The Spell of the Sensuous, by David Abram. Of all the books on this list, if you're only going to read one, make it this one. Abram's work is a revelation and a joy. I won't say more; just read it.
A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking. An overview of the state of cosmological physics at the time of writing. Dense, but completely worth it.
The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene. The (thus-far) untestable principles of superstring theory may be the solution to the thornily irreconcilable Einsteinian physics of objects and the quantum mechanics of the very small. If you're interested in answers to the question of Life, the Universe and everything*, this is for you.
The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins. As readers here know, I am not a fan of Dawkins. But in this, he sticks to his actual area of knowledge–evolutionary biology–and his book magnificently tells the story of evolution and the rise of biological diversity.
Complexity: the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by Mitchell Waldrop. Why do complex forms arise out of simple ones? This may be the most fundamental scientific question there is. Read about the early seekers of discovery in this deep area of scientific inquiry.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, by Carl Sagan. Like its author, by turns ebullient and deeply knowledgeable, this is an inspiring and fascinating read.
Chaos, by James Gleick. Why can't we precisely predict the weather? Why do the features of our world appear as they do? Why do we see the same general patterns repeated over and over, at large scales and small, throughout the Universe? Read this, and find out.
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson. A fascinating true story of the power of an idea to override reason, and of the scientific method's ability to break through the spell.
Always Coming Home, by Ursula K. LeGuin (fiction). A magnificent vision of a future society where kind and sustainable values are sustained by ritual practices. Set in the Napa Valley, one mountain ridge to the east of where I live, so it's a special favorite.
Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems and Invocations from Around the World, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. A lovely collection, and a great source for discovering new poets who revere the Earth.
Local Nature Guides. Can you identify the predominant trees in your region? Wildflowers? Medicinal plants? Geological formations? Birds? Animals? Butterflies? To be connected with the natural world, we must know it. It isn't necessary to have an exhaustive knowledge, but the more familiarity we have with the ecological context within which we live, the more deeply and richly we can celebrate our love for the Earth.
Ethnographies and Anthropological Books. The rich and extraordinarily diverse details and processes of rituals throughout the world can serve as inspiration for our own ritual workings. I've particularly enjoyed books on the shamanic practices of Arctic peoples, on the death rites of the Masai, and on the sacred sings of the Dineh people, as well as about the folkways that are survivals of pre-Christianization of Europe. Broader works that seek to draw patterns between many cultures (Joseph Campbell, e.g.) don't appeal to me as much because they are far more speculative, but some of them are lavishly illustrated with interesting art.
Got some favorites to recommend? Please leave them in the comments!
*Spoiler: the answer is 42.
The music below was recommended by members of the Atheopagan Facebook group for use in Atheopagan rituals. Particularly in solitary rituals (when, obviously, having live accompaniment isn't possible), the addition of a musical "soundtrack" can be tremendously powerful. Also listed are some sources for chants which can be used in group rituals—singing is one of the most powerful ways to bring people together and build the sense of energy in a ritual!
This list will grow as new music is suggested.
Bare Necessities: Take a Dance. This ensemble plays traditional tunes for English country dancing. This album is lovely for High Spring or May Day celebrations; very light and springy.
Chandra, Sheila: A Bonecronedrone and The Zen Kiss. Very trance-y.
Cossu, Scott with Eugene Friesen: Reunion. Light, quiet-morning piano with cello, good for reflection and introspective work.
Darwin Song Project: "You May Stand Mute" "Mother of Mystery" and "Clock of the World".
Delerium: Karma. Dance-y, trance-y. The track "Euphoria (Ecstacy)" is particularly good.
Daemonia Nymphe: Plays authentic instruments and sing hymns from ancient Greece.
Gabriel, Peter: Passion (soundtrack to "The Last Temptation of Christ")–hands down Mark's favorite for solitary ritual.
Figueras, Montserrat and La Capella Reial de Catalunya: El Cant de la Sybil-la. 15th and 16th century "Songs of the Sybil". Powerful ritual music.
Libana: Fire Within. Not all tracks, but several are great for ritual.
McBride, Abbi Spinner: Fire of Creation and Family of Fire. These are great chants, many of them without reference to divinity or "spirit".
Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia. Russian Orthodox choral works by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and others. Magnificent.
Sovosó: Track "Dirt" on album Then and Now.
Vas: Sunyata and Offerings (highly meditative).
Winston, George: The Seasons Cycle. These four albums—Autumn, December, Winter into Spring, and Summer—are all lovely accompaniments for ritual work.
There are many places online that Pagan chants can be found, and many of them are fine for Atheopagan ritual. Here is a fine example.


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Every year, Crohn's and Colitis Canada launches grant competitions for two funding programs, Grants-in-Aid of Research and Innovations in IBD Research. Here you will learn more about each grant program, and how to submit an application.
grants-in-aid of research
Crohn's and Colitis Canada is delighted to announce the launch of its 2022 Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIA) Competition. The GIA program supports research projects directly related to IBD that are aligned with Crohn's and Colitis Canada's Promise and strategic directions. Funding is limited to a maximum of $125,000 per year, for up to three years, contingent upon available funds.
Applications must be submitted through a two-stage application process. Applicants who submit a Letter of Intent are invited to submit a Full Application by the deadline specified.
Notices of Intent to Apply are due by 5 pm (EST) on Friday, November 26, 2021 (Deadline has been extended)
Full applications are due by 5 pm (EST) on Monday, January 31, 2022 (Deadline has been extended)
Applying for a Grants-in-Aid of Research grant
Applicants must complete the online applications available via the proposalCENTRAL website. Applications are not accepted via email or mail.
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Please review the grant guidelines carefully to the eligibility criteria for the 2022 grant competition.
innovations in ibd research
Crohn's and Colitis Canada invites applications for an Innovations Grant, to fund novel or innovative approaches to IBD research. This grant is intended to stimulate and support research which may not be encompassed within the boundaries of traditional medical research. Research proposals must conform to sound principles of research and may aim to collect pilot data for follow-on application(s). Our organization seeks mission relevance and excellence as well as innovation.
Grants to a maximum of $50,000 for one year may be awarded.
Submitting your Innovations in IBD application
Applicants must complete the online application available via the proposalCENTRAL website. Applications are not accepted via email or mail.
Please see the Grant Guidelines for details on grant eligibility, and nomination and selection procedures.
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Boyfriend: If she's good enough and can handle the job isn't that ok? Just because she doesn't do it the way you did it, doesn't make it wrong.
Me: Yes it does. If it was wrong then I would have been told to stop and to do it the right way. No one told me to do it any other way so her way is wrong.
Boyfriend: No, she's just finding her own way of how to do things. She's taking suggestions and making them her own. She's good enough so she should be fine.
Me: That's just it! She's just good enough. It's not what I was expecting.
Boyfriend: What were you expecting then?
Me: You know, my main boss did a lot to find this girl to replace me and I figured it was like if you break up with someone.
Boyfriend: You're comparing this to a relationship?
Me: Yes. Ok, when you're going out with a 7 and you break up with the 7 you don't go out with a 5. You find someone who is a 7 or better. I mean if you are given a chance to upgrade you upgrade, you don't downgrade!
Boyfriend: Maybe to them you're not just a 7. Let's say you're going out with Willow. She's hot and you break up, if you can't find anyone else of course you're going to settle for her not very good looking girlfriend.
Boyfriend: Ok, you're going out with Illyria. You can't get any better. She's an Old One. Where are you going to find someone else who not only looks as hot as her, but can kickass and make trophies of other people's skulls? You know you won't ever be able to so you settle for "good enough".
Me: Yeah I guess you're right.
So in the end I guess I should be flattered that they felt like they couldn't find someone better then me, if what my boyfriend says is true.


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Veteran's Day events slated for Stanford
By Caleb Smith
Veterans, staff and community members will be gathering at Stanford today for a pair of Veteran's Day events. The events will include a celebration of the Marine Corps' 241st birthday and a Veteran's Day reception.
A Marine Corps birthday cake-cutting ceremony is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today at the sunken garden in the Hoover Institute. The Marines have their actual birthday on Nov. 10, but the ceremony at Stanford will be held today this year.
Additionally, a Veteran's Day reception is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Engineering Quad, with remarks between 6:15 and 7:15. Following a welcome from Dustin Noll, Kevin Mott '17 will speak on the theme of continuing service, Professor Scott Sagan will talk about what makes a just warrior, and David Ahern '17 will discuss the responsibility of veterans. The event will conclude with a reception.
Although Veteran's Day is a federal holiday, Stanford does not recognize it as an academic holiday on the Stanford calendar. Classes and business will be conducted as usual.
Contact Caleb Smith at caleb17 'at' stanford.edu.
Caleb Smith '17 is a Desk Editor from Oakland, California and is majoring in public policy. Outside the Daily, Caleb is Director of news at KZSU Stanford, the campus radio station. Have a tip or suggestion? Please contact him at caleb17 'at' stanford.edu.


Sorry I Am Late. Happy Belated Birthday. HopeAll Your Wishes Came True. And Your Special Day Brought You Love, Happiness andJoy. And, Of Course, Fun. Love, Kisses and Hugs.
"No way out" with this of Chika"Look at me ".For me the only common point is the man. I consider that there is nothing else common The atmosphere and the final impression that leaves each album are different maybe because of the totally differents facial expressions of the girls. And there are two differents people with two differents personalities and two differents themes..that's my personal opinion..
Wow, that video you put on my blog was amazing!!!
great songs, I saw them live back in the late 90s, great band.
I'm glad that not everybody has forgotten about Soundgarden.
Which band you choose for tomorow!
thats a nice song, not heard it in a long time.
It's easy to say nice things to you, and to mean them too.
so sweet !! i love it !!
Thanks for the info. For a moment there, I thought you were referring to me, LOL.
I did get to see the video this time around on your page. I'm famiiliar with a song by the same name by Anna David. Do you know the one I mean?
That is a good song, I dont think I have ever heard it before.
Only because of my princess?
let's rock....who takes me back to the paradise city???


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Blackbelt II: Fatal Force (1993)
Blackbelt II (1993)-* *
AKA: Spyder
Directed by: Joe Mari Avellena and Kevin Trent
Starring: Blake Bahner, Henry Strzalkowski, Vic Diaz, Paul Holme, Louie Del Castillo, and John Dulaney
Brad Spyder (Bahner) is an L.A. cop with an attitude problem. He must travel to Hawaii to investigate the death of a partner. His "punch first and ask questions later and then punch them again" style means he encounters resistance from the local cops, led by Akida (Diaz). There's also some nonsensical mumbo-jumbo about Vietnam and POW's that was only put in because of the piecemeal patchwork that this is...
Technically speaking, we're not entirely sure this is even a movie. By any rational standard, editing, splicing, and re-ordering film footage doesn't necessarily make a film, much less a coherent piece of entertainment. The editors here get an A for effort, as they try desperately to make disparate footage fit together, but it's like trying to join two puzzle pieces together that clearly don't fit.
Going from L.A. to Hawaii to Vietnam, to a Vietnam that's supposed to be Hawaii, we get some narration about Vietnam, then some urban cop action with Bahner, then it reverts back to an Exploding Hut jungle movie, and on and on. There's zero character development along the way, so you cannot become invested at all in what's going on. Rather than introduce the slightest bit of character for Brad Spyder (aside from his awesome name), the movie just jumps into an overly-long, protracted punching sequence on top of a building. Then there's the amazingly cliched Irish police chief O'Donnel (Dulaney) - actually a lot of this movie could be a parody.
Bahner yells all his lines, and resembles Andrew Dice Clay (who had a brief action movie career of his own). Presumably Roger Corman felt he could put out this mishmash as some sort of "sequel" to the Don the Dragon movie Blackbelt (1992), seeing as it follows the formula of being 80 minutes and having at least Bahner's credit also include his kickboxing title underneath it. Firstly, Bahner is no Don the Dragon, but perhaps he's not supposed to be.
Corman caught lightning in a bottle with one action star, and he tried again and basically failed. Secondly, releasing this hodgepodge to the public is actually insulting to our intelligence. Did he, or anyone else, not think we would notice all the glaring Frankenstein-like parts to this?
Blackbelt 2 could have used another B-movie name in the cast (aside from the ubiquitous Vic Diaz), or a rockin' song, or a scintilla of coherence or cohesion - anything except falling back on references to the First Blood series, which it does. But on the bright side it does have a rich businessman named Roderick Pendleton (Holme) and a character named Weasel (Louie Del Castillo), whose hair and mustache out-Oates-es Oates. His entire film career consists of this, the "movie" Spyder, from which the footage for this was taken, and Saigon Commandos (1988). Now that's a career to be proud of.
Now might also be an opportune time to mention that there's always an annoying character named Squid, Spud, Baby, Weasel, or what-have-you. Feel free to write a comment if you can think of another example.
Seeing as this footage (is it really a movie?) consists of nothing, you can't help but regard it as a waste of time. Sad really, as the name Brad Spyder deserves more.
Labels: Blackbelt II, Blake Bahner, Henry Strzalkowski, Joe Mari Avellana, John Dulaney, Louie Del Castillo, Paul Holme, Roger Corman, VHS, Vic Diaz
Roger Renman said...
Was this movie actually filmed after Blackbelt? Or was it the 1988 movie Spyder, released as Blackbelt II to cash in on the name? I have been thinking about buying this one for some time. I have a tendency to like cut-and-paste movies with random scenes as long as they have plenty of action. On the other hand, you were not impressed. So many low-budget action movies, so little time.
I think it was filmed before...you're right, it's just Spyder with some new Corman footage. Cut and paste movies are usually fun...especially Godfrey Ho movies. Haha.
We were disappointed because it should have been like Blackbelt 1. More martial arts...less jungle...this time around.
Oh dear. I just bought this along with the first film from Corman's webstore. Didn't realise it was cannibalised from Spyder, of which I just got the VHS. Saigon Commandos is a fairly boring jungle film too, with atrocious sound.
I didn't think this film was a waste of time, it was sporadically entertaining though not all that memorable, I agree that Bahner wasn't much of an action star, he can fight but can't really act.
Explosive Action: Oh no! Saigon Commandos is a disappointment too...Should have been so much better.
Venom: Bahner should have been in more movies, maybe a punchfighter so he can show off his martial arts better.


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Q: What is the proper use of threads in Android? I have a Main activity with a few methods.

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*GetTopics: calls REST API and returns JSON results

*BindTopics: displays the results from GetTopics on the screen

There are a few others with similar functionality, but I'm sure I can fit the solution to these across all methods.
Question: What is the proper way to run these in separate threads?  Should both of them be in the same thread?  Should I call BindTopics once GetTopics is complete?
Either way, doesn't the UI get built prior to the async threads are completed?  If so, how do I update the UI?
Any help is appreciated.

A: The answer to all your questions is AsyncTask

A: You want to create your UI (with some sort of loading screen), then start an AsyncTask to download the data and display it.
There is a basic blog post about AsyncTasks here: http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/painless-threading.html
In the AsyncTasks doInBackground method you would call GetTopics. Then in the onPostExecute method you would call BindTopics and display the data. In the onPostExecute method you can check to see if the data downloaded properly before attempting to display it.

A: I would load it in a progress dialog with an AsyncTask. You will need to declare the handler to update controls in the UI thread.
Example:
private Handler     handler         = new Handler();

final ProgressDialog pd = new ProgressDialog(this);
pd.setTitle("Getting topics..");
pd.setMessage("Please while topics are retrieved");
pd.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_SPINNER);
pd.setIndeterminate(true);

new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void>() {

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {

        GetTopics();

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {

        pd.show();
        super.onPreExecute();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {

        BindTopics();

        pd.dismiss();

        handler.post(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {
                // update UI
                // remove loading view
                // load details of topics
            }
        });
        super.onPostExecute(result);
    }

}.execute();

A: The main use of threads for me were when my app had to download large amount of data from ftp server. But while downloading I wanted that the user still can use my app. If I had written the download code in main thread, the user could not use the app and all buttons would not work. The main idea of thread is to divide time of CPU usage for each thread.
If you wish more then one task to be preformed simultaneously you have to use Threads.

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"There are enough eyes looking at this that something should have happened already to make sure that Laura is in a safe place. No victim of sexual abuse should be forced to live with their abuser."
According to Grassroots Leadership, both ICE and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, neglected to provide Monterrosa with medical treatment in the hours after her suicide attempt.
An asylum-seeking Salvadoran woman, whose allegations of repeated sexual assault by a guard at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Texas went largely ignored, has attempted suicide.
Laura Monterrosa, who has been detained at Hutto since May 2017 and alleges her abuse began in June, first went public with her allegations in November, leading to a supposed investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Williamson County Sheriff's Office.
In the days that followed, other women detained inside Hutto came forward with allegations of abuse. But after two interviews with officials from ICE and Williamson County in which there was a language barrier and Monterrosa initially wasn't allowed access to counsel, ICE unceremoniously announced that it found Monterrosa's allegations to be "unsubstantiated." The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has since confirmed it intervened in the investigation of sexual assault allegations emerging from the long-troubled detention center.
Both ICE and CoreCivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, neglected to provide Monterrosa with medical treatment in the hours immediately after her suicide attempt, according to Grassroots Leadership. CoreCivic is a private prison company with a long history of human rights abuses. The company contracts with ICE to operate detention centers, including Hutto, a prison that has a long history of subjecting immigrant women to sexual abuse.
After attempting suicide, Monterrosa was able to access care at a local hospital, but upon being returned to Hutto, she was placed in solitary confinement.
During her eight-month detainment at Hutto, Monterrosa has twice experienced "medical confinement," which is what advocates say ICE and private prison companies like CoreCivic use as a form of solitary confinement. Part of the reason Monterrosa initially hesitated to go forward with her allegations was out of fear of being subjected to solitary confinement, a practice known to exacerbate trauma and mental health issues.
A 2016 report from Human Rights Watch, which analyzed the deaths of 18 people who died in ICE custody, highlighted the cases of Tiombe Kimana Carlos, Clemente Mponda, and Jose de Jesus Deniz Sahagun, all of whom committed suicide after demonstrating signs of serious mental health conditions. The experts consulted for the report concluded that inadequate mental health care or the misuse of isolation may have exacerbated their mental health problems.
"I feel very desperate because I tried to report the abuse from ICE and facility officials, but they continue to psychologically abuse me through intimidation. I do not feel safe or secure. I am not receiving the medical treatment or help I need," Monterrosa said in a Grassroots Leadership statement released Sunday.
Asylum-seeking migrant women like Monterrosa are often fleeing gender-based violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. These countries, known as the Northern Triangle, are some of the most dangerous to be a woman, with female homicide rates among the highest in the world, according to the Washington Office on Latin America.
Migrant women who have experienced trauma in their countries of origin and en route to the United States—where an estimated 80 percent of girls and women are raped on their journey—often encounter more abuse and neglect in the U.S. immigration system. Sexual abuse and harassment in detention centers often goes uninvestigated. In April, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on behalf of 27 people who were in immigration detention or had been released from detention and who say they experienced sexual abuse.
CIVIC analyzed data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request regarding sexual assault reports from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The information showed that the OIG received at least 1,016 reports of sexual abuse filed by people in detention between May 2014 and July 2016—that's more than one complaint of sexual abuse made each day. Of these 1,016 reports of sexual abuse, the OIG investigated 24.
Bob Libal, executive director of Grassroots Leadership, said in a statement that what is happening to Monterrosa has been "swept under the rug." Advocates are calling on Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to look into the allegations emerging from Hutto.


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Format Still Self-Funded After a Decade in Tech Industry
Take a look behind the scenes as Toronto startup Format.com celebrates 10 self-funded years in tech.
Format Team November 26, 2018
As Format approaches its 10th birthday(!), we sat down with our Format co-founders Lukas Dryja and Tyler Rooney to look back at how they built a startup from scratch—all without investor funding. No small feat in the tech industry!
Back in 2008, Lukas had just graduated from OCAD University. He had been planning a career as a designer when he noticed something—none of his friends and classmates had the tech skills required to create a portfolio website to showcase their creative work. He partnered with co-founder Tyler, an Amazon alum with a desire to create a startup of his own. The pair offered their product—a subscription-based online portfolio-website platform for creators and visual artists—free of charge for the first two years while they worked out the kinks.
Format co-founder Lukas Dryja
In 2010, the team hired their first employee, Stefan Pintaric, in a part-time Customer Success role. The company's budget was so lean at that time that Stefan had to bring in his own computer. Still, with the company as the Director of Customer Success today, he now leads a team of 10 Format Experts around the world, providing 24/7 customer support (and no one needs to bring their own laptop to work!).
Most tech startups take in outside funding from investors, but Lukas and Tyler knew from the beginning that they wanted to keep the company 100% independent. "With outside investors, there are always terms," says Tyler. "We've never had to make those decisions. That's what makes us different from other tech companies: we can really define our own path and decide what tradeoffs we want to make."
Format co-founder Tyler Rooney
"I am very proud to have built Format from the ground up with no outside funding," says Lukas. "We are close to 60 employees now, thriving in a gorgeous office in downtown Toronto, plus we have a number of team members working remotely from various parts of the world. We're proud of our incredible retention rate: we have people working with us who have been here right from the beginning."
That employee retention and commitment to growth earned Format the 24th spot on Canadian Business' PROFIT 500 list of fastest-growing Canadian companies. Even though it's respected as one of the best Canadian startups, Tyler says he still doesn't think of Format as a traditional tech company, largely due to the decision to keep things self-funded. "Some companies use VC [venture capital] perfectly, become crazy growth machines, and put that money to great use, but not every business fits that model and, in the tech world, we sometimes forget that."
Another key way Format sets itself apart is that the product is built for creators, by creators. Most website builders target anyone who wants a website; at Format, the focus is on helping creators succeed. Format is so creative-driven that many of the company's employees are also creators outside of Format as well. "Even with a full workload on their plate, many of our team members have side gigs as creatives themselves," says Lukas. "We have a lot of photographers, writers, visual artists, makers, and entrepreneurs on the team. At Format, we fully support our team's amazing creative projects and we try to encourage them as much as we can. For instance, when one of the artists on the Customer Success team had a gallery show, we sent our team members there over lunch to support her. When another team member created a side-business to support people's privacy online, we purchased her products for the whole company."
Lukas also wanted to build a space where creators could offer input on how they can work smarter and improve the company. Everyone at Format is driven forward by a set of company values that inform every decision the team makes: Impact, Care, Trust, and Simplify.
The duo has worked hard to make Format a place people want to work. Employees are welcome to work remotely whenever they like, and there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to hang out, from movie nights, karaoke jam sessions, and baseball games to catered lunches and casual beers on the patio.
So, what does the future hold for Format? "In the next 10 years, I'm focusing on ensuring every creative in the world knows about Format, and considers our products as the go-to solutions for showcasing their work online," Lukas says. "We want Format to play a significant role in creatives' lives."
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Sutherland, Bonynge: Serate Musicali (2 CD, APE)
Tagged: Bellini, Bizet, Bonynge, Campana, Cimara, Dalayrac, Donizetti, Faure, Godard, Gounod, Lalo, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Ponchielli, Respighi, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Sutherland, Thomas, Verdi
Composer: Gioachino Rossini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Gaetano Donizetti, Ottorino Respighi, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Cimara, Amilcare Ponchielli, Pietro Mascagni, Fabio Campana, Charles Gounod, Benjamin Godard, Jules Massenet, Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, Edouard Lalo, Ambroise Thomas, Camille Saint-Saens, Gabriel Faure, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer
Performer: Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge
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01. Soirées musicales – 1. La promessa
02. Soirées musicales – 2. Il rimprovero
03. Soirées musicales – 3. La partenza
04. Soirées musicales – 4. L'orgia
05. Soirées musicales – 5. L'invito
06. Soirées musicales – 6. La pastorella delle Alpi
07. Soirées musicales – 7. La gita in gondola
08. Soirées musicales – 8. La danza
09. Serenata francese
10. Il sospiro
11. I tempi assai lontani
12. Dolente immagine di Fille mia
13. Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 2 – Les Adieux à la vie
14. Malinconia, ninfa gentile
15. Il poveretto
16. Vaga luna che inargenti
17. Stornello
18. Il Trovatore
01. La tua stella
02. Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 2 – La chanson de Zora
03. Péchés de Vieillesse, Book 3 – Arietta all'Antica
04. L'ultima speme
05. A Mezzanotte
06. J'attends toujours
07. Au Printemps
08. Chanson de Florian
09. Pensée D'Automne
10. Nina, ou la folle pour amour – Quand le bien-aimé reviendra
11. L'esclave
12. Le Soir
13. Aimons-nous
14. 2 Songs, Op.1 – 1. Le papillon et la fleur
15. Pastorale
16. Oh! Si les fleurs avaient des yeux
17. Guide au bord ta nacelle
18. Les Hirondelles – Words: Volny l'Hôtelier
19. Berceuse
20. Puisqu'elle a pris ma vie
21. Les filles de Cadix
23. Marquita
sutherland_bonynge_serate_musicali01.rar – 227.0 MB
A MUSICAL SOIREE WITH THE BONYNGES
I'm a bit surprised by the reviewers who express disappointment that this album does not showcase Joan Sutherland's dazzling coloratura and astonishing high notes. After all, this is a song recital, not a bel canto opera. Sutherland certainly wasn't a one- (or two-) trick pony, and she didn't earn the sobriquet "The Voice of the Century" simply for being able to sing high and fast. She also had a voice of remarkable range and wonderfully sensuous beauty as well as exhibiting a mastery of lyrical style–for which much credit should be given to her husband, Richard Bonynge (and which Dame Joan always readily acknowledged).
What this album does showcase is a different and less frequently encountered side of this remarkable artist, who rarely gave art song recitals. Dame Joan never seriously explored the German lieder repertoire (outside of her surprising Wagner album, she essentially avoided singing in German), but there are tons of other singers out there who did. The repertoire recorded here is far less frequently encountered, comprising French and Italian art songs. To hear this obscure repertoire sung so exquisitely is such a rare opportunity that it seems ungrateful to carp that there are no high E-flats or fiendish fioratura.
Although the album was recorded in the Bonynges' home in Switzerland, the sound is remarkably good, capturing the true timbre of "The Voice," as Joan and Ricky used to term it. The piano could have been accorded more presence, especially since Bonynge's accompaniments are so suave and congenial to this rep. (In general, I think that throughout his career Richard Bonynge was given a bum rap by the critical establishment, which seemed to assume that since his wife was such a phenomenon, he must be a second-rate talent who got to conduct only because Joan insisted on it. Well, his conducting career remained healthy well after his wife's retirement, and his skill as a conductor and keyboard accompanist was never accorded the respect it deserves.) Sutherland is in extremely fine voice, singing with apparently effortless ease, and the result, far from detracting from the lofty reputation she earned on the opera stage, complements it beautifully.
I like to imagine that this is the sort of musical treat the Bonynges regularly offered their guests, retiring to the music room after dinner for a relaxing evening with Ricky settling in at the keyboard and Joan offering marvelous musical bon bons like an after-dinner aperitif to a small gathering of such distinguished personalities as Noel Coward, who was their next-door neighbor. Alas, such soirees must have ended long ago; at a 1997 book-signing for her memoirs, I asked Dame Joan if she ever just sang around the house for her own enjoyment after she retired. Her response was that essentially, after her Gala Farewell performance in 1990, "I shut my mouth" and didn't sing again, making recordings such as this even more valuable. If you appreciate musical substance and aren't looking only for cheap thrills, you will find this collection extremely rewarding.
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October 23, 2015 by Cultural Xplorer: I find that the best way to explore any city is by doing it like a local. I am such a big believer in keeping it local, that I wrote a whole guide to exploring New York City like a local, which highlights some of the top things that I love to do as a resident. When the New York City based company Like A Local Tours invited me to explore Williamsburg with them on their Sunday Funday Tour, I jumped at the opportunity to get to know one of my favorite neighborhoods better through a resident's eyes.
The first stop on the tour was at the Brooklyn Brewery, one of New York City's most famous craft beer companies.
Personally, I have been a huge fan of Brooklyn Brewery's beers for a number of years and I really love their seasonal ales, particularly their Summer Ale. Since the tour took us to the brewery in the fall, I decided to try their Oktoberfest ale, which is brewed from actual German malt and hops, and it reminded me of the beers that I tasted when I visited Munich, Germany.
This is a great place to go and 'shop local' and definitely a place that I would return to if I wanted to buy hand crafted items and one-of-a-kind gifts.
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Mast Brothers Chocolate, 111 N. 3rd St.
The last stop on our tour of Williamsburg was to the famous Mast Brothers Chocolate, a high-end chocolatier that crafts dark chocolate bars & baked goods. In addition to being able to purchase chocolate bars at the Williamsburg location of Mast Brothers, you can also sample some of their finest chocolates and look through a glass window into their kitchen where you can watch how the chocolate is made.
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Posted on October 19, 2015 by Shannon ThomasWe understand how taxing life can be as a millennial woman.
Between snagging interviews, attending conferences, navigating your way through work place dynamics and watching Empire…there's hardly anytime to relax. That's why we took a moment to relax for you with a Like A Local food tour in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
For two hours, myself, and seven other food lovers from all corners of the U.S., from LA to Minnesota, trekked around Brooklyn's trendiest neighborhood. We were introduced to some of NYC's most delicious in-the-cut spots.
As a native New Yorker, it was a nice chance to actually enjoy the charm of NYC that is usually only reserved for tourists. As we walked down North 7th Street to our first destination, our super friendly and knowledgeable guide/tour curator, Lauren Bebe gave us a tidbit of Williamsburg history and the important role the city played in NYC history. Lauren founded the Like A Local tours after deciding her job at the time, as head of marketing for a venture capital firm wasn't as fulfilling as she thought. Two years ago she took her passion for food, traveling, and her cravings for the latest in Williamsburg and transformed it into the successful business it is today.
In 1903, immigrants walked over the Williamsburg Bridge to escape the densely populated tenement apartments of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, for better living and working conditions. Since then, Williamsburg became a breeding ground for opportunity.
Our first stop was BEST PIZZA. This is a mom and pop style pizzeria that plays old school reggae music and serves delicious slices of heaven for amazing prices. We enjoyed a fantastic in- house Margherita topped with fresh basil and a White pie covered in savory caramelized onions.
The owners source their ingredients from the local farmer's market, and use a vintage 120 year old brick oven to create their mini masterpieces.
After munching on pizza we made our way over to Milk for cookies and cereal milk flavored soft serve ice cream.
Milk is owned by Master Chef Judge Christina Tosi. The cereal milk flavored ice cream gave me flashbacks to my childhood, fruity pebbles and Saturday morning cartoons.
It was a unique spin on a classic dessert. On our way to our next location we passed by some incredible street art.
When we arrived at this popular eatery, the restaurant was packed with customers anxious for a bite. I found out it's the norm for there to be a 2 hour wait for some of the best fried chicken in New York City. The golden melt-in-your-mouth chicken, biscuits and cheesy grits all live up to the hype, and I believe it is definitely worth the wait.
My personal favorite stop was The Bagel Store, Home of the Cragel (crossaint/bagel).
By the way, the bacon, egg, and cheese cragel was named the best bagel by The Food Network. The owner Scot Rossilo took the seven of us down into the kitchen and showed us how he rolls out his renowned rainbow bagels.
A tour member making her own rainbow bagel.
After we retired from our short lived careers as bagel artisans, we scooped up some ice cream from Odd Fellows.
Odd Fellows had a variety of unusual ice cream flavors, such as olive oil and jalepeno grapefruit. Of course, I tired them both and they were nothing short of delicious. The olive oil flavor was smooth, creamy, and sweet. The olive oil taste was very subtle. The grapefruit jalepeno was the perfect blend of sweet and spicy, yet refreshing to the palette. Unlike the average Haagen Dasz shops, that share their samples with plastic spoons, the servers gave us samples in cute, eco-friendly mini silverware.
Our last spot was the Mast Brothers Chocolate Makers.
The Mast Brothers began their chocolate making business in Iowa city in the early 2000s at a dinner party where they realized a need for gourmet chocolate in the United States. They bought pounds of cocoa beans and began experimenting with blends until they found their winners. They are the only company in the US to use artisanal beans in their chocolates. The cocoa beans are sourced from different corners of the earth everywhere from Tanzania, and Madagascar to the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.
The most popular chocolate bar is the Sea Salt flavor from their artisanal collection and I see why, the saltiness is the first flavor tasted yet, it doesn't overwhelm the taste buds. Instead, the salt compliments the sweet, floral taste of the cocoa. I don't think I can eat a Hershey bar again, I am still swooning over the Mast Brother's eclectic confections.
As we enjoyed the beautiful day, I appreciated the fact we didn't experience the cliché portrayal of Williamsburg famous for hipsters and overpriced coffee shops. We were given a genuine view of the diverse neighborhood…we toured like true locals.
Lauren has also recently partnered with another NYC tour company, Take Me Out, in order to launch a North Fork Wine Tour. The wine tour is a day trip to Long Island Wine Country for wine tasting, farm visits, craft beer, oyster shucking and so much more. To book your own tour, check out Likealocaltours.com.
September 25, 2015 by Meg Busacca: This week our design editor Meg happily experienced "Like A Local" guided food tours in Williamsburg.
Like A Local Tours offers is an exclusive walking tour that marriages gourmet food and history to street art and architecture. The company provides four tours residing in Flatiron in Manhattan, Williamsburg, a Brooklyn "Sunday Funday" tasting and North Fork for wineries.
The Founder and tour guide, Lauren Beebe, conducted the highly curated Williamsburg food crawl. Beebe is a very warm and welcoming guide who willingly shares her passion for bringing people and great food together.
The social experience was enjoyably organic and hosted a great group of individuals from all over the United States.
The tour kicked off with Best Pizza, literally. Best Pizza in Williamsburg is in a former bakery and its century old wood-burning oven produces some matchless crust. Everyday the employees visit the local farmers market to find the freshest ingredients to deliver top quality pizza to customers.
For lovers of both savory and sweet tastings, the tour incorporates plenty of sugary delights throughout the Williamsburg neighborhood. We stopped in for a compost cookie and cereal milk soft serve at the coveted Milk Bar, the sister bakery to the famed Momofuku restaurants.
Have you ever seen a rainbow bagel before? The Bagel Store is the birthplace of the colorful baked goody, and we were given the opportunity to meet the owner, learn how the bagels are developed and taste their specialty bagels in the underground kitchen.
Some group participants weren't shy to get their hands dirty, we were able to practice the art of dough rolling. This family-oriented business put together an assortment of exclusive bagels and cream cheeses, from their popular bacon-chedder bagel to confetti cake cream cheese, it is no wonder this is one of the most treasured spots in the neighborhood.
After an array of bagel tastings, we ventured to Odd Fellows for a some ice cream. It was the perfect stop after a sunny walk to the waterfront, and the "Grapefruit Jalapeno" sorbet was a huge hit. It was undoubtedly the best sorbet I've ever tasted.
While the pack wanders from place to place, Beebe provides a brief overview of the neighborhood's history in an energetic and interesting manner. The walk may be necessary to digest for an amount of food consumed on this tour, but it is also a great way to learn and understand the architecture, street art and community that has morphed Williamsburg into what it is today.
The neighborhood offers an artistic hub of thought-provoking individuals that share a curiosity for food, the arts, craft and travel. These characteristics proved to be evident at our final stop of the day to Mast Brotherschocolate factory, one of the only companies in the U.S. that offers craft chocolate.
5. You Will Be Full and Happy!
The best of it all is that you are able to taste gourmet food all day and will be comfortably full by the end of it. Your stomach will not be left empty by any means, but you also won't feel sick and essentially comatose.
Like A Local offers a great range of flavors from locations which are not only cherished for their food, but for the special experience they provide.
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Nvidia's GTX 800M brings improved Kepler and Maxwell cores to mobile, new Battery Boost driver to double gaming battery life
By Joel Hruska on March 12, 2014 at 12:00 pm
We've previewed Nvidia's GTX 800M (Maxwell) performance before, but today the company is making the launch official. The new GTX 800 Mobile series will introduce Maxwell to the mobile gaming world — but Nvidia isn't just pushing a new GPU with this update. It's also designed a new software suite it calls Battery Boost, and promises that the new mode can dramatically improve battery life when used on laptops… and perhaps other battery-powered systems in the future.
The Kepler/Maxwell conundrum
One of the big questions laptop buyers are going to have is which chips actually contain Maxwell DNA. The answer is a bit complicated. The GeForce 830M and 840M are both Maxwell. So is the GTX 850M and some of the GTX 860Ms. Nvidia will be selling two different flavors of the GTX 860M — an 1152-core GPU flavor based on Kepler and clocked at 797MHz (+ Boost), and a 640-core variant based on Maxwell, running at up to 1029MHz (+ Boost). According to Nvidia, both cards should offer roughly identical performance — based on what we've seen of Maxwell on the desktop, that's a reasonably fair assumption.
Nvidia is still claiming significant performance improvements for the 800M family as a whole thanks to significant tweaks to the existing Kepler cards. The 880M (Kepler) gets a clock jump (954MHz + Boost, up from 823MHz on the 780M), and the 870M (Kepler) is 941MHz and 1344 cores, up from 719MHz and 1344 cores with the GTX 775M. Those are significant improvements within the same TDP band; Nvidia claims the improvements are possible thanks to a more mature process and better binning.
Battery Boost brings better longevity
Probably the biggest feature Nvidia is announcing today is Battery Boost. Battery Boost is a software solution that interfaces with the GPU and the game in question to maximize battery life. It does this by setting a fame rate cap, adjusting the level of detail, and incorporating a number of additional changes that reduce the total amount of power the system consumes.
Nvidia specifies a 30 FPS default frame rate for Battery Boost, but notes that this is completely user-configurable — if you want to play at higher frame rates, you can always tweak the game to allow it. Battery Boost can be engaged automatically when the system drops to battery power, or can be configured on a per-game basis. Nvidia does note that you'll need to launch a game from the desktop take advantage of BB — actually adjusting game detail levels automatically from within the title proved to be extremely difficult.
Unfortunately, Nvidia isn't giving much of the other details away at this point. The company states that frame rate targeting is only part of the savings, claiming that BB "further enhances the GPU, CPU, and memory efficiency during frame rendering, saving power every frame. Our innovative algorithms allow the notebook components to operate at peak efficiency for the chosen frame targets, leading to additional battery savings that frame rate targeting alone cannot provide."
That sounds like aggressive clock tuning to us, which would fit with BB's overall goals. If you know you can pull the GPU down to a 30 FPS frame target, you can probably downclock various other components. This lets you trim voltages in turn, which pulls down heat generation and improves overall efficiency. Nvidia isn't giving many details, but the company suggests that certain games can see larger gains from Battery Boost than others. Games like League Of Legends supposedly can see nearly double the playtime, while the benefits in a GPU-intense game like Crysis are more modest.
Battery Boost will be available on higher-end GeForce 800M cards and on "select" older models.
The final feature Nvidia is talking up today is new to the notebook segment — Nvidia ShadowPlay. This is Nvidia's technology for recording gameplay streams, and if that's what you actually want to do, it works well enough. I've used it before for making videos, and I'll say this — the recording quality is superior to a software-only solution like Fraps, and the file sizes are much smaller (while remaining high quality).
ShadowPlay can automatically capture the last 20 minutes of your gameplay with the press of a button (Nvidia calls this Shadow Mode) or can be manually engaged and disengaged. If you follow the company's work on desktops, you've seen this before.
As much as I love gaming — and I've been playing games since 1987 — I can't stand watching other people play. Unless they're exceptionally good at recording, editing, and commenting on the final product. Nevertheless, the explosive growth around Twitch and Ustream suggests that this is an increasingly popular market. As such, it's good that Nvidia is extending the feature into the mobile space.
As we've said before, Maxwell is going to put serious pressure on AMD's product lines, particularly in mobile, where price cuts may not offset superior TDP savings. NV has said that it will introduce "second-generation" Maxwell products later this year, though opinions are divided on whether that hardware will be built on 20nm or 28nm.
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My weekend consisted of a little bit of bowling and a little bit of my favorite dish: blackened chicken pasta. On Saturday night, I went out with my friends for bowling and Dave & busters' fun. I could not take any picture because my camera battery died the moment I tried to take my first picture of the night, which sucked :-p; so, I will be waiting until my friend emails me my pictures from her camera which might be FOREVER. The current picture is from yesterday after church. All I did yesterday was make Okra soup with fufu (seriously, I don't know why I call it that because it's really pounded yam!) and ate until I couldn't think anymore hahaha!
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Sweetie how is your week going?
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WOLVES: BOTMAN TRANSFER IS NOT POSSIBLE
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Lille defender Sven Botmanis no longer a target for Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers according to a report from The Athletic. It was stated that Dutchman Botman is not a transfer option for Wolves during this summer's transfer window which opened officially on Friday.
Wolves were linked with a move for Botman during last summer's transfer window. The Premier League club made a bid for the Lille centre back, but it was not enough for the immediate past French champions. Wolverhampton Wanderers made a £25m bid for Botman, but Lille were holding out for more money. The transfer fee demanded by the French club was £35m. Wolves were unable to meet the asking price from Lille for the player and theDutchman stayed in the French top flight as a result.
Just like last summer when he was a Wolverhampton Wanderers target,Botman has been linked with a move away from Lille this summer. The Dutch player is one of the most wanted defenders on the European football scene. He is a target for new Premier League moneybags Newcastle United and Italian Serie A champions AC Milan. Apart from Milan and Newcastle United, French giants Paris Saint Germain (PSG) are also keen on signing Botman this summer.
With teams such as AC Milan and PSG on the trail of Botman, Wolves don't have a chance of signing him this summer even if they want to sign him. The aforementioned media outlet saidWolverhampton Wanderers are not in the mix for Botman as he's not a financially viable option. The Premier League team can't compete with the likes of PSG and Milan not to talk of fellow Premier League team Newcastle United. English publication Daily Mail reported that Newcastle United have made an initial bid of £29m plus add-ons for the central defender.


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Pastel paintings have greatly enriched the world of art with their unique blends and strokes.
Pastel comes from the French word pastiche which stands for the powdered pigment that is grounded into paste and rolled in sticks. Its color ranges from the subtle to vibrant. Artists have been using it since the Renaissance even though it only became popular around 18th to 19th century. Now, pastel is considered to be one of the major mediums in fine art. Pastel paintings are known for their velvety texture and blends.
New and old pastel artists offer pastel portraits in a variety of styles. Some of them have their masterpieces displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Here are top pastel artists and their works as displayed in MET.
Benedetto Luti is an Italian artist known for his pastel portraiture. He's one of the first painters who used pastels in the final composition, not just in the initial studies for frescoes or paintings.
One of his famous works is the Study of a Boy in a Blue Jacket, also known as the Young Boy. He used chalk and pastel on a blue laid paper and laid down on a paste paper in making this work of art.
De La Tour was a French portraitist who usually worked with pastels. He is known for capturing the intellect and inner spirit of his sitter, the most famous of which are Voltaire, Rousseau, Madame de Pompadour, and Louis XV.
The Preparation for a Portrait of Louis XV was made for a pastel study in preparation for his first commission as the king's portrait artist. He used paste on a blue paper with an arched top.
Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French playwright, art commentator, and painter. His designs were mainly inspired by the designs of his father, the artist Antoine Coypel. When Antoine died, Charles also inherited his post as the First Painter to the King. During his service to the king, he presumably painted the double portrait to represent François de Jullienne and his young wife.
The portrait uses pastel, watercolor, and black chalk underdrawing on found joined handmade sheets and blue laid paper. It's mounted on a canvas and stuck to the keyed stretcher.
Anton Mengs was a German Bohemian painter who made his mark on Saxony, Madrid, and Rome alike. He also became one of the forerunners of Neoclassical art.
Though not one of his most famous works, Pleasure still portrays his usual style. It's a portrait that used pastel on a laid down paper on canvas.
These are just some of the pastel portraits found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that are given recognition and appreciation by both artists and non-artists.


Co-presidents Nicole Buckley '08 and Giulia Stellari '03 connected through Crimson Compass (the HAA's mentoring and networking database) over a shared interest in agriculture and startups. Although relatively few alumni self-identified with agriculture in the 2010 directory, the women had a hunch a larger group existed. They also realized that bringing together alumni with agricultural ties could overlap with College efforts to recruit more students from rural areas, a goal of the SIG's vice president, Nick Batter '08, a Nebraskan. Today the group is "over 250 members strong," Stellari says, and offers a range of online meetings and webinars (the most recent included Bill McKibben '82, founder of 350.org, and Dan Glickman, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former director of the Institute of Politics, discussing agriculture and climate change).
For a complete list of SIGs, visit http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/clubs-sigs/sigs-directory.


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import unittest

import config
import constants.build_environment
import util.cryptography
import util.templating
from uri.paste import PasteSubmitURI

class TestTemplating(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_import_css(self):
        import_css = util.templating.import_static_resources()['import_css']

        for environment_type in [constants.build_environment.DEV, constants.build_environment.PROD]:
            config.BUILD_ENVIRONMENT = environment_type
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//external_resource.css">',
                import_css(['//external_resource.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/build/css/path.css">',
                import_css(['path.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/lib/path.css">',
                import_css(['lib/path.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/lib/path.css">',
                import_css(['lib/path.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/build/css/path/nested/in/directory.css">',
                import_css(['path/nested/in/directory.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/build/css/path.css">',
                import_css(['path.css', 'path.css', 'path.css'])
            )
            self.assertEqual(
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/build/css/path.css">\n'
                '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/build/css/otherpath.css">',
                import_css(['path.css', 'otherpath.css'])
            )

    def test_import_js(self):
        import_js = util.templating.import_static_resources()['import_js']

        config.BUILD_ENVIRONMENT = constants.build_environment.DEV
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="//external_resource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['//external_resource.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/lib/lib.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['lib/lib.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/js/path.js" type="text/javascript" defer></script>',
            import_js(['path.js'], defer=True)
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/js/path/nested/in/directory.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path/nested/in/directory.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js', 'path.js', 'path.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>\n'
            '<script src="/static/js/otherpath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js', 'otherpath.js'])
        )

        config.BUILD_ENVIRONMENT = constants.build_environment.PROD
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="//external_resource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['//external_resource.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/lib/lib.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['lib/lib.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/lib/lib.js" type="text/javascript" defer></script>',
            import_js(['lib/lib.js'], defer=True)
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '',
            import_js(['universal/js.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/build/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/build/js/path/nested/in/directory.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path/nested/in/directory.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/build/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js', 'path.js', 'path.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/build/js/path.js" type="text/javascript"></script>\n'
            '<script src="/static/build/js/otherpath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['path.js', 'otherpath.js'])
        )
        self.assertEqual(
            '<script src="/static/build/js/multipart/ControllerController.js" type="text/javascript"></script>',
            import_js(['multipart/controller/MainController.js', 'multipart/controller/MainSubController.js'])
        )

    def test_get_uri_path(self):
        uri = util.templating.get_uri_path()['uri']
        full_uri = util.templating.get_uri_path()['full_uri']

        self.assertEqual(PasteSubmitURI.uri(), uri('paste', 'PasteSubmitURI'))
        self.assertEqual(PasteSubmitURI.uri(key='value'), uri('paste', 'PasteSubmitURI', key='value'))
        self.assertEqual(PasteSubmitURI.full_uri(), full_uri('paste', 'PasteSubmitURI'))
        self.assertEqual(PasteSubmitURI.full_uri(key='value'), full_uri('paste', 'PasteSubmitURI', key='value'))

    def test_get_id_repr(self):
        id_repr = util.templating.get_id_repr()['id_repr']

        decid = 25
        encid = util.cryptography.get_encid(decid)

        config.USE_ENCRYPTED_IDS = True
        self.assertEqual(encid, id_repr(decid))
        self.assertEqual(encid, id_repr(encid))

        config.USE_ENCRYPTED_IDS = False
        self.assertEqual(decid, id_repr(decid))
        self.assertEqual(decid, id_repr(encid))

    def test_get_all_uris(self):
        uri = util.templating.get_uri_path()['uri']
        all_uris = util.templating.get_all_uris()['all_uris']()
        self.assertGreater(len(all_uris), 0)

        for uri_module in all_uris:
            for uri_class in all_uris[uri_module]:
                self.assertIsNotNone(uri(uri_module, uri_class))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


On Tamir Rice's 15th birthday, I stared at his picture until it became my brother's. Until it became my sister's. Until it was each and every Black child I could remember.
I've struggled to write this story many times. I've counted how many I's are in it. I do not want Tamir's life (and death) to be a vessel for this story. I want him to have control over what these things mean, to breathe instances, beginnings and worlds between life, death, movement and the traveling to what comes after.
On November 22nd, 2014, Tamir's body, shot at twice and hit in the torso once, bounced on the wet, snowy ground like the basketball he loved. His blood, flowing and open, traveled into the earth with no sign of resurrection. At some point it cooled and solidified. We know the why and how of his murder. And still, we imagine him resting and rising in power.
My ten year old brother, who also likes Legos and basketball, slid down my mama's always loose, brown and white staircase railing. And I imagined him dying. I imagine all of us dying, everyday in multiple ways. I don't know how to get my brain to stop doing this. I have tried.
As he landed on the off-white tile floor and slid halfway to the door, I stopped breathing. I thanked whatever is out there that he survived. I'm still thanking it. And I mourned a little, because each time he does this, each time he exists freely, I will imagine a way and a day when he will not.
I've forced my brain to imagine a pastpresentfuture where Tamir is resting in peace and in power. My therapist said studies show that brains can not register death. Spirit says we are not supposed to in this way. There is no current language to express how we continue to become places that will not last.
I want Tamir's rest to be layups on a full basketball court built out of Lego blocks. A ball in his hand that never goes flat. His face joyous and at ease. His now 17 year old sister Tajai yelling, "Pass me the ball. You travelled!" At 14, she had been tackled, handcuffed and put into the back of a police car while he lay dying on the ground hundreds of feet away from her.
In this imagined rest, they jump rope, ask the spirits to open up the playground and fill it with children who have had to grieve for themselves and others. Amongst them are children who never got the opportunity to. The spirits listen and the ground smiles. This is not utopia.
This is another place that claims rest while allowing unlimited visits to and from family, for Tamir and Tajai to see each other as many times as they want. For them to curse and make silly faces and do homework. For his mother and grandmother to see how his layups have improved.
I wish Tamir were still alive. In wishing, I've begun to question how children rest in life and in death. How can he be at rest when he was violently taken away from the world, from his family, from himself? How is rest possible? Is the spirit able to reconcile with the pain, anger, disappointment and fear that comes from murder (by the state, community, family and school system)?
The intentional foundation and functions of white supremacy in all its iterations blocks the path of rest, reflection and recovery for Black folk. Black children suffer a heavier, more complex burden because society at large considers them to be immature and lacking agency. In order to address the ways that anti-blackness has been perpetuated within and outside of our communities, we must expose the contradictions, cracks and oversights by bringing children into these conversations.
We claim that our emphasis and concept(s) of rest are in the name of Black children but in our attempts to reconcile (and challenge) the historic terrors that Black bodies experience, we have left them out of the conversation. The imaginings we mention and develop are attempts at comforting the living, usually adult persons with little regard to the victim, dead. Even if, especially when the victims are children.
Children have an incredible amount of content and ability to shape the conversation and they must be the leaders, thought makers and creators throughout. They must have agency as fully functioning individuals, capable of deep thought and tough decision making in life, death and the afterlife. We can not do the work if we're silencing them in any/ all realm(s).
Black people deserve rest. We deserve to be held and cherished and protected.
I do not doubt this. I question what this "rest" is for the living and the dead. How it feels and what it looks like.
What does it mean to rest in and outside of a Black body in an anti-Black world? Is rest an unattainable luxury for us? Can we trust that any spirit is resting when its body has been taken? Where do Black children go when they're killed? When they haven't acclimated to this world? Are we in tune with the spirits that have been stuck here or in the in between? When we're asleep and hopeful, can we call it rest?
Is there a type of rest that can exist in big and small ways? If I am left on the ground in sweltering heat, my body expanding and getting heavier on the pavement, am I resting? When and if I transition from body to spirit, is there a place for me outside of the violence I have experienced? Can I travel towards my family, give my 14 year old sister a signal that I'll go on to something better? What do you do with the generations of the undead and unrested beneath our bonds, in the ground, inhabiting the rooms with us?
Is rest for a Black child/ body a fantasy or dream? Is it attainable?
What Comes After/ During/ Before?
In Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar's "Never Catch Me" video, rest, death, joy and control are re-defined and re-explored through dance. The emphasis on the two "dead" Black children leaving out of the funeral home provides an alternate narrative to the process of mourning. The balance of serious and playful tones in the video, highlight the complexity and control that the children exert over death (and the afterlife). Death's inability to "catch" them is a powerful statement and the fact that they are not running "from" or trying to avoid death separates this narrative from the usual ones we hear. It is a narrative that most adults would not imagine creating.
The video asks, What is rest if not a celebration? A reorientation of space and time? A recognizing of the work? It reminds the viewer that death will "never catch" them. They have caught it.
How do the perceptions of death and rest vary from child, adolescent and adult? What is the difference between resting and feeling rested? What is mourning? Have we been ending for a long time? Where is rest within the conversation of life, love and death? Is rest possible, alive or dead? Are the dead cradled, rocked to sleep? For how long? Is it a deep rest? Is there space to let go? Do we let go? What would this space look like for living and dead children? What would it look like for children to lead the conversation?
When I say rest, there are no conjured images of Emerson's Walking.
We deserve a specialized type of rest that opens up space for self actualization, love, safety and nourishment. It is both a response to the world around us and a re-visiting of what sustained and restored us before. To rest as a Black person is different than rest for anybody else on this planet. Rest as revolution and as a returning to; an intentional practice that honors our spirit, blood and ritual. It must be attainable for Black people everywhere.
Rest is a world where Black children are protected and honored. It's this life in the next, the imagined and the built.
It's what exists beyond. Rest is a guarantee that someone will meet you on the other side. Rest is a place where you get to exist exactly as you are, with no expectation that you'll need to be something else. Rest is sleep and safety for spirit bone.
I hope that Tamir is there, in that active resting place. Smiling with company and telling them when he needs a break.
Never let you catch me.
the first 10 to 15 minutes are usually wasted just trying to figure out how to begin. Any recommendations or tips?


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Q: MongoDB query to get all documents matching with key with mutliple values I have documents in mongodb which has a transaction_id. Data type of transaction_id is ObjectId.
If I do below query, I get the document:
db.collection.find({ 'transaction_id': ObjectId('609cfef4ad16361274eb12e2') })
   .projection({})
   .sort({_id:-1})
   .limit(100)

But what if I want to get all the documents for multiple transaction ids. So I did:
db.collection.find({ 'transaction_id': [ObjectId('609cfef4ad16361274eb12e2'), ObjectId('609cfeecad16361274eb12e1')] })
   .projection({})
   .sort({_id:-1})
   .limit(100)

I get no documents. How can I get all the documents for matching transaction ids. Thanks

A: You can use in operator:
db.collection.find( { 'transaction_id': { $in: [ObjectId('609cfef4ad16361274eb12e2'), ObjectId('609cfeecad16361274eb12e1')] } } )


Bates and Lambourne was formed in 1979 by Richard Bates and David Lambourne. Richard's grandfather began manufacturing chairs in 1919, trading as C. R. Bates & Sons. For over sixty years the company was an integral part of the Chilterns and High Wycombe tradition of Windsor chair manufacture, as well as making snow shoes for the military during World War II. David Lambourne was apprenticed to C. R. Bates & Sons as a young man, becoming a highly skilled traditional chair maker, a craft to which he devoted his entire working life.
In 1985, the Bates and Lambourne partnership became a triumvirate when Tony Smith joined the company. Tony, from a High Wycombe engineering family, had previously been working for some years as an antique restorer, cabinet maker and traditional wheelwright in Montgomeryshire, Wales.
Soon after this, the workshop moved to its current location at Milton Common, Oxfordshire. Since then it has gradually expanded to a workforce of around a dozen skilled craftsmen, with different departments specialising in different areas of furniture production.
Our workshops were originally built to house Italian prisoners of war during World War II, hence the name The Camp Industrial Estate. While home comforts have not much improved since then, we are now well equipped with the machinery required to produce good quality timber furniture affordably. However, at Bates and Lambourne our emphasis has always been more on the skills of the individual maker rather than the use of excessive technology.
In 2001, and with several thousand Windsor chairs behind him, David Lambourne retired. Josh Howard-Saunders, who had been employed as a cabinetmaker with the company since 1996, joined Richard and Tony in partnership in 2003. In 2014 Richard Bates retired, and Harry Williams who had been with the company as a chairmaker for a dozen years, joined Tony and Josh as directors of the company.


Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' ship Braemar has come to the aid of a sailing yacht marooned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, with the dramatic rescue of the 14-metre Nicollet and her four Polish passengers and crew.
The vessel had been adrift for nearly three days.
Fred. Olsen's 929-guest Braemar was cruising from Santa Cruz, Tenerife to Bridgetown, Barbados, at a speed of 16.2 Knots, when the officer of the watch spotted the drifting sailing yacht Nicollet on the radar, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean, ten nautical miles from the cruise ship.
Braemar's officer contacted the Nicollet to make sure that everything was in order, since the yacht was drifting and no sails were hoisted.
The yacht confirmed that the steering gear was broken and the sea anchor had been deployed.
The yacht had been drifting for 2.5 days and was en route from Las Palmas to Dominica.
The Nicollet was carrying two passengers, one male and one female, and two male crew members, all of Polish nationality.
The skipper of the sailing yacht requested that the cruise ship take the two passengers on board and supply some material for the necessary repairs to the Nicollet, which the two crew members would carry out.
Captain Bamberg informed Braemar's guests that the ship would be involved in a rescue operation, and he manoeuvred the ship into position, ready to lower the rescue tender boat.
Tender boat number ten was then launched, with six crew members aboard.
Speaking of the rescue operation, captain Robert Bamberg, master of Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' Braemar, said: "The sea conditions at the scene were very challenging, with three to five metres of swell, so in order to be able to carry out a rescue operation in such circumstances, everyone must know exactly what to do.
"Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is proud to have a very robust safety culture and procedures in place across its fleet, and my Officers and crew showed true professionalism and knowledge while carrying out this rescue operation.
It is expected that the two passengers from the Nicollet will remain on board Braemar until Dominica, where they will re-join the repaired yacht.
Braemar will arrive in Bridgetown, Barbados on December 31st 2015, where she will stay overnight, to see in the New Year in true Caribbean style.


Pictured is a mill in West Salem adjacent to the La Crosse River along Highway 16, just before the start of Highway 108 in La Crosse County. Photo courtesy of Eric Paulsen.
Eric Paulsen grew up in Oconomowoc, where the intersection of highways 16 and 67 had his young mind wondering what would happen if he followed those roads to their ends.
Highway 16 ends up in La Crosse, at least if you're heading west, he later learned. Turning east out of Oconomowoc, the road stops in Milwaukee.
His fascination with state highways and the treasures they reveal as drivers slow down and pass through small town Wisconsin has turned into a record of adventure documented on his website, StateTrunkTour.com.
The self-described "road geek," co-host of Discover Wisconsin and a radio deejay for Milwaukee's 95.7 and Madison's 92.1, Paulsen has detailed listings of 71 state trunk highways including the counties they run through, interesting sites to see and facts about the highway.
"It's still a work in progress because it turns out it takes a lot of time to drive all these roads and catalog," he said, adding that he plans to expand into county and rustic roads.
The project began about 10 years ago with Paulsen's first deliberate trip along Highway 59 with end points in Monroe and Milwaukee. After stopping in Monroe for a grilled-cheese sandwich at Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern, he picked Highway 59 back up and headed home to Milwaukee.
He passed through Albany and saw the Sugar River Trail, which follows the path of an old railroad line. He wound through Edgerton, Whitewater and the Kettle Moraine area — "charming small towns," he said.
"It takes me forever to do these routes because I stop at so many things; every little shiny object catches my eye, from charming little taverns to museums to natural formations to interesting mailboxes, I mean, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff out there."
Paulsen started with trunk highways to keep the theme of his website content consistent. Trunk highways are part of the state's transportation system that also comprises interstates and U.S. highways, among others.
Interstates are federally-funded, high-speed freeways that were modeled after Germany's Autobahns and developed in 1956 as a defense system to quickly transport materials across the United States.
Prior to the interstate system, U.S. highways were designed in 1926 and are federal roads and can be freeways, divided four-lane roads or two-lane roads.
Trunk highways, such as state and county highways, are less trafficked and often marked by slower speeds, maintained and funded at the state or county level, and for the most part exist only in the state.
While focused on state trunk highways, Paulsen said, "I love some of the key county roads and would like to add them to the site, but there's a ton of them and I'd have to add those gradually."
Wisconsin was the first government in the world to implement a numbering system for roads, which began in 1917. Michigan followed in 1918 and eventually became commonplace.
Paulsen said while bypasses have improved drive time and traffic flow, there's been a negative impact on small towns who don't meet those would-be visitors. But with renewed interest in taking the long way, small towns could stand to benefit.
So will drivers, Paulsen maintains.
"Some of the back roads in the state just lead you to some of the most hidden gems that you can possibly imagine," he said.


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Chapter 142 -- Peter and Mary Terry Lauritzen
Peter Lauritzen, son of Peter Lauritzen and Caroline Christina Jensen Lauritzen, was born in Moroni, Utah on March 13, 1875. He was the second child and first son. He had four sisters and five brothers. His parents were born in the Church and reared their children in the principles of the Gospel.
The father had rheumatism so Peter was taken out of school to plant crops and help on the farm. He had no schooling beyond the seventh grade. His father went on a mission when Peter was 12-13 years of age and he never got back in school. When his father returned he was called as a worker in the Manti Temple. On October 1, 1890 his father was hurt by a bull and died of his injuries on the third of the same month. That left Peter sole help of the farm and to help his mother raise the family.
In 1900 he and his brother Orson moved to Preston, White Pine County, Nevada looking for work.
Mary Loanna Terry was born in St. George, Utah on the second of April 1880. She was the oldest child of William Alanson and Mary Elizabeth Baker Terry. She had three brothers and three sisters. All the Terry children were members of the L.D.S. Church and received all ordinances of the Church.
As a young woman she pioneered to Lund, Nevada with her family where some of the families had been asked by the Church leaders to go.
Peter and Mary met at a dance in Lund at the Bradley home. At that time Peter drove a peddler's wagon with fruit and farm products to Ely, Currant Creek, Lund and Preston. This was a week's trip among the mines and farming communities. In 1901, after a short romance, dancing and going places in the back of the wagon, Peter hooked his team and with her mother, her sister Veda, and his bride-to-be, drove to Moroni then to the Manti Temple. On May 22, 1901, Peter Lauritzen and Mary Loanna Terry were married in the Manti Temple by John D. T. McCallister. The couple visited a while and then went home.
They had gone three miles to Millard County, to Kraft's ranch, when they came upon a road water pond which they would have to drive through. The horses couldn't pull the load so they unloaded and unhooked the horses and took them to dry ground and then he carried his new bride piggy-back through the water to the dry ground and then walked to the Kraft farm and borrowed a chain and hooked it to the tongue of the wagon and the horses and pulled the wagon onto dryground.
The young couple had a reception in Moroni and then again in Preston.
Peter was Superintendent of Sunday School from 1904-1906. Their first child was born in Lund and died at the age of 13 days. He was Lorus Elden. Their first daughter, Eva Loanna, was born June 30, 1903. She was a beautiful child and helped ease the pain of losing their little boy. On the 3rd of May 1905 Zelma was born. December 1, 1906, Hazel was born. The first three children were born in a log cabin that Peter had built and later built a tent room on the side of the cabin where Olive was born April 6, 1908. That same year Peter took Eva to Utah to have an operation on her foot which had been damaged from stepping bare-foot on a piece of granite from a broken vessel of some kind. He drove her and the rest of the family in to the LDS Hospital by team but came back by train.
Then Peter built the new house which was made of stone with a gabled roof and L shaped. He planted trees around it and it was such a lovely place. Here Edna Ina was born June 3, 1910, Mary Caroline April 3, 1912, and then they had another boy after six girls, Wilson Peter was born October 21, 1914. He was such a joy to them and to his six older sisters. They finally had their little boy.
Another daughter was born to them while living in that house, Verna Eomia born September9, 1916.
While the family lived in the stone house they had many happy times. Mary's sister, Marilda, who was married to Peter's brother, Orson, for awhile lived just down the hill from them and they were a comfort to each other. The children played together. Later Orson was killed when a horse he was riding stepped in a hole and fell and broke his leg and he fell on Orson. Marilda later married Hyrum Whitlock and more children were born to them and both families continued their good relationship.
Then Peter bought a farm and built a clap board, two room house on it. Here another son was born to the Lauritzens, Orson William, September 30, 1918. Peter here made harnesses and broke horses for people.
While Peter lived in Preston he was Second Counselor to Bishop Arnoldsen and First Counselor to Bishop Christian Hermansen, and to Bishop Niels Peter Jensen. Mary was a Counselor in the Primary and worked in the Relief Society. They were all an active family in the Church and a very happy family. They had many happy activities in Preston and were close to all the people and with the Lund people.
In 1918 the family moved to Ely and later to Metropolis. While living there another son, Vaughn Kent, was born to them on August 10, 1921 and a daughter, Verda Mae, July 8, 1923. Later they moved to Union, Utah. Here the children grew up but the memories of Preston and the people were with them and the younger ones who were too young to remember the happenings grew up hearing about the people and the happy times they used to have.
Written and submitted by:
Eomia Lauritzen Prina