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U.S. Reps. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, and Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, on Friday filed legislation to make the elementary-middle school a National Historic Site under the supervision of the National Parks Service.
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The school serves as a "tangible reminder of a time when the practice of 'separate but equal' dominated education and social systems," the legislation reads.
"We have a responsibility as a nation to care for these places and ensure the history they represent is told," Hurd said in a statement. "Blackwell School might represent a dark time in our nation's past, but we must not shy away from our past so future generations learn from it."
There wasn't a state law requiring separate schools for Hispanic students, but schools in Texas practiced de facto segregation, according to the Texas Historical Commission.
The Blackwell School opened in 1909 and closed in 1965, when Marfa schools were integrated. Hundreds of students attended the school, named after Jesse Blackwell, its longtime principal, according to its website.
"These schools were ubiquitous across Texas — most communities had a separate school for children of Mexican descent, but none of them are being preserved," said Gretel Enck, president of the Blackwell School Alliance.
The history of the school is a complex one, she said.
"We really want to honor that complexity," Enck said. "There's good, there's bad for all of the hundreds and hundreds of students who went through the Blackwell School. They each had their own experience, but there's no denying they had the secondhand books and furniture and sports equipment."
Students also were paddled for speaking Spanish on campus, she added.
For those who grew up in Marfa and had family members who went to the school, it's long been thought of as "an important local, personal story," city leaders said in a July letter to Hurd, whose district includes part of far East El Paso County.
Now, they've come to understand the story's "much bigger and widespread importance."
"Today, we've made so much progress, yet the Blackwell school serves as an authentic place to learn our history and make sure we never go back to those days," the letter supporting the legislation states.
The school, which is owned by the Marfa Independent School District, is being leased by the Blackwell School Alliance. It is normally open to visitors on Saturdays, but is closed because of the coronavirus.
Most of the school's buildings have been demolished, except for the 1909 schoolhouse and an attached band hall.
"This designation will help preserve and maintain the property so that folks across Texas and the nation can visit and learn the history and experiences of Mexican-American families during this time in Texas history," Vela said in a statement.
Marfa ISD's board of trustees has endorsed the legislation, according to a letter to Hurd from the district's superintendent.
"Like so many stories in America, Blackwell's is one of both pain and pride. And who better to tell that story than the National Park Service?" Theresa Pierno, president and CEO for the National Parks Conservation Association, said in a statement.
It's important the school be remembered because of its relevance today, Enck said.
"I long for the day when the Blackwell school isn't relevant, but it so absolutely is," she said. "We cannot understand the racial and ethnic dynamics in our country today without understanding what's come before in terms of how people were treated, how Anglo society justified that treatment and how it played out.
"We need this education to understand where we are today."
Eleanor Dearman may be reached at 361-244-0047; edearman@elpasotimes.com; @EllyDearman on Twitter.


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Lyric Hammersmith
Salle 1: (550) - Actif
En métro: Hammersmith
Our building began its extraordinary life in 1895 as an intimate opera house. It was designed by the prolific theatre architect, Frank Matcham, and was originally built on another site a little further down King Street.
During the first 70 years of our life we fell on good times and bad. In 1966 the Lyric was forced to close its doors and scheduled for demolition to make way for a housing and shopping complex. But a public outcry ensued and, instead, the theatre was carefully dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt on the current site along with a contemporary black-box studio space. The new Lyric was re-opened in 1979 by the Queen.
In 2004 our building underwent another major redevelopment led by the internationally acclaimed architect Rick Mather. This reorientated the old small entrance on King Street to an impressive new entrance on Lyric Square and also created a new ticket office, street level cafe, rehearsal and workshop spaces.
We have recently started work on the next phase of our life. A multi-million pound project to expand the current building to create new facilities for training young people to become the theatre-makers of the future, scheduled for completion in 2013.
Over the hundred year history the Lyric has welcomed some of the world's finest writers, directors, actors and theatre companies to its stages. From Harold Pinter to Simon Stephens, Sir John Gielgud to Robert Lepage, Complicite to Frantic Assembly.
Today we present 1000 performances a year that bring over 150,000 people through our doors - people of all ages and backgrounds from across London and beyond.
41) Antigone: The Burial at Thebes (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Roy Alexander Weise •
Commentaire: Roy Alexander Weise directs Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's bold translation of Sophocles' Antigone, in a large scale production featuring a chorus of young performers from the Lyric Ensemble. (plus)
40) Love, Love, Love (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Richard O'Riordan •
Commentaire: Rachel O'Riordan directs a major revival of this award-winning play that feels more relevant than ever. (plus)
39) Faustus: That Damned Woman (Original)
Metteur en scène: Caroline Byrne •
Avec: PJodie McNee (Johanna Faustus), Danny Lee Wynter (Mephistopheles), Katherine Carlton, Alicia Charles, Emmanuella Cole, Barnaby Power, Tim Samuels.
Commentaire: Award-winning playwright Chris Bush reimagines the Faust myth to explore what we must sacrifice to achieve greatness, and the legacy that we leave behind.
Caroline Byrne directs this radical new work in which the iconic character of Faustus becomes a woman who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to traverse centuries and change the course of history.
It will premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre before playing at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 24 February. It will then tour the UK, visiting Bristol Old Vic, Leeds Playhouse and Northern Stage throughout March and April 2020. (plus)
38) Cinderella (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Tinuke Craig •
Avec: Timmika Ramsay (Cinderella), Shobna Gulati (Madame Meanie), Rhys Taylor (Fairy Fredbare), Mairi Barclay (Topsy), Lauren Samuels (Popsy), Jodie Jacobs, Jon Alderson, Bradley Bryant, Melanie Joyce-Ashurst, Jessica Manu, Carla Reid, Rachel Shobande.
Presse: One of the coolest seasonal shows in London.
Tradition with a progressive twist
Slick and spiked full of festive fun West London style
London Unattached
One of the fairest evenings in all the land
WhatsOnStage
A smart, heartwarming treat
37) Solaris (Original)
Première preview: jeu. 10 octobre 2019
Metteur en scène: Matthew Lutton •
Avec: Polly Frame, Hugo Weaving, Jade Ogugua, Keegan Joyce, Fode Simbo
Commentaire: This psychological thriller asks who we are when we're forced to confront our deepest fears.
David Greig adapts Stanisław Lem's cult science fiction novel for the stage. Our international co-production arrives at the Lyric direct from The Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh and Melbourne, Australia. (plus)
36) A Doll s House (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Rachel O'Riordan •
Avec: Anjana Vasan, Elliot Cowan, Arinder Sadhra, Colin Tierney, Tripti Tripuraneni, Assad Zaman
Commentaire: Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race. (plus)
35) Noises Off (Revival)
Première preview: jeu. 27 juin 2019
Libettiste: Michael Frayn •
Metteur en scène: Jeremy Herrin •
Avec: Meera Syal, Lloyd Owen, Daniel Rigby, Lois Chimimba, Jonathan Cullen, Debra Gillett, Amy Morgan, Enyi Okoronkwo and Simon Rouse.
Commentaire: Michael Frayn's award-winning Noises Off premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1982 and instantly became an iconic British comedy.
Hailed as one of the funniest plays of all time, Noises Off makes its triumphant return to the Lyric almost 40 years on, in a bold new production by Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Hall/This House) for fans to enjoy and new audiences to discover. (plus)
34) Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Mike Shepherd •
Avec: Rina Fatania, Georgia Frost, James Gow, Angela Hardie, Martin Hyder, Dave Johnzy, Giles King, Patrycja Kujawska, Lucy Rivers, Alex Lupo, Dominic Marsh, Beverly Rudd, Sarah Wright and Tim Dalling
33) Ghost Stories (Revival)
Première: ven. 05 avril 2019
Metteur en scène: Andy Nyman •
Avec: Simon Lipkin (Professor Goodman), Garry Cooper (Tony Matthews), Preston Nyman (Simon Rifkind), Richard Sutton (Mike Priddle)
32) Animals and Children Took to the Streets (The) (Original London)
Metteur en scène: Suzanne Andrade •
31) Leave to Remain (Original)
Première preview: ven. 18 janvier 2019
Première: jeu. 24 janvier 2019
Metteur en scène: Robby Graham •
Commentaire: A new play with songs by Matt Jones (Mr Selfridge, Stan Lee's Lucky Man, Doctor Who, Torchwood) and Bloc Party's Kele Okereke. Directed by Southpaw Dance Company's Robby Graham. (plus)
30) Dick Whittington (Original)
Metteur en scène: Jude Christian •
Avec: Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Mayor Pigeon), Hollie Edwin (Alice Fitzwarren), Jodie Jacobs (Bow Belles), Keziah Joseph (Tom Cat), Luke Latchman (Dick Whittington), Carl Mullaney (Sarah Fitzwarren), Sarah-Louise Young (Queen Rat)
Commentaire: This year Dick Whittington will be getting the full Lyric treatment. You can expect the usual mix of live music, crazy characters, awesome adventure, singing, dancing, villainous baddies and heroic goodies with a little bit of feline flavour chucked in for good measure. (plus)
29) Othellomacbeth (Original)
Avec: Samuel Collings (Iago/Macduff), Grace Cookey-Gam (Ludovico/Lennox), Caroline Faber (Lady Macbeth), Kirsten Foster (Desdemona), Sandy Grierson (Cassio/Macbeth), Paul Courtenay Hyu (Brabantio/Duncan), Kezrena James (Bianca), Melissa Johns (Emilia), Ery Nzaramba (Othello/Banquo)
Commentaire: Directed by Jude Christian, who most recently co-directed the sell-out, Royal Court production of My Mum's a Twat with Vicky Featherstone, as well as the 2015 hit Lela & Co, also at the Royal Court. Jude returns to Manchester following her work directing the Royal Exchange and Bush Theatre production of Parliament Square. Her collaboration with the Lyric Hammersmith continues following 2017's The Seagull.
This production is designed by Basia Bińkowska, the overall winner of the Linbury Prize 2017. The Linbury Prize is the UK's most prestigious award for Stage Design, providing a unique opportunity for graduating designers to work with some of the UK's leading theatre, opera and dance companies. (plus)
28) Fatherland (Original)
Metteur en scène: Scott Graham •
Commentaire: World Premiere.
FATHERLAND is a bold new theatre show created by Scott Graham from Frantic Assembly, Underworld's Karl Hyde and playwright Simon Stephens, focusing on contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the trio's home towns in the heart of the country, FATHERLAND is a survey of life in England's towns today. The show will transform the familiar spaces of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, with a cast of 13 men and a remarkable, all-embracing musical score by Karl Hyde and Matthew Herbert. Part of the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) (plus)
Presse: **** 'Go! This is stunning, messy and authentic.' Time Out
**** 'Fatherland finds thrilling beauty in the lives of ordinary men' The Telegraph
**** 'a deeply affecting look at masculinity, with a thumping soundtrack' The iNews
**** 'Moving and euphoric' The Stage
'a fascinating, if not always flattering, portrait of modern masculinity'
27) Plough and the Stars (The) (Revival)
Metteur en scène: Sean Holmes •
Avec: Ian Lloyd Anderson (Jack Clitheroe), Niall Buggy (Peter Flynn), Charlie Cassen (Sgt Tinley), John Currivan (Bar-tender), Phelim Drew (Fluther Good), Hilda Fay (Bessie Burgess), Liam Heslin (Captain Brennan), Julie Maguire (Mollser), Paul Mescal (Lieut Langon), Janet Moran (Mrs Gogan), Ciaran O'Brien (The Young Covey), Kate Stanley Brennan (Nora Clitheroe), Adam Strawford (Corporal Stoddart), Nyree Yergainharsian (Rosie Redmond)
Commentaire: Following a sell-out season at the Abbey Theatre as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Rising, as well as a successful Irish and US tour, The Plough and the Stars, comes to the Lyric as a co-production with the Abbey Theatre. (plus)
Presse: **** "[A] refreshed, high-energy restaging" The Guardian
**** "powerfully acted" The Telegraph
**** "playful, painful and, yes, resonant evening" The Times
**** "The cast is phenomenal" The Observer
26) Things I Know to be True (Original London)
Metteur en scène: Scott Graham • Georgie Brookman •
Avec: Matthew Barker (Mark), Kirsty Oswald (Rosie), Cate Hamer (Fran), Seline Hizli (Pip), John McArdle (Bob), Arthur Wilson (Ben)
Commentaire: Featuring Frantic Assembly's celebrated physicality, and co-directed by Frantic Assembly's Tony and Olivier Award nominated Artistic Director Scott Graham and State Theatre Company's Artistic Director Geordie Brookman, Things I Know To Be True is a complex and intense study of the mechanics of a family that is both poetic and brutally frank.
Following a hugely successful 2016 Australian and UK tour, Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia's critically acclaimed Things I Know To Be True returns to delight audiences in early 2018. (plus)
Presse: ***** "A thing of beauty. Exquisitely observed. An absolute gem." Daily Telegraph
**** "An intricate, inventive study of family life. Genuinely beautiful." Evening Standard
**** "Genuinely haunting and fervently recommended." Independent
25) Jack & the Beanstalk (Original)
Avec: Kayla Meikle (Daisy the Cow), Faith Omole (Jack), Cherrelle Skeete (Fairy Godmother), Vikki Stone (Fleshcreep), Daniel Fraser (Jill), Kraig Thornber (Dame Lotte Trottalot), Montel Bowen (Ensemble), Olivia Rose David (Ensemble), Lucy Harvard (Ensemble), Jack Pallister (Ensemble), Tienne Simon (Ensemble), Amelia Stevenson (Ensemble)
Presse: **** "Fee-fi-fo-fum, this sparkly panto is just loads of fun" Evening Standard
**** "fizzy and fun" The Stage
**** "Magical and puzzling in all the right ways." Time Out
24) Seagull (The) (Revival)
Libettiste: Anton Chekhov •
Avec: Lesley Sharp (Irina Arkadina), Adelayo Adedayo (Nina), Michele Austin (Pauline), Lloyd Cooney, Nicholas Gleaves, Paul Higgins (Hugo Dorn), Lloyd Hutchinson, Cherrelle Skeete (Marcia), Raphael Sowole, Nicholas Tennant (Peter Sorin), Brian Vernel (Konstantin)
Commentaire: Switching effortlessly between the ridiculous and the profound The Seagull forensically examines the transcendence and destructiveness of love. The burning need to create Art and how harshly that need can be crushed permeates throughout the play. (plus)
Presse: ***** "An unmissable piece of theatre." LondonTheatre.co.uk
**** "Properly funny and properly gut-punching." What's On Stage
**** "It's a belter: chilling, impassioned, funny." Time Out
**** "One of the funniest Seagulls, but also one of the most heartbreaking." The Guardian
23) Fantastic Mr Fox (Reprise)
Première: ven. 04 août 2017
Compositeur: Tobias Picker •
Parolier: Donald Sturrock •
Libettiste: Roald Dahl •
Metteur en scène: Maria Aberg •
Avec: Richard Atwill (Rat/Bean), Greg Barnett (Mr Fox), Patrick Burbridge (Bird No. 2), Raphael Bushay (Badger/Boggis), Jade Croot (Kit), Lillie Flynn (Mrs Fox), Anna Fordham (Bird No. 3), Sandy Foster (Rabbit), Gruffudd Glyn (Mole/Bunce), Richie Hart (Bird No. 1), Edward Hole (Ensemble), Kelly Jackson (Mouse/Dance Captain), Tanya Shields (Ensemble)
Commentaire: Back by popular demand! (plus)
Presse: **** "Fresh family entertainment – a whisker-licking treat" The Times
**** "fantastic!" The Observer
22) Terror (Original)
Première: jeu. 22 juin 2017
Avec: Tanya Moodie, Performer	Emma Fielding
Commentaire: The Lyric presents the UK Premiere of Ferdinand von Schirach's thrilling courtroom drama. A worldwide phenomenon that has been stirring debate across the globe. The production is directed by the Lyric's Artistic Director, Sean Holmes and designed by Olivier Award-winner Anna Fleischle. (plus)
Presse: **** "Gripping, grown-up global hit" The Times
**** "Theatre at its best... deserves a West End transfer" The Sunday Times
**** "A super play... powerfully topical" Daily Mail
**** " 'A slick legal drama" City AM
**** The Financial Times
21) City of Glass (Original)
Metteur en scène: Leo Warner •
Avec: Mark Edel-Hunt (Daniel Quinn), Chris New (Daniel Quinn), Vivienne Acheampong, Jack Tarlton
Commentaire: Tony Award-winning 59 Productions (An American in Paris, War Horse, David Bowie Is) and Olivier Award-nominated playwright Duncan Macmillan (People, Places, Things) bring this seminal American novel to life in a dazzlingly original stage adaptation.
This bold, technically ground-breaking production uses stagecraft, projection, magic and illusion to immerse audiences in the dizzying, disorientating and ultimately transcendental story that helped establish Auster's reputation as 'one of America's greatest living novelists' (The Guardian) (plus)
Presse: **** "It's totally different from anything else you might see at the theatre." Time Out
**** "Neo-noir thriller that rewrites the rulebook for theatre design… a must-see show" The Daily Telegraph
**** "Extraordinary video-designs" Independent
**** "A terrific experience… a genuinely thrilling and enthralling evening" The Arts Desk
***** "Heralds a new era of vital, sensual, liminal theatre" City AM
20) Seventeen (Original London)
Première preview: sam. 04 mars 2017
Metteur en scène: Anne-Louise Sarks •
Avec: Sarah Ball (Lizzy), Richard Cordery (Tom), Michael Feast (Mike), Mike Grady (Ronny), Diana Hardcastle (Jess), Morgot Leicester (Emilia)
19) Fantastic Mr Fox (Original)
18) Aladdin (Original)
Commentaire: The Lyric's annual panto returns when Aladdin flies into Hammersmith on his magic carpet for some festive fun in true Lyric style. (plus)
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17) Shopping and F***ing (Revival)
Compositeur: ???? ???? •
Parolier: ???? ???? •
Commentaire: Twenty years since its explosive premiere, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes brings Mark Ravenhill's provocative first play, Shopping and Fucking back to the stage.
With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink wrapped world. A place where Shopping is sexy and Fucking is a job. (plus)
16) Bugsy Malone (Revival)
Première: ven. 24 juin 2016
Compositeur: Paul Williams •
Parolier: Paul Williams •
Libettiste: Mickey Dolenz •
Chorégraphe: Drew McOnie •
15) Lovesong (UK Tour)
Metteur en scène: Steven Hoggett • Scott Graham •
Chorégraphe: Steven Hoggett •
Avec: Sian Phillips (Maggie), Sam Cox (Billy), Leanne Rowe (Margaret), Edward Bennett (William)
Commentaire: 14 Feb 12 > 18 Feb 12 (Sherman Theatre - Cardiff - Glamorgan)
7 Feb 12 > 11 Feb 12 (Citizens Theatre - Glasgow - Glasgow)
11 Jan 12 > 4 Feb 12 (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith - Outer London - Greater London)
15 Nov 11 > 26 Nov 11 (Chichester Festival Theatre - Chichester - West Sussex)
9 Nov 11 > 12 Nov 11 (West Yorkshire Playhouse - Leeds - West Yorkshire)
18 Oct 11 > 22 Oct 11 (Warwick Arts Centre - Coventry - West Midlands)
30 Sep 11 > 15 Oct 11 (Theatre Royal - Plymouth - Devon) (plus)
Presse: "Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett's production is often deeply moving... Superbly eloquent choreography." Daily Telegraph
"Lovesong is compelling, understated perfection." The Stage
"Only the hard of heart will remain completely unmoved." Guardian
"Like love itself, Lovesong can take your breath away." The Observer
"The piece beats with such profound truth you're held rapt." Daily Telegraph
"Beautifully haunting."Whatsonstage.com
14) Spring Awakening (Original London)
Première: mar. 03 février 2009
Compositeur: Duncan Sheik •
Parolier: Steven Sater •
Libettiste: Steven Sater •
Metteur en scène: Michael Mayer •
Chorégraphe: Bill T Jones •
Avec: Charlotte Wakefield (Wendela), Aneurin Barnard (Melchior), Iwan Rheon (Moritz), Lucy Barker (Ilse), Sian Thomas (Mother/ Women), Richard Cordery (Headmaster/Men), Evelyn Hoskins, Natasha Barnes, Hayley Gallivan, Edd Judge, Jamie Blackley, Harry MacEntire, Jos Slovick
Commentaire: The London Cast won 4 awards at the Laurence Olivier Awards 2010. Aneurin Barnard won an award for best actor in a musical/entertainment. Iwan Rheon won an award for best supporting role in a musical/entertainment. Spring Awakening London as a show won best musical and best sound (plus)
Presse: ***** 'Here it is at last, the answer to one's prayers - a new musical bursting with ambition and achievement... IT'S A BLAST.' Daily Telegraph
***** 'Breathtakingly, outrageously brilliant.' thelondonpaper
***** 'AN ABSOLUTE MUST-SEE and by far the best new musical in London for ages.' whatsonstage.com
***** 'It ticks enough boxes for excellence - acting, design, choreography, theatrical innovation, emotional power, even the lighting - to be A MUST SEE.' Daily Express
13) Some girls are bigger than others (Original)
12) Kissing Dance (The) (Revival)
Compositeur: Howard Goodall •
Parolier: Charles Hart •
Libettiste: Charles Hart •
Metteur en scène: Russell Labey •
Chorégraphe: Wendy Cook •
Avec: Paul Street, Sophie Smith, Spencer Noll, James Hoare, Sheridan Smith, Ian Virgo, Gina Beck, Stacey Kitson, Akiya Henry, Emma Trow, Emma Jacobs, Jess Brooks, Alexander Hassell, Michael Jibsn, Simon Thomas, Neil NcDermott, Kristopher Smith, Gary Tushaw
Commentaire: Une production du National Youth Music Theatre (plus)
11) (Original)
Metteur en scène: David Graham •
Chorégraphe: Laurel Ford •
Avec: Mike Berry (Archie), Georgina Field (May-Ellen), Grantley Buck (Frankie), Julie Livesey (Sherry), Jack Pinder (Eddie), Jason Baron (Ritzi), Miles Danso (Dumbo), Mark Sangster (Skunk)
Commentaire: From the Evening Standard: " (At one point). . . Archie yells jubilantly 'Are we gonna have some fun tonight or what?' I'd say it falls into the 'or what' category." (plus)
10) Moll Flanders (Original)
Compositeur: George Stiles •
Parolier: Paul Leigh •
Libettiste: Paul Leigh •
Metteur en scène: Peter James •
Chorégraphe: Gillian Gregory •
Avec: Josie Lawrence (Moll Flanders), Issy van Randwyck, Clare Burt, Vincent Leigh, Darryl Knock, Martyn Ellis, David Tysall, Peter Woodward
Commentaire: The show was well-received by the critics as a worthwhile and pleasant affair. (plus)
9) Wiz (The) (Original London)
Première: sam. 08 décembre 1984
Compositeur: Charlie Smalls •
Parolier: Charlie Smalls •
Libettiste: L. Frank Baum • William Brown •
8) Abbacadabra (Original London)
Parolier: Don Black • Mike Batt •
Libettiste: Alain Boublil • Daniel Boublil • David Wood •
Chorégraphe: Anthony Van Laast •
Avec: Elaine Paige (Teacher/Carabosse), Finola Hughes (Cinderella), Michael Praed (Aladdin), B.A. Robertson (Beast/Prince), Sylvester McCoy (Pinocchio), Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Harman, Jenna Russell.
Commentaire: This was hugely successful at the Lyric, but was so obviously a kind of pantomime, that there was no possibility of getting it to play other than in holiday periods. Daniel and Alain Boublil were, surprisingly, not related in any way. This first involvement of Alain Boublil with Cameron Mackintosh was, of course, to prove hugely important in the future of British musicals. (plus)
7) Nightingale (The) (Version Strouse) (Original)
Parolier: Charles Strouse •
Libettiste: Charles Strouse •
Avec: Andrew Shore (Narrator) Sarah Brightman (The Nightingale), Gordon Sandison (Emperor) , Susannah Fellows (Palace Maid), Carole Brooke (Mechanical Nightingale), Jill Pert & Dinah Harris (The Peacocks) Michael Heath, Roy Skelton
6) Mata Hari (Original)
Metteur en scène: Hilary Westlake •
Avec: Lene Lovich (Mata Hari), Rory Edwards, Jeremy Gittins, Peter Leabourne with Stephen Dixon & Simon Hall (Puppeteers)
Commentaire: Lene	Lovich was not felt to have anything like the charisma which must have marked the real Mata Hari and, even though a lot of money had been invested in staging and costumes with a view to a transfer, the show quietly came to the end of its season and disappeared. (plus)
5) Beggar's Opera (Revival)
Première preview: mar. 19 août 1980
Première: mar. 19 août 1980
Parolier: John Gay •
Libettiste: John Gay •
Avec: Brian Protheroe, Fiona Fullerton, Margaret Courtenay, Jane Hardy
Commentaire: This opened the new season at the Lyric Hammersmith, and was chosen to mark the 60th anniversary of the famous Nigel Playfair production of 1920 - the legendary "Beggar's Opera" which ran for over three years and made a large profit at a time when the Lyric was facing severe financial problems. Unfortunately this revival did not achieve anything like the same public appeal and according to Ned Sherrin in "Plays & Players" was "much spat upon" by the critics and was "a great embarrassment". (plus)
4) Hay Fever (Revival)
Libettiste: Noël Coward •
Avec: Constance Cumming as 'Judith Bliss' with John Le Mesurier as 'David Bliss', Brian Stirner as 'Simon Bliss', Felicity Dean as 'Sorel Bliss', Jeremy Child as 'Sandy Tyrell', Polly Adams as 'Myra Arundel', Moray Watson as 'Richard Greatham' and Yvonne Antrobus as 'Jackie Coryton'
3) Salad Days (Revival)
Compositeur: Julian Slade •
Parolier: Dorothy Reynolds • Julian Slade •
Libettiste: Dorothy Reynolds • Julian Slade •
Metteur en scène: Jasmine Dee •
Avec: Trevor Griffiths (Trump), Belinda Carrol (Jane), Philip Blaine (Timothy), Patrick Duggan (Troppo), Pat Michael, Richard Fraser, Barry Howard, Olivia Breeze, John Inman
2) Duenna (The) (Original)
Compositeur: Alfred Reynolds •
Libettiste: Richard Brinsley Sheridan •
Avec: Michael Cole, Denys Erlam, Frank Cochrane, Alfred Harris, Nigel Playfair, Robert Nainby, Guy Le Feuvre, Scott Russell, Frederick Carlton, Rupert Doone, Aubrey Hichins, Keith Lester.
Elsa Macfarlane, Marjorie Dixon, Elsie French, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel McLaren, Angela Baddeley, Beatrix Lehmann, Pitt Chatham, Marjorie Dixon, Dancers Jeanne Hewitt, Joyce Berry, Doris Sonn.
Première: sam. 05 juin 1920
Avec: Sylvia Nelis / Kathryn Hilliard / Nellie Walker / Violet Marquesita / Frederic Austin / Frederick Ranalow / Alfred Heather / Dorothy Smithard / Phyllis Blackburne / Nonny Lock
Commentaire: En 1920, Beggar's Opera fut remonté au Lyric Hammersmith Theatre à Londres et on en donna 1463 représentations, record inégalé à ce jour! (plus)

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Larry and Marla Haak—the couple from the Chicago area who challenged us to pray about organizing a major crusade as a catalyst for transformation—have been in Los Cabos for their annual ministry trip in the area. Larry and Marla sent out thousands of emails, as well as making many contacts, to stir up interest for financial support of the Carlos Annacondia Crusade. The picture below is of Marla and Larry, along with part of the Crusade Steering Committee, at the meeting where they were able to present the funds they were able to raise to New Life Outreach and the Committee. We can't thank Larry and Marla enough for their encouragement, prayers and hours of work in fundraising for the Campaign—for transformation in Los Cabos!
We are very happy to announce that we have secured the use of a prime parcel of land at the edge of the Cabo San Lucas famed tourist strip. This is one of three original parcels we prayer-walked during Elias' and Leo's first coordination trip in May of 2015.
After months of prayer for direction, we now have use of one of the most visible large tracts of land in the city. The soccer field property is on Highway 1, from San Jose de Cabo, which is also the route from the airport. The intersection at that corner is the main highway coming in from the north, towards Todos Santos, La Paz and beyond. It is adjacent to the famous Medano Beach near where the shuttle boats come in from our many cruise ships. It is the "Entrance to the City" in several directions.
Thank-you to all who have been praying over this decision−but "no" you cannot bring your camping equipment or motor homes and campout at the crusade next to one of the most famous and beautiful beaches in the world.


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A fluent reading is a reading with precision, rhythm and expressivity. Any program to improve reading fluency has to work on these three aspects. Up to the 4th grade, reading comprehension and fluency are positively correlated. This means that students with good fluency have a good understanding of what they're reading. From 4th grade onwards, this correlation starts being less intense, and can even become negative in high school. So, starting from 4th grade, there are children whose reading fluency can be adequate and whose reading comprehension can be inadequate, and the other way around.
This procedure is similar to the one used by athletes. They train by repeating an exercise to improve their time or technique, and they repeat it over and over. It's proven that reading the same text four or five times helps produce the basic effects of the improvement of reading fluency. This is tedious. To motivate them, it's good to explain to the students what happens in their brain when they read, and how it can be improved. You teach them to evaluate reading (precision, rhythm, expressivity and comprehension), and the adult practices with them. Once this dominated, you introduce the repeated reading strategy. It's really useful for the students to read something to their relatives, and to ask all of them to sign it.
Repeated readings of the text in front of other people like relatives or friends, who sign after the reading.
Another way is to hand out a text and a number of words per minute they need to read, and ask them to keep reading the text until they achieve that goal.


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Green Week Hopefully Won't Mean Green Jerseys
Charie Weis encouraged fans to wear green to Saturday's Syracuse game as part of NBC's Green Week.
First of all, this Saturday I would like to encourage all fans to wear green to support the university's Green Week initiatives. We'll be playing the first carbon neutral game in Notre Dame stadium history. And for more information fans can look at Notre Dame's website. So I encourage you to wear something green to the game this week.
Hopefully this announcement won't mean that the Irish will come out in green jerseys though. There is no reason whatsoever to wear the green jerseys this weekend. The green jerseys should be used only for the biggest games on the biggest stages. There is a pretty special tradition to the them and wearing them in a game against one of the worst teams in all of college football during a season in which Notre Dame is 6-4 would mock that tradition in the same way wearing them against a horrible Boston College team did in 2002.
Weis letting the team wear green jerseys on senior day in 2006 was borderline at best, but wearing them this weekend would be even worse in my opinion. I'll be wearing my green hoodie Saturday because I was planning on wearing it anyway in the 30 degree weather but I sincerely hope to see the Irish run out of the tunnel in navy blue.
Notre Dame vs Syracuse 2008
Ianello Linked to Syracuse Opening
Michigan is Doing Just Fine
C-Dog says:
svenghali,
You hit a true and pertinent point. bleednd82 made one similar a few weeks back. From the band to the fans, the excitement isn't there. I truly think the NBC contract has them thinking they need to be vanilla or politically correct. Screw that, we are the Irish. We should be an in your face crowd. I'm not saying disrespectful to the other team's fans, but for crying out loud, it's football and we're gonna pump up our team in our stadium. The band should be drumming and playing often. USC plays that stupid Fight on or whatever everytime a player picks his nose. Go into any SEC or Big 12 stadium this year and the crowd noise is deafening. We used to be like that. Now all the old retired people are hanging on to their tix, ( priced $200 per ticket with yearly fees ). When ND is exciting, they can sell their tix, but in the last two years, especially, who are they going to get to go? Most of those people remember when ND was exciting so they are going to risj a heart a ttack over a 3-6 or 6-6 team that loses to crummy teams.
Frankie V says:
No, that "horrible" BC team was not ranked. They were 4-3 heading into the game with losses to Miami, VT, and Pitt with impressive wins over UConn, Central Michigan, Stanford, and Navy. That game was the single biggest misuse of the green jerseys in Notre Dame history.
Wasn't that "horrible" BC team ranked? Silly deluded domers.
svenghali says:
Upon further review, I might be full of shit. However, there clearly is a difference between the band noise in the '99 USC game and the games this year. I don't know if it's microphone placement, or what, but for a guy who just gets to watch tv broadcasts, it's not nearly the same as it used to be. Maybe being at the games tells a different story.
One last thing (although it's too little too late), Hawaiians love drums.
Maybe Weis pulled some strings behind the scenes to communicate with his QB, but yo, this is bullshit!
I can't believe I just noticed this and that nobody else is up at arms, but what the hell happened to the band's gametime participation. I was just on Hulu watching the '99 USC game and this year's Michigan game. I feel like someone just told me there's no Santa for the first time. The ND experience I grew up loving has been stolen out from under us. The band used to pound drums between every play, which is half the damn reason to watch CFB in the first place. Now they might as well just play the fight song over the PA after scores. What gives? Seriously, no wonder our offense has no continuity, our crowd runs out of wind, and home games on TV are (as much as I hate to say it) boring! I'm just some west coast transcontinental subway schmuck, but some of you guys with real ties need to demand some action out of the oldest/proudest marching band in the country. UNACCEPTABLE!
Bleed, it appears we will hit your prediction of a 7-5 season. Not sure you included a green jersey?
Jablonski says:
PLEASE!!!!! For the love of God don't do it!!!!
pghirishfan says:
If they are going to play a carbon neutral game, they better tell everybody in the stadium not to breathe. Charlie better be more concerned about getting our 7th win than giving us all warm tinglies about protecting the environment.
They need to bring back the dog, Clashmore Mike if they want to really wake up the echoes. And they should let him take a dump on the other team's sideline. But only in the biggest games.
bleednd82 says:
Im kinda hoping they will be handing out some green shirts. They did the towels two years ago.


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Around the Grounds: Kurz makes first new signing at Victory
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Marco Kurz has made his first signing as Melbourne Victory boss, appointing Filip Tapalović as his assistant coach.
Kurz played alongside Tapalović, 42, at Bundesliga clubs Schalke 04 and 1860 Munich in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before reuniting at Adelaide United for the last two years.
SIGNING NEWS: All of Melbourne Victory's Ins & Outs
EXPLAINER: How does the transfer window work?
Tapalović will join current assistant Carlos Salvachua as support for Kurz, who was appointed new Victory boss last month following the departure of Kevin Muscat.
"I feel lucky and am excited to have this opportunity with Melbourne Victory where I can continue working with Marco," Tapalović told the club's official website.
"Melbourne Victory is a strong, proud club and I really like what they stand for... it attracted me to the role.
"Marco is a brilliant coach and has a great vision – I look forward to working with him and the rest of the team to bring this to life in the 2019/20 A-League season."
Sky Blues get down to business
Melbourne Victory fans, look away now.
Former Navy Blue favourite Kosta Barbarouses was among the majority of Sydney FC players - decked out in the club's new Under Armour apparel - who officially returned for the start of pre-season training on Thursday.
SIGNING NEWS: All of Sydney FC's Ins & Outs
BAUMJOHANN: 'I came to Sydney FC to win trophies'
New signings Alexander Baumjohann - who will wear No. 5 for the Sky Blues - and Anthony Caceres were also present for day one of the club's Championship defence.
O'Donovan relishing fast-paced start in Brisbane
If first impressions count for anything, Roy O'Donovan is convinced Brisbane Roar are in for a hugely-improved Hyundai A-League 2019/20 Season.
The Irish striker - one of 10 new recruits brought in by coach Robbie Fowler so far - says Roar have hit the ground running during week one of pre-season.
"It's started at 100 miles an hour but that's good, there's no time to waste, we're a new team trying to gel and the hard work started on Monday," O'Donovan said.
"It's a club that seems to have things together," the former Mariners and Jets hit-man added.
"Definitely infrastructure is very good. They have their own training base which is a big start... they're ahead of the game in that regard - big fan base, big stadium too.
SIGNING NEWS: All of Brisbane Roar's Ins & Outs
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Q: add row before header excel js in angular i'm exporting json to excel by using excel js. json is getting sucessfully exported to sheet .but now i want to add one row which describes details of sheet above the header text.
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code as follows

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import * as FileSaver from 'file-saver';
import * as XLSX from 'xlsx';

const EXCEL_TYPE = 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet;charset=UTF-8';
const EXCEL_EXTENSION = '.xlsx';
import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common';
import { Workbook } from 'exceljs';

@Injectable()
export class ExcelService {

  constructor( private datePipe :  DatePipe) { }

  public exportAsExcelFile(json: any[], excelFileName: string): void {
    const title = 'Absent Report';
    const worksheet: XLSX.WorkSheet = XLSX.utils.json_to_sheet(json);

    console.log('worksheet',worksheet);
    const workbook: XLSX.WorkBook = { Sheets: { 'data': worksheet }, SheetNames: ['data'] };
    const excelBuffer: any = XLSX.write(workbook, { bookType: 'xlsx', type: 'array' });
    //const excelBuffer: any = XLSX.write(workbook, { bookType: 'xlsx', type: 'buffer' });
    this.saveAsExcelFile(excelBuffer, excelFileName);

    let titleRow = worksheet.addRow(title);
    titleRow.font = { name: 'Comic Sans MS', family: 4, size: 16, underline: 'double', bold: true }
    worksheet.addRow([titleRow]);

    // let subTitleRow = worksheet.addRow(['Date : ' + this.datePipe.transform(new Date(), 'medium')])

  }

  private saveAsExcelFile(buffer: any, fileName: string): void {
    const data: Blob = new Blob([buffer], {
      type: EXCEL_TYPE
    });
    FileSaver.saveAs(data, fileName + this.datePipe.transform(new Date(),"ddMMyyyy hh:mm") + EXCEL_EXTENSION);
  }

}

A: I have something like this in my code and works fine:
const header = [
      this.translate.instant('grid.column1'),
      this.translate.instant('grid.column2'),
      ...
      ];

    // Add Column header Row
    const headerRow = worksheet.addRow(header);

    // Add Data and Conditional Formatting
    data.forEach(dataRow => {
      const row = worksheet.addRow(dataRow.dataInfo);
      ...

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Modern cars, trucks and SUVs protect their occupants with up to 10 airbags, and many luxury models feature autonomous electronic systems that take over in emergency situations to avoid a crash. However, even the most effective safety features cannot overcome the laws of physics. Larger and heavier vehicles provide more protection in a crash, and the HLDI figures reveal that the occupants of small sedans are twice as likely to submit medical payment claims. Very large pickup trucks have the lowest number of medical payment claims according to the HLDI.
Sports car drivers are often portrayed as a hazard to other road users, but performance models such as the Porsche 911 and Chevrolet Corvette ZO6 have very low insurance claim rates. According to the HLDI, 7 of the 10 vehicles with the lowest number of personal injury claims are sports cars. Experts say that this is because sports cars may be used less frequently than more utilitarian vehicles and often carry only a single passenger.
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Liverpool's Salah wins player of the year award
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Mohamed Salah was crowned the Premier League's Players' Player of the Year on Sunday.
Salah won the hearts of Liverpool fans with his incredible performance, netting 41-goal debut season, beating out strong competition from Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne.
Salah matched a Premier League record tally for a single season by scoring his 31st league goal of the campaign in a 2-2 draw at West Brom on Saturday.
Salah has also netted seven times in eight Champions League games, including in both legs of Liverpool's 5-1 quarter-final thrashing of City, to carry his side to a first semifinal for a decade.
De Bruyne showed why he had been many people's early-season favourite for the prize with an incredible long-range strike for his 12th goal of the season to go with a league-high number of assists as champions City thrashed Swansea 5-0 on Sunday.
Salah is now a famous Liverpool player.
Mohamed Salah has inspired a new chant among the Liverpool faithful, the BBC said. He is the Liverpool and Egypt forward.
"If he good enough for you, he is good enough for me. If he scores another few, then I'll be Muslim too,"
"He's sitting in a Mosque, that's where I want to be," said the song.
However, Salah, practising Muslims donates a fair share of his earnings to charity.
The football player replied to a tweet about the video 'officially' giving his seal of approval for the song!
On another note, Salah has warned Liverpool's Premier League rivals that he is just getting warmed up.
His goal in Liverpool's stunning 5-0 Champions League win over Porto in midweek saw the Egyptian achieve the feat in 36 games.
He is the quickest Reds player to reach the milestone in more than 100 years said Sky Sports.


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As I said last night, a couple of shorter days ahead. I am getting very tired, so need some easy days until the end of the week. Tuesday and Wednesday are days off for moving to Goolwa, and for going back to Adelaide to talk to a Rotary Club about what I am doing.
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Haiti after Aristide's return
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has returned to the country he was kidnapped from in a U.S.-backed coup just over seven years ago. Despite massive pressure brought to bear by the U.S. government, Aristide boarded a small plane with his family in South Africa on March 17 and arrived in Haiti the next day.
The country he returned to has been ravaged by last year's massive earthquake and the terrible aftermath, during which the U.S. and its allies broke their promises to provide desperately needed aid. Two months before, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the notorious former dictator who was driven into exile by a mass rebellion in 1986, also returned to Haiti.
Aristide arrived just ahead of a run-off election on March 20 for Haiti's president that the U.S. hoped would ratify its plans for a country subjugated to Washington's neoliberal agenda. Aristide's party, Fanmi Lavalas, was excluded from the election. Results of the run-off were still being calculated on March 22.
Kim Ives, a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, returned to Haiti ahead of Aristide's arrival. He provided this live report from Port-au-Prince via phone to a panel discussion on March 19--the day before the election--at the Left Forum in New York City.
I AM standing near a tent camp here in Port-au-Prince. About 1,500 internally displaced people have been living here since just after the earthquake.
This place is a poster child for Haitian poverty and misery. The people here find minimal shelter under tattered tarps and tents, beneath a blazing sun and near a cesspool which floods anytime it rains, sending waste and foul water into people's tents. It's a breeding ground for mosquitoes. It's filled with garbage and stinks to high heaven. It is truly a miserable place.
The tent camp is sandwiched between an assembly factory where some of the residents of this camp work and a food relief operation. That relief operation doesn't provide enough food for these people. The camp's residents are practically starving. You see children with swollen bellies mixed with the miserable adults.
This is really a microcosm of Haiti--a completely impoverished working class sandwiched between these NGOs and sweatshops. The NGOs provide less than minimal nutrition to them. In fact, the Red Cross, which has been providing water to this camp, is set to cut it off next week. The sweatshops take advantage of this misery. People consider it a privilege to accept a wage of $1 or $2 a day in an attempt to hold on to a precarious existence.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide makes a speech after his return to Haiti
A 14,000-strong UN military occupation, the only one in the Western Hemisphere, polices this tinderbox and enforces Washington's dictates, like the March 20 presidential election, which as Brian Concannon notes, is comparable to a contest between a Republican and a Tea Party candidate.
This is the context in which President Jean-Bertrand Aristide arrived yesterday. The reception was absolutely extraordinary. People say it wasn't a "lavalas," which in Creole means a cleansing flood--it was a tsunami. A wall of humanity poured down out of the streets and slums and stormed out of the city toward the airport.
This was impressive because the Duvalierists, neo-Duvalierists and international embassies did a major campaign to try to confuse people. They kept repeating, "No, he's not coming back until the 22nd, or "It's not clear when he's coming back." We were doing interviews in front of the palace, and we'd have people jump in and repeat these claims.
So people all across Haiti were confused. When Aristide's plane landed, Radio Télé Ginen was the only television station that showed up. All of the press boycotted the arrival, even though everybody knew he was returning. It was streaming live on Democracy Now!--Amy Goodman was sending pictures out from the plane. But most of the radio here owned by the bourgeoisie was not on hand.
The international press was there in force, though, and it was a frantic scramble. After Aristide arrived, as many of you have seen already, he gave a speech. It was, I would say, better than many had hoped, because he spoke clearly--that is, not in parables--and what he said was like a match to a fuse.
He said, "Exclusion is the problem, inclusion is the solution." He was talking not just about the political exclusion of his party Fanmi Lavalas from the elections that are going to take place tomorrow. He also meant social exclusion--the fact that the people, living in this camp, living in the slums around here, working in these factories, working and living and in many cases dying because of the poor conditions, are excluded from the riches that exist in this country.
He did not only mean the agricultural richness that Haiti once produced in rice, sugar, coffee and other crops. He also meant the exclusion from benefiting from the mineral wealth that is being discovered here. He spoke about the exclusion from newly found uranium, oil, gold, silver, marble, calcium carbonate and other resources. Those are some of interests that drive these rampaging foreign corporations, which are trying to seize control of the state apparatus now through the election.
BUT LET'S turn back to the day itself. The people were waiting outside the gates of the airport. Security inside the airport was extremely tight. We were shuttled by buses out to where the plane flew in. It flew in about 20 minutes early so the press was taken somewhat unaware, but immediately, all the barricades and fences were swept away by the press, which just ran up to the plane. Aristide descended into a pool of press. And on leaving the airport, he descended into an ocean of people.
It was quite extraordinary. It was beyond joyous--I would almost call it rapturous. Margaret Prescott of Women's Strike for Peace called it a "tsunami of love." People jogged alongside Aristide's motorcade as it brought him back to his home in Tabarre, about two or three miles from the airport.
When we arrived at the home, the plan, I think, was that the motorcade would enter, and the people would stay outside, but that's not what happened. An ocean of people surged into the compound.
The Aristides are living there, but they don't have electricity, they don't have Internet, they don't have telephones, they don't have water. They're camping out in the shell of their former home, which was torn apart by the rebels that came, looted and broke whatever they could back in 2004. But it has been painted and repaired. This crowd, this ocean of people, carried the Aristide delegation into the compound. People were climbing up trees and walls to get a glimpse of Aristide. They were on top of the house. They were dancing, they were singing, they were yelling. It was bedlam. It was pandemonium.
The press was bobbing around, like little floats in this ocean, with their microphones and cameras, trying to capture it, but it was like trying to capture a waterfall with a teaspoon. It was just extraordinary.
Finally, after about five or six hours, people started to fade away, and eventually, some police came in and cleared the yard. Inside the house, a number of Lavalas supporters gathered from around the country and around the U.S. I should also say around the world, because CLR James' widow Selma James was there. She runs an organization in London called "Women's Crossroads." There was Pierre LaBossiere from the Haiti Action Committee, Margaret Prescott from Women Strike for Peace, Amy Goodman and Sharif Abdel Kouddous from Democracy Now!
It was a very relaxed, very happy occasion. It was so emotional to watch. Tears were streaming down cheeks of Aristide and his family as they came into their home. You have to imagine what it was like for his two daughters. They have essentially grown up in South African. Christine, the oldest, was seven years old when the coup happened. Between the ages of 7 and 14, she really didn't know about her father and what a symbol he was in Haiti--somewhat like the Haitian Nelson Mandela. So she was learning now as a teenager about her father's significance. It was touching to watch the emotion and pride on her face, and that of her sister Michaela.
ALL IN all, I can say that the return has set the stage for a political confrontation. The Lavalas movement burst onto the scene 20 years ago and essentially seized power from the Duvalierists and neo-Duvalierists in 1990. Now we see a similar confrontation emerging decades later, but the roles are reversed. It's Lavalas--or what I would call the neo-Lavalas, the bourgeiosified Lavalas--which is in power. This is what the Duvalierists are now challenging, above all, through the candidacy of Michel Martelly.
Inside this tent camp, where I am standing, Martelly has built a base of Duvalierists. I just overheard a guy on the phone saying "Jean-Claude Duvalier, that's who I believe in, because he doesn't take any shit. He's the man." So the thugs of the bourgeoisie and the big landowners are trying to capitalize on people's misery, gather supporters and hoist themselves into power for the first time through elections.
We have to remember that Duvalierists tried to take power over the past 20 years through coup d'états, one in 1991 and another in 2004. Neither of those worked because they were military coups, and the people resisted. But they've diversified their weaponry and are now coming to power through an electoral coup.
I call the election a coup because it is completely illegal. The Institute for Justice and Democracy has issued a study that lays out how completely phony and bogus the elections are. Nevertheless, this is how Michel Martelly will ascend into power.
The people are divided. Do we go with Martelly? Do we try to boycott? Most of the Lavalas base was despairing, but with Aristide's return, it's now been emboldened and invigorated, and I think that the boycott movement has been given an effective jolt of energy. I think we may see a strong boycott. Will it be reported? Will it succeed in discrediting the elections? That remains to be seen.
We heard the debate in the Lavalas base inside the compound yesterday. Some would say, "I'm going to vote Sweet Micky," meaning Michel Martelly. But those people would always be interrupted by others who supported a boycott, saying, "No, there was no first round, there will be no second round."
So this is the debate going on between the Lavalas forces that support a boycott and the neo-Duvalierists who are trying to come to power through an electoral coup. This is the battle we are seeing, and I think Aristide's arrival in the country has brought it to a new phase.
How will Aristide handle it? How he will navigate in these narrows remains to be seen. He has in past years tried to do what they call in Creole "marronage," which is to compromise, and wheel and deal his way through such situations. That strategy has often alienated sectors of the left that had supported him because he was the people's choice, but were frustrated with his compromises.
But I think Aristide has changed to some extent. If you read his statements in exile, particularly from this past December, he has apparently become sharper and more anti-imperialist. The speech he gave yesterday at the airport spoke clearly to the question of inclusion and exclusion. He didn't avoid political questions completely as he might have in the past.
Although not as combative as some might have wished, his speech was enough to send a strong message to the people. I think in the days and weeks ahead, we're going to see a confrontation begin to take shape between a neo-Duvalierist regime, most likely led by Martelly, and a counter-attack by Aristide and the Lavalas base.
Roger Annis and Kim Ives
Still homeless in Haiti
The plight of some 400,000 Haitians still living in tents since the 2010 earthquake has surged into the streets and the headlines.
Shock-doctrine schooling in Haiti
Haiti's broken school system is still buried under tons of rubble. But for some, the earthquake was a big opportunity.
Interview: Kim Ives
How the U.S. meddled in Haiti
A new president has been installed in Haiti with the backing of the U.S., but the country's crisis remains as dire as ever.
U.S. threats against Aristide
The return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti, in the context of a shifting balance of power, has Washington on high alert.
How Haiti was abandoned
By every measure, the U.S. and other powers, the United Nations and NGOs have failed the Haitian people in the year since the catastrophic earthquake.
Ferguson is fighting back
SocialistWorker.org writers report from a Missouri city that is rising up against police murder, despite every effort by authorities to silence them.
Lee Sustar
The many other Trayvons
The death of unarmed African Americans at the hands of police and racists remains routine today--but a new movement is saying: "Enough."
Kristen Sheets
Inside the #MeToo revolt at Google
It may be the biggest international walkout in modern labor history. Here's why it happened, how it happened and what it tells us.
Nicole Colson
Turning defeat into determination
Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the Supreme Court — and how we respond will make the difference in whether we can defend our rights.
Campus crusaders for hate
Get ready: The right wing--from pro-Trump College Republicans to well-dressed reactionaries to outright fascists--is coming for your college.


Target audience: Nonprofits, foundations, NGOs, cause organizations, cause supporters.
At the Vivanista Charitable Fundraising Summit and Bootcamp, held Saturday in San Francisco, Janet Fouts and I closed out the afternoon with a wide-ranging conversation with nonprofit representatives in the audience about social media tools and strategy.
And others. Be aware that your mileage may vary with some of these platforms — they differ not only in pricing but in placement (your site or theirs), effectiveness with social networks, metrics dashboards and rules governing data ownership.
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Q: Android: HorizontalScrollView smoothScroll animation time I have a situation in that I am using a horizontal scroll view with images and using buttons to smooth scroll to the different image locations. Now it works okay I was just wondering if anyone knew of anyway to slow down the smooth scroll method, i.e. having a longer annimation time? As currently the snapping happens pretty quickly.
Perhaps through an override of the smoothscroll, I have tried to search for this/examples but to no luck.
So any ideas?
Thanks,
Si

A: How About:
ObjectAnimator animator=ObjectAnimator.ofInt(yourHorizontalScrollView, "scrollX",targetXScroll );
animator.setDuration(800);
animator.start();

A: THis is one way, which works well for me:
    new CountDownTimer(2000, 20) {

        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            hv.scrollTo((int) (2000 - millisUntilFinished), 0);
        }

        public void onFinish() {

        }
     }.start();

So here the horizontal scroll view (hv) moves in two seconds from position 0 to 2000 or to the end of the view if smaller than 2000px. Easy to adjust...

A: Subclass HorizontalScrollView, use reflection to get access to the private field mScroller in HorizontalScrollView. Of course, this will break if the underlying class changes the field name, it defaults back to original scroll implemenation.
The call myScroller.startScroll(scrollX, getScrollY(), dx, 0, 500); changes the scroll speed.
private OverScroller myScroller;

private void init()
{
    try
    {
        Class parent = this.getClass();
        do
        {
            parent = parent.getSuperclass();
        } while (!parent.getName().equals("android.widget.HorizontalScrollView"));

        Log.i("Scroller", "class: " + parent.getName());
        Field field = parent.getDeclaredField("mScroller");
        field.setAccessible(true);
        myScroller = (OverScroller) field.get(this);

    } catch (NoSuchFieldException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public void customSmoothScrollBy(int dx, int dy)
{
    if (myScroller == null)
    {
        smoothScrollBy(dx, dy);
        return;
    }

    if (getChildCount() == 0)
        return;

    final int width = getWidth() - getPaddingRight() - getPaddingLeft();
    final int right = getChildAt(0).getWidth();
    final int maxX = Math.max(0, right - width);
    final int scrollX = getScrollX();
    dx = Math.max(0, Math.min(scrollX + dx, maxX)) - scrollX;

    myScroller.startScroll(scrollX, getScrollY(), dx, 0, 500);
    invalidate();
}

public void customSmoothScrollTo(int x, int y)
{
    customSmoothScrollBy(x - getScrollX(), y - getScrollY());
}

A: Its a scroller the scroll automatically and continously. It was made to show a credits screen by continously scrolling through a list of images. This might help you or give you some idea.
https://github.com/blessenm/SlideshowDemo

A: Use .smoothScrollToPositionFromTop instead. Example
listView.smoothScrollToPositionFromTop(scroll.pos(),0,scroll.delay());

wherescroll is a simple variable from a class that takes current screen position .get() returns new position .pos() and time of smooth scrolling .delay ... etc

A: Or even easier, .smoothScrollTo(). Example:
hsv.smoothScrollTo(x, y);

Docs: Android Developer ScrollView docs

A: Have a look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Scroller.html:

The duration of the scroll can be passed in the constructor and specifies the maximum time that the scrolling animation should take


Aditya Narayan apologises on national television for misbehaving with airline staff!
Home Actor Aditya Narayan apologises on national television for misbehaving with airline staff!
Last week, a video of veteran playback singer Udit Narayan's son Aditya abusing an airline staff at the Raipur airport is doing rounds on social media.
A video has surfaced that shows Aditya threatening an official of Indigo Airlines because the singer was objected to record a video inside the airport premises.
After seeing this video, Aditya's father Udit Narayan said that his son has made a mistake and he will make him issue a public apology soon.
And now, if reports are to be believed, Aditya apologised on national television. Aditya who is currently hosting his sixth season of 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs' apologised on the stage.
The ugly showdown started soon after Aditya was asked to pay Rs 13,000/- for carrying luggage beyond regular limit. But he refused to pay the entire amount and agreed to pay only Rs 10,000/- .He not only threatened airline staff but also used unparliamentary language.
The 30-year-old was in Raipur for performing at Dussehra Festival. While returning back on Sunday, the singer and an official had a heated argument at the airport.
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Last-place Lions missed an opportunity at Dallas
By: Noah Trister, AP Sports Writer
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Last year, the Detroit Lions started 3-1 and didn't make the playoffs -- so what happens in September doesn't have to define the season.
The Lions better hope that's the case, because a loss at Dallas last weekend has them in a hole.
"There's a lot of work in front of us," first-year coach Matt Patricia said Monday. "I think we're learning a lot about our team. I think we see a lot of different things on the field. I would say these guys are tough, these guys work extremely hard. They will fight all the way to the end for 60 minutes."
The Lions appeared to be rallying a bit when they beat New England two weekends ago, but Sunday's 26-24 loss to the Cowboys left them at 1-3.
Detroit certainly looks more competitive now than it did in a 31-point loss to the Jets in the opener, but the reality is that the regular season is now 25 percent over, and the Lions are in last place in the NFC North.
A huge home game with Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay looms this coming weekend -- the first divisional matchup of the season for the Lions.
"He is an elite player, I think that goes without saying," defensive lineman Da'Shawn Hand said. "Everybody knows him, and they've got a great team."
It's still fairly early, but dropping to 1-4 would put Detroit in a tough spot heading into its open date.
The Lions have been outscored 59-17 in the third quarter this season. In all three of their defeats, they faced double-digit deficits entering the fourth.
Detroit was down 20-10 after three periods Sunday, but eventually took a 24-23 lead on Matthew Stafford's 38-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate with 2:17 remaining.
Detroit's defense couldn't hold. Dallas drove into field goal range and made the winning kick on the game's final play.
"I think when you play in those types of games where you're kind of relying on last possession or it's coming down to the end when there's really no control in the game, I would say you're kind of holding your breath," Patricia said.
"These are extremely good teams on both sides of the ball and good offenses that you have to face for us as an opponent. We obviously have an offense that can do a good job there at the end of the game of coming back but you don't want to be in that position."
The Lions struggled to contain Ezekiel Elliott, who ran for 152 yards on 25 carries and had four catches for 88 yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, Detroit couldn't build on its encouraging rushing performance against the Patriots . Rookie Kerryon Johnson ran for 55 yards and a touchdown against Dallas, but he had only nine carries.
"I think we have a lot of really good running backs and I think we try to use them appropriately. I think Kerryon played a significant amount of the game," Patricia said.
"We had two other running backs, plus we had a couple two-minute drives in there with some other personnel packages and things like that. So, there were quite a few reps in there for Kerryon."
The Lions have allowed 157.8 yards rushing per game, the worst mark in the NFL through Sunday's games.
"We just have to get better. Get back in the meeting rooms, lock in, be on one accord, all 11 even the backups," linebacker Eli Harold said. "We just have to find out what is killing us in the running game obviously, and just go from there."


John, age 75, died January 4, 2019 in Tucson, AZ from complications due to cancer. He was born in California, but spent most of his youth in Yerington, Nevada on the family cattle ranch. He graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor in Forestry and worked for the Forest Service in Montpelier, ID. He returned to CSU and got his Masters in Business Administration. After getting his Masters, he worked as a lumber salesman, mostly for independent sawmills, in various places throughout the western states. For his final job, he imported pine lumber from New Zealand to the US market.
John was preceded in death by his parents, Gurney and Louise Maple. He is survived by his sister, Marjorie Maple, of California and his wife of 36 years, Patti Jubrias, who was with him when he passed away. He also had many cousins, Patti's family that he loved, and nieces and nephews.
John was passionate about all of his hobbies. He was an expert skier which lead him to take a job in Durango, CO. In Durango, he met and married Patti. He loved golf, driving his sports car in Autocross events, regular fitness classes and clay target shooting. John and Patti traveled extensively making a stop on all 7 continents. They visited 50+ countries together and lived in 7 western states, most recently in Tucson, AZ.
Remember John for his quick wit, devotion to family and friends, and his passion for adventure and fitness.
We are so sorry for your loss, our deepest sympathy in the loss of your loved one.
It was an honor to know John. He will be missed. Our hearts go out to you, Patti. You are in our thoughts.


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End of Leftist Tyrannical Legal System?
by David Israel
Justice Minister Yariv Levin took the podium at the Knesset and announced a series of moves that would return Israel to the sanity of the days when justices ruled based on the law, and not on what they believed the law should be.
Between 1978 and 2006, the former president of Israel's Supreme Court, Justice Aharon Barak, commanded a vigorous and impudent effort to raise the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court and the High Court of Justice, above the other two branches of government - the Knesset and the Executive branch - through intricate rulings, ever-increasing power grabs and installing his agents as legal counsellors in all the government ministries.
Despite the shrinking political power of the old leftist elites that established the state of Israel 75 years ago, Justice Barak's clique of dedicated judges continued and even increased their tyrannical hold on the country's legal system, and its legislative and executive branches.
Here are the initial four changes Levin is expected to submit to the Knesset in the coming days:
- A change in the composition of the committee to select judges. The judges will no longer choose themselves in chambers without a protocol. Instead, the 9-member committee will have an equal representation of the three branches of government, with a distinct advantage to elected officials (to remind you, in most countries, including the US, Supreme Court justices are questioned and elected by elected officials only).
- The disqualification of laws by the high court will be regulated. The court may no longer question the basic laws, which are Israel's equivalent to a constitution. Courts don't change constitutions. To revoke a law, the court would have to convene all 15 justices and reach a special majority. The Knesset, for its part, can override the court's revoking of its laws by a majority of 61 MKs.
- The High Court may no longer use the "unreasonable cause" argument to invalidate government action.
- Finally, the legal counsellors installed in every government ministry are just that – they offer their legal advice – and the minister is free to use or reject it.
Food for Thought. by Steven Shamrak
It is not surprising that the Jew-hating and Antisemitic international press, in attempt to discredit the Jewish independence movement – Zionism, use terms like "Extreme Right" or "Right-wing", when there are describing Israeli politicians or Jewish activists, who are fighting for the rights of Jewish people to live in peace on the Jewish ancestral land. It is quite disturbing and disappointing to see that the same descriptions are used in Jewish press and website publications. Jewish journalists and bloggers, progressive or on the Left side of politics, should be ashamed for equating Zionism with Fascist ideology!
Jews are Murdered by Terrorists - World is Silent
There were 31 Israelis murdered and 734 injured in terrorist attacks in 2022. In total, 7,386 terrorist attacks were committed in the previous year, including 1,153 cases of stone throwing, 1,036 Molotov cocktails thrown, 559 cases of tires set on fire and 84 explosives thrown. 44 car bombs were set off during the year and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria encountered 53 cases of stone barriers. 96 shooting attacks were recorded in the past year, as well as nine stabbing attacks, which resulted in casualties and six ramming attacks. Those murdered by terrorists in 2022 left 18 widows and widowers and 67 orphans, and two victims of attacks from previous years died from their wounds during the year. These statistics do not include the hundreds of attacks on security forces during counterterror operations in the field. (The international Jew-haters, politicians and members of the press, are only concerned about and express strong concern when Arab 'Palestinian' terrorists or their sympathisers are killed during IDF's counterterror operations.)
Jewish Patriotism Makes Antisemites Angry
The US and France joined Arab states and the PA in condemning National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit (just because he is a Zionist) to the Jerusalem holy site - the Temple Mount. The hilltop site is the most sacred place in Judaism and just the third holiest in Islam. Jews and other non-Muslims are allowed to go the compound but not pray. Mr Ben-Gvir, leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, has long said that he wants to bring about a change to the rules to allow Jewish worship at the site. The minister said during his visit to the site: "Our government will not surrender to the threats of Hamas. The Temple Mount is the most important place for the people of Israel, and we maintain the freedom of movement for Muslims and Christians, but Jews will also visit the site. Those who make threats must be dealt with an iron hand." (Zionism is the Jewish Independence Movement. It is the only one that unites all anti-Semites, regardless of their political affiliation.)
End Enemy Diplomatic Terror
The approval of a United Nations General Assembly resolution requesting that the International Court of Justice weigh in on the Israeli-'Palestinian' conflict, Israeli "annexation", and the "legal status of the occupation" is not just another largely meaningless UN resolution. This attack demands a robust and meaningful response from both the Israeli government as well as from Jewish leadership across the globe. As in any type of warfare, if there is no response against the first wave of an attack, there is a loss of deterrence, and subsequent waves will be even more powerful. There is no better time than a brand-new Israeli government to state unequivocally that the rules of the game have changed, and there will be a strong and paralysing response by Israel to the continued Palestinian attacks. These steps should be designed with one singular goal in mind, to break the will of the 'Palestinian' Arabs to continue fighting this war. (The ultimate goal should be to end the occupation of the Jewish land by the enemies. Only then will international anti-Semites shut up!)
US Ambassador Rebuked Israel
The US criticised Israeli National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, for 'storming' (visiting) Al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied (by Arabs) East Jerusalem. The US Embassy in Israel said that Ambassador Thomas Nides "has made it very clear in discussions with the Israeli government that the status quo must be maintained at Jerusalem's holy sites (not just by Muslims, but also by Jews and Christians, who are not allowed to pray there). Actions that prevent this are unacceptable." (Israel must rebuke Biden administration for providing funds to 'Palestinian' terrorists!)
'Palestinians' Running from Gaza - Risking Death at Sea
Around 36,000 people have left the Gaza Strip in the past 5 years attempting to emigrate. Gaza has been under blockade by Israel and Egypt for the 15 years since Hamas seized power from the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. From Gaza, migrants now tread a dangerous path through Egypt and Libya before trying their luck at sea, along with fellow migrants fleeing poverty and violence in North Africa, Syria, and sub-Saharan Africa. The journey can cost vast sums, around $9,000, of which two-thirds go to smugglers. (Strangely, so-called Palestinians are not welcomed by their Muslim brothers in Arab countries, including Egypt.)
Biden doesn't Care about Civil Rights of Jews
The Biden administration has again delayed issuing new federal regulations - first proposed by President Trump - that would apply the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism to civil rights investigations. (For the Biden administration Antisemitism and civil rights of Jews are not a priority - scolding Israel is! Why are all 'Civil Rights' organisations silent and not protesting?)
Jordanian Prisoners to be Moved from Israel
'Palestinian' prisoners holding Jordanian citizenship have agreed to be moved from Israeli jails to complete their sentences in Jordan. Not all of the prisoners with Jordanian citizenship were offered the opportunity to sign the document. Other prisoners may get similar offers in the coming days. (It would be a good first step toward removing all PA terrorists and their families to Jordan or Egypt.)
Quote of the Week:
"More than a year ago, more than 500 former Prisoners of Zion and refuseniks came together here in Jerusalem and we made a decision to call upon our government to stop using the pretext of bringing in non-Jews since they are the grandchildren of Jews. The majority is not coming (to conversion programs), is not interested to convert. They are people who just used the pretext to escape Russia." - Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch, former Prisoner of Zion - a Soviet Jewish refusenik jailed for 11 years who rose to prominence as a Jewish activist in the 1960s, urged the incoming Netanyahu government to adopt plans put forth by the Religious Right to amend Israel's Law of Return, removing the Grandfather Clause. - (Some western Christian missionaries have used their 'Jewish' ancestry to infiltrate Israel. Some non-Jewish migrants from former Soviet Union love living in Israel, but still hate the residual Jewish blood in them. There is an old Russian-Jewish saying: "You can't change yabbies into a Kosher fish".)
Stop Fearing the Jew-Haters and Fight Back!
by Diane Bederman
Time for the Jewish people to worry less about others, Tikkun Olam, and more about Pikuach Nefesh: the preservation of human life that overrides virtually any other religious rule of Judaism. We have the moral and ethical right to protect ourselves including carrying weapons to prevent attacks on our people.
We are living in a time where demonizing the Jews has become culturally acceptable. Jewish students are being bullied for being Jewish and for Israel being a white colonial oppressor against the oppressed Palestinian Arabs.
It's a type of bullying that demonstrates an absence of ethics and compassion. It is bullying that has a tangible goal. This is the bullying of Jews taking place in the 21st century and it's time to fight back.
Although Jewish people constitute less than one-half of one percent (0.18%) of the world's population, no other people have been as harassed, attacked, and impugned more than the Jews from time immemorial. When it comes to the Jews and Israel, facts don't matter.
Never forget: We are the people who gave the world the ethic that underpins freedom. The ethic that underpins freedom and Western Culture. Yet, here we are at a time when only Jewish people are afraid to wear their symbols proudly. Families are told not to put anything on their homes that identity them as Jewish.
Facts will not protect us. We must fight back – physically and let people know that we will not bend the knee.


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How Did Taylor Lautner and Tay Dome Meet? The 'Sharkboy and Lavagirl' Star Is Engaged To His Longtime Girlfriend
Taylor Lautner is engaged to Tay Dome — and they both will have the same name but how did they meet?
Many fans first fell in love with Taylor Lautner thanks to his starring roles in Sharkboy and Lavagirl and the Twilight series. Over the years, he's played some memorable characters, and his fan base is always looking forward to his next role. Aside from that, many people are really curious about his love life and on that front, he just shared some big news.
In November of 2021, Taylor announced that he was engaged to Tay Dome. "Cannot wait to spend forever with you," he said in an Instagram caption. The two had been dating for a couple of years, but how did they even meet? It turns out the person who introduced them is an important part of both their lives and felt like they were "perfect for each other" from the beginning.
How did Taylor Lautner meet Taylor Dome?
According to an Instagram post, Taylor and Tay met through his sister, Makena Moore. It's not clear when they started dating, but the first post of them on her Instagram was made in October of 2018. Makena made her own post about their engagement saying she knew she had to introduce them when she met Tay.
"Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm feeling tooty 😉 think I picked out a good one for my brother," the caption says. Tay also commented a ton of crying and white heart emojis on the post. Taylor commented as well in all caps saying, "You did good, kid."
Makena's caption continues by saying that she met Tay in a small Nashville church but she doesn't say when that was. She says they "couldn't be more perfect for each other" and that she sees Tay not only as a best friend but as a sister as well.
Who is Tay Dome?
Tay's Instagram bio lists her as a registered nurse. In a nursing Q&A on her YouTube channel, she says that she works three 12-hour shifts per week at her hospital on the telemetry floor. According to The National Library of Medicine, telemetry units are for patients who have life-threatening irregular heartbeats and are at risk for sudden death.
A post shared by TAY (@taydome)
In her Q&A, Tay says that in her hospital, each nurse is assigned four patients, each of whom has a heart monitor. She also says that nursing school was one of the hardest things she's done but it's also very rewarding.
Aside from that, Tay is an influencer with close to 400,000 followers on Instagram and over 14,000 on YouTube. She posts lots of lifestyle content. Plus, she's a dog mom. She has an Instagram for her two dogs — Remi and Lily — whom Taylor says will be the flower girls at his upcoming wedding.
Taylor Lautner shared that Taylor Dome will be taking his last name.
The news of Taylor and Tay's engagement has had fans swooning over the couple for some time, but the latest reason why they're making headlines has to do with their names. Indeed, Taylor revealed in an interview with Kelly Clarkson that Tay will be taking his last name, making both of their legal names Taylor Lautner.
"Her name is Taylor," he said to the host, noting that they "keep it super simple or super complicated." On the topic of having the same legal name, he added, "[It was] like, are you into this last name? 'Cause we already share one name, so it's gonna be extra complicated. We're literally going to be the same person."
Congratulations to Taylor and Tay on their upcoming wedding!
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On August 16, 2021, the City of Sherman agreed to invest nearly $24,500 to help remodel one of the city's historic downtown buildings and add an elevator to increase the convenience of the upstairs conference rooms.
Funding is provided through the Municipal Central Business District Historic Restoration and Improvement Grant Program, which has historically been used to assist in the repair and restoration of the front facades of many of Sherman's historic buildings. However, this request does not relate to external improvements to the building.
The council unanimously approved an agreement with Sherman Federal Courthouse Square, LLC to fund an ADA-compliant elevator to the Old Sherman Opera House on Travis Street.
The former three-story opera house was built in 1880 as part of Sherman's move to become a cultural epicenter in Texas and "the Athens of Texas" in the late 19th century. The opera house continued to operate until its final closure in 1918, showcasing a wide variety of acts and other attractions. Currently the building is home to Siebman Law, LLP and the True Options Pregnancy Center.
The expected cost of the current renovation project is estimated to be approximately $97,731, with the city spending $24,432.
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Нагаєва Зарема Садиківна ( 30 серпня 1949, Ташкент) — узбецька і українська архітекторка, лауреатка Національної премії України імені Тараса Шевченка.

Життєпис
Своє дитинство провела в Узбекистані. В 1972 році закінчила Ташкентський політехнічний інститут (архітектурний факультет).

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До 1999 року була викладачем в Політехнічному інститутів Ташкенті. ЇЇ проекти: адміністративно громадський центр у Хіві, музично-драматичні театри в Ургенчі, Коканді,Ташкенті (Узбекистан).

З 1991 року в Криму. Їй належить проект генерального плану мікрорайонів Камянка, Біле в Сімферополі. Ескізний проект культурно-етнографічного центру і генеральний план мікрорайону Ізмаїл-бей в місті Євпаторії. В Кримсько-татарському академічному музично-драматичному театрі та комплексі "Відродження" при Кримському інженерно-педагогічному університеті у співавторстві створила інтерєри. А також у співавторстві центральну мечеть у Сімферорполі.

Отримала Шевченківську премію у 2005 році за скульптурний комплекс «Відродження» разом з групою: головним архітектором, скульптором, автором оформлення концепції та автором скульптурного комплексу.

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Радянські архітектори
Узбецькі архітекторки
Українські архітекторки
Архітектори Сімферополя
Лауреати Шевченківської премії 2005 року


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1. NAACP Radiothon Results, Charleston Branch of the NAACP, 1994
Results from the 1994 NAACP Radiothon for the Charleston Branch of the NAACP.
2. Charleston Branch of the NAACP Statement of Income and Expense, 1994
Charleston Branch of the NAACP statement of income and expense budget results for the fiscal year ending in 1994, including income and expense figures.
3. NAACP National Poll
NAACP National Poll containing questions on leadership, media coverage, and education pertaining to African American communities and the NAACP.
4. Housing Committee Programs, Charleston Branch of the NAACP, 1994
Charleston Branch of the NAACP Housing Committee Programs from May to November, 1994.
5. Freedom Fund Magazine, 1994
Freedom Fund Magazine 1994, a NAACP published magazine providing information on jobs, education, and business.
6. Resolutions Submitted Under Article X, Section 2 of the Constitution of the NAACP, 1994
NAACP memorandum from Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Executive Director and CEO of NAACP to all NAACP units, national board members and NAACP/SCF trustees regarding 1994 resolutions. Enclosed are the Resolutions Submitted Under Article X, Section 2 (Powers and Functions of the Convention) of the Constitution of the NAACP, 1994.
7. NAACP Commerce and Trade Council Economic Report, Spring 1994, Vol. 3, No. 1
NAACP Commerce and Trade Council Economic Report from Spring 1994, Volume 3, Number 1.
8. Letter from Kenyon Cook to Dwight James, January 31, 1994
Correspondence from Kenyon Cook, Sales Consultant for D. W. Duplicating Products, to Dwight James, President of the Charleston Branch of the NAACP, regarding a Mita DC-3785 copying system and after sales service.
9. Mayor's Council on Homelessness and Affordable Housing Update Newsletter, Summer 1994
Newsletter entitled, "Update" published by the Mayor's Council on Homelessness and Affordable Housing, Charleston Department of Housing and Economic Development, including a variety of housing articles.
10. "Energizer" Newsletter, Summer 1994
The "Neighborhoods Energized to Win!" newsletter, "Energizer," Summer 1994, a component fund of the Community Foundation regarding the publishing organization and various neighborhood issues.
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