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How are these things connected?
A changed life.
A church attendance problem.
A video projector.
A VBS leader.
A vacation in Fort Lauderdale.
Outdoor movie at bar in Port Morant
After visiting and attending multiple churches on Sunday in Jamaica, there was one constant – few if any males between age 12 and 70. The churches are dominated by females.
How could we reach the men of Jamaica? Where could you find men? They are usually hanging around bars, playing cards, playing dominoes and smoking ganga (local term for marijuana).
Should we try to get them to church or bring church to them? We chose the latter. In 2008, we purchased a video projector, an outdoor portable movie screen and decide to take Christian movies to the streets – specifically targeting bars and gambling establishments. Did it work?
Well, we noticed that if the "Jesus Film" was showing, people watched, they stopped gambling and they get quiet. Sometimes, we would have over 150 people stand outside and watch a movie. Many if not most were men. Did it work? That was a question we would ask ourselves many times.
Move forward to the summer of 2015. Amy Luther and her family travel to Jamaica on one of our mission trips. Amy, two of her children and a couple of other missioners conduct Vacation Bible Schools in 5 locations – four of them in very remote rural locations – like Old Pera, Barking Lodge, Airy Castle, and Johnson Mountain. These were hugely successful!
Now to November 2015. Amy, her husband, Mark and her parents go to Fort Lauderdale Florida for a vacation at a resort. Her story:
"All of the staff at the resort had name tags with their first name and where they were originally from. At check out, a young man had Jamaica on his name tag. His name was Desmond. I asked him where he was from. He said "eastern, Jamaica". I said, "wow. I recently went there on a mission trip". He said "great, but you would never know this place. It is in the middle of no-where". He finally said the nearest community was called "Barking Lodge". I told him I actually conducted a vacation bible school at a church in Barking Lodge. I then asked him how he got to the US? He said about 6 years ago he was near Port Morant and there was a group playing Christian movies in the streets. He got to talking to "an outspoken elderly white haired man" who told him he had options and choices he could make with his life. His mother was a prostitute and he was dealing in some drugs at the time. He said about a week later, he decided to travel to Kingston and stay with and uncle and get a job and try to go to school. He did and went to a hospitality school and two years ago came to the US to take this job. He is 20 years old. At the end of our conversation, he said he forgot to ask me what group I had traveled with to Jamaica. As I begin to say "Isaiah 6:8", he says "that old man was with Isaiah 6:8". He came around the counter and hugged me and said "thank you for going and thank God for that old white-haired man for sending me to Kingston". He said that verse stuck in his head and is why he moved to Kingston."
God demands that we sow the seed. He causes it to grow and the harvest is His, but it is nice to know that some seed bore fruit!
Update – last week, we spent two days while in Jamaica getting the street movies back into operation.


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Q: execute serverside code on div click ASPX CODE

Family

ServerSide Code
Public Sub loadContentFamily(ByVal PageName As String)
        MsgBox("")
        PageName = "Family"
        Dim _con As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("LeaveDBConnectionString").ConnectionString)
        Dim _da As New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT PageHeader,PageContent FROM PageKeeper WHERE PageName='" & PageName & "'", _con)
        Dim _table As New DataTable

        Try
            _con.Open()
            _da.Fill(_table)
            _con.Close()
            _con.Dispose()
            With _table.Rows(0)
                h4header.InnerText = .Item(0)
                divUpdatePanel.InnerHtml = .Item(1)
                Me.Title = .Item(0)
            End With

        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.Message)
            divUpdatePanel.InnerText = "No Data Found"
        Finally
            _con.Close()
            _con.Dispose()
        End Try
    End Sub

PROBLEM:
When i click on the div it does not execute the ServerSide Code ...why??Any help appreciated.

A: Check out this post raise postback event from div tag
Yours would look something like

Family

Edit:
Try something like
<Triggers>
        <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="c" EventName="Click" />
    </Triggers>

It's explained better here Partial postback with Javascript

A: wrap your div inside a LinkButton control and call your loadContentFamily method on OnClick event of LinkButton. This worked for me

A: You need to raise a server event, not client event (and it looks like you want to do that asynchronously).
A quick and dirty way of accomplishing this is to use a hidden server button. The button can be located wherever desired (such as inside an UpdatePanel) and it allows proper usage of the ASP page lifecycle.
<asp:Button runat="server" id="btnPostback" style="display:none" onclick="serverEventHandler" />

<div onclick="document.getElementById('<%= btnPostback.ClientID %>').click()">Clickable DIV

A: I would recommend not using the UpdatePanel control, but jQuery. You can find an example here

A: Other alternative is to call a Javascript function and then make a  page method call . return data in form of xml & render in the div .

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Home / Blog / What the Bell Canada Breach Tells us About Legacy Sites and Third-Party Risk
What the Bell Canada Breach Tells us About Legacy Sites and Third-Party Risk
We're only a fraction of the way into 2014 and the data breach headlines keep coming. The latest in the list of cyber-attack casualties is Bell Canada, which was affected by a breach that impacted tens of thousands of its customers. On February 2nd, Bell Canada confirmed it had been hacked by hacktivist group "NullCrew".
From a security perspective, it was interesting to note that the hackers did not have to rely on sophisticated, cutting-edge attacks to extract sensitive customer data. Instead, we're seeing the same "tools of the trade" – like SQL Injection – used to attack major corporations at their most porous and susceptible entry point – the application perimeter.
Let's take a closer look at the Bell Canada breach to see what actually happened. "NullCrew", the hactivist group, approached the attack the same way an automated scanner would – exposing vulnerable functionality on a webpage. According to several blogs, it appears the site was developed in Classic ASP, a programming language that Microsoft retired nearly 12 years ago. Such legacy websites are still in use at many organizations today, often ignored, or even unknown to the organizations themselves. The presence of these legacy sites increases data breach risk, as it opens up a window of opportunity for anonymous threats.
Today's application perimeter is vast, and is largely a reflection of the rapidly changing business and technology climate. Business expansion is creating a proliferation of marketing microsites, assets acquired through mergers & acquisitions, business applications, customer applications, and third-party applications. The problem is that no one tracks, secures or shuts down these applications when they leave active development. The result is an ever expanding web perimeter, exposing organizations to a huge breach risk caused by insecure web applications. Covering the entire perimeter is the new application security challenge. How is a CISO supposed to manage this maze of web assets with fixed resources and budget? We know for sure that network security alone can't meet the demands of application layer attacks; in fact, application vulnerabilities are the top concern of security professionals.1
Bell also announced that the attack happened via a third-party supplier, and its own network and IT systems were not impacted.2 This points to the role of the supply chain as an entry point for attackers which is being used as a gateway to customer data. Recent attacks on the Washington Post and CNN were also traced to a weakness with a third-party supplier, Outbrain. Third-party risk is inherent in an enterprise's software ecosystem. All enterprises assume some risk in using applications sourced from vendors and suppliers. However, most enterprises assume unnecessary and unmitigated risk by their acceptance of vendor software without independent verification of security.
The majority of malicious attacks can be largely avoided by enterprises if some basic security measures are quickly implemented.
Inventory web applications to determine the full extent of the web perimeter.[pdf] Identify all the legacy apps, marketing microsites, and applications from acquired organizations and do a quick baseline scan to identify and fix vulnerabilities in these applications.
Conduct automated security testing, such as Static or Dynamic analysis to identify and secure applications quickly and efficiently.
Mitigate your third-party risk by requesting your suppliers to provide independent attestation of their software.
Build a repeatable program to continuously monitor and test the security of your web applications.
Veracode has services that help address these issues. Veracode's security solutions include Discovery[pdf], for creating an inventory of known and unknown web applications; DynamicMP, for rapid baseline scanning of all applications on the perimeter; and VAST, for independently verifying the security of 3rd party applications.
What do you think of the risks associated with the web perimeter and the supply chain? I'd love to hear your comments below.
[1] The 2013 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study
[2] http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-response-to-illegal-...

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Tongva educator Barbara Drake teaches a group at Kuruvungna Springs about the Tongva's engagement with the natural world. The site is enclosed on three sides by University High School.
The participants in the "Teaching the Tongva" conference want to reframe the history of the indigenous peoples of California.
The workshop is a component of Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles, an educational website whose content is created in collaboration with youth, community leaders and elders from indigenous communities throughout the county. The project's ongoing researchers and creators are UCLA scholars and researchers Mishuana Goeman, Maylei Blackwell, Keith Camacho and Wendy Teeter.
"There are indigenous identities that are deeply embedded in the history of Los Angeles. We want to make them visible by giving them a platform," said Mishuana Goeman, associate professor of gender studies and incoming chair of the American Indian studies interdepartmental program at UCLA.
UCLA bears a unique opportunity to shepherd curriculum about the Tongva, by virtue of the campus being situated on land that once belonged to the tribe, said Blackwell, professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
The workshop was held at Kuruvungna Springs or "a place we stop in the sun," just two miles southwest of UCLA. This is a sacred site for the Tongva — one that that is now nearly engulfed by University High School. A majestic 150-year-old Mexican Cypress that stands beside a tranquil spring fringed by foliage and dotted by dragonflies now watches over a small cultural center that houses information and artifacts related to the Tongva.
Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles creators and members of the Tongva community want to foster an ongoing engagement. Their goals are to develop lesson plans and direct teachers toward accurate sources of information about the indigenous history of Los Angeles and California.
Their immediate plan is to use feedback and information from last week's conference to create a list of resources, teaching materials and tools that will help educators self-assess the veracity of information related to indigenous people. All of these resources will be available to teachers on the Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles website.
At the "Teaching the Tongva," educator Craig Torres encourages educators to seek out and incorporate the natural materials that were used by the Tongva people in their history lessons.
Teeter, who is curator of archaeology for the Fowler Museum at UCLA, teaches in the American Indian studies program. She has long been an advocate for the Tongva and her efforts in the community were critical in both the development of the Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles project as well as bringing together UCLA and Tongva educators for the first time.
"It's something we have envisioned for years, and marks a very important and historic step forward in indigenous education," Teeter said.
Tongva educator Craig Torres, who was instrumental in creating the Gabrelino-Tongva map found on the Mapping Indigenous L.A. website, was at the conference to encourage educators to seek out and incorporate natural materials that were used by the Tongva people into classroom projects, like white sage and yucca fiber, which served ceremonial and medicinal purposes for the Tongva, and still can be used for those purposes today.
Torres in particular uses Tongva education to encourage students to think of their own relationships to the environment and a sustainable future by considering the "three Rs" — reduce, reuse, recycle — from the perspective of the Tongva and their ancient craft-making, artwork, tool-making and medicinal practices.
Tongva educator Barbara Drake recommended books containing important contextual information about her people. She suggested that Tongva experiences and expertise could be incorporated into lessons around astronomy or architecture.
A 150-year-old Mexican Cypress at Kuruvungna Springs in West Los Angeles.
It's especially timely to focus on curriculum related to Los Angeles' indigenous people because as of last year the state changed recommendations around the long-running "Mission Project," which is taught in fourth grade, said Emma Hipolito co-director of the UCLA History-Geography Project. For decades, students created models of a selected California mission out of craft materials or sugar cubes to illustrate the role Catholic settlers and missions played in both converting and subjugating the native population of California.
But indigenous educators say this is a problematic, if not offensive, manner of teaching California Indian culture and history, because it ignores the architectural innovation, craftsmanship, engineering and agricultural practices of the Tongva and other California tribes that flourished long before the Spanish colonized California and built the missions. This history deserves to be explored and celebrated in and of itself, not just in relation to the missions, Tongva educators and UCLA scholars insist.
Craig Torres teaches about Tongva history.
A display of tools and materials created and used by the Tongva indians.


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AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas schools have been adding metal detectors and armed personnel in an effort to improve campus security in response to the deadly May attack at a Houston-area high school that left eight students and two teachers dead.
But faced with criticism from gun enthusiasts in the country's largest conservative state, Abbott -- who gets top ratings from the National Rifle Association -- later clarified that he was only suggesting such laws be part of a broader conversation about school security and that he thinks there's growing opposition to the idea of gun restrictions.
The one-two punch by the state's top Republicans drew cheers from gun rights advocates in a state that has more than 1.
2 million handgun license holders and allows the open carry in public of handguns and long rifles.


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Home / Technology / This Lancia Aurelia is so beautiful I could cry
"An unlikely crime," is how Carfection's Henry Catchpole describes this overwhelmingly prominent Italian coup. In fact, you don't see too many Lancia Aurelias lowered and crooked in the "outlaw" style. This car is unique and seems to have several layers of coolness.
In fact, some Aurelia are pretty cool. This car had the world's first production V6, not to mention an appearance in O.G. Tintin comics after all.
But the one presented in Carfection's video here, built by the Thornley Kelham store, has an exceptionally interesting mix of racing car industry and pure classical elegance.
The store has some valuable perspective on how to lower the ceiling after restoring Giovanni Bracco's races that were hacked in a similar style … although my favorite feature may be the bonus window wiper mounted over the front glass.
"We painted the car black when we painted it red," says Simon Thornley with laughter, "then we painted it black again to mimic what had happened to the car in the period."
Now there is some hardcore nostalgia.
When it comes to car video, it's just a little more modernized, but it's not really a color either – while it looks black and most of the pictures in that video, it's actually more of an eggplant (or eggplant, as the British say) and it is spectacular.
Thornley Kelham has to be on a kick to show this car to English car dealerships, because CAR just posted a recipe of it too, with some driving views and nice pictures. Spoiler alert: "That's good." It will also cost you about half a million dollars if you want one finished.


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Actos – Finally Some Sanctions-Related Sanity
By Bexis on April 24, 2014
The Actos litigation has a way of being topsy-turvy these days. We discussed not too long ago the epic ediscovery fail in that litigation, whereby a defendant, because of overbroad litigation holds that it allowed to persist even after the litigation that had generated them had long since disappeared, was held to have spoliated evidence at a time when there was no Actos litigation. Appallingly, plaintiffs were allowed to "presume" prejudice from the loss of the information – when it's not at all clear that the missing information wasn't, in the end, discovered either in other employee files or from third-party discovery. In re Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation, 2014 WL 355995, at *26-28 (W.D. La. Jan. 30, 2014). The missing Actos files were destroyed when people left the defendant's employ, rather than in any extraordinary attempt to sanitize files. Id. at *26.
The effects of this unusual ruling evidently continued at the first Actos trial. According to a post last week on the E-Discovery Law Alert (a blog specializing in ediscovery):
[The judge instructed the jury after closing arguments Monday that they could take [defendant's] evidence spoliation into account. Additionally, throughout the trial, the jurors were exposed to voluminous evidence detailing [defendant's] conduct in destroying the relevant evidence.
As a result we ended up with a $9 billion punitive damages verdict where the plaintiff received all of $1.5 million in compensatory damages. That's a ratio of six thousand to one. The Supreme Court and most state courts consider any ratio above 10:1 presumptively unconstitutional. A ratio this large, we think, is not only unconstitutional, but is presumptively the product of what lawyers call "passion and prejudice" on the part of the jury. A verdict based on passion and prejudice is typically thrown out in its entirety. This one certainly should be.
How topsy-turvy is Actos getting?
That Actos verdict was in federal court, in an MDL no less. Most defendants prefer to be in federal court, for a whole variety of reasons. Every year the American Tort Reform Association ("ATRA") puts out its list of the ten worse places for defendants to be sued. It calls those jurisdictions "Hellholes." Here's a link to ATRA's current (2013-14) list. No federal court is on that list, either among the so-called "hellholes" or on the secondary "watch list" – a total of 16 states, parts of states, counties, or municipalities.
According to our quick review of ATRA's online archives, no federal court has ever landed on ATRA's annual list – not as a "hellhole, and not even on the organization's "watch list."
One jurisdiction that has appeared somewhere on ATRA's list every year since 2005 is Cook County Illinois (otherwise known as "Chicago"). Things have gotten so topsy turvy in Actos that the defense is doing better – much better – in Cook County than in a federal court MDL.
Recently, in Cook County Circuit Court, the plaintiffs in their local version of Actos Litigation, attempted to get the supervising judge there to go along with the discovery atrocity that the federal MDL has become.
No dice – thanks in no small part to Sherry Knutson at Sidley, who in addition to arguing successfully for the defendant, was nice enough to send the decision our way. In at least one Actos agglomeration, someone seems to understand what is blatantly obvious to us: that plaintiffs shouldn't get a free pass on prejudice where the litigation that didn't even exist at the time alleged spoliation. In re Actos Litigation, No. 11 L 010011, slip op. (Ill. Cir. Cook Co. April 19, 2014).
So how did this blessed breath of sanity occur?
Two weeks before trial (nearly two years after suit was filed), the Cook County plaintiff sashayed into court with a motion seeking nasty sanctions and waiving the MDL Actos decision around. Slip op. at 2, 5. Bad move as it turns out.
Illinois follows a six-factor test for sanctions in cases of alleged spoliation. These are:
(1) the surprise to the adverse party; (2) the prejudicial effect of the proffered testimony or evidence; (3) the nature of
the testimony or evidence; (4) the diligence of the adverse party in seeking discovery; (5) the timeliness of the adverse party's objection to the testimony or evidence; and (6) the good faith of the party offering the testimony or evidence.
Slip op. at 3 (citing Shimanovsky v. General Motors Corp., 692 N.E.2d 286, 291 (Ill. 1998)). Actually the court cited 181 Ill.
2d 112, which is the same thing – but we doubt very many readers have the Illinois Reports handy.
Factor 1: The court couldn't find surprise. Indeed the plaintiffs didn't even address it (probably because there was none after all the MDL brouhaha). With no evidence, that factor "favors neither party." Slip op. at 4.
Factor 2: There's none of the MDL-style prejudice in the air in Illinois. The court demanded real evidence of prejudice, and the Actos plaintiffs couldn't deliver. Rather, they argued that the court "may presume prejudice" based on the number of files at issue and whose they were. Slip op. at 4. That may have worked in the MDL, but not in Cook County. "[A] federal trial court's ruling is not binding on this Court." Id. at 5.
Plaintiff neither explains to this Court what evidence she expected to find in the lost custodial files nor sets forth how this missing evidence would have been utilized to pursue any of her claims or rebut any of [the] defenses. A court should not presume that a party was prejudiced by the mere fact that potentially relevant documents were destroyed.
Because [defendant's] document destruction is not presumptively prejudicial, Plaintiffs failure to present evidence of prejudice is fatal to her motion.
Id. (citation omitted). With no showing of actual prejudice, the sanctions only "would serve to punish." Id. Thus, when the Actos plaintiffs had to put up or shut up on spoliation, they couldn't deliver. They were, to adapt an old Texas saying, all presumption and no prejudice. This factor "militates decisively against imposing any sanction." Slip op. at 5.
Factor 3: Plaintiffs could not establish that the nature of the evidence – mostly missing emails and custodial files – was likely to benefit them. "It is not clear if the missing documents, if found, would contain evidence beneficial to [plaintiffs] or detrimental to [defendant]." As far as the record showed, the documents "may have been beneficial" to the defendant. Slip op. at 5-6. This factor favored nobody. Id. at 6.
Factor 4: Plaintiffs likewise couldn't show their "diligence in seeking discovery." Id. at 6. They relied on a protective order, but that order "was entered after much, if not all, of the document destruction took place." Id. The factor also favored nobody. Id.
Factor 5; Plaintiffs were woefully delinquent in seeking sanctions:
Here, Plaintiff was aware of the document issue as early as summer 2013. Yet, Plaintiff waited to file the present motion until three weeks after the MDL Court issued its order and two weeks before this case was set for trial.
Slip op. at 6. Basically, the Cook County plaintiffs were trying to avoid doing any heavy lifting. They tried to piggy-back on the MDL ruling, while waiting until the eleventh hour to disrupt the defense's preparation. This factor "militates against imposing a sanction." Id.
Factor 6: While the defendant acted in good faith during the litigation, slip op. at 6 (defendant "diligently complied with this Court's discovery orders" and its "cooperation . . . to facilitate discovery has been exceptional"), it still fell afoul of its own discovery holds (as we discussed before). Id. ("documents were destroyed in clear contravention of a products liability litigation hold" from 2002). This was the only factor the court found weighed "in favor of imposing a sanction." Id.
But lack of good faith alone was insufficient to support any sanction in Cook County – let alone to justify the sort of jury instructions that goaded the runaway MDL jury – and which the currently proposed amendments to Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 (see our post here) would prohibit absent specific intent to deprive an opponent of evidence in "the litigation." Instead, under Illinois law:
Plaintiff has not demonstrated how she has or will be prejudiced by [defendant's] destruction of the specific documents that are missing. Plaintiffs inability to demonstrate prejudice is fatal to her motion because an order imposing sanctions against [defendant] for conduct it engaged in which did not prejudice Plaintiff would only punish [defendant] while furthering no interest in promoting discovery or a fair trial.
Actos Litigation, slip op. at 7.
One major purpose of bellwether trials in mass tort litigation is to come up with some way of accurately valuing cases. An outlier verdict, like the one in the Actos MDL defeats that purpose, and indeed is contrary the purpose of aggregating litigation in the first place. ATRA may call Cook County a "hellhole" (and Illinois discovery practice generally is not defendant friendly), but in this instance at least it's proving to be a lot less hellish than what has transpired so far in the MDL.
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VOLUME sevenTEEN · 2017
Prisoners of War? Evoking an Anglo-Irish Perception of the Conflict of 1914–19
Ian d'Alton
ABSTRACT: Much has been written about the Anglo-Irish and the First World War. Yet, with the exception of some comments by Terence Dooley, Keith Jeffery and D. George Boyce, the group and individual psychology of how this essentially warrior-class approached—and comprehended—the War has hardly been dealt with. The War in all its facets—its individual heroisms and its call to duty, as well as its sense of 'grand tragedy', severed limbs and gassed bodies—represented the state in which these 'people of the King' found themselves. Utilising and drawing upon then-contemporary and later literary works by the Anglo-Irish—such as Lennox Robinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane and Lord Dunsany, and some lesser-known authors—this essay attempts one evocation of the psychological entanglement of the Anglo-Irish gentry with the Great War. A short paper, and necessarily speculative, it offers some fresh perspectives and will, it is hoped, stimulate further lines of enquiry. A brief setting of the scene is followed by an examination of what war meant to the Anglo-Irish; the pivotal nature of the outbreak of conflict; the War as a foundation myth equivalent to the nationalists' 1916 Rising; and, lastly, the place of predetermination, predestination and ghostliness in the Anglo-Irish comprehension of the War and its aftermath, when the Great War became a retrospective metaphor for the Anglo-Irish condition in the new political dispensation after Irish independence.
The Dramaturgy of Embeddings: Übermarionettes in W. B. Yeats's and Luigi Pirandello's Meta-Theatres
Zsuzsanna Balázs
ABSTRACT: The analogies between W. B. Yeats's and Luigi Pirandello's theatres are, undeservedly, rarely mentioned in Irish and Italian studies, even though the conspicuous interactions between their theatrical strategies nicely illustrate how contemporary Irish and Italian theatres communicated with one another, sharing a common purpose: the creation of an anti-naturalist, symbolist theatre. In April 1924, the Abbey Theatre presented Pirandello's Henry IV with Lennox Robinson playing the lead role, which was 'one of the finest pieces of acting in modern Irish theatre', as Robert Hogan and Richard Burnham have described it. Also, this performance was a milestone in Yeats's interest in Pirandello's theatre, for 'it took his own themes of myth and mask to new levels,' as Michael McAteer has put it. In this paper, I examine the similarities between Yeats's and Pirandello's use of übermarionette characters; the embedding of various layers of reality and masking; and finally, their representation of the agonies of the self. I claim that these elements are best articulated in Pirandello by the idea of the so-called three strings/springs of men (social, serious, and insane). Most importantly, these strings bear a striking resemblance to Yeats's concept of the three spheres of existence that man can achieve, namely the anima hominis, the 'condition of air,' and the anima mundi. Moreover, I will illustrate in what ways Pirandello's theatre based on the adaptation/modernisation of the techniques of the commedia dell'arte resembled Yeats's theatre based on the transformation of the traditional Japanese Noh-theatre, and how they absorbed and then transformed these traditional theatrical forms in order to accommodate their own theatres to the European context. Plays discussed include Pirandello's Caps and Bells (1917) and Each in his Own Way (1924) and Yeats's The Words upon the Window-pane (1930) and The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935).
The Flawed Return: A Study of the Homecoming Theme in John Banville's The Sea
Pier Paolo Piciucco
ABSTRACT: John Banville's 2005 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sea is, among other reasons, a remarkable work of fiction for the whimsicality of the homecoming journey engaged in by the protagonist Max Morden. If traditionally the return describes a homeward trip where departure and arrival points overlap, in this novel the narrator's uneasiness with his self makes this trajectory shadowy in such a way that his travelling does not depict a circle but a spiral, where the curving line comes very close to the departure point, without touching it. In my essay I examine the peculiarities of this uncommon route that is mainly originated by the protagonist's rejection of his original family—located too low in the social ladder for his expectations—and his dogged resolve to replace it with a fake one, more in keeping with his haughty temperament. My work is basically split into two sections: in the first one, psychology has become the tool of analysis to study the ways in which Max's journey may be considered to conform to the general norm of subjects engaged in a homeward trip. In the second, a mythological approach has been used in order to offer supplementary clarifications to Morden's bizarre return home.
'A Native Style Springing from a People Possessed of Original Power and Mind': The Irish Round Tower in Australian Architecture
Jonathan M. Wooding
ABSTRACT: Two parish churches in suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney feature extensive use of Irish symbolism. This symbolism includes in each case a tower that is intended to evoke the medieval Irish 'round tower'. The two churches, St John's East Melbourne (1901) and St Francis Xavier Arncliffe (1932), are both notable works in different Romanesque-Revival genres, both by significant architects. The role played by the tower in each of the churches is explored for its connection to wider architectural, antiquarian, and political discourses.
The Sacred and Profane Songs of Cecilia Curtin in Mannix's Melbourne, 1909–36
Aileen Dillane
ABSTRACT: Cecilia Curtin (1879–1960) is a relatively unknown vocalist and chorister, who carved out a distinct career as a performer and vocal pedagogue of both sacred and profane (secular) music in Melbourne during Archbishop Daniel Mannix's lengthy episcopacy in the first half of the twentieth century. Curtin's varied repertoire provides a barometer for the tastes and sympathies of local audiences at the time and, in particular, underpins expressions of solidarity amongst Irish-Australian Catholics. Opportunities and challenges encountered by female ethnic and musical entrepreneurs and semi-professional soloists may be traced through Curtin's specific performance and educational contexts that were largely shaped by Catholic institutions. Though ostensibly a 'minor' figure, initially and unexpectedly encountered through archival ephemera, Cecilia Curtin's voice deserves to be heard as she compellingly performs the intersections between ethnic Irish identity, gender and Catholicism in Mannix's Melbourne.
The Wartime Journalism of Tom Glynn, 1914–16
ABSTRACT: One of the famous 'Sydney Twelve', imprisoned for their opposition to war and conscription in 1916, Tom Glynn (1881–1934) was the founding editor of Direct Action, the periodical of the Australian 'Administration' of the American-based movement, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Born in Galway, Ireland, and immigrating to Melbourne as a teenager, Glynn came into contact with IWW ideology while involved in labour struggles in South Africa. Deepening his commitment during a sojourn in the United States and Canada, he returned to Australia in 1912 to build the movement there. In August 1914, Direct Action was the most trenchant opponent of war in the country, and Glynn's journalism and editorship were critical to that opposition. This article examines Glynn's wartime writings, focusing in particular on his advocacy of sabotage, and on how that led to his imprisonment and to the suppression of the IWW in Australia.
To know this, and in shame turn away': Institutional Abuse and the Ethics of Witnessing in Paul Murray's Skippy Dies
Brandi Byrd
ABSTRACT: Paul Murray's novel Skippy Dies depicts a crisis of witnessing. Skippy, who has been sexually assaulted by his swim coach, is unable to communicate his trauma, while his friends, family, and teachers all fail to make sense of his behaviour as 'acting out' his traumatic experience. In exploring the social responsibilities and ethical challenges of witnessing another's trauma, Murray evaluates the social schemata and narrative frameworks structuring his characters' perceptions and memories. As this paper argues, Murray suggests that an institutional narrative logic, enforcing close adherence to a strict social script, disables agency, complicates responsibility, and prevents the dialogic exchange necessary for acts of ethical witnessing.
No Escape': The Irish Diaspora, the November 1915 Conscription Crisis and the Origins of Wartime British Passport Controls
Jimmy Yan
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Pat 'The Cope': Fianna Fáil's European election strategy could be 'dangerous'
The veteran MEP will be one of two Fianna Fáil candidates running in the vast Midlands-North West constituency in the European elections this May.
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PAT 'THE COPE' GALLAGHER, the veteran Fianna Fáil MEP, has said that the two-candidate strategy that the party is pursuing in the new Midlands-North West European constituency could be dangerous.
He has also admitted that it is unlikely the party will take two seats, telling Karen Coleman on Radio EP: "I am only wish we could take two seats, but of course I am a realist."
He was speaking ahead of the party's final selection convention which is due to take place in Mullingar this weekend. Two candidates will be picked to contest the 15-county four-seat constituency for Fianna Fáil.
Gallagher is certain to take one of the nominations with Senator Thomas Bryne also likely to be nominated. Seanán Ó Coistín, a former independent candidate in Ireland East, is also putting his name forward.
Gallagher, who has been in the European Parliament since 1994, said the decision to run two candidates had come from "the hierarchy of the party" with one running east of the Shannon and the other west of the river in what he said is "a very large constituency".
"It can be a dangerous strategy, particularly if we came in with about the same vote and then transfers are more difficult," Gallagher said.
The former TD, whose stronghold is in Donegal and the west of the constituency, added that he has an ability to secure votes in the counties of Laois, Offaly, Kildare, Meath and Louth.
He agreed that opinion polls suggest that Sinn Féin will take a seat along with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, but cautioned that it was "much too early yet" to predict what will happen.
Fine Gael has already selected incumbent MEPs Mairead McGuinness and Jim Higgins as it targets two of the four available seats in the constituency. Labour has selected senator Lorraine Higgins, Sinn Féin is running councillor Matt Carthy, and the Green Party is running councillor Mark Dearey.
Incumbent independent MEP Marian Harkin is seeking to retain her European Parliament seat, and independent senator Rónán Mullen is also contesting the election. Independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan will indicate next week whether he intends to run.
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It's the halfway point of their Pac-10 season, which seems a good time to asses not only the Huskies, but the conference as well. So here's one man's look at some mid-season awards.
Player of the Year – Brandon Roy. And this isn't just a homer pick. Look at the numbers. When considering only conference games, Roy is leading the Pac-10 in scoring, assist-to-turnover ratio and 3-point shooting and also ranks among the top 10 in the conference in rebounding, assists, steals, overall field goal percentage and blocked shots. No other Pac-10 player is doing as much for his team as Roy is for the Huskies. The other two obvious candidates are Arizona's Hassan Adams and Cal's Leon Powe, and wins and losses in the final nine games could determine the ultimate winner.
Freshman of the Year – This is probably a two-man race between a pair of local kids – Jon Brockman and Arizona's Marcus Williams. Right now, Williams gets the nod for the way he has scored in Pac-10 games and made key plays down the stretch.
All-Pac-10 Freshman Team – It could consist of three Seattle-area players – Brockman, Williams and Stanford's Mitch Johnson. Also in the mix are UCLA's Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Arizona State's Jeff Pendergraph, USC's Ryan Francis and UW's Justin Dentmon.
All-Pac-10 Team – We'll do it the same way the coaches do – 10 players regardless of position. I figure these guys are all slam dunks – Roy, Adams, Powe, UCLA's Jordan Farmar and Arron Afflalo, Stanford's Matt Haryasz and USC's Nick Young and Gabe Pruitt. I'd also go for Stanford's Chris Hernandez.
The final spot goes to Cal's Ayinde Ubaka. I'd love to pick Bobby Jones, but he's been too erratic – in part due to the ankle injury – and Ubaka's emergence is a huge reason Cal is suddenly a legitimate player for the conference title. So he gets the nod.
Coach of the Year – That UCLA is on top, despite all of its injuries, makes this an easy nod to Ben Howland. I think the rest of the conference ought to be real nervous about the job Howland is doing as the Bruins appear ready to reclaim their mantle as the year-in, year-out team to beat in the Pac-10. Tim Floyd is running a respectable second here, getting the most out of a Trojan team that has a few really talented players but no big guys and no real depth.
Coaches on the Hot Seat – I don't think there's any way Arizona State's Rob Evans – who seems like a really nice man – survives now. Oregon's Ernie Kent also seems like he could be in a lot of trouble – read John Canzano's column in The Oregonian Sunday for his take on that subject. Though as Canzano points out, it's hard to tell what the administration there is really thinking.
Most Disappointing Team – Oregon is an obvious choice. The Ducks unquestionably pass the airport test. But they can't pass – or shoot – the ball all that well and seem poised for a losing record after having legitimate NCAA hopes.
Giving them a run for their money is their rival Beavers. I personally thought Oregon State would be a lot better than it has been, and with three seniors in its usual starting lineup, it's hard to tell where the Beavers are headed.
Breakout Player – Ubaka came to Cal three years ago with a lot of hype and battled injuries and inconsistency his first two seasons. But now you see what all the fuss was about as he's giving the Bears a great outside threat to go along with Powe in the middle.
Most Underrated Player – I'd say Lodrick Stewart if he weren't one of the most hyped players ever in Seattle high school history. Now that everyone seems to think he's a bust, he's turning into a real good player – he hit another key 3-pointer late in the win at Oregon Saturday and the game-winner in the final seconds at Arizona State earlier in the season.
I also like Washington State's Kyle Weaver for this spot. He's a little out of position having to fill in for Derrick Low as WSU's main point guard. But he still ranks among the Pac-10 leaders in field goal percentage, assists, assist-to-turnover ratio, steals and rebounds.
Most Disappointing Player – Considering the state of the Pac-10 this year, this could also be a 10-man team. But the two who stand out each reside in Oregon – Oregon's Malik Hairston and Oregon State's Nick DeWitz. Hairston's NBA stock is dropping with each Oregon loss as it becomes apparent he can't carry the team to greatness by himself. And it's apparent now that DeWitz's fabulous end to last season was aided greatly by the presence of David Lucas.


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A Water Exercise Routine for Back Pain
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By Anne Asher, CPT
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Anne Asher, ACE-certified personal trainer, health coach, and orthopedic exercise specialist, is a back and neck pain expert.
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Laura Campedelli, PT, DPT, is a physical therapist with experience in hospital-based acute care and outpatient therapy with both children and adults.
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If you struggle with a lot of back pain and medical treatments, including exercise, haven't delivered the relief you seek, water exercise may be for you. It's fun, social, and for many people, it buoys the spirit.
But most important, water exercise can be great for your joints and muscles. In fact, a 2014 meta-analysis found that aquatic exercise can help improve pain, quality of life, and your ability to function in your daily life if you are dealing with a musculoskeletal condition. (Back pain is certainly one of these conditions.)
The study also found that aquatic exercise confers its benefits onto a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions equally and that the results one might get from engaging regularly with exercise in the pool are comparable to those of land-based exercise.
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Interested? If so, you may want to know how to start.
Perhaps the easiest way is to join a class at your local pool or gym. But if your schedule doesn't permit that, or if such classes are not available to you, giving yourself a water workout is another possibility. It's not a difficult as it may seem.
The first step is to gather the items you'll need. Along with the usual fare: bathing suit, towel, flip flops, etc, you'll likely benefit from the use of flotation devices and other water exercise tools. Many such tools exist, from kickboards to noodles, as well as paddles and tubing. Water tools increase the resistance of the water as a way of helping you build muscle strength; they also can help you stay afloat, which makes moving easier on your joints.
But the floatation belt is likely the most basic of all such devices. As the name suggests, the belt keeps you from sinking while you're in the deep end, and can decrease pressure on joints when you work in the shallow end. If you can only procure one extra item for your aquatic workout, the flotation belt is the one to own.
The Water Warm Up: Walking & Lunges
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The first activity in your water workout will most likely be walking. The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) recommends starting your walking forward in waist or chest high water forwards and backward, as well. Start slowly and once you're warmed up a bit, increase your speed. Another way to step up your warm-up is to jog in place, the APTA says. You might also alternate walking and jogging for five minutes.
The APTA suggests following your walking (or jogging) warm up with a few lunges. You can stand near the wall of the pool and hold on for support; if you don't hold onto a wall, you can expect the extra challenge to your core.
Doing a forward lunge is like walking in that you take a step forward. The difference is that you'll bend that front knee. Don't take the knee too far forward, though. You should always be able to see your toes. Otherwise, you've bent the knee too far.
Another difference is between walking and lunging is that after you lunge, you come back up to your original start position, and then repeat the move on the other side. That said, walking lunges are a possibility, too.
As for how many, the APTA suggests doing 3 sets of 10 lunges.
Water Kicks & Sideways Walking
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To get a well-rounded workout, you need to include sideways movement, too. The APTA suggests a sidestepping activity. Here's how:
Face the pool wall (you can hold on if you need) with your feet and toes facing straight ahead. Take 10-20 steps to one side and then 10-20 steps back. Repeat once or twice more.
Okay, it's time for some real hip power in the form of hip kicks/swings. This move can help develop both strength and range of motion at your hip, which is a key joint for a healthy low back.
Stand near the wall—near enough to hold onto it if you have to. Keeping the knee straight, bring one leg forward, and then back behind you. Do 3 sets of 10 on these and then repeat with the other leg. You can also perform this move out to the side, where you bring the leg out and then back in, crossing in front or in back of the standing leg. (I'd suggest alternating between crossing in front and crossing in back.)
Water Work Those Abs
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It's time to work the abdominal muscles and core. If you're in the deep water with a flotation belt, bring both knees up to your chest and down again 10 times. Repeat this for 3 sets. A more advanced version of this exercise is before bringing your legs back down, straighten your knees and extend your body out into one long line—as though you were floating on the water.
To work your oblique muscles and get some spine twisting in, consider doing one or more sets of 10 rotating your knees to the right or left as you bring them up. (And repeat the same on the other side, of course.)
You can challenge your balance while in the shallow water. This, in turn, will likely challenge your core muscles. Try standing on one leg with the other parked high up, propped on the inner thigh of that standing leg. Count to 10 (or longer) while holding the position. Repeat on the other side. Do your best not to hold onto anything while you perform this exercise.
To add even more challenge, bring your arms up over your head.
Water Exercise Session Cool Down
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Return to water walking for your cool down. Cool down should last about 5 to 10 minutes. Include hip stretches, either in the water once you are back on land.
Congratulations! You've completed a basic mini-workout in the water!
Shi Z, Zhou H, Lu L, et al. Aquatic exercises in the treatment of low back pain: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis of eight studies. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2018;97(2):116-122. doi: 10.1097/phm.0000000000000801
Barker AL, Talevski J, Morello RT, Brand CA, Rahmann AE, Urquhart DM. Effectiveness of Aquatic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Meta-Analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2014;95(9):1776-1786. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2014.04.005.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – June 25, 2014) – Canstar Resources Inc. (Canstar); (TSX VENTURE:ROX) is pleased to announce the commencement of its summer exploration program, beginning with a ground geophysical survey at its Mary March Property near Buchans Junction, Newfoundland. Canstar will be implementing a deep-penetrating induced polarization (or "IP") geophysical survey in order to enable maximum depth visualization on the property, with focus on the wide mineralization encountered near the Nancy April Zone. This type of technology and depth penetration represents the most detailed and comprehensive survey of its kind to have ever been conducted on the property and utilizes state-of-the-art geophysical methods. The results of this survey will be used for target generation where any new targets will be drilled in the subsequent drilling program also anticipated in the coming months.
The Mary March property is a VMS prospect located near Canada's famous Buchans mine in Newfoundland, Canada. The Buchans mine produced over 16 million tonnes of zinc, lead and copper from 1928 to 1984.
Canstar resources has held this property for more than a decade but exploration only began in 2012. The delay was due to a dispute with Vinland Resources who claimed to be the rightful owners of the property mineral rights. This dispute effectively put exploration on hold. It wasn't until November 2011, after several appeals, that Vinland finally dropped it's pursuit of the property. Canstar has a 50% interest in the property and is the operator (Xstrata holds the other 50%).
2014 Induced Polarization Survey
In contrast to previous geophysical methods utilized on the Mary March Property throughout its exploration history, the IP method is not hindered by potential poor conductivities. It is now well established that the prevalent mineralization at Mary March is very similar to that of the former producing Buchans Mine, which is that of a zinc-rich mineralization with poor electro-conductive properties; the Buchans Mine was one of Canada's all-time highest grade VMS ore producing 16.2 million tonnes averaging 14.50% Zn, 7.56% Pb, 1.33% Cu, 126 grams per tonne (g/t) Ag and 1.37 g/t Au between 1928 and 1984. By utilizing an IP geophysical method, Canstar hopes to detect these otherwise difficult-to-find mineralized areas where we understand there to be the highest potential for mineralization based on geology and previous drilling. The technology for IP geophysical methods has advanced in the last decade such that detection capabilities are now common to vertical depths in excess of 300 meters. Such advancements will greatly enhance Canstar's capability in unraveling both the mineralization on the Mary March Property and the structure that controls it.
Induced Polarization Surveys (IP) are commonly used for the detection of dispersed metal sulfides, but may also used to detect larger masses of metal sulfides. Zinc and lead sulfide minerals are non-magnetic and poor conductors. This makes it difficult to detect these minerals with more traditional electromagnetic (EM) or magnetic surveys. IP surveys work by applying a charge to the ground and measuring its ability to hold a charge. This makes it well suited to searching for metallic, but non-conductive bodies.
A gravity survey might also be useful in this situation since metallic minerals would show up as a high-density mass contrasted against a background of less-dense host rock.
2014 Drilling Program
Canstar Resources actively plans to conduct a diamond drilling program on the Mary March Property. The Company has existing geological targets based on 2013 drilling as well as a very high priority geophysical target generated from the Borehole Electromagnetic surveys ("BHEM") conducted in winter of 2014. Drilling is anticipated to commence shortly after the collection of data from the announced IP survey, which will be incorporated into the generation and refining of targets on the property. The Company will announce more details on the program upon commencement.
A borehole electromagnetic survey involves placing geophysical instruments in an existing drill hole and measuring for nearby electric conductors. Why use borehole EM when the target minerals are non-conductive? VMS deposits also contain iron sulfides such as pyrite and pyrrhotite which ARE conductive. These sulfides are usually located within the periphery of a VMS deposit.
2014 Kenora Gold Project
Canstar has commenced preliminary work on its recently optioned Kenora Gold Project and plans to conduct a reconnaissance mapping and sampling program in July of this year. This work will lead to the definition of key areas of highest potential where more detailed exploration work will be conducted. Work on the Kenora Gold Project will be ongoing throughout the year and developments from this work will be announced as they are compiled.
With the mining industry in a weakened state, its a great time for companies to acquire cheap properties. Canstar's Kenora Gold Project is a good example of this. Canstar optioned this property in April 2014 for a song: The company will pay a total of $18,200 in cash over two years and provide 200,000 shares after the end of the second year (current market value of $11,000). A few years ago few would have made such a deal, but now optioners are happy just to have someone working on their property.
The company will be performing "grass roots" exploration such as mapping and rock sampling on the Kenora Gold Project.
Canstar is currently trading at $0.07, close to it's 52-week low of $0.055. The upside of waiting ten years to explore their flagship property is that they now have the benefit of more modern geophysical techniques. We can only hope the wait was worth it.
Mr. Danniel Oosterman, P.Geo., the President and CEO of the Company, is a "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed the technical disclosure in this press release.
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POSTERS have gone up around Germany. Angela Merkel is back from her holiday. The chancellor begins her election tour tomorrow, August 12th, with a rally in Dortmund. Next week she travels on to the Rhineland and the north-western city of Bremen. Martin Schulz, her Social Democratic (SPD) challenger, will launch his series of live events there a week later. The two are both doing live election interviews on television next week. Germany's election campaign is under way. Here is what you need to know about the six major parties.
Mrs Merkel is essentially rerunning her campaign from the last election, in 2013: "you know me". With refugee arrivals falling and the perception of government control and competence restored, the big wobble in her popularity of late 2015 and early 2016 now feels like ancient history. The disagreements between her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their more conservative Bavarian partners, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have been papered over. The economy is strong and after years of stagnation wages are rising, if modestly. For many voters, this is reason enough to stick with a formula that has broadly served Germany well for the past 12 years: centrism, conflict-aversion and (to quote an old CDU slogan) no experiments.
Abroad Mrs Merkel is often described by critics and admirers as a sphinx, a master chess-player, a Machiavellian. In truth she is not so complicated. She believes in generating prosperity through market forces and distributing it widely. Beyond that she travels light: cleaving to few ideological precepts and avoiding risk, apart from situations where she feels she has little choice and believes she can steer events. She triangulates because it works. Not (as some claim) by obsessively following polls, but by divining long-term shifts in opinion and political conflicts and positioning herself in the middle—often heading off those conflicts altogether. A typical example was her manoeuvring on equal marriage in June (see article).
Critics, including Mr Schulz, accuse her of "asymmetric demobilisation"; that is, of deliberately lowering turnout among supporters of her opponents by being inoffensive. This is true, but hardly a damning indictment. In practice she knows her electorate and gives it what it wants. I saw this a few weeks ago at one of her rallies on the Baltic Sea. Practically every sentence of her speech was a third-way formulation offering something for everyone: "a strong Germany [right] in a strong Europe [left]", "migrants must speak German [right] and we should be proud of our diversity [left]", "the state should not prescribe how people live [right] but it must support them [left]". The audience of holidaymakers cheered her keenly, but she barely even solicited their support: "perhaps you will consider putting your cross in the box for the Christian Democrats," she mused.
In a country going through economic or social turmoil this would not be enough. But Germany's prosperity, if imperfectly distributed, makes it sufficient. Voters here do not tend to adore Merkel. But they tend to think they could do worse. And that goes for supporters of other parties as well as Christian Democrats: a poll by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen released on August 11th shows that 29% of SPD voters would prefer her as chancellor to Mr Schulz. Like other recent surveys it has her party winning 40% of the vote. It is safe to assume that Mrs Merkel will lead the next German government.
Mr Schulz is in a bind. He hails from the right of the SPD, which puts him close to Mrs Merkel on the CDU's left. The parties' two manifestos are similar, with a few modest differences (both back tax cuts and investment increases, for example, but the SPD would raise taxes on the highest earners and invest a bit more).
Mr Schulz only emerged as the SPD's candidate for chancellor in January, when Sigmar Gabriel, the party's then-leader, stepped down and took the vacant post of foreign minister. Mr Schulz had been out of Germany since 1994, when as the former mayor of a small town near Aachen he moved to Brussels as an MEP, working his way up the ranks to become president of the European Parliament. At first this background—earthy but with international gravitas, and unburdened by the compromises made during his party's four years in coalition under Mrs Merkel—seemed to give him a magic touch. The SPD soared into contention, even overtaking the CDU/CSU in a couple of polls, but then the novelty wore off and the party slumped. When in May it lost power in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany's largest state and a traditional SPD stronghold, the game seemed up to many in the party.
Since then Mr Schulz has been trying to find subjects with which to prise open Mrs Merkel's apolitical armour. He has tried social justice: distancing his party from the liberalising labour-market reforms conducted by its former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder. He has tried Europe: travelling to Paris to signal his support for Emmanuel Macron. He has tried refugees: visiting Italy to discuss how well prepared Europe is for the next crisis. He has tried defence: rebranding the CDU/CSU commitment to NATO's 2% of GDP target for defence spending as an "arms race", despite the fact that his party in government supported the measure. He has called out the chancellor for her "asymmetric demobilisation". All to no avail.
Another weight on Mr Schulz is his refusal to rule out a "red-red-green" coalition with the Greens and, controversially, The Left. But in practice he would prefer a "traffic light" coalition with the Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), following in the steps of his political hero, Willy Brandt.
The free-market FDP obtained its best-ever result in 2009, joined a government with Mrs Merkel, seemingly achieved little then crashed out of the Bundestag altogether in 2013. So extensive was the wipeout at both federal and state levels that the party today is still something of a one-man band—centred on its leader, Christian Lindner—and has few heavyweights beyond him.
But Mr Lindner has presided over a comeback of sorts by rebranding his party as an outfit for radical modernisers. He has concentrated on digitisation—a field where Germany lags many of its competitors—and pragmatic infrastructure improvements. This, combined with his youthful pitch (evocative of Mr Macron or Justin Trudeau) has allowed him to reach new voters in metropolitan Germany. But he has balanced this with an appeal to traditional FDP voters, who are to the right of liberals in most European countries (Liberal Democrats in Britain, say, or Mr Macron in France). For example, he wants Greece booted out of the euro and recently suggested that Germany should tolerate Russia's annexation of Crimea.
This last gambit—which Mr Lindner seems to regret—points to his biggest priority. Most of all, the FDP leader wants to get his party back in the headlines. Insofar as he seems to be succeeding, his party will return to the Bundestag this autumn.
A party that grew out of the pro-migration, anti-nuclear movement in the 1980s has a tough time under a pro-migration and anti-nuclear chancellor. So the Greens have been struggling recently: some polls putting them close to the 5% hurdle needed to stay in the Bundestag. Moreover, it is not fully clear where they stand: a pragmatically pro-business leadership contrasting awkwardly with its more left-wing base.
Yet the Greens matter. They are in 10 of Germany's 16 state governments so have extensive power over things like education and infrastructure, as well as in the Bundesrat (the federal upper house, made up of state representatives). This experience has given the party a long bench of prospective legislators and even ministers. The party is also a bastion for a tough foreign policy: pro-European and robust on the likes of Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Germany's most left-wing major party is a fusion of the successor party to the East German communists and a party that broke from the SPD under Mr Schröder's pro-market welfare reforms. It is divided between moderates (mostly based in its eastern strongholds, where it is the de facto party of social democracy) and hardliners (mostly based in the west, where it is less mainstream). Under Sahra Wagenknecht, who is Putin-friendly and anti-NATO, the hardliners currently have an upper hand in the party. This makes the ideal of many on the German left—a grand reunion of SPD, Left and Greens—hard to imagine, to the frustration of some Ms Wagenknecht's more moderate party colleagues. For the time being it will remain a marginal force, truly significant only in the eastern states.
The country's youngest major party emerged in 2013 as a free-market, Eurosceptic force and took 4.7% of votes at the federal election of that year. Since then it has been taken over by forces to the right, has styled itself for a while as the voice of opposition to Mrs Merkel's refugee policies and now seems rather lost. It is also mired in personality battles, many involving Frauke Petry, the party's dominant figure who was sidelined at its conference in April. Infighting continues to mire the AfD, which will probably clear the 5% hurdle and make lots of noise in the next Bundestag. Less clear is whether it will achieve much.


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2014 February 22 - 23 Sports Collectibles Platinum Night Auction - New YorkAuction #7100
1923 New York Yankees World Championship Watch Presented to Babe Ruth....
The most significant article of New York Yankees memorabilia that exists
1923 New York Yankees World Championship Watch Presented to Babe Ruth.
It's been said that familiarity breeds contempt, and after a decade of shared Polo Grounds residency and a pair of Fall Classic battles, the New York Giants and New York Yankees were awash in mutual disdain as the final rivets were driven into the new baseball palace just across the Harlem River from Coogan's Bluff. Though the landlords had bested their tenants in both the 1921 and 1922 World Series, the Giants still bristled at the superior drawing power of the Yankees, the direct result of their 1920 acquisition of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox. But money was money, so when Yankees team owner Jacob Ruppert announced the purchase of ten acres of western Bronx real estate from the estate of William Waldorf Astor on February 6, 1921 for the site of their new home, the most notorious figure of the baseball underworld stuck out a leg to trip them up.
That man was Arnold Rothstein, best recalled in the sport's ignominy as the mastermind of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Rothstein was an investor in the Giants, a close friend of team owners John McGraw and Charles Stoneham, and CEO of the insurance company that underwrote the Polo Grounds policy. Construction in the Bronx had been dependent upon the closing of two small streets adjacent to the property, and Rothstein wielded his influence in the Tammany machine to ensure that those waivers were sealed tight in bureaucratic red tape for months, forcing the Yanks to crawl back to the Giants' ballpark for 1922, and at an increased rent for their humiliation.
But as the old saying goes, he who laughs last, laughs best.
A record seventy-four thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923 for the ballpark's inaugural contest against the Boston Red Sox, with Babe Ruth christening the park with the first of 259 home runs he would launch in the Bronx. A seven to two victory over the Philadelphia Athletics at the Stadium on May 5th would supply sole ownership of first place in the American League, and their margin would swell to sixteen games over the second place Detroit Tigers by the close of the regular season, led by Ruth's career best .393 batting average, likewise the highest batting average in franchise history. Though Harry Heilmann would take the batting title at .403, Ruth's forty-one homers and 131 runs batted in topped the Junior Circuit leaderboard. Over one million fans passed through the Yankee Stadium turnstiles that historic first season. Back at the Polo Grounds, the tally for the National League Champs was just over 820,000.
And so the stage was set for a third consecutive Big Apple World Series. Manager John McGraw, still shouldering the chip of the heated rivalry, refused the hospitality of the visitor's locker room for the inaugural contest at Yankee Stadium, instructing his players to suit up at the Polo Grounds and march across the bridge to meet the American League Champions. Casey Stengel's ninth inning home run would prove to be the game-winner, a feat the future Yankees manager would repeat in Game Three, but all other victories would fall into the Yankees column. Babe Ruth, who had batted a paltry .118 in the 1922 Fall Classic, exploded for nineteen total bases in 1923 to slay the hated Giants and record the first Yankees World Series Championship of twenty-seven to date.
That historic victory to open the flood gates for an unequalled dominance of American sports supplies this auction with the greatest treasure ever to emerge from the team's bulging trophy case. This is the official and only award presented to George Herman Ruth for his contributions in claiming the first New York Yankees World Championship.
Heritage has had the good fortune of presenting three other 1923 New York Yankees World Championship pocket watches at auction prior to this peerless representation, each of the earlier models deriving from the personal collection of front office personnel. Only a small handful of player models have surfaced, and it was believed for decades that Ruth's had been lost to history. Only now are we able to report the trail from the Babe to this February 2014 Platinum Night event.
For the first quarter century of its existence, the pocket watch remained with Ruth as one of his most prized possessions. But as the legendary slugger's terminal cancer progressed, he asked his close friend Charlie Schwefel if he might want anything from his collection to remember him by. Schwefel was a wealthy Manhattan hotelier who had become Ruth's closest confidant during his illness, the pair brought together by a mutual passion for service to America's youth through sport. It was Schwefel who would discover Floyd Patterson and give him a job at the Gramercy Park Hotel while he trained with Cus D'Amato en route to 1952 Helsinki Olympic Gold. But in 1947 and 1948, Schwefel was Ruth's constant companion, frequently spotted in photos of the gaunt legend as he traveled between his home and New York City hospitals for treatment.
Schwefel asked for his dying friend's pocket watch.
The watch is identical in design (with a few noteworthy exceptions) to those previously offered models in the Heritage archives, a fourteen karat gold "Gruen Verithin" beauty in unique pentagonal format. The case's verso is masterfully engraved with a miniature scene of a pitcher, hitter and catcher, and a ball in flight in their midst. Framing the scene are the historic words, "Yankees, World's Champions 1923." The "Babe Ruth" engraving at the upper edge was added by The Babe himself just prior to gifting the symbolic memento to Schwefel. The rear case pops open to reveal further engraving, most notably the original text announcing, "Presented by Baseball Commissioner to George H. Ruth." Just above we find the rest of Ruth's late 1940's addition, which reads, "To My Pal Charles Schwefel."
We should note that the earlier three examples sold by Heritage read, "Presented by Yankees Baseball Club" rather than "Presented by Baseball Commissioner," but research into past sales have indicated that the discrepancy lies in the identity of the recipient. All players received models identical to Ruth's, while front office workers and VIP representations are engraved with the "Yankees Baseball Club" language.
As noted in a signed letter of provenance from Schwefel's nephew Lewis Fern, the watch remained in Schwefel's possession for just two years before his wife gave it to Lewis with the comment that "This should have been yours all along." Fern was likewise a close friend of Ruth's, having caddied many times for him at St. Alban's Golf Club in Queens, New York. Fern was caddying for Ruth there in 1937 when the pair watched the Hindenburg zeppelin pass overhead en route to its destruction less than an hour later at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Fern kept the watch for decades until it was privately sold into one of the finest sports collections in the world in 1988, where it has remained hidden away until now. Heritage is proud and privileged to be offering it to the collecting community for the very first time.
The timepiece exhibits a moderate degree of handling wear and does not currently function but it can be easily restored should the new owner choose to do so, and such concerns are rendered inconsequential by the enormity of its significance. As Babe Ruth's personal award for the first World Championship in New York Yankees franchise history, this is arguably the most important article of sports memorabilia that exists.
Update: We are pleased to announce that in addition to a copy of the original signed letter of provenance from Lewis Fern, we have added the following documentation to the files that will accompany the watch:
1) Copies of fourteen pages of correspondence between the New York Yankees, the office of the Commissioner of Baseball and the watch company dating from late 1923 to early 1924 regarding the ordering of Championship watches. The precise manner of engraving is confirmed by this paperwork, as are the details of the watches' construction that are specific to the 1923 championship watch order. Only eleven of the thirty-nine watches delivered to the team exhibit a full first name and middle initial as requested in the letter. George H. Ruth is one of those eleven.
2) A letter of provenance from the son of Lewis Fern, who sold the watch to our consignor over twenty years ago. This letter confirms all details of the elder Fern's own letter of provenance as well as the fact that the watch remains identical in appearance to his earliest recollections of it as a child in the 1950's.
3) We have discovered that the Championship watches issued to the 1923 Yankees, both front office and player versions, were very lightly hand-scratched with a five-digit code beneath the serial number. The codes are represented by a "46XXX" number and are consistent on all inspected examples, including the Ruth representation. We have determined that this coding was done prior to presentation to the recipients and appears to be present only on Yankee watches and absent on all other Gruen Verithin Pentagon examples we have located in our research. We will include photographic imagery of the other known Yankee watches to illustrate this trait that links each to the same specific population.
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Twelve months ago, I wrote in this column that while the post-communist cities have a different social history than, say, Seoul, Amsterdam, or New York, our common need for sharing leads to it spontaneously popping up in our everyday life…and uniting people in the process.
This is why we decided to dedicate the first issue of the international edition of Magazyn Miasta / Cities Magazine to the subject of sharing in post-communist cities and asked how does the past practices of communism – and the huge system that accompanied it – affect our everyday life; and how does the past shape our current culture of sharing?
Thanks to the Shared Cities: Creative Momentum project we have mapped the social status quo of sharing in the post-communist world, specifically in cities of our region, and want to present a variety of current projects that are shaping both the new urban wave of change and the future of our cities in post-communist Europe.
A year later, we decided to check in to see what is going on with the sharing culture of Central European cities nowadays. What are the current sharing practices and have they changed? What spheres of our urban lives do they appear in and where do they not? How do some Central-European, neoliberal markets and their history influence some of the sharing-economy projects? Do we feel responsible for our cities? Do we still want to live together or is it even possible? Are we investing in infrastructure for those with various physical capabilities? What type of resources and practices employed for sharing during communist times are still being used today? And if these practices and assets are different, do we think that our common understanding of sharing is efficient or moral?
All of these questions about the sharing culture of Central Europe were discussed by our team which consists of people from eleven different organizations from six countries in the region.
Having the international opportunity to look deeply into so many local urban cultures, we mapped the contemporary sharing practices in different cities and analyzed them. Very quickly we realised that these practices and projects lack an obvious connection or background. On one hand, more people are starting different activities based on sharing, especially members of the younger generation that haven't directly experienced the communist era. On the other one, loads of people care about what they privately own, completely fencing off their housing estates and separating themselves from other economic and social groups. The region is full of contradictions. So, we focused on describing it, concentrating on the new urban wave of sharing culture in Central Europe.
Enjoy the issue! And remember you can still come back to the former one that is still available here.


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Q: Two questions about a line Reading this article, there is a line,

In 2020, when the program launched, many businesses reported being shut out of the first waves of funding when hundreds of billions of dollars were allocated within days and better connected businesses – that had previous relationships with bigger banks – were able to get approved before other businesses had had their applications considered.

whichi, simply I don't understand at all.
Question 1
"for" in replace of "and"?
when hundreds of billions of dollars were allocated within days and better connected businesses – that had previous relationships with bigger banks
Wouldn' this "and" be rather "for"? Meaning, in 2020 this prohram was launched it was small businesses which had had previously good relationship with bigger banks, were subject to the first funding.
Question 2
What does this last line mean?

were able to get approved before other businesses had had their applications considered.

Is this line trying to say same with above?
Thank you for the help in advance(m_m).

A:
In 2020, when the program [was] launched, many businesses reported being shut out of the first waves of funding when hundreds of billions of dollars were allocated within days[,] and better connected businesses – that had previous relationships with bigger banks – were able to get approved before other businesses had had their applications considered.

There seems to be a missing was and a comma before the coordinating conjunction, and.
Yes, we could replace that and with for.
The revised passage means slightly different from the original; it emphasises the connection some businesses have with the bigger banks as the reason for the skew in fund allocation.
Q2
Your interpretation is fine.

A:
In 2020, when the program launched, many businesses reported being
shut out of the first waves of funding when hundreds of billions of
dollars were allocated within days and better connected businesses –
that had previous relationships with bigger banks – were able to get
approved before other businesses had had their applications
considered.

It's something of a run-on sentence, but IMO perfectly clear.
Let me re parse it.
In 2020, when the program launched, many businesses reported being shut out of the first waves of funding when hundreds of billions of dollars were allocated within days.
Better connected businesses – that had previous relationships with bigger banks – were able to get approved before other businesses had had their applications considered.
The better connected businesses were also in general bigger, and used bigger banks.


Great style is bigger and broader than just your sartorial choices. It encompasses how you carry yourself and choose to live every day. If you've ever come across that person who seems to have everything together, you know what we mean.
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Club Report – Melbourne Storm
The Melbourne Storm were founded in 1998, in the immediate aftermath of the Super League-ARL dispute. Getting a team in Melbourne was a priority for Newscorp in order to expand the footprint of the game.
Early financial concessions meant that the Storm won their first premiership in only their second season in 1999. Thereafter, more sustained success arrived, with three minor premierships in a row from 2006 to 2008, four grand finals in a row from 2006 to 2009 and two premierships in 2007 and 2009. Melbourne, and rivals Manly, were the most dominant teams of this period. It all came apart in 2010 when massive salary cap rorts were uncovered. The Storm were stripped of the minor and major premierships from the 2006 to 2009 period and lost all their competition points in 2010, ensuring the club's only wooden spoon.
The Storm bounced back quickly, winning a legitimate minor premiership in 2011 and a premiership in 2012. Since then, they've kept winning with two more minor premierships in 2016 and 2017. There's not a lot of superlatives left to describe the Storm – even their cheating was monumental and they've had more NRL titles stripped than most clubs have won – and the 2017 team could make an excellent case for being the best vintage produced in the last twenty years.
Using the Eratosthenes system, we measure the long term class – their structural competence – of NRL clubs.
The Melbourne Storm's current rating is 1659, which is the highest in the league. The Storm have had an average class rating of 1591 since 1998. No one has had a better average rating.
Over the last decade, the Storm's average rating was 1630. This is also the highest in the league.
Melbourne peaked at a maximum rating of 1696 after round 7, 2013. This is the highest peak of any team, ahead of the Roosters in second who peaked at 1665.
The Storm's lowest ever rating was 1496, dipping below average at the end of the 2002 season. Brisbane is the only team close to this record, with a rating low of 1491. If we look at just the last ten years, Melbourne's lowest rating was 1566, a level higher than the best reached by Canberra, Gold Coast, Newcastle, Parramatta, Penrith, New Zealand and Wests over the same period.
NRL Honours
Premierships – 2 | 1999, 2007, 2009, 2012
Runners-up – 2 | 2006*, 2008*, 2016
Minor Premierships – 3 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2016, 2017
Finalist – 17 | 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Wooden Spoons – 1 | 2010
*Runner up status wasn't technically stripped, although the minor premierships in these seasons were
Record (rd1/1998 – finals/2017)
Wins 331 (64.2%)
Draws 6
Points For 12,487
Points Against 8,942
Net F/A +3,545
Pythagorean expectation 65.4%
Using the Archimedes system, we measure the short term form of NRL clubs.
The Storm have averaged a form rating of 1665 over this season. Their current rating is 1818.
Melbourne's highest rating over the last twenty-six rounds was 181 after their qualifying final win over Parramatta. The lowest rating in the set is 1500 at the start of the season.
Record (last 26 rounds)
Finished 2017 in 1st
Wins 21 (84.0%)
Points For 651
Points Against 352
Net F/A +299
Stocky Projection
We use the Stocky to predict what might happen in the season ahead. Given the point in the season, we can summarise with this graph.
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Pressroom | LITTLE BIG TOWN'S 'GIRL CRUSH' BRINGS THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER TO THE SURFACE.
LITTLE BIG TOWN'S 'GIRL CRUSH' BRINGS THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER TO THE SURFACE.
Little Big Town's latest single, "Girl Crush," is racing up the country charts, but there's been a little confusion on the part of a few folks about the actual theme of the song. If you listen to the lyrics, you'll see it's just about good old-fashioned jealousy.
The reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year will embark on the new leg of their Pain Killer Tour March 5th in Savannah, Georgia with Chris Stapleton. First, they'll head across the pond to do a few shows in the U-K beginning February 10th in London.
Audio / Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild says the band's latest smash hit, "Girl Crush," is about jealousy, pure and simple.
TRAVIS DENNING HAS THE "WORLD" AT HIS FINGERTIPS.
JON PARDI'S STEAMY SINGLE "NIGHT SHIFT" IS TOP 10 AND CLIMBING THE COUNTRY RADIO CHARTS.
KACEY MUSGRAVES ADDS NEW WEST COAST DATES TO HER "OH, WHAT A WORLD: TOUR II.
MADDIE & TAE ARE EXCITED TO RELEASE THEIR NEW EP, ONE HEART TO ANOTHER, THIS WEEK.
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America's holiday may not be just for pilgrims anymore . . .
For some time now in America there has been a minor (and until fairly recently rather obscure) debate over where and when the first Thanksgiving celebration occurred. What early settlement was really the first to host a gathering of harvest gratitude? While New England certainly has well-documented reason to lay claim to the title, some historians point to a Thanksgiving celebration that occurred more than fifty years earlier in St. Augustine, Florida.
All debate aside, however, the point of Thanksgiving is to promote thankfulness, and according to researchers this is an attitude that can be good for individuals as well as families.
All things considered, gratitude would seem to be an important ingredient to be sprinkled liberally around the family table at Thanksgiving celebrations this year—and every year to follow.
Very soon most Americans will take a holiday, ostensibly to give thanks. But most will likely give thanks, as they have in years gone by, by simply eating too much.


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