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HomeNewsSurvival in a Lockdown: Lessons from Wuhan
Survival in a Lockdown: Lessons from Wuhan
By Samuel Oloyede Oriowo
By: Ayodeji Adetunji Idowu
COVID-19 and how to stop its ongoing war on mankind is what's keeping everyone awake day and night, even my 4-year old daughter has somehow caught wind of how to pronounce the word "coronavirus."
Nations are probably unwillingly forced to fight this fight on their own as everyone is scrambling to protect its citizenry with limited personnel and resources.
Wuhan, China where it all started from is not yet out of the woods, but kudos to the Chinese Government for their outreaches so far particularly to Italy and also to Jack Ma for sending millions of prevention and testing kits to be shared among African countries.
The city has now clocked about 60 days of total lockdown and witnessed the past 4 consecutive days of zero infection.
Unfortunately, the virus has managed to find its way to Nigeria, Lagos taking the hardest hit.
Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari on the recommendation of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 closed all land borders, in addition to the earlier directives to shut all International Airports. In many states across the federation particularly Lagos, State workers from Level 12 below have been asked not to report to work; mass congregations and all non-essential outings banned.
All these measures technically imply that Nigeria is already under lockdown. The government and the people have to find ways to make life go on. We all probably have never experienced anything like this before wherein we fear that there is an invisible virus out there to catch us once we step out of our homes.
As a Nigerian currently residing in Wuhan; and in the light of the recent COVID-19 developments in our country, Nigeria I want to share my experience of the lockdown in Wuhan and outline a few recommendations for the government and the people based on my experience.
The Wuhan Experience:
The approach of lockdown put in place in Wuhan which effectively started Monday, January 20, 2020, was sequential. At the initial stage of the lockdown, public transportation was cut-off.
However, movement of persons was not restricted, private vehicle owners and UBER were also allowed to operate. These lasted for about one week. During this period, shops were opened and people had started to stock-up their supplies.
Afterward, motorized vehicles were banned from moving, which meant that the only means of movement could be by motorcycles (popularly called okadas in Nigeria) and bicycles.
The only places available/opened to going to were malls (not open markets), to purchase food supplies. Within the malls, only shops that sold groceries were opened, while all other shops (clothes and non-essentials) were shut.
This second stage lasted for about two to three weeks. During this phase, only one registered member of a household is allowed to leave the estate/community to go out once in a week to fetch food supplies for the family.
The final stage, by far the longest and which is still in the place till now (as at when putting this piece together) is probably the strictest whereby all forms of movement of unauthorized persons were prohibited.
We were not allowed to leave our places of abode. The only way we got food supply at this stage was to purchase food items via online e-commerce platforms; not individual orders, but group-buy i.e. the entire estate buys it's various commodities as one entity and shared according to individual order when delivered.
To minimize physical contact, several groups were created on WeChat which is like the WhatsApp predominantly used in Nigeria. For each estate, we have groups for live fish, groups for provisions, groups for frozen food items, groups for perishables, etc.
If you need an item, you send your request in the group and the organizers pool-buys the group orders once or twice in a week. Delivery of the goods may not arrive the same day the orders are made, initially, it used to take about two days for your ordered items to arrive but now with more delivery/dispatch riders given health clearance, the delivery time was considerably faster; the following day; latest.
When your package arrives, notice is sent in the group and one member of the family goes to the gate of the estate to pick it up. At the point of pick-up, temperature checks were done and recorded. No one is expected or allowed to jaywalk not even within your estate, we all stayed indoors.
Mini Apps were also developed for every member of a household to record their temperature readings twice a day.
Now that the COVID-19 era is near its end in Wuhan, zero infections in the past four days. The lockdown is also being gradually lifted, all essential workers and most government officers have resumed back to work.
From what we hear, non-essential workers may resume by the end of March. However, public transportation may not be fully restored until early, or mid-April. Everyone in the city also has to at some point get some form of Health Clearance before being allowed to freely move around the city.
How will a lockdown work in Nigeria (Lagos/Abuja)?
I am extremely worried about the dispersion of the incidences across the country, but I am equally glad that they are a manageable number.
I want to share a few recommendations focused on the effective management of persons and logistics drawn from my experience living under lockdown in Wuhan.
This is the time to put the leaders at the local level to work, thankfully a state like Lagos already has LGA/LCDA's. Policies from the top will have to be implemented by them. The LGA/LCDA heads will further need or put in place where absent community/ward leaders, estate leaders, and street leaders — all these people will help to facilitate logistics for the free flow of supplies (food and medical).
All our hinterlands and villages should be shut now, no one should be permitted to travel from the cities to the hinterlands because those places are likely free of the infections and the government needs them to be healthy and fully functional to facilitate production and supply of food. Emergency/Ad-hoc labours that have been medically certified should also be hired now and sent to our food bases to assist in ramping up food production. Companies with relevant knowledge and experience in the agricultural food supply chain should be engaged now.
The Government should work with its municipal and community officers to organize residences to coordinate their food supply needs via WhatsApp. Almost everyone in Nigeria now has a Smart-phone and uses WhatsApp. People are already familiar with how groups work on WhatsApp. It can be creatively explored now to minimize physical contact.
The government needs to also work with some accredited pharmacies even at the lowest community level to obtain records of drugs that people are buying or want to buy. This helps with identifying and tracking suspected cases.
People have to ensure that their homes are thoroughly disinfected using bleach disinfectants, the compound and by extension the street where you live. There has to be a very effective and cordial cooperation to carry out these tasks. When any member of a family steps out of the house, consider the person contaminated and ensure that you thoroughly disinfect the person's clothes and shoes using the alcohol-based disinfectants before they enter the house.
Just as employed in Wuhan, a sequential or gradual lockdown would be the least shocking approach. To introduce a complete stay at home all at once to everyone will be highly disruptive and the shocks from that may result in a revolt. Homes should be allowed to have one registered member of the household who will go out to get the supplies in the interim until when a communal way of obtaining the supplies can be introduced.
Finally, I urge all residents in Nigeria at the moment to please comply with all directives of government concerning the fight against this virus. The directives I believe will be dynamic based on the routine assessment by the government.
The truth is that in a time like this, we cannot always get what we want even if you have the money, the law of demand and supply will fail. At some point, people may even resort to trade by barter, it happened in Wuhan. What has kept the people going through the challenges is the support for one another. The virus is out to test our humanity and in our case as Nigerians, our unity, we have to put aside our many differences to win this fight. Therefore, we have to bear with the government and the existing systems that might be in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
May God heal our land!
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
Ayodeji Adetunji Idowu (Ph.D.)
A Nigerian resident in Wuhan, China
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Millennials vs Generation Z: How Do They Achieve Success in the Workplace?
Generations in the Workplace, Infographics, Recruitment Advice, Trends and Learning
Millennials vs Generation Z: How Do They Achieve Success in the Workplace?Ron CullimoreJanuary 24, 2018 June 25, 2021
The 21st century saw old and newer generations co-populating the workforce, with those in the retirement age of 60 choosing to extend their working years until they're in their 70s.
HBR describes it as a social phenomenon where five generations – traditionalists, baby boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z – are seen to be working side by side. At the same time, studies point out that by 2025, the generation of Millennials will comprise the majority of the workforce – three-quarters to be more specific.
These statistics show that the generations of Millennials and Gen Z will be dominating the workplace in the near future. It's therefore important for your HR team, recruitment firm, and hiring managers to get to know Millennials and Gen Z individually, especially their work styles and ethics so that you could provide them the best work environment possible.
Here's a glimpse of who the Millennials and Generation Z are as two distinct demographics in today's workforce—with each having unique skills and traits that could affect the way they view or pursue success in the workplace.

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Range of Birth Years
Millennials (also known as Generation Y) were born between the years 1977 and 1997, while Generation Zs (also known as Edgers, Plurals, iGen, Gen 2020, Centennials, and Post-Millennials) were born after 1997, making them the youngest batch of employees in the global workforce.
Work Principle
The idea of work-life balance is a top priority among Millennials. This means being able to keep a healthy personal life outside of work. Millennials don't live to work, but they view work as a means to help them lead a sufficient life.
Life, in general, may not be fair, but post-Millennials will refuse to accept that mindset in the workplace. They are bent on making equality, diversity, and inclusivity part of the corporate culture, as they encourage employers to hire without bias against any race, religion, gender, social, political, or religious backgrounds.
What Motivates Them
Millennials are dedicated employees who expect their employers to reward them with opportunities for career growth. Whether it's a leadership role, promotion, or lateral movement within the organization, Millennials are hoping that companies will support them in their craft while uplifting someone's life through the work they do.
For Gen Z, however, work becomes more attractive when the paycheck is good. This may be attributed to the fact that they would not want to be subjected to the same financial woes that befell their parents during their time. So, between making a difference in society and having a secure life outside of work, Gen Z will have no trouble choosing the latter.
The saying "two heads are better than one" characterizes Millennial employees. Cooperative and team-oriented, Millennials in the workplace have no difficulty working with a group to achieve a common objective. By contrast, 71% of Gen Z see their colleagues as competition and would rather rely on their abilities to get the job done.
In work setup, both Millennials and Gen Z thrive in conditions and environments that offer flexibility in the way they work. Remote work and flexible hours are very appealing for the Millennial workforce, while a commanding 69% of Gen Z see personal workspaces as more conducive than if they were to share their space with their co-employees.
How They Welcome Changing Roles
Job hopping is very common among Millennials, with 21% of them changing jobs more than three times compared with non-Millennials, according to a 2016 report from Gallup. This makes it imperative for you to be proactively looking for candidates who might be showing signs of weariness at their current roles and be prepared to help them transfer their skills to other departments within your organization.
Similarly, Gen Z employees feel more engaged when they're tapped for various roles or projects in the company. For this generation, being able to wear multiple hats makes them more versatile and more suitable for the on-demand work culture that's prevailing in the corporate space.
Technological Expertise
Both Millennials and Gen Z are technologically savvy, but their level of expertise varies to some degree. Millennials saw the rise of the widespread use of the internet, social media, and smartphones, making them pioneers of the digital age. They were quick to learn the tools of technology and apply digital solutions to everyday work problems.
On the other hand, post-Millennial individuals breathe technology, having been born at the time of the digital age. Gen Zs are perennially connected to the internet of things and can instinctively work their way through it with their mobile or desktop devices. No wonder they expect company systems and operations to be digital or cloud-based.
Method of Communication
How Millennial and Gen Z employees prefer to communicate is also quite different, with the former being less personable.
Email and instant messaging platforms are popular among Millennial employees, whereas more than 50% of the Gen Z workforce choose to have regular in-person meetings to gather feedback and discuss their plans for project assignments with their team and managers. This is because of the negative effects they have observed with how Millennials communicate using digital tools.
Views About Education
Formal education has always been a prerequisite for professional work. With the changing times, however, online learning has gained more prominence and acceptance among employees and employers alike.
Millennials and Gen Z are one in recognizing the value of less formal styles of learning where one gets to acquire on-demand knowledge and skills. It then becomes your responsibility in HR to design and offer opportunities for further learning for your employees whether through an online course, on-the-job training, or offline modes.
Other Relevant Qualities
Millennials were born between the years 1977 and 1997 to Baby Boomer parents who had a relatively prosperous and fruitful professional life. Because of this, Millennials are perceived to be more optimistic than Gen Z who are more pragmatic in their viewpoint.
In this sense, you might see more of your Gen Z employees being more adept at multitasking and learning as much as they can in preparation for building their startup in the future.
Managing a pool of talent can be a great challenge, considering they have individual traits, skills, and needs in the workplace. You could have a mix of Millennial and Gen Z employees in your organization, but as long as you know the things that matter to them, you easily set them up for a successful career along with growth for your business.
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11 Workforce Trends and Predictions for 2022Ron CullimoreDecember 21, 2021 December 21, 2021
December 21, 2021 December 21, 2021 |BY Ron Cullimore11 Workforce Trends and Predictions for 2022
Know next year's workforce trends and statistics to help you elevate employee management.

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Jerusalem Post Blog Home Clash of Cultures
How a poor Jew from Egypt made his own luck
By CLASH OF CULTURES
Published: JUNE 17, 2017 10:22
Book Review by Lyn Julius
Sixty years ago this year, following the November 1956 Suez crisis, the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser unleashed a campaign of persecution against his country's Jewish citizens. Within a year, 25,000 Jews - almost half the remaining community - had left Egypt. Jacques Sardas was among them.
Now in his eighties and living in the American south after a successful career at Goodyear, the tyre maker, he was persuaded by his grandchildren to set down his compelling stories in book form.
Many Jews from Egypt - the best known include Andre Aciman and Lucette Lagnado - have published their memoirs in recent years, but 'Without Return' is an autobiography with a difference. The Egyptian Jewish community is renowned for its bourgeois affluence and sophistication. But Jacques Sardas's family of Greek-speaking Jews stands out for being poor. As a child, he remembers the rudimentary conditions in which his family lived in Alexandria: the four children sharing a room, the washing facilities a drain in the corner of the kitchen. His father, an itinerant fabric salesman, has no regular income. Often the children do not have enough to eat. His long-suffering mother sews long into the night to repair her family 's clothing. The children attend schools founded by the rich for the benefit of the Jewish poor.
Jacques' mercurial father is less well-educated than his wife but in cosmopolitan Egypt still manages to speak 10 languages. He is prone to Levantine fits of temper, cursing his wife's family for their financial woes. He is also comically superstitious, planting cloves of garlic under the children's mattresses and spitting on priests' cassocks in the street because their contact with the dying is thought to bring bad luck. Nevertheless, the pre-WW2 atmosphere is carefree and the neighbourhood's children have fun together.
When Jacques is barely 10, tragedy strikes - his mother dies suddenly. His father re-marries and the family move to Cairo.
In Egypt's ethnic salad of Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Maltese, Italians, Syrians and Arabs, the antisemitism comes mainly from Christians - at one stage, the family are harassed by malevolent Syrian orthodox neighbours - but the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood impacts on them too. Jews are beaten up in the streets by Muslim Brotherhood gangs as Zionists. They must use their streetwise guile to survive, and Jacques has it in spades.
Jacques 's spirit and energy come over in the book but he modesty attributes his ability to survive tricky situations to a 'lucky' birthmark which he rubs like Aladdin's lamp. A keen sportsman, he leads a pupils' strike at his Cairo school until the staff agree to setting up a schools basketball team. He punches his way out of a Muslim Brotherhood ambush. (So impressive is he that he earns the respect of the gang leader.) He dreams of becoming a doctor: "I wanted to break the mould and be the first in the family to get to a higher caste. ' But money worries force him to go out to work as a clerk in Jewish-owned retail businesses and, haunted by memories of deprivation, he almost breaks up with his girlfriend Etty.
When Jews withdraw large sums of money in readiness for their post-Suez exodus, gangs lie in wait to rob them. But Jacques manages to outfox them. He and Etty, bound for a new life in Brazil, must bid goodbye to Egypt. Even though he has a Greek passport, his exit visa bears the words 'No return' - testimony to the Nasser regime's flagrant antisemitism. It rankles with Jacques that he will never be allowed back to the country of his birth.
Compellingly and charmingly written, Without Return is a testament to Jacques' resourcefulness and determination to survive against all odds. And not just survive, but make the best of life.
'Without Return: Memoirs of an Egyptian Jew 1930 - 1957' by Jacques Sardas (Thebes Press 2017, paperback $17.95)
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Marten Schalkwijk presents a new view on the colonial history of Suriname. The phenomenon of the colonial state in Suriname has not received much attention in de Surinamese historiography. The manners in which local elites gain substantial control of vital state sectors, and contest for power with imperial agents is analyzed in detail in the case of Suriname. But it is of interest for a wider audience in the Caribbean because the case of Suriname is presented in the framework of a typical Caribbean plantation society.
Schalkwijk has collected a wide range of data that concerning this typical plantation society: the social structure of the colonial society, the network relations between individuals, the structure of the bureaucracy etc.
His study is both empirical and theoretical and as such is it a valuable contribution in developing new perspectives for the study of this history of Suriname.


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Q: Use regular expression to extract whole sentence with decimal number I am trying to use regular expressions to extract a sentence containing the word "R&D".
My code is
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I expect to get The third quarter R&D spending was 2.4 million, up approximately 100,000 from Q2 levels. SG&A expenses were 3.4 million, down 200,000 from Q2.
I got The third quarter R&D spending was 2.

A: You can surround R&D with [\w\W] to match all alphanumeric and non alphanumeric characters:
import re
s = "The third quarter R&D spending was 2.4 million, up approximately 100,000 from Q2 levels. SG&A expenses were 3.4 million, down 200,000 from Q2."
sentence = re.findall('^[\w\W]+R&D[\w\W]+$', s)[0]

Output:
'The third quarter R&D spending was 2.4 million, up approximately 100,000 from Q2 levels. SG&A expenses were 3.4 million, down 200,000 from Q2.'

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Time to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
By By Robert B. Reich
TARP, the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008, is finally over. The Treasury Department recently announced it will soon be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors.
But it's not really over. The biggest Wall Street banks are now far bigger than they were four years ago, when they were considered too big to fail. The five largest have almost 44 percent of all U.S. bank deposits. That's up from 37 percent in 2007, just before the crash. A decade ago they had just 28 percent.
The biggest banks keep getting bigger because they can borrow more cheaply than smaller banks.
That's because investors believe the government will bail them out if they get into trouble, rather than force them into a form of bankruptcy (as the new Dodd-Frank law makes possible). This belief itself -- a virtual federal guarantee -- is worth billions to the big banks. It makes dealing with them less risky.
And the belief is correct. No president will allow a $2 trillion bank to go under. That would threaten the whole economy.
To make matters worse, with bigness comes more political clout. The biggest banks on Wall Street have already eviscerated parts of the Dodd-Frank law they don't like, including many of the limits on trading derivatives. (Derivatives are essentially bets on bets about the prices of future assets.) That means they'll be back to making big, risky bets.
So now that TARP is over, shouldn't we make absolutely sure we don't need another Wall Street bailout? No bank ever again should be too big to fail.
That's why it's necessary to limit their size and break up the biggest. There's no alternative.
Impossible, you say? The banks are so big and powerful they'll prevent any attempt to break them up.
Yet there's reason to think Washington may be ready and willing. A few months ago, Dan Tarullo, the governor of the Federal Reserve Board who specializes in bank regulation, proposed capping the size of the banks' balance sheets at a fixed percentage of the U.S. economy.
"This approach has the advantage of tying the limitation on growth of financial firms to the growth of the national economy and its capacity to absorb losses," said Tarullo, "as well as to the extent of a firm's dependence on funding from sources other than the stable base of deposits."
Meanwhile, the Fed has put the big banks on notice it will no longer allow them to buy up other banks.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board member Thomas Hoenig, an independent chosen by Republicans for his post, is also pushing a plan to break up the biggest banks.
The move to break up the big banks is gaining support in some unlikely quarters. Even former titans of Wall Street are urging it.
Sandy Weill, who created Citigroup and thereby the model of mega-banking, is also proposing that the biggest banks be broken up. "I think that the earlier model was right for that time ... I don't think it's right anymore," he told CNBC.
Mr. Weill said he thinks banks will be more profitable once broken up and that the markets would function better.
Mr. Weill was one of the champions of bank deregulation. Yet when Citigroup got into trouble, it required $45 billion in TARP funding.
The new Congress may be willing to pull the plug on the biggest banks. Despite the banks' political clout, members on both sides of the aisle are indicating support for limiting their size.
The new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Texas Republican Jeb Hensarling, has been a strong ally of small banks in their push to rein in their bigger rivals. It's not irrelevant that the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve Board, in Hensarling's home district, has also proposed breaking up the biggest banks.
Over in the Senate, Sherrod Brown of Ohio is a strong advocate for breaking up the big banks. Mr. Brown is now on the Senate Finance Committee. And Elizabeth Warren, scourge of Wall Street, will sit on the Senate Banking Committee.
In other words, the timing is right. The oven is ready. All we need is another multibillion-dollar banking loss due to bad bets -- like JP Morgan Chase's $6 billion loss last year -- and the biggest banks are cooked.
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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future." He blogs at www.robertreich.org.
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La motte castrale du Roc'h est située sur le site du Roc'h à Arzano, dans le département français du Finistère.

Historique
Il s'agit d'une motte castrale protégée par un fossé et jadis surmontée d'une tour de bois qui surveillait la vallée du Scorff. Cet ouvrage fortifié est le vestige d'une partie de l'ancienne forteresse de la Roche-Moisan.

La Motte castrale du Roc'h fait l'objet d'une inscription au titre des monuments historiques depuis le .

Description
L'ensemble médiéval fortifié se situe sur un promontoire rocheux surplombant la vallée du Scorff et s'intègre dans le relief.  Il est formé d'une motte et d'une basse-cour au sud, l'ensemble s'étendant sur  environ. Au sud, il était longé par un étang aujourd'hui disparu, protégeant le flanc opposé à la rivière.

D'une hauteur d'environ 15 mètres, la motte est de forme tronconique avec des flancs abrupts (50° environ). Elle a été créée en réaménageant le relief naturel par des remblais. Au sommet, une plateforme avec un muret de pierres se couvre peu à peu de broussailles. A l'ouest, elle est protégée par un fossé sec taillé dans la roche, profond de 3 à 4 mètres et large de 6 mètres environ. Il a sans doute été partiellement détruit par la route qui longe le tertre.

La plateforme somitale portant les vestiges d'un muret en pierre se couvre peu à peu de broussailles.

Galerie

Notes et références

Liens internes
 Liste des monuments historiques du Finistère
Liste des édifices romans en Bretagne

Liens externes
 Portail des patrimoines de Bretagne
 Topic Topos Patrimoine de France

Roc'h
Monument historique dans le Finistère
Monument historique inscrit en 1995
Arzano (Finistère)

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Published in the Albuquerque Journal on Saturday October 09, 1999
Muriel Everett Olbert "Our Ruie", 91, passed away on Tuesday, October 5, 199. She is survived by her daughter, Louise Bland and husband, Raymond of Albuquerque; grandchildren, Kathryn Shull, Jim Shull and wife, Christen, all of Albuquerque; great-grandchildren, Olivia, Lauren and Austin; brother, Mark Everett; sisters-in-law, Serena, Eileen and Lucille; many nieces and nephews; and many great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard in 1958; parents, Claude and Lillie Everett; twin sister, Perle; sisters, Edna and Doris; brothers, Estel, Walter, Roy and Clarence. Muriel was born in Mancos, CO on January 2, 1908, to Claude and Lillie Everett, a pioneer cattle ranching family. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in education. Mrs. Olbert taught at Mrs. Trudell's Private School, in the Huning Castle, and tutored many students in her home. She retired from the City of Albuquerque, and also retired from Dillards Department Store at the age of 81. Muriel was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church for over 50 years. She was a former member of the Order of The Eastern Star and a member of Lew Wallace Chapter D.A.R. She was loved by all who knew her. She generously gave of her self to her family and friends. She was so lovingly cared for by everyone, especially by Nancy McAllister at her home and Helen and Rhonda at Vista del Rio Assisted Living Community Services will be held Monday, 2:00 p.m., at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1100 Indian School Rd. NE, with Rev. Larry A. Wright and Rev. Melinda Wagner officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park, 924 Menaul Blvd. NE. Pallbearers will be David Everett, Larry Everett, Lloyd Everett, Randy Everett, Don Morris and Robert Morris. Friends may visit French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE, Sunday, 12:00 noon to 9:00 p.m. and Monday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.


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  def check(): Unit =
    try {
      Class.forName("akka.persistence.jdbc.util.DefaultSlickDatabaseProvider")
      throw new RuntimeException(
        "Old version of Akka Persistence JDBC found on the classpath. Remove `com.github.dnvriend:akka-persistence-jdbc` from the classpath..")
    } catch {
      case _: ClassNotFoundException =>
      // All good! That's intentional.
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The trump coup is a contract bridge coup used when the hand on lead (typically the dummy) has no trumps remaining, while the next hand in rotation has only trumps, including a high one that would have been onside for a direct finesse if a trump could have been led. The play involves forcing that hand to ruff, only to be overruffed. A similar motive is met in coup en passant, where indirect finesse is used instead of direct.

In an earlier text by George S. Coffin, he names the trump coup as an "Overruff Finesse Endplay".

Example
In the end position below, spades are trump and the lead is in dummy (North).  The king of spades is onside, but declarer (South) cannot finesse against it because dummy has no trumps remaining.

In preparation for the trump coup, declarer must ensure that his right hand opponent has only trump cards and plays the A first.  Next, when a club is led from dummy, East must ruff, and South can overruff with the ace or queen according to which spade East plays.

A trump coup is not possible in a double-finesse position, since declarer with a holding like A-Q-10 over defender's K-J-x would take the first trump trick and then would have to give the defender a free finesse.  In effect, a trump coup against a king (or rather, the second-highest remaining trump) must find it guarded by exactly one other trump. (If East held another card instead of the small trump, say a diamond, North-South could still play the hand as just described, but the trump coup would be unnecessary as South could just drop the king of spades instead.)

Similarly, with A-K-J of trumps in hand, a trump coup against Q-x-x on the right is possible, and so on.

To execute a trump coup, declarer must have exactly the same number of trumps as the defender.  If declarer had more trumps, entry could not be given to dummy at the critical point when the defender will have only trumps remaining.  Sometimes a declarer with too many trumps, but needing to do a trump coup, can set up the desired position by entering dummy and leading a suit he can ruff, to shorten his own trumps.

Grand coup
If the card which is ruffed in order to shorten the trumps would have been a winner, the play is called a grand coup:
 South, having opened strong 2, plays in 6. West leads a diamond to East's ace, who returns a heart to South's ace. South plays A-K of trumps and discovers the bad break.

Now, South has to ruff his high spades in dummy twice to shorten its trumps to the same length as West; he cashes two high spades, discarding a heart from dummy, and ruffs the spade queen. Next, he enters his hand with the Q and ruffs another spade. He cashes the K, and reenters his hand with the K. At that point, North and West have only two trumps each—K 10 and J 9 respectively. Either a heart or a spade from South's hand completes the coup.

Endplay variation
A similar tactic can also be used to create an endplay situation, with similar results to the more ordinary trump coup:

In this six-card ending, originally given as a whist hand, clubs are trumps and the lead is in the North hand.

To win five of the six remaining tricks (one trick must be lost in any event, as the 9 8 form a sure winner in the East hand), the 10 must be led from dummy and South must ruff with a low club (executing the grand coup in doing so). After this the A K must be cashed, and finally a low club led from hand. East can now win only one trump trick—if he takes this trick he will be endplayed into leading into South's remaining trump tenace and lose the last two tricks, while if he ducks, he will of course prosaically lose his 9 or 8 to South's J and win only trick 13.

South wins a trick less if he plays otherwise, as the tempo of the situation is altered and it will be South who becomes endplayed at trick 12 to give up a second trump winner to East—if he does not ruff dummy's heart winner, after giving up the first trump trick to East, the latter will still have a major suit card at trick 11 in addition to his two trumps, which he will lead to compel South to ruff and again lead trumps up to East. If he executes the coup but then fails to cash both spades before touching trumps, East will lead his remaining spade to force South back on lead to give up a second trump trick.

Often, for a trump coup to work, the key defender must have a suitable distribution in other suits, so that he cannot ruff a declarer's winner prematurely.

See also
Smother play
Devil's coup

References

Contract bridge coups


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CHICAGO – January 10, 2017 – iManage today announced that the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Office (ACCRALAW), a top tier Philippines-based firm servicing local and international clientele, has chosen iManage Work for document and email management. Since its establishment in 1972, ACCRALAW has grown into a celebrated and multi-awarded service organization with over 140 lawyers today. True to its vision of "setting the pace in excellence in the practice of law," ACCRALAW has pioneered the use of technology in the legal profession.
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Cannot tell which newspaper that is but the article is credited to the Associated Press syndicate. Mississippi may not have any responsibility for that typo & definitely is not completely responsible.
A really fine example of the genre.
Looks like they trimmed it to fit the column.
And the newspaper is responsible for what gets printed. That's why they employ proofers.
Newspapers are responsible for what they print & press syndicates are responsible for what they feed to newspapers & Mississippians cannot be said to be responsible for an article in a newspaper which we do not know where it is published or where the article originated.
2) I got a phone call from a retired editor of that newspaper (who had been given my number by someone at that paper, apparently), essentially thanking me for the effort and filling me in on the context of layoffs, reorganization, and bureaucratic decisions that lay behind the problem. Essentially, the paper had rid themselves of an entire layer of editing for the bulk of its published prose.
That was in the days of spellcheck and the like, before modern grammar and content software - and already they were leaving things to Microsoft's expertise. No doubt the trend has continued at speed, unabated let alone reversed, in all newspapers.
There is a good chance these days that newspaper copy - including ads etc - has been proofed and edited by no human being except the original writer.
II) They are not as "responsible" as one might think. One of the several background motivations for my long ago letter was a court decision of the era, a local civil case, in which the paper involved had been held not liable for any consequences of switching the identification captions on a couple of photographs. The photographs were of two men, one a famous criminal of some horrible kind (iirc being led from court in handcuffs), the other a local politician in a close race at a rally. The photos were published prominently and near each other in the paper, a few days before the election. The politician lost by a very small number of votes, to the candidate favored and endorsed by the paper.
The defense was - in layman's language - that the paper screwed up like that all the time, routinely, and that was just a mistake like dozens of others it had made. No malice or bad motive could be proven by business as usual, in other words. The judge, after reviewing the evidence, concurred.
So the "responsibility" aspect is a bit counterintuitive - like shoveling one's entry of snow, which opens one up to being held responsible for a bad job (the snow is an act of God), editing can increase one's liability.
YouTube comment : It makes sense. I mean wouldn't the Israelites would be black since the climate in which they live in were extremely hot, think about it they were slaves in Egypt for about 400 years or so and they wondered around the dessert to the promised land for 40 years.
People have lived in the area for thousands of years without "turning black". The Arabs, for example.
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Big Wave Surfing in Portugal
Published on 16 Aug 2021 3 Oct 2021 by MWH
Nazaré's North Beach hosts the Big Wave Tow Surfing Challenge in Portugal
Surfing fans need to take note that Portugal is one of the main midwinter venues of the Big Wave Tow Surfing Challenge, along with a growing number of other top international surf destinations.
When Nazaré, a charming seaside town on Portugal's rugged west coast, regularly hosts the Portugal challenge in the winter months with temperatures close to freezing and the waves often as big as a house.
Along with the USA, Portugal is one of the very few countries in the world to stage every type of surfing competition, but the Big Wave Tow Surfing Challenge is a truly unique event that combines the awesome spectacle of giant waves with a rare breed of fearless surfer.
It was an American by the name of Garrett McNamara who can claim the credit for putting Nazaré firmly on the surfing map when he had his bid for a new world record confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records for riding the largest wave ever.
In early November 2011, Massachusetts-born McNamara was taking part in a competition in Nazaré when a massive wave built up behind him and somehow he managed to stay on his board despite the wave sweeping him up and carrying him a large distance.
The wave was finally estimated to have been twenty-four metres in height, so McNamara had successfully beaten the previous Guinness World Record set by Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank in southern California in 2008 by approximately half a metre.
McNamara, who first began surfing when he was just eleven years old, was astounded by the scale of his achievement and told reporters at the time: "Everything came together. Everything felt right. It was the most challenging, dangerous wave I've ever surfed. Nazaré is the only place in the world where a giant canyon reaches all the way to the beach."
In January 2013, he broke his own world record by surfing a gigantic thirty-metre wave, also in Nazaré. The record has been broken a couple of times since, but McNamara remains an ambassador for surfing and other high-octane sports in Portugal.
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Home Featured Local Home Page Lifelong educator Joanna Clarke passes
Lifelong educator Joanna Clarke passes
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Joanna Clarke passed away at the Cayman Islands Hospital on Christmas Eve. She was 85.
Joanna Clarke, the lifelong educator who inspired the creation of the Joanna Clarke Excellence in Education Award, has died.
She passed away at the Cayman Islands Hospital on Monday, Dec. 24, after a long illness. She was 85 years old.
Born July 24, 1933, to John and Eva Clarke, Ms. Clarke began her teaching career at Friendship Primary School in Westmoreland, Jamaica.
She traveled from Jamaica in 1964 and spent more than five decades teaching in the Cayman Islands government schools.
She taught at Savannah and George Town Primary schools and then moved on to become a language arts adviser at the Department of Education. She retired from education in 1993 but continued her service to the young people of these islands.
"We were best friends and I can't get over it," said Eloise Seymour. "It breaks my heart … my son Don had built a foundation for her with the excellence award."
Another friend, Theoline Wellington, said Ms. Clarke will be greatly missed. When Ms. Clarke first came to Cayman, she stayed with Ms. Wellington at her home and they developed a bond.
"She was mostly involved in the church and spent most of her time speaking at many of the church[es] on the island," Ms. Wellington said.
"Ms. Clarke was one of the most influential people in my life," said DMS's Don Seymour, a former student who knew her for more than 40 years.
"I first met her in primary school in the old Savannah school house that is now a national treasure. I [had] a severe stutter and although Miss Clarke had no specialized training in stuttering, she took the time during her lunch breaks and whenever she could to teach me how to talk. She would also get the older kids like Mark Scotland, Olivaire Watler, Liz McLaughlin and others to do their part teaching me how to talk and read," Mr. Seymour said.
In 2007, Mr. Seymour established the Joanna Clarke Excellence in Education Award in his former teacher's honor and to recognize the efforts of all people and organizations that contribute to education in the Cayman Islands.
"I owe Ms. Clarke an enormous debt of gratitude forever, because without her I would have lost the opportunity to learn," he said.
Ms. Clarke lived an extraordinary life of service to her community and contributed greatly to the churches in these islands.
She was a committed Christian and actively involved in the works of the church. She served as Sunday school teacher and lay preacher, conducted Bible study classes, and assisted with bringing the message of God on "The Gospel of the Kingdom Echoes" weekly broadcast on Radio Cayman.
Despite not having any children of her own, her spirit was amazingly uplifting for children.
"She beamed with pride when she talked about her former students, whether Sunday School or primary school, or Cub Scouts," said her niece Judith Witter.
The funeral service for Ms. Clarke will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, at the Red Bay Church of God on Lord's Way. Viewing will take place Friday, Jan. 4, at Bodden's Funeral Home at 5-7 p.m. Interment will be at the Prospect Cemetery.
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Kerith McCoy December 31, 2018 At 10:44 am
Ms. Clarke was of the "old-school" of teachers whose heart, and indeed life, was in the class-room. She was the type of person drawn to teaching for the love of the role, never for recognition and certainly not for financial gain. This is evident by the accolades she's received from people like Mr. Don Seymour – she most definitely impacted people of a few school generations in a positive way. Ms. Clarke was a colleague of my late mother at the Secondary Modern School and succeeded my mother as "head-teacher" (principal) of the Savannah Primary School.
Thankfully, the contributions of Ms. Clarke and teachers like her pre-date and have survived the subsequent "turmoil" in our public education system, caused perhaps by successive and inexperienced "influences and strategies", at times. Thankfully there are still some teachers who live by the principles of Ms. Clarke and her peers in education but sadly, many teachers have become frustrated over the decades and generally, our education system and the children it serves, have suffered.
Teachers like Ms. Clarke, the late Mrs. Monica Bryan, the late Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Fran McConvey, Mrs. Sue Tressider (nee Bashford), Mrs. Wheaton, Sister Wilma Moffitt and others who left lives in their home countries to dedicate their lives to the betterment of Caymanian children should be revered. Thank you all!
RIP Ms. Clarke.
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FEDUSA Welcomes President Ramaphosa's R1.1 billion to Fight Gender Based Violence
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The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's redirection of R1.1 billion to fight the scourge of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in a five point plan that includes implementing strong preventive measures, reviewing the legal framework for prosecuting GBV cases, strengthening the criminal justice system and ensuring that every police station in the country treats victims of rape and domestic violence with sympathy and respect.
The announcement is especially welcome in the light of the horrendous confession by Nicholas Ninow to raping an 8-year-old child in a ladies' bathroom at a Dros restaurant in Silverton, Pretoria in 2018 for which FEDUSA believes a sentence of life imprisonment should be considered as the appropriate punishment because of the intent of the crime; and that women's bodies should not be seen as sexual tools for men.
Meanwhile FEDUSA Vice President for Social Justice and Gender Ms Dorothy Ndhlovu has strongly condemned the current wave of senseless killings of women and children currently ravaging the country and supports the call for government to declare a state of emergency.
"We are calling on our government to put South Africa in a state of emergency to protect our children and women against senseless brutality and femicide," said Ndhlovu.
"Every day and every hour our children and women are raped and killed by people who should be respecting and protecting them from strangers. What must we do in a country that preaches democracy and freedom; is our freedom is then in our hands or in the hands of rapists and murderers"?
The union federation views gender-based violence in a very serious light and has scheduled an Anti- GBV Conference for November 2019, where intensified resolutions will be tabled for implementation as well as the fast-tracking of legislation to support the recently adopted ILO Convention on NO GBV in the world of work.
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FEDUSA VP: Social Justice and Gender
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Nuclear site would have 'less radiation than bananas'
GLIMPSE INTO FUTURE: An example of some of the radioactive waste that would be stored at the proposed facility at Oman Ama. Jayden Brown
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23rd Jan 2016 6:00 AM | Updated: 11:05 AM
GOVERNMENT officials have addressed the media on their plans for a proposed nuclear waste facility at Oman Ama, stating radiation levels around the site would be lower than what is found in a banana.
The proposed 40-hectare facility would be used to store mostly low-level radioactive waste, with some temporary storage of intermediate-level waste.
Bruce Wilson from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science said the material was safe.
"Low-level waste includes material such as gowns, gloves and test tubes used in handling radioactive material," he said.
"Intermediate waste includes equipment and machinery used in nuclear processes."
The higher-level waste also includes materials coming off fuel rods of nuclear reactors.
Most of Australia's 4250 cubic metres of low-level and 656 cubic metres of intermediate-level waste would be stored on site.
Despite community concern about high-level radioactivity, Mr Wilson confirmed there was no high-level waste in Australia and the proposed facility wouldn't be able to host it.
He also declared no waste from overseas would be stored at Oman Ama.
"At the facility there will be no liquid, no corrosive, no volatile, and no organic waste," he said.
"This ensures the material will not be subject to volatile reactions or breakdowns."
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Low-level waste would be placed in drums, compacted and stored in a larger drum.
The drum would then be encased in concrete and those drums would be place in concrete slabs.
The waste would be transported and stored at the facility in those slabs.
Transport routes could include taking waste via Goondiwindi, Stanthorpe or Warwick - although the Department is yet to finalise those details.
There will be a 100ha exclusion zone around the site, located approximately 3km off the Cunningham Hwy.
Mr Wilson said no measurable radiation would come from the site.
Levels inside the site would be so low that employees could walk around the stored waste without any protective clothing.
"We will be having very comprehensive and very detailed environmental monitoring done on the site," he said.
"All that data will be made publicly available."
Scientists claim a person standing near the site would be exposed to less radiation than they would get on an international flight.
The Department claims the community will benefit greatly from the facility.
At least 15 new, full time jobs would be created.
Mr Wilson also raised the prospect of increases to infrastructure such as mobile phone coverage, internet and roads.
Most of the construction of the $100 million project would be completed by businesses in the area.
A community benefit package of at least $10 million is also up for grabs.
Concerns about property devaluation were also addressed by Mr Wilson.
The government claims property prices at similar facilities around the world have been unaffected.
A similar facility at Esk has failed to affect property prices or the town's reputation, officials claim.
The final site will be chosen in 2017.
Final site design, licensing and approvals would take two years, with construction to begin in 2018.
The facility would not be operational until 2020.
The site would be operated for at least 100 years, with further monitoring for several hundred years more.
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For the time being this post is going to be relatively shorter (still long now I've typed out 😂) than I intend. I'll be returning at some point when I have more time.
Anyway, here is the history of Bipolar Affective Disorder or dis-ease, what it is and what it isn't and a bit about the stuff in the title.
Bipolar is not a 20th century epidemic created by psychiatry. I hear time and time again, like many other mental health conditions that have been given a name, that it's a mere 'label' created by psychiatry to pathologise what is distress, usually followed by the assertion that this particular distress is the same kind of distress and normal human emotion that anyone in the world experiences.
The "What is Normal Anyway"?
'Normal' is normal everyday ups and downs in normal mood. It's a 4-6 on a scale of 0-10. That incorporates normal low mood and exceptionally good mood. Not clinical depression or mania.
'Normal' is what happens between bipolar episodes – that is if one is lucky enough to be completely symptom free during this time. But then with bipolar, you have 0-3 gradients of low mood and 7-10 – gradients of high mood on the scale. This is anywhere but in the range of normal human experiences. The average Joe Bloggs on the street.
Bipolar is not just about moods. That's just silly. Diagnostic criteria doesn't at all restrict to mood. I find it ironic that many people who reject bipolar as a real illness are the same people who criticise the diagnostic rule book (DSMIV in particular) and even cut and paste the criteria in their critiquess yet seem to ignore the crucial points.
It's not just thoughts, feelings and behaviour and even those components are not, in the main, wilfull ones.
Its about energy, elevated mood states and often a decreased NEED for sleep in mania, in depression often excessive NEED for sleep or insomnia. This is key criteria in the DSMIV (America) and ICD11 (rest of world) diagnostic tools used by professionals during a semi- structured interview.
Affects 60 million people worldwide. There are approximately 7.6 billion in the world.
Between 5-20% chance to have both ADHD and Bipolar if you have one of them anyway.
When I first received my diagnosis of bipolar I was curious to know it's origins beyond how I came to develop it myself.
I cast my mind back to the first real learning day at university where we looked at the history of mental illness in general. I was in complete shock. It wasn't that I believed at all that mental ill health was a product of modern times but 1) just how far back our historical knowledge goes and 2) how barbaric the treatment these poor individuals endured.
I'd heard of lobotomies in the 20th century, that was pretty much it and terrible enough and I've since learned that the man who performed the most, I believe, lobotomies in the UK, over 16k, was performing what he genuinely believed was the most human treatment at the time. He finds that hard to live with that now I hear.
Much still needs to be discovered and will always be ongoing I suspect. HARMS MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED.
In earlier times treatment consisted of not just hopeful therapeutic treatment but as previously mentioned barbaric treatment, for example, euthanasia was the norm. Ridicule was the norm in Victorian times with ladies in their fineries coming to spectate the mental unwell changed up by shackles in the street. There was an era of spinning contraptions. Think of a giant equivalent of a hamster wheel for the afflicted person to run in. It was thought such contraptions would drive out evil spirits. People were once driven out of towns and villages because the other 'normals' were frightened and so they were also frightened and left to fend for themselves alone.
Bipolar has been around forever. It's just had different names. In fact, once upon a time it didn't have a name, it just was.. and has been refined. Over and over, naturally.
Aretaeus of Cappadocia was the first person attempting to group together symptoms. This was in the 1st century in Greece. He was not a psychiatrist but a physician. Not only that but it was described earlier than that, I believe in 300-400BC.
Thank goodness for the most recent change to bipolar. Certainly slit more descriptive feet than manic depressives which sounds as if us with a diagnosis are maniacs!
I'd welcome, as usual, to hear any comments, comments or questions. See below for comments section or contact me through my contact page.
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County Cricket
Complete list by match
NORTH-SOUTH SERIES
Championship Div 1
Royal London One-Day Cup
Vitality Blast
MCC University Matches
Second Eleven Championship
Second Eleven Trophy
RL Women's One-Day Cup
M.C.C.
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Jonny Bairstow
Jack Durston
Full name Frederick John Durston
Born July 11, 1893, Clophill, Bedfordshire
Died April 8, 1965, Norwood Green, Southall, Middlesex (aged 71 years 271 days)
Major teams England, Middlesex
Also known as Long Jack
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Tests 1 2 1 8 6* 8.00 0 0 1 0 0 0
First-class 386 473 144 3918 92* 11.90 0 6 257 0
Tests 1 2 202 136 5 4/102 5/136 27.20 4.03 40.4 1 0 0
First-class 386 72124 29279 1329 8/27 22.03 2.43 54.2 72 11
Only Test England v Australia at Lord's, Jun 11-14, 1921 scorecard
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First-class span 1919 - 1933
Frederick John Durston, the former Middlesex and England fast bowler, died in hospital at Southall on April 8, aged 71. Born on July 11, 1893, at Clophill, Bedfordshirewith whose village club he learned the game-he went to Lord's as a groundboy in 1914. After serving with the Royal Engineers, he returned to Lord's in 1919 and, on the recommendation of E. G. Wynyard, the old Hampshire cricketer, made his debut for Middlesex in four matches. In his first full season-1920-he played a material part in helping Middlesex win the championship, taking 113 wickets in all matches, the first of six occasions on which he was to take 100 wickets in a season. In three other years he took over ninety.
Standing well over six feet and magnificently built, he was a right-arm opening bowler - perhaps fast-medium rather than fast-with fine powers of endurance and consistent accuracy of length. He achieved his highest aggregate (136 wickets) in 1921, when Middlesex again won the championship and when he played for England against Australia at Lord's-his only Test: his five wickets in the match included C. G. Macartney in each innings and Warwick Armstrong for a duck. Shortly afterwards he took eight wickets for the Players against the Gentlemen at Lord's, but though he represented the Players on six other occasions he never again appeared in the Lord's fixture. He performed hattricks against both Universities-at Fenner's in 1922 and in the Parks the following year. Some success He toured Jamaica with Mr Julien Cahn's side early in 1929, and when his first-class career was over he visited the Argentine with Sir Theodore Brinckman's team in 1937-38. He retired from first-class cricket in 1933, having changed with some success to slow off-spin bowling in his last two years. Altogether in first-class matches he took 1,329 wickets for 29,279 runs (av. 22.03). In addition he was a powerful right-hand hitter, scoring nearly 4,000 runs, his highest innings being 92 not out against Northamptonshire at Lord's in 1930. At Leyton in 1927 he assisted Hendren establish the present Middlesex ninth-wicket record-an unbroken 160, scored in only 80 minutes.
From 1924 until 1958 he ran an indoor cricket school at Acton, and in his younger days also played professional football as a goalkeeper for Brentford and other teams. Rather strangely, for over thirty years he has had his initials recorded wrongly in the "Births and Deaths" section of Wisden, and his correct date of birth has never been shown there. Affectionately known as " Long Jack," he was a firm friend of the young professional, to whom his encouragement and advice always meant much.
The Cricketer
Cowdrey's crowning glory (Jul 11, 2003)
Vital statistics (Aug 1961)
Former England players watch the fifth Test at The Oval
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The Middlesex side that won the 1921 Championship
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The Kodiaq is the alpha male in Skoda's range. It sits on top of their SUV family and shares its nuts and bolts with the Volkswagen Tiguan.
Clients looking for a punchier version of the Czech SUV currently have to make do with either a 2.0-liter TSI engine that generates 180PS (177hp / 132kW), or a 2.0-liter TDI diesel, rated at 190PS (187hp / 140kW).
Skoda has an RS (vRS in UK) derivative in the pipeline, but it's still a couple of months away from being launched. It recently broke the Nurburgring lap record for the fastest 7-seat SUV with Sabine Schmitz driving it, and will go official at the 2018 Paris Auto Show this fall.
Meanwhile, owners of the Kodiaq in search of a bit more power can head to ABT Sportsline. The tuner has come up with new engine control units (ECUs), developed in-house, and aimed at models powered by the 2.0 TSI or 2.0 TDI engines.
For the 2.0-liter petrol unit, ABT says their upgrade lifts the output to 216PS (213hp / 159kW) and 360Nm (266lb-ft) of torque. Diesel fans get as much as 215PS (212hp / 158kW) and 440Nm (325lb-ft) of torque in the punchiest form, and the tuner has also taken care of the 150PS (148hp / 110kW) version of the oil burner, which now churns out 180PS (177hp /132kW) and 380Nm (280lb-ft) of torque.
A set of new wheels completes the package, with ABT offering four distinct patterns, from 18 to 21 inches in size and available in different finishes and fitted with new tires.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV said on Tuesday it has received approval from U.S. regulators to sell its new 2019 Ram 3500 pickup truck after the Italian automaker had raised concerns a prolonged government shutdown could delay the new heavy duty vehicle.
The Environmental Protection Agency granted certification for the gasoline and diesel-powered versions of the 3500, Fiat Chrysler said, adding that the new vehicles are on schedule for their launch later this year. A 35-day partial U.S. government shutdown ended on Friday after Congress and the White House agreed to a three-week funding extension.


If you haven't yet read our 2017 blog that addressed the value of professional print outsourcing as opposed to in-house printing, we encourage you to do so. In it, we pointed out that print remains a vibrant and vital marketing resource today for a variety of reasons. The old saying a picture is worth a thousand words still holds true. Consumers place a high value on a printed piece and many still prefer to get sales ads, coupons and offers delivered to their front door or in their mailbox.
There is something to be said for tangible marketing pieces in an otherwise digital world. A custom envelope with an embossed logo, a glossy, full-color advertising postcard or a brochure that shows the beauty and amenities of a desired vacation destination or cruise are tactile and communicate substance. This is more difficult to communicate digitally.
What the article didn't fully address is the powerful role neuroscience can play in print marketing. We also wanted to ensure readers would have a full understanding of the value-added services a professional printer/marketing company like Ballantine can add to their print projects.
While not as powerful as the human touch, there are neuro-scientific reasons people respond to something physical, like a printed piece. In his book, "The Neuroscience of Touch" neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman explores and explains haptics, or how touch affects our view of the world. He explains how it affects our emotions and decision making processes. The book explains, in part, why a printed piece can be so powerful in building a brand.
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Hartman states unequivocally, "The most difficult color combination within one individual is the mixture of Red and Blue." The reason a Blue-Red combination is such a difficult personality is that the Red and Blue core motives are in direct conflict. The example Hartman used is that a Blue-Red will delegate a task and be cutthroat about getting the job done (Red characteristic), only to feel guilty about it later (Blue characteristic).
That is the struggle I am overcoming.
I want to be who I am, but feel guilty knowing that means going against the grain of this world and worrying about the impact of my individuality on my son.
I want to be holy, but feel bad because a holy lifestyle condemns others (even church-goers) without my even opening up my mouth.
I don't want to continue living in conflict, being embarrassed about who I am but not desiring to be like others in some ways and unable to change in others.
But the Lord didn't come for us to live in conflict! He came that we might have life and that more abundantly!
Lord help me life a life that honors YOU free from the burdens of man-made guilt-induced conflict.
Today, while studying scripture, I came across Lk 11:17, where Jesus says "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth."
Now, this particular passage is when then Pharisees are trying to acuse Jesus of casting out devils by the power of the devil, but today I saw the proverb from a totally unique perpspective, and thougth I'd share it with you.
Said I wanted to ensure my bills were paid on time but then when the bill came in, I lumped it in with the rest of the mail and then somehow forgot it?
Professed my love to someone and then turned around and screamed at them for some stupid little thing.
In short, I was opposing myself! Defeating my own goals! Talking out both sides of my mouth! Making myself miserable through behavior which hindered my goals and my relationship.
These are all behaviors I have overcome in the last year of self-discovery, but I feel some of them (like the eating) creeping back in.
Thankfully, the Lord will give me strength (through His Holy Spirit) to resist the urge to oppose myself so that I don't become, once again, a house divided.


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no title, 39 x 9 x 1.5 inches, Acrylic paint and found objects on wood, 2015. Image courtesy the artist.
Michael Lazarus works with a variety of materials, using carefully crafted color choices, pattern, and a vocabulary of pared down imagery to create paintings with a dynamic and powerful presence.
Lazarus received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1994. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including at Feature, Andrea Rosen, and PS1 in New York; Marc Fox, Acme, and Sister in Los Angeles; and Elizabeth Leach Gallery and Adams and Ollman in Portland. His work has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.
Reception: Friday, July 8 5:30pm–7:30pm
Venue: Salem Art Association / Bush Barn Art Center
Gallery Hours: Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm. Sat–Sun, 12–5pm.
600 Mission Street SE | Salem
Website: http://michaellazarus.com/
Residence: Portland, OR