ballot requests, due to an apparent computer hacker during last year's elections.
Another analysis by CBS4 news partner, The Miami Herald, found 2,552 requests had been made over a 2 ½-week period during the summer.
Origins of most of them were masked by foreign IP addresses.
However, 472 of them targeted many Democratic voters in Garcia's congressional district and had come from IP addresses in Miami.
Prosecutors said they linked those addresses to Estes and Sopo. They had apparently recruited his friends, sister and cousin to plug in voters' personal information into online request forms.
In September, the results of an internal review conducted by an attorney and political donor cleared the rest of Congressman Garcia's staff of any involvement in the absentee-ballot requests.
( 2013 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald contributed material for this report.)
The masters of playing chess—while the Republicans play checkers.
(Don't bother looking for the party: it's not in this Miami Herald article).
Re: Vote Fraud Revealed...
fshnski Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:32 am
This is why we need a pictured voter ID!
WHL Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:18 am
Yes we do!!!!!
fshnski Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:56 am
The Democrats should get their butts in gear. They have plenty of time to make sure all voters have a picture ID.
News Hawk Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:39 pm
fshnski wrote: The Democrats should get their butts in gear. They have plenty of time to make sure all voters have a picture ID.
NOT A CHANCE!
Starting with Motor-Voter, they're the ones responsible for "expanding" the vote—starting with drivers licenses for Illegals in the 80's.
"Seemed like a good idea at the time"
fshnski Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:47 pm
I think the Democrats will support the photo ID law. By doing that they will finally put to rest the accusations of voter fraud, plus they can use those IDs to document all their taxpayers.
News Hawk Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:45 am
fshnski wrote: I think the Democrats will support the photo ID law. By doing that they will finally put to rest the accusations of voter fraud, plus they can use those IDs to document all their taxpayers.
What Democrats would those be?
Even Snopes says 100% votes for Obama in 59 precincts—and none for Romney—is true.
"...It is true that 59 voting divisions in Philadelphia recorded no votes for Mitt Romney..."
Nobody made a mistake?
Also, from Snopes:
" • In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama did lose in every state that required all voters to provide photo ID."
WHL Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:38 am
Yes and only the liberals believe Snopes, NH. Everybody else knows that Snopes is just another member of the drive by media.
a voter fraud felon at a recent "voting rights" rally in Ohio...
News Hawk Sat Apr 12, 2014 10:24 am
Why do they call themselves "Democrats"?
Why did Democrats applaud the loathsome community organizer Melowese Richardson, a freshly released, unrepentant voter fraud felon, at a recent "voting rights" rally in Ohio?
Because, like Richardson, they believe they are entitled to vote more than once against a system they see as unjust. Some serial voters do what they do in order to exact revenge against a society they feel did them or their ancestors wrong. Richardson is far from alone. Double-voting is distressingly common.
Many leftists have contempt for the electoral process because they don't believe in the electoral system as it is constituted in capitalist America. To them, elections are already a fraud – an instrument of the rich, or as Saul Alinsky prefers to call them, the Haves. If the electoral system doesn't serve "the people," but is only an instrument of the Haves..."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/voter_fraud_the_lefts_tool_for_social_justice.html
News Hawk Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:20 pm
Too few understand how dire our situation really is.
Freedom cannot survive the course on which we have embarked.
Freedom cannot survive the promises that have been made.
Freedom cannot survive when a majority view the problem (Government) as the solution (growth of Government).
Voter fraud is a symptom of the real problem.
WHL Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:24 pm
I know. Gov. is not the solution.
3,000 Florida Votes from a UPS store?
News Hawk Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:42 am
Still more...
"Voter Fraud?
If they're not catching the easy stuff, what else are they "missing"? Are some of Florida's Supervisors of Elections skirting the law? Supervisors are tasked with maintaining an accurate voter roll. One of the requirements on the Supervisors is to ensure that voters provide a legal residence address. Yet a December 2013 analysis shows more than 3,000 voter registrations statewide listing their residence address at a UPS store, potentially illegally.
Florida Law is clear and, with minor exception, requires that voter registrations listing other than an address of legal residence should not be accepted, because they are "ineligible"..."
Still more, including three of the biggest Florida Counties...
According to the report, of the 67 counties in Florida, 38 were clean. The majority of the "unclean" counties have said they're working on it. But three counties have not responded at all or weakly: Broward, Orange and Hillsborough. Prentice says Broward county receives the "here's your sign" award with fully 40 percent of the 3,000 potentially ineligible records, and simply responding "they're in process."
Note: Broward represents only about 10 percent of the total state population.
Hat tip to Gregg Prentice for doing this research. He truly deserves recognition as a "Guardian of the Republic." And in order to preserve this Republic, we will need many more Guardians. I challenge others to do the same in their state as Gregg has done here for us in Florida. "In a universe of deceit, truth becomes a revolutionary act" — and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
—allenbwest.com
News Hawk Tue May 27, 2014 5:56 pm
Evelyn E. Burwell's family was surprised to learn she voted in the 2012 general and primary elections. They knew she was an avid voter, but she's been dead since 1997.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/new-yorker-votes-14-times-after-death/
Her name is still on the rolls, and is still voting.
Someone is voting in her name—in her place!
WHL Tue May 27, 2014 6:02 pm
Does she vote Democrat?
News Hawk Wed May 28, 2014 2:29 pm
The city has taken efforts to prevent her from voting in the future:
Nearly 2 Million Dead Are Listed as Active Voters...!
News Hawk Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:58 pm
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Dutch company subject to Canadian income tax under central management and control test, court rules
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Article originally published in MNE Tax, August 2018.
Excerpt from "Dutch company subject to Canadian income tax under central management and control test, court rules":
A Netherlands-incorporated company whose sole director was resident in the Netherlands was nevertheless resident in Canada for income tax purposes because the company's central management and control was exercised by its two Canadian-resident shareholders, Canada's Tax Court ruled on July 24.
As such, the Court, in Landbouwbedrijf Backx B.V. v. The Queen (2018 TCC 142), concluded that the company was subject to Canadian income tax on its capital gains.
The case is a useful reminder that, subject to any applicable treaty rules on tax residency, foreign-incorporated companies seeking to avoid Canadian income taxation on their worldwide income should ensure that all significant management decisions are made outside of Canada.


If last year is anything to go by, 2018 is set to be packed with more ground-breaking research from the Faculty of Medicine.
But with all of the work put into securing funding, recruiting for trials, collecting data, lengthy analysis – let alone the back-and-forth of the peer-review process – it can be hard to find the time to publicise your work outside of your peers. However, it really is worth making that investment.
When the time is right, the College press office is here to help you get the word out about your research. The team includes former journalists and public relations experts with strong scientific backgrounds, a wealth of communications expertise, and most of all, an understanding of the news cycle and how the media works.
Imperial College London was the host of Eurohaptics 2016, the main international European conference for researchers in haptics and touch-enabled computer applications. The conference was held at South Kensington over 4-7 July 2016 and was organised by Imperial College London in partnership with University College London, University of Reading, University of Bristol and University of Birmingham.
Eurohaptics 2016 was a great opportunity for researchers – drawn from disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology and robotics – to meet and present their work with the goal of improving understanding of the sense of touch from a physiological and perceptual perspective, devising new haptic devices and investigating better ways of controlling and interacting with them.
Haptics is a growing field, with awareness amongst the wider public also on the rise thanks to the increasing use of haptic technology in mobile devices. Eurohaptics 2016 included public-focused evening events at the Royal Society and Royal Institution.
Imperial College's Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science (ICCESS) played a leading role in the conference, with Centre Director Dr Fernando Bello as both Programme co-Chair and local co-Chair, and Dr Alejandro Granados-Martinez showcasing the haptic rectal examination trainer he has developed. His innovative device attracted a great deal of media coverage over the conference period, with articles in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Vice Magazine, to name a few.
Keynote speakers at Eurohaptics 2016 included Professor Stephen Brewster (University of Glasgow), Dr Henrik Jörntell (Lund University, Sweden) and Professor Blake Hannaford (University of Washington, USA), who acknowledged challenges in the design of haptic devices and how we could improve this by studying brain circuitry during tactile skin sensing and by enhancing the way we interact with them.
Eurohaptics 2016 was attended by nearly 400 delegates from 26 countries and was therefore the largest event in the history of the conference.
Read about the rectal examination trainer on the Daily Telegraph website.
Listen to Guardian Science Weekly podcast on haptics featuring Dr Fernando Bello.
Dr Michael Johnson's (Department of Medicine) research into genetic networks for cognition (Nature Neuroscience) was featured in the Guardian, Telegraph and Daily Mail.
Dr Tony Goldstone's (Department of Medicine) new study into gut hormones and cravings was featured in international media including the Daily Mail, and the team have received various requests from broadcasters.
Dr Oliver Ratmann (School of Public Health) was featured in BuzzFeed US, discussing his latest Science Translational Medicine paper into HIV transmission.
If you would like to discuss media work around upcoming publications or projects please contact Kate Wighton.


This month I'm going back to my roots for this blog by focusing on finding everyday delights for my 365 project and I'm using my usual Weekend Coffee Share slot to share these photos as I don't really have much to share this week. But you can still grab a cup of your favourite hot brew and join me.
"Be observant" is one of my Happiness Resolutions, so I'm looking to find something every day that makes me stop, notice and perhaps pause for thought: a great piece of design, a quirky object, something that I might be grateful for, something wondrous, something mundane. I'm also dabbling in some vintage style post-processing – its been so long since I 'played' like this and I need it!
If you'd like to join me, please do – the more the merrier! Post a photo, or a story and a photo – it's up to you. I'd really love to have you along for the journey. Use the tag #EverydayDelights, pop a link to your post in the comments or create a pingback to this post.
Here's my first week of everyday delights. There are also a few hidden square shots in here for Becky's Square September with an "In the Pink" theme.
I have no idea what this plant is, but I liked the shapes of the buds. I also did a little bit of editing with backgrounds on this one to indulge my love of playing with photos.
I spotted this neglected fountain in the back garden of a local restaurant. Looks like it hasn't functioned for years.
My most consistent everyday delight – writing Morning Pages, I started writing these in December last year. These are the A4 books I use for my morning pages – I've already filled 4! The fifth and newest one is at the top of the pile. Heaven's knows how many I will fill if I continue doing this!
My watercolour pencils are just asking to be used, which I did over the weekend – nothing special, just colouring in one of those adult colouring books.
Butterflies move so fast but if you wait long enough, they will settle again. Catching one on 'film' (for want of a better word!), unblurred and in focus is an everyday delight for me! The first for Becky's Square September.
A colleague bought me a bunch of proteas for my birthday. I do love doing close-ups of them because they have strong patterns and gorgeous colours. I didn't have to go far to find today's everyday delight. The second for Becky's Square September.
This photo was not part of my main everyday delights theme, but for the 52-week challenge which I have done on and off this year. In its 3rd year, the challenge is conceptualised and hosted by Dogwood Photography and has been created by photographers with the idea of pushing themselves further in their photographic journey. Each week they cycle through 5 categories (Vision, Composition, Technical, Creative and Wild Card) and provide a prompt to work from.
This week was a Vision category (designed to push you to go beyond sight, to insight; to take inspiration and make it a reality. Vision exists in your imagination and is revealed your photographs; expressing something otherwise invisible. Developing a Vision for your work is showing others what you see in your mind's eye) and the prompt was Ordinary' (Find beauty in the ordinary).
Well, that was a gauntlet if ever I saw one! That's what this blog is all about. So I chose this wall as my photo – I'm a sucker for peeling paint and loved the patterns the cracks made here.
What's your favourite from this week's selection?
Perhaps you could share one of your favourite photos from this week?
Hey Becky, thanks for reading and commenting so quickly. You must have so many to get to! I really appreciate it.


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Q: Network manager accidentally purge I accidentally purge network-manager. .
So Although I try sudo apt install network-manager failed to fetch error occure cause I don't have Internet now.
Pls help me How should I do to get my network-manager and Internet.

A: You can add your installation medium as a software source, and then install the missing package. A step wise explanation of how you can temporarily set up your installation medium as the software source is provided as an answer to another question.
Another technical option would be to try connecting to the network via the terminal. Then you could install the missing package. That will only work if you did not remove more essential system packages required for networking.
However, by far the easiest option in case your technical linux skills are still too limited is just a reinstall. While the system is still functional,make sure the backup of your own user data is up to date. Then reinstall - it is easy to do and will take less than an hour.

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Give yourself extra peace of mind with some simple tips on hotel security.
Every time you leave the room put on the do not disturb sign on your door knob, housekeeping won't come but either will thieves.
Turn on the television just loud enough to hear it through the door every time you leave.
Leave at least one light on inside the room every time you leave.
Never fill out the breakfast order doorknob hanger card. This card lists your name your phone number and how many people are in the room and what time you expect someone to knock on the door.
Always request a room on the upper floor.
Always leave the deadbolt lock on.
Only stay in hotels with electronic card access.
Make sure your door always has a peep hole.
And my best advice is to never be embarrassed to ask for help. If things look dicey outside, use the bellman to walk you to your car. You are far more likely to be mugged in the parking lot than in the room.


An earlier blog entry noted how we have created five broad and interconnected categories: How We Grow, Getting Around in the City, Health and Safety, Quality of Life, and Civic Engagement and Governance, and right now we want to focus in on getting around in the city.
This summer, members of the OurWinnipeg review team attended festivals and community events, asking people share their vision for Winnipeg. Everywhere we went, we heard that people want a reliable transportation network, regardless of whether they travel by foot, car, bus, or bicycle. We also learned that transportation network planning and maintenance is a key concern. In fact, just over half of the people we spoke with said something about this topic! So it is clear that transportation networks are a key piece of city building, which must be carefully planned for and designed.
Ensuring neighbourhoods are designed so pedestrians can walk or bike to destinations like schools and grocery stores is one thing that the City can do to help people get from one place to another relatively quickly. Allowing for higher density development that includes and can support amenities like shops and services is another way. But of course we are still largely dependent on motor vehicles. The City recently established a real-time Transportation Management Centre, and continues to work on rapid transit. In addition, more driving technologies (driverless cars, electric vehicles) seem to be just around the corner!
So how can this review help the City of Winnipeg make (or improve) policies to help people get to their destinations? We want your feedback. This two-page summary will give you some background information. After you read it, please fill out this questionnaire to let us know what your vision is for getting around in Winnipeg.


Recent communications with the Business Development Specialist looking after the Suffolk Better Broadband Programme at Suffolk County Council has revealed some interesting potential progress regarding Lackford gaining more reliable, and hopefully faster broadband.
What follows are a number of statements made in recent communications. We will all need to wait until July at the earliest to know for sure whether Lackford will receive fast broadband, and then it may take a further year or so for any upgrades to go ahead.
I personally think this is a positive sign. In the meantime, please do keep registering interest for fast broadband with your current supplier. Also, should your current broadband be lower than 1.5 – 2.0 Mbps then please do ask your supplier why. Many houses in our village get at least these speeds, so everyone else should also.
The Suffolk Better Broadband Programme has secured government funding (£11.68m) and SCC funding (£11.68m) to intervene in the broadband market in Suffolk. Under existing commercial activity, BT and Virgin Media served around 60% of Suffolk premises with fiber broadband. However, there was no commercial appetite to serve the remaining 40% of Suffolk, which were the more dispersed areas which were harder to reach and hence represented a weaker case for investment. We have used our funding to extend the fiber coverage from 60% up to around 90%, and also provide an underpinning commitment to provide at least 2Mbps to everyone by the end of 2015.
The roll-out programme is progressing extremely well. We are currently at around 26,000 premises passed. This is ahead of target by around three months.
By Autumn 2015, we will have served 100,000 premises, giving a total coverage in Suffolk of 90% fibre, and an underpinning commitment that 100% will get at least 2Mbps.
Phase one is completed. Phase two is underway, and phase three will be surveyed in the coming few weeks.
Areas which have gone live are published via the email alerts, and the website is up to date showing the coverage information.
A newsletter is being developed which will be based around the previous newsletters but also include detailed coverage information for current and next quarters of deployment.
We have secured an offer of additional funding to push coverage from our current 90% fiber target up towards 95%. We are currently leading the process nationally to spend this funding. Local match will be required. We expect to announce additional coverage June / July. We won't stop seeking funding and raising our coverage targets until everyone in Suffolk has the connection they need.
Lackford is served from a green street cabinet located on the junction of Old Bury Rd and the main Mildenhall Road. At the moment, our funding did not stretch to include this cabinet in our roll-out plan. That is to say that it is in the 10% of the county which is not subject to a fibre upgrade, but is absolutely subject to our minimum commitment of at least 2Mbps by September next year.
However, the better news is that we have now secured additional funding, with which we are seeking to add additional fibre coverage to Suffolk, pushing fiber coverage across the county up to the mid nineties. We hope that this will provide for an upgrade for the Lackford green cabinet, bringing fiber broadband and hence excellent coverage into the village. In terms of timescales for this, we are aiming to sign a contract for the additional coverage in July this year. At that point we will know for sure if and when we will get fiber to Lackford (and in doing so deliver something much better than 2Mbps!).
The extra coverage which Lackford requires should run in parallel with the end of the existing roll-out, and also continue into mid 2016, so we wont know for sure until July.
As many of you may know, Suffolk County Council (SCC) and central government have funded the Better a Broadband for Suffolk Programme, contracting with BT to build a brand new super fast broadband network across the county. Once the programme is completed in 2015, 90% of Suffolk premises will be served by fibre optic based broadband (as opposed to the old copper lines we currently have), and the remaining 10% will have varying speeds between 2Mbps and 24Mbps.
Full details of the scheme can be found on their website at http://www.betterbroadbandsuffolk.com.
According to their line check page it appears that Lackford should be getting faster broadband in the first part of 2014, although there are no specific details yet on exact timings or the actual speed we will get.
I would recommend everyone registers their interest on the website to show we are keen and to stay up to date with progress. It is also worth asking your current internet provider (ISP) about fibre broadband in Lackford and register your interest through them.
All profits from the event will be split 50/50 and donated to the Lackford Church and Focus on Africa charities (see below). Donations of Salads and Raffle Prizes welcome.
Focus on Africa is a small charity which raises money to improve the quality of life for people where we can in Kenya. Some of the money that was raised last year was used to install electricity into an orphanage, to install water into another and to replace a roof of a school which had been ripped off in storm damage. The charity also purchase school books and provide the occasional party for children. Each year, a team of 10/12 people from all walks of life go to Kenya to physically do the work or oversee work being done. Every penny raised is used in Kenya.
The church of St Lawrence, Lackford is a fine old building but has a few problems in the tower which need attention. The church also has no toilet facilities or easily heated meeting space for the community, so we want to raise some money to provide these facilities.
If you feel you would like to help with these charities and at the same time have a fantastic evening out, then join us at the Lackford Ceilidh on 30th June.


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Q: What does "command" mean? I dont understand what does this programme does :
if command -v apt-get > /dev/null; then
dpkg-query -W -f='...'

i dont understand how the command : "command" works

A: There are different ways to do things in the shell.

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*The default is to execute shell builtins.

*Next commands (binaries, scripts, etc; basically something external to the shell) are looked up in the directories listed in the PATH variable.

*This is followed by aliases. These are reusable abbreviations to commands, you can think of them as a way to save typing.  They are usually defined in the shell's rc files.  For example I have this defined in my ~/.bashrc: alias lt='ls --color=tty -lhtr'; it lets me type only lt to get a reverse sorted list of files (newest at the bottom).

*More complex commands can be grouped into shell functions.
The command command is a shell builtin that allows you to bypass any functions that might also match a binary in your PATH, or any aliases.  Say I use rsync frequently between specific hosts, so I wrote a function called rsync that includes the destination with all the options, allowing me to type less.  However if I want to run rsync with a different destination, I could use command rsync <other rsync options> to bypass the function definition.  Note that aliases are not bypassed; this is relevant if you are using command interactively.  You can find the documentation in the builtin page linked above, or by typing help command

A: See man bash or help command in bash for help:

Runs COMMAND with ARGS suppressing  shell function lookup, ...

The if checks whether there is a command apt-get; if there is a function apt-get, it's ignored.


To print white paper (or plain paper) forms, receipts, and reports from Frazer, an officejet, laserjet, or inkjet printer is recommended. Many white paper forms are in a PDF format and cannot be printed on a dot matrix printer.
Pre-printed and multi-part forms can only be printed on a dot matrix printer. The brand of printer compatible with the Frazer software is Okidata.
*** We provide support for several models of the Okidata printer including: ML 320, ML 321, ML 420, ML 421, ML 520, and ML 521. The most common are the Microline 320 Turbo or the Microline 321 Turbo.
*** The printer MUST have the option to go into IBM Pro Printer mode for it to be programmed to work with Frazer. Most models with four digit model numbers are not compatible with Frazer, with the exception of the Okidata 3410. The Okidata 1120 will go into IBM mode, however, it does not accommodate the longer forms properly despite selected menu settings.
***If you are not sure if the printer you are considering is compatible with Frazer, please call 888-963-5369 or email help@frazer.biz.


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Ken Jones is a fine artist and Illustrator with over 20 years of experience in art and art education. He has applied his knowledge of art and design to many industries including comic book illustration, set design, product design, fine art and three-dimensional media. Ken has exhibited his work in galleries all over California and across the country.
2017 Its all in the Numbers, First Floor Gallery, Santa Clarita,
2015 Solo Exhibition, California State University Northridge Art Gallery, Northridge, CA
2014 Superheroes and Villains, Carter Sexton Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2013: There is a hole, Diana C. Munoz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 L.A. Open Call, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park
Lecturer, Roski School of Art and Design
Lecturer, California State University, Northridge
Instructor, Otis College of Art and Design
Instructor, UCLA Extension
Writer and Illustrator, Thrasher Comics
Environment Painter, Binder Entertainment
California State University Northridge, Bachelor of Arts in Two-Dimensional Media
California State University Los Angeles, Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing


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A review of my cat Snacks
☞ Reviews
We landed on the name "Snacks" well before we had a cat—or even agreed to get one. Pet nomenclature is a matter of some gravity, even if the name is meaningless to the animal.
Human names are completely inappropriate. Imagine a cockatiel named "Hartley" or a schnauzer named "Marybeth." Disgusting. Cross-species naming should be avoided also. Don't name your dog "chicken." It's not cute, and it suggests to others that you may be deficient in intelligence or taste. The naming of cats in particular (not to be jellicle about it) requires somewhat more care; I am now certain that a cat does understand its name and will use that knowledge to mess with your head.
Snacks would turn out to be a domestic shorthair with a tuxedo coat. Though she dresses like Diane Keaton, she lacks the actress's confidence and verve. When Snacks first emerged from her carrier, she scurried for the nearest corner and stayed there, unmoving, for four days. Snacks is the proverbial 'fraidy cat.
Snacks is also a vocal cat, which I like because I am a pretty vocal cat myself. She has a chiptuned squeak of a mew, which can signal "hello," "excuse me," and "when's lunch?" Now, in spite of her dope and carefully considered appellation, Snacks isn't much interested in light, intra-meal fare. She cares only for hearty globs of the wet stuff, and will eat as much of it as she can get. Every now and then, she's convinced me to feed her after she's already been fed. Snacks is a little bit greedy.
I am loathe to body shame my pet, but she's a chonkers. It's pointless to deny it. It's not just the primordial pouch; she thicc. This would not be an issue if Snacks was active, but she is perhaps the most sedentary cat. She does not play. She has rejected most of the toys procured for her. She will feign interest in a particular rainbow-colored ribbon of felt, but only for a moment, and you must deliver the swirling ribbon to within inches of her paw. She's not about to come to you.
Impressively, Snacks will chase a ball and retrieve it! But after a few rounds, without realizing it, you will find yourself playing fetch with yourself; demonstrating how to collect a foam ball to a cat who has long since moved on.
You can't push her too much. Snacks tolerates one new idea at a time, and she has taught me to be more methodical in my approach to living things. With patience I unlocked the precise sequence of long strokes along her back that makes Snacks melt into a feline puddle on your lap. (Provided it's before 11am. In the afternoon she'll be skeptical, and by twilight she's downright surly.)
Nevertheless, Snacks has persisted. She has grown from the nervous nelly who rounded every unknown corner with dread so many months ago. Snacks' pattern is not too far removed from the human condition: a journey from abject fear, through trepidation, occasional ennui, doses of mindless consumption, and ultimately, to the warm surrender of familiarity and love.


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PHP – Web Developer
Software2 Limited
Up to £35,000 DOE Plus Benefits
ACGOA3007/LB-RD
Sherburn in Elmet, Nr Leeds, West Yorkshire
We are Software2, an exciting EdTech company who are making waves in our industry. On a mission to make the student experience even more awesome, we provide award-winning technology solutions to the higher education market.
We're pushing the limits of what's possible in application delivery and have created AppsAnywhere, the first and most comprehensive frontend app store for software delivery. We've also remodelled the user experience in higher education software access and now, we're looking for Web Developer to join our team and continue our ground-breaking work.
You'll find us in our converted pub in the village of Sherburn in Elmet just a short distance from Leeds and easily commutable via the M1.
As a Web Developer, you'll be:
- Developing exciting new features and capabilities for our products
- Working on products and software variations for new and existing markets
- Contributing to the wider product
- Participating in planning, design, QA testing and daily stand-ups
- Playing your part in the full development lifecycle of the product
- Getting involved in all aspects of development, from design right through to deployment
- Undertaking unit and integration testing
- Taking responsibility for the full technology stack related to the product
Interested? If so, you will need:
- Experience with PHP
- Experience with HTML5 and/or SCSS, JavaScript, Vue, Zend Framework and Looker
- A track record of moving a tech stack forward and an understanding of programming fundamentals
- Experience of software development, methodologies and principles
- Experience of creating software or components from scratch
- An understanding of the principles behind unit testing, and writing testable code
- A degree in software engineering or computer science with some level of personal or industry experience OR a strong background of industry experience and detailed references or demonstrable past work
- An insatiable thirst for knowledge
- A passion for programming and problem solving with a knack for the finer details
Good knowledge of SQL, with a general understanding of RDBMS, would be beneficial to your application. An understanding of version control concepts and best practices, specifically Git and GitFlow, would also be an advantage.
Other companies may call this role PHP Developer, Full Stack Developer, Full Stack PHP Developer, Software Developer, PHP Programmer, Software Programmer, Back End Developer, Backend PHP Developer, or Backend Programmer.
But what's in it for you?
- Benefits package including contributed pension, private healthcare and life cover (amongst others)
- Unlimited holiday (as long as your work is done, subject to conditions)
- Work from a converted pub which includes a bar and darts
- Join a fun, relaxed atmosphere
- Have the freedom to complete independent work
A few fascinating facts about us:
- We were founded in 2009 and went global in 2018
- We've got offices in four countries and customers in more than 20
- Currently our user base stands at over 1.5 million (students and staff) at over 150 educational institutions
- We're experiencing phenomenal 20% year-on-year growth
Software2 believes entirely and whole-heatedly in people, and that diversity in people is essential for progress, growth, education and team cohesion. We've taken great pride and care to build a diverse and versatile team and are committed to continuing to do so.
To apply for the role of Web Developer (PHP), please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
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At U.S. Open, Williams-Osaka reverberations are felt a year later
NEW YORK — As the start of the 2019 U.S. Open approaches, the indelible image from last year's tournament does not involve a particularly remarkable shot or a champion holding a trophy.
Instead, it is, and likely forever will remain, Serena Williams pointing her index finger at chair umpire Carlos Ramos while insisting that he owed her an apology after they clashed during the women's final.
The tenor of that match between Williams — who then was, and currently is, seeking a 24th Grand Slam singles trophy — and Naomi Osaka — whose terrific performance during a 6-2, 6-4 victory largely was ignored amid the chaos that enveloped Arthur Ashe Stadium that day — shifted after Ramos warned Williams for receiving a coaching signal from the stands and devolved from there. She eventually was docked a point and, later, a game — and afterward, was fined $17,000.
Almost a full 12 months later, with first-round play beginning Monday at Flushing Meadows, the ramifications of that 1-hour, 19-minute contest still reverberate, including this: Ramos will not officiate matches involving Serena Williams or her older sister, Venus.
"We've decided that there are over 900 other matches and Carlos, for 2019, will not be in the chair for a Williams sisters match," U.S. Tennis Association executive Stacey Allaster said. "We want the attention of the competition to be on the athletes."
Naomi Osaka's terrific performance was largely ignored amid the chaos that enveloped Arthur Ashe Stadium after Serena Williams (right) argued with chair umpire Carlos Ramos.
Photo: Adam Hunger / Associated Press
Among the key story lines that carry over: Serena Williams, also the runner-up at Wimbledon each of the past two years, is trying to equal Margaret Court's mark for most major singles championships. Osaka, who added her second Slam title at the Australian Open in January, returns to New York ranked No. 1 — and dealing with knee discomfort that forced her withdrawal from a tournament last week.
What's more, the tennis world is filled with ongoing discussions and debates about such matters as the proper role of chair umpires, the way the code of conduct is constructed and, maybe above all, whether in-match coaching should be permitted everywhere.
On that last subject, there are those who would like to see it, such as the USTA itself — which lobbied, to no avail so far, the folks who run the other majors to approve coaching — or Williams' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, who acknowledged right after last year's final that he was attempting to communicate with his player and also noted, correctly, that surreptitious coaching happens all the time and goes unpunished.
Said Allaster: "I understand it's polarizing, but ultimately, we have to look at how tennis competes and is relevant. … Access is a key part of it; engagement with fans that want to hear from the players and coaches."
Said Mouratoglou: "I have never understood why tennis is just about the only sport in which coaching during matches is not allowed."
There are others, such as Roger Federer or the person in charge of Wimbledon, who think it goes against the very fabric of the game.
"I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't have coaching in tennis," Federer said. "It's what actually makes our sport unique."
Said All England Club executive chairman Richard Lewis: "Most of the men have said they're against it. A lot of coaches have said they're against it. There's a lot of people — Wimbledon, as much as anybody — who feel that tennis is very special because it is a gladiatorial contest. … You're on your own."
It's a topic that hangs over the season's last major, even if there are plenty of results-related questions for the hard-court tournament's two weeks:
How healthy is Serena Williams, who withdrew from two events because of back spasms? Can Osaka make another deep run? Will Wimbledon champion Simona Halep get past the semifinals at the only Slam where she hasn't? How will 15-year-old Coco Gauff follow up her run at Wimbledon? Can Federer, defending champ Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal make it 12 major titles in a row for the Big Three? Might a 20-something man finally break through?
None of that, though, is fraught with the greater significance of a possible rule change. As things stand, there is nothing consistent about coaching, a reflection of the each-week-is-different situation in a sport without a commissioner or a single rule book.
"I wish (men and women) had coaching," said Sam Querrey, a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2017, "and you could talk to your coach whenever you want."
Grand Slam tournaments do not allow coaching, for male or female players, in main-draw matches, although the U.S. Open began trying it for qualifying and juniors in 2017.
The International Tennis Federation does allow it for Davis Cup and Fed Cup matches, even letting coaches sit courtside.
The ATP doesn't allow it for tournaments on the men's professional circuit.
Yet the WTA does let coaches come down out of the stands to talk to players during changeovers, something that was ushered in more than a decade ago — when Allaster was the CEO of the women's tour.
"Either have it everywhere or nowhere," 2016 U.S. Open runner-up Karolina Pliskova said, "but I prefer nowhere."
Howard Fendrich is an Associated Press writer.
This post was originally posted at https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/At-U-S-Open-Williams-Osaka-reverberations-are-14375307.php.
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5 stars across 61 books
Astrid Lindgren was born in Sweden in 1907. During the course of her life she wrote over 40 books for children. She once commented: 'I write to amuse the child within me, and can only hope that other children may have some fun that way too.' Many of her stories are based upon her memories of childhood, and filled with lively and unconventional characters. Perhaps the best known is Pippi Longstocking, first published in Sweden in 1945. It was an immediate success with children, and was later published in England in 1954. During her lifetime, Lindgren was awarded dozens of Swedish and international prizes for her writing, among them the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen medal in 1958: widely considered the ultimate accolade for an author of children's books. In 1989 a theme park dedicated to her - Astrid Lindgren's World - was opened in the author's home town of Vimmerby. She died in 2002.
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Spread and Scale of a Polypharmacy App to Improve Health Outcomes of Older Adults Living in New Brunswick Nursing Homes
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Jenna welcomes the team working on a deprescribing pilot project to the show. The project's Research Coordinators Cody Davenport and Marc-Éric Nadeau accompany Justine Henry — executive director at CIRA — as well as project lead Dr. Emily MacDonald from McGill University in a discussion on the impacts of polypharmacy and the benefits of deprescription in older adults.
We're all aging, and everyone's talking about it!
[:40] Jenna welcomes today's guests and starts off the conversation with Justine Henry on an overview of who CIRA is and what they do.
[3:07] Dr. MacDonald breaks down what Polypharmacy is and how it has evolved in the past decade.
[4:13] Cody talks about the MedReviewer app and how it works in conjunction with MedSafer in order to begin decreasing potentially inappropriate or damaging prescriptions for older adults.
[7:15] This web app is designed to be used by healthcare professionals, doctors, pharmacists, etc. Marc-Éric explains the training required to use the app.
[10:00] Dr. MacDonald touches on the potential harms of taking a lot of different medications.
[12:54] Dr. MacDonald talks about how MedReviewer addresses the issues that previous approaches for addressing polypharmacy left behind.
[14:41] Cody and Marc-Éric share what community partners have gotten involved as well as the ones that partnered to develop the app itself.
[16:00] Patient safety in general as well as for deprescription is a primary concern; Dr. MacDonald speaks to the importance of assessment and how the app addresses this.
[18:24] The future of MedReviewer and the team's hope for polypharmacy. Justine Henry shares plans for the future of the pilot project.
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How will artificial intelligence affect the job landscape in the next 5 to 10 years? originally appeared on Quora and republished by Huffington Post.
I'm happy you asked this question because it is certainly on many peoples' minds. Let me start by addressing the question with respect to the cybersecurity industry and then give a broader perspective.
Based on a recent study by (ISC)2, over the next five years, the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs will rise to 1.8 million, a 20 percent increase from 2015 estimates. Yikes. And that only accounts for positions budgeted by companies. In reality, the number could be 4, 5, maybe as high as 10 times that amount! Why? There are simply not enough people for the security roles that are needed, and no way to train sufficient numbers to keep up with the ever-growing dangers. The cybersecurity industry is constrained by its labor shortage.
So any discussion about robots and artificial intelligence taking away jobs in cybersecurity just isn't so. AI systems can review incidents faster and more consistently; they can detect anomalies across data sets that no person would catch, and they can work 24/7/365 without fatigue, ennui or bias. Moreover, and maybe most important to answering this question, AI can free human analysts from the trenches of enterprise security, allowing them to focus on the kind of higher-order decision making of which computers aren't capable. In other words, I expect AI to handle the high-volume, low signal-type work and effectively give the security professional a better job. (That's exactly the kind of solution we're building at Respond Software.) Instead of staring at a monitor trying to keep up with the alerts generated by the plethora of security systems, the humans get to do real detective and/or proactive security work. Way cooler, way more interesting, and way more valuable to their companies.
On a broader scale, generations upon generations have faced industrial and technological improvements that have affected jobs. In most cases, the jobs lost have been replaced and extended with new industries. Think horse-and-buggy and railroads, bookkeepers and calculators and yellow pages/phone book and the internet. Granted, not every job benefits from technological advances. There's a good argument that we lost a lot of farmers with advances in farming technology. But what we lost in farming, we've gained in individual productivity.
While I expect we'll see a lot of advances over the next 5 to 10 years, I don't think we'll see tectonic shifts in the job landscape. If we apply AI correctly, we can use it to handle jobs that are ill-suited for people. Computers are good at tirelessly doing the same thing repeatedly and consistently. Humans are good at complex pattern matching, nuance and curiosity. It's more about designing jobs that fit those characteristics to match the person or AI that fills it.
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My Book Got a Bad Review – Now What?
First of all – let me start off by saying that the best and happiest route in the publishing business is getting published through a literary agent. Then, the publisher they get for you should be the one doing the main promotions of your book. Doing so yourself is up to you. But if a publishing company tells you that you and you alone are responsible for promoting it, that just has red flags all over it.
Regardless, though – what happens when you do get a bad review? What should you do, if anything, and how should you react?
Well, the first thing you should remember is that the reviewer doesn't know you personally and is not criticizing your life, your personality, etc. They're simply telling you what they think about your book. And doing so doesn't mean that you wrote a terrible book. Your book is awesome no matter what! Don't forget that – YOUR BOOK IS AWESOME NO MATTER WHAT! You put your blood, sweat, tears and valuable time and resources into this masterpiece. So yeah, when a bad review occurs, it hurts. But don't focus on the bad – focus on the good. If such popular authors as JK Rowling and Kate Morton and Stephanie Meyer gave up on their first book due to bad reviews, think how different we all would be! Harry Potter would never be finished! Of course it's difficult to believe, but I've looked on Amazon, and such famous authors DO get bad reviews. And yet, their publishers and agents still sell thousands of more copies of their books! And why is that?
BECAUSE OF THE GOOD REVIEWS!!
See? The good reviews are what really matter. And then there are the bored bad reviewers – those who haven't read your book but they just wanted to leave a cruel review. I've known people like this, because they've admitted on their review that they didn't even like my book. Such people are heartless and cruel, and have no other time on their hands other than try to get you upset with such awful reviews. Once again, ignore these people and simply focus on the good reviews. These are the ones that truly matter and also the ones that will get you incredibly far in life, where you will sell hundreds of thousands of books, because people love reading good reviews!
Of course, it isn't supposed to be about reviews or how many books you sell. It's really about making a true difference in the story you've told. SOMEONE NEEDS YOUR BOOK. Don't forget that. You will change someone's life with your book one day.
And you know what? All that hard work will pay off and will be so incredibly worth it. Never give up! Never surrender.
An hour later, Marilyn sat in the sitting room, staring at the fireplace crackling in the hearth. Tears were on her face, and she made no move to wipe them away. Her life was over. One or both of her parents may storm in here at any given moment, screaming at her for the damage she had done. She didn't care what they said, however. She had a family whose lives were ruined, and had been for some time. Remembering everything Harriet had told her three years before, Marilyn couldn't bear her mind to focus on anywhere except how to escape this prison for good, without marrying Henry Jackson at all.
But even if she had no choice but to marry Henry, at least it would be the only escape she had.
But when Henry appeared, Marilyn froze. Embarrassed and seeing he'd come alone, she spun away, swiped at her cheeks with a sniffle, and then muttered, "Sorry, I wasn't expecting you." She gazed back at the fire, expecting the man to leave after the door closed. Yet he appeared at her side, holding out a clean white handkerchief.
Marilyn took it from him, hating herself for crying in front of a guest. But she also didn't care. Her dreams and everything she'd ever held dear in her entire life had ended tonight. She didn't feel loved at all except by some of the servants, and only that. What also didn't help was not even being allowed to go into town to make friends of her own, no matter how much she longed to. She sighed and clasped her hands onto her dress in front of her, wiping at her wet nose with Henry's handkerchief every now and then.
Clearing his throat, Henry hesitated, and then slid into the armchair which matched hers right across from her. He didn't look at her, as if shy, and pretended to find great interest in the flames as well. They stayed like that for many moments, and Marilyn had decided to find a different hiding spot in the mansion when Henry spoke.
"That much is obvious." To Marilyn's surprise, Henry sounded like he was defending her, which caused Marilyn to glance at him and study him closely.
He sat straight and tall. He was well dressed for the dinner, and was handsome with combed dark brown hair and a well-kept beard around the curve of his jaw. He had large hands with muscular arms, and sharp blue eyes that were staring straight at her.
Marilyn blushed and tore her eyes away.
Nobody, not even a single servant of the estate, had ever said something in respect to Marilyn. She fought against gaping at him, but her mouth itched at falling open in shock. It brought tears to her eyes as she thought about everything she'd lost, all she couldn't have and had wanted her entire life.
"Yes. It is the Brunner Church of Christ." Marilyn smiled, although she didn't know why. They were learning they had more and more in common, but still, why did that make her smile? She didn't want any part of this.
And yet, the way Henry looked at her, the way his pale blue gaze thirsted for something more, she might still have a difficult time preventing herself from falling in love with him.
"I had a few friends for many, many years." Henry shook his head in pity. "They were always there for me, you know? But soon, it felt like all they wanted to do was to be at the pubs." He shook his head again, gazing off into space.
"I do." Marilyn blushed. She didn't want to admit, but she felt like this man truly understood her unlike anyone else, and she liked it.
As Marilyn slipped out of her bedroom early the next morning around six a.m., dressed and ready to get a head start on painting, she commanded herself that Henry must stay out of her mind. After all, it didn't help to worry about it when she wasn't sure how she even felt about him. He'd been kind and sweet, gentle and humorous, even handsome, but still, an arranged marriage didn't seem what Marilyn wanted. Did she want to spend the rest of her life with a man who remained what her mother desired for her?
However, as she twisted to head downstairs to sneak some toast from the kitchen, the door of her father's bedroom swung open, and she stopped, shocked her father had gotten up so early. He usually stayed up drinking most of the night and slept a good part of the day afterward.
But instead of her father, Marilyn got the shock of her life—Maisie the house maid popped out of his room while fastening the lace buttons of her white uniform. Her hair, instead of being pulled back into its usual bun, draped long and dark around her shoulders. Marilyn stared at Maisie, and Maisie stared right back, looking at her in a mixture of shock, fear, and desperation. Then, she disappeared, hurrying down the hallway toward her own bedroom which she shared with the house maid Charlotte.
Marilyn stared at the ajar bedroom doorway for a long moment as a mixture of emotions slammed through her body. Shock, betrayal, hurt, and worst of all, anger, shimmered down her spine as she stood there on the top stair step, frozen in place. Of course, since her parents were no longer sharing a marriage bed, instead of only separate beds in a single room, they were in separate rooms. But never, in a thousand years, would she ever have imagined her father as terrible as this.
Marilyn decided she make this better for all of them. In that instant, she spun around, and instead of going downstairs, went straight to where she came from, past her bedroom to the parlor room. Marilyn knew her mother was in there, sewing, knitting, or reading, since she always woke up early anyway.
She opened the door, and her mother glanced up from her chair by the window.
Mother stared at her for a long moment. Then, with a sigh and a look of pure understanding, she continued her sewing.
"I know, Mother, but…" She shook her head. "This is nonsense! Why in the world would you let this carry on like so? He's an absolute piece of rot and so is she, and you're going to let it slide like…it-it's nothing?" She'd raised her voice by now, but Marilyn did not care. Her mother needed to realize every word she said.
Before Marilyn could ask what truth her mother referred to, her mother had disappeared from the parlor.
Marilyn waited in the parlor for what seemed like a lifetime. Then, the door opened and her mother appeared, morose and fatigued. All the same, she gave a curt nod toward the hallway, which Marilyn knew quite well meant she must follow her mother or there would be words later.
She followed her mother down the long hallway, but instead of going toward their bedrooms like usual, she took the sharp corner which led to a hallway that only the staff of the estate walked – Marilyn never, ever took this way. It was such a formality – the antique, older wallpaper wasn't replaced and re-done as often as the rest of the estate, for the precise reason that only the staff were going to see these walls. Since they did not matter as much as the rest of the house, nothing much else needed to be changed.
Still, Marilyn stayed in awe as they strode past the large, floor-to-ceiling windows, giving a brand new look to the backyard gardens that inspired her. There were other floor-to-ceiling windows in the estate, but this one had the best view of them all. Of course, she had only known all the other views her entire life, so seeing something new was a blessing.
They stopped at the end of the hallway where they ascended the narrow stairs to the fifth and final floor of the house, the part of the house where the staff slept and ate. They had their own separate, small dining room to eat their meals in, and each servant shared a room with another servant of the same gender.
Marilyn's mother led her to the third door down, and it gaped wide open. There inside it, in front of their bunk beds, stood Maisie, whose hair now sat in her usual tight bun, and also Charlotte, both waiting.
Maisie nodded. Then, before Marilyn knew what happened, Mother and Charlotte had disappeared, closing the door behind them.
Marilyn sighed. She didn't want it to come to this. She glanced over at Maisie, who smiled then.
"What is it that I can help you with, my dear?" she asked, as if nothing strange had happened a half hour before.
Marilyn studied the woman – Maisie's gaze looked bright and honest. She looked as if she wanted to say something too, but some kind of fierce willpower inside of her kept her from doing so.
Deciding that they better get on with this discussion, granted that they had only five minutes, she cleared her throat in preparation. "I would like to know, please, on why you were coming out of my father's room, looking as if you had…" She drew in a slow breath. "…as if you had finished getting dressed in his room." She held her head high, observing Maisie straight in the face.
Marilyn frowned. "But…why? Why would you…why…" She shook her head, searching the woman's face for some kind of possible answer.
"Was he drunk?" Marilyn asked.
"Harriet told you that, didn't she?" Maisie nodded, answering her own question. She shook her head. "It's a shame, it really is. I really do feel for our mistress, being so hated by the master and yet, needing to find a suitable heir for the estate." She shook her head again.
Marilyn frowned, feeling stuck between two places – whether to run from the room or whether to yell at the woman some more. Instead, however, she decided she may be better off not obeying her mother's insistence.
"Yes," Maisie whispered, more tears rolling down her cheeks, biting back a smile.
"So…Harriet lied to me?" That seemed hard to believe. After all, Harriet had been one of the most trustworthy servants around.
"What do you mean?" There seemed something strange about this story that didn't make any sense.
"Never knew what?" she demanded, perhaps more cruel than deemed necessary. But as soon as those words popped out of her mouth, she identified the truth. And the longer she stared into Maisie's face, the more she realized it, even as Maisie said it.
Maisie sighed, and began to speak in a sad voice. "I came from a poor family, so of course the marriage would've been highly looked down upon with your father's parents. We were buried deep with debt from the time we'd married, because your father could barely afford this home." She swallowed hard. "I'd suggested selling it many a time, but your father's understanding fear was that his family would notice and be concerned, and also disown all of us. We were madly in love. Your father had done everything for me, taking me on romantic walks, wanting to be with me. The perfect life. I lived every day as if in a brilliant trance. Marrying a poor girl had been forbidden, however your father felt much too in love with me to care. In fear of mentioning my poor background to his parents, we decided he would have to hire a maid with a well-off background, and turn the tables.
"So we did. We hired Zelda as a maid. We hadn't ever told her our plans, either. Things had only happened. Within a few short months, along with your father's mother's death to destroy him even more, Zelda had somehow learned the truth about it all. You were two years old at the time. I had no choice but to let you go, to let the wretched woman – I mean, Zelda, of course – raise you like her own and proclaim throughout the whole world that you were her biological daughter. I remained in the shadows, coming to your father at night only when he needed me. And every time we met together, he never let himself become drunk. But years and years of a mixture of guilt, shame, and resentment had eaten at your poor father's heart." Maisie swiped at her nose, and sniffled. "So the times when he drank the most, he found himself in despair, which explained why he hit Zelda sometimes in the beginning. But of course, not anymore. He still gets drunk, but is no longer violent." She closed her eyes and shook her head. "We did it for you, do you understand?" she whispered, speaking more toward herself than Marilyn. "We did it for you, your happiness, and your wealth. We did it so you could have a beautiful future. That is how much your father and I truly do love you." She looked up. "He's done plenty of terrible things in the past, including the few times of hitting you as a child when drunk. But I know from the bottom of my heart that he regretted every slap, every curse every time the alcohol wasted out of his poor body." She shivered, as if she was cold.
Shock coursed through Marilyn in trembling waves. She stared at Maisie, unable to believe and impossible to not think about everything that had happened between them.
Footsteps sounded behind them in the hallway, and still Marilyn continued gazing into her birth mother's face, recognizing herself in the older woman standing before her.
"Now you know the truth." Maisie nodded, as if going back to her old, obedient maid platform.
The door squeaked open then, and Marilyn turned.
Charlotte stood in the doorway, taken aback, like she couldn't believe they were still in the room talking.
"Yes, miss," Charlotte agreed, and then left, hurrying down the hallway.
Marilyn glanced back at her birth mother, Maisie, and she swallowed hard.
"I'm so sorry you had to deal with all of this," she whispered in a choked voice, and then fled.


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Rasheed Araeen (3+4) SR 1969
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"The presence of diagonals in my work is not my own creation," said Araeen, who was influenced by his training as an engineer in Karachi before moving to London in 1964. "They are fundamental to the very formation of the lattice structure in engineering." Resembling a mathematical equation, this work's title, (3+4) SR, refers to its three raw and four painted wood lattices; SR stands for "structure" and "relief." The work features open frameworks arranged in a zigzag pattern. For the artist, work like this modeled his aspiration "to create symmetry within human relationships and other forms of life."
Gallery label from "Collection: 1940s—1970s", 2019
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