I don't write. I hardly ever did. The only times I had ever written apart from taking notes or scribbling quant was when I was in my first relationship. (I know! Cliché). Anyways, keeping that aside I would request you to not judge me on my vocabulary prowess or my grammatical sense but rather on the content of the article. And even if a single person reading this can relate to his or her life, it would be a huge motivation for me to pen down my thoughts again.
Coming from a middle-class family there was pressure, all sorts of pressure, all the time but mainly academic pressure. Initially, it was not a problem. I loved to study rather I loved to get those magical 90's which meant much more to my parents than it ever did to me. I also longed for those merit certificates which we used to receive in big auditoriums in front of so many students basking in the adulation. By now I hope you understand that I was a fairly good student. (Not the best, but definitely a contender to be the best). Things were going well until class 9. But the year which catapults you to the world, when you will be judged, when every neighbour, and relatives are anxiously waiting for your results, I faltered. I failed to even manage an aggregate of 90% and landed with 89.2% (Science, Math were above 95, but English and Environmental Science took me down). I didn't feel bad because I felt my luck had deceived me as I had left no stones unturned. But my mother had high expectations, the pain couldn't be concealed, it reflected in her eyes even though she never said anything aloud. That day I felt sad, really sad. I promised myself that I would show them when it mattered, I will show them in JEE.
Class XI was similar to a packet of Lay's chips. You don't remember when it started and got over. In the meantime, I had my first relationship. And all my wall hanging daily routines were mere pieces of paper now. I completely stopped functioning, mother's expectations flew out of the window and all I could do was think about her. I was having a gala time and stopped studying. My conscience used to prick me time to time but the relationship was too overwhelming to be prioritized later. And just when nothing could have gone wrong, everything went wrong. Within a span of 2 months, we broke up (for reasons ambiguous).
A huge blow to my confidence that shattered me, pushed me into depression and I was in a state of oblivion. No wonder, boards where nothing but utterly embarrassing. Moreover suffered from chicken pox just two weeks away from all the Engineering exams. Failed again, labelled as a big mouth and what not!
Pursued engineering in a TIER-3 college. Hated the college like anything because of its campus, good for nothing professors, very less 'like-minded' people and suffocating in a sea of mediocracy. But one silver lining among black clouds, participated in numerous competitions, even won a few of them. Incidentally, I managed to get a direct PI in one of the top-notch automotive firms. But couldn't convert the interview, failed again. Anyhow in the next round of placements cracked one of those IT firms and thanked God for saving me from any more embarrassment. Then applied for navy, air force, and army. I did manage to crack all three first round and went to my first naval selection board (NSB) in Coimbatore. I went there to have fun, had absolutely no idea and just enjoyed those five days in the camp. I was among 75 people to be recommended by NSB as a Sub. Lieutenant out of the whole country. I couldn't thank god enough, all my life I was waiting for a breakthrough like this, to do something when it mattered. I was happy. I was content.
But the moment was very very short lived. Literally 2 days. During medicals, I was diagnosed with Flat Feet (a medical condition where your feet don't have an arch) which meant a permanent rejection from the defence forces. I was flabbergasted, devastated and all those dreams of wearing the uniform and riding an Enfield dissolved within no time. Applied for appeal medical board, review medical board but the decision prevailed. I had no other options but settle for that IT job.
After joining the IT firm, found solace in a lot of underachievers like me. After the initial 5-6 months, excitement to work on so-called R&D projects has been in an irreversible downward spiral. Weekends are spent on FIFA, movies and Blender's pride. There seemed to be no motivation for me anymore. I had accepted the fate of being an average engineer with a less than average compensation. Started growing indifferent to everything around me. I was feeling helpless and I stopped looking for help.
Not much had changed apart from my relationship, I am with someone now, who is constantly trying to push me to get out of this comfort zone. In fact due to her repeated tantrums only, I had filled up the CAT form and appeared for CAT last year casually. I was a little surprised after seeing the results. It indicated that I was not yet finished. I still had it in me.
This was an eye-opener and I finally took a resolution of stepping out of that sweet comforting bed. Right now as I write this article the rest of my roommates are still hungover from last night's alcohol. Success to me was never money, it is not even a job in the world's best organization but success to me is when you can push that negative resisting force, which has been holding you down for so many years. That is the time you can look yourself in the mirror and say, "Bro, you did it".
I want to see myself next year in any of the top b-schools in the country.
I want to experience those huge lush campuses, where everyone is singing along to that acoustic guitar.
I want to stay awake till 4:00 am and discuss about our game plan for the competition tomorrow.
I want to listen to the brilliant minds of the industry telling us all about how their brainchild caused a revolution.
I want to be with the best, I want to become the best.
And there is no short way. If you also share the same dream, we have got a year (almost), for all those who are working, we just need 3 hours every weekday and 6-7 hours each day on the weekends.
It is doable. It has been done. It will be done again.
By people like you and me. So let's buckle up, go all-out attack one last time. If you don't, well you will survive but you won't be able to face that mirror I suppose.
All our life, we hope for some turn of events, we hope to get that good college, a good job, good salary (the list never ends) without even putting that conscious effort.
So with a little bit of hope and maximizing efforts let's go for it. I will be waiting to prove my valour yet again this November.
As Stephen King said: "Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies".
I could completely relate your story from 9th grade failure to sea of mediocrity to hopelessness to buckle for 2018 with a fresh mind and fresh energy not to get into a good college..get a great placement..get a hefty paycheck..but to prove my inner self that the fire the rage ..to be among the bests ..to be the best still burning inside…and we will achieve it..mind has already accepted only body needs to co-operate.
Thanks mate for such inspiring article .
Major chunk can relate to this.
Goosebumps while reading every sentence after "Bro, you did it" !
Totally relatable! One last time …. Yes!
Very well crafted bro. I'm in same league as yours. Until our inner soul stop screaming that we deserve it and we achieve it, let have one last ride.
The same situation happened almost in half of the Indian students ,the pain of studying in third -tier college and hoping for the best to join in reputed institution is still a dream let's work hard to achieve it !!!!


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Don't Blame Jack is featured in Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
The collection of short films celebrates the 20th anniversary of Peccadillo Pictures.
Don't Blame Jack – a film by Dale John Allen – has been selected for inclusion in the short film collection Boys on Film.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary since LGBTQ film distributor Peccadillo Pictures was founded, this edition of their Boys on Film collection is titled Heaven Can Wait.
Don't Blame Jack was written and directed by Dale John Allen. The film explores how a queer man navigates his mental health issues.
We caught up with Dale John Allen for a behind-the-scenes look at the film.
You've written that this story is drawing on your personal experiences – how autobiographical is it?
The story is very much based on my own story. In January 2015, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder, which I documented in my 2016 short – A Film About Love. Writing sort of became my therapy after that, and it was in making that film that I knew I wanted to tell the story in a more focused way, which led to me writing Don't Blame Jack.
It's not 100 percent autobiographical in terms of the structure of the narrative, but it is very much based on the reality of my situation. The magic of film-making is that you can re-visit these troubled times in your life and sort of re-write them in a way that helps you make sense of them in a way that you didn't necessarily understand before. It was a really therapeutic experience – I really had to dig deep to feel like I was doing the story justice. I'm really proud of it.
What's been the production journey that you've followed to bring this story to the screen?
I made the film for my MA at Manchester School of Art. The script took a few months to write, mainly because I found it really difficult to put myself back into Jack's mindset, as the film is all told from his perspective – his mentality is not the same as mine is now. CampbellX, my Executive Producer, was absolutely great at reading through various script drafts and encouraging me to find my voice in the script.
Once the script was written, we crowdfunded the bulk of the budget. We also got a grant from Superbia at Manchester Pride, and a sponsor from Greater Manchester LGBT Social Support Network. We also had a number of private investments, which helped us reach our budget target.
After the budget was secured, we shot the bulk of the film over the course of two weeks in Brighton and Manchester.
What was your casting process?
I met Jordan Tweddle, who plays Jack, after seeing him in a play at Home in Manchester. We chatted and he was really up for the challenge. I didn't quite realise how talented he was until we started day one of the shoot in Brighton. Campbell and I were absolutely blown away by his performance and how he managed to take my story and completely make it his own. He was great to work with and I've no doubt that he's got a great career ahead of him.
I cast Lydia as we've worked together before. I'm a huge fan-girl of her work, and wrote her scene specifically so I could showcase this fabulous performance which I've always been astounded by. She is so commanding – filming with her was a really magical experience.
I found Kane – who plays Frank – on Twitter after seeing him in The Chemsex Monologues. He's incredible and so humble and was so much fun to work with. It was so freeing to work with actors who are not afraid of specific subject matters and are willing to try anything.
In simple terms, this is a story about a gay man's experience with mental health. Is the queer experience of mental health something unique to LGBTQ people, or is this a queer version of a universal story?
It is a universal story and very much non-specific to the LGBTQ community. It's told from the perspective of a gay man because it was written by a gay man.
We're now in a climate where queer stories are being told authentically and with brutal honesty, which is wonderfully inspiring as a queer filmmaker to be able to add to the ever-expanding queer discourse on screen. It's so important to keep telling queer stories and broaden the narratives of queer storytelling beyond the 'coming-out' framework. I wanted to make Don't Blame Jack an authentically queer story that doesn't centralise its queerness in typical form but rather allows it to just be, with the story going on around it.
Do films such as this help to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health?
Absolutely. I think it's really important to be able to see accurate portrayals of mental health. The most challenging part of my recovery was facing up to the fact that bipolar does not go away once you receive the diagnosis, but instead the long, often dull reality of recovery just begins, which is what I wanted to highlight in Don't Blame Jack.
The film isn't afraid to be ugly, which is so very important when creating a story on this subject matter. I felt a lot of responsibility to show the ugliness of recovery – the excessive sex-drive and self-harm, the forced affirmations and the sense of drowning in a feeling of emptiness. The search for that magical moment of madness is always present, and that need is universal and not specific to those with Bipolar or who are LGBTQ, which is what I felt was so powerful when writing the script – it felt relatable.
What do you hope that people feel when watching Don't Blame Jack?
I hope it resonates with people. I'd like for people to understand that just because you take medication and seemingly live a normal life, that deep down you might still be struggling.
I think the film sort of asks the audience to re-define the meaning of 'madness' – I hope it sparks some interesting conversations.
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Home » News » A Roadmap for Embedding Ecologists Into Urban Design
A Roadmap for Embedding
Ecologists Into Urban Design
Earlier this year, Alexander Felson suggested that the field of urban design would improve markedly if ecologists became more involved. But as Felson conceded, many ecologists have scant experience working on development projects and might not even know where to begin.
In a new article, Felson, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, lays out a "roadmap" for integrating ecology into urban design. Writing in the journal BioScience, Felson describes strategies for ecologists to inject themselves into design projects — such as urban parks and buildings — and highlights critical moments in the process when they can have the greatest impact.
Photo courtesy of Alexander Felson
Alex Felson leads a tree-planting effort by students at a Queens park as part of the New York City Afforestation Project.
"The biggest challenge that ecologists face in getting involved in the design process is simply a lack of understanding what the process entails," Felson said. "Part of the challenge is that the design process is iterative, unpredictable and often not linear. However, by providing a simplified linear representation of the process, we have created a roadmap that ecologists can use to interpret the process and to inform their own strategies and participation in a project."
In the article, Felson and seven other authors — including ecologists, designers, engineers and regulators — identify the specific stages of a typical development project, from the contract phase to site evaluation, design, construction and post-occupancy.
While environmental consultants frequently provide expertise in urban design projects, they typically don't conduct primary research that can shape the direction of a project, Felson says. Under the right circumstances, he says, an ecologist can have far more input.
"It's ideal to get involved early in the contract phase because essentially you're carving out your role in a project."
— Alexander Felson
A critical first step is identifying potential clients and projects that will prioritize ecology-based research goals as part of the project. If ecologists are involved from the beginning, they can help define the budget, project length (allowing enough time for project-specific research), and performance goals.
"It's ideal to get involved early in the contract phase because essentially you're carving out your role in a project," Felson said. "If you don't carve out your role then, you're left trying to fit it into the project later on someone else's dime."
Once the ecologist's role is established, they can engage with designers on decisions that affect research, including design and construction, allowing the scientist an opportunity to promote and test sustainable design solutions.
According to the authors, this occurred during the implementation of MillionTreesNYC, an infrastructure project funded by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation that ultimately included a long-term research component. While city officials originally planned to monitor only tree survival as part of the project, the hired landscape architects (including Felson) sought to embed a research experiment to also assess the health and resiliency of the planted trees. Doing so, they reasoned, would improve future park management decisions and save money.
"The partnership during the design and construction phases led to the establishment of an urban forestry experiment that enhanced the original goals of the request for proposals," the authors write.
"Land development is inevitable... and it's happening with less ecological assessment than it should be. The more we can get ecologist involved the better."
While conceding that funding agencies are sometimes skeptical about granting a major role to researchers — since it can increase a project's cost and duration — the paper suggests that ecologists can strategically integrate research into design and engineering. They argue that ecologists should assert the value of ecological research: "The urban ecology researcher will benefit both from studying a system in order to better shape that system and from shaping a system in order to better study it."
The integration of research into urban design will require some compromises, Felson says. For starters, their research will sometimes support the development of pristine environments. However, their involvement also presents an opportunity to integrate current research into the design of the urban built environment.
"Land development is inevitable," Felson said. "It's happening all over the world, and it's happening with less ecological assessment than it should be…The more we can get ecologists involved in land development the better."
If done right, he added, increased interaction between ecologists and urban designers could transform the design profession, and ultimately encourage more sustainable landscape and construction projects.
The article, "Mapping the Design Process for Urban Ecology Researchers," which appears in the current issue of BioScience, was co-authored by seven other authors, including Nikki Springer of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Felson, Alexander J., Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, Timothy Carter, Franco Montalto, Bill Shuster, Nikki Springer, Emilie K. Stander, and Olyssa Starry. "Mapping the Design Process for Urban Ecology Researchers." BioScience (2013)
Courtesy of Alexander Felson
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import org.hisp.dhis.trackedentity.TrackedEntityAttributeGroup;
import org.hisp.dhis.trackedentity.TrackedEntityAttributeGroupService;

import com.opensymphony.xwork2.Action;

/**
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Making Tracks
by B. Ruth Rinehart
Two steel ribbons of track shone orange, stretching into the distance under the setting Florida sun. Pale-green Spanish moss hung from the trees, clinging to the branches like bats. Across a ditch and a few tie-lengths away, three teenagers sat outside a small shack. It was twenty-one years before the funeral. They could not know this would be their last Sunday to spend together as a threesome.
Propped up against the gray, peeling wall, with a grapefruit balanced on her skinny knees, Beth Emerson dug a small hole in the citrus skin with her pocket knife as she answered Rudy's question.
"How is my mother doing? It's amazing. She actually seems to be coming out of her shell, if you can imagine it. I mean, she's still totally tied down, can't leave him alone in the house for a minute, but it's like this gift. God, I used to hate him. She used to hate him. She hated every minute of living with his cruelty, but she just couldn't do anything but obey him, let him do anything he wanted. And the amazing thing now is that she's so capable, so ready to really enjoy her life. But the question is: if she's so normal now, why did she live like that for so many years?"
"But you don't hate him any more?" Rudy listened intently, his acne-ridden face poised aggressively.
"Well, it certainly was easier before." Beth started to suck the juice out of the grapefruit. "Of course, seeing how everything changed, my God, if we had only known how it would all change ..."
Ruby stood up noisily. She didn't say a word, but yawned loudly and stretched before putting the chair and stool back into the shack. Beth and Rudy both watched her. It was what they always did. Ruby commanded a visual audience. She always dressed barely, and moved with a sensuousness that could not be called rehearsed. Her white halter top and shorts emphasized her deep cultivated tan.
"I'm leaving. I'm going home." Ruby's announcement was unexpected, and Rudy started to get up. "No, no, you stay right here. I'm sick to death, frankly, of hearing more about your father, Beth. Just sick of it. No, no, you stay here, Rudy. She needs someone to talk to, you know, she can't just talk to herself."
Rudy obeyed, settled back into his chair. He and Beth were silent as Ruby walked the quarter mile down the tracks to her house. She rocked back and forth as gently as a sailboat in dock. They watched her cross the ditch and climb through the fence to her yard.
"Why does she do that, Beth? She's not sick of hearing about your father. She can't be, she won't listen to anything you say about him." Rudy's puzzlement was unusual. He didn't often worry. He lived an uncomplicated life and thought everyone else did, too. It wouldn't concern him when a co-worker would tell him years later that he looked simple because he smiled so often. Rudy was simple enough to bypass the majority of mysteries confronting him. Where Ruby was concerned, however, he ventured a bit into strange waters.
"It's odd," he said to Beth. The minute your father comes up, she stops the conversation, one way or another, like she hates crippled people, or something."
"Don't worry about it, Rudy." Beth spoke quietly. Her long neck was stretched out and she held her head high up in the air, like an untamed filly refusing to be broken.
"Well, I'm not worrying about it, but it's just so strange. I mean, is there ..."
"Don't worry about it."
He looked at her for a moment. Her thin face was covered with a slight film of perspiration. Her hair, the color of earthy, red clay, clung damply to her forehead and ears. He said, "You're right, you're absolutely right. I don't know why I think I'm ever going to understand her. I never have. ... Do you envy her, Beth?"
"Envy? Why would I?"
Well, she's so gorgeous, she could be a movie star. It gets me. I see all the other guys at school, so much better looking than me, and I envy them, I sure do. I wish I looked as good to her as she does to me. And I think, what is she doing with me? I mean, she could have anybody she wanted in this town, and she sticks with me, little old Rudy Chapel. It's crazy."
"Rudy," Beth said, "if you don't mind, I need a little time alone please. If you don't mind." Her head was turned up and away from him. She didn't look at him as he got up, brushed the dust off his pants and left. She kept her head high and her tears back.
Walking home from school the next day, Ruby threw rocks. While Beth walked along one track, balancing with an imaginary pole as long and narrow as herself, Ruby picked up one heavy gray stone after another, chose a target, and struck it. A rock thudded against a dead tree stump. Ripe mango splattered. A turtle was knocked back into the swamp from its resting place, plopping into the warm water like fritter batter into hot oil.
Beth asked, "So what was it this month?"
Ruby shook her head. "You won't believe it, but I said no. I really did."
"You said no? What was it?"
"A stump-broke sheep." Ruby was still shaking her head. "That's what he wants this month, a god-damned farm animal."
Beth smirked. "But I thought you weren't going to say no."
"That was the original idea, all right, but there are limits. Variety is one thing. You know what I told him? I said, Rudy, my love, I'll do it. Just as soon as you let me stick a broomstick up your ass, then you can do that to me."
Beth pulled an orange out of her book bag and gave it to Ruby, who immediately whirled around and threw it. Beth looked where the orange had landed. An armadillo was curled up and still rolling in the bottom of the ditch. Beth glared at her friend, who was unconcerned. The two walked home silently.
They passed their little shack first, sitting forgotten on the back edge of the Chapel property. Beth's family's land was adjacent, and the girls walked into the circular bamboo grove that had been Beth's favorite place for several years. It had grown up with her, a mass of quick and tender bamboo shoots growing taller and thicker and wider as Beth grew taller, but no wider. The grove kept its nearly perfect circular shape, moving outwards each year. Beth did not flesh out as she passed puberty, but stayed tall and thin and narrow. If she dressed all in yellow, she would look like a pencil from a distance, her hair the color of the eraser.
Beth discovered the grove was hollow when she was eleven, and found the particular way to enter it. The opening and center remained the same even as the grove grew outward. Beth would withdraw into that small place, to read, to wait for the trains.
The girls entered the bamboo, sliding sideways through the smooth, tawny stalks. Inside, a bundle of blankets covered with a dark green tarpaulin doubled as couch and bed. Ruby slid down, reached inside the pallet, pulled out a small plastic bag, and started rolling the pungent leaves with a thin rolling paper.
"I'm so sick of this town, sometimes I could just scream with it. I could die here, you know, and fifteen people would know or care about it. On Thursday, the paper would come out with the week's obituaries - opposite the school sports, of course - what a tragedy. To die in this town so small nobody would even know." Beth smoked, leaning her head on the blankets near Ruby's ankles. She didn't speak. She'd heard Ruby say these same words so often, so similar. She inhaled the smoke and held her breath, her thin cheeks facing upwards, exhaling slowly. She relaxed, and slid her tongue over her upper teeth. "I think I forgot to brush my teeth this morning." Ruby kept on talking. Beth fell asleep.
The train reverberated within the bamboo with muffled but hollow sound. It passed the grove at 4:47 each day, and the first sound was like that of an entire regiment on horseback riding slowly forward with the sound buffered by a hill. Countless hoofs, churning the soil and rocks, thundering still out of sight. Then metal could be heard, faintly at first, then all metal - metal gliding on metal, churning, groaning, whining metal. Dark, rusty, old metal.
Sounds, like elephants, called to Ruby and Beth. They jumped up and collided at the opening in the bamboo. Ruby slid sideways first, Beth followed her and they ran out to watch the train come into sight, stood breathlessly and counted the cars as they roared past. The noise was black and red and chaotic. It was big enough to get lost inside. They lost count of the cars, caught within the excitement.
The last car slid by and the conductor waved. They had long since named him Max, and today, as every day, he motioned to them to run and jump on. Ruby shouted words to him that no one could hear. He smiled, rugged as a knot of blond wood, and waved a second time. The train was racing away from them again.
Rudy was on the other side of the tracks, and as the train pulled away, he crossed over to the girls. His wet shirt clung to his frame. With his books, he carried a bottle inside a paper bag, holding it by the neck. He joined Ruby and Beth as they walked back into the bamboo grove, although the space was barely big enough to hold the three friends. Boyfriend and girlfriend appropriated the pallet and Beth sat opposite them. With all their legs stretched out into the center, Beth's sneakers rested next to Rudy's knees.
"Mad Dog 20-20!" Rudy crowed. "Freedom, once again! No more watchful eyes of Mr. Cerny! Just give me that sweet taste." He gulped the purple syrup.
"You call this freedom?" Ruby took the wine from his hands and drank. "Freedom doesn't exist in this town. We leave one prison in the morning for another one during the day. Then we come here in the afternoon, so crammed together I can smell Beth's sweat. You call this freedom?"
Ruby handed the bottle to Beth, who drank two inches. Ruby was rubbing the moisture on her shoulders, outlining her collarbone, then pressing her cotton blouse close to her skin, absorbing the perspiration. Her legs looked oily, and her shorts stuck close to her skin.
"M-D 20-20 and sweat! What a smell!" Ruby roared it out. Rudy jumped. "Yes, wake up, my sweet," she said. "We're free, we're having fun."
Rudy started to roll another joint. "Oh, Ruby, come off it. What got you started today?"
Ruby shook her head harshly. I'm just sick, that's what got me started. I hate my life, I hate my family, I hate school. Isn't that enough? If I didn't have the two of you, I'd kill myself. It's getting worse at home."
Rudy handed her the lit joint. Beth rolled another, her bony frame hunched over, carefully rolling, slowly licking. Ruby talked on. "You've seen the neighborhood cats? How they growl, and creep around with the hair on their backs jerked out all wrong? One growls and creeps a few inches this way. The other one hisses and spits. That's my life, my family. It's so ugly." Ruby's eyes filled. "I might kill my mother. I don't think there is another person alive who could be so evil."
"Ruby, honey." Rudy's voice was gentle and pleading. "You just have to steel yourself, be strong. Don't let it affect you like it does. You aren't going to live with them forever. And at least it's not fist fights like Beth used to live with."
At Beth's name, Ruby started a low moan, closed her eyes and let it grow into a shriek. "Don't talk to me about Beth's father. Don't say that." She had jumped into a kneeling position, drawing herself up above the other two. She pulled her breath in and enclosed a panic inside herself. Quick and shallow breaths, panting, stunned Rudy. He sat still, staring at his lover, not close to understanding. Ruby and Beth's eyes locked, Ruby towering over Beth in the small space. As Ruby blinked, her breaths slowed, and she slid down on her ankles. The air was so hot inside the grove that Rudy imagined he saw their images waver, as if they were sitting on a large asphalt parking lot.
The external heat merely added to Beth's anger. She was dizzy even sitting down, leaning back against the bamboo. Her cheeks were sucked in, sharpening her thinness. She squinted her eyes, looking back and forth from Ruby to Rudy.
"Ruby. Rudy. Ruby. Rudy." She pronounced their names wildly. "Ruby. Rudy. Ruby. Rudy. Your names so close, your lives so close, your bodies so close - you might be the same person. You just might be the same person. Maybe there's no difference between you. You're just the same. I can say the same thing to the one as I can to the other."
Ruby and Rudy stared. "Beth, I think you're a little high," Ruby ventured. "Maybe we should all go home."
"I'm not too high, Ruby. ... Or maybe you're Rudy. I don't have to keep any secrets from either of you. What I say to one I can say to the other." Beth's voice was climbing, becoming louder and shriller.
Ruby leaned over to Beth. She kneeled in front of her friend, and yelled directly into her face.
"We are two different people, Beth, and you say different things to different people. We are not the same person. Everybody has secrets. You don't say the same thing to me as you say to Rudy."
Ruby had leaned over until her face was a hand's length from her friend's eyes. Ruby stared directly into the washed golden irises. She saw stone. The wildness had started to recede within Beth, and it was then being replaced by stone, the face of a pyramid, huge blocks of marble that would remain untouched, undisturbed, perhaps for centuries. Beth eased out from under Ruby's penetrating watch, slowly stood, and without another word, left the grove.
Their secret had barely escaped being spoken aloud that turgid day in the bamboo grove. Beth had nearly burst with wanting to scream it out, purge herself, vomit up the ugly, scaly truth. But it stayed down, hidden from Rudy. Ruby won that afternoon, but what she lost was Beth. Beth's secret could remain hidden only if everything about her remained hidden. She could no longer be friends with the young and virile couple. She simply withdrew, absented herself from their company, and soon she was the only person inside the bamboo grove, hiding. Rudy and Ruby let her go, not knowing how not to. They all graduated from school the same year, and Ruby and Rudy did not know where Beth went. She left in silence.
All his life, Rudy had felt incomplete. He didn't remember exactly when it started, but that afternoon in the bamboo grove could have been its genesis. Marrying Ruby didn't change it. He continued with his comfortable and daily life ... not discontent to stay in the town in which he was born. He knew that with time, Ruby would settle down and settle in, and he was right. As the years and trains rolled past them, and the children filled their house, he thought that Ruby smoothed into comfortability. Her discontent had been her rough edges, and it had taken merely time to sand them into placability.
He loved her deeply, and thought that his love should be enough to complete the mysterious void, his emptiness where there should be none. He felt it was his fault, somehow. That there was a level of understanding and accepting life, reality, his world, that he had not reached, and perhaps could not reach. Far cry from the simplicity he had been raised to expect.
Ruby knew none of this. He never talked about his uneasiness. He had almost come to admit to himself that it was impossible to define, but merely a natural part of life, unpleasant as disease and death, but just as unavoidable.
It was the night of the funeral that he became complete.
They had seen Beth, of course, but she wouldn't come with them that evening. She seemed glad to see them, and grateful for their invitation, but still refused. Her severe thinness was made even more prominent by the pinched grief and flood of tears that burst forth intermittently. She wore her hair short, almost shorn, and her weathered skin could have been a farmer's, lined and tough. Ruby and Rudy watched her drive from the cemetery, leaning forward into the steering wheel, intent, inflexible. They did not see her during the next few months while she was taking care of the estate, cleaning up the property, tying up other loose ends.
The Chapels had left the children with Rudy's parents the weekend of the funeral. They had gone home and fixed sandwiches and crackers to eat, propped up on their bed, the television off. And Ruby told her husband the secret, the one that had turned Beth to stone. She told him how, in a prankish mood, the two girls had stationed themselves on the overpass. Beth would pick out big, round stones from the tracks on the overpass, and they waited until a car came rushing under them. If there were no other cards around to see them hanging over the railing, Ruby would drop the stone onto the car roof below and then throw herself flat, out of sight - heart pounding, blood racing, adrenaline flowing - listening to the car brake suddenly, sometimes stop, then start up again and drive out of sight. As soon as they could n longer hear the car, the two girls would slowly peek over the railing, and laugh hysterically.
The fifth stone dropped, instead of on the roof, through the windshield. Ruby threw herself flat, but instead of driving away, this car screeched into a spin, and drove straight into the cement abuttment. The crash was horrible, and the girls thought it was louder than the train as it flashed by. Instead of laying await, they scrambled, on their hands and knees so that they wouldn't be seen, off the underpass and into the brush on the other side of the ditch. They were in known territory, as they passed this way every day to and from school. They raced through the undergrowth, staying away from the open tracks and away from the cleared path, through the marshy brush. The wet earth sucked at their feet, slowing them, until they came to the backside of the pond. It was about half a mile from the overpass, and they felt safe. They could hear the sirens screaming. They knew it was for the car they had stoned. They stayed hidden. Coming home late afternoon, they met hysteria. Beth's father had been in the car. He had nearly been killed. His spine had been shaped, and his brain had been broken open. Yet he lived.
So after his funeral, shared with his wife - both of them burned down with the house - Ruby felt safe. Her childhood mischief, which so terrified her for years afterward, could not be let loose. Ruby had lived with daily fear of being found out until she had married Rudy. Somehow that security had buffered her guilt, though it had not been purged completely. Now, coming from the funeral that day, it was - appropriate - to tell Rudy.
And while Ruby felt the isolation of twenty one years disintegrating as she spoke, Rudy was being lifted higher than he had thought possible. Ruby talked, laying heavily on her side and speaking quietly, and Rudy knew that he was being answered. Although he had thought he loved his wife completely, his love for grew even more as she unburdened herself in his arms. Ruby's head lay on her husband's chest, and one of her legs covered his. She was larger than he now, and soft. Rudy knew that his life would not feel incomplete anymore.
He woke Sunday morning, several months later, drenched in song. Ruby was still sleeping and Rudy thought he had never felt so tender towards her or seen her so beautiful. Her lustrous brown hair lay tumbled around her face. She was sleeping deeply, and Rudy watched for a long time. He knew he would be glad to see Beth now, truly glad.
"Beth, I told Rudy." Beth was eating dinner at their house the night before she left once again. Half a steak lay cooling on her fragile, porcelain plate. She looked up sharply and saw them, watching, expectant.
"I had to," Ruby said. "It's all over now. There's no reason to hide anymore."
Beth rolled forward as if to clutch at her stomach, but instead leaned heavily on her arms, clutching at her shoulders, then covering her mouth - rocking slowly. "You speak so calmly," she whispered. "You give it life again." Beth did not look at her childhood friends.
She looked small even in the small room. The overhead bulb was harsh although dirty. Beth was in enemy territory and knew she was outnumbered. Who ever had their basket arrangement, just so on the wall right behind them, would be empowered! The blank Ruby had crocheted covered the worn spot of couch. And here was Beth without even an extra layer of skin.
Rudy was the one to reach over and touch her arm. "Beth, we understand. It's in the past now, but Ruby was right to tell me. Holding that inside yourself is tormenting. No one should have to bear that alone. You can talk about it now, too." Rudy spoke with the solidity of granite.
Beth shrieked in response. "I knew I couldn't come over here. I knew you would force it on me. You might have felt guilty, Ruby, but it wasn't your own father you tried to kill."
"Beth!" Ruby was startled but spoke gently. "We didn't try to kill him. It was an accident. We couldn't have known."
"What do you mean, we didn't try. Of course we did. We failed, that's all. We failed at our one truly brave attempt at justice." Beth still wasn't looking at the Chapels. She could have been speaking to herself. She shook her head slightly back and forth. "Then on the other hand, we didn't fail that badly because it did the job. He couldn't walk anymore, he couldn't attack us anymore, beat us into the junk heaps he thought we ought to be. So, there's that. Of course, the question remains - how does a woman face that fact that she tried to kill her father and almost succeeded? Ruby, that's not your question. You were trying to help a good friend. That's a fine thing to do. I'm the one who tried to ..."
"We did not try to kill him, do you hear me?" Ruby pushed the chair away from the table, scraping it loudly on the wood floor. "We might have made a bad mistake, Beth, but don't you tell me I tried to kill anyone! I was a dumb kid, not a killer."
Rudy hadn't moved. Still sitting close to Beth, he carried a slightly dazed expression, looking back and forth between the two women.
"Ok, you can believe what you want, but ..."
"Believe what I want! We couldn't even see the oncoming cars, Beth, remember? That was the whole point. We couldn't see them, so they couldn't see us - that's how we knew we wouldn't get caught."
Beth was breathing heavily and her head was swinging high up on her neck, back and around, trying to get away from the images, the memories. "You think you couldn't have done that? Ruby, you thought you were saving my life. He had almost beaten my mother to death - he was the true killer. It was a good thing we tried to do, you don't have to be ashamed of it."
"No! You are wrong." Ruby slammed the words out one at a time. "I did not try to kill him and neither did you. Stop it. Don't do this to me."
"To you - don't do what to you? It's what we did to him that concerns me. You're just fine, we can all see that. And now I see why." Beth rose from her chair slowly. "You've done a very good job." She cast her sight around the room, backing up into the dining room wall, where she rested for a moment, tall and rigid. Rudy and Ruby watched her. "My plane leaves pretty early tomorrow, gang. I think I'll just let myself out."
They let her go without another word. They did not speak until they no longer heard the rented car. Then Ruby's sobs grew loud and Rudy crooned his sorrow. His arms wrapped around her shaking, balled-up torso. And he could not know that a whisper of doubt lived, and that it would hide with the dust for years before it was heard.
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Q: Springboot with Mongodb Criteria.orOperation doesn't work I am trying to create one OR operation with Criteria in MongoDB with Spring-Boot, this is my code:
TypedAggregation<Ficha> agg = newAggregation(Ficha.class,
   // match(Criteria.where("parte.nome").regex(".*"+ query+".*")),
   // match(Criteria.where("parte.nome").regex(".*"+ query+".*").orOperator(Criteria.where("parte.documentos.numero").regex(".*"+ query+".*"))),
   // match(Criteria.where("parte.documentos.numero").regex(".*"+query+".*")),
   group("parte.nome").first("parte.nome").as("nome"),
   project().and("nome").previousOperation().and("nome").as("nome")

If I uncomment line 1, it works (search only in parte.nome).
If I uncomment the last line, it works too (but searches only in parte.documentos.numero).
If I uncomment the middle line, it doesn`t work. How do I solve this?

A: Implement it as:
TypedAggregation<Ficha> agg = newAggregation(Ficha.class,
   match(new Criteria().orOperator(
        Criteria.where("parte.nome").regex(".*"+ query+".*"),
        Criteria.where("parte.documentos.numero").regex(".*"+ query+".*")
    )),
   group("parte.nome").first("parte.nome").as("nome"),
   project().and("nome").previousOperation().and("nome").as("nome")
);

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), in partnership with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Government of Turkmenistan,organized a Trade Policy Forum on "Central Asia and the Multilateral Trading System" from 11 to 13 May 2016 in Ashgabat.
The Forum focussed on two themes that are on the top of the trade policy agenda of senior policy makers in Central Asia:
Accession to the WTO; and
Regional Integration, including Trade Facilitation.
This forum brought together senior representatives of the of the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) - Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Iran and Belarus.
The key objective of the Trade Policy Forum was to promote the integration of Central Asia into rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system, pursuant to Point 17.10 of the Sustainable Development Goal. The Forum programme reflects trade policy priorities in Central Asia today, including the institutional framework for regional cooperation; integration into the rules-based Multilateral Trading System through accession negotiations under Article XII of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO; the implementation of the trade facilitation measures included in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) through national and regional strategies; and the development of regional supply chains through the removal of barriers to trade within the region while taking advantage of large markets in neighbouring countries.
A meeting of the SPECA Thematic Working Group on Trade, chaired by Mr. Saidrahmon Nazrizoda, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade was held back to back with the Trade Policy Forum on 13 May 2016 in the afternoon.
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    test.expect(1);
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Justia Patents Yoichi Kodama Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications
Patents by Inventor Yoichi Kodama
Yoichi Kodama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
IMAGING CONTROL APPRATUS, IMAGING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
Abstract: To shorten an operation time for a tilt angle and to avoid unintentional changing of the tilt angle to an improper tilt angle, an imaging control apparatus for controlling a camera limits a tilt angle based on an installation direction of the camera and information stored in a memory, wherein the information relates to the limitation of the tilt angle corresponding to respective installation direction of the camera.
Filed: November 18, 2019
Inventor: Yoichi Kodama
METHOD FOR PRODUCING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND INTERMEDIATE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE
Abstract: This method for producing a semiconductor device comprises: a first step wherein a plurality of semiconductor chips are affixed onto a supporting substrate such that circuit surfaces of the semiconductor chips face the supporting substrate; a second step wherein a plurality of sealed layers are formed at intervals by applying the sealing resin onto the semiconductor chips by three-dimensional modeling method, each sealed layer containing one or more semiconductor chips embedded in a sealing resin; a third step wherein the sealed layers are cured or solidified; and a fourth step wherein sealed bodies are obtained by separating the cured or solidified sealed layers from the supporting substrate.
Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Inventors: Jun KAMADA, Kaichiro HARUTA, Yasuhisa KAYABA, Kazuo KOHMURA, Yoichi KODAMA
Printing system, printing assistance apparatus and method
Abstract: An angle of rotation of a sheet is determined so as to match a processing area that is processed in a processing step defined by specification information with a processing area that is processed on the sheet placed in a placement direction designated in correspondence with a processing apparatus used in the processing step. After rotating the designated placement method by the determined angle of rotation, the resultant direction is printed in, for example, an area to be trimmed off as a placement direction of the sheet in the processing step.
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Print control apparatus and control method therefor
Abstract: In a print control apparatus which causes a print apparatus to print via a hot folder, it is monitored whether a file is submitted to the hot folder. Upon submitting the file, it is identified whether the submitted file is a reference information file indicating an external content file, and, upon identifying the reference information file, it is determined whether an acquisition process of acquiring the external content file indicated by the reference information file is to be executed by the print control apparatus or the print apparatus. Upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print control apparatus, print data is generated based on the acquired external content file, and, upon determining that the acquisition process is to be executed by the print apparatus, print data including the reference information file indicating the external content file is generated.
Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
Inventors: Yoichi Kodama, Yoichi Matsuyama, Yuji Kojima
Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Color conversion apparatus and method
Abstract: A color conversion apparatus includes a plurality of color conversion units configured to perform color conversion using a conversion table with different algorithms, a weighting unit configured to set weightings applied to the plurality of color conversion units, and a mixing unit configured to mix a plurality of color conversion results obtained by the plurality of color conversion units using the weightings calculated by the weighting unit.
Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
Adhesive resin and film adhesive made by using the same
Abstract: The adhesive resin of the invention comprises a polyimide resin obtained by reacting a diamine component containing the compound (1) as an essential component with a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component. The diamine component contains a silicone diamine having a specific structure and/or the tetracarboxylic dianhydride component contains a silicone acid dianhydride having a specific structure. Film adhesives made by using the adhesive resin preferably together with a thermosetting resin, and, if necessary, an inorganic filler are excellent in low-temperature adhesion, resistance to moisture absorption, heat resistance, and workability in adhesive adhering and are favorably usable as semiconductor-mounting materials for adhering semiconductor elements to substrates.
Inventors: Jin Kinoshita, Moritsugu Morita, Minehiro Mori, Yoichi Kodama
Metal laminate
Abstract: A heat resistance resin composition having superb low-temperature adhesiveness and a polyimide/metal laminate which is superior in solder heat resistance and hardly generates swelling when forming a Au—Sn bond or Au—Au bond, which are used for lead-free soldering and COF packaging.
Inventors: Yoichi Kodama, Minehiro Mori, Masayuki Tashiro, Eiji Ohtsubo, Naoki Nakazawa, Kenji Tanabe
Aromatic diamine and polyimide thereof
Abstract: The aromatic diamine compound of the present invention is represented by the following formula (1), and from the aromatic diamine compound a polyimide having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (4), which has low-temperature adherability, can be obtained. In the formulas (1) and (4), n is an integer of 3 to 7, each R is independently an atom or a group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom and a hydrocarbon group, the same or different two hetero atoms selected from nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms bonded to each benzene ring are at the ortho- or meta-positions to each other on at least one benzene ring, and when n is 3, the hetero atoms are at the ortho- or meta-positions to each other on all the benzene rings. In the formula (4), Y is a tetravalent organic group.
Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Inventors: Yoichi Kodama, Minehiro Mori, Naoshi Nagai, Masaru Kawaguchi
Novel aromatic diamine and polyimide thereof
Abstract: The aromatic diamine compound of the present invention is represented by the following formula (1), and from the aromatic diamine compound a polyimide having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (4), which has low-temperature adherability, can be obtained.


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Sevendust Considering A Farewell Tour After New Album?
Posted by Zach Shaw on September 1, 2011
Talk of hard rock group Sevendust calling it quits after their next album and tour have been swirling the web after drummer Morgan Rose and singer Lajon Witherspoon hinted at a farewell tour in recent interviews. Rather than letting the rumors spread, though, Morgan went to his Twitter account last weekend to set the record straight. While he confirmed that there is talk about a farewell tour, Morgan made it clear that nothing has been decided.
In his first tweet, Morgan said the following:
"So guys The whole farewell thing is bein 'talked' about. we love each other, there's no issue with us. we just miss our families. no decision yet"
He then sent the following tweet shortly after:
"So try n chill on making it in to something it's not. we love u guys n we are FOR SURE doing another record n touring it."
While we don't want to be the ones who are "making it into something it's not," the idea of Sevendust even considering a farewell tour after 14 years of recording music together makes us a little sad. They've always been a solid hard rock group who never could get a major break. They've gain a strong fan base, mind you, but never quite matched the same success as other nu metal bands did in the late 90's.
It's very possible, though, that Sevendust may simply take an extended hiatus rather than calling it quits for good. Either way, this serves as a reminder as to how grueling life on the road can be for musicians and their families. One thing that is for certain, though, is that Sevendust's appearance on this year's Uproar Tour won't be the last chance for fans to catch them live.
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The film tells in detail about the life and career of the famous American singer. Frank Sinatra, an American singer, tells himself, in his own words about it. Also in the film there are all sorts of interviews and comments of people who were close to Sinatra. The entire film consists of musical subjects, as well as fragments of the singer's life. In addition, unique shots are shown from the well-known "Farewell concert". It was held in Los Angeles in 1971. Basically the whole plot is built on the songs picked himself Sinatra from this talk. this film is a documentary story based on archival materials. Also in this film added exclusive performances of the singer, which had not previously been published anywhere. More viewers will see excerpts from the program Walter Cronkite CBS, it was held in the sixty-ninth year with the participation of Frank Sinatra. On display are two prospectuses that accurately copy the article from the magazine life, written in the seventy-first year of the last century. And six more cards decorations envelopes. They also depict scenes with the famous singer Frank Sinatra.


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A FEW UNIQUE MEDICARE QUESTIONS: Who even thinks about these things?
1. What type of drug is most frequently prescribed for Medicare-aged Americans?
If you guessed the obvious—painkillers—you were right. According to the Centers for Disease Control, analgesics, followed by antiemetics and then electrolytes and minerals, were the most prescribed drugs in all the 359.0 million prescriptions given to patients at hospitals each year. (See www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm)
2. Why did Medicare insurance supplementation plans come into being?
Back in the 1980s, enough questions about Medicare coverage had been asked that gaps in the plan were discovered. In an effort to protect these folks who'd been paying into the Medicare system through tax revenues, an amendment to the law that created Medicare was passed to allow ways to cement the gaps. From there, several more amendments had to come into being (to protect the government from fraud, and to protect medigap coverage purchasers from high out-of-pocket and premium costs).
The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act was passed in 2003, and in 2008, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was passed into law.
While congress has done much to protect those who are Medicare eligible, finding the supplement plan that is right for you can be confusing. You may be able to have some of your questions answered by a Google search, but it's always best to speak to an agent in person about your own medical history in light of Medicare's history.
3. What is the best, most truthful joke about Medicare?
It might be this one:
Patient: Doc, I'll be 65 six months from now. What do you think I need to know?
Doctor: It's that Medicare is like a hospital gown. It doesn't cover you as much as you think it does.
While aging isn't always funny, it's as much a fact of life as humor. Keep smiling!YOUR 65th BIRTHDAY: "Happy Healthday!"
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Co-laboring with God – Connection!
"And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father." (John 14:13).
Co-laboring with God—we pray, He acts—is the only really effective way that we can do the works of God. It's an effective way to work because the enthroned Son of God is the major player in this partnership. He is at the right hand of the Father and is in charge of all earthly operations. He is almighty, all wise, and pure love. Because He is almighty there is nothing He cannot do in answer to prayer. Because He is all wise He never makes a mistake in answering our prayers. Because He is pure love His answers will always reflect that love. He wants us to ask so that He can act in His might, in accord with His wisdom, and out of love in response to our asking. Our intercessory prayers trigger His powerful, wise, and loving way of working to build His church.
In Jesus' words to His disciples we see how and why intercessory prayer is so critically important. To His disciples, feeling inadequate to carry on without him, Jesus did not say, "You can do it. I have trained you. Just hang in there and work hard." Hard work is not the key to effective ministry. Neither did Jesus say, "Don't worry. I will be on the throne of the universe. I know what needs to happen. I will see that what needs to get done will get done, because I am God." Jesus didn't promise that He would make things happen while they, prayerlessly, sat around and waited for Him to act. Instead Jesus committed Himself to action in response to their prayers so that they could minister effectively.
Jesus. He brought their working and His working together, and He connected them by prayer. He made prayer the key to effective ministry. Without prayer they would be helpless. With prayer they would be effective, because He would be working with them.
Powerful, wise, and loving God, may I yield myself to all that You are, and to all You desire to do. I often have my own agenda, and try to talk You into doing what I think is best. Prayer is the key to unlocking Your heart. I know that I need to be a better listener, so that my intercession can be informed by Your Spirit! Teach me how to work with You so that Your purposes are accomplished in lives, nations and circumstances!
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It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas in Seoul and the rest of Korea right now. And yes…Korea does celebrate Christmas and it gets pretty festive, but it's not quite the same as Western countries. In Korea, Christmas is considered to be more of a 'couple thing' than a celebrated as a family.
But don't let the couple mayhem discourage you! There are plenty of ways for you to spend the best Christmas ever with your family and friends, or even alone! If you want to find out, read on!
N Seoul Tower is another Christmassy spot where you can find a beautiful Christmas tree and thousands of love padlocks. It's a great place to visit with your friends and family as you can peer down the entire city of Seoul from the observatory. The observatory tickets for N Seoul Tower are available here.
If you are a couple, buy the padlocks to celebrate your relationship and promise each other everlasting love!
Whether you need a place to stay during Christmas Eve or just want to swing by for a sneak peak, Lotte Hotel has a dazzling display of adorned trees, glowing reindeer, and towering Christmas trees.
Right next door to the Lotte Hotel, Lotte Young Plaza has its windows covered head to toe with Christmas glee. Escape the cold by taking the skywalk from Lotte Hotel to Lotte Young Plaza on the 6th floor and you'll walk right into UNIQLO!
Shinsegae Department Store in Myeongdong district holds a light show for all Seoulites to enjoy every year. Renowned as the first department store to be established in the country, Shinsegae has been supplying Seoul with affluent fashion since the 1930's and continues to do so.
Every year, Seoul City Hall Plaza never fails to bring the Christmas cheers to the city and it brings it hard. As a bustling area with festivals happening nearly every day, it's no wonder that City Hall goes full force with Christmas spirit. Just like last year, you will find an enormous Christmas tree lit up at the plaza.
Whether you are single or a couple, Everland is one of the best places to feel rich Christmas vibes. With a gigantic Christmas tree and a fantastic display of lights and fireworks, you and all your significant ones are sure to have a Merry Christmas at Everland.
If you want to go to Everland, make sure you check out our deals to Everland here! Make sure you reserve your seats in advance if you need transportation!
In Korea, you won't find your traditional Christmas fixings such as eggnog, cranberry sauce, or candy canes. Not even a jolly red Santa Claus!
However, you will definitely find roasted chestnuts among the street food vendors. Known as "gunbam" (군밤), this is an all-time favorite winter snack. They may not be roasted over an open fire, but you will find these tiny treats roasting on street-side grills under the tender care of a sweet "ajumma (a middle-aged Korean woman)".
Often seen in Korean dramas, these roasted sweet potatoes, or "gun-goguma (군고구마)" in Korean, are a winter staple in Korea that you will sure to come across while traveling Seoul. Just look for a large round barrel! The sweet potatoes are roasting inside while becoming juicier.
Get a pair of ice skates and glide on ice! This may sound like a cliche, but ice skating is one of the Christmas classics that people never get sick of.
In Seoul, you can find marvelous ice skating rinks, but you'll definitely want to check out Grand Hyatt Seoul Ice Rink. Not only is it breathtakingly gorgeous, but you can get all kinds of discounts and specials if you go during the weekdays!
4. Go Wild In a Hip Hop & R&B Concert!
Christmas Eve this year is about to be a blast! Singles and couples both welcome! The Monster Festival is a 2-day concert offering the ultimate line-up of Korea's hottest rappers and R&B artists such as Simon D, Zico, and much more. This is an opportunity you don't want to miss out on, so grab your tickets right now!
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Hope our list of Christmas ideas makes your holiday in Seoul wonderful! As always, make sure to stop by Korea's #1 Travel Shop, Trazy.com, to discover the latest, trendiest and newest things to do in South Korea!
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Forget about chicken and waffles – try pork chops and waffles! This recipe comes to us from the Pork Council and we're in love with it. Whether you eat this sandwich for breakfast, brunch or brinner (that's breakfast for dinner for those unaware of the term), this Pork Chop and Waffle Sandwiches with Maple Gravy is sure to please. Between the breaded pork chop, bacon and maple gravy, there are just so many delicious elements to the recipe that's it's sure to please everyone. What's your favorite part of this recipe? Let us know in the comments below and thanks again to the Pork Council for putting this recipe together!


WhatsApp does so by combining algorithms with actual human beings, something that a lot of people are going to find quite heartening because of the fact that it shows that the instant messaging platform genuinely cares about the work it is attempting to do. Some reasons for accounts getting deleted or blocked are that the accounts in question were being used to share clickbait articles or perhaps were being used to aggressively market certain companies and the like. This is important because a lot of users tend to abuse the ease with which you can contact people on WhatsApp by sending messages to as many people as possible, thus increasing the amount of spam that exists on the platform.
It is important for WhatsApp to moderate and regulate its users. After all, the instant messaging platform is home to about a billion and a half users, all of which might have their own agendas that they might be working towards. WhatsApp needs to be proactive about this because of the fact that a lot of the unseemly and unsavory accounts that are on the platform often end up slipping through the cracks thus creating a lot of problems for people that are suffering because of these accounts.


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Someone is trolling this random British street by repeatedly replacing the sign
"There is a serious side to this."
By Sam Haysom on April 28, 2016
This street sign is not a real street sign. Credit: Boston Borough Council
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LONDON -- On a random street in Boston in England, there's a deeply odd mystery brewing.
For a reason unknown to the local council, a prankster appears to have developed a vendetta against a street sign.
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On two different occasions, the Fydell Court street sign (ie. the real one) has been removed and replaced by a sign for "Hatchers Walk".
This can't just have been a spur-of-the-moment type prank, either.
In a press release sent to Mashable, Boston Borough Council explained that street signs are secured with 12 metal rivets. Someone would have needed a drill and a fair bit of time (not to mention a different street sign, which aren't exactly easy to come by) to make the switch.
"Someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble, not to mention expense," a Boston Borough Council spokesperson said. "The signs have been tidily riveted in place."
What has Fydell Court done to deserve this? Credit: Boston borough council
All in all, it's a pretty weird one. Boston Borough Council have contacted their usual sign-maker, but he said he hadn't been asked to make the Hatchers Walk sign. Apparently the sign does show signs of wear, though, which has led to them thinking it may have been stolen from somewhere else.
But a quick Google search doesn't show up much.
Google Maps can't find any results for 'Hatchers Walk'. Credit: Google maps
For now, at least, the mystery remains unsolved.
"There is a serious side to this," the spokesperson continued.
"For one thing it is illegal to interfere and change street signs without lawful permission -- you cannot just rename a street. And then there is the delay which could be caused if emergency services were looking for the address and were confused by the wrong name.
"It wouldn't be such a joking matter if someone suffered as a result."
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