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Staff shortages see UK restaurants struggle to cope with Christmas season
by December 5, 2022
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Turning down party bookings over the Christmas period is the last thing a restaurant owner wants to do.
However that is the harsh reality hitting restaurants across the whole of the UK like the Rattle Owl, an independent restaurant featured in the Michelin Guide, which, like the vast majority of hospitality businesses, is suffering a shortage of staff and having to make compromises.
"We used to be able to do 26 (people for a Christmas party booking) but we absolutely can't do that now. The max we can do now is 10," said the York restaurant's owner, Clarrie O'Callaghan.
The shortage means that anyone who called to make a reservation for a larger number of people has been turned away.
"Independent restaurants are all in the same boat: we're having to limit numbers to ensure customers get the best service."
The restaurant has five chefs and six front-of-house staff, but needs one or two more chefs and two more front-of-house workers. It is not alone in suffering what is being called an "existential threat" to the hospitality industry.
London celebrity chef Jason Atherton last month said he will have to close restaurants in the new year because a third of posts at his restaurants are vacant. Tom Kerridge, Rick Stein, Angela Hartnett and Raymond Blanc have also all raised their voices in support of training and recruiting more hospitality workers.
Other restaurants are making compromises over who they hire. One restaurateur said they were training front-of-house staff to do kitchen work, which is not ideal, as well as hiring international students, who are allowed to work 20 hours a week.
Last month, a group of hospitality organisations wrote to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions calling for "urgent intervention" in what was becoming a "perfect storm" that would force businesses to close.
We're in a cost-of-doing-business crisis, as well as a cost of living crisis
Emma McClarkin, BBPA
In the joint letter to Mel Stride MP, UKHospitality, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), British Institute of Innkeeping (BII), the Institute of Hospitality and charity Springboard, wrote that the recruitment crisis was causing "an existential threat to our industry".
"This is not a problem facing just one type of venue or hospitality business, it is a universal issue, and it is critical because brilliant, passionate people are the lifeblood of hospitality," the letter said.
Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the BBPA, said the vacancy rate in the hospitality sector stands at 11%, compared with the UK average of 4%, and this is costing the industry £22bn a year.
"It is stark that hospitality is struggling to attract the people we need," she said. "Obviously, we've always had a problem getting enough chefs in the kitchen. That was the case even pre-pandemic, but now we're struggling to even get people to come in to do front of house; it was never a problem before. And this is going to impact on Christmas."
McClarkin said that during the pandemic many staff from overseas left and had not returned, this was especially the case with EU workers, who no longer have freedom of movement to the UK.
She said the uncertainty caused by the various lockdowns, where businesses were forced to close at short notice, had also seen staff leave the industry.
"We're seeing people that also moved away (from the industry) because they were worried about long-term security. So they've gone off to work for, maybe, Amazon or a delivery company, or maybe work in a supermarket or retail environment, where they felt that they were able to sustain an income."
The organisation estimates that pubs are losing 16% of sales because of staff shortages.
"It's the difference between a business making it and not making it. That's how difficult it is. We're in a 'cost of doing business' crisis, as well as a cost of living crisis."
Pubs are now closing at a rate of 50 a month, compared with 30 a month at the beginning of the year. Last month, it was revealed that restaurant closures increased by 60% after the pandemic, with 1,567 insolvencies over 2021-22, up from 984 during 2020-21, according to a study by the consultancy Mazars. The figure includes 453 over the past three months, up from 395 in the previous quarter.
McClarkin said: "We're expecting that to get worse over the coming months, so we really need to have a great Christmas."
The hospitality industry is running a joint campaign called Hospitality Rising to encourage people to take up jobs in pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes. McClarkin said: "A job in a pub is not just a stopgap, it's an opportunity to progress fast into a long career where you have a lot of fun. There's never a boring moment in hospitality."
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Opposition wants pause on major B.C. taxes to help COVID-19 recovery
B.C.'s Opposition wants government to pause the PST, hotel tax and employer health tax for up to three months to help economic recovery.
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May 05, 2020 • Last Updated May 5, 2020 • 2 minute read
Opposition B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson has sent a letter to Premier John Horgan with suggestions on measures to help the economy recovery from COVID-19. Photo by CHAD HIPOLITO /THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES
VICTORIA — B.C.'s Opposition Liberal party is calling on the NDP government to suspend the provincial sales tax, the hotel tax and the employer health tax for up to three months to help the economy recover from COVID-19.
Opposition leader Andrew Wilkinson outlined the measures Tuesday in a letter to Premier John Horgan, in which he praised the government's response to the coronavirus and called on it to be aggressive in helping rebuild the economy.
"The challenge in front of us may well be more difficult than fighting the virus itself," Wilkinson wrote. "We are now in a deep recession, hundreds of thousands of people are out of work, businesses are in peril, and students are likely not back in school until the fall.
"Now is the time to be bold and brave."
Horgan is expected to unveil the first steps to easing pandemic restrictions on Wednesday.
In the letter, Wilkinson also urges the government to develop an economic recovery strategy for rural B.C., place a moratorium on new regulations that would add costs to B.C. businesses and develop a "short-term commercial rent relief plan that includes a no-eviction backstop to help small businesses, particularly retailers, who have seen a significant loss of revenue."
The province should have a timely review process for sectors of the economy that are pitching plans to reopen, and that should be accompanied by increased testing, monitoring and a long-term plan to secure the necessary health supplies, wrote Wilkinson.
The provincial health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, has said increased testing and contact tracing of COVID-19 cases is a cornerstone of any plans to easing restrictions.
"The people of British Columbia have been rightfully focused on what they can do to support government in our collective efforts to combat COVID-19," wrote Wilkinson. "But they are also growing more and more concerned about how they will deal with the economic devastation that looms ahead."
Wilkinson also reaffirmed the Opposition's support for how the NDP government has responded to the coronavirus, which has led to a largely non-partisan atmosphere during the pandemic. Liberal MLAs have been working with NDP and Green MLAs to hold public information town halls and collaborate on health-care measures.
"The effort to combat this virus has truly been an all-in effort by British Columbians, who deserve our gratitude for the sacrifices they have made to help flatten the curve," wrote Wilkinson.
"Our front-line health professionals, and essential service workers like transit drivers and grocery store staff, deserve our special thanks for the incredible sacrifices they are making, day in and day out, on behalf of us all.
"The tireless efforts of provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, minister of health Adrian Dix, and their respective teams deserve our gratitude, too."
A three-month pause on the three major taxes would likely have the government forgo as much as $2.5 billion in revenue — or roughly four per cent of its projected revenue in the year.
However, the exact financial impact is difficult to calculate because PST revenue depends on the amount of consumer purchases this year, and the employer health tax depends on the number of private-sector employees. Hundreds of thousands of British Columbians have lost their jobs because of the pandemic lockdown.
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Series - The Mega-Appeal of Nanomedicine: Part 1 of 2: European Union Throws Megabucks at Nanomedicine	Part 2 of 2: EU Consortium Applies Nanotechnology to Study AD
Most research into nanomedicine, the application of nanoscale materials and processes to medical problems, has focused on cancer. Now researchers are starting to see opportunities for these approaches in Alzheimer's disease (AD). With its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research, the European Union (EU) has boosted funding of nanomedicine, especially projects involving large cross-European collaborations, to help move the technology forward (see Part 1). One project that has benefited is Nanoparticles for Therapy and Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, aka NAD. With a budget of €14.37 million (US$20.8 million), this project aims to find nanometer-sized particles that can slow the progression of AD.
One of the challenges for applying nanomedicine approaches to AD is that the drugs or imaging agents have to be transported across the blood-brain barrier to the brain—no easy feat. To solve this problem, Massimo Masserini of the Universitá Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Italy, who heads the NAD project, said, "It was important to put together a big task force." Masserini assembled a group of 19 research groups from 13 European countries spanning different areas of expertise. "NAD is a very large consortium. They have experts in the chemistry of ligands and nanoparticles, biochemists, pharmacologists, people in charge of commercializing medical products, and clinicians," said Terry Allen, a pharmacologist who works on drug-delivery methods at the University of Alberta, Canada, and is a member of the international advisory board for NAD. "I don't know of another large group taking this nanotechnology-based approach to AD."
Since the project's launch in October 2008, NAD researchers have designed a number of natural and synthetic nanoparticles that are eventually degraded in the body, reducing concerns about toxicity. Julien Nicolas, a polymer chemist in Patrick Courvreur's group at the Université Paris-Sud in Châtenay-Malabry, France, synthesized biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles covered by chains of polyethylene glycol (PEG), which helps hide the nanoparticles from the immune system. Other groups in NAD have developed solid lipid nanoparticles and liposomes. As a second step, these nanoparticles have been linked to an array of ligands that interact with amyloid-β (Aβ), such as acidic phospholipids, anti-Aβ antibodies, and a derivative of the molecule curcumin, which is purported to break up Aβ aggregates (see ARF related news story on Yang et al., 2005). Since last December, the NAD group has published several papers showing that various combinations of ligands and nanoparticles bind Aβ in blood and brain tissue samples (Brambilla et al., 2010; Canovi et al., 2011; Mourtas et al., 2011; Gobbi et al., 2010). They then reported that these agents, when applied to neurons in culture, can reduce Aβ toxicity, said Masserini (Bereczki et al., 2011).
The scientists are now planning to deploy their arsenal of compounds in two ways: One is to couple them with other ligands that will get them across the blood-brain barrier into the brain, where they can target amyloid deposits directly; the other is to try to clear Aβ from the blood and hope it will reduce Aβ in the brain through a sink effect (see ARF related news story on Yamada et al., 2009). "There is a theory that Aβ in the blood and brain are in equilibrium," said Nicolas. "Some people believe that removal of Aβ from blood will displace this equilibrium and cause Aβ to clear the brain." Researchers have had some success with this approach in mouse models (see ARF related news story on DeMattos et al., 2001) and an anti- Aβ antibody postulated to work in this way has been advanced to Phase 3 trials (seesolanezumab and ARF related news story). To test this approach, "we have made some nanoparticles in such a way that they will not have a long circulating time," said Sophia Antimisiaris of the University of Patras in Greece. "But they stay in the circulation long enough that they can bind Aβ and extract it from the blood." Taking this strategy would bypass the problem of having to cross the blood-brain barrier, but Antimisiaris acknowledged that it is a longshot, as the peripheral sink hypothesis remains controversial. Even so, the group has started to test their initial non-barrier-crossing compounds in animal models of AD. "We are really at the beginning of the story," said Gianluigi Forloni of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, Italy, whose group is carrying out the animal work.
At the same time, the NAD group is designing nanoparticles that will access the brain by incorporating ligands such as the molecule transferrin, which binds to a receptor on the endothelial cells of the blood-brain barrier (Markoutsa et al., 2011) and is already being tested for ferrying antibodies into the brain to block Aβ production (see ARF related news story). NAD researchers are also adding to the nanoparticles PET and MRI contrast agents for Aβ so that they could monitor the progression of disease at the same time they deliver therapy (Skouras et al. 2011). Masserini refers to this approach as theranostics, variously spelled theragnostics (e.g., Zetterberg et al., 2011).
The NAD project is about halfway through its funding cycle. In the next two and a half years, Masserini said the consortium should complete experiments testing several compounds in transgenic mice. "It is a high-risk but potentially high-reward project if it works out," said Cristina Gabellieri of the EU's directorate general for research and innovation.
Not Just Therapy
Although new therapies against AD are sorely needed, just as important are methods to diagnose the disease at an earlier stage than is currently possible, as the failure of several candidate drugs at Phase 3 trials suggest that treatment may have started when it was already too late (see ARF related news story). "The real potential for nanotechnology may lie in detecting disease at an early stage. If we can do that, we can then apply therapies either delivered by nanoparticles or in a traditional fashion," said Tara Spires-Jones at Massachusetts General Hospital. "Right now we have a wonderful agent, PIB, that crosses the blood-brain barrier and binds to Aβ plaques, but we have no way of imaging oligomeric or soluble Aβ. We also have no markers for tau that cross the blood-brain barrier," she added (see ARF related news story). Such agents might allow the detection of disease at earlier stages than imaging plaques. Although NAD is not investigating such compounds, this is something that Spires' group and others are doing, but that work has not yet been published.
Besides delivering imaging agents to the brain, nanoscale approaches can help detect AD biomarkers in the CSF or blood (see ARF related news story on Haes et al. 2005). The EU FP7 has given a separate €9 million grant to a large consortium called NADINE (Nanosystems for the Early Diagnosis of Neurodegenerative Diseases) that aims to develop a nanofluidics-based system for measuring AD biomarkers in blood. "Nanotechnology opens the door for lower-cost tests and developing devices that can detect small amounts of the biomarker," said Susana Aznar Kleijn at the Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngby, north of Copenhagen, the project's coordinating center. The consortium is currently conducting experiments to establish the best biomarkers and sensor approaches.
A smaller FP7 project also developing a blood test for AD is Nanognostic. With a budget of €5.3 million (of which €4 million comes from the FP7), this collaborative project will attempt to develop a diagnostic for AD based on five proteins chosen from a panel of 18 shown to be predictive of AD (see ARF related news story on Ray et al., 2007). Their strategy uses fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from luminescent lanthanide complexes to semiconductor quantum dots, both of which are linked with antibodies and aptamers that recognize the five proteins. "The system that we are developing can measure small amounts of proteins in blood sensitively and very quickly. You can measure multiple proteins simultaneously in one sample," said Niko Hildebrandt at the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay, France. In a proof-of-principle paper, the scientists showed that the technique can work with proteins unrelated to AD (Geissler et al., 2010); they are now applying the method to samples from AD patients.
"The EU has been very quick in calling for proposals for new promising technology that they want to grow, and in having researchers with existing expertise work together," said Pieter Jelle Visser at Maastricht University in The Netherlands and a member of the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium and the EU's Joint Programming Initiative on Neurodegeneration. "I think it's a good thing."—Laura Bonetta
This concludes a two-part series on nanomedicine. See also Part 1.
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Two Ways to Attack Amyloid: Metal Chelator and Antibody 22 Nov 2002
Chicago: Lilly's Antibody Appears to Do No Harm, But Will It Help? 13 Aug 2008
Smuggling Antibodies to BACE Across the Blood-Brain Barrier 27 May 2011
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Mandy Moore Talks 'License To Wed' With 'Access'
Mandy Moore talked with 'Access Hollywood' about her new movie 'License to Wed'. The singer/actress discussed why she chose the role, trying to keep a straight face working with Robin Williams, working with robotic babies, and she sold the movie in 20 seconds.
"I'm the quintessential girl who loves romantic comedies," Mandy said about accepting the role. "I loved that this film I think had a little bit more of the guy's perspective than most, and knowing obviously Robin (Williams) and John (Krasinski)'s involvement I thought that guys would probably be more inclined to go see a film like this. A romantic comedy like this. I was excited about that prospect, but I'm a huge fan of Robin and John's and I'm a huge 'Office' fan. The opportunity to work with both of them, I was like, ahh, yeah, that sound like a good way to spend my summer."
On holding toe-to-toe with Robin, Mandy said, "Really? To be quite honest, the onus was not on me to do anything comedic in the movie. I got to be like the straight man in the background and sort of the one that propelled the script forward when Robin would improv and deviate from what we were supposed to be doing. It's challenging to work with him just in the sense that you can't keep a straight face. It's difficult, but it definitely keeps you on your toes, that's for sure."
On whether the movie's boot camp might give audiences second thoughts about getting married, Mandy responded, "I don't know. I think it's a story that has a lot of heart, but obviously if you're getting ready to walk down the aisle or maybe if you already are married it's a great sort of check-in. I don't think it's gonna deter people from getting married." Moore added that the film "really breaks down everything that you should be communicating about in a relationship. Unfortunately it's not anything that I've taken away from me. If anything, it's made me realize that I can wait a little bit longer to walk down the aisle and I can get married later in life."
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I'm not really a big fan of Mandy Moore, she's not that charismatic when it comes to box-office results in movies, music. But I'd prefer her, than, Lindsay Lohan, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, etc., AT LEAST, MANDY MOORE IS NOT LESBO, I THINK SO….. Just be careful to be around with rumored gay men(true or not, that's a big turn-off and no-no to me, please), Clay Aiken, Lance Bass, Wentworth Miller, Jlo's real-life ugly, old, dirty monkey Marc Anthony, etc. Yikes, I don't like, I'd prefer, genuine macho men, of course. Oh yeah, wohooo!
No wonder, real-life husband and wife, singers, I Need To Know and If YOu Had My Love are still together, and it should be, forever, because no one like their rehearsed attitudes. They truly deserve each other, because, of their relationship background/history. I'd say, Karma to both, until this time, they can't produce a biological baby. He has traded/left his much decent, famous ex-wife in favor of large ass Love Don't Cost A Thing, who, the entire Hollywood known to be a loose person. It's good, if he's handsome, my God, no offense, but, he's such an ugly, old, dirty monkey, yikesss! Only desperate women marry a man who fathered a police woman, before. God, I'm so happy, it's forever love between I Need To Know and If You Had My Love, anyway, they're both no big deal. Losers, forever, oh yeah. Too late, losers. You must be responsible of your questionable behavior, oh yes.. Go, Mandy Moore go! Although, I'm not really a big fan of her.


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The state of affairs with human rights in Transnistria has been criticized by several governments and international organizations. The Republic of Moldova, and other states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) claim that the government of Transnistria is authoritarian and has a record of arbitrary arrest and torture.

With the stated aim of rectifying its human rights record and bringing it in line with European standards, Transnistria established an ombudsman's office in 2006.

The 2007 Freedom in the World report, published by the US-based Freedom House, described Transnistria as a "non-free" territory, having an equally poor record in both political rights and civil liberties.

Overview
In July 2007 the European Parliament, in a decision without juridical power, condemned the "strict and frequent" violation of human rights by the Transnistrian separatist authorities. The European Parliament "deplores the lack of respect for human rights and human dignity in Transnistria" and "condemns the continued repression, harassment and intimidation of representatives of the independent media, NGOs and civil society".

According to a U.S. Department of State report referring to year 2006, "The right of citizens to change their government was restricted...  Authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention.... In Transnistria authorities limited freedom of speech and of the press.... Authorities usually did not permit free assembly.... In the separatist region of Transnistria the authorities continued to deny registration and harassed a number of minority religions groups.... The separatist region remained a significant source and transit area for trafficking in persons.... Homosexuality was illegal, and gays and lesbians were subject to governmental and societal discrimination."

The Republic of Moldova accuses the PMR administration of organizing incursions into some of the left-bank villages controlled by the Moldovan government such as Vasilevca, which they claim also result in arbitrary arrests, beatings and sometimes even deaths.

Several alleged crimes by the paramilitary forces of the Transnistrian government remained uninvestigated. The chairman of the Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights claimed that 20 people were killed in the village of Chiţcani, 5 km south of Tiraspol, between 1996 and 2000. He said that no government authority investigated these deaths because Moldova has no access to the village and Transnistrian authorities do not wish to investigate.

According to a human rights report by the US Department of State, prisons in Transnistria are said to be harsh.

According to US Department of State human rights reports for 2003–2004 and 2005, the right of citizens to change their government is severely restricted; authorities reportedly continued to use torture and arbitrary arrest and detention. Transnistrian authorities harassed independent media and opposition lawmakers, restricted freedom of association and of religion, and discriminated against Romanian-speakers.

The police investigation into the July 2004 disappearance of Sergei Gavrilov, who was imprisoned in Transnistria during the early 1990s and allegedly witnessed the mistreatment of members of the "Ilascu Group", was not solved. Transnistrian authorities have regularly harassed and often detained persons suspected of being critical of the regime for periods of up to several months. For example, Transnistrian authorities detained for several hours and reportedly abused two brothers, aged 12 and 15, who were the sons of a teacher at one of the Latin script schools in Transnistria. The Transnistria militia had reportedly explained they had detained the boys to clean the city of homeless people before the December legislative elections.

Situation of the media

According to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the media climate in Transnistria is restrictive and the authorities continue a long-standing campaign to silence independent opposition voices and groups.
Alternative viewpoints were stifled by widespread censorship

According to the same U.S. Department of State report for 2006, "Both of region's major newspapers were controlled by the authorities. There was one independent weekly newspaper in Bender and another in the northern city of Rîbniţa.... Separatist authorities harassed independent newspapers for critical reporting of the Transnistrian regime.... Most television and radio stations and print publication were controlled by Transnistrian authorities, which largely dictated their editorial policies and finance operations. Some broadcast networks, such as the TSV television station and the INTER-FM radio station, were owned by Transnistria's largest monopoly, Sherriff, which also holds a majority in the region's legislature.... In July 2005 the Transnistrian Supreme Soviet amended the election code to prohibit media controlled by the Transnistrian authorities from publishing results of polls and forecasts related to elections."

Situation of Romanian-language schools

Transnistrian local authorities insist that public education for ethnic Moldovans in their mother tongue be done using the Soviet-originated Moldovan Cyrillic, and have restricted the usage of the Latin script for the Moldovan language to only six schools. Four schools of the six that taught the Moldovan language using Latin script were closed by the authorities, who claimed the schools refused to apply for official accreditation. The schools were later reopened amid pressure from the European Union, but as private institutions.

In 2010, the European Court of Human Rights declared partly admissible applications of more than 100 local residents regarding closing of three Moldovan schools in Transnistria (Tighina, Rîbniţa and Grigoriopol), alleging the violation of their right to protection of private life, education and non-discrimination.

The OSCE mission to Moldova urged local authorities in the Transnistrian city of Rîbniţa to return a confiscated building to the Moldovan Latin script school located in the city. The unfinished building was nearing completion in 2004, when Transnistria took control of it during that year's school crisis.

Ilie Ilașcu Group

One of the most high-profile cases involved Ilie Ilașcu, who was convicted in 1993 of killing two Transnistrian officials.  He was initially sentenced to death by Transnistria's Supreme Court. This was commuted to a life prison sentence. Three other associates were sentenced to 12 to 15 years' imprisonment and confiscation of their property.

Ilașcu was released in 2001, following a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), while the other three were released in 2004 and 2007 when they finished serving their sentences.

In the case of Ilaşcu and Others v. Moldova and Russia (2004), the European Court of Human Rights found their detention arbitrary and did not recognize the sentence. It also demanded that Moldova and Russia release the other Ilie Ilașcu Group members, Andrei Ivanțoc and Tudor Petrov-Popa, at that time still imprisoned in Transnistria.

ECHR stated the authorities had broken the right of freedom and safety to all four members of the group, and that the treatment Ilie Ilașcu suffered qualified as torture. The court also ordered Moldova and Russia — which backs Transnistria — to pay the four a total of €750,000 (US$1,000,000) in compensation for the deprivation of their freedom, and for ill treatment while in custody.

Religious groups
Some organizations claim that the right of free assembly or association is not fully respected and that religious freedom is limited by  denying registration to Baptists, Methodists, and the Church of the Living God. Transnistrian authorities also reportedly accused Jehovah's Witnesses of lacking patriotism and spreading Western influence, and developed school teaching aids along those lines containing negative and defamatory information regarding Jehovah's Witnesses. In 2007, the US-based Christian Broadcasting Network denounced Transnistrian KGB persecution of Protestants.

Profanation of military cemetery
According to the Moldavian and Romanian press, in February 2007, Transnistrian authorities "destroyed and profaned" the Drăgalina cemetery in Tighina (also known as the Romanian cemetery, which contains/contained the tombs of many World War II soldiers),  thus violating Articles 34 and 130 of the 4th Geneva Convention. The Transnistrian authorities did not exhume the bodies but removed the crosses and leveled the terrain with bulldozers.

According to the Romanian edition of Deutsche Welle, the Transnistrian authorities announced that the crosses would be blown up and mixed with asphalt to repair the roads of the city. According to PMR News, the authorities in Transnistria are to rebury the exhumed soldiers outside of the city and authorities have taken steps so that the identities of these exhumed soldiers are not lost. No such steps have been taken to date and locals have reported bones being moved with bulldozers. A monument to Soviet soldiers is proposed to be built over the leveled graves. According to the official Transnistrian press, "Memorials dedicated to glory and monuments play an important role in the education of the young generation."

The cemetery was founded in 1812, when the graves of Swedish and Russian soldiers that died near the Tighina Fortress in 1709 were relocated. In the 19th century, several leaders of Don cossacks, local boyars and city councilmen were buried in the cemetery. During World War II, Romanian (the majority of the graves), German and Soviet soldiers, and Soviet POWs were buried there. Soviet graves are located in one part of the cemetery, called Borisovskoe, while the 333 Romanian graves were located in the now destroyed part, called Drăgalina. 319 identified Romanian and 14 unidentified soldiers, as well as 13 Soviet prisoners were buried at this cemetery.

2007—2010
In March 2007, several opponents of Transnistrian regime were arrested as they made public appeals for a protest rally against the Tiraspol regime's policy. On March 19, 2007, Transnistrian authorities also arrested Ştefan Urîtu, the head of the Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, and two of his aides, despite the fact that Urîtu has a residence in Transnistria
They were later released.

Transnistrian residents with automobiles registered in Moldova have seen their cars confiscated by Transnistrian authorities.

During the Moldovan municipal elections on June 3, 2007, the Transnistrian authorities prevented the inhabitants of Corjova, a village in the security zone under the administrative control of Chişinău, from participating in the elections. A local councillor, Iurie Cotofana, was arrested and beaten badly enough to require hospitalization. Corjova's mayor, Valeriu Miţul, - who was up for re-election -  received death threats. Valentin Besleag, a candidate for Corjova's mayoral office was also arrested.

In April 2010 the journalist Ernest Vardanean was arrested, being accused of espionage in favour of Moldova.

A similar case was that of Ilie Cazacu from Bender, arrested on 19 March 2010 for high treason and espionage in favour of Moldova. As the parents of Ilie Cazacu did not receive news about him, they started in June 2010 a hunger strike in front of the Russian Embassy in Chişinău. On 31 October 2011 Ilie Cazacu was pardoned by President Smirnov and released.

On 18 June 2010 Moldovan human rights organization Promo-Lex accused authorities of Transnistria in detaining Elena Dobroviţcaia from Bender, who was arrested allegedly because her mother went to a hospital in Chişinău instead of presenting herself at the request of the authorities from Bender. Attempts were made by Moldova's mass media to connect this situation with case of Ilie Cazacu. On 2 July 2010 Ministry of Interior of Transnistria published refutation, stating that Elena Dobroviţcaia was detained in temporary detention facility for 72 hours because during search at her flat 40 thousands rubles were found, probably belonging to her mother who was accused in fraud and theft. According to Ministry of Interior Elena was released after 72 hours of detainment.

See also
Media in Transnistria
Romanian-language schools in Transnistria
Russification
Anti-Romanian sentiment
Crime in Transnistria
LGBT rights in Transnistria
Human rights in Moldova

References

External links
Thomas Hammarberg Report on Human Rights in the Transnistrian Region of the Republic of Moldova UN, 2013
Transnistria's ombudsman
U.S. Department of State - 2005 Report about Human Rights in Moldova with references about Transnistria
Promolex NGO study about Human Rights in Transnistria (2012)
Freedom House report on Transnistria

Politics of Transnistria
History of Transnistria since 1991
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Law of Transnistria


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CCID holds discussion on impacts of conflict on youth's sexual and reproductive health and rights
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Donors and policy makers should support the piloting of child-marriage interventions and the documentation of learning. Evaluation research has identified promising interventions, but research is lacking on how these can be integrated within emergency response. In humanitarian contexts, approaches to preventing and responding to child-marriage should be piloted and specifically monitored for child- marriage outcomes, including: skills and asset building of adolescent girls; parent and community education; economic interventions for household self-reliance; improving access to education; and outreach strategies to married girls, inclusive of comprehensive health and livelihoods programming.
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If the blast had gone off even two minutes earlier, it's likely someone would have died at the scene of an explosion in Henrietta Tuesday morning.
Henrietta Fire Department Lt. Tom Hayes was one of the first responders at 134 Buckley Place responding to a report of gas odor.
He said only two minutes transpired between the time he arrived and the time the huge blast went off. He said the homeowner, Eugene Upshaw and his wife, Louise, both in their 80s, were on the property at that time.
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Marietta city commission recommends rezoning former site of Red River Valley REA
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The Marietta Planning Commission recommended the former site of Red River Valley REA be rezoned from commercial to industrial during a Tuesday afternoon meeting. This comes after an independent study by the urban planning firm ADG that also recommended the change. While the recommendation does not make the zoning change final, many of the building's neighbors are concerned about the type of business that will be moving in if the city council makes the decision to rezone.
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The Marietta City Council will decide whether to rezone at their next meeting, May 14.
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Q: Handling preference.xml file in android I have created a check box preference for the settings of my app.
So whenever I check or uncheck the box, android automatically created myapp_preferences.xml file.  Which is the default work of android.
And here is my question:
I also maintain a separate xml file to maintain the state of this checkbox. So I think there is no need for myapp_preferences.xml file, which is created by android.
Is there any way to avoid myapp_preferences.xml file from being created.?
Here is my code:
final CheckBoxPreference CheckBoxPreference = (CheckBoxPreference) getPreferenceManager().findPreference(rsrc.getString(R.string.settings_checked));
            CheckBoxPreference.setOnPreferenceChangeListener(new Preference.OnPreferenceChangeListener()
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                public boolean onPreferenceChange(Preference preference, Object newPreference)
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                    final SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences(Custom_Preference, 0);
                    final Editor edit = prefs.edit();
                    Boolean newBoolPreference = (Boolean) newPreference;
                    edit.putBoolean(rsrc.getString(R.string.settings_checked), newBoolPreference);
                    edit.commit();
                    return true;
                }
            });

Whenever I check or uncheck this box, android automatically created its own preference xml file.  I don't want this action.

A: In your PreferenceActivity , add this code:
@Override
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                super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

                PreferenceManager prefMgr = getPreferenceManager();
                prefMgr.setSharedPreferencesName("your custom filename");
                prefMgr.setSharedPreferencesMode(Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

                addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preference);

                this.appPreferences.sharedPreferences.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(listener);

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If you've ever walked alone and stoned through the city streets you know how unnerving the experience can be. Cameras hover outside of every store and peak around every corner. Your phone, your credit card, and anything that connects to a network can be used to get information about you. It feels like someone is watching. Did one too many puffs of that joint make you paranoid? Or maybe you read enough pages of Edward Snowden's 2013 global surveillance disclosure to feel that your privacy is not synonymous with the 21st century.
These days there are too many ways your information can be collected, and for most of your day you probably aren't even thinking of it. This is where Jakub Geltner's practice finds its form. The Prague-based artist created a series called Nests, a four year long project which emphasizes the infection of surveillance in everyday life. Geltner mounts satellites and cameras liberally to areas that don't require constant surveillance like oceanside rocks, by a riverside walkway and on the side of a school and church. The swarms of cameras in unexpected locations raise questions about the necessity of surveillance equipment in our society. Are they here to serve or spy?


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How fried wontons cost Denise Lucas nearly $4,000
Denise Lucas can admittedly become a tad irritable when she gets hungry.
"If my friends know me, you know you have to feed me or else I'm miserable," she said.
Such was the case a few minutes before 8 p.m. Friday night. Ms. Lucas, a regular on Friday night's at the Riverhead Moose Lodge, headed out to Jamesport to pick up fried wontons to satisfy her growing hunger. She got as far as Aquebogue when her phone started buzzing.
She had just won the Queen of Hearts, a weekly raffle game drawn at precisely 8 p.m. The jackpot stood at $19,438, a relatively modest figure compared to some jackpots that have climbed as high as six figures.
Ms. Lucas was ecstatic. The only problem?
To take home the full 60 percent portion, the winner must be present at the time of the drawing. Since Ms. Lucas left just a few minutes before the drawing, she wound up taking home 40 percent.
"My bag of wontons cost me $4,000," she said.
Still, she found herself the lucky winner of just under $7,800. She walked into the Moose Lodge after picking up her Chinese food and shared the wontons with everyone, she said.
"Everybody who greeted me at the door got a wonton," she said.
It was a thrilling way to end a week that began with Ms. Lucas announcing her decision to close her nonprofit, Riverhead Move the Animal Shelter. She expressed frustration in an interview earlier this week about how her efforts over several years had not yet yielded construction on a new animal shelter for the town.
While losing out on the full jackpot, Ms. Lucas said she was thrilled that the Moose would be getting additional money to put toward a construction project. On Sunday, she had planned to serve food at a barbecue at the Moose while her husband cooks, she said. She's been a member at the club for more than three years.
"That's priceless to be able to contribute to that," she said.
Ms. Lucas said she's typically known for getting fried scallops or fried cod at the Moose on a Friday night. This particular night, however, she couldn't wait.
She threw down $5 toward the Queen of Hearts and headed for the door.
"I'm not a greedy person," she said. "I was more than happy to get what I got. Everybody was like, 'Why did you walk away?' "
Tickets for the Queen of Hearts game are $1 and members can buy as many as they wish. One ticket is drawn each week and the winner picks one of the 54 playing cards in a glass case, hoping it has the Queen of Hearts. If the person misses, the barrel is emptied and the game starts anew the next week with one fewer card until a winner eventually hits.
Ms. Lucas, not a gambler by nature, said she won't be testing her luck with a trip to Foxwoods this weekend.
Instead, she plans to use her winnings toward paying her health insurance.
"I'm not a gambler," she said. "I hold onto my money."
Photo Caption: Denise Lucas poses by the Queen of Hearts board on Friday after winning $7,800. (Courtesy photo)
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STATE ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. NICHOLS
2021 OK 28, SCBD-6888
Decided 05/25/2021
¶0 Complainant State of Oklahoma ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Association charged Respondent Brandon S. Nichols with two counts of professional misconduct including: (1) his failure to timely notify his clients and withdraw from their cases upon receiving a one year suspension for his failure to comply with his mandatory continuing legal education requirements for the year 2018, and (2) for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law during his one year suspension. The Professional Responsibility Tribunal recommended Respondent be suspended for one year from the last date of Respondent's unauthorized practice of law. We hold there is clear and convincing evidence that the totality of Respondent's actions warrant suspension for two years from the last date of Respondent's unauthorized practice of law. Respondent is ordered to pay the costs as herein provided within ninety days after this Opinion becomes final.
MORGAN v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSUR. CO.
2021 OK 27, 118881
¶0 The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit certified two questions of state law to this Court pursuant to the Revised Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S.2011 §§ 1601-1611.
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STATE ex rel. DISTRICT ATTORNEY v. WALLACE
2021 OK CR 15
¶1 The State of Oklahoma, by Mark Matloff, District Attorney of Pushmataha County, petitions this Court for the writ of prohibition against enforcement of Judge Jana Wallace's April 13, 2021 order granting post-conviction relief, vacating and dismissing the second degree murder conviction of Clifton Merrill Parish in Pushmataha County Case No. CF-2010-26.
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2021 OK CR 14, S-2019-849
¶1 The State of Oklahoma charged Kelvin Wayne Allen, Appellee, by Information in the District Court of Craig County, Case No. CF--2018--25, with Child Neglect (Count 1), in violation of 21 O.S.Supp.2014, § 843.5 (C), and Conspiracy to Commit Child Neglect (Count 2), in violation of 21 O.S.2011, § 421 . The State charged Tami Leann Ware, Appellee, by Information in the District Court of Craig County, Case No. CF--2018--26, with the same crimes, i.e., Child Neglect (Count 1) and Conspiracy to Commit Child Neglect (Count 2).
¶1 Upon further deliberation, we find that the prior opinion handed down in the above styled and numbered appeal on January 28, 2021, should be released for publication.
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BALES v. STATE ex rel. OKLA. REAL ESTATE APPRAISER BOARD
2021 OK CIV APP 18, 117238
¶1 Matthew Bales and Garret Pearce (Appellants) appeal from the trial court's order affirming the decision of the Oklahoma Real Estate Appraiser Board to, among other things, suspend Appellants' appraiser credentials for a period of thirty days. Based on our review, we affirm.
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The Oklahoma Bar Association announces candidates for the District 5 and District 6 lawyer positions on the volunteer Oklahoma Judicial Nominating Commission.
District 5 is composed of Oklahoma County, excluding eastern Oklahoma County and south of 89th Street. District 6 is composed of 23 counties in the north central and northwestern part of the state, as they existed in 1967.*
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May 19, 2021 – The Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) announced today the following individuals have applied for the position of District Judge in Oklahoma County, Seventh Judicial District, Office 6.
Kaitlyn G. Allen, Edmond
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Lewis A. Berkowitz, Edmond
Bonnie J. Blumert, Oklahoma City
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Charles "Brent" Dishman, Edmond
Brock R. Ellis, Oklahoma City
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Kathryn R. Savage, Arcadia
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Thomas C. Riesen, Oklahoma City
Chelsea C. Smith, Oklahoma City
Lucas R. Stephens, Oklahoma City
Brian P. Young, Oklahoma City
After review of the applications and any publicly available background information, the JNC will schedule a meeting to make a first cut of the applicants. That meeting has yet to be scheduled, but it will likely be in the second half of June. The names of the remaining applicants will then be provided to the OSBI to conduct full background investigations, and the JNC will schedule interviews of those applicants as soon as practicable after the OSBI completes its work.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Peace is a gift that comes through prayer and through small daily efforts to sow harmony in one's family, parish and community, Pope Francis said.
"At the beginning of this new year, we are all called to reignite in our hearts a spark of hope, which must be translated into concrete works of peace: You don't get along with that person? Make peace. In your home? Make peace. In the community? Make peace. At work? Make peace," he said Jan. 4 during his midday recitation of the Angelus.
Before announcing the names of the 20 new cardinals he will create Feb. 14, Pope Francis used his Sunday Angelus address to continue the reflection on peace, on Mary and on the church that he began during a Mass Jan. 1 marking the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and the World Day of Prayer for Peace.
"Peace is not just an absence of war, but the general condition of the person who is in harmony with him- or herself, in harmony with nature and in harmony with others," he said during the Angelus address.
Everyone says they want peace, Pope Francis said, but they continue to make war, even on a small scale. "How many families, how many communities — even parishes — are at war," he said.
Faith helps make people free, and living the tenets of faith helps make them peacemakers, he said.
"Thanks to our baptism, we were introduced into communion with God and we are no longer at the whim of evil and sin, but we receive the love, tenderness and mercy of the heavenly Father," he said.
Earlier Jan. 1, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and focused his homily on Mary as both the mother of God and mother of the church.
"Jesus," he told the congregation, "cannot be understood without his mother," the one who gave him human flesh, raised him and was near him always, even as he died on the cross and rose from the dead.
"Likewise inseparable are Christ and the church," he said. And, just as Mary brought Jesus into the world more than 2,000 years ago, the church continues to bring him to the world, he said.


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La coma d'Estats és un circ d'origen glacial situat a la capçalera de la Noguera de Vallferrera al Pallars Sobirà (Parc Natural de l'Alt Pirineu), aigües amunt del torrent i de l'estany de Sotllo. Coma (geografia).

Hidrografia
El fons de la cubeta glacial l'ocupa l'estany d'Estats (2.450m) amb una superfície de 5,3 ha. Hi aflueixen les aigües procedents de l'estany occidental de Canalbona, el més alt de Catalunya (2.875m) amb una superfície de 0,9 ha i del petit estany Gelat (2.693m), situats a la zona més oriental de la coma d'Estats. La coma d'Estats resta innivada sovint fins a finals de juliol i les seves aigües desguassen al veí estany de Sotllo (2.343m) que ocupa 4,8 ha.

La zona on s'ubica la coma d'Estats, juntament amb altres comes i estanys de la Vall Ferrera, està inclosa en l'Inventari de zones humides de Catalunya (2011).

Geologia
La Vall Ferrera és formada per roques cambroordovicianes d'uns 580 milions d'anys d'antiguitat. Hi trobem sectors dominats per roques amb pirita (sulfur de ferro), material que en oxidar-se adquireix el característic color vermellós del rovell. El massís de Sotllo-Pica d'Estats, la Pica Roja o el Monteixo en són els exemples més rellevants. Això és degut a l'anomenat sinclinal de Llavorsí, formació geològica que presenta afloraments de pissarres de l'ordovicià superior, riques en mineralitzacions de ferro, explotades des de l'antiguitat tardana al vessant nord de la serra de Màniga (bosc de Virós) o al vessant sud del pic de Salòria.

Orografia
Cims i collades que tanquen i envolten la coma d'Estats: Pic de Sotllo (3.073m), Port de Sotllo (2.874m), Pica d'Estats (3.143m) (amb els seus tres cimals), Pic Rodó de Canalbona (3.005m), Port de Riufred (2.724m), Pic de Canalbona (2.966m), Agulla de Canalbona (2.874m) i Pic de l'Estany Fons (2.813m).

Accés
És una zona molt transitada pels excursionistes. La manera més fàcil d'accedir-hi és seguir la ruta o via normal d'ascens a la Pica d'Estats, pel sender que parteix del refugi de Vallferrera, pel barranc de Sotllo i el pont de la Socalma de Sotllo, continuant l'itinerari cap a l'estany de Sotllo, que es volta pel seu vessant oest, i més endavant supera una part més engorjada i pendent que ens porta fins a l'estany d'Estats.

No confondre amb la cometa d'Estats que és al nord del port de Sotllo (vessant Arieja) a la valleta de Bars, on també hi trobem un estany estanh o étang anomenat d'Estats.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Mapa topogràfic: "44 PN DE L'ALT PIRINEU NE 1:25.000, ICGC,Pica d'Estats-Vall de Cardós-Vall Ferrera" Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, Col:Espais Naturals Protegits, català. ISBN 978-84-393-9361-0, EAN:9788439393610.
 "Els relleus glacials dels Països Catalans". Geomorfologia. Geologia Volum 2, Obra:Història Natural dels Països Catalans. Dir.general:Ramon Folch i Guillèn, Barcelona : Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1985-<2013> ISBN 8485194527 (o.c. : cart.)-9788441219878 (suplement : cart.)

Enllaços externs

Fullet-Guia: Vall Ferrera. Parc Natural de l'Alt Pirineu, PDF

Circs glacials
Geografia d'Alins
Comes del Pallars Sobirà


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Bianca Turetsky & Peter Bach's Manhattan Rooftop Wedding
The couple got married at the Beekman hotel, where they had their first date four years ago.
By Leena Kim
Vera Varley
Successfully getting through Covid-19 lockdown together was what really cemented the deal for Bianca Turetsky and Peter Bach. "We saw one another at our best, our worst, our frightened, and our typical," says Bianca, author of a series of YA books called The Time-Traveling Fashionista. "It was more of an inevitability than a moment: if we could spend that intense period together non-stop, and still find ourselves laughing and enjoying being with each other, it meant we should just keep being together."
For their September 2021 wedding, the couple returned to the site of their first date: the Beekman in downtown Manhattan. Both ceremony and reception took place alfresco, on the rooftop of the hotel's penthouse suites. While they adhered to certain traditions—the bride had her something old, new, borrowed, and blue, for instance—they eschewed others. "We didn't have a first dance. Or a cake cutting. Some of the more old fashioned wedding traditions didn't resonate with us," says Peter, a physician and health policy researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and T&C contributor who, in 2011, wrote a widely read series in the New York Times chronicling his late wife Ruth's breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
"We wanted our wedding to be the kind of NYC dinner party we love: wine, great music, wonderful food, endless conversation. We just modified that format by dropping a 10 minute pop-up wedding into the middle of the cocktail hour."
The couple met on the dating app Hinge. "We first fell in love with each other's writing," Peter says. Their first date started with drinks at the Beekman hotel, which then progressed to dinner at Augustine (which has since shuttered due to the pandemic), and ended at the Donut Pub. After three years, during which they made it through Covid-19 quarantine together at home in Sag Harbor—with a teenage son and 12-pound Schnoodle, no less—the couple got engaged in October 2020, on Peter's birthday.
"I had a hard time finding a dress I loved," Bianca says. "In a stroke of good fortune, my cousin Jackie had an extra Vera Wang wedding dress hanging in her closet she bought at a sample sale over ten years ago which I had refitted at Madame Paulette by an incredible tailor who used to work for Halston." For the reception, the bride changed into a short Valentino dress she found the week before on TheRealReal. "I think the only new thing I was wearing were my blue Loeffler Randall pleated heels," she says.
"I knew I wanted to incorporate lots of the "something old" part of the tradition," Bianca says. Along with her two dresses that fit the bill, there was her engagement ring, a 1920s heirloom. As for her "something borrowed"? A French Art Deco diamond bracelet and circle choker, both on loan from their wedding officiant Patti Belinger (who was the maid of honor at Peter's first wedding to his late wife Ruth). The aforementioned Loeffler Randall shoes checked off both the "something new" and "something blue" boxes.
Peter found a midnight blue Jil Sander suit on TheRealReal, which he paired with Berluti sneakers, a wedding gift from his brother.
The chuppah under which Bianca and Peter were married was lent to the couple by their friends. It had been made by the late artist Frank Moore. In lieu of bridesmaids and groomsmen, the pair walked out together to "Here Comes My Girl" by Tom Petty. "Our guests were family by blood and family by choice, all who had been in our lives for eons. They were all our groomsmen, bridesmaids, and witnesses, all at once," Peter says.
The Beekman hotel, where Bianca and Peter had their first date four years ago, was the natural choice. They opted for a Covid-safe alfresco affair that took place on the rooftop of the property's penthouse suites. Jeff Stillwell of Stillwell Events was their wedding planner, while invitations, menus, and escort cards were created by Schuyler Polk of Polk Paper.
The Reception
Tom Colicchio masterminded a dinner menu with dishes like heirloom tomato salad, King Kampachi crudo, Berkshire pork cheek, glazed lobster, and a strawberry shortbread parfait for dessert. "A lot of my friends said they didn't end up eating at their weddings—I definitely did not have that problem," Bianca says.
Leena Kim Associate Editor Leena Kim is an associate editor at Town & Country, where she writes about travel, weddings, arts, and culture.
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