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New Moon in Sagittarius: Frivolity!
Acheron, Christmas, December Solstice, Emu, Forgetting, Frivolity, Hell, Lethe, Mental Health, Sagittarius New Moon, Woe
You can't get there from here. Urban Dictionary.
Myths identify contradictions that are not easily reconciled and relationships where social balance is tenuous. Dorothy Counts, Snakes, adulterers, and the loss of paradise in Kaliai, 1993.
Did you know that 90% of the dust in the world is made up of dead human skin? How do you feel about that? You think you're dusting your house? You're not you're just moving your grandmother around. Dave Allen. (Read the one about the Demon Drink!)
As someone who has nestled in gender dysphoria and the lethargy of opprobrium for three score years and ten, and possibly developed borderline personality disorder as a result, who has no doubt been judged as an evasive scoundrel for promulgating the belief, on the political spectrum right of Genghis Khan, that we should value country above territory, resilience above compensation, self-reliance above compliance and perseverance above healing, I have been trying to bend my indolent imagination, being born a Cancer in the Southern Hemisphere on Christmas Day, to some understanding of the psychological landscape of Christmas, in the wet concrete of Mental Health repeatedly added in 2019 to the renovation of Our Global Temple of Everlasting Safety, and the possible significance for the traditional Christmas celebrations of the celestial background beyond its daylight, consisting of a host of invisible stars towards the centre of a galaxy plotted on an unconscious history of hell.
New Moons are metaphors for those brief moments when the genders coalesce, when the cultural rules make perfect sense and animosity makes none, and for good or ill, we just know we're all in this constant change thing together. You will uphold and believe in the result, although your vote has gone to the loser, right? The Moon is a man? Yeah, right! Equilibrium is not equanimity. Can we at least agree that the world we all live in was not spawned by dreams, asterisms, gods and myths, which were designed to leave us courageously where we were, at home, in intergenerational struggle and competition for honour and eventually truth, but by the mathematics of eclipse and the scientific investigation of superstition, the coalescence of resentment and responsibility par excellence, and the farewell of ignorance thwarted by knowledge never cherished?
At the end of the year in the Northern Hemisphere (the Summer Solstice in both hemispheres is midyear), the Sun has crossed the Acheron in December since the days of Charlemagne, and within a week either 'side' of the Solstice since 1500 CE and until the end of the 26th Century. But what is a calendar, if not a mechanism for making time stand still? Thirty generations takes us back to the late 14th Century; in another 30 generations, the Sun will cross the Acheron after the beeps of New Year. What changes will Homo Sapiens Sapiens have managed by then? Will they be celebrating Christmas in a solar calendar of a different star system, or perhaps be gone altogether?
The Moon, obliged to pay the highest price to climb onto the Emu with the remorseless blind boatman Antares, crossed the Acheron unnoticed while your gifts were being wrapped and unwrapped. Now that it's New, it is about to emerge once again on the right side of its monthly initiation into the timeless mythology of resilience, on the downward slope of conscious and righteous history, to briefly illuminate the sunset of you and me and our momentarily reunited families as we enjoy the break which commences our annual journey to global nowhere.
But what of the wrong side of history? Is there a 'before'? Is there a 'now'? Or is 'now' merely the right and wrong on either side? The body, the ego, the family, the culture: it's pretty hard to be here now, without, in the immortal phrase attributed to H.L. Mencken, sitting on the fence with both ears to the ground. So many tragedies have unfolded—not only my fault, or yours, my judges—during my three score years and ten, and it does not necessarily indicate mental illness to spend hours each day in inconsolable grief. The lugubrious wailing of indigenous peoples is a healthy way for sadness to conquer equanimity confronted by the awful truth, the horizon of country. If you want proof that space is made out of time, return to somewhere you've been. Imagine, the next time you weep, you had a shoulder to cry on. Wouldn't that make 'why' redundant?
December, the month of the Vagabond, was the month of Grandpa. Father Christmas (Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas) is your indulgent grandfather: have you never understood the child in your parents? What follows is the month of the parent in the child, the equanimity of the rider of the emu: the astrologer and the philosopher arm themselves with woe when they confront the future, because they have countless times been on the wild emu chase of grief and joy. The Veteran on the other hand, Full Moon in Gemini, is the sorcerer who observes the Gate of God in its Underworld, when the black hill to the north splits Taurus and Gemini at midnight. It was the water clock which enabled hundreds of sorcerers across the world to discover equinoctial precession at the same time, by calibrating midnight Gates with midday shadows. Now any witch can tell you, when Betelgeuse transits at December Solstice, it's witching hour.
You might search the heavens in vain for the Knecht Ruprecht and the Krampus, but your grandparents are up there, right next to your parents' grandparents, in various symbolic mazes of floor, forest, chapel, shed, cage and dusty kitchen, the talismans against deprivation of capital, status and kin. I shall join them soon enough, but you will never see me at Christmas, even if you've been good, because my haunt is the Gate of God. Idolaters, tip your hats to the barmaid who serves at the Gate of Man. To quantify the Woe opposite Forgetting is the mission of the narcissist and the fool. What the boatman takes all across is yours to remember, so let us toast the spirits of Christmasses past, present and emerging, they who intone, "Welcome to Country"!
December Moon in Taurus: the Vagabond
Acheron, Ceremony, Country, Forgetting, Justfriendistan, Lethe, Memory, Miserere, Rejection, Taurus, Vagabond, Wanderer, Warrior
"The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick." Umberto Eco.
"The bull of the herd had stepped into the white foaming brook, and went forward slowly, now striving against, now giving way to his tempestuous course; thus, no doubt, he took his sort of fierce pleasure. Two dark brown beings, of Bergamasque origin, tended the herd, the girl dressed almost like a boy." Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, Second Sequel, The Wanderer And His Shadow, Aphorism §295, ed. Darryl Marks, trans. H. Zimmern, P. Cohn, Everlasting Flames, 2010.
The naming of Moons of course connects them to what we're doing down here. Inverting European and North American names or leaving names behind completely in the Northern Hemisphere might do for some, and continuing such traditions as Yule and Easter in their opposite seasons doesn't seem to have disturbed capitalism or hurt anybody, but the entertaining possibility exists that seasons and customs merely refine what we're doing and feeling, and we're actually all doing more or less the same thing. It might at least be said that we are all subject to universal influences on our mental health, which fall into cyclical patterns we all engage with in similar ways, if at different times. Two distinctive things we all have in common with the Vagabond are the balancing of the desire to forget and the inability to remember, and the experience of being utterly alone.
The best moments of your life are the hardest to remember, because your language did not impose you on them, but rather from the bottom up, your spirit was dissolving into a belonging in something beyond, something almost magical, a connectedness which drew its miraculous energy from you, which could only last an instant and might never emerge again from the objective definition of your existence, but which in a flash of awareness revealed the reality of being alive instead of dead. Ceremony is of course your best method of putting your memory back in that transcendent self you own abstractly as yours. But what of the wooden hands of the cellist, the traffic vibrations and the halitosis of the singer behind you, and your own, for that matter? Is solitary meditation the only way to engage in a ceremony of connection? Must we wash our hands of others lest we forget who we are? Would such uncleanliness truly be the opposite of authenticity? Is there an important lesson in equanimity to be gained from the Vagabond's stoical existence?
The danger we sense is real: the most vividly lived moments of our past are most challenging to relive, because they include the best, which we can seldom recall in all their complexity, and the worst, which can traumatically reconstruct themselves viscerally in the most unwelcome way. We even judge the good in the context of the meaning of the bad, and we think to free our good selves from shame by working on our shadow, but the judgment our insight passes on the self-as-other is so vivid in its remorseless negativity that compulsively as we might train ourselves to disbelieve, we are built to forget, and it is easier to disbelieve what is forgotten. The shadow of the Vagabond in sidereal Taurus falls across the June Solstice and the river of Hades he approaches in the Bardo, the River of Forgetting.
If you have the good fortune to withdraw from the everyday, just for one night at the right time of the year, and in your nearest dark sky, you can realize the connection of above and below, as it was known by the prehistoric people who lived under the Milky Way, as it was once known under rural skies by the swagman, and as it has now been forgotten in urban lanes by everyone: when the Milky Way arcs overhead from horizon to horizon in either of the two configurations which are so formed, its bearings link all Warriors or Wanderers camped on their river, Acheron or Lethe. My Acheron crosses Eastern Australia to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, but my Lethe arcs over Central Australia to the Kimberley and beyond through Timor Leste and Western China to Siberian Omsk. I am proud when I am on the Lethe to project over the horizon the kin of my spiritual sisters of Wurdi Youang. Detroit's Lethe arcs over the Caribbean to Brazil, and a shout-out wells up in my heart to all countrywomen, and tonight, fellow Vagabonds!
Not everyone is summoned by a divine voice to sacrifice his son, as was the Patriarch of all of the religions of The Book, and of socialism and humanism, in all their woeful, forgetting folly. If the nearest you can now approach to such grief, mysterious atavistic Vagabond of our cosmic loneliness, as you stare over the Atacama Desert, is not quite being able to erase the memory of rejection, the clinical name healers give the extinction of a divine voice and the reduction to dust of every monolithic monument to human immortality since the dawn of civilization, you are as blessed as you seem to believe yourself, blessed to have heard the voice, blessed to have been spared its demand. Charismatic though our inner voices may be, the gods are bent on the narcissistic autonomy they enjoy in our submission to their resentful, perfectionist control.
The Vagabond is the avatar of all who throughout history and before it have gratefully accepted country as more real than landscape and real estate: the ancestral, the migratory, the rejected, the enslaved, the dispossessed of everything but kinship and the meaning of ceremony and song. He and they enact the memory we share eternally of what remains of creation to be forgotten. What more could there ever possibly be, than broken, throbbing hearts crying, "Please don't climb my rock," and protected by them in a world of liars, charlatans, scammers, hostage-takers, people-smugglers, bullies, creeps and bogeymen, the laughter and tears of children?


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Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:57 pm on 19th March 2008.
Lord Strathclyde Leader of Opposition In the House of Lords, Parliament 3:57 pm, 19th March 2008
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for repeating this important Statement. The whole House shares an immense sense of debt to the police, security services and our Armed Forces for the often unseen, and sometimes never known, work that they do to protect our country.
The House will want to explore this new strategy, which is being billed as a unique event in national history, very closely. There is of course unparalleled expertise in this House on these matters.
Will the noble Baroness confirm that, while the Statement bore the mark of the Prime Minister's hand, a central place in drafting the strategy as a whole was played by the noble Lord, Lord West of Spithead? If so, the doctrine of parliamentary accountability would greatly reinforce the case for an early debate in this House.
Of course, we welcome the idea of a national security approach. Two years ago, my party said that it was time for a national security strategy. I am glad that the Prime Minister is now joining in this.
The noble Lord, Lord West, is also right to warn that issues affecting our national security—from terrorism, to cyber attack, to nuclear proliferation and energy security—are proliferating. The terrorist threat is certainly spreading multinationally. Incidentally, does this not confirm the warnings given to the Prime Minister and his colleagues by the Joint Intelligence Committee before the Iraq war that invasion would worsen the Islamist terrorist threat to us at home? What is the noble Baroness's assessment of that? Does she accept that the result is as was then predicted? Is it not essential that we have a full inquiry into the whole saga of our engagement in the Iraq War and discover what lessons must be learnt?
On cyber attack, are the Government concerned that this country has been probed by cyber assaults on several occasions and that some suspect the involvement of national Governments? There are major threats: real, emerging and, perhaps, re-emerging. However, does the noble Baroness not see that a kitchen-sink Statement of this kind, which includes sending a civil commissioner to Helmand province, paying for 850 Burundian soldiers and re-announced council tax refunds for soldiers—all that detail—risks confusing the wood for the trees? Did not too many of the grave crises we faced in history arise from not looking in the right place at the right time? Are there not dangers in lumping long-term problems, such as global warming and disease, with council tax refunds?
A national security strategy will work only if it is put in place and carried out properly. Institutions in the UK need to be properly organised to deliver a national security approach. Therefore, we very much regret that the Prime Minister has missed the opportunity to establish a proper national security council. The existing committee clearly needs its authority reinforced. On the "Today" programme this morning, the noble Lord, Lord West, said that the Government had concluded that they did not need a national security council. However, the Prime Minister, in reply to my right honourable friend Mr Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions today, said that he already had one—so which answer is correct?
It is essential that intelligence assessment and activity is, as the Government suggest, entirely independent of the political side, as was recommended by the noble Lord, Lord Butler, in his review. Never again must we see in this country the outrage of spin doctors e-mailing intelligence officers about their job. Will the noble Baroness confirm that Mr Carter, the Prime Minister's new head honcho of spin, will have no access to security material?
The United Kingdom must retain the power, properly funded, to intervene abroad militarily when necessary, but we must understand that military operations abroad have consequences for security at home. Lately, that has been too often forgotten. At the same time, our Armed Forces have had to step in repeatedly—in the fuel crisis, in the foot and mouth outbreak and in firefighting—to bale out poor domestic planning.
Why have the Government still not banned Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group that poisons young minds against our country and way of life? Why did we not follow the Irish Government in barring Ibrahim Moussawi, a spokesman for Hizbollah and an apologist for terror, who recently conducted a lecture tour of the United Kingdom?
Why, despite the urgent need for secure borders, do Ministers still refuse to create a proper border police force with enforcement powers? Can the noble Baroness tell us why, in the new spirit of openness, the Government do not publish the report of the noble Lord, Lord West, which aims to improve security in crowded places and protect critical national infrastructure in the event of attack? I repeat my request to the noble Baroness, to which I am sure she will agree, that all these matters should be discussed in a government debate, one perhaps headed by the noble Lord, Lord West, and responded to by my noble friend Lady Neville-Jones.
I welcome two things. First, there was no mention of the maximum 42-day detention without trial. I assure the noble Baroness that there is no consensus about going beyond 28 days' detention. The Government have tried to make a case for that, which we do not think has been met and will oppose the relevant provisions of the terrorism Bill when it arrives here. Secondly, the Government appear to be backing away from their wasteful and ineffective plan to impose ID cards on the British people. Biometric visas are one thing, but spending billions registering and tracking children and their grannies on trips to Portsmouth is quite another. Neither compulsory ID cards, nor the absurd totem of 40-day detention, featured in this massive security Statement. The noble Lord, Lord West, may shudder if the phone rings from No. 10 after he has been on the "Today" programme, but he should hold fast to his course. If he does so the whole House will be grateful for that.
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The Pope Speaks... Some More...
Some fascinating nuggets from the Italian wires.... Tip to Papabile for this Agency brief, dated 25 July:
The need to study further the issue of admitting divorced and remarried people to the sacraments was pointed out today by Pope Benedict XVI, who apparently lingered on those people who re-approach faith after a second marriage, perhaps marrying the first time without really understanding the value of the sacrament. According to Ratzinger, the basic principle to be followed is that of defending the values of marriage, but without making those who can't receive the sacraments because of their irregular situation feel excluded from the communion of the church. "In all cases," said the Pope, "we must see how close they can be to the Church. We must share their suffering, which must be lived with patience."
Around interregnum time, there were whispers from Rome that Your Friendly Neighborhood CDF was working on a document possibly allowing the party not at fault -- the respondent, in canonical terms -- in a divorce and annulment readmission to the sacraments if that party entered into a second marriage. It seems that buzz did have something to it....
AGI also reports that newly-named nuncio to Austria, Archbishop Edmond Farhat, is a former vice-director of Sala Stampa, the Vatican Press Office. Very shrewd move on the part of the Pope, as nuncios usually don't talk to press... Well, except in the Philippines. Or when Montalvo makes a grand faux-pas.
Given that background, putting the Libyan-born Farhat in the heart of German Catholicism can be seen as the Pope's assertive move toward combatting future iterations of the disasters the Austrian church has faced the last few years -- Groer, Krenn, et. al. Be wise to remember that Papa Bear knows the backstory firsthand; if it weren't for Ratzi, Kurt Krenn would've become the archbishop of Vienna. Suffice it to say, even the possibility of something awry along those lines won't happen again. And Krenn was so conservative, much good it did him....
Think of Vienna as the prototype for the major diplomatic appointments of the pontificate.
Abuse Tracker, Italian Desk
Trids in Köln
If You Build It...?
The Collegiality Pope
Les Combes Digest
Appointment Alarm
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Brown Bag Stacks Up SEVEN Parents' Choice Awards!
ADIFF, Dublin's International Film Festival, is taking place this month from 21st February to 4th March and there's a whole slew of great animations being screened as part of their festival programme!
Wondering what to watch? We've got the low-down, from enchanting classics like My Neighbour Totoro to modern marvels like the recently Oscar-nominated feature from Cartoon Saloon, The Breadwinner, and everything in-between. You'll find something to cater for all tastes and ages.
Take a look at the impressive line-up and be sure to grab your tickets stat!
Selected by top Irish animator Nora Twomey as an inspirational flm, Studio Ghibli's beautiful classic comes to ADIFF as a 30th-anniversary screening. Richly detailed with a story that builds delightfully, Hayao Miyazaki's flm is told through two young girls who, as their mother lies sick in hospital, discover their new home is near a magical, remote forest. On exploring this special place, they fnd it's populated by mystical creatures called Totoros, and befriend their leader. It's a charming testament to the power of childhood imagination.
Screening: Thursday 22nd February in the Light House Cinema at 11am.
Irish filmmaker and animator Nora Twomey makes her solo directorial debut in this acclaimed feature that takes us to the streets of Afghanistan via Kilkenny's Cartoon Saloon. Our heroine is Parvana, an 11-year-old girl whose family, like many others, struggle for a better life under Taliban rule in 2001. Based on Deborah Ellis's much-loved novel, Parvana cuts her hair and dresses like a boy in an attempt to help her family survive following the wrongful arrest of her father. Twomey's powerful film drew the attention of UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, who is executive producer.
For the Cork-born animator, who founded Cartoon Saloon with Tomm Moore and Paul Young, The Breadwinner is a passion project several years in the making. The studio has created such award-winning films as The Secret of Kells, but this is Twomey's first solo run, and its powerful storytelling and striking animation have garnered a great deal of international attention throughout awards season.
Screening: Thursday 22nd February in Cineworld at 8pm.
Vampirina, inspired by Disney Publishing's popular children's book series "Vampirina Ballerina" by author Anne Marie Pace and illustrator LeUyen Pham, tells the story of a young vampire girl who becomes the new kid in town when her family moves from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.The series is centered around Vampirina (Vee), as she settles into her new surroundings, including making friends and attending a new school. Excited to experience everything that the human world has to offer, Vee will learn it's important to celebrate the differences that make everyone unique.
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adventure into the monster-filled dark, dark woods.
An Irish grandmother's unexpected departure from her lonely life.
Award-winning director Hiromasa Yonebayashi - whose former work for Studio Ghibli included the beloved Arriety and When Marnie Was Here - continues his fine form with the recently formed Studio Ponoc. The charming story centres around an awkward girl who is given a place in a secretive school for witches, reminiscent of Hogwarts. The story is based on the much-loved 1971 novel The Little Broomstick, penned by British novelist Mary Stewart. Mary, a girl who struggles to soar, is a heroine to root for.
Energetic animation and great humour and sight gags loom large in this film from attending director Patrick Imbert Oscar nominee Benjamin Renner, sourced from his own graphic novel.
There's a spirit of the classic 'Looney Tunes' style in the zany sense of fun in this movie, a three-part story in which characters we think we know as 'types' are anything but. The action, peppered with little wisdoms, is set around such vibrant characters as a cute but clumsy rabbit, a wacky duck and a well-meaning pig.
An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states: the past and the present.
The groundbreaking Wes Anderson returns to stop-motion animation - following Fantastic Mr. Fox - for his latest adventure, which is set in a futuristic Japan.
It is a dystopian place for dogs, where canine flu has ravaged the population and dogs have been sent to a remote island off the Japanese coast to prevent the disease from spreading further. Their only hope of avoiding isolation comes in the form of Atari, a boy who ventures to the island in search of his pet.
Director Liu Jian's gritty, groundbreaking animated feature is a violent and darkly funny take on the gangster genre. A young driver, in a bid to help overturn his fiancé's failed plastic surgery, steals a bag of money containing a fortune. This places him on the radar of several unsavoury characters from different backgrounds, who are all drawn into the resulting bloody conflict by their own motives. The action literally follows the money as gangsters, criminals or others struggling to get by get their hands on the cash.
A young girl embarks on a perilous journey to rescue her younger twin brothers in this beautifully animated, evocative tale set in Africa's Swaziland. Part drama, part documentary, the story in this truly unique film evolves from the imaginations of five orphaned children in Swaziland, a tiny nation with the highest HIV infection rate in the world. Filmmakers Aaron and Amanda Kopp allow the children's complex stories and accounts to breathe, building into a tale of a resilient heroine whose courage and challenges are not unlike their own.
The astonishing spirit of these bright children is captured in this documentary, featuring a compelling narrative animation infused with the stories of their lives.
You can find more details of the full ADIFF festival programme HERE.


This simple bar necklace says, "Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky." It also features a bird-shaped pendant with a white topaz stone set in one of the wings.
This necklace is based off of our Poetry Stick Collection.
Also pictured: Sterling Silver Necklace - Don't Plant Anything But Love and Sterling Silver Necklace - Follow Your Star.


The new U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke, pledged Sunday to promote bilateral cooperation and understanding between the two countries.
Faced with the challenges of bilateral economic and diplomatic complex between China and the United States, Mr. Locke said he wanted to work with the Chinese government to expand the bilateral cooperation and collaboration.
Locke made the remarks at a news conference Sunday afternoon, it was his first public appearance since his arrival in Beijing on Friday night. Locke's wife, Mona Lee and their three children were with him during the press conference.
Asked about his goals for the coming months, Mr. Locke said that the most important thing was to "promote a stronger and better understanding between American and Chinese people," "so that more Americans understand China, its glorious contribution to world civilization in history, its challenges and the tremendous progress that China has achieved in such a short period," he said.
He also stressed "the unique history, culture and philosophy" of China, which are different from those of the United States and must be understood so the two countries can build a more cooperative and mutually beneficial relation.
As a democrat, Mr. Locke was elected the 21st governor of Washington State in 1996, becoming the first Chinese-American governor in the history of the United States. He was reelected in 2000. President Barack Obama appointed him as U.S. Commerce Secretary in February 2009.
Welcome to the U.S. Ambassador's residence. Thank you all very much for coming here on a hot Sunday afternoon in Beijing – don't worry, we have some refreshments waiting for you.
Let me begin by saying how deeply honored I am to have this opportunity to serve the President and the people of the United States of America. My wife Mona and our children Emily, Dylan, and Madeline are all very excited to move here to Beijing to build new friendships between the people of the United States and China and to continue to expand our two countries' growing cooperation on key bilateral and international issues.
The United States and China have a profoundly important and complex diplomatic and economic bilateral relationship – one with challenges, no question, but one which also holds great promise for expanded cooperation and collaboration. I look forward to working with the Chinese Government to fulfill that promise, but more importantly, to build the positive, cooperative, and comprehensive relationship to which President Obama and President Hu aspire.
Our two countries have already had a busy year. President Hu had a successful state visit to the United States in January. That was followed by the third round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in May. Secretary Gates also made an important visit to China in January, and Secretary Clinton met with State Councilor Dai in Shenzhen just a few weeks ago. And as you all know, next week, we will be welcoming Vice President Joe Biden, who will visit Beijing and Chengdu. The Vice President was one of the first U.S. senators to visit China back in 1979, and we look forward to welcoming him back.
On a personal level, I am both humbled and honored to stand here before you as a child of Chinese immigrants representing America, the land of my birth, and the American values my family holds dear. I can only imagine just how proud my dad, Jimmy, who passed away in January, would be for his son to be the first Chinese-American to represent the United States in the land of his and my mother's birth. My parents, my wife, our children – we all personally represent America and America's promise as a land of freedom, equality, and opportunity. And it is that enduring promise and those values that I will represent in my official capacity serving the President and the American people as the United States ambassador to China.
Our family is embarking on an adventure and a challenge, and we are eager to re-connect with our old Chinese friends and make many more new ones. Thank you very much for joining us today.
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What a great family! His father must be proud of them in heaven!


A Jim Jarmusch double-feature is the highlight of this week's disc slate, as well as a noteworthy new movie about RGB and a long-forgotten slasher movie that'll hit the spot for a certain type of movie lover (those who like bad movies, to be specific). And Netflix is streaming a new movie starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson! No, another one.
Unicorn Store: Brie Larson directs, co-produces, and stars as a failed artist who can't decide whether she should throw herself into her new job at a soul-crushing ad agency or believe the man in the bright suits who says he can sell her a unicorn, if she proves herself a worthy owner of one. "This whole thing just sounds a lot weirder than it actually is," she says at one point, which is true; it also sounds a lot cutesier than it actually is. Which is not to say that Unicorn Store doesn't have its fair share of cringe-inducing moments – it's just that it's got such a good heart, and such a likable ensemble, you're more likely to give it a pass.


Home Building, Brokerage, and Land Development News from our Triangle Office.
Do you ever find yourself sitting in your office thinking "what was that person thinking?" or "why did they do it that way?" – Good news! You are not alone. The Fuller team took some time to dive in a little deeper to our different behavioral and communication styles recently. As a team, we all took the "DISC" Behavioral Assessment Profile. Take a look at what we learned!
Things always seem to move faster around this time of year, and there's a good reason for it. Last month was a time brimming with celebration, giving thanks, and preparing for the winter holiday season, now in full swing. With so much going on it can be easy to forget that November also hosts a much quieter and reflective holiday: Veteran's Day. People, the nation over, take time on November 11th to consider the sacrifices made by those in our armed forces. While some spend their days with family members who've served or mourning those they've lost, others spend the day trying to selflessly give back to those who have given all they can. One such example of this can be seen locally in the form of an annual event that transpired here in the Triangle.
One of our favorite Triangle traditions is just around the corner! For the first three weekends in October, serious new home buyers, casual house hunters, and perennial home design enthusiasts from all around the Triangle will be able to see what the best home builders in the area have to offer in a wide range of styles and price points.
The rapid growth we're experiencing in the Triangle creates, among other things, the need for new home construction, and at faster rates than we've ever experienced. These new houses are not only being built to accommodate more folks moving into the area, but also those who find themselves ready to realize their dream of owning a larger home, or one in a more ideal location. Luckily, our thriving local economy is allowing a lot of those dreams to come true- if these new home buyers can sell their existing properties. That's typically where home improvement shows come into play.
They say Everything old is new again . We'll bet you can think of many different ways this applies to the current recycled trends in fashion, beauty, and decor. When it comes to architecture, however, incorporating ideas from homes of the past is a prime example of benefiting from history's many lessons.
Implementing good energy-use habits in your household will provide a host of benefits to your family in both the immediate and distant future. Learning simple ways to save energy will not only cut down on the cost of your utility bills, but will also reduce stress on our local energy generation and distribution systems, reduce the amount of air pollutants released into the the environment, and cut down on the depletion of non-renewable resources like coal, petroleum, and natural gas. What's not to love about that?
As unprecedented numbers of people flock to the Triangle region, vacant land is increasingly more difficult to come by. Builders are also taking notice that the downtown areas of Raleigh and Durham are suddenly a huge draw for buyers and having proximity to the bustling city life that's emerging within them means building up, not out. For these reasons, you may have noticed an ever-growing number of new condo and townhome communities going up. This growth leaves home-buyers with one crucial question - Is buying a townhome a good investment or would they be better off finding a single family home?
Conserving water is not only an eco-friendly cause for you and your family to take up, it will also serve you well in lowering the cost of your utility bills year-round! That's a win-win all around! Did you know that water usage can directly impact not only your water bill but also your electricity bill? Electricity is used to heat and purify the water you use, as well as to pump the sewage from your home. Be mindful of the following tips to cut down on the costs associated with both your water and electricity bills.
If you're a longtime Triangle resident, you've undoubtedly noticed incredible changes over the years to the look and feel of the place you call home. What was once the best-kept secret of the South with a sleepy downtown area reserved for law offices and government buildings, is now a booming epicenter topping list after list of "Greatest Places to Move." Our humble community is garnering recognition on the local and national levels and was recently recognized for one area of improvement in particular.
The Triangle's current competitive seller's market is presenting a multitude of challenges for buyers. Low inventory, competing bids & short due diligence periods can make the home buying process more than a headache for folks looking to invest in our area. If you're thinking about purchasing a home, going with new construction has many benefits in this type of market. We're going to walk you through how buying new, using an agent & preparing your finances can help you secure the house you've been looking for in your desired location!
Buying a Newly Constructed Home in The Triangle this Spring?
Vogue magazine recently ranked Raleigh as one of the top 3 best places to buy a home in 2018. This and many other "best of lists" that Triangle area towns have been topping as of late is due in part to our growing jobs market which has prompted a population boom of incoming families searching for an exceptional quality of life. Springtime is notoriously one of the busiest times in the real estate market with higher competition for prospective home buyers leading sellers to drive up home prices due to high demand. All of this amounts to a great time to buy a newly constructed home in the Triangle area!
Spring in the Triangle Region of North Carolina is truly unlike any other part of the south. The outdoor destinations and nature preserves offer a great opportunity for both locals and visitors alike. Get your calendar ready and be sure to take a moment to view a brilliant selection of our springtime favorites.
Which Home Upgrades Pay Off Most at Resale?
It's human nature to desire to recoup the money you invest in your home. Who wouldn't? But is every home improvement going to be rewarded at resale? Probably not. But that's okay. There are a few factors you should consider before making a home upgrade, which are the most likely to pay off when you decide to sell. Even if that is your main focus—many different opinions exist about which projects offer the biggest payoff.
At J. Fuller Homes, we strive to stay on the cutting edge of design as we craft our custom and semi-custom-built homes to the highest set of standards. Here's what's trending in design for 2018.
Fuller Land & Development placed #12 in the Triangle Business Journal's 2017 "Fast 50" Awards program. This long-running program recognizes the fastest-growing, privately held firms within the Research Triangle region. Fuller, a multi-faceted real estate firm, offers land investment, brokerage, development and custom home building services throughout the region.
J. Fuller Homes is discovering the biggest benefit for all users of its new, cutting-edge home building software is it improves transparency for every segment of the detailed custom and speculative home building processes. Whether you are the home builder, the customer, the superintendent or the vendor, CoConstruct has improved J. Fuller Homes' efficiency, thus improving its overall level of customer service as well as its bottom line.
If you are a landowner or invest in real estate properties, you have probably heard of 1031 exchanges. But you may not have heard of IRC Section 453, which offers an alternative to 1031 exchanges, one that many landowners and investors may find favorable, dependent on their situation.
We already knew that the development Sherrill Place in Garner was a true gem, but J. Fuller Homes' recent recognition in the Johnston County Parade of Homes let the rest of the Triangle region in on the secret.
Spring time is a lovely time in North Carolina's Triangle region. For the most part, humidity is low, the skies are blue and the sun is bright. It's also an opportune time to check in with our local housing market. A bird's eye view shows all numbers going up, except, of course, the numbers you want to go down, like days on the market. Unlike most weather predictions, those who predicted the Triangle's continued housing market success got it 100% right.
Springtime = Lawn Time. Let the Fun Begin!
A soft, lush green lawn—it reminds us of carefree afternoons, playing in the yard and soaking up the sun. For some, working in the yard is a pleasant escape and for others, it's not so pleasant. No matter your relationship with your lawn, most people enjoy the results of a well-manicured lawn and strive towards that perfection yearly. Springtime is go time for caring for your lawn, and it's always helpful to have a plan. Below are important steps to take for ultimate lawn success.
Owning a home creates a haven where dinners are prepared, families are connected and memories are created. But as you may know, owning a home costs money. Fortunately, homeowner tax breaks exist to help with the expense. To literally cash in on these perks, working on your taxes becomes more complicated. You will need to utilize a Form 1040 and Schedule A, so you can itemize. However, the effort to itemize is well worth the savings earned at tax time. Let's take a look at how your home ownership can be beneficial during tax season.
At Fuller, we embrace the latest design trends while staying rooted in what we do best, constructing custom and semi-custom-built homes to the highest set of standards. After reviewing multiple 2017 Design Trends resources, we're assured our team has entered the year on point. Kitchens lead the way in setting design, especially as wide-open spaces and focus on home flow continue to dictate overall home design. Emphasis on the home's exterior and green living continue to influence design choices while homeowners find new ways to splurge.
Complete 540 Project: Sooner or Later?
Familiar with either I-540 or NC 540? For readers who sit in traffic on one of these roads every day, they may be too familiar. But the proposed "Complete 540" project hopes to ease travelers' traffic pains. While the plan is in motion, some influences want it to happen faster.
Tesla shareholders recently approved the acquisition of SolarCity, the nation's largest manufacturing and installer of solar panels. If Tesla manages to create the money saving, high-efficiency roofing system they are promising, it may be a whole new world for solar power.
The 2017 national real estate market is predicted to moderately slow moderately as compared to the last two years, according to Realtor.com®. Home prices are anticipated to slow to a 4 percent increase, down from 5 percent in 2016, and interest rates are expected to reach 4.5 percent in the year ahead.
Fuller Land & Development developed the first phase of Hempstead at Beaver Creek subdivision for NVR/ Mountain Real Estate Capital and Ryan Homes. The first phase consisted of fifty (50) townhome lots, platted in November of 2015. Site work construction on the second phase of seventy-six (76) lots is scheduled for completion by November 2016.
According to the Triangle Multiple Listing Service's Local Market Update, Johnston County has seen a substantial increase in new listings, closed listings and sales prices in 2015. The number of days in the market for a Johnston County home has decreased over 23% and homes will become increasingly hard to find as inventory has dropped over 21% from last year, down to a 3.2 month supply.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau instituted new rules regarding disclosures under the Truth In Lending Act and the Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act that will affect all mortgage applications and real estate settlements. These changes were to take place on August 1, 2015, but were delayed until October 3, 2015 to allow for the industry to be better prepared.
All dirt dogs have the same question as 2015 gets underway: What's in store for the Triangle when it comes to buying and selling finished lots and entitled land? Here's our take.
There is a new mortgage option for North Carolinians through the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency - the N.C. Home Advantage Mortgage. With the North Carolina housing market steadily improving and low interest rates, the N.C. Home Advantage Mortgage lowers the barrier many first time homebuyers face: insufficient funds for a down payment.
Forbes.com ranked Raleigh as the Best City in America for Raising a Family. Raleigh has an economic base led by banking and finance which has made it one of America's fastest growing cities.
If you look at growth patterns throughout history, you'll see general ebbs and flows of population centers. Expansion and contraction around urban centers leaves some communities with a unique problem - and land banks may be the answer.
TLF Maybrook donated 38.5 acres of land in Raleigh to the City of Oaks Foundation in December. We felt like it was the right thing to do given its proximity to Walnut Creek and the greenway said Jim Anderson, the managing member of TLF Maybrook.
Mamta Kadkar, a reporter for the Business Insider, has projected the Raleigh/Cary real estate market to be one of the top ten Hottest Housing Markets in 2014. The research was relatively simple, but the conclusions imply a large impact on local area housing.
Jim Anderson, President of Fuller Land & Development, was invited to speak at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Real Estate Development Process class in October.
The HBA of Raleigh-Wake County is reporting that building permits for single family homes have increased 30 percent in January through September compared to last year.
One of three US cities on the list, Raleigh/Durham ranked #1 on Forbes' 10 Up and Coming Cities for Entrepreneurs and Triangle entrepreneurs couldn't be happier.
Triangle building popularity and now Greatist.com has ranked Raleigh the seventh best city for 20-somethings. Although it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what people in their 20s are looking for in their ideal location, Greatist.com was able to narrow down the list to common themes. Themes included outlets of meeting and making friends, being able to relax and going to a place of employment they love. Diversity, cleanliness and safety also placed highly on the list of necessities.
"The residential real estate market in the US is on fire," said Brian Jones, senior US economist in New York at Sociate Generale. Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the Realtor Group agrees, "The housing market is too good." With home sales rising above forecast, it will be important to track causes and potential outcomes.
Bloomburg Names Raleigh/Cary #3 "Boomtown"
Bloomburg released an article on April 29 ranking the top Boomtowns (fastest growing cities) in the United States. To be considered a Boomtown, Bloomburg created a score based on the increase of two major factors- population and gross domestic product- according to US Census data. Only areas with the population of over one million were considered in these rankings. Raleigh/Cary ranked third, while our neighbors to the southwest, Charlotte/Gastonia/Concord, ranked tenth.
Durham, North Carolina was recently ranked the #1 best market for conservative real estate investors, according to the Investor Suitability Report conducted by Local Market Monitor. Originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, then paraphrased by DailyFinance.com, 315 regions were considered during this study. The criteria for consideration included markets where both employment and home prices are relatively stable, with populations having a growing income. Only single family non-rental homes were taken into account.
The developers of the proposed $135 million Parkside Town Commons project in west Cary are adding a hotel and shifting the focus to more retail versus residential. A new plan submitted to the town of Cary shows that Kite Realty Group, the Indianapolis-based developer of the project, has eliminated plans for office buildings, reduced the amount of small-shop space, changed plans for an apartment complex and added a 140-room hotel.
Of the top 10 markets with the most single-family construction activity over the last year, six are located in Texas and the Southeast. The ranking table below shows the top 20 markets in the country. We have ranked them in order of the total number of single-family permits pulled over the last 12 months. Tracking metro-level permit trends gives insight into which housing markets are growing and by how much.
Strength is building in the Triangle's new homes market, and one of the nation's busiest home builders is spending an eye-popping $8.5 million on 90 acres of wooded acreage in west Cary. Lennar Corporation paid top dollar for the Roscoe Fryar land on Green Hope School Road. There, Lennar hopes to expand on the sales success of its neighboring communities.
Ready lots moving off market, prompting developers to shop for fresh land. Big home builder groups such as D.R. Horton and Pulte Homes are getting back into the land development business as the supply of ready lots begins to diminish across the Triangle.
By fits and starts, the Triangle home building industry is getting back into a groove of construction starts and sales. Most of the excess inventory of speculative homes that weighed down the market in 2007 and 2008 is gone, and most Triangle home building companies that were polled by Triangle Business Journal expect homes in 2012 to start growing again.


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Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Wire, New York Magazine, NetNewsCheck Latest, New York Post, New York Observer and Gawker
Nitasha Tiku / New York Magazine: Andrew Sullivan and 'The Dish' Leave the Atlantic for Tina Brown
NetNewsCheck Latest: Andrew Sullivan Heads To 'NewsBeast'
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: Sullivan brings his Dish to Newsweek table
Discussion: Media Decoder, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Recovering Journalist, The Daily Beast and On Media's Blog
M. Amedeo Tumolillo / Media Decoder: Andrew Sullivan Joins 'Daily Beast' and 'Newsweek'
Tina Brown, Media Darling — Anyone outside of New York City's media fishbowl could be forgiven for waking up last Monday and wondering what the heck some lady named Tina Brown was doing on the front page of The New York Times. In the 21st century, Brown has edited a failed magazine …
Discussion: Guardian, Jon Slattery, Firedoglake and Mediactive
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AdExchanger.com
Discussion: @mathewi
Ad Age Digital A-List: All Things D — Blog Thrives by Competing — Aggressively — Against Other Blogs, as Well as Parent Dow Jones' Flagship Wall Street Journal — You might not think it sounds like a big scoop: A post last Tuesday revealed the date of a tech company's next publicity event.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and BoomTown
NetNewsCheck Latest: All Things D Thrives In The World Of Blogs
Memo Pad: Commemorating a Catastrophe... NYT Poaches Ian Adelman... COMMEMORATING A CATASTROPHE: March 25 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York's deadliest workplace disaster until 9/11. On March 21, HBO will air "Triangle: Remembering the Fire."
The Billboard That Knows — Ad Industry Experiments With Technologies That Recognize Expressions, Gestures — In the labs of some tech-savvy advertising agencies, engineers are testing new ways to use advanced technologies to make ads that can recognize human gestures and facial expressions.
After Iraq's Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals — BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent journalists, artists and lawyers who took part in nationwide demonstrations Friday, in what some of them described as an operation to intimidate Baghdad intellectuals …
Variety Peeks Out From Behind the Paywall - News Blog to Debut — Variety will take a step out from behind its paywall next Tuesday by launching a breaking news blog, TheWrap has learned. — The move to launch a blog, to be mainly written by the trade's new film editor Josh Dickey …
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
NetNewsCheck Latest: Variety Lowers Paywall A Bit For News Blog
The Very Rich Indie Writer — Meet Amanda Hocking. She's been in the news for quite a bit now, and I've been meaning to write about her since January (or really, to write about the phenomenon she represents - and what it means for web fiction). But if you don't already know of her, allow me:
Deadline Banned From Covering Oscars! — BREAKING... This morning, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences pulled Deadline Film Editor/NY Editor Mike Fleming's backstage press credential to cover the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday. The Academy's PR specifically cited that the reason was Deadline's coverage.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Speakeasy, Speakeasy, The Wrap, The Wrap, paidContent, Mediaite, Vanity Fair and LA Observed, more at Techmeme »
John Lopez / Vanity Fair: And Before the Curtain Raises: Ten Questions Only Oscar Night Can Answer
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed: Academy pulls Deadline's credential over Finke's leaks
Ben Zimmer / New York Times:
The Future Tense — "Eureka!" That was the cry of the New York Times executive editor A. M. Rosenthal in early 1979, when he hit upon an idea for a new column to run in the front of the magazine. Rosenthal tapped William Safire, then a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The Times …
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 8:55 AM ET, February 28, 2011.


Turkey has long been a popular vacation and business travel destination for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, but few of these visitors can boast much knowledge of the Turkish politics. Now, however, as the anti-government protests and police brutality  in Turkey are making top headlines globally, many Ukrainians have started to follow the situation  there with much interest, expressing support and admiration for the peaceful protesters, noting similarities with the 2004 Orange Revolution  as well as with more recent events in Ukraine, and wishing for the political awakening of the Ukrainian people.
The best news agency of the past few days is Osman Pashayev .
It's good that Osman Pashayev  is in Istanbul – we have access to relevant information on the events there, without having to wait for international news [outlets to wake up] and for [Ukrainian news outlets] to copy – and, possibly, distort – [the reports of their international colleagues].
I've seen the crackdown on [left-wing activists] during the 2009 IMF summit in Istanbul, I've seen rallies of the opposition in Tbilisi [the capital of Georgia], a crackdown on the Arab protestors in Jerusalem, an anti-terrorist operation in northern Iraq, but I've never seen such a savage treatment of peaceful protesters before. I cannot get to [Taksim Square ] – 100 meters, gas that [irritates] the eyes is everywhere. I bought two lemons and poured [juice] over myself and one Turkish girl. Eyes are itchy from lemon, but at least it makes breathing easier after a couple minutes. Many here are 18-25 years old. The police are waging a war against citizens.
Our country – Ukraine – even under [the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych ] is almost an exemplary democracy. Today's Turkey resembles Russia a lot more, though not yet Belarus […].
First aid points to the injured on [Istiklal Avenue ]. Hotels are letting the protesters inside, shop owners are giving out water for free and administering first aid. Cab drivers are transporting those with serious injuries for free. It resembles the unity in Kyiv [during the 2004 Orange Revolution].
[Fans of football clubs Beşiktaş ], Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray. In the Ukrainian translation this will be "East and West together" [another popular slogan of the 2004 protests in Ukraine, referring to the political and cultural divide between eastern and western parts of Ukraine].
The most amusing pictures are of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray holding hands. Hard for us to understand, but it's almost as if [Oleh Tyahnybok , the leader of the far-right Ukrainian VO Svoboda party ] showed up at a gay pride parade wearing [a Jewish kippah  cap].
Pashayev continues posting his update on Facebook and filing his stories on the protests in Turkey for Ukrainian TV channels. Another Ukrainian journalist, Mustafa Nayyem  [ru], has now joined him in Istanbul and is also posting reports, videos  and photos (here  and here ) on his Facebook page.


Three Pots. – Photography – David A Lockwood.
Appreciate your comment Louis – one of those images when lighting and time of day all come together; more so as I am only just getting to grips with the Fuji.
Thats an awesome image in every regard. Especially the framing/composition and all the grey tones rendered. Wicked respect!
Much appreciated & pleased you liked it.
David, your images are special. You handle the selection, viewpoint and composition like a master and they are a class above so many of the blogs that I visit. Visiting here is a joy. It would be tedious of me to go through and leave a 'like' on every single work of art…..so forgive me that. Just be safe as you travel and record that wonderful country.
That is very kind of you & I am so pleased that you get an appreciation for the country, its diverse topography and culture.
Looks to be an awesome place to visit, though I might be worried about travelling around there.
Actually Muscat for instance, is one of the safest cities I have ever lived in. There are outside influences which desire to not make it so, but they are few and far between.
A certain degree of caution and common sense (which with the newer type of tourist is sadly lacking in some instances) ho & sweets for the children when in the more out of the way places 🙂 all helps. Its also advantageous that the Sultan is held in such high esteem.
Thanks David, it's helpful to expand my dim knowledge of that part of the world…… Very interesting.
Many thanks for those kind words Kevin.
Am constantly fascinated at the emptiness of the places you photograph. ARE they empty? Do they have custodians? Or are they just THERE.
I go early & in most cases have talked to the custodians at a lot of the tourist attractions, take coffee/dates and am then left on my own sometimes out of hours.
The other places are mostly off the beaten track and so other than the occasional local – no one.
Keep up dates and coffee! Defect?! Blimey without it you'd not take these incredible atmospheric pix…loved this one. Must be so incredible to just "have the place" to yourself.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using DeviceHive.API.Filters;
using DeviceHive.API.Internal;
using DeviceHive.Core;
using DeviceHive.Core.Mapping;
using DeviceHive.Data.Model;
using DeviceHive.Data.Repositories;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using Ninject;

namespace DeviceHive.API.Controllers
{
    /// <resource cref="DeviceCommand" />
    public class DeviceCommandPollController : BaseController
    {
        private ITimestampRepository _timestampRepository;
        private ObjectWaiter _commandByDeviceIdWaiter;
        private ObjectWaiter _commandByCommandIdWaiter;

        public DeviceCommandPollController(ITimestampRepository timestampRepository,
            [Named("DeviceCommand.DeviceID")] ObjectWaiter commandByDeviceIdWaiter,
            [Named("DeviceCommand.CommandID")] ObjectWaiter commandByCommandIdWaiter)
        {
            _timestampRepository = timestampRepository;
            _commandByDeviceIdWaiter = commandByDeviceIdWaiter;
            _commandByCommandIdWaiter = commandByCommandIdWaiter;
        }

        /// <name>poll</name>
        /// <summary>
        ///     <para>Polls new device commands.</para>
        ///     <para>This method returns all device commands that were created after specified timestamp.</para>
        ///     <para>In the case when no commands were found, the method blocks until new command is received.
        ///         If no commands are received within the waitTimeout period, the server returns an empty response.
        ///         In this case, to continue polling, the client should repeat the call with the same timestamp value.
        ///     </para>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="deviceGuid">Device unique identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="timestamp">Timestamp of the last received command (UTC). If not specified, the server's timestamp is taken instead.</param>
        /// <param name="names">Comma-separated list of commands names.</param>
        /// <param name="waitTimeout">Waiting timeout in seconds (default: 30 seconds, maximum: 60 seconds). Specify 0 to disable waiting.</param>
        /// <returns cref="DeviceCommand">If successful, this method returns array of <see cref="DeviceCommand"/> resources in the response body.</returns>
        [Route("device/{deviceGuid:deviceGuid}/command/poll")]
        [AuthorizeUserOrDevice(AccessKeyAction = "GetDeviceCommand")]
        public async Task<JArray> Get(string deviceGuid, DateTime? timestamp = null, string names = null, int? waitTimeout = null)
        {
            EnsureDeviceAccess(deviceGuid);

            var device = DataContext.Device.Get(deviceGuid);
            if (device == null || !IsDeviceAccessible(device))
                ThrowHttpResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Device not found!");

            var start = timestamp ?? _timestampRepository.GetCurrentTimestamp();
            var commandNames = names != null ? names.Split(',') : null;
            if (waitTimeout <= 0)
            {
                var filter = new DeviceCommandFilter { Start = start, IsDateInclusive = false, Commands = commandNames };
                var commands = DataContext.DeviceCommand.GetByDevice(device.ID, filter);
                return new JArray(commands.Select(n => Mapper.Map(n)));
            }

            var config = DeviceHiveConfiguration.RestEndpoint;
            var delayTask = Task.Delay(1000 * Math.Min(config.CommandPollMaxInterval, waitTimeout ?? config.CommandPollDefaultInterval));
            using (var waiterHandle = _commandByDeviceIdWaiter.BeginWait(device.ID))
            {
                do
                {
                    var filter = new DeviceCommandFilter { Start = start, IsDateInclusive = false, Commands = commandNames };
                    var commands = DataContext.DeviceCommand.GetByDevice(device.ID, filter);
                    if (commands != null && commands.Any())
                        return new JArray(commands.Select(n => Mapper.Map(n)));
                }
                while (await Task.WhenAny(waiterHandle.Wait(), delayTask) != delayTask);
            }

            return new JArray();
        }

        /// <name>pollMany</name>
        /// <summary>
        ///     <para>Polls new device commands.</para>
        ///     <para>This method returns all device commands that were created after specified timestamp.</para>
        ///     <para>In the case when no commands were found, the method blocks until new command is received.
        ///         If no commands are received within the waitTimeout period, the server returns an empty response.
        ///         In this case, to continue polling, the client should repeat the call with the same timestamp value.
        ///     </para>
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="deviceGuids">Comma-separated list of device unique identifiers.</param>
        /// <param name="timestamp">Timestamp of the last received command (UTC). If not specified, the server's timestamp is taken instead.</param>
        /// <param name="names">Comma-separated list of commands names.</param>
        /// <param name="waitTimeout">Waiting timeout in seconds (default: 30 seconds, maximum: 60 seconds). Specify 0 to disable waiting.</param>
        /// <returns>If successful, this method returns array of the following resources in the response body.</returns>
        /// <response>
        ///     <parameter name="deviceGuid" type="guid">Associated device unique identifier.</parameter>
        ///     <parameter name="command" cref="DeviceCommand"><see cref="DeviceCommand"/> resource.</parameter>
        /// </response>
        [Route("device/command/poll")]
        [AuthorizeUser(AccessKeyAction = "GetDeviceCommand")]
        public async Task<JArray> GetMany(string deviceGuids = null, DateTime? timestamp = null, string names = null, int? waitTimeout = null)
        {
            var deviceIds = deviceGuids == null ? null : ParseDeviceGuids(deviceGuids).Select(deviceGuid =>
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                {
                    var filter = new DeviceCommandFilter { Start = start, IsDateInclusive = false, Commands = commandNames };
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                        .Where(c => IsDeviceAccessible(c.Device)).ToArray();
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        ///         If the command is not processed within the waitTimeout period, the server returns an empty response.
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        ///     </para>
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        /// <param name="deviceGuid">Device unique identifier.</param>
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        /// <returns cref="DeviceCommand">If successful, this method returns a <see cref="DeviceCommand"/> resource in the response body.</returns>
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            if (device == null || !IsDeviceAccessible(device))
                ThrowHttpResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Device not found!");

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            if (command == null || command.DeviceID != device.ID)
                ThrowHttpResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Device command not found!");

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                return Mapper.Map(command);

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                return null;

            var config = DeviceHiveConfiguration.RestEndpoint;
            var delayTask = Task.Delay(1000 * Math.Min(config.CommandPollMaxInterval, waitTimeout ?? config.CommandPollDefaultInterval));
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            {
                do
                {
                    command = DataContext.DeviceCommand.Get(id);
                    if (command != null && command.Status != null)
                        return Mapper.Map(command);
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                while (await Task.WhenAny(waiterHandle.Wait(), delayTask) != delayTask);
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                {
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                        new JProperty("deviceGuid", n.Device.GUID),
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}


Helena Honcoopová, curator of the Landscapes, Birds and Flowers exhibition, selected 150 prints, books and paintings from the gallery's rich collections. As classical landscape ink painting in East Asia will be the theme of a separate exhibition to be held in 2007 (Markéta Hánová, the event's curator), the present showing is devoted to colour sceneries created by artists of Japan's popular schools of painting. Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Shigenobu and Eizen were noted landscape painters, while Kono Bairei, Taki Katei, Watanabe Seitei, Takeuchi Seiho, Ohara Koson and other masters of the Meiji period were famed for their flowers, birds, animals and fishes, already inspired by European realism. The selection comprises works by Ogata Korin and Sakai Hoitsu – masters of the Rimpa decorative school, and the famed ryakuga rough sketches produced by Keisai Masayoshi, Hokusai and Hiroshige, and others. Also on view are hanging coloured scrolls on paper and silk with naturalistic depictions of animals and fishes. This spring exhibition, held at the Zbraslav Chateau, is a celebration of Nature as interpreted in the works of Japanese masters of the colour woodblock print.


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The Cardano (ADA) Foundation continues to give back to the environment at a time when cryptos and Bitcoin (BTC) mining is a hot topic.
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This week, Cardano (ADA) Foundation CEO Gregaard announced via Twitter that the #CardanoForest is 100% funded and that the foundation has reached its 1 million tree milestone.
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La Ville est Tranquille (The Town is Quiet), directed by Robert Guediguian, is one of the most powerful and deeply moving films I have seen for many years. Set in Marseilles, it is a razor-sharp portrayal, devoid of sentimentality, of working class people suffering the unremitting brutalisation of modern day capitalism.
With beautifully clear, uncompromising shots of the French port-standing for many other European cities with its shopping malls, motorway flyovers, marinas and tower blocks-the film traces the lives of three individuals. Michele works the night shift at a fish processing factory and comes home every dawn to her teenage daughter, who neglects her baby while selling herself to fund her heroin addiction.
Paul has just taken redundancy pay, and uses the money to set himself up as a taxi driver while his colleagues fight to save the docks from closure. Abderrhamane,a young African immigrant, has just come out of prison but is determined to help other youngsters make something of their lives by using their musical talents.
Each in their own way struggles to overcome the cold logic of a society where only money counts, while the wealthy are forever partying and mixing their political allegiances as easily as their sexual partners or their cocktails. Against a background of racism, sometimes insidiously political, sometimes more open, the film moves inexorably towards its horrifying climax.
It is a story of despair, lifted out of unmitigated bleakness by many instances of human compassion and humour. Abderrhamane forms a friendship, later a love affair, with a middle class French woman alienated from her cynical, adulterous husband.
Michele decides to prostitute herself to get the money for her daughter's heroin, rather than see her daughter suffer. And Paul, who fancies Michele, takes her home in his taxi (for free) and sings the Internationale in four different languages to cheer her up!
The climax of the film leaves you stunned- but unlike the bland Hollywood mainstream offerings, you are still discovering new aspects of it days after leaving the cinema.
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Nurses' and Nursing Assistants' Perceptions of Spiritual Healthcare
Spiritual Healthcare Services in Acute Cardiovascular Wards
Victor Sulaiman Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
S. H. Cedar London South Bank University
Assessment, spiritual care services
Healthcare chaplains in hospital have a number of roles, many of which may not be known. Whether staff are aware of healthcare provisions and the roles of the spiritual healthcare services will influence the use of these services for patients and, of course, for staff themselves. If staff are not aware of chaplains' roles this may affect the ability of chaplains to carry out their full range of roles and provide the care needed for patients and staff.
We investigated nursing and nursing assistants' awareness of spiritual healthcare services in a cardio-vascular department, consisting of six wards and an outpatient clinic, in a central London tertiary NHS Trust hospital. Of the 184 members of staff that are nurses or nursing assistants, 78 filled in our questionnaires (42%). These questionnaires provided descriptive quantitative data to gauge awareness of spiritual healthcare services and provide information for which services needed development. By using the questionnaire, we also hoped to raise awareness of the services provided.
Victor Sulaiman, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Victor Sulaiman is a Generic Chaplain on the Cardiovascular Unit, Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
S. H. Cedar, London South Bank University
S. H. Cedar is Associate Professor & Reader and Head of the End of Life Care Research Group, School of Health & Social Care, London South Bank University, London, UK.
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, né le  à Heugas et mort le  à Saint-Pandelon, est un joueur français de rugby à XV qui évolue au poste de pilier.

Biographie
Jean-Claude Lucq est né le  dans la commune landaise de Heugas.

Il joue au rugby à XV au sein de l'équipe première de l'US Dax. Il est le frère de Jean-Michel Lucq, évoluant auprès de lui dans les rangs dacquois, tous les deux au poste de pilier. En challenge Yves du Manoir, Jean-Claude remporte la compétition à deux reprises ; bien qu'il ne participe pas à la finale de 1969, il dispute celle de 1971 auprès de son frère.

En 1974, il quitte l'US Dax mais reste dans les Landes, rejoignant les rangs de l' en tant que joueur-entraîneur, auprès de son coéquipier Jean-Paul Laborde. En 1978, ils y remportent le titre de champion de France en division Honneur. Lucq entraîne l'équipe première montfortoise jusqu'en 1981.

En parallèle de sa carrière sportive, il exerce le métier de technicien auprès de la mairie de Dax.

Il intègre après sa retraite de joueur l'équipe dirigeante de l'US Dax, notamment en 1993 lors des titres de champion de France en catégories jeunes.

Jean-Claude Lucq meurt le  à Saint-Pandelon, à l'âge de .

Palmarès
 Challenge Yves du Manoir :
 Vainqueur : 1969 et 1971 avec l'US Dax.
 Championnat de France de division Honneur :
 Vainqueur : 1978 avec l'.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie

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Joueur français de rugby à XV
Joueur de l'US Dax
Pilier (rugby à XV)
Entraîneur français de rugby à XV
Naissance en décembre 1945
Naissance dans les Landes
Décès en juillet 2021
Décès dans les Landes
Décès à 75 ans

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