New Regency Coat and Hat!
I am very excited about the new Regency 'going-out' set. It has a soft brushed corduroy coat, which looks like velveteen. My favorite part is the hat. I have spent quite a long time perfecting this design and I am thrilled with the results. The page with the full details is Here.
Sneak Peek at new Regency designs!
Even though there are no pictures yet, I though I would let eveyone know what is coming up in the next week or so for Doll Clothes of Yore!
An absolutely gorgeous regency bedroom set! This includes a white chemise and a beautiful embroidered light blue dressing-gown.
A lovely melon-colored day dress inspired by a costume in the latest movie version of 'Emma' starring Romola Garai.
Soon I will make a long 'Spencer' coat. This will be made of dark blue brushed corduroy, which looks and feels like velveteen. I hope to put a straw poke-bonnet with this dress.
Pictures are forthcoming, and the product pages on the site should be set up in a week or so. For now, however, here is the link to the current Regency Gallery.
A Popular Design is back!
The limited edition 'Harriet Beecher Stowe' dress is a new version of an older design! The past versions have been extremely popular, and I hope that this one will be as well! The dress is fashioned after a popular Civil War design that features wide Bolero sleeves. There are only four of these dresses available, so if you love this design as much as I do, don't wait!
In looking for new medieval designs, I came across this old design from 2007. It was a unique pattern, so I decided to make it again. It's a limited addition and as of now there are only three available. Click here to go to the product page on our website. Enjoy!


Cholesterol and Glucose biosensors were prepared by deposition of cholesterol oxidase and glucose oxidase respectively entrapped within a U.V. crosslinked poly (2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate), [p(HEMA)] hydrogel containing tetraethyleneglycol diacrylate onto a platinum electrode. The performance characteristics for the Pt/p(HEMA)/ChOx biosensor were as follows: Response time of 50 seconds at all cholesterol concentrations investigated, detection limit of 3.0 x 10-6M, liner range of 3 x 10-5 – 1.6 x 10-2Mof cholesterol, sensitivity of 56510A/M,working potential of +450mVwith a regression value of 0.986 for the calibration curve (y = 5.651x). The Pt/ p(HEMA)/GOx optimized sensor parameters were: an enzyme loading of 1365 unitsGOx/cm2;aHEMA:TEGDAratio of 2.75:1%vol.; a filmthickness of 0.2mm; a stirring speed of 450 r.p.m, and a temperature optimumof 50C, a linear response over a glucose concentration range of 1 x 10-5 to 1 x 10-3 mM(r = 0.994),with a detection limit of 6.0 x 10-6M,with a response time of 45 seconds at all glucose concentrations investigated. These biosensors retained an average of 90% of initial enzyme activity when stored in the ionic liquid, [bmim][BF4], at 4 ºC after six months.


An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by :"The Big Strong Man" by The Big Strong Man, "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Super Mario Bros OST" by Koji Kondo, and "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be) / Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
This Shufflecomp game follows the adventures of a boy who loves comics and meets his heroes. The writing style is goofy and casual. The first time I played, I reached an ending pretty quickly, and I wasn't very impressed with the game. However, as I explored more of the branches, I realized how much more text there was that I missed, and found 6 or more endings.
Each single play through is not that great, but exploring all the branches gives you the same unreal feeling that dreams have. Playing the game a few times is just like the sleepy morning time when you drift in and out of sleep and your dreams weave together.


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· Posted on Dec 18, 2019
Chrissy Teigen Shared Screenshots Of Her Angry Texts To John Legend After He Made Dinner Party Plans And Didn't Tell Her
"I hate him."
by Ellie Woodward
If there's one thing we know and love about Chrissy Teigen, it's that she is the absolute best at dragging her husband, John Legend.
There was the time she dragged him to hell and back for failing to take photos of her.
Twice.
And most recently, her life was made when John was crowned People's Sexiest Man Alive. There were tweets.
christine teigen @chrissyteigen
@johnlegend @people all downhill from here
my secret is out. I have fulfilled my dream of having boned @people's sexiest man alive!! an honor!!!!!
An update to her Twitter bio.
Twitter: @chrissyteigen
And even specially made pyjamas emblazoned with the cover of the magazine.
Well, less than a month later, Chrissy is back at it again. Last night, the latest season of The Voice came to an end.
And it turns out that John had invited his fellow judges, Blake Shelton and Kelly Clarkson, for dinner at his and Chrissy's home after the show.
Blake's girlfriend, Gwen Stefani, was also invited.
But while Chrissy was aware of the plans, the fact that the dinner wasn't just a casual thing but a celebration to mark the season finale had completely passed her by. This is probably because she literally doesn't have a clue about John's job or schedule.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
So, when she discovered that she was about to host a full-blown wrap party without any warning, Chrissy vented her frustration on Twitter.
I didn't know tonight was the voice finale. John invited everyone to dinner at the house after and I'm really fucking mad because I didn't make a fucking FINALE meal. I would have gotten a cake or something too?? Who the fuck does this? U don't win the voice then eat short ribs
She went on to say that the whole situation was "very John", adding: "I am always in charge of doing the fun, extra shit and he has no idea how much I plan normally."
It sounds dumb yes but this is VERY john. I am always in charge of doing the fun, extra shit and he has no idea how much I plan normally and he's like "no it's fine they just wanna have dinner" but it's literally the finale of their show??? And I have no ice cream truck
"If u think this is stupid go ahead and tell me what you made when Blake Kelly and Gwen came over to your house," she added in response to people telling her this wasn't really a problem in the grand scheme of problems.
if u think this is stupid go ahead and tell me what you made when Blake Kelly and Gwen came over to your house
Chrissy then pulled out the receipts, sharing a screenshot of her messages with John in which she did indeed seem pretty pissed off!!
Lol I'm serious I'm laughing but I'm fucking pissed
And it didn't stop there.
IT IS THEIR SHOW FINALE why does he not know how to be extra
Chrissy said she would "die in [her] robe" if the judges all showed up dressed to the nines.
if they show up in their show clothes I will absolutely die in my robe
And then she told the world: "I hate him."
no if they're all coming that means the winner is coming. I hope it's john ONLY because I have no cake and anyone else would deserve cake. I hate him https://t.co/r6TbDos6s2
John himself eventually got involved, apologising to Chrissy for "stressing [her] out" and assuring her he was "working on a solution".
John Legend @johnlegend
I'm working on a solution. I'm sorry for stressing you out! https://t.co/oOumx1thOl
But Chrissy didn't appreciate his apology.
@johnlegend thanks for working on it at 8pm but like everything in your life, it's been handled
And told him his solution wasn't great either.
@johnlegend By the way his solution was "let's order ice cream"
Even the emergency cakes didn't help the situation. In fact, the frosting on John's ended up destroyed.
omfg I ordered like 5 milk bar cakes before john's one cake got here from the SAME place and he thinks he is some fucking hero
However, judging by this group photo, it seems that ultimately everyone had a lovely time.
when I say I love these people...congrats on a great season!! @kellyclarkson @gwenstefani @blakeshelton
In fact, John even retweeted the photo, revealing that the dinner party "went off without a hitch", and was "less awkward than that of Michael Scott and Jan", which is something to be thankful for.
Our dinner party went off without a hitch and was far less uncomfortable than that of Michael Scott and Jan. And there was cake! https://t.co/GtgCagZklI
All's well that ends well!
Ellie Woodward is a deputy news director for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Ellie Woodward at ellie.woodward@buzzfeed.com.

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Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2
100 More Stories of Extraordinary Women
By: Francesca Cavallo, Elena Favilli
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Danai Gurira, and others
Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls 2 is the sequel to the sensational New York Times best seller and the most crowdfunded book of all time. The authors, Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli, will take you and your kids on an empowering journey through 100 new bedtime stories, featuring the adventures of extraordinary women from Nefertiti to Beyoncé. The unique narrative style of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls transforms each biography into a fairy tale, filling listeners with wonder and with a burning curiosity to know more about each hero.
Good night stories for rebel girls
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Danai Gurira, Janeane Garofalo, Phillipa Soo, Esperanza Spalding, Samira Wiley, Mozhan Marnò, Rowan Blanchard
By: Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Esperanza Spalding, and others
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. What if the princess didn't marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut? What if the jealous stepsisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the kingdom? Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to 100 remarkable women and their extraordinary lives, from Ada Lovelace to Malala, Elizabeth I to Serena Williams. Empowering, moving and inspirational, these are true fairy tales for heroines who definitely don't need rescuing.
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By Leela on 14-08-2018
Narrated by: Alicia Keys, Ashley Judd, Esperanza Spalding, Janeane Garofalo, Mozhan Marnò, Phillipa Soo, Rowan Blanchard, Samira Wiley
Series: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Book 1
Minecraft: The Island (Narrated by Samira Wiley)
The First Official Minecraft Novel
By: Max Brooks
Narrated by: Samira Wiley
The first official Minecraft novel! In the tradition of iconic adventures like Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island, the number one New York Times best-selling author of World War Z tells the story of a hero - stranded in the world of Minecraft - who must unravel the secrets of a mysterious island in order to survive.
Series: Minecraft, Book 1
By: Alice Walker
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.
Truly Amazing!!!
Series: Color Purple, Book 1
Graceful Burdens
Out of Line collection
By: Roxane Gay
A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there's only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a "baby library," where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley's future.
Series: Out of Line collection
Halfway to Free
By: Emma Donoghue
Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam's curiosity about the people who "drop out" of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.
Out of Line
By: Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Caroline Kepnes, and others
Narrated by: Kristen Bell, Samira Wiley, Lea Salonga, and others
What happens when women step out of line and take control of their own stories? Big fears, small frustrations, and the power of hope collide as seven award-winning authors explore the possibilities. From demanding equal pay to resisting a genetically engineered future, this collection offers up visions that are grimly funny, deeply touching, and chillingly conceivable.
By: Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Caroline Kepnes, Lisa Ko, Emma Donoghue, Mary Gaitskill, Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Kristen Bell, Samira Wiley, Lea Salonga, Margo Martindale, Gwendoline Christie
Dr Seuss's Horse Museum
By: Andrew Joyner, Dr. Seuss
Your tour guide will show you how different artists can look at one thing - like a horse - and have totally different visions. These different visions create ART. And this is a book that canters through the whole of art history, explaining the puzzling and imaginative thing we call 'art'. With reproductions of over 30 iconic pieces of artwork - from Pablo Picasso to Edouard Manet, René Magritte, Lucian Freud, Susan Rothenberg, Jackson Pollock, Raphael, and even the Lascaux cave. This is an exhibition you won't want to miss!


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Q: What are the currently supported Python versions? Python 2.7 reached end of life with the end of 2019 (PEP 373). But which are the currently supported Python versions?
I realize that "supported" might mean many things (e.g. AWS Lambda currently supports Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8). To make this question objective, let's say: which CPython versions still receive security updates and for how long?

A: Status of current python branches
Python 3.6 Lifespan

3.6 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime after the release of 3.7.0 final, a final 3.6 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released as needed until 5 years after the release of 3.6 final, so until approximately 2021-12.

Python 3.7 Lifespan

3.7 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime after the release of 3.8.0 final, a final 3.7 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released as needed until 5 years after the release of 3.7 final, so until approximately 2023-06.

Python 3.8 Lifespan

3.8 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 1-3 months for approximately 18 months. After the release of 3.9.0 final, a final 3.8 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released until 5 years after the release of 3.8 final, so until approximately October 2024.

Python 3.9 Lifespan

3.9 will receive bugfix updates approximately every month for approximately 12 months. After the release of 3.10.0 final, a final 3.9 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released until 5 years after the release of 3.9 final, so until approximately October 2025.

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Merino wool throw in a lemon coastal pattern with fringing. Woven from extra fine merino wool which gives an extremely soft and luxurious finish. Looks great draped over a bed, and soft enough to snuggle under on the sofa. 100% merino wool.
Size: approx. 140 x 180cm (including fringing).


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Local Activists' Voices Drive New Effort to Invest in Girls and Women of Color
The work that the NoVo Foundation wants to fund is already happening, though it may not yet have the benefit of big-foundation money.
By Dani McClainTwitter
Girls hand out programs during a forum on black and Latino communities in the United States. (Bret Hartman / AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
Black girls in Mississippi know that the world too often sees them as angry, man-hungry, uneducated baby mamas. Their perceived value can depend on how light their skin is, how thin their bodies are, and how loosely their hair curls. They sometimes withstand sexual assault and depression, and a culture of secrecy makes it difficult to talk about trauma.
Young women of color in New Mexico are often so busy taking care of family members in the context of intergenerational addiction that they lack the time or support to make their own plans or pursue their own dreams. They live in the shadow of a potential border wall and long for "a world where there is healthy masculinity."
These are some findings from a year-long, nationwide listening tour undertaken by the New York–based NoVo Foundation, which this month announced it will invest $90 million in efforts to serve girls of color over the next seven years—the largest commitment to that demographic by a private foundation to date. Hosting listening sessions, which were attended and summarized by cultural anthropologist Aimee Cox, was a critical step in the foundation's process of determining how and where to distribute its funds.
For Autumn Billie, a 23-year-old indigenous feminist and activist who talked with the foundation last year about her sex-education work with Native American students in rural northern New Mexico, the experience was unique. "Wow, someone is coming in and actually valuing the authentic mission and the authentic programming and organizing that we actually want to do, instead of [asking us to] fit in a kind of cookie cutter," she said, reflecting on the conversation.
Giving girls of color and their advocates this sense of being in the driver's seat was precisely what NoVo intended with its approach to developing its grant-making strategy. "We listen deeply because we know foundations are not the experts," Jody Myrum, who directs the foundation's Initiative to Advance Adolescent Girls' Rights, told me. "Really, girls and movement leaders are the experts." Based on feedback from those experts, NoVo is taking a three-pronged approach:
It will invest in local organizations around the country that work directly with teenage girls of color on issues such as "ending sexual violence, confronting anti-black racism, building solidarity across communities, intergenerational healing, or directly supporting girls' ideas," according to the foundation's application for community-based groups.
It will begin by placing special priority on the South—where the foundation says 40 percent of the nation's girls of color live—and seek out a regional partner who can help strengthen efforts there. "There's not a lack of leadership or progressive infrastructure [in the South], but a lack of philanthropic investment," Myrum said.
Finally, NoVo will continue its support of national groups that work to improve the lives of girls of color.
In recent years, organizers and scholars have pushed to make sure that the needs of girls and women of color—and the clear ways these needs are distinct from boys and men of color as well as from white girls and women—receive appropriate attention and resources. Their efforts have gained newfound support and recognition, including from officials during the Obama administration. The statistics that drive the focus on this demographic are stark: According to federal data, black female students are suspended at higher rates than girls of any other race or ethnicity and at higher rates than white boys. Black girls represent nearly a third of the girls who are detained in and committed to juvenile justice facilities. Native American girls are only 1 percent of the population, but 3.5 percent of the girls in those facilities. A 2015 report titled "The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline" found that girls in the juvenile justice system are disproportionately victims of sexual violence, and end up criminalized because their trauma isn't often identified or treated.
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The organizing, consciousness raising, and healing work that NoVo wants to fund already exists, though it may not currently have the benefit of big-foundation money. Tynesha McHarris, a fellow with the NoVo initiative, said the past year's listening tour allowed her to hear from girls of color and the women who are their allies. She said they're hard at work helping each other stay safe and combat violence at school, in their homes, and in their wider communities, but "they are doing things oftentimes on their own time and their own dime. The movement is vibrant but incredibly under-resourced."
It's not just that women of color don't apply for funding to keep their work afloat. It's that their work is seen as a risky investment, which creates a vicious cycle, Myrum explained. "You're not funded, so then you're not fundable. People don't want to take risks on women of color often." NoVo's strategy seeks to disrupt that cycle and partner with efforts that have been starved of philanthropic dollars in the past.
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Q: How do I send multiple responses? When executing a query, I get records. But when  run the query again, these records will be duplicated.
Example:
request 1:
3424,DFS,21.07.2020 10:23
21312,123,21.07.2020 15:16
43324,RWR,22.07.2020 15:04

reques 2:
3424,DFS,21.07.2020 10:23
21312,123,21.07.2020 15:16
43324,RWR,22.07.2020 15:04
3424,DFS,21.07.2020 10:23
21312,123,21.07.2020 15:16
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etc.
How to fix it?
const output = [];

module.exports.getAll = async function (req, res) {
    try {
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        res.status(200).send(output.join(os.EOL))
    } catch (e) {
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A: For each call to getAll you add the result to output. So output grows with each call.
A first idea would be to move const output = [] into your function.

A: As output is defined above the scope of the function, it will store the result of the previous iteration and so on the next iteration output array will be containing the result of previous iteration. So You should move your output array inside your function.


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Jean Lurçat (; 1 July 1892 – 6 January 1966)  was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary tapestry.

Biography
He was born in Bruyères, Vosges, the son of Lucien Jean Baptiste Lurçat and Marie Emilie Marguerite L'Hote. He was the brother of André Lurçat, who became an architect. After his secondary education at Épinal, he enrolled at La Faculté des sciences de Nancy and studied medicine. He went to Switzerland and Germany (Munich) and in leaving his educational path, he went to the workshop of Victor Prouvé, the head of the École de Nancy.

Painting and the War
In 1912, Jean Lurçat took residence in Paris with his brother André. He enrolled at the Académie Colarossi, then at the workshop of the engraver, Bernard Naudin. He met painters such as Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir; his friends included  Rainer Maria Rilke, Antoine Bourdelle, and Elie Faure.  Lurçat and three associates founded the Feuilles de Mai (The leaves of May), a journal of art in which these celebrities participated. He then became an apprentice of the painter Jean-Paul Lafitte with whom he had an exhibition at La faculté des sciences de Marseille. His first journey to Italy was interrupted in August by the declaration of war. Back in France, Lurçat joined the infantry, but was evacuated on 15 November after falling ill. During his recovery to health, in 1915, he practised painting and lithography. In July 1916, he returned to the front, but was evacuated once again due to injury. He never returned to the front. In September, his art was put on exhibition in Zürich.

Discovery of tapestry
In 1917, Jean Lurçat made his first tapestries: Filles Vertes (Green Girls) and Soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Grenada). At the end of the war in 1918, he returned to Switzerland where he had a holiday in
Ticino (Swiss Italy), with Rilke, Busoni, Hermann Hesse and Jeanne Bucher. His second exhibition took place in Zürich in the same year. In 1920, he travelled extensively: Berlin, Munich, Rome, Naples. Then he took up residence in Paris with Marthe Hennebert. It was she who wove two tapestries: Pêcheur (Fisherman) and Piscine (Swimming pool). He unveiled in the same year, at Le Salon des Indépendants, two tapestries and four paintings. He met the art merchant Étienne Bignou.

In 1921, Jean Lurçat met Louis Marcoussis, he discovered Picasso and Max Jacob, and created decoration and costumes for Le spectacle de la Compagnie Pitoeff: "He who receives slaps", and then spent the autumn near the Baltic sea. The following year, he created his fifth tapestry, Le Cirque (the circus), for Mme. Cuttoli. His first personal exhibition took place in Paris in April and September. He made a large decoration on a wall (no longer visible today) at the Castle of Villeflix. Then he went to Berlin, where he met Ferruccio Busoni.

During the next two years Lurçat resumed travelling. In 1923 he went to Spain;  in 1924 he went to North Africa, the Sahara, Greece and Asia Minor. Upon his return, he signed a contract without exclusivity with his friend, Étienne Bignou. His brother André built his new house, Villa Seurat, in Paris. He devoted a portion of the year 1924 to the making of his sixth tapestry, Les arbres (The trees). On 15 December, Lurçat married Marthe Hennebert and traveled in 1925 to Scotland, then Spain and northern Africa. Upon his return, he took up residence at La Villa Seurat. He participated in several expositions with Raoul Dufy, Marcoussis, Laglenne and others. He revealed, at the home of Jeanne Bucher, elements of decoration (carpets and paintings) of Le Vertige, a film by Marcel l'Herbier. In 1926, he exhibited in Paris and Brussels, and participated in collective exhibitions in Vienna, Paris, and Anvers. His fame began due to several articles devoted to him.

Years of glory
With the company of Marthe, he departed in 1927 for the Orient and spent the summer in Greece and Turkey. He decorated the lounge of the family of David David-Weill. There are four tapestries in developing and implementing L'Orage (The storm), for George Salles (Musée National d'Art Moderne, National Museum of Modern Art). He returned to Greece and Italy (Rome) in 1928 before embarking in October for the United States of America, for his first exhibition in New York. He spent 1929 in Marco. In 1930 he had exhibitions in Paris, London, New York, and Chicago; he created nine drypoint illustrations for Les Limbes (The limbo) by Charles-Albert Cingria; and he made another visit to America. In that same year he divorced Marthe Hennebert. In 1931 he married Rosane Timotheef and they took up residence in Vevey (Switzerland). He wrote several articles about painting, and reduced his production of pictures.

In December, 1932, Lurçat participated in the exhibition Sélections with Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Derain  and Raoul Dufy; the event was organised in New York by the Valentine Gallery. Being aligned with the far left, from then on he often mixed his political opinions with his art. In 1933, he was living in New York. He created the decoration and the costumes for the Jardin Public (Public Garden), a ballet by George Balanchine. 1933 also saw his first tapestry sewn at Aubusson, following the new and revolutionary technique that he developed.

Lurçat and the revival of French tapestry
In order to fully appreciate and understand the works of Jean Lurçat, one must view them in the context of the history of tapestry,  in particular, the downfall of its existence during the rise of the Renaissance.  It was during this time that tapestry was somewhat re-invented, where by traditional techniques were misplaced in the likening of tapestry to paintings by artists of the likes of Raphael.  Jean Lurçat is largely responsible for its revival in the 20th century when he redefined the importance of designing tapestry in a way that embraced the integrity of authentic tapestry from the Middle Ages, inspiring artists like Picasso to acquire the skills to design for tapestry.

It was in the 15th century that tapestry, in its authentic form, was first recorded as being practiced.  By this time the technique had been mastered which gives us no reference as to when it was first put into practice.  What we do know is that during the rise of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century, the art of tapestry was alienated by a demand for tapestry to imitate painting as closely as possible.  This allowed for traditional techniques, like hachure and hatching, to fall by the wayside allowing the art of tapestry to experience a kind of identity crisis.  Techniques like shape-building dominated this new presence, creating an aesthetic dissimilar to that of traditional tapestry in that it achieved shading and implied dimension by building shapes as opposed to blending shapes and colour with the above mentioned techniques.  This, in essence, created a new art form; a derivative of tapestry, effectively superseding it.

Western European tapestry history spans the foundation of the Gobelins manufactory 1662 to the beginning of the third republic of France in 1871.  It is in this time period where the subservience to painting is observed as being the dominant characteristic of tapestry.  The commission by Pope Leo X in the early sixteenth century of The Acts of the Apostles by Raphael, to be woven in the Brussels workshops is thought be the turning point whereby tapestry was to, from that point on, be fashioned after designs supplied by painters.

The relationship of painting to tapestry in fact began in 1476 where the first counts of tapestry weaving were in Belgium, and painters had ostracized weavers for creating their own cartoons.  Thus indicating that tapestries were originally made in the likeness of paintings, and is where traditional techniques were formed.   Furthermore, in the 1500s, painters (with paint) and later designated specialized glazers (with only ink, wild-grain colour or chalk) were commissioned to touch up and create defined lines around the shapes on the surface of woven tapestry.  The need for this integration of painting on tapestry has been observed as being the result of poor tapestry cartoons.

Jean Lurçat himself began as a painter and tapestry weaver in 1915.  He became intrigued by tapestry weaving when he was learned of its history.  Lurçat was especially influenced by Apocalypse of Angiers (14C) which he viewed in 1937. He came away from this experience more sure that emotional content and reduction of means, or "scale of pre-arranged colour"  were of ultimate importance to tapestry design.  Lurçat was already practicing these values and was pleased to see them validated by such an illustrious and historically powerful piece.  Consequently, his convictions about how tapestry should be designed, regarded and used became stronger.

The opening statement of Lurcat's Designing Tapestry, distinguishes tapestry and easel paintings by their location: tapestries custom made for a specific, large wall. Lurçat later refers to tapestry as a medium whose most authentic form is: 1) embedded with content; 2) is invariably large scale (15 meters X 15 meters), and; 3) is designed and thought of as being forever connected to architecture.  The artist asserts: "I want to remind you that Tapestry knew its proudest moments in a time when a style of extremely grandiose architecture reigned supreme".

There are many things about tapestry that Lurçat is sure of, e.g. the emphasis of content in relation to economy; the importance for tapestry to continue to thrive as a partner to architecture.  The most recurring theme in his book, Designing Tapestry, is that of the strict design guidelines of which should be followed in order for the weaver, who is presumably not the designer, to have no artistic freedom so as for the designer to be able to design a tapestry cartoon and achieve exactly what they had envisioned as a result. In essence, Lurçat recommends a non-interpretive code in which the weaver would have no question as to what the designer requires of them. Additionally,  Lurçat makes it very clear that the idea of fashioning a tapestry after a painting, especially one that had originally been painted with no intention of becoming a tapestry, was to Lurçat misrepresentative and disrespectful to the art form.

Expositions in the USSR
In 1934, Lurçat returned to New York where he participated in the creation of new decoration and costumes for a choreography of Balanchine; which he unveiled in Chicago and Philadelphia. Then he returned to Paris and Vevey for the summer. At summer's end, he departed for Moscow, where he had an exhibition at the Musée Occidental (Western Museum), then at the museum of Kiev. In 1935, he painted the Dynamiteros in Spain; with inspiration from the revolution and the War of Spain. In Paris, he participated in the activities of the Association of the revolutionary authors and artists. Then, he followed, with Malraux and Aragon, the Journées d'Amité pour l'Union Soviétique (The Journeys of Friendship for the Soviet Union). In 1936, he exhibited in London and released his first tapestry, made at La Manufacture des Gobelins (The  Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, Paris), Les Illusions d'Icare (The Illusions of Icare). In 1937, he met François Tabard.

Vision of the apocalypse
In 1936, Jean Lurçat was inspired when he saw the tapestry L'Apocalypse (The Apocalypse), which was woven in the 14th century. In 1938, Moisson was sewn. In 1939, he exhibited in New York and in Paris. In September, he took up residence in Aubusson with Gromaire and Dubreuil in order to renovate the art of tapestry, which at the time had fallen to a low point. His innovative technique used a simplified palette and robust weaving at broad point. During this period he abandoned oil painting in favour of poster paints. The Musée National d'Art Moderne (National Museum of Modern Art) acquired Jardin des Coqs (Garden of Roosters)  and L'Homme aux Coqs (The Man of the Roosters), of which the cardboard would be destroyed by the SS in 1944 in Lanzac. In 1940, he collaborated with André Derain and Raoul Dufy.

Resistance
In June 1944, he associated himself with the fighters of the communist resistance, namely, Tristan Tzara, André Chamson, René Huyghe, Jean Cassou, and Jean Agamemnon. He was put on the Comité de Libération (Committee of Liberation). He also met Simone Selves, who would later become his wife. His adoptive son, Victor, was captured while on an intelligence mission in France and was put to death. Lurçat would not learn of his disappearance until the following year.

Legacy
Lurçat died on 6 January 1966 in Saint-Paul de Vence. During the 1980s, his widow Simone established the Musée Jean Lurçat de Saint-Laurent les Tours and the Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie contemporaine, and bequeathed many of his works to posterity.

References

External links

 Vidéo: Jean Lurçat (FR)
 Vidéo: Jean Lurçat(FR)
 The UNESCO Works of Art collection
 Mobilier national : Jean Lurçat

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Moving to a different country for university sounds super scary doesn't it? If you're getting ready for the start of uni and feeling a bit worried, don't be! We pride ourselves in having excellent international students study with us. They come from all over the world and bring the stories of their countries with them. Want to hear what they have to say about their time at the Centre for Journalism? We've made an interactive map for you to play with!!!
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Over three quarters of Australians don't know their internet speed: NBN
With the halfway point of its rollout passed, NBN decides now is the time to educate users.
By Chris Duckett | July 27, 2017 -- 23:26 GMT (16:26 PDT) | Topic: Networking
(Image: APH)
If you know the speed of your internet connection in Australia, you are among a minority, according to the company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across the country.
According to NBN, 76 percent of Australians do not know the speed of their connection, and 35 percent are unaware they are able to choose a speed tier when connecting to the NBN.
The solution to this ignorance, NBN believes, is to launch yet another marketing campaign that will nationally hit TV, direct mail, and newspaper lift outs.
In May, NBN informed Senate Estimates its last nationwide marketing campaign cost AU$7.8 million excluding GST thus far.
"We actually can see that there is a return on this. The brand image, the attractiveness, and of course the desire to take up the services sooner make the amount of spend -- and it is less than AU$10 million ... is well worth the investment," Morrow had previously told Senate Estimates.
NBN has now added that this spending was delivered within its budget, "which was allocated based on the optimal audience reach to drive activations on the NBN".
During January 1, 2016, to February 28, 2017, NBN spent a total of AU$34.5 million excluding GST on "advertising and information campaigns": AU$22.6 million on paid media advertising and production; AU$7.9 million on physical and electronic "mail awareness and education"; and just under AU$4 million on in-person demonstration, education, and information provision.
NBN has been ramping up its advertising campaign; AU$22.99 million of this AU$34.5 million was spent during the 2016-17 financial year up until February 28, 2017.
During 2015-16, NBN also spent AU$41.8 million on "activation, communication, and public education campaigns" and AU$9.5 million on corporate affairs, market research, and the supporting operational systems for this.
Earlier this week, a survey conducted by Galaxy and commissioned by ISP MyRepublic said half of Australians could not name their internet speed.
The survey said Australians are dissatisfied, want faster internet speeds, and are looking to New Zealand as model for how broadband should be priced. According to MyRepublic, 65 percent of all respondents said they wanted increased speeds, with 76 percent of respondents after internet speeds of 1Gbps or more.
MyRepublic touted 34 percent of NBN-connected respondents saying their speed was good enough to run a home business, however 61 percent of those aged 24 to 34 said their NBN connection was satisfactory to run a business.
An overwhelming majority, 85 percent, wanted a price level similar to New Zealand and not one around the AU$400 mark that MyRepublic claimed previously.
"The research also sends a clear message to the nation's ISP's [sic] and government: Australians are dissatisfied with their slow home internet speeds, they want 1Gbps speeds or more, they are worried about losing the digital economy race, and believe we are getting a raw deal compared to our Kiwi cousins," the company said.
Managing director of MyRepublic Australia Nicholas Demos said the pricing model used by NBN needs to be reviewed.
"In the other countries MyRepublic operate [sic] in, the wholesale network (equivalent to NBN in Australia) provide[s] alternative pricing models that allow us to deliver affordable speeds of up to 1Gbps to the consumer market," he said.
"The current finger pointing between RSP's [sic] and NBN on who is to blame for poor network speeds is not constructive and we would rather focus our energies on ensuring the combined AVC/CVC wholesale price regime works for everyone -- the wholesale provider, RSP, and the end consumer."
Speaking to ABC on Friday morning, NBN CEO Bill Morrow said he sees many cases where people get onto the NBN and expect gigabit speeds, but do not seek a 1Gbps plan.
"If they don't talk to their telephone provider, internet provider, they get put on to a 12Mbps service, because that's what the provider put them on," he said.
"That doesn't mean it can't do more, that doesn't mean it isn't better than what they had in terms of the capability, it just comes back to the point ... everyone out there must talk to their provider about choices, and what is right for them in their home."
Morrow reiterated his claim that demand is not present for 1Gbps services, and said most users found a 25Mbps service satisfactory.
On the issue of speed complaints, Morrow said it was the fault of NBN's retail service providers.
"Remember, they're attaching their network to ours," Morrow said. "We are, by design, not even supposed to know the name of the people that are using the service."
In a speech delivered last week, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims said retailers had in turn blamed speed issues on NBN's connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge.
"For RSPs the answer was clear. The general view we heard (from both large and smaller RSPs) was that with current CVC pricing, many were reluctant to sell these services," Sims said.
"That is, far from consumers not wanting higher speeds, RSPs were often not seeking to sell them, at least not at prices consumers are willing to pay. We heard their view that AU$60 per month is the average price point in the market for NBN services."
Sims said some retailers felt the CVC was more suited to a pure fibre to the premises network, where speed tiers could be guaranteed, something that is not possible under the multi-technology mix NBN that embraces fibre to the node.
Last month, NBN introduced a new CVC pricing model that saw retailers charged on their individual averages rather than an industry average.
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Merwin at 90
He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been a long-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature (I figure they have one more chance to correct that oversight next week), and won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for his first book, A Mask for Janus. In 1952. He has published over fifty books of poetry, fiction, and translations. In addition to the huge body of poetry, he was an early practitioner of very short fiction, what is sometimes called "flash fiction" or in the trade parlance, the hideous term "short-shorts."
On his ninetieth birthday, however, I think we should also celebrate M. S. Merwin's other durable achievement: friend of the earth. He has practiced his stewardship in southern France and especially on Maui, where he and his late wife bought an old pineapple farm and returned it slowly and patiently to its native forest. They established the estate as a conservancy in 2010 to protect it for future generations. His environmental concerns manifest themselves in much of his writing, and it is the rare later poem that does not invoke nature somehow or other. Those of you who know me are aware of my immense admiration for him as a writer; I am no less in awe of him for his respect for nature.
http://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2017/09/merwins-garden/
Quixotically Speaking
Today is the claimed or maybe presumed or only hoped-for birthday of Miguel de Cervantes (1547). He did a lot of different things, but the one we remember him for is Don Quixote (1605/1615), the parody of knightly romances so popular in Spain during the sixteenth century. Not only is it the first major instance of a novel in the modern sense, it is highly postmodern not only in its self-referentiality (mainly in part 2) and its cunning intertextuality, from his habit of reusing, quoting, and sometimes savaging other works. In part 2, Quixote and Sancho Panza find they have become famous as a result of a book about their earlier adventures. Pretty subtle for an early novel, but then, see also, Shakespeare and plays-within-plays.
While the novel is important the world over, its centrality in the Spanish-speaking world cannot be overstated. Carlos Fuentes said that he reread it every year; he also raised the possibility that Cervantes and Shakespeare were the same person, which is one reason I like Fuentes so much. He may have meant that they were embodiments of the same spirit or genius, but then again, he may not have. They died on the same date, you know, so maybe he was on to something.
For National Poetry Day
No, I can't tell you why National Poetry Day is not in National poetry month, nor why its date is a moving target year to year. I believe at least one of those must have to do with the lunar calendar. Or the loony one. Just go with it. In honor of said day, here is a poem appropriate to the occasion. It is by an American, even if he drove an ambulance in WWI for the French (hey, they were allies). It applies, I believe, to everyone. Or Anyone. It screams to be read aloud and not thought about too long or too hard. In fact, you can't possibly be wrong in your analysis, so just go with that, too. Enjoy!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22653/anyone-lived-in-a-pretty-how-town
Magic Faulknerism
Yesterday was the natal day of William Faulkner. As the names of the major novels loved and feared by English grad students swirled in my head, it came to me that what I really love about him is his Snopes Trilogy: The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion. I considered why this would be, when it isn't the one I admire most (Absalom, Absalom!, from afar), when it came to me that it's because that trilogy is his One Hundred Years of Solitude. That little voice in my head said, "But it's not really magic realism, is it? Where's the eruption of the fabulous?" And it's true: there's not that much that's fabulous in those novels except the Snopes family's capacity for corruption, venality, and fraud. But those are amazing. And the names. Flem Snopes's mere existence, to say nothing of his escapade with the Texas ponies, is worth the cost of the trilogy. That's enough. And perfectly American.
Eavan Boland
Many of you will have noticed that today is the birthday of the Gatsby fellow, but I want to celebrate another birthday writer, Eavan Boland (b. 1944). She is an important part of the wave of women's poets in Ireland since about 1970 or so, in what was once (as in, when Boland was a young person) chiefly an Old Boys' Club. Her Outside History is one of the most stunning statements of women's experience–and the importance of recognizing that experience–in many decades. You know that Emily Dickinson thing about the top of your head blowing off? Yeah, it was like that for a lot of us. She shows us the value of accurate observation and precise language, the richness of experience even without extravagant gestures. If you haven't read her, please do. She's accessible, direct, clear-eyed, and wise.
The Great Lorenzo
Today is the birthday of D. H. Lawrence (1885). Sadly, he often gets referred to as the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1930), which is true but reduces him in some minds to a dirty author. It's true that he did introduce frank treatment of sex into English writing and that he got banned repeatedly, but he was so much more. Above almost anyone, he made Americans rethink their own great writers with Studies in Classic American Literature, wrote about Freud, the unconscious, humans' estrangement from nature, the book of Revelation (written while he was busy dying of tuberculosis), ancient Etruscan culture, and, yes, sex. Before he died at forty-four, he wrote eleven novels, three chunky volumes of short stories, many novellas, essays on a wide range of topics, and around a thousand pages of poetry. I'm not sure if my shelf of Lawrence is quite five feet, but I don't own all of him, quite. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the role of horses in his work (hint: they often have to do with sex), something I am glad appears on no library shelves anywhere. Many of his works have been turned into films, the best of which are Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell, with Alan Bates, Oliver Stone, Glenda Jackson, and Jenny Linden and featuring the sexiest wrestling scene in cinema history), The Virgin and the Gypsy, and The Fox. The worst almost all have "Chatterley" in the title.
Whew Knew?
Just signed a contract for the Polish edition of How to Read Literature Like a Professor! When I started the book, I hardly expected there would be an American edition, much less others in numerous foreign (to me) languages. None of this would be possible without a lot of work by a lot of people at HarperCollins and Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, and especially by the agency's foreign rights magician, Stefanie Diaz, who keeps hawking the book at international book fairs with results that continually amaze me. When you hear the phrase "lucky devil," feel free to picture me.
September–and Songs
A September Song is one that looks backward and forward and sees that the best of times is behind the singer and ahead lies the long downhill slide–and we know where that must end. The most famous is the Kurt Weill-Maxwell Anderson that you may know as a Sinatra song. This particular instance is a bit different, registering not the end for the speaker but something far worse. The birth date Geoffrey Hill gives for the victim, by the way, is one day after his own. What Hill does with allusions and line breaks is nothing short of magical.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48459/september-song


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January 19, 2020 Sorryless93 Comments
Baseball went to the mattresses this month in a bloodletting that leaves three franchises in limbo on the heels of the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal.
As a result, Houston fired its manager and general manager. Boston fired its skipper, Alex Cora, who had served as bench coach for Houston and is suspected of using nefarious means to steal signs while in Boston as well. And the New York Mets Carlos Beltran stepped down before ever managing a single game.
If you're not down with the latest MLB ordeal, it's really quite simple. The Astros stole signs, which is something that's been going on since rawhide was invented. Only difference is, they created an elaborate system of video monitoring, which had been banned by the league prior to these actions. During home games, they had someone watching a video monitor and banging a trash can to signal what pitch was coming for Astros hitters. When world class hitters are accorded that kind of 411, it becomes batting practice. Hence all the heads that have rolled, and all the many heads that are teetering nervously in anticipation of being found out.
So yeah, Houston does indeed have a problem, and you can expect every away game on their schedule to become an episode of American Horror Story. I'm pretty sure they should forfeit their three game series in New York in late September, unless they're curious as to what Fallujah looks like in the fall.
They had us all fooled, yours truly included. Hell, back in October, I included the Astros in my Heroes World Series edition saying ". . . The Houston Astros have done just about everything right over the last five seasons . . ." Fucking guys.
Sports is supposed to be an escape from the everyday world of taxes, transit strikes, unpopular general elections and shitty roads. But seeing as how sports is made up of fallible participants, the odds are not always in our favor.
In fact, professional sports has a long and sullied history of scandal and controversy. In basketball, there was referee Tim Donaghy's game fixing scandal. Hockey saw the Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to America, shortly after which it became illegal for Canadian teams to win the Stanley Cup . . . I think. And in football, you have the New England Patriots.
Baseball's got all of them beat. There is one hundred years worth of unfortunate events tucked in its seams. From the 1919 Black Sox scandal to Pete Rose being banned from baseball for gambling on games to the steroid era to this month's sign stealing revelations involving the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox.
The truly unique aspect regarding the sport formerly known as America's Pastime is that time seems to romanticize (or monetize) most of its wounds. Countless books have been written and several movies have been made about the 1919 White Sox fixing the World Series. And while the steroid era will always be a blight to fans of a certain age, the dirty truth is that it produced a tsunami of green. Player salaries grew exponentially as a result of tainted numbers while owners took full advantage of an explosive revenue stream by creating their own television networks. Welp, at least Commissioner Bud Selig fought to preserve the integrity of the game . . .
So even out of worst case scenarios, baseball usually figures out a win. Can you imagine a real life tragedy being romanticized to the tune of billions of dollars? Oh wait . . I forgot about James Cameron.
This latest scandal is already going next gen with crazy accusations about Astros players wearing electronic devices during games. It's like Bad News Bears meets MacGyver meets The Wire meets Are you kidding me with this shit? But that's okay because player agent Scott Boras insists that his client- Jose Altuve- never used an electronic device. Which should put these rumors to sleep since no player agent has ever told a lie about their client, ever.
Of course, as sports scandals are wont to do, this has peeps feeling all sorts of ways . . most of them homicidal. The Astros are the latest Public Enemy Number One to come down the sporting pike, and it doesn't get any more vitriolic than the text my friend sent to me yesterday morning when we were discussing Sign-Gate. He had some . . uh . . sharply fashioned thoughts as per Houston's diminutive shortstop, Jose Altuve.
That little fucker should quit baseball and become a jockey.
I should note my friend is a Dodgers fan. And a gambler. So, yanno . . when he's hurt he says things he doesn't really mean. Even though he really means them.
All kidding aside (for a moment), I really hope the Astros don't suck this season. As much as the Yankees fan in me wants to see them win eighty five games and miss the playoffs, the baseball fan in me wants to see them make another run at October. Because it would prove how good this club truly was/is, and that it didn't need to resort to Nixonian tactics. It would serve to remind us once again that no player or team will ever be above the game. And it will provide a much needed respite to Astros fans, who waited fifty five years to celebrate a championship and now are left to wonder what it all meant. They deserve better than what they've gotten, I do know that much.
Perhaps the biggest irony is that for all the video recording and trash can banging the Astros were utilizing, their home field advantage meant bupkis in the World Series last October. They became the first team in World Series history to lose all four games played in their home park.
It was as if the baseball Gods were taking out the trash.
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The Guat says:
Duuuuuuude. I. WAS. FURIOUS. I heard about this last year but was thinking nah that pitcher is probably soured out. No way they could be jackasses at this level. We got robbed twice and Darvish got run out of town. They are the most hated team in New York and Los Angeles. And a 5 mil fine? What is that?! Like a pair shoes for these owners that's nothing. $500 mil will teach a lesson. And guaranteed people will think twice before conducting 007 surveillance from center field. Cora, an ex-Dodger, should definitely be banned and title vacated. Because if it's not … Dodgers are going to have to hire extra security because LA fans getting cheated twice by the same guy … it's going to be INTENSE when Houston or Boston show up here. And YES Altuve needs to be fined/suspended as the rest of the crew. They saw the monitors in the tunnel. They knew what was going on, if they didn't want to participate they should have used a sign.
Cali,
You're the second Dodgers fan in two days that has dished up the what's what on this fiasco. And lemme tell you, LA peeps ain't playing when they say bring em on! I mentioned a Bronx reception but damn if Chavez Ravine isn't going to feel like the Alama for Houston.
CC Sabathia was railing on about getting screwed out of two titles, and while I do wonder if we were screwed out of the pennants, I know LA and Washington would have had a LOT to say about the World Series. The Dodgers have the most legitimate gripe, as they were thisclose to winning it all. I feel for them, you.
You're right about the fine Why even bother? As for vacating the title, it will never happen. Even if doing so would be the only way to truly deter other teams from trying this stuff. Because let's face it, other teams have and will continue to do so. This doesn't stop it from happening, it simply forces those who would do it to find other ways to go about it.
Wish we were riffing under more fortunate circumstances, but hey . . baseball will keep on keeping on. And there's always a chance that its LA vs NY in this year's World Series. Which would require us to wager . . . LOL.
Good to see you chica.
Ha! I was gonna say Chavez Ravine but I wasn't sure non Cali peeps would get it. But you did! Dodgers fans are lit up! CC Sabathia IS RIGHT! I need to order my 2017-2018 Back to Back Champions shirt because that's ridiculous. I LOVE Valenzuela and Hersh but Kershaw and Darvish got screwed. All kinds of columnists trashing them for months. Did you see that comment from that pitcher? I'd rather face a guy on steroids than a guy who knew what pitch was coming? It should have been Yankees vs. Dodgers from the beginning.
I gotchou!
Back to Back eh?! Them's fighting words! And shame of it is, we never got to use em because all this nonsense was going on.
Kershaw always gets trashed and it's a shame. Dude is a monster, and there is NO October without him doing what he does on the regular.
And that's what pisses me off most about all this. It's HARD to win! So many great names are in the Hall who never won it all . . through no fault of their own. It's simply not a cake walk, which is what makes winning that much sweeter. And to have such an unfair advantage, it's just the worst.
I'm trying to comment in an intelligent manner because, until this very post, I had no clue about sign-gate. Guess that's what happens when you don't watch baseball or the news. And I STILL had to google what you meant because I thought there was some physical stealing of signs and was like whaaa? So. That said, Fucking guys…
I loathe how professional sports' salaries are so through the roof, it's barely about the game anymore. Apparently cheating, or finding new ways to cheat will continue to be an issue… hell, they can afford to find new ways, can't they?
As for them losing all their home games, karma, bitch!
Perfect choice of song, as per!
To bringing back honesty to professional sports – ok, ok, a girl can dream, no?
Q (who cannot believe her comment is so short)
You're always providing me with the smarts so let's not harp on the fact that you didn't know about these shenanigans. That only proves your smarts! It's pure bullocks, this entire episode. That's right, bullocks!
As long as there is competition, there will be cheating. There will be athletes and coaches and front office personnel looking for any small advantage that could prove to make the difference between winning and losing. Sad to say, but true.
Karma came calling on their asses, fo shizzle.
Had to. It was the only choice.
A boy already had that dream. It didn't end well . . .
B (who cannot believe she really thinks she needs to 'splain to me how long or short she goes on a comment. because really. . . she knows how much I love all her comments . . all).
Awright, awright, awright. I won't harp. And we've gone from chuffed to bollocks! We're just acing the UK terms, ain't we!
You are right. Jesus, there are sports where you think they can't cheat and they still find a way.
I hear ya.
Q – who knows
Unless it's the friendly drink . . no harp.
Chuffed needed a running partner, so I called up bollocks (which I might have spelled wrong) and it was a match.
I dunno about acing. But I'm on it! 😉
The did and was I know, the hear ya I hear. So that covers most all of the senses while we're at it. Damn we're good!
B-have girl! 😉
Which, ironically, I am presently sipping…
Nope, you spelt it right. And it was an excellent running partner.
Doing ayt, I think.
We are – most definitely very good.
Q- do I have to? 😉
Do I know you or do I know U?
I wasn't sure if I went with the Sandra spelling on that one or not . . .
Bettah than buttah, is what I think.
B-ahahahahahaha! 😉
U know me…
LOL! Took me a second there…
Buttah makes everything bettah.
Q-R-hilarious!
Did it? I love when I get you like that!
It really does.
B-ueno
It's your fault that I do…
I does
Q-loves it
I know it's true. That's why I done said it.
Nah . . . nothing is my fault. Ever. 😉
N'kay.
B loves you
You done did.
Ever? Puh-leeze.
Q loves you
I done. Did.
Hey . . I tried. It's all in the try . . isn't that what Vince Lombardi said? Oh no, wait . . he said trying was for losers. . . never mind.
MUAH!!
You did. Whatever. To tell with Vince. I give points on the try.
MWAH!!
That Hmmm. . . it FEELS sarcastic.
That first part to this second paragraph . . yeah . . that feels pretty sarcastic too.
Vince Lombardi was a football legend in Murica. Which is where real football gets played, just so y'all know up there in Canada.
Moi? I think not…
Seriously? You seem to be quite the connoisseur on sarcasm. Something else you can teach me.
Right. I am so grateful for you teaching me all about "real" football… https://youtu.be/2E064kb3UnU
MWAH!
Well now!!
Will you now? Stop making promises…
It's as if I left a reply to your previous comment that got you all riled up or something . . .
G'head… Pussy.
I'm just talking out loud here.
Yanno . . it's like you don't know me at all sometimes. Me . . the Negan of Nether. And Imma leave it at that . . .
'Course you are.
Hah!! Puh-leese… I dig on Negan. Just sayin'…
I do it way more than I should. But then some dumbass calls the cops and I have to 'splain myself out of a popo car ride.
Well look at the balsamic vinegar on you! I dig that kind of Shakespeare, very much.
Hah! We don't want no cops involved.
I know you dig. For me, that's enough.
I am going on a diet, as per. So yes, we should keep them out of things from this time forward. If we do it right. 😉
It's James Brown level stuff, learned it from him once upon a time.
Uh huh. I dig.
Canada rocks!
THAT it does! Lucky you, to have a Canadian in your circle!
We shall pick up on this conversation thread later, as it is closing in on Netflix time . . . .
Seriously. Whatchu looking for on YouTube?
911 Lone Star was WORTH it. And I do not usually do those shows. All your fault.
I was looking up Amish cooking porn on YouTube. Don't tell anyone . . it's impossible to explain that shit.
I agree with you! Same time next week? Oh wait… we need part 2 of the pilot…
Buahahaha!!! That's a thing? Oh my…
Same time Tuesday! Get with the program Canada!!!
I heard tell it was. Rumor has it. I . . personally, think it's fake news. Like Bigfoot Sex. Which I never watched on YouTube for an hour and a half.
Well… technically, it is tomorrow but some poor stiffs gotta work, so I'll wait till Tuesday.
Prolly. Oh you didn't, eh? Shouldn't have said it coz now I think you did.
Same time tomorrow! I meant . . . tomorrow.
Prolly no way Josie. Fake news! I never, and I never probably never! Ever! Watched Bigfoot have sex with Betty Rubble on YouTube. So spare me the baseless accusations, puhleeze!
Right. Officially
Never you mind…
I am a tad worried about my mets season…
Depends on who they get. They frustrate me and I'm not even a Mets fan! But I do love Thor and I think with the right skipper, they will be fine.
Well…it's the Mets…so who knows…..
Well, know that this Yankees fan will always have a soft spot in my heart for the team from Flushing. You can blame my grandfather for that one. He loved them.
💗💗
I know the Seinfeld bit, and the song. I know about sports, not much.
Oh, I know who Wayne Gretzky is.
Neat post!
You know what's important.
And Wayne Gretzky . . he was American. Don't let Dale tell you differently. She insists that Michael J. Fox is Canadian!
Don't you start with that here!
Too late sweetheart. He's ours.
Pffft.
Wayne insists he never even visited Canada.
Shut the eff up.
I know it's not easy, but hey . . you guys still have Charlie Sheen to call your own . . .
Oh HELL NO!! He is ALL yours… Don't even try. I told you, we give you Pamela Anderson… free.
Pamela Anderson and free? Pfft!
Look up redundancy in the dictionary, sweet cheeks . . . please do.
I don't care what shenanigans you are going through. You ain't getting Michael J. NOR Wayne… no matter who he played for or who he's married to…
I got a "Hey!" outta you on this thread. That is already a win for me, really.
Both Michael J and Wayne"Captain America" Gretzky were "Naturalized" as soon as they became a part of a Trivial Pursuit question. That was made right here! In 'Murica. . . after it was made in China and shipped here for pennies on the dollar. So . . . there!
Glad you think so…
Do NOT even try to go there. And FYI… Trivial Pursuit is a CANADIAN game…
I do! I know! 😉
So what? An American moved to Canada and invented the game . . .that's what happened.
Don't "Fake News: moi!
Yeah. Right.
Jeeeee-ZUS! Yanno… you seem to have a small problemo. Not everything cool comes from the US.. I DON'T… Just sayin'… And I kinda know now you dig this particular Canadian…
No fake news whatsoever…
So that's what sarcasm looks like!
I didn't say EVERYTHING cool came from here. I just inferred that maybe . . oh . . 99 percent of the entire world's "cool" collection came from here. Not implausible.
I dig . . yes I do in fact dig. But I've heard tell you were really born in Bronx and moved to Canada.
We don't fake. On Saturdays.
Uh huh. If you think so.
Ex-ca-use me?
Buahaha! I think that is wishful thinking. But yanno… If I have a Bronx personality that speaks to yours… I'm jiddy wid it.
No? Hmm
I am still learning the vagaries of sarcasm from your country. Rest assured, sarcasm? You guys own it.
Did I stutter?
I wish. I think. I have flavor. Bronx style. You gotta problem with that?
I'm good with that.
You got it… But it is spelt FLAVOUR. An no I have zero problems with that.
Me too, even if this sarcasm thing is really hard!
We do not include a U in our flavor because we have found it slows the word down.;)
Uh huh. Funny thing is, you make it look so easy…
That's the trouble with you Yanks, ya gotta learn to slow it down…
I guess it's because I read so much about it, but personally . . unlike yourself, sarcasm does not come naturally to me. 😉
Only when we eat.
I think you are so adept at it, you don't even realise it! 😉
You are trying to say you only slow down when you eat?
That's the thing. Frank warned me about this . . .
Americans, in general. Battles were waged in less time than it takes most Americans to pack in the food at a buffet . . .
Of course, of course. And you did not heed his warning, did you?
That's what I was thinking. So, just a suggestion… slow down, you get to savoUr the flavoUr and distinguish all the spices and whatnot when you do take the time…
I really thought this whole sarcasm thing was nothing more than an urban legend.
Oh, I do take it slowly. I'm with you on that. Or with U . .
Go figure. We learn something new every day…
That is a very good thing… You or U… just not Yo
Living in the country of its origin, you are an expert on the topic though . . .
Yo! Is for Bronx.
Right! Mum's the word!
Rebecca Wallick says:
I've never been much into pro sports, maybe watching half-assed at family gatherings because it was impossible to have a conversation otherwise, maybe even catching an occasional Super Bowl. A few Mariners games over the years, but only live and only then to people watch in the stands. So this latest brouhaha doesn't impact me at all. But I feel your pain, having experienced something similar with the Lance Armstrong cheating/lies fiasco in the Tour, having become an avid fan because of Lance.
No more pro sports for me. Fallible humans are too disappointing at their pay scale.
But your rendition of the fiasco kept me reading to the end, and I'm glad I did, because your last two paragraphs wrapped it all up perfectly.
R Dub!
Nah, you do what you're doing. You're doing it so very well.
Sports is something I'm anchored to, and I blame it on my high school days when sports kept me relevant. But really, it turns most people off, because, like you say . . the math is all wrong.
I'm thrilled you kept on with this. Lets me know I'm doing something right. 😉
I'm working on my own post on this topic. Part of it addresses my own feelings about the game. After a lifetime of being a baseball fan, more than for any other sport, I'm feeling like I'm done with the game. Between the obscene amounts of money (which is justification enough for cheating), the way the game is played (home run or strike out and nothing in between), the coming rules changes, and the potential for their being robot umpires … baseball is losing its soul, and I don't want to stick around and watch the decline.
Other major sports aren't any better, unfortunately.
I don't believe you for a second. Dude . . baseball has ALWAYS been subjected to this shit! If me and you were talking in a speakeasy about the White Sox in November of 1919 . . you would have been bitching about this very thing.
Get back to me after you write this thing.
I'm still not gong to believe you.
You're right in your disbelief. A lifetime of being a baseball fan and sports fan makes it a hard habit to break, but I'm at least there in spirit. And as I listed above, it's not just this cheating episode. A lot of things are going wrong with the game.
Of this there is no doubt.
I still shake my head when I think about the look away pass that Selig and the powers that be used when the steroid era was busy torching once revered numbers. Everybody got paid, which was all that mattered at the time.
Well hey . . there is always minor league ball.
I find it funny that the Astros are interviewing Dusty Baker – the manager who looked away while Bonds was juicing, and who knows who else in the Giants locker room.
Dusty has to be getting up there. Hell, he was managing the club when I visited SF in 1993!
He's definitely getting up there. But just as with running for President, there is no upper limit on age. Unfortunately.
He's 70. Seems like he should be older.
Yeah, I thought he was older.
Last week I heard a radio show with some of the scoop about the Astros –
But your post had given me a fuller picture –
And so sad that it happened and glad they were caught –
And this was classic "sorryless" phrasing:
"It's like Bad News Bears meets MacGyver meets The Wire…"
This episode will stay with the Astros forever. Because fans will always question whether their winning the World Series in 2017 was valid.
Thank you Ms Prior. 🙂
I keep thinking … this team was real good, and didn't need to do it. Like the Patriots, they were good enough. Nixon had the election in the bag – no chance of losing – oh no … everyone wants more because more means more. Meanwhile, who would imagine three teams looking for managers a month before spring training.
It was reckless and worse, and so the Astros will forever after have a question mark next to their World Series title. No asterisk, because the MLB doesn't do that, 😉
This is unprecedented. And two WS winning managers at that. I think the Cora situation is fascinating. He presided over this elaborate sign stealing system in Houston and then had carryover in Boston. Will he ever get a managing gig again? I don't know . . .
When I first heard about this scandal, I just kept shaking my head. Why does our culture favor, dare I say even reward cheaters so much? #Belichickyousuck *sigh*
In the race to be the best, common sense and ethics gets trampled.
Ethics have become a lost quality in this society for the most part.
Bad behavior isn't simply justified, it's rewarded.
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NGC 1399 este o galaxie eliptică de dimensiuni mari din constelația sudică Cuptorul, fiind galaxia centrală din Roiul Cuptorul.

Există posibilitatea ca o gaură neagră supermasivă, cu o masă egală cu 500 de milioane de mase solare, să fie prezentă în centrul acestei galaxii.

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Galaxii eliptice
1399


In today's times when selfishness is rampant and there is a general degradation of social unity, ethics and even family structure it sounds very unusual to hear stories of heroes who are doing unselfish acts for others.
The last such incident that we have seen, when the Japanese firefighters willingly exposed themselves to high, even deadly levels of radiation in order to protect their fellow citizens is quite inspiring and admirable.
We immediately wonder if we would have been able to do the same in their situation? It also makes us wonder how much these people gained spiritually with this act, because it is quite a high sacrifice to make and one would guess it is a valuable one in the scope of universal law. A similar level of sacrifice is often expected from some other professions such as the police or the army, where one has to sacrifice life for the sake of duty, nation, etc.
We can look at this act from two angles which are also the two reasons we are born: the angle of karmic law, and the angle of spiritual growth on the path to God-realisation.
The karmic law is quite complex, and there are numerous parameters which influence the quantity of merits or demerits which are created. Of all of these parameters the most important parameter is the intention behind the act and that defines which benefit one gains from sacrificing life.
If the intention of the person is to sacrifice his life in order to save one person, or his family members, a karmic account is created, that is, that person he is saving or the family members he is saving will be in his debt. The only case when they will not be in his debt is if through this act he is just repaying the debt from a previous life to that person or to his family. In that case the karmic account gets settled.
If on the other hand the intention of the person is to sacrifice his life for the collective, for the society or the nation, then he gains merits which he will collect either in heaven or in his next life. From the angle of spiritual progress however, in both these cases karma is being created or completed, so the person is not gaining spiritual progress from the act.
We may wonder why would the person not gain a full spiritual benefit from such a big sacrifice? In order for the embodied soul to reach God-realisation one must imbibe Divine qualities and purify all the bodies, including the physical body, mental body, intellect and ego. Sacrificing life is akin to sacrificing attachment to the physical body, but one also needs to sacrifice attachment to all the impressions in the mind, the intellect and one's own ego. Only then can we experience our inner Divine nature.
We undoubtedly gain by striving to work and sacrifice for the benefit of others. The person doing work or sacrificing for society or his community with the right intention gains merits. However when our sacrifice for others is coupled with spiritual practice such as chanting, performing service to the spiritual cause, developing spiritual love, imbibing seekership qualities and developing spiritual emotion, it brings us added spiritual benefit and brings us closer to the Divine.
Sacrificing for the Ultimate Truth and the result is God-realisation!


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Our 14th main stage production is Smallone.
Written by Bottom Dog ensemble member John Murphy, Smallone was originally performed in a production in 2006 which eventually toured to the prestigious Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2010.
Having been approached by local actress Michelle O'Flanagan to perform the show, Bottom Dog agreed to produce but are taking the show in a new direction. Helming the piece himself this time, writer John Murphy decided to take it out of a conventional theatre space and into the grimy, authentic reality of a room in a old Georgian building in Limerick. Following the huge success of our last site specific production – our award nominated production of What Happened Bridgie Cleary in 2013 – Bottom Dog continue to open up Limerick city's found spaces to present our work in a variety of venues and intriguing locations.
The protagnoist of Smallone 'Mingey' loves her cats, loves club milks and loves Himself. She hates under the stairs, crow haired welfare officers, black dogs and the "snouts" who torment her. John has created the strange, darkly humorous world of Mingey – a fascinating character whose language is quirky and childlike, whose passions are extreme and whose story is emotionally riveting.
"I told him, 'there's plenty more fish in the sea'. But he knew and I knew that that was a pile of useless shite cos fish are slippery and hard to keep a hold of." – Mingey


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