The Roommate star Minka Kelly admitted that she has no intention to sit on different diets for all her life. And we can't but agree that it's a wise decision.
The actress is totally sure that if you keep on rejecting something that you like (especially such simple things as the food), you will certainly feel bad. For this reason Minka just tries to control what she eats.
For example, she has breakfast with eggs or scrambled eggs, for lunch she eats a salad and something that contains proteins and finishes the day with fish and vegetables. But sometimes, she allows herself a cheeseburger and french fries. That's why she doesn't feel deprived of something tasty and her body doesn't oppose.
The actress says that her motivation is good health and no need to buy jeans one size larger. However, at times Kelly allows herself some sweets because, in her own words, the meal can not be considered as over for her if she did not eat any dessert.
She'd rather eat a tiny piece of real chocolate than a box of cookies without sugar.
According to another revelation from Minka she watches videos with Beyoncé when engaged in sports.
In general, sport for the actress is a kind of meditation. That's why she always tries to find time for it.
In general, according to Minka Kelly, keeping fit is not too challenging process. Healthy food, sports, and the right attitude – that's all simple beauty secrets that actress uses. All that we have heard more than once. When, at last, will someone honestly admit that the perfect body is the result hard work, regular visits to beauticians and, sometimes, surgeries ..?
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Closing arguments will be heard Wednesday morning in Nicollette Sheridan's $6 million wrongful termination suit against ABC, with the case likely to go to the jury in the afternoon.
Each side will have two hours to make their final statements and offer brief rebuttals before L.A. Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White offers final instructions and sends the case to the jury.
Earlier Tuesday, Judge White issued a directed verdict dismissing the battery charge portion of Sheridan's case against the show's creator Mark Cherry. She said Sheridan's claims did not meet the standard for proof of battery.
With the charge against Cherry dismissed, the focus has shifted to Sheridan's allegation that she was fired from the show in February 2009 as retaliation for her complaint that Cherry had struck her in the head during a taping on Sept. 24, 2008.
The defense spent Tuesday afternoon seeking to undercut the morning testimony of "mystery witness" Michael Reinhart, the show's construction coordinator who testified he mistakenly received an email that suggested network brass had engaged in a cover-up of emails regarding Sheridan.
Jean Zoeller, vice-president of litigation for ABC Inc., was asked if there had been any emails sent asking employees to delete emails regarding Sheridan's suit. "Absolutely not," she replied.
She said that in June 2009, after Sheridan filed her suit, she had sent out an email specifically directing employees not to delete any emails related to the case.
Alexander Myers, an attorney for ABC's parent, the Walt Disney Co., testified that it was his job to co-ordinate the collection, searching, delivery and preservation of emails and electronic documents related to lawsuits. Myers said he makes copies and indexes them, then passes them along to the attorneys.
Under questioning from defense attorney Mark Baute, however, Myers admitted that since the "Housewives" taping occurred at the Universal lot, most of those involved used their own computers and personal emails, which would not have been monitored.


From logos to flags to punctuation marks, symbols are all around us.
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Mattel — the company that owns Thomas the Tank Engine — is firing back at NRA TV host Dana Loesch for portraying "Thomas & Friends" characters in Ku Klux Klan hoods.
On Friday, Loesch showed characters from the children's TV show "Thomas & Friends" in white hoods while discussing the show's move to diversify its characters.
"We are not associated with images that promote hate and denounce any images of our brands that are being used to convey a message not in line with the values of the company," the company said in a statement.
"Thomas & Friends" announced on Friday Sept. 7 it was collaborating with the United Nations to promote Sustainable Development Goals and inspire future global citizens.
The show's upcoming Season 22 will have a more contemporary feel — including a gender-balanced cast with international characters.
In response to the announcement, NRA's online show "Relentless" depicted "Thomas & Friends" characters wearing white Ku Klux Klan hoods on fiery train tracks, as Loesch criticized the ethnic diversity of the children's show.
"I've looked at "Thomas and Friends," at their pictures, and I see gray and blue. Am I to understand this entire time that Thomas and his trains were white? Because they all have gray faces," Loesch said.
The new series of "Thomas & Friends" will feature an African steam engine from Kenya named Nia, as well as three other female characters — Isla from Australia, Noor Jehan from India, and Hong-Mei from China.
Thomas will explore new countries such as China, India, and Australia — leaving their island of Sodor for the first time in the show's history.
"As we looked to modernize Thomas & Friends and make it more culturally relevant, there was no better partner than the UN to help us deliver the important messages of the Sustainable Development Goals," Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel, said in a statement.
This all-new series titled "Big World! Big Adventures!" will come to Nick Jr. on Sept. 17.


Paul Rivett says it was mission accomplished at Croft yesterday as he converted pole position into a first Renault UK Clio Cup win of the season to bounce back from a difficult weekend at Oulton Park two weeks ago.
The trip to Cheshire saw the three-time champion restricted to just a best finish of seventh following contact in the opening encounter and a track limits penalty in race two, results that lost him crucial ground in the championship battle.
Rivett hit back in style this weekend however, taking his first pole position since the corresponding meeting twelve months ago in qualifying, which he duly converted into a lights-to-flag three and a half second victory.
"I came here absolutely determined for a strong weekend after Oulton Park, where luck really wasn't on our side," said the WDE Motorsport ace.
"We got pushed off a couple of times in the first race and ended up down the order, then we got a penalty we didn't deserve in race two. I exceeded track limits three times, but so did everyone else around me and I was the only one penalised.
Delighted with the commanding nature of his victory, in which he led from start to finish and pulled comfortably clear of the pack behind, Rivett is targeting a repeat result in race two today from third on the grid.
"I've got to overtake to get to the front today, so it's going to be harder," he added.


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Despite objections from GOP lawmakers Californian Democrats Thursday (June 15th) used a budget maneuver. The maneuver was used by the Democrats who control the legislature to "help out a freshman colleague, Senator Josh Newman, who faces an ugly recall battle in Southern California after voting for increasing the state's gas tax less than six months after he was elected," according to The Mercury Newspaper in Northern California.
The provision was slipped into a veterans cemetery bill and would add new requirements for qualifying a recall petition for the ballot causing it to delay a Newman recall to a general election. California general elections typically have better turnouts for Democrats than special elections who tend to favor Republicans. The bill was then fast-tracked to the State Senate under bill SB 96; which was then passed into law.
Republicans are extremely angry; Republican Assemblyman Devon Mathis said, "I'm a combat veteran, and I didn't get blown up twice in Iraq to come home and see this happen." Assemblyman Dante Acosta, a Republican from Santa Clarita said it was a "baldly political move."
The bill creates a 30-day period for citizens to withdraw their signatures from a recall initiative. It also calls for a Department of Finance analysis of the cost of a special election and 30 days for a legislative committee to comment on that analysis. The bill the was passed by the Assembly 49-26, with a handful of Democrats not supporting it. Senate leader Kevin de León on Thursday told his colleagues "Never before in the history of the recall process have we seen deception so brash, so brazen, so obviously coordinated and so specifically dishonest," and "If you don't support these simple, straightforward reforms, you are not just condoning what is going on. … You are complicit in the one of the most troubling election frauds of our time."
The reason why Democrats might have made this move may have to do with an announcement that was made at a Republican Party of San Diego gathering (taped via Facebook at 25min23sec) this past Monday (June 12th) by Carl DeMaio a San Diego radio talk show host saying, "I found our gazelle, I found him, he not only the slowest one, this ones only got two legs, this ones going to be easy to go after he can't run State Senator Josh Newman who only won by twenty-two hundred votes." This might explain why what DeMaio has called the "Gazelle Strategy" on his radio show in San Diego has backfired. Carl DeMaio responded (Friday, June 16th) on his radio program the DeMaio Report saying "WE WILL SUE!" The Miller News Service then asked DeMaio staff who and when he will sue regarding the recall, his staff responded: "We Don't Know".
The Miller News Service also reached out to Chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego Tony Krvaric for comment regarding "Thursday's budget maneuver," but did not receive back a response from him or the Republican Party of San Diego.
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Voipreux és un municipi francès, situat al departament del Marne i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 207 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Voipreux era de 207 persones. Hi havia 84 famílies, de les quals 16 eren unipersonals (4 homes vivint sols i 12 dones vivint soles), 28 parelles sense fills, 32 parelles amb fills i 8 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 90 habitatges, 84 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 2 eren segones residències i 4 estaven desocupats. 86 eren cases i 4 eren apartaments. Dels 84 habitatges principals, 72 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris i 12 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters; 2 tenien dues cambres, 4 en tenien tres, 18 en tenien quatre i 60 en tenien cinc o més. 75 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 35 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 44 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 139 persones, 111 eren actives i 28 eren inactives. De les 111 persones actives 106 estaven ocupades (53 homes i 53 dones) i 5 estaven aturades (3 homes i 2 dones). De les 28 persones inactives 12 estaven jubilades, 10 estaven estudiant i 6 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Voipreux hi havia 82 unitats fiscals que integraven 214 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 23.670,5 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 9 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa extractiva, 5 d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa de serveis i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 4 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 2 eren fusteries, 1 electricista i 1 perruqueria.

L'any 2000 a Voipreux hi havia 34 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 325 hectàrees.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Voipreux a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Voipreux a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

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VIDEO: Dan Snyder Says There Are Lots Of Myths About Him
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Dan Snyder's year-plus-long media tour continued the other day when he stopped by for an exclusive interview with CSN Washington reporter Kelli Johnson. Only two minutes of the interview are shown in the video below the jump, but they contain the best quotes. Like, for example, Snyder engaging in some myth-busting.
"There's a lot of myths about the old Dan Snyder. I'll leave it at that," Snyder told Johnson. "They are myths. You trust someone, whether it's Joe Gibbs, whether it's Mike Shanahan, to do their job. You let them do their job and hopefully they have success."
Snyder also called himself "patient," which is obviously a word few associate with Snyder. In addition, he said he thinks Mike Shanahan is funny.
"He's got a heck of a sense of humor," Snyder said. "He's a lot funnier than people realize, and charming. He's fun to be with from my personal perspective."
Well, now I can rest easy knowing the coach is funny. Here's the video.


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At Hatch we empower underrepresented entrepreneurs to imagine, launch and grow sustainable and impactful businesses through programmes, events, tailored support, community, and partnerships.
Since 2014, we've grown our revenue to £850K, something that takes the average social enterprise at least fifteen years. Now we're looking to pass the million turnover mark, and 10X our impact. We want to do this by 2025. This is a deliberately ambitious target and this means bringing together a collaborative team with diverse experiences, backgrounds and skills.
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Rotha Mary Clay (17 September 1878 – 1 March 1961) was a British self-taught historian and social worker.

Life
Clay was born in Hendon in 1878 where her father was a minister. In time the family moved to Bristol where her father led the Bristol church of St Michael on the Mount Without. Her paternal grandparents were friends with John Constable. Her parents were the diarist Jessy (born Allan) and the amateur painter John Harden Clay.  Clay would visit the Lake District and the River Rothay near Ambleside after which she had been named.

At the end of 1895 she started the only known formal education when she began a year of study at Queen's College, London. She performed well, but she did not move on to a formal university course, but she did begin an interest in being a scholar. By the twentieth century she was exploiting Bristol University's Library to study the history of medieval hospitals in England. Her work attracted the interest of the editor of The Antiquary. John Charles Cox was a cleric and local historian and he managed the The Antiquaries' Books for Methuen & Co. By 1909 she had completed The Medieval Hospitals of England and five years later The Hermits and Anchorites of England. The latter was still considered a standard work 100 years after it was published. It is thorough, dry and meticulous and it includes a table of all the known cells.

In 1914 she was involved with social work, first at Barton Hill and then in 1918 in Shirehampton. Clay had "private means" that enabled her to fund her works. She bought Ilex Cottage in the High Street of Shirehampton where she lived with her partner Rosa Higgs.

In 1941 she published her study of the life of the Swiss landscape artist Samuel Hieronymus Grimm.

Clay died in Shirehampton. She left her estate to be divided with a specific bequest for Rosa Higgs.

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"This is one of the tougher routes I run," says Chris Humphries as we finish warming up. "The hills are killer, and they sneak up on you," he says of the route that makes up Medicine Hat's popular Conquer the Ridge half marathon.


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Innovation & New Product Launches to Bring A Boom in the Wireless Charging Industry
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As time has become the biggest constraint in the fast-moving, fiercely competitive world in which gadgets are an essential part of lives, keeping them fully charged has become of the necessities. The charging sockets at the desk have lost their importance as people want to charge their devices on the go. So, power banks came into existence. Now, manufacturers have been taking new steps toward developing wireless charging technology. The industry has been maturing for past few years and new products have been under development or already launched. The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has witnessed a lot of new products to be launched by leading tech giants. The market for wireless charging will boom in the next few years owing to these innovations and ongoing research and development activities. According to the research firm Allied Market Research, the global wireless charging market is expected to reach $71.21 billion by 2025. Following are some of the innovations taking place in the industry:
Griffin and Dodocool's new wireless chargers:
Griffin has announced various wireless chargers that also includes a model which charges both iPhone and an Apple Watch simultaneously. This model is the PowerBlock Wireless Fast Charging Pad, a 7.5W Qi charger equipped with a slot for charging an Apple Watch on one side and an iPhone on the other. Moreover, the company will offer two new chargers. The PowerBlock Wireless Charging stand/pad offers to charge to iPhones in landscape or vertical orientation. This 10W Qi device enables you to flip up and turn the device into a dock. The Reserve Wireless Charging Bank provides a portable battery with a power of 5,000mAh, which is capable of charging the phones wirelessly. These wireless chargers will be launched for sale in the next few months.
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Dodocool has launched a wireless charger DP18 that has the USB sockets to power devices with an additional feature of the wireless inductive charging pad. This pad is placed on top of the device and supports many QI-enabled devices. The compact and pocket-sized device has a capacity of 10000 mAh, which can charge iPhone X two times. The phone needs to be placed on the top of the DP18 and the button on the side should be pressed to begin the charging process. There is an LED panel to convey if the device is charging or discharging itself along with showing percentage figure to tell how much battery is remaining. Moreover, the device is equipped with safety measures such as chips that prevent overheating, overcurrent issues, and short circuit issues.
Moshi and iOttie's car mount and battery packs for wireless charging:
The accessory manufacturer Moshi has announced several products at CES 2019. The wireless charger introduced at the show is capable of charging iPhone on the go. The SnapTo Magnetic Car Mount with Wireless Charging will work in collaboration with Moshi's iGlaze, Altra, and Vesta series of iPhone cases. A cutout is included in each case to insert the metal tabs. As the system is installed, iPhones can be placed to iPhone to Moshi's car and wall mounts. The wireless charging is offered with standard and Qi-certified car mounts. Magnets are placed around the circumference of the wireless charging coil of the mounting system and power passes through to the iPhone.
iOttie has also announced its product offerings at CES 2019 including the Easy One Touch Connect smartphone car mount, the iON Wireless Go Portable Battery Pack, and the Auto Sense Wireless Fast Charging Car Mount. The Easy One Touch Connect car mount is a smart mount as it is integrated with Alexa into the device. So, even if you drive, you can control smart devices at home. The iON Wireless Go Portable Battery Pack is a battery pack for providing wireless charging for Qi-compatible devices. The Auto Sense Wireless Fast Charging Car Mount provides wireless charging and is equipped with a sensor for detection of nearby devices for charging and a servomotor for activation.
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Wireless charging for drones:
The drones need not to be landed on the ground for charging anymore. In the recent interview with William Kallman, the Co-Founder of wireless tech firm Global Energy Transmission (GET) by entertainment vlogger David Fordham, Kallman outlined how an electromagnetic field can be utilized for charging drone in the air. The firm has discovered a way to make a "power cloud" that has the capability to charge the drone in the air. A ground-based power station equipped with a frame of wires in a circular shape is constructed. It generates an electromagnetic field in the air once turned on. Once a drone with special antennae charges flies into the range of power cloud, it is charged. For eight minutes of charging, the drone is able to take a flight for 30 minutes. This system will find its application in military and entertainment industries.
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Drawing upon critical health and discursive psychology, the study explores the sexual decision-making of 8 sexually-active high school girls, aged 17 to 19 years, living in Masiphumelele, a poor African community in Cape Town, South African. The girls participated in a focus group and 1-2 individual, semi-structured interview/s. The paper describes and explores, firstly, the ideals girls uphold surrounding sexual relationships, on the one hand, and the normative character of sexual relationships as these typically play out in practice, stressing the dissonance between the two. The paper highlights the part that boys and girls play in reproducing a problematic sexual culture that supports sexual relationships that are antithetical to girls' ideals, and the processes that mediate sexual conformity. Following this, the paper turns to explore the participants' sexual decision-making and relationships. Three broad sexual strategies are isolated. The paper explores the rationale driving the respective strategies, the extent to which these strategies produce relationships that conform to, or, alternatively, diverge from and counter the norm, and the factors and processes mediating this. Finally, the paper explores and highlights the role of relationships beyond the sexual arena in mediating girls' sexual decision-making, and how these are implicated in reproducing problematic sexual norms and relationships. The study finds that the barriers to girls establishing and sustaining sexual relationships that promote emotional and physical health and well-being are deeply embedded within aspects of the psychosocial and material environment. Promoting the emotional and physical health and well-being of girls within their sexual relationships requires recognising and addressing problematic elements within their broader relational environments, and providing supportive, advisory figures and contexts, as well as positive role models.


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Q: Take arguments after command in click python module I wanted two options and three commands, where I could take arguments after command.
import click

@click.group()
@click.option('--removedigits/--removenodigits',default=False,help="To remove digits or not")
    def cli(removedigits):
        pass

@cli.command('uppercase')
@click.argument('arguments', nargs=-1)

def processor(arguments,removedigits):
    print(arguments)

@cli.command('lowercase')
@click.argument('arguments', nargs=-1)

def processor1(arguments,removedigits):
    print(arguments)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cli()

Example:
myworkspace.py --removedigits upper Hello12 There12

Expected Output:
HELLO THERE

A: The key to making this work is to save the removedigits value into the context with something like:
Code:
@click.pass_context
def cli(ctx, removedigits):
    ctx.obj = dict(removedigits=removedigits)

Then you can retreive it like:
@click.pass_context
def upper(ctx, arguments):
    click.echo(ctx.obj['removedigits'])

Test Code:
import click

@click.group()
@click.option('--removedigits/--removenodigits', default=False,
              help="To remove digits or not")
@click.pass_context
def cli(ctx, removedigits):
    ctx.obj = dict(removedigits=removedigits)

def removedigits(ctx, a_string):
    if ctx.obj['removedigits']:
        a_string = ''.join(c for c in a_string if not c.isdigit())
    return a_string

@cli.command()
@click.argument('arguments', nargs=-1)
@click.pass_context
def upper(ctx, arguments):
    click.echo(ctx.obj['removedigits'])
    click.echo(removedigits(ctx, ' '.join(arguments).upper()))

@cli.command()
@click.argument('arguments', nargs=-1)
@click.pass_context
def lower(ctx, arguments):
    click.echo(ctx.obj['removedigits'])
    click.echo(removedigits(ctx, ' '.join(arguments).lower()))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    commands = (
        '--removedigits lower Hi Mom',
        '--removedigits upper Hi Mom',
        '--removedigits upper Hi1 Mom2',
        '--removenodigits upper Hi Mom',
        '--removenodigits upper Hi1 Mom2',
        'upper Hi Mom',
        'upper Hi1 Mom2',
        '--help',
    )

    import sys, time
    time.sleep(1)
    print('Click Version: {}'.format(click.__version__))
    print('Python Version: {}'.format(sys.version))
    for cmd in commands:
        try:
            time.sleep(0.1)
            print('-----------')
            print('> ' + cmd)
            time.sleep(0.1)
            cli(cmd.split())

        except BaseException as exc:
            if str(exc) != '0' and \
                    not isinstance(exc, (click.ClickException, SystemExit)):
                raise

Results:
Click Version: 6.7
Python Version: 3.6.3 (v3.6.3:2c5fed8, Oct  3 2017, 18:11:49) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
-----------
> --removedigits lower Hi Mom
True
hi mom
-----------
> --removedigits upper Hi Mom
True
HI MOM
-----------
> --removedigits upper Hi1 Mom2
True
HI MOM
-----------
> --removenodigits upper Hi Mom
False
HI MOM
-----------
> --removenodigits upper Hi1 Mom2
False
HI1 MOM2
-----------
> upper Hi Mom
False
HI MOM
-----------
> upper Hi1 Mom2
False
HI1 MOM2
-----------
> --help
Usage: test.py [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --removedigits / --removenodigits
                                  To remove digits or not
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  lower
  upper

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No conductor? No problem at Prague Spring
Jan Lisiecki and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
© Prague Spring | Zdeněk Chrapek
By Frank Kuznik, 24 May 2019
Who needs a conductor, anyway? Obviously most serious orchestras do, not just to have direction from the podium, but to plan programming, develop repertoire, lead tours and generally serve as the public face of the organization. But if there is a case to be made for letting the musicians run the show, the New York-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra does it as well as anyone. Especially with a soloist like Jan Lisiecki. At the tender age of 24, the Canadian piano phenomenon already has a shelf full of prestigious awards – most with the notation "youngest winner ever" attached – and four albums on Deutsche Grammophon. The most recent is a Mendelssohn compilation recorded last year with the Orpheus, currently being showcased on a seven-city European tour that included a stop at Prague Spring.
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It's an ideal pairing. Lisiecki and the Orpheus musicians play in the same vein, with virtuoso-level skills and a feel for the music that borders on intuitive. Which is not to say they sound the same. Lisiecki has his own fully-formed, distinctive voice, while the orchestra serves up spirited interpretations with the richness and depth of an ensemble twice its size. But there is chemistry in the compatibility, and the overall effect is inspired, a rare and captivating combination of discipline and spontaneity.
This was in full gorgeous bloom on Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, which the orchestra imbued with uncommon fire and energy. Without losing any of the romantic contours or lyrical qualities of the piece, the players struck an upbeat tempo and level of intensity that never wavered, setting the pace for a colorful, exhilarating ride.
In contrast to the orchestra's formal look and professional demeanor, Lisiecki came onstage looking like a slightly disheveled teenager who just got off a skateboard. But once he started playing, he showed a breathtaking mastery of the keyboard, gliding through complex passages with dazzling speed and a remarkably soft touch. Much has been made of Lisiecki's preternatural maturity, but at least on this occasion, it was his youthful enthusiasm that stood out, brightening the music and lending it another dimension. And throughout the entire piece he maintained a lively, sparkling dialogue with the orchestra that benefited from not having an intermediary.
The program opened with the European premiere of Records from a Vanishing City, a brief tone poem by New York violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery. Orpheus regularly commissions new work, especially from minorities, and this one reflects an upbringing in a musical melting pot, with echoes of American jazz, Caribbean dance music and traditional African songs. The piece is rich in references but never really develops any legs, floating through a textural haze. The orchestra gave it heft with fine attention to details.
And if there were any doubters left in the audience, the concluding piece, Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony, offered a convincing demonstration of what dedicated musicians can do without following a baton. Vivid, animated and razor-sharp, the symphony had an organic quality that typically takes years for a good orchestra to achieve, even with a practiced hand on the podium. For the Orpheus players, it comes as naturally as breathing.
"a rare and captivating combination of discipline and spontaneity"
Reviewed at Rudolfinum: Dvořák Hall, Prague on 21 May 2019
Montgomery, Records from a Vanishing City
Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.25
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Jan Lisiecki, Piano
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#define ORTC_TEST_USE_FIFO_LOGGING       (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_USE_TELNET_LOGGING     (true)
#define ORTC_TEST_USE_DEBUGGER_LOGGING   (false)

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#define ORTC_TEST_DO_ICE_GATHERER_TEST                    (false)
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#define ORTC_TEST_DO_DTLS_TRANSPORT_TEST                  (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_SRTP_TEST                            (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_SCTP_TRANSPORT_TEST                  (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_PACKET_TEST                      (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTCP_PACKET_TEST                     (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_LISTENER_TEST                    (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_RECEIVER_TEST                    (true)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_CHANNEL_TEST                     (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_CHANNEL_AUDIO_TEST               (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_CHANNEL_VIDEO_TEST               (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_SENDER_TEST                      (false)
#define ORTC_TEST_DO_RTP_MEDIA_STREAM_TRACK_TEST          (false)

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The Crown, Crying Wolf, Trains, Judgmental Maps
While my lifelong anglophilia has led me to study the lives and reigns of all the monarchs of England, I must confess that I have had little interest in anybody after Edward VII abdicated in the 1920s. I did not care about Charles and Di's marital problems any more than I care about Brad's and Angelina's -- I didn't know them, I wasn't planning to invite them to any dinner parties, so their ups and downs had no effect on my life.
I think that I really lost interest when monarchs in England became constitutionally powerless.
But The King's Speech a few years ago demonstrated to me that figureheads still play an important role in a nation that respects their office. And when talk-show appearances by John Lithgow (who plays Winston Churchill) and others showed that The Crown had every chance of being a serious television production with good acting, my wife and I decided to give it a try.
I'm not sure how much of the series is available now by download from Netflix -- perhaps all of it -- but we watched two episodes and I was blown away by Peter Morgan's excellent writing, the extremely high production values, and the rich and beautiful performances by an absolutely stellar cast.
Let me warn you now, however, about the problems with the soundtrack. The English accents are not a problem -- everyone is using the King's (or Queen's) English -- but John Lithgow is not the only one who thinks that mumbling is acceptable.
Usually, on Time-Warner Cable, I would switch on closed captioning, but if that's an option on Netflix I don't know how it's done. Also, backing up to hear a few lines again is also difficult, because when you try to go backward on a streaming video, you can't see where you're going so you don't know when to stop. We usually end up rewatching far more than we meant to.
The only alternative, then, is to push the sound up louder, in hopes of making out what they're saying the first time. That worked, most of the time (and let me point out that my hearing tests just fine, thanks; I'm not deaf yet).
What makes this particular streaming series sonically disastrous is that the music soundtrack is laid down as if the sound editor thought we were all coming to an outdoor concert in a park somewhere, and everything had to be amped up like a Bruce Springsteen or Kenny Chesney performance.
During the title sequence, the music keeps getting louder and louder and louder -- but if you turn down the volume until the sound is tolerable, you can't hear a word anybody is saying once the dialogue starts.
And periodically during each episode, whenever we're getting lovely scenery shots (and they are lovely), the music punishes us for daring to watch the show by blasting out mediocre, unmemorable music at five times the volume of the dialogue.
The gunfire in the shooting scenes (not war; ducks and pheasants) sounds better than the score.
There. I've now said the only bad thing there is to say about this wonderful production.
Unlike the leading HBO series, nobody has to be naked in a BBC production like this, which comes as a relief after Game of Thrones and Westworld. Yet the production values are, if anything, higher in The Crown.
I was unfamiliar with Claire Foy, who plays Princess, then Queen, Elizabeth -- she has done a lot of performing in shows I heard of but never saw. Playing Prince Philip is Matt Smith, whom I never watched in Dr. Who because he wasn't David Tennant. My loss, because both Smith and Foy give smart, nuanced performances.
Because the script is so good, the story is both wide and deep, so many other actors get to play memorable, important characters. Vanessa Kirby is gracefully tragic as Princess Margaret, in her impossible love for Peter Townsend (Ben Miles), the personal attendant to her father, King George VI.
Harriet Walter almost steals scenes from John Lithgow, playing Churchill's wife, Clementine; and Victoria Hamilton is rock solid as Elizabeth's mother, or the "Queen Mother" as she was called most of my life. Eileen Atkins, as Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, has a much smaller part, but it's a powerful one.
The heart of the first two episodes is, without question, Jared Harris as Elizabeth's father, King George VI. This is the same character played, much younger, by Colin Firth in The King's Speech, but now seen as he's dying (unbeknownst to him) of lung cancer.
Jared Harris's performance as the king is the key to understanding the modern British monarchy. He is a stickler about abiding by the constitution, which makes him head of state without any right to interfere in the actual government of the nation. He is informed of everything, and can ask any questions he wants, but cannot even attempt to influence decisions -- an almost unbearable situation, full of duties without powers.
But the real mastery of this actor -- and of Peter Morgan's script -- comes from the way he shows George VI to be a loving father, a compassionate leader, and a loyal friend. Because of him, it is easy to come to love all his family and those officials closest to him. He treats them with respect and affection -- but without ever crossing the social lines that confine modern English royalty.
Thus, when he dies (I'm giving away nothing here, because if he had never died, Queen Elizabeth II would still be Princess of Wales), we are as deeply moved as if we had lost a friend, and we completely believe both the outpouring of public grief at his death and the equal outpouring of love and goodwill by his subjects while he was still alive.
In fact, if there's one thing these scripts do, it's to show that there was a brief time -- the 1950s, my childhood -- when Englishpeople were unashamed to love their king, and to love the great Winston Churchill, even though his abilities were fading with old age when he became Prime Minister for the second time.
One of the major plots of the first two episodes is the way members of the cabinet -- who have far more influence and authority in the English system than the American cabinet does -- pressure Churchill's protégé, Anthony Eden, to find a way to get Winston Churchill to resign as Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader. In the English system, the head of government can be changed by decision of the party, because he is Prime Minister only because his party holds a commanding position in the House of Commons; if he resigns (or dies), his party still holds all those seats, so his successor as party leader must be invited by the monarch to form a government.
However, maneuvering to oust a party leader and Prime Minister is unseemly at best, especially when the maneuverer owes his career largely to the Prime Minister he's pushing out of the way. Such was Anthony Eden's awkward position, and while nobody raises their voice or has an American-style shouting confrontation with him, we are made to feel most keenly the disapproval of both King George VI and Winston Churchill himself.
The crowning moment of this plotline is when Churchill delivers his eulogy to George VI after his death. It is a gloriously perfect speech -- which shows us once again why Churchill was probably the last great speaker in English-speaking history. (Nobody comes close. Not Reagan. Not Obama. Not anybody. And, like Lincoln, he wrote all his own speeches, mostly because there was no better speechwriter alive.)
The cabinet listens to Churchill's speech in another room, on the radio, and at the end, it is clear that everyone who was touting Eden to replace Churchill was wrong. They could make up for his inattention to and neglectfulness of the details of government, but nobody could replace his ability to say to the people the words of their own hearts.
By the way, Anthony Eden is played by Jeremy Northam, who played the visiting singer in Gosford Park -- the two roles very different, but the standard of performance equally high.
There are other great moments -- and many times I couldn't help but wonder how much was based upon real anecdotes and stories from that era. When Princess Elizabeth is on safari in Kenya, as part of her Commonwealth tour, we see how inept Philip is at first, in meeting leaders from other cultures.
He tries to speak to them jocularly, as one Brit might speak to someone from the same school -- which is doomed to be misunderstood -- and there's a truly awful moment when he says to an extravagantly dressed African who is among those greeting the royals upon their arrival, "I like your hat." Whereupon Elizabeth tells him, "That's not a hat. It's a crown." It's obvious that Philip has offered an insult to someone who is, in terms of rank if not political power, his superior.
Yet Philip's awkwardness is redeemed when a rogue elephant comes between their party and the treehouse where they are staying while on safari. Some are ready to shoot the elephant, but Philip intervenes, drawing the elephant's anger and attention to himself, while someone else leads Princess Elizabeth to safety. It's a moment of genuine courage, showing that he had taken to heart King George's private admonition to Philip that his only job, now that he was married to Elizabeth, was to protect her and care for her.
It is impossible, in my opinion, to recommend this series more highly than it deserves. Binge-watch it, I suggest, between turkey bastings or Thanksgiving Friday shopping trips, or while munching leftover-turkey sandwiches. You really don't want to get to the end of this year without having added this magnificently written and performed story to your memory.
After Obama was elected in 2008, I refrained from writing anything critical of him for a couple of years. (Except, of course, for treating his unearned Nobel Peace Prize with the scorn it deserved -- but that was criticism of left-wing Norwegian toadies.)
President-elect Obama was treated as if he had already accomplished marvelous things; he never came close to living up to the hype.
Now, if you've been reading my column during the campaign, you know how little I loved Trump or his ideas or his treatment of other candidates. He represented to me everything that was wrong with the Republican Party, just as Hillary represented everything wrong with the Democratic Party.
Still, it's absurd for people to respond to his election as if Hitler had risen from the dead with worse hair. Just like Obama, Trump deserves a chance to show us who he is as president. (And have you noticed that the orange hair has gradually turned white, like an infusion of dignity?)
Contrary to the expectations of some of Trump's stupider fans, he cannot stride into Washington, sweep away Congress, appoint an all-new Supreme Court, and do away with everything people didn't like about Obama.
Some of the things Obama did will take years or decades to undo -- like destroying American credibility with anyone who might want to cooperate with us in other countries, and apologizing for all our most important achievements.
Only the steady pursuit of rational policies can restore our credibility -- and that includes not abrogating our international agreements. One of Obama's most disastrous mistakes was treating our allies with contempt while bowing to our enemies. It did not make our enemies love us, but it did shatter our allies' trust in our steadiness.
But Trump will do us no favors if he "remedies" Obama's oath-breaking precedent by breaking a whole new set of international promises. The world should not come to believe that America's promises are good only until the next election.
When parents and teachers have deliberately terrified their children about Trump, while white-washing the equally (at least) contemptible Hillary, to the point where some children cried or had nightmares after the election, they have done a great disservice to America. It is important for citizens to know how to cope rationally with electoral defeat.
It is also important for citizens not to gloat in victory: Several former friends lost my last dregs of respect because of their childish statements to and about voters who were dismayed at Trump's victory.
Perhaps the best expression of what a reasonable attitude should be came from an essay by Scott Alexander at Slate Star Codex on 16 November. He points out that because the Left automatically calls any Republican racist and sexist for any policy, no matter how rational, those epithets have become so cheap that nobody cared much when they were applied to Trump.
In fact, Alexander actually looks at facts to point out that Trump doesn't deserve those epithets, either. At least not yet! And because they've been overused, nobody will pay attention when and if he ever does deserve them. The constant screaming hysteria of the Left -- in or out of election years -- does their own cause no good, and in the long run harms us all:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/
I'm sure you've all noticed how late the fall colors were this year. Of course, they always seem late to me, because my first experience with fall colors was in Utah at an elevation of 3500 feet and at the latitude of Philadelphia.
I grew up in California and Arizona, where autumn meant little more than relief from the worst of the summer heat. The saguaro cactuses near Mesa, Arizona, did not drop colorful needles in the fall.
So it was only when my family moved to Orem, Utah, when I was fifteen that autumn became real. The colors were never as vivid and varied as the autumn colors here in North Carolina, but because the climate is so arid, the leaves all crunch deliciously underfoot. Our limp, damp leaves -- even in La Niña semi-drought conditions, like now -- just lie there, mostly.
But there are far more leaves than in the high deserts of the Great Basin, so what our fallen leaves lack in crunch they make up for in the swish swish swish when you walk through them.
Autumn colors start appearing on the Wasatch Mountains in Utah rather early in September, most years, and along the streets of the towns by the end of that month. Usually.
So I'm always impatient with our leaves here, because the whole of September usually passes without a single leaf turning.
Still, by mid-October you expect the colors to begin. So when we signed up for the Virginia Autumn Special train excursion from Greensboro to Charlottesville on 29 October, we figured that we'd see vivid autumn colors the whole way.
Nope. Not this dry, overly warm autumn. A few trees were shyly offering a bit of color here and there, but even in Charlottesville itself, there were hardly any autumn leaves to be seen, either on the trees or on the ground.
What mattered to me was the train itself. We had a small room in a private car, owned by an individual who was riding with his train car. We were in a room with no fixed furniture; there were several comfortable chairs and a table.
Since all the cars on this special train were chosen because they were old-fashioned, there was only one electric outlet in our room -- in the tiny bathroom. But the steward came up with an extension cord, and I was able to use my computer during the trip. I was grateful for that, because I did not have time for such a pleasure trip unless I worked at least part of the way, since I was already past deadline for a book I should have finished last February.
My wife and I conversed at times, and at other times I wrote pleasant sci-fi lies while she read less-pleasant journalistic lies; both of us immersed in fiction, though I freely declare that I make mine up, while journalists are generally less candid.
In Charlottesville, as in most American towns, the railroad station is at a fairly low elevation, which, in hilly country, is where you are likeliest to find enough flat ground to lay multiple tracks for a switching yard. From the station, it was a pleasant, though mostly uphill, walk before we came to the downtown mall.
We were pleasantly surprised by the fact that Charlottesville's downtown mall actually works. I had very keen memories of an equally ambitious and nostalgic undertaking in Sacramento, California, which had obviously failed: When the storefronts are mostly pawnshops, nail parlors, notaries public, and for lease signs, you know a shopping center is not dying. It is dead.
The other sign of a dead shopping district is that its selection of stores is indistinguishable from any suburban mall. When the Gap, Old Navy, and Anthropologie take up most of the store frontage of a noted shopping district, and all the old, unique, interesting shops are gone, then there's no particular reason ever to return. This is the fate that has befallen Georgetown in DC and the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Almost everything that made them a pleasure to visit is gone, so why bother?
Charlottesville's lovely downtown mall is still very much alive, and on that warm Saturday in autumn, it wasn't just a trainload of tourists who crowded the shops. There were many, many locals -- families, students -- dining at the many restaurants and browsing the stores, which were not big national chains.
I must say, however, that my favorite find was The Juice Place, an organic, vegan juicery that was forgiving of my rejection of their vegetable-heavy menu; they let me assemble my own smoothie from fruits they had for other drinks. (The best thing was that they had papaya, which Jamba Juice never carries, partly, I imagine, because papaya isn't ripe enough to taste good until the outside rind looks disgustingly old and, often, moldy.)
They do not use ice in their smoothies, which made them taste just right -- all you are getting is the fruit. I enjoyed it so much that I rather regretted having filled up at a Mexican (actually, Yucatan) restaurant we encountered on the way. That was good food, but I would rather have had a second or perhaps third smoothie at The Juice Place.
In my current old, overweight body, I had pretty much spent myself getting to the Downtown Mall. That's why my wife and I took the plunge and, using the app already installed on her phone, called for an Uber car to come and pick us up.
Our driver arrived in about three minutes and we got to the train station with plenty of time to spare -- and with my hips and feet not in agony from too much unaccustomed exercise.
After years of suffering from Greensboro's utter lack of a prompt, efficient cab service (we gave up when cabs from the airport started forcing passengers to share rides with strangers), I was glad to be able to take part in the social experiment represented by Uber. Our experience was flawless and affordable, our driver a pleasant gentleman from Africa whose real vocation was as a minister.
In Greensboro, I know an Uber driver who is a wonderful wildlife artist, and another who is a literature professor from Africa (who has learned that American universities don't want African history and literature to be taught by actual Africans who know what they're talking about). My impression is that Uber provides a way for hardworking but under-employed people to make an honest living providing a much-needed service -- though Greensboro drivers often have to go to Raleigh or Charlotte to get enough passengers.
We returned to Greensboro by train, with the clickety-clack and swing and sway of the railroad. Having ridden on trains in England, Ireland, and France, I know what good train service looks like -- with well-maintained tracks so that clickety-sway is held to a minimum. There are other aspects of American train travel that have much room for improvement -- the foremost being the apparent inability of trains to provide food that rises to the standard set by airplanes, taco trucks, airports, and Manhattan pretzel carts.
The source of many problems with railroads as a serious means of long-distant travel is, alas, an insoluble one: The narrow gauge of American tracks, which are four feet, eight-and-a-half inches wide. Most of Europe is on the same standard, though a few places have somewhat wider gauges.
The reason this is a problem is that you can only make train cars so much wider than the axles. The wider the car, the more it will rock to and fro, and the less manageable it is on curves. Height is also limited by the width of the wheel sets.
This means that train cars remain too small for modern Americans. It's not just that, as a people, we're fatter (meaning that far fewer of us are constantly on the verge of starvation); we're also taller. In sleeper cars, normal-height Americans rarely have room to stretch out fully. The laughably small bathrooms do not allow enough room for grownups to do any of the things that bathrooms are meant for.
Corridors and aisles are usually too narrow for normal-size people to pass, yet are so wide they serious intrude into the space that is needed for rooms and seats to be comfortable. And there is no room for a reasonable-size kitchen, so food on a train is forced into a pattern of mediocrity that makes a long trip seem unpleasant.
Amtrak needs to realize that their competition is not airplanes but cruise ships. Trains can't compete with planes for speed, and it's pointless to try. Trains must offer pleasure, as cruise ships do. After all, trains offer windows that let you see the passing scenery instead of clouds -- even if, approaching towns, you often see each city at its worst. They give you time for conversation, for reading, for rest.
Cruise ships, of course, offer little in the way of scenery, since the ocean in one place is very similar to the ocean everywhere else. (This is not true to sailors; but to cruise ship passengers, I dare say the main difference is the degree of wind and choppiness.) So cruise ships offer amusements, room to walk about, and vast quantities of brilliant food, or so I'm told.
If trains have plenty of electric outlets -- I'd say two per seat is the minimum, including in the dining cars -- we can bring our own entertainment screens with us, especially if the trains also offered reliable wi-fi internet connections, as airplanes now do.
But the food, now. That's a problem ... and it shouldn't be. If airplanes can be restocked with edible meals (and yes, they are generally edible these days) at every airport, why can't trains?
Or -- and this may be the better alternative anyway -- train trips should be able to be arranged with overnight stops in major cities. Our excursion to Charlottesville, where we found far-better-than-the-train food, demonstrates the idea.
I would happily cross the country by train instead of airplane, if the in-the-room bathrooms were six inches larger in every direction, including the door; if the beds were long enough for a person of normal height -- like my six feet two inches -- to lie down; and if every few days, you could debark the train, go to a good hotel in a major city -- or even Little Rock or Cheyenne -- and sleep in a real bed and have a real shower and eat a real meal. If the hotels could also pack a few first-rate meals for the next day's train, I'd be content.
It could be done, so that a rail trip across America could be much closer to the experience that travelers used to have crossing the ocean on a major ocean liner, before jets were able to get from New York to London or Paris without refueling stops in Maine, Iceland, and Ireland.
Trains have one virtue that airplanes don't have: Trains don't take off and land. Even cruise ships are on water, so that with planes and ships, accidents can put passengers in unsurvivable danger. Trains can crash, just like cars -- but if you live through the initial impact, you don't have to swim for your life or wish for a parachute. There have been few train crashes with no survivors, and a mechanical breakdown in a train means you park for a while and arrive late, rather than dying when your plane plummets out of the sky.
So yes, the fundamental nature of land-bound travel offers an alternative that many of us would appreciate -- if passenger trains aspired to offer services comparable to those on a cruise ship.
What about cost? Well, yes ... out the wazoo, of course. But so was plane travel, until deregulation and the hub system made rational scheduling economically feasible. If train service were better, even if more expensive, more and more people would choose to do it, and the economies of scale would come into play.
After all, we've seen enormously long freight trains. Passenger trains could be much longer than they are without losing much speed, if there were enough passengers. And maybe those long trains could include kitchens worth cooking in, and perhaps video and pinball arcades, and even a car where standup comedians could do a few sets a day in very narrow venues. Cruise ships have shows; why not trains?
With trains, we could take a pleasure trip that also had a real destination instead of making a loop, and if we can get work done along the way on our computers and phones, a longer transit of the country doesn't have to mean a waste of time or a loss of income.
It's all just a dream -- the existence of Amtrak is also a miracle, because in its present incarnation it exists by act of Congress and public subsidies. But I think real cross-country trains could pay for themselves. And our lovely trip to Charlottesville to see not-yet-ready autumn colors offers proof-of concept. People will pay ridiculously high prices for an enjoyable experience.
One dream of mine, however, died on that trip. When I was told that the cost of buying a private train car was upwards of a quarter of a million dollars, I realized that it's like a beach house. In order to buy one large enough to be useful, it either has to become your primary or only residence -- or you have to rent it out to strangers, with all the upkeep problems that involves. (Unless you're fabulously wealthy.)
So buying and fixing up a rail car as a home-away-from-home while traveling is just one more of those things that I will never do. But riding in somebody else's private train car, rented or chartered, is more like renting somebody else's beach house or chartering a boat -- it's expensive, but as a one-time cost, it doesn't keep draining the family coffers.
I'm not a "railroad guy." I do know the names of many railroads, even ones that aren't in Monopoly, but I really don't much care about the differences between various kinds of locomotives apart from whether they're steam, diesel, or electric.
But I do love trains -- and riding on trains, and standing about in railyards watching trains come and go. We did that several times when I was little, because in the 1950s Americans still traveled by train -- a lot. Freeways were not yet widespread, and propeller-driven airplanes flew lower, were terrifyingly bouncy and turbulent, and cost relatively more than now, so trains were, for most people on long trips, the most cost-effective and comfortable way to travel.
(Cars are now so fuel-efficient that the fuel cost of train travel is not much less than car travel, per passenger mile.)
I remember standing beside a steam locomotive -- yes, they were still in use -- and seeing the mechanism work as a train started pulling out of the station; I remember the hissing of brake lines and the screeching of metal wheels on metal rails, and the delicious excitement of making that giant step up from the platform into the car.
I still feel it, even now.
And with Uber or Lyft waiting at the end of your trip, you can travel by train and not wish you had your car with you.
Judgmental Maps is a wonderfully funny atlas of major American cities, but instead of marking out street and borough names, it lists truthful but insulting characterizations of various neighborhoods.
On the cover it sets the tone of the book by showing a judgmental map of the whole country.
Some of the "geographical" titles are merely humorous -- over Maine, it says, "No, still not in Canada," and all it says over the broad expanse of Montana is "Two Jews and one gay guy." Miami is labeled "More Cuba than Cuba," and off the coast of South Carolina is says, "Drunks on Jet Skis."
Eastern Idaho is labeled, "Northern Mormons" -- absolutely true -- but the Salt Lake City area is tagged, "Guns guns guns." Also true. (Are there other states besides Utah where the autumn deer hunt is a school holiday?)
It gets meaner -- and truer. The LA area says, "Broken dreams and busted boob jobs"; over southeastern Missouri the label is: "Your flight had to land here."
New York City is called, "The city that never sleeps ... with the same person twice." While Philadelphia is sweetly labeled, "Still proud of Rocky."
Inside the book, there are all kinds of city maps -- every one of them showing a city larger, or at least more famous, than Greensboro.
You have to realize that Greensboro is not famous when almost everybody you know who is not from Greensboro assumes that Greensboro is in South Carolina, because South Carolina is the only Carolina that most people outside the Carolinas have ever heard of.
(And no, they don't remember that the Woolworth's sit-in took place in Greensboro; in fact, few people in the younger generation have any idea there ever was a Woolworth's sit-in. So before you ask, you may rest assured that not one person will ever visit Greensboro for the purpose of seeing the Woolworth's where history was made. Greensboro is where a historical footnote was made. That's a shame, but it's the truth.)
Here's the weakness of this book: Each map is only funny to the degree that you really know the particular city it satirizes. Since the labels come from suggestions by people who really live in those cities, they are presumably true or at least amusing; but if you don't know the city, it's just a bunch of labels.
In fact, if you don't know the street map of the city well, you can't even tell what neighborhoods the labels refer to, because only the Interstates are clearly labeled. No streets are named, so you can easily lose track of where you are.
Now, there are a few cities that I know well enough to be amused -- and to judge whether the judgmental maps are truthful. Those cities include Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah -- and I have the college degrees to prove it -- Los Angeles and Silicon Valley in California, Washington DC, northern Virginia along Route 7, South Bend IN, and Manhattan.
But come on, Reno gets a map and Salt Lake City doesn't? Raleigh is the only North Carolina city with a map at http://judgmentalmaps.com/findyourcity ?
Not a problem, really. For one thing, these maps are designed to really get under some people's skin, so maybe it's a mercy to be left out. And for another thing, if I feel so strongly about it, why don't I create my own map and submit it?
That's right -- on the website, many or most of the city maps are created by visitors to the site, who submit them and then wait with bated breath to see if their map makes the cut. There are even instructions on how to create and submit a map.
Meanwhile, though, you can buy the book. I've already given it as a gift once, to somebody whose sense of humor I gauged, I think correctly, as "likely to be amused."
And even if you don't know a city like, say, New Orleans all that well, it's still funny to see labels like "Ugliest part of city," "Scary place," "It's safe here," "Overpriced," "Ships and stuff," "Like Challmette but cleaner," and to see "Jail," "Culture," and "Investments" in close proximity.
And at the southeast corner, the simple label, "Too far."
If these sound funny or at least amusing, buy the book and/or visit the website.
And once you and your friends are familiar with the concept of judgmental maps, a fun party activity would be to open up a map of a town like -- oh, let's say Greensboro -- and write judgmental labels on Post-its and stick them to the map.
You'll either have a great time, or come to blows. Either way: Memorable party.
For those whose Christmas plans include giving someone a signed copy of one or more of my books, our local Barnes & Noble in Friendly Center is once again offering a selection of books that I will sign and personalize in time for the book(s) to be sent out before Christmas.
The orders need to come in by email. Then every Monday before Christmas, I'll come by the store, sign all the books ordered the past week, and B&N will either ship them out to the address you provided, or hold them for in-store pickup.
Shipping costs a little extra, but if you're picking up your book(s) there's no charge. My signature is free.
The best way to place your order is by emailing the store at crm2795@bn.com. Tell them the titles you want, the names of the people they are to be signed to, and the address to which the books should be shipped after signing. By using email, we can be sure all the spellings are as you want them.
Include your phone number, too, because a store employee will call you for payment information -- we don't want you to put such info in an email.
The books on offer will be hardcovers and trade paperbacks of the Pathfinder series, the Mithermages series (e.g., The Lost Gate), Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and The Swarm, along with Enchantment and Magic Street. These are the books Barnes & Noble will have in stock in the local store.
(This offer is from our local Barnes & Noble only. The national chain and the Barnes & Noble website have nothing to do with this, and won't know what you're talking about if you try to participate through them.)


Over this weekend, antisemitic messages, including 'Leave Canada,' were spray-painted on a synagogue in Alberta, Canada.
The messages were found Saturday, Jan. 24, on the side of the Beth Israel Synagogue, located in the Oleskiw neighborhood of West Edmonton.
Police said the building was tagged in purple paint using block letters approximately one foot in size, reported the Global News of Canada.
"A number of the congregants were quite distraught, having seen the graffiti on their way into the synagogue. They alerted me to it and, of course, I was shocked and devastated as well," said Rabbi Daniel Friedman.
"No organization, establishment or individual should be victim to this type of crime. We are actively working with the synagogue and community partners to bring resolution to this incident," said Cst. Daniel Woodall with the Edmonton Police Service Hate Crime Detail.
A nearby Sikh place of worship had similar noxious graffiti scrawled on its wall last week.
And if they go home to Israel, the people will yell about them stealing land..
Don't leave and give in to the stupid s that painted those words, instead stay and get larger and more visible…..let those that paint with no merit or the balls to tell you to your faces to leave…..
Canadian Jews time to go home. Its your calling.
jews will be persecuted more and more in every single country and they will start returning to israel in droves this is just the beginning.
What you want from country, who take Ukraine Bandera nazies, who killed more than million Jews, Polaks, Ukranians, after WWII. This is became more and more nazi country.
Don't these anti-Semites realize that they are encouraging Aliyah to Israel??
Get a weapon, guns are preferred, and defend yourselves…Canada has invited the enemy into the country as have the mindless 'liberal/progressives' elsewhere and including the US…defend yourselves from this evil enemy or die. Nothing good has ever come out of islam and it is just as described by Sir Winston Churchill: "…islam in a human is as bad as rabies in dogs!" And as we all know here, any attack that doesn't kill us only goes to make us stronger.
And as Jews flock to Israel by the thousands, more homes must be found for them, thereby causing more displacement of those who have illegally built, and more resentment and anger. One would almost think it a deliberate plan to focus international bias against Israel.
There are many Ukrainians who live in Western Canada. These people are the most anti semitic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth. They are most probably the guilty ones who committed this atrocity.
So sad….we're right back in the early 1930s. How very sad.
BUT the good news is…..GOD WILL SOON CLEAN HOUSE.
well now..The Jewish families that were threatened by these hideos words have been here longer than those ungrateful immigrants from the middle east so I say to them, you leave Canada..you go back to where you came from..I hope they find you and deport you to an island somewhere with no water..and some pigs..
All western nations were peaceful and giving until muslims moved in. Every other ethnicity immigrated to western countries and fit in well with no issues. But these bastards cause trouble worldwide. Then they have the nerve to say they are the victims. Don't let them lay a guilt trip on you. We've been far more tolerant than they deserve and they took advantage of our kindness. No more.
Jackie Rozell No, its really the Big Guys plan to expand Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.


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Toray & UNIQLO announce the joint development for Clothing Made from Recycled Down and Fabric Made with Polyester Fibres from Recycled Plastic Bottles
September 16, 2019, London, U.K. - On the occasion of the LifeWear Day consumer exhibition taking place this year in London, Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO and Toray Industries today announce the joint development of down clothing employing reclaimed down and DRY-EX apparel incorporating fabric from polyester fibres made with recycled PET bottles. This new initiative, part of a longstanding strategic partnership between the two companies, will contribute to sustainability by giving consumers access to merchandise that optimises the use of valuable resources.
Commenting on today's announcement, Tadashi Yanai, UNIQLO Founder and Chairman, President & CEO of Fast Retailing, said, "UNIQLO is committed to improving the sustainability of society. To this end, we will soon begin our new initiative with Toray that promotes the use of recycled materials. Through such an important partnership, we can continue to offer high-performance, high-quality, and sustainable clothing to all customers around the world." Akihiro Nikkaku, President of Toray Industries, Inc., said, "At Toray we challenge ourselves to find solutions to global social issues with our belief that "materials can change our lives". By promoting businesses that contribute to sustainability together with our strategic partner UNIQLO, we aim to create new value and realise a prosperous society through LifeWear."
New items made from recycled down
UNIQLO stores will collect used Ultra Light Down items from customers. A new Toray-developed system will extract material from Ultra Light Down pieces, to be cleansed for use in new down merchandise. Collections* will start later in September this year initially only in Japan, and some down products from the 2020 Fall/Winter season will employ this recycled material.
Conventionally, the stuffing in duvets and other objects incorporating down is manually removed. Such processes are arduous with Ultra Light Down items because of their thin shells and complex construction. By developing special extraction machinery, Toray has fully automated cutting, stirring and separating, and recovery, for 50-fold the process capacity of manual processes, thus greatly alleviating workloads.
New DRY-EX pieces incorporating polyester from recycled PET bottles
DRY-EX is a revolutionary material that quickly wicks away sweat and moisture. From 2020 Spring/Summer UNIQLO will begin to introduce DRY-EX items of clothing that incorporate high-value-added polyester fibres derived from reclaimed PET bottles.
This is a milestone because, while fibres made from reclaimed plastic bottles have been commercially available for some time, it has been hard to produce fibres featuring special cross-sections and fine fibres, owing to contaminants in PET bottles. Another challenge to address has been that plastic bottles yellow as they age.
Toray's contaminant filtering technology overcomes these issues, making it possible to manufacture fibres whose features are commensurate with those of fibres from plastic made directly from petrochemical feedstock, including those with special cross-sections. Another advance is Toray's Recycling Identification System, which enhances reliability by ensuring that fibres derived from plastic bottles are traceable.
UNIQLO and Toray will keep leveraging their strengths to foster sustainable social progress.


Rather than have both strict floating-point semantics (strictfp) and subtly different default floating-point semantics in the language and VM, make floating-point operations consistently strict. This would restore the original floating-point semantics to the language and VM, matching the semantics before the introduction of strict and default floating-point modes in Java SE 1.2.
Having a consistent set of floating-point semantics will ease development of numerically-sensitive libraries, including java.lang.Math and java.lang.StrictMath, and provide more regularity in a tricky aspect of the platform.
Defining any sort of "fast-fp" or "loose-fp" (c.f. JSR 84: Floating Point Extensions) is out of scope for this JEP.
The impetus for changing the default floating-point semantics of the platform in the late 1990's stemmed from a bad interaction between the original Java language and JVM semantics and some unfortunate peculiarities of the x87 floating-point co-processor instruction set of the popular x86 architecture. Matching the exact floating-point semantics in all cases, including subnormal operands and results, required large overheads of additional instructions. Matching the results in the absence of overflow or underflow could be achieved with much less overhead and that is roughly what is allowed by the revised default floating-point semantics introduced in Java SE 1.2.
However, the SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2) extensions, shipped in Pentium 4 and later processors starting circa 2001, could support strict JVM floating-point operations in a straightforward manner without undue overhead.
Since Intel and AMD have both long supported SSE2 and later extensions which allow natural support for strict floating-point semantics, the technical motivation for having a default floating-point semantics different than strict is no longer present.
The interfaces this JEP would modify include the Java Language Specification in its coverage of floating-point values (see JLS 8th edition section 4.2.3 Floating-Point Types, Formats, and Values and section 15.4 FP-strict Expressions) and similar sections of the Java Virtual Machine Specification (see JVMS 8th edition section 2.3.2 Floating-Point Types, Values Sets, and Values, section 2.8.2 Floating-Point Modes, and section 2.8.3 Value Set Conversion). Most of the implementation changes in the JDK would be to the HotSpot virtual machine to never run in a floating-point mode which allowed the extended exponent value set; such a mode is mandated to be present for 'strictfp` operations.
All existing numerical tests would remain valid with this change since this change always uses one of the currently allowable modes of operation.
Existing Java source tests using strictfp could be replicated without the modifier.
The proposed specification changes are low-risk. The platform's original semantics are restored and strict-only was always an allowable implementation option.


The evocative village of Dolceacqua proposes like every year "Music underneath the Castle", from 5th August to 12th August 2006, an event organized by Club Tenco and directed by Roberto Coggiola.
Doria's Castle will be once more the background of great italian music concerts.
It all starts Saturday 5th August 2006 with Mimmo Locasciulli & Greg Cohen, (h: 09.30 p.m., ticket price 15 €).
Wednsday 9th August 2006 there will be Mauro Paganini, a great homage to the author's music, (entry 15 €).
Saturday 12th August 2006 last appointment with Ivano Fossati (first sector tickets 32 €, second sector tickets 25 €).
Wednsday 2nd August 2006 Opera's Great Gala.
Saturday 19th August 2006 fireworks show.
For more info IAT Dolceacqua phone no. 0184/206666.