Sharon B. Rupert (Sherry) daughter of J. Fredrick Rupert and Carolyn B. Rupert, was born May 21, 1938 in Toledo, Ohio, and passed away on May 12, 2018 in her home in Sag Harbor. She graduated from Maumee Valley Country Day School in Ohio in 1956 and Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., in 1960.
Immediately after graduation she set forth to New York, living in the city for 42 years. She worked in financial and theater management at Circle in the Square Theater, Martinique Theater, APA-Phoenix Repertory Company, Queens Theater in the Park, Wagner Festival Theatre, City Center and Guild Hall of East Hampton. She was also Vice President and Treasurer of Brooklyn Academy of Music and managed several summer theaters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
Ms. Rupert was a lecturer and panelist, a member of the Junior League of N.Y. and on the board of The League of Professional Theater Women, The Hampton Day School, Maidstone Regional Theatre and Technical Assistance Group.
Her heart was always in the theater and she was always involved with her animals. Lucky, her horse, joined her from the Midwest and was boarded in East Hampton and seven golden retrievers, beginning with Queenie when Sherry was eight, followed by Antigone, Timber, Quincy, Rupert, Clara and Roman until 2018. She opened her home to many friends and family; and made their children a big part of her life.
She loved giving parties. Her Kentucky Derby parties were an annual celebration. She was also known for her many hats and scrapbooks.
Survivors include her brother, John (Bonnie) of Goleta, Calif., and sister Joan of Littleton ,Colo., Nephews, Shawn, Michael, Francis (Jamie), Mara (Nick), and great nieces Emily and Natalie.
A celebration of her life was held in her back yard on May 21, 2018, which would have been her 80th birthday. Memorial contributions may be sent to the American Kidney Foundation or the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.


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Dermatol Surg 2017 Mar 01;43(3)424-430.
Cryosurgery is the most commonly used method to treat actinic keratosis (AK). Cryosurgical methods are not standardized.
To examine differences in the spray techniques used for liquid nitrogen cryosurgery when treating AKs of the head, and the effect of these variations in technique on rates of complete clearance of AKs.
Patients were those from the FIELD-1 study, who received cryosurgery as per the investigators' usual practice to all AKs. This was followed by topical treatment with either vehicle gel or ingenol mebutate gel, 0.015%, after 3 weeks. The investigator recorded the average duration of cryosurgery spray used, the number of freeze-thaw cycles, and the distance from the tip of the spray device to the AK. Clearance rates were determined at Week 11.
Less-aggressive freezing techniques were used for AKs on the face than for those on the scalp. However, higher rates of complete clearance on the face and scalp were associated with more-aggressive freezing techniques.
Patients with AKs on the face receive less-aggressive cryosurgery than do patients with AKs on the scalp.


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Dog she blows out dry air then sometimes sounds wet from nose much of the night at sleep time. IT'S SO BAD.
don't see anything or don't look much.
One doctor said to complicated in the dog nose to see. It really is alot of bothering her it's going on now a few years with no help . She is an older dog & never had this in years past.
But terrible (torment now to her).
We do not see patients at the Sanctuary other than our own residents. What you describe sounds like a chronic sinus condition that we sometimes experience at the Sanctuary. I have found success with long term Temaril-P for the inflammation and antibiotics based on culture and sensitivity. Ask your regular veterinarian for a referral to a specialist if they are unable to help you.


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The Madisonville Pizza Hut has plans to relocate from its current location on Hudson Park Drive to a new restaurant on South Main.
Caley Smith/reporter/csmith@the-messenger.com
By Caley Smith reporter
csmith@the-messenger.com
Caley Smith
The new Pizza Hut location on South Main Street is underway despite last week's snow and this week's frigid temperatures.
This will be a corporate location, and the current Pizza Hut, located at 495 Hudson Park Drive in Madisonville will be closing its doors and moving all staff and operations to the south end of town.
This new location, according to Pizza Hut Staff, is expected to open sometime in February 2022. Exactly what services the new location will offer is not currently available. The new building is much smaller than the current Hudson Park Drive location, which prior to COVID-19 offered a daily dine-in pizza buffet, as well as delivery, carryout and drive thru.
Pizza Hut has been in its current location for around 15 to 20 years.
More information to come as it is released.
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Boots LeBaron's World
My blog contains a humorous and inspirational view of life, death, the workplace, spirituality, love, nature, creativity, Hollywood — Plus provocative interviews with some extraordinary participants in the games we all play.
Boots LeBaron's World
The Human Race by Boots LeBaron
Facing Adversity
Posts Tagged ' Ego '
EXPERIENCING SELF PITY? USE HUMOR AS YOUR WEAPON
PUTTING A FACE ON THE HUMAN RACE
EXPERIENCING SELF PITY? TRY TAP-DANCING
IT AWAY ON THE STAGE OF LIFE!
We are all starring in The Theater of the
Absurd. Look into the mirror. See yourself?
Even at your saddest moment of
wretchedness, study the character gawking
back at you. Notice the bloodshot eyes, the
twitch, the frown etched in deep furrows.
Pretty pathetic, huh? Now look deeper. There's
a gladiator hiding behind that gloomy
facade. I don't care how you've failed
or how your spirit was damaged. Give your
memory sack a good shake and there'll be
an assortment of memorable moments spilling
out. Guaranteed, you're gonna find something
to howl, growl or smile about. I know, I know.
You're uncomfortable. But don't hide. You're
tap-dancing under the glare of the spotlight,
sharing the stage with billions whose tragedies
would dwarf the grief you're experiencing.
You're suffering an ego attack. Maybe a broken
heart? Everybody gets them. So stop fretting!
Even in the midst of catastrophic sadness,
there is humor. When my childhood friend,
Dick (Bumbo) Channon died at 52, I had his mother
and sister laughing. I dropped a handful of
bubble gum into his open casket. Memories are
made of happiness. Fun, never dies easy.
When my Irish pal, Frank Francis O'Leary
recently kicked the bucket, I wrote a
story turning the portly aerospace
physicist into a leprechaun stuck in a
tree. Death might be an emotional disaster for
many, but beyond those woe-be-gone tears lurks
the soul of truth that's ready to spring forth
and bite you on the buttocks, infecting your
solemnness with happy memories. Truth harbors
a helluva sense of humor. You just gotta remember
the good times. So, if you want to temporarily
overcome those doldrums, here's my suggestion:
Go into the bathroom and lock the door. As I
suggested earlier, find the mirror. You're all
alone, right? Now bend over and give yourself
a kick in the ass. If you're not double-
jointed, pull down your pants or panties and
"moon" the mirror. That act, I suspect, will give
you good reason to rise above self pity. You might even
realize what a pathetic looking asshole you are.
Remember: Laughter beats tears.
— Boots LeBaron —
bootslebaronsworld
FACING REALITY
SOLUTION TO WOES
A BROKEN PROMISE: CIVILIZATION'S MAJOR CRIME
THE HUMAN RACE
A BROKEN PROMISE AIN'T NO MISDEMEANOR!
A broken promise can scar the
soul of every individual who's convinced
that trust is humanity's cornerstone.
It's capable of shattering the
confidence of any trusting person
whose confidence in another
has been desecrated.
In any court of
dignity where the indignant
act is exposed, the culprit
will either be exonerated,
mentally shackled with feelings
of guilt and anxiety for life,
stuck with a misdemeanor thanks
to the power of forgiveness,
labeled as a liar and a cheat,
or, depending on the severity
of the mental or financial anguish
inflicted on another. Of course, those
suffering from life's broken-promise
syndrome, especially those whose lives
have been wrecked in the midst of a
lovey-dovey relationship, has every
philosophical right to reward that partner
with a seat on the electric chair.
Humanity consists of so many ridiculous
men and women in search of peace of mind
and a perfect life, which is never perfect.
No matter how benign or devious, a broken
promise can cause humiliation, hyperventilation
acute anxiety or psychotic short circuitry
despite the admirable intentions that kick off
any kind of human relationship. Yet, no matter
how intolerable the plight, a broken promise
should rightfully be labeled guilty as charged
on every victim's shit list. Forever!
ANGIETY
Bruised pride
CON JOBS
GUILTY AS CHARGED
HANKY-PANKY
LOVEY-DOVEYISM
MAJOR CRIME
Naivete
MY DAD BERT LeBARON: A MOVIE STUNTMAN WITHOUT A FACE
THIS STUNTMAN HAD A LOVE AFFAIR WITH HOLLYWOOD
Stuntman Bert LeBaron, with arms spread in flight,
was about to knock out a machine-gun nest manned
by prison guards in the 1947 Burt Lancaster classic
movie "BRUTE FORCE." Esquire Magazine ran a full-page
photo of my airborne dad without giving the Hall of
Fame stuntman-actor credit. That's the way it was
in Hollywood back then. Although today their names
are entombed with crew members in end-credits, stunt
people are still ignored by the motion picture and
television academies. Since more than 50 stuntmen
and women have died for Hollywood over the years,
don't you think the survivors deserve Academy
recognition? At least for valor? What pisses me off
is to hear actors ooze B.S. (Don't tell me they don't!)
taking credit for "gigs" performed by athletes like
my old man. And now, digital animation is replacing
the acts of such stalwart guys and gals. After
35 years of proudly calling himself an actor-
stuntman, Bert LeBaron, who would never qualify as
another Laurence Olivier or Tom Hanks, developed
a heart problem that put him out of action physically
and financially. (His last stunt was doubling actor
William Bendix in a TV sitcom) When the film capital
of the world showed no compassion, he tried selling
encyclopedias. When that failed, he couldn't even
support himself peddling newspapers on the streets of
Hollywood. Having nowhere to turn, he stepped into a
handball court at the Hollywood YMCA where he was renting
a room for $10 or $15 a week and purposely popped his
heart playing the game he loved more than women. He
died in 1956. I call Bert and his unheralded comrades
"stuntmen without faces." I loved that womanizing rogue
whom my mother shed twice in divorce courts. My father
had so many ex-wives and girlfriends, they were lost
in the midst of his mind. Nevertheless, stuntmen and
women deserve to step up to the podium and accept a
golden statuette for their sensational athletic feats.
So tell the actors who, for the sake of publicity
or self-aggrandizement, to: Put A Cork In It! Their
crime is they continue to take credit for stuntwork
achieved by filmdom's "faceless" others. In my book,
that's a felony punishable by truth.
MP ACADEMY
STUNTMEN IGNORED
Boots LeBaron his legal name since the day he was born in Hollywood on July 10, 1932. He began writing essays, light poetry and interview stories when he was promoted from copyboy to TV staff writer at The Los Angeles Times. In the late 1950s, he volunteered to transfer from the drama department where he was doing interviews and writing the first FM radio column in Los Angeles to working as a crime reporter in the police beat at LAPD's Parker Center. There he learned about life, death and reporting working with newsmen he respectfully describes as "journalistic dinosaurs" representing four other metropolitan newspapers. The beat, he says, made "Front Page," the legendary stageplay and Billy Wilder movie look like a kindergarten class. After a brief stint as a general assignment reporter for The Times, he went into publicity representing the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. For the next 20 years he worked as a motion picture and TV writer-publicist for Universal Studios, was head feature writer for Rogers & Cowan (an international theatrical marketing/PR firm), turned down representing Barbra Steisand to publicize the Chrysler Corp. for Solters & Sabinson. As news division director for Richter, Mracky & Bates he introduced "Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute" and four other ecological slogans for the California state park system, worked as an advertising copy writer, creative director for NPRA, and a free-lance columnist for Los Angeles Copley newspapers including The Daily Breeze which printed more than 840 of his human-interest stories. His by-line articles were also published in The Times, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Herald-Express, as well as Peninsula People Magazine, The Easy Reader and Beach Reporter. As an artist, with the help of animator Walter Lantz, he has illustrated many of his own published stories. He is dyslexic, a former child actor, raised by a single parent (Thelma), the son of a rogue Hall of Fame stuntman (Bert LeBaron). He and his wife, JoAnne, have been married for more than 50 years. They have three adult children and four grandchildren. For the last 20 Years he worked as a writer-publicist at a variety of entertainment companies including Rogers & Cowan, Capitol Records, Universal Studios, and then returned to journalism as a free-lance writer. His stories and columns (some have been nominated for a Pulitzer prize or won other writing awards) were published in newspapers and magazines
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The Baptist Union > The Baptist Times > Latest News > Regional News > South Eastern > New app 'is pioneering work'
New app 'is pioneering work'
Canterbury software developers and Baptist church members donate time to local charity for new mobile app to transform lives across Africa
Two software developers from Canterbury have donated over 250 man-hours of time to locally-based Christian charity African Pastors Fellowship (APF) to develop an app that will bring both Christian teachings and practical skills lessons, on topics such as sustainable agriculture, to remote communities across East Africa.
The 'eVitabu' app, which is installed on solar-powered Android tablet devices, was developed for free by Jonathan Haddock and Michael Berry, both members of Canterbury Baptist Church, who committed evenings and weekends to the project.
The 'eVitabu' app will help support pastors' ministries with large church networks across East Africa, potentially impacting the Christian journey of over half a million people.
It is estimated that over 3 million churches in the developing world are led by people with little or no qualifications for that responsibility. In Africa, it is reckoned that as many as 90 per cent of pastors have never received even a single day's training. eVitabu, which means books in Swahili, is a pioneering tool designed specifically to support the African church.
The eVitabu app includes studies on personal, spiritual and pastoral growth; audio Bibles in local languages; theology courses from internationally renowned centres; video lectures by top Christian leaders; community development toolkits; and guides on family healthcare, leadership, advocacy, peace-building, and sustainable agriculture. It also enables African pastors to upload and share their own theological insights with their peers. Content has also been provided by partner agencies including Tearfund, Christian Aid, CPAS, Westminster Theology Centre, Lausanne Movement, A Rocha and many others.
Dave Stedman, CEO of APF commented, 'APF resources and enables African Christian leaders, of all denominations, to minister effectively through the local church. eVitabu has the potential to enable thousands of rural church leaders to access great quality training material possibly for the very first time.
'Excitingly it also provides a unique platform for the voice of the Africa church. African leaders can use eVitabu to upload and share their own material with other church leaders, so everyone benefits.'
APF launched the eVitabu app at a three-day training conference in Uganda where the durable Android Tablets were given to 57 pastors from eight East African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, South Sudan and DRC. These pastors can now browse and download the searchable library of content before going into remote parts of the continent to teach and support other pastors and congregations. New content can be accessed and downloaded almost anywhere using a mobile phone as a wifi hotspot.
Jonathan, who works in IT for local government said, 'When Dave and Geoff from APF approached us with the vision for the app, it was clear that such a tool could address several needs faced by rural communities across Africa in a new way, with the potential to have a long-lasting impact. It was therefore exciting to be part of project that could have a life-changing impact.'
The Revd Dr Kate Colman, former President Baptist Union of Great Britain and Chair of the Evangelical Alliance Council who supports the project and attended the launch said, 'APF's eVitabu is a totally unique resource. A mobile app full of text, audio and visual training resources in languages spoken across Africa, perfect for even the most isolated locations.
'This is pioneering work.'
One of the pastors who was provided with an eVitabu tablet is Heavenlight Luoga who oversees a network of 60 rural churches in North West Tanzania. Heavenlight explains how it will support his ministry: 'I have found many good materials on eVitabu from different contributors.
'I have mobilised a core team of five teachers and we will meet each month to study together. My wife, Kesia, will also use eVitabu resources when training pastors' wives in Burundi. eVitabu will improve our teaching and help us address issues in the church and community such as theological error, farming and entrepreneurship.'
The eVitabu app was developed by a small group of APF volunteers who donated hundreds of man-hours to deliver this resource to impact the African church.
To send the app, loaded onto an Andoid Tablet and provided with a durable case and solar changer to Africa costs APF £200.
To support the work of APF, to learn more or to pray for its mission in Africa visit: http://www.africanpastors.org/
SEBA Home Mission Stories
Examples of how Home Mission funds are being used in the South Eastern Baptist Association
How we revamped our Sunday service
Addlestone Baptist Church altered its traditional Sunday service to a more informal gathering based around food. It's had a profound effect on the life of the church
'It was up to us to find creative ways to tap into their potential'
Aslan is a ministry for those with additional needs at Tonbridge Baptist Church, and features a highly regarded website full of free Sunday School resources
The Rough with the Smooth
The artist who created the communion table and lectern at Millmead Chapel, Guildford Baptist Church, has won a prestigious award
'You are welcome' - church marks 60 years
The community focused South Ashford Baptist Church is packed for its thanksgiving and celebration service
Twenty pence at the book shack
A Baptist church has created a thriving book exchange which has become a 'great community asset'
Award for project with Baptist roots
Emerge trains Christian volunteers to support young people attending hospital as a result of self-harm
Presidency for Chichester minister
Prayer following helicopter tragedy
'I'm glad I said yes.' A year with DNA
Facilitating long term, sustainable change
Baptisms in Birchington-on-Sea
Advent baptism joy in Gillingham
The prayerful teacher, the seminary supporter
CAP: Releasing the prisoners
Successful half marathon for Latin Link
Forty days of Good News
Half Marathon for Latin American charity
Latin lovers of the Lord leave for Lima
As I went down to the river to pray
Unexpected impact of Christmas shoeboxes
Struggling church finds new hope
Caffeine boost for Latin American charity
Coming to faith at the Brighton Fringe
'Exciting new chapter' ready to begin
Many Baptist churches tackling poverty
Some words for another time
Festival support for anti trafficking campaign
Running for such a great cause


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A new wave of coffee fanatics are preaching slow coffee culture in Sydney, writes Bianca Healey.
by Bianca Healey
As any time-poor, assignment laden student will tell you, the humble coffee bean is no mere drug- it is the liquid elixir of life, dark prince of potency, sweet maiden of regeneration.
For many of us, coffee is so much a part of our daily routine that the act of actually savouring a brew, let alone trying something new, is lost in the rush of take-away cups and hastily gulped espressos. But recently, a trend has emerged- a slew of recently opened cafes have placed coffee as the central element of their ventures, with a focus on process, and a more inclusive coffee culture.
This may seem an obvious statement. But to speak with a true zealot is to appreciate the philosophy behind a return to a dedication to coffee. Mulyady Sutopo ('Yang' to friends, family, and the numerous customers who greet him as we speak) could convert a vegetarian to ribs: such is the power of his almost evangelical passion. Though he has branched out from his original intention to serve coffee and nothing else, his freshman venture Triple Pick Coffee places beans at the heart of the operation. Grown on a family property in the Karo Batak Highlands in North Sumatra, Indonesia, he maintains control of the entire process, from the picking of the coffee cherries, to roasting on the premises, to brewing. "It has to be interactive," Yang explains to me. "A lot of roasters, they tend to roast in a separate room, where the customer can't really ask questions. Here, the roaster is right at the entrance." Education and appreciation extend even to customer's homes, with a variety of speciality brewing equipment for sale, and not only roasted material, but green beans for those who wish to roast at home.
This unique set-up speaks to an evolving approach to Sydney's exemplary coffee culture, a move away from the quick fix of espresso-based coffee like cappuccino and latte to an appreciation of the multifarious complexities of coffee brewing and the richness of the results. For Yang, coffee is a science, something that's constantly evolving even though the raw ingredients remain the same. And it is this philosophy he wishes to share with his customers.
A similar sentiment imbues the newly opened Sensory Lab, a Melbourne institution that has recently opened its doors in Hall Street, Bondi, as well as Reformatory Caffeine Lab in Surry Hills, and the Paramount Coffee Project nearby, which houses a built-in filter bar. Each establishment stands apart in its unique process of selecting, sourcing and specialty brewing (Reformatory Caffeine Lab uses a cold drip technique, and these coffees are often sold out by lunchtime), all of these venues seek to infuse Sydney's already heavily caffeinated lifeblood with a more evolved brew. Much like the slow-food movement, this emergent trend speaks to a desire for a more considered, thoughtful coffee culture, with an emphasis on process and an inclusiveness which breaks down the elitism that often characterises high-quality foodie haunts.
Where Americans favour supersized concoctions, and Italy favours an espresso culture where piccolos and macchiatos are consumed while standing at a roadside, Sydney's coffee culture seems to speak to a collective identity that, though valuing quality and dedicated sourcing practices, also demands that coffee keep up with the hectic pace of our lives. It seems reflective somehow of the brash, hyperactive sensibility of our city that a fast coffee culture has gained ascendency, even more so when compared to Melbourne's (our twin for whom we compete for attention) more serious approach.
Where the slow food movement strives to preserve tradition and educate about the benefits of creating sustainable ecosystems, the slow coffee movement uses globalised, and local approaches to create coffee creating and drinking micro-ecosystems, as evidenced in Yang's family-based farming practices and interactive brewing process. And whilst re-adjusting an entire city's mindset may sound like an overwhelming task, as I discovered, if you look for it, the revolution is already in full swing.
mulyady sutopo
triple pick coffee


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William Rankin, After the Map (Chicago, 2016)
William Rankin, After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation ofTerritory in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp.416.
Review by Jacob Darwin Hamblin, originally published in Technology & Culture 59:3 (2018), 806-806.
What do Inuit hunters and guided missiles have in common? In the twenty-first century, they both rely on global positioning systems, based on measurements made by satellites, each one calibrated by an atomic clock as it orbits the earth. And they, like everyone navigating with a smartphone or wearing a GPS watch, live in a world that has left behind traditional way-finding and world-representation embodied by printed maps. In their place is a relatively new religion—the grid. William Rankin's After the Map tells an intriguing a story of an epistemic shift in the world of cartography and navigation, and perhaps even in human consciousness.
Rankin's tale begins with early twentieth-century efforts to create a global map through scientific conferences about map projections, surveying, and printing. The most celebrated of these was the International Map of the World, an effort by Americans and Europeans to coordinate the mapping of the entire world at a scale of 1:1,000,000. That project died out mid-century. Not only were there disagreements about symbols (such as dams, windmills, telegraph lines, and oases), there were questions of national values, imperialism, sovereignty, and the responsibility to map at all.
What succeeded were projects, largely of a military nature, that were oriented toward functionality—and they often discarded scientific conventions. Both world wars saw the creation of grid systems, which made no attempt to even acknowledge the spheroidal shape of the earth but instead made everything flat. This worked very well in local settings, particularly when trying to fire artillery without sight of the enemy. Known as "map-firing," this practice marked an epistemic shift (says Rankin) that substituted Euclidean coordinates for the land itself as a measure of reality. In World War II, radar equipment abandoned geographic north in favor of "grid north." The U.S. Army Map Service and Aeronautical Chart Service compiled maps based largely on a "global crash program of aerial photography" (p. 83) at high altitude, combined with mass-produced charts that sacrificed global coherence for functional value for pilots and soldiers.
Navigating with radio waves reinforced the grid mentality, convincing users that even a spot in the ocean could be marked permanently with anX. Yet there was no universal truth to it. Americans established flight paths reminiscent of railways, whereas Western Europeans used a beacon system similar to lighthouses. Postwar navigation systems found champions in varied nations, industries, and branches of the armed services. The U.S. military eventually broke with its tradition of fragmentation and developed a single global positioning system—today known as GPS.
Despite the title, Rankin is not suggesting that maps have disappeared. Instead, they now exist to help humans interpret something that we take to be more real, namely the GPS-ordained coordinate system. Instead of looking to the map as a source of truth, we lay the map on top of the grid. Rankin refers to this as a "geo-epistemic shift" (p. 209) and notes that while we often laud GPS as an advanced navigation system, there has been "relatively little meditation on its geographic or epistemic implications." For Rankin, GPS has "created a parallel reality: an intangible knowledge space of electronic points that shares space with the physical world but does not refer to it" (p. 280).
Historians of technology will find After the Map to be a fascinating book that rewards careful reading, with insights about epistemology embedded in detailed descriptions of mapping conventions and navigation technologies. Some readers may find Rankin too quick to dismiss the claims of scholars who worry over GPS's origin as a military system. Yet he does point out that what we often take to be militarist mentalities embedded within GPS—such as surveillance—have been taken up by NASA, law enforcement bodies, and private corporations. After reading Rankin, one might be less likely to accept that GPS is simply advanced and accurate, and more likely to wonder about the consequences of putting so much faith in the grid.


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Q: Can this Groovy code be simplified when method has no arguments? I'm writing the following dynamic function call in Groovy, and wanted to know if there is a cleaner way to perform the following:
    this.actions.each { a ->
        if (a.component) {
            this.context."${a.action}"(a.component)
        } else {
            this.context."${a.action}"()
        }
    }

The code for a.action could be a method that doesn't have any arguments, or it could accept a map.  Is there a way to dynamically pass in a.component, or do I need some type of if/else conditional check for each method signature?

A: groovy objects has invokeMethod method that could hide the if
this.context.invikeMethod( a.action, a.component ? [a.component] : null )

[a.component] is in brackets because method could have 1,2,3... parameters

A: Without diving into meta-programming a lot, you could (mis-)use the spread operator
def a(){ 42 }
def a( i ){ i }

def b = 'a'
def c = [ 22 ]

assert 22 == "${b}"( *c )

c = []
assert 42 == "${b}"( *c )

Applied to your specific method:
this.context."${a.action}"( *( a.component ? [ a.component ] : [] ) )

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Cyberbullying, Physical Bullying, and/or Body Shaming
As we have continued to make rapid technological advancements, the social order in its
nature – has been most impacted. As new disciplines and job descriptions, previously
unthinkable, become more applicable since their emergence thanks to these revolutionary strides
we've made over the years. With the penetration of the cyber world view in almost all aspects of
society as a consequence of the digital revolution in information and communication
technologies that have seen the rise of personal computers, smartphones, internet solutions, etc.
these innovations have become so deeply entrenched in our consciousness as a society. They
have come with their fair share of positive (immense and far-reaching) and negative (the ones
that have worked against as a result of embracing them wrongly) benefits. It is now difficult to
envision the modern world devoid of all these advancements. WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook,
Skype, E-mails, and SMS/MMS are but some examples of digital forms of communication that
have turn out to be the catch of the day today.
Bullying, in original essence, has been a part of us since time immemorial. It has been
used by individuals exhibiting habitual cruelty to exploit people's vulnerability from positions
perceived as being of relative power. In schools, bullying can be about as old as the schools
themselves, with scientific research on this topic emerging way later, with the first publication on
the discourse having been written by Peter-Paul Heinemann. The book's title Mobbning –
Gruppvåld bland barn och vuxna translated into English, means "Mobbing – Group Aggression
Against Boys and Girls." It was published more than four decades ago. At the same time, the one
individual who can be considered the father of bullying research has to be Dan Olweus is, on
account o his book Forskning on Skolmobbning. In English, it means "Aggression in Schools:
Bullies and Whipping Boys" (Olweus, 1978) that came out 30 years ago. Heinemann's interest
CYBERBULLYING, PHYSICAL BULLYING, AND/OR BODY SHAMING 3
started off limited to group aggression, but later, Oluwes' came in and centered on bullying,
having shifted from the use of the term "mobbing." He did this based on his belief that bullying
was not restricted to group aggression only. He remarked that even person-to-person aggression
could be observed in light of bullying. It draws a distinction from other forms of aggressive
behavior with respect to these two aspects:
i. Repetition (contrary to aggression, a behavior has to be repeated severally to be
considered an act of bullying).
ii. Power Imbalance (this implies that the aggressor has a certain supremacy to
which they continually abuse the victim without them being able to retaliate).
This undesirable aggressive behavior of intimidation, abuse, harassment, insults, and
coercion, by and large, involves the use of force and threats. Traditionally, bullying has been
direct (person-to-person), incorporating physical and verbal forms. Still, in recent years with the
steady rise of social media exposure, it has swiftly transcended to online platforms morphing into
cyberbullying. Within the past two decades, cyberbullying (the electronic variety of old-style
bullying) has received critical attention in the scientific world and the media. It can be described
as a deliberate, aggressive action performed by an individual or a group of persons by use of
electronic forms of communication repetitively and over time against a victim(s) who cannot
defend themselves without difficulty (Smith, Mahdavi, Carvalho, Fisher, Russell, & Tippett,
2008). Here, we will focus on the following three elements as we consider a case;
i. Outing or trickery involves the disclosure and distribution of someone's secrets or
offensive material online or using deception to uncover secrets or embarrassing
info that is then distributed online.
ii. Trolling. Deliberately posting suggestive messages about delicate matters
produces conflict, disturbs people, and lures them into "flaming" or fighting.
iii. Stalking. It involves persistently sending messages that comprise threats of harm
or are exceedingly intimidating, participating in other online actions that make an
individual(s) afraid for their safety.
The case we'll consider is from a 16-year old from Manchester, Tennessee, who went by
Channing Smith. On September 23 rd , last year, the boy took his own life after explicit
conversions involving him and another young man went online. These texts were posted by
friends on Snapchat and Instagram in the form of screenshots, after which Channing shot and
killed himself. They portrayed the teenager as bi-sexual. Before this fatal incident, he was a
student at Coffee County Central High School. His account gained popularity after an emotional
note about the suicide posted on Facebook by his elder brother Joshua Smith caught people's
attention who, in another post, criticized the school Channing attended, alleging that the school
administration hadn't taken sufficient measures following his brother's death. He went on to
assert his disappointment on the interview he had with CNN. He claimed that the school failed to
mention Channing's case on any of their social media outlets or even reach out to the family of
the late. In response to these complaints, the school, through its Director Charles Lawsons,
affirmed that they were not in a position to comment on the situation.
My argument is that the actions by the friends who posted the images reached the three
thresholds that qualify their act as one of cyberbullying. They might have tricked him into
unlocking his phone for them, then after screenshotting, the particulars of the conversation went
ahead and posted them on images online. This action later led to the development of stalking
incidents that compelled the youngster to commit suicide. Secrets being confidential and of much
value to an individual, coercing one into disclosing them, or retrieving them in such
reprehensible means should be a punishable offense. It's pretty much more like breaking in a
person's home and stealing their belongings. In my opinion, these "friend(s)" should be held
responsible for his reckless actions based on the latter allusion.
Research has suggested that depression can and should be identified as a factor that could
account for a higher incidence of suicidal behaviors in both males and females the world over.
This depression factor might be a causative factor to the low rates of general suicidal behavior in
males worldwide. But since men take way much more lethal means than females, the rates of
death in males are significantly higher globally (Freeman, A et al., 2017). Another possible cause
for deferring rates of suicide is existing Psychosocial risk factors. It has been observed that these
contribute to the discrepancy of rates between male and female suicidal behavior and thus in the
world generally. Rates of unemployment and retirement benefits across nations can account for
the differences.
Suicide has never been well-understand, and as such, research on the issue is sure to
continue with governments increasing funding through their health ministries for further studies
on the subject. Criminalizing it has and will always face insurmountable challenges. If a
conclusion is to be arrived at, we can't look at the matter only in the scope of morality only
because numerous other considerable factors are ever at play. Each suicide can be preceded by a
psychological strain resulting from value conflict, unattainable ambitions, relative denial, and
coping deficit. To dismiss it as abnormal, one has to, in no doubt, prove the underlying factors
such as social integration and social structure that lead an individual to attempt suicide is
rational. This reality can never be realized because these factors are mostly unknown to us, with
the chance of them having been pre-existent in the individual for months or years even.
Freeman, A., Mergl, R., Kohls, E., Székely, A., Gusmao, R., Arensman, E., Koburger, N.,
Hegerl, U., & Rummel-Kluge, C. (2017). A cross-national study on gender differences in
suicide intent. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1398-8
Olweus, D. (1978). Aggression in the schools bullies and whipping boys. Washington (D.C.):
Hemisphere Publ.
Smith, P. K, Mahdavi, J., Carvalho, M., Fisher, S., Russell, S., & Tippett, N. (2008).
Cyberbullying: its nature and impact in secondary school pupils. Journal of Child
Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(4), 376–385.


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Posted May 5, 2015 by theaveragejoescigarmedia	News
News: Ramon Allones Hunters & Frankau Aniversario 225 Cigar & Commemorative Humidor.
Ramon Allónes Hunters & Frankau Aniversario 225 commemorates two hundred and twenty five years since the founding of Hunters & Frankau, the exclusive distributor of Cuban Cigars in the United Kingdom. The Cigars were rolled in 2012 and shipped over to Hunters & Frankau in June 2013, where they will be aged for two years in the company's own warehouse.
To mark Hunters & Frankau's 225th Anniversary, there will be a very special Havana cigar and a commemorative humidor. Just 50,000 of the cigars have been produced in numbered SLB boxes of 25. Both the cigars and the humidor have been created to reflect Hunters & Frankau's company's long history in the Havana cigar trade.
Hunters & Frankau chose Ramon Allones for their celebratory cigar because of its particular association with the Hunters side of the company. In 1911 John Hunter, Morris & Elkan Ltd, as it was then known, bought the brand's factory in Havana along with its worldwide trademark rights. They were privileged to own the brand for sixteen years until 1927 when they sold it to the Cuban owners of Partagas whilst retaining the rights to Ramon Allones in the United Kingdom.
The Vitola (5 1/2″/141mm x 50 ring gauge)
All the Hunters &FrankauAniversario 225 cigars were made at thePartagas factory in Havana, the home of RamonAllones since 1927.Hunters & Frankau are grateful to the factory and Habanos S.A. for undertaking to produce a unique vitola for them based on the Gordito size, but with a "Cabeza Tumbada", or "Dropped Head", typical of the shapes that were made during their stewardship of the brand.
The Blending, Making and Ageing of the Cigars.
Master blender Arnaldo Vichot created the rich mixture of leaves for the cigars. Two different blends were submitted to a tasting panel in Havana back in November 2012 at which Jemma Freeman was also present. Once the final blend was chosen, production of all 50,000 cigars took place between February and May 2013 and was undertaken by just three top grade torcedores.
In the traditional British manner, the cigars were then shipped to the UK and aged for a period of two years in a condition-controlled warehouse so that they would be fully matured before being released to the market.
The Commemorative Humidor & 225 Anniversary Rum by Havana Club
The manufacture of the humidors
The humidors were manufactured by DeART S.r.l. situated in Calvenzano near Milan in northern Italy. Massimo de Munari, whose family owns the company, has built an enviable reputation over the last five years for making exceptional humidors, which he has supplied to many clubs, restaurants and private homes in Britain.
DeART's skills in making fine furniture of the highest quality left them with no doubt that Massimo and his team were the right people to make the humidors. The project started in the summer of 2013 and since then has been through many phases of prototypes and design changes to reach the finished product. Manufacture commenced in January 2015 and the humidors were delivered at the end of March.
Jemma Freeman paid a visit to Italy during the production run and was able to witness the extraordinary care and attention to detail that went into the humidors; a fitting compliment to the quality of the cigars that they will contain.
In days gone by it was customary to buy Havanas in cedar cabinets containing anything from 100 to 10,000 cigars, or more. They were much in vogue between the 1880s and the 1940s. This type of presentation gave rise to the expression "Cabinet Selection", which came not only to describe the Habanos of exceptional quality that were selected to fill them but also the Slide Lid Boxes in which they were shipped.
To commemorate Hunters & Frankau's Anniversary, they have commissioned two hundred and twenty-five, numbered replicas of this style of presentation each containing four boxes (100 cigars) of the Ramon Allones Hunters & Frankau Aniversario 225.
The cabinet, every one of which is personally signed by Jemma Freeman, is equipped with two Xikar Crystal humidifiers and comes with one hundred commemorative cigar spills. The lid at the top lifts up to reveal a humidified compartment for dispensing single cigars topped with a ceramic plaque on which the Ramon Allones insignia is emblazoned.
Each humidor is delivered with a complimentary 50cl bottle of very special rum prepared by Havana Club's master blender Asbel Morales to marry with the taste of the cigar. Also called the Hunters & Frankau Aniversario 225, Hunters & Frankau thank Havana Club for supporting the celebrations by producing 500 numbered bottles of this precious spirit from selected vintage casks. None will be for sale, but if they were, the value would be some £300 per bottle.
The final selection of the rum to match the cigar took place in November 2014 when Jemma Freeman travelled to Havana with some of the Aniversario 225 cigars that had already benefitted from some eighteen months of ageing in England. Commenting on the pairing Morales said, "I'm defending my rum's notes and the cigar is defending its notes. They should not mirror each other, nor contrast too much. It's like a perfectly balanced marriage."
Also present was Odelaine Paneque, the head taster at Partagas. It is a rare event for the catadores (tasters) at Havana's factories to light up a cigar that they last smoked a year and a half before. She was very impressed with the way in which the cigar had retained its strong flavour and had gained a perfect balance between its aroma and its strength whilst losing its early aggressiveness.
Complete humidor containing 4 x 25 Ramon Allones cigars and 1 x 50cl Havana Club
Out of these 2000 boxes, there will be a special Humidor release, 225 produced in all, with four cabinet boxes in each.
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Health Canada mum on overseas drug manufacturing plant inspections: researcher
By Camille Bains
Health Canada is so secretive about its inspections of overseas drug manufacturing plants that Canadians can't be confident their medications are safe, says a drug policy researcher.
Alan Cassels of the University of Victoria said most prescription drugs are manufactured overseas but that Health Canada has released only limited information about its inspections of foreign manufacturing plants after he made numerous inquiries.
Cassels said Health Canada has told him only that it conducted 35 inspections between 2006 and 2011, but won't provide data on which countries were involved or the findings.
"Health Canada can't tell us what they inspected, what they found, what remedies they made and we have no idea whether the few inspections they did had any effect. So my question is, and I've had this question for many years, why is everything so secret?"
He said that while the federal regulator may be influenced by the pharmaceutical industry's desire to protect its proprietary information, he's merely after data related to people's safety.
"Essentially, whose team is Health Canada on?"
But a spokesman for Health Canada said Monday that it has one of the safest and most rigorous drug-approval systems in the world.
Any foreign site that makes a drug product sold in Canada has to meet Canadian standards of good manufacturing practice, Sean Upton, a spokesman for Health Canada, said in a statement.
Upton said Health Canada will verify that these standards are being met in a number of ways, including inspection of foreign plants and taking in information provided by mutually recognized inspections conducted by other countries.
But Cassels said Health Canada issues warnings about certain overseas-manufactured drugs only when it gets information from the countries that produce them.
The agency has also not released data about drugs that are produced in Canada with chemicals imported from foreign countries, he said.
"It would shock most people to know that the manufacturing plants in Canada largely use raw ingredients from places like India, China and Puerto Rico and so on, which is not a bad thing, but how often are these plants inspected?"
Earlier this year, the Quebec-based plant of the generic pharmaceutical company Sandoz stopped making several commonly used painkillers, antibiotics and anesthetics while it upgraded its manufacturing standards after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised concerns.
The FDA inspected the site because the drugs manufactured there are used by Americans.
At the time, the head of Health Canada's drug directorate said the government would expedite approval of offshore medications for use by Canadians as long as they meet regulatory standards for quality.
Cassels said that's all the more reason Health Canada should provide information about its inspections of overseas drug-manufacturing plants.
However, he's also concerned that recent government layoffs mean there will be fewer Health Canada staff to conduct such inspections in or outside the country.
"You've got a federal regulator that is already seriously undermanned and undergunned and clearly not doing the kinds of inspections overseas that we would expect them to be doing and at the same time laying off people, so even reducing their ability to make sure that the drug supply is safe."
Upton said most of the drugs imported into Canada, or about 80 per cent, come from countries where there is a mutual-recognition agreement for inspections. The signing of these agreements includes an evaluation process to make sure that drug compliance programs from different regulator authorities are equal, he said.
Dr. Muhammad Mamdani, a pharmacist and director of the Applied Health Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, agreed with Cassels and said the public needs assurance that their prescription drugs are safe.
He said safety standards for brand drugs, versus generics, may be more rigorous because pharmaceutical companies typically assume a huge liability if there are problems.
However, Health Canada should still reveal information about its inspection findings, Mamdani said.
And while generic drug makers, which benefit from the millions of dollars in clinical trials and research that have already been done, are required by Health Canada to have so-called good manufacturing practice certification, their safety practices must still be scrutinized, Mamdani said.
"A company can say it adheres to good manufacturing certification but then you have to do audits. The problem with the audits is how many audits are you going to do? How much money do you have to have? You'd have to fly out to all these countries and inspect all of them on a regular basis and for many reasons, it's not practical or possible."
However, Mamdani said Canada is part of the Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme of about 41 member countries, including the United States, Belgium, Australia, and Czechoslovakia, which share information on inspections so the process doesn't have to be repeated.
"I'm not sure how much Canada leverages external groups' evaluations," he said. "I don't know how many they do themselves."
While it would be nearly impossible to conduct audits of every drug-manufacturing country's plants, "Health Canada should at least disclose what they have done," Mamdani said.
"They should be transparent. And if the drugs are safe, why shouldn't the information be available?"
"At the very least, make available to the public a general sense of is the process working and is the drug safe?"
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Виктор-Эме-Лион Ольф-Гальяр (; 1825—1893) — французский орнитолог. В 1852 году описал вид птиц Phoenicurus moussieri.

Биография
Собирался стать врачом, но, будучи вынужден бежать в Швейцарию вместе с семьёй после революции 1848 года, посвятил себя орнитологии. Принял участие во втором конгрессе Немецкого общества орнитологов, где познакомился с учёными, включая Люсьена Бонапарта. В 1864 году вернулся в Лион. Затем переезжал ещё несколько раз. Скончался после долгой болезни.

Был членом Лионской академии, Линнеевского общества и Société Helvétique. Опубликовал тридцать шесть работ по орнитофауне Западной Европы между 1884 и 1890 годами, а в 1891 году — «Каталог птиц, живущих в окрестностях Лиона». Его склонность к несоблюдению принципа приоритета, сформулированного в 1842 году, вызвала некоторые упреки со стороны американских орнитологов, но они же отметили его редкое среди французских орнитологов знание иностранных языков.

Примечания

Орнитологи Франции

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This is just… beautiful. I love TED talks, butI've sort of fallen back in love with them lately as I've been working on a documentary project with three TED fellows. This piece really highlights the importance of being grateful for the small things hidden in plain sight in the everyday.


The Primary Texts Program has sent at least one student to the Oxford Study Abroad (OSAP) summer program for the past five years. OSAP tutorials featuring primary texts transfer as six Primary Texts and general K-State credit!
Four weeks in length, it consists of one core text seminar and one Oxford tutorial. While in residence, students are hosted by New College (founded in 1379). New College is one of the 38 constituent colleges within Oxford University and recognizes as a filming location for various television programs and movies, including the Harry Potter films.
Students who have attended the OSAP in previous summers have obtained six 600-level K-State credits in Political Science and Philosophy.
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity for yourself, the following is a short overview of the experience that was shared by a recent K-State participant.
K-State student William Naeger attended the ACTC OSAP Summer Session at Oxford in the summer of 2017. Naeger is majoring in Political Science, Humanities and International Studies and minoring in French and American Ethnic Studies.
What did you think of the program overall?
What were the tutorials like?
How was the tutorial system set up?
How does the tutorial system at Oxford work?
How is your tutor assigned?
What is a session with your tutor like?
I met with my tutor at his awesome home study. It was like being on the set of an old film. There were old ornate rugs, stuffed bookcases, a chaise, squishy wing-backed chairs, a classic fireplace, old photographs and accolades, and a cat. Your first meeting is just to go over/establish a focus. Afterwards, your tutor e-mails you a reading list, which you are to go through before your next meeting.
Given the pace of our meetings, I didn't take notes. I tried taking notes at first, but I observed that my tutor seemed to prefer engaged and active listening. After our meetings, I would go to a bench or the Bodleian Library and write down what we talked about.
My reading lists were between 15 and 70 books. Of course, there's no expectation that you'll have read the entire list by the next week, but skimming is definitely a necessary skill. The reading is very interdisciplinary and very international.
How was the tutorial assessed?


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Tax Rates for San Pedro (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, CA
San Pedro (Los Angeles) City Sales Tax 0.0%
Los Angeles County Sales Tax 2.75%
California State Sales Tax 6.0%
Combined Sales Tax 8.75%
Los Angeles County Property Tax 1.175%
California State Property Tax 0.0%
Local Income Tax 0%
California State Income Tax 1% (<$7,850) to 13.30% (> $1m)
Source(s): http://www.boe.ca.gov
Sales Tax in San Pedro (Los Angeles), CA
While the State of California only charges a 6% sales tax, there's also a state mandated 1.25% local rate, bringing the minimum sales tax rate in the state up to 7.25%.
A combined city and county sales tax rate of 2.75% on top of California's 6% base makes San Pedro (Los Angeles) one of the more expensive cities to shop in, with 1675 out of 1782 cities having a sales tax rate this low or lower.
Property Tax in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County has one of the higher property tax rates in the state, at around 1.175%. 55 out of 58 counties have lower property tax rates. 2 counties have higher tax rates. Note that 1.175% is an effective tax rate estimate. Actual property tax rates vary slightly from property to property within cities and counties due to special property tax boundaries.
California has one of the lowest property tax rates in the country, thanks primarily to Proposition 13, a 1978 amendment to California's Constitution. Proposition 13 limits property taxes (which are determined by local governments) to at most 1% of the property's cash value. In addition, annual increases due to property value appreciation are limited to 2% per year. A property's value can only be reassessed for tax purposes if the property changes owners or if there is construction done to the property. Despite the 1% ad valorem tax limit, almost all effective property tax rates in California actually end up exceeding 1%. How can that happen? Proposition 13 allows local governments to charge additional fixed amount special assessments. Those special assessments can be earmarked for anything from funding schools to mosquito abatement. Local governments are also allowed to sell taxpayer approved bonds, which are repaid by additional property taxes not subject to the 1% limit.
Income Tax in California
California is one of 36 states that don't have any local (city or county level) income taxes. It does, however, have the highest top tax bracket in the country of 13.3% on income over $1 million, as well as a pretty high effective rate for middle class workers.
Other Tax Rates
Mt. Baldy, San Bernardino, CA
Peninsula Village, Plumas, CA
Huntington Beach, Orange, CA
Clear Creek, Siskiyou, CA
Forestville, Sonoma, CA
Granite Bay, Placer, CA
Los Nietos, Los Angeles, CA
Schuyler, Herkimer, NY
Naval Air Station (Alameda), Alameda, CA
Biola, Fresno, CA
South Valley, Cattaraugus, NY
Moss Beach, San Mateo, CA
Bostonia, San Diego, CA
Gualala, Mendocino, CA
Moss Landing, Monterey, CA
Eastchester, Westchester, NY
Thermal, Riverside, CA
Genesee, Allegany, NY
Alfred, Allegany, NY
Paramount, Los Angeles, CA
Lincoln, Placer, CA
Pinon Hills, San Bernardino, CA
Castaic, Los Angeles, CA
Rosamond, Kern, CA
Portuguese Bend (Rancho Palos Verdes), Los Angeles, CA
Southport, Chemung, NY
McClellan, Sacramento, CA
Lake Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Danube, Herkimer, NY
Benson, Hamilton, NY
Big Pine, Inyo, CA
O'Neals, Madera, CA
Apple Valley, San Bernardino, CA
Mineral, Tehama, CA
Larkfield, Sonoma, CA
Leggett, Mendocino, CA
Philo, Mendocino, CA
Penn Valley, Nevada, CA
Exeter, Tulare, CA
South Laguna (Laguna Beach), Orange, CA
Mira Vista, Contra Costa, CA
Volta, Merced, CA
Lake Arrowhead, San Bernardino, CA
St Johnsville, Montgomery, NY
Los Altos, Santa Clara, CA
Salina, Onondaga, NY
Livermore, Alameda, CA
Dillon Beach, Marin, CA
Harford, Cortland, NY
Vienna, Oneida, NY
Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Wilseyville, Calaveras, CA
Sutter, Sutter, CA
Naples, Ontario, NY
Peru, Clinton, NY
Earp, San Bernardino, CA
Stratford, Fulton, NY
Fishkill, Dutchess, NY
Omo Ranch, El Dorado, CA
Alamo, Contra Costa, CA
Olancha, Inyo, CA
Naval Air Station (Lemoore), Kings, CA
Cedar Glen, San Bernardino, CA
Dix, Schuyler, NY
Olivehurst, Yuba, CA
Castro Valley, Alameda, CA
Butternuts, Otsego, NY
Upper Lake/ Upper Lake Valley, Lake, CA
Del Rey, Fresno, CA
Sherwin Plaza, Mono, CA
Redwood City, San Mateo, CA
Redway, Humboldt, CA
Mineral King, Tulare, CA
Citrus Heights, Sacramento, CA
Woodstock, Ulster, NY
Harmony, Chautauqua, NY
Hoopa, Humboldt, CA
Ladera Heights, Los Angeles, CA
Alleghany, Sierra, CA
Chester, Plumas, CA
Johnstonville, Lassen, CA
Rosemead, Los Angeles, CA
Greenburgh, Westchester, NY
Granger, Allegany, NY
Proberta, Tehama, CA
Tierrasanta (San Diego), San Diego, CA
Haverstraw, Rockland, NY
Locke, Sacramento, CA
Highland Park (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, CA
Fayette, Seneca, NY
Paicines, San Benito, CA
Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz, CA
Flinn Springs, San Diego, CA
Ohio, Herkimer, NY
Castella, Shasta, CA
Wright, Schoharie, NY
Canisteo, Steuben, NY
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Labud Dragić (Serbian-Cyrillic: Лабуд Драгић; born 24 October 1954, Ljevišta, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian  writer of Montenegrin origin.

Life and Work
Labud Dragić was born in Ljevišta, a very small village of Morača Highland in Montenegrin municipality of Kolašin. Dragić attended a gymnasium in Sarajevo with maturity diploma in 1973, then he studied literary science with a focus on literary theory at the Philological Faculty of Belgrade's University and graduated in 1979. The writer is current member of the Association of Writers of Serbia. Dragić has already been a frequent visitor to Serbian Canadian community in Ontario. The artist lives in New Belgrade.

So far, his texts were published in literary magazines such as Polja (Serbian: Fields), Književna reč (Serbian: Literary Word), Nova Zora (Serbian: New Zora), Trag (Serbian: Trace), the Serbian Canadian weekly newspaper Novine Toronto (Serbian: Toronto News) and some others. In 2017, he received the Isidora Sekulić Award, the Momo Kapor Award, the Svetozar Ćorović Award and the Seal of Time Award for Science and Social Theory (Pečat vremena za nauku i društvenu teoriju) for his novel Kukavičja pilad (Cuckoo Chicks). The plot and the fate of its characters deals with the events at the time of last Montenegrin King Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš towards the end of World War I. The title of the novel has a metaphorical meaning: the Serbian word cuckoo can be used synonymously for coward.

The multiple laureate already commented on prizes many years ago in an article (Literary Evaluation of the Day) of Hereticus magazine as follows:

Bibliography (selection)
 Koji nemaju pečata : pripovetke (Those Who Do Not Have A Stamp : short stories), Rad, Belgrade 1985.
 Sram u katedrali : pripovetke (Shame In Cathedral : short stories), Rad, Belgrade 1990, .
 Dolinom senki (Valley Shadows; novel), Pobjeda, Titograd 1994, .
 Divlji anđeo (Wild Angel; short stories), Prosveta, Belgrade 1999.
 U zatonima Lete (In Backwater Of Lethe; short stories), Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 2003, .
 Krv i voda (Blood And Water; novel), Edit print, Belgrade 2007, .
 Bele noći sivog sokola (White Nights Of Grey Falcon; novel), Službeni glasnik, Belgrade 2013, .
 Kukavičja pilad (Cuckoo Chicks; novel), Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 2016, .

References

1954 births
Living people
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
Serbian writers
Serbian novelists
Serbian male short story writers
Serbian short story writers
People from Kolašin
Serbs of Montenegro
Serbian people of Montenegrin descent


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Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston, Michael Shannon cast in The Current War
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The Current War (2019 movie)
The Current War is powering up with a heavyweight cast.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston, and Nicholas Hoult are all officially set for director Alfonso Gomez Rejon's (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) next film, The Weinstein Company announced on Friday.
The drama follows the race in the late 19th century to find the best way to bring electricity to the United States. At the center of the story are rivals and legendary inventors Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.
EW previously reported Cumberbatch would portray Edison and Shannon was set for Westinghouse, while Hoult will play Nikola Tesla, who worked for both men. Set to begin production Sunday in London, the film has also added Matthew Macfayden and Tuppence Middleton to the cast.
"Edison and Westinghouse's rivalry is the ultimate tale of competition driving ingenuity," said Harvey Weinstein, TWC co-chairman. "Theirs was a battle of intellect, a race of creativity and technological innovation that we see echoed in the self-made inventors dominating spaces like Silicon Valley. We're thrilled to start filming and to share this historical rivalry with audiences everywhere."
Gomez-Rejon is directing from Michael Mitnick's script, which was on the 2011 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's long-awaited historical drama 'The Current War' has arrived. Read EW's review.
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Review: NBA 2K21
By Om Patel
The new NBA 2K21 captures the feel of a real-world basketball game, immersing you in the experience of being cheered on by thousands of fans as you make your shot. Those who have played the NBA 2K20 will find themselves in familiar territory with the NBA 2K21. It's basically the same game but with several minor upgrades. As with all games by Visual Concepts and 2K Sports, NBA 2K21 looks as sharp and as visually pleasing as its predecessors.
Released just two months before the PlayStation 5, the NBA 2K21 comes in a current-gen Standard Version that will be superseded by a next-generation version in just a few weeks. The upcoming next-gen version called the Mamba Forever edition is designed for Sony's new console, and those who purchase it will receive a copy of the PS5 game when it launches.
Release date: September 4, 2020 Available on: PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X coming soon)
Price: $59.99 (Standard Edition), $99.99 (Mamba Forever Edition)
The NBA 2K21 Standard Edition is basically the base edition. It doesn't include an upgrade to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions, but it does have 5000 virtual in-game currency, 9 MyCareer Skill Boosts, 5,000 MyTeam points for acquiring card packs, 5 pairs of virtual shoes for your MyPlayer to wear, and much more.
The Mamba Forever edition is the only special edition for the NBA 2K21. It pays tribute to the late Kobe Bryant on the cover and allows players to download the NBA 2K21's Standard Edition on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X when they launch. This edition comes with free 100,000 Virtual Currency, 60 MyCareer skill boosts, the Kobe Bryant Digital Collection, 40 MyTeam promo packs, and more.
Perhaps the most significant upgrade in the NBA 2K21 is the "Pro Stick" feature that gives users more control when handling the ball. The Pro Stick allows for a more fluid experience, which translates to more dramatic animations when shooting. However, with this fluidity, users will have to position the stick more accurately, and not rely solely on timing.
But it doesn't make the game bad. It's an adjustment that will take some time to get used to, but with practice, shooting does feel smoother. One thing we would have changed is the colors on the meter when trying to shoot. The colors are hard to see, but we're hoping that a future patch will allow players to customize the colors and the size of the bar to make it more visible.
Besides the Pro Stick feature, NBA 2K21 feels the same as its predecessor, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The 2K20 was easily one of the strongest sports games of its year.
There were some moments when off-ball movement felt a bit strange, such as when balls would get stuck on other players, and when non-playable teammates wouldn't automatically grab a loose ball or help.
Overall, NBA 2K21 is one of the most realistic NBA offerings out there. The new shooting experience changes the entire gameplay, but those who aren't into it can always switch to traditional and more familiar controls.
It's no surprise that the NBA 2K21 stands out above most sports games. It still features strong commentary, stadium announcements, pregame chatter, and chants from the crowd — all contributing to an extremely immersive and realistic experience.
The best way to describe it is that it's a mirror image of the NBA 2K20. It looks almost the same, except for added mannerisms to players. With attention to detail such as proper body proportions, physics behind jersey movements, and even sweat shine, the NBA 2K21 is a game that hides its best gems in its details.
NBA 2K21 looks good from all camera angles and looks even better when you zoom in to really see the details.
The NBA 2K21 is packed with a wide array of content to entertain you for hours. Here are a few of the upgrades you can find in 2K21:
In NBA 2K21, your MyTEAM collection will be carried over across different consoles: from PS4 to PS5 and from Xbox One to Xbox Series X. Evolution cards also branch out, which means there are countless ways to make your players unique. If you have badge cards that you don't need, you can trade them through The Exchange. Seasonal content will also be added to MyTEAM throughout the year.
NBA 2K21's narrative is called The Long Shadow. It follows Junior, a high schooler who wants to make it to the NBA. To make it even more realistic, MyCAREER features ten real college programs to choose from: Michigan State, UConn, Florida, Gonzaga, Syracuse, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, UCLA, Villanova University, and West Virginia.
MyCAREER's story is filled with cameos from familiar faces such as Michael K. Williams, Djimon Hounsou, Mireille Enos, and Jesse Williams. For a sports game, MyCAREER tells a compelling story without too much melodrama.
This year's neighborhood is called 2K Beach. It's a beautiful location that will make you feel like you're right beside the ocean. NBA 2K21 will host several events at 2K Beach all year long, so you'll be spending a lot of time at the Neighborhood.
Feel like a real baller with apparel and sneakers from popular brands. NBA 2K21 showcases an even better soundtrack, featuring tracks from famous singers and breakthrough artists.
One thing to note is that NBA 2K21 relies heavily on Virtual Currency, especially in MyTEAM. MyTEAM is a card-based system where you can build your ideal team by buying players, jerseys, and more. To get the most out of MyTEAM, you'll have to constantly buy new players and packs, which means spending real money. Everything your character does, even in MyCAREER, will earn a bit of Virtual Currency that you can use to upgrade your character or save up for more expensive packs, but it does take a while. Eventually, you'll find yourself paying for Virtual Currency just to move forward in the game.
NBA 2K21 is a fantastic addition to the NBA 2K series which long-time players will love. It smoothed out the shooting difficulty and added details that make the game the most realistic one in its series. With a compelling narrative and nearly flawless gameplay, NBA 2K21 is easily one of the best sports games out there. Our only problem is how much the game obsesses over Virtual Currency. But besides that, the NBA 2K21 is still a top-tier basketball game.
With the PlayStation 5 coming out soon, it's probably wiser to buy the NBA 2K21 Mamba Forever Edition — you'll be able to get the Standard Edition with it anyway. Buying the Mamba Forever Edition is also a nice way of paying tribute to one of basketball's greatest legends.
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Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele Declares Her Love for Juicy Couture Tracksuits
Legendary stylist Carlyne Cerf ded Dudzeele was the breakout star of last year's HBO documentary In Vogue: The Editor's Eye. She's outspoken, obsessed with fashion, hilarious, and not afraid to tell it like it is. Any opportunity to watch her do anything is one worth taking advantage of, which is why you must watch this new interview she did for Juicy Couture.
Legendary stylist Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele was the breakout star of last year's HBO documentary In Vogue: The Editor's Eye. She's outspoken, obsessed with fashion, hilarious, and not afraid to tell it like it is. Any opportunity to watch her do anything is one worth taking advantage of, which is why you must watch this new interview she did with The Glamourai for Juicy Couture (for StyleHaul video series StyleCore).
It may sound like an unlikely partnership, but it's not-- de Dudzeele is a big fan of the velour tracksuit--something she says will never be "demodé." Which is not so surprising when you consider the fact that she practically invented high/low in fashion--famously pairing Christian Lacroix couture with jeans on the cover of Vogue's November 1988 issue (Anna Wintour's first cover at the helm). In the below video, she praises Jennifer Lopez's signature pairing of Juicy tracksuits with expensive jewelry--something de Dudzeele like to do herself because it's real (just like J. Lo).
Watch 3.5 minutes of Carlyne amazingness below, exclusively on Fashionista.
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Juicy Couture's Co-Founders Want Their Brand Back
The ladies behind the phenomenon that was Juicy Couture's velour tracksuit, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, left the brand they founded in 2010, eventually going on to found their own label Skaist-Taylor. But they may be headed back. But if they do return to the brand, could Skaist-Levy and Nash-Taylor make it cool again?
Juicy Couture to Use Snapchat to Preview Spring Campaign
It's not every day that you get a SnapChat starring gorgeous models like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Emily DiDonato--but this Saturday, that's just what Juicy Couture will be sending fans as a part of their first attempt at SnapChatting.
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Legendary Stylist Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele Tells It Like It Is
We caught up with legendary stylist Carlyne Cerf De Dudzeele after a show in Paris. We asked her to weigh in about sticking it out in the fashion industry (she's been in it for a while) and for her thoughts on the never ending fashion circus debate. Trust us, you wanna hear what she had to say.
Juicy Couture Plots International Expansion
Azerbaijan will get a freestanding store before the U.S. does.
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Australian Mom Welcomes 13.5lb Baby!
Home » Australian Mom Welcomes 13.5lb Baby!
Chelsea Rose Mackay surprised everyone when she arrived weighing almost 14lbs. The newborn is believed to be the biggest baby ever born at Townsville Hospital and one of the largest in the country.
Weighing in at a hefty 13 pounds eight ounces and 55cm in length, there is certainly plenty of Chelsea for her first time mum, Danielle Mackay, to cuddle, the Townsville Bulletin reports.
Born on Thursday, Chelsea measures up at twice the size of an average baby and almost five-and-a-half times the size of her little friend, Melinda Burns.
Melinda was born prematurely at 818g, or just under two pounds, but is now a month old and weighs just 1.2kg.
Ms Mackay said she and partner Paul Mifsud ate a diet of stockman's tucker and also snacked on icy poles while pregnant with Chelsea but never imagined her bundle of joy would be this big.
Neonatal specialist Dr Yoga Kandasamy said while most babies of Chelsea's size were sick or had mothers with gestational diabetes, both mum and babe were a picture of good health.
"She would have to be one of the biggest newborns I have ever seen," Dr Kandasamy said.
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The Beginner's Guide to Markdown and Pandoc
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Learn how to write with Markdown and produce production quality material using Pandoc
Markdown is a markup language; the name is a pun. Markup languages are used to annotate text formatting information, typically with a stronger focus on semantic information than direct formatting as you would do with WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) formatting. With markup languages, you might annotate your text with information about where chapters and sections start, but not how chapter and heading captions should be formatted. Doing this decouples the structure of a text from how it is visualised and makes it easier for you to produce different kinds of output. The same text can easily be formatted as HTML, PDF, or Word documents, with various visual styles, by tools that understand the markup annotations.
Pandoc is a tool for translating between different markup languages, such as LaTeX, HTML, and Markdown. I use it for formatting the books I write. This booklet describes how. I will tell you how to write manuscripts in Markdown and translate them with Pandoc into different output formats. I will not describe all the functionality that Pandoc provides, only how it can be used to write papers and books in Markdown. If that is something you are interested in, The Beginner's Guide to Markdown and Pandoc will get you started.
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Mako Attack
By Guy Harvey
Presenting the opportunity to purchase Guy Harvey original artwork! Regarded as the world's premier marine wildlife artist, Dr. Guy Harvey continues to captivate audiences with his unique artistic style and the exhilaration of his grand underwater encounters. Guy Harvey paints his masterpieces from his studio located in Grand Cayman. His unparalleled experience interacting directly with underwater subjects emerges in the brilliant colors, thrilling movement, and incomparable accuracy of his artwork.
The 'Mako Attack' portrait features a ferrous feeding scene with a mako shark jumping through the air with a sailfish in its mouth. This acrylic brush stroke measures 18" x 24" unframed. For those with a passion for the sea, fishing, or marine wildlife, little compares to the spectacular artwork of Guy Harvey.
Regarded as the world's premier marine wildlife artist, Dr. Guy Harvey continues to captivate audiences with his unique artistic style and the exhilaration of his grand underwater encounters. Guy Harvey paints his masterpieces from his studio located in Grand Cayman. His unparalleled experience interacting directly with underwater subjects emerges in the brilliant colors, thrilling movement, and incomparable accuracy of his artwork.