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E.ON SE for the first time gave its shareholders the option of partially converting their cash dividend, which for the 2013 financial year was €0.60 per share, into shares of E.ON treasury stock. Until May 15, 2014, E.ON shareholders could convert €0.43 per share of their dividend entitlement. The remaining €0.17 will be paid out in cash and, where necessary, be used to cover tax obligations.
A large number of E.ON shareholders took advantage of the new option. At a participation rate of 37 percent, they opted to convert their cash dividend entitlements for the 2013 financial year into shares of E.ON stock. E.ON will distribute a total of 24 million treasury shares to shareholders. The cash dividend totaling €840 million will be paid out and E.ON shares will be issued on May 23, 2014.
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Catch the KTOP broadcast of LWVO Post Election Program held November 14th at Oakland City Hall.
This Program spotlighted the results of the 2018 election. It featured the probing insights and overview punditry of Darwin Bond - Graham, East Bay Express investigative journalist on politics, business, healthcare, housing, and labor; and the Honorable Sebastian Ridley Thomas (Ret), California Policy and Research Initiative and Chief Strategist of African American Voter Registration.


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Having a bet at Cheltenham is a once a year tradition for many people, whether they are avid racing fans or not. There is nothing quite like the excitement of watching a race at Cheltenham Festival clutching a betslip in your hand and following your horse over the line!
Your level of seriousness or how much spare time you have will probably determine how you pick your winner. Some punters simply choose their horse by their favourite colour or because it's got a funny sounding name. Others invest countless hours studying the form and watching the racing all season to have their selections jotted down in little black book for festival week.
If you don't have time to study the form but would like to have an educated chance on picking a winner, you can get Cheltenham Festival betting tips from a community of racing tipsters who have proven year in, year out to know their racing. In 2012, their tips were made famous when they went up on posters at the toilets at Cheltenham racecourse and went on to win 8 out of 10 selections, at a massive 48,030/1!
For simplicity's sake, there are two main types of bet – the Win (where your horse must win) and the Each Way (where your horse can get a place and you will still win the bet). Because the EW bet is essentially to win or to place, it is counted as two bets and will cost you double the stake or a single Win bet. It becomes more complicated when you start adding multiple selections to your bets. The benefit is bigger returns but they are also harder to land.
At the course you have the option of placing your bet at the Bookmakers, Tote or Betting Shops.
Follow the crowd of people milling around a sparkling light board waving money in the air down by the track and you've found the bookies! Check the priceboard for their odds on your horse, tell them how much you wish to stake (or bet) on that horse, they'll take your money and issue you a betslip. Keep this betslip as you'll need to redeem it for your winnings should you be so lucky.
The Tote is like the lottery. Your stake goes into a pool and the winnings determined by how many others backed the winning selection.
For your convenience there is a Betfred bookie shop on course too.
Placing your bets at online bookies will be your best chance at getting value, which can ultimately determine whether you are profitable or not at the end of the day. Shop around for the best offers (enhanced prices, money back, non-runner not bet, best price guarantee) once they become available the week before Cheltenham. Alternatively, check out this comprehensive list of free bet offers as they are available.
Remember to always gamble responsibly. Don't spoil your Cheltenham experience by betting more than you can afford to lose. Happy Betting!
Planning a trip to the races? Whether you are travelling in a group or alone, Alice Guest House B&B in Cheltenham has a range of rooms to suit everyone. We also provide a full English breakfast, the nation's favourite, to kickstart your day.
Our bed and breakfast accommodation is close to the Cheltenham racecourse, being just a 20 minute walk away and even closer to the town centre which can be reached on foot within 10 minutes.
Cheltenham town centre has a huge range of restaurants, cafe's bars, clubs and shops, so after a day at the races, race goers can enjoy the buzz of the lively town centre during the evening.
See our race week bed and breakfast accommodation page for full price list and room types.


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package fr.pinguet62.springspecification.core.api;

import org.junit.Test;

import static fr.pinguet62.springspecification.core.api.TestRules.FALSE_RULE;
import static fr.pinguet62.springspecification.core.api.TestRules.TRUE_RULE;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

/**
 * @see NotRule
 */
public class NotRuleTest {

    /**
     * @see NotRule#test(Object)
     */
    @Test
    public void test_test() {
        assertThat(new NotRule(TRUE_RULE).test(null), is(false));
        assertThat(new NotRule(FALSE_RULE).test(null), is(true));
    }

}

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141 BRANDYWINE DR is a house for sale in Coatesville, PA 19320. This 1880.00 SQFT house sits on a 1.04 acre lot and features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Built in 2015, this house has been on the market for a total of 1 week and is currently priced at $299,900.


On this page you will find more information about how to obtain tickets for Eurovision Young Dancers. The competition will took place in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic, in December 2017.
All tickets for Eurovision Young Dancers have now been allocated. Tickets for the 2019 event will be announced in due course.


Sakda Kaewbuadee at the closing ceremony of the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Sakda Kaewbuadee at the closing night ceremony and screening of "De-Lovely" during the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Sakda Kaewbuadee at the Palais de festival during the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Sakda Kaewbuadee and Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the closing ceremony of 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Sakda Kaewbuadee at the photo call of "Sud Pralad" (Tropical Malady) at Le Palais des Festival during the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Sakda Kaewbuadee and Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the photo call of "Tropical Malady" during the 57th Cannes Film Festival.
Sakda Kaewbuadee and Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the photo call of "Sud Pralad" (Tropical Malady) at Le Palais des Festival during the 57th Cannes Film Festival.


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Main Blog > Traveling Through Transylvania With Dracula as a Guide
Traveling Through Transylvania With Dracula as a Guide
Miss Cellania • Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 9:00 AM
Luke Spencer went on a quest to trace the steps of Jonathan Harker, the protagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Harker went from Munich to Transylvania to purchase land for a client. While this trip sounds like a fun time, it was also a research project. Bram Stoker never went to Transylvania himself, but he did plenty of research, so Spencer wanted to see how accurate his descriptions were. The first thing he found out was that places that existed (or not) in 1897 aren't necessarily easy to find today. For one thing, Transylvania is no longer a country, but a region of Romania. And that wasn't the only name that changed.
My first stop on the vampire trail was meant to be the Hotel Royale, where Harker stayed the night in the old city of Klausenburg. But looking at an atlas today, there is no city by that name.
Located roughly halfway between Budapest, Hungary, and Bucharest, Romania, the city shed the name Stoker knew it by after World War I, when Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Romania. Today it's known as Cluj-Napoca, and it's a bustling, bohemian university town.
The Hotel Royale doesn't exist today, and maybe it never did. But nestled near the train station is an historic inn that claims to have been the inspiration for Bram Stoker. The Hotel Transilvania, located on Ferdinand Street, is one of the oldest in the city, and has been an inn since the Middles Ages.
When the Klausenburg railway station was built in 1870, the venerable old hotel went by another name, the Queen of England—perhaps a regal sounding inspiration for a Hotel Royale.
That was only the beginning. What he found was charming, and even spooky in parts. Read about the retracing of Dracula at Atlas Obscura.
(Image credit: Luke Spencer)
Tags: Dracula, Transylvania, Romania, Bram Stoker, Vlad The Impaler
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Lucky is almost 21, and thus about to come into the inheritance left for him in his scientist father's will (he was orphaned at five). That's the good news. The bad news : his guardian, the owner of a private college, is not at all keen on this happening, and is keen for Lucky to let him remain in charge of these monies. When Lucky makes it clear the he is going to take control of his own finances, the wicked guardian takes drastic steps, imprisoning him and plying him with drugs with the intention of making him appear to be incapable of managing his own affairs. All very melodramatic, and almost Brontean.
The sfnal elements are that Lucky's father, the scientist, discovered a gateway to an alternate/quantum Earth when Lucky was born. Whilst Lucky and his father returned to their Earth, his mother travelled to the alternate/quantum Earth with another baby, who is known as Luke in that pastoral, low-tech alternate world. Lucky has been able to commune with Luke, seeing an almost mirror image, personality wise (and getting vicarious nocturnal pleasure in his alter-ego's love life).
When Lucky flees his evil guardian, he and Luke meet up between alternate worlds, and go there separate ways – not to the Earth from which they came, but to the other world.
A shortish short, and one that could easily have been a 'Probablity Zero'. The thesis : the scientific 'reading' of human expressions can be used for invesigative purposes. A US judge initially refuses a warrant to search a house where there is a suspected terrorist armed with vials with containers containing smallpox. His opposition to the science behind the request is waived when the investigators play cards with him and their expert spots when he is bluffing and when he isn't. And so they head off to the terrorist's house, and the scientific study of his face shows that the vials are contained in the dust bag of the vacuum cleaner.
Festive frivolity in which Xmas Fayre mellows those who partake of the seasonal nibbles.
First Contact visitors to Earth find that they are equally capable of getting addicted to drugs as humans. Kirkland points out that of course it's not really a medical addiction, but a behavioural addicition, as people can choose to simply stop taking the drugs to which they are addicted. To help the aliens overcome this problem, the Earth scientist has to give up his 20-a day habit.
Edward M. Lerner. Moonstruck. The novel serialisation concludes.
You're not going to see any of these stories in any of the Year's Best anthologies, which is the yardstick by which I generally rate stories. (Which is a nice way of saying that the short story content is a little weak).


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Q: MS Excel mouse-scroll-down is skipping rows. Possible to make it scroll down like the keyboard's go-down button? I am using MS Excel version 2016. Each cell contains tens of lines, so height is long. When it's like this, when I scroll down my mouse, it often skips a row. If I press down the keyboard's go-down button, it just gradually goes down. But of course it's not convenient. How can I fix how my mouse works?

A: By default, the mouse wheel will scroll about three rows at a time.
You need to modify the mouse settings in the control panel:

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Provides an in-game database for tracking loans.
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Q: SoapUI How to get Request and Response size for each TestStep I have a bit of Groovy script that loops through the test steps in the current test case and sums the response time for each step and stores it in a custom property on the test case.
I am now trying to do the same for each test step's request and response size but cannot seem to get it to work.
def TestCase = testRunner.getTestCase()
def CurrentTestStep = context.testCase.getTestStepAt(context.getCurrentStepIndex()).getLabel()
def StepList = TestCase.getTestStepList().name - CurrentTestStep

def ResponseTime = 0
def RequestSize = 0
def ResponseSize = 0

StepList.each
{ Step ->
    try
    {
        ResponseTime = ResponseTime + testRunner.testCase.testSteps[Step].testRequest.response.timeTaken
    }
    catch(Exception expObj)
    {

    }
}

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("Test_Case_Response_Time", ResponseTime.toString())

A: You can us below statement for the Response size.
 log.info "Size of " + Step  + "is " +  testRunner.testCase.testSteps[Step].testRequest.response.responseSize

the full code would be
def TestCase = testRunner.getTestCase()
def CurrentTestStep =
context.testCase.getTestStepAt(context.getCurrentStepIndex()).getLabel()
def StepList = TestCase.getTestStepList().name - CurrentTestStep
def ResponseTime = 0
def RequestSize = 0
def ResponseSize = 0

  StepList.each
  {
  Step ->
  try
  {
     log.info "Size of " + Step  + "is " +  testRunner.testCase.testSteps[Step].testRequest.response.responseSize

  ResponseSize=    ResponseSize + testRunner.testCase.testSteps[Step].testRequest.response.responseSize

 }
  catch(Exception e)
  {
  }
}

testRunner.testCase.setPropertyValue("Test_Case_Response_Size", ResponseSize.toString())

For request size i was not able to find the statement to get size. will Add once get it.


Right in the heart of the University district, The Deaf Institute is the third incarnation of the Trof brand in Manchester.
The US synth outfit, best known for their work on the Stranger Things soundtrack, will play dates in France, Netherlands, Germany and the UK.
A flurry of afterparties will go down in Manchester after the main festival this June.
The summer festival's spin-off tour also features Commix, Greg Wilson, Motor City Drum Ensemble and more.
London, Birmingham and Manchester are among the cities hosting dual remix workshops and club nights; MJ Cole, SMD and L-Vis 1990 are among the talent.
The four-day music conference will feature Kyle Hall, The Hacker, Mark Ernestus & Paul St. Hilaire and many more.
A Guy Called Gerald and Marshall Jefferson will both speak and perform at next weekend's events.
The Petrcane festival will warm up with dates in England, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia during the next two months.
Zomby, Efdemin and Hudson Mohawke will all be in the North West this weekend for the 14th annual Futuresonic festival.


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Sacramento Campus Move Story
Western Seminary Sacramento Campus Moves to New, Improved Facility
Western Seminary is pleased to announce the relocation of its Sacramento campus. For the past 22 years, Western Seminary Sacramento has been graciously hosted by its ministry partners at Arcade Church. Record class enrollment levels and the resulting staff and program expansion, however, have exceeded available space at Arcade. Thus, the Seminary has signed a lease with Creekside Church in Rocklin. The new address is 290 Technology Way, Ste. 200, Rocklin, CA 95765. Classes are scheduled to begin there on March 31, 2014
Adjacent to the church, the 5,000 sq. ft. space includes 3 classrooms and a combined library and lounge for student use. "With the library/student commons area consuming almost 40% of the footprint, the educational, social, and spiritual climate is only bound to increase as students, faculty, and staff are given the opportunity to connect in a more collegiate setting," comments Wes Ehrhart, Executive Dean of the Sacramento campus. The broader geographic location also promises to serve both students and school well. North of Highway 50 and east of Highway 99, zip code studies over the past five terms have proven this area to be one central to the majority of students. Additionally, the area appears to be a developing hub for schools and universities, with CSU Sacramento, University of the Pacific, and William Jessup University already having a physical presence in the area. "With the numerous ministries growing in the south Placer area, we believe moving in that direction will only expand the Sacramento area's impact," says Ehrhart. "It is our hope that these facility improvements will help us as we prepare men and women to share the healing hope that is the gospel of Jesus." An open house for the community is scheduled for May 28 from 6-9pm.
Find more information at the Western Seminary Sacramento Campus On the Move page.
Western Seminary is an accredited graduate school founded in 1927. It offers trustworthy and accessible training for gospel-centered transformation at both the graduate credit and personal enrichment levels for those currently serving, or aspiring to serve, in key ministry leadership roles. The Western system consists of four campuses (Portland, OR; San Jose and Sacramento, CA; and Online) that together serve approximately 950 credit students annually. For more information, please contact Kate Schleusner, Communications Specialist, at 503.517.1975.


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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The National Park Service says more than 940,000 people visited Yellowstone National Park in July, which is typically the park's busiest month for recreation visits.
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Visual arts festivals
Artistic lectures, walks, and workshops
Gregory Michenaud. An American Beauty
In 2014 Grégory Michenaud took a road trip across the Southeast of the USA, following in the footsteps of, among others, Wim Wenders who shot Paris Texas there. The choice of these...
ZPAF Gallery, ul. św. Tomasza 24
2/2/23, 6:00 PM - 3/4/23
Czapski Acquisitions. Norwid in Diaries
The collection of artistic works by Józef Czapski at the National Museum in Krakow currently amounts to 27 oil paintings, 3 etchings, and 15 drawings (loose, not collated in folios). In the...
The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum , ul. Piłsudskiego 12
Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza. Notes of a Madwoman
Notes of a Madwoman is also the title of the artist's debut novel (Znak, 2022). The book reveals experiences relating to different aspects of life: being a woman, an artist and someone with...
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4
Ivan Marchuk. Archetype of Freedom
The retrospective exhibition of works by this Ukrainian artist includes paintings from 15 cycles and explores different themes of his works, from philosophical, figurative surrealism to abstract...
Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, al. Jana Pawła II 232
2/23/23, 6:00 PM - 3/19/23
Sara Melzer-Weinfeld. The Duty of Remembering
The Galicia Jewish Museum will open a new temporary exhibition by Sara Melzer-Weinfeld, an artist and a Holocaust Survivor who was born in Sanz (Nowy Sącz). The artist shares her memory of brutal...
Galicia Jewish Museum, ul. Dajwór 18
Cracow Fashion Week 2023
The most important fashion event in Małopolska. The main point of the programme is the Cracow Fashion Awards competition and premiere shows of the best graduation collections of students of the...
Cracow School Of Art And Fashion Design, ul. Zamoyskiego 52
Cracow Art Week KRAKERS 2023
Cracow Art Week is an evolution of the project named Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS which since 2012 has been promoting contemporary art in the area of Krakow, creating a platform for communication,...
The 19th Museum Night in Kraków is hundreds of events of night-time visits and special events, held at dozens of museums and their branches throughout the city.
5/12/23, 6:00 PM - 5/13/23, 2:00 AM
Politics in Art
The 10th exhibition in the flagship MOCAK series presents the critical approach of contemporary artists to the actions of those in power, exposing the artifice and mendacity of political...
There Stood a Manor House
The exhibition is the project of the Podgórze Museum, branch of the Museum of Krakow. It aims to introduce the history of four estates: Prokocim, Wola Duchacka, Bieżanów and Piaski...
Podgórze Museum, ul. Limanowskiego 51
Private. Kantor's Theatrical Costumes
Private is an unorthodox large-format installation putting on display Tadeusz Kantor's theatrical costumes from the Cricoteka Collection. This context-based show reveals the total creator...
Cricoteka Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, ul. Nadwiślańska 2
7/6/22, 6:00 PM - 2/12/23
A New Beginning. Modernism in the Second Polish Republic
The exhibition presents the dynamics and original character of modernism in Poland in the interwar period, using various exhibits for this purpose: from works of art to technical inventions, from...
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USS Lassen tests teamwork
The acrid smell of smoke and gunpowder lingers in the air. Overhead, a propeller plane circles in slow arcs. The air is filled with the wash of rotor blades as helicopters cruise past ships.
USS Lassen tests teamwork during Multi-Sail 2014
By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn, USS Lassen Public Affairs
AT SEA – The acrid smell of smoke and gunpowder lingers in the air. Overhead, a propeller plane circles in slow arcs. The air is filled with the wash of rotor blades as helicopters cruise past ships. The helicopter crew looks down and sees rows of warships, advancing across the blue Pacific waters. Sailors move quickly on deck, hurrying to accomplish their next task.
It may sound like a scene from a movie, but it's not. This is a daily routine aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) during exercise Multi-Sail 2014, March 21-25.
Multi-Sail is an annual training event where ships from Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 and others participate in anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare, and anti-submarine warfare exercises.
"With this year it's focused in Guam, it's a chance for our DESRON 15 ships to come together with our aviation brethren and with USS Shiloh to operate in a multi-warfare setting," said Capt. Paul Lyons, DESRON 15 commodore.
Over the course of the four-day exercise, Lassen fired its 5-inch gun system, 25mm and .50 caliber guns, close-in weapons system (CIWS), chaff system and several torpedoes. MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from the "Warlords" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM 51) embarked on Lassen conducted flight operations as part of the exercises.
For members of the crew, known as the "Sea Devils," it was a chance to finally see all of the systems that they maintain every day function in their full capacity.
"You get to see the fruits of your labor," said Gunner's Mate 1st Class Victoria Conroy. "It's not until you actually utilize the things that you upkeep and maintain that you get to see just how much all the crew's hard work pays off."
The highlight for most, though, was the Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) surface-to-air missile launch. Four ships launched in formation, and many "Sea Devils" were on deck or in the pilothouse to watch the event.
"It was amazing seeing how each ship took turns shooting," said Damage Controlman 3rd Class Jan Jazon Delacruz. "It was exciting, because I got to see the whole process from beginning to end. I am really proud of Lassen hitting the target."
Four ships shooting in formation is exactly the kind of complex teamwork demonstrating the purpose of Multi-Sail 2014.
"We test our people, their knowledge of our tactics, techniques and procedures, really to test our teamwork," said Lyons. "Rarely do we get an opportunity like this where we test our ships in a combined unit level training scenario where we can test our ships in a multi-ship, multi-warfare environment."
"It's an all day, every day thing," said Conroy. "Having successful evolutions re-instills the importance of what we do on a daily basis. From sweeping the passageways, performing maintenance, troubleshooting our systems, it all builds to exercises like this. This is what we do as a forward-deployed ship in 7th Fleet."
Lassen is forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan and is currently on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations conducting Multi-Sail 2014 in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
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Q: Why do we need Ito's integrals? Why do we need Ito's integrals? Why couldnt we just use Riemann integral when integrating with respect to Brownian motion?

A: Because the paths of the Brownian motion cannot be differentiated with respect to time. This means that the Brownian motion has non zero quadratic variation (indeed, for $T \geq 0$, the quadratic variation $P\{[W, W](T)=T\}=1$). Informally:
$$
dW_t dW_t = dt.
$$
Consequently, when characterizing the differential of a function of a Brownian motion in terms of its Taylor expansion, one has a nonzero second degree differential associated to the double derivative of the function with respect to the Brownian motion, that is
$$
df(t, x) = f_t dt + f_{x}dx +\frac{1}{2}f_{xx}dt
$$
where $x=W(t)$ and the term $\frac{1}{2}f_{xx}dt$ is the term that is due to the quadratic variation of the Brownian motion $W(t)$. Such is the famous Ito-Doeblin formula.
Integrating, you have the answer to your question:
$$
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f(T, W(T)) & = f(0, W(0)) + \int_0^T f_t(t, W(t))dt + \int_0^T f_x(t, W(t))dW(t) \\\\
& + \frac{1}{2}\int_0^T f_{xx}(t, W(t))dt.
\end{align}
$$


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Chastiti is an equity partner whose primary practice areas include healthcare and hospitality defense. Chastiti represents hospitals, physicians, nurses, healthcare staffing agencies, LTC/ALF facilities and dentists in defending against medical malpractice lawsuits. She also represents hotels and restaurants in negligence cases. Chastiti acts as panel counsel for several national leading healthcare companies and also is counsel for several large hospitals and healthcare staffing companies. Currently, she represents one of the largest restaurant and entertainment chains in the United States. Other areas of practice include: premise and products liability, insurance defense claims and employment law. Her practice includes trial, appellate and alternative dispute resolution work. She has been the recipient of a number of awards professionally. Chastiti was featured in Time Magazine's "Salute to Women in Leadership" (2008) and was awarded the 2012 Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award for an Individual for her work with Child Advocates. She also received the 2001 Harris County Adult Volunteer of the Year award and has been named to the Texas Super Lawyer list by Texas Monthly 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, as well as, Texas Rising Star-Super Lawyer 2007 through 2011. She was named "Litigator of the Week" by Texas Lawyer Magazine for a dismissal she obtained for a healthcare client in January 2014. She was also selected as a 2014 Woman on the Move by Texas Executive Women. Further, she provides risk management services to her clients such as documentation and staffing guidance, social media risks and policy and procedure issues and how these areas relate to litigation concerns. She also provides in-depth seminars on deposition preparation and prepares client specific risk management training to her clients. She has spoken on litigation and legal related topics on the local and national levels.
She is a 19 year volunteer with Child Advocates, Inc. wherein she acts as a guardian ad litem to children who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect. Chastiti regularly speaks at conferences and trainings regarding child abuse cases. She has been featured in 2 training videos for Child Advocates, Inc. and has been interviewed by an affiliate of Comcast news regarding her work as an advocate for abused children.
Prior to joining Sapphire Blue, Debra was the Managing Director of Medical Underwriting for Markel Corporation, responsible for the strategic growth and profitability of Markel's medical professional liability business including allied health care. Additionally, Debra held positions as claims attorney and medical claims manager for Markel before joining the professional liability underwriting staff.
Debra began her career as a medical malpractice defense attorney representing hospitals and healthcare providers in Cook County, Illinois and the surrounding area. Additionally, she worked as an insurance coverage attorney with a focus on professional liability E&O coverage and reinsurance.
Debra received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a Juris Doctorate from the George Washington University School of Law and a Master's Degree in Public Health from the George Washington University School of Public Health. She is a frequent speaker at medical professional liability industry events, has conducted continuing education courses on medical professional liability, has published articles on national healthcare legislation and its impact on insurance coverage, and recently served as the instructor on Medical Professional Liability at PLUS University.


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It is best to always unplug your appliances when you are not making use of them since they still up energy when they're turned off. It is undoubtedly one of the biggest blunders of homeowners. You should not do this and always unplug your home appliances after using them.


The "Corazon D" dress, thanks to its composition, will be very comfortable and practical for any plan you organize this summer. It's a 100% Portuguese cotton dress, one of the best in the world. It has a retro design achieved thanks to the fade out of the fabric and the turntable in the shape of a heart, and the details of the lower border and the fringes of the back will not go unnoticed by anyone. The philosophy of awareness with the environment, slow fashion, and that also defends a consumption of responsible fashion, is the basis of this garment designed in Spain and made with the highest quality materials in Portugal.


Lee's Map of the battle of Gettysburg (Accompanying General Lee's report of the battle.); War Department Collection of Confederate Records; Record Group 109; National Archives.
Considered by many historians as a turning point in the Civil War, the Battle of Gettsburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, was a major defeat for the Confederacy and for General Robert E. Lee in his second invasion of the North. Shown here is one of General Lee's maps of Gettysburg, showing positions of troops on July 2.


What do you do in Williamsburg when you're hanging out in the East River State Park and it suddenly begins torrential down pouring? The key is to get inside and get inside somewhere fast. The closest place for me was a place called Kinfolk Studios, a mix between a coffee shop and surf shop (?), which I noticed because the front was basically an opened garage door. I had to get something since I was going to be there for a while so I bought an iced coffee for $3.50. Painful. I tried to tell myself it was okay though because it was really strong. Kinfolk Studios seemed cool although the interior decor was slightly confusing. Wooden panels, palm trees, and seventies-style lighting fixtures make it look like a scene from Anchorman or a mod Malibu bachelor pad, but the old chalkboard with the menu and the countless espresso machines scream Brooklyn. I'm not quite sure what the scene is like here not on a weekday when it's full of people on their Mac Books, but from what I'm gathering on Yelp it looks like there is a DJ on weekends and I'm not sure how I feel about that. However, the more I watch Girls, the more curious I am about going back to Kinfolk Studios at a busier hour to see exactly what it's all about.


So Many Different Yoga Styles, But Which One Is Right For You?
You might be surprised to learn that there isn't one style of yoga practice so you'll need to learn some more about the different styles in order to decide which one is right for you. In this article we'll take a closer look at four practice styles: hatha yoga, vinyasa, ashtanga and power yoga to help you on the way to your decision.
Hatha yoga is often used interchangeably with the word yoga and classes are usually slow-paced involving stretching, some simple breathing exercises and some seated meditations. If you are a beginner then this is a good place to start so that you can spend time learning the basic techniques.
If you are looking for a calming and relaxing experience then hatha yoga is probably right for you. If you'd prefer something more energetic then you should consider vinyasa instead.
Vinyasa means breath-synchonised movement and in these classes the teacher will ask you to move from one pose to another in time with your breath. The poses all flow together in a fluid movement.
Vinyasa classes offer a lot of variety due to the vast number of poses, although most will include the Sun Salutations. The speed of the movements is very much dictated by the teacher, so if you find that a class is too fast for you look for a different teacher. In order to appreciate vinyasa you need to have a teacher that you are comfortable with as their style will shape the class, keep looking until you find someone you connect with.
Ashtanga is a series of poses which realign the spine, detoxify the body and build strength, stamina and flexibility. There are 75 poses in all and they can take anywhere between an hour and a half to two hours to complete. You start with sun salutations and then move to standing poses, seated poses, inversions and backbends before finishing with relaxation.
You can learn ashtanga at a teacher-led class, and then when you are happy with the order of the poses you can either practice on your own or in a mysore class where you practice at your own pace but have a teacher for guidance.
Ashtanga is a very athletic form of practice and is very popular. If you like a sense of order then this style will appeal to you.
Power yoga is often used to describe vigorous, fitness-style classes, which are based on ashtanga but don't follow the same series of poses each time. The classes focus on strength and flexibility and are popular in gyms and health clubs.
If you already quite fit and enjoy exercise rather than meditation then this style of yoga may appeal to you.
There are many different styles of yoga practice from the slow meditative style of hatha yoga through to the structured approach of ashtanga and the vigorous but often changing power yoga. Start out with a class suitable for beginners to that you can learn the poses and then move onto the style of yoga that suits you best in order to benefit from this wonderful form of exercise.


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Gilles Street Market is a focused Fashion & Accessories market only. It provides a fantastic platform for young South Australian designers and gives them the opportunity to develop their brands and style. Held on the 3rd Sunday of every month in the heart of Adelaide, at Gilles Street Primary School.


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Here is Jonathan at 6 weeks. We carried him on this foam mat from birth to 3 weeks, and then we used it whenever he was recovering from a fracture. He had fractured his femur about 5 days before this picture was taken.
Jonathan 6 yrs old recovering from femur fracture.
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Who could resist giving this little guy a kiss? His leg, broken 7/8/2000 is wrapped with an ace bandage.
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Remember the name AirDisc because one of these days, this technological breakthrough will revolutionize the way you see air conditioners.
Through the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as cooling agent, Air Conditioners (ACs) are able to cool your homes. Aside from that, they save buildings and other establishments from the direct heat of the sun. However, convenience has always had its consequences. The same is true for HFCs which in return causes damage to the planet. Fortunately, a 19-year old Filipina student had just changed the game.
Her invention "AirDisc" has paved the way for another milestone in the field of HVAC.
Maria Yzabell Angel Palma (also known as Yza) from Naga City, Philippines is the brainchild of this invention that has now set a patent application at a Virginia-based US Patent and Trademarks Office.
Yza, in the next few more months, will eventually revolutionize all ACs to operate without refrigerants.
According to her, she was a Grade 10 student at the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Bicol Campus in 2016 when she accidentally discovered this innovation in a research subject.
Yza's AirDisc air conditioners basically use a disc-shaped compressor that works without refrigerant which resulted to low power consumption. She mentioned how the prototype that they manufactured, together with her father who is a mechanical engineer. It was able to derive 150 watts with just 0.5 horsepower unit.
Unlike the current air conditioning systems which use rotary compressors and harmful hydrofluorocarbons, AirDisc air conditioners are totally eco-friendly. It makes use of a centrifugal compressor in the middle which controls concentric air tanks with air inlets. These air inlets were able to continuously grab air molecules from a room for compression.
Thus, the heat generated from the air compressions separate allowing the compressed air molecules to absorb lesser heat and even allowing it to expand. In this way, it totally helps the room temperature to continuously get lower. Above else, AirDisc can also be the answer to the United Nation's Kigali mandate to phase out HFCs as chemical refrigerants.
Aside from this, Yza assures how this will not only be environmental-friendly but will also be truly economical. As a matter of fact, the units which will be available in the market soon will be highly affordable for everybody.
Recent surveys have shown that 100 million units of air conditioners in the year 2016 were produced globally but still, not all people can afford to buy one.
Moreover, Yza has seen that this will address the needs of her co-Filipinos since the Philippines is a tropical country where households need air conditioning especially now that global warming is getting worse every year.
Yza is now a freshman mechanical engineering student at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila.
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If she's expending 380W to get 150W of cooling, that's far less efficient than your typical inverter AC's that use rotary compressors whose efficiencies are at 70% and above.
Yup, this is an air-conditioning system for the outdoors!
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Graveyard Keeper Is Better Than Stardew Valley
By Holly Green | June 21, 2018 | 12:08pm
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I don't know what compelled me to finally start playing Graveyard Keeper today. I've been receiving emails from their PR for what feels like years, and while it originally piqued my interest on name alone, since the game is only in alpha, I haven't been in a real rush to get around to it.
Which brings me to now, only a few days after E3, as I'm winding down from an overstimulating week of interviews, meetings, presentations and demos. As the saying goes, "I'll catch up on E3 when I get home from E3." I still haven't gone back and read all the headlines I missed while I was taking meetings to make headlines. In a streak of rebellion I find myself playing anything that sounds good and that I'm absolutely under no obligation to play. When you review games for a living, playing one that doesn't net you much in terms of SEO or brand building is as close as you can get to playing a game recreationally anymore. It does a lot to reduce the pressure that comes from always feeling like you're under a time constraint, but also creates a nice, clear little demarcation line between work and pleasure. It's the only time I get to have fun playing a game.
In Graveyard Keeper, the titular character is crossing the street one night and gets hit by a car, awakening to find himself in the medieval era, tasked with cleaning up and rehabilitating the town's cemetery. When he's not quizzing the locals about his bizarre predicament or dumping bodies into one of the many holes he digs on church grounds, he also builds the items needed on his homestead to maintain a farm and gather resources from the terrain. The game, like Stardew Valley, balances this with the player's stamina and health bars, and uses a calendar and weather cycle to dictate the working conditions each day and night. The goal is not only to clean up the graveyard, but figure out how to tap into whatever caused his mysterious journey in time and return to "his love".
What does this have to do with Stardew Valley, exactly? It took a second for even me to understand why I was making the comparison, but it makes sense: both are resource management sims, which I like, and both let me plant things, although in Graveyard Keeper I'm often planting bodies, which I honestly like more. But the boredom and lack of direction I wound up feeling with Stardew Valley seems to be absent in Graveyard Keeper. There's more structure to the process of teaching the player the systems, and the story is more intriguing and fully thought-out. I also vastly prefer how it looks; both are done in pixel art, but Graveyard Keeper is beautiful and the style is cohesive, whereas Stardew Valley feels like a mish mash hobbled together from pieces that are ultimately ill suited to one another.
Now, granted, the comparison might not hold up as well when it comes to the farming. The crafting, sure—there are lots of things to make, and the structure of succession is fair. But of course the crops aren't as numerous and diverse as Stardew Valley. That being said, the farm life wasn't always sweet in Stardew Valley, and while the community center sidequests gave it some sense of purpose, it falls apart without a lot of external, self-motivated energy on the part of the player. Graveyard Keeper also has its own stuff going on; I've got bodies to dissect and bury, headstones to make, and a bishop to impress, not to mention an ancient cult secret that, once unraveled, might send me back home.
A bad thing about alpha builds is the possibility that an update will wipe out your entire save file at any moment. I'm playing with fire in more ways than one. Be that as it may, Graveyard Keeper shows a lot of early potential that makes the risk worth it. If the urge to play a resource management sim hits me again any time soon, I know where I'm headed—and it ain't Stardew Valley.
Holly Green is the assistant editor of Paste Games and a reporter and semiprofessional photographer. She is also the author of Fry Scores: An Unofficial Guide To Video Game Grub. You can find her work at Gamasutra, Polygon, Unwinnable, and other videogame news publications.
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The Group was listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange ("SGX") in 2006. In 2012, ThaiBev expanded its business overseas through the acquisition of Fraser and Neave, Limited ("F&N"), a highly recognized company in Singapore with a portfolio that boasts of many renowned brands. With the acquisition of F&N, the Group further cemented its position as the leading beverage producer and distributor in the region. In 2017, ThaiBev further broadened its presence in the region with the acquisition of a 75% stake in the Grand Royal Group ("GRG"), the largest player in Myanmar's whisky market, as well as an acquisition of a 53.59% stake in Saigon Beer-Alcohol-Beverage Joint Stock Corporation ("Sabeco"), a leading beer producer in Vietnam, which made the Group the largest beer player by volume in Southeast Asia.
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Two Cat Burglar Poems Compared: Copus and Crucefix
March 13, 2018 martyn crucefix contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, Romantic poetry, teaching, writing	An Easy Passage, Ariel's song, close analysis of poems, comparative poetry analysis, Edexcel A level English (9ETO), Forward Poems of the Decade, Forward Poetry prize, how to compare two poems, John Keats, Julia Copus, Keats Letters, Negative Capability, Personal Identity, The Tempest, William Sieghart
Here are two poems about climbing in through windows. I'm sure it's ill-advised to pit something of one's own against one of the best poems appearing in the Forward Poems of the Decade anthology, but the similarities were so interesting that I decided to lay good sense aside. I hoped also to put aside any spirit of competition and to further that you will find that I have adopted a very impersonal tone towards my own poem. That poem – '17 Britannia Square' – was first published in 2004 and it certainly feels remote from me now, as if written by someone else. The following essay zig-zags to compare the two poems as students are asked to do in the Edexcel A level examination (9ETO/03). The text of Julia Copus's poem can be found here. My poem can be read by scrolling down the page on this link.
Both poems convey details of the climb into a house which, in each case, is taken to represent something about the progression of individual lives, about developing identity. Copus's climbing girl is on the brink of womanhood, a journey into "the way of the world" and her poem implies the difficulties ahead, especially, perhaps, for a woman in a patriarchal world. Crucefix's poem is altogether more male and concentrates more on what has come to divide the two men, the surprising shift ("strangeness") in identity over time. The forms of the two poems are similar: continuous blocks of unrhymed verse, though Copus uses a more variable line length and flowing syntax that evokes the 'ease' of the girl's passage. In contrast, Crucefix's verse halts and re-starts on several occasions, suggestive of the disjunction between his two characters.
Julia Copus's 13 year old girl is repeatedly imaged in border territory, a "halfway" stage, a liminal state of age, sexuality, friendship and her literal broaching/breaching of "the warm flank of the house". The journey or passage she is taking is into adulthood, a transition presented as exciting, anxious and relatively "easy", though what awaits her is more uncertain and even forbidding. The opening descriptions emphasise her vulnerability (crouched, trembling, narrow windowsill, sharp drop). Yet she continues to find reassurance in the presence of her (similarly aged) friend, though this is precisely what she is climbing away from. For further reassurance, she dwells on the tangible details of the moment: "the fact of the open window, / the flimsy, hole-punched, aluminium lever". Crucefix's '17 Britannia Square' also opens with a concern to keep things "steady" but here it foreshadows the narrator's growing awareness of changes in personal identity and relationships. The details and onomatopoeia of line 3, quickly settle us into a concrete situation, but the simile of the "coins being scraped together" is the first indication of one of the poem's divisive elements, material wealth. Given her age, Copus's girl was not trusted with the keys; Crucefix's narrator readily accepts responsibility for the lock out (he forgot to pick up the keys) and self-deprecatingly confesses his own inadequacy which is again linked to the material successes of his friend: "I could not manage ten minutes / in charge of your tall, Edwardian house".
Copus's girl's physical position, perched perilously on the porch roof with its rough asphalt like "a square of petrified beach" is marvellously conveyed. The word "petrified" works physically and psychologically, evoking both stoniness and felt fear simultaneously, but it also foreshadows her eventual dive through the window, mermaid-like, into the ambiguous ocean of her future. The omniscient narrative voice asks, "What can she know / of the way the world admits us less and less / the more we grow?" The narrative voice knows the future as the girl does not and the personal pronoun ("us") probably implies the voice is female and is making a comment on the patriarchal nature of the world of adulthood into which the girl is moving. It is a world that will "admit" her less and less. The choice of the word "admit" suggests the future will acknowledge the girl's existence less as well as give her less literal admission to what it might offer. By contrast, watching his friend climb the ladder, it is the past that preoccupies Crucefix's narrator. It's interesting that the "cat-burgling high-jinks" are already distanced by being something they "might" have done, though it seems likely they did not in reality. It's not clear whether this suggests their earlier relationship also had its limits or whether the familiar image of the wall-climbing wayward students is itself being ironised – a cliché that is displaced by the later more painfully honest assessment of their relationship. The elaborate, polysyllabic phrase used to describe what the two students hoped to evade – "vigilant authority" – also suggests the way the poem looks to evade accepted modes of presenting such male friendships.
This is even more clear when we reach the narrator's statement about the subject of their earlier, collegiate discussions. They focused on personal identity and the allusion to John Keats points to that poet's ideas about Negative Capability. Keats records the sensation of feeling annihilated in a crowded room because "the identity of every one in the room begins to press upon me". Yet this absence of a resolved (what the poem calls "determined") self, pushing confidently outwards, facilitates delicately perceptive encounters such as catching a glimpse of a "fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass – the creature hath a purpose and its eyes are bright with it" (229). The resultant freshness and truth, the absence of pre-judgement in such a moment, is what Keats valued and perhaps it is what this poem strives for in its examination of male friendship. The startling simile introduced here ("how a man / could possess no determined self, like a state / that sees no need of a constitution") also gestures towards an underlying concern about national identity too. This is reinforced by the title of the poem and suggests that the issues of identity and division on a personal level might be reflected more broadly in contemporary Britain and the narrator's observation that such a view now "looks as much risk as opportunity" indicates he sees subsequent developments (personally or politically) as putting closeness and cohesiveness at risk.
In 'An Easy Passage', lines 19-22, create a dramatic pause or lull in the poem, a briefly "lit", but still present, paradise of innocence. The statement that "for now the house exists / only for them" pre-empts the most significant change in perspective in Copus's poem. Their innocence is indicated by the girls' small scope of vision and the second half of the poem enacts its innocence / experience theme by drawing away to the wider perspectives of the street, the absent mother, the workers and finally the secretary. It is the latter who is said to be "most far" from the girl. The phrase ironically has the effect of associating the two characters, perhaps implying that the girl's future can be seen in the older woman's present situation. If so, the portrait is not inspiring with her small plans for an "evening class" or contrastingly improbable plans for the "trip of a lifetime". The tone adopted about the "stirring omens" in an astrology column comes close to a sarcasm at the secretary's expense. Growing distance and division are also indicated in lines 19-27 of '17 Britannia Square' via the vivid details of the friend's climb to the top of the ladder and his awkward tipping in through the bathroom window. The paralleling of the climb up the (social?) ladder and the reflections on identity are made explicit in the yoking together of literal and psychological facts: "I see you pull up the sash, begin to wriggle /into your bathroom and it seems less a truth / to last beyond our teens". The simile describing the damage caused by the friend's flailing foot, as he slips through the window (breaking it and making a "white star-burst like a rifle shot"), perhaps implies the demise of the earlier self. This is again reinforced by the forcible linking of immediate, physical events with more personal developmental vocabulary: "you vanish at last, absorbed to your house, / your job, your family".
But '17 Britannia Square' is not really a poem about envy. In fact, the narrator waits below, watching his old friend vanish into his house/life, yet remains "in love with mine". Furthermore, the closing lines of the poem present an act of Keatsian sympathetic imagination as the narrator melds past and present, himself and his friend into a moment of alertness to the possibilities of life, even if the possibilities are of growing alienation. The tone is not dark – the friend will re-appear at his own front door "laughing" – and the explicit birthing image of line 30 is equivocally described with the phrase "bruised and quivering". The poem leaves the reader with a heightened sense of the unpredictability of individual lives as expressed in the choice of the word "strangeness". The word implies estrangement but also of the richness of mutability and the unexpected, perhaps reminiscent of Ariel's song to Ferdinand in The Tempest: "Nothing of him that doth fade, / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and strange".
By contrast, I think the youth and still-retained freedom of Copus's two girls is described (from the secretary's perspective now) with some envy (silver, neat, shimmering, flash, gracefully). It's not clear if this is mere personal envy or that of an older generation viewing the more secure freedoms of younger women. Certainly, Copus loads ambiguity in at the close. The "shimmering- / oyster-painted toenails" re-evoke the beach image of line 16 and the graceful movement of the girl into the house suggests an assured transition into another element/time. Yet the simile of the nails flashing like "armaments" complicates matters. Is the suggestion that she will need not only grace and beauty but also an arsenal of weapons with which to defend herself in the adult world? Does the simile persuade us that the girl does possess such means to defend herself? Or that she lacks it (what use are painted toe-nails)? There is something surely ominous in the very last phrase, as she drops "into the shade of the house".
So 'An Easy Passage' is full of the girls' grace and beauty on the verge of adulthood. Through predominantly concrete description, the poem conveys complex emotions about their likely transition into the adult world and Copus leaves the nature of their future experiences carefully undefined. Crucefix's poem is equally honest about what divides his two male figures as they have grown into maturity. It is largely money but also the divergent demands of house, job and family. Yet the poem develops ideas about the fluidity of personal identity from Keats' thoughts on the matter and concludes that the human heart draws its sustenance as much from distance as closeness, pain as much as pleasure.
England is Finished: Sean O'Brien's 'Hammersmith' reviewed
June 21, 2016 martyn crucefix contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, writing	Aeneid, Christopher Marlowe, Cousin Coat, Dr Faustus, Hammersmith, Hercules Press, migration, Personal Identity, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Sean O'Brien, Virgil
In the week of the EU Referendum it seemed appropriate to review a beautiful little chapbook by one of the UK's most prominent poets, Sean O'Brien. Appropriate because it is a book exploring both personal and national identity, issues of migration and how new lives are begun in a new country. In particular it is a work always aware of the need for – and the difficulty of – pragmatism, honesty and truth in both personal and political worlds. Whether it is our own or our nation's past or future, the idealism or fundamentalism of the simplistically pure, clear and incontrovertible is a false god. Worship at such an altar is the old fearful yearning for security in a world that simply is both contingent and mysterious and can only possibly be faced with a sense of compromise, processes of negotiation.
Beside a photograph of his own 1952 birth certificate, Sean O'Brien's foreword to Hammersmith (Hercules Editions, 2016) ponders other people's interest in their family histories. Perhaps our ancestors "underwrite" our lives in a way we cannot do for ourselves – in ways religion might once have done. But O'Brien assures us the two cantos (of what seems to be a longer sequence of poems yet to appear) are more the "work of the imagination" than anything narrowly documentary. He alludes to Robert Lowell's dictum – "why not say what happened?" – only to dismiss it, suggesting Hammersmith aspires more to the condition of a dream or reverie.
If this is teasing, then it continues into the poem. With a neat circuitousness, O'Brien's rhyming alter ego, Ryan, wanders the streets of Hammersmith recalling his parents early days and places (days and places shared with O'Brien's own mother and father), yet his search is an endless deferral, not arriving at any clear goal, a sense of not belonging which (the Foreword has already told us) is precisely O'Brien's experience of London: "I never feel entirely present there". So the irresolvable uncertainty about one's true self is re-evoked here along with a scepticism about how far delving into ancestry can really help with it and this narrative set-up allows O'Brien to pursue the dream-like interweaving of reality and imagination which has become more familiar in his work since The Drowned Book (2007). It goes without saying that this fantasmagoric journey also takes the poet back to that post-war era that so fascinates him: "a place forever on the cusp of realising the welfare state" (from Ben Wilkinson's Guardian review of The Beautiful Librarians).
Mixing the personal, the historical and the political, most of the optimism of that earlier time has gone. Canto 1 opens dismissively: "England is finished". Initially this seems about to be cast as an epic/tragic moment as a rower in the University Boat Race catches a crab and, amidst allusions to the "fields of Hades", is compared to Palinurus, Aeneas' drowned steersman from Virgil's Aeneid Book 6. But within a few lines, the oarsman recovers and the incident ends only in petty recriminations and unsportsmanlike appeals to umpires – more comedy than tragedy, more satire than epic. The narrative voice concludes: "I'm losing my faith in this annual fiction". Like Aintree and Wembley, those great sporting occasions that at least gave the impression of a nation united, a clearer sense of self-identity and "name", the Boat Race too loses its power to inspire a faith in a certain type of Englishness, "a special and definitive order of reality" (Foreword).
Perhaps it's not wholly clear if this "order of reality" ever had any real existence and was lost, or whether the narrator lived the delusion of it briefly that was then corrected by his growing understanding of the significance of "class, the major stench of things". And perhaps this is why the poem swings from imagined images of the 1940s and 1950s Hammersmith to the wanderings of Ryan/O'Brien in more contemporary settings (another photo in the chapbook is clearly O'Brien taking a selfie reflected in an underpass mirror). Canto 1 now more securely pursues the past, describing a young woman (the future mother) as nurse, teacher, doing the "pallais glide". Such remembrance is labelled the "trap of elegy" at one moment. Ryan is caught in it and "Nor am I out of it" says another voice (O'Brien?) echoing Mephistophilis in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, that moment when he reveals the omnipresence of Hell.
What develops is a passage of a more documentary type (though no doubt the details are largely imagined) with an Irish ancestor stepping off the train at Euston, finding a room to rent: "Oh loneliness, your name is Hammersmith". But canto 1 ends with an outbreak of irregular rhyming (the poem is written in triplets throughout) which holds together, as if in successful solution, references to Aneurin Bevan and Stafford Cripps, the ill-fated groundnut scheme of the late 1940s, Caliban and Ariel and a (more personal sounding) naïve, nursery-rhyme passage about "the boy with the curly brown hair", who is perhaps the future father-to-be.
Canto 2 opens (having caught the habit of rhyme from the end of the preceding Canto) with another vision of the transience of London life, especially for migrants: "no fixed abode, where is no stay, / Not known at this address, / Or never known, or went away, // Gone where the post eventually goes". This is both the contemporary figure's fruitless search for an ancestral past as well as the post-war migrant's experience where the world the nation fought for "admits / No Blacks and no dogs and no Irish". There are passages here out of Dante, out of Yeats in which spectral figures go dancing through London streets "into Ravenscourt Park" and beyond the District Line. Once again, Ryan/O'Brien re-surfaces with a fierce thirst for Guinness which might "re-enchant / A world that is always and only prose".
The earlier allusion ("where is no stay") to Robert Frost's comment that poetry can act as a "momentary stay against confusion" is repeated again in the context of what looks like suicidal thoughts, a personal as well as political history: "Here there is nowhere. Here is no stay". It turns out the Ryan character has an engagement to read poems to an audience but the tone here is angrily dismissive ("Who gives a fuck?") and heckled abuse from an audience is deemed appropriate somehow, the only thing to make sense "of a dying art". O'Brien's casting doubt on the efficacy – the very purpose – of poetry in the context of an ambitious poetic project like this might seem perverse but is perhaps just another de-stabilising element in the whole where past and present, political idealism and cynicism and failure battle it out across the fluid fields of the poet's observation, memory and imagination (and anyway, if this is the opening of a long poem, this may not be the last word on the subject).
The poet's heart seems most passionately engaged in passages concerning the mother figure, but Canto 2 ends, as did Canto 1, with allusions to the father. Like the son, he too seems to have looked always "for a sign", for meaning in the bewildering flood and flow of the city's life. What seems to be O'Brien's pessimism again re-surfaces: "You will fail / Like your father before you". The failure will be to "name" the waters (this leaves me thinking of Keats' epitaph: one whose name was writ on water). The father's ambition apparently yielded nothing more than a "suitcase – / Poems and politics, no fixed address" and later "Madness lay in wait". Yet the narrative voice offers up the idea of witness, even if this does not lead to reassuring certainty: "You will lower your face to the water, // And through it, and open your eyes." This is reminiscent of O'Brien's poem 'Cousin Coat' with its self-urging to "Be memory, be conscience, will and rage" and to remain "cold and honest", though since those lines were written in 1987 O'Brien's range has continued to widen so that honesty in terms of documentary/historical evidence now also has to face new challenges, new types of honesty with regard to the imagination, in part those in-filling processes of personal memory, the making-up of our own past which many of us hope "underwrites" the people we have become.
'The Bell Jar', Lakes, Doors and Identity
January 29, 2016 February 3, 2016 martyn crucefix autobiography, contemporary American poetry, contemporary British poetry, creative writing, poetry, teaching, UK poetry magazines, writing	Esther Greenwood, Jim Morrison, Personal Identity, Riders on the Storm, Sylvia Plath, The Doors, The Lake District
I've had a major dose of the flu recently and have been too busy catching up with teaching and marking missed to devote much thought to blogging. So please forgive this brief and slightly self-absorbed effort. Talking about my own poetry is not really what I want to do too much of here. Nevertheless . . .
I gave a reading a couple of weeks ago in which the main focus was the idea of identity. It has been on my mind since and this week we have been looking at Sylvia Plath's fictional self, Esther Greenwood. She is seen struggling in 1953 to appreciate she ought to be "the envy of thousands of other college girls . . . all over America". She has won the opportunity of working for the summer as what we might now call an intern at a leading New York women's magazine. In one of those flashes of figurative language that marks Plath the poet-novelist, Esther confesses she ought be "steering New York like her own private car". Instead: "I wasn't steering anything, not even myself".
Esther's ensuing breakdown – closely following Plath's own – can be interpreted as her searching for a clearer sense of her own identity as she ponders and then rejects role models offered by Doreen (the wild girl), Betsy (the traditional), Joan (the lesbian), Cee Jay (the older career woman) and her own mother (hard-working single parent with no prospects). If we can manage to ignore the subsequently brilliant then tragic ten years of Plath's own life after 1953, The Bell Jar, her only-completed novel, ends on an upward trajectory. Esther is re-born in the end: "patched, retreaded and approved for the road". She finds a more sure sense of herself. As she waits for her release from the psychiatric ward she listens to her own heart beating: "I am, I am, I am".
To borrow from Wikipedia, identity is defined as the distinctive characteristic belonging to any given individual or shared by all members of a particular social category or group. Identity, then, is a label. However, the formation of one's identity occurs through one's identifications with significant others (primarily with parents and other individuals during one's life and also with identifiable groups). These others may be benign – such that one aspires to their characteristics, values and beliefs (a process of idealistic-identification), or malign – when one wishes to dissociate from their characteristics (a defensive contra-identification).
Plath's Esther Greenwood seems initially to have lost or never really determined or had no faith in her identity though I suspect this is a common enough feeling among adolescents. In retrospect this seems to be the point of one of the poems I read (first published in Hurt (2010)). It features a bunch of adolescents walking in Cumbria, one of their number too pre-occupied with fretting about a fading relationship. 'Riders on the Storm', the song by The Doors which they choose to put on the pub juke box, operates as a sort of mock-heroic image which the main character signally fails to live up to. Heroes know who they are; he does not. The point seems to be that the pain caused by the dissolving of the fledgling relationship is an early opportunity, perhaps, to define himself a little more clearly.
With no schedule to drive us,
we wait for rain to stop beside Ullswater's
southern lip, for the landlord of The White Lion
to determine when it's time to open.
Ducking through the door, Helen, Clive, Steve,
each a few weeks shy of university,
and I'm there too, heart awash
with absence, her love letters at looked-for drops,
the girl I feel leaving gradually
as the tedious route past Thirlmere to Catstye.
But it's OK for a while – passing midday snug
in a deserted pub
while outside the downpour gurgles, begins to blur
and double with the torrential roar
of the juke-box: The Doors the only thing
we key in, its electric piano's limpid fingering
like the give and tender recoil of water,
the lugubrious voice . . . Fifteen years later,
at his paint-spattered Pere-Lachaise stone,
I remember that wretched lunchtime
under the wettest rain in England,
when I was too ill-formed to understand.
I barely displaced a drop of local weather,
could only conceive of myself as either
a body slumped beside a dry stone wall
or drenched and raging on the dramatic fell
on the path to Ambleside bus station,
its oily tarmac smoking under black rain,
her blonde voice fluent on the phone:
'You hear me?' I could not even hear my own.
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Italy thrashed Liechtenstein on the back of two penalty kicks converted by Fabio Quagliarella (35th and 45th minutes), along with individual tallies from Stefano Sensi (17th), Marco Veratti (32nd), Moise Kean (70′) and Leonardo Pavoletti (76th).
With two victories from two games, and a +8 goal difference now in tow, Italy sit perched high atop Group J. With two sides set to qualify from the six-team group, it's just about impossible to conjure up a scenario in which the Azzurri don't qualify with more than a couple qualifiers still remaining.
Alvaro Morata bagged a brace (31st and 73rd minutes) to help Spain to a comfortable, if slightly labored, victory over Malta. Spain enjoyed a healthy 80 percent of possession and out-shot Malta by a margin of 23-2 (7-1 on target).
The only side with six points from their first two games, Spain lead Group F by two points over Sweden.
The game of the day.
Remo Freuler put Switzerland ahead after 19 minutes. It would stay that way until the final 25 minutes, when a massive explosion of goals saw the game quickly get out of hand, in the most unimaginable of ways.
Granti Xhaka made it 2-0 in the 66th, and Breel Embolo made it 3-0 in the 76th. That was it, the game was over, done and dusted, right? Wrong.
Mathias Jorgensen brought Denmark back to 3-1 in the 84th, followed by Christian Gytkjaer in the 88th for 3-1. Deep into stoppage time — as in, three minutes deep — Henrik Dalsgaard completed the comeback with a header to clean up a mad scramble of failed headed clearances inside the penalty area.
While also a six-goal thriller with stoppage-time drama, Sweden's comeback was only from 2-0 down.
Bjoern Maars Johnsen (41st) and Joshua King (59th) established the lead just before the hour mark, and everything was going exactly to play for Norway. That remained the case until the 70th minute, when scored Viktor Claesson from open play. Norway scored again in the 86th minute, only Havard Nordtveit put the ball into his own net, which drew the Swedes level.
Robin Quaison gave Sweden the lead in the 91st minute, surely sealing all three points in a memorable comeback, right? Wrong again. Ola Kamara's 96th-minute equalizer meant a 3-3 draw that neither side would be happy with, nor particularly dissatisfied.
Fabian Schar will Switzerland's 2020 European Championship qualifier against Denmark on Tuesday, three days after the defender was apparently knocked unconscious in a 2-0 victory over Georgia but continued to play for more than an hour and finished the game.
Schar was directly involved in creating both of Switzerland's second-half goals.
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Hoffenheim striker Adam Szalai brought the hosts level at halftime, and Mate Patkai gave Hungary a deserved 2-1 win in Budapest.
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Marko Arnautovic's brace in defeat couldn't have come with different vibes. His eighth minute marker gave the Austrians a leg up, his 75th minute goal meaning very little with the side having conceded four-straight in between.
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Back in Glasgow, again, for another thirty-six hours of home-based fun before I barrel back down to London for a last week of hotel living. That should be the last significant travel I have to do before I go to India. Look forward to being back, and getting on with winding life in Scotland down, getting the wedding up and running, and so forth. The list of 'to dos' is getting a little cramped, so it's time to clear some of it away if I can.
It hasn't all been grim in London, of course. The weather has been lovely, and was made the most of when I met Heather for a couple of drinks by the Thames, next to Vauxhall bridge. I've known Heather for a few years now, but it's the first time we've met in person, and she's as lovely in real life as you could wish for.
Easyjet managed to get me to Glasgow only fifteen minutes late yesterday. This is still not an endorsement. Being only slightly incompetant at a basic service level, instead of catastrophically blundering, is not the same as being good. Or even adequate. I only have to fly with them two more times. Ever. That's good news, at least.


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Are you choking, laughing, or cheering. First of all, yes, to blend curricula is a dance I call DEATH or… educational engineering.
This may seem simple, but I created this page to bring comfort to people who feel like they should not need any other curriculum except CC Classical Conversations. CC comforts people with the idea that you only need to do math and copywork at home, and they uphold the notion that "you don't need a language program until Fourth Grade Essentials," but I don't think they are meaning to throw away the early childhood phonics. They mean the transition into nouns and verbs that begins around 3rd grade in some programs.
Ok, now that that's off my chest!
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It will provide an outstanding education for pupils attending the school together with support for children with autism at mainstream schools through an assessment centre based at the new site.
Cllr Ken Meeson, Cabinet Member for Children, Education and Skills, said: "This is fantastic news for children and families across Solihull. We know we have comparatively high rates of autism diagnosis in the borough. This funding means we can take an important step in delivering the Council's ambitious programme to provide an exceptional educational environment which fully understands and caters for the individual needs of children and young people with autism.
He continues: "For those pupils with more complex needs, creating a special free school will mean we can better meet current and future demand for places, whilst also extending local choice.
In line with Department for Education guidance, the Council can now start advertising the opportunity for potential trusts to apply to establish the new school. The specification will be published on the Council website.


Principal Investigator Kim Binstead poses in front of the HI-SEAS habitat on Hawaii island. Six scientists will spend a year there simulating exploration of Mars.
"We hope that this upcoming mission will build on our current understanding of the social and psychological factors involved in long duration space exploration and give NASA solid data on how best to select and support a flight crew that will work cohesively as a team while in space," Binsted said.
To ensure that crewmember performance is at its highest in preparation for an eventual Mars mission, each person will be monitored by several forms of technology. Researchers will use cameras, body movement trackers, electronic surveys and other tools to track cognitive and social factors that could affect team performance.
The year-long mission follows two NASA-funded missions of shorter duration in the past two years. The first mission was four months long and the second, which wrapped up in June, lasted eight months.
- Sheyna Gifford, a researcher in astrophysics, neuroscience and psychology.
- Tristan Bassingthwaighte, a doctor of architecture candidate at UH Manoa.
- Carmel Johnston, a soil scientist from Whitefish, Montana.
- Andrzej Stewart, a console controller for several NASA missions, including Mars Odyssey and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
- Cyprien Verseux, a doctoral student in astrobiology at the University of Rome.
- Christiane Heinicke, a German physicist and engineer.