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eSports Guide: TeamLiquid GranPkt Jaina Talents
Francisco Antonio "GranPkt" Núñez Sorribas plays for the TeamLiquidPro team in Heroes of the Storm competitive tournaments.
Analyzing GranPkt's build, his first choice is Lingering Chill. This talent increases the Frostbite trait from 4 to 6 seconds. All abilities apply chill to the target, which increases Jaina's damage by 50%.
Arcane Intellect seems boring, but chill attacks returns mana, keeping Jaina on the field longer before having to use the hearthstone or drink from the fountain.
Frostbitten makes the trait's chill from all abilities do damage by 65% from 50, not bad along with Lingering Chill (6 seconds).
Improved Ice Block chills everyone nearby which means any attacks afterward have an automatic 65% damage increase. I have seen players Ice Blocking when they are about to die while chased. I always find it dumb as they aren't really accomplishing much using Ice Block in this manner. Heard the Butcher say Fresh Meat? That's a good timing to pop Ice Block. Leoric swinging March of the Black King? Pop Ice Block. Nova triple tapping? Pop Ice Block. That's the most common sense scenario to use this talent for.
Numbling Blast roots chill targets for 1 sec. I can see this being useful later at level 20 the most. For example, use Bolt of the Storm to jump next to a player(s). Apply cone of cold which triggers Numbling Blast rooting them for 1 sec. Drop Blizzard, followed by Summon Water Elemental. Keep tapping the target with Frostbolt.
Bolt of the Storm is also useful to escape when in trouble, or to jump across a wall to reach fleeing enemies.
Watching some of GranPkt's videos, this is the Jaina talent build he plays in some of his livestreams.
GranPkt's Jaina Talent Build
|Lingering Chill
|Increases the duration of Chill from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
|Arcane Intellect
|Dealing damage to a Chilled target returns Mana to Jaina. Basic Attacks return 5 Mana and abilities return 25.
|Increases the damage bonus of Frostbite from 50% to 65%.
|Summon Water Elemental
|Summons a Water Elemental at target location, dealing 176 damage and Chilling nearby enemies. The Water Elemental's Basic Attacks splash for 25% damage and Chill. Cooldown: 100 seconds.
|Improved Iceblock
|Activate to place yourself in Stasis and gain Invulnerability for 3 seconds. When this effect expires, nearby enemies are Chilled. Cooldown: 80 seconds.
|Numbling Blast
|Cone of Cold also roots Chilled targets for 1 second.
|Bolt of the Storm
|Activate to teleport to a nearby location. Cooldown: 40 seconds.


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Is psychiatry all that it is cracked up to be? Emphatically not, says Montreal Psychiatrist Elliott Emanuel. "In our generation," he writes in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "some of the biggest names in psychiatry are men whose scientific contributions have been negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented to the...
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The power to create claws out of water. Combination of Claw Retraction and Elemental Claws.
The user can project and retract razor-sharp claws of the different elemental forces from their fingertips for offensive purposes.
- Access and Occlusion - use claws to pick locks.
- Climbing/Wallcrawling - by digging one's claws into surfaces.
- Cutting
- Enhanced Clawmanship
- Bullet Projection - launch one's claws as projectiles.
- Water Cutting
Known Users
- Water Benders (Avatar series)
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So here are some notes on 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' from the Preface through to Chapter 2! Hope these help if you're studying 'DG' too!
There will be references to the WHOLE of the book so if you haven't finished the book and don't want the ending spoiled then read no further!!
- The preface is basically a retaliation to the critics of the book, with Wilde's observations on art and the meanings of art.
- "To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim" – This shows immediately that this book was not meant to be about Wilde. Many people suggested that the book was near autobiographical.
- "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming" – Thus those who claim the book had latent homosexual messages are themselves the ones thinking the 'corrupt' thoughts, as they are the ones who noticed the homosexual messages that were 'not meant to be there'
- Wilde speaks of the 'dislike of Realism' which he suggests is like "the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass." Caliban is an ugly and ignorant character from 'The Tempest', and thus Caliban would be upset to see how he really looks, just how the people of the 19th century would be upset to see how they really act.
- Wilde also speaks of the 'dislike of Romanticism' which he suggests is like "the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass." This suggests that people disliked Romanticism as they thought it was too much like fantasy, and couldn't see anything of real life in it, however this was obviously the point of Romantic works.
- "No artist desires to prove anything" – thus Wilde never intended to offend or insult anyone by the themes of the book that were shocking at the time.
- "All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." – Again Wilde shows how the homosexual themes were laid very deep under 'symbol' and thus if the critics dug that far down then it's their own fault if they disliked what they read. The findings of the critics reflects the mind of the the readers not the mind of Wilde, as THEY interpreted it that way, he didn't present it openly.
- "All art is quite useless" – art is there to be admired only, no deeper meaning is necessary, reflecting the ideas of the aesthetic movement of the time.
Chapter 1:
- This chapter opens with artistic artisan imagery, especially of nature: "rich odour of roses", "light summer wind", "heavy scent of the lilac", "more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn." Gives idea of Eden, and thus later on Lord Henry tempts the innocent Dorian out of this heavenly place, and this reflects the fall of man, the first sin, and the tempting snake. Talk of nature seems ironic in a place that is so full of art.
- "The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ." gives an industrial feel to London, the word "organ" especially giving the idea of machinery.
- "Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures." This former scandal lends itself almost perfectly to the ending where Basil gets murdered. It is merely assumed that he has disappeared again, just like the last time.
- "a smile of pleasure passed across his face" – is this a smile of pleasure because of his masterpiece or due to Dorian himself?
- "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar." immediately shows his judging and opinionated nature
- "No, I won't send it anywhere." The painting was painted for himself alone, just like he wants Dorian for himself alone.
- "thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette." this sentence gives a sense of heaviness and effort to everything.
- "I have put too much of myself into it." – Does this phrase also relate to the novel itself? Has Wilde put too much of his own sexuality in the themes of the book? Is the book almost autobiographical in nature? The painting could condemn Basil like the book eventually condemns Wilde.
- "we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly." – Our lives are in the hands of 'the gods', Wilde is almost saying that if he is homosexual then it is God's fault, not his.
- "When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them." This is similar to Sybil later on, who only ever refers to Dorian as "Prince Charming"
- "the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." Lord Henry is a very witty and cynical person
- "I believe that you are really a very good husband, but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose." Basil always thinks the best of everyone, Lord Henry is the immoral tempter in the book, yet Basil has nothing bad to say about him.
- "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul." This could reflect Wilde's opinions being reflected in the book. The attitude of this passage seems to contradict the preface directly, suggesting that art reveals the artist.
- "With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians" – Basil doesn't seem to like the times he's living in, making such comments on society.
- "Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty," appears rude, but Basil thinks his cynicism is a pose
- "oh, yes, plays the piano–or is it the violin, dear Mr. Gray?" Dorian presented as educated
- "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects." Seems very shallow in his opinions of people,
- "My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else." His speech is almost always orientated with the aim to shock.
- ' "Tell me more about Mr. Dorian Gray. How often do you see him?" "Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me." ' Basil seems obsessed and besotted with Dorian.
Chapter 2
- "As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann's "Forest Scenes." "You must lend me these, Basil," he cried. "I want to learn them. They are perfectly charming." ", the fact that Dorian has his back to them causes suspense. The inclusion of the "Forest Scenes" gives a sense of nature and innocence.
- " "That entirely depends on how you sit to-day, Dorian." "Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of myself," answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner." Basil seems like a parent chiding Dorian, and Dorian seems like a sulky child throwing a tantrum.
- When Dorian sees Lord Henry a "faint blush coloured his cheeks", giving Dorian a feminine character and showing that he is already slightly attracted to Lord Henry
- "I promised to go to a club in Whitechapel with her last Tuesday, and I really forgot all about it." shows that Dorian is essentially good but is weak minded and willed and this will be weak willed.
- " "That is very horrid to her, and not very nice to me," answered Dorian, laughing." Dorian is shocked but amused by Lord Henry's quips about Lady Agatha
- Dorian described like a young Adonis/Narcissus and this shows why he is trusted by many and why he gets away with things: "Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity."
- " "Would you think it awfully rude of me if I asked you to go away?" Lord Henry smiled and looked at Dorian Gray. "Am I to go, Mr. Gray?" he asked. "Oh, please don't, Lord Henry. I see that Basil is in one of his sulky moods, and I can't bear him when he sulks. Besides, I want you to tell me why I should not go in for philanthropy." " Basil is very protective of Dorian, and Lord Henry knows that he can use Dorian to manipulate Basil. Dorian is already fascinated by Lord Henry.
- "If Dorian wishes it, of course you must stay. Dorian's whims are laws to everybody, except himself." Basil is battling Lord Henry for Dorian's affection.
- "He has a very bad influence over all his friends, with the single exception of myself." Warning Dorian Gray subtly about the influences of Henry, and then as if on cue Henry begins influencing Dorian with a long speech, "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed."
- "People are afraid of themselves, nowadays." reflects how people are afraid to be themselves, especially if they're homosexual.
- Basil is almost always referred to as "the painter" in the rest of this chapter as that is now all he is, Dorian's affections have been taken by Lord Henry.
- In that day many people would be Christian, yet Lord Henry talks about the powers of the "brain" – showing his scientific and anti-religious side.
- "Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!" This shows how much of an influence Lord Henry has had over Dorian, as his "mere words" have gotten him into a confused stupor, contemplating life and death and all in between.
- "Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? He had known Basil Hallward for months, but the friendship between them had never altered him." Lord Henry has now shown Dorian that he is homosexual. Dorian wonders why he's attracted to Lord Henry but not Basil.
- Henry starts to show Dorian that beauty and youth are the only things worth having, saying it would be "unbecoming" to get sunburnt, and that "youth is the one thing worth having." He continues to talk to Dorian, persuading him that he needs to live while he has youth: "But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it,"
- Lord Henry exaggerates the effects of aging to show Dorian how youth is the most vital thing: "Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!"
- "A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms." Very childish language 'furry bee' to represent the youthful and innocent nature of Dorian. There are sexual overtones however as the bee is pollinating.
- When Dorian sees the picture he has a shocking realisation: "Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair. The life that was to make his soul would mar his body. He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth." This description is very like Henry's over-dramatic interpretation of what aging does, showing how much Dorian has been influenced.
- Dorian still seems childish: "a mist of tears" and Basil is concerned, " "Don't you like it?" cried Hallward at last, stung a little by the lad's silence,"
- Dorian expresses how the Dorian in the painting will never be older "than this particular day of June", this day could have been the summer solstice, a day of magic, which could explain the supernatural element. He states that he "would give everything" for the painting to grow old and himself to stay young forever. He then states "I would give my soul" which seals the deal and is reminiscent of Faustus.
- Dorian seems to become bitter and jealous of the painting and starts to think that Basil only likes him for his art, "I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose." Art is immortal and man is not, and Dorian realises this. He grows rather over-dramatic, almost like a hormonal teenager when he states "When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
- Basil blames Henry, " "This is your doing, Harry," said the painter bitterly." and Henry defends himself. Basil has already resigned himself to the fact that Dorian has changed.
- Basil goes to stab the painting, despite the fact that it's his masterpiece – this shows how much he loves Dorian. However Dorian realises that there's life in the painting and stops him, " "Don't, Basil, don't!" he cried. "It would be murder!" ". Dorian is in love with the painting as he is now vain and loves himself.
- Dorian pours out the tea, a woman's role in that day and age, showing his feminine nature
- We can see that Lord Henry is not a loyal person when he discusses cancelling his meal with his old friend, "I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend,"
- Basil calls the painting the real Dorian, as the painting was painted before Dorian was negatively influenced by Lord Henry. Basil bites his lip, something he does constantly in this chapter as he is worried that Dorian is being stolen from him by Lord Henry. Basil then explains that Dorian and the painting are alike in "appearance" – suggesting that Dorian's soul has been tainted by Lord Henry's influence.
- Basil begs Dorian not to go as he is besotted with him and cannot bear the idea of losing him: "He won't like you the better for keeping your promises. He always breaks his own. I beg you not to go." Lord Henry looks on "with an amused smile" as he has caused this argument.
- When Dorian and Lord Henry leave together a "look of pain" came into Basil's face, as he has been rejected and has lost Dorian.
This was a long blog post but I hope you got something out of it! I know I did!!
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Natural Home Remedies for Dysentery
Natural remedy for dysentery must begin with identification of causes of infection. Dysentery can be caused by protozoaal and bacilli infection.While Bacillary dysentery can be treated quickly through medication, amoebic dysentery takes a long time to get cured.
It must also be accompanied by an analysis and improvement of sanitary conditions.
Following are some of the natural home remedies that are effective in treatment of dysentery
Arjuna: A decoction made of the bark of the herb provides relief from dysentery. This drink can be taken in doses of 15 to 30 grams. The bark has cooling effect. It arrests bleeding. It provides relief from fever.
Bael fruit: Bael fruit or wood apple is a natural coolant which arrests dysentry. Unripe or half ripe fruit is good for digestion. This fruit strengthens the stomach and promotes its action.
One tablespoon of the pulp of the fruit mixed with enough amount of jaggery should be given thrice a day. In chronic cases, 15 gm of unripe fruit pulp should be roasted over the fire. Mix 250ml of water or buttermilk to this pulp. Add jaggery to sweeten the infusion. Drink this thrice a day. 15 gm of the pulp can be mixed with equal amount of dried ginger. Then 250ml of buttermilk can be mixed to it. The patient can drink this thrice day.
Coriander seeds: A herbal decoction can be made of two tablespoons of dried out coriander seeds. This can be taken with water or buttermilk. This helps in soothing the irritation in intestinal layer. Coriander seeds also help in reducing mucus in the stool.
Lemon: Peel and slice about three lemons. Add about 250ml of water to it and boil for a few minutes. Strain this infusion. This infusion should be taken thrice daily.
Banyan: Soak leaf buds in water overnight. Drink this infusion in morning for better results. The leaf buds arrests bleeding or secretion.
Pomegranate rind: Take about 60gm of pomegranate rind and boil it 250ml of milk. Remove it from fire when one third of milk has evaporated. This should be given in three equal doses at regular intervals. This will provide relief from dysentery.
Musk melon: Sometimes dysentery may be accompanied by soft and mucilaginous secretion in the intestines. Some of the portion may be left stuck inside. If this condition persists for a long time, it may force the intestine to contract.
In such cases musk melon is very effective. The fruit has properties which expel the matter with faeces.
Black nightshade: Black nightshade corrects the disordered processes of nutrition. It includes digestion, absorption, utilisation and excretion of food substances. It restores the normal function of the system. It reduces the pain and irritation. They also improve the appetite. An infusion made of the plant is useful for dysentery.
Butea: Gum, seeds and leaves of butea have medicinal properties. The leaves are effective in arresting the secretion and bleeding. The gum is mild and useful for children and women in delicate conditions. The leaves can be chewed as it is to treat the disease. An infusion of the gum as rectal enema will provide instant relief. Fresh juice of the leaves also can used for treating this disease.
Ishabgul: Ishabgul is useful in chronic dysentery. In case of heaviness in the stomach and intestines, take about 50ml of castor oil. This should be taken with one cup of milk thrice daily. This ejects hard lumps of stools. After a few motions have cleared the intestine, take 10 gm of isabgul seeds. Mix this with 100gm of curd and drink it three to four times a day.
Ribbed gourd seeds: The seeds contain a chemical similar to emetine. This can be useful for acute and chronic amoebic dysentery. Take about five to ten grams of the seeds with one cup of buttermilk. Drink it twice a day for better results.
Onion: Cut onion into small pieces and mix it with curd. Add equal parts of tender peepal tree leaves, coriander leaves and sugar. Chew this slowly.
Chebulic myroblan: This is mild and safe. It strengthens the stomach and promotes its action. It corrects the disordered processes of nutrition and restores the normal function of the system. Take four grams of the pulp of the unripe fruit. Add honey and clove and cinnamon. Take this mixture twice a day.
Curry leaves: Curry leaves strengthen the stomach and promotes its action. Tender curry leaves mixed with honey is very effective for dysentery.
Dill: Dill leaves helps in improving the functioning of the stomach and it also sooths the stomach. Taking dill regularly helps in digestion and prevents constipation. Dill seeds yield powerful carminative oil. Sauté the seeds in ghee with fenugreek seeds in equal amount. This will treat bacillary dysentery. The seeds roasted and powdered should be mixed with curd or buttermilk for best results.
Henna: The leaves arrests secretion or bleeding. The seeds yield palmitic , linoleic stearic acids. The seeds should be powdered and mixed with ghee. Make small balls of the size of betel nut. This can also be taken with water.
Indian gooseberry: The fruit is cooling and refreshing. It increases the volume of urine. A drink, made of Indian gooseberry, mixed with lemon juice and sugar candy controls bacillary dysentery. One tablespoon of the paste of leaves, mixed with honey or buttermilk is also effective to treat the disease.
Indian hemp: The leaves reduce the pain and irritation. It increases the secretion and discharge of urine. It arrests bleeding. Take two grams of dried leaves mix it with sugar and black pepper to treat dysentery.
Indian pennywort: It corrects the disordered nutrition processes and restores its normal functioning. It counteracts inflammation. The leaves are effective in early stages of dysentery in children. Take three or four leaves and add cumin and sugar to it. Make a paste of this mix. Apply this paste to the navel for better results.
Diet: Initially, the patient should fast as long as the acute symptoms are present. Only orange juice and water should be taken during this time. The patient can substitute it with buttermilk as an alternative. Buttermilk fights bacteria.
When the acute symptoms are over, the patient can take curd, rice, fresh ripe fruits and skimmed milk. Solid foods should introduce gradually and carefully as per the pace of recovery. All types of flesh foods must be avoided. Tea, coffee white sugar and white flour and alcohol in all forms must be avoided.
The patient must be given small doses of castor oil in the form of emulsion. This facilitates faster removal of offensive matter. It also minimises the strain during defecation and lubricates the ulcerated surfaces. The mechanical removal of accumulated poisonous matter should be done by giving low pressure enema. This can be done twice or thrice daily, giving as much water as the patient can tolerate. A hot water bag may be applied over the abdomen.


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The Awesome Foundation and Jeff Waldmen
The Awesome Foundation provides one $1000 grants each month for awesome projects. No strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words of one of their trustees: "A micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance."
For a foundation with a mission statement of:
"Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe,
$1,000 at a time."
…they seemed a perfect fit for Jeff Waldmen whose swingsetting.org project has already tackled: San Francisco, Panama, and as seen here in this video, Los Angeles with a single concept: "Swings are Awesome"…
So a few months back, awesome met awesome, and some surprising smiles were found to spread


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The Dynamic Duo: RAVE complements Gaia
The velocities and spatial distributions of stars define the galaxy we live in, allowing the characterisation of the formation of the Milky Way. Large spectroscopic surveys provide definitive measurements of fundamental structural and dynamical parameters for a statistical sample of galactic stars and have been very successful in advancing the understanding of our galaxy. RAVE started in 2003 and was the first survey designed to provide necessary stellar parameters to complement missions that focus on astrometric information like Gaia.
"The Tycho-Gaia stars that were also serendipitously observed by RAVE contain the best proper motions and parallaxes recently released by Gaia and can now be combined with the radial velocities and stellar parameters from RAVE", says Andrea Kunder, lead author of the RAVE data release and astronomer at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), "So these stars can be used to probe the Milky Way more precisely than ever before. Just like wearing glasses allows you to see your surroundings in sharper view, the Gaia-RAVE data will allow the galaxy to be seen with more detail." Among existing spectroscopic surveys, RAVE easily boasts the largest overlap with the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution catalogue.
The four previous data releases have been the foundation for a number of studies, which have especially advanced our understanding of the disk of the Milky Way. The fifth RAVE data release includes not only the culminating RAVE observations taken in 2013, but also also earlier discarded observations recovered from previous years, resulting in an additional 30,000 RAVE spectra.
For the new data release atmospheric parameters such as the effective temperature, surface gravity and metallicities have been refined using gravities from asteroseismology and high-precison stellar atmospheric parameters. It also contains hypervelocity stars, some extra-galactic stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud, and some extremely metal-poor and metal-rich stars.
"The real treasure is that this is a large, statistically complete sample of local Milky Way stars, that can be used to find trends and anomalies for understanding the formation of the Milky Way," concludes Kunder.
The data release can be accessed via the RAVE website at: https://www.rave-survey.org
Movies: https://www.rave-survey.org/project/gallery/movies/#RAVE-flightmovies
Science contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, email@example.com, +49 331-7499-800
Media contact: Kerstin Mork, firstname.lastname@example.com, +49 331-7499 803
The key areas of research at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) are cosmic magnetic fields and extragalactic astrophysics. A considerable part of the institute's efforts aim at the development of research technology in the fields of spectroscopy, robotic telescopes, and e-science. The AIP is the successor of the Berlin Observatory founded in 1700 and of the Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam founded in 1874. The latter was the world's first observatory to emphasize explicitly the research area of astrophysics. The AIP has been a member of the Leibniz Association since 1992.


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November 7, 2017
If you were to ask John Clemenza where he would like to live anywhere in the world, his immediate response would be New York. As someone who has lived on an island all his life (he's an 18-year-old amateur surfer who lives in Oahu), he longs for the hustle and bustle of city life. John Clemenza knows though that a lot of people would gladly trade places with him at the drop of a hat. While he is grateful for getting to live in a place where nature's most magnificent backdrops greet you every morning, his inner adventurer longs for more, and in New York, he knows he'll be in for an adventure of a lifetime.
Admittedly, when he first visited New York, he was a little "culture-shocked." It felt like he stepped into a whole different dimension—a world of different cultures and lifestyles, and one that's completely different from his own. After the initial shock, he soon fell in love with it. And he would've stayed right there and then had he the resources to support himself—and had he already gone pro in surfing, which is his ultimate goal.
So what made him fall in love with New York?
The skyscrapers, for one; and then the world-famous and iconic landmarks, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, and Brooklyn Bridge. To wake up every morning knowing that you're practically a stone's throw away from these is enough to make you jump out of bed and seek more of the adventures that only New York can offer—at least that's how John Clemenza feels.
And to be in a place that is abuzz and alive 24/7, that's something truly magical in the eyes of John Clemenza.
Like any other teenager, John Clemenza longs to carve his own path; to make his own mark in the world. And he feels that New York has plenty to offer him in this area. Once he's gone pro, he plans to make New York his home base; it's where the action is after all!
Since he is a strong advocate for healthy living, he made sure to always jog around Central Park during his visits. When he finally gets the chance to move to New York, he plans to make Central Park his own slice of fitness paradise.
He has yet to try the various cuisines in New York. During his visits, he only got to try some of New York's famous foods: cheesecake, bagels, baked pretzels, and the famous Manhattan clam chowder. Since New York is home to diverse cultures, John Clemenza knows that it won't be lacking in the food department. Greek, Italian, Mexican, Jamaican, Irish, German, and Asian dishes abound in New York!
New York remains a dream for now; but you can be sure that John Clemenza will be relentless in its pursuit. Join him as he reminisces about his days in New York on his blog page.


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Dickens & Dessert is on Tuesday, January 24th at NW Senior Center in Ballard.
Ballard News-Tribune. January 18, 2012
A Character Actor for All Seasons
From Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright 1987:
"Stentorian, adjective, very loud or powerful in sound, usually describing a voice, from Homer's Iliad, Stentor, a Greek herald with a loud voice."
Who would use the word stentorian to describe their own voice? The answer is a man who describes himself as a character actor for all seasons, but who currently refers to himself in third person as Mr. Dickens.
February 7, 2012 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens. Although character actor Jake Esau realizes this is a bigger deal in England or New York City his mission is for Seattle to appropriately honor Dickens the man and writer, well beyond the season of "A Christmas Carol."
Esau contacted me last fall with a formidable list of all the venues where he would be performing in character as Mr. Dickens. By the time he completes his current bookings, just days after the 200th birthday, he will have performed 23 times since November. On January 24th he will be presenting "Dickens & Dessert," an event open to the public, at the Ballard NW Senior Center at 1 p.m. The $5.00 cost will include "a combo of three favorite desserts," but Esau admitted that none of them will be the flaming plum pudding described by Dickens "as a speckled cannonball."
In the course of trading many voice messages with Mr. Esau, I came to recognize his voice quite well, even the time it was ravaged by a miserable cold. It was in the next message that Esau assured me he was almost "restored to his stentorian tones."
Esau talks like this all the time, tossing off words like mellifluous and ubiquitous in various bass-baritone octaves. He has been performing one man shows with a range of 40+ characters for three decades, with his Mr. Dickens dating back to 1984. Esau has lived in the Seattle area since 1992; the Greenwood neighborhood is his base and Couth Buzzard his local bookstore (he's a Wednesday night Open Mic regular there).
Esau was a teacher disillusioned "by the need to attend children's behavior" versus "teaching them great things." When he saw Vincent Price on television performing as Edgar Allen Poe he realized his own passion. Thus began his years of research into various literary luminaries and one person shows. When necessary he would supplement his income by doing telephone work, having what he called the "voice for business telephone sales, never the kind that would call you during dinner."
Esau was mostly able to make his living performing educational characters at schools, libraries, retirement homes, etc. but his former venues can no longer afford to pay for his appearances. "I don't even think decimated is the right term," Esau told me about his inability to support himself by acting. Now 65 he receives Social Security, which allows him to do what he loves most, embodying great writers.
Esau slips in and out of different voices during our meeting, not so much quoting Dickens on the vile habits of Americans vis-à-vis chewing tobacco, as channeling Mr. Dickens. He fluffs his beard, changes his glasses and demonstrates the comb-over he'll do on his hair. During the interview there's also P.T. Barnum and Sherlock Holmes.
Before parting Esau wants me to convey to readers the reason for his Dickens character beyond his own love of delivering literary works to audiences in character. "There's an untold story to why I'm doing all this," he said. "Dickens underwent these public tours because, yes they were lucrative, and he loved the audience contact, but he was also trying to secure financial stability for his sons. His health was rapidly declining. He had been advised by his doctors not to continue the tour; it was too taxing."
Esau said, using his indoor stentorian voice, "And yet he continued. He continued."
"It hastened his death," Esau said pausing almost as if he too would be too would need to be helped from the stage, one leg dragging from a possible small stroke before his fatal stroke in June 1870. "This was brave and valiant," Esau resumed, regaining strength, "Perhaps foolhardy."
Then sounding ordinary for the first time in all of our conversations, Esau as Esau said, "At least that's a part of why I'm doing it."
"Dickens & Dessert" is scheduled for 1 p.m. January 24th at Ballard NW Senior Center, 5429 32nd NW. Cost is $5.00, call 206.297.0403 to reserve a place. The event is open to the general public. http://www.nwseniorcenter.org/


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19 December 2017
Go for the Gold
by Barb Goffman
When I was in college, a roommate was excited to come home one spring day to find me eating matzo ball soup. She asked if she could have some. She loved trying new ethnic foods. Having grown up Jewish, matzo ball soup didn't seem so ethnic to me, but I was happy to oblige.
As we head into the final days of Hanukkah this week, I thought of my old roommate, and I realized that perhaps this is a good time to bring a little ethnicity to readers, in this case, in the form of a favorite legal mystery series of mine starring a Jewish protagonist named Rachel Gold.
Rachel is an attorney at a law firm in Chicago when the series begins. A few books in, Rachel and her best friend, Benny, move to St. Louis, and the series continues there. Rachel is hard-working, smart, and a delight to read about. Author Michael A. Kahn also gives readers a nice look into the ways Judaism can play a role in everyday life, both through Rachel's personal life and her law firm work.
I know there are a lot of mysteries with Jewish protagonists, but this ten-book series is my favorite among them. The first book in the collection is called Grave Designs. I think Kahn started out with a different publisher (maybe more than one along the way), but now, all his books appear to be available through his current publisher, Poisoned Pen Press. You can also find a short story or two of his out there about Rachel Gold. They all come with my recommendation.
Please feel free to share your favorite "ethnic" mystery protagonist in the comments. And happy holidays and happy new year to you all.
16 comments:
- Jeff Baker said...
Happy Holidays, and a bright New Year to you and yours, Barb!
- 19 December, 2017 05:52
- Paul D. Marks said...
It might not be very original, but I'd have to say my favorite ethnic mystery protagonist (and that's a mouthful to say ;-) ) is Easy Rawlins. I started reading the Easy books as soon as the first one, Devil in a Blue Dress, came out and I think I was hooked from the get go. Still am.
- 19 December, 2017 07:20
Good wishes for the holidays and for 2018.
- 19 December, 2017 09:01
- Melodie Campbell said...
Will look for that series! My favourite ethnic is actually a series in translation: Montalbano, by Andrea Camilleri. True Sicilian way of life, with lots of humour - I love it. You can also see the excellent TV series on MHZ (now available in Canada - yay!)
- 19 December, 2017 09:03
- Eve Fisher said...
Easy Rawlins, definitely; Harry Kemelman's Rabbi Small series; and I love Maigret, which captures Paris and its changes from 1931-1972.
- 19 December, 2017 09:45
- O'Neil De Noux said...
Just read Andrea Camilleri's ANGELICA'S SMILE. Wonderful. Loved it. Will look for more in the series.
Don't know if my John Raven Beau series qualities as ethnic as he is half-Cajun, half-Sioux.
- 19 December, 2017 10:01
- Barb Goffman said...
Thanks for stopping by, everyone. And seasons greetings, once more, to Jeff and Janice. And thanks for the suggestions, Paul, Mel, Eve, and O'Neil. And O'Neil, I think your series qualifies. Your character comes from distinctive cultures, which people may be interested in learning about.
- 19 December, 2017 10:34
- Michael A. Kahn said...
Thank you for your kind words, Barb. Your post is the perfect gift for Rachel and me on this last night of Hanukkah!
- 19 December, 2017 19:50
- Robert Lopresti said...
Rawlins is great but I'll vote for Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee.
- 19 December, 2017 20:36
- Leigh Lundin said...
That's a series I have to check out, Barb.
As for favorites, I wrote a short story in which the bad guy and his pursuer stumble into a temple.
- 19 December, 2017 21:26
- Barb Goffman said...
You're welcome, and thanks for stopping by, Michael. I hope there will be more Rachel books in the future.
- 19 December, 2017 21:27
- Barb Goffman said...
Hillerman was another author who allowed readers an inside look at a culture many know far too little of.
- 19 December, 2017 21:29
- Barb Goffman said...
And what happened?
- 19 December, 2017 21:30
- Peter Rozovsky said...
I like several of the protagonists that previous comments have mentioned. Among Jewish protagonists, my favorite is Stuart M. Kaminsky's Abe Lieberman. I like him because he fully embraces a complicated Jewish family and cultural life, while at the same time defying one longtime cultural stereotype about Jews: He can be violent, sometimes dangerously so.
- 20 December, 2017 17:27
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Of course, the all-timer has to be Isaac Babel's Benya Krik, if you want to count Babel's stories about him as crime fiction. And why not?
- 20 December, 2017 17:34
- Barb Goffman said...
So many books, so little time.
- 20 December, 2017 18:18


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Brittney Greene and her family have been planning Christmas dinner since July. This year, it will involve a lot of cheese—raclette, fondue, and hopefully traditional Swiss pastries from a local Houston bakery. For the past 15 years, the family has celebrated Christmas in a decidedly non-traditional way: by learning about and celebrating another culture.
"We got tired of doing the same turkey dinner that we'd just had at Thanksgiving, and my family really enjoys history and learning about other cultures," said Greene.
The process begins during summer. Greene's dad—who came up with the original idea—will order history books about the chosen country. The family will start brainstorming recipes, authentic clothing and they'll even try to find people around town or on the internet who have the same cultural background and might know the language.
"Last year we did Holland, and I connected with a lady who lived in Holland through one of my Facebook groups. I asked her if she could help translate a prayer we could say before dinner in Dutch," said Greene. "She even recorded her voice very slowly so I could learn it. It took me about a month to memorize and learn the five-minute prayer from start to finish."
The first country they celebrated was Mexico.
"My dad grew up on the border and we basically grew up with an appreciation for the food," said Greene. "We started off pretty simple—we made food, looked up some music and did a little decorating. But ever since then, it's kind of grown—we've delved deeper into the history and we try to develop an appreciation for each culture by learning a little of the language, trying to find as close to traditional clothing as possible, and we always find a movie that goes along with the culture."
They typically source internationally-themed Christmas décor from World Market, Christmas stores in West Texas, or even a big Christmas store back in Alabama, where Greene used to live. They've developed a tradition of trying to find a nutcracker that goes with the theme every year, and they'll often look online at Etsy or other sites for authentic clothing. Or, in the case of the Scotland Christmas, her dad handmade kilts for himself and Greene's husband.
The menus from some years are definitely more memorable from others.
"Greece, Scotland and Jamaica were my three standouts," said Greene. "Scotland is where angus beef comes from, so we took great advantage of that and made huge angus steaks and potato leek soup, which was when I discovered how delicious leeks are."
Greene is an avid home cook and once rose to the top 100 candidates during season 6 of Masterchef. For Greece, she challenged herself to make baklava entirely from scratch, including the phyllo dough. She also made her favorite Greek dessert, galaktoboureko, a vanilla custard encased in phyllo (for those curious to try it, Opa Greek Tavern is the only place in town she's found that serves it).
Menus are typically inspired by cookbooks or dishes they've seen or tasted—their Jamaican feast was inspired by a cruise Greene and her husband took to Jamaica. Greene couldn't stop talking about the food once they returned, so that year's feast consisted of authentic jerk chicken, fried plantains, chicken noodle soup spiced with a Jamaican spice pack from H-E-B, pork and pineapple kebabs, callaloo (a type of Jamaican collard green that can be found canned in the international section of HEB) and bammy, a traditional flatbread made with coconut milk and cassava root. To this day, jerk chicken remains in the family's cooking repertoire—as does the lamb her father made for an Australia-themed Christmas and the gyros from the Greece Christmas.
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"We definitely have more of an international flair to our menus," said Greene. "I have a 4 year old and 15 month old and my 4 year old loves it. Since last year, he started realizing what we're doing and finds it fun. I'm lucky in that my children are like little baby foodies—they love different kinds of food."
The most recent tradition? Starting five years ago, Greene began looking for cookie cutters that matches each year's theme. Every year, she ties recipe cards to the cutters as a memento for all the family members. Her goal is to one day have a Christmas tree dedicated to all the cultures they've celebrated with the cookie cutters as ornaments on the tree.
Although Greene is still shopping for a vintage reproduction dress with the Swiss Alps on it for this year's Swiss Christmas, her mind is already on next year's theme—Brazil. (And then South Africa the next year, inspired by her favorite restaurant, Peli Peli.)
"I hope this inspires other people to learn about other cultures and appreciate the world around them," said Greene. "Even if you can't afford to travel, you can still travel around the world in your own home. It's opened a lot of doors to meeting new people, opened our eyes to many new cultures, and widened our palate."


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Devpi-builder takes a requirements.txt and incrementally fills a devpi index with wheels of the listed python packages.
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Brandon the Devpi Builder
Brandon, the devpi builder, takes a requirements.txt and incrementally fills a devpi index with wheels of the listed python packages.
Brandon by Example
Given a requirements.txt, we can upload all listed packages to the index opensource/Debian_7 on a local devpi using the following command:
$ devpi-builder requirements.txt http://localhost:3141/opensource/Debian_7
Example of such a requirements.txt:
progressbar==0.2.2 progressbar==0.2.1 PyYAML==3.11
Commandline Usage
usage: devpi-builder [-h] [--batch] [--user USER] [--password PASSWORD] [--blacklist BLACKLIST] [--pure-index PURE_INDEX] [--junit-xml JUNIT_XML] [--run-id RUN_ID] [--dry-run] [--client-cert CLIENT_CERT] requirements index Create wheels for all given project versions and upload them to the given index. positional arguments: requirements requirements.txt style file specifying which project versions to package. index The index to upload the packaged software to. optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --batch Batch mode. Do not prompt for credentials --user USER The user to log in as. --password PASSWORD Password of the user. --blacklist BLACKLIST Packages matched by this requirements.txt style file will never be build. --pure-index PURE_INDEX The index to use for pure packages. Any non-pure package will be uploaded to the index given as positional argument. Packages already found in the pure index will not be built, either. --junit-xml JUNIT_XML Write information about the build success / failure to a JUnit-compatible XML file. --run-id RUN_ID Add the given string to all entries in the XML output, allowing to distinguish output from multiple runs in a merged XML. --dry-run Build missing wheels, but do not modify the state of the devpi server. --client-cert CLIENT_CERT Client key to use to authenticate with the devpi server.
The following environment variables can be used instead of command line arguments:
- The value of this environment variable will be used if --user is not given.
- The value of this environment variable will be used if --password is not given.
- Read a requirements.txt style input file.
- Read user/pass from the environment (using DEVPI_USER and DEVPI_PASSWORD).
- Support multiple versions of a package in the same file.
- Only build packages not yet in the target index.
- Support a black-list for packages to never be built and uploaded (certain packages like numpy are fragile regarding their interdependency with other packages).
- Can use separate indices for plain python packages and those with binary contents.
- Can log build results to a JUnit compatible XML file, thus that it can be parsed by Jenkins.
This lists the most important changes for each release.
Version 5.0.0 – 2020-04-24
- Remove dependency on the internal wheel API. This blocked the use of wheel versions >= 0.32.
- Python 2 is no longer supported.
- Python 3.5 is no longer supported.
Version 4.0.0 – 2018-11-02
- Correctly specify the dependency to Wheel to avoid the latest, incompatible versions.
- Python 3.3 and Python 3.4 are no longer supported.
Version 3.0.1 — 2017-11-21
- Properly handle non-ASCII characters in the output of failed package builds. Previous versions used to crash in this case if a JUnit XML output file was requested.
Version 3.0.0 — 2017-06-16
- The command line parameter --batch can be used to disable any prompts.
- The way credentials are passed has been changed in an incompatible way.
The positional arguments for user and password no longer exist.
Instead, use one of the following:
- Pass the credentials via --user and --password command line arguments.
- Pass the credentials via the environment variables DEVPI_USER and DEVPI_PASSWORD.
- Answer the interactive prompt for user and password. This is only possible if --batch is not used.
Version 2.3.1 — 2017-05-19
- Improved performance if a blacklist is used.
Version 2.3.0 — 2017-04-07
- The command line parameter --run-id allows to specify a run identifier that will be added to each entry in the generated JUnit XML.
- Changelog is now in the format suggested by Keep-a-CHANGELOG.
Version 2.2.0 — 2016-05-23
- Capture build errors for better output in case of build failures. Thanks Travis Mehlinger.
Version 2.1.0 — 2016-04-22
- Support for client certificates. Thanks Hans Lawrenz.
Version 2.0.0 — 2016-01-20
- Compatibility with pip >= 8.0 by relying on pip's default download cache mechanism instead of explicitly requiring a download cache. This effectively disables caching for people still using pip < 6.0. Thanks Christian Stefanescu.
- Support for dry-running the wheel build without changing the devpi server state.
- Python 3.5 is now officially supported.
- Python 3.2 is no longer supported.
Version 1.0.0 — 2015-05-22
- Use devpi-plumber instead of a custom devpi wrapper.
- Check the blacklist first when deciding whether to build a package.
Version 0.4.0 — 2015-09-13
- Only consider a package to exist if it is a wheel and it is compatible with the current system. Thanks Michael Still and David Szotten
- The source distribution now properly contains a README.md. Thanks Mikhail Lukyanchenko.
Version 0.3.0 — 2015-08-15
- Support for special-case handling of pure python wheels
- Optional support for reporting skipped packages in a JUnit-compatible XML
- Python 3 support
Version 0.2.1 — 2014-08-07
- Fixed crash if a built wheel could cannot be found (because pip<=1.5.2 skipped it).
Version 0.2.0 — 2014-08-01
- Support for package blacklisting to never build certain wheels.
- build as many packages as possible. Do not stop if one fails.
Version 0.1.0 — 2014-08-01
- Build a list of packages and upload them to a Devpi index
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Chief information officers within Australia's banking sector are one of 12 categories of executive that the government wants to subject to an approval and behavioural regime by regulator APRA.
In its May federal budget, the government revealed plans to introduce a new 'banking executive accountability regime' (BEAR) intended to hold banks and their senior executives to account for their behaviour whilst carrying out their responsibilities.
The government today published a consultation paper [pdf] on its proposal, outlining the scheme's key features and how it should be implemented.
The regime will broadly require banks to register potential executives or directors with APRA, and provide maps of their roles and responsibilities, before they are hired so the regulator can vet them.
APRA will check whether the individual has previously been removed or disqualified from its registered executives list, and whether there have been other issues affecting the individual's suitability.
The government said this is intended to keep hiring responsibility within banks but give APRA visibility of accountable executives, and the opportunity to advise of any concerns prior to hire.
APRA will also have the power to remove or disqualify executives or directors where they "do not meet expectations".
The scheme captures oversight positions like chair roles as well as seven executive positions spanning CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, chief risk officer, and head of internal audit and head of a foreign bank branch.
Executives and directors would be expected to "act with integrity, due skill, care and diligence and be open and co-operative with APRA". APRA has asked for feedback on the specified roles, and whether any should be added or removed from the list.
A new power would also allow APRA to force a review and adjustment of an executive's renumeration where it believes it is "producing inappropriate outcomes".
The government has already announced that at least 40 percent of a bank executive's variable renumeration will be deferred for a minimum four years. That percentage rises to 60 percent for CEOs. This is intended to deter short-term focus or excessive risk-taking.
"Deferring variable remuneration is aimed at providing an appropriate period of time for risks to crystallise and for variable remuneration to be adjusted downwards as a result. The intention is to better align the realisation of risk with reward," the government's consultation paper states.
However it notes that banks might shift the balance of payment from variable to base remuneration as a result of this policy.
The regulator will additionally be able to levy fines on banks should they fail to meet their BEAR obligations, with a maximum penalty of $200 million for big banks and $50 million for smaller financial services providers.
Submissions to the consultation paper are due by 3 August 2017. The scheme would apply to all authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs).
"Because they provide such important services to the community, it is imperative that Australians have trust and confidence in the banking system. Banks must operate at the highest standards and meet the needs and expectations of consumers and businesses," financial services minister Kelly O'Dwyer said in a statement.
"But recurring scandals have shown that this is not always the case. So it is important that there are mechanisms in place to deter poor behaviour and ensure that banks are held to account where they fail to meet the standards expected of them."


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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France.
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The memoir consists of various personal accounts by Hemingway and involves many notable figures of the time, such as Sylvia Beach, Hilaire Belloc, Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Aleister Crowley, John Dos Passos, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Pascin, Ezra Pound, Evan Shipman, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Hermann von Wedderkop. The work also references the addresses of specific locations such as bars, cafes, and hotels, many of which can still be found in Paris today.
The memoir was published posthumously in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death, by his fourth wife and widow, Mary Hemingway, based upon his original manuscripts and notes. An edition altered and revised by his grandson, Seán Hemingway, was published in 2009.
In November 1956[citation needed], Hemingway recovered two small steamer trunks that he had stored in March 1928 in the basement of the Hôtel Ritz Paris. The trunks contained notebooks he had filled during the 1920s.[1] Hemingway's friend and biographer A. E. Hotchner, who was with him in Paris in 1956, later recounted the occasion of Hemingway's recovery of the trunks and notebooks:[1]
Hotchner, A. E. (2009-07-19). "Don't Touch 'A Moveable Feast'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
Having recovered his trunks, Hemingway had the notebooks transcribed, and then began working them up into the memoir that would eventually become A Moveable Feast.[2] After Hemingway's death in 1961, his widow Mary Hemingway, in her capacity as his literary executor, made final copy-edits to the manuscript prior to its publication in 1964.[1][2] In a "Note" with which she prefaced the posthumously published 1964 edition of the work, she wrote:
Mary Hemingway's prefatory note to: Hemingway, Ernest - A Moveable Feast, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1964, p. xi.
Gerry Brenner, a literary scholar at the University of Montana, and other researchers have examined Hemingway's notes and the initial drafts of A Moveable Feast, which are in the collection of Ernest Hemingway's personal papers opened to the public in 1979, following the completion of the John F. Kennedy Library, where they are held in Boston. In a paper titled "Are We Going to Hemingway's Feast?" (1982), Brenner undertook to document Mary Hemingway's editing process and questioned its validity. He concluded that some of her changes were misguided, and others derived from questionable motives.[3] He also suggested that the changes appeared to contradict Mary's stated policy for her role as executor, which had been to maintain a "hands off" approach.[2] Brenner states that Mary changed the order of the chapters in Hemingway's final draft, apparently to "preserve chronology". This change interrupted the series of juxtaposed character sketches of such individuals as Sylvia Beach, owner of the bookstore Shakespeare & Company, and Gertrude Stein.[citation needed] The chapter titled "Birth of a New School", which Hemingway had dropped from his draft, was reinserted by Mary.[citation needed] Brenner alleges the most serious change was the deletion of Hemingway's lengthy apology to his first wife, Hadley. This apology appeared in various forms in every draft of the book.[citation needed] Brenner suggests that Mary deleted it because it impugned her own role as his wife.
In contrast, Hotchner has said that he received a near final draft of A Moveable Feast in 1959, and that the version Mary Hemingway published is essentially the draft he had read then. In his view, the original 1964 publication is the version that Hemingway intended, and Mary Hemingway did not revise or add chapters on her own initiative, but simply carried out Ernest's intentions.[1] Hotchner describes Hemingway's memoir as "a serious work", that Hemingway "certainly intended it for publication", and contends: "Because Mary was busy with matters relating to Ernest's estate, she had little involvement with the book.... What I read on the plane coming back from Cuba [in 1959] was essentially what was published. There was no extra chapter created by Mary.[1]
Source of titleEdit
epigraph on title page of A Moveable Feast, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1964, p. v.
The title of A Moveable Feast (a play on words for the term used for a holy day for which the date is not fixed) was suggested by Hemingway's friend and biographer A. E. Hotchner, who remembered Hemingway using the term in 1950.[4] Hotchner's recollection of what Hemingway had said became the source of the epigraph on the title page for the posthumously published work in 1964.[4]
The term had also been used earlier out of its traditional religious context by Albert Camus in his novel The Stranger (1942): "Masson remarked that we'd had a very early lunch, but really lunch was a movable feast, one had it when one felt like it."[5][better source needed]
The 1964 edition of Hemingway's Paris memoir consists of a "Preface" by Hemingway (pg. ix), a "Note" by his widow (pg. xi), and 20 chapters, or individual parts or sections.[6] Each of the chapters can be read as a stand-alone piece or entity, not dependent upon the context of the whole work, nor necessarily arranged in any chronological order—with titles descriptive of the subject matter of each, as follows:[6]
- "A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel"
- "Miss Stein Instructs"
- "Une Génération Perdue"
- "Shakespeare and Company"
- "People of the Seine"
- "A False Spring"
- "The End of an Avocation"
- "Hunger Was Good Discipline"
- "Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple"
- "Birth of a New School"
- "With Pascin at the Dôme"
- "Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit"
- "A Strange Enough Ending"
- "The Man Who Was Marked for Death"
- "Evan Shipman at the Lilas"
- "An Agent of Evil"
- "Scott Fitzgerald"
- "Hawks Do Not Share"
- "A Matter of Measurements"
- "There Is Never Any End to Paris"
Publishing historyEdit
The first published edition was edited from Hemingway's manuscripts and notes by his fourth wife and widow, Mary Hemingway, and published posthumously in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death.[1][2]
In 2009 a new edition, titled the "Restored Edition", was published by Seán Hemingway, assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and grandson of Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer. He made numerous changes:
- The previous introductory letter by Hemingway, pieced together from various fragments by Mary Hemingway,[citation needed] was removed.
- The chapter called "Birth of a New School" and large sections of "Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm" and "There is Never Any End to Paris" (which has been renamed as "Winter in Schruns" and moved to chapter 16) had sections previously left out that have been re-added. The unpublished "The Pilot Fish and the Rich" has been added.
- Chapter 7 ("Shakespeare and Company") has been moved to be chapter 3, and chapter 16 ("Nada y Pues Nada") has been moved to the end of the book as an "Additional Paris Sketch".
- Hemingway's use of the second person has been restored in many places, a change which Seán asserts "brings the reader into the story".[7]
From the new foreword by Patrick Hemingway:
"[H]ere is the last bit of professional writing by my father, the true foreword to A Moveable Feast: 'This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist'."[8]
Preserved video of two critical reactions from 1964Edit
The basic cable channel GSN has rebroadcast the kinescope of an appearance that Sheilah Graham made on the American television show What's My Line? 23 years after the death of her boyfriend F. Scott Fitzgerald.[9][10] She appeared on an episode that was telecast live on CBS on June 7, 1964, when A Moveable Feast was on bestseller lists.[9][10] Graham appeared on the show to promote a book she had written, and she did not bring up A Moveable Feast.[9][10]
Bennett Cerf, the head of Random House publishing who was also a regular panelist on the network television series, initiated talk of Hemingway's new bestselling book.[9] Cerf, who was two years younger than Fitzgerald and one year older than Hemingway, had the following exchange with Graham, according to the kinescope of the telecast that is available for viewing on YouTube.[11]
Cerf: Miss Graham, after, after this new Hemingway book, I hope you're going to answer some of the remarks that were made in that book about Scott Fitzgerald.
Graham: Well, I would like to. I'm not sure I'm the right person, although I am the right person...
Cerf: Ah, you certainly are the right person.
Graham: ... to answer that. I thought it was rather dreadfully cruel to Scott Fitzgerald and, untrue in, uh, in certain areas, shall we say.
Cerf: Well, I hope you'll straighten the record.
Graham: [unintelligible] ... try
Reactions to the 2009 editionEdit
A.E. Hotchner alleged, among his other criticisms of the 2009 edition, that Seán Hemingway had edited it, in part, to exclude references to his grandmother (Hemingway's second wife Pauline Pfeiffer) that he found less than flattering.[1] As Hotchner's over-all assessment of the 2009 edition, he wrote:
"Ernest was very protective of the words he wrote, words that gave the literary world a new style of writing. Surely he has the right to have these words protected against frivolous incursion, like this reworked volume that should be called "A Moveable Book".[1]
Other critics also have found fault with some of Seán Hemingway's editorial changes.[12] Irene Gammel writes about the new edition: "Ethically and pragmatically, restoring an author's original intent is a slippery slope when the published text has stood the test of time and when edits have been approved by authors or their legal representatives." Pointing to the complexity of authorship, she concludes: "Mary's version should be considered the definitive one, while the 'restored' version provides access to important unpublished contextual sources that illuminate the evolution of the 1964 edition."[13]
On September 15, 2009, Variety reported that Mariel Hemingway, a granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, had acquired the film and television rights to the memoir with American film producer John Goldstone.[14] In 2019, it was reported that a television series was being developed through Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, but there was no planned release date.[15][16]
Cultural referencesEdit
In filmsEdit
- The comedy film The Moderns (1988) brings the characters of The Moveable Feast to life while spoofing the pretense of the Lost Generation.
- The book is featured in the movie, City of Angels (1998), during an exchange between Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
- Woody Allen's 2011 film Midnight in Paris is set in the Paris of the 1920s as portrayed in Hemingway's book, and the movie features the Owen Wilson character interacting with the likes of Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and uses the phrase "a moveable feast" in two instances.
- The Words (2012) uses an excerpt from A Moveable Feast to represent a book manuscript found in an old messenger bag.
- In the American superhero film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), one of the books on the shelf in the character Steve Rogers' apartment is Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
- In the American film, French Postcards (1979), a character quotes the epigraph from the book in order to convince a fellow American student who is studying in France with him to not only study, but enjoy life in Paris.
- In the American comedy film, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), a stripper named Tits Hemingway says she got the latter part of her name because her favorite novel is A Moveable Feast.
In literatureEdit
- The writer Enrique Vila-Matas named his book Never Any End to Paris (2003) after the final chapter of Hemingway's work.
In stage performancesEdit
- In his early stand-up performances in the late 1960s, Woody Allen performed a routine wherein he riffed the feel of the then recently published book while describing imaginary times spent with Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and Gertrude Stein with the repeated punch line: "And Hemingway punched me in the mouth."[17]
Revival in FranceEdit
Following the November 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, A Moveable Feast became a bestseller in France.[18]. In the context of the attacks, the book's French-language title, Paris est une fête, was a potent symbol of defiance and celebration. Bookstore sales of the volume surged, and copies of the book became a common fixture among the flowers and candles in makeshift memorials created by Parisians across the city to honor victims of the attacks.[18][19]
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hotchner, A. E. (2009-07-19). "Don't Touch 'A Moveable Feast'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
- ^ a b c d Hemingway, Mary (1977). How It Was. New York: Ballantine.
- ^ Brenner, Gerry (December 1982). "Are We Going To Hemingway's Feast?". American Literature. 54 (4): 528.
- ^ a b Hotchner, A.E. (1966). Papa Hemingway. New York: Random House. p. 57.
- ^ Camus, Albert (1942). The Stranger.
- ^ a b Hemingway, Ernest - A Moveable Feast, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1964.
- ^ Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Seán (2009). Hemingway, Seán (ed.). A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition. New York: Scribner's. p. 4.
- ^ Hemingway, Seán (ed.) (2009), p. xiv
- ^ a b c d "Episode in which Sheilah Graham and Bennett Cerf comment on A Moveable Feast". What's My Line. June 7, 1964. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
- ^ a b c "Text written by people who watched the 2006 GSN broadcast of the 1964 What's My Line kinescope". What's My Line.
- ^ "Kinescope of What's My Line episode that aired live on CBS on June 7, 1964, cue it to 10 minutes 19 seconds". What's My Line. YouTube.
- ^ Massie, Allan (August 5, 2009). "Rewrites and Wrongs". The Spectator. Archived from the original on March 29, 2012. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- ^ Gammel, Irene (August 21, 2009). "A Changeable Feast". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- ^ Fleming, Mike (September 15, 2009). "Hemingway's 'Feast' Heads to Screen". Variety. Archived from the original on September 24, 2009.
- ^ "Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' in the Works as TV Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ Petski, Denise; Petski, Denise (2019-08-13). "Ernest Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' In Works For TV With Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, Mariel Hemingway Among Producers". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
- ^ Buchanan, Kyle (March 14, 2012). "Fifty Years Ago Woody Allen Plotted Midnight in Paris in this Stand Up Routine". Vulture. Archived from the original on September 1, 2014. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ^ a b Watson, Ivan & Sandrine, Amiel (November 22, 2015). "A Moveable Feast: Sales surge for Hemingway's Paris memoir". CNN.
- ^ Chandler, Adam (November 23, 2015). "How Hemingway's A Moveable Feast Has Become a Bestseller in France; Following the deadly attacks in Paris, the author's memoir about life in the city has sold out of bookstores". The Atlantic.
- Baker, Carlos (1972) [1st ed. 1952]. Hemingway: The Writer as Artist (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01305-5.
- Mellow, James R. (1992). Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. New York: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-37777-3.
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-42126-4.
- Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark. ISBN 0-8160-3467-2.
- Stoneback, H. R. (2010). Hemingway's Paris: Our Paris?. Wickford, RI: New Street Communications, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4538-7776-0. Archived from the original on 2010-10-22.
Further readingEdit
- Hotchner, A.E. (1966). Papa Hemingway. New York: Random House.
- Hemingway, Mary (1977). How It Was. New York: Ballantine.
- Hitchens, Christopher (June 2009). "The man in full". The Atlantic. 303 (5): 83–87. [This review's online title is "Hemingway's libidinous feast"]
- Hotchner, A.E. (July 19, 2009). "Don't Touch 'A Movable Feast'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- Hernandez, John Paul Jr. (2016). "The Role of Hunger in The Moveable Feast". Find My Cuban Family. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
External linksEdit
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- A Moveable Feast at Faded Page (Canada)
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I recently enjoyed a tasty chorizo and ramp pizza at Michael Symon's Lolita restaurant. When I received ramps in our CSA grab bag this past week I knew instantly I'd be recreating that Lolita pizza! Thanks for the idea, Michael!
The following makes one pizza (compliments of This Girl's Gotta Eat):
- Ground chorizo
- Whole wheat pizza dough
- Cornmeal
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Ricotta
- Fresh basil
- Salt and pepper
- 1 shallot, sliced
- Ramps
- Sharp white cheddar cheese, shredded
- Eggs
- Hot sauce for garnish, optional
Preheat oven to 450.
Brown the chorizo in a skillet until just cooked through. Remove from heat and set aside.
With some cornmeal on your counter, roll out the pizza dough to your desired thickness.
Put a little cornmeal on a pizza stone, then carefully transfer the rolled out dough onto the pizza stone and brush with olive oil. Bake the crust for 5-7 minutes. Remove from the oven to add your toppings.
Mix a little ricotta with olive oil and chopped basil. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Eyeball it, you just need enough ricotta to spread on the pizza to create a sauce.
Spread the ricotta evenly on the pizza dough. Top with cooked chorizo and the sliced shallots. Use as much of each ingredient as you like.
Return to the oven and bake for 5 minutes or so. Remove and add the ramps and shredded cheese, again as much as you like of each. Return to the oven to finish baking, another 5 minutes or so. Just keep an eye on the oven to make sure everything is cooked through, hot and the cheese has melted. Remove from the oven.
Fry up some eggs to your desired likeness, I recommend one egg per slice of pizza and making sure to leave it runny to help create a sauce.
Slice pizza and serve each slice with a fried egg on top and hot sauce if desired.


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On Saturday, September 21, I taught a writer's workshop for the children in the Gifted Support Network at Spencer Creek Library in St. Peters, Missouri.
My husband assisted me… nine and ten-year olds tend to be a little energetic.
The first part of the workshop dealt with the components of a picture book, developing a story, and using a storyboard. Some of the children chose to pen their ideas first, then draw. Others drew, then created. Some of them found this part a bit challenging. But by first break, six children completed six stories and offered to read them aloud.
After break, we dove into "What is a poem?"
I explained to them how a poem can be about anything – it may or may not have punctuation, it's how you feel, what you see, what you hear, or even what you touch.
I brought objects for them to help stir ideas for writing – a pearl, a seashell, a small piece of rope, a pebble from a lake, a building block, and an ink stamp. I spoke of different poetry styles – free verse, rhyming, Haiku, and shape poems.
Their creativity kicked into high gear with this exercise, all very excited to use their talents and imagination. As they finished their poems, they called me over to read their poetry. What beautiful masterpieces they produced. I asked if they would like to read to the class, and after they shared, they went on to work on another!
Sophia penned an emotional free verse poem about nature, adding illustrations to her words.
Jace chose to write two shape poems that rhymed – one inside of a mushroom cloud, the other inside a campfire. Amazed at how small he could write, the poems fit perfectly inside the shapes.
Anna wrote a very sweet free verse poem about pearls. I watched as she touched the pearl thinking about how to pen her thoughts.
Mya wrote a funny poem about getting rope burn, in keeping with her carefree personality.
Andrew wrote ten Haiku poems, many about nature and the sea. He loved reading to the class (and me).
Lucia designed an apple shape poem about an apple. She insisted on using markers, and the poem turned out very colorful and detailed.
On the whiteboard, my husband, designed a shape poem using the word L O V E. (I think he wrote it for me.)
Collectively, the children (and hubby) all created a poem, which I scribbled furiously on the whiteboard (because their minds were in overdrive). Each child recited the first thing that came to mind. I was moved to hear a poem about nature.
Using their words, I edited by placing only line breaks.
The final masterpiece is below –
The wind is whistling
through the trees
and swirls through the grass
that sways.
The breeze
makes the waves ripple.
The smell of the ocean
has me in a daze.
The seagulls quietly murmur,
and soar
near the seashore.
dart in the water.
In the far distance,
the water shimmers.
A dolphin catches my eye
and it appears
to glimmer.
Why is the tide never so high?
By Jace, Andrew, Lucia, Sophia, Mya, Anna and Russell
I'm proud of them thinking so quickly and working together as a team.
At times, some of the children lost focus, with half of the group erupting into a giggle fest. Once they understood their time limits, they pushed pencils to paper.
I can definitely say that some of them may even grow up to be future Walt Whitman's, Mary Oliver's, Barbara Kingsolver's and Basho Matsuos.
Peace, Love, and Sand Dollars,
Sheree K. Nielsen is the award-winning author of four books –
Her newest poetry and photography collection, Mondays in October, is her love song for the beach, and her eternal companion water. She's dedicated the book to the Siteman Cancer Center Nurses who helped her make chemotherapy more bearable.
Ocean Rhythms Kindred Spirits – An Emerson-Inspired Essay Collection on Travel, Nature, Family and Pets, based on her adventures (Chanticleer Semi-Finalist for Nonfiction Guides – Insight and Instruction)
Folly Beach Dances is her 2015 Da Vinci Eye Award Winner, a healing coffee table book inspired by her lymphoma journey
and coauthor of, Midnight the One-Eyed Cat, 2019 Chanticleer Little Peeps First Place Winner for Early Readers, Montaigne Medal Finalist, and Foreword Indies Review Finalist


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Hey Friends….call me crazy (it's OK – some do) but Tomato Pie is one of my favorite things ever. Crunchy, buttery crust filled with cheese, FRESH friends of summer, basil and vidalia from the garden then more cheese…I feel faint just describing it! I can fit this pie into any time of day. For breakfast, give me a piece of toast, slice of pie and a poached egg – Oh Mercy! Just break that egg open and sop up all that love. Then, for lunch, mix a few fresh leaves of lettuce, add a couple of slices of avocado with a splash of olive oil/lemon juice, S&P then place your pie on top…..I am gettin' giddy! If there's any left over, grill some fish or chicken, add sauteed squash to your plate with your piece of pie and sit back – all is right with the world. Honey, there is no question, I am in LOVE with Tomato Pie. It's easy to make, full of big flavors, is good hot, great at room temp or special right from the fridge.
What got me on this mission was this..yesterday, I received these beauties from one of my best buddies….Peggy, aka, Margaret/Peggers/Mom/Mrs. Brown. She stopped by with 6 Alabama maters that her sweet father in-law brought in. Well, with a gift like that, I got to thinkin', what should I make? Tomato Pie of course. Let's cook!
Tomato Pie
- 4-5 large tomatoes
- 1 pie shell
- 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
- 4-5 large basil leaves
- 1/3 cup thinly sliced vidalia onion
- 1/2 cup homemade mayo (recipe below) or other good quality mayo – not salad dressing
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Homemade Mayo
- 1 egg at room temperature
- 1 egg yolk at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon minced fresh garlic or dry garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- Slice 4-5 tomatoes with skin on and place on paper towels to drain – about an hour or longer if you have time.
- Set oven at 425 degrees. Roll out pie dough and place in pie or tart pan. Prick pie shell to prevent rising.
- Bake for 8 minutes (lightly golden) and remove. Turn down oven to 400. Cool pie shell for about 20 min.
- Sprinkle grated/sliced mozzarella cheese and grated Parmesan cheese on bottom of pie shell.
- Layer the tomatoes, in a circular pattern overlapping each other.
- Sprinkle on fresh basil, ( I roll mine up and slice into thin strings) chopped vidalia, lots of fresh cracked pepper and salt.
- Mix 1/2 cup of homemade mayo with grated cheddar cheese. Spread on top of the pie.
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 35 minutes. If the edges get brown early, put a pie ring on top or use a homemade one – that's what I have….made out of tinfoil.
- Take out of oven and rest at least 20 minutes.
Homemade Mayo
- Combine the egg, the yolk, garlic, lemon juice, and mustard in a blender or food processor (or use a stick blender). Blend together.
- Add oil while blending on LOW speed ~ pouring the oil into the blender in a fine stream as the mixture emulsifies and thickens. Make sure you pour the oil in slowly while blending ~ not all at once.
Dig IN!!
So friends….there you have it! Doesn't sound like much but once you put that bite in your mouth….woohoo! Can a sister get an Amen? Yes! Amen!
A humble thank you to a friend….
Mr. Barney Brown who brought these wonderful tomatoes to NC all the way from Alabama just lost his wife of over 45 years. Janey Brown died 2 weeks ago and Barney is staying with his son's family. My prayers for Barney are for peace, comfort and a renewed energy for life without his beloved. May my marriage be as blessed as the Brown's for as many years.
Counting My Blessings,
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It is one of those movies where you do not remember the stars or people but characters remain with you for long. The story is about two teenage students who come together and then fall in love. But the guy realizes soon that the girl is terminally ill and will not live long. He goes on to fulfill all her wishes.
I really liked the way he fulfills her wish of being at two places at the same time. Very sensitive and romantic and tragic in the end.


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How Did Freedom Fare on Election Day?
Beyond the partisan bouts, freedom took a few blows while landing an occasional punch of its own on Election Day. Over 160 ballot measures in 34 states gave voters a temporary voice in the policymaking process. Several of those ballot questions directly affected, for good or ill, the cause of limited government, personal freedom and individual responsibility.
It's clear that many voters got out on the illiberal side of the bed on Election Day. Exhibit A is the overwhelming approval of respective state bans on same‐sex marriage. Ballots in 11 states asked voters to render their verdict on this issue. The response was unanimous. All of the proposed bans, many in the South but also the Midwest and even "progressive" Oregon, passed by overwhelming margins.
The validity of other existing restrictions on individual freedom and responsibility were also subject to voter scrutiny. For example, Alaskans were given the opportunity to decriminalize marijuana, thereby emphasizing rationality over persecution. Nevertheless, Alaska's voters rejected by a 14‐point margin a measure that would have regulated the cultivation, use and sale of marijuana for persons 21 and older.
Meanwhile, Oregon voters rejected the opportunity to expand the state's medical marijuana program. By contrast, some positive news came out of Montana where a proposal for medical marijuana for the critically ill passed by an almost two‐to‐one margin.
The freedom to gamble remained a hot ballot topic, as six states put a total of 13 measures before the voters. Oklahomans approved a state lottery but Nebraskans and Californians overwhelmingly rejected casinos and tribal casinos, respectively. In Michigan, popular approval will now be required before new forms of gambling facilities can be established. The introduction of slot machines into two large Florida counties rests upon the outcome of a recount following an initial tallying that was too close to call. One day, perhaps, voters in those (and other) states will be asked to fully privatize the lottery business.
California voters passed by 18 points a heavily marketed initiative authorizing a $3 billion bond issue for stem cell research. This is the largest bond issue ever authorized by a voter initiative. California voters also passed a one percent tax on personal income above $1 million, the additional revenue supposedly earmarked to fund the expansion of mental health programs. Maine voters heartily rejected a proposed cap on property taxes.
Majorities in Florida and Nevada decided they wanted fewer entry‐level employment opportunities in their respective states, because they approved increases in the job‐destroying minimum wage. On a more encouraging note, Californians narrowly rejected an employment‐ and income‐reducing proposal to require businesses with more than 50 employees to provide health insurance to employees and their dependents; under the proposal, the firms were to pay for 80 percent of the insurance costs either by arrangement with an insurance provider or by paying into a state program.
The direction of education policy was on the ballot in several states. Proposals to increase public education spending through taxation were dealt something of a blow. In the state of Washington, voters handily rejected an initiative that would have increased the state sales tax by one percent (which would have raised it to 7.5 percent, the highest in the country) so as to increase public education spending by almost 10 percent. Similarly, Arkansas voters rejected a property tax measure that was supposed to boost education spending. Score both votes as defeats for the anti‐reformist teachers' unions.
An analysis of ballot measures nationwide finds that the average voter remains deeply ambivalent about the appropriate degree of government involvement in our social and economic lives. Such uncertainly about the boundaries of individual liberty and personal responsibility presents an opportunity for proponents of limited government to extend their efforts to publicize the benefits of freedom in both the economic and social spheres.


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- Oklahomacystis
- Paracrinoid
- Ordovician Age
- Bromide Formation
- Carter County, Oklahoma
- Cystoid measures approx. 3/4″ long
Paracrinoids, are extinct marine animals that make up the class Paracrinoidea of the echinoderms (phylum Echinodermata), and are closely related to crinoids. They lived in shallow seas during the Early Ordovician through the Early Silurian.
Paracrinoids are characterized by a mouth with two to five feeding arms arranged asymmetrically. They have a U-shaped gut, and their anus is located next to the mouth. They have irregularly shaped bodies (theca), and a stem, similar to crinoids, and may have used the stem to attach themselves to a substrate, although some reconstructions show them partially buried in sediment


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Premier Cinema
Kimberworth Road,
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The Premier Picture Palace, situated on the corner of Kimberworth Road and Fernham Park Avenue opened on 9th December 1912. Entrance to the cinema was facing Fernham Park and the Premier Picture Palace was built with the latest up to date features including 1,100 tip up seats on a single raked floor. It was leased by G.E. & G.W.Smith of the Rotherham Hippodrome and built to the designs of H.H. Alien of Manchester by the Leeds firm of William Airy & Sons. Built of brick with a semi-circle ornamental facade on the upper part of the frontage, the auditorium measured 84 feet by 67 feet with a proscenium width of 30 feet. The projection suite was entirely fire proof and built completely independent of the main auditorium.
Films played Mon-Wed with a change of programme Thurs-Sat. Sound was installed on 8th July 1931 using the B.T.H. system and Eddie Cantor in "Whoopee" was the first talkie film shown.
In 1956, the Premier Cinema as it was now known, became part of the Leeds based Star Group of Cinemas, who closed the cinema on Saturday 14th January for their 'complete remodernisation' scheme which involved new seating, carpets and of course a 'Cinemascope' screen and reopened on 30th January 1956 with Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" starring James Mason.
On Sunday 2nd July 1961 Sunday Bingo sessions were introduced, extending to Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday from 28th August due to the popularity of the game. Films were continued to be shown on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays along with the Star Juniors Club on Saturday afternoons. On the 30th October 1961, apart from the Saturday Juniors Club which continued until 4th September 1962, films were abandoned completely in favour of bingo and the Premier ran as a Star Bingo Club until July 1984.
The cinema was then converted into a snooker club from 5th December 1984. Alterations were made to the frontage and the building lost its semi-circle facade. In 2008 it is still open as a Riley's snooker hall.
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