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Napa doesn't seem to be warming, despite some predictions
Posted by steve on Apr 9, 2013 in Global Warming, Opinion | 11 comments
If the predictions in this just-released study are true, then Napa Valley will be too hot for fine winemaking in a generation or so. That being the case, today's young bloggers, who hope to make money writing about wine someday, might find it in their interests to take up residence in Billings or Fort St. John, and focus on the budding wine industries of Montana and British Columbia.
I believe in climate change, but I do think that the term "global warming" is misleading. It doesn't seem to be getting warmer everywhere. My own opinion, for what it's worth, is that coastal California–which includes Napa and Sonoma–is getting cooler, at least in the summers, because the interior West is getting warmer, creating a vast thermal low pressure system that sucks in air from the west. And, as we all know, to our west is a large, cold body of water. The Sacramento Valley may be heating up, but our little coastal strip seems safe.
Indeed, the San Francisco Chronicle, citing meteorological analyses, reported in 2011 that "California's coastal regions appear to be getting more rain and cold weather while inland areas such as Fresno are getting hotter."
The reason? "If you have more warm days in the Central Valley, you are going to have a stronger sea breeze so you will cool off the coastal areas. That certainly does not contradict any of the models about global warming. This is what is to be expected."
Is the eastern Pacific Ocean cooling or warming? I don't know, but neither do climatologists. As far as I can determine, the cyclical effects of El Nino and La Nina are the biggest drivers of the ocean's temperature. The former warms it, the latter cools it. At any rate, I don't think anyone expects the eastern Pacific to warm up dramatically enough to impact California viticulture anytime soon.
Global warming? The cold summer of 2010 continues
Posted by steve on Aug 2, 2010 in Global Warming, News | 81 comments
Last Friday's San Francisco Chronicle had these two articles, both within one page of each other:
Cold summer not coldest
Scientists deem Earth's warming 'unmistakable'
How to account for such schizoid reports? According to the first article, although the summer of 2010 hasn't set a record for cold, it's been one of the chilliest and most persistently foggy in years, contrasting "sharply with record heat on the East Coast."
According to the second article, "The past decade was the [world's] warmest on record" and "Scientific evidence that the world is getting warmer is 'unmistakable,' according to…the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration." So, despite the numbskull Tea Party allegations of "Climategate" and know-nothing denialism, the evidence "all point[s] to the same conclusion: Our planet is warming."
I have written about the cold weather along the California coast for years now on this blog, but even before I started doing so, I was noting, in the vintage diary I keep every year for my reports in Wine Enthusiast, how chilly things have gotten since the notoriously hot summer and fall of 2004. The years 2005-2009, inclusive, all seemed colder to me than any I'd experienced since arriving here in 1978; and now, here we go again. I've written here how cold and wet our 2010 "spring" was — a "spring" that never happened until things warmed up, slightly, in June. Now here we are with July over, and both the average temperature and the number of sunny days in San Francisco are down. Here in Oakland, the average July high temperature has been running 2.1 degrees below historic norms.
As it is in San Francisco and Oakland, so it is in wine country. Yesterday (as I write; actually, last Thursday), somebody at Vine Cliff Winery, in Napa Valley, called to tell me "We're 2-3 weeks behind" in average ripeness due to the chill, which leads naturally to concerns about Fall rains. A Sonoma winemaker wrote on my Facebook page, on July 20, "We've had something like 6 days the whole year when it has been over 90°…Our grapes are just barely pea-sized still and I'm think[ing] we could be a month or more behind. Wild." As July is Sonoma town's hottest month, on average, the temperature for the rest of the summer is likely to be even more moderate than it has been — a trend that will probably continue, according to the Chronicle article.
Even in the normally baking Central Valley, "There have been few, if any readings of 100 degrees this summer within 100 miles of the coast." You have to get to practically Las Vegas to experience true, western-style summer heat.
I can't explain these cooler summers and falls. A weatherman I know once suggested that greater warming in the interior west / Four Corners is creating a gigantic thermal low that sucks in maritime air from the chilly eastern Pacific, where water temperatures struggle to get out of the 50s. It is from these cold waters, of course, that the coast gets its fogs and cool temperatures, driven by prevailing winds from the west/northwest. Maybe that's the explanation. All I know are two things: People from San Francisco to Los Angeles are grouchy because the summer has been so damned cold, and the winegrapes seem to be loving it. All we can do now is hope that the fall rains hold off until, oh, sometime in November.
Spring 2010: wet, cold
Posted by steve on Apr 28, 2010 in Global Warming, Weather | 7 comments
It's raining again here in cloudy, wet Oakland, as it is in most of California from the Central Coast northward. It seems like this has been a really rainy winter, and it doesn't want to stop. Not that I'm complaining. Well, maybe I am, a little — but the most common phrase this year has been "We need the water." And we do, "we" being not just us humans, who consume it in the form of melted snowpack from the High Sierra mostly, but also the grapevines. Several winemakers have told me over the last two weeks that, despite all the rain, they were wishing for one or two more storms. Well, they're getting what they asked for.
The season started out rainy and never stopped. Oakland got a record 3.86 inches back last Oct. 13, the "storm from hell" that sparked the infamous question, "Did you pick before or after the rains?" (For the record, Napa got 3.65 inches in that storm, while 3.16 inches poured down on the Sonoma County Airport.) In November, things dried out, but December turned wickedly cold and wet, a trend that has lasted until now.
By the time April comes to Northern California, your mind and body are prepared for Spring. Every flowering tree is in full bloom, the wildflowers lend a riot of color to the fields and hills, the robins are back, and even the fruit flies make their first appearance of the season. (Where do they live during the winter?) April holds the promise of six months of warm, sunny weather; April is the threshold of Paradise.
But this April has been a cruel tease. We had a day or two in the high 70s. But here are random notes from my Vintage Diary:
April 4: Cold, wet and windy.
April 7: More very cold weather, very wet and rainy.
April 10: The month continues to be very cold and wet.
April 22: The rain continues. Very, very cold.
April 28: Two consecutive days of rain.
The Oakland Airport weather station has had 19.75 inches of rain since last July 1 through today, which is 115% of the normal rainfall, 17.11 inches. The average precipitation for the season (which runs from July 1-June 30 every year) is 22.94 inches, so even though it feels like it's been raining forever, we're more than three inches below average. But we still have May to get through, a tricky month; the average precipitation here in May is less than an inch, but last May was very rainy, especially in the North Coast. We had big storms the first week of May, 2009, with totals up to 5 inches, and June was no picnic. My local weatherman called June, 2009 "the coldest June in 15 years."
I've been noting ever since 2005 that the weather here in coastal California seems cooler than normal. That seems to be continuing. It may be that the Great Interior Basin (around the Four Corners of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado) is heating up, as well as California's Central Valley. That would create a lower pressure gradient that would suck in air from over the eastern Pacific, where the water temperature is always cold, cooling the coast before the air warmed up again on its way inland. Whatever the reason for our cooler weather along the coast, it's good for the grapes and wine (unless you get hit by mold or rain or a frost). Cooler temps = longer hangtime = ripeness at lower brix = more flavor with lower alcohol. At least, that's the theory.
Anyway the forecast for today is continued showers and even the possibility of thunderstorms. The longer range forecast calls for clearing and warmer after today. But Springtime in California, like I said, can be a tease.
Can we please get over "climategate" and understand that warming is a threat to winegrapes?
Posted by steve on Dec 17, 2009 in Global Warming, News | 31 comments
The climate change deniers, bless their dumb little hearts, are getting lots of buzz lately, but I'll side with the scientists, the majority of whom are absolutely sure that warming is occurring and that it's getting dangerously too late to do anything about it.
The latest — as if we didn't have enough evidence — comes from Stanford, where UPI is reporting that a team led by Noah Diffenbaugh "say they've determined global warming could significantly negatively impact U.S. wine and corn production." (I'm not going to write here about corn except to say that I love it when it's ripe in the summertime and will miss it if it goes away.) They go on to say that "global warming could reduce the current U.S. wine grape region by 81 percent by the end of the century" due to hotter and hotter days in wine country like California's, which, in places like Napa Valley, is already pretty hot.
(Diffenbaugh presents his formal study today at an American Geophysical Union held in Moscone Center and I'm sure it will be widely reported.)
It's not just that excessive heat could make even coastal valleys inappropriate for delicate varieties, like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. A warming climate could upset the ecosystem in much more fundamental ways. Science Daily describes how, "if spring-like weather arrives earlier than usual, and flowers bloom and wither before the pollinators [like bees] appear," then wines might not even produce fruit. Earlier, scientists had calculated that a rise of only 2-4 degrees Celsius in grape regions could cause "losses [to be] be as high as 40 percent by mid-century." In a previous study, Diffenbaugh determined that temperatures "from the principal wine regions of California, Oregon and Washington" already have risen in recent years by nearly 1 degree Celsius, and that was before some of the hottest years on record were yet to come.
It's been surmised for years that other areas of the United States and North America could become more amenable to fine wine (vitis vinifera) growing as California gets too hot. Diffenbaugh warned as early as 2006 that by the end of this century "wine growing areas will be largely limited to the Northeast, including parts of upstate New York and Long Island." And, of course, it was reported just yesterday that "there are some places in the world, such as the English vineyards, which stand to benefit from warmer temperatures."
I know that some people don't like it when I get all political on this blog which is a wine blog not a political blog or a scientific blog. But can we agree that a topic like climate change isn't just scientific or political but may potentially impact us all? The leaked emails from a week or so ago gave ammunition to the deniers but as The [San Francisco] Examiner reported 3 days ago, the conservative furor over the emails "is much ado about nothing" and "the evidence of global warming is overwhelming." Since I'm unable to conduct my own research into climate change, and don't have the time or technical expertise to wade through mountains of studies and data, I have to put my trust in something; and I choose to believe the credible scientists from around the world and in every agency of every country I'm aware of (including the U.N.) that climate change is upon us, and one of its manifestations will be increased warming — perhaps not everywhere, or all at once, but California seems to be at risk, which means winegrapes are too, and that worries me.


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Lorde announces new album Solar Power
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New Zealand pop star Lorde has shared the title track from her new album Solar Power. "I want this album to be your summer record," Lorde says in a newsletter. "The album you play on your way to the beach and that lingers on your skin like a tan when the months get colder." The album's release date has yet to be announced.
Lorde co-wrote and produced Solar Power with Jack Antonoff, who is perhaps best known for his work with Lana Del Rey. He also plays guitar and drums on the new song. Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo sing in the background.
Solar Power will be her third album after Pure Heroine and Melodrama (2017).
Blackwood released, updates announced
Author Lucinda Riley dies age 55
Podcast tip: This American Life
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FLSA Retaliation – Why Go There?
Today's burning question: I am a line battalion chief in a department that classifies all chief officers as white-collar exempt executives. As exempt executives we are not eligible for overtime. Our association obtained an opinion letter from a law firm that concluded line chiefs do not qualify as white-collar executives under either the traditional analysis nor under the 2004 First Responder Regulations. We shared the letter with the city administration along with a demand for a change in our classification to non-exempt. The fire chief is now threatening to rename our positions as battalion captains. Isn't that retaliation?
Answer: It may well be retaliation. Let's explore the law.
The Fair Labor Standards Act includes a strong anti-retaliation provision that prohibits an employer from "discharg[ing] or in any other manner discriminat[ing] against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint". According to the Department of Labor, the term "complaint" includes internal complaints to an employer, such as the one your association made.
As I have mentioned here numerous times, employment attorneys LOVE retaliation claims. The reason is relatively simple: If an employee engages in a protected activity (eg. complaining about an FLSA violation), and the employer thereafter takes an adverse action against the employee, it is retaliation. So easy a caveman-attorney could win it!
Here's the kicker: It does not matter whether the employee was right or wrong in the original complaint. In other words, an employee who complains about an FLSA violation, and who thereafter is retaliated against, can prevail on his retaliation claim – EVEN IF HE WAS WRONG IN HIS UNDERLYING FLSA CLAIM. That is right: even if the employee is dead wrong, he can prevail on his retaliation claim.
Retaliation requires an adverse action. While changing an employee's title very well could be an adverse action depending on the circumstances, it is less clear that threatening to do so would be. A strong argument could be made that the fire chief's efforts to intimidate employees through threats of retaliation could itself be an adverse action. Personally, I would not want to try to defend a chief who threatened to retaliate, especially before a US District Court judge.
The next issue to consider is damages. What damages would a battalion chief whose title is changed to battalion captain, be entitled to? Assuming the department made the battalion chiefs/captains whole for the overtime they were denied plus liquidated damages and attorneys fees, and agreed to properly pay overtime going forward, how would a court calculate damages for the retaliation?
membership in a fire chiefs association that requires chief officer status.
Lastly, there is the possibility that a court could order the department to change the title back to battalion chief as a remedy to the retaliation.


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Q: Split tuple with multiple fields to tuples with single field in Pig I have tuples with varied length. I am trying to convert them to tuples with only one field(each field is a map).
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dump entryArray;
([symbol#HIG,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743094])
([symbol#PEW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743084])
([symbol#AFFY,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5585],[symbol#RFG,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5586],[symbol#SCHW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5587],[symbol#VWO,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5588])

I hope the output would be(each field still be map):
([symbol#HIG,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743094])
([symbol#PEW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743084])
([symbol#AFFY,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5585])
([symbol#RFG,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5586])
([symbol#SCHW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5587])
([symbol#VWO,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5588])

I have tried: entry = FOREACH entryArray GENERATE FLATTEN(TOBAG()); the output has same format, but it seems that the field is no longer MAP:
entry = FOREACH entryArray GENERATE FLATTEN(TOBAG());
dump entry;
([symbol#HIG,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743094])
([symbol#PEW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#743084])
([symbol#AFFY,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5585])
([symbol#RFG,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5586])
([symbol#SCHW,security_type#EQUITY,foreign_entry_id#5587])
([symbol#VWO,security_type#ETF,foreign_entry_id#5588])

security_type = FOREACH entry GENERATE FLATTEN($0#'security_type');
it throws:
ERROR 1052: Cannot cast bytearray to map with schema :map
org.apache.pig.impl.logicalLayer.validators.TypeCheckerException: ERROR 1059: <line 18, column 16> Problem while reconciling output schema of ForEach
at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.visitor.TypeCheckingRelVisitor.throwTypeCheckerException(TypeCheckingRelVisitor.java:141)
at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.visitor.TypeCheckingRelVisitor.visit(TypeCheckingRelVisitor.java:181)
at org.apache.pig.newplan.logical.relational.LOForEach.accept(LOForEach.java:75)
......

Any suggestion would be very appreciated. Thanks!

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Packing 3 Meals a Day!
While there might be a few more days of summer left before the official start of fall, going back to school, seeing apples at the Farmers Market, and an overnight low of 48* is enough for me to declare summer over. Fall means squash and root veggies to ground us and prime our bodies for winter (not to mention fall foliage!) and for many of us, it also means a much busier schedule. Having a jam-packed routine doesn't allow me to compromise on my priorities. Following the age-old mantra, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail," I started off the fall semester with 3! evening classes after work and with a bullet-proof plan. So far, it's working!
Before I started grad school, I worked out 5-6 days/week and prepared 80% of my food. Then I started compromising on exercise by not working out on class days and on my food choices by eating too much food prepared by people who don't share my nutritional goals (Ex: The vegetarian soups I find at work and on campus are FULL of sodium and often, cream and flour). My body wasn't happy. I struggled to maintain my feel-great weight and my favorite clothes didn't flatter. My back ached and I became addicted to caffeine. I composted too many fresh veggies that I bought or grew but never had time to prepare. And, was a cranky-pants. Not this semester!
This fall, I opted to take an additional class and instead of freaking out, I'm owning it and trying to make the most out of this jam-packed schedule. My amazing gym offers great classes that work with any schedule. James has BTDT with his own work+class schedule and he bends over backwards to help out more at home when I'm spread too thin. My favorite Farmer's Market is on Saturday mornings, making it easy to get there. All of these factors make this lifestyle enjoyable.
In order to eat well this fall, I'll be packing more of my meals and eating at the times that are right for my body, even if that means that I'm that girl in class chowing down on an irresistible homemade burrito bowl or an arugula salad with roasted beets, goat cheese, pine nuts, and homemade creamy balsamic (sorry guys!). I won't eat a big meal after class because I hate the way I feel in the morning after going to bed on a full stomach. I won't buy salt-laden to-go soups because they always disappoint. Instead, I'll pack enough healthy food to get me through the day. I'll keep my food drawer at work stocked with nut butters and brown rice cakes, herbal teas, nuts, granola, and whole grain chips. I'll pack fresh fruits and veggies and will keep hummus and Greek yogurt in the fridge at work. I'll simply prepare enough "modular" food (beans, grains, veggies, and greens) on weekends and nights off to get me through the week with creative mixing and matching.
Keep your pantry stocked with canned beans. They're a fast and easy add-in to soups, salads, and rice bowls. They also make tasty dips and are of course, packed with fiber and protein. If beans bother your tummy, try Eden's beans. They soak their beans with kombu, making them easier to digest.
Try cooking grains in a low-sodium veggie broth for extra flavor.
Store leftover grains in airtight containers in the fridge for up to 5 days.
Guac! Who doesn't love it? How hard is it to make a batch once a week? RECIPE HERE.
Mix and match and make things different with spices, herbs, and alliums. The same bean+grain+green combo can take on Mediterranean, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, or Central/South American personalities just by changing the add-ins. Think: Cilantro and avocado or parsley and olives? Ginger and tamari or garlic and basil? Onions, shallots, or leeks? The possibilities are endless!
Top your salads with seasonal produce. Tomatoes are delicious and cheap now, but won't be tasty come November. Grill some veggies. Roast some beets. Mix and match, drawing inspiration from the best salads you've ever been served.
Don't forget about nuts, seeds, and sprouts! They make fantastic additions to salads and grain+bean bowls.
Pack healthy snacks! If you know you're likely to want something sweet after lunch, pack an apple or a few dates. For me, having a stash of coco macaroon and dark chocolate covered nuts helps me resist the urge to grab an unhealthy snack.
For more on the topic of packing your lunch, check out this post from last fall.
Question: What are your favorite ways to eat well when you're on the go? Leave a comment to share your tips with other FSTS readers!


The International Center of Photography is proud to present Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, a global survey of today's most exciting and innovative photography and video art. As ICP's signature exhibition - and the only one of its kind in America - this year's Triennial promises to be the most dynamic yet, featuring over 100 recent works by 34 artists from 18 countries. The newly released roster of artists includes such rising stars as Mickalene Thomas, Yto Barrada, Kimsooja, and Thorsten Brinkmann, as well as established artists such as Cindy Sherman, Stan Douglas, and Lorna Simpson. As with previous ICP Triennials, this year's exhibition has a thematic focus: fashion. The artists in Dress Codes understand fashion as a form of social communication, and use costume, clothing, and disguise to create a rich visual language filled with specific references to history, culture, gender, and geography.
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Sushant Singh Rajput Wiki, Age, Career, Education, Death, Girlfriend, Family & More
The famous Bollywood actor and TV star Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide in his Mumbai apartment on 14th June, 2020. Here is the biography, career, achievements and more information on the late actor.
Sushant Singh Rajput was born in Patna, Bihar, on 21st January, 1986. He is known for his works as an actor in Hindi cinema.
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Real Name Sushant Singh Rajput
Professional Actor
Date of Birth 21 January 1986
Birthplace Patna, Bihar, India
Date of Death 14 June 2020
Place of Death Hill road Bandra, Mumbai
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Height (approx)
in centimetres- 183 cm
in feet & inches- 6′
in Kilogram- 71 kg
Hair Colour Dark Brown
School St. Karen's High School, Patna
Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Delhi
College / University Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi
Education Qualification Dropped out From Mechanical Engineering
Family, Parents & Relationships
Affaris/Girlfriends Ankita Lokhande (2011-2016)
Kriti Sanon (Remoured)
Rhea Chakraborty (actress)
Parents Father– Krishna Kumar Singh
Mother– Usha Singh (Died in 2002)
Mitu Singh
Neetu Singh
Priyanka Singh (lawyer)
Sweeta Singh Kirti (Live in USA)
Wife/ Spouse N/A
Rajput started his career as an actor with daily soaps Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil and Pavitra Rishta. He made his acting debut in Bollywood with Kai Po Che. He then starred in Shuddh Desi Romance, PK, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Raabta, Kedarnath, Sonchiraiya, Drive and Chhichhore. His last film was Dil Bechara, a remake of the english film Fault in Our Stars.
In 2010 and 2011, the actor won the Indian Television Academy Award for Most Popular Actor (Male), Big Star Entertainment Award for Best Television Actor (Male), Gold Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role, and FICCI Frames Excellence Honour for Best TV Actor (Male) for Pavitra Rishta. He received the Producers Guild Film Award and Screen Award for Best Male Debut in 2014 for Kai Po Che. In 2016 and 2017, he won the Screen Award for Best Actor (Critics) and the Best Actor award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story.
Film or Series
2009 Indian Telly Awards Most Popular Actor (Male) Pavitra Rishta Nominated
2010 BIG Star Entertainment Awards Best Television Actor (Male) Pavitra Rishta Won
2010 Gold Awards Best Actor in a Lead Role Pavitra Rishta Won
2010 Indian Television Academy Awards Most Popular Actor (Male) Pavitra Rishta Won
2011 FICCI Frames Excellence Honours Best TV Actor (Male) Pavitra Rishta Won
2014 Filmfare Awards Best Debut Actor Kai Po Che! Nominated
2014 IIFA Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Kai Po Che! Nominated
2014 Producers Guild Film Awards Best Male Debut Kai Po Che! Won
2014 Producers Guild Film Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role Kai Po Che! Nominated
2014 Screen Awards Best Male Debut Kai Po Che! Won
2014 Zee Cine Awards Best Male Debut Kai Po Che! Nominated
2016 Screen Awards Best Actor (Critics) M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Won
2017 Filmfare Awards Best Actor M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Nominated
2017 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Best Actor M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Won
2017 International Indian Film Academy Awards Best Actor (Male) M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Nominated
2017 Stardust Awards Best Actor M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Nominated
2017 Zee Cine Awards Best Actor – Male M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story Nominated
Sushant Singh Rajput Achievements
Best Actor award at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne for M.S. Dhoni The Untold Story
Big Zee Entertainment awards gor best actor
Sushant Singh Rajput Receiving an Award
Shushank Singh Rajput at filmfare
Best Actor Award Dubai
Filmfare for the Youth Icon award
Net worth (approx) 59 crore INR (as 2020)
Astronomy and Astrophysics were Rajput's favourites. He loved to observe the rings of Saturn with his Meade LX-600 telescope. He was a fan of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.
Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty moved in together in December, 2019. He committed suicide by hanging himself on 14th June, 2020, six days after Rhea moved out.
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Guillermo del Toro had a very weird explanation for not wearing a Time's Up badge at the BAFTAs
The Mexican picked up the Best Director trophy for The Shape of Water at last night's awards.
One of the prevalent themes of last night's BAFTA awards was addressing sexual harassment in the film industry and celebrating the #MeToo movement.
A whole host of attendees wore a Time's Up badge in solidarity, a symbol which has come to reflect equality and change in the industry, including Martin McDonagh, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dermot O'Leary, Sam Claflin, Gary Oldman and many more.
When Guillermo del Toro went up to collect his award viewers noticed that he wasn't wearing a badge. When he was asked about it later, here was his response:
'I wore one to DGA… all I can say is jetlag and lateness. Throughout my work and throughout the years I have been vocal and supportive,' he told Metro.co.uk.
'I try to generate not only key positions for female directors and first-time directors but also write powerful parts for female actresses in ways that are not the quote on quote usual way,' he said.
Too jetlagged and late to wear a badge? Mmmm.
See the full list of BAFTA winners here.
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'It's Always Internal and Me Trying to Be as Great as I Want to Be'
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Jayson Tatum, the standout forward for the Boston Celtics, does not focus on the bad per se, but he hopes to draw inspiration from his early-season problems.
Over the weekend, Tatum talked on accepting hardship and realizing that even superstar athletes go through difficult times. He believes Celtics supporters will react in a similar way when they face adversity.
Early in the 2021-22 NBA season, Jayson Tatum and the Celtics are suffering.
The Boston Celtics reached the Eastern Conference Finals in the 2019-20 season, but it seems like it was a long time ago.
After a 4-6 start to the season, the Celtics are now 11th in the Eastern Conference. It's bad enough that you've lost. Boston, on the other hand, is experiencing some internal strife. After a shocking defeat to the Chicago Bulls last week, Marcus Smart called out Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, sparking a "players only" meeting.
Smart seems to have a problem with Tatum and Brown's offensive strategies, as well as the volume of shots they've been taking. Tatum is averaging a career-high 22 field-goal attempts per game through 10 games, with mixed outcomes. The 23-year-old is averaging 23.6 points per game, but his field-goal percentage is below 40%.
On Nov. 6, Tatum had one of his greatest games of the season, scoring 32 points on 12-of-19 shooting and adding 11 rebounds against the Dallas Mavericks. The Celtics, though, fell short as Luka Doncic made a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer.
The former Duke standout isn't oblivious to Boston's struggles. Instead, he aims to excite and inspire people by highlighting individual and communal hardships.
Tatum spoke on how he uses his "platform" to highlight the challenges of being a professional athlete.
Jayson Tatum has been posting a lot on Instagram recently about overcoming his challenges, something he hasn't done in the past. So I questioned him about it, and he responded with one of the most detailed responses we've ever seen from him: pic.twitter.com/1jQw1Gegxj
November 7, 2021 — Jared Weiss (@JaredWeissNBA)
Jayson Tatum is probably aware of Celtics supporters' dissatisfaction as the club continues to struggle. Without a question, the fifth-year forward is eager to turn the turnaround.
Tatum, on the other hand, isn't attempting to minimize the issue.
After the Mavericks' Nov. 6 defeat, reporters questioned Tatum about his recent social media postings, many of which emphasized the need of endurance. According to him, the postings reflect a yearning for mental and emotional stability.
"I understand that I have a platform," Tatum told The Athletic's Jared Weiss. "I've always been who I am, and a lot of people pay attention to what I say and do. I believe that discussing your favorite player's challenges, not just the 60- and 50-point games and those huge moments, is important. They miss shots and go through slumps. Accepting the fact that I'll figure things out."
The Celtics star went on to say that he wants to be honest with himself and not let outside storylines dictate how his season plays out.
"It's always inside, and you go through terrible periods striving to be as wonderful as you want to be." But never to be afraid of it. You have to be the same guy when you're scoring 60 points and when you're 3-of-15 and losing a few games and everyone is watching you."
–Jayson Tatum, as reported by The Athletic
Tatum's message is important, particularly now that more athletes are speaking out about mental health. It's all the more crucial given that he's just 23 years old.
Even as Tatum and his Celtics teammates strive to get traction, there's little doubt that Boston wants him to make a big step forward.
Will the Celtics be able to turn their fortunes around?
On November 2, 2021, in Orlando, Florida, Jayson Tatum goes to the foul line during a game against the Orlando Magic at the Amway Center. | Getty Images/Don Juan Moore
Despite the Celtics' struggles, there are reasons to remain optimistic.
Brown is playing like a pro and scoring points at a high rate. At the rim, the frontcourt of Robert Williams and Al Horford is a problem for opposing teams, with Horford playing an important role as a facilitator and Williams looking for chances as a rim runner.
What needs to be altered? Tatum, on the other hand, can surely be more consistent. Smart, who is shooting the ball badly and seems to be less of a facilitator than Dennis Schroder, is in the same boat.
Ultimately, each member of the C's should be responsible for themselves and one another, as Tatum said. It's possible that this is the only way Boston can right the ship.
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Fountains of Wayne's Chris Collingwood Returns With New Project 'Look Park'
Published July 24, 2016 at 6:48 AM CDT
ELISE HU, HOST:
Once upon a time, there was a group named after a lawn ornament store. Fountains of Wayne made quite a splash with a suggestive little number called "Stacy's Mom."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STACY'S MOM")
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: (Singing) You know I'm not the little boy that I used to be. I'm all grown up now. Baby, can't you see? Stacy's mom has got it going on. She's all that I want, and I've waited for so long.
HU: Chris Collingwood was the lead singer and the band had a good long run and a devoted following. But he and co-songwriter Adam Schlesinger parted ways after the 2011 album "Sky Full Of Holes." Over the next few years, Collingwood wrote dozens and dozens of demos. He was energized and determined to develop a sound apart from Fountains of Wayne. The result is a project called "Look Park."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SHOUT PART 1")
CHRIS COLLINGWOOD: (Singing) Have you been labeled from the get-go on the road in fine little pieces? Did you hear bells and the echoes of far-away horns in bone-dry places?
HU: Chris Collingwood joins us from the studios of New England Public Radio in Springfield, Mass., now. Chris, welcome.
COLLINGWOOD: Thank you for having me.
HU: Well, first, how is a "Look Park" song different from a Fountains of Wayne song?
COLLINGWOOD: Fountains of Wayne, it's a history that I embraced for a while and then didn't so much, writing humorous songs. And some of the early records, I was still writing kind of goofy songs. And I just - I don't know, I grew up. And I'm in my mid-40s now, and it's not something that interests me anymore to make people chuckle with music. So (laughter) that's probably the biggest difference.
There's other differences, you know. We changed up the orchestration quite a bit in working with Mitchell Froom, the producer of the record, trying to get away from the signature elements of power pop that really had defined Fountains of Wayne, the tambourines and the four-on-the-floor drum patterns and the quarter notes on the guitar and the sha-la-las (ph) in the backing vocals. Those were all things I was just trying to get away from.
HU: There is a certain '60s feel to some of these tracks. So let's listen to another song. This is "Stars Of New York."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STARS OF NEW YORK")
COLLINGWOOD: (Singing) They walk among you, the stars of New York. Take a train like some people do. Ride a taxi on the avenue. And when the pushes come to shove, they probably fall in love like you do. Get down.
The main element of the orchestration that came out of Mitchell's and my conversations was the Mellotron, which is the, you know, the instrument - if you're referring to the '60s, you know, it was very commonly used by The Beatles and The Moody Blues.
HU: And that's what was making the stringy sound?
COLLINGWOOD: Yeah, and it's throughout the album. We (laughter) really went overboard with it. But, yeah, it's an instrument where you press the key on the keyboard, and it's actually running a length of magnetic tape over a tape head. So you're actually playing what is a sample.
HU: So, like, a whole bunch of tape loops.
COLLINGWOOD: A whole bunch of, you know, however many are in the piano keyboard, so 88, I guess. That crazy, crazy invention.
COLLINGWOOD: (Singing) Save yourself. Save yourself. Because you can't save the ones you love.
HU: Let me ask you about Fountains of Wayne 'cause I know there are many Fountains of Wayne fans out there who might be wondering what happened. You've been fairly open about your struggles with alcohol in the past. So I was wondering, how did that play into, maybe, the final days recording with Fountains of Wayne?
COLLINGWOOD: Well, the - you know, the struggles with alcohol were over in 2006 or so. And Fountains of Wayne was recording long after that. So it hasn't been an issue for several years. It was related to, I think, what eventually caused the demise of Fountains of Wayne in that when we were recording the record before the last Fountains of Wayne record, which was called "Traffic And Weather," I didn't really have a whole lot to contribute to that album. I was out to lunch a little bit, mentally, and just drinking too much.
And I think that the fact that I sort of removed myself from the process at that point made it really easier for Adam to take over. And when I was ready to actually make another album, you know, several years later after I'd sort of cleaned up my act, it was very difficult. It was very, very hard to get back into the position where we were equals.
HU: So I want to turn to a credit in the liner notes. There's a thank you credit to Barbara H. Who's Barbara H., and how did she help you through all these changes?
COLLINGWOOD: Well, there's a - there's an old Fountains of Wayne song called "Barbara H." Barbara H. is my wife, and I have a studio in my house. She's the first audience for anything I'm working on. I also - I live in the woods. There's nobody around to really hear what I'm working on except for her.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BARBARA H.")
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: (Singing) Can't shake that tune, but it's OK. Maybe the world isn't so small. Barbara knows it doesn't matter at all.
HU: So if we were to ask Barbara H., since we've already gone over several songs from the album, is there a song that Barbara H. would like to help play us out, one that stands out, that she's a fan of and you are particularly proud of?
COLLINGWOOD: I think that "Minor Is The Lonely Key" is one of her favorite songs on the record. And, you know, she, just in general, is more a fan of moody music. She's not particularly a fan of power pop. And that one is one that I could see in her record collection (laughter).
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MINOR IS THE LONELY KEY")
COLLINGWOOD: (Singing) Find the sadness that hides in your chest, minor sharps and sing the melody alone 'cause they can't hear the tune, and they don't know the words to the song.
HU: Chris Collingwood - his new project as a bandleader is called "Look Park." He joined us from New England Public Radio. Chris Collingwood, thanks so much.
COLLINGWOOD: Thank you.
COLLINGWOOD: (Singing) Hit the trail, young man. Sing while you can. Play me the sound of the bells. Hang your complaints in wide open space. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Hiring Los Angeles bankruptcy attorneys is tough, right? In fact, with literally tens of thousands of attorneys and thousands of bankruptcy attorneys, it seems easy. You have many options. You can negotiate process. You can get the best one for the deal. Bankruptcy gives you a fresh start, but one of the most important choices you make is in hiring a good bankruptcy attorney.
However, not all Los Angeles bankruptcy attorneys are a good fit for you. First, some are dishonest and overcharge you (over billing you on hours, for example). It should be said there are just as many if not more honest Los Angeles bankruptcy attorneys as there are good ones. It's choosing between the two which is hard.
The best way to find bankruptcy attorneys in Los Angeles is to use the web. This saves time on cold calls. You can also work via referrals, as you may know someone who worked with a particularly good bankruptcy attorney. How many Los Angeles bankruptcy attorneys should you consider? There is no big rule on how many you can choose, but 5-10 in your initial list is good, as you can focus on the most experienced.
Once you have that list, you want to start making phone calls and sending emails, whichever is easier for you. You should confirm the attorney specializes in bankruptcy, knows federal laws, and can help you immediately.
You should also query the attorney on how much work they have, as well as who you will be working with directly. You don't want to be one of 100 clients for one or two bankruptcy attorneys in a firm. You could ask them if they are overloaded, but just ask how much time they have to spend with you.
Just as important as workload is affordability. Since not all Los Angeles bankruptcy attorneys are equal, have the same skills and degrees, you may not always want the cheapest or most expensive one. Choose an attorney who has helpful bankruptcy knowledge, can educate you on the process, has years experience, and does not charge a fortune. Hiring the first attorney you find may work out, but it rarely does; the same could be said of hiring the cheapest.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Raquel Cepeda—not in person, but over the telephone, in an interview conducted by Nora de Hoyos Comstock, founding member, president and CEO of Las Comadres Para Las Americas, an international group of comadres ("godmothers") who work to unite us all through literature written by Latinas/os. So the first thing I experienced and recognized about Cepeda is her powerful and passionate voice. It is a voice that has had the courage to speak about Latino-American identity, immigration, hip-hop culture, and mental health issues among Latina-American teenagers.
Cepeda's writings have been anthologized and her byline featured in People, the Associated Press, The Village Voice, MTV News, and CNN.com. As a free-lance reporter, she has contributed to WNYC, CNN and CNN's Inside the Middle East. She edited the critically acclaimed anthology And It Don't Stop: The Best Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins and Latino Book Award. As the former editor in chief of Russell Simmons' Oneworld, Cepeda was responsible for the magazine's overhaul in September 2001, winning a Folio Award for best re-design and receiving accolades for her global take on urban culture. In 2013, she was named one of El Diario/La Prensa's Distinguished Women and also sits on the board of City Lore and the Style Wars Restoration Project. She also directed and produced Bling: A Planet Rock, a feature-length documentary about American hip-hop culture's obsession with diamonds and all of its social trappings, and how the infatuation with "blinging" became intertwined in Sierra Leone's decade long conflict.
HUERGO: What inspires you to write?
CEPEDA: Many things inspire me to write. My answer changes depending on the day. However, I can tell you that what compels me to write is this feeling, this sense when I'm writing that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on earth. I remember the day I called my maternal grandmother to tell her that I sold Bird of Paradise, and she just started laughing and hollering on the other end. I was like, "Mama, why are you laughing at me?" After a few minutes—literally, she couldn't stop laughing—she composed herself and replied, "When you were a little girl living with us in Santo Domingo, you used to pull on my hem whenever you were mad and say, 'One day I'm going to write about this family and set the record straight!' before storming off." I don't remember doing that, but I that's exactly what I did. So, I guess becoming a writer was a part of my destiny, after all.
HUERGO: How would you describe your drafting and revision process?
CEPEDA: With Bird of Paradise, my drafting and revision process was a deeply spiritual and holistic one. I had been writing versions of this story for years and deleting, editing, putting it away and revisiting it from time to time. However, when I set out to see it through—to draft the proposal, shop and sell the book—the words just poured out of me like a tsunami. It felt like a gift from the universe. The whole thing, including the sometimes painful revision process, (you know, cutting out stories, characters, and other unnecessary fat), was ultimately personally rewarding.
HUERGO: What is the most important theme in your work? Why?
CEPEDA: It depends on the project. I would say with Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina, the most important theme is identity, or rather, the exploration of the self. We are always shifting, and so we must be able to do the work of exploring and defining ourselves outside of the ethnic/racial check-boxes we are crammed into here in the U.S.
HUERGO: Was there a teacher or mentor who influenced your writing or your career as a writer?
CEPEDA: No, there wasn't. In my book it becomes apparent early on that the problems with our current educational paradigm in New York and the US are still as pervasive today as they were when I was growing up. I can see why many kids, especially Black- and Latino/a- Americans become disengaged or, worse, develop a low self-esteem.
HUERGO: What advice do you have for writers?
CEPEDA: Writers should abandon inhibition before sitting down in front of their computers or before putting pen to paper: connect to the gift and let it pour out from within. Worry about revisions later. I also strongly suggest developing a routine that includes at least an hour of sweating. Starting the work day at my boxing gym almost every morning before I sat down to write enabled me to focus and build mental stamina. I would beat any frustration and blockage I may have woken up with that morning on a heavy bag. Whatever form of exercise you choose, working out the mind, body and spirit is the ultimate expression of respect for one's own craft. Trust me: exercise is the gift that keeps on giving.
HUERGO: I'm always curious what writers are working on next. Can you share with us your current project?
CEPEDA: I'm working on a proposal for my next book, a memoir about gentrification, and I'm in the latter stages of production on my current documentary film, Deconstructing Latina. The paperback of Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina will be coming out in February 2014. That's great news, especially because my hardcover was a casualty in the recently settled dispute between my parent company Simon & Schuster and Barnes & Noble. I'm hoping that the softcover will have an easier flight in capturing its audience. I'm also working closely with an educational specialist from the Robert F. Kennedy Center on a curriculum that would go hand in hand with Bird of Paradise, a project which I am excited about.
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Zac Dysert (born February 8, 1990) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for the Miami RedHawks. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the seventh round of the 2013 NFL Draft, and subsequently played for a number of teams, mostly serving as a practice squad member.

Early years
Zac Dysert is the son of Greg and Carla Dysert. He attended Ada High School in Ada, Ohio. During his high school football career, he threw for 11,174 yards, which ranks second all-time in Ohio prep history, and passed for 100 touchdowns, including 35 as a senior, for the Bulldogs. He twice led Ada High School to the state playoffs, including a 2007 state semifinal appearance.

College career
Dysert played collegiately at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He was redshirted as a freshman in 2008. He took over as the starting quarterback in 2009 and completed 247 of 401 passes for 2,611 yards with 12 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. As a sophomore in 2010, he played in 10 games, missing three due to a lacerated spleen. He finished his sophomore season with 2,406 passing yards and 13 touchdowns.

As a junior, he completed 295 of 448 passes for 3,513 yards with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. On November 3, 2012, Dysert became Miami's career passing leader, surpassing former RedHawk and current Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in a 27-24 loss to the Buffalo Bulls. He ended his career at Miami with 12,013 passing yards. He earned a bachelor's degree from Miami in December 2012.

College statistics

Professional career

Denver Broncos
Dysert was a quarterback prospect for the 2013 NFL Draft. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the seventh round (234th overall) and the ninth quarterback drafted (one of the smallest quarterback classes in draft history). He signed a rookie contract for four years and $2,208,000 with a $48,200 signing bonus.

He earned a spot on the Broncos' 53-man roster as a backup to Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler. For the 2014 season, Dysert remained a member of the Broncos' practice squad. On August 31, 2015, Dysert was cut from the Broncos.

Chicago Bears
On September 1, 2015, he was claimed by the Chicago Bears. He was waived by the Bears on September 6.

Houston Texans
Dysert was signed by the Houston Texans on September 6, 2015 to their practice squad. On November 24, Dysert was released from the team.

Buffalo Bills
Dysert was signed to the practice squad of the Buffalo Bills on December 21, 2015.

Miami Dolphins
Dysert was signed to a reserve/futures contract by the Miami Dolphins on January 19, 2016.  On September 3, Dysert was released by the team.

Arizona Cardinals
On September 4, 2016, Dysert was signed to the Arizona Cardinals' practice squad. On October 3, he was promoted to the Cardinals' active roster. He was released by the team on October 10, and re-signed to the practice squad two days later. He was promoted to the active roster on December 13.

On March 7, 2017, Dysert re-signed with the Cardinals. On June 2, he was waived by the Cardinals.

Dallas Cowboys
On June 5, 2017, Dysert was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Cowboys to replace rookie quarterback Austin Appleby, who was having problems with the center exchanges during practices.
On July 26, it was reported that Dysert would miss the entire upcoming season, due to a herniated disc he suffered while reaching for a bag. He was waived/injured on July 28 and was placed on the injured reserve list on July 31. The injury forced the team to sign quarterback Luke McCown on July 28.

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1990 births
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Accomplishments since graduating from Trine: Amber is teaching in a 5th grade classroom at Wayne Center Elementary School.
Best Memories of Trine: "My best memories are all of being with a tight-knit education department group. The education program is fairly small, and everyone has a majority of the same classes. It was great getting to know my classmates, and knowing most, if not all, of my classmates in every class. "
Best Memories of Trine: "My fondest memory of Trine University is how many situations they put you in to prepare you for the real experience. Because of these "mock" interviews and teaching "interruptions," I'm more prepared than I even could be for my own classroom! I've shocked many, including my principals and evaluators, in how easily I respond to situations in the classroom that normally knock a new teacher off their feet. :)"
"While attending an "entry year teachers" meeting, I listened to the other participants express their lack of training in various situations. I was proud to say that my university prepared me for all those situations. Everyday I am more than ecstatic with my decision to attend Trine University. I cannot gather into words how much I am thankful for the experiences you have given us through our education."


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Jazz trumpet player Herb Pomeroy dies
By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff | August 14, 2007
Raising trumpet to lips, Herb Pomeroy would play improvised solos so thoughtful and textured it was if the notes danced gracefully in his ear and mind long before they slipped out the bell of his horn.
"He was one of the most skillful and clever of improvisers," said the vibraphonist Gary Burton. "A lot of improvisers, when they soloed, played familiar jazz licks, as we say. Herb was one of the players where you could really see his mind at work. When he played solos, you could see him telling stories, developing themes, creating serious content."
During a career that became a hefty chapter in the history of jazz, Mr. Pomeroy played with bebop luminaries such as Charlie Parker, put together seminal ensembles in Boston, and helped create the field of jazz education as a teacher at Berklee College of Music, MIT, and New England Conservatory.
He died of cancer Saturday afternoon while lying in a bed on the sun porch of his house on Rust Island in Gloucester, surrounded by windows and views he had held dear since his childhood in the North Shore community. Mr. Pomeroy, who was 77, had been a pivotal figure in Boston's jazz scene for decades.
"In this history of Boston jazz, his is the number one name that I think would come up on any musician's list," Burton said.
"Instead of six degrees of separation, you could always connect everybody through Herb Pomeroy," said Bob Blumenthal, a former Globe jazz critic. "He was just the center of it all."
Musicians who sat in with a Pomeroy ensemble, played in his bands, or attended his classes were only one degree away from a who's who of jazz royalty. Along with Burton and Parker, Mr. Pomeroy played at various times with Ornette Coleman, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Max Roach, and Sonny Rollins.
During four decades at Berklee, 22 years at MIT, and a stint at New England Conservatory, Mr. Pomeroy taught hundreds of students. His bands played at festivals alongside the orchestras of Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and backed singers including Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
"I think it's fair to say, without hyperbole, that there's no single figure in the New England jazz scene who has done more to influence not only jazz performance, but also jazz education," said Fred Harris, director of wind ensembles at MIT, where Mr. Pomeroy founded the Festival Jazz Ensemble.
A passion for teaching and the desire for a reliable income to support his family prompted Mr. Pomeroy to tour less than most performers of his caliber. Nonetheless, musicians say, he left a lasting mark with his trumpet.
"There's just a sound -- the way he holds a tone, the distribution of notes -- and you hear living history," said Ran Blake, a pianist and teacher at New England Conservatory who performed with Mr. Pomeroy.
"He was an extremely warm, concise man, and so his solos tended to be warm and poetic and audacious, I would say," said Anthony Weller of Gloucester, a guitarist who performed in small ensembles with Mr. Pomeroy in recent years. "He surprised us constantly. There was never a sense of, 'Oh, I've heard him play that before.' "
For Mr. Pomeroy, performance always trumped recorded music. Burton, a student of Mr. Pomeroy's at Berklee who later became a teaching colleague, said he wished his friend had recorded more to leave a "permanent record of his talent and contributions."
"I don't really believe in recorded music," Mr. Pomeroy told the Globe in 1995, when he retired from Berklee, from which he received an honorary doctorate. "I think music is such a special thing that it should be just for those who create it and listeners willing to take the trouble to come and hear it."
Born in Gloucester, Irving Herbert Pomeroy III began playing professionally as a teenager. He spent a year at Harvard, then left to become a full-time musician. At 23, he played with Parker, the saxophonist who helped found bebop. After playing in bands led by Hampton and Kenton, he formed the Herb Pomeroy Big Band, which performed often at the fabled Stables jazz club in Copley Square.
Mr. Pomeroy had studied music at Schillinger House, which preceded Berklee, and was a regular at Stables when the college's founder, Larry Berk, asked him to join the faculty.
"I had been working at the Stables, which was good, but it paid $60 per week, which wasn't much when you had a wife and two kids," Mr. Pomeroy told the Globe in 1995. "So I accepted the job for economic reasons."
His courses, including one on Ellington, became legendary. "I came to Berklee as a student when I was 17 years old," Burton said. "Herb was, even at that point, the most charismatic and important teacher at the school."
That warmth carried over into his work with ensembles, where he was known as much for his patience and encouragement as for his exacting standards.
"He was a class act, and he also had this integrity and honesty," said his wife, Dodie Gibbons. "I loved that about him."
Along with his wife, Mr. Pomeroy leaves a daughter, Perry of Hamilton; a son, Eden of Lake Worth, Fla., two sisters, Paula Pomeroy Rix of Ormond Beach, Fla., and Paige Pomeroy Marto of Cookeville, Tenn.; two stepdaughters, Colleen Gibbons of Buffalo and Bridget Gibbons of Bronxville, N.Y.; two stepsons, Kevin Gibbons of West Hartford, Conn., and Daniel Gibbons of San Francisco; 11 grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Sept. 9 in Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street in Boston.
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Q: SQL - Get predicted dates if not available I got a table #a as follows:
ID  | TYPE_ID | CREATED_DT
============================
001 |   111   | 2019-08-28
001 |   111   | 2018-08-12
001 |   111   | 2017-08-23
001 |   111   | 2016-08-14
001 |   111   | 2015-08-17
001 |   111   | 2014-08-11
001 |   112   | 2019-05-31
001 |   112   | 2018-05-28

I would like to get my final output as follows:
ID  | TYPE_ID | CREATED_DT
============================
001 |   111   | 2019-08-28
001 |   111   | 2018-08-12
001 |   111   | 2017-08-23
001 |   111   | 2016-08-14
001 |   111   | 2015-08-17
001 |   111   | 2014-08-11
001 |   112   | 2019-05-31
001 |   112   | 2018-05-28
001 |   112   | 2017-05-31 --Predict YEAR end dates if not available
001 |   112   | 2016-05-31
001 |   112   | 2015-05-31
001 |   112   | 2014-05-31

The final result set should predict dates upto 6 month end dates per TYPE_ID if the dates are not available(TYPE_ID = 112 has only 2 dates available). I'm sure we can do this using DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions to predict dates but a bit complicated for my knowledge. Any help?
Query that I'm trying, but not exactly there:
select *,
  ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY ID, TYPE_ID ORDER BY CREATED_DT DESC) AS RN
   INTO #B
 from #a;

;WITH CTE(ID, TYPE_ID, CREATED_DT, RN)
AS(
 SELECT
    ID,
    TYPE_ID,
    CREATED_DT,
    RN
 FROM #B
 WHERE RN = 1   --Instead of RN = 1 I would like to get this till all
                --available dates, so that I can go to recursive part for
                --predicting non-available dates
 UNION ALL
 SELECT
    A.ID,
    A.TYPE_ID,
    DATEADD(yy, -1, CTE.CREATED_DT)AS CREATED_DT,
    CTE.RN +1 AS RN
  FROM #B AS A
  INNER JOIN CTE ON CTE.ID = A.ID
                AND CTE.TYPE_ID = A.TYPE_ID
                AND CTE.RN < 6
                AND A.RN = 1
)

A: Because there isn't an id to identify each row, you could use a rank window function to take the last row in this table. Then from the last row date you can dateadd -1 year to each date based on the rank. Then at the end UNION the intial CTE with the predictive CTE.
;WITH CTE
AS (
SELECT d.ID
    ,d.Type_ID
    ,d.CREATED_DT
    ,RANK() OVER (
        ORDER BY Type_ID
            ,Created_DT
        ) AS OrderOf
FROM datetable d
)
,CTE2
AS (
SELECT M.ID
    ,m.Type_ID
    ,DATEADD(Year, - 1, m.CREATED_DT) AS Created_DT
    ,M.OrderOf + 1 AS OrderOf
FROM CTE M
WHERE OrderOf = 8
)
,CTE3 (
n
,ID
,Type_Id
,Created_DT
,OrderOf
)
AS (
SELECT 0
    ,M.ID
    ,m.Type_ID
    ,m.CREATED_DT
    ,M.OrderOf AS OrderOf
FROM CTE2 M

UNION ALL

SELECT n + 1
    ,T.ID
    ,T.Type_ID
    ,DATEADD(YEAR, - 1, T.CREATED_DT)
    ,T.OrderOf + 1 AS OrderOf
FROM CTE3 T
WHERE n < 4
)
SELECT ID
,Type_ID
,Created_DT
FROM CTE3

UNION

SELECT ID
,Type_ID
,Created_DT
FROM CTE
ORDER BY Type_Id
,Created_DT DESC;


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This Banana Scone Cake is like a giant scone to share. Loaded with walnut pieces and black chocolate chunks, everyone will love it! Besides, it is lactose-intolerant friendly.
You may not know, but Scones are my weakness (or strength?) and I still have loads of Scones' recipes to share. I make one new recipe a week for weeks now, without planning it…so great. So, if one recipe is not for you, maybe the next will!
This recipe is a derivation from my Banana Scones (recipe incoming). I was invited at my family house for a relaxed coffee time after everyone had worked out and I wanted something healthy but still really enjoyable, of course. This choice is more for the others than for me, because I know I always bake or make things that I don't load with sugar/butter or fat (but I still often use them) so I am not 'worried'. My family –you don't know when- sometimes are a bit picky and doesn't always believe me when I say my recipes are 'light', 'low-carb', healthy or simply not an overkill.
3 ripe bananas were waiting to be used before they end up in the trash (and that's a "no no" for me) and a killer recipe to adapt. I made this baby in no time and was ready to wrap it and bring in home (it was still hot when we ate it). I made 4 big servings of it but you can ea-si-ly make 8. This recipe is for 8 medium servings.
This Banana Scone Cake is like a giant scone to share. Loaded with walnut pieces and black chocolate chunks, everyone will love it! Besides, it is lactose-intolerant friendly: no milk or cream. Easy to throw in minutes, you will remove it from the oven in no time.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, brown sugar and cinnamon if using.
With a pastry cutter or with your hands, crumble the butter in the flour mixture: it is okay if there's still little chunks of butter when you are finished.
Fold in the bananas (mashed) and mix with a rubber spatula until well incorporated. Add the walnuts and the chocolate while you're mixing.
In a floured surface or directly (like me) in your parchment paper with either flour or granulated sugar, roll your dough into a rectangle by flatten with your floured hands (no need to be perfect of course).
Fold the widths and then the lengths; Flatten with your hands and turn back your dough (pretty face up!). Form a round shape with your hands. Add flour if needed but I didn't.
Cut into 8 triangles but without separating. You can sprinkle with some light brown sugar if you want.
Bake for about 20 minutes or until light brown. Enjoy your scone warm or totally cooled.
* You can make 4 large servings. Calories will be 360.


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Hotel demand may not meet supply in Africa
by Katherine Doggrell |
Hyatt Regency Casablanca, one of three open and upcoming Hyatt properties in Morocco.
Encouraged by a more lenient visa regime in Africa that is driving visitor numbers, global hotel companies like Hyatt and Hilton are investing in new developments and conversions across the continent. But in Morocco, some insiders are raising concerns that demand will not meet supply.
Hyatt has announced plans to add another hotel to its estate in Morocco in early 2019. The 120-guestroom Park Hyatt Marrakech will be the third Hyatt-branded property in Morocco, and one of six the company is planning to open in Africa.
"With the introduction of a Pan-African, visa-free passport next year alongside the continued improvement in the connectivity and growth of the region's airlines, we expect tourist and business travel will only continue to increase," Peter Penev, VP acquisitions & development for Hyatt, said.
The visa-free passport was launched by the African Union in July last year, granting visa-free access to all 54 member states. The Union aims to distribute them to all African citizens by 2020. The move was one of the factors behind Hilton's recent decision to invest $50 million to add 100 hotels in the continent, due to open over the next five years.
Morocco continues to perform strongly, with STR reporting that August marked Morocco's fifth consecutive month of ADR growth. At the market level, Marrakech recorded a 17.5-percent increase in RevPAR, driven solely by rate growth, while Casablanca was the only market that managed to increase both occupancy and ADR, resulting in 5.6 percent growth in RevPAR. STR analysts said that supply growth—up 3.5 percent year to date—was affecting Morocco's occupancy levels.
According to the African Hotel Report 2017, Morocco was alone in North Africa to escape the worst of the Arab Spring fallout and terror alerts. With 75 hotels (branded hotels) and 13,522 bedrooms, across 17 different locations, the diversity of demand in various segments has been the very reason for hotel trading remaining strong.
Corporate interest in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangiers and Fez, with additional leisure demand in Marrakesh, the Atlas Mountains, Agadir and Essaouira have helped keep the hotel market away from the worst of the problems suffered by the rest of the region. There are 34 new hotel projects in the pipeline representing a 39 percent increase in current bedroom supply.
"I suspect that the 'pipeline' will remain just that until demand picks up," David Harper, head of property services for Hotel Partners Africa, and the author of the African Hotel Report 2017, told HOTEL MANAGEMENT. "Moroccan developers have the enviable habit of not committing to new developments until the time is right, sometimes leaving promising development opportunities on hold for several years to try and avoid short-term over supply. The brands, as always, are keen to enter these potentially lucrative markets, but are pragmatic enough to know that a slight delay in entering, if it helps the owner, will be in their interest in the long run as well."
Katherine Doggrell is an editor at Hotel Analyst, the U.K.-based news analysis service for hotel investors.
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La tour bastionnée de Chamars est une tour bastionnée située dans le secteur de Chamars, à Besançon, dans le Doubs, en France.

Histoire
La tour de Chamars est une tour construite vers 1687 par Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Il s'agit d'une tour bastionnée pentagonale, la seule aujourd'hui restant quasiment intacte, classée au monuments historiques en 1942. Elle devait protéger le flanc ouest de la ville, et fut aménagée partiellement en briques pour ainsi mieux protéger les soldats des éclats de pierre si un boulet venait à toucher le bâtiment, la pierre étant plus dangereuse en cas d'impacts que la brique. Son rez-de-chaussée casematé est voûté à l'épreuve. La couverture est ajoutée au . La tour de Chamars est située dans le secteur de Chamars, près du pont Charles-de-Gaulle et à proximité du centre historique de Besançon.
Depuis le , elle est inscrite sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO.

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 Citadelle de Besançon
 Patrimoine militaire de Besançon
 Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
 Liste des monuments historiques du Doubs

Chamars
Chamars
Monument historique à Besançon
Monument historique classé en 1942
Fortification de Vauban
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Gaming board, lawmakers aim to overcome insults
By SARA BURNETT Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A verbal fracas between state regulators and pro-gambling lawmakers - including an exchange of insults and accusations as if they were kids in a schoolyard - has resulted in cautious pledges to work together to end a stalemate and address criticisms that have helped defeat two consecutive proposals to expand gaming in Illinois.
Years of hostility between the Illinois Gaming Board and legislators boiled over at a hearing in Springfield.
The hearing was called for precisely such a clearing of the air, and once the dust settled, board officials said they will work with lawmakers to amend the bill and satisfy concerns, though the main critic of the expansion plans remained wary.
"If they're sincere, I'll be sincere with them," said Aaron Jaffe, the board chairman. "If they're really interested in regulation, we'll all sit down and talk."
The board is tasked with ensuring integrity in gambling in Illinois and has been vocal about the need to keep out organized crime. Among its concerns is ensuring it has ultimate oversight over a proposed Chicago casino and ensuring it has the staff it needs to keep tabs on casinos and other gaming statewide.
A follow-up discussion is expected to occur this week, and a hearing on amendments could be held before the end of the month, said Rikeesha Phelon, spokeswoman for Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago. She called the hearing "productive in many ways."
The legislation, which includes adding five casinos and allowing slot machines at Chicago's two major airports, still must get through the full Senate and the House. And there's no guarantee Gov. Pat Quinn - who vetoed the two previous measures, citing ethical concerns - will sign it.
But the bill's primary sponsor said late last week he was feeling "very, very good" about its odds.
"There's a general feeling among a lot of (legislators) that they want to get this done," said Sen. Terry Link, D-Waukegan. "Hopefully (the Illinois Gaming Board) will work with us."
Lawmakers have been trying for years to pass a gambling measure. Jaffe has criticized the efforts, calling one proposal "a pile of garbage" during a 2011 television interview, and saying it could open the door to organized crime and political corruption.
Jaffe and the board's four other members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Gaming board staff conducts background checks on everyone who works in the industry - from casino owners to janitors - and the board was credited for yanking a license for a casino in Rosemont because of concerns about organized crime.
Jaffe's comments have irked lawmakers who support the gambling expansion because they believe his criticisms are based on inaccurate information - a claim Jaffe denies. Supporters also think Jaffe's statements have influenced Quinn, who has made cleaning up Illinois government a central theme of his administration and who's said it's important to keep "mobsters" out of gambling operations.
Brooke Anderson, a spokeswoman for Quinn, said the governor has great respect for the work the gaming board has done to prevent corruption. She declined to talk specifics about the latest gambling bill, calling it a "work in progress," but said the bill sponsors had made some positive changes to it.
The legislation approved by a Senate committee last month would add casinos in Chicago, Danville, Chicago's south suburbs, Lake County and Rockford. It also allows current and future casino licensees to apply for an Internet gambling license and green-lights slot machines at racetracks. The Chicago casino licensee would be allowed to apply for up to 4,000 slot machines that could be operated at Midway and O'Hare airports.
Supporters said the proposal could provide between $400 million and $1 billion in revenue for a state in such a desperate financial situation it has a backlog of about $9 billion in unpaid bills and the worst credit rating of any state in the nation.
The measure has some new provisions designed to make it more palatable to Quinn and the gaming board: It would prohibit political contributions to lawmakers from the gambling industry, calls for an inspector general to monitor gaming and gives the state gaming board more authority over the Chicago casino.
When Cullerton learned Jaffe and the head of the Chicago Crime Commission still oppose the bill, he invited them both to last week's hearing.
The meeting got testy at times, with Jaffe calling Link "atrocious" and the senator returning the jabs. Jaffe also admitted he hadn't read the latest bill, but accused lawmakers of not doing so either. And he questioned why the legislation - which exceeds 500 pages - is so extensive.
The two sides hit on at least two issues they plan to discuss further: the Chicago oversight question and speeding up hiring so the board can add the staff it needs.


At the age of 90, Yu Yi is still full of energy. As honorary principal of Shanghai Yangpu Senior High School, the retiree is still engaged in Mandarin primary education and training young teachers in China.
She has compiled several books based on her teaching procedures-the first books on pedagogy of their kind in China in the late 1970s. Among them, Introduction to Modern Teacher Development and Introduction to the Study of Modern Teachers have been used as training materials by the Ministry of Education.
Last year, a collection of eight books on her 66 years of Mandarin teaching experience was published to inspire younger teachers.
Yu, born and raised in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, was awarded the title "Reform Pioneer" in primary school education at a grand gathering celebrating the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up in Beijing on Dec 18.
Despite her decadeslong devotion to pedagogy, Yu said she is still learning how to be a good teacher. The late Soviet teacher and educational theorist Vasyl Sukhomlinsky is the educator she respects the most.
Yu appreciates one of Sukhomlinsky's sayings, that "a unique string at a secret corner deep down in the heart of each child makes a distinct sound of its own, and to help every child understand what a teacher is saying, the teacher's heart needs to beat as one with the child's, with the same tone."
Inspired by Sukhomlinsky's educational concept, Yu said she has never scolded any student throughout her career. It is up to the teacher to develop the students' interest and passion in learning.
For this purpose, Yu said she usually prepares three kinds of questions in her classes-a general one for most students to think over independently, a simple one for relatively slower learners, and a challenging one for students to solve together.
"Learning to differentiate learning abilities helps teachers present materials in a way that will engage all students on all levels at the same time in class," Yu said, while sharing her insights with teachers at the Experimental High School affiliated to Shandong University last year.
"A good class by a teacher is not what is written on the blackboard, but what students learn and keep in mind for a lifetime."
Yu's passion for education was inspired by professors from Fudan University's education school, where she did her four-year undergraduate studies, beginning in 1947.
"I was lucky and grateful to have met excellent teachers in the education, social, historical, and natural science fields during my undergraduate studies," she said. "They are great role models."
After seven years of being a history teacher after graduation, Yu started teaching Mandarin in 1959.
For Yu, preparing Mandarin classes was a three-step process. First, she went through the articles to understand them.
Then, she would read a variety of references to learn from other teachers and expert analysis on the articles. Last of all, she evaluated what did or did not work well after a class, and revised her teaching plans before teaching a particular class.
Wang Ronghua, chairman of the Shanghai Education Development Foundation, said Yu acted more as a parent than a teacher to students. She cared a lot for her students, and often spent her savings on their daily necessities and school supplies if needed.
Educating young teachers has been Yu's focus since 1985, when she became principal of Shanghai No 2 Normal Middle School.
She sat in on young teachers' classes, and provided them with constructive advice and suggestions. She has also organized 2,000 open Mandarin classes across the country for students and teachers, and after her retirement in 2002 she set up Mandarin teacher training bases in Shanghai.
Many young teachers who have graduated from these training bases have been recognized as special grade teachers, won prizes in national education competitions, or have taken up leadership positions in schools.
"I am proud of them," Yu said. "Maybe I am too old to do many things, but the future of education will continually develop because these young talented teachers will continue to join the education sector."