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Lisa Kaaren Bailey, The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. viii, 247. ISBN 9781472519030. $120.00.
Reviewed by Robin Whelan, Brasenose College, Oxford; The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (robin.whelan@history.ox.ac.uk)
Ordinary late-antique Christians are beginning to think for themselves. Numerous recent studies have used the evidence of sermons (in particular) to try to push past the normative views of ecclesiastical authority figures and locate the voices and agency of the men and women who constituted the majority of Christians in this (and any) period. Lisa Bailey has a track record in this field: her first monograph was a close reading of the Eusebius Gallicanus sermon collection.1 In her new book, Bailey widens her scope to investigate what Christianity meant to people in late-antique Gaul (here defined as the period c. 400-700; much of the discussion focuses on the sixth century).
In her Introduction (1-19), Bailey locates her study within the context of scholarship on lay Christianity, not only in late antiquity, but across the European middle ages,2 before sketching approaches to the various available forms of evidence: church councils; secular legal sources; hagiographies; sermons; epitaphs; material culture. All of these are brought to bear in the following chapters; perhaps unsurprisingly, the two big beasts of the sixth-century Gallic Church, Caesarius of Arles and Gregory of Tours, play central roles. In her opening pages, Bailey justifies the choice—perhaps more obvious from a medieval than a late-antique perspective—to frame her subjects as the 'laity': this book is about the messy process by which that Christian construction of ordinary people came to be dominant, even taken for granted (4-6). In that sense, this is less a study of the 'many identities' of late-antique Christians (to borrow a phrase from Éric Rebillard) than a work on the multiplicity of that one form of identity.3 Bailey also problematizes the frequent recourse to a 'negative trajectory' (6-7) of clerical takeover in the early middle ages: 'the laity, like the Roman Empire, are always declining' (7).
Chapter 1, 'Laity, clergy and ascetics' (21-51) frames the book by setting out the ambiguities of 'bipartite' views of the Christian community in late-antique Gaul (clerici vs. laici/saeculares). A first section (24-33) surveys the categories used in conciliar canons and secular legislation. Both presented a fundamental contrast between clerics and worldly people, whether resulting from ordination, lifestyle choices, or exemptions and restrictions. This contrast became much fuzzier when it came to ascetics (who did not necessarily hold ecclesiastical office) and lower clergy (who had lower status and expectations). The boundaries were further blurred by the focus of ascetic writers on conversion as an inward change from which external markers followed (33-43). Other pious Christians also straddled the clerical/lay borderline, not least those in various forms of 'service' to individual churches: unfree dependents, penitents and the poor (43-51). In aggregate, Bailey identifies a 'spectrum of religious commitments and behaviours rather than strictly delineated categories' (38). From this fuzziness, she suggests, came opportunities for lay religious agency (50-51).
Chapter 2, 'Environments' (53-73) draws on approaches from the 'spatial turn' to think about lay interaction with physical churches. It argues that 'clergy did not and could not control the religious environments of the laity', either in terms of access or use (73). Basilicas had multiple foci and they often seem to have been designed to facilitate proximity to relics (56-62). Private churches and monasteries provided alternative environments even less susceptible to ecclesiastical control (67-71). As for actual church use, clerics had obvious anxieties about lay people disrespecting a sanctified space. At the same time, they also present considerable evidence of activities that suggested a much greater reverence, not least incubation and the seeking of cures (62-66).
Chapter 3, 'Urban case studies' (75-101) considers the specific rhythms and topography of Christian life in Arles, Lyon, Trier and Tours. Each city presents very different ancient and late ancient patterns of development and sharply contrasting bodies of surviving evidence. Bailey sets out the urban fabric and (possible) communal memory of each site before discussing how people might have experienced these cities as Christians. Particularly nice are her evocations of attempts by bishops to unify distant Christian sites at Arles and Tours through processions and relic translations (81, 97-98).
Chapter 4, 'Rituals' (103-115) considers the Eucharist, processions and rogations: liturgical moments where 'the lay experience of being "lay" would have been most acute' (103). Presenting rituals (after Philippe Buc and Catherine Bell) as 'argument[s] for… consensus' (105), Bailey contends once more for multiple perspectives on the message and significance of these communal activities.4 So, the performative aspect of the Eucharist might have kept attendees engaged despite its potential remoteness; at the same time, challenges to bishops during Rogations suggest that not everyone got with the programme.
Chapter 5, 'Behaviours' (117-37), the heart of the study (and something of a synecdoche), considers the depictions of ideal and rather less than ideal lay behaviour in hagiographies, sermons and epitaphs. Texts in all three genres suggested that worldly people could be good Christians; Bailey nicely picks out differences of emphasis. Late-antique Gallic saints' lives present future ascetic superstars as virtuous even in their worldly (pre-conversion) lives (119-22). If such narratives offered implicit role models for lay behaviour, sermons were much more explicit in their persuasion and admonishment (122-25). Caesarius offered a moral checklist for individual Christians to tick off (124); the Eusebius Gallicanus preachers were keener to offer a rationale for appropriate behaviour (124-25). Epitaphs highlighted similar pious activities (e.g. almsgiving), but left more room for family and city (125-28). Bailey once again stresses the subjectivity of clerical views both in depictions of 'misbehaviour' (128-32) and incidental descriptions of the laity (132-37). Her readings of alternative logics in Gregory's miracle stories are particularly neat (like the Christian who justified his gardening on Avitus' festival day by claiming that the saint was a working man, too).
Chapter 6, 'Knowledge and Belief' (139-57) returns to the knotty problem of what precisely lay people might have known of Christian teachings in late antiquity. Bailey sides with more optimistic post-revisionist approaches that have suggested widespread popular engagement with doctrinal controversies. Certainly, clerics seem to have both encouraged and expected considerable knowledge (141-48). Bailey takes a judicious perspective on the doubts and objections expressed in sermons and miracle stories: these were neither necessarily real objections made by members of the writers' congregations, nor simple authorial inventions, but 'indirect reflections' (150) of what those Christians might have been thinking. The efforts to which preachers went to persuade those audiences—and the likelihood of doubt and practical scepticism that they assumed—suggest that ordinary Gallic Christians had considerable independence of thought, and thus, distinct perspectives on their own religiosity. A short conclusion (159-60) recaps the book's main arguments, and gestures forward to the continued lack of closure in the high middle ages.
The Religious Worlds of the Laity is an exemplary study of the interaction between Christian authority figures and those over whom they claimed pastoral oversight. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the construction (and contestation) of Christian identity in late antiquity. With that audience and literature in mind, the book could perhaps have done more to frame what precisely was distinctive about this process in late-antique Gaul. The analysis frequently slips smoothly from general statements about late-antique or medieval Christian identity formation—across the Mediterranean/Europe—to specific examples from fifth-, sixth- or seventh-century Gaul. As a result, something of the particularity of late-antique Gaul—evoked in the urban case studies of ch. 3—is elided. Some intriguing peculiarities are noted, like Gallic hagiography and its positive view of worldly lives before the 'conversion' moment (no reconstructed sinners here), and Caesarius's expectations of ordinary Scriptural reading as opposed to Augustine's elite study groups. The communal dynamics delineated here invite comparisons between Caesarius' Arles or Gregory's Tours and (say), John Chrysostom's Antioch or Augustine's Hippo Regius. A more sustained comparative frame of reference, or a more wide-ranging concluding chapter, would have helped to locate late-antique Gaul—and Bailey's study—within the growing body of literature on the Christianisation of the late-antique and early medieval world. As it is, The Religious Worlds of the Laity will undoubtedly provoke others to make that comparison themselves.
1. L. K. Bailey, Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul (Notre Dame, IN, 2010).
2. Esp. J. Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe (London, 2005) and S. Hamilton, Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200 (London, 2013).
3. É. Rebillard, Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE (Ithaca, NY, 2012).
4. P. Buc, The Dangers of Ritual: Between early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory (Princeton, NJ, 2001); C. Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (New York, 1992).


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Vîșneve (în ) este un sat în comuna Pavlivske din raionul Vilneansk, regiunea Zaporijjea, Ucraina.

Demografie

Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației localității Vîșneve era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de belarusă (%) și rusă (%).

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Vîșneve, Pavlivske, Vilneansk, Zaporijjea
Vîșneve, Pavlivske, Vilneansk, Zaporijjea
Vîșneve, Pavlivske, Vilneansk, Zaporijjea

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This month we would like to take the time to recognize excellence in one of our "at-home-chef" friends, Jon Waalkes.
Jon has used a wide range of our products in ways we feel you need to see to believe. He is very active in his kitchen at home and shares most of his creations with us on Twitter!
"Growing up I was surrounded by food with a large home garden in the summer and working in the family butcher shop where my father, uncle, and occasionally my grandfather worked. I started working in the butcher shop at a very young age washing dishes and eventually taking on more responsibilities of counter service, prep, and butchering. This background has been invaluable as a cook in understanding different cuts and preparations of meats, but cooking for me didn't really set in until years later. It was experiencing food at great restaurants that really opened my eyes to the food I enjoy preparing today.
One of my favorite places to dine was (and still is) Rick Bayless's Topolobampo in Chicago, IL. Having dined there a couple times I picked up Rick Bayless's classic cookbook Mexican Kitchen – this book changed everything. For the first time, I began to understand the methods and steps of cooking with the well-written explanations of how and why the steps were taken. As I started cooking from this book my family and friends benefited from great meals, reinforcing my new "hobby" of cooking. This book is now around 18 years old, heavily stained, and still my favorite – I will always credit Rick Bayless for teaching me how to cook through this book. Today there are well over a hundred cookbooks on the bookshelf we built into our dining area and I maintain an active wish list of many more to add (I always justify that one meal out of a new book is cheaper than going out to dinner).
As I branched out with my cooking, the passion has evolved to the point where the kitchen has become the heart of our home and we regularly entertain friends and family around a meal. I'm always trying to learn more about different cuisines and cooking methods to expand upon my repertoire. A few years back this even led me to build a wood fired brick oven off the corner of our deck – one of the best projects ever. We now regularly enjoy wood fired pizzas and use the oven almost year round.
The most important part of cooking for me is starting with the best possible ingredients. We regularly purchase pastured meats from local farmers, grow vegetables in our garden in the summer, and frequent the farmer's market year round. To compliment these fresh ingredients I love to use BLiS products when I prepare a meal. The complex flavors that BLiS products add to a dish are the finishing touch in adding that "something extra". Whether it's a drizzle of the barrel aged fish sauce over some sautéed vegetables or a simple splash of the barrel aged Sherry vinegar, BLiS always brings out the extra flavor that standard products just can't match. The following salmon recipe is a great example of how much BLiS products can add to a dish. I hope you enjoy!"
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Q: Using Two Bytes Code Points in PHP I am working on this code
written by Jon and Mario. It is working for Consonants in Hindi ( क -  ह) but not for vowels. One reason can be I am not able to feed two code points for letter (अः)
I am trying these codes for range - अ - अः
// Used decimal number.
// Error - Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes
foreach (range(2309, 23092307) as $char) {

    $char = html_entity_decode("&#$char;", ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");
    $alphabets[$char] = ++$i;
}

print_r($alphabets);

Tried this as well in for loop -
"foreach (range(0x0905, '0x0905 0x0903') as $char)"
Also, this code:
// Output is Japanese/Chinese characters:
//
function unichr($intval) {
    return mb_convert_encoding(pack('n', $intval), 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16BE');
}

function uniord($u) {
    $k = mb_convert_encoding($u, 'UCS-2LE', 'UTF-8');
    $k1 = ord(substr($k, 0, 1));
    $k2 = ord(substr($k, 1, 1));
    return $k2 * 256 + $k1;
}

for($char = uniord('अ'); $char <= uniord('अः'); ++$char) {
    $alphabet[] = unichr($char);
}

print_r($alphabet);

It looks there was something with file encoding as well! As now it is returning this:
Array ( [0] => अ ) // only one line
I have tried with utf-8 and utf-16 document encoding.

A: I think this is a big problem because there is not a single unicode code point (character) for अः. Instead it is the composition of the two characters अ (0x0905 or decimal 2309) and ः (0x0903 or decimal 2907).
So your first code sample loop end point of 23092307 is not valid. What you have done there is just concatenate the two code points together and treat them as a single value.
Your second code sample is only producing the single character because it is just using the first of the two code points in the अः which is the same code point as अ.
Maybe you could look at a nested loop. Have your outer loop over the base characters, and your inner loop add the composition characters. Something like:
<?php
$i = 0;
foreach (range(0x0905, 0x0938) as $char)
{
    $txt = html_entity_decode("&#$char;", ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");
    $alphabets[$txt] = ++$i;
    foreach ( range(0x0901, 0x0903) as $combine )
    {
        $txt = html_entity_decode("&#$char;", ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8")
             . html_entity_decode("&#$combine;", ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");
        $alphabets[$txt] = ++$i;
    }
}
print_r($alphabets);
?>

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Britain on course for Jan 31 departure from EU
Anti-Brexit protesters, including one with a placard depicting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson under the thumb of US President Donald Trump, demonstrating outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday. British lawmakers on Thursday approved a Bill authorising the country's exit from the European Union on Jan 31.PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr Michel Barnier, EU's chief Brexit negotiator.PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Lawmakers pass Brexit Bill; EU cautions that sealing new free trade deal may take time
LONDON • Britain is on course to leave the European Union at the end of the month, after lawmakers passed a long-elusive milestone on the road to Brexit by approving a Bill authorising the country's departure from the bloc.
They voted 330 to 231 on Thursday to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill which sets the terms of departure from the 28-nation bloc.
The comfortable majority won by Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives in last month's elections secured the Bill's passage by the House of Commons despite the opposition of smaller parties.
The Bill was approved after three days of debate that brought none of the frayed tempers, late-night sessions and knife-edge votes that marked previous rounds of Brexit wrangling over the past year.
After passing through Parliament's unelected House of Lords - which can delay but not overturn the result in the Commons - the Bill should become law in time for Britain to leave the EU on Jan 31 and be the first member to quit the bloc.
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay said he welcomed the "constructive scrutiny" of the Lords but hoped the Upper House would not try to delay the Bill.
The vote was a major victory for Mr Johnson, who has made delivering Brexit the key aim of his premiership.
THE BOUNDARIES
If the UK wants an open link with us for the products - zero tariffs, zero quotas - we need to be careful about zero dumping at the same time.
MR MICHEL BARNIER, EU's chief Brexit negotiator, on discussions with Britain over a post-Brexit trade deal.
Britain voted narrowly to leave the EU in a 2016 referendum. But before the Dec 12 elections, lawmakers repeatedly defeated attempts by both Mr Johnson and his predecessor Theresa May to secure backing for their Brexit blueprints.
Conservative lawmakers cheered when the result of the vote was announced. But Mr Ian Blackford of the Scottish National Party said Scotland - which voted to remain in the EU in 2016 - must now be granted a referendum on independence. Mr Johnson has said that will not happen.
"This is a constitutional crisis, because we will not and we cannot accept what is being done to us," Mr Blackford said.
Despite Mr Johnson's repeated vow to "get Brexit done" on Jan 31, the departure will only mark the start of the first stage of the EU exit.
Next steps in Britain's EU exit
What details did British PM Boris Johnson give about his grand Brexit bargain?
Britain and the EU will then launch into negotiations on their future relationship, racing to strike new ties for trade, security and other areas by the end of 2020.
"Leaving the EU doesn't mean that we will have got Brexit done," said Mr Paul Blomfield, a Brexit spokesman for the main opposition Labour Party. "The difficult stage is yet to come."
Top EU officials are already saying that sealing a new deal will be tough. EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Thursday said Britain's goal of striking a full free trade agreement by the end-of-year deadline that Mr Johnson insists on was unrealistic.
"We cannot expect to agree on every aspect of this new partnership," Mr Barnier said, adding: "We are ready to do our best in the 11 months."
International trade deals typically take years to complete, but Mr Johnson has ruled out extending a post-Brexit transition period agreed by the two sides beyond the end of 2020, although the EU has offered to prolong it until 2022.
That has set off alarm bells among businesses which fear Britain could face a "no-deal" Brexit at the start of 2021. Economists say that would disrupt trade with the EU - Britain's biggest trading partner - and plunge the United Kingdom into recession.
Britain and the EU will have to strike deals on everything from trade in goods and services, to fishing and aviation, to medicines and security. The EU insists there is no way to deal with all these issues in less than a year.
British officials have suggested they could carve the negotiations up into chunks, sealing deals one sector at a time.
'Basically impossible' to agree full EU-UK deal by year end, says EU head
British election: Boris Johnson hails 'historic' Conservative victory
The two sides also have conflicting demands that are likely to complicate negotiations.
Mr Johnson says Britain is seeking a wide-ranging free trade deal with the bloc, but does not want to agree to keep all EU rules and standards. It wants to be free to diverge in order to strike new trade deals around the world.
But the EU says Britain will not get good access to its market unless it agrees to alignment. EU officials worry that Britain plans to cut environmental and employment standards to position itself as a low-regulation, low-tax rival to the bloc.
The EU has stressed the need for a level playing field in the upcoming trade negotiations, meaning that access to its market will be linked to commitments to standards in areas including workers' rights and the environment.
"If the UK wants an open link with us for the products - zero tariffs, zero quotas - we need to be careful about zero dumping at the same time," Mr Barnier told a conference in Stockholm.
Next steps in Brexit
LONDON • British MPs finally approved the terms of Brexit, paving the way for Britain to leave the European Union on Jan 31 and for trade talks with Brussels to begin.
Here are the next key steps:
NEXT WEEK: HOUSE OF LORDS
MPs in the lower parliamentary House of Commons completed their scrutiny of the deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson struck with Brussels in October.
It now goes to the un-elected upper House of Lords where, unlike the Commons, Mr Johnson has no majority. However, the scale of his victory in last month's general election and the approval of MPs mean peers are unlikely to make any major changes.
The Lords will begin debating the deal on Monday, with the Bill likely to pass into law by Jan 22 or 23.
JAN 29: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
The Brexit deal must also be ratified by the European Parliament.
MEPs have been waiting to see what London does after years of political wrangling, but are now expected to approve it on Jan 29.
JAN 31: BREXIT
With the divorce terms confirmed, Britain will leave the EU on the next deadline set with Brussels, on Jan 31 at 2300 GMT.
This comes 43 months after Britons voted in the June 2016 referendum to end their nearly half a century of integration with the EU.
FEBRUARY/MARCH: TRADE TALKS BEGIN
Britain says it is ready to start trade talks on Feb 1 but the EU must work out its position.
Negotiators in Brussels began discussing this week what member states want from the negotiations.
According to two officials, the EU mandate could be approved by national ministers on Feb 25, unless pressure rises to advance the schedule.
Officials on both sides have suggested trade talks could begin around March 1.
JULY 1: EXTENSION DEADLINE
The deal includes a transition phase in which relations remain the same in practice until Dec 31.
Britain can ask to extend the period for one or two years, but must inform the EU of its request by July 1.
Mr Johnson insists there will be no extension.
DEC 31: TRANSITION ENDS
Without an extension, existing relations between Britain and the EU will be severed on Dec 31.
Union Jack, special coins but no Big Ben on Brexit night
S$229 billion and counting: The cost of Brexit for the UK
British lawmakers back EU exit deal, turning page on Brexit crisis
Don't mention the B-word! Britain makes 'Brexit' taboo
With clock ticking, British MPs scrutinise Brexit deal
Britain's new Parliament prepares to vote on PM Boris Johnson's Brexit deal
Queen's speech sets out Brexit agenda
British opposition chief Jeremy Corbyn says sorry for election defeat
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 11, 2020, with the headline 'Britain on course for Jan 31 departure from EU'. Print Edition | Subscribe

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Concinnity, Webnovel
CON – B1: Serenity – Chapter 8
November 25, 2021 December 16, 2021 by themarlenamarie
Alexis sat in the kitchen, reviewing her class work for preparation for the new semester. She still had months to go, but with the end of June, she had to begin her preparation. There was not much she had to do, but she wanted to review her courses and the texts being taught before she showed up to class. Her teachers were notorious for bringing up things before they were taught.
"Staying in today?" Her father's voice startled her from where she sat.
"Are you going out?" She eyed him. He was dressed for boating but he had a bag with him.
"Your mother's brother invited me out to his friend's boat." Her father smiled. "Take care of your mother."
"I will." Alexis assumed that her aunt was coming over that afternoon to help with the garden, along with her grandmother. Nia was out, somewhere. She had told Alexis late, that she was going out with Jim to some event. Alexis had tried to inquire more and was at a loss of what she could get out of her sister.
When her father left, Alexis turned back to watching Tiana who was tinkering with something on the other end of the video call. The two of them sometimes called each other when bored, to keep each other company. Alexis listened to her music as she went back to her books, thinking about others. She really should not have been inside. Her father was right. It was her summer, she should have been out doing something else.
"Lexi." Tiana called to her.
"Yes?" Alexis gave Tiana her full attention.
"You're dozing off. Go take a nap."
Alexis laughed, not sure how Tiana had noticed at all. Alexis herself had not noticed her mind drifting towards slumber. With a quick goodbye, the two hung up and Alexis closed her books. As she stretched, her mother's footsteps could be heard from above followed by a knock at the door. Her aunt came in dressed in bright blue, a sun hat, and a wide smile. Her grandmother was dressed in a soft pink outfit with gardener's gloves held on the side of her purse.
"Alexis!" Her grandmother kissed her cheeks.
"Where's your mom?" Aunt Jada asked before calling Alexis' mother's name from upstairs. Alexis heard the resonance before she saw her mom and upon the sight of her, Alexis almost started crying. It had been so long since she had heard her mother so at peace. Usually there was a frightening agony to her mother's existence that over powered everything. It existed, in the shallows and hidden in the moment, but it was not at the forefront. Her mother was excited for the day. Alexis hoped that she would find happiness of some sort in doing the things that she used to love.
"I did not know you were home." Her mother smiled at her.
"Nia is the one who went out." Whatever slumber Alexis had wanted disappeared in that moment, as she decided then that she was going to help garden too. "I'm going to go up and change. I'll meet you out there."
"You're helping?" Her aunt asked.
"Of course she is." Her grandmother laughed, before urging them to get something to drink. Alexis hurried upstairs to change into something she was willing to get dirty. She skipped back towards the kitchen elated beyond words and made both ice tea and lemonade. It was almost an hour after she had said she'd join them that she did, lemonade and waters in hand.
Alexis settled into the talk and gossip as if she had always belonged in it, and began working at weeding the garden. The world was in harmony as they moved. Alexis paid little attention to the gossip, focusing on the light laughter her mother gave periodically and letting that sound bleed into Alexis' memory. It was a different laughter than the all encompassing bodily laughter her mother once had, but it was her laugh.
Alexis' fingers moved about a leaf feeling its vibrations under her fingers. She could sense this life as she could all others. She'd learned to ignore it, as white noise, but in this moment she let herself hear it. It was life, true, fresh, brilliant. It struggled to survive and fought against all that came in its way. She felt terrible about ripping it apart and ending its life. Hearing its shrill call of death haunted her soul, and reminded her, once more, of why she ignored all the sounds.
Looking at her fingertips, Alexis saw green. She thought of grass and trees, and leaves. She thought of the soft summer air and a house surrounded by green on all sides. Once more she was there in the hallway in front of the door. The door wanted to be opened. It called her name and dared her approach. The door strived to exist in a way more than it had before. Alexis paused.
"Alexis, baby, what's wrong?" Her grandmother took her hand. "Did you get a splinter?"
"More like a bug bite, baby girl is using plastic." Her aunt disagreed.
Her grandmother tended to her hand without a word more, as if she had not heard her daughter. Alexis felt so much love for this woman, and her family. She felt at ease, the door slipping from her mind and instead music replaced it.
When Nia got home later that night, Alexis was humming a tune that she had to find in her archives. Her room was a trash heap of discarded CDs and records as Alexis tried to place the song on her computer when her personal collection did not have it.
"You aren't answering your messages." Nia said the words at least three times before Alexis recognized the words. She snapped her head up, still humming the tune, focused on the task fo finding the song. Nia laughed and walked away. Alexis looked to her phone to find all the unread texts. Many were from Tiana. None had to be responded to. Jordan had finally responded to their conversation from the day before. Nate's text caught her eye.
Nate: What are you doing tomorrow?
Alexis: Nothing why?
Nate took a minute to respond. He had asked her almost six hours prior and it was almost midnight then. She had thought he wouldn't respond, when she saw that he read the message.
Nate: I got my car back. I'll pick you up say five?
Alexis: AM? I'll be sleeping.
Nate: LOL PM.
Alexis: Is this a date
Nate: Only if you say yes
Alexis felt her heart flip in her chest. She was not sure what had made Nate reach out to her, but she was going to take the chance. She would not mess up this time. Jordan would not come between her and the chance of her having a normal relationship. She was only infatuated with Jordan because of his mysterious home. There was no other reason.
She said yes.
And about as soon as she said yes, she remembered the title of the song. Listening to it on repeat, Alexis put away all of her music, humming along with another tune she could not place.
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In 1892 one of us was able within the compass of a short article in a medical journal to give a résumé of our knowledge of the Trypanosomes. To-day it requires a whole volume to relate all that is known about these hæmatozoa and the diseases to which they give rise.
Opening lines from Introduction to Alphonse Laveran and Felix Etienne Pierre Mesnil Trypanosomes and Trypanosomiasis (1904), v. English edition translated and much enlarged by David Nabarro, (1907), xv. The article was footnoted as A. Laveran, Arch. Méd. Expérim. (1 Mar 1892).


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Liverpool - Civic Week 1925
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Item title reads - Liverpool civic week. Official opening by Lord Mayor with state ceremony. Merseyside.
M/S as the Lord Mayor's carriage comes to a halt. M/S of him reading a speech from a piece of paper, C/U of his face as he does this. M/S of the Lord Mayor and a boy scout placing a flag in the ground, C/U of the flag, it says '1715' and has a picture of a bird in the middle. M/S of the Lord Mayor waving and getting back into his carriage.
M/S from above of little boys in sailor suits giving flowers to the Lord Mayor. Various good shots of a fashion parade with ladies modelling fur coats on the deck of a ship. M/S of a woman with a model ship for a hat and a model of the world around her middle, a little boy and girl stand at the side. M/S of the ladies modelling the coats and gowns again. M/S of the Lord Mayor reading, M/S as he gets out of his carriage. M/S of men in uniform playing trumpets at the side of the road.
Note: the cuts run from 01:58:06 to the end of the item, the cuts of the ladies modelling appear to be from 'Liner Fashion Parade' in G1232 on *PM0426*.
A yellow tinted version exists.
Factory Nursery In Liverpool
A Liverpool factory runs a workplace nursery to encourage mums to return to work.
Masses of people gather to see, and walk through, the world's greatest tunnel.
Liverpool "Beware Other Items Share This Title"
Footage of the Mauretania in Liverpool, Merseyside.
Football Season Opens
Chelsea beats Liverpool 6-1 at the first match of the football season.
Work Proceeds On Liverpool Cathedral Lner
Work in progress on the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool, plus a models of the finished building.
Spring Cleaning Elephants At Liverpool Zoo
An elephant is cleaned by a man with a broom.
Moving The New Mauretania At Liverpool
The ship 'Mauretania' is moved into its new berth at Liverpool, Merseyside.
Shots of half-built ship in dry dock at large shipyard, possibly in Liverpool.


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The 8 Scariest Novels of the Decade
Within the many genres that go into making up modern literature, horror has a special place. The shelves are positively teeming with vampires, zombies, psychos, apocalypses… it's a wonder they don't drip when we aren't looking. And yet, as a subset of fiction, it doesn't get a whole lot of attention without the help of handsome actors, big franchises and the surname King. Which is awful. Awful because there's just so much that can be done with it, so many colours to play with, so many shapes that thrills and fears can take. On top of that, we can easily forget (thanks, again, to sparkles and screen-battles and marketing execs) that one of horror's chief functions is to really plumb the depths of human emotion, existence even, and to dissect the impact of the outlandish and the unexplainable. Whether we're talking about gigantic geometry-flouting squid deities, quietly malevolent phantasms or a whole lot of seriously ticked-off birds, the darker fruits of the imagination stay juicy for longest.
Netflix and Hollywood certainly seem to keep the genre going strong on screen, but what about the books? Since we're lurching ominously (or however it is that lurching tends to be done) toward the end of this decade, I thought it would be prudent to take a look at eight of the scariest and most inventive works of fiction to have hit the shelves since 2010. In no particular order, here they are:
Fellside by M.R. Carey
From the author of The Girl With All the Gifts (which is not lacking in skin-crawls either), this one is majorly chilling and sometimes downright terrifying. A woman is sent to a remote prison deep in the unforgiving Yorkshire Moors after she accidentally burns down her apartment in a narcotic haze, killing a young boy in the process. In the seclusion of her cold and whispering cell she is haunted by the boy… who has a message especially for her. Supernatural and claustrophobic horrors jostle with emotional devastation and guilt in this intense tale of dual imprisonment.
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Like The Conjuring, if you threw in a dangerous dose of small-town politics and some modern innovations, Hex is the story of a witch whose work is not finished, the community that she torments and the struggle that ensues when a group of teenagers tries to expose the truth. (If not for curious and foolhardy kids, the horror genre would mostly consist of adults worrying about property prices, right?) The elders of Black Spring have placed the town in a state of lockdown to prevent the spread of the curse of the muzzled witch, but when some local teenagers go viral with the hauntings, the community is plunged into a medieval panic. It's gothic, bleak and wholly original. European creepiness at its most cloying.
The zombie apocalypse is more than just a fun discussion to have at a bar with your nerdier friends. This is the ultimate tale of the world plunged into gruesome predator-prey enormity, a post-apocalyptic thrill-ride that starts with a monstrous military experiment and grows into an epic, impossibly dangerous quest to overcome insuperable doom and corrupted humanity. Masterfully written, inventive and massive in scope, Cronin's chronicle of primal horror and global catastrophe is a must read if you've ever felt that the viral apocalypse genre just doesn't go deep enough.
Bedfellow by Jeremy C. Shipp
Shipp may be a lesser-known author but his bizarre, psychological terrors deserve a wide readership. Bedfellow is a headlong plunge into the weird and forbidding, the tale of a strange and insidious entity that latches itself onto a family, warping their minds and using them to feed its shifting and frightful appetites. There is no story of haunting or home invasion that matches the inventiveness and unease of Bedfellow. Need we say more than, it's about a shapeshifting invader called Marvin who takes root by manipulating memories and feeding off psyches?
I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindquist
Lindquist is a horror icon. His brilliantly fresh and unique take on vampire lore, Let the Right One In was not only one of the best horror novels ever produced, it was also a righteous slap to the faces of Edward Cullen and company. Lindquist is as gifted at finding unusual emotion as he is at evoking decay and gore. In this one, he dials back the undead nausea in favour of more atmospheric and stalking terror, a more philosophical exploration of dread. Four families find themselves stuck in a vast expanse of grass and sky, watched by the creatures that patrol the fringes and tormented by eerie music. Heartbreak, mind-f*cks and near-cosmic creepiness. Oh, and weird… so weird.
The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
The open road is an ever bountiful source of horror. Because crashes are soul-shakingly fearsome, long stretches of lonely travel are forbidding and motorists are complete… vampires? Yep, it's a vampire story that also has muscle cars, gritty revenge and devastating loss. It has loads of action, buckets of gore and properly memorable villains. But don't be fooled, The Suicide Motor Club also packs a complex emotional punch and augments its deserted-highway dread with top notch writing. Visceral, terrifying and hard-hitting. I think there's a Tarantino comparison that wants making here…
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Suffocating, strange, surreal and gloriously unsettling, Fever Dream is a rare instance of the properly conveyed nightmare. You know when you have a really traumatic nightmare and you're hopelessly unable to describe it to those around you? This is not a problem that Schweblin has. Told through unrestrained dialogue, the premise is simple: a young woman lies dying in a hospital. By her side is a young boy. The two are not related, but between them grows a haunting story of lost souls and tattered psychologies, desperation and poison. It's unlike anything you've read before, and so much of it defies description, but you can be sure it is intoxicatingly unique, hallucinogenic and thoroughly engrossing.
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
Straub is a master right up there with Stephen King. His work is always literate and ambitious. A Dark Matter is a profound and cerebral book that will divide opinion, but occupies such a position within the genre, and within American literature as a whole, that you can't ignore it. Back when they were in high school, four friends each encountered a charismatic and cunning occult leader. The story ends, for a time, with a gruesome and deadly ritual performed in a meadow. Years later, the friends attempt to make sense of what happened and just how deeply it touched them all, inadvertently rekindling the evil that was born all that time ago. It's chilling, unpredictable, technically inventive and darkly enigmatic. Horror-heads, this is the essential bridge between the philosophy of terror and the visceral wrench of the jump-scare, between Lovecraft and King.
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On Wednesday, Budapest's bid for the 2024 Olympic Games quietly left the starting block in it's race against Los Angeles, Paris and Rome. While Hungary's opponents opted for glittery ceremonies to showcase the delivery of their bid files to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Budapest instead remained mostly silent to the public while submitting the comprehensive 69-page document to be examined by the Evaluation Commission.
Without a dedicated Website, logo or even branding visible on the bid documents – Budapest's bid mimicked the perception that it remains an outsider in this fiercely competitive race.
Yet Budapest is committed to this bid saying that there is great opportunity for Hungarians and the Olympic movement 35 years after the nation gained freedom.
"Benefitting from our 'right-sized scale and capacity, a Games in Hungary will truly be a Games of a nation with 90% of Hungarian people within 90 minutes of Olympic venues," the Prime Minister of Hungary, Mayor of Budapest and bid executives wrote to IOC President Thomas Bach in a covering letter with the documents.
"Budapest 2024 will serve as an inspiration for new cities aspiring to bid for the Games," the bid book explains.
Agenda 2020 was designed to allow cities and countries the opportunity to host the Games where before it was only available to larger, wealthier cities. Budapest is pressing on the IOC to recognize this goal.
The Games would be scheduled from July 19 and August 4, allowing them to concur with school holidays and optimal weather conditions.
The Games footprint would be spread across two zones and seven clusters straddling the Danube River and highlighting iconic buildings and locations.
The National Government will fund the construction of an Olympic Village that would later be converted and sold to private owners for rental housing.
Seven new sport venues would need to be constructed for the Games including the 60,000 seat Olympic Stadium and the Tennis stadium. Media Village construction would also be required. These would be financed by the national government and the bid committee ensures that they are needed for community development and will have sustainable legacies.
Though the government has guaranteed financing for these construction projects, they are extensive and will present some risk for the bid.
A December 2015 poll conducted by the bid showed that 57 per cent of those asked in Budapest and surrounding cities said they would support the Games. The bid also claims that there is "no substantive or organized opposition to hosting" the Games, and "no referendums have proceeded.
While a committee in Budapest approved a possible referendum last year, the high court rejected it. The bid document explains that no referendum is required to hold the Games but wouldn't rule out that a referendum could occur if the proper legal measures were taken and approved.
In November, Hamburg was forced to drop its 2024 bid when it was narrowly defeated in a referendum.
The bid has budgeted USD $58.5 million to finance the campaign until September 2017 – $53.8 million will be public funds while $4.7 million will come from the private sector. This funding is in line with the other bids in the race, all markedly lower than in previous years due to Agenda 2020 reforms.
"We look forward to the opportunity of elaborating our proposition during the second and third stages of the bidding process over the coming months," the covering letter concluded, with hope.


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Q: Disable logging messages from imported libraries I am facing an issue with logging.
In my project, the logging file is bloated with so many log messages from imported libraries. I do not want to see them at all in the log file. This is (below code block) how the logging file settings are setup. I am not familiar with the logging library as I have not used it before. Goggling around, I found the same suggestion repeated on several threads..
logger.getLogger("MODULE_name_which_you_dont_want_to_See_in_logs").setLevel(logging.WARNING)

However, this does not solve my problem. Can someone help me out here please?
This is how my logging to file is setup at the moment:
# Define logging settings and path for saving log
logger.define_logging(
    logpath=path_output_folder,
    logfile=LOGFILE,
    file_level=logging.DEBUG,
    screen_level=screen_level,
)

I have many imported libraries, but I suspect the culprits to be dash and requests. I added statements for them, but still the file is bloated.
logger.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
logger.getLogger("dash").setLevel(logging.WARNING)

A sample of the unwanted log messages:
2020-12-16 14:01:44,111 - DEBUG - PngImagePlugin - STREAM b'IHDR' 16 13
2020-12-16 14:01:44,112 - DEBUG - PngImagePlugin - STREAM b'PLTE' 41 456
2020-12-16 14:01:44,112 - DEBUG - PngImagePlugin - STREAM b'IDAT' 509 5012
2020-12-16 14:01:57,455 - DEBUG - selector_events - Using selector: EpollSelector
2020-12-16 14:01:59,079 - DEBUG - protocol - client - state = CONNECTING
2020-12-16 14:01:59,080 - DEBUG - protocol - client - event = connection_made(<_SelectorSocketTransport fd=15 read=idle write=<idle, bufsize=0>>)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,082 - DEBUG - client - client > GET /devtools/browser/0a792431-cccb-4598-b081-92a9306f77ca HTTP/1.1
2020-12-16 14:01:59,082 - DEBUG - client - client > Headers([('Host', '127.0.0.1:39637'), ('Upgrade', 'websocket'), ('Connection', 'Upgrade'), ('Sec-WebSocket-Key', 'IlrPj2gl6wjO42IIFPyrXg=='), ('Sec-WebSocket-Version', '13'), ('Sec-WebSocket-Extensions', 'permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits'), ('User-Agent', 'Python/3.8 websockets/8.1')])
2020-12-16 14:01:59,082 - DEBUG - protocol - client - event = data_received(<211 bytes>)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,083 - DEBUG - client - client < HTTP/1.1 101 WebSocket Protocol Handshake
2020-12-16 14:01:59,083 - DEBUG - client - client < Headers([('Upgrade', 'WebSocket'), ('Connection', 'Upgrade'), ('Sec-WebSocket-Accept', 'mJN4dKj9ta6vs7uHbbdBZ0y5tSc='), ('Sec-WebSocket-Extensions', 'permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits=15')])
2020-12-16 14:01:59,083 - DEBUG - protocol - client - state = OPEN
2020-12-16 14:01:59,084 - DEBUG - protocol - client > Frame(fin=True, opcode=1, data=b'{"id": 1, "method": "Target.setDiscoverTargets", "params": {"discover": true}}', rsv1=False, rsv2=False, rsv3=False)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,084 - DEBUG - protocol - client - event = data_received(<175 bytes>)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,084 - DEBUG - protocol - client < Frame(fin=True, opcode=1, data=b'{"method":"Target.targetCreated","params":{"targetInfo":{"targetId":"F61E36583DEF4DF0A2A1B7320D3D848B","type":"page","title":"","url":"about:blank","attached":false,"browserContextId":"D249088AE5A6F231C6D6C385CDB0C54E"}}}', rsv1=False, rsv2=False, rsv3=False)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,085 - DEBUG - protocol - client - event = data_received(<127 bytes>)
2020-12-16 14:01:59,085 - DEBUG - protocol - client < Frame(fin=True, opcode=1, data=b'{"method":"Target.targetCreated","params":{"targetInfo":{"targetId":"d9767b47-b4ff-4641-919e-97b5924ab80f","type":"browser","title":"","url":"","attached":false}}}', rsv1=False, rsv2=False, rsv3=False)

A: The problem you are having is twofold: first log messages propagate up the logging hierarchy irrespective of logger levels, propagated messages only care for the level of the handlers. To stop this you can just stop the propagation from the loggers that you don't want to see:
logger.getLogger("requests").propagate = False

The second problem is that you are probably not getting the right loggers. Most of the verbose output from requests is actually from urllib which is used by requests. You will want to also stop the propagation on that logger:
logging.getLogger("urllib3").propagate = False

Edit: looking at your code you are using a logger.define_logging call, which is not part of the python logging stdlib. If you are using a third-party logging helper all bets are off in term of what might actually be happening with your logging setup and usually it is not required.

A: Your code looks good- and this is the appropriate way to affect the level of specific modules.
If you don't want to see warning, you might consider moving to only showing error messages:
logger.getLogger("requests").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
logger.getLogger("dash").setLevel(logging.ERROR)

Although it's good practice make sure you understand you know what the warnings are before you turn them off. I've genuinely worked with people who have ignored depreciation warnings, only to find that their code stops functioning after the next update!
Also, you can change levels on mass with your logger setup:
# Define logging settings and path for saving log
logger.define_logging(
    logpath=path_output_folder,
    logfile=LOGFILE,
    file_level=logging.WARNING,
    screen_level=screen_level,
    )

In case it's also handy, here are your options for levels (in order of severity):
CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, NOTSET


If you want to become an elected representative and aren't a millionaire, then we've got some bad news for you. Most politicians spend millions of rupees on their campaigns.
The ECP capped expenditure on election campaigns at Rs2 million for provincial assembly candidates and Rs4 million for National Assembly candidates this year.
Saturday (August 4) was the last day for candidates to tell the commission how much they spent on their election campaigns.
PTI chief Imran Khan contested and won the election from NA-131 in Lahore and spent Rs997,000 on his campaign.
PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif's campaign in Lahore was also successful and cost just over Rs1.9 million. More than Rs3.1 million was spent on PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari's campaign in Nawabshah, while his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spent over Rs3.5 million during his campaign for Larkana's NA-200. Both of them won their seats.
PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah spent Rs3.2 million during his campaign in Faisalabad. The most, however, was spent by PTI's Aleem Khan, who paid more than Rs3.9 million for his campaign. Unfortunately, he lost the NA seat but on the bright side, he did win the provincial seat.


Mom whose baby was ripped away during arrest appears in New Jersey court. Maggie Kent reports during Action News at 4pm on December 12, 2018.
TRENTON (WPVI) -- A Brooklyn mother whose 1-year-old baby was ripped from her arms during a disturbing arrest at the Human Resources Administration building in New York was released from jail after the charges against her were dropped, but that isn't the end of her legal trouble.
Jazmine Headley, 23, appeared in court in Mercer County, New Jersey, on Wednesday to answer a warrant on charges of credit card theft and trafficking in personal identifying information.
A Mercer County judge issued the warrant in July of 2017 after she failed to appear in court for her arraignment.
As a first-time offender, Headley will be enrolled in a pretrial intervention program and will spend 20 hours of community service. She will also have to pay restitution for the credit card fraud charge.
After that, her record will be expunged.
"I'm just happy to be reunited with my son," she said after court.
Meanwhile, the HRA employees involved in the New York incident have been placed on administrative leave.


This is the yellow card I used to vote YES on the Indianapolis Resolution.
Two years ago, when the Conference on College Composition & Communication [CCCC] was held in in Indianapolis, Indiana, a group of us in a workshop sponsored by the Labor Caucus found ourselves writing an update to the Wyoming Resolution for our 21st century labor contexts. You can read more about that day here.
Many hands, brains, drafts, and discussions later, after an open community discussion at CCCC 15 and a lot of canvassing, the Labor Caucus created the Indianapolis Resolution and today brought three items, packaged as a resolution, reflecting the actionable items in the Indy Res to the CCCC Business Meeting, asking that the organization vote to institute them. I'm so, so, happy to report that these resultuions passed by a large margin. Discussion was lively, and I was so proud and pleased to see people like Eileen Schell, Les Pearlman, and Bill Lalicker speak in favor of the motion.
I want to write more about this. I will. Right now, though, I'm hopped up on adrenaline and too much coffee, tossing stuff in my backpack so I can get to the airport on time.
I just wanted to write this brief note to mark this occasion, to express how grateful I am for the many people who wrote the Indy Res and worked to spread the word.
The work isn't over! We need to follow up with CCCC to make sure the work gets done. We need to bring the Indy Res to more of our professional organizations for adoption. We need to encourage more people to chip in and do the work of creating labor equity. Let's do this!
Without diminishing the significance of what was passed, I wonder if you would state, for purposes of clarification, the resolutions that actually were passed at the business meeting? It was decidedly not the IR, in toto, as your posting says. The various specific resolutions surely grew out of the IR. But CCC did not "pass the IR."
You're right, Doug, and I have updated the post accordingly.
Yes, and the other four resolutions (aside from the two thanking Linda A-K and the Local Arrangements Committee) were not connected to the Indy Resolution or the Labor Caucus at all; those came from the Contingent Faculty Working Conditions Task Force. It gets confusing because different bodies have overlapping membership, but they're structurally all different things.


Due to rain in the area and uncertainty with road conditions, classes are canceled and offices are closed on the Malibu campus for today, November 29, 2018. All other campuses remain open at this time. Faculty and staff working on the Malibu campus should not report to work unless they are critical support personnel, as designated by their supervisor. Critical support personnel on the Malibu campus should work with supervisors according to departmental protocols for determining whether to report to campus if they can safely do so.
At this time, faculty, staff, and students are advised not to use canyon roads near the Malibu campus, including to access the Calabasas campus. Calabasas employees with commutes affected by canyon roads should work with their supervisor. Pepperdine will continue to monitor conditions in the area.


Following the 2010 GC3 Innovators Roundtable, a project group was formed to develop and pilot a new collaboration between companies and universities to evaluate safer alternatives to toxic chemicals. The aim was to generate information on alternatives to support chemical substitution decision-making by GC3 companies and their supply chain partners. The goal was to pool knowledge and costs for evaluations to create robust results.
The model was developed through a pilot project focused on identifying and evaluating alternatives to known toxic phthalate plasticizers in wire & cable applications. The original workplan called for an assessment of the relative hazard/safety of the alternatives, as well as evaluations of technical performance and cost.
The following companies, government agencies and NGOs met on monthly calls to provide direction and input on the project: BASF, Dow Chemical, Hallstar, Teknor Apex, Dell, EMC, HP, Schneider Electric, PolyOne, Staples, Washington State Dept. of Ecology, Clean Production Action, and Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center. The companies involved are all important players in the electronic product value chain: plasticizer chemical manufactures/suppliers, plastic compounders, brands and a retailer.
The project is now complete. Nine plasticizers, selected by the workgroup, were evaluated by ToxServices using Clean Production Action's (CPA) GreenScreen™ Method. Project group members reviewed the Draft GreenScreen™ assessments and provided additional data and comments. ToxServices incorporated the data and addressed comments, as appropriate, in revisions to the GreenScreens™. Interim draft assessments and all comments received were posted on a password-protected webpage for the project group to access.
You can view a summary presentation on the project from the 2013 GC3 Innovators Roundtable.
A brief project summary report is available.
The project yielded detailed chemical hazard assessments of nine plasticizers for wire and cable applications. Four of these GreenScreen™ assessments have been "verified" (i.e., subjected to rigorous peer review) through a protocol developed by CPA. These assessments are considered "final." The other five are considered "draft."
The project group decided not to pursue performance and cost assessments of the alternative plasticizers as part of this project. In lieu of a performance assessment, the group chose to compile links to technical specifications and performance information for the plasticizers evaluated, provided by plasticizer manufacturers.
Through this effort, the project group learned that these types of collaborative assessments are possible, and that the collaborative process can yield more information and more robust assessments than might have otherwise been feasible if the assessments were done by an individual company or other organization.
Companies in the project group said that it is highly beneficial to have an independent assessment of chemical alternatives, for their own decision-making purposes and for internal and external communication.
An article on the project was published in GreenBiz.com and a more detailed description of the project will be published in May, 2013, in a Royal Society of Chemistry book on Chemical Alternatives Assessment.
For more information on the project, contact Monica Becker.


The built-in support for Amazon's speech synthesis service follows new Twilio integrations with Google AI-powered services.
Responsibile AI in consumer enterprise Kathryn Hume, vice president of product and strategy for Integrate.ai, sits down with Tonya Hall to discuss how good corporate citizenship and ethical AI goes hand in hand.
Twilio is giving developers more control over their interactive voice applications with built-in support for Amazon Polly -- the AWS text-to-speech service that uses deep learning to synthesize speech.
The integration adds more than 50 human-sounding voices in 25 languages to the Twilio platform, the cloud communications company announced Monday. In addition to offering access to different voices and languages, Polly will enable developers using Twilio's Programmable Voice to control variables like the volume, pitch, rate and pronunciation of the voices that interact with end users.
Programmable Voice has long offered a built-in basic text-to-speech (TTS) service that supports three voices, each with their own supported set of languages. TTS capabilities, however, have improved dramatically in recent years, and Twilio notes that Amazon has been at the forefront of these improvements.
Amazon isn't the only cloud vendor Twilio has tapped for AI-powered conversational services. Just a couple of weeks ago, Twilio announced a simplified integration between the Programmable Voice platform and Google's Dialogflow, a development suite for building conversational interfaces. Twilio also announced it's integrating Google's Contact Center AI into Twilio Flex, its contact center platform.
While Polly is now integrated with the Twilio platform, in the coming weeks Twilio will make Polly the default provider for all new Twilio Accounts. There will be an option to revert back to Basic Provider using the Twilio console. Twilio is also supporting Polly's Vocal Tract Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) feature, which enables developers to control speech variables like timbre and pitch.
Developers can try out different Polly voices in the Twilio console before choosing one. Polly for Programmable Voice starts at $0.0008 for every 100 spoken characters, and volume discounts are available.


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Attendance Officer School Assignments
SUBCHAPTER C. OPERATION OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Section 25.085. COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.
(a) A child who is required to attend school under this section shall attend school each school day for the entire period the program of instruction is provided.
(b) Unless specifically exempted by Section 25.086, a child who is at least six years of age, or who is younger than six years of age and has previously been enrolled in first grade, and who has not yet reached the child's 18th birthday shall attend school.
(c) On enrollment in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten, a child shall attend school.
(d) Unless specifically exempted by Section 25.086, a student enrolled in a school district must attend:
(1) an extended-year program for which the student is eligible that is provided by the district for students identified as likely not to be promoted to the next grade level or tutorial classes required by the district under Section 29.084;
(2) an accelerated reading instruction program to which the student is assigned under Section 28.006(g);
(3) an accelerated instruction program to which the student is assigned under Section 28.0211; or
(4) a basic skills program to which the student is assigned under Section 29.086.
(e) A person who voluntarily enrolls in school or voluntarily attends school after the person's 18th birthday shall attend school each school day for the entire period the program of instruction is offered. A school district may revoke for the remainder of the school year the enrollment of a person who has more than five absences in a semester that are not excused under Section 25.087. A person whose enrollment is revoked under this subsection may be considered an unauthorized person on school district grounds for purpose of Section 37.107.
HOME VISITS PROCEDURES
Truancy Home Visits – Will be done at the discretion of the Attendance Officer, if:
No phone contact can be established
Student is not attending school
A parent request's a home visit
A school administrator request's a home visit
Verification of Addresses – Will be done at the discretion of the Attendance Officer, if:
Notarized Statement of Residency has NOT been verified by their 30 day period.
Received return mail. Please see Texas Education Code § 25.002. REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLLMENT.
Extraordinary circumstances may be approved at the discretion of your Attendance Officer.
NOTE : Truancy home visits and Verification of Addresses will be prioritized at the discretion of the District Attendance Officer. All home visits MUST be referred using the Residency Check Form.
HARRIS COUNTY COURTS
Please use the following website to locate your Truancy Case:
http://www.ccl.hctx.net/
GUIDELINES FOR A REFERRAL
School personnel will refer student absences to the Cypress-Fairbanks District Attendance Officer using the following guidelines:
Three (3) days or parts of days for unexcused absences within a four-week period (May file court case for Failure to Attend School and/or Parent Contributing to Nonattendance).
Ten (10) days or parts of days for unexcused absences within a six-month period (Shall file a court case for Failure to Attend School and/or Parent Contributing to Nonattendance).
Five (5) consecutive days of absence without illness verification being provided by a parent or guardian or a health care provider.
Note: Unexcused arrival at a class after more than ten (10) minutes of the class period shall be regarded as an unexcused absence .
*Referrals for failure to attend school will be investigated by a District Attendance Officer.
WARNING NOTICES TO PARENTS
A student absent from school three (3) days or parts of days in a four-week period without an excuse will generate a court warning letter to the parent(s) or guardian(s). Any more absences without an excuse MAY subject the student and/or parent(s) or guardian(s) to prosecution for Failure to attend school TEC Sec. 25.094 and/or for Parent Contributing to Nonattendance TEC Sec. 25.093
A student absent from school ten (10) or more days or parts of days in a six-month period without excuse, SHALL be subject student and/or parent(s) or guardian(s) to prosecution for Failure to attend school TEC Sec. 25.094 and/or for Parent Contributing to Nonattendance TEC Sec. 25.093
FAILURE TO ATTEND SCHOOL
Texas Education Code Chapter 25
Sec. 25.094. FAILURE TO ATTEND SCHOOL. (a) An individual commits an offense if the individual:
(1) is required to attend school under Section 25.085; and
(2) fails to attend school on 10 or more days or parts of days within a six-month period in the same school year or on three or more days or parts of days within a four-week period.
(b) An offense under this section may be prosecuted in:
(1) the constitutional county court of the county in which the individual resides or in which the school is located, if the county has a population of two million or more;
(2) a justice court of any precinct in the county in which the individual resides or in which the school is located; or
(3) a municipal court in the municipality in which the individual resides or in which the school is located.
(c) On a finding by the county, justice, or municipal court that the individual has committed an offense under Subsection (a) or on a finding by a juvenile court in a county with a population of less than 100,000 that the individual has engaged in conduct that violates Subsection (a), the court may enter an order that includes one or more of the requirements listed in Article 45.054, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 1514, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001.
(d) If the county, justice, or municipal court believes that a child has violated an order issued under Subsection (c), the court may proceed as authorized by Article 45.050, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(d-1) Pursuant to an order of the county, justice, or municipal court based on an affidavit showing probable cause to believe that an individual has committed an offense under this section, a peace officer may take the individual into custody. A peace officer taking an individual into custody under this subsection shall:
(1) promptly notify the individual's parent, guardian, or custodian of the officer's action and the reason for that action; and
(2) without unnecessary delay:
(A) release the individual to the individual's parent, guardian, or custodian or to another responsible adult, if the person promises to bring the individual to the county, justice, or municipal court as requested by the court; or
(B) bring the individual to a county, justice, or municipal court with venue over the offense.
(e) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
(f) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that one or more of the absences required to be proven under Subsection (a) were excused by a school official or by the court or that one or more of the absences were involuntary, but only if there is an insufficient number of unexcused or voluntary absences remaining to constitute an offense under this section. The burden is on the defendant to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the absence has been excused or that the absence was involuntary. A decision by the court to excuse an absence for purposes of this section does not affect the ability of the school district to determine whether to excuse the absence for another purpose.
(g) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that one or more of the absences required to be proven under Subsection (a) was involuntary. The burden is on the defendant to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the absence was involuntary.
(h) Deleted by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1514, Sec. 4.
(i) Deleted by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1514, Sec. 4.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 865, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1297, Sec. 55, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1514, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 137, Sec. 6 to 8, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 283, Sec. 39, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 949, Sec. 36, eff. September 1, 2005.
PARENTS CONTRIBUTING TO NONATTENDANCE
Sec. 25.093. PARENT CONTRIBUTING TO NONATTENDANCE. (a) If a warning is issued as required by Section 25.095(a), the parent with criminal negligence fails to require the child to attend school as required by law, and the child has absences for the amount of time specified under Section 25.094, the parent commits an offense.
(b) The attendance officer or other appropriate school official shall file a complaint against the parent in:
(1) the constitutional county court of the county in which the parent resides or in which the school is located, if the county has a population of two million or more;
(2) a justice court of any precinct in the county in which the parent resides or in which the school is located; or
(3) a municipal court of the municipality in which the parent resides or in which the school is located.
(c) An offense under Subsection (a) is a Class C misdemeanor. Each day the child remains out of school may constitute a separate offense. Two or more offenses under Subsection (a) may be consolidated and prosecuted in a single action. If the court orders deferred disposition under Article 45.051, Code of Criminal Procedure, the court may require the defendant to provide personal services to a charitable or educational institution as a condition of the deferral.
(d) A fine collected under this section shall be deposited as follows:
(1) one-half shall be deposited to the credit of the operating fund of, as applicable:
(A) the school district in which the child attends school;
(B) the open-enrollment charter school the child attends; or
(C) the juvenile justice alternative education program that the child has been ordered to attend; and
(2) one-half shall be deposited to the credit of:
(A) the general fund of the county, if the complaint is filed in the justice court or the constitutional county court; or
(B) the general fund of the municipality, if the complaint is filed in municipal court.
(e) At the trial of any person charged with violating this section, the attendance records of the child may be presented in court by any authorized employee of the school district or open-enrollment charter school, as applicable.
(f) The court in which a conviction, deferred adjudication, or deferred disposition for an offense under Subsection (a) occurs may order the defendant to attend a program for parents of students with unexcused absences that provides instruction designed to assist those parents in identifying problems that contribute to the students' unexcused absences and in developing strategies for resolving those problems if a program is available.
(g) If a parent refuses to obey a court order entered under this section, the court may punish the parent for contempt of court under Section 21.002, Government Code.
(h) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution for an offense under Subsection (a) that one or more of the absences required to be proven under Subsection (a) was excused by a school official or should be excused by the court. The burden is on the defendant to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the absence has been or should be excused. A decision by the court to excuse an absence for purposes of this section does not affect the ability of the school district to determine whether to excuse the absence for another purpose.
(i) In this section, "parent" includes a person standing in parental relation.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 865, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1403, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1504, Sec. 24, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1514, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 137, Sec. 4, 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 283, Sec. 38, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 6.001, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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Action readiness is considered a central property of emotions in most psychological theories. Emotions are the engine of behavior. They are the motivating, directing, prioritizing function of the brain, and impel to an immediate reaction to challenges and opportunities faced by the organism. Nevertheless, under sociopolitical malaise, emotions do not always lead to action.
People leave in societies characterized by particular emotional cultures, climates, and atmospheres that set the background to what emotions are felt under which circumstances. The impact of an emotion depends on how relevant, that is, emotionally significant is the event for the individual; on the implications of the event for the person's well-being and immediate or long-term goals; on the individual's capacity to cope with or adjust to the consequences of the event; and on the significance of the event with respect to individual and collective self-concept and to social norms and values.
Although emotions trigger action, events with high emotional intensity may mobilize defense mechanisms that distort facts, so that the event may appear distant or not concerning the individual personally. In such cases action is hindered because the meaning of the emotive event, although fully intellectually understood, does not have personal emotional reality. If the defense mechanisms prove inefficient or collapse, the event may be experienced as traumatic, that is, as a shocking occurrence that brings about a rupture in the continuity of existence, numbing of senses and mental faculties, and inability to think about what happened for periods that may last from days to years, although individuals and collectives may appear quite normal in carrying out everyday routines.
Interpretative "emotion work" in formal or informal contexts may change emotions from immobilizing to mobilizing, or from destructive to constructive, as the traumatic event is being "worked through" and a cohesive narrative about it develops. But even then, action and in our case, political action, depends on the individual's available repertoire—political efficacy and resilience—built up from past recoveries and a sense of support from social networks, and hope in assessing the costs and benefits from the harms brought by acting and the harms brought by non-acting.
Keywords: emotion, emotional climate, resilience, hope, political efficacy, political action, financial crisis, Greece
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Is a region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian regions of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali, in the Amazon Basin. Its capital is the city of Puerto Maldonado.
From Puerto Maldonado a road about 55 kilometres (34 mi) long leads to the mining town Laberinto ("Labyrinth"). A second road is between the village Cusco and Itahuania (into the Manú National Park). It is a roughly 350 kilometres (220 mi)-long single-track road that is hard to travel in the rainy season. It also has a dirt road to the native community of Infierno ("hell"), where the Ese'ejas (or Guarayos) live. Their chief is Agustín Shapaja, who led the famous expedition to the Candamo. He was featured in the documentary El Candamo, la Ultima Tierra sin Hombres (The Candamo, The Last Land without Men).


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Cedar Park, TX - The Texas Stars (16-16-1-2, 35 points) defeated the Abbotsford Heat (23-11-3-0, 49 points) 2-1 in front of 3,640 fans at the Cedar Park Center on Wednesday night. Stars' right wing Colton Sceviour scored the game-winning goal with 12 seconds remaining in the third period. Forward Stephen Schultz also scored for Texas, extending the team's points streak to four games (2-0-1-1). Stars goalie Andrew Raycroft (2-0-1) stopped 32 shots, as the Stars improved to 8-7-1-1 at home. Abbotsford goalie Danny Taylor stopped 33 of 34 shots faced in his first 40 minutes of play. Joni Ortio (0-4-0) stopped eight shots in relief, taking the loss for the Heat. Abbotsford center Quintin Laing scored the game-tying goal for the Heat. Texas travels to Grand Rapids on Friday, January 13th at 6:00 p.m. (CT) to face the Griffins.
After a scoreless first period, Texas scored the opening goal of the night late in the second period. Forward Stephen Schultz snuck the puck past Taylor with 1:04 remaining in the period. Schultz's fourth goal of the year went unassisted off a Heat turnover, generating a 1-0 lead for the Stars.
Abbotsford tied the game 1-1 as center Quintin Laing found the back of the net at 10:55 of the third period, putting in a rebound off of his own shot. Defenseman Joe Piskula put up the assist on Laing's tenth goal of the season. Texas right wing Colton Sceviour netted the game-winning goal with 12 seconds left in the final frame. Center Scott Glennie set up Sceviour's seventh goal of the season, closing out a 2-1 Texas win.
Texas will embark on a four-game road trip from January 13 – 18, making stops in Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Chicago and Rockford. Texas will return home on Friday, January 20th to host Peoria at 7:30 p.m. The first 2, 500 fans to Friday's game will receive a player magnet courtesy of Time Warner Cable. Friday is also 3-2-1 night featuring $3 domestic drafts, $2 sodas and $1 hot dogs. The Stars take on the Houston Aeros at home on Saturday, January 21st at 7:00 p.m. The first 2,500 fans to Saturday's game will receive a player card set compliments of Goodwill. Saturday is also the State Farm Family Four Pack consisting of four tickets, four sodas and four hot dogs for $44.
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The Arapahoe County Criminal Court Index 1862-1879 contains an alphabetical list of criminal cases filed by the name of the first defendant listed on the case. It gives the date of filing, the case number, the charge, the book and page number of subsequent hearings, and a brief description of the findings of those hearings. Often, the dispensation of the case will be given in the notes. The very early cases, listed as occurring "before 1862," have no actual dates on the case but occur in the order of cases before others prosecuted in late 1862. These early cases being prosecuted as The People of the United States of America vs. the defendant, and were probably in the jurisdiction of the US Marshals. Most of these cases are listed as Treason, etc., most likely cases of Southern sympathizers as the Civil War was underway. It appears that the courts had their hands full with notorious saloon-owning brothers Edward and John Chase, not to mention forgers and miners passing off counterfeit gold dust.
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$200M LoopLand Hotel breaks ground in former Roosey Roads Naval Base
"We made the decision to remodel the units and put them back in all their glory. Part of our philosophy is to be able to have the least impact on nature and rehabilitating these rooms is part of this commitment," said the Developer, David D. Brillembourg.
Construction of the LoopLand Hotel, a $200 million property that will become the first hotel that will open on the former Roosevelt Roads Naval Base in 2022, was announced Thursday.
The proposal presented by the company behind the project, Brillembourg Group, calls for redeveloping about 750 former military homes on the former base in Ceiba into villas that will be rented either in their entirety, or by rooms. That would represent up to a total of 1,500 rooms on the 50-acre property.
"These houses once reestablished will become villas and guest rooms, with solar energy systems for their energy production and water collection to be used in their gardens," he said.
Developing the Loopland will be done in five phases, with each one generating 140 keys upon completion. The first phase will be ready by mid-2022 and the total project will be completed in a 10-year period and will generate 1,500 direct jobs and 7,500 indirect jobs in its operation, company executives said.
"Beyond a hotel, this is the beginning of a brand focused and designed for millennial families, who more than a destination to vacation, seek a reason for being behind each of their actions," he said.
"Loopland will be a center for marine adventures, sports, entertainment, relaxation, among others, respecting nature and its surroundings," Brillembourg said.
Loopland focuses on "being one with nature and as part of its philosophy the pillars that represent the brand have been derived: sustainability, wellness, adventure, innovation, social impact, entrepreneurship and safety," executives said.
In addition, Loopland will have incubators for both businesses and co-spaces, for the generation of new ideas and leadership, he said.
"As part of its commitment to the environment and sustainability in Loopland, we will work hand in hand with local farmers and small entrepreneurs in the area to offer their guests a gastronomic experience with the freshest products on the island," Brillembourg said.
As part of its development plan, the Loopland Hotel will establish agreements with other tenants already doing business on the former base, particularly those groups offering eco-friendly services.
For example, the developer is in talks with Para La Naturaleza, to establish tours within the areas of the base that are protected and not available for redevelopment.
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Heidie Calero July 24, 2020
Great news!!! It's about time for a sensible investment project for Roosevelt Roads. Hope it moves forward and starts construction as soon as possible.
cgsm July 25, 2020
Surely the EPA will have something to say about this project.
Michael J Ellison July 26, 2020
Who wants to stay there? The road alone is so bad you'd be better off going to Afghanistan.
SHELLEY RODRIGUEZ September 14, 2020
Not truly. the road is are the least of problems. they can lay down the reflector pavement that it lights up at night for bikers and cyclist. Make is sporty road.
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It doesn't seem like a big commitment for such hi-value location. Hopefully, due diligence was done, it would be terrible that the property would be involved in a legal battle that could scare away potential serious developers In the future.
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Restaurant Roundup: Noche to open in June; Linnig's adding pavilion4 minute read
By Kevin Gibson | April 22, 2019 11:00 am
Noche will open in June in this former Lutheran church in the Deer Park neighborhood. | Photo by Kevin Gibson
Noche Mexican BBQ, Aaron Diaz's Dia de Los Muertos-themed restaurant, is a few weeks away from opening.
More than a year in the planning, Diaz, says he hopes to soft-open the Mexican-barbecue fusion eatery in early June with several days of events.
Final construction is underway in the space, which is inside the chapel of the former Calvary Lutheran Church on Bardstown Road in the Deer Park neighborhood. Originally, Diaz hoped to open in January, but construction delays got in the way, thanks in part to the historic site zoning processes related to the church, which was built in 1927.
Noche, which is Spanish for "night," will be a unique addition to Louisville's dining theme. For starters, the walls will be painted with an ombre effect so that they will grow darker with elevation until reaching the dark wood buttressing. By adding string lighting over the dining room, the restaurant will have an ambiance like being outside on a starry night.
Noche will feature an open kitchen, as well as a patio facing Bardstown Road. | Photo by Kevin Gibson
A custom mural will overlook the main dining room, which will feature a 12-seat bar, seating for nearly 100 and an open-space kitchen. Original stained glass hanging light fixtures will remain to complement the original stained-glass windows in the church. Overall, the restaurant will be 3,600 square feet inside.
Outside, Diaz has plans for an 800-square-foot patio area facing Bardstown Road with string lighting to match what's inside.
The menu is a fusion of Mexican cuisine and Texas barbecue (Diaz and chef Marco Marmol are both from Midland, Texas) inspired by family gatherings, Diaz says.
"Anytime we would celebrate anything," he says, "we would do it with food."
The menu will reflect some of those gatherings, with many of the entrees being meat served with garnish and tortillas, from smoked brisket to pulled pork, along with plenty of seafood entrees, ceviche, fajitas and elote. Diners will be able to enjoy complimentary house salsa with chips, and they also can get a flight of specialty salsas. The restaurant also will have a cocktail program, as well as beer.
Marcol says the house specialty will be the shrimp ceviche, but also points to an appetizer called Armadillo Eggs, which are jumbo shrimp and jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon, served with pineapple pico de gallo.
The chef says the menu should never be confused with a traditional barbecue joint, nor should it be lumped in with standard Mexican or Tex-Mex fare.
"It's fusion," Marcol says. "We do smoked meat and grilled meat, but we also do tacos."
Diaz is hopeful Louisville will embrace the Dia de los Muertos theme, and not be put off by perceptions that it is a dark holiday due to its representation in calaveras, or animated skulls, and sugar skulls. He and Marcol both believe the tradition, wherein each year from Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 families gather by the graves of deceased relatives to honor them, is a noble and sentimental one.
"It's a beautiful holiday," Diaz says. "It's not a scary thing."
But he chose Louisville rather than his hometown in Texas because, he said: "Louisville is a weird city anyway. I think Louisville is going to love it."
When Noche opens, it will be for dinner only at first. The goal is to eventually open for brunch daily.
Mike Linnig's plans to add outdoor dining pavilion
Mike Linnig's Restaurant is planning to add an enclosed dining area to the existing patio space.
Mike Linnig's Restaurant plans to add a dining pavilion to its patio space. | Photo by Kevin Gibson
The restaurant's owners filed plans with Louisville Metro Planning & Design for a 2,280-square-foot pavilion to be constructed within the 15,000-square-foot outdoor dining area, which currently features mostly open-air picnic table seating and décor.
The goal is to create an outdoor dining space that is less weather-dependent, according to the application, which referred to the proposed pavilion as a "three-season" space. The proposed structure is described as a timber pavilion with the sides enclosed with glass panel, garage-style doors. The new structure would be designed to match the existing look and feel of the restaurant and outdoor dining space.
The plan calls for all existing trees and landscaping to remain and for the remaining green space to remain untouched. The application also says pedestrian traffic and parking will not be affected by the construction.
Mike Linning's, located at 9308 Cane Run Road in Pleasure Ridge Park, originally was opened by Mike and Carrie Linnig in 1925 as a roadside produce stand. The business grew and turned into the fried fish concept, ultimately becoming a Louisville staple. The business is still owned by members of the Linnig family.
Second Barry's Cheese Steaks & More now open
Barry's Cheesesteaks and More in Old Louisville is now open. | Photo by Kevin Gibson
If you live near downtown, it was a decent haul to make it out to Okolona for a trip to Barry's Cheese Steaks and More. That trip will be a little shorter now that the second location of Barry Washington's Philadelphia-inspired restaurant has opened at 1161 S. Second St.
Washington had hoped to open in January. The menu at the Old Louisville location is pared down a bit from the original, focusing on cheesesteaks and burgers. In addition, dining space is limited, as the new location is designed primarily for carry-out.
The new Barry's Cheese Steaks will be open Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
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