Minor details are what make these Isaac Mizrahi denim pants something to talk about. Patch pockets in the front and back are stylish yet functional while flared legs really give these pants an extra dose of fab. From Isaac Mizrahi Live!(TM).
Isaac Mizrahi Live! Regular Knit Denim Flared Jeans w/ Patch Pockets is rated 4.2 out of 5 by 20.
Rated 5 out of 5 by thejaxter6939 from GOOD LUNCHTIME PRICING! I got these jeans in all available colors in size 16. Other than having to get the jeans hemmed 3 inches, I have no complaints. There is plenty of stretch and will be great for running around town/sitting on a plane/vacationing. I appreciate the higher waist because they hold my tummy in a little better. Nice, everyday jeans for sure, but maybe not the sexiest jeans for a night-on-the-town. Wash with a color protecting laundry product and dry separately. I would buy them again.
Rated 1 out of 5 by froggy413 from Quality Control? I own many of Isaac's clothes and find them consistent in size. These jeans, however, must have slipped through quality control. They look like circus pants! I opened the bag and when I saw how gigantic and long they were, I packaged them right back up. They're going back. I love you Isaac, but these "tents" are going back.Sorry!
Rated 4 out of 5 by maggie532 from Vrey nice! The material is very nice even though a little heavy. The amount of stretch is perfect. As other reviewers have commented, they are on the long side even with heels. The pockets on the front tend to open unfortunately. Even so, I would recommend them.
Rated 5 out of 5 by blessed-again from Wonderful! These jeans are great! Perfect flare, right amount of stretch and so comfortable. I bought size 18 in black and the fit is great. Going back for the gray. Would love to see more colors. Please bring these back Issac. A true winner!
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Rated 4 out of 5 by MaxieMoo from Adorable I ordered a size 2 and they were too big, so the sizing is definitely off. These are really cute...a little higher waisted than I'm used to, but very comfy. I just reordered a size 0 in the dark indigo. Fingers crossed that they fit.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Afirefly from Excellent Fit I just got these today and have to say they are wonderful. Definitely fit true to size for me and consistent with other Issac pants I've bought. They are a bit too long and so I will have them hemmed, totally worth it however.I am 5'5 and could probably wear the petite version just fine. I would highly recommend.


Keith Clark (center, back row) practices with a group at Interlochen.
Interlochen alumnus Keith Clark plays taps at President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
2015 Interlochen Arts Academy rolling taps tribute.
Interlochen camp alumni are intimately familiar with the 24-note melody of taps. For many, it evokes memories of warm summer nights in rustic cabins situated among the Northern Michigan woods. Two Interlochen alumni went on to make their careers performing the melancholy, reflective refrain for some of America's most distinguished political figures. This Veterans Day, we honor the careers of Sgt. Keith Clark (IAC/NMC 45, AS 43-44) and Sgt. Maj. Woodrow "Woody" English (IAA 69-71), who both served as buglers in the United States Army at pivotal points in American history.
Sgt. Clark, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., first attended Interlochen as an All-State camper in 1943 and 1944, and then in the High School Boys division as a trumpet major in 1945. The following year, at the age of 18, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as Trumpet Soloist with the famed United States Army Band, "Pershing's Own." After 21 years, he retired from the Army in 1966. Following his retirement, he taught music at Houghton College, then relocated to Florida where he performed in various musical groups.
Clark passed away in 2002, survived by his wife, four daughters, 12 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Sgt. Maj. Woody English attended Interlochen Arts Academy for two years, graduating in 1971. He began his career in The United States Army Band in 1977. In his early days in the ensemble, Sgt. Maj. English performed at such distinguished events as the 1977 Camp David Peace Accords and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1991, he was named Trumpet Soloist and also served as the band's Special Bugler until his retirement in 2010. Like Clark before him, English performed at burials and memorials for many prominent American leaders, including President Ronald Reagan.
Before his retirement, he recorded his rendition of taps, which is now played at any U.S. military funeral for which a live bugler is unavailable. Special electronic bugles have been equipped with the recording, requiring only the push of a button to hear English's rendition.
This Veterans Day, Interlochen honors alumni Sgt. Keith Clark and Sgt. Maj. Woodrow English, along with all of America's veterans, for their patriotism and service for our country.


If you have been exposed to any media source, you know Mama came home with a vengeance.
LADIES: IT IS TIME TO WORK TOGETHER – ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!!!
This is the time to create the world we want to inhabit and leave behind to our children, their children, etc. Let's put our backs into it; no more compromising, no more catching flies with sugar, no more "oh, it's okay, that's just his way.' NO MORE! NOT ANY OF IT! Find your voice, speak your truth.
REMINDER: Without question, there is plenty of guilt to go around and all guilty parties, active and passive, must be made accountable. However, we must remember plenty of people – men and women – have been activists as well as allies; we cannot tar them with the same brush. Also, and this is crucial, even as we work to rebuild, civility and kindness must continue to rule the day – otherwise, what is the point?
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Utah isn't exactly known for its strict campaign finance laws, and one area of particular concern is the use of so-called "dark money" in elections – money that is spent to influence voters but who's source is ultimately hidden from the public. Generally speaking, the donor wishing to remain hidden will funnel funds through a 501(c)(4), named after the IRS code that designates "social welfare" groups that are allowed to participate in politics so long as less than half of their spending goes towards political activities.
[pullquote]Those wishing to flaunt the law in an attempt to influence our elections deserve to be punished, and Daw's legislation provides one of many needed solutions to help clean up our election process.[/pullquote]Though 501(c)(4)'s were originally intended to be for things like volunteer fire departments, they have quickly been perverted into something much more nefarious. The reality is that these groups can accept unlimited donations from corporate, union, or individual sources and they are not required to disclose the source of these donations. To make matters worse, the IRS has been extremely lax in actually enforcing rules to make sure that these organizations don't exceed political spending limits.
And Representative Brad Daw (Republican – Orem) knows a thing or two about how dark money can be used against a candidate during an election.
A minor figure in the Utah political world, former Attorney General John Swallow is in the middle of defending criminal allegations that he took advantage of the 501(c)(4) code to defend the payday loan industry from lawmakers as they attempted to implement state and federal regulations on the industry. Daw got caught in the crossfire when he attempted to clamp down on an industry that charges, on average, 459 percent annual interest on loans. It is widely believed that the negative campaigning, fueled through a web of dark money, cost Daw his seat during a 2012 primary battle.
Of course, Daw has since reclaimed his seat and, this year, he is attacking dark money head on with HB 52 – Political Contribution Reporting Amendments.
The bill is just 7 lines of proposed code and states that it should be a class B misdemeanor if someone conspires with another to hide a political contribution that would otherwise have to be reported if they were donated to an organization directly for political purposes.
And this point is what will might kill Daw's bill. Lawmakers have traditionally shied away from any campaign finance laws with actual teeth and restrictions on campaign donations. Interestingly, lawmakers often counter with the claim that simple reporting of donations is sufficient when it comes to campaign finance – where dark money is intended to specifically circumvent even this most basic of requirements, it is possible that lawmakers could be swayed to vote in favor of the legislation. Conversely, some politicians claim that dark money will always find a way into the system – almost taking a defeatist attitude towards the whole situation.
Though Daw's legislation isn't going to stop someone from committing a crime, it will at least provide a clear cut violation that the law can prosecute against, rather than potentially allowing people to wiggle away without punishment. Those wishing to flaunt the law in an attempt to influence our elections deserve to be punished, and Daw's legislation provides one of many needed solutions to help clean up our election process. It will, no doubt, cause heartburn for lawmakers, but if we are going to be serious about cleaning up the system we must take such steps to make our elections function.


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Die New York Five sind eine Gruppe von fünf New Yorker Architekten, deren Werk 1969 Gegenstand einer Zusammenkunft der CASE (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) und einer korrespondierenden Ausstellung im Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York war. Die Gruppe besteht aus den Architekten Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk und Richard Meier. Nach dem Titel der Begleitpublikation wurden sie "Five Architects" oder auch "The New York Five", von der Presse in Anspielung auf die weißen Fassaden ihrer Bauten schlicht "The Whites" genannt.

Die Architekten verstanden ihre Entwürfe als Kritik an der Architektur der 1960er Jahre und orientierten sich an den Werken Le Corbusiers aus den 1920er und 1930er Jahren und an De Stijl, aber auch am italienischen Rationalismus, etwa Giuseppe Terragni.
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After sending Alyssa to school Goh came back home with breakfast before he goes to work and he bought me Nasi Lemak for breakfast oh well quite good cos suddenly I feel like eating rice! So I am all alone throughout till lunch time my MIL will buy lunch for me. And since is Friday she will fetch Alyssa back home and she will stay with me till Goh is back well good in a way that at least I have someone to speak to.
Small Aunt came over for visit ... she told me to cook some red dates longan with dang shen is good. So she brought some over for me and also bird nest and chicken essence. I dun take chicken essence so all these will go into Goh's tummy!
Goh will be all alone today to bring Alyssa for her Berries class and will have to pack dinner back .... he kinda bored cos usually we are always together having some time for ourselves. Just endure I am sure very soon I will be well again!
Third day already and actually I cannot really take it .... I still wake up early body clock already so use to the timing and I will just walk to the living room and start to do channel surfing .... but sad that Sunday always dun have nice show to watch at all. Nua the whole day with my 2 baobei and as for dinner all of them went Le Chasseur for dinner except me!
Goh pack sambal fried rice for me .... kinda oily but not too bad to eat actually. Family all came up for visit after their meal. Appreciate for the thoughts!


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Q: Accessing/modifying members of a QDialog from a different class? I have a class that need to access a QDialog member, but I can't make it so that the class can see what it needs to. Just to give some background: the ultimate goal is to make a QTextEdit widget fade out and become hidden after 5 seconds of being shown. Here's my code (only the relevant bits; I'm asking more about the scope issue than anything):
dialog.h
#ifndef DIALOG_H
#define DIALOG_H

#include <QDialog>
#include "mytimer.h"

namespace Ui {
class Dialog;
}

class Dialog : public QDialog
{
  Q_OBJECT

public:
  explicit Dialog(QWidget *parent = 0);
  ~Dialog();

private:
  Ui::Dialog* ui;
  myTimer mTimer;

};

#endif // DIALOG_H

dialog.cpp
#include "dialog.h"
#include "ui_dialog.h"
#include "q_debugstream.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <QTextEdit>

Dialog::Dialog(QWidget *parent) :
  QDialog(parent),
  ui(new Ui::Dialog)
{
  ui->setupUi(this);
  // this works in this .cpp file but not in mytimer.cpp when trying something similar
  ui->someQTextEdit->setTextInteractionFlags(ui->someQTextEdit->textInteractionFlags() | Qt::TextEditable);

  myTimer mTimer;

}

Dialog::~Dialog()
{
  delete ui;
}

mytimer.h
#ifndef MYTIMER_H
#define MYTIMER_H
#include <QtCore>

class myTimer : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT

public:
  myTimer();
  QTimer* timer;

public slots:
  void mySlot();
};

#endif // MYTIMER_H

mytimer.cpp
#include "mytimer.h"
#include <QDebug>
#include <iostream>
#include <QTextEdit>
#include <QGraphicsOpacityEffect>
#include <QGraphicsItem>
#include <QPropertyAnimation>
#include <QTime>
#include "ui_dialog.h"
#include "dialog.h"

myTimer::myTimer()
{
  timer = new QTimer(this);
  connect(timer,SIGNAL(timeout()),this,SLOT(mySlot()));

  timer->start(5000);
}

void myTimer::mySlot(){

  QGraphicsOpacityEffect *eff = new QGraphicsOpacityEffect(this);
  ui->someQTextEdit->setGraphicsEffect(eff);
  QPropertyAnimation* a = new QPropertyAnimation(eff,"opacity");
  a->setDuration(350);
  a->setStartValue(1);
  a->setEndValue(0);
  a->setEasingCurve(QEasingCurve::OutBack);
  a->start(QPropertyAnimation::DeleteWhenStopped);
}

The problem is with the ui->someQTextEdit->setGraphicsEffect(eff); line. The error I get tells me that ui is not declared in this scope. someQTextEdit refers to the QTextEdit widget I made while creating the dialog in designer. What do I have to do in mytimer.cpp to be able to access someQTextEdit (which is defined in the dialog's ui_dialog.h file that gets generated as a result of using the designer).
Thanks in advance.

A: Your timer is used as local variable located on stack not on the heap. So when Dialog::Dialog constructor ends its execution this object is immediately destroyed (basics of C++).
Anyway you don't need custom timer. Use QProperty animation.

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CBS Playhouse
CBS hoped to recapture the glory of the Golden Age of Television with this dramatic anthology series. Scheduled intermittently, with a handful of installments airing each year, it earned decent ratings throughout the late 1960s.
CBS Playhouse wasn't a regularly scheduled weekly television program but rather a series of irregularly scheduled dramas — or "plays for television" — broadcast between January 1967 and February 1970. CBS announced the CBS Playhouse in June 1966. The New York Times reported that the network planned to spend up to $500,000 to "encourage authors to write original and significant dramas for television," with up to $25,000 paid for commissioned scripts [1]. John T. Reynolds, CBS president, explained that "once a writer's work is commissioned by the program department, he will receive payment without restriction on the length of his drama, and without any time limitation on the completion of the final script. We will fit our schedule to the writer's schedule" [2].
Michael H. Dann, CBS vice president of programming, stated that the network was actively seeking both new scriptwriters as well as those who had left the medium. Fred Coe, Herbert Brodkin, George Schaefer and Worthington Minor had been approached to producer while Barbara Schultz would serve as executive story editor [3]. Scriptwriters responded positively to the announcement. Said Paddy Chayefsky, "I couldn't be more delighted by the C.B.S. announcement. I've got about nine ideas and I'd like to try them if I can avoid all the nonsense of ratings and pressures by networks, sponsors and packagers" [4].
CBS wasn't the only network planning to revive the original television drama. ABC had earlier announced a regularly scheduled series for the 1966-1967 season called Stage '67 while NBC had a variety of dramas in the works. In August, Michael Dann revealed that Herbert Brodkin, Fred Coe, Martin Manulis and George Schaefer had signed on as producers for CBS Playhouse, with each contracted for a single episode [5]. Reginald Rose was the first scriptwriter attached to the project, receiving $25,000 for a script titled "Dear Friends." Said Rose, "It's like old times. And I'm told by C.B.S. that I will have absolute freedom in writing what I want and also in the playing time. Mike Dann said it could be an hour, an hour and a half, an hour and 42 minutes or two hours" [6].
Aaron Copland was commissioned by compose a one-minute theme for CBS Playhouse, his first work for television [7]. In October 1966, Val Adams wrote an article in The New York Times questioning when CBS Playhouse would debut on television, reporting that the series would likely premiere in early 1967 and that 13 scripts had been commissioned, including works from Peter Shaffer, Luther Whitsitt and Ronald Ribman. Adams also provided a list of other writers "official at work" on the series: Reginald Rose, Ernest Kinoy, Ellen Violett, Adrian Spies, Loring Mandel, Robert Crean, Roger O. Hirson, Jan Hartman, Mario Fartti, Anthony Terpiloff [8].
In November, CBS officially announced that CBS Playhouse would premiere in February 1967, with Ronald Ribman's "The Final War of Olly Winters," about "a Negro Army sergeant serving as a United States military adviser in South Vietnam in 1963 before this country committed troops to combat" [9]. It ultimately aired on January 29th, 1967. Critical response was ecstatic. CBS took out a full page advertisement in The New York Times that included quotes from ten newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Cleveland Press, The New York Post and The Baltimore Sun; the advertisement noted that 30 million viewers watched the play [10].
In early February, the General Telephone & Electronics Corporation agreed to spend $2 million to sponsor four additional installments of CBS Playhouse during the 1967-1968 season, the first of which, Loring Mandel's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Night," would star Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge. Commercials would probably be limited to just two breaks per hour; "The Final War of Olly Winter" had featured several minute-long commercials from a variety of advertisers [11].
March and Eldridge were forced to pull out of the play due to March's health; they were replaced by Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Booth [12]. In August, The New York Times reported that the October 17th premiere of CBS Playhouse would run without commercial breaks, featuring a 5-6 minute commercial at the start of the program and, depending on running time, an additional 3-minute commercial at the end [13]. The broadcast garnered a 17.3 Nielsen rating, placing it outside the Top 25 for the week, but not by that much (two programs tied for 25th with 19.9 Nielsen ratings) [14].
Three other episodes of CBS Playhouse were broadcast during the 1967-1968 season: "Dear Friends" (Reginald Rose; December 6th, 1967), "My Father and Mother" (Robert Crean; February 13th, 1968) and "Secrets" (Tad Mosel; May 5th, 1968). General Telephone renewed its sponsorship of the series in March [15].
The first broadcast of the 1968-1969 season, J.P. Miller's "The People Next Door" on October 15th, 1968, ranked 20th for the week with a 20.8 Nielsen rating [16]. The other three episodes broadcast during the 1968-1969 season included "Saturday Adoption" (Ron Cowen; December 4th, 1968), "The Experiment" (Ellen Violett; February 25th, 1969) and "Shadow Game" (Loring Mandel; May 7th, 1969). General Telephone once again renewed its sponsorship of the series in June 1969 [17].
During the 1969-1970 season only three episodes were produced: "Appalachian Autumn" (Earl Hamner Jr.; October 7th, 1969), "Sadbird" (George Bellak; December 1st, 1969) and "The Day Before Sunday" (Robert Crean; February 10th, 1970). In May of 1970, The New York Times reported that CBS Playhouse had lost General Telephone as sponsor and would have fewer productions during the 1970-1971 season [18].
In June 1970, Michael Dann resigned as senior vice president of programming for CBS (taking a 75% pay cut, he went to work for the Children's Television Workshop, responsible for Sesame Street) [19]. His departure may have played a part in the decision not to continue CBS Playhouse. In February 1972, a new irregularly scheduled dramatic series had its debut on the network: CBS Playhouse 90. The title combined CBS Playhouse with the venerable Playhouse 90 that had run on CBS from from 1956 to 1960.
1 Gent, George. "C.B.S. Seeks Out Original Dramas." New York Times. 22 Jun. 1996: 95.
4 Adams, Val. "Writers Laud C.B.S. Plan for Serious TV Plays." New York Times. 23 Jun. 1966: 58.
5 Gent, George. "4 Top Producers Signed by C.B.S. For Drama Series." New York Times. 3 Aug. 1966: 75.
6 Adams, Val. "C.B.S. To Get Play By Reginald Rose." New York Times. 9 Aug. 1966: 75.
7 Adams, Val. "Copland Composing for TV." New York Times. 28 Aug. 1966: 115.
8 Adams, Val. "Where's 'CBS Playhouse?'." New York Times. 23 Oct. 1966: X19.
9 Adams, Val. "'C.B.S. Playhouse' Due in February." New York Times. 4 Nov. 1966: 79.
10 [Advertisement]. New York Times. 1 Feb. 1967: 78.
11 Adams, Val. "$2-Million to Buy 4 Plays on C.B.S." New York Times. 6 Feb. 1967: 47.
12 "Frederic March Out of Hospital." New York Times. Associated Press. 29 Apr. 1967: 25.
13 Dallos, Robert E. "C.B.S. To Do Play Unbroken By Ads." New York Times. 15 Aug. 1967: 79.
14 "Network axes sharpen." Broadcasting. 6 Nov. 1967: 41-42.
15 Gent, George. "Outlook Is Bright For Plays On TV." New York Times. 15 Mar. 1968: 79.
16 "NBC-TV rated No. 1 again by Nielsen." Broadcasting. 4 Nov. 1968: 63-64.
17 "'C.B.S. Playhouse' Wins Back Sponsor." New York Times. 27 Jul. 1969: 75.
18 Gent, George. "TV Drama Faces Cutback in Fall." New York Times. 22 May 1970: 61.
19 Gould, Jack. "Dann Quits C.B.S. for Public TV." New York Times. 22 Jun. 1970: 63.
Originally Published June 24th, 2010
Last Updated May 17th, 2018
10 Replies to "CBS Playhouse"
DuMont says:
June 24, 2010 at 5:59PM
'CBS Playhouse' seemed to rate pretty well for an anthology drama series, and I'm surprised that CBS let it slip beneath the waves. It must have been the expense was too great. They broadcast some extraordinary dramas over those few seasons, and it is so sad that 'Theatre'-type drama specials like these have completely disappeared from broadcast television.
There was another one from the same era monikered 'Prudential on Stage' that aired on the NBC network that also produced some outstanding dramas that garnered a few Emmys. I cannot why that one ended either, though I suppose Prudential might have withdrawn their sponsorship of the series for cost or other reasons.
I found some 'CBS Playhouse' have ratings for the second season (still trying to locate where I filed the first and third season numbers):
"The People Next Door" (OAD: October 15th, 1968) -> 20.8HH/36%
"The Experiment" (OAD: February 25th, 1969) -> 17.9HH/31% (encored May 25, 1968: 17.9HH/31%)
"Saturday Adoption" (OAD: December 4th, 1968) -> 15.3HH/27%
"Shadow Game" (OAD: May 7th, 1969) -> 18.4HH/36%
Barry I. Grauman says:
The original weekly "PLAYHOUSE 90", the last of the notable live anthology series, ended after four seasons (as a "floating series" of specials) in May 1960 because James T. Aubrey, "The Smiling Cobra" of CBS [as well as its president and chief programmer], decided his network could do without such "prestigious" dramas, insisting viewers wanted the same thing every week: half-hour comedies and half-hour and hour-long Westerns, cop shows, and "action-adventure" series. The ratings and revenue he brought to the network between 1959 and '64 for those kind of shows proved him correct- but producers like David Susskind cursed him for his attitude. Fortunately, Aubrey couldn't touch 'THE UNITED STATES STEEL HOUR" and "ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER", which aired alternately on Wednesday nights, because they were still popular, and their sponsors were willing to pay for their live {and taped} anthologies. However, even they knew when it was time to end them, mostly due to skyrocketing costs for advertising and air time charges- which they finally did in 1963. "THE DANNY KAYE SHOW" (in which Danny conducted a more sophisticated version of Sid Caesar's variety hour of the '50s) replaced them.
After Aubrey was fired from the network in early 1965, John T. Reynolds, his successor, had a different attutude: a meaningful dramatic anthology COULD have a place on CBS'schedule…only not every week, as there were no "big ticket" advertisers willing to sustain a weekly anthology. What he did was basically revive the "PLAYHOUSE 90" franchise under a new title, and favored videotape to make it more "cost-effective" to advertisers (including GTE, who knew "prestiege" when they saw it). Mike Dann shared Reynolds' attitude, but when he left CBS in 1970, Fred Silverman, as chief programmer, leaned more towards Aubrey's position: weekly "bread and butter" shows were what more viewers wanted to see. And after the unfortunate incident involving Joseph Papp's production of "Sticks and Bones" in 1973 {which caused him to tear up his contract with the network over their failure to schedule it because of military personnel returning from Vietnam- apparently, the network didn't want to offend the Nixon administration by airing David Rabe's drama about a Vietnam vet who's rejected by his family and dies at their hands by the end of the story}, there were hardly any dramas along the lines of "CBS PLAYHOUSE" at all. A revival of the format, using filmed dramas, briefly aired in the '90s, along with two live presentaions- "On Golden Pond" with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and "Fail-Safe" with George Clooney- around the turn of the millenium…unfortunately, current programmer Les Moonves shares James Aubrey's dictum: weekly programs are what the network makes the most money and ratings from [especially when they own and distribute most of them]. And except for the occasional "HALLMARK HALL OF FAME" special (now mostly filmed offerings with "sentimental values" up front), the network has no room for even an occasional "prestiege" drama these days.
Troy Turner says:
October 9, 2012 at 1:08AM
CBS did a one-off with William Shatner in the winter of 78-where he replicated BF Skinner's Harvard experiment about people following orders. I can't remember the name of it, but I remember watching it as part of a psychology class my junior year in high school (83-84)-I was never so scared or mad in my life after seeing that. Does anyone have a title or info on this…
RGJ says:
October 9, 2012 at 8:33PM
The telefilm was called The Tenth Level and was broadcast on August 26th, 1976. CBS initially had it scheduled for a December 1975 airdate but pulled it, then rescheduled it again for April 1976 only to pull it again.
October 10, 2012 at 2:25AM
RGJ,
Thanks for the title-I do remember that now. But, are you positive that it wasn't repeated in the winter of 78-because I remember seeing the tail end of a "Hot Ones" promo (the CBS campaign for 77-78), plus a commercial for Gillette Cricket lighters-where Marilyn Michaels did a dead-on Marilyn Monroe impersonation
Troy, I am not 100% positive that it was not repeated but could not find any mention of it in television listings for 1978.
THE TENTH LEVEL broadcast on Aug.26/1978 garnered a 13.2HH/25% rating and it was not repeated in primetime nor on 'The CBS Late Movie'.
Joseph Harder says:
December 26, 2012 at 12:02AM
The Tenth Level was not based on an experiment by B.F. Skinner but on one conducted by a psychologist named Daniel Milgram. It was described in detail in a once very famous book called Obedience To Authority.
The Private War of Ollie Winters was one of the best things ever put on television, as was The People Next Door. Not Surprisingly, like other fine TV Dramas from he late nineteen sixties, (The Andersonville Trial, The Crucible, several superb Hallmarks, it is absolutely impossible to find on DVD..
Stephen Z. says:
The psychologist was actually named Stanley Milgram.
Benzadmiral says:
For some reason I recall promos of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Night" airing during the late summer/early fall of 1967, but I had no memory of who was in it. Good work.


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The Outsiders & Writing From the Heart
When I began work on my first book, In the Shadows, I didn't know it would become a book series. I didn't know the name of the book, even. The working title, believe it or not, was Cul-de-sac. I changed the title while working on the book cover design and seeing all the shadows near the cafe. http://amzn.to/29wFOmt
Somewhere along the way, I decided to write a second book with the same characters. That book eventually became Where Secrets Reside. And then, after writing a few more books in other series, I wrote a third Outsiders book, Winter Tears (which is currently on promo for free on all Amazon websites). http://amzn.to/29plFf8
I'm not entirely sure why I chose The Outsiders as the series name, but I suspect it goes back to my mother's history. She came to the U.S. from Germany, when I was a baby. Her husband, my father, was American and took her to his hometown in Oklahoma. Boy, oh boy, did she feel like an outsider. Her English was not great, which didn't help, and she wasn't used to the southern accent, either. Over a few years she taught herself English by watching TV and reading magazines and books.
I suppose I always felt her discomfort, to some degree. I was also moved by her courage to leave her homeland and travel to a foreign country, especially one that wasn't too taken with Germany at that time in history. It was the late 1950's.
In part, her story inspired me to set my outsiders in a foreign land–Dave, the protagonist is half-American/half-French and grew up in the U.S. Another main character, Maurelle, is half-English/half-French and grew up in the U.K. They meet in a small French village.
By the fourth book, Dave's American father and French mother have also moved to Reynier, France and are preparing to open the chateau/hotel that has been closed down. That fourth book, The Forgotten Tomb, is being edited right now and should be out in a few months.
Up until now, I haven't talked much about the plot of the new book. I thought you might be interested in a sneak-peek, so here it is.
Fabienne Laurent's biggest fear is that her family will notice her memory problems are getting worse. If they do, they'll send her to live in a nursing home, away from everyone and everything she loves. That's what she and her husband did when her own mother's dementia caused them too much grief. Not taking care of her mother the way a daughter should is one of her biggest regrets, but she can't undo the past. At best, she can keep her own family from making the same mistake, at least until they have no choice.
With that decision made, she'll have to cover up her illness as long as possible. Maybe that won't be a problem. They haven't noticed, so far . . . . But, she soon discovers it might not be as easy as she'd hoped. While helping her daughter and son-in-law renovate their new hotel, she finds mysterious journals that lead them to the unearthing of an old tomb inside the town's caves—and also to the remains of a woman who was murdered twenty years ago. That discovery turns her world upside down, because Fabienne not only knew the victim, but also had a motive to kill her. She must find a way to recover lost memories and convince herself and everyone else that she didn't do it.
gwpj said:
I'm really looking forward to the publication of your new book, "The Forgotten Tomb". I love the series.
Thank you, George!
Penina Keen Spinka said:
Your pitch sounds like the story will be a good read, emotional and mysterious. Good luck with it.
Thanks, Penina!
Thanx for the info. Great writing by the way!
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Q: Laravel-Mix using webpack: JQuery is not autoloaded I am trying to compile my Laravel Project with Laravel-Mix, but i get a problem where jQuery is not autoloaded in the browser even with the mix.autoload directive:

bootstrap.min.js:6 Uncaught Error: Bootstrap's JavaScript requires
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      at bootstrap.min.js:6

As you can see, i include bootstrap in a script tag at the bottom of the page, and jquery is part on my dependencies in npm package.json.
index.blade.php
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        <meta charset="utf-8"/>
        <title>Test</title>

Hello

webpack.mix.js
const { mix } = require('laravel-mix');

mix.autoload({
    jquery: ['$', 'jQuery', 'window.jQuery'],
});

mix.js(['assets/js/script.js'], 'public/js/bundle.js');

if (mix.inProduction()) {
    mix.disableNotifications();
    mix.version();
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A: Install jQuery and Popper.
npm i jquery
npm i popper.js

In your /resources/js/bootstrap.js.
try {
    window.Popper = require('popper.js').default;
    window.$ = window.jQuery = require('jquery');

In webpack.mix.js.
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Arrest and judicial harassment against seven human rights defenders of the Telangana Democratic Front
About Telangana Democratic Front (TDF)Take Action. Support Telangana Democratic Front (TDF).Take action for Telangana Democratic Front (TDF)
On 3 January 2017, the seven human rights defenders of the Telangana Democratic Front (TDF) fact finding team were denied bail by a district court in Dantewada, South Chhattisgarh. The seven human rights defenders were arrested by the Chhattisgarh police on 25 December 2016 and charged on 26 December 2016 under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act for allegedly possessing banned currency notes and Maoist literature.
About the Telangana Democratic Front (TDF)
Telangana Democratic Front (TDF) is a fact finding team that investigates human rights violations committed against the indigenous tribal group Adivasis, including extra-judicial killings by security forces in the Chhattisgarh state, located in central India. The seven human rights defenders are Balla Ravindranath, a lawyer and the general secretary of the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP), Chikkudu Prabhaker, a lawyer, Durga Prasad, an independent journalist in Hyderabad, Duddu Prabhakar, the president of AP Kula Nirmulana Porata Samiti (Committee for Caste Annihilation), Rajendra Prasad and Nazeer, who are both research scholars from Osmania University and members of Telangana Vidhyarthi Vedika (Telangana Students Forum) and Ramanala Laxmaiyya, a research scholar from Osmania University.
Meet Telangana Democratic Front (TDF)
5 January 2017 : Arrest and judicial harassment against seven human rights defenders of the Telangana Democratic Front
On 3 January 2017, the seven human rights defenders of the Telangana Democratic Front (TDF) fact finding team were denied bail by a district court in Dantewada, South Chhattisgarh. The seven human rights defenders were arrested by the Chhattisgarh police on 25 December 2016 and charged on 26 December under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act for allegedly possessing banned currency notes and Maoist literature.
On 3 January 2017, a district court in Dantewada, South Chhattisgarh, rejected the bail of all seven members of the TDF fact finding team. The TDF team are currently appealing the decision with the High Court in Dantewada. According to the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA), 2005 section 8(4), the police are required to receive written permission from the Superintendent of Police before undertaking any investigation into cases under the CSPSA. As the the investigation and arrests of the seven human rights defenders were carried out without receiving prior permission from the Superintendent of Police, they are illegal.
On 24 December 2016, the TDF team was traveling to Sukma to investigate complaints of human rights violations on the indigenous tribal group Adivasis. Around 9:30 a.m., the Telangana police arrested them in Dummugudem village, Khamman district and held them under arrest until the following day. At around 7 p.m on 25 December 2016, they were transferred to the Chhattisgarh police at Kunta Police Station. In the morning of 26 December 2016, the TDF team were presented before the court in Sukma and remanded in custody. A criminal case was filed against the seven human rights defenders under the Chhattisgarh State Special Public Security Act, sections 8(1), 8(2), 8(3) and 8(5) for allegedly assisting the Maoists and possessing banned currency notes and Maoist literature.
Human rights defenders in Chhattisgarh state have faced intensifying acts of intimidation, assault and persecution in the course of their legitimate and peaceful human rights work. On 8 February 2016, the home of human rights defender Ms Malini Subramaniam in Jagdalpur city was attacked by unknown assailants. The attack followed months of harassment of the human rights defender by the government and police authorities of Chhattisgarh state. On 20 February 2016, Ms Soni Sori was attacked by three unidentified men in the state of Chhattisgarh.
Front Line Defenders expresses grave concern at the arrest of the seven human rights defenders of Telangana Democratic Front and the charges against them, which it believes as solely motivated by their peaceful and legitimate work in human rights, and in particular their efforts to seek justice for abuses committed by security forces in the Chhattisgarh state.
Front Line Defenders urges the authorities in India to:
1. Immediately drop all charges against the seven members of Telangana Democratic Front (TDF);
2. Immediately and unconditionally release the seven members of Telangana Democratic Front (TDF);
3. Guarantee in all circumstances that all human rights defenders in India are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions.
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Donald Trump's State Of The Union last night was pretty damn similar to his Inauguration Day – full of lies and pathetic brags. The aftermath is even more shameful, as Trump and his team are doing everything in their power to boast about a president who has the lowest ratings in modern history.
This brag is almost as bad as Trump complimenting himself on his crowd sizes on Inauguration Day. It's hilarious that Trump's own team in the White House can't seem to compliment him without putting a little bit of an insult in there. If Trump didn't break any records, why even mention it?! The White House pretty much advertised that Trump had lost to former President Bill Clinton, who had 128 rounds of applause.


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Q: How do I run Apache (httpd) and Tomcat together? I recently got projects that runs on Struts and I am expecting more JSP coming ahead.
After googling the question, I was led to blogs of people who tried to do the same. Those blogs weren't exactly a step by step procedure of how they did it but more like a reference in case they
 need to do something the same in the future. In some cases, the author didn't exactly say if he
 was successful in his attempt to run both aforementioned services together.
Unfortunately, I can't follow their "instructions" as I have plenty of PHP projects
 configured (upload directories, classpaths etc...) to run on my test server and I don't have the luxury of time to reconfigure them all
 in case I mess up with the httpd server. And for honesty's sake, I haven't tried a single step on running them together for the same reason of being hesitant to update configuration files.
I'm not sure if this adds to the complexity but I am running both services thru xampp (with tomcat being a xampp add-on) for portability purposes.
I know that I can just stop my Apache service whenever I am working on JSP but hey this
 is an oppurtunity to try something new and I just can't let it slip. Further, it would really be
 convenient for both services to just run automatically on startup which would really increase
 my productivity as I won't have to manually switch between services when needed.
Hope there's someone on SO who rode the same boat.

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  Tomcat Version is 6.0.20
  Httpd Version is 2.2.14

A: *

*Have Tomcat listen on a port other than 80

*Follow a guide to set up mod_proxy to redirect requests for a certain location to Tomcat, such as this one.

If you're really just testing, skip the second step and just access the server via a different port for Tomcat.
edit: See also http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html on setting up mod_proxy_ajp.

A: You neglected to mention what version of Tomcat you're using and you also didn't mention whether you actually looked at the Tomcat documentation to answer the question.
I'd suggest starting here: http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/webserver_howto/apache.html and look into setting up mod_jk.

A: If you want to use apache/ httpd to serve the request from PHP as well as any other server running on different port let say tomcat on port 8080 you can use apache/ httpd to act as a "proxy" and map a URL which will be served by another server. This is done using ProxyPass ProxyPassReverse configuration.
For example:
If you want http://localhost/php to be served by PHP and http://localhost/tomcat to be served by tomcat then you will have to make following changes in httpd.config/ apache.config [apache2.config depending on version of apache you are using]:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
# Uncomment these to proxy FTP or HTTPS
#LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
#LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so

<VirtualHost *:80>
# Your domain name
# ServerName Domain_NAME_HERE

ProxyPreserveHost On

ProxyPass /tomcat http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /tomcat http://localhost:8080/

# The location of the HTML files, and access control information
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory /var/www>
    Options -Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
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In case you are running httpd on centos and you may get error Apache Mod_proxy '[Error] (13)Permission Denied', then follow this link which says execute the following command:
 /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

I would recommand you to read mod_proxy.
Ref: Redhat mod_proxy configuration


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Parler website comes back online with 'lovers and haters' note
Washington, D.C. turned into fortress for Biden inauguration
Listening to science, kinda: New York State's COVID restrictions have become a twisted mess
'Hollywood Ripper' Michael Gargiulo, convicted of killing Ashton Kutcher's friend, wins sentencing delay amid claims sheriff testimony tainted
By Nancy Dillon
Michael Thomas Gargiulo, right, listens to his defense attorney Daniel Nardoni, during a hearing by his defense introducing motions for a new trial at Los Angeles Superior Court, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Sentencing for Gargiulo who was convicted of two murders has been delayed over a defense motion for a new trial. A judge had been expected to give a death sentence Friday to 44-year-old Gargiulo, who was found guilty of the home-invasion killings of two women. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
The serial killer dubbed the "Hollywood Ripper" sported a new mustache and smug demeanor in court Friday as a judge postponed his expected death sentence amid defense claims he deserves a new trial.
Michael Gargiulo, 44, was due to be sentenced in Los Angeles for murdering 22-year-old fashion student Ashley Ellerin in 2001 and 32-year-old mother of four Maria Bruno in 2005.
Gargiulo stabbed Ellerin 47 times the same night she was due to got on a date with actor Ashton Kutcher, a jury of six women and six women heard last year before finding him guilty.
Defense lawyers now claim the trial was flawed because prosecutors failed to turn over evidence the defense would have used to question the credibility of key witness Mark Lillienfeld, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detective who worked the case before his retirement in 2016.
They pointed to a Los Angeles Times investigation last October that revealed Lillienfeld was temporarily banned from Men's Central Jail in 2018 after he dressed as an active duty deputy to gain entry and allegedly left behind a bag of "contraband."
Video of the incident published by The Times shows Lillienfeld moving through security in a tan and green deputy uniform and depositing the bag and a coffee cup in an inmate chapel.
An inmate spotted the bag hours later and stuffed its contents in his pants pocket, according to the video. The inmate later told investigators the bag contained an Egg McMuffin, the newspaper said.
Attempts to reach Lillienfeld, who was working as a DA investigator on a separate murder investigation at the time of the jail incident, were not immediately successful Friday.
Gargiulo's defense lawyer Dale Rubin said he wants a copy of the 11-page Sheriff's Department memo describing the McMuffin incident so he can use use it in a motion for a new trial.
"He was a lead investigator on this case," Rubin told the Daily News Friday. "What we're talking about now would have attacked his credibility as a witness. That's what this is all about."
Judge Larry Fiddler ordered the parties back to court March 13 and said the defense should be able to get a copy of the memo with minimal redaction.
"Mr. Gargiulo, is all this agreeable to you?" the judge asked.
"Yes, sir," Gargiulo responded after spending part of the hearing shaking his head and scoffing as his lawyer blasted law enforcement for what he deemed a "due process violation."
Deputy DA Daniel Akemon declined to comment as he left the hearing Friday.
Beyond the murders of Ellerin and Bruno, Gargiulo also was convicted of attempting to kill a third woman who survived his signature stabbing attack by waging a blood-soaked struggle.
Michelle Murphy was alone in her Santa Monica apartment in April 2008 when Gargiulo, an air-conditioning repairman, climbed through her window and stabbed her eight times.
Murphy's fierce fight caused Gargiulo to cut himself with the blade. Injured and bleeding, Gargiulo yelled "Sorry" as he ran out her door, leaving a trail of blood that would lead to his arrest, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors dubbed Gargiulo the "Boy Next Door Killer" because he lived near all his victims and stalked them before his grisly attacks.
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Kutcher testified last May during the first phase of the trial, saying he arrived at Ellerin's Hollywood Hills residence around 10:30 the night of their date and received no answer.
"I noticed all the lights were on, so I assumed she was home. I knocked on the door. There was no answer. I knocked again, again no answer. I kind of looked through the window on the front door," he said.
An actor on the Fox sitcom "That '70s Show" at the time, Kutcher yelled for Ellerin, attempted to open her locked door and looked in a large window, he said.
"I saw what I thought was red wine spilled on the carpet," he testified in front of a packed courtroom. "That also was not that alarming. I had just been to a party at her house a couple weeks ago, but it was like a college party with a lot of people drinking, so I didn't really think much of it."
Kutcher said he eventually gave up, thinking Ellerin had "bailed" on their date because he was late.
"I got in my car, and I went home and figured I kind of screwed up and showed up too late and she had left," he testified.
In opening statements for the trial last year, Akemon said the carpet stain Kutcher saw likely was much more sinister than wine.
"We believe now that was actually blood," the prosecutor said.


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Report on Barren Island (India) — October 2013
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 38, no. 10 (October 2013)
Managing Editor: Richard Wunderman..
Barren Island (India) Ash plume drifted up to 220 km SW in February 2013
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Report on Barren Island (India). In: Wunderman, R. (ed.), Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 38:10. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN201310-260010.
Volcano Profile | Complete Bulletin
Barren Island
Our last Bulletin report (BGVN 36:06) noted that Barren Island was still erupting during 2011. This report both discusses an April 2010 ash plume that recently came to our attention and reports on activity as late as October 2013. A regional map appears in the last section.
On 19 April 2010, based on analysis of satellite imagery, the Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) reported that a plume from Barren Island rose to an altitude of 2.4 km and drifted 55 km N. Ash, however, could not be identified from the satellite data.
A Twitter posting included the photo in figure 20, an image apparently acquired in December 2010. The Indian Navy (via Twitter) reported seeing "smoke" and lava was also seen on the island from a surveillance plane on 16 October 2013. A large hot spot is visible on recent MODIS satellite data.
Figure 20. A photo of Barren Island emitting a dark ash plume from its main cone. The photo's metadata indicated that it was taken on 10 December 2010. Copyrighted photo by Paul Andrew Johnson and posted on Panoramio photo display website.
VAAC reported that on 16 February 2013 during 1430 to 2000 (UTC date and time) an ash plume from Barren Island reached an altitude of 6.1 km and drifted 220 km SW. Meteorological clouds masked the ash cloud after 2000 UTC and the VAAC warned that ash could still reside at altitude. The 16 February 2013 plume height was derived from a 1530 UTC MTSAT-2 infrared image and an atmospheric sounding at Penang made at 1200 UTC. The VAAC also created a forecast of the plume's movement based on the Hysplit model data.
Darwin VAAC found that on 17 October 2013 an ash plume rose to an altitude of 3.7 km and drifted ~30 km NW. The plume was first seen in imagery at 0732 UTC and last seen at 0932 UTC. Plume height was derived from MTSAT-2 visible wavelength image, observed ash movement, and comparison to winds from both an atmospheric model and a 0600 UTC sounding.
Regional map. A regional map brings together geography and tectonics of the region centered on Barren Island (figure 21).
Figure 21. Location map for Barren Island seen on the digital version of the wall map "This Dynamic Planet" (Simkin and others, 2005). The background image is from ER Mapper. The oceanic bathymetry and on-land topography translate for this gray-scale image, forming two independent series ranging from dark (low) to light (high). Thus, deep ocean and low land are dark, and shallow ocean and high land are light. White triangles with black borders represent Holocene volcanoes (Siebert and Simkin, 2002). Labeled volcanoes are Barren Island, Narcondam (N); Popa (P) and the Singu Plateau (SP) in Myanmar, the Tengchong pyroclastic cones (T) in southern China. The curving white line is the convergent boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate, including the Burma sub-plate (BP) of the Eurasian Plate.
At Barren Island's latitude, the convergent boundary is the subduction zone named the Andaman trench; to the S is the Sumatran trench, and to the N is the continental-collision zone marked by the Indo-Myanmar ranges (IMR) and still farther N and W, the Himalayan front. The large white arrow shows the NNE relative-motion vector of ~60 mm/yr for the Indian Plate and the Eurasian PlateW of Sumatra. The 26 December 2004 Sumatran earthquake (Mw 9.3) is marked by a white dot. Taken from Sanjeev Raghav (2011).
References: Luhr, J. F. and Haldar, D., 2006, Barren Island volcano (NE Indian Ocean): island-arc high-alumina basalts produced by troctolite contamination; J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., vol. 149, pp. 177-212.
Ray, J.S, Pande K., Awasthi, N. 2013, A minimum age for the active Barren Island volcano, Andaman Sea, Current Science; Special Section: Earth Sciences, Vol. 104, No. 7, 10 April 2013.
Sanjeev, R. 2011, Barren Volcano- A Pictorial Journey From Recorded Past To Observed Recent Part-I Earth Science India, Open Access e-Journal, Popular Issue, IV (III), July, 2011; (URL: www.earthscienceindia.info ).
Siebert, L. and Simkin, T.,2002, Volcanoes of the world: an illustrated catalog of Holocene volcanoes and their eruptions, Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program, Digital Information Series, GVP-3.
Simkin, T., Tilling, R.I., Vogt, P.R., Kirby, S., Kimberly, P., and Stewart, D.B. This Dynamic Planet: World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics U.S. Geological Survey (2005).
Geologic Background. Barren Island, a possession of India in the Andaman Sea about 135 km NE of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, is the only historically active volcano along the N-S volcanic arc extending between Sumatra and Burma (Myanmar). It is the emergent summit of a volcano that rises from a depth of about 2250 m. The small, uninhabited 3-km-wide island contains a roughly 2-km-wide caldera with walls 250-350 m high. The caldera, which is open to the sea on the west, was created during a major explosive eruption in the late Pleistocene that produced pyroclastic-flow and -surge deposits. Historical eruptions have changed the morphology of the pyroclastic cone in the center of the caldera, and lava flows that fill much of the caldera floor have reached the sea along the western coast.
Information Contacts: Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC), Bureau of Meteorology, Northern Territory Regional Office, PO Box 40050, Casuarina Northern Territory 0811 Australia; Twitter (URL: https://twitter.com/twitter); and VolcanoDiscovery (URL: http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/).


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Suffolk County Green Key Cards
United States New York Long Island
All Long Island
How and Where to Buy This Card to Utilize Parks and Golf Courses
By Linda Tagliaferro
Terry Ballard / Flickr / CC BY 2.0
If you are moving to or visiting a place in Suffolk County on Long Island, you may be thinking you'd like to enjoy the local parks and golf courses. In order to do so, you will need to purchase a Green Key card—this allows access to and reduced fees for Suffolk County parks and activities as well as the local golf courses.
What the Green Key Card Gets You
Many of the parks in Suffolk County offer beaches, golf, camping, fishing, sports facilities, playgrounds, and some even feature horseback riding and rowboat rentals. To enjoy these activities you will need a Green Key. You will also be able to access the automated golf and camping reservation system online with a Green Key and get reduced fees for camping, golf, and boat slips.
Who Can Get a Green Key Card
Both residents and non-residents can purchase Green Key cards. Resident cards are valid for three years. Non-residents cards are available for a higher fee than the resident card and are valid for one year. There are two types of non-resident cards: a non-resident Green Key and a non-resident Reservation Green Key. The first offers the same benefits as the resident Green Key card whereas the Reservation Green Key only allows you to access the online reservation system for golf and camping.
How to Purchase a Green Key Card
For a resident Green Key, you must purchase the card in person at one of a number of parks (some offering the cards year-round, others only between Memorial Day and Labor Day). Non-residents can purchase their cards over the phone with a credit card through the Parks Operations Office, open from Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
To purchase a resident Green Key, you will need to bring two valid forms of ID with you. One proof of ID must be a photo ID with your address, such as a driver's license. A second proof of ID can be a Suffolk County property tax bill, Suffolk County property deed, motor vehicle registration, Suffolk County utility bill, Suffolk County library card, or voter registration card.
Where to Purchase a Green Key Card
Green Key cards may be obtained at several parks throughout Suffolk County. Year-round, cards are available at Blydenburgh County Park, Cathedral Pines, Indian Island County Park, Lake Ronkonkoma, Sears Bellows County Park, Smith Point County Park, and West Sayville. In season, you will find the cards at Bergen Point, Cedar Point, Cupsogue Beach County Park, Montauk County Park, Shinnecock East County Park, Southaven County Park, and Timber Point Golf Course.
Discounted or Free Green Key Cards
For residents, there are several discounted or free Green Key cards available (proof is required):
Handicap Green Key (discounted): You must show a New York State parks Access Pass or S.C. Handicapped ID card issued by the Suffolk County Office of Handicapped Services.
C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team) Green Key (discounted): Volunteers must show valid Suffolk County C.E.R.T. team member photo ID card or a letter typed on Department letterhead stating status is active.
Auxiliary Police Green Key (discounted): You must show your Auxiliary Police ID at the time of purchase or an official letter stating Active and Auxiliary.
Firefighter/EMT Green Key (discounted): You must show your ID card or a letter written on the fire dept./ambulance company's official stationery.
Veterans Green Key (discounted): You must show your DD Form 214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty) or a Suffolk County resident veteran ID card issued by the Suffolk County Office of Veteran Affairs.
Disabled Veterans Green Key (free): You must bring a V.A.-issued ID card stating a "service connected" disability.
Active Military Green Key (free): You must show your military ID card, mobilization and/or deployment orders. This is sold only at the West Sayville Operations Office.
Senior Citizen and Junior (discounted): You must show proof of date of birth. Senior is 60+ years and junior is under 17 years of age.
Note that you will have to pay a small fee for a replacement Green Key card.
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I'm back from a way too long hiatus, where I've been doing some serious procrastination with regards to updating my blog. It has been on my fancy 'to-do list' since the beginning of the year and look, one month late, here I am! While I was gone I was cruising around the Caribbean (and gaining 15 lbs while at it) and when I returned I took a huge step....I opened my own private practice. It's quite small scale to start, operating from home and doing some home and school visits, but I'm really enjoying it. I'll update you on its progress as I go through the year.
I am now officially addicted to the ipad! as a personal tool and more importantly as a therapy tool. The number of apps available for use in therapy is amazing and the children love them. It has really brought a new life to my therapy sessions. The key for those searching for apps is to not only search for those labels specific to therapy like "speech therapy" or "autism" (while they return good results too). Try searches like 'preschool', 'phonics', 'routines', 'animals' to get some fun finds. I think I get approximately 4 new apps a week (mix of paid and free) to work with in therapy. I love that I can use it with everyone, from my toddlers to my adults.
With the younger ones I tend to start with a song. My favourite for this is the very interative "Wheels on the bus HD", which appeals to the older children as well. I also like to use the "Routines" app, which makes morning routines visual and exciting. I tend to do some voiceovers and actions with this one ("wash hands, brush teeth" etc).
For warmups with older children I've fallen in love with the cute lovable monster Grover in his interactive storybook "The Monster at the end of this book", which never ceases to make me....err I mean the children giggle.
A great activity for vocab building, as well as following directions and auditory memory is "Animal Train", where children have to listen carefully for the animals to put in the train. I had feedback from a parent who was amazed that her son pointed out an iguana on television, a word that he had learnt previously from animal train.
Cookie Doodle is another favourite, where children "make" cookies from "scratch". The best part is adding all the ingredients (tilt and shake ipad to pour and shake etc), and then eating the cookie at the end. It's really good for sequencing and vocab building.
I've just started using Guess Em, a type of 'Guess Who' game for question structures and problem solving with a little boy who also has an ipad, and that has been going well.
I also enjoy 'Who's Hiding', and use it both as a language tool and a reinforcer. Children love swiping away the blanket to find the animal hiding underneath. I use it as a cause effect tool for toddlers, as a 'guess who's hiding' game for older ones and as a sentence builder- "The elephant is hiding under the blanket". Children also enjoy swiping the blanket across as a reward for completing tasks.
Another app I use as a cause and effect tool is "Toy phone", which gives sounds for animals, vehicles and musical instruments.
I've been trialling "ArtikPix" for artic and I find it quite useful to carry, especially when I'm visiting schools. I'm also trialling "All about Sounds" with a little one.
I've found a nice therapy tool in Goodreader, which although not a fun app itself, allows me to carry the pdf versions of my artic and phono books around and view them on my ipad, which is pretty neat.
Great summary of your fave apps! I'll be sure to come back to this if I ever decide to get more than just the freebies!
Thanks for sharing Reka! I bought a couple of apps thanks to you :-). I also like the "routine" app but you know what annoys me is that it does not allow enough time for some children to identify all the words. It's the same thing with the app "Old Macdonald" by Loeschware: if the child does not drag the animal within 5 seconds it does it automatically for him :((. For auditory memory I also like the "Learning animal sounds" app by Alexandre Minard.
Thanks! I, too, just received an iPad and have been crazy about finding apps that others have tried and reviewed. Thanks for your input.
Thanks for sharing and I'm glad that my blog is being informative for others. I'm definitely going to try that "Learning animal sounds" one.
thanks! I don't have an ipad, but just looked all of those up for my itouch!


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Category: Psychological and Social Problems
Ruling on committing suicide because of depression
What is the ruling on committing suicide in the case of severe depression in which the sick person is not aware of the consequences of what he does? Will Allaah forgive him for this action?
Is it possible that the suffering that the sick person goes through because of this disease is an expiation for his sins?.
She became mentally ill then she killed herself; is she regarded as having committed suicide?
She is suffering from a skin disease on her face that prompted her to attempt suicide
Firstly:
Suicide is a major sin, and the one who does that is faced with a warning of eternity in the Fire of Hell, where Allaah will punish him with the means that he used to commit suicide. It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever throws himself down from a mountain and kills himself will be throwing himself down in the Fire of Hell for ever and ever. Whoever drinks poison and kills himself will be sipping it in the Fire of Hell for ever and ever. Whoever kills himself with a piece of iron will have that iron in his hand, thrusting it into his belly in the Fire of Hell for ever and ever." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5442) and Muslim (109),
It was narrated from Thaabit ibn Dahhaak (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever kills himself with something will be punished with it on the Day of Resurrection." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5700) and Muslim (110).
It was narrated that Jundub ibn 'Abd-Allaah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "A man among those who came before you was wounded. He panicked and took a knife and cut his hand, and the bleeding did not stop until he died. Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted, said: 'My slave hastened his death; I have forbidden Paradise to him." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (3276) and Muslim (113).
The believer has to be patient and to seek the help of Allaah, may He be exalted, and understand that no matter what hardship befalls him in this world -- no matter how severe it is -- the punishment of the Hereafter is worse than it. It is not acceptable according to anyone who is of right mind to run away from the heat of the desert and throw himself into the fire. How can he flee from temporary hardship and difficulty -- which inevitably will come to an end -- to an eternal punishment which has no end?
The Muslim should ponder and realise that he is not the only one in this world who is affected by calamity and hardship. Calamities befell the greatest of mankind, namely the Prophets, Messengers and the righteous. They also befell the worst of mankind, namely the disbelievers and atheists.
Calamity is part of the natural order of things and hardly anyone is safe from it.
If the believer handles it well and is patient, and it becomes a means that makes him turn back to Allaah and strive hard in worship and righteous deeds, then the calamity will have been good for him and will be expiation for his sins, and perhaps he will meet Allaah with no burden of sin.
The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "No pain, hardship, sickness or grief befalls a believer, not even worry that befalls him, but some of his bad deeds will be expiated." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5642) and Muslim (2573).
Al-Tirmidhi (2399) narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allaah (blessings and peace of Allaah be upon him) said: "Calamities will continue to befall believing men and women in themselves, their children and their wealth, until they meet Allaah with no burden of sin." Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Silsilat al-Ahaadeeth al-Saheehah (2280).
And Allaah knows best.
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Modern Vintage on the Norfolk Coast
Antiques dealers Tim and Hannah Bent discovered a passion for mid-century design after they bought their dream holiday home on the Norfolk coast. Words: Alex Fisher. Photographs: Bill Kingston
'People thought we were bonkers when we told them we were buying this house,' says Hannah Bent, as she sits at her vintage Habitat dining table in the heart of their newly renovated holiday home. 'There is still a real stigma against modern design in this country. A friend of ours came to see the property and asked us what we were going to build once we'd knocked the house down. They didn't understand that it was the house, not the plot, we were after.'
Hannah and her husband Tim had, in fact, admired Bramley, a single-storey Seventies building designed by Robin Spence, for many years. 'We used to holiday in Old Hunstanton in our twenties, and would wander down this street just to see this house. It always looked so intriguing and unusual – unlike anything else in Norfolk,' explains Tim. 'We couldn't believe it when it came on the market. I had signed up for notifications from Rightmove, as we were looking for a beach hut in the area, then one day, ping! – we got an alert to say Bramley was for sale. It came bang in the depths of the country's financial depression, just when we were all worrying about money, and we thought, why now, of all times? But we'd loved the house for so long, we decided we just had to go for it.'
RESCUED FROM DEMOLITION
The couple bought the house in 2010, saving it from likely demolition. 'It's not a listed building,' says Hannah. 'And the other people who tried to buy it planned to knock it down to build a bigger property. It's a large plot in a very sought-after street, so if their sale hadn't fallen through, allowing us to step in, it would have been the end of Bramley.'
They spent the following year lovingly renovating the property and carefully sourcing furnishings from the same era. 'It was very important to us that we kept everything authentic, from the flooring and the paint, to the door handles and the heating. We made contact with the architect Robin Spence, who still has a practice in Shoreham, and he came to visit, bringing with him the original plans, to offer us his expert advice.'
'It was such an incredibly brave house for its time,' Tim explains. 'The materials Robin used were radical. The building is a steel portal framed construction, a style of design Robin picked up when he practised in America. The whole house is made on a grid, so that it could be reconfigured in the future and the roof is a single sheet of fibreglass, like the hull of a boat. As you can imagine, we had a few problems getting a mortgage, as it was a non-standard construction, but with Robin's original plans, we were able to answer all of the lender's questions.'
STAYING TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL
Robin informed them that many of the companies who'd supplied the original fixtures and fittings were still trading. Although they had to completely replace the galley kitchen, they were able to use cupboard handles that match all the original handles in the house, made by Allgood, the same company who supplied them in the Seventies. They replaced the flooring, but with a new version of the original cork tiles from Siesta, and they repainted the exterior of the building with Teamac Micaceous Iron Oxide paint, which was used when the building was first built.
When it came to furnishing the house, the couple wanted to stay true to mid-century style. 'It was odd,' says Tim, 'because we put some furniture in here just so we could sleepover before all the work was finished, and nothing that wasn't of this era worked.' As antiques dealers, the pair had a head-start in finding the modern-vintage items they wanted. 'Although we trade in a different period, more Edwardian and Victorian,
we'd been collecting mid-century furnishings and art for a while and had been helped by friends who dealt in that era.'
They trawled eBay, specialist markets and auctions to find as many original and vintage items as they could, buying an Eames chair from Christies and Tim's father, also an antiques dealer, found the G-plan sideboard that now graces the living room. The Patrick Caulfield print was a house-warming gift from Tim's parents. They even picked up an original Snoopy model from a local market for the children's bedroom. These were supplemented by modern editions, such as the green Robin Day Polo chairs they bought from Loft and the String shelving units, supplied by Haus in Hackney. One of the hardest things to find,' Hannah says, 'was the toys.' She points to the Newton's Cradle that once stood on office desks across the country. 'You'd think things like this would be everywhere.'
FORWARD-THINKING DESIGN
As you walk around the house, you get a sense of a generation striving for modernity. It's hard to imagine the under-floor heating, the exposed steel girders with hidden lighting, the soundproof sliding door that disappears into the walls to create a third bedroom, the open-plan living space, with floor-to-ceiling glass doors that can be opened to let the outside in, were all conceived more than 40 years ago. The designers of the post-war era were the founders of what we now know as contemporary design, and, for that reason, their value is now being recognised.
For Tim and Hannah, the renovation is both the realisation of a dream and the beginning of a new love affair. They both holidayed in Old Hunstanton as children, and now their two children, Ned and Martha, are enjoying the simple pleasures of sprawling sand dunes and a small, friendly community. But they have also found the simplicity of the design in their new holiday home so calming and relaxing that they plan to sell their Victorian house and move into another early Seventies property. 'There's no going back,' says Hannah. 'Once you've experienced the serenity of living in a space like this, nothing else will do.'
You can book a stay at Bramley through Norfolk Hideaways (01485 211022, norfolkhideaways.co.uk). For more information about the area go to visitnorthnorfolk.com
Tim and Hannah's tips for furnishing a modern vintage home
BUY WHAT YOU LOVE
Get to know a couple of dealers before you start to invest in pieces. Some of our favourites are Caroline de Kerangal (cdkantiques.com), Fears and Kahn (fearsandkahn.co.uk), Mark Hill (markhill.net) and Tim Smith-Vincent (timsmithvincent.co.uk).
Subscribe to Midcentury Magazine (midcenturymagazine.co.uk). It's a beautifully curated publication full of ideas. Visit Kettles Yard (kettlesyard.co.uk) in Cambridge where there is a stunning collection of Modern art and antique furniture.
BUY ORIGINALS
Save up and buy an original licensed piece or better still a vintage version, which is often less expensive than a new version. It's much more satisfying to own an original and these will be the heirlooms of the future.
There is a really good Fair held at Dulwich School organised by Modern Shows (modernshows.com). It's the biggest gathering of mid-century dealers and their website is a great resource. Newark Antiques Fair (iacf.co.uk) is the largest in Europe and a wonderful place to rummage. TW Gaze (twgaze.co.uk) in Diss, Norfolk holds a regular Design Auction.


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The Montreal Canadiens and the host Toronto Maple Leafs play their opening game Wednesday night with both teams exuding optimism about the coming season.
The Canadiens have made changes that have increased expectations.
"We like our team," Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin said Monday during an interview on TSN Radio 690. "A lot of times you want to make changes, bring some people (in), and you're not able to do it."
The Canadiens and Maple Leafs will play a 56-game schedule in the all-Canadian division, a format created because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among his new players, Canadiens coach Claude Julien has goaltender Jake Allen, defensemen Joel Edmundson and Alexander Romanov, and forwards Josh Anderson and Tyler Toffoli.
The Canadiens will be a bigger team than the one that upset Pittsburgh last season in the play-in round of the postseason before being eliminated by Philadelphia in the opening round.
Anderson came in a trade with Columbus, which acquired Max Domi and a third-round draft choice from Montreal.
"We were looking to add some size on the wing," Bergevin said. "Guys like Anderson, there's not a lot of them in the league. The teams that do have (similar players) end up keeping them. I'm not sure what happened (in Columbus), but there was a need for us. I tried to get him in the past."
Toffoli was signed to a four-year contract as a free agent from Vancouver.
Montreal's top line will continue to be Tomas Tatar, Phil Danault and Brendan Gallagher.
Shea Weber again will lead the defense teamed with Ben Chiarot, with Carey Price as the No. 1 goaltender.
The Maple Leafs also made changes and got a little older in the process, adding Joe Thornton, Zach Bogosian, Wayne Simmonds and T.J. Brodie.
Jimmy Vesey, Alexander Barabanov and Mikko Lehtonen also are among the newcomers.
Goaltender Aaron Dell was signed as a free agent and will join Jack Campbell in backing up Frederik Andersen.
Thornton will join the first line beside Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner, and coach Sheldon Keefe likely will have to watch his minutes. Thornton showed well in the Maple Leafs' Blue and White intrasquad game Saturday.
"Joe seemed like he had lots of legs and energy," Keefe said. "I thought he did his job on that line. The puck came to him, and he advanced it, moved it to those guys in good spots, and at times he really spread the ice and created space in the neutral zone for those guys."
During the offseason, Toronto traded Kasperi Kapanen to Pittsburgh in a six-player deal that included the Penguins' first-round pick (No. 15) in the 2020 draft.
Toronto also traded Andreas Johnsson to New Jersey to create salary cap space.
By adding experience, the Maple Leafs will be less inclined to try to out-talent the opposition and will be more willing to play a grinding game when needed. The Leafs were eliminated last season by Columbus in the play-in round.
The new group seems to be more spirited.
"I've noticed a tremendous difference in that regard," Keefe said. "I think part of it is the time of the year. We have not lost a game, so it's easy for spirits to remain high."


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Paul Wittich (* wohl um 1546 in Breslau; † 9. Januar 1586 in Wien) war ein deutscher Mathematiker und Astronom, der das Tychonische System entwarf, welches Tycho Brahe im späten 16. Jahrhundert veröffentlichte.

Wittich studierte ab 1563 bis 1566 an der Universität Leipzig, wo Valentin Thau lehrte, ein weiterer Student dort war Tycho Brahe bis 1565. Mit letzterem zog er 1566 an die Universität Wittenberg, wo er sich 1571 den akademischen Grad eines Magisters der Philosophie erwarb. Später im Sommersemester 1576 trägt er sich in die Matrikel der Universität Frankfurt/Oder ein. Wittich hielt sich um 1580 bei Brahe auf dessen Insel Hven im Öresund auf, wo er in dessen Uraniborg arbeitete. Hinterher verwertete er seine dort gewonnenen Kenntnisse in den Diensten des Landgrafen Wilhelm IV. von Hessen-Kassel.

In seiner Nicolaus-Copernicus-Biographie von 1654 hat Pierre Gassendi Wittich als einen der "Kopernikaner" von vor 1615 eingestuft.

Die Bedeutung von Wittich in der Kosmologie seiner Zeit, sowie das Netzwerk der Wissenschaftler wurde durch Owen Gingerich dokumentiert.

Literatur
 Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman: The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century Cosmology. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1988,

Weblinks
 Wittich beim Galileo-Projekt

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Mathematiker (16. Jahrhundert)
Deutscher
Person (Schlesien)
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Gestorben 1586
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Bringing home some art is like bringing home a story. This story adds a character to your room and evokes a range of emotions in you. This picture painted by artist, Shalini Jha, is calming as well as invigorating, and is sure to enhance the beauty of your home or workplace décor.


The sun will be coming up in about 40 minutes, but already the camera has switched to day vision with the increasing light from the east.
The seagulls are stirring and will soon be leaving for the day.
I don't know where they go but most of them are gone until evening comes again.
Yesterday there were no more than a few dozen on the lake during the day rather than the thousands that are here at night. And those that remain are much quieter during the day than the raucous racket they make all night long.
Lakes are now opening all the way to the Canadian border and soon the Canadian lakes will open as well.
I would expect that as the ice goes out further north, the seagulls will leave us and head north. Only a very few will stay here for the summer.
So I think that over the next few days most of the seagulls will leave us and you will not hear all the seagull background sound all night long.
Last night the loons appeared about 6:30 pm and swam around the nest several times.
One of them got up on the nest and sat there for about 5 or 10 minutes. The mate did not get up on the nest but stayed in the water swimming around. There was no real nest building activity by the loon on the nest. Just sitting there looking around. Maybe trying to decide what color to paint the nursery.
The encouraging part is that they still are visiting the nest and taking an interest in it.
The confrontations with other loons apparently continued last night with numerous yodels and tremolos echoing across the lake. Although it seems to be slightly less than the previous nights. So maybe they are getting things sorted out and can get down to nesting.
I had hoped that this year they would nest early enough that the chicks would hatch before Memorial Day so that for once the kids could use the lake and go swimming on Memorial Day. That is still a possibility but we are getting close.
Whatever the case, the loons own the area around the nest from man or beast.
One of the interesting things that I have never been able to fully understand nor have I found anyone who can explain it, is that the loons here on the LoonCam nest about a month earlier than loons in extreme northern Minnesota or Canada.
Part of that obviously has to do with the difference in ice out dates.
But they also tend to nest earlier here than in New England which also normally has earlier ice out dates. Although this year New England has been socked in because of their heavy snow this winter and their lakes are still frozen.
So we wait for our loons to decide what they want to do.
We must constantly remind ourselves that it is still early in the year and there is plenty of time.
I remember the first year I did the loon nest.
I had decided the previous summer that I wanted to experiment with building a nesting platform to see if they would use it. I had completed most of it the by the fall but it needed some finishing touches in the spring.
The loons came back and I.thought "I have to get that nest finished and put out for them."
So I finally finished and put the nest out.
And the loons just plain disappeared from the lake for almost two weeks!
I thought to myself, "WOW! Not only did I not help them. I scared them off the lake completely!"
But they did return and use the nest that first year and every year since except for one.
So today may be the day that the loons get more serious about nest building.
Do I know that? Nope.
Do I hope that, along with you? Yup!