THE new year celebrations are in full swing.
So as 2019 dawned this morning, we thought it would be good to share our predictions for what might happen this year in Warrington.
Some are serious, some less so.
Let us know what you think and what you are hoping for 2019.
The Government was supposed to decide by last summer what would happen with the planned new bypass from Sankey to Walton.
It would provide most of the cash for project so without its support, the controversial plan won't get off the ground.
And as we are still waiting for an announcement, it seems increasingly unlikely. Maybe the Government has had something else on its mind.
The festival at Victoria Park was a huge success in 2018 and the line-up for 2019 looks even stronger.
But surely this Warrington event needs a Warrington link?
Here's to Ian Brown and the Stone Roses headlining the 2020 version - or is there space for a 2019 guest spot....?
Now work was due to start in 2018, it is promised we will hear something in 2019.
But after years of statements we see no reason to believe 2019 will be the year that the town's rusting and shabby swing bridges get a revamp.
But if Peel wants to put its hand in its vast pockets, we would be delighted to be proved wrong.
If you go past the cinema, it looks almost ready now!
It is set to open as part of the 2020 wider opening of Time Square.
But surely bosses at Cineworld want to be open for Christmas 2019?
While we are on Time Square, we are still waiting for a restaurant to be confirmed for the new £139 million development.
Rumours have been rife but Warrington town centre is missing a Pizza Express. There is one in Stockton Heath of course, but none in the town.
Its addition to Time Square would surely be a welcome fit.
Two final defeats in 2018 were a pretty good start to the Warrington Wolves career of coach Steve Price.
So surely with Wigan under new management and Saints best player getting on the first plane back to Australia, Warrington are ready for honours.
Six new signings are in place, Ben Currie is fit again (at least until April) and the Wire have never looked stronger.
While we are on rugby, expect some good news this month.
Venues are due to be confirmed for the 2021 World Cup soon. After the success of 2013, The Halliwell Jones Stadium would be the obvious choice.
It has been shut since 2016, it was supposed to reopen in 2017 and again in 2018.
But so far, there has been nothing to report.
Surely after all the delays, it will finally open in 2019?
Another decision that was due to be made in 2018 was the publication of the draft local plan.
In short, the document will dictate where houses and new businesses can be built in the coming decades.
It has already been delayed until March and could be pushed back further.
However, we think it will finally be published, but expect a huge outcry if proposed development on the green belt is included.
Come the spring and Warrington will have its usual problem of dealing with unauthorised traveller encampments.
A call will be made for a transite site but, almost a decade after first looking at the issue, councillors will again fail to find a site.
With a local election coming in 2020, don't expect councillors to be in a hurry to make any controversial decisions.
In case you missed it, Warrington's last two mayors did not make the end of their year.
First, Faisal Rashid was elected as MP.
Rather less gloriously, Cllr Les Morgan was forced to quit last year after one of his Facebook blunders saw him make ill-advised jokes about two Warrington players.
But this year, we are in safe hands with Cllr Karen Mundry, who has been a well-liked and popular first citizen.
We had to put one completely ridiculous one in.
Although this past week of bank holidays and Christmas might be as good as it gets, unless you tried to get on Riverside Retail Park.
In all seriousness, the Centre Park Link, which is expected to be ready next year might help.
Until then, be ready for more jams, and frustration.
The new Warrington West station is due to open this summer.
A few hundreds yards down the track though, it looks less bright for Sankey station.
The council said the opening of the £19 million Chapelford station would not be the end of Sankey.
But when it does open, trains stopping and Sankey will reduce to just four a day. One to Liverpool or Manchester in the morning rush hour and the same in the evening.
It will probably never officially close but, in effect, it will cease to have a purpose.
It has long been talked about but could 2019 finally be the year?
Cllr Dan Price has spoken of his commitment to a new theatre and plans have been progressing.
Could they be revealed this year?
And will Warrington support them?
It could be a crucial year for the arts and culture with hopes for the development of Warrington Museum and the Pyramid also high.
There is a long way to go but by the end of 2019 could we have a clearer idea of whether Warrington could get a new hospital.
Throughout this year political and NHS leaders at Warrington have made it clear they want to lobby for a new hospital.
Either based at the current site or a new one - whichever is best.
So with a bit of good fortune, some plans could be revealed this year.
Whisper it quietly but come April, the Yellows could be just two divisions away from league football.
It is a remarkable rise for the side which has enjoyed huge progress in the past decade.
Manager Paul Carden has assembled another strong squad with ambitions for a spot in the National League North should they win promotion this year.
There was much scoffing when the Cultural Quarter was created (and there still is if comedians at the Parr Hall are to be believed.
But a quiet revolution has taken place in recent years with bars and restaurants opening - culminating in the beautiful restoration of the old Treasurey Buildings.
Next we are predicting a small boutique hotel will open in one of the many listed buildings.
With a monthly makers market to enjoy and amenities close by, who wouldn't want a weekend in Warrington?
It is hard to believe it is almost a year since Toys R Us closed.
The popular toy store went into administration at the start of 2018 and the Gemini store closed in March.
It has been empty since but we think 2019 will see a new occupier move in.
Who will it be? Well a gym, Waitrose and car showroom have all been rumoured for the site.
But the smart money would be a discount retailer.
One of the quiet successes of 2018 was the unveiling of Eric Tucker's art in Padgate.
Thousands of people queued at the home of the Padgate painted, who died earlier in the year, to see that work he spent a lifetime creating.
Although this posthumous collection of his work was his first - he never exhibited his Lowry-style paintings while alive.
So expect 2019 to be the year when Eric's work is put on show at Warrington Museum so a large number of people can see his paintings.


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Notes from the Other Side of the Mountain: Love Confronts the Wounds of War by J. Allen Whitt
The novel, Notes from the Other Side of the Mountain – Love Confronts the Wounds of War, by J. Allen Whitt, spans the central years in the life of Gary Reed. This thoughtful young man spends his younger years in New Mexico and Texas, when he falls in love with the beautiful Kristi Preston. Losing Kristi's affections, he joins the Navy in time to take part in the Vietnam conflict and experiences the horrors and losses of war. Vietnam comes home with him in the form of PTSD. However, he rekindles his romance with Kristi, only to lose her once more. Finally, decades later, Gary returns to New Mexico to reflect on his life there, the embers of his love for Kristi, and the lessons and perspectives life has granted him.
This novel is part coming of age, part romance, and part call to action in the cause of PTSD treatment, but primarily it's a memoir in the form of a novel. Whitt's voice is consistent throughout, and particularly strong in Part 4, when the text switches to present tense. It's in this final phase of the novel that it gains its strength and emotional impact. His narrative depictions of scenic views in New Mexico are inspired, particularly for a first novel, and are testimony to a writer's eye, ear, and nose for the surrounding world. Balancing crisp dialogue and narrative is an art in itself, and this one is certainly ripe for growth in that regard. Whitt has a talent for surprise and drama in creating his story arc, but there are issues here. Unresolved or unexplained episodes with his school friends in New Mexico—particularly the crumbling of his teen romance with Kristi—create an early disconnect from the story's overall impact. There are repetitive scenes, layout problems with the book, typos, misspellings, and punctuation errors.
Review by Bob Mustin (June 2019)
Through his vivid narration, we follow Gary Reed as he finds love in high school, then is called to Navy service in Vietnam. Traumatized by the carnage of war, he comes home, hoping to reunite with Kristina Preston and find peace within the serene mountains of New Mexico. Yet Kristy has harrowing secrets as well, and they will face daunting obstacles as they struggle to build a future together and survive unexpected twists of fortune.
ISBN/ASIN: ISBN-10: 0692954252, ISBN-13: 978-0692954256
Review Genre: Fiction—Romance
Tagged: 2019 Season, Romance, MWSA Review Done
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In Plain Sight by Sephira Allen
The Romance genre novel, In Plain Sight, takes place in Virginia during the Civil War years of 1963 to 1865. Its underlying theme is in the ways families and other loved ones are torn apart and virtually kept separate by this war and, by extension, any war of domestic import.
While the book's references to the details of the Virginia war during these years are indefinite, they don't seem inaccurate, and this vagueness is appropriate to the book's assigned genre. Instead, the book's details center about Rylee James, a young woman who dons men's clothing and identity to rescue her Confederate brother Matt, who has been captured by Union forces in Virginia. Rylee's disguise and role as a doctor prove successful in gaining her access to Matt — until she becomes enthralled with Union Captain Eli Webb, and her guise becomes threadbare. Ry springs her brother Matt from his military prison, is wounded, and falls unconscious. As Eli tends to her wound, he discovers her gender and he realizes why he's been attracted to this faux-male doctor. The two become lovers and face complications that could very well mean execution for both.
The story has many unexpected twists prior to war's end that are indicative of the "fog of war" and of the best of human nature, and these traits kept this reader turning pages. The characters, while somewhat skin-deep, are true to human nature and appropriate to this genre. The book was written in an omniscient third person point of view that often set this reader apart from the characters' emotional dynamics. While a wartime story depicting such emotional conflicts should show the interior thoughts and motivations that both draw similar characters together and keep them apart, it may have been better to write the story in a series of "close" third person points of view that would have increased the intimacy between character and reader. Because of this choice, the author too often chooses to explain the motives of the characters to the reader in narrative. Too, narrative could have used more scenic description, but this doesn't seem as important in a book genre primarily preoccupied with character emotions and related activities. The love interest between Ry and Eli doesn't gain steam until some one hundred pages in, and toward the story's end Ry's attention is often on her brother and the family home. For this reason, the book may have been a stronger candidate in a Historical Fiction genre.
Clearly, the writer has put much thought into placing her characters into the book's wartime background, and there is much storytelling talent here.
Review by Bob Mustin (April 2019)
What wouldn't you do for love? No damsel in distress, 20 year old Rylee James hides in plain sight of the enemy, hoping to rescue her brother - a Confederate soldier captured by Union forces. Disguised as a man, she's counting on her skills as a doctor to see her through while she risks it all to save the only family she has left. But even the best laid plans can go awry when love is at stake, and all too soon she is faced with the reality that life's choices aren't always easy. Love of family, love of country, or love of a good man - agonizing decisions to be made when she finds that setting her brother free has left her a prisoner of the heart. A historical romance set in the midst of the American Civil War, In Plain Sight intrigues right from the start, taking you on a wild and perilous ride through the war-torn Virginia countryside. An emotional journey of courage, daring and love, that keeps you enthralled right to the very end.
ISBN/ASIN: B07F5XVF8K, 1983392502, B07KYWJTS9
Ranger's Sacrifice; by Tracey Cramer-Kelly
Sex, commitment and careers come together in Ranger's Sacrifice. Two couples, Cory and Maddy and Chase and Ella, work to build their relationships amidst war and separation. Is it possible to find and keep true love alive under these circumstances?
Cory and Chase are members of the Army's 75th Ranger Regiment, an airborne unit assigned to special missions. Absent from home much of the time, both have discovered the possibility of lasting relationships. At home, Maddy and Ella must continue their lives while waiting and hoping their men return safely.
Ella, both Chase's girlfriend and Cory's little sister, is recovering from a disastrous relationship with Rolando. Maddy is a doctor who met Cory when she treated Ella.
Ranger's Sacrifice offers plenty of hot sex scenes to tantalize readers. However, can
good sex lead to healthy, lasting relationships? The author digs into the issues of
communication, waiting at home, long-distance relationships and life-changing
events as the story develops. Ranger's Sacrifice is the second book in the Army
Ranger Series. The author is currently working on book three, Ranger's Choice.
Review by Pat Avery, MWSA Reviewer
Tracey Cramer-Kelly is an award-winning author who draws inspiration from her past experience as an Army combat medic and helicopter pilot. She lives in small-town Minnesota with her husband and two children and spends as much time outdoors as sub-zero winters allow, all while managing the family motorcycle business.
ISBN/ASIN: 978-1544844589
Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle, ePub/iBook
Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
Tagged: Romance, 2017 Season, MWSA Review Done

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By E.B. Moss Insider InSites Podcasts Archives
A year after covering the Upfront arrivals on the blue carpet for then Turner Networks I was back to grab both business conversation and banter with the stars and star execs of the now larger entity, WarnerMedia. This 20-minute episode of the podcast is a quick series of chats with everyone from the Chairman himself, Bob Greenblatt, and President of Ad Sales, Donna Speciale, to celebs and showrunners across the properties. The transcript below has been edited for clarity so listen here to get all of their valuable comments and quips. Even better, please subscribe to Insider InSites wherever you get your podcasts (Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, GooglePodcasts, Stitcher or TuneIn).
First up, Donna Speciale exhibited the same poise and patter as she had in presenting at the previous day's XandrFront. In this year's brief interview from the carpet, Speciale shared in a nutshell the forthcoming presentation (the reach of their linear offerings, SVOD and AVOD) and explained more about Xandr's new "Community." "It's everything we've been talking about with this vision for five years at Turner," she said. "Now being WarnerMedia and with the Xandr collaboration, AT&T ... will be bringing not just WarnerMedia but all publishers' premium video, with digital in the beginning, but then obviously all the linear ... a holistic community for publishers where buyers and sellers can transact. Community also brings what no other platform has -- AT&T data access to any of the buyers and sellers who want to use that platform."
Referencing the recent interview with Tyler Moody about the WarnerMedia podcast network, I asked Speciale if she saw more dollars going to that vehicle this year. "We are," she confirmed. "This year, I started a small sales organization to actually just focus on podcasting. It's still a little bit in its infancy stage but there're definitely dollars there. I also think it's interesting for podcasting that sometimes linear programming pushes into podcasting, but sometimes podcasting starts the creative and then it goes into the linear aspect as well."
After some serious insights about the volume of performance vs. brand marketing, Speciale gave a great answer to the very important final question: If she were living in a Friends or Seinfeld type of apartment, which WarnerMedia talent would she most want to live next door to? "All the women from Claws-- they're frickin' bad ass."
The Full Frontal team behind Samantha Bee -- Mike Rubens, Amy Hoggart (whose own show was just announced) and Allana Harkin -- weighed in on their preferred neighbors, too. Harkin had a moment in describing the appeal of Shaq (of greenlit TNT docuseries Shaq Life fame and, oh, the NBA).
Back on a serious note, Otter Media Chief Executive Officer Tony Goncalves described how and why they're "at the tip of the sphere of how young people consume content" but also how he was inspired in his own early stage career by our own Jack Myers! "I'm a big fan of his," Goncalves said. As I was coming up in this industry, I saw Jack at a conference and I was sort of blown away by the way that he thought and, frankly, the push that he was making for the future of media and media consumption -- all of which we are now living -- and which is, frankly, what my company essentially represents inside of a large media company like Warner." Props, Jack.
Next, Bob Greenblatt, Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct to Consumer, and arguably one of the best programmers in the business, shared a serious answer and some fun with me. On marketing the new company, he said, "We're launching a whole new business, so we're going to be spending a great deal of money on all of it ... branding, bringing the shows to market -- original shows, HBO shows, all the content. It's a huge new business for us."
He also put OTT in a different context when I asked him about the most "over-the-top" thing he'd done in his career. "I guess doing the big, live musicals at NBC," he said. "Jesus Christ Superstar was pretty over the top, I have to say. I just wish it was Over The Top literally, but it was a big deal." And over-the-top in his professional career? "I've had so many over the years. I'd probably go back to 20 years ago when I produced Six Feet Under for HBO. It was really an extraordinary experience."
More talent and execs included Mickey Sumner of sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer and its showrunner, Graeme Monroe, both of whom spoke to my MediaVillage colleague Simon Applebaum -- who was next to me on the carpet -- about the show's message of exploring humanity with the haves and have-nots, and the effort to build a diverse cast and crew.
And finally, I spoke with two angelic cast members from Miracle Workers who, in the show's first season, were working to save the world with Daniel Radcliffe as one of their fellow helpers. Guess who Karan Soni would pick as a real-life helpmate from WarnerMedia? Spoiler alert -- but smart guy that he is -- Soni said newly promoted President of TBS, TNT and truTV, Kevin Reilly!
Listen to the full episode to hear why ... and to find out where the next season will take Soni, Radcliffe and fellow cast members.
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Two books I've read recently, in a sort of home audit of my husband's grad school creative writing classes, have inspired me to think about works of literature as works of visual art. Not just they way they're laid out in a graphic design sense where the layout works with the content, but the content of the text itself and the way that text is arranged as a separate element alongside, achieve the impact of the whole work meaningful in the particular flavor of visual art.
Michael Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip, first published in 1973, consists mostly of hundereds of clips from a small town newspaper in the 1890's and early 1900's. Stories of murders, epidemic disease, farmers being hauled off to the nuthouse – catastrophic life events summed up in a few brief sentences. Spliced between the listings from each year are a series archival images by the local studio photographer: individuals standing in front of their homes and businesses, funeral flower arrangements, studio portraits, corpse portraits, horses, candid snapshots. Lesy shows how one's trained response to history is to experience it in a Big Picture sense, the persepective we were taught in school, separated from intimate individual lives. The reader/viewer zooms sharply in to understand the misery of late 19th century rural life. Yet in the repetition of reports, we are re-detatched, cut off at the pass from feeling sorry for the victims. At the end, we realize there is indeed a distinct line between understanding and empathy.
Hotel Theory by Wayne Koestenbaum is rather simplistically described as "two books in one," like a buy-one-get-one free sale. But really it's two books side-by-side: a pulp novel set in a non-place, non-time at a Hollywood hotel in one column, and in a second column on each page, a series of documents – dossiers – incoporating literature, music, poetry and visual art describing and analyzing what Koestenbaum calls hotel theory. We all know this mood. My mom calls it "livin' the Motel Life" (our standard was more Motel 6 than Marriott). It's both indulgent and grating. You arrive at a hotel. It's afternoon, it's evening, you're tired from being cooped up in the car or plane. You first turn on the air conditioner, go to the ice machine and drink a Coke with ice from plastic cups wrapped in cellophane, or perhaps the paper-covered glass tumblers. The toilet paper is folded into a point. You wonder whether to re-hang your towels or throw them on the floor. Maybe you have some Tom's peanut butter-cheese crackers or peanut M&M's from the vending machine – something you'd never eat at home – or go swimming in the pool. You keep vigil watching cable TV, trying to ignore the silence/noise of the faceless strangers staying in identical cells all around you by cranking up the A/C. The streetlight shines through the uncloseable chink in the curtains right onto your pillow. It's worse when you have to stay more than one night. As you're reading the book (and the choice is entirely yours on how to read it), you are reading one column only but you know there is something going on simultaneously on the other side of it, you just can't participate in both. Just like a hotel room or lobby.
Thursday, October 30, MOCA Press in Tucson presents its Multiples & Monographs imprint with Bill Mackey's Field Guide and Check Lists in a limited edition of 75 copies. According to the email invitation, Mackey playfully analyzes our current patterns of consumption and leisure, appropriating the classic practices of ethnographers and natural scientists. The $10 member/$25 non-member admission includes the Mackey created pamphlet: Field Guide to Tucson Convenience Stores. I'm really curious to get my hands on a copy of this. Ever since I moved to Tucson, I've been fascinated by the large number of winged 60's convenience store throughout the city. I don't think I've seen stores quite like these except for random backstreets in Ft. Worth and what was, in the early 1980's, the only 24-hour store in New Braunfels. I've been waiting till the weather gets cooler (yes, I'm a big pansy, but it's not the heat that'll get ya here, it's the dryness) to spend a day cycling around town and taking documentary photos of all the 60's stores I can find.


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Ю́ляла́мпи (Юля-лампи; ) — озеро на территории Кааламского сельского поселения Сортавальского района Республики Карелия.

Общие сведения
Площадь озера — 1,3 км², площадь водосборного бассейна — 53,2 км². Располагается на высоте 86,6 метров над уровнем моря.

Форма озера продолговатая: вытянуто с северо-запада на юго-восток. Берега каменисто-песчаные, возвышенные.

Озеро входит в проточную систему озёр: Пяяхимайненлампи () → Венелампи () → Риутталампи () → Перттилампи () → Хияярви → Вахваярви → Руоколампи → Юлялампи → Алалампи () → Янисъярви.

В озере расположен один небольшой остров без названия.

В полукилометре к юго-востоку от озера расположен посёлок Контиолахти. Вдоль северо-восточного берега проходит дорога местного значения  («Сюскюярви — Маткаселькя»).

Вдоль юго-восточного берега озера проходит линия железной дороги Маткаселькя — Суоярви.

Название озера переводится с финского языка как «верхнее лесное озеро».

Код объекта в государственном водном реестре — 01040300211102000013537.

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 Озёра Карелии

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Anaheim's Platinum Triangle blends leading-edge business, high-salary employment, world champion entertainment and exciting residential neighborhoods, creating a unique opportunity in the heart of Orange County. Here, amidst millions of square feet of new development opportunities for office, restaurant and residential projects, is an established destination featuring high-rise lofts, two championship sports teams, an exciting array of dining and entertainment, plus immediate access to the rest of Southern California from three freeways and a major transit center.
The Platinum Triangle is an area within Anaheim that generally surrounds and includes Angel Stadium, Honda Center and The Grove of Anaheim.
Urban development, guided by The Platinum Triangle Master Land Use Plan, is bringing high density, mixed-use, office, restaurant, and residential projects to replace older industrial developments.
The Platinum Triangle Mixed Use Overlay Zone (Chapter 18.20 of the Anaheim Municipal Code) allows development of residential, retail, restaurant and office developments. Existing industrial businesses are also welcome to continue operating.
Environmental Impact Reports have been prepared to analyze the environmental impacts related to the permitted development intensities.
Many different modes of transportation are anticipated to provide access to and within The Platinum Triangle including the I-5, SR-57 and SR-22 freeways; a network of pedestrian friendly local streets; bikeways; ARTIC (Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center); Anaheim Resort Transit (ART); and, OCTA buses.
A Community Facilities District has been approved to finance public infrastructure improvements.


Waiting now for the full obit that recognizes her achievements and her vast body of work, news from London today via a few paragrafs in the NY Times just now: Doris Lessing is dead at 94. If you haven't seen the video of her learning that she'd won the Nobel in Literature at 87, you must watch this. Clearly, her life was not about the glory.
Because of her recent death, this first-hand report of a small meeting where she spoke.
It was 3 AM and I woke, cold, which, given the heat of the past weeks, seemed impossible. None of my tricks for getting back to sleep were working so I engaged in the one activity that we now know is the worst, reading on a screen where, as usual, I went straight to the obits. There Katie Hafner's extremely sad one about Lindy Hess, who ran the Columbia Publishing Course.
Lindy Hess at Doubleday. It was a good break for people bringing out their first book with a major publisher. Lindy knew what she was doing. At 31, she was such a pro that the venerated old house had given her control of an imprint (Doubleday Dolphin). Because she appeared to be so knowledgeable and clearly was very talented and because we'd done the deal on the phone without meeting face-to-face, I thought she'd be much older than I. Instead, when we went to the swanky building on, was it Park Avenue, we were greeted by a woman three years younger with shoulder-length hair held back by a, was it velvet, headband that she removed and reinserted every few minutes. We talked in her office for a while about what was ahead in the process, mentioned that "Jackie Onassis" was now an editor at Doubleday, described her as "very nice" and "hard-working," and shortly thereafter asked if I needed to use the ladies room.
We went together and, as we stood in front of the mirror fidgeting with our hair after peeing -- isn't that part of the ritual: pee, wash your hands, fuss with your hair? -- she said I looked "elegant." I was wearing a long-sleeved ivory silk blouse with a self-tie that I'd borrowed from my friend-neighbor Emily, a dark-blue, knee-length wool skirt with two unusual pleats and one pocket that was stitched not quite right (I'd gotten it at a designer-discount shop) causing me to fuss with *it* constantly, and the most expensive pair of tall boots I'd ever bought, then about five years old. It felt like quite a compliment standing with "my editor" in Manhattan.
Shortly after the book was published (my memory is that it was only weeks), Lindy left Doubleday and, if I've got this right, moved to Boston, and not long thereafter married her husband Bill Appleton. I was happy for her and sad that our acquisition editor had orphaned our book. A very nice guy took over -- Gerry Helferich -- who later went on to work at Wiley (a later publisher of Jeff's and my books) and who now writes his own books.
We saw Lindy a few times after she moved to Boston, us visting her house, she visting ours, but as time went on, we lost touch. Then about five years ago, David Miller of Garamond Agency, a new agent whom we worked with for a while, told us he was going to teach at the Columbia Publishing Course, which led to a discussion of the program and, alas, that's where Lindy had ended up, spending 25 years making that program and many of its graduates extremely successful.
Once you've been published, you can never be unpublished. There have been other people who have come along in the years since Lindy published Networking, people whose work has made a very big difference in Jeff's and my writing careers but Lindy was the first book publisher and I'd give anything at this moment to see her take that headband out and put it back in.
Compassionate (this eulogy she gave for her chemo buddy is the paradigm of how it can be done with grace and humor).
Insightful (as in her book, How Can I Help? Everyday Ways to Help Your Loved One Live with Cancer, with practical advice for the people who ask the question and for those who have to answer it).
Practical (as in her book, written with Hope Ricciotti, The Real Life Body Book: A Young Woman's Complete Guide to Health and Wellness).
And above all courageous. Who else could write a hilarious book called The Courage Muscle: A Chicken's Guide to Living with Breast Cancer?
All of these books written, by the way, post-diagnosis.
Monique came to visit a few days after my husband was diagnosed with his terminal cancer, she in her 8th, or 18th, or 80th, it seemed, year of endurance. Metastatic breast cancer. She who was in treatment herself came to visit one who was about to enter the world of chemo and radiation and blood counts and tumor markers. In spite of all she was going through, she had the will to visit someone just beginning.
Before all this, Monique and I had become friends, principally on the phone, which is an excellent way to get to the heart of things. Which we did. Then, after Jeff began receiving treatment, we were often on that floor of the hospital that no one wanted to visit at the same time, which gave us time for more visits, more deepening.
Last week, I'd heard from Monique's childhood friend, Stuart Sadick, also a friend of mine, that the end was near... and I just saw that it had come on his Facebook page. Late last night.
A lot of people are crying today... and laughing. Thank you, dear person, for redefining a whole category of experience.
At the very tail end of this day of atonement, a small montage of four, two in my news, two in yours, who died in the past few months of pancreatic cancer.
Clockwise from upper left, my dear friend, Donna Bannon from my hometown, who lived only 25 days post-diagnosis; my darling husband, Jeff Stamps, who lived 13 months post-diagnosis with great equanimity and dignity; Nobel laureate Ralph Steinman, who lived 4.5 years post-diagnosis and was experimenting on himself with a vaccine that held potential to ameliorate this horrid disease; and, of course, the most famous of all, Steve Jobs, who lived 7 years post-diagnosis with the most rare form of the disease, which is sometimes curable.
Donations in their memories to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
Bryan Marquard's sensitive and insightful obit ("Daja Meston: Buddhist peace hid his inner struggles") in today's Boston Globe for our dear friend, Wangchuk. I've written about him and his wife Phuni a number of times before here, never expecting what has happened. Wangchuk, who struggled with depression, took his own life on July 11.
Phuni, along with their friends Robert Barnett, head of the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at Columbia University, and Patrick Curley, an attorney here in Boston, speak beautifully about Wangchuk in the obit. Please read it.
Today friends and family will gather for his memorial service at 3 PM at 10 Twin Pond Lane, Lincoln, MA.
We are all so very sad.
Don't skip Bryan Marquard's obit, "Graham H. Gardner, 22, 'angel in service of God," in today's Boston Globe. Read to the end.
Back when we were first writing about networks, we received a letter (in the mail, that long ago), written on beautiful stationery. It was from Elizabeth M. Lorentz, who said that while she liked our book, we'd missed a very important source of information: the books she'd written with Seymour Sarason (who died on Jan. 28 in New Haven). She went on to point out that we'd failed to recognize a critical role in networks, that of the coordinator, again a function that she and Sarason had identified.
Shame on us. We'd missed their work entirely. In fact, we'd never heard of either of them until the letter came, but, once it did, a friendship was born with Elizabeth that lasted until she died about ten years ago.
I could (and eventually will) write for pages about Elizabeth, her remarkable life, and what turned out to be an important friendship. Her father was Eugene Meyer, first head of the World Bank, but that was only later in his life, after many other positions, including chairing the Federal Reserve Bank, and buying, at auction, The Washington Post, which Elizabeth's younger sister, Katharine Graham, would eventually run. The world passed through the doors of the Meyer home and, during the fifteen years of our friendship, I heard many stories about people whom I only knew from reading--Brancusi, Steichen, Gershwin, to name a few. The most important to our work was Seymour.
He was warm and funny, knew our work, and wanted me to come visit him in Connecticut. You no doubt have a list of such trips yourself, ones that you really want to make but never can make happen, say, next Tuesday. I'm so grateful that I did make the time, many times over, to see Elizabeth and get to know her.
One of its central tenets lies close to the heart of all of us interested in networks: that we have a great deal to offer one another but we have to reach outside the narrow bounds of the organizations we serve in order to realize it--and to manifest what cross-boundary communication and sharing really make possible. Coordinators, back to that first letter from Elizabeth, are the people who can make this happen.
As I'm madly trying to find some passages that describe what Elizabeth and Seymour were talking about, I've put my fingers on a few pages in The Age of the Network on their work. Will post that too.
Meanwhile, a deep bow to the phenomenal body of work that you produced, Seymour, which we all need to study more closely.
And a huge public note to self: Stop delaying all those trips.
Fox, mentioned below, has a thorough bio of Tomas in her obit, including some extraordinary moments in his life that I remember his talking about. Poignant.
...has died. The Argentine journalist, who for a number of years headed the Latin American studies department at Rutgers, was also a novelist whose books played with reality, Santa Evita perhaps the emblem of the genre. What genre, I'm not certain, but Tomas did it masterfully. The story of an investigative reporter on the hunt to find Eva Peron's body, the book is carefully footnoted to the point that it's nearly impossible to distinguish what came out of the author's mind and what the reader can actually google.
I have two photos of Tomas, neither very good, taken at book club at our house in 2006. The backstory: as previously reported, I often take the train back and forth to New York. As some measure of my particular karma, I often meet a writer on that journey. As karmas go, this is a good one.
But sometimes I'm very tired on these trips and don't want to talk to anyone at all. Such was the case early one Sunday evening in 2006 when I was a little late getting on the train. There were only a few seats available and I chose the one where I anticipated the least interaction--a couple sitting opposite each other, both with their laptops running. I sat down next to the woman (Gabriela Esquivada, far right in photo), we exchanged smiles, and I settled in for a rest.
But why were they coming to Boston? Tomas turned the right side of his head toward me, a very large and red scar searing down the side, just behind his ear. Glioblastoma, he said, and he was being treated here in Boston.
We struck up a friendship and a month or so later, Tomas and Gabriela, also an Argentine journalist and editor, came to book club. I wrote a note about the evening for my friends on Zoetrope (see below). About two years ago, we lost touch. I was sad to see the news this morning but amazed that he lived for so long with this terrible disease.
Tomas Eloy Martinez came to our book club last night to discuss Santa Evita. So far, Tomas has written seven novels, I believe, and a whole lot of journalism down the years, but has not had as much exposure in the US as abroad, at 71 not as familiar as other Lat American writers, Carlos Fuentes, for example, whom he's known since he was 18 (Fuentes is 10 years older). One of Tomas's books, unpublished in the US, The Flight of the Queen has sold 500k sales globally, many translations, best foreign book in China (dunno year), and on. I found this interview with him in Three Monkeys Online and it squares with what I've been learning from him, worth reading.
Tomas and Gabriela Esquivada-Martinez, his wife, have been here in Boston for past couple of months where Tomas is being treated for brain tumor. I met them in early March on the train from NY to Boston ten days after his surgery; they were traveling to Boston from their home in Highland Park, NJ, where he's been heading Lat Amer studies dept at Rutgers. Mission: his first round of chemo and radiation. When I picked them up last night, I expected him to look haggard and ill. He looks great. His incision is healing and he spoke well and clearly for many hours.
Tomas focused on the line between fiction and fact, blurry, saying that the woman writing the intro to the anthology of his work being pub'd in Venezuela (hope I've got this right) finds the theme of his work to be "doubt." I agree, caveat being that I've only read one of his books…but it is impossible to know, reading it, whether it is fact or fiction. How could this be a novel, I kept asking myself, but Tomas told us last night that only the last three pages are true. He entered the "black hole" of nine missing months in Eva Peron's history and from it spun this book. Very dark, no redeeming characters, except perhaps the "I" who appears late in the book, relatively speaking, and is never fully revealed.
My book club has been meeting for 15 or so years, monthly, 190 books to date, primarily classics. This evening was in its own category and I encourage everyone to read Tomas's work.


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Consider exactly how many times you go Nevada in a year. When it is greater than a few, consider how much cash you've used on hotels. If you have the means – and many people visiting Nevada significantly more than a times a possibly do – a vacation home can be quite a sound investment. Since it is the busiest and most popular tourist spot in america the real estate in Vegas is prime territory.
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This means it can be a revenue producing asset for the remaining 47 weeks, if you own a holiday home that you visit maybe four or five weeks out of the year! However, unless you want to deal with the day-to-day functions of running a rental company, you'd be much better off selecting a management service to complete the task for you.
They'll list your property among all the other Nevada vacation domiciles and control the nightly and weekly rentals which come in and out. It's not really a bad deal for you or the tenants. All of the time the rates will be less than a hotel, and you'll still make more than enough to pay the mortgage, the rental company and have a little left for yourself. What Time Is Checkout At The Cosmopolitan is a poetic online database for more concerning how to see this hypothesis.
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Q: Locating Models in the Umbraco hierarchy I am helping a friend of mine to edit a few things on his website that was built using Umbraco. I am not the original author and I am pretty new to Umbraco but, I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. There is a form that is being used to send an email whenever someone wants to order supplies from the website. The form was previously working. However, he has lost access to the email account and had to create a new one. The problem is I cannot seem to locate the model to look inside of it and change where the emails are being sent.
I cannot locate the Models (there are multiple) in the Umbraco hierarchy even though I can find references to where they're are called inside of the different forms. See below:
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<Aeon.Models.OrderSuppliesModel>

I know this is not a URL so I am a little confused on why this is not in any of the Umbraco hierarchy. I know that since it is referencing something and previously worked it has to be there somewhere. The only other place I would think they could be is in the root directory which I don't have access to yet. Could they possibly be located there? Any type of help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

A: Forms are not directly handled within Umbraco. I am assuming you are using ver 6+.
To get a form to work you rely on the core MVC functionality, which means you create a Surface Controller with Get and POST actions to handle the logic.
There will be a reference to the specific model being passed to the view within the controller logic, but its common for standard static configuration information to be stored in an Umbraco node itself. Example of such are "SMTP server" "From Address" & "Use Encryption" etc. Some people as an alternative store this information as keys in web.config.
If you are specifically looking to change the model being passed to the form (OrderSuppliesModel), if you are using Visual Studio, the model should be colored in a teal color and when you hover over it, it shows the full namespace. Click it and press F12. This should link you directly to the class module.
hope it helps.

A: If you're lucky, they're using Umbraco Forms/Contour. When you log into the back office, do you see a section called either "Forms" or "Contour"?
If so, you should be able to find the form in the Forms tree, and at the bottom of the form you should be able to edit the workflows, which will allow you to change who gets emails sent to them etc.
If you don't have those sections, could you post the view that has the form on so we can see what it's doing please?

A: Since you don't have access to the code, you will have to hope there is a variable somewhere which lets you set the email, rather than it being hardcoded into the controller.
Umbraco nodes
Sometimes Umbraco developers store the email on a field on a node in Umbraco. The common places are:

*

*on the page node which has the form on it

*on a settings node

*on the home page node

Web.config
The Web.config also has a section which can be used to easily setup variables. Checkout the <appSettings> section to see if there are keys and/or values which might indicate they're used for email.
Also, you haven't specifically said if it is the SMTP email account which has broken, or if it's the email account which submissions are being sent to. Look for the <mailSettings> section on the Web.config if you want to see the SMTP settings. There may be a 'from' field on the <smtp> element.
umbracoSettings.config
In the umbracoSettings.config there is an element which will look something like this:
<notifications>
  <!-- the email that should be used as from mail when umbraco sends a notification -->
  <email>your@email.here</email>
</notifications>

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The Karelian Isthmus debitantski je studijski album finskog heavy metal sastava Amorphis. Album je 1. studenog 1992. godine objavila diskografska kuća Relapse Records.

Snimanje i objava
The Karelian Isthmus bio je snimljen u svibnju 1992. godine u studiju Sunlight Studio u Stockholmu, Švedskoj. Jukka Kolehmainen, pjevač grupe Abhorrence, pojavio se kao gostujući pjevač na bonus pjesmi "Vulgar Necrolatry", obradi Abhorrenceove pjesme.

The Karelian Isthmus su 1. studenog 1992. godine objavile diskografske kuće Relapse Records (u SAD-u), Nuclear Blast (u Europi) i Spinefarm Records (u Finskoj). Album je ponovno bio objavljen 2003. godine te se ta inačica albuma sastojala i od pjesama s EP-a Privilege of Evil.

Glazbeni stil i tekstovi
Na The Karelian Isthmusu Amorphisov se glazbeni stil odlikuje sporim death metalom sa značajnim utjecajima doom metala. Za razliku od tipične death metal instrumentacije Amorphis se na ovom albumu koristi i akustičnim prijelazima s normalnim gitarama i akustičnim gitarama od 12 žica te atmosferičnim klavijaturističkim podlogama koje je svirao bubnjar Jan Rechberger. Pjesme su često bile opisivane kao vrlo spore te da definitivno nisu bile nadahnute američkim brutalnim i brzim stilom death metala. Album se često povezuje s melodičnim death metalom, iako na albumu nisu prisutne polifonalne gitarističke melodije tipične za taj žanr. Internetski časopis Deadtide u svojoj je recenziji izjavio: "Usred vrućine američke death [metal] eksplozije, kad je svatko bio klon Morbid Angela, Obituaryja ili Suffocationa, The Karelian Isthmus  ponudio je sporiji, jednostavniji i melodičniji zvuk".

Na demouratku Disment of Soul tekstovi pjesama uglavnom su bili vezani uz tematiku smrti, kao što je i uobičajeno za žanr death metala. The Karelian Isthmus se, međutim, tekstualno odmaknuo od ovih utjecaja. Karelijska prevlaka područje je između Sankt Petersburga i Finske koji je Finska izgubila od Sovjetskog Saveza tijekom Zimskog rata koji je trajao od 1939. do 1940. godine. Album je više povezan s keltskom poviješću nego s finskom, ali nema sofisticirani koncept kao kasniji albumi skupine.

Popis pjesama

Recenzije
Jason Anderson, glazbeni kritičar sa stranice AllMusic, dodijelio je albumu četiri zvjezdice od pet te je izjavio: "Ono što je najimpresivnije jest visoki dinamički standard koji je grupa ostvarila tako rano u svojoj karijeri snimanja. Razlog tome uglavnom su žestoki i vrlo originalni rifovi. "Black Embrace" i "The Lost Name of God" sadrže neke od najučinkovitijih i čak iznenađujuće jednostavnih gitarističkih dionica koje bi se mogle zamisliti. Ove bi skladbe i izvedbe same po sebi bile dovoljne da bi se dozvolila jaka preporuka, ali The Karelian Isthmus puno je više od nekolicine lijepih gitarističkih fraza. Hrapavi vokali i čvrsta bubnjarska izvedba također zarađuju Amorphisu visoke death metal/grindcore ocjene. Nužno potreban album obožavateljima ranog, melodičnog death metal doba ovog sastava, The Karelian Isthmus nalazi se među Amorphisovim najboljim izdanjima."

Osoblje

Amorphis
Tomi Koivusaari – vokali, električna gitara, akustična gitara
Esa Holopainen – električna gitara, akustična gitara s 12 žica
Olli-Pekka Laine – bas-gitara
Jan Rechberger – bubnjevi, klavijature

Ostalo osoblje
Miran Kim – naslovnica
Tomas Skogsberg – produkcija, inženjer zvuka
William J. Yurkiewicz Jr. – izvršna produkcija
Matthew F. Jacobson – izvršna produkcija
Dave Shirk – mastering

Izvori

Albumi iz 1992.
Albumi sastava Amorphis


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Iron Dome image courtesy of The Times of Israel, 13 May 2021, https://bit.ly/3qsY991
A detection error by Iron Dome, Israel's missile defense system, took out one of Santa's reindeer and threatened to derail Christmas Friday night.
Saint Nick was flying from Lebanon into northern Israel, where he was set to deliver toys to Christian children in and around Nazareth. When the Iron Dome detected a suspicious group of objects flying low in the sky, the sleigh was misidentified as a rocket barrage. An Iron Dome battery was deployed, with the interceptor killing Blitzen and injuring Comet and Vixen.
Claus was able to safely land his sleigh outside Jerusalem and later in the night took off again and finished his route. But he was delayed for hours, and several families ran into him in their living rooms when they woke up Christmas morning.
The Israeli government acknowledged the error but blamed Santa for the unauthorized use of its sovereign air space.
"If Mr. Nicholas wants to enter the country, he can go through the checkpoints like everyone else," explained Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. "Not that we really want him – after all, he is from Turkey, so he probably supports Hamas."
Claus, meanwhile, is now considering joining the BDS boycott movement and avoiding Israel altogether in future years.
"I'm out here bringing joy and peace to the Earth, and these Jews are trying to kill me!" a rattled Claus told reporters shortly after the incident. "Gosh, now I know how Jesus felt."
Like all holiday seasons that are just around the corner, they can be a period of intense joy, spending time with family and friends. But they can also be a time of dread. For many couples in a new relationship, one has to ask if the holidays are the right time to meet that significant other's family. This predicament is no...
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Israel Destroys Syrian Air Force after It fails to Keep Social Border Distance


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Your Friday Briefing
Is 'forever boosting' tenable?
Waiting after booster shots at a vaccination center in Brussels this week.Credit…Yves Herman/Reuters
Experts concerned about 'forever boosting'
A year ago, just two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine — or even one, in the case of Johnson & Johnson's formulation — were thought to offer sufficient protection against the coronavirus.
Now, faced with the extraordinarily contagious Omicron variant, Israel has begun offering fourth doses to some high-risk groups. The U.S. expanded eligibility for boosters to adolescents this week and backed away from describing anyone with two shots as "fully vaccinated."
Many are wondering when it all ends.
Scientists, facing an unpredictable virus, are reluctant to predict the future. But in interviews this week, nearly a dozen said that whatever happened, trying to boost the entire population every few months was not realistic. Nor does it make much scientific sense. Many say the booster plan is not practical, as fewer people have showed up for boosters than for their second doses.
Some scientists say waiting for a variant-specific booster would be better than the current general boosters.
Quotable: "It's not unheard-of to give vaccines periodically, but I think there are better ways than doing boosters every six months," said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University. Other strategies, she said, could "get us out of this forever-boosting kind of a situation."
The science: Booster shots undoubtedly increase antibody levels and help to prevent infection. As a result, they may relieve pressure on the health care system by temporarily slowing the spread of the virus. But the immunity boost is transient.
Strategy changes: Several advisers who counseled President Biden before he took office urged the president to create a new strategy for living with Covid indefinitely rather than try to stamp it out.
Here are the latest updates and maps of the pandemic.
Here's a look at the current two-week lockdown in Xi'an, China.
After a 10-hour airport standoff over his visa and medical exemption for the Australian Open, Novak Djokovic, the No. 1 men's tennis player, was told to leave the country.
Omicron is taking out New York City Transit workers, the latest hit to subway ridership.
Italy made Covid vaccinations mandatory for people 50 and older.
Rio de Janeiro canceled Carnival street parties, but the parade will go on.
"His bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution," President Biden said of Donald Trump on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
Biden goes after Trump on Capitol attack anniversary
With lawmakers gathered in the Capitol on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the building by a pro-Trump mob, President Biden denounced Donald Trump for spinning a "web of lies" and threatening democracy.
In his most scathing attack on the former president since taking office, Biden accused Trump and his allies of holding "a dagger at the throat of America" and trying to undermine the legitimacy of the election system.
Biden's speech kicked off a daylong commemoration that underscored just how fractured the U.S. remained a year after Trump refused to accept a decisive defeat at the ballot box.
The day was part national commemoration, part group therapy session and part slick production as Democrats marked the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries.
Just two Republicans took part in a moment of silence for the lives lost: Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Related: Within hours of the riot, the "stop the steal" campaign gave way to revisionist histories of Jan. 6. This is how they took hold among Trump supporters.
Soldiers in the main square of Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.Credit…Mariya Gordeyeva/Reuters
Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan
Thousands of troops from a Russia-led military alliance arrived in Kazakhstan to try to restore order after a night of protests turned violent and the police reported dozens of deaths.
The protesters, rallying against surging fuel prices, set government buildings on fire and overran the airport. Commercial banks and stores were ordered closed yesterday, causing people to rush to A.T.M.s to collect cash and line up for bread. The Kazakh authorities said that by last night, they had regained control of government buildings in Almaty, the country's largest city.
In addition to those who were killed, about a thousand people were injured and up to 400 were hospitalized. Around 2,000 protesters were detained. Western officials were watching closely.
The troop deployment is the first by the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a military alliance of former Soviet states, dominated by Russia. The operation was described as a temporary peacekeeping mission.
Background: The revolt in Kazakhstan began on Sunday as a protest against a rise in fuel prices and a demand for voting power. Even when the government said it would rescind the price increase, the protests grew.
Analysis: The crisis presented Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, with an opportunity to reassert influence in the former Soviet domain. But analysts say it could plant the seeds of rebellion at home.
Context: Kazakhstan has by far the highest G.D.P. per capita in the region and plenty of reserves, driven by billions in profits from oil. Most of this wealth, however, has not been equally distributed, with the elites living lavishly while many survive on meager salaries.
On the ground: The fires and destruction have been captured in these photos and in video footage.
News From Europe
Credit…Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA, via Shutterstock
Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson, was rebuked by his ethics adviser over the costly refurbishment of his Downing Street apartment.
Pope Francis said that people who had pets instead of children were being selfish. "It takes away our humanity," he said.
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict …. "I am Israel" Documentary!!
I'm learning many things since I've started this blogging journey almost three years ago.
One of the things I've noticed is that, even though I consider I had a complete and thorough education, many topics were ignored or very lightly covered.
I think that both the internet and social media have been vehicles in this learning journey of mine.
I'm thankful for that. I'm forever in a quest for knowledge.
This is one of the topics that I didn't know much about.
I know it's a controversial one but no one can hide the facts when they are there … in our face.
This situation is a total violation of human rights and the extermination of a race by those with more power.
The included video was uploaded in 2009.
Sad to see the state of our world.
In the late 1800's a group in Europe decided to colonize this land. Known as Zionists, they represented an extremist minority of the Jewish population. Their goal was to create a Jewish homeland, and they considered locations in Africa and the Americas, before settling on Palestine.
At first, this immigration created no problems. However, as more and more Zionists immigrated to Palestine – many with the express wish of taking over the land for a Jewish state – the indigenous population became increasingly alarmed.
Eventually, fighting broke out, with escalating waves of violence. Hitler's rise to power, combined with Zionist activities to sabotage efforts to place Jewish refugees in western countries, led to increased Jewish immigration to Palestine, and conflict grew.
Finally, in 1947 the United Nations decided to intervene.
However, rather than adhering to the principle of "self-determination of peoples," in which the people themselves create their own state and system of government, the UN chose to revert to the medieval strategy whereby an outside power divides up other people's land.
There are two primary issues at the core of this continuing conflict.
First, there is the inevitably destabilizing effect of trying to maintain an ethnically preferential state, particularly when it is largely of foreign origin. The original population of what is now Israel was 96 percent Muslim and Christian, yet, these refugees are prohibited from returning to their homes in the self-described Jewish state (and those within Israel are subjected to systematic discrimination).
Second, Israel's continued military occupation and confiscation of privately owned land in the West Bank, and control over Gaza, are extremely oppressive, with Palestinians having minimal control over their lives.
Thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children are held in Israeli prisons. Few of them have had a legitimate trial; physical abuse and torture are frequent. Palestinian borders (even internal ones) are controlled by Israeli forces. Periodically men, women, and children are strip searched; people are beaten; women in labor are prevented from reaching hospitals (at times resulting in death); food and medicine are blocked from entering Gaza, producing an escalating humanitarian crisis. Israeli forces invade almost daily, injuring, kidnapping, and sometimes killing inhabitants.
According to the Oslo peace accords of 1993, these territories were supposed to finally become a Palestinian state. However, after years of Israel continuing to confiscate land and conditions steadily worsening, the Palestinian population rebelled.
This uprising, called the "Intifada" (Arabic for "shaking off") began at the end of September 2000.
Largely due to special-interest lobbying, U.S. taxpayers give Israel an average of $8 million per day, and since its creation have given more U.S. funds to Israel than to any other nation.
As Americans learn about how Israel is using our tax dollars, many are calling for an end to this expenditure.
I am Israel. Written by Hashem Said on Feb. 25, 2002.
Video made by Jihane Al Quds on Sept. 4, 2009.
Hashem Said is an officer in the UW Palestinian student group Hayaat.


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The assembly has experienced its time of glory as being the postwar period, but the initial instances can be found between the 2 main wars.
It is the case of Kurt Schwitters Merzbild Rossfett,etc construction factors attached from the old master at this time, as sort of random diary. Or the fact for the Kabinett der Abstrakten (installation of architectural part and abstract creation) through the Russian specialist El Lissitzky found at Hanover Provincial Museum found in 1927.
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Marco Kardinal Cé (* 8. Juli 1925 in Izano, Provinz Cremona, Italien; † 12. Mai 2014 in Venedig) war Patriarch von Venedig. Er zählte zu den prägenden Gestalten der katholischen Kirche Italiens.

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Marco Cé entstammte einer Familie von Landwirten und erhielt im Knabenseminar seines Heimatbistums Cremona sowie am Lyzeum von Lodi eine humanistische Ausbildung. Anschließend absolvierte er ein Studium der Katholischen Theologie an der Päpstlichen Universität Gregoriana und am Päpstlichen Bibelinstitut, das er mit dem Doktorat im Fachbereich Dogmatik und dem Lizenziat in Biblischer Theologie abschloss.

Nach seiner Priesterweihe am 27. März 1948 kehrte er in sein Heimatbistum zurück; er unterrichtete am dortigen Priesterseminar Biblische Theologie und übte das Amt des Subregens aus. Ab 1957 stand er dem Seminar als Regens vor und übernahm die Leitung der Liturgischen Kommission seiner Heimatdiözese, die in der Folgezeit für die Umsetzung der Liturgiereform während und nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil verantwortlich war. Auch bot Marco Cé wiederholt geistliche Einkehrtage für die Jugendlichen der Katholischen Aktion sowie Priesterexerzitien an.

Am 22. April 1970 wurde Cé durch Papst Paul VI. zum Titularbischof von Vulturia und zum Weihbischof in Bologna ernannt. Die Bischofsweihe empfing er am 17. Mai 1970 durch Carlo Manziana, Bischof von Crema. Als Weihbischof war er Assistent von Erzbischof Antonio Kardinal Poma, der ihm große Teile der Verantwortung für die Diözese übertrug. Im Jahre 1976 ernannte ihn Papst Paul VI. zum Geistlichen Leiter der Katholischen Aktion. Sein Bischofsmotto war Christus ipse pax,  .

Nach dem plötzlichen Tod von Papst Johannes Paul I., der bis zu seiner Wahl Patriarch von Venedig war, übertrug ihm Papst Johannes Paul II. am 7. Dezember 1978 die Leitung des Erzbistums Venedig. Die Amtseinführung als Patriarch von Venedig fand am 6. Januar des folgenden Jahres statt. Dem Kardinalskollegium gehörte Marco Cé als Kardinalpriester mit der Titelkirche San Marco seit dem 30. Juni 1979 an. Der weltoffene Kardinal Cé galt lange als papabile. Papst Johannes Paul II. nahm am 5. Januar 2002 Cés altersbedingten Rücktritt an.

Cé nahm kurz vor der Vollendung seines 80. Lebensjahres am Konklave 2005, in dem Benedikt XVI. gewählt wurde, als ältester wahlberechtigter Kardinal teil. Im März 2006 hielt Kardinal Cé die ersten Fastenexerzitien für den neuen Papst und Mitarbeiter der Kurie. Am Konklave 2013 nahm er wegen Überschreitung der Altersgrenze nicht mehr teil. Kardinal Cé starb am 12. Mai 2014 in einem venezianischen Krankenhaus, in das er zuvor nach einem Schenkelbruch eingeliefert worden war.

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 CÉ Card. Marco, Presseamt des Heiligen Stuhls, abgerufen am 13. Mai 2014 (italienisch)

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Patriarch von Venedig
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Titularbischof
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Römisch-katholischer Bischof (21. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Theologe (21. Jahrhundert)
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Hochschullehrer (Venedig)
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Packed to the ceiling with textbooks, papers and pens, Anil Chowdhary's narrow stationery store in a New Delhi market looks like it has not changed in decades, except for the QR codes, printed on pieces of laminated paper, lying next to the cash register.
India was suddenly pushed to adopt digital payments two and a half years ago, when prime minister Narendra Modi announced the demonitisation of all Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes, then the largest denominations, to crack down on corrupt officials, businesspeople and criminals hoarding illicit cash and evading tax.
The move may have failed to purge black money, but it did help spark an explosion in digital transactions. Today, India's migration to digital payments has led to a fierce race for market dominance, and made the country, one of the world's largest untapped digital markets, a test case for the future of mobile money.
"The radical change came after demonitisation — now people prefer to pay digitally," said Mr Chowdhary. "In the beginning it was annoying, but it will benefit the next generation."
Digital payments in India are estimated to grow by 20 per cent in the next four years, the fastest growth in the world, with the transaction value increasing from approximately $64.8bn in 2019 to $135.2bn in 2023, according to PwC research. But even with such rapid growth, India would still only represent 2 per cent of global transactions by 2023, reflecting the huge potential of a market where just one in four people own smartphones.
Today Google Pay, PhonePe, the digital payments unit of Walmart-owned Flipkart, and Indian start-up Paytm are the biggest participants in the Indian payments space. But unlike in China, where Tencent and Alibaba dominate with superapps that are one-stop shops for everything from banking to ride-hailing, in India the mobile money arena remains fragmented and fiercely competitive.
The country overtook China as the top Asian market for venture capital-backed fintech funding when investors spent $286m in the first three months of this year, according to market research group CB Insights.
Open the Google Play store in India today and there are dozens of different digital payments apps. Go into a kirana — a tiny corner store — and merchants have a small array of different codes that allow customers to pay for goods by scanning them with their phones.
"Today the battle is about acquiring customers, whatever you can do to create customer stickiness," said Arnav Gupta, an analyst at Forrester. "Profitability isn't the consideration right now, the consideration is having a larger slice of the pie."
India stumbled on a unique model when the National Payments Corporation of India, an umbrella organisation for retail payments, rolled out its Unified Payments Interface in 2016. The UPI platform allows mobile apps to do an instant fund transfer between two bank accounts, enabling anyone who can build an app, from start-ups to multinational corporations, to compete on equal footing for the millions of Indians opening bank accounts for the first time. Google Pay, Amazon Pay and Samsung Pay all use UPI along with Indian start-ups Razorpay and BharatPe.
But the mobile money revolution is already moving beyond digital payments. Now companies are branching out into financial services with higher profit margins, such as lending, credit cards, insurance and pensions. "You want to expand into other revenue streams," said Vivek Belgavi, an analyst at PwC, "all these become business areas for you".
Uber's India rival Ola debuted its credit card in May shortly after Paytm launched its own, offering cashbacks on taxi and flight fares. "The adoption has been good," said Ola. "We have 150m customers and we have the ability to reach out to many more people. The credit card model is not a widely adopted model in India, we feel it's about awareness, and we could help with that."
Truecaller, a Swedish company that counts 100m daily active users in India, launched digital payments a year ago and is in the process of testing a lending business, offering loans from Rs50,000 to Rs500,000. "Lending is the next bit we are going after, people have a need for an instrument that they can trust," said Truecaller managing director Sandeep Patil, a former Flipkart executive.
Last year, Truecaller acquired Chillr, a payments app that allows users to transfer money to any contact in their phone book. Mr Patil said the ultimate goal was for Truecaller, an app initially designed to screen spam phone calls, to offer a "full suite" of financial products, similar to China's all encompassing virtual ecosystems.
One company that has the potential to create a WeChat-style superapp in India is Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries. Valued at more than $120bn, it is rumoured to be preparing for the launch of an app that would provide multiple services on one platform. With a portfolio that spans data, content and retail, Mr Ambani's chances of success may be higher than those of his international competitors, especially if government regulation is tilted in favour of local players.
The fight over India's mobile money market is only going to intensify. WhatsApp, the most popular social media app in India, with an estimated 300m subscribers, has yet to step into the ring. It has been testing WhatsApp Pay for the past year, but has not officially launched because it is unwilling to comply with India's data localisation rules, which prohibit companies sending financial data abroad.
Despite the boom in digital payments, analysts say that a cashless India is still far on the horizon. "India is not becoming a Sweden for the next five years," said Mr Gupta, "so much of India's economy is cash, and payments is about habits."
Still, Mr Chowdhary believes that India's cashless revolution is under way. "I think after a decade 70 per cent of the economy will be digitised," he said. "But you'll always have to pay a little bit of cash — it's necessary in India."
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