A socially conscious and caring musician to the end, Chris Cornell filmed this video of his song for the film The Promise to be released on World Refugee Day, June 20. This was to be Cornell's final release prior to his passing on May 18, 2017.
When the song was first released, Cornell said: "'The Promise' to me is mainly about paying homage to those we lost in the Armenian Genocide, but it's also about shining a light on more recent atrocities. The same methods used in the Armenian genocide were used to carry out crimes against humanity in Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda, and right now in Syria on multiple fronts, contributing to a massive global refugee crisis.
"Unfortunately, the words 'never again' seem like just words when we recall these mass executions of the twentieth century, as well as renewed racism and prejudice around the world. Even in the U.S., the warning signs — isolating groups based on race and religion — are evident. We really need to tell these stories and keep telling them in as many different ways as we can. As humans, we have a tremendous capacity to trudge ahead in our lives and not look at the difficult and challenging moments... but I think it's important. Educating ourselves on the past is the best way to understand the present and avoid future atrocities by understanding and intervening. We must educate and stand as one to combat this fear and violence, and as citizens of the world, work to protect each other's human rights."


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Jaffna Private Tour : 2 Days Excursion
Home SRI LANKA Tour en Jaffna Jaffna Private Tour : 2 Days Excursion
Más en Jaffna
Jaffna peninsula is an amazing destination that you must visit in your journey to Sri Lanka.
We do arrange each and every things that you need in your journey to Jaffna. You will take minimum 02 days to cover must see places in Jaffna peninsula. Best part is you will have to use both road transfer and water transfer in Jaffna. Our team is well experience and guide will show and explain you all must see places and sceneries in Jaffna. We will arrange everything for you in advance where you would enjoy your holiday on your own freedom.
What you should do ?
You just book the package you are looking right now, and we will make your days amazing in Jaffna peninsula.
Special Remarks.
We could offer you transfer from any location to Jaffna on your request, and additional charges will be added.
We could also arrange hotels on your request, and additional charges will be added.
Day 1: Nagadeepa Purana Vihara / Velanai Island / Neduntheevu / Delft Island
Stop At: Nagadipa Purana Vihara, Nagadipa / Nainativu Island, Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Nagadeepa Purana Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Jaffna district of Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It is among the country's sixteen holiest Buddhist shrines. According to contemporary history, the Gautama Buddha visited the site after five years of attaining Enlightenment to settle the dispute between two warring Naga kings, Chulodara and Mahodara. Ancient history according to the Mahavamsa chronicles and the Tamil Buddhist epic Manimekalai mentions a gem-studded throne and a stone with the Buddha's footprint at the island Nainativu, (also known as Nagadeepa) which pilgrims from India visited.
The site is known as the place where Lord Buddha came during his second visit to Sri Lanka, after five years of attaining Enlightenment, to intervene and mediate in settling a dispute between two Naga Kings, Chulodara and Mahodara over the possession of a gem-studded throne.
When Buddha arrived and saw the Naga Kings prepared for fighting, Budhha used psychic powers to appear in the sky performing miracles. This made the Nagas astonished and happy. After having listened to the Dhamma sermons displaying Buddha's masterly knowledge of unity and harmony, meththa and compassion, the Naga kings paid homage to Budhha with overwhelming faith. The throne was offered to him in unison and they became pious devotees.
A deity named Samiddhi Sumana, who had made the banyan tree his abode, accompanied him to Thathagatha while in Jetavanarama, holding the uprooted tree (Rajayathana tree) as an umbrella (parasol) to him. The Naga King Maniakkitha, ruler of Kelaniya, moved by the compassion of the Buddha, thanked him profusely for settling the dispute. He further pleaded for a souvenir to worship and consequently the Buddha offered him the Rajayathana tree and the throne.
The Nagadeepa Vihara has been reconstructed, and developed in the times of king Devanampiya Tissa and Dutugemunu and to convert it into a sacred place.
Stop At: Jaffna - Pannai Old Community Centre, Kayts, Sri Lanka
Velanai Island, also known as Leiden in Dutch, is a small island off the coast of Jaffna Peninsula in the North of Sri Lanka. Received per-historic archaeological evidence of ancient life in Saatti suggested that there was a well-organized civilization emerged in this island. Velani is located at 9.40°N 79.54°E. It is surrounded by the Palk Strait and at a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south-west of Jaffna town. Though most of Velani district is a level plain and also has maximum elevation of 15 metres (49 ft) above mean sea level. The total area of this island is nearly 36 km2.
Stop At: Neduntheevu (Delft Island), Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Neduntheevu or Neduntivu (also known by its Dutch name Delft) is an island in the Palk Strait, northern Sri Lanka. This island is named as Delft in the Admiralty Chart unlike the other islands, whose names are Tamil. The island's area is 50 km² and it is roughly oval-shaped. Its length is 8 km and its maximum width about 6 km.
Neduntivu is a flat island surrounded by shallow waters and beaches of coral chunks and sand. It is home to a small population of Tamil people, mostly living in quiet compounds close to the northern coast. The vegetation is of a semi-arid tropical type, with palmyra palms, dry shrubs and grasses that grow on the pale Grey porous coralline soil. Papayas and bananas grow close to the local people's homes. In the western coast of the island there are remains of a 1000-year-old temple[citation needed built by the Chola Dynasty, as well as the ruins of a Dutch colonial fort. The water is slightly brackish, and it is taken from shallow wells using buckets made from palmyra palm leaves. There are feral ponies on the island, descendants of forebears abandoned there in the Dutch period.
The island was named after the Dutch city of Delft by Rijckloff van Goens. He named the eight most important islands after Dutch cities.
Day 2: Jaffna & Casuarina Beach
Stop At: Nallur Kovil, Jaffna Sri Lanka
Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil is a significant Hindu temple, located in Nallur, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The presiding deity is Lord Murugan or Katharagama Deviyo in the form of the holy 'Vel' in the Sanctum, the primary shrine, and in other forms, namely, Shanmugar, Muthukumaraswami, Valli Kaanthar with consorts Valli and Deivayanai, and Thendayuthapani, sans consorts in secondary shrines in the temple. The original, Kandaswamy Temple was founded in 948 ad.
The temple is a socially important institution for the Sri Lankan Tamils Hindu identity of north Sri Lanka. In the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, many temples have been built in Europe and North America using the same name as a cultural memory. Thanks to its Administration and strict decipline admired and revered by the devotees, Nallur Kovil is the epitome of punctuality, order and neatness, and provides a model for all Saiva temples. Above all it is the manner in which religious ceremonies are conducted with such impeccable timing and strict discipline that makes it a favourite amongst devotees.
Stop At: Jaffna Fort, Jaffna Sri Lanka
Jaffna Fort is a fort built by the Portuguese at Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1618 under Phillippe de Oliveira following the Portuguese invasion of Jaffna. The fort is located near Karaiyur. Due to numerous miracles attributed to the statue of Virgin Mary in the church nearby, the fort was named as Fortress of Our Lady of Miracles of Jafanapatão (Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora dos Milagres de Jafanapatão). It was captured by the Dutch under Rijcklof van Goens in 1658 who expanded it. In 1795, it was taken over by the British, and remained under the control of a British garrison till 1948. As the only large military fort in the country, due to the presence of only government and military buildings within its ramparts, it was garrisoned by a detachment of the Ceylon Army. With the onset of the Sri Lankan Civil War it came under siege on several occasions and was the scene of pitched battles. From 1986 to 1995 it was under the control of the LTTE during this time the LTTE destroyed several of key features to stop the Army getting control due to the site being used to stage attacks but it was recaptured by the Sri Lanka Army in 1995 after a 50-day siege during Operation Riviresa. It was also vandalised by locals to rebuild houses damaged from the war .Today it remains garrisoned by a detachment of the Sri Lanka Army with limited access to visitors and is being renovated with Dutch funding.
Buildings inside the fort include the Governor's residence (King's House), Queen's House, Kruys Church, the Garrison Parade Ground, Police quarters and several buildings from the Portuguese era.
Stop At: Jaffna Archaeological Museum, Navalar Road, Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Jaffna Archaeological Museum is located in Nallur, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The land was given to museum by Arumuga Navalar Foundation, and front portion has Navalar Cultural Hall. The museum houses a rare collection of antiquities. Buddhist and Hindu religious collection are in big collection, which are in various forms of metal, wood and stone. The excellent collections begin in time from the period of ancient period Sri Lanka to the colonial era. Also, some of the archaeological excavations findings of Kandarodai can seen at this museum.
Stop At: Sangiliyan Statue, Jaffna Sri Lanka
The Sangiliyan statue was dedicated to Cankili II a Tamil martyr and the last king of Jaffna Kingdom. The statue is seen as a landmark of the city of Jaffna. The Sangiliyan statue was built 1974 at Muuirai junction Nallur and declared open by then Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah. On 2011 was the statue removed and a new statue was built at the same place.
Stop At: Ruins of King Sangiliyan's Minister's Residence, Jaffna Sri Lanka
The Jaffna kingdom was centered around this city before it was destroyed by the Portuguese. This place is a land mark of ancient history of Sri Lanka.
Stop At: Dutch Kachcheri Building, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Protected ruins of a building constructed during Dutch rule of Sri Lanka & a historical landmark.
Stop At: Kadurugoda Buddhist Temple, Jaffna Road, Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Kadurugoda Viharaya is an ancient Buddhist temple situated in Chunnakam, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. The temple is located in a small hamlet called Kandarodai and it is one of the few Buddhist temples remaining in Jaffna today. Currently this temple has been declared as an archaeological site in Sri Lanka. The history of Kadurugoda Vihara goes back to the Anuradhapura era. During the time period of King Devanpiya Thissa, theri Sangamitta arrived to Dambakolapatuna in Sri Lanka with a sapling of Sri Maha Bodhi. It is said that the road to Anuradhapura from Dambakolapatuna was through this Kadurugoda Vihara area anToday there are about 20 stupas and a number of stupa foundations can be seen in the Vihara premises. The smallest stupa is about 8 feet in diameter and the largest is about 23.5 feet. The stupas possess unique features that cannot be found anywhere else in Sri Lanka. They have been made of gray colored coral stone and have a very distinguished pattern with small holes all over them. Another special feature of these ancient stupas is that they do not possess the standard square shape parts (Hathares Kotuwa and Dewatha Kotuwa) above the dome and instead they have umbrella shaped fixed pinnacles.
Stop At: Jaffna Market, Jaffna Sri Lanka
Visit jaffna market and buy local products while enjoying the simple life style of local people
Stop At: Dambakola Patuna Sangamitta Temple, Madagal, Jaffna Sri Lanka
The Port of Jambukola or Dambakola Patuna is an ancient port to the north of Jaffna.
After Mihindu Maha Thero brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka in 250BC, his sister, Theri Sanghamitta arrived in Sri Lanka with a Sacred Bo Sapling one year later to this port. The temple Samudda-panasala (Jambukola Viharaya) was built commemorating the arrival of the Bo sapling by King Devanampiya Tissa (250-210 BC). Later, the same king planted one of the first eight shoots of the Sri Maha Bodhi, on the same place where he kept the original tree before bringing it to Anuradhapura. King Vijayabahu I (1070–1110) has restored this site. The remains of the vihara, such as the Buddha footprint stone and vatadage seen up to recent times no longer exist there.
This port gradually faded in importance while port Mahathiththa/ Mahathota/ Mantota (now Mantai) located at the mouth of Malvatu oya developed as a key intersection of sea-routes and the Dambakola Patuna Viharaya was lost in time. The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka, the Mahavamsa and Samanthapaasasdika mention pilgrims coming from "Yonaka" country to Jambukola to worship the Jambukola Viharaya in the ancient times.
Stop At: Keerimalai Hot springs, Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Located in Jaffna, the Keerimalai springs is a renowned mineral water spring that is believed to have healing properties. Unlike other natural springs in the island, this spring forms two swimming pools with separate entrances for women and men. Dating back several centuries, Keerimalai springs is shrouded by local folklore of a Pandyan princess who built the Hindu kovil located nearby when she was cured of her horse shape head after bathing at the spring.
Stop At: Hammenhiel Fort, 40000, AB17, Kalapoomy, Sri Lanka
Fort Hammenhiel is a fort built around a small island between the islands of Kayts and Karaitivu of Jaffna Peninsula in Northern Sri Lanka. The Portuguese built the fort, to guard the entrance to the Jaffna peninsula, in the mid 17th century of quarried coral naming it Fortaleza do Caes (Fort Royal). The Dutch, under the command of Captains Cornelies Reb, Piester Waset and N. van der Reede, captured the fort in March 1658 and subsequently renamed it Hammenhiel (Heel of the Ham), as they considered that shape of Ceylon resembled a smoked ham and the fort was located at the point where the shank bone projects. The Dutch rebuilt the fort in 1680, constructing a stone breakwater, filling in the hollow ramparts, replacing the upper floor with a stone vault and building a brick lined reservoir to the north of the fort. The prison has nine large dungeons to store gunpowder. The Dutch maintained a garrison of about thirty soldiers under the charge of a Lieutenant or Ensign.
The British used the fort firstly as a maximum security prison and then as an infectious diseases hospital. Having plenty of space and the proper location to detain prisoners, it was used thereafter by the Sri Lanka Navy to detain sailors accused of wrongdoings. Now it has been transformed into a tourist hotel run by the Sri Lanka Navy.
Stop At: Casuarina Beach, Beach Road Karainagar, Jaffna 40000 Sri Lanka
Spend hours resting relaxing and enjoying sunset in pristine beaches of Sri Lanka.
Lugar de comienzo: Traveler pickup is offered
We will pick up you from your hotel in Jaffna. Please do share your hotel details when you book the package.
Duración: 2 days
Jaffna private tour : 2 Days exclusions as mentioned in the itinerary
Transfer by vehicles (Car, Van, Tuk tuk), and boat / ferry
Hotel pick up and drop off
1000 ml water bottle per person per day
King coconut refreshments
All taxes
Personal expenses and tips
Meals and accommodations
Anything NOT mentioned under Inclusions

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package api

import (
	"encoding/base64"
	"errors"
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/OpenFactorioServerManager/factorio-server-manager/bootstrap"
	"github.com/gorilla/sessions"
	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
	"gorm.io/driver/sqlite"
	"gorm.io/gorm"
)

type User bootstrap.User

type Auth struct {
	db *gorm.DB
}

var (
	sessionStore *sessions.CookieStore
	auth         Auth
)

func SetupAuth() {
	var err error

	config := bootstrap.GetConfig()

	cookieEncryptionKey, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(config.CookieEncryptionKey)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error decoding base64 cookie encryption key: %s", err)
		panic(err)
	}
	sessionStore = sessions.NewCookieStore(cookieEncryptionKey)
	sessionStore.Options = &sessions.Options{
		Path:   "/",
		Secure: config.Secure,
	}

	auth.db, err = gorm.Open(sqlite.Open(config.SQLiteDatabaseFile), nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error opening sqlite or gorm database: %s", err)
		panic(err)
	}

	err = auth.db.AutoMigrate(&User{})
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error AutoMigrating gorm database: %s", err)
		panic(err)
	}

	var userCount int64
	auth.db.Model(&User{}).Count(&userCount)

	if userCount == 0 {
		// no user created yet, create a default one
		var password = bootstrap.GenerateRandomPassword()

		var user User
		user.Username = "admin"
		user.Password = password
		user.Role = "admin"

		err := auth.addUser(user)
		if err != nil {
			log.Printf("Error adding admin user to db: %s", err)
			panic(err)
		}

		log.Println("Created default admin user. Please change it's password as soon as possible.")
		log.Printf("Username: %s", user.Username)
		log.Printf("Password: %s", password)
	}
}

func (a *Auth) checkPassword(username, password string) error {
	var user User
	result := a.db.Where(&User{Username: username}).Take(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error reading user from database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}

	decodedHashPw, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(user.Password)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error decoding base64 password: %s", err)
		return err
	}

	err = bcrypt.CompareHashAndPassword(decodedHashPw, []byte(password))
	if err != nil {
		if err != bcrypt.ErrMismatchedHashAndPassword {
			log.Printf("Unexpected error comparing hash and pw: %s", err)
		}
		return err
	}

	// Password correct
	return nil
}

func (a *Auth) deleteUser(username string) error {
	adminUsers := []User{}
	adminQuery := a.db.Find(&User{}).Where(&User{Role: "admin"}).Find(&adminUsers)
	if adminQuery.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error retrieving admin user list from database: %s", adminQuery.Error)
		return adminQuery.Error
	}

	for _, user := range adminUsers {
		if user.Username == username {
			if adminQuery.RowsAffected == 1 {
				return errors.New("cannot delete single admin user")
			}
		}
	}

	result := a.db.Model(&User{}).Where(&User{Username: username}).Delete(&User{})
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error deleting user from database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}
	return nil
}

func (a *Auth) hasUser(username string) (bool, error) {
	var count int64
	result := a.db.Model(&User{}).Where(&User{Username: username}).Count(&count)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error checking if user exists in database: %s", result.Error)
		return false, result.Error
	}
	return count == 1, nil
}

func (a *Auth) getUser(username string) (User, error) {
	var user User
	result := a.db.Model(&User{}).Where(&User{Username: username}).Take(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error reading user from database: %s", result.Error)
		return User{}, result.Error
	}

	return user, nil
}

func (a *Auth) listUsers() ([]User, error) {
	var users []User
	result := a.db.Find(&users)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error listing all users in database: %s", result.Error)
		return nil, result.Error
	}
	return users, nil
}

func (a *Auth) addUser(user User) error {
	// encrypt password
	pwHash, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte(user.Password), bcrypt.DefaultCost)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error generating bcrypt hash from password: %s", err)
		return err
	}

	user.Password = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(pwHash)

	// add user to db
	result := a.db.Create(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error creating user in database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}

	return nil
}

func (a *Auth) addUserWithHash(user User) error {
	// add user to db
	result := a.db.Create(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error creating user in database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}

	return nil
}

func (a *Auth) changePassword(username, password string) error {
	var user User
	result := a.db.Model(&User{}).Where(&User{Username: username}).Take(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error reading user from database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}

	hashPW, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte(password), bcrypt.DefaultCost)
	if err != nil {
		log.Printf("Error generatig bcrypt hash from new password: %s", err)
		return err
	}

	user.Password = base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(hashPW)

	result = a.db.Save(&user)
	if result.Error != nil {
		log.Printf("Error resaving user in database: %s", result.Error)
		return result.Error
	}

	return nil
}

// middleware function, that will be called for every request, that has to be authorized
func AuthMiddleware(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		session, err := sessionStore.Get(r, "authentication")
		if err != nil {
			if session != nil {
				session.Options.MaxAge = -1
				err2 := session.Save(r, w)
				if err2 != nil {
					log.Printf("Error deleting cookie: %s", err2)
				}
			}
			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusUnauthorized)
			return
		}

		username, ok := session.Values["username"]
		if !ok {
			http.Error(w, "Could not read username from sessioncookie", http.StatusUnauthorized)
			return
		}

		hasUser, err := auth.hasUser(username.(string))
		if err != nil {
			http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
			return
		}

		if hasUser {
			next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
		} else {
			log.Printf("Unauthenticated request %s %s %s", r.Method, r.Host, r.RequestURI)
			http.Redirect(w, r, "/login", http.StatusSeeOther)
			return
		}
	})
}

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Okręg wyborczy Bewdley powstał w 1614 r. i wysyłał do angielskiej, a następnie brytyjskiej, Izby Gmin jednego deputowanego. Okręg obejmował miasto Bewdley w hrabstwie Worcestershire. Utworzony został jako okręg miejski, ale w 1885 r. zmieniono go w okręg ziemski. Okręg został zlikwidowany w 1950 r.

Deputowani do brytyjskiej Izby Gmin z okręgu Bewdley
 1621–1622: Thomas Edmondes
 1640–1642: Henry Herbert
 1648–1653: Nicholas Lechmere
 1659–1659: Edward Pytts
 1659–1660: Nicholas Lechmere
 1660–1661: Thomas Foley
 1661–1673: Henry Herbert
 1673–1677: Thomas Foley
 1677–1679: Henry Herbert
 1679–1685: Philip Foley
 1685–1689: Charles Lyttelton
 1689–1694: Henry Herbert
 1694–1708: Salwey Winnington, torysi
 1708–1709: Henry Herbert, wigowie
 1709–1710: Charles Cornwall
 1710–1710: Anthony Lechmere, wigowie
 1710–1715: Salwey Winnington, torysi
 1715–1722: Grey James Grove, wigowie
 1722–1734: Crewe Offley
 1734–1735: William Bowles
 1735–1741: Phineas Bowles
 1741–1748: William Bowles
 1748–1755: William Lyttelton
 1755–1761: William Finch
 1761–1768: Edward Winnington
 1768–1769: Thomas Lyttelton
 1769–1774: Edward Winnington
 1774–1790: William Lyttelton
 1790–1796: George Lyttelton
 1796–1814: Miles Peter Andrews
 1814–1818: Charles Edward Wilson
 1818–1832: Wilson Aylesbury Roberts
 1832–1837: Thomas Winnington, wigowie
 1837–1847: Thomas Winnington, wigowie
 1847–1848: Thomas Ireland, Partia Konserwatywna
 1848–1852: William Montagu, wicehrabia Mandeville, Partia Konserwatywna
 1852–1868: Thomas Winnington, Partia Liberalna
 1868–1869: Richard Atwood Glass, Partia Konserwatywna
 1869–1869: John Cunliffe, Partia Konserwatywna
 1869–1874: Augustus Anson, Partia Liberalna
 1874–1880: Charles Harrison, Partia Liberalna
 1880–1885: Enoch Baldwin, Partia Liberalna
 1885–1892: Edmund Lechmere, Partia Konserwatywna
 1892–1908: Alfred Baldwin, Partia Konserwatywna
 1908–1937: Stanley Baldwin, Partia Konserwatywna
 1937–1950: Roger Conant, Partia Konserwatywna

Bewdley

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Lo Vilan en occità (forma a verificar) i en francès Le Vilhain és un municipi francès, situat al departament de l'Alier i a la regió d'Alvèrnia-Roine-Alps. L'any 2007 tenia 267 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Le Vilhain era de 267 persones. Hi havia 116 famílies de les quals 36 eren unipersonals (16 homes vivint sols i 20 dones vivint soles), 40 parelles sense fills, 28 parelles amb fills i 12 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 184 habitatges, 121 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 41 eren segones residències i 22 estaven desocupats. 179 eren cases i 5 eren apartaments. Dels 121 habitatges principals, 96 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 20 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 5 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien una cambra, 11 en tenien dues, 34 en tenien tres, 32 en tenien quatre i 42 en tenien cinc o més. 101 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 70 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 40 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 174 persones, 119 eren actives i 55 eren inactives. De les 119 persones actives 106 estaven ocupades (61 homes i 45 dones) i 13 estaven aturades (8 homes i 5 dones). De les 55 persones inactives 24 estaven jubilades, 12 estaven estudiant i 19 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Le Vilhain hi havia 125 unitats fiscals que integraven 283 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 13.847 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 11 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa alimentària, 1 d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 3 d'empreses de construcció, 2 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa de transport, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa d'informació i comunicació i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 4 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una funerària, 1 fusteria, 1 perruqueria i 1 restaurant.

L'únic establiment comercial que hi havia el 2009 era una carnisseria.

L'any 2000 a Le Vilhain hi havia 32 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 2.288 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola maternal integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Le Vilhain a l'INSEE.
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Make privacy and consent forms easier to understand by Adrianne Lee and Yedida Zalik
Use content design to make your research content more inclusive and accessible. By increasing accessibility, we increase participation. This contributes to ethical and equitable research.
A lot of design work goes into developing accessible content for products. Let's put that same effort into research consent.
The government has power over people's lives, including the lives of research participants. When the government conducts research, participants need to understand how we'll use the research and their information. This means making information about participant rights transparent and clear so that people are not overwhelmed by text and legal jargon.
About a year ago, the Research and Content Design teams at the Canadian Digital Service (CDS) started collaborating on our privacy and consent form. Working together, we've used plain language to make complicated ideas easier to understand. For example, we've created headings that explain what participants really need to know and read, while indicating which details some people may prefer to skip. People must read and agree to the form before participating in our research. By using content design, our goal is to help participants understand the form before they consent.
In this rapid 10-minute talk, we'll walk you through some case studies / examples of how content design can transform consent forms to make them more inclusive and accessible.
Adrianne Lee
Yedida Zalik
Adrianne's bio
Participating in a research activity can be an intimidating experience, especially if the researcher is a government employee. Adrianne Lee is a Design Researcher with the Canadian Digital Service at the Government of Canada. As a government employee, her job consists of learning new things everyday to conduct better research and build inclusive services for people across Canada.
She is interested in interdisciplinary problem solving, conducting research that impacts end-to-end services, and working with others to build meaningful products and services.
More recently she's been learning about native gardening to support local ecosystems and ways to "make the body a home."
Yedida's bio
Yedida Zalik is a Content Designer at the Canadian Digital Service (CDS). She worked on the plain language privacy statement. Since joining CDS, she has designed content for several national products, including an inclusive phonetic alphabet that helps deliver information to the public over the phone. She also worked on the design of Canada's national exposure notification service, COVID Alert.
Before joining CDS, Yedida worked in Ontario legal aid clinics, where she collaborated with communities to design materials for rights information and education.
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FACEBOOK TRAGEDY
Social media obsessed teen who 'killed herself' thought she 'wasn't good enough unless she was getting likes'
Thomas Burrows
A HEARTBROKEN sister has told how her social media obsessed teen sibling who took her own life thought she "wasn't good enough unless she was getting likes".
Chloe Davison, 19, who wanted to be a carer, was found at her family home in County Durham on December 20.
Chloe, pictured with her older sister Jade
Chloe was found dead at her family home in Lanchester , County Durham , on December 20 aged just 19Credit: Facebook
Chloe's sister said she did not feel accepted if she hadn't got enough 'likes' on Facebook photos
Her devastated sister Jade, 20, who recently got engaged and became a mum, said her sister struggled with social anxiety and believes social media played a "big part" in her death.
Paying tribute to her sister, Jade said: "I'm absolutely devastated. I don't even have the words to describe the pain. I've recently just had a baby, only nine weeks ago, which Chloe adored.
"Chloe was my best friend and I don't know what I'm going to do without her."
She told how Chloe was constantly looking for reassurance on social media.
Speaking to the Sun Online, Jade said: "Chloe was the type of person who, if she put a picture on Facebook, would ask the whole family to like her picture or would sit with me and ask which one I thought was the best before she would post it.
"She thought she wasn't good enough unless she was getting likes and comments. If she didn't get enough likes, she didn't feel accepted.
"Social media isn't 100 per cent the cause [for her death] but it was a big part because it's too easy for people to sit behind a phone or computer and send nasty messages with no consequences.
"I sat with Chloe many nights when she was crying because someone had said something horrible.
"Chloe didn't see what we saw. She was so beautiful inside and out and would have done absolutely anything for me, her baby niece and the rest of her family."
Jade said she thinks social media giants such as Facebook and Snapchat should face greater scrutiny.
She added: "It's such a shame people feel like the only way to be happy is to feel accepted on social media because it's all fake.
"When you use social media, all you see is the 'perfect life' and it's all a competition to look a certain way all the time when in reality it's completely different.
"When Chloe started using social media, all she would talk about was how many likes she got. She was too concerned about what other people thought about her."
TEEN TRAGEDY
Chloe's mum, Clair, 44, said she blamed social media "a lot for what has happened."
She told the Newcastle Chronicle: "The impact it has, especially on younger people, can be devastating. Social media took over Chloe's life - whether that be Snapchat or Facebook.
"She struggled socially from being at school so she didn't work. Social media was her way of getting through the day. She didn't go out a lot.
"Younger people need more help and education on social media.
"There are too many people out there who can say what they like because it's not face-to-face."
She added: "Other people did not see what we saw. Chloe was the joker, bubbly and hilarious. She was the life and soul of the party.
"Chloe was beautiful, but she didn't see that. She cared so much about how people saw her. She would post a picture on social media and want all her family to like it. If it wasn't good enough she'd remove it."
EVERY 90 minutes in the UK a life is lost to suicide.
It doesn't discriminate, touching the lives of people in every corner of society - from the homeless and unemployed to builders and doctors, reality stars and footballers.
It's the biggest killer of people under the age of 35, more deadly than cancer and car crashes.
And men are three times more likely to take their own life than women.
Yet it's rarely spoken of, a taboo that threatens to continue its deadly rampage unless we all stop and take notice, now.
That is why The Sun launched the You're Not Alone campaign.
The aim is that by sharing practical advice, raising awareness and breaking down the barriers people face when talking about their mental health, we can all do our bit to help save lives.
Let's all vow to ask for help when we need it, and listen out for others... You're Not Alone.
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems, the following organisations provide support:
CALM, www.thecalmzone.net, 0800 585 858
Heads Together, www.headstogether.org.uk
Mind, www.mind.org.uk, 0300 123 3393
Papyrus, www.papyrus-uk.org, 0800 068 41 41
Samaritans, www.samaritans.org, 116 123
Movember, www.uk.movember.com
Clair, a Post Office worker, said the family didn't celebrate Christmas and don't think they will ever again.
She said her "world has been completely shattered".
Clair had been out with her mum and pals on the night of her daughter's death.
Recalling the devastating moment she learnt of Chloe's death, she said: "I don't go out very often and this was planned for months. I was in a bar when a bouncer got me and the police told me what had happened.
"I'd left her at 9pm and she took her own life at around 11.30pm at home. It is all a blur to me now. We were so close, she was my baby."
Clair is not the first parent to blame social media for their child's suicide.
In 2017, Molly Russell, 14, from Harrow, killed herself after viewing self-harm images on Instagram and other sites.
Dad Ian accused Instagram of "helping" to kill her.
If you, or anyone you know, needs help dealing with mental health problems the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123, or visit Mind's website.
Chloe's mum, Clair, pinned the blame on social media
Clair says more needs to be to help youngsters on social media following Chloe's suicideCredit: Facebook
Chloe had only recently become an AuntCredit: Facebook


Just about everyone loves the idea of having a stylish bedroom, but this is perhaps particularly important to teenagers and 20-somethings. At the younger end of the age scale a bedroom isn't just for sleep. Tween rooms and teenager's bedrooms are a place where a large proportion of time is spent just hanging out and seeing friends - either in real life or video chat - and studying (hopefully). Similar can be said about the student demographic of 20-somethings, and even some 30-somethings nowadays! So, this collection of cool bedrooms covers a lot of ground to suit and satisfy the requirements and well-honed tastes of the up-and-comers, in a world that is more style conscious than ever before.
Build an extension… on the side of your platform bed that is. This custom built platform bed features an extended bedside shelf at one side. The tufted headboard extends all the way along the back of the countertop to provide one cohesive look. A green bedside lamp picks up on the colour of indoor plants dotted around a built-in bedroom shelving unit.
Divide and conquer. This layout features a room divider that allows a study desk to be positioned right up alongside the bed. The bed is a platform design with deep sides that act as bookshelves. A swing arm wall lamp provides reading light.
Bring on the brick accent walls. If we're talking cool decor then we just have to crack out the exposed brick feature walls. The raw industrial look is always a winner, or brickwork can be painted in a rough and ready way. This particular concept features a border of gold paint washing down black bricks to add a smidge of decadence.
Mighty monochrome. Set the style bar high with a gutsy monochrome wallpaper print. A blackboard makes a great colour coordinated accessory, and you can make one yourself pretty cheaply with a sheet of reclaimed wood and a tin of chalkboard paint. Scribe on an inspirational quote and you're done.
Light up your life. This plain white bedroom gains added interest from a wall of cool light fixtures.
Maximise a small bedroom space with fitted furniture. The small floorspace in this room houses a double bed, closet, dedicated study area, media storage and extra seating for friends, thanks to edge-to-edge flush-fitting designs. The sense of space is also increased by keeping colours minimal and natural.
Zone with colour. If the space is too small to take a room divider or screen of any kind, then you can create a visual divide by using two different colour wall paints. Matching the wall shelves and furniture finishes to the relevant wall colour strengthens the divide.
Sleep in your own boutique. If fashion is your thing then make it your whole world – or at least most of your bedroom; an open fronted or clear glass closet will display your treasured pieces 24/7. Accessorise the look with fashion themed posters or paintings.
Do your own thing. Is it a photo display, some random wall decor, or is it a set of wall lights? All three, actually.
Take it up a level. A mini mezzanine study has been built over the bed in this industrial bedroom. Floating stair treads extrude from a raw concrete wall, lit by LED stair lights.
Pay tribute to legends with a mural of a favourite band, like this music themed decor.
Mark out a mini entryway. This subtle screening device may only have two small box shelves and four vertical struts, but it effectively cordons off a small 'foyer' area.
Dial up the drama. A modern chandelier will draw attention to great ceiling detailing, and give the space some grandeur. A photographic mural is a cool way to add wall wow factor.
This wall mural is overlapped by statement pendant lighting to create a layered effect.
A floor reading lamp makes a refreshing change to a bedside table lamp, and leaves countertop space free for charging phones/tablets etc.
Bring the outdoors in. A grass patch and a sapling grow behind the headboard in this unusual setup.
Express yourself in lights. Neon light signs come in all shapes and sizes; search out a message that suits you, and go large.
Paint with light. If neon light letters don't fit your vision, consider exploring coloured neon tubes instead.
Make the bed the star of the show. A bedroom might include a desk, bookshelves or a fancy closet, but it will always be the bed that is the most important part of the room. Choose a stand out design and crown it with an eye-catching wall design.
Go all out Austin Powers with a round bed.
Find new and inventive ways to incorporate interests and hobbies into the decor. This room has unique painted surfboards mounted on the wall, as part of a larger colourful graphic scheme.
Botanical illustration brings this scheme to life.
Liven up a monochrome palette with a single bright accent colour.
Get thrifty with an industrial look. You can use registration plates and signs to accessorise an industrial scheme – the quirkier the better. Fashion shelving out of scaffolding, or from pipes and planks.
Continue the magic of your gap year with a nomadic style bedroom scheme.
Split a large bedroom into a multi-use space without the need for builders. A partially dividing wall can be formed out of a back-to-back headboard and a bookcase arrangement, or similar. You can use the space behind the bed as a dedicated study, or install a freestanding bathtub as a luxury ensuite. Thread a common colour or two through both areas for a cohesive look.
Bring in fantastic florals, like this purple themed bedroom with blooming headboard wall.
Stretch an average headboard to new heights – in measurement and style. Team it with a bedside pendant light on a long flex to further accentuate the vertical proportion.
Use large indoor plants to create a wild look.
Don't block floor to ceiling windows, choose a floor bed design to leave the view unobstructed.
Hang industrial style lighting in front of an exposed brick wall for the loft look.
… let windows follow the flow of a tier-fall, and complement the shape with bespoke furniture.
This loft bedroom uses wall and ceiling panels to exaggerate the strange proportions of the room.
Create an optical illusion. Geometric wall and ceiling panels, or dual colour angular shelving units, can be used to trick the eye into seeing intriguing architectural features where there are none.
Install an extruded headboard wall design. A three dimensional wall design forms great contrast with a minimalist platform bed.
Make the scheme pop with a modern wallpaper print.
Combine a botanical theme with sharp geometric pendant lights and other geo home accessories to keep the look current.
Curate a Scandinavian bedroom style. Throw in an abundance of white furniture, natural accents and monochrome wall art.
Make a cutaway in a closet positioned by the bed in lieu of a bedside unit. Add LED lighting inside the niche to finish.
Install storage under eaves to make the most of available space, like this flush-fitted luxury kids' room.
Find pieces as unique as you are. These anglepoise lamps descend from each side of the ceiling like robotic arms, and the textured wall is not something you're going to find at your mate's house.
Choose bright swing arm wall lamps to bring in an unexpected flash of colour.
Dance your way out of bed on a 70's-disco-style illuminated floor.
Make a plinth for your bed. This rustic plinth holds the bed and a small side table up off the general floor space.
One colourful wall hanging can change the mood of an entire room.
Turkish delight. Ornate arches, luxurious textiles, painted tables and twinkling lanterns.
If you need a little boost in the mornings, or whilst studying in the evenings, a wall of motivational posters might offer a welcome pick me up.
Don't hide away. Draw bold designs with exposed electrical wires to harness the industrial vibe.
Choose a common shape theme. The circle rug beneath this bed helps soften the harsh edges of a linear bed design. The shape is echoed by a round side table and circular wall decor.


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Top 5: Returning TV Shows this Fall
I have shared with you the new shows of the Fall, but what returning shows are we all excited for? I can tell you that a lot of my veteran shows last season didn't impress and I didn't finish off all their seasons. But there were a few that I am excited to return...
How can you NOT be excited for this show to start? We have multiple people in the balance of life and death right now in a forest and McSteamy is going to die. I MUST KNOW HOW!
Howard went to space at the end of last season right after he and Bernadette got married. Get ready for the aftermath!
When this show first started I thought there was no way that they could make this greatness last for more than one season. It looks like I could have been wrong (happens) and the real drama is just about to begin! OK, that may be an overstatement, but I do want to know if Victoria Grayson actually did die in that plane accident. BOOM!
Fantasy shows like this rarely keep me hooked for long...but I managed to stay enthralled for the whole first season. The 'curse' was supposedly broken at the end of last season so I am pretty stoked for the return of talking animals...that's what that means right?
This made the list, not because it is good, but because it is like the miracle show...I cannot BELIEVE it didn't get cancelled! Plus Zoe finally hooked up with Wade at the end of last season and then Golden Boy came in and tried to wreck shit. TEAM WADE, TEAM WADE.
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Back at the beginning of January I said that one of my 2013 challenges was to juice more often and I'm here to report that in the past month I've done…okay. Like maybe a "C" if you were to grade me. Not an epic fail (like my goal of blogging once per week…) but definitely not a stellar job. I've juiced a few times a week for the past month, so there's a TON of room for improvement. Our goal is to replace one meal a day with juice or a smoothie.
A few months ago Josh and I watched the popular documentary Fat Sick and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross on Netflix. If you haven't seen it yet, GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW! It'll shock you how well our bodies can heal themselves if given a half a chance and a good diet. Anyways, we were really encouraged by the film and purchased this Breville juicer shortly after seeing it. We've put it to good use so far and have really enjoyed coming up with new recipes to try. A lot of people will tell you to buy a more intense, masticating juicer ($$$), but we figured the base model would be a good start for us as we were starting at zero. Maybe one day we'll graduate to a bigger, badder juicer, but right now little Brevvy is doing just fine!
Here are a few of our favorite juice recipes so far!
We hope to increase our intake of fresh juice over the next month. Although it requires some commitment, juicing is so rewarding, healthy and delicious!
Have you jumped on the juicing bandwagon? What is your favorite combination?
We were inspired by you guys and got a juicer at Costco :). We've been doing 2 apples, lots of carrots (probably 8-10), spinach, kale and parsley! It is serving all 5 of us! It is yummy and even the boys will drink it and they love to do the juicer too!!! Thanks for the recipes…gave us some great ideas for switching it up!!
Hi Katie! That's awesome, I'm so glad you guys like it :) I think we'll have to try your recipe next!
I'll have to send you some of my green smoothie recipes then! Yum yum yum!
Proud of you for not setting unrealistic goals! It's so worth it, even if its just one meal a day! Another documentary I would recommend is Hungry For Change…from the people who made Food Matters (both docs are awesome!). Our morning juice typically consists of apples, celery, carrots, lemon, kale and spinach – then I stir in ground flax seed. It's delicious!!!
When you say 5 carrots, do you mean full-sized carrots? Like, Bugs Bunny carrots?


RTE's Dirty Old Towns series, fronted by celebrity garden designer, Diarmuid Gavin, may have ended but Portarlington people are determined to continue the good work the programme inspired.
While DOT committee are taking short rest, but they have plans to work on projects around Port, in conjunction with the Tidy Towns committee, as member Margaret Guijt Lawlor explains.
"We are not stopping here. We will cut back on some hours, it's been hectic, but we will see each project through to the end. What that programme has done for Port has been massive, every town in the county should get the opportunity to take part.
"The passion people have just needed to be woken up," said Margaret, who is project leader for Portarlington Athletic Club's hall in the town centre," she said.
With discussions about grants underway with Laois Partnership, she is hopeful the building will be refurbished in the long term, providing a multi purpose community hall.
"I am hoping that by Christmas 2013 we could put some sort of pageant in there, it would be fabulous," she said.
The Derryounce walkway was spruced up by a team led by local horticulturalist John Carey, and hopes are high that the walk can be extended from the lake across the bog.
The empty apartment blocks on French Church Street, and Bracklone Street that were given a facelift by volunteer painters have attracted interest recently from buyers, though nothing is confirmed as yet by auctioneers DNG.
Arlington House is finished but maintenance will continue, says DOT committee member Ann Dunne.
"We have good residents behind in Rosecourt that are going to keep it tidy, and the residents of Seskin and the Tidy Towns committee will keep the welcome wall at the station litter and weed free too," she said.
"The path needs more resurfacing so that people can walk with buggies on it. FÁS always maintained that area before so we are hoping that will continue," she said.
With much of the main street repainted, they are now turning their attention to side streets.
"We are aiming to do some up Patrick Street way. So many ordinary residents and shopkeepers did their own painting anyway, people got that bit of a buzz from seeing all the work going on," she said.
Ann thanked everyone for their generosity during fundraisers.
"We are still getting money in, and we want to acknowledge that. We still have quite a bit of materials to pay for, but we got thousands of euros worth of material sponsored. We would like to do something for the Gracefield end of town now, We are definitely not going away because the programme is over," Ann said.


(ii) Type 2 - our body's cells start to fail to respond to insulin.
Can diabetes result in blindness? Yes. There are 2 ways.
It's the more common condition amongst the working population. High levels of blood glucose in our body can eventually result in the weakening of our blood vessel walls. The weakened blood vessel walls cause leakage of proteins and fluids into our eye, particularly the macula. This causes the macula to swell up, resulting in blurred vision.
Diabetic macular edema can develop without symptoms.
The small blood vessels become leaky and there is lack of oxygen to our eye (hypoxia). This hypoxia leads to increased VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), which is a critical factor that leads to the growth of new blood vessels. Unfortunately, these new blood vessels are quite fragile, and can become leaky easily, thus triggering the whole cycle again. This process eventually leads to loss of vision.
Diabetic retinopathy can develop without symptoms. However, it usually occurs in patients already on dialysis. Even though there are treatments available, most Malaysians get it detected too late, inevitably resulting in blindness.
Over 60% of patients with Type 2 diabetes have some degree of diabetic retinopathy 20 years later. The only way to delay it is to control your diet and take medications.
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2 Chronicles 1:1 – The break in the Chronicler's account transitions between David the recipient of the eternal covenant, and Solomon the builder of the house for the name of the LORD. Adonijah's attempted insurrection isn't the focus here (1 Kings 1) – rather the beginnings of God's relationship with the Kingdom of Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:5 – Solomon organized a crew of 150,000 plus workers to build this great house for God, because God is great. Let's not have the world ridicule our second-rate efforts for God, let's give Him our best in all that we do – but make sure that we have the right theology as well (see 2 Chronicles 2:6).
He who has not seen the Temple in its full construction has never seen a glorious building in his life.
You may not have gold to give to the LORD but do you have hours, skills, or dollars that can be used to serve Him?
What did the inner Ark area look like?
Romans 6:1 – Those that confuse the age of Grace with the age of No Rules ask this question that provokes a stern response from Paul (and repeated in Romans 6:15). We are new creatures freed from sin (Romans 6:7). What's our attitude to sin?
Paul has a point – if you're a follower of Christ – stop sinning and start serving the LORD!
Psalm 16:8 – Just like Paul says – if we are followers of the LORD – we don't have to be moved. We are free from sin and from its power!
Psalm 16:10 – While the Old Testament doesn't tell us who wrote this Psalm, Peter declares in Acts 2:25, Acts 2:29-31, and Acts 13:36 the Davidic authorship of this Psalm. David must have wondered what the Spirit was telling him (1 Peter 1:11) of the sufferings of the Holy One?
Psalm 16:11 – Hebrews 11:25 says that sin has pleasures for a season, but this is the first time since Elihu spoke to Job that we are told how we can have pleasure!
2 Corinthians 12:10 – in infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecutions, and distresses!
Proverbs 19:20 – Why do we have an entire book of counsel, instruction, and wisdom? Because it was given by God to Solomon and is a special gift (2 Chronicles 1:12).
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Golfers bring home success
Madison Wischmann
The boys golf team had another successful year this year with various accomplishments.
Although they fell just short of Pleasant Valley as a team, placing second at MAC, senior Benny Flanagan was the MAC champion with an overall total of 151. Seniors Trever Rogan and Steven Gottwald also placed in the top 10 at the MAC tournament, Rogan placed seventh and Gottwald placed ninth.
"The second day of MAC was my favorite day, especially the last four holes because I birdied two of them. I was also playing with this kid from PV, and it was pretty much down to us two who would win. Winning was probably the proudest moment of my high school career. It was amazing, to say the least," Flanagan said.
Placing well in MAC was just one accomplishment for the team and the individual players. Steven Gottwald qualified for state with a 77 during the district's tournament. Gottwald went on to shoot a total of 158 at the state tournament in Marshalltown.
"Qualifying for state was what exceeded my expectations for the season because I didn't actually think I was going to make it to where I did," Gottwald said.
Flanagan and Gottwald were only a part of the success that came this season.
"Overall I think the team success was the best part of the season; even if we didn't play well, we still finished every time either second or third, and it was just really fun to be a part of," Flanagan said.


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May 9, 2016 Issue
Three Short Moments in a Long Life
By John L'Heureux
Photograph by Karine Laval for The New Yorker
Audio: John L'Heureux reads.
I. The Spy
Beverly and I were second graders at New Carew Street School and we both hated recess. She hated recess and she cried the whole time and nobody knew why, so everybody made fun of her. I hated recess because it wasn't really school and we weren't learning anything. It was a waste of time. I knew Beverly only by name and by what I could tell from spying on her. Her last name was LaPlante, which was strange and therefore wrong, and she was known for being a crybaby. She was not even pretty. Her crying all the time frightened me, so I never spoke to her. Besides, I didn't want anybody to think I was her friend. She didn't belong. And, secretly, I feared that I didn't belong, either.
The nice thing about Beverly LaPlante was that she disappeared sometime that winter. One day, Miss Williams was taking attendance and, after a little pause, she skipped over Beverly's name. We all looked at where Beverly was supposed to be sitting, and her seat was empty. I remember thinking, Yes, good, she didn't belong and now she's gone. I wondered if she was crying in her new place, wherever that was. I wondered how she had managed to disappear or if it was something that her mother and father had done to her. I wondered, for the first time, why she cried.
Second grade came to a dull close without any further thought about Beverly LaPlante.
Third grade started with a bang. We had a new teacher, Miss Connolly, who loved me because I was smart and clean, and I loved her back because she was beautiful. At dinner one night, my mother said to my father, "She's very nice, but, dear God, those teeth!"
"What's with her teeth?" my father said.
"She's got buck teeth. Like a horse."
It was only conversation, but it wasn't nice to Miss Connolly, so I hated them both until I went to bed.
We had a new reading textbook, a thick one with a brown-and-orange cover, and during recess I hid in the bathroom and read ahead. On my third day of hiding in the bathroom, the janitor caught me and told Miss Connolly, who gave me a lecture about good citizenship. She didn't look beautiful then. She looked like an angry horse, and that made me cry. She gave me a hug and told me that she understood but I couldn't skip recess anymore. I had to do what everybody else did. So I promised. But I still read ahead in the brown-and-orange book.
In third grade, we played dodgeball during recess. I liked dodgeball, because I was good at it. I was skinny and quick and I could see, ahead of time, where someone was going to throw the ball and I'd get out of the way, so the ball would hit someone else, someone who was fat or slow. My friend Billy Muir was fat and slow, but he was an exception. He managed to avoid getting hit most of the time. Billy Muir's father always wore a suit. He was successful in business, so he was transferred to the Chicago branch of his company, where he continued to be successful until his supervisors discovered that he was embezzling money and he hanged himself. With his belt. That was later. In third grade, Billy Muir had no idea that his father would end up famous. Billy was fat and slow but he could dodge the ball anyway, so that was something to think about. But the big thing to think about was the new girl. Her name was Beverly, just like the LaPlante girl who had disappeared the winter before, but this new Beverly was pretty and she laughed all the time.
I was the best in the class at dodgeball, but on the day the new girl arrived I was the first one out, which made me miserable. It was fair, but it was wrong, because I wasn't paying attention and the ball hit me while I was thinking about the "Little Mermaid" story I was reading. By Hans Christian Andersen, with an "e" instead of an "o." Now that I was out, I began to pay attention to the game. Standing at the edge of the circle, I could get a good look at everybody, and that was when I recognized the new girl. Her hair was short now and she was a different Beverly LaPlante, but she was Beverly LaPlante all the same. How was this possible? She was wearing a Girl Scout outfit with clumsy Girl Scout shoes. She was talking and laughing and making noise, and, when Billy Muir got hit and had to go outside the circle, she noticed the angry face he made and she said, "Jesus Christ! Your face would sour the milk!"
Nobody seemed to hear her, but I did and I looked at Miss Connolly, who made a horse face, which meant that she had heard her, too. But she didn't say anything. Taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong and therefore Miss Connolly was wrong to pretend she hadn't heard. But then Joycie Adams got hit by the ball and just stood there like a dummy until everyone yelled at her that she had to leave the circle. She said that it wasn't fair, because the ball had barely hit her, and Beverly said, "What the hell! Don't be such a damn crybaby." Everybody heard her this time and turned toward Miss Connolly, who finally said, "Now, now! Language, please!" The kids all went quiet, waiting to see what would happen, but Beverly laughed into the silence and said, "Shit, piss, fuck!"
Miss Connolly said very loudly, "Time for class, people! Everybody to the stairs now. Now! Not tomorrow!" She said "people" in that special voice, so we all ran to the front stairs and waited. Miss Connolly took Beverly aside and we couldn't hear what she said, but Beverly just laughed again and said something back. Miss Connolly took Beverly's arm and shook it hard, but Beverly pulled away and ran to the center of the dodgeball circle, where she did a little dance in her Girl Scout shoes, shouting over and over, "Jesus Christ and shit, piss, fuck! Jesus Christ and shit, piss, fuck!" She shouted as if she had finally discovered the truth and couldn't wait to tell the world. Miss Connolly herded us up the stairs and into the classroom, where she gave us silent reading time until lunch period.
I tried to figure out what had happened at recess, but it just made my head hurt. The bad words were wrong, of course, and taking the Lord's name in vain was wrong, but it was more complicated than that. It was something about Beverly herself. I wondered what had happened to her that made her happy now, but with dirty words, when a year ago she had just cried all the time. She wasn't like any of us. She didn't belong. She didn't fit in. I tried all the time to fit in and no one noticed that I didn't, but now I wondered, secretly, if I was like Beverly LaPlante.
I began to think of her when I was supposed to be doing arithmetic and geography, which were no fun anyway. I began to think of her on the walk to school each day and again on the walk home. Then, one night, when I said my prayers before bed, I finished up with the sign of the cross and, trying not to say it, I said, "Please, God, let Beverly LaPlante die." It was a real prayer and I knew it was wrong and I would go to Hell. I said, "I take it back," but you can't take back prayers. I said a lot of Our Fathers and after a while I felt that maybe I wouldn't go to Hell and I should stop thinking about Beverly. She was just one of the things I was afraid of. I wasn't sure what all the others were, but I knew for certain that I was afraid of Beverly LaPlante.
Beverly died that summer, of polio. My mother said, "No more swimming at the pond. That's how you get polio. That's how your little friend died, the LaPlante girl, swimming in the pond." So I didn't swim that summer, but I knew then that I would have Beverly LaPlante stuck in my mind forever.
In fourth grade, everything was different. There were new people, and some of the old people were gone. I began to understand that people disappeared and changed and sometimes they hanged themselves or came back different and still didn't fit in. People were a mystery, I decided, like the Resurrection at Sunday school. Jesus died and was buried and then he rose from the dead. He said hello to Mary Magdalene—she was the first to see him, because she had washed his feet and dried them with her hair—and later he made breakfast for his disciples to prove that he had died and then come back real. There was no crying involved with Jesus. And no dirty words. Then he disappeared for good, just like Beverly LaPlante.
II. The Writer
I was working on my novel—don't even ask—when I heard the doorbell ring. My wife was out teaching school, so I had to answer it myself. I got up from my computer, went downstairs slowly, because I'd turned my ankle a few days earlier, and just as I got to the door I tripped on the new carpet and heard myself saying, "Jesus Christ!" I opened the door and it was him.
"Hey," he said.
"Hey," I said.
I recognized him immediately from his pictures. He had long blond hair and those eyes that follow you around the room.
"In five years, I see myself with the same job title, about the same salary, and significantly more responsibilities."
My head had been bothering me lately. I figured it was the asthma medications I was taking, but I couldn't believe that they were powerful enough to conjure up a lithograph Jesus at my front door. I'd been meaning for some time to read one of the Gospels straight through, to get the story directly from the approved source, so maybe that was it. He was always on my mind these days, and now he was standing on my porch.
"Right," he said.
At first I was awestruck, but after a minute I got over the blond hair and the eyes and I could see that he was nothing special, just another guy trying to get along. Maybe he was a vet. Iraq? Afghanistan? Anyway, he had on grungy jeans and an orange sweatshirt, and he could have used a shower.
"How's it going?" he said.
I was tempted to tell him how it was going. I had written all these books and nobody gave a shit and I was in the middle of another one that nobody would give a shit about, either. My subject this time, if novels can be said to have a subject, was guilt. It was the story of a high-school teacher who was guilty of lots of things—infidelity, verbal cruelty, petty theft, the usual lying and cheating—but he was not guilty of molesting one of his students, and that was what he was accused of. I was trying to use this poor chump to explore the infinite varieties of guilt and justice and injustice. When the doorbell rang, I was working on a scene in which a harmless conversation between this teacher and a student was overheard by another teacher, a troublemaker, who would later testify that he had witnessed what sounded like a seduction. The scene was too complicated as I had written it, and I was trying to make it simpler without lessening the tension or giving away what was going to happen. The problem was that I didn't really understand the teacher or his guilt. It seemed that he just didn't fit in. He didn't belong and I didn't know why. And now I was staring at this guy in an orange sweatshirt who was standing on my porch.
"You O.K.?" he said.
"So," I said.
He got down to business. He asked if he could help me out in exchange for a meal, and I explained that that wouldn't be possible, because I was a writer with an obsession and there wasn't much help anybody could give me. I nudged the door a little, as a sort of hint. He said that his father was a writer, and I said, "Is that so?" And he said, "He never published, though," and I said, "Yes, publishing is hard." I shifted my weight off my sore ankle, to let him know that we were all done talking. I gave him a hard look, and he looked back. It crossed my mind for a second that he could rob me or kill me and nobody would ever know. I tried not to show what I was thinking. Finally, he asked if I could spare a dollar. There was something proud—or maybe humble—in the way he asked, as if he were owed it, as if I had no choice in the matter. I thought, What the hell, and gave him a five. He could get a latte and a morning bun at Starbucks, I figured, though he didn't look like the latte type. I thought about what my wife would do and I gave him another five.
"Have a good day, man," he said, and waved his hand, sort of a combination salute and blessing.
"You, too," I said, and closed the door.
I was halfway up the stairs when I knew I had done the wrong thing. That man was the breakthrough that would have made all the difference in my life. I should have invited him in and given him some coffee and then simply confessed everything. Everything. But what, exactly? Was it confession I wanted or some kind of exoneration? I sat down on the stairs to give this some thought. Jesus Christ and shit, piss, fuck! After a while, I went down and opened the door and looked around. Of course, he was long gone.
I went back to my computer and looked at what I'd been writing. The scene was no good because it was just a bunch of ideas. I could see that clearly now. The fact is I was that most useless of creatures: a writer obsessed with Jesus. And suspicious of him. I don't mean like Flannery O'Connor. She was obsessed with writing good stories—and Jesus often turned up in them. I was just obsessed with Jesus. Period. Jesus and guilt. And to what end? I wouldn't have known Jesus if he knocked at my front door and I had never faced guilt in my entire life, except for that one time when I prayed Beverly LaPlante to death. Otherwise, I was an innocent, really. My wife would understand.
What the scene in my novel dramatized was my own obsession and my failure to understand. It was all meaningless. Life, too. All hopeless.
Perhaps I had begun to fit in after all.
For a long time, I sat in front of my computer, lying to myself. Then I highlighted the whole manuscript and pressed Delete.
III. The Substance Of Things Hoped For
"Here's another one," the E.M.T. said. "White male, eighty."
C'est moi, I thought. Eccomi qua. I was full of thoughts, some of them rational.
My wife had called 911 because I was stuck lying crossways on the bed, my head and shoulders hanging off one side and my legs—from the knees down—hanging off the other. I was unable to move and she was unable to move me. "You're burning up," she said, her hand on my forehead. I asked her to give me a couple of hours and I'd figure it out, but she said, "This is a mess. This has gone too far. We can't exist like this," and she called 911.
The E.M.T.s came and said, "Where is he?," and "It's a good thing you called," and "Everything's gonna be fine." The youngest one looked around and said, "I've never seen so many books. What was he, a professor or something? What is he, I mean."
My wife led the way upstairs and said, "Lift him carefully. He's got Parkinson's."
"How ya doing?" the young one asked, and I told him, "Fabulous!"
So they put me in the ambulance and drove me to the hospital, three miles exactly, at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars. But that came later. Right now, the ambulance was pulling into the loading dock.
"What's his story?"
"Pneumonia, most likely. High fever. Trouble breathing. Can't really move."
"I can move."
"But you couldn't when we picked you up."
"Where's my wife?"
"White male, eighty." They passed me down the line and parked me against a wall in a big room. There were a lot of other people on gurneys and I was happy to see them, but somebody pulled a curtain around me and that was that.
So. I was a thing labelled "male," "white," "eighty." A nameless commodity that had something wrong with it. I was not me.
Outside my curtain, someone was crying quietly and someone else, a doctor maybe, was saying, "It's all right, it's going to be all right."
I was back in third grade, thinking, This is wrong, it's untrue, nothing is going to be all right. Still, I understood that the doctor, like Miss Connolly, meant well.
Then there was some time I can't account for. Maybe things happened. Maybe I failed to imagine them. I was aware only that my hands were freezing and my head was on fire. My wife was there and then she was not there.
A woman pulled the curtain open and said, "I'm your nurse. I'm Tiffany." She looked like she was in her early twenties and she wore her hair pulled back tight against her skull and she bristled with efficiency. "Name?" she said. "Date of birth?" And then, rapidly, "Residence? What day is it? What is the date?"
I passed the first tests easily: I knew who I was and when I was born and where I lived, but I couldn't remember the day or the date. She seemed to take it personally.
"You don't know the day?"
"She can't see you now."
"Why not? Is she here?"
"You're here for pneumonia," she said, "so there'll be an X-ray and a CT scan."
"I have Parkinson's," I said.
"Whatever," she said. She went away, clackety-clack.
Now that I'm retired and just read all day, I'm not good with time. When Tiffany asked me what day it was, I thought of that cartoon, the one with the two hippopotamuses up to their chins in water and one says to the other, "I keep thinking it's Tuesday." Of course, if I had said that, they'd have put me in the crazy ward. I'd been there five or six years earlier, after I made an attempt at suicide. Thirty-six Ambien and a handful of Xanax, and the effect the next day was not death but a bad headache and a very sore throat. Plus two weeks locked up with my kind of people. Like me, they thought they wanted to cease being a burden on someone they loved.
I had fallen getting out of the bathtub. Zip, slip, and I was down. Three broken ribs. When they healed, I could no longer draw a deep breath. And I couldn't stop trying. It was like being smothered slowly, over and over and over. For three weeks, I went around gasping. Exhaustion. Panic attacks. Once, in the middle of the night, when I was pretending to sleep, I heard my wife sobbing quietly and I realized I was driving her crazy. I was killing her. So, without a thought for Jesus or even for Beverly LaPlante, I decided to kill myself instead. Hence the Ambien and the Xanax. And then the lockdown in the company of my fellow-suiciders. Afterward, I told my wife I was sorry and she said, "If you ever try that again, I'll kill you myself."
My wife. You'd have to know her to understand. She's a genuine saint, the real thing, without any pious crap, so she's not always easy to live with.
She was not a saint when we first married. She had her faults—plenty of them, I thought at the time—but she was beautiful and smart and funny, and she considered me interesting, so who could resist? Later, after she had rubbed some of the rough edges off me, I began to see her differently. Or maybe she changed. I don't know. But I became aware of that glow from inside her which nothing could dim, not even sickness or frustration or my occasional rage and jealousy, things that made her sad, not angry. Hers is an everyday kind of sanctity. She has an unnerving fondness for the truth and knowing her makes you want to be a better person. Saints are not the easiest companions.
After my suicide attempt—immediately after—I lost my obsessions and began to enjoy life. It was as if I had died and come back a different person, free of all that nonsense. I had always been afraid of living, but I wasn't any longer and I wasn't afraid of Jesus. Moreover, if Beverly LaPlante had still been around, I wouldn't have been afraid of her: I was that self-confident.
So life was good and its nasty surprises didn't seem so nasty anymore. Not even the Parkinson's. It happened slowly. My left hand began to shake when I was typing, but I was in the final draft of a new book and until it was done I just ignored the shakes, corrected the errors, and finished my work. Then I took my shaky hand to Dr. Burn. "A familial tremor," he said. "Not Parkinson's."
"Familial tremor," my wife said. "At least it's not the dread disease itself."
A year later, I was shaking more and walking in a half-assed kind of stumble, so we went back to Dr. Burn, who said, "Let's see a neurologist."
The neurologist was Dr. Gershfield, and he knew everything. Gershfield said, "It's not, strictly speaking, Parkinson's. It's Parkinsonism."
"Ism?"
"Yes, Parkinsonism."
"Well," my wife said. "I'm glad we cleared that up." Then we all had a friendly Parkinsonian laugh.
We saw Dr. Gershfield again in a month, and then every month for a year. By which time I was half in love with him and so was my wife. After all, like Jesus, he had the power to dispense life and death. I was half in love with Jesus, too.
There was a long night when they woke me every hour to make sure I was still breathing. Toward morning, they took another chest X-ray and a fresh CT scan of my lungs. I fell back asleep, and in no time it was wakies.
Tiffany stood by my bed, at the ready. I said, "Good morning," but she was too busy for that. She nodded and went about taking my vitals.
"I keep thinking it's Tuesday," I said.
"It is Tuesday," she said. "Very good."
"One hippopotamus says to the other, 'I keep thinking it's Tuesday.' "
"It is Tuesday," she said. "Stop worrying." The ceiling was spinning.
"I thought I couldn't move because of the Parkinson's."
"We'll get that pneumonia under control by tomorrow. You can take that to the bank."
I laughed and said, "Take that to the bank!"
"It's a saying," she said. And off she went, kachung, kachung.
My wife came every day, morning and afternoon. She read a book while I slept and tried to have conversations when I woke, but I wasn't making a lot of sense and, naturally, she was bored to death.
Even saints get bored of waiting. Maybe saints especially.
A doctor with a clipboard poked his head around the door. "Just checking," he said.
"It's Tuesday," I said.
"Are you in great pain?"
"I'm not in any pain at all. I'm a male, white, eighty."
"I can see that," he said.
"You look about fourteen," I said.
He wrote something on his clipboard. I was hot and drowsy and a little dizzy.
"No pain?" he said. "You sure?"
I needed to explain to him the limitations of being just a white male et cetera, but I couldn't find the words. I was feeling lightheaded, and the ceiling kept spinning, as if I were drunk.
"I'm not drunk," I said.
"You're a riot," he said. "Hold on to that sense of humor."
Some time went by, maybe an hour or maybe a day, and another doctor appeared, a woman this time. She said, "Tiffany says you're concerned about Parkinson's, but your problem at present is pneumonia. You're on antibiotics—that's the I.V. bag on your left—and your fever should be under control in another day. Maybe two. Then you can go home. Do you have any questions?"
"So I'm being cured of pneumonia?"
"Well, we can't cure Parkinson's. Yet."
"But the paralysis was caused by pneumonia? I've never heard of that."
"What's your name?" I said. "Just so I know."
"Janet," she said.
"I mean what's your last name? Dr. what?"
There was a long pause. Finally, she said, "We're here to make you well, not to make new friends." And she took off.
So it was pneumonia and not Parkinson's that had me momentarily paralyzed. Talk about a downer! I would never have come to the hospital if I'd known it was pneumonia. My wife wouldn't have called 911. The plan had been to let pneumonia carry me off before Parkinson's had its final fling with me. If you're going to die anyway, we had agreed, better to do it before you begin to shake all day and your voice melts and maybe your mind as well. I had had three bouts of pneumonia in the past year, so we were planning on having one ready when the time came. One night, as we were winding up a long chat about whether we could count on pneumonia to do it or whether we'd have to face the horrors of death by Parkinson's, my wife yawned and said, "Maybe you'll be lucky, sweetheart. Maybe you'll get run over by a truck."
My fever was gone and I was feeling terrific. The fourteen-year-old turned up after breakfast to say that the X-ray and the CT scan were fine, but they had revealed an unexplained mass in my left lung.
"A mass of what?" I said.
"Very funny," he said. "But this is a serious matter and you should see a pulmonologist."
"A mass of stuff?" I said. "What kind of stuff?"
"At the least, you'll be prone to frequent bouts of pneumonia. Deep pneumonia."
I said, "I knew it! I've always been lucky."
"Do you have any other questions?" he said.
"How old are you?" I said.
"Keep up the good work," he said. "Keep smiling." He left the room without saying goodbye.
So. A mass in my lungs. He hadn't used the C-word, but what else could a mass be? Lung cancer. Consider it. Cancer of the lungs. It didn't sound so bad, really. Maybe this was the truck that would run me over before Parkinson's had its final fling. Before the drooling set in. So now we had two possible escape routes: pneumonia and cancer. Which would be first? I wondered. Which would be less painful? And then a surge of relief as I realized that, cancer or pneumonia, my wife would be there. And good old Dr. Burn would refer me to palliative care. Maybe with my own little bottle of morphine. I was looking forward to this choice of deaths and I couldn't wait to tell my wife.
A momentary pause. A catch in my breath.
"What happened to that boy doctor?" I asked the empty room. "And what about Tiffany?"
Nobody answered. A bell rang. A door slammed.
Tiffany appeared and said, "You're being discharged today. You'll sign papers at the desk. Your wife is here. Still." She rolled my bed tray into a corner and pushed the visitor's chair out of her way and marched off to bring order and efficiency to other lives. Her shoes clacked annoyance as she went.
A year passed, and my balance grew more shaky, my walk became a stagger, and my voice was reduced to an unsympathetic whine. My wife took all this to heart and, just for companionship, she whined along with me now and then. But mostly she took care of me as if attendance on a half-dead white male, eighty, were really fun and just what she had been hoping for in life.
Over the year, we had become closer and closer. We had gradually become one person, or maybe two persons in one being, as Aquinas might say. We had transubstantiated and become a problem in philosophy. Or theology.
But it was getting late and where was the pneumonia, we wanted to know. Where was the cancer? The cancer had turned out to be a benign tumor with little promise, though we tried to hurry it along with prayer and good works. So for now pneumonia was our only hope.
We saw friends and went out to dinner and carried on with our crooked life. All around us, people were coughing and wheezing and saying they couldn't stand this flu, they wished they were dead, and here we were waiting for just one little pneumonia bug to do its work.
Then there it was. We were watching television—Judge Judy, to be exact—when suddenly I went cold. Not all over, just in my hands and feet. My head was hot and grew hotter and my hands grew colder and I tried to stand but I couldn't move. "This is it," I said. "Or, at least, I think so."
My wife said, "Oh, God, no!"
She tried to help me off the couch but, paralyzed, I weighed a ton and she had to give up. "Never mind," I said. "But don't call 911." So we just sat together on the couch. Two old people wrapped in each other's arms.
Mobility returns and you help me to my bed. A day goes by and then another. You pray to know what to do but we have long since agreed to do nothing, so that's what we do.
I say, "I'll miss you when I'm dead." And in a while there comes the final moment: the earth stops turning and a luminous silence descends. And then, as we draw one last breath together, I snatch your hand. And hold it. Holding it, and holding it, and still holding it, I breathe out.
Still, I'll miss you when I'm dead. ♦
Published in the print edition of the May 9, 2016, issue.
John L'Heureux, who died on April 22, 2019, was the author of more than twenty books of fiction and poetry. "The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast," a collection of his stories, will be published in December, and "The Beggar's Pawn," his last novel, will come out in 2020.
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