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Writer: Zoe Kazan
Directors: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas and Steve Coogan
Review Written By: Leonhard Balk
The problem with quirky comedies, and with most modern rom-coms, lies in the central female figure. Quirky girls are imperfect, they are endearing because of their faults, their weird mannerisms. When the bookish anti-social young male and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, that is the quirky love interest, meet, it looks good on page, but it never works in the long run. The relationship is doomed from the start and we get to see a heartfelt break-up, which lasts, in most rom-coms, longer than the actual relationship.
And it's hard on the viewer too. Once the enjoyment, the novelty, of seeing the boy meet his quirky dreamgirl passes, you are left to endure a string of awkward "cute" scenes. And as the relationship goes on, through highs and lows, all you really want the male protagonist to do, is to grab that girl by the shoulders and yell at her: "Why are you always so weird?".
It's a difficult line to walk, to be both romantic and heartfelt, to have your characters somewhat grounded in reality. "Ruby Sparks" is therefore all the more interesting, for it grounds it's female lead in fiction.
Novelist shut-in Calvin (Paul Dano) dreams up the girl of his dreams and commits her to paper. He writes obsessively about her, until one day, she actually appears in his house. Her name is Ruby and she loves him. She is an unemployed painter, who has moved from 9 different cities in the last 3 years. She is the definitive Manic Pixie Dream Girl, at least on the outside.
It is where the film goes from here, that really distinguishes it from the normal rom-com cannon: Calvin is in an unique position, in which he can actually physically control his dreamgirl. Zoe Kazan, writer and star of "Ruby Sparks", plays with the idea of the "perfect girl" and thereby exposes problems with the initial set-up of the quirky romantic comedy. Her character sums the main problem up perfectly in the film: "The quirky, messy women whose problems make them appealing are not real."
On a more critical note, by carelessly imitating the genre it is criticising, "Ruby Sparks" often falls into using the same tired tropes and clichés that it is trying to avoid. The supporting characters, played brilliantly by the likes of Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening and Steve Coogan, suffer from "quirk overload": The free-spirited mother, the step-dad who makes his own furniture, the drug-using womanising writer. None of these characters ultimately help ground the film in reality, but only serve as pretty distractions, a break from the emotional drama at the core of the film.
However, these are small misgivings in a film which, overall, is oddly touching. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, a couple in real-life, make for an interesting duo at the centre of a really rather fun film.
Summary: Directed with a steady hand by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (directors of "Little Miss Sunshine") and written with a surprising insightfulness, "Ruby Sparks" stands out as a critical analysis of the rom-com genre. And, while it may occasionally slip into cliché territory, the overall film is true delight.
By Movie Parliament Minister for History,
Leonhard Balk
Disagree with this review? Give us your thoughts in the Your Say section.
Movie Parliament Prime Minister: Michael Dalton
Minister for Foreign Affairs: Arnaud Trouve
Minister for History: Leonhard Balk
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module Treaty {
    module Tests {
        module Conditions {
            class Person {
                constructor(public name: string) { }
            }

            class Order {
                constructor(public amount: number) { }
            }

            describe("or conditions", () => {
                var factory: Treaty.Tests.Factory;
                var wasCalled = false;

                beforeEach(() => {
                    factory = new Treaty.Tests.Factory()
                        .or('Person',
                            left => left.withCondition(Treaty.Rules.Conditions.Condition.equal('Person', (p: Person) => p.name, 'Ben')),
                            right => right.withCondition(Treaty.Rules.Conditions.Condition.equal('Person', (p: Person) => p.name, 'Joe'))
                         )
                        .withConsequence('Person', (p: Person) => wasCalled = true)
                        .buildRulesEngine();
                });

                it("should compile rule", () => {
                    expect(factory.rulesEngine.alphaNodes.count).toBe(1);
                });

                it("should output to dot notation", () => {
                    console.log(factory.toDotNotation('Or'));
                });

                describe("matching two joined facts", () => {
                    beforeEach(() => {
                        wasCalled = false;
                        factory.createSession()
                            .assertFact('Person', new Person('Ben'))
                            .assertFact('Person', new Person('Joe'))
                            .run();
                    });

                    it("should execute consequence", () => {
                        expect(wasCalled).toBeTruthy();
                    })
                });

                describe("matching only left hand side of or condition", () => {
                    beforeEach(() => {
                        wasCalled = false;
                        factory.createSession()
                            .assertFact('Person', new Person('Ben'))
                            .run();
                    });

                    it("should execute consequence", () => {
                        expect(wasCalled).toBeTruthy();
                    })
                });

                describe("matching only right hand side of or condition", () => {
                    beforeEach(() => {
                        wasCalled = false;
                        factory.createSession()
                            .assertFact('Person', new Person('Joe'))
                            .run();
                    });

                    it("should execute consequence", () => {
                        expect(wasCalled).toBeTruthy();
                    })
                });
            });
        }
    }
}

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The Irish For As we celebrate St Patrick's removal of snakes, what other animals have come and gone from Ireland?
Darach Ó Séaghdha looks at the stories behind some of Ireland's most famous animals
A STORY WITH a feel-good headline did the rounds online recently when it was revealed that the pine marten (cat crainn, literally a tree cat, in Irish) was partially responsible for a surge in the numbers of the native red squirrel (iora rua). The idea of furry friends looking after each other is adorable; you can just imagine the tough but sensitive pine marten giving a squirrel the pep talk he needs to get the courage to ask another red squirrel out.
This isn't what happened, of course: the assistance from the pine marten came in the form of preying upon lots and lots of grey squirrels. The grey squirrel (iora glas) was introduced from Canada to these isles as recently as 1911 (as part of a wedding gift, I'm told), interrupting the delicate ecological balance of our woodlands by carrying diseases fatal to the smaller red squirrel, as well as competing with it for food and nesting space.
However, because the red squirrel is smaller, it can escape from a pine marten onto tinier branches which neither the predatory pine marten nor the hapless grey can reach. So it goes; a single change can lead to a critical reversal of fortune for a species in Ireland.
Shutterstock / Paul A Carpenter The Pine Martin, or 'tree cat'. Shutterstock / Paul A Carpenter / Paul A Carpenter
Díothú – The Irish For Extinction
Saint Patrick's Day is unusual in that we celebrate the extinction of a native Irish species on foot of a mysterious visitor to these shores. What were the long-term ecological ramifications of the loss of snakes? Did the rat population spiral out of control?
For the month that's in it, let's take a look at the arrival of other beasts to this island and consider what traces they left on the language and folklore.
Francach (rat) - the Irish word for a rat is the same as the word for a French person. This is an abbreviation of luch francach, which literally means a French mouse. The theory was that rats first arrived on French ships with the Normans.
Sionnach (fox) - the fox is long-established in Ireland – arriving in the post-glacial period – and widely present our folklore. They even turn up in traditional medicine: a fox's tongue was prized for being the best way for extracting thorns from the flesh.
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Traonach (corncrake) - along with the cherry blossom, this native bird was long considered the herald of summer, with papers in the West of Ireland noting where and when it had first been heard that year (usually in April). As it nested on the ground of meadows and cornfields rather than on trees, it was extremely vulnerable when combine harvesters were introduced. It is now very rare.
Coileach (rooster) - Lady Gregory noted in her writing that it was widely held belief in the Irish countryside that hens and weasels were left in Ireland by the Danes. When a rooster woke them in the morning, it would be remarked that "it is for Denmark they are crowing; crowing to be back in Denmark".
The Irish For: 'Hope & History Rhyme' - the background to a much-quoted line
Opinion: This Seachtain na Gaeilge, we should celebrate the rise of the Gaelscoil Generation
The Irish For: 'Tis far from pizza and spaghetti we were reared
Frog/Niút (frog/newt) - The entry for frog in O'Reilly's foclóir of 1864 notes that the amphibian was not found in Ireland before the reign of William the Third, whose Dutch troops first introduced it. As for other amphibians, the newt had a particularly terrible reputation, gathering the nicknames "the Dark Luachra" and "the Man Creeper". The fear was that if you fell asleep near where newts gathered, they would climb into your mouth and crawl into your stomach.
Nathair (snake) - there are some attention-seeking sceptics to say that Ireland never had snakes and Saint Patrick's alleged removal of them was just a metaphor for his removal of paganism.
Faoileán (seagull) - finally, the reintroduction of the wolf (faol, among other names) has been one of the more surprising recent election issues in Ireland, with some voters seeing a possible downside to living near large predators. However, they could hardly case more trouble than their near-namesake, the faoileán (literally, wolf bird). While the gulls are native to these shores, their increased presence and interference with elegant city living by stealing food and soiling passers-by has been attributed not to a lack of a natural predator, but rather to over-fishing by humans of their natural food supply. Remember that the next time one of them pinches your burrito.
Darach Ó Séaghdha
@TheIrishFor
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Штепан Сухий (; ,  — , ) — чешский скрипач и музыкальный педагог.

В 1886—1890 гг. играл в оркестре Брненской оперы, затем в Немецкой опере в Праге. В 1892 г. совершил концертное турне по Южной Африке. По возвращении из Африки в 1892—1897 гг. учился в Пражской консерватории у Отакара Шевчика, став одним из наиболее важных его учеников. С 1897 г. преподавал там же, сперва как ассистент Шевчика, с 1902 г. профессор. Среди его учеников, в частности, Бедржих Волдан, Франтишек Кудлачек, Эмил Голый, Ярослав Шишковский, в 1906—1907 гг. у него учился игре на скрипке Богуслав Мартину. Одновременно в 1899—1903 гг. играл на скрипке в одном из первых составов Чешского трио, с Карелом Хофмайстером и Бедржихом Вашкой.

Примечания

Скрипачи Чехии
Академические музыканты Чехии
Музыкальные педагоги Чехии
Преподаватели Пражской консерватории

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Interested in buying your first place? Come to Fat Cat (4840 Broadway) on Wednesday, August 3rd, 7pm-9pm, to learn more.
"First time home buyers event! Learn everything you need to know about purchasing your first home. The City of Chicago may even be able to help with your down payment! Complimentary donut bar and drinks will be served. RSVP to KateSells@kw.com. Space is limited."


Collecter of Communication Accounts, MP has strewed a notice of CCA MP Accountant Recruitment 2017 for filling up 40 LDC Jobs. Eligible and talented contenders who are willing to clutch this job chance they may apply for CCA MP Accountant jobs by filling Collecter of Communication Accounts, MP application form as soon as possible.
Applicants should have work experience in the same field / Anology Jobs Central / State / PSU / BSNL government jobs on the regular basis.
· Upper age limit should not exceed 56 years as on the application date.
· Relaxation in upper age limit will be applicable as per Madhya Pradesh government norms.
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package net.rn.clouds.chat.dao.impl;

import java.util.List;

import net.rn.clouds.chat.dao.ChatHistoryDAO;
import net.rn.clouds.chat.model.ChatMessage;

import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Criterion;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;

/**
 * Author: kvats Date: Apr 1, 2016 Time: 7:02:04 PM
 */
public class ChatHistoryDAOImpl extends AbstractHibernateDAO<ChatMessage, String> implements ChatHistoryDAO {

    @Override
    public Integer saveMessage(ChatMessage chatMessage) {
        return save(chatMessage);
    }

    @Override
    public List<ChatMessage> viewChatHistory(int connectionId, int offset, int limit, String sort, String status) {
        Criterion criterion = null;
        if(status != null){
        	criterion = Restrictions.and(Restrictions.eq("connection_id", connectionId),
        			Restrictions.eq("status", status));
        }else{
        	criterion = Restrictions.eq("connection_id", connectionId);
        }
        return findByCriteria(offset, limit, sort, "createdTime", criterion);
    }

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see net.rn.clouds.chat.dao.ChatHistoryDAO#updateMessageStatus(net.rn.clouds.chat.model.ChatMessage)
	 */
	@Override
	public void updateMessageStatus(Integer[] chatHistoryId) {
		Session session = getSession();
        Transaction transaction = session.beginTransaction();
        String hql = "UPDATE ChatMessage set status='READ' "  +
                "WHERE chatHistoryId in (:chatHistoryId)";
        Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
        query.setParameterList("chatHistoryId", chatHistoryId);
        query.executeUpdate();
        transaction.commit();
        session.close();
	}
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Endnotes: Prince Harry Reveals How Many Children He and Meghan Markle Will Have & More
LGBTQ Celebrity Tweet Roundup: Jonathan Van Ness, Jonathan Bennett, Troye Sivan & More
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are thinking about the future for their son, Archie Harrison — and perhaps one more child.
Harry interviewed Dr. Jane Goodall for the September issue of British Vogue.
"We are the one species on this planet that seems to think that this place belongs to us, and only us," the 34-year-old royal said, to which Dr. Goodall agreed that humans will continue to feud over resources unless something changes.
The conservationist pointed out that the "terrifying" state of the world, as Harry put it, has likely intensified for him since welcoming Archie in May.
"Well, it does make it different, doesn't it?" she said.
"It does make it different," Harry replied. "I think, weirdly, because of the people that I've met and the places that I've been fortunate enough to go to, I've always had a connection and a love for nature. I view it differently now, without question. But I've always wanted to try and ensure that, even before having a child and hoping to have children…"
"Not too many!" Dr. Goodall said with a laugh.
"Two, maximum!" said Prince Harry. "But I've always thought: this place is borrowed. And, surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are supposed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation."
Read more at People.
There are 66k people who paid actual money to watch that Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau wedding, but don't worry, they're getting their money back. — Dlisted
Why is Zach Braff beginning to morph into Sean Penn? — Go Fug Yourself
Kelly McGillis wasn't asked to be in Top Gun remake, is happy for Jennifer Connelly. — Celebitchy
Everyone should enjoy a good stretch. — Boy Culture
Tuscany is for lovers! Leona Lewis proved that when the "Bleeding Love" singer walked down the aisle to "Ave Maria" on Saturday in a full-length white tulle gown in front of 180 guests. — Evil Beet Gossip
Lizzo turned it out for one of NPR's Tiny Desk concerts, belting out "Cuz I Love You," "Truth Hurts,: and "Juice" for a standing-office-only crowd, and showing off another smashing flute solo. — Towleroad
Alex Hassell starts The Boys off right with a full-frontal. Take a peak. NSFW! — OMG BLOG
The Real Housewives of Dubai is coming to Bravo in 2022
Song of the Day — "Ready" by Alessia Cara
Murphygate continues. A day after Tituss Burgess called Andy Cohen a "messy queen" for criticizing Eddie Murphy, the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star shaded Cohen yet again on The Wendy Williams Show.
"I will not tolerate the dismantling of anyone's legacy, especially not my own," Burgess, 40, told host Wendy Williams on Tuesday, July 30, episode of her talk show.
"And who we were speaking about has done a beautiful job being the comedic giant that he is. And he has a wonderful movie coming out, and I was not going to participate in talking about that."
Williams said: "Obviously it was wonderful working [with Murphy], and Andy might have been trying to trap you into saying something, and you didn't say it."
"Tituss will not be trapped," the Emmy nominee clarified. "No. We have way too much work to do. We have far more important things to talk about."
Read more at Us Weekly.
The day's endnotes help you catch up on all the entertainment and celebrity news that you may have missed.
Alessia Cara Alex Hassell Andy Cohen Endnotes Jake Paul Kelly McGillis Leona Lewis Lizzo Meghan Markle Prince Harry Tana Mongeau Tituss Burgess Top Gun Zach Braff
Robert Pattinson's The Lighthouse Drops Its First Trailer and It's Wild — WATCH
Andy Cohen Insists He Has No Apologies About Drinking During New Year's Eve Show: 'I Will Not Be Shamed For Having Fun'
Andy Cohen has one regret from drunken New Year's on CNN
Andy Cohen has recovered after contracting COVID-19 for the second time
The Week in Drag – Holiday cheer from The Vivienne and Priyanka, a new look at the queens of season 14, Rosé's drag dungeon and more
Meghan Markle used to climb into her faulty car via the trunk
The Week in Drag – Meet the queens of Queen of the Universe and Drag Race Italia, revisit Drag Race UK's fugly fashions, new music from Trixie and Alaska and more
Andy Cohen says the Lindsay Lohan Real Housewives of Dubai rumors are 'a good idea'


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Come out and celebrate with us for the 9th Annual Italian American Fishing Rodeo to benefit Children's Hospital. The rodeo will be held on Friday May 15 & Saturday 16th 2015 at Breton Sound Marina, Mandeville, LA.
Thanks to the support of our Rodeo Sponsors & Participants, we have donated over $70,000 to Children's Hospital.


PARADISE — A car failing to stop at a traffic light led to a three-vehicle accident at Wagstaff and Clark roads on Tuesday morning, according to Paradise police.
Emma Sunseri, 83, was heading southbound on Clark Road in a Pontiac Grand Am. Sunseri failed to stop at a red light on Wagstaff Road based on accounts from other drivers and witnesses, Sgt. Craig Gallagher said.
Entering the intersection, Sunseri"s vehicle struck a Chevrolet Cavalier driven westbound on Wagstaff by 84-year-old James Bruffett. The Pontiac struck the right rear passenger door behind Bruffett"s wife, Evelyn.
Sunseri"s car continued through the intersection and struck an eastbound Toyota Tacoma driven by 28-year-old Erica Culver.
Evelyn Bruffett was initially taken to Feather River Hospital. As a precaution, she was later transported by helicopter to Enloe Medical Center in Chico. Sunseri was taken to Feather River Hospital for a minor abrasion.
A forum for the candidates for Chico City Council is planned by the Chico Chamber of Commerce.
The forum is 7 a.m.Friday at the Community Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave. The cost is $15 for chamber members and $20 for nonmembers.
All candidates for the council will be allowed to make a statement, and will accept questions from the audience.
Reservations can be made by calling the chamber at 891-5556.
ORLAND — The City Council approved a two-year contract that will pay City Manager Joe Riker $90,000 a year.
The contract is effective July 1 and expires June 30, 2008.
Last year he was awarded an increase that brought his salary to $77,000.
The council approved the contract Monday night with a vote of 4-0. Member Reggie Olney was absent due to illness.
CAPAY — The Capay Rancho Women"s Club will take a Lake Tahoe tour Oct. 3-4, and women are welcome to join in.
Those who go will have one-night accommodations at the Horizon Hotel Casino, coffee and doughnuts on their first morning, bottled water throughout the tour and a complementary full American breakfast.
Tour cost will cover deluxe motor coach transportation, luggage handling and drivers gratuity. The cost is $208 per person for double occupancy and $40 for a single supplement.
Some highlights will include guided tours of the historic Thunderbird Lodge at Incline Village and the Apple Hill area, a dinner cruise on the M.S. Dixie and a hosted lunch at the High Hill Ranch.
There will be no refunds unless a seat is resold. Payment is required by Monday.
For information, call Pat Ragan 865-2615.
ORLAND — The Orland Buttes campground and boat launch at Black Butte Lake will close for the season Sept. 11. The facility on the Glenn County side of the lake will re-open next April.
The Buckhorn Recreation Area will stay open over the winter.
Boaters can launch at the Buckhorn or Eagle Pass launch ramps. The day use fee is $4 per vehicle at both areas. The fees will be waived Sept. 30 for National Public Lands Day.
Additional information can be obtained at the Black Butte Lake Park Office and by calling 865-4781.


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How I Met Your Father Season 2 Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer & More
Steven Winter
On March 15, 2022, How I met your Father, the first season filled with comedy and drama, came to a close. It is a sequel to one of the most famous comedy series of all time, "How I met your mother."
As you watch this series and the show, you will see a lot of fun and drama in it, giving you the same nostalgic feeling you had when you watched HIMYM in the 1990s.
In a press release on February 23, 2022, the streaming officials of "How I met your Father" announced that Season 2 would be available shortly. Thus we have mentioned all the details, including the How I Met Your Father season 2 release date.
How I Met Your Father Season 2 Release Date
Although the dates have not yet been announced, we are hopeful to hear from the officials soon. In January of 2022, the streaming service Hulu released season one of How I met your Father.
The dates of the TV series will likely remain the same throughout season two, so we expect the season two dates to be the same as the season one dates. How I Met Your Father is one of the most anticipated series.
How I Met Your Father Season 2 Cast
It would seem that the cast of season two is pretty much the same as season one, except for one character we are more likely to be excited about, namely, the Father's character, who has yet to be introduced.
According to what we know at the moment about the Season two cast, we have the following to share:
Hilary Duff as Sophie.
Kim Cattrall as Future Sophie (2050).
Christopher Lowell as Jesse.
Francia Raisa as Valentina.
Suraj Sharma as Sid.
Tom Ainsley as Charlie.
Tien Tran as Ellen.
How I Met Your Father Season 2 Plot
Considering the twists and turns the season one storyline took, it is hard to predict what will happen in season two. As a result, I believe the storyline of How I met your Father in season two may be a little more complex than in season one.
As the story ends in season one, we are given a good idea of what season two may bring since a lot is revealed at the end of season one.
Sophie from the future narrates to her son, the future Sophie, how she met his Father and tells him the story of how she met him. As part of her first introduction to the group, Ellen introduces herself as her divorced sister, Jesse.
Sophie has been going through so much in her romantic life that she seems to be having a miserable time. Currently, she is in a relationship with a school principal by the name of Drew.
Sid and Jesse live together in the old apartment of Ted from HIMYM and have been doing so for over a decade. There is now a romantic relationship between Charlie and Valentina, and he wants to take it to a new level.
On the other hand, Valentina is less interested in Charlie's proposal of a relationship than she is in Charlie's proposal. As a result, she wishes to keep their relationship where it is and continue it the same way.
Hannah is their girlfriend of Sid, and he is trying to propose to her. It is a long-distance relationship between them, as she lives in LA, and he lives in New York City.
Sophie ends up in a bar after having a rough day when she meets Robin Scherbatsky after a tough day at work. Sophie ends up in a bar after having a rough day when she meets Robin Scherbatsky after a tough day at work.
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How I Met Your Father Season 2 Trailer
In the coming months, a trailer for season two is unlikely to be released as Hulu aired its season one finale on March 14. It was uploaded on December 16, 2021, that the season one trailer for How I met your Father was released.
In mid-December of 2022, we expect to see the trailer for season two of the show. However, we have mentioned the trailer link of the How I Met Your Father season 1 trailer.
Where To Watch How I Met Your Father Season 2?
However, it is well known that this series is available on Hulu, a free streaming service. Currently, you can watch the show's first season on Hulu, and it is quite obvious to guess that when the second season becomes available, it will also be available on Hulu.
There have been so many twists and turns in this extraordinary show that we expect it to be even more thrilling in season two. This show has been linked to the hit show "How I met your mother" by the directors, so we are confident that the fans will like this series as much as they liked it.
Bloodlands Season 2 Release Date, Cast, Plot, Trailer & More
Steven Winter is a graduate of the University of Kansas. He holds a diploma in History so, naturally, Winter likes to visit ancient ruins, trying to picture long-gone civilizations roaming around the stone streets. He has visited over half a dozen countries but considers his 2013 trip to China and India where he was able to spend some time with Buddhist monks a life changing experience.


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Lok Sabha Elections 2019 News
In Ram vs Ram, a battle of prestige in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi
Amid the prospect of the two Rams testing their electoral power in Mandi, this Lok Sabha constituency is set to become a hot seat in Himachal Pradesh.
Shimla Published on: March 26, 2019 17:15 IST
It may well be a Jai Ram versus Sukh Ram poll battle for the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh in the ensuing general elections, even though neither of them is actually in the fray.
Former Union Telecom Minister Sukh Ram and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's prestige will be at stake in Mandi seat, which is going to the polls along with three other parliamentary seats of the hill state on May 19.
The BJP has already renominated its sitting MP Ramswaroop Sharma, whose candidature was openly supported by Thakur despite Sukh Ram's grandson Aashray Sharma vying for the BJP ticket from the seat.
With Sukh Ram joining the Congress along with his grandson on Monday, the Congress will most probably give the ticket to Aashray Sharma, a senior Congress leader told PTI.
Mandi being the chief minister's home district, ensuring Ramswaroop Sharma's victory will be a matter of personal prestige for Thakur.
On the other hand, Sukh Ram too will leave no stone unturned to get his grandson win this seat. Ninty-one-year-old Sukh Ram, the former Union telecom minister in PV Narasimha Rao-led Congress government, has represented Mandi thrice in the Lok Sabha -- in 1984, 1991 and 1996.
Sukh Ram's grandson Aashray has already been electioneering in Mandi for weeks, even before joining the Congress.
"I have already campaigned in 15 out of 17 assembly segments except Seraj and Jogindernagar falling under Mandi parliamentary constituency," Sharma, 33, told PTI.
Interestingly, Sukh Ram's son and Aashray's father Anil Sharma is currently the power minister in Jai Ram Thakur-led BJP government in the state.
Sukh Ram joining the Congress along with his grandson has left his son Anil Sharma's political career in quandary.
State BJP president Satpal Singh Satti told PTI, "It is up to Anil Sharma to decide whether to remain as minister or quit."
Anil Sharma has been elected as MLA for four times so far and was also a minister during the Virbhadra Singh-led Congress government in the state from 1993 to 1996 and from 2013 to 2017.
Sitting BJP MP Ramswaroop Sharma had won the seat by a margin of nearly 40,000 votes in 2014. He had secured 3,62,824 votes in 2014, defeating Congress candidate and Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha Singh, who had got 3,22,968 votes.
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When using russian localization, main menu in buddy list window is too long. This patch allows menu bar to shorten automatically when window is resized, by moving some of menu items to submenu. See also tickets #7574, #8859.
pidgin-2.6.3-menubar.patch (4.8 KB) - added by Vadim_Druzhin 10 years ago.
buddy-wrap.png (66.6 KB) - added by Vadim_Druzhin 10 years ago.
Etan, I seem to remember us rejecting this idea on numerous occasions, but I'd like your input.
We've rejected this in the past on the principal that it is something that GTK+ should really be handling for us and not something we should be doing ourselves.
That being said, I'm less opposed to this now than I was previously.
As written the patch looks fairly good (though there are some stylistic things that would want touching up, including moving menu_extra to the private struct). I can't comment on the GTK+ size calculation bits directly as I'm not familiar with the sizing/allocation mechanism involved at the moment but the rest of it looks pretty good.
We would need to make sure it works correctly when menu-tray icons are present but it looks like it has code to handle that case.
I do wonder if it might make more sense to look into writing our own version of the menu widget instead of hacking this in this way.


holiday house cape town - De Waterkant, Ultiem genieten in Kaapstad!
Since the 1800s De Waterkant Village has housed many characters, from religious to historical to political to colourful. Most of their names and tales have been told and forgotten, but some left their marks in bricks, mortar, urban legends and neighbourhood stories and memories. In 1997 the Cape Town City Council declared De Waterkant Village a national preservation area.
De Waterkant Village is one of Cape Town's true original gems with its unique architectural style, its laid back atmosphere, its cosmopolitan residents, its close proximity to the city centre, table mountain, waterfront and all major roads and highways and its fabulous lifestyle that it offers. Few have been disappointed, most have been impressed and many have returned.
Sandy B is the private beach club of The Bay Hotel. Overlooking the popular Camps Bay Beach, it provides an incomparable vantage point from which to enjoy the magnificent sunset. It is a stylishly relaxed venue complimented by the pure aesthetics of the décor. It's the ideal location for Cape Town's sun kissed socialites and bronzed beauties to lounge on the private deck with, revel in the sunshine, cool off with a refreshing dip and indulge in a glass of chilled champagne.
Please enquire at De Waterkant Village reception for details.
With its piazza atmosphere and distinctive charm, the Cape Quarter is pure shopping pleasure. Home décor, art and artefacts, fashion, beauty, health, restaurants, bars and lifestyle related stores are all delivered in traditional Cape architecture. Situated in the heart of vibey De Waterkant, the ambience of this al fresco environment makes shopping a breeze and dining a pleasure.
Op 2 minuten loopafstand van de woning bevind zich capequaters shoppingmall.
De woning is centraal gelegen in hardje Kaapstad en op loopafstand van alle uitgaans- en bezienwaardigheden.


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Withdrawing justices
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14:06 Updated with a correction.
The three men accused of homicide in the case of the assassination to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia instructed their legal aid to ask the Magistrate presiding over the compilation of the evidence against them to recuse herself. She agreed.
Twenty years ago Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech was in the same class in a little school with one of Daphne Caruana Galizia's sisters. (Correction: I am now informed they were actually in class together 34 years ago). They had been out of touch for a long time. But they have recently exchanged condolences after bereavements they suffered.
Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech decided to accept the request and recuse herself from hearing the evidence compiled against il-Fulu, il-Koħħu and iċ-Ċiniż, for, as the maxim goes, justice must be seen to be done.
If that maxim is going to mean anything it must be applied to the suspects of the most heinous crimes even when the suspicion is very clearly justified. The presumption of their innocence and their right to a fair hearing are sacrosanct.
Also their right to proper defense which has to be given them because no lawyer is apparently willing to take up their brief.
Now it seems it's going to prove difficult to have a Magistrate hearing the evidence against them. We'll have to see how this first hurdle is overcome.
But isn't it painfully ironic how having been a childhood school-mate with the sister of a murder victim is seen as justifying the recusal of a Magistrate but being married to a political functionary working under the direct discipline of the alleged perpetrators is not?
I refer of course to the decision by Judge Antonio Mizzi to ignore requests to recuse himself from deciding on the appeals filed by Joseph Muscat and his Panama gang from the order of a lower court to investigate him of crimes revealed by the Panama Papers.
Is it somehow easier to be persuaded by a band of criminals who have for years lived a life of ease funded by contract murders or their attempt than it is to be persuaded by a former leader of the opposition with little to no political authority let alone access to the vengeful resources of organised crime?
If it is, we are experiencing the institutional embodiment of a Mafia state, where the wheels of justice and law enforcement appear to turn but do so under the conditioning of real and perceived hidden power.
Medals galore!
Party funding and incest


During your time in China, you can expect to experience some of their many festivals, here is a short list outlining the four most important! From their history to their traditions, this will give you a brief understanding of the basics.
The spring festival aka the Chinese New Year celebrates the beginning of a ne w year. Vibrant, glowing oranges take precedence and stand centre stage alongside striking traditional dress wear that draws the eye of all those around. Rich pinks feature as a homage to blooming flowers, but the major colour here is a brilliant bright red; with banners, lanterns and various items of clothing being made from it. Adorned with gold, these clothes are wide-spread around China and almost every parade/celebration will feature mass crowds wearing the colours. An array of stalls on bustling streets sell almost everything imaginable: from cute, colourful trinkets to delectable food, there is something for everyone. A large part of this celebration is to give children red envelopes containing well wishes or money; expect to have to participate in this!
A 3-day public holiday, Qingming is a period used to remember and pay respects to the dead. People walk to cemeteries and sweep tombs and give offerings to the dead such as food, flowers and paper money. In China, people show their love for families differently to Western cultures; they show a type of love called Xiao whichmeans 'love with responsibilities' and is a respected virtue that includes children being good to their parents – even after their death. It is the child's responsibility to provide them with a peaceful place to rest; quiet cemeteries and secluded gravestones are two popular places. This is extremely valued in China – hence the 3-day holiday – and though it is performed differently in modern times to ancient times, there is still high emphasis placed upon paying one's respects.
Though this celebration is a fun and exciting period, it has a tragic history that juxtaposes its modern- day practises. Famous poet Qu Yuan was so devoted to his province that when he opposed an alliance between two states he was cast out and, in despair, committed suicide by drowning himself. Now, decorative dragon boats are rowed along the river and competitive dragonboat races are held. Intricately, painstakingly designed using bright colours such as green, blue, red and yellow, these dragon boats have a head and tail and can range up to 12.4 metres long. Large parades and performances line the streets, with people wearing red and yellow outfits, stilts, and Chinese dragon costumes. Everyone gets involved with the celebrations, dancing, playing drums and participating in the initial performances.
The mid-autumn festival is a time for family and friends, and all come together to look at the moon and commemorate the end of the season. Moon worship is included, whereby people pray to the moon asking for a bountiful harvest and good luck, but with modernisation, this practise is rarely followed today. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month when the full moon is bright in the sky. A remaining tradition is that everyone eats a dessert named mooncakes while sitting as a family. Hundreds of mellow glowing lanterns are set off into the night sky, and people stand watching the spectacular display under the moon as the lanterns float into the darkness. The mid-autumn festival is one for family and togetherness, with everyone gathering and having a fun time as a collective.
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Sianna: If you don't clean up the house.
Sianna: If you clean up the house.
Sianna: Like me. Like Selah.
Sianna: I don't know. 5?
Sianna: Cook vegetables. Maybe cookies!
Schäfer: No idea. Change nappies. Take care of Selah. Take care of Senna. Nurse.
Schäfer: I don't know… I invented Frog Wars. You invented Cake Muffins.
Schäfer: Cooking! You are a cook!
Sianna: When Selah pulled the bike cause that's not a toy.
Sianna: She puts the books in the bookshelf.
Schäfer: Cause she's my Mommy.
Schäfer: Well… let me think for a minute. OK? Cinderella.
Schäfer: We're in the same family. We have the same skin. Today we are both wearing this color shirt and pants (grey) And we both love each other. And we both hug and kiss each other.
Schäfer: She has brown eyes. I have blue eyes. Her favorite color is orange. My favorite color is green.
Schäfer: She gives us kisses and hugs.
Schäfer: To America! To Disneyland!


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Why we need social sciences and the humanities to live with Covid-19
Sarah Czerny
Around the world, many countries that have already undergone lockdowns or other strict containment measures for some time, are now embarking, or about to embark, in gradual reopenings. One of the main concerns in people's minds is how to get ourselves out of the quarantine we have found ourselves in. Even where the numbers are encouraging and the curves are starting to move in the direction we desire, the fear of a second wave of infections is palpable. Most of us are aware of the delicate balance between the need for easing the restrictions on human movement, and that of protecting the gains made in slowing down the spread of Covid-19.
The question of the day is: how are we going to learn to live with Covid-19? It seems the virus is here to stay and, at least until a vaccine is found, we are going to have to learn to get along with our unruly guest as best we can.
Economic forecasts warn that the global economy is heading into a deep recession, and hint that the deaths and suffering this could cause might match or surpass those caused by Covid-19. What is becoming apparent is that our quarantine comes at a heavy price, and there is now a major dialectical tension between two imperatives: keeping the virus "under control" and trying to "save" our economies.
Anthropologists, geographers and other qualitative social scientists and humanities scholars have done important work that can shed some light on the current dilemmas and pressing need for reasoned and effective action.
Trojan pigs and Trojan viruses
The dynamic tension between keeping invisibles such as bacteria and viruses at bay while safeguarding economic interests, has already been explored at length by anthropologist Guntra Aistara and geographer Elizabeth Dunn in the field of food safety standards.
Aistara and Dunn have studied European Union food safety laws and their effects on farming in post-socialist countries such as Latvia and Poland. Their works show that these laws are often used not merely to enforce necessary food standards, but also to promote big business at the expense of small scale farmers.
In a 2003 academic article, Elizabeth Dunn focused on the effect of European Union Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (EU SPS) on small scale farmers in Poland. She argues that, even though the EU SPS are presented as based on "scientifically factual rules" drawn from the international food standards of the Codex Alimentarius, they have the effect of "profoundly changing local agricultural infrastructures".
Dunn's work shows that, in the Polish context, these rules have been used to close many small pig farms, and opened the national market to multinational corporations such as Smithfield Foods. These regulations have helped to create an "uneven playing field" for farmers in Poland, all under the pretext of keeping the public safe from food contamination.
To capture the essence of this process, Dunn uses the metaphor of "Trojan pig", paraphrasing the Trojan horse trope: regulations are here introduced with undeclared agendas and consequences "sneaking in" along the way.
Guntra Aistara has made similar arguments in her account of Latvian small scale food producers, whose work often became illegal after the introduction of EU SPS regulations. Aistara's research shows that here too food hygiene standards are intimately related to free trade policies, and EU SPS laws have enabled the entry of global capital into new markets, squeezing out small scale producers. Small scale farmers cannot pay for the infrastructure needed to comply with these new food safety standards.
Both scholars highlight the paradox that the implementation of safety standards initially intended to diminish the risk of contamination, may actually increase that risk. Small scale producers move into unregulated grey markets, contributing to the emergence of what Dunn calls in another study "'zones of wildness' where contamination is rampant". The regulations end up taming the unruly invisibles – such as bacteria that can contaminate food – only on paper.
Will we see similar "side effects" today as Covid-19 infection control measures are implemented to ensure a safe reopening of the economy? Will Covid-19 be used as a "Trojan virus" to pursue undeclared agendas that have little to do with the need to contain the infection?
All across the world, small businesses, often family-run enterprises, play a major role in providing incomes and jobs for a large number of people. Will these businesses be marginalised if they are not put in a condition to reopen due to costly safety measures? Will the state help them bear this cost, or favour big business which has more resources and benefits from economies of scale when implementing significant changes to economic activities?
Funding social sciences and the humanities
Another major concern as the negative economic effects deepen, is that calls to "save the economy" might quickly turn into plans to make savings at the expense of workers and citizens, that is more cuts and austerity further slashing public budgets when people are in most need of state support.
As an anthropologist, I am particularly concerned about how such measures might impact funding for the social sciences and the humanities. We are already seeing news of universities retrenching staff and gearing up for budget cuts. Here too, there is a danger that pre-pandemic trends in a certain direction might be reinforced. The value of social sciences and humanities has been increasingly questioned by neoliberal approaches that privilege "hard sciences" such as STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Will cuts to higher education budgets be used as an alibi to redistribute more funding to STEM disciplines, at the expense of social sciences and humanities?
The answer to that will probably vary in different national contexts, but much will also depend from the perception of the usefulness of social sciences and humanities in the current effort to fight Covid-19. We do not design ventilators, we do not develop vaccines, we think about social life.
Yet it is precisely this interest in social life that enables us to make a crucial contribution to the pressing collective need to learn to live with Covid-19. As I mentioned in an earlier article in this blog, if we start from the assumption that our relationship with Covid-19 is not something merely biological, but has important social dimensions, then social scientists and humanities scholars have much to say about it. In the same piece, I showed how bacteria and viruses are persons too, albeit not human ones, which means they have in a metaphorical sense agency – they "do" things to us and to the world around us.
The need for interdisciplinary research
The opposition between social and hard sciences is in fact a bit of a fiction, and not a useful one. In reality, the biological aspects of life are entangled at all stages with the social ones – to the point that it is often hard to draw the boundaries between the two. This means that interdisciplinary work where social and natural scientists and humanities scholars collaborate to study common challenges, is essential. The burden also falls on us in the social sciences and humanities to make a strong argument in this direction, and show the general public and institutional funders why our insight is so badly needed.
The existence of a social life so to speak of bacteria and viruses is something well established in our fields. But we are increasingly seeing an acknowledgement of the usefulness of the social metaphor among natural and medical scientists as well.
In a 2009 TED talk entitled "How bacteria speak", microbiologist Bonnie Bassler pushes the metaphor to describe how bacteria "talk" to each other, how they "hold votes" on whether it is time to attack their host together. She also draws from the metaphor of multilingualism to show that bacteria are able to "speak" to other species using some kind of bacterial "Esperanto". In another co-authored article, Bassler describes the communal living of bacteria and discusses issues of "fratricide".
Other examples include the work of biological physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob, who coined the term "bacteria art" to refer to the beautiful fractal patterns that bacteria make in their organisation of social space. A collaborative study by scholars in biology, genetics and zoology proposes the establishment of a new field, sociovirology, where virus-to-virus interactions are studied through the framework of social evolution theory.
The problems these works discuss appear very familiar. Our expertise in all things social is not something that natural scientists can do without. Although we might not be able to engage in direct conversations with our colleagues in the natural and medical sciences about the specific biological features of Covid-19, or the pernicious effects it has on the human body, what we can do is influence their inquiries by making them think with our analytical tool box, which comprises a wide range of well articulated and empirically tested conceptualisations of social life. This is what we have been working on for centuries.
The hard sciences need our theoretical knowledge if we are to find safe ways to co-habit with invisibles such as Covid-19. We better not forget that these non-human agents were in this world way before us, and they are not going to go away any time soon.
Sarah Czerny is an Assistant Professor in social anthropology, and works at the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She has a long term interest in human/non-human relations, particularly human relations with invisible critters, and has just finished the manuscript "Milky Ways: An Exploration into the (Non)Humanisation of Milk".
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Corona Times' editorial stance, or the position of any institution or association.
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Ohio doctors keep collection of strange items swallowed by kids
Button cell batteries feared most due to damage they can do
Updated: 9:42 AM EDT Aug 12, 2016
Dr. Charles Elmaraghy collects his surgical success stories.He and his colleagues in the ear, nose and throat division of Nationwide Children's Hospital keep a jar filled with all the tiny, colorful items they've rescued from deep inside kids' ears, noses and mouths.From just the past couple of months, the jar contains dozens of beads, coins, pebbles and jewels."Children will stick anything in any orifice," said Elmaraghy, chief of pediatric otolaryngology at the hospital.His "foreign bodies" jar - which also holds a 2-inch long, decaying stick - is proof. The stick was removed from a 6-year-old's nose, said Linda Payne, a nurse and the clinical lead for Children's ear, nose and throat division.The boy was sledding down a hill, Payne said, and the next thing he knew, the stick was wedged in his nose. Sideways."That might be our strangest, most unusual nasal foreign-body case," Payne said.After years of seeing patients who have managed to lodge just about everything imaginable in hard-to-reach places, Elmaraghy has settled on a few favorite stories.A few years ago, one girl swallowed her mom's 1-carat diamond earring. It went down her windpipe and got stuck in one of her lungs. Elmaraghy remembers the mother firing off frantic questions about the condition of the jewel - but none about her daughter.Another time, a girl stuck a tiny high-heeled shoe from a Polly Pocket play set up her nose. To remove it, Elmaraghy used an instrument that fit into the sole of the tiny shoe like an actual foot might have."You have to get pretty creative when you remove them," he said.Payne's favorite case involved an older patient, maybe 7 or 8 years old, who was trying to hear the ocean through a small, eraser-size seashell. The boy couldn't explain to nurses how the shell wound up inches-deep in his ear.Most culprits are 2 to 4 years old, Elmaraghy said.Some weeks, he'll see as many as seven patients who need anesthesia and endoscopic surgery to remove deeply stuck foreign objects.Payne said that each day in the clinic, she handles a couple of less-severe cases, usually involving noses and ears. Those rarely require sedation. Instead, the nurses use their "arsenal of instruments," as Elmaraghy put it, to remove the object. It usually takes only a few seconds.The reason kids stick strange objects into their body, they said, is because they're curious."They discover that hole in their nose and they don't know really where it goes or what it does," Elmaraghy said."They don't always understand ... that it may go in, but probably won't come out," Payne said.It's one of their first exposures to cause and effect, Elmaraghy said. "What happens if I shove this rock in my nose?"What happens is they go to the doctor to get it taken out, which, Elmaraghy said, often teaches them a lesson."But we have had some repeat offenders."In the right hands, the removal procedure is safe and almost always ends well, he said. The kids come in, doctors swiftly solve the problem and the families go on their way."Except with batteries," he said. "Batteries are the ones we dread."Button batteries - the small, round lithium ones found in watches, remote controls and musical greeting cards - can do irreversible damage within an hour, he said.Battery ingestion has become so common that the national Button Battery Task Force was created to advocate for clearer warning labels and better awareness about these lethal household items.The most preventable cases that come through the hospital are food-related, Elmaraghy said. If your toddler doesn't have the molars to chew up a hot dog, don't feed them a hot dog.The rest, he said, is just kids being kids.
COLUMBUS (AP) —
Dr. Charles Elmaraghy collects his surgical success stories.
He and his colleagues in the ear, nose and throat division of Nationwide Children's Hospital keep a jar filled with all the tiny, colorful items they've rescued from deep inside kids' ears, noses and mouths.
From just the past couple of months, the jar contains dozens of beads, coins, pebbles and jewels.
"Children will stick anything in any orifice," said Elmaraghy, chief of pediatric otolaryngology at the hospital.
His "foreign bodies" jar - which also holds a 2-inch long, decaying stick - is proof. The stick was removed from a 6-year-old's nose, said Linda Payne, a nurse and the clinical lead for Children's ear, nose and throat division.
The boy was sledding down a hill, Payne said, and the next thing he knew, the stick was wedged in his nose. Sideways.
"That might be our strangest, most unusual nasal foreign-body case," Payne said.
After years of seeing patients who have managed to lodge just about everything imaginable in hard-to-reach places, Elmaraghy has settled on a few favorite stories.
A few years ago, one girl swallowed her mom's 1-carat diamond earring. It went down her windpipe and got stuck in one of her lungs. Elmaraghy remembers the mother firing off frantic questions about the condition of the jewel - but none about her daughter.
Another time, a girl stuck a tiny high-heeled shoe from a Polly Pocket play set up her nose. To remove it, Elmaraghy used an instrument that fit into the sole of the tiny shoe like an actual foot might have.
"You have to get pretty creative when you remove them," he said.
Payne's favorite case involved an older patient, maybe 7 or 8 years old, who was trying to hear the ocean through a small, eraser-size seashell. The boy couldn't explain to nurses how the shell wound up inches-deep in his ear.
Most culprits are 2 to 4 years old, Elmaraghy said.
Some weeks, he'll see as many as seven patients who need anesthesia and endoscopic surgery to remove deeply stuck foreign objects.
Payne said that each day in the clinic, she handles a couple of less-severe cases, usually involving noses and ears. Those rarely require sedation. Instead, the nurses use their "arsenal of instruments," as Elmaraghy put it, to remove the object. It usually takes only a few seconds.
The reason kids stick strange objects into their body, they said, is because they're curious.
"They discover that hole in their nose and they don't know really where it goes or what it does," Elmaraghy said.
"They don't always understand ... that it may go in, but probably won't come out," Payne said.
It's one of their first exposures to cause and effect, Elmaraghy said. "What happens if I shove this rock in my nose?"
What happens is they go to the doctor to get it taken out, which, Elmaraghy said, often teaches them a lesson.
"But we have had some repeat offenders."
In the right hands, the removal procedure is safe and almost always ends well, he said. The kids come in, doctors swiftly solve the problem and the families go on their way.
"Except with batteries," he said. "Batteries are the ones we dread."
Button batteries - the small, round lithium ones found in watches, remote controls and musical greeting cards - can do irreversible damage within an hour, he said.
Battery ingestion has become so common that the national Button Battery Task Force was created to advocate for clearer warning labels and better awareness about these lethal household items.
The most preventable cases that come through the hospital are food-related, Elmaraghy said. If your toddler doesn't have the molars to chew up a hot dog, don't feed them a hot dog.
The rest, he said, is just kids being kids.


Hawaiian Telcom has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy (see this and this), FairPoint Communication's CFO is under siege as the company looks for a new CEO and Qwest Communications is cutting another 1,200 jobs as it tells investors not to worry about massive debt repayment deadlines.
Times are tough for a lot of people, of course.
However, phone companies have a special problem: Basic phone service is not profitable. Regulators have matched prices with costs; and they have defined costs narrowly, so as to shift some costs, for accounting purposes, to services which are profitable.
As a result, basic phone service has to be subsidized by overpriced calling features such as voice mail, Caller ID, etc.; Internet access; video or wireless offerings.
Customers initially had complained about poor service. They have steadily abandoned their traditional land lines for other alternatives, like wireless phones and digital phone service offered by the cable company, a trend that is being experienced nationwide.
Hawaiian Telcom, which employs about 1,400 workers, served about 524,000 residential and business phone lines at the end of September, down about 21 percent from the 660,000 lines when Carlyle purchased the company in 2005.
Hawaiian Telcom, FairPoint and Qwest have all been trying to make it as land-line companies while expanding their Internet access and video offerings as fast as they can with borrowed money.
AT&T and Verizon, on the other hand, benefit from considerable wireless revenues which make those companies profitable — to a point — despite declining land-line revenues.
If we want phone companies to invest in broadband, we have to understand that current regulation will require them to use their broadband profits to subsidize basic phone service. That may give their investors and their lenders pause. The lenders and investors could, for example, instead fund cable network upgrades with no diversion of profits.
Or if we want to decrease wireless phone prices — such as eliminating Early Termination Fees — we have to understand that wireless subsidizes basic land-line service.
We could just let the taxpayers subsidize broadband so it can subsidize basic phone service. Or we could free the phone companies to configure and price their basic phone service more efficiently, let them build broadband networks which can compete with the cable companies or anyone else and free taxpayers to rescue someone else.


From Boulder to Brown Bag to Mooshku and more, Dublin is a developing hub of animation and every year, the Dublin Animation Film Festival celebrates the best of the format, both Irish and internationally. This October sees the festival return for its 8th edition, and submissions for animators are open now.
This May, the Cinemagic Film and Television Festival for Young People returns to Dublin from its annual film festival. From May 10th-20th, a bursting schedule featuring 100 events including world cinema screenings, film and television masterclasses, school workshops, Q&As and young critics panels will set out to inspire and motivate young film fans.
Established in 1999 by Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey and Paul Young, Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon has released exactly 3 feature length films. All 3 have received Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature Film.
If you get the chance to see The Breadwinner, a poignant and uplifting exploration of a young girl's life growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan, you're likely to understand why.
The full programme for ADIFF 2018 has officially launched. With over 100 feature films being screened, international stars visiting, seven world premieres and plenty of Irish ones, Dublin's biggest film festival is looking better than ever. Setting the stage for the year to come in the fair city of film, the Audi Dublin International Film Festival is one of the most exciting times of the year for Irish film fans and this year's programme promises the chance to see some of this year's most eagerly anticipated movies.


BRX communication module - BRX communication module, 4 ports, buffered, (4) RS-232/RS-485 (3-pin terminal) port(s). For use with all BRX PLCs. (4) BX-RTB03S terminal blocks included.
BRX high-speed pulse combo module - BRX high-speed pulse combo module, 250 kHz maximum switching frequency, Input: 8-point, 9-30 VDC, sinking/sourcing, Output: 8-point, 5-36 VDC, sinking, 0.5A/point.
BRX high-speed pulse combo module - BRX high-speed pulse combo module, 250 kHz maximum switching frequency, Input: 8-point, 9-30 VDC, sinking/sourcing, Output: 8-point, 5-36 VDC, sourcing, 0.5A/point.


Banfield Pet Hospital and the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) have published the second annual Veterinary Emerging Topics (VET) Report. This year's report focuses on feline antimicrobial usage and the mounting public health issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), expanding the 2017 conversation that discussed canine patients.
A lack of awareness around existing guidelines for antimicrobial usage in veterinary medicine has contributed to discordance between usage patterns and ideal treatments, according to the report. The 2018 publication highlights these guidelines and places a special focus on prescription patterns in common feline infections, considering the unique challenges cat owners face treating their feline companions, such as hiding behavior and defense mechanisms, the report stated.
For more information or to download the full report, visit vetfolio.com/vetreport.


Artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner's (1933–2008) mobility was severely limited for the last five years of his life, when he rarely left the San Francisco home he shared with his wife, Jean. To aid in his physical navigation of its spaces, he worked with assistants to install a succession of solid brass handles in each and every room—surrounding the stove, down the boat-like stairwell, inside the recesses of the bedroom closet. At last count, the handles, a labyrinth of critical support, numbered 163. Still in situ after his death in 2008, the handles are arguably Conner's last great work—at once physical and metaphysical, fragmentary and elusive, elegant and anonymous. Together, they draft the ghost architecture of Conner's final years, transforming the pedestrian into something altogether different.


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How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.
Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility, (for a cat) and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most.
As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.


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White Poppy
Taking back the red poppy
On November 11th, after more research and more reflection, I stood watching the Remembrance day celebrations in Montreal. I was wearing a White Poppy, after the first blast of the cannon; I threw it in the garbage.
The Red Poppy is not about war mongering. The Red Poppy is not about militarism. The Red Poppy is about remembering the Sacred Dead, those who heard the call, felt the fight was just and put their lives on the line for a greater good.
But, originally, when the Red Poppy was given out in 1921, it was about more than that. It was about camaraderie, it was about caring for the less fortunate domestically and it was about trying to help the most affected by the pillages and destruction of war around the world.
Somehow, over almost a century these core messages were perverted. It is time we take them back.
In the early of fall of 1921, The Great War Veteran's Association wanted to run a cross country campaign. Returned soldiers were worried, the government was apathetic and stingy, returned soldiers were starving. And so the Poppy Day campaign was started.
It was based on and in collaboration with efforts in France. Orphans and widows in the most ravaged parts of France had begun producing beautiful silk poppies in 1920 to cover their most basic needs, many were sold in the United States and around the world. Times were desperate.
The G.W.V.A was in touch with the needs of the poor and helpless. It wasn't an organization of fancy officers and big shot generals.
It was started by non-commissioned members, mostly privates and corporals. Members addressed each other as comrade, and used their organizational strength to fight for Canadians.
Unlike the apathetic Officer's Legion of today they were very political, although unfortunately sometimes reflecting the racial biases of the day. They had grand conventions and called for national unemployment insurance, jobs for the jobless and more help for the poor.
A lot of big shots didn't like that. They were called Bolsheviks, fanatics and were suppressed mercilessly. But they kept on. Winter was coming and many knew their comrades wouldn't make to the Spring. The Red Poppy, a desperate Hail Mary, just had to work.
The G.W.V.A Poppy Day campaign had three official objectives repeated across the country. The first was to inaugurate the wearing of the Red Poppy as a sign to cherish the memory of the Sacred Dead. The big shots who ended up taking over the campaign kept this one alive.
The second, explicitly, was to provide funds to relieve the very real distresses of returned soldiers, who very well couldn't survive the winter. If you suggested the third today you'd be called a heretic. The G.W.V.A wanted to raise money for the orphans of Europe, the victims of the war. It is a national shame the second and third have been forgotten. We need to take back our traditions.
And people responded. That year, over 1 million poppies were sold. Tens of thousands of dollars were raised. Jewish, Orange Protestant and Catholic organizations set aside their differences and worked together.
In Ottawa, the tradition of laying poppy covered wreaths began on Parliament Hill. In Calgary, returned soldiers of all ranks had a ball at the beautiful Palliser Hotel, now reserved exclusively for the rich.
The following Sunday, the 10th Battalion showed off their brand new Highlander Kilts. In Toronto, thousands crowded the war monument, despite the slush and terrible weather, to show their respect.
Our great Canadian traditions have been stolen from us. It is high time we took them back.
The Red Poppy is about Remembrance, but it was about more than Remembrance. The G.W.V.A was created, in their own words, by bands of "weary-eyed, hopeless men who struggled to regain a niche in the country which apparently had no further use for them because their value as fighting units belonged to the past."
Veterans today are facing austerity. Front line services are being cut. The government is getting stingy. Not much has changed.
This isn't just about veterans, it is about all Canadians and it is about the world. We need to take back our traditions from those who use them against us. Like the Great War Veterans' Association, together as comrades, we can make that happen.
By Jimmy Gutman Nov 14, 2013 Nov 14, 2013


Using this code you can change the font and font color in a JTextArea.
There are several font settings in the Font class including PLAIN, BOLD, ITALIC and 13 different colors in the Color class (listed below).
JPanel and JText area keep resizing even though I'm telling it not to.
Is it possible to have some text as bold and some other text normal in JTextArea??
Also is it possible to change the color of some text and not of others???
How to Change JTextArea font, font size and color in Java?
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Yes it is possible to have some text in JTextArea Bold and some normal.
You can use HTML formatting to do this.
As far as im aware, Swing components such as JLabel & JTextArea support HTML.
It will change the text in JLabel,JButton etc but not in JTextArea.
I have tried this and is also clear from the example given there.
But I was reading on and I found this can be easily done in JEditorPane and JTextPane.
Is it the only way by which it can be done??
If it is possible to change font in JTextArea plz post a very short code snippet to do it!!
Ah OK I didn't realise you couldn't do it with JTextArea.
Did you notice that the Eclipse IDE - and I expect others to behave the same as well, indicated that the JTextArea's show() method is deprecated? What is the alternative to that method?


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It's the final week of the Real Food Challenge! I'm a little sad, but excited to continue experimenting and putting to use everything I've learned!
First up: the topic of meat. This is one of the topics that sent me head-first into the world of organic foods, after watching with horror and disgust (and quite frankly, anger) the movie Food, Inc. Just the sight of the labels of the big meat companies makes me want to write a million letters to my government representatives (not to mention, avoid it like the plague!) Thank goodness I have shopping options locally to buy organically raised meats. Grass-finished for me!
Next – eggs! I was so excited to discover a farm literally a couple blocks from my house that sells organic eggs. One of these days (when it gets warmer out!), I may even walk there to get my eggs!
I'm going to need some time before I take the step involving homemade broth…. I have issues with bones in meat! The thought of making a broth from chicken feet makes me want to hide under my desk and claim vegetarianism. I have an odd internal struggle with eating meat. I'm an animal lover, and really the only way I can manage to eat meat is if the meat doesn't remind me of the animal. I'm over-sensitive in this regard, but it is what it is and I am what I am. I can't eat chicken on bones, for example, and I'm certain that I will never be able to make a broth from a chicken's foot!
For this same reason, organ meats are going to be hard for me – though the idea of blending them into a bolognese sauce sounds like it might be possible. It's on my longer term list of things to do.
I don't eat seafood, so day #26 is out! Well, OK. I'm not ruling this one out completely. I've never really tried most seafood, and while I've already blown away my New Year's resolution of trying 10 new foods this year (finished that up in January!), I might…. might…. try seafood this year. I'm thinking maybe a non-fishy fish. The good news is that if I do, I will definitely be sure it is wild-caught, and with that, the most tasty and nutritious version possible!
Day #27 asked us to give back to the movement. I can't wait until spring springs here in Chicago, because I have big plans to get involved with my local farmers' market. I'm also hoping to give back by sharing what I learn via this blog and my Facebook.
This has been an exciting ride! I'm looking forward to trying some of the techniques I didn't have time to get to during the month of February.
Eat grass-fed, pasture-raised, and wild-caught.
Keep dairy raw and fresh.
I'm proud to check most of those off of my list as new habits! Thanks again to Jenny and Nourished Kitchen. This challenge has been fun and eye-opening – and I will continue to work on the lessons in the coming weeks and months.


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Q: drupal 8 querying all entitys of a type i just made I just made an entity 'car'
I have added 10 of these entities in the drupal cms.
Now i want all ID's of the entitys 'car' in my controller
This is what i tried so far that did not work:
    $query = \Drupal::entityQuery('car');
    $query->condition('status', 1);
    $ids = $query->execute();

    $entity_query = \Drupal::service('entity.query')->get('car');
    $uids = $entity_query->execute();

Both give me much more then just the 'car' entity.
they deliver other content types as well
Can someone help me how i can get all published 'car' nodes (id's)
so i can get all info for them with the load() command?
tnx

A: Problem solved:
Create an instance of the entity.
Then use that instance to build the entityForm
$entity = $this->entityTypeManager()->getStorage('car')->create(array());
$form = \Drupal::service('entity.form_builder')->getForm($entity,'default');
(I did create the entity using the drupal console and the default form you can set in the annotation section form in the entity file)

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This time last year, I saw an interesting medium-sized tree at Mishref co-op with strange flowers all over it. I think we need more flowering trees in Kuwait.
I didn't know its name, and usually at this point I would have taken a small cutting. However, there were a few boys playing there and I didn't want to encourage any plant attacks… In May last year, I described it to a man at the garden centre – olive leaves and saffron flowers was my description – and he gave me a small shrub. I was convinced it was the wrong one – but I'm so glad I trusted him.
Over the course of the year it grew to 40 cm high and this week, it flowered. If anyone knows the name, please write a comment. I will post an update if I find.
I'm not sure if the Mishref tree has flowered yet. I will check. If you're interested, it's between the supermarket and the Post Office. With Gulf Bank behind you and Starbucks on your right, it's a little further down on the right hand side. It sits prominently and has a lot of character.
Update 9 April 2009: The flowers are called Bottle Brushes – Callistemon-Citrinus to be more accurate.
my grandma used to have a tree in her garden which had flowers similar to this. i'm not sure, but i think these flowers are called bottle brushes.
I will update the post and tags.
Those are some beautiful flowers!
Gorgeous photos. Gorgeous! Isn't it like one of life's little miracles when things bloom and they turn out to be what you hoped they would be?