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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.persistence;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.junit.Assert;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde.serdeConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazybinary.LazyBinarySerDe;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestMapJoinTableContainer {

  private static final Object[] KEY = new Object[] {new Text("key")};
  private static final Object[] VALUE = new Object[] {new Text("value")};
  private ByteArrayOutputStream baos;
  private ObjectOutputStream out;
  private ObjectInputStream in;
  private MapJoinPersistableTableContainer container;
  private MapJoinTableContainerSerDe containerSerde;
  private MapJoinKeyObject key;
  private MapJoinRowContainer rowContainer;
  @Before
  public void setup() throws Exception {
    key = new MapJoinKeyObject(KEY);
    rowContainer = new MapJoinEagerRowContainer();
    rowContainer.addRow(VALUE);
    baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    out = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);

    LazyBinarySerDe keySerde = new LazyBinarySerDe();
    Properties keyProps = new Properties();
    keyProps.put(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMNS, "v1");
    keyProps.put(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMN_TYPES, "string");
    keySerde.initialize(null, keyProps, null);
    LazyBinarySerDe valueSerde = new LazyBinarySerDe();
    Properties valueProps = new Properties();
    valueProps.put(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMNS, "v1");
    valueProps.put(serdeConstants.LIST_COLUMN_TYPES, "string");
    valueSerde.initialize(null, keyProps, null);
    containerSerde = new MapJoinTableContainerSerDe(
        new MapJoinObjectSerDeContext(keySerde, false),
        new MapJoinObjectSerDeContext(valueSerde, false));
    container = new HashMapWrapper();
  }

  @Test
  public void testSerialization() throws Exception {
    container.put(key, rowContainer);
    containerSerde.persist(out, container);
    out.close();
    in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray()));
    container = containerSerde.load(in);
    Utilities.testEquality(rowContainer, container.get(key));
  }
  @Test
  public void testDummyContainer() throws Exception {
    MapJoinTableContainerSerDe.persistDummyTable(out);
    out.close();
    in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray()));
    container = containerSerde.load(in);
    Assert.assertEquals(0, container.size());
    Assert.assertTrue(container.entrySet().isEmpty());
  }
}

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Uncertainty is increasingly becoming a regular element of today's working life. As companies adjust to the changing economic situation, customer expectations, competitors' moves, governmental regulations, skill deficiencies, and other elements of the business landscape, they have to reconsider and reinvent ways of doing business. For the employees it means giving up hope of "having made it" to a point where they can enjoy the past efforts (made by them or, in many cases, by previous generations of workers) without the need to readjust, relearn, and renew themselves. Unfortunately, such adaptation is complicated by lack of clear steps that can be prescribed to a worker and that will guarantee success.
When a company looks for new ways of staying competitive, it often tries new approaches that haven't been tested before. Those attempts are, in fact, experiments, with the outcomes still to be seen. Experiments by their nature have a high degree of uncertainty embedded in them. While not taking experiments is deadly, being part of them is often uncomfortable. This is exactly where a modern leader has to step in to help employees stay productive despite the uncertainty challenges faced by them.
The first thing a leader can do is to acknowledge that it is uncomfortable for most people to be in a situation of uncertainty. People have problems planning, prioritizing, and motivating themselves. A significant part of today's workforce in Western Europe grew up without experiencing substantial difficulties and uncertainties in their lives, so the current work situation may be something they don't know how to face yet. A leader who says that he or she knows that working under conditions of uncertainty is new, difficult, and uncomfortable is already making it easier for the followers, as the latter obtain some feeling of "being normal" – a critical condition for self-efficacy (the belief that one can make it).
Then leaders need to reconsider their communication role. When it is not clear what is happening around us, people intuitively attune themselves to all kinds of signals. We want to be informed, and we expect that the leader is going to provide us with this service. When, under conditions of uncertainty, there is an information vacuum, and we worry about our own professional or personal wellbeing, we tend to fill the vacuum with whatever signals we may find around us. Often we take a wrong signal, but start developing a "theory" explaining what is going on based on it. We then go and "test" our theory with other people around us: at a water-cooler, a coffee-station, or in the smoking area. Thus rumors develop. While rumors help people satisfy their psychological needs, they also negatively affect motivation and trust within the company. A leader should be aware of that and spend time communicating. Sometimes it is not possible to inform people about what is going to happen (e.g. a decision hasn't been made or the leader is not informed him- or herself, etc.). In that case, when the leader can't tell people about the outcome of an issue important to them, he or she should inform people about the process. In practice, this can look like, for example, telling people that there is yet no decision about continuation or discontinuation of a particular project, but that the decision on the issue is expected in two weeks' time.
The leader needs to see if he or she needs to create a temporary system of coordinates under conditions of uncertainty. When people's responsibilities at higher levels of organization change or individuals leave or join, when organizational hierarchies get reshuffled, and when structures shift, people need to get up-to-date information about who in the company is responsible for decisions critical for their tasks, who to escalate issues to when their direct boss is not available (and, equally important, who not to escalate issues to). It is also important to remind people about the things that stay stable even under changing internal system of coordinates, for example, values, code of conduct, compliance rules, etc.
One more service that a leader can provide to people under conditions of uncertainty is to keep them busy. Workdays should be filled with activities that make sense to the people. When people are not busy, they keep worrying, contribute to rumors, and demotivate others. In every part of the organization there are tasks that have been put in the back drawer, but that need completion at some point. Maybe this is the time for some of the team members to finish them? Investing in learning, updating technical skills and knowledge may also be a wise activity for uncertain times.
Small wins, signs of progress are important when we are staging experiments (or are made part of those). A leader who can indicate positive developments, noticeable short-term results to his or her people can instill willingness in people to go for more. Complimenting people for making small progress under conditions of uncertainty may also be very important in order to keep people on track.
Planning is difficult under conditions of uncertainty, and that applies to career planning as well. When things are unclear, it is not easy to offer the followers prospects for their next career steps or developmental stages. However, stopping career development talks and efforts is not an option either, as wasting the time now may backfire in the future. One thing that can be recommended to leaders who need to talk about career development with their followers in uncertain conditions, is to discuss the necessary, but not sufficient conditions for making the next step and growing professionally. We all know that career opportunities depend on our effort (skills, experience, visibility, proactive search for responsibility, etc.) and the situation (business case, vacancies, organizational priorities, etc.). Under conditions of uncertainty we have to be honest with ourselves and our followers that often we don't control the situation, but we can still control our efforts. A leader needs to be open about the limitation a situation can impose on one's career plans, but he or she also has to be pretty clear that even under the best situational conditions the follower won't be able to progress unless he or she has done everything under their control (the effort part). The latter is not sufficient, but critically necessary for success.
We shouldn't forget that the leader has the obligation to ask those above her or him questions that are important for doing her or his job. Asking questions is important for the purpose of staying as much informed as possible, and also signaling to the next level of hierarchy what the issues that the organizational members face are. It is important to remember that sometimes there may be no answers (it is a situation of uncertainty afterwards), and that sometimes the leader will have to find her or his own answers for her or his team.
Leaders at all levels are also human, and uncertainty may be equally uncomfortable for them. In order to instill confidence in their own people, they need to find their own support systems. Those can be trusting relationships with their own boss, using a mentor in the organization, or working with a coach or a peer coach. It is a responsibility of a leader to use whatever resources available to her or him to help her or his people stay productive and effective, even when it is psychologically difficult. This is a small but important part of modern leadership jobs, and people who have chosen to be in a leadership position in an organization need to learn how to do it well.
This article was first published on ESMT Knowledge.
Prof. Konstantin Korotov joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in August 2005. He received his tenure in 2011. He is the director of the ESMT Center for Leadership Development Research (CLDR), which he co-founded with Prof. Manfred Kets de Vries. Konstantin received his PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior) at INSEAD (France, Singapore, and Abu-Dhabi). In addition to his academic work, he has over 20 years of practical management and leadership development experience in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the Americas.
Konstantin conducts research on leadership development, leadership coaching, careers, and executive education. He has authored, co-authored and co-edited six books and multiple academic and practitioner articles, business cases, and book chapters on leadership development and executive coaching. He has won multiple awards for his case-studies, articles, and teaching excellence. Konstantin is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.


But French women are fleeing the extreme right Front National candidate. Only 38 percent of women voters say they will back her in Sunday's presidential election compared to 62 percent for the independent liberal centrist Emmanuel Macron, according to a Cevipof poll this week. Women are voting with their feet, because despite being a woman, Le Pen has nothing to offer them in France, Europe or on the world stage.
The heir to her father Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen's multi-million Euro fortune, his political movement and his ideology, grew up like a princess in a vast manor house in Paris's fancy western suburbs. She is only a feminist when it comes to her type of woman — white, French, Catholic-raised upper middle class like herself.
Just be careful you're not a foreign-born or dual national woman, a recent or established immigrant, refugee, a Muslim or a Jew in Le Pen world.
The presidential candidate wants a moratorium on immigration legal and 'illegal,' from asylum-seekers to economic migrants and family reunion visa applicants. The Draconian measures would hit students, nurses, doctors, businesswomen, mothers, wives, daughters, and grandmothers. She will force dual nationals who are not European to give up foreign passports, stop Muslim and Jewish men and women from wearing even the smallest of religious head coverings in public, and abolish gay marriage. Her version of laicité, or secularism, is designed to demonize Muslim women, in favor of Christians, even if the twice-divorced Le Pen, who lives with her partner FN official Louis Aliot, is hardly a paragon of Catholic family values and virtue. Like the Islamists she feeds off, the FN candidate hopes for civil war and unrest across France because it serves her purpose of dividing people into irreconcilable separate groups and factions.
Instead of uniting, she wants to pit different groups of women against each other. Her party has gone after women journalists, in a chilling redux of the U.S. presidential campaign when Donald Trump relentlessly singled out female reporters who displeased him. One leading French broadcaster, Audrey Pulvar was suspended from her TV network for signing a feminist petition opposing the National Front — after Le Pen's cabal complained and harassed her on social media. When it came to planning the presidential debate in which she performed abysmally, Le Pen's party aides said they wouldn't agree to a debate with a woman moderator they perceived as biased. It was a redux of Donald Trump's campaign blackbanning of journalists like Megyn Kelly.
Le Pen is ambiguous on women's reproductive rights and has a hardline inner sanctum of friends and advisers who are Holocaust negationists and Hitler admirers.
Le Pen's faux feminism means she can't even show some solidarity with women in her family such as likely next FN leader her niece, 27-year-old lawmaker Marion Marechal-Le Pen. (Aunty Marine dismissed Marion, a member of parliament of several years, as "inexperienced" and insisted she would not appoint her to a government ministry).
As Le Pen tried to soften her image and win over women voters in the campaign, she effaced all references to her father and even the political movement she leads, running on the cult-like platform of "Marine Presidente, and releasing photographs on social media of her cuddling cats in rose-hued surroundings. Putting a female face on her far-right extremism and nationalism, however doesn't change the core National Front she inherited from her father. Among the most popular protest political posters are those featuring Marine Le Pen's signature blonde coiffure with her papa's face and glasses superimposed on her visage.
Women in France are not dupes. In this week's presidential debate they saw how Le Pen fudged facts and invented tales to cover her ill-preparation and ignorance. She deliberately spread false news suggesting Macron had a secret offshore bank account, and had her apparatchiks out in force Friday night spreading rumors about the massive leak of hacked emails and documents from her opponent's campaign.
A growing majority of French women voters recognize that despite her being France's second woman candidate for the presidency, after Socialist Segolene Royal lost to Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, Le Pen is not the feminist leader they are looking for. She has no time for women who don't look like her.
Macron may be the "default candidate" for 60 percent of the voters who are backing him, likely all the way into the Elysee Palace on Sunday.
But the idealistic 39-year-old former economy minister has surrounded himself with an impressive team of expert women of all walks of life in his strategic inner circle, including the acclaimed French broadcast journalist Laurence Haim, the former backer of center-right politician Alain Juppe Aurore Berge, and the Silicon Valley start-up entrepreneur Axelle Tessandier. He has an unconventional marriage with his former high school teacher who is 24 years his senior. In the June legislative elections, he is pushing to get women to run for office and has promised 50 percent of the candidates his En Marche (On the move) movement fields will be female.
Marine Le Pen in contrast surrounds herself with figures who like to organize pajama parties where guests dress up in striped concentration camp garb. On Thursday, when she was forced to rush out a side door of Reims Cathedral due to massive youth protests outside, Le Pen was accompanied by a former FN member who is a convicted arms dealer. Affirmative action in Le Pen's Front National means simply promoting herself.
France's women and men deserve much better.


The planet Shear is getting overrun by Monsters. Within five days, the battle for Shear will be won or lost depending on the actions of four Hunters…and, of course, one mutating Monster. Those five days are broken up into five rounds as you fight your way across the planet.


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Bill Sheehan (born 19 September 1997) is an Irish hurler who plays for Kilkenny Senior Championship club Dicksboro and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a right corner-forward.

Playing career

Kilkenny CBS

Sheehan first came to prominence as a hurler with Kilkenny CBS and played in every grade of hurling before eventually joining the college's senior hurling team. On 27 February 2016, he lined out at right corner-forward when Kilkenny CBS suffered a 2-12 to 1-11 defeat by local rivals St. Kieran's College in the Leinster final.

University College Cork

On 12 February 2020, Sheehan was selected amongst the substitutes when University College Cork qualified to play the Institute of Technology, Carlow in the Fitzgibbon Cup final. He was introduced as a 52nd-minute substitute for Conor Boylan and claimed a winners' medal after the 0-18 to 2-11 victory.

Dicksboro

Sheehan joined the Dicksboro club at the age of six and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels before eventually joining the club's top adult team in the Kilkenny Senior Championship.

On 29 October 2017, Sheehan lined out at left corner-forward when Dicksboro faced James Stephens in the Kilkenny Senior Championship final. He scored 1-03 from play and ended the game with a winners' medal following a 4-15 to 4-10 victory.

Kilkenny

Minor and under-21

Sheehan first played for Kilkenny as a member of the minor team during the 2015 Leinster Championship. On 5 July 2015, he was named on the substitutes' bench for Kilkenny's Leinster final meeting with Dublin. Sheehan was introduced as a substitute for John Donnelly at centre-forward and ended the game with a winners' medal following the 1-17 to 1-15 victory.

Sheehan was drafted onto the Kilkenny under-21 team for the 2018 Leinster Championship. He made only last appearance for the team on 20 June 2018 when he lined out at right corner-back in a 3-13 to 1-17 defeat by Galway at the semi-final stage.

Senior

Sheehan joined the Kilkenny senior team in advance of the 2018 National League. He made his first appearance for the team on 4 February 2018 when he scored a goal from right corner-forward in Kilkenny's 2-18 to 1-18 defeat by Clare. On 8 April 2018, Sheehan lined out at left corner-forward when Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the National League final. He ended the game with a winners' medal following the 2-23 to 2-17 victory. On 1 July 2018, Sheehan was an unused substitute when Kilkenny drew 0-18 apiece with Galway in the Leinster final. He was again an unused substitute for the replay a week later, which Kilkenny lost by 1-28 to 3-15.

On 30 June 2019, Sheehan was an unused substitute when Kilkenny suffered a 1-23 to 0-23 defeat by Wexford in the Leinster final. A hamstring injury ruled him out of the match-day panel for Kilkenny's 3-25 to 0-20 defeat by Tipperary in the All-Ireland final on 18 August 2019.

Career statistics

Honours

University College Cork
Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 2020

Dicksboro
Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2017

Kilkenny
National Hurling League (1): 2018

References

1997 births
Living people
UCC hurlers
Dicksboro hurlers
Kilkenny inter-county hurlers

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Hall Chadwick partner Glenn Shannon.
Hall Chadwick's aspirations to administer deeds of company arrangement (DoCAs) over the Majella group have been incinerated, with the creditors most critically burned by the property group's implosion pairing up to vote down resolutions that would've seen a meeting adjourned so as to allow time for the issues impeding the DoCAs to be removed.
Instead, Glenn Shannon, Richard Albarran and David Ingram must content themselves with winding up Majella Capital Funds Management (MCFM), one of two companies connected to Queensland property developer Sebastian 'Seb' Monsour, 44, the brother-in-law of former premier Campbell Newman.
Monsour is currently on bail having been charged in relation to an alleged multi-million dollar fraud involving wealthy Chinese investors.
There is no suggestion Mr Newman is involved and the fate of Monsour's deeds was almost certainly sealed prior to the meetings of MCFM, held on September 21, 2018 at Hall Chadwick's Queensland HQ in Queen Street, Brisbane.
According to the Minutes of the MCFM meeting held first at 10:00am, Shannon told creditors that the legal representatives for two Chinese nationals each claiming $5 million had indicated that their respective clients would oppose any resolution adjourning the meeting so as to allow the MCFM DoCA proposal to be modified.
Despite holding special proxies in favour of an adjournment from referrer Rostron Carlysle Rojas and McInnes Wilson Solicitors, Shannon used his casting vote in favour of the majority by value to defeat the adjournment resolution when the subsequent poll result was deadlocked.
Not surprisingly, one of the DoCA opponents – one of the two Chinese nationals each claiming $5 million – then proposed MCFM being wound up.
Shannon again used his casting vote to break the deadlock, despite holding special proxies from Rostron Carlysle Rojas and McInnes Wilson, both of which opposed liquidation.
While MCFM was placed into liquidation, the outcome of the meeting of creditors of MGH at 11:30am was differed because Shannon hadn't admitted the Chinese creditors claims to vote on MGH.
Monsour's advisor Chris Olver of Gold Coast advisory Faro Strategic pushed for an adjournment to consider the MGH DoCA proposal on the basis that "given the DoCA of MCFM was not voted for, the Director's DoCA proposal for the company would be considerably different".
Shannon however reminded creditors that the proposed source of funds was the same for both DoCAs and that one of the foreign creditors – Significant Investor Visa (SIV) aspirant Mr Fushen Li – had earlier this year had freezing orders slapped on the same Majella Group assets Monsour had intended to use to fund the DoCAs.
While Olver insisted the funds for an amended DoCA "…. would come from an another entity …" the meeting heard that not only would Li not agree to modify the freezing orders but it was his intention to lodge a new proof of debt and to stand in for the existing petitioning creditor.
Those same freezing orders have also created issues for Shannon, Albarran and Ingram in that they had lodged caveats over Majella Group properties in a bid to secure their remuneration but the validity of that security had to be questionable given Li's freezing orders covered those same properties.
With the real property assets out of reach and the majority of MCFM creditors by value voting in favour of the remuneration resolutions once the DoCA proposal was defeated it'll be interesting see where the money comes from. BDO's Andrew Fielding, who INO understands was sounded out about providing a consent to replace Hall Chadwick, has probably dodged a bullet.
As to the MGH DoCA, will where the money will come from for that is anyone's guess.
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Kelly M Bauer
Welcome! I (Dr. Kelly Bauer, she/her/hers) am a political scientist researching and teaching about identity and development politics in Latin America, and knowledge production in political science classrooms. I am an Assistant Professor and Chair of Political Science at Nebraska Wesleyan University, and a member of the Red De Politólogas – #NoSinMujeres. I received my PhD in Political Science at The George Washington University, and BA at Carthage College.
My interdisciplinary teaching and research explore how Latin American states govern identity politics as global trends destabilize state sovereignty; my recent work focuses on state policy responses to and rhetoric about Indigenous rights, irregular migration, and human security regimes. My book, Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (2021), explores inconsistencies resulting from how state officials navigate extending elite and neoliberal governance and citizenship through Indigenous land policy. Recent work appears in Journal of Agrarian Change, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d'études du développement. This work has been externally funded by the U.S. Fulbright Program (2013), Inter-American Foundation's Grassroots Development Fellowship (2012-2013), and APSA Centennial Center (2021), and recognized with the North Central Council of Latin Americanists' Collaborative Research Award (2019), NWU Forum Committee's Faculty Scholarship Award Presentation Award (2019), and NWU's Faculty Scholar Award (2020).
My own undergraduate liberal arts experience motivates my teaching. I strive for the classroom to be a space for individual and collective exploration and empowerment, through the development of communication, critical thinking, and research skills. I teach courses on human rights, development, Latin America, and immigration politics, as well as a range of research design and methodology courses. I believe that excellent teaching happens both in and out of the classroom, motivating my work incorporating professional development into classes and conducting student-faculty collaborative research. I have extensive experience mentoring successful Fulbright applications, drawing on my work on Fulbright National Selection Committees and as a campus Fulbright Program Adviser. I also research best practices of teaching and learning to understand student access to and success in the field, particularly in research methodology courses and about research methodology skill development. Recently, this work can be found in the Journal of Political Science Education, New Political Science, and book chapters. My teaching was recognized with NWU's highest teaching award in 2020. See the teaching page for syllabi, and the research page for my pedagogy research and articles coauthored with students.
For additional information about my work, see media coverage from Nebraska Wesleyan on the Prouty Teaching Award, Oxy Poli-Cast on contentious politics and teaching, The Bridge about student-faculty collaborative immigration research, Lincoln Journal Star about DACA, Nebraska Wesleyan about student-faculty collaborative research, and Carthage College and GWU PSC (Page 3) about research in Chile.
kbauer@nebrwesleyan.edu
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And LeBron chokes again...
Definition of unclutch
congrats sixers but you guys are still gonna lose the series
Lebron choking again lmao...
need help streaming NBA playoffs (srs)
Why don't people guard rondo?
anyone got the knicks vs celts game?
I fell asleep during heat / sixers half time.......
good night sweet prince
Ray Allen is shooting 75% from 3
A gift for Lebron
Melo/Amare = Melo/Iverson part two
in b4 blackhawks force game 7
How does Jason Heyward have the reputation as a good outfielder?
World Series will be an all Florida affair
HARDBALLIN exposed as Chilnowork
Looking for steam of Anaheim/Nashville please
lulz NFL draft is literally just ays away and...
Melo tryna save the day ..will he do it?
Anthony Carter = Man
3 run blast Jason Heyward
if you get swept in the first round of the playoffs...
Is Roy Halladay the best pitcher of all time?
New York Knicks only team to get swept, LOL
Knicks classiest fans in the league
Knicks lost LOL
Thunder 2011 Champs
I Need ideas for an NFL Draft sign.
John Lackey. come the fuk at him.
flyers have had 3 starting goaltenders in one playoff series
who is the true sports misc king?
When does the NBA announce who won the M.V.P
God dammit Heyward I love your base running abilities though
Lay off Detroit
Hawks vs Magic
NATE MCLOUTH YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!i
All-Time Best Rotation (MLB)
5 bbacn threads on the front page of the sports misc..
Who are the Browns gonna pick?
Braves fans, we need to give Jonny Venters a cool nickname
Anyone want to do an NFL draft game?
Too bad basketball isn't a game of 2 quarters
Has there been a better stretch of SP than the Sox?
Atlanta is assraping Orlando
With the 10th overall pick, the Washington Redskins select?
ITT: The starting lineups for at least 3 of the next 5 WCF
Man Humps Indians Mascot
Teixeira, Lincecum speak out against expanding the playoffs
Dwight Howard needs to go srs
Was the Magic's Mega-Trade a Failure?
Magic Will Win 3 Straight To Beat Atlanta
Turkoglu
Question for Knicks Fans
kobe just got worked
When can we start blaming Dwight Howard?
Anthony carter is going to be amazing
Hey Kobe....
Problem Vancouver?
Reboundo LOLuongo
Has TNT overtime worked for anyone this NBA season
Kobe drops 30 in the 2nd half
Kobe at half time 0-7 0 points
artest is in beast mode
CP3 crossover
If CP3 had/have Derrick Rose's supporting cast, would he do a better job?
Kobe with a sky hook...
Best PG's in the playoffs so far
Feels good to have the rangers back on top
Belinelli fuking sucks lmao
ITT: I predict the NBA Finals
a baseball thread for players?
PAU GASOL IS AS SOFT AS Amare AND HAS THE HANDS OF FREAKEN BRAYLON EDWARDS
what song is playing right now in the laker game
JARRETT JACK WITH NO REGARD for HUMAN LIFE
gif of fat woman pls
Somebody needs to make a gif of that fat lady
PHIL JACKSON WITH NO regard for human life
"I dun care if that my mama out der on da court, I'll hit her too"
Lakers are done
Best time for pro sports is right now
Lakers are trolling the NBA
How come basketball players do not do the 'pie to the face' during interviews?
Game 5 LAL vs NOH
The schedule-makers for the LA-NO series are tards
The only thing I think of whenever someone mentions the Atlanta Hawks...
If Denver wins tomorrow...
Have the playoffs surprised you?
Hilarious how after one game people are saying CP3> D Rose
Kobe Bryant...
Anyone else here call the Blackhawks comeback at 3-2?
MLB playoff predictions
What the knicks need
Lets be real you CP3 boylovers
Did the crazy Lady Hornets fan get youtube'd yet?
Flint Michigan megabowl is on USA right now
I still the Lakers are gonna take it...
The Heat should trade bosh for paul
Halladay-Lee-Oswalt stats since joining Phils
ITT: Were gonna watch the NFL Draft at JerryWorld
Do you think Mike Richards gets suspended for the Tim Connolly hit?
The Boshstrich (VID)
Amare asks Carmelo for change for a dollar.
Why a European should not be Captain of an NHL Team
How great a hockey city is Nashville?
The Vancouver Canucks simply dont have any star power.
Please tell me someone else was listening to Cowherd rip Newton
Go head Derrick Caracter.. stay classy
Can you guys shut the **** up about the knicks?
paul exposing kobe's defense
So this is LaRussa's daughter?
Gruden cannot evaluate or develope qb's
Spurs vs. Grizzlies: Game 4
Gabbert just disssed Newton
Peyton Manning To Spend Several Weeks With Newborn Twins Before Naming Starting Child
This is a typical Yankees fan. (pic)
Sig team lists
Nostalgic NBA Playoff moments
Judge Nelson rules for players, lockout to be lifted
Christian Ponder will be the most succesful QB in this class
Anyone here a LSU fan?
lockout over
Joe Madden's opinion on Jose Bautista
I like this mock draft..a lot
Jose Bautista.
Lou Williams is CLUTCH... unlike LeChoke James
Why do Sox fans hate JD Drew?
Lockout question...NFL draft
Lets hear from the people whose teams actually have a chance of drafting cam newton
Was the NFL trolling us?
Opinions on this bet?
The 2010 Spanish League MVP has entered the game, goodnight Memphis
Jon Jones injured
live streams to nba playofff games?
Will Kevin Kolb be traded on draft day?
Dwight Howard is 100% Leaving the Magic
sportscenter special: on the clock on right now on ESPN 2
LA is ridiculous
Good night sweet spurs and nuggets
Darrell arthur with no regard for human life
1.3k reps for NBA playoffs stream!
Ask someone who bet on the Grizzlies to win the series anything
Herr Dirk is gonna take over the rest of this game
So the Spurs are as good as gone...
Thunder vs. Nuggers: Game 4
The grizzlies orchestrated the greatest tank job ever
So a Homophobe...
Josh Hamilton receives shot in upper right arm..
Back back back gone! Hr #8 by Braun
PatrickBateman1, get your phaggy ass in here
Kobe Refuses MRI
Lettuce be real-tea... Lebron missed on purpose...
Alex Gonzalez is a f*cking wizard with the glove
Which sports player do you hate the most?
Will an SEC team win the NCAA football championship again?
He should've kicked it out to Chubaka
This is why the NHL playoffs > NBA playoffs
Bacon, you got some explaining to do son......
INB4 Spurs Win Series in 7
Nate Robinson is an MVP benchwarmer.
New Bills Uniforms leak (link)
Jered Weaver has a 0.99 ERA
Worst reffing job in sports
Damn Braves have another sick reliever
Chipper Jones has just hit his 500th career double
westbrook you phaggot pass to durant
RIP Joe Perry
LOL at Perkins..
Durant was a much dangerous scorer last year
What if the grizzlies had thabeet this year?
Just got off the phone with Melo...
real talk, durantula is an ugly nickname
What sport draws the most bitter fan fights?
Anybody going to the NFL Draft? Thinking of going
did anyone else see Kobe brick a wide open jumper in the 4th quarter last night?
MOST hr hit in a month
I loled at TH
If Vancouver loses today, where is Luongo getting traded in the offseason?
LMFAO @ the Spurs
Heat set to trade Bosh to the Spurs for Duncan. Howard set to join Lakers
Hate on Soccer All you Want, but you Have to Admit they got One thing Right
NFL lockout lifted
Chris Paul will join Blake Griffin and the Clippers.
* * * * Pick the NHL winners for their next game, get reps. * * * *
My Prediction on Ohio State:
reason there was no bruins/habs game last night is mind blowing to me
Bautista thread moved to female misc
Peter King's One Minute Drills
....:::Official UFC 129 - GSP vs Shields Thread:::....
In for Roberto Luongo lulz. Thread.
Anyone watching Sportsnation right now?
CP3 shooting 50%+ from shot zones
ITT your reaction when your team drafts Cam Newton
ITT: we post qbs we think will succeed most in this draft
I will give 1 million dollars to everyone ITT if the Vancouver Canucks...
Jack Locker..... welcome to Seattle brah
25 biggest NFL draft busts of past 15 years by USAToday
JJ Watt.... welcome to Green Bay
Gilber Arenas Says He'd Average 25 Points, 9 Rebounds, & 6 Assists
Canucks are going to win tonight.
Orlando will lose by 6 points tonight and be elimenated
Cowboys fans what do you think of this
Reps for stream of magic vs hawks
Hawks @ Magic game 5 thread
Reps for Bulls-Pacers stream
Streams to Games Here
**Bulls vs Pacers Game 5 Thread**
bulls vs pacers game 5 thread
Titans coaches want to take Andy Dalton at #8
Raburn tries to make catch, turns into home run off his glove
# of combined HRs by Crawford and AGon -2
Who is better: Brandon Harris or Aaron Williams?
NHL gamecenter live app for android phones brb streaming LIVE games on 3g/wifi
ITT we count how many times the refs bail out the Bulls
why did the bulls sign boozer???
Ooohhhh haiiii buffalo fans
Has anyone written a paper on steel tariffs?
Good Night Sweet Sabres
are we gonna act like magic arn't beating hawks 90-58 right now?
Wtf tnt?
Gene Wojciechowski article absolutely owns Goodell...
Indians vs Royals Round 2
bulls need to trade boozer in the offseason
Chipper Jones has just tied Mickey Mantle on the All Time RBI List
Lets go Blackhawks!!!!!!


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Snapshots of modern mathematics
The snapshots team from left to right: Dr C. Cederbaum, J. Niediek, D. Kronberg, M. Firsching, S. Tokus, Dr A. Cooper, S. Jahns. Source: Archive of the MFO
Snapshots are short, easy to understand articles on recent topics of mathematical research. They explain mathematical problems and ideas in an accessible and understandable way, and provide exciting insights into current topics of the mathematical community for everyone who is interested in modern mathematics.
The snapshots are all written by real experts in their fields:
At the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, every week 50 to 60 experts from all over the world work together on current challenges in the field of Mathematics. They introduce new results, discuss different approaches and develop new ideas. After each symposium, the institute asks selected participants to explain one aspect of their research in a comprehensible language to a general audience in a few pages. A team of young mathematicians revise the articles in close collaboration with the authors and assists them in communicating complicated matters to a broad audience. Together they prepare an edited version for publication.
Find all published snapshots at the IMAGINARY texts section!
So far, there are 23 Snapshots available in English and German. More are to come. Some of the English articles are already being translated into other languages. You can filter by mathematical field and/or connections to other fields, as well as authors.
The snapshot project is designed to promote the understanding and appreciation of modern mathematics and mathematical research in the general public world-wide. As part of the project "Oberwolfach meets IMAGINARY", it is funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung.
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UNESCO proclaimed March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics
To celebrate the beauty and importance of mathematics and its essential role in everyone's life the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has led the project to have UNESCO proclaim March 14 as the International Day of Mathematics (IDM). Today, on November 26th 2019, the 40th General Conference of UNESCO approved the Proclamation of March 14 (Pi Day) as the International Day of Mathematics.Read more
Second call for Art Projects for exhibition on Artificial Intelligence
I. AM.AI is the name of IMAGINARY's new exhibition project aiming to communicate Artificial Intelligence, how it works, and its social impacts, to the public.
The exhibition, supported by the...Read more
The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach celebrates 75 years
IMAGINARY grew up at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO). From 2007 to 2016, we were part of the institute, and even now, we have a very strong bond. Since 2016, IMAGINARY is a non-profit organization, and the MFO is a shareholder of IMAGINARY.
We congratulate to 75 years of...Read more
New exhibition, Explaining Artificial Intelligence
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IMAGINARY is creating a new exhibition, which aims to bring understanding about Artificial Intelligence to the general public. We are looking for partners and collaborators with interesting projects that can be turned into exhibits and works of art.
The exhibition, supported by the
There are no formulas for love…
… but there is a formula that produces an algebraic surface shaped like a heart.
Check the article on IMAGINARY's Valentine special on the New York Times!!!
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Paris: The inferno in Notre Dame cathedral, the 850-year-old Unesco world heritage landmark in Paris, was contained on Tuesday, city's fire brigade has confirmed.
The firefighters said the Cathedral's main structure as well as its two towers were saved.
According reports nearly 500 firefighters fought to prevent one of the bell towers from collapsing. Fire chief Jean-Claude Gallet said several invaluable artefacts were rescued from the burning cathedral.
The conflagration began at nearly 6.30 p.m. on Monday and enveloped Cathedral's spectacular Gothic spire which dates back to the 13th century.
French President Emmanuel Macron praised firefighters for saving the Cathedral's iconic facade and towers. He said :"the worst has been avoided".
Macron urged the country to commit to rebuilding Notre Dame together. He announced an international fundraising campaign to raise money for the repairs.
The Notre Dame's foundation stone was laid in 1163 by Pope Alexander III. It was completed in the 13th century.
Notre Dame is considered a feat of architecture as well as a major religious and cultural symbol of France. It is one of Paris' most popular attractions that draws an estimated 13 million visitors a year.
It was the site of Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation as Emperor in 1804.


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Archive for the 'at sea' Category
China probably provoked the U.S. at sea last weekend in an effort to gain an edge over new President Barack Obama.
China did just that, analysts now say, in the early months of George W. Bush's presidency.
On April 1, 2001 , two Chinese J-8 fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance aircraft that was 70 miles off Hainan Island , resulting in a collision with one of them, forcing it into the sea. The EP-3 made an emergency landing on Hainan , where China kept it captive for three months, long after the 24 crew members were released.
U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft
At that time, China used this approach: the U.S. violated intenational law, China was within its rights, the U.S. needs to back off.
China is fairly predictable and formulaic, sometimes.
When China was found to have a deadly disease called SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) spreading a few years ago (November 2002 to July 2003; over 700 people died)China used this media strategy: denial, discovery, immense response, media explosion of good news, return to normal.
China used this same play-book when accused of exporting all kinds of poisoned food products from toothpaste to dog and cat food, cough medicine, cookies, candy and seafood.
Denial, discovery, immense response, media explosion of good news, return to normal.
When China was accused of building shoddy schools which quickly collapsed killing tens of thousands of school children in the recent earthquakes, the Chinese public response included denial, discovery, immense response, media explosion of good news, return to normal.
In 2006, Senator John McCain called China "immature" over its lack of effort in helping the U.S. and the world to address North Korea's nuclear program.
Laugh at McCain now — but North Korea remains a trouble spot in the world today only because China allows them to play that role.
Just this week, North Korea threatened war with the United States — a war that would certainly involve Japan and South Korea. North Korea could not be making such threats and could not even think about testing a long range strategic missile just now unless China consented to this brazen move or at least looked the other way. China supplies North Korea with almost all of its food, oil, luxury goods and currency. Without China, North Korea would be impotent and meaningless.
China's at sea provocation of international law and Barack Obama seems remarkably similar to previous Chinese forays into the mind of at least one previous President of the United States sending the unmistakable message: the U.S. violated intenational law, China was within its rights, the U.S. needs to back off.
John E. Carey
Wakefield Chapel, Virginia
An excellent report on the international law:
http://fredtopeka.wordpress.com/2009/03/
10/us-or-china-provoke-naval-incident/
By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer
The top U.S. and Chinese diplomats have work to do to keep a confrontation between American and Chinese naval vessels from damaging a relationship that President Barack Obama deems crucial to confronting the world's toughest crises.
Even if diplomatic efforts by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi are successful in toning down the dispute — the two were scheduled to meet Wednesday in Washington — they may ease anger only temporarily over a larger military disagreement.
Beijing has long complained about U.S. surveillance operations around China's borders. Without better communications between the two militaries as they operate in the South China Sea, the possibility for future conflict will remain.
Clinton and Yang "can have a productive exchange to keep this bounded, but the real bureaucracies that need to be there aren't going to be at the meeting," said Jonathan Pollack, professor of Asian studies at the U.S. Naval War College.
This US Navy file photo shows the military Sealift Command ocean surveillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23). Five Chinese vessels maneuvered dangerously close to a US Navy ship in the South China Sea on Sunday, March 8, 2009, approaching within 25 feet of the unarmed surveillance ship, the Pentagon said. (AFP/NVNS)
He suggested that without stronger military-to-military links, the potential for "something ugly" happening "should not be minimized."
China says a U.S. Navy mapping ship confronted by Chinese vessels Sunday was operating illegally in China's exclusive economic zone. The United States says Chinese ships surrounded and harassed the Navy vessel in international waters in the South China Sea.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311
/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_china
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asia
pcf/03/10/us.navy.china/index.html
China Wants U.S. Out of Asia's International Waters
Pentagon: Chinese Ships Harassed Unarmed U.S. Navy Craft in International Waters
What's China's Long Term Global Strategy?
China uses naval showdown with U.S. to flex muscle
China Says U.S. Ship Was Breaking Law
Philippines Enacts Law Claiming Islands also Claimed by China, Others
China's Naval Officers Join Anti-American Voices
http://defencedebates.wordpress.com/2009
/03/11/china-navy-officers-harangue-us-ov
er-sea-spat/
China's Love/Hate Relationship With The U.S.
Behind the U.S. and China At Sea Incident
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The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell
By: Michael Maloney and Lee Phillip Bell
"Michael Maloney has complied an impressive amount f details into an entertaining and fast-moving book. Read this book if you want a fascinating insight into one of television's original show runners and the legacy he left behind."--Cady McClain, Emmy-winning actress, All My Children and As the World Turns "A tribute to the man who brought daytime's most memorable characters to life, with great insight into his passion for the genre and dedication to his family."--Angelica McDaniel, senior vice president, Daytime, CBS Entertainment "The carefully selected photographs alone are worth this beguiling trip down memory lane."--Lynette Rice, Entertainment Weekly "An informed, insightful look at the inner workings of the Bell Empire--the most successful dynasty in daytime television history. It's a great read."--Peter Bergman, three-time Emmy-winning actor, The Young and the Restless Millions of fans worldwide know his soap opera and his characters, but few know the story of the man who brought them to life. William J. Bell, television's most prolific writer, reinvented the soap opera genre with his groundbreaking serial The Young and the Restless in 1973 and went on to co-create The Bold and the Beautiful with his wife and successful TV host Lee Phillip Bell, which debuted in 1987. The Young and Restless Life of William J. Bell tells the inside story of daytime's greatest storyteller, including his role as an advertising executive in the era of Mad Men, working for legendary serial creator Irna Phillips, and his move from Chicago to Los Angeles, which resulted in Y&R taking the top spot in the rating. This book offers an unprecedented look into the life of the man who defined the soap genre and draws readers behind the scenes into the captivating world of the daytime soap they know and love.
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Guldager Sogn er et sogn i Skads Provsti (Ribe Stift).

I 1800-tallet var Guldager Sogn et selvstændigt pastorat. Det hørte til Skast Herred i Ribe Amt og dannede i 1842 Guldager sognekommune. Dens grænse til Esbjerg købstad blev ændret i 1909 og 1916 af hensyn til havneudvidelser. Ved kommunalreformen i 1970 blev Guldager helt indlemmet i Esbjerg Kommune.

I 1978 blev Sædden Kirke opført og Sædden Sogn blev udskilt fra Guldager Sogn. Hjerting Kirke blev opført i 1992. Hjerting Sogn var udskilt fra Guldager Sogn i 1988.

I Guldager Sogn ligger Guldager Kirke.

I sognet findes følgende autoriserede stednavne:
 Bovbjerg (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Frøkær (bebyggelse)
 Guldager (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Guldager Mølledam (vandareal)
 Guldager Plantage (areal)
 Hostrup Bæk (vandareal)
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 Sønderris (bebyggelse, ejerlav)
 Sønderris Bæk (vandareal)

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Прохибиција подразумева потпуну забрану производње, продаје и конзумирања алкохолних пића. С обзиром на тешке последице употребе и злоупотребе алкохола у појединим земљама било је више покушаја увођења делимичне или тоталне прохибиције. Међутим, такве забране и тешке санкције изазвале су друге још теже проблеме (посебно значајно повећање криминала), па се најчешће одустаје од прохибиције у корист других облика ограничене контроле производње и употребе алкохола.

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 Прохибиција у Сједињеним Америчким Државама

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US singer of Everybody's Talkin' + Without You
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About Harry Nilsson
Harry Nilsson (US singer of Everybody's Talkin' + Without You) is a well known Folk artist from Brooklyn, New York, United States, and was born on Sunday 15th of June 1941. Harry Nilsson died on Saturday 15th of January 1994. According to our records Harry Nilsson has recorded approximately 1,145 music tracks and released 45 albums since the beginning of his musical carrier in 1958. We have a collection of 134 song lyrics by Harry Nilsson for you to explore.
Popular Harry Nilsson Songs
by Harry Nilsson
Gotta Get Up
Me And My Arrow
I'll Be Home
Easier For Me
You're Breaking My Heart
Daylight Has Caught Me
Harry Nilsson Albums
The Best of Nilsson
1967 / 45:58 / 8 Tracks / 1 Lyrics
The Puppy Song
Jump into the Fire - Remastered
Nobody Cares About The Railroad Anymore
Open Your Window
Mother Nature's Son
by Glay
by Doris
Everybody's Talkin'
1967 / 55:33 / 8 Tracks /
Driving Along
by Georgia Gibbs
What'll I Do - My Walking Stick (From "Alexander's Ragtime Band")
by Ethel Merman, The King's Men
You Always Hurt the One You Love
by Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra feat. The Kaydets, Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra, The Kaydets
Everybody's Talkin' The Very Best of Harry Nilsson
1967 / 5:30 / 8 Tracks / 2 Lyrics
Mr. Richland's Favourite Song
Cowboy!
by Randy Newman
Mucho Mungo
by Lena Horne
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I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. I have certainly wandered into hotels etc while I have been in India and Thailand. Public toilets there are scary.
Anecdote...I wondered why the walls outside of Victoria station were always wet. They serve as a public loo. Worst ever, The Windsor station. The loo was locked, the depression in front of the door was abrim with yellow liquid! Next, I regularly see mothers de-watering little ones on public by-ways. Limit liquid intake!
Walk into a bar, use their facilities ... and order a small drink (- mineral water is cheap ) - OR ... leave a good tip.
Public toilets are almost non-existent in Italy, I found it a real problem. London is also an issue, if you plan ahead you'll be OK, but they can be hard to find. I don't mind having to pay, it's when there aren't any that it becomes a desperate situation!
Don't expect to find PUBLIC toilets in Italy - they are virtually non-existant.
Just a word from a non-English-speaker: If you have to ask people, don´t ask for a "restroom". Not that I would not know (after a little thinking) what it means, but the idea that first comes into my head is that you are looking for some strange public place where people go and take a nap. All cosily in one room. And it isn´t a "powder room" either.
It is a TOILET or WC.
I always think that Americans drink too much LOL I mean, I've only searched for a public toilet once in my life..at St Peters in Rome.
I manage quite well with bars, cafes and , as our moms have always told us, "go peeing before leaving home!" (when travelling it means before you leave the hotel).
In the UK any restaurant has to have facilities so go to department stores with restaurants.
The toilets at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square are close-ish to the entrance -- well you have to go down a staircase, but it's right near the front, and you don't have to go into the museum at all.
The public loos in Edinburgh are free but there aren't that many. But it's easy enough to use those in a department store or museum. I have also been known to nip into one of the larger hotels, like the Balmoral, a busy pub, or a Macdonalds (all also free).
I can't speak for Rome, as I've never been but as far as the UK goes I'd say we have the same amount of public loos as the US.
I've never seen a municipal public toilet the the US (not to say they don't exist.) So that leaves the same sort of places as in the UK, dept. stores, bars, restaurants, 'malls' and hotels.
How about Colorado, USA? Sign posted outside pub..No public toilets, no public telephone.
P.S. I wasn't trying to make it some kind of toilet competition.
I was just trying to reassure the OP that if they can manage at home then there is no need to worry in the UK - the same strategies will work here.
As other posters suggested; walk into a hotel as if you are staying there.
Claridges has particularly nice loos! And in Harrods the ones on the fourth floor, near the Georgian Restaurant.
Thanks everyone for your most invaluable help. Here in Australia they are not easy to find either. However, I can tell you where just about every McDonalds is in Sydney because I am constantly on the road here. I will be cutting and pasting a lot of these posts and taking the information with me.
Something I do for gelato and pizza, and I imagine would work for toilets in all the cities mentioned is mark on my map where they all are. That way, whichever neighborhood I'm in when the gelato urge hits, I know exactly where to head and what I'm in for.
Nothing l;ike a bit of preplanning Bubbly, good idea.
Hello ozrick, since this thread is still going strong I will share a story with you that still amazes me to this day.
It was our first trip to Italy, in the 1970's. We were in Milan. All of the Italian men were using a male type shoulder bag and so my husband decided he would buy one as he hated anything in the pockets of his clothes.
We had our morning espresso and started wandering around the streets of Milan. He saw a small leather good store which he liked the looks of so we went inside. It was owned by an older gentleman and his daughter worked in the shop also.
The owner was showing my husband various bags (all beautiful Italian leather) and suddenly..oh no! I needed a ladies room, lol. My Italian was terrible but I said to the daughter of the shop owner "toilette, per favore?". She smiled, came around the counter, took my hand and led me up the stairway and down a short hall. She opened up a door and took me into what was their apartment..their home! She took me through the living room, the dining room, and down a short hallway and opened up a door to the "toilette"..their personal bathroom. I was stunned. She indicated she would see me in the shop.
So there I was, a complete stranger from America in their home. She left me alone in their home!
This happened on our first day in Italy, well the day after we arrived, our first full day in Italy.
My husband purchased a beautiful buttery Italian leather male bag. Thank goodness!
I will never forget that lovely young Milanese woman and her kindness and warmth. A very special memory.
Another comment about McDonald's. The restroom at McDonald's across from the Arles TI was locked. Had to get the combination for the lock from the cashier.


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Strategizing on the Campaign Trail
Gerald Welch - Here are 24 times Hillary Clinton PRAISED the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and helped implement it as Secretary of State.
Phillip McKnight - Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark. Bad policy, just like NAFTA.
Rick Drew - Of course - because it can cost her votes.
Mark Champion - I am not a support of her but to be fair...she was not the boss so she was just following the bigger misfit's orders. She could truly have been against it or it is plausible deniability.
Gerald Welch - Except she has done this with multiple issues, whether she was SoS or not...
Mark Champion - Oh i am right with ya on this but i see how she can double talk her way out of it.
Muhammad Rasheed - The TPP fixes the NAFTA policy, and returns to the country what was lost.
Phillip McKnight - So why is Hillary opposed to it, if that's the case? I haven't read TPP, just bits and pieces of it and from what I've read it just gives Asia the same benefits Mexico and Canada got from NAFTA.
Muhammad Rasheed - She's opposed to it on camera because her dedicated partisan voting block assumes that it is a GOP item that is just NAFTA 2.0, the same as all leftists assume. The public has already made up their mind about the matter, and she is powerless to convince them otherwise. This puts her in a bad spot because, like Gerald and Rick said, she NEEDS their votes.
In turn, the right assume it's bad for no other reason than because Obama was pushing so hard for it.
Muhammad Rasheed - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is actually full of pro-Middle Class items that will provide a wealth of opportunity to grow our manufacturing class through the tech industry, partnered with Obama's college loan reform, with the Common Core item, and with the 100,000 tech jobs initiative. It's part of a long-term goal package that will bring back the American Middle Class growth lost with the implementation of NAFTA. TPP reverses NAFTA by opening doors on the Asian side of the globe that NAFTA closed with Canada's and Mexico's help.
Phillip McKnight - NAFTA was supposed to do great things, too. It did, just not for working people in the United States.
Gerald Welch - So why is she against it now?
Muhammad Rasheed - The campaign game strategy. It doesn't go deeper than that. If she wins the presidency, she'll flip again. On cue, since it doesn't make sense for her NOT to be pro-TPP.
Phillip McKnight - I'm not even clear on the current status of TPP, I just don't want to see the Asian version of NAFTA put a few more nails in the middle class coffin.
Muhammad Rasheed - It won't. It'll be fine.
Of course it IS a compromise package, with pet partisan items from both sides of the aisle in it, but the POTUS believes that the items he was able to put in it to further his legacy agenda will be worth it. I believe him.
Phillip McKnight - He also said if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. That hasn't turned out to be the case, not that I blame him, but still, he said it, and that hasn't been the reality. Point being, he was wrong and I don't want him to mean well but end up wrong about this, too.
Muhammad Rasheed - So, because the red states decided to reject Obamacare -- just to try and sully his legacy -- that means he was wrong in principle? That of the millions of people that did take part, the system didn't work exactly the same way for some of them, so that means it was a failure?
I have a fundamental problem with this concept, Phillip.
Phillip McKnight - Where did I say Obamacare is a failure? I have a fundamental problem with what I say being misrepresented. Hey, brother, I'm a Democrat, voted for Obama twice, but I'm moving beyond taking partisan positions just to be part of the team. You're barking up the wrong tree.
Muhammad Rasheed - Considering the original status post author, and his opinions on such topics, that colored your post to look a certain way to me. I assumed you were saying you thought it was a failure through that lens, despite the highly successful college loan reform actually being built into Obamacare (which I think is amazing) so I get easily defense about it.
Phillip McKnight - My apologies for not being more clear. Anyone that truly understands what transpired with Obamacare knows that Obamacare would have been vastly successful if over 30 Republican states wouldn't have fought it with everything they had. They want nothing to do with changing Healthcare from what it was before Obamacare. I loved old Mitch McConnell, who just changed the name of Obamacare, and said how successful it was for his state. If they had just worked on it, as it is very complicated, instead of dismantling it. It would be so much better right now, them's the facts.
Muhammad Rasheed - Yes, what we got was the 'Plan B' of what the POTUS really wanted, but in the first go around of amendments to flesh it out, the college loan reform piece was added. That more than anything, I think, is why the enemy wants to dismantle it now. The big banks are losing billions upon billions by being forcibly removed from the middleman position in that process. You KNOW it's eating them up.
Scott Rocky - Uhm, it fixes nothing, and opens up the pathway to even more jobs going off shore. It also ends tariffs that were in place to protect certain American industries (such as sugar growers and textile manufacturing) It is going to increase the numerical limits set in place on certain foreign workers in the United States, which means even more American Jobs gone. It raises privacy issues for certain countries, such as Australia which has privacy laws for its citizens that are now void.
Scott Rocky - If it was such a good deal, why did they do it in secret? NAFTA, as crappy as that was, was at least presented to the people before it was passed.
Korac MacArthur - Its not "free trade" if its negotiated in secret and takes over 1000 pages to express, sorry..
Scott Rocky - @Phillip McKnight… what I would like is for my insurance rates to go down instead of up 18% since the implementation of Obahmacare
Korac MacArthur - You have to see the big picture. Obama knows its flawed as a strategy to make people demand single payer down the road, which he thinks is better. He is very foolish.
Phillip McKnight - I think all insurance consumers (everyone) would like to see rates go down, I'm not arguing the merits or criticizing the problems of O-Care, I was merely stating the facts surrounding the implementation and the resistance of the implementation of the law.
Muhammad Rasheed - Scott Rocky wrote: "Uhm, it fixes nothing…"
The President can't demolish laws put in place by a previous President, so he was powerless to remove NAFTA altogether. But he could work AROUND it, working with Asian partners to expand opportunities that do not directly conflict with it.
Scott Rocky wrote: "…and opens up the pathway to even more jobs going off shore."
More importantly, as the Obama Administration invested heavily in the growth of American math/science/tech in the long-term, the entrepreneurial immigrants from off shore will be coming here to take advantage of the newly fertile tech markets, creating new business, competing with the future boom in new American tech business, and eventually creating a brand new era of innovation with America in the lead again.
Scott Rocky wrote: "It also ends tariffs that were in place to protect certain American industries (such as sugar growers and textile manufacturing)"
The removal of market restrictions is a good thing, as it will increase competition and lower prices of goods for the consumer. The removal of restrictions will also enable smaller businesses… who were excluded from the big business cartels that the tariffs protected… to enter the markets, increasing job growth.
Scott Rocky wrote: "If it was such a good deal, why did they do it in secret?"
Obama's pro-tech/science part of the TPP needed to be put in place soon in order to take advantage of the above mentioned tech items he initiated within his "Middle Class Growth" agenda. The so-called "fast track" used to push both trade agreements through the ratification process basically excluded the review of the legions of special interest groups in order to take advantage of the "hot" market conditions that the Obama agenda cultivated during his historic terms.
Muhammad Rasheed - Korac MacArthur wrote: "Its not 'free trade' if its negotiated in secret and takes over 1000 pages to express, sorry.."
lol None of that has anything to do with whether something is considered "free trade" or not, but the basic gripe is sound. A cartel of nations and/or industries that restrict access to their markets to anyone not included in the exclusive trade deal – whether it's a monopoly by a threesome of North American nations, or one by a group of Asian plus Western nations – is the literal exact opposite of a market for "free trade."
Korac MacArthur wrote: "You have to see the big picture. Obama knows its flawed as a strategy to make people demand single payer down the road, which he thinks is better. He is very foolish."
He's far from foolish, and strategizes for smaller gains through compromise with his rivals, over gaining absolutely nothing by stubbornly sticking to partisan "all-or-nothing" deadlocks, and spending his terms engaged in impotent and bitter back and forth battles (like a president sanders would have done). Also the President is a believer in the very non-foolish idea of putting in place templates that future like-minded Presidents can build upon later.
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Part of the artifacts on display In Wolaroc Museum just west of Bartlesville are these arrow and spear points found locally. They reveal a remarkable level of skill and no doubt were a very effective weapon in the hands of a young Indian hunter.
This is not a macro but is a closeup of the little creche we bought years ago. It is only about 10 inches tall but has a lot of detail and is one of our favorite things. Now that Thanksgiving is past we are beginning to look forward to Christmas. Today was the first Sunday in Advent and the first candle was lit in the advent wreath.
Crocus Rose is a repeat flowering, shrub rose with deep green leaves and slightly arching stems. It has robust, free flowering, full blooms of soft-apricot flowers produced in large clusters in summer. It has an old rose fragrance. Tulsa has had a few light frosts but not a hard freeze. Heavy rain and strong winds have blown most of the leaves from, our trees but many of the roses are still blooming in the Municipal Rose Garden We have had a very mild Autumn and it is almost December. We are about 2 weeks behind our usual weather. We had a very nice Thanksgiving day with lots of family around a table full of turkey with the traditional goodies. The left overs are the best part. We hope your holiday was happy.
Smokey gets to clean off the dinner plates before they go in the dish washer. No bones but lots of leftover potatoes, stuffing, and turkey scraps. I was on the sofa in the same position. We were truly thankful after a great Thanksgiving dinner. Thank you Sue.
Their new joint album, "The Union"
The concert started promptly at 8:00 PM with a solo set by Elton John, Then he introduced Leon Russell who did a solo set of his music. Elton John came back onstage and the two of them did a set together, essentially all the tracks from their recent duo album "The Union". Following this Elton came back on and did a very long set of his music. The total performance went three and one half hours but seemed much shorter. Elton John is a tireless performer and looked to be thoroughly enjoying himself, feeding off the enormous energy of the crowd. While John and Russell each could catch a breath while the other performed, the large stage band performed non-stop as there was no real intermission.
In Elton John's four-decade career he has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists in music history. Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex, England, he learned to play the piano when he was very young. In 1962 at the age of 15 he became a weekend pianist at a nearby pub. In 1964, Dwight and his friends formed a band called Bluesology. By the mid-1960s, they were backing touring American soul and R&B musicians. In 1966, the band became musician Long John Baldry's supporting band. Soon Dwight was going by the name "Elton John", in homage to Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry. In 1967, Elton teamed up with Bernie Taupin to write lyrics for Elton's tunes and what would become the first Elton John/Bernie Taupin song, "Scarecrow", was recorded.
Leon Russell is a native Oklahoma Musician. He was born April 2, 1942 in Lawton, Oklahoma, grew up in Tulsa and went to Will Rogers High School. At the early age of 14, Leon was already playing Tulsa nightclubs. His first band "The Starlighters" which included J.J. Cale, Chuck Blackwell and Johnny Williams were instrumental in creating the style of music known as the Tulsa Sound. Leon worked extensively as a session musician and has played with numerous artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra just to name a few. In 1970 he was the supporting band for Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" tour. During the summer of 1971, Russell was asked by George Harrison to participate in the Concert For Bangladesh, organized by Harrison and Ravi Shankar, at which Russell performed a medley of his songs. Also during 1971 Russell released two studio albums by his own name that year (Leon Russell And The Shelter People and Asylum Choir II with Marc Benno). Further, Russell helped Freddie King to revive his career by collaborating with him on three of his albums for Shelter during the early 1970s. Leon has spent a good part of his career supporting other more well known musicians.
Elton John and Leon Russell's paths seemed fated to cross: Both grew up at the piano, learning to play as little boys. Both played piano in bars while in their teens, and both started their careers as piano players for hire. But, according to John, there's one important difference. "He is a better piano player than I am," John says. "As far as gospel and stuff like that, that's why I wanted to make this album. He is my idol." The Union is a collaboration Elton John thought up to pay tribute to Russell, an artist he'd feared might be forgotten. There was a time when Leon Russell was a sensation. Russell wrote songs recorded by Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Rita Coolidge and Sonic Youth, to name a few. As a session player, he was much in demand. Elton John and Leon Russell's history stretches back four decades, to the night they first met at a legendary club in West Hollywood: the Troubadour. That's where John gave his first-ever concert in the U.S. For an upstart 23-year-old with a soulful voice and piano skills, those performances were like being shot out of a cannon. John says "The second night I was confident, because the first night was out of my way, and then halfway through 'Burn Down the Mission,' I'm playing the piano solo, and I glanced right and I see Leon, with the silver hair and the Ray-Ban glasses. I temporarily froze, I kind of semi-panicked because this was the man I really idolized. Soon after that night, John went on the road as the opening act for Russell, but their careers took them on different paths. They wouldn't meet again until John hatched the idea of a collaboration.
John says singing with Russell now is different from when they sang together years ago. "We're older and wiser," John says. "If we're not wiser now, we damn well should be; both of us are in the last third of our lives. How many times do you get the chance to make a record with your idol? And someone who is your peer? That's all I can say. It's just one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me personally, and definitely musically."
It's a gift that both artists seem to cherish. Russell wrote and sang the last song on the album, "The Hands of Angels," and dedicated it to Elton John. "I wanted to give him something, for doing this for me," Russell says. "I've thought this was a pretty magnificent gift he was giving me. What do you give to a guy who's got six fully staffed houses and 10 of everything else in the world? I thought I could give him a song. And he liked it. I was very thankful for that."
My friend Alan is an Episcopal Deacon and was the guest preacher at church this morning to talk about the Kairos Prison Ministry. Alan is the closest thing to a brother that I will ever have.
I met Alan in 1993 right after my first marriage came apart. That was a rough time for me and Alan was more than just a friend, he helped me get back on my feet and get my head on straight. A few years later he got into Kairos and talked me into being part of a team. Since then we have spent a lot of time in prison together.
Alan asked me to be the godfather to his youngest son Brian. I met and married Susan and he was my Best Man. He studied to become a Deacon and I was part of his ordination. Really good friends are hard to come by, friends like Alan are priceless.
Here is a belated Skywatch post. I regret that computer problems have played havoc with my daily posting routine. I am in the midst of an upgrade and will resume as soon as I get straightened out. See you soon.
This fine old cedar tree stands on the south side of the Tulsa Rose Garden. We are in between Autumn and Winter. The trees are in color and some have grown bare, although the roses are still blooming. But not for long.
Excuse me for bragging but the two little maple trees in my front yard are as pretty as any in town. I got Southwood Nursery to plant these about 10 years ago and they are really putting on a show. I love the way they start showing color at the edges first and then spread to the whole tree. The different shades of color from green to brilliant red-orange all on the same tree make them extra nice.
The blooms are creamy white at first, with just a red tinge on the outer petals, but as they mature so do the extent of the red coloring, especially in hot climates. This rose is a hybrid tea and very fragrant. Photographs were taken in the Tulsa Municipal Rose Garden.
SOOC is an acronym for Straight Out Of the Camera with no tweaking or retouching.
After a long dry spell we have enjoyed a slow soaking rain for the past 24 hours.
Sue and I flew out to San Diego for a long weekend some time ago and enjoyed a beautiful sunset.
Looking north on Boston to the Williams Tower.
My own front door with a flower bed full of hardy yellow chrysanthemums.
I love old streets where the trees on each side arch over to make a leafy tunnel. I drove over to an old part of Tulsa around 14th and Carson just south of down town. These are nice old 2 story houses with big front porches and garages behind the house at the end of a single driveway, The trees were planted when the houses were built and that was probably in the 1910's so the big trees are 100 years old. I took this shot last Saturday, November 6. Trees were just beginning to turn to fall colors and there were brilliant patches of color with large areas still green. On Saturday night the temperature dropped to freezing or a degree or so below. It didn't bother my roses or chrysanthemums, but turned the zinnias, cannas, and potted portulacas black and withered. I didn't have time to get the camera out Sunday or Monday but will tomorrow and expect to see much more color in the trees. Stay tuned.
Susan's nice silver earrings. I like the detail in them. This is the first real macro shot I have posted. It turned out pretty well even though the only illumination was from a bed side lamp.
This is a classic pure white hybrid tea rose, handsome in the garden with exhibition quality blooms. It has a light fragrance.
Painted Turtle, Slider, Cooter? They look pretty much the same, the main difference being the size. If there is an expert in the house please name these fellows.
The old trees along the Arkansas River make patterns of dark and light.
Entrance to the Headquarters of the Indian Nations Council, Boy Scouts of America, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
It has been down in the 40*F range at night which is enough to trigger some of the trees to show their autumn colors. But since we have not yet had a frost the roses and many other flowering plants are still blooming. It is a colorful time of year in Tulsa.
Zinnias are under appreciated nowadays. They are colorful, tolerate heat and hot sun, and attract butterflies. What's not to like?


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Love Never Dies, the musical sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's international hit The Phantom of the Opera, will not be coming to Broadway in the spring of 2011, a production spokesperson has confirmed to Broadway.com. The musical, which is currently playing at the West End's Adelphi Theatre, had originally planned for a November 2010 opening at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre, a date that was pushed back to spring 2011 due to issues with Lloyd Weber's health. Further information regarding the show's Broadway future will be announced at a later date.
The West End production of the musical opened on March 9, 2010, at London's Adelphi Theatre, where it continues to play. It stars Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Joseph Millson.
Another musical from O'Brien and Mitchell, Catch Me If You Can, has booked a spring run at the Neil Simon Theatre and is set to open on April 10, 2011.


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'The Lion King' Can't Feel the Love Tonight
Dir. Jon Favreau—1.5 STARS
James Earl Jones voices Mufasa (left) and JD McCrary voices young Simba (right) in Disney's "Lion King," directed by Jon Favreau. By Courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
By Lanz Aaron G. Tan, Crimson Staff Writer
"The Lion King" (2019) somehow squanders a dark Shakespearian story, a talented voice cast, and a gargantuan $260 million budget with a tedious remake of the animated classic. When "The Lion King" (1994) first hit theaters, it was billed as Disney's first original story (although this was controversial given its similarities to the Japanese anime "Kimba the White Lion" (1950-1954)), but the remake neither breaks new ground nor bothers to attempt to. Its greatest strength — admittedly stunning photo-realism — is also its greatest weakness because otherwise animated, lively characters bear stony, lifeless expressions.
The story of "The Lion King" (2019) is beautiful, but only because it's the same story as it was in 1994. Director Jon Favreau tacks on 30 minutes of extra runtime, but additional footage doesn't translate to a more robust story because the vast majority of new scenes are frustratingly inconsequential and only slow down the action. Two new subplots make for decent supplements: One brings "The Lion King" closer to its narrative inspiration, "Hamlet," and the other is a timely commentary on environmental sustainability, but Favreau neglects to substantially explore these disparate themes. Even though he doesn't introduce much new material in his shot-for-shot retelling of the original story, CG wizardry ensures that each re-made shot is wallpaper-worthy.
Ultimately, it's not Favreau's unsettling lack of originality that sours this film; it's his impractical over-commitment to realism in a story that relies on capturing imagination. The characters look photo-realistic, but since animals don't use the same facial muscles that humans do when showing emotion, it's impossible for this hyper-realism to convey singing, anthropomorphic characters. So why make "The Lion King," a story fueled by over-the-top emotion, photo-realistic in the first place? Favreau's new aesthetic leaves most of the cartoon's bright characters feeling monotonous, which is most noticeable with Simba's inexplicably blank reaction to the horrific wildebeest stampede. This commitment to realism drains all of the heart from his scenes — even from the most heartbreaking one. How is the audience expected to invest in a self-serious drama whose own characters can't show emotion?
Sometimes, Hans Zimmer's soaring soundtrack alone is enough to elicit a Pavlovian response. It's gorgeously orchestrated and bolstered by charismatic voices (Donald Glover voices Simba and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter voices Nala). "The Lion King" is at its best when it tries to bottle up this nostalgia: The performance of "Circle of Life" in particular is breathtaking. But again, the confused "realistic" aesthetic approach hampers much of the musical magic, and nowhere is this clearer than in "I Just Can't Wait To Be King." The song is meant to reflect the naive, bombastic visions of a young prince, which is why directors Allers and Minkoff employed surreal choreography and a changing color palette in 1994. Favreau doesn't attempt these in live-action, leaving for bland visuals with some lyrics like "Everybody look left! Everybody look right!" with no one actually looking left or right. Also, what time of day should "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" take place? Bonus points if one guesses midday. These changes may seem insignificant, but in a film that precludes emotional investment, it's enough to lead one to believe that they're not watching "The Lion King," but a pale imitation of the beloved classic.
It's disappointing to see Favreau operate on this middling level; it's hard to imagine that the same director who once risked it all with "Iron Man" to kickstart the MCU is now mimicking "The Lion King" to upsetting results. But despite all its flaws, Favreau's remake isn't entirely unwatchable. If you haven't watched "The Lion King" for 25 years, the remake can at times feel nostalgic. If you haven't seen the original at all, this version will have its moments of magic. But if you're a committed fan, avoid this hollow, soulless film and keep your "Lion King" memories untainted.
—Staff writer Lanz Aaron G. Tan can be reached at lanzaaron.tan@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter at @LanzAaronGTan1
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