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Yasha Levine
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy, but using new information technology to understand their motives and anticipate their movements. This idea—using computers to spy on people and groups perceived as a threat, both at home and abroad—drove ARPA to develop the internet in the 1960s, and continues to be at the heart of the modern internet we all know and use today. As Levine shows, surveillance wasn't something that suddenly appeared on the internet; it was woven into the fabric of the technology. But this isn't just a story about the NSA or other domestic programs run by the government. As the book spins forward in time, Levine examines the private surveillance business that powers tech-industry giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, revealing how these companies spy on their users for profit, all while doing double duty as military and intelligence contractors. Levine shows that the military and Silicon Valley are effectively inseparable: a military-digital complex that permeates everything connected to the internet, even coopting and weaponizing the antigovernment privacy movement that sprang up in the wake of Edward Snowden. With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Surveillance Valley will change the way you think about the news—and the device on which you read it.
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FIRST TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF TSR 2 (PART 2) [Main Title]
Title: FIRST TAKE OFF AND LANDING OF TSR 2 (PART 2) [Main Title]
Film Number: DEC 3
Summary: Footage of the first flight of the prototype of the BAC TSR2 supersonic strike aircraft.
Description: View of the prototype of the TSR2, XR219, sat on the runway at Boscombe Down, awaiting take off, with Electric Electric Lightning chase plane, XM968, positioned to the right of XR219. With test pilot Roland Beaumont and navigator Donald Bowen on board, XR219 taxis along the runway towards the camera. As the TSR2 takes off, a Westland Whirlwind helicopter hovers by the runway on stand by. A number of trials and experimental aircraft can be seen in the background, including Vulcans, a Valiant and Shackleton. In the foreground a number of observers can be seen, some with cameras [presumably both cine and still]. The TSR2 continues to climb in the sky, with the Lightning chase plane briefly appearing in shot. After successfully completing its first flight, the TSR2 approaches to land at Boscombe Down, accompanied by the Lightning and Canberra chase planes [Canberra serial number WD937). XR219 touches down on the runway, as the two chase planes continue on a low level pass along the airfield. Shortly after landing the brake chute is deployed. A small crowd can be seen observing the landing, with fire engines and an ambulance present in case of an emergency. Film ends with XR219 taxiing out of sight.
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Production Date: 1964-09-27
Production Details: British Aircraft Corporation (Production sponsor)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
DEC 31 (FIRST FLIGHT OF THE TSR2, BOSCOMBE DOWN, SEPTEMBER 27 1964 [Main Title])

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Mast Therapeutics Inc (NYSEMKT:MSTX) Updates On Pending Closure Of Proposed Merger
Mast Therapeutics Inc (NYSEMKT:MSTX) and Savara Inc. updated on the pending closure of their planned merger. The combined firm's common stock has obtained approval for being listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker "SVRA."
Mast Therapeutics reported that SVRA will be listed on the NASDAQ exchange after closure of the proposed merger. Till then, MSTX is anticipated to continue to list on the NYSE MKT. The company has provided report to the NYSE MKT of its plan to voluntarily withdraw its stock from listing on NYSE MKT pertaining to the closure of the merger and the new listing on Nasdaq.
Rob Neville, the CEO of Savara, reported that as home to many growth-oriented and innovative life science firms, Nasdaq is a right fit for company. They consider the move to Nasdaq exchange will offer strong visibility, good trading liquidity, and offer the firm with increased exposure to institutional investors.
Mast will conduct a special stockholders meeting to vote on matters pertaining to the planned merger with Savara in April. Its shareholders of record as of the business close on March 13, 2017 are authorized to get notice of, and to vote at this meeting. The deal is anticipated to close promptly after this special meeting, depending on the approval of the company's stockholders and the meeting or waiver of the other conditions in the agreement between the firms.
The deal has been unanimously agreed by both companies' boards. Mast Therapeutics urged its stockholders to vote in favor of the merger deal and the other applications set forth. Provided that company stockholder approval must surpass 50% of Mast's due common stock known at the record date, every single vote in approval of proposal is extremely significant no matter how few or how many shares investors own. The merger will not proceed unless the reverse stock split, name change proposal and the merger itself are all approved.
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La Duchesse de Berry est un téléfilm français réalisé par Jacques Trébouta, diffusé en 1971.

Synopsis
Ce téléfilm raconte la folle équipée de la duchesse de Berry lorsqu'elle tenta en 1832, au nom de son fils, de soulever le peuple français contre le roi Louis-Philippe.

Fiche technique
 Scénario : Georges Bordonove

Ce téléfilm a été tourné en partie à Saint-James, Saint-Malo, Dinan, dans le département de la Manche, et au château de la Paluelle.

Distribution
 Martine Sarcey : la duchesse
 Jean-Pierre Kérien : Mesnard
 Bernard Rousselet : Guibourg
 Jean-Paul Tribout : Deutz
 Jean-François Poron : Charette
 Daniel Le Roy : Goulaine
 Maurice Bourbon : Goyon
 Victor Garrivier : Landreau
 Jean Berger : Berryer
 Paul Rieger : Bourmont
 Catherine Hubeau : Eulalie de Kersabiec
 Jacques Dannoville : Louis-Philippe
 Maurice Vallier : Thiers
 Jean Franval : le commissaire Joly
 Yvon Sarray : le Général Dermoncourt
 Jacques Rispal et André Julien : les deux gendarmes
 Claude Confortes et Jean-François Robert : deux soldats
 François Mosser : un compagnon de Madame
 Frédéric Santaya : un émissaire
 Jean Fouasse : Deniaud
 Béatrice Costantini : une servante
 Jean-Picard : un berger
 Chantal Fourmeaux : une lavandière

Lien externe
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Téléfilm français des années 1970
Téléfilm historique
Téléfilm diffusé en 1971

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Murray Buchan, Peter Speight and Rowan Cheshire officially got Team GB's road to Sochi underway as the first World Cup of the new season began in New Zealand.
Buchan, Speight and Cheshire took to the slopes in Cardrona in the South Island for the qualifying round of the men's and women's freestyle ski halfpipe competition.
However, Britain will have to wait for its first finalist of the Olympic season as Buchan and Speight just missed out in the men's events and Cheshire in the women's.
Cheshire was the best placed of the Brits in 17th with a best run of 58.20 first time out – however only the top 12 in both the men's and women's events progressed.
Buchan gained the highest British score with a best run of 66.00 placing him 22nd while Speight was just behind in 26th after improving to 57.20 second time out.
Canada's Mike Riddle, the world champion in 2011, was awarded the highest men's score with a first run of 85.80 while Angeli Vanlaanen of the USA topped the women's qualifying with 91.00.


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Little Scream: Disco Ball
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Sep 30, 2019 by Kerry Doole Comments
Little Scream: Disco Ball (Merge/Dine Alone): Montreal's Little Scream (Laurel Sprenglemeyer) is a highly-touted electro-pop artist readying the release of a new album, Speed Queen, on Oct. 25
Disco Ball is the third advance track from the record. In a label press release, she explains that "Disco Ball is one of the songs that was born musically on the country road after I bought the Flying V guitar. It incorporates many of the observations from being on the road with the last album, feeling a sense of recognition in the down-and-outness of the places we visited. Identifying with that sense of having been duped for following your dreams in every closed shop window we passed.
"Thinking about how that book The Secret must be responsible for a countable percentage of the subprime mortgage crisis. Thinking about struggling as a musician, but having that be the thing that allows me to make a disco ball out of all the smashed mirrors of my past. Taking all of this and thinking about how to make an anthem of hope for times when you feel you have nothing."
The song features lush and layered production, while her voice has a bubbly pop feel here. Lyrically, it cleverly merges personal reflection and social commentary - as on lyrics like "And I see the luck drying up wherever I go, Vacant windows, foreclosed homes, I may be lost but I am not alone."
Sprengelmeyer has been playing music under the moniker Little Scream since 2008 and has released two earlier albums, The Golden Record and Cult Following. Little Scream has stayed busy as a member of Richard Reed Parry's Quiet River of Dust, touring with and co-writing songs from the albums Vol. 1: This Side of the River and Vol. 2: That Side of the River. She has appeared as a vocalist and guitarist on recordings for The National, The Barr Brothers, Will Butler, and Saltland, among others.
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TransDigm Gives Shareholders a Special Treat
On top of strong earnings, the aerospace supplier delivered an unexpected dividend.
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The aerospace industry has done extremely well for years now, and even with controversy surrounding major accidents involving key manufacturers in the industry, suppliers who provide aerospace parts and components have done quite well. TransDigm Group (NYSE:TDG) has enjoyed unprecedented success in supplying key goods that go into new aircraft, and investors have been pleased by the results.
Coming into Tuesday's fiscal third-quarter financial report, TransDigm investors expected huge revenue gains following the acquisition of Esterline, along with more-modest rises in earnings. Results were better than most had expected, and the company also declared a special dividend that will deliver huge amounts of cash to shareholders.
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TransDigm soars
Fiscal third-quarter results made investors happy. Revenue soared 69% to $980.7 million, even better than the 61% growth rate that most of those following the stock had hoped to see. Adjusted net income climbed 25% to $278.4 million, and the resulting earnings of $4.95 per share easily topped the $4.30 consensus forecast among investors.
On a segment basis, TransDigm saw all of its biggest businesses do well. Revenue at commercial original equipment manufacturing (OEM) saw sales climb 10% year over year, with particularly good performance from TransDigm's business jet and helicopter unit. In the commercial aftermarket segment, sales climbed 8% on strength in the commercial transport area. Defense saw the biggest jump, climbing 19% as the company did well in both the OEM and aftermarket areas.
However, the Esterline acquisition had huge effects on TransDigm's numbers. Gross margin plunged more than 12 percentage points because Esterline's lower margins hurt the combined company, even though the margin figures for TransDigm's legacy businesses saw continued improvement. Esterline's businesses also had higher overhead costs, and the borrowing for the acquisition boosted net interest expense by 44%. All that made TransDigm's bottom-line gains all the more impressive.
CEO Kevin Stein summed things up: "Our legacy business continues to thrive, driven by continued growth across all major end markets. The Esterline integration is proceeding well, and results have exceeded our expectations in the first full quarter under our ownership."
A big payday for investors
Yet a lot of attention in the report went toward the fact that TransDigm had agreed to a substantial sale of assets. A couple of weeks ago, it said it would sell its Souriau-Sunbank Connection Technologies business to Eaton (NYSE:ETN) for $920 million. Executive chairman W. Nicholas Howley noted that Souriau-Sunbank, an interconnect solutions business, was one of several acquired from Esterline that didn't necessarily align well with TransDigm's overall strategy.
Now, TransDigm has decided to return cash and a whole lot more to shareholders in a big special dividend. Shareholders of record as of Aug. 16 will receive $30 per share, representing about 6% of the company's share price. Given the number of shares outstanding, the roughly $1.7 billion in cash that will go out will dramatically exceed the proceeds from the Souriau-Sunbank sale. TransDigm said that it has the liquidity to handle the special dividend.
It also increased its full-year guidance again. Revenue is now seen coming in between $5.5 billion and $5.55 billion, up $65 million to $105 million from its previous range. New adjusted earnings projections of $17.93 to $18.25 per share would be between $1.10 and $1.46 per share higher than what TransDigm projected just three months ago. The moves reflect better conditions than expected in the commercial OEM and defense areas.
Shareholders celebrated the windfall, and the stock soared 14% at midday following the announcement. With so many things going right for TransDigm, it looks poised to hold its altitude and keep delivering strong results for the rest of the year and beyond.
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You've probably heard this a million times, but it is very important to first read the question thoroughly to figure out what it is asking you to do. Look at the terms within the question. Does it ask you to briefly describe something, or does it ask you to analyse and explain in detail? Are you required to add advantages and disadvantages or identify problems and solutions?
Look first at how many words you can write for your assignment. Everyone writes an assignment differently, so this is important. Also look at how many questions you need to answer and whether they are of equal value in terms of marks. If, for example, the assignment asks you to write about 3,000 words and there are three questions set, does each question require you to write 1,000 words? Again, it is important to look at those key terms within the question. If it asks you to briefly describe something and another question asks you to analyse and explain in detail, then you need to write in more detail when analysing and explaining.
Looking more in depth at how to structure your assignment questions, I will explain some top tips that have helped me, such as that there will be keywords you need to look at within the question.
As a starting point, I would use the PDF format of your revision book. This is found on Revision Mate and helps you search for certain keywords in the text. This is a good start. Moving further on from this – if the question asks you to consider an insurance organisation, make sure you choose a company that you are familiar with. I would also suggest looking at past papers, so you can see how answers can be structured.
Everyone has their own way of working but again, this is a good start. Writing your plan down on sticky notes can also help with structuring your answer, as it allows you to rearrange your arguments.
Another top tip: don't forget that your bibliography goes towards your mark! Don't wait until to the end of your assignment to start your bibliography; make sure you do it throughout your assignment. When you've used a website or book, write it down and also write the date down because, I can assure you, you will forget it by the time you've finished your assignment.
On a separate note, I would like to finish by saying a huge thank you to a lovely man who rang me the other week to congratulate me on my achievements. Firstly, thank you for reading my blog; and secondly, it gave me a boost of confidence which I am very grateful for. I always feel it is best to surround yourself with positive people who want to see you strive for and achieve your aspirations.


Our administration and personnel had the amazing opportunity to get involved in the activities of the Non-Profit Organization Make - A - Wish Greece. Katmetal Workspace has participated in the program Wish's Star during the Christmas period decorating its showrooms with the popular blue stars of the organization. Our clients were more than pleased to write down their wishes and decorate our christmas trees.
On July 2018 our new showroom has opened in Chalandri, Athens. The showroom has been inaugurated by Katmetal Administration and it's ready to welcome you all. Our personnel is more than pleased to guide you through the customized Katmetal experience and you will be given the chance to create a unique, modern and functional professional environment. See you all there.


Oh, paleo sunbutter cups. You sort of make the world go round, and you know it. I had to break up with your evil cousin Processed Peanut Butter Cups, because he was no good for me. It took some time, but I figured out how to bring you to life. And here you are: a grain-free, vegan, four-ingredient ticket to heaventown. This recipe was inspired by Clean Eating with a Dirty Mind's I Can't Believe It's Nut Butter! Part I — Attack of the Cups.
Line a mini cupcake tin with mini silicone cupcake liners. In a double boiler, melt the dark chocolate. Remove from heat, add 1/2 cup of coconut oil and mix well. Drop half a spoonful of melted chocolate into each of the silicone cups, and swirl a little around the sides (to make sure it will anchor each cup). Stick the tin in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. In a food processor, pulse 1/2 cup of coconut oil with the sea salt and sunbutter. Remove tin from freezer, add a dollop of sunbutter to each cup, and stick the tin back in the freezer for 20-30 minutes. Finish each cup by pouring a half spoonful of chocolate on top, and freeze one last time for 10-15 minutes. Store nut butter cups in the fridge or the freezer.
*To make homemade sunbutter, roast 1 lb of raw sunflower seeds on a baking sheet in the oven at 325 for 10-15 minutes (until they're as roasty as you like 'em). Let them cool for an hour and pulse in a food processor for several minutes until completely smooth. It can take up to 7-10 minutes to achieve full nut butter consistency, but it's worth the wait.


CULLMAN – During its regular meeting Monday evening, the Cullman City Planning Commission held a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the city ordinance that created the downtown special events district. The amendment, which would allow for open-container alcohol consumption during special city events, now heads to the Cullman City Council.
Randy Britt, of the Cullman Association of Realtors, spoke in favor of the amendment and added a recommendation of his own, "We need to further the ability of businesses in Cullman to make available their goods and services. I understand, from what I read in the paper, that it would be under the firm control of the council. I'd also ask you to consider a skateboard park…Everything comes into play to make Cullman better for all of us.
Commission Chairman Mike Voss cut off the attack to ask for the specific reasons why Wilhite opposed the ordinance.
Voss again asked if Wilhite had a specific point to make about the ordinance. When Wilhite responded by asking how many churches would be located around the district, Voss ended the discussion.
In the end and after a detailed explanation of how open alcohol containers would only be permitted in the district within the time limits of special events approved by the city council, the commission simply agreed to send an official report to the council indicating that the hearing had been held, with two speaking for and one against out of three total who came to speak.
Preliminary site plan – Johnny's Bar-B-Q – SE corner of Denson Avenue and Third Street Southwest – to create more parking for the restaurant, and ultimately allow the restaurant facility to expand. The passed motion sends the plan on to the city council with a favorable recommendation.
Proposed site plan – 412 Second Ave. SE – to allow development of a building that will require two businesses and a church to share a single dumpster. The motion was passed contingent upon city council approval and the submission of signed documentation showing agreement among all three entities involved.
All three annexations were approved with conditions. Two of the properties have limited access for garbage and fire trucks due to narrow roads; their owners were to be informed that fire and garbage service would not be available. The third is located an extended distance from downtown Cullman and could be annexed mainly by its connection to a city-owned portion of Lake George. The owners of that property must still receive water, garbage and certain other services from the County.
The Cullman City Planning Commission usually meets on the first Monday of each month, at 5:30 p.m. in the Cullman City Hall auditorium. The public is invited to attend.


Historians have a favorite saying: "The past is like a foreign country." When we travel there, we meet people who think and act very differently. We return home with a new perspective, recognizing how much we take for granted, how much is far from inevitable.
For a powerful illustration of this truth, look no further than Daniel K. Williams's masterful new book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press). When readers turn the final page, they may feel like they have visited not just a different country, but a different universe.
When the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, only one in six of today's Americans were adults. The rest of us have grown up in a later age. In the world we know, abortion has always been a constitutionally protected right. It has always pitted Republicans against Democrats, conservatives against liberals, Christians against secularists.
But the world has not always been this way.
Evangelicals mostly watched from the sidelines as Catholics stood in defense of the unborn.
Women rarely played visible roles on either side of the debate. Abortion was a matter of public health or social justice, not a question of sexual equality.
Pro-lifers were often political liberals; political conservatives thought abortion laws were too strict.
Republicans were slightly more likely than Democrats to favor total legalization of abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. While Ronald Reagan was signing an abortion liberalization law in California, Ted Kennedy was endorsing the "right to life" in Massachusetts.
December 2015, Vol. 59, No. 10, Pg 67, "Our Forgotten Pro-Life History"


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Spooky happenings at old mental hospital in Alabama
Strange apparitions reported at the former Mt. Vernon Arsenal
by: Peter Albrecht
Posted: Nov 1, 2019 / 08:24 AM EDT / Updated: Nov 1, 2019 / 08:24 AM EDT
MOUNT VERNON, Ala. (WKRG) — At the former Searcy Hospital in Mt. Vernon, some of the structures are nearly 200 years old.
The place has been home to soldiers, prisoners, and as they were called at one time, the "insane." There's been a lot of suffering there.
"It's a spooky place, in a lot of ways," said Tommy Stonecypher of the Mt. Vernon Historical Society. "I'm sure if there's such a thing as paranormal activity, there's a lot of it around here."
The complex is full of abandoned towers, one-time barracks, and vacant medical facilities.
Buildings are in disarray. The complex was neglected for decades and was abandoned by the state when it closed the Searcy Hospital in 2012.
But are there still "residents" "living" there? Stonecypher has heard stories over the years of people seeing and photographing images.
"In one of the windows, there's an apparition or image of someone in the window," Stonecypher said. "Supposedly there's nothing behind the window to cause a reflection. There's nothing in the room causing it. Then, ten years later, someone else posted another photograph of that same building, and in that same window, that same image appeared."
Stonecypher, though, says the rumors of Searcy possibly being haunted aren't enough to scare off some people
"We've had people walk up before there and said they are 'coming home," Stonecypher said. "They were former mental patients here, just walking up."
The Searcy property is off limits to the public.
All day on Halloween in every newscast, we're sharing ghost stories on News 5, and a little history too!
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (NEWS10) – In response to inquiries regarding COVID-19 vaccinations, the City of Pittsfield's Department of Health has established a new hotline to provide residents with updated information.
The hotline can be accessed by calling 413-449-5575.


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The Voyage of the 'Pobeda'
Greg Afinogenov
Desperate crossings – Lenin's sealed train, Luding Bridge, Granma – were at the heart of several 20th-century revolutions, but the one that killed my great-grandmother seemed to be a perfectly average late-summer voyage. According to the official account, on 1 September 1948, the steamer Pobeda ('Victory'), bound from New York to Odessa, was in the Black Sea, nearing its destination. A sailor rewinding some movie reels in a storage cabin inadvertently caused a spark, igniting the thousands of highly flammable filmstrips and phonograph records inside. Two crew members and forty of the 310 passengers were killed. Among them were Evgeniia Afinogenova, née Jeannette Schwarz of the Lower East Side, and Feng Yuxiang, former war minister of the Republic of China, on his way to bend the knee to Mao Zedong. Among the survivors were Afinogenova's two daughters, aged six and eleven, my grandmother and her older sister, who were taken to Moscow to be raised by their grandmother.
Schwarz had been the first in her family of Romanian Jewish immigrants to be born in the United States. In the 1920s, she renamed herself Jeanya Marling and moved to Los Angeles to start a dance school with her husband, John Bovingdon, who had previously taught economics in Japan. Together they pioneered a new approach to nude and seminude interpretive dance, at the centre of which was a performance called 'The Ascent of Man'. Just what Man was ascending to is obvious from the hundreds of pages of material the FBI amassed on their Communist connections. As with countless other artists of their era, there was no conflict for them between personal libertinism and faith in the austere project they fought for.
In 1931 Marling and Bovingdon went on tour to the Soviet Union, where they were supposed to work with Langston Hughes on the aborted race-relations drama Black and White; on set, the German director was nonplussed to learn that nobody thought Bovingdon's chiselled features made him a convincing union organiser. Hughes described in I Wonder as I Wander how the duo performed 'The Ascent of Man' until someone in the audience laughed, at which point Bovingdon 'leaped like Tarzan to the mantelpiece and sat there, glaring at the offender'. The show was over. Soon the film production, too, abruptly collapsed, due to a sudden improvement in US-Soviet relations.
Marling left Bovingdon for the Soviet playwright Aleksandr Afinogenov, who wrote plays about lies and fear in the Soviet Union, as well as treacly melodramas. In 1937, at the height of the Great Terror, my great-grandfather was expelled from the Party and the Writers' Union. His wife renounced her American citizenship, which may have saved his life. He never abandoned his belief in communism, or even in Stalin's leadership, but instead took his year in the wilderness as an opportunity to rebuild himself as a committed Stalinist. In 1938 he was readmitted to the Party, and was clawing his way back to literary respectability when he was blown up in the Central Committee building in Moscow by a German artillery shell in 1941. Afinogenova was pregnant with my grandmother when her husband died. She raised her daughters in Moscow, returning briefly to Los Angeles after the war. They boarded the Pobeda for their homeward journey in New York on 31 July 1948.
Meanwhile, Feng had just finished giving a lecture tour of the United States in which he heaped scorn on his old patron, Chiang Kai-shek. A baptised Methodist who worked to convert his own troops, as well as a staunch opponent of communism, he had long been a popular warlord in the United States. But in 1948, as his wife Li Dequan put it, his 'wish was to return to the Liberated Area and participate in the people's democratic revolution'.
There were suspicions that the fire had been set by Chiang's agents, or perhaps Soviet ones. Stalin had his own ideas. The Pobeda had carried 2000 Armenian repatriates from Egypt, dropping them off at the Georgian port of Batumi shortly before the disaster. Stalin believed that there were US agents among them whose goal was to 'set our oil fields on fire'. He and Malenkov agreed that it was they who had sabotaged the ship. Arrests were duly made, in a familiar High Stalinist routine, but the accusations didn't lead to a diplomatic incident; instead, the Armenian repatriation programme was swiftly wrapped up and the incident buried.
Li publicly insisted that the fire was an accident. 'Although our Soviet friends had some casualties,' she wrote in the People's Daily on her return to China, 'they still refused to take care of their own' – in other words, they prioritised Feng's family over Soviet citizens. (Did my great-grandmother die unwittingly for the cause of Sino-Soviet friendship?) Praising both her husband's legacy and her treatment by the Soviet authorities, Li helped to cement his reputation as a good, if belated, Communist. In November 1949 she became the People's Republic of China's first health minister.
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Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Goldman.
As chance had it, another semi-staged version of Follies was scheduled in New York less than a week after the London concert version. The staging concept was pretty much the same, with the orchestra on stage and a few runways and stairs. Unlike in London, the actors in New York weren't off book, presumably to convince Equity that this was a concert version and not a staged production.
Overall, I was less impressed by the New York version because it had a lot less dramatic tension than the London concert. The principals were good, but I failed to experience the buildup of nervous energy that should occur during the first act. The performance looked and felt more like a reading of the show.
I love Victoria Clark, but her Sally was not the lost soul I think she should be. Clark should give a go at playing Phyllis: my intuition tells me she would be fine. Donna Murphy played Phyllis a bit more softly than is customary, but it gave her character some added depth that I rather enjoyed. Her line delivery was a bit too slow to keep the dramatic flow moving, though.
Michael McGrath did what he could with Buddy, which really appeared as the least well written of the four main characters. His voice failed him a few times, but he did fine with his dances. As for Victor Garber, I wasn't completely convinced by his Ben until "Live, Laugh, Love," which he did superbly. His nervous breakdown wasn't quite as spine-chilling as Philip Quast's, but it came close.
The older parts were a mixed bag. Yvonne Constant, who appeared on Broadway in La Plume de ma Tante, was an interesting alternative to Liliane Montevecchi, but her singing left much to be desired. Mimi Hines did fine with "Broadway Baby". I liked Christine Baranski's Carlotta… except when I didn't like her. There were a few times when she went too hard for laughs, by changing her voice for instance… and that didn't really suit her character.
Overall, this performance was quite enjoyable, in no small part thanks to Musical Director Eric Stern. Musical highlights included "Who's that Woman?" and "The Story of Lucy and Jessie," which I've always been partial to. We were lucky not to have to endure the official concert version of the libretto, but the dialogue was abridged, which was a shame.
I can't wait for the next opportunity to see the show!
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I was there, and Yvonne Constant got 8 different raves from well regarded reviewers.
Maybe you should see her the next time she puts on a show as a chanteuse with better material.
I actually found thirteen different raves for Yvonne Constant's performance in Follies.
Her superb reviews as a chanteuse from William Wolf, Rex Reed, Peter Haas and Rob Lester were all also outstanding.
a pro and a crowd pleaser.


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Swedish statement at the UN Security Council Briefing on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts
National statement delivered by Ambassador Irina Schoulgin Nyoni on behalf of Sweden at the United Nations Security Council Briefing on Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts (critical infrastructure), February 13 2018, New York.
Let me start by thanking Ambassador Meza-Cuadra for his briefing as Chair of the Counter Terrorism Committee. As we said last year, when adopting resolution 2341: objects of critical infrastructure have long been attractive targets for terrorist attack, with potentially devastating consequences. Attacks on so called soft targets have also been a highly-visible feature of the tactics of ISIL/Daesh. It is for this reason that we welcomed the initiative of the Ukrainian Presidency of the Council to put this item on our agenda last year. It is appropriate that we now take stock of where we are in implementation of resolution 2341.
We live in a period marked by rapid change. Our modern societies are complex, interconnected and technologically advanced; however, the advances that are making our societies better able to meet the needs of our citizens also make them vulnerable.
In interconnected societies and an interconnected world, the knock-on effects of a terrorist attack are hard to predict.
We must recognize the need to build resilience into our thinking on critical infrastructure. In Sweden, the protection of critical infrastructure is based around two pillars. Firstly, to improve awareness, build resilience and prevent, respond to, and recover from incidents and crisis. And second, to increase cooperation, including public-private, as well as international collaboration.
Connected societies require connected system-wide perspectives when it comes to the protection of critical infrastructure. The sheer range of actors alone necessitates robust legislation and platforms for cooperation. The Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB) has developed an Action Plan for the Protection of Vital Societal Functions & Critical Infrastructure, with the goal to raise awareness, build resilience and prevent attacks, as well as to increase cooperation among relevant stakeholders.
We also need to ensure day to day cooperation between different entities with a responsibility for vital societal functions. In Sweden, the Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Council gathers over a dozen national agencies from a wide range of areas with the aim of jointly increasing our national capacity to counter terrorism.
Exercises and scenario training are one important way of ensuring effective coordination across different agencies. We are currently conducting a large-scale multi-sectoral cooperation exercise to clearly identify areas of responsibility, reporting lines and processes for coordination in the event of a civil crisis.
Determining what constitutes critical infrastructure is a national matter, but it cannot be treated in isolation. Interconnectedness – across borders, across jurisdictions, across systems, across networks – is a fact of life. The ongoing threat from terrorism underlines the need to continue the interaction between counter-terrorism actors and those working on crisis management. Within the United Nations, CTED, UNOCT and the members of the CTITF play important roles in these efforts. CTED's country visits are an important tool to help member states address these issues together – and to inform capacity building needs.
In addition, it is important to deepen dialogue with international organisations such as International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Organisation for the Prohibition of chemical Weapons (OPCW), INTERPOL, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the World Customs Organization, and others, whose work is important to the maintenance of international critical infrastructure.
The approach of the European Union may offer some examples of how to approach this issue from a regional perspective. The European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection provides a framework for cooperation. It establishes a procedure for identifying and designating European Critical Infrastructures (ECI) and a common approach for assessing the need to improve their protection. The tools and assessment within the European Programme could be duplicated in other sectors and regions.
Sweden is also engaged in international cooperation to reduce the threat of terrorists gaining access to weapons and materials of mass destruction, in coordination with other members, including through the G7 Global Partnership and other multilateral initiatives.
In the field of nuclear security, Sweden and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, has implemented numerous projects since 1992 in order to secure nuclear power plants and other facilities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that store and use nuclear and radioactive materials.
Terrorist attacks are by definition unpredictable. The increasingly decentralised nature of the terrorist threat, and the increased incidence of attacks using simple means that create widespread disruption, including of critical infrastructure, calls for increased vigilance, preparedness and cooperation.


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Award-winning singer and songwriter Billie Eilish recently shed some light on the pressures that followed her skyrocketing rise to fame.
The singer got candid about it all while speaking to Vanity Fair during her candid interview.
There she was quoted saying, "I feel a lot of pressure, but I would also say that back then [in the earlier years of her career], I was more loved."
Even though "I was pretty overall loved, I would say, to be honest. I was scared because I wanted to keep that love."
Since then though, there are a few things that have changed her attitude. "Now, like tons of people hate me so I'm not worried anymore. I'm like, 'Oh, OK, well, if you like me, you like me, if you don't, you don't.'"
The interviewer also referenced some of Eilish's previous comments leading the singer to admit, "Yep, but I don't [expletive] care. I really don't care. It's the kind of pressure like it hits me, and then I don't care."
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Every year, thousands of U.S. Open fans gather at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to watch the greats play their very best, and hopefully break a record or two while they're at it. The event simply wouldn't be the same without a Serena Williams serve, Rafael Nadal backhand, or Novak Djokovic grunt.
While the tennis stars display incredible athleticism, being a ballperson—the person you see running, throwing, and catching tennis balls on the sidelines of a match— also requires a substantial amount of athletic ability. A ballperson is responsible for making sure gameplay doesn't slow down, which is a lot more complicated than it looks.
When I arrived at the USTA Billie Jean National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY, I slipped into some more appropriate gear—a fresh pair of white shorts and a classic polo. I made my way to the courts, where I waited alongside other ballperson hopefuls. I was lucky enough to save myself from potential embarrassment by taking part in the "Media Tryouts," where I was surrounded by others who were just as unfamiliar with the process as I was.
When the tryouts started, Tina Tapps, the U.S. Open's director of ballpersons, provided us with a demonstration and told us about the two positions of a ballperson: a "net", and a "back". A "net" is responsible for retrieving the ball from the center of the court when a ball hits the net and throwing it to the nearest fellow ballperson. A "back" throws balls that have fallen out of bounds across to the other side of the court.
We started with run-throughs of the net drills, meaning I would need to quickly retrieve a ball that hit the net to speed up gameplay. These were tough, since they tested the three most important athletic abilities a ballperson can possess: speed, agility, and throwing power. One of the instructors working with me, Dorian, guided me on everything from the right way to position your body, to knowing exactly when and where to throw the ball. A self-proclaimed "net," Dorian told me my throwing arm was in pretty good shape, but just as I expected, my speed and agility needed to be kicked up a notch.
Building enough power to throw the ball across a 78-foot-long court is as difficult as it looks. While trying out the "back" position, I not only put my throwing abilities to use, but I also had to keep track of the balls being thrown at me. When throwing the ball cross-court, it should reach your fellow ballperson within two bounces or less. With a few small changes to my mechanics, like figuring out exactly the right moment to release the ball, my throw improved tremendously—but you need to be quick and have a killer throwing arm to seamlessly keep up with the legends on the court.
The biggest takeaway? The guys on the sidelines may not look like they have a huge effect on what's going on in the match, but without them, the game wouldn't really be the same. While you might not see me hustling after tennis balls at this year's U.S. Open just yet, I learned a thing or two about what it takes to sweat it out on the court . If you're tuning in, try to notice every courtside throw and sprint—you might be more impressed by their dedication than you think.


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Dr. Dre and His Son Get Matching Tattoos
Like father, like son.
Dr. Dre and his son Truice Young are celebrating their bond with a pair of matching tattoos. Taking to Instagram on Monday, the legendary producer shared a photo of him and his 23-year-old son showing off their DNA double helix tats on their left forearms.
"Just got matching tattoos with my son @truiceyoung. It's in the DNA. California Love!!" Dre captioned the photo.
Just got matching tattoos with my son @truiceyoung. It's in the DNA. California Love!!
A post shared by Dr. Dre (@drdre) on Oct 19, 2020 at 1:15pm PDT
It's in the DNA honored to do these for @drdre and @truiceyoung
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The tats were done by famed tattoo artist Dr. Woo. "It's in the DNA honored to do these for @drdre and @truiceyoung," said Dr. Woo.
Dre is in the middle of a contentious divorce with his wife of 24 years, Nicole Young. Last week, it was revealed that Nicole is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department for alleged embezzlement.
In addition to Truice, the estranged couple shares a 19-year-old daughter, Truly, who recently slammed 50 Cent after he disrespected her mother on social media. "The blatant misogyny and disrespect by ignorant men that is being shown is absolutely fu**ing disgusting and vile," she told the "Power" mogul.
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The blog post below first appeared on the sports law blog recently launched by colleagues at Blackstone Chambers.
Retirement comes too soon for many professional sports players, but for Guillermo "Willy" Cañas, an Argentinean tennis player once ranked world number 8, there was yet more to be lost upon retirement than just the tournament prizes and sponsorship deals.
For a number of years Mr Cañas has been attempting to challenge the alleged anti-competiveness of certain anti-doping rules by means of a complaint to the European Commission. The Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has now held that the fact of his retirement due to injury, which occurred between his making the complaint and the case reaching the European courts, meant he was effectively no longer able to pursue his grievance through this route. The judgment is currently only available in French.
The background to the case is as follows. In 2005, whilst at the height of his career, Mr Cañas tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, a substance banned under the Association of Tennis Professional's ("ATP") antidoping rules. Mr Cañas pursued appeals which led to a reduction but not the removal of his suspension by the ATP.
In the summer of 2007, Mr Cañas took the somewhat novel route of making a formal complaint to the European Commission under Article 7 of EU Regulation 1/2003 which relates to EU competition rules. Mr Cañas alleged that the anti-doping rules contained in the ATP Official Rule Book were excessive and disproportionate and that the bodies responsible for producing them had adopted agreements or concerted practices which unlawfully restrained competition between professional tennis players.
More than a year later, the Commission responded to Mr Cañas, having taken a decision there was a "lack of Community interest" in the complaint which did not justify its further investigation.
Mr Cañas brought a challenge in the European Courts against the Commission decision not to investigate his complaint, first in the Court of First Instance and then to the CJEU.
The General Court kicked out Mr Cañas challenge to the Commission decision under Article 113 of the Court's Rules of Procedure on the basis that it was devoid of purpose given that he had retired since lodging the complaint with the Commission and accordingly no longer had any interest in seeing the Commission decision overturned.
That judgment has now been upheld on appeal by the CJEU.
In the course of his challenge and appeal, Mr Cañas made a number of arguments to support his case that he still had a sufficient interest in overturning the Commission decision, including that the end of his sporting career could not be used against him, given the necessarily limited duration of a professional sports career and the allegedly slow procedure when making a complaint to the Commission. Mr Cañas claimed that he intended to return to tennis once his injury had healed.
None of his arguments were upheld by the European Courts. The CJEU held that although Mr Cañas had had sufficient interest in the matter at the time he brought his challenge to the Commission's decision, the Court's case law provided that an applicant's interest in bringing proceedings must continue until the final decision, failing which there will be no need to adjudicate, which presupposes that the action must be liable, if successful, to procure an advantage for the party bringing it. Since he had retired, Mr Cañas had only a general rather than a personal interest in the challenge to the Commission decision.
As to Mr Cañas' stated intention to return to tennis in future, although the European General Court did not reject this as an irrelevant consideration when determining whether he had an interest in pursuing the appeal, it was considered to be a "future and uncertain" prospect and, as such, one which did not give him a continuing interest in the challenge. Rejecting a future return as uncertain at Mr Cañas' far from ripe old age of 35, would seem surprising in the context of most professions, but sport is perhaps the exceptional case.
The substance of Mr Cañas' complaint that anti-doping rules infringe competition law will not now be investigated further by the Commission. By way of comfort for the intrigued competition and sports lawyers amongst us it is worth noting, as set out in paragraph 10 of the CJEU's decision, that the Commission had commented that in any event the prospects of establishing a breach of competition law in the terms alleged by Mr Cañas were weak.


The other day I was staying close to Saint John, NB and I had the wonderful opportunity to talk to Darlene Farrell about the wellness programming her and her support staff (a dietician, fitness professional, nurses etc.) is offering at the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, NB. See, to many of us, Irving is a gas station along with others such as Esso, Petro Canada, etc. However, Mrs. Farrell and Irving Oil is taking the company one step further. They are refining wellness. Through a holistic approach, the company and her team are hitting the four major pillars of wellness. Those pillars being psychological, physical, social and emotional wellness.
This past year, the refining wellness section of the refinery has taken off rapidly. Through lunch and learn programs whereby employees can come ask questions and dispel myths with registered dieticians, nurses and consultants about their health. The company has also paired up with a local entrepreneur who is growing all natural fruits and vegetables, baking local bread and making household spices readily available for Irving Oil employees. When I asked Mrs. Farrell about this her passion ignited and said, "It is awesome, we are helping a local entrepreneur and he is providing our employees with an assortment of seasonal fruits and vegetables (from the summer to fall) for them to take home to their families instead of buying less healthy alternatives".
The company also hosts an annual wellness fair. Similar to your middle school science fair, projects and stations are set up at the Refinery, whereby employees within the refinery can come in and learn new health and wellness concepts, receiving a participating gift such as skipping ropes, eco-friendly bag, etc. Last year the fair exceeded its initial numbers and Darlene is optimistic that the event will need to be held in a larger space next year.
Also, Darlene talked to me about the company's push towards a tobacco- free environment. The Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John will be soon going tobacco- free and will be the model refinery as the only tobacco free refinery in Canada.
When I asked Darlene how she seems to organize all of this and find time for her own wellness she replied, "I have tremendous support from the top down. Having support staff and finding sustainable, affordable resources along with a company that supports my passion has allowed me and my fellow team members to completely transform the refinery into a leader in health and wellness".
I wanted to write about the refining wellness programming happening at Irving to educate those who assume it is just like any other company. After diving in to the website [ http://www.irvingoil.com/ ] and talking with Darlene, I soon realized that this company is leading the way not just as a model for refineries to follow, but for many other large and small businesses to follow as well.
It's easy for Irving to do this because they are one of the richest corporations in the world. They have money to spend on this whereas a smaller company would find it difficulty. It would be cool to see the government give tax reductions or even to reimburse these companies to do things like this.


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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper'

load(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/schema.rb')

describe SearchableAttributes do

  fixtures = YAML.load_file(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/searchable_users.yml')
  fixtures.each do |fixture|
    SearchableUser.create(fixture[1].symbolize_keys)
  end

  it "should define named_scope for string attributes" do
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_first_name_equal').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_first_name_equal_if_not_blank').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_first_name_like').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_first_name_start_with').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_first_name_end_with').should be_true
  end

  it "should define named_scope for boolean attributes" do
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_injured_equal').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_injured_equal_if_not_blank').should be_true
  end

  it "should define named_scope for integer attributes" do
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_equal').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_equal_if_not_blank').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_within_inclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_within_exclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_greater_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_smaller_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_greater_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_age_smaller_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
  end

  it "should define named_scope for decimal attributes" do
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_equal').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_equal_if_not_blank').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_within_inclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_within_exclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_greater_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_smaller_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_greater_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_salary_smaller_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
  end

  it "should define named_scope for datetime attributes" do
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_equal').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_equal_if_not_blank').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_within_inclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_within_exclusive').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_greater_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_smaller_than').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_greater_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
    SearchableUser.methods.include?('with_join_on_smaller_than_or_equal_to').should be_true
  end

  it "should find records for string attributes" do
    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal('Gilbert').count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal('Gilbert').each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.first_name.should == 'Gilbert' }

    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal_if_not_blank('Gilbert').count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal_if_not_blank('Gilbert').each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.first_name.should == 'Gilbert' }

    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_first_name_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should == SearchableUser.count

    SearchableUser.with_first_name_like('ilbe').count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_first_name_like('ilbe').each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.first_name.include?('ilbe') }

    SearchableUser.with_position_start_with('P').count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_position_start_with('P').each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.position.should =~ /^P/ }

    SearchableUser.with_position_end_with('Forward').count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_position_end_with('Forward').each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.position.should =~ /Forward$/ }
  end

  it "should find records for boolean attributes" do
    SearchableUser.with_injured_equal(true).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_injured_equal(true).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.injured.should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_injured_equal(false).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_injured_equal(false).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.injured.should be_false }
  end

  it "should find records for integer attributes" do
    SearchableUser.with_age_equal(26).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_equal(26).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should == 26 }

    SearchableUser.with_age_equal_if_not_blank(26).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_equal_if_not_blank(26).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should == 26 }

    SearchableUser.with_age_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should == SearchableUser.count

    SearchableUser.with_age_within_inclusive((26..30)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_within_inclusive((26..30)).each { |searchable_user| (26..30).include?(searchable_user.age).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_age_within_exclusive((26..30)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_within_exclusive((26..30)).each { |searchable_user| (26..30).include?(searchable_user.age).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_age_greater_than(28).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_greater_than(28).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should > 28 }

    SearchableUser.with_age_smaller_than(28).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_smaller_than(28).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should < 28 }

    SearchableUser.with_age_greater_than_or_equal_to(28).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_greater_than_or_equal_to(28).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should >= 28 }

    SearchableUser.with_age_smaller_than_or_equal_to(28).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_age_smaller_than_or_equal_to(28).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.age.should <= 28 }
  end

  it "should find records for decimal attributes" do
    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal(33333.33).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal(33333.33).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should == 33333.33 }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal_if_not_blank(33333.33).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal_if_not_blank(33333.33).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should == 33333.33 }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should == SearchableUser.count

    SearchableUser.with_salary_within_inclusive((33333.33..99999.99)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_within_inclusive((33333.33..99999.99)).each { |searchable_user| (33333.33..99999.99).include?(searchable_user.salary).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_within_exclusive((33333.33..99999.99)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_within_exclusive((33333.33..99999.99)).each { |searchable_user| (33333.33..99999.99).include?(searchable_user.salary).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_greater_than(25000).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_greater_than(25000).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should > 25000 }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_smaller_than(75000).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_smaller_than(75000).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should < 75000 }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_greater_than_or_equal_to(66666.66).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_greater_than_or_equal_to(66666.66).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should >= 66666.66 }

    SearchableUser.with_salary_smaller_than_or_equal_to(66666.66).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_salary_smaller_than_or_equal_to(66666.66).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.salary.should <= 66666.66 }
  end

  it "should find records for date attributes" do
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal('2006-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal('2006-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should == 3.years.ago.to_date }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal_if_not_blank('2006-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal_if_not_blank('2006-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should == 3.years.ago.to_date }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_equal_if_not_blank(nil).count.should == SearchableUser.count

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_within_inclusive(('2004-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_within_inclusive(('2004-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date)).each { |searchable_user| ('2004-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date).include?(searchable_user.join_on).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_within_exclusive(('2003-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date)).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_within_exclusive(('2003-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date)).each { |searchable_user| ('2003-02-27'.to_date..'2006-02-27'.to_date).include?(searchable_user.join_on).should be_true }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_greater_than('2004-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_greater_than('2004-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should > '2004-02-27'.to_date }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_smaller_than('2006-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_smaller_than('2006-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should < '2006-02-27'.to_date }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_greater_than_or_equal_to('2006-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_greater_than_or_equal_to('2006-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should >= '2006-02-27'.to_date }

    SearchableUser.with_join_on_smaller_than_or_equal_to('2006-02-27'.to_date).count.should > 0
    SearchableUser.with_join_on_smaller_than_or_equal_to('2006-02-27'.to_date).each { |searchable_user| searchable_user.join_on.should <= '2006-02-27'.to_date }
  end
end


I did this look using the Wet N Wild Pride Palette.
I also used the Deep Blue (657) Eyeliner for the top lid, Black Black(651) eyeliner on the bottom waterline.
For the Lips I used Breeze(547B) and lip liner in Willow(712).
Apply the blue below your waterline halfway and then apply the green to the other half.
After you reach the desired look apply the deep blue liner, and the black on the water line. Eyes done.
Lips: Line the lips Willow and apply lipstick in Breeze. Done look below.


Noemi (born Veronica Scopelliti, January 25, 1982 in Rome) is an Italian singer. She rose to fame after her participation in the second season of the Italian talent show X-Factor in 2009 and the Italian music festival "Sanremo" in 2010.
For the German Trance / Club / Electro funk artist, she is scrobbled as Noémi. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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Ellen Pompeo Has 'No Desire' to Continue Acting After 'Grey's Anatomy' : 'It's for the Youth'
"I'm not super excited about continuing my acting career," Ellen Pompeo recently said of what's next for her after the eventual conclusion of Grey's Anatomy
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Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy. Photo: Kelsey McNeal/ABC
Dr. Meredith Grey might just be Ellen Pompeo's last acting role!
The Golden Globe nominee, 51, recently admitted that she'd be fine hanging up her acting hat when Grey's Anatomy takes its final bow. "I'm not saying I'll never act again, I very well may, but I'm not super excited about continuing my acting career," she said last week on the Ladies First with Laura Brown podcast.
"The acting, even though I haven't done a million different roles, I feel like I've done it," Pompeo added. "Sitting around in trailers, traveling around, shooting this in Atlanta, shooting that in Vancouver. I have no desire to go sit in trailers at 11 o'clock at night and wait to shoot scenes and have ADs knock on my door and tell me when I can eat lunch. You know, it's for the young at heart. It's for the youth!"
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Pompeo's starred as the titular doctor in Grey's Anatomy for the entirety of its 17-season run, but has expressed uncertainty about her future with the show in recent years. "This year could be it," she told Variety in October, ahead of the season 17 finale. The show was renewed for season 18 in May.
The actress previously told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 that she was "looking for a change" in her career. "I'm clearly not prepared right now to make any formal announcement about what my future is on the show, but I am really feeling like we have told the majority of the stories that we can tell," she said at the time.
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After negotiating a $20 million salary in 2018, Pompeo later said she "made a decision to make money" by sticking with the show instead of pursuing other opportunities. "For me, personally, a healthy home life was more important than career," she said last August.
"I didn't grow up with a particularly happy childhood," Pompeo added. "So the idea that I have this great husband and these three beautiful children [and] a happy home life was really something I needed to complete, to close the hole in my heart."
The Old School actress shares daughters Stella Luna, 11½, Sienna May, 6½, and son Eli Christopher, 4½, with music producer husband Chris Ivery, 54.
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As for what's next for Pompeo, she's taken an interest in business, which she's "excited" to pursue further. "I'm more entrepreneurial at this stage," she said on Ladies First. "I'm excited about investing in businesses, and starting business. That's an area of growth that I'm excited about, using my brain in a different way."
Pompeo also teased an upcoming podcast she's hosting, entitled Tell Me. "[I thought], 'Let me go out there and do something I've never done before and try something completely different for absolutely no other reason than to try something different because I haven't for so long,'" she said. "If it fails, it fails, but at least I'm trying something new."
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OnTerra Systems, a technology leader in Web mapping, fleet optimization, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) integration solutions and services, today introduced RouteSavvy™ Online – route optimization software designed for small business fleets, business professionals who drive to multiple destinations for their work, and individuals organizing errands, carpools, and other multi-destination trips. RouteSavvy Online is based on advanced optimization algorithms which leverage Bing Maps' Web mapping technology.
RouteSavvy Online initially was deployed as a "Map App" running on the Bing platform. This new version of RouteSavvy stands alone, i.e. it runs natively in a user's favorite Web browser, and with significant improvements in functionality and performance.
"When you calculate the value of saving time, reducing labor costs, and reducing fuel costs, RouteSavvy Online truly is a 'must-have' tool," said Steve Milroy, OnTerra Systems' president and co-founder.
OnTerra's RouteSavvy™ Online Route Optimization Software optimizes multi-stop routes for small business fleets, individuals who travel to multiple locations in the course of their work day, and individuals organizing a multi-destination route. Users may input their destinations into RouteSavvy in three ways: 1) Uploading a spreadsheet with addresses; 2) Clicking on locations in the displayed map which defaults to a user's home or business area; or 3) Manually entering addresses in an input box in the RouteSavvy Web map applications. Once addresses are entered, users also can choose whether they need a round-trip, or a variety of one-way routes. RouteSavvy's powerful algorithms then will calculate the most efficient route for the multiple stops.
Of note, RouteSavvy Online can optimize from just a few to up to hundreds of stops, which is considerably more than what comparably priced route optimization tools offer.
"As a small business owner, RouteSavvy has delivered exactly what I need to be able to spend more time prospecting and less time at my computer. Instead of using a Kings Map (a physical atlas) or the other cumbersome mapping programs, with Route Savvy I just enter the addresses and it does the rest. I now have 30 – 45 minutes a day extra to find and meet with new clients," said David Goldberger, co-founder of Upside Options.


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The Iron Age fort on Wittenham Clumps dominates a landscape settled since remotest antiquity. To the south, in the Berkshire Downs, is Churn Nob, and here, in 635AD the missionary Bishop Birinus, sent from Rome by Pope Honorius I, preached to Cynegils, King of Wessex. To the north, enclosed between the River Thames and its tributary the River Thame, lies Dorchester, a small village with a great Abbey, a cradle of English Christianity.
The building we now see was begun in the 12th century, replacing two earlier Saxon cathedrals (some Saxon fabric is still evident in the north wall of the nave). The Norman building expanded in the 13th century and was richly aggrandised in the early 14th century when the chancel was added with its wonderful window sculpted with the Tree of Jesse, its stained glass and its exquisite sedilia. The great tower, rebuilt in 1602, but incorporating a 14th century spiral staircase, rises above a lush landscape of willows and flowering water meadows. On this site, perhaps in the Thame itself, Birinus baptised King Cynegils, with Oswald King of Northumbria standing godfather.
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The Heaven-World of the ancient Celts, unlike that of the Christians, was not situated in some distant, unknown region of planetary space, but here on our own earth. As it was necessarily a subjective world, poets could only describe it in terms more or less vague; and its exact geographical location, accordingly, differed widely in the minds of scribes from century to century. Sometimes, as is usual today in faerie-lore, it was a subterranean world entered through caverns, or hills, or mountains, and inhabited by many races and orders of invisible beings, such as demons, shades, faeries, or even gods. The underground world of the Sidhe-folk was divided into districts or kingdoms under different faery kings and queens, just as the upper world of mortals.
In the old Irish manuscripts, the Celtic Otherworld was located in the midst of the Western Ocean, as though it were the 'double' of the lost Atlantis; and Manannan Mac LIr, the Son of the Sea - perhaps himself the 'double' of an ancient Atlantean king - was one of the divine rulers of its faerie inhabitants, and his palace was there rather than in Ireland. And in that island world there was neither death nor pain, nor scandal, nought save immortal and unfading youth, and endless joy and feasting.


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how to create a self-fulfilling anti-tech prophecy with withering cynicism
We have the tools, know-how, and technology to make this a better, more advanced world. We're just refusing to do it because the public is used to the droning of naysayers.
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Last time we took a look at what tech cynics and technophobes get wrong in their arguments, we focused on their lack of consideration for their fellow humans' ability to exercise free will. Despite the fact that this is a huge hole in many of their arguments, there's an even bigger problem with the dismissive stance they take towards science and technology. When they argue that we can't feed all the hungry house all the homeless, or really prolong lifespans with technology, the facts they cite generally point not so much to technological limitations or scientific ignorance, but very convoluted social and political problems, then insist that because science and technology can't solve them today, they likely never will, or won't solve them adequately to consider the problem much smaller than it is today. While this argument is true, it's also logically dishonest. You can't fix the world's problems with technology when the people who should be using it refuse to do so, or hijack it for their own less than noble means. No tool or piece of knowledge can help then.
As some of you might have noticed, the city in the graphic for this post in Dubai, a rich proving ground for how the cities of the near future are likely to be built. We know how to make cities of glass, steel, and concrete right out of science fiction. We know how to build the cheap, efficient housing complexes those making less than a dollar a day need to at least have secure shelter. We know how do diagnose complex diseases early enough to treat them before they'll become dangerous, much less terminal, and our toolkits for understanding germs, viruses, and complex medical problems like cancers, are growing to become more sophisticated every day. We also have the tools and the money to apply all these solutions to the world at large. With something a little bit short of $100 billion just between Gates and Buffet pledged to fight poverty illiteracy, and disease, and when we can find $2 trillion laying around to help banks with a do-over, clearly, it's not an issue of not having the technology, the scientific basis, or the cash. The issue is will.
Sure technological utopians have lofty ambitions and it's valid to be skeptical of many of them, but when they vow that logistical problems can be solved with enough computing and research, they're right more often than not. When the cynics deride these ambitions by pointing out that a lot of people don't want to fund mass production of the necessary tools or the required science, and would much prefer to spend them on entertainment and public entitlements benefiting them directly, they're not highlighting the problems with using technology to save the world, they're a prime exhibit of why a technology hasn't transformed the world of fixed a persistent problem. All too often it comes down to them saying it can't be done, and politicians along with voters simply listening to them and deciding that no, it's can't be done since the critics said so, which is why it would be a waste of time to even bother. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure, a social variation of Newton's First Law: a society that insists on the status quo, sticks to the status quo unless an external event or constant pressure forces it to change.
It's the same attitude which strangled the promising and much anticipated future of space travel and exploration, and we're still stuck with it. Yes, not every retro-futuristic dream about space or living on other worlds was practical or even feasible and yes, we did need experts to burst our bubble before an unworkable project got off the ground. But today's science and tech critics are going well past a healthy skepticism about bold claims and venturing into a territory in which they dismiss scientific and technological solutions to global problems for the sake of dismissing them, pointing to other ideas they dismissed in the past and doomed to being chained to the drawing board, and saying that because their relentless cynicism killed the ideas rather than refined the scopes and missions to eliminate problems with them, new ideas building on past visions must be scrapped as well. It's even more insidious than political vetting of basic science, because vetting at least allows some projects to survive and get refined into new tools and ideas. The withering cynicism of what science and technology can do for us is like an anti-innovation WMD…
# tech // cynicism / futurism / global problems / innovation


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26/05/2018 SUPPORTING ELEPHANT SESSIONS @ THE CATSRAND - NEW GALLOWAY, SCOTLAND
Supporting Elephant Sessions at The Catstrand, New Galloway
2017 has been a remarkable year for Elephant Sessions. The band who hail from the Highlands of Scotland and who met at the Newcastle University Folk degree have exploded onto the indie folk scene with unparalleled effect.
Elephant Sessions transcend boundaries and shake the very foundations of expectation. Closing the year with sell out shows across the UK, the band find themselves nominated for both Folk Album of the Year and Live Act of the Year at the BBC Scots Trad awards.
2018 promises to be no different and opening the year with a show at the world renowned Celtic Connections festival, the band head over to Australia in March for what will be a debut tour of some of the nations most respected festivals.
Support from Zoë Bestel
27/05/2018 THE OLD BANK BOOK SHOP - WIGTOWN, SCOTLAND
Zoë at The Old Bank Book Shop
Ethereal vocals, poignant melodies and stirring lyrics will be filling The Old Bank Bookshop on Bank Holiday weekend with Wigtownshire's award-winning nu-folk singer/songwriter and musician Zoë Bestel. Signed last year by the ethical Glasgow-based label, Last Night From Glasgow, and with the release of her highly acclaimed second album Transience, we are rather chuffed to be welcoming Zoë back to The Old Bank Bookshop. Book early to avoid disappointment – £6 – Refreshments provided.
31/05/2018 AN EVENING WITH ZOË BESTEL & TOBIAS ELOF - LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND
An Evening with Zoë Bestel & Tobias Elof
A double headliner evening of folk style ukulele music from Liverpool born songstress Zoë Bestel, and Danish virtuoso Tobias Elof. Join the two ethereal performers for an intimate evening of beautifully crafted songs, both together and solo.
Bestel launches, to her original home crowd, her newly released album, Transience, highly acclaimed by Scottish media. With support from Elof, with nominations for two Danish Folk Awards, and the worlds first with a BA on Ukulele.
02/06/2018 WINCHESTER UKULELE FESTIVAL - WINCHESTER, ENGLAND
Winchester Ukulele Festival
Introducing the 3rd Winchester Ukulele Festival, held at Winchester Rugby Club on Saturday 2nd June 2018. Nominated in the UKE Magazine awards, Best Ukulele Festival 2018.
04/06/2018 TRANSIENCE LAUNCH W/ TOBIAS ELOF - DUMFRIES, SCOTLAND
Dumfries Transience Launch w/ Tobias Elof
A double headliner evening of folk style ukulele music from Galloway songstress Zoë Bestel, and Danish virtuoso Tobias Elof. Join the two ethereal performers for an intimate evening of beautifully crafted songs, both together and solo to celebrate the launch of Transience, Bestel's newly released album.
Highly acclaimed by Scottish media, Transience is already a favourite of BBC Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart, and album of the week on BBCs Rapal. Recently signed by Glasgow based ethical label, Last Night From Glasgow, Bestel released the new album in April digitally, on CD and 180gm gatefold vinyl. With support from Transience producer, Tobias Elof, with nominations for two Danish Folk Awards, and the worlds first with a BA on Ukulele.
28/07/2018 CZECH UKULELE FESTIVAL - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
CZECH Ukulele Festival
The 6th Czech Ukulele Festival will take place between Friday the 27th of July and Sunday the 29th of July 2018.
This year will be the first event of its kind in the world, the "Ladies´ Edition" will showcase mainly female performers and we are expecting great things.
The first day of the festival will be our traditional ukulele day trip, this year we go by train to the magnificent medieval town of Kutná Hora where we will play alongside the amazing cathedral of Saint Barbara. Expect the usual fireworks and summer fun at this wonderful location.
Saturday and Sunday will be in the Village of Únětice on the outskirts of Prague, where we will present a full two day program of workshops and concerts, many of the workshop are held in different parts of the village while the main event is in the brewery located in the centre of the village.
This year the program will include children from the local school, a women´s group from the village, and acrobatic ukulele duo, the Mersey Belles, Ukulele Troublemakers, Les Poupées Gonflées, the fantastic Bad Mouse Orchestra, Elke & the Cool Girls, newcomer Zoë Bestel, Nellie McKay, the outstanding Tricity Vogue, Gerald Ross and being topped by the return of the much loved Honoka & Azita from Hawaii.


We often get the question, "When should I hold my school's 21 Day Kindness Challenge?"
We say, "Really, whenever it works best for your school!"
The 21 Day Kindness Challenge works best when it can be held over 21 consecutive school days. We recommend scheduling your Kindness Challenge so that it won't be interrupted by any lengthy breaks or holidays.
Some schools have tied their 21 Day Kindness Challenge to other school events or celebrations. For example, some schools plan their Kindness Challenge to correspond with Back to School night in the Fall or Open House in the Spring so that they can showcase their school's efforts to the entire community. Other schools have found that February is a fun month to celebrate Kindness in correlation with Valentine's Day. One school held their Kindness Challenge in late October/early November and celebrated by giving thanks for kindness.
We recommend scheduling your 21 Day Kindness Challenge separate from your school's state testing dates. That said, depending on when your school holds their testing window, you could kick-off your 21 Day Kindness Challenge immediately following testing. For many students and teachers, testing is a challenging and difficult time. Studies have shown that acts of kindness can reduce the effects of stress. The 21 Day Kindness Challenge is a way to release some of that anxiety by doing kind acts for others!
The 21 Day Kindness Challenge provides all the materials, support, curriculum, and training you need to run a successful Kindness Challenge on your campus. You should know that there is a 3-week planning process (1-2 hours planning/week max!) in advance of your actual Kick-Off date so it's good to give yourself a little cushion for planning and prep. During this time you are recruiting kindness leaders from within your student body and helping them plan and launch the 21 Day Kindness Challenge.
For more thoughts on planning, or for more information about how to bring the 21 Day Kindness Challenge to your school, please join us for our LIVE Q&A session. We meet the second Tuesday of every month from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. PST. The 21 Day Kindness Challenge team is available to answer all your questions and help get you started on making a change on your school culture! More information is also available on our website or by watching our Webinar. In just 24 minutes, we explain all about the 21 Day Kindness Challenge.