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Portland Youth Philharmonic to perform in Hillsboro
America's first youth symphony to perform songs celebrating Hillsboro's culture on May 18.
Some of the state's best and brightest young musicians will be in Hillsboro this month to close out the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center's 2019 music series.
The Portland Youth Philharmonic's chamber orchestra, Camerata PYP take the stage at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 18 at the Walters, 527 E. Main St., offering a multicultural program featuring works from around the world. Organizers say the selections are meant to celebrate Hillsboro's cultural heritage.
PYP was the first youth symphony created in the country and performs regularly at Portland's Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Musicians range from age 7 to 23, and come from more than 100 schools in Oregon and southwest Washington.
Tickets are $5 in advance, or $8 at the door.
"We hope to see people in the audience who have never attended an orchestra concert before," said musical director David Hattner. "We welcome local residents, especially anyone who has never heard of PYP before, to get to know this unique orchestra made up of young musicians who were mostly born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, but whose families come
from many diverse cultures and backgrounds."
The concert will include renditions of Chinese composer Zhou Long's "Driving the Mule Train," Indian composer Indian composer A. R. Rahman's "Balleilakka," Mexican composer Carlos Chavez's "Saraband" from "The Daughter of Colchis," and Giancarlo Castro D'Addona's "Concierto Sureno for violin and string orchestra, featuring soloist Inés Voglar Belgique with the Oregon Symphony.
To learn more, visit portlandyouthphil.org.
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The Vanderbilt Cutaneous Imaging Clinic (VCIC) was founded in 2016 as a platform for direct clinical translation of engineering for clinical impact in dermatology, oncology, and related specialties. The mission is seamless integration of technology-based patient care and translational research.
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's (VICC) eight formal research programs focus on the discovery of new approaches for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer. These active and collaborative research programs generate approximately $142 million in annual research support from public and private sources. The Translational Research and Interventional Oncology Research Program translates advances in mechanism-based research into improved detection methods and therapies for cancer. With a primary focus on lung cancer, melanoma and leukemia/lymphoma, the program is dedicated to new discoveries in early detection and molecular oncology, and genotype-driven early phase trials for all cancer types.
The mission of the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center (VBC) is to establish a trans-institutional initiative in biophotonics research, technology development and education at Vanderbilt University. The center spans across multiple schools (Engineering, Medicine and Arts & Science) and interfaces with existing centers and institutes (VICC, VINSE, VUIIS, VBI, VIIBRE, ViSE) while being anchored in Engineering. The center is focused on targeted educational programs for medical residents, fellows as well as graduate and undergraduate students and provides opportunities for learning for high schools students interested in this area.
Candidates will benefit from a personalized research program catered to their goals utilizing resources and mentoring within the VUMC Division of Oncology and the Division of Dermatology as well as The Biophotonics Center within the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Engineering. The renowned Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center brings together clinicians, basic scientists, engineers and statisticians in close collaboration due to its interdisciplinary research and close physical proximity of the School of Medicine to the School of Engineering (100-200 yards).
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The largest distribution company from Vietnam and a leading blockchain company from Switzerland are behind the establishment of the first-ever fully-authorized crypto exchange of Vietnam. The distribution company from Vietnam is Linh Thanh Group, and the blockchain company from Zug, Switzerland is KRONN Ventures.
[…] signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the production of cryptocurrency and the establishment of cryptocurrency exchange in Vietnam. They have obtained the license for the establishment of a cryptocurrency exchange.
Last year, KRONN Ventures AG catalyzed the coming together of financial committees from Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. This was done to establish a consortium in order to build an international platform for transactions that depend on Blockchain Technology. The experience of KRONN Ventures will prove to be a great source of growth to this partnership and for fulfilling the vision of creating a high-class crypto exchange on a global scale. KRONN Ventures has also worked with King's College from London, UK, for an AI research facility in the past.
The stronghold of Linh Thanh Group within the country and the prominence of KRONN Ventures should result in a glorious impact not only on Vietnam but also on the other Asian countries, according to the press release. The future depends on how much and how far this opportunity gets churned and is put to use in the right direction.
This move from Linh Thanh Group is a leap to catch hold of the crypto fever and to seize the high tide profits of the crypto land. Still, we can't ignore the fact that the crypto market in the Asian countries is still a hard nut to crack. The decentralized nature, privacy features, the power is given in the hands of the users, the cross border transaction scope, the much lower transaction fees with way faster processing time; all this in a way threatens the traditional financial infrastructure. Asian markets have a long way to break through and reach the current crypto scene in the west.
Back in January, KRONN Ventures AG announced that it has entered into an agreement with Bitforex to create a real-time foreign currency remittance system which is based on the blockchain technology. Bitforex is a global digital currency exchange based in Singapore. When it comes to coin market cap transaction volumes, Bitforex has managed to outshine the big shots such as Binance, BitMex, and Bithumb in coin market cap transaction volumes. The exchange allows the users to trade over 120 types of digital currencies and has the user-base from over ninety countries.


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On This Day in Moto April 30
by: Davey Coombs
On This Day in Moto: April 30
Hoping to become America's first FIM Motocross World Champion, Brad Lackey split moto wins with reigning 500cc World Champion Heikki Mikkola in France. Mikkola won the tiebreaker based on his faster combined time for the two motos. He also led Lackey by two points in the standings, 72 to 70.
And here's an ad for the 1978 Mr. Pibb AMA Pro Motocross Championship, which was racing on April 30 in Omaha, Nebraska.
In Payerne, Switzerland, Finnish rider Heikki Mikkola beat the Suzuki of Roger DeCoster and the Maico of Gerrit Wolsink to win the 500cc Grand Prix. Three Americans were in the race, all on Husqvarnas: Mark Blackwell, Bob Grossi, and Billy Clements. Grossi finished best among them, 13th in the second moto. He was the last man on the same lap as leader Mikkola. Former multi-time FIM 500cc Motocross World Champion-turned-training pioneer Rolf Tibblin, who was also acting as the American riders manager in Europe, said, "It's good. I think maybe in two years, we have a world champ." He was eight years off.
Mikkola in 1972. Grand Prix Motocross, Terry Pratt
Belgium's Gerard Rond rode a 125cc works Honda to the win in the Dutch round of the FIM 125cc Motocross World Championship. Japanese Suzuki rider Akira Watanabe was second both times out, with Rond's teammate Andre Massant going 4-4 for third.
Seventeen-year-old rookie Mark "Bomber" Barnett took his second straight win in the AMA 125 Nationals in Omaha, Nebraska, splitting moto wins with defending champion Broc Glover and holding on to the points lead in the process. Kawasaki-mounted Gaylon Mosier was third, while two more Suzuki-mounted rookies, Jeff Ward and Danny "Magoo" Chandler, rounded out the top five.
In the 250 Class, Bob Hannah kept the hammer down to win his fourth straight AMA Motocross National. Hannah was followed by Team Honda's Jimmy Ellis and his older teammate Pierre Karsmakers.
At MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, RCH Racing Suzuki rider Ken Roczen grabbed the 450SX main event win ahead of Monster Energy Kawasaki's Eli Tomac and Team HRC Honda rider Cole Seely, who round out the podium. Finishing fourth, and clinching his third career AMA Supercross Championship, was Red Bull KTM's Ryan Dungey.
In the 250SX East Region, Malcolm Stewart scored the win on his GEICO Honda, followed by Rockstar Husqvarna's Martin Davalos and Star Racing Yamaha's Jeremy Martin.
Monster Energy Kawasaki's Ryan Villopoto topped Honda-mounted Chad Reed in Salt Lake City to inch closer to what would be his first Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship. RV left Utah with a nine-point lead on the former two-time champion Reed, who was a huge surprise on the TwoTwo Motorsports Honda in 2011.
One of the things people might remember about this race is the two crashes within maybe 50 feet that James Stewart had while leading, effectively knocking him out of the race. It happens around the 7:20 mark in the footage above.
In 250SX, GEICO Honda rider Eli Tomac took the SLC win over Red Bull KTM's Ken Roczen and Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki's Broc Tickle, who headed to Vegas holding a slim two-point lead over Tomac in West Region standings.
30 Greatest AMA Motocrossers: #20 Jeremy McGrath 5:00pm
Gallery: Salt Lake City 9:30am

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Is there a command in Model Bulder that allwos to find all the adjacent polygons for the selected oplygon.
I would recommend the Select Layer By Location tool.
You first need to use the Make Feature Layer tool to create the input layer for the Select Layer by Location tool.
You may also want to use the Select Layer by Attribute tool to select the individual polygon in your new feature layer that you want for your adjacency analysis.
With the Select Layer by Location tool there are several options to choose from depending on your layer topology.
With options such as "INTERSECT" you can specify a buffer distance.
That gives you a line attribute table with FIDs for polygons on the left and right sides.
but essentially any line with positive LEFT_FID and positive RIGHT_FID divides the two polygons with these FIDs.
Joining this table back to the polygons tells each poly its neighbor.


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Name: Merle Jones
The Southern Illinoisan
Merle Jones was the sports editor of The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale beginning in 1949. The Herrin resident is a native of the southern part of Illinois, born in Johnston City, graduated from Marion HS in 1933, and attended both Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Except for 54 months of WW II service, Merle worked for The Southern Illinoisan continuously beginning in 1937. In 1958 he was the first recipient of what has become the annual William McAndrew Award established for outstanding service to Southern Illinois athletics. He is a former officer of the Illinois AP Sports Writers. Following his passing in December of 1993, The Southern Illinoisan established a recognition award in Merle's honor. The award is designed to recognize a member of the media whose coverage of sporting events has been "outstanding."


I keep finding myself having to explain quantitive vs. qualititive processes. If you think of submissions as a quantitative process (believing slush pile stats to be your odds of being published), then the skill or talent of the author and the story itself have absolutely no value in the decision. The selection process might as well be a lottery that assumes every story is equal to the next.
I have data that confirms a minimum of 15,000 different authors submitting stories to multiple markets over the past three years. Even with the short fiction market as over-saturated with venues as it is–an argument I make based on the size of the reading community that can sustain it–there aren't enough slots for every story written. No one is guaranteed a spot.
While every story is given the same chance to prove itself, getting published involves a qualitative evaluation for those few open slots. That evaluation will be different for every editor and their rejection or acceptance of a story is an assessment of that story's value to that specific market at that specific time. Sure, chance can play a role in being rejected–for example, when an editor already has a very similar story in inventory–but being accepted always requires talent. (Being rejected does not imply the inverse–a lack of talent.) If you believe you have talent, ignore slush pile statistics. They are the devil on your shoulder telling you to give up/you're not good enough.
Oh and if you have a hard time believing you are good enough, volunteer to read slush somewhere for a while. Aside from gaining some interesting insights into writing and the state of the field, you'll quickly discover how much better or worse you are than the majority of authors submitting stories. I haven't met anyone who ended up thinking they were worse.
Ok, if you are an author and still reading, I think we've established that you are potentially self-destructive.
The rate of 3% has never been true at Clarkesworld. That's closer to the percentage of people who receive the near-miss top-tier rejection letters. If you get one of these, we've seen something in your work that makes us think you have a good shot at being published with us some day. If you've received multiples, you are skating around the edges of what we want and need to shake things up a little. If you get a lot of these, I'm probably now recognizing your name in slush and will inevitably try to push you in the right direction.
The actual acceptance rate for 2016 was 0.41%. That's up slightly from 2015, but we saw some late-year declines in submissions that appear to line-up with the presidential election. December had the highest monthly acceptance rate: 0.83%. The lowest was September, which had none. Combined, the authors of the stories we accepted in 2016 accrued 434 rejections over their entire history of submitting stories to us.
What does this mean? Essentially, it's a snapshot of the types of stories that most appealed to me based on what I received in 2016. I'm always hesitant to post data like this because it can cause an unnatural shift in the submissions we receive. If I suddenly declared "I love robot stories," I'd inevitably get flooded with robot stories and find myself hating them. Unfortunately, the inverse is not true. I can scream "DON'T SEND ME ZOMBIE STORIES!" to some people's faces and they'll still do it. That should say something about writer psychology, but I'm not sure what.
In the end, don't write what you think I want. That's a likely path to boring me. Write what you want, throw it at my wall, and I'll see if it sticks. Don't let the numbers psych you out. If you've made it this far, they probably don't apply to you.
It's sort of fascinating that there's an "Other" category. When I read for a lit mag, we often got submissions of things that we didn't actually publish – is that mainly what's in the Other category?
Other is none of the above. We ask the authors to specify one of those categories for each submission.
You're welcome! Best of luck!
"Ok, if you are an author and still reading, I think we've established that you are potentially self-destructive." I laughed when I read this line. It's so true – sometimes I obsess about submission stats. I don't let them stop me from writing, though. In about a year in a half, I've gone from all rejections to getting accepted to non-paying markets to semi-pro. I know if I keep at it, sooner or later, I'll break into a pro market. The barrage of shorts I've been sending has slowed since I've temporarily shifted my focus to novels, but sooner or later, I'll be back to my monthly presence in your slush.
"I haven't met anyone who ended up thinking they were worse." It is indeed true that we haven't met! I have read a lot, lot of slush. I simply do write that poorly. Alas. Fascinating article, and numbers, thanks for sharing them.
🙂 I don't count editors in that statement. You'll notice that I don't have any published fiction. That said, there are days that the slush pile makes me think I could.


In speaking with other business owners, LinkedIn seems to pop-up quite frequently in our conversations. The conversations tend to revolve around whether it's a worthwhile tool.
A few years ago, LinkedIn made it extremely easy to ask to link with just about anyone. Granted, the more people you're already linked with, the easier it is to invite anyone else to link, and considering that I already did know quite a lot of people through conferences and customers, I probably did have a strong base to build from. I will add that, as my network grew, it become even that much easier to ask other people to link. But even considering all that, the rule changes did make all this easier.
As such, I do find it pretty easy to connect with people who I might want to know. In some cases, possibly because I think I could learn something form them, other times, because I think we might someday share information, and yet others just because they look like they have an interesting job and I'm hoping I'll hear more about it, at some point.
But, as I have always said, this does not tend to replace meeting people in-person at actual meetings. People are far more likely to talk to me if I have met them face-to-face. On the other hand, there do seem to be quite a few people who know my name, possibly from all my blogging and past writing for magazines, and are just curious to talk to me. So, once again, I think I might have an advantage because of that.
But I don't know that I think this is a great place to do marketing. Going back to what I said about how easy it is now to invite people to link, it has also become easier to market to them, as well and, just as with any other place, people are bombarded with ads and with updates on all the people they know.
Because of the bombardment, here's how I see it – if I want to keep up with what the industry is doing and what is going on with people, in-general, I watch the LinkedIn updates. If I want to keep up with a specific individual, I just contact them and ask what they've been up to. I do sometimes also check their LinkedIn page, but not everyone updates those, so it still comes down to individual contact.
Being linked with seemingly unrelated things: On my list of strange things, I've been seeing updates that I was mentioned in a LinkedIn post. I went to look at the post and my name just seems to be listed as a way to bring people to read the post (along with other companies and names) and I'm not clear what my name (and others) have to do with the post. But people are "liking" it, too, for some reason, and I'm still unclear what I have to do with the post, despite the occasional updates I get on it.
Being given lots of links, some of which could be harmful: Or, how about people who send you a link that tells you that you "have" to read it, and might even seem to be credible people, but who don't tell you what the link is about. Unless I know the person, I usually don't bother following those. Actually, even if I do know the person, if I don't know what the topic is supposed to be, I'm often not that motivated to follow the link to find out. We're all busy and, if you want any of us to read it, tell us why I should bother.
Groups: While the group features initially seemed to offer a great place to host groups and manage discussions, I would not say that that is still the case, especially when there are so many tools now available to do that. When LinkedIn was in earlier stages, I started the first LIMS/Laboratory Informatics group in LinkedIn and, for some years, it was the largest such group in there. But I'll admit that it was both the number of other groups competing for members plus the fact that LinkedIn's tools didn't help balance the workload of the task that caused me to eventually step down from the group and move on to other things. In fact, I don't remember the last time I've participated in ANY of the LinkedIn groups.
Statistics: Some of the statistics LinkedIn gives are interesting but not all of them are useful or complete. The main set of statistics that I use are those related to my blog posts. And, as I found out when I tried upgrading my membership to a Premium level, those statistics don't change if you're linking your WordPress posts to your LinkedIn account. You get the same vague set of statistics, regardless what membership level you're at. As a different example, if you upgrade your membership, you will see more information about who has looked at your profile, where those people who don't want you to know who they are can hide their information from you, but you still can see the total number. That's not how the posting statistics work – you see some of the numbers and some of the information and there is no way to get more and no plans to change it (I know this because I asked).
Scamming, which really does happen everywhere, these days: Most of you know this but if you don't, please read this – people will use photos of people in the military, usually someone good-looking and with some impressive number of ribbons and medals on their uniform, and create phony profiles for them. They sometimes even use the real name of that military person for the account. Then, they'll start linking with people and contacting them to ask for dates, with the ultimate goal being to scam money out of us. Not only have such people contacted me but I'd seen an entire investigative news story on it so, truly, I'm not just making this up. And, seriously, if someone asks you for a date from LinkedIn, it's really not the right place for it so be skeptical (plus my spouse wouldn't like me to start dating other people).
Recruiters can straighten me out on this if it's not true, but it's my impression that LinkedIn is a decent tool with which to look for a job or to recruit people. But, once again, with "everyone" doing it, it probably does make it harder and harder to make headway with it.
However, I think the people who have tried to recruit me into any type of serious position usually tend to know me from outside of LinkedIn (i.e., not the recruiters looking to fill some low-level job with any person who meets any of the key words, but people who are truly looking at experience level and trying to match that).
And, while I used to find myself a bit bombarded by recruiters, no longer seem to have that problem. I think I've been pretty clear with those who would contact me about what the situation is and the ones who used to contact me pretty regularly with work that wasn't suited to me have probably realized it's not worth their time. So, for a while, I was almost feeling that being in LinkedIn was just too much work with regard to the number of messages I received that had nothing to do with anything I was interested in but, these days, it doesn't seem to be an issue.
While FaceBook still might (or might not) be important for companies who want end-consumers to buy their goods, such as restaurants, I don't think people in our industry speak of it as a serious business tool.
I did have my own business listed in there, quite a few years ago, but found it was yet one more platform to maintain, just more work to do and for no real gain. One day, when I was deleting accounts from the multitude of social media platforms I'd joined upon one invitation or another but didn't tend to use, and I finally just got rid of that one, too.
But, in the end, while there are companies in our industry that probably still post to FaceBook and use it for marketing purposes, I would venture to say that it's not their top priority. And while we still have lengthy discussions about whether or not LinkedIn is useful, we never seem to have those discussions about FaceBook, leading me to think that LinkedIn still has some "life" in it as a business tool, but FaceBook not so much.
While what I am about to say is my opinion, I can point you to literally thousands of other people on Linkedin that feel the same as I. Here goes… Linkedin has turned into a pile of junk. It is all but worthless for group discussions. It used to be quite good and it started its decline starting in October 2015 and the nail was driven in September 2018. There are literally hundreds of posts prior to September 2018 in group owner and manager forums that almost literally begged Linkedin not to do what they had planned for the role out in September 2018. We were all ignored and patronized and the role out took place and now groups are a mass of dead corpses rotting with spam maggots. I am sorry for this visualization but this is a common description used by group owners that have literally abandoned their groups on Linkedin. One person I know quite well spent full time building his group and made a sizable living from doing that to the tune of nearly $150K per year. It is/was a medical devices group with over 300K members. Now his income from the group is lost entirely and all of his efforts wasted. It used to be a very vibrant group with tons of great discussions and absolutely no spam. Now it is turned into a derelict shed that is rotting and falling down. This is no exaggeration and the same holds true for 10's of thousands of other groups now on Linkedin. Yes there are other places to hold discussions. I had to create a place to take the place of my 75K member LIMS group. I never visit or engage with my old Linkedin group. No one visits it except spammers and there is no content. Thankfully, I saw the writing on the wall for Linkedin back in 2015 and started archiving old discussions that were worth keeping and I have posted them for search and reading. There are some really great discussions there.
As to Facebook? What's that? Does it actually have anyone on it that can spell LIMS let alone know what it is? I hate to say it but mainstream social media is lost for our industry. I am bitterly disappointed with Linkedin and I really miss the high point of engagement prior to 2015. Thankfully we do have what I think is a good replacement for Linkedin in the LIMS industry but I will not post it as it would be self promoting. It has over 200K members and grows steadily each day. Discussions are there but there is not as much as I had in my group on Linkedin in the old days but given time, I expect it will steadily increase. The site is diverse and covers Informatics well beyond just LIMS. So for our industry we do have, in my biased opinion, a fantastic social media resource for LIMS but it ain't Linkedin or God Forbid, Facebook. They are at best a wasteland or desert when it comes to Lab Informatics.
Lessons learned… Don't rely on the big established companies. They are as fickled as consumer fads and as prone to dump things you use and rely on as wall street investors are prone to dump a stock to chase the next big thing. If you are going to use something you are going to rely on, the best thing is to choose a solution that has the fundamentals in place that you can bank on. Linkedin and Facebook ain't it.
While I didn't make money off my group, I did devote an inordinate amount of time to it. I was truly committed to it and I was letting it take too much time away from running my business. However, even then, I wasn't convinced I liked the direction the groups were taking, either.
For one example, LinkedIn changed the way posts were seen by the public. Groups could be public or remain private but the previous topics could not be searched unless you had been a member of the group before the change. So, I think the issue was that new members didn't see anything when they searched, making it hard to see any truly good discussions AND meaning that all discussions started all over, again. At least, that's my vague recollection of the issue.


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Asked: January 3, 20222022-01-03T07:59:35+00:00 2022-01-03T07:59:35+00:00In: Company & Industry
Why are they called q tips?
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Leo Gerstenzang, a Polish-American, created the first cotton swab in 1923 after seeing his wife wipe their infant's ears with cotton wads attached to toothpicks.
Before being dubbed "Q-tips Baby Gays," with the "Q" standing for "quality," his product was previously known as "Baby Gays" in acknowledgment of its intended use for newborns.
The final brand name for the product was "Q-tips," which went on to become the most popular cotton swab brand in North America. In the United States and Canada, the word "Q-tip" is often used as a generic trademark for a cotton swab.
Unilever, which owns the Q-tips brand, reported US sales of more than $200 million in 2014. Johnson & Johnson is the manufacturer of "Johnson's buds."
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Crime / Drama
The Counselor (2013)
by Peter Pluymers · Published 14 February 2014 · Updated 6 September 2017
A rich and successful lawyer, the Counselor, is about to get married to his fiance but soon becomes entangled in a complex drug plot with a middle-man known as Westray. The plan ends up taking a horrible twist and he must protect himself and his soon to be bride as the truth of the drug business is uncovered and targets are eliminated.
Genre : Crime/Drama
Country :USA
Michael Fassbender : Counselor
Brad Pitt : Westray
Cameron Diaz : Malkina
"A man would give entire nations to lift grief off his heart and yet,
you cannot buy anything with grief, because grief is worthless."
This is a difficult movie to rate. I have mixed feelings about it. The first part is terribly tedious and boring. A series of hugely pretentious dialogues and incomprehensible philosophical reasoning. It's a montage of various fragmentary issues that make it difficult to sense the vibe of the movie and to understand what it's about. Also there are subjects used that were completely beside the point in my eyes (the erotic beginning for starters). Also the total absence of any explanation of how they ended up in this situation, makes it uneasy to follow the storyline.
Ridley Scott, of course known for his masterpieces "Blade Runner" and "Alien", didn't succeed in keeping up the momentum. You first need to endure a full hour to finally realize what the contents of the movie is and after that you can enjoy a rough settlement by the drug cartel. And that's the double feeling about this film. The first part gets a unsatisfactory grade. The second part is the counterbalance.
In terms of characters Brad Pitt tops them all. A savvy person with a reserved and confident attitude that apparently has everything well organized. When something starts to go wrong, he can disappear instantly and retire for the rest of his life. His white suit and Stetson on his long hair gives him a dignified appearance and a rebellious appearance at the same time. Michael Fassbender as "The Counselor" was convincing as a lawyer , but what the hell is he doing among those criminals ? He looks like a choirboy who will start to cry when slapped in his face. This is also something that is not really clear . How did he end up with the drug lord Reiner ? Is he also a kind of counselor as Tom Hagan in "The Godfather" ? I don't think so. He would earn enough money and wouldn't be involved in the drug deal that ultimately will bring him down. Money problems perhaps ? I don't think so either since he can travel all the way to Amsterdam to choose a diamond.
Javier Bardem was also brilliant as the eccentric Reiner. He looked just like a tanned Tom Jones. Penélope Cruz played only a minor role and she was just a religious prude naive woman who was constantly upset by the others. The only one I hated instantly, was Cameron Diaz. She is as hot as a typical non-functional oven and she's clearly getting older resulting in slight hanging skin at some places. Besides the fact that she plays a dual role in a sly way, she tries to shock sexually, with as highlight the sticky wet routine on the windshield of Reiner's car.
The story on its own is dead simple and it doesn't need 2 hours to be told. It took so miserable long because of the dialogues as mentioned earlier . It was terribly annoying after a while . Even with subtitles in English , it didn't make any sense to me sometimes. Everybody seemed like having an academically degree in languages. It seemed as if they had to transform every dialogue into an anthology of an intellectual high level with a lot of difficult words. Even the drug baron Reiner and someone from the drug cartel used those intricate descriptions. They sound so philosophical that I doubt they could understand themselves. A fragment of the Dutch diamond expert sounds as follows : "To partake of the stone's endless destiny, is that not the meaning of adornment? To enhance the beauty of the beloved is to acknowledge both her frailty and the nobility of that frailty. At our noblest, we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.". Even after reading it three times again, i still can't understand the deeper meaning .
The most impressive scene was the liquidation of Brad Pitt. It was filmed fairly explicit and gruesome. The best dialogue was between Pitt and Fassbender about Snuff movies. The funniest thing was the fact that they twice used a joke that's often told here amongst friends. The one the motorcyclist told about the dog food. The second about the Pope in Mexico. Funny to experience that.
Final conclusion: an intricate dead boring first hour as a precursor to a quite impressive offensive end. Ultimately, on average, it is still not sufficient.
Tags: 4/10CrimeDrama
by Peter Pluymers · Published 13 December 2013 · Last modified 3 November 2017
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Q: Quarkus Dev Services forces quarkus.hibernate-orm.mddestinationdb.database.generation=drop-and-create although I use Flyway Background
I use Quarkus service Dev Services to start a Postgres DB in test and dev profile. The DB schemas are managed using flyway.
Problem
When using the Dev Services Quarkus sets quarkus.hibernate-orm.mddestinationdb.database.generation=drop-and-create which generates the DB according to the entities defined in the project. However, the Flyway scripts define them in a different way, e.g., they add a column which is not present in the entity definition. Hibernate simply drops the column. This is not what I want. I want Hibernate to leave the DB alone even in Dev Services mode.
[io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.deployment.HibernateOrmProcessor] (build-8) Setting quarkus.hibernate-orm.database.generation=drop-and-create to initialize Dev Services managed database

What I have tried so far
I have tried to set the property to false explicitly
# this is set so I would expect Hibernate to leave the DB as is
%dev.quarkus.flyway.schemas=my_schema
%dev.quarkus.datasource.devservices.port=5434
%dev.quarkus.flyway.baseline-on-migrate=true
%dev.quarkus.flyway..migrate-at-start=true

# setting this explicitly doesn't turn it of for Dev Services
%dev.quarkus.hibernate-orm.mddestinationdb.database.generation=none

Question
How can I set Quarkus to only use Flyway for setting up the DB in the dev and test profiles when using Dev Services?

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Brest (tidligere også Brest ved Bug eller Brest-Litovsk; , ; , ; ) er en by i Hviderusland med  indbyggere (2015) ved grænsen til Polen modsat byen Terespol hvor floden Vestlige Bug løber sammen med Mukhavets. Byen er administrativt center i Brest voblast. I omegnen findes rester af den gamle zaristiske Brest-fort, der spillede en væsentlig rolle i modstanden mod Nazi-Tysklands invasion under Operation Barbarossa i 1941 under 2. verdenskrig.

Placeringen ved den vigtige jernbanelinje, der forbinder Berlin og Moskva, og det interkontinentale motorvejsnet (Europavej E30), gjorde Brest til den vigtigste grænseovergag i sovjettiden efter 2. verdenskrig. I dag er byen det vigtigste transportknudepunkt mellem Fællesskabet af Uafhængige Stater og Den Europæiske Union, Hviderusland/Rusland og det øvrige Europa.

Springet i sporvidde i Brest, hvor den russiske brede sporvidde (1.520 mm) er forbundet den europæiske normalsporvidde (1.435 mm), har gjort Brest til verdens største rangerbanegård.

Oprindelsen til navnet

Der er flere teorier om oprindelsen til byens navn. De mest almindelige er som følger:
 Fra slavisk beresta, der betyder birke-bark,
 Fra slavisk berest, der betyder elm,
 Fra litauisk brasta, der betyder vadested.

Byen var tidligere et center for jødisk lærdom, byens navn i jiddisch, er בריסק (, ), deraf udtrykket "Brisker", der bruges som betegnelse for tilhængere af den indflydelsesrige rabbinerfamilie Soloveitchik.

Våbenskjold

Våbenskjoldet, der blev vedtaget den 26. januar 1991, er et himmelblåt skjold med en sølvfarvet spændt bue med en pil af samme farve. Brests første våbenskjold, der tildeltes af kong Sigismund II August i 1554, havde et rødt skjold.

Historie

Grundlagt af slaverne

Byen blev grundlagt af østslaverne og blev første gang nævnt i 1019 som "Berestye" i Kievriget i Nestorkrøniken da polakkerne indtog den. Byen, en af de ældste i det nuværende Hviderusland, var meget omstridt mellem de polske regenter (konger og fyrster af Masovien) og kievrigets prinser. I 1241 blev Brest lagt øde af mongolerne og blev ikke genopbygget før 1275.

En del af Storfyrstendømmet Litauen

Fra 1349 var Brest en del af Storfyrstendømmet Litauen og i 1390 blev Brest den første by, der fik Magdeburgrettigheder i det nuværende Hviderusland. Dele af byen blev brændt af den Tyske Orden i 1379 og i 1409 var byen mødested for kong Władysław II Jagello, storfyrste Vitautas og tatarernes leder Dzala-ed-din på ærkebiskop Mikołaj Trąbas initiativ for at forberede krigen mod den Tyske orden. I 1410 mønstrede byen et kavalerikompagni, der deltog i på den sejrende polsk-litauiske unions side i slaget ved Grunwald. I 1419 blev Brest sæde for det nyoprettede Trakai voivodskab. I 1500 blev hele byen brændt ned under Krim-tatarernes angreb. I 1566, på kong Sigismund II Augustus dekret, blev Brest Litovsk voivodskab skabt. Efter oprettelsen af Lublinunionen i 1569 blev Brest en del af den polsk-litauiske realunion og omdøbt Brześć Litewsk.

Under personalunionen mellem den den polsk-litauiske realunion og Sverige regeret af kong Sigismund III Vasa (den polsk-svenske union) blev der afholdt en række møder i byen og i 1594 og 1596 var Brest vært for to bemærkelsesværdige samråd mellem den romersk-katolske kirkes og østlige ortodokse kirkes biskopper i regionen. Samrådet i 1596 beskæftigede sig med oprettelsen af de unerede kirker (også kendt som den hviderussiske græsk-katolske kirke i Hviderusland og ukrainske græsk-katolske kirke i Ukraine). I 1657 og igen i 1706 blev byen og borgen erobret af svenskerne under invasionerne af den polsk-litauiske realunion, den 13. januar 1660 invaderende Tsar-Russlands hær under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky byen, indtog borgen ved et overraskelsesangreb om morgenen og dræbte de 1700 forsvarere og deres familier (ifølge den østrigske observatør kaptajn Rosestein). Den 23. juli 1792 blev et slag udkæmpet mellem regimenter fra Storfyrstendømmet Litauens här, der forsvarede byen, og den invaderende kejserlige russiske hær, den 19. september 1794 var området omkring Brest og Terespol skueplads for en sejrrig kamp (Slaget ved Brest) vundet af den invaderende kejserlige russiske hær under Suvorov over Kosciuszko-opstandens styrker under ledelse af Karol Sierakowski.

Annekteret af det Russiske Kejserrige

Brest blev annekteret af Rusland da den polsk-litauiske realunion blev delt for tredje gang i 1795.

I årene 1836-1842 blev der bygget en stor fæstning (Brest-fortet) for at sikre den vestlige grænse af det Det Russiske Kejserrige hvor floderne Bug og Mukhavets løber sammen ved Brest. De senere moderniserede og udvidede anlæg skulle forhindre angreb på det indre af kejserriget. Fortanlægget var det største i det Russiske Kejserrige i 1800-tallet. For at muliggøre fortbyggeriet blev Brest "flyttet" cirka to kilometer mod øst. I praksis betød det næsten total ødelæggelse af den gamle by til fordel for de militære anlæg.

Byen blev erobret af den tyske hær i 1915 under 1. verdenskrig.

Mellemkrigstiden

Den 9. februar 1918 blev "brødfreden" mellem Tyskland og Ukraine underskrevet i Brest. Et par uger senere, den 3. marts 1918, blev Brest-Litovsk-freden mellem Den Russiske Føderative Sovjetrepublik og centralmagterne underskrevet i Brest-fortet, der overførte Brest til tysk indflydelsessfære. I 1918 blev byen erklæret en del af den kortlivede Hviderussiske demokratiske republik, men i 1919 indtog Polen Brest. Under den polsk-sovjetiske krig skiftede byen hænder to gange og blev ved Riga-freden i 1921 underlagt Polen, der gjorde den til hovedsæde i det daværende Polesie voivodskab.
Fortet, der var blevet stærkt beskadiget under 1. verdenskrig, blev hovedkvarter for Polens 9. militær distrikt.

Efter de polske socialister i 1930 erklærede, at de ønskede at indføre demokrati og afsætte diktatoren Józef Pilsudskis regime blev omkring 70 oppositionspolitikere anholdt, heriblandt den tidligere polske premierminister Wincenty Witos og Wojciech Korfanty, og fængslet i Brest-fortet. Processen, som fandt sted fra oktober 1931 til januar 1932 i Warszawa, blev kaldt "Brestprocesserne" fordi systemkritikerne havde været fængslet i Brest. Elleve ledere af det polske socialistparti, medlemmer af bondebevægelsen og kristendemokraterne blev dømt til fængselsstraffe på mellem halvandet og tre år for påståede kupforberedelser.

Ifølge en russisk folketælling fra 1897 havde byen en jødisk befolkning på 30.000 ud af en samlet befolkning på 45.000. I 1931 var det jødiske befolkningstal faldet til 21.000 ud af 50.000 ifølge en polsk folketællingen<ref name=Browning>Christopher R. Browning, Nazi policy, Jewish workers, German killers', Google Print, p.124</ref>
Under de anti-jødiske optøjer den 13. maj 1937 sårede polakker fra Brest 50 jøder og plyndrede eller ødelagde hundredvis af jødiske butikker.

 2. verdenskrig

Under invasionen af Polen i 1939 blev byen forsvaret mod XIX Panzer Korps ledet af General Heinz Guderian af en lille garnison på fire infanteribataljoner under general Konstanty Plisowski. Den 17. september, efter fire dages hårde kampe, trak de polske styrker sig sydover, samme dag rykkede den Røde Hær ind i de områder af Hviderusland som Polen havde kontrolleret siden Riga-freden og tog kontrol med byen i overensstemmelse med Molotov-Ribbentrop-pagten. Den sovjetiske indmarch bliver fejret som "genforening af det vestlige Hviderusland med "Den hviderussiske sosialistiske sovjetrepublik" i Hviderusland. Under den sovjetiske administration 1939-41 blev dele af den polske befolkning anholdt og deporteret til Sibirien og den sovjetiske republik Kasakhstan.

 Forsvaret af Brest-fortet

Da Nazi-Tyskland den 22. juni 1941, under Operation Barbarossa, angreb Sovjetunionen var der hårde kampe om Brest-fortet, hvor hovedstyrken af 3.500 ordinære soldater fra den Røde Hær og NKVD-grænsevagter holdt ud til den 30. juni overfor ca. 20.000 wehrmachts angribere tilhørende blandt andet to infanteridivisioner og panserarmeen. Selv efter fortet var rapporteret indtaget efter tunge artilleri- og luftangreb, og med frontlinjen hundredvis af kilometer øst for Brest, fortsatte modstanden. Isolerede modstandslommer under jorden i de gamle kasematter i citadellet og Kobrin bastionen forsatte at kæmpe frem til august.
I løbet af de sidste dage ridsede forsvarerne denne inskription på væggene:

 Drabet på Brest-jøderne

Brest jødiske samfund blev kraftigt reduceret under det nazistisk styre i 1942. Allerede i de første dage og uger af den tyske besættelse myrdede tyske officerer fra Polizei-Bataillons 307, under kommando af major Theodor Stahr omkring 4.400 mennesker i Brest, herunder omkring 4.000 jøder. Efter politietbataljonens afmarch ankom en enhed af Sicherheitspolizei under ledelse af SS Untersturmführer Schmidt til Brest. I følge indsatsgruppernes rapporter dræbte politifolkene den 5. august 1.280, den 9. august 510, den 18. august 1.296, 769 den 28. august og 9.548 personer i september 1941.

I december 1941 oprettede de tyske myndigheder en ghetto for jøder i Brest. Beboerne blev registreret og arkiverne i Brest oblast er en unik kilde: Mere end 12.000 ghettobeboere blev registreret i forbindelse med udstedelse af identitetskort. Arkivet indeholder personlige data, fingeraftryk og fotografi af hver enkelt. Fra den 15. til den 18. oktober 1942 blev ghettoen var "aufgelöst", dvs dens indbyggere myrdet. Nürnberg politikompagni, Sicherheitsdienst (SD), polsk Schutzmannschaft og Politibataljon 310 spærrede ghettoen af den 15. oktober og drev beboerne sammen. Under aktionen blev mange indbyggere dræbt på stedet. De overlevende blev ført til udryddelseslejren Bronnaya Gora omkring 110 km øst for Brest, hvor de blev skudt i løbet af de følgende dage. Det nøjagtige antal ofre er ikke kendt, men baseret på forskellige kilder er antallet af myrdede mellem 15.000 og 20.000. På grund af mangel på kilder og gerningsmændenes tavshed har det ikke kunne udredes hvilke enheder, der udførte mordene i Bronnaya Gora.

 Den Røde Hærs befrielse af Brest

Den 28. juli 1944 befriede sovjetiske tropper byen og ifølge aftalerne ved Jaltakonferencen i februar 1945 blev Brests status som en del af den Hviderussisk Socialistiske Sovjetrepublik officielt anerkendt, hvorefter de fleste polske indbyggere udvandrede til Polen i løbet af 1940'erne og 50'erne.

Indtil 1953 lå krigsfangelejr 284 for tyske krigsfanger i Brest. Svært syge krigsfanger blev behandlet på hospital 5849.

 Transport

Brest spilleren en vigtig rolle som "Porten til Vesten" for transport fra Hviderusland. I byen er landets vigtigste jernbane- og motorvejsforbindelse til Polen. Den største del af den landbaserede trafik fra Vesteuropa via Tyskland og Polen til Hviderusland, Rusland og Centralasien går gennem byen.

 Vejtransport

Europavej E30, der går igennem Brest, forbinder Cork i Irland med Omsk øst for Ural i Rusland. E30 er ca. 5.800 km lang og passerer London, Hoek van Holland, Haag, Berlin, Warzawa, Minsk og Moskva. Via M58 og M60 er der vejforbindelse fra Omsk til Vladivostok ved Stillehavet. Den samlede strækning fra Cork til Vladivostok er over 12.000 km.

 Jernbanetansport

Ved den østlige grænse for den sædvanlige centraleuropæiske standardsporvidde (1435 mm) og den sædvanlige russiske sporvidde (1520 mm) øst for Bug er der en omfattende rangerbanegård. Alle persontog, der kommer fra Polen, får deres bogier udskiftet, for at køre gennem Hviderusland, og fragten bliver omlastet fra godsvogne med den ene sporvidde til godsvogne med den anden. Nogle arealer på Brest godsbanegård er stadig forurenet som følge af omladning af radioaktivt materiale under Sovjet-tiden, selv om oprydning har fundet sted. Brest Zentralny er den vigtigste banegård i Brest, hvorfra der to gange om dagligt er direkte tog til Berlin og Basel og en daglig afgang til Frankfurt am Main.

 Fly

Den lokale lufthavn har daglige flyafgange mellem 01:30 og 23:30 til blandt andet Minsk og ugentlige fly til Moskva og Novgorod.

 Seværdigheder

 Den mest berømte attraktion er det monumentale mindesmærke for forsvaret af Brest-fortet under Operation Barbarossa i juni 1941 i midten af museet Brest Heltefort i den vestlige udkant af byen.

 I Brest

 Museet i Brest Heltefort udstiller fortets historie om fortet fra anlæggelsen frem til opstilling af mindesmærket, med fokus på forsvaret af fortet i begyndelsen af den tysk-sovjetiske krig i 1941.
 Brests arkæologisk museum giver indblik i byens grundlæggelse. Museet blev bygget over udgravningen af den middelalderlige østslaviske by "Berestyes" og indeholder rester af omkring 30 træbygninger fra 1000 til 1200-tallet.
 Ved udfaldsvejen mod øst, Moskva chausse, blev Genopstandelseskirken grundlagt i 1995 for at markere 50-års årsdagen for Sovjetunionens sejr i 2. verdenskrig. Kirken er den største i Hviderusland. Mere end 5000 kan få plads samtidig.
 Brest har Hvideruslands vigtigste jernbanemuseum.

 Omkring Brest

 Brest ligger 70 km syd for Belaweschskaja nationalpark, som kom på UNESCOs Verdensarvsliste i 1992 efter kriterie VII og er internationalt anerkendt som et Biosfærereservat under UNESCO's "Man and the Biosphere" program i 1993. I skoven blev Minsk-aftalen om at opløse Sovjetunionen underskrevet den 8. december 1991. Der arrangeres udflugter med hest og vogn ind i det indre af skoven. I parken er der et museum for "Bedstefar Frost", kendt som "Ded Moroz"'', den østslaviske julemand.
 Kamyanets, Hviderusland, der ligger på vejen fra Brest til nationalparken, har et enestående gammelt tårn bygget 1271-1289 som et grænseforsvar for fyrstendømmet Volhynien.
 Landsbyen Kosova, hvor Tadeusz Kosciuszko blev født, ligger i Brest-regionen og har et palads fra 1800-tallet.

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By Nettie A. Casper	 On May 30, 2021
For the first time in the school's history, the John Muir Middle School Chess Club won the state championship. This article details what made them successful and how COVID-19 impacted their season, Friday Burbank. CALIFORNIA. May 28, 2021 (Photo by Gene Blevins / Contributing Photographer)
Chess team coach Kevin Bulone of John Muir Middle School group with team champions (forward / LR) Tony Yamin and Tony Boyadzhyan, (back / LR) David Zarbari and Arneh Amirian, Friday, Burbank CA, May 28, 2021. For the first time in school history, the John Muir Middle School Chess Club won the state championship. This article details what made them successful and how COVID-19 impacted their season. (Photo by Gene Blevins / Contributing Photographer)
The 2021 John Muir College Chess Team with Coach Kevin Bulone. The team won first place in all three sections at the state championship. (Courtesy photo: Kevin Bulone)
The chess club 2020 after its victory in the departmental championship. (Courtesy photo: Kevin Bulone)
The 2018 John Muir College Chess Team. The team won first place in a section of the State Championship. (Courtesy photo: Kevin Bulone)
(C) Chess team coach Kevin Bulone of the John Muir Middle School group with his team champions (Forward / LR) Tony Yamin and Tony Boyadzhyan, (Back / LR) David Zarbari and Arneh Amirian, Friday, Burbank CA, May 28, 2021. For the first time in the school's history, the John Muir Middle School Chess Club won the state championship. This article details what made them successful and how COVID-19 impacted their season. (Photo by Gene Blevins / Contributing Photographer)
Kevin Bulone, coach of the John Muir Middle School Chess Club in Burbank, said there is one term that perfectly characterizes his team's performance this year.
Checkmate.
"When you say checkmate it's like a big win, that's what we've achieved this year," Bulone said.
The club won the state championship on March 27-28, taking first place in the Under 600, Under 1000 and Under 1400 categories. The numbers 600, 1000 and 1400 refer to system scores. rating from the United States Chess Federation, which ranks a player's skill level. The City of Burbank recognized the team with a certificate at the city council meeting on Tuesday, May 18.
John Muir High School has enjoyed success in chess in recent years, although this is the first time they have achieved victories in all three categories. The team took the top spot at the county level in 2020, before COVID-19 shut down most of the country. Bulone credits the children for the success of the team.
"What I attribute to success is the connection between kids and the willingness to want to learn and then practice it," Bulone said.
However, coach Bulone may not be taking enough credit. Greg Miller, principal of John Muir Middle School, said the chess program has changed dramatically since Bulone took over.
"It really is because of Coach Kevin's work that this is all possible," said Miller. "It's his commitment to the kids and the program that made him successful, and every kid on the team will tell you."
Miller also spoke about the resilience of the chess team and other students at John Muir Middle School who have had to deal with online learning during the pandemic. Miller said the students and families he had heard of lack the in-person connection that a traditional school year offers children. According to Miller, only 400 of 1,400 students opted for any type of in-person learning after the restrictions were lifted.
The pandemic has also forced chess clubs to change. The State Championship, typically an in-person event, has moved to a fully online format. Players competed against each other on chess.com with their cameras on and both hands visible to discourage cheating via cellphones or written notes. Bulone said the practices were roughly the same with John Muir's students playing against each other online, once a week.
And the practice that the students did. Arthur Tovamasyan, an eighth-grader who participated in the tournament, said he trained between an hour and a half and two hours a day for the week leading up to the tournament. The practice paid off for Tovamasyan, who went undefeated in the Under 1000 category.
"I felt I deserved it," Tovamasyan said when asked about his personal success. "But I was still amazed that I was the first."
Tovamasyan also said he was surprised the team won all three categories and was impressed with the play of his young colleagues.
A total of 14 students participated in the state championship, according to coach Bulone. Of those 14, only one was a girl – the first to represent John Muir in the state championship. Bulone said he hopes to see more women participate in the club in the future.
For now though, John Muir's side can build on their success, train for the coming season, and hope to check out the competition when the state championship rolls around next year.
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Symbols in Your Dreams -- What Do They Mean?
What it means when snakes, cats, and more appear in your dreams
By Marie Primavera
Dreams, Insight
Dreams are mysterious and unique to each individual, but you might be surprised to learn that certain symbols have universal meaning when it comes to dream interpretation.
Some dream symbols are more common than others, and their true meaning is often very different from what you might expect due to the literal object in the dream.
If you dream of a stray or feral cat...
In dreams, cats often symbolize women and certain female characteristics, both the good and the bad -- such as being intuitive and sensible, or perhaps prideful and jealous. What the cats are doing in your dreams can be quite telling.
If you dream of cats, especially wild, stray or feral cats, in can indicate that you are worried some women feel hostility toward you. Of if you dream of a cat sitting up high on a fence and looking down at you, it could be interpreted that an older woman or a female authority figure is working against you.
If you are scratched or bitten by a cat in your dreams, it could be that you feel nagged or attacked by a female family member, or perhaps a woman at work.
Overall, dreaming of cats indicates intellectual curiosity and the deep desire for new experiences.
Reveal what the subject of YOUR dreams means now »
If a baby appears in your dream...
It may seem obvious what's on your mind if you dream of babies -- and yes, perhaps you would like one -- but some of the other possible meanings are hidden.
In general, dreaming of babies represents innocence and openness to new possibilities. But there are many dream interpretations about babies. It's considered good luck to dream of a cute baby in good health. If you dream of being a baby yourself, it could indicate you feel powerless and could face trouble.
If you dream of your lover holding a baby, it means you are optimistic about your relationship. If you dream a baby is drinking your milk, it could suggest extra income.
Overall, babies are a good symbol to discover in your dreams, because they represent a turning point or "rebirth" that can lead to wonderful new things.
If you dream about a snake...
Snake dreams have different implications, depending on what is happening in your life and in your mind. When a snake appears in your dream, it can be either a good or bad omen. Snakes are revered as spiritual creatures. They represent wisdom and vitality, and strong fertility. But they can also represent destruction, temptation and vindictiveness.
If you dream you are bitten by a snake, it could indicate turning ill -- unless you were bitten in the chest, which could represent the feeling of being "bitten" or smitten by suddenly falling into intense love.
Snakes can represent various stages of sexual desire, too. For example, a slithering snake could represent sexual temptation, while a coiled snake could symbolize a fear of sex.
Molting snakes are symbols of independence and moving into a new stage of life, and white snakes are said to be messengers of good luck.
If you dream you are trying to grab or catch a snake, it could indicate good fortune with money -- unless you can't catch it, which means you may be frustrated by your lack of funds.
In all, snake dreams are about power and desire and should be given your careful focus and attention to decipher their true meaning.
If you dream about an ex-boyfriend or old lover...
When former romances show up in your dreams, it usually represents a deep attachment to the past.
If you dream of a lover from long ago, it may not mean that you really want that person back -- you may just be feeling very lonely and wishing you could move forward again.
On the other hand, if you dream of your ex-lover with a new partner or getting married, it could mean that you are finally ready to put the past behind and move on.
Dreaming of former loves brings up a lot of feeling and emotion that can simply indicate the desire to belong to someone and feel loved and accepted. You may have obstacles holding you back from achieving this, and your dreams are urging you to work on yourself so you'll have the confidence to love and be loved again.
If you dream about being pregnant...
Being pregnant is exciting and scary and profound, all at the same time -- so when you dream about being pregnant those are the same feelings you may be experiencing.
Dreaming you are pregnant doesn't mean you are pregnant -- it indicates that you may be putting effort into something new, or feeling confident and powerful, as you would if you were creating a new life.
Dreaming of another person's pregnancy can symbolize the emergence of new friends and allies who appreciate you for all you do.
When you dream you are pregnant with child, you are really just pregnant with possibility -- so pay attention the other details in your dream to reveal the message your dream is trying to tell you.
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Bath Rugby Outreach
Published Tuesday 21st of May 2019 03:19:34 PM
Coaches from one of the country's top rugby clubs are making sure everything adds up for pupils at a Calne school, both on and off the pitch. Children at St Margaret's Preparatory School are some of the first in Wiltshire to benefit from Bath Rugby Club's Outreach Programme, which combines sporting skills with teaching maths. The club's Schools Co-ordinator Lewis Palmer said: "The scheme is aimed at primary school children in Years 3 and 4. Tom Fogerty and Jack Howden have been working with St Margaret's pupils and staff. They spend part of the time organising tag rugby and the rest delivering maths lessons that involve rugby-based questions. For example, we might use the rugby bonus point scoring system to get children to work out a wide range of different questions. The rugby element makes it more interesting for them and it seems to work; all of the boys and girls at St Margaret's have seemed to really enjoy it." St Margaret's Head of Sport, Dan Dury, has been delighted with the progress children have made in both the rugby and maths elements of the course. At the end of the five-week programme, the children were awarded certificates. Mr Palmer hopes that more primary schools in the county will also take up the opportunity, made possible by club sponsorship from Avon Rubber.
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Nowak Pier
1. Nowak Pier Marker
This apparent attempt at renaming the Bird Island Pier has not taken hold. Google maps uses Bird Island Pier as the name.
Nowak Pier. . Nowak Pier in honor of Henry J. Nowak Member of Congress "The Billion Dollar Man" for community service (1966-1992) constructed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Buffalo District in cooperation with New York State Departmetn of Environmental Conservation and City of Buffalo Mayor James D. Griffin . . This historical marker is in Buffalo in Erie County New York
Henry J. Nowak
"The Billion Dollar Man"
for community service (1966-1992)
constructed by
Buffalo District
Departmetn of Environmental Conservation
Mayor James D. Griffin
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Man-Made Features. A significant historical year for this entry is 1966.
Location. 42° 54.777′ N, 78° 54.167′ W. Marker is in Buffalo, New York, in Erie County. Marker is on Robert Rich Way, 0.2 miles south of Ferry Street Bridge, on the right when traveling south. Marker is at the beginning of the Bird Island Pier at the south end of Unity Island and Broderick Park. Access is via the Ferry Street Bridge from Niagara Street (NY Route 266) and over the Black Rock Channel to Unity Island. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Buffalo NY 14213, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Harrowing Journey (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Broderick Park / Distinctive River Ecosystems (about 600 feet away);
2. Nowak Pier Marker and Pier
Southward, towards the Peace Bridge.
Black Rock Harbor / From Plantation to Promised Land (about 600 feet away); Underground Railroad River Crossing (approx. 0.2 miles away); International Crossing (approx. 0.2 miles away); Industrial Powerhouse (approx. 0.2 miles away); West Ferry Street Bascule Bridge (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Site of Fort Tompkins (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Buffalo.
Also see . . .
1. Bird Island Pier - Buffalo as an Architectural Museum. (Submitted on September 19, 2016, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.)
2. Nowak, Henry James - Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. (Submitted on September 19, 2016, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.)
Credits. This page was last revised on September 19, 2016. It was originally submitted on September 19, 2016, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York. This page has been viewed 397 times since then and 5 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 19, 2016, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.


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2001-02 Drought Helped to Shift Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak into Epidemic
November 5, 2012 by Guest Post
A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
The study, the first ever to chart the evolution of the current pine beetle epidemic in the southern Rocky Mountains, compared patterns of beetle outbreak in the two primary host species, the ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine, said CU-Boulder doctoral student Teresa Chapman. The current mountain pine beetle outbreak in the southern Rockies — which range from southern Wyoming through Colorado and into northern New Mexico –is estimated to have impacted nearly 3,000 square miles of forests, said Chapman, lead study author.
While the 2001-02 drought in the West played a key role in pushing the pine beetle outbreak into a true regional epidemic, the outbreak continued to gain ground even after temperature and precipitation levels returned to levels nearer the long-term averages, said Chapman of CU-Boulder's geography department. The beetles continued to decimate lodgepole pine forests by moving into wetter and higher elevations and into less susceptible tree stands — those with smaller diameter lodgepoles sharing space with other tree species.
"In recent years some researchers have thought the pine beetle outbreak in the southern Rocky Mountains might have started in one place and spread from there," said Chapman. "What we found was that the mountain pine beetle outbreak originated in many locations. The idea that the outbreak spread from multiple places, then coalesced and continued spreading, really highlights the importance of the broad-scale drivers of the pine beetle epidemic like climate and drought."
The 2001-02 drought in the West greatly accelerated the current mountain beetle epidemic in the southern Rockies, says a new CU-Boulder study. Photo courtesy University of Colorado
A paper on the subject was recently published in the journal Ecology. Co-authors on the study include CU-Boulder geography Professor Thomas Veblen and Tania Schoennagel, an adjunct faculty member in the geography department and a research scientist at CU-Boulder's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. The National Science Foundation funded the study.
Mountain pine beetles are native insects that have shaped the forests of North America for thousands of years. They range from Canada to Mexico and are found at elevations from sea level to 11,000 feet. The effects of pine beetles are especially evident in recent years on Colorado's Western Slope, including Rocky Mountain National Park, with a particularly severe epidemic occurring in Grand and Routt counties.
Chapman said the most recent mountain pine beetle outbreak began in the 1990s, primarily in scattered groups of lodgepole pine trees living at low elevations in areas of lower annual precipitation. Following the 2001-02 drought, the outbreak was "uncoupled" from the initial weather and landscape conditions, triggering a rise in beetle populations on the Western Slope and propelling the insects over the Continental Divide into the northern Front Range to infect ponderosa pine, Chapman said.
The current pine beetle epidemic in the southern Rocky Mountains was influenced in part by extensive forest fires that ravaged Colorado's Western Slope from roughly 1850 to 1890, said Chapman. Lodgepole pine stands completely burned off by the fires were succeeded by huge swaths of seedling lodgepoles that eventually grew side by side into dense mature stands, making them easier targets for the pine beetles.
"The widespread burning associated with dry years in the 19th century set the stage for the current outbreak by creating vast areas of trees in the size classes most susceptible to beetle attack," said Chapman.
Veblen said a 1980s outbreak of the pine beetle centered in Colorado's Grand County ended when extremely low minimum temperatures were reached in the winters of 1983 and 1984, killing the beetle larvae. But during the current outbreak, minimum temperatures during all seasons have been persistently high since 1996, well above the levels of extreme cold shown to kill beetle larvae in laboratory experiments.
"This implies that under continued warming trends, future outbreaks will not be terminated until they exhaust their food supply — the pine tree hosts," said Veblen.
Chapman said there has been a massive and unprecedented beetle epidemic in British Columbia, which also began in the early 1990s and has now has affected nearly 70,000 square miles. "It is hard to tell if this current beetle epidemic in the Southern Rockies is unprecedented," she said. "While warm periods in the 16th century may have triggered a large beetle epidemic, any evidence would have been wiped out by the massive fires in the latter part of the 19th century."
Veblen said while the rate of spread of the mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine forests has declined in the southern Rocky Mountains during the past two years because of a depletion of host pine population, U.S. Forest Service surveys indicate the rate of beetle spread in ponderosa pine forests on the Front Range has increased sharply over the past three years. "The current study suggests that under the continued warmer climate, the spread of the beetle in ponderosa pines is likely to grow until that food source also is depleted," Veblen said.
"Our results emphasize the importance of considering different patterns in the population dynamics of mountain pine beetles for different host species, even under similar regional-scale weather variations," said Chapman. "Given the current outbreak of mountain pine beetles on the Front Range, their impact on ponderosa pines is certainly something that needs further study."
A 2012 study by CU-Boulder Professor Jeffry Mitton and graduate student Scott Ferrenberg showed some Colorado pine beetles, which had been known to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, are producing two generations per year due to rising temperatures and a longer annual warm season. Because of the extra annual generation of beetles, there could be up to 60 times as many beetles attacking trees in any given year, according to the study.
In addition, a 2011 study led by CU-Boulder graduate student Evan Pugh indicated the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water yields from snowpack that accumulates beneath affected trees.
*Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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The next ladies-ONLY Queen Bee Society drinks are on Friday January May 3rd 2019 from 8pm.
At this gathering I have adorable little ceramic stiletto charms.
The Queen Bee Society drinks is gathering of the strong, powerful ladies. It's an opportunity to meet up with other dominants, queen bees, goddesses, entrepreneurs, leaders and get to know each other better.
We meet in the public bar in the Shoreditch Courthouse Hotel, 335-337 Old St, London EC1V 9LL, in the Jailhouse Bar. It has a huge lounge area and private, secluded cells (literally). The bar is in the former Police Station of the Old Street Magistrate's Court, historically significant architecture, including former prison holding cells. Please do not ask for the Queen Bee Society drinks...they have no idea who we are!
Named the Queen Bee Society because you are one!
Important: be sure to pick up your Queen Bee Society 'gold card' from Miss Kim. Don't forget to bring it to each event, as there will be a ladies group shot for all your social media.
We are all meeting to enjoy each others company, get, dressed up, have a drink and feel the powerful energy in the room.
Just look for the most glamorous ladies in the room...or me, I have pink hair.
No men. DON'T bring your slave(s).


MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary > Tools of the Trade > Astrology > Wierd Question.
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How difficult do you think it is, for a person to transcend what their natal chart/ numerology, etc, portends for them?
For instance..my friend had a baby recently. The birthdate, was November, 13th. So...she's a Scorpio to begin with..but in addition, the numerology of the 13th, does not bode well. As far as I can see.
And every time I pick up the baby, or hold her, I feel like there is an air of "Critical" nature around her. For instance, that she's weighing and judging the people who hold her...more so, than other children.
In other words, I have this feeling like the child is very aware of the two roads it can go down in its' life. Good, and Bad. And I feel more keenly when I hold her, that it's extremely important the type of attention she receives, the amount of love, etc. I feel that if she is NOT given an abundance of attention, and affection (more so, than even other babies), that she could possibly grow up..umm..."Wrong"? I don't know if any of this makes sense. It's really hard to define.
But I'm aware that Scorpio Children are highly "Aware" individuals. And supposedly, they are born psychic, and with a tendency towards the metaphysical. They are very wise, often those type of children who are far ahead of their time, mentally. And when she looks at you, she seems to stare right through you. She's quiet most of the time, and just staring at people...very intensely. More so, than most children.
So...my question I guess, is that if her natal charts portends a difficult life, or a child who will grow up to be , umm...a negative person, or a person who has very negative experiences, do you think that the amount of attention, and affection they receive as babies, can offset this in their later lives?
In essence, is it nature or nurture?
Your question isn't wierd at all. My boyfriend was born on November 13th, and a Friday at that. He has two very distinct sides. For the most part he is a wonderful loving man but he is often aloof around new people and does tend to be critical of others. Luckily his mom was very caring and attentive and I think that is why he turned out to be a good person, But that can be said for all kids. You might want to watch this little one carefully because from my experience these Scorpios can have quite the firey tempers when prevoked and tend to sulk alot when wronged.
As with the others here, I don't think the question was weird at all. I don't have enough experience with the influences you wonder about to offer any strong opinion specifically to your question.
But I agree with what I think I'm reading in the previous posts. Love and nurturing has as much power over people as anything, IMO.
A child who is loved unconditionally by an adult will respond to that adult positively, regardless of what else is going on in life. The more love and contact, the more positive influence. The more adults doing that, the better for the child. The negative influences of life will always be present, much more so and more powerfully for some than others. But the passing on of life through love from one to another (and I do not mean just parents) is without equal for force. I accept this sounds naive. It is my observed experience.
If you are loving and caring toward a child of any sign, he/she will display the positive aspects of that sign. However if you are not, he/she will display the negative aspects of that sign. That is what I believe.
You might want to watch this little one carefully because from my experience these Scorpios can have quite the firey tempers when prevoked and tend to sulk alot when wronged.
I too was born on Friday November 13th. While granted, we Scorpios fiery, we don't have to be shunned do we?
I understand what you guys are saying, but just because someone was born on that day (Friday or not) doesn't mean that anything stereotypical of the "#13" superstitions are going to happen!
Ha! HA! My husband is a Scorpio.
Well, MALE Scorpios are a TOTALLY different matter altogether!!!