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Inspirational Lunch
STJanuary 14, 2008activism, Awesome Stuff, Change, Community, Consumerism, Economics, Education, Environment, Ethics, Gender, God, History, Love, Polemics, poverty, Power, Privilege, Race, Young Folks
I had a great lunch conversation with two young white men today who are feeling the pressure to "produce and provide" and are looking for alternatives to succumbing to this stereotype and just joining the corporate project. After lunch, I wrote this:
As I think about our conversation more in the understanding of my daily work at a social services agency in town, I am reminded on the necessity to invite anyone and everyone with whatever ethnicity or background (age, sexuality, religion, political persuasion) to participate in the work of healing (and radical positive social change and happiness creation) in our society. There is enough pain to go around. Everyone can have a hand in creating peace. I think a place like where I work, is where push comes to shove, and the realization that we can't find enough people (of ANY race, class or gender) to facilitate the creation of a new society, and not enough people to persuade others to stop beating each other in inter familial violence). It feels desperate.
There were some black people back during the time of emancipation, who didn't want to participate in the mainstream US society, and they opted to farm somewhere and live in peace with their indigenous neighbors. Just a random thought about what it would look like if instead of clamoring to be just like white people (when I say white here, i mean the white people that southern black folks encountered…rich, conservative, separatist, tea parties, cult of true womanhood, Victorian, etc) and be accepted into their culture and politics, we searched the alternatives that our indigenous (to Africa) pasts gave us. but we didn't for the most part.
I see that in our communities still today, we've eaten everything that white supremacy had to offer. Militarism, racism, and materialism (Sound familiar? Those are the 3 evils Dr. King talked about in one of his important speeches). The lure of power that whites had appears to be too strong to resist by many poor whites and blacks. I think materialism is the clearest example of the places Black people tend to be way overboard in comparison to your average white person. It will present a dilemma. It has presented a dilemma and created a culture of aggressiveness, bling, and power (real or imagined).
But there are black people who questioned and continue to question the system, just as some white people did and continue to do. So we need to get those black and white people together. That's the question I leave with today, from lunch.
How can we create a new type of culture which benefits all and has the flexible institutions necessary to recognize diverse historic backgrounds, and has sets of values that explain and facilitate that peace and justice we so desire? This is why I'm a transnational radical black feminist and it's also why I'm a spiritual person. The creation of any society (or even a small community of this sort) will need to embody feminist and spiritual values of safety, ethics, conflict resolution, play, education, politics, and cycle of life understandings.
TimN January 16, 2008 at 2:10 am
ST, I think you've named a central question for those of us who are trying to find alternatives to the "produce and provide" scenario that you are describing. I'm facing some of these questions right now in career choices. There are some many pressures to focus on providing financial security.
I think you're also right to frame this as a spiritual question. As you point out, there's a bit of a chicken and an egg problem. The rat race is so seductive, that in order to get outside of it, we've got to surround ourselves with a completely different culture. For me, spirituality is that it has everything to do with building that alternative culture where we can make choices based on a completely different set of values.
This actually begins to lead into answering the question that was asked by Folknotions in the Transformationist Anabaptist thread. I see Anabaptism as calling us to noncomformity with the powers of domination and greed that shape so much of our society and our world. Maybe I'll write more on this in that thread tomorrow.
somasoul January 16, 2008 at 4:42 pm
As neither a black woman, nor a feminist, nor someone seeking to identify with or understand diverse historic backgrounds I can see where you are coming from.
I too want to get rid of the rat race. But not in order to bring about vast social change or any other such thing. I simply want to get out of it because it sucks all the life from you. You become a slave to your job, to your employer, to the bills you have to pay that come monthly, and to interest rates that make products more expensive then they really are.
Society, whether black or white, seems to want:
The appearance of monetary wealth.
The Christian needs to look at these things and find the Godliness in what prompts these desires:
Instead of power; servanthood. (Is that a word? Who cares.)
Instead of sex; mature relationships.
Instead of the appearance of wealth (keeping up with the Joneses); Monetary stability……food in the storehouse you might say.
If you, if we, get our shi….stuff straight and keep it straight, if we do it as a whole, vast social change follows because we alter the fabric of cultural worldviews.
But if you crave power; political power to end racism; monetary power to keep corporations in check…….
If you want sex with a stable partner, not mature relationships…….
If you want to keep pace with Joneses even with organic free-trade goods…
You won't change anything.
The world ain't changed by more of the same; even in the name of the greater good.
NicoleB January 16, 2008 at 5:17 pm
these are such great questions, ST, questions which i am also encountering and pondering in my work with homeless families.
this social transformation, this new culture of which you speak, is imperative, and needs to be grown with the inclusion of these homeless folks i am learning to know. this is the piece i am struggling with in a new way… what does it mean to throw out the priorities of production and provision when simple survival is a family's primary concern? when poverty becomes as chronic and generational as it does (and i think these cycles are becoming more entrenched all the time, especially as the job market dwindles to next to nothing, etc.), what creative and collaborative steps can we take to break these cycles and create functioning communities that challenge the current dominant social order?
unless we can answer these questions in a way that invites homeless people – people living in chronic poverty – into our visions, we have failed to offer anything new. we have only created another layer of privilege, of disconnect.
lukelm January 17, 2008 at 12:44 am
This is a great post ST. I'm currently studying and entering a professional world (medicine) where the culture is so soaked in materialism/cult of wealth/position/power that I find myself having a hard time sensing where exactly my calling is. (I still believe – and know from many living examples – that the true core of medicine still exists and is still strong, the serving and self-giving and human relating and using science/knowledge to give to others.) But it's a really sticky thing. I long for authentic community, creative community, and escaping the spiritual untruths of materialism, yet at this point I don't think I can ever really have it either/or.Instead I feel that my career/lifestyle will be a tougher game that involves living in a lot of the grey zone between what is seductive but empty about our culture and what is life-giving and true. Some of this is kind of practical – as in, I'm studying medicine, and it's hard to find time to seek out counter-cultural community – and part might be a kind of late-twenties lapse of idealism and (maybe) compromise with the world.
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TimN January 17, 2008 at 8:09 pm
lukelm January 17, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Hi somasoul and others,
I think the sexuality part of this thread has a lot of rich potential and I'd like to pursue the conversation – however (as somasoul brought up) it is a digression from her topic – so I'm copying the relevant quotes into a new topic thread to discuss there.
– L
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folknotions January 17, 2008 at 9:49 pm
ST,
I essentially agree with your point; I take issue with your argument on semantic points.
While you define what you mean by "white" in the context of your post, I think your use of the term collapses in on itself at this point:
The lure of power that whites had appears to be too strong to resist by many poor whites and blacks.
If the power that "whites" have is too strong for "poor whites" to resist, then the question follows: is "white" necessarily the term to be used to define the phenomena of militarism, consumerism, and racism? Surely, in an American context, whites played a significant role in the development of each of these. But I don't think that these are inherently "white" phenomena simply because they can be pinned on "whites" in an American context. Once again, I argue in my post "In the Shadow of Classist Ethnocentrism", that the polemics against whites, America, Christendom, and White American Christendom within the context you are describing, in and of themselves issue forth from an assumption of innocence on behalf of the rest of the world and total guilt on behalf of "whites", demonstrating a lack of a global worldview when addressing these issues. Certainly there is no "white" who spurred Tutsi and Hutu hatred; surely there is no "white" in control of Sudanese Arab genocide against black Africans.
Please give me a better sense of what you are designating here before placing all blame for the sins of greed, violence, and pride on white American Christians alone.
lukelm January 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Folknotions,
I think you raise a good challenge here. But I'd like to raise another semantic point about the designation "white" that might lead us back to using the term more as ST does. I'd argue that in out American historical context, "whiteness" didn't mean anything except "that which those who have power choose to define as racially/ethnically normative" – in other words, a designation with shifting boundaries depending on coalitions of power. Thus, some European ethnic groups were able to move between being non-whites to becoming considered whites. So as far as we believe white to designate a certain group of people in this country (which it does), then you're right to challenge the notion that whites have an special place in materialism and culture of power. But if whiteness is also this term intimately tied with the very evolution of the culture of power in this country (which it also is), then I think ST is right in sticking to her guns on this.
In thinking about this, here's a question: is there something about the experience of being outside the norms of the negative culture of power (being white, being straight, being male) that intrinsically makes it easier to work toward a new culture? Does it make sense to look to those other communities – black, latino, Native American, feminist, queer – for strength and vision about what new cultures might look like? Or, the flip side, alluded to in ST's post: is there also something about being not white, not straight, not male, that might make one more susceptible to the values of the culture of power – maybe a kind of over-compensation – by grasping even more desperately after materialism, militarism – even racism?
I think that both answers are true, and maybe even both can be true within the same individual at the same time. Being outside the mainstream gives one a unique perspective, an understanding of suffering, and insight into the injustices and inhumanity of the system – but one also has to learn to survive within the system, so one can feel bound to playing the games of power, of materialism, even better than everyone else, to prove one's place.
SteveK January 17, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Great post, ST.
About ten years ago the Lord led me to get out of the "produce and provide" model you mentioned. Rather, I began a ministry for the homeless by making my family and myself homeless, using what resources we had–without a job and without asking for any support from anyone– to serve the homeless. After ten years of living on this philosophy, we are able to feed a hundred or so people a week, and have a church that has four meetings a week for the homeless and mentally ill in various parts of Portland.
It seems to me that there was some famous guy who talked about the "produce and provide" model. Something about "be not anxious", "look at the birds of the air", "don't fret about what you will eat or wear" and "tomorrow will worry about itself."
I think that if enough people can show that "dropping out" and depending on God is a viable lifestyle, then more people will do it, and, heck, we'll have a movement!
Steve K
Jason January 18, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I agree with you that a global worldview is important when addressing these questions. I gathered a number of understandings from ST's post which it seems we may differ on. I'll focus on the race point in hopes to be clear.
In relation to your comment — "I don't think that these are inherently "white" phenomena simply because they can be pinned on "whites" in an American context." — I agree that whites don't have a monopoly on oppression (especially when we look at a long historical view).
But when it comes to forces in the past 1000 years that have shaped violence, oppression and materialism, I have to admit that people of European descent have taken a heck of a leading role.
(Not trying to be cute here, but impact of white colonial rule on African nations should not be underestimated — like the role the Germans and Belgians had in Rwanda when it comes to creating/entrenching the inequities between Tutsi and Hutu.)
I focus on the race point of yours because I believe that as members of historically oppressing groups (such as white people) we need to know our history. Being grounded in the historical realities (yes, the unfavorable ones — but also the stories of white folks who have resisted domination) prepares me to enter authentically into the process of trying to create new culture.
To be specific I believe growing up white, middle class, male, and in the United States are all variables that have taught me that it's my perogative to decide what should happen with other people.
…that I should feel natural about not consulting for making policy decisions in a non-profit job that determine which poor people of color can have access to services; that I have a right to be present in women's space; that my stake in what's happening in Pakistan should be given hefty consideration even though I've never been there.
So I haven't really stuck to race after all (I guess cause it's all connected). I guess what I mean to say is that I need to keep reminding myself about white people's history in order to keep sharp. I want to catch the patterns of white supremacy that keep cropping up, since I see them as obstacles to me joining fully in the creation and living of the new kinds of culture I think we're all trying to work for.
lukelm and jason,
From what I'm reading in your posts, we still don't seem to disagree on my points or on ST's. My concern is that the term "white supremacy" is a localizing term for a global condition that the biblical authors identified as "sin". So why can't it be called that?
Jason January 19, 2008 at 1:34 am
Perhaps we can see "white supremacy" as one notable expression of the broader umbrella term of "sin."
For me it's similar approach to comparing "that pit bull down the alley" to "danger."
If someone was going to be leaving my house, and I said "Beware of danger," that would be notably less helpful than me warning about the pit bull.
To go the biblical route, Jesus sometime gave broad counsel love neighbor as self, but also specifically counseled feeding the hungry and so on.
So for me it's important to use the language of white supremacy because that is one particular manifestation of sin — and one that I believe is more dangerous to my life and our collective culture than the pit bull.
And while we can use language about "sin" when we're speaking broadly, I value having the analytical clarity provided by using other terms as well to describe specific historical and social expressions under the "sin" umbrella.
lukelm January 19, 2008 at 1:49 am
To think pragmatically, maybe the idea of "white supremacy" and other notions of the connections between whiteness and materialism/militarism/racism are useful if they allow us to begin dismantles old systems and patterns of sin that bring people down, disconnect them. To change, we must be able to understand and name what it is we're trying to change.
Yet "whiteness" in this context doesn't mean white people exactly – thus ST found inspiration in speaking to white people who are resisting this negative form of what whiteness is connected in the material culture. Just as, in feminism, in speaking about patriarchy and systems of male domination, it's not that being male in itself in anything less than wonderful – it's the way this human attribute has gotten tied into systems of oppression.
Steve K, I know you've shared already a few times in this forum in various ways about your life & work, but I've never told you how amazing I think it all is. It's as if you've truly decided to follow Christ – not an easy path, and an extremely rare one, I think.
so then perhaps, an analytically clear, culturally idiomatic, and biblical way to name this phenomenon is the "sin of white supremacy"?
That would seem, to me, to reconcile our points.
somasoul January 21, 2008 at 8:58 am
I don't think it's whites who have a monopoly on materialism or militarism or racism.
Maybe that's not the point you are trying to make.
Asians are materialistic to the tenth degree. In their society they can't even keep a cell phone for a year.
The Arab nations have been at war for, well, forever.
Blacks divide their own race into dark-skin/light-skin/purple-skin and have heavy negative attitudes toward nearly everyone.
I know I am generalizing here and certainly not all Asians (or whatever) behave in this way. But in a topic about race it's nearly impossible to not generalize. Please excuse me.
SteveK January 23, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Materialism is not about race. It's about those who have. People who are born wealthy and live wealthy assume that they deserve to continue to live in that lifestyle. This is why Jesus said that it is so difficult for the wealthy person to enter into God's kingdom. Because it is just about impossible for that person to surrender their lifestyle.
Yes, we can certainly look at the Western White person and say that he is rich without even knowing it. And this needs to stop. We can also point to the wealthy Asian and African and say the same thing. But it is White American culture that has exported materialism and a decadant lifestyle to the world, claiming that THIS is the standard by which all should live. So let's label it American, if we like. Or White.
But as was already said, it is deadly. And so let's deal with as the hissing rattler it really is. Race isn't as much the issue as the fact that it has alreay bitten all of us. The real question is whether we will accept the antidote or not, because the death is so pleasant.
What is the antidote, Steve? How would you describe it?
Jesus described it as, "Selling your possessons and giving to the poor" (Mark 10; Luke 12:33)
I think my better descriptive term is– get rid of our stuff, try not to collect more of it, and use whatever resources we have to help those in need as a lifestyle.
Somasoul,
You wrote, "in a topic about race it's nearly impossible to not generalize." That's something that stood out to me because I've felt that difficulty as well.
One thing that's helped me become more clear about what's going on with race is to start with the base that race has no significant biological basis. A biologist who came to my school told us about how genetic variation is greater within any one race than when we compare it with another.
So the categories of race as we know them has been created within history (for a fun read, check out 100+ years of US legal cases about if people — Chinese v Japanese, people 1/8th black, Arabs, etc — are "white" or not).
And while race has no significant biological basis, it obviously has very real historical and social impact.
So when I see certain trends, I — like Steve above — try to look to the history of why things might be as they are. (As well as respecting the complexity of people's choices in a variety a social positions.)
And while I'm not trying to say that no one else has specks in their eyes, I'd rather concern myself with the load of ocular lumber that history shows us white folks to clearly have going on.
So while it's difficult not to generalize about race, I've found it very much worth it to work through how to find alternatives.
Doing so, and knowing my own history, has helped make me a better partner in the life-giving and liberatory work with which I strive to be involved.


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In a village outside Tepic, in the Mexican state of Nayarit, Robin learns not only that Arturo had narrowly escaped the Revolution with his life, but that he'd also had a hand in starting it. Even more startling is the revelation that 'the whole village' shares his surname: Greenhalgh. When Arturo had returned to a quiet life in Edwardian England, he had left behind in Mexico a lover and an illegitimate daughter, whose offspring – a century later – had multiplied into a vast and thriving family of 300 souls.
Robin's 'new' family welcomes him with open arms, believing him to be the reincarnation of their English ancestor. He is quickly drawn into the secrets, suspicions and intrigues of village life. The Mexican Greenhalghs had long believed that Arturo had died on the Titanic, on his way back to be with them. Robin must shatter that illusion, as well as help his beloved English grandmother to accept her father's secret past. In the process of drawing together the missing pieces of his family history, Robin learns about the role his great grandfather had played in the factory strike which helped to trigger the Mexican Revolution, and the true circumstances of Arturo's final departure from the country. He also finds that all the letters that Arturo had furtively sent to his lover, Maria, after returning to England were stolen for the money they contained. Tragically, both Arturo and Maria died not knowing that their love for one another lived on.
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Robin Bayley began writing The Mango Orchard in 2004, ten years after the journey in which he followed in his great grandfather's footsteps around Latin America and discovered that his ancestor had left a secret family in a small village in western Mexico. Robin had wanted to write the book sooner but the muse wasn't with him. And besides, there was something on the telly.
Before he began his journey in the early 1990s, Robin went to talk to his grandmother. Although she had her misgivings about his giving up the security of a good job, she gave the project her blessing, on condition that he "hurry up" and finish it while she was still alive. The journey was an unmitigated success and he found more than he ever thought possible, but before he could begin writing The Mango Orchard, Robin retraced his steps, travelling Arturo's route once again, absorbing a wealth of details he had missed the first time round.
He revisited Ellis Island in New York, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala before returning for an extended stay in Mexico. Then the writing began.
Forgetting the minor detail of his dyslexia, he initially thought it would take a few months to finish copying up his notes and sculpt them into an acceptable narrative. It took five years. In that time, in various locations in Mexico, Spain and the UK, he wrote over three million words, typing with such fervour that he went through three computers and damaged the nerve endings in his fingers.
After some heavy editing, The Mango Orchard was finally finished in early 2009. Before Robin sent the manuscript to his agent, he sent it to his grandmother, who read it twice. She died that same year, a few weeks short of her 103rd birthday, after having been told that the book of her father's incredible journey had been given an international publishing deal, and that The Mango Orchard would be dedicated to her.
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Mohebbirad M, Sheykh Chalandari S, Joveini G. Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of a Patient With Neuromyelitis Optica. Func Disabil J. 2020; 3 (1) :69-76
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Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of a Patient With Neuromyelitis Optica
Mohammad Mohebbirad, Saeed Sheykh Chalandari , Ghodsiyeh Joveini *
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Background and Objectives: Neuro Myelitis Optica (NMO) is a rare progressive and disabling autoimmune disease. The disabling consequences of the disease affect many aspects of the patients and their family life. multidisciplinary rehabilitation can be very effective in promoting quality of life and slowing disease progression by working with different disciplines. The aim of this study is to report the effects of multidisciplinary rehabilitation on the performance and quality of life of a patient with NMO and her family.
Case Report: This study reports a six-month multidisciplinary rehabilitation program conducted for a woman with NMO and her caregiver. The rehabilitation team included the patient's caregiver, a neurologist, an occupational therapist, and a speech therapist. The approaches of stabilization and recovery, maintenance, modification, and prevention were used through 70 sessions of occupational therapy. Also, the occupational performance was assessed with the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure. Furthermore, the Persian version of SF36 was used to assess the quality of life. The speech therapy intervention was performed in 24 sessions and included breath strengthening exercises, sound therapy, and laryngeal muscle manipulation. After six months, the results showed a great improvement in the quality of life of the patient and her caregiver.
Conclusion: The use of team approaches in the face of progressive neurodegenerative diseases such as NMO has a significant impact on improving the quality of life of these patients and their families.
Keywords: Multidisciplinary rehabilitation, Neuro Myelitis Optica, Occupational therapy, Speech therapy
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It was a challenge to move to the UK because I previously lived in Switzerland, but I don't regret my choice. I did my Masters and PhD in Switzerland so I was there seven years in total. In the beginning I was in Zurich, the German-speaking part, and then I moved to Luzern, the French-speaking part. I speak a bit of German but not really French. When I arrived in the UK It was a sunny day and I was prepared for the worst. I had a raincoat with me and it was February but it was nice and sunny. After my interview I spent a day in London sightseeing and I went to Chinatown and I really liked it in the UK.
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My job market paper was a bit risky because it's not mainstream economics and is more from my own hobby. It's how the presence of your peer/teammate affects your performance. I looked at swimming data for the world championship. For each country you can qualify two athletes per event and I wanted to look at people who come with a teammate versus if you come alone. For example, if two British swimmers were in the final compared to one Chinese swimmer in the final, what would happen? However there are some identification problems, because you cannot simply compare two British with one Chinese because by construction if you're from a strong country you're more likely to qualify two athletes, whereas if you're from a weaker team or weaker country you're less likely to qualify two. So I used regression discontinuity as an identification strategy so I compare something like two Chinese and two British athletes at the semi-final. Both want to qualify for the final, but say the Chinese had a teammate who barely qualified. Whereas both the British teammates both barely qualified, by barely I mean the top 8 can qualify, so say you're 7 and you're 8 whilst my team mate is number 9 so the ability is close to each other. But due to the cut off, you qualified and my teammate doesn't qualify. So you kept your teammate and I didn't so I'm looking at how this affects final performance. I found that there is a gender difference, so if you're female you perform better if you're with your teammate. But, if you're male it doesn't matter. Maybe women are more sensitive to this environment or we are used to being together, we go shopping and even to the bathroom together so it could be that. But this difference is present in even high-level elite competition.
Economics, generally speaking, helps you to think logically. It's the logic and reasoning part I like most. The technical parts of it you do some maths and programming but the reasoning part and the part where you tell a story makes it very comprehensive. It's a skill that you won't learn from other subjects.
Whatever the struggle, you just have to keep pushing. The little things can serve as a tipping point. So don't give up.
I like to ask questions, be different and ask why.


Joining Meeker in her new fund are Kleiner Perkins GPs Mood Rowghani and Noah Knauf, as well as Juliet de Baubigny, a partner.
It's unclear whether this was an intentional and mutual decision to spin-off Kleiner's growth-investing unit.
Meeker, widely known for her annual Internet Trends Report, joined the firm in 2010 after two decades as a managing director at Morgan Stanley. She was well-established as a tech analyst on Wall Street. In Silicon Valley, she quickly built a reputation as one of the best.
Founded in 1972, Kleiner has been around to support some of the biggest names in tech. It's backed Google, Aol and, Amazon and more recently, Slack, Uber and Peloton.
Last year, general partner Mike Abbott left the firm one month after Arielle Zuckerberg, a partner, also exited. The pair were part of a group of seven to leave Kleiner at the time.


Are we allowed to have more than one character. Because if so, I will do it!
Favorite suit: I don't even have that many!
Most used phrase: That was.... Unfortunate.
Least used phrase: Why did you do that?!
Allies: If you offend me, you are my enemy!! If you don't, then you are my friend!
Most Used Phrase: "I AM DYING OF BOREDOM!"
Least Used Phrase: "Wow, I'm not bored any more!"
Character Quality: Outgoing, kind, easily bored, quick to help.
Other Information: Can be heard muttering in Irish... muttering words that almost no one can understand, and the people who do know Gaelic cant hear her well. It is said that she is saying something about green cats jumping over the moon, but that is only a rumor.
Most Used Phrase: "That's what I thought"
Least Used Phrase: "I cant' believe you did that!!"
My role model is definitely the Scarlet Man and Selina.
Ummm my enemies are people that treat others (that I like) badly, the Empire (unless they're uncertain which side they're on) very respectful to other people I know and don't. I have a tendency to be jealous and sometimes to be blunt.
Only in roleplay s though... just to be perfectly clear: I do not steal stuff in real life.
Enemies: Lucky, Lily (don't ask), and Zaul... and other people that are from the Empire.
Allies: Resistance, and some times @May_Otterview... but not always, cause you never know what she's planning.
Favorite Outfit: the one you see that I'm wearing on the screen.
Most used phrase: "Shot your air hole!"
Least used phrase: "Air head."
Most used catchphrase: "Gotcha, and now I will slowly k..." gets cut of by someone who is Sensible, most of the time @Luna_Fuzzyradish and @Silverclaw_Bonnetfolly1.
Least used catchphrase: "Freaze, and you will never get away!"
Nicknames: Don't you even thing about calling me a nickname!
Role Model: No one, except kinda @Hanna_Brassheart and @Jacoby_Elderfun1.
Birthplace: Still have no idea, maybe that forest, its seems cool or maybe the boom lands or the Fog place.
Fears: Nothing except finding out that what she called her closest friend was only a spy. And loosing someone that she had trusted for all her life... or something like that.
Personality: Slightly reckless, funny if she knows you, scary if she doesn't.
Sorry for the double post but also as my Role Model is @May_Otterview all the way!!!!!
You are Awesome @May_Otterview, so why wouldn't I put you as my Role Model.
She is loyal, sneaky and especially smart. She was a spy for Lucky but turned to the Great Engineer's side when she found out that Lucky had lied to her all her life. At that point, she wandered for a while before Irving recruited her for the resistance. At that point she fought to remedy all of the evil that she had done. She is a formidable opponent and a fierce fighter. When it comes to Automatons however, she is quite useless as Lucky never entirely trusted her and so never taught her how to dismantle the things. She can however repair them.
She has brown hair and emerald green eyes. She is very tall and broad shouldered. She is nearly fearless.
Allies: Not too many, she isn't very trusting after what happened with Lucky. She likes Gloria O. though.
Other: she is quiet, Shy, contemplative, and works well alone.
Favorite Outfit: Aviator Getup, Aristocrat Sunhat, Golden Gear Mask.
Least-Used Phrase "Here goes nothing!"
Character Quality: Strategic, Wary, Experienced.
Role Model: No one. It used to be @Gloria_Oldenpinner, the famed detective, when @Nola_Applequill1 used to be a detective, but now that she's on her own, it's no one.
I know you're not going to catch the reference with Bellflower, but that was my fairy name in Disney's Create-a-Fairy-and-Fly game.
Enemies: Vermin, Lucky, and the Resistance.
Most used phrase: 'What in the name of Thunder?!" "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi." "Great Badger Lords!"
Least used phrase: uh..... don't have one.
Fears: The opposite of claustrophobia.
Hair: Brown. Usually in Princesse Leia buns, sometimes down.
Hobbies: Drawing, Hanging out with friends, fighting Automatons.
Personality: Slightly Sarcastic, friendly, bold.
Allies: @Gloria_Oldenpinner, @Hanna_Brassheart, @Goku_Ironheart, @Jacoby_Elderfun1, @Iliara_Mustardtop and the twins @Scarlett_Darkhall and @Ilayne_Merespark.
Favorite outfit: Well Engineered Ensemble and the Butterflie Mask.
Fears: Angry Friends, overwhelming situations and huge dark places.
Favorite activate: Talking with friends.
@Miss_P2 you wanna pop in a roleplay, make a bio here.
@Aislinn_Mollisong1 ARE YOU SERIOUS?! I've barely joined!
Okay, sure! I'll do it later tonight!


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Home » Ghana Web » Tue 21st May, 2019 » Asamoah Gyan was ill-advised to retire - Joseph Yamin
Asamoah Gyan was ill-advised to retire - Joseph Yamin
Tue 21st May, 2019 03:58
Former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yamin has expressed his disappointment to the decision by Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan to retire from International Football whiles insisting that the player was ill-advised.
According to him, the surprise announcement from Ghana's all-time leading goal scorer is not the best especially when the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019 is set to start next month in Egypt.
Gyan earlier today shockingly announced his retirement from the national team through a press statement released from his camp. Part of the statement explained that his decision is largely based on captaincy issues which has become a problem in the team.
A portion of the statement read, "If the decision of the coach is to give captaincy of the tournament to another player while I am named in the team of the tournament, I wish to recuse myself from the tournament".
Speaking on the back of Gyan's retirement in an interview with Angel FM, Joseph Yamin shared that the people who advised the player to take such a decision did not help him.
"I do not support the decision of Asamoah Gyan to retire because of a captaincy disagreement. I think his advisers have failed him and didn't handle the issue well", the former Deputy Sports Minister noted.
Meanwhile, Head Coach James Kwesi Appiah will be unveiling a 30-man squad on Wednesday before the Black Stars start camping in preparation towards the 2019 AFCON. Read Full Story
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Q: WCF via IIS problem IP address I made a WCF Service on Duplex Protocol.
It's works correctly and fine. But I have only one small problem:
here is a IP string where can I start an test it:
http://localhost:5659/Service.svc
But when I choose my real IP address on my local machine (where localhost existed):
http://93.4.18.3:5659/Service.svc
I can't connet yet. Also I can't connect from other addresses using my real IP address.
May be something wrong in my web.config ?
Btw - my firewall if switched off.
Here is my config:

<extensions>
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  </bindingElementExtensions>
</extensions>
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    <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
  </service>
</services>

A: You should check the Site bindings in IIS. It is possible that the HTTP binding on port 5659 is configured for a specific host header ("localhost") or a specific IP address (not 93.4.18.3) only. That would explain the behavior you're getting.

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A captain deploys desperate measures to keep the cheesemongers from his door.
On the morning of Thursday 29 November 1877 the Wandsworth Police Court was full of shopkeepers and traders keen to witness the outcome of a case brought by one of their number, a cheesemonger on the High Street. Henry Lickfield had brought a charge of assault against one of his customers while another businessman, Mr Barrantz (another cheese monger) charged the same individual with fraud.
The defendant was Captain Edward Miller who lived at Spencer Road in Putney. The court heard that Captain Miller had ordered a leg of pork and 3lbs of sausages to be delivered to his residence. The goods were duly supplied but when the bill wasn't paid Lickfield called on the captain in person to demand his money.
However when he knocked on the door no one answered. He tried again and this time a servant answered but refused to open the door. Finally he tried shouting through the letter box. As he attempted to get the attention of the household a lighted firebrand was thrust through the letter box towards him, striking him in the face!
Captain Miller was represented in court by a lawyer who offered a different version of events. He suggested that when Mr Lickfield's assistant had called earlier he had been told that Mrs Miller would settle the bill on the following day and he had gone away. He denied any violence towards the cheese monger and said that he had no need to come in person, and that he should have waited for the money to be paid as promised.
The household was 'alarmed' by the repeated knocking on the door and no tradesman had the 'right to recover their debts by a system of tyranny', he insisted. Mrs Miller was ill and 'the prisoner did nothing but protect himself'.
The magistrate, Mr Bridge, accepted the charge of assault and bailed the captain to appear at the next sessions of the peace.
The case then turned on the next accusation, of fraud. It was claimed by Mr Barrantz, that the Millers had ordered 'one of the best hares to be sent to his house, to be paid for on delivery'. Again the goods were supplied but not paid for. Clearly Mr Barranz had done business with the Millers before and said he would not have sent the hares if there hadn't been a promise to be paid on receipt. He therefore charged Captain Miller with a fraudulent intent. Mr Bridge didn't see it that way however. This was simply an unpaid bill not a deliberate attempt to defraud and he dismissed the charge.
Nevertheless I suspect the mere appearance of the captain in court was enough to ruin his reputation in his local community. The court was packed with local businessmen, all come to see 'justice' for a fellow tradesman. They would surely be reluctant to offer credit to the Millers in future and given the associations with credit and reputation this was social suicide for the captain and his wife. Unless they settled their bills quickly, or moved away they could hardly hope to hold their heads up in the streets around Wandsworth in future. As for the assault charge, while it was likely to end in a financial settlement (some compensation to Mr Lickfield) it was another example of the desperation of the family and further evidence to anyway dealing with them that they were best avoided.


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An array schema containing string items does not define any pattern for the accepted strings. This means that you do not limit the values that get passed to the API.
If you do not define a pattern for strings, you do not limit what is accepted as the input. This could open your backend server to various attacks, like SQL injections or buffer overflows.


WEST HAM will make just the one change to their side to face Brighton tonight, according to a club insider.
Twitter user @ExWHUemployee is a reliable source of Hammers news who broke some of the biggest transfer stories over the summer.
Since the window has shut, he has been using his Twitter account to give fans a sneak peak of the line-up soon after Slaven Bilic tells his players.
He teased followers earlier today by writing: "I have the team! It is good news!"
He then added: "I know the line up but ppl believe the opposition manager waits for me to tweet and changes his tactics accordingly. So I'll say nr KO."
@ExWHUEmployee was then asked if youngster Toni Martinez would feature.
The striker, 20, has been in sensational form for West Ham's under-23 side, scoring a hat-trick in his last outing.
But he won't be in the squad tonight - "Martinez won't be risked" wrote @ExWHUEmployee - while Diafra Sakho is also out.
An hour after teasing that he had the side, the club insider then revealed there would be only one change from the line-up that draw with Burnley.
That one change will see Andy Carroll drop out through suspension after he was booked twice in a minute at Turf Moor - although he didn't name the big striker's replacement.


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'The Sing-Off' Recap: Element Sent Home
by UInterviewDecember 17, 2013, 12:00 amDecember 17, 2013, 12:00 amDecember 17, 2013, 12:00 amNews >
The Sing-Off returned on Monday with four of the a cappella groups fighting for three spots, joining the three groups that passed through this phase of the competition last week. In this group of four are Home Free, Voiceplay, Element and Vocal Rush, who performed hits that have endured the test of time.
The Sing-Off Recap
After all four of the groups teamed up to perform a medley of The Who's "My Generation," Queen's "We Will Rock You" and Imagine Dragon's "It's Time," it was time for the competing to begin.
Home Free
First up was the country group Home Free, performing Johnny Cash classic "Ring of Fire." Surprisingly, instead of keeping to the original melody, the group made the song their own. With the lead singer's pure, slightly high sound and the deep bass singer, Home Free won the praise of Ben Folds, Jewel and Shawn Stockman.
VoicePlay
VoicePlay, the Florida natives that have been singing together since high school, decided to challenge themselves with No Doubt's "Don't Speak." They're accustomed to picking more energetic songs and are somewhat uncomfortable with a number somewhat more in the ballad range and considerably less upbeat. The lead singer's vocals are okay, but she fails to channel the emotion of the song, something Folds had advised in rehearsals.
All-girl group Element were tasked with singing "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Diana Ross & the Supremes. Already at a disadvantage range-wise due to the lack of any males in the group, none of Element's vocalists stand out from the pack. The song required voices with a bit more power that Element brings to the stage.
Vocal Rush
High school a cappella group Vocal Rush, potentially with a name adapted from Glee's Vocal Adrenaline, brought all of their weapons out to sing Footloose album track "Holding Out for a Hero" by Bonnie Tyler. The kids step, sing and rap their way through the timeless 80s song. The one criticism they receive from the judges' panel is that they get overexcited and sometimes rush through parts of the song.
Ultimate Sing-Off
The judges select Element and Vocal Rush to compete in the Ultimate Sing-Off, performing Destiny's Child's "Survivor." Vocal Rush knocks their part out of the auditorium and the judges select the kids from Oakland to stick around in the competition.
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Q: Does Google API OAuth require login with web page? I need to fetch YouTube video comments with YouTube API, but it seems that must login in web page at first time. Is there any way to access YouTube video comment API without webpage login? I don't like to click the login button or any thing in web page manually.

A: You don't need to be authenticated with OAuth to return a thread of comments from a video.  You just need an API key.  Hit the commentThreads/list endpoint with the following parameters:
part -> id,snippet
videoId -> jCHE0Tjw6MA (or the video ID you want to return the comments for)
HTTP GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/commentThreads?part=id%2Csnippet&videoId=jCHE0Tjw6MA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}


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In whole life longthere is a child within all of us. No matter the age or the status we achieved - the fairy tales affect us as as well as years ago. Heroes of lovely short series and their funny stories are unforgettably associated with moments of happy childhood and Večerníček, thanks to his specific Czech humor, entertains children and adults for 50 years! Therefore the Czech Mint comes with an extraordinary series of commemorative coins and emissions of one-ounce gold coin 50 NZD, which is dedicated to the rabbits out of a hat. Regular television broadcasts begun on 20th February 1954 and Večerníček started to speak in 1963, but initially only on Sundays. The Sunday bedtime story became Večerníček, as we know it today, on 2nd January 1965. During many evenings we were waiting for the appearance of the magician Pokustón`s hat and its two inhabitants on the screen - Bob and Bobek, but the second one never wanted to go out of the warm hat... Since 1978, eight seasons, 91 parts of bedtime stories were created in charge of these directors: Václav Bedřich, Miroslav Walter and Ivo Hejcman. The scripts were excellently written by Vladimír Jiránek, Jaroslav Pacovský, Jiří Šebánek and Pavel Šrut. The author of drawings is Vladimír Jiránek and the two rabbits speak to us from the screen using the voice of Josef Dvořák. The jingle of the series is written by Petr Skoumal. The new one-ounce investment coin 50 NZD in pure gold is a beautiful gift for anyone, for whom the regular bedtime stories have grown on him. This issue is decorated with the friends Bob and Bobek in ice-hockey equipment, because this year, apart from the the beautiful coin they also deserve the position of mascots of the Ice Hockey World Championship, which has been held in stadiums of the Czech Republic. The motif of rabbits, based on Vladimír Jiránek`s drawing elaborated on the obverse side of the coin by outsanding Czech medailist Irena Hradecká, DiS. The composition on the reverse side of the coin is formed by a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and other necessary issuer`s attributes. Save your money wisely and wit joy and obtain an ageless collector`s piece. But attention, the issue is limited to just 50 pieces!


When you're facing divorce, knowing what to expect during the divorce process will make it easier to navigate the days and months ahead—you won't be thrown off course by an unexpected requirement or proceeding. At The Law Offices of Sean Smallwood, P.A., we provide advice and representation through all the steps and stages of divorce in Florida , and you can call us at any point during your divorce for guidance, whether you're only just considering divorce or you were attempting to handle your divorce yourself, but you haven't been able to resolve necessary issues, such as custody or property division. Read on for more information about the divorce process in Florida, and call our law office in Orlando for help steering your divorce to a positive conclusion.
In Florida, either spouse can file for divorce. The filing spouse must prove a marriage exists, one spouse has been a Florida resident for six months immediately preceding the filing of the petition for divorce, and the marriage is irretrievably broken. (There is no fault-based divorce in Florida; however, the reason for the irretrievable breakdown may be considered under certain limited circumstances in the determination of alimony, property division, and the development of a parenting plan.) The length of time the divorce process takes depends on the type of divorce, the number of issues that must be resolved, and how busy the court is where the divorce is filed. Generally, you can expect an uncontested divorce to take about four to five weeks, while a contested divorce can take six months or longer. In counties where the courts are very busy, the divorce process can take a year or more.
The divorce process officially begins with a petition for dissolution of marriage, filed with the circuit court in the county where you and your spouse last lived together or in a county where either of you now reside. The petition sets out what the filing spouse wants from the court and must be served to the other spouse. After being served, the other spouse must file an answer within 20 days, addressing the issues in the petition. The other spouse can also file a counter-petition for dissolution of marriage, raising any additional issues that spouse wants the court to address.
Within 45 days of the service of the initial petition for dissolution of marriage or several days before any temporary hearing, each spouse must provide certain financial documents and a completed financial affidavit to the other spouse. Failure to provide this information can result in the court dismissing the case or not considering that spouse's requests. A child support guidelines worksheet must also be filed with the court at or before any hearing on child support .
For spouses who have already agreed on divorce issues, such as property division, alimony, and a parenting plan, you may enter into a written agreement that is signed by both spouses and then presented to the court. If this agreement is accepted by the court, it can be incorporated into the final judgment for divorce. If you and your spouse cannot agree on all issues, a final hearing is required. During the hearing, each spouse is given the opportunity to present evidence and testimony to a judge, who then makes the final decision on contested divorce issues.
The divorce process can be highly emotional and stressful for families—adults and children alike. Divorcing spouses often do not know their legal rights and obligations, and court rules must be strictly followed, or you could lose certain rights permanently. Florida court clerks and judges can answer some basic questions about divorce, but they cannot give legal advice. Only a Florida divorce attorney can do that, and only an experienced Florida divorce attorney can do it well. At The Law Offices of Sean Smallwood, P.A., we will analyze your unique situation and help you make decisions in your best interests, while ensuring you meet all necessary legal requirements during the divorce process.


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Q: Folder of running application I have problem with my C# app, when is opened via file association, it works in file directory. For example, when I create copy of opened file:
File.Copy("C:\Photo\car.jpg", ".\car2.jpg"); // this is only ilustration code.

It makes new file "C:\Photo\car2.jpg", but I want to make file in my app directory (".\car2.jpg").
So, I think, when app is opened via file association, it run with working folder of that file ("C:\Photo\"). Is there way, how to keep working directory as directory with app.exe?
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This is not solution, I need to get equals of ".\" and System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory:
File.Copy("C:\Photo\car.jpg", Path.Combine(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "car2.jpg"));

I have to use this on many places in application, solution can be sets:
Environment.CurrentDirectory = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

but I prefer set it in startup application via file association and not in running program - it looks cleaner.
Thanks,
Jakub

A: To get the path of your application, you can use:
 System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

Use Path.Combine to build the destination path as follows:
 File.Copy("C:\Photo\car.jpg", Path.Combine(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "car2.jpg"));

A: I'd like to try and offer an alternative. I'm relatively new to this, but I figured out a solution that works for me:
Make 2 static variables in your MainWindow.xaml.cs:
public static string fileOpen;
public static string workingDirectory;

In your app.xaml.cs file, add the following code:
protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Args.Count() > 0)
    {
        var a = File.Exists(e.Args[0]);
        var path = Path.GetFullPath(e.Args[0]);
        MainICPUI.workingDirectory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
        MainICPUI.fileOpen = e.Args[0];
    }

    base.OnStartup(e);
}

When you open a file associated with your program from any directory, the full file name is added to the StartupEventArgs, including the directory. This code saves the directory.
Back to your MainWindow.xaml.cs file:
public static string fileOpen;
public static string workingDirectory;

public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory);
    // This sets the directory back to the program directory, so you can do what you need
    // to with files associated with your program
}

// Make sure your MainWindow has an OnLoaded event assigned to:
private void MainWindow_OnLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // Now I'm setting the working directory back to the file location
    Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(workingDirectory);

    if (File.Exists(fileOpen))
    {
        var path = Path.GetFullPath(fileOpen);
        // This should be the full file path of the file you clicked on.
    }
}


The rear-loading 1700 series horizontal mailboxes are designed for use in large, private installations not serviced by the USPS, including colleges, offices, universities and military bases. Each tenant compartment measures 4" x 5" and features a 5-pin cam lock, two keys, and a plastic number slot for tenant identification.
The smaller compartment size does not meet USPS size regulations, but because more mailboxes can fit into each module, it is very convenient when working with limited wall spaces. These 21-door private distribution 1700 series mailboxes do meet all other USPS regulations, however.


After listening to Thomas Ritchie, online director of the Sioux City Journal, one thing was clear. Newspaper isn't dying it's redefining itself. I like most thought newspaper had lived it's heyday. Mr. Ritchie came, and in 45 minutes changed my mind.
He stumbled through an extremely informative presentation. One, where I learned about engaging media. This meaning how twitter feedback guides news stories and tailors them to niche' audiences. He helped me understand that online news wasn't linear like it's predecessor. I have read several online stories and never really thought about that.
The Sioux City Journal isn't trying to make me buy a daily. That's what grandparents are for. Ryan, "..was confused." and he should be. Ryan, I don't think buys a newspaper. Although, I'm sure his parents have a subscription to one. That's when I realized what Mr. Ritchie was trying to get across.
Ryan won't have to buy a paper unless he wants to. However, he still needs news and goes online for it like I do. The journal is simply trying to be that place for news.
A interesting response, Kevin, though not really written as a news story. You had the response that Thomas was going for, though.
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Duque de Iorque é um título de nobreza do Pariato do Reino Unido, sendo usualmente atribuído ao segundo filho do monarca britânico. O título equivalente no Pariato da Escócia é o de Duque de Albany.

A primeira criação do título remonta ao , quando o rei Eduardo III de Inglaterra distribuiu ducados pelos seus filhos, cabendo o ducado de Iorque a Edmundo de Langley. Os descendentes de Langley fundaram a Casa de Iorque, que disputou o trono de Inglaterra com os Lencastres durante a Guerra das Rosas (1455–1485). Depois da subida ao trono de Eduardo IV de Inglaterra, o título foi criado mais sete vezes.

Atualmente, Duque de Iorque é o título do príncipe príncipe André, segundo filho da rainha Isabel II do Reino Unido. O atual Duque teve apenas duas filhas, e não casou novamente após o divórcio em 1996.

História
Na Idade Média, Iorque era a principal cidade no norte da Inglaterra, e a sé do Arcebispado de Iorque desde 735. Sendo Yorkshire o maior condado em área da Inglaterra.

Iorque sobe o nome viking "Jorvik" foi um pequeno reino no início do período Medieval. No intervalo entre a queda do independente Jorvik sob Eric Machado Sangrento, último rei de Jorvik (falecido em 954), e a primeira criação do Ducado de Iorque, houveram alguns condes de Iorque.

O título de Duque de Iorque foi criado primeiramente no Pariato da Inglaterra em 1385 para Edmundo de Langley, o quarto filho vivo de Eduardo III, e importante personagem em Ricardo II de Shakespeare. O seu filho Eduardo, que herdou o título, foi morto na batalha de Azincourt em 1415. O título passou para o sobrinho de Eduardo, Ricardo, o filho de Ricardo de Conisburgh, 3º Conde de Cambridge (que havia sido executado por conspirar contra Henrique V). O jovem Ricardo conseguiu obter a restauração do título, mas quando seu filho mais velho, que o herdou, tornou-se rei em 1461 como Eduardo IV, o título se fundiu com a Coroa.

O título foi novamente criado para Ricardo de Shrewsbury, segundo filho de Eduardo IV. Ricardo foi um dos Príncipes da Torre, e, como morreu sem herdeiros, o título se extinguiu com sua morte.

A terceira criação foi para Henrique Tudor, segundo filho de Henrique VII. Quando seu irmão mais velho, Artur, Príncipe de Gales, morreu em 1502, Henrique tornou-se o herdeiro aparente ao trono. Quando Henrique ascendeu ao trono como Henrique VIII em 1509, os seus títulos foram fundidos com a Coroa.

Na quarta criação para Carlos Stuart, segundo filho de Jaime I. Quando seu irmão mais velho, Henrique Frederico, Príncipe de Gales, morreu em 1612, Carlos tornou-se herdeiro aparente. Ele foi titulado como Príncipe de Gales em 1616 e eventualmente tornou-se Carlos I em 1625, quando o título novamente fundiu-se a coroa.

A quinta criação foi em favor de Jaime Stuart, o segundo filho de Carlos I. Nova Iorque, sua capital Albany, e a cidade de Nova Iorque, hoje nos Estados Unidos, foram nomeadas em homenagem particular ao Duque de Albany e Iorque. Em 1664, Carlos II da Inglaterra concedeu o território entre os rios Delaware e Connecticut ao seu irmão mais novo, Jaime. Seguindo a captura pelos ingleses do anteriormente território holandês de Novos Países Baixos, e o seu principal porto, Nova Amsterdam, foram nomeados como Província e Cidade de Nova Iorque em honra a Jaime. Após a fundação, o Duque deu parte da colônia para os proprietários George Carteret e John Berkeley. Forte Orange, 240 quilômetros ao norte, as margens do rio Hudson, foi renomeado como Albany de acordo com o título escocês de Jaime. Quando seu irmão mais velho, rei Carlos II, morreu sem herdeiros, Jaime o sucedeu como Jaime II da Inglaterra e VII da Escócia, e novamente o título foi fundido com a coroa.

Durante o século XVIII o ducado dobrado de Iorque e Albany foi criado algumas vezes no Pariato da Grã-Bretanha. O título foi primeiramente detido pelo Duque Ernesto Augusto de Brunswick-Luneburg, Bispo de Osnabruck, irmão mais novo do rei Jorge I. Morreu sem herdeiros. A segunda criação do ducado foi para o Príncipe Eduardo, irmão mais novo de Jorge III, que também morreu sem herdeiros, nunca tendo se casado. A terceira e última criação do ducado dobrado foi em favor do príncipe Frederico Augusto, segundo filho do rei Jorge III. Ele serviu como comandante em chefe do Exército Britânico por muitos anos, sendo chamado de "Grande velho Duque de Iorque" nas rimas populares. Ele também morreu sem herdeiros.

A sexta criação do Ducado de Iorque (sem estar combinado com Albany) foi para o Jorge de Gales, segundo filho do futuro Eduardo VII. Ele foi titulado Duque de Iorque após a morte do seu irmão mais velho, príncipe Alberto Vitor, Duque de Clarence e Avondale. O título se fundiu com a Coroa quando Jorge sucedeu seu pai como Jorge V.

O título foi criado uma sétima vez, para o príncipe Alberto, segundo filho do rei Jorge V, e irmão mais novo do futuro rei Eduardo VIII. Alberto tornou-se rei inesperadamente quando seu irmão abdicou, e tomou o nome de Jorge VI, o ducado fundiu-se a Coroa.

O título foi criado novamente, pela oitava vez, para o príncipe André, segundo filho da rainha Isabel II. Até 2021, ele teve apenas duas filhas. Sendo assim, se ele não tiver filhos (legítimos) no futuro, o título tornar-se-á extinto com a sua morte.

Exceto a primeira criação, todas as vezes que o Ducado de Iorque foi criado ele possuiu apenas um ocupante, essa pessoa tendo herdado o trono ou morrido sem descendência masculina.

Duques de Iorque

Primeira criação, 1385-1415, 1425-1461

Segunda criação, 1474

Terceira criação, 1494

Quarta criação, 1605

Quinta criação, 1633/1644

Criação Jacobita, 1725

Sexta criação, 1892

Sétima criação, 1920

Oitava criação, 1986

Casa real britânica
Casa de Iorque

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Conversations With Friends Is Sex-Fueled Depression-Core TV
Enda Bowe
The Hulu series is a six-hour advertisement for being depressed in Ireland, with an Anthropologie aesthetic and an almost surreal abundance of sex scenes.
Let us open, on this holy occasion, with a Taylor Swift lyric:
"Sequin smile, black lipstick.
Sensual politics.
When you are young, they assume you know nothing."
Such are the essential themes of Conversation With Friends, a Hulu/BBC miniseries out now. Like the 2020 sensation Normal People, this series is adapted from a novel by author Sally Rooney. And like that show, Conversations With Friends is a six-hour advertisement for being depressed in Ireland, with an Anthropologie aesthetic and an almost surreal abundance of sex scenes.
Conversation risks bringing together a horny armchair-philosopher illuminati, three powerful fandoms united in the desire to fuck in oversized knits. First, we have Rooney readers. They are joined by the audience of the TV show Girls, brought in by Jemima Kirke. Plus Swifties by way of Joe Alwyn, a respected and talented actor who, nevertheless, must be identified first and foremost as Taylor Swift's Boyfriend. (This article hereby adopts the position that objectifying Taylor Swift's boyfriend is an act of radical gender equality.)
'Tis Dublin, in non-COVID times: Frances (Alison Oliver) and Bobbi (Sasha Lane) are undergraduates who have the kind of destructive close friendship where two people attempt to adopt one identity. Former partners turned platonic best friends, they speak in "we," and "us," alienate people at parties, and participate in communism as a flexible aesthetic rather than a belief system. This is a friend pair most of us have seen or participated in: Bobbi, outspoken and charismatic; Frances, mute and profoundly mousey. Every baby hair on her head proclaims her total discomfort in her body and in the world.
"You know your whole silent thing makes everyone think you're enigmatic and interesting," Bobbi says cuttingly to Frances. It's ultimate introvert slur, and the audience spends the 12 episodes wondering the same thing—are we observing an interesting person, or just a quiet one? In an accurate depiction of many early-20s friendships, the two spend the entire series deeply wounding each other and then making up by writing grand apology emails.
Frances and Bobbi meet Nick (Alwyn) and Melissa (Kirke). They are a married couple at least 10 years older, both artists but the successful kind, the type of people who own thousands of dollars of intentionally rustic dishware. They adopt Frances and Bobbi as sort of youthful accessories, and the two girls are enamored of the couple's cheekbones and class status. Rooney characters have a nearly erotic pull to luxury but resist the moral complications of pursuing careers that would allow them permanent access to such things. The protagonists in Normal People go to a villa in Italy borrowed from a parent; the Beautiful World Where Are You? crew stay at a Roman apartment and a seaside mansion, and in Conversations the foursome summer at a compound in Croatia loaned by Melissa's boss.
Immediately, Nick and Frances start an affair.
"People tend to find me a bit cold and not very fun," Nick confides.
"People think I'm cold and not fun too," Frances responds.
Two people suffering from immense self-loathing abandon their much more interesting partners for a naked pity party: A love story. Even if you're not attracted to blonde men—and that's your right and nobody can take it from you!— Alwyn has a beauty that's almost off-putting. His hair is an instrument of seduction. In a matriarchy he would be legally required to wear sweaters that show off his collar and hip bones at all times. The statistical likeliness of looking like that and also being kind is so, so low, which makes Nick's nice-guy behavior, well expressed in the screenplay adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Lenny Abramson, all the more entrancing. At one point Frances asks if he's attracted to pregnant women and Nick responds, "I feel like I can imagine myself doing nice things for them." It's an absurd comment, unless by chance you're 21 and doing a weird sex thing.
Alison Oliver and Sasha Lane as Frances and Bobbi in Conversations With Friends
Popular romances tend to follow a familiar trajectory—a seemingly unremarkable heroine with a complex inner life is noticed by a man of higher social value, and he becomes besotted with her. Conversations follows the same formula, except that Nick's marital status makes Frances an anti-heroine. Taking from Melissa, who has had her own affairs, feels like Robin Hood–ing to Frances: stealing from the hot, rich, and blonde to feed the middle class and meek. Plenty of previews billed Conversations as a show about polyamory, but it's largely about cheating.
Frances wants everything that Melissa has—her man, her home, her writing career, her ease in the world—and hates herself for wanting them. But as she clumsily tries to pillage Melissa's life, it becomes increasingly clear that Melissa, to add to her apparent perfection, is truly generous. Frances is a liar and a cheat, an aspiring writer who doesn't know how to communicate. This is why the adaptation, which wants to be a soft moan, is more of a quiet hum—in the book, we're in Frances's mind and know that she's clever and complex. Oliver is endlessly good at telegraphing Frances's sense that she's disrupting the world just by being alive, but it's hard to watch hour after hour of her morosely texting, preparing meals, and taking the train. By the 10th episode it feels like a viewer could navigate any stop on the Irish Rail, just from watching her do it so many times.
All of this is punctuated by much sex. But will it be enough to end a nation's post-Bridgerton refractory period? Will it duplicate the mass hysteria caused by Marianne and Connell of Normal People? It's not likely. Conversations is populated by those classic heterosexual sex scenes where the screen fills with pale flesh and the woman looks like she's caught in a horrible scream of pain. It feels crazy to watch the show when other people are around—like blasting arthouse porn, but with an itch to stare at one's phone, because the scene is so raw.
Allison Oliver and Joe Alwyn as Frances and Nick in Conversations With Friends
"Your self-obsession is exhausting. And it's hurtful. And it's fucking boring," Bobbi finally tells Frances. By the end of the series, Bobbi has been manipulated into emotional, physical, and financial service for her friend. Her identity as the only person of color in the foursome is only very lightly touched on by the series. "I find myself believing that if I look like her then nothing bad would ever happen to me," Frances writes of Bobbi at one point that is quickly glided over.
It's satisfying to hear Bobbi's critique of Frances because it's so true. Sadly, these are not stellar qualities for the main character of a television show. Conversations With Friends falls short of the psychosexual four-way drama it promised. The phrase, "If you don't love yourself, how will anyone else?," has been rightly criticized in real life as inaccurate and fairly cruel. Maybe it should be repurposed as, "If you hate yourself, how will anyone like watching you on TV?"
When you are young, they assume you know nothing! Conversations With Friends doesn't quite know how to satisfy, but it's comfortable and worth trying on, like, let's say, an old cardigan.
Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.
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The African Development Bank recently convened a meeting of experts and stakeholders in the agricultural sector to design integrated pest and disease management mechanisms for controlling the spread of the Fall Army Worm in East Africa.
The Fall Army Worm or Spodoptera frugiperda is an invasive insect threatening food supplies and incomes of millions of African smallholder farmers. The multi-stakeholder, regional action plans to stop the menace of the worm in Africa falls under the Bank's Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) agenda.
Held 11 and 12 October 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya, the meeting brought together government representatives and fall army worm response coordinators from Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda.
Also in attendance were representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries, regional and international stakeholders in the Agriculture sector. The United States Agency for International Development, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation and Syngenta Foundation were also represented at the meeting.
This trend, if unchecked, "could significantly affect African countries which are already importing food estimated at US$35 billion annually and set to outstrip US$100 billion by 2026," Coompson added.
Other speakers and participants addressed ineffective chemicals and cultural control methods to reduce the fall armyworm threat. "We look forward to leaving this meeting with technology options to deploy to farmers in the coming season," said David Mwangi, Head of Plant Protection Services with Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture's State Department for Crop Development.
Researchers from the FAO, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, the African Agricultural Technology Foundation and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, Syngenta, Corteva and Bayer also presented current initiatives and technologies for controlling the fall army worm.
Country focal persons outlined their plans, including financial, policy and regulatory reforms required for achieving quick wins in the fight against the worm in East Africa. They also discussed options for providing effective technologies for combating the worm to smallholder farmers. They observed that in Southern Africa, Fortenza Duo, a seed treatment pesticide from Syngenta Foundation, proved effective against the worm in the first 30 days after crop emergence.
"The submission of national and regional action plans to target millions of farmers shows the degree to which our "plan to action" approach against the fall army worm threat is being taken seriously and is galvanizing governments and farmers to protect not only fields, but livelihoods too," said Chris Akem, TAAT Coordinator at IITA.
Technical: Philip Boahen, Chief Agriculture Policy Economist, AfDB.
Peter Chinwada, TAAT Fall Armyworm Compact Leader, IITA.


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Daniel King's video analysis: Anish Giri vs Magnus Carlsen
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President Donald Trump dared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to formally cancel his State of the Union address scheduled for next Tuesday, in a Wednesday afternoon letter.
Pelosi wrote Trump last week discouraging him from delivering a State of the Union address to Congress on Jan. 29, claiming that security readiness was affected because protection personnel were not receiving their paychecks.
The White House indicated it would be pursuing this strategy Tuesday after it sought to schedule a walk-through for its advance staff at the U.S. Capitol building Monday. The schedule request and the letter from the White House is the latest in a larger saga over a partial government shutdown. The stalemate has lasted more than a month as a result of funding disagreements between Democrats and Republicans for a wall along the U.S. southern border.


One block falls on top of another, which then falls on the next block, and so on.
One event triggers another, eventually causing a chain reaction.
Just as Abstergo Industries – specifically, Hans Regenschirm and Warren Vidic – had turned Freya's life upside down, so too would she pose a long-term impact on someone else's life. In more ways than one, too.
"Sayuri…?" he called out groggily, not yet completely roused from the sleep he had and yet lacked. "What's up, sis?"
"Come outside," came the answer from the doorway, "There's something you might like to see."
Rei didn't understand what was going on, but he went. It wasn't like his sister to play pranks – if anything, he was the less serious of the two of them – so it was probably serious. Still stifling a yawn, he hastily slipped on his sneakers and bounded down the stairs.
"This is what Ceres found just now."
Ceres was his sister Sayuri's persocom, serving mainly as house help and as a babysitter of sorts for her infant daughter, Oyuki. When she had time, Ceres herself took it upon herself to help Rei with his school work, too. Despite being a persocom, she had all but become part of their little family.
To Rei, that Ceres was the one who made this discovery was a rather amusing irony, to say the least.
It – rather, she, Rei corrected himself mentally – was also a persocom, one with large, pink and white plastic ears and long, blond hair that reached all the way to her ankles. The white robes she was wearing were stained with dust, dirt and blood, suggesting that she had run away from somewhere, possibly from her previous owners – and, possibly, been forced to take lethal action to defend herself. And the identical bracers she wore on both her wrists were something he had never seen before, on a person or on a persocom.
Just then, a baby began wailing, prompting Ceres to leave the siblings to attend to her charge. When she had gone, Sayuri began to speak.
"Ceres couldn't analyze her, so I told her not to force it," she explained, shrugging her shoulders. "Something about military-grade security software. Makes me wonder just who built her and where she came from."
It was the expression on the persocom's face that caught his attention. Whereas most other persocoms that had entered such a state would have a serene expression on their face, this one wore a pained, anguished look. It was almost as if she was in a state of distress the last time she had been activated – or that it was that distress that had caused her to shut down in the first place. Sayuri's theory was rather unsettling, if not scary.
Finally, she broke the silence, snapping Rei out of his thoughts.
"If you want her, she's yours."
Rei nodded his assent to that arrangement, before going up to the persocom's side and cradling her. His first act was to reach behind the ears, where he knew the switch would be on most persocoms. But even as his hand moved toward that area, she stirred in his arms, scrunching up her face before opening her eyes and gazing at him. He let her take in the inside of the house before speaking again.
"Are you alright? We found you outside, unconscious."
She nodded, slowly, as if not completely understanding the question, or otherwise initially unsure how to respond. "Do you have an owner?"
This must have been a sore point for her, since she frantically shook her head. Rei wondered what this persocom had gone through, to react in such a vehement manner; for a moment, he felt like he was talking to a real girl rather than a persocom.
She just stared blankly at him. Rei looked at his sister, unsure as to what to ask her next. Sayuri merely smiled and nodded at him in response.
This time, the persocom's response was more direct; rather than simply nodding or shaking her head, she leapt up and embraced Rei, leaving him on his back.
"Okay, okay, I get it," he patted her on the back, laughing. "Guess that's a definite yes."
Rei then turned to Ceres, now holding Oyuki in her arms, his new persocom, and his sister. "Take care of her for me, will you? I'll be right upstairs."
He made his way back up to his room, but no sooner had he taken the first step than he felt his new persocom cling closely to his arm. He turned to her, smiling.
"Alright, I get it, you can come too."
As soon as they had entered his room, Rei closed the door and sat down on his bed, his persocom gazing right back at him as she took a seat on the couch. He could tell she was thinking deeply, though what about, he had no idea.
"It's not much," he said, gesturing around him with a smile as he lay down, "But make yourself comfortable here. I'm pretty sure you won't make a mess of things."
He closed his eyes just as she smiled back, causing a warm feeling to creep up his cheeks as he momentarily forgot he was dealing with a persocom. And just before they shut completely, he saw her murmur a single word.
"Hmm?" Rei barely managed to reply, so close was he to falling asleep.
"'Mmkay," he managed before finally drifting off to the dream world.