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The busy summer period has given way to the cooler months, but there has been no let-up for the crew of Christchurch's Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service. The lower temperatures and changeable weather conditions have all played a part in keeping the Rescue Helicopter service busy over the winter months —and with this year's early snow the service has been busy helping people on the mountains.
Since the season opened in June, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter has been tasked to 37 ski and snowboard related incidents at fields across Canterbury. As anticipated, ski field related accidents are peaking during August – with 10 incidents responded to in the last 2 weeks.
The youngest patient was a 6 year-old male with a fractured tibia/fibula and the oldest was a 68 year-old female with a fractured humerus. Fractures and breaks make up the majority of snow-related injuries, 25 in total, with knee, humerus, clavicle, and wrist injuries being the most common point of impact. Other incidents included 7 patients with concussions, 3 patients with spinal injuries, 1 patient with an open wound and 1 patient suffering multi-system trauma. All patients were transported to Christchurch Hospital for treatment.
"Being extra safety conscious on the mountain never goes amiss," says Crew Chief Rick Knight. "Knowing your limits, being aware of the conditions and wearing a helmet are just the basic safety precautions when enjoying the slopes this winter."
The ski season is set to finish within the next couple of months and to date, mission numbers are tracking slightly higher than 2017.
Please take care when travelling to and from the ski fields this winter – so you can enjoy the rest of the season.
Crew Update
In July, members of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew participated in a large-scale avalanche response exercise near Mt Cheeseman Ski Area. Crew Chief, Rick Knight, comments "It is a multi-agency exercise directed at following the Canterbury Avalanche Response Plan, which will see Police, St John, ski industry personnel, multiple Land Search and Rescue teams, Alpine […]
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In Stu's 29 years of experience as a pilot (19 of those working as a rescue pilot) means he has seen significant changes in the Rescue Helicopter Service. "Some of the more significant improvements have been the upgrades of medical gear carried in the helicopter, greater use of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and GPS transmitting Emergency Locator Beacons; but the greatest improvement by far is the use of Night Vision Goggles, which have transformed our ability to respond to callouts at night." Since the introduction of NVG's in 2006, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter now completes over 30% of its missions at night. The Rescue Pilots and crew are on call 24/7, 365 days a year, "It is a big commitment for the pilots and crew, we sacrifice a lot of personal family time to ensure we are available to respond very quickly to callouts." says Stu.
Stu can recall most of the rescue missions he has attended over the past 19 years; when asked what his most memorable mission has been to date, he finds it difficult to answer as "many jobs have their own unique thing that can make them particularly memorable; it can be good or tragic. Jobs that have different aspects to them (location, winching, weather, the needs of the people being rescued etc) tend to be the most memorable and these tend to be search and rescue jobs."
The Rescue Helicopter crew responds to missions ranging from search and rescue, motor vehicle accidents, and medical emergencies, to leisure accidents, sports accidents and special operations; working together closely as a team to ensure a high level of patient care, "At the end of the day there is the satisfaction of knowing you helped make a positive difference to someone who needed help," says Stu, who feels fortunate he is able to combine his love of flying with the satisfaction of helping people in need. "Never knowing what will happen from day to day and hour to hour, we could be out to sea or in the mountains or attending an incident in the middle of the night. Sometimes in the most challenging conditions and sometimes flying over stunning NZ scenery on a beautiful calm day. It is a very rewarding and enjoyable career."
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Speed limits are a key part of the UK's traffic rules. For some they are an important aspect in the quest for road safety, while others see them as an important source of frustration. No matter how you see it, speed limits are an important part of life, so we have collected all the information you need to drive within the speed limit in the UK, no matter what type of vehicle you are driving.
What are dual carriageways, motorways, and restricted roads?
Dual carriageways usually have a divider, and in rare cases they can have single lanes with two ways traffic.
A single carriageway is a standard road that doesn't have a physical divider to separate oncoming traffic and can have anything from one lane with passing places to five lanes with a tidal flow for the center lane to cope with the flow of traffic.
A restricted road is another name for roads in built up areas and it can be hard to quickly decide what the speed limit is when using them for commute. A good thing to keep in mind is that if you see houses and street lights on the road, then drive in speed limit of 30 mph, unless stated otherwise.
Here we have listed national speed limits, but local authorities can impose different limits if they feel the need. Generally this is to slow traffic on roads where the 60mph national speed limit would usually be applicable, even though there is also the ability to add 20 mph zones in urban areas.
These different speed limits are only ever decreased in increments of 10mph, and when they are 50mph or lower, there are no decreased limits for different classes of vehicle and the speed limit you see written is the one you must not surpass.
What is the UK drink and drive limit?
The last set of changes in regulation took place in 2015, when the limits for large HGVs on single and dual carriageways were raised to 50mph and 60mph respectively.
If you get more than six penalty points within 24 months of passing your test, your licence will be canceled.


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How to grow in Plant vs Undead to make money faster
Craig Zacker
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In the case of Plant vs Undead, the minimum investment you can make and start growing your plants is 5 PVU. The PVU is the token that the game uses and which has a variable price which is currently on the order of $ 12. So with an investment of $ 60 you can enter and in a few weeks recover your investment and make profits.
What are the missions to be carried out and how much money do they allocate?
The game has undergone several major changes in the way you can play and earn money, reaching its current form and is what is known as Farm 2.5. Although a new mode is expected to be rolled out in the near future, it can be played in farmer mode and gardener mode for now.
As gardeners
Being a gardener in Plant vs Undead is one of the methods used from most players, since very little money is needed to get started. And in this case we're talking about 5 PVUs around $ 60 at the current price of $ 12 each PVU. Once in the game, you need to exchange your PVU for LE, which is the currency used by the game.
Next, you have to use these LEs to acquire your first transitional plant, in the game they are there 2 types of these plants. The sunflower mom or sunflower mom that last 144 hours and the sapling or suckers GIRASOLE which last 72 hours. We will also get permanent plants in the game, but these cost over 100 PVUs.
The first plant you should compare is a mom sunflower which will cost you 200 LE, a small pot 50 LE, water for irrigation 50 LE and scares the birds 20 LE. With this initial investment of 320 you have to wait 6 days to receive the premium for the care of your system which will be 850 LE. Now you have to repeat these steps, but using them LE you need to acquire a new sunflower breast and suckers as you can.
This way you can have a complete garden consisting of 5 saplings and one breast. The goal is to get the greatest amount of LE so that you can exchange them with 100 suction cups and these with a permanent implant, the suction cups give you a profitability of 250 l and for 72 h.
Being farmers
If you log into Plant vs Undead and want to play farmer mode, you will need to be able to invest a significant amount of money. Given that any common plant can easily exceed 105 PVUs and at today's price it would be over $ 1200. But there are plants that can reach 400 or 500 PVU, imagine the investment.
You can also choose to purchase a seed which costs 100 PVU, the advantage of this option is that you can get any plant at this price. Being this ice, parasite or mystical and the latter reaches to exceed 500 PVU. Once you acquire your plant, you just have to take care of it and that means watering it and scaring the crows.
Depending on the plants you have, it offers you a reward every so often which can be, for example, 1235 LE every 240 hours. This means that in 30 days a month you will have 3705 LE and knowing that every 100 LE is 1 PVU. We would have a month with that 37,05 PVU plant at the current token price at $ 12 will be $ 444,6.
How much does each suit cost in the game?
There is some information that players when entering Plant vs Undead should know what the prices of mother plants or trees are like. This price is variable and will depend on the price that is managed in the market or in the Marketplace. But in the case of the price of the seeds these are always constant and cost 100 PVU.
There is also another mechanic who will allow us to obtain seeds without having to buy them for PVU and that is to collect suckers. These can be obtained through the Sun Box or the solar box, but also by exchanging the LE, for every 100 LE they give us a sapling and when we get 100 of these we can exchange it without problems with 1 seed.
How do the mechanisms for collecting seeds work?
Being able to get or collect seeds is very important in the game, because in this way it will allow us to increase our farm. According to the new mode which has recently been implemented, it will be necessary for each player to have 4 PVUs in their wallet so that a button in your account for "Request seed" is enabled and you can claim the seeds.
Plants and mother trees each 24 hours will have a 2% chance of losing seeds. But we need to make a point here to tell you that the chances of your mother plants and trees shedding seeds will increase based on certain factors. You will get 4% for the synergy of light, i.e. a light plant in a land of light, and if you use large pots the chances will increase by 2%.
What are the reasons you can't cultivate?
The popularity that Plant vs Undead is currently having is such that the community of players accessing the platform is increasing. And it is common now to hear that many users of this game have trouble logging in. Something that can be very problematic and especially with the groups and schedules they have implemented.
But thanks to the new one version of the game, Farm 2.5 has eliminated these groups and it is possible to join at any time of the day. And waiting for the new that awaits us from 12 September with the implementation of the 'World Tree'. But even so, you may have some difficulty entering and cultivating, among the main reasons we have these:
Daily limit
It was determined that you could enter the platform at a given time a depending on the group that touched you. And that would also have a limit on the number of players during that time, but now with the new mode that has been eliminated. What can happen is that when the platform is saturated, it will show you the message 'Farm under maintenance'.
Beta problems
One of the recurring problems that Plant vs Undead had with its beta version it was the collapse of its servers, so the maintenance message was always showing. Due to the slow response of the server, there were also problems with the acknowledgment of the payment or exchange of PVU for LE or vice versa.
But apparently the end of the beta phase of the game has arrived and we are entering its more stable version, where there is the real promise of using more powerful and robust servers. Therefore your players can log in at any time of the day and farm without any problems. If you want to know more about this profitable game, we invite you to read the article on how to play Plant vs Undead and win money.
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Q: Get UILabel font pointsize after minimumFontSize I have a UILabel with a font of point size 17. If I call label.font.pointSize I get 17, which is all good. BBUUUUTTT I also have a minimumfontsize set to 8, now if I cram some text in the label which causes the point size to shrink and then call label.font.pointsize I still get 17 even though I know the point size is smaller
Any ideas how to get the true point size after system has resized the font?

A: I don't know of an API to get the current point size of the UILabel when it is scaling your content down. You can try to approximate "scaling factor" using sizeWithFont APIs.
Just an idea:
// Get the size of the text with no scaling (one line)
CGSize sizeOneLine = [label.text sizeWithFont:label.font];

// Get the size of the text enforcing the scaling based on label width
CGSize sizeOneLineConstrained = [label.text sizeWithFont:label.font constrainedToSize:label.frame.size];

// Approximate scaling factor
CGFloat approxScaleFactor = sizeOneLineConstrained.width / sizeOneLine.width;

// Approximate new point size
CGFloat approxScaledPointSize = approxScaleFactor * label.font.pointSize;

A: As savner pointed out in the comments, this is a duplication question. The cleanest solution is found here: How to get UILabel (UITextView) auto adjusted font size?. However, Sanjit's solution also works! Thanks Everybody!
CGFloat actualFontSize;
[label.text sizeWithFont:label.font
         minFontSize:label.minimumFontSize
      actualFontSize:&actualFontSize
            forWidth:label.bounds.size.width
       lineBreakMode:label.lineBreakMode];

A: Swift 4 and iOS 7+ version (sizeWithFont is now deprecated) of @Sanjit Saluja's answer:
// Get the size of the text with no scaling (one line)
let sizeOneLine: CGSize = label.text!.size(withAttributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: label.font])

// Get the size of the text enforcing the scaling based on label width
let sizeOneLineConstrained: CGSize = label.text!.boundingRect(with: label.frame.size, options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: [NSAttributedStringKey.font: label.font], context: nil).size

// Approximate scaling factor
let approxScaleFactor: CGFloat = sizeOneLineConstrained.width / sizeOneLine.width

// Approximate new point size
let approxScaledPointSize: CGFloat = approxScaleFactor * label.font.pointSize

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Inside and out the administration, a campaign is underway to get the president to reverse course.
Just days after the president announced in a haphazard manner that his administration would be imposing new tariffs on steel and aluminum, Republican lawmakers came out in droves to warn about the negative consequences they foresaw.
Their message on Monday was clear: The tariffs not only wouldn't work, but they'd further endanger the party's already shaky grip on its congressional majorities.
It was, perhaps, the most profound policy break within the Republican party since Trump took office. And it threatened to trample much of the goodwill that the president has built up within the ranks. GOP lawmakers fretted that in pushing for punitive, broad-based tariffs, Trump would not only wipe out the benefits of the tax-cut package that he and others had been touting since its passage late last year, but he would also overshadow the party's positive economic message heading into this year's midterm elections.
Voters, the worry went, would reap the benefits of a tax cut in their paycheck, but they would surely notice the uptick in the price of consumer goods they purchase daily.
"If the American consumer and what they have saved from our tax plan—if that dissipates due to the higher prices they would have to pay for goods based on some of these tariffs because the corporation is not going to absorb these costs… it is a concern," said Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
Privately, the campaign to turn back Trump's policy before it started was even more aggressive. Politico reported that top economic adviser Gary Cohn was set to bring in top officials from industries that would be hurt by the tariffs to allow them to make their case directly to Trump. A source familiar with discussions, meanwhile, told The Daily Beast that Ryan talked directly with Trump since the Thursday announcement on tariffs to make his case against them. The source also said that frustration was mounting among congressional Republicans over how the issue was handled, with their main liaison to the White House—the Office of Legislative Affairs—appearing to have been left in the dark, and with Trump's adviser, Peter Navarro, seemingly given carte blanche to craft the policy.
On Capitol Hill, Republicans said they felt like they were re-litigating old debates over tariffs, including those passed in 2002—which, according to many independent studies, resulted in higher prices for consumers and job losses in the steel industry.
Trump is notably prone to vacillate between policy positions. So it's not inconceivable that private and public pressure for him to reverse course could work. But he has backed using the cudgel of tariffs since long before he ran for president. And those close to him say that he is as close to a true believer on this topic as he is on any.
Should he stay the course, there is little Congress could do to force his hand. And it's not likely that lawmakers will take any action on an item that has historically been under the executive branch's purview, even if they have a veto-proof majority.
They may have to live with it—electoral consequences and all. Flake, who has been critical of Trump on a number of fronts, said the new tariffs, if implemented, could make it harder for his counterparts to drive home a positive economic argument on the heels of the tax-code overhaul and the soaring stock market.


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Шарингол (монг.Шарын гол «жовта ріка» -- місто в аймаці Дархан на північ від Улан-Батора, Монголія. Робітниче селище при вугільному розрізі було створено 17 жовтня 1961 року, а у 1962 році отримав статус міста.

Населення
Площі міста – 160,6  км кВ, населення – 8116 чоловік (2009), щільність населення 50,5 люд на км кВ. Національний склад – халха-монголи (70,6%), казахи (17,1%), дербети (6,7%), урянхайці (1,9%), решта – 4,8%. Конфесійний склад – буддисти, мусульмани.

Економіка
Основу економіки міста становить вугільна галузь – найбільше у Монголії родовище енергетичного вугілля яке було відкрито у 1930-х роках, однак експлуатація розпочалась лише у 1961 році. Проектна потужність – понад мільйон тонн вугілля на рік. Однак у 1976-1980 році потужність зросла до 2,5 млн тонн, після припинення радянської допомоги видобуток  вугілля різко скоротився. У 2003 році добуто лише 600 тисяч тонн, після чого підприємство було виставлено на приватизацію і куплено російською компанією. Нові власники зобов'язались не лише відновити видобуток вугілля, а й налагодити попутне добування золота запаси якого тут складають 10 тонн. У 2010 році видобуток вугілля склав 1 млн тонн, а у 2013 році планувалось видобути 2,5 млн тонн.

Примітки

Міста Монголії

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Large driveway for parking. Only a short distance from Truro city.
Sublime former Vicarage and cottage overlooking the River Fal and just moments from central Truro. The property has been lovingly restored and updated by our clients to the highest of standards throughout, whilst retaining much charm and character but with some very cool, modern twists.
Its stunning riverside setting has been at the forefront of considerations during the design and building works, making the most of the excellent river views its position enjoys and which are available from the majority of rooms throughout the house and cottage. A large outside terrace is accessed from the entrance level, providing an excellent entertaining area and lovely views over the gardens and river. On the lower floor, a spectacular open plan kitchen, dining, living room area provides the most fantastic modern family or entertaining space with a cosy snug area and a woodburner for the evenings. This room opens directly out to the beautiful gardens via curved floor to ceiling, sliding glazed doors. On the two upper floors are seven bedrooms, the master being a fabulous large suite and the remainder each have their own en suite.
The attached cottage annexe is three storeys and provides three bedrooms, a large kitchen and a delightful sitting room. The current owners have let this on long term assured short-hold tenancies but it could also be lived in by a dependant relative or let for lucrative holiday letting.
The former Coach House is a detached two storey building. This has planning consent for conversion to a very comfortable 1 bedroom unit and a large amount of the building works have been completed by our clients. They have decided not to complete it as it provides a buyer with the option for either further accommodation or perhaps as an excellent office space for someone working from home.
The village of St Clement is the most idyllic setting, located approximately 1.5 miles south east of the city of Truro, on the banks of the Tresillian River, a tributary of the River Fal. Designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, St Clement is also a site of Specific Scientific Interest and The Old Vicarage enjoys the most delightful position within it, having stunning views of the river and and countryside beyond.
From the nearby river bank, you can gain access to the river and enjoy sailing, kayaking, rowing, paddle boarding and other water sports.
The nearby city of Truro offers a great range of shops, schools, sporting facilities and businesses. Transport links include regular trains direct to London Paddington and Newquay Airport is only 20 miles away, providing daily flights to Gatwick Airport, as well as other locations within the UK and beyond.
The gardens are something very special indeed. These have been lovingly tended with the pond being the focal feature. To the rear, is a beautiful enclosed garden with raised beds for vegetables and plants, as well as a greenhouse. A further outbuilding within the grounds is ideal for storage and may have potential to become an office. There is parking for multiple cars.


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The Savannah-Slany Torah Connection
Posted on November 6, 2013 by Head Yenta
I promised you another coincidental Torah tale last week, and this yenta keeps her word. It's a perfect story to honor all the soldiers who fought in WWII and veterans everywhere:
Mr. Herbert Victor with the Slany Torah
We have a Torah in the ark at Congregation Mickve Israel that comes from a trove of over 1500 scrolls recovered from Prague after WWII. Known as "The Holocaust Torahs," they had been gathered up by Czech Jews as the Nazis made their horrific way across Europe and stored in a "museum" for the Germans. Most of those brave souls perished in Terezin and Auschwitz, but the Torahs survived and were moved to London in 1964.
From there the Holocaust Torahs have been distributed to synagogues around the globe as part of the Memorial Scrolls Trust — "on long term loan," explains MI matriarch and mameleh Phoebe Kerness in an article she wrote for the temple newsletter. The communities they once belonged to destroyed forever, the scrolls were adopted by their new stewards "with the stipulation that they play a prominent and meaningful part in the religious and educational life of the institutions responsible for their safekeeping and condition."
Our Torah comes from the little Bohemian town of Slany, about 12 miles northwest of Prague, and was scribed in 1890. Indeed, it has played a prominent and meaningful part of Jewish life in Savannah since it arrived in 1968: The Slany Torah is carried through the sanctuary and read from every Saturday. It's recently been refurbished and re-koshered in Florida, thanks to the efforts Phoebe and her husband, Jules.
But it wasn't until last summer that congregant Kerri Rosen actually asked, "Where is Slany, anyway?"
The former synagogue in Slany, Czech Republic, now a police station.
And thus began the adventure: Historian and Sunday School teacher supreme Teresa Victor found that the Jews of Slany has been expelled in 1458 but returned a few hundred years later to build a prominent synagogue in 1865. That part of Europe was never particularly friendly to our kind, and the population declined by 1930. In 1942, the remaining 81 Jews in Slany were rounded up for the camps. There are no Jews there today. The former synagogue now houses the police department.
Ms. Victor also discovered that in March 1945, the Eighth Air Force of the United States fought a bloody battle near Prague, bringing down a B-17 bomber over Slany and killing eight airmen. Here comes the meshuggeh part:
This plane came from a squadron known as "The Mighty Eighth," founded in Savannah and referred to as "the greatest air armada in history." The Eighth's soldiers earned 17 Medals of Honor, 220 Distinguished Service Crosses, 850 Silver Stars, 7,000 Purple Hearts 46,000 Air Medals — and also suffered half of the entire casualty of the entire war. All were American heroes, and eight of them began their last journey from right here in Savannah, Georgia to die fighting in the town of Slany.
The temple contacted Mickve Israel bar mitzvah boy and former El Yenta Man compatriot Jeffrey Young, who defected from Savannah for Prague after college and has been living la vie bohème ever since. Young took the ten-minute trip to Slany and found the memorial built from the wreckage of the plane that reads "In memory of the crew of the American B-17 bomber shot down at this spot on 2 March 1945."
The Slany memorial to the fallen soldiers of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, based out of Savannah, GA.
Our rabbi Robert Haas traveled there this summer to see it, and all of us are marveling at the serendipity: Savannah honors its Slany Torah, and Slany honors Savannah's fallen soldiers.
This Saturday for Veterans Day weekend, Mickve Israel is holding a special Shabbat service at the sublime chapel at the Mighty Eighth Museum (which happens to be one of the most stupendous installations in the land.) The Slany Scroll will be there; reservations are required.
So how's that for interconnectedness? Some may call it coincidence, others the work of the Divine. All I know is that the next time Little Yenta Girl is called up to undress the Slany Torah, her hands had better not be sticky.
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Christopher Draper on February 27, 2016 at 9:54 am said:
I'm researching a guy called "Francis Kapper" born Slany approx 1858 who emigrated to England around 1886. I believe his family were Jews but I cannot find any records. Can you help at all. He had a fascinating life in England!


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Like a demon wearing a porcelain mask that sits on your shoulder, whispering sweet crypticisms in your ear, Camilla Grudova's The Doll's Alphabet captures the alluring texture of nightmares. Though neither horror nor fantasy in any traditional sense, the stories that make up this collection, Grudova's first, are otherworldly and thoroughly unsettling. Little girls summon up angels and perversions through a modified sewing machine, becoming ill from lust. A woman discards the remains of her old life in order to accept her canine inclinations. The owner of an antiques shop tries to set up his reclusive brother with a mermaid. Haunted by images of sewing machines and tins of sardines, the stories chart the lives of characters, primarily women, who dwell in the nooks and crannies of organized society. The description on the book's back cover calls the stories "a marriage of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter," but I'm also reminded of George Orwell's nonfictional accounts of urban destitution, if glimpsed through a wonky fun-house mirror. The characters in "Rhinoceros," for instance, rarely see animals in real life, and must content themselves with the cartoonish depictions on candy wrappers and tins of food, which they cherish, while the narrator of "Waxy" opens her story by telling us that her "new bedroom was an old kitchen;" her landlord suggests she use the broken refrigerator as a wardrobe (29). The world which this narrator describes is particularly horrifying. Women must construct their lives around getting and keeping a Man: "to find a Man who had enough Exam prize money and also wanted to have children, that was the Goal of Life" (41). The narrator, whose Factory job is to write the word "Nightingale" on sewing machines, tells us how as a pre-pubescent girl she had to sleep with predatory Men as 'practice,' so that she would know good Men from bad Men when it came to settling down. "Once in a while a girl died from the pain, so you had to be careful and not be too young or careless. It could also cause Nightmares, and a Man did not want to settle down with a girl who had Nightmares or was nervous. Men liked stability and ease most of all" (43). When she does eventually find a young Man named Paul, he is without papers, and thus incapable of earning Exam prize money. She takes care of him nonetheless, while Paul, ultimately, can only take care of her by brutalizing another woman.
What makes this story, and the whole collection in general, so sinister is that, unlike Atwood and Orwell, Grudova provides no explanation as to why her fictional world works in the way that it does, what systems of power necessitate such meager lives. Instead, the emotional and visual tone of the stories is that of an atemporal decay, of no-time and all-time, suggestive of the moment when cultural decadence gives way to an aesthetically-impoverished malaise. There is the sense that a patina of dust covers all the world of the book, and you can never escape the realization that the dust is entirely made up of flakes of human skin. In "Agata's Machine," Grudova actually describes an attic in this way: the floor "was dirty, covered with peeling linoleum, carpet, and patches of wood, a repulsive mixture that reminded me of bandages that needed to be changed and the flaky, scabby skin underneath" (66). I had to read this description several times over, I was so in awe that someone had conjured up a metaphor so unbearably tactile I could feel it under my fingernails. The material 'stuff' of the world is resplendently described throughout the thirteen stories of the collection, from the fur coats "which hung like giants' beards" in "The Moth Emporium" (135), to the "shop teeming with unclean life" in "The Sad Tale of the Sconce" (100). In some instances the details border on excessive, particularly in the oft-utilized list format, which seems to have moved from a potential writing tick into an obsession. Nevertheless, these are stories that will linger with you. Their amorality tempts interpretation, while denying straightforward answers. Grudova's characters, despite their often impoverished lives, do not protest or resist outright, but survive by unstitching themselves, molting away all the artificiality, finding ways to maintain their dreams of one day living in a house made out of a cracker tin.
The Doll's Alphabet
by Camilla Grudova's
Coach House Books, 160pp., $19.95
Erin Della Mattia is a writer and doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is also the managing editor of Sewer Lid, an online journal of urban art and literature.
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Najveći uspjeh postigao je na juniorskim svjetskim prvenstvima. 2019. godine bio je prvi u momčadskoj konkurenciji u Lahtiju te u Oberwiesenthalu 2020. kad je obranio momčadski naslov prvaka te bio brončani u mješovitoj konkurenciji. Natjecao se i u Alpskom kupu u kojem je 24. i 25. veljače 2018. bio drugi (HS102) i prvi (momčadski, HS80) na Planici. Također se natjecao u Kontinentalnom kupu i FIS kupu.

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The ride-hailing firm won one battle when it pushed U.S. giant Uber out of Southeast Asia. Much of its latest $1 bln funding round will be spent in Indonesia, where Grab is up against local rival Go-Jek. That country is where the region's tech landgrabs will be won or lost.
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab said on Aug 2 that it had raised $1 billion of new investment to help expand its business in Indonesia. The company said the funding round, worth a total of $2 billion including a previous investment by Toyota Motor, was supported by institutions like OppenheimerFunds, Ping An Capital, Mirae Asset – Naver Asia Growth fund and Macquarie Capital. After the injection, the value of the Singapore-based group rose to roughly $11 billion, sources familiar with the matter said.
Toyota said in June that it would invest $1 billion in Grab.
In March, Grab bought Uber's Southeast Asian business, handing its U.S. rival a 27.5 percent stake in the enlarged company. Singapore's competition commission has since said the tie-up harmed competition and is considering remedies. Grab has said it disagrees.


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When Mars is transited over by Saturn then there are many changes which come in the life of a native related to his anger, passion etc. One`s approach towards life changes a bit and more cal and cool attitude may be taken by him. One sees delays and dejections if he tries to be very fast and dominating and gets frustrated due to it. One may become dull an lack drive for his passions or goals but later on things get better and one understands in a better way about how to go about things and people in general. This is a very good time to go to gym or do Yogic exercises.


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It involves manipulating the EXIF data, however, the ExifInterface() being used, requires the image to be saved to the phone, and then it uses the absolute file path.
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For me, it's all about what raises the hair on the back of my neck.
This week, Ryan Spellman shares the story of his journey toward a naturalistic spirituality.
Throughout my life I have gone through several phases of spiritual evolution. In my youth, my first step seems to have been a time of rebellion. During this time, I was seeking to divorce myself from the Christian religious views forced upon me as a child. I've never harbored any ill feelings toward Christianity, it's just something that never worked for me. From there, I began to grow and found myself experimenting with paganism, which eventually led to an interest in Teutonic traditions. Something about it felt right, so I soon got in touch with a community of Asatruar. I truly felt at home and continued to work with them for years. About midway through this period of my life, I had what was at first a very exciting, and later heart-wrenching, realization.
I cannot remember when it struck me exactly, but I do remember it being one of those "eureka!" moments. I had already started making my way toward the discovery that the gods and goddesses were not supernatural, external beings for me. As these thoughts began creeping in, I started to develop concerns regarding what others would think about such views. Would they accept my personal understanding of the gods, goddesses and ritual as being introspective/psychological rather than metaphysical? For a time, these concerns had me turning a blind eye to my true feelings. It was in the middle of this mental struggle that I had an epiphany. So what if I didn't see anything supernatural in what I was doing? Essentially, what I had done was discover how the universe speaks to me.
There is nothing supernatural about it, and there is not a single thing wrong with that. I had found something that resonates within me. The ritual, myths and lore had become a very important part of my growth over the past four years and would continue to for many more.
Following this discovery, I knew that I had to be honest with everyone. No matter what the response might be, it was important to be true to myself and open about my views.
As it turns out, not many pagans have similar ideologies – which was to be expected. However, most of those that had come to know me still respect me, and are comfortable with me being around during their functions. I have run into several folks who seem to take offense to such naturalistic views, but it is something I'll get used to. The important thing is that I have come to such a deep understanding of myself and my spirituality.
The largest argument that comes up is the question, "Why bother?" To paraphrase a response I once had: With views such as these, any fictional world would work just as well. They weren't entirely off the mark, but the deep psychological connection I have to Teutonic mythology was missed in this statement. For me, it's all about what raises the hair on the back of my neck. It always makes me think back on a writing I read when I was in my teens by Anton LaVey entitled The Combination Lock Principle. In it, he stresses the importance of finding the right "tumblers" and getting them to fall into place. Of course, he was likely working toward a more metaphysical slant than I, but the general principle is the same.
Honoring the gods and goddesses is a way I can connect on a deep psychological level with different aspects of the natural world around me. This connection is obtainable without metaphor, but those moments tend to be spontaneous. With ritual, those times of connection are controllable. It doesn't stop at the gods and goddesses, either. Similarly, the runes are outstanding tools for reflection and meditation. The myths and lore provide avenues of self-exploration and solid advice on how to live a good life. So much of what I found within Asatru still speaks strongly to me. Even though I don't call myself Asatru any longer due to such a philosophical deviation from the norm, I still hew tightly to its traditions. Through them, the universe speaks to me.
Ryan, were there any specific experiences of people reacting negatively to your views that you wish to share? How did you get over those experiences?
My personal negative experiences are actually limited to the one incident I already mentioned, where I had both the "what's the point" question posed and even someone chime in with "cheap hobby" as a reason. It was pretty hard to deal with at first, as I wasn't expecting such harsh responses. But I got over it once I realized how hard it would be for them to understand, coming from such a different mindset.
A lot of the other reactions I found were from just reading discussions online. One of the first things I started to do was look for others with the same ideas as myself. Online discussions can be somewhat disheartening! I saw various comments about not having literal belief in the gods and goddesses that were very negative ("hangers-on" and "poser" for example). But I also came across others that were more encouraging.
I'm discovering that explaining it in person makes all the difference. So far, everyone I have spoken with about it seem very understanding. Something else that has helped is to redefine myself a little. I'm not trying to fit into a mold – what I'm doing is very personal. I think adding "naturalistic" in with a description of my beliefs, (and avoiding the term Asatru altogether), helps get people on the right track to understanding where I'm coming from. This way there is no shock when they find out I view things so differently (or perhaps similarly in some cases).
Yeah, online discussions seem to empower people to be total jerks more than in real life.
I actually fell into Paganism thinking that literal belief in gods was somewhat of a rarity. When I read definitions of magic like "the art of changing consciousness at will", it sounded pretty naturalistic. Whenever the "archetypes" interpretation of gods came up it seemed consistent with that. And when Pagans said their gods were "natural" I took them at face value. Only gradually did it finally dawn on me that my naturalistic view wasn't in the majority.
Like I think I've seen mentioned before – the minority issue could change once more people see there are others with similar ideas out there. One never knows… there could be more of us out there than we realize.
I know it made me feel much better when I discovered an article about naturalistic paganism on WPM's site ( http://www.pantheism.net/pagan.htm ), and later Humanistic Paganism. Good to know I'm not alone!
That's the mission of this site. Good to know it's doing its job!


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On Fox News Sunday, Williams Says Opposition to Obama Is 'Old, White' Tea Party
By Tom Blumer | August 4, 2014 6:46 PM EDT
It would almost not be worth noting, because it's so predictable. On Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams, with strategic support at opportune times from National Journal's Ron Fournier, characterized the support within the Republican Party for impeachment as coming from "Tea Party opposition ... (with) no diversity, it's a white, older group of people."
What makes it worthy of notice is the fact that Michael Needham, head of Heritage Action for America, called out Williams for his comments and held his own as Fournier attempted to be the supposed voice of reason while really bringing aid and comfort to Williams. Video and a transcript follow the jump:
Here's the video:
Transcript (some edits to the rushed original found at Fox have been made to better reflect what was actually said; bolds are mine):
CHRIS WALLACE: Michael, you heard and we played the clip just now of Speaker Boehner basically saying that impeachment is off the table. The words he used are, "I have no plans, I have no future plans." Is that true, or as someone who is in touch with the grassroots conservative movement around the country, is there some push for impeachment -- that's one -- and two, if, as we posited, and it seems very likely the president takes some dramatic action to defer deportations for millions of more people, what happens then in terms of impeachment?
MICHAEL NEEDHAM: Well, I think the speaker is largely right that the only people or the people talking primarily talking about impeachment are fundraisers at the DCCC. As Ron just said, it's the same thing that the RNC did six, eight years ago, when Democrats were talking about impeaching President Bush. Look, the trouble with a lawless president is it's very difficult to constrain him because he doesn't care about the law. You have a president right now who is totally out of control, totally--
RON FOURNIER: He's a lawless president? Is that really a phrase you want to use? He's a lawless president?
NEEDHAM: He can't get a carbon tax through the Congress, so he decides to impose it through the EPA. ObamaCare is falling apart. It's totally unworkable, so he decides to unilaterally change the law. The IRS is totally out of control, targeting conservatives, using all sorts of expletives to describe conservatives. This is a president that is totally out of control. And trying to find a mechanism to constrain him is difficult.
WALLACE: But isn't in fact one of the reasons that House Republicans are pushing this lawsuit is because they are trying to have a pressure valve against the fact that a lot of grassroots folks that I'm sure you're in touch with, really want to go for impeachment?
NEEDHAM: No, I think they are trying to find a way to constrain a lawless president. And so I think that when you look at what Jim Jordan is doing with the investigation into the IRS, which is fantastic, that is one mechanism that they have, the power of the purse, is one mechanism that they have that they have tried to use. They are filing a lawsuit because the president of the United States is unilaterally changing the law. I think 40 different times with regards to Obamacare. This is a lawless administration, and trying to find a tool within the rule of law to constrain it is a challenge, frustrating challenge.
WALLACE: Juan?
JUAN WILLIAMS: Well, I think you listen to Michael and you understand why there are lots of Republicans who think this man is a demon. This guy is awful. We got to get this guy out of here any way we can. He's breaking the law.
I don't agree with a lot of the points you are making, Michael, but I hear this on talk radio. I hear this in conservative columns that people are saying we think this guy is way over the line. And then they say "oh, yes, we got to find a way to get him." Then you hear from Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, others, yes, we use the impeachment word. And then you come on and say, "oh, no, we're not talking about impeachment, that's the Democrats." All the Democrats are doing is taking advantage of the fact that you guys have demonized President Obama to this extent, because not only does it help them with fundraising, lots of people, especially in the minority communities, see it as an attack on the first black president. Think it's unfair. And so it's going to spur their turnout in the mid-terms, which is going to be critical in several races.
WALLACE: Wait a second, I want to pick up on exactly that point. Do you think that the Republican opposition to this president, you heard Hakeem Jeffries talk about hatred, is racial, or do you think it is based on principles and policies?
WILLIAMS: Well, all I can do is look at the numbers. If you look at the core constituency, the people who are in let's say Tea Party opposition, support of impeachment, there's no diversity, it's a white, older group of people. As to whether or not it's racial, look, President Obama and others have said there are some people who don't like him because of his race; some people who do like him. But I would say if you just break it down as a matter of political analysis and say who is this group, it reminds me that the Republican Party has become almost a completely white party.
NEEDHAM: Chris, if you were to open up your dictionary to the word irony, you would find Juan Williams in there claiming I am demonizing people because I am saying the president of the United States is lawless, which by the way the has Supreme Court agreed with.
NEEDHAM: That's a ridiculous ironic statement. You're the one demonizing people who are concerned about the fact that we have a crisis of the Constitution, with Jonathan Turley, a liberal law professor, just testifying in the last couple of weeks, you are the one demonizing. You're demonizing good people who are concerned about a president who's weak and out of control.
WILLIAMS: Look, we had a principled argument about President Obama's actions and use of executive actions and authority. But you call him lawless as if he's an outlaw. As if, you know, you have him riding the range. We got to go get that guy.
KIM STRASSEL, WALL STREET JOURNAL: I think with 9-0 at the Supreme Court -
WILLIAMS: The people who want him impeached, they are almost all white and they are all older and guess what, they are all in the far right wing of the Republican Party.
NEEDHAM: And he might as well have said they are all racists. That's ridiculous.
KIM STRASSEL, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Look, I think what this underestimates is the amount of consideration that actually went into this lawsuit that has been brought against the president. I mean, the Republicans did sit down and had a discussion with a lot of legal scholars about has what the president done risen to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. You saw Paul Ryan come out this week and say of course it does not. But there have nonetheless been grave violations of the Constitution and the law, and this is a way to go forward. They put together a lawsuit that's very narrowly tailored.
WALLACE: I have about 30 seconds left. The thing that strikes me about this is it was almost exactly ten years ago that Barack Obama made that speech at the Democratic National Convention that we don't have a red America, we don't have a blue America, we have a United States. We're a long way from there now, aren't we?
FOURNIER: And this discussion illustrates it. I know you guys don't mean this, but the way Americans are hearing this conversation, they hear you saying that our president is a criminal, and they hear you saying that Republicans are racists. What they want, I know it's not what you are saying, but that's what they are hearing. What they want are solutions.
NEEDHAM: I agree with Jonathan Turley.
WALLACE: You can file a footnote on this. Thank you, panel. See you next Sunday.
As odious as Williams's backhanded claims of racism were, Fournier's oh-so-expert interpretation of "what they hear you saying" was arguably worse.
Strassel had just gotten done saying that Obama's actions don't rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors (i.e., relatively minor crimes), as stated by Paul Ryan. Needham didn't disagree. But Fournier insisted that what people "hear you saying" is that Obama is a criminal. No Ron — you just wanted to make sure that the audience interpreted what was said in that way.
That said, Fournier got it half-right, because Juan Williams, in classic passive-aggressive fashion, was calling the Tea Party and President Obama's opponents racists, and Needham was dead right for rebutting him. Concern for the survival of the rule of law is completely unrelated to racism, and that's where the Tea Party's and so many other Americans' concerns properly lie.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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