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A high-salt diet causes the body to retain fluids. The excess fluids exert extra force on the blood vessel walls, resulting in high blood pressure. Encourage your loved one to stay away from high-sodium processed foods such as readymade soups and microwave dinners. Instead, prepare simple meals ahead of time that can be easily reheated. Flavor the meals with herbs rather than excess salt.
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Regular exercise strengthens the heart, which is then able to pump blood throughout the body more efficiently and reduce blood pressure. Swimming, walking, or taking an exercise class are great ways for your loved one to get more exercise.
Family drama, financial issues, and health concerns could burden your loved one with stress. When the body experiences stress, it reacts by releasing adrenaline and cortisol. These hormones cause the blood vessels to constrict and the heart to beat faster, which eventually leads to high blood pressure. Practicing meditation, taking a yoga class, or talking with a mental health professional may help your loved one manage stress better.
If your loved one is carrying a few extra pounds, encourage him or her to lose the weight through a healthy diet and exercise. Extra weight makes the heart work harder to pump blood, which raises blood pressure levels.
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A well-balanced diet designed to prevent hypertension should include plenty of whole grains, lean meats, healthy fats, fruits, and vegetables. Eating a diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables can help your loved one get enough potassium, which is essential for maintaining proper heart function and regulating blood pressure levels. Your loved one should also avoid excess sugar, which raises insulin levels that lead to weight gain.
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Anna worked her magic on my daughter's hair to fix a colouring problem. It looks sensational. Nothing was a problem for Anna and she made my daughter fall in love with her hair and style again. Great stylist and great salon.
Had a fantastic time. My request was answered to the t, I love my new hairstyle. I would recommend it to everyone.
From the initial answering of the phone to finally leaving the salon I was treated cheerfully, attentively and professionally with the absolute minimum of waiting. I have been using this salon for a number of years, it is always clean and tidy, redecorated regularly. All the staff really know their stuff, and are always happy to advise on hair care.
This is the best salon I have ever visited.
Having a total change of colour which is being done gradually. Love every stage of the process.
If you want a hairdressers that has loud music don't come here. If you want a hairdresser that gets you out as quickly as possible don't come here. If you want a hairdresser who offers you time and explanations then this is the one for you and I'm not easily pleased.
I was very pleased with my first haircut by Anne . I'm always disappointed when I have had my haircut from the Salons I have visited in the past , but not this time !
I'm picky about hairdressers, and I'd definately recommend this place. Very friendly, and they know their stuff.
As always, very happy client, thats what I am. Very very kind staff. Very good service even for a undesidet person I am. Went in the salon didn't know what colour for my hair. Left it to Ann-Marie, and as per normal she knows best whats for me. Thank you girls for nice intertenment today. The best salon by far. Recomment it to everybody. Co + be dasselt. ????????????????????????
Really pleased with the complete change of hairstyle today. What I really like is I get the hairdresser I book with. She does everything except wash my hair. A pet dislike of mine is getting passed from one hairdresser to another so this is my idea of a perfect salon.
A wealth of experience and well trained staff.
This is the salon to go to if you want exclusive hair and nails at local prices. Highly recommended.


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Q: Passing Dynamically Typed Object as Props with Next.js + TypeScript I'm making an app using Next.js + TypeScript.
I'm getting the error Type 'VoidFunctionComponent<ShirtDetailProps>' is missing the following properties when passing props to a component. How can I resolve it?
One thing I should mention is that the type of the object changes depending on its category.
details should be Details, but category_details within Details could be either Shirt or Bag depending on the category_name.
{
    "data": {
        "id": 1,
        "details": [
            {
                "id": 1,
                "category_name": "shirt",
                "category_detail": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "size": "small",
                    "color": "white"
                }
            },
            {
                "id": 2,
                "category_name": "bag",
                "category_detail": {
                    "id": 13,
                    "width": 30,
                    "height": 15
                }
            },
            {
                "id": 3,
                "category_name": "shirt",
                "category_detail": {
                    "id": 45,
                    "size": "large",
                    "color": "pink"
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

export interface Box {
  id: number;
  details: Details[];
}

export interface Details {
  id: number;
  category_name: string;
  category_detail: CategoryDetail[];
}

export interface Shirt {
  id: number;
  size: string;
  color: string;
}

export interface Bag {
  id: number;
  width: number;
  height: number;
}

export type CategoryDetail = Shirt | Bag;

That being said, where I'm getting the error is below:
const Foo: NextPage = () => {
  const { box } = useFetchBox();

  return (
    <div>
      {box.details.map((detail) => (
        {detail.category_name === "shirt" && <ShirtDetail categroy_detail={detail.category_detail as unknown as typeof Shirt} />} // error: Type 'VoidFunctionComponent<ShirtDetailProps>' is missing the following properties from type 'ShirtDetail': id, size, color
        {detail.category_name === "bag" && <BagDetail categroy_detail={detail.category_detail as unknown as typeof Bag} />} // error: Type 'VoidFunctionComponent<BagDetailProps>' is missing the following properties from type 'BagDetail': id, width, height
      ))}
    </div>
  )
}

ShirtDetail simply looks like:
interface ShirtDetailProps {
  category_detail: Shirt;
}

const ShirtDetail: React.VFC<ShirtDetailProps> = ({
  category_detail,
}) => {
  return (
    // some code
  );
};

export default ShirtDetail;

Before I came across this error, I tried the following steps:

*

*categroy_detail={detail.category_detail as Shirt} gave me 'Shirt' refers to a value, but is being used as a type here. Did you mean 'typeof Shirt'?

*Changed it to category_detail={detail.category_detail as typeof Shirt} as suggested, and it gave me Conversion of type 'CategoryDetail[]' to type 'VFC<ShirtDetailProps>' may be a mistake because neither type sufficiently overlaps with the other. If this was intentional, convert the expression to 'unknown' first.

*Changed it to category_detail={detail.category_detail as unknown as typeof Shirt} as suggested, and it gave me Type 'VoidFunctionComponent<ShirtDetailProps>' is missing the following properties from type 'Shirt': id, size, color

*No clue how to fix it.

Could anyone please help me out?

A: It was my mistake that I had Shirt component defined in my project. TypeScript was confused with the Shirt type and the Shirt component.
I changed the name of the Shirt component and the error disappeared with categroy_detail={detail.category_detail as unknown as Shirt.

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Warning…if you, and I hope this applies to all my readers, are the sort of person to abhor a miscarriage of justice, then reading this book will almost certainly cause you to utter a silent scream that you secretly hope will reverberate back through the ages to the ears of George Edaliji sitting in his cell, so he will know that somewhere people are feeling for, and thinking of, him. And if you are the sort of person, and I hope that at least half my readers are, to have cried at the Van Gogh Dr. Who episode, then you will probably find yourself imagining a similar episode involving Matt Smith dragging poor George back through a time portal to show him this novel in bookshops, and how much the world has changed, and how we try not to let things like this happen any more. If I did have a Tardis, I would perhaps have liked to travel back a hundred years or so, buy him a cup of tea, and tell him about a time in the not so distant future when it is hard to imagine the court of appeal not existing.
George is a half Indian solicitor who had just served three years in prison for slashing horses and sending malicious letters, despite being so short sighted that the chances of him locating a horse in a field at night were almost zero. The local police did not let this get in the way of their enthusiastic evidence gathering and finger pointing. George is the son of the local vicar, and his family had suffered years of torment at the hands of an anonymous malicious letter writer. At George's trial, the prosecution claimed that George was the writer of some of those letters. Released after serving three of his seven year sentence, George was not cleared. Even after Arthur's involvement, the Home Office refused to clear him of sending the abusive letters, so the novel has no neat, feel good ending.
Unfortunately, the life of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan-Doyle just isn't that, well, interesting. If he hadn't had the winning combination of luck and ability, and created one of the most enduring and recognisable characters in fiction, then he would just have been an unknown, moderately successful doctor. Likewise, if George had not had the misfortune to attract the attention of first a malicious and petty criminal, then the local police, he would have remained an obscure provincial solicitor. Life has a funny habit of bringing people together, and Arthur and George are perhaps the most unlikely such couple, unlikely enough to warrant someone telling their story.
Arthur and George is a very well written book, but I couldn't help thinking that it might have made an elegant novella rather than a hefty 450 page tome. It got fabulous reviews, but I found myself losing interest quickly, and finishing was a struggle. Barnes' recreation of the lives of the two men is a great achievement, and must have required painstaking research, and I found George's stifling provincial existence particularly engaging. I picked up this novel from my love of Sherlock Holmes, and I was expecting a detective story. What I got was a character study with a crime sub-plot, and the part of the book that interested me was George, while I felt strangely repelled by Arthur. This is Arthur Conan-Doyle's real life Sherlock Holmes adventure, but it couldn't be further from one of his swift, elegantly plotted tales, and I can't help wondering if the reason why I found it so difficult to read at times was because it exposes some of the dark under-currents that flow beneath the complex, engaging plots of the Nineteenth Century novels that are so beloved by me.


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Cause of fire that destroyed house, damaged Family Dollar still under investigation
Madison Arnold
A house is a total loss and a neighboring commercial building was damaged after a fire on the 2200 block of Little Lane late Saturday night into Sunday morning.
No injuries or fatalities were reported, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation, according to county documents.
Escambia County Fire Rescue was dispatched to Little Lane about 11:14 p.m. for a small outside fire. When they arrived, crews found a full residential structure fire that threatened a nearby Family Dollar.
The fire was under control by 12:11 a.m. and the Family Dollar building was saved but suffered heat damage to the exterior and slight water damage inside.
Additional firefighting units were called in case the Family Dollar were to catch fire. Officials said 15 units responded to the call.
ECFR was aided by the Pensacola Fire Department, Pace Fire Department, EMS crews and Gulf Power.
Madison Arnold can be reached at marnold@pnj.com and 850-435-8522.

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Architect Marlon Blackwell does something with his designs that many architects seem unable or unwilling to do: he takes the building's environment into consideration when designing a structure. His Southern designs all resonate with their environments rather than fighting with them for attention. His buildings may be modern, but Blackwell ensures that they are always in harmony with their surroundings. The architect's designs have won several awards and been featured in numerous books.
This stunning 80-foot tall tower home/office almost looks like a fire tower converted into a house. But it is a new structure built for a family who wanted to enjoy the stunning views of the Ozarks provided by their 57-acre building site. The structure seems to be at once both natural and industrial, with the wood and the white metal panels each providing complementary yet opposite facets to the design. A steep interior staircase takes one up to the main part of the building, where one room provides a 360-degree view of the landscape. The very top of the tower features an open-roof outdoor room for enjoying even the overhead view.
Marlon Blackwell's firm was called to repair the fire damage to this existing home. They were only allowed to work in the areas that had been damaged. By adding light monitors and suspended lofts, they were able to bring a greater degree of light into the space, making it feel airy and bright. Blackwell won an award for this design in the restoration category, but the judges were somewhat apprehensive to award it: they said the restoration was so successful they couldn't tell where the old sections of the home ended and the new section began.
Blackwell's own home is equally impressive as his other ventures. The L-Stack House design centers on a glass-surrounded staircase that brings together the public and private sections of the stacked layers. Blackwell, who is also a tenured associate professor at the University of Arkansas, wanted the home to react well to its surroundings: a dense urban neighborhood with a generous dose of nature nearby.
The Porchdog House was designed as a part of the Architecture for Humanity Model Home Program in Biloxi, Mississippi. The program is providing affordable prototype houses to families who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The Porchdog house is raised 12 feet off of the ground, creating a home that is less prone to flooding. However, there is a traditional front-porch culture to maintain in Biloxi, which Blackwell preserved in this design with a ground-level porch and parking area. The resulting home is not only stable in the face of a Category 4 hurricane; it is also an efficient urban design that could conceivably be adopted anywhere in the country.


Swim BC wishes to inform its membership of an important update to the Swim-a-thon program, coming from Swimming Canada CEO, Ahmed El-Awadi.
This letter is to clarify our memo previously sent in regards to member clubs that have mandatory swim-a-thon assessments in place.
We understand that many clubs already had their fee structure in place at the time of this memo, and therefore were unable to make any changes to club policies.
In 2015, any clubs with mandatory swim‐a‐thon assessments may participate in Swim‐a‐thon, however no donors to the club Swim‐a‐thon will be eligible for charitable tax receipts. We are currently working with Raising Spirit to update the online system to reflect this change.
Swimming Canada is doing everything possible to continue to offer this great fundraising program and meet our legal obligations as a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency. Swimming Canada is required to ensure compliance with the charities directorate. We will continue to make adjustments and improvements to the program to ensure the program continues to flourish well into the future.


Fiferguy wrote: I think he's going to use it first to get rid of the Demon Lord and his minions... then destroy the firestaff and the sword at the same time. Or perhaps in the process of getting rid of the DL.
Heck, he shouldn't really need the sword at all, I mean he stood up to the One using only the Firestaff, the Firestaff by itself should be powerful enough to kill the Demon Lord.
Except with the sword he has access to ALL the Firestaff's power, not just what he can force the Firestaff to do. At least, I think that's the general consensus of the topic so far.
Actually, now that I think about it, he doesn't really NEED the sword or Firestaff to kill the Demon Lord.
In Chapter 17 of Sword of Fire, Fel wrote: The power that he could feel the mortal gathering was awesome, and with the rules of magic rewritten, she now had the power to do him real harm. His invulnerabilities were wiped away when the rules were changed, because the body he had created in this realm had been made before that change, and thus had no innate defense against this change in the order of magic. Her magical power, her Sorcery, it could kill him. And with him injured, he was not about to engage her in battle, because she was fully well and preparing to fight, and he was wounded and weakened.
If Dolanna has enough power as a Da'shar to kill the Demon Lord, for a Sui'kun of Tarrin's caliber it should be easy pickings. Or for that matter, any of the sorcerers on Pyrosia can circle and do it.
Dolanna is acting as Niami at the moment. She is the Weave, which means she controls all of it's power. It'd take a Sui'kun taking her place or Dolanna to do it, because Dolanna will have learned to control all the magic of Pyrosia and a Sui'kun is used to being the focus of that much power.
Granted, a circle of any capibility could do some major damage as well, since all the demons on Pyrosia are basically physcially powerful magic casters. With no immunities to sorcery.
A powerful Circle could probably take out even Balor since they're all denied their basic demonic powers. Cut off magic flowing through the weave, stand back, and pelt 'em.


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Review: The Homecoming (Mary-Arrchie Theatre)
Posted on March 14, 2011 by Scotty Zacher
Mary-Arrchie excels at stripping away social restrictions
Mary-Arrchie Theatre presents
Written by Harold Pinter
Directed by Geoff Button
at Angel Island Theater, 735 W. Sheridan (map)
through April 10 | tickets: $18-$22 | more info
Reviewed by Jason Rost
After experiencing Belarus Free Theatre's powerful Being Harold Pinter (our review) earlier this year, I wasn't sure how any traditional Pinter production would resonate going forward. Mary-Arrchie's production of Pinter's 1964 play, The Homecoming has answered that question: more than ever. While Pinter's domestic wars have always proved powerfully apparent and has inspired plays such as Tracy Letts' August: Osage County, Belarus Free Theatre's Pinter unearthed the immediacy and politics of his writing in such a way that American audiences now have a new frame of reference with Pinter's writing. In Mary-Arrchie Theatre's loft storefront, Director Geoff Button crafts an absurdly detailed production that hits all of the most vital aspects of this play dead on. The comedy and relationships are sharp. The rhythm of Pinter's dialogue is surgically articulated. The sexually charged faceoffs are bubbling. Ultimately, this Homecoming stays with you after exiting out onto Sheridan Road.
American audiences were appalled, fascinated, and viscerally affected when The Homecoming made its American debut in 1967. As the play has aged, the shock may have worn off, however, the parallels in family relations is perhaps more recognizable. The brilliance lies in how subtly Pinter transcends from the everyday to the absurd. It's as if we travel from Kansas to Oz without the tornado. The story is set in 1964 London in the home of Max (Richard Cotovsky) where he lives with his two sons Lenny (Vance Smith), Joey (Dereck Garner) and his brother Sam (Jack McCabe). Max speaks loudly and carries a shiny stick. There are references made to his dead wife which was also the death of a female figure in this home. Daily domestic conversations are instantly off kilter on topics such as cooking, "Why don't you buy a dog? You're a dog cook." This world is turned on end with the return of Max's third son Teddy (Luke Hatton) and new wife Ruth (played by Michaela Petro in one of the most riveting performances of the season).
Smith and Petro begin the "game" in their first scene together. Smith's Lenny is deadly blunt and comical. Their banter revolving around a simple glass of water is thrilling, "Have a sip. Go on. Have a sip from my glass." As events unfold, social rules disintegrate. Jealousies and desires revolving around Ruth play out literally in front of her husband, Teddy. Petro's Ruth is captivating in how she is objectified and yet never victimized, always winning the battle of wits. All the while, Hatton is fascinating while adulterous actions are played out in broad daylight. He avoids playing aloof and instead makes us question the limits of civility.
Amanda Sweger's set is detailed. The fray of the wallpaper still hangs from the ceiling where a wall used to be. Sweger makes her own set glow evocatively like a Chinese light box in her double duty as lighting designer. Sound designer, Joe Court has the audience sit in silence during the preshow, listening to an amplified clock's ticking time bomb effect before the start. However, his use of distorted gong-like effects adds unnecessary gravitas at moments, which conflicts with Pinter's much more powerful uses of silence. Costume designer Izumi Inaba is faithful to Pinter's text while giving Petro the most perfect shade of red in a suit that highlights Ruth's sensuality and assertiveness.
One element that proves difficult for any ensemble of American actors is the English dialect in this play. When most effective, the dialects are differentiated by class (something that may not land as clearly on an American audience's ears anyhow). Unfortunately, the dialects all but disappear with a couple actors during the performance which distracts slightly. In addition, on the night I attended, Pinter's words began to trip the actors up somewhat during the final scene. However, when Cotovsky, on his knees says, "I am not an old man" it strikes right at the chord Pinter intended.
One of the strongest elements of this production is Button's staging. His attention to proximity between characters tugs and pulls at the tension. There is a time when a pause plays better at ten feet and other times where it is more effective at three inches. Button plays with this notion to its fullest extent and creates visually telling pictures.
There are numerous levels at which to enter this play. One is the simply thrilling entertainment of seeing social restrictions stripped away. What if people did and said what they wanted and felt at any given moment? We all know of families in which small battles are blown out of proportion – perhaps all too well. We also know of instances of jealousy and flirting played out amongst siblings and parents when an outside party, especially an attractive one, is brought into a home. Pinter has turned the volume up and shined a spotlight on these moments. Button and his cast excel at making the unrealistic dangerously truthful.
The Homecoming continues at Angel Island Theater through April 10th, with performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. Running time is 2 hours with one 10 min. intermission. Tickets are $18 (Thursdays and Sundays), $20 (Fridays) and $22 (Saturdays), and can be bought online or by calling the box-office at (773) 871-0442. For more info, visit: www.maryarrchie.com.
All photos by Benjamin Chandler.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Angel Island Theatre, Harold Pinter, Jason Rost, Mary-Arrchie Theatre | Tagged: Amanda Sweger, Angel Island Theater, August: Osage County, Benjamin Chandler, Coco Ree Lemery, Dereck Garner, Geoff Button, Harold Pinter, Izumi Inaba, Jack McCabe, Jason Rost, Joe Court, Kathy Logelin, Luke Hatton, Mary Patchell, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Matt Hawkins, Michaela Petro, Pinter's The Homecoming, Richard Cotovsky, Shannon Clausen, The Homecoming, Tracy Letts, Vance Smith |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: In Darfur (Timeline Theatre)
Posted on January 23, 2011 by cateysullivan
Timeline illuminates compassion, courage amidst human atrocities
Timeline Theatre presents
In Darfur
Written by Winter Miller
Directed by Nick Bowling
at TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington (map)
thru March 20 | tickets: $28-$38 | more info
By Catey Sullivan
The peril of collecting firewood in Darfur – an everyday necessity almost as basic as food and water – sums up the horror of a blood-soaked country. Mothers have to choose which of her children to send to collect kindling, notes the humanitarian aid worker in Winter Miller's drama In Darfur. That choice is one no parent should ever be forced to make.
"If they send their son, he gets killed," the aid worker explains, "f they send their daughter, she gets raped. So they send their daughters."
Such heartbreaking decisions are tragically common within the borders of Sudan's Darfur region, a swath of land about the size of France in northeastern Africa. Statistics are fuzzy, but it's generally recognized that since 2003, at least 400,000 Darfuris have been killed and over 2 million displaced at the hands of the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia. The number of rapes resulting from the crisis are essentially impossible to count, in part because rape is used as a systemic tool of war and because the shame of the crime is so great (survivors can be later charged with adultery and flogged) that it is likely grossly underreported.
With Timeline Theatre's production of In Darfur, director Nick Bowling succeeds in putting human faces to the staggering atrocities. His cast is strong, almost strong enough to overcome the considerable limitations to Mille's script. Leading the small, tightly woven ensemble: Mildred Marie Langford as Hawa, an English teacher who survives both the murder of her entire family and multiple gang rapes. A deceptively soft-spoken powerhouse, Langford gets a well-deserved showcase with In Darfur. She manages a bravura turn.
The piece is also a near-perfectly realized merger of video footage and traditionally performed drama. Mike Tutaj's projections succeed in virtually putting the audience smack in the center of the action. The opening scene – a harrowing ride over a rough and roadless terrain amid a hailstorm of bullets – is perhaps the most effective use of video we've seen on a stage. Tutaj's work makes the heat, the dust, the danger and the casualties of war (in one scene, Hawa buries her husband and child in shallow, sandy graves) palpable.
In all, the artistry of both the cast and Tutaj's projections go a long way toward minimizing the shortcomings inherent to Miller's drama.
Miller wrote the play after working as a researcher for the New York Times in Darfur. There's no question but what she saw the atrocities of war first hand while in the region. On her website, Miller recalls walking through villages burned to the ground and turned into ghost towns, speaking with child rape victims less than 48 hours after their assaults, and watching a 20-year-old die after being gunned down over a matter of $200.
In Darfur centers on three lives that become intertwined during the violence – Maryka, a New York Times reporter (Kelli Simpkins), Carlos, a doctor (Gregory Isaac) and Hawa, a Sudanese English teacher (Langford). The script falters in that Maryka and Carlos are only character types as opposed to fully-formed characters. They seem to exist to present a point of view more than an authentic segment of the narrative. Moreover, some of the dialogue between the reporter and her editor (Tyla Abercrumbie) has the ring of a spoof of The Front Page. And although the dialogue implies conflicts between Maryka and her editor that go beyond whether Darfur is a front page story, they are never even partially delved.
Also problematic: Miller's structure of having the actors speak in the language of the region, simultaneously translated into English – a kind of living form of subtitles – by other actors standing just off stage. It's fascinating to hear the words as they would be uttered in Darfur, but the ongoing interpretations add a layer of distance to a narrative that demands intimacy.
Yet for all its drawbacks, In Darfur is compelling. Simpkins brings dark humor, an aggressive edge and a reservoir of compassion to the reporter's role. As Carlos, Gregory Isaac captures the mix of burned out fatalism and stubborn idealism that come of doing good under hellish circumstances. And Langford brings both a gentleness and a steely, survivor's resolve to a role that is both physically and emotionally demanding.
A final note: It's always worth arriving at a TimeLine production early; the company invariably elevates dramaturgy to a level of storytelling on par with the production itself. Dramaturg Maren Robinson's work for In Darfur is no exception. The lobby is also hosting "Darfur, Darfur," an astonishing collection of photos from the region. The images are indelibly vivid, provide a rich context for the story on stage and should not be missed.
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REVIEW: Ghostbox (InFusion Theatre Company)
Posted on October 26, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
Where Bergman dared to tread
InFusion Theatre presents
Ghostbox
Written by Randall Colburn
Directed by Mitch Golob
Apollo Theater Studio, 2540 N. Lincoln (map)
through October 31 | tickets: $12-$20 | more info
Reviewed by K.D. Hopkins
I have to give credit to InFusion Theatre Company for stepping out of the usual experimental game with Ghostbox. Randall Colburn has taken more than a page from one of my favorite directors and made it work by means of multimedia. The one-act play opens with Wife, played by Victoria Gilbert, demonstrating how a simple transistor radio can pick up supernatural signals. The film is shot in a grainy 1970's patina of de-saturated color. It has an eerie feel and sets the mood for what comes next. The actual stage is painted in washed out gray tones with the screen set center stage. The actors are dressed in gray scale colors as well, with the exception of the Shadow that looms ominously.
Ghostbox is reminiscent of two of Bergman's masterpieces: "Through a Glass Darkly" and "The Seventh Seal". Victoria Gilbert's dialogue would seem repetitive in the hands of a less emotive actor. As Wife, she portrays the agony of loss and the psychology that lies beneath. Colburn's dialogue reaches into the exotic territory of Reykjavik as the beginning of the love story of Husband and Wife. Husband spoke of Reykjavik as if it were the Promised Land where their love would be perfect. Wife reveals that he kept his deep melancholy and sexual dysfunction a secret.
The characters are kept from connecting and roam a wasteland of radio signals and flashbacks on film. This is indeed a thriller, but thankfully not in the obvious slasher mode. There are no winks at the audience in Ghostbox. This play grabs, releases, and toys with the subconscious. The images of water suggest drowning versus cleansing and purity. Even the scenes of Gilbert standing in a field of solid green are ominous and somehow stark.
Kevin Crispin plays the role of Husband. He bears a stricken hollowed visage that harkens back to German Expressionism films as well as the man playing chess with Death in "The Seventh Seal". It's a mystery – is Husband trying to avoid Wife in this murky place that they roam or is he keeping clear because of Shadow.
Ghostbox makes excellent use of sound (sound design by Claudette Perez) with jagged piercing radio signals that cause a few gasps in the audience, adding another layer for the characters to navigate in this nebulous place. I had visions of the old 'Radio Free Europe' commercials that called for open radio signals behind what was called the Iron Curtain. I was back in my seven year old psyche and recalling the terror I felt for the people who couldn't just turn on the radio for pleasure as well as the pain and the smell of what I imagined was a real iron curtain. With Ghostbox, Colburn has created an onomatopoeia of vision and sound that projects a stark and frozen hell. When Gilbert and Crispin are together on the stage the action is taut, feeling as if glass is breaking everywhere without hearing the sounds. Gilbert goes from stricken and grieving to anger – anger at being denied love and sexuality. Crispin treads a tightrope of emotion as it is slowly revealed where they are and how they got there.
If Ghostbox were a film it would be in black and white. Director Mitch Golob keeps the scenes tight and efficient as if he were a film auteur. The suffering of humankind is said to be universal, but how it is expressed varies. It's a refreshing experience to see a theatre production that does not go for the obvious but definitely hits the jugular. (A strange contrast to see the folks in line for Million Dollar Quartet in the main theatre.) It is a shot of surreal Technicolor and then an Icelandic blast downstairs in the Apollo Studio. Ghostbox is marketed for Halloween entertainment and it will hit the spot. Sleep well children…
InFusion Theatre Company presents Ghostbox at the Apollo Studio on Thursdays through Saturdays with a special Halloween Performance on October 31st at 8:30 pm. The Apollo Studio Theater is located at 2540 N. Lincoln. Call 773-935-6100 or www.ticketmaster.com
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Apollo Theater, Infusion Theatre, K.D. Hopkins | Tagged: Amanda Sweger, Apollo Studio Theater, Bridgette O'Connor, Claudette Perez, film arteur, Ghostbox, Ghostbox Chicago review, Infusion Theatre, Jamie Bragg, Jason Crutchfield, K.D. Hopkins, Kevin Crispin, Kevin Viol, Michael Coale, Mike Oleon, Mina Hong, Mina Hyun-Ok Hong, Mitch Golob, Randall Colburn, Sarah Luse, Victoria Gilbert |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: Sunday in the Park with George (Porchlight)
Posted on September 21, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
Porchlight's 'Sunday' doesn't quite put it together
Porchlight Music Theatre presents
Sunday in the Park with George
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
Directed by L. Walter Stearns, music direction by Eugene Dizon
Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago (map)
Through Oct. 31 | Tickets: $38 | more info
Reviewed by Leah A. Zeldes
"His touch is too deliberate, somehow."
That lyric, from the 1984 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, might well describe Porchlight Music Theatre Director L. Walter Stearns' uneven revival, which somehow fails to connect the dots of the Stephen Sondheim musical.
Sondheim James Lapine's imagined backstory behind 19th-century painter Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" (now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago) has only a tangential relationship to the real biography of the groundbreaking neoimpressionist whose early death deprived the art world of what surely would have been a brilliant career. Instead it concentrates on the troublesome issues of balance between art and life, work and relationships, ambition and practicality.
The artist calls for "Order. Design. Composition. Tone. Form. Symmetry. Balance" — elements that can make or break any work of art. This imbalanced production falters under too much design and not enough tone.
Hidden behind the scenes, Music Director Eugene Dizon on piano and his orchestra — Carolyn Berger, violin; Michelle Lewis, cello; Allison Richards, viola; Patrick Rehker and Derek Weihofen, woodwinds; and Jennifer Ruggieri, harp — do a stellar job with the music. Unfortunately, many of the singers don't measure up.
Amanda Sweger's massive backdrop and Liviu Pasare's distracting video projections overwhelm the small stage and the cast as well.
Brandon Dahlquist ably captures George's sensitivity and absorption, with an expressive face that suggests the real Seurat's soulful looks and a fine tenor. Yet too often he's obscured behind the scrim or facing away from the audience. (John Francisco will take this role for the final three weekends of the run.) Seurat's painting may be the subject of the play, but we really don't need to see it all the time. An empty stretcher would have conveyed the idea of the work just as well and allowed us to see the actor's face.
On the other hand, Jess Godwin's passion is all in her face and rarely in her singing. Playing George's lover, Dot, the animated and lovely Godwin displays an almost palpable yearning for the artist. The slender redhead bears no resemblance to the Seurat's actual mistress, Madeleine Knobloch (the buxom subject of "Young Woman Powdering Herself"), which doesn't matter, but her voice often sounds as thin as her figure, and that does.
Several members of the supporting cast put in excellent performances, however. Sara Stern is superb as George's peevish, elderly mother. Her fabulous version of "Beautiful" is the highlight of Act I. Sarah Hayes and Daniel Waters do a hilarious job as the unhappy American tourists. Bil Ingraham and Heather Townsend are aptly haughty as the successful painter Jules and his wife, Yvonne, delivering tittering pronouncements on George's work in "No Life," and Michael Pacas makes a wonderfully wry and full-voiced boatman.
The second act, which jumps forward to a modern artist, also named George — a fictional great-grandson of Seurat — seems much stronger, as if the cast and crew felt more comfortable in the 20th century. Dahlquist, now fresh-faced and beardless, is out in front here. But Godwin, now portraying George's grandmother, sings "Children and Art" so softly she's nearly inaudible.
Sunday is one of Sondheim's more challenging musicals. Porchlight would have done much better to concentrate on the essentials of light and harmony instead of reaching for the heavy design elements that weigh down this production.
"Art isn't easy, no matter how you look at it."
Rating:★★
Porchlight Music Theatre hosts a benefit concert, "By Popular Demand," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 11, at Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse Ave., Chicago (map).
In Act I, singers Jayson Brooks, Sean Effinger-Dean, Nick Foster, Jess Godwin, Lina Kernan, Ryan Lanning, Bethany Thomas, Joseph Tokarz and others perform. At intermission, the audience votes to determine who'll return to sing again in Act II.
Tickets are $40. Two votes are included with your admission. Each additional vote costs $1 and supports new talent, new works and new productions at Porchlight.
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Leah A. Zeldes, Musical, Porchlight Music Theatre, Stage 773, Stephen Sondheim | Tagged: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Allison Richards, Amanda Sweger, Art Institue of Chicago, Bil Ingraham, Brandon Dahlquist, Carolyn Berger, Daniel Waters, Derek Weihofen, Eugene Dizon, Georges Seurat, Heather Townsend, James Lapine, Jennifer Ruggieri, Jess Godwin, John Franciso, L. Walter Stearns, Leah A. Zeldes, Liviu Pasare, Madeleine Knobloch, Michael Pacas, Michelle Lewis, Patrick Rehker, Porchlight Music Theatre, Sara Stern, Sarah Hayes, Stage 773, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George |	Leave a comment »


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With every new digital project comes a flood of information. One of the best ways to get started managing the information flow is to begin to separate out the WHAT from the HOW. The WHAT is the product definition. It is the answer to the questions, what problem are we trying to solve? What is our team ultimately creating? Thinking of the project as a ship at the sea, the product definition is the final destination we wish to reach. The HOW is how we get there: the planning, execution and delivery of the final product. The HOW is navigating the rocks and shoals to ensure our ship reaches its intended port.
Traditionally these roles were separate and fairly well defined. In videos, the director was the final decision maker for the creative vision (the WHAT); in software projects, the product owner or product manager took responsibility for product definition. Project managers and production managers then managed project delivery (the HOW).
With the digital revolution (in digital tools, distribution and storage), smaller project teams distributed across different departments have become much more common. Instead of the typical 40-man crew making a television commercial, often today there is a 3-person crew producing videos for the client's Facebook page. Creating mobile apps or websites can require a team of 8 people or less. Jobs have become fused; the currently popular job title "digital producer" can serve as a catchall for a mix of editing, coding, directing, and overseeing logistics.
Yet no matter the team size, the final responsibilities of product definition (the WHAT) and project delivery (the HOW) are still the secret sauce for project success.
These 2 roles also serve different masters: it is the job of the director / product owner (the WHAT) to best serve the audience and its needs, while the project manager (the HOW) is constantly dealing with the constraints of time, money and human error. Finding your way between this dynamic is at the core of all project work.
Projects can easily get sidetracked when it is unclear WHAT we are making, and who is responsible for deciding where our project team needs to go. Thus a great place to begin any project is to draw a line in the sand. Who is the final decision maker for the product definition (the WHAT), and who is ultimately responsible for project delivery (the HOW)? Spend some time in the project's early days defining these roles and making sure the whole project team is in agreement. With this set-up, you greatly improve the chances of producing a high quality product and smoothly steering your ship towards its final port.
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The Healthcare & Fitness Integration conference education program highlights the growing opportunity in partnership between the healthcare and health club industries.


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LG's Flagship W Series 4K OLED is Extremely Thin, full HDR support
This morning live from CES 2017, LG took the liberty to announce their new flagship HDTV for this year, the razor thin W series. Measuring only 2.57mm and clearly designed to be wall mounted, the W series manages to fit such a thin profile by removing almost everything that goes into a traditional HDTV. No, you will not find HDMI ports, audio inputs, or anything really… except for a cable that connects directly to the companion sound bar. The W series comes in two sizes, 77-inches (OLED77W7P) and 65-inches (OLED65W7P) respectively.
The sound bar is part of the overall package with the W series, as it houses all the necessary connections to keep the OLED panel so thin. Taking a cue from Samsung's Evolution Kit, this should allow the W series to withstand any HDMI revision changes, provided you're willing to upgrade your sound bar in the process. The sound bar hosts 4 HDMI inputs, 3 USB ports, and a Toslink connection for optical audio. The sound bar is equipped with Dolby Atmos certification, so expect audio quality that is a considerable step above what's found in a traditional TV. LG also confirmed that users can still use their own sound setup, however, as the sound bar houses video inputs, you will have to make room for the sound bar, no matter what.
In terms of specifications, LG has fitted the W series with a 4K OLED display, that supports the full spectrum of HDR content. Yes, this includes Dolby Vision, HDR10, and Hybrid Log Gamma, a feature that's rarely seen on most HDR displays (manufacturers typically stick to either HDR10 or Dolby Vision). LG also touts Active HDR, which dynamically adjusts the HDR image frame-by-frame, even if the HDR content contains static or no metadata. You can expect the same perfect black levels and absurd contrast ratios that really make OLED technology stand out from the crowd. On top of this, the W series features LG's pixel dimming control technology to render black without light leakage, on top of ULTRA luminance technology to dynamically deliver higher brightness when needed.
Additionally, you can expect LG's webOS to power the Smart TV functions on the W series, just like their previous displays. You will find the standard fare of streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Amazon, with enough improvements to hopefully invalidate a separate streaming box. No pricing structure has been announced for the W series, but you can probably expect it to be in the high end ranges exceeding $4,000. LG didn't make any specific gaming claims regarding the W series, but I'm hoping they learned about their input lag woes with the previous generation OLED screens, and will provide low input lag for serious gaming.
Samsung places bets on QLED Quantum Dot HDTVs in 2017
Panasonic's EZ1000 OLED takes 4K HDR content to the next level


Parallel economy, based on the black money or unaccounted money, is a big menace to the Indian economy. It is also a cause of big loss in the tax-revenues for the government. As such, it needs to be curbed. Its elimination will benefit the economy in more than one way.
In a general way, we can define black economy as the money that is generated by activities that are kept secret, in the sense that these are not reported to the authorities. As such, this money is also not accounted to (he fiscal authorities i.e., taxes are not paid on this money.
International Security Council : Regulating and restricting illicit weapons trade in relation with terrorism (ISIS).
UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Funds) : Ensuring access to education for all children in the world and preventing an increase in migrant child labor due to refugee crisis.
UNEP (United Nations Environment Program) : Regulating and coordinating animal trafficking especially regarding endangered species throughout the world.
UNDP (United Nations Development Program) : Supporting micro-credits and alternative currencies in order to reduce parallel economies.
ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) : The impact of the circulation of drugs and counterfeits on the sustainable development: identifying strategies to disrupt criminal investment in key sectors.
Historical Council : Post-war development in Vietnam improving social and economic conditions (prostitution and drug trafficking).
General Assembly: preventing Human trafficking in its various forms.


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MVER recently cared for the lone survivor of a house fire; a tiny female cat with singed fur and whiskers, and burns to her ears and paw pads. Thankfully, she recovered well and is headed to her new home with the firefighters who helped save her.
Dr. Chris Rollings, DACVIM will have evening appointments available to accommodate your clients who may find evening appointment easier for their own schedule.
Dr. Amy Lomas has decided to move to a new opportunity away from SNH. We wish her the best with her future endeavors. Dr. Garrod and Dr. Lomas will remain in close contact and assure a smooth transition of care and continued, uninterrupted patient case management.
We are happy to welcome Dr. Chris Rollings to our group of specialists. As our staff internist, Dr. Rollings brings a wealth of experience to the hospitals. He completed residency at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VHUP), and has been board certified since 2004. He completed an additional fellowship in veterinary nephrology/hemodialysis at the University of California Davis Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and lectured at VHUP before spending six years as a veterinary internist at Angell Memorial. Recently, Dr. Rollings has worked as an internal medicine consultant for IDEXX Laboratory. Although Dr. Rollings enjoys the complexity of all areas of small animal internal medicine, his special interests include nephrology, gastroenterology, and infectious disease.
"Yes, dogs and cats can have strokes! As the use of MRI in veterinary patients has become more commonplace, we have realized that strokes are actually quite common in our four-legged companions. A stroke is the cessation of blood flow to an area of the brain resulting in dysfunction of the nutrient-starved neurons in the affected area. Why strokes happen in dogs and cats is not fully understood; however, high blood pressure, kidney disease, hyperadrenocorticism (Cushings), and blood clotting abnormalities are some known risk factors. Certain breeds are also at higher risk of having a stroke, including the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and Greyhound.
Signs of a stroke are variable with the location affected in the brain; however, difficulty walking, weakness, and falling are common signs. As in people, the signs are very sudden in onset.
A stroke can only be diagnosed with a full workup including an MRI of the brain. This is because there are many conditions which can affect the brain and result in similar signs, such as tumors, inflammation, infection, and trauma.
If an MRI shows evidence that a pet has had a stroke, the next step is to try to determine why. This typically involves monitoring blood pressure and testing for metabolic abnormalities which may predispose a dog or cat to have a stroke; in many dogs and cats, however, we are unable to identify a cause.
Treatment of pets who have had a stroke is mainly through supportive care and physical therapy. Most dogs and cats can recover successfully from a stroke with sufficient time."


When the city of Cambridge in the UK announced peak hour parking charges in April to deal with air pollution and traffic congestion it didn't go over very well. Residents were furious. But the city recently announced it's investing in a kinder, gentler approach to luring people out of their cars.
Traffic in Edmonton, Alberta is far from bad compared to many other cities. But Edmonton is Canada's fastest growing major city, and it does have traffic congestion — and hundreds of the city's intersections need to be upgraded. Read our story to learn why the city is thinking ahead and planning smart tech upgrades.
Can connected car technology significantly reduce traffic accidents and congestion? Read our story to learn about a collaboration focused on ensuring the answer to that question is a resounding "yes."
This section offers real-world examples of how Smart Cities Council Partners are collaborating with cities to evaluate and deploy transportation technologies designed to enhance livability, workability and sustainability.
We're told driverless cars will change urban transportation dramatically. But how they will and how much are questions that remain to be answered for city governments. This section provides helpful background for city leaders and planners — and some of the key issues they should be aware of.
Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death globally. But there are many ways cities can ensure their transportation networks are safe for the people who use them. It's a matter of choosing the right solutions for each city's circumstances.
From traditional pedal-powered bikes to ebikes, cycling as a way to get around the city has enjoyed a tremendous resurgence in popularity in recent years. In addition to integrating well with other modes of transportation, cycling offers additional benefits for cities and the people who live and work in them.
City populations are growing throughout the world. And as city leaders and planners know, more people mean more cars — and more traffic snarls. They're also finding out that one solution is rarely enough.
There are many reasons why cities are investing heavily in transportation improvements. But it's not simply a matter of meeting the demands of growing populations. Smart transportation networks contribute to economic growth and resilience, reduce environmental impacts, enhance the traveling public's safety and keep our cities connected and livable.


The International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM 2009) is returning to Cannes, France for the acclaimed luxury travel showcase for the world's finest luxury travel products and services. Starting December 7, over 1,000 of the world's well-connected travel planners and buyers descend upon the streets of Cannes for a whirlwind four-day conference for networking opportunities, market research and an expansive exhibition of luxury travel professionals.
Now in its eighth year, Joslin remarked that the luxury travel market had changed, with authenticity and the quality of the experience becoming increasingly important to all travellers.
Held at Cannes' prestigious Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, ILTM's four-day programme features speed networking sessions giving exhibitors 12 four-minute meetings with VIP buyers; focus forums, a private networking opportunity for exhibitors to inform and market to a select group of buyers and the ILTM Conference, the Future Forum, which tackles key issues, trends and developments set to impact on the luxury travel market.
New to the ILTM is the recently-opened Mardan Palace Hotel from Turkey, as well as hot destinations such as the Jamaica Tourist Board, Dominican Republic and the Comité Territorial du Tourism de Saint-Barthélemy. Exhibitors increasing their stand space over 2008 include Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Six Senses Resorts and Spa, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and Kempinksi Hotels.
Claudia Roth, Vice President of Leading Hotels of the World in Europe, Middle East and Africa commented: "ILTM is the most important and the most effective B2B event in the luxury travel industry. By hosting the largest single stand at the fair, The Leading Hotels of the World provides our members with a prominent platform where they can meet and develop relationships with key decision makers. In this challenging economic climate, it is crucial that our organisation do all it can to help our hotels maximise their global marketing efforts to enable them to increase sales and revenue." Leading Hotels of the World is a key partner with the International Luxury Travel Market.


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Bach's St Matthew Passion at Barbican Hall – John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, with Mark Padmore & Stephan Loges
St Matthew Passion, BWV244 [sung in German, with English surtitles]
Evangelist – Mark Padmore
Jesus – Stephan Loges
Hannah Morrison, Amy Carson, Jessica Cale, Alison Hill & Angharad Rowlands (sopranos); Aleanor Minney & Clare Wilkinson (altos); Reginald Mobley (countertenor); Hugo Hymas (tenor); Alex Ashworth, Nicholas Mogg, Ashley Riches, Jonathan Sells, Rupert Reid & Lawrence Wallington (basses)
Trinity Boys' Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Reviewed by: Curtis Rogers
Reviewed: 26 March, 2016
Venue: Barbican Hall, London
Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir have lived with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach throughout their professional lives, and their recording of the St Matthew Passion remains one of the most prominent. But far from having becoming ossified or superficially reverential, their approach to this now-ubiquitous masterpiece has continued to evolve and their reading here was alive with incident and a sense of narrative propulsion. However, it was not as an outward dramatic re-telling that it worked but more an internalised reflection upon the events of Good Friday, centred upon Mark Padmore's account of the Evangelist. Having also taken part in Peter Sellars's dramatisation of the Passion with the Berlin Philharmonic (heard at the Proms in 2014) Padmore's performance under Gardiner did not simply narrate the events of Jesus's last moments on Earth from a neutral standpoint, but fully expressed a psychological involvement in that history.
In most other respects Gardiner's interpretation complemented that stance as a more low-key framework for such reflection. Stephan Loges was a nobly human and suffering Christ, but not self-pitying or lacerated with anguish, and rightly stood as the musical focal point alongside Padmore. The other soloists (taking the minor named parts and the abstract roles contemplating the religious significance of the drama) were generally fresh-voiced and sang with quiet restraint.
Jonathan Sells made for a fairly sympathetic Judas Iscariot, sounding troubled and remorseful as he realised the implications of his betrayal. Ashley Riches spluttered out the part of the High Priest with the complacent and legalistic certainty which prevents that figure from recognising who Jesus truly is, whilst Nicholas Mogg's dark-toned singing suited Pilate, though his veering between lyricism and a more direct attack on the music of 'Gerne will ich mich bequemen' was unpredictable.
A more probing account would have been welcome in some of those arias given from the viewpoint of the Christian believer, for example Reginald Mobley's 'Du lieber Heiland du' and Hannah Morrison's 'Blute nur, du liebes Herz', though there was a dignity and steadiness to Eleanor Minney's 'Erbarme dich' where Bach's extraordinary harmonies do not need to be forced or exaggerated. Like many of the singers, Hugo Hymas sustained some long, tricky melodic lines very well, but he sometimes sounded a little reedy and stretched.
The Monteverdi Choir sang its multi-faceted part with a corresponding composure (and without scores), where both the through-composed choruses and the chorales were seamlessly interwoven into the stream of music to constitute a unified experience. The chorales did not erupt forth in any jarringly sententious or pious manner, and the well-wrought precision of the other choruses (even remaining under control in 'Thunder and Lightning') told all the more in contrast with the vicious outbursts of the crowd in Part Two when Jesus's crucifixion is clamoured for. Trinity Boys Choir added an ethereal layer at the beginning and end of Part One, and in the concluding chorus of Part Two.
The English Baroque Soloists sometimes sounded thin, but there were fine individual contributions from Kati Debretzeni and Catherine Martin (I presume, as the first-named violinist for Orchestra Two) and oboists Michael Niesemann and Mark Baigent. Reiko Ichise on the viola da gamba provided rather too vigorous support, perhaps, in two arias where the multiple-stopped chords tended to be heavily deployed.
Those looking for a Matthew Passion with greater emotional or theological gravitas may well have been disappointed. But, as Sir John Eliot explained in the programme (adapted from his recent acclaimed book on Bach) such a blank canvas allows "the audience's imagination [to] fill it with images far more vivid than any scene painter or stage director … the intense concentration of drama within the music and the colossal imaginative force that Bach brings to bear in his Passions make them the equal of the greatest stage dramas [and] their power lies in what they leave unspoken." That is certainly the effect that was provoked on this occasion.
Matthew Passion in Brussels


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Q: Do you have a way to rewrite a class as a program is running (or change final values I guess) Let me explain,
Theirs a plugin (video game mod) I want to make to add things to Another plugin (a different mod)  but I don't want to change anything in the plugin I'm not making.  But to add the stuff I want, I'd have to add some variables to some arrays in a certain class, which I could totally do form another class but Their finalized, and all the spots are taken.
SO after looking into how final variables work (i kinda guessed) I though it might just be easier to
make a copy of the class in question, put it in my plugin, change the variables so their not final, and... OVERRIDE the original class when the program starts... some how.
Ok not easy, but that was the only thing that came to mind, where I still didn't edit the original files, and my plugin could be removed and added without changing anything.
I've looked into Classloaders and something someone called a patching assistant (it implements ClassFileTransformer) but I have no idea what I'm doing.  SO I thought I'd post what I'm trying to do on here and see if anyone had any advice, I'll keep trying to figure out whether a class loader or patching assistant are viable for what I want in the mean time.
Thanks in advance!

A: You can do this with reflection:
http://java-performance.info/updating-final-and-static-final-fields/
Although it's probably not such a great idea - these fields are final for a reason.


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OpinionCommentary
By Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg News
Trump deports fewer immigrants than Obama
Undocumented immigrants wait in a holding cell at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center on April 11. Credit: Getty Images / John Moore
It's a testament to President Donald Trump's capacity for malice that his deportation policy has terrified more while deporting less. Arrests by his administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 were about half what they were during President Barack Obama's peak years, 2010 and 2011, according to a new report by the Migration Policy Institute.
During Obama's first term, when he was laying the groundwork for what he hoped would be a comprehensive bargain on immigration, his administration aggressively enforced immigration law. ICE arrests peaked at more than 300,000 annually in 2010 and 2011. Deportations from the American interior - in other words, not of people apprehended near the border - surpassed 200,000 in both those years, also about twice the number reached in 2017. Pro-immigrant groups took to calling Obama the "deporter in chief."
The effort severely strained Obama's relations with immigration activists while getting him nowhere with Republican legislators, most of whom stayed true to a policy of bad faith. In 2011, at the height of the deportations, Representative Lamar Smith, a rigid immigration opponent from Texas, lamented what he called Obama's policy of "backdoor amnesty."
After the House GOP killed the immigration deal that had passed the Senate in 2013 with a super-majority, Obama gave up. His final years were marked by a more lenient disposition toward immigrants and minimal appetite for enforcement against non-criminals.
Trump, scourge of Mexico, lambaster of Muslims, avenger of white pride, promised a harsh new day in which every undocumented immigrant would be a target. ICE acting director Thomas Homan said in 2017: "If you're in this country illegally, and you committed a crime by entering this country, you should be uncomfortable. You should look over your shoulder."
The fear spread. "I've never seen anything like it in my 30-plus years of practice," said David Leopold, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, via email. "Trump has created a police state for immigrants - legal and unauthorized." ICE, Leopold said, is pursuing "any undocumented immigrant they can get their hands on - common sense and common decency be damned."
I asked Leopold why Obama's peak years of enforcement hadn't spread as much fear or more - given the higher rates of arrest and deportation.
"Even during the worst days of the Obama crackdown," he said, "ICE used its discretion and applied common sense." Today, he said, the agency refuses to use either, while seeming to revel in "tearing apart families."
Why are Trump's deportation numbers so far below Obama's peak? Credit resistance at the state and local level. California saw its share of total ICE arrests drop from 23 percent in 2013 to 14 percent in 2017. Local jurisdictions were more inclined to reject ICE requests for detainers, which seek to hold a particular subject for up to 48 hours, enabling ICE to take custody. Nationwide, detainer requests in 2017 were rejected at four times the rate of 2016.
The Migration Policy Institute report stated:
Across the study sites, state and local governments, attorneys, advocates, community leaders and Mexican and other consulates have been engaged in increased activism and mobilization to monitor ICE activities, develop response plans to protect immigrants during ICE operations and provide legal defense to those in deportation hearings. California, New York, Chicago and the Mexican consulates provided significant new funding to support immigration legal services and representation.
Close to 300 states and localities have sanctuary policies of varying force. About 200 of them do not honor ICE detainers. "ICE has responded by doing what it can - making more arrests in the community, which it can do on its own without local cooperation," said Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications and public affairs at the institute, a leading immigration think tank and research organization.
While sanctuaries resist, red states are stepping up. Texas's share of total ICE arrests increased from 25 percent to 28 percent as California's share declined. Given a free hand by Washington, ICE has grown much less discriminating in its targets. While arrests of noncitizens with convictions rose 7 percent from 2016 to 2017, arrests of noncitizens without criminal convictions increased 147 percent.
Employers are being targeted as well. ICE said this week that it had opened nearly 2,300 employer audits between Oct. 1 and May 4. There were 1,360 such audits between October 2016 and September 2017.
The Migration Policy Institute report, the product of a yearlong study informed by numerous interviews, stated:
Amid growing pushback in some locations, ICE has adjusted some of its enforcement activities, conducting more operations in limited-cooperation jurisdictions, arresting people in courthouses and near sensitive locations such as schools, carrying out more arrests in the community and bringing in immigrants who were not targets, and taking in a growing share of non-criminals.
In effect, Trump's policies are achieving his goals, frightening undocumented immigrants and heightening risks of deportation - even if he can't match Obama's peak. Fear of arrest and deportation also appears to be discouraging some immigrants from reporting crime.
Meanwhile, local and state officials who resist federal immigration policy are having success blunting Trump's attack on undocumented residents. Immigration policy in the U.S. is heading in two diametrically opposed directions, with different outcomes in different geographies.
Still, Trump has both time and a vast federal police force on his side; he can win a war of attrition if he remains in power. The federal government may have lost interest in carefully selecting its targets. But it still has the biggest guns.
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Two things I didn't buy from Target via Cartwheel.
Target has launched a huge new e-commerce push via Facebook, called Cartwheel.
Then search for Target Cartwheel, because it's on a separate page from Target's own Facebook page.
Once you've logged into Cartwheel, you might want to go back to your Facebook privacy settings to prevent the app from automatically posting about everything you're checking out.
After that, get into your car to drive to a Target store.
I'm serious, this is how it works.
Then find the items in the store and take them to the checkout.
At the checkout, call up your Cartwheel page on your phone and tap the "redeem in store" button.
That generates a barcode, which is then scanned by the checkout staff.
Hey - you just got 10% off!
E-commerce on Facebook feels like an inevitability rather than an experiment. So Target should be applauded for investing and trying to make it real.
But the unhappy truth about social e-commerce is how low conversion rates are from Facebook and other social media, compared to old-fashioned stuff like email.
According to Monetate, the online retail analytics people, traffic from social media to retailers is both lower than search and email, and less effective in converting users into shoppers.
So, good luck Target. But if you could make this a bit simpler, that might be nice.


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Q: Using vue-test-utils to mount a simple component in a Jasmine test, getting "document not defined" error I've isolated my problem and recreated it in the code below, with just one test suite and a small number of dependencies. I'm using Jasmine to run tests.
Code and Configuration (isolated problem)
My test spec file (named componentTest_spec.js) contains the code below. The test is copied from the Vue Test Utils help docs:
const mount = require("@vue/test-utils").mount;

describe("vue test utils", function () {

    it("renders a greeting", function () {
        const Comp = {
            template: `<div>{{ msg1 }} {{ msg2 }}</div>`,
            props: ["msg1"],
            data() {
                return {
                    msg2: "world"
                }
            }
        };

        const wrapper = mount(Comp, {
            props: {
                msg1: "hello"
            }
        });

        expect(wrapper.html()).toContain("hello world");
    });
});

My package.json looks like this (very small):
{
  "dependencies": {
    "@vue/test-utils": "^2.0.0-rc.13",
    "jasmine": "^3.9.0",
    "vue": "^3.2.6"
  }
}

To run the above test, I run this command from the command line:
npx jasmine componentTest_spec.js

Error
When I run the above
Message:
   ReferenceError: document is not defined
 Stack:
   ReferenceError: document is not defined
       at mount (C:\projectfolder\node_modules\@vue\test-utils\dist\vue-test-utils.cjs.js:7625:14)
       at UserContext.<anonymous> (C:\projectfolder\componentTest_spec.js:16:25)
       at <Jasmine>
       at processImmediate (internal/timers.js:461:21)

The ReferenceError is being thrown somewhere inside the mount command, far as I can tell.

Questions
What is wrong with the above code or configuration? Why am I getting this error when running a test from the Vue Test Utils website with minimal configuration? How can I get this test to run (roughly as is, mounting a simple component) using Jasmine?


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Beim Amt Bigge handelte es sich um ein Amt, das die Preußen im 19. Jahrhundert im Zusammenhang mit kommunalen Reformen im Kreis Brilon einrichteten. Es bestand von 1844 bis zum Jahr 1975. In diesem Jahr wurde es auf die Städte Bestwig, Brilon, Olsberg und Winterberg aufgeteilt. Rechtsnachfolgerin wurde die Stadt Olsberg.

Geschichte
Aus den Schultheißbezirken Antfeld, Assinghausen, Bigge, Bruchhausen, Brunskappel, Elleringhausen, Elpe, Helmeringhausen, Olsberg, Wiemeringhausen und Siedlinghausen wurde 1826 im Kreis Brilon die Bürgermeisterei Bigge gebildet. Diese wurde 1837 um die Orte Altenbüren und Esshoff erweitert, die bis dahin zur Bürgermeisterei Brilon gehört hatten.

Im Rahmen der Einführung der Landgemeindeordnung von 1841 für die Provinz Westfalen wurde 1844 im Kreis Brilon aus der Bürgermeisterei Bigge das Amt Bigge gebildet. Das Amt umfasste bis 1969 fünfzehn Gemeinden:

Geographisch gesehen deckte das Amt Bigge große Teile des Scharfenberger Hügellandes, der Ramsbecker Höhen und des Assinghauser Grundes ab.

Im Jahr 1864 hatte das Amt Bigge 7681 Einwohner. Bis 1939 war diese Zahl auf 10782 gestiegen. Durch den Flüchtlingsstrom nach 1945 wuchs ihre Zahl bis 1950 auf 15269. Elf Jahre später (1961) war die Einwohnerzahl wieder bis auf 15042 gesunken. Fünf Jahre später hatte das Amt Bigge im Jahr 1966 bei einer Fläche von 143,11 km² eine Einwohnerzahl von 16146 Menschen. 1961 arbeiteten hier 6796 Erwerbspersonen, von denen 22,1 % in Land- und Forstwirtschaft, 49,2 % im produzierenden Gewerbe, und der Rest in sonstigen Berufen beschäftigt war. 1961 bekannten sich 13296 als Katholiken und 1683 als evangelische Christen.

Das Amt hatte kein eigenes Wappen. Am 1. Juli 1969 wurden die Gemeinden Bigge und Olsberg durch das Gesetz zur Neugliederung von Gemeinden des Landkreises Brilon zur Stadt Bigge-Olsberg zusammengefasst.

Am 1. Januar 1975 wurde das Amt Bigge durch das Sauerland/Paderborn-Gesetz aufgelöst:
 Grimlinghausen wurde in die Gemeinde Bestwig eingegliedert.
 Altenbüren und Esshoff wurden in die Stadt Brilon eingegliedert.
 Antfeld, Assinghausen, Bigge-Olsberg, Bruchhausen, Brunskappel, Elleringhausen, Elpe, Helmeringhausen, Wiemeringhausen und Wulmeringhausen gingen in der neuen Stadt Olsberg auf.
 Siedlinghausen wurde in die Stadt Winterberg eingegliedert.

Bestwig, Brilon, Olsberg und Winterberg kamen alle zum neuen Hochsauerlandkreis.

Literatur
 Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen. Kurkölnisches Sauerland, Arnsberg 1986, S. 62, 200.
 Statistische Rundschau für den Landkreis Brilon, herausgegeben vom Statistischen Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1967.

Einzelnachweise

Bigge
Geschichte (Hochsauerlandkreis)
Gegründet 1844
Aufgelöst 1974

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Winning a flash car is a dream come true for most cash-strapped students – especially a Lamborghini.
But for Tom Curtis, his lucky prize has created an opportunity for him to set up his own business.
Tom, 24, landed the 2010 Gallardo Spyder in a national competition.
But instead of getting behind the wheel of the 200mph supercar, Tom has taken the option to bank £50,000 in cash instead.
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He entered the prize draw after being a regular customer at the VPZ store in North Shields.
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Report: SC student lied about being assaulted in Athens after game
By Fran Jeffries, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A University of South Carolina student has some explaining to do after her recent weekend visit to Athens.
Alysa DeLuca, 23, reported to Athens-Clarke police she had been assaulted and robbed near downtown Athens on Sept. 8 after she attended the Carolina-UGA football game, according to a report on onlineathens.com.
Police told the website they investigated the woman's claims of being knocked unconscious from behind and having her purse snatched while she was in a stairwell of a building on Broad Street.
That is until her purse was found in a downtown bar where she had been hanging out earlier in the evening.
Now police have taken out a warrant for DeLuca's arrest for lying, also known as false report of a crime.
Read more of the story at onlineathens.com.
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Fran Jeffries is a Social Media Producer. She joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2005 as an Education Editor. She worked as a Breaking News Editor and Social Media Producer before joining the Social Media team.
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SLEEPING BEAUTY: A FEW WORDS ON MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF 2011
Posted by Nick Antosca @ 11:45 am on December 22nd, 2011
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Sleeping Beauty, the mesmerizing, disquieting first film directed by Australian novelist Julia Leigh, was the most psychologically penetrating work in any medium that I encountered this year. It's weird how the most impenetrable works can also be the most penetrating.
Leigh seems to get that paradox. "My vagina is not a temple," says Lucy, assuring her prospective employer that she has no problem with taking sleeping pills and allowing wealthy men access to her nude, unconscious body. "Nevertheless, you will not be penetrated," the madame promises. Like Lucy cares about being penetrated. We've already seen her sit patiently as a medical researcher slowly slides a very long plastic deep down her throat. You know those clowns who pull scarves from their sleeves and the scarves never seem to end? The tube is like the scarves in reverse.
And in fact it's the lack of penetration that seems to amplify Lucy's discomfort as time passes, her desire to know what exactly these wealthy clients are doing to her while she's asleep. If they're not fucking her, then what? The absence of the definite inspires dread, reflection, circular thought. Like Lucy after she leaves the brothel, we're troubled and curious after we've left the theater.
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Emily Browning, as Lucy, is an extraordinary actress. The film itself is visually one of the most beautiful I've seen in years. It's also one of the purest of vision. It got mixed to negative reviews at Cannes; audiences were apparently put off by its coldness, its clinical gaze, and the sometimes-grotesque nudity. But I think Leigh made something extraordinary.
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