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La chiesa di Sant'Agostino è un luogo di culto cattolico del centro di Treviso, sede dell'omonima rettoria dipendente dalla Parrocchia di Santa Maria Maggiore.

Storia
La chiesa apparteneva al vicino convento dei Chierici Regolari di Somasca. Fu uno di loro, padre Francesco Vecellio, a progettare questo elegante edificio verso la metà del XVIII secolo, che fu consacrato il 25 dicembre 1758. La chiesa divenne parrocchiale, e sede della scuola dei calzolai. A differenza di altri edifici in città, questa chiesa sopravvisse alle soppressioni napoleoniche: venne declassata a chiesa vicariale, mentre i padri Somaschi si trasferirono nella vicina Chiesa di Santa Fosca in Santa Maria Maggiore, che tenne la titolarità della parrocchia.

Descrizione

Esterno
Costruzione a pianta ellittica con facciata ricurva e dinamica, in perfetto stile barocco. Di ordine dorico, è inquadrata da pilastri laterali sorreggente un frontone triangolare. Ricorvo, invece, il frontone del portone d'ingresso. Sopra il frontone principale, un'alagante finestra termale, chiusa al centro, alleggerisce la sovrastruttura.

Interno

L'interno presenta una squisita eleganza e un'unità di stile, tra architettura, apparati decorativi e mobilio, di elevato valore e rara armonia. L'altare maggiore è posto in un'abside semicircolare aperta col catino retto da quattro colonne dietro le quali si apre un coretto rettangolare illuminato da una lanterna. Quattro gli altari laterali entro nicchioni, mentre i pilastri corinzi reggono la trabeazione che si chiude con una doppia cornice. Sopra, un attico sostiene il soffitto piano.

Le pareti ed il soffitto sono tutti decorati da stucchi bianchi e avorio e ricchi marmi intarsiati. Tra le opere d'arte, tre belle statue,  la Madonna della cintura, Sant'Agostino e Santa Monica, provengono dalla vicina Chiesa di Santa Margherita, ora chiusa sl culto. Tra le pale, San Aniano, patrono della scuola dei Calegheri (calzolai) mentre rattoppa una scarpa sotto gli sguardi di San Marco, di San Giuliano e della Madonna di Ludovico Pozzoserrato, quindi un Sant'Agostino consegna la Regola della Congregazione dei padri Somaschi a San Girolamo Emiliani di Antonio Marinetti detto il "Chiozzotto" e altre pale di Carlo Loth e di Domenico Maggiotto.

Organo a canne
Sulla cantoria in controfacciata, racchiuso entro un'elegante cassa con fregi e dipinta a finto marmo, si trova l'organo a canne. È stato costruito dai celebri organari Serassi di Bergamo nel 1858, numero d'opera 650.  Rappresenta l'unico esemplare di organo serassiano, integro e originale in ogni sua parte, esistente a Treviso e nel suo territorio. Il suo notevole valore storico-artistico è rappresentato, oltre che dall'altissima qualità dei materiali impiegati e dalla genialità e abilità dei suoi costruttori, dalle ricche sonorità e possibilità timbriche.

Lo strumento è stato restaurato nel 1987 dall'organaro Giorgio Carli di Pescantina e, successivamente, dall'organaro Francesco Zanin di Codroipo.

Lo strumento è a trasmissione meccanica sospesa e la sua consolle ha due tastiere d'osso e ebano (la prima Grand'Organo, la seconda Melodium), di 58 note ciascuna, con prima ottava cromatica estesa e pedaliera a leggio di 18 note (Do1-Fa2); gli ultimi due pedali azionano rispettivamente il tamburo e la "terza mano". Il Melodium, ricco di registri particolarmente cantabili e racchiuso in una cassa espressiva, è collocato in posizione tergale, cioè dietro l'organista, nel parapetto della cantoria. I somieri sono del tipo "a vento", divisione tra bassi e soprani ai tasti Si2/Do3. Registri azionati da manette a incastro e tiranti a pomello collocati a destra e sinistra delle tastiere. Pressione del vento mm. 50. Accordatura a temperamento equabile.

Voci correlate
 Diocesi di Treviso

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Ten CATA Postdoctoral Fellowships
Ten CATA Postdoctoral Fellowships in observational, theoretical, and computational astrophysics
The Center for Astrophysics and Applied Technologies (CATA) calls for applications to the CATA postdoctoral research fellowship program, covering the areas of observational, theoretical, and computational astrophysics. CATA is a large government-funded astronomical Center that -- incorporating 12 member universities across 6 provinces, 40+ professors, 50+ postdoctoral researchers, and 70+ graduate students -- provides a vibrant, dynamic, and productive international astronomical research environment. A detailed description of the research performed within CATA, including the specific scientific areas, is available here. CATA welcome applications across all scientific areas.
Deadline for application: February 25th, 2022.
The postdoctoral research fellowships are anticipated to be funded initially for two years with a one-year extension subject to a performance evaluation. Successful fellowship applicants are expected to carry out independent research in close collaboration with one or more faculty members of CATA, and develop research at any of the CATA member universities, including Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Concepción, Universidad Andrés Bello, and Universidad Diego Portales, amongst others. Successful fellows will have privileged access to the Chilean 10% time allocation on all telescopes in Chile, as well as Chilean access to membership in selected large surveys (e.g., LSST, SDSSV). CATA fellows will have access to supercomputers and GPU clusters, as required by their projects. In addition, CATA fellows will have access to CATA-provided administrative support, as well as the opportunity to explore the varied and striking natural landscapes of Chile, from high deserts to lush rainforests.
CATA scientific areas include:
Area 1 - Cosmology and Galaxy Formation: Goals in this area include cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and large-scale structure properties, as well as the study of the CMB observables.
Area 2 - Supermassive Black Holes and Energetic phenomena: Concentrates on observational studies of supermassive black hole growth using current and planned facilities (Vera Rubin, E-ELT, GMT, EHT, VLT-MOONS, 4MOST), as well as energetic phenomena using the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO).
Area 3 - Galaxies: The research focus is the formation and evolution of galaxies and AGN, including the effects of the environment, across cosmic time throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, with significant involvement in current and upcoming surveys like the Rubin Observatory LSST, S-PLUS, SDSS-V, LAGER, PHANGS-JWST, and the ALMA Large Programme CRISTAL.
Area 4 - Local Universe: Research will focus on areas of fundamental stellar astrophysics, Galactic stellar populations, Milky Way and Local Group structure and evolution, and galaxy formation and evolution in the nearby Universe (at the group/cluster level).
Area 5 - Star and Planet formation: Current hiring priorities include: early science exploitation of the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM) program; exploitation of ALMA data of forming clusters and specifically the kinematics (via e.g. the ALMA-IMF Large Program); observational programs (e.g., ALMA, VLT, Magellan) focused on the chemistry and evolution of planet-forming disks and young planets.
Area 6 - Exoplanets & Astrobiology: Aims to observationally and theoretically tackle current questions related to the formation and evolution of the solar system and exoplanets, with the goal of exploring the origins of rocky planets and the possible extension of life beyond Earth.
Area 7 - Theoretical Astrophysics: Focuses on simulations in the context of star formation, astrochemistry, and magnetic fields; supermassive black hole and star cluster formation; stellar dynamos, stellar and black hole mergers as well as machine learning techniques.
Applicants should declare (see below for requested materials) which science area(s) they envision working in. Research programs that exploit multi-area synergy are encouraged. We also encourage applicants to make early contact with CATA professors working on their area(s) of interest.
Applicants should submit here the following materials as a single pdf file: a brief cover letter; a CV including exact or expected Ph.D. date; a publication list; a research statement (max. 3 pages) describing past and future proposed CATA research; an optional 1-page technical skills statement; and the names of three contacts for letters of recommendation.
CATA is committed to equal opportunity and diversity in the workforce. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Patricia Bradby is the Director of Communications and Programs for Leadership Metro Richmond (LMR). In this role, she fosters connection and community engagement among a diverse cross section of leaders throughout the Richmond Region. Patricia's career started in live-event marketing and production in New York City, where she worked for various concert venues and event promoters both large and small. Her passion for community engagement led her to form Threads that Teach, a non-profit organization connecting inner-city public schools with innovative opportunities to supplement budget cuts in arts education. More recently, her entrepreneurial spirit led to the creation of Miss Priss Tea, a tea party catering company which she operated until its closure in December 2019.
Outside of her day job at LMR, Patricia currently serves on the Community Advisory Board for VPM (Virginia's home for public media); as a volunteer resume reviewer for Sidekick RVA; as a Virginia Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) member helping combat the spread of COVID-19; and she's an active member of the The Life Church RVA. She has served on the BHCyp (BHC's Young Professionals) board, most recently as Chair. Motivated by all that she learned from BHC, Patricia purchased her first home in November 2019 in the Highland Park neighborhood of Richmond. She is a graduate of New York University (BM, Music Business) and The University of Texas at Austin (MBA).


Hi Frugalistas! While Lisbon may not be a city in the centre of Europe, it is certainly a European city. In fact in many ways Lisbon's architecture reminds me quite a lot of Paris. With elegant cafes, wonderful views and lovely, friendly locals it's easy to spend 48 hours in Lisbon as part of your trip to Portugal and Spain. I found plenty of fun things to do in Lisbon, but here is my best Lisbon trip planner for a 48 hour stay.
If you are visiting on a Monday, many museums are closed. Therefore if you like museums, do try and arrange your itinerary to make sure you don't miss your favorite choice.
Secondly, a number of activities are based on the wonderful Lisbon trams. The small trams (trolley cars) are very small, and the long queues are very long. Therefore, my strong suggestion is to do the tram trips in the morning, first thing to try and beat the worst of the queues.
I always love doing a walk on my first day in a new city. And fortunately, Lisbon has plenty to see when you walk. For my walk I'm focussing on a walk in the old town. If walking isn't your thing, or you want to organise your time differently these walks can be done separately. Done together they are a genuinely full morning, but you could spend the whole day quite easily if you stop to visit churches, museums or the many tempting shops and cafes you will pass.
To start, I suggest my Alfama walk, which starts at the Sao Jorge castle, the highest point of Lisbon. You might like to take a taxi, but if you are staying in or near the Baixa district, do resist the temptation of a taxi and catch the little tram from Placa da Figueira. Get an early start, and arrive at the entrance to Sao Jorge castle as soon after 9am as you can to beat the crowds. The terrace at Sao Jorge will give a wonderful view over Lisbon, and provide an excellent orientation to the layout of the city.
After the Alfama, head back down to the Baixa to the Placa do Comercio – certainly the grandest square in Lisbon and through the arch onto rua Augusta, the centre of tourist Lisbon. If you want the opportunity to do some Portuguese wine tasting you can try at the National Wine Tasting Centre on the south western side of the square. The Baixa is a perfect place for a wander without the guidebook – its streets are a simple grid structure so it's almost impossible to get lost. Just make sure you come out to the north onto rua Bestega or rua Borratem. Then head through the Rossio – the really big square with the fountains. The grand building at the top of the square is the National Theatre, and the Rossio train station – the very impressive Art Nouveau building is just on your left. Keep heading further north past the Rossio train station to the next square with obelisk, the Praca dos Restaurodores, and onto the third and last part of your walk…….
The third part of my walking tour is around the Chiado and Barro Alto. Just off the Praca dos Restaurodores is the funicular up into the Barro Alto (it's not called the High District for nothing!) At the top you can head into the park on your right for some lovely views back over the city. There's also the port wine institute at the top of the funicular for those who aren't heading to Porto (the best place to taste port in my opinion). From here it's literally all down hill, making sure you stop off to enjoy the lovely Largo do Carmo square. Your walk ends in rua Garrett with some great options for shopping and eating.
In the afternoon, you've got some choices. Art lovers may want to head to the Gulbenkian Museum just near the Edward VII Park, while high end shoppers will want to hit the Chiado or Avenida de Liberdade for their designer fix – and some Portuguese surprises. But then of course, there is always the option to linger in a café, people watch and enjoy some Portuguese treats.
Regardless of where you going and what you doing in the afternoon, might I suggest you find a traditional hole in the wall bar and enjoy a glass of ginjinha (pronounced zhinzha) the traditional Portuguese sour cherry liqueur?
If you still have any energy left, the evening is the perfect time to try a Portuguese fado show.
Another early start because you are heading out of central Lisbon and down to Belem. Hop on the 15E tram (usually a modern, big version, although I did see the odd miniature older version). It's about a 20minute ride through the Lisbon suburbs until you reach Belem. There are also buses, but I do think the tram is the best way to get to Belem from Central Lisbon.
Resist the temptation to hop off as soon as you reach Belem, and stay on until you reach the Palacio do Governador (on the left just past the National Naval Museum). If the Naval Museum is your thing certainly hop off early to visit it, but if it isn't don't panic, as there are plenty of other things to do in Belem.
Your first stop is the pretty 16th century Belem Tower. To get there from the tram stop, walk down the side street beside the hotel towards the river. There are very few places to cross the busy road and train line, but there is a pedestrian stairway just behind the hotel.
After visiting the Belem Tower you have a 10-15min walk back along the river to the more modern, but possibly more impressive Monument to the Discoveries. Then it's back over the second pedestrian stairway into the main part of Belem. There's a lovely walk available through the park as you head back to the Jeronimos Monastery on rua Belem.
The National Coach Museum is now largely moved over to its new building if your guide book is not completely up to date (diagonally opposite the old one near the Presidential Museum). To avoid the queues buy your ticket at the old one before you cross over to it. Personally, I really enjoyed the coach museum, and I do think it would be a fun place to walk around with kids.
The market itself is not so special (and it closes at about 2pm), but fortunately the Time Out food court is very, very special. Lisbon's best restaurants have all got places here. If it is summer, this is a good place to try sardines, or for the brave, barnacles. And make sure you leave room for dessert. Order your choices, and join the happy throng regardless of the time of day you get there.
Because the trams are normally pretty crowded, the nearby Cais do Sodre train station will take you back into central Lisbon in comfort in just a few minutes.
This is of course, the best things to do in Lisbon in 48 hours. With an extra day, a trip to nearby Sintra would definitely be in order. You can read more great advice about traveling in Portugal here.
Sintra trip is definitely well worth it. And after all that walking a rest day is definitely in order!
I love cloisters but didn't get to see those at Jeronimos – they are so elaborate! I see the Jacarandas were flowering when you were there too, but maybe not in full flower. Such a quiet capital city and with such great views and as you say friendly people.
The cloisters at Jeronimos are among the best I've seen, and June is so pretty with the jacarandas.
This is fab, Jo! I loved Lisbon and this took me right back. Not to mention giving me some great ideas (ahem, pointing out things I missed, ahem) for next time! I'd love to return.
Almost no one has unlimited time Clare – I know I definitely missed things too!
I also love walking around new cities when I first arrive, Lisbon has plenty of hills though so I got plenty of exercie. Also while in Belem I recommend trying some of the Portugese custards and an expresso to go with it.


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The Taube-Baron Collection of Jewish History and Culture is the cornerstone of the Stanford University Libraries' Jewish Studies holdings. Comprising 20,000 volumes from the personal library of Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989) of Columbia University, the collection was purchased in December 1985. In 1990, shortly after Prof. Baron's death, the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Foundation donated his extensive personal papers to Stanford (manuscript collection call number, M0580). Salo Baron was the author, among other things, of the 18-volume Social and Religious History of the Jews. He held the first Jewish History chair established in a major American university (1930-1963). His library includes Hebrew editions of the Bible dating from the 15th century, rare volumes of Jewish literature and history from Eastern Europe and around the world, works on Jewish Americana, Jewish anthropology and sociology, and thousands of pamphlets and journals. It also includes Baron's own publications. Approximately 1,000 printed volumes and manuscripts in the Taube-Baron Collection are housed in Special Collections together with other rare books; the rest of the books belong to the circulating collections of the Stanford Libraries.
The Taube-Baron Collection was acquired with the generous support of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, and Marin and Sonoma Counties, and the family of Tad Taube.


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May 5, 2019 / 1-4 p.m.
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Peter Dinklage: 'Saying goodbye to Game of Thrones was really hard'
Peter Dinklage found it "really hard" bidding farewell to Game Of Thrones, insisting it's more than just a TV show.
The 49-year-old actor has played Tyrion Lannister in the Emmy award-winning HBO series since 2011. The program is coming to an end with an eighth season in 2019, but leaving it behind has been more than difficult for Peter and his fellow actors.
"It's always anticlimactic for the character's last day," Peter told Vulture. "Nothing is shot chronologically, so you don't get some big mountaintop scene or anything. It's just, 'That's a wrap on Peter Dinklage.' But as anticlimactic as it was, my last day was also beautifully bittersweet. A lot of people whom I love were on set that day. Even if they weren't working, they came to set, which was beautiful. I tried to do the same thing when other actors were wrapping out. If it was their day, you would go to set to say goodbye. It was really hard."
Watching his co-stars say farewell to their alter egos has also been tough, with Peter recalling: "I won't say their name or their character's name, but one of the young people on the show wrapped this past season and everybody was a wreck. This person had grown up on the show, you know? They were a child and now they were an adult. And then they're done. It's like we were witnessing this person saying goodbye to their childhood. I know Game of Thrones is just a TV show, la-di-da, but it was our life."
Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner are among the young stars who have grown up in Game of Thrones.
Details of the plot of the eighth season are being kept tightly under wraps. And while Peter refused to confirm any news about the fate of his character, he did hint that he may not survive.
"I feel very, very – I'm trying to find the right word," he teased. "I think he was given a very good conclusion. No matter what that is – death can be a great way out."
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He should be ok. Many crabs will find a way to get to the highest point in the tank, and mine have stayed there all day sometimes. He will also likely be ok of he falls, as many crabs in captivity have fallen from second levels and walked away unscathed. Just make sure he can't escape.
Thank you for the input! After I posted, I went back up and replaced their food while thoroughly airing out the tat. They seem to be ok so far despite all my worrying.
Topic: Adopted 2 Crabbies that weren't in best condition; not moving or eating much!
Topic: name ideas for new crab!
Re: name ideas for new crab!
I would also suggest waiting for a little while before naming them, but having possible names in mind. My crabs went as "The Shy One" and "The Not-So-Shy One" For a half month until I decided on Friday and Jarvis!
A shell shop would also help keeping the shells clean! Thank you so much for the suggestions!


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Now, when i open a topic, the only things i see is a little thing in the bottom of the page where first line of responses are written. Why isn't it like before (15 full posts in 1 page)?
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VECTRA: (Dinotefuran and Pyriproxyfen) Fast-acting protection against all stages of fleas for dogs and cats and for puppies or kittens more than eight (8) weeks old.
Fleas can present a persistent threat to your pet's health. Infected fleas not only cause discomfort, they can transmit serious diseases to your pet. To prevent disease transmission and re-infestation, it's important to kill adult fleas quickly and prevent the development of all immature flea stages. A monthly application of VECTRA can help protect your pet(s) from fleas and the diseases they may carry.
VECTRA is a monthly topical flea control product that provides long-lasting protection against all stages of fleas. Applying it once a month all through the year provides relief from flea infestation and protection from disease transmission to your dog, puppy, cat or kitten or cat.
Do not use this product on debilitated, aged, medicated, pregnant or nursing animals, or animals known to be sensitive to pesticide products without first consulting a veterinarian. Sensitivity, such as slight transitory redness of the skin at the site of application, may occur after using ANY pesticide product for pets. If signs of sensitivity occur, bathe your pet with mild soap or shampoo and rinse with large amounts of water. If signs of individual animal sensitivity occur and persist, contact your veterinarian.
I first started using Vectra 3D and it worked well. I have seen ticks and spiders literally jump off both my dogs & cats. Since I have started using this medication, I have not had a single concern about insect on pets or inside my home. It was recommended by my vet so I trusted the product.


In his presentation, Lester also discussed the many reasons we read and stated, "We're reading to make ourselves powerful, we're not reading to raise a score." In today's educational climate in which data and test scores seem to be at the forefront of learning, this was an important take-away. I appreciated that all of the district administrators, including the superintendent were sitting in the audience, hearing this message. If students are going to be motivated to read, it's not going to be because they want to pass the test. Students will be motivated when they find joy and pleasure in reading. Finding ways to foster the joy and pleasure of reading, while also meeting the demands of the curriculum amongst pressure to prepare students to pass the state test is a challenge for many teachers. Lester Laminack reminded us that our job is to create readers, not students who answer questions or take tests. This is an important message to remember at the start of a new school year.
Lucky you! I could listen to Lester Laminack all day and then some!!
I've seen him multiple times and don't think I would tire of him either!
I love your post! YES to thinking deeply while reading, YES to living through the text. Brilliant!
How wonderful to begin the school year with a message from Lester. Thanks for sharing some take aways, too.
It was very refreshing to hear him talk about building joy of reading. We've started to drift too far away from doing that with all the focus on test taking.
I've seen Lester Laminack several times, but never in PD. You are fortunate indeed. Love hearing all the words you thought important in helping students love reading.
We've been fortunate to have some great speakers on the first day in the last few years. Last year we had Steven Layne, who teachers found very inspiring, and the year before Ralph Fletcher.
Wow, Lisa! I've heard Lester Laminack three times, and it's always a pleasure. I would love to hear Ralph Fletcher. You're lucky to be in a district who brings in great speakers.


Off Road NSW is a CAMS Panel appointed by the New South Wales State Council Executive to manage the sport of Off Road in New South Wales.
The NSW Off Road Panel prepares a Calendar of Events each year and sets the Sporting Regulations under which the New South Wales Championship will be conducted. It is also responsible for preparing a generic set of Supplementary Regulations for organisers to base their Supplementary Regulations and prepares the Point Score after each round of the Championship.
In February of the year following the NSWORP holds a Presentation Evening during which the Awards for the previous year are given out.
The panel also oversees all Club and Multi-Club Off Road events held in New South Wales and this is extended to Trophy Karts and Extreme Superlite.
Click below to see the latest news.
Looking for a club in your area?
See below a list of NSW Clubs, their contact details, website and social media links.
This is a central point for all clubs and competitors to download important NSW event information.
From the 2018 Calendar, to Supp Regs, Entry Forms and special event details.
Be updated with the rules, regulations, vehicle specifications and CAMS updates here.
Please feel free to contact the NSW Panel for any information about NSW Off Road Racing.
We are more than happy to answer your questions or point you in the right direction of someone that can.
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Scouting Report: Malcom Brown, DT
Where does this longhorn fit in the pecking order of DT's and would he be a good fit for the Patriots?
NEPD Staff Writer: Mike Gerken
Did you see what I did there? I figured I better pick a picture with an Iowa State player in it since the draftable prospects from my Alma Mater are slim. Today, I continue the journey of watching and ranking the Defensive Tackles for this year's draft, so without further ado, here is my thoughts on Malcom Brown.Name: Malcom Brown
School: Texas (Jr.)
The term "dancing bear" describes Brown perfectly. He is surprisingly athletic and quick for a man his size. Brown plays with a high motor and doesn't seem to wear down in games like other big guys do. He shows good play awareness and does a nice job of stacking and shedding his opponent. He has a strong lower body and anchors well against double teams. Brown uses his quickness to shoot gaps and is disruptive in the backfield. He uses both power and quickness to win and has a nice bull rush as well as a double arm swim over. His combination of size and athleticism also makes him scheme diverse.
The main issue I have with Brown is inconsistency on a bunch of different levels. There are games where he is absolutely dominant and looks like a sure fire first round pick and there are others where he just doesn't show up. He is also inconstant when finishing plays. He will do everything right but just miss a tackle in the backfield or be try to one arm tackle a running back after doing a nice job of freeing himself from a double team. Brown needs to work on his using his hands and extending his arms when rushing the passer. Lastly, I noticed that at times he likes to pop out of his stance really quick, almost standing straight up. He loses all his leverage on these plays and makes him much easier to block.
For the most part, I like what I see from Brown. He has some things to work on, but they are correctable and he has the work ethic needed to correct his flaws. I can easily see him in a Patriots uniform and the eventual successor to Vince Wilfork. Brown's success at the next level will be determined by what scheme he goes to and how he is utilized. If he is allowed to use his athleticism and quickness to be a penetrating defensive tackle in a 4-3 or a 5 technique in an odd front, then I think he will be successful. If a team plugs him in as a run stuffing nose tackle that is there to take on double teams, I think that will be a waste of his skill set and he will struggle in the NFL. I give Brown a late first/early second round draft grade.
6 Responses to "Scouting Report: Malcom Brown, DT"
J H TARBORO says:
At the end of the season DT Alan Branch and Sealver Siliga are FAs, I'm hoping Malcolm Brown is there at the end of rd.1, if not we should trade out of the 1st rd. This year is a strong draft class for DTs,RBs,OLs and DBs this year. If your team needs a QB, you're in trouble!
steve earle says:
I'm on board with that if he's available. One thing is Mike has him as inconsistant but I see that lable alot with junors. I'm thinking this kid could grow into a really good one with our locker room and coaches.
Mike Gerken says:
I agree with Manx, on tape he looks to be closer to the 6'2″ range.
acm says:
Good read, Mike G.
Question – do we know Brown's official weight, height measurements from any official weigh-in results? I've seen him listed at both 6'2″ and 6'4″.
Manxman2601 says:
Because he's a junior he hasn't been involved in any of the post-season all star games and therefore hasn't had any official weigh-ins. It's a case of waiting for the combine I'm afraid. FWIW, I think he'll be nearer 6'2″ than he will 6'4″.
Thanks, MxM. Had forgotten he was a junior.


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The Persecution of My Father
An American diplomat's son remembers an idyllic childhood in 1950s Paris that abruptly came to an end.
December 17, 2019 | Anonymous
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-persecution-my-father/
Photograph of the author in 1953. It is the first color slide taken by his father in Paris, with a new Leica IIIF, Elmar lens. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
Something Happened
It was in June of 1956. My family, which included my brother, my sister, my father and mother and my mother's mother, had been living in Paris since 1952. My father was First Secretary at the American Embassy and Special Assistant to the American ambassador to France. His brief was important: American point person for all nuclear issues in Europe. He was in the middle of the complex situation involving tensions between France, Germany and Great Britain over who was going to get the bomb during the developing cold war. He worked to mitigate these tensions in order to make peaceful nuclear energy widely available in Europe in a cooperative manner.
Life was good. My father's prospects for advancement were excellent. He was doing important work, his personnel reviews were good, we had made plans for summer vacation in 1957, our house in the States had been rented long-term, my brother and I were in French schools absorbing the culture and language of that profoundly wonderful country. (We both subsequently became professors of French literature and culture at American universities.) We were taking fascinating trips to various parts of post-war France and neighboring countries, to historic sites, to architecturally significant sites, to battle fields, for example the Normandy beaches just 8 years after the invasion, to great museums, to great towns and cities, to wonderful Michelin-starred restaurants. My father made a good salary that went a long way in post-war France and we travelled well. And Paris, our home, was glorious. It was a long way from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where I was born and where my father, an MIT-trained physicist, had been head of the research department of a large industrial concern.
I have chosen not to reveal the name of my father, and therefore my own, for reasons that I will explain after you know more of his story.
Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
On June 6, 1956 my father left Paris for a routine consultation in Washington D.C. A week later, a rare event occurred: We received a letter from him. My father didn't routinely write letters. That was something my mother did. It was a Wednesday, my brother and I were home because there is no school on Wednesday afternoons in most French school systems. My mother opened the letter and began reading it. I remember the moment today as if it were last week. My mother sitting on the large overstuffed chair in her bedroom, the family clustered around her. Excitement in the air… a letter from our father! I remember especially the last sentence: "for all these reasons I have decided to leave the Foreign Service…" My mother was dumbstruck. She said: "He can't do this to me…he can't do this to me."
On the 16th, a Saturday, my father returned. He was exhausted. My mother told us that he needed rest and we were told not to bother him. My sister saw him weeping.
A few days later he had recovered, and he and my mother started to visit all the places that they most loved in Paris—museums, cathedrals, parks. They took walks, went to the movies, discharged several social obligations. Exactly 14 days after my father came back, he left Paris with his father, who had been visiting us for the past month, and returned to the United States, leaving my mother with the task of packing everything up and getting the family back home. In August we all departed from Le Havre. Our house was still being rented. We had no place to go initially and had to stay with good friends. Subsequently we were able to return to our own house.
My father had no job and set about seeking one. It took a year. He ended up at a third-tier university on Long Island where he was chair of the physics department.
Until 2015, my siblings and I had no idea what had happened. Both my parents were dead, and the three of us had no clues about why my father resigned so suddenly. We spun theories: CIA involvement, Russian honey pots, did it have anything to do with my Russian-born mother and grandmother?
For a long time I have wanted to understand my father's story, and today I know almost all the details. This is because I decided in 2012, to try to finally pierce the mystery, I made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the State Department for all my father's personnel records. Three years went by before I finally received 400 pages of material. I started sifting through it and finally discovered, several days later, sitting in a chair in my bedroom, what had happened. Another moment to remember.
The story that follows is informed by several sources: My father's State Department personnel records from the FOIA request, a diary kept by my mother, together with letters that she had written home describing life in Paris, my own research. And, finally, my childhood memories of our miraculous time in Paris.
My mother announced to me that we were moving to France on a car ride home from a deplorable stay at a summer camp. It was the summer of 1952. I was nine years old. We were taking our car, a 1950 dark green Buick Super, and we were going on the most modern ship in the world, the magnificent SS United States.
We got to Le Havre, dilapidated by the war that had ended just seven years before our arrival. Our dark green Buick Super was unloaded; we were going to drive straight to Paris. I don't believe that my father had ever driven in France, where there were no speed limits, and drivers were certifiably crazy. Each was personally, almost genetically committed to taking advantage of la priorité à droite, a law that legitimizes the right of cars coming from the right to have absolute, complete priority over anything else going in any direction at any speed on almost any road. This was a given in France. Everyone knew this, except possibly my father.
Driving in France does have an upside, however. The roads, at the time, were superbly marked. Although narrow, they were smooth, well-maintained and very beautiful. In addition, the comings and goings of most Frenchmen were at the time influenced by the magnificent Michelin guides and their accompanying maps. The Michelin Guides were a window into the wonders of France, famous for their way of directing you to appropriate destinations: "worthy of a detour" or, better yet: "worth the trip."
I'm not sure what my father was thinking as we got into our enormous vehicle. Was he nervous? In the car were his wife, his three children, and his mother-in-law, who could sometimes be intimidating. Did he wonder whether he was up to driving this monstrous automobile, lacking power steering or power brakes, on these thread-like French roads, teeming with Frenchmen, all eager to apply their knowledge of la priorité à droite? I don't remember him being anything but calm. We set off. We got to Paris unscathed. This was the beginning of a magical time in a magical city. My mother had found a large apartment for us on one of the avenues that radiate from the Arc de Triomphe. We were about two blocks down from this majestic memorial, and, looking out our fourth-floor apartment at night we could see its pearly surface transformed, by the illumination that the French use with such great effect on their major public buildings and monuments, into what looked like a stage set. The stage was Paris. The show was about to begin.
Arc de Triomphe. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
I think my father was thwarted by life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had escaped briefly for a one-year tour of duty as a newly inducted Foreign Service Reserve officer in 1948 when we all went to Sweden, where he served as Scientific Attaché. Sweden in 1948 was, in my five-year-old mind, unworldly and special. There, my father had gotten a glimpse of a larger stage: trips to European capitals and many meetings and trips to Washington to begin the process of rationalizing European-American nuclear policy. My father had excellent Swedish contacts, made the most of them in his work, and was lauded for his efforts after returning to Lancaster. He resumed his life there and, I imagine, began to dream of bigger things once again.
Lancaster was very much a company town, in fact a very socially conservative Republican town, as it still is today, surrounded by the Amish, their horse-drawn buggies and magnificent lush countryside. But it was provincial in all the best and worst senses of the word, and I felt even then that he was bored and sought greater things. He joined a painting group, exhibited at local events, and even won a national award for one of his paintings. He was particularly enamored by the work of Edvard Munch, and some of his paintings show that influence. But his paintings in general had a self-taught style of their own, and many of his canvasses show real talent. In Lancaster, too, he cultivated his taste for classical music, his taste being centered mostly on the Germans, but especially Richard Wagner. When travelling in Europe during his post graduate studies in Sweden he apparently went to the epicenter of Wagner idolatry, Bayreuth. He spoke passable German. As a youth he played the violin, but I never heard him play and have no idea how proficient he was.
So we were now in Paris and those greater things began to happen. Paris had the envergure that Lancaster, Pennsylvania lacked. Envergure is a wonderful French word that literally means "wingspan," but its figurative sense suggests depth, breadth, scope, substance and, when used to describe a person: caliber. We had moved to a place that certainly had it. It was palpable. Even my nine-year-old self dimly realized it.
The author and his sister by the Seine. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
My mother's diary reveals that just a few days after our arrival, my father began leading us on numerous day trips, to Fontainebleau, to parks, to cathedrals and to the flea market, where my brother and I began amassing a collection of muskets, and derringers, and World War I field telephones.
The life that we all had begun in Paris in 1952 was a golden moment. It glows even today in my memory. There is a famous French book, Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier, who was killed at the very beginning of World War I, which describes what happened to a young French peasant boy who stumbles onto a miraculous chateau at which a multiple-day fabulous party is taking place. He is drawn into its otherworldliness and spends several days reveling in an existence he had never imagined. Later, after he has returned to his squalid home, he tries to find the chateau once again, but he never does. He cannot ever recreate that splendor of his past. That is my family's allegory.
Tuileries. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
Paris in 1952 was a strange anachronism. Essentially an entire decade—the 40s—had been lost, swallowed up by the dark years of the occupation and the first few years of the slow and hesitant moral and physical recovery from one of the most disastrous moments in French history. In 1952 the cityscape was resolutely that of the late 30s. The buses were from the thirties. Ancient pre-war cars prowled the streets. The pissoires, those round and very redolent public urinals, were ubiquitous. Paris was still pearl grey. The façades of its historic buildings had not yet been cleansed in the name of "progress," Les Halles was not yet torn down, high-rises did yet threaten to drown out its historic architecture. Paris was not yet beset by mass tourism. Paris in 1952 was still the Paris of the "lost generation," of American literary expatriates, Earnest Hemingway and Sylvia Beach and Gertrude Stein. And I was there.
So we made our home in what seems in my memory to be a perfect place, a transcendent city captured at a unique moment of its history. My brother and I dove into this new life: Our French schooling began three months after our arrival. French school, with its strict and elegant way of making you think about subjects that were unknown to you, the surface area of a square, the hand-drawn and colored maps of the Middle East, or Rome…..Vercingétorix, defeated by Julius Caesar…. French literature, the classics, Molière, Racine (at age 11!), algebra, geography, science. French schools were vastly different from American schools; they were demanding, they were inspiring, they approached all subjects at a higher level than their American equivalents. After about six months of crash immersion I managed to begin to speak credible French. My brother and I joined a fencing club and took lessons from an Olympic coach.
My grandmother, who spoke perfect French as a result of being raised in an upper-class family in St. Petersburg, was in her element, as was my mother, who had learned French in Russia as a child. We vacationed in the summer in Brittany, and later in southwestern France, in the environs of that wonderful old town, Biarritz, center of the enchanting and slightly mysterious Basque country.
Life was as perfect as it ever gets.
Alice B. Toklas, Credit Carl Van Vechtin (PD)
Wonderful things happened to us. In 1955, my parents met Alice B. Toklas, immortalized in her life partner Gertrude Stein's best-selling 1933 memoire, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. This is my mother writing at the end of her life, in an unpublished memoire, about "Alice B":
When one sees photographs of her one can't realize how warm she was and what a gift she had to make one feel not only comfortable with her but somehow wanted, and that was with me, who had absolutely nothing to offer her. Before we left Paris she asked me if there was anything I might have liked to do and didn't and all I could think of was going to an opening at a couturier's. She immediately had Pierre Balmain send me an invitation as he was her and Gertrude's favorite designer, and made most of their clothes. So off I went on the great day unsuspecting that my invitation was not an ordinary one and was signed by the great man himself; I was ushered into the salon and seated at the very head of the horse-shoe arrangement for the show; again being very naive I had no idea what that seating meant; I recognized some of the women present having seen them in the society pages of illustrated magazines—winning the Arc de Triomphe races or going to some elegant balls; they obviously could not recognize me—so they were doing considerable staring, which again I did not catch immediately. Most of the people present had a young woman standing in back of them, but I had 2; then as the elegant models came down the stretch one of the young women would ask me if I was interested in this model! We could not have afforded one finger on a glove—so all I could do was shake my head and simply said "non, non, non." When I told Miss T. about it she was delighted and wondered what all the society ladies made of the mystery that I was that day.
During my four years in France I essentially became French. My friends were mostly French. I spoke French more fluently than English; in fact, English was my weak subject upon my return to America. Somehow I intuited how marvelous Paris was; I had an inkling that Paris was a different level of existence than Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I was too young to know why I knew this. I simply knew that Paris was special.
Author at age 10. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
My father adored French cathedrals and had deep knowledge of aesthetic things, surprising for a physicist. He would make special detours to see special art objects be they in museums, cathedrals or in village squares. He was a passionate photographer and treated himself to the best 35 mm camera of the day, a Leica IIIf with an Elmar lens. He was deeply informed, highly intelligent and relished the opportunity to spread his wings, to bask in the envergure of this extraordinary city and country— all the while serving his own country in a serious, deep and sustained way. He had arrived. I think he was happy.
My Father's Work
My father was consumed by his work. He came home late at night, travelled often, met with people whose importance I have come to realize—ranging from Admiral Lewis Strauss, the head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to France's Jean Monnet, who is widely seen as the chief architect of the European Union.
As a child I had no idea what my father did at work. I was not aware of his official title, First Secretary and Special Assistant to the ambassador for nuclear affairs, and I had no idea who he was meeting with. I had no idea that they were important. I rarely went to the office with him, although I was aware that it looked out onto the statue of Benjamin Franklin that adorns the front lawn of the embassy.
Statue of Benjamin Franklin on the lawn of the American embassy in Paris. Photo taken by author's father, courtesy of the author.
I have since learned more about what my father did. Before the FOIA request was finally fulfilled, I had hired a researcher to search government records held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). I started to piece together some of his activities.
My father was navigating tricky shoals, as separate nations, especially France, were trying to make sure that they could get the bomb but that Germany could not—many agendas, often at cross purposes. A nexus of these discussions was my father, since he was the principal advisor on nuclear affairs for all of Europe. I have come to realize that he played an important role in what at the time was a considerable achievement, demanding tact, intelligence, skill, evenness and determination. And he was not simply a go-between. Memos drafted by my father, found at NARA, show that he was an active participant in shaping U.S. nuclear policy in Europe.
The NARA documents also show that my father's forced resignation set back European nuclear negotiations during the summer and fall of 1956, because the State Department had difficulty finding a suitable replacement for my father. He had a scientific background, knew his brief backward and forward, and had already won the trust of Jean Monnet.
When we left Paris, Monnet gave my father a case of his family cognac. For Monnet, this was a significant gesture of respect and friendship, and is a testament to the role that my father played and how well he dispatched his work.
I was sitting in the same room where I am writing this. The FOIA package had arrived. I deliberately began at the beginning of the pile of pages. I already had pieced together the major elements of my father's working life. The anodyne forms were not very revealing. Evaluation reports: more revealing. Commendation letters for specific work assignments. Travel vouchers. Assignments to various committees. A letter from my father outlining his expectations in the service. A memo from a superior saying my father should be promoted to full service status from his current Foreign Service Reserve status, dated in late June. A puzzling notation, in pencil, in one corner of the memo: "a little late?" The memo, from my father's immediate supervisor, was dated in late June, after my father's fate had been sealed. His advisor had not been informed.
Then a peculiar document, signed by a Mr. Szluk—in which my father is referred to as "the subject"— followed by a second document with ominous words at the close, "Resignation accepted in lieu of preferment of charges involving suitability for further federal employment."
Mr. Szluk was Peter Szluk, "a State Department security man," interviewed by Griffin Fariello in his 1995 oral history, Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition. Szluk was the special assistant to the director of personnel from the late 1940s until 1962, which he himself defined as "hatchet man for the State Department."
Szluk bragged he had "network of informants" that brought him "the secret vices and leanings of … people in government, from the White House … down to the janitor in the State Department." He reveled in taking advantage of "how rotten people are to one another."
To this day, nobody knows who some of the people were that I got rid of," Szluk said, "because they were 'sodomites.' I would protect it, particularly because so many of them had families. The only thing I regret in my campaign to rid the State Department of that type of individual was when within minutes, and sometimes maybe a week, they would commit suicide…."
The Lavender Scare
Between the late 1940s and the early 1960s, the federal government made a wholesale purge of alleged homosexuals—especially in the State Department. Historian David K. Johnson has found that over 1000 State Department employees lost their jobs—and in many cases their careers and sometimes their lives—to the purge. Joseph McCarthy was not the instigator of the purge, Johnson notes. Its antecedents lay in events of the Truman administration and before, but McCarthy poured gasoline on the supposed problem. It burst into very hot flames and consumed many lives beyond repair.
My father had just been recommended for a promotion. A new background check might have turned up details that raised Szluk's suspicions. I don't know yet what evidence of my father's supposed "unsuitability" was found, for which charges could have been threatened—but he became one of the Lavender Scare's victims. This is why our stay in Paris came to an end.
I do not know when my father first understood that he was in trouble. It seems likely that he learned right as he returned to the United States on June 7. He seems to have decided to resign very quickly. We would not have received his fateful letter as soon as we did unless he had written it almost immediately upon his arrival in the Capitol. I have imagined that someone met him at the airport, when he got off the plane, and from there his fate quickly unfolded.
My father did not tell his brother what happened. He didn't reveal anything to his children. And I don't think, though I can't be sure of this either, that my father told my mother what had occurred. I'm not sure my father would want what happened to him to be known. That he remained forever silent about this episode from the past makes me hesitate to reveal our names. I don't know what he would think now that everyone involved is dead, but I must honor my father's intentions as best as I can interpret them.
My father was dismissed summarily, entirely extrajudicially. I have found no record of his alleged activities. The resignation was treated as normal, even though it wasn't. Five people who were mentioned in my father's separation memo knew the real reason for his resignation. I've found no record of any reaction from them. I am not aware of any others who knew. Szluk told Fariello in Red Scare that he was careful to limit the ambit of those who had to be informed.
Resign quietly for "personal reasons" or else we will come after you. We will ruin your life.
This is his letter of resignation. I suspect it resembles the text of his letter home from Washington. The reason put forward in the letter for his resignation is false. My siblings were indeed headed for college in America, but this had never been considered an impediment to my father's career by either my father or mother, who had only one reaction to the Washington letter. "He can't do this to me…."
I have no idea whether my father was homosexual. The people who knew him best think the charge was dubious. He lit up in the company of beautiful women and was at times flirtatious with them. But he liked art, culture, music, painting, antiques. And, oh yes, he disliked sports and had joined the drama club at MIT.
My father left the service. Quietly. With dignity. Without revealing anything to anyone.
Many years later, my parents bought a summer house on a lake in Vermont, and my father became an expert on local ferns, and, in the afternoons, would retire to his bedroom and take a nap, just as he had done years before in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But this peaceful later life belies the trauma that created it. How did he process the dreadful end of his chosen career? Where did his seeming serenity come from? Why did he keep all of this away from his family? What were his private torments? My siblings and I will never know.
In the last few semesters of a 50-year university career, I developed and taught a seminar on the Enlightenment. It was a fitting and bracing end to my formal academic work, as it encapsulated many ideas and values that I profoundly share. There were the big ideas, like the primacy of rational thought, but there were also many others, such as the ideal of cosmopolitanism, the concordance of nations, the importance of history, the need for tolerance, the role of national culture. But the most important notion of all was the idea of progress.
I've written this essay to honor my father, to attest that his life was worthwhile, productive, honorable, interesting, and decent. In the past, what befell him was seen as discrediting and shameful. But maybe progress is actually possible, as the Enlightenment suggested, and if so my father's life can now be seen in a clearer and more revealing light: It is a life that had envergure.
I am proud of my father. And I am proud to be his son.
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Making a Case for Air Taxis
Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft promise to cut commute times.
#Daimler #Audi #Toyota
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As Easy as Riding an E-Bike
The average person is willing to commute an hour per day to work and back. Anything more time consuming will prompt either a job change or a new residence. This phenomenon, which has been relatively unchanged for at least the last century, is called Marchetti's Constant after Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti and his 1994 research paper Anthropological Invariants in Travel Behavior.
His point: It's a matter of commute time, not evolving travel technologies, changing living conditions or other factors.
The theory is that people tend be homebodies who like to spend as much time as possible close to friends and family, enjoying leisure activities or simply relaxing on comfy couches. Gainful employment may be a necessary means to achieve such downtime, but long commutes aren't.
Commuting Takes Flight
Cars, trains and planes have allowed people to take dream jobs (or at least better paying ones) farther and farther away from where they live. But increasing urban congestion threatens such progress. One option: vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
Known as air taxis or passenger drones, these helicopter-like small transporters (no runway required!) are capable of carrying about four passengers. They offer to literally rise above the problem, zipping busy suburban commuters to and from their downtown moneymakers.
Dozens of companies, ranging from Airbus, Boeing and Terrarfugia to Audi, Daimler, Toyota, Uber and several tech startups, are pursuing the fledgling technology. Uber aims to begin pilot programs next year in three cities and launch commercial service by 2023.
Time-Saving Benefits
"Long-term VTOL will redefine what constitutes a metropolitan area by dramatically reducing travel times between communities in a region," according to a new report by Inrix, a traffic-mapping and connected-car service supplier. The authors estimate air taxis traveling as fast as 150 mph would allow workers to live 60 miles away from their jobs without overstepping the 1-hour daily commute threshold, compared with a 25-mile maximum for commuters who drive.
The change could have a massive impact on commuting and development patterns, Inrix says. Early adopters likely will be wealthy suburbanites commuting to downtown cores. Based on an analysis of trillions of data points from hundreds of millions of connected devices, Inrix says the greatest near-term potential for air taxis in the U.S. is in the Atlanta, Austin, Boston and San Francisco metropolitan areas. A two-way commute via VTOL from one Atlanta suburb could save about 82 minutes per day, according to the report.
As infrastructures improve and economies of scale take hold, air taxis are expected to eventually expand to small- and medium-sized cities. In fact, Inrix believes that a VTOL facility in a small town will be "far more economical" than investments in rail or road infrastructure.
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Cause: Only when the cause of the disease is known, I can start a thoughtful and promising treatment.
Safety: In many cases, a laboratory examination is necessary to rule out acute health problems.
Success: the success of therapy can be confirmed at any time by a check-up 'black on white'.
Holistic: a blood picture should at least contain information about the functioning of the internal organs and systems, that means on the quality of the blood itself, on the supply of minerals, on the kidneys, heart, liver, gall bladder and pancreatic fat metabolism and blood circulation, -> The finding that a laboratory value is increased is not sufficient from a holistic diagnostic point of view.


As happily as we'll experiment with just about any brand of skincare – all in the name of research, of course – it's the K-Beauty products that we swear by at Savoir Flair. They pair clean, natural ingredients with cutting-edge technology, but more importantly? They deliver what they claim to deliver. And luckily for Dubai residents, there's a new spot in town boasting the best of SoKo skincare: Lamise Beauty.
Many a beauty buff has yet to discover the store owing to its somewhat discreet location inside a lofty Asian supermarket by the name of 1004 Gourmet, but Lamise Beauty has actually existed online since 2017. This, however, is no ordinary Korean beauty boutique. Here, the products on offer are curated by founder Kate Park to match the region's climate – read: very hot and very dry. The entrepreneur is passionate about tailoring her selection to the needs of women in the Middle East, and even took some time to share some of her insights with us. Here's what we learned.
Considering that the skin is the body's biggest organ, taking care of it is of the utmost importance. However, instead of lathering on layer after layer, Park recommends being methodic about the quantity (using too much can cause breakouts) and frequency of use. This is especially applicable when it comes to exfoliation. She suggests using the Mizon 'Honey Black Sugar Scrub' only two or three times a week. Formulated with honey, black-sugar powder, and various plant oils, it gently removes dead skin cells, leaving the skin velvety soft.
Perhaps the biggest factor that separates SoKo skincare products from the rest is their abundance of nutrient-rich ingredients. Snail essence – also known as snail secretion – in Cosrx items is utilized for the mucin, which is full of glycoproteins, hyaluronic acid, and glycolic acid that helps seal in moisture. The seed oil from the Sahara prickly pear is the key ingredient in Huxley's products, and helps boost antioxidants in the skin. Harakeke flowers in The Saem's formulas fight inflammation and maintain the skin's pH balance. Clearly, exploiting nature's finest is a cornerstone of K-Beauty.
A basic routine isn't a bad thing.
With a plethora of products to choose from, creating a skincare routine can seem a little daunting at first. However, according to Park, if you are short on time or unfamiliar with the basics, these six products are key for healthy skin: an exfoliator, a toner, an essence, a serum, a moisturizer, and a sunblock. And while many swear by the ten-step routine – which does have its benefits – Park says a minimalist skincare routine is just as effective if you're pressed for time.
Combatting signs of aging is simple.
Women often wonder about the age at which to start using anti-wrinkle products. However, everyone's skin ages differently due to a number of factors – lifestyle, genetics, and surroundings included – so there's no hard and fast rule there. Having said that, there are signs to look out for. Park attributes dryness in particular as the biggest reason for skin aging prematurely.
Women in their 20s and 30s can take preventative measures by hydrating their skin, avoiding overly rich creams that can cause breakouts, and establishing a routine that includes exfoliating several times a week. Meanwhile, those in their 40s should look for hydrating products and treatment serums. Women in their 50s and 60s find that dry skin and deep wrinkles become more prominent, for which Park recommends Bomnal products due to their rich ingredients like 24-karat gold and lingzhi mushrooms.
As the K-Beauty industry boomed, so did the counterfeit market unfortunately. Park warns about purchasing from unauthorized vendors, citing instances of buyers being fooled by well-replicated packaging of cult favorites that contained unregulated ingredients. Because of this, she sources the products that she carries straight from the brands themselves, so authenticity is guaranteed.
Not all skin types are created equal.
Be it oily, combination, sensitive, or dry, everyone's skin undergoes significant damage on a daily basis. But worry not because K-Beauty truly has something for everyone. New moms looking for safe baby products, vegans seeking cruelty-free labels, teenagers trying to tackle acne, and men in need of some skin rejuvenation – all are welcome and catered to at Lamise Beauty. We also love the fact that Park has deliberately created both a welcoming environment and a product selection that is extensive without feeling overwhelming.


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Q: How to do so that my field must at least be able to contain only numbers and a + in front of the number (if the user wishes) For example the user can enter: +444123454656656 OR 123454656656 - only numbers or a + in front of the number.
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    className="myclasse"
    variant="outlined"
    label={t("phone_number")}
    id="phone_number"
    name="phone_number"
    value={phone_number}
    onChange={handleChange}
/>

A: You can simply filter the input in onChange to remove everyting you do not want:
const isValidChar = (char, index) => {
    if(index === 0 && char === "+") {
        return true;
    }
    return !isNaN(char);
}

const filteredInput = input.split("").filter((char, index) => isValidChar(char, index)).join("")

here is a fiddle for the filter.

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Deciding if and when to have children can be something couples and individuals agonize over. For many it is a key issue that, depending on the answer, can make or break a relationship. I've always wanted children but when Mr. Scents, then just my boyfriend, told me he had changed his mind I took the time to seriously consider what I wanted.
I looked into the various aspects of my adult life that having a child could/would impact; disposable income, free time, my relationships, and even my reasoning for wanting children.
For me having children has had a variety of reasons. It started as a little girls want and evolved into the, "Because it's what adults do when they get married," to how I feel now. By the time Mr. Scents and I decided to have children I knew that Alzheimer's was a real possibility for my future. So, my decision to have children is practical. If I end up with Alzheimer's would I want to chance my care on the state if Mr. Scents should pass first. I'm going to move on because this went to a serious place real fast.
The other reasons for me were non-reasons. I wasted tons of money on clothes and eating out. Things that were not necessary and were more emotional or boredom buys. Children would definitely prevent boredom and you can still do retail therapy on a budget you just have to be more creative. And let me tell you, I've gotten creative in how I spend my money because retail therapy is important!
The other serious thing, for me, was how this would change my relationships, specifically with Mr. Scents. While being a parent takes a lot of work and children take up a lot of time and money, I did not want to sacrifice my relationship with my husband or myself, for that matter. Many parents, I think, fall into that trap and make their children the center of their universe. In my experience and opinion making sure that you take care of yourself and your relationship with your spouse better teaches children to be healthy adults. By not sacrificing my time with Mr. Scents we will maintain our intimacy and trust. We'd keep the foundation of our family strong.
With all these things considered I felt that we were ready to handle children, once Mr. Scents decided to come around that is. And in January of 2014 we got pregnant, but life threw us a curveball; we were having twins.
Now that we actually have children keeping our relationship strong is hard. The first few years have to be about the kids or you can, ya know, go to jail. Since orange is not the new black for me, I'll stick to taking care of my infants. We do try to make time when we can. After the boys are in bed watching an episode of Merlin, our go to show right now, or making sure we have dinner at the table instead of on the go. We also try to give each other time to get away and be alone. This way we try to keep our sanity.
One thing we didn't give enough consideration to was that we don't have much of a support system. We have no family in our state; the closest family is about 10 hours away, by car. We have been lucky to have good friends though. However, for us raising children in reality is a lot of compromise and hoping for an easier future.


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Herbert v HH Law [2019] EWCA Civ 527] - Qamar Anwar, First4Lawyers
31/05/19. A recent Court of Appeal decision has left PI lawyers in no doubt about what they need to do before setting successes fees, but leaves a bad taste in the mouth, writes Qamar Anwar, managing director of First4Lawyers.
In Herbert v HH Law [2019] EWCA Civ 527, the Court of Appeal ruled that solicitors handling low-value personal injury claims since LASPO should have undertaken individual risk assessments before setting success fees – rather than just applying 100% across the board. Unfortunately, it is another appeal court decision that fails to recognise the reality of modern legal practice.
Claimant Nicky Herbert was advised by her Liverpool solicitors HH Law (better known as Hampson Hughes) to accept an offer of £3,400 for a rear-end shunt by a bus, of which £829 would be deducted as the firm's success fee (25% of damages) and £349 for ATE insurance, leaving her to bank £2,222.
She accepted the offer but subsequently instructed JG Solicitors, which has become well known for its work challenging deductions from personal injury clients' damages.
JG argued that HH had failed to conduct a risk assessment justifying the level of success fee and that the 100% uplift was out of step with the fixed success fee of 12.5% under the previous costs regime for RTA claims which settled before trial.
In its evidence, HH said that, like most of the market, it had changed its model as a result of LASPO to routinely charge a 100% success fee, capped at 25% of the damages.
The court at first instance reduced the success fee to 15%, finding no clear evidence the claimant had approved the cost to be incurred "with full knowledge", and that there was no risk assessment on the file to justify the 100% success fee sought. This was upheld in the High Court.
Dismissing the appeal on this point, the Court of Appeal said the burden was on the solicitor to show there was informed approval of the success fee. The amount of a success fee is traditionally related to litigation risk, and HH had not told Ms Herbert that her success fee was not.
This ruling will worry a lot of firms – HH Law was right to say that the model of a standard 100% success fee capped at 25% of damages has been widely adopted since LASPO, irrespective of the individual risk of a case, and they are now at risk of an avalanche of challenges by former clients. Firms that did not change their procedures after the earlier rulings in this case should be doing so immediately.
It is a frustrating decision as well. The court expressly found that all the paperwork that HH gave Ms Herbert – the retainer, conditional fee agreement and a 'What you need to know' document – provided her with "a clear and comprehensive account of her exposure to the success fee and HH's fees generally".
Is that not informed enough consent? Would a client with no previous experience of the claims process expect the success fee to relate to risk? Ms Herbert had the information she needed to ask questions of the firm about it.
The model operated by HH and others was adopted out of necessity because of the LASPO reforms, which put a major squeeze on profitability. If anything it harks back to the whole 'basket of cases' theory that underpinned the extension of CFAs back in 1998.
The decision reflects a lack of understanding about the efficient, technology-led way that law firms handling high volumes of low-value litigation need to operate nowadays. In that respect, it is similar to another Court of Appeal ruling earlier this year on Bott & Co's flight delay practice, which is heavily automated, especially in relation to uncontested claims.
With Ryanair adopting the practice of going around Bott and dealing with its clients directly, including paying them their damages, the court said the firm was not conducting litigation when the claims were not contested, and so did not have an equitable lien over the compensation. As a result, some clients did not pay on the fees that they should have done.
Speaking after the ruling, senior partner David Bott said he had hoped the court would recognise "the way the law was going" in terms of firms becoming more efficient using technology to process matters and said it had taken a lot of investment for claims to be handled in what the court described as a "mechanical and formulaic" way.
"If I'd had 100, 10-year-qualified solicitors with pens and paper instead, it would not have been a problem," he observed.
It may well seem to claimant lawyers that efforts to provide a valuable service to consumers while generating a reasonable profit are stymied at every turn. Access to justice is not being well served.
Qamar Anwar is managing director of First4Lawyers
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I love the holidays , but one thing that kills me during the holidays is all the food! The food that makes our taste buds go nuts usually have plenty of carbohydrates, fats, and sugar.
Despite all the festivities happening, another thing working against us is daylight savings time. It gets darker earlier and it is cold/raining more often.
Increase the number of days and times that you are working out. Aim to strength train. Building muscle will help you burn fat even when you aren't working out. If you are in a rut, try a different exercise routine. I have tons of different workouts you can try at home.
Try to eat healthier and lighter on the days leading up to the Holidays. If I know I will be eating a huge meal, I will eat skimpier throughout the day. Make sure you take in as many nutrients as possible. Try this healthy seasonal salad.
Swap out sugary drinks for water. Try to take in as much water as possible to keep yourself hydrated and from overeating.
No one wants to undo all their hard work from the summer! I hope these tips will help you stay fit throughout the holidays. Let me know if you have any tips that work for you by leaving a comment below.


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6 grand entrance gates to come up in Ayodhya
Those coming from Lucknow will enter the temple town through 'Shriram Dwar'. Those coming from Gorakhpur will enter the city through 'Hanuman Dwar'; 'Bharat Dwar' will be for those coming from Allahabad, 'Lakshman Dwar' on the Gonda road, 'Jatayu Dwar' on the Varanasi road and a 'Garun Dwar' for those coming from the Rae Bareli side.
Ayodhya District Magistrate Nitish Kumar said: "At every entrance gate, there will be world-class facilities for devotees, including big parking areas, toilets, restaurants and hotels.
"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, is determined to restore the mythological character of Ayodhya. He plans to develop the holy city as a world class tourist destination."
As the construction of the Ram temple progresses, the footprints of devotees and tourists in Ayodhya are increasing rapidly.
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