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Posted on September 15, 2014 January 28, 2016 by Kate Kearns	Posted in Poet's PlaygroundTagged a progression, academic, formal poetry, martha rhodes, mother quiet, poem, poetic analysis, poetry, poetry writing, repetition, writing, writing poetry
Martha Rhodes opens her book, Mother Quiet, with "A Progression," a poem in an unofficial form based on repetition and line content. Rhodes pulls off a wide array of images and emotions while using very sparse language. She manages to give the reader a very specific and surreal sense of the household without any sentimentality. Within the same poem, Rhodes both establishes and strays from the form:
I am wearing the last of the sheep.
Winter at the table devouring.
Father torpedoed by hail.
Mother forgetting his name.
I am wearing a necklace of caskets.
April at the table, my birthday.
Father napping, his wallet clutched.
The tip of mother's nose, white frosting.
I wear a perennial garden.
July at the table perishes. Mother
wants to know who's that Southerner
over there, or is it a lion laughing?
I'm wearing their house around me.
September and the boiler full-blasting.
Father with an axe in the back yard,
Mother in the hallway, maybe.
In each quatrain, the first line begins with a reference to the speaker wearing something. The second line contains a season or month, a reference to the time of year. With the exception of the fourth stanza, all of the second lines also contain the words "at the table." In all but the third stanza, the third line refers to the father, the fourth to the mother.
The progression indicated in the title is achieved not only by the changing seasons and movement and disruption of the family, but through the form as well. The second stanza opens with a line very similar in structure and opening to that of the first stanza. This has the effect of inserting the meaning in the first line of the first stanza into the first line of the second stanza. The violence of the wolf image is a shadow behind the caskets around the neck. In both cases, the speaker is physically bearing the brunt of the deaths. If you read through all of the first lines, they read "I am wearing the last of the sheep. I am wearing a necklace of caskets. I wear a perennial garden. I'm wearing their house around me." This seems to trace the shifting role of the speaker through the ordeal. The third sentence "I wear a perennial garden," because it has followed the wolf and the caskets, does not make the reader think only of flowers, but also has two morbid images layered above it. The word perennial, as well, enhances the two lines that have preceded it, suggesting repetitive death and rebirth. The final opening line, "I'm wearing their house around me," by the time it comes, is heavy with connotations. The house has been weighed down with violence and mortality. The choice of the word "their" house as opposed to "our" house also inserts a suggestion of distance into the speaker's feelings. This distance is enhanced by the removal of "at the table" from the second line of the fourth stanza.
The second lines of each stanza carry their own progression. They read, in order, "Winter at the table devouring. April at the table, my birthday. July at the table perishes. Mother …. September and the boiler full-blasting." From Winter to September, approximately a year goes by. Devouring to a birth to a perishing, it zooms out to move through a lifetime in a household. The absence of the table in the final line shows a break or shift in the domestic rituals. The center is removed. The pattern Rhodes establishes enhances our understanding of the poem as a whole.
The breaks from the pattern hold their own weight. By the time we arrive at the third and fourth stanza, the pattern has been established so that when the reader comes to the Southerner/lion, its placement associates him with the Father. Because in the first stanza the Mother forgets his name, her asking who he is notes the progression of her illness or mental breakdown. The reader literally sees his name disappear in the line. Another shift in the third stanza brings Mother up to the second line. It is the placement of her figure beside the word "perishes" that holds the impact of this shift.
"A Progression" is followed in Mother Quiet by poems that provide focused glimpses on the family as the mother's condition gets worse. Before knowing any of this, going on this poem alone, the reader is left with an understanding that two parents and a child are suffering an ordeal together, centered around the mother's illness. Because her memory loss is the only symptom we are given, we can assume something like Alzheimer's. The two final lines, following the deletion of the table, show the father outside of the house, and the mother's position followed by a "maybe." She has become ephemeral by the conclusion.
Rhodes' poem is a masterful example of subtlety. Without going into explication, balanced by concrete images that are each loaded with meaning, the Rhodes writes a poem that is linguistically minimal but enormously meaningful. She uses a word like casket as a piece of jewelry worn around the neck – a shocking and jarring image that loads the images before and after it in the pattern with its weight. Through the structure of repetition she establishes, she avoids sentimentality and melodrama by distributing the weight of the images onto each other to work in layers. Instead of telling the reader that a year or a lifetime is passing, she repeats in the second line a month or a season. The images do the work of informing the reader. As a writer, I feel I have learned from this poem. I strive for subtlety and sometimes struggle with how much information to give, how much to withhold. Rhodes' poem, through the pattern she establishes and the order in which she places images in that pattern, shows that it's not what you give and what you withhold, but how to let the images play off of each other in structure.
Seamless Personification in a poem by Dan Chiasson


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Here are a few guidelines about battery chargers, before you charge out and buy one!
As usual, you generally get what you pay for. Buy cheap, buy twice is the phrase that comes to mind when it comes to car battery chargers. 'Cheap' can mean cheap-and-nasty!
I know some electric car enthusiasts who did their own conversions on a shoestring budget. Being penniless students, (ah!) by the time they got to buying battery chargers they were broke and opted for the cheapest option, only to regret it later. In fact, those cheap gizmos cost the boys more in time and frustration than they saved in money. They have since upgraded to better chargers.
Surprise, surprise, the basic one is the cheap one! It does what its name implies---it charges car batteries---but in a way that is extremely inconvenient for you and possibly damaging to your batteries.
Electric car batteries are both expensive and somewhat delicate. They like to be treated with care, especially when recharging. They like you to go full steam ahead at first, then slow things down a bit as they fill up. They do not like to get too hot! And they do not like to be overcharged.
A basic car battery charger will allow you to plug your household electricity supply into your car battery. To get a tad technical, car batteries like the voltage to be between 14.2volts and 15 volts, until they are 80% charged up (the absorption phase).
Then, because they are temperamental creatures, they like you to turn the current down to less than 13.8 volts, until they are fully charged (the float phase).
They also like you to plug them out when they are full and not leave them to overcharge, which can shorten their lifespan.
I'm afraid a basic car battery charger cannot make any of these alterations, so you need to be on hand to do it, at each critical moment.
Now this means you cannot actually plug your car in and let it charge overnight while you sleep. It means you shouldn't plug your car in to recharge and then go watch a movie on TV. What if the movie is actually good and you get carried away and forget about your cool electric car, being over-charged?
Not so cool, because the batteries will overheat if you forget to turn down the voltage, or switch off the charger at the critical time.
Overheating and gassing will do permanent damage to your Very Expensive Batteries! If this happens, you will have to fork out another few thousand to replace them.
If you are somebody who has ever forgotten to take something out of the oven, do not buy one of these battery chargers!
If you need peace of mind, do not buy one. If you need to be able to recharge while you are sleeping, don't buy one. Yep, I don't like them! Life's too short for the hassle!
Naturally, all this convenience costs----but you save in terms of damage limitation, and your time.
There are two types of smart battery chargers. One is sensitive to the amount of heat being produced in the charging process and regulates itself accordingly.
The more expensive type works through electronic voltage feedback to alter currents and switch itself off. This is more precise than the heat-sensor car battery chargers.


This weekend I decided to take advantage of the Windows Phone Preview Program for Developers and update my Lumia 920 to Update 3 for WP8. While Update 3 was downloading and installing on my phone, I decided to install the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 which includes Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone on a Win 8.1 VM that I use for development purposes.
Installation was quick and painless until the very end when I received a message stating that the installation was unable to enable Hyper-V. When I tried to enable it manually by going into Control Panel -> Programs & Features -> Turn Windows Features On or Off, the Hyper-V Platform checkbox was grayed out. Upon hovering over the check box I received a tool tip stating "Hyper-V cannot be installed: A Hypervisor is Already Running".
After doing both of these I started the VM and intended to go back in and turn on Hyper-V, however, when I got back to the settings I was happy to see that "Hyper-V Platform" was already enabled.
With Hyper-V successfully enabled and running I was then able to run VS Express for Windows Phone along with the Windows Phone Emulator.
By the time I was finished with this, Update 3 had successfully installed on my phone and I was ready to go. Now, not only do I not have to wait for AT&T to release updates, but I can start developing apps for my phone as well. Now I just need to find the spare time and start developing!
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Back To The Aula – With Next Synod Text, "Question Time" Returns
Even as the embers – and, in some quarters, tempers – are still smoldering from the Pope's first round of a retooled and more responsive Synodal process, nine months since the Amoris Wars began their ongoing tear at the conversational extremes, Francis has nonetheless seen fit to re-drop one of his favorite words: "Avanti" – that is, "Forward."
Its topic announced last fall, earlier today saw the release of the baseline text for the next Synod, slated for October 2018 on the theme of "Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment." In a change from its predecessors, however, today's release is not referred to as a Lineamenta, but simply a "Preparatory Document" fulfilling the same function. Yet again, as the Synod chief Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri confirmed at the text's release this morning, the input sent to Rome from across the global church on this text will be processed and summarized to form the Instrumentum Laboris – the "working paper" which forms the springboard of the Synod's discussions.
As with the launch of the three-year process on the family culminating in last April's Apostolic Exhortation, this first document is anchored by a questionnaire, albeit one far more streamlined than the 2013 opening queries which began the prior Synodal cycle. And in another change from the last round, ostensibly given the flood of responses received in many local churches – which created massive logjams both for the respective episcopal conferences and the Vatican's beefed-up Synod Secretariat – there's a considerably more ample window of time for these questions to be discerned and processed both in the trenches and as the reports wend their way "upward."
In a separate letter released today with the Preparatory Document, the Pope aimed to directly address the youth and young adults of the global church, saying that he wants them "to be the center of attention" for the entire process "because you are in my heart."
Entrusting the Prep Doc to the young as the "compass" for the discussion to come, Francis told them that "a better world can be built also as a result of your efforts, your desire to change and your generosity.
"Do not be afraid to listen to the Spirit who proposes bold choices; do not delay when your conscience asks you to take risks in following the Master.
"The church also wishes to listen to your voice, your sensitivities and your faith; even your doubts and your criticism. Make your voice heard, let it resonate in communities and let it be heard by your shepherds of souls."
Toward that end, while the full English text of the Prep Doc may be found here (Ed.: 27-page pdf), below is the slimmed-down question piece at its close. In each case, entities in the local churches which seek to add their voices are to do so to their respective diocese, which is charged with coordinating the first stage of the consultation.
The aim of the questions is to assist the customary ecclesial bodies "by right" to express their understanding of the world of young people and assess their experience of vocational accompaniment, in order to gather information for drafting the work- document or Instrumentum laboris.
So as to take into account the various situations on the different continents and regions, three specific questions for each geographic area have been inserted after question 15, to generate response from the interested ecclesial bodies.
To facilitate and make tenable this work, the respective bodies are requested to limit their response to approximately one page for the question on statistics, one page each for the questions assessing the situation and one page for the three experiences for the continents and regions. If necessary or desired, other texts can be attached to support or supplement the contents of the responses.
1 Gathering Statistics
Please indicate, where possible, the source of the statistics and make reference to the year. Other pertinent information can be attached to better understand the situation in various countries.
- Number of inhabitants in the country / countries and the birth rate.
- Number and percentage of young people (ages 16-29) in the country / countries.
- Number and percentage of Catholics in the country / countries.
- Average age (for the last 5 years) for marrying (distinguishing between men and women), for entering the seminary and the consecrated life (distinguishing between men and women).
- In the 16-29 age group, the percentage of students, workers (if possible specify the type of work), unemployed, NEET.
2. Evaluating the Situation
a) Young People, the Church and Society
These questions refer both to young people who take part in Church programmes, as well as those who do not take part or have no interest to participate.
1. In what manner does the Church listen to the lived situations of young people?
2. What are the main challenges and most significant opportunities for young people in your country / countries today?
3. What kinds and places of group gatherings of youth, institutionalized or otherwise, have a major success within the Church, and why?
4. What kinds and places of group gatherings of youth, institutionalized or otherwise, have a major success outside the Church, and why?
5. What do young people really ask of the Church in your country / countries today?
6. What possibilities for participation exist in your country / countries for young people to take part in the life of the ecclesial community?
7. How and in what manner is contact made with young people who do not frequent Church surroundings?
b) Pastoral Vocational Programmes for Young People
8. How are families and communities involved in the vocational discernment of young people?
9. How do schools and universities or other educational institutions (civil or ecclesial) contribute to young people's formation in vocational discernment?
10. In what manner are you taking into account the cultural changes resulting from the development of the digital world?
11. How can World Youth Days or other national or international events become a part of ordinary pastoral practice?
12. In what manner is your diocese planning experiences for the pastoral vocational programme for young people?
c) Pastoral Care Workers with Young People
13. How much time and in what manner do clergy and other formators provide for personal spiritual guidance?
14. What initiatives and opportunities for formation are in place for those who provide pastoral vocational guidance?
15. What personal guidance is offered in seminaries?
d) Specific Questions According to Geographic Areas
a. What plans and structures in pastoral vocational care for young people best respond to the needs of your continent?
b. What does "spiritual fatherhood" mean in places where a person grows without a father figure? What formation is offered?
c. How do you communicate to young people that they are needed to build the future of the Church?
a. How does your community care for young people who experience extreme violence (guerrilla warfare, gangs, prison, drug addiction, forced marriages) and accompany them in various ways in their life?
b. What formation is offered to support the engagement of young people in society and civil life, for the common good?
c. In a world which is greatly secularized, what pastoral activities are most effective for continuing the journey of faith after the Sacraments of Christian Initiation?
a. Why and how do religious gatherings by those who are non-Catholic exercise an attraction on young people?
b. In what way can the values of a local culture be combined with Christian teaching, while also giving importance to popular piety?
c. How is the language used in a young people's world incorporated in the pastoral care of young people, especially in the media, sports and music?
a. What assistance is offered to young people to look to the future with confidence and hope, beginning with the richness of Christian roots of Europe?
b. Young people often feel sidelined and excluded in the political, economic and social surroundings in which they live. In what way do you take into consideration the feeling to protest so that it can be transformed into participation and collaboration?
c. At what levels do relations between generations still work? If they do not function, how can they be renewed?
3. Sharing Activities
1. List the main types of pastoral activity in accompaniment and vocational discernment in your present situation.
2. Choose three activities you consider the most interesting and relevant to share with the universal Church, and present it according to the following format (no more than one page for each experience).
a) Description: In a few sentences, roughly describe the activity. Who are the leading characters? How does the activity take place? Where? Etc.
b) Analysis: Evaluate the activity, even in layman's terms, for a better understanding of the important elements: what are the goals? What is the theoretical basis? What are the most interesting insights? How have they developed? Etc.
c) Evaluation: What are the goals? If not achieved, why? Strengths and weaknesses? What are the consequences on the social, cultural and ecclesial levels? Why and in what way is the activity important / formative? etc.
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A former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet, he's been a church analyst for The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NBC, CNN and NPR among other mainstream print and broadcast outlets worldwide.
A native of Philadelphia, Rocco Palmo attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In 2010, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis.
In 2011, Palmo co-chaired the first Vatican conference on social media, convened by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications. By appointment of Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Cap., he's likewise served on the first-ever Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese, whose Church remains his home.
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A mix of action and point and click adventure. Click items to solve puzzles & even outrun a tractor.
Run and jump over gaps in this platformer. Take out bad eggs before they touch you.
Change between 3 different robots, that each have abilities to accomplish the goals of each level.
Grab stars as you shoot the enemies that spawn. Keep moving forward in this platform shooter.
Jump over gaps, & use your 2 characters to help each other out by pushing boxes & reaching the exit.
Grab the keys and jump over enemies, as you flip levers to exit the level.
Make it through each level by switching the gravity back and forth rapidly to reach new platforms.
Control the timeline when different colored bricks light up, so you can walk on them to finish.
A 25MB game that feels like Metroid. Shoot enemies & unlock new weapons.


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Дубровское сельское поселение — муниципальное образование в Шолоховском районе Ростовской области.

Административный центр поселения — хутор Дубровский.

Административное устройство
В состав Дубровского сельского поселения входят:
 хутор Дубровский;
 хутор Антиповский;
 хутор Зубковский;
 хутор Щебуняевский.

Население

Примечания

См. также
 Административное деление Ростовской области
 Населённые пункты Ростовской области

Сельские поселения Ростовской области
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The first scientific thinking took place 2500 years ago, in ancient Greece.
Mathematics had developed in Babylon at an earlier time and also in Egypt. Records show detailed astronomical recording in Babylon. The great pyramids of Giza were constructed to remarkable mathematical precision. But there no evidence of investigation into the fundamental laws of physics and how the universe functions.
Miletus is the place of the dawn of scientific thinking. It is situated on the west coast of the Kingdom of Lydia, now in Turkey.
In the 7th century BC Miletus was part of the Persian Empire.
"We should know more than our parents".
The most famous pupil of Thales was Anaximander (610–546 BC). He is considered to be the first scientist. He developed the hypothesis of the "apeiron" (ἄπειρον), the primal substance of which everything is formed.
Anaximander thought that the wide variety of substances found in the world must be understood in terms of a single, unitary and simple constituent, which he called the apeiron, the indistinct.
He also suggested that: "The Earth floats in the sky" and that:"The sky continues beneath the Earth".
Furthermore he proposed that rainwater comes from the evaporation of water from the surface of the Earth. This was a major step forward in understanding the way in which the Earth functions.
He made further suggestions about evolution, recognising that animals and plants evolve and adapt to changes in the environment, and that man must have evolved from other animals. Darwen and Wallace were the next to suggest this, but even now, although evolution is generally accepted, the process leading to humankind is not clear.
Anaximander also proposed the concept of "panspermia", that life might initially have arrived on Earth from "the heavens", what today we would call outer space. The idea was presented in the late 20th century by Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr Chandra Wickramasinghe.
The place of Miletus within the Persian Empire made it vulnerable. The years 499–493BC saw the Ionian revolt against Persian rule, the start of the Greco-Persian wars. In revenge, Miletus was destroyed by the Persians.
The Taking of Miletus is a tragedy written by Phrynincus, and it was performed regularly in Athens in the years following the event.
There was an exodus of the "thinkers" from Miletus to Abdera, on the Aegean coast of Thrace.
One of the exiles was Leucippus, who was born in Miletus in the 5th century and died in Abdera. On his arrival in Abdera, Leucippus founded a scientific and philosophical school, and he wrote The Great Cosmology.
The most important disciple of Leucippus was Democritus (460–370 BC).
Democritus was born in Abdera. He is regarded as the father of modern science. He apparently wrote many books, all of which have been lost. His ideas predated those of the Enlightenment of the 18th century by more than two thousand years.
His most important thought was this: if you were to divide a piece of matter an infinite number of times, what would be left? The logical answer is "nothing", but as pointed out by Democritus, this cannot be. If you start off with something, you must finish up with something, not nothing. Therefore there must be a point at which matter cannot be further divided.
There is a limit to infinity – there is a finite number of divisions, but a very big number.
This led to the concept of the "atom". "a-" implies a negative, and "tomos" means "cut, slice, divide". So "atom" meant "cannot be divided, indivisible".
(Tomos bread is sliced bread; tomography, as in CT scan, means digital slicing of the body; tomos, Thomas, indicates twins, divided baby).
"Just as by combining the letters of the alphabet in different ways we may obtain comedies or tragedies, ridiculous stories or epic poems, so elementary atoms combine to produce the world in its endless variety".
This is a remarkable vision of the nature of substances and their atomic structure.
The next remarkable contribution of Democritus was reported by Leucretius. It was based on the rule that "Nothing moves unless pulled or pushed". Otherwise things remain stationary.
Democritus observed the nature of a sunbeam shining into a deserted and windless room. Within the sunbeam he observed vast numbers of dust particles and puzzled as to why they were in constant movement.
Democritus thus suggests that the dust particles move perpetually because of impact by the atoms of the air.
The same process can be observed form the "spontaneous" movement of pollen grains on the surface of water. The next person to suggest that this is the result of collisions by atoms was Albert Einstein, 2500 years later. Einstein used his observations to calculate the size of atoms.
Socrates (470/469–399 BC) was rather more utilitarian. Most of his thoughts were reported by Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 438/437 BC).
Zeno was an important philosopher, but little is known about him. He lived in Elea, a town of Greater Greece (Magna Graecia ), now Viela in the Cilento region of southern Italy.
Zeno is famous for "Zeno's Paradox".
It is similar to the assertion of Democritus concerning the absurdity of the infinite divisibility of matter, and that there must be a finite but very small ultimate and indivisible "atom".
Zeno took the same approach to length and distance: could there be a length that is infinitely small? To discuss this he used the analogy of a race between Achilles and a tortoise. The tortoise was given a 10 metre starting advantage, and the challenge was for Achilles to catch up with the tortoise. The logical argument is that Achilles would never catch up.
The logic went like this: by the time that Achilles covered the ten metres to where the tortoise started, the tortoise would have moved forward a few centimetres. By the time that Achilles have caught up these few centimetres, the tortoise would have moved forward a few more centimetres. By the time that Achilles have caught up these very few centimetres, the tortoise would have moved forward a very few more centimetres. And so it goes on ad infinitum.
Achilles would therefore, by logical thought, never catch up with the tortoise, but Zeno recognised the absurdity of this and felt that an infinitely small distance cannot exist, it would no distance. Multiple divisions of length cannot result in no distance. There must be a finite minimum distance.
It was more than 2,000 years later that Max Planck calculated the shortest distance possible, the Planck Length (also known as the Bronšten Length). It is approximately one millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimetre, 10-33 centimetres. It is very small but finite, a measure of the quantum granularity of space time.
Epicurus (341–270 BC) was a pupil of Democritus. His assertion was "Knowledge in place of ancient myths and religion". This continues objectivity through careful observation.
Lucretius (99–55 BC) was an influential follower of Epicurus.
Lucretius wrote a manuscript De Rera Natura (On the Nature of Things) for the benefit of the Romans, to whom he hoped to bring Epicurean enlightenment.
Time is only relative. Without movement there is no time. This also predated Einstein, who re-introduced the assertion that there is no absolute time. It is fundamental to his Special Theory of Relativity.
But the assertion of Lucretius that "religion is ignorance" brought him no friends in Rome, and his attempt to bring enlightenment to the Romans was a failure. After the Christianisation of the Roman Empire things became worse. Even as late as the time of the Renaissance the Roman Catholic Church attempted to suppress the words of Lucretius. In the Florentine Synod of December 1516 it prohibited the reading of Lucretius in schools, and in 1551, the Council of Trent banned his work.
Lucretius' manuscript De Rera Natura was lost, but was re-discovered by Poggio Bracciolini in the Benedictine Abbey of Fulda in 1417. An account of the discovery can be found in the fascinating book "The Swerve - how the Renaissance began", by Stephen Greenblatt.
Pythagoras (570–495 BC), like Epicurus was born on the island of Samos. His contribution was in the field of mathematics, at that time not obviously related to atomic physics. However now we know the connection between the two: the famous equations of Maxwell and Einstein laid the foundations of 20th century and present day physics.
We now appreciate that the intuition of Pythagoras was correct: mathematics allows the world to be described and the future to be predicted (for example the occurrence of an eclipse of the sun).
The understanding of atomic physics by the thinkers in Ancient Greece was truly remarkable. They envisaged the atomic structure of matter, the concept of a minimum length or distance, that time is not a constant in the universe, and that laws of physics have a mathematical basis.
Much of their understanding has probably been lost in the destruction of their written records.
Indeed Greece is one of the ancient country for atomic physics.So many famous physicians belong to Greece. I have read about this ancient Greece atomic physics in my secondary book.


The sheer walls of Romsdalshornet (left) and Trolltindan (right) both rise 1500m (5000 ft.) from the Romsdalen valley. Visible here as the long shadow on Trolltindan is the Trollveggen, the tallest vertical mountain wall in Europe. Photo © copyright by Jack Brauer.


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Promote agent vendor passthru to core API
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1570841

This spec suggests making the current agent vendor passthru API (lookup and
heartbeat) first class API endpoints and deprecate the agent vendor passthru
interface.

Problem description
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The vendor passthru was designed for vendors to place their specific features
before they get wider adoption in Ironic and get promoted to the core API.

However, when IPA is used (which is the only ramdisk available in-tree), these
two API endpoints play the critical role in both deployment and cleaning
processes. Thus every IPA-based driver must mix agent vendor passthru into
its vendor passthru.

There was a bug in the drac driver when it was not done, and the driver
did not work with IPA.

This proposal also tries to reduce the amount of data sent to and from
unauthenticated endpoints. The current vendor passthru API accepts the whole
inventory and returns the whole node record, including IPMI credentials.

Proposed change
===============

* Create new API endpoints for lookup and heartbeat - see `REST API impact`_
  for details.

* Extend the deploy interface with a heartbeat method - see
  `Driver API impact`_ for details.

Alternatives
------------

* Continue doing what we do now.

* Make the lookup call driver-dependent (as the passthru used to be).

  This looks like unnecessary complication (e.g. we have to pass a driver to
  IPA from the conductor nowadays).

* We could use this change to move the unauthenticated endpoints away from the
  main API completely. This could be done by introducing a new API service,
  say ``ironic-agent-api``, serving only these two endpoints. Then we will
  recommend operators to make this service only listen on the provisioning
  network, but not on the network accessible to users.

  Arguably the same result can be achieved by configuring a WSGI container
  (Apache mod_wsgi or similar), so it might not be worth complication.

Data model impact
-----------------

None

State Machine Impact
--------------------

None

REST API impact
---------------

Two new endpoints are added. Both endpoints are **NOT** authenticated.

* ``GET /v1/lookup?addresses=MAC1,MAC2&node_uuid=UUID``

  Look up node details for further use in the ramdisk.

  No body; at least one of the following URL parameters must be present:

  * ``addresses`` comma-separated list of hardware addresses (e.g. MAC) from
    the node for lookup;

  * ``node_uuid`` node UUID, if known (e.g. by inspection).

  If ``node_uuid`` is present, ``addresses`` are ignored.

  By default only return a node if it's in one of transient states:
  ``deploying``, ``deploy wait``, ``cleaning``, ``clean wait``,
  ``inspecting``, ``inspect wait``. Deployers who need lookup to always work
  will be able to set a new option ``[api]restrict_lookup`` to ``False``.

  .. note::
     In theory, we don't need ``-ing`` states here either. But when we reboot
     during cleaning, we don't currently reset the state to ``clean wait``.
     The other ``-ing`` states are supported in case 3rd party drivers have
     similar restrictions.

  Response: HTTP 200 with JSON body containing keys:

  * ``config`` dictionary for passing configuration options from conductor
    to the ramdisk. For the IPA ramdisk only one is currently used:

    * ``heartbeat_timeout`` timeout (in seconds) between heart beats from
      the ramdisk, expected by Ironic.

  * ``node`` partial node representation as a JSON object, with the following
    fields sent:

    * ``properties`` for root device hints,
    * ``instance_info`` for disk sizing details,
    * ``uuid`` node UUID,
    * ``driver_internal_info`` for passing other runtime information.

    More fields can be exposed with time with an appropriate API version bump.

  Error codes:

  * 400 - bad request,

  * 404 - a node was not found.

* ``POST /v1/heartbeat/<UUID>``

  Record a heartbeat message from the ramdisk.

  Body is a JSON with fields:

  * ``callback_url`` - the IPA URL to call back. Note that for potential
    non-IPA-based drivers it might have a different meaning (e.g. if we agree
    on the ansible driver, this can be an SSH "URL" for it).

  Response: HTTP 202 with no body.

  Error codes:

  * 400 - bad request,

  * 404 - a node was not found,

  * 409 - node is locked (should be retried by the ramdisk).

A new API version will be introduced to cover both endpoints.

Client (CLI) impact
-------------------

Both endpoints will be exposed in the Python API for the ironic client as::

    ironic.node.lookup(addresses, node_uuid=None)
    ironic.node.heartbeat(node_uuid, callback_url)

However, as they are not intended for end users, they will not be exposed in
both CLI.

"ironic" CLI
~~~~~~~~~~~~

None

"openstack baremetal" CLI
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

None

RPC API impact
--------------

A new RPC call is created to connect the heart beat API endpoint and
the new deploy driver method: ``heartbeat`` (async).

Driver API impact
-----------------

A new method is added to the deploy driver interface:

::

    def heartbeat(self, task, callback_url):
        """Record a heart beat for the node.

        :param task: a task manager task
        :param callback_url: a URL to use to call to the ramdisk
        :return: None
        """
        LOG.warning('Got hearbeat message from node %(node)s, but the driver '
                    '%(driver)s does not support heartbeating',
                    {'node': task.node.uuid, 'driver': task.node.driver})

The heartbeat method from ``BaseAgentVendor`` will be refactored to a separate
mix-in class for reusing in both ``AgentDeploy`` and ``BaseAgentVendor``.

The new method will not be abstract to allow drivers that use a different
approach (e.g. which do not have a ramdisk at all). The default implementation
will do nothing to account for deploy drivers which do not need heart beats.

The new method will receive a shared node lock. It is up to the implementation
to upgrade the lock to exclusive, if required.

Nova driver impact
------------------

None

Ramdisk impact
--------------

None

Security impact
---------------

* This change will expose unauthenticated API to lookup a node by its MAC
  addresses. It does not have any impact on most deployments, as both in-tree
  deploy methods (iscsi and http) already expose such API.

* After the complete switch to the new API endpoints is finished, it will no
  longer be possible to fetch the whole node knowing its MAC address without
  authentication. Only limited fields will be available. Notably, the power
  credentials are not sent in the new API endpoints.

* We should clearly note that any deploy implementation should treat the
  incoming data in the new ``heartbeat`` call with care. Particularly, no
  sensitive information should be ever sent to the endpoint designated by the
  ``callback_url`` parameter.

Other end user impact
---------------------

None

Scalability impact
------------------

None

Performance Impact
------------------

* Unlike the old lookup passthru, the new lookup endpoint will not use RPC,
  lowering load on the message queue and the conductor.

Other deployer impact
---------------------

* An update of the IPA image will be recommended to make it use the new API.

* New option ``restrict_lookup`` in the ``api`` section (boolean, defaults to
  ``True``) - whether to restrict the new lookup API to only certain states in
  which lookup is expected.

Developer impact
----------------

3rd party driver developers should stop using the ``BaseAgentVendor`` class
in their drivers and just use the ``AgentDeploy`` class.

3rd party drivers should document whether they require the ``restrict_lookup``
option to be ``False`` for correct functioning.

Implementation
==============

Assignee(s)
-----------

* Dmitry Tantsur (lp: divius, irc: dtanstur)
* Jim Rollenhagen (irc: jroll)

Work Items
----------

* Create new deploy interface methods

* Implement them in the AgentDeploy

* Create new RPC calls and API endpoints

* Switch IPA to use the new endpoints, and fall back to old ones on failure

Dependencies
============

None

Testing
=======

Testing will be conducted as part of the current gate tests.

Upgrades and Backwards Compatibility
====================================

Full backward compatibility will be guaranteed independent of upgrade order
between IPA and ironic itself.

The ``BaseAgentVendor`` class will be deprecated, but stay for some time,
following the usual deprecation policy. Old IPA images will be able to run by
using the old passthru API.

The new IPA image will try to hit the new endpoints first, and will fall back
to the old ones on getting HTTP 406 Not Acceptable (meaning, the API version
is not supported).

Documentation Impact
====================

* Document how to implement new deploy drivers with the new heartbeat method.

* Document the potential security issues with both endpoints.

References
==========

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Grand Teton National Park is one of the many wonders located in the United States but also one of the most underrated. I got the opportunity to visit this beaut in the summer of 2017, but wanted to highlight it here to encourage all of my followers to book a trip here. It's well-known counterpart, Yellowstone National Park, typically overshadows the "Tetons", making Tetons more desirable due to its comparably less crowded/touristy hotspot with just as much beauty.
Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone are geographically close, which allows you to visit both sites in one fell swoop. You will have to rent a car regardless, so you may as well make the most of it!
As you can see in the above map, you can fly into Jackson, Wyoming. This is about 20-30 minutes outside of Grand Teton Village, which is where I recommend staying. This is a small village with markets, public events, nightlife, restaurants, souvenir shops, hikes, excursions, and more. It is fun for family trips and friend trips alike. You can buy daily or weekend/weekly passes for the gondola and tram. There is also a free gondola for mountain bikers, but my friend and I just rode it up and down several times without getting off.
Hike in Grand Teton Village (or take the gondola). During the summer, the skiing trails become hiking trails. The specific trail we hiked is called "Wildflower Trail" because it features a beautiful panorama of wildflowers. There is a restaurant located at the peak which overlooks fields of hot air balloons, the Teton mountain range, and Sleeping Indian Mountain range (resembles a man lying down). After hiking, you can either ride the gondola down or hike back down. Even in the summer, the peak is snow-capped. This is a 3.5-hour hike at an intermediate level.
2. Aerial tram from Grand Teton Village to Corbet's Captain then hike down Summit Trail to gondola which takes you back to Grand Teton Village. You have the option to hike the entire thing, but we wanted to spend time at the pop-up flea market, hot tub, and shops. The hike from peak to gondola took approximately 3 hours and was fairly easy due to the downhill component.
3. Visit Yellowstone National Park. Along the drive to Old Faithful (erupts every 90 minutes), there are several stunning overlooks and quaint chapels. The plague of tourists in Yellowstone made one day plenty and exhausting. Some stops I recommend along the way are Leeks Marina (great pizza and ice cream), Signal Mountain Lodge (amazing photo op), and any old chapel or boat marina on the water. It's the unexpected or accidental stops that really leave a lasting impression.
4. Visit Idaho. This is a lovely drive, including plenty of spots to try their famous square-shaped ice cream and quaint towns such as Driggs. This gives you a different, less touristy perspective on the mountain range.
5. Head into Jackson Hole Town Square for shopping, fun eats, and maybe even a trip white-water rafting down the Snake River. Don't forget a towel and dry clothes because even in the summer, it is cold. And I hate to break it to you, you're going to get wet! Million Dollar Cowboy is also a stop worth making, especially for its night-life.
6. There are also several days-worth of hikes in Grand Teton National Park. Some must-do's include Moulton Barn (stopping point), Death Canyon Trail (easy 2 mile hike), and Jenny Lake Trail (easy 7.5 mile hike). On Death Canyon Trail, there is a local rock where people go cliff jumping so of course I had to join in…despite my extreme fear of heights.
7. Ride horses, hot air balloon, or paraglide! Unfortunately, we did not have time to do these but got to watch it from afar.
All in all, if Grand Teton National Park is not on your bucket list, I hope this post changed your mind! Unfortunately, this was years before I started my blog so this post could not go as in-depth. Luckily, there are plenty of helpful people in Wyoming and free maps everywhere. When in doubt, drive around, look for buffalo, breath in the fresh air, and enjoy the sunset (and maybe even a sunrise).


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THE PRESIDENT WINS
"THE TULSA RESISTANCE OF 1921"
Featured, Poetry
Audio: Interview foreign affairs conducted by Donna Wolfe. Spring 2009
Media, Speaking
"LET THE SUPER RICH FIGHT THEIR OWN WARS"
America's ruling elite, based upon misperceptions, exaggerations, and outright lies, has accelerated a "never-ending" path of destabilization, invasion, and occupation of other countries. For the sake of global position and corporate profit. For the sake of empire, in numerous places around the world including: Venezuela, Haiti, Guantanamo, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, members of America's armed forces have been committing acts that, if committed by the armed forces of any other any other nation, would lead the US media to label them as war crimes. International bullying. We must ask ourselves the question, "Why does the United States' government accept what observer groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say about other countries, but refuse to accept what these same organizations say about the United States and how it deals with its own people and the rest of the world?" It's a matter of double standards. It's a matter of hypocrisy. It's a matter of being above the law.
This is not new behavior on the part of the United States government, ask the Native Americans. But in this era, it has all taken place within the context of the so-called war on terrorism. The centerpiece of which is the war in Iraq. The fact that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, had nothing to do with 911, and had not attempted to obtain radioactive material from Niger, has been cynically pushed aside. Somebody lied. Through the release of formerly secret British documents, we now know that each of these, well publicized, charges were premeditated lies. Lies concocted as justification for war. Somebody lied to Congress. Now the question is, "What did they know and when did they know it." Sound familiar?
Speaking of high crimes and misdemeanors. At a time when over 40 million Americans languish without health care, as thousands are being laid off, as people who are truly in need are being shoved off Medicaid, there are hundreds of billions of dollars being wasted on ill-conceived missions of conquest. There have been thousands and thousands of men, women, and children killed and wounded as the result of a civil war we started. Now there's talk of bringing back the draft. We should resist. We should look beyond the pro-war propaganda being passed off as news and seek the truth about America's foreign policy and its economic and military wars of aggression.
Most these wars are smaller in scope, what the Pentagon calls "low intensity operations". But deadly they are. The Pentagon has admitted that these operations include economic pressure, the murder of civilians, the assassination of leaders, the funding of opposition political parties, and the overthrow of elected governments. The truth will set us free. We should keep up with useful news sources such as, independent and progressive newspapers and magazines, and credible Internet news programs like Democracy Now. Democracy Now's website address is www.democracynow.org
We must challenge our leaders to look beyond the next election or contract and speak out against this unfolding "American blitzkrieg". We should encourage young men and women to think twice, no three times, before they allow their bodies, their lives, to be used as pawns in an unjust and illegal game. Increasingly, many don't need encouragement. Army recruitment numbers have dropped dramatically. As citizens, we should pray for the strength and courage to stand up and speak out against the fake patriotism that suggests our nation's status should be based upon the control and murder of those with whom we disagree. We must speak out against and vote against the fake patriotism that tries to tie itself to Christianity, even though Jesus said, "Love your enemies." not "Bomb your enemies!"
We should speak out against the fake patriotism that calls for free and fair (count all votes) national elections in every country on the globe except this one. We should speak out against the fake patriotism that wastes our hard-earned tax dollars on doomed missions that seek to solve historic cultural, economic, and political problems through military means. We should prepare to boycott the retail products of huge corporations that profit from this war madness.
The troops should be supported. The best and most patriotic way to support them is to not put them in the kinds of positions their in now. These men and women should be allowed to come home. As we organize for better lives, strive for unity, and rightly call for an end to the violence in our homes and on the streets of this nation, we must not be afraid or hesitant to criticize what, the peaceful warrior, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called, "the greatest purveyor of violence on planet earth, my own government".
Editor's Note: Lloyd Daniel is a poet, educator, and former
member of Missouri's House of Representatives. His website address is http://lloyddaniel.info
DR. KING, GLOBAL DIVERSITY AND THE PAINFUL TRUTH
"Sour Grapes"
"As the Republicans Plot to Steal Another Election"


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Is 'elderly' an offensive and discriminatory term?
Neurologist claims it is anachronistic and offensive
A University of Chicago neurologist says that the word "elderly" is as anachronistic and offensive as the words "imbecile" or "idiot" and should be not be used by doctors. Dr Javad Hekmat-panah argues in a BMJ opinion piece that "elderly" is nearly meaningless in an era when over-65s have a wide range of health conditions.
"[It] offers no useful information about any of this. In medicine it can evoke false ideas about the person being described as elderly in the listener's mind, introduce unfair social biases and generalisations, and generate ill conceived policies."
He says that doctors sometimes treat all patients over a certain age the same, regardless of their underlying state of health. And it is only the elderly who are targets for healthcare rationing schemes. "Aging is not a disease, it is a progressive biological change and there may be vast differences in the health of people who are aged 65 and over. One older patient may not be able to tolerate a medical treatment because of accumulated comorbidities, but another of the same age without comorbidities may easily do so."
He concludes by declaring that discrimination against the "elderly" violates fundamental principles of medicine and is a human rights issue:
My suggestion that we avoid the term elderly in medicine goes beyond the word itself to encompass all that it connotes: stereotypes, unwarranted impressions, and bias. This is essentially a human rights issue. Medicine is the science and art of individualised communication, evaluation, recommendation, and treatment. Each patient has the right to be treated as an individual, according to medical standards based on their specific age, general condition, and comorbidities. To label everyone above a certain age as elderly and to treat them identically defies this principle, which should be at the heart of medicine.
Michael Cook is editor of BioEdge.
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Michael Cook edits BioEdge, a bioethics newsletter, and MercatorNet, an on-line magazine whose focus is human dignity. He writes from Sydney, Australia.
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Do you ever wish your junior golfer had a way to really showcase their fundamental golf skills for the nation to see? Well, The Drive, Chip, & Putt Championship is your answer. The Drive, Chip, & Putt Championship is all about connecting, growing, and enriching young golfers, ages 7-15, with a chance to play with their peers on a national level. There is no entry fee for this amazing opportunity. The championship is done through local, sub-regional, and regional qualifiers for each assigned age and gender group. The locations and schedules for the qualifying rounds can be found here. The top 80 junior golfers from around the nation will then move on to the nationally televised championship match.
The championship match is conducted at Augusta National Golf Club the Sunday before the Masters Tournament and is shown live on The Golf Channel. This opportunity is not only a phenomenal chance for kids and teens nationwide to show the world their skills, it's also a chance to gain huge exposure and impress the nation with their abilities.
The experience that young golfers receive when competing in the Drive, Chip, & Putt Competition is unparalleled. Receiving national exposure and a chance to meet with, learn, and play with other enthusiastic golfers in a similar age-group is an amazing opportunity for your aspiring junior golfer. The life experiences that these junior golfers learn when they go through the Championship tournament are invaluable and the talent that is shaped throughout will definitely mold future superstar golfers.
If your young golf enthusiast is interested in registering for the Drive, Chip, & Putt Championship, you can follow this link to find your nearest qualifying location. Registration started January 22 and will the entries will run on until indicated by your local qualifying site.
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The squat is one of the best stationary exercises you can do as part of your workout. Done well, it helps tone up the hips, glutes, quads, hamstrings, as well as strengthening your core. What's more, squats can also help improve your balance, as it's no easy feat to remain in a squatting pose for long.
Not going all the way down is one of the mistakes most beginners make. For maximum effect, your squat should have you going as low as you can, preferably until your thighs are parallel to the floor. This will help to work the muscles in your thighs and calves, toning them up for better muscle development and increased strength. However, if you find doing a full squat difficult, go for a half squat instead, and slowly build up to doing a full one.
Many people, on trying to do a deep squat, end up compensating for going low by push-ing their knees too far forward. When squatting, move backwards and down, try to keep your knees from extending over your toes to avoid putting pressure on them.
Some people also tend to turn their knees inwards when performing a squat, which puts stress on the joints, causing damage to the ligaments. For correct posture, turn your feet slightly outwards before lowering yourself into the squat. It'll prevent injuries and help you to keep your balance too.
A little bit of arch in your lower back when squatting is fine, but take care to not overdo it. Overarching your back during a squat puts pressure on your vertebrae, and could re-sult in herniated discs and a trip to the operating room. Keep your head up, look straight ahead, and keep your back flat as you go down.
Letting their heels lift off the floor is another common mistake many people make when doing their squat reps. This shifts your entire bodyweight onto your knees, putting un-necessary pressure on them, and making for an ineffective squat. To ensure your feet stay flat, tighten your core to keep your centre of gravity strong, and move downwards and back, keeping your weight on the balls of your feet.
If you happen to injure yourself while exercising, don't panic, you probably won't need to head to the emergency room… yet. Employ the RICE method to promote recovery – this involves resting the injured area, icing it, compressing it with a bandage, and ele-vating it to encourage blood flow. If you continue to feel pain, be sure to seek profes-sional help.
Information contributed by Dr David Su, Orthopaedic Surgeon at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.


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Armory Week: Must-See Exhibitions During NYC's Largest Art Festival
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A throng of collectors, dealers, artists and art lovers from across the globe will descend upon New York for the state's largest art gathering: Armory Week. Taking place in early March, the event finds its roots in the premier art festival, The Armory Show, in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. Since it was founded in 1994, the art fair has established itself as a pivotal hub for exploring contemporary artworks (20th- and 21st-century pieces) and catching the latest trends in the ever-evolving industry. Coinciding with Armory are satellite fairs throughout the five boroughs such as NADA New York Gallery Open, Independent New York, and Art on Paper among others.
To help you navigate through the art festival madness in NYC, we've curated a list of must-see exhibitions that spotlight works from emerging talent to established artists.
Nari Ward "We The People," February 13 to May 26
The New Museum recently launched a momentous exhibition surveying the sociopolitically-charged works of Jamaica-born, Harlem-based artist Nari Ward. Over 30 works spanning large-scale installations, sculptures, and immersive experiences are displayed inside the Lower East Side institution's white-walled rooms. These pieces, dating as early as 1992, were made using discarded objects such as baseball bats, strollers, and shoelaces that were all scavenged from the streets of New York City.
"Derrick Adams: Interior Life" Exhibition, February 27 to April 20
Seminal African-American artist Derrick Adams is roundly-praised for his figurative paintings, collages, and assemblages that touch upon socio-political issues and pop culture. The progressive creative is the subject of a new exhibition at New York City's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery. Organized by renowned art curator Francesco Bonami, the show entitled "Interior Life" sees new portraits on paper with Adams' signature abstract patterning style observed throughout the pieces.
Luxembourg & Dayan
NOVA Art Exhibition at HRY SPACE, March 1-7
HRY SPACE
Non-profit initiative FRESCO Collective is slated to launch an exhibition at the fledgling HRY SPACE in lower Manhattan. Titled "Postmodern Miasmas: Responses to the Urban Body at Lispenard's Meadow," the showcase features diverse works by seven emerging artists that were nominated for the group's annual 2019 Nova Prize that highlights "new artistic visions and fresh perspectives in millennial art and culture," as per a statement.
For the forthcoming showcase, the group of artists will display pieces that touch upon "human origins, civilization's violent transformation of nature to forge the built environment, and attendant socio-environmental ailments linked to the embodied, postmodern urban experience."
45 Renwick Street
Gretchen Bender "So Much Deathless," March 6 to July 29
Red Bull Arts
Red Bull Arts New York is no stranger to displaying immense exhibitions that glean archival works from some of the most dynamic artists. Following its RAMMELLZEE retrospective last year, the Chelsea institution is gearing up to launch a major survey on the late multi-disciplinary American artist, Gretchen Bender. Entitled "So Much Deathless," the posthumous show is comprised of a series of discussions, film screenings, live performances, and gallery walk-throughs. The nexus of the show is Bender's Total Recall (1987), an immense installation built using a 24-monitor multi-projection screen.
Red Bull Arts NY
220 W 18th St.
Bentley Meeker "Exploring Light," March 6-16
Bentley Meeker
New York City-based artist Bentley Meeker is lauded for his sculptural works and immersive spaces that are built using lighting objects and industrial materials. For Armory week, the artist partnered with Garvey | Simon gallery to stage a new pop-up exhibition entitled "Exploring Light." A selection of never-before-seen illuminated pieces by Meeker will be displayed. The works are a culmination of Meeker's previous installations that were displayed in prestigious establishments such as the Whitney Museum and the White House. "The results of these explorations are his 40 contemplative installations that stand on their own yet intermingle to create a unifying and immersive tableau," as per the gallery.
Mercantile 37
Aaron Johnson x Christian Rex van Minnen Exhibition, March 7
Ross + Kramer Gallery
Located in New York City's Upper East Side district, Ross + Kramer Gallery will present a collaborative exhibition displaying works by Christian Rex van Minnen and Aaron Johnson. The duo's new show called "In Heaven, Everything is Fine," is an extension of their "Chum Chum Rubby Dubby" exhibition at the Aisho Nanzuka Gallery in Hong Kong last year.
Altogether, the freshly-painted selection of works sees van Minnen's bulbous and distorted human faces are mashed with Johnson's acrylic narratives helmed by mythical creatures. "Appropriately titled after the song In Heaven, Everything is Fine from David Lynch's 1977 film Eraserhead, this show questions the dichotomies of darkness vs. light, romance vs. horror, and spirit vs. flesh," said the gallery in a statement.
14 E 63rd St.
Patrick Martinez "That Which We Do Not See," March 7 to April 20
Fort Gansevoort's Gallery Space in NYC's Meatpacking District will host a new exhibition featuring new artworks by Los Angeles-based artist, Patrick Martinez. Entitled "That Which We Do Not See," the show will feature multi-dimensional cake paintings featuring the likeness of civil rights leaders, landscape works spotlighting motifs inspired by the artist's LA hometown, and neon text pieces highlighting self-empowerment quotes. The presentation marks Martinez's first solo exhibition in the city.
5 Ninth Avenue
Oscar Oiwa x Visionaire Installation, March 11-30
Organized by Visionaire, Japanese-Brazilian artist Oscar Oiwa will draw a highly-detailed composition that features his signature, surreal landscapes, and characters: Light Rabbit and Shadow Cat. The inflated canvas spans a whopping 2,700 square feet of surface area. Oiwa will spend over 100 hours inside the space drawing the artwork. The artist's entire process is currently being live-streamed on a screen outside the structure for public view. Once completed, visitors are encouraged to explore the space.
Cadillac House
Harmony Korine "Young Twitchy," March 14 to April 20
Gagosian
American filmmaker and artist Harmony Korine will launch his latest solo exhibition at Gagosian's 980 Madison Avenue space in Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood. Titled "Young Twitchy," the exhibition will display oil paint on canvas works inspired by photographs captured on the artist's iPhone. "I usually took these photographs around my home in Florida, and then painted over them with different characters," said Korine in a statement.
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TILT Brings a Graffiti Universe to Zurich's Kolly Gallery
Palms Debuts 9,000-Square-Foot Sky Villa Filled with Damien Hirst Masterpieces
Yoon Hyup & Bisco Smith Channel NYC's Electrifying Nightlife In New Paintings
Nobuyoshi Araki "The First" Exhibition to Launch at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019
Patrick Martinez's Cake Paintings of Civil Rights Leaders to Display in NYC Show


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News World News
Police officer who killed black teenager in Chicago gets nearly seven years
Jason Van Dyke is the first officer in the city to be convicted over the killing of an African-American.
Former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke is escorted into the courtroom (Antonio Perez/AP)
By Associated Press Reporter
January 18 2019 11:43 PM
A US judge has sentenced former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to nearly seven years in prison over the 2014 shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/police-officer-who-killed-black-teenager-in-chicago-gets-nearly-seven-years-37727192.html
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Judge Vincent Gaughan's sentence of six years and nine months in prison Friday came a day after another judge acquitted three other officers of trying to cover up the shooting to protect Van Dyke.
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Doin' the Boss: The Park
Ocak 6, 2021	0	Yazar: admin
I, like most people, have a number of pet peeves. For instance, those unaware drivers who hang out in the left lane while traveling 10 miles-an-hour under the speed limit, the people who take 20 items into the express lane at the supermarket and those coffee drinkers who take forever to add a squirt of cream and a packet of sugar into their coffee at Starbucks then block others while endlessly and aimlessly stirring their beverage.
Of course, as those who have read my other stories about my affair with my ex-boss, K. Linford Little, know, the man doesn't escape my ire in the pet peeve department.
Back in the days when I worked for the man 10 years my senior we had several adventurous escapades on his desk and his office couch before discretion took over. Since then we've spent our intimate time together in his car or other away from the office locations. The fact that we would rendezvous away from the office didn't bother me, it went a long way toward keeping our affair away from the watchful eyes of co-workers, away from suspicion from his wife or my boyfriend. Yet what bothered me, my pet peeve as it was, is Mr. Little's unwillingness to completely drop his pants when I would go down on him.
Now to some it wouldn't be a big deal. A blow job is a blow job, right?
Wrong. For me, I like to savor them, I like the feel of a cock in my mouth, and I like to play with the throbbing meat, stroke it and make love to it. But I also like to feel the guy's ass, stroke his thighs, play with his ball sack and do my best to give him a toe-curling, mind-blowing orgasm. But Mr. Little is too cautious, he won't drop his pants for me when we nocturnally nookying. He's just too afraid of being caught with his pants down, so instead the majority of the blow jobs he gets from me are of the zipper down, cock out of his undies variety.
The man loves my mouth, I love his dick, we have a great time together, but there are times when I wish he would simply let go and let me have my total way with him, even if it meant his pants would be down around his ankles.
Sometimes he lets go and I get what I want, but I do understand his reluctance to "let it all hang out." But not too often, as my boss was the cautious type. "Robyn, I know it's crazy," he'd say, "but if someone did come by and you were pleasuring me it would be easy to zip up and sort of leave it as you were just laying your head in my lap."
Yea, right, like some lame brain would actually go for that excuse! Still, I understood his reluctance, and the fact is that several times when he was sans trousers and boxers and totally nude from the waist down and all mine he had trouble in the performance department, blaming it on not being comfortable about the potential of being caught in the act.
Turns out there was an occasion during the early part of our relationship where it might have been better to be a bit more discrete than adventurous.
As mentioned in prior stories, we have mess around in his car along a lover's lane, in a mall parking garage, a baseball dugout and behind a Circuit City store. We also messed around a lot in a local park, where there was a long, meandering pathway which made its way through the woods around a large lake. We found out own secret spot behind an old abandoned grist mill. There, about 50 yards from the pathway and well away from the mill was a secluded spot under a grove of chestnut trees where we could do out thing well away from the watchful eyes of passerby's. What was nice is that we could hear those coming nearby as the brush would rustle and warn us of intruders. It was a great place to be alone.
We'd generally make out in the car a bit, but wouldn't get bahis firmaları down and dirty there because of the number of people walking by. After a bit of kissing and hugging and feeling and playing we'd make our exit toward our "spot", holding hands, stopping to kiss when the coast was clear. Every once in a while the kisses would get a little longer and more passionate, and, with an eye up and down the path, we might sneak a feel in each others pants while making out.
On the cloudy spring day in question Mr. Little was totally hot and bothered before we left the car, causing him to adjust his hard on in his pants as we began our deliberate trek. We stopped and kissed a couple times as we walked through nature and his excitement got higher and higher as we strode among the foliage.
We had stopped at the park after work, leaving just a little early in separate cars. He told all he was going to work out while I supposedly had a doctor's appointment. We were wearing work clothes, so he left his jacket and I my sweater in the car. My wardrobe included a smart looking light blue blouse, a dark blue knee high skirt, pantyhose and comfortable black pumps.
The path was relatively quiet, although we did pass a young mother of about my age pushing her baby carriage and had several riders fly by while furiously peddling their bikes. The new mom looked at me with knowing eyes almost as if she knew we were having an illicit affair.
Halfway into our walk the path came very close to a passenger train track, one of those commuter rails which take folks to and from work. Mr. Little was a bit frisky this day, as when he heard the train coming he took me in his arms and started kissing me with great passion. His hands were caressing my ass while his mouth was glued to mine. I felt a cool breeze on my backside before realizing the little devil had lifted my skirt and was fondling my ass checks protected only by my thin nylon panties and hose. I remember blushing as I realized anyone looking out the window toward the park could see his hands on my butt. It was embarrassing and extremely exciting. After the train clickity clacked its way down the track we broke our embrace and laughed at the show we gave!
The thought of being potentially be observed brought forth pangs of desire in Mr. Little, and, after looking both ways up and down the path he asked if I'd suck him right there, if only for a minute. I refused, kissing his cheek, and said we should hurry to our "spot". But my boss was insistent, he actually begged. "Please Robyn, just for a minute. Look, we can see a quarter mile from hear in each direction and there's nobody coming," he said, emphatically nodding his head both ways. "Let's just move over there and you can suck me for a minute or two. Please?"
My mind said "No" but my body said "Yes." I mean, there wasn't much traffic on the road this early in the afternoon, and there wouldn't be a train for a while, and Mr. Little said he'd keep a lookout and, well, why not?
We moved beyond the edge of the path protected a bit by some bushes where Mr. Little could peer above in both directions to ensure the coast was clear. I looked both ways before slipping down onto my knees while unzipping his fly. I looked up at my boss and reminding him of his duty to make sure nobody was coming on the path, then reached into the opening of his boxers and slid his semi-hard dick though.
"Ohhh, yes, Robyn, yes!" said Mr. Little, urgently placing a hand on the back of my head and moving it toward the objective.
"Do you want me to suck this?" I questioned with a sly smile while slowly handling his manhood. "I mean, it's so big and hard!"
"Yes, hurry. kaçak iddaa Before someone comes."
I couldn't help thinking that I bet he was the one who wanted to cum!
Flipping my hair to the side I opened my mouth, extended my tongue and sat his cock directly atop it. I looked up at my boss to give him the full effect of the sensual view of his shank on my wet and willing mouth. Slowly I orally slid my mouth around his manhood, holding it between my lips for a few seconds while just laving it with my tongue. His hand started to push my head toward his dick, but I quickly shook my head and he quickly backed off and let me do it my way.
There was no doubt I was in control of the situation. Sure, he was getting his cock sucked, but I was sucking it my way. I looked up and saw him turning his head from side to side to ensure our privacy, and that gave me the incentive to suck his dick even more. Here we were, in front of Mother Nature, enjoying each other in a special and naughty way.
"Is anyone coming honey," I asked after releasing his cock from my mouth with a plop.
"I will be very soon if you keep that up," was his panting reply. "Put it back in your mouth."
"Maybe we should go to our spot to finish this," I asked, hoping that he'd just tell me to continue. I stroked his cock as he looked up and down the path once more. He told me nobody was coming and that he really wanted me to continue. "You have me so hot, Robyn. I'm nearly there, please suck it. Please don't stop."
Well, I aim to please, and it sure felt good sucking Mr. Little's pulsating dick… Sucking his dick is an activity I've never grown tired of, not from the first time in his office when I seduced him after work one day, and not earlier in the week when I had blown him in his car right before he left for his sweet wife at home. And surely not today, when his dick proudly throbbed in my mouth, grateful for all the first class oral attention it was receiving.
I smiled up at my boss and in a sultry voice told him to keep a lookout because I was going to be busy sucking his cock. Just hearing me say those words caused his dick to pulse, pre-cum escaping to coat my cheek. "It's all clear," I heard him say as I vigorously sucked his dick into my mouth again. I reached up and pulled down his pants, then maneuvered his boxers down too. This time I began sucking in earnest, bobbing my head on his wonderful dick. He squirmed and his cock had grown to its full six-inch length. I slipped a couple fingers around the stem of his hardness to begin a stroking action as his thick rod filled my mouth.
Above I heard Mr. Little murmuring something about how good it was and I thought he said the coast was clear too so I lost myself in the work of orally pleasing this powerful man. Deep down I think one of the main reasons I liked pleasuring him was the fact he was an executive and such an act was so wrong. Bosses aren't supposed to do their assistants, and even if they were there was the small detail of his having a charming wife and children.
His pubes scratched my face and his dick throbbed in my mouth as I sucked and stroked it, and soon I could tell he was nearing the point of no return. My mouth began to ache a bit from the insistent pounding it was taking. While early on in this blow job I was in control, clearly now my boss was over the edge and using my mouth as a receptacle for the satisfaction of his needy cock. His hands cupped my hair and bobbed my head toward and away from his body as I sucked and licked and nibbled and blew his knob.
"Oh yes Robyn oh yes, yes, yes, I'm gonna cum," he stuttered as I slobbered all over his dick, savoring his hardness as well as kaçak bahis his words. "You are wonderful, you are a great cocksucker. Suck me, don't stop," he loudly said, uncaring of who could hear.
I reached around and grabbed his bare ass, caressing it as I sucked his cock. I was in heaven with my other hand continuing to stroke his dick as my mouth worked on the bulging tip. His dick seemed to grow even more and I knew his orgasm was only seconds away.
What happened next would make The Three Stooges seem normal. It seemed like an eternity, but all in the span of a few seconds Mr. Little cried out that he was cumming and I heard a scuffling to my left. I pulled his spurting dick out of my mouth and nearly screamed as my boss' cock exploded at my face.
No more than six feet away was a middle aged guy on a racing bike, staring with his mouth wide open. How much he had seen is unknown, but for sure he saw the last few seconds. I saw him staring at me as Mr. Little jerked back. His cock continued its pulsing explosion, sending a cascade of sperm onto my face, neck and hair. One glob hit me in the left eye, and the sticky sauce stung. My boss reached down and quickly pulled up his pants, while I scurried to my feet. My boss held me close in comfort as I shook like a willow tree in a strong breeze.
"You two are disgusting, have you no shame?" spat the man. "Get a hotel room next time."
I shamefully looked over at him, and he said I was a worthless slut before riding off down the path.
My boss and I hung on to each other, shaking and panting. So much for nobody being around to catch us, so much for Mr. Little's looking out to make sure the coast was clear. So much for us retreating to our safe place where we'd be out of sight. Mr. Little wiped some of his cum off my face, or should I say he spread it around my cheek. "Don't let him bother you, you are incredible Robyn," said my boss. "You are beautiful."
It was nice of him to say, but I knew I looked a mess. My makeup was smeared, my face sticky, and my eye ached. Here's a note to the file: don't let a guy's cum get into your eyes! We began walking on the path we probably should have minutes earlier rather than our embarrassing moments of being caught in the act.
"Thank goodness that wasn't a park ranger," I said, Mr. Little nodding his agreement. "That would have been a disaster."
"I'm sorry, hun, but you drove me over the edge and I just lost track of everything," explained my boss. "I didn't hear him or see him until he was right here, and at that point I just couldn't stop myself."
"You mean you saw him?"
"Only for a moment out of the corner of my eye, I think we were blocked from his view other than my upper body. Then when he got closer he could see everything but I was too far gone. It was so hot knowing we had a voyeur, I couldn't have stopped if I wanted to."
"Well you did cum a bucket, but still, it wasn't a good idea. That was living too dangerously."
We continued our walk, striding past our special place and continuing around the lake. We'd stop and kiss along the way, but nothing more. When we made our way entirely around the lake, kissed a bit more and went to our respective cars and drove our separate ways. As I pulled out of the parking lot I noticed the rider who caught us in the act hitching up his bike onto the car rack. I attempted to put a hand over the side of my face to conceal my identity, but I immediately saw he recognized me, as he began shaking his head in disgust.
That night in bed, as I thought back to the day's activities, I fingered myself while thinking of the man on the bike. My fantasy was his being a park ranger, and having to do him to get out of being arrested for indecent exposure. But that's another story, one I put out of my mind after my boyfriend came home from work and decided he wanted to mess around. Boy, he didn't know what hit him!
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