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Learn more: All about Arctic sea ice and why it is so important
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Snow and ice are the two most iconic features of the Arctic. The Arctic Ocean is covered in ice during the winter months and there is sea ice coverage of 4.4 million square kilometres even in the summer (2015 extent). The Arctic forms part of the cryosphere, the frozen habitats of our planet.
The nature of sea ice
Sea ice is frozen ocean water. It forms, grows and melts in the ocean. Other forms of ice can be found in the Arctic Ocean: icebergs, ice shelves and glaciers all float in the ocean, but originate on land.
There is great variation in ice types in the Arctic. Names such as nilas, frazil, grease, leads, pancakes, pressure ridges, rubble and polynyas all describe different states of ice (or gaps in the ice).
Sea ice also differs from fresh water ice when it freezes, expelling the salt content into the ocean and forming tiny channels throughout the sea ice. These 'brine channels', as they're known, provide habitats for microscopic plants and animals.
The changing Arctic sea ice
The sea ice of the Arctic Ocean is constantly changing. Temperatures in the Arctic mean that the ice forms and melts at different times of the year. Ocean currents and waves also mean that the sea ice is often pushed together to create pressure ridges, or pulled apart to create cracks in the ice, known as leads.
The extent of the Arctic sea ice is a measurement of the ocean where there is at least some sea ice. Normally, the Arctic sea ice reaches its maximum extent in March, after the end of the winter cold season and reaches its minimum in September at the end of the Arctic summer.
In 2015, Arctic sea ice extent reached its maximum of 14.5 million square kilometres (5.6 million square miles) on 25 February, and its minimum on 11 September at 4.4 million square kilometres (1.7 million square miles). An interactive graph of the changing extent of Arctic sea ice, since satellite records began, can be found at: nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/.
Importance of the Arctic Ocean and sea ice
The Arctic Ocean and sea ice is important for a number of reasons.
The white sea ice is better at reflecting solar energy, whilst the black waters absorb more energy from the sun. Loss of sea ice contributes to a warming Arctic. The phenomenon of a bright white surface reflecting the sun is known as the albedo effect.
Habitat loss
Microscopic plants and animals rely on the brine channels within the ice as a habitat and other larger animals, such as polar bears, use the ice for hunting.
The fabled North West passage could become a reality for international shipping, and oil and gas companies are already exploring the region looking for new fields to drill.
Russia claimed the North Pole in 2007 and the Canadian military is increasing its presence in the Arctic region. Decreasing sea ice means that nations are jostling for their share of the available oil and mineral deposits in the region.
Geography | Ages Ages 11-14
Frozen Oceans
The Frozen Oceans Geography resources are designed to take 11-14 year-olds on a journey to the Arctic following the expedition team of the Catlin Arctic Survey.
Learn more: What do polar explorers eat?
Learn more: What are ice caps and how are they formed?
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Uimhir Roud (Roud Number): 160.
Uimhir Child (Child Number): 278.
With me raigh-full doo-full daddely diddle-um dee.
'Take her away! Take her away! She'll batter us all!
When they go to Hell, they're kicked out again!
Unfortunately, UW85-54.16 is not as good in terms of sound quality but it makes better sense of some of the lines here and, incidentally, shows the process of Joe's aural memory at work: if the words don't come, make up something on the fly that more-or-less fits the bill!


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package yaw.engine.light;

import org.joml.Vector3f;

/**
 * all the objects in the 3D the space are hit by parallel ray lights coming from a specific direction.
 * No matter if the object is close or of far away, all the ray lights impact the objects with the same angle.
 */

public class DirectionalLight extends AmbientLight {
    public Vector3f mDirection;

    /**
     * Constructor with the parameters direction and the intensity = 0.
     *
     * @param direction direction
     */
    public DirectionalLight(Vector3f direction){
	super(0);
	this.mDirection = direction;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor with the parameters source.
     *
     * @param source source
     */
    public DirectionalLight(DirectionalLight source){
	super(source.getColor(),source.getIntensity());
        mDirection=source.mDirection;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor with the parameters color, intensity and direction.
     *
     * @param color     color
     * @param intensity intensity
     * @param direction direction
     */
    public DirectionalLight(Vector3f color, float intensity,Vector3f direction){
	super(color, intensity);
	this.mDirection = direction;
    }

    /**
     * Constructor with the specified color (cx,cy,cz), intensity and direction (dx,dy,dz),
     *
     * @param red           Red value
     * @param green         Green value
     * @param blue          Blue value
     * @param intensity     intensity
     * @param dx            Direction x
     * @param dy            Direction y
     * @param dz            Direction z
     */
    public DirectionalLight(float red, float green, float blue, float intensity, float dx, float dy, float dz){
	super(red, green, blue, intensity);
	this.mDirection = new Vector3f(dx, dy, dz);
    }

    //Default: vertical white light
    public DirectionalLight(){
	super(0);
        mDirection = new Vector3f(0f,-1f,0f);
    }

    /**
     * getter and setters
     */
    public Vector3f getDirection() {
	return mDirection;
    }

    public void setDirection(Vector3f direction) {
	this.mDirection = direction;
    }

    public void setDirection(float x,float y,float z){
	this.mDirection=new Vector3f(x,y,z);
    }

}

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Home » Lifestyle » I Lived in Salem, and This Is What It's Really Like During Halloween
I Lived in Salem, and This Is What It's Really Like During Halloween
There Are Vendors Set Up Everywhere
As a former resident of Salem, MA (who still has the license to prove it), I can tell you with confidence that Halloween there is very real. I lived in the historic "witch city" (located north of Boston) for a full year and experienced all there is that the quaint community had to offer — Halloween included. From living down the street from Gallows Hill Park (where the "witches" were hanged) to after-work runs to the Hocus Pocus house to shopping at all the local shops and even befriending the townspeople, I got acquainted with the city of Salem and its Halloween roots quite well. But it wasn't until October hit that I truly got the full Halloween experience. And yes, it's everything you'd imagine it to be and more (traffic included). If you're wondering what Salem's truly like on Halloween (check the 2021 COVID-19 guidelines before you go!) or have recently watched Hocus Pocus and want to know the scoop, keep reading to get a take on Salem Halloween — straight from a former resident.
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Modern Family Wins Big at the 64th Annual Emmy Awards
By Matt Kane |
The 64th Annual Emmy Awards aired last night on ABC, and the host network's Modern Family took home the award for Best Comedy Series and two acting awards. In addition to Julie Bowen winning Best Supporting Actress, Eric Stonestreet won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of gay father Cameron, and said onstage how proud he was to play part of TV's favorite LGBT family.
He thanked his fellow nominees and noted that he "wouldn't be here without Jesse Tyler Ferguson," who plays his husband Mitchell. "There is no Mitch without Cam," he said from the podium, adding that he's honored to "show America and the world what a loving couple can be."
Earlier this year Modern Family received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Comedy. Check out Jesse Tyler Ferguson's acceptance speech below!
Other LGBT-inclusive shows that took home awards included Downton Abbey, American Horror Story, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Good Wife, Dancing With the Stars,The Amazing Race, and the Tony Awards. A variety of other inclusive shows and out talent were recognized with nominations this year, which you can see here.
Also notable was the bestowing of the prestigious Governor's Award on MTV's It Gets Better special, which it recieved at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 15. It was recently announced that a second, brand new It Gets Better special will air on MTV October 9, just two days before National Coming Out day.
Which Emmy Award-winning show is your favorite?
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C2 Background: Securing liquidity in the Corona crisis with government assistance
C2 Background
Securing liquidity in the Corona crisis with government assistance
01.04.2020 The corona crisis has taken a firm grip on the economy – with strong effects on almost all industries. The German government is therefore endeavouring to mitigate the economic consequences and has taken a comprehensive package of measures to help companies in an economic downturn. Michael Richards, managing director of Creditsafe Germany, gives an overview of the most important ways in which companies can steer safely through the corona crisis.
© Photo: @Claudio Black / unsplash
Empty city centres, a sluggish economy – Germany is in the middle of the corona crisis.
1. Emergency aid for small businesses, the self-employed and freelancers
In contrast to the financial crisis in 2008, for example, the German government is also specifically including small businesses, the self-employed and freelancers in the emergency aid. The financial injection does not have to be repaid. For companies with up to five employees, the federal government announces direct grants of €9000; companies with up to ten employees can hope for €15 000. The Corona crisis must be the decisive reason why the company has got into financial difficulties. If the company was already in financial difficulties before March 2020, there is no entitlement. Applications must be submitted via the federal states and local authorities. As they manage their funds independently, further special regulations apply in individual federal states: For example, Bavaria has introduced a further level of support for companies with eleven to 250 employees. These receive financial support of up to €30 000 in this state.
2. new rules for filing for insolvency
A company is considered insolvent as soon as it is no longer able to pay its debts or liabilities. By law, this insolvency must be declared immediately, but at the latest after three weeks. The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has now announced that this rule will be suspended until 30 September for all those companies for which the corona crisis is the trigger for the economic woes. In addition, the suspension of insolvency filing can be extended until 31 December 2020 if it appears necessary due to the continuing effects of the Covid 19 pandemic.
3. Economic stabilisation fund to secure large companies
The Economic Stabilisation Fund is aimed at large companies in order to bridge liquidity bottlenecks by strengthening their capital base. In order to benefit from this subsidy package, companies must have reported a balance sheet total of more than €43M and sales of more than €50M in the last two fiscal years and must also have employed at least 249 people. Companies will be financially supported by guarantees, equity or quasi-equity instruments. The package also includes state participation in companies.
4. Facilitations in the criteria for KfW promotional programmes
The Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) plays a central role in avoiding the risk of insolvency or over-indebtedness. To this end, access to existing programmes, especially those for credit protection, is facilitated and hurdles are removed. Liquidity bottlenecks are to be counteracted by means of loans. Central measures in this context are the increase in risk assumption from the current 50 percent to 80 percent, which is now also available to large companies with a turnover of up to €2bn. Previously the limit was €500M.
5. Paying taxes later thanks to tax deferral relief
In order to bridge short-term periods without or only with lower revenues, it is an efficient measure to hold back already planned expenditures and thus leave financial resources in the company. The state therefore facilitates the so-called tax deferral, in which companies do not have to pay their taxes until a later date. This applies, for example, to turnover, income or corporation taxes. It is also planned that tax adjustments can be made more quickly and less bureaucratically. This will be of particular benefit to those companies that are experiencing declining sales as a result of the Corona crisis, which will allow lower tax prepayments. The German government has also announced that it will waive any attachments that would be triggered by the corona situation until 31 December 2020. There will also be no late payment surcharges in this case.
6. Regulations for short-time work compensation will be simplified
Short-time work is a popular model for improving the liquidity of companies, which has been tried and tested since the financial crisis in 2008. If an employer has to cut back production during a crisis or if there is less demand for personnel, for example due to the temporary closure of shops, it allows employees to work less. Part of the loss of earnings is paid by the state and the employee does not have to give notice to his skilled workers. The employee receives 60 per cent of his lost net wages, with children it is 67 per cent. The short-time working allowance makes it possible to restore the company's productivity very quickly after the crisis. The criteria for approving short-time work are now being significantly simplified: with retroactive effect from 1 March, it is sufficient that only ten percent of employees have to forgo part of their wages due to reduced working hours. In this case, social security contributions will be borne entirely by the state. In addition, the regulations will also apply to temporary workers in future. Should an employee also take on additional work in the health care, agricultural or food supply sectors during his or her short-time work, his or her remuneration will not be credited as usual.
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Dr. Schenk GmbH Industriemesstechnik
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Westwood One Partners With Rich Eisen For Podcast And Radio Show.
Westwood One has partnered with Emmy-nominated sports broadcaster Rich Eisen to bring "The Rich Eisen Show" to the Westwood One Podcast Network. The syndicator will monetize, market and distribute all existing—and forthcoming—podcasts and assist with distribution of Eisen's radio show, which was previously syndicated by Fox Sports Radio.
As part of the alliance, Westwood One will work directly with Eisen to parlay highlights from his show and interviews into The Rich Eisen Show podcast, available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and Pandora.
In its sixth year, the Emmy-nominated "The Rich Eisen Show" originates from Los Angeles and features a "mix of sports, humor and pop culture, while attracting the most recognizable names in sports and entertainment," including Tom Brady, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Regina King, Aaron Rodgers, Larry David and Morgan Freeman. It airs nationally on Peacock TV and is also available on SiriusXM.
In February, a new podcast, "Just Getting Started," is slated to launch, marking Eisen's first step into the personal fulfillment arena. He will interview luminaries from the worlds of news, entertainment, sports and pop culture, discussing career origins and stories about how they got started. As part of the partnership, Westwood One will also assist with the audio uplink, satellite connection and distribution to existing and future local radio station partners for his radio show.
"In relaunching my podcast and terrestrial radio businesses, I couldn't find a better partner than Westwood One," said Eisen, president and CEO of Rich Eisen Productions, which owns "The Rich Eisen Show." "I also could not be more excited to launch a new podcast and podcast shingle with my new partners."
Added Suzanne Grimes, Executive VP Marketing, Cumulus, and President, Westwood One, "Rich is a legendary sports broadcaster, known for his sharp insights and colorful NFL commentary. It is exciting to welcome him and 'The Rich Eisen Show' to the Westwood One Podcast Network and to work on new projects together."


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Q: Webhooks for Amazon MWS I am just going through Amazon MWS documentation and have explored their PHP Client Libraries.
It seems that for every section they have provided a separate SDK. I wonder if there is any compiled API so that we can just include it in our project and use.
The main concern i have is for instance i somehow managed to list my products to Amazon using MWS API. Now how would i know if there is any order recieved. I want to integrate it in my system that every time a new order arrives i should be get notified of it without manually calling the ListOrders. Do they have any sort of Webhooks ?

A: At Webgility, we've been integrating with the Amazon MWS APIs for half a dozen years or more now. They are unfortunately not as easy to work with as one might hope. Data volume is throttled, a complete information set requires multiple calls, and to answer your question: there are no Webhooks we're aware of.
We're helping ecommerce sellers process hundreds of thousands of Amazon orders a month (sometimes per week), but are still dealing with the API issues you're coming upon.

A: You might have a look at the Amazon MWS Subscription API.
https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/api.html?group=subscriptions&section=subscriptions

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Below is a very thought provoking Thunder Road Report where Paul spells out the latest happenings in the gold market. Manipulation, investigations, scandal… it's all there and I have seen no one who explains it better than Paul.
As a note of interest, what Paul describes in this latest report should once again give people great pause for those who believe that our money should be made of or backed by precious metals. The fact is that these are the most manipulated markets on the planet, always have been, and the same people who control our debt backed money also control the majority of gold – much of which has been stolen from the people. Each year our Treasury is supposed to assay the gold in possession of the United States, but that has not been accomplished since the 1950's. Meanwhile the central bankers "Swap" OUR gold around the world and act as if it is theirs. The IMF creates debt obligations from nothing yet demands repayment in gold – nice.


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George William (William) Miller (Sapulpa (Oklahoma), 9 maart 1925 – Washington D.C., 17 maart 2006) was een Amerikaans econoom en centraal bankier. Hij was voorzitter van het Federal Reserve System van 1978 tot 1979 en minister van Financiën onder Jimmy Carter van 1979 tot 1981.

Amerikaans econoom
Amerikaans minister van Financiën
Democraat (Verenigde Staten)
Voorzitter van het Federal Reserve System

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Hofstra coach Tom Pecora, believed to be the top candidate for the vacant Seton Hall job, will meet with his current athletic director, Jack Hayes, and school president Stuart Rabinowitz this morning in Hempstead before talking with the Big East school, The Post has learned.
On Friday, after firing Louis Orr, Seton Hall athletic director Joe Quinlan was granted permission by Hayes to interview Pecora, who led the Pride to a 26-7 record and a berth in the NIT. Quinlan and Pecora then spoke briefly Friday night.
The main interview could happen tonight or tomorrow, according to a source, depending on how Pecora's Hofstra meeting turns out.
Pecora, 48, a Queens Village native, is said to be making approximately $225,000 at the Colonial Athletic Association school and figures to get a significant bump. Seton Hall, however, would likely top any Hofstra figure, considering Orr was making approximately $500,000 per season.
As reported in Sunday's Post, Quinlan is also likely to speak with Pitt assistant and Brooklyn native Barry Rohrssen this week.


Kathmandu, July 24: The Qatar Airways Corporate Indoor 8's cricket tournament is being held from 30 July to 2 August at the Royal Indoor Cricket stadium, Golfutar, organised by Red Cherry Sports Management Private Ltd.
Being held for the first time in Nepal, 12 teams representing various corporate houses are taking part in the indoor cricket tournament organized to encourage corporate houses to showcase their cricketing talent and develop a good platform for development of the sport.
According to the organisers, the indoor cricket tournament will adhere to rules recognized by the Indoor Cricket Association with slight changes to adapt to local environment.
The participating 12 teams will be divided into two groups 'A' and 'B' with each squad comprising of 8 players each on the ground. In overall each team will have 10 players and a manager. The league games will be played for 12 overs, while the semi final and the final will have 16 overs each.
The games will be officiated by Nepal's cricket authorities while Nepal's National Cricket Team member Sharad Veshwakar has been designated as the events' brand ambassador.
Speaking at a press conference here today, Qatar Airways' Country Director, Ram Das Shivram, said that cricket was gaining popularity and such tournaments would help ensure a bright future for the sport in the country.
The winning team will be awarded a trophy, medals and certificates while the runner-up will be provided with a trophy, medals and certificates. The Player of the Tournament will be prized with a trophy, certificate and five start gift package whereas the Best Bowler and Batsman will receive a trophy each, certificate and five star gift package.
The group 'A' comprises of Civil Bank, Maxmedia, NIC Asia Bank, Yeti Holidays, Radisson Hotel Kathmandu, Apex Development Bank. The group 'B' consists of Janata Bank, Last Door Solutions, Ncell, UNICEF, Qatar Airways and Nepal Sports Journalist Forum.


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Kazakhstan death toll spikes as 164 reported killed and thousands detained in violent protests
The death toll -- a significant increase from Friday's count of 44 -- was announced Sunday on state-run TV channel Khabar 24, citing the Kazakhstan Ministry of Health. The unrest is the biggest challenge yet to autocratic Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's rule, with initial public anger over a spike in fuel prices expanding to wider discontent with the government over corruption, living standards, poverty and unemployment in the oil-rich, former Soviet nation, human rights organizations
By Niamh Kennedy
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Three women brutally killed in one day in France, in 'unbearable' start to new year
(CNN) On January 1, three women were killed in France, each allegedly by a partner or ex-partner, in what feminist campaigners described as an "unbearable" start to another year's tally of violence. France is just one of many countries grappling with what the United Nations has called a global shadow pandemic of violence against women, exacerbated by Covid-19 lockdowns which saw women confined at home with their abusers, increased financial pressures for many and limited access to support. It
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Carnival street parades canceled in Rio de Janeiro amid Covid surge
Rio de Janeiro has canceled its world-famous Carnival street parades due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, the city's mayor Eduardo Paes announced Tuesday during a YouTube live stream.
By Karol Suarez
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Aoife Beary, Berkeley balcony collapse survivor, dies aged 27
She was left with life-altering injuries after the fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building in Berkeley, California collapsed and plunged 40 feet to the ground while she and her friends were celebrating her 21st birthday. Beary died "peacefully" on January 1 "after a brave battle with her injuries sustained" in the balcony collapse, according to her death notice. Five of the six killed in the June 2015 incident were Irish students, all aged 21, and one was a 22-year-old Irish-American. Se
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/30/asia/ashraf-ghani-flee-afghanistan-intl/index.html
Former Afghan President was given 'no more than two minutes' to get ready to flee Kabul
Ghani told BBC's Radio 4 "Today" program that his national security adviser informed him he must leave and that the departure was "really sudden," adding that it was "only when we took off, it became clear that we were leaving" Afghanistan. "On the morning of that day, I had no inkling that by late afternoon, I will be leaving," Ghani recounted during the interview with former UK Chief of Defense Staff General Nick Carter, broadcast on Thursday. Carter was guest-editing that edition of the BBC
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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/29/europe/memorial-human-right-moscow-court-intl/index.html
Russian court shuts down Memorial Human Rights Center, day after sister group ordered closed
The center was charged with multiple violations of Russia's "foreign agent" law and "justifying terrorism and extremism" in its publications, a lawyer for the organization, Ilya Novikov, told CNN. "It is quite an expected decision after yesterday's [decision of the Supreme Court to shut down Memorial International]. We did not have any illusions about the hearing today," Novikov told CNN by telephone from the court. "But it is crucial that those persecutions did not discourage people and I thi
https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/12/29/mexico-planea-suspender-las-exportaciones-de-crudo-para-2023-orix/
México planea suspender las exportaciones de crudo para 2023
(CNN) -- México planea suspender las exportaciones de petróleo crudo para 2023 para perseguir el objetivo del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador de autosuficiencia en la producción de combustible, según el presidente ejecutivo de Pemex, Octavio Romero, hablando en una conferencia de prensa el martes en la Ciudad de México.
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South Africa has passed its Omicron outbreak peak, top researcher says
The country has "surpassed the peak of the Omicron wave now, driven by the significant decline in the populous province and epicenter: Gauteng," Ridhwaan Suliman, senior researcher at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), told CNN on Wednesday. This was echoed by one of the country's top scientists, Michelle Groome of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), who told a media briefing earlier Wednesday that all indications show "that we've surpa
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UK Supreme Court backs Venezuela's Guaidó, bringing him closer to $1bn in gold reserves
The decision follows a lengthy battle over the gold between Nicolas Maduro -- who claimed a second term as Venezuela's President following a widely disputed presidential election in 2018 -- and Guaidó, then the head of the opposition-controlled National Assembly who has led the battle to have Maduro replaced since that vote.
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https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/12/21/guaido-reservas-oro-venezuela-maduro-reino-unido-trax/
Guaidó, más cerca del control de las reservas de oro de Venezuela
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Leftist Gabriel Boric, 35, wins Chile's presidential election
(CNN) Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric , 35, will become Chile's youngest President after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday.
https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2021/12/20/gabriel-boric-presidente-electo-chile-trax/
Gabriel Boric gana las elecciones presidenciales de Chile
(CNN) -- El izquierdista y ex líder estudiantil Gabriel Boric, de 35 años, se convertirá en el presidente más joven de Chile, luego de que ganó la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales el domingo.
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Ethiopian government rejects Tigrayan fighters' ceasefire call, dashing hopes of an end to the conflict
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Legendary Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez passes away at age 81
Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez, 81, passed away on Sunday at a hospital in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, according to a post published on his official Instagram account.
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Muere Vicente Fernández, leyenda de la música en México, a los 81 años
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Ciudad de México (CNN) -- Al menos 55 personas murieron y más de 100 resultaron heridas cuando un camión volcó en Chiapas, en el sur de México, el jueves. Se cree que la mayoría de las víctimas son personas migrantes de Centroamérica, según las autoridades locales.
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Dozens killed in Mexico road accident
The incident happened in Mexico's Chiapas state, which borders Guatemala, when the truck carrying dozens of migrants crashed. Photos from the scene show the truck on its side next to a footbridge and bodies laid out on the road wrapped in body bags. In video footage taken shortly after the accident, people could be seen spilled out on to the road, next to a white trailer that had split open. The vehicle crashed on a tight bend outside the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, the Chiapas state capital. La
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Nicaragua ends relations with Taiwan in diplomatic victory for China
The Nicaraguan announcement now leaves a little more than a dozen countries that maintain official diplomatic relations with self-ruled Taiwan, including fellow Central American nations Honduras and Guatemala. "The People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing all of China and Taiwan is an undoubted part of the Chinese territory," Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Denis Moncada said in a televised announcement from capital city Managua on Thursday. "The government of the
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México y EE.UU. lanzan iniciativa para abordar las causas de la migración
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(CNN) -- A partir del 11 de diciembre, México solicitará a los brasileños una visa para ingresar al país como turistas debido al aumento de nacionales de ese país que viajan por México para llegar a la frontera con Estados Unidos, anunció este viernes la Cancillería de México.
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Key takeaways from Tuesday at COP26: On track for 2.4 degrees of warming, and is America really 'back?'
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AMLO critica al mecanismo Covax: "Es un doloroso y rotundo fracaso"
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5 takeaways from Day 8 of COP26: Obama swipes at Trump, big fossil fuel producers block progress
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Reality check: Here's what the COP26 deals actually mean for our future climate
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Australia's leading promoters (Illusive Presents & Frontier Touring) and biggest radio network (Hit Network) have joined forces to create the country's most talked-about concert series in a generation.
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The brainchild of Illusive Presents and Frontier Touring, RNB Fridays Live capitalised on the hype of the Hit Network's weekly RNB Fridays radio show which launched in 2014. Just like its namesake, the concert series puts together the most notable and iconic RNB and hip-hop artists from across eras and generations. The result is an all-day spectacle of back-to-back party jams and the biggest block party the country has ever seen.
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Brock Devlin
kevinburtonsmith	Detective	 February 20, 2020 May 29, 2021
Created by Scott Mitchell
Pseudonym of Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey
Other pseudonyms include Elliot Kennedy
"I had long ago decided there had to be some difference between one side of the law and the other. So I would do it the hard way… you chump, I told myself. you poor deluded private cop. Brock Devlin — the last flower of chivalry on our continent."
— Devlin makes like Marlowe in The Lonely Shroud
It was a pleasant surprise, stumbling across the old "Mechanics Library" (officially the Mechanics Institute of Montreal Library) on Atwater, just a few steps down the street from where I was working at the time–a almost-secret treasure trove of old books, including a slew of hard-boiled, hard-covered treasures from the thirties through the sevenites by British authors I'd never heard of (they also had an almost complete run of The Best Detective Stories of the Year–British editions, of course). It was there I first discovered the work of British authors Hartley Howard and Scott Mitchell, and I was pretty jazzed when I realized they had almost the complete run of their books.
At first I figured they would be just a couple of other British authors, late to the party by a few decades, lurching into the seventies trying to ape the "American-style" hard-boiled style, and inevitably falling short. Too little, too late, I figured. And certainly, Howard's Glenn Bowman series, while it had its charms, was a far cry from Chandler and Hammett. Enthusiastic facsimiles at best.
But Mitchell's series about tough guy P.I. dick BROCK DEVLIN?
That's another story.
Somehow, Mitchell nailed it–a certain hard, but bittersweet quality and an eye for the tell that was positively, so help me, Chanderesque.
Brock was certainly a big enough guy to fill the gumshoes–he stood 6'2." He was blue-eyed and "creeping up on forty" and admits at one point that "a fair number of women were supposed to find me reasonably attractive." He carries a .38 Police Positive in a shoulder holster, smokes Chesterfields, and carries a flask, usually full of Four Roses bourbon. He drives an Olds that features a secret spring-loaded compartment hidden in the dashboard which conceals a small automatic.
Several characters comment that he looks tough, and he cops to a "facetious streak" and a tendency to crack wise, which is tempered by old-fashioned politeness (and occasionally, an even more outdated but typical suspicious attitude towards women). He lives alone in a small apartment in Los Angeles, likes jazz, and blames an old flame for "addicting" him to Mozart. He also likes to read, and can quote from the classics when the spirit moves him. Cyrano de Bergerac is a particular favourite.
Brock operates a small detective agency ("Brody and Devlin, Investigations. No divorce work; trouble a speciality; success striven for but not guaranteed.") with his gum-chewing partner, Al Brody, who's been known to shave off a corner now and then. They sometimes work together, but usually they work separate cases, and generally they can count on the assistance of Lieutenant Cal O'Herlihy of Homicide, an "incorruptible, tough, broad-shouldered Irishman."
There are the usual and expected nods to Chandler (and The Lonely Shroud boasts a particularly nice Big Sleep-style meditation of aging, responsibilities and the detective's lot), but the private eye Brock most reminds me of is William Campbell Gault's Brock Callahan. And it's not just the name. Like Gault's creation, Mitchell's eye is a big lug with hidden depths, a reasonable amount of compassion, a workmanlike approach to his profession and a jaundiced eye, and the tales are spun with a similar clean, direct prose style.
Oh, and like the other Brock, there's a steady love interest that's more than window dressing. Like many an eye before him, Brock has a thing going with his and Al's secretary, the spunky and intelligent Kay Stillman. The difference is that Kay is no mere long-suffering placeholder, there to bandage a wounded dick, or to be conveniently kidnapped if the plot needs it. No, Kay's nobody bimbo, but an aspiring and successful novelist who nonetheless chooses to remain at Brody and Devlin. Brock figures one day they're bound to tangle, and sure enough they finally connect in The Lonely Shroud. But, of course, it's complicated.
The series continued to gain in content and depth, wrapping up with 1976's ambitious Obsession (aka "Emergency over Corpses"), a multi-perspective story about jealousy, obsession and murder.
A bigger mystery may be why these books are so obscure. Neither Devlin or Mitchell is even mentioned in John Conquest's Trouble is Their Business, yet somebody must have been buying them. I can understand them not going over in the States, but in the U.K.? Or even Canada? Given the quality of the books I read, their continuing obscurity is a puzzler. A stroll through the web reveals very little about the author, except that the series may actually have been more popular in non-English-speaking countries such as France and Germany.
Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and educated in University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany, and in Nottingham, England. With a name like that, though, it's easy to see why he used pen names, especially since his stock in trade seemed to be hard-boiled detective fiction. Besides the sixteen Brock Devlin books, he wrote several novels as Elliot Kennedy featuring Griff Dexter , another Los Angeles private dick. He seems to have abandoned crime fiction by the mid-seventies, however, and turned to writing biographies of such Hollywood icons Errol Flynn, Paul Newman and Cary Grant, and contributing to the British magazines like Films and Filming.
American spoken here. This forgotten Brit pulpster spewed out Chandler-style hard-boiled patter better than some Yankeee Doodle Dandies.
TRIVIA AND TRIVIER…
I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but Scott Mitchell was the name U.K. author John Harvey used for his own American-style private eye. After all, the prolific Harvey has a habit of playing fast and loose with the names of characters and pen names, and his private eye series started up about the same time that the Brock Devlin series was winding down. Plus, could anyone have really saddled their kid with a monicker like "Lionel Robert Holcombe Godfrey"? And, as I said, the Devlin books were definitely a cut above the usual hard-boiled Americana (at least as interpreted by British writers). Hmmmm…..
"As soon as I entered the bar… I saw her sitting at the end, teasing her drink the way some women tease everything, from tame cats to wild men."
— Sables Spell Trouble
"Doesn't money impress you guys? That's un-American."
— The Lonely Shroud
"I specialize in urban decay."
Sables Spell Trouble (1963) | Buy this book
Some Dames Play Rough (1963)
Deadly Persuasion (1964)
The Lonely Shroud (1964) | Buy this book
Come, Sweet Death (1967)
Double Bluff (1968)
A Knife-Edged Thing (1969)
A Haven for the Damned (1971)
Rage in Babylon (1972)
You'll Never Get to Heaven (1972)
The Girl in the Wet-Look Bikini (1973)
Dead on Arrival (1974)
Nice Guys Don't Win (1974)
Over My Dead Body (1974)
Death's Busy Crossroads (1975)
Obsession (1976)
The Lonely Shroud (1964)
An excerpt from the novel.
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PERRIAND IN THE MOUNTAINS
Charlotte Perriand, 1935. © AChP ADAGP
Reception: Saturday, April 14, 2018 | 6 - 9pm
Matthew Rachman Gallery is pleased to announce a show featuring pieces by the pioneering French modernist designer and architect Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999). The opening will take place on Saturday, April 14 from 6 - 9pm. The show will run April 14 - May 27.
In the 1990s, two architects met in Berlin. They believed in high quality, relaxed timeless design for everyone, active lifestyles infused with solid connections to nature, and thoughtful settings for human interactions. Marrying in 2004, they decided to start collect furniture reflective of these principles. The work of Charlotte Perriand exemplified their interests.
The young family became consumed with the adventure of researching Perriand. This adventure would lead them to Marseille, Grenoble and lastly Savoie where they discovered Les Arcs, a ski resort made up of four villages, constructed at different levels. The first three levels (the numbers correspond to various altitude levels) Arc 1600, Arc 1800, Arc 2000 were built and designed by Perriand between 1968 - 1985.
At the heart of the Les Arcs project, there were three determining notions: (1) respect for the beauty of the natural landscape, (2) the preservation of the existing mountain chalet structures, and (3) utilization of materials local to the area. With this in mind, Perriand then applied her high-modern aesthetic to the creation of these ski lodges. The rooms were minimally furnished to encourage guests to spend most of their time outside; the buildings opened up to the light and surrounding natural beauty of the mountains. Les Arcs quickly became the new standard for the Alpine skiing environment.
Perriand in the Mountains is a showcase of a carefully crafted collection facilitated out of pure fervor and passion. It is a vignette into a different time and age, giving one a rare opportunity to step into a spectacular episode of French modernism where the sensual meets the rational, the industrial with the natural on the eve of Les Arcs' 50th anniversary.
About Charlotte Perriand:
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was one of the most innovative furniture and interior designers of the twentieth century. Her career spanned five eras of furniture design. Leaving a mark in Art Deco, machine-age modernism, the rustic 1930s and 40s, populist modern furniture of the 50s and 60s as well as the prefabricated bathroom and kitchen units popular in the 70s, Perriand's versatility allowed her to maintain an influential status and cemented her as a pioneering figure in modernism.
The woman behind Le Corbusier's furniture designs, Perriand initially applied to his atelier in October 1927. She was famously rejected with the reply, "We don't embroider cushions here." A month later after seeing her work at the Salon d'Automne, the famed architect offered her a position. In collaboration with Jean Jeanneret at Le Corbusier's studio, she developed a series of tubular steel chairs. These chairs have since become emblematic of the machine age. She would leave Le Corbusier's atelier in 1937, but return to collaborate with him on projects like the Brutalist beauty Unité d'habitation (1946-1949) or the residential Maison du Brésil at the Cité Universitaire Complex in Paris (1959).
Apart from these collaborations, her own work encompassed a wide range of projects and countries. She designed bamboo furniture in Japan, lobbies for Air France in London and Tokyo, workers' housing in the Sahara and ski resorts in the French Alps. She always explored the possibilities of new materials.
Charlotte Perriand was a woman committed to function, simple harmonies of form and color and a believer in the intermingling of technology and nature. For her, the presence of objects was just as important as the presence of open space; she believed that well thought out design could help create a better society. Perriand's work points to a mind that was brave, free and deeply sensitive to human nature.
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2018 | Metropolis, Chicago Exhibit Spotlights Charlotte Perriand's Alpine Ski Resort
2018 | Architectural Digest, Charlotte Perriand's French Modernist Les Arcs Comes to the United States
2018 | Chicago Tribune, Jasmine Justice injects 65GRAND with an antidote for artifice; Climbing through the legacy of Charlotte Perriand
2018 | Decaso, Seminar Series: Charlotte Perriand & the Mountains
2018 | Cultural Services French Embassy in the United States, Perriand in the Mountains


Real Madrid have announced the departure of their legendary goal keeper Iker Casillas, the Spain skipper will join Porto after twenty-five years at the santiago Bernebeu.
According to Madrid based publication Marca, the agreement will see Casillas sign a two-year contract at Porto - with an optional third triggered if he makes more than 30 competitive appearances - with a gross salary of €10 million.
Real, meanwhile, will make up the shortfall so that Casillas ends up earning the same amount (€12.5m net) that he would have by staying at the Bernabéu for the two remaining years of his contract, with the corresponding tax to be paid by the Madrid outfit.


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What is the greatest post-apocalyptic film of all time?
Long before Mel Gibson became involved with historical and biblical epics, he was known for his tattered leather jacket, double-barrel shotgun, and souped-up Interceptor. The first Mad Max film established its eponymous road enforcement agent as a man who had lost everything, and its sequel raised the stakes higher, placing Max in the center of a war for petrol. Feral children, barely-functioning helicopters, and a thick coating of dust helped to sell Australia's ruins as a new world entirely. The design of the wandering barbarian horde was practical but intimidating, and the driving combat sequences were filmed so proficiently that they still hold up to modern scrutiny. By living so deeply in its own concept, Mad Max 2 expected the audience to embrace the universe and live within it, rather than simply analyzing it. And unlike its end-of-the-world setting, Mad Max 2 never runs out of fuel.
In a world where humans are no longer capable of procreation, a pregnant woman is an inherent miracle. But with the approaching birth comes a barrage of bullets, hunters, and destroyed landscapes, and the only protector for the mother-to-be is Clive Owen. Children of Men is widely recognized as one of Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece films, making heavy use of long tracking shots and practical effects to bring muddy warzones to life. Its vision of a destroyed world does not rely on nuclear fallout or a worldwide blackout, but rather an intrinsic failing in human reproduction and life cycles. Children of Men is a surprisingly human depiction of a world on the brink of annihilation, and manages to satisfy the genre's expectations of gritty survival without ignoring the broader philosophy of its story.
What do world-looping locomotives, axes coated in fish blood, and Ed Harris all have in common? The answer is Snowpiercer, a South Korean film released in 2013. The film received little attention in the United States, but it was one of the most inventive and immersive post-apocalyptic depictions in years. Set on an Earth which has frozen over due to climate alterations, Snowpiercer focuses on a generation-sustaining train which runs an eternal course around the globe, organizing itself to allow the privileged at the train's front end, and the poorer masses at its tail. Snowpiercer features slick and brutal action scenes, filmed with all the flourish a cinema buff would expect from a South Korean veteran director, and a cast of memorable and determined characters. If you've ever wanted to see a revolt on a moving train, this is the film for you.
Many films desiring a post-apocalyptic society are quick to embrace visions of rubble and gas masks. Some of the best and most iconic examples of a fallen world, however, are born from a subversion of how we perceive Earth. Warlike apes, humans being hunted like prey, and societies build among mud cliffs may have existed in pulp fiction of previous decades, but their placement on a ruined Earth was far less anticipated. When Planet of the Apes was initially released, the "big reveal" of the mystery planet's identity was shocking and profound. The audience felt as disoriented as the astronaut, forced to reconcile their own vision of Earth with the foreign and primitive surroundings of the ape world. Planet of the Apes is a vision of a "post" post-apocalyptic society, demonstrating that rebuilding is always possible, but never quite the same.
The post-apocalyptic world doesn't necessarily have to be full of grime and rust. In fact, it can be a breeding ground for time travel, as evidenced by the Terry Gilliam film 12 Monkeys. Bruce Willis plays a convicted prisoner sent back in time to trace the origins of a virus, which just so happens to have eradicated above-ground life on Earth. In many ways, the film exists on the border of time-altering fiction and mega-virus fiction like The Andromeda Strain, but it embraces its setting of a destroyed world and runs with the idea. The film's opening aesthetic presentation places emphasis on the decay of the subterranean prison, and juxtaposes this collapsed society with steampunk-esque industrial science and reconstructed judicial councils. 12 Monkeys is a fascinating trek through ruins, warzones, and the inexorable flow of causality.
When The Road was released in its original form as a Cormac McCarthy novel, it featured lean prose and a sense of crushing weight that bore down on the reader as much as the father-son team making their way toward the ocean. Viggo Mortensen's role as the father in this adaptation was perfectly cast, and all of the doom, gloom, and horror of McCarthy's novel came to life through the use of muted color selection and minimalist storytelling. Much like the novel, there are few moments of joy to be found along the coast-seeking journey, but the glimmers of hope are bright and redeeming. Turning a child's first taste of canned soda into a genuine and heartfelt moment, and epitomizes the film's ability to make the viewer think (and feel) like another wanderer among the wastes.
A man, a dog, and a mannequin are standing in a department store. It may sound like the start of a campy joke, but this is actually one of the most poignant and striking scenes and films in Will Smith's decorated film career. I Am Legend is an adaptation of the Richard Matheson novella, and despite altering the original work's creatures from vampires to zombies, the film manages to faithfully preserve Matheson's themes of detachment and desperation. Plenty of other films set in a fallen society have featured dogs as a sidekick, but few have come close to the companionship between Dr. Neville and Sam. Fewer, still, have captured the loneliness and heartbreak of surviving in a world without other humans. With harrowing action sequences, profound shifts between despair and triumph, and a lead role that essentially carried the entire film, I Am Legend brought emotion back to the apocalypse.
If the lone dog and wanderer is a post-apocalyptic trope, then A Boy and His Dog is the most unexpected mutation possible. Centering around the titular "boy" and his dog, Blood, this adaptation of a Harlan Ellison creation revolves more around finding women and food than exploring the moral implications of life in a hellish Earth. Blood possesses an uncanny amount of intelligence and snarky comments, and often communicates with his owner through telepathic means. The world itself was consistent with the popular burnt wasteland setting, but the presence of gallows humor broke away from convention and turned A Boy and His Dog into a unique (and bizarre) take on the apocalypse. Even today, fresh interpretations of a black-humor apocalypse, such as the Fallout series, continue to honor and expand upon this film's absurdity.
Zombies are a natural pairing for the apocalypse. Shambling, mindless hordes with an eye and stomach for every human in sight are often the filler content in a ravaged world, but some works take a fresh look at the conventional zombie, and make them into something far more intriguing. Zombieland injected a dose of humor into the genre's zombie tropes, fixating on the "little things" that accompany survival: relationships, grocery shopping, and the hunt for Twinkies. The film had unexpectedly earnest content in places, such as dealing with the loss of loved ones, and made a genuine effort to portray the survivors' everyday lives in the post-apocalyptic world. One of the most necessary components of long-term survival – and something which Zombieland wholeheartedly embraces – is some good laughter.
This may be a controversial contender, but Waterworld is not on this list for its (less than) exceptional filmmaking, (lack of a) coherent plot, or (underwhelming) acting. Waterworld's universe was, however, truly worth experiencing and analyzing. The entirety of the film's setting is, as the title implies, a place where water has claimed all available land. Floating cities dot the vast oceans, and the search for solid land is tantamount to the quest for the Holy Grail. The ragtag aesthetics of the raft-supported settlements, and the general design of the ships throughout the world, appear consistent and convincing for the role that they serve. Waterworld, as a finished product, may not be the masterpiece that it could have been, but it's a memorable and unique spin on the genre's idea of world building.
Kurt Russell may have strayed from his apocalyptic and dystopian roots, but one of his earliest films was a memorable entry in these genres. Escape from New York centered around Snake Plissken, who would later become an inspiration for Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid protagonist. With an eye patch, submachine gun, and a black tank top, Plissken tore his way through the city-turned-prison of Manhattan. The film's bleak outlook and setting were, according to series lore, a result of an extreme natural disaster that only worsened a growing crime rate. The collapsed society of New York City provided a new but recognizable gauntlet, and the collection of outlandish thugs and paramilitary forces within the urban jungle only increased the thrills. Escape From New York can be called many things (campy among them), but boring is not one of them.
Mad Max 2 had the visual approach, feel, and character archetypes that ultimately influenced the post-apocalyptic genre, specifically regarding the subgenre of "wasteland wanderers." Gibson's role leading was well acted and provided a cool, quiet demeanor to the enforcer. The vehicles were designed to operate and excel in their environment, and it showed in the furiously paced (and filmed) chase sequences. Everything from spiked bandit hair to the sand-scraped leather of Max's jacket fleshed out the world and its character designs, making both the villains and outpost survivors feel believable in their own way. This was also a film before computer animation, and the practical effects in this film – as well as their perfect coordination with the action – highlights the value and beauty of physical stunt production. In many ways, the film also demonstrates the originality of its time. Long before the arrival of commonplace zombies, nuclear fallout, and mutant creatures, there was only a man and his dog on his roadway. Mad Max 2 is gritty, stylish, and the greatest post-apocalyptic film of all time.


Bobby Meadows, age 84, of Goodlettsville, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2014.
He was retired from Ford Glass Plant after 30 years of service.
Mr. Meadows is survived by his wife of 64 years, Corene Meadows; and several neices and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 4-8pm Friday, July 18 and again from 10-11am Saturday, July 19 at Cole and Garrett Funeral Home, Goodlettsville. Funeral services will be conducted at 11am Saturday in the funeral home chapel with Rev. David Ray Wall officiating. Interment will be at 2pm Saturday in Medium Cemetery in Lincoln County, TN. Pallbearers will be family and friends. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Medium Cemetery, 800 Orchard Drive, Fayettville, TN 37334.
Sorry I could not make it to the funeral home. I was in Adams, Tennessee at the TN/KY steam show with my tractors. We go back several years playing music..


I'm all for peaceful, non-combative metaphors that describe the work of writing and any other creative pursuit. However, when it comes to time management and creating space to write, only military metaphors can truly capture what's going on today.
Brands, companies, and marketers are waging war against you. The battle is for your time and money.
Companies are on a full war footing, invading your visual and audio space through any means possible. Cell phones are mobile advertising tools that just happen to be phones. Computers are being turned into ad placement billboards that happen to provide productivity tools. Television and radio dump ads into our lives at a blinding speed along with our favorite shows and sports.
When I walk down the street I see ads on billboards, newspaper stands, buses, and benches. I could be listening to a podcast sponsored by a company. I could also browse the internet on my phone and buy anything from shoes to a new computer.
With so many companies desperately working to catch your attention so that they can sell you something and keep their profits rising, your only choice is to counterattack by working all the harder to guard your mind and your creative time.
Today, you don't just happen to write. There are far too many distractions around, and many of those distractions are linked to selling products for companies that need to keep selling products in order to survive. They NEED to distract you. That is a huge part of their marketing plan. With so many options for how we can spend our time, writers must be equally intentional and strategic.
I make a list of everything I need to do each day. The night before I leave my to do list on my desk and note what I'll do first. I have a backup project in case I get stuck.
I only look at social media on my tablet while standing in the kitchen in the morning. Once I sit down to work, I try to avoid the internet altogether until after two hours of work. I don't visit Facebook unless I know what I'll be doing next.
By using pen and paper to outline and draft my chapters, I can provide myself with extremely focused writing time. In addition, I usually revise my first drafts significantly, so drafting it on paper makes it easier to revise a chapter when I enter it into a computer. When I get into the hard work of book editing, I often print out my chapter and make changes with my pen first.
I learned that my first move when I get stuck on a writing project is to bail out and check my email. That has been my habit for years now. Once I realized that I was using email as a pressure relief valve, I started using Freedom to cut off my internet connection while working on an offline project. If I need to be online, I try to set time goals for myself so that I have a better incentive to stay focused.
The sweet spot for advertisers is the bored, listless, or frustrated consumer who is looking for something to make him/her feel better. I'll be the first to admit that I like wearing my new hiking shoes and our new car is a pleasure to drive. Buying new things brings a measure of happiness and a rush of sorts. However, if your goal is to write a book, to post to a blog regularly, or to get published in a magazine, you'll need clearly defined work time and leisure time.
Read books that will expand your imagination or teach you something you can write about. Take a walk without a phone or headphones on to clear your mind (bring along a little notebook too!). Watch a creative or inspiring show that will help you relax without tuning in for an all-day marathon. Leisure is great, but only if you use it to refresh yourself rather than making it the goal of your life.
If developing a strategy for your writing and creative time makes sense to you and you live within driving distance of southwest Michigan, consider joining myself and fellow writer Kristin Tennant for the Renew & Refine Retreat for Writers on May 24-26.
We'll provide professional, creative, and spiritual sessions for writers looking to take their work to the next level. And best yet, our early bird rate of $225 includes all sessions, meals, and lodging (It increases by $50 on April 1st).
Learn more at www.renewandrefine.com today!
There are all kinds of people today on social media who call themselves "rock stars" who are most decidedly NOT rock stars. This can be confusing.
How does one arrive at such a position without having accomplished any of the required "rocking" or "stardom" that is typically associated with rock stars?
Choose a career path that is most certainly not related to rock music—the more boring and technical, the better. For example, marketing, website design, or social media consulting are particularly fertile careers for non-rock stars to claim rock star status.
Rock stars are passionate, off the chain characters who defy bland copywriting. Jazz up your website's about me pages and social media profiles with peppy descriptions of how awesome you are. You're really living on the edge if you can also claim you're a ninja while weighing over your recommended body mass index.
Peppy copy alone does not make you a rock star. Rock stars are self-confident and cocky enough to call themselves "rock stars," critics be damned. Claiming rock star status for yourself, even if you're hardly a social media maven or a blogging guru, is about going out there and taking what's yours.
You know you're a rock star already, so go out there and type it into your profile now, you… you… rock star.
When you're self-publishing all of the work falls on you, the author. No matter how much published authors complain about the lack of marketing support provided by their publishers, which can be spotty at times, the worst publicist will do more than upload a file to a web site, which is all you're doing when self-publishing.
Publishers have established lists of contacts who receive their catalogues, e-mail newsletters, and browse their web sites. They represent authors at book stores and can send releases out to major press services—something that can be quite costly to do on your own.
The staff at publishers generally have social media accounts and blogs, and they may even generate some buzz for your book through these tools. At the very least these publishing professionals will tell potential readers about your book. You'll at least have a few warm bodies with a measure of interest in selling your book.
Any way you slice it, the least that a publisher provides still puts their authors way ahead of the self-published ones.
While it's important to seek out some reputable endorsers and reviewers who have a large group of readers, I don't think self-published authors realize the number of readers they need to pull off a self-published book that sells more than 25-50 copies. Simply put, self-published authors need a massive number of connections with potential readers.
The "potential reader" part of this is crucial. Authors may have lots of "connections" through social media, their blogs, or more traditional means, but many of these connections may not view their books as something they'll want to purchase.
I've done quite a bit of networking, but I have been reading Crush It! by social media expert and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, and he's been blowing my mind. I usually drop by some blogs to leave comments and contribute to writing forums, but he advocates a scale of networking that few would ever consider.
I could try to describe it to you, but to be honest, I'd be doing you a disservice because I can't do his methods justice. Crush It! is available at a pretty low price as a Video Book, which I highly recommend, though it's also available in print. You may not do everything Vaynerchuk suggests, but I think he'll give self-published authors the reality check they need about how involved the marketing process will be for their books.
An author who is new to the publishing process will underestimate the amount of work necessary for marketing. Count on it. As a published author I still underestimate the amount of work I need to do. Before you invest heavily into a book, begin marketing yourself and making connections today. It's a worthwhile investment you won't regret.
Check out the free online marketing guide at www.pathtopublishing.com.
Pick up Get Known Before the Deal, a must-read for authors new to marketing their work.
View a sample of Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk at vook.com.
In celebration of my latest book, A Path to Publishing: What I Learned by Publishing a Nonfiction Book, I will be posting a series on what you need to know about self-publishing. I chose to self-publish A Path to Publishing and discovered an enormous amount of material online, but some of it was dated. Over the coming weeks I will provide an updated guide to self-publishing today based on my latest experiences.
The most important word in self-publishing is "self," not publishing. The publishing part is fun. The self part is not.
Researching the market and audience for your book.
Researching a publisher and comparing the various packages.
Paying for and organizing the editing, design, printing, and distribution (which of course will vary).
Contacting bloggers, radio producers, newspaper editors, and other media outlets about your book's release.
Contacting independent and chain book stores to set up book events. Many of them will not call you back because you are self-published.
Finding conferences where you can sell your book—that is, if you pay for the space.
Setting up book events and eating the cost if they flop.
Granted, many publishers today are quite light on the marketing end of things, especially for nonfiction books where a marketing platform is essential for new authors. That being said, at least having someone who is paid to help you send out press releases and to advise you on ideas can save you a lot of time and frustration. In other words, even the publisher who provides minimal help with marketing a book is still way better than doing everything yourself.
If all of this is new to you, then I'm guessing you've never commercially published a book. While self-publishing is easy to jump into from the standpoint of writing and printing a book, making it into a product that someone will actually deem worthy of $15 is quite another matter.
Most books need significant editorial development.
It takes time to learn how to write for a specific audience.
A bad cover and sloppy interior design can be fatal for a book.
Distributing a book effectively will take a lot of e-mails and phone calls.
Marketing a book is a full time job.
If you want to self-publish and to sell more than 500-1000 books, your work is cut out for you. Thankfully it can be done. In the coming days we'll discuss the importance of a marketing platform for self-publishing.


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package org.apache.jmeter.control;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.jmeter.engine.util.CompoundVariable;
import org.apache.jmeter.engine.util.ReplaceStringWithFunctions;
import org.apache.jmeter.junit.JMeterTestCase;
import org.apache.jmeter.junit.stubs.TestSampler;
import org.apache.jmeter.samplers.Sampler;
import org.apache.jmeter.testelement.TestElement;
import org.apache.jmeter.testelement.property.JMeterProperty;
import org.apache.jmeter.testelement.property.StringProperty;
import org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterContext;
import org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterContextService;
import org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterVariables;

public class TestLoopController extends JMeterTestCase {
        public TestLoopController(String name) {
            super(name);
        }

        public void testProcessing() throws Exception {
            GenericController controller = new GenericController();
            GenericController sub_1 = new GenericController();
            sub_1.addTestElement(new TestSampler("one"));
            sub_1.addTestElement(new TestSampler("two"));
            controller.addTestElement(sub_1);
            controller.addTestElement(new TestSampler("three"));
            LoopController sub_2 = new LoopController();
            sub_2.setLoops(3);
            GenericController sub_3 = new GenericController();
            sub_2.addTestElement(new TestSampler("four"));
            sub_3.addTestElement(new TestSampler("five"));
            sub_3.addTestElement(new TestSampler("six"));
            sub_2.addTestElement(sub_3);
            sub_2.addTestElement(new TestSampler("seven"));
            controller.addTestElement(sub_2);
            String[] order = new String[] { "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "four", "five",
                    "six", "seven", "four", "five", "six", "seven" };
            int counter = 15;
            controller.setRunningVersion(true);
            sub_1.setRunningVersion(true);
            sub_2.setRunningVersion(true);
            sub_3.setRunningVersion(true);
            controller.initialize();
            for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
                assertEquals(15, counter);
                counter = 0;
                TestElement sampler = null;
                while ((sampler = controller.next()) != null) {
                    assertEquals(order[counter++], sampler.getName());
                }
            }
        }

        public void testLoopZeroTimes() throws Exception {
            LoopController loop = new LoopController();
            loop.setLoops(0);
            loop.addTestElement(new TestSampler("never run"));
            loop.initialize();
            assertNull(loop.next());
        }

        public void testInfiniteLoop() throws Exception {
            LoopController loop = new LoopController();
            loop.setLoops(LoopController.INFINITE_LOOP_COUNT);
            loop.addTestElement(new TestSampler("never run"));
            loop.setRunningVersion(true);
            loop.initialize();
            for (int i = 0; i < 42; i++) {
                assertNotNull(loop.next());
            }
        }

        public void testBug54467() throws Exception {
            JMeterContext jmctx = JMeterContextService.getContext();
            LoopController loop = new LoopController();
            Map<String, String> variables = new HashMap<>();
            ReplaceStringWithFunctions transformer = new ReplaceStringWithFunctions(new CompoundVariable(), variables);
            jmctx.setVariables(new JMeterVariables());

            StringProperty prop = new StringProperty(LoopController.LOOPS,"${__Random(1,12,)}");
            JMeterProperty newProp = transformer.transformValue(prop);
            newProp.setRunningVersion(true);

            loop.setProperty(newProp);
            loop.addTestElement(new TestSampler("random run"));
            loop.setRunningVersion(true);
            loop.initialize();
            int loops = loop.getLoops();
            for (int i = 0; i < loops; i++) {
                Sampler s = loop.next();
                assertNotNull(s);
            }
            assertNull(loop.next());
        }
}


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VIDEO: Tens of Thousands Attend 'Anybody But Bibi' Rally in Tel Aviv
By Susan L.M. Goldberg Mar 08, 2015 7:05 AM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhJDA1JJ-fI
A crowd estimated at 40,000 filled Tel Aviv's Rabin Square this weekend in what is being called an "anti-Netanyahu" rally ahead of the elections scheduled for March 17. Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan keynoted the rally calling Netanyahu, "the person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel." The rally was reportedly organized by the Million Hands grassroots campaign "along with other social movements." The Millions Hands organization "campaigns for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and the creation of a Palestinian state."
Twitter reaction to the rally was mixed with several users referring to the organizers of the rally as the "Obama Army":
"@slone: 'Obama army' deploys to Tel Aviv to topple Netanyahu http://t.co/cWjyfCIRYL pic.twitter.com/1C0oNt7vDm"….can group come here for O?
— Nerd Nation (@Nerditupnation) March 8, 2015
While others noted the rather un-productive nature of the rally's negative theme:
It's too bad that tonight's Tel Aviv rally is #anti-Netanyahu and not pro-somebody… anybody…
— David Brinn (@davidbjpost) March 7, 2015
Most Israelis remained unmoved, chalking the rally up to a typical pre-election political demonstration:
There were many Meretz, Avoda, Peace Now flags & activists, organizers of rally said it was for "the center and to the left" @BlueMeanie4
— Ben Hartman (@Benhartman) March 7, 2015
…and waiting for Bibi supporters to do the same thing next week:
That's a wrap folks, 'Imagine' by John Lennon playing on stage, Next weekend – right wing rally, same spot.
According to the latest polls, Netanyahu received only a slight bump in the polls after his speech to Congress, illustrating once again that Israel, like every other nation on the planet, has more than just matters of national security to address in an election. Still, in a nation of millions of voters, the most 40,000 demonstrators can do in a tight race is pose for an impressive Twitpic.
Susan L.M. Goldberg is a writer with a Master's in Radio, Television & Film. Her writing tends towards the intersection of culture, politics and faith with the interest in starting, not stopping the discussion. Follow her on Twitter @SLMGoldberg.
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Recognized the first National park in 1962, Cuc Phuong is now an important nature reserve and ecosystem with peaks of over 600 meters. The Park also has an important Endangered Primate Rescue Center and a Turtle Conservation Center. It is the home to other rare and critically endangered mammals.
Located 130km south of Hanoi in Ninh Binh province, Cuc Phuong National Park and the surroundings make a perfect trip. Recognized the first National park in 1962, Cuc Phuong is now an important nature reserve and ecosystem with peaks of over 600 meters.
The Park also has an important Endangered Primate Rescue Center and a Turtle Conservation Center. It is the home to other rare and critically endangered mammals.
08:00 Tour guide & car pick you up at your hotel then depart for Cuc Phuong National Park. On the way, you have 20 minutes short break to relax and find a restroom.
10:30 Arrive at the park gate. Continue the tour to the center of the park. Start your trek into the jungle. Half way trekking, you reach a giant tree Cho Chi of thousands years old. Finish the trek you have lunch at a restaurant in the center of the park.
14:00 Visit the mysterious Prehistoric Man cave (you must bring a flash light) and then Endangered Primate Rescue Centre to learn about the important work being done to help protect the endangered species of the park. Relax a few minutes and ready for a drive back to Hanoi.
18:00 Arrive back in Hanoi. Tour ends.


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AdventHealth physicians say COVID-19 vaccine "highly" recommended for children ages 12 and up
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Morning Briefing: AdventHealth physicians say COVID-19 vaccine "highly" recommended for children ages 12 and up
ORLANDO, Fla. – This week's approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children as young as 12 is welcome news for Dr. Fatma Levent, medical director of pediatric infectious disease at AdventHealth for Children, who has treated a number of children with COVID-induced pneumonia and multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
"We highly recommend the vaccine," said Levent on this morning's AdventHealth Morning Briefing."It is very safe and effective."
Levent and Dr. Sarah Li, an AdventHealth Medical Group pediatrician practicing in Winter Garden, said that while many children with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms, some previously healthy kids develop severe illness with potential long-term consequences.
"Some are coming in with no background of any other disease, but getting COVID-pneumonia or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children," Levent said. "They can get very sick. After seeing that, that's why I wanted to vaccinate my own children."
Levent said all three of her teen children will be fully vaccinated soon.
Li said it's common for parents to have questions about the mRNA vaccines, such as the one produced by Pfizer, and works to try to combat misinformation with facts.
"They hear 'genetic material' and they get worried," she said. "They hear 'new' and they get worried … But this genetic material is not something that's incorporated into the system. It's broken down very quickly. The more I learn about the vaccines, the more it's abundantly clear we should be giving it to everyone who is able to get it."
Levent emphasized that the key to ending the pandemic is stopping person-to-person transmission of the virus and, in turn, mutations of the virus. The vaccines are the best way to halt transmissions and new variants of COVID-19 that are more contagious or more deadly.
She noted that about 370 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 across AdventHealth's hospitals in Central Florida, a slight decline over prior weeks, but still a sign that masks, good hygiene and vaccines are needed in the community.
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