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Djokovic and Osaka reign supreme in Melbourne
Will Austin recaps January's Australian Open tennis tournament.
Last Sunday saw the conclusion of the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, the 2019 Australian Open. The fortnight's play in sunny Melbourne was filled with drama, brilliance, and unmistakably mesmerising action in both the men's and women's competitions.
On the penultimate day of play, the tennis world witnessed an inspirational contest between what must now be two of the most popular names in the sport. 21-year-old Naomi Osaka made it back-to-back Grand Slam victories following her 7-6 (7-2) 5-7 6-4 victory over eighth seed Petra Kvitova. The Japanese player demonstrated extraordinary nerve and mental strength on her way to being crowned champion, even describing herself after the final as having played "like a robot" during the third set. Osaka now finds herself as one of the most rapidly rising stars in the game and will most definitely fancy her chances of making it three in a row at Wimbledon in the summer.
Runner-up Petra Kvitova was competing in her first Grand Slam final since her win at Wimbledon in 2014 after she was stabbed in a horrific knife attack back in December 2016. The Czech showed immense bravery throughout the entirety of tournament and was understandably emotional during the presentation ceremony, highlighting her disbelief at being able to compete at such a prestigious event again. Kvitova's thrilling comeback during the final is testament to her resilient character, and a performance like this will surely fuel her for the rest of the season.
Before the tournament, questions were raised about whether American powerhouse Serena Williams would be able to bounce back following her collapse at the 2018 US Open. It seems that there is still some scar tissue left from this experience after she crashed out at the quarter-final stage in Melbourne to Karolina Pliskova. The manner of her defeat also raised eyebrows as she squandered a 5-1 lead in the third set to eventually lose it 5-7. Bigger questions lie ahead as to whether she will actually be able to overhaul Margaret Court's astounding record of 24 career Majors.
In the men's final on Sunday, Novak Djokovic's comprehensive dismantling of Rafael Nadal signified the renewal of old rivalries that surely left the crowds licking their lips in anticipation for the future. Djokovic truly played the Spaniard off the court as he racked up a staggering 34 winners on his way to a straight sets victory, winning 6-3 6-2 6-3. On the back of his impressive performance against Lucas Pouille in the semi-finals, the world number one delivered a frightening performance that left his opponent Nadal with little hope of stealing the title off him. Novak has reiterated his level of motivation to catch up to the grand slam record of Roger Federer, who sits five ahead of him. Following such a masterful display on court, very few would bet against him achieving this.
The event also offered a fantastic look at the rich array of young talent that has established on the tour. In the last 16, 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas knocked out the great Roger Federer. The young Greek put in a series of stellar displays to reach the semi-finals before bowing out to Rafa. Following this major breakthrough, his will certainly be a name to look out for during the rest of the season. Before the event, many viewer's eyes would have been on the rising German talent Alexander Zverev. Sadly, the world number three will have to wait just a bit longer for his own breakthrough at a Major tournament following a frustrating week that saw him exit, like Federer, in the last 16.
The name that was without doubt on everyone's lips before the event was that of Andy Murray. Having battled through immense pain on court during the last few months, Murray announced at the start of this year that the Australian Open may be the last event of his career. Heading to Australia with the dream of perhaps the impossible, Murray repeated his aims of wanting to end his career on a high note. A gutsy first-round performance was unfortunately not enough for the Brit to prevail against Roberto Bautista Agut. Following that, Murray underwent surgery on his hip that should ultimately improve his quality of life immeasurably. In the past, athletes have been able to recover from significant operations, but never before in singles as Murray understands. I am certain there is still a small part of Andy that believes in the possibility of a return farewell. With Wimbledon looming on the horizon, this may not be out of the question.


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Ziva VFX 1.4 released
Ziva Dynamics has announced the latest release of Ziva VFX, its Maya plug-in with an offline FEM anatomy simulator for the physical simulation of anatomical elements like muscles and skin. New features in Version 1.4 includes the ability to use external forces to affect the simulation. For example, it is possible to simulate the way that wind or rain interacts with a characters skin and tissue.
Also new in this release are Pressure and Surface Tension properties that can be to "fit" fat tissues around muscles as well as a Muscle Growth feature that can enhance the muscle definition of a character or an individual body part without needing to manually remodel the geometry. In a similar vein, a Rest Scale for Tissue feature has also been added, that enables the user to shrink or grow a tissue object equally in all directions.
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Rob and Romesh vs Ballet, Sky 1 review - unlikely lads throw themselves in as baitWednesday, 06 May 2020
The odd-couple comedy duo is a time-tested concept, and Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan have discovered a chemistry that works. Rob is the giggling excitable one, while Romesh, aided by a sleepy right eye which conveys a sense of harsh...Read more...
Acosta Danza, Sadler's Wells review - a dose of Cuban sunThursday, 21 November 2019
Second album, second novel, second tour programme – the follow-up is always tricky. But the timing couldn't be better for Acosta Danza, the Havana-based dance company which made its UK debut in 2017. These 20 young Cubans, handpicked by Carlos...Read more...
Carlos Acosta: A Celebration, Royal Albert HallThursday, 04 October 2018
Ballet superstar Carlos Acosta returned to the Royal Albert Hall this week, accompanied by the youthful dancers of his company Acosta Danza, for yet another show celebrating his long career. Photographer Bill Knight of theartsdesk captured...Read more...
Carlos Acosta, The Classical Farewell, Royal Albert HallTuesday, 04 October 2016
This is it. This is absolutely, definitely, finally Carlos Acosta's farewell to classical ballet. He has managed to spin out his retirement celebrations for almost a year: he gave his last performance on the Royal Opera House main stage last...Read more...
Carlos Acosta: A Classical Farewell, Birmingham HippodromeSaturday, 07 May 2016
Appearing before theatres full of middle-aged women in just your underpants is certainly one way to throw a retirement party. It may not be everybody's choice, but then Carlos Acosta is not like everybody, and never has been.For me, what marks...Read more...
Frankenstein, Royal BalletThursday, 05 May 2016
Another year, another new full-length story ballet from one of the Royal Ballet's in-house choreographers. Time was – a long time, in fact, up to 2011 – when that would have sounded like science fiction, but no longer: Liam Scarlett, whose...Read more...
Elizabeth, Royal BalletSunday, 10 January 2016
Please, sir, I want some more. Will Tuckett and Alasdair Middleton's Elizabeth is soul food for the hungry dance fan; an ingenious blend of words, music and dance that beguiles and entertains in equal measure. The shame is that it will be seen by so...Read more...
Carlos Acosta: A Classical Selection, London ColiseumThursday, 10 December 2015
"Every time I go on stage it could be the last," Carlos Acosta warned a few years back. And now that moment has come – or very nearly. There are a scant six performances of this farewell gala at the Coliseum (largely a reprise of an Olivier-winning...Read more...
Carmen, Royal BalletWednesday, 28 October 2015
Carlos Acosta is that rare 21st-century phenomenon – a performer who has become a household name without the help of reality TV. Even people who run a mile from ballet know the story of the Havana slum boy made good through perseverance...Read more...
The Four Temperaments/Untouchable/Song of the Earth, Royal BalletSaturday, 28 March 2015
After the second piece of last night's triple bill, Hofesh Shechter's Untouchable in its world premiere, my friend asked me why it had been put on the programme with the first piece, George Balanchines 1946 Four Temperaments. He wondered if there...Read more...
Swan Lake, Royal BalletWednesday, 11 February 2015
Is there an art-form more tied to bad as well as good tradition than classical ballet? Yolanda Sonnabend's unatmospherically if expensively kitsch designs for this Swan Lake wouldn't have lasted more than a season or two in the worlds of theatre and...Read more...
Don Quixote, Royal BalletWednesday, 26 November 2014
The 1871 ballet that goes by the name of Don Quixote has always been a challenge to stage. Barely a tenth of its two hours-plus concerns the titular knight and his crackpot wanderings. The rest is fixed like a town hall security camera on the non-...Read more...
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Little Noah had his four month check-up yesterday. He gets much more mad about being hungry than he does getting shots. He's in the 45% for height and 65% for weight, which is weird because he's actually long and skinny. Other than that he was declared "perfect".
He's ever so slowly moving beyond the "baby" stages. I'm still in no hurry and love watching his little changes every day. Although, we have told him that his life gets exponentially better once he can sit up - then he can eat real food and will enjoy bath time even more.
He really seems to be a happy kid. He doesn't melt down when frustrated. And he can focus and concentrate very well. He also seems to love live music, so it really sucks we can't sing and play guitar for him. It's also too bad we're not still in Austin with all the live music there.
I have a completely over-active brain, so I spend a lot of time thinking about how we got so lucky he's such a good baby. We both agree that we can't take any credit for it until he's older. But we do thank God on a regular basis. The problem is that with any ideas on why a particular kid is so good, you run into the "then why are some kids not so good" stuff - and no way am I going there!
The only problem he has is his eczema. Nerdstar has it, so he got it from her. We tried soy formula for almost two weeks now and it didn't make any difference, so it's not likely to be allergy related. Right now he's got 3 prescriptions, 2 kinds of lotion, and butt paste for general skin stuff. We're not clear on how you use an antibiotic cream twice a day, a steroid cream twice a day, and keep his face moisturized. Thankfully, we're not using the antibiotic much. The upside is that other than when his scalp gets dry and itchy, his skin problems don't bother him at all.
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You will feel lost in a thousand and one nights while wondering around magical Marrakech venues.
Marrakech will make you feel like a time traveler in Old City region which was the capital once upon a time and now listed in Unesco World Heritage. Chaos and disorder had captured the city but beyond that turmoil you feel the different meanings of color and harmony in an exotic way. This chaos is not definitely disturbing, more like the unique dance of the city. Marrakech means 'the red city' in barbary language, as remunerating its name with architecture and texture; every hue of the red will amaze you.
Marrakech replaced middle part of Fas very close to Atlas Mountains. The mountains under snow cause a magical view for the city from autumn to summer.
Medina region fairly the tourism and trade center of the country. When you enter the city from old trumps to Madina, thousands of shops and sellers welcome you that all sort of products can be found. Fabrics, carpets and rugs, arts and crafts, jewelry and stone works are distinctively breathtaking. I strongly suggest you to look up to discover hidden cafes and restaurants, wonderful venues behind tiny doors and remarkable eastern gardens.
I couldn't help the feeling to encounter Indiana Jones with whip in a corner while walking around Jemaa El-Fnaa square. No city can compete with Judgment Square even I have seen thousand of cities until today. All sort of hawkers, dancers, drag queens, charmers, street tattoo and henna artists, fire breathers, acrobats, monkeys…
Before I forget I should warn you; if you mistakenly look or pay attention to the monkeys, they carers may slip them or put them on your shoulder right away. Be careful while wondering around the streets about vendors because they might get disturbingly insistent.
Jardin Majorelle
Jardin Majorelle also known as house of Yves Saint Laurent that makes you stepped into heaven with thousand of palms, cactuses, flowers, fountains and pools. The place used as atelier and botanic collection garden from 1920's to 1947's by Jacques Majorelle. The place went public in 1947 and after death of French artist in 1962; Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge discovered the place and purchase in 1980. The venue extant today as a remarkable garden complex with pools including a museum, an art gallery, a boutique named Majorelle and cafe named Bousafsaf.
Kutubiye Mosque
Kutubiye Mosque is one of the symbolic buildings of Marrakesh, places entrance of Jamaa El-Fnaa square. It was built in 1199 and with 77 betres minaret it almost can be seen from any point of old town.
Bahia Palace
The picturesque Moroccan palace which commissioned by grand vizier of king in 19th century is full of extinctive examples of mosaic, stone, glass and wooden engraving. The palace named after one of the wives of vizier, in which court bases with lemon and citrus trees will carry you away, don't be surprised.
Madrasah is actually from 14th century, but in 16th century it was aggrandized by Saadi Dynasty in 16th century and reached present day. We can see the most detailed and specific examples of Moroccan art in the construction. On the walls there are spectacular pieces of traditional gatch tessellations. The walls begin withs wooden cedar-wood engravings on top and continue with gatchs and at the bottom there are colorful and patterned mosaics named 'zellige'.
La Mamounia
I would recommend Hotel La Mamounia which is absolutely impeccable. As for restaurants and diners, I would recommend Naranj, Le Jardin, La Famille and Dar Yacout.
*I would like to thank Pronto Tour for this beautiful Marrakech trip.


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Sidmouth Seniors beaten at Lyme Regis in final match of the season
PUBLISHED: 19:09 09 November 2019 | UPDATED: 19:10 09 November 2019
The Sidmouth seniors' away match against Lyme Regis was the last scheduled match of the season.
The fixture was number 30 for the 2019 campaign and was played on a grey cloudy day, with strong winds coming off the sea.
Chris Grubb and John White led the team away with John having to hire a buggy, as he had damaged his ankle the night before and was struggling to walk, let alone play golf!
The pair managed a half at the first, but unfortunately that's the best they could do in the first eight holes, and lost the next five holes with Chris getting a birdie on the ninth to bring it back to four down at the halfway point.
Although the pair played better in the second half the damage had already been done, and eventually they succumbed to a five-and-four reversal.
Mike Davis and Charles Brown were second out and went two up after two holes playing well, but the Lyme Regis pair came back at them and reduced the deficit leaving the Sidmouth pairing only one up at halfway.
However, Davis and Brown then showed their opponents a clean par of heels as they reeled off four winning holes across the back nine to the one gained by the Lyme duo and it left the Sidmouth pair securing a four-and-two success. Phil Spencer and Bruce Harcourt were third out, again starting well and found themselves three up at halfway and continued the good form into the back nine, eventually winning four-and-three.
The next group of Len Wright and Roger Bawden played well against the home pairing and despite a string of halves eventually lost two-and-one.
Hugh Dorliac, playing with Malcolm Couldwell, normally very reliable scorers, had an off day against strong opposition, eventually losing five-and-three. The final pairing of Steve Nunn and Martyn Cutmore, with Martyn playing in his first match for the seniors, had a fairly close game all the way, but unfortunately succumbed over the second half of their meeting to a two-and-one defeat.
It all meant that Lyme Regis predictably won their home leg to the tune of a 4-2 score line, but Sidmouth had done slightly better when they had hosted and so, over the two meetings, it was Sidmouth who took the overall honours with the final score being six-and-a-half to Lyme's five-and-a-half.
A possibly long winter of golf stretches out now, a time to improve the short game perhaps, before the new season starts up again in 2020.
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Healthy Gums, Happy Teeth
Periodontal disease is gum disease. It's basically infection of the gums which leads to bone loss around the teeth. The bone that supports the teeth is what keeps the teeth from being mobile, keeps them from being loose and keeps them from being painful. If you're starting to lose the bone around your teeth, we can stop that process with what we call a deep cleaning. With the deep cleaning, it's a little different than a regular cleaning. We have to go down below the gums and we have to clean the root surfaces off where the bacteria is being held. The bacteria is down there and it's holding toxins that's eating your bone away.
It requires a different type of treatment than a regular cleaning. The good news is that once we do it, we can maintain it without having to do it again. We can make it to where it is not uncomfortable. We always numb our patients so they don't feel it during the procedure. We offer medication to make sure that they stay comfortable. If they have any anxiety about getting the procedure done, we have different levels of sedation we offer, too, that they can have while they're getting the treatment done to where they won't remember anything that was done.
The number one reason behind tooth loss is gum disease. Gum disease symptoms is caused by several different things, but all of them lead back to a lack of care for the gums over time. In other words, you stopped getting your teeth and gums cleaned at the dentist, or you began to neglect your teeth and gums at home.
One of the biggest issues with gum disease is that it is often painless in the early stages. The main symptom is bleeding from the gums, noticeable during brushing or flossing your teeth. As your gum disease progresses, you may experience loose or shifting teeth.
A staggering statistic from the American Dental Association reveals that an estimated 8 out 10 people suffer from some stage of gum disease. That is an amazing amount of people afflicted by a completely preventable disease. The good news is that there are ways of treating this disease.
The treatment for more advanced cases of gum disease require surgery. Luckily, the majority of those who have gum disease are still at a level that we can treat with nonsurgical options.
Regular Exams & Cleanings
The first and most common nonsurgical treatment for early stage gum disease is to have your teeth professionally cleaned. At Ascension Premier Dental, you will be given a top-to-bottom check of your teeth and gums.
The dental cleaning process will help remove plaque and tartar buildup on the teeth and along the gumline. This aids in eradicating the disease-causing bacteria and keeping it from causing you further gum health issues. After the professional cleaning is complete, it is important to create a regularly scheduled plan to keep your teeth and gums free of plaque and tartar buildup.
Other Nonsurgical Options
Another nonsurgical form of treatment for gum disease is what is called scaling and root planing. This is a more in-depth cleaning procedure than what is involved with a regular professional dental cleaning.
This treatment is a two-part process done under local anesthesia. The first part is scaling. This involves Dr. Calvin Bessonet cleaning hardened plaque and tartar from around and under the gumline. This plaque and tartar is much more stubborn and harder to remove than the plaque and tartar found above the gumline.
Once the scaling has removed all of this hardened material, Dr. Calvin Bessonet will move on to the root planing part of the treatment. This is where the rough areas on the root of the tooth are smoothed to allow for a clean, bacteria-free surface. This gum treatment procedure is used only when Dr. Calvin Bessonet determines that the gums and underlying bone are still healthy enough to warrant this in-depth cleaning process.
Gum disease is big deal. It is the biggest reason behind adults losing their teeth, and it can also negatively affect your overall health. Taking care of your teeth and your gums is important. That is why Ascension Premier Dental is here to help you keep your gums healthy and your teeth happy. Give us a call at 225-263-6806, or refer to the online contact form to get in touch with us.


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Documentary "Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions"
Screening and Q&A with director Duki Dror, Israeli filmmaker and Schusterman Visiting Artist at UCSC
When: Monday, February 25, 2013
Time: 7:30-9:30PM
Location: UCSC Media Theater
Free and Open to the Public - Seating is first come, first served - Parking available at Performing Arts Lot $4
Presented by Arts Division and Film and Digital Media
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, Arts Dean's Arts Excellence Fund, Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Art Department.
Synopsis: This film is a cinematic mediation about the untold story of Erich Mendelsohn, whose life and career were as enigmatic and tragic as the path of the century. He drew sketches on tiny pieces of paper and sent them from the trenches to a young cellist, who was waiting for him in Berlin. She thought he was a genius and after WW1, she helped him become the busiest architect in Germany. When she planned to leave him for a communist poet, he built a perfect house for her, entirely planned by him from the lakeview living room, to the silverware and her evening-gowns. When the Nazis came to power, they abandoned the house and left Germany forever. Erich and Louise Mendelsohn have wandered between continents, between world wars, between success and failure. The buildings that Erich built around the world, scattered as a trail of their journey, have changed the history of architecture.
Award-winning filmmaker and current Schusterman Visiting Artist, Duki Dror (The Journey of Vaan Nguyen, Raging Dove) has created a spectacular interpretation based on Erich and Louise's relationship, for one of the most captivating chapters in the development of modern art.


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DECATUR, Ill. - Westminster men's basketball opens up the season with a big 80-54 victory against Millikin.
Westminster opened up the game on a quick three-pointer from Romo Tabb and jump shot from Tanner Cochran to take a quick 5-0 lead. The Blue Jays never trailed once in the game.
Tabb and Jimmy Villalobos were dominant in the first half, tallying 21 of Westminster's 41 points.
"We played extremely well in the first 20 minutes of the game," said Westminster Head Coach Matt Mitchell. "Defensively, we were very aggressive and took them out of their comfort zone."
The Big Blue's best chance to get back into the game happened at the 7-minute mark when they clawed back within 11 points. After missing a chance to pull back into single digits, Villalobos hit a three-point shot to make sure Westminster kept its sufficient lead.
The Blue Jays went into the half with a 41-20 advantage. Westminster hit 7-10 three-pointers and forced 10 turnovers in the first half.
Sean O'Brien and Tabb started out the second half with a dunk and a layup to broaden the lead even more. The Big Blue never came within 20 in the second half.
Four Blue Jays ended the game in double-figure scoring. Tabb led both teams with 19 while O'Brien added 11. Both Villalobos and Collin Caywood, off the bench, scored 10 each.
The Blue Jays went 27-48 (56.3%) from the field and 8-15 (53.3%) from behind the three-point.
"Romo and Jimmy led us offensively and both showed us how explosive they can be," said Mitchell.
Westminster plays Saturday in Decatur against Elmhurst at 3 p.m.


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Sony introduced two new lenses, destined for its NEX cameras and camcorders, thus extending the creative possibilities of the photographers.
The Tokyo-based company says its E-mount camera system is very popular, therefore the two new E-mount lenses will be welcomed by the owners of NEX mirrorless cameras and camcorders.
Sony E-mount SEL20F28 20mm f/2.8 pancake lens
Dubbed as a "pancake" wide angle prime lens, the Sony SEL20F28 20mm f/2.8 lens can be mounted on α E-Mount cameras, in order to deliver "sharp" images, said the press release. The new lens comes in a slim and lightweight package and is suitable for most types of photography, including landscape, macro, portrait, and street.
The focal length stands at 30mm at 35mm equivalence, while the minimum focus distance is set at just 20 centimeters. Sony's new pancake lens features a metal exterior finish, autofocus support, a low-noise mechanism, and a 0.12x maximum magnification. As stated above, this is a very lightweight lens as it weighs only 69 grams / 2.4 ounces.
Its minimum aperture is f/22, but the more important is the maximum f/2.8 aperture which can produce a greater contrast when taking photos or when filming full HD 1080p videos.
Sony E-mount SELP18200 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 OSS telephoto zoom lens
This is not the first time Sony announced the SELP18200 power zoom telephoto lens as it is already available on the semi-professional NEX-VG30 camcorder. The built-in Optical SteadyShot technology reduces shaking, thus cutting down blur when taking photos.
Although it is optimized for shooting videos, Sony confirmed it is suited for landscape, portrait as well as wildlife photography. The aforementioned OSS technology is used in combination with a technique called Active Mode that stabilizes the camera when zooming or when using very slow shutter speeds.
Sony's new telephoto zoom lens supports 11x magnification that delivers "smooth cinematic transitions." A zoom lever can be used for selecting between three zoom speed steps, forcing Sony to promise they create impressive crash-zoom effects. The lens weighs only 649 grams / 22.9 ounces and offers 27-300mm focal length at 35mm equivalence.
Availability and pricing of the new Sony lenses
The new pancake and power zoom telephoto lenses take the total number of Sony E-mount lenses to 13. The SEL20F28 20mm f/2.8 prime lens release date has been scheduled for April, while the SELP18200 telephoto power zoom lens launch date has been set for this March. The former will cost $350 and the latter will have a MSRP of $1,200.


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In Griffon view you can supply a predefined action to a component such as JButton to invoke a controller action in a breeze. The following code snippet demonstrate how it is done in Griffon:
actions {
action(id: "quitAction",
name: messageSource.getMessage('menuItem.exit.caption'),
mnemonic: "x",
closure: controller.quit)
menuBar {
menu(messageSource.getMessage('menu.file.caption')) {
From Andres Almiray:
The main difference between all examples is that the first assigns an instance of javax.swing.Action to the node's value. The builder knows that it can configure a button/menuItem/etc out of an Action so it does it.
When it comes to listener and event handling, one would expect a similar pattern applies; for example according to Swing builder documentation mousePressed event exists on JComponent level so one would hope the following code can bind a controller action to an mousePressed event.
actions {
action(id: "nodeSelectionAction",
closure: controller.selectNode)
list(id:'nodeList', model: model.serverListModel, eventPressed: nodeSelectionAction)
From Andres Almiray:
The second example does not work because it attempts to assign an instance of javax.swing.Action as the value of the menuPressed property, which has to be a MouseListener. That's why it breaks (although the error text may be misleading).
Unfortunately you will get No such property: mousePressed for class: javax.swing.JList error message. Instead the correct way to do this is by using the closure instead of an Action since mousePressed expects a listener. Groovy closure declared here will be converted to a listener automatically:
From Andres Almiray:
list(id:'nodeList', model: model.serverListModel, mousePressed: controller.selectNode)
The third example works because it assigns a closure as the value of the mousePressed property. Groovy will generate under the covers a proxy of a MouseListener that uses that closure as the implementation of said proxy's mousePressed method.
Hope this post will save some investigation time for someone who is new to Griffon and Swing builder.
Go Griffon!


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Today I've got a tip for those who are thinking about a wedding with that wonderful boy or girl they know for years (or days, whatever). Check out the website of Marylise, located in Antwerp and gosh .. they've got some very nice wedding dresses and bridal gowns. For me, a wedding is absolutely not on my mind .. but for some this may be the motivation of asking the right question towards the right person.
[Note: The original version of this article has been posted on my previous weblog, in 2005]


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Execu|Search Ranks Among LinkedIn's List Of Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies
The Execu|Search Group is excited to announce that we have earned a spot in the Top 25 of LinkedIn's Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies for the second consecutive year! As a North American firm, we ranked #3 in the Medium Enterprise category.
"LinkedIn plays a major role in both the hiring process and the candidate experience, so we put a lot of effort into creating and curating our educational resources on the platform," says Hannah DeGiovanni, Chief Marketing Officer at The Execu|Search Group. "Whether we're sharing our latest video on interview tips or an eBook for employers about hiring trends, cultivating an engaging environment with our network is always top of mind."
To determine this ranking, LinkedIn evaluated the social reach, employee engagement, employment brand, and content marketing power of the 60,000 "Search and Staffing" companies listed on the site. They did this by investigating thousands of data points over the past year, primarily focusing on:
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WordPress has gone a long way from a simple blogging system. Today, it's evolved to the most popular, powerful, and flexible content management system (CMS) in the world. Its official repository offers thousands of themes and plugins – enabling virtually limitless combinations for your own website.
To maintain its dominance in the CMS world, WordPress never really stops growing and changing for the better. More and more features were added and sadly, many of them remained little-known to bloggers.
Here are 5 of them that you might overlooked in the past:
1. Sticky Post
In most WordPress themes, the recent posts section displays articles chronologically. But what if you want to somehow pin a specific post at the top of your website – be it a very important announcement or bit of information you'd like all your readers to know about?
Sure, you can create a custom-built homepage that pulls in a particular post for your homepage. But an easier solution would be to use the built-in sticky post feature.
To use this feature: Simply open the post editor then select Visibility > Stick this post to the front page.
2. Additional Keyboard Shortcuts
Everyone knows that the WordPress post editor supports universal shortcuts such as Ctrl + C for copy and Ctrl + V for paste.
What you probably didn't know is that there is a number of additional shortcuts that make content development a lot easier.
For example, typing in ">" to start a paragraph enables the blockquote feature.
Shift + Alt + C is the shortcut for the align center formatting option.
To see the full list of keyboard shortcuts, click the question mark button from the main editor.
3. Distraction-Free Writing Mode
One of best things about WordPress is also one of its downsides. Since it utilizes a unified and somewhat cluttered interface, writing or editing content right on WordPress is not ideal – unless your browser isn't maximized or you're using a mobile device.
Thankfully, you can activate the distraction-free writing mode to hide the dashboard along with the Publish, Categories, Tags, and other sections in the editor as you type.
It's not a significant change, but the distraction-free writing mode works in promoting better focus and productivity. To temporarily disable this mode, simply hover your mouse outside the editing area.
4. Custom Permalink Structures
Let's get some things straight – the default permalink structure in WordPress isn't good for SEO. It's also not very readable or optimized for users who'd rather type in a specific page's URL in the browser. To fix this, you can pick a different format in Settings > Permalinks.
You can also create a custom permalink structure by picking Custom Structure. Below is a list of the tags you can use:
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When blogging, it's crucial to publish your posts when your target audience is most active. That's why WordPress includes a feature that allows you to schedule a post to be published at a later time. All you need to do is look at the Publish section and click Edit next to Publish immediately.
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October is another huge birthday month at my work. I try to make sure not everyone gets the same birthday card. The men don't care, but I secretly love hearing the woman talk about their cards and seeing them on their desks for the day.
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Well this blog post from last November has been rendered irrelevant. The video that it linked to on Spankingtube.com (below the fold) apparently was deleted. After hearing about the nonsense ServingB put up with I can understand why.
So, as a consolation I've added this other video so the page will have some content. I've linked to another video where another lucky fellow has a fine lady who enjoys her chores best with a nice wide paddle.
So in any event, if there is too much talking or too much of a plot or playing dress-up, I find it harder to imagine myself in the same scenario. Not to mention when there is an attempt to apply a plot to a short spanking video it usually become obvious that we spankos not only share an interest in hot sore asses, but also a complete lack of acting ability.
Today's subject of discussion is another one of the videos found at the bottom of the page. Now here we have a spanking with a mini plot that's easy to get past since it's rather brief. Obviously, he's done something wrong and it's also obvious that she intends to do something about it. It starts with a bit of dialogue, but we'll ignore that. To me the "young man" is a bit contrived and a "mister" might play better there, but we all get the point… he's going to be spanked.
Now I suppose there are a couple of things I really admire about this video.
First, is how determined this particular lady is to see to it that her man will be able to remember the spanking. It would appear that our hero, "Bill" has already had a bit of a warm up and from this little short one could imagine that the warm up itself was probably a memorable event unto itself.
Without much ado, she firmly, very firmly I might add, applies an actual 50 dose of what appears to be a somewhat light, yet rather intimidating paddle that I'm sure contains a considerable amount of sting. The concept of being bent over a chair like this is not one I ever want to find myself in. I'm much more comfortable (sic) over My Fine Lady's luscious lap.
The astute observer will note that this particular lady is probably a pretty good competitor on the tennis court. Her swing is purposeful, consistent and the follow through is certainly to be admired. Admired might not be the right word, perhaps feared would be better. She is certainly a no nonsense woman who happens to display the same sort of determination that at time plays upon my own sorry ass.
If I happen to be getting a stress relief spanking and My Fine Lady sees that the spanking is getting to be very effective she might lessen the dose slightly or vary the speed at least until I regain a little bit of composure.
On the other hand, if I'm getting a real punishment spanking similar to what is portrayed in this video I can be sure that my movements, complaints or objections will fall on deaf ears, as happens to our poor lucky subject Bill in this video.
The second thing I admire about this particular video is how well "Bill" manages to stay in place. That's not something I've yet been able to completely master. In my particular case at some point I often manage to get out of position and of course usually pay dearly for it.
I look forward to your comments and I'm curious to learn how many others may find bits of this video intriguing.
The subject of my next astute review will be the wimpy weenie video, also found at the bottom of the page.


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Black Ink Crew: Chicago is gearing up to takeover your Wednesdays and now that Ryan's leaving, everyone is striving to boss up.
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Van feels he's fit to be a leader, but Charmaine thinks that respect is a major factor. The logic is simple, "If you boss up and I don't respect you, I'm not going to respect you bossing up." Meanwhile, Lily is hungry to takeover the shop, but Don knows little mama isn't ready.
In the clip above the crew talks about what it takes to be a leader, and while everyone is trying to figure out who's getting that number one spot, they still have 9Mag to run.
The takeover goes down Wednesday May 30th at 8/7c with the season four premiere of Black Ink Crew: Chicago!


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St Albans artist appears on SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year
PUBLISHED: 16:46 01 April 2019 | UPDATED: 09:24 03 April 2019
A former St Albans pupil will feature in an upcoming art exhibition after appearing as a contestant on SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year.
Romy Kelleher, 18, appeared in the show on Tuesday, March 5, competing against other artists to paint portraits of celebrities.
An exhibition of her artwork, entitled 'The Eclectic Generation', will be held at Nude Tin Can Gallery in Hatfield Road, St Albans from April 13 to 25, and will include both her self-portrait and her celebrity portrait from the programme.
One of the judges was British portrait painter Tai-Shan Schierenberg, who is head of painting at the Art Academy in London. On the show, Romy had to paint a portrait of the actor Stephen Graham.
Romy, who was 17 when the show was filmed last year, said: "I got involved because I've been watching the show since season one started.
"I applied thinking I wouldn't get anywhere with it, but to receive a phone call the next week saying they wanted me was just the best!
"I loved meeting the judges, especially Tai-Shan Schierenberg, the other artists and Stephen Graham.
"He gave me advice on becoming an actor and he was very encouraging throughout the day.
"I love painting people.
"I'm very into my portraiture. I do love city/landscapes but I'm always drawn to the human face."
Romy did her GCSEs at St Albans Girls' School (STAGS) then went on to St Albans School, where she achieved an A* at art A-level and was awarded the Robin Ollington Exhibition Prize for Art.
She was also invited to produce artwork for the cover of the school's Albanian magazine.
She is currently in her first year at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, studying for a BA in Acting and painting and drawing in her spare time.
After graduation she hopes to take an MA in fine art.
Speaking about her upcoming exhibition, Romy said: "The exhibition features the best portraits I have done throughout my school life.
"There are pieces from GCSE, all the way to my final piece for A-level.
"My self-portrait and the painting I did on the day of Stephen Graham will also be featured, but not for sale quite yet."
SkyArts Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, hosted by Stephen Mangan and Joan Bakewell, is available on SkyArts and Now TV.
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The touching tale of how ten year ol Andrea comes to terms with her parents' divorce.
Andrea used to live happily with her Mum, Dad and Radish, who lives in Andy's pocket and shares all her secrets, but then it all went wrong. Mum went to live with Bill and his kids, and Dad went off to live with Carrie and her twins. Andy was left shuttling between the two, living out of a suitcase.


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Moon phase on 13 April 2026 Monday is Waning Crescent, 25 days old Moon is in Pisces.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 10 April 2026 at 04:52.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1913".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2026 after 18 days on 1 May 2026 at 17:23.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 324 of Meeus index or 1277 from Brown series.
Length of current 324 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer than next lunation 325 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠307.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠330.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
6 days after point of apogee on 7 April 2026 at 08:32 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 April 2026 at 06:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Moon is 387 264 km (240 635 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 631 km (224 707 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 23:43 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 26 April 2026 at 14:36 in ♍ Virgo.
At 23:43 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
5 days after previous South standstill on 8 April 2026 at 05:01 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.291°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.210° in the next northern standstill on 21 April 2026 at 11:12 in ♊ Gemini.
After 3 days on 17 April 2026 at 11:52 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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Sky Ridge Medical Center is accepting donations of medical-grade personal protective equipment, including boxed N95 and surgical masks, packaged gowns and gloves and face masks.
No homemade face masks will be accepted, officials said.
Sky Ridge encourages people to donate blood now as many doctors expect blood supply to drop as a result of stay-at-home orders.
Sky Ridge cannot accept food at this time.
Those interested in donating to Sky Ridge Medical Center should contact Linda Watson at firstname.lastname@example.com
Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree reports it has plenty of supplies to handle the ever-worsening COVID-19 outbreak in the Denver metro area and throughout the country, but it is preparing for the worst.
"You feel like the soldier in the castle wall where you have your arrows and stuff ready and you're waiting for the invading army to show up," said Chief Medical Officer Jason Kelly. "We haven't seen a huge number of COVID patients yet, and so we're kind of waiting for the surge."
The Tri-County Health Department reported nine Lone Tree residents and 51 people in total in Douglas County were being treated for COVID-19, as of March 26.
Kelly said Sky Ridge is well stocked on supplies like masks and respirators but is accepting donations of medical supplies from the public anyway. Sky Ridge uses N95 respirators, a specific type of mask that blocks at least 95% of small test particles, according to the Food and Drug Administration. N95 masks filter the air.
The hospital is also accepting donations for surgical masks, surgical gowns and face shields. Surgical masks, which are commonly seen worn by the public, are not as secure to the face and can only block droplets if a person sneezes or coughs.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado State Emergency Operations began shipping supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile March 23. CDPHE estimates one full day of statewide operations requires roughly 50,000 N95 masks, 115,000 surgical masks, 21,000 surgical gowns; 21,000 face shields; and 84 coveralls.
Kelly said Sky Ridge is focused on maintaining its labor force through the crisis.
"Without staff, you can't run a hospital," Kelly said.
The hospital is looking into things like providing child care for employees with kids who must stay at home.
Sky Ridge is part of the HealthONE health care system and Kelly said HealthONE has plenty of blood. Kelly is concerned blood supply may drop in about a month due to a declining number of donors.
The hospital will not accept any food donations at this time, Kelly said. To show appreciation for the doctors and nurses, Kelly suggested reaching out to them on an individual basis to thank them.
"It's the small things that you do every day that are the important things," Kelly said. "It's heartbreaking to think health care workers get shunned because people are worried they have a higher probability of being infected. Reaching out and thanking those folks for the hard work every day on an individual level really means a lot. Everybody in health care is working pretty hard right now so that kind of support really makes it feel worthwhile to those folks."
Kelly said the best thing people can do is mind social distancing guidelines and the hospital's altered visitor policies, which include no children under 12, one visitor at a time and no one showing cold/flu symptoms are allowed to visit.
"This is definitely a serious situation, but right now we have things reasonably under control," Kelly said. "To some degree, panic is our worst enemy. Be calm, we're going to get through this."
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Dan Withee & Dale Malcolm got together to discuss their philosophy on good design, and what makes Withee Malcolm Architects different. They also discussed how the firm adds value for their clients, how preparing quality documents are key and making sure you run the firm like a business.
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The number one priority of any medical practice is taking care of their patients. As everyone knows, when people are sick and needing a doctor's care, they are at their most vulnerable and patience can run very low. Any inefficiency in the way a doctor's office is managed becomes amplified for those who are ill, and many times that inefficiency can cause patients to leave that office and go elsewhere. This is the last thing any medical practice needs or wants to have happen.
In a busy practice, the hectic pace of duties all personnel face can be a hindrance to basic office functions. Checking in patients, getting the baseline medical information necessary to facilitate the visit by the doctor, checking patients out after the visit – these are the tasks that need to take priority on a daily basis. Add patient calls and appointment scheduling and you can have an unmanageable mess extremely fast – something that spins out of control and is hard to get back on track.
Thankfully, there are resources to help with office management functions. One of those resources is the medical answering service. These services can help put efficiency back into your office functionality by taking those admin tasks off the plates of your critical practice personnel. With a medical answering service that is properly HIPPA compliant – and you should always check for this when reviewing possible services – you can provide the best of customer service to your patients in ways your internal office is unable to when busy providing care.
Just being able to take incoming calls from current and prospective patients can bring significant relief. Most services have everything available from handling calls at peak business hours to catching overflow when your office lines are all being used all the way to constant availability day and night. They can cover weekends and holidays in the way your normal office personnel would not be able to manage without hiring additional people or paying overtime. Depending on your needs, calls can be screened to filter only those needing direct medical attention through to your office lines, leaving everything else to be managed with a callback or other procedure. Messages can be relayed through texts or emails to help in keeping phone lines open and available.
By merging your office's appointment calendar with the software programs medical answering services have at their disposal, you can have them set up appointments where available. They also quite often take care of follow up calls to patients to remind them of upcoming appointments and this reduces no shows that cause problems throughout the day. Rescheduling cancellations is another prime reason that use of an answering service proves itself valuable – those cancellations that might cause business to drop off can be repaired by reaching out to others who have looked to see the doctor more quickly than current scheduling permits – the answering service can take care of plugging these schedule holes to keep your day moving smoothly.
There are many medical answering services available with individual qualifications and suites of services to meet various needs. You can learn much more by visiting medicalanswering.services and decide which service will provide your best fit. Take a minute to see how an answering service can boost your practice's bottom line here: http://www.telerep.com/blog/customer-relationship-management/the-benefits-of-professional-live-answering-services/.
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You will probably not be surprised to learn that one of the things you do a whole lot when you're preparing to move overseas is say goodbye. You also might get to eat a lot of cake, as is evidenced by the photos in this post. I guess it is easier to photographically commemorate a sugary confection than a heartfelt goodbye.
Anyway, my first farewell saying / cake eating event took place on my last day of work. I started working at Clark about six months after returning from my Snorri adventure. I knew when I took the job that my goal was to get back to Iceland sooner rather than later, so I kind of figured it would be a pretty short-term arrangement. I didn't count on getting quite so attached to my coworkers, though. I respect and appreciate each and every person with whom I've been privileged to work the last year and a half. If I had not been awarded the Fulbright this year, I would have been disappointed, of course, but I think I could have been content to spend another year or two with my Clark family.
My last day of work was a Friday, and when I arrived, my desk was covered in glorious Grumpy Cat paraphernalia. Also atop my desk was a cup full of punctuation marks on sticks. I won't even try to explain that, but trust me, it was special.
Only a few of us were scheduled to work that day, but a few hours into the day, my other coworkers began appearing one by one, toting food and drink and adorable babies. They threw me a surprise going-away party, complete with a Grumpy Cat cake. Yes, a Grumpy Cat cake. They may not have known me long, but they definitely know me well.
Farewell, my beloved Clark Penguins. Thank you for teaching me and making me laugh and letting me be my cat-loving, grammar-nerding self.
Then last Sunday, we had a casual little farewell gathering here at the house. A couple months ago, I had big plans for my going-away open house, but with everything else that's been going on, I had to let go of that and just let it be simple. We had food, coffee, and cake. People stopped by throughout the afternoon – friends from high school, family friends from the neighborhood and from church, even a couple of my high school teachers and a former college professor from Corban. There were a lot of people I would have loved to see who couldn't make it, and I wasn't feeling great all day, but I am thankful for everyone who stopped by to show their support and say farewell for now. I am also thankful for cake. Mmm.
There are more farewells to come in the next few days, but hopefully no more cake. I really shouldn't eat any more cake.


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Change a user's email to a federated domain in Apple Business Manager
If you have successfully linked Apple Business Manager to your Microsoft Azure AD domain, you can change an existing account so that its email address and Managed Apple ID are identical. An exception is that an account with a role of Administrator or People Manager cannot use the same address for both.
Change a user's email to a federated domain
In Apple Business Manager , sign in with an account that has the role of Administrator or People Manager.
Tap Accounts in the sidebar, search for an account in the Search Accounts field, then select the account from the list. See Search for user accounts.
Tap Edit, change the email address, tap OK to also change the Managed Apple ID to match the email address, then tap Save.
That user can now sign in with their Managed Apple ID and their domain password.


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A Neck Item is a category of clothing. It includes items such as Capes, Neckties, Bags, Chains, Necklaces, Scarves, Beards, Leis, Wings, and things that the penguin wears on their back.
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- The first neck item available was the Black Bowtie
- The rarest neck item is the Hawaiian Lei.
- The Life Vest was a free item during Rockhopper's Quest, and was the first free non-member neck item to appear since the Santa Beard was released in the Christmas Party 2008.
- There is a bait item called Remove Neck Item.
- There are some penguins that can wear two neck items at once, such as Jet Pack Guy. It is also impossible to impersonate him as nobody can wear two neck items simultaneously.
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Psychological Support: Helping Police Officers Recover from Traumatic Experiences
Mario Gutierrez was viciously attacked in the line of duty. Gutierrez shot and killed the felon after he was stabbed. In the hospital the wounded cop asked for the Police Department's psychologist.
Gutierrez, an officer from the Miami-Dade Police department was parked at a gas station when he saw a man pulling a gas hose. The cop acted instinctively and used his taser on the man identified later as Dominique Jean.
Jean assaulted and stabbed the police officer which led Gutierrez to draw and fire his gun. Gutierrez later said he feared not being able to see his family again and it made him angry..
Dr. Scott Allen responded to the call. A police psychologist in the Miami-Dade Police Department since the 1980s, Dr. Allen and the rest of the department's psychological services team are on call 24/7. They respond to scenes where officers face major traumatic events like involvement in gunfire exchanges and getting injured.
Dr. Allen defines a traumatic event being any event is any event that is outside the typical scope of normal human actions. The police department hired him to help lower the incidence of suicide in the force which was high 30 years ago. NBC reported there were 108 police suicides across the US in 2016.
Officer Gutierrez emphasized it's very important for a person to have someone to talk to so that he'll be guided to healing and go back to the normal routines.
"He was in a very dark place."
Last week, Andrew Summerscales, a former cop made his own death report using official paperwork before committing suicide.
Like Gutierrez, Summerscales had a traumatic experience while on the job.
The Guardian reported that Summerscales was one of the first one to respond to a tragedy on September 18, 2012. The victims were his fellow officers and good friends Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone.
The officer's son, Joshua and his former girlfriend, Carly Weston both agreed that the event gravely affected Summerscales. The police officer struggled with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Weston said Summerscales was in a very dark place. She tried to persuade Summerscales to get help but he refused to.
Summerscales went on a 12-month sick leave after the incident. He went back to work disillusioned and unhappy with the job. The police officer also expressed intentions to take his own life in more than one occasion.
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The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Southern Ontario Region, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), London Detachment, announced on Thursday the seizure of 50 bricks of suspected cocaine at the Blue Water Bridge and the arrest of a Markham, Ontario, resident.
CBSA and RCMP officials allege: On November 18, 2019, a lone male driving a tractor trailer arrived at the Blue Water Bridge Commercial Operations in Point Edward, Ontario, and was referred for a secondary inspection.
During the examination, border services officers discovered an inconsistency in the weight of some of the boxes contained in the shipment.
The boxes were examined and found to contain 50 packages of suspected cocaine, weighing approximately 50 kilograms total.
The CBSA seized the suspected cocaine and arrested the driver.
The London RCMP Border Integrity Team attended and took custody of the subject and evidence.
The RCMP charged the 52-year-old man, with:
– Importation of a controlled substance, contrary to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act; and
– Possession for the purpose of trafficking, contrary to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
The man was remanded in custody and has a bail hearing scheduled for December 12, 2019 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Sarnia, Ontario.
The investigation is ongoing.
"We are proud of our officers at the front line who work tirelessly to protect Canadians and keep drugs out of our communities," stated Tom Rankin, District Director, St. Clair District Operations, Canada Border Services Agency.
"This seizure is another example of the ongoing cooperation that exists between the CBSA and the RCMP."
"The RCMP is committed to working closely with its CBSA partners on enforcement strategies and border integrity initiatives to keep Canadians safe and illicit drugs out of our communities," stated Staff Sergeant Nolan Keogh, Acting Officer in Charge, London RCMP Detachment.
If you have information about suspicious cross-border activity, please contact the CBSA Border Watch Toll free Line at 1-888-502-9060.
If you have information on suspicious or criminal activities, please contact your local police, the Ontario RCMP at 1-800-387-0020 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).


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Travel rewards is really an amazing thing. In a previous blog, Our First Travel Hack, I went over how we got our flights to Thailand for $75 each. Basically free travel? YES PLEASE! In order to get and use these rewards in the best way though, takes some planning. Luckily for me, I am a huge planner with everything in my life. So this part comes pretty easily.
First, you need to research and decide which cards are going to be best to open when you start thinking of your next trip, AND make sure you have enough time to meet your minimum spend AND get your reward points in time for your vacation. We have waited for points to show up after we met our requirements for more than 60 days. So it's important to keep that in mind.
When we started planning our trip to Thailand, I started looking up flights to see which airlines would be running there and which cards would be best for those airlines almost 8 months ahead of our trip dates. (If I were needing more than the one card for each of us it would have been much earlier.) Ultimately, I chose the easy way out and got a card that had "fixed points," meaning they weren't connected to any certain company, they could just be applied back to your travel purchase and "erase" it. (Those cards were our Capital One Venture cards.) It worked out perfectly for that trip, and we will need more fixed points when we start planning future trips we will be taking next fall. Spoiler, Disney World is in our future. YAY. (See that, MEGA planner over here.)
Once that flight was booked, we decided the next best route to start taking is to build up our Ultimate Rewards points through Chase. Chase really has some of the best perks when it comes to travel rewards. I could write an entire blog on Chase cards, but I'll save all the details for that time. We chose to get the Chase Sapphire Preferred cards. With these cards, once our minimum spends our met, we will get 50,000 reward points. That's 100,000 points between the two of us in our Ultimate Rewards Portal. Chaz and I like to run away for one weekend a month, and that 100,000 points is ALOT of hotel stays for our weekend getaways!
Chase cards are a great place to start when getting into your travel rewards, but one thing to remember is their 5:24 rule. Meaning, you can only apply and be accepted for 5 cards within a 24 month period. That's ANY card. Not just Chase. So right now I am already at two cards, my Venture card + my Preferred card, within my 24 month period. This rule puts another element of planning into the mix.
Second point of planning I wanted to talk about today is for when it is time to actually use your points. I love to be spontaneous and just plan a trip to anywhere and leave the next day, but with travel rewards, it doesn't always work that way. A couple weeks ago, Chaz looked at me and said, "We should use our American Airlines points we have saved up." I looked at him and said, "Sure babe," thinking he meant in the near future. Well, the next day he came home and said, "Let's go to D.C. next weekend!" I was ALL about it. My travel bugs were justa revving up inside! But, when it came down to it, all of the reward seats that were going to work for our spontaneous weekend trip were taken. There are only so many seats that airlines set aside, and all the good ones get swiped up lonnnng before the spontaneous people even get a sniff at them. (Side note, if you are spontaneous + are flexible in your dates of spontaneity, it could work. If we could have come home Monday instead of Sunday we probably could have done it. Our outbound flight just would have sucked real, real bad.)
We learned our lesson, and will now be taking that little venture sometime next Spring. We decided instead to take a mini road trip over to Jackson Hole, WY, with our sweet baby in tow. We used some Chase points from our UR portal and got our stay covered in the cutest little cabins. It turned out to be an amazing weekend with our little family. Check back to the Jackson blog for some of our favorites from our weekend.
The takeaway? Do your research as to which cards are the best for your upcoming trips + plan ahead enough that you will be able to meet your spend and get your points + it's smartest to be at LEAST three months in advance to get the exact dates you want when flying domestic. If you are fairly flexible, you may be able to make it work within a month or so, but even at that you may not get them. If I were you and you have a destination in mind, start looking at your reward availability 6 months to a year ahead of time. When you find the right flight, book away!
Travel Hacking is probably the best hobby I have ever picked up. Between the trips we get to go on and the planning my OCD brain gets to embark on, I'm in heaven! I currently have a list of the next five cards I am planning on opening in order to get us to some of our destinations we have planned over the next couple of years. The whole process requires you to really think about where you want to go, but if you take the right steps in order to get there, your trip just might cost you next to nothing.
Thanks for being here,
The Spackman's
PS. Always remember that when you are opening these cards and you are trying to meet your minimum spend requirements to get your bonuses, you DO NOT want to go into debt and get into credit card trouble. You are simply putting your monthly bills onto these cards, i.e., groceries, utilities, diapers, etc. If you can't meet the requirements without getting into debt trouble, travel hacking just might not be for you.


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NYC. Remembrance Day
Often the narrower the focus the more personal it becomes, especially when one is faced with humanity's biggest tragedies. When a city, or a community gathers together with intent to recall the past, this simple act of remembrance becomes an action and takes new shape, and even if it reminds us of death, in a way it celebrates life.
There is a very famous scene in Steven Spielberg movie Schindler's List that speaks louder than words: on the black and white screen, one little girl is wearing a bright red coat. Although she is a minor character in the movie, she is also a metaphor for the individual, as in a later scene among the pile of clothes of the grey mass of people, of the hundreds of fallen men, lays her little red coat and the viewer is reminded of that one specific person. The viewer remembers one color, one name: an individual.
Every year New York honors every single Italian Jew, every family who lost someone, every name. It is a service that brings together the most disparate community, and it always makes sends shivers down everyone's spine, for it is as personal as seeing a piece of clothing in a Holocaust museum or other real images of the horrors of the time. Repeating a name ties in closely with the Jewish idea that a person's name and their soul are closely interconnected.
Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on January 27th, the day on which in 1945 Auschwitz was liberated. This year, the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony will be held on January 28th at the Consulate General of Italy on Park Avenue. Between 9 am and 4 pm religious leaders of different faiths, politicians, members of various Jewish organizations and NY institutions, as well as children from the Guglielmo Marconi school and other Jewish schools will alternate in reading the endless list of names of those killed. Everyone is invited to line up and read the names or just pause and listen.
To this day it is difficult to grasp the atrocity, the rational planning that went in trying to annihilate an entire "race," the calculated industrial way of killing human beings, the lowest moment in dignity of the 20th century.
America became the primary Promised Land for those who escaped or survived the Holocaust, and it is futile to reiterate how much Jews have contributed to this country. At the same time it is always important to focus on the uniqueness of the many Italian Jews, their culture, traditions and history, for which Centro Primo Levi remains the prominent institution in NY for research and also the source for information on the following events.
There are many other events related to the Holocaust and which can deepen one's understanding of Shoah. During these events one can hear interesting stories or point of views, remember important figures or explore the cultural and artistic mindset of Italian Jews in connection to those dark times.
The documentary Il Ragazzo di Via Sacchi will be screened at the Italian Cultural Institute on January 24th (at 6pm). It's a film about a young man who joined the anti-Fascist Resistance.
At Calandra Institute on January 31st there will be a discussion on the very controversial topic of a memorial built in Italy dedicated to a war criminal, Fascist Commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani and on the complex issue of Italian colonies.
The iconic witness of the horrors of the Shoah is Primo Levi, author of "If This is A Man," in which he details his experiences in the concentration camps. This is a book that should be a mandatory read in order to get the entire picture of the history of the Shoah in Italy.
Also, a good starting point would be the event at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, where on February 5th there will be a fascinating panel discussion on the book "The History of the Shoah in Italy," with documents and historical essays on Italian racial laws, the European situation and the persecution.
Another recommendation is a panel at Columbia University on February 7th, focusing on the scientific experiments of the Nazis on the disabled, starting with forced sterilizations and the medical practices for those who didn't fit perfect genetic criteria. Operation t4 involved Physicians and psychiatrist who created lethal injections, until carbon monoxide gas was found a more effective and faster method.
Jewish culture is now alive and strong, and although Jewish people are losing their last Holocaust survivors they are not losing their spirit and rich history.
This year, once again, in January, it's important to remember every single life, for every single life counted. In the Talmud there is a saying that goes: "Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world."
January 24 at 6:00 pm
IL RAGAZZO DI VIA SACCHI (2011) a documentary film by Francesco Momberti
Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, NYC
Post-screening discussion: Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa) and Tullio Levi (former president of the Jewish Community of Turin)
January 28 – 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Reading of the names of the Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories. Consulate General of Italy, 690 Park Avenue at 68th Street
January 31 at 6:30 pm
Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY
24 West 43rd Street, 17th fl.
Lidia Santarelli (Brown University), Yemane Demissie (New York University). Moderator: Andrea Fiano (journalist and former Chairman of CPL). Respondent Dr. Girma Abebe, Former Counselor, (Ethiopian Delegation to the UN).
February 5 at 6:30 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, NYC
Enzo Traverso (Cornell University) and Susan Zuccotti (author of The Italians and the Holocaust). Respondent Franklin Hugh Adler (Macalester College)
February 7 at 5:30 pm
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- 1 pound of premade pizza dough (store bought or homemade)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- Stonewall Kitchen Maine Craft Ale Sauce
- 2 cups chicken, cooked and diced
- 2 cups shredded cheese
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- Preheat grill to medium-high heat.
- Stretch out pizza dough, using flour for dusting as needed, to your desired thickness and shape. Brush both sides of the crust gently with oil.
- Place the pizza on the pre-heated grill and allow to cook until bubbles begin to form on the top. Using tongs, flip the pizza dough and cook an additional 5 minutes on the other side until it is browned.
- Remove from the grill and place on a baking sheet. Spread Stonewall Kitchen Maine Craft Ale Sauce over the top of the dough, leaving the edges uncovered. Top with diced chicken, sliced onion and cheese and place under the broiler until the cheese has melted.