Call for Artists: Grit Fund!
The Grit Fund supports unincorporated and collaborative artist-organized activity that contributes significantly to Baltimore's arts landscape but seldom qualifies for traditional funding. Established with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Grit Fund expands Warhol's Regional Regranting Program to the Mid-Atlantic, encouraging projects that generate opportunities and create platforms for artists to engage with each other and with the public. Funded activities could include but are not limited to: exhibitions, publications, public events, public art, film screenings, the ongoing work of an existing arts venue or collective, and the founding of a new arts venue or collective.
The Grit Fund, administered by The Contemporary, provides 8-12 grants in amounts between $1,000–$6,000, totaling $50,000 annually. The Grit Fund will accept proposals from non-incorporated, artist-organized initiatives that work collaboratively and reside in Baltimore City or Baltimore County. Projects must take place in either Baltimore City or Baltimore County and be accessible to the general public. The Contemporary's mission is inspired by three guiding principles: artists matter, collaboration is key, and audience is everywhere. In keeping with this mission, the Grit Fund values risk-taking, encourages collaboration, and seeks to expand points of access to contemporary art.
The Rubys were established in 2013 by GBCA with lead funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation to provide project-based funding for individual artists. The vision of the program is to provide meaningful support to individual artists for the creation of innovative and bold projects that will have a significant impact for the artist and on the artistic community. The program is open to both emerging and established artists who are committed to their art forms.
The Rubys will have two funding rounds per year, with each round awarding grants in two of the four discipline areas. Applicants may request up to a maximum of $10,000. Artists in each discipline category will be selected for funding each year. Artists may submit only one application during each funding round.
Performing Arts includes but is not limited to: dance; music; theater; musical theater; opera; puppetry; performance art; playwriting; spoken word; storytelling; traditional/folk art; cross-disciplinary; experimental/emerging fields.
Media Arts includes but is not limited to: film; audio and video projects; animation; computer graphics; sound art; digital arts; screenplay; teleplay; cross-disciplinary; experimental/emerging fields.
• Resident of either Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Harford County, or Howard County at the time of application and when the grant is awarded.
• Current board member, committee member, staff, or consultant for the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, or their immediate family members.
Baltimore, MD – Maryland Art Place (MAP) is proud to announce a call for curators to participate in the Eleventh Annual Curators' Incubator exhibition. This program was developed to provide a creative space for the Maryland region's aspiring curators to develop and present their curatorial concepts. This exhibition would be the first Curators' Incubator Exhibition to take place in MAP's historic 218 West Saratoga Street gallery located in the Bromo Seltzer Arts and Entertainment District.
MAP is open to exhibition proposals of all types. Curators' proposals will be juried by MAP's staff and Programming Advisory Committee (PAC) in December of 2014. Selected curators will be chosen to fully develop their proposals for an exhibition scheduled for May 14 – June 27, 2015. All participants must be available to participate in a gallery talk and attend a reception on May 14, 2015. MAP welcomes discussion with curators prior to the deadline to assist in developing strong proposals.
The call for entry requires curators to complete an online application form found below and submit a proposal, outlining the exhibition ideas and goals in a statement of intent, while including a short bio for each artist intended to be included in the exhibition. Curators may not include themselves in the exhibition. After the initial review of proposals, a small number of curators will be asked to advance to the second phase of the application process where they will be required to present their proposals to the PAC in early January 2015.
If selected, curators will receive individual mentorship from the PAC and MAP staff as they work to develop their exhibitions for debut. MAP will also work with curators to strengthen their curatorial writing in preparation for a program catalogue to be published online.
The deadline for submitting materials to be considered for the Eleventh Annual Curators' Incubator Program is 5pm December 1, 2014. Materials should be submitted via email. Please visit our website and download the RFP for complete application instructions.
Established in 2003, Curators' Incubator was developed to assist aspiring curators in developing and presenting an exhibition at Maryland Art Place. This annual program provides a creative space for the region's emerging curators to develop and present their concepts.
Selected through a competitive two-phase application process, curators with limited or no previous experience are asked to submit an exhibition proposal to be considered for debut in MAP's galleries. The selected curators or curatorial team then participate in a year, long mentorship program. This mentorship helps curators refine their vision; from laying out the show, to artists' selection and feedback on their curatorial statements. The program culminates in an exhibition publication. The publication is often the emerging curators first public platform for critical writing.
Sensitive to the many obstacles curators confront as they work to gain experience and earn professional credentials, each selected curator receives intensive mentoring by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC) as they strengthen and further develop their proposals. The diversity and breadth of the artists chosen to participate is reinforced by having the curators select artists from within their respective communities, widening the scope of the program and the audience it reaches. The program concludes with an exhibition and catalogue featuring curators' writing and images of the artwork represented.
Eligibility: Any artist or artist team authorized to work in the U.S.
Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 before 4:00 p.m. PST The City of San Diego is seeking applications from interested qualified artists to provide public art services for Mission Hills/Hillcrest Branch Library Public Art Project. An artist or artist team is sought to design, fabricate and install permanent, site-specific artwork(s) at Mission Hills/Hillcrest Branch Library.
CALL FOR ENTRY: Maryland Art Place (MAP) is seeking artists for "UNDER $500," MAP's annual affordable art sale. Scheduled for Friday, December 12 and Saturday, December 13, 2014. The exhibition will include 1-3 works by each artist with each individual piece retailing for $500 or less. WHAT IS UNDER $500?
UNDER $500 was established to promote & support, working, emerging and mid-career artists. UNDER $500 will feature artists from around the region with works listed at a retail price point of five hundred dollars or less. UNDER $500 is a first-come, first-served opportunity to purchase affordable, original works of art just before the holidays.
UNDER $500 is a great opportunity to get your work noticed and purchased by area buyers & collectors just in time for the holidays! Participating artists will receive one free ticket to the opening event on Friday, December 12. Selected artists will be issued an UNDER $500 Profile Form in an effort to simultaneously promote the artwork and artist during the event. There is a $10 dollar application fee for non-MAP Members to submit. This fee can be paid on here Click&Pledge.
*Proceeds from the sale of artwork will be split equally between artist and MAP. Proceeds directly benefit MAP's, helping to maintain MAP's free & open to the public policy in addition to upcoming annual programs and exhibitions such as Young Blood – a recent Masters of Fine Art graduate exhibition, Curators' Incubator – a mentorship program for aspiring curators, our annual Speaker Series, IMPACT – MAP's new public art initiative and IMPRINT, MAP's annual artwork replication project.
Please Click HERE to Download the full application.
Next Monday, November 24th (4-6PM), auditions will be held for the GET YOUR LIFE! Production titled THE SITUATION ROOM.
Get Your Life! Productions is a collaborative, youth-centered video production company consisting of student artists aged 10-21 from 901 Arts and MICA. For these four weeks, GYL! will take over Gallery CA, turning the space into a production studio to create a new video.
Please see the attached Casting Call announcement!!!!
If you cannot make it, please consider joining us on December 1st (4-6PM). Extras are needed for the Ice Cream Party & all are welcome to participate!
The Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency (SURA), a public benefit corporation of the City of Syracuse, NY, seeks a qualified, multidisciplinary team to plan, design and develop construction specifications for a public space in the center of Downtown Syracuse, New York. The project will transform an underutilized plaza and green space in Downtown Syracuse into an active and inviting public space, encompassing urban and landscape design and context sensitive public art.
This is a two stage proposal process. In the first stage, respondents are requested to present their qualifications that demonstrate experience and expertise in the areas of urban and landscape design, context-sensitive public art, and public participation. Because public art is an integral component of this project, a public artist must be part of the project team.


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It seems like every time that there is a major election in this country that politicians come out with their big plans on how they will help to regain the economy on track or even stronger than ever. This often includes such things as helping small businesses, providing tax cuts to the middle class, and even providing cuts to big businesses and the wealthy. All of them, they tell you, our ways that the country can be more successful than in any other time in its history.
What has often danced around but never actually mentioned outright is the importance that the entrepreneur plays in this country. While big businesses have helped to create opportunities for growth by providing millions of jobs and creating significant tax sources to enable the government to function, the truth of the matter is that all of these businesses began with one entrepreneur looking to create a service or product that he or she could sell to consumers.
The entrepreneur has played as much of an important role in this country's development as any other factor that you can talk about. They help to keep the economy running successfully and have made this one of the greatest countries to live in. Here are reasons why the entrepreneur has become so important to the economy.
If it were not for entrepreneurs, we still would be sending messages across the plains using pony express, riding in a stagecoach, using candles or oil lanterns for light, and eating food that we captured that day. It is entrepreneurs who helped to dramatically change the way that the country is by creating innovations, products, and services that have enabled us to grow and have greater technological advancement. Without them, we wouldn't have computers, light bulbs, refrigerators, cars, or any of the other things that are absolute necessities to survive these days.
For every business that is established, the likelihood is that as that business grows, then job opportunities will arise where people can gain employment. Every product that needs to be manufactured needs an organization to create that product, who also hire employees to do the work. Without entrepreneurs, there would really be no employment beyond the federal government. They create opportunities for people to have jobs, and then some services come with those businesses.
For example, somebody along the way came up with the idea for the printing press. That's an incredible innovation, but it also opened additional job opportunities because of there needed to be paper, ink manufacturers, and steel plate creators who all played a role in making the printing press more successful. One innovation created jobs in many industries.
One of the best parts about entrepreneurs is that they inspire millions of people to reach the same goal. There's a little investor or businessperson in the vast majority of us who would like to believe that we can do the same thing that they did. Because of the model that they have set, they are setting a bright future for the country as millions will try to pursue their same dream.
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Presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Israel, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland and the Consulate General of Italy on the occasion on the 70th Anniversary of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In Italy, like elsewhere, the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto became a symbol of resistance, of a world that would never return and a new one that was about to be born. Israeli singer Charlette Shulamit Ottolenghi looks back on the bimillenarian Italian musical and liturgical heritage, that was largely destroyed in the Shoah, and chooses its most beautiful pieces to pay tribute to the memory of men and women who had the vision and the courage to break the logic of destruction. The repertoire of this concert draws on her two main projects: Italia Ebraica and A Voice for Life-Songs of Women in the Shoah, a unique program of songs written by Jewish and non Jewish women musicians in the camps.
Ms. Ottolenghi will include some little known and marvelous pieces including a kaddish by Michele Bolaffi (Livorno 1762-1842) and the Veshameru Bnai Israel of Maestro Vittore Veneziani, the La Scala Choir Conductor, who was banned under racial laws in 1938.
Jerusalem born musician Shai Bachar grew up absorbing the sounds and cultures of east and west, jazz and classical, traditional and modern influences. Today he is known as an international pianist and music director whose seemingly effortless improvisational style is grounded in classical training and a deep knowledge of world-music. Since 1998, Shai has based himself in New York, where his collaborations with various artists and projects allow him to continually stretch himself musically, travel the world, and develop deep ties inside the international music community.
With support from the Office of Cultural Affairs of the Consulate General of Israel.
Charlette Shulamit Ottolenghi is an Italian-Israeli world music singer. Brought up in Milan, by an Italian father and an English mother of Polish origin, she emigrated to Israel in 1973.
While living in Jerusalem, she collaborates and performs regularly with prominent Italian musicians in Italy, Israel and in many European cities.
Focusing on the magnificent Jewish Italian musical tradition, as well as other popular Italian and Jewish repertoires, Shulamit's musical interests reflects her multifaceted identity .
Her newly released CD Italia Ebraica, a selection of Jewish Italian hymns and prayers, produced in Jerusalem under the musical direction of Maestro Orazio Corsaro, was the culmination of a process that began with the inaugurating concert held in Tel Aviv for the homonymous exhibition of the Italian Foreign Ministry in December 2007.


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Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave U.S. attorneys the green light Thursday to aggressively enforce federal laws against marijuana — even in states where pot is legal.
In doing so, Sessions reversed an Obama administration policy that shielded legalized marijuana from federal intervention and enabled the pot industry to flourish.
"The previous issuance of guidance undermines the rule of law and the ability of our local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners to carry out this mission," Sessions wrote in a three paragraph memo.
Sessions wrote that he is simply directing "all U.S. Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country."
Federal law prohibits growing, buying and using marijuana. But while Sessions gave permission to prosecute marijuana cases, a Justice Department official stressed that he did not explicitly call for that. Nor did Sessions say federal prosecutors should now go after the industry.
Still, the Sessions memo drew immediate condemnation from Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican whose state legalized pot in 2014. He threatened to retaliate by holding up confirmation of Sessions' picks for top DOJ positions.
Colorado U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer said his office has "already been guided by these principles in marijuana prosecutions — focusing in particular on identifying and prosecuting those who create the greatest safety threats to our communities around the state."
"We will, consistent with the Attorney General's latest guidance, continue to take this approach in all of our work with our law enforcement partners throughout Colorado," Troyer said in a statement.
The previous Justice Department policy, which was laid out in a 2013 memo from the deputy attorney general at the time, James Cole, said federal prosecutions would focus on cases of peddling pot to minors, selling marijuana across state borders or growing pot on federal land, or when it involved gangs or organized crime.
A senior Justice Department official said one reason for the change is that the previous policy "was perceived to have created a safe harbor for the industry to operate."
The move by the nation's top law enforcement official comes the same week that California began selling recreational marijuana.
It is also legal in Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. There are also thriving medical marijuana programs in 28 states.
The head of the Drug Policy Alliance said Sessions is defying the 64 percent of the American people who support marijuana legalization.
Sessions has just shown "how out of touch he is with scientists and taxpayers" and that siccing federal prosecutors on pot offenders will just needlessly jam the jails with more prisoners, said Jasmine Taylor of Human Rights Watch.
Amy Margolis of Greenspoon Marder, which has a cannabis practice, warned Sessions' order "sets up a serious potential battle between the states with legalization and United States attorneys who decide to enforce federal law against the will of the voters and, in some cases, state legislatures."
Anti-marijuana activist Kevin Sabet, however, praised Sessions' order, calling it "a good day for public health."
"The days of safe harbor for multi-million dollar pot investments are over," said Sabet, a former Obama Administration drug policy adviser who now heads Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM). "DOJ's move will slow down the rise of Big Marijuana and stop the massive infusion of money going to fund pot candies, cookies, ice creams, and other kid-friendly pot edibles. Investor, banker, funder beware."
Sessions has long been a cannabis foe who famously said "good people don't smoke marijuana" during a 2016 Senate hearing. He also was accused of telling late assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Figures that he thought the KKK was "OK until I found out they smoked pot."
This was after Sessions learned that Klan members had gotten high the night they kidnapped and murdered a young black man. Sessions insisted he was joking.


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Q: How to get corresponding cell value of max from different column I am just trying to get those record who have highest discounted percentage. For that i used max function. But i am not able to fetch it's corresponding column(nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice) value. I am getting wrong value in nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice column.(MYSQL).
select bs.nBusinessDetailsId,bs.strBusinessName,bs.strBusinessDescription,
pkg.nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice,pkg.nDiscountPercentage
from tblbusinessdetails bs
INNER JOIN tblvendorbusinesscategory vbs ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=vbs.nBusinessDetailsId
INNER JOIN tblpackageassociatedoutlets pkga ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=pkga.nOutletId
INNER JOIN tblpackagedetails pkg ON pkga.nPackageId=pkg.nPackageId
where vbs.nMainCategoryId=9;

By using above query i was getting repeated data like this:

For that i added group by clause for bs.nBusinessDetailsId. Then i was getting 2nd highest nDiscountPercentage which is wrong. I want 1st highest nDiscountPercentage and it's corresponding nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice
Here is my query.
select bs.nBusinessDetailsId,bs.strBusinessName,bs.strBusinessDescription,
pkg.nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice,max(pkg.nDiscountPercentage)
from tblbusinessdetails bs
INNER JOIN tblvendorbusinesscategory vbs ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=vbs.nBusinessDetailsId
INNER JOIN tblpackageassociatedoutlets pkga ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=pkga.nOutletId
INNER JOIN tblpackagedetails pkg ON pkga.nPackageId=pkg.nPackageId
where vbs.nMainCategoryId=9 group by bs.nBusinessDetailsId;

A: I guess you want the nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice value for the row with the largest nDiscountPercentage .
That's best retrieved with a fairly tricky subquery
              SELECT a.*
                FROM tblpackagedetails a
                JOIN (SELECT MAX(nDiscountPercentage) nDiscountPercentage,
                             nPackageId
                        FROM tblpackagedetails
                       GROUP BY nPackageId
                     ) b ON a.nDiscountPercentage = b.nDiscountPercentage
                        AND a.nPackageId = b.nPackageId

You can test this. Its inner query finds the largest discount for each package. Then it uses that value in a JOIN to give you a subset of the rows from tblpackagedetails having the largest percentage discount for each nPackageId. If more than one row has the same exact largest discount, you'll get them all and have duplicates in your final result set.
Then you join it in to your main query.
select bs.nBusinessDetailsId,bs.strBusinessName,bs.strBusinessDescription,
       pkg.nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice,pkg.nDiscountPercentage
  from tblbusinessdetails bs
 INNER JOIN tblvendorbusinesscategory vbs
            ON  bs.nBusinessDetailsId=vbs.nBusinessDetailsId
 INNER JOIN tblpackageassociatedoutlets pkga
            ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=pkga.nOutletId
 INNER JOIN ( SELECT a.*
                FROM tblpackagedetails a
                JOIN (SELECT MAX(nDiscountPercentage) nDiscountPercentage,
                             nPackageId
                        FROM tblpackagedetails
                       GROUP BY nPackageId
                     ) b ON a.nDiscountPercentage = b.nDiscountPercentage
                        AND a.nPackageId = b.nPackageId
            ) pkg ON pkga.nPackageId=pkg.nPackageId
 where vbs.nMainCategoryId=9;

Notice that the MAX() ... GROUP BY ... aggregate is moved to the subquery.

A: You should join the subquery for maxPerc  group by nBusinessDetailsId (without the price)
select  t.nBusinessDetailsId
        ,t.strBusinessName
        ,t.strBusinessDescription
        ,pkg.nPackageDiscountedAdultPrice
        ,t.maxPerc
from (
    select bs.nBusinessDetailsId
        , bs.strBusinessName
        , bs.strBusinessDescription
        , max(pkg.nDiscountPercentage) maxPerc
    from tblbusinessdetails bs
    INNER JOIN tblvendorbusinesscategory vbs ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=vbs.nBusinessDetailsId
    INNER JOIN tblpackageassociatedoutlets pkga ON bs.nBusinessDetailsId=pkga.nOutletId
    INNER JOIN tblpackagedetails pkg ON pkga.nPackageId=pkg.nPackageId
    where vbs.nMainCategoryId=9
    group by bs.nBusinessDetailsId
) t
INNER JOIN tblpackageassociatedoutlets pkga ON t.nBusinessDetailsId=pkga.nOutletId
INNER JOIN tblpackagedetails pkg ON pkga.nPackageId=pkg.nPackageId
    AND t.maxPerc =pkg.nDiscountPercentage

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This video tutorial provides an overview of the process of preparation of an Inline XBRL report and aims to support preparers in their implementation of the requirements contained in the ESEF regulation, which will come into force in 2020.
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Android users admit secret lust for iPhone
Android-based smartphone sales may be up but a new survey has found many owners still harbour secret desires for Apple's iPhone.
Latest sales figures have shown a rise in sales of more than 1000% over the past 12 months but despite this, a poll by mobile comparison website MyPhoneDeals.co.uk, found that Android owners were four times more likely to covet an iPhone than vice versa.
Almost a third of Android owners admitted to longing after an iPhone, whilst just seven per cent of iPhone users stated they'd prefer an Android model.
The survey also revealed that more than half of men who didn't own a smartphone would opt for an iPhone as their first model. Less than a fifth of non-smartphone users planned on purchasing an Android.
And it seems much of the public may not be aware what an Android based smartphone actually is with a mere 16% of respondents stating they'd most like to own one. This may come as a surprise given that an estimated 40% of smartphones sold this quarter run Android.
Just three per cent of respondents declaring the recently launched Windows Phone 7 their most wanted model.
The survey revealed marked differences in the way men and women choose a smartphone. Perhaps unsurprisingly men were revealed to be more tech savvy than women with only seven per cent unaware of what the term 'smartphone' meant, compared to 18% of women.
Women were found to be particularly strong supporters of the iPhone, with nearly three quarters of those surveyed stating it was the most desirable model.
iPhone owners were revealed as the most dependant on their phone with more than two thirds stating they couldn't manage without their smartphone compared to just 29% of Android users.
And it seems Apple's marketing machine has impacted on BlackBerry users with more than half of them stating that they preferred Apple's offering to their own.
A spokesman from MyPhoneDeals.co.uk said the striking results highlighted the strength of the iPhone brand.
He said: "Apple has done a terrific job of making the iPhone an object of desire over the past few years and it's still on most peoples' wish lists.
"Android still faces a lack of recognition among consumers, especially women. For example, many consumers may want a HTC Desire HD, yet are unaware that it's running Android software."
He added: "I think the biggest problem Android based smartphones face is that they're constantly playing catch up to the iPhone. Every time Apple does something new the competition follow which makes the iPhone always seem the most innovative product.
"I think it's telling that so many Android owners desire, yet don't own an iPhone, which I believe points to price being the prohibitive factor."
He concluded: "It will be interesting to see how consumer opinion changes when UK customers have had time to get to grips with the new Windows Phone 7 and with many new phones set to flood the market in future years, the iPhone will have to fight hard to maintain its position as the most desirable phone in the world."
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The Rambling Writer Returns to Greece, Part 8: Rhodes Palace of the Grand Masters
Posted on November 18, 2017 by Sara Stamey
Explore with me the fortress-within-a-fortress built by the Medieval Knights of St. John, and restored by the Italian Fascists in gaudy splendor.
NOTE: Since my 4-month backpacking trip around Greece too many years ago, I had been longing to return to this magical land of myth, history, and dramatic landscapes. I recently made a fabulous 3-week return trip there, to research additional settings for my novel-in-progress, THE ARIADNE DISCONNECT. My first post in the new series, on September 30, gave an overview of my rambles with my husband Thor from Athens to the islands of Rhodes, Santorini, and Naxos, and finally a pilgrimage to the ancient center of the world at Delphi.
As promised last time, we'll take a closer look at the grand edifice of the Palace of the Grand Master, built by Foulkes de Villaret, who was the first Grand Master when the Knights were expelled from Jerusalem along with the other Crusaders in the 14th century AD. The Knights of St. John, who had been tasked with guarding the Holy Sepulchre, were elite fighters who adhered to strict vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience (at least in their early years). After the failure of the Crusades, they negotiated with the Genoese pirate Vignolo de' Vignoli to relocate to the island of Rhodos, where they built fortresses and established protection for the lucrative maritime trading ports. The island then experienced many years of prosperity before surrendering to a final Turkish siege. The Palace was intended as a final refuge for the Knights in case attackers breached the thick defensive walls of the port city. Cannon balls are still stacked and ready.
The Knights, recruited from the nobility of several European countries, had several headquarters, called Inns or Tongues, according to their native languages, along the Street of the Knights:
This is one Inn doorway:
The palace survived subsequent attacks and earthquakes until 1856, when an accidental explosion caused extensive damage. In the convoluted history of this region, the Italian Fascists came to control the island and restored the Palace in the 1930s to glorify Mussolini and King Victor Emmanuel III.
As I mentioned earlier, the restoration involved looting many beautiful Hellenic mosaics from the nearby island of Kos to include in the flooring, along with polished marble.
One famous mosaic is of Medusa, the mythical Gorgon with hair of snakes. Anyone who looked directly at her would turn to stone, which is why the hero Perseus gazed only at her reflection in his shield as he beheaded her.
The writer Lawrence Durrell, who was stationed in Rhodos by the British in the recovery years after World War II, was not a fan of the Italians' taste in the palace reconstruction. In his memoir Reflections on a Marine Venus, he tours the edifice, which he calls the Castello:
"We pursued our way across the deserted market-place and entered the old walled town of the Crusaders, passing by the lovely and undamaged Gothic tower of St. Paul. At the spur of a gentle incline we turned into the famous Street of the Knights at the top of which lay the Castello–that monument to bad taste executed by the latest Italian governor. By now the hideous archness of the restoration work was becoming fully apparent…. We walked from room to garish room, from chapel to chapel, corridor to corridor; wherever you turned you were greeted with ugly statuary, tasteless hangings and tapestries, and the kind of marquetry work that suggested the lounges of passenger steamers."
Here's an example of the taste he was describing:
But, all in all, I enjoyed touring the rambling collection of grandiose chambers, especially for the wonderful mosaics, like this centaur with a rabbit:
And this scene of luxurious living from ancient times:
I enjoy the fanciful depictions of dolphins, sacred companions of Dionysos:
The Chamber of the Nine Muses features another late Hellenistic mosaic honoring the deities of the creative arts in Greek mythology:
Can you identify the Muses?
We had seen the original marble carving of The Laocoon in the Vatican in Rome. This amazing work was created by three Rhodian sculptors, and that heritage is celebrated with this reproduction housed in the Palace. It's interesting that Laocoon's two sons, also captured by the sea serpent, are represented by figures that look like mature men, only on a smaller scale:
The Palace commands beautiful views across the old city:
This view through one of the eastern windows captures the mixed heritage of this fusion of cultures, with a mosque and church shoulder to shoulder:
On the west side, the Palace overlooks the harbor and historic windwills:
The nearby lanes are less commercialized than other parts of the walled city, peaceful enough for an alley cat to enjoy a quiet nap:
The Knights established a large hospital near their quarters, now housing a lovely museum that we'll visit in an upcoming blog post. Durrell wrote of the hospital:
"The physicians were bound by order to visit their patients not less than twice a day. Two surgeons were standing by under their orders to perform whatever operations were found necessary. A large store of herbs and drugs was maintained as part of the charges of the establishment, while the patients were fed upon all kinds of nourishing food. But dicing, chess, and the reading of chronicles, histories, romances or other light fiction of the kind was strictly forbidden." Those Knights were, indeed, strict about their vows of purity, though apparently as they gained great wealth through control of shipping, they started to indulge in expensive clothing, horses, and furnishings. All came to an end when they finally had to surrender to a siege by the Turks in 1522. Once more, the island of Rhodos changed hands.
Don't miss next week, when Thor and I visit the breathtaking Classical site of Lindos, perched high on the rocky eastern shore above the deep blue sea.
You will now find The Rambling Writer's blog posts here every Saturday. Sara's latest novel from Book View Cafe is available in print and ebook: The Ariadne Connection. It's a near-future thriller set in the Greek islands. "Technology triggers a deadly new plague. Can a healer find the cure?" The novel has received the Cygnus Award for Speculative Fiction. Sara has recently returned from a research trip in Greece and is back at work on the sequel, The Ariadne Disconnect. Sign up for her quarterly email newsletter at www.sarastamey.com
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Award-winning author Sara Stamey's journeys include treasure hunting and teaching scuba in the Caribbean and Honduras; backpacking around Greece and New Zealand; operating a nuclear reactor; and owning a farm in Southern Chile. Resettled in her native Pacific Northwest, she taught creative writing at Western Washington University. She shares her Squalicum Creek backyard with wild critters and her cats, dog, and paleontologist husband Thor Hansen. Visit her BVC Ebookstore bookshelf.
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The Rambling Writer Returns to Greece, Part 8: Rhodes Palace of the Grand Masters — 6 Comments
Thor Hansen on November 18, 2017 at 11:46 am said:
Rhodes Town is such a beautiful and intact walled city. It really is amazing. I love Durrell's derogatory comment about the restoration of the Grand Palace by the Fascists: "the kind of marquetry work that suggested the lounges of passenger steamers."
Sara Stamey on November 18, 2017 at 12:01 pm said:
Yes, I'm already eager to return! Durrell does have a way with words, along with some snobbish quips. Next time, a more lyrical description from him of beautiful Lindos….
Sherwood Smith on November 19, 2017 at 9:15 am said:
I saved this post to enjoy this morning, as I wanted the time to linger over the photos. I am so glad I did. Great shots, and I love the notes. What a terrific trip–this has got to furnish all kinds of layers of possibility storywise.
Thanks, Sherwood! Yes, I think I need to write 2 novels now, instead of 1, to work in more places and ideas….
Cat Kimbriel on November 19, 2017 at 1:41 pm said:
Thank you for taking us along, Sara & Thor! I may never make it to Greece, but I am happy to have seen it through your eyes.
Sara Stamey on November 19, 2017 at 2:58 pm said:
Glad you're with us, Cat!
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The Sailor is here!! I knew I wouldn't get much time to spend on VNA so I've already lined up a lot of reviews..infact I've done all the month's "hard work" beforehand so I can have fun, use all my makeup, shop, accept gifts *wink* and just enjoy being a sailor girl! A few months back I payed the Sephora Delhi a visit (just a spot check you know..to see if things have improved there) and bought the popular and much loved Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm after my favourite Forest Essentials Kerala Lime Glaze Balm. There were a lot of flavours but I wanted to go for the original thing so got the Peppermint and Vitamin E one.
Burt's Bees Claims: The original. The best. And still your favorite. Our must-have balms have been playing in purses and pockets since 1991. Beeswax conditions skin, while antioxidant Vitamin E moisturizes. A final hint of Peppermint Oil provides that one-of-a-kind refreshing tingle. The result? Smooth, supple lips everyone will be buzzing about.
The balm itself is clear. Although they do have some variants in the tinted lip balms category if you are interested. The finish is matte and you won't get juicy looking lips. Just plain matte lips like you have applied nothing. So this makes it a perfect option to use under lipsticks. But the matteness in no way comes in the way of its moisturizing properties. It heals chapped lips nicely. I use it every night and it gives me smooth lips the next day.
On application, you feel a minty tingling sensation and that is the peppermint in it working. The tingling goes after a while but you can still taste and smell the mint in it. Some girls say mint lip balms sting your lips to give you a bigger pout..well I didn't notice that!
What I totally love about Burt's Bees lip balms is the use of completely natural and organic ingredients. They also claim to be Gluten free. If the ingredients they show are what they actually put in it then I'm never using the chemical loaded commercial lip balms we get these days. I'm all for natural skin care products! And that cute Bumble Bee on the lid just convinces you somehow.
The texture of this balm is quite hard and solid like the TNC Berry Lip Balm. I wonder how the girls get the chapsticks to work since hard tube lip balms are more difficult to work with than tubs. I've to scrape it with my nails everytime I use it. I wonder if its because f the winters or its like this all year round. I personally like my lip balms to be soft and wet. I'm planning to heat it over a flame to see if that helps.
The balm comes in yellow tins and tubes. I got the tin because the tube had lesser quantity compared to the tub (see makeup obsession is healthy for your math). Although tubs are supposedly unhygienic and yada yada..I don't care since I use enough tubes (read lipsticks and tinted lip balms) already. But this Burt Bees tin is so damn hard to open. I've used TBS lip balm tub in the past and many others and all of them had this screw up mechanism but you have to yank this one hard to open. Its so frustrating that now I only cover the balm top and not close it completely. Who were you making this lip balm for Burts Bees? Body Builders?!
I want to try Carmex lip balms next. Are they available in Sephora India too? Also I want to try the EOS Lip Balms and Burt's Bees Mango Chapstick and the tinted lip balms. Oh my friends are right..Shruti was saying the other day "your lip balms budget is more than my lipsticks budget!" I think I should show you my lip balm collection. I've got a dozen lying in every corner of my room. I have assigned a lip balm to every handbag too!
So is it for you? Burt's Bees Beeswax Peppermint Lip Balm is the Burt's Bees first original lip balm and it claims to be totally natural. The lip balm is matte and gives you a no-lip-balm-applied feeling. Its a good option to use under lipsticks and lipglosses. The lip balm heals chapped lips and makes lips smooth and soft. If you don't mind the hard texture and inconvenient packaging then you should definitely give it a go.
i would prefer the chapstick one .. this one sounds good though.. nice review!
If I had a choice between a tinted and a clear balm I always go for the tinted one! :) nicely reviewed!
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i cant wear a tinted balm to bed!
love burt bees balms but i have them in tubes not in tubs!
i love lip balm tubs!
The way it looks reminds me a bit of those small candles. There is something about lip balms in tins, they have such a nice old world charm.
I liked the lin.. lokks so vintage. But yes must be tough opening it. I want to try thier lip balms soon!
I have heard a lot about this brand. but never got a chance to try anything so far.
Is the texture similar to Figgs&Rouge lip balms?
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Smithland, Kentucky facts for kids
Smithland, Kentucky
Current Livingston County Courthouse
Location of Smithland in Livingston County, Kentucky.
Coordinates: 37°8′22″N 88°24′10″W / 37.13944°N 88.40278°W / 37.13944; -88.40278Coordinates: 37°8′22″N 88°24′10″W / 37.13944°N 88.40278°W / 37.13944; -88.40278
569.17/sq mi (219.62/km2)
UTC-6 (Central (CST))
UTC-5 (CDT)
Smithland is a home rule-class city in Livingston County, Kentucky, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers. The population was 301 at the 2010 census, a drop from 401 in 2000. It is the county seat of Livingston County.
Smithland is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Smithland is located at 37°8′22″N 88°24′10″W / 37.13944°N 88.40278°W / 37.13944; -88.40278 (37.139313, -88.402743).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), all land.
1810 99 —
1860 805 −8.7%
2019 (est.) 288 −4.3%
Mouth of the Cumberland River
As of the census of 2000, there were 401 people, 157 households, and 105 families residing in the city. The population density was 647.7 people per square mile (249.7/km2). There were 188 housing units at an average density of 303.7 per square mile (117.1/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 98.75% White, 0.25% African American, 0.75% from other races, and 0.25% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.75% of the population.
There were 157 households, out of which 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.3% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.1% were non-families. 28.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.72.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 16.0% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 23.9% from 45 to 64, and 27.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.9 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,000, and the median income for a family was $40,568. Males had a median income of $28,281 versus $16,167 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,751. About 7.1% of families and 9.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.7% of those under age 18 and 12.0% of those age 65 or over.
Public education in Smithland is administered by Livingston County Schools, which operates Livingston Central High School.
Smithland has a lending library, the Livingston County Public Library.
Carter W. Clarke U.S. Army General who oversaw the post-war investigation in the intelligence around the Pearl Harbor Attack.
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Memorial Day Fundraiser for Team Rubicon in Oklahoma
The New York food community is banding together to raise funds for the disaster relief efforts in Moore, Oklahoma.
A bunch of us, under the guiding energy of Allison Robicelli, are asking you, the people in our own communities, to give $5, $10, $20 or whatever you can, to support the people of Oklahoma and Team Rubicon.
What's the connection between New York City and Moore, Oklahoma? It all starts with Team Rubicon, an organization of military veterans who now conduct emergency relief efforts across the US and internationally. They came to New York City to help us after Hurricane Sandy. And now there are over 100 Team Rubicon volunteers in Oklahoma, delivering relief and help once again.
My own home town of Xenia, Ohio was hit by an F5 tornado when I was a kid. Fortunately, our house was spared, but it was devastating to our community. 32 people were killed. Today, so many years later, a stormy day will still bring back memories of that tornado. My dad went out that night to volunteer and ended up picking people out of the debris and bringing them to the hospital. He got back early the next morning, completely exhausted and dismayed by the incredible destruction of our small town.
So please do what you can to help us reach our goal of raising $15,000 to help rebuild Moore, Oklahoma. Sharing the link will help too. It's all about being there for other people in need. They'll be there for us, and it makes a difference.
Thank you and happy Memorial Day!
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King Island - Tasmania - Australia
King Island Golf & Bowling Club,
Owen Smith Drive,
Currie,
King Island,
Tasmania 7256,
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The unpretentious little links layout at King Island Golf & Bowling Club dates back to 1938 and it's the perfect down-to-earth accompaniment to the island's two new 18-hole opportunists. The course comprises eighteen holes, with seventeen alternate tees and twelve greens on ten fairways, configured as three par threes, twelve par fours and three par fives over a distance of 5476 metres.
"The nine-hole 'townie' course on King Island reminds me of the Pacific Grove muni on the Monterey Peninsula," remarked Tom Doak in The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, "a must-play venue to acclimate to the windy conditions you'll encounter on the more famous courses you're here for. However the King Island nine has much more topography than Pacific Grove.
The 1st, 2nd and 8th are all good par-4s, all of them better from the alternate 'back nine' tees. The par-3 3rd, played from a high tee with the Southern Ocean crashing on the rocks behind the green, is undoubtedly the great moment of the course, but the holes in the middle third lack distinction."
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Description: The unpretentious little links layout at King Island Golf & Bowling Club dates back to 1938 and it's the perfect down-to-earth accompaniment to the island's two new 18-hole opportunists. Written by: Top100 Aggregated Rating Rating: 4 out of 10 Reviews: 1
Those that journey down to King Island for a few days or more may be tempted to play the King Island Golf & Bowling Club.
The nine-hole course has been sited in classic rolling linksland near Currie, and has been promoted in some circles as being possibly the best nine-hole course in the world. Although I don't quite rate it in such august company, it would certainly provide an ideal warm up to the main event – playing the two new courses.
King Island Golf & Bowling Club is a traditional links course, with natural fescue turf, and rolling terrain. With the ever-present wind a factor, it has a real Scottish feel. Notable holes include the short semi-blind par 4 opening hole, the picturesque par 3 third hole with ocean backdrop and the short par 4 fifth hole which doglegs around the beach but tempts the longer hitter to take the shortcut over the water.
Peter Wood is the founder of The Travelling Golfer – click the link to read his full review.
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Registration for the annual Good Space Dash for the Beads is now open!
We offer discounts for large groups and school children and educators. Be sure to enter your promo code.
Since 2010, the Good Space Dash for the Beads, a 501(c)(3) organization, has brought thousands of people from all over Texas to North Oak Cliff for its 5K Chip-Timed Race, 1-Mile Walk, Costume Contest & Festival. Dash for the Beads would not be possible without our sponsors!
We completely expect for this year's Dash to be bigger and better than ever, with approx. 2,000 runners and even more spectators, and we definitely encourage you to go all out on Race Day! This is a perfect way to promote you product or services.
The Good Space Dash for the Beads is an annual 10k and 5k runs along with a 1 mile walk that coincides with Mardi Gras so come out and Laissez les bons temps rouler! (To any Mardi Gras rookies that is Cajun for "Let the good times roll").
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Of all the runs my daughter and I do this is by far the most fun, the neighborhood is awesome the way they participate, the bands along the way are awesome. Even the hills don't bother you too bad. See you next year.
Great race with fun and encouraging crowd! Really recommend this run!
So many reasons why I volunteer for a great cause...wonderful team, community and awesome event!
Dash for the beads is an awesome 5K! My second year running it! Love the hills! Wish they would make a 10K! Also recommend more runs throughout the year in Oak Cliff.
It's a lot of fun lots of hill's up's and down's but the end of the race it's all worth it we have so much fun we look forward to it every year!
Great atmosphere, color. Cool neighborhood party in one of the prettiest areas of town.
Mostly downhill with lots of cheering volunteers. Great atmosphere. Worth the few uphill battles. Will plan to come back.
© 2013 Dash for the Beads 10k and 5k Run, 1 Mile Walk, Costume Contest and Festival.


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Planned topics for today's show: Why do both the left and the right seem eager to blame anyone/anything except James Holmes for the Aurora massacre? Also, now that more of you have seen "The Dark Knight Rises," and also, hopefully, listened to last week's spoiler-filled analysis of the movie, we take more of your calls/contributions in the chatroom about it.
I usually enjoy and agree with opinion pieces published in The Washington Times. But here, in Charles Hurt's "open letter" to Christopher Nolan, Sean Penn and Warner Brothers, I am convinced that the writer and I have not seen the same movie; perhaps we don't even live in the same world.
And even though I am no Sean Penn fan (and, leaving aside a pesky cause-and-effect problem of blaming a movie or trailer that has not yet been screened), no film depiction of violence can be blamed for this — or any — massacre. Human beings have something called free will; this makes it possible for Hurt (not me, because I'm an atheist) to imply that people will be going to hell for depicting evil in movies. (As for me, I just judge people as they deserve and act accordingly.) Free will makes us able to identify villains as evil, to side with and be inspired by the heroes, and to act accordingly.
But I guess Hurt would rather create a society of Platonic philosopher-kings who prohibit the depiction of any evil in art, in hopes that refusing to depict evil will have the effect of eradicating it from society? No matter how good a culture is, there will always be a small minority of criminals like the man responsible for the Aurora, CO, massacre. But without great art like THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, to depict the triumph of good over that evil, we can never hope to reach the day when our culture is the best that it can be. Shame on Hurt for selling humanity short like this.
UPDATE 2: In this story we learn that Holmes purchased his semi-automatic on the day he failed an oral PhD exam. In another we learn about a notebook, with elaborate plans for the massacre, that he sent a psychiatrist at his university. Good thing for Hurt that he published his smear piece before we could learn what actually might have led Holmes to do what he did.


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Q: Is object empty? What is the fastest way to check if an object is empty or not?
Is there a faster and better way than this:
function count_obj(obj){
    var i = 0;
    for(var key in obj){
        ++i;
    }

    return i;
}

A: How bad is this?
function(obj){
    for(var key in obj){
        return false; // not empty
    }

    return true; // empty
}

A: Lets put this baby to bed; tested under Node, Chrome, Firefox and IE 9, it becomes evident that for most use cases:

*

*(for...in...) is the fastest option to use!

*Object.keys(obj).length is 10 times slower for empty objects

*JSON.stringify(obj).length is always the slowest (not surprising)

*Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj).length takes longer than Object.keys(obj).length can be much longer on some systems.

Bottom line performance wise, use:
function isEmpty(obj) {
   for (var x in obj) { return false; }
   return true;
}

or
function isEmpty(obj) {
   for (var x in obj) { if (obj.hasOwnProperty(x))  return false; }
   return true;
}

Results under Node:

*

*first result:  return (Object.keys(obj).length === 0)

*second result: for (var x in obj) { return false; }...

*third result:  for (var x in obj) { if (obj.hasOwnProperty(x))  return false; }...

*forth result:  return ('{}' === JSON.stringify(obj))
Testing for Object with 0 keys
0.00018
0.000015
0.000015
0.000324
Testing for Object with 1 keys
0.000346
0.000458
0.000577
0.000657
Testing for Object with 2 keys
0.000375
0.00046
0.000565
0.000773
Testing for Object with 3 keys
0.000406
0.000476
0.000577
0.000904
Testing for Object with 4 keys
0.000435
0.000487
0.000589
0.001031
Testing for Object with 5 keys
0.000465
0.000501
0.000604
0.001148
Testing for Object with 6 keys
0.000492
0.000511
0.000618
0.001269
Testing for Object with 7 keys
0.000528
0.000527
0.000637
0.00138
Testing for Object with 8 keys
0.000565
0.000538
0.000647
0.00159
Testing for Object with 100 keys
0.003718
0.00243
0.002535
0.01381
Testing for Object with 1000 keys
0.0337
0.0193
0.0194
0.1337
Note that if your typical use case tests a non empty object with few keys, and rarely do you get to test empty objects or objects with 10 or more keys, consider the Object.keys(obj).length option. - otherwise go with the more generic (for... in...) implementation.
Note that Firefox seem to have a faster support for Object.keys(obj).length and Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj).length, making it a better choice for any non empty Object, but still when it comes to empty objects, the (for...in...) is simply 10 times faster.
My 2 cents is that  Object.keys(obj).length is a poor idea since it creates an object of keys just to count how many keys are inside, than destroys it! In order to create that object he needs to loop overt the keys... so why use it and not the (for... in...) option :)

var a = {};

function timeit(func,count) {
   if (!count) count = 100000;
   var start = Date.now();
   for (i=0;i<count;i++) func();
   var end = Date.now();
   var duration = end - start;
   console.log(duration/count)
}

function isEmpty1() {
    return (Object.keys(a).length === 0)
}
function isEmpty2() {
    for (x in a) { return false; }
    return true;
}
function isEmpty3() {
    for (x in a) { if (a.hasOwnProperty(x))  return false; }
    return true;
}
function isEmpty4() {
    return ('{}' === JSON.stringify(a))
}

for (var j=0;j<10;j++) {
   a = {}
   for (var i=0;i<j;i++) a[i] = i;
   console.log('Testing for Object with '+Object.keys(a).length+' keys')
   timeit(isEmpty1);
   timeit(isEmpty2);
   timeit(isEmpty3);
   timeit(isEmpty4);
}

a = {}
for (var i=0;i<100;i++) a[i] = i;
console.log('Testing for Object with '+Object.keys(a).length+' keys')
timeit(isEmpty1);
timeit(isEmpty2);
timeit(isEmpty3);
timeit(isEmpty4, 10000);

a = {}
for (var i=0;i<1000;i++) a[i] = i;
console.log('Testing for Object with '+Object.keys(a).length+' keys')
timeit(isEmpty1,10000);
timeit(isEmpty2,10000);
timeit(isEmpty3,10000);
timeit(isEmpty4,10000);

A: For ECMAScript5 (not supported in all browsers yet though), you can use:
Object.keys(obj).length === 0

A: I'm assuming that by empty you mean "has no properties of its own".
// Speed up calls to hasOwnProperty
var hasOwnProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty;

function isEmpty(obj) {

    // null and undefined are "empty"
    if (obj == null) return true;

    // Assume if it has a length property with a non-zero value
    // that that property is correct.
    if (obj.length > 0)    return false;
    if (obj.length === 0)  return true;

    // If it isn't an object at this point
    // it is empty, but it can't be anything *but* empty
    // Is it empty?  Depends on your application.
    if (typeof obj !== "object") return true;

    // Otherwise, does it have any properties of its own?
    // Note that this doesn't handle
    // toString and valueOf enumeration bugs in IE < 9
    for (var key in obj) {
        if (hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key)) return false;
    }

    return true;
}

Examples:
isEmpty(""), // true
isEmpty(33), // true (arguably could be a TypeError)
isEmpty([]), // true
isEmpty({}), // true
isEmpty({length: 0, custom_property: []}), // true

isEmpty("Hello"), // false
isEmpty([1,2,3]), // false
isEmpty({test: 1}), // false
isEmpty({length: 3, custom_property: [1,2,3]}) // false

If you only need to handle ECMAScript5 browsers, you can use Object.getOwnPropertyNames instead of the hasOwnProperty loop:
if (Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj).length > 0) return false;

This will ensure that even if the object only has non-enumerable properties isEmpty will still give you the correct results.

A: It might be a bit hacky. You can try this.
if (JSON.stringify(data).length === 2) {
   // Do something
}

Not sure if there is any disadvantage of this method.

A: No need for a library.
function(){ //must be within a function
 var obj = {}; //the object to test

 for(var isNotEmpty in obj) //will loop through once if there is a property of some sort, then
    return alert('not empty')//what ever you are trying to do once

 return alert('empty'); //nope obj was empty do this instead;
}

A: Elegant way - use keys
var myEmptyObj = {};
var myFullObj = {"key":"value"};
console.log(Object.keys(myEmptyObj).length); //0
console.log(Object.keys(myFullObj).length); //1

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/keys

A: function isEmpty( o ) {
    for ( var p in o ) {
        if ( o.hasOwnProperty( p ) ) { return false; }
    }
    return true;
}

A: EDIT: Note that you should probably use ES5 solution instead of this since ES5 support is widespread these days. It still works for jQuery though.

Easy and cross-browser way is by using jQuery.isEmptyObject:
if ($.isEmptyObject(obj))
{
    // do something
}

More: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.isEmptyObject/
You need jquery though.

A: var x= {}
var y= {x:'hi'}
console.log(Object.keys(x).length===0)
console.log(Object.keys(y).length===0)

true
false

http://jsfiddle.net/j7ona6hz/1/

A: Surprised to see so many weak answers on such a basic JS question... The top answer is no good too for these reasons:

*

*it generates a global variable

*returns true on undefined

*uses for...in which is extremely slow by itself

*function inside for...in is useless - return false without hasOwnProperty magic will work fine

In fact there's a simpler solution:
function isEmpty(value) {
    return Boolean(value && typeof value === 'object') && !Object.keys(value).length;
}

A: https://lodash.com/docs#isEmpty comes in pretty handy:
_.isEmpty({})   // true
_.isEmpty()     // true
_.isEmpty(null) // true
_.isEmpty("")   // true

A: Underscore and lodash each have a convenient isEmpty() function, if you don't mind adding an extra library.
_.isEmpty({});

A: fast onliner for 'dictionary'-objects:
function isEmptyDict(d){for (var k in d) return false; return true}

A: You can write a fallback if Array.isArray and Object.getOwnPropertyNames is not available
XX.isEmpty = function(a){
    if(Array.isArray(a)){
        return (a.length==0);
    }
    if(!a){
        return true;
    }
    if(a instanceof Object){

        if(a instanceof Date){
            return false;
        }

        if(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(a).length == 0){
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

A: Imagine you have the objects below:
var obj1= {};
var obj2= {test: "test"};

Don't forget we can NOT use === sign for testing an object equality as they get  inheritance, so If you using ECMA 5 and upper version of javascript, the answer is easy, you can use the function below:
function isEmpty(obj) {
   //check if it's an Obj first
   var isObj = obj !== null
   && typeof obj === 'object'
   && Object.prototype.toString.call(obj) === '[object Object]';

   if (isObj) {
       for (var o in obj) {
           if (obj.hasOwnProperty(o)) {
               return false;
               break;
           }
       }
       return true;
   } else {
       console.error("isEmpty function only accept an Object");
   }
}

so the result as below:
isEmpty(obj1); //this returns true
isEmpty(obj2); //this returns false
isEmpty([]); // log in console: isEmpty function only accept an Object

A: funtion isEmpty(o,i)
{
    for(i in o)
    {
        return!1
    }
    return!0
}

A: May be you can use this decision:
var isEmpty = function(obj) {
  for (var key in obj)
    if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key))
      return false;
  return true;
}

A: here's a good way to do it
function isEmpty(obj) {
  if (Array.isArray(obj)) {
    return obj.length === 0;
  } else if (typeof obj === 'object') {
    for (var i in obj) {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  } else {
    return !obj;
  }
}

A: var hasOwnProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty;
function isArray(a) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(a) === '[object Array]'
}
function isObject(a) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(a) === '[object Object]'
}
function isEmpty(a) {
    if (null == a || "" == a)return!0;
    if ("number" == typeof a || "string" == typeof a)return!1;
    var b = !0;
    if (isArray(a)) {
        if (!a.length)return!0;
        for (var c = 0; c < a.length; c++)isEmpty(a[c]) || (b = !1);
        return b
    }
    if (isObject(a)) {
        for (var d in a)hasOwnProperty.call(a, d) && (isEmpty(a[d]) || (b = !1));
        return b
    }
    return!0
}

A: I modified Sean Vieira's code to suit my needs. null and undefined don't count as object at all, and numbers, boolean values and empty strings return false.

'use strict';

// Speed up calls to hasOwnProperty
var hasOwnProperty = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty;

var isObjectEmpty = function(obj) {
    // null and undefined are not empty
    if (obj == null) return false;
    if(obj === false) return false;
    if(obj === true) return false;
    if(obj === "") return false;

    if(typeof obj === "number") {
        return false;
    }

    // Assume if it has a length property with a non-zero value
    // that that property is correct.
    if (obj.length > 0)    return false;
    if (obj.length === 0)  return true;

    // Otherwise, does it have any properties of its own?
    // Note that this doesn't handle
    // toString and valueOf enumeration bugs in IE < 9
    for (var key in obj) {
        if (hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key)) return false;
    }

    return true;
};

exports.isObjectEmpty = isObjectEmpty;

A: if (Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj1).length > 0)
{
 alert('obj1 is empty!');
}

A: here my solution
function isEmpty(value) {
    if(Object.prototype.toString.call(value) === '[object Array]') {
        return value.length == 0;
    } else if(value != null && typeof value === 'object') {
        return Object.getOwnPropertyNames(value).length  == 0;
    } else {
        return !(value || (value === 0));
    }
}

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Gunman in 'Scream' Mask Shoots 2 on Halloween in NYC
A 17-year-old girl was shot once in the torso and a 24-year-old man was shot twice -- once in the torso and once in the leg
By Katherine Creag
Published Nov 1, 2018 at 4:25 AM | Updated at 4:19 PM PDT on Nov 1, 2018
Search Continues for Halloween Masked Gunman
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Michael-Myers-Shot-NYC-Washington-Heights-NYPD-499237511.html
It was a terrifying end to Halloween night after a masked gunman shoots and injures two people — one teen girl and one man — in Washington Heights. Police are still searching for the gunman. Ida Siegal with the latest.
(Published Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018)
Somebody wearing a "Scream" mask is on the loose after shooting a teenage girl and a man in Manhattan, cops say.
Gunshots rang out just before 2 a.m. Thursday on 163rd Street in Washington Heights right as Halloween festivities were winding down, the NYPD said.
10th Child Dies Amid 'Severe' Viral Outbreak at NJ Facility
Police initially said the gunman had definitely been wearing a Michael Myers mask, the trademark of the villain in the "Halloween" slasher films, but later said it could have been confused for the villain from "Scream."
Images of America's 'Creepiest' Abandoned Mall in Missouri
Witnesses confirmed the mask was "Ghostface," the longfaced, sunken-eyed haunt adopted by several characters of the cult horror series "Scream."
Police say he shot a 17-year-old girl once in the torso and shot a 24-year-old man twice -- once in the leg and torso.
Both victims were taken to a hospital in critical condition. There was no immediate update on their condition hours later, but cops said they were both expected to survive.
Shocking Photos Show Inside Abandoned Lincoln Mall in Illinois


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Q: Given a class name, how to identify where it is loaded from in JBoss AS 5.1.0? I am looking for a JMX kind of option in JBoss 5.1.0 to find the jar file/location of the jar file/class loader for given a fully qualified class name at run time. This is to understand what class loader configuration are in place across applications in a deployment.

A: It's not really a "JMX kind of option" but maybe this can help you?
Following Java code can be executed to find out where your classes are loaded from:
ProtectionDomain protectionDomain = YourClass.class.getProtectionDomain();
File codeLoc = new File(protectionDomain.getCodeSource().getLocation().getFile());

See this dzone link.


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Happy birthday to Harry!
Royal Family Members Wish Prince Harry Happy Birthday - See The Posts Here!
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September 15, 2020 - 10:14 am / Cynthia Springer
The Royal Family has wished Prince Harry a very happy birthday as he celebrates his 36th year around the sun! Although the Duke and his family members are currently apart in opposite sides of the world, the Royal Family has sent out a birthday message on their many Instagram accounts! Check out what the Cambridge's, Charles and Camilla, and the Queen had to say to Harry right here!
The Royal Family wished the charismatic Prince Harry a happy birthday for his 36th celebration. As he and Meghan Markle now reside in a beautiful Santa Barbara home in California, Harry received warm wishes from his family abroad.
Royal Family Members Wish Prince Harry Happy Birthday
Born on September 15th, 1984, Prince Harry and his brother, William, are two years apart in age! Meanwhile, Meghan just celebrated her 39th birthday last month on August 4th. The Royal Family stated on their Instagram page,
"Wishing The Duke of Sussex a very happy birthday!"
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The image posted shows Prince Harry alongside Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's Young Leaders reception at Buckingham Palace in 2017.
The Cambridge's also wished Harry a happy birthday:
"Wishing a very happy birthday to Prince Harry today!", they stated.
The Sussex's and the Cambridge's were last seen together in March at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London. Since, Prince Harry and Meghan have stepped down from royal duties, focusing on other vital career paths.
COVID-19 Could Ruin Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Plans
Next in line wishing Harry a very merry birthday was his father Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla!
"Wishing a very happy birthday to The Duke of Sussex today!", their Instagram post stated.
So far, Harry hasn't revealed any big plans for his celebration, but he'll definitely be accompanied with his lovely wife Meghan and 16-month old son Archie. According to the UK's Express, they may be expecting a close family member to join in on the special day... perhaps Meghan's mother, as she lives just 2 hours away!
We wish Harry all the best for his birthday and his future endeavors!
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"From Willingness to Adequacy and Suitability of New Prevention Technologies: Acceptability of Biomedical Prevention interventions among Key Populations in South Africa".
Brian's project contributes to HIV prevention science by testing the efficiency of exploring whether Clinical Factors, Comorbidities, Treatment Competencies, Regimen Dosing and demographic characteristics influence adherence among Key Populations in HIV Prevention. Brian will use qualitative methods converging on focus groups, in- depth discussion with research participants currently enrolled in clinical trials and desktop surveys on existing clinical trials data.


NYC Gifted and Talented Handbooks Now Available Online – Info. Sessions Start Next Week!
The NYC department of education just posted the G&T handbooks for the 2011 – 2012 school year. It looks like the OLSAT test and Bracken will still be used (at least for this year) as the tests for entranced into the New York City gifted and talented program for kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade. Depending on the age of your child, the Otis-Lennon portion will be the OLSAT Level A (pre-K and Kindergarten), OLSAT Level B (1st grade) or OLSAT Level C (2nd grade). Make sure you go to TestingMom.com to get 50 free sample practice questions for the test.
You can also get all the juice from the DOE web site for handbooks which are pretty much the same as previous years but good to review for a refresher if you have it read it in a awhile.
If you're totally new to this process for gifted and talented program in NYC, then you might find the parents information sessions somewhat useful. Keep in mind, these sessions historically have covered the same exact material in the handbooks from the Dept. of Ed. web site.
NYC Gifted and Talented Program Handbooks Available by End of Month!
According to the dept. of ed. web site the NYC G&T handbooks will be available on-line by the end of this month. There was no indication if there's going to be a change to the admissions process as such as replacing the OLSAT test and Bracken with new tests for admissions. I suppose we'll find out in a couple of more weeks!
If you'd like to be added to my newsletter please email me at skipper646@gmail.com or if you'd like free OLSAT practice questions as well. Also, make sure you check out Testing Mom where you can get 50 sample questions for gifted and talented admissions.
The Hunter Elementary testing for kindergarten is just around the corner and parents are now looking for Stanford-Binet practice questions to help get their child used to the concepts on this test. Remember, you can find the practice questions on TestingMom.com. The Stanford-Binet intelligence tests for children are a widely accepted gauge for mental and cognitive development of your child. It can be administered to children of various ages, from kindergarten to elementary, and was designed to measure the advancement of their intelligence. However, the test is also useful in diagnosing if your child may have any problems learning which may be unnatural for their age.


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Fusigobius aureus és una espècie de peix de la família dels gòbids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.

Morfologia
 Els mascles poden assolir 3,5 cm de longitud total.

Hàbitat
És un peix marí, de clima tropical i associat als esculls de corall.

Distribució geogràfica
Es troba a Indonèsia, Salomó i el Mar del Corall.

Observacions
És inofensiu per als humans.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Eschmeyer, William N.: Genera of Recent Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, Califòrnia, Estats Units. iii + 697. . Any 1990.

 Hoese, D.F. 1986: Gobiidae. p. 774-807. A: M.M. Smith i P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlín.

 Nelson, J.S. 2006: Fishes of the world. Quarta edició. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, Nova Jersey, Estats Units. 601 p.
 Randall, J. E., 1995: Fusigobius (Whitley), a junior synonym of the gobiid fish genus Coryphopterus (Gill). Bulletin of Marine Science v. 56 (núm. 3): 795-798.

Enllaços externs
 AQUATAB

aureus

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


In some ways, it can be harder to be a doctor of animals than a doctor of humans.
"We are in the really unenviable, and really difficult, position of caring for patients maybe for their entire lives, developing our own relationships with those animals — and then being asked to kill them," says Dr. Lisa Moses, a veterinarian at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals-Angell Animal Medical Center and a bioethicist at Harvard Medical School.
She's the lead author of a study published Monday in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine about "moral distress" among veterinarians. The survey of more than 800 vets found that most feel ethical qualms — at least sometimes — about what pet owners ask them to do. And that takes a toll on their mental health.
Dr. Virginia Sinnott-Stutzman is all too familiar with the results. As a senior staff veterinarian in emergency and critical care at Angell, she sees a lot of very sick animals — and quite a few decisions by owners that trouble her.
Distress around choices like those is pervasive among vets, Moses and her colleagues found. For example, 69 percent said they'd felt moderate to severe distress about not being able to give animals what they thought was the right care. Almost two-thirds were bothered by inappropriate requests for euthanasia.
And Moses says that while euthanizing an animal is often the right thing to do to end suffering, that doesn't make it easy.
The study's authors are calling for better training — in veterinarian school and beyond — on self-care and how to cope with moral distress and ethical conflict.
Sinnott-Stutzman defines moral distress as the feeling when the vet determines an optimal treatment course but is blocked from carrying it out — whether because of money, or an owner's beliefs, or rules about, say, dogs that bite.
"The most poignant example is when a young dog has a fracture — so a totally fixable, non-life-threatening problem," she says. But an owner neither wants to pay for a proper fix nor have a three-legged dog, and opts for euthanasia instead.
In her 15 years doing emergency and critical care, Sinnott-Stutzman says, she has personally changed how she copes with moral distress. In the past, she would mainly talk tough cases through with colleagues. Now, she often tries to re-focus her mind — meditate, take a walk, think about her kids. She might share an experience with her husband — who'll focus on her feelings — rather than a colleague, who's likelier to focus on the medical aspects.
Carey Goldberg is the editor of WBUR's CommonHealth blog.


For the third year in a row, Pittsburgh-based rock band The Clarks will perform an acoustic concert inside Richland Performing Arts Center (RPAC). In a new twist this year, they'll be sharing the stage with Cello Fury, a group of classically trained cellists.
The concert, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. March 30, is being presented and sponsored by the Richland Music and Theatre Boosters.
Prior to the concert, students will have the opportunity to work with both The Clarks and Cello Fury in what Easler described as a string orchestra master class. And when both bands take the stage, Richland string orchestra students will accompany them for a majority of songs on their respective setlists.
Cello Fury, also based in Pittsburgh, will also perform their own separate set. Cello Fury is made up of three cellists and a drummer.
Easler's student musicians have been practicing the string arrangements that have been composed to accompany the bands' songs, he said.
Cello Fury and The Clarks have worked together before, but not in this capacity.
"As I mentioned earlier, Simon performed on their latest album," Easler said. "They have never done a big combined concert like this together, and certainly not with a full string orchestra being added to the mix, so this is a truly unique performance for all involved.
Tickets for "The Clarks Acoustic Trio and Cello Fury" are on sale now and can be purchased by calling the RPAC box office at 814-269-0300. Tickets can also be ordered in advance online by visiting www.richlandpac.com.
RPAC is located at One Academic Avenue in Richland. For news and updates, follow RPAC on their social media channels.
Proceeds from this concert are to benefit Richland Music and Theatre Boosters.


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