If you have extra pieces of tissue, using a few a tools you can make a beautiful mat that will decorate your home and please the children.
You just need to prepare certain 'ingredients', be patient and use your imagination, and you will get a beautiful, unusual, colorful mat for the baby.
1. Select the dense fabric of any size. Draw a diagram of roads and houses using pencil and then masking tape – it should be something symmetrical and simple.
2. Prepare acrylic paint. Roads – gray (if you do not have it, you can mix black and white). Paint roads using the roller.
3. When the paint dries, draw a white paint mark on the road.
4. Paint houses with different colors, leave the paint to dry and remove the masking tape.
* Some homes can be cut from felt in different colors – a separate roof, doors, windows.
5. Add your favorite rug eateries, attractions, lakes, zoo (you can draw animals or cut them out of newspapers or magazines and glue) etc.
1. Cut out pieces of fabric. Of old jeans cut piece for pockets and canvas for the front of the mat.
Prepare denim 17×10 in and fold it in half.
Attach pins denim to the duck cloth (or other thick fabric you chose for the mat).
Sew the fabric together at the bottom.
Start making vertical stitches when sewing fabric. You can make few lines for durability.
2. Sew gray felt to the main dense fabric, which will play the role of the road for machines.
From the yellow felt, cut small pieces – they will be road markings, fasten them with pins and sew the gray felt.
From any fabric cut and sew machine image applications. When you fold the mat, the machine will decorate crafts.
Prepare a white ribbon and sew it on the top and bottom of denim. You can also sew sides.
Sew a strap (fabric belting) to denim. Attach it to the bottom of the mat and sew, leaving about 0.5 in abroad mat. When connecting denim with the main dense tissue, this piece of the strap is inserted between them.
4. Connect tops of denim and basic thick cloth and fasten them with pins. Along the edges make line, leaving about 3 in is not stitched to the mat and then unscrew.
5. Remove the pad and sew the hole left behind. Make another sew around the perimeter of the mat.
Add up your mat in half, iron with the hand to make crease in the middle.
Expand the mat and make a sew in the middle – where the fold is formed. So it will be easier to fold the mat.
6. Prepare a paper with carved figures.
Attach the paper to the bottom of the rug – where a small denim, and apply several layers of acrylic paint to form a figure in white.
7. It remains to fill the pockets of cars, fold the mat and secure Velcro. You now have a folding, compact mat that the child can take with you, unfold it and play with cars.
This folding mat for children even easier then previous. We just need to add loops around the perimeter of the fabric and pull the ribbon through them. Now you can easily fold and unfold mad to play anywhere.
There is nothing nicer than a child's smile. Make a handmade mat and enjoy a fun game of your baby.


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The Argument Prologue Act 1, Scene 1 Act 1, Scene 2 Act 1, Scene 3 Act 1, Scene 4 Act 1, Scene 5 Act 2, Scene 1 Act 2, Scene 2 Act 2, Scene 3 Act 2, Scene 4 Act 2, Scene 5 Act 2, Scene 6 Act 2, Scene 7 Act 3, Scene 1 Act 3, Scene 2 Act 3, Scene 3 Act 3, Scene 4 Act 3, Scene 5 Act 3, Scene 6 Act 3, Scene 7 Act 3, Scene 8 Act 3, Scene 9 Act 4, Scene 1 Act 4, Scene 2 Act 4, Scene 3 Act 4, Scene 4 Act 4, Scene 5 Act 4, Scene 6 Act 5, Scene 1 Act 5, Scene 2 Act 5, Scene 3 Act 5, Scene 4 Act 5, Scene 5 Act 5, Scene 6 Act 5, Scene 7 Act 5, Scene 8 Act 5, Scene 9 Act 5, Scene 10 Act 5, Scene 11 Act 5, Scene 12
All Themes Theatre and Appearance vs Reality Money and Commerce Greed and Corruption Gender Roles and Women Language
All Characters Volpone Mosca Voltore Corbaccio Bonario Corvino Celia Sir Politic Would-be Lady Would-be Peregrine
All Symbols Disease and Medicine Gold and Alchemy
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Act 1, Scene 1
Act 5, Scene 10
Theatre and Appearance vs Reality
Money and Commerce
Greed and Corruption
Gender Roles and Women
Voltore
Corbaccio
Bonario
Sir Politic Would-be
Lady Would-be
Disease and Medicine
Gold and Alchemy
Volpone: Act 2, Scene 2 Summary & Analysis
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Mosca and Nano, both in disguises, enter the square outside Corvino's home where Sir Politic and Peregrine have been talking. Mosca points to a window, and he and Nano begin setting up a platform. Sir Politic asks Peregrine if he has heard about the Italian mountebanks (swindling salesmen and fraudsters), since they are about to see one. Peregrine says he has heard that they are conmen who make a living selling oils and medicine. Sir Politic responds that mountebanks are "the only knowing men of Europe!" He calls them great scholars, doctors, and best speakers in the world.
Mosca and Nano's costumes demonstrate the theatricality of Mosca's ruses, and they create dramatic irony, since audiences know that the two men are in disguise, but Sir Politic and Peregrine do not. At the same time, the disguises remind the audience that every character on stage is really just an actor in a costume. Note also that the mountebanks are praised for their ability to speak well, which in turn allows them to sell well, tying language to commerce.
Peregrine says that he has heard mountebanks are all talk and no substance and that they lie about their bad medicines, which they'll eventually sell for extremely cheap despite a very high starting price. Sir Politic says that Peregrine will have to see for himself, and he asks Mosca who the mountebank is. Mosca says it's Scoto of Mantua, at which point Sir Politic promises Peregrine that his opinions about mountebanks are about to change, though he wonders why Scoto of Mantua would mount his stage in the square when he usually does so in the Piazza.
Peregrine knows that mountebanks (like the play's other tricksters) use deceptive, empty language as a powerful tool to manipulate others. The mountebank about to appear, of course, is Volpone, not Scoto of Mantua, and he is stationed outside of Corvino's house instead of in the Piazza because he wants to sleep with Corvino's wife.
Volpone enters the square dressed as a mountebank and followed by a crowd of people. Sir Politic and Peregrine watch as Volpone mounts the stage and launches into a speech, explaining that the crowd might find it strange that he has chosen to set up here instead of in the Piazza after being gone from Venice for eight months. He explains that he is not desperate to sell his goods at a cheap price, and that the rumor that he was imprisoned (spread by a competing mountebank) is false. He says he cannot stand the salesmen who are too poor to afford a stage and tell wild fabricated tales about adventures that never happened. Throughout the speech, Sir Politic makes little interruptions to Peregrine about how good it is.
This performance is almost directly opposite to Volpone's performed disease—here, he is an energetic and bombastic salesman. Part of his sales pitch is disparaging other mountebanks for being poor and assuring the crowd that he is not desperate to sell his goods; he seems to imply that one needs to have money to make money, which is related to the claim throughout the play that money itself imbues people with good qualities. Sir Politic, meanwhile, is struck by Volpone's language abilities, which are obliquely made parallel to Ben Jonson's, since (like Jonson did of other playwrights in the opening), Volpone disparages competing mountebanks.
Volpone continues, saying that the other mountebanks are terrible, and that they'll kill twenty people a week as if it were a play. Even so, he says, these terrible mountebanks have some favor with the public, though all their medicine does is purge people into the other world (i.e. kills them). He then says that his bank will only be the source of profit and delight, and that he has nothing (or very little) to sell.
Volpone's comment that doctors kill people like they are in plays is meta-theatrical, since Volpone himself is a character in the play. His comments also reflect the very real contemporary fear that medicine could not be trusted and that doctors were just as dangerous as disease. It's comical to see Volpone claiming not to care about profit—the audience knows that money is nearly all he cares about, though in this literal moment his statement might be true, since he is trying only to seduce Celia.
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Volpone next claims that he and his six servants can't make the elixir fast enough for all the Venetians who want to buy it, including merchants and senators. He asks what use a rich man has with a full wine cellar when the doctor tells him to drink only medicine on pain of death. He cries out to health and calls it the blessing of the rich, and he says that no one can enjoy the world unless they are healthy. Since health is so important, he reasons, the people should not be cheap when it comes to his product.
The line about a rich man having a cellar full of wine while being required to drink only medicine recalls (and inverts) Volpone's criticism, earlier in the play, of those who don't know how to properly spend money. Again, physical health is somehow associated with wealth. Ironically, in his other ruse, Volpone's pretending to be both rich and sick stands in opposition to the notion he keeps pushing that wealth maintains health.
Volpone says that when they become sick, they can try to apply gold to the affected areas and see what happens—it's only his "rare extraction" that has the power to cure a vast list of mild and severe ailments. His elixir, he says, is the doctor and is the medicine. It cures. It is both theoretical and practical in the medicinal arts. It costs eight crowns. Volpone then instructs Nano to sing a verse in honor of the elixir.
Backtracking from his claim that health is the blessing of the rich (and from discussions about gold as medicine earlier in the play), Volpone seems to reverse his position by saying that gold cannot be used as medicine. Rather, he says, his elixir is the only true, trustworthy medicine.
Sir Politic asks Peregrine what he thinks of Volpone and his language, to which Peregrine responds he hasn't heard anything like it other than in alchemy or dense scriptural treatises. Nano then sings in praise of the elixir. He sings that if the ancient Greek doctors Hippocrates or Galen had known the secret of the elixir, they would have spent far less time working, and no other bad medicines would have been tried or invented. At the end of the song, Peregrine says eight crowns is too expensive for the elixir.
Volpone's language here is apparently so unique (and confusing) that it sounds like an obscure alchemical text or a difficult theological essay. Sir Politic, who won't admit to being ignorant of anything, thinks the language is impeccable, but Peregrine seems to find it absurd and almost without meaning. Peregrine is one of the only characters who seems able to identify and resist deceptive language.
Volpone begins another dense, ostentatious rant, saying that if he had time he could list the numerous miraculous effects of his product, list the many people it has cured, and list all of the diseases it fixes. He claims he has been endorsed by the college of physicians because of the quality of his medicine and because of the secrets he knows. He then says that some might say there are other mountebanks who claim to have the same product he has; Volpone agrees that many of them have imitations made at greater cost in complex processes that ultimately fail. He says he pities their foolishness more than their loss of money and time, since you can earn back money, but "to be a fool born is disease incurable."
Volpone's list of diseases is absurd, and it shows the character's obsession with illness. Between his three years pretending to be ill and his long list of diseases to fear, there is evidence that Volpone is afraid his fake diseases will turn real. In a strange way, Volpone's pity for those who are born fools is aligned with the play's moral message. Money is impermanent; it is not the most important thing in life. You can always make or lose money, but loss of morals, or reputation, or of character can be permanent.
Volpone says that from his youth he has sought out the rarest secrets and spared no cost in learning everything that he could. He claims to be a master of the chemical arts, since, while others have been at Venetian balls, he has been studying. Having studied so much, he has arrived at a point of success and prominent reputation. He goes on to say that while he never previously valued the elixir at less than eight crowns, he's willing to sell it for six. He tells the crowd that he isn't asking for the true value of the elixir – some have offered a thousand crowns for it – but he despises money. He is rejecting those offers in order to sell it to the people gathered in the crowd.
All of this, of course, is fiction, and it's comical to hear Volpone claim that he despises money. The absurdity of this scene can be seen as a commentary on or criticism of the corrupting force of commerce in Venice, as mountebanks essentially just take advantage of eager consumers with elaborate exaggerations, lies, and faulty products.
Peregrine comments on what a waste of time it is to start at such a high price for what will ultimately sell for very cheap. Nano then sings another song encouraging the crowd to purchase the elixir, naming several ailments it will fix. Volpone says he is in a good mood and will therefore lower the price in an act of charity. He says he'll sell it for sixpence, though he will not lower the price again by even a single coin. He tells the crowd to toss handkerchiefs if they want to buy the elixir, and he promises a special additional gift to whomever first throws a handkerchief.
Peregrine has no idea just how much time is being wasted, since Volpone isn't really selling anything. It's also a somewhat damning commentary on the theatre that Nano is singing and entertaining in order to sell a bogus product. In a way, Ben Jonson is entertaining the audience in order to teach them a moral lesson. Presumably he means well, but the parallel in technique is alarming.
Peregrine asks Sir Politic if he would be the first to throw a handkerchief, but from her window above, Celia, Corvino's wife, throws down a handkerchief. Volpone thanks her and says he'll give her something even better than his elixir – a powder that he says is too expensive to even describe. He says Apollo gave the powder to Venus to make her perpetually young, and that Venus gave it to Helen of Troy. The powder was lost for ages until it was recently rediscovered. Volpone says that he is the only one with access to this special powder, which has many beneficial effects, but he is cut off and the scene ends.
Volpone's improvised (or possibly rehearsed) invention of this second product shows his mastery of language, deception, and acting. The lineage of this invented powder is reminiscent of the lineage Androgyno gives of his soul's migration to him from Pythagoras—perhaps this is where Volpone got the idea for this trick.


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05 JUL 2019 Institutional · Science
European periodontal researchers receive awards from IADR
IADR Award recipients from Europe: Søren Jepsen (far left), Andrea Mombelli (third from left), Peter Harrison (third from right). The award to Niklaus Lang was collected on his behalf by EFP immediate past president Anton Sculean.
Leading European periodontal researchers were among the recipients of prestigious awards at the recent annual congress of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).
At its annual meeting in Vancouver (Canada), held from June 19 to 22, the IADR presented awards to Andrea Mombelli, Søren Jepsen, Niklaus Lang, and Peter Harrison.
Andrea Mombelli (professor emeritus, University of Geneva, Switzerland), a past president of the Swiss Society of Periodontology, received the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Research in Periodontal Disease.
Søren Jepsen (professor, University of Bonn, Germany), EFP president 2015-2016 and scientific chair of EuroPerio9 (Amsterdam, 2018), received the IADR/Periodontal Research Group Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine.
Niklaus Lang (professor emeritus, University of Bern, Switzerland), former chair of the EFP's European workshop committee, was the recipient of the IADR/Periodontal Research Group award in "Innovative approaches to prevention and non-surgical treatment of periodontal and peri-implant diseases."
Peter Harrison (University of Dublin, Ireland), president of the Irish Society of Periodontology and the junior officer of the EFP Postgraduate education committee, received the IADR Karring-Nyman Sunstar Guidor Award, which aims at supporting research within the field of oral tissue regeneration.
"These awards are a great testimony to the importance of European periodontology," said Filippo Graziani, EFP president. "I am delighted that these awards have gone to peers who are deeply involved in the work of the federation, which is more and more the global voice of periodontal science."
In 2018, former EFP secretary general Iain Chapple (UK) received the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award for Research in Periodontal Diseases.
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The solar alignment that occurs twice a year in the temple of Abu Simbel
Post author By Jorge Álvarez
Categories In Ancient Egypt, Archaeology
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Three millennia ago Egypt was at the height of its Empire. After the war campaigns of Senusret III and a period of splendour and Egyptian pax during the government of Amenhotep III, and having saved a phase of weakness and decadence led by pharaohs like Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, the times of splendour returned with the help of a new dynasty.
Ramesses II was a warrior pharaoh who turned to war campaigns to maintain the dominion of the empire and stop the increasingly daring Hittite invasions. The battle of Kadesh between both armies should have been the turning point but ended practically in stalemates.
However the capacity of Ramesses for self-glorification was proverbial and not only he attributed himself an overwhelming victory but he sowed the country with monuments commemorating the feat. The temple of Abu Simbel is perhaps the most spectacular.
Model showing the original and current locations of the Hajor temple/ photo Hajor on Wikimedia Commons
It is a hemi-speos, that is to say, excavated in the rock (in fact the name means pure mountain), which was endowed with an imposing facade of 34 meters high and 38 meters wide with four giant statues of the pharaoh himself (22 meters, measure).
It took 20 years to build (1284-1264 B.C.) on the border with Nubia because it was there that the flooding of the Nile entered Egyptian soil, and the bellicose local inhabitants were impressed. Furthermore, another temple was built next to it (dedicated to the goddess Hathor and to the favorite wife of Ramesses, Nefertari), also great although somewhat smaller.
Interior of the temple / photo Dennis Jarvis on Wikimedia Commons
Abu Simbel, which remained forgotten for centuries after being buried by tons of desert sand, was rediscovered in 1813 but entered the History of Art with capital letters already in the twentieth century, when the project to build the Aswan dam threatened to flood it under the waters of Lake Nasser along with many other monuments.
UNESCO launched an initiative to save it in 1959 and, with the funds raised, proceeded to dismantle it stone by stone to rebuild it 210 meters beyond, at 65 meters of height, safe from any flood.
Thanks to this, today it is a World Heritage Site and Spain, which collaborated in the works, received as a reward the Temple of Debod, installed in Madrid.
The statues of Amun, Ra-Heractates, Ramesses and Ptah in the temple / photo Dennis Jarvis on Wikimedia Commons
One of the peculiarities of this temple is that twice a year it is crossed by the rays of the sun from the entrance to the sancta-sanctorum, passing through the pronaos and the halls of colossus and hypostyle and, at the end, illuminating for 20 minutes the statues of the gods Amun, Ra-Heractates and the pharaoh himself divinized, leaving the statue of Ptah dark because it represents the darkness.
Traditionally, it occurred 61 days before and after the winter solstice, on 21 October and 21 February, anniversaries of the coronation and birth of the pharaoh respectively, but since the transfer, and due to the displacement of the Tropic of Cancer during the last 3280 years, the calendar was slightly out of phase, shifting to 22 October and 20 February.
Those days are when the perpendicular call takes place, celebrated by the present Egyptians with parties and spectacles. If somebody has a chance to be there, don't miss it.
This article was first published on our Spanish Edition on October 6th, 2018. Puedes leer la versión en español en El alineamiento solar que ocurre dos veces al año en el templo de Abu Simbel
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SOTY 2014: A platform for student talent
The Student of the Year Awards is Hong Kong's most prestigious secondary school event of the year. Organised by Young Post and the South China Morning Post and sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the awards are now entering their 38th year. With the support of the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, Student of the Year and its satellite awards are a way for schools to acknowledge the achievements of outstanding senior-level students.
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Student of the Year Harry Tam (left) with his secondary school principal, Wong Chi-keung. Wong said Harry has a rare combination of gifts, both in academic and community contribution.
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Sportsperson runner-up Jake Leung (second from left) is shown with Sing Yin ex-principal Kwok But, Tuen Mun Catholic Secondary School principal Michelle Ho and English teacher Diana Lam.
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As part of Celebrating Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post/Hong Kong Jockey Club Student of the Year Awards is a prestigious annual secondary school competition that recognises not only the academic achievements of students, but also their skills in fields including sport, the arts and community contribution.
Schools that took part last year call the awards a great platform for students to display their talents.
Wong Chi-keung is the principal of Sing Yin Secondary School - which Harry Tam Pok-man, last year's Student of the Year, attended. "The award has many categories, and Harry was able to win the grand award because of his outstanding achievements not only in academics but also in his contribution to the community," he says.
Wong says it is an educator's responsibility to provide every student with a fair chance to excel. "Not everyone is going to win an award, but I think every student is talented and able to excel in things that they work hard at. My job as an educator is to help students fulfil their potential," he says.
Harry won several international prizes in physics, and is a keen contributor to the school and the community. Wong hopes his success inspires others. "Winning an award recognises great effort, but it is not the end. In fact, it is a good start for one to build on and to continue to work hard. I hope Harry can make use of his potential in physics to contribute to society," he says.
Michelle Ho Miu-chun, principal of Tuen Mun Catholic Secondary School, said she would continue to nominate students for the award after seeing one of the school's students - wheelchair foil and sabre fencer Jake Leung Siu-lun - named runner-up in the sportsperson category.
Leung, now studying for a degree in medical laboratory science at Polytechnic University, is an inspiring role model in Ho's eyes. "I have a deep admiration for Jake. He was a healthy boy, and then an illness made him wheelchair-bound, and he was not able to go to school for two years," she says.
When Jake left school because of his physical condition, he was in Form Four, preparing for the HKCEE. When he returned a couple of years later, he had to do the HKDSE, which was entirely new to him. "It never discouraged him; he kept working hard," says Ho.
Ho was most impressed with Jake's persistence in fencing. He refused to take subsidies from the school to take taxis from Tuen Mun to the Hong Kong Sports Institute in Sha Tin, insisting on getting there by himself using the MTR.
This year Tuen Mun Catholic Secondary School plans to nominate six students in the linguistics, community contribution, performing arts and sportsperson categories. "The award is an eye-opener for students," says Ho. "Participants need to go through several rounds of interviews. The interview panel is made up of respectable people in various fields, so students can learn a lot from interacting with them."
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John Francis Moriarty PC, QC (1855 – 2 May 1915) was an Irish lawyer and judge.

Background and education
Moriarty was born in Mallow, County Cork, the second son of John Moriarty, a successful solicitor of the town, and his wife Ellen O'Connell. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, where he and his brother Michael were classmates of Arthur Conan Doyle, and the University of Dublin. He entered Middle Temple in 1875, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1877.

Family

He married firstly Katherine Beatrice Kavanagh (1859–1898) and secondly Mabel Dolphin. By Katherine he had eight children:

Frances Caroline Joan Moriarty (1896–1933), who married in 1915, as his first wife, Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape, by whom she had four children, including Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape. They divorced in 1931.
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Joan Denise Moriarty (1910?–1992), the well-known ballet dancer, dance teacher and musician, was his niece, the daughter of his brother Michael and Marion McCarthy.

Legal and judicial career
Moriarty became Queen's Counsel in 1900, Third Serjeant in 1909 and First Serjeant in 1910. Despite his flourishing legal practice, he was often in financial difficulties, and he went bankrupt in the 1890s. Although he supported the Liberals, unlike many barristers he did not regard party politics as a path to career advancement and showed little interest in acquiring a seat in the House of Commons. He did contemplate standing as member for Mallow in 1883. In 1913 he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, then Attorney-General for Ireland. In 1914 he was made a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland but served less than two years before dying suddenly in May 1915 at Droitwich while on a visit to England. His death was widely reported abroad, and was commented on by the New York Times.

Reputation
Maurice Healy in his popular memoir The Old Munster Circuit gives a vivid portrait of Moriarty as an exceptionally able and flamboyant barrister who was utterly unscrupulous in the tactics he used in conducting a case and was equally unscrupulous in his financial dealings. In Healy's opinion, "he seemed to prefer to lose a case by a trick than win it by fair means".

This picture may well be exaggerated; Healy himself admits that Moriarty was a fine Law Officer during a period of acute political tension, when he had to deal with the Dublin Lock-out and the formation of the Irish Volunteers.

The view of Moriarty given by Serjeant Sullivan in his memoirs, if not as severe as Healy's, is very similar; he recalled an occasion where the Irish Court of Appeal was driven to calling Moriarty  "a disgrace to the profession". Sullivan thought that Moriarty, had he lived longer, would have been an outstanding judge, and this view seems to be borne out by his few reported decisions.

The suggestion that he was the inspiration for Professor Moriarty, the sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes, may seem fanciful, but it is certainly an interesting coincidence that he was at school at Stonyhurst with Holmes' creator Conan Doyle.

While his great skill was cross-examination – he was perhaps the most feared opposing counsel of his day – Moriarty was also a fine lawyer, as demonstrated by his learned argument in Ussher v. Ussher (1912) on whether a marriage conducted according to the Roman Catholic rite is valid in the absence of a second witness. Even Healy admits that "he was an advocate of amazing ability". He was a tall man of intimidating presence, which he used to full effect in court, and affected a monocle.

National Bank v Silke
The report of a lawsuit in which Moriarty was a major figure, National Bank v Silke, certainly raises questions about his financial probity, since it contains an uncontradicted statement by the defendant that Moriarty induced him to sign a cheque through a fraudulent misrepresentation. On the other hand, Maurice Healy, despite his very low opinion of Moriarty, points out fairly that he was not a party to the action and therefore had no opportunity to defend himself against the charge of fraud.

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Another perennial you might add to the deer resistant list are Watsonia. I think that's what they're called.
We have upteen million of these and the deer leave them alone; after a couple years you can divide the plant and keep on going (which is why we have so many). They're great for cut flowers, and are heavy producers. Tall spikey leaves similar to Glad's, with tall stems with bell shaped flowers. Very pretty. They're not quite open yet or I'd attach a picture, the color's we know of are White, a bright Pink, an Orange and purplish tone.
From the webmaster: Thanks for the sugestion. Next time I update the chart I will include it.


Sandal manufacturer ISlide has entered into a three-year licensing agreement with Major League Baseball.
ISlide will launch with more than 150 custom MLB sandal designs on their website, featuring all 30 MLB clubs.
MLB ISlides will be available via official MLB retailer Fanatics as well as at select in-venue team shops across Major League Baseball ballparks.
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has extended its partnership with North America's Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) for the staging of the World Baseball Classic national team event.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has said its hopes to stage regular-season games in Europe and Mexico in the next five years, while the league has become the first pro-sports competition in North America to partner with integrity solutions provider Sport Integrity Monitor (SportIM).
After passing the $10bn (€8.7bn) threshold in 2017, Major League Baseball's revenues climbed to $10.3bn last year, according to Forbes.


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A poem in ten parts by Adam Thorpe.
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The public transport industry is a heavy innovator. Trains and railways are equipped with IoT sensors to measure performance, delays, and incidents. Bus, subway, and train repair, and maintenance costs are intensely watched due to budget pressures. In the meantime, passengers are more critical and demand immediate action whenever downtimes or delays occur.
In various interactions with public transport industry customers, I've noticed they are generally well informed regarding delays, have good insights on maintenance and repair, maintain remote visibility on infrastructure incidents, and are equipped with rolling budgeting models. The thing is that these insights tend to be isolated. None of the customers I spoke to has integrated and consolidated insights on them all, so they are like "blind men in the wood" when I ask which unexpected repair incidents affect which train delays.
· Incidents management: including both infrastructure incidents and incidents in the actual train, bus, subway, and so on.
· Repair costs and maintenance: focusing on supplier management, unplanned downtime, and cost reduction.
· Delays management: tied to narrowing the gaps between planned and actual arrival/departure times, rankings, and geospatial insights.
As I said above, today's key challenge for the industry is not measuring those individual subject areas, rather it's in consolidating and interrelating them. The key is the ability to understand how an issue in one subject area affects an issue in another one, and to what extent.
Are we done with challenges? No, we aren't. Today's competitive public transport market requires more than just consolidating insights. It also requires agility, meaning analysts must be able to consolidate insights in real time, to continuously compare their actuals against budgets and forecasts, and even to be able to adjust and simulate them while analyzing. We call this the closed-loop portfolio of monitoring, budgeting, and forecasting. And last, they need instant insights from massive data volumes; remember, they all use IoT devices – and we know what they generate.
I used the SAP Digital Boardroom on top of in-memory platforms to analyze over 30 million records of public transport delays, incidents, and maintenance data. The SAP Digital Boardroom uses three touch screens to provide insights in real time on the transactional level. (This article describes how the SAP Digital Boardroom works.) What impresses me most is its ability to combine versions of actual, planned, forecasted, and predicted data; in other words, I can analyze, adjust, predict, simulate, and re-analyze the end result. Now we're talking!
It all starts with creating an agenda that lists the various insights required. The agenda items refer to models and stories with real-time insights. You can skip between agenda items with a single click, and every single insight can be further explored with new attributes, filters, or simulations.
Watch the video below for a full overview of using the SAP Digital Boardroom to address the challenges I've described. Please be aware that I anonymized the data though the algorithms, structures, and "cadence" of the data from a real-world example.
For more detail on the analysis, read Iver's blog post, Part II-Public Transport:How to Get Insights on Repairs, Maintenance, Delays, and Vendors with SAP Digital Boardroom.
This post has been syndicated from the D!gitalist Magazine and has been republished with permission.


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Armed forces detain PM and other leaders in Sudan 'coup'
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Sudanese protesters lift national flags as they rally on 60th Street in the capital Khartoum
Armed forces detained Sudan's prime minister over his refusal to support their "coup" on Monday, the information ministry said, after weeks of tensions between the military and civilian figures sharing power since the ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Civilian members of Sudan's ruling council and ministers in Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's transitional government had also been detained, the ministry said in a statement on Facebook.
Soldiers stormed the headquarters of Sudan's state broadcaster in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, the ministry said, as patriotic songs were aired on television.
"Civilian members of the transitional sovereign council and a number of ministers from the transitional government have been detained by joint military forces," the ministry said.
It added that "after refusing to support the coup, an army force detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and took him to an unidentified location".
"Any changes to the transitional government by force puts at risk US assistance," Feltman said on Twitter.
"I am calling on security forces to immediately release all those unlawfully detained or put under house arrest," said Volker Perthes, chief of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan.
"The EU calls on all stakeholders and regional partners to put back on track the transition process," EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell tweeted.
The Sudanese Professionals Association, an umbrella group of trade unions which were key in leading the 2019 anti-Bashir protests, denounced what it called a "military coup" and urged demonstrators "to fiercely resist" it.
Sudan has been undergoing a precarious transition marred by political divisions and power struggles since Bashir was toppled in April 2019.
The ex-president has been wanted by the International Criminal Court for more than a decade over charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.
But the main civilian bloc — the Forces for Freedom and Change — which led the anti-Bashir protests in 2019, has splintered into two opposing factions.
"We renew our confidence in the government, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and reforming transitional institutions — but without dictations or imposition," Arman added.
Protesters took to the streets in several parts of Khartoum carrying the Sudanese flags.
"We will not accept military rule and we are ready to give our lives for the democratic transition in Sudan," said demonstrator Haitham Mohamed.
– Rival protests –
Last week tens of thousands of Sudanese marched in several cities to back the full transfer of power to civilians, and to counter a rival days-long sit-in outside the presidential palace in Khartoum demanding a return to "military rule".
On Saturday, Hamdok denied rumours he had agreed to a cabinet reshuffle, calling them "not accurate".
Also on Saturday, Feltman met jointly with Hamdok, the chairman of Sudan's ruling body General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
Analysts have said the recent mass protests showed strong support for a civilian-led democracy, but warned street demonstrations may have little impact on the powerful factions pushing a return to military rule.
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We've all been in workshops where we are asked to think of a brand we take inspiration from as marketers. Apple, Tesla and Red Bull are three of the ever presents in this list, and the choices don't really change, wherever the workshop and whatever the sector. I have never heard anyone say 'Next' yet. […]
By Neil Davidson
We've all been in workshops where we are asked to think of a brand we take inspiration from as marketers. Apple, Tesla and Red Bull are three of the ever presents in this list, and the choices don't really change, wherever the workshop and whatever the sector. I have never heard anyone say 'Next' yet. When it comes to brand inspiration, most marketers see it as grey and unremarkable, the John Major of retail brands.
Remember Superdry?
There was a time when Superdry could have been one of the brands called out in workshops, before it became a dad brand and the business started to decline. Before the pandemic it was struggling with the realities of being stuck between bricks and mortar and online, as were many retailers, along with board and strategy issues. Despite this, its aspirations and predictions for the future were bullish and its annual reports were slicker and more persuasive than most. Many predicted that Superdry would pull through. Meanwhile, beneath its greyer exterior, Next's commentary on its challenges and opportunities was perceptive. This was particularly focused on the necessary move to online retail, the need to diversify, economic threats and wider consumer trends, which all seemed less inward facing than Superdry's commentary and strategy as a result. Analysis of business performance ratios pre pandemic didn't necessarily pull one apart from the other but Next seemed (to a minority) to be more likely to grasp the nettle than Superdry, despite the seeming allure of the Superdry brand over the Next brand.
Bricks and mortar are no longer belt and braces
Fast forward to 2021. Superdry has posted three years of losses on dwindling revenues while Next has bounced back. Next has still had its challenges but it's fascinating to see how its quiet perceptiveness seems to be paying off compared to many of its legacy competitors, some no longer in business and others struggling to adapt to a new retail world. Next's current business commentary should be considered by marketers, particularly its reflections on the pandemic, the outlook after the pandemic, digital investment, the realities of bricks and mortar now, and necessary collaboration and partnership with brands in fashion and beyond. Its reflections on the realities of the pandemic and crises generally are perceptive, particularly that nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first excited reports would have it. It admits that its gloomiest predictions at the height of the pandemic were wrong, thanks to online retail saving it from the worst effect of physical retail closures. On the flip side, Next believes that despite current demand it is almost certain that underlying conditions are not as good as they appear at the moment. Pent-up demand, a record consumer savings and fewer overseas holidays has boosted sales, but these effects will diminish. (Its other watchouts are an increased cost of living and the effect of seasonal labour shortages on delivery services.) The conclusion is that things may not be as good as they appear today but that the signs are positive for the long-term.
A grey but exciting future awaits
It's striking that Next talks about online retail and digital communications differently now, particularly its relationship with bricks and mortar retail. Now it talks about 'the financial drag of our retail business' and that the diminishing physical restraints of its retail shops have sparked massive positive change and growth in the business. Online is more than a channel, it's a mindset that has sparked new ways of thinking and working and a move into products and sectors not previous considered. With an online customer base of over 8.4m at the start of 2021 the scale of the opportunity is impressive. We all now know that there was more going on with John Major than we supposed during his political career. (I'm obviously talking about his passion for cricket, his Brixton upbringing and that he was the son of a trapeze artist, a music hall entertainer and seller of garden gnomes.) As with Mr Major, everything isn't always it seems and if he was the grey man of British politics who had a lot more colour to him under the surface, then the same is true for Next. Why else would Next describe where we are standing now as 'a daunting but exciting world?' So try being the first person to put forward Next at your upcoming workshop, or even John Major over Elon Musk.
Why we all need to be more Sherlock
Many marketers are developing strategies now as it's that time of year and brilliant strategy starts with brilliant detective work.


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Counting the environmental costs of ITS deployment David Crawford looks at the latest thinking about calculating the benefits associated with the environmental side of ITS schemes. The penny is dropping that some environmental costs are being shifted outside the traditional bounds of evaluation methods for ITS-based road transport projects, according to researchers at the UK University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies.
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European tunnel upgrades following new safety legislation Across Europe there is a very mixed picture of compliance to latest safety standards for road tunnels. Best practice has emerged, however, in the wake of European legislation. Jon Masters reports High profile fatal fires following accidents in the Mont Blanc, Tauern and Gotthard tunnels prompted the 2004 European Union Directive 2004/54 on road tunnel safety. This meant all EU member states...
European tunnel upgrades following new safety legislation
Data holds the key to combating VRU casualties Accident analysis software can help authorities identify common causes and make best use of their budgets, as Will Baron explains. More than 1.2 million people die on the world's roads each year and according to the World Health Organisation, half of these are pedestrians and vulnerable road users (those whose vehicle does not have a protective shell, such as motorcyclists and cyclists). While...
Data holds the key to combating VRU casualties
Fleet Operations launches reporting suite for fleet managementFleet Operations has launched a reporting suite called Move Analytics which it says makes cost and performance analysis easier for fleet and mobility managers. Richard...
AMG introduces Mini media converters for transport applicationsAMG Systems has launched Mini media converters which it says are designed to protect transport cameras from extreme temperatures. The Mini media converters can be...
TomTom launches OEM.connect programmeTomTom Telematics has launched its OEM.connect programme to allow vehicle manufacturers to connect with its telematics service platform. The programme will allow...
Teledyne Dalsa to expand Genie Nano camera rangeTeledyne Dalsa is to launch three Genie Nano cameras equipped with Sony CMOS sensors which it says can be used for ITS and traffic applications. The Genie Nano 2.4M,...
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Proterra supplies battery-electric buses to VirginiaProterra is to supply battery-electric buses and charging stations to the Virginia Department of General Services in...
China's plans for EVs in the futureChina is setting out its plans for increasing the use of EVs in the future. By 2030, the country's Hainan Province...
Renovo launches platform for AV productsSoftware company Renovo has launched a data management platform to aid the development of autonomous and advanced...
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Substantial savings from smarter street lightingAs authorities strive to reduce expenditure and carbon emissions, Colin Sowman looks at some of the smart ways of managing street lighting while containing costs and...
Using electricity to power road freightNext year sees the start of the first real-life electrified road system for transporting freight. Worldwide freight transportation is predicted to double by 2050 but despite...
Associations News from around the worldThe world's ITS Associations participated in the ITS World Congress in Vienna, including: New Zealand, which stressed the need for future proof ITS solutions; the...
Europe calls for guidance on evaluating ITS projectsA European Commission study report has revealed a lack of consistency or standard practice for evaluating the funding needs and fiscal performance of ITS projects. New...
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Nick Creegan to receive Blue & Bougie Impact Award
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Blue & Bougie executives have selected actor Jamaican American (Jamerican) Nick Creegan as the recipient of the 2021 Blue & Bougie Impact Award.
The upscale Blue & Bougie party series is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022 at the Elegant Loft in Mt. Vernon, from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Blue & Bougie executive Jamaican Anthony Turner told Caribbean Life that Creegan, who was born and raised in White Plains, is a "proud Jamerican."
Turner, an entertainment publicist, said Creegan's mother is from Jack's River, St. Mary, Jamaica.
"After having stints as a sportswriter and on-camera host at ESPN, Yahoo Sports, VICE Media and Bleacher Report, the acting bug took hold of him," said Turner of Creegan. "A sketch he created in a Jamaican accent about Oxtail gravy a few years ago went viral, and Oprah Winfrey's team caught wind of it.
"He was cast as Desmond in the Oprah network's hit drama "David Makes Man" in 2018, and he never looked back," Turner added.
Since then, he said Creegan has been a major recurring character on Law and Order: Organized Crime, opposite Dylan McDermott.
Turner said Creegan is currently a series regular on "Batwoman."
"His character Marquis Jet transitions into the show's new version of the iconic villain The Joker, and Nick is the first actor of color to portray the role," Turner said.
Creegan said: "I very much appreciate this award. As a proud product of Jamaican roots and Westchester County, this means a lot."
Turner said Blue & Bougie's mission is "to recognize outstanding individuals from our community who have made an impact in the arts, entertainment, fashion and the food industry.
"Nick's work as a talented actor speaks for itself," he said. "Like Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who recently honored pop star Rihanna, it's important to give those who have made an impact their roses now, rather than wait until they are dead."
Turner said Creegan joins an elite list of past Blue & Bougie honorees, including Safaree (Lloyd Samuels), Love & Hip Hop, NY TV star; Bounty Killa, international dancehall DJ; Nadine Sutherland, international reggae singer; Cristy Barber: GRAMMY-nominated music producer and vice president of Creative Planning & Development at Downsound Entertainment, producers of Reggae Sumfest; and Kurt Riley, Jamaican broadcaster, producer and elite club disc jockey.
Safaree to receive 'Blue & Bougie Impact Award'


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Q: How to implement a SpannableStringBuilder where only a certain part is colored? I need to implement a string that changes the color of some parts of it to highlight it. I need to create something like a hotkey guide that displays the action you could perform by pressing the highlighted number. I used to use Html. from HTML but I've read that it's not fast because of the parsing. I need to run the code on a slow device. This is my current code.
private SpannableStringBuilder spannedTxt(String txt, int count){
        String tagStart = "
", tagEnd = "
";
        String temp = txt;
        int emojCount = count /2;
        emojCount += 1;

        SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder();

        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            SpannableString spannable = new SpannableString(temp);
            Log.d(TAG, "convertToSpan: "+spannable.toString());

            spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED),
                    txt.indexOf(tagStart) + tagStart.length(), txt.indexOf(tagEnd),
                    Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

            ssb.append(spannable);

            temp = temp.replaceFirst(tagStart, "");
            temp = temp.replaceFirst(tagEnd, "");
        }

        return ssb;
    }

What it currently does is change the style of the first substring inside
 and
 which is a number. For some reason, the tagStart and tagEnd aren't removed from the final SpannableStringBuilder even though when I logged it shows that the tags are removed. I used
 and
 to know which part is the once that need to be colored. I needed that because the action could also contain numbers and I don't need to recolor those numbers on the action. For example, Action 1 (Press 1). The string also contains emojis between each action and I use the count of those to know how many actions do the string contain.
Simpler explanation:
What I need to make is below
Action 1 (Press
1
)   Action 2 (Press
2
) to

Action 1 (Press 1)   Action 2 (Press 2)

Something like that using SpannableStringBuilder

A: you can use Html.fromHtml() static function to parse HTML code to a TextView text with properties (as the HTML's ones), as shown below:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11062756/5417056

A: So, after some thinking, I found a solution for my problem. I changed a bit of how I create my string for the SpannableStringBuilder.
Action 1 (Press
[1]
)    �� ��    Action 2 (Press
[2]
)    �� ��    Action 3 (Press
[3]
)

Using the string above, I've modified my code to the code below.
private SpannableStringBuilder spannedTxt(String txt){
        String tagStart = "
";
        String temp = txt;

        String[] actTxtArr = txt.split(tagStart);

        SpannableStringBuilder ssb = new SpannableStringBuilder();

        for (int i = 0; i < actTxtArr.length; i++) {
            String arrTxt = actTxtArr[i];
            SpannableString spannable;

            if(arrTxt.contains("[")){
                arrTxt = arrTxt.replace("[", "");
                arrTxt = arrTxt.replace("]", "");

                spannable = new SpannableString(arrTxt);

                spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED),
                        arrTxt.indexOf(arrTxt), arrTxt.indexOf(arrTxt) + arrTxt.length(),
                        Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            }else{
                spannable = new SpannableString(arrTxt);
            }

            ssb.append(spannable);
        }

        return ssb;
    }

Now it works the way I wanted it to be. I hope someone who might need to implement something like the one that I did find this useful.

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From the Boroughs to the Burbs … and Back
March 8, 2019 by Sabra Staudenmaier
The view from the Davis' new city apartment
One of the most famous lines in cinema is "There's no place like home" uttered repeatedly by a young Judy Garland playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. What one wants in a home and a community though often changes over time. For many city dwellers with a burgeoning family, the excitement of the city soon takes a back seat to practical needs. The suburbs call out with abundant green lawns, tranquility and good public schools. Cramped apartments and endless cultural opportunities give way to multi-bedroom houses with ample closet space and sprawling backyards. A slower pace. Less noise. The smell of cut grass comes from the lawn outside rather than from a high-end room spray from Bloomingdales. As the spring housing market heats up, we spoke with young families who made the move north of I-287 and empty nesters who said "sayonara" to the suburbs and found their footing in the city.
Growing Families Sprout to the Suburbs
From Park Slope to Parks Aplenty
For Cori and Matt Chmielecki the decision to leave their two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in Park Slope was a difficult one. They were happy in Brooklyn; they had great friends, a deck, a yard, a driveway and central air. But with the birth of their twins their apartment became too small for their family of five.
They began their search in the suburbs looking for more space and good schools. They were glad to get away from the feeder school mentality. "Right now all of my friends in Brooklyn are interviewing to get their kids into middle school. I knew that process wasn't for me" remarked Cori. They preferred Westchester because it was close to family in Connecticut and Metro North offered an ideal commute for Matt, who works in the city.
The Chmielecki kids catch their school bus
"We loved Brooklyn and thought we wouldn't be cool anymore if we left." Said Cori, who can't help but bring the Brooklyn vibe wherever she goes. "Getting into a store with a double stroller and a buggy board on the back was not fun. Life in Brooklyn felt hard, more hectic," Cori recalls. They were a bit hesitant about going so far north but when all things were considered, Chappaqua was their best option.
Since moving to Chappaqua they acknowledge missing their friends and the culture and diversity of Brooklyn; but overall the Chmieleckis couldn't be happier. They love their neighbors, the schools, their yard, the weeping willow in front of their house and the creek that runs through their property. Cori especially appreciates the school bus picking her kids up at the end of their driveway.
The Arany Family in the City
Addicted to Armonk
Karina Gritsenko and David Arany and their three sons moved from the Upper East Side to Armonk in September of 2017. Though they loved their rent stabilized two-bedroom apartment on Park Avenue, it was starting to feel too small for their growing family.
The Aranys had the standard requirements when looking to move to the suburbs. They were considering space, location, schools and community. Karina is a physician and commutes to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. David works in finance in Stamford, CT and Manhattan, so proximity to these places was a consideration.
It wasn't long after moving that Karina started teasing David that he was "Addicted to Armonk." He loves everything about it: the focus on family, the community, the safety and especially the indoor and outdoor space. "Armonk is a family town in a way other towns aren't. It has a real feeling of community with festive events like the Frosty Day Parade and the Armonk Outdoor Art Show."
"We have an amazing town," Karina says with pride. "Everything is geared towards the kids. Armonk feels like the Upper East Side, only with houses instead of apartments." David says that coming home to Armonk from the city "makes him calm and happy."
Empty Nesters Flock to the City
A Nest in the Sky
Cheryl and Danny Strick moved to Armonk from LA in 2004 when their two kids were 10 and 6 years old. They had heard from friends that Windmill Farm in Armonk is one of the best places on the East Coast to raise kids. After looking around, they agreed and settled there. "It was such an easy place to meet people and make friends," recalls Cheryl.
When their kids grew up and went away to college, Cheryl, a television producer, found herself at home alone with her three dogs working on projects while her husband worked long days in the music industry getting home late most nights. They decided that they would be able to spend more time together if they downsized and moved to the city.
The Stricks saw moving to the city as an opportunity to reinvent and rediscover their relationship. Cheryl feels that "you thrive by reinventing yourself."
The thing the Stricks miss most about living in Armonk are their many dear friends. Cheryl makes a point to come back to Armonk regularly for Canasta games and lunches. The couple has an annual tradition of watching the Super Bowl and celebrating July 4th with their friends in Armonk.
Cheryl has enjoyed constantly recreating and redecorating her home as life has changed. She looks at this stage of her life as a continuation of that. This time she has built her home as "a nest high in the sky". Though they miss their backyard with the screened in porch, pool and Jacuzzi, the Stricks now have a view from their Upper West Side 18th floor apartment terrace that they love.
Lisa and Stephen Davis lived in Chappaqua for 31 years. They built a wonderful and happy life, and found it to be an ideal place to raise their three children. They established deep roots in the community. Lisa was on the Chappaqua Board of Education for nine years and served as the president of Temple Beth El; but the couple had both gone to college in the city and they lived there before having kids. Though they loved their life in Chappaqua, they always knew they would eventually go back. Eight years after their youngest finished college, they decided that it was time.
Lisa feels that "New York City is a great place to be as an older adult. You don't have to drive, there is so much culture and you walk more." It made sense that this was the place for their next phase. "It's energizing and exciting to turn the page…and a little frightening". Yet, Lisa emphasizes that it's important for the timing to be right.
Lisa still maintains ties to Westchester, as she reverse commutes to her job as Executive Director of the Westchester Putnam School Board. On the other hand, her husband enjoys having a fast and easy commute to his job in the city.
The Davises are glad they moved to New York City, however Lisa misses being connected to the community like she was when she lived in Chappaqua. She has stayed in contact with her friends, however she misses being close to some of her favorite places like the Jacob Burns Film Center, Rockefeller State Park Preserve and her beloved temple.
Suburbity: A Combination of the Suburbs and the City
The city; an hour, but sometimes a lifetime, away. The decision about where to live often becomes about priorities and changing lifestyles. However, leaving one place doesn't mean you must completely detach. And so, we can create a hybrid, a mash-up, of what we want and need from both places across the timeline of our lives. It is nice to know we have the best of suburban life still within a reasonable distance of all that the city offers, even if it takes years or even decades to get there.
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What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
By Mike Heron	 Last updated Oct 30, 2012
When it comes to film genres I am fairly open minded. I like all sorts from comedy through to grindhouse horror, I will even sit through a 'chick flick' when I have to. This is exactly what I thought I was getting when I started to watch What to Expect When You're Expecting. However this was not the case.
Directed by Kirk Jones, a director who is still relatively new to the chair, and produced by Mike Medavoy and David Thwaites. What to Expect When You're Expecting is based on a book by Heidi Murkoff.
The basic premise of the story is that the viewer casts a voyeuristic eye into the lives of 5 couples, who are, in one way or another, expecting a child. These couples' lives are all intertwined through subtle subplots which develop throughout the film. It portrays the trials and tribulations of everything from the initial conceiving of the child all the way through to birth and beyond.
With a stellar cast of top celebrities including Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Quaid and Chris Rock, to name but a few, this film has gone big budget and big laughs.
I am a parent, as I'm sure many of you probably are too. Whilst I love my children dearly there are times when I wonder why I chose the path I did. Had I not had children I would undoubtedly be better off financially, drive a 2 seat sports car of some description (probably red) and the silver hairs that shimmer in the morning sunlight through my receding hairline would be the most fantastic chocolate brown.
This heart warming film took me back in time (minus the Delorean!) to the birth of my first child and reminded me exactly why I chose car seats and early male pattern baldness.
I am aware of the opinions of other critics with regard to this film, however, I disagree with them.
For me the film worked well on all levels, the plot was tight and held its ground well. To be fair, with this type of film, as long as you stick to reality and portray things as they are, the natural humour of a situation will shine through. It's not trying to be The Usual Suspects or The Sixth Sense, there are no twists or turns to develop and withhold from the viewer until the final moments. The final moment is childbirth, which is fairly obvious from the start! To label this film as predictable is almost ironic.
The way in which the different couple's lives intermingled was simplistic yet well thought out, and in some instances well delivered at the appropriate time. Various moments throughout the film carefully remind you of the other sub stories which are unfolding and stop you from focussing too much on one particular plotline.
Given the genre, there is little by way of effects to talk about, however there is comedy and plenty of it, enough without being farcical. Due to the narrative of the film, man plus woman plus childbirth, the laughs are easily set out and quite natural. A number of which occurred in my own experience of my partner's pregnancy. It helped to have a cast of seasoned comedy actors who delivered well the lines they were given and depicted situations that arose with true realism.
As I said previously, this is not a 'chick flick'. Man stands proudly within this movie and as such I believe it will appeal equally to a male audience as it would a female one. If anything, it was probably billed and marketed incorrectly toward the female species given certain aspects of the story.
One particularly masculine side to the narrative is the Dude group, a secret society of men who get together regularly, children in tow, in a park to offload to one another their problems. This gives for some very funny and often very true dialogue between the group.
The sides of both sexes is well balanced during the film and neither is leaned toward, each compliments the other and provides a good argument for both.
Whether this film appeals more to people who have children and have suffered through a difficult pregnancy, or those who have no children and therefore do not have the same level of understanding of the situation is not for me to say.
I personally enjoyed it as I could mirror certain parts to my own life, which made me feel less as though I were watching a film and more as if I were recapping a memory, or discussing a past event with someone close to me.
I will say however that as a heart warming, funny, romantic and dare I say it tear jerking film it ticks all the right boxes.
For me this film was a key which unlocked a treasure chest of memories, covering a time in my life which I will always look back on and say was my best, my most valiantly fought and my most worthwhile and for that I am truly grateful.
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison, J. Todd Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Quaid, Chris Rock
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Q: wenzhixin bootstrap table no populating I have this bootstrap table where I cannot populate with my data, on data-url im calling a function inside my controler, when I inspect the the object i can see that it loaded correctly but for some reason it not populating the table Am I missing somenthing?
<table id="t_user" class="table table-hover tbl_usr"
   data-toggle="table"
   data-url="<?php echo site_url('mda_user/tblrefresh')?>"
   data-toolbar="#custom-toolbar"
   data-click-to-select="true"
   data-single-select="true"
   data-search="false"
   data-show-refresh="false"
   data-show-toggle="true"
   data-show-columns="true"
   data-pagination="true"
   data-search="true"
   data-height="300"
   data-response-handler="responseHandler">

        <?= $id?>
        <?= $name?>
         <?=$password?>

            <?=$operation?>

A: What is the content of your responseHandler(res) function?
eg, I defined my table mostly inline but also with some JS:
$().ready(function(){
    $('#myTable').bootstrapTable({
        url :  "/api/data",
        responseHandler: function(res) {
            return res.data.content;
        }
    })

(The response is wrapped in some JSON that I need to remove to pass the pure array to bootstrap-table)


The story is set in the 1880s, and the first act begins in a clustered living room of Horace. He is depicted as a wealthy widower with lots of provisions. The old man is a practical thinker as he is opposed to the idea of a man without a steady income marrying his niece. This is the reason he is sending Ermengarde away to prevent the wedding. The plot of the story revolves around the Horace insistence on his money. He judges Ambrose from his poor state other than from his character. He hold onto a theory that money should not be spent. Horace then sermons the chief clerk at tells him that he is getting away for a few days to be married. He makes plans for his reception after the marriage. Dolly is a matchmaker in the play and is supposed to find Horace a suitable wife. She agrees to help Ermengarde and Ambrose with their wedding plans at a meeting in New York. The author draws Horace as a mean character who is questing to fulfil his desires. He claims that love is for fools as he has spent his life hoarding money. The theme of love is paramount in the plot of the story, with the presence of a matchmaker, quest for love and the need to get married despite the challenges.
Wealth is unequally distributed among the characters. The wealthiest character is Vandergelder. This name was conjured from the German name gelder that means money. On the other had the author draws a character obsessed with pleasure "Ambrose" which is closely related to ambrosia (a pleasure of the senses). The act starts with an inquisition argument between what is more worthy of pursuit: financial security or pleasure, business or the arts? The way in which Horace spends money helps in gauging what he sees of paramount importance. He pays the barber fifteen cents for a haircut. However, when proposing to Mrs. Molly, he is willing to pay up to fifty cents. He further oppresses his workers paying them meagre wages, which leave them with only three dollars in their pockets. To ensure that Ermengarde does not marry Ambrose, he is willing to pay the Cabman fifteen dollars to keep them apart. The actions of Horace jeopardize the love of Ambrose for Ermengarde .The man is so obsessed with his money that he carries a purse stacked with twenty dollar bills. He is contemplating the idea of marrying because he has a lot of money (half a million dollars in the bank).
Love is depicted in many instances in the play. Different situations put the characters in different situations. It is through his desire to give his niece a better and fulfilling life that he denies her the chance to marry Ambrose. However, his ultimatum does not stick since his niece is satisfied in the end. His rudeness is depicted when he denies of ever having heard of a thing such as a broken heart. He is fooling himself when he thinks that he is interested with women for other reasons other than love. His argument that he needs a housekeeper is conceptualized by Dolly's idea of the perfect woman. She says that the woman has to be a great cook, wealthy, a third his age and infatuated with him. She does this as she admires him and as an effort to get to him. Contrary to the things that he was looking for, in the end he cannot resist being attracted to her.
The matchmaker illustrates love at first sight. If this was not the case, the plot of the story would spin in different directions. However, the presence of characters such as Cornelius and Barnaby clearly draws the attention of the audience to what love at first sight is all about. Their appearance in Mrs Molly shop makes Cornelius fall instantly and hopelessly in love with her. The theme of love is further culminated in the story with Ambrose seeking the hand of Ermengarde in marriage. However, their love is faced with different obstacles. For one, Ambrose does not have a steady source of income which makes Horace deny him the chance to marry her niece. It is through his persistence and heart work and the love he holds for Ermengarde that he wins the heart of the old man. The old man's heart and view of love are further changed when he starts trusting Dolly. She makes him realize the importance of love, and this makes him able to have an open relationship.
At the end of the play, a speech is given by the youngest character (Barnaby). It addresses the need and importance of adventure in life. This is one of the lessons that he and Cornelius have learnt throughout the play. Initially the two friends were reluctant about leaving their posts in the store, but in the end they are glad for the results of the adventure. It is only through adventure that Cornelius meets the woman of his dreams and he fall in love. The matchmaker further shows the effects that adventure has on Horace. It is through adventure that the things that he does not value have an effect on him. Unlike his initial safe prospects about life, he learns the need for trusting others. Molly is initially depicted as a dreamer. She has been waiting for a rich man to take her from her job. She falls in love when she gets to meet Cornelius. Further love is seen as Minnie gives Barnaby his first kiss. The fact that Dolly's husband died does not hinder her from enjoying life and nor do the fact that she is a matchmaker who finds suitable women for Horace. As the play comes to an end she cannot hind her true feeling for Horace.
The theme of love is paramount in the plot of the story, with the presence of a matchmaker, quest for love and the need to get married despite the challenges. As the cited instances above depict, the matchmaker depicts all sorts of love. From parental love to romantic love, in each scene of the play, love takes the central role. All the characters have different adventures that lead them realize the love surrounding them.