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0:10 Chouser: I guess you just can't use #( % ) in macros.
14:15 ctp: hi - sorry if this has already been covered, but I am currently doing some work in clojure with lwjgl, getting opengl going etc. All going well at the moment, but I have one question: lwjgl uses static methods on the 'GL11' class quite a lot, and im ending up with lots of similar lines like: (. GL11 (glColor3f 1 1 1)), followed by more beginning (. GL11 ...) - I have tried the '(doto ..)' macro, but this only seems to work for instances... i guess my question
14:19 rhickey: cut off?
14:19 ctp: cut off?
14:19 rhickey: your question is?
14:20 ctp: ahh - sorry - too much text :)
14:20 basically, am i missing something, or is there a 'doto' alike for static methods on a class?
14:21 if not, gives me a good reason for a new macro.
14:21 rhickey: the idea behind doto is that all of the methods will somehow side-effect the object, for statics I presume you'll want the return values?
14:23 ericthor: (defn GL [& body] ~(.. GL11 ~@body))
14:23 this would work no?
14:23 ctp: maybe -
14:23 rhickey: defmacro?
14:24 ctp: effectively i am typing (. GL11 (glBegin (
14:24 (. GL11 (glEnd))
14:24 over and over - so, yes, defmacro
14:25 just devising one now - just wanted to check that i wasn't reinventing something in the core
14:25 ericthor: I have an expression that is returning a vector i want to pass into recur using an apply (apply recur my-vector)
14:25 sorry did not mean to step on this thread
14:25 i'll wait......
14:25 rhickey: ctp: no, but if you think this is something for which there is a general solution, I'll consider adding something
14:26 ctp: ericthor: np - think im done - macro writing.
14:26 hoeck: hi, mhhh, i found out that you cannot bound a static class to a variable in a let
14:26 ericthor: enjoy!
14:26 ctp: rhickey: thanks - let you know
14:27 hoeck: something like (let [a java.lang.Math) (. a (sin 1) does not work
14:27 rhickey: ericthor: can't apply recur - it's not a fn
14:27 ericthor: i know...
14:28 i can rearrange...lots of options
14:28 rhickey: hoeck: dot (.) has special handling of its arguments, so not a function call
14:28 ericthor: but i wanted to call apply on recur :)
14:30 hoeck: ok
14:30 rhickey: Math is auto-imported, so no need for java.lang
14:31 hoeck: i have another question, are nested `sync' s a problem ?
14:31 rhickey: also check out tiny math lib: http://
14:32 nested syncs belong to same (parent) transaction
14:35 hoeck: so they are just noise to the compiler?
14:35 thanks, i already use math.clj :)
14:35 rhickey: which are noise, nested syncs?
14:36 hoeck: yes, are nested syncs ignored?
14:37 rhickey: I prefer to think that they participate in any enclosing transaction. While you may not write nested syncs in a lexical scope,
14:37 you may end up with them when a larger transaction calls code that was written independently to be transactional
14:44 hoeck: okay, i was just thinking wether macros that use sync to wrap arbitrary code should care about syncs in that code
14:46 rhickey: they don't need to care, otherwise I think it would be unmanageable to compose code
14:50 hoeck: i was just expecting that, i asked just to be shure
14:50 rhickey: it should be fine
14:52 hoeck: btw, thank you for your work on clojure, i _really_ enjoy programming in/on clojure
14:52 rhickey: you're welcome!
14:57 ctp: rhickey: this macro seemed to do the work: (defmacro do-static [class & methods] `(do ~@(map (fn [m] (list '. class m)) methods)))
14:57 (lost formatting there... ;))
14:58 rhickey: so these static methods all have side effects?
14:59 ctp: yes - they are basically calling gl functions under the covers, afaik
14:59 for example, the lwjgl has a 'Display' class
15:00 on which you call 'Display.setFullscreen(false); Display.create()' etc...
15:00 which, in clojure, looks like: (. Display (setFullscreen false)) (. Display (create))
15:01 naturally, there are quite a few static methods - this seems to be the way it is implemented. only started playing with it today, so it is entirely possible i am wrong...
15:02 but clojure is *very* nice so far.
15:02 rhickey: I'm thinking it might be called in-scope
15:02 ctp: yes - seems like a better name
15:02 rhickey: but most imperative things begin with 'do'
15:02 ctp: i was thinking of Haskell's 'do', yes...
15:03 i'm not happy with 'do-static' - maybe 'do-with-scope' or alike?
15:03 its very close to 'doto' in implementation
15:04 rhickey: yes, Clojure has doto, dotimes, doseq, dorun, doall
15:04 no dashes so far
15:04 doscope?
15:04 ctp: sounds good to me
15:07 not sure how many java libraries use extensive statics, really. and 'doto' already exists for instances, so its probably of limited use.
15:07 rhickey: statics just for side-effects I think is rare
15:08 ctp: lots of cases of retrieving static symbols in lwjgl too: (. org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11 GL_QUADS)
15:08 im coming from GL in c/c++ - but the java lwjgl design does seem odd.
15:09 oh well - it was fun writing the macro! thanks for the help.
15:09 rhickey: sure
15:09 ctp: sure beats CFFI + SBCL so far...
15:10 rhickey: having java libs opens up a huge world
15:11 ctp: i'll continue my exploration. thanks again!
15:23 jgracin: when there are two threads that use "set" on the same ref, when does the restart of transaction happen? When the slower one tries to commit or as soon as it tries to set the ref?
15:25 rhickey: It's pretty complex. A thread will block a bit while another has the ref locked, but there are also timeouts, barging, and priorities for older transactions.
15:27 jgracin: thanks.
18:28 ericthor_: rich, given: (def data '[[a * b] + [c * d]])
18:28 (first data)
18:28 yields [a * b]
18:28 (rest data)
18:28 (+ [c * d])
18:28 why (seq? data)
18:28 false
18:29 rhickey: first and rest call seq on their argument
18:29 (seq? (seq data)) will be true
18:29 ericthor_: very trickey
18:29 rhickey: but data is a vector, not a seq
18:31 most sequence functions call seq on their arguments, which can be collections, arrays, strings etc, not just seqs
18:31 you can use seq itself as a predicate, as is done often in boot.clj
18:32 means there is stuff
18:32 whereas seq? is a type test
18:32 ericthor_: so if I want to test if something is sequencable it should be (seq? (seq data))
18:32 rhickey: sequenceable?
18:33 not sure what you mean
18:34 ericthor_: i guess it's just (not (atom? x)) I'm looking for...thx
18:35 rhickey: atom? is still tricky, I guess that's why I've avoided it. For instance strings support seq, but would usually be considered atoms
18:36 but (instance? IPersistentCollection x) picks out the Clojure aggregates
18:48 hoeck: bye
20:52 pjb3: hey, there's a clojure chat room!
20:53 I guess the link off the webpage should have given that away :)
20:53 I've got some beginner questions about FP, anybody care to discuss?
21:06 Chouser: give it a shot. I *might* be a half-step ahead of you.
21:10 pjb3: Ok, so with FP you never create objects
21:10 It's kind of the opposite of OOP in that way, right?
21:22 Chouser: heh. hm.
21:23 That's kinda loaded.
21:23 pjb3: ok, well, clojure has no way of defining classes, right?
21:23 Chouser: There are languages that allow both FP and objects, but that's not really clojure I guess.
21:24 pjb3: Essentially, I think you're correct. There's StructMap, but as the name suggests thats more of a struct thing than an object.
21:24 You wouldn't usually put methods inside it.
21:25 pjb3: Ok, well having done mostly Java and Ruby, that's the part I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around
21:25 How do you build stuff without objects?
21:25 Chouser: so, yeah, normally in clojure you'll define functions at the top level of a given namespace, and pass data structures to those functions.
21:26 pjb3: how do you use namespaces?
21:28 Chouser: you can probably start off just using the default "user" namespace
21:28 there's info at http://
21:29 I haven't done much with them, but you can use (in-ns 'foo) to switch into the foo namespace, then all your defn function declarations get added to the 'foo namespace.
21:31 pjb3: I see, and then you code that wants to use those functions has switch to that namespace to call them?
21:33 Chouser: you can call functions from a different namespace like: (foo/func ...)
21:34 pjb3: ahh
21:35 Interesting, so I do a lot of web programming that deals with databases using libraries like Hibernate or Rails' ActiveRecord
21:35 ORM frameworks
21:35 not sure if you are familiar with that
21:35 Chouser: I've used ActiveRecord some
21:35 pjb3: Ok, cool
21:36 so in AR if you have a users database table, you define a User class that subclasses ActiveRecord::Base
21:36 then you can go User.find(:all)
21:36 to get an array of user objects
21:36 representing each row in your db table
21:37 How do you think you would model something like that in a FP language like Clojure?
21:38 Chouser: heh, ok, let me take a couple swings at it...
21:41 for simple cases, you could have a single find function that returns a list of StructMaps
21:42 If you needed to specify some extra details that ActiveRecord might find in your subclass, you could pass those in as a separate data structure.
21:43 If that separate data struct is stored in a var called User, then your example call above could be traslated to something like (db/find User :all)
21:44 If you wanted more advanced features like callbacks or overriding of accessors or mutators, you should be able to do something with clojure's multimethods.
21:45 pjb3: Is StructMap differenct than the regular {} map?
21:45 Chouser: Anyway, that's a sketch of how I'd start, but I've done a lot more large-scale design in OO langs than non-OO, so .. this might not be the right approach. :-)
21:46 only slightly. It's more efficient at storing a large number of maps with a common set of keys than regular map.
21:47 pjb3: what about creating a namespace for each object
21:47 (User/find)
21:48 Chouser: probably the wrong approach, but I dunno it might work.
21:48 You should probably try to dissect why you think you want objects or classes, like specifically which features.
21:49 Clojure probably has support for each different feature, just packaged up in different ways.
21:49 For example if it's polymorphism you want, multimethods are a more powerful way to do that.
21:50 pjb3: yeah, I was thinking about that
21:50 Chouser: If it's data hiding you want, you might be able to get what you want with nested functions (closures).
21:54 pjb3: does clojure have named params for functions?
21:58 Chouser: got to go for now, thanks for your help
22:03 ericthor: rich: given (def r (ref 0))
22:03 (sync nil (alter r (fn [y] y) 15))
22:04 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
22:04 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
22:05 i'm sure it's right in front of me but i can't see what is wrong with my alter statement?
22:13 rhickey: are you trying to set r to 15?
22:18 (sync nil (set r 15))
22:18 alter if for functions that transform the value in a ref rather than replace it
22:18 iis
22:18 is
22:28 ericthor: what would be the example there?
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Round Two of the Program in 2018/19 targeted innovative projects across the energy, transport, building, land use and waste sectors that focus on improved sustainability and environmental outcomes, along with effective engagement with the community. On 27 August 2018 Minister Rattenbury announced funding for the following seven successful projects.
- Woden SEE-Change Incorporated received $24,000.00 to transform an existing shed at the Canberra City Farm into an ultra-low energy building ("Super Shed").
- Australian PV Institute Limited received $23,530.00 to provide the ACT community with an engaging, easy to use, free online tool (SunSPoT) to inform and accelerate investment in rooftop solar, supporting the transition to zero emissions.
- Better Renting Limited received $24,875.55 to build the capacity and motivation of a community of renters to make their homes more energy-efficient.
- Canberra Environment Centre received $24,680.00 to develop a suite of targeted resources to encourage sustainable behaviours at an individual and household level for the Canberra Chinese community.
- UnitingCare Kippax received $24,692.00 to create a re-locatable administration building for the Mower Shed entirely powered by solar panels and batteries through re-purposing two shipping containers.
- Mental Health Foundation ACT received $20,750.00 to engage and educate people living with mental illnesses and their carers on waste reduction and sustainable living.
- Brindabella Christian Education Limited received $25,000.00 to develop a pilot Solar Tree to be installed on the school campus, feeding into an existing Solar Grid and Educational Video Learning Display for students.
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Round One of the Program in 2017/18 targeted innovative projects across the energy, transport, building, land use and waste sectors that focus on improved sustainability and environmental outcomes, along with effective engagement with the community. On 1 November Minister Rattenbury announced funding for the following six successful projects.
- The Neighbourhood Effect received $25,000 to develop a free, interactive smartphone app and website to encourage the use of sustainable lifestyle habits, products and initiatives.
- Canberra Environment Centre received $24,200 to purchase a solar powered composter to service the Acton community's composting needs.
- SEE Change received $22,160 to engage project home builders and developers to build more sustainably and promote living with a smaller environmental footprint.
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To jumpstart job growth in the U.S., you need to focus on small businesses.
That's a bit of advice for the White House as President Barack Obama readies his jobs plan to be unveiled after Labor Day. Some ideas include extension of the payroll tax holiday, a new tax credit for businesses that hire, and infrastructure spending focused on public school buildings.
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Oscar Valdez: Training at home to keep his title at home
Ahead of his most important fight to date, on Saturday night, at the StubHub Center, in Carson, California, Oscar Valdez was just a day or two removed from a full training camp spent in Guadalajara, Mexico, and, at media workout held at the usual place he prepares for a fight, how and why it went was the topic of conversation for the WBO featherweight titleholder.
"I haven't seen Oscar train harder," said manager Frank Espinoza, who helped organize the trip for his fighter, along with other clients within the stable of trainer Manny Robles. Espinoza is perhaps the kindest person within the cutthroat boxing business and after putting up his clientele in a full gym equipped with room and board, there is no question he has his fighters' backs.
"Fish, chicken and vegetables – no meat," Espinoza said about the food he also helped provide in Mexico. Espinoza also has Valdez enrolled in the VADA drug testing program and put the emphasis on "no meat" but, when it comes to this particular boot camp, this wasn't something done for just Valdez's sake. Antonio Orozco – who blew an HBO date in December after failing to even show up at the weigh-in – may have needed the retreat more than ever. Another Espinoza fighter, Jessie Magdaleno, is approaching a year since his first defense of the WBO junior featherweight title and, although he injured his hand at the end of the year, forcing him to back out of a fight, rumors of weight issues have also swirled around. Along with a few others, including prospect Emilio Sanchez, who regularly spars with Valdez, they were castaways with nothing else to do but focus on boxing. As for Valdez himself, it was a good time to change things up, as he faces Scott Quigg, this Saturday, and hopes to maintain his featherweight title reign.
"It's a little bit of both," Valdez said, still drenched in sweat from his media workout. "Scott Quigg is a tough fighter. I can't take him lightly. I have to train very hard but also I'm in the position where I have to be more disciplined. I have to take this more seriously because I'm a world champion. I've got a responsibility to keep this belt back in my home of Mexico, so I have to train hard. That's the main reason to go to Guadalajara and get that extra time to just focus. We were living in a gym. The gym had rooms, so there was extra time working out. We had nothing else to do but work out, so that's one of the reasons why we're more prepared for this fight."
Valdez, 23-0 (19), is coming off an eventful 2017, in which he partook in two quality fights against Miguel Marriaga and Genesis Servania. Valdez won both comfortably on the cards but when gauging how tough the wins actually were, those wide numbers would be a bold-faced lie. Marriaga and Servania pushed Valdez like never before. Against Marriaga, Valdez was barely able to separate himself from his Colombian counterpart until the 10th round, when his trademark left hook dropped his foe hard and helped boost his momentum in the championship rounds. Against Servania, last September, Valdez was dropped in the fourth by the Filipino fringe contender and, although Valdez was able to pay it back in the following round and win the fight outright, the win didn't come easy.
"I committed a lot of mistakes against Genesis Servania," Valdez remembered. "Like I said, being in Guadalajara, we've been spending more time together, talked a lot and got to work more on our game plan. Stick our hands up. Every time I would put my hands down, Manny will yell at me or just let me know that I'm messing up. So we had a great training camp and one of the main things was keeping your hands up. I dream with that saying already: Keep your hands up."
Not keeping one's hands up is a simple and easy mistake in boxing – similar to lifting your head up as a golfer – but, in the heat of a fight, the gravity of the mistake is incomparable. At the workout, Valdez was sure to have his hands way up for every menial drill in practice.
"I loved it. I loved the change," said Valdez. "Even though we're from Nogales, Sonora, living in Hermosillo, California, L.A., Carson. Lake Elsinore has already turned into our hometown because 90% of my training camps, I've been here. So it already is like our hometown for us, so we need a little bit of privacy to focus on the fight and the main reason why we went to Guadalajara is because we were looking for high altitude. Our first option was Mexico City but, since that didn't work out, we chose Guadalajara, being that my trainer Manny Robles, that's his hometown. That's where he grew up. It was a great training camp. Nothing bad, everything went perfect. Food-wise, training-wise, everything, got to bond more with my trainer, studied more on our game plan and our opponent. We're going to show it on March 10th."
Quigg, 34-1-2 (25), is the No. 10 ranked featherweight contender in the eyes of the WBO but should end up being the biggest name on Valdez's ledger by the end of Saturday night. The British contender is a former beltholder at 122 pounds and after three wins at 126, since his only defeat to Carl Frampton, two years ago, Quigg makes a much anticipated United States debut. Quigg has since brought his life to Southern California after hiring Freddie Roach last year and the 29-year-old hopes to revitalize his career through the offensive-minded trainer. That is part of the reason many think Valdez-Quigg will be a fun action fight but, lately, it hasn't mattered at all who Valdez is fighting. The Mexican featherweight is on the brink of becoming one of the premier television fighters in the sport.
"To hear these comments, it brings me joy," Valdez said with a smirk on his face. "It brings a lot of joy to me because I was once a kid who dreamed of being in the position I am right now. Sitting down, having media, having a world title belt, being in a main event card – It's a dream and I'm living it right now, so it brings a lot of joy, a lot of motivation to myself hearing these things."
Valdez may be proud to be pinned as a classic Mexican fighter but, at this rate, he might not have a long career.
"No. That's not the plan obviously," Valdez said. "Hopefully not. My last fights were tough fights. I didn't choose them to be like that. I was forced to make them like that. I wish I could box, hit and not get hit, have a clean, (Floyd) Mayweather (Jr.) style but, you know, that's not the case. Sometimes, you gotta brawl it out and, hopefully, this fight won't be the case but, looking into Scott Quigg's style and my style, I'm pretty sure it's gonna go toe-to-toe. It'll be a good fight. I don't choose to have wars in every fight but sometimes it's necessary."
With Valdez's propensity to produce tough, rugged and exciting fights, the question of whether this makes Espinoza's job easier or harder had to be asked.
"That's a good question," said Espinoza before thinking a moment. "I think him being a TV fighter makes it a lot easier. He has that fan-friendly style where people enjoy watching. He has everything it takes, so it makes my job easier. As a matter of fact, it does. It's easier to negotiate with promoters that want to see him fight, so it's easy to put him in exciting fights. He's an exciting fighter."
Espinoza stood intently as Valdez worked the mitts with Robles, almost sticking his head through the ropes to get a look. If you ask him about any of his fighters, he'll describe them as if they were his sons and, in many respects, Espinoza is a second father to them who will be there through the good times and the bad. Like any old man would, Frank wore a Valdez jacket proudly and on the back of it was a symbol near and dear to Valdez's heart.
"That symbol. I would say every guy from Nogales knows what that is," Valdez said. To put it simply, the symbol was a man with a spear, stepping and stabbing on some sort of evil looking creature. In Mexico, they call it, "El mono bichi." "It's a Indian Yaqui, killing the symbol of ignorance. It's a bat creature, demon. A U.S. custom killed a Mexican and there was a war in Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora, so it's gonna be 100 years, and that was a symbol a hundred years ago. The Yaquis not letting them take over our Nogales. I picked it a couple of years back, I think, when I first became a professional. I wanted something that means the symbol of Nogales and the first thing that popped in my mind was the mono bichi. That's what it's called! El mono bichi because every guy from Nogales knows what it is."
Espinoza didn't know as much about that symbol on the back of that jacket but he can be rest assured that a distinguished fighter like Valdez has got his back.
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The Middle East region continues to play a major part in world politics, particularly when it comes to defence and security.
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John McGaheran, who respectfully served as Owatonna Mayor for 10 years, passed away suddenly on Saturday, June 30, at District One Hospital in Faribault, MN. He was 83.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:30 AM Monday, July 9 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Owatonna. Friends may greet the family two hours prior to the funeral mass starting at 9:30 AM. Military Honors will be provided by the Steele County Funeral Unit. There will be a parish rosary recited at the church starting at 9:30 AM.
John Michael McGaheran was born November 5, 1934 in Owatonna, MN the son of Michael C. and Paulene (Bruzek) McGaheran. John graduated with the class of 1952 from Owatonna High School. Following high school, John attended St. Thomas University in St. Paul from 1952 to early 1954. In January of 1954, John volunteered for the draft after the Korean Conflict by joining the U.S. Army where he served in the 5thArmored Artillery Division at Camp Chaffee in Fort Smith Arkansas. John was supposed to be shipped oversea to Hidelburg Germany but unfortunately came down with rheumatic fever and served the rest of his time in Arkansas. John was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army as a Private First Class in November of 1955.
After the Army, John went back to college and attended the Mankato State College where he graduated with a B.A. degree in Business and Economics in 1958. His first job after graduating college was a bank teller at Security Bank and Trust in Owatonna. On September 5, 1959, John married the love of his life, Rita Buskovick at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Owatonna and have been together for nearly 59 years. Together the couple raised four children, Mike, Sheila, Lisa, and Mark. In 1971, John accepted a job transfer with Viking Adjusting and moved the family to Wilmar, MN for one year before moving back to town. During his career, John was a Customer Relations Manager for Jostens. He also worked for several insurance companies as a field adjuster for more than 25 years and before retiring in 2000, John spent six years at Cybex in the shipping and warehouse department.
John never shied away from being active in his church and his community. John volunteered as a lay minister, lecturer and usher over the years at St. Joseph's Church. He also helped count the collection money on Monday nights. He also enjoyed helping out cleaning the church with his Father-in-Law, Ray Buskovick and sang in the church's funeral choir for a brief time.
In 1966, John was bitten by the political bug and was elected as 4thWard Council member from 1966-1972. He also served on the city's Planning and Charter Commissions and the American Public Works Association during this time. It wasn't until 1974, John set out to challenge incumbent Mayor Clayton Wanous and won. John served with pride 5 two year terms as Owatonna Mayor until 1984. His highlights as a mayor was helping bring the late actor, Lorne Greene of Bonanza fame to town to shoot a promotional video for the Toro Company. He also attended a Mayor's Convention in Washington D.C. where he met former U.S. Senator Dave Durenburger and he also met former Vice President Walter Mondale. His other accomplishments as mayor was Bridge Street-I35 interchange and the City Hall Complex at West Hills. During his time as mayor, John volunteered several times as a state judge for the Minnesota State Junior Miss program.
John was a life member of 59 years at Owatonna Elks Lodge 1395 and was part of the last group of candidates initiated at the old building on Oak Street. John served as Elks treasurer from 1999-2001 and was named Elk of the year in 2002. He was a 48 year member of Owatonna American Legion Post 77 and a former member of the Knights of Columbus and Fraternal Order of Eagles. John was also a member of the Steele County Agricultural Society for many years. John enjoyed working in the Beergarden as a beertender in his earlier years and later by selling beer tickets in the "cage". After retirement, John volunteered for eight years at the Owatonna Hospice House and was quoted as saying "the best thing I ever did in my life."
John loved attending Owatonna football games on Friday nights in his younger years. Earlier in their marriage, John and Rita had season tickets to Gopher football games and spent many Saturday afternoons with their friends at old Memorial Stadium. John and Rita loved to travel to Iowa City, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska and Madison, Wisconsin to watch the Gophers. John cherished the moments with his children and grandchildren by attending their various activities. He spent almost every morning by attending morning mass at St. Joseph's, attended Adoration many Thursday afternoons at Sacred Heart Church and was a part of the morning coffee club at Hy-Vee deli. John enjoyed playing cards and spending his afternoons at the Elks Club. John was a charismatic soul who enjoyed the attention and limelight, was never shy to tell you how he felt but also was very gracious in extending his hand in friendship with a big warm smile. He will be sorely missed by all of his loved ones.
John is survived by his wife, Rita McGaheran and his four adult children: Mike (Kayleen) McGaheran, Sheila Fraser and Mark McGaheran of Owatonna, and Lisa Williams of Victorville, CA. He is also survived by his seven grandchildren: Travis (Jackie) Fraser of Long Beach, CA, Tyler (Amanda) Fraser of Savage, MN, Kelsey McGaheran of Everett, WA, Garrett Williams of Victorville, CA, Dylan McGaheran, Logan McGaheran, and Cody McGaheran of Owatonna and one great grandson, Cole Fraser of Savage, MN, along with many loving nieces and nephews.
John is preceded in death by his parents, Michael and Pauline McGaheran, two sisters, Shirley Malay and Sharon Liane, and one infant granddaughter Ashley Williams, as John referred to her as his little angel in heaven.
Memorials are preferred to the Owatonna Hospice House or the donor's choice.


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As we look at the inspired and inspiring story of Samuel in 1 Samuel 3, we are impressed with several important lessons that have special relevance to young persons and their parents. The fact that his mother gave him to the Lord may be an important key to the whole story, but it is important to know that no matter what his mother did, he had to give himself. How much easier it would be for young people to give themselves, if their parents were willing to give them! I have been amazed, shocked, chagrined and disturbed over the years by the number of Christian (?) parents who would make a sacrifice to send their child to school to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer or be trained in another lucrative or prestigious field, but would resist any effort by the child or others to give himself for a life (or even for a year or two) as a full time servant of God.
Samuel was ministering before the Lord, though young and somewhat ignorant of God's word. "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth" (Eccl. 12:1) is an admonition that is as badly needed as it ever was. Notice some background and conditions that culminated in his call, and helped him respond properly.
First, he was willing to listen. The ear is attuned by the soul to hear what we consider important and what we want to hear. A trained musician can hear notes and disharmony that others would not notice. I heard of a banker and his friend, a naturalist, walking down the street together. They heard a noise. Someone said, "What was that?" The banker replied, "I think it was a coin that someone dropped on the sidewalk." The naturalist said, "I heard a cricket." Almost 50 years ago when our first son was born, Tomijo and I took turns taking care of him at night. The nights when it was my turn, I could hear his faintest whimper and get up to change or feed him. The heart makes the whole body an ear! Is your ear attuned to God?
Second, and closely related to that, he had a spirit of reverence that caused him to be willing to hear, respond, and submit when he found God's will. I am more convinced than ever that there is nothing more basic to the way we live than our attitude toward God. Even the idea of God as a softhearted Grandfather who will tolerate anything, or as a harsh Father who is waiting to punish any aberration will cause totally different life styles. We need to help our children have the true Biblical concept of God, which is neither of the above.
Samuel received a call from God. Each of us does, but it is possible that in our effort to overthrow the false denominational idea of some still small voice or some feeling that "is better felt than told" we have so downplayed the calling of God that few persons have a feeling that God calls us to do or be anything. In our invitation songs we may say, "God is calling the Prodigal" or "Jesus calls us" or other such expressions, but in my judgment, we seldom emphasize as we should the fact that the gospel message and Great Commission are not merely suggestions, but a call of God. Time and space forbid that I list all the scripture references similar to 1 Peter 2:9, which says, "He called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."
This call may involve unpleasant tasks. He had to tell Eli some bad things that were going to happen to his house because he had not restrained his sons from their wicked ways. But he told it. If young persons do not learn early that "To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (1 Samuel15:22) whatever answer they give to God's call will prove to be in vain.
The right response to the Lord's call insures victory. "The Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground" (1 Samuel3:19). This is the promise of Jesus in the Great Commission, "I am with you always." It may be of interest to note the emphatic form of this promise in the original language. The expression "ego meth humon eimi" suggests, "I, myself, even I" am with you. Even the thought that "I am" rather than "I will be" suggests the answer the Lord gave to Moses when they might ask who sent him. He said to tell them, "I AM hath sent me" (Exodus3:14).
We need to make clear in our teaching that every call of God demands a response. Did you hear of the preacher who had a gospel meeting and reported 1000 responses? When he was asked in more detail, he revealed that 998 had responded, "No" and two had responded, "Yes." In teaching preachers and personal evangelists over the last 40 years, I have tried to emphasize that we need to make our prospects aware that when they have learned what God wants of them, they do not simply delay a response. If they do not at the proper time, when they understand the will of God, yield to the Lord's call, they have responded, "No" and have rejected God. This is serious business. Anytime you are sure from God's revealed will that he wants something from you and you do not obey, you have rejected God. But if you answer as Samuel did, in humble instant obedience, you will be blessed and used of God for His glory and for the good of humanity.


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Clovis Unified rejects charter school that would teach in English and Punjabi
The Clovis Unified School District Board unanimously rejected a proposal Wednesday to establish an English-Punjabi charter school in the district.
Supporters of the school, including members of the Punjabi community, made up most of the audience at the March 21 meeting. Many wore stickers with the name of the school, "One and Only Academy," and over a dozen speakers voiced their support for the petition.
Trustees by a vote of 7-0 rejected the charter petition following a staff report that said the petitioners were demonstrably "unlikely to successfully implement the program."
Some of the district's concerns about the school included religious entanglement, as well as a question of whether the petitioners could recruit a student body that is reflective of the diversity in the community. The district was particularly concerned about a lack of recruitment materials in Spanish.
Lead petitioner Harmit Juneja, who teaches agricultural engineering at Sunnyside High School, said the district's staff report was disappointing.
Juneja also asked the board why the school was being looked at through a religious lens. "Do I not look like an American?" Juneja said. "All these people here, do they not look like Americans?"
The petitioners do not want to start a private school, Juneja said, because a private school would be insulating.
The One and Only Academy would have been only the second school in the nation to feature a dual English-Punjabi curriculum, said Jakara Movement Executive Director Deep Singh. The first Punjabi charter school opened in Sacramento in September 2011.
The school's proposed curriculum also included a focus on mindfulness in five, 10 and 20 minute segments throughout the day, which Julie Troletti, the school's prospective executive director, connected to the district's motto of "mind, body and spirit."
Troletti said the petitioners do plan to appeal the decision to the Fresno County Board of Education.


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Back I went to Future Shop, less than an hour after I made the life-changing purchase. With my head hanging and my face red with embarrassment, I found the same salesman. He stared at me in disbelief, "I don't think anyone had broken an Ipad that fast before, good thing you bought the warranty!"
I left the store with four salesmen staring at my back, I knew they were snickering… or maybe I was just paranoid. Apparently a year later they were still telling that story.
I went home with my second new Ipad in one day, and we immediately put the Otter box indestructible cover on. We downloaded different programs to teach Kyle how to communicate using his new toy. But to our disappointment, he ended up having no interest in talking through the device. He wanted to use it for music. So it became the Incredible Flying Music Machine. That Otterbox seemed to be almost indestructible…
Kyle threw the IFMM off our great room balcony at least a hundred times, landing fifteen feet below in one piece, after hitting our fireplace wall first. He threw it out his bedroom window on any given day, rain or shine. When his aides were driving down the highway, Kyle would roll down the window and chuck it. He thought it was funny to watch them slam on the breaks and search along the road for it, as he sat in the car rocking back and forth, listening to the radio.
Then the day finally came… The IFMM went off the balcony and landed screen down on top of a glass filled with water and was dead.
Goodbye IFMM!
It started out as parents wanting to communicate with their child. We had good intentions. Helping our son was our goal, by lessening his frustrations due to not being able to talk. In the end, he communicated quite perfectly with us. Every time something didn't go as he hoped, he threw the IFMM… to show us he was mad.
It reminded me of another relationship I had. For years, God kept handing me his love letters… the Bible. I kept chucking them back at him. I didn't want to read his notes, I was mad at him. I wanted to chuck them out the window and hope they disappeared into thin air. He kept persisting till he won me over. Love can be a battle sometimes. If a person loves someone enough, they will keep communicating till they get through.
Otter boxes … well, I had one on my phone, and when I ran over it with my car, it broke… sadly they're not indestructible. God's word is one of the only indestructible things that has survived thousands of years and many people have tried to destroy it. You can't suppress the truth, it can survive almost anything.
Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Believing and hoping
Cindy Seaton


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JERUSALEM, June 28 (Reuters/Alastair Macdonald) - In
's Armenian Quarter, a library stores precious memoirs which are all that remain of hundreds of Armenian communities, erased from the map of Turkey a century ago in what many regard as genocide.
Now the Armenians in Jerusalem itself, many descended from refugees, fear their own 1,500-year-old Christian presence may disappear, too. Their society and extensive landholdings risk becoming collateral damage in a demographic conflict for land and power in the holy city between
and the Palestinians.
It's a dying community. Only the church holds us together, lamented 97-year-old Arshalouys Zakarian, as she sat with family and friends in her garden near St. James's Armenian cathedral.
The church, with its distinctive rites and dozens of black clad singing monks, dominates a Quarter which the Armenians, now just 2,000 of them, have held since Ottoman times alongside the Old City's bigger Muslim, Jewish and Christian Quarters.
Over tea, Zakarian's guests, some living locally, others back on visits from overseas, joined in tales of children gone abroad in search of jobs and of struggles, often in vain, with Israeli bureaucracy to retain rights to come back home to live.
For the first time in our history, we are not sure we can stay, after 1,500 years, concluded one man, now working for the Armenian church after a career spent in the United States. His daughter, born here, can visit, but may no longer live here.
Officials of the church, at the Armenian Patriarchate, share a view held by the mostly Muslim Palestinians -- that Israel's designation of the whole city as capital of the Jewish state means its control of residence and building permits is being used to press Arabs and other non-Jews to give up and leave.
The withdrawing of ID cards is becoming very serious, said historian George Hintlian, a former Patriarchate secretary. Five local-born Armenians lost residence rights last month, he added.
Non-Jews, a third of today's 750,000 population in greater Jerusalem, have had residence rights but not citizenship since Israel seized the Arab east, including the Old City, from Jordan in 1967. Israel, which promotes Jewish immigration, says it is not obliged to grant re-entry to other residents who emigrate.
It says it respects the access of other faiths to Jerusalem and denies any policy to discriminate or to push non-Jews out. But the Armenians see double standards and fear for their land.
In the library, Hintlian leafs through volumes of memoirs detailing names, families, anecdotes, plans and sketches of lost Armenian communities in Turkey, from where refugees came to Jerusalem after World War One, bolstering the local population.
What remains of historical Armenia is these books. For a people who suffered genocide, it is very important, he said.
But while many Jews had sympathy for a people whose history of dispersal and suffering has echoes of their own, Armenians are wary of the Israeli state: For the private Israeli, we are full-time genocide survivors, Hintlian said. But for the Israeli bureaucracy, we are full-time Palestinians.
Many fear territorial designs on their Quarter, which covers a sixth of the square kilometre (230 acres) inside the walls but houses only a small fraction of the Old City's 40,000 people. It lies next to the Jewish Quarter, ravaged under Jordanian rule after 1948. Israelis have rebuilt and expanded it since 1967.
A rash of spitting at clergy in the street by ultra-Orthodox Jews in recent years add to a sense of siege among a community which traces its roots back to monks and pilgrims who settled in the 5th century. By the mid-1940s, the community numbered 16,000 across Jerusalem and other cities of British-ruled Palestine.
Many were refugees from Turkey who revived Armenian language among native compatriots assimilated in Arabic. They brought, too, colourful ceramic work which still fills their shops today.
Many left when British rule ended in 1948. More followed in 1967. Those who stayed on in the Old City under Israeli rule were cut off from 400,000 other Armenians in the Middle East -- in countries like Syria and Lebanon, at war with Israel.
They are part of a global diaspora of 10 million whose language and religious roots lie in a Caucasian kingdom that was the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in 301.
St. James's Cathedral is a serene jewel, hung with precious lamps and treasures donated by Armenians scattered far and wide and infused with the haunting singing of its black-cowled monks.
The Armenian Church has parity at Jerusalem's Christian holy places with the much bigger Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches, 6,000 of whose Palestinian Arab adherents live in the Christian Quarter. Its history, income from local rents and gifts from the diaspora, should assure the Church's future here.
But the lay community surrounding it does question whether future generations will be here; residents say Armenians feel disadvantaged in getting work with Jewish or Arab employers and so move abroad and then face Israeli refusal to allow them back.
It's a demographic struggle, said Hintlian, as he strolled the quiet courtyards that distinguish the Quarter from the crowded lanes typical of the rest of the Old City. The basic struggle is to have numbers, he added. Diplomats say, 'Look, the Armenians have a lot of space and very few people...'.
Among Armenian fears is that Israel and Palestinian peace negotiators might revive an idea to divide sovereignty over the Old City by allotting the Muslim and Christian Quarters to a Palestinian state and handing the Armenian Quarter to Israel.
The end of Communism in Armenia has thrown a lifeline to the church, bringing a supply of novices from the ex-Soviet state, said Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian, who himself came from Syria just before the 1967 war. But having returned now from 20 years abroad, he too faces a problem renewing his residence permit.
What kind of freedom of religion is there? he asked.
Life can be uncomfortable beyond the walls of the monastery compound. Relations with Muslims have cooled, Manoogian said. There have been fights between Armenian and Greek clergy around Jesus's tomb. And some ultra-Orthodox Jews are openly hostile.
But, consoled by a history that has seen Armenians survive bloodier sieges and regimes in Jerusalem down the centuries, Manoogian has confidence after four decades of Israeli rule:
In another 40 years, we'll still be here, he said.
And for all the anxieties that tinge the nostalgia round the tea table in Arshalouys Zakarian's garden, there too there is a note of cheerful defiance: The Armenians had a hard life, the retired schoolmistress concluded. But they are survivors.
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Barcelona are back in action this weekend and although normally putting money on the Spanish giants in La Liga has no value, this match may be a game where the bookmakers have made mistakes and there is value. Leo Messi and his team will be at home this week and they will be playing a Delportivo, a team who has been doing surprisingly well in the league this season.
FC Barcelona come of a bad midweek performance where they failed to win away from home in the Champions League. Although this result had very little impact, this team want to win every game and they will not be very pleased with a 1-1 draw. They will be even more concerned with how they played since they were not very convincing and as a result of this they will be desperate to put on a good performance at home this weekend. A few things will be troubling Barcelona this weekend and that will be injury scares to their key players in Neymar and Leo Messi. Although it is not confirmed whether they will play and the team will decide on match day, this side is very good and I think that they have what it takes to win either way.
Deportivo La Coruna have been playing some really good football this season and they will be pleased with the fact that they are sitting in sixth place in the La Liga table. This match is going to be very tough for them but in recent times they have exceeded many expectations and this was shown as they managed to get a point against both Sevilla and Atletico Madrid. This side has impressed me an I think that this match will be an easy win for the league leaders.
Barcelona will win this game and the odds show this clearly since they are at an insanely low price. That being said there is still value in this game. The handicap for this match is set at 3 goals and I think that is too high. Barcelona are a good team but their opposition have heart and I think that the result will be a 1-0 or 2-0 win to the defending champions. Betting on Delportivo +3 is a good bet in my opinion and there is value so it is where my money will be on.


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Implications of the Depreciation of the Euro
The sharp devaluation of the Euro (EUR) against the Swiss franc (CHF) in mid-January is a reminder that exchange rate movements can have a big impact on global industries like bio/pharma contract manufacturing.
The EUR declined by nearly 20% relative to the CHF in just a matter of hours, thanks to the decision by Switzerland's central bank's (SNB) to no longer cap the appreciation of the CHF against the EUR. The sudden devaluation threatens to play havoc for some period with the finances and operations of major CMOs based in Switzerland, including Lonza, Siegfried, Carbogen-Amcis and Dottikon, while having mixed impact on Roche and Novartis, the two very large bio/pharmaceutical companies headquartered there.
In trying to protect the competitiveness of Swiss companies by limiting the appreciation of the CHF against the EUR, the SNB was swimming against a very strong current of devaluation of the EUR. During the 12 month period from January 2014 to January 2015, the value of the EUR declined by 15% against the US dollar (USD) and 18% against the Indian rupee (INR), both important currencies in bio/pharmaceutical industry trade. In fact the finance community expects that, thanks to the European Central Bank's (ECB) recently-inaugurated program of quantitative easing, the Euro will decline further in coming months, perhaps reaching parity with the US dollar (USD), i.e., EUR 1 = USD 1.
On the surface one would expect European contractors to gain at the expense of US and Swiss contractors following devaluation to EUR/USD parity, as the relative prices of goods and services manufactured in Europe are coming down considerably. As a practical matter, however, the risk of market share losses is much greater for Swiss CMOs than for US CMOs:
1. The US doesn't offer many first tier options for custom manufacturing of APIs, so US CMOs probably didn't take much market share away from European CMOs even while the USD was weak and the EUR strong. So it is unlikely that European custom API manufacturers will get much incremental benefit changes in sourcing patterns resulting from a cheaper EUR relative to the USD. However, Swiss CMOs are major players in the API business and they could lose share to the strong European API sector.
2. On the drug product side, Europe has an extensive network of underutilized dose CMOs that compete aggressively for business. It is unlikely that many products intended primarily for the European market have been sent to the US for manufacture. Aenova and Siegfried are the only major CMOs with Swiss operations.
3. As most contract manufacturing arrangements are subject to multi-year contracts, the opportunity to move products primarily on the basis of exchange rate movements is limited. Some contracts have provisions for adjustments in the event of large exchange rate movements.
While market shares among contract manufacturers might not shift, profitability will definitely be impacted:
1. American and Swiss customers whose contracts are denominated in Euros will gain because it will be cheaper to buy the Euros necessary to pay their contractor. For instance, an invoice of EUR 100,000 would have cost $130,000 a year ago, but just $114,000 today and perhaps just $100,000 in a year's time. On the other hand, a European customer of an American/Swiss contractor whose contract is denominated in USD/CHF will see its costs go up by a similar degree.
2. European contractors whose contracts are denominated in USD/CHF will also benefit: an invoice of $100,000 would have converted into EUR 80,000 a year ago, but it will yield EUR 87,000 today and EUR 100,000 if the exchange rate goes to parity. Conversely, an American or Swiss contractor with a Euro-denominated contract will see its revenues drop by the same proportions.
Because the Swiss market itself is small, most CMOs in Switzerland depend heavily on exports. Some of the larger CMOs like Lonza and Siegfried have significant operations outside of Switzerland and therefore have a "natural hedge" by being able to match revenues and costs in the same currency. Smaller CMOs like Dottikon are more exposed, however.
The bigger impact of the devaluation of the Euro could fall on Indian API and drug product manufacturers. The rupee is getting more expensive in Euro terms just as other costs are going up for Indian manufacturers, especially the costs of GMP and EHS compliance. India and Europe are the pharmaceutical industry's biggest sources of generic APIs, and the combination of higher prices and ongoing compliance concerns is likely to cause more European pharmaceutical companies to switch their sourcing to suppliers within the Euro zone. The same combination of forces could negatively impact imports of Indian-made drug product as well.
For an industry as global as the bio/pharmaceutical industry, exchange rates are of critical importance because they play a major role in determining the price of goods and services traded between countries. Under normal circumstances, it is unusual to have sudden moves in exchange rates between two major currencies, so the impact of exchange rates can be managed over time. Since the USD/EUR exchange rate averaged nearly $1.30/EUR1 for the past five years, devaluation to $1.00/€ 1.00 suggests that substantial changes may be afoot for the contract services industry.
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Kayaking Guana River, Florida (September 2002)
My fiancé and I are in Jacksonville to help her sister move into a new house. It is Labor Day weekend. In recent years, I had given up on seeking out adventure on Labor Day weekend in Florida, because it seems as if every place is jammed with people. So I am skeptical that we can find a pleasant place to paddle--particularly near a large metro area.
It was with great surprise, then, that the outfitter we rented the kayaks from suggested a paddle at Guana River, which turned out to be solitude for us on this long weekend.
Indeed, we paddled for 4 hours in the Guana River Wildlife Management Area (9,815 acres in size) and did not see a single person or boat all day. Instead, we find placid, serene conditions. Our paddle brings us upon a large number of ibis, egret, heron and osprey. In fact, on this day we saw a great many osprey flying above us clutching a fish in its talons. Must be easy pickings for birds of prey at Guana River.
The management area features shallow water. The motorboat prohibition keeps the area free of noise pollution and slob fishermen. Instead, we find a pristine, little-used setting with a great deal of wildlife activity-particularly wading birds.
Near the end of the paddle, we start coming across numerous flying mullet. One of them was such an impressive leaper that she or he leaped right into the tandem kayak I paddled with my fiancé, which elicited a shriek from her. Soon after, we come upon a very rare sight: a flock of white pelicans.
The Guana River is 9 miles long. An account by a Spanish historian in 1592 suggests to contemporary historians that Ponce de Leon's first landing and explorations probably occurred at Guana River.
Afterwards, we dine at Neptune Beach. A restaurant called "Ragtime." Top quality seafood. And best of all for a home brewer such as myself, the restaurant brews its own microbeer on site, and provides me with a 9-beer "sampler." Each of their beers were good.
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August 12, 2009
Today was suhgood and lazy. I stretched out of bed at about eight forty-five, and after a quick shower toddled off to the bakery with the fam to pick up some pastries. By the time Eowyn had finished pulling apart and eating her nut-filled pocket of flaky and buttery goodness, we had to leave for Illesheim to meet up with Michael over his lunch break. We were allowed on the military base after showing our passports and having our car searched.
We ate sandwiches from Frau Fischer's bakery in Illesheim in Michael's office on base. See fig. 1.
Michael's patient didn't show up, so he got to show up around the dental clinic and the base at large. I felt American when the smell of pizza and the sight of Subway in the base food court made me think "home."
Back in Marktbergel, I read The Name of the Wind for a while. Have finally got myself entirely stuck in the story, and I don't doubt I will be finished with the book soon.
Went for a bike ride through Marktbergel and out into the cornfields. I took my camera and meant to take pictures. Marktbergel is settled in a valley, and thickly forested hills sprawl above and past the cornfields and harvested wheat fields. Drop dead gorgeous. Also: yellow-painted stucco house in Marktbergel with flowers all over the balcony and walls and porch and courtyard and fence. Will try to take pictures of both next time I go biking.
We went to Colmberg for dessert after our dinner at the apartment with Patty (neighbor and army wife with two kids, Amelia and Delilah). Colmberg is about fifteen minutes away and has a fantastic medieval castle overlooking it from a hill. The castle is now family-owned and serves as a restaurant and hotel. We walked on cobblestones past buttressed, fifteen-foot tall stone walls. The tower keep could be seen ever-present above the walls, and we had dessert in the upper courtyard just feet away from it (and from the playground … Eowyn was restless).
The inside of the castle was my fav. The floor and ceiling were of old, dark wood panels, and the decorations included stuffed falcons and piles of deer racks and bear-skin rugs. There were open rooms with tables, dim lights, wooden pillars, and long rafters. Upstairs, there was also a small chapel with mullioned windows and a creaky floor, and another room piled with seemingly forgotten furniture. A couple of massive wardrobes with carved lion heads for handles, painted boxes, a stuffed peacock with a full tail of feathers, old wooden benches and chairs. Steve and I wandered down some of the hotel hallways and found fantastic little alcoves with couches, tables, bookshelves stuffed with green and brown book collections, painted ceramic stoves, and fur-covered stools. It was dark when we went outside, and I almost died when we leaned over the castle wall and looked down on lamp-lit Colmberg.
The tower keep.
Colmberg from the castle wall.
Another shot of the castle. More of the inhabitable parts.
In the lodge-like hall.
In the chapel.
The more fantastic wardrobe.
Some freaking awesome creaky stairs that led to the hotel hallways.
A base of pitted cherries and cherry liquor under vanilla and chocolate ice cream, topped with unsweetened whipped cream and a cookie.
The fam at table.
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Vita Susanne Kessel english
Susanne Kessel, a resident of Bonn (Germany) is well known for unusual concert and CD programmes with a high personal engagement.
"Young, serious, poetic . . . the avid avant-garde specialist Susanne Kessel, prize winner of the International Schubert competition, fascinates us with undaunted excursions into the unknown territory of piano music. When Susanne Kessel departs on a journey, she gives everything in order to enthuse her audience for these works." (Die Zeit).
A number of great musical personalities such as Peter Feuchtwanger, Aloys Kontarsky, Bozena Steinerova and others promoted her piano playing at an early stage. She studied at the conservatory of Cologne with Pi-hsien Chen. The many differing, but at the same time complementary musical aesthetic conceptions of her teacher resulted in Susanne Kessel never committing herself to one style so that her playing can be considered as highly experimental and innovative.
In 1993 she was a winner of the International Schubert competition. Many prizes, stipendia and honours followed quickly.
She has given many first performances of works which have been dedicated to her or which she has herself proposed.
She has given concerts on radio and television, given numerous concert-hall piano performances and has made concert tours in Europe and the USA. Numerous solo CDs document her playing (BMG, arte nova, OBST, Edition Dohr, Oehms Classics and others).
She played the classical music sound track for the film "Blueprint" (Director: Rolf Schübel, 2004) and doubled for actress Franka Potente in front of the camera in the role of a world famous pianist who lets herself be cloned. A CD of the film music has been produced.
For the production of the film "Black Book" (2007) by famous Hollywood-director Paul Verhoeven she worked as a piano-supervisor for the actor Waldemar Kobus.
In the year 2000 she staged the Bonn concert series "Jahr-100-Klavier-Stücke" (100 piano pieces for the century) together with Michael Denhoff: 50 concerts in which more than 40 pianists demonstrated the piano music of the twentieth century.
Susanne Kessel is writing Radio-Features about her Concert-Tours for WDR in Cologne. As well, she is working with several Composers in USA and Iceland.
She is teaching a private Piano Class in Bonn and is a jury member of several Competitions.


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Starring: Vincent Regan, Sophie Colquhoun, Richie Campbell
Directed By: Sacha Bennett
Genre: Action-Adventure
Based on Stephen Leather's best-selling book, starring Vincent Regan (300, Bonded by Blood), Brad Moore (North v South) and Sean Blowers (We Still Steal The Old Way), TANGO ONE is a fast-paced crime thriller about how far one man will go to rescue his daughter, and save his criminal empire from collapse. When undercover recruits are assigned an impossible mission to take down one of the world's most wanted man, notorious drug dealer, Den Donovan (Regan), they have no idea who they are dealing with. As the undercover recruits inch closer to their target, they are each drawn in by the charismatic criminal leader – too close, perhaps, to remember the rules. Vincent Regan gives a career-defining performance as a menacing, modern godfather in TANGO ONE – a heart-stopping thriller where crime, corruption and power know no limits.
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