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require 'spec_helper'

class TestModel
  attr_accessor :id, :custom

  def initialize(id, custom = nil)
    @id = id
    @custom = custom
  end
end

class TestActiveRecordModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name = 'ar_model'
end

describe RedisModel::Attribute do
  let(:parent_klass) { dynamic_class(TestModel) }

  before { parent_klass.send(:include, RedisModel::Attribute) }

  describe '.redis_model_attribute' do
    let(:attribute_name) { :my_counter }
    let(:attribute_type) { :counter }
    let(:test_id) { 'test' }

    it { expect { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }.to change { parent_klass.new(test_id).respond_to?(attribute_name) } }
    it { expect { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }.to change { parent_klass.new(test_id).respond_to?(:"#{attribute_name}=") } }

    context 'when belonged_to klass is defined' do
      let(:key_label) { parent_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).key_label }

      before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }

      it { expect(parent_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name)).to be_kind_of(RedisModel::BelongedTo) }
      it { expect(parent_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).class.included_modules).to include(RedisModel::Types::Counter) }
      it { expect(key_label).to end_with(test_id) }
      it { expect(key_label).to include(parent_klass.to_s.underscore) }
    end

    context 'when parent klass is inherited' do
      let(:child_klass) { dynamic_class(parent_klass) }

      it { expect { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }.to change { child_klass.new(test_id).respond_to?(attribute_name) } }
      it { expect { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }.to change { child_klass.new(test_id).respond_to?(:"#{attribute_name}=") } }

      context 'when belonged_to klass is defined' do
        before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }

        it { expect(parent_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).class).to eq(child_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).class) }
        it { expect(parent_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).key_label).to eq(child_klass.new(test_id).send(attribute_name).key_label) }
      end
    end

    context 'when foreign_key option is specified' do
      let(:custom_id) { 'customid' }
      let(:key_label) { parent_klass.new(test_id, custom_id).send(attribute_name).key_label }

      before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type, foreign_key: :custom }

      it { expect(key_label).to end_with(custom_id) }
      it { expect(key_label).to include(parent_klass.to_s.underscore) }
      it { expect(key_label).to end_with(custom_id) }
      it { expect(key_label).not_to end_with(test_id) }
    end

    describe '.redis_model_attributes' do
      it { expect(parent_klass.redis_model_attributes).to be_kind_of(RedisModel::Attribute::DefinitionHelper) }
      it { expect { parent_klass.redis_model_attributes { counter :my_counter } }.to change { parent_klass.new(test_id).methods } }
    end
  end

  describe RedisModel::Attribute::DefinitionHelper do
    let(:parent_klass) { dynamic_class(TestModel) }
    let(:definition_helper) { RedisModel::Attribute::DefinitionHelper.new parent_klass, {} }

    it { expect(definition_helper).to respond_to(:counter) }
    it { expect(definition_helper).to respond_to(:set) }
    it { expect(definition_helper).to respond_to(:sorted_set) }
    it { expect { definition_helper.counter :my_counter }.to change { parent_klass.new('test').methods } }
  end

  describe '#clear_redis_modeL_attributes' do
    let(:parent_klass) { dynamic_class(TestModel) }
    let(:attribute_name) { :my_counter }
    let(:attribute_type) { :counter }
    let(:test_id) { 'test' }
    let(:object) { parent_klass.new(test_id) }
    let(:redis_model_attribute) { object.send(attribute_name) }

    context 'when current class defines the attribute' do
      before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }
      before { redis_model_attribute.set(1) }

      it { expect { object.clear_redis_model_attributes }.to change { RedisModel::Base.connection.get(redis_model_attribute.key_label) }.to(nil) }
    end

    context 'when parent class defines the attribute' do
      let(:current_klass) { dynamic_class(parent_klass) }
      let(:object) { current_klass.new(test_id) }

      before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }
      before { redis_model_attribute.set(1) }

      it { expect { object.clear_redis_model_attributes }.to change { RedisModel::Base.connection.get(redis_model_attribute.key_label) }.to(nil) }
    end

    context 'when parent class is activerecord model' do
      let(:parent_klass) { dynamic_class(TestActiveRecordModel) }
      let(:object) { parent_klass.create }

      before { parent_klass.redis_model_attribute attribute_name, attribute_type }
      before { redis_model_attribute.set(1) }

      context 'when it is cleared explicitly' do
        it { expect { object.clear_redis_model_attributes }.to change { RedisModel::Base.connection.get(redis_model_attribute.key_label) }.to(nil) }
      end

      context 'when it is invoked via activerecord callback' do
        it { expect { object.destroy }.to change { RedisModel::Base.connection.get(redis_model_attribute.key_label) }.to(nil) }
      end
    end
  end
end

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Among the Sentinels
BY Mackenzie Tewksbury
Wilmington artist goes hunting for the trees
Pam Toll is quick to mention Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers' novel "The Overstory " which chronicles nine characters whose deep relationship with trees bring them together and ignites them with an even deeper desire to preserve the sacred creatures.
There is a Vietnam War veteran shot out of the sky only to be saved by falling into a banyan tree.
There is a scientist who discovers that trees can communicate with one another and devotes her life to studying the idea.
A college girl in the 1980s dies and comes back to life with a deeply rooted love for trees.
Then there is Toll a Wilmington artist whose own story and deep affection for trees has led her all over the world striving to capture the essence of the forest.
She says she has spent months in landscapes intrinsically linked to human narrative history and myth.
"I go hunting for the trees I go hunting for the ones I want to draw " Toll says.
During residencies in Ireland and Scotland in 2013 trees with entwined branches encircling earthen ring forts drew her attention as did
the spiraling oaks on a ridge above the Black Isle. It was in Scotland that she created Braided Tree.
Toll a native of Stillwater Oklahoma has been drawing since childhood saying she has always had a thing for trees.
"There was a whole forest behind us. Acres and acres of woods mostly pines with some hardwoods. When you went really deep in there there was a magnolia tree. As a kid it was like stepping into another world " Toll says.
The lifelong artist's voice warms when she speaks of the tarp her father bought to make a tent out in the woods in front of their house. She was allowed to go only so deep into the woods — but she always pushed the boundaries striving to see and experience more.
It's a love that has stood the test of time as Toll still spends time exploring the woods with her dog.
She mentions the book by Powers and singles out her favorite part: when two characters protest atop a tree until they are on the last standing one in the forest.
Her affinity for trees and nature has obviously influenced her artworks and they often provide a narrative.
"When I am making art I am putting my energy into it. It is physical. Then someone comes along and looks at it and I hope it strikes a chord " says Toll.
She normally creates sketches when she's out in nature and then comes back to her studio to respond to her experience.
"In my studio practice drawing is not distinctly separate from painting. But this body of work — a slice out of 10 years pursuing an energy around trees comes from a lifetime spent among them — is primarily about drawing " she says. While she says she often paints in oils on canvas her trees are mostly pastels drawn over acrylic washes on paper.
At some point my journey as an artist brought me home; to the primordial woods of Bald Head island — one third of the island is a natural reserve — and to the diminishing wetlands behind my house in Wilmington " says Toll.
Her works Summer and Untitled are both of the maritime forest on Bald Head Island.
Toll visited the 2 800-year old cypress trees on the Black River in June.
"I have taken so many pictures of trees that I want to draw including the trees that were destroyed by Hurricane Florence " she says.
Since the hurricane and the shift in landscape she finds herself missing particular trees. "Like the Siamese twin trees that bordered Bellevue Cemetery interlocked like vines just outside the fence. I wanted to draw those trees and now they are gone. Everywhere I look I see the ghosts of trees. I feel compelled to make these drawings which I hope resonate as portraits of living energy " says Toll.
Toll attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and obtained a degree in art and English literature as books often spark the same passion for her as art does. She moved to Wilmington in 1991 where she and four other artists joined forces to create Acme Art Studios a Wilmington collaborative art space that is now home to 22 artists. She also is an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her involvement in Paint The Future a program that partners international artists with impoverished children has also taken her to Brazil South Africa France and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Pat Bradford contributed to this story.
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Jesus' story of the Prodigal Son may not just be about God's lavish welcome of the son who goes and squanders his life… but also about those of us who have lived by the rules.
Is Your Life a Train Wreck?
Jesus could look at anyone and see the goodness in them. And we… can be like him.
Here we are again, friends. Another shooting at another holy place. Another person with an agenda of some sort, trying to prove a point. And then people die.
This time it was about white supremacy… but white supremacy isn't the basis of anything. It's just a branch on the tree of Hating Our Neighbor.
The Temptation of Jesus… and You.
Jesus is tempted in three different ways… or perhaps really just the one way. And yet he wanted something different. In our own lives, we can use new things and old things as temptations… distractions… from being present and kind to ourselves and others in our lives.
What is real humility? Can God use even the useless?
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The seat of the gingerbread bakery is in the tradition-steeped Johannis quarter of Nuremberg. Here, you'll find sacks of the finest spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and cardamom. Together with finely-ground almonds and nuts, honey, marzipan, sugar and eggs, they form the basis for Nuremberg "Elisen" Lebkuchen from Fraunholz.
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Here are some snazzy birthday facts about 3rd of July 1936 that no one tells you about. Don't wait a minute longer and jump in using the content links below. Average read time of 9 minutes. Enjoy!
What day was my birthday Jul 3, 1936?
July 3, 1936 was a Friday and it was the 185th day of the year 1936. It was the 27th Friday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1936 calendar will be in 2020. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.
What day is July 3 this year?
There are 75 days left before your next birthday. You will be 83 years old when that day comes. There have been 30,240 days from the day you were born up to today. If you've been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth, then you have slept a total of 10,080 days or 27.60 years. You spent 33% of your life sleeping. Since night and day always follow each other, there were precisely 1,024 full moons after you were born up to this day. How many of them did you see? The next full moon that you can see will be on April 19 at 11:14:00 GMT – Friday.
Fun stat: Your first one billion seconds (1,000,000,000) happened sometime on March 11, 1968.
If a dog named Ebony - a Standard Schnauzer breed, was born on the same date as you then it will be 389 dog years old today. A dog's first human year is equal to 15 dog years. Dogs age differently depending on breed and size. When you reach the age of 6 Ebony will be 42 dog years old. From that point forward a medium-sized dog like Ebony will age 4.5 dog years for every human year.
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Here's a short list of famous people in history who were born on Jul 3.
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What happened on my birthday – Jul 3rd?
Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigns until 1087.
Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.
World War II: In order to stop the ships from falling into German hands the French fleet of the Atlantic based at Mers El Kébir, is bombarded by the British fleet, coming from Gibraltar, causing the loss of three battleships: French battleship Dunkerque, French battleship Provence and French battleship Bretagne. One thousand two hundred sailors perish.
The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary.
Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party wins the general elections and is restored to power after being in opposition for 15 years.
Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
View the complete list of July 3 historical events.
What does my birthday July 3, 1936 mean?
Your birthday numbers 7, 3, and 1936 reveal that your Life Path number is 11. It is a master number that represents intuition, idealism and invention. You have the potential to be a source of inspiration and illumination for people.
The following celebrities also have the same life path number: Jackie Greene, George Canyon, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Afroman, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Winchell, Andrés Calamaro, Pat Benatar, Ayesha Takia, Ai Haruna.
What is the birthday horoscope for Jul 3, 1936?
The Western zodiac or sun sign of a person born on July 3 is Cancer ♋ (The Crab) – a cardinal sign with Water as Western element. The ruling planet is Moon – the celestial body of moods and emotions. According to the ancient art of Chinese astrology (or Eastern zodiac), Rat is the mythical animal and Fire is the Eastern element of a person born on July 3, 1936.
What is the birthstone for July 3?
Fun fact: The birth flower for 3rd July 1936 is Larkspur for haughtiness.
What is the Love Match for Jul 3, 1936?
When it comes to love and relationship, you are most compatible with a person born on May 24, 1964. You have a Love Match compatibility score of +175. Imagine being in love with your soul mate. On the negative side, you are most incompatible with a person born on September 14, 1907. Your incompatibility score is -120. You'll be like a cat and a dog on a love-hate relationship. Arf-arf, I want to bite you. Meow-meow, stay away from me!
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What is the popular baby name on 3 Jul 1936?
What's your bizarre Florida Man story? The #FloridaManChallenge is breaking the Internet and social media. Some crazy men, women, or creatures from the Sunshine State are making headlines every day of the year including your birthday. Try this fun exercise. Pick your search engine of choice and type in "florida man July 3" and see what kind of wild news headline you will get. This viral craze started in 2013 and gets resurrected now and then. The latest was from Tumblr and found its way to Twitter. As they say, the rest is history.
Here's a quick list of all the fun birthday facts about July 3, 1936. Celebrities, famous birthdays, historical events, and past life were excluded.
Try another birth date of someone you know or try the birthday of these celebrities: September 5, 1939 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008); February 28, 1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor; May 1, 1936 – Hans E. Wallman, Swedish director, producer, and composer (d. 2014).


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The Pallister government's deficit for 2017-18 is expected to be lower than projected despite a collapse in personal income tax revenue caused by changes to federal tax laws.
According to third-quarter figures from Manitoba Finance obtained by the Winnipeg Sun, the province is forecasting a core government deficit of $775 million for the current fiscal year, slightly below the projected budget shortfall of $779 million.
The province's bottom line is even rosier when it comes to government's summary budget, which includes outside agencies such as regional health authorities, school divisions and Crown corporations. Finance officials are now projecting a summary deficit of $726 million for 2017-18, well below the budgeted shortfall of $840 million.
The 2017-18 fiscal year ends March 31.
The improvement to government's bottom line comes despite an estimated $262-million loss in provincial income-tax revenue this year triggered by changes to federal tax rates in 2016. The Trudeau government increased the top federal tax rate for income above $200,000 to 33% from 29%. That caused a short-term surge in tax revenue for provinces as high-income earners reported more of their income before the new tax rate took effect. But it had the opposite effect in subsequent years as less high-income revenue was reported for legitimate tax-planning reasons.
Meanwhile, the province is also writing down an estimated $50 million worth of assets it had not budgeted for, including out-of-date computer software that is no longer applicable as government switches to a new system-wide operating system. Removing those assets from the balance sheet will add to the deficit.
Despite that, robust expenditure controls and otherwise healthy revenue increases – including from retail sales tax – have resulted in an overall improvement to government's finances, according to third-quarter figures.
Nine of 12 government departments are expected to come in under budget this year, including Manitoba Health which will spend $138 million less than budgeted. Even on a summary basis, which includes RHAs, the health budget is expected to beat its original spending projection by $48 million.
That will likely draw the ire of critics who say the below budget spending in health is further evidence that cuts in areas such as out-patient physiotherapy and sleep apnea treatment were unnecessary. Nevertheless, even with the underspending, overall health expenditures are still up substantially over the past two years.
Also according to the third quarter report, the Department of Families overspent its budget. But that's due to increased revenues from Ottawa for federal child care funding, a portion of which had to be spent in the 2017-18 fiscal year. Spending was also higher than expected in emergency operations due to flooding and forest fires in northern Manitoba.
The province also got a significant boost this year from the Manitoba Agricultural Service Corporation, a provincial Crown corporation that provides supports to agricultural producers, including crop insurance and loans. It's projecting to be ahead of budget by $166 million due to a favourable crop year in 2017. The MASC surplus is one of the chief reasons the summary budget deficit dropped as much as it did compared to core government operations.
If the $726-million summary deficit numbers hold for 2017-18, the shortfall is expected to be low enough to comply with the Pallister government's balanced budget legislation. Under the Fiscal Responsibility and Taxpayer Protection Act, government must reduce the summary deficit by at least $100 million a year or cabinet ministers face a pay cut of up to 20%.
By contrast, at $775 million, the core government deficit rose slightly from $697 million in 2016-17, although that was due largely to the anomaly around income-tax revenues triggered by the federal tax changes. The balanced budget legislation uses the summary deficit, not core, to determine whether government is in compliance with the act.
What is expected to help the Pallister government's bottom line in 2018-19 when Finance Minister Cameron Friesen brings down his third budget Monday is a $217-million increase in equalization payments from Ottawa. New carbon tax revenue, projected to generate some $260 million a year, will also boost revenues, although that's expected to be offset to some degree by income-tax cuts. There will likely be some revenues associated with marijuana sales this year, but Friesen has already said there will be no line budget for pot tax revenue in the 2018 budget.
The deficit is expected to be further reduced in 2018-19.


An extensive police search continued for its fourth day Thursday to find and identify the masked gunman who shot Oheka Castle owner Gary Melius in the head Monday while he sat in his car in a parking lot at the palatial mansion estate-turned-luxury hotel in Huntington.
Melius, 69, who is known as a power broker among local politicians—frequently hosting galas and card games at the 109,000-square-foot French-style chateau with guests including former U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato and Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano—was shot at point-blank range Monday as he sat in his car in the valet parking lot of his castle. He was about to leave to meet D'Amato for lunch at a local restaurant around 12:30 p.m. when one of several bullets fired through his car window struck his head.
The assailant reportedly sped away in a Jeep Cherokee.
Melius underwent surgery Monday at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospital in Manhasset and has been visited by a steady stream of elected officials and family members, including Mangano, D'Amato, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota (although the latter may have been there to speak with Melius about the case).
Since the attack, Suffolk County police have vowed to investigate "every aspect" of Melius' private and professional life, including his business and personal relationships. They've maintained a constant presence outside Melius' hospital room, have set up checkpoints around Oheka Castle to question motorists and have been reviewing surveillance tapes taken at the scene.
That footage reportedly shows the incident as it unfolded but did not capture the gunman's face.
Suffolk police said Thursday that the checkpoints may continue periodically throughout the week ahead and that police will continue to guard Melius' hospital room "as a matter of protocol." They declined to comment on published reports that surveillance footage had also spotted a black sedan arriving at the scene just prior to the attack, or provide any additional details regarding the shooting.
Besides the site of high stakes poker games, Oheka Castle, the former estate of financial tycoon Otto Kahn, has also been host to many high-profile weddings, such as that of the disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner and Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin (which was officiated by former President Bill Clinton), and Kevin Jonas of The Jonas Brothers.
Melius, also a developer, has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle throughout the decades. He made headlines last December when he called in a favor with then-Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Dale to request that a Roosevelt resident named Randy White be charged with perjury in an election lawsuit concerning a Nassau County executive candidate that he had bankrolled.
Dale ordered the arrest of the young man on an open warrant for an unpaid $250 fine, and then abruptly resigned when Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice released a report raising concerns about a detective who had served White a subpoena to re-testify in the election lawsuit while he was still in police custody.
Melius has also weathered his own share of financial hardships. He was once nearly $6 million in debt, according to the Daily News, and reportedly defaulted on a multi-million-dollar loan for the castle before renegotiating its nearly $30 million mortgage.


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Another Shameless Season May Lead To A Shameless New Beginning
Posted by rainbowchair on April 8, 2013
Posted in: Entertainment, Television.	Tagged: alcohol, alcoholic, blackout, Cameron Monaghan, Carl Gallagher, cigarettes, enlist in the army, entertainment, Ethan Cutkosky, failing health, failing helth, father son moment, finale, Frank can't drink, Frank Gallagher, High School diploma, Hyme, Ian Gallagher, INS holding, Jeremy Allen White, Jimmy, Jody, karen, Laura Wiggins, leaving, Lip Gallagher, Mickey Milkovich, Noel Fisher, orangechair, pot, running away, Season 3, Shameless, Showtime, Steve, television, the Gallaghers, weed, William H. Macy, Zach McGowan.	Leave a comment
This season of Shameless truly lived up to its name, as it always does. This season included but was not limited to three month blackouts, fake molestation, attacking someone with a car, stealing a dead body and all the alcohol, pot and cigarettes you can imagine. Last night the finale of season three aired on Showtime leaving us with something to think about all summer.
There are going to be a lot of spoilers here but that should have been obvious considering I'm talking about a season finale. This episode features our first Gallagher graduation as Lip (Jeremy Allen White) receives his High School diploma. In one of the show's true curve balls Lip ends up celebrating his graduation by drinking all day with his father, Frank (William H. Macy). In some of the most charming scenes of the season, the show's two biggest enemies, Lip and Frank, finally have a father/son moment. The past two episodes have been very important episodes for Frank. For the first time Frank actually shows some support for his kids. First Frank takes the blame for Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) to the cops and now he is legitimately proud of Lip and wants to spend time with him. This drastic character change goes along with the finale's biggest plot point, Frank's health. After collapsing in jail and later throwing up blood Frank is told that if he does not stop drinking he will die.
The theme of the rest of the episode seems to be running away or leaving. Karen (Laura Wiggins) who now has the inability to feel emotion, and Jody (Zach McGowan) leave with Hyme for Arizona in the hopes of healing Karen faster. After Mickey Milkovich (Noel Fisher) gets married to a prostitute, a heartbroken Ian (Cameron Monaghan) decides to enlist in the army with a fake ID. Jimmy does not appear at all in the episode. Last time we saw him he was getting onto his father in-law's boat. With his wife, a drug lord's daughter, in INS holding Steve's life is in danger from her angry father. While I love what the show did with Frank I am really not happy with what is going on with Jimmy/Steve. I have no problem with them using him as a cliff hanger but they gave us absolutely no information about what happened to him which I think is a cop out. They should have at least shown something about him, not just keep him off screen for a whole episode. It makes me wonder if the writers accidentally wrote themselves into a corner. They got Steve in a bad situation but are not sure if they can kill off such a huge character.
Ultimately this was another great season of Shameless but this finale suggests that the next season could be a very different show. With characters disappearing and moving the show is either expanding its locations or finding new cast members. What is really going to change the show is Frank's impending health issues. A sober Frank Gallagher will alter the very structure of the show. I thought this was a B+ season and can not wait to see what happens to the Gallaghers next year.
Shameless: Living Up To Its Name With Every Episode
Posted by rainbowchair on January 10, 2012
Posted in: Entertainment, Television.	Tagged: Cameron Monaghan, Carl Gallagher, Debbie Gallagher, Emma Kenney, Emmy Rossum, Ethan Cutkosky, Fiona Gallagher, Frank Gallagher, Ian Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, Justin Chatwin, Liam Gallagher, Lip Gallagher, Shameless, Shanola Hampton, Showtime, William H. Macy.	Leave a comment
SPOILER ALERT: Code Yellow, the following article may spoil events from Season One of Shameless
Last night, Showtime's drunken hit Shameless staggered its way back on the air. The show, as always, hit with full force, amply equipped with the alcohol, sex, violence, comedy and dysfunction for which it has become known. The show continues to build its dialogue with a dark, dry humor at the base of its foundation, a humor that in all honesty is not for everybody. If you can stomach and find the humor in the charmingly dysfunctional family that always manages to band together and beat the odds, then the second season featuring the Gallagher family is certainly one to keep an eye on.
The entire cast of crazy characters return with the notable exception of Steve (Justin Chatwin), the eldest Gallagher's, Fiona (Emmy Rossum), lost love interest from the first season. Commercials have made it no secret that Steve's absence and possible return will become a plot point in Fiona's life but if she is missing him now, she barely shows it in the season opener. Working at a bar we have never seen before, Fiona and Veronica (Shanola Hampton) now work as a waitress and a bartender respectively. Fiona has a new guy who she only seems interested in hooking-up with, an obvious rebound. Fiona is also neighbors with Tony, the cop who is in love with her. Beyond working night shifts and trying to create a love life, the Gallagher's have also opened a daycare for neighborhood kids in their own house. Fiona is awake when the kids are dropped off and picked up but in between she sleeps. This leaves the kids in the oddly capable hands of young Debbie Gallagher (Emma Kenney), who the job is perfect for, and Carl Gallagher (Ethan Cutkosky) who plays with the kids.
The other two Gallagher children, Lip (Jeremy Allen White) and Ian (Cameron Monaghan), return with their own slough of problems. Ian's boyfriend/hook-up/confused friend Mickey remains in jail while Ian still works at the Kash and Grab convenient store. Tension at work is high, ever since Kash's wife (Kash and his wife own the store) caught Ian and Kash having an affair. Blackmailed to stay in the marriage, Kash is now living a lie with a pregnant wife. Lip returns as well, the charmingly brilliant teenager who always seems to be elbow deep in some elaborate plot. Out first glimpse of Lip is a bloody beating in which Lip takes every blow and deals out none. The fight ends up being a part of a fight night Lip himself hosted to make some cash. The episode continues to reveal that Lip is involved in a number of different money making schemes including selling pot to a college professor, making devices that track the locations of cop cars and an ice cream truck that sells much more than just ice cream. As always, the future holds a lot for Lip, be it advanced courses at a local college or more elaborate plans to make enough money to keep the Gallagher household running.
And then there was Frank. William H. Macy returns as the drunk, pathetic, shameless man, playing the role with such skill that you can practically smell the alcohol stench wafting from the television. Still living with the agoraphobic Sheila (Joan Cusack) and ignoring his family, Frank spends the episode five beers ahead of sobriety and a hair's breadth away from trouble. Frank is clearly still happy to let his family fend for themselves while drinking away every penny he can get his hands on. In the past, Frank has proven over and over again that the show is truly named for him but in the second season opener, Frank hits an all time low. A drunken bet and the events that follow lead Frank to leave Liam (the youngest Gallagher) as collateral for ten thousand dollars instead of having his own toes cut off. Frank, as hilarious as he is despicable, promises a season of drunken ridiculousness that will rival his emotional and physical wake of destruction from Season One.
The show has the same tone, feel, characters and comedic atmosphere of the first season but there is one drastic change. The first season put the Gallagher's in the middle of Chicago's frigid winter. This season does the exact opposite, taking place in the midst of Chicago's hot, humid summer. The weather does nothing to dampen the Gallagher spirit however and, as they often do, the episode ends with the kids banding together to get the family out of a tight spot. The show really isn't about the shameless father; it is about how these amazing children can rely on one another to live and survive. This single episode promises a season that should rival if not surpass the first. I'll give the episode as a whole an 8 out of 10 and though it is dark, dirty and twisted, I take no shame in saying I will be counting down the days until each new episode of Season 2 airs.


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The troubled history of the palazzina of Marfisa d'Este. At the bottom of corso Giovecca stands the Palazzina of Marfisa d'Este: a noble and harmoniou...
Num. 5
N. 5 - 12/1996
Ancient splendours, vicissitudes of a Renaissance pleasaunce
The rebirth of the garden that doesn't exist
The Estense Prize
The bicycle (in Ferrarese dialect, la biga)
From the bowels of the archives
Francesco Viviani: a legendary teacher
Acoustics: a Project for the Technological Park
Towards a Green Revolution
A Winning Bet
A Noblewoman between Two Courts
Navale Assicurazioni, Insurers to Ferrara
The Artist and the City: to Stay or to Go?
Land Reclamation Today
Gaetano Recchi, Founder of the Savings Bank
Eighteenth Century in Ferrara
Per Santa Maria in Vado
La funzione della Fondazione
Pianeta Cassa
Prospettive per un risparmio europeo
Redazione e crediti fotografici
Written by Anna Maria Visser Travagli
The troubled history of the palazzina of Marfisa d'Este.
At the bottom of corso Giovecca stands the Palazzina of Marfisa d'Este: a noble and harmonious building, its architecture is imbued with a sense of moderate, contained rhythm. It was built in the mid Seventeenth century by order of Francesco I d'Este, the third son of Alfonso I and Lucrezia Borgia.
The structure was part of a grand urban plan boldly conceived by Francesco d'Este. Already the owner of palazzo Schifanoia, with the construction of the Palazzina on via Giovecca and the subsequent acquisition of Palazzo Neroni on via Cisterna del Follo, Francesco's plan was to integrate the gardens and green spaces linking all three buildings thus imposing a rational organization on the whole south-eastern side of the city, still largely innocent of buildings.
Today the Palazzina stands isolated after some lamentable demolition work carried out in the late Nineteenth century, the greater part of the garden was occupied in the Thirties by the courts of the Marfisa tennis club, and the gardens of Schifanoia have been virtually obliterated; it is therefore difficult to recognize this extraordinary scheme, a project of the highest quality designed to be part of a garden city.
The imminent restoration of Palazzo Bonaccossi and the re-opening of the passageway through the Loggia del Cenacolo towards the Palazzina will give us back, even if not entirely, the quality of the architectonic scheme and the sense underpinning the whole arrangement.
Tradition has identified the Palazzina with Marfisa, Francesco's elder daughter, who is portrayed as a child together with her sister Bradamante inside frescoed medallions in the Loggia dei Ritratti, which gives onto the garden. Marfisa loved this house - which she inherited from her father - and she lived in it permanently until her death in 1608, ten years after the Este duke's enforced departure from Ferrara whence it had been ousted by the papal powers.
Marfisa did not wish to follow the duke and the court to Modena, choosing to live a withdrawn life in her house in Ferrara. She was one of the great Este ladies, very beautiful, proud and independent. The name Marfisa derives from legend and she was to become a legend herself. By the late Nineteenth century, without any historical grounds for the idea, she was popularly believed to have been a diabolical lover and her ghost was said to leave the Palazzina nightly in a fiery coach followed by the ghosts of the lovers she had allegedly murdered, a ghastly vision that reputedly disappeared at dawn.
The decline of the Palazzina began right after Marfisa's death; the heirs, the Cybo family of Massa and Carrara, did not live in the building and installed an administrator who looked after maintenance. After 1756 the rooms were rented out or sold and the premises changed hands on several occasions until purchased by the town council in 1861. The council intended to use the building as the seat of a planned school of hydraulic engineering but this scheme came to naught and the Palazzina was invaded by the homeless.
The decorated ceilings were very severely damaged; around 1890 a blacksmith had set up his smithy in the reception rooms, the smoke blackened the tempera work on the ceiling of the Banqueting Hall and an outbreak of fire destroyed the vault of the Sala di Fetonte. It was the darkest day in the history of the Palazzina. In 1643 the building at the bottom of the garden was sold to the counts Bonaccossi while the houses adjacent to the Palazzina were rented out to families of modest means; the Loggia degli Aranci was also rented out and used as a workshop, storage space for fodder, foundry and soap factory.
At the end of the Nineteenth century the deterioration had reached such a point that the Council ordered the evacuation of the unsafe premises and decided on demolition, the sole exceptions being the Palazzina and the Loggia degli Aranci. A few "elect spirits" conceived a plan for the complete restoration of Marfisa's house and began to promote the initiative.
Foremost among these was Giuseppe Agnelli, the most outstanding Ferrarese scholar and intellectual of his day. After having succeeded in organizing the restoration of the frescoes in the Sala dei Mesi in palazzo Schifanoia and in transforming that building into a museum, he devoted his energies to saving Marfisa's Palazzina. In 1906 he founded the association known as Ferrariae Decus, a society devoted to the safeguarding of historic monuments and art, and in 1909 he obtained the Palazzina as his headquarters and restoration work began.
He also managed to begin the task of restoring the decorated ceilings and it is touching to read his reports to the Society in which he describes the rediscovery, under cobwebs and various layers of dust, of the portraits of Marfisa and Bradamante as children. The skilled restorers also brought back to life the ethereal compositions a grottesche in the Sala Grande, the splendid vases full of flowers under a green pergola supported by caryatids in the Sala del Camino, and the mythological phantasmagoria in the Sala delle Imprese.
The missing parts were filled in mimetically, by reproducing the decorative modules of the originals, which were the work of the Filippi atelier. Some of the work was that of Sebastiano, known as Il Bastianino, the great founding father of the Ferrarese school of the Sixteenth century.
Then everything was brought to a brusque halt by the outbreak of the Great War and, after 1918, Agnelli struggled to raise funds for the Palazzina. The garden area, formerly occupied by a gymnastics association, became a tennis club in 1930.
It was only the association with Senator Pietro Niccolini, the Chairman of the Cassa di Risparmio, that made it possible to resolve the situation and in fact it was Nicolini who, to celebrate the centenary of the Cassa di Risparmio in 1938, decided to have the Palazzina restored and to purchase all the fixtures and fittings.
Palazzina Marfisa
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