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Winter 2013 / 3.19
Susan Holbrook
"Delirious Coherence": an Interview with Nicole Brossard
A Noise of Universe
Bhanu Kapil
from Notes for a novel never written: Ban
Faye Harnest
Mercedes Eng
how it is (January 2012)
from Bad Arts
Vanessa Place
from Lo mismo: The same
Alex Leslie
from Vancouver For Beginners
Kyla Mallett
from The Library
Larissa Beringer
Imagine the Library
Meredith Quartermain
from Orientalisme
Reg Johanson
from Mortify
Michael Lake
from The Robber
Jon R. Flieger
from The Obituary
Clint Burnham
Three Chapters from Mixtape
Nicole Markotic
Shelled
George Rammell
Crime Scene on Ice
Ashok Mathur
Bildungsroman: a life in line items
Mark Dahl
Constantly Arriving
Five Poems
Derek Beaulieu
Extispicium
Of the Hollow
Jordan Abel
Argiope lycosidae
Cover image: Kyla Mallett, from The Library: The Universe, 2009, lightjet print, 20" x 16". Courtesy of the artist.
JORDAN ABEL is a First Nations writer from Vancouver. His writing has been published in CV2, Grain, and Canadian Literature. His first collection of poetry, The Place of Scraps, is forthcoming from Talonbooks in Fall 2013. Visit him at jordanabel.ca.
DEREK BEAULIEU is the author of five books of poetry, three volumes of conceptual fiction, over 150 chapbooks and one volume of criticism, Seen of the Crime, which was published by Snare Books in 2011. He is the youngest writer in Canada to have his papers collected in extensio by Simon Fraser University's Contemporary Literature Collection and is the publisher of the acclaimed smallpresses housepress (1997–2004) and no press (2005–present). Beaulieu is the visual poetry editor at UBUWeb and teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Mount Royal University. In 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press is publishing his Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell (co-edited with Lori Emerson) and No more poetry, please: the selected poetry of Derek beaulieu as edited by Kit Dobson. 2013 also brings a new volume of visual poetry entitled Kern (Les Figues).
LARISSA BERINGER has been an art librarian at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design since 2006. She holds an MLIS from McGill University, Montreal and an BFA/Major in Textiles from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has lectured on experimental libraries, alternative archives, and artists' publications. This year she established the Emily Carr Library's inaugural Artists' Books Research Residency program. Montreal poet, novelist, and essayist
NICOLE BROSSARD has influenced a generation of writers in Canada and abroad. Among her 30 books, many exist in English translation: Mauve Desert, The Aerial Letter, Picture Theory, Lovhers, Baroque at Dawn, The Blue Books, Installations, Museum of Bone and Water, and more recently Intimate Journal, Fluid Arguments, Yesterday at the Hotel Clarendon, and Notebook of Roses and Civilization (trans. by Erín Moure and Robert Majzels, Griffin Prize finalist). She co-founded and co-directed the avant-garde journal La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976), and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poesie des femmes au Quebec. Her work has been attributed the Governor General's Award (twice), the Prix Athanase-David, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Grand Prix de Poésie du Festival international de Trois-Rivières (twice), and the Molson Prize. It is widely translated into English and Spanish, and also into German, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Romanian, Catalan. She is a member of l'Académie des lettres du Québec and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her most recent books in English are Fences in Breathing and Selections: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard. White Piano (translated by Moure and Majzels) will appear in 2013.
CLINT BURNHAM teaches at Simon Fraser University. In the fall of 2012 he read at Capilano University, North Vancouver; the Western Front, Vancouver; and Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson. His criticism has recently appeared in Canadian Art (online), and in projects co-edited with Lorna Brown, Paul Budra, and Christine Stewart.
JEN CURRIN has published three books of poetry: The Sleep of Four Cities (2005), Hagiography (2008), and The Inquisition Yours (2010), which was a finalist for four awards and won the Audre Lorde Poetry Award. She teaches writing at Kwantlen University, Vancouver Community College, and for The Writer's Studio at SFU.
MARK DAHL is an autodidactic artist, writer, and musician from Vancouver, BC. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario. Dahl's work has shown many times in Vancouver over the years, including in the pages of Front Magazine, and a number of times in Sydney, Australia. He never went to high school. More of his work can be seen here: markdahl.blogspot.com.
MERCEDES ENG is a teacher and writer in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. Mercenary English (CUE), her first book of poetry, is forthcoming in 2013. Her current project considers implementation of Canadian multicultural policy within the federal prison system.
JON R. FLIEGER'S work has appeared or is forthcoming in CV2, The Malahat Review, Descant, Matrix, Kiss Machine, Rampike, The Danforth Review, The Windsor Review, filling Station, and Momaya Press Fiction Annual 2011. He won the 2011 Norma Epstein national award for fiction and was a finalist for the Howard O' Hagan Short Fiction award. He is afraid of bees. His piece "Thank you," in this issue, is the winner of TCR's winter narrative contest.
FAYE HARNEST is the author of Girl Fight (James Lorimer & Co. 2011). She is currently writing her second novel, and a poetry collection written in English, French, and Braille.
SUSAN HOLBROOK's poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), Good Egg Bad Seed (Nomados 2004), and misled (Red Deer 1999), which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She lives in Leamington, Ontario and teaches North American literatures and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She recently co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford UP 2010).
REG JOHANSON is the author of Courage, My Love (Line Books 2006), and the editor of AKA Waandizimo, a selection of Marie Annharte's critical writing forthcoming from CUE Books. He teaches writing and literature at Capilano University on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people.
BHANU KAPIL lives in Colorado where she teaches writing and thinking at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, as well as Goddard College's low-residency MFA. Kapil has written four full-length, crossgenre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works 2006), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press 2009), and Schizophrene (Nightboat Books 2011). Currently, she is writing a novel of the race riot, BAN.
MICHAEL LAKE is a writer from Nova Scotia currently living in Montreal. He is a coordinator of Hidden Gems, an intergenerational storytelling project, and his poetry and reviews have appeared in Rover, Matrix, and The Puritan, among others.
ALEX LESLIE has published a collection of short stories People Who Disappear (Freehand 2012) and a chapbook of microfictions 20 Objects For The New World (Nomados 2011). This year she edited the Queer issue of Poetry Is Dead and the Companion Animals issue of The Incongruous Quarterly. Her work has won a CBC Literary Award, a Gold National Magazine Award, and awards from Matrix and Prairie Fire. She writes online at: alexleslie.wordpress.com.
Novelist, poet, playwright, and translator ROBERT MAJZELS is the author of the full length play This Night the Kapo and four novels, most recently The Humbugs Diet (2007). His translations have won a Governor General's Award and been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His most recent translation, with Erín Moure, is White Piano by Nicole Brossard (Coach House 2013).
KYLA MALLETT completed her MFA at UBC in 2004, and her BFA at Emily Carr in 2000. Working primarily in photography, text and print media, her practice engages with the intersection of culture and language, using archival and statistical research to examine transgressive activities in such cultural arenas such as adolescence, feminism, academia and art. Mallett's work has been exhibited widely, including at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Modern Fuel (Kingston), Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), and The Power Plant (Toronto), with solo exhibitions at Artspeak (Vancouver), Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver), Access (Vancouver), ThreeWalls (Chicago), Mount St. Vincent University Gallery (Halifax), and Mercer Union (Toronto). Mallett is Assistant Professor in Visual Art (Photography) and Graduate Studies at Emily Carr University.
NICOLE MARKOTIC has published two novels (Yellow Pages and Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot) and three books of poetry (Connect the Dots, Minotaurs & Other Alphabets, and Bent at the Spine). She teaches at the University of Windsor, specializing in Creative Writing, CanLit, Poetry, KidsLit, and Disability Studies. She is on the NeWest literary board, and currently publishes a poetry chapbook series, Wrinkle Press.
ASHOK MATHUR is a writer, cultural organizer, and artist-researcher. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. His novels include Once Upon an Elephant, and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, and A Little Distillery in Nowgong.
Poet ERÍN MOURE translates from French, Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese. Her most recent poetry is The Unmemntioable (2012) and most recent translation, with Robert Majzels, is White Piano by Nicole Brossard (Coach House 2013). Their translation of Nicole Brossard's Notebook of Roses and Civilization was a Griffin Prize finalist.
AARON PECK is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific. He frequently writes about art.
VANESSA PLACE: À la question êtes vous un auteur de fiction ou un poète? elle répond «oui.» http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Place
MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN is a writer of urban spaces and an innovator of poetic and narrative form. Vancouver Walking won the 2006 BC Book Award for poetry and Recipes from the Red Planet was a finalist for the 2011 BC Book Award for fiction. Rupert's Land: a novel is forthcoming from NeWest Press.
SINA QUEYRAS is the author most recently of Autobiography of Childhood (Coach House 2011). Her collection of poetry, Expressway (Coach House 2009), was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Lemon Hound (Coach House 2006) won a Lambda Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Her poetry, fiction and non fiction has appeared in journals internationally including The London Review, Poetry, Fence, Geist, and Siecle 21. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books. She has taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford, and Concordia University in Montreal where she currently resides.
GEORGE RAMMELL has been an active sculptor and art instructor since 1976. In addition to his education at the Vancouver School of Art (EDCUAD) he worked with Haida Artist Bill Reid for over 10 years. Rammell has participated in sculpture symposia in Sweden, Brittany, and Austria; he has participated in twenty exhibitions and is collected internationally. He is currently on faculty at Capilano University in North Vancouver. With the support of the Canada Council Rammell has recently completed a large mixedmedia work entitled Ursus Arctos, The Persistence of Instinct. For more information on this and other works go to: http://www3.telus.net/4/rammell.
Montréal novelist GAIL SCOTT'S fourth novel, The Obituary, was a finalist for the 2011 Montréal Book of the Year (Grand prix du livre de Montréal). Scott's other ground-breaking novels include My Paris (Dalkey Archive), Heroine, and Main Brides. She has published collections, essays, stories, manifestoes, and collaborations with Nicole Brossard et al (La theorie, un dimanche), and with Robert Glück et al (Biting the Error). She lives, mostly, in Montréal and teaches Creative Writing at Université de Montréal. An excerpt from The Obituary appears in this issue of TCR with thanks to Coach House Books.
MICHAEL TURNER is a Vancouver-based writer of fiction, criticism, and song. His most recent book, 8x10 (Doubleday Canada), was nominated for the 2010 Ethel Wilson B.C. Book Prize for Fiction. Poems from his current manuscript, 9x11, appear in West Coast Line (46:1) and here, in this issue.
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AUDIO / Ashok Mathur at Capilano University, Feb 14, 2013
AUDIO / Gail Scott at Capilano University, Feb 15. 2013
AUDIO / Narrative Panel at Capilano University on Feb 15, 2013
Visting Writer Bhanu Kapil / Narrative and Diaspora
Experiments in Narrative #1
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Narrative Clocks
Narrative Eyes
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The Library and its Uses
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Pacific Crest Trail - Chinook Pass - Hiking trail near Tacoma, Washington, United States - Description
Pacific Crest Trail - Chinook Pass
Access to the Pacific Crest Trail
2650.0 miles / 4,264.8 km
- Summer - Fall
- Cliffs - Mountain Views - Ponds - Wildflowers - Woods
Tacoma, Washington, United States
http://www.pcta.org
A Northwest Forest Pass is required for parking.
Along Highway 410 at Chinook Pass there is easy access to the Pacific Crest Trail. The trail runs from Canada to Mexico. For more information about the Pacific Crest Trail, see the link on this page.
This trailhead is only accessible in the summer and fall, as the road closes in winter due to snow. The area is mostly alpine meadows and rocky cliffs with patches of thin forests. The trail is heavily used near the parking area but foot traffic dies down once you walk 1 or 2 miles away. If you hike north to Sourdough Gap on a clear day, several of the Cascade peaks are visible in the distance, including Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams. There are also a small number of camping sites available at Upper Crystal Lake, but they are in Mount Rainier National Park and advance reservations are required from the Park Service.
The trailhead is on the east side of Mount Rainier National Park at Chinook Pass. The pass is marked with signs and a footbridge over the road. Get there early as parking fills up fast on nice days.
From Seattle/Tacoma, take Highway 410 east.
From Yakima, take Highway 410 west.
From southwest Washington, take Highway 12 east to Highway 123 north and Highway 410 east.
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It's no secret on this blog that I'm not a fan of Meghan Trainor. She's supremely annoying at best and promoting unhealthy body image lessons at worst. But this new press release of hers is beyond the pale.
I'll preface this by saying that I think Meghan is trying to tell us about some new music she's releasing. She thinks you'll like the new music. I'll also note that Meghan almost certainly did not write this herself. Enough disclaiming. Let's go.
"Valentine's Day is around the corner, and whether you're planning on smashing bae's junk to smithereens or making out with a pint of Phish Food, you need some fresh Valentine's Day bops to get you in the mood for L♡VE"
Yes, the word "love" has a heart in it, and no, you didn't just have a stroke. Though that probably didn't help. Some quick thoughts:
"Smithereens" is not a good image for what genitals should look like after you have sex
I think you're eating ice cream wrong
I may not be in touch with the youths, but I'm pretty sure no one says "bops."
"And MEGHAN TRAINOR has got you covered with her new EP, THE LOVE TRAIN [Epic Records.] You know you want it. And you can freakin' get it b*tch. On all digital platforms right HERE."
I'm so glad they censored the word "bitch" but were perfectly comfortable talking about me destroying my girlfriend's vagina.
"Meghan's seducing your ears this V-Day, and you know she knows a thing or two about romance."
Does she? If I recall, her number one song is about how guys should only want to fuck fat girls. Oh, there was also that one where she told all men everywhere to leave her alone.
"Unless your phone's been broken for a hot minute, you know that Meghan just got married to the ginger from Spy Kids, and trust when we say, girl is feeling the love."
Does it make you profoundly uncomfortable that they referred to a grown man by the role he played as a nine-year-old, almost 20 years ago?
Does it help that he still looks like the exact same child? No? It's much worse, you say? Try picturing him smashing Meghan Trainor's junk to smithereens, see if that makes you feel better.
"We know you want to hear songs about all the hot newlywed sex Meghan and Daryl Sa-BAE-ra are having (did you see what we did there?)."
His name is Daryl Sabara, in case you definitely didn't know that. And no, we definitely do not, for a lot of reasons.
"Which is why you'll love the banging' single "All The Ways." Billboard was wet for "All The Ways," calling it "another fun, danceable track to fall in love with." And would Billboard lie to you, girl?"
"But perhaps the piece de resistance (that's French for "Wig Snatch") is "Marry Me," a romantic acoustic guitar and ukulele-tinged Awww Fest which delivers all the feels (and then more feels)."
In case you know what "piece de resistance" means and not what "wig snatch" means, like a normal person, apparently "wig snatch" is a drag queen term for something so shocking (and usually unpleasant) that your wig falls off. Which 1) is not what "piece de resistance" means, 2) is not really appropriate for a love song, and 3) includes the word "snatch," which is also a gross word for vagina, in keeping with the theme here.
"Meghan wrote the song thirty days after meeting Daryl, and it was so good that she walked down the aisle to it. We know, it's a little bit #Vomworthy, but also, am I chopping onions right now or are those tears rolling down my face? I'm not crying, you're crying."
Oh good, I was hoping there would be references to vomit in this very normal press release about crushing genitals and marrying child actors. Also walking down the aisle to your own song is corny as shit.
"Plus, Meghan's serving your insatiable thirst for dance-ready bops with the upbeat banger that is "Foolish." It slaps so hard you'll be stanning for days."
You know that Twitter thread where an AI bot watches Olive Garden commercials and then has to write its own? This is what happens when the bot only reads Urban Dictionary.
""As if all the PDA, including foot massages, butterfly kisses and piggy back rides aren't cringe worthy enough," says her brother and videographer Ryan… "I've got to film it all!""
WHAT THE FUCK, MEGHAN.
I hope, for all of our sakes, that this is the worst thing you ever read.
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That press release is really the worst (non-political) text I have ever read. And I read many of my daughter's girly magazines, so I'm not saying I'm an expert, but my productsponge-influenced crapper-time gave me a special insight and this is just…, like, I can't even… IYKWIM
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How knows more about a new Big Arena in Moscow for 2007 ?
Zu welchem Anlass wird die eigentlich gebaut?
Mir fallen nur die geplanten Sportstätten für die Olympischen Sommerspiele-Bewerbungen 2012.
11:26: Russia begins its presentation to the Congress to host the 2007 IIHF World Championship. The presentation is conducted by the Vice Mayor of the City of Moscow. The bid includes the cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow. Russia will choose one of the two cities to host the World Championship if it is awarded hosting rights. If Russia chooses St. Petersburg to act as the host city, the World Championship will be in the same arena (size 12,500) as the 2000 IIHF World Championship. If Russia decides on Moscow, a new arena will be built for the 2007 World Championship (arena size 15,000). The last time Moscow hosted a World Championship was in 1986.
Well, the Arena ya're talking about will be the Main Arena for Championship in 2007, our Officials have confirmed this fact!!! This September it should be finished, so as if it will be the home stadium for Dynamo Moscow team, most of home games will be played there, and well-known ROSNO Cup will be held here too!!! So, as soon as I get pics of it, I'll send them to ya!!!
Cool ! Thank you !!!
Who do you think will win in Torino?
Here's a photo of the arena from the Channel One Cup a few days ago. Not sure about the name though but it could possibly be "Khodynskoye Pole Stadium" or something like that, not totally sure.


Awesome price adjustment on this huge, custom waterfront pool home in pristine condition on Southern exposure triple lot. This home is absolutely amazing. As soon as you walk in, it feels like home. 3 large bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, new kitchen cabinets and counters, new AC in 2017, built-in speakers throughout so the music flows through the house, awesome outdoor kitchen with built in electric grill, adorable water feature for the pool, concrete dock on a freshwater canal that connects to Weatherly Lake for kayak enthusiasts. This luxury style home is tiled throughout with new ceiling fans in the main rooms, an electric pool heater and gorgeous curb appeal with mature, well maintained landscaping. There really is so much more to this home that you must see it in person to experience its awesomeness. And oh by the way, for your viewing pleasure, there are turtles and fish that hang out in the water at the dock so you can enjoy some pretty cool Florida nature right in your own back yard. Schedule your showing today and make this one of a kind home your new private paradise.


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These regulators offer fast transient response, excellent line and load regulation, and have a wide input voltage range, from 2.5V to 40V. Output currents range from 100mA to 10A, with positive, negative and multiple outputs.


Harry's life would have been very different if HERMIONE didn't read.
To start off a sweet series Called Clementine Rose by Jacqueline Harvey. Good chapter books for 6+ or equally charming to read together. The one above is called 'Clementine Rose and the Farm Fiasco'. Clementine has quite an eccentric family including a rather stand offish Aunt who ends up accompanying Clementine and her class on a farm trip which makes room for some funny adventures but there's also some little messages about being kind and about people not always being what they appear on the surface.
If Shirley Hughes says it's 'beautifully written' that's enough for me. 'The Children of the King' by Sonya Hartnett has enough intrigue, suspense, character formation to be a page turner for 8+. I don't want to say too much because, if I do, it will spoil the dawning of awareness of who the mysterious boys in a ruined castle are. I'll just say I remember writing an essay about a particular King possibly involved in said mystery many moons ago. The children are discovered by a young girl who has been sent away to her Uncle's mansion during WW2 along with her brother. There's lots of interwoven stories in this including that of the older brother's relationships with his parents and his fight with them to be allowed to be grown up.
'The Brockenspectre' by Linda Newbery (author of Storyshack favourite: Lob) Another beautifully illustrated book with line drawings by Pam Smy. Once again this a book to evoke thought and empathy. It's a good read and in CS Lewis' words will make lots of readers feel like they're not alone. Tomas lives in the mountains with his family. One day his Dad, who is a mountain guide, doesn't return. Folklore tells of a monster in the mountain called the Brockenspectre-Tomas has to overcome his fears when he goes in search of his Dad. It's a sensitive story for 7+ especially if it's read together. It's a good one for realising things aren't black and white, it's not always straightforward to explain why people behave in the way that they do.


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Friedrichshagen () is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the Berlin borough (Bezirk) of Treptow-Köpenick. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Köpenick.

History
The colony of Friedrichsgnade was founded on May 29, 1753 by King Frederick II of Prussia. Autonomous Prussian municipality of the former Niederbarnim district until 1920, it merged into Berlin with the "Greater Berlin Act." From 1949 to 1990, like the rest of the borough of Köpenick, it was part of East Berlin.

The ornithologist Jean Cabanis (1816–1906) died in Friedrichshagen.

Geography

Overview
Located in the south-eastern suburb of Berlin, Friedrichshagen borders with the Brandenburger municipalities of Hoppegarten (in Märkisch-Oderland district), and Schöneiche (in Oder-Spree). It is also bounded by the Berliner localities of Köpenick and Rahnsdorf. The residential area is surrounded in north by a big portion of the Berliner Stadtforst (city forest), and in south by the river Müggelspree (tributary of the Spree), and by the western side of Müggelsee, the biggest lake in Berlin.

Subdivision
Friedrichshagen counts 1 zone (Ortslage):
 Hirschgarten

Transport
As urban railways, the locality is served by S-Bahn line S3, at the stations of Friedrichshagen and Hirschgarten. It is also served by the tram lines 60 and 61. The line 88, not operated by BVG and partially separated from the citizen network, connects Friedrichshagen station to Schöneiche and Rüdersdorf.

Photogallery

References

Further reading
Albert Burkhardt: "Ein Rundgang durch Friedrichshagen auf den Spuren des Dichterkreises" - Berlin 2001
Rolf F. Lang: "Festschrift 250 Jahre Friedrichshagen (1753–2003)" - Edition Friedrichshagen, Müggel-Verlag: Berlin 2003;

External links

 Friedrichshagen official website
 Friedrichshagen page on www.berlin.de

Localities of Berlin

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Il gruppo Hager è una società europea franco-tedesca che opera nel settore delle apparecchiature e delle soluzioni elettriche per edifici residenziali, commerciali e industriali con sede a Blieskastel, in Germania.

L'attività comprende la distribuzione di energia, il cablaggio, il controllo intelligente degli edifici e l'ingegneria della sicurezza, che sono distribuiti con il marchio Hager. Altri marchi: Berker, Bocchiotti, Daitem, Diagral, Efen ed Elcom.

È membro dell'Istituto europeo per le norme di telecomunicazione (ETSI).

Storia

Gli inizi
Nel 1955 i fratelli Herman (1928-2014) e Oswald Hager fondano, sostenuti dal padre Peter, la fabbrica di elettrotecnica Hager HG ad Ensheim. In quel periodo la zona di Saarland è ancora economicamente collegata dal 1945 alla Francia e il mercato tedesco non è accessibile. Così quattro anni più tardi gli Hagers fondano a Obernai, in Alsazia, la Hager Electro SA come prima filiale estera.

Dal 1966 la società comincia per la prima volta a realizzare sistematicamente in Germania installatori elettrici. E nel 1969 l'elemento fusibile modulare del gruppo è brevettato in Germania e nel 1970 anche in Francia.  L'introduzione sul mercato dell'elemento di sicurezza modulare porta a una nuova generazione di questi prodotti. Nello stesso tempo il primo quadro di distribuzione prodotto in serie, "Hager-Rapid-System", appare sul mercato francese.  Nel 1973 la società realizza un fatturato di 43 milioni di marchi tedeschi in Germania, in Francia le vendite sono di 22 milioni di franchi.

Nel 1976 è completata la gamma di alloggi modulari per la costruzione di abitazioni: Hager lancia la piccola scheda di distribuzione Gamma. E nel 1982 realizza il primo interruttore differenziale (RCD). A Blieskastel, in Germania, viene creato un nuovo stabilimento di produzione con un magazzino a scaffali alti.

Negli anni ottanta il Gruppo Hager diventa fornitore di servizi completi per l'installazione elettrica negli edifici e fonda società di vendita in Svizzera (Hager Modula) e in Gran Bretagna (Hager Powertechl). Dalla metà degli anni novanta il gruppo Hager apre filiali nei Paesi Bassi, Norvegia, Portogallo e apre canali di distribuzione negli Emirati Arabi Uniti, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Cina, Australia e Nuova Zelanda. In Italia entra nel 1991 con l'apertura di una filiale commerciale, Hager Lume, dopo avere rilevato la società Lumetal, specializzata nella produzione di distributori. E sempre nel 1991 si lancia nella domotica con la gamma Tébis.

L'espansione
Nel 1996 acquisisce Tehalit, inventore del sistema di scivoli e leader del settore con stabilimenti in Francia e Germania. Due anni più tardi rileva la francese Flash (automazione per la gestione dell'energia) e l'inglese Ashley&Rock (interruttori). Nel 2000 partnership con l'americana Cutler&Hammer per la produzione di interruttori automatici, nel 2001 crea in Brasile la società Eletromar e prende il controllo dell'italiana AB PLast (interruttori e prese).

Nel 2004 acquisisce Swiss Weber AG, società che produce apparecchi per la distribuzione di energia elettrica e la francese Atral, specializzata in sistemi d'allarme con i marchi Daitem, Diagral e Logisty. Nel 2005 rileva la svizzera Amacher (interruttori e prese), l'italiana STS Elettronica (sistemi di sicurezza) e la francese Tolmega (condotte metalliche per cavi).

Nel 2007 il Gruppo Hager diventa un'azienda di diritto europeo e l'anno dopo la guida dell'azienda passa a Daniel Hager. Nell'ottobre 2010 la società sponsorizza (sino al giugno 2014) la squadra di calcio 1FC Saarbrücken. Nel 2012 rileva Berker, azienda tedesca produttrice di switch con sede a Schalkomuhle e Elcom International, azienda elettromeccanica (sistemi di citofoni) con sede in India. Nel gennaio 2013 il gruppo si è classificato al 101º posto nella classifica delle 500 più grandi aziende familiari in Germania secondo la rivista Wirtschaftsblatt.

Nel 2015 rileva l'italiana Bocchiotti, azienda familiare di Arenzano fondata nel 1965, cinque stabilimenti, 400 dipendenti e un fatturato di 120 milioni di euro, specializzata nella produzione e vendita di sistemi di canalizzazioni dei cavi e centraline per i settori dell'industria e dell'edilizia residenziale. Produce anche la guaina spiralata in Pvc con marchio Inset con un'ottima qualità del prodotto a livello mondiale in cui viene commercializzata.

Nel 2016 stipula una partnership con Brief-Blulinea per creare una società per lo sviluppo di Blulinea in Germania e rileva Azimut Monitoring, leader francese nel monitoraggio della qualità dell'aria e del rumore per gli "edifici intelligenti". Nel 2018 acquisisce E3/DC GmbH, una società di sviluppo tedesca per inverter e sistemi di accumulo di energia.

Ricerca e sviluppo
L'azienda investe più del 6% del suo giro d'affari in R&S, impegnandovi 729 ingegneri.

In totale sono 3.000 nel 2016 i brevetti attivi nel mondo.

Produzione
Il gruppo opera in 23 stabilimenti produttivi distribuiti in 11 paesi: Francia, Polonia, Germania, Cina, Italia, Svizzera, Regno Unito, Brasile, India, Spagna, Ungheria.

Riconoscimenti
Red Dot Design Award per:
 Communication Design: Hager Group Annual Report (2016)
IF product design award per:
 Comunicazione: Hager Group Annual Report (2013), Schalterprogramm W.1 (2015), Hager Group Annual Report (2017)
 Prodotti: Gamma (2007), Kallysto (2007), Volta upv/apv (1995)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Aziende multinazionali metalmeccaniche
Aziende del Saarland


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Inside Ice-T and Coco Austin's Bizarre Yet Sweet 18 Year Marriage
by Amanda Harding | More Articles: Celebrity
Long-lasting marriages in Hollywood aren't too common. However, rapper turned actor Tracy "Ice-T" Marrow and his model wife, Nicole "Coco" Austin Marrow, seemed to have beat those odds. They're not the first two people you'd think would go the distance — but somehow, Ice and Coco have a strong partnership based on mutual respect and yes, sexual chemistry.
These two have survived 18 years of marriage and show no signs of splitting up anytime soon (despite those pesky rumors). What's their secret? Embracing the unconventional nature of their union and letting it make them stronger.
Rapper Ice-T and Coco Austin | Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for iHeartMedia
Ice-T captured Coco's heart with a cheesy pickup line
There was a 20 year age gap between the pair when they met — she was 22, he was 42 — but that didn't stop them from starting up a romantic relationship almost immediately after meeting. Strangely enough, Coco had no idea who Ice-T was at first.
"I was working as a model in California, on a movie set that Ice was doing a video for," Coco explained in a blog post. "Ice was having a grumpy day so his friend/producer for the video wanted to cheer Ice up and grabbed me. I wasn't told who I was going to meet; I was just pulled in the direction where Ice was sitting…"
She continued: "Then he goes on to say 'Have you ever thought about dating a gangster rapper?' Now me being a white girl from the valley I had never heard of a 'gangster rapper' … So I responded to him, 'Well, if he's nice…' and Ice responds with, 'Well baby if you take the N off nice you get ICE.' That line made me laugh."
A post shared by Coco (@coco)
An unlikely body part caught Ice-T's attention first
Ice-T and Coco have made no secret about their mutual physical attraction and their active sex life. Though the rapper said the first thing he noticed about his wife wasn't her ample bosom — it was her teeth.
"…and then I saw her boobs," he confirmed to Daily Mail. "And then she turned around, that big butt." Still, Ice-T wasn't just looking for a good time, he was at a place where he wanted to settle down.
"There was an instant physical attraction, but I was at a point in my life where I was ready to slow down," he continued. "I wanted a partner. I wasn't in a position to be dating a beautiful psychopath."
The couple got married just two months after meeting for the first time.
Coco believes in total submission in the bedroom
Though her comments are controversial, Coco has gone on record saying she believes in being completely submissive in bed and suggests the same for others. "I think all women should do it," she told Andy Cohen. "I'm a slave to him… 15 years, it's worked out."
Yet Ice-T has a deep respect for his wife. "I applied the stereotype that everyone does to Coco – that she just wanted to party and have a good time," Ice-T said. "But she was just an honest and giving woman. She's the nicest person, man or woman, I've ever met."
They had to quit their reality show, 'Ice Loves Coco'
Like many reality show stars who came before them, Ice-T and Coco eventually got sick of letting cameras into their lives and watching the drama play out on screen. The show based on their lives had great ratings, but they decided to walk away after two seasons.
"[Producers] create chaos because they're trying to entertain people," Ice-T told HuffPost, "Trying to entertain people with your life is dangerous. It's hard to do for a long period of time. So we got in and got out."
The duo tried to launch a talk show called Ice & Coco but it never got picked up.
The couple has some controversial parenting methods, too
Ice-T and Coco have one daughter, Chanel Nicole, who was born in 2015. Fans question several aspects of her parenting including extended breastfeeding into her toddler years and allowing Chanel to swim with sharks in the Bahamas. Regardless of the criticism, Ice-T and Coco defend their choices and insist their daughter is well cared for.
Coco said of motherhood: "I mean, [Chanel's] like my real-life doll. I get to dress her up and we get to match all day. It's funny. I didn't even think I was going to be that parent, but I turned into one."
And parenthood has brought Ice-T and Coco closer, too. This couple might be a surprising pair, but somehow, it all just works.
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As a producer, her credits include four films with director Tom McCarthy (THE STATION AGENT, THE VISITOR, WIN WIN, and THE COBBLER); Gregg Araki's MYSTERIOUS SKIN which premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, Todd Louiso's HELLO I MUST BE GOING which opened the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Adam Salky's DARE, Peter Callahan's AGAINST THE CURRENT, Julien Goldberger's THE HAWK IS DYING, Jem Cohen's CHAIN, and Naomi Foner's VERY GOOD GIRLS.
Mary Jane was an executive producer on PARIAH, TRICK, and PUTZEL. Most recently, she produced the Fox Searchlight film WILSON, directed by Craig Johnson and starring Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, and Judy Greer.
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Q: How to get the computed column to find a min value for a given field? I have a MS Access DataBase with a table as shown below
Col A    Col B  Computed Col
Apple    10      10
Apple    20      10
Apple    15      10
Orange   10      5
Orange   5       5
Orange   23      5
Orange   25      5
Grapes   40      30
Grapes   45      30
Grapes   30      30

I want to have a computed col i the query to find the min value for the fruit
Please help

A: The min() function isn't supported in calculated fields in Access. I would just query for it as
   SELECT fruits.fruitname ,min(numfruit) as minimum
 FROM fruits GROUP BY Fruitname

A: Add the Min() function around the computed Col section. http://www.techonthenet.com/access/functions/numeric/min.php

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It was an interesting drive in to work this morning. At one of the narrowest point in the narrow lanes the box van ahead of me met a line of vehicles and confusion ensued. In the end the van reversed into a drive-way after I'd reversed a bit ... but couldn't go back any more 'cos of the milk tanker that had pulled up behind me. So then the range rover could pull over into the same drive way. I then slipped past these, another car, a large van ... and a horse. I did think about stopping to help sort out the situation but there was nowhere to stop without blocking the road myself.
The rest of the journey was OK ... well apart from meeting the dust-cart later on but that was easy to get past.
My thoughts go out to all those killed and injured in Iraq, of whatever nationality.
I'm off to bed now, another long day tomorrow and the client has changed the bit of the system I'm working on.


This Week In DOCTOR WHO History: Jan 18th to Jan 24th | Warped Factor - Words in the Key of Geek.
Starting this week in 1964 with part 5 of The Daleks (entitled The Expedition) which was watched by 9.9 million viewers as Dalek-mania was starting to grip the children of Britain. Five years later a mechanical menace of a different kind was troubling the Second Doctor when episode four of The Krotons was broadcast to 7.1 million viewers.
Yet another robotic foe, and this ones a giant! In 1975 part four of the Fourth Doctor's debut story Robot draw an audience of 9 million. His successor was on to his second adventure, with part one of Four To Doomsday broadcast Monday January 18th 1982 and watched by 8.4 million. In his sophomore season the Fifth Doctor was going up against the Mara, again! 6.7 million tuned in Tuesday evening to catch part one of Snakedance.
Part two of Invasion of the Dinosaurs was broadcast this day in 1974 and watched by 10.1 million viewers. Viewers in 1980 should have begun a new adventure with the Fourth Doctor, but due to an industrial strike Shada was never completed so Season 17 was cut short.
Three from the Fifth Doctor all broadcast this day. Tuesday January 19th 1982 saw the part two of Four To Doomsday broadcast at 7:05pm, and watched by 8.8 million viewers. Part two of Snakedance aired the following year and was watched by 7.7 million. And in his final season, Peter Davison's Doctor began a new two-part adventure with The Awakening, broadcast Thursday January 19th at 6.41pm to an audience of 7.9 million.
One final story for this day, and it's from the Sixth Doctor. The opening episode of Vengeance On Varos was broadcast in 1985. Season 22 included 13 45-minute episodes, and this one was watched by 7.2 million viewers.
"A Birthday present? For me? Is it a box of Jelly Babies?"
On this day in 1968 6.9 million people were watching the Second Doctor in episode five of The Enemy of the World. A whopping 11.9 million people tuned into the fourth and final part of The Three Doctors in 1973.
On the occasion of his Birthday, Tom Baker (born January 20th 1934) donned the scarf for a brand new Fourth Doctor adventure. On this day in 1979 The Armageddon Factor part one drew an audience of 7.5 million. One more TV broadcast for you, and it was broadcast on Friday evening at 6.41pm - part two of The Awakening was watched by 6.6 million..
It's also worth mentioning that on this day in 1996 the Third Doctor radio drama, The Ghosts of N Space began. It was the final time Jon Pertwee portrayed the Doctor as he passed away just four months after this was broadcast.
In 1967 episode 2 of The Underwater Menace drew an audience of 7.5 million viewers. Also, on this day in 1978, part three of the CSO oddity that is Underworld was watched by 8.9 million people.
Two classic Dalek adventure to begin with. First up is episode 11 of the epic First Doctor adventure The Daleks' Master Plan (entitled The Abandoned Planet) which aired in 1966 and was watched by 9.8 million viewers, and is sadly currently missing presumed wiped. Moving on to 1972 we have episode four of Day of the Daleks, which drew an audience of 9.1 million. Finally, on this day in 1977 11.7 million people tuned in to watch part four of the Fourth Doctor adventure The Face of Evil.
Episode two of the pure historical adventure The Romans (entitled All Roads Lead To Rome) was shown this day in 1965 and watched by 11.5 million viewers. Two regenerations and 6 years later, the final part of Terror Of The Autons drew an audience of 8.4 million.
Spearhead From Space was watched by 8.1 million viewers on this day in 1970. Six years later The Brain of Morbius drew an audience of 10.2 million, and finally in 1981 7.8 million tuned into the final part of Warriors' Gate.


Chris serves as the Kids Volunteer Coordinator for Cross Point Nashville. He loves to build community by investing in volunteers to create fun, safe and inviting environments for our families. Chris has a passion for helping kids have fun while learning more about who God is and how He loves and cares for them. His mission is to partner with parents to train up the next generation of fully devoted followers of Christ. Outside of Cross Point, Chris is a trained Chef, having worked in the food and beverage industry for many years.


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$UBER - Despite poor earnings, Uber is 'making tons of money'
Shares of Uber (UBER) sank Friday after the company reported poor second-quarter earnings that missed on analysts' top line estimates. The ride-hailing company reported a massive $5 billion loss.
In its second-ever report as a publicly-traded company, Uber reported gross bookings of $15.76 billion, falling just shy of analysts' expectations of $15.83 billion.
"Our platform strategy continues to deliver strong results, with trips up 35% and gross bookings up 37% in constant currency, compared to the second quarter of last year," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement.
Tom Essaye, publisher of daily market analysis The Sevens Report, told Yahoo Finance's "The First Trade" that despite Uber's disappointing results, he's still optimistic about the company.
"The earnings definitely were mixed," Essaye said. But, he said, "there's just so much money coming in, these guys will figure out how to make a profit. For longer-term investors, I'd be a buyer."
Waiting for Uber to "eventually" turn a profit – as Khosrowshahi said it would on the earnings call – isn't good enough for others.
A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc. on the day of its IPO at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
"I need something a little bit more tangible than that," David Nelson, chief strategist at Belpointe Asset Management, said. "And what was really striking was the options expense, just enormous. How much is going out in stock option compensation? A lot of these companies are reporting earnings. When you dig down deep and you look at GAAP earnings... they're losing money."
Uber reported a $5.24 billion net loss in the second quarter, though much of that was due to stock compensation following its May IPO.
Still, Essaye is a believer in the sharing economy, and says Uber is an important part of it.
Uber's revenue – which was $2.87 billion in Q2, lower than expectations – is "enormous," Essaye said, but acknowledged it is "disconcerting" when the CEO says "eventually we'll get to profitability."
"But at the end of the day, Uber is not just static either, right? Uber is doing different things," he said. "They are innovating, and it's really part of a new economy. So certainly, there are some warts on that earnings call. but over a longer term time frame, this is the way the economy's going. Uber is a first mover, and they have a technology advantage. I think that's worth something."
Though skeptical about Uber's stock potential, Nelson clearly sees value in the service it provides, saying: "I will admit I used it this morning."


I'm pumped as I've only ever played through 2 seasons!
If you're trying to unlock the bonus stash tab this should be a good season for it! Avarice is one of the easiest conquests, and the rift speed run and GR75 are both viable options once you push that far into the season. Good luck!


The Funduino analog water sensor is an inexpensive, easily obtainable sensor module with many use cases. I purchased mine from the Good-Module Ebay store for just under $1 USD. You can find these modules available from other sellers on Ebay as well with similar prices.
There are a lot of uses for this sensor module. It can be used to detect the presence or absence of water, accurately gauge the water surface level, or you can even accurately gauge the volume of water present by using a volume measurement device such as a measuring cup in conjunction with the analog water sensor module. This makes it the Funduino analog water sensor a versatile component! Be careful not to confuse this module with a digital boolean water sensor which will only return a true or false value rather than an integer.


After initially disbanding in 2017, the newly formed Paly DECA club, a business and entrepreneurial development club, has come back stronger, qualifying two teams to the International Career Development Conference (ICDC). The club, which was only rebooted a few months ago, now has over 30 completely new members and competed in its first competition: the Anaheim State Development Conference in March 2019.
Sophomore Jun Hyuk Kwak, Vice President of Business for Paly DECA, is one of the members who placed top 10 in his event, Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making, and qualified for ICDC.
Kwak was particularly impressed by Paly's success at the event, given the small size and novelty of the club.
At the conference, Paly DECA was one of the smaller clubs and was outnumbered exponentially compared to other schools. Despite being short in numbers, Kwak said he was thrilled to be able to place in his event.
In order to prepare for the event, Kwak and his partner prepared extensively.
When asked about the most valuable and memorable experience throughout the conference, Kwak said winning was one of the best parts. However, he also stated that building friendships, with his partner and other club members , contributed to the overall positive experience.
Junior and co-president of Paly DECA Ria Pai also saw SCDC as a success. As co-president, Pai took on the task of leading the brand new club to Anaheim, hoping for success. Competing for the first time, Pai believes she gained invaluable experience and knowledge from the trip.
For the next DECA competition season, Pai looks to gain new members and take more competitors to the State conference.


Red Hawk's promise to deliver "Good People, Great Parts" continues, with the announcement of two internal staff improvements to their existing team of committed professionals. These most recent changes are in keeping with their ultimate commitment to provide the industry's finest service and support to ensure satisfaction to their valued dealer partners.
Jen Wollschlager has been promoted to customer service manager. As a standout member of the customer service team for the past five years, Jen has consistently delivered impressive professionalism, conscientious attention to detail and a cooperative demeanor with each of her contacts. Jen will take on full responsibility for the Customer Service group.
Susan Thomas was newly hired in May as the accounts receivable and credit manager. Susan has an accomplished background in receivable and credit management and will use this expertise as she oversees invoicing, credit extension and collection efforts for Red Hawk.
Both employees will work in conjunction with the dedicated efforts of the sales team, building and contributing to Red Hawk's valued dealer partnerships going forward.


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Love Unlimited fue un grupo vocal femenino estadounidense de la década de 1970 creado por el compositor, productor y cantante solista estadounidense del género R&B/soul Barry White. El grupo no sólo aportó voces tanto en los álbumes de estudio de su creador como en sus conciertos en directo, sino que también encontró éxito con su propia discografía, compuesta por cinco álbumes de estudio producidos por White.

Historia
Creado en 1969, el grupo estaba formado por tres cantantes: Glodean James -la futura segunda esposa de Barry White-, su hermana Linda James, y la prima de ambas Diane Taylor (la cual murió de cáncer en Pomona, California el 29 de noviembre de 1985 a la edad de 38 años).

Su primer éxito se titula Walkin' in the Rain with the One I Love y fue lanzado en 1972. Alcanzó su posición más alta en el número #14 de la lista Billboard Hot 100, la posición número #7 en la lista Cash Box Top 100, y la número #6 en la Best Selling Soul Singles Chart. La canción fue también exitosa en el Reino Unido, llegando al número #14 en la lista británica. El sencillo vendió más de un millón de copias, y fue galardonado con un Disco de Oro por la RIAA en julio de 1972. En 1975 tuvieron su primer y único número #1 con el sencillo I Belong to You, el cual permaneció durante una semana en lo más alto de la lista de los sencillos del género soul más vendidos. También alcanzó la posición #27 en la lista Billboard Hot 100. En 1973, mientras su álbum titulado "Under the Influence of... Love Unlimited" llegaba a la posición número #3 de la lista de Álbumes Pop, Love Unlimited se convertía en el primer grupo femenino en alcanzar el Top 5 con aquel disco después de que el Greatest Hits Vol. 3 de Diana Ross & The Supremes lo hiciera en 1970.

Discografía

Álbumes

Sencillos

Recopilatorios
 '''The Best Of Love Unlimited'''. Lanzado el 1 de enero de 1997 por Island Def Jam.
 '''The UNI, MCA and 20th Century Records Singles'''. Lanzado el 15 de junio de 2018 por Mercury Records.

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Grupos musicales femeninos
Grupos de música de los años 1970
Grupos de música del siglo XX
Grupos de música formados en los años 1970
Música en los años 1970
Grupos de música de los años 1960
Grupos de música formados en los años 1960
Grupos de música soul
Tríos de música de Estados Unidos
Grupos de música de California


There are many merits associated by the sport of cricket. These merits serve to encourage parents to acquisition their children engaged in the sport. The successes recorded by England's national cricket team as of delay attend as a primary motivation for most young children in the UK. Because children naturally wish to pinpoint amidst champions, it is unrivaled to be expected that they'd have a sudden interest in the sport. It is certainly great news for parents because there are lots of benefits that can arise.
Cricket is considered a sport that brings people together. The sport allows people to mingle and have fun playing the game. This feature is important for parents because it helps their children to develop key social skills. This can indigen especially crucial for any shy children. Denial only this, but with the secular of video games operating riot at the moment it's good to have a hobby that not single encourages teamwork but gets your child to exercise too.
It is recommended that children be adorned in the right attire for the sport. Parents can purchase cricket supplies UK based and get their children introduced to the game. This teaches children about the importance of being disciplined. You need to wear the right things to be able to play the sport. These virtues that are taught on the field are readily transferrable to the homes where these children come from.
Cricket equipment UK encompasses a vast range of products. You can even choose to buy trophies for your children. When you reward them a trophy they will be delighted and this will teach them that hard work really pays off.
The numerous role models in the game of cricket also serve to offer inspiration to children. Sportsmen such as Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan und so weiter Freddie Fintoff are renowned for their discipline and sportsmanship in the game of cricket. These aren't bad role models to focus on with regards to the on field activity.
Another important lesson taught by cricket touches on the virtues of self-reliance and dependability. A game of cricket comprises of eleven players on each side but each player has a role to play. When it comes to encouraging each other und so weiter cheering apiece other on teamwork is very important. However, separate player must artifice his or her individual roles in batting, bowling or catching the ball. These virtues are important because the children obtainment to understand that in life they must cooperate with other in doing tasks while at the same time contributing their best in the process.
Cricket has an undeniable fun side that appeals to children. A game of cricket entails actions such as diving to catch the ball and hitting the ball, something that kids derive great relish in doing. Parents are encouraged to introduce their children to this sport, which is undeniably more beneficial to their growth moreover development as compared to sitting in front of a TV or playing computer and video games all day long.
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Figlio primogenito del padre, imperatore del Brasile, morì a soli due anni e la sua morte sconvolse non solo i genitori, ma pose a rischio la successione al trono del Brasile.

Biografia

La nascita

Alfonso nacque il 23 febbraio 1845 al Palazzo di São Cristóvão a Rio de Janeiro, Brasile. Attraverso il padre, l'imperatore Pietro II, era membro della famiglia brasiliana. Egli era infatti nipote dell'imperatore Pietro I del Brasile e nipote della regina Maria II del Portogallo. Per parte di madre, egli era nipote di Francesco I delle Due Sicilie e nipote di Ferdinando II delle Due Sicilie.

Secondo il costume dei monarchi portoghesi (di cui la dinastia regnante brasiliana era un ramo derivato), sia l'imperatore sia la corte erano presenti al momento della nascita di Alfonso. Poco dopo la sua venuta al mondo, il principe venne deposto tra le braccia di suo padre che lo presentò ufficialmente alla corte circostante e alla folla attorno al palazzo. Egli disse: "Signori, ecco il principe" e venne interrotto dall'emozione che gli impedì di terminare la frase. La nascita di un erede portò grande gioia in tutta la nazione.

Alfonso era in buona salute e si trovava inoltre nella posizione di primogenito il che lo rendeva diretto erede alla successione paterna. Il principe era molto somigliante al padre, in particolare nel volto e nei capelli e negli occhi. L'imperatore era a ogni modo colui che prestava la maggiore attenzione al principe come possiamo intuire da una lettera datata 21 dicembre 1846 che Pietro II scrisse alla sorella maggiore Maria II: "Per grazia di Dio stiamo tutti bene, sia io che l'imperatrice, e particolarmente bello sta divenendo anche il piccolo Alfonso che già cammina e pronuncia qualche parola che rimane perlopiù incomprensibile data l'età."

Pietro II, dopo un'adolescenza che aveva sconvolto sia lui sia il suo paese, aveva ritrovato piena serenità con la nascita del primo figlio. "La paternità", scrisse lo storico Roderick J. Barman, "diede all'Imperatore la sicurezza emotiva che cercava e quella confidenza con gli altri che aveva perduto negli anni della sua giovinezza." Inoltre la nascita del bambino aveva rinsaldato di molto i rapporti anche con la moglie Teresa Cristina che aveva sposato per puro interesse politico.

La morte e le problematiche di successione

L'11 giugno 1847 il giovane principe stava giocando nella biblioteca del palazzo quando egli iniziò ad avere delle forti convulsioni e morì all'istante, a soli due anni di età. Il dolore di Pietro II e della moglie nell'apprendere questa notizia fu enorme e devastante, soprattutto perché si temeva che il dolore potesse gravare in particolar modo sulla salute dell'Imperatrice Teresa Cristina che era incinta del terzo figlio. Il 13 luglio di quell'anno ella diede infatti alla luce la principessa Leopoldina che nacque con un parto difficile e tra mille preoccupazioni. L'Imperatore, devastato nell'animo, scrisse una lettera alla matrigna l'Imperatrice Amelia, datata all'11 luglio 1847, narrandole appunto della morte di Alfonso: "È col più grande e vivo dolore che le voglio annunciare che il mio piccolo Alfonso, vostro nipote, sfortunatamente è morto di convulsioni. Sono preoccupato anche per la sorte della piccola Isabella che a volte sembra dare segni di questa sofferenza". Pietro II scrisse anche un sonetto in onore del figlio, dal titolo "In morte del principe Don Pedro" poco dopo la morte di questi:
Ma chi può raccontare ciò che sente un'anima distrutta
di un padre al quale Dio ha voluto tagliare con la sua spada
il fiore del suo futuro, il suo amato figlio.
Tre giorni dopo la morte del piccolo, alle 19:00, si svolse un grande funerale di stato. Egli venne sepolto assieme agli altri membri della famiglia imperiale nel mausoleo presso il Convento di Sant'Antonio a Rio de Janeiro.

Dopo la morte del bambino, tutta la vita di Pietro II venne fortemente condizionata, anche a livello amministrativo e di reggenza della sua carica di monarca in quanto egli vedeva il suo trono inabissarsi nell'oblio, fatto che ben presto lo portò a una carenza non solo a livello famigliare della sua figura di padre, ma anche a livello di capo di Stato, il che porterà lentamente al tracollo dell'Impero brasiliano.

Ascendenza

Onorificenze

Bibliografia
 Barman, Roderick J. (1999). Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–1891. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3510-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=63GLZyXEIJEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=citizen+emperor&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=9bcLTbKuNcWblgem45TPCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. (English)
 Barman, Roderick J. (2002). Princess Isabel of Brazil: gender and power in the nineteenth century. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources Inc.. ISBN 0-8420-2846-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=7RHpYPfBwLkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Princess+Isabel+of+Brazil:+gender+and+power+in+the+nineteenth+century&hl=pt-BR&ei=II09TfmKEsKt8Aaak733Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. (English)
 Calmon, Pedro (1975). História de D. Pedro II. 5. Rio de Janeiro: J. Olympio. (Portuguese)
 Diener, Pablo; Costa, Maria de Fátima (2002). Rugendas e o Brasil. São Paulo: Capivara. ISBN 85-89063-08-9. (Portuguese)
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Fractures and soft-tissue injuries of the neck are of great importance in forensic pathology, as they help in assessing whether strangulation took place, and if so, how severely. In this study, we examined the usefulness of post-mortem imaging with multislice computed tomography (MSCT) in detecting lesions of the laryngohyoid structures and the surrounding soft-tissues. For this purpose, we examined MSCT images of the neck of eight deceased persons who had suffered different types of strangulation and compared the findings with those obtained at the subsequent forensic autopsy. In six of the eight cases (75%), the fracture findings at autopsy were concordant with those found with MSCT. In the two non-congruent cases, MSCT revealed fractures, which were not discovered at autopsy. Soft-tissue haemorrhages were detected by autopsy in five cases, but only in one case with MSCT. MSCT does not suffice in detecting soft-tissue injuries. These preliminary results are promising regarding the detection of fractures in strangulation cases. If these results can be confirmed in larger studies, we believe that post-mortem MSCT may serve - in combination with a thorough external examination and a profound incident-scene investigation - as a useful decision-making tool regarding the necessity of further examinations, i.e. autopsy.


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Meera Deo on Legal Academia
Season 1, Ep. 611
In this episode, Meera E. Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses her book "Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia," which is published by Stanford University Press. Deo begins by describing her research & her methodology. She explains how the hiring & promotion process in legal academia discriminates against women & people of color. And she explains what we should do about it. Deo is on Twitter at @meeradeo.
This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
Aliza Shatzman on Judicial Accountability
In this episode, Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, discusses her new article, "The Conservative Case for the Judiciary Accountability Act," which is published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Schatzman observes that the federal judiciary has a harassment problem and describes her own experience of harassment. She describes the Judicial Accountability Act, which would impose Title VII requirements on the federal judiciary, among other protections. And she explains why conservative lawmakers should support the legislation.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
Ari Cohn on the Kids Online Safety Act
In this episode, Ari Cohn, Free Speech Counsel at Tech Freedom, discusses the proposed Kids Online Safety Act, which the Senate is currently considering. Cohn begins by explaining the history of KOSA and similar previous bills, what KOSA is supposed to accomplish, and how it's supposed to accomplish that goal. He explains why KOSA as drafted presents intractable practical and First Amendment problems. And he argues that Congress should reject KOSA in its entirety. Cohn is on Twitter at @AriCohn.A current version of KOSA is available here.Tech Freedom's letter opposing KOSA is available here.A coalition letter opposing KOSA is available here.Additional information is available here.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
Neil Chilson on FTC Rulemaking & AI
In this episode, Neil Chilson, a senior research fellow for technology and innovation at Stand Together and former chief technologist at the FTC, discusses the FTC's proposal to create a trade regulation rule on commercial surveillance and data security. Chilson begins by discussing the FTC's history of rulemaking and why this rulemaking proposal is important. He reflects on what the FTC might be trying to achieve in this rulemaking process and discusses some potential concerns. He also discusses his own public comments, some of which he produced using an AI text generator, in order to express concerns about the potential effect of regulation on the development of AI tools. Chilson is on Twitter at @neil_chilson.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.
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Ded's Dead: The End of a Mafia Era in Russia?
With the assassination of underworld boss Aslan Usoyan (aka Ded Khasan), the old-school discipline of the "vory v zakone" ("thieves within the code") dies with him, leaving an uncertain future for Russian organized crime.
Drawing by Niyaz Karim
The single 9mm bullet which ended the life of notorious mafia boss Aslan Usoyan also ended an era. Although there are still gangsters who call themselves vory v zakone, ("thieves within the code") this Soviet-era underworld fraternity is all but extinct.
Aslan Usoyan known as criminal boss Grandfather Khasan dies from wounds in hospital - Interior Ministry
The rigid code of behavior, the almost monastic self-discipline, the easy willingness to go to prison rather than betray a promise, they are all part of the Russian mafia's mythological past. The future, on the other hand, belongs to a very different breed of gangster.
Usoyan, actually an ethnic Kurdish Yezidi from Georgia, was widely known by his criminal nickname Ded Khasan ('Grandfather Khassan'), and was about the last surviving senior underworld figure of the old school.
He was inducted into the ranks of the vory v zakone inside a prison camp in 1985, and since then had built a multi-ethnic gangster network that spanned much of the country. At 75, he had long since given up directly involving himself in criminal activities.
Instead, he played the elder statesman: identifying opportunities, resolving disputes, accepting tribute and, when need be, asserting his authority over his subordinates and even to outsiders.
In the process, needless to say, he made enemies, not least the Georgian gangster Tariel Oniani ('Taro'), who is in prison but none the less powerful for it, and the up-and-coming Azeri Rovshan Janiev. But perhaps more to the point, he did not really change with the times.
No more code
Russia's underworld is no longer one in which a deal concluded with a handshake is sacrosanct, in which godfathers can flaunt their status (Usoyan would regularly hold court in Moscow's restaurants) and in which it is enough just to be a gangster.
Oniani and Janiev are technically both vory, but like most who still claim the title, they does not follow the code and would not be recognized as one by the traditionalists of the Soviet era.
The new generation crime bosses, the so-called avtoritety ('authorities') are a more polished and cynical breed. Not for them the elaborate tattoos and colorful gangster nicknames.
They are criminal-businessmen, who combine and mask their underworld ventures with legitimate ones and who build close alliances with local and national political elites. Unlike Usoyan, who largely confined his operations to Russia (with some links to Ukraine and Georgia), their ambitions are international.
They are also predominantly ethnic Russians, rather than the Georgians, Chechens and others from the south, who still cling to older, macho traditions.
Gangsters tamed
But Usoyan's death also potentially brings to an end another era, too: more than a decade of underworld peace. The 1990s saw Russia ripped by violent underworld conflicts.
Gangs fought to occupy the vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet state and snap up territory and resources, while the government lacked the resources and the will to fight back.
Even before Putin's accession to the presidency in 2000, the conflicts were beginning to be resolved. However, he also accelerated this process, both by providing more funds to the police and also making it clear that he would not tolerate overt gangsterism on the streets.
Organized crime was by no means defeated, but it was tamed. It adapted to the new order and while it continued regularly to turn to violence to settle scores and punish challengers, it did so in a much more precise way.
Afghan heroin
However, this new order may be close to breaking. A new generation of gangsters want their slice of the cake. Once-powerful gangs were impoverished in the 2008 financial crisis.
Conversely, other gangs are suddenly rich because they are benefiting from the increasing amounts of Afghan heroin flowing into and through Russia. This so-called "Northern Route" into Europe and China already accounts for almost one-third of the total. The foundations of the old status quo are coming into question.
Usoyan's successors are almost inevitably going to strike back at whomever they believe responsible for his murder. His network may splinter along factional or ethnic lines or face an internal struggle for succession.
He wanted his nephew 'Miron' to take over in his stead, but there are many who wonder whether he is up to the job. If gangs drawn predominantly from the Caucasus seem in disarray, this might prompt their ethnic Russian rivals to turn on them.
Given the precarious nature of the current balance of power in the underworld, any of these developments could provide the spark that ignites a whole new round of bloody mob wars. Even if it does not, though, it is likely that there will be a reordering of the crime world, as the avtoritety complete their rise to ascendance. One way or the other, the era of Usoyan and the vory v zakone is over.
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at New York University. His blog, 'In Moscow's Shadows,' can be read here.
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The German army are planning stricter checks of their soldiers as officials fear that jihadists could be using the armed forces as a way to train.
The German Cabinet finalized an amendment on Wednesday to military law that will have military intelligence agency MAD soon more thoroughly scrutinize each applicant for connections to jihadist or extremist groups.
"There are currently indications that Islamist circles are trying to send so-called 'short-term soldiers' into the Bundeswehr so that they can receive such training," according to the explanation of the amendment, which will come into force on July 1st 2017.
Each year about 20,000 military-hopefuls apply for the Bundeswehr (German army). MAD will have to create 90 extra positions to perform the new security checks.
Currently applicants are only required to submit a police certificate of good conduct and profess a commitment to the German Basic Law.
Since 2007, 24 active soldiers have been classified as Islamists, 19 of whom were dismissed. The remaining five had already reached the end of their service terms.
Another 30 former soldiers have left Germany to go to Syria and Iraq, according to MAD figures - some of whom are believed to have connected with terror group Isis, according to unconfirmed security agency reports.
The reform also aims to prevent left- and right-wing extremists from joining the armed forces. According to reports, military intelligence currently counts 268 cases of suspected right-wing extremists among their soldiers, as well as 64 suspected Islamists and six suspected left-wing extremists.
Over the past year, MAD processed 332 suspected cases of Islamist extremists.
The new security checks will investigate potential recruits for "anti-constitutional" activities. Soldiers have thus far only been investigated during their service and only when they are working in security sensitive areas: soldiers who handle weapons of war do not have systematic checks.
Spokespersons for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, told DPA that the changes were "urgently needed".


Tech Debates: PC Gaming or Consoles?
It is one of the debates that has shown no signs of going away – the PC vs console debate. If you were to talk to gamers, you are going to get some heated opinions on whether computers are better for gaming than consoles – or vice versa.
Why is the Debate So Contentious?
Judging by the gaming community, being happy with the choice that you made is not enough for most people. Gamers not only want to enjoy the system they chose for playing games, but they want people to acknowledge that it is the best.
It is the reason why this debate is not going away. You still have people get into heated arguments about whether they should be getting a PC for gaming or a console. And since the debate is still alive, we are going to take a short crack at it!
Gaming: Better on PCs or Consoles?
The beauty of this debate is that it does not have a right answer. If you are someone who has a lot of disposable income and you want to get into gaming, you have a lot of choice. If you are also someone who mostly plays games on their own, we would recommend that you go with a PC.
A positive of PC gaming is that you can spend a lot of money on the very best hardware. With a top notch PC with a high end CPU and graphics card, you are playing almost every game at the max settings. You can even get a 2K or 4K monitor and play on those resolutions. It will look stunning.
Where consoles shine is for budget or friend-oriented gaming. If you want to play casual games with friends at home, a console is so much easier to handle. It plugs into the TV easily and it is fairly portable too.
Consoles are also ideal for gaming on a budget, as the best console on the market is only $500. It will not give you the quality of a high end PC, but it will give you more gaming performance than a PC in the same price range!


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A week after graduation, I am getting married. Then we are moving to Orlando where I will start a job with Northrop Grumman.
I did several rotations. I did research in acoustics under the direction of [research engineer] David Scarborough in the Combustion Lab. I interned at Gulfstream as a simulation modeling engineer and I worked as a systems integration engineer in lab operations at Northrop Grumman. For the last year I've done research with Dr. Ahuja in the Aerospace Transportation Advanced Systems Lab.
I'm really excited to finally be in the aerospace industry so I can actually work as an engineer. I've wanted to be an engineer for as long as I can remember. My father is a [corporate] airplane pilot, so I grew up around flying. And I loved it. Sometimes, when there was an open seat in the cockpit, he'd check me out of school so I could fly with him.
Definitely, the value of the curriculum and the research opportunities is unmatched. The research I was able to do seems small, but it contributed to a larger project that matters. And just having the experience doing research gave me a leg up. I did some research with Dr. Clarke that was very theoretical, so it was hard for me to see where it would ultimately be applied, but the confidence, the leadership I gained was great. I brought it to work with my peers, when we worked on projects. I was able to make design decisions with them, have confidence in my work, and back it up because I've seen it modeled by Dr. Clarke and Dr. Ahuja.
When you come to Tech, know that you deserve to be here. They didn't make a mistake. Everyone gets the first wave of tests back and they are not the same as in high school. It's terrifying. I was terrified because I'd never gotten a 'C' before. But that's part of the process. From there, you learn to work really hard to see learning as more than a grade. And you work really hard even in subjects you hate because it disciplines you. What also worked for me was taking more classes [not fewer] because it forced me to stay on top of things and to push myself farther than I would have.


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Indigenous Youth in Guatemala Become Entrepreneurs
Published on October 9, 2018 by Maria Ghiso, education program manager
The best part of my job as education manager here at the Rainforest Alliance is when I get the chance to work directly with young people—and the 14 indigenous youth I worked with this summer in Guatemala's Alta Verapaces region were a particularly inspiring bunch.
These young people, all of whom are indigenous Q'eqchi or Poqomchi, are participating in an exciting collaboration between the Rainforest Alliance-led, USAID-supported Climate, Nature and Communities of Guatemala program (CNCG) and the Federation of Cooperatives of the Verapaces (FEDECOVERA is the Spanish acronym). The aim of our efforts is to support these young people in becoming entrepreneurs and business owners—which now, after months of hard work and careful planning with their mentors, they can all rightfully claim to be.
Workshop participants in Verapaces, Guatemala
In Guatemala, the rate of unemployment for 15- to 29-year-olds is 4.2 percent—and underemployment for this age group is a daunting 14.2 percent. Moreover, here in the Verapaces region, the poverty rate is among the highest in the country. That's why FEDECOVERA, a cooperative made up of 25,000 producing families, understands the importance of investing in youth. The cooperative has helped its young people create a cooperative of their own, providing technical assistance and support just like it would to any other. What my colleague Rudy Monzón and I did was to bolster FEDECOVERA's already-robust youth cooperative with structured business guidance, connections with mentors from the nearby Universidad Rafael Landívar, and help acquiring the socioemotional skills needed for traveling the often-challenging road to entrepreneurship. Two members of our Guatemala team, Ricardo Ávila and Rosa Ligorría, have worked diligently with entrepreneurs and mentors throughout the project.
To say that our participants made the most of this support would be an understatement. With $1000 of seed money, each aspiring entrepreneur spent weeks developing his or her prototype. One young woman used her grandmother's recipe to make chocolate spiced with cardamom; another young woman developed soap from coffee; while a duo created flour from banana, processing and packaging it for sale. They presented their prototypes early in the summer, and just a few weeks later, made their first sales at expos with more than 300 people in attendance and at a national, university-sponsored event that drew crowds of more than 500. It was thrilling to receive text after text with photos of the young people's booths, business cards, and customers.
"I learned different things, like how to develop a market analysis, create a business plan, calculate my costs, my suppliers, raw materials—all of that," says shared 22-year-old Martha Elvia Pacay Col. "I have always wanted to have my own business." And now she, along with her motivated, inspiring peers, not only have their own businesses but have the tools they need to expand them and develop others in the future.
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Totally inspired by [Yesql](https://github.com/krisajenkins/yesql) from Clojure world.
But implemented in another way.

## What?

I totally agree with Yesql's author that SQL is already a mature DSL and great abstaction layer
for DB queries building. And we don't need another layer above SQL to work with RDBMS like ORMs
or complicated DSLs. Feel free to use all of the SQL's power in your projects without mixing Python
code and SQL strings. Solution is very simple and flexible enough to try it in your next project.
Also, Snaql doesn't depend on DB clients, can be used in asynchronous handlers (Tornado, for example).
It's just a way to organize your queries and a bit of logic to change them with extra-context. Look at examples.

## Installation

As usual, with pip:

```bash
$ pip install snaql
```

## Examples

Create some folder and related namespace-files with your future SQL-queries.
Like this, for example:

```
/queries
    users.sql
```

Prepare some SQL inside ```users.sql``` using block ```sql```
(Snaql is based on Jinja2 template engine and you can use it features):

```
{% sql 'users_by_country', note='counts users' %}
    SELECT count(*) AS count
    FROM user
    WHERE country_code = ?
{% endsql %}
```

Yes, that's it. SQL is inside ```sql``` block and ```note``` is
optional, it's docstring for dynamically created function-generator
with name 'users_by_country' in this case.

What's next?

Import factory ```Snaql```:

```python
from snaql.factory import Snaql
```

Register SQL folder location:

```python
root_location = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
snaql_factory = Snaql(root_location, 'queries')
```

```queries``` is a folder with SQL templates inside your root location.

Register SQL template file with queries:

```python
users_queries = snaql_factory.load_queries('users.sql')
```

Get rendered SQL by it's meta-name:

```python
your_sql = users_queries.users_by_country()

# SELECT count(*) AS count
# FROM user
# WHERE country_code = ?
```

Cool! No?.. Hm, maybe you need some more flexibility? Remember, SQL templates
are Jinja-powered and you can render them with some context. Example:

```
# users.sql, you can add as many sql blocks in a single file as you need

{% sql 'users_select_cond', note='select users with condition' %}
    SELECT *
    FROM user
    {% if users_ids %}
        WHERE user_id IN ({{ users_ids|join(', ') }})
    {% endif %}
{% endsql %}
```

Get it without context:

```python
your_sql = users_queries.users_select_cond()

# SELECT *
# FROM user
```

And with context:

```python
sql_context = {'users_ids': [1, 2, 3]}
your_sql = users_queries.users_select_cond(**sql_context)

# SELECT *
# FROM user
# WHERE user_id IN (1, 2, 3)
```

Simple, without DB clients dependencies (use what you need), works in Python 2 and 3. Try!

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Quirky and witty, Lynne Russell's PJ SANTINI novels are fast-moving reading for those who crave danger and passion in life, but still want to be home by dinner. PJ lives in an uncharted corner of Lynne's brain. When she spends long hours stuck in a car doing surveillance, she amuses herself by counting all the places on her body where she can stash her gun – she's up to 12, and wishes to thank Lynne for the idea. It helps make up for the indignity of having to pee into a one-pound coffee can.
PJ TRIVIA FACT: PJ Santini goes by Janice because her real name is pure Italian linguistic pandemonium.
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MBDA can now present the first images obtained by its New Generation Missile Detector System (DDM NG) which has been flying on the Rafale since summer 2009 at the DGA's (Direction Générale de l'Armement) test flight centre in Cazaux (75km from Bordeaux). Achieved within the timeframe agreed when the development of DDM NG was launched at the end of 2007, this first programme of flight trials has produced extremely convincing results. As a result, the DGA has ordered DDM NG equipments for the 60 Rafale combat aircraft which were ordered in December 2009 for delivery commencing in 2012.
The concept behind DDM NG is the ability to detect incoming attacking missiles from any direction and angle of attack with regard to the host aircraft. It will succeed the current DDM system on the Rafale as a "form, fit and function" replacement. DDM NG incorporates a new infrared array detector which enhances performance with regard to the range at which a missile firing will be detected, offers improved rejection of false alarms and gives an angular localisation capability which will be compatible with the future use of Directional Infra Red Counter Measures (DIRCM). With two sensors, each equipped with a fish-eye lens, DDM NG provides a spherical field of view around the aircraft.
DDM NG benefits from over 30 years of unequalled experience in France in the area of infrared missile detectors, historically associated with the challenge of providing nuclear strike aircraft with fully discrete protection when having to penetrate deep into enemy territory. The quality of DDM NG's detection algorithms and its very low false alarm rate, allows it to be effectively incorporated within an integrated aircraft self-protection system such as SPECTRA (Système de Protection et d'Evitement des Conduites de Tir Rafale) and to automate the sequence of countermeasures. Operating in passive infrared, DDM NG has no electromagnetic compatibility issues with other sensors and can therefore be easily integrated into all aircraft platforms.


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The first of Sinclair Lewis s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and worst of all the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds.
Lewis s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. His subtle characterizations and intimate details of small-town America make Main Street a complex and compelling work and established Lewis as an important figure in twentieth-century American literature."
Three Novels
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë
The Greatest Cases of Sherlock Holmes
Chamber Music And Other Poems


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