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Television viewers tuning in for this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade before they enjoy their holiday turkey on Thursday might catch a glimpse of one Marion High School student who will be taking part in the annual parade.
Miller Owen, a junior at Marion, was selected to join The Macy's Great American Marching Band for this year's parade, now in its 96th year. The Macy's Great American Marching Band, which has been a part of the Macy's parade since 2006, is comprised of select students from across the United States.
The parade will be aired nationally on NBC from 9 a.m.-noon. The parade follows a 2.5-mile route in New York City, winding from the Upper West Side to Midtown. In addition to marching bands and other entries, the parade is famous for its giant helium-filled balloons featuring various characters from pop culture.
The Macy's Great American Marching Band is under the direction of Dr. Richard Good, Dr. Doug Rosener, Mr. Bart Woodley, and Ms. Kailene Laga. This staff is also assisted by several talented music educators from across the country who serve as section instructors for the winds and percussion and assist in teaching the music, drill, and parade formation. The 185 musicians will be complemented by approximately 40 flags and dancers.
Owen was selected for the honor of marching with the band following a rigorous process that included a written application and videotaped music and marching auditions.
As in past years, the prestigious band will take an honor position among the balloons, floats carrying celebrities, and other top marching bands from across the country. Stepping off from Central Park, the band will be cheered by the 3 million spectators lining the parade route. Arriving at Macy's Herald Square, the Band will perform for celebrity hosts, a grandstand audience, and more than 50 million TV viewers watching the broadcast on NBC.
he Marion School District is an innovative and growing district committed to helping every student find their unique path to success in school and in life. With more than 150 years of experience serving families in Crittenden County, the district offers a high school, a junior high, and three award-winning magnet schools. For enrollment information, including information on school choice, visit https://www.msd3.org/ or call 870-739-5100.


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Overview 📄
The Angular CLI recently introduced a new command in version 6.0.0, ng add
At a glance, it looks like an alternative to npm install
but let us take a look
and see how the two approaches differ.
Deeper look at ng add 👁🗨
In short, ng add
will use your package manager to download the specified dependency, just as you would using npm install. Once downloaded the CLI will call an installation script which usually contains instructions on how to configure the project with the new dependency. These instructions will be carried out automatically by the CLI preventing users having to configure and add additional dependencies that could be required.
Give it a go now by starting a new project and use the Angular CLI to add Angular Material, see below.
ng add @angular/material

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VIRTUS appoints Dominic Fulford
London's leading data centre company, VIRTUS Data Centres (virtusdatacentres.com) has appointed Dominic Fulford as SVP of Technical Operations.
With over 25 years of experience in leading IT operations in the data centre and technology industries, Fulford has a proven track record for building and leading highly successful support organisations with an inherent passion for excellence, quality and customer service.
Reporting directly to Neil Cresswell, CEO of VIRTUS Data Centres, Fulford will be a key member of the leadership team, responsible for all aspects of Technical Operations and Customer Service for VIRTUS and its data centres. Fulford's primary focus will be delivering 'zero downtime' for customers through implementing continued Operational Excellence including operational safety, security and availability and zero defects quality across the business.
Fulford joins VIRTUS from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where he was the Senior Director leading Global Data Centre Operations.
"In my role at OCI, I was a VIRTUS customer for four years. This has given me a deep insight into the way VIRTUS operates, delivering solutions that help organisations realise their digital strategies," explains Dominic Fulford, SVP of Technical Operations for VIRTUS Data Centres. "I am proud to be joining the team and look forward to bringing an additional dimension to VIRTUS' understanding of customer needs."
"Dominic is a great addition to our leadership team," says Neil Cresswell, CEO, VIRTUS Data Centres. "He brings a great deal of valuable experience that will be pivotal to the success of our strategy for growth and ongoing goal of providing customer service excellence, especially at a time when data centre infrastructure is critical to the digital economy."
VIRTUS Data Centres is part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres' (STT GDC) global platform that has more than 1101 data centres in five geographies.
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text: The second tall sitting volleyball player can turn to be as one of the sport star in the country. According to the Tasnim News Agency Sports Reporter, no doubt I. R. Iran Sitting Volleyball team is the First ranking of world sitting volleyball and it seems that if the effective planning keep on going and based on the existence potential talented athletes, this ranking will continue. It was a few years ago that Morteza Mehrzad (246 cm height) has been found as the tallest world disabled athlete. And he is now one of the I. R. Iran National Sitting Volleyball Team main members who played an important role in 2016 Rio Paralympic Games that helped I. R. Iran to be the champion in Brazil. Looking for the talented players did not stop which resulted in finding another capable player. If the required proper planning is taking into consideration, he will be one of the main effective players who can cause the success of I. R. Iran sitting volleyball in the future. Amirmohammad Ebrahimi, the 23-year-old (220 cm height) is the second tallest sitting volleyball player. Ebrahimi is currently I. R. Iran Youth Sitting Volleyball Team Member and lives in Amol.


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Marconi TF2370
On Sunday I wasn't making good progress and added my tuppence worth to this "I'm an Idiot" thread after killing a regulator chip.
Well my replacement linear regulator arrived today which is a 10 pin circular can and not too easy to replace a second time with tracks falling off the board but after that I was still struggling to identify why one of the 5 volt rails was shorted. The TF2370 is in two halves and fortunately it can be powered up with the RF section unplugged. Even with all the plug-in cards removed from the digital chassis I still had a short circuit and it wasn't obvious to me where else this rail supplied. There is a thyristor over volt protection on the rail but disconnecting that I still had a 0.3 ohm short. Some of the wiring harness has rather tightly packed connections in places and with shaky hands and poor close vision I was a bit reluctant to unsolder parts of it but desperation forced my hand and I eventually tracked it down to the front panel and to one of the push button switches. I thought this was a bit odd but on turning it upside down I discovered that there was a ground wire with the insulation cracking off. In an instrument that is entirely wired in plastic coated wires this was a big surprise. Anyway, I glad to report that the old TF2370 back in operation again. Peter |
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Well done, they are nice units!
On a sort of similar vein. The other day, on a pair of joined phono to phono leads...I had slightly intermittent audio but not totally dissapearing on one channel, the audio was dropping a few dB, after half an hour of moving cables around and twisting and pulling them, I found a cable had more or less disintegrated inside partially shorting the inner conductor to the outer screen (this was discovered only after I decided to cut it open). These were moulded grey Phono to phono cables from the early 70's at a guess. Life is a gas, or is it a beer? |


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Claims to a Spread-Spectrum Method For Sending Data Over a Communications Channel Are Patent Ineligible under Section 101
August 23, 2021
Plaintiff Zyrcuits IP LLC has sued Defendants Acuity Brands, Inc. and Universal Electronics Inc. for infringement of claim 4 of U.S. Patent No. 6,671,307 (the '307 patent). Defendants argued that Zyrcuits's complaints should be dismissed because the '307 patent is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for failing to claim patentable subject matter. Applying the two-step framework from Alice, the court found that the '307 patent was invalid under § 101, as the claims of the '307 patent are directed to the abstract idea of grouping data together with a single code and do not contain any inventive concept.
The '307 patent describes applying signal codes to blocks of interleaved data for spread-spectrum transmission. According to the written description, spread-spectrum transmission was previously accomplished using parallel codes. Zyrcuits alleged that Acuity and Universal Electronics infringe claim 4 of the '307 patent.
Claim 4 recites a spread-spectrum method improvement for sending data over a communications channel, comprising the steps of:
storing, at a transmitter, N bits of interleaved data as stored data, with N a number of bits in a symbol;
selecting, at said transmitter in response to the N bits of stored data, a chip-sequence signal from a plurality of 2N chip-sequence signals, as an output chip-sequence signal; and
transmitting, at said transmitter, the output chip-sequence signal as a radio wave, at a carrier frequency, over said communications channel, as a spread-spectrum signal.
The court noted that claim 4 described grouping together data that may come from multiple sources, applying a single chip-sequence code to the grouped data, and then transmitting the code by radio wave. Under Alice Step One, whether the claims are drawn to patent ineligible subject matter, the court found that the '307 patent was directed to the abstract idea of grouping spread-spectrum data together with a single code instead of with parallel codes. The court explained that the Federal Circuit had indicated repeatedly that claims directed to the manipulation of data are abstract absent additional features, because "information as such is an intangible." Elec. Power Grp., LLC v. Alstom S.A., 830 F.3d 1350, 1353 (Fed. Cir. 2016).
The court pointed out that representative claim 4 was directed to the manipulation of information: "It requires 'storing' specified data, 'selecting' a signal based on the stored data, and then 'transmitting' the signal" and that "Zyrcuits repeatedly referred to the content of claim 4 as an 'algorithm.'" "A process that start[s] with data, add[s] an algorithm, and end[s] with a new form of data [is] directed to an abstract idea." RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., 855 F.3d 1322, 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2017) (citing Digitech Image Techs., LLC v. Elecs.for Imaging, Inc., 758 F.3d 1344 (Fed. Cir. 2014)). "This is exactly what is recited in claim 4."
Zyrcuits argued that claim 4 recited a technical solution to the problem of spread-spectrum signal transmission without using parallel codes. According to Zyrcuits, the '307 patent teaches "particular techniques-with limiting detail-to solve the problem of transmitting spread-spectrum signals without using parallel codes." The court pointed out that claims directed to forms of data collection and manipulation are not directed to an abstract idea if they offer technical improvements to computer technology. Compare Smart Sys. Innovations, LLC v. Chi. Transit Auth., 873 F.3d 1364, 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2017) ("We have determined that claims directed to the collection, storage, and recognition of data are directed to an abstract idea."); Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp., 822 F.3d 1327, 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (finding claims subject-matter eligible when directed to the "improvement to computer functionality itself"). Zycruits relied on the Enfish line of cases to argue that the '307 patent is subject-matter eligible since, according to Zyrcuits, it describes specific techniques with limiting detail.
However, the court pointed out that claim 4 did not provide a technical solution to a technical problem and that Zyrcuits failed to identify in its briefing any particular technical solution disclosed in the '307 patent. According to the court, Zyrcuits pointed to unexplained block quotes from the patent and the unsupported, conclusory statement in the complaints that claim 4 addressed the problem of interference and output signal distortion with a technical solution. The court noted that the step of storing "'N bits of interleaved data as stored data, with N a number of bits in a symbol' could simply be summarized as 'storing data as stored data.' The selection step teaches 'selecting ... a chip-sequence signal from a plurality of 2N chip-sequence signals,' but provides no details about how this selection should be made." The court further noted that the third step required nothing more than "transmitting ... the output chip-sequence signal as a radio wave, at a carrier frequency, over said communications channel, as a spread-spectrum signal, which is transmitting data in a known way." The "how" information Zyrcuits pointed to only confirms that the storing, selecting, and transmitting steps are exactly what they first appear to be, i.e., the abstract manipulation of information. "Claim 4 may use technical jargon, but that does not mean it teaches a technical solution." The court noted that it might be true that the patent is directed to a useful idea, but a patent is still invalid for lack of subject-matter eligibility when it teaches a useful abstract idea. "The fact that an [idea] can be used to make a process more efficient, however, does not necessarily render an abstract idea less abstract." See Secured Mail Sols. LLC v. Universal Wilde, Inc., 873 F.3d 905, 910 (Fed. Cir. 2017).
The court concluded that under Step One of Alice, "representative claim 4 is directed to the idea of applying a signal code to a block of interleaved data (thereby avoiding parallel codes), and the claim does not provide any guidance on how to accomplish this idea. Therefore the '307 patent is directed to an abstract idea."
The court then proceeded to determine whether the claims contain an "inventive concept" "sufficient to transform the claimed abstract idea into a patent-eligible application" under Alice and Mayo. The court stated that it was insufficient for the patent to "simply state the law of nature while adding the words 'apply it'" citing Mayo v. Prometheus, 566 U.S. 66, 72 (2012), and noted that a claim directed towards an abstract idea must include "'additional features' to ensure 'that the [claim] is more than a drafting effort designed to monopolize the [abstract idea]'" citing Alice Corp. Pty. v. CLS Bank Int'l, 573 U.S. 208, 216, 221 (2014). "No such additional features exist here, and I find that, whether considered individually or as an ordered combination, the claim elements of the 307 patent do not 'transform' the claimed abstract idea into patent-eligible subject matter." According to the court, claim 4 "simply takes an abstract idea for transmitting data and implements it 'at a transmitter' as a 'radio wave' over a 'communications channel'" and the invocation of generic communication technology does not provide an inventive concept.
Zyrcuits argued that there was a disputed factual issue about whether claim 4 recites "well-understood, routine, and conventional activities." In response, the court explained that "Zyrcuits cannot artificially create a dispute of fact by making the conclusory allegation that 'claim 4 embodies an inventive concept,' . . . when the #307 patent itself resolves any possible factual issues." The court pointed to Figures 1 and 2 of the patent that show a prior art system that includes a generic transmitter and a communication channel. The patent also explains that the claimed process can be implemented on a "general purpose processor." "Implementing an abstract idea on a general purpose processor or a generic transmitter does not constitute an inventive step. Alice, 573 U.S. at 222."
Zyrcuits further asserted that the claimed process was unconventional. The court disagreed because "the alleged unconventional process is the abstract idea to which claim 4 is directed, and the abstract idea itself cannot provide the inventive feature required at step two." The court noted that the expert declaration submitted by Zyrcuits in opposition to the pending motion confirms this conclusion. The inventive concept identified by the expert, the method for spread-spectrum data transmission without parallel codes, is the abstract idea to which claim 4 is directed. "The patent lacks any additional features that would make the claims eligible under § 101, because it simply applies an abstract idea using conventional technology."
The court found find that the '307 patent was invalid under § 101 for lack of subject-matter eligibility and granted the defendants' motion to dismiss.
Zyrcuits IP LLC v. Acuity Brands, Inc., No. CV 20-1306-CFC, 2021 WL 3287801, at *1 (D. Del. Aug. 2, 2021);


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Top of the Rock
Private Cabin, Views of Turkey Rock, Hiking, 4X4, Rock Climbing, Fishing, Wifi
Welcome to Top of the Rock. We have Wifi! This secluded 2 bedroom, 2 bath mountain home is a great place for relaxing with family and friends and taking in the amazing views of Turkey Rock and the mountains beyond. The cabin is located one hour from Colorado Springs, two hours from Denver and Breckenridge and a beautiful drive to many of the Colorado tourist attractions.
Top of the Rock is perfect any time of the year. Enjoy hiking, Gold Medal fly fishing, rock climbing, off-roading and exploring the nearby Pike National Forest. The hike up Turkey Rock is definitely a memory you won't forget! Take a drive in the Rocky Mountains or head to Woodland Park, Manitou Springs, or Old Colorado City for shopping and dining.
There is no cell service at the property, but you can get a cell signal if you drive or walk about a mile back up the road. There is a landline phone in the home.
Please be aware that this home is located in a mountainous environment and winter driving conditions may exist. All wheel drive vehicles are required during snowy weather.
There is a $25/person/night fee for occupancy over 6 guests. The fee will be charged after booking and prior to check in. Please make sure your reservation accurately reflects the number of people in your group.
SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS FOR TOP OF THE ROCK (Sleeps 10)
Bedroom 1 Features:
- Queen Bed (Sleep 2)
- Dresser with Mirror
- Reading Chair
- 2 Nightstands with Reading Lamp
Bedroom 2 (Open Loft) Features:
- 2 Bunk Beds with Full Lower & Twin Upper (Sleeps 6)
- Dresser with Mirror
- Nightstand with Reading Lamp
Family Room:
- Pull Out Full Size Sleeper Sofa (Sleeps 2)
- Family Friendly
- Beautiful Mountain Views
- WiFi Internet
- Big Screen Smart TV with Roku and Airways Antenna
- Land Line Phone
- Kitchen includes the basic necessities. Full size appliances (range, refrigerator, dishwasher, coffee maker, toaster and microwave).
- Dining Table
- Full Size Washer & Dryer
- Wood Stove
- Gas Grill, Propane is the responsibility of the guest
- Private Deck Overlooking Turkey Rock
- Outdoor Seating
- Garage (1 vehicle) and driveway parking as well as an RV pad with hookup (110V, 220V/30A, dump station)
- Outside smoking is permitted. All of Colorado has a high fire potential. Please dispose of any cigarette butts in a non-flammable container.
- No Pets Allowed
The area is rich with leisure activities. You have everything you can imagine that people do in the Rocky Mountains.
- Exploring Pike National Forest
- Hiking Trails
- Biking Trails
- World Class Gold Medal Fishing on the Platte River
- Family-Friendly Fishing and Boating at Cheesman and Manitou Lakes
- Off-Roading and 4 Wheeling at North Divide OHV Area
- Hunting in the Pike National Forest
- Woodland Park Shopping and Dining
- Manitou Springs Shopping and Dining
- Colorado Springs Shopping and Dining
- Pikes Peak
- Florissant Fossil Beds
- White Water Rafting
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Downhill Skiing at Breckenridge
- Gambling at the Historic Mining Town of Cripple Creek
- Mount Princeton Hot Springs
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Manufactures ask me if they can send some chargers for review and because I do charger reviews I usual say yes.
This can backfire a bit sometimes, usual it means one to three charges, but once in a while it is considerable more. Last time it was 6 charges (Enova, some time ago) and this time it is 6 chargers (Brand will be revealed in a few weeks).
At the current time I have no idea how good/bad they are or how easy they are to use, I have just received a big box with chargers. More about this in a few weeks.
Other manufactures are much more cautious, I have one where I explained that I prefer to get a moderate number of items and they assured me it was no problem, they would only send one to see how I would review it.
From a reviewers diary.
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Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology
The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology program at EKU includes 120 credit-hours of course work in the theory and practice of psychology, extensive practicum experience, and a year-long full-time clinical internship. Our program includes a particular focus on preparing practitioners to work in rural communities. The curriculum provides opportunities for training in:
- Rural mental health
- Telehealth
- Substance abuse
- Mental health administration
- School-based mental health
- Working with traditionally underserved populations, including veterans and their families, adults and children with developmental disabilities, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Forensic/correctional psychology
- Assessment and management of suicidal behavior
The Psy.D. program in Clinical Psychology at EKU is Fully Accredited by the Commission of Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. We were awarded this status on April 5, 2020. Our next site visit will be held in 2029.
Questions related to the program's accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 336-5979 / E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: https://www.accreditation.apa.org/
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Jenna Vulcano and Sal Vulcano, well, these names definitely rings a bell to the fans of Comedy TV series "Impractical Jokers." Sal Vulcano is the series regular whereas Jenna rarely appears in the series. So, who might be the richer between these two siblings? Let's know about them.
Sal Vulcano is the only brother of Jenna Vulcano. Both siblings are famous for starring the TruTV's Comedy Series "Impractical Jokers." Besides the TV series, Sal Vulcano is also popular as an American producer. Moreover, he is the part of the New York comedy troupe, The Tenderloins.
American actor Sal Vulcano has a Net worth of $5 million as of 2018. Similarly, his sister Jenna Vulcano has amassed a net worth of $1 million as of 2018. Comparatively, between the two siblings Sal Vulcano and Jenna Vulcano, Sal is richer than his sister.
Sal Vulcano's sister Jenna Vulcano has a net worth of $1 million as of 2018.
Image Credit: Twitter/ Jenna Vulcano
Jenna Vulcano appeared in total three episodes of "Impractical Jokers." She grossed a huge fortune as well as fame from the series. Apart from the TruTV's Comedy Series, Vulcano is currently working as Medical Receptionist at Richmond University Medical Center. Jenna is earning a good amount from her profession to add to her net worth.
Likewise, Jenna's brother Sal Vulcano garnished massive amount from his regular appearance in the comedy series Impractical Jokers. Also, his Net worth credit goes to his career as a host, executive producer, and actor in other TV series. In 2006, Vulcano starred in Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy and The Tenderloins in 2009.
Sal Vulcano grosses his Net worth from his career as a comedian.
Photo Source: Life & Style
As Sal Vulcano has been working in the various field than his sister Jenna, he amasses more amount to his net worth. Jenna, on the other hand, might earn more than her brother in coming days. But for 2018, Sal is richer than Jenna.
Sal Vulcano's sister Jenna Vulcano tied her knot with Sal's co-star James Murray in 2014. But the marriage was annulled the following day stating their marriage was a prank to revenge Sal for his skydiving punishment.
Jenna walked down the aisle with James Murray in 2014.
Image Source: Instagram/ Impractical Jokers
Although Vulcano and Murray declared their marriage as invalid, the two seems to be staying together. Jenna's Tweet in 2015 shows that they were still living together after their divorce in 2014.
Love it when he raises his eyebrows up it shows off the sass and sexiness of Him love this man xx pic.twitter.com/kmRHcTiaCS
— Jenna Vulcano (@xx_Jenna_xx_) August 4, 2015
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King Shark Is Still Doing Rastafari Work
The squalour which music producer/singer Alphanso Henclewood was raised in Jamaica has inspired many a reggae song. Known in music circles as King Shark, his roots are planted in Greenwich Farm, a seafaring community that was a musical hotbed during the 1960s and 1970s.
Based in New Mexico, he is owner of Montego Records, an independent company that works with veteran acts like Prince Allah and emerging artists such as Autarchii.
Recently, Montego Records released songs by those acts as well as King Shark, Isha Bel and American singer Nanci Brodhead.
The dreadlocked Shark recently told this website that while Montego Records and its predecessor, Green Farm, are not household names, they have stayed the course for nearly 40 years.
"I want people to know that I've been doing this since the early '80s. There are so many people I have come in contact with in the music business that give me a lot of inspiration that I can still be doing it today. Still on the road of doing Rastafari work," he said.
King Shark grew up in Greenwich Farm with people who became roots stalwarts. They include singers Earl Zero, Prince Allah and Phillip Fraser, guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith and the producer Bertram Brown.
It was Fraser who encouraged him to follow the footsteps of Brown and another Greenwich Farm legend, Bunny Lee, into music production.
"Wi was talking about music an' him sey, 'Shark, yuh shoulda get a label fi yuhself an' start produce some chune'. An' that is how I start Green Farm," he recalled.
Fraser, Prince Allah, Johnny Osbourne and Charlie Chaplin were some of the artistes who initially recorded for the label. After migrating to the United States in the 1990s, King Shark launched Montego Records which recently released songs like his "Love Revolution" and "Walk In The Light" and "Black Beauty" by the promising Autarchii. Smith, his childhood friend, played on most of the songs as well as drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace of Rockers fame. Many of the recording sessions took place at Tuff Gong studios in Kingston.
One of Shark's objectives is to emulate the quality of Lee, Brown and Jack Ruby, yet another producer who made his name in Greenwich Farm.
For Alphanso Henclewood, his years in that working-class neighbourhood were bittersweet. "I am the only child for my mother but I have seven siblings. I grew up in a house on the gully side; no water, no light but life was sweet. Mi remember Earl Zero with him chalice, always singing. Wi use to cook ital food and praise Rastafari," he reflected.
Greenwich Farm is not as musically viable as when John Holt, Delroy Wilson, Slim Smith, Johnny Clarke and Cornel Campbell roamed its streets. But King Shark is determined to show the potential of his hometown through a documentary he has in the works.
"That will be a great thing, 'cause a lotta good people an' positive things come outa Greenwich Farm. Is people like me mus' expose it," he said.


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Orielle Berry
Due to the persistence and dedication of The Emma Animal Rescue Society (TEARS) volunteer, Celeste van Schalkwyk, a domestic cat that had been missing for four months was found and caught at Cape Gate shopping centre in Brackenfell last week.
Mixit, a female tabby, was brought to Brackenfell from Paarl on November 25 last year to be sterilised, and on the eve of her procedure, she escaped and went missing from Rebecca Crescent in Die Tuin, Brackenfell.
Her situation highlighted the issue of feral cats ("Colonies of feral cats 'need not happen'", Northern News, January 27)
Ms Van Schalkwyk told Northern News, "I do have very good news. After I caught Mixit and she got sterilised last week Thursday, her teats were full of milk and the vet said she has kittens of six to seven weeks.
"We all, the Brackenfell Queens (the volunteers) started looking for them at Cape Gate, where I trapped her. We looked in the drains and I called the SPCA, they came out the one evening to look," said Ms Van Schalkwyk.
"Then one lady, she is like an animal communicator told us that we have to look close to building materials, bricks.
"…Unfortunately they distributed all the kittens among the workers there. There was only one kitten left and a home was quickly found for him… Mixit is just skin and bone after the kittens.
"But Mixit surely has an angel watching over her."
Ms Van Schalkwyk, who lives in Protea Heights, told Northern News that volunteers are filling every available space in their home with stray kittens who are not homed.
Feral cats are the "wild" offspring of domestic cats, and come about as the result of pet owners' abandonment or failure to neuter their animals, allowing them to breed uncontrolled.
For months, Ms Van Schalkwyk took to sitting weekend nights at the shopping centre where she put out food, hopeful the cat would turn up so that she could capture it.
But Ms Van Schalkwyk said most cats shy away from humans or disturbances.
She said feral cat colonies are a concern in shopping centres, business development parks, food factories, outside restaurants and any areas where there are garbage containers as they ferret around for food. But finally she got lucky and spotted the moggy and managed to capture her.
Mixit is due to be reunited with her owners, who are currently on holiday, in the next few days on their return.
Ms Van Schalkwyk stressed, "Please put out the message that if you have a cat, love it and keep it and sterilise it."
For more information, call Ms Van Schalkwyk on 021 917 5777 or 084 941 1313 or visit www.tears. org.za


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Washington State has simplified the process of searching for health insurance through both the state's medicaid program and the state's exchange program. Washington Health Plan Finder (https://www.wahealthplanfinder.org/) is easy to use and helps identify publicly available plans.
Apple Health is the Washington State Medicaid program. For those who qualify, Apple Health provides a wide range of benefits and services. The Washington State Health Care Authority website provides information about eligibility, coverage plans, benefits, and related links for assistance. The Washington HCA has developed a quick reference pamphlet which may be useful for determining your eligibility for Apple Health: https://www.hca.wa.gov/assets/free-or-low-cost/19-003.pdf
If you have any questions about Apple Health, Statewide Health Insurance Benefit Advisers (SHIBA; 1-800-562-6900) are free, unbiased, and confidential support resources provided through the Office of the Insurance Commissioner of Washington State.
If you're interested in applying, you'll need:
Once accepted, you'll receive a ProviderOne services card in roughly two weeks. The first day of the month in which the application was received will be the start date for coverage. You can choose a managed care plan online or be automatically enrolled in one.
The Washington State legislature passed a public plan option called Cascade Care which meets the requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Multiple Cascade Care plans are available with varying premiums, deductibles, co-insurance, and maximum out of pocket expense (About WA Health Plan Finder plans). The Washington Health Plan Finder website provides comprehensive information and frequently asked questions and has an easy to use tool to help you find a plan that meets your needs. If you would prefer to speak with a person, call 1-855-923-4633 or TTY/TTD 1-855-627-9604.
There are many private health insurance companies licensed to provide plans within Washington State. A licensed independent insurance agent will be able to assist you in locating a plan with many of these companies. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner for Washington State maintains an updated searchable list of all licensed agents and agencies https://fortress.wa.gov/oic/consumertoolkit/Search.aspx.
You may also contact private insurance companies directly. The follocawing private insurance companies offer both private plans and participate in the Cascade Care Plans:
Please note that listing in this section does not constitute Seattle University's endorsement of a particular company, plan, or service. The companies listed above have chosen to participate in Cascade Care, a program of Washington State.
Washington State offers specific health care programs for individuals with low incomes or those who need additional help with health care costs. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner for Washington State maintains a list of these program https://www.insurance.wa.gov/health-insurance-plans-and-health-care-programs.
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A practical example:
While running, Sam Student injures their leg. They go to an in-network primary care who orders an MRI. Sam's provider charges $180 for the visit which is reduced to $110 because of the contract between Sam's provider and Sam's insurance company. Sam's insurance waives deductibles for primary care but does require a $20 copay to the provider. Sam then goes to the local in-network diagnostic imaging clinic for an MRI. The clinic charges $2000 for the MRI which is reduced to $600 because of the agreement between the clinic and the insurance company. For this service, Sam has a 20% coinsurance after deductible. This time, Sam must pay the $100 before their insurance starts paying, after which they owe another $100 for coinsurance on the remaining bill. This brings Sam's total out-of-pocket expenses at this point to $220.
The MRI finds that Sam has torn multiple ligaments in his ankle and must have surgery. The total cost of the surgery is $32,000 between hospitals fees, surgeons fees, and anesthesiologists fees. This has all been negotiated by the insurance company and Sam owes for coinsurance of 20% which would normally be $6,400, but Sam's maximum out of pocket expense is $2,500, so Sam only owes $2,280 which is the maximum less the other copays, coinsurances, and deductible. This was Sam's only doctor's visit during that plan year, but if Sam had been to the doctor earlier that plan year, the amount owed would have been reduced by any other amounts that Sam paid. If Sam has more follow up visits or new issue visit with their doctor during the plan year, then Sam cannot be charged any amount, because they have reached their out-of-pocket maximum.
This is provided as a general example for illustrative and educational purposes only. Your plan may vary. The best way to understand what your plan will cover is to call and speak with a representative from your insurance carrier. These calls are generally recorded, so it's a good idea to take careful notes and include the day and time of your call and the name of the person with whom you spoke in case there are discrepancies.


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The pituitary is a pea-sized gland that is housed within a bony structure (sella turcica) at the base of the brain. The sella turcica protects the pituitary but allows very little room for expansion.
The pituitary controls the function of most other endocrine glands and is therefore sometimes called the master gland. In turn, the pituitary is controlled in large part by the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that lies just above the pituitary. By detecting the levels of hormones produced by glands under the pituitary's control (target glands), the hypothalamus or the pituitary can determine how much stimulation the target glands need.
The Pituitary and Its Target Organs
The pituitary has two distinct parts:
Front (anterior) lobe, which accounts for 80% of the pituitary gland's weight
Back (posterior) lobe
The lobes are connected to the hypothalamus by a stalk that contains blood vessels and nerve cell projections (nerve fibers, or axons). The hypothalamus controls the anterior lobe by releasing hormones through the connecting blood vessels. It controls the posterior lobe through nerve impulses.
The hormones produced by the pituitary are not all produced continuously. Most are released in bursts every 1 to 3 hours, with alternating periods of activity and inactivity. Some of the hormones, such as adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), growth hormone, and prolactin, follow a circadian rhythm: The levels rise and fall predictably during the day, usually peaking just before awakening and dropping to their lowest levels just before sleep. The levels of other hormones vary according to other factors. For example, in women, the levels of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone, which control reproductive functions, vary during the menstrual cycle.
Pituitary: The Master Gland
The pituitary, a pea-sized gland at the base of the brain, produces a number of hormones. Each of these hormones affects a specific part of the body (a target organ or tissue). Because the pituitary controls the function of most other endocrine glands, it is often called the master gland. | |
Hormone | Target Organ or Tissue |
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) | Adrenal glands |
Beta-melanocyte–stimulating hormone | Skin |
Endorphins | Brain and immune system |
Enkephalins | Brain |
Follicle-stimulating hormone | Ovaries or testes |
Growth hormone | Muscles and bones |
Luteinizing hormone | Ovaries or testes |
Oxytocin* | Uterus and mammary glands |
Prolactin | Mammary glands |
Thyroid-stimulating hormone | Thyroid gland |
Vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone)* | Kidneys |
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* These hormones are produced in the hypothalamus but are stored in and released from the pituitary. |
Anterior lobe hormones
The anterior lobe of the pituitary produces and releases (secretes) six main hormones:
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), also called corticotropin, which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce cortisol and other hormones
Follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone (the gonadotropins), which stimulate the testes to produce sperm, the ovaries to produce eggs, and the sex organs to produce sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen)
Growth hormone, which regulates growth and physical development and has important effects on body shape by stimulating muscle formation and reducing fat tissue
Prolactin, which stimulates the mammary glands of the breasts to produce milk
Thyroid-stimulating hormone, which stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones
The anterior lobe also produces several other hormones, including one that causes the skin to darken (beta-melanocyte–stimulating hormone) and ones that inhibit pain sensations (enkephalins and endorphins) and help control the immune system (endorphins).
Posterior lobe hormones
The posterior lobe of the pituitary produces only two hormones:
Vasopressin (also called antidiuretic hormone) regulates the amount of water excreted by the kidneys and is therefore important in maintaining water balance in the body About Body Water Water accounts for about one half to two thirds of an average person's weight. Fat tissue has a lower percentage of water than lean tissue and women tend to have more fat, so the percentage... read more .
Oxytocin causes the uterus to contract during childbirth and immediately after delivery to prevent excessive bleeding. Oxytocin also stimulates contractions of the milk ducts in the breast, which move milk to the nipple (the let-down) in lactating women. Oxytocin has some additional roles in both men and women.
Pituitary gland malfunction
The pituitary gland can malfunction in several ways, usually as a result of developing a noncancerous tumor (adenoma). The tumor may overproduce one or more pituitary hormones, or the tumor may press on the normal pituitary cells, causing underproduction of one or more pituitary hormones.
The tumor may also cause enlargement of the pituitary gland Enlargement of the Pituitary Gland Enlargement of the pituitary gland is usually due to a tumor but may be due to bleeding into the gland or involvement by some other disease, such as tuberculosis or sarcoidosis. In some cases... read more , with or without disturbing hormone production. Sometimes there is overproduction of one hormone by a pituitary tumor and underproduction of another at the same time due to pressure.
Sometimes excess cerebrospinal fluid can fill the space around the pituitary gland and compress it (resulting in empty sella syndrome Empty Sella Syndrome In empty sella syndrome, the sella turcica (the bony structure at the base of the brain that houses the pituitary gland) fills with cerebrospinal fluid, partially or completely compressing the... read more ). The pressure may cause the pituitary to overproduce or underproduce hormones.
Too little or too much of a pituitary hormone results in a wide variety of symptoms.
Overproduction of pituitary hormones causes disorders, including
Galactorrhea Prolactinoma Prolactinomas are noncancerous tumors made up from special cells (lactotrophs) in the pituitary gland. The most common symptom of a prolactinoma is galactorrhea, which is the production of breast... read more (the secretion of breast milk by men or by women when not pregnant): Prolactin
Underproduction of pituitary hormones causes disorders, including
Argininevasopressin deficiency (central diabetes insipidus ArginineVasopressin Deficiency (Central Diabetes Insipidus) Argininevasopressin deficiency (central diabetes insipidus) is a lack of the hormone vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone) that causes excessive production of very dilute urine (polyuria). Argininevasopressin... read more ): Vasopressin
Doctors can diagnose pituitary gland malfunction using several tests. Imaging tests, most commonly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can show whether the pituitary has enlarged (for example, if a pituitary tumor Enlargement of the Pituitary Gland Enlargement of the pituitary gland is usually due to a tumor but may be due to bleeding into the gland or involvement by some other disease, such as tuberculosis or sarcoidosis. In some cases... read more is present) or shrunk (for example, in hypopituitarism Hypopituitarism Hypopituitarism is an underactive pituitary gland that results in deficiency of one or more pituitary hormones. Symptoms of hypopituitarism depend on what hormone is deficient and may include... read more ). Such tests can usually determine whether a tumor exists in the gland.
Doctors can measure the levels of pituitary hormones, usually by a simple blood test. Doctors select which pituitary hormone levels they want to measure depending on the person's symptoms. Sometimes, levels of pituitary hormones are not easy to interpret because the levels vary greatly during the day and according to the body's needs. For these hormones, measuring a random blood sample does not provide useful information.
For some of those hormones, doctors give a substance that would normally affect hormone production and then they measure the level of the hormone. For example, if a doctor injects insulin, the levels of ACTH, growth hormone, and prolactin should increase. Rather than measuring growth hormone levels directly, doctors often measure another hormone, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). Growth hormone is produced in bursts and its levels quickly fall, but IGF-1 levels reflect the overall daily production of growth hormone. For all of these reasons, interpreting the results of blood tests for pituitary hormones is complex.


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Ο ασυμβίβαστος πρωτοπόρος που άλλαξε το τοπίο στην ελληνική μουσική
Manos Hadjidakis was born on October 23, 1925, in Xanthi, a tobacco-growing town near the northern border of Greece. His father, Yorgos Hadjidakis, a lawyer, hailed from Myrthio, the prefecture of Rethymnon, Crete. His mother, Aliki (Vasiliki), nee Arvanitidou, came from Adrianople. In the words of the composer: "From my mother I inherited every puzzle, which I've been trying to solve all my life. If it weren't for her puzzles I wouldn't be a poet…". At the age of four he began taking piano lessons with Madame Altounian, a teacher of Armenian descent, in Xanthi. He also learned to play the violin and the accordion.
In 1932, the mother and her two children, Manos and Miranda, settled in Athens and the parents divorced. In 1938, his father was killed in an air accident, on his way to Milan. This, together with the outbreak of the Second World War, left the family financially destitute. During the hard years of German occupation and after the liberation, Hadjidakis worked as a stevedore in Piraeus, as an ice seller, a worker in the Fix Brewery, an employee in a photographic studio, and assistant male nurse in the 401 Military Hospital.
Simultaneously, he took advanced courses in musical theory under Menelaos Pallandios, an important figure of the Greek National Music School. He also entered the University of Athens to read philosophy, without taking his diploma. At this time he was nurtured by artists and intellectuals of the generation between the two World Wars (George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis, Angelos Sikelianos, Yannis Tsarouchis, Nikos Gatsos), who contributed greatly to the way his orientations and thought took shape. Nikos Gatsos, whom Hadjidakis first met in 1943, was his mentor and dear friend to the very end.
His first appearance as a composer on the musical horizon of Greece, took place in 1944 at Karolos Koun's Art Theatre, with Alexis Solomos' The Last White Crow. He also attended drama courses here with intent to become an actor, until Koun dissuaded him from doing so. Through his fruitful collaboration with the Art Theatre, which lasted fifteen years, he wrote music for many plays of the contemporary theatrical repertoire: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1946); Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1947); Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca (1948); All God's Children Got Wings by Eugene O'Neil (1948); A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1948); Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, (1949), etc.
When the German occupation ended, the tragedienne Marika Kotopouli was the first person bold enough to commission him to write the music for Agamemnon and Choephoroe (1950) from Aeschylus' trilogy on the story of Orestes. Up till then, the score for ancient tragedy performances was the responsibility of academic composers. During this same period he collaborated with the eminent poet, Angelos Sikelianos, for writing the music for his tragedy Hippocrates. By now, he was receiving accolades from that authoritative musical critic, Sophia Spanoudi.
In 1945, when he composed the music for O'Neil's Mourning Becomes Electra, he met Melina Mercouri who was playing the role of Lavinia. They became lifelong friends and collaborators.
Hadjidakis' first contact with the cinema was in 1946, when he wrote the score for the film "Free Slaves". A year later he wrote "For a Small White Seashell", Op. 1, for piano. In 1948, the American pianist Julius Katchen performed this composition. Hadjidakis looked upon this work as his favourite. In l949, he incurred the obloquies of the conservative Greek society for lecturing on "rebetika" songs. This genre of music expressed the lower classes, and was at first banned and then snubbed. In "rebetika" Hadjidakis recognized genuine folk qualities.
In 1951, he performed on the piano his adaptation of "rebetika" songs with the title "Six Folklore Paintings" that provided an opportunity for the public at large to enjoy and appreciate their beauty and richness and which, furthermore, gave a new impetus to Greek song writing. Eventually, when folk songs were exploited for tourist purposes, he was the first to raise a voice of protest.
In 1951, together with the choreographer Rallou Manou and other members of the intelligentsia, he founded the Greek Chorodrama. With this dance company he presented four of his ballets: Marsyas (1950), The Accursed Serpent (1951), Six Folklore Paintings (1951) and Solitude (1958).
Having already made his compositional debut in ancient tragedy in 1950, he followed this with Medea (1956), Cyclopes (l959) and Bacchae (1962) of Euripides; Ecclesiazusae (1956), Lysistrata (1957), Plutus (1956), Thesmophoriazusae (1958), Frogs (1959) and Birds (1959) of Aristophanes. In 1953, with a series of lectures on contemporary American composers, he introduced to Greek music lovers, somewhat isolated from the rest or the world by virtue of World War II and the trying post-war conditions, such personalities as Aaron Copland, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, et.al. It was at this time that he also composed one of his most important works, The C.N.S. Cycle, Op. 8, for baritone and piano (1954).
Apart from the Art Theatre, Hadjidakis collaborated with the Greek National Theatre, writing the music for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (1952), King Lear (1957) and Othello (1958), Lorca's Dona Rosita the Spinster (1959), etc. He also wrote the music for Medea, presented at Epidaurus, with the famous tragedienne Katina Paxinou in the leading role (1956). In 1959, he introduced Mikis Theodorakis to the wider Greek public, by orchestrating and recording his composition "Epitaphios", with Nana Mouskouri.
Beginning in 1946, Hadjidakis went on to write the score for a great number of Greek and foreign films including, Counterfeit Sovereign (Yorgos Tzavellas, 1954), Stella (Michael Cacoyannis, 1955), The Rapist (Nikos Koundouros, 1956), Madalena (Dinos Dimopoulos, 1960), In the Cool of the Day (Robert Stevens, 1962), America-America (Elia Kazan, 1962), Blue (Silvio Narizzano, 1967), Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev, 1974), Honeymoon (Yorgos Panousopoulos, 1978), Memed my Hawk (Peter Ustinov, 1983), Quiet Days of August (Pandelis Voulgaris, 1992), etc. In 1977, he wrote the music for the documentaries A la Recherche de l' Atlantide I and A la Recherche de l' Atlantide II by Jacques Cousteau.
In 1959 and 1960, at the First Song Festival organized by the National Broadcasting Institute, he won first prize for his two songs sung by Nana Mouskouri. In 1960, at the first Greek Film Festival in Thessaloniki, he was given the top award for the score in the film The River, directed by Nikos Koundouros. In 1960 he received an Oscar award for his song Never on Sunday, written for Jules Dassin's film of the same name. He was, thus, the first Greek composer to make Greek music known throughout the world. Said song was ranked among the best ten of the 20th century, and later on, in 1987, it received a prize in Hamburg. He collaborated again with Dassin in 1963, writing the score for his film "TOPKAPI".
However, besides "Never on Sunday", a number of his songs became famous throughout the world in the next few years, and were sung by Lale Andersen, Brenda Lee, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Harry Belafonte, S. Filips, Amalia Rodrigues, Michael Kamen and Nana Mouskouri. His music for the Greek cinema and a series of songs won him an "unwanted popularity", for which he felt intense antipathy and to his dying days fought against.
In 1961, he composed the music for Georges Neveux's play "La Voleuse de Londres", staged in Paris, with Marie Belle playing the lead. In 1962, in Athens, he produced Street of Dreams. In an effort to alleviate the wounds of post civil war Greece, he produced a show that was a landmark in the history of musicals, directed by Alexis Solomos. The scenery and costumes were by Minos Argyrakis, with the eminent actor Dimitris Horn in the leading role.
An uncompromising, restless spirit in search at all times of new and original ventures, he financed (1962) the Competition for Avant-garde Composers at the Athens Technological Organization (Doxiadis Group). The American composer Lucas Foss was Chairman of the Board of Critics (which included the musicologist Yannis G. Papaioannou and the composer Jani Christou), and first prize went to Iannis Xenakis, who was virtually unknown in Greece at the time.
Hadjidakis founded and conducted the Athens Experimental Orchestra (Symphonic Orchestra) in 1963, and during the three years of its existence it gave twenty concerts and premiered fifteen works by Greek composers. The formation of the orchestra gave a new lease of life to the nation's musical environment, in that it attracted young people's attention to the hitherto "unknown" contemporary music.
His long and fruitful collaboration with Maurice Béjart and his 20th Century Ballets began in Brussels in 1965 with the performance of Birds of Aristophanes, and continued when Hadjidakis conducted the orchestra for the ballet series Jean Cocteau et la dance (1972), music by Tailleferre, Auric, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Hadjidakis, with Jean Marais as narrator. He also conducted the music of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1973), choreographed by Béjart. The latter also choreographed the ballet Dionysos with Hadjidakis' music and that of Richard Wagner (1988), and Hadjidakis' own The Ballads of Athena Street (1993).
In 1966, Hadjidakis went to America for the theatrical adaptation of "Never on Sunday", presented with the title "Illya Darling". He remained here until 1972, during which time he became interested in pop music. This resulted in an LP of songs (Reflections) with the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble. Whilst in New York, he composed "Rhythmology" (Op. 26, for piano) and "Magnus Eroticus" (twelve songs with verses by ancient and modern Greek poets), and recorded his "Gioconda's Smile". He also wrote the librettos for the operas Transformations and Opera for Five, the musical "Delikanis", and "The Era of Melissanthi", a musical theme based on his personal experiences from World War II.
In 1970, during the filming of "Martlet's Tale in Rome", Hadjidakis met the Italian composer Nicola Piovani. This marked the beginning of a long teacher-student relationship, with Piovani eventually becoming an assistant to Hadjidakis on several projects. When Nino Rota died, Federico Fellini offered Hadjidakis to write the score for his forthcoming film, "La Nave Va". Hadjidakis kindly declined due to other commitments, and proposed Piovani for this purpose.
In 1972, the darkest year of military dictatorship, he returns to Athens. The following year he sets up the café-theatre Polytropon, in an effort to find new expressive ways out of the musical quagmire of the times and "aspiring", as he said, "to ritualize the presentation of songs, by availing himself of all modern theatrical practices". Two years later, when the military dictatorship had fallen, he once again became active in the country's cultural affairs. He was appointed deputy director of Greek Opera (1975-7), director of the State Orchestra (l975-82), and head of the Third Programme on Greek Radio (1975-81), the latter of which, in collaboration with a group of young and talented artists, he revolutionized. In 1979, he organized the Musical Festivities at Anoyia, Crete, with local folk dances and songs. He was also responsible for a conference on the subject of tradition, with the participation of academics, artists and other intellectuals.
In 1980 and 1981, he launched the Musical August festival at Herakleion, Crete, in which were presented all current artistic trends. Guest artists included Nicola Piovani, Astor Piazolla, Susana Rinaldi, GiselIa May, R. Winters, Gyorgi Sandor, E. Cup, H. Zender, Frei Hermano da Camara, et al. Again, in 1981 and 1982, he organized the Music Contests in Corfu, a musical competition for young Greek artists.
In 1985-6, Hadjidakis published and edited Tetarto (Fourth), a cultural magazine with poignant, influential articles about Greek society and everyday affairs. In his effort to protect Greek music from commercialism, in 1985 he set up a record company SIRIUS, which is still active today. With Sirius as a vehicle, in 1987-8 he presented in Plaka, an old district of Athens, a series of musical programmes with young artists, reacting, thus, "against the vulgarization and pollution of our cultural environment".
In 1991, in collaboration with the Municipality of Kalamata, he organizes the First Greek Song Contest. Once again he seeks "a rapport with young people, without cries, without slogans and without unbending…"
In 1989, he founded the Orchestra of Colours, for the purpose of presenting "original work not usually undertaken by conventional symphonic orchestras", whose conductor he remained to the end of his life. Greek and foreign soloists included: Christodoulos Georgiadis, Sonia Theodoridou, Sheila Armstrong, Astor Piazolla, Gyorgy Sandor, et al. The Orchestra gave a number of first public performances of Greek composers.
From the very beginning of his career, and in tandem with his other activities, Hadjidakis was engaged in recording his music and songs. His oeuvre, by and large, has become a classic of its kind: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1956), Tale with no Name (1959), Lilacs out of the Dead Land (1961), Fifteen Vespers (1964), Mythology (1965), Captain Mihalis (1966), Liturgical Songs (l971), Immortality (1975), Irrationals (1976), Dark Mother (1985), Songs of Sin (1994), et al.
The lyrics in most of his compositions are by Nikos Gatsos. Hadjidakis published two books of poetry, Mythology and Mythology II, and the volumes The Mirror and the Knife and Third Programme Commentaries.
Modern Greek society developed and was nurtured by the personality of Manos Hadjidakis. Never for a moment did he hesitate to propound his visions to the utmost, thus revealing the deepest meaning of art.
His last interview in Kathimerini Newspaper
An irreconcilable pioneer, an enemy of pomposity and solidified views, a lover of "youth," nonconformist to the core, and armed with Greek and world culture, he was able to combine classical with folk music, thus creating a "new" sound, a "new" type of song, with roots both in the East and the West.
He died in the afternoon of June 15th, 1994.
-He was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1968 for "Ilya, Darling:" as Best Composer and Lyricist, with collaborator Joe Darion, and for his music as part of a Best Musical nomination.
-At a recently published interview, in the question "If history was repeated, would you still choose to become a musician?" he answered: "If I were rich enough, probably not. If I had power and money, I wouldn't have become a musician. I wouldn't need to. I would just be powerful and rich".
-When he was asked about the role that the conservatories should play in the culture of a country he replied: "They play no role at all. They should all close down. Cafes ("kafeneia" in Greek) are more useful, because they create new conversations.
• Once you get used to the monster, you 're starting to look like one.
• They say that the artists are either communists or gay. Well I 'm surely not a communist.
• Politics and culture have two enemies: populism and elitism
• I don't care about fame. It imprisons me inside its own limitations, not mine.
• Now that I live with myself deeply and absolutely, I want to find out who I 've been, what I thought, how I lived and what is that element that synthesizes my future absence (note from the record "Athanasia")
• Some "gentlemen| think we are colleagues.
• Fame is the check that you mustn't cash in money. You choose money, you lose fame.
• You are the sexiest deaf-mute actress that has ever appeared in the Greek theaters, or any other theater.
(talking to Elli Lambeti about her performance in "Children of a lesser God", 1981)
• I include a leftist, but a leftist does not include me.


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Winter is here and that can mean cracked pavement, unplowed bike lanes, and now, apparently, flooding. If you've made a commitment this year to be more active in your neighborhood, you don't have to do it alone.
Big changes start with small actions. Start by using 311 to report potholes or icy streets. Go further by learning about your alderman or attending your ward's community meeting. Being proactive about fixing up your neighborhood and using city services can make it feel more like home.
If you didn't know, Chicago was one of the first cities to implement a comprehensive system called 311 that offered residents easy access to city services and non-emergency services. Initially it was only a hotline (you dialed 311 to report your problem) but the city relaunched the website and created a mobile app last year. Below, we've answered most commonly searched questions on CHI311.
How do I make a noise complaint?
Equipment noise, like trucks or buzzing air conditioning units, is taken care of by the Department of Public Health and you can file that complaint through CHI311. Other noises that involve neighbors blasting music late at night or bar noise are resolved by the police. If you call 311, they can give you the number of your local police station where you can lodge your complaint. Going one step further, you could report the business to your alderman, who can keep tabs on disruptive bars or restaurants.
Airport or airplane noise can be reported online, and is crucial for O'Hare and Midway's noise management system. More than 5 million data points are recorded each day to help authorities analyze and reduce the noise impact on nearby residents.
What if my apartment doesn't have heat?
In Chicago, there's an ordinance that requires home be heated to at least 68 degrees during the day and 66 degrees at night from September to June. This legislation also ensures that landlords take care of any busted radiators or broken furnaces in a timely manner.
The first thing to do if you suspect your heat isn't working, is to call your landlord and ask them to look into the issue. Tenants can also call 311 to report a landlord who hasn't fixed the problem in 24 hours—and unresponsive landlords could then face a $500 per day fine for delays.
For low-income homeowners, the city also offers a program to help with emergency heating repairs (also, roof and porch repairs). To apply for funds, residents can call the Department of Planning and Development and submit the application packet.
How do I get repairs made in my apartment?
For minor or inexpensive repairs, renters can deduct the amount from their monthly rent. This arrangement is ideal for hiring a plumber to clean out clogged drains or purchasing new light bulbs. All of the requests and an itemized list need to be documented for the landlord.
For more substantial repairs, like leaking pipes or broken windows tenants should first communicate the issue to their landlord. For these requests, tenants can also file complaints through 311. Residents can report building violations about interior unit issues as well as anything else about the property (falling terracotta, peeling paint, crumbling bricks).
How do I report a pothole (and get the city to pay for damage)?
Potholes are an inevitable problem—Chicago's harsh winters make the pavement freeze and crack. There are inspectors and construction crews that work on repairing potholes, who are on call all winter and spring (also known as pothole season).
Report the pothole using CHI311, and be sure to include a photo. The city needs to see the extent of the pothole and where it's located in order to send people from the right departments to fix it.
If your car or bike was damaged by a pothole, you might be able to get reimbursed for the repair. To file a claim, you'll need a police report, two cost estimates for the repair (or a paid receipt), and a vehicle or property damage form.
How do I find out where my car was towed?
Call 311, and an operator can tell you what pound your car was taken. Or you can search online by license plate, vehicle make, or location. If you have questions about what happened, reach out to the Bureau of Traffic Services.
The city can tow or relocate cars for a number of reasons. Maybe you parked in a filming location or an illegal zone. But most people get tripped up by the winter overnight parking ban. A number of arterial streets don't allow parking between 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. between December 1 and April 1, regardless of snowfall. Outside of those dates, if there's snowfall that's 2 or more inches, the same ban goes into effect.
How can I get the city to plant a tree on my block?
Across the city, there are over 500,000 trees of 140 species planted in parkways (that little grassy patch between the sidewalk and road). And, you can ask the city to plant more on your block. When you submit a request, forestry staff will assess the stop and determine what kind of tree should be planted. It might take a while for this to happen, since there are just two planting seasons: spring and fall.
You can also request a free tree trim, when a tree is damage or just has too many low- hanging branches. Emergency situations take priority, but otherwise requests are fulfilled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
How do I report graffiti?
A graffiti tag doesn't have to be on a public building to be removed by the city. If your garage or fence gets painted, crews will take care of it for free. The city is quick to respond to graffiti removal requests, promptness that can be unfortunate if the graffiti is actually street art. To verify what the paint in your neighborhood is, there is now a mural database. Artists, organizations, and building owners can register murals so that they don't get accidentally erased.
How can I keep my street clean?
Street sweeping gets rid of all the debris that's been hidden under months of snow, and you can track when workers will clear your block. The same goes for snow and ice removal, which is tracked on a live map. But if your street (or bike lane) needs more attention, perhaps after a summer festival or bad snowstorm, residents can request another clearing. The city can also remove abandoned bikes from racks, if needed.


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Gold Coast captain Gary Ablett's bid for a trade to former AFL club Geelong was quickly shut down by the Suns, according to the Cats.
Suns chairman Tony Cochrane on Thursday played down Ablett's eagerness to be traded back to his home town, but he has cast doubt on Ablett's captaincy.
Cochrane said Ablett's request amounted to a brief conversation and the media reports around his desire to leave were "the greatest beat-up".
"Gary, well before trade period, had a brief conversation with our head of football where he discussed, you know, 'look, if it helps to retain players, if you've got a salary cap issue or something, do you want me to consider going back to Geelong?'," Cochrane told SEN radio.
"It was a simple as that.
"'No, no way in the world, Gary. You're absolutely wanted here. Fantastic.'
"That was the end of it."
But Cochrane said it was not certain Ablett would remain the Suns' captain.
"I'm not sure Gary wants to stay as captain," he said.
"Gary's had a very frustrating couple of years with injury.
"We were already well in discussions with Gary going back into this season where he was discussing ... 'do I carry on as captain because maybe what I need to do is free myself up so I can just get really fit'."
The 32-year-old Ablett, who joined the club in 2010 from the Cats, is understood to have asked permission to re-join Geelong after his wife Jordan expressed her desire to move back to Victoria.
But the request was knocked back by Gold Coast officials, according to Geelong's head of football Steve Hocking.
"The Gold Coast was very clear on the fact he was their player and will continue to be their player. He had just signed a three-year deal earlier in the year,'' Hocking told News Corp Australia.
Ablett signed a $10-million contract to be the Suns' inaugural skipper before inking a three-year extension last year.
He has two years left on his contract.
The Suns lost Dion Prestia (Richmond) and Jaeger O'Meara (Hawthorn) during the trade period, but brought in Brisbane star Pearce Hanley and Jarryd Lyons from Adelaide.


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On January 15, 1990, Tor Books released Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World, the first volume in what would become a truly epic 14-volume fantasy saga.
Right from the start, Tor Books publisher Tom Doherty and then-editorial director Harriet McDougal knew they were putting something special out into the world. Still, no one could have predicted how elaborate Jordan's world would become, the heights it would achieve, nor the heights it continues to achieve. (Though hopefully not all paths in these heights are paved with daggers…)
Here, McDougal and Doherty sit down and discuss in detail the rise of Robert Jordan and the circumstances surrounding the creation of The Eye of the World, the beginning–well, a beginning–to The Wheel of Time.
Note: This interview took place in 2013 shortly after the release of A Memory of Light, the concluding volume in The Wheel of Time. This excerpt has been edited and condensed for clarity. The full text can be found here.
Continue below to read about the creation of The Eye of the World.
TOM DOHERTY: I think [Robert Jordan] had only actually written two Conans when he decided to write The Wheel of Time. We talked about it a lot in '83. I remember talking about it quite a bit before we did the contract in '84. I thought The Fallon Blood was going to be a standalone and that there was only going to be the one book on the Southern sweep of history. It ended up being three. We began talking about an epic fantasy: one book, then maybe three books like The Lord of the Rings. I just didn't believe it would get done in three books, because by then I knew how Jim liked to tell a story. So we did the contract in early '84. He was doing Conan books well beyond when we began talking about that in '83. When did the first Conan book ship? '81?
HARRIET McDOUGAL: Oh, I don't remember. Maybe the movie you were hoping to plan your timing around was the second Conan movie?
DOHERTY: I think it was. I think it was later because we were already pretty far along in the planning of The Wheel of Time, and this was related. It just seemed natural for him to be doing that, too.
I like the Fallon books. I like the Conans he wrote. But when I read The Eye of the World, I just thought, boy, this is just wonderful. This is special.
McDOUGAL: Yeah.
DOHERTY: Harriet and I decided we were going to make this a bestseller. We did it in trade paper because we were afraid we couldn't get enough out of a fat hardcover book. Trade paper wasn't anywhere near as big then as it is now, but we thought that's good, too, because it will call attention to itself. It'll be different. So we did it in trade paper and sold 40,000 copies, which was huge for trade paper in those days, for the first of a fantasy series.
McDOUGAL: When I called you the first time, I was about halfway through reading the partials Jim [Rigney, Jr. Who wrote under the pen name Robert Jordan] was handing me. I said: "Tom, you got to read this one." He said: "Yeah, why?" I replied: "Because either I've fallen into the wife trap after seven years of marriage, or this book is wonderful." I sent it to Tom, and you didn't just go the whole hog, you did the whole hog and all the piglets. A truly magnificent job of publishing.
DOHERTY: Oh, we had so much fun with that. You know, it's funny. People think that, when you get a success like that, you don't want to mess with it. The second book doubled the sales of the first in trade paper. So when we got to the third book, we decided to do it in hardcover, and Sales [Department] just screamed. People asked: "Why would you do that? Look how wonderfully it's growing where it is." And that was our first book to hit the bestseller list.
IRENE GALLO, then-Art Director: Really?
DOHERTY: Yeah, it hit the New York Times, not high up, but it did. And from then on, always up. How about you, Irene? You've been working on the covers for a lot of years.
GALLO: It's hard to say. I came on in '93, when Maria [Mellili, former Art Director for Tor Books] was here. It was already the big book of the year. Many of the cover decisions were set. My earliest memories were that the production schedules were set by hours, not days.
McDOUGAL: Really?
GALLO: There would always be four different versions of the production schedule, based on what day it came in. Contingency plans on top of contingency plans.
McDOUGAL: For one of the books, Jim and I stayed at the Murray Hill Hotel, with twin laptops. He'd do a chapter and give it to me, I'd read and edit it, and then I'd bring a disk in. I had a terrific carryall I'd bought at the Morgan Library, but it was not up to carrying my laptop and gave up the ghost in the middle. That was, I think, the craziest.
GALLO: I remember Jeff Dreyfus, our production manager at the time, spent the days walking back and forth from the office to the hotel.
McDOUGAL: And Jim ended up having to stay up here to proofread. It was going to take a week or more, and I had to go back and deal with stuff at home. That's funny about the production schedules by hour, though. I'd never heard that.
GALLO: They would set up four of them: if it comes on Monday, it's this, but if it comes in late Tuesday, it's this.
DOHERTY: But hey, you know, it worked. We did a book each year, and each book built. By the time we got to the fourth book, we were selling the first book in mass market paperback. It was hooking people and bringing them in. Then the next book would grow, because people wouldn't want to wait. A Memory of Light was the biggest first day we've ever had.
McDOUGAL: Which is something.
DOHERTY: Yep. Harriet's agent, Nat Sobel, just sent us an e-mail saying it's number one in England, too, right now. They said it outsold the one behind it [on the bestseller list] four-to-one.
McDOUGAL: It's so nice that missing Christmas didn't hurt. [Note: A Memory of Light was released on January 8, 2013.] I really worried about that, but we just needed the time to comb its hair.
DOHERTY: It had to be done right. It's just too important not to do it right. Rushing wouldn't work for this.
The Wheel of Time series has had some of the most iconic and memorable covers in all of fantasy. In the final part of their discussion, Tom, Harriet and Irene talked about the series' artwork.
McDOUGAL: I get a lot of questions about Dannil, the character who was cut out of The Eye of the World. Dannil sort of figures in that cover painting. [Referring to a painting of an Eye of the World poster in Tom Doherty's office.] There's an extra character in there. He has a ghostly life.
DOHERTY: Darrell Sweet was doing many of the biggest fantasies in the 1990's.
McDOUGAL: Yes, using his work was a big expense for a little company. It was one of the ways in which you did such a superb job of publishing. Also, what's so nice about the gorgeous Michael Whelan cover for the last book is that it's obviously a Michael Whelan, but he very tactfully made it so that when you rack them all out, they look like family. That was a lovely thing he did.
GALLO: It is. He did a good job. The palette and composition really works with the other covers. I didn't envy him the job and he turned it into a nice tribute as well as a conclusion.
McDOUGAL: And [snake wheel logo artist] Sam Weber is so nice. I keep trying to call him Sam Weller because of Dickens. He said Whelan called him once and asked: "What's a ter'angreal?"
Looking at The Way of Kings, I had an extraordinary coincidence. A friend of mine's former wife is a curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington. She's a descendent of John Martin, an English painter also known as Mad Martin. He was the highest paid artist in Great Britain in the 1840's, and then he sank into total obscurity until a couple of war refugees rediscovered and resurrected his works after World War II. One of his paintings is the cover of The Way of Kings, except that there's a big pantheon where the guy is in the distance.
GALLO: I'm going to look that up.
McDOUGAL: His skies are very much like Michael Whelan's. He was doing all that stuff way back then. I don't know if Whelan's ever looked at him, but it looks as if he has. Those fabulous skies of Whelan's.
[Note: While many of Martin's paintings have a similar composition to Whelan's cover to The Way of Kings, we surmise that McDougal is specifically referring to "The Last Man". You can–and in fact should because all of the pieces are epic–view all of Martin's work here to judge for yourself.]
I also loved the ornaments [chapter icons]. We worked with Matt Nielsen creating those. They were really good. The emblem that we used for the Blight is a tree, and I was trying to tell him what I needed. I said I wanted Arthur Rackham, and he said: "Who?" I said: "Well, okay, let's try and work on this."
GALLO: He couldn't Google it at that point, either.
McDOUGAL: No, but he did such a good job. The fans really caught onto them, thinking about their symbolism. "What do these ornaments mean?" They did, in fact, have a bit of a coded meaning. Lanfear's symbol means Lanfear is lurking in this chapter, even though she's not named.
It was fun, working on those ornaments. From the beginning, I did most of the chapter titles, all but one or two each book. I was very proud when somebody told me, many years ago, that he saw a chapter titled "Footprints in Air" in the table of contents and that made him buy the book. Well, great, that's the idea.
GALLO: Every piece of it counts. The whole package.
DOHERTY: Exactly.
McDOUGAL: I really wanted to do something we hadn't followed through with: the Wheel of Time in front and back. Back in the twenties, there was a wonderful children's book with a bullet hole that ran through the whole book. It was by Johnny Gruelle, who later did Raggedy Ann and Andy. It was a wonderful thing. I would have loved a book that had the Snake Wheel in the front of the book, the big one, and one in the back of the book, so you could really hold them like that to reinforce "There are neither beginnings nor endings—
DOHERTY: —in the Wheel of Time." Practically, to do that right you would have had to put it on the endpapers. We had such nice endpapers.
McDOUGAL: Oh, yeah. Well, the map was more important.
DOHERTY: Exactly.
Want more?
- Begin a First Read of The Eye of the World with Sylas K. Barrett
- Begin a Reread of The Eye of the World with Leigh Butler
- Read the full interview


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With Amberjack, find and book the best fishing guides, charters, and lodges anywhere and everywhere.
Amberjack is an online fishing guide and shop that brings anglers and outfitters together to make booking a fishing trip easier than ever. Amberjack is filled with the best guides, charters, and lodges with an easy to compare format. If site users find what they want or what they're looking for, they can directly communicate with outfitters, book their trips and stays and pay for it all in one place. Amberjack provides a variety of the most popular locations in the United States and internationally to go fishing and find the best catch. Amberjack has an online store as well to make sure everyone has what they need for their next fishing trip. Amberjack isn't just for those looking to book a fishing trip, but also for those who want to list their business on the site. Simple request a profile, make it your own, and then start accepting safe payments. Amberjack features a journal to highlight everything going on in the fishing world and new and exciting news. Amberjack's goal is to simplify the entire process of finding and booking outfitter led fishing trips. Next time you're ready to plan a fishing trip to your favorite fishing hole, Amberjack is the place to start.


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From Craft to Art: Egyptian Appliqué-work in Light of Local & Global Change feat. Seif El Rashidi, March 27
Event-PastIn this conversation, Seif El Rashidi will discuss the over one thousand-year-old tradition of textile appliqué work (khayamiyya) in Egypt.
This conversation explores the over one thousand-year-old tradition of textile appliqué work (khayamiyya) in Egypt, which continues to thrive in the 'Street of the Tentmakers' in the heart of historic Cairo's bustling center. Seif El Rashidi, co-author of the publication, The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Applique Craft (2018), and an expert in cultural heritage preservation, shares the stories of contemporary craftspeople who have found ingenious ways to maintain this time-honored art form in an age of machine-made mass production. Seif will share video footage of master-stitchers at work and discuss how the aesthetic of the craft has been adapted to cater to international audiences and adopted by contemporary designers.
Seif El Rashidi is an art and architectural historian whose professional expertise is in the preservation of cultural heritage. He is a specialist on the history and heritage of Cairo and is the co-author (with Sam Bowker) of The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Applique Craft (2018). He is currently the director of The Barakat Trust (https://barakat.org), a UK charity that supports the study and preservation of the cultural heritage of the Islamic world. He was formerly the project manager of the University of London's Layers of London Project (https://www.layersoflondon.org), the Magna Carta Programme Manager at Salisbury Cathedral (https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/magna-carta/visiting-magna-carta), and the coordinator of Durham World Heritage Site (https://www.durhamworldheritagesite.com). He previously worked for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Cairo (https://www.akdn.org/our-agencies/aga-khan-trust-culture), and for Ahmad Hamid Architects.
This conversation will be hosted by the series organizer, Dr Fahmida Suleman, Curator, Islamic World, Royal Ontario Museum; and Dr Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto.
Master craftsman Tarek El Safty at work. Photo: Ola Seif
Master craftsman Tarek El Safty with his son Mohamed. The craft has been passed down from father to son, and Tarek is hopeful that Mohamed and his sister will take the family workshop from strength to strength. Photo: Seif El Rashidi
About the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC)
This event is part of an eight-part monthly series entitled "Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, Present and Future," an initiative of the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC), Toronto, Canada.
The IAMCC is a new research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum. Its aim is to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on the diverse arts and material cultures of the Islamic world in its broadest sense.


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Hyper-politicization has turned us all into dummies.
By Allison McDermott
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon
It is no secret that conservatives have built science denial into the DNA of their movement(s). Whether doubting evidence related to evolution, the age of the Earth, or anthropocentric climate change. Much of this is rooted in religion as entrenching oneself into dogma has a special kind of way of hindering the adoption of new ideas and data. However, this process is now emulated by the left albeit in its own distinct way.
The truth is, anyone who rigidly subscribes to a worldview will eventually fall prey to science denial.
This 'mutual appreciation' of science denial is underscored in a new study published in the peer-review journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
"We tested whether conservatives and liberals are similarly or differentially likely to deny scientific claims that conflict with their preferred conclusions. Participants were randomly assigned to read about a study with correct results that were either consistent or inconsistent with their attitude about one of several issues (e.g., carbon emissions). Participants were asked to interpret numerical results and decide what the study concluded. After being informed of the correct interpretation, participants rated how much they agreed with, found knowledgeable, and trusted the researchers' correct interpretation. Both liberals and conservatives engaged in motivated interpretation of study results and denied the correct interpretation of those results when that interpretation conflicted with their attitudes. Our study suggests that the same motivational processes underlie differences in the political priorities of those on the left and the right."
These findings, of course, are in stark contrast with metanarratives used by the left to describe their obedience to scientific evidence. 'Science is Real' has become a calling card for leftists activists as it adorns yard-signs, t-shirts, and instagram accounts nationwide. Yet the study underscores how liberals are peculiarly selective in regard to scientific matters that defy their worldviews. To be clear, the refuting of the scientific domain is not restricted to climate change and evolution. Oftentimes, the left demonstrates a willingness to ignore verifiable data in regard to sociological phenomena. According to the study, liberals were more prone to dispense with scientific fact when it disputed deeply held beliefs regarding carbon emissions, gun control, or nuclear energy.
Naturally, cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias has only deepened as the U.S. political discourse has become more polarized. It is likely these biases are either created by or exacerbated by social media.
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1 great burger, 4 terrific tastes
There's not much better than a perfectly grilled burger paired with a just-right beverage. The SV Burger served at Sky & Vine® Rooftop Bar has garnered a large fan base. The tasty-thin, double patties, chef Frankie's secret, special sauce, house-made pickles and a toasted bun make it a mouthwatering experience. But what to drink? Here's a short list of Archer's picks for the perfect burger pairing for this local-favorite.
The pairings
Beer: Mare Island Hydraulic Sandwich IPA — A burger and a beer? But of course. In this IPA, "the balance of malt always keeps those hops in check."
Cocktail: Calle Uno — The house burger goes well with the barrel-aged whiskey, the smoke and spice of the Ancho Reyes liqueur and the sweet of the Aztec Chocolate Bitters.
Spirit: Archer's Private Barrel of Whistle Pig Rye — The sweet notes of whiskey complement the savory meat of the SV Burger.
Wine: Banshee Pinot Noir — This red Burgundy has red fruit notes, a soft earth undertone and a bright, slightly herbal and savory finish.
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Serial Killer App
Serial Killer App
I was in a conversation where Brian Wisti was showing how he's bandying around data between Taskwarrior, Obsidian and logseq, flipping things between JSON and Markdown with frontmatter. I was nodding along, agreeing that Markdown with frontmatter is really a sweet spot between easily parsed data and a human-consumable document. Indeed, I often slurp in those files and split the frontmatter and content and…
Wait a second… Yeah, I do that all the time. Granted, it's not a lot of work. Like, it's pretty much
my ( $frontmatter, $content ) = split /^---\n$/, $markdown, 2;
$frontmatter = YAML::Load($frontmatter);
but still. If only there was a module that took care of serializing/deserializing files, and if only it grokked Markdown.
Oh, wait, there is such a thing: File::Serialize. And now it does grok Markdown.
⥼ transerialize ./README.md -.json
"_content" : "\n# Serial Killer App\n\nI was[...]",
"created" : "2021-06-07",
"tags" : [
Transforming scriptlets
That got me thinking. As I was rambling about in my earlier talks of this month, the source files of my blog are Markdown-based, with a couple of extra-special features (I mean, y'all know me, right? That's hardly a surprise, right?). To turn those sources in canonical Markdown (well, actually, MDSvex), I'm passing it through a Perl script that munges it just so. It'd be nice to split that script into its functional components.
If I was using transerialize
in its "function of File::Serialize
incarnation, I could do that easily. As of last week, the command-line
utility could only take snippets of code. Cute, but getting unwieldy real
fast. But now the intermediary steps also take in filenames of Perl script
assumed to return a transforming function.
Which means that, say I want to gather the blog entry title from the content, and want to add a slug:
# ./set_front_title.pl
$File::Serialize::implicit_transform = 1;
sub {
return if $_->{title};
$_->{title} = $1 if $_->{_content} =~ /^# (.*)/m;
# ./set_slug.pl
$File::Serialize::implicit_transform = 1;
use Path::Tiny;
sub {
$_->{slug} = path($File::Serialize::SOURCE)
And then
⥼ transerialize ./README.md ./set_front_title.pl ./set_slug.pl -.json
"_content" : "...",
"created" : "2021-06-07",
"slug" : "serial-killer-app",
"tags" : [
"title" : "Serial Killer App"
Herding scriptlets
Nice! But if there are to be more than a few transforming steps, the command line is going to be huge. If only we could, I don't know, put the list of scriptlets in a serialized config file, and auto-expand that on demand?
Well, now we can do that too. In this example I'm using YAML because
I love it, but as you may surmise, File::Serialize
uses File::Serialize
to deserialize the file, so any supported format can be used there.
# ./transform.yml
- ./set_front_title.pl
- ./set_slug.pl
and then…
⥼ transerialize ./README.md @./transform.yml -.json
"_content" : "...",
"created" : "2021-06-07",
"slug" : "serial-killer-app",
"tags" : [
"title" : "Serial Killer App"


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Project celebrates town's timber past
Manjimup Men's Shed members have found the perfect way to show off the old timber town's history, along a section of disused railway track.
The group has worked hard to restore an old train carriage used to transport timber and turned it into a locomotive display along South Western Highway near the town's entrance.
Men's Shed president Francis Hull said they had managed to salvage the equipment, which had been in poor condition.
"We've lifted it all up from the timber park and it was in a very dilapidated condition, so we took it all down to the shed to restore," he said.
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READ NOWCommittee member Ted Taylor said the wheels on the train were stamped 1877, indicating the year they were made.
Manjimup shire heritage park restoration manager Jess Winters said all up the process had cost about $20,000.
"Jessica asked us to restore it and asked us how much it would cost so we put together a plan with a price which she accepted," Mr Hull said.
He said they were still working on the display and would soon be adding two more carriages.
"One is basically finished and the other is about half way there," he said.
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Earlier in the month, I showcased the Official Trailer for the Warner Brothers Television produced Netflix series "The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina". It introduces us to another Archie Comics character and one that is being done with a serious overtone much like the hit series "Riverdale". If you missed the trailer narrative just click HERE. The series is now available for streaming in full on Netflix so let's check out the poster, the premise and the casting.
The Premise: Sabrina Spellman must reconcile her dual nature as a half-witch, half-mortal while fighting the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina Spellman
Jaz Sinclair as Rosalind Walker
Michelle Gomez as Mary Wardell/Madam Satan
Chance Perdomo as Ambrose Spellman
Lucy Davis as Hilda Spellman
Miranda Otto as Zelda Spellman
Richard Coyle as Father Blackwood
Ross Lynch as Harvey Kinkle
Tati Gabrielle as Prudence
Salem Saberhagen will appear in the series
Bronson Pinchot as George Hawthorne
Adeline Rudolph as Agatha
Abigail Cowen as Dorcas
Justin Dobies as Tommy Kinkle
PiercingMetal Thoughts: I am simply loving so many things on Netflix but of course the heavy event schedule that I keep for the PiercingMetal website finds me with so little time to sit and do proper binging. So far I am up on the "Arrowverse" shows but they only recently began airing again and with Rick Grimes leaving "The Walking Dead" at some point this season, I need to stay on top of that based on all the idiots who love to spoil the outcome on Facebook seconds after it happens. What I am saying is that I do intend on watching "TCAOS" but I still need to catch up on "Jessica Jones", "Iron Fist", "Luke Cage" and "Daredevil"….. Who knows, maybe I will let myself binge on this alone for Halloween since I don't think I will be hitting any costume parties this year. What about you? Will you be watching "The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina"? Chime in down below but as always with the full series streams, we ask that you keep all spoilers to yourself.
Official Series Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_Adventures_of_Sabrina_(TV_series)