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Turzai schedules March 17 special elections for three House seats
By: Stephen Caruso - January 7, 2020 4:27 pm
Pa. House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny ("Friends of Mike Turzai" / WikiMedia Commons)
Raising the ire of Democrats, House Speaker Mike Turzai has scheduled three special elections barely a month ahead of Pennsylvania's 2020 presidential primary.
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The March 17 elections will allow voters to pick replacements for three Republican lawmakers who won election last November to municipal offices in Mercer, Westmoreland and Bucks counties for the 8th, 18th and 58th House Districts.
Reps. Ted Nesbit, of Mercer County, and Justin Walsh, of Westmoreland County, won county judgeships. Rep. Gene DiGirolamo, a veteran moderate from Bucks County, won a county commissionership.
In response, Democrats said Turzai was inconveniencing voters and election workers while wasting taxpayer dollars by not scheduling the elections for the April 28 presidential primary.
"There's no good reason to hold these elections on a separate date so close to the primary," House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, said in a statement. "It's a large cost, one that's unbudgeted, and a needless complication that benefits nobody except a few political insiders."
The two elections will create additional headaches for county elections officials, who will also contend with new voting machines, registration deadlines, and mail-in votes, Dermody pointed out.
PennLive reported last year that the average cost of holding a special election since 2014 was $178,204 per race. But Dermody put that cost at $300,000 and $500,000 per election.
Dermody's spokesman, Bill Patton, told the Capital-Star that he does not "have an accounting for each [election]," but claimed that "in recent years, the cost of special elections on standalone dates continued to rise."
At stake is much more than just the cost to the taxpayers. Political operatives from both parties told the Capital-Star that a standalone election will have far less turnout than one matching primary day — and a presidential primary at that.
According to Wanda Murren, spokesperson for the Department of State, turnout in the state's most recent legislative special — last August in Union and Snyder counties — was 29 percent. Meanwhile, turnout in the 2016 primaries was 42 percent among Democrats and 51 percent among Republicans.
Turzai's spokesman Neal Lesher wrote in a text message that, "under this Speaker, we have consistently called special elections as soon as practically possible to ensure that all Pennsylvanians have a voice in the people's House."
As an example, Lesher cited the Feb. 25 special election to fill a vacancy created by last month's resignation of ex-Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, D-Philadelphia.
Constituents have sometimes waited longer. Special elections for vacancies that opened up in early 2018 were scheduled for that year's May primary. The state reimburses counties for special elections to the General Assembly.
At least one Philadelphia Democrat has suggested forcing lawmakers who leave office before their terms are over to pay for the cost of their replacement.
Picking candidates for special elections can be a covert and complicated process. A state lawmaker wants to change that
Democrats have already announced plans to contest open seats, particularly in the southeast. The 18th District, including Bensalem in lower Bucks County, has consistently voted Democratic up ballot even as Republicans win near the bottom.
Meanwhile, Democrats feel they could compete in the 58th District, in ancestrally blue Westmoreland County, with a solid candidate — Robert Prah, a veteran and local official. The district was until recently held by a Democrat, but flipped red in 2016 and heavily backed President Donald Trump.
But Republicans weren't holding their breath.
"These elections, I don't think there will be any surprises," GOP political operative Chris Nicholas told the Capital-Star.
by Stephen Caruso, Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Turzai schedules March 17 special elections for three House seats

by Stephen Caruso, Pennsylvania Capital-Star
January 7, 2020

Stephen Caruso
Stephen Caruso is the Capital-Star's House reporter. He previously covered Pennsylvania state government for The PLS Reporter. You can reach him at 845-891-4306.
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Cuts cost a gym-less school its physical education teacher, too
By Sarah Darville Jul 28, 2011, 11:45am EDT
James Horan is used to being creative, after spending years teaching physical education at an elementary school without a gym or outdoor space of its own.
Now, like many other city teachers, he's going to need to use that creativity to find another position.
Horan was recently excessed after teaching for four and a half years at PS 68 in Ridgewood, Queens. Even though the school's population has been shrinking for years, Horan thought his job was safe because it wasn't included in the list of projected layoffs that the city circulated in February.
When layoffs were averted, he joined the cheers — only to be told one month later that budget reductions made his position too expensive for the school to maintain. The city has not yet released details about how many teachers shared Horan's fate this year, but after three straight years of cuts, the number is sure to be significant. Principals eliminated nearly 2,000 positions last year.
"I just find it very frustrating," Horan said. "Now that I'm excessed, it's just very unexpected. Until June, everything's great. I would have planned differently."
Horan came to PS 68 as a first-year teacher in the spring of 2007, teaching 30 to 50 students at a time in an empty classroom that served as the school's gym. The school hadn't offered physical education in at least three years, he said, and he bought the program's only supplies himself using Teacher's Choice funds. (Those funds were also eliminated this year.)
For the next couple of years, he didn't have a classroom — "We have a city park next door, thank God," he said — and on cold days he would rotate into regular classrooms.
"When you have to figure something out with 30 kids, you do it," he said. "It was, OK, we're going to kick a ball today. We're going to learn how to run the bases, how to play tag. Anything really, to keep the kids active."
Horan says that he's heard that a classroom at PS 68 will be still be called the gym room next year. But since he heard that most teachers didn't set aside time to take their students there before he launched formal physical education instruction, he doesn't know that they will next year, either.
"The scores in our school weren't the greatest, and we just got a new math program. The teachers want to teach the kids," he said. "They have to watch out for their jobs as well."
State law requires students in elementary school to receive 120 minutes of physical education a week, with daily activity in the lower grades and at least three weekly sessions in grades 4-6. Classroom teachers may lead the instruction, though the city encourages schools to hire certified physical education teachers, according to a Department of Education spokeswoman, Marge Feinberg.
Horan is still hoping to find a position at another school, but he suspects he'll never have it as good again — teaching in a school close to home, with few discipline problems and a supportive principal.
"I had a great job. But I understand there are more important things than gym sometimes," he said.

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Lucifer is part of the Large Binocular Telescope, which happens to be right next to the Vatican Observatory on Mt. Graham in Tucson. That's right, the Vatican has an observatory in Arizona, manned by Jesuit astronomers. Now its next-door neighbor is named for the Devil.
Scientists at five German universities designed the instrument, and they came up with the name, according to Daniel Stolte, a spokesman for the University of Arizona. Stolte — who is German — explained that the team was tossing around names, looking for an acronym that would fit all the technical terms.
"In Germany, they wouldn't have the same hesitation that Americans would have, since it's a very secular country," he said. "I may be completely off, but that's just my hunch — for us Germans, Lucifer just sounds cool. It's more historical than emotional." No matter your religion, the photos are certainly cool.


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Coat pork cubes with taco seasoning. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat; add pork and cook to brown, stirring occasionally. Add salsa and preserves to pan, lower heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Serve over rice, if desired.


Constanten has become a part of a performance program with Versailles photographer Don Aters called The Grateful Experience. It mingles music, conversation and Aters' portraits of seminal West Coast counterculture heroes from the 1960s. The two turned up at The Woodford Inn in Versailles earlier this month for a presentation with fellow keyboardist Bob Bralove, an auxiliary member of the Dead in the late '80s and Constanten's partner in the keyboard duo Dos Hermanos, and former Dead manager Rock Scully.
Friday, however, the Dead lives, with Constanten performing with the Chicago-rooted Terrapin Flyer.
"Every night we go back to the well and we find interesting things," Constanten, 68, said by phone last week. "But it's also an ongoing process. I'm been touring with them since 2006. I started filling in for Vince Welnick (the late Dead keyboardist who was a frequent Terrapin Flyer contributor), and they kept calling back. So something must be working."
Constanten's time with the Dead was brief, from 1968 to early 1970. But that was a period when the Dead solidified itself as a premier band in an active San Francisco psychedelic music scene. He appeared on three pivotal Dead recordings: Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa and Live Dead. His playing also is prevalent on several fine archival concert recordings released in recent years. Among the best is Fillmore West 1969, which resourced the same performances that made up Live Dead.
"It's a miracle," Constanten said of the continued popularity of the Dead's music. "Like I said in my book (the 1992 memoir Between Rock and Hard Places: A Musical Audiobiodyssey), I don't believe in miracles; I rely on them."
That odyssey is hardly limited to the Dead's legacy. He collaborated with modernists Steve Reich and Terry Riley, studied with avant-garde pioneers Karlheinz Stockhauden and Pierre Boulez, and released recordings that have varied from an entire album of variations on the Jorma Kaukonen instrumental Embryonic Journey — with Kaukonen as a duet partner — to a collection of solo piano performances that have ranged from Brahms to Bill Evans (2006's Deep Expressions, Longtime Known).
"One of the attributes of the 1960s cultural revolution was that we broke down barriers, not just between different types of music but between entire genres. Frank Zappa interacted with Boulez, too. There was a collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Alice Cooper. We were awash in possibilities."
The future might make Constanten a regular in Central Kentucky, but he is streamlining his work schedule after suffering a heart attack during the summer.
"My world changed when that happened on July 28," he said. "I've been taken care of pretty well, but there are a lot of other things I now consider frivolous that I'm no longer doing. I'm concentrating on the tours with Terrapin Flyer, the Jefferson Starship (Paul Kantner's ongoing outgrowth of Jefferson Airplane, to which Constanten also contributes) and Dos Hermanos.
"It's pretty much like taking all of your things off the shelves and dusting them off once something like this happens. Everything is new and exciting again."
For Friday's show, Bluegrass Collective, Blind Corn Liquor Pickers and Tonight's Noise are the opening acts.


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Q: How to solve "IntegrityError at /measurements/ NOT NULL constraint failed: diabetes_measurements.patient_id" probem in django I have made a form which name is MeasurementsForm by using Measurements model. by whenever I use form.save() in views, it throws an error and does not  store data. but if i do not use form.save() it does not throw an error also does not store data. in Measurements model, I have a field name patient which has foreign key relation with user sign up custom model. now how to fix this and store data after submitting the form.
my models:
class Measurements(models.Model):
    d_value=models.IntegerField()
    created=models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    patient=models.ForeignKey(UserSignupModel,on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.patient)

my forms :
class MeasurementsForm(forms.ModelForm):

    d_value=forms.IntegerField(help_text="insert the diabetes")
    class Meta:
        model=Measurements
        fields=('d_value',)

my views:
def measurement(request):

    if request.method=="POST":
        form=MeasurementsForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()

            return redirect('home')

    else:
        form=MeasurementsForm()

    return render(request,'diabetes/measurement.html',{'form':form})

A: The reason this fails is because your form never specifies the patient, and when you submit it to the database, the database will thus reject this.
You can set the .patient of the instance wrapped in the form. If the UserSignupModel is for example the user model (you specified with the AUTH_USER_MODEL [Django-doc]), then we can set this with:
from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def measurement(request):
    if request.method=="POST":
        form=MeasurementsForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.instance.patient = request.user
            form.save()
            return redirect('home')
    else:
        form=MeasurementsForm()
    return render(request,'diabetes/measurement.html',{'form':form})

Note: You can limit views to a view to authenticated users with the
  @login_required decorator [Django-doc].

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MONTICELLO, AR — The UAM College of Technology-Crossett, in partnership with LifeShare Blood Centers, will host a blood drive on Tuesday, April 11 from 12 noon to 7 p.m. in the McGoogan Building at 1326 Highway 52 West in Crossett.
Persons planning to donate blood are encouraged to drink plenty of water and eat foods rich in iron and vitamin C during the 24-hour period before donating. Blood donors may sign up in the front office.
For more information, contact the UAM COT-Crossett at (870) 364-6414.


Celebrate Your Child's Birthday with the Kernels!
Baseball and birthdays go hand in hand, and the Kernels offer a birthday party to remember with Mr. Shucks, the birthday person and nine guests! The party is held on the spacious concourse on the third base side, just behind the lawn seating.
The Kids Birthday Package includes 10 Club tickets for everyone in the group, 10 meal vouchers for dinner at the stadium (includes a hot dog, chips, and a 20 oz. bottled soda or water), 10 souvenir pennants, a birthday cake and special cake presentation on the LED board during the game, and the opportunity for the birthday boy or girl to throw out the first pitch. The total cost of the package is $185 and additional tickets are just $17 each.
Birthday parties must be booked at least two weeks in advance of your desired date, and are limited for each game so we encourage you to schedule your party early! For more information or to book your party, contact Andrea Brommelkamp at 896-7603 or by e-mail at andrea@kernels.com.
Please note, this is NOT to request a PA message or photo on the Kernels LED board during a game. For more information on announcements, please contact Andrew Pantini at 896-7601 or by e-mail at andy@kernels.com.


Financial emergencies occur when we are least prepared. The everyday grind can come to a crashing halt if your car suddenly breaks down, if the roof caves in under snow, or if you unexpectedly fall ill. Even if you have a steady job, finding cash to finance such emergency situations can be extremely difficult for the average income earner.
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Everyone occasionally find himself or herself in need to cash. When the money is not available right away, use any one of the above options to secure the funding you need. The best option, hands down, is to save money for the rainy days. If that fails, try any of the other suggestions as described.
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Travel from London to Dublin the eco-friendly way - via train and ferry, overnight in Dublin. Experience one of Ireland's most famous cultural and historical nights – The World Famous Medieval Banquet in the Great Hall of Bunratty Castle overnighting in quality hotel accommodation in Bunratty Village. Visit the Cliffs of Moher the next day on your tour.
London to Dublin
Check-in 30 mins prior to Train Departure time at London Euston Station in front of the Network Rail Mobility Assistance reception in the main concourse - look for our check-in hosts in the yellow jackets!
Check-in London Euston Station at the Network Rail Mobility Assistance Reception for 09:10 departure of your Train direct to Holyhead. You will be met by your Railtours Ireland host and escorted into your reserved seats. Your train, complete with snack car / bar will speed through the heart of England and along the North Wales coast to reach Holyhead in just 3 hours and 40 minutes. Holyhead rail station is also the cruise ferry terminal so after a short bus transfer to the berth you walk onto the ship – The Irish Ferries 'Ulysses' to Dublin, ship weighing 55,000 tonnes. Enjoy an invigorating 3 hours and 15 minute voyage across the Irish Sea to Dublin. Facilities on board ship include a range of restaurants and bars, a 2-screen cinema and a traditional promenade deck, from where you can enjoy the fresh sea air.
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Check-in for 11:25 departure from Dublin Heuston, opened in 1844 as the headquarters of the Great Southern & Western Railway and is now the official principal station of Iarnród Éireann, Ireland's national railway company. As your train departs, we travel in a south westerly direction, through Dublin's western suburbs and then through the lush fertile countryside of Co. Kildare. Our journey takes us through the Curragh which is famous for its racecourse, home of the Irish Derby, and there are many stud farms in the vicinity. Your route takes you into the midlands and the Bog of Allen, vast tracts of peat-land. Before then we pass through the County Town of Tullamore and then to Clara across the gentle farmlands of north Offaly. The train crosses the Shannon marks the historic border between the province of Leinster and Connacht –the historic province of the West of Ireland. You are now heading due west, surrounded by peat bog on both sides of the line. On the last few kilometres before Galway, you will get your first glimpse of Galway Bay.
13:40 Arrive Galway City - Free time to Explore Galway City
Galway City is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. It began as a small fishing village centred around the estuary of the River Corrib, a river traditionally called Abhainn na Gaillimhe (The Galway River) after Galvia, a mythological princess said to have drowned in its waters. There is vibrancy to this friendly University City, which many delight in, and few forget. Music, festivals, horse racing, pubs, restaurants, shops, theatres and most of all Galway people, combine to create an atmosphere you'll want to return to again and again.
18.00 Depart Galway City for Bunratty Village for check in into your hotel.
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19:15 Depart from Galway by train and return to Dublin by a different route, via Athenry, Tullamore and Athlone, where we cross the mighty river Shannon once more.
21:45 Arrive into Dublin Heuston
Visitor Attraction Admissions included: Bunratty Castle and Folk Park & The Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience
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Railours Ireland Host will transfer you to the Dublin Ferry Port
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Niall McInerney is a fashion photographer, best known for his international catwalk photography.

Early life and career
Born in Limerick, Ireland, on October 8, 1941, Niall McInerney had his first taste of photography as a schoolboy trying to photograph birdlife with a  Kodax Box Brownie. At the age of 17 he left Ireland for London and tried his hand at a wide range of jobs, including railway porter at Paddington Station, dish washer, Wimpy chef for J. Lyons, cinema usher and projectionist.

It was not until he began a stint as stage manager in a Soho club, The Phoenix in Old Compton Street, where he started photographing the striptease artistes, that he rediscovered his interest in photography. For these photographs he was helped by Lewis Morley who at that time had a studio in Greek Street. Leaving Soho, he started to work with Tony Ross who ran Piccadilly Press. Here he would photograph groups visiting London, with London landmarks as the backdrop. This led to street photography when he was commissioned by Marubeni, a Japanese company, to take photos of stylish Londoners in fashionable locations such as Kensington High Street, The King's Road and Camden Town. Shop windows and stores such as Biba and Vivienne Westwood's shop Sex were a part of this. He then took up with a bunch of young people in Camden Town, who had started a boutique called Swanky Modes. These were Wallie Walters, Melanie Haberfield, Esme Young and Judy Gregson. It was here Mclnerney's penchant for chronicling styling was born.

Catwalk photography
McInerney made his debut as a catwalk photographer when he photographed a Swanky Modes collection, shown in St Paul's churchyard in Covent Garden, in 1976. This led to more shows such as the Individual Clothes Show at Pillar Hall.

Some of his earlier catwalk commissions included London-based designers such as Bill Gibb, Zandra Rhodes, John Bates, Jean Muir, Maxfield Parrish, Betty Jackson and Bruce Oldfield. Then Vivienne Westwood, Jasper Conran, Ghost, John Rocha and John Galliano all became regular clients. From there came commissions from magazines such as Newsweek and Harper's Bazaar, to cover the shows in Paris, Milan and New York City, womenswear, menswear and couture. McInerney's body of work records the time of fashions best loved supermodels such as Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington. Besides the models, he photographed the young designers graduate shows from St Martins, including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney, people behind and in front of the catwalk, designers, stylists, editors, show organisers, makeup artists, flaneurs and flanuses and above all the photographers, who he calls "the foot soldiers of fashion".

Even while McInerney was photographing the work of fashion's most prestigious designers he never abandoned smaller venues and collections. Over the years he has photographed the Saint Martins' graduation collections, including those of some of most important fashion designers of the twentieth century. Alexander McQueen's collection Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, John Galliano's Les Incroyables, and Stella McCartney's star-studded graduation show are all features of McInerney's Central Saint Martins work.

He retired from catwalk photography in 2000. In 2011, Bloomsbury Publishing purchased Niall McInerney's complete archive of fashion images (over 500,000). The archive is an unparalleled two-decade-long photographic testimonial which showcases the photographer's diverse work during a vibrant period of fashion history. Bloomsbury is digitizing McInerney's work to create a fully searchable online archive for students and academics of fashion, history and related fields.

Publications and contributions

McInerney has contributed to the following publications:

 Sandy Black, Knitwear in Fashion, London: Thames & Hudson, 2002
 Caroline Evans, Fashion at the Edge, London: Yale UP, 2003
 Colin McDowell, Galliano, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997
 Colin McDowell, Jean-Paul Gaultier, London: Cassell, 2000
 Ted Polhemus, Streetstyle: from sidewalk to catwalk, London: Thames and Hudson, 1994
 Christian Lacroix, Lacroix: Pieces of a Pattern, London: Thames and Hudson, 1997
 Iain R Webb, Bill Cribb: Fashion and Fantasy, London: V&A Publishing, 2008
 Alice Rawsthorn, Yves Saint Laurent, London: Orion Press, 1999
 Gerda Buxbaum, Icons of Fashion: The 20th Century, Prestel, 2007
 Alistair O'Neill, London After a Fashion London:  Reaktion Books, 2007
 Jane Mulvagh, Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life: London, Harper Collins, 2011
 Amy De La Haye, Chanel: Couture and Industry, London: V&A Publishing, 2011

References

Berg Fashion Library. Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive. [online] Available at: <https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/products/whats-in-fashion-photography-archive>

Tumblr. "I Hate My Collection": Saint Martins unveiled. [online] Available at: <http://ihatemycollection.tumblr.com/tagged/Niall-McInerney>

Mister What. Events Photographer. [online] Available at: <http://www.misterwhat.co.uk/company/47016-niall-mcinerney-london>

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The short-term losses people suffer when natural disasters strike can turn into long-term poverty if reconstruction policies don't consider how people are going to make a living.
Areas rich in biodiversity raise those stakes even more as people's needs compete with environmental protections, according to a new Michigan State University (MSU) study that is the first to focus on the "livelihood portfolio" of families when evaluating disaster recovery. It appears in this month's journal Ecological Economics. The result of a disaster can be a cycle of long-term devastation such as poverty.
"This poverty may, in turn, prompt destructive use of natural resources and lead to poverty-environment traps in which poverty exacerbates environmental degradation and environmental degradation worsens poverty," the article authors write.
More people across the world are exposed to more natural disasters thanks to ecological degradation and climate change. Massive hurricanes, floods and earthquakes not only wreak substantial damage to ecosystems. Natural disasters often cause tremendous socioeconomic losses to human communities.
A group of natural and social scientists at MSU looked at the well-being of people after a disaster. Their focus was on the recovery of the massive 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China, but the results have relevance for areas worldwide that seek to balance sustainability recovery with the long-term well-being of people.
In Wolong, governmental agencies were eager to replace homes and infrastructure and move people out of the mountainous hills of the nature reserve and closer to more flat areas such as towns and roads. The intentions were good and provided what seemed like multiple levels of solutions. People once living in the high mountains had more access to work in towns, and people were moved further from the fragile biodiversity that is home to the threatened and iconic giant pandas and other valuable animals and plants.
Yet the scientists, led by PhD student Hongbo Yang of the MSU Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), measured what constituted well-being for the quake's human victims and found as yet unidentified losses.
To build new housing, cropland was eliminated, as were opportunities for income from farming. Many people from Wolong were able to find work in distant urban areas, but city work came with hardships and stress, such as increased living expenses and an unfair education system for their children and a lack of sense of belonging in the cities. Unintended consequences, in essence, were in many ways eroding their well-being.
These were examples of how factors distant from the earthquake's epicenter could have an impact on the people there. These socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, known as telecouplings, can significantly influence on disaster recovery, both in Wolong as well in areas decimated by other natural disasters hurricanes, volcanoes, floods.
Besides Yang and Liu, "Changes in Human Well-being and Rural Livelihoods Under Natural Disasters" was written by Thomas Dietz, Wu Yang and Jindong Zhang. The work was funded by National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, MSU and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.


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Q: How do I make an alternate caption for a sidecaption using the Memoir class? I have a sidecaption in a Memoir class document that is very long.  I need to create a short version of that caption for the list of figures.  I have tried
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but that doesn't work, the "short caption" just disappears.  How do I make a short caption when using Memoir's sidecaption environment?
Thanks

A: OK, I don't know what happened.  But apparently the code that I used in my question:
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does work.  I must not have compiled the code enough times.  Possibly it takes 3 times - at least with my system.  I had done it two times when I posted the question.


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Victor France Bleasdale (December 2, 1895 – February 10, 1984) was a brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps. He was awarded the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge in World War I. Later he received a second Navy Cross for his service at the Battle of San Fernando during the Second Nicaraguan Campaign.

Early military career

Bleasdale was born in Norsewood, New Zealand, but moved to the United States at an early age. He moved with his family to Janesville, Wisconsin, where he attended the local high school. At the age of 19, Victor enlisted in the Marine Corps at Milwaukee on May 15, 1915, and was posted to Norfolk, Virginia. There he underwent basic training and subsequently was sent with a Marine Expeditionary Force to Haiti. He participated in actions against hostile Cacos bandits at Le Trou and Fort Capois, Haiti.

Bleasdale returned to the United States in December 1916 and served briefly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and then at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. During his enlisted service, Bleasdale rose to the rank of sergeant and was awarded the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.

World War I

When World War I broke out, Bleasdale was sent with the American Expeditionary Force to Europe. He arrived in France in June 1917 and was assigned to several training schools. After completing school, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps Reserve on May 29, 1918, and appointed machine gun platoon commander in the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd Division.

Bleasdale subsequently commanded his unit during the Battle of Belleau Wood or Battle of Soissons, where he was awarded the Silver Star Citation for gallantry in action. He was slightly wounded in the left hand during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, but stayed with his unit. He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant at that time.

During the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge in October 1918, Bleasdale was awarded his second Silver Star Citation for gallantry in action. A few days later, he led his machine gun platoon under heavy enemy machine gun and artillery fire, trying to support an advancing infantry company. The advance of the infantry company was halted by the intensive fire of two Maxim machine guns. Bleasdale formed his machine gun section as regular infantry, and assaulted the machine gun position.

For repeated acts of extraordinary heroism, Bleasdale was awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Cross. He was transferred to the regular Marine Corps and promoted to the rank of captain. He was also decorated with the French Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with palm and Fourragère by the government of France.

His younger brother, Redwald (1897–1991), also received the Distinguished Service Cross while serving as a private with the 30th Infantry Regiment. They were the first pair of brothers to receive the award.

With the end of the war, Bleasdale served with the occupation forces in Germany and returned to the United States in August 1919.

Interwar period

Following his return to the United States, Bleasdale served with Marine units at Marine Corps Base Quantico or Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia before he was assigned to mail guard duty in St. Louis, Missouri in December 1921. He was transferred back to Quantico in March 1922 and few months later ordered for shore duty with the Second Marine Brigade to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

After two years in the Dominican Republic, Bleasdale returned to Quantico in September 1924 and was stationed there until February 1927, when he was assigned to the Marine Expeditionary Force and sent to Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. The main task of the Marine Expeditionary Force was to assist the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua in suppressing the rebellion led by Augusto César Sandino.

On July 25, 1927, Bleasdale was on patrol with a combined unit of Marines and Nicaraguan Guardsmen led by Major Oliver Floyd. When they reached the town of San Fernando with no resistance, Bleasdale, accompanied only by his orderly private Rafel Toro, was ordered to question a local elderly man. When they were alone on the large open plaza, Sandinistas ambushed them and Toro was mortally wounded. Bleasdale returned fire and was able to hold them back until reinforcements arrived. For his extraordinary heroism in the face of the enemy, Bleasdale was awarded his second Navy Cross.

Bleasdale was subsequently appointed intelligence and ordnance officer with the staff of Jefe Director, Brigadier General Elias R. Beadle. Bleasdale remained in Nicaragua until June 1929, when he was ordered to Quantico to attend a one-year company course. He then returned to Nicaragua and after six months of service there was transferred back to Quantico, where he was appointed an instructor in November 1930.

He left Quantico again in June 1933 to be assigned to the Marine Detachment aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma. Bleasdale spent a year on that ship, before he was transferred again to Quantico. In June 1936, he was assigned to the Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and one year later, he was appointed an inspector-instructor of the 13th Marine Reserve Battalion located in Los Angeles, California.

After service at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Marine Corps base in San Diego, California, Bleasdale was appointed executive officer of the Marine Defense Force in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. He stayed in Alaska until May 1941.

World War II

At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bleasdale served as chief of staff of the Second Marine Brigade under the command of Major General Clayton B. Vogel. He sailed with the division to the American Samoa in the South Pacific and participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign. For his service there, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

In May 1943, he was transferred to the United States to become chief of staff of the training center at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He oversaw the forming and training of the 29th Marine Regiment, which was formed as a part of the 6th Marine Division, and subsequently assumed command of the regiment.

The 29th Marines were sent overseas and participated in the Battle of Okinawa under Bleasdale's command. He was relieved of command on April 11, 1945, and succeeded by William J. Whaling, a decorated World War I veteran, who later was awarded the Navy Cross on Okinawa. Bleasdale was subsequently transferred to the general staff of the III Amphibious Corps, where he Commanded Corps reserve troops on Okinawa.

For his service as a regimental commander of the 29th Marines, Bleasdale received a Navy Presidential Unit Citation.

In August 1945, Bleasdale was transferred to Guam, where he was appointed Deputy Chief of Military Government and Deputy Commanding Officer of the U.S. Naval Military Government Unit under Major General Henry Louis Larsen. He served in that capacity until June 1946, when he returned to San Diego to retire. He was advanced to the rank of brigadier general on the retired list for having been specially commended in combat on December 1, 1946.

Postwar life

After retiring from the Marine Corps, Bleasdale served as a technical advisor to President Rafael Trujillo in matters relating to the Armed Forces of the Dominican Republic. He was also active in the Marine Corps Historical Foundation, where he received a Certificate of Appreciation by then-Commandant Robert H. Barrow for his contributions to the Oral History Program.

Bleasdale later settled in England, where he resided in London. Bleasdale died there on February 10, 1984, and was interred at Oak Hill Cemetery in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Decorations

Citations

Distinguished Service Cross citation
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Victor F. Bleasdale (MCSN: 0–85), United States Marine Corps, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism while serving with the Sixth Machine-Gun Battalion, Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F., in action near Blanc Mont, France, 8 October 1918. On several occasions, regardless of his personal safety, First Lieutenant Bleasdale led his machine-gun platoon through heavy machine-gun and artillery fire. When the Infantry company which he was supporting was halted by the fire of two enemy Maxims, Lieutenant Bleasdale formed his platoon as infantry, assaulted and captured both the enemy guns.

First Navy Cross citation
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to First Lieutenant Victor F. Bleasdale (MCSN: 0–85), United States Marine Corps, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism while serving with the 6th Machine-Gun Battalion, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Blanc Mont, France, 8 October 1918. On several occasions, regardless of his personal safety, First Lieutenant Bleasdale led his machine-gun platoon through heavy machine-gun and artillery fire. When the Infantry company which he was supporting was halted by the fire of two enemy Maxims, Lieutenant Bleasdale formed his platoon as infantry, assaulted and captured both the enemy guns.

Second Navy Cross citation
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Navy Cross to Captain Victor F. Bleasdale (MCSN: 0–85), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism, coolness and excellent judgment while performing advance guard duty on 25 July 1927, in an important expedition into Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua, during the progress of an insurrection in that country. As the expedition approached San Fernando, Captain Bleasdale accompanied only by his orderly rode ahead into the town and on being attacked, fearlessly proceeded against tremendous odds and returning the fire held the enemy in check until the arrival of reinforcements. Largely through his prompt, courageous and effective action, serious casualties to the personnel and train of the expedition were averted.

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Richard Fontana
Wednesday, 15 August 2012 Wed, 15 Aug '12
Hi, Here's yet another weekly update on what's been going on with the copyleft-next draft. One of the more interesting changes I made this week was in the 'Later License Versions' section (as it is now known). It was previously written as a built-in "or-later" provision of the sort we see in a number of FLOSS licenses such as MPL and EPL. I (for lack of any better alternative) used 'the Copyleft-Next Group' (now the 'Copyleft-Next Project') as the name of the license steward authorized to publish newer versions of the license. I have now revised this to state that any newer version released by said Copyleft-Next Project will not be 'Authorized' unless it is approved as such (as a sucessor to the earlier copyleft-next) by both the FSF and the OSI. My idea here was that there is an inherent problem of trust raised by these 'or later' clauses (especially where built into the license, but also where, as with the GNU GPL, 'or later' licensing is encouraged and all license versions indicate that absence of an indicated version constitutes permission to use any version). Since the FSF and OSI are establishm^Hed organizations that are perceived as not necessarily agreeing on things all the time, perhaps giving these venerable organizations a sort of veto power on the Copyleft-Next Project's designation of future versions is a decent idea. Or maybe not. Note that under this kind of provision, the Copyleft-Next Project could still issue a 2.0 license but it just wouldn't be one that 1.0 licensees could 'relicense' to via the built-in or-later clause. Cf. the mostly-ignored 'proxy' provision in the corresponding sections of (A)GPLv3. I have mostly deleted an earlier idea of listing representative permissive licenses as inbound-compatible to guide interpretation of what "Further Restrictions" means. Instead, I assume that figuring out inbound license compatibility will be no more difficult than it was under GPLv2. The one exception is that I explicitly provide for Apache License 2.0 compatibility, because this is both useful and necessary. As noted on the mailing list, I have deleted the anti-anti-circumvention provision. The offer remains open to restore it if anyone can explain to me a real-world scenario where it accomplishes something worth ~9 lines of license text. I reduced the 'Minimum Period' for Corresponding Source availability, where CS is made available on the net, from 3 years to 2 years, on the assumption that this was not problematic. I broadened and put into a separate section what has been called the proprietary-relicensing 'poison pill' (I briefly used that as the section title). Now, if the original licensor proprietary-relicenses, most of the conditions of the license vanish for the licensee, so copyleft-next turns into an ultra-permissive license. On the other hand, the provision is narrowed to apply only where the proprietary-relicensing is done for "commercial gain". For those who care about word counts, vanilla copyleft-next continues to shrink (though I think we are about at the limit now and if anything the license is likely to get longer). (And we still have a FIXME for the System Libraries definition. :) GPLv3: 5644 GPLv2: 2968 MPL 2.0: 2435 Apache License 2.0: 1581 copyleft-next: 1431 - Richard
Wednesday, 15 August Wed, 15 Aug
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Richard Fontana <fontana(a)sharpeleven.org> wrote:
Hi, Here's yet another weekly update on what's been going on with the copyleft-next draft. One of the more interesting changes I made this week was in the 'Later License Versions' section (as it is now known). It was previously written as a built-in "or-later" provision of the sort we see in a number of FLOSS licenses such as MPL and EPL. I (for lack of any better alternative) used 'the Copyleft-Next Group' (now the 'Copyleft-Next Project') as the name of the license steward authorized to publish newer versions of the license. I have now revised this to state that any newer version released by said Copyleft-Next Project will not be 'Authorized' unless it is approved as such (as a sucessor to the earlier copyleft-next) by both the FSF and the OSI.
Can you clarify what this means, as OSI does not confirm "successors" per se?
Cf. the mostly-ignored 'proxy' provision in the corresponding sections of (A)GPLv3.
Which I really liked, actually, but were unworkable for compatibility reasons - if LO designates the LO Foundation as "proxy" for MPL2-licensed code, and Mozilla designates MoFo, what happens to mixed code?
I have mostly deleted an earlier idea of listing representative permissive licenses as inbound-compatible to guide interpretation of what "Further Restrictions" means. Instead, I assume that figuring out inbound license compatibility will be no more difficult than it was under GPLv2. The one exception is that I explicitly provide for Apache License 2.0 compatibility, because this is both useful and necessary.
I am tempted to say that, once this language is refined, it should be split off and turned into a general-purpose additional permission exception for GPL *2*.
I reduced the 'Minimum Period' for Corresponding Source availability, where CS is made available on the net, from 3 years to 2 years, on the assumption that this was not problematic.
Any specified length of time is problematic for daily-build QA strategies (unless the language allows pointing to a specific RCS revision as acceptable source); this was one of our primary reasons for avoiding it in MPL.
I broadened and put into a separate section what has been called the proprietary-relicensing 'poison pill' (I briefly used that as the section title). Now, if the original licensor proprietary-relicenses, most of the conditions of the license vanish for the licensee, so copyleft-next turns into an ultra-permissive license. On the other hand, the provision is narrowed to apply only where the proprietary-relicensing is done for "commercial gain".
Which means... what, exactly? :) Luis
On 08/15/2012 09:31 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Richard Fontana <fontana(a)sharpeleven.org> wrote: > I have now revised this to > state that any newer version released by said Copyleft-Next Project > will not be 'Authorized' unless it is approved as such (as a sucessor > to the earlier copyleft-next) by both the FSF and the OSI. Can you clarify what this means, as OSI does not confirm "successors" per se?
It rests on an admittedly fanciful assumption that both the FSF and the OSI would at least begrudgingly accept the role of deciding whether copyleft-next 2.0 was worthy of being a successor to copyleft-next 1.0. In the worst case it just means no 'or-later' effect. Though that is not desirable. I don't really know how to solve this trust problem, particularly given that the license is currently quasi-imaginary. :-)
> Cf. > the mostly-ignored 'proxy' provision in the corresponding sections of > (A)GPLv3. Which I really liked, actually, but were unworkable for compatibility reasons - if LO designates the LO Foundation as "proxy" for MPL2-licensed code, and Mozilla designates MoFo, what happens to mixed code?
It could still be used under MPL2, right? But in the (A|L)GPLv3 world the proxy option has been almost entirely ignored.
> I have mostly deleted an earlier idea of listing representative > permissive licenses as inbound-compatible to guide interpretation of > what "Further Restrictions" means. Instead, I assume that figuring out > inbound license compatibility will be no more difficult than it was > under GPLv2. The one exception is that I explicitly provide for > Apache License 2.0 compatibility, because this is both useful and > necessary. I am tempted to say that, once this language is refined, it should be split off and turned into a general-purpose additional permission exception for GPL *2*.
I want Apache License 2.0 code to be compatible with copyleft-next works without need to invoke the separate permission to 'relicense' under a version of the (A)GPL. (I'm not sure if that's what you were getting at.) The idea here is that a common sense-based license compatibility tradition can grow up organically around copyleft-next much as it did under GPLv2; but the one interesting non-legacy license which causes problems is the Apache License 2.0, chiefly because of its section 9. The natural result (without this clause in copyleft-next) ought to be that section 9 is a 'Further Restriction'. What I don't want is some general categorical clause of the sort GPLv3 section 7 has authorizing Apache-style upstream indemnification clauses. I have already seen misuse of this (of course by 'proprietary relicensing' companies using GPLv3/AGPLv3).
> I reduced the 'Minimum Period' for Corresponding Source availability, > where CS is made available on the net, from 3 years to 2 years, on the > assumption that this was not problematic. Any specified length of time is problematic for daily-build QA strategies (unless the language allows pointing to a specific RCS revision as acceptable source); this was one of our primary reasons for avoiding it in MPL.
Good point...
> I broadened and put into a separate section what has been called the > proprietary-relicensing 'poison pill' (I briefly used that as the > section title). Now, if the original licensor proprietary-relicenses, > most of the conditions of the license vanish for the licensee, so > copyleft-next turns into an ultra-permissive license. On the other > hand, the provision is narrowed to apply only where the > proprietary-relicensing is done for "commercial gain". Which means... what, exactly? :)
Precisely, I was thinking about that earlier. It calls to mind the uncertainty over how to interpret the "NC" Creative Commons licenses. It is probably better to take 'commercial gain' out. I still like the provision itself though. - RF
Theodore Ts'o
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:38:22PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > Can you clarify what this means, as OSI does not confirm "successors" per se? It rests on an admittedly fanciful assumption that both the FSF and the OSI would at least begrudgingly accept the role of deciding whether copyleft-next 2.0 was worthy of being a successor to copyleft-next 1.0.
This raises the question of whether the FSF approves of copyleft-next 1.0 at all. And/or if the OSI declines to accept that responsibility altogether, indeed it means "there will never be an 2.0 license". If the goal is to worry about the trust problem, ultimately, people will use the 1.x license of they trust it on its own merits. Whether or not they want the "or later" option at all will be part of this question --- and that brings up the tradeoff of possible additional license incompatibility problems if you leave the option up to the person who initially puts their code under the license, versus people choosing not to use the license at all because they don't trust the organization(s) that are entrusted with the ability to upgrade the license. For example, I've always used a GPLv2 only license because I wasn't sure my goals and interests were aligned with the FSF's, and as it has turned out when the GPLv3 squirted out of its process, I have been happy that I had always licensed my code under a GPLv2-only option. Ultimately, I think you can't weasel out of this. I'd suggest either not allowing license upgades at all, or if you do, you will need to instantiate your own self-perpetuating body, and charge it with very clear goals about what sort of upgrades are acceptable and which are not. The clearer the instructions, the more likely people will be willing to trust an "or later" clause. Regards, - Ted
On 08/16/2012 10:23 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:38:22PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: >> >> Can you clarify what this means, as OSI does not confirm "successors" per se? > > It rests on an admittedly fanciful assumption that both the FSF and > the OSI would at least begrudgingly accept the role of deciding > whether copyleft-next 2.0 was worthy of being a successor to > copyleft-next 1.0. This raises the question of whether the FSF approves of copyleft-next 1.0 at all. And/or if the OSI declines to accept that responsibility altogether, indeed it means "there will never be an 2.0 license".
What I actually had in mind was that there would possibly be a 2.0 license, but if the FSF and/or OSI don't want the unprecedented responsibility of authorizing a later version as a successor license (such that the "or-later" built-in clause can be used), it would then be the same as the situation under the GPL, approximately (ignoring the GPL clauses that talk about failure to specify any license version). That is, copyleft-next licensors would have to opt-in to allow reuse of code under the later version, by saying "copyleft-next version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version" (or the like). But I guess my solution may be somewhat silly - as you suggest it is weaseling out of the problem. I think I may just change this to a GPLv2-style approach, though I'll give some thought to the 'proxy' idea too. - RF
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Huawei smartphones have always been renowned for the quality of their cameras, and the mobile manufacturer's latest offerings again don't disappoint in this department.
Huawei's P30 features a Leica triple-camera set-up. The main camera, a wide-angle 40MP SuperSpectrum shooter, is able to capture a wider range of colours – this camera can pick up red, yellow, yellow and blue light (RYYB) instead of the standard RGB (red, green and blue) – allowing for more detailed images, even in low-light conditions.
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Dave talks about his child hood and some of the television he was forced to watch. He also unveils what might possibly be the world's worst Andy Rooney imitation.


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Voices on the Liturgical Arts
Malanggi "Nativity" (Australia)
This fall term I have the privilege of being on academic sabbatical. That means that I get to read more than usual. It also means that I get to follow rabbit trails with a clean conscience (within reason, of course). The rabbit trails usually, though not always, lead me to surprising discoveries, even if they are not the most immediately useful discoveries. But their worth is sometimes the possibility that you have discovered a faithful but obscure pilgrim. This pilgrim has written things--good, insightful things, witty and very particular things--that deserve a re-hearing, in some cases to a larger audience.
And that's the privilege that scholars have: to introduce readers to the obscure pilgrims and the faithful laborers who labor in fields that have not caught the attention of major publishing houses or that never stand a chance to go viral to a massive audience or whose original value was a parochial one--whether to Catholics in early twentieth-century France or to devoted readers of the Paris Review or to United Methodist practitioners of liturgical dance or to architects of church spaces across East Asia.
Here are a few of the things that have caught my attention over the past month. I find all of it immensely interesting, though only some of it will make it into the book that I am currently writing. (The tentative title of the book is, Worship and the Arts: Singular Powers and the Formation of a Human Life.) As always, my use of the term "liturgical art" is a shorthand (quite literally) for any art that occurs in the context of corporate worship.
Twelfth-century music for chanting (this example is Beneventan rather than Gregorian).
Uknown Ghentish Master, Lactation of St. Bernard Belgian, c. 1525-1540. Ghent, Museum voor Shone Kunsten
"We are one in Jesus our Lord" by Soichi Watanabe
Bernard of Clairvaux on chant (1090-1153): "Let the chant by full of gravity; let it be neither worldly, nor too rude and poor…. Let it be sweet, yet without levity, and, while it pleases the ear, let it move the heart…. It should not contradict the sense of the words, but rather enhance it."
Tim Dowley on the Moravian Singstunden: "The Moravian church's distinctive worship service was the Singstunde, consisting almost entirely of hymns, with stanzas from different hymns woven together to express the day's theme—a 'sermon in song'. Zinzendorf wrote many hymns for the Singstunden, often composing them extempore."
Tim Dowley on the Presbyterian Charles G. Finney (1792-1875) and the cross-contextual experience of singing: "he selected from camp meetings features he thought 'worked—including the new singing style—and carried them back into the church to manufacture 'revivals', so introducing customs that have exercised a lasting effect on American worship practice. For instance, at the front of the church, in addition to a place for the minister, a position was allocated for the song-leader. Finney was fully aware of the potential of music to create a suitable atmosphere, so also provided space for a choir or vocal quartet beside the minister."
The neither-fish-nor-fowl context of Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910): "The Liturgy, for unaccompanied voices, is often regarded as insufficiently dramatic for the concert hall but too operatic for the Orthodox Church: 'with such music it would be difficult to pray'."
Jeanne Murray Walker, "On Poets and Poetry": "A reader doesn't have to know the poet's strategies in order to be delighted by poetry, but being aware of them increases the pleasure."
Gordon Lathrop on the multicultural nature of Christian worship: "So today, in the renewed liturgy, we keep a revised version of the ancient Asian Christian reworking of the Jewish Passover to become our Pascha, or Easter, the ancient Roman (and then northern European) Christian reworking of the pagan winter solstice has now become our Christmas, as well as the eastern Mediterranean (and perhaps ancient Spanish) creation of Epiphany and the ancient Egyptian and African creation of Lent."
Mark P. Bangert on musical intelligence as a way of knowing the world: "developmental psychologist Howard Gardiner theorized more than thirty years ago that human beings have multiple intelligences, that is, skills or abilities of learning, and among the six he outlines is musical intelligence. He has concluded that musical intelligence, though appearing in a variety of strengths, singularly provides an individual with the ability to perceive and apprehend aspects of feeling, as well as knowledge about feeling, that are unavailable through other intelligences."
Peter Hammond on church architecture (1961): "It is a sheer waste of time to encourage the laity to co-operate with the clergy in teaching and evangelizing and to realize that they, too, are apostles, so long as we go on building churches which make it virtually impossible for the ordinary Christian to play his full part in the very action which will inevitably be normative of his understanding of his mission."
Mary E. McGann on bodily and non-bodily relations to music: "In many cultures, the integral connection between the behavior involved in making music and the sound itself is clear: music and movement are inseparable activities. In these settings, to make music is to dance, to move. Western music, in contrast, has focused primarily on sound itself, minimizing the inherent bodiliness of any musical communication. This tendency is reinforced by our familiarity with radios and stereo systems that produce sounds without apparent human agency. But, as Anthony Seeger points out, this is an 'auditory illusion' and not a feature of music." Within the context of Our Lady of Lourdes, a Catholic church comprised of black persons, music is meant to be "felt and not only heard."
Julia Cameron: "Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail."
Romano Guardini on raised hands (1918): "There is greatness and beauty in this language of the hands. The Church tells us that God has given us our hands in order that we may 'carry our souls' in them. The Church is fully in earnest in the use she makes of the language of gesture. She speaks her innermost mind, and God gives ear to this mode of speaking."
Walter J. Ong on the power of human vocality: "The centering action of sound (the field of sound is not spread out before me, but is all around me) affects man's sense of the cosmos. For oral cultures, the cosmos is an ongoing event with man at its center."
Herbert J. Levine on the liturgical poetry of the psalms and our capacity to memorize: "Recent psycholinguistic studies have shown that the number of words that can be retained in one's short-term memory is less than ten. Biblical poetry typically has lines of seven to nine words in total, while biblical prose sentences tend to be upwards of thirteen words. In biblical poetry, the medial break aids the memory in organizing what it has heard into even shorter, more easily memorable units. These facts make it quite clear that, however it was composed, biblical poetry was intended for and is responsive to the ear."
Ronald John Zawilla on Medieval Christians and their view of God's generosity exhibited in liturgical vestments: "For the ancients as well as for medieval people, God is distinguished by a generosity that is liberal to the point of 'wasteful': the cup so full that it spills over, the measure that is packed down, shaken, and still overflows. God's generosity, echoed in the dedication of God's servants, is symbolized in the amplitude of their liturgical vesture. This generosity is an eschatological sign of what is to come. It is a sign of the sacred play and leisure of the reign of heaven."
Van Gogh on the practice of painting: "Although I'll have pained the actual painting in a relatively short time, and largely from memory, it's taken a whole winter of painting studies of heads and hands" (Letter #497).
Abbot Suger (inscription on the bronze doors made by Suger for the Abbey of St. Denis): "Whoever thou art, if thou seekest to extol the glory of these doors, Marvel not at the gold and the expense but at the craftsmanship of the work. Bright is the noble work; but, being nobly bright, the work Should brighten the minds, so that they may travel, through the true lights, To the True Light where Christ is the true door. In what manner it be inherent in this world the golden door defines: The dull mind rises to truth through that which is material And, in seeing this light, is resurrected from its former submersion."
Camille A. Brown, in TED talk, "A Visual History of Social Dance in 25 Moves": "If you knew the steps, it meant that you belonged to a social group."
Chinwe said…
"Why do we dance together? To heal, to remember, to say, 'We speak a common language. We exist and we are free!'"
Thanks for sharing this.
Happily.


Arrow B's Shane Martin and Ally Frueauf knocked out a fun design project, bringing home a bit of recognition for their recent work in the Rocky Mountain NEWH Haute Seat competition. The Network of Executive Women in Hospitality hosted a chair design competition that paired architects with design industry partners to transform an unfinished wooden Ikea chair into a usable work of art. Arrow B worked with Mohawk Flooring/Durkan, which provided the vinyl flooring (LVT) used in the execution.
The team tackled the "Nature Knocks" theme by putting a bird on their design, machined out of LVT (luxury vinyl tile). The woodpecker took shape thanks to detailed fabrication by MS Sign. Shane might have had a bit too much fun wielding the heat gun to form the tiles around the structure of the chair, using Mohawk's Global Entry Antiek LVT in Cassolette and Nimbus for the background and Matuto LVT in Red Hot for the cut out of the downy woodpecker.
The finished chair was auctioned off to benefit education and scholarship efforts at a party hosted by the DalTile Showroom. Arrow B's entry sold for $150 and brought home a second place trophy.


During the second Jamming Session aboard the Freedom Yacht in New York City, Chef Jamie Bissonnette and Jim Meehan riffed on a Spanish Rebujito by using Casa Dragones Blanco and lemon balm syrup, prepared from ingredients sourced in Toro's kitchen.
Build in a chilled Collins Glass filled with ice. Garnish with a smacked lemon balm leaf.


Deep Tissue Massage Boy is a sucker for all things wet. (I just read what I typed, I considered deleting it but since it's double meaning is maliciously funny I'm voting for it to stay.) He loves taking baths and is dreaming of owning a house where his bed is a small pool where he can lie down and sleep like a fish. Seriously. I have a merman as a boyfriend.
So when I heard about Ace Water Spa, I quickly went to one of the many online coupon websites (the one that rhymes with what we call tapioca pearls in Filipino) and bought 2 vouchers for me and DTM Boy.
* Video and pictures are from the Ace Water Spa site.
Wet area: It's freaking wet area everywhere!
What do you wear during the massage: Swimsuit. No, your spaghetti straps and Giordano short shorts will not work here.
Ambiance: It's like a small indoor resort. Nothing fancy.
Price: We got our voucher for Php 299 but regular price is at Php 550 per person for 4 hours for adults.
In the interactive bubbly area part of the spa, the water was perfectly warm. There are different parts of that area where you will sit, lie down or stand up and jets of water will hit specific points in your body. The area that I enjoyed the most is the one where you will lie on your stomach, and after pulling a leverl beside you, rain will pour on your entire body for about 2 minutes. It felt sooooooo good, if they extended it to 10 minutes I would've already drifted off to la-la sleepy land.
After about 2 hours there, we went to the herbal pools. In the Pasig Ace Water Spa, men and women can enjoy the herbal pools together. The kind male water spa lifeguard was kind enough to instruct us on how to use these pools. We must've looked thoroughly perplexed because he offered to help without us asking. Or he was just plain helpful. After a while though, DTM and I realized that the instructions were on the wall. Oblivious, much?
We tried the wet and dry saunas next. Nothing special. Although DTM boy and I had an interesting conversation while we were inside the dry sauna.
Deep Tissue Massage Boy: What do you think about having a sauna at home?
DTM: Yeah, that will be good? Yeah, we should have one? What do you mean by "yeah"?
SG: *Shrugs and whispers softly* Yeah.
Just an FYI for everyone, I, Spa Girl, am not able to make coherent answers to all types of questions while in a dry sauna. I should not be held liable for any stupid responses while I am in a sauna-stewed state.
P.S. They also have a pool for laps but we no longer tried that part. They also have a kiddie pool area.
None. Unfortunately, since it is a water spa, it's just plain wet area. I would've liked it if they would at least offer massage options.
Bring your own towel! I was under the assumption, that similar to other spas where there are wet areas that the towels are free. No they are not! They cost Php 150 a pop.
There was this one lady person who accidentally took my 150 pesos towel for rent. So we reported it to the wet area lady personnel and to cut the long story short, they could've handled the incident in a much friendlier light. I encourage the management to train their employees to be as courteous as possible when it comes to dealing with customers. Needless to say I was not too happy with the wet area lady guard person.
Will probably go back if they will offer massage services. Deep Tissue Massage Boy on the other hand, wanted to live there.


Plus League is full of Northerners!
And what exactly is wrong with northeners?! Explain please, i'm intrigued to hear your pathetic argument against us.
League is definitely better to watch, at all levels. Union is only good to watch at international level. Being a lady i have never played rugby, but would probably choose league, because there is much more skill involved & all the players need to be extremely fit, unlike in union where u can be a lard-a$$ & still attempt to play.
At the end of the day it's up to u & ur personal choice.
Depends how you define allrounder - personally for me its someone who can win a match with bat or ball - or both, and do it consistently.
Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Ian Botham, Kapil Dev and Garry Sobers did it. Hence they would be regarded as "true" allrounders.
The advent of ODI cricket has ended all that. Players like Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Justin Kemp, Andy Symonds, Abdul Razzaq etc - all players capable of a matchwinning innings with the bat or spell with the ball in ODIs, but would struggle to do it at Test level.
The reason Flintoff is regarded the best allrounder in the world is because he is the only allrounder at Test level. Kallis has raced ahead in the batting but very rarely turns his arm over.
Someone like collingwood is also a ODI all rounder...his bowling would take significantly fewer wickets if his opponents were not looking to score at every opportunity.
and Arsenal are south-east londoners, not north londoners. our true neighbours are Charlton, not Spurs. We managed to get a tube station in Islington named after us though!
Neway, I have supported Chelsea for about 12 years (i can remember when i started just not when that was if u see what i mean), though i've only really followed football properly for the last 6 years or so, but the point is i'm not from Chelsea, but 1) they were one of the few teams i knew about at the time, 2) they're arent any decent football teams in my area besides oxford united who i do support but you can't watch them on tv, 3) I have an innate hatred of arsenal that has nothing to do with supporting Chelsea or indeed anything at all i can think of, i just hate them.
So, i don't think it matters if you live in an area as to whether you support a big team like Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool etc. but if you're going to support them you should really support you're local team too if there is one, in my opinion.
Gexko- come and row with me at Bristol!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmmmm, actually i think i'll row.
cool- i'll be one of those girls then (obviously why i'm trying to get more boys rowing)!
is it wrong for me to expect murray to beat everyone he plays apart from federer and roddick?
Don't really have any suggestions for what you can do then really, try sticking to exercises which invole both the arms and the legs, very few sports do this, so cross-training or swimming, but swimming involves a big element of technique, so wouldn't recommend that.
Yes but does that mean people who reside in Kensington and Knightsbridge can't support Chelsea?
Most people speak of Chelsea FC being in Hammersmith & Fulham but I think it is also correct to call say it resides in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.
Now how many of those living in Barnet actually support Barnet and not Arsenal hmmm?
i think skill involved is similar. there might not be the technicalities of rucks and mauls and stuff in league, but the pace at which it is played means in general ball-handling skills and technique are superior to union.
Union is by far the better sport, especially if you enjoy the physicalities.
Rucking, mauling, lineouts and the like.
The fact is that league was formed due to a breakaway group of union player who wanted to turn professional and get payed. Union wasn't happy with this and therefore imposed some restriction due to the danger of unmonitored rugby. These were no rucks mauls etc.
Also league player tackle like pansies, they hug the opposition and it takes about 3 player to tackle someone.
oh yes - riveting stuff i must say.
the hardest hits i got were playing league. and playing all pile on like you do in union is seriously naff. ahhh. passing. excuse me and tell me exactly why the rfu paid for farrel to move to union? his vision and distribution skills maybe?
i think olympic diving would be a more sensible sport for them. preferably synchronized diving. or both.
Arsenal should join them then.
dont want pansy tackles like league.
hehe. i got ribbed a lot for being a leaguer when i played union at college, so i always offered them a sample of league tackling. after a while i stopped getting ribbed.


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Energy windfall profit levies approved: EU countries spar over gas price caps
Reuters Published October 1, 2022
BRUSSELS: European Union countries disagreed on Friday about whether and how to cap runaway gas prices, with Germany among those opposing the measure that 15 other states said was needed to tackle Europe's energy crunch.
Meeting in Brussels on Friday, ministers from the 27 EU member states approved levies on energy firms' windfall profits to try to contain an energy price surge aggravated by Russia's war against Ukraine.
The agreement covers a levy on fossil fuel companies' surplus profits made this year or next, another levy on excess revenues low-cost power producers make from soaring electricity costs, and a mandatory 5% cut in electricity use during peak price periods.
The Czech Republic said, however, that was not enough and that many EU countries expected a proposal from the bloc's executive European Commission on capping the gas price.
Speaking after the meeting, the EU's energy commissioner, Kadri Simson, said there was no agreement on what such a cap would look like.
"We will... try to negotiate a price corridor, not a fixed cap, that allows us to bring down the costs for our consumers," she told a news conference.
Russia says Nord Stream likely hit by state-backed 'terrorism'
"A wholesale gas price is a legitimate option, but it requires a radical intervention in the market," she said, adding that several "non-negotiable conditions" would need to be put in place alongside such a cap for it to work.
Italy's energy minister said a group of countries would discuss among themselves next week ideas for a cap or "smart indexing" to help the Commission draft a legal proposal that all countries could support.
"The priority right now is to slash the price of gas. But there is a second priority: to avoid that this kind of action leads to a shortage of gas," Roberto Cingolani said.
Fifteen countries, including France, Italy and Poland, this week asked Brussels to propose a price cap on all wholesale gas transactions to contain inflation.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said he believed EU ministers could find a "better solution" to a broad price cap ahead of their next meeting on Oct. 11.
"A fixed price cap on gas can only work if we answer the question of what happens if not enough gas comes to Europe... The only answer I hear is that then the amount would be divided up. I do not think that is politically possible," he said.
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The Commission warned countries this week that a broad cap would require "significant financial resources" to finance emergency gas purchases should market prices break the EU's cap.
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Anker Bread Factory alive today with a renewed sense of cultural purpose.
Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the spacious old Bread Factory lends itself well to the needs of galleries, studios, exhibitors and installations, accommodating artists, photographers and DJs and becoming a firm cultural point on art radar in Absberggasse.
Home to some of Austria's most well established gallerists and art dealers, including Ernst Hilger, the space also plays host to "OstLicht" and "Galerie Anzenberger" – art spaces entirely devoted to photography. In addition, the former industrial ground floor also houses a space presenting design (Lichterloh) and a space run by "Loft 8" for young artists.
+ Anzenberger Gallery specializes in photography and has set itself up in the Ankerbrotfabrik.
+ Loft 8 Kunstraum shows exhibitions of young Austrian artists or artists resident in Austria.
+ The Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna operates Atelier 10, an art studio with adjacent gallery, which gives socially disadvantaged people and people with disabilities the possibility to develop their artistic potentials.
+ Gallery Ernst Hilger now exhibits contemporary art on two exhibition areas of 400 square meters each in the Ankerbrotfabrik: the HilgerBROTKunsthalle and the gallery Hilger NEXT.
+ Schauraum 11/nullnull has tasked itself with the conception and implementation of artistic ideas and projects, which are also presented in exhibitions.
+ Vor Anker makes its studio available to artists for two months each for the purpose of displaying their work. This is always rounded off with an exhibition.
+ Fans of photography will get their money's worth in the gallery OstLicht. The branch of the famous WestLicht gallery regularly shows special exhibitions.
+ Former Anker dispatch hall: Where horse-drawn vehicles came and went a hundred years ago to supply Vienna with bread, an exciting cultural and event location has been developed, where theater, dance and music performances as well as exhibitions are held on a regular basis (www.loftcity.at).
+ Galerie Photon acts as a center for contemporary photography (www.photongallery.at).
+ The studio of Daniel Sommergruber is a presentation and event room, studio and workshop in one. Apart from models of stage sets, props and pieces of equipment for his work as a set designer, visitors will also find visual art here (www.danielsommergruber.at).
+ The Verein Superar association has established a cultural center in the Brotfabrik, which offers singing, dancing and orchestral lessons as well as concerts (www.superar.eu).
+ The Kunstraum Sellemond organizes exhibitions on the topic of art and music.
+ The vintage furniture shop Lichterloh has also set up its own showroom in the Ankerbrotfabrik.
When in Vienna, check out the much loved Hotel Altstadt Vienna – a residence of bespoke luxury fittingly on the edge of the MuseumsQuartier (MQ) and the creative scene of the 7th district.
For more on all things art and Vienna, have a peek in our travel journal at contemporary Viennese art institution, TBA21, the hotspots that make up our Vienna Design Edit and read up on Austrian-born Josef Frank, ode-worthy designer extraordinnaire.


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FREE WILLY 3: THE RESCUE
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Genre(s): Adventure | Family
Directed By: Sam Pillsbury
Written By: John Mattson
Domestic Distributor: Warner Bros
Cast: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley
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Budget: N/A
Financed by: Warner Bros; Regency
Domestic Box Office: $3,446,539 Overseas Box Office: N/A
After Free Willy (1993) turned into a surprise hit that pulled in $153.6M worldwide and then sold exceptionally well on home video, Free Willy 2 was fast tracked and in theaters two years later in the same late July release frame. The sequel had a major decline in stateside attendance, with $30M in theatrical receipts (overseas numbers are not available), but strong home video sales led WB to milk this franchise to death with Free Willy 3: The Rescue.
The first Free Willy had a modest $20 million budget and the sequel had a price tag closer to $30M, but there was no budget info from WB about this part 3 cash grab. The whale from the first installment Keiko was replaced in both part 2 and 3 by an expensive animatronic Orca and Willy 3 also relied on pricey CGI. The budget for Free Willy 3: The Rescue would certainly not increase after the diminishing returns from Part 2 and the estimated costs are in the mid $20M range. Warner Bros co-financed the picture with Regency, which had also funded the first two movies with the studio.
The Willy pictures were spaced two years apart and Free Willy 3 was dated for August 8, 1997. Unlike the previous installment which had tie-in promotions and toys to aid the release, audiences seemed to have had enough of Willy needing a rescue and there was minimal advertising and no corporate partners. WB knew this property was running on fumes and booked the movie only moderately wide into 1,258 theaters.
The Free Willy movies were all produced by Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions, which was run by director Richard Donner and his wife Lauren Shuler Donner and WB dated Willy 3 against the Richard Donner directed Conspiracy Theory — though there was obviously no audience overlap between the two WB productions. Def Jam's How to Be a Player also bowed that weekend. Free Willy 3 would have competition with other holdover kids fare George of the Jungle, Air Bud and Good Burger.
Reviews were mostly negative and Free Willy 3 posted a disastrous $992,651 — placing #15 for the weekend led by Conspiracy Theory, which also disappointed in its debut. The film fell 51% to $489,037 in its second frame and then promptly lost most of its theater count. The domestic run closed with an abysmal $3,446,539. A made for the video market fourthquel was produced in 2010 called Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove.
WB had a string of box office losers in summer '97, which kicked off with the fiasco Father's Day, then the soft returns on Addicted to Love, Batman & Robin derailed that franchise, Contact did decent business but barely squeaked into profit, Free Willy 3 ended that franchise and their last major release was Conspiracy Theory, which also barely broke even — and the studio's final summer movie was the Shaquille O'Neal embarrassment Steel.
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