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Winner - Academy Award® - Best Actress, Renée Zellweger
Winner - Golden Globe®Award - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, Renée Zellweger
Winner - Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, Renée Zellweger
Winner - Critics' Choice Award- Best Actress, Renée Zellweger
Winner - National Board of Review - Best Actress, Renée Zellweger
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Tom Edge; based on the stage play End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter
Cameron McCracken, Rose Garnett, and Andrea Scarso
Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, and Michael Gambon
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of "the world's greatest entertainer."
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On nice days, when you want to relax you can sit out in Woodend Cottage's garden and enjoy the sun shine. Children also love the outdoors so it can be a great place for them. Although, with young children you should always check any garden is safe for them.
Woodend Cottage sleeps up to 6 people so could be perfect for your family or group. So if you are looking for a family holiday in Worcestershire then Woodend Cottage could be just the ticket.
Set in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside famed for its fruit orchard and Spring Blossom Trail, this attractive, attached barn conversion has been renovated and decorated to exacting standards and with lovely contemporary furnishings. Surrounded by open fields with views across gently rolling countryside this is the spot for a holiday to get away from it all and listen instead to woodpeckers drumming in the nearby wood. Local attractions include the Cotswolds, Ragley Hall and Stratford-upon-Avon. Free entry to the Lenches Club (families welcome, 1 mile) and free access to tennis courts. Helicopter parking available. Shop 2 miles, pub 3 miles.
Ground floor: Living/dining room/kitchen. First floor: 2 double bedrooms, one with additional double sofa bed and en-suite shower room with toilet, one with en-suite bathroom with shower attachment and toilet.
Electric heaters, electricity, bed linen and towels included. Freeview TV. DVD. CD. Electric cooker. Microwave. Washer/dryer. Small lawned garden with courtyard and furniture. Parking (2 cars). No smoking.
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Perfect for couples looking for a relaxing break in Worcestershire. A great base to explore the Cotswolds.
Situated by the tranquil waters of the Worcester canal with fabulous countryside views. Both pub and restaurant within 100 yards.


Kundapur is the headquarters town of the taluk is about 36 kms from Udupi. This name can be traced to the Kundeshvara temple built by Kundavarma in the vicinity of the Panchagangavalli river.
Kundapura is the headquarters town of the taluk is about 36 kms from Udupi. This name can be traced to the Kundeshvara temple built by Kundavarma in the vicinity of the Panchagangavalli river. Kundapur is also described as the "town of the sun". It has another old temple, that of Mahalingeshwara. It was the principal port of the Rajas of Baindoor who came to prominence after the decline of the Vijaya Nagara power. The Portuguese settled here in the 16th century and built a fort. A well-built redoubt constructed by Haidar Ali commands the entrance to the river. After the fall of Tipu Sultan in 1799, the town was taken over by the British. There was once a tank of fresh water near the town in which was bred a special type of fish said to have been exclusively reserved for Tipu Sultan.
The taluk of Kundapur is well blessed with more rivers than any other taluk of South Kanara. It has also a 45 kilometre long sea coast on the western side extending up to its northern boundary. The bridge at Gangolli is the longest in the district. The Kundapur taluk has played a significant role in evolving the Yakshagana dance-drama of the northern school known as badagutittu. Kundapur is the only taluk of the district where bisons are found in its forests. They are very powerful animals and move in herds of ten or so. Leopards sometimes prove destructive to livestock and wild boars to agriculture mainly in the forest areas.


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Koch-backed group will unleash ads targeting some corporate tax breaks, Export-Import Bank
Published Mon, Jul 1 2019 6:00 AM EDT Updated Mon, Jul 1 2019 9:02 AM EDT
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Influential conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity is launching a new six-figure ad campaign Monday attacking the Export-Import Bank and special tax breaks.
The group, which is affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch, is spending $250,000 on digital ads attacking both issues. The campaign will run on Facebook and Twitter and target members of both parties on key committees in the House and Senate.
The ExIm Bank has also been a longtime target of conservatives. The bank provides financing to companies that export goods and helps foreign companies buy goods from the United States.
Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – An influential conservative advocacy group is launching a new six-figure ad campaign Monday attacking the Export-Import Bank and special tax breaks.
Americans for Prosperity, the political organization affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch, is spending $250,000 on digital ads attacking both issues. The campaign will run on Facebook and Twitter and target members of both parties on key committees in the House and Senate.
"When the government plays favorites, somebody's gotta lose, and it doesn't have to be us anymore," the ad states.
Fighting the reauthorization of the ExIm Bank and the package of tax breaks known as "extenders" are two of AFP's top legislative priorities this year. The group has been sending out direct mail on the issues for the past three weeks and is planning to fly in members to blitz Capitol Hill on July 10.
The ads are part of a larger campaign dubbed "Unrig the Economy" that will span several years. AFP is devoting an initial $1.3 million to the effort.
"For too long both parties have gotten drunk drinking from the cup of corporate welfare and cronyism," said Brent Gardner, head of government for AFP. "We continue to expose the special treatment of politically connected industries and interests at the expense of the tax-paying public."
Tax extenders are a package of industry-specific tax breaks that are ostensibly temporary but that lawmakers typically renew. This time around, however, that hasn't happened — at least not yet. Many of the provisions expired in 2017 after Republicans passed their overhaul of the tax code.
But the new tax law included temporary tax breaks of its own, and lawmakers are proposing a bill that would revive many of the expired provisions and extend new ones. The House Ways and Means committee passed an extenders bill last month despite objections from a handful of Democrats.
The Senate Finance Committee is still reviewing the proposal, according to a spokesman. Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently convened several task forces to study extenders, and they are expected to report back within a few weeks.
Tax extenders have come under fire from an unusually broad array of groups. AFP and other conservative organizations such as Heritage Action and Freedom Partners joined with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and U.S. PIRG to call for an end to the package last year.
"Though our organizations span the political spectrum, we all agree that it is time to stop making tax policy one year at a time," the coalition said in a December letter. "Continuing to renew special-interest tax giveaways on a temporary and often retroactive basis is bad tax, fiscal, and economic policy."
The ExIm Bank has also been a longtime target of conservatives. The bank provides financing to companies that export goods and helps foreign companies buy goods from the United States. But critics say many of its loans go to businesses that don't need it.
A recent analysis by the Mercatus Center — which also has ties to Koch — found that Boeing was the top beneficiary of the bank from fiscal year 2007 to 2017, receiving about a third of all aid during that time.
"The ExIm bank has a tremendous amount of politics in it, which really puts taxpayers on the hook," said Russ Latino, vice president at Stand Together, the umbrella organization for the Koch network.
The bank's authorization will expire at the end of September, and a bill that would have renewed it for seven years is facing backlash from both Democrats and Republicans. House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., shelved the proposal over concerns about company disclosure requirements, environmental issues and limits on deals with Chinese state-owned enterprises.
Still, Waters said she is committed to finding a bipartisan solution to keep the bank operating.
"There is a feeling that it is beneficial to our neighborhoods, our communities, our country, that we're able to strengthen our export possibilities," Waters said during a committee meeting last week. "For those of us who really believe that it is important to have Export-Import, we believe that we should work at it."
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Building a Business with a Beat
Leadership Lessons from Jazzercise--An Empire Built on Passion, Purpose, and Heart
Judi Sheppard Missett, Susan McCarthy
Transform your passion into a profitable business--with the help of the legendary entrepreneur who turned an innovative idea into a $100 million global powerhouse.
Judi Sheppard Missett is a fitness icon who, at just three years old, discovered a passion for dance that would eventually fuel a global dance fitness empire. After an early life spent honing her dancing skills and a career as a professional jazz dancer, Judi had an epiphany: why not combine the art of jazz dancing with the science of exercise to help others achieve a healthier, happier self-image and life? The wildly enthusiastic response from her first 15 students inspired her to launch Jazzercise, Inc., the world's leading dance fitness program with a cumulative $2 billion in global sales.
In Building a Business with Beat, Judi reveals for the first time the secrets behind the company's five decades of enormous success. In addition to helping millions of men and women improve their health and well-being through the fun and fitness of dance, Judi has inspired 8,500 franchisees to achieve their dream of owning and running their own business. Now, through powerful personal stories, practical proven-successful advice and insights, Judi shares how you, too, can transform your passion into a profitable business.
This inspirational guide will teach you how to:
- Create a successful business by discovering and defining your larger purpose- Use your unique perspectives and abilities to enhance the lives of others - Deftly handle everyday obstacles and unplanned events- Develop an open mindset and embrace innovation and new possibilities- Inspire your staff to connect to a purpose greater than day-to-day work, and more
Filled with helpful tips, smart strategies, and no-nonsense advice, this book is essential reading for anyone who has ever dreamed of creating a thriving, purpose-driven business. The author is living proof that when you're doing what you love, it may not seem like work at all.
McGraw-Hill Companies, 9781260441307, 288pp.
Judi Sheppard Missett is founder and CEO of Jazzercise, Inc., the world's largest dance fitness franchise company. A renowned fitness advocate and exercise pioneer, she has received numerous prestigious business awards, including the Presidential Commendation for Top Woman Entrepreneur, four Hall of Fame inductions, and the Sports Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the National Foundation for Women Legislators and Empowered Women. Following two previous international best-sellers, Jazzercise: A Fun Way to Fitness and The Jazzercise Workout Book, this is her third and most personal book yet.


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Philadelphia Braces For Small Cell Future
U.S. towns and cities, including Philadelphia, are bracing for what one telecom lawyer calls "the attack of the small cells."
by Bob Fernandez, Philly.com / June 5, 2017
(TNS) -- Lancaster, Pa., officials take pride in the city's quaint downtown of brick buildings, narrow sidewalks, and old-time street lights — a big draw for weekend tourists. So it came as a surprise last May when California-based Mobilitie LLC came to town certified as a utility, giving it quick access to the city's rights-of-way.
Mobilitie's initial plan was to put more than 70 small-cell antennas for wireless services on big new poles smack dab in Lancaster's historic areas.
"The city would look god-awful with these towers all over," said Charlotte Katzenmoyer, the city's director of public works.
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The City Council rushed through zoning changes, declaring many streets off-limits to the new poles that officials say could be much taller than existing ones. And, last month, in a big win for Lancaster, the Public Utility Commission stripped Mobilitie and other distributed-antenna companies of utility status, meaning that they would not get any more "certificates of public convenience" in Pennsylvania.
Lancaster has so far held off Mobilitie. But U.S. towns and cities, including Philadelphia, are bracing for what one telecom lawyer calls "the attack of the small cells." Wireless carriers will be adding scads of these cells to increase capacity for current 4G services and prep for next-generation 5G as Americans Facebook, Google and Instagram on more than 260 million smart phones and 50 million tablets.
Data traffic soared last year about 40 percent and amounted to the equivalent of 1.5 million years of streaming high-definition video — 35 times the data traffic in 2010, according to the wireless industry's trade association CTIA. With new services continually rolling out, data usage is expected to keep surging upward.
To help satisfy it, tens of thousands of small-cell antennas are being deployed on electric poles, streetlights, buildings, or stand-alone poles, with hundreds of thousands to come. The number of small-cell antennas in the United States could reach one million, says Joe Madden, the chief analyst at the research firm Mobile Experts.
This is a huge shift sweeping the telecom industry as big cell towers on highways or hills, erected mostly on private property, reach coverage limits and wireless carriers such as Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T boost capacity themselves or do it through contractors such as Mobilitie, Crown Castle, and ExteNet with the small cells.
Telecom is entering an investment cycle when companies deploy the small-cell antennas, which are about the size of laptop computers or briefcases, and then repeatedly upgrade them to deliver faster wireless services, Madden believes.
With the ever-rising need for capacity, "it is paramount … to increase bandwidth so that networks and connected devices perform with the speed and agility consumers expect," said Manish Matta, the senior director of marketing for ExteNet, a Lisle, Ill.-based distributed-antenna company with operations in Pennsylvania.
The new head of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, has promoted the job-creating potential of next-generation wireless services, saying that they could help create three million jobs and lead to infrastructure investments of $275 billion. The FCC opened a formal proceeding in April to collect comments and find easier ways for telecom companies to deploy equipment.
Many small cells have already been installed throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but there is no official tally of how many. Officials in the Garden State haven't moved to challenge the practice of distributed-antenna companies statewide. New Jersey law gives towns significant control over their rights-of-way even when they are approached by companies designated as utilities, local experts say.
Pennsylvania regulators, responding to local concerns, have been less accommodating to the distributed-antenna companies. For more than a year, the Public Utility Commission considered whether it should continue granting utility status to distributed-antenna companies, commission documents show.
About 60 Pennsylvania cities and towns — among them Philadelphia and many of its suburbs — opposed the utility designation in comments to the commission, saying the status granted those firms overly broad powers with little regulatory oversight.
The distributed-antenna "industry has evolved from a small niche player to prominence as a major driver of the wireless industry's build-out," PUC Commissioner Robert F. Powelson wrote in March. He voiced concern that the utility status "opens the door" for distributed-antenna companies with certificates of public convenience to seize private property under eminent domain while it was unclear under Pennsylvania law whether the commission could grant those companies utility status.
In early May, the commission voted, 4-1, to reaffirm an earlier vote to no longer designate the distributed-antenna companies as utilities. The ruling does not affect those previously approved.
Telecom attorney Daniel Cohen, who represents towns on their cell-tower and small-cell zoning issues, said that municipalities face a rude awakening if they aren't prepared for the massive changes transforming the wireless industry. They have to upgrade zoning laws or they could be caught unaware, adding that "we need to strike a balance between wireless advances and preservation of our communities."
ExteNet's Matta said the company was disappointed in the commission's decision and warned that the action could "impact productivity and efficiencies in the Pennsylvania economy." ExteNet opposed the Pennsylvania regulators' removing its utility status.
Philadelphia Deputy Managing Director Michael Carroll said that the city has approved hundreds of requests for small-cell antennas on Peco electric-utility poles and city-owned street-light or traffic-signal poles. Many are already in place. He expects the number of small-cell antennas for faster wireless capacity in Philadelphia to climb into the thousands.
Philadelphia officials are concerned about the aesthetics of the antennas, and officials have been studying what other cities are doing, Carroll said.
As for the new poles like those proposed in Lancaster, Carroll said there have been discussions but no formal proposals. He declined to identify companies. "I am pretty confident that there is enough capacity with the electric poles and street-light poles that we should not see a lot of requests for putting in new poles," Carroll said.
But other towns will have to deal with new poles. About a year ago, Mobilitie contacted the Borough of Millersville, just southwest of Lancaster, with a plan for deploying two new tall poles with small-cell antennas. With Mobilitie's certificate of convenience, the solicitor told borough manager Ed Arnold that there was there was nothing they could do.
The borough approved the poles in October.
"They're ugly," Arnold said. "They want to put them anywhere, which is what this access to the right-of-way lets them do, and they stick out like a sore thumb."
Mobilitie spokesman Tim Klein emailed that the company has had "productive, collaborative discussions" to comply with Lancaster's zoning regulations after the pushback. Mobilitie now has proposed adding the antennas to existing utility poles or other infrastructure so that the "placement will be virtually unnoticeable," he said.
Katzenmoyer retorted: "That's news to us." In her last discussion with Mobilitie in January, she said, the company presented a plan for 27 poles throughout its historic district, down drastically from the initial 70 to 80 poles. The poles did not conform to the city's new zoning rules.
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Margarett Ann Lott James, 79, of Orange passed away peacefully, Sunday, Nov. 7 at her home.
A memorial service will be Saturday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. at Family Worship Center, 2300 N 41st St., Orange, Texas 77630.
Mrs. James was born March 1, 1931 in Seminary, Miss. to Andrew and Alice Olivia (Coulter) Lott. She was a homemaker and was loved by all who knew her.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, George T. James; son, Harry M. James and brothers, Rudolph, Alex and Jack Lott.
Those left to cherish her memory are her sons, T. Don James and David A. James and wife, Sue; daughter, Olivia A. James; sister, Rennette Martin; and grandchildren, Ticia Mangino and husband Rodney, Drew James and wife, Becky, Daniel James, Ashley James and Elaine M. James. She is also survived by her great grandchildren, Kiara, Ricardo and Antone Mangino, Adison James and Gigi James.


My Aunt Jeannie has been working with Wellness house for almost 30 years now. This year will be her last year at Wellness House and we would love to send her out having one of her biggest years for the walk. If you dont know about Wellness house its a place where people can go that have been affected by cancer. No matter how someone has been affected by cancer — maybe they've been diagnosed, have a family member who's living with cancer, or are a caregiver — you're welcome at Wellness House. Learn new skills, get information, and join others when you take classes, practice healthful living, reduce stress, and more. All Wellness House programs and services are led by experts, designed to prepare and empower you to fully live life with cancer. All at no cost.


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Avant 1994 son attribution se basait sur des critères non officiels. Les lauréats de 1988 et 1993 furent désignés par l'. Ceux de 1993 furent sélectionnés en fonction de leurs performances durant la saison 1992, mais fut décerné avec un an de retard.

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Little girl wanders around small village. She's gatherer, though what does she gather - lives or flowers - is up to you to decide.
This one was okay. It seems like it was originally meant for night and day, but I guess it still works. I really like the style you used for the graphics, and the sounds are pretty nice. It was fun for a short while, but then it started to get boring. All in all, its a pretty nice game, and I think more should be added to it.
I would really have liked to see more of a storyline in this one. It feels like you had a lot of big ideas that you didn't have the time to implement, but I think I can see where you were going with it.
Almost perfect! Just please lock the cursor.
Amazing. I just had some issues with the mouse movement.
I loved this. Fantastic job. Do you have a gamedev blog?
It's just gorgeous. High quality and decent scene. The only thing I wanna complain is that the goal is not so clear.
Very nice game, the graphics are really cute, the way the little guys run away!
I'm pretty sure 3D Unity games used to play better on my machine, but for some reason, this Ludum Dare, I've been having no luck. I wish I could have played this game, because it looks and sounds great from what I can tell, but on my machine, the framerate is unplayably bad for some reason.
@Sestren can you tell your machine specs please?
I did not read the description but started playing right away, and I was pleasantly surprised about the turn the game made once it became night :) Also very nice graphics and models. Really well done!
Great work! I can tell that quite a bit of work went into this over the weekend. I wish I could slice the grass. I wasn't exactly sure why I was collecting the flowers, I kind of wanted to see the flowers and the killing being linked (like psychedelic flowers).
Liked the idea, graphics, and ambient sound, but I think it lacks a goal. Just stopped playing on day 5 with 17/15 deaths/flowers because I didn't know what that was for.
The graphics are quite impressive; definitely the best part of the game. The sound is well made, although there's quite a few sound effects "missing" (like footsteps, people, etc.).
The gameplay... well, it isn't clear whether there's a goal (like, keep going for a number of days or something) or not, and it does get boring somewhat quickly. Good of used some story too.
Also, there's some problems with the cursor. The web version's cursor isn't locked at all, making it impossible to play. If you Alt+Tab out of the Windows version the cursor will be unlocked as well.
Good atmos, but I was also curious if an ultimate end goal was reachable via the kills/flowers.
I'd like to have moved a bit faster and spawning back at the beginning every day means a good (slow) walk every day. A goal or reason of doing what I'm doing would be good too.
Art is good and the ambient sounds, tough sparse, are good too. Because of the polish of the visual style the game feels unfinished. Nice, but incomplete.
This is lovely! nice work on the graphics and sound-background.
Took a bit too much to get off, I think. I also wasn't really clear what you're actually doing.


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Blunt Weapon 31
Chapter 31 : They Use A Cowardly Way!
「…..This is weird…」
Ten days had passed since the store opening.
While I was on an adventure, Mira-san did a good job keeping the store.
Our sales were high till the fifth day.
However, it wasn't so good after that.
Our sales decreased slightly on the sixth day, and the number of customers also decreased day by day.
At first, I thought it was normal because people were just curious about the store in the beginning.
But… it's kinda strange…
The customers were strangely unfriendly, and sometimes they were whispering to each other suspiciously when they entered the store.
「Maybe it's because of my bad customer service….. I didn't make a gratitude expression…」
Mira-san looked down.
「No, it's not your fault, Mira-san」
I stroked her head.
Hmm. Maybe I really need to go to find the cause.
I went to the guild to ask March-san about our store's reputation.
But when I entered the guildー
「―Ehh?」
The poster of "Adventurer Store : Egg Tart" that was on the bulletin board was gone.
「March-san. Why is my poster gone?」
「A, Ahh… I, I-I thought it's good enough s,since that poster was there for several days already」
March-san was acting suspicious…
「…March-san, you're really bad at lying… Please, tell me the truth」
「Uhh… As I knew it, I'm bad at this… Hahh. How can I do this job if I suck at convincing people…」
「Don't say like that. People who can't lie are people who can be trusted, you know?」
「Trust, huh… It made me feel even more ashamed of myself…」
March-san toyed with the tip of her hair. She looked really tired somehow.
「March-san. Just what exactly happened?」
「Umm… There are some bad rumors about your store, you know?」
「Rumors? What rumors?」
「It said, "The one who owned the store is a blunt weapon user who made a contract with Evil God"
「Haahh!?」
「It wasn't me who spread it, it's just a rumor!」
As I shouted, March-san panickingly waved her both hands, making a "not me" gesture.
「Many people complained if I kept displaying the poster on the bulletin board. They said, "does the guild support that evil god believer's store!?", and then the guild master said, "it can't be helped. We can't do our job if the situation continues like this."」
「That's why you peeled off the poster…?」
「I'm sorry, Hanna-chan. I denied them and told them that I know what kind of person Hanna-chan is. But they didn't listen…」
「It's okay, March-san. Me too. I'm sorry. You're getting so much trouble because of me…」
Perhaps March-san was just concerned about me and tried to keep the bad rumors a secret from me.
Even if people might be blaming her, she tried to protect our store, Egg Tart's name.
I can't blame such a good person.
The main problem is… discrimination against blunt weapons.
Well, I have a feeling it will bring me trouble someday.
The fact that I was a blunt weapon user had spread in a very short period of time.
They would be thinking that I was able to do great things with a blunt weapon because I had divine protection from Evil God Dortos.
And it would become a strong shackle for me.
「Hanna-chan. You don't have to worry about stupid rumors. If you're doing business seriously, people will understand eventually」
March-san tried to comfort me.
However, I still can't accept this bullshit.
Why do I have to be looked at by people with prejudiced gaze just because I'm using a blunt weapon?
It's not that I like using a blunt weapon!
If only the god of sword or the god of spear loved me, I'm sure I would be using a different weapon.
But nope. They didn't even look at me.
No matter how hard I practiced until my hands were full of calluses.
My level didn't go up at all.
That's why I picked up a blunt weapon.
And that's why I realizedー
That I have to keep struggling. That I have to keep fighting against this nonsense prejudice!
For Boss. For Master. For the carpenters. For all the people who are treated poorly just because they use blunt instruments even though they can create wonderful things using it.
「…….I can't accept this…」
I won't lose to this bullshit.
Discrimination. Prejudice. Persecution.
I'll crush such things into pieces with my hammer!
And I believe that this is my true calling. My duty. My missioー
「Ha・n・na ♪」
「Nyuwaaー!」
When I was quietly burning my fighting spirit, I was suddenly hugged from behind and made a strange voice.
「Haha! Did I surprised you?」
「R, Rozelia, huh… What do you want?」
Rozelia seemed satisfied after successfully surprising me.
A bully remains a bully forever after all.
Is it fun making fun of people?
「Hanna. I have something to tell you…」
Rozelia whispered into my ear while still hugging me.
「It was Cecil's family behind the bad rumors about Egg Tart」
「Eh? Cecil?」
「Yes. Well, it's more like the chairman did the most than Cecil though」
Bazel Sortlarc.
The chairman of Adventurer Academy and also the man who was called the Sword Fighting King.
Also, the man who kicked me out of the school…
I tried to remember what Cecil said 10 days ago.
『Making a store that contributes to the city, huh… But, too bad. It's impossible』
I wondered if she said that because she knew it would happen.
Or… maybe she told her father bad things about our store so that they could destroy it…
Either way, she really pissed me off!
If Rozelia here, she might also be here.
I quietly looked around the guild, but apparently Cecil wasn't here.
「Rozelia… Don't tell me you also helped spread the rumors…」
「Me? No way I could do that to you! I swear by the god who resides in my magic staff decoration!」
「What kind of swear is that…」
She put so many decorations on her staff in the first place.
Which one do you swear on!?
With that many, I'm sure she wouldn't even notice if she lost one.
Well, I guess I can believe her for now.
Besides, there was no merit for her to spread such rumors.
Also, she was the one who told me the source of the rumors.
I had to thank her for this.
「Neeー neeー Hanna~ Don't you have something to say to me~?」
As if she could read the narration, Rozelia said that with a smile while still hugging me.
「Th, Thank you, Rozelia」
When I honestly thanked her, Rozelia's smile got bigger and brighter.
「Ehehe~ You're welcome. We're besties after all~☆」
After that, she released me from her arms and left the guild while skipping. She looked really happy.
Hahh… Really… That person always made me uncomfortable.
However, thanks to her, I knew what to do now.
I had to confront that man after all.
The Sword Fighting King, Bazel Sortlarc!


I went to the aquarium with my boyfriend on January 5th, before winter break ended. I hadn't gone to one in like 8-10 years, and he had never gone to one before! So it was pretty exciting! We went quite a while ago, but ever since I started this 365 project I've had less energy to catch up with longer, more detailed blog entries.
We went to "late night" at the aquarium, which means after a certain time in the evening until closing, admission is half the original price. It's a lovely deal if you like going later and think that 4 hours is enough. For most people 4 hours is definitely enough. We thought we would be done an hour before closing since there are only so many animals you can look at, but we were wrong! We ended up staying right up until closing. And we enjoyed every bit of it.
The fish we saw were fun to look at because of the endless varieties of shapes and colors and sizes. There were some creatures that looks very funny or strange. Just to name a few animals, we saw some sharks, jellyfish, starfish, sea birds, seals, otters, and others. They have a lorikeet forest (I LOVE birds, remember?) where you can feed them nectar, but since we went to "late night" the birds were already closed off and put to sleep.
I discovered this weird little stand at one station and was curious to see what it was. At first it looked like one of those coin shapers, where you put in a penny and it molds it into a souvenir coin. It turned out to be an embossing stamp station. The brochure/map that we got had a little section in the corners of the pages where you find & place the corresponding embossing stamp!
It was totally nerdy of me, but I got so exciting to have a little "mission" to go on and I was really stoked to find all of the stations and collect all the stamps. My boyfriend shared my ridiculous enthusiasm so it was really fun! haha. As we looked around excitedly for stamping stations, we noticed not a single person the entire night partaking in this stamp adventure, lol. It's okay, we felt even more special and dorky because of it.
The sharks were my boyfriend's favorite probably. There was this one gigantic, really scary looking shark that I wanted to take a picture of – but he kept swimming past me too fast! haha. I would try to get my camera ready, but as soon as he swam by, my camera could only get his tail. I must have spent at least 15-20 minutes watching him swim around the tank in a circle trying to get a shot of hin, haha. I gave up finally when he was coming around again, but decided to turn around in the opposite direction as soon as he got to me!
As for me, my favorite animals were this fish called the "weedy seadragon" and the "leafy seadragon." They were SO cool! I love seahorses – I think they're adorable – but these fish who are related to the seahorse have these weedy or leafy appendages that camouflage them! I think they look adorable but also really cool (tiny little dragons!) who are masters of disguise. Similar to the seahorse, these seadragons also have the strange behavior where the males have the burden of carrying the eggs (ya hear that, men? ).
At the aquarium, since it was past evening, there were less kids. During the day there are a lot of kids and families, and children going here for their school field trips. So it was nice having it be a little more quiet and adultish, rather than being run down by kids haha. There were couples who were our age, couples who were eldery, and middle-aged couples, too. It was fun seeing that. It kind of shows how the aquarium can be a really relaxing and fun place for people of all ages – and be a romantic date too, if you want it to be.
During the ride home, we were starving because it was past 9pm and we hadn't eaten dinner yet. There were plenty of food places near the aquarium but we chose to go home to one of our local restaurants where we could use our rewards card to get a free appetizer, lol! It was fun having dinner because it extended our night even more. Good times.
Ah man! I love aquariums ;3 and even museums.
Sounds like it was a pretty amazing time and those pictures are so cool and prettyful! The sea has always held a interest for me, just like space. It's so vast and a lot of it is unknown and I think that adds to the beauty of it.
Oh man I love aquariums! I haven't been to one since I last went to Sea World. And even than I loved it so much!!!
We have an Aquarium of the pacific here in California (I believe that's the name of it?), and although I was told there's not much to look at, I still would like to go to it one of these days. My 'dad's' vacation is coming up in April and he's taking at least two weeks off for it. So we're heading out to Knotts Berry Farm, and possibly maybe doing some camping. Not entirely sure. But that's on the list. Also, we may do some other fun things. Of course we have to wait till my sister is out of school to do some, like the weekend i.e. Knott's Berry Farm to go on the weekend. I don't think there's really all that much there now a days, since it's mostly consisted of Roller Coasters but there are some stuff that she can go on.
I'm actually really looking forward into going to Knotts. I haven't been there in years. We just recently went to Disneyland for my 29th birthday in February. It was awesome. They had a LOT of the Disney characters out, of course we missed getting Princess Jasmine and Aladdin's autograph but that's okay my little sister didn't want to get their autographs. But she had picked out an autograph book for me, which was nice of her. But her's had got eaten up by our puppy. :( . But anyway, it sounds like you guys had a blast. And I hope we can have a blast at Knotts as I'm sure, there are plenty of rides to go on and I just remembered the roaring rapids ride there. I completely forgot about that one. Heehee, her dad said he'd hide behind me and I said no matter what you do, even if you do hide behind me, you'll still get soaked as there are many twists and turns for everyone to get soaked!! lmfao…It's all fun though.
I'm looking forward to it. Really. I'm glad that you and your boyfriend where able to have a fun time at the Aquarium!! :).
Wow, that seadragon looks so awesome! It must camouflage itself as a leaf.


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The Annexed Generation
By Andrei Navrozov
"You are a stubborn bastard," a Yale classmate of mine writes from the wilds of Virginia, where he, an Englishman, has been thrown by the hand of fate and now lives what I imagine as the life of an early colonist. "Your writing remains as difficult to penetrate as ever. Though," he adds benevolently, "I admire begrudgingly its richness."
Chris has written with his usual engaging frankness after a sneak preview of my European Diary column in next month's issue of Chronicles. There I say that "since 1984, when Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in Russia, I have taken the view that the clever understand what transpires there without need for fresh explanations, while the daft, no matter how ingenious one's explanations or persuasive one's reasoning, will understand as little as they did in1948, when Orwell's novel was written."
"I distinctly remember that at that time (1984)," Chris writes, "and indeed before, when we were in more consistent contact, that you were entirely convinced that nothing had changed, nor ever would, with respect to Soviet behaviour, and now, with Mr. Putin in place, you may well be vindicated. Indeed you gave me the impression that you would not write – nay, not even speak – about Russian politics, because their cause, as you saw it, was an unwavering 'done deal.'"
Chris is right. The upcoming column is something of a watershed for me, as this is the first time in 30 years that I address an American audience on post-Soviet politics. In England I persisted longer, and did not clam up on the subject until well into 1990s.
"In 1984 I concluded that the new junta, which had taken power from the Communist Party while Brezhnev was still alive, was intelligent enough to allow the Russian people whatever temporary latitudes might be regarded as freedoms of speech and expression – just as, more recently, Beijing has allowed the Chinese people some conditional latitudes hailed as economic freedoms. And since, as a result of such misconstruction, the daft conclusion that Russia was now a free country had become the universally accepted view, I stopped writing about the wickedness of the Kremlin. The new junta, I thought, had understood Orwell's thesis better than his Western biographers. The Kremlin was too clever for the West, and that was that."
The point I make in my column is that, however ruthless and clever its leaders, of late the new regime has blundered, which gives me hope and unties my writing hand. The West's continued somnolence is more precious than rubies – certainly more than the Crimea, and possibly the whole of Ukraine. The West's continued investment in Russia speaks louder than words – ugly words like expansionism, Finlandization, or annexation. The West's continued disarmament is a worthier objective than the eradication of independent internet sites or a wholesale clampdown on dissenting opinion.
Ukraine annexed? Rubbish. Europe as a whole is what is to be annexed, indeed what has been in the process of being annexed for nearly a generation.
Andrei Navrozov
Andrei Navrozov, born in Moscow, lives in Palermo and is European editor for Chronicles. The former publisher of the Yale Lit, he is a widely published author and translator. His Italian Carousel: Scenes of Internal Exile was published by Peter Owen Publishers.


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using System;

using NUnit.Framework;

using SimpleAnalyzer = Lucene.Net.Analysis.SimpleAnalyzer;
using Document = Lucene.Net.Documents.Document;
using Field = Lucene.Net.Documents.Field;
using IndexReader = Lucene.Net.Index.IndexReader;
using IndexWriter = Lucene.Net.Index.IndexWriter;
using Term = Lucene.Net.Index.Term;
using Directory = Lucene.Net.Store.Directory;
using RAMDirectory = Lucene.Net.Store.RAMDirectory;
using SpanTermQuery = Lucene.Net.Search.Spans.SpanTermQuery;
using English = Lucene.Net.Util.English;
using LuceneTestCase = Lucene.Net.Util.LuceneTestCase;
namespace Lucene.Net.Search
{

    [TestFixture]
	public class TestSpanQueryFilter:LuceneTestCase
	{

		[Test]
		public virtual void  TestFilterWorks()
		{
			Directory dir = new RAMDirectory();
			IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(dir, new SimpleAnalyzer(), true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);
			for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
			{
				Document document = new Document();
				document.Add(new Field("field", English.IntToEnglish(i) + " equals " + English.IntToEnglish(i), Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.ANALYZED));
				writer.AddDocument(document);
			}
			writer.Close();

			IndexReader reader = IndexReader.Open(dir);

			SpanTermQuery query = new SpanTermQuery(new Term("field", English.IntToEnglish(10).Trim()));
			SpanQueryFilter filter = new SpanQueryFilter(query);
			SpanFilterResult result = filter.BitSpans(reader);
			DocIdSet docIdSet = result.GetDocIdSet();
			Assert.IsTrue(docIdSet != null, "docIdSet is null and it shouldn't be");
			AssertContainsDocId("docIdSet doesn't contain docId 10", docIdSet, 10);
			System.Collections.IList spans = result.GetPositions();
			Assert.IsTrue(spans != null, "spans is null and it shouldn't be");
			int size = GetDocIdSetSize(docIdSet);
			Assert.IsTrue(spans.Count == size, "spans Size: " + spans.Count + " is not: " + size);
			for (System.Collections.IEnumerator iterator = spans.GetEnumerator(); iterator.MoveNext(); )
			{
				SpanFilterResult.PositionInfo info = (SpanFilterResult.PositionInfo) iterator.Current;
				Assert.IsTrue(info != null, "info is null and it shouldn't be");
				//The doc should indicate the bit is on
				AssertContainsDocId("docIdSet doesn't contain docId " + info.GetDoc(), docIdSet, info.GetDoc());
				//There should be two positions in each
				Assert.IsTrue(info.GetPositions().Count == 2, "info.getPositions() Size: " + info.GetPositions().Count + " is not: " + 2);
			}
			reader.Close();
		}

		internal virtual int GetDocIdSetSize(DocIdSet docIdSet)
		{
			int size = 0;
			DocIdSetIterator it = docIdSet.Iterator();
			while (it.NextDoc() != DocIdSetIterator.NO_MORE_DOCS)
			{
				size++;
			}
			return size;
		}

		public virtual void  AssertContainsDocId(System.String msg, DocIdSet docIdSet, int docId)
		{
			DocIdSetIterator it = docIdSet.Iterator();
			Assert.IsTrue(it.Advance(docId) != DocIdSetIterator.NO_MORE_DOCS, msg);
			Assert.IsTrue(it.DocID() == docId, msg);
		}
	}
}


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The Heavenly Celesta
By Scott Paulson, December 2020
An early celesta.
Buddy Holly made use of the celesta in his song "Every Day."
The Chordettes had a hit with "Mr. Sandman."
The celesta gets its name directly from the French word for "heavenly" (celeste). And the first time you hear it, it is heavenly!
Maybe you first heard it on the flip side of Buddy Holly's premiere single. Holly's producer happened to have a celesta in the studio and Mrs. Vi Petty (the producer's wife) offered to play a heavenly "Every Day" refrain for the session.
Perhaps you first heard it when the Chordettes were hoping that "Mr. Sandman" would send them a dream. The celesta on that recording is a melodious blessing toward bliss.
You've heard it each time Mr. Rodgers put on his sweater. The celesta plays to announce the start of the show and that was his cue to sing a welcome song directly to you! Bonus celesta in the show: it plays when the little train trollies around.
Film composer John Williams made sure you heard it in some of the dreamier Star Wars moments—and in the first two Harry Potter films, you certainly hear a celesta from the orchestra as Hedwig the Owl's lullaby theme.
When Gene Wilder sang "Imagination" in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a celesta was there to take you there!
A lot of film composers "borrow" Camille Saint-Saens' virtuosic "Aquaurium" bell solos (from Carnival of the Animals) and have a celesta soloist shamefully but ever-so-beautifully re-imagine the moment anew yet deja-vu…(as long as you steal from best people.) Here's a sound clip from that dreamy piece by Saint-Saens.
Earl Hines was the first to use the celesta in jazz settings, in 1928, and this ended up benefiting Louis Armstrong on some recordings. Fats Waller brought further fame to the instrument in the 1930s by simultaneously playing the piano with his right hand and celesta with his left! Duke Ellington also welcomed a celesta into some of his work.
Some contemporary artists who employed celesta in their work include:
Bjork: "The Sun in My Mouth" and "The Comet Song"
Fiona Apple: "Tymps (The Sick in My Head Song)"
Christina Aguilera: "All I Need"
Kate Bush: "Wuthering Heights"
Rufus Wainwright: "Beauty Marks"
Paul Simon: "Question for the Angels"
Marvin Gaye: "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
Carly Simon: "Fairweather Father"
For most, the first time they heard a celesta was in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet, during the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy":
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as a young man.
Score for "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" from the Nutcracker ballet.
The celesta was a new (circa 1886) instrument and Tchaikovsky was desperate to be the first of his peers to premiere it. The composer visited the Mustel family's shop in Paris and was impressed with their invention, the celesta. The sound projection was appropriate for larger concert halls and the keyboard was very workable from a performer's standpoint. Above all, it was heavenly. The sound was a wonder of wonders. The composer immediately sent a frantic letter, asking his music publisher to arrange for a purchase (1,200 francs) and for confidential shipment to St. Petersburg. Tchaikovsky was particularly anxious to hide this glorious secret weapon from his two main rivals, Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. Tchaikovsky's use of the celesta was an absolute sensation in The Nutcracker. Many classical composers followed with further orchestral use, especially during the Impressionism era with Debussy and Ravel.
The keyboard of a celesta looks standard and piano-like, but inside the console is a patented array of mellowing felt hammers, vibrant bell-tone plates and super-enhancing wooden resonators for each plate, which are crucial for the celesta's distinctive sound production. The sound carries. The sound floats. The sound lingers. And, in live settings, the sound affects your body as it passes through you.
Earlier Models and Vintage Finds
Auguste Mustel invented the celesta but his father, Charles Victor Mustel, developed the forerunner of the celesta, the typophone, in 1860. This instrument produced sound by striking tuning forks (instead of the metal plates of the superior celesta.)
The typophone produced a sweet, delicate sound in a similar manner to the "dulcitone," which was invented, at about the same time, in Scotland.
Smaller 1900's celestas that are overlooked in storage or in place as novelties in older band rooms are not really celestas, but merely keyboard-glockenspiels with hammers striking metal. Even those models can be delightful, though! If you come across one, let me know!
One can still come across vintage acoustic keyboard instruments that utilize oversized tuning-forks as the source of sound. These are charming instruments, and are a welcome celesta substitute, but they're probably meant for very small halls and small ensembles, as the sound doesn't carry well.
Difficult glockenspiel solos from earlier eras are now often played on the celesta. For instance, in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the bird-catcher aria is so hard to perform on a glock! Mozart encouraged builders to transform the glockenspiel into a keyboard-controlled instrument for that opera and there was some success…but those particular experimental models did not stand the test of time. Fortunately, there are some great glockenspiel players in town for that very solo—and yes, I'm talking about you, Heather Barclay!! For the rest of us, we're lucky to have the celesta upon which to rely.
Time to Listen?
If you have extra time to listen to recordings in December during this pandemic, keep your ears open for a celesta. Many Troubadour readers have a holiday ritual involving Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet. Be sure to share celesta fun facts with your family when watching or listening to a recording of the ballet this year. And Happy Holidays to You and Yours!
Scott Paulson is a monthly columnist for the San Diego Troubadour. He's also the silent film curator at the La Jolla Historical Society, a live radio drama host at WsRadio.com's "Ether Tale Radio Theatre" and an exhibit and events coordinator at the UC San Diego Library.
Paulson is also the University Carillonneur at UCSD, performing commissioned works and fulfilling song requests for the clock chimes atop Geisel Library. As a travelling and performing exhibitor, Scott presents themed shows involving everything from toy pianos to miniature paper theatres to vintage multi-media and electronica-of-interest.


NEWBERRY, S.C. - The Emmanuel College women's basketball team fell 85-75 to Newberry College on Wednesday night.
The Lions started early with a commanding 9-0 lead behind several successful jump shots, including two from Sophomore Hope Forrester. The Wolves would strike back taking advantage of missed shots and three Lion turnovers to put up eight unanswered points.
The teams continued to exchange points until Newberry's Meg Essex stole the lead for the first time of the night halfway through the second quarter. Senior Lochlain Corliss sunk a three seven minutes later to briefly tie the game up at 31-31. The tie was short lived, however, as Newberry would take it back once more and hold it for the remainder of the night.
Senior Taylor Delasbour led the Lions with 17 points and 6 rebounds. Corliss pitched in 5 assists and 4 steals.
The Lions improved their field goal percentage from their first two games to 39.4%, but still trailed behind their opponent.
The Lions will return to the court for their home opener against Toccoa Falls College on Friday, November 16th at 5:00pm.
March 8, 2019 Women's Basketball Claim Conference Carolinas Championship!
February 20, 2019 Lady Lions Down Southern Wesleyan, 79-76.
January 29, 2019 Lady Lions Continue Run With Win Against Erskine, 74-54.
January 26, 2019 Lady Lions Take Down King, 65-56.
January 16, 2019 Corliss Leads Lions In Win Over Southern Wesleyan, 74-63.
December 15, 2018 Lady Lions Down Warner 64-53.
November 20, 2018 Women's Basketball Rolls Bob-Jones, 91-54.


Harmony Gardens is a stunning destination for your special day. Nestled in an oak hammock, the seven acre Gardens provide a multitude of beautiful picture locations including a rose garden, pond, fountain, marble dance floor, tropical garden, natural jasmine arbor over 15 feet tall and a continual supply of blooming shrubs and tropical plants throughout the wedding season. Night turns Harmony Gardens into a fairytale kingdom of towering trees and lighted winding pathways. Add the shadows created by artisan made torches and twinkle lights and night time is the best time to be at Harmony Gardens. Utilizing large dining pavilions throughout the venue, the gardens are usable in any weather (within reason). There is also a bride's room and a groom's room available for pre-wedding preparations. Harmony Gardens is a full service venue and provides everything from the farm tables and chairs to the table linens. Our preferred caterer, Harmony n Love Catering provides delicious food and outstanding service. With everything in house, we take care of all the details, freeing you up to enjoy this exciting time in your life! Up to 150 guests can be hosted for seated ceremonies and receptions.
Harmony Gardens is located in beautiful, sub-tropical Central Florida on the 35 acre Aragon Ranch in Deleon Springs - home of Ponce De Leon's fountain of youth. We are just north of Deland and west of Daytona Beach. Years of providing exotic tropical plants to customers all over the United States have left us with an incredible collection of exotic gingers, heliconias, elephant ears and other tropical and sub-tropical plants artistically planted in a multi themed outdoor venue. A thick canopy of oak trees provides relief from the Florida sun in a comfortable yet elegant environment.
Please contact us by phone at 386.589.1862 or by email at info@harmonygardens.org.
What an absolutely beautiful location for any event, but especially for that special day of a wedding. Spring brings out all of the blossoms on the variety of plants throughout the venue, especially the azaleas. And when the jasmine is in bloom - the fragrance is electrifying. This outdoor venue has all you could need - Bride's room, groom's room, chandeliers and torches throughout, great bar area, rose garden wedding area, and so much more.
I've worked quite a few weddings at Harmony Gardens. They provided an excellent background and venue for both the ceremony and reception. They made all necessary provisions for bad weather. I recommend them highly.


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Q: how to set variable for each roles on capistrano3 Is there way to set variable for each roles?
I wanna set http_proxy variable for only web, not to set for cron.
below code, set variables's scope looks like global, so setting to :git_environment_variables affects to cron.
server 'web1', user: 'user', roles: %w(web)
server 'batch1', user: 'user', roles: %w(cron)

task :set_proxy_variables do
  on roles(:web) do
    set :git_environmental_variables, {
      http_proxy: 'http://fp:8080',
      https_proxy: 'http://fp:8080'
    }

    set :bundle_env_variables, {
      http_proxy: 'http://fp:8080',
      https_proxy: 'http://fp:8080'
    }
  end
end
before 'deploy', 'set_proxy_variables'

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O Decreto-Lei n.º , de 14 de abril de 1941, foi um decreto-lei brasileiro baixado pelo então presidente Getúlio Vargas que estabeleceu as bases de organização dos desportos em todo o Brasil. Foi através deste, por exemplo, que foi criado o Conselho Nacional de Desportos (CND). Apesar disso, este decreto-lei tornou-se notório, porém, por limitar as modalidades esportivas liberadas para as mulheres, dificultando, assim, a prática feminina do desporto no Brasil. Este decreto-lei vigorou até 1979.

Segundo a pesquisadora Katia Rubio, da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), a proibição da prática esportiva feminina no Brasil deixou graves consequências, que atrasaram a história olímpica do país, mesmo depois que deixou de vigorar o decreto da Era Vargas.

Conteúdo e regulamentação
O artigo 54 do Decreto-Lei  apontava incompatibilidade da "natureza feminina" com alguns esportes, proibindo, assim, a prática dos mesmos pelas mulheres.

Em 2 de agosto de 1965, durante a ditadura militar, a Deliberação n.º 7, assinada pelo General Eloy Massey Oliveira de Menezes, presidente do Conselho Nacional de Desportos, delimitou a linha que segregava o esporte feminino brasileiro.

Descumprimento
Mesmo com este decreto-lei em vigor, há notícias de algumas práticas do desporto feminino, como, por exemplo, o Araguari Atlético Clube, que é considerado o primeiro clube do Brasil a formar um time de futebol feminino. Em meados de 1958, este clube selecionou 26 meninas para um jogo beneficente para ajudar na reforma do Grupo Escolar Visconde de Ouro Preto, em Araguari, Minas Gerais. A escola também estava organizando o natal das crianças carentes. A ideia de montar o time partiu do diretor de comunicação e sócio-fundador do Araguari Atlético Clube, Ney Montes, que através das rádios onde trabalhava de comentarista esportivo e locutor, anunciou a peneira no clube, e as garotas que tinham entre 12 a 17 anos foram treinadas e acompanhadas pela equipe técnica do time oficial masculino. A primeira partida, que foi em 19 de dezembro de 1959 foi um sucesso. O sucesso desta partida foi tão grande, que a revista O Cruzeiro fez matéria de capa sobre o acontecimento, pois até então, partidas femininas só ocorriam em circos ou em quadras de futsal. Com esta divulgação, houve, nos meses seguintes, vários jogos do time feminino do Araguari em cidades de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte inclusive) e também em Goiânia e Salvador. Em meados de 1959, a equipe feminina do Araguari foi desfeita, por pressão dos religiosos de Minas Gerais.

Em 1967, Asaléa de Campos Micheli, mais conhecida por Léa Campos, foi a primeira mulher a terminar um curso de arbitragem no futebol. O decreto-lei  proibia as mulheres apenas de jogarem, mas não faziam menção sobre arbitragem. Essa brecha foi o que garantiu a Léa o direito de participar do curso de árbitros em Minas Gerais, feito no Departamento de Futebol Amador da Federação estadual mineira. Em entrevista ao programa televisivo Esporte Espetacular, da Rede Globo, em 2007, ela informou que não pode participar sequer da formatura do curso, por represálias machistas.

Ver também
 Desporto feminino
 Problemas sociais do Brasil
 Papel social de gênero
 Igualdade de género

Ligações externas

1941 na política do Brasil
Direito desportivo do Brasil
Desporto feminino do Brasil
Decretos-lei do Brasil
Legislação de 1941


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Tag Archives: Pakistan
A legendary architect: Zaheer ud Deen Khawaja
Posted by Mohammad Farooq in Architecture, Biography, General, History, Humanity, Pakistan, Struggle, Tributes
Architecture, Heroes, History, Icons, Pakistan, Personalities, Tributes
"Travelling is the best way of getting acquainted/accustomed to other cultures, which teaches us a lot about their customs and values said Zaheer-Ud-Deen Khwaja to me, one of the most renowned architects produced by Pakistan almost 20 years ago." These words, were like pearls of wisdom for me along with many other exchanges with him, that helped transform my thoughts into something more diverse than they may have turned out to be. He had played a pivotal role as an architect who was internationally recognized and won many accolades/awards within his own capacity for Pakistan, but the selflessness this man had displayed throughout his life is worth exploring.
For me, having personal access to him was trivial courtesy of him being my mother's mamo and brother of Safia Manto, my grandmother. I called him Zaheer Nana, out of sheer love and respect for a man who was revered by the whole family for his wisdom, knowledge, balance and impeccable honesty which may be unbelievable to my readers currently. He has been forgotten with time, achievements of his groundbreaking in many aspects, languishing and largely written off.
I discerned a few decades ago, the role of architects in that era wasn't as celebrated and given equivocal footing, as say someone who was a writer, an actor or a poet for example. But, what Zaheer-Ud-Deen-Khwaja achieved was unprecedented at a time when broadcast media and the internet did not exist.
Zaheer-Ud-Deen Khwaja, was born in Kenya in the early 1920's where his father Qamar-Ud-Deen was employed as Public Prosecutor in Zanzibar a British protectorate in those days. His father had originally settled in Karatina, about a hundred miles from Nairobi so due to rudimentary schooling available, the area was majorly populated by traders from Gujrat, India who ran the primary school there. So, his initial instruction medium of education was hence in Gujrati. Qamar-Ud-Deen, his father who was serving in Zanzibar as a Public Prosecutor, headed by an Arab Sultan died an untimely death when he was assassinated for being mistaken as a British Police officer due to his fair complexion in 1936.
The rather unforeseen seen death of his father, must have been a major catastrophic event in their lives, but their mother who was uneducated but a towering personality in her own right took over the family reins. Thanks to the representation of his uncle, Shams-Ud-Deen, a member of the Legislative council and an influential person in his own right, ensured that the widow of Qamar-Ud-Deen was provided financial help by the British Colonial Government, a pension for the entirety of her life, bursaries for the four sons till the age of eighteen and completion of their education.
Also, allowances were allotted for his three sisters till they got married. Considering these events, Miss Qamar-Ud-Deen took the momentous decision of migrating to Bombay (now Mumbai), India. After arriving in Bombay, aged 14 he found himself to be the head of the family, but his mother as mentioned earlier was a woman of virtue and considerable intellect who had an immense influence on her children, which left an everlasting impact on all of them during their respective lifetimes.
Restarting his education, he completed his High School from St. Mary's High School, Bombay and decided to pursue Architecture on the advice of his cousin Zafar-Ud-Deen, although as per his memoirs he barely scraped through Art as a subject in his Senior Cambridge examinations! He took admission in the renowned Sir J.J School of Art where he pursued his architecture. It was a time he remembered rather fondly, with his initial struggles in the first two years at university and the development of a close bond with his Professor Claude Batley who was the Head of the Department of Architecture too. During the third and fourth years, all the students were encouraged to visit the northern and southern parts of India, to get abreast of the finest traditional architecture and diversity it had to offer. By the fifth year, doing an apprenticeship was mandatory in a firm of architects and he was attending of 2 hourly classes in the morning.
He then appeared for an external exam of the Royal British Institute of British Architects, as the diploma offered by the college he attended was not accepted internationally back then. After successfully passing the external exam, he applied for a post-graduate scholarship on offer by the Government of India, which he received for a degree in Civic Design at the University of Liverpool, UK. While aboard the ship to the UK in October 1946, he was also accompanied by a future Nobel Laureate and renowned Physicist Professor Abdus Salam, Aslam Raza who later became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Ikramullah Niazi, a P.W.D engineer and the father of iconic cricketer turned politician Imran Khan.
Besides completing his post-graduation at the University of Liverpool, he also got the opportunity to travel around the whole of UK and visited a host of other countries in Europe for which the Government of India generously provided financial assistance. By 1948, after being elected as a certified member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, he made his way back to Pakistan in October of the same year.
Upon his return to Pakistan, the scholarship he had been awarded by the Government of India contained a clause or a surety bond which bound him to serve them in an individual capacity to the field he was linked with. Apparently, at that point of time he was ironically one of the only qualified architect and town planners available within Pakistan! While job hunting for a few months, he landed up a job in East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) as Assistant Government architect in Chittagong at a salary of Rs 800. The time spent there was remembered fondly, along with this comradeship and close bonding with his Bengali colleagues of that time who never forgot him for his sincerity and kindness he had meted them with. After his marriage to his beloved wife Tahira, in December 1950 and with whom he shared a beloved bond of almost 55 years till her death in July 2005.
After a year's stint in Chittagong and Dhaka, he was offered an important position of Architect and Town planner of Thal Development Authority (TDA) in West Pakistan to oversee a multi-million regional planning covering an area of six million acres of desert which he graciously accepted. As he narrated it in his memoirs, the five years spent involved in the development of this region was one of the golden periods which included designing of the Quaidabad hospital by him as well.
The Thal Development project is listed by the Britannica Encyclopedia is listed as one of the most important development projects in the world. After his association with TDA for five years, he embarked upon taking charge of Pakistan P.WD in the then capital city, as Chief Town Planner and Architect on the direct orders of the then Prime Minister Huseyn Suhrawardy who wished to enlist his services in end of 1957.
Also in 1957, a Quaid-e-Azam's Mausoleum Architectural Competition to build a budding memorial to the founding father of the nation was held for which he was assigned to select a jury of assessors for this momentous project. In a rather unfortunate turn of events, the design awarded as the winning one was not acceptable to Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah and she hired an architect of her own choice from India who designed the current mausoleum built in honour of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. During 1958, as the architect-in-chief of the P.W.D and later with the Karachi Development Authority (KDA), he was actively involved in the planning and execution of the Korangi township, and various other projects during the time spent there. In his period spent there, he dealt with the growing developmental issues of Karachi which was experiencing rapid urbanization due to being the economic hub of Pakistan and remains to this day.
Also, in an interesting incident narrated in his book with the founder of Dawood Hercules, Ahmed Dawood is shared in this snapshot:
His achievements remain unprecedented, but he was a family man, a principled father, a dutiful husband to his beloved wife Tahira and a doting grandfather to his granddaughters Mahvash, Sarah, Anam and Alizeh.
Water Scarcity and Wastage in Pakistan
17 Thursday Apr 2014
Posted by Mohammad Farooq in Uncategorized
Environment, Pakistan
Pakistan is among the most distressed category of water scarce countries in the world.The per capita availability of water has reduced to an alarming level of less than 1,000 cubic feet. Water is the vehicle that powers our agriculture sector it contributes about 21.4% of the GDP to our economy and hires almost 40% of the workforce in it. Have we ever imagined the spectre of a looming water shortage and crisis being predicted in a decade's time by experts? Has our government ever realized what it would mean for our economy; for our very livelihood and what catastrophe can it have? I doubt any kind of policy has been worked out by our present government or the ones gone previously. A campaign is being run by the Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaaf (PTI) and seminars being held in different cities to highlight this issue.
Water should be treated as an economic good which should be taxed. Its price linked to amount of usage and consumption. According to the report released by the Asian Development Bank in 2013; Pakistan's storage capacity in case of an emergency is limited to a 30 day supply far below the recommended 1,000 days for countries with similar climates. With a massive increase in population; the usage of water is also exponentially increasing but nothing is being done to address the chronic shortage of water that is supposed to hit us in the next decade or so. It is a dwindling resource; population growth is exacerbating the issue of water shortage in the country. Global warming is causing a change in climate patterns ; which has resulted in a lessening of melting of glaciers; reducing water flow as a result; lack of dams for storing rain water, boring and drilling of land for irrigation purposes. The discharge of water from untreated industrial and domestic waste is the cause of the supplies getting contaminated and the mixing of sewerage and water pipelines worsens it.
The promotion of awareness campaigns to not waste water need to be initiated from the ground up. Efficient usage of water needs to be envisaged; the usage of tube wells all day long needs to be reduced and divided into fixed intervals. Big reservoirs or water tanks need to be installed by WASA , and water appropriately discharged to the localities for usage in their homes. Boring of land in homes needs to be banned altogether; the individual doing it should be heavily penalized and reprimanded. Efficient usage of water needs to be promoted ; filtration plants need to be installed at the premises where water tankers exist to avoid contamination. All localities in the cities should be checked by taking samples of water to test out for contamination purposes every few months. The price of water being used should be exorbitantly increased; to make people realize that water is a national asset. Strict penalties need to be slapped for wasting water example is the watering of roads and gardens in their homes. Inspection teams need to be deployed for this very purpose to check whether water is being stolen or not by any individual or institution.
Pakistan needs to envision a future where water will be in scarce quantity as stated by many experts. Steps need to be initiated at Federal and Provincial level to prevent water wastage and create methods to avert this crisis on a war footing. It threatens our nation's very existence; its present and future are massively dependent on it.
More reading resources:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/20-Jan-2014/country-heading-towards-water-shortage
http://spearheadresearch.org/SR_CMS/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pakistans-_Water_Crisis_part-1.pdf
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-7-239995-Water-shortage-to-turn-Pakistan-into-a-failed-state-PEW
http://tribune.com.pk/story/553491/water-sufficiency-pakistan-faces-dire-threat-of-water-scarcity/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/231905/pakistans-water-crisis/
Net Neutrality in Pakistan
Posted by Mohammad Farooq in Internet, Net Neutrality, Pakistan, Technology, Websites
Internet Services, Mobile Data, Net Neutrality, Netizens, Pakistan, PTCL, VOIP
The guiding principle to the preservation of a free and open internet is "Net Neutrality". It means that ISP's may not discriminate between different kinds of content and applications online. It guarantees a level playing field for all websites and internet technologies. The question arises as to how we should apply the concept of "Net Neutrality" in the context of Pakistan. Net Neutrality has primarily garnered a lot of attention in the United States, and has been the subject of intense scrutiny and various lawsuits over the last 4 years or so. My focus is to make it relevant in the context of Pakistan and how can it affect us in the longer scheme of things.
In Pakistan, many would argue the concepts very mention would be nonsensical and idiotic. Our telecom and internet sector is predominantly dominated by PTCL; one of the largest providers of fixed line telephone, broadband and wireless internet services. Besides being in the business of providing the aforementioned services, PTCL is also involved in leasing bandwidth to all major ISP's operating in Pakistan. Majority of the submarine cables landing in Pakistan, are owned by a consortium of telecom companies including PTCL which is a major stakeholder in it. Besides it, the only company providing bandwidth leasing services to ISP's is Transworld Alliance ie TWA. This gives PTCL a whopping control over the whole telecom sector. It stifles competition and gives them absolute price setting power and ability to manipulate the market to their whim. Since the advent of mobile providers like Telenor, Warid and China Mobile, the market opened up to healthy competition bringing down the call rates that were quite exorbitant before the deregulation of the telecom sector in 2004. Before this, Mobilink was the sole provider of GSM services in Pakistan for almost 10 years since 1994/95. It virtually controlled the Pakistani market in the presence of providers like Paktel and Instaphone.
The critical aspect to understand is the unlimited control that PTCL is exhibiting in the realm of internet services in Pakistan. A key indicator is the growing use of VOIPs and preference of cellphone usage in Pakistan. Due to low calling rates, the use of fixed line telephony services has reduced drastically in comparison to the ease of access offered by cellphones. This has hurt PTCL revenues sharply in the last decade since it was sold to Etisalat in 2005. Due to exploding growth of smartphones and widespread Wi-Fi internet access availability in the urban areas, the use of VOIP services like Skype, Viber has grown tremendously. Due to the ease of convenience that it offers and the biggest thing is, it are free! As per net neutrality, PTCL should be offering a level playing field to all competitors and not prioritize their fixed line services which is in effect; detrimental to the consumer. Due to exponential growth in VOIP services, PTCL has blocked the ability to make calls over Skype to landline numbers abroad which is a gross violation of the principles of net neutrality. Degradation in services like Skype and Viber which people use to contact their loved ones abroad causes significant hurdles for the consumers. It forces them to use fixed line or wireless telephony services to contact them instead. Alternatives do exist, but the majority using Skype or Viber like applications do not possess the knowledge or are tech savvy enough to determine which other services to use instead.
Interestingly, another example of net neutrality could be a deal signed by PTCL with the Jang Group of Newspapers, who own the famous television channel Geo, and the English newspaper; The News. This would involve the Jang Group paying PTCL money to offer prioritized internet traffic to its news portals like Geo.tv and TheNews.com.pk during peak hour usage. For example in the evening when people come back home and log onto the web and access news websites. This could happen possibly that competing websites like ARY and Dunya news websites either would be very slow to access due to a deliberate slowdown in internet traffic by PTCL. This would force the consumers frustratingly to switch to websites like Geo which are readily, easily accessible due to the prioritized speeded up traffic being provided by the ISP. This ultimately would work to the benefit of PTCL, which would either hatch up a package offering speeded up internet access in form of a paid upgrade to the consumers, or offer tiered internet services depending on the level of usage of the customer. A customer or even a company in need of speedy internet access would hop onto this bandwagon and save themselves from the misery of slow internet access on websites that they want to access. This would mean more revenue and profits could be generated by PTCL and make it immune to competition. And hence it will not make significant investments in its infrastructure to provide better internet services to the customer. PTCL would know it well when they can rake in significant revenue by just hatching up prices and slowing down internet access deliberately. In a market totally dominated by them who would dare challenge them? Even the government due to the significant market share and fear of investor unrest would not take on the behemoth known as PTCL and would put its hand up.
The mention about video streaming and IP TV access in respect of net neutrality was purposely ignored. Till now the level of streaming and data consumption in Pakistan is not comparable to the West; due to a lack of high speed internet access. With the advent of 3G and 4G services; whose licenses are being auctioned shortly; Net Neutrality will garner significant importance and the netizens of Pakistan will realize what lies ahead of us as the use of data services would grow exponentially in the coming few years.
*Net Neutrality definition has been taken from the website www.savetheinternet.com citation 1st paragraph*
Internet And Bannistan In Pakistan
Posted by Mohammad Farooq in Censorship, Internet, NetFreedom, Technology
Bannistan, Censorship, NetFreedom, Netizens, Pakistan, Privacy, Surveillance
I was ceased to be amazed by the censorship policies of our telecom authority ie PTA. Three very well respected technology websites Gizmodo.com, Lifehacker.com and TheVerge.com were blocked by our ISP's on the instructions of PTA. I was flabbergasted and overawed by the audacious and stupid ban put in place on these very good sources of information for technology related news and happenings. These websites as far I have known have never housed any disconcerting content that would give rise to it being deemed 'harmful or inappropriate'. If the authorities feel that these websites mentioned above are responsible for hosting "objectionable" content; a reasonable explanation should suffice detailing every aspect of why these websites were blocked in the first place; and what kind of content did they deem was objectionable which led to the blockage or ban on these websites.
Everything is under the radar of the state; massive surveillance and privacy violations are being conducted on a daily basis and rights to freedom of speech being curtailed on the internet. The blocking of websites is the first of many missteps that the state undertakes to block the right to access as basic a thing as information on the internet. The absence of any clear guidelines and policies and a sudden blocking of a website is not only erroneous but also practically stupid so to speak. The websites that are hosting transparent and harmless content in nature and are in no way offensive or harmful to the States very existence; why the hell is it blocked? Is there a legitimate reason to block these websites without any prior notification? Is there any mechanism under existence to ban or block these websites? Do any kind of legislations exist in the power of the state to empower the telecom authority to block any website at their whim without any practical reasoning? Are notifications issued to the ISP's or an official press release made by the concerned stakeholders that a certain website or websites have been blocked due to this and this reason?
In these circumstances; a pronounced absence of laws and guidelines for blocking websites is just mind boggling. One fine morning, we get up and see a website we view daily is blocked! Then the very next day it is 'miraculously' unblocked!! The formulation of polices and guidelines is an utmost necessity in this digital day and age; laws need to be enacted by Parliament and passed through so a proper mechanism is in place to facilitate the closure or blockage of these websites. On a personal level; I am not in favour of disbanding or blocking any websites and denying the netizens of the right to access information in any given way. Blockage ensues frustration at a level even for genuine purposes; like people doing research who have to view Youtube to view a specific video that is interlinked to their work and also for example upcoming musicians; startups etc who have to rely on free mediums to disseminate information about their specific ventures. Due to these blockages; various pedigrees of business and upcoming artists and talents that need the medium to showcase their talents are being curtailed; unnecessarily. The underlying frustration of those 'genuine' users is to circumvent these blockades and resort to using Virtual Private Networks or proxies to access these 'banned' websites.
Absurd bans like these make no sense at all and have no valid reasoning and explanation. If for some apparent reason; the websites mentioned above are guilty of hosting content that the State finds 'objectionable' to its liking; it can take the step of simply blocking that particular URL and not blocking the whole DAMN WEBSITE! Emancipation of information is being curtailed by the State at every level and it is their prerogative to deprive the netizens of their basic rights to access it. Blocking and massive filtration of the internet will not stop the seeds of discontentment from sprouting up. Proactive policies need to be formulated in regards to the Internet in Pakistan; guidelines need to be developed and a framework promulgated to 'Censor' content if NEEDED! By blocking websites which emanate knowledge and add value in every respect of the word; it will only harm us in the longer run.
The internet is also a great resource of learning; besides the 'Objectionable' content it also houses according to the said morals and virtues of our State. If the State encourages instead of discouraging the people to view the internet; it can help the populace to be empowered in every given way whether it is in the field of education; the economy and it will only add value and make them that much aware of the happenings in the world. The internet can galvanize a revolution of knowledge and learning in Pakistan; and with a massive chunk of the 180 million population under the age of 25, we have to encourage the use of the internet proactively. Bannistan is not the solution to our problems; it only aggravates them!