This course covers various topics in algorithms that do not fit in the standard introduction course CS300.
This course is a one credit course. We will only meet once a week for the lecture. There will be some (theoretical) homeworks - maybe one single problem every two weeks. In general, the workload should be about 1/3 of CS300 (but without programming projects).
However, it is important to reserve time to review each lecture - otherwise you will have forgotten what we covered a week later!
This course is not suitable for students who have not yet taken CS300 (Introduction to Algorithms), or another algorithm course.
The class meets Wednesday from 10:00 to 10:50 in classroom 4 (room 2445) in the EECS building (E3-1). Lectures are given in English.
The grade will be composed as follows (small changes reserved): Participation (20%), Homework (30%), Exam (50%).
There will be one exam on December 12, from 10:00 to 11:00 in our usual classroom.
We will use lecture notes available on-line, such as the notes by Jeff Erickson. We may also use some material from the book Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani. The international edition is quite inexpensive, and there is also a Korean translation. The draft version is available online for free. Students are not required to buy the book.
I will put up links to the lecture notes as we cover each topic.
The course will be taught on the blackboard, so do not expect slides or other such lecture materials. If you miss a class, you'll have to ask a friend for their notes.
There will be several homework assignments in this course. Homeworks must be turned in in English, and must be submitted on paper at the beginning of the lecture in the classroom.
Exercise 2 on page 5 of Lecture 6 in Jeff Erickson's lecture notes. Deadline: Beginning of class on September 26.
Give an algorithm to solve the MaxGap problem in linear time, by making use of the floor function. (The floor function allows you to convert a real number into an integer, which you can then use as an index into an array.) Deadline: Beginning of class on November 14.
Exercise 3 on page 9 of Lecture 15 in Jeff Erickson's lecture notes. Hint: Give a binary search tree where a node v has depth n-1, and show that after the MoveToRoot(v) operation, there will again be a node at depth n-1, and so on. Deadline: Beginning of class on December 5.


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Brumado, amtlich Municipio de Brumado, ist eine Mittelstadt im Bundesstaat Bahia in Brasilien in der Região Nordeste. Brumado hat gemäß einer Schätzung des brasilianischen Instituts für Geographie und Statistik (IBGE) 67.195 Einwohner (Stand: 1. Juli 2019), die Brumadenser (portugiesisch: brumadenses) genannt werden.

Der Human Development Index (HDI) in der Stadt beträgt den mittleren Wert 0,656. Die Stadt ist als Capital do Minério (Hauptstadt des Bergbaus) bekannt durch die vielen Mineralien im Boden, die die Grundlage seiner Wirtschaft und seiner großen Bergbauunternehmen ist.

Geographie

Brumado liegt 555 km entfernt von der Landeshauptstadt Salvador da Bahia. Die Fläche beträgt 2207,612 Quadratkilometer. Die Kernstadt nimmt dabei eine Fläche von 2174 Quadratkilometern ein und liegt auf einer Höhe von 454 Metern. Nachbargemeinden von Brumado sind Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Dom Basílio, Aracatu, Rio de Contas, Malhada de Pedras, Tanhaçu, Ituaçu, Rio do Antônio, und Caraíbas.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Quelle: IBGE (Angabe für 2019 ist lediglich eine Schätzung).

Ethnische Zusammensetzung

Ethnische Gruppen nach der statistischen Einteilung des IBGE (Stand 2000 mit 62.148 Einwohnern, Stand 2010 mit 64.602 Einwohnern): Von diesen lebten 2010 45.131 Einwohner im städtischen Bereich und 19.471 im ländlichen Raum.

Verkehr

Brumado liegt an den Landstraßen BA-262, BA-148 sowie der Bundesstraße BR-030 und ist somit ein Hauptverkehrsknotenpunkt. Zudem ist die Stadt über eine Linie der Ferrovia Centro Atlântica an das brasilianische Eisenbahnnetz angebunden.

Persönlichkeiten
 Alan Pinheiro (* 1992), Fußballspieler

Weblinks

 Website der Stadtpräfektur (brasilianisches Portugiesisch)
 Website der Câmara Municipal (brasilianisches Portugiesisch)

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Bahia
Gegründet 1877
Município in Bahia

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A engineering contractor has secured a new contract to deliver Southern Water's Victorian sewer rehabilitation project in Thanet, England – a major infrastructure project valued at over £30 million.
Terra Solutions Limited has entered into a new joint venture –TPMD. Made up of Terra Solutions Limited, Pfeiffer GmbH and Matt Durbin Associates, the venture will deliver phase two of Southern Water's Thanet Sewer Rehabilitation Project which aims to repair and reline the century-old network.
Lanxess is investing in its ion exchange resin production facility at the Leverkusen, Germany site. The company is optimizing its process technology and operating efficiency for a seven-figure EUR amount. The project is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2019.
Krohne Inc. has begun manufacturing the updated Waterflux 3070 battery powered water meter at its newly opened flow and level instrument manufacturing and calibration facility located in Beverly, Mass. The device is the first all-in-one water meter with integrated pressure and temperature sensor.
Simplified installation, integrated diagnostics, a long battery lifetime, remote communication options and low overall maintenance make the water meter ideal for installation in remote locations. The device now offers a mains power option with battery backup and a Modbus RTU communication option for transmission of readings, meter status, and alarms.
Danfoss has named two winners of its ninth annual EnVisioneer of the Year award competition. Escambia County School District received the award in the End User category.
American Water announced that, since its inception, the company has provided more than $1.3 million to more than 1,500 local fire departments through its Firefighter Grant program throughout American Water's service areas in 12 states.
The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) has announced the winners of its 2018 National Design-Build Project/Team Awards competition.
The program promotes diversity in project size, sector, and geography while celebrating the innovative and collaborative teams who produce projects that inspire. This year's winners, consisting of 29 projects across sectors including aviation, civic buildings, transportation, and water/wastewater, were recognized at DBIA's Design-Build Conference and Expo on Nov. 8 in New Orleans.
RM Clayton Water Reclamation Center Headworks.
The members of Plumbing Manufacturers International elected Nate Kogler president of the 2019 PMI Board of Directors.


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Once they find the medications they need, they cans start to get off the medications they don't really necessarily have to have in their lives. One of the greatest ways to do that is through daily exercise. When people exercise, they feel better and their body reacts in the right way. It is all about getting up, getting out, and getting moving. The great thing is you don't need a gym membership or anything expensive to get out there and get your body moving. You can walk around your house, around the block, or find a local park with a walking trail. Walking is one of the greatest things for your body.
Another great tool for someone that is looking to get off some of their medications and not have to rely on them so much is eating healthier. Exercise and eating right are two great ways to start weaning off medications and living healthier. When you put the right foods in your body, you feel better and your body thanks you. Your body is like a computer, and you don't want a bunch of viruses on it. You want it to be running smoothly. One of the most important things you can do is talk to your doctor before you do anything, however.
When it involves coming off medications, it can be very, very dangerous. You need to know the right plan to get off your medications the right way. If you just do it cold turkey, you run the risk of having serious health issues and problems. You can't just do something like this without talking to a professional that knows the body inside and out. They will help get you on a diet and get you on an exercise plan that works for you.
While you might never be completely medication free, at least you can start to take some of them away from you, especially the ones with heavy side effects. No one likes feeling tired all of the time, sickly, and worn out from the medications. Even though some of them might be helping, they might be doing more harm than good. However, with daily exercise, the right foods, and the right medications, you will start to see improved results in no time. It is a process, but it is one that is worth it, without a shadow of a doubt.
Working out doesn't have to be boring. In fact, studies have shown that it is much more effective when you are having fun. It will go by a lot faster. So before you go to the gym, get on the treadmill, and watch CNN while walking for 30 minutes, consider one of these alternatives.
Yoga has a long tradition as being a discipline that will not only help you to get a good workout by improving muscle tone and flexibility, but it will help you to stay centered and focused on the important things. It can help you to be in the moment, particularly if you incorporate breathwork and meditation into your yoga practice. You can go to a local yoga studio, find a class at your gym, or do yoga along with the instructors in a video. There are a lot available on YouTube.
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There are always ways to get creative and try new things in the world of fitness. If you can incorporate a new kind of workout into your daily routine, it might mean that you are more likely to stick with it.
Living in today's world can be very stressful. Our jobs can be stressful, our families can be stressful, and our other obligations can be stressful. It's important to take care of your mental health. Here are 7 things you can do.
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AgriCulture: With a Little Help From My Friends
By Editor on December 13, 2020 • ( 0 )
I return to this bulletin after a brief break. It is the season when I feel comfortable in communicating less than weekly because there is virtually nothing being harvested in need of immediate sale.
Not that that there's nothing still growing. Up until last week I could still harvest high quality black radishes and escarole. Even with several nights when the temperature has hovered closed to 20 degrees, the kale and collards soldier on. The Thanksgiving feast included items that had been harvested well in advance; I brought in the pumpkin for the pie in late October, and used a small frozen turkey on hand from 2018. But it also included Brussels sprouts picked Thanksgiving morning. And last week I managed to extract two full bags of sorrel from the garden for sale. Some plants are amazingly resilient.
The cause of my break was a brief and not entirely anticipated stay-cation, with guests. I admit, somewhat guiltily, that I failed to adhere to the household-only guideline that public health authorities asked us to observe around the holiday. I am generally highly compliant. A diligent masker, I shop rarely, and will often go for a stretch of four or five days without seeing anyone or leaving the farm. But, like other folks I've spoken with who made calculated Thanksgiving choices, I did not restrict myself to a holiday with just my one-person household in attendance.
As a lawyer is wont to do, I have worked up my defense against the tsk-tsking of my friends, especially the epidemiologists and infectious disease doctors among them. For the Thanksgiving meal itself I hosted Eric. My "legal" defense (a far less outlandish argument than might be presented by Rudy Giuliani or Sydney Powell) is that Eric should be considered a member of the household, having lived here full time from March to August and returned with his dog, Lillie, for approximately every third week since. We were joined the following day by friends Paul and Steve, who along with another friend, George, and neighbor, Adam, have comprised almost all of my pandemic in-person social world, at least since it got too cold to socialize outdoors at a 6 foot distance.
I call this group my "pod", though I recognize that 's probably a stretch since each member has a small group of people they see outside this "pod." Recognizing that we are essentially socializing with each other's contacts, making the risk higher than in a true pod, means that we also maintain a little more distance from each other than if we were living together full time. For example, Eric, Steve and I went to George's for dinner on Thursday, but we ate outside on his screened porch, surrounded by propane heaters (and ultimately wrapped in blankets) in the 40 degree evening. Ultimately we must rely on each other's judgment, reflected in our respective social practices, and on our perhaps incomplete scientific understanding in determining how much risk is reasonable to take. I, for example, have assumed that Steve presents no transmission risk, since he is approaching full recovery from a long course of COVID that started in March and still has strong antibody counts to show for it.
Epidemiologists are apparently divided over just how much of a factor "living room" spread of Covid is in fueling the pandemic. Clearly it must contribute at least a small amount. But I would argue that, if approached judiciously, there's a countervailing public health benefit that makes it reasonable to allow for this degree of small scale social interaction. We are inherently social creatures; we are no more meant to live alone than are sheep or cows. Craving for social interaction may in fact promote reckless risk taking. We may need low risk ways to satisfy the craving, and in these glum times to be reminded of what makes life worth living.
Take, for example, how we eat. Cooking for a one person household can often be a rushed and rudimentary affair, reducing meals to just basic energy infusion and satisfying hunger pangs. Cooking by and for a group is something entirely different.
I told Eric just before Thanksgiving that I thought we should make pumpkin ravioli after the holiday with the pureed Long Island cheese pumpkin that remained after baking my pumpkin pies. By coincidence, Steve brought me a pasta maker a friend had given to him that he had no use for. On Saturday Eric spent the afternoon painstakingly making the raviolis (with me helping catch and lay the dough out as he rolled it), while Paul made a cauliflower-based Alfredo style sauce to accompany them. The ultimate meal, accompanied by escarole salad, was delicious, but was really just the punctuation mark at the end of a process of preparation involving all four of us, which was part creative challenge and part occasion for fostering fellow-feeling.
To spend three hours preparing for myself what I might eat in twenty minutes seems pointless. To spend three hours working together to prepare a meal to be eaten together becomes the point.
Working with Eric on redecorating the rooms left by Troy and Victoria when they moved back to North Carolina, and working with Steve on unloading hay into the barn, had similar benefits of turning arduous, daunting tasks into a shared kind of pleasure. It was a lovely week.
Social isolation is an enemy of mental and ultimately physical health. I am hardly free of anxiety — about the pandemic, the state of the economy and therefore of my business, and any number of other stressors. But the sense of well-being I derived from being with my friends is of an entirely different order of anything I ever got from a zoom call. It worked as an antidote to that anxiety. Even in intermittent doses, that kind of contact makes it easier to sustain surrendering all the other parts of our lives we've given up to get through this thing.
Egg production is down for because of the shortened days, but not entirely gone. First come, first served.
Vegetable sales are suspended til Spring except we still have cheese pumpkins.
Frozen chickens and lamb still await you
WHAT'S AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Cheese pumpkins, $1/lb
Large black Spanish Radishes, $1 each (or smaller ones in bunches)
Fresh dug horseradish root, $3/lb.
EGGS: $5/doz
MEATS:
LAMB: fresh back from processing, Legs of lamb and loin chops, $14/lb, boneless lamb shoulder and shoulder steaks, $10/lb, Ground lamb, $7/lb. For the Central Asians among you, lamb tails, $5/lb.
PORK: fresh ham roasts (2 to 3 lbs), $12/lb
CHICKENS: They were quite uniform in size, all just around 6 lbs, a few under. We've already had one and the freedom rangers have been what you want them to be, deeply flavorful. They are now frozen. $6/lb. Separately, bags of chicken livers, also $6/lb.
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Externally, 6 allocated car parking spaces are provided. Visitor and disabled car parking spaces are also provided for the shared use of all occupiers.
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    void PushRenderTargetViewport(::app::Uno::Graphics::Framebuffer* fb, ::uObject* frustum) { DrawContext__PushRenderTargetViewport(this, fb, frustum); }
    void PushScissor(::app::Uno::Recti scissor);
    void PushViewport(::uObject* v) { DrawContext__PushViewport(this, v); }
    void ReleaseRootbuffer() { DrawContext__ReleaseRootbuffer(this); }
    void GLFramebuffer(::uUInt value) { DrawContext__set_GLFramebuffer(this, value); }
    void GLScissor(::app::Uno::Int4 value);
    void GLViewportPixelSize(::app::Uno::Int2 value);
    void IsCaching(bool value) { DrawContext__set_IsCaching(this, value); }
    void Scissor(::app::Uno::Recti value);
};

}}

#include <app/Uno.Float2.h>
#include <app/Uno.Float4.h>
#include <app/Uno.Float4x4.h>
#include <app/Uno.Int2.h>
#include <app/Uno.Recti.h>

namespace app {
namespace Fuse {

inline void DrawContext::Clear(::app::Uno::Float4 color, float depth) { DrawContext__Clear(this, color, depth); }
inline ::app::Uno::Int4 DrawContext::GLScissor() { return DrawContext__get_GLScissor(this); }
inline ::app::Uno::Int2 DrawContext::GLViewportPixelSize() { return DrawContext__get_GLViewportPixelSize(this); }
inline ::app::Uno::Float2 DrawContext::GLViewportPointSize() { return DrawContext__get_GLViewportPointSize(this); }
inline ::app::Uno::Recti DrawContext::Scissor() { return DrawContext__get_Scissor(this); }
inline ::app::Uno::Float4x4 DrawContext::GetLocalToClipTransform(::app::Fuse::Node* n) { return DrawContext__GetLocalToClipTransform(this, n); }
inline void DrawContext::PushRenderTarget_2(::app::Uno::Graphics::RenderTarget* rt, ::app::Uno::Int2 viewportPixelSize, ::app::Uno::Int4 glscissor) { DrawContext__PushRenderTarget_2(this, rt, viewportPixelSize, glscissor); }
inline void DrawContext::PushScissor(::app::Uno::Recti scissor) { DrawContext__PushScissor(this, scissor); }
inline void DrawContext::GLScissor(::app::Uno::Int4 value) { DrawContext__set_GLScissor(this, value); }
inline void DrawContext::GLViewportPixelSize(::app::Uno::Int2 value) { DrawContext__set_GLViewportPixelSize(this, value); }
inline void DrawContext::Scissor(::app::Uno::Recti value) { DrawContext__set_Scissor(this, value); }

}}

#endif

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Q: Countable version of Erdös-Lovasz-Faber conjecture Let $X$ be an infinite set, and let $(A_n)_{n\in\omega}$ be a collection of subsets of $X$ with the following properties:

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*$|A_m\cap A_n| \leq 1$ for $m\neq n\in \omega$, and

*$|A_n|=\aleph_0$ for all $n\in \omega$.

We consider the following statement:

(EFL$_\omega$:) There is $f:X\to \omega$ such that for all $n\in\omega$ the restriction $f|_{A_n}:A_n\to\omega$ is a bijection.

Questions. Is (EFL$_\omega$) true? Or does (EFL$_\omega$) imply the original  Erdös-Faber-Lovasz conjecture?

A: If I understand it correctly, it's false. Let $x \notin A_0 = \{1,2,\dots \}$. Then let $A_i$ all meet at $x$, and also each meet $A$ at $i$ (add extra elements as necessary; they should be irrelevant). Then $f(x) \neq f(i)$ for any $i$, so $f(x) \notin f(A)$.
This didn't work in the finite case because the sets meeting $A$ cannot exhaust $A$, as the number of such sets is strictly less than the number of elements of $A$. When working over infinite sets, this is no longer true.

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Position: Television presenter and producer, Field: Education and entertainment, Organisation: Young Ocean Explorers.
Teenager Riley Hathaway started life as a water baby. With a dad who loves the water, Riley was exposed to marine life from an early age. Riley did a school project about sea turtles accidentally eating floating plastic. She used some of her dad's underwater video footage and interviewed a turtle expert. The video was a hit with her teacher and, even more importantly, her brother's year 6 class. This inspired Riley and her dad Steve to make a series of short videos called Young Ocean Explorers.
Riley's life has been quite an adventure since then. She has swum with sharks, overcome her fear of crabs and inspired a new generation of young people to look after the sea.
It wasn't me inspiring kids. This is a kid inspiring kids about this amazing world.
Steve Hathaway
Steve Hathaway grew up loving adventures, but it was snorkelling that really seized his attention. After a lifetime of enjoying the sea, Steve decided to become a professional underwater videographer. Since then, he's filmed a number of underwater projects – including documentaries appearing on BBC, Discovery TV, National Geographic and TVNZ.
Following on the success of Young Ocean Explorers, the Hathaways secured funding though grants and a Kickstarter campaign to donate a copy of the series DVD and book to every school in New Zealand and the Cook Islands. They have also filmed a second series of Young Ocean Explorers.
Watch Riley and Steve Hathaway discuss their new series of Young Ocean Explorers in this video.
Watch some of Steve's underwater video footage here.
Riley and Steve were part of a TEDxAuckland event, watch the video.
Visit the new interactive Young Ocean Explorers website aimed at primary school students.
Go here to purchase a copy of the Young Ocean Explorers DVD and Love Our Ocean book.
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Abducted, tortured and spending seventh Christmas in Russian solitary confinement
Valentin Vyhivsky was just 29, with a 5-year-old son, when he became one of the other victims of Russia's undeclared war against Ukraine - those it seized, tortured and imprisoned on fabricated charges. He remains imprisoned in Russia, having now spent longer in Russian captivity than his grandfather, a victim of Soviet repression.
On 7 January 2020, he will be spending his seventh Orthodox Christmas in near solitary confinement, thousands of kilometres from his family in Ukraine.
Ukrainian, Maidan activist and aviation fanatic
Vyhivsky has been fascinated in aviation since early childhood. Although he wasn't able to get a job in this field after he completed his studies, he did read huge amounts on aviation issues and chat with other enthusiasts on the Internet, including many in Russia. It is possible that one of these contacts was either working for the FSB, or was threatened by the latter with trouble because of her contact with a young man who was not only Ukrainian, but had also taken part in the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan). The woman claimed that she urgently needed money for a relative's cancer treatment, but could not come to mainland Ukraine herself, due to her line of work. Unfortunately, Vyhivsky believed her and, having managed to get her the money, set off on 17 September for Crimea which was already under Russian occupation.
He vanished more or less on arrival, and his family began desperately trying to find out what had happened. It was only on 6 October that Ukraine's Foreign Ministry ascertained that he had been 'detained' on 18 September, although not his whereabouts.
Just over a month later, the family received a letter from Vyhivsky, saying virtually nothing, but with a return address that made it clear that he was being held in Moscow.
Mystery charges
Incredible as it sounds, Vyhivsky's family still does not know what exactly Vyhivsky's 'spying' was supposed to consist of.
He was initially charged with 'illegally receiving and divulging commercial, tax or banking secrets' (article 183 of Russia's criminal code). At some point, this was changed to the much more serious charge of trying to gather Russian state secrets to pass on to the Ukrainian Security Service [SBU].
It was the FSB who first reported that Vyhivsky had been sentenced to 11 years in a maximum security prison on 15 December 2015. The FSB claimed that Vyhivsky had come to their attention in 2012 and was suspected of gathering information containing commercial secrets through bribes, as well as information containing state secrets in order to pass them to a representative of a foreign state.
He was alleged to have "recruited employees of the aviation and space part of the Russian military industry to gather secret technical documentation on leading promising designs and pass them to him for financial remuneration".
Means of persuasion
The FSB's claim that Vyhivsky had 'confessed' to the charges when captured in Crimea fails to explain why they illegally took him to Moscow and held him incommunicado for eight months. It was only on 27 May 2015 that the Ukrainian consul was able to visit Vyhivsky, although then, and then a month later, when his mother was allowed a visit, two guards were present, stopping any subject concerning the charges and Vyhivsky's treatment. He managed to tell his mother only that they know how to persuade you".
Vyhivsky had contact only with Russian human rights activist Zoya Svetova, who had initially come upon Vyhivsky while visiting another Ukrainian political prisoner. She reported that Vyhivsky was clearly frightened and refused to say anything to her, even what article of the criminal code he was charged under. Petro Vyhivsky has since explained that his son only opened out to Svetova after she passed on particular words from his father aimed at proving that she really was in contact with the family.
That secrecy was later also applied to the lawyer Vyhivsky finally got for the appeal against the original conviction, which was rejected on March 31, 2016. Ilya Novikov was even forced to sign an undertaking not to divulge any information about the appeal, which is likely to have provided details about the torture used to 'persuade' Vyhivsky to confess.
Brutal isolation
Both Vyhivsky's father Petro, and his brother, received emphatic 'invitations' to come to Russia which they were strongly advised by the SBU to reject. It was not at all improbable that they would be seized as well, so that the FSB could concoct a 'Ukrainian conspiracy'. t is really only from the earlier visits by his mother, Halyna Vyhivska, that we know about the 'methods of persuasion'. These included two mock executions in a forest, and other forms of torture, with Valentin still bearing the scars of some of these on his body.
It is not fully clear why Vyhivsky has been subjected to such extreme restrictions on contact with others. Even after his sentence and being sent to a prison colony, he has effectively been held in some form or other of solitary confinement. The imposition, on entirely fabricated pretexts, of penalties to enable his imprisonment in a punishment cell also makes it possible for visits from his mother and wife to be severely curtailed, with this now made even worse by the pandemic.
PLEASE write to Valentin!
Even just a few words will tell him and Russia that he is not forgotten. Letters need to be in Russian, and any political subjects or reference to his case should be avoided. If possible, include an envelope and some thin paper as he may well try to reply.
If Russian is a problem, the following would be fine, maybe with a photo or card
Здравствуйте, Валентин!
Желаю Вам здоровья и терпения, и очень надеюсь на скорое освобождение. Простите, что мало пишу – мне трудно писать по-русски, но мы все о Вас помним.
[Dear Valentin, I wish you good health, courage and patience and hope that you will soon be released. I'm sorry that this letter is short – it's hard for me to write in Russian., but you are not forgotten. ]
Address (Valentin's year of birth needs to be given, as here)
Russia 613040, Utrobino, Kirov oblast, Prison colony No. 11,
Vygovsky, Valentyn Petrovych, born. 1983
[or in Russian) Кирвская обл. г. Кирово-Чепецк. д. Утробино ФКУ ИК-11 УФСИН Россия 613040
Выговскому Валентину Петровичу 1983 г.р.]
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The raid by Canadian soldiers of the 2nd Division on the French seaside town of Dieppe remains one of the most controversial battles in Canadian military history. Was it simply a testing ground for a cross-channel raid by the allies or was their something more?
O'Keefe's research began with the discovery of a single document connecting the existence of a special British intelligence unit and the Dieppe Raid.
What does this new research mean for the legacy of the Dieppe Raid?
You can also read the review of One Day in August and Mark Zuehlke's article Tragedy at Dieppe in the April/May 2014 issue of Canada's History magazine.
You can purchase O'Keefe's book online at Chapters here.
A disturbing incident in 2002 shoes that the stigma surrounding shell shock in the Canadian military has not gone away.


William Angliss Institute Pte Ltd was appointed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) in 2011,and is an integrated Continuing Education and Training Centre (CET) for the Tourism industry as well as an ATO for Food and Beverage training.
Our Centre in Singapore joins campuses in Melbourne and Sydney with joint ventures in China, Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The Melbourne headquarters was established in Melbourne in 1940.
We provide knowledge, skills and attitudes to shape and improve the Tourism, Hospitality and Food industries.
In addition to traditional on campus delivery methods to William Angliss Institute CET Centre will work closely with the Tourism Industry to deliver a range of short courses through to full qualifications in industry. The Institute will bring its years of experience of on-the-job training to Singapore to not only develop the skills of those students wishing to enter the industry but to further develop skills of those already working in the Tourism sector.


Helen S. Yesilonis, 96, of Forest Hills Acres, Hazle Twp., passed away peacefully Saturday morning, surrounded by her loving family.
Born and raised in Tresckow, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Gombar) Kondash.
After marriage to her beloved husband, Al, they moved to Wind Gap, where they raised their three sons and made their home for the next 35 years. They relocated back to the area in 1982.
For more than 30 years, Helen was a sewing machine operator for various garment industries. Prior to retiring, she was employed by Lobitz Catering.
Helen's greatest joy was being a wife, mother and grandmother. She loved cooking Sunday dinners and polka dancing. She was affectionately known as "Gram" by her cherished grandchildren.
Helen had deep faith and was a member of Annunciation Parish, Church of St. Gabriel. She was a member of International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Albion Yesilonis, in 1985; brothers and sisters, William, John, George, Joseph and Bernard Kondash; and sister, Nellie Nahay.
Helen is survived by her loving sons, Robert Yesilonis and wife, Linda, Murrells Inlet, S.C.; Albion Yesilonis and wife, Ginny, Baltimore, Md.; and Richard Yesilonis, Hazle Twp.; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; sister, Margaret Stracko, Hazle Village; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated May 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Annunciation Parish, Church of St. Gabriel, Hazleton.
Interment will follow in St. Michael's Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, McAdoo.
Friends may call May 18 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. prior to the Mass.
Arrangements are under the direction of Joseph B. Conahan Funeral Home Inc., 532 N. Vine St., Hazleton.


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Who was president during the stock market crash of 1929?
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answered 06-Mar-2018 by akriti kashyap
Herbert Clark Hoover!
Well, knowing about him more!!!
He was born on August 10, 1874, and he lived until October 20, 1964, was an American architect, businessperson and government official who filled in as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 amid the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he presented Progressive Era subjects of productivity in the business group and gave government support to institutionalization, proficiency and global exchange.
As president from 1929 to 1933, his household programs were eclipsed by the beginning of the Great Depression. Hoover was vanquished in an avalanche race in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt. After this misfortune, Hoover turned out to be staunchly preservationist and supported against Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Catch The Buzzcocks on their brief U.S. tour
British punk originators Buzzcocks have announced an eight-date U.S. tour, welcome news for fans.
They kick off Sept. 22 at Vic Theatre in Chicago and wrap up Oct. 1 at Irving Plaza in NYC. Tickets go on sale June 17 but an AmEx presale starts tomorrow (6-14). They've already been touring in Europe as part of their 40th (!) anniversary.
For the U.S. dates visit BrooklynVegan.com, while the Buzzcocks' site lists their UK/European dates.
Not that you need a refresher, but check out "Something's Gone Wrong Again" (one of my favorite songs):
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Smiths, Morrissey fan site user streams rarities
Soundcloud user Peter Skinny has uploaded several rare demos and alternate versions of Smiths songs, among them "The Boy Racer," "Southpaw," "Never Had No One Ever" and "Bengali In Platforms." Skinny happens to be a forum member for fan site Morrissey-Solo. According to a story at Consequence of Sound, the demos are from The Smiths' album The Queen Is Dead.
Check them out below:
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A former K-Mart employee saved every last bit of music crap the store played from 1989-1999
Whenever vintage shopping-mall music is vomited onto the web, I'm drawn to it like half-off Christmas supplies in April.
Someone who's either malicious or crazy — I can't tell which — has digitized his collection of K-Mart music tapes and uploaded online for anyone brave enough to listen. Muzak, easy listening and in-store product ads that ran end to end were put on cassette and then eventually thrown out, but this guy saved them. Thank god, because where would we be without a constant reminder that "Major Dad" used to be on CBS on Sunday nights?
It does bring me back to the late '80s — when you found that argyle sweater and slacks you required for the first day of school. As soon as you shut the door to the plastic prison known as the dressing room, the Muzak was finally muffled, so you could more easily ponder how you could slowly kill yourself.
I've chosen "K-Mart 1989" for my listening pleasure/torture.
I have some questions.
Are Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mathis, et al, going to sue for their staticky likeness being plopped on the internet?
The Mad Men-era announcer guy who gladly interrupts between every song — is he dead now? It's a valid question.
Related question: If he's not dead, can we search him out and berate him for implying that only Martha Stewart knows how to bake? (I don't know how to bake but that's beside the point.)
When K-Mart employees were told to throw out these tapes to make room for hot new music, how did the employee restrain him or herself from smashing the cassette with his price gun?
This guy — named Tape-A-Thon — worked at the retail giant from 1989-1999, so until you or I walk in his loafers, we'll never be able to taste the mind-numbing horror that he endured over a decade.
We salute you. Also, I kind of want a Presto FryDaddy now.
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Step 1: Use the DB Editor to get the total area in your model using the Data Statistics Tool.
Step 2: Use the Process options in InfoSWMM to ONLY simulate surface runoff and flow routing.
Step 4: Find the Total Wet Weather Flow during the simulation from the Wet Weather Inflow Row in the Flow Continuity Table.
Step 5. Make a new column in Excel to calculate the tributaryarea.
The TributaryArea of a Node = Total Inflow Volume / Total Wet Weather Flow * Total Subcatchment Area from Step 1.
Step 6: Simulating the network uses up to the number of cores on your computer for the 2D flow.
Step 7:2D plot of the flooded mesh points.
Note, this is just one way to model an ExfiltrationTrench. The source for the image below is Rice Creek Watershed.
Step 3: Run the simulation. The Storage Volume Summary tells you the volume infiltrated and the average outflow.
Step 4: Output Manager will also show the infiltration outflow, the depth and the volume of the infiltration/storage node.
Step 4: Infiltration losses out the side and bottom of the orifice.
Step 1. Make a new Time Series to hold the data points for your new Rainfall Time Series in the Operation Tab of the Attribute Browser.
Step 3. Now Clone the created Rainfall Distribution and make 10, 25, 50 and 100 year stormevents each with 1 inches of rainfall in a cumulative distribution.
Step 4. Now use the Block Edit command and convert each of the newly created hyetographs to 4, 7, 10, 15 and 20 inch cumulative rainfall totals from the original 1 inch rainfall total (for example).
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Recently Belarus started to draw attention again, sort of. This time, as a new potential victim of Russian aggression. Suddenly the international media has started to mention Belarus and to express concern that Kremlin is putting pressure on the current regime, which could mean that it's contemplating an anschluss.
Quite remarkably, the reason for this new concern is not the horrible human rights situation in the country under dictatorship, but the fate of the dictatorship which itself is being threatened by a neighboring bigger tyrant.
The fact that Lukashenka has been illegally clinging to power for almost 25 years, and has laid the groundwork for the Kremlin to move anytime to swallow Belarus, is being ignored. It was none other than Lukashenka, who signed all the agreements to create a "union" with Russia, and then in accordance with those agreements, both public and secret, destroyed the national identity of Belarusians in every possible way. Speaking native Belarusian publicly, beyond the boundaries of some language ghettos allowed by the regime, is still an act of courage in Belarus.
Indeed, the Kremlin is a threat to the independence of Belarus, even to its existence as a sovereign state. There is no doubt about that after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 and the annexation of Georgian lands, and even more so, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Ukrainian Crimea.
There is also no doubt that Lukashenka is a peddler, capable of pawning away our independence, and not protecting, let alone fighting for it. Europe's last dictator is notorious for his hatred of the true national identity of the country he has held as a hostage for so many years. Belarus for him is not a motherland to be proud of, but a means for enriching himself and satisfying his instincts.
The independence of Belarus is a matter of international security. It is too important strategically for Europe, to be surrendered to Putin and Lukashenka, two tyrants. It has to be protected internationally, and not through the support of the regime that offers the territory of Belarus to the Kremlin every time it wants to threaten the West with major offensive military exercises like Zapad.
The best way to help independent Belarus, is to protect and promote inside the country, principles and values on which the democratic world is founded upon, and not by supporting the repressive regime that threatens these values.
It is quite unfortunate that the West seems to have withdrawn from Belarus, leaving behind a fistful of useful idiots and a very accommodating and tamed diplomatic corps in Minsk.
It is most unfortunate that under the guise of geopolitical interests, that allegedly demand turning a blind eye on the dictatorship, the West is openly supporting Lukashenka, thus making Belarus ever more vulnerable in the face of an aggressive Kremlin.
It doesn't take much effort to understand that there is no equal sign between Belarus and Lukashenka's regime.
The next step, after putting two and two together, is to offer the real help needed for the independence of Belarus. Lukashenka stubbornly rejects any reforms and keeps Belarus on the brink of bankruptcy, but he needs money badly and begs the West to give it to him.
Here is the leverage. It's not difficult to make any assistance from the West conditional, and aim it at strengthening the independence of Belarus, and the main condition should be to stop all the repression against the opposition, independent media, civil society, and those freedom fighters who truly defend Belarus independence.
Soft security has to embrace hard security concerns and avoid contradictions. There is a paradoxical situation when NATO, in recognition of a potential threat from the territory of Belarus, is strengthening its military capabilities on Europe's eastern border and the same NATO members -within the framework of European Union- refuse to recognize those dangers and try to appease the dictator who creates conditions for such threats.
One of the recent examples of such contradictions is the EU plan to invest € 1 billion into improvin roads in Belarus, while at the same time, some Ukrainian sources have expressed concerns that Belarus has recently built 96 km of roads in the forest reserve close to Ukraine that can be used to transport soldiers, weapons and military equipment right up to the Ukrainian border. Or take the recent investigation of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), that discovered that electronic equipment bought by Belarus with EU money is being used for crackdown on regime critics.
When Lukashenka, through his envoys, asks for money in western capitals to defend Belarus independence, his bluff should be called and real assistance to independent Belarus offered under strict, values based, conditions.
Unless meaningful investment into the independence of Belarus is made, regional security is in danger. Unless EU assistance to Belarus is tied to values, and conditioned with the absence of repression and respect for human rights, it will contribute to the growing threat from the East.
Andrei Sannikov is the Chairman of European Belarus Foundation, Deputy Foreign Minister (1995-1996), Presidential candidate in 2010, and is a former political prisoner.


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Bah Oumarou Sanda, né le 10 mai 1940 à Garoua, est un magistrat et diplomate camerounais. Il est ambassadeur du Cameroun au Tchad de février 2008 à février 2018. Il est membre du conseil constitutionnel depuis février 2018.

Biographie

Enfance et débuts
Bah Oumarou Sanda est né le 10 mai 1940 à Garoua dans la région du Nord . Il est diplômé de la section magistrature de l'École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (ENAM).

Carrière
Bah Oumarou Sanda commence sa carrière de magistrat dès sa sortie de l'ENAM. Il travaille au sein de différentes juridictions du Cameroun notamment à Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Foumbot. Il est magistrat hors hiérarchie.

Le 16 mai 1988, il est nommé ministre des Postes et Télécommunications et dirige le ministère jusqu'au 7 avril 1992.  Il a également exercé la fonction de secrétaire général adjoint et de chargé des affaires administratives au sein de l'Assemblée nationale. Alors que son départ en retraite est prévu pour 2005, un arrêté présidentiel signé le 25 novembre 2005 prolonge la date de son départ en retraite au 11 mai 2007

Le 22 février 2008, il est nommé ambassadeur à N'Djamena au Tchad par décret présidentiel. Il fait partie de la suite officielle du président de la République lors du Sommet extraordinaire des chefs d'État et de gouvernement de la CEMAC. Après 10 années passées au Tchad, il est rappelé au Cameroun en février 2018 et nommé membre du conseil Constitutionnel.

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Naissance en mai 1940
Naissance à Garoua
Naissance au Cameroun français
Ambassadeur camerounais
Juriste camerounais
Justice constitutionnelle
Élève de l'École nationale d'administration et de magistrature (Cameroun)
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Archaeologists Make 'Unique' Find Near Pompeii
Officials were investigating an illegal dig site near the ancient Roman city
Posted Feb 27, 2021 1:35 PM CST
A view of a chariot, with its iron elements, bronze decorations and mineralized wooden remains, that was found in Civita Giuliana, north of Pompeii. (Parco Archeologico di Pompei via AP)
Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy announced Saturday the discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot, the AP reports, one of several important discoveries made in the same area outside the park near Naples following an investigation into an illegal dig. The chariot, with its iron elements, bronze decorations and mineralized wooden remains, was found in the ruins of a settlement north of Pompeii, beyond the walls of the ancient city, parked in the portico of a stable where the remains of three horses previously were discovered. The Archaeological Park of Pompeii called the chariot "an exceptional discovery" and said "it represents a unique find, which has no parallel in Italy thus far, in an excellent state of preservation." The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed Pompeii.
The chariot was spared when the walls and roof of the structure it was in collapsed, and also survived looting by modern-day antiquities thieves, who had dug tunnels through to the site, grazing but not damaging the four-wheeled cart, according to park officials. The chariot was found on the grounds of what is one of the most significant ancient villas in the area around Vesuvius, with a panoramic view of the Mediterranean Sea. on the outskirts of the ancient Roman city. The chariot's first iron element emerged on Jan. 7 from the blanket of volcanic material filling the two-story portico. Archaeologists believe the cart was used for festivities and parades, perhaps also to carry brides to their new homes. While chariots for daily life or the transport of agricultural products have been previously found at Pompeii, officials said the new find is the first ceremonial chariot unearthed in its entirety.
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Seattle Boat Show: Full Speed Ahead
Norm Schultz
The Northwest Marine Trades Association has announced "the wait is over" as it moves full throttle with plans for the return of its big winter in-person boat show, traditionally the largest such event in the Pacific Northwest.
"Our Seattle Boat Show, presented by Union Marine, is back," says NMTA president George Harris. "We're excited to announce our show will again hoist its flag for the traditional 9-day run, February 4 – 12, 2022."
While some major market shows have announced they won't be brought back this winter (Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta among them) others are recognizing the importance of "getting back in the game" as the Cleveland Boat Show's Michelle Burke puts it. "The honeymoon is over. Our competitors for the recreational dollar are back. We must stimulate continued enthusiasm in all the new boaters we sold during the pandemic. We need to refill our sales funnel, too, and we're convinced the return of our winter show in Cleveland is the best way to do it," she maintains.
To boost the Seattle show's appeal, the on-water portion of the event will move to the Port of Seattle's Bell Harbor Marina. Formerly held at Chandler's Cove, the new location will be more convenient for showgoers. "It's less than two miles from Lumen Field," says Harris, "so transit time aboard our continuous fast shuttles will give attendees more time to cruise the entire show."
Locations aside, Seattle is also introducing a powerful new seminar format for 2022. A major draw of the Seattle show has always been its extensive lineup of seminars, among the most wide-ranging of any boat show in the industry. This year will include more than 70 seminars covering anchoring techniques, sail trim, no impact docking, diesel engine essentials, troubleshooting marine electrical systems, tides and currents, squidding, crabbing, shrimping, halibut and salmon fishing and much more.
"A big new addition to our seminars programs this year," says Harris, "will be the recording of all the presentations that will later be made available, on demand, in the show's new online Seminar Library."
A $99 seminar ticket package that includes multi-day admissions to the show plus a boatload of goodies, including a copy of the Waggoner Guide, will be offered this year.
"Show attendees," Harris continued, "who can't make all the in-person seminars on their wish list will have access to the complete Seminar Library, which will remain available for 3 months following the show.
The return of the Seattle show also marks another milestone. It's the 75th Anniversary of the founding of NMTA, first known in 1947 as Northwest Marine Industries, Inc.
"We took this opportunity to dust off box after box of old photos, slides and clippings," says Harris, "and we found many gems that reminded us of just how deeply boating and fishing are ingrained in our northwest lifestyle. We could see how our Seattle Boat Show has always been a celebration of boating and a place for boaters to rendezvous with friends, share memories, plan summer adventures and reminisce about past adventures and the good old days. We're excited to bring that back."
According to show director Katie McPhail, initially 258 NMTA members are already set to celebrate the show's return with 166 different new and brokerage boat brands to be on display at the show's two locations.
Despite supply chain and inventory headaches, the big response to the return of the industry's fall show circuit demonstrated that exhibitors find creative ways to be where the action is. And the record public attendance at most of those shows clearly points to an expected healthy turnout for the winter show circuit set to kick-off in Cleveland, January 13-17.
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Kelley and Coula
Back in the '80s, when Kelley was a little girl growing up in Mobile, Alabama, the camera caught up with her and her giagia (yaya) as they settled down into the couch for a game of chess.
We are told that Kelley turns 36 this month. Her giagia, Coula, lived to the age of 95, long enough to get to know her great-grandson, Kelley's son Thomas.
Is there anything more adorable than a grandmother-granddaughter chess match? Let's not overthink that. It's perfect.
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grandchild,
grandmother,
Will Not Sell
(h/t: CC),
(Image credit: Little Fuji),
signage,
stained glass,
Big Bird #3
We're told the egg may hatch soon. Watch this space for updates.
garden,
sticks,
yardscape
Your Tuesday Morning Infographic: Banned
Regina's, we're told, is a restaurant in Mobile, Alabama. We don't know what you have to do to get yourself declared intolerably mean and banned from there. And we don't know Jeanne M., which is probably okay.
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Feeling fitter and scoring goals, David Templeton is enjoying life with Brewers
Scottish winger is like a super-sub in reverse for Albion, starting, making an impact, then coming off
Colston Crawford
David Templeton on the attack for Burton Albion against Salford City. (Image: Aaron Lupton, Epic Action Imagery)
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One of these days, David Templeton is going to walk off the pitch at the end of a game with the rest of his Burton Albion team-mates, with a full 90 minutes under his belt.
The 75 minutes Templeton played in Tuesday night's 4-1 win over Salford City in the FA Cup first round replay was the longest he has managed yet this season – but it was a toss up between him and Stephen Quinn for man of the match honours.
It is unlikely that anyone is going to mind if Templeton does not complete 90 minutes all season, though, if he continues to have the sort of impact he is having while he is involved in the action.
He is, you could say, a super-sub in reverse. This one starts the game and chucks in everything he has, with a view to being replaced at some point in the second half.
Earlier in the season, Templeton was the one coming off the bench but, these last few weeks, he has been starting, since scoring the only goal in the 1-0 win over AFC Wimbledon in October.
He has now started five matches this season and scored four times, the only time he missed out being the 1-1 draw away to Salford in the Cup. He was still the Brewers' liveliest attacker that day.
Boss Nigel Clough manages Templeton's game time carefully, knowing the player's injury history. He will understand the situation well enough, as a man whose own full-time career was cut short by injury before he embarked on 300 matches as player-manager at Burton.
In each of the previous two matches, Templeton had come off with a niggle, his ankle in the first game against Salford, then his knee against Mansfield Town in the Leasing.com Trophy.
David Templeton shoots to open the scoring for Burton Albion against Doncaster Rovers. (Image: Richard Burley, Epic Action Imagery)
The second one worried Templeton more, because he spent almost two years on the sidelines with the same knee injured while with Rangers.
"It's frustrating. I've had three operations on that knee," said Templeton after the Salford replay. "I took a whack on it. If it had been the other side, I think it would have been fine but it was the one I've had issues with. It swelled up.
"It seems to have been the way my whole career's gone but I just want to try to keep fit and playing now. I'm feeling better, being back playing, getting minutes, and the goals help breed confidence."
He has not been lucky. A shoulder injury - twice - has also hampered him during his 18 months with Burton.
Brewers' home game against Southend rearranged for Tuesday, December 3
"I did it to start with against Southend, here, and it was innocuous," he said. "And then it was Fleetwood away where a defender came down on top of me and re-did it. They were bizarre ones. "But I'm feeling good just now and just want to stay in the team."
It was evident that Templeton is feeling fitter against Salford, not only because of his attacking threat, which resulted in a fine goal to restore the Brewers' lead, but in his willingness to chase back and defend. There was a sublime moment in the second half when he was trapped near his own corner flag and produced a trick to escape, before curling a pass down the line with the outside of his left foot.
Templeton is terrific to watch in full flow and was asked what it is that gets defenders on edge against him.
"If other teams are starting to watch what I'm doing now, I'll do as I always do, which is try to mix my game up, so that defenders don't know what I'm going to do all the time," he said.
Brewers score four to go through in FA Cup replay against Salford City
"I'm comfortable with both feet. If I show to go inside (on to his right foot) I can always go back on to my left.
"I think that makes it difficult for defenders, keeping them guessing. They can't expect me to go inside all the time. If the space is there on the left, I'll take it."
Everyone loves watching a tricky winger and perhaps Templeton was born to be one. His father, Henry, was and he gave his son the middle name Cooper, after Davie, the former Rangers and Scotland winger.
Clough is simply happy to have got hold of a player of Templeton's ability.
"He's fine, he just picks up niggles," said Clough. "He's 30 years old and he had a very serious injury a few years back. If he was 100% right and fit, we probably wouldn't have got him 18 months ago. We brought him in for just the sort of things he's done in the last few weeks but he's done them pretty consistently over the last 18 months when he's been fit.
"I think he's working harder and looking a bit fitter. The most important thing is making and scoring goals and he does that. He's a very good player to have in your squad."
And here's what Templeton had to say after the Salford replay:
David Templeton says his brief from manager Nigel Clough is to give everything he can from the start in a game and not worry about running out of steam later.
The mercurial Scottish winger was a thorn in Salford City's side for all of the 75 minutes he was on the pitch in Tuesday night's FA Cup first round replay and he scored another memorable goal after 64 minutes to put Burton Albion back in front. It was a key moment as, having conceded an equaliser early in the second half, the Brewers went on to control the game and ran out 4-1 winners.
Templeton looked to have it all to do when Scott Fraser's pass picked him out on the left but he cut inside, making just that yard of space that wingers need to give them an option and, spotting a gap, bent a delightful shot across and wide of goalkeeper Chris Neal into the far bottom corner of the net. It was a sumptuous finish and the fourth goal the Scot has scored in five starts.
"I've been getting into those sort of positions a lot, where I can get those type of shots away," he said. "But I've had a few this season that have been a bit wild, a bit high, so I'm trying to make sure, if I get in that area, that I keep them down and at least make the keeper make a save and, thankfully, that one went in.
"We had felt a bit hard done to with their goal. We thought it was a foul before it. But the way we reacted was good. We managed to get the goal to get back ahead and, after that, I think we controlled it.
"I think it all shows the character of the boys. We didn't expect to have the game, with a few players away, but that's just the way we are, we work hard and keep trying to do the right things."
Templeton had come off in the previous match feeling a sore knee and, in the one before that, with an ankle niggle but has returned to start each time.
He has yet to complete 90 minutes in a game this season but he is contributing, emphatically.
"The gaffer always says when I'm playing just to give it everything I've got and if I get tired or feel any niggles, I can come off," he said. "I just to try to do what I can in the time that I'm on, try to make stuff happen. It was nice to get more minutes and, hopefully, now, I can keep myself in."
Templeton was replaced by Lloyd Dyer with his job done and the pace of his veteran replacement would not have brought cheer to the Salford defence.
"Thankfully, I managed to contribute and then Lloyd coming on, he's an experienced head and a great player to have coming on," added Templeton.
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Category Archives: The Revel
Seidelathon
By Dan Piepenbring
Tonight, at our Spring Revel, we'll honor Frederick Seidel with the Hadada Award. In the weeks leading up the Revel, we've been looking back at the work Seidel has published in The Paris Review throughout his career.
A sunset in Zanzibar. Photo: hobbs_luton, via Wikimedia Commons
When I first read "Arabia," which appeared in our Summer 2011 issue, I was sitting on a rickety chair looking out at Lake Michigan. It was a gorgeous day in late June, a twenty-one-year-old cat was asleep at my feet, and I'd just started to sweat in the sun when I read the poem's first lines:
I move my body meat smell next to yours,
Your spice of Zanzibar. Mine rains, yours pours—
Sex tropics as a way to not be dead.
I don't know who we are except in bed.
This was before I'd read much of Seidel's work, and these lines felt outrageous to me, especially that long row of monosyllables, "as a way to not be dead." It was the perfect poem to read on a summer vacation—as long as it went on, I was living in a kind of lewd Zanzibar of the the mind.
With its ostentatious rhymes (Labia with Arabia), its nods and winks to the politics of the day ("The president of the United States / Is caught between those two tectonic plates, / Republicans and Democrats") and its flagrantly oversexed images (a cowboy sipping honey from a pair of sweet lips), "Arabia" now reads to me like vintage Seidel—the way it forces the visceral and the bodily to coexist with the elegant, the faint taunt that comes in a line like "I'm happy staring at what makes me stare." It also contains what you might read as an incidental summary of Seidel's poetics: "It's politics, it's tropics, and it's warm." (And it is, like sex tropics, a great way not to be dead.) After that first stanza, it continues:
I'll tell you someone I'm not happy with—
But no I won't. I won't destroy the myth.
The president of the United States
Is caught between those two tectonic plates,
Republicans and Democrats, the nude
Alternatives to naked solitude.
It's politics, it's tropics, and it's warm
Enough to arm the sunrise with a car alarm
That's going off and starts the earthquake shake
And shiver, shiver, of the sobbing steak.
O sweet tectonic fault line and sweet lips
Exuding honey that the cowboy sips.
Read the whole poem here.
"For Holly Andersen"
By Lorin Stein
On April 8, at our Spring Revel, we'll honor Frederick Seidel with the Hadada Award. In the weeks leading up the Revel, we're looking at Seidel's poems.
Bemelman's Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, New York. Photo: Arvind Grover
Over the weekend, I turned on Studio 360. A cardiologist was describing the health benefits of dance—and this cardiologist was none other than Holly Andersen, hero of a great poem by Frederick Seidel, from his 2006 collection, Ooga-Booga. Dr. Andersen is also the dedicatee of the poem. I guess you could say she is its muse, but hero is the better word. This is a poem about heroism: doing your job in the face of death. It happens also to be a love poem, for in Seidel's work love and admiration are rarely far apart. I never have a drink at the Carlyle Hotel without thinking of the first lines, and I think of the last lines much more often than that.
Seidel has never given a public reading, but he has made several recordings of his poems, including this one. I played it as soon as the segment was over.
What could be more pleasant than talking about people dying,
And doctors really trying,
On a winter afternoon
At the Carlyle Hotel, in our cocoon?
We also will be dying one day soon.
Dr. Holly Anderson has a vodka cosmopolitan,
And has another, and becomes positively Neapolitan,
The moon warbling a song about the sun,
Sitting on a sofa at the Carlyle,
Staying stylishly alive for a while.
Her spirited loveliness
Does cause some distress.
She makes my urbanity undress.
I present symptoms that express
An underlying happiness in the face of the beautiful emptiness.
She lost a very sick patient she especially cared about.
The man died on the table. It wasn't a matter of feeling any guilt or doubt.
Something about a doctor who can cure, or anyway try,
But can also cry,
Is some sort of ultimate lullaby, and lie.
On April 8, at our Spring Revel, we'll honor Frederick Seidel with the Hadada Award. In the weeks leading up the Revel, we're looking back at the work Seidel has published in The Paris Review throughout his career.
Photo: Shreyas Joshi, via Wikimedia Commons
"Flame" appeared in our Spring 1981 issue, which included stories by Faulkner, Carver, and Gass; poems by Amiri Baraka and Maxine Kumin, both of whom died earlier this year; and an interview with Rebecca West.
With its images of fireflies, moonlight, and waves, the poem finds Seidel at his most earnest; a muted sadness, almost romantic, permeates "Flame," which is devoid of the wry, lacerating ironies that usually mark his work. And it finishes with one of the most quietly perceptive descriptions of, well, a flame that I can remembering encountering. Here, best to read it for yourself; the poem is more beautiful than any writing about it will be.
The honey, the humming of a million bees,
In the middle of Florence pining for Paris;
The whining trembling the cars and trucks hum
Crossing the metal matting of Brooklyn Bridge
When you stand below it on the Brooklyn side—
High above you, the harp, the cathedral, the hive—
In the middle of Florence. Florence in flames.
Like waking from a fever … it is evening.
Fireflies breathe in the gardens on Bellosguardo.
And then the moon steps from the cypresses and
A wave of feeling breaks, phosphorescent—
Moonlight, a wave hushing on a beach.
In the dark, a flame goes out. And then
The afterimage of a flame goes out.
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Dayley Island
On April 8th, at our Spring Revel, we'll honor Frederick Seidel with the Hadada Award. In the weeks leading up the Revel, we're looking back at the work Seidel has published in The Paris Review throughout his career.
Photo: Christoph Michels
"Dayley Island" is the first poem Frederick Seidel published in The Paris Review—it appeared in our twenty-sixth issue, from Summer/Fall 1961, alongside work by Norman Mailer, Thom Gunn, Malcolm Lowry, and Tom Keogh, among many others; there were also interviews with Ilya Ehrenburg and Marianne Moore. ("I have a passion for rhythm and accent, so blundered into versifying.")
In the sumptuousness of a line like "My slippers / exhale lamé," "Dayley Island" bears the traces of what would become, to me, a Seidel hallmark: a certain brand of knowing, luxurious weariness. The poem also makes elegant use of one of my all-time favorite verbs, the arrantly unpoetic "winterize."
But what's it about, you ask? Well, far be it for me to say. But a brief round of Googling did reveal this amusingly compact summary, from a 1963 edition of The Virginia Quarterly Review: "In 'Dayley Island' the slaughter of rabbits on a Maine coastal island becomes associated in the mind of an aging refugee woman psychiatrist with the extermination of her family by Nazi hands." Sounds like something to add to your Netflix queue. The VQR also notes, approvingly, that "some readers may feel … their decorum outraged" by Seidel's poems.
Gulls spiral high above
The porch tiles and my gulf-green,
Cliff-hanging lawn, with their
Out-of-breath wail, as
Dawn catches the silver ball
Set in the dried up bird bath
To scare the gulls. My slippers
Exhale lamé.
I was egged on by old age—
To sell that house,
Winterize this house,
Give up my practice…
Read the whole poem here, and buy your ticket to the Revel here.
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Eugenides on Moshfegh
By Jeffrey Eugenides
Every year, at our Spring Revel, we give three honors: the Hadada Prize, the Plimpton Prize, and the Terry Southern Prize. This year, Jeffrey Eugenides presented the Plimpton Prize to Ottessa Moshfegh.
The Plimpton Prize for Fiction is a $10,000 prize awarded to an author who made his or her debut in our pages in the previous year. Moshfegh had two stories in the Review: "Disgust" (issue 202) and "Bettering Myself" (issue 204).
Nothing is harder for a writer than getting published for the first time. The road from the bypass to the byline is paved with misery. In fact, it's not even paved—that's the problem: you're stuck knee-deep in a bog, and no one cares if you ever get out.
Of equal difficulty, on the other side of the equation, is the task of finding an unknown writer. Reading through the slush pile is like looking for tigers in the jungle: they're camouflaged not only by their stripes but their surroundings. An editor has to be unflaggingly alert and discerning, alive to any perceptible movement in the shadows. Read More
Hodgman on Daniels
By John Hodgman
Every year, at our Spring Revel, we give three honors: the Hadada Prize, the Plimpton Prize, and the Terry Southern Prize. This year, John Hodgman of the New York Times Magazine, the Daily Show, and those Mac ads presented the Southern Prize to J. D. Daniels.
Like the other two honors, the Southern Prize is chosen by our board. Unlike those, it recognizes writing in both The Paris Review and The Paris Review Daily. Click here to see Daniels's latest piece from the magazine and here for his Web archive.
My name is John Hodgman. It's my pleasure tonight to hand over this B-52 model airplane, which represents the Terry Southern Prize, awarded each year along with $5,000 to honor work from The Paris Review that embodies the qualities of humor, wit, and sprezzatura, which sounds like a word Lorin Stein made up and put into the Wikipedia to describe himself—an artful nonchalant, carrying himself with a a cared-for carelessness.
I've read J. D. Daniels's letters from Majorca and Kentucky and I agree that they also seem effortless, which makes me furious, as they are often achingly well written.
They're dispatches, and they feel that way, dashed off travelogues from corners of globe and memory, full of crafty rambling and quick jumps from his current home in the fancy eastern edge of Massachusetts to his first home in Kentucky, where J. D. counts out the strip malls and storefront churches and ghosts of bars lovingly like animals climbing aboard a blighted ark, to the vomit-slicked deck of an actual boat at sea, a pilgrimage he takes to leave both homes behind to fight it out while he watches Ibiza burn up in a wildfire.
And it may seem that in all this sprezzatura that his work is a little nonchalant; you don't know what all these little flash narratives add up to, but then you'll get one moment: a memory, say, of Daniels being strangled by his own father, whom he still loves, and the running from and returning to that moment, which he's done ever since; you see a narrative flash like lightning, spreading quick blue light for a moment over the whole shadowy, tortured territory.
It doesn't sound very funny, and it's not very funny. Unless you count the part where J. D. Daniels gets strangled by his own father, which is hilarious; we know this from The Simpsons. And if you're wondering why he's getting the Terry Southern Prize for Humor it is because, like Southern, his work is sly, and wicked, and playful, and, most of all, it's true.
People ask me why is the Daily Show funny and I usually say it's because of the jokes. Because explaining humor is neither funny, fun, nor possible. But some jokes always work because they break taboos. That's why dirty jokes work, as Albert Brooks discovered opening for Richie Havens; there's one word you can say into a microphone that will always win over one thousand drunk Texan Richie Havens fans who hate you, and that word is a miracle word, and that word is shit. But when it comes to the Daily Show, and J. D. Daniels too, the greatest taboo-breaking is simply to say what is true, plainly, and without apology. That joke always works, even when it's no joke. J. D. Daniels's letters know intimately that space between the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves when we're sitting on a bar, and the queasy, daylit truth that awaits us once we are kicked outside into the afternoon sun.
In a recent posting to The Paris Review Daily he wrote, "We know what comedy is: life is increased. Think of Rodney Dangerfield addressing the crowd at the end of Caddyshack: 'Hey, everybody, we're all gonna get laid!'" [Dirty joke.] And we know what tragedy is: isolation increases. I used to think that life was about winning everything, Mike Tyson once said, but now I know that life is about losing everything."
So J. D. Daniels is a plain good writer, but not like every good writer, he is clear, he is also a very funny guy. And when he doesn't make you laugh, it's on purpose, and when he does, that's on purpose, too. What better definition of humor is there?
So it's my pleasure to offer the Terry Southern Prize to J. D. Daniels of Kentucky, Massachusetts, and the world. Congratulations, to him and to us all.
We're all going to get laid.


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SYNONYM

#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
N. Amer. Fl. (New York) 9(6): 389 (1916)

#### Original name
Hygrophorus peckianus Howe, 1874

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