In today's world of Tinder and texting, do we write and save love letters anymore? Are we more likely to save a screen shot of a text exchange or a box of paper letters from a lover? How might these different ways to store a love letter make us feel? Sociologist Michelle Janning's Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age offers a new twist on the study of love letters: what people do with them and whether digital or paper format matters.
Through stories, a rich review of past research, and her own survey findings, Janning uncovers whether and how people from different groups (including gender and age) approach their love letter "curatorial practices" in an era when digitization of communication is nearly ubiquitous. She investigates the importance of space and time, showing how our connection to the material world and our attraction to nostalgia matter in actions as seemingly small and private as saving, storing, stumbling upon, or even burning a love letter. Janning provides a framework for understanding why someone may prefer digital or paper love letters, and what that preference says about a person's access and attachment to powerful cultural values such as individualization, taking time in a hectic world, longevity, privacy, and keeping cherished things in a safe place.
Ultimately, Janning contends, the cultural values that tell us how romantic love should be defined are more powerful than the format our love letters take. Her work fits within larger academic questions about the sociology of emotions, how culture works, the importance of objects in social relations, and the significance of privilege in everyday life.


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Here's songs 67-77 on the 2020 Great 88:
"Twilight Time" by The Platters (1958)
"Twilight Time" is a song with lyrics by songwriter Buck Ram (the seminal force behind The Platters, who were originally named "The Buck Ram Platters") and music by The Three Suns (Morty Nevins, Al Nevins, and Artie Dunn). The Three Suns also originally recorded the song, which hit for them in 1944 at #8. Al Nevins would later go on to become a music producer together with Don Kirshner, forming Aldon music.
2019: not on survey, Highest Ranking: first time on survey
"What In the World's Come Over You" by Jack Scott (1960)
Sonny James and Tom Jones both released notable cover versions of this song, which was written by Jack Scott. James' version reached #10 on the U.S. country chart, and #3 on the Canadian country chart.
2019: #38, Highest Ranking: #38 in 2019
"The Happy Organ" by Dave Baby Cortez (1959)
Cortez was touring with Little Anthony and the Imperials (earning $200 per week) when this hit #1 in the US. His manager pulled him off the tour so Cortez could promote HIS hit.
2019: not on survey, Highest Ranking: #12 in 2011
"Oh! Carol" by Neil Sedaka (1959)
At the time Sedaka produced the record, his second and third singles, "I Go Ape!" and "Crying My Heart Out For You" had fared poorly on the charts, and RCA Victor was ready to drop him from their label, but producer Al Nevins persuaded the RCA executives to give Sedaka one last chance. Determined to create a hit song, Sedaka purchased the three top singles of the day and listened to them repeatedly, studying their melody, chord progression, and lyrical styles; and he found that they were very similar in structure. He then used this knowledge to create the song, "Oh! Carol".
"New Orleans" by Gary US Bonds (1960)
Producer Frank Guida chose Anderson's stage name, U.S. Bonds, in hopes that it would be confused with a public service announcement advertising the sale of government bonds and thereby garner more radio airplay. This was his first hit song.
"Susie Q" by Dale Hawkins (1957)
Hawkins cut "Susie Q" at the KWKH Radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana. "Susie Q" was a late rockabilly song which captured the spirit of Louisiana and featured guitar work by James Burton, who also worked with Ricky Nelson and later with Elvis Presley, among others. There is some dispute as to whether the Hawkins' rendition of the song was a remake of a 1939 release of a song of the same title, "Susie-Q", by Sonny Boy Williamson
"Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley (1956)
This was written by Otis Blackwell, a songwriter who came up with a lot of hits for Elvis. In addition to this, he also wrote "Return to Sender," "All Shook Up," and "One Broken Heart for Sale" for Elvis. He also wrote "Fever," which was made famous by Peggy Lee, and "Great Balls Of Fire" for Jerry Lee Lewis. Blackwell died in 2002 at age 70.
"Sea Cruise" by Frankie Ford (1959)
The song was originally recorded by Huey Smith and the Clowns, but Frankie Ford's lead vocal replaced Huey Smith's while the group was on tour. Smith was furious when he heard the finished product. It was credited to Frankie Ford with Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns.
"Runaway" by Del Shannon (1961)
This is about a guy whose girl leaves him, and he is left to wonder what went wrong. A lot of Shannon's songs were about broken relationships. He once said he wrote the words to this about himself because he was forever running away from relationships.
2019: #64, Highest Ranking: #1 in 2012 and 2016
"Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (1962)
The Fireballs were a New Mexico band that had some success with instrumental tracks like "Torquay" (#39, 1959) and "Bulldog" (#24, 1960). Their recordings were all instrumental, but they used a vocalist when they played concerts in order to fill the sets. Until the summer of 1960, Chuck Tharp served as their frontman, replaced by Jimmy Gilmer, who led his own rockabilly band before joining The Fireballs. On the road, the band played "Sugar Shack," which got a great response. They urged their producer, Norman Petty, to record the song, and he did so at his studio in Clovis, New Mexico. Released in May 1963, the song took off, climbing to #1 in October.
"I Only Have Eyes for You" by The Flamingos (1959)
This song was written by Henry Warren and Al Dubin. The first recording was probably made by Ben Selvin in 1934. The Flamingos recorded it in 1959 for the musical Dames starring Joan Blondell, and it also appeared on the American Graffiti soundtrack from 1973.
2019: not on survey, Highest Ranking: #5 in 2015
Check out all the songs that made the 2020 Great 88 here. You can also see thein first round results here.
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6:00 am, Monday morning. We're waking up and pulling up the Boulder Valley School District website. There was no phone call, but it has to be a snow day, right? No? Really!?
This is a scene many of us went through yesterday morning. This never ending cycle of crushed hopes and dreams. However there may be a reason for this cycle.
First of all, the forecasts for Monday morning weren't anywhere near what actually happened. Most weather forecasts was predicted 1-2 inches.
Many students have wondered if an alternative solution to canceling school would be a delayed start of two hours, for example.
So there it is. However sad it may be, there were legitimate reasons that we could not enjoy a snow day yesterday.


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Didion on Self Respect
With Storm Quinn barreling down on many of us, I wanted to post something that not only would kill a bit of your cooped-up-in-the-house time, but also inspire you in some way. My choice? Joan Didion's essay on Self Respect. She wrote this for Vogue in 1961. If I have the story right, the issue was about to go to bed with a cover line on self respect, but no article—the other writer missed the deadline. Joan was asked to write a piece to the exact character count to fill the pages. The essay was later published in her book of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, in 1968. Few writers could be given that sort of task and go on to create timeless truths and thoughts that continue to be referenced today.
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.
I had not been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. This failure could scarcely have been more predictable or less ambiguous (I simply did not have the grades), but I was unnerved by it; I had somehow thought myself a kind of academic Raskolnikov, curiously exempt from the cause-effect relationships that hampered others. Although the situation must have had even then the approximate tragic stature of Scott Fitzgerald's failure to become president of the Princeton Triangle Club, the day that I did not make Phi Beta Kappa nevertheless marked the end of something, and innocence may well be the word for it. I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honour, and the love of a good man (preferably a cross between Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and one of the Murchisons in a proxy fight); lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vampire and found no garlands of garlic at hand.
Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The charms that work on others count for nothing in that devastatingly well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. With the desperate agility of a crooked faro dealer who spots Bat Masterson about to cut himself into the game, one shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards—the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which had involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed. The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others—who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation—which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O'Hara, is something that people with courage can do without.
To do without self-respect, on the other hand, is to be an unwilling audience of one to an interminable home movie that documents one's failings, both real and imagined, with fresh footage spliced in for each screening. There's the glass you broke in anger, there's the hurt on X's face; watch now, this next scene, the night Y came back from Houston, see how you muff this one. To live without self-respect is to lie awake some night, beyond the reach of warm milk, phenobarbital, and the sleeping hand on the coverlet, counting up the sins of commission and omission, the trusts betrayed, the promises subtly broken, the gifts irrevocably wasted through sloth or cowardice or carelessness. However long we post- pone it, we eventually lie down alone in that notoriously un- comfortable bed, the one we make ourselves. Whether or not we sleep in it depends, of course, on whether or not we respect ourselves.
To protest that some fairly improbable people, some people who could not possibly respect themselves, seem to sleep easily enough is to miss the point entirely, as surely as those people miss it who think that self-respect has necessarily to do with not having safety pins in one's underwear. There is a common superstition that "self-respect" is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation. Although the careless, suicidal Julian English in Appointment in Samarra and the careless, incurably dishonest Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby seem equally improbable candidates for self-respect, Jordan Baker had it, Julian English did not. With that genius for accommodation more often seen in women than in men, Jordan took her own measure, made her own peace, avoided threats to that peace: "I hate careless people," she told Nick Carraway. "It takes two to make an accident."
Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named corespondent. If they choose to forego their work—say it is screenwriting—in favor of sitting around the Algonquin bar, they do not then wonder bitterly why the Hacketts, and not they, did Anne Frank.
In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues. The measure of its slipping prestige is that one tends to think of it only in connection with homely children and with United States senators who have been defeated, preferably in the primary, for re-election. Nonetheless, character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.
Self-respect is something that our grandparents, whether or not they had it, knew all about. They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts. It seemed to the nineteenth century admirable, but not remarkable, that Chinese Gordon put on a clean white suit and held Khartoum against the Mahdi; it did not seem unjust that the way to free land in California involved death and difficulty and dirt. In a diary kept during the winter of 1846, an emigrating twelve-year-old named Narcissa Cornwall noted coolly: "Father was busy reading and did not notice that the house was being filled with strange Indians until Mother spoke about it." Even lacking any clue as to what Mother said, one can scarcely fail to be impressed by the entire incident: the father reading, the Indians filing in, the mother choosing the words that would not alarm, the child duly recording the event and noting further that those particular Indians were not, "fortunately for us," hostile. Indians were simply part of the donnée.
In one guise or another, Indians always are. Again, it is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price. People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the Indians will be hostile, that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday because you're married to me. They are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds.
That kind of self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth. It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with one's head in a Food Fair bag. There is a similar case for all the small disciplines, unimportant in themselves; imagine maintaining any kind of swoon, commiserative or carnal, in a cold shower.
But those small disciplines are valuable only insofar as they represent larger ones. To say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton is not to say that Napoleon might have been saved by a crash program in cricket; to give formal dinners in the rain forest would be pointless did not the candlelight flickering on the liana call forth deeper, stronger disciplines, values instilled long before. It is a kind of ritual, helping us to remember who and what we are. In order to remember it, one must have known it.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weak- nesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course we will play Francesca to Paolo, Brett Ashley to Jake, Helen Keller to anyone's Annie Sullivan: no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we can not but hold in contempt, we play rôles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the necessity of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.
It is the phenomenon sometimes called alienation from self. In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the spectre of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that one's sanity becomes an object of speculation among one's acquaintances. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.
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Biografia
Era figlio di Mária Mesíková e Martin Caban, che aveva studiato teologia e conosceva il latino. Nacque in un villaggio della Slovacchia centrale e al battesimo ricevette i nomi di Andreas Ambrosius.

Frequentò le scuole popolari e il ginnasio a Banská Bystrica, a Levice e a Esztergom, quindi studiò teologia, giurisprudenza e filosofia a Trnava, dal 1828 al 1834. Già durante gli studi si dedicava all'attività letteraria e scriveva poesie. Conosceva otto lingue diverse: latino, ungherese, tedesco, slovacco, russo, sloveno, francese e polacco.

Nel 1837 fu ordinato presbitero nella Cattedrale di Esztergom. Giunse a Komjatice come cappellano, il 2 maggio 1844, per sostituirvi Karol Kelzborn, che era diventato canonico di Trnava. Ondrej Caban trovò il paese in degrado, sommerso dall'alcolismo e dall'analfabetismo. Ondrej Caban già all'epoca aveva fama di "elemento antistatale e panslavista" e ottenne la parrocchia solo perché non interessava ad altri sacerdoti, che avevano rifiutato la nomina. Ondrej Cabanvi portò l'istruzione, insegnò a piantare gli alberi, a coltivare il terreno, ad allevare le api. Viera Vrabcová ricorda che Ondrej Caban ereditò una parrocchia in una situazione di sfacelo, le cui chiese erano desolate. Caban spese denari per la riparazione delle chiese, di cui si occupava da solo. Riparò la chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, la chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta e la cappella dell'ospedale. Fece costruire una scuola in paese, fornì i bambini di libri di testo e di materiale scolastico. La scuola aveva anche un giardino.

Nel 1848 fu emesso contro di lui un mandato d'arresto per il sostegno all'emancipazione nazionale degli slovacchi e fu minacciato di essere giustiziato. Riuscì a scappare, nascosto in una cassa su un prato. Fuggì in Austria, dove ricoprì la carica di cappellano militare. Dopo la rivoluzione, tornato a Komjatice, trovò la canonica distrutta. Nell'ultima fase della sua vita soffrì di malattie polmonari, nel 1860 si dimise dall'incarico di parroco. Nel suo testamento, lasciò in eredità denaro, mobili e tutti i suoi beni per il completamento delle chiese nella sua città natale di Selce, per borse di studio per studenti poveri e per le messe di suffragio.

Prima di morire, scrisse: «Già si è manifestata per me la volontà divina, alla quale nessun uomo può resistere. Una voce mi ha chiamato, improvvisamente. Dovevo emettere lo Spirito - lasciare il mondo... Che nessuno abbia paura di quella morte. Questo è il destino comune dell'uomo... Rimanete con Dio, voi tutti parrocchiani, e non cessate di raccomandarmi a Dio. Eccomi, sono in spirito il Vostro pastore fedele»

Caban morì di malattia polmonare il 2 maggio 1860 all'età di 46 anni.

Contributo sociale
Il sacerdote Marián Dragúň ricorda che Caban si rese conto che la miseria materiale è preceduta da quella spirituale. Secondo Caban, non bastava che le persone fossero istruite per svolgere in modo giusto la loro missione. Come parte del suo lavoro a Komjatice, cercò l'elevazione morale e materiale dell'uomo. Combatté l'usura, l'alcolismo, la pigrizia, il degrado morale, l'orgoglio e l'arroganza. Caban fu parte attiva delle associazioni per la sobrietà e prese parte all'incontro di fondazione delle associazioni per la sobrietà a Veselé.

A Komjatice, divenne "il protettore dei bisognosi e dei poveri", scrisse lui stesso le domande alle autorità, pagò le tasse amministrative, i bolli e le rappresentò in tribunale. Caban ha concentrato i suoi sforzi per aumentare la sicurezza materiale degli strati più ampi della popolazione e la loro istruzione. La motivazione sociale anima anche la prosa di Caban, che critica l'usura, l'alcolismo, il gioco d'azzardo e l'accumulo disonesto di proprietà, che porta alla perdita della moralità.

Nell'articolo Vôlačo o charakteristických vadách našeho ľudu a o jeho jediných proti nim prostriedkoch ("Sui difetti caratteristici del nostro popolo e sui loro unici rimedi"), descrive la psiche della povertà slovacca, la sua incoscienza, pigrizia, mancanza di rispetto per la patria. Qui, dalla realtà sociale, Caban auspica un miglioramento della situazione sociale attraverso un risveglio nazionale negli strati popolari, che porterà a una lotta consapevole per i diritti sociali e nazionali. Secondo Caban, una nazione può rivendicare i propri diritti solo se li conosce. E questo è possibile solo attraverso l'istruzione e con essa il miglioramento della condizione materiale.

Contributo pedagogico
Nell'associazione culturale Tatrín fu membro del consiglio direttivo e delle commissioni per la ricerca linguistica e per la pubblicazione dei libri di testo. Egli stesso fornì le scuole di Komjatice, di libri di testo, materiale scolastico, libri, sillabari; riparava da sé i libri di testo a pezzi, disegnava mappe, dava ai ragazzi quaderni, inchiostro, abbecedari. Riuscì a ottenere che tutti i bambini di Komjatice frequentassero le scuole. Incontrò il fondatore del primo consorzio alimentare Samuel Ormis, a cui diede denaro per fondare un'associazione per pubblicare libri scolastici a buon mercato. Sostenne l'importanza di studiare la storia della nazione. Si dedicò all'educazione popolare, fondò e organizzò centri di istruzione. Sostenne la necessità dell'istruzione universale e gratuita. Nel 1847 tradusse e pubblicò a Buda l'opera pedagogica Educator di István Majer, dove l'autore tratta esempi di insegnamento ed educazione; educazione del corpo ed educazione dello spirito. Anche la prosa di Caban (Prechádzka po slovenských počiatočných školách ("Una passeggiata nelle scuole elementari slovacche"), Raňajšia rozprávka dvoch súsedkýň ("Favola mattutina di due vicine") ebbe un intento pedagogico e registra lo stato dell'istruzione dell'epoca.

Contributo teologico
Caban era impegnato nei campi dell'evangelizzazione, della catechesi, dell'amministrazione della parrocchia. Zelò il culto dei santi Cirillo e Metodio: divenne membro della Compagnia dei santi Cirillo e Metodio di Brno e in loro onore scrisse la poesia Divný závet čili testament, Púť do Nitry a čudné tam videnie). Fondò la Compagnia del Santo Rosario come segno di devozione mariana. Fu l'unico slovacco a essere membro della Compagnia di San Giovanni Nepomuceno di Praga. Fu attivo anche nella Società di Sant'Adalberto e prese parte con Andrej Radlinský alla stesura dei suoi statuti.. Alla stessa Società Caban donò 100 fiorini.

Storiografia
Caban è autore di una storia della sua parrocchia intitolata Memorabilia Parochiae Komjáth sub Andrea Czaban ab anno Domini 1844.

Attività patriottica
Caban partecipò a importanti adunanze nazionali. Era fra i seguaci di Anton Bernolák, ma in seguito si spese per avvicinare i seguaci di Bernolák e quelli di Ľudovít Štúr. Lui stesso, come cattolico, ma anche per la sua origine nella Slovacchia centrale), accettò la codificazione della lingua slovacca operata da Štúr, sulla base dei dialetti della Slovacchia centrale, e come portavoce dell'associazione Tatrín si batté per i diritti della nazione nel parlamento di Budapest.

Questo è uno dei motivi per cui la targa commemorativa dell'incontro tra i seguaci di Bernolák e di Štúr a Čachtice (Società letteraria Tatrín, 10 agosto 1947) è elencato al primo posto insieme a Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Ľudovít Štúr, Ján Kalinčiak, Michal Miloslav Hodža e Francisci. Fece parte della commissione, che doveva determinare definitivamente l'ortografia della lingua slovacca standard, e un membro della cosiddetta seconda commissione linguistica.

Caban aveva un forte senso sociale, ma nondimeno si schierò in difesa della monarchia, soprattutto come reazione alla magiarizzazione e alla protestantizzazione. Il 10 maggio 1848 parlò a Nitra in un'assemblea popolare contro la magiarizzazione. Si oppose a Lajos Kossuth e fu etichettato come panslavista. Come afferma la monografia Komjatíc: "Poco dopo, la comunicazione del suo arresto lo attendeva nella parrocchia di Komjatice, e František Kamanhazy fu incaricato di eseguirlo, ma fu presumibilmente lui stesso, tramite Vietoris, il parroco di Sobotište, ad informare Caban dell'imminente pericolo, consigliandogli di allontanarsi dalla canonica di Komjatice.. Nel settembre 1848 parlò nella chiesa dei francescani di Nové Zámky in difesa dello slovacco come lingua ufficiale di Nitra. Il 24 novembre fu convocato a Nitra, dove difese la sua innocenza davanti al governatore del comitato di Nyitra. Nel 1849 arrivarono a Komjatice le truppe imperiali e ungheresi. Caban fu costretto a fuggire dai gendarmi ungheresi il 20 aprile 1849. Dopo la rivoluzione, tornato a Komjatice, riprese la lotta per i diritti nazionali slovacchi e fu attivo nelle associazioni slovacche.

Caban divenne importante per il suo contributo sia per i cattolici sia per i protestanti. Dopo la morte, entrambe le parti riconobbero che si trattava di una grande perdita. I necrologi lo definirono "una stella di prima grandezza", "il figlio più fedele della Madre della Gloria" e "perla della nazione e ornamento del sacerdozio e della Chiesa".

Contributo letterario e artistico
Scrisse numerosi articoli e poesie, che apparvero sui giornali slovacchi Priateľ školy a literatúry e Cyril a Metod.

Si dedicò anche alla prosa. Secondo Štefan Cifra si allineò alla prosa moralizzatrice di Andrej Radlinský, gli interessava soltanto il carattere morale della letteratura e che lottasse contro i vizi della società (l'usura, l'alcolismo, la snazionalizzazione). La sua prima grande opera in prosa fu Prechádzka po slovenských počiatočných školách ("Una passeggiata nelle scuole elementari slovacche"), che fu pubblicata su tre numeri del giornale Cyril a Metod e presenta un quadro realistico dell'istruzione nei paesi della Slovacchia, a cui appioppa nomi di fantasia che rispecchiano i loro difetti: Nedbalice, il paese dei negligenti, Starovce, il paese degli antiquati, Pokročice, il paese dei progrediti, Mrzutice, il paese dei capricciosi, Leňošice, il paese dei pigri, Velebnice, il paese dei magnifici. In un'altra opera, Jako sä úžernosť pomstieva ("Come si vendica l'usura") descrive un mendicante che giunge a una canonica e racconta le sue vicende di un padre usuraio e di che fine ha fatto tutto il patrimonio di famiglia. Nella terza opera Slovák! Varuj sä náruživého vkladania do lotérie ("Slovacco! Guardati dalla passione per la lotteria", racconta il destino dello scarpaio Imrich, che dopo la vincita alla lotteria ha perso il senso morale, ha disimparato a lavorare e si è abituato al lusso. Dopo che lo scarpaio Imrich ha dato fondo alle sue ricchezze, si è dato al furto e viene detenuto in prigione, dove commette suicidio.

In Dialóg I. a Dialóg II. (Dialogo I e Dialogo II), opuscoli umoristico-istruttivi, fa una parodia della magiarizzazione. Scrisse anche Raňajšia rozprávka dvoch súsedkýň ("Favola mattutina di due vicine"), Nápis na hrobníku Jána Gotzmana ("L'iscrizione sulla tomba di Ján Gotzman"), Parabola (pubblicato postumo). Ukážka z Cabanovho štýlu:

Raccolse poesie e leggende nel dialetto di Nitra, che Pavol Dobšinský pubblicò nel 1859 con il titolo Sbierka Cabanova.

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Michal Miloslav Hodža nell'opera Der Slovak ha inserito Caban tra gli "slovacchi consapevoli". Viliam Pauliny-Tóth ha dedicato un ritratto biografico di Caban a Sokolov, dove ha incluso Caban tra i quattordici patrioti. La tomba di Caban fu restaurata il 4 dicembre 1927. Negli anni 1967-1970 gli fu intitolato un circolo di recitazione del villaggio di Komjatice.

Dal 1999 la scuola elementare di Komjatice prende il nome da Ondrej Caban, sulla piazza, anch'essa intitolata a Caban, e nella chiesa ci sono busti di Caban (presso la chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta e in piazza Ondrej Caban) e targhe commemorative (presso la canonica e nella casa n. 21 all'angolo della piazza). Nel villaggio di Selce c'è un monumento e una targa sulla casa natale di Ondrej Caban.

Nel villaggio di Komjatice, l'anniversario di Ondrej Caban viene commemorato ogni anno con una messa solenne alla quale partecipano i bambini della scuola elementare a lui intitolata.

Nel 1970 si tenne una cerimonia commemorativa in occasione del 110º anniversario della morte di Caban. In occasione del 200º anniversario della nascita di Caban, il villaggio di Komjatice ha organizzato un evento annuale. L'evento è stato accompagnato da una mostra di opere d'arte e letterarie di studenti e artisti, la presentazione di un nuovo libro e una mostra fotografica.

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  Helena Rusnáková, Kňaz a národný buditeľ Ondrej Caban

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Things move quickly in today's society. Technology has made it possible for us to communicate, travel, and access information faster than ever before. Rather than capturing a few important moments from time-to-time, now, many of us take hundreds of pictures a month. Almost every time I take a picture at home my four-year-old says, "show me the picture daddy!" She expects to see the results instantly. In contrast to this, in the past I developed my own film and could spend hours to get a few prints just right.
This new reality impacts the way we work in both positive and negative ways. One positive of the "culture of fast" is the speed and reach of communication. Electronic communication allows instantaneous dissemination of information, and to nearly anywhere on the planet.
On the other hand, we often have too much information to sift through. This can lead to both decision-fatigue and an inability to make thoughtful choices. Additionally, those of us who work in the Church tend to want to say yes a lot to avoid offending people or impeding the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Here, discernment is necessary, yet the "culture of fast" often works against it.
In ministry, I think many people fall into another kind of "culture of fast" behavior: trying to do everything. Every program, every idea (good or bad), every activity must be done or tried. G.K. Chesterton's adage, "If something's worth doing, it's worth doing badly," can be a recipe for doing lots of things with little overall effect. While there is a need for parishes, dioceses, and apostolates to do lots of different things, it can be detrimental to ministry when we do many things, yet do them with mediocrity. Let's be honest: who among us is able to do everything well?
There are two effective ways that I have learned to overcome this cultural phenomenon: strategic anchors and thematic goals. I use them with my own diocesan ministry team and love to show others how they simplify and improve the quality of our work.
Strategic anchors—most organizations have three—are specific ways that a team stays focused on the things that lead to success (or, if you prefer, fruitfulness). We measure every new idea or initiative using these strategic anchors. They help us discern if something is likely to contribute to future fruitfulness or distract us from what is most effective and important. Using this approach my team has learned to say "no" more often now. It's liberating!
A thematic goal is a single "big" initiative that my entire team sets out to accomplish. It answers the question, "What is most important right now for all of us?" Underlying this is the adage, "If everything is important, nothing is." Determining one top priority is a simple antidote for the scattered and distracted pace of life that plagues home and work. Of course, we still do our "regular" job tasks, but we also work collaboratively on this overarching goal, usually in a 3-12 month time frame. This approach helps us to overcome the temptation to do too many things at once, which is certainly a recipe for mediocrity and frustration.
When we find ourselves in information overload we look to our thematic goal. A weekly review of this goal and our progress helps us focus, as a team, on the most important things we need to do together. In this review, we identify ways that we can creatively and sacrificially help one another.
I encourage you to give this a go: sit down with your team at work or spouse at home and determine strategic anchors and a thematic goal. And then choose to meet consistently to review progress, solve issues, and move forward in accomplishing what you've set out to do. It works! And if you get stuck, or can't seem to get started, reach out to us. We'd be happy to help.


As soon as the clocks go forward to British Summer Time, we remember our gardens. The promise of BBQs encourages us outside. Weekends are spent weeding, planting, adding a coat of paint to fences and mowing the lawn, to create an outdoor lighting sanctuary.
Through the summer months, our secluded back gardens become an additional room for fun and relaxation. The doors are thrown open and we step out to party, play or simply watch the sun set.
If you are splashing out on water features, plants, pots and decking, outdoor light installation will add the finishing touch.
Accent Lighting – Projecting a beam of light onto a focal point such as a specimen tree, water feature or sculpture, will ensure it gets deserved attention.
accent lighting to ensure those steps are always visible.
Wall Lighting – A subtle, ambient lighting can be created by fixing wall lighting to a vertical surface. This can be used to light up a small courtyard or define individual spaces, such as patios and seating areas in a larger garden.
Motion Sensitive Lighting – Added security and peace of mind is offered by motion sensitive lighting. These lighting fixtures are typically positioned above back doors, garage and shed doors.
In Ground or Well Lights – These lights are recessed into the ground. Stunning effects can be created by incorporating them into a patio or decking and they are widely used by landscape designers to light up foliage in the borders.
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Outdoor lighting installation has to be undertaken by a qualified electrician, to ensure it is safe, compliant and protected from the elements.
Professional electrical services will include a lighting plan, to illustrate positioning, how the light will project and the effects this will create. Careful consideration at the planning stage will ensure that a desirable end result is achieved.
If your South Bucks garden could benefit from an outdoor lighting electrician, Beaconsfield and surrounding areas are served by ADS Electrical Services. You can find local examples of recent projects on our website, or contact us to arrange an appointment on: 07966 906640.
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Life-sized rabbits in tailcoats, quaint teapots and cups, chequered black-and-white tiles and oversized keys – Perhaps Rabbits is likely the closest you'll get to experiencing life on a Tim Burton film set.
Tucked away a short walk from Sukhumvit Road, the zany Bangkok café has built up a healthy following since its owner Ansaya Chirabandhu decided to set up shop in July 2015.
"We wanted to do something different… We decided to use a rabbit as a symbol for our café, so we tried to find inspiration for what a rabbit can be, and we found that in Alice in Wonderland, the rabbit is a main character," says Chirabandhu, adding that all the furniture needed to be custom made.
She says that the cosy café has proven particularly popular among parents looking to stage their very own Mad Hatter's tea party.
Perhaps even more impressive than the wacky interiors, though, are the desserts coming out of Perhaps Rabbits' kitchen. Edible tiramisu teacups, indulgent Mad Hatter-shaped mousses and a tangy blueberry cheesecake accompanied by a pink-and-purple chocolate lattice are just some of the treats on offer.
Those more interested in delicacies of a liquid variety will find comfort in the café's selection of fizzy beverages and fruity teas, which range from peach sodas to apple earl grey.


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In this article, we will discuss how to set up Red Hat AMQ 6.3 on OpenShift. We will also set up an external Camel-based SSL client to connect to AMQ Broker, a pure-Java multiprotocol message broker.
By using the procedures in this article, you can easily set up the broker in your OpenShift environment and also set up a Camel-based client to quickly produce and consume messages. Also, you can change the log level to get verbose logs, thus getting a better understanding of the complete setup.
I recommend using a source-to-image (s2i) approach for deploying Red Hat AMQ 6.x on OpenShift, but if you do not use an s2i approach, this article will help you to configure logging to get verbose logs. Note that the Red Hat AMQ image used here is ephemeral; it doesn't support persistence.
In this article, I will discuss how to capture incoming and outgoing messages for Red Hat AMQ 7 (RHAMQ 7). This might advantageous if you need to log the incoming or outgoing traffic, or the messages from a broker, or during development and/or testing when you want to see all message. Additionally, There may also be a need to modify messages in transit. Using RHAMQ 7 interceptors, you can intercept traffic to and from the RHAMQ 7 broker. You can also modify messages using the interceptor.
In this post, I wanted to address how to configure mKahaDB persistence storage on ActiveMQ for better management and reducing disk usage.
Default configured KahaDB persistence adapter works well when all the destinations (queues/topics) being managed by the broker have similar performance. However, an enterprise solution where several third parties are involved is never the case.
There are multiple queues or topics and different consumers or listeners listening to these queues/topics. Some consumers might be slower than other consumers. This will grow the message store's disk usage rapidly. Due to this situation and being single KahaDB all store destinations might perform slow.
JDBC Master-Slave Persistence setup with Activemq using Postgresql database.


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Rapper GloRilla Claims She Didn't Make 'One Red Cent' From Smash Hit 'F.N.F. (Let's Go)'
Samantha Dorisca. Oct 18, 2022.
The rapper behind the smash hit "F.N.F. (Lets Go)," GloRilla, may soon teach us another lesson on the business of music.
Trouble stirring with "F.N.F." producer: GloRilla dropped this bomb in response to a series of tweets from "F.N.F." producer HitKidd. It appears there was trouble brewing between the pair over a disagreement about the ownership of the smash hit.
HitKidd sends a fury of tweets: HitKidd said — in a now-deleted tweet — that GloRilla had signed the "F.N.F." single to Yo Gotti's record label Collective Music Group without his knowledge.
"I told you & your MANAGER everyday that we was in LA with Saweetie, that labels are going to try to sign you because of FNF so watch out. I also told you to let me know when labels reach out so we can be on the same page, but you still went and signed my song without telling me," he wrote, according to Okayplayer.
GloRilla responds: The "Blessed" rapper did respond on her personal Facebook page and revealed the producer has been on her neck ever since the song became a viral hit.
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"N-gga done made so much money from 'F.N.F.' and I haven't made not one red cent (other than shows)," GloRilla said on Facebook, according to XXL. "But I'm still prospering 'cause guess what? I can rap in real life and ain't no MF one-hit-wonder. I wrote every single lyric in every single song I ever put out and even after all this, I still got love for Hitkidd 'cause we came up together, even doe he been going behind my back ever since the song blew but dat's another story for another day. I just hate da fact he had to bring da business to social media when I could've been came out about the snake sh-t he been doing to me."
She has not earned a dime from "F.N.F." single: Despite the 23 million plays on streaming services like Spotify and 44 million views of the music video via YouTube, GloRilla also states she hasn't earned a dime from the song. However, she's been cashing in on the song through shows, according to Okayplayer.
GloRilla also shut down his claims that she signed the rights of the song away to her record label. She claims that HitKidd signed it away within its first week for $50,000.
"You signed da song away the first week (without me knowing) for [$50,000] because you didn't know how big it was gone be. Should I keep going?" she wrote, according to Okayplayer.
Despite the drama, the artist seems to still be winning in real life.
Numbers don't lie: As AfroTech previously told you, she recently dropped a new single titled "Tomorrow 2" alongside Cardi B. The single entered the top ten of Billboard's Hot 100 for its debut.
Additionally, the track was used in over 125,000 videos on TikTok in less than a month.
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Samantha Dorisca is a Houston-based journalist and photographer whose mission is to impact communities through the gift of storytelling using the written word or visual media. She completed her B.A at The University of Texas at Austin and is pursuing a M.A at The University of Memphis. Her work can be found on platforms such as Houstonia Magazine, Girls' Life Magazine, and Blacque Magazine. Samantha mainly reports on tech, trends, and entrepreneurship.


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The Sunny Side of Martin Learn's Careers
Martin Learn
Martin Learn's path to founding the company today called HES Solar was built on a drive and desire to help his fellow man and place power into the hands of Californians.
Dr. Learn was a busy anesthesiologist in San Diego when he launched into his first environmentally-driven research effort. It was the early 80's when Dr. Learn put his spare time and creativity into advancing the technology of piping sunlight directly into interior rooms of buildings.
"I had a solar research project with the California Energy Commission… I went to Los Alamos where I hired a couple of optical engineers that were really helpful in the design of the light pipes and heliostats [sunlight mirrors], and a mechanical engineer that helped with the design of the tracking system; because if you do concentration of sunlight you have to track the sun and keep it spot on."
The engineering and execution of the effort had big challenges, and Martin Learn went up against large corporations' research divisions in a project competition. "I was trying to build a couple of heliostats: Concentrated sunlight into a collimated beam that would be able to travel 100 diameters down the light pipe and only lose 10 percent." The goal wasn't to use sunlight to activate photovoltaic cells, it was just the challenge to tunnel the sunlight where it was needed; in effect, bending light. "When you have the light columnated you can manipulate it and provide lighting inside a commercial building anyplace you want it."
Dr. Learn's small team was in competition against giants, with Learn still maintaining a full time and often on-call career as a physician. It wasn't surprising that he didn't win, but it was a shock how close he came, "Well, there were 36 entrants into this competition, and I came in second. And there was another individual who was down in the rankings, but the one that beat me was SDG&E, and there were quite a few large companies and universities in the mix.
"I was very pleased to have come in second in the competition and really wanted to make that work. But there were some technical problems and some financial problems …. …we didn't have enough money to build out the project."
MARTIN'S FIRST RETIREMENT
About a decade later, Dr. Learn was ready to retire from medicine. When most educated, highly-trained specialists might step into more leisurely endeavours such as putting a dimpled ball into a hole in a really pretty lawn, Martin Learn went back to school. "When I retired, I went into an MBA program at San Diego State. I really enjoyed that… I mean, I like school. My last name is Learn, right?" His goal was to gain business knowledge. After he graduated it made great sense to take advantage of his medical expertise in his pursuit of starting a company.
"I actually went to China twice to try to do some trading of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals between China and here, but… I could see that I was just a footnote on their business plan, and I was not happy with that and I left them. They left me [as well]."
FIGHT THE POWER
Then Martin Learn saw something at the turn of the millennium that spurred him in a new direction. "Back at the time when there was this energy problem – I called it a contrivance – and it was largely manufactured by Gray Davis and the utility companies. And it was really a scam upon the people of California who ended up owing 12 billion dollars to pay off what was borrowed on that energy contrivance… And I felt like I was seemingly about the one person who was aware that that was happening. And I could've reacted, but I did not because I had my plate full. And also it would [have been] millions of dollars of lawyers [costs]."
Martin knew what it was like to be in a battle against deep pockets, and realized there was a better and more direct way to give Californians control of where their energy came from and how much it would cost. "It was my way of fighting back."
Phil Salas, an employee at what is now HES Solar for more than a decade and who recently led the creation of the Service Department, had heard the story directly from Martin. "He started the company in 2001 and that was right after 2000 where they were having blackouts in San Diego… And the whole time it was all false. They had enough energy, they just were trying to create an emergency to justify being able to raise prices… it was all artificially done and he just saw that and it just angered him that this was going on and [he] wanted to do something about it. And I know that was one of his great motivators to, not only to do something that helped with the environment, but something that could fight against big corporate greed. And he saw that as a mission."
2001: A MARKETSPACE ODYSSEY
Martin Learn officially launched Home Energy Systems on April 16, 2001. The company was real, and so were the struggles for any business just to stay in business. At the time, home solar was not widely accepted, the residential equipment had not been developed to the level we benefit from today. Just the concept of becoming an energy producer was alien to most homeowners.
Martin Learn loves to learn and loves to educate.
"There were no official schools for solar at that time. I had to educate myself, and that's [including] designing my own curriculum. I had to do it, and it worked. There wasn't any place else I could get it at first… That is one of the things that these years have given me perspective on. There were a lot of people that didn't believe that solar would work when they were believers in what SDG&E was telling them. And it was my job to prove them wrong, and that the systems work and last a long time and save people money. And they did."
As he went about his mission in his own way, he met a lot of customers who became friends. As Bob Maycomber recalled, "He was a leader in the earliest days of residential solar energy. Many other companies have followed his lead, helping combat climate change. Martin is a good friend and a leader of men."
Phil Salas started working at the company in 2010 when installing solar panels suddenly made sense for another reason, "In 2010 they [or customers] could see that it might be a 7 to 10 year payback, but it was still a payback. Which is a long time to wait compared to now. Also what was very interesting was … in August of 2008 or so [with] the market crashing, some of our very, very smart customers realized that their money was safer in solar, and [was getting] a better return in solar, than it was in the market at the time. …And year after year things got better. The equipment got better, the panels got better, the price got better."
Still, explained Martin, "It was a difficult road. I calculated at one point that I was paying 60 dollars an hour to be employed by myself." [Laughs] "And that was taxable." [Laughs]. "So no, that didn't work out too well. But after a while, I kept trying to hire managers and the one that worked out best was Ross Williams. He's smart, he had construction experience, he's honest. I liked him. Still do."
"Meeting Martin for the first time was awe inspiring." recalled Ross Williams, who today is the CEO and owner of HES Solar, "Our first 'interview' was more like a get-to-know-you session where Martin told me tales of his past and why he started the company. I was immediately intrigued and inspired. I had never met someone like Martin. I mean, here was a guy who retired from being an anesthesiologist, went back to school, got his MBA, and launched a company in response to a crisis. I'll never forget that 'interview.' I did almost zero talking, but somehow landed the job."
HES Solar when it was Home Energy Systems and everyone was a bit more green. Martin Learn stands in the center of the back row, Ross Williams stands to Martin's right.
It didn't take long before Ross was an integral part of the company. Working with Martin Learn made a big impact on the future company owner "What really struck me initially about Martin was his passion. He just oozed it. I felt like you couldn't have a conversation without talking about solar. Wherever he went, whomever he would talk to, it came up somehow. He'd bring it up. He's the quintessential passionate person… He just can't not talk about it. It's pretty cool. I'm actually pretty similar now. I often warn people when they ask me what I do, 'This is going to be two hours of your life!'"
Martin further told, "SunPower, who was coaching us, said, 'You guys need to have a commercial division and a residential division.' At that time, I took the residential division, knowing I wasn't going to make as much money as if I had taken the commercial division, but I did enjoy sitting at the kitchen table talking to people. I call myself an educator, rather than a salesperson, and most people agree with that."
Martin built a special rapport with people and was always applying his knowledge to solving problems. "We have known Martin Learn for nearly 20 years." recounted Bob Macomber. "He has always been inquisitive and would consider the best practical solution to a problem. He designed a portable power station for use in emergency power outages and displayed his design at Earth Day celebrations many years ago."
Ross saw the same daily, "Martin is a phenomenal visionary. He always sees five or six steps ahead of most. He's a great idea person, and he can just see the bigger picture in a really good way and inspire people to see it like he does."
IT'S NOT ALL SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS
The company succeeded, but that didn't mean it, or the solar industry, was without challenges or adversaries. Martin fought battles important to San Diego residents but that had repercussions of a much larger scope.
Ross Williams was with Martin on many of the political and regulatory battles that Dr. Learn fought. "Martin's extremely intelligent. In a political setting he's like an encyclopedia, so he can tell you step-by-step why we're at where we're at right now in California in this energy state. He can tell you about all the regulations, all the bills that have passed, all the winnings, all the losings, all the SNAFUs, the Enron thing. He talks a lot about how Californians are still paying for that; we, Californians, are paying for that. So he has so much detail and he knows so much in depth about how everything came to be that he's almost impossible to argue against because he'll just blow you away with facts. He just knows it all… So it's interesting to see him up against someone who thinks they know what they're talking about. He's just like, 'Well what about this thing that happened over there?' 'And. 'This impacted X, Y, and Z,' and, 'Two years later it did pass but it didn't have this thing in it,' all these things, it's pretty impressive."
Bernadette Del Chiaro, Executive Director of the California Solar & Storage Association, an organization dedicated to a cleaner energy future, worked alongside Martin over many policy battles. "Martin has always been one of my favorite allies in the solar movement. Every time I onboard a new colleague, I say, 'You have to talk with Martin down in San Diego.' Martin embodies integrity and sincerity in everything he does. From his extensive experience, he always has ideas for how to make our work better. But Martin's value goes well beyond good ideas. (There's no shortage of people with big ideas in this industry!) Martin is unique in his willingness to do the grunt work, like picking up the phone to schedule a district meeting with a legislator. He's never too good or too busy to do the work that it takes to build a movement. He understands that big societal changes don't happen because someone had a good idea. What makes a garden grow is the weeding, watering, and feeding of the seed, not the seed by itself. The everyday pick-n-shovel work is what produces change. And if today's fights are any indication, we'll be picking and shoveling for a while. The world needs a million Martin Learns."
SOLAR TREK, THE NEXT GENERATION
The company fought, grew, and flourished. It had started with a mission and was built on ethics and principles. Then in 2015, fourteen years into his second career as business owner, Dr. Martin Learn, who still today keeps current with his physician's license, was content that he had found the right person to hand the company reins to completely. He sold the business to Ross Williams and remained on as a company officer, but no longer an owner.
"I felt that he [Ross Williams] had actually gotten better than I at managing the company. And he has continued to learn. He pulled me away from strictly academic activities… My intent was to get the technology, get on a firm footing and do what I could do to help the industry to get their feet on the ground, and they did, thanks to the state of California."
"Martin's mission still lives with us today," said Ross Williams, the company's current CEO. "We exist to fundamentally change the way the world is powered."
Phil Salas saw the same from inside the company, "When he sold the business to Ross… I don't think he did it out of trying to make a profit or anything, I think that he was genuinely wanting to see Home Energy Systems succeed and saw that Ross would be a great person to make that happen. And I think that's why he made that decision to do that; he could feel confident that the work would continue without him. Which is also very selfless, so I have a lot of respect for Martin and I consider him a very good friend."
HES, HIS SOLAR COMPANY
Home Energy Systems changed its company name to HES Solar, and the company has, as of 2021, reached the milestone of 20 years in business as a solar installer, having installed 20 million watts of solar panel power.
In 2020, Martin Learn's start-up earned the SunPower National Commercial Dealer of the Year award, the manufacturing giant's highest honor. That same year, the residential division was invited, and accepted, the company's highest partnership level. In early 2021, just months shy of HES Solar's 20th Anniversary, Dr. Learn retired, again, with his hopes still high for the future of solar and the satisfaction of starting a thriving business.
From his vantage today, how does Martin Learn feel about the thing he started? "I'm grateful that it has survived and is doing well. And it's doing better than well: really well. And it feels like I've accomplished another thing in my life, and this is one that I really wanted to accomplish because I'm feeling like somebody had to do it and I just stepped forward. It got to a point that I realized I could do it, and I'm very happy about it. I'm also happy that I've had the business, became profitable, and got to hire a lot of employees." At the time of this story, HES Solar employs over 50 full-time employees and is hiring and expanding.
Martin Learn early portrait
"Doctor or Solar Company Owner?" Martin was asked which has given him more satisfaction. After a quick burst of laughter he answered, "Good question. Well, I'm hands on and one-on-one in anesthesia, and I'm doing a house at a time with a family in solar and it's just amazing… So both did, but they were different sets of composition [of knowledge]. I had more fun, I probably got more satisfaction from solar, a job well done and finished…" as far as building the company from scratch when an industry around it was still in its infancy? "Well, it was work, but it was easier work, and if you make a mistake nobody dies."
"I still talk to him often." Ross Williams said, "Even though he's fully retired now – and I actually commend him for doing that. I didn't think he was going to be able to, I honestly didn't. So I commend him for actually retiring and wouldn't be surprised if he tries to come back. Our relationship is great. It never really changed."
Phil Salas caps the real-life fairy tale of Martin Learn's journey perfectly, "When I see movies or TV shows portraying doctors and they speak about their oaths, I wonder how real that is. I believe in Martin's case not only did he take that oath seriously, but carried it over to other aspects of his life. And I think that you have that type of oath where he felt like he needed to take care of his fellow man and, you know, that's why I think he had a passion for solar because it's doing that in a different way."
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Q: Node.js: How to do a PUT request to upload a file? I am using Node.js 8.0.0 and wanted to update a file on a platform. For this they have an API with very clear ways to use it.
In this case I have to use a PUT method for this, also the right hostname and path, right auth keys and the file itself that must be of Content-Type: multipart/form-data. So I really wanted to use the node https module and try to not install anything else.
I tried using the request http client (https://github.com/request/request)and worked like a charm but as I previously told, would like to use what we already have in Node without installing anything else. I see some working replies here using Request, but no one using Node https module.
Using the https.request I managed to go to the right URL, pass auth, but it always shows me a correlation error (specifically for this platform not something you can Google I guess).
function update(method, path, params) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      https.request({
        method,
        host: HOST,
        path: path + (params ? '?' + qs.stringify(params) : ''),
        auth: `${USER}:${PASS}`,
        formData: document,
      }, res => {
           let body = '';

           res
           .on('data', message => body += message)
           .on('error', (e) => console.log(e))
           .on('end', () => resolve(body));
          })
          .end();

Where: const document = fs.createReadStream(path.resolve(__dirname, '../../src/', 'myfile.xlf'));

And where I call the update function like this:

await operations.update('PUT', '/right/path/to/update', {
      id: `${rightId}`,
    });

With this code I don't have any auth problem and I can communicate with the platform, in fact if I use other api method (GET, POST) I can obtain statistics and things like that, but in this case explained before, the response have a 400 Bad Request error, that I am sure is a problem with the way I am "trying to send the file".
Using the request http client, I get no errors and managed to update the document with this code:
function update(path, params) {
  const url = 'https://' + HOST + path + (params ? '?' + qs.stringify(params) : '');

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    try {
      resolve(requests.put({
        url,
        formData: document,
      }).auth(USER, PASS));
    } catch (err) {
      reject(err);
    }
  });
}

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Mia Journeys App
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John Biondi – Creative Director, Todd Zerger – Associate Creative Director, Drew Lindvedt – Senior Designer, Amy Martin – Senior Art Director, Mark Wagner – Associate Creative Director
Art museums have long served as epicenters of cultural heritage, human experience and social gathering. In recent decades however, new competition for our time and attention has arisen in the form of arcades, malls and home theaters, not to mention a never ending stream of digital diversions. Celebrating it's 100th year, The Minneapolis Institute of Art rebranded itself as Mia seeking to reengage the public with its world-class permanent collection and world-traveling special exhibits.
In response, we conceived of a way to fight fire with fire. We designed a way to participate in the museum by taping into the public's affinity for digital experiences, the effectiveness of storytelling and the omnipresence of smart phones. Informed by the five need states of museum visitors (as identified by John H. Falk) The Mia Journeys app does not simply provide miniature versions of all the art as if that could replace a visit to the museum. Instead we provide the inspiration and mechanism for a new way to adventure through an amazing museum campus that covers nearly eight acres and includes art from around the world and across time.
Journeys can be created, shared and followed. Each member can create a theme that connects any number of works together in a way that is personally interesting. The app helps identify the works and maps them throughout the museum, then estimates the time required to see them all. The ability to curate a trip through the collection becomes a journey of discovery leading to art that might never before have captured attention but which suddenly feels subtlety or obviously relevant by virtue of the theme. Anything can be a theme: artist, time period, location, genre, medium, love, scandal, rivers, the ocean, hats, cats…you name it.
Creating a journey may not be for everyone, so the app facilitates sharing. Members can browse through the collection of journeys looking for something that calls to them. In addition to member created journeys there are journeys created by the Mia curators and a few local celebrities like singer Dessa and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges.
Regardless of whether creating or following, the beautiful interface design takes full advantage of gesture based design principles including swipe, scroll, press-and-hold and drag-and-drop movements to allow the interface to remain as uncluttered and fluid as possible. The result is a design that is rigorously structured as it operates on methodical patterns yet feels highly flexible to the touch. It's a joy to use which facilitates our goal to get users to look up from their phones to become engrossed in the art and the grand space that houses it all.
Is it slight of hand to employ the very tool that most distracts us from real-world experiences as the very device that lures the public back inside one of our greatest institutions? Why yes, and we take pride in every moment a user puts the phone back in a pocket to simply marvel at the art that has been freely available all along.
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Surface is the Between - Descended Triangle no. 1
Shoichi Ida
Japanese (1941–2006)
Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil
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Frame Size: 29.5 x 23.5 inches
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About The Artist: Shoichi Ida
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About The Medium: Aquatint
An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.


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With 14 years of experience in the United States, Tad Omi has competed in many tournaments and has close relationships with golf clubs in both the U.S. and Japan. In addition to being a professional golfer in California, Tad is comfortable providing lessons in both English and Japanese.
As a coach, Tad has helped first-time golfers break 100 as well as help those who have been struggling to break 100 get down to a score of around 80 in just 6 months. He has also succeeded in helping students that were averaging 80 break even par. His success has been attributed to his experience working with a variety of golfers from beginners to top amateurs as well as junior and senior golfers.
By addressing the needs and concerns of each of his students, he has helped each of his students find success.
Lessons are held at a 250-yard practice range in Chiba. There is also a space where you can practice your chip shot and bunker shot. Short game lessons are also an option.
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Callibaetis is a genus of small minnow mayflies in the family Baetidae. There are at least 30 described species in Callibaetis.

Species
These 31 species belong to the genus Callibaetis.

References

Further reading

External links

Mayflies
Mayfly genera
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Le Bristol Jupiter est un moteur thermique britannique à refroidissement par air, à neuf cylindres en simple étoile, construit par la Bristol Aeroplane Company. Initialement conçu vers la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, et alors connu sous le nom de « Cosmos Jupiter », il bénéficia d'une longue série de perfectionnements et d'évolutions qui ont fait de lui l'un des meilleurs moteurs de son époque.

Le Jupiter a été largement utilisé sur de nombreux avions au cours des années 1920 et 1930. Des centaines de Jupiter de toutes les versions ont été produits, tant par Bristol que par ses licenciés étrangers.

Conception et développement

Le Jupiter a été conçu vers la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale par Roy Fedden, ingénieur en chef de Cosmos Engineering, une entreprise britannique. Devant la rapide décroissance des dépenses militaires après l'armistice, Cosmos fit faillite en 1920, et fut finalement rachetée par la Bristol Aeroplane Company grâce aux points forts de la conception du Jupiter et avec les encouragements du Ministère de l'Air. Le moteur n'était alors qu'aux débuts de son développement, mais, arrivé à maturité, il se révéla comme l'un des plus fiables du marché. Ce fut le premier moteur refroidi par air à passer les tests de l'Air Ministry à pleine puissance, le premier à être équipé d'un régulateur automatique de suralimentation, et le premier à être monté sur des avions de ligne.

Le Jupiter était de conception assez standard, mais comportait aussi quatre soupapes par cylindre, ce qui était rare à l'époque pour un moteur à air. Les cylindres, usinés à partir d'ébauches en acier forgé, étaient borgnes et recevaient des culasses-cataplasmes (« poultice heads ») en alliage léger. Par la suite, les cylindres furent usinés ouverts et reçurent des culasses coulées en alliage léger et vissées, conformément aux études du Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) dont les conclusions furent rapidement adoptées par les constructeurs de moteurs à air. En 1927, un nouveau changement intervint, en raison d'un important taux de rejet des culasses coulées, qui furent remplacées par des pièces en alliage léger forgé, usinées dans la masse. Le Jupiter VII comportait un compresseur entraîné mécaniquement, et le Jupiter VIII a été le premier à être équipé d'un réducteur d'hélice.

En 1925, Fedden commença à concevoir un remplaçant pour le Jupiter. L'emploi d'une course réduite pour augmenter le régime, et d'un compresseur pour une puissance accrue, déboucha sur le Bristol Mercury en 1927. Par la suite, profitant de l'expérience acquise avec le Mercury, Fedden appliqua les mêmes techniques (augmentation du régime et de la pression d'admission) à un moteur conservant les côtes du Jupiter, ce qui aboutit au Bristol Pegasus. Mais pendant quelques années, aucun de ces deux moteurs ne sera en mesure de remplacer vraiment le Jupiter.

Production sous licence

Le Jupiter a été largement utilisé dans les versions construites sous licence, étant produit dans quatorze pays en dehors de l'Angleterre. En France, Gnome et Rhône acquit très tôt la licence du moteur et convertit le concept aux normes métriques, s'assurant ainsi la diffusion du moteur, voire de sa licence, auprès de nombreux pays européens. Connues sous le nom de « Gnome et Rhône 9A Jupiter », les différentes versions françaises bénéficièrent d'un développement parallèle à celui réalisé chez Bristol. Elles ont été utilisées sur plusieurs modèles civils nationaux et ont également rencontré un grand succès à l'exportation.  a acquis une licence en Allemagne et a produit plusieurs versions de puissance croissante, aboutissant en définitive au  Fafnir, qui s'est vu utilisé dans pendant la guerre.

Au Japon, le Jupiter a été construit sous licence à partir de 1924 par Nakajima, servant de base à leur propre conception de moteur aéronautique en étoile, le . Il a été produit aussi en Pologne sous le nom de « PZL Bristol Jupiter », en Italie comme l'Alfa Romeo 125 RC.35 et en Tchécoslovaquie par le motoriste Walter. Le plus produit fut la version soviétique, connue comme le « Shvetsov M-22 », qui a motorisé le fameux Polikarpov I-16 dont des milliers d'exemplaires furent construits. La production commencée en 1918 a cessé en 1930.

Variantes

Le Jupiter a été produit dans de nombreuses variantes, dont l'une fut le Bristol Orion de 1926, équipé d'un turbocompresseur. Mais des problèmes de métallurgie ont causé l'abandon du projet avec seulement neuf moteurs construits.
Brazil Straker Jupiter I
(1918) 400 ch. Deux construits.
Cosmos Jupiter II
(1918) 400 ch. Un construit.
Bristol Jupiter II
(1923) 400 ch.
Bristol Jupiter III
(1923) 400 ch.
Bristol Jupiter IV
(1926) 430 ch., distribution à calage variable, carburateur Bristol Triplex.
Bristol Jupiter V
(1925) 480 ch.
Bristol Jupiter VI
(1927) 520 ch. Produit en deux taux de compression : faible (5,3:1) et élevé (6,3:1).
Bristol Jupiter VIA
(1927) 440 ch. version civile du Jupiter VI.
Bristol Jupiter VIFH
(1932) 440 ch. Équipé d'un démarreur à gaz
Bristol Jupiter VIFL
(1932) 440 ch. Taux de compression 5,15:1.
Bristol Jupiter VIFM
(1932) 440 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1.
Bristol Jupiter VIFS
(1932) 400 ch. Taux de compression 6,3:1.

Bristol Jupiter VII
(1928) 375 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1, entièrement suralimenté. Créé par Gnome et Rhône sous la référence 9ASB.
Bristol Jupiter VIIF
(1929) 480 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1. Culasses forgées.
Bristol Jupiter VIIF.P
(1930) 480 ch. 'P' pour lubrification sous pression des axes de bielles secondaires.
Bristol Jupiter VIII
(1929) 440 ch. Jupiter VI, avec le taux de compression porté à 6,3:1.

Bristol Jupiter VIIIF
(1929) 460 ch. Jupiter VIII avec culasses forgées et taux de compression réduit (5,8:1).
Bristol Jupiter VIIIF.P
(1929) 460 ch. Comme le Jupiter VIII avec lubrification sous pression (Le TBO à ce stade de développement n'était que de 150 heures en raison de défaillances multiples).
Bristol Jupiter IX
480 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1.
Bristol Jupiter IXF
550 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1. culasses forgées.
Bristol Jupiter X
470 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1.
Bristol Jupiter XF
540 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1. culasses forgées.
Bristol Jupiter XFA
483 ch. Taux de compression 5,3:1.
Bristol Jupiter XFAM
580 ch.
Bristol Jupiter XFBM
580 ch.
Bristol Jupiter XFS
Entièrement suralimenté.
Bristol Jupiter XI
Taux de compression 5,15:1.
Bristol Jupiter XIF
500 ch. Taux de compression 5,15:1.
Bristol Jupiter XIFA
480 ch. Comme Jupiter XIF avec 0,656:1 de rapport de réduction
Bristol Jupiter XIF.P
525 ch. Comme le Jupiter XIF avec lubrification sous pression
Bristol Orion I
(1926) Jupiter III, turbo-compressé, programme abandonné.

Applications
Le Jupiter est surtout connu pour être le moteur des Handley Page HP.42 Hannibal, qui volaient sur la ligne Londres-Paris dans les années 1930. Mais on connait bien d'autres usages civils, tels que les  et Hercules, le Junkers G 31 (dont l'évolution donnera le fameux Ju 52), et l'énorme hydravion Dornier Do X qui utilisait pas moins de douze moteurs.

En Angleterre, les utilisations militaires ont été moins fréquentes. Parmi elles, le Bristol Bulldog de la société mère ainsi que les Gloster Gamecock et Boulton Paul Sidestrand. Le Jupiter a également équipé des prototypes dans le monde entier, du Japon à la Suède.

En 1929, le Bristol Jupiter avait volé sur 262 différents types d'avions. Au salon du Bourget, la presse française note que le Jupiter et ses versions sous licence propulsaient 80 % des avions présentés.

En automobile, le Français  développa à Paris entre 1930 et 1932 un engin appelé « Jupiter » en vue de battre un record de vitesse terrestre. Celui-ci était doté de trois moteurs Bristol Jupiter  développant près de  chacun, montés sur un châssis Voisin renforcé, mais après des essais aux États-Unis à Daytona Beach en vue de battre les records mondiaux de Campbell, l'engin fut détruit dans un incendie sur la plage de La Baule.

Liste
Liste des avions britanniques par Alec Lumsden.

Note : le Jupiter n'est pas toujours la motorisation principale. De même, la distinction entre le Jupiter d'origine Bristol et ses variantes construites sous licence semble sujette à caution, les avions français, notamment, étant tous motorisés par les Jupiter licenciés à Gnome et Rhône.

Cosmos Jupiter

Bristol Jupiter

Gnome et Rhône Jupiter

 Blériot-SPAD S.51
 Breguet 19

 Potez 25

Caractéristiques (Jupiter XFA)
D'après Alec Lumsden

Caractéristiques générales
 Type : moteur à pistons à refroidissement par air, 9 cylindres en simple étoile
 Alésage :
 Course :
 Taux de compression : 5,3:1
 Cylindrée :
 Diamètre :
 Masse à sec :

Composants
 Distribution : quatre soupapes en tête (deux admission, deux échappement) actionnées par plateau à cames, tiges et culbuteurs
 Compresseur : compresseur centrifuge à entraînement mécanique, un seul étage et une seule vitesse (suivant les variantes)
 Système d'alimentation : carburateur
 Carburant : essence à 73 ou 77 d'indice d'octane
 Système de refroidissement : par air

Performances
 Puissance développée :
 Décollage :  à
 Maximum continu :  à  à .
 Combat :  à  à .

Moteurs en exposition
Un Bristol Jupiter VIIF est en exposition permanente au Royaume-Uni à la  à Old Warden, Bedfordshire.

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Annexes

Article connexe
 Liste des moteurs d'avions

Bibliographie

Liens externes
  The Cosmos Aero Engines - Flight, sur Flightglobal.com, , , ,
  Bristol Jupiter endurance test - Flight, sur Flightglobal.com,

Moteur en étoile
Moteur d'avion à pistons


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Q: Remove multiples of character sequence from string If I had a string like so:
my_string = 'this is is is is a string'

How would I remove the multiple iss so that only one will show?
This string could contain any number of is in there such as
my_string = 'this is is a string'
other_string = 'this is is is is is is is is a string'

A regex solution would be possible I suppose however I'm not sure how to go about it. Thanks.

A: You can use itertools.groupby
from itertools import groupby
a = 'this is is is is a a a string string a a a'
print ' '.join(word for word, _ in groupby(a.split(' ')))

A: Here is my approach:
my_string = 'this is is a string'
other_string = 'this is is is is is is is is a string'
def getStr(s):
    res = []
    [res.append(i) for i in s.split() if i not in res]
    return ' '.join(res)

print getStr(my_string)
print getStr(other_string)

Output:
this is a string
this is a string

UPDATE The regex way to attack it:
import re
print ' '.join(re.findall(r'(?:^|)(\w+)(?:\s+\1)*', other_string))

LIVE DEMO

A: If you would like to remove all duplicates after one another, you can try
l = my_string.split()
tmp = [l[0]]
for word in l:
    if word != tmp[-1]:
        tmp.append(word)
s = ''
for word in tmp:
    s += word + ' '
my_string = s

of course, if you want it smarter than this, it is going to be more complicated.

A: For oneliners:
>>> import itertools
>>> my_string = 'this is is a string'
>>> " ".join([k for k, g in itertools.groupby(my_string.split())])
'this is a string'

A: Regex to the rescue!
((\b\w+\b)\s*\2\s*)+
# capturing group
# inner capturing group
# ... consisting of a word boundary, at least ONE word character and another boundary
# followed by whitespaces
# and the formerly captured group (aka the inner group)
# the whole pattern needs to be present at least once, but can be there
# multiple times

Python Code
import re

string = """
this is is is is is is is is a string
and here is another another another another example
"""
rx = r'((\b\w+\b)\s*\2\s*)+'

string = re.sub(rx, r'\2 ', string)
print string
# this is a string
# and here is another example

Demos
See a demo for this approach on regex101.com as well as on ideone.com