Macbeth's portrait is an original painting commissioned by a client in Georgia. Macbeth lived to be 18 years old and was by her owner's side from high school to family life, sleeping by her head every single night. This darling kitty loved lettuce and green beans, and to take showers! She carried her favorite stuffed animals in her mouth, and was always loving towards the owner's newborn.
To honor her cat and to heal from the loss, my client came to me for a portrait. She later commissioned me to do her bridal bouquet.
– J.D. of Georgia, repeat customer who also commissioned her bridal bouquet.


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The V South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1994 in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela, with some events in Puerto Cabello (boxing, judo, karate, wrestling) and Caracas (shooting). The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).  An appraisal of the games and detailed medal lists were published
elsewhere,
emphasizing the results of the Argentinian teams.

Torch lighter at the Polideportivo Misael Delgado was local swimmer Ramón Volcán.  Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and Panamá had their first appearance at the games, enhancing the number of participating nations to 14.

The games were initially awarded to Montevideo, Uruguay, but the local officials declined in 1992.

Medal count
The medal count for these Games is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country.  The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.

Sports

Aquatic sports
 Swimming
 Athletics
 Baseball
 Bowling
 Boxing
 Canoeing
Cycling
 Road Cycling
 Track Cycling
 Fencing
 Football
Gymnastics
 Artistic Gymnastics
 Rhythmic Gymnastics
 Judo
 Karate
 Shooting
 Softball
 Table Tennis
 Taekwondo
 Tennis
 Weightlifting
 Wrestling

References

External links
Valencia 94 ODESUR page

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Police are continuing to investigate the death of a Queens Village man who was shot in his car just steps away from his home.
At 4:35 a.m. on Dec. 16, police responded to a 911 call regarding a man shot outside of a home on 207th Street near 104th Avenue.
Upon their arrival, law enforcement sources said, the officers found 39-year-old Mohale Ralekhetho inside a 2015 Mercedes Benz with a gunshot wound to the neck. A 33-year-old male passenger was also in the vehicle but was not injured.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, Ralekhetho, who lived on the same block where the shooting took place, was sitting in his car with the male passenger when an unknown person walked up to the car and shot a firearm into the car, striking Ralekhetho in the neck. The passenger then called 911.
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Uttar PradeshBJP Candidate Hema Malini Starts Campaign In Mathura, From A Farm Land
BJP Candidate Hema Malini Starts Campaign In Mathura, From A Farm Land
by Chandrani Sarkar April 1, 2019
On Sunday, veteran actress Hema Malini has started her election campaign amid golden harvesting in a farm in Mathura. With a sickle in hand, and draped in a matching color saree with the background, the BJP Lok Sabha Lawmaker is seeking another term from Mathura Constituency. In the 2014 Election, the actor-turned-politician secured more than 330000 votes from the same constituency.
In Uttar Pradesh, Hema Malin has been called as an "outsider" by her political rivals. She claims that "people greeted me happily. They welcomed me because I have done a lot for the people of Mathura. I am proud of what I did…in the near future, more development will be the only aim. Nobody has done anything for Mathura before me like the way I did."
Ms. Milini took to Twitter on Sunday and posted a few photos of her with local farmers, while she was campaigning. Her Twitter post reads, "Began my Lok Sabha campaign… with the Govardhan Kshetra, where I had the opportunity to interact with women working in the fields…"
In Uttar Pradesh, the grand alliance or "mahagathbandhan" leaders have said that Mathura Constituency will witness an "outside Vs. Brijwasi" battle as the popular actress is a resident of Mumbai.
Ms. Malini told sources, "Yes, I have a house in Mumbai. What is the problem with that? I have a house here also and I am a Virndavanwasi."
She continued, "I am so involved with the city. I feel some divine connection here. I have been playing Radha and Meera throughout my life and I was in a temple only when my candidature was announced."
Last week, Hema Malini said that "I have visited Mathura over 250 times… It is not an easy job to come all the way from Mumbai. Coming and going…coming and going… I have told people, I am a devotee of Lord Krishna, I am a Brijwasi (resident of Braj, land of Lord Krishna)."
She has filed her nomination papers after a puja-led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on March 25 in Mathura.
"I really feel hurt when someone asks 'apne kya kaam kiya' (what have you done). The first two years were difficult as I could not communicate (with the people). But in the last two years I was able to get things done with the support of the Centre and the state government," added Ms. Malini.
Contradictory to Hema Malini's claims of people have greeted her on the first day of the election campaign, many seemed to be unhappy. As a local resident of Mathura was quoted saying, "When Hema Malini came to Mathura she went directly to her guest house to take rest despite knowing that people had been waiting for her since long in the scorching heat. She has not done anything for the constituency…"
Hema Malini has announced that this term election will be her last, is pitted against the Rashtriya Lok Dal's leader Kunwar Narendra Singh. Mathura Constituency has voted in the second round of seven rounds of elections on April 18 and the results will be declared on May 23.
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Charlie Grandy
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Erik Kenward
Matt Murray
Frank Sebastiano
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Robert Smigel
J.B. Smoove
Emily Spivey
Jorma Taccone
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Matt O'Brien
Eric Drysdale
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Saturday Night Live — Season Thirty-One
Jack Black/Neil Young is the ninth episode of the thirty-first season of Saturday Night Live, and the five hundred and ninety-seventh episode overall.
Guest Stars: Jack Black (Host), Neil Young (Musical Guest)
Special Guests: Johnny Knoxville (Himself), Tracy Morgan (Charles Lepani), Kyle Gass (Tenacious D member)
Cartoon Voices: Darlene Love (Vocals)
1 Episode Breakdown
2.1 "Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"
Episode Breakdown
Cheney Claus: Vice President Dick Cheney (Hammond) plays Santa Claus for local children (Dratch, Samberg & Poehler), whose Christmas wishes are suspiciously similar to Bush Administration policies. At last, President George W. Bush (Forte) sits on "Santa's" lap and requests an XBox 360.
Jack Black's Monologue: Black talks about his new movie King Kong and sings King Kong Jam, a song he wrote, which he intended be used in the film, but which director Peter Jackson turned down. The song, a Tenacious D-style rock ballad, talks more about Black's experiences during filming and less about the plot of the film. In fact, much of the talk of the film's plot is nonsensical, including such lyrics as, "King Kong, pass the Grey Poupon! King Kong, fighting the Viet Cong! King Kong! Everybody bang a gong for King Kong, 'cause he don't belong."
Stuart Little Mouse Removal Kit: A commercial for a new kind of mousetrap. Spokesman Parnell explains to a couple (Wiig & Sudeikis) how the device—a toy car similar to the one driven by the CGI-animated hero of the children's film Stuart Little—works: The mouse drives the car out of the house, where it explodes, killing its driver.
The Wind: A holiday shopper (Black), his wife (Poehler), her mother (Dratch) and their baby take a break for lunch at the only available table at a Sbarro, but whenever the door is open, a strong gust of icy wind nearly blows them away. Another table opens up, and the husband tries to claim it, but a homeless man (Armisen) swipes it. When their server (Thompson) comes to the table, the wind blows the hot pizza in his face and causes severe burns. The father tries to stop another man (Parnell) from opening the door, but he is unsuccessful, and his mother-in-law is blown into the ceiling. When they leave, the strong winds outside blow them off their feet, and a holiday message from The Weather Channel pops up.
Appalachian Emergency Room - Christmastime: The patients whom Nerod (Meyers) admits during the holiday season are: Percy and Netti Bo Dance (Hammond & Poehler), who are there because Percy slipped on a frozen satellite dish left in the baby pool by their "druggie son" (Young) and electrocuted himself on Christmas lights; Otis Peaks (Sudeikis) and Tiny Nations (Hader) who are there for a lawn jarts accident—not the one sticking out of Tiny's prosthetic wooden hand, but rather the one sticking out of Otis' head; Tyler (Parnell), who got a watermelon he was going to give Nerod frozen to his penis when he was having sex with it; Sandy Joey Juggerson (Black), dressed as a shepherd, who dislocated his colon while having a drunken farting contest with his girlfriend in a live Nativity scene; and Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, who has had a board nailed to his perineum for two weeks.
TV Funhouse - Christmastime for the Jews: A black & white claymation music video in which a Supremes-style Motown girl group sings about all the fun Jews have on the streets of the city when the gentiles desert it for the holiday.
Channel Five Photo Shoot: Photographer Marcus (Sudeikis) is doing a photo shoot for the new billboard ads for the Channel 5 News Team. He suggests that the team—Chet (Black), J.J. (Thompson), Topper (Parnell) and a female anchor (Poehler)—point at each other, but Chet is upset that nobody is pointing at him in any of the pictures. Despite his desperate tries to force a point, he is only further ignored. At last, Marcus calms the team down for what he claims is the "final" shot, but when the photos go to press, a picture with Chet out of frame is used.
The Chronic-what?-cles of Narnia!
SNL Digital Short - Lazy Sunday: A hip hop video featuring Samberg and Parnell rapping about eating cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
It's a Dream: Neil Young song.
Joseph and Charles Lepani (Thompson & Tracy Morgan), heads of the tourism board for Skull Island from the movie King Kong, try to convince people to come to Skull Island despite its dinosaurs, giant apes, lack of museums, giant insects, sacrifice of blonde women and "murderous scorpions."
In response to a news story about a 37-year-old woman impregnated by a 15-year-old boy, Fey and Poehler editorialize about the "sexiness" of fifteen-year-olds.
Debbie Downer - A Very Downer Christmas: Santa Claus (Black) is depressed by young Debbie Downer (Dratch) when he finds her awake on Christmas Eve. She sits on his lap to ask him for what she wants for Christmas, but none of Santa's suggestions sound good to her. While Santa hits the scotch, Debbie asks for depressing gifts. At last, Santa presents her with a calendar of medical oddities, which she loves.
Deserted Moon: Human Steve (Black) and his enemy alien Glurk (Samberg) are stranded on a lifeless moon, where the alien reveals it has both female and male sex organs. Glurk propositions Steve, who is uninterested, but Glurk won't drop the issue. Glurk even tries to trick Steve by playing truth or dare, but no dice. A drunken Glurk shows Steve his glowing green genitalia, which nauseates Steve. Steve tries to fix his spaceship, but when Glurk smacks the ship in frustration, it fixes the ship. The joyous Steve has sex with Glurk, which causes his testicles to rot off.
Two A-Holes - Buying a Christmas Tree: The A-Holes (Sudeikis & Wiig) drive a Christmas tree salesman (Black) insane when they request hot chocolate, a bathroom, a "big tree" that's only two feet high, an impossibly large tree and a street lamp. After the salesman storms off, the A-holes try to buy a tree off a hot dog vendor (Mitchell).
Spelling Bee: At the State Spelling Bee Finals, a little girl (Dratch) correctly spells "xylophone." The moderator (Parnell) gives the next contestant, Daniel Strong (Forte), the word "business." Daniel procrastinates in spelling the word, and when he finally does, his spelling is extremely wrong. The lights go down on the scene and come up on Tenacious D, who sing the song "Spelling Bee," which reveals "Daniel" is really J.B. of Tenacious D.
He Was the King: Neil Young song.
"Live from New York, It's Saturday Night!"
Will Forte as President George W. Bush.
Neil Young performs "It's a Dream."
"It's a Dream," performed by Neil Young: A track off Young's 2005 album Prairie Wind. The album is much more reflective and sedate than Young's succeeding album Living with War, released only eight months after Prairie Wind. Where Living with War is a protest album reminiscent of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' or Young's own Freedom, Prairie Wind is an acoustic album similar to Harvest Moon. In most of the songs, Young describes his feelings on aging and nostalgia for his youth. "It's a Dream" is a love song of sorts, and along with "Here for You," one of only two on the album.
"He Was the King," performed by Neil Young: A nostalgia song off Prairie Wind, dedicated to 1950s and 1960s music superstar Elvis Presley.
Credited, Not Appearing: Although credited, Horatio Sanz and Maya Rudolph do not appear in this episode. Although they technically appear, Fred Armisen appears only as the homeless man (who has no full dialogue) in "The Wind," and Finesse Mitchell's only role is a very small one, as the hot dog vendor in "Two A-Holes Buying a Christmas Tree." Seth Meyers, Bill Hader and Tina Fey also all appear in only one sketch each ("Appalachian Emergency Room - Christmastime" for all except Fey, who anchors "Weekend Update"), but their roles were more substantial.
The Misspelling of Business: In the "Spelling Bee" sketch, Daniel Strong spells the word "business" with 19 Q's, 15 of them consecutive. In all, Daniel uses 17 letters to spell the word, all of them consonants (assuming Y is used as a consonant). The four consonants not used are C, V, X and Z.
Internet Phenomenon: The second of the SNL Digital Shorts written and produced by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, "Lazy Sunday"—co-written by Chris Parnell—became one of the most popular sketches in the series' history, and certainly the most popular of the season. Immediately after its appearance on the show, it was uploaded to YouTube, where it was viewed millions of times in the following two months. (The only other SNL sketch which approached "Lazy Sunday" in popularity during that time on YouTube was the "Behind the Music, Blue Oyster Cult" sketch—featuring Christopher Walken repeating the catchphrase "more cowbell"—from an episode episode hosted by Walken.) Network NBC, whose peacock logo commemorates its being the first network to broadcast in color, demanded YouTube pull the video so they could add it as streaming video to their own site, thus jumping on yet another technological advance. However, the sketch had already become an unstoppable phenomenon within two weeks of its airing. The line "Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = CRAZY DELICIOUS" had already become a common catchphrase made into T-shirts, and the NBC sitcom The Office made multiple references to the sketch. It was played in karaoke bars and holiday parties over the Christmas and New Year's break, and by the time the show returned for the first episode of 2006, it was well-known enough that Samberg and Parnell made light of their newfound stardom in promos for the episode. In fact, the sketch helped launch Samberg into the limelight, and such subsequent Digital Shorts as "A Day in the Life of Natalie Portman" and "Laser Cats!", would cement his position as one of SNL's key cast members.
Hoth: Hoth is the icy, desolate planet which serves as the setting for the opening scenes of The Empire Strikes Back, the 1980 sequel to the 1977 film Star Wars. A rebel base was stationed on the planet until the Empire attacked, forcing the rebellion to scatter and regroup elsewhere.
Holiday Shopper: Let's eat this before the portal to Hoth opens again.
Ashlee Simpson: American pop star who had an infamous incident as musical guest on Saturday Night Live in an episode aired in the previous season, in which a technical error made it obvious Simpson was lip synching the vocals to her song and not performing it live. An embarrassed Simpson did a dance and ran off set after a few seconds, leaving the band on stage.
Tina Fey: Ashlee Simpson collapsed after a performance in Tokyo Thursday. Simpson spent Friday in the hospital while her show that night went on as scheduled without her.
Enemy Mine: The sketch "Deserted Moon" is a parody remake of the 1985 science fiction film Enemy Mine, starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. and directed by Wolfgang Petersen.
Daniel Strong: Business. B-R-D-T-F-K-L-M-G-H-R-K-W-T-F-N-Y-L-K-B-Q-W-Q-R-T-D-F-B-L-M-K Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-Q-S-T-F-J-R-Q-M-T-S-D-T-Q-M-P-R-F-T-D-B-D-P-L-H-R-K-T-B-T-F. Business.
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The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
American Vice-President Dick Cheney has walked the corridors of world power for three decades. Cheney's remarkable life story involves the relentless accumulation of power in every form. Elected for a second term, he continues to be one of the most powerful and well-connected men in the world. The fifth estate will show how he accomplished this, what it involved in terms of costs for others and what history's judgment could be.
Cheney's Law
Barrack Obama Biography
God's Angry Man
The new world order – Illuminati, Freemasons and other secret societies
Tetris: From Russia With Love
Tetris is probably one of the most famous computer-games that have ever been developed. Alexei Pajitnov createt this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union's Academ
Earth – The Climate Wars PT 3/3
PART THREE - New Challenges Having explained the science behind global warming, and addressed the arguments of the climate change sceptics earlier in the series, in this third and final part Dr Iai
Lockup Raw: The Daily Grind
In this episode, our producers take you behind the scenes and behind prison walls. You will see how the monotony of prison life can push some inmates to the brink. While some use the time wisely, othe
Inside The Mafia
A four-part examination of organized crime includes comments from former gangsters and law-enforcement officials. Episode 1: Mafia, What Mafia? The first of a four-part series on the American ma
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Nicholas began his career at Celtic, and by the age of 21 was considered the most exciting emerging talent in British football. With several English clubs keen to sign him, he joined Arsenal in the summer of 1983. He spent over four years there, and scored both their goals in their League Cup Final win over Liverpool in 1987. Nicholas fell out of favour at Highbury later that year, and moved back to Scotland to join Aberdeen. He won two Cup Finals in his time at Pittodrie, before rejoining Celtic in 1990. His second spell at Parkhead was less successful than his first, but he spent five seasons there before moving on to Clyde for one season before retiring from playing.
Since retiring he has worked in the media, most recently on the Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday.
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Planning permission granted for Santander's new Digital Hub.
The Santander Digital Hub, a landmark new workplace in Milton Keynes, has been granted planning permission. Proposed by global developer Osborne+Co and designed by LOM, the new campus will be a centre for digital banking innovation that nurtures collaboration and wellbeing, and also enhances the city with new public amenities.
The hub is a response to the digitalisation of the banking sector and is part of the bank's strategy to adapt to changing technology. It will bring together Santander's employees, who are currently spread across four offices, providing them with an enhanced working environment that will help to attract and retain the best talent in the area.
The eight-storey building will provide 5,000 workstations spread across 37,000sqm of open plan office space. Designed to connect the business with the local community, the building will include publicly accessible retail, food and beverage space, a community hall, auditorium and co-working space. There will also be a restaurant/bar area with a roof terrace.
Sustainability and staff wellbeing are core objectives for the project. The building is designed to achieve a BREEAM 'Excellent' rating for its environmental sustainability performance and a WELL 'Gold' Certification, which is a measure of the building's impact on health and wellbeing.
The project team comprises developer Osborne+Co, architects LOM architecture and design, engineers WSP, planning consultants Deloitte, project and cost managers Turner & Townsend, landscape architects Murray Associates and lighting designers Lightivity.
Construction is expected to commence on site in October 2019 and the building is anticipated to open in 2022.


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An Energy performance certificate is a document produced when either a Home Inspector or Domestic Energy Assessor visits a property to compile a report whereby data is later uploaded into a specifically designed piece of software in order to generate your EPC rating and carbon emissions, this document will always be accompanied by a recommendation report that lists cost effective and other measures (such as low and zero carbon generating systems) to improve the energy rating of the building.
The certificate is also accompanied by information about the rating that could be achieved if all the recommendations were implemented.
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The new government has now suspended the Home Information Pack which did include an EPC for potential buyers. The EPC in the HIP was valid for 3 years but this has now changed to a standalone EPC for a home that's put up for sale is now valid for 10 years.
If you are a landlord, you'll need to make an EPC available to prospective tenants the first time you let a home after 1 October 2008. An EPC is only required for a property which is self-contained, and is valid for 10 years.
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Learning about learning to read: Phonics, Real Books, Reading Schemes, The Electric Company
Reading is good. But how should reading be taught?
Photo: Pratham Books
I'm an author (just). Surely I know something about reading ...
But last week I found out that it took more than a love for writing and reading to teach children how to read.
Joanna de Guia of Victoria Park Books very kindly invited me to attend a debate on the teaching of reading. It was the final event of a conference on 19 October entitled Reading Without Stories: Does It Make Sense?.
I was puzzled by the title. How could one read without stories?
Turns out I haven't been paying enough attention to current events. Apparently there's been a war raging between two camps of reading methods for almost a century - Whole Word teaching and Phonics. In the UK, where the Whole Word method's been ascendant for a while, Phonics is beginning to regain ground.
(Added) Deborah Orr of the Guardian writes here about the UK's literacy crisis:
I became aware of the state system's problems with teaching literacy when my own son, and a number of his friends, were not learning to read and write at primary school, but were instead becoming hostile to reading and writing, in a school setting that saw this as unremarkable and untroubling. Looking into the matter further, I found great cause for concern.
Read All About It: Britain's shameful literacy crisis, The Guardian
I was of the era that learned to read via the Phonics method. As a child, a lot of my learning was done watching endless reruns of the American educational series from the 1970s, The Electric Company.
The debate was advertised as focusing on the 'respective merits of using real books or reading schemes to teach reading'. Note the careful absence of the word Phonics from the brief.
First up, headteacher Greg Wallace talked about refusing to teach the government-imposed literacy strategy at his primary school Woodberry Down ' because phonically it wasn't right for the younger children'. Wallace is credited for turning Woodberry Down from a failing school to one judged 'outstanding' by school inspectors. The school serves one of the most deprived areas in the United Kingdom - 25 per cent of its pupils are refugees and 60 per cent are on free school meals.
Wallace argued however that it was impossible to divide the argument into Good - classes reading novels by favourite authors - vs Bad - phonics, comprehension, literacy hour and SATS practice. He said:
'It's a false division because we have to do all these things and we have to be very clear that purpose ... It's the absence of purpose that causes schools to fail.'
Wallace described his own literacy strategy of starting children off with synthetic phonics and decipherable texts and a 'huge focus' on developing vocabulary:
'Children cannot comprehend if they do not know what the words mean.'
He said there was an urgency to get the children reading as quickly as possible so that they could get the best out of 'real' books. The book choices of the school - by authors like Beverley Naidoo, Anne Fine and Benjamin Zephaniah, covering themes of gender, race, family - reflect the school's demographics. 'For lots of our children, they are not issues, they are realities,' Wallace explained.
He illustrated how real by showing some quite moving literacy work by students. In one writing exercise to an imaginary character based on Zephaniah's Refugee Boy , a Year Six girl writes:
'What you did helped me as well with my life because I'm a refugee too.'
'How can we ensure that the government's drive for effective phonics teaching and its obsesson with testing do not drive out children's understanding and enjoyment of books?' Wallace asked.
The next speaker was psychologist Christopher Hulme, who presented studies and statistics that compared the effectiveness of various methods in teaching children to read. I wish I could write more about Hulme's presentation because it was very rich and detailed.
My simple-minded take-away was that a combination of both methods, vocabulary teaching and reading aloud to pupils would result in huge gains in reading. It made start thinking about creating bonus materials on my website to help teachers help children read my own books! (Teachers, please don't hesitate to drop me a note on my contact form if you have any suggestions of additional material I could post on my website to help you teach Tall Story. In fact, I'm thinking of doing a video on vocabulary!)
Then, author and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen - who struck me as not so much anti-Phonics as pro-books - described schools he visited where there were no 'real books' (as opposed to reading schemes). It was hard to take notes because Rosen is quite a captivating speaker and you keep forgetting to write things down and then he's saying something else so fascinating that you don't manage to catch up! Anyway, here are fragments from my notebook of what he said:
'Crucial to the concept of what is a school – are we imparting wisdoms? Are we enabling children to access wisdoms? ...The way these children are going to achieve is in part due to their encounter with books. How come we have invented a system where books are option al and in some places, book free, with an ITC room instead of a library, and scarcely any books in classrooms. Is it possible to have a system where children could learn how to read but the notion that books pass on wisdom is not present?'
Rosen was especially dismayed to visit schools whose shelves were stocked with reading schemes, with no 'real books' in sight. In some schools he visited, he was saddened to see that computers took precedence over libraries. (Added: And how about news that reading tests will be including non-words?)
After the presentations it was the audience's turn to ask questions or comment on the presentations. The response was intense and passionate.
I felt like everyone was wringing their hands and asking, 'But HOW can we do our best for the children? What can we DO?'
As debates go, it was an odd one in the sense that every single person was on the same side. Although some of the discussion was heated, I was curiously reassured. It was obvious that everyone in the room cared deeply about getting children to read and not just read but to love books.
At one point I turned round to look at this audience that cared so much - because I wanted to see the faces in that crowd of teachers, librarians and education policy-influencers. These are people who have probably already changed someone's life.
I like to joke that watching too much TV made me an even bigger reader. But seriously, I hold The Electric Company close to my heart. Even though it was an American creation designed for Americans, it exported reading in a fun and accessible format at a time when learning to read in the Philippines was old fashioned, rigid and painfully structured (yes, Phonics was a drag!). It didn't just teach you to read, it made you love learning how. I am thrilled that I can revisit my favourite bits of the programme on YouTube. I leave you with a selection of my favourite clips from The Electric Company.
Another classic song from The Electric Company. Can you tell that I hold these early reading adventures close to my heart?
The Adventures of Letterman - voiced by comedienne Joan Rivers
The Menu Song from The Electric Company - recognize the two Oscar winning actors? Morgan Freeman as a groovy young man and Rita Moreno (of West Side Story fame). And the song is by Tom Lehrer (The Elements Song)
My Nephew Alphonso with Rita Moreno
N apostrophe T - another Tom Lehrer song
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Streamlining the theft of Palestinian land
Without any compunction, the Beit El Yeshiva was even willing to defraud settlers.
By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz
Construction at the settlement of Beit El, February 05, 2013. (Photo: Ahmad Al Bazz/Activestills.org
When the Ulpana Hill neighborhood in Beit El (whose proper name is Jabl Artis, privately owned by the residents of Dura Al Qara) was evacuated, the settlers began a loud campaign saying Yesh Din's petition led to their removal from legally purchased homes. The court nevertheless ordered the evacuations, unimpressed by the unsubtle intimation that the fact that the land actually belongs to Palestinians does not matter all that much. The government of Israel took the questionable (not to say delusional) step of checking the possibility of physically removing the houses and placing them elsewhere. Had this step been followed through, and the government did begin implementing it (Hebrew), it would have cost some NIS 150 million.
As time passes we learn more about the behavior of the Beit El Yeshiva, one of whose residents owned the company responsible for selling the houses on Ulpana Hill. Indeed, the Yeshiva is entirely responsible for the fact that people purchased houses on Jabl Artis' land. Needless to say, the government was in no hurry to carry out an investigation, or vigorously pursue the criminal process. Let us be clear here: we are opposed to all sorts of settlements, be they "recognized" ones or illegal outposts; both kinds, as far as we are concerned, are a greenhouse for the violation of human rights. But what happened on Ulpana Hill ought to give pause to those honest supporters of the settlement enterprise.
In 2012, Haaretz's Chaim Levinson exposed that during his police interrogation, Yoel Tzur, the CEO of the Company for Developing Beit El's Yeshiva Complex, admitted that he knew construction was carried out on land whose purchase was at best unfinished and, at worst, never made. This was in direct contradiction to the settlers' claim that the land was legally purchased. Tzur was also forced to admit in his interrogation that he did not check the legal status of the land, and that he began construction without permits.
About a month ago, Levinson also exposed that documents from the World Zionist Organization's Settlement Division were fabricated in order to whitewash the sale of 250 apartments in Beit El. This way, the yeshiva sold the apartments without informing the buyers that it had no rights to the land. Levinson reported that the yeshiva paid about NIS 1 million to two families to whom it sold the apartments. However, a representative of a third family looked at the document and found out that its house was listed as a part of plot 373, which was not even located on Ulpana Hill. The yeshiva sold three apartments and rented dozens of others. In other words, someone fabricated documents to defraud buyers and renters.
The residents of the former neighborhood know they were conned, and as Israeli news site News1 revealed (Hebrew) their anger. News1 published another piece (Hebrew) which exposed a fraud of a nearly biblical scale: settlers removed from Ulpana Hill will soon begin paying rent for their prefab mobile homes. Rent will be paid not to the government but to the entity that cheated them in the first place – the Beit El Yeshiva. Have you robbed and also taken possession?
We've known all along that the entire settlement movement is based on lies. It turns out that in order to find people to populate the settlements, leaders in the "movement" are willing not only to disinherit Palestinians, bend the laws or attempt to lie to the courts. They are also willing to mislead their own people.
A few words about the Company for Developing Beit El's Yeshiva Complex: as Levinson discovered, the company is a subsidiary entity of a company registered in the Marshall Islands. Why would good Zionists who believe in "settling the land" register a company there, of all places? Well, because corporate law is notoriously fluid there, and you can hide the identity of the company's owners. The chief rabbi of the Beit El Yeshiva is one of the most important leaders of the settlement movement, Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed. He is also the rabbi of the settlement of Beit El, and the spiritual leader of Tkuma, the relatively extremist element of the Jewish Home party. Melamed is a member of the board of directors of the Company for Developing Beit El's Yeshiva Complex.
All of this almost made the headlines recently (Hebrew), when during the local elections, two of the those involved in the fraud – Hanoch HaCohen-Piuterkovski and Ehud Yelink – were candidates in the Beit El elections. Why "almost"? As noted by Israeli media watchdog site The Seventh Eye, an investigative piece prepared by the newspaper Makor Rishon was suppressed by its legal editor, Yehuda Yifrakh – whose name you may remember from another journalistically dubious affair. In an article he wrote in order to explain killing the exposé, Yifrakh said, "the essence of the argument was that two candidates for the leadership of some local council were involved in false registration and in hiding vital information from residents, and by doing so they defrauded several families and caused them significant financial damage."
Sounds interesting. So, why did you kill the piece, Yifrakh?
Because, he wrote, he became convinced that the two were acting out of "ideological motivation," did not profit from it – or so they say; we did not see the result of the investigation – and because they claimed "they had no other legal means of doing so." Got it? The defrauding of comrades has mutated, in Yifrakh's parlance, into "no other legal means of doing so."
As Uzi Benziman of The Seventh Eye justly noted (Hebrew), the deciding factor as far as Yifrakh was concerned was "considering (not to say identifying with) the ideological aspect, which is the key to understanding the improper behavior of the two people reviewed and in retrospect also its ultimate justification. Journalist Yifrakh thereby gives legitimacy to behavior he himself considers to be improper. After all, were there not a real fault in the behavior of the two, there would be no place for a journalistic exposé about it, nor a cause for the indignation of the settlers in the face of damage they suffered as a result of that behavior. And there would be no need for a drastic intervention on behalf of the state's authorities to amend the fault, as in fact happened."
The ideological criminality of the Beit El Yeshiva has, then, a media bull horn – or, rather, a silencer – who is willing to overlook violations of the law, even if they harm people, even when those people are Jews and comrades, in order to promote or at least remove obstacles from the path of that ideology. This should be borne in mind when Yifrakh writes once more about the legal status of the settlements.
Beyond that, the people who were harmed due to the dishonesty of the Beit El Yeshiva – at which the Civil Administration hinted even when it seized the land for Beit El in 1979 – should be told clearly: your fight is not with the human rights organizations, it is with the people who misled you and cheated you. And they, what can we say, are in your own home.
All that being said, and bearing in mind the tendency of the Beit El Yeshiva to be economical with the truth and deceitful towards its comrades, we should remind you again of a basic truth: the real injustice was not suffered by those naïve or conveniently blind people who bought or rented apartments from the Company for Developing Beit El's Yeshiva Complex (when was the last time you bought an apartment without seriously looking at the paperwork?). The real victims of the affair are the Palestinians whose land was stolen with the help of the state, so that the Yeshiva can run its profitable business and redeem the land of the people by highway robbery.
They, unlike the settlers turned victims, were never compensated.
Written by Yossi Gurvitz in his capacity as a blogger for Yesh Din, Volunteers for Human Rights. A version of this post was first published on Yesh Din's blog.
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"…willing to overlook violations of the law, even if they harm people, even when those people are Jews and comrades, in order to promote or at least remove obstacles from the path of that ideology." : The ideology of reclamation of parts of the West Bank (as portions of Judea and Samaria) is not individually but nationally based; individuals of the nation can be used for the good of the nation, so the local candidates for election were doing nothing wrong so long as they were augmenting the nation of Israel. This ideology is not compatible with positive law and in fact implicitly supersedes it in application and, I think when privately pressed, in discourse. Profit, even overt greed, is permissible if not blatant; here capitalism is an ally of national expansion. In consequence, the judiciary is either a neutral entity to be used or avoided, or an obstacle to be humbled. I have come to the view that constitutional law is ultimately incompatible with the settlement enterprise. While, e.g., Bennett claims loyalty to economic law, even advocating that Palestinians living in "Israeli zones" be granted citizenship, I think the claim tactical; if ever pushed to full equal protection in these areas, he will abandon it, appealing to the needs of Greater Israel.
That a private hire censor, working for a newspaper's legal department, should block a fully formed story based not on law but ideology shows, I think, how the latter is coming to trump the former. There will ultimately be a showdown with the judiciary. I think the High Court order to free asylum refugees from State camps tends similarly. The State sees the camps as good for Greater Israel, the High Court says they violate Basic Law (actually, not a powerful stand to take). The three months the Court granted to that end must be about out. A confrontation with the judiciary will occur somewhere, somehow, with the issue of judicial review clearly faced. How it goes means much to the direction Israel takes.
Did you call anyone from the Yeshiva to verify the info or get their response? If not, you are on the same level as them
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Are you suggesting the finding of the court, the judges themselves, are prejudiced or have found unjustly against the Yeshiva?
That's ok, but what's interesting about it is it would be an immediate example of what Greg is talking about confrontation between courts and ideology.
Yeshivas certainly are about ideology. They teach from the Talmud. The Talmud says that non-Jews just aren't the same as Jews, that Jews don't have to treat non-Jews as they would fellow Jews.
This selectivism is not part of what most people would call law, fair and evenly-applied law, laws that mean the same thing no matter who you are.
Arabs have no valid deed to almost any of land outside villages in Judea and Samaria, and much of these claims come from the handouts by king Hussein to local mukhtars in the early 60s. Most of these claimants are dug up by the far-left self-hating Jews, like Mr Gurvitz, while th "owners" have no idea they "owned" these plots. All "Palestine" was designated for close Jewish settlement by the Balfour Declaration and the mandate for Palestine by the League of Nation at San Remo. The partition plan, on the other hand, was merely advisory and was rejected by the Arabs. Israel must annex Area C of Judea and Samaria, and apply Israel law there. Arabs residing there will be offered citizenship. Any land claimants must be compensated but only within a framework of several years of property being occupied, otherwise an absentee landlord law will kick in.
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This is a true story about a little girl who dreams of becoming a champion horseback rider. Deanie was born with a handicap, which made walking difficult. What does her dad do when the doctors say she would never be able to walk? He decides to teach her to ride horses. Will she give up when things don't go well? What happens when she falls off her horse? Even if she prevails, she will need just the right horse so they can become a winning team. This inspirational story will show you that nothing is impossible if you don't quit.
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Tales of SweetBrier is an autobiographical non-fiction.. A story of Deannie Dunne, the writer herself.
Born with cerebral palsy, it was declared by the doctors that she would not be able to walk properly - ever. Instead of giving up, her dad decided on that day that Miss. Deannie would be a horsewoman.
This starts a story of grit and determination of Deannie's ride to success. It was instilled in her from childhood that the Humphreys never gives up. She herself was a staunch follower of this motto.
There were a number of times she would fall down, only to get up and ride again. During the course of her training, she underwent surgeries too. She could not ride for a year. But as soon as her father declared that her legs were stronger, she was back on the saddle – this round gathering acclaims as she jumped over the posts and won many shows.
Deannie's love for horses is evident in every line she writes. She understands them and as a reader what I understand is that the horses are therapeutic for her. They are not only her love but also her identity. Her synchronization, her body language and the way she personifies a horse, I can't imagine her in any other role to play –but that of an equestrian.
When you asked me to review your book, you never told me it was autobiographical.. I took it up, thinking it was just another book written by a horse lover, will manage a quick read because horses have always interested me. What took my breath away were, those were those goosebump moments, when you fell off your horse and got up again. The way you understand your riding partner. This is one story I would like my little girl and boy to read. Whenever they are down in life, this is one of those stories which would make them face the future with determination and without angst of what had gone wrong.
A special mention for your Dad. You're one lucky girl! God bless the man who not only motivated you to get up and ride but also for penning such a wonderful story for the future generations.
It was a pleasure and honor to read your story.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne is a children's book author with four books published at this time: Tails of Sweetbrier, Charlie the Horse, (now on Kindle) Charlene the Star, and Charlene the Star and Hattie's Heroes (now on Kindle). All of her books offer positive messages for children. Her sister, Holly Humphrys-Bajaj, beautifully illustrates her books. She and Holly are currently working on their fifth book together, Charlene the Star and Bentley Bulldog.
Tails of Sweetbrier is an inspirational autobiography about a little girl whose one desire was to become a champion equestrian, in spite of her handicap. Tails of Sweetbrier will show children that anything is possible if you persevere. This book was chosen "Most Inspirational" by the staff of the Pawling Book Cove in 2009. Tails of Sweetbrier is now published in a second edition. Deanie's other books, Charlie the Horse, and Charlene the Star, and Charlene the Star and Hattie's Heroes, are amusing, fictional tales, which contain important life lessons.
Deanie is a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. She has been featured on several author websites. She has been interviewed several times by renowned, award winning author, Claire Power Murphy on Claire's program, called "improve Every Year, on www.womensradio.com. Her last interview with Claire, "Building character Through Children's Stories" received top billing. Deanie has just been selected as "Author of the Year" by author/reviewer, Geri Ahearn in 2013.
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Thank you so much for the lovely review, Rubina! You are correct that I am blessed to have parents who encouraged me and a dad who had the wisdom to realize that there are many things we could change for the better. So it was that we began our journey.
It was a pleasure and honor to read your book.
So glad to find your blog! New follower here. I'm stopping by from the "A to Z" challenge, and I look forward to visiting again.
Deanie is an exceptional person who writes wonderful stories to inspire children. It is a pleasure to know her and call her friend.
I'm the luckiest that you're my friend, Janice! :You are such an incredible person and author as well.
This is simply awesome Rubina! Loved your review and I am sure I will love the book too. I have to congratulate Deanie Humphrys-Dunne on her 'never say die' spirit.


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Ques 2. Why SAPUI5 instead of HTML5?
Ans.- As HTML5 world is the new age front technology across all aspect of internet applications SAP was kind of trailing in this age because SAP was using age old WebDynpro for building SAP Web Applications which lacks in rich and user-friendly UI. SAP identified this and came up with its own custom HTML5 library i.e. SAPUI5.
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Ans.- sap.ui.commons, sap.ui.table and sap.suite.ui libraries for desktop application development and sap.m library along with sap.ui.layout for Fiori application development.
Ques 7. What is the syntax to define a control in UI5?
Ques 8. What is Navigation concept in SAPUI5?
Ans.- SAPUI5 uses two mechanism for navigation in applications those are EventBus and Routing where latter supersedes since SAPUI5 1.16. sap.ui.core.routing is the class used for the routing.
We define routing in components metadata in "routing" key. It is composed of route object and hash changer object. Route object defines the navigation paths and hash changer will be used at runtime to change the hash which leads to navigation.
Ques 9. What is Responsive Web Design?
Ans.- A web application which gives the same look and feel to the user in desktops and mobile devices.
Ques 10. What is Component in SAP UI5?
Ans.- Component or Component.js is the first point of our application or we can say by that it serves as index which encapsulates all our applications details i.e. view names, routing details, main view, applications type (Full Screen or SplitApp), application service configuration etc..
Ques 11. What are the types of Components?
UI Component: typically component.js file which is made by extending sap.ui.core.UIComponent class.
Ques 12. When and How to use formatter in SAPUI5?
Ans.- We need to use formatter when we need to perform some changes on the back end property data on the front end.
Ques 13. What all types of data models available in SAPUI5?
Ans.- As SAPUI5 follows MVC(Model-View-Controller) there model plays crucial role in the framwork.
1. JSON Model – Client-side model, supports two way binding.
2. XML Model – Client-side model and intended for small data sets this is very rarely used model.
3. Resource Model – This is also client side model used to maintain resource bundles, specially texts.
4. ODATA Model – This is most important model of the four provided. This is server side model, supports two way binding ODATA model currently supports ODATA version 2.0.
Ques 14. What all types of views are available in SAPUI5?
Ques 15. What are the Lifecycle/hook methods of SAPUI5 views controller?
Ans.- There 4 four Lifecycle methods available in every SAPUI5 views controller. These are onInit(), onExit(), onAfterRendering(), onBeforeRendering(). onInit is called when a view is instantiated and its controls (if available) have already been created; onExit is called when the view is destroyed; used to free resources and finalize activities; onAfterRendering when the view has been rendered and, therefore, its HTML is part of the document; onBeforeRendering is called before the controller view is re-rendered and not before the first rendering.
Ques 16. Can we add our own controls to UI5?
Ans.- Yes, we can add custom controls by creating definition of it from scratch. To define a custom control we use sap.ui.control.extend and to enhance a standard SAP UI5 control we use sap.ui.commons.controlname.extend.
Ques 17. What is the main difference between OData Model and JSON Model?
Ans.- The JSON model is a client-side model and, therefore, intended for small datasets, which are completely available on the client.The OData model is a server-side model: the dataset is only available on the server and the client only knows the currently visible rows and fields.
Ques 18. What are SAPUI5 Fragments?
Ans.- Fragments are very light weight UI controls and part of another UI. Fragments are not completely like views but they act like a view. Fragments are defined similar like views and are names like "myFragment.fragment.xml".
Ques 19. Does Fragment have its own controller?
Ans.- Fragments are created without controllers, they don't have their own controllers they share controller of the view which is invoking it.
Ques 20. In how many ways you can bind data to your controls?
Ans.- We can bind data to any controls using three methods, Property, Element and Aggregation binding.
Ques 21. What is SAPUI5 Bootstrapping?
Ans.- SAPUI5 Bootstrapping is loading and initializing SAPUI5 in any HTML page. The very important library or resource loaded in SAPUI5 bootstrap is "sap-ui-core.js". Apart from this theme for the application, SAPUI5 libraries etc are declared in the bootstrapping.
Ques 22. What is Metadata Annotations?
Ans.- The service metadata document explains the structure of all resources in the service. This structural metadata makes it easy to understand a service. We can explore service metadata at the address "$metadata" relative to the service root.
Ques 23. What are the common Metadata Annotations?
Ques 24. What is SAP Fiori?
Ans.- SAPUI5 is client side HTML5 rendering framework or library and SAP FIORI is collection of and released as waves of applications which are completely based on SAPUI5 framework. It means we can create applications using SAPUI5 framework and SAP FIORI is final product i.e. application.
Ques 25. What are all the types of Fiori Apps?
Ans.- There are 3 types of apps Transactional, Analytical, Fact Sheets.
Ques 26. Difference between SAP UI5 and SAP FIORI?
Ans.- SAP FIORI is collection of standard applications based on SAPUI5 library provided by SAP. SAP FIORI applications share some standard design guidelines and way in which these application are developed.
Ques 27. What is FIORI Launchpad and Explain it?
Ans.- As we know there are more than 500 FIORI applications, SAP has provided a Shell or single point place from where we can access the all the applications. This serves as a home page for all the FIORI applications provided to. This shows tile based UI where every UI redirects to assigned FIORI application. This Launchpad is fully customizable according to your needs like theming and all.
Ques 28. How to know that device is Touch Screen or not?
Ans.- SAPUI5 library provides a special API "sap.ui.Device" which can be used to for device and its feature detection. This API has a flag "sap.ui.Device.touch" which returns true if device is a touch screen otherwise false.
Ques 29. How to know the web browser of the client on which SAP Fiori application is running using SAP UI5?
Ans.- SAP UI5 library provides a special API "sap.ui.Device" which can be used to for device and its feature detection. This API provides flags like "chrome", "firefox", "mozilla", "edge" etc. in "sap.ui.Device.browser" API which returns boolean values.
Ques 30. What are Fiori Design Principles?
Ans.-There are 5 design principles we need to keep in mind while designing SAP Fiori applications. Role-Based, Delightful, Simple, Responsive and Coherent.
Ques 31. What all design patterns are recommended/available in SAPUI5?
Ques 32. Does Fragment have its own controller?


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If the retailer violates the terms of its bankruptcy financing, lenders could demand repayment.
Toys R Us said Wednesday that it has not breached any of the covenants governing its bankruptcy financing and called a CNBC report that the retailer could be at risk of liquidation "full of speculation."
CNBC reported Wednesday that sources familiar with the situation said Toys R Us is in danger of breaching a covenant on one of the loans that make up the $3.1 billion in debtor-in-possession financing that allowed the bankrupt company to remain in business while it reorganizes.
If Toys R Us were to violate terms of the loans, which require it to maintain certain cash balances, its lenders could take steps that would force the retailer into liquidation.
"We have not breached any covenants," said Toys R Us spokeswoman Amy von Walter. She called the CNBC story "full of speculation." Toys R Us has its headquarters in Wayne, N.J.
CNBC reported that its sources said Toys R Us currently is in compliance with its loan terms, and that it has a number of options, as well as the support of the lenders, making such a move unlikely.
Attorneys for the lenders and creditors have repeatedly told the bankruptcy court that it is in everyone's best interests that Toys R Us survives.
But holiday sales that were significantly weaker than expected have put Toys R Us in a worse financial position than was anticipated when the debtor-in-possession covenants were drawn up.
Toys R Us this year did not release its holiday sales results, but sources told The Record that store sales dropped by 9 percent and online sales were down by roughly 20 percent.
At the North American International Toy Fair in New York City this week, a number of manufacturers said their 2017 sales were hurt by the September bankruptcy filing of Toys R Us. Manufacturers said a good number of consumers apparently had the mistaken impression that all Toys R Us stores were closing, and that the retailer didn't do enough to combat that impression.
Toys R Us is conducting going-out-of-business sales at about 170 stores around the country, roughly 20 percent of its U.S. store fleet. The company has said it plans to emerge from bankruptcy before the 2018 holiday as a leaner and more innovative retailer.


On Wednesday 3rd April a TV crew from Youth Sport Trust and Women in Sport came into GMS to film and photograph a sports session by the Girls' Active team.
The school have run a very successful 'Girls Active' programme for a number of years now, to help encourage girls to engage more in physical activity and sport.
The filmed footage may be used nationally to promote the initiative. The TV crew filmed them engaging in activities that were central to the 'Girls Active' sessions, these have included fitness, benchball, Zumba and boxercise. Some students were asked to speak about what they have previously done as a GLAM ambassador, as a leader in the project, or as an award winner.
After speaking to camera, they were filmed running a Girls' Active session after school.
This was a huge boost to the girls who participate in this programme and the members of staff who facilitate it, under the leadership of Katie Russell. GMS are proud of what they do and their dedication to raising the status of physical activity in the school and beyond.


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Q: How to make remmina ignore a key? I like to use the F12 key to bring up an instant yakuake terminal.
However, if I use remmina to start a remote GUI session, if the remmina window is active, then F12 won't bring up the terminal, because the key is captured by remmina.
How can I make remmina ignore this key so that it is seen by the OS?

A: I made a workaround using Autohotkey and Python for switching desktops. Autohotkey on the client grabs the key and sends a packet to the Python server on the host. You should be able to adjust it for your usecase.
Note: Sometimes the client seems to get a modifier key stuck when switching to the host. Like what happens sometimes when Super/Windows goes to the host for some reason.
https://github.com/thomasa88/remote_linux_desktop_switch

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It's a good time to be alive if you're a fan of cheesy horror movies and snarky commentary. That's because you're going to get an earful of it when Mystery Science Theater 3000 comes to Netflix. We have the first trailer for you, below.
Netflix's Mystery Science Theater 3000 is the continuation of Joel Hodgson's 1990s series, which showed some of the worst movies combined with some of the best come-backs. These come-backs came courtesy of a janitor, trapped and forced to watch bad films, and his two sarcastic robot pals.
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For example, in one film, a character says, "Did you know flying a plane is like making love?" Crow T. Robot responds to that comment with "Uh, do you have to pay?"
After the series ended on television, the cast and crew repeated their commentary-based format on the DVD series The Film Crew, live screenings with Cinematic Titanic, and audio tracks on Rifftrax. The new MST3K sticks with the show's original "televised" format—even if it's not on television.
If you haven't seen MST3K before, Netflix is streaming some older episodes now. So, you'll have time to familiarize yourself with the format by the time the show airs on April 14.
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Who Is Afraid of Armpit Hair?
June 27, 2014 By Lisa Miller
Social scientists will try to measure anything, it seems, and in the most recent issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly, a professor at Arizona State has published a paper that attempts to quantify the disgust women feel with regard to body hair – their own, and that of other women. The scholar, named Breanne Fahs, conducted two experiments. In one, she measured women's responses to the thought of body hair, asking 20 women how they felt about shaving, not shaving, and about other women's relative hairiness.
Respondents said that shaving was a minor inconvenience and a personal choice, but that overall the idea of body hair was revolting. "I think women who don't shave are a little gross," said one interviewee, a 22-year-old Caucasian lesbian. "Because sometimes, like if people don't shave their entire lives, that's just a little to much to handle for me. I always shave. I don't like hair. I shave everything."
In the next experiment, Fahs gave her own students extra credit if they agreed to grow their armpit and leg hair for ten weeks and keep a journal about it. Boyfriends were furious and mothers disapproving. "I constantly thought about my gross hair," wrote one participant. "I will never ever show anyone my pit hair," wrote another. Participants felt or were told that they were gross, disgusting, unclean, sloppy, and "ew." The paper, which has the alliterative title "Perilous Patches and Pitstaches: Imagined Versus Lived Experiences of Women's Body Hair Growth," had a feminist perspective, which was, in the author's words, to "highlight the invisibility of omnipresent sexism directed toward those who violate practices to 'maintain' the female body." The compulsion to shave, in other words, is an example of how women have internalized patriarchal ideals of femininity.
These experiments are interesting mostly in their small-bore attention to a habit so mundane and so universal that most of us don't give it a second thought. But if one continues in this vein, and scrutinizes with the seriousness of a scientist an issue usually left to beauty editors and waxing professionals, certain provoking questions arise. In an era of widespread porn, when teenagers shrug at the sight of anuses and scrotums and wide-open vaginas, why is disgust at female armpit hair, an anatomical reality so comparatively innocent, so widespread?
What is the psychological basis of that revulsion, and the corresponding need to cleanse, depilate, purify, denude? Is hygiene really the endgame, here? For bacteria do grow in unwashed armpit hair and they can cause a stink. But the answer is, probably not. Evolutionary psychologists remind me that the emotion of disgust – which protects humans by reminding them not to get too close to things that can carry disease, like excrement or corpses — can be triggered by learned prompts as well, a primitive way of preserving cultural norms or in-group or tribal status (i.e. don't sleep with or date this or that kind of disgusting person).
And in the developed West, revulsion at the sight of female armpit hair has to be cultural, because the places that place the highest value on hairlessness are also those where frequent if not daily bathing is routine. Most pits in 21st century America are not carrying harmful or even particularly smelly bacteria, in other words. And all the evidence you need for that is that most men continue to leave their pits au naturel, and no one fears contagion from them.
An investigation into the nature of our collective disgust seems particularly pressing now, three months after Madonna exposed the growth under her arms in a widely retweeted selfie, as summer weekends make the unveiling of America's armpits ubiquitous.
So, to start, what is the evolutionary explanation for body hair, particularly in the armpits? Why do humans, who more or less discarded somewhere in the mists of evolutionary time the full suit of hair that blanketed their primate ancestors, retain hair under their arms at all? (Pubic hair has an obvious, protective function, keeping unwanted flotsam from entering sacred zones, but armpits?) And if the hair under one's arms does have an evolutionary purpose, then what is the psychological basis of the nearly universal assault against it? In Australia, more than 90 percent of women shave their legs and armpits. In England, 99 percent of women have depilated at some point in their lives. In the U.S., writes Michael Scott Boroughs in 2010 his dissertation for a psychology degree at the University of South Florida, depilation is "so normative that it goes almost unremarked in casual discourse or in the research or casual literature." Among men, the practice is growing: "data collected from a sample of 118 men at a large southeastern American university resulted in an estimated prevalence of 63.6% for body depilation at one or more body sites."
There are two main theories about why humans ultimately became hairless. First, because the hair was making us too hot when we foraged for food on the African plains. Second, because ape-like body hair provided a happy haven for vermin, and the bugs were making people sick. Ergo: No hair, no bugs; no bugs, a healthier population. But the hair under our arms, on our legs, and around our genitals persisted, stubbornly announcing its presence around puberty. And something about that hair has disgusted humans for centuries, to the point where religions explicitly command its removal. According to Islamic tradition, the plucking of armpit hair and the shaving of pubic hair is required of an observant Muslim. In Leviticus, a complete body shave is mandated in the treatment of leprosy.
So, humans have a long history of being disgusted at armpit hair even though, in the modern era, that disgust is based more in culture than in any real risk to health. Then what might be its evolutionary purpose? Why didn't we long ago discard these tufts, along with our tails and the fluff on our shoulders? One theory is that it's protective against chafing, not unlike a sock or a pair of underwear: "It is probably there by 'design' in that it reduces friction between the arm and the torso," Johan Lundström, a neuroscientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, writes in an email. So that's useful, though probably not critical in the age of spandex and wicking fabrics.
Here's the best guess. Armpit hair works as a conveyor of pheromones, those scented molecules that, crucially, abet human mating, by giving each person his or her particular, alluring scent. Armpit hair (and hair around the nipples, and some groin hair) grows atop the sweat glands that produce a body's natural smells, and it works as a kind of human fragrance diffuser, allowing one's personal scent to waft into the atmosphere and announce one's presence (and one's fertility) to potential mates. "The specific development of hair in these regions (in our otherwise largely naked bodies) is thought to aid the dispersal of odorants in sexually mature humans," writes Mahmood Bhutta in his 2007 article "Sex and the Nose." Humans recognize each other by their scent. They can tell, on the basis of scent, whether a sweaty T-shirt belongs to a man or a woman. Women say they feel more relaxed in the presence of male smells. In men, the smell of estrogen lights up an area of the brain that controls erection.
People say body odor matters more than almost anything else when they're picking sex partners. In a 2001 study published in Evolution and Human Behavior, psychologists found that men and women ranked an attractive body odor at or near the top of the list of other physical traits when selecting a mate. Women put "good smell" above everything else: looks, the sound of their mate's voice, and the feeling of their mate's skin. Men put "good smell" second only to looks. Both men and women said they preferred a good natural smell to perfumes or other fragrances.
So if hair conveys smell, and smell is so crucial to mating, then why this insistence on shaving?
The answer, it seems, is embedded deep in the evolutionary nature of disgust. And in the central role sex plays in the evolutionary story. Disgust is a protective reflex, writes Daniel Kelly, author of Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust, in an email. "The heart of this particular emotion's primary job or core mission is to protect us from infectious diseases, and keep us away from the types of critters – microbes and parasites – that transmit them." Its opposite is pleasure, or attraction. And no human experience evokes more intense pleasure, or disgust, than sex. People are drawn to and repelled by sex and sex acts in equal measure. "It's always a delicate dance with sex and disgust. Maybe if the underarm hair as mate selection relevant scent carrier idea is right, we're just seeing another facet of the ongoing back and forth," Kelly writes.
Evolutionarily speaking, sex is the whole game. Sex with the wrong person can kill you and your genetic line – through disease, infertility, misfortune. With the right person, it can assure that your genes are transmitted to the next generation. Armpit hair signals sex because it grows during puberty and is one of the first signs of maturity (and fertility). And it signals sex because it transmits the scents that lead to mating. It triggers disgust because it reminds humans how dangerous sex can be. And that's why we shave it off. Because armpit hair betrays the western fantasy about sex, which is that sex is fun, pleasurable, innocent, and inconsequential, a fantasy that elides the evolutionary truth. The revulsion at armpit hair might be evolution's way of saying "proceed with caution," and its removal one less barrier to cross.
Filed Under: New York Magazine
Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is a former columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."
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The improbable rant of someone approaching 40..
I think I'm turning into a Daily Mail reader.
I have found myself in the last few days becoming more and more annoyed with the stupidest things. It's almost like my old tolerant self has gone on holiday and a new 'annoyed of derbyshire' has moved in.
I really wish I had some sort of auto-blogging-brain-connection thing, although if you're reading this you're probably glad I don't, so that I could blog about the things that have really annoyed me as and when they do. As it stands I have to wait till I find the time to do it..
I have about 12 posts in draft that I have started and been diverted onto doing something else before finishing them.. Titles like 'Why would I pay £25 for that ?' and 'Do you know who I am ?' are still sitting unfinished. Let alone the series I started about my diving exploits.. I still aim to finish those along with the unedited video from my recent Scapa Flow trip.


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