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A family story, that I was never too happy to hear repeated, was about my being brought as a small girl to visit a convent. One of the Sisters asked me what I would like to be when I grew up and my reply was "I would like to be a Reverend Mother"! Let me hasten to add that I do not proffer the story as an early indication of a religious vocation, but rather because it suggests, correctly, that convents and sisters were a familiar and positive part of the ambience I grew up in, as were churches and priests, Mass, Benediction, Sodalities, other Church devotions.
In other words, I was lucky enough to grow up at a time in Ireland when for many people God was acknowledged as the ultimate context of life, even though they probably wouldn't have expressed it in so many words.
I went to school first to the Ursulines in Cork and later, as a boarder, to the Loreto Sisters in Dublin. I remember my school days as happy and in hind-sight I realise that, as well as being well-taught, I learned a great deal about my faith through the example as well as the teaching of the Sisters. Their lives had a certain mystery about them too, which like many other girls, I found intriguing. In fact in many ways they became my role models. Which was, I suppose, why in my final years in school I found myself seriously considering whether I was being called to become a sister myself.
However, when I told my father about it, he was quite adamant that I should go to College first. And so I went to UCC where doing an Arts Degree, making new friends, and being part of various College societies and wider student social life absorbed all my time and energy for the next four years. All thought of religious life faded into the background. After that I had the good fortune to be invited to teach in a newly opened and innovative lay Catholic school and so to begin my professional career in a dynamic setting which I found challenging, absorbing and fulfilling.
Around the same time, my brother, who had entered the Dominican Order some years previously, was ordained. Attending his Ordination and his First Mass were very happy and significant family events. In the succeeding months I found myself, possibly because questioned by my brother's life and values, beginning to revisit my own attraction to religious life. But not only was I very happy in my job but I had just begun a 2-year Master's degree course in French. This gave me a further reason for deferring the decision I now knew had to be made. When I did finally face it, it took me a further two years of indecision before I finally applied to be admitted to the Congregation of the Irish Dominican Sisters and was accepted. This Dominican Congregation, in contrast to the two congregations with which I was familiar, was almost completely unknown to me.
That was in July. There were still three months of inner churning, where I lurched from making necessary preparations to enjoying, what I saw as for the last time, a hill-climbing holiday with friends, and visits to places I thought I would never see again. I have a vivid memory of free-wheeling one day down a long hill enjoying, though with a certain sadness, the wind in my face and the sense of utter freedom. Yet the inner call remained insistent.
It was altogether unexpected then on the day we entered the Novitiate and all the goodbyes were over and my family had departed for Cork that my immediate sense in this unknown place among so many strangers was of total peace of mind. It was not so much an experience of being confirmed in the choice I had made with so much difficulty, as a sense of having landed in the way of life that God had chosen for me without my realising it.
Although like everybody else I have had my share of major and minor crises and of dark times of suffering, I have never even for a single moment doubted that I was in the place where I belonged. Sixty years later I am still amazed at having the good fortune to belong to the Dominican Order.
There followed three years of initiation into the particular way of following Christ shaped by St. Dominic our founder, which is summed up in one of the mottos of the Order as: "To praise, to bless, to preach." So from the first day we new arrivals learned the meaning of "To praise" by being absorbed actively into the community liturgy, singing with them the praises of God in the Eucharist and the Divine Office, and in class being instructed in the Scriptures, in particular the psalms, as well as in the chanting and singing of the Gregorian Chant. (In those days the Office was recited or sung in Latin). I found this all most enriching. I grew to love it and continue to be sustained by it as a sharing in the prayer of Christ with the whole Church.
In the same way we learned by the way daily life was organised that "To bless" meant in practice putting others, and first of all the community before oneself, being "time-tabled" rather than organising one's own time, for example, and more demanding still, learning to love one's neighbour as oneself. A life-long work, for sure, but for us young people living with others of our own age and in our first fervour, it did not seem too difficult.
The teaching of the formation community both by their example and by their class work was my first initiation into what it is for Dominicans "To preach." Then after those first three years I was back to the field of education myself and had my first experience of the particular quality of Dominican education as a member of a very creative staff of sisters and lay teachers. I was constantly surprised by their readiness to try out new ideas such as taking part in pilot schemes for curriculum development, and by their ability to draw out the potential of their students by their respect and trust in them.
After some years I became involved in other expressions of the Dominican preaching charism, first as member of a formation team privileged to help young women discern and test their own call to religious life, and later as member of the Council of the Congregation where I had the opportunity of visiting our sisters working in other parts of the world, and of being introduced by them to different contexts and experiences of Church in South Africa, Argentina, Lisbon and Louisiana as well as in Ireland.
My last preaching ministry was a return to teaching, this time to adults, in an Institute founded by a Dominican Friar whose vision it was to put together the insights of modern psychology and the insights of the great religious traditions. I was part of a team made up of Dominican brothers and sisters, lay men and women. As teachers, guides and therapists we worked with the many people who found being introduced to this particular map of the person through a reflective methodology helpful in making sense of their lives in the rapidly changing Ireland of today. It was for me a profound experience of Dominican preaching.
The words of T.S.Eliot: "In my end is my beginning" come to mind when I reflect on my experience of living out the call "To praise, to bless, to preach" in old age. In some ways with the falling away of outer ministries, the mission area is more and more the local community with all the joys, challenges and difficulties that this entails as we struggle to become together a community of holy preaching. Yet we never cease being called to bear witness to God's compassion for the world and opportunities to do so in our daily comings and goings keep taking me by surprise.
I am grateful to be part of a community where the example of others in their fidelity to the praising of God in the liturgy, and to the blessing of each other in community, encourage me to keep going, and, more importantly, to keep remembering the truth I glimpsed on the day I entered: I am of God's making, not my own. St. Paul puts it so much better than I can: "We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he meant us to live it." (Eph. 2:10)
Sr Joan O'Donovan OP


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Saint-Ouen () is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.

Geography
Saint-Ouen is situated on the left bank of the Loir. The town of Saint-Ouen is bisected by the RN10, a highway that runs between Paris and Bordeaux.

Population

See also
Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department

References

Communes of Loir-et-Cher

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The latest addition to your Haruki Murakami collection will be coming to English readers this August. And that's around 3 years after the release of the last part of 1Q84 -- and that's just exactly how long Murakami writes a novel if you ask me and then another year for the English translation to come out.
Indulge your self with these deliciously written novel, regardless if you are a fan or not. Here is the equally dull and "colorless" (which is befitting) cover of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.
And exactly its opposite, the Japanese version of the cover will simply draw you in with colors.
Tsukuru Tazaki's life was irreparably changed when his relationships with his high school best friends became severed during Tsukuru's college days. Now at 35, Tsukuru's girlfriend Sara suggested to Tsukuru to go and talk to these high school friends in person to mend the relationships, and to discover the real reason behind the friends' decision to reject Tsukuru. Tsukuru visited his friends in Nagoya and Finland one by one, and uncovers the real reason as to why their relations were broken off.
Knopf will publish the English version of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami on August 12, 2014.


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Summary of 2004 H-1B and L Bills
L-1 REFORM LAW
Section 11: Short Title-"L-1 Visa (Intracompany Transferee) Reform Act of 2004"
Section 12: Non immigrant L-1 Visa Category
This section modifies the INA § 214(c)(2) to prevent an L-1B visa holder from being primarily stationed at the worksite of another employer in cases where:
(1) The L-1B visa holder will be controlled and supervised by an unaffiliated employer, or
(2) The placement of the L-1B visa holder at the third party site is part of an arrangement to provide labor for the third party rather than placement at the third party site in connection with the provision of a product or service involving specialized knowledge specific to the petitioning employer.
The above modification to the law applies to initial, extended or amended petitions filed on or after the effective date.
Section 13: Requirement for prior continuous employment for certain intracompany transferees
This section strikes from INA § 214(c)(2)(A) the provision permitting the six-month work requirement for L-1 blanket petitions. The modification made by this section applies only to petitions for initial classification filed on or after the effective date of the subtitle.
Section 14: Maintenance of Statistics by the Department of Homeland Security
This section mandates that DHS maintains statistics for L-1 petitions filed on or after the effective date. Statistics will be gathered on the following:
Number of nonimmigrants who are classified in the L-1B category; and
Number of L-1B nonimmigrants who will work primarily offsite.
Section 15: Inspector General Report on L Visa Program
No later than 6 months after the date of enactment, the Inspector General (IG) of DHS shall examine and report to the House and Senate Judiciary committees on the vulnerabilities and the potential abuses in the L visa program.
Section 16: Establishment of Task Force
This section mandates the development of an L Visa Interagency Task Force no later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this act. Included in the task force are representatives from DHS, DOS, and DOJ.
This task force shall report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on the efforts to implement the IG's recommendations set forth by the report mandated in section 15 above. The task force will also include recommendations to Congress, including suggestions for legislation.
Section 17: Effective Date
The subtitle and the Amendments made by the subtitle take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of the Act.
H-1B REFORM LAW
Section 21: Short Title-"The H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004"
Section 22: Temporary Worker Provision
a) Removes the sunset provision from INA § 212(n)(1)(E)(ii) and makes permanent the provision requiring a non-displacement attestation on the LCA by employers who are H-1B dependant or have committed a willful failure or misrepresentation during the preceding 5 years.
b) Modifies INA § 214(c)(9) by removing the sunset provision on the employer fees and making the fees permanent. This section also raises the fee for each petition from $1,000 to $1,500. Employers with no more than 25 full-time employees employed in the U.S. will only be responsible for ½ of the fee amount.
Section 23: Prevailing Wage Level
Modifies INA §212(p) to require employers to pay 100% of the prevailing wage. However, this section also mandates that where the DOL uses or makes available to employers a governmental survey to determine prevailing wage, such survey shall provide 4 levels of wages commensurate with experience, education, and the level of supervision. If a 2 level wage survey is used, this section provides a formula for calculating the 2 additional intermediate levels.
Section 24: DOL Investigative Authorities
a) Creates a new subsection (G) under INA §212(n)(2) to take affect as if enacted on October 1, 2003. The new subsection would:
i) Reinstates and makes permanent the ability of DOL to initiate an investigation of an employer if there is reasonable cause that the employer is not in compliance with this subsection. The Secretary of Labor (or acting Secretary) must personally certify that reasonable cause exists and must approve the investigation. The investigation may be initiated for reasons other than completeness and obvious inaccuracies by the employer.
ii) Permits the DOL to conduct an investigation if it receives credible information from a known source likely to have knowledge of an employer's practices or conditions. The information must provide reasonable cause that the employer has committed a willful failure to meet a condition, or has committed a substantial failure to meet a condition that affects multiple employers.
iii) Directs the DOL to create procedures for providing information that may be used as the basis of an investigation.
iv) An investigation under subsection (ii) must be from information that originates from a source other than DOL or was lawfully obtained by DOL during another DOL investigation.
v) Information provided to the DOL by the employer for purposes of securing an H-1B employee shall not be considered a receipt of information under this subsection.
vi) No investigation or related hearing may be conducted unless the information is received within 12 months after the date of the alleged failure.
vii) Directs DOL to provide notice to an employer prior to the commencement of an investigation with limited exception.
viii) An investigation by DOL may last for 60 days, and if there is evidence of a violation, DOL shall provide the employer with notice of the determination and an opportunity for a hearing. The hearing must take place within 120 days of the determination and a finding must be made within 120 days of the hearing.
b) Good Faith Compliance-This section would modify INA §212(n)(2) so that an employer is deemed to have complied with the section, notwithstanding a technical or procedural failure to meet such requirements, if there was a good faith to comply with the requirements. This good faith clause shall not apply if DOL has explained the basis of the failure or if the employer has been given time to correct the failure and has failed to do so.
Under this subsection, an employer will not be assessed fines or penalties for failure to pay the prevailing wage if he can establish that the manner in which the prevailing wage was calculated was consistent with recognized industry standards and practices.
c) Secretary of Labor Report- by January 31 of each year, DOL shall report to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees on the investigations undertaken based on INA §212(n)(2)(G)(i) and (ii) as well as the expenditures by DOL in INA § 286(v)(2)(D).
Section 25: Exemption of certain aliens from numerical limitations on H-1B nonimmigrants
a) Modifies INA §214(g)(5) to include among the classes of H-1B exempted aliens an alien who has earned a Master's or higher degree from a U.S. institution of higher education. This exemption is capped at 20,000 per fiscal year.
b) This section also requires DHS, for each fiscal year, to maintain the following statistical information on each alien who is issued a visa or otherwise provided nonimmigrant status and is exempt under INA § 214(g)(5): country of origin; occupation; education level maintained; compensation. The statistical information will be included in the annual report on H-1Bs.
Section 26: Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee
a) Adds to INA §214(c) a new $500 fraud fee. Such fee will be in addition to other fees and will apply to employers filing either an initial petition for an H-1B or L visa or for a change of status petition. A $500 fraud fee will also be charged for an alien filing a visa application abroad for an L blanket petition. The fee will be imposed only on principal aliens.
b)The money collected will be deposited in the "H-1B and L Fraud Prevention and Detection Account" and divided equally among DOS, DHS and DOL.
c) Effective Date- the amendments in this section take effect on the date of enactment and the fees imposed apply to petitions and visa applications filed 90 days after the date of enactment.
Section 27: Change of Fee Formula
This section modifies the distribution of money in the H-1B nonimmigrant petitioner account as follows:
Job training- from 55% to 50%
Scholarship program- from 22% to 30%
National Science Foundation grant program for K-12 Math. Science and Technology education- from 15% to 10%
DHS processing from 4% to 5%
DOL processing maintained at 5%
Section 28: Grants for Job Training for Employment in High Growth Industries
Modifies section 414 (c) of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) and re-authorizes DOL to award grants to provide job training for industries and economic sectors that are projected to experience significant growth.
Section 29: National Science Foundation Low-Income Scholarship Program
Modifies section 414(d) of ACWIA to allow the NSF to award scholarships for computer science or other technology or science programs. This section also increases the scholarship amount from $3,125 to $10,000. It also allows the NSF to use up to 50% of their funds for curriculum development, professional and workforce development, and other advance technological education.
Section 30: Effective Dates
Except as otherwise provided, the H-1B subtitle shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment. However, sections 22(b), 26(a) and 27 take effect immediately.

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Q: -F file=@foo.png equivalent in node fetch I'm trying to perform an API call to Squarespace using node-fetch.
const FormData = new FormData();
formData.append(
      "file",
      "testimage.jpg",
      fs.createReadStream("testimg.jpg")
    );
    const send_img = await fetch(
      "https://api.squarespace.com/1.0/commerce/products/" + img_id + "/images",
      {
        method: "POST",
        headers: {
          Authorization: "Bearer " + process.env.SQUARESPACE_API_KEY,
          "User-Agent": "foobar",
          "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data",
        },
        body: formData,
      }
    );

After performing this call I was getting the error
{
  type: 'INVALID_REQUEST_ERROR',
  subtype: null,
  message: "Expected exactly one file part named 'file', but found none.",
  details: null,
  contextId: 'IEBROFREUTEWDREAYEAF'
}

The following cURL call successfully uploads the image
curl "https://api.squarespace.com/1.0/commerce/products/63ab0ff8796311649603ee49/images" \
  -i \;
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <myAPIKey>" \
  -H "User-Agent: foobar" \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
  -X POST \
  -F file=@testimg.png

What if -F and what is the equivalent of it in a fetch call?
Squarespace API reference:
https://developers.squarespace.com/commerce-apis/upload-product-image

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Geophysical methods offer potential benefits for hydrologic investigations because they incorporate non-invasive, non-destructive measurements that are hydrologically relevant. This study compares the utility of gravity measurements to the utility of water-level measurements for constraining aquifer parameters in a model of transient ground-water flow in an unconfined aquifer. Gravity and/or water-level data with appropriate measurement uncertainty added are used to constrain aquifer transmissivity or hydraulic conductivity (K) and specific yield (Sy) estimates using the computer program UCO DE. The results demonstrate that the high correlation of the K and Sy parameters using only gravity measurement sets makes estimating unique Kand Sy parameters difficult and influences the quality of the estimated parameters. Parameter correlation is higher for the gravimeter response than for the well response because of the complex dependence of the gravity response on the shape and density change of the drawdown cone and because of spatial averaging by the gravimeter.


A clear, unambiguous and specifically customized agreement for separation or divorce may take more time to write, but the benefits to the parties are enormous. Agreements are ignored when clients are getting along but when they run into conflict, a well-written agreement is essential. Clients should have certain, easy-to-understand guidelines that provide clear direction. The professional's job is to create a user-friendly agreement that is specific to each couple's unique needs and addresses not only the usual but the unusual situations that can arise down the road. While agreements create a framework and a plan of action for the end of a marriage, they often create new obligations as well. To create certainty related to these new obligations, agreements must be comprehensive and well-constructed. To that end, having the right tools and resources to work with is essential.
A master form is an excellent tool for guiding the parties through all of the relevant issues in a logical order while keeping the parties - and the professional - on task. With such a tool it is easy to designate any issue as "undecided" and come back to it later without it being forgotten. A master form will present various options for each issue, invite exploration of alternatives, and provide a thorough discussion of the specifics of each issue. This Master Agreement is that tool!
With more than 100 pages, this unbelievable resource will help you create a comprehensive agreement on every issue from A to Z. Organized logically into issues, subjects and then specifics, the Master Agreement provisions include: separation and support of the parties and an adjustment of martial rights and duties; a parenting plan covering custody, child support and protection issues; division of property; allocation of debts and liabilities; and, administrative and housekeeping provisions. Within each section alternative options are listed so that you may pick and choose those provisions most applicable to your case.
This Master Agreement document may be used as a binding contract or simply as a memorandum of understanding. The package comes complete with a cover page, table of contents, a comprehensive agreement, acknowledgements page, and certificates of counsel and guardian. Purchase includes both a printed version and the full text on CD.
This Master Agreement will save you time (quick document assembly), money (for you and your client), and grief (don't reinvent the wheel with each new agreement)!


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Saint-Martin-des-Puits – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Oksytania, w departamencie Aude. Przez miejscowość przepływa rzeka Orbieu.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 21 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 3 osoby/km² (wśród 1545 gmin Langwedocji-Roussillon Saint-Martin-des-Puits plasuje się na 878. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 901.).

Zabytki
Zabytki w miejscowości posiadające status Monument historique:
 kościół św. Marcina (Église Saint-Martin)

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Miejscowości w departamencie Aude


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It's a new year, and with a little goal-setting, that can mean a new you!
"If you are like most of us, you've probably set some new year's resolutions, and some of them may revolve around health and fitness goals," said Amanda Jillson, assistant director of fitness and instructional programs at the TRAC. "If you haven't, it's never too late to sit down and start thinking about what kinds of changes you want to make in the new year."
If you're not sure what direction you personally need to take or what exactly you need to do to accomplish your health and fitness goals, the TRAC offers goal setting consultations.
"Goal setting is nice because we can sit down and talk one-on-one about what direction you want to take your health and fitness goals," Jillson said. "Consultations are available by appointment or you can email your questions to me. A lot of times, people just really aren't sure how to get started. So here at TRAC, we're able to offer opportunities to get you started on a great program."
Be sure to stay tuned for future Staying on TRAC segments. And if there is something you are interested in learning more about or seeing a segment on, please let us know. We are going to cover a variety of new topics this year that are relevant to helping you Stay on TRAC!


Whether you pledge to camp out or just promise yourself a stroll, these ideas will help you heed the call of the outdoors.
As part of the National Wildlife Federation's conservation efforts, the Great American Backyard Campout aims to get kids outside and to connect people with nature, both near and far. From stargazing on blankets and pillows on the deck to taking a nature walk at dusk, no act is too small or insignificant.
It invites everyone to commit to spending one night — today, tomorrow or next year — outside and unplugged with family. Backyard camping is one way to get involved, but there are plenty of other ways to get outside too. "Keep it simple," says Karoline Hurd, director of special events for GABC. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Create your perfect campsite. Set the stage for an evening of camping — for one night only. Whether that means sleeping on an air mattress under the stars or pitching a tent on the balcony, make the night special.
Watch what's going on in your yard. While we may camp out in the backyard once a year, butterflies and bees, owls and bats, squirrels and foxes do it every night. Take a look at what's joining you in the backyard. See this as an opportunity to slow down and really look at your yard and see how wildlife in your vicinity contributes to overall habitat health. Research projects and organizations that allow you to monitor and share the happenings in your own yard.
Connect with neighbors. A single gesture can spark or rekindle a friendship. Invite neighbors over for s'mores or say hello during a walk through the neighborhood. Personal relationships build stronger neighborhoods.
Have an impromptu party. Let's not wait until summer is half over to christen the backyard. Call your friends, your roommates or your family and spend the weekend together outside. Keep things simple and casual. Set up two sawhorses, wood planks and some string lights for an outdoor dinner party. Order a pizza or have everyone bring something. Whether or not everyone sleeps outside, take a few hours to revel in the tastes and sounds of summer.
Plan to not have a plan. Give your kids and yourself a big dose of unstructured playtime. Planned weekend activities keep everyone entertained and on schedule, but sometimes the most fun comes from the lack of an agenda. Unplug and try not to worry about what's on TV for one evening.
Show your kids around the yard. Have fun showing your kids what you do outside all day. Whether it's harvesting tomatoes, raking fallen leaves, turning the compost or choosing wildflower seeds to sow, seeing the process gives kids a stake in the results. Who knows? You may find your new right hand.
Cool off. Give the air conditioning a break for the afternoon and try to cool off in a more passive way. If your climate permits, take a run through the sprinklers, jump in the pool or put your feet in a fountain. You'll beat the heat while opening yourself up to the weather outside.
Build a bug box. Bees and bugs are resourceful when it comes to where they live, but we can also make things a little easier for them. Gather plant clippings and leftover wood from your yard to build a backyard bug habitat for local critters. This thoughtful craft project encourages everyone to ask questions about who we share our ecosystems with and how we all fit together in the big picture.
Move living outside. Reimagine the patio as an outdoor living room. Turn the deck into the dining room for the evening. Instead of watching TV in the evening, play charades. If you like to eat around the coffee table in the den, sit around a low table for dinner outside. While you don't necessarily want to duplicate indoor living outside, try to establish that same relaxed and comfortable feeling.
Plan a great summer together. By August we'll all be wondering where the time went. Focus on what your family would like to accomplish this summer and plan to make it happen. Build a bocce court, host an epic barbecue or finally get that music room set up.


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Moscow, Victory Day amid pandemic crisis
by Vladimir Rozanskij
No Victory Day parades to mark defeat of Nazism, due to the coronavirus. The only ex-Soviet country to celebrate solemnly is Belarus. President Lukashenko is dismissive of the epidemic. He is called "the suicidal president". The death of monks, bishops and deacons continues in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Moscow (AsiaNews) - May 9, marks Victory Day in Russia, the day when Soviet soldiers entered Berlin, one day after the Americans. Already under the Soviet regime the events of 1945 were solemnly remembered; but Putin's Russia has exalted them as the foundation of national ideology.
One of the most important metropolitans who "survived" the epochal changes, the 90-year-old vicar for the Moscow province Juvenalij (Pojarkov) recalled: "Victories are the way we understand our history".
This year, the tragedy of the coronavirus prevented Russians from great displays of this national cult. There is not much beyond the virtual manifestations of the "Immortal Regiment" which shows photos of war veterans. Some underwater activists also brought the images to the bottom of the rivers and lakes of Russia. The total number of people infected with the virus is now almost 200,000, making Russia one of the first countries in the world affected by the pandemic, with a rate of 10,000 people infected and over 100 deaths a day, at least according to official reports.
The only ex-Soviet country where the military parade takes place today is Belarus. President Lukashenko continues to show total contempt for the danger of the pandemic, so much so that some call him the "suicidal president".
In truth, the Belarusians intend to show their strength right in front of Russia, in the face of the repeated political-diplomatic attempts of the last few years to "incorporate" the country, which the Russians consider their own "western territory". Lukashenko is also garnering support for his election campaign in this way. In the elections of August 9, he intends to surpass thirty years of domination of the country. The electoral committee, setting the date, promised "free and democratic" elections to which "western observers need not come".
Meanwhile in Russia the crisis of the Orthodox Church is getting deeper, grappling with continuous deaths due to the coronavirus. A physics student, Dmitrij Pelipenko, had left his studies in 2018 to devote himself to monastic life, entering the large Lavra of St. Sergius near Moscow, and the virus took him; hospitalized for the disease, he threw himself from the hospital window.
In the same Lavra, in the last few days four other ecclesiastics have died from the virus: the archimandrite Nikodim, the hygeneum Ignatij, the hierodeacon Kallist and the archimandrite Lavrentij (Postnikov), one of the oldest and most authoritative members of the monastic community, believed a "seer starets". The symptoms of the epidemic were found in 150 of the 170 monks residing in the Lavra. The monastery's chief physician who in turn became a monk also died on 5 May, and an Igumen Tikhon (Barsukov), 66 years old (photo 2). On May 7, Bishop Tikhon (Emeljanov) celebrated a funeral vigil of prayer for the dead on the territory of the monastery, buried without public participation (photo 1).
In Ivanovo, 300 km east of Moscow, the archimandrite Amvrosij died (Jurasov, photo 2). He served at the female convent of the Presentation, and was a very active priest in social communication for pastoral dissemination of Russian traditional spirituality and had been spiritual director of the Radonezh association, one of the most active Orthodox publishing groups, and among the first to open in the "religious revival" of the 1990s.
On May 7, the 55-year-old hierodeacon Dimitrij died in the patriarchal monastery of St. Daniel in Moscow; two other members of the monastery have been hospitalized for the virus, the monk Serafim and the hierodeacon Varakhiil, and two monks are in solitary confinement in their monastic cell. On May 8, three other well-known priests from Moscow were transferred to ICU, the protoierej Dmitry Smirnov (one of the most active in "denial" propaganda against the coronavirus), and the fathers Vladimir Sveshnikov and Nikolaj Krechetov. The loudest "denialist" preacher, protoierej Aleksandr Zakharov of the Tikhvinsk eparchy, has now deleted all his messages and videos on YouTube.
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Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault  (26 August 1695 – 1793) (known as Mademoiselle Quinault , the elder) was a French singer and composer.

Quinault was born in Strasbourg. Her father was the actor  (1656–1728), and one of her brothers was Jean-Baptiste-Maurice Quinault, a singer, composer, and actor. She made her debut at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1709 in Jean-Baptiste Lully's Bellérophon. She remained at the opera until 1713. In 1714 she began singing at the Comédie-Française, where she remained until 1722 Quinault composed motets for the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles. For one of these motets, thanks to the benevolence of the Duke of Orléans, she was awarded the first and last grand cordon of the Order of Saint Michael ever given to a woman

She was the mistress first of Louis, the Duke of Orléans, and later of Philippe Jules François Mancini, the Duke of Nevers, to whom she may have secretly been married. This brought her into higher social spheres and earned her a pension on the King's privy purse. From 1723 until 1793 she lived in an apartment in the Louvre, at the Pavilion de L'Infante. She died in Paris in 1793.

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Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon. 1836. Mémoires de Mademoiselle Quinault ainée (de la Comédie-Française), duchesse de Nevers, Chevaliére de l'ordre royal de Saint-Michel, de 1715 à 1793, 2 vols. Paris: Ch. Allardin.
Scott, Virginia. Women on the Stage in Early Modern France: 1540–1750. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

French women classical composers
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West Individual Report: Day 3
By Hilary Achauer
Emily Abbott and Lucas Parker take gold at the West Regional.
In the first meeting of the North West and Canada West Regions, two Canadians came on top: Lucas Parker and Emily Abbott.
The most dramatic competition was among the men. Going into the final event, the points were so close among the top 10 no man was guaranteed a trip to Carson, California.
In the end, Parker's second-place finish on Event 7 pushed him to the top.
"This was a lot harder than years past," Parker said. "I'm usually fairly confident throughout the competition. This year, I knew I could make it, but in my head, I came here to win."
"This is my fifth year at the Games," Parker said. "I think I'm overdue for a top finish."
It was a different story for the women. Emily Abbott was in first place throughout the entire weekend. She said her advantage going into Day 3 did not change her approach.
"I didn't care what the point spread was. That doesn't change the workout plan. You have to go in and give it everything," Abbott said.
When Cody Anderson does well, he does extraordinarily well.
In the 2014 Games, Anderson surprised the crowd by taking a first in the Muscle-up Biathlon. Today, in Event 6, Anderson took a decisive first place, a minute ahead of second-place Kevin Simons. The win moved Anderson from eighth to fifth place.
Anderson's performance was a master class in how to pace a CrossFit event.
Cole Sager, Lucas Parker and Mitch Barnard traded off the lead for the first two rounds, breaking up their pull-ups and push-ups, pushing hard, trying to stay in the lead. However, this 5-round triplet of rowing, chest-to-bar pull-ups and strict deficit handstand push-ups can punish the athlete who comes out too fast.
In the third round, Anderson made his move.
Although he had been quietly completing his pull-ups and handstand push-ups unbroken, Anderson switched into a higher gear for the last two rounds.
While the other men broke their pull-ups into sets of two and three, Anderson continued to complete the 16 reps in one set. His body betrayed no fatigue, moving from the pull-ups into 9 unbroken strict handstand push-up. His fourth and fifth rounds looked faster and smoother than the first.
Anderson said pacing an event is something that took experience.
"When I first started CrossFit, it was hard to not sprint out of the gate, you just want to go really hard. I think it just comes with experience, how to control your adrenaline," Anderson said.
Sager and Barnard, the early leaders, began stalling out in the handstand push-ups.
This allowed Kevin Simons to pull ahead and come in second.
"(The event) turned out to be in my wheelhouse," Simons said. "I wanted to break up the pull-ups in two sets and hit the handstand push-ups in threes," he said.
"Once I moved the chess piece (the final time), I kinda saw where I was. I decided to push it," Simons said.
Sager took eighth place and Barnard 14th. Those finishes moved both athletes out of the top five.
Now that Anderson is in fifth, he is determined to hold onto his spot. He thinks Event 7 will be a good one for him.
"I practiced that one," Anderson said. "The muscle ups are good for me and the cleans will be ok. I am mindful about jumping over the bar. It seems that people are tripping."
"The next event is just a sprint—you can let your adrenaline work in your favor. It is only a minute and a half long, less than a minute hopefully. That's one where you can feed off of everybody else and go as hard as you can," he said.
1. Cody Anderson (11:19.5)
2. Kevin Simons (12:19.4)
3. Apollo Lewis (12:19.5)
4. Joe Scali (12:55.0)
5. Zach Carlin (12:56.4)
Event 7 was when everything changed.
The points were so close among the top 10 men, anything could happen in this event.
And it did.
Going into the event, Cole Sager was in seventh place. He needed his muscle-ups to be quick, so he devised an unusual muscle-up strategy.
Sager put his hands on the rings, and instead of throwing his legs back in a kip, he popped his hips in what was almost a strict muscle-up. This gave Sager the slight lead he needed. He was the first man to the clean ladder, followed by Cody Anderson and Lucas Parker.
Sager aggressively cleaned the weight, leaping over one bouncing bar to the next. Parker gave him a chase, but Sager made it to the finish in first. The win moved Sager into second place overall, earning him his second trip to the Games.
"The crowd this weekend was amazing. I have been to some amazing stadiums events (Sager is a former University of Washington football player), and this is one of the best crowds. I'm so thankful for everyone that is a part of it," Sager said.
Brent Fikowski, who occupied the top spot on the leaderboard all weekend, was in second going into this event, even though he took 20th on Event 6.
A 14th-place finish on Event 7 moved Fikowski down to seventh place, and Kevin Simons, who took fourth, to moved to third place.
And Lucas Parker, who was in third place going into the event, took second, allowing him to win the Regional.
"I had a feeling Event 7 would be decent (for me)," Parker said. "I'm a little peeved to take second. These workouts that Dave Castro comes up with, there are there to thrill the crowd and stress the athlete."
Joe Scali took the hotly contested fifth-place spot. He will go to the Games for the first time.
"Going to the Games has always been a dream of mine," Scali said. "I've made so many sacrifices, I've lost friends and sleep and time with family. This is just awesome."
1. Cole Sager (1:19.2)
2. Lucas Parker (1:19.7)
3. Zach Carlin (1:21.1)
4. Kevin Simons (1:22.8)
5. Cody Anderson (1:23.6)
Games Qualifiers
1. Lucas Parker (563 points)
2. Cole Sager (543 points)
3. Kevin Simons (541 points)
4. Tyson Takasaki (540 points)
5. Joe Scali (539 points)
Only two women at the West Regional finished Event 6: 43-year-old Jolaine Undershute and Jessica Core.
Regan Huckaby, who has been outside the top five all weekend, took fifth, moving her into fifth overall going into the final event.
The winner of Event 7 was Jessica Core, moving her into third place. Although Core has competed at the Games five times as a member of the CrossFit Fort Vancouver team, this year is her first time competing at a regional event.
Just as with the male competitors, the athletes who led in the early rounds were not the overall winners. Emily Abbott and Carleen Mathews started off in the lead, with Core in third.
Regan Huckaby stayed in third place in the early rounds, moving into second place at the beginning of the fourth round. While she was on the rower, Huckaby looked into the crowd and smiled.
After the event she said she was smiling at her son and husband, who were cheering her on. (Huckaby has two children: a three year old and a five year old.)
"They are the reason I do CrossFit," Huckaby said.
Then, in the fourth round—when it mattered most—Core took the lead. She completed the 16 chest-to-bar pull-ups in two sets, and the 9 handstand push-ups unbroken.
This gave Core a 30-second lead over Emily Abbott going into the fifth round, one she expanded by again completing all 9 handstand push-ups unbroken.
"On the handstand pushups, I just wanted to go on how they felt," Core said. "That mat on the floor (under the deficit) was money," she said.
Core said she knew Event 6 would be a good one for her.
"Yeah, (it was on) my radar. I maybe have an advantage with my height on the handstand pushups," she said.
Going into Event 7, Huckaby has a slim 10-point lead over sixth place.
She said she's looking forward to the last event.
"I think it is one of the funnest events of the weekend," Huckaby said.
Event 6 Results
1. Jessica Core (14:58.8)
2. Jolaine Undershute (15:52.2)
3T. Emily Abbott (CAP+2)
3T. Carleen Mathews (CAP+2)
5. Regan Huckaby (CAP+10)
Regan Huckaby made it to the Games last year, and she said a highlight of the experience was the Speed Clean Ladder.
"I made the final heat. I love lifting heavy weights. I am stoked," she said before Event 7 began.
In Event 7, all that lay between Huckaby and a buffet of heavy weights were 15 muscle-ups. Huckaby worked through them quickly and was the first woman to the ladder. She moved smoothly through the first three cleans, and then on the fourth—a bar loaded with 165-lb.—she missed the lift. Huckaby made it on her second attempt, cleaned final 175-lb. bar, and finished in first in 2:02.
"I did 1:47 in practice—a little bit slower today," Huckaby said. "But that is to be expected, some fatigue. I wanted to come out ahead on that one and I did, so I am stoked," she said.
The win moved Huckaby into fourth place overall, earning her a second trip to the Games.
This year, Huckaby said she is going to work on her mental game.
"I think this year I am going to try to mentally prepare better. Last year was mentally exhausting, so this year I will be going through some training between the ears," Huckaby said.
Alex Parker finished Event 7 in 13th, but she took fifth overall.
"It was a surprise (to finish top five)," Parker said. "I just had to make sure I performed to my capabilities," she said.
"I have a lot of training ahead of me. I'm a little scared, some of those (Games) athletes are ridiculous," Parker said.
"I was already taking this summer off to train. Now instead of training for regionals and the Open next year, I'm training for something a little bit closer."
1. Regan Huckaby (2:02.5)
2. Tia Wright (2:17.0)
3. Caitlin Ritchey (2:17.8)
4. Carleen Mathews (2:21.5)
5. Whitney Darchuk-Parenteau (2:39.4)
1. Emily Abbott (584 points)
2. Carleen Mathews (566 points)
3. Jessica Core (533 points)
4. Regan Huckaby (506 points)
5. Alex Parker (483 points)
Kevin Simons
Apollo Lewis
Joe Scali
Zach Carlin
Cole Sager
Lucas Parker
Tyson Takasaki
Mitch Barnard
Brent Fikowski
Jolaine Undershute


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Romania officially becomes an emerging market
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban rings the BVB bell to launch the first session as an emerging market.
By bne IntelliNews September 21, 2020
Romania's Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) held its first session as an emerging market on September 21, when the first two Romanian companies were included in the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (GEIS).
This is an important moment for Romania and its capital market, which thus enters the universe targeted by a wider category of investors, namely emerging markets funds that together have billions of euros under management. Previously, such funds were unable to invest in companies listed on the BVB due to its status as a frontier market.
The promotion to emerging market status comes 25 years after the BVB was re-established in 1995, after being closed during the communist era. "The story of the Bucharest Stock Exchange is, for the most part, the story of modern Romania and is part of our national DNA because it demonstrates the ability of this nation to mobilise itself to achieve an extremely ambitious country goal," said Radu Hanga, chairman of the BVB board, at a ceremony on September 21.
"[A]after a quarter of a century of work and alignment with the highest standards, the Romanian stock market has reached the level of requirements imposed by our international peers. Never in the recent history of the country has there been such an extensive economic project that would require so much effort and determination over such a long period of time."
"We are witnessing a historic moment. It is a clear and indisputable international recognition that the Romanian capital market receives. It is more than a validation of the values promoted by the capital market; it is a validation of Romania's efforts to be included in an unprecedented investment universe," said BVB CEO Adrian Tanase.
The two Romanian companies to be included in the FTSE Global All Cap Index, and three other indexes, are lender Banca Transilvania (TLV) and energy producer Nuclearelectrica (SNN).
Nuclearelectrica and Banca Transilvania met the FTSE Global All Cap Index eligibility requirements as of June 30, BT Capital Partners stated in its monthly report. Romania's share in these indexes will be under 0.4%.
However, investment funds focused on emerging markets are now likely to look at other Romanian companies as well.
"Romania has the chance to seize the opportunities offered by the new emerging market status because there are several candidate companies that could meet the liquidity criterion at this moment. New issuers will be able to enter the FTSE Russell indices if they meet the liquidity criterion in the following evaluations. The consolidation of this newly won status can be achieved only by increasing the number of Romanian companies included in the Emerging Markets indices, and this means that we will have more valuable and stronger Romanian companies, which will contribute to the development of the Romanian economy," commented Tanase.
FTSE Russell, one of the leading international stock indexes providers, decided to promote Romania from frontier to secondary emerging market in September 2019.
The other major index provider, S&P Dow Jones, still has Romania on its watchlist for a similar promotion.
The BVB's elevation to emerging market status comes at a time when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and rising political and economic risks in some markets have seen investors in emerging markets capital markets flee for the first time.
Like other stock exchanges around the world, the BVB was affected by the pandemic. Romania's BET index, which tracks the 17 most-traded companies listed on the BVB stood at 8,659 points at the end of the first half of the year, down 13.21%, which was the ninth most positive performance among EU stock exchanges.
According to data from the BVB, financial instruments in the equity and fixed income segments amounting to around €533mn were listed on the BVB in the first eight months of 2020.


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I run a MacBook Pro which I dual boot into OS X and Windows. As I have client data on both systems, they are both encrypted using FileVault and BitLocker respectivly.
Unfortunately this is not a supported configuration. I used Joe Raff's instructions to setup my system and have both drives encrypted. All was well until I updated to El Capitan at the weekend.
After upgrading to OS X 10.11.2 my Master Boot Record has been reset again. I have added more detail to the instructions and the screenshots I missed first time.
This morning, when I booted into the Windows partition I got the automatic recovery assistant. After a couple of reboots I leant from the strtrail.txt log that my boot configuration is corrupt. Ouch.
Here is the TL;DR. Full steps below.
1. Boot into OS X recovery mode.
3. Boot Windows installer from a USB drive.
4. Repair the Windows installation.
Reboot the Mac, and press `CMD + R` to boot into recovery mode. More information from Apple [here](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314). I found that I could not save the changes to the MBR from El Capitan.
The following steps are based on [Joe's instructions](http://joeraff.org/20131010/how-to-use-both-filevault2-and-bitlocker-simultaneously-on-a-dual-boot-mac-running-bootcamp/) to initially setup your dual booting Mac.
Take note of the start point, size and type of partition.  The Mac encrypted loader and Windows partitions are the items at indexes 1, 2 and 5. On your system this may differ but index 1 should remain the same.
Then add the first windows partition. I got the offset and size from index 2 above – this will be different on your systems so pay attention to YOUR start and size parameters and ensure its the the correct Windows partition.
Now add the second Windows partition. I got the offset and size from index 5 above – this will be different on your systems so pay attention to YOUR start and size parameters and ensure its the the correct Windows partition.
Make a bootable USB drive with the Windows installer on it, and use that to boot the Mac.
You'll need to enter your BitLocker recovery key here.
The startup repair will take a few minutes to run. Hopefully that will recreate the missing boot records, and you will be able to dual boot your FileVault / BitLocker system again.


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Q: Git add a folder to all branches in a repository I have a git repository on my local computer with many, about 10, branches. In the root directory of this repository there is a folder that is currently not tracked in any branch. I want to now start tracking this. If I do git add foldername/* and then git commit it will add the folder only to the current branch. Can I use a git command so that the folder is added to all the branches, without manually checking out each branch and adding the folder to that branch? If it is relevant, I want to state that there are a couple of files (not related to the above folder) that are different in each branch and I want to keep it that way. That is, the command you suggest should leave the other files untouched.
Thanks in advance for your help.

A: There's no simple way to do this.  The only way to achieve it would be to add the folder individually to each of the 10 branches, or add it to one folder and merge that commit individually into each of the other branches.

A: Branches are made to be treated separatly until you merge them. However, if you really don't want to do it manually, you can use some refinement of the following script:
$ git checkout master
$ git add foldername
$ git commit -am "Adding foldername"
$ for i in `git branch`; do git checkout $i && git cherry-pick master; done

A: reset instead of checkout will do exactly what you want, zero checkouts, nothing touched in the worktree
# from a worktree with nothing staged
for b in `git branch|sed s/.//`; do
    git reset $b
    git add folder
    git commit -m'add folder'
done
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When I was 10 or 11, I was given a book featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's famous house, Fallingwater. From that time on, architecture was the only career I was interested in. Is having that kind of career certainty at such a young age a blessing or a curse? It depends on what day of the week you ask me.
As Principal and Director of Architecture, I lead our talented team of architects, interns and technologists in a range of project types, including institutional, commercial, industrial and residential uses. I have a special interest in the educational sector and have led the design of numerous school projects in both the public and private sectors.
How are you preserving the heritage of Vancouver?
I've been the chair for both the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver Advisory Design Panels as an appointee of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, and I was recently appointed by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia to the City of North Vancouver's Heritage Advisory Committee. We are focused on public education and awareness, offering incentives to encourage conservation, introducing regulations and legislation to protect the heritage inventory, and assisting Vancouver council with public education and awareness activities.


A very "hands-on" guide to every step in the process of building a 2 metre diameter wind turbine for battery charging. The turbine will produce 800kWh of energy on a site with 5 m/s mean wind speed. It uses more durable ferrite magnets for longer service life. The ebook is packed with colour photos and diagrams to clarify the text. "They can tell you more than thousand words"
The best way to learn about solar is to make your own kit and watch it work. Build a solar power generator that you can take anywhere and never be without electrical power. Understand and maximize your use of solar power to run electrical devices even when grid power is unavailable.
The book deals with the specifics of internal ECM programming strategies. The knowledge gained here will aide the modern technician is deciphering why is the ECM functioning in a specific way. The second part detail what's needed for an engine to start. In other words, this section concentrates on the signals needed for a particular manufacturer to make the engine run.
This booklet will help you understand the key components of a maintenance-excellence program. It will explain how the program works and its importance in achieving a world-class maintenance operation.
This book is written with the intention to let readers understand and learn Python programming in a fun and easy way. Basically everybody finds it hard to understand programming language. However with the right techniques and programming logics, anyone can learn Python programming easily.
Tongue-in-cheek title notwithstanding, this book is a powerful entry-level pathway to a successful technical writing career. Use this primer as a way to get started writing user guides, job aids, procedure manuals, step-by-step instructions and training guides.
Risk Manager Brian O. Owens explores the undeniable connection between employees' humanity and their cultural contributions to the workplace. Using a simple yet powerful approach to aligning a workplace safety culture, Brian reveals the road to zero incidents is not built by attempts to control employee behavior, but by effectively changing the behavior using the power of Perspective.


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L'aéroport international d'Asmara,  est un aéroport domestique et international desservant la ville d'Asmara, capitale et la plus grande ville de l'Érythrée.

En 2015, les Emirats arabes unis s'engagent à moderniser l'aéroport d'Asmara, en échange de facilités portuaires et militaires dans le port d'Assab, utilisé par les Emiratis dans le cadre de leur intervention militaire au Yémen.

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Q: Graphing in R program So basically, I have this R output that I am using to make some line graphs
    f    x  N       y           sd         se         ci
1  Carla 1  5 0.577437500 0.538098341 0.240644894 0.668137337
2  Carla 2 21 1.975978653 3.258871642 0.711144094 1.483420586
3  Carla 3  8 1.217090357 1.936489842 0.684652549 1.618946022
4  Carla 4  6 0.004543219 0.002500954 0.001021010 0.002624590
5   Liam 1  4 0.356406250 0.203422619 0.101711309 0.323690780
6   Liam 2  8 5.164708412 5.169434477 1.827671087 4.321755376
7   Liam 3  4 0.019294020 0.002592634 0.001296317 0.004125459
8    Meg 1  3 0.337395833 0.383621255 0.221483835 0.952968025
9    Meg 2 11 2.218085777 3.889646592 1.172772574 2.613100136
10   Meg 3  3 2.239833477 3.810413346 2.199943171 9.465591491
11   Meg 4  3 0.004317894 0.002512864 0.001450803 0.006242301

And I used the following code, to make some line graphs:
# Standard error of the mean
ggplot(dfc, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=f)) +
    geom_errorbar(aes(ymin=y-se, ymax=y+se), width=.1) +
    geom_line() +
    geom_point()

# The errorbars overlapped, so use position_dodge to move them horizontally
pd <- position_dodge(.1) # move them .05 to the left and right

ggplot(dfc, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=f)) +
    geom_errorbar(aes(ymin=y-se, ymax=y+se), width=.1, position=pd) +
    geom_line(position=pd) +
    geom_point(position=pd)

But I was wondering if its possible to "highlight" the area occupied by the standard error and stuff.

A: ggplot(dfc, aes(x=x, y=y, colour=f, fill=f, ymin=y-se, ymax=y+se)) +
  geom_ribbon(aes(colour=NULL),alpha=0.5) +
  geom_errorbar(width=.1) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_point()


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Home Entertainment Kajol's Cameo in Karan Johar's Film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil': Ranbir Kapoor,...
Kajol's Cameo in Karan Johar's Film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil': Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Ansuhka Sharma
Kajol's Cameo in Karan Johar's Film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'
Kajol's Cameo in Karan Johar's Film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil': Super talented director Karan Johar is one of the most promising directors and filmmakers in Indian cinema. He made his debut as a director with Kuck Kuch Hota Hai and he went to direct movies like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name Is Khan and Student of the Year. (see: Baahubali 2 to have Oscars flavor.)
All these movies ended up as massive hits in his career and he has been producing films regularly on Dharma Productions banner. His last movie Student of the Year marked the launch of promising actors Siddarth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.
Kajol's Cameo in Karan Johar's Film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'
He has taken huge gap from production and he is now back with his next movie Ae Dill Hai Mushkil. Karan Johar has the idea of the movie from some time and he worked on the film for over two years. He decided to direct the film when he gets the right actors for the lead roles. After narrating the script to young superstar Ranbir Kapoor, he has been quite excited with the script of the movie and he signed the film on the spot.
ADHM is said to be a romantic entertainer which has a triangular love story in it. The makers roped in Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to play one of the lead actors in the movie which surprised everyone. Ranbir Kapoor romancing Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is something new for Indian cinema but Karan Johar had some intimate scenes between them.
However, Aish was not comfortable for the intimate episodes and liplocks which created enough sensation. Anushka Sharma played the other important role in the movie. The makers wrapped up the first schedule of the film in Mumbai.
As per the latest news, top actress Kajol has been roped in to play a cameo in the movie and she has been impressed with the approached role. Ae Dil Hai Mushkil will feature Kajol in a crucial role and she even will shake a leg with Ranbir Kapoor in a song in the movie.
ADHM also features Fawad Khan and Imran Abbas Naqvi will be seen in cameos in the movie which are crucial in the film. Karan Johar himself penned the script along with the screenplay and dialogues for the film. Pritam is composing the music and Anil Mehta is the cinematographer in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
Karan Johar is producing the movie on Dharma Productions in association with Fox Star Studios banner. The film will hit the screens on October 28th this year during Diwali.
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Klaus Gysi (3 March 1912 – 6 March 1999) was a journalist and publisher and a member of the French Resistance against the Nazis. After World War II, he became a politician in the German Democratic Republic, serving in the government as Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973, and from 1979 to 1988, as the State Secretary for Church Affairs. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and after German Reunification, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). His son is the German politician Gregor Gysi.

Life

Gysi was born in Neukölln, a borough of Berlin, Germany. His father was a doctor and his mother a bookkeeper. He attended grade school and Gymnasium in Neukölln and in 1928, joined the Young Communist League of Germany, the Workers International Relief and the Sozialistischer Schülerbund. He received his Abitur from the Odenwaldschule in Darmstadt in 1931, and that same year, joined the Communist Party (KPD). From 1931 to 1935, he studied social economics in Frankfurt am Main, the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Berlin.

He became active in the left-wing students' movement in 1931 and in 1935; he was expelled from Humboldt University of Berlin. He went to  Cambridge, England in 1936 and later, to Paris, France, where in 1939, he became one of the student leaders of the Communist Party there. He was then detained in France from 1939 to 1940, afterward returning to Germany on order of the KPD, accompanied by his wife, Irene. In Berlin, Gysi worked at the publisher Hoppenstedt & Co. and was involved in underground political activities against the Third Reich.

After the war, Gysi joined the SED. From 1945 to 1948, he was the editor-in-chief of the monthly Aufbau: Kulturpolitische Monatsschrift. From 1945 to 1977, he was a member of the presidium council, the federal secretary and lastly, a member of the presidium of the Cultural Association of the GDR. From 1949 to 1954, he was a representative in the GDR's parliament, the People's Chamber. From 1952 to 1957, he worked at the publishing house Verlag Volk und Wissen, afterward succeeding Walter Janka as head of Aufbau-Verlag, working there until 1966.

In 1963, Gysi became a member of the West Commission of the Politburo of the SED's Central Committee. From January 1966 to 1973, he was the Minister for Culture, a member of the Council of Ministers of East Germany and the Culture Commission of the Central Committee's Politburo. From 1967 to March 1990, he again served as a representative in the People's Chamber.

From 1973 to 1978, Gysi was ambassador to Italy, Vatican City  and Malta. From December 1978 to 1979, he was the General Secretary of the GDR's Committee for European Security and Cooperation, which prepared for GDR's participation in the Helsinki Accords. In November 1979 Gysi succeeded Hans Seigewasser as the State Secretary for Church Affairs, remaining in this position until his retirement in 1988. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gysi became a member of the PDS in 1990.

Personal
Gysi was married three times and had seven children. His first wife, Irene (née Lessing) (1912-2007) was the sister of Gottfried Lessing, and sister-in-law of Doris Lessing. They divorced in 1958. Their daughter, Gabriele Gysi (*1946), is an actress. She moved to the former West Germany in 1985. Their son Gregor (*1948), a lawyer, was head of the PDS from 1989 to 1993 and is today one of the most prominent politicians in Germany's Left Party.

Recognition and honors
In 1969, Gysi was awarded the Banner of Labor; in 1970, he received the Memorial Medal of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit and the Lenin Memorial Medal. In 1972, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit; in 1977, the Order of Karl Marx; and in 1982, he received the honor clasp of the Patriotic Order of Merit. In 1987, he was awarded the Star of People's Friendship and received an honorary degree from the University of Jena.

References

Further reading
 Bernd-Rainer Barth, Helmut Müller-Enbergs: Gysi, Klaus. In: Wer war wer in der DDR? 5th edition, volume 1. Christof Links Verlag, Berlin (2010)

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Java High Performance Computing
Coding for the Best Games
As software technology and computer hardware advance side by side, it is inevitable that more and more complex and lifelike computer games are being created. The virtual gaming platforms appear to know no bounds and even encompass online versions of many favorites.
One wonders where it will all stop, or more correctly if it ever will. This article looks at the way in which advances in ability and capability have enabled creative and innovative people to push the boundaries of what can be achieved in the online gaming industry when applied to computer software and the programs that are used to create them.
Probably the main reason why games are advancing so dramatically and quickly is down to a voracious demand for ever better, more engaging, exciting and graphically realistic computer games. Where there is demand, you will see the supply in evidence, as it is certainly in this respect.
People want to play amazing games on their computers and hand held devices and the industry is quick to react to that demand by supplying the product to the eager customer. You only have to compare the market as it stands today with the way it looked a scant 20 years ago to see the enormous difference in customer numbers and enthusiasts.
Profit Drives Innovation
But if there weren't a big paycheck for someone at the end of this manic rainbow, little would be getting done. The industry is driven by the fact that people are willing to pay a premium for the best games. With profit margins relatively high, the software developers, binary programmers and game makers are literally raking it in.
Money makes this virtual world go around and around faster and faster in a dizzy spiral up wards that shows no sign of abating. A whole generation of gamers has grown up around the home computer and later the dedicated games console or hand held device, so it's seen as the norm to expect a very high level of playability and graphical excellence.
Pushing the Boundaries
As innovation continues to expand as the imagination of game writers advances into out of the box directions of fantasy and surrealism, of course the nature of the games themselves will continue to evolve into better and better incarnations of their older former glory. Already we have consoles such as the Wii that allow players to interact physically with games using movement sensors, and an array of clever devices to drive the game in a first person guise.
The future can only move further into the realm of realism in a virtual world of game play as the action can already be brought to the brain via images projected onto headsets and optical gadgets like glasses. Twenty or thirty years ago, science fiction books and movies had us believing in people being able to leave the real worls and enter virtual realities to play out games or rescue people that had become trapped in games.
It is fair to predict that this will become a reality in the not too distant future as the industry figures out how to tap directly into the visual and other sensory areas of the human brain and come up with a device that really can create a fantasy world that can be embedded into a persons mind where they will believe they are really there.
Scary or pioneering? Who knows, but one day and probably not too far off we will be debating this issue for real. Exciting times are upon us.
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Heart, the sisters from the 1970s who gave rock music a strong but feminine feel, will hit the road with Joan Jett, Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile for the "Love Alive" tour this summer.
It's the first time in three years Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson perform together. The two had a split but apparently love and money brought the two back together.
The Live Nation-produced tour of 39 nationwide dates kicks off Tuesday, July 9 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis and make stops in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and Denver before wrapping Sept. 9 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Crow and Carlile will meet up with Heart on the road. Along with the stellar lineup, also appearing are Elle King and Lucie Silvas.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, Feb. 15 at 10 AM local time at LiveNation.com.* Citi is the official presale credit card for the tour. As such, Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale tickets beginning Wednesday, Feb 13 at 10 AM local time until Thursday, Feb. 14 at 10:00 PM local time through Citi's Private Pass program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.
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Allianz has signed a five-year capacity deal with Towergate Underwriting worth around £770m of gross written premium (GWP).
The new deal is an extension of the two companies' long-term strategic partnership and follows Towergate's recapitalisation and restructuring, which completed on 2 April.
The agreement extends support across Towergate Underwriting, in particular to Fusion. It will also provide additional capacity to Arista and provide new capacity in personal lines.
Allianz has a stated aim to grow its personal and commercial lines business. It wants to be the number one commercial lines insurer in the UK measured by operating profit and wants to be a top-five personal lines player - both by 2018.
In total the insurer wants to be a £3bn GWP business by 2018. Its 2014 GWP was £2.2bn.
Towergate group carrier relationship director Derek Henry said: "This is great news and shows real confidence in Towergate.
Towergate Underwriting chief executive Clive Nathan (pictured) added: "This agreement signals a confident return to business for Towergate Underwriting, and is a reaffirmation of our commitment to deliver on our promises to customers, in particular those who supported us through a period of uncertainty.


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'Why Culture is King' Featuring David Barker of Riot Games
By Aoife GearyMay 15, 2017For Companies, For Talent
Riot Games are as renowned for their employer brand as they are for their internationally acclaimed Multiplayer Online Battle Arena: League of Legends. Consistently, they've featured on 'Fortune's Best Companies To Work' list and have received awards for their flexibility and Millennial values from 'Best Places To Work'. In this Q&A David Barker, Director of Talent at Riot Games, talks us through what real culture looks like and how Riot Games have built their award winning employer brand.
What constitutes good culture?
Good culture is often confused with having good perks but a strong culture runs much deeper than free coffee or funky office furniture. The value of having a clearly defined mission and vision is better than anything you can offer in terms of office swag. Good culture means people know exactly what they need to do and how to do it to deliver a company's mission and vision. That's core. Culture determines behaviour in an organisation even when the managers or leaders aren't there. It's like social anthropology – people know what they need to do. Like a colony of bees, everyone is in tune. Even if the queen wasn't there, they still know what they need to do.
To establish your culture you need to have a clear mission. People align and understand their purpose and what they have to do within that context and framework. Then people can operate with freedom and still deliver what's expected of them.
So it allows for a flat structure?
Not necessarily. We have a flat structure at Riot but in general good culture leads to a more fluid and non-directive structure. A clear mission allows for freedom of choice and autonomy. It allows for quicker decision making because people know what they need to do. In Riot's context before we make a decision we need to ask ourselves 'are we creating player value' and 'are we making the player experience better?' I think if every organisation had that clarity of mission they would benefit from a more cohesive, proactive team.
How do you communicate that culture to the outside world?
We could probably do a bit more about how we communicate our values. I mean we've been recognised for some great rewards externally but we could always do more. I think at the moment we promote our culture through the game and our current employees. We focus a lot on making the candidate experience as enjoyable as possible. Our candidate experience and how we look to handle our relationships with future Rioters is something we hold in high regard. We use our current Rioters to promote our culture and attract people of the same ilk.
How do you ensure you're hiring for a cultural fit?
At the core of our hiring we look for people who are passionate about what they do. People that can go deep into magazines or movies and hopefully games as that's who we are – a gaming company. At our interview process we're looking at how passionate a person can be. We could even call it a maniacal passion! We want to see how they articulate that and how they communicate that. We're looking at ways to learn from our candidates.
We want to learn and absorb what makes people so inspired that they dedicate hundreds of hours of their lives to doing what they're doing.
We also try to take people through the candidate journey as closely as we can, so if we can't do in-person interviews, we spend a lot of time on video and online as an interview format. If we find that a candidate has something of unique interest to us, we'll discuss ways to nurture that potential so that they can bring that value to Riot in the future.
I imagine the passion for gaming is non-negotiable?
Very much so! And gaming in a certain sector of gaming as well. There's a place for casual games like Candy Crush but our MOBAs (Multi-Player Online Battle Arena) are a different genre in that they require deep technical expertise. Everyone starts on a level playing field and some people playing League Of Legends become world class at what they do.
Our League of Legends world playoffs are as big as any live sports event. They have a massive following with a Gladiator arena style atmosphere. It's another testament to the passion in the community.
If you're a gamer and you love going to these events, we want to talk to you. You'll be part of that environment for a reason. It's a community, a lifestyle choice, a kind of cultural movement. If we can harness that magic, that power and bring it into Riot then that's something special.
Do you find it difficult to hire diverse talent that are also a cultural fit? How do you weigh it up?
We don't necessarily focus on seeking out diversity per se. We look at cultural alignment – whether or not you're aligned with what we're doing, our values – that transcends diversity. We would never discriminate on any grounds but we just put the focus first and foremost on cultural alignment. That for us trumps everything.
We have such an international presence that we do have quite a naturally diverse workforce in terms of nationalities. We look for people all around the world. League of Legends is a global product, it interests and excites people all over the world and we are always looking for those people wherever they are based. Trying to harness and cultivate and grow that passion is what drives our team.
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I talk with lots of small business owners who feel stuck. Their market share is eroding. Their products and services have been commoditized. And they barely recognize their customer, let alone empathize with their newly evolved habits, behaviors, and desires.
Actually, it can. In fact, it's entirely reasonable for you to expect your business to launch a new, innovative product or service to market within the next 100 days.
Read more from Jay Melone: How to bring design sprints inside your company.
A typical small business employs between 1-100 employees and generates up to $50 million in revenue. According to the Small Business Administration, there are 28 million small businesses in the US that account for 54% of all US sales.
So then, imagine you're the owner of a small, $5M/year distribution business. You sell fasteners (i.e. nuts and bolts) to OEMs that use your fasteners to assemble the products they sell to their customers.
You've been in business for 30 years. And for the first 20-25 years you sold the same product to the same customer in the same format.
But recently, the industry has shifted. Your customer has become more attuned to buying directly from the online Amazons and big box Home Depots. And so you now find yourself scrambling to sell amongst an entirely new arena of competitors, products, services, and customers.
As a result you're losing market share, as your products and services no longer provide the value they once did.
Beyond that, Google is operating within the white-hot technology sector while you're servicing an industry dating back to the 1700s.
Google's Margaret Lee. Read more: 5 things I learned at Design Leadership Camp.
Of Google's 72k employees, the largest function is engineering. Your company has never employed a single technologist—no developers, designers, UX researchers, or product managers. And if you have, you're not quite sure what they do other than tinker with your website and cycle the router when the internet is flaky.
If you're like most small business owners you're probably feeling stuck, thinking you'll never be able to dig yourself out of the hole you're in.
Who would you need to hire?
How would you ever come up with the millions of dollars it must cost?
How would it all impact your established business lines?
These are the types of uncomfortable unknowns that keep most small business owners from doing anything.
But the truth is, getting started is a lot simpler (not necessarily easier) than you'd imagine.
First things first: Your small size is a phenomenal advantage. Imagine the planning + resourcing + alignment it takes for a corporation like PepsiCo's 800,000 employees to begin such an initiative.
Small businesses have their company leaders within arm's reach. You can probably call a meeting and have all of your key players sitting in your office within the next couple of hours.
Instead, if you were PepsiCo, you'd spend weeks coordinating a leadership summit in order to arrange executive sponsorship. Because without such sponsorship in such a massive enterprise, the initiative would be DOA.
You're going to need someone to drive consistent momentum. Otherwise, people will hear "innovation" and, at best, roll their eyes. Otherwise, you will begin, like the dozen or other so big company initiatives, and then pause indefinitely to put out everyday fires.
This person's mission of pushing for speed (remember: 100 days) and cadence will keep the team engaged.
You won't need to create a new department or hire a bunch of expensive consultants. One person will do.
This person does not need their title changed to include the word "Innovation" in it. Avoid tactics like these that only lead to unnecessary org changes, inflated company announcements, and political drama.
Select someone in the company with enough authority to make decisions and get others to follow their lead.
This person should be open-minded and eager to experiment. This person should love big challenges and being uncomfortable. This person should have a passion for learning new things.
What follows is an introduction into a practical framework your team can use to surface big problems (opportunities), prototype solutions, validate assumptions, and launch those validated solutions to market in the form of an MVP (minimum valuable product).
First, decide what kinds of problems your business leaders are interested and experienced in. Generate a list of 5-10 problems you've encountered in your market. These could be gaps in your products and services or entirely new ideas—things your leadership team has seen first-hand, ideas you've heard bubble up from on-the-ground employees, or suggestions existing customers have made.
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Next, figure out who is impacted by those problems and talk with them. You want to learn if this is truly an important problem to the actual consumers of a potential solution (i.e. would a solution to this problem be something they need and want?).
You also want to learn how they're solving it today—if existing solutions are getting the job done and your solution won't be 10x better (i.e. revolutionary), move on to the next idea.
Once you've identified your top handful of ideas, select 1 to start out with. We recommend organizing a 5-day Google design sprint to prototype solutions and validate with actual customers. If you've never run a design sprint, there are training options available.
If your customers validate your solution, commit to spending the next 2-3 months to launch your MVP. From that point, it will be a matter of observing its practicality in a live market, and iterating.
If your customers invalidate your early solutions, move on to the next idea. It'll be tempting to feel you've wasted ~1 week only to "fail." Instead, consider the time and money saved that would have otherwise been committed to building, marketing, and staffing a solution that was doomed from the start.
If you make it so far as to execute these 2 steps, take time to celebrate. Even if it was messy (it will be), it's a win.
Why, what did you just accomplish?
You have a lot of work in front of you to get the process honed and baked into the culture and mindset of your entire organization. However within the span of 1 quarter, you officially began practicing the same format Google, Uber, Home Depot, and hundreds of the world's most innovative companies use to launch their groundbreaking products and services.
You're also now in the grittiest top 1% of companies that see the ground coming out from beneath them and decide to embrace the challenge by taking action to adapt, grow, and come back stronger than ever.
I outlined additional detail on the steps any size organization can take to become more innovative in: Innovation Goes on a Diet.