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"When I was younger, I wished I had been born in a concentration camp like my mother instead of in boring Englewood Hospital. I used to imagine all the prisoners crying mutely with joy while my grandmother lay swallowing her screams so the guards wouldn’t hear."
So writes Deborah Gelb, the teenage daughter of the title character, in her opening chapter. Deborah’s voice is complemented by that of Ruth Mondschein, Clara’s mother, who recounts her life story to Tommy, a patient at the AIDS hospice where she volunteers. Through the alternating narratives of Deborah and Mrs. Mondschein, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia depicts the lives of three generations of women as both daughter and mother attempt to make sense of Clara’s "melancholia" and the historical events that profoundly affected them all.
While the novel is set in mid-1990s New York and suburban New Jersey, Deborah and Mrs. Mondschein’s stories move through much of the twentieth century, from Vienna and Czechoslovakia, to Spain and Morocco. At the heart of this ambitious novel is the question of why some people are strengthened by adversity – even something as horrific as genocide – while others are defeated by it. Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia examines with bravado and sensitivity how the lingering effects of one of history’s darkest hours – including guilt, anger, loyalty and hope – live on in a single family.
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It's hard to believe Anne Raeff has only lived one life. She has the wisdom of eighty-five-year old Mrs. Mondschein and spirit of sixteen-year-old Deborah Gelb.About the Author:
Anne Raeff, a child of refugees from World War II, grew up in the New Jersey suburbs. After teaching in New York, Spain, New Mexico and Morocco, she now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is co-owner of Two Serious Ladies, an Asian furniture store.
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Adult Winter Reading Club
Cold weather is the perfect time to curl up with a good book! Adults (age 18 and older) are invited to participate in the Library's Annual Adult Winter Reading Club. The Club will begin on January 5, 2015. In addition to reading or listening to books for prizes for the Winter Reading club, keep going and tackle the 50 Book Challenge, which also starts in January 2015. Details to follow.
This Month's Art Displays
On display at the Library for the month of December are the quilts of Susan Eible of Chester. She writes: "I learned how to embroider from my grandmother when I was a very young girl. I merged my love of children's literature and my love of cartooning into the quilts presented here. Each quilt is thematically connected to some of my favorite stories from my childhood. My quilts are hand embroidered and hand quilted."
ArtMatters -- On the walls of the Library meeting room right now! Winter Art Exhibit, now through the beginning of January. Come and view the work of this talented group of Washington Township artists! Most of the art is available to purchase for holiday gift giving. For more info about this group, please email email@example.com.

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Its main construction phase is to be dated to the mid-13th century; one older building phase is traceable.
The building's shape is unusual and so far unequalled.
Owing to its size and quality, the Erfurt Mikveh can be classified as a monumental mikveh similarly to the so-called shaft mikvaot preserved for instance in Cologne, Speyer, Worms and Friedberg (Hesse).
Unlike these, however, it represents an entirely different and so far singular type of medieval Jewish ritual bath.
The Mainz "Heberolle" of 1248/49 is the first to mention the mikveh in Erfurt; in the interest rate registers of St. Severus Church it can be traced back as far as around 1250. The Jewish community is named there as the owner of the plot of land on Krautgasse (immediately north of Merchants' Bridge), on which the Cold Bath ("Frigido balneo") was located.
The mikveh's walls are of extraordinary quality. The building, about 9 metres long and just under 3 metres wide on the inside, features an alcove in its northern wall, presumably used for depositing clothes.
The basin was reached by a staircase whose course can still be retraced by the former stairs' imprints on the northern wall. According to instructions, the bath was supplied with groundwater, which was constantly available due to the river Gera close by. The stairs permitted complete immersion at all times, seasonal fluctuations were thus easily counterbalanced.
After having concluded the excavation works, the erection of a protective building began, defending the remains of the medieval mikveh from external influences on the one hand and enabling its exhibition on the other. Since September 2011, the mikveh is accessible to visitors within guided tours.

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I believe Laughing Joe Biden put it best when he said:
Joe Biden is known for his crushing abilities, whether it be of the beer can or the p*ssy variety, and last night, he destroyed 1980s gym rat Paul Ryan. But even outside of the inherent hilarity that comes from the world's biggest Cheap Trick fan beating a man who looks like the worst infomercial salesman ever, the debate was a blast to watch because they, unlike Obama and Romney -- who have mastered the fine art of suppressing their emotions -- are both, well, kind of insane. Ryan's the scary kind of cuckoo, whereas Biden's more like your favorite drunk uncle, and together, they more than made up for the lack of Parks and Recreation.
The Internet had fun spoofing the debate with numerous images and GIFs. Here are some of our favorites.
"If Joe Biden and Paul Ryan switched haircuts..." (Via)
This one's my favorite. (Via)

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FUZZY WUZZY IS BACK!
Nurse G and Zappa were just kids when they saw Jessica Lange in King King. At the point in the movie when Kong is climbing the Empire State Building and dodging attacks from planes and guns, little Nurse G whimpered, "Poor ol' Fuzzy Wuzzy." She cried right there in the theater. His nickname as stuck to this day.
This gorilla of a film is blockbuster of the year
There's a beautiful moment with Kong sitting on top of a mountain, Ann in the palm of his hand, both watching the sunset. I actually heard one tough broad of a movie executive sobbing. [Director Peter] Jackson evokes such a sense of empathy for his beast that Kleenex should be sold along with the popcorn.
King Kong truly is an 8,000lb gorilla of a movie. I'm still marvelling at a scene where a herd of brachiosaurus stampede as they are pursued by predators with teeth the size of carving knives.
Then, just when you think such a sequence can't be topped, Kong pounds to rescue his damsel in distress when some hungry velociraptors mistake her for a snack.
An almighty battle ensues and it's at this point Kong goes from super monster to super hero in Ann's eyes.
Behind the scenes ...
THE BIG APE-LE
[Director Peter Jackson] constructed a three-by-four-block Big Apple replica at his production studio in Wellington, New Zealand.
"A lot of people think that shooting New York in New Zealand is kind of a crazy notion," Jackson says in a making-of "Kong" DVD due out Dec. 13. "Why don't we go to New York and shoot it for real?"
Here's why: Jackson, fresh from his Oscar win for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is skipping over the hokey, modernized 1976 remake and turning back the clock in homage to the original's release in 1933.
"Shooting modern-day New York as 1933 is almost impossible," he says. "I mean, the city is hard to shoot in the rest of the time, and to actually dress large sections and control large sections of it would be very difficult."
Jackson's well-chronicled eye for detail covers more than every last computer-generated hair on Kong's head.
In his grimy Depression-era big town, Model T Fords roll through intersections of red and green streetlights (no yellow), blasting that wheezy dying-duck horn and narrowly missing a swarm of jaywalkers.
Stroll along the old-timey storefronts, and you'll pass shops like Flannery Watts Tobacco & Snuff, Kneebone Apothecary for Prescriptions and a Ten Cent Barber shop. There's even an F.S. Huffman Gunsmith, where you can "buy, sell and exchange" firearms. Clearly, this is pre-Giuliani New York.

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Many singles have actually psychological problems that they need certainly to confront so that you can have a dating relationship that is normal. You could have experienced quarreling parents, marital breakup or some type of drug abuse in past times. Nevertheless perhaps one of the most painful among these is an abusive youth which gets the prospective to inflict long-lasting harm on adult relationships. Therefore in the event that you feel or understand that the individual you’re dating had been mistreated as a kid, here’s how you can assist him/her plus your relationship.
The single most significant indicator of an abusive youth is probably an aversion to intimate closeness.
therefore with you, it could mean he/she has been hurt in the past if you feel that despite having a satisfying relationship otherwise, your partner – inexplicably – keeps avoiding intimacy. Intimate abuse in youth specially has a chance that is strong of manifest as unwillingness to come near to a family member. The memory for the physical injury that he or she had as a kid is usually adequate to make any ideas of closeness abhorrent or scary towards the abused individual, even while a grown-up. Under such circumstances, you ought to look at your amorous improvements and watch for your spouse to heal him/herself before he or she could be confident with you in a romantic environment.

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“It's a big, animated show, a family show about a group of weirdos who used to live on the richer side of town, and due to circumstances, they've had to move to the more neglected side of a small town in Arkansas,” series creator, executive producer, showrunner, and writer Brad Neely said about The Harper House. The new animated series debuted today on Paramount + with three episodes and will release additional episodes on Thursdays starting October 7th. The creative team recently joined the voice cast at the TCA Summer Press Tour to answer questions about the new adult animated series.
“We have been trying to make this show like an animated Roseanne,” executive producer Katie Krentz revealed about one of the sources of inspiration. “She's the Homer Simpson getting drunk. Women these days, we've got a lot of stuff going on and we don't really get to see that from that point of view… We had a wonderful writers’ room that was very diverse and brought all of their POVs to this show.” Another source of inspiration, according to Brad Neely, was King of the Hill.
Planned before the pandemic, the writing team got to spend a few months together before social distancing. Like most animation these days, the show is made from homes, with even the casting process being handled removely. “In a way, it was a little freeing, being able to track down people and have them do it in their homes,” Brad shared, before going into the details of trying to troubleshoot recording solutions via videoconference. “They had to figure out their own engineering. Then finally we started getting into a zone where people could go to studios, but it's been a challenge. It always is, in a different way, but this was particularly crazy.”
“I read the scripts and was dying laughing out loud,” explained Rhea Seehorn, who plays the lead character Debbie Harper. She had a lot of ideas for the character, none of which fit into your typical likeable woman on TV and she was concerned that the producers wouldn’t like her take, but they did. Rhea and Brad also bonded over their regional upbringing in Virginia and Arkansas respectively. “We clearly have some similar relatives and neighbors in our past. The more I got to talk to Brad, the more I got to read more and more of the script, I just fell in love with her more every time we got to record. I loved her, still love her.”
For Jason Lee, it was the physical characteristics of Debbiie’s husband Freddie that drew him in. “Honestly, the fanny pack, the mustache, and the haircut,” the My Name is Earl star joked. “He's my spirit animal… His fanny pack is sort of his thing, it's his center, it's his Obi-Wan Kenobi, his fanny pack. Everything is in the fanny pack, anything he needs, it's in the fanny pack. I love how the fanny pack became this important part of his character.”
Ryan Flynn plays Debbie and Freddie’s son Todd and was already part of Brad Neely’s stable of voice actors from the webseries China, IL. “It was actually a lot of fun,” Ryan shared about the in-home recording process. “I got to take a little travel booth with me, and they would come online and they'd direct me, and I had my head in this little pizza box sort of voiceover booth. And I got to improv, I had a blast. It was exciting all around for me.”
“It's kind of weird going back to the internet, actually, because this isn't for cable or traditional TV,” Brad Neely shared, having worked on animated shows for Comedy Central and Adult Swim before returning to streaming with The Harper House. “It's kind of like a homecoming going back to streamers and talking about numbers in a different way.” But one thing that’s different is that his past web content was short-form, wheras this series is the typical 21-minute-length of a sitcom. “That's just kind of fun, you get to try on different clothes. So now we're doing the big clothes on the internet, it's come full circle.”
The first three episodes of The Harper House are now streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes debuting on Thursdays beginning October 7th.
Alex joined the Laughing Place team in 2014 and has been a lifelong Disney fan. His main beats for LP are Disney-branded movies, TV shows, books, music and toys. He recently became a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA).


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As a dramaturg, she has worked in new play development institutions around the company where she supports writers in developing new work. She is the Resident Dramaturg of New Harmony Project and a freelance producer with Audible Theater in the Emerging Playwrights Fund. Her previous credits include dramaturgy with New Victory Theater (NYC), New Dramatists (NYC), MTC Theater (NYC), and The Playwrights Realm (NYC). Regional credits include Huntington Theater Company (Boston), Cleveland Play House, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Salt Lake Acting Company. Other credits include Playwrights Center, Great Plains Theater Commons.


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(The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien)
Well, that says it all really. Just as well as I haven't written much about this yet. In fact I think I'll just quote Tolkien again.
'And then softly, to his own surprise, there at the vain end of his long journey and his grief, moved by what thought in his heart he could not tell, Sam began to sing...He murmered old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr Bilbo's rhymes that came into his mind like fleeting glimpses of the country of his home'.
And now something by someone else
'The first is itself a memory of a memory. As I stood beside a
flowering currant bush on a summer day there suddenly arose in me
without warning, and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries,
the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother
had brought his toy garden into the nursery...It was a sensation, of
course, of desire: but desire for what? not, certainly, for a
biscuit-tin filled with moss, nor even (though this came into it) for
my own past...and before I knew what I desired, the desire itself was
gone, the whole glimpse withdrawn, the world turned commonplace again,
or only stirred by a longing for the longing that had just ceased...'
(Surprised by Joy, CS Lewis)
What is nostalgia? When I think of walks taken with my family as a child in winter in the Cotswolds I feel a deep sense of longing, and of loss. But what am I really longing for? Of course, on one level I am presumably looking wistfully at a time when I felt more secure and when a thousand possible lives stretched ahead of me. But there is, I think, more to it than that. In reality I was not that secure as a child: I don't think any child really is. To a large extent I suspect that that image is an illusion. Part of any content I felt at the time was, I am sure, also based on illusory fantasies of my own future. At both points I am, therefore, gazing at the rainbow's end.
I wonder if what is actually happening is something else. I think that I am actually yearning for something beyond the past, something that has in reality grown neither further nor closer with the passage of time. I think that there is a sort of 'hyperperspective', by which looking elsewhere or elsewhen something else comes into view: I think that something is a memory, a trace, of our Real Home.
All language is metaphor: but I believe that in some strange way the whole of the normal world and our normal experiences are metaphors for a real world underneath, or around, or throughout us. (The Sufi poet Rumi thought all language was based on a longing for home.)
As I hinted above, this is not just about our own past, or even the past (or the future) generally. It is about the other, and, if you like, how the other that connects with us in a definable way also connects us to, or reminds us of, the Other that cannot be reached except by metaphor and by story. I have similar feeling about Spain, especially Andalucia. I long to be sitting at a table in the street, drinking beer with someone close, with white walls, baking blue sky, and the sound of crickets, steeped in the history of the lost Islamic kingdom of Al-Andalus. But this is all a mirage. None of these things really exist, or, if they do, they are not what I am really looking for. If I had been born there it would just be normality: what would an Andalucian Giles long for? (Having said that, it appears that to at least one local there still existed nonetheless a strong sense of the otherness of Andalucia. The poet Lorca perceived, in Granada, 'a sense of absence, of something lost for ever', if indeed it ever existed. 'My Granada is not of today' he wrote...'but that which could and ought to exist, although I don't know if it ever will' (Lorca, quoted in 'Frederico Garcia Lorca' by Ian Gibson))
All this suggests that we have a longing not for our past, or the security of childhood, or our true love, or a place where we could be happy, but, through these longings, for something else. For Home.
'¿Como es possible que sienta nostalgia por un mundo que no
(Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, arriving at Machu Picchu, quoted in the Motorcycle Diaries)
('how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?')


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In Working at Play, Aron offers the first full-length history of how Americans have vacationed. In the early 19th century, Aron shows, vacations were taken for health more than for fun, as the wealthy travelled to watering places, seeking cures for everything from consumption to rheumatism. But starting in the 1850s the growth of a white-collar middle class and the expansion of railroads made vacationing a mainstream activity. Aron charts this growth with grace and insight, tracing the rise of new vacation spots as the nation and the middle class blossomed.
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If you are buying a TV, you are obliged to know the latest "must have" feature, the 8K technology.
Leading TV brands such as Sony, LG, Hisense, Samsung and TCL are ready to launch their 8K TV on the market by the end of the year.
But what exactly is 8K and should you buy one?
In theory, an 8K TV has a stack more pixels and a bigger screen to fit them all inside  Unfortunately, it's not worth the money, at least not yet.
I do not even have a 4K television in my house and this was launched only a few years ago
Technology companies claim that 4K TVs provide much sharper picture quality because pixel density has been increased from 1080p (also known as Full HD).
Technically, the term 4K refers to the horizontal resolution of the product, which is set at 4000 pixels (four times 1
8K TECHNOLOGY  The 8K television has twice the amount of pixels of its predecessor, consisting of about 7,680 for 4,320 pixels.
As a result, the best 8K TVs on the market boast 33 million pixels.
The bigger your TV is (the closer you get), the more likely you'll be able to distinguish between these levels of image resolution.
There's no doubt that 4K resolution is fantastic, but unless you're sitting one arm away, your eyes can not really crack those extra pixels.
Needless to say, the 8K is getting carried away.
The optimal distance to sit on a 60-inch 4K television to really appreciate the added resolution is about 1.2 meters – 8K makes this distance ridiculously smaller.
All the major brands had their 8K TVs on display at CES this week and were quite spectacular.
You can stay a few inches away and the image is impeccable.
But unless you want to buy a giant TV and sit in front of the night, 8K will not make a big difference in your life.
PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
So if we have 8K televisions all of a sudden, does it mean that the things we are looking at have been produced with the capacity of 8K?
None of the major content providers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, or film studios have made much noise on 8K content production.
The former Chief Product Officer of Netflix once told Digital Spy that he was not interested in the extra pixel density.
"8K is only interesting if you're sitting too close to the TV," he said.
At most, it will still take a couple of years to see any content produced natively in 8K.
Head of Sony TV in Australia and New Zealand, Aki Hosoda, said there are no 8K content available.
"But the market is growing and for 80-inch and abov TVs, you need 8K for that super-high resolution."
Sony announced a huge 8-inch 98-inch TV at CES, however only an 85-inch version will arrive in Australia.
The company has also introduced a professional broadcast camera level that resumes in 8K, at 120 frames per second (UHC 80300).
A Sony spokesman confirmed: "The Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan will be filmed and broadcast in 8K in Japan."
However, precisely because there is no 8K content available there, it does not mean that these TVs are wasted. They are all full of powerful chipsets that can "upscale" or convert the content into something that is close to the true 8K.
For example, the second-generation Alpha 9 intelligent processor on board the 8-inch 8-inch OLK TV from LG released this year takes advantage of deep learning processes to not only upscale content on "near 8K", but also adjusts the brightness and contrast of the image according to the lighting of the environment in your living room.
However, the 8K TVs on display at CES have reproduced native 8K content from an external disk, so I have yet to see these high-level powers in action.
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With all forms of new technology, you have to pay a high price to be one of the first to adopt, but it is probably
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However Samsung – a bitter rival of an LG-based colleague based in Korea – claimed a different horse.
It has QLED display (Q stands for Quantum Point) that uses a film of tiny semiconductor crystal particles that can be precisely controlled for their color output.
Samsung's QLED display is still backlit and is widely considered a step below the OLED. However, Samsung's new MicroLED technology that is just coming on the market promises to give OLED a run for its money and has been exposed to CES in a huge, frameless display that has the strength to be modular.
Several companies also have their versions of motion smoothing technologies designed to eliminate any blurring during fast-moving blows – a particularly important thing for sports lovers. This is just one example of the kind of technology that is most likely to have a major impact on your viewing experience.
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A 46-year-old man from Illinois pleaded not guilty on Thursday for purportedly stalking teen actress and singer Selena Gomez, famed girlfriend of Justin Bieber.
Los Angeles County prosecutors accused Thomas Brodnicki of stalking the 19-year-old star between the months of July and October and asked that a judge provide Gomez with a protective order.
Gomez reported being in “extreme fear” of Brodnicki after discovering he had a history of stalking as well as a mental illness, according to the BBC.
The man had allegedly told a psychiatrist that he traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles just to meet Gomez, whereupon he visited her work a few times. He also revealed that had conversations with God about killing the “Monte Carlo” actress as well.
Worried that her parents or her assistant would be harmed in Brodnicki’s attempts to visit her, Gomez asked the court for a restraining order.
In response to the request, the Los Angeles Times reported that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Upinder Kalra granted a three-year protective order for the actress, which would keep Brodnicki at least 100 yards away from Gomez, her parents and her assistant.
The judge also set bail for the man at $150,000.
In previous charges, Brodnicki was arrested in 2003 for stalking a waitress at a Des Plaines restaurant, according to the Times. He was found unfit for trial in 2007 and committed to a mental health facility.
A year later, he was finally convicted and sentenced to three years in prison, though it remained unclear how much time he actually served.
In May 2010, he was convicted again for cyberstalking a woman in 2008, receiving a three-year sentence. He, however, was released again due to time already served before his plea, authorities shared, thus leading to his next episode with Gomez.
A temporary restraining order was given to him on Oct. 13 when it was revealed that he had visited the “Wizards of Waverly Place” star’s workplace on three occasions.
Thursday’s restraining order prohibits Brodnicki from going near Gomez for the next three years.
If he is found guilty of stalking again, Brodnicki may face another three years in prison.
While Gomez may feel relief from the latest incident, her boyfriend Justin Bieber remains in some trouble of his own with recent rumors that he impregnated a woman three years older than him.
Mariah Yeater filed a paternity suit against Bieber earlier this week and claimed she had sexual relations with the singer backstage at his Staples Center concert in October 2010, leading to the birth of their alleged son.
Bieber is denying all claims and ignoring the rumors, focusing “on what is real,” he tweeted.


text: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) first emerged in late 2012. Since its emergence, a total of 2279 patients from 27 countries have been infected across the globe according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report (Feb. 12th, 2019). Approximately 806 patients have died. The virus uses its spike proteins as adhesive factors that are proinflammatory for host entry through a specific receptor called dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4). This receptor is considered a key factor in the signaling and activation of the acquired and innate immune responses in infected patients. Using potent antigens in combination with strong adjuvants may effectively trigger the activation of specific MERS-CoV cellular responses as well as the production of neutralizing antibodies. Unfortunately, to date, there is no effective approved treatment or vaccine for MERS-CoV. Thus, there are urgent needs for the development of novel MERS-CoV therapies as well as vaccines to help minimize the spread of the virus from infected patients, thereby mitigating the risk of any potential pandemics. Our main goals are to highlight and describe the current knowledge of both the innate and adaptive immune responses to MERS-CoV and the current state of MERS-CoV vaccine development. We believe this study will increase our understanding of the mechanisms that enhance the MERS-CoV immune response and subsequently contribute to the control of MERS-CoV infections.

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Indian captain Virat Kohli has come out in support of Rishabh Pant’s style of play, saying that he will continue playing in the way he plays, ahead of the second Test between India and England at the Lords on Thursday.
The 23-year-old Pant scored a brisk 25 runs off just 20 balls in the first innings, which allowed India to inch closer towards gaining a lead in the first Test at Trent Bridge. He looked set to play big but chipped an early drive to cover off Ollie Robinson.
“That’s basically how he plays. He obviously has the capability and the ability to carry out a long innings in that manner. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a defensive role. When there is demand of the situation, he is intelligent enough to understand. If we are playing to save a game, we obviously want him playing those kinds of shots. But there is a 50-50 situation and there is a chance for him to change the momentum of the game, he will take that chance,” said Kohli in the pre-match press conference about Pant being given an attacking role with the bat.
He further said, “That’s how he plays, that’s how he is and we want him to be that way. Obviously, communication is very clear from the team, where we are heading and what kind of approach is needed in different sessions. But from Rishabh we expect him to play an innings which changes the momentum of the game and take that balance towards us as a team. He’s going to continue to play this way.”

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Reporting about Hurricane Florence’s long-term effects on rural North Carolina put Laura Bratton ’15 on journalism’s cutting edge.
Hurricane Florence slammed into the North Carolina coast early on the morning of Sept. 14, 2018, making landfall at Wilmington, the hometown of Laura Bratton ’15. Florence brought 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts, record rainfall, and a storm surge that flooded the roads leading to the city, leaving it an island cut off from the rest of the state.
Bratton largely escaped the storm’s wrath. After the state ordered an evacuation of the area, she had headed a couple hours inland to Raleigh, where she spent three weeks. Wind and rain destroyed her mom’s condo in Wilmington, but Bratton and the family picked up the pieces and soon found a sense of normalcy.
That wasn’t the case for much of eastern North Carolina, as Bratton discovered. While finishing her college degree, she became a freelancer for a local nonprofit news organization to report podcast stories about places and people who couldn’t put their lives back together so easily. With second-hand recording equipment and little training in journalism or audio production, Bratton immersed herself in hurricane-battered rural communities along the coast, reporting on their struggles but also the resilience of people that mainstream news outlets rarely spotlight. Her goal: turn the microphone over to others so they could share their stories and help make their communities stronger.
The resulting Storm Stories series of 15 podcasts has put Bratton on the cutting edge of a growing trend: nonprofit journalism with a civic mission. Just 24, she’s now co-director of Shoresides, which is covering eastern North Carolina through podcasts, newsletters, documentaries, and videos that aim to strengthen communities and highlight stories often neglected. Its Coastal Youth Media program also trains young people to produce and broadcast their own stories.
A journalism career covering the small towns of coastal Carolina is far from what Bratton planned as a student at Episcopal. “I had always envisioned myself moving to a big city like New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles,” she says. “That's the big dream leaving somewhere like Episcopal; it sets you up to go to big places.”
An achievement-focused cum laude student and field hockey standout at EHS, Bratton fell in love with economics in Dr. Mike Miller’s AP class, then majored in the subject while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before graduating from UNC, she did a Morgan Stanley internship in New York, an ideal launchpad for the high-powered finance career she thought she wanted.
But in the fall of 2018, as her hometown was recovering from Florence, Bratton was rethinking her plans. Working at Morgan Stanley, she had not found a passion for finance, and nearly a year into hard-won sobriety, she was changing her outlook on life. The hurricane’s devastation, she says, “bound our city together and made me realize all the things I appreciated about Wilmington and the deep connection I have to it.”
She turned to journalism in part because of a UNC program she had done years earlier in South Africa, writing stories for GroundUp, an independent nonprofit news agency covering human rights issues. In Wilmington, she initially aimed to do documentary filmmaking — the region is a hotbed for such work — but when she approached Working Narratives, a local arts and media nonprofit, the group offered her a $1,000 stipend to produce post-Florence podcasts. The organization aims to do collaborative journalism with communities that shines a light on overlooked areas and changes the narrative about them, which in turn makes change itself possible.
One of Bratton’s early stories focused on the town of Flair Bluff, whose Black-majority population had been hollowed out by Florence as well as Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Disaster aid had done little to restore the homes of those who remained; two years after Matthew, some still had no electricity.
Bratton anchored the story on the personal narrative of Gloria Walters, who survived both Matthew and Florence and now works for a nonprofit helping families recover from the storms. “I’m crying with them, I’m praying with them, I encourage them,” Walters told Bratton. “I tell them my story, and I let them know that if I can do it, you can do it.”
Bratton’s Storm Stories series focused tightly on individuals such as Walters, including a first responder, a trauma specialist, and a community activist. Her reporting illustrated service gaps to these communities — often home to families of color — but also pointed to how individuals in these towns and neighborhoods were building back on their own. “People closest to the issue at hand are also closest to the solution,” she says.
Early in 2020, as the pandemic set in, Bratton and others created Shoresides, an online local news audio platform that is a Working Narratives project begun to help residents of the region feel connected during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It operates like a start-up,” she says. “We’re still in the early phases of figuring out what sort of shows we want.”
Shoreside News podcasts cover how the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the elections have affected the region. Stories are told through the prism of individuals, with episodes featuring a grocery-store clerk, a community college student, first-time voters, a hair-salon owner, a nurse, and a disabled veteran, among others. Somewhere & Elsewhere focuses on local artists, while She Rocks is a vehicle for teenage girls, particularly young women of color, to talk about their lives and issues that matter to them. Bratton is particularly excited about a new show focused on the hog industry and how its large, concentrated feeding operations are affecting the environment and health of the region.
Apart from Shoresides, Bratton did a story last year for NPR that illustrated the pandemic-related challenges for people in recovery for alcohol and drug addiction who rely on 12-step meetings or other in-person support. A friend from her own 12-step group had relapsed and spent a few weeks in the county jail.
As Bratton and colleagues build out Shoresides, she aims to continue to improve her technical skills, perhaps through a graduate program. But she’s not planning to leave her hometown anytime soon. “There’s just like such a wealth of stories here,” she says. “And it’s so funny, because I always saw myself moving to bigger and better things. Yet those things are in my backyard. I just never realized that until I opened my eyes to what’s happening around me.”

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3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 6 in 10 people lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities at least 892 million people continue to practice open. A social enterprise that offers water solutions to rwandans and neighbors we drill water wells, measure soil for water potential, provide micron filters.
The access to safe drinking water in bolivia is problematic for most people indeed, the water is contaminated with bacteria, viruses, lead, mercury and salt, which have negative impacts on the population’s health. Millions of people around the world could get access to safe water in their homes with the help of small, affordable loans that's where waterorg comes in we are here to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans there is both a need and demand for. Billions of people have gained access to clean and safe drinking water since 1990, but data show that huge inequalities remain.
Access to safe water and sanitation can quickly turn problems into potential – unlocking education, work opportunities, and improved health for women, children and families across the world today, 1 in 9 people lack access to safe water 1 in 3 people lack access to a toilet. Clean water is an essential element for human health, wellbeing and prosperity whether used for drinking, cleaning, food production or industrial output, access to sufficient water resources is a basic human need. Clean water, basic toilets and good hygiene practices are essential for the survival and development of children today, there are around 24 billion people who do not use improved sanitation, and 663 million who do not have access to improved water sources.
A new report by the world health organisation/unicef joint monitoring programme delves into data on drinking water from the last 17 years to give a detailed view of the state of access to drinking.
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Access to safe water improves the health of families and children, keeps girls in school, gives people back their time lost collecting water, and empowers the leaders of tomorrow no wonder it’s estimated that every $1 invested in water and sanitation programs yields up to $12 in economic returns. Clean water is an essential element for human health, wellbeing and prosperity whether used for drinking, cleaning, food production or industrial output, access to sufficient water resources is a basic human need access to sufficient and safe sanitation facilities is also vital for hygiene, disease prevention, and human health.
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A leading supplier of mobile and semi-mobile crushing, screening and materials handling products – South African-based Pilot Crushtec – has cornered the silica mining market in South Africa. This is the claim by sales manager Graham Kleinhans, who says there are currently more than ten Twister vertical shaft impact crushers in operation at silica mines in the country.
IMS Engineering (IMS) is in a joint venture with its comminution technology partner, EarthTechnica Company Limited (ETCL) of Japan – manufacturers of the EarthTechnica Kawasaki KG 5525 HD-S primary gyratory crusher, which is to be installed near the Foskor south pit by July 2009.
Foskor currently processes pyroxenite from the north and south pits and reclaims foskorite from depleting surface stockpiles, all of which contain phosphate. The phosphate rock is used to produce phosphoric acid, which, in turn, is used in a number of applications including fertilisers, animal feed and food preservatives.


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— Posted by Grant (February 19, 2014 at 9:00 am)
Can pro-lifers learn something from vegetarians—perhaps a means of swaying public opinion?
According to the results of a recent NPR Intelligence Squared Debate, the answer seems to be a resounding yes.
In the two-on-two competition, Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, argued for the elimination of meat from global diets, stating, â€œWhen the animals are seen as commodities, and as edibles, they are not treated with respect. That is bad for the animals, and I would also suggest it is bad for us.â€
After beginning with half of the audience against him, Gene and his co-debater managed to sway an additional fifth of the crowd to their side. If wantonly killing animals can change the minds of so many people so quickly, could it have the same impact coming from a pro-life speaker?
Imagine Gene standing in front of a group of American voters, testifying to a similar notion, but with slightly different words: â€œWhen children—born or unborn—are seen as commodities, and as annoyances, they are not treated with respect. That is bad for the children, and I would suggest it is bad for us.â€ [Continue reading this entry »]

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Christie to horse owners: One week to reach deal
He blamed them for an investor's pulling out of an agreement to lease Monmouth Park.
NEWARK, N.J. - Gov. Christie issued an ultimatum to New Jersey's thoroughbred horse owners Monday, telling them they had a week to come up with a new deal to save horse racing in the state.
Christie blamed the owners for causing an investor to pull out of an agreement to lease Monmouth Park.
He said a recent handshake agreement with the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association was scuttled when lawyers for the group made new demands for $5 million in purse subsidies.
"If they don't come to us in the next week with a deal that works and stop extorting the taxpayers for millions of dollars in subsidies to their industry, then we're not going to have a deal and we won't have a horse-racing industry in the state anymore," he said.
John Forbes, president of the association, said he could not immediately comment on Christie's ultimatum. A message left for the group's attorney was not returned.
The dispute threatens to derail the governor's plan to privatize both Monmouth and the Meadowlands Racetrack, deals he has said have to be executed at the same time, after he decided to end state subsidies to racing more than a year ago.
Christie has looked for a way to get the state out of horse racing. A commission he appointed recommended ending a $30 million annual subsidy to racing, which has been done.
The Meadowlands was projected to lose $11 million this year. Monmouth Park was projected to lose $6.6 million.
Contracts to transfer the tracks to private owners were slated for signature Dec. 5, at which time control of Monmouth Raceway would have gone to casino owner Morris Bailey, with Meadowlands operations going to Jeff Gural, who owns Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs in Upstate New York and two horse farms.
When negotiations between the owners' association and the administration hit a snag, Bailey pulled out of a five-year lease deal for the Oceanport track.
Tom Luchento, president of the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey, said Monday that the deal with Gural to lease the Meadowlands for standardbred racing appeared to be moving forward and that Christie's dispute with the thoroughbred association would not affect it.
Forbes told the Associated Press recently that his organization had been prepared to sign a deal when the administration changed its tune "at the eleventh hour." Under the original agreement, the Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association would have been granted a permit to run thoroughbred races at the Meadowlands on certain dates, though all such races had been consolidated at Monmouth.
In exchange, the association agreed to cut the racing schedule in half, to 71 days for five years. But Forbes said the administration reneged on the permit for thoroughbred racing at the Meadowlands - a permit that also would have given his group the flexibility to seek additional racing dates and potentially be used as a bargaining chip if the Meadowlands got slot machines or other alternative gaming.
What derailed the final deal has not been explained by either side.
Christie on Monday accused the group of holding taxpayers hostage.
"The problem is the thoroughbred horsemen are completely untrustworthy, that's the problem," Christie said. "I simply am no longer going to permit millionaire horsemen to take money from waiters and waitresses and police officers and teachers who are the taxpayers of this state to fund their industry."
Christie added that he hoped a deal could still be reached.


So, an engineer, scientist, designer, and an entrepreneur walk into a bar… It could be the beginning of a bad joke, but in San Francisco last week these professionals all agreed on at least one thing: Big Data will transform the design, construction, and operation of the built environment.
Last week, I had the privilege of joining four colleagues to talk to a packed house about “Big Data and the Built Environment” at the VERGE SF conference in San Francisco. The panel provided an exceptional indication of the current state of the industry, as well as the enormous potential for transformative change. We heard Paul Mathew introduce the Department of Energy’s Building Performance Database, Josh Emig talk about emerging areas of digital practice at Perkins+Will, Lindsay Baker hinted at new occupant-responsive control technology from Building Robotics, and Harry Hobbs inspired the audience with his cutting-edge applications of information technology to manage energy at Intercontinental Hotels.
The building industry often enters the “Big Data” conversation through energy efficiency, and this is where our conversation started off last week. This is understandable. We are excited about the opportunities created by a growing Smart Grid and the proliferation of sensors and sub-meters. These provide unprecedented information about energy use over time and across spatial scales. This also reflects the long-standing, foundational importance of energy efficiency to the green building movement.
Yet, I would argue energy efficiency alone is rarely really big data. As many academics have argued, the concept of “Big Data” refers to mixtures of volume (scale of data), velocity (analysis of streaming data), variety (difference in forms of data), and veracity (uncertainty associated data). Relatively speaking, energy efficiency alone is modest by these measures. Green building changes things and brings true Big Data into play.
Green building encompasses energy efficiency and adds many more dimensions of performance. LEED offers a definition of green building which includes location and transportation, energy and atmosphere, water efficiency, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality. This breaks out into hundreds of individual LEED credits and thousands of specific metrics. Taken together, these criteria define buildings that benefit people and the environment.
A Big Data story starts to emerge when tens of thousands of green buildings projects using thousands of metrics, generate data from tens or hundreds of thousands of automated “points”, and provide daily experiences for millions of occupants. Now, we’re talking Big Data: huge data volumes, streaming at different rates, taking a wide variety of forms, and varying dramatically in their accuracy, precision, and reliability.
We are just starting to understand and begin to leverage the expanding universe of data associated with green buildings. At USGBC, this includes the on-going development of the Green Building Information Gateway, www.gbig.org. GBIG is an integrative platform to understand the performance and attributes of buildings around the world. GBIG provides project transparency, market context, integrated timelines, and analytic insights. Over time, our work on GBIG is helping us prepare for a world where information about the green dimensions of buildings comes from many sources over extended periods of time. For example, a high-performance green building may include a LEED-NC certification, an AIA/COTE award, a public ENERGY STAR label, information from municipal benchmarking, a LEED-EBOM certification, participation in a utility demand response program, and contracting through a solar power purchase agreement. Each of these activities and attributes is associated with many different metrics and, to varying degrees, on-going data streams. Ultimately, these pieces of data will be used together to identify and recognize high performing assets under superior management.
Our conversations at VERGE SF was another important step down this road. To a remarkable degree, the participants on our panel shared a common vision for a transformed, data-driven world of green building practice. We’re on our way.


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Siamese fighting fish, also known as bettas, are tropical freshwater fish native to the Indochinese peninsula, the region once known as Siam. In the wild, these often colorful fish generally prefer warm, shallow waters. As a domesticated tank fish, Siamese fighting fish are considered hardy and easy to care for as long as they are fed a live-food diet and given a warm-water environment. They can, however, attack other fish in the tank, especially if those fish are other Siamese fighting fish or other tropical fish with large, flowing fins, such as angelfish. These fish should always be given access to the surface of the water, since they have a special organ that allows them to breathe oxygen out of the air.
The Siamese fighting fish may be one of the most popular types of freshwater aquarium fish, especially for freshwater fish novices. These fish often come in bright, attractive colors including white, pink, red, blue, or purple. The typically betta fish reaches a size of about 3 inches (7 cm) in length, and may live for two to three years. These fish normally prefer a water temperature of 75 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (24 to 30 C). Though many Siamese fighting fish are kept in very small containers, aquarium enthusiasts often stress that, ideally, each fish should be allowed a tank capacity of 2 to 3 gallons (7.5 to 11.4 liters).
In their natural habitat, Siamese fighting fish are adapted to life in shallow waters that aren't disturbed by a strong current. Like other fish of the family Osphronemidae, betta fish generally possess a labyrinth organ. This organ allows the fish to breathe oxygen from the air, so that it can continue to thrive in waters that do not contain high levels of oxygen. Because the betta fish typically relies on its labyrinth organ to breathe, it should always be allowed access to the surface of the water in its tank or bowl.
These fish are considered meat-eating fish, and in the wild, they subsist largely on insects. Live food, including brine shrimp, glassworms, and plankton are most often recommended for betta fish. Frozen and freeze-dried foods may usually be safely substituted for live foods.
The Siamese fighting fish is generally believed to be an aggressive fish, and it has been known to attack other members of its species when kept in the same tank. Male betta fish are considered more aggressive than females. Because betta fish can be aggressive, aquarium enthusiasts must generally exercise care when selecting tank mates for this variety. It is generally considered inadvisable to keep a betta fish in the same tank with other bettas, but other species of tropical fish can thrive in the same tank as the betta, as long as they do not have long or large fins.

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Day 01: Arica Airport – Codpa Valley Lodge
Reception at the Arica Airport (or from the Hotel). Visit to the Azapa Valley and its Archaeological Museum. Lunch by the sea. Departure heading south to the Codpa Valley. Arriving in Codpa, beautiful oasis town hidden in a deep ravine. Visit to the church and the farm. Accommodation and dinner in Codpa Valley Lodge.
Day 02: Codpa – Putre
Visit to the Ofragía Petroglyphs. After that, we will take the road to the prealtiplanic villages. We will visit Timar, Tignamar and Saxamar. Short trekking to the Escondida Gorge. Picnic. The trip continues by the villages of Belén and Chaquipiña before we arrive in Zapahuira. Short excursion to the Putre town viewpoint with the Tarapacá Volcano in the background. Relax in the Jurasi Thermal Pools. We will head to Putre. Hotel.
Day 03: Putre – Chungará Lake – Surire Salt Flat – Colchane
Early in the morning, we will visit the Lauca National Park, the town of Parinacota and the famous Chungará Lake. After that, we will head south to the Surire Salt Flat. Lunch and you will enjoy a bath in the Thermal Pools. Then we will cross the Isluga National Park. At the end of the day we will arrive in the border town of Colchane (3800 m) where we will accommodate in a hostel.
Day 04: Colchane – Lirima – Huasco Salt Flat – Pica
We will take the mountain road that we will lead us to pass through an over-5000-meter-high passage, between Churuyo and Alto Chaviri. After that, we will visit the town of Lirima and we will lunch in the Aguas Calientes Thermal Pools. In the afternoon, we will continue to the Huayco Salt Flat before arriving in the Pica Oasis where we will accommodate. Enjoy a bath in the natural pool of the oasis. Hotel.
Day 05: Pica – Calama – San Pedro de Atacama
Visit to La Tirana, the ghost-city of Humberstone and the Cerro Pintado Geoglyphs. After that, we will take the rout to Calama where we will make a brief stop. Lunch on route. Transfer to San Pedro de Atacama. Visit to the Moon Valley during the sunset. Accommodation in a Eco House in the San Pedro oasis, spending time with our hosts.
Day 06: San Pedro de Atacama
Full day excursion to the Atacama Salt Flat, Cejar Lagoon and the Altiplanic Lagoons. Return to San Pedro and dinner and astronomic tour by night.
Day 07: San Pedro de Atacama
Trekking to the Salt Mountain Range and excursion to Arcoíris Valley and its multicolored hills. Return to San Pedro. Farwell barbecue under the stars in the oasis.
Day 08: San Pedro de Atacama – Tatio Geysers – Calama Airport
Departure from San Pedro de Atacama early in the morning heading to the Tatio Geysers. After the visit, we will go to Calama. Transfer to the airport. End of services.

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Canada has begun negotiations with Lockheed Martin and the US government to finalise the acquisition of 88 F-35As after selecting the fifth-generation type for its long-running fighter competition.
To be operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), deliveries of the jets could begin as early as 2025. A contract signature is anticipated later this year.
Describing the purchase as “the most significant investment in the RCAF in more than 30 years”, Ottawa says the F-35 was the “top-ranked” of the two bidders, edging out the Saab Gripen E.
Canada has budgeted $15-19 billion for the acquisition, which seeks to replace its legacy fleet of Boeing CF-18s.
Public Services and Procurement Canada says the assessment took into account “a wide range of factors, including capabilities, cost, as well as economic benefits and impacts.”
Improvement work has begun at the RCAF’s two main operating bases for the jet – 3 Wing Bagotville and 4 Wing Cold Lake.
“It is critical that current and future Royal Canadian Air Force pilots have the most advanced equipment available to ensure they can deliver on the important work that we ask of them.
“This procurement project for the RCAF – the largest in over three decades – will help ensure Canada can continue to defend North America, enhance our Arctic sovereignty and meet our NATO and NORAD obligations in the face of current and emerging threats,” says defence minister Anita Anand.
Canada originally selected the F-35 in 2010, but the procurement was dogged by political controversy. The incoming Liberal government in 2015 promised to re-examine the fighter acquisition, launching a new competition in 2017.
Although other options were considered, the F-35 always remained the front-runner given Canadian industry’s participation in the programme since its early stages.


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Sat, May 27|
Innovation Crossing, Heritage Park
Festival of Quilts Guild Meet-up
Meet up with fellow guild members at Heritage Park Festival of Quilts
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May 27, 2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Innovation Crossing, Heritage Park, 1900 Heritage Dr SW, Calgary, AB T2V 2X3, Canada
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Come meet fellow guild members at the Festival of Quilts. Please wear your nametag to find everyone.
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Commissioners in Sussex paid a total of £642,000 in wages to former NHS staff after their private company employer ceased trading, HSJ can reveal.
Alan Beasley, the chief finance officer for High Weald and Lewes Clinical Commissioning Group, said he would be “exploring all avenues” to recover the cash from Docklands Medical Services, which provided patient transport services in Sussex until it ceased trading last summer.
He insisted that the payment will not set a precedent for other private providers to expect a bail out.
The circumstances of the payment were “unique”, Mr Beasley told HSJ. “We are not setting a precedent in terms of other private sector contracts that we might have. Those were ex gratia payments, not contractual payments.”
The 71 former South East Coast Ambulance Service Foundation Trust workers at the centre of the dispute twice lost their jobs when two private patient transport companies – VM Langfords and Docklands Medical Services – ceased trading in rapid succession last summer….read more
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Are you intrigued by the world of wine and considering starting your wine collection? Congratulations, you’re embarking on a journey that promises pleasure and sophistication.
Wine collecting can be an enjoyable and rewarding hobby, but beginning with a solid foundation is essential. We’ll walk you through the practical steps to confidently start your wine collection with The Wine Collective.
Define Your Budget
Setting a budget is a critical first step when starting a wine collection. Wine prices vary dramatically, from budget-friendly options to rare, high-end bottles. Deciding on a budget will help you make informed choices and avoid overspending.
Consider what you’re comfortable investing in your collection and stick to that limit. Remember that you don’t need a vast budget; excellent wines are available at various prices.
Learn the Basics
Before diving into wine collecting, it’s crucial to understand the basics of wine. While you don’t need to become a wine expert, having a fundamental knowledge of wine can enhance your collecting experience.
Start by learning about grape varieties, wine regions, and wine styles. Familiarise yourself with the terminology used in the wine world, such as “vintage,” “varietal,” and “terroir.”
Proper wine storage is vital to maintaining your wines’ quality and aging potential. Temperature and humidity control are essential factors for wine preservation. Investing in a wine refrigerator or cellar is advisable if you plan to collect many bottles.
However, if you’re starting small, a wine fridge is a practical and cost-effective option. Ensure your storage area is dark and free from vibrations, as light and movement can negatively affect wine quality.
Start with Versatility
As a beginner, it’s wise to begin your collection with versatile wines that have broad appeal. Look for well-regarded wines from established regions like Bordeaux, Burgundy, Napa Valley, or Tuscany.
These regions produce wines known for their quality and aging potential. Starting with wines from reputable producers in these regions is a safe and enjoyable way to begin your collection.
Explore Different Styles
Diversify your collection by exploring various wine styles. While red and white wines are the most common, consider adding sparkling, dessert, and fortified wine to your repertoire.
Each style offers a unique tasting experience and can add depth to your collection. For instance, Champagne is a fantastic choice for celebratory moments, while a well-aged Port can be a delightful after-dinner treat.
Maintaining a record of your wine collection is essential for organisation and tracking purposes. Create a spreadsheet or use a dedicated wine-tracking app to document each bottle’s details.
Include the producer, vintage, purchase price, and tasting notes. This record will help you keep track of your collection’s growth and serve as a valuable resource when deciding which wines to open and when.
Join a Wine Club or Online Community
Consider joining a local wine club or online community to enhance your wine-collecting journey. These forums provide opportunities to connect with experienced collectors, discover new wines, and attend tastings or events.
Networking with fellow enthusiasts can be both enjoyable and informative. You can learn from their experiences, exchange recommendations, and gain access to unique wine-buying opportunities.
Patience is Key
Wine collecting is a long-term endeavour that rewards patience. While some wines are enjoyable in their youth, they improve with age. Resisting the temptation to open your bottles too soon is crucial.
Allow them to mature gracefully, and you’ll be rewarded with a more complex and enjoyable drinking experience. Be prepared to wait several years before some of your wines peak.
Educate Your Palate
Developing your palate is an ongoing process involving tasting various wines regularly. Pay attention to the subtle nuances in aromas and flavours. Take notes during your tastings, noting the characteristics that stand out to you.
Feel free to experiment with food pairings to enhance your wine appreciation. Over time, you’ll become more adept at identifying and appreciating the differences between various wines.
Lastly, stay open-minded as you progress in your wine collection. The world of wine is vast and continually evolving, with new regions, grape varieties, and winemaking techniques emerging.
Stay open to a single style or region; explore new wines and areas as you gain experience. The diversity in wine is one of its most compelling aspects, and there’s always something new to discover and enjoy.
Starting a wine collection can be an exciting and fulfilling journey. By setting a budget, learning the basics, investing in proper storage, and gradually expanding your collection, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a knowledgeable and passionate wine collector. Remember, it’s not about collecting the most expensive wines; it’s about enjoying the experience and the diverse world of wine.

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I have created a context class that implements DbContext "BeerRecommenderContext" and an intializer that implements
When I run/debug the project, the entity framework does not not drop the old database and create a new one so changes in model are not reflected which causes problems. I then manually delete the database and rerun and the entity framework doesn't create the database. I run it a second time and the entity framework successfully builds the new database. I'm not very familiar with connection strings so it could be an issue there:
<add name="BeerRecommenderContext" connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI; database=BeerRecommenderContext.mdf; AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|BeerRecommenderContext.mdf; User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
In the Application_Start method of my Global.asax.cs file I have added the line
How do I get DropCreateDatabaseAlways to perform properly?


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In 2016, Florida voters voiced overwhelming support for medical cannabis, approving the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative (also known as Amendment 2). The following year, Senate Bill 8A outlined rules for use and administration – including a strict definition of what type of doctor is allowed to recommend (or prescribe) medical marijuana:
‘Qualified physician’ means a person who holds an active, unrestricted license as an allopathic physician under chapter 458 or as an osteopathic physician under chapter 459 and is in compliance with [all] physician education requirements.
Note: Since medical marijuana is still federally classified as a Schedule I substance, and ineligible for FDA approval, the term recommend is used in place of prescribe, as only FDA-approved medications can technically be “prescribed.” However, for ease of understanding, the two terms are used interchangeably below.
What’s the Difference Between a Regular Doctor and a Medical Marijuana Doctor?
While regulations surrounding the requirements for a medical marijuana doctor may seem confusing, Senate Bill 8A simply requires that doctors receive additional training to become certified to recommend medical marijuana. These medical professionals maintain the same qualifications as other doctors, but add to their education in order to recommend medical marijuana when it is necessary for patient care.
Senate Bill 8A defines the educational requirements for medical marijuana doctors as follows:
Before being approved as a qualified physician […] and before each license renewal, a physician must successfully complete a 2-hour course and subsequent examination offered by the Florida Medical Association or the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association which encompass the requirements of this section and any rules adopted hereunder.
The course and examination shall be administered at least annually and may be offered in a distance learning format, including an electronic, online format that is available upon request. The price of the course may not exceed $500.
A physician who has met the physician education requirements of former s. 381.986(4), Florida Statutes 2016, before the effective date of this section, shall be deemed to be in compliance with this paragraph from the effective date of this act until 90 days after the course and examination required by this paragraph become available.
There are also additional regulations in place regarding medical marijuana doctors to protect patients who may be seeking medical cannabis care:
A qualified physician may not be employed by, or have any direct or indirect economic interest in, a medical marijuana treatment center or marijuana testing laboratory.
The excerpt above ensures that medical marijuana doctors do not have any personal stake in recommending medical marijuana treatment. By eliminating any possibility for financial gain or benefit, this legislation helps to make sure that doctors are only recommending medical marijuana when it is in a patient’s best interest.
What Conditions Qualify for a Medical Marijuana Prescription?
Although the term prescription is often used to describe doctor-recommended medications, this phrasing is not technically appropriate for medical marijuana. Due to FDA regulations and conflicting federal and state laws, medical marijuana prescriptions are referred to as recommendations. Medical marijuana treatment differs from traditional prescription medications, as the process to begin use requires government approval.
If you have been diagnosed with one of the following conditions, you may be eligible for medical marijuana treatment:
In addition to the conditions above, Florida medical marijuana doctors may also recommend medical marijuana for the treatment of other “diagnosable, debilitating conditions of like, kind, or class.” This can include conditions such as chronic nonmalignant pain, terminal conditions, and anxiety.
For a full list of conditions that may qualify for medical marijuana treatment, please refer to: Qualifying Conditions.
What states allow doctors to prescribe marijuana?
Once you qualify for medical marijuana and begin your treatment, you will be free to use medical cannabis, as recommended, within the state of Florida.
Although marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I substance, and highly regulated at the federal level, a number of other states have now legalized its medical use, including those highlighted on the map below:
Depending on the state, the possession and use of medical cannabis may be illegal, even if you have a Florida-issued medical marijuana card.
Under federal law, it is illegal to take cannabis across state lines, which can put patients in a tough spot. Fortunately, there are a few options for medical marijuana patients, depending on the travel location.
For example, if you are in a state where recreational marijuana is legal, you can purchase marijuana from a dispensary. This will not require possession of your medical marijuana card, but you will have to be of legal age.
Several states that have legalized medical marijuana practice reciprocity laws, allowing medical marijuana use if you possess an out-of-state medical marijuana card. As long as you have your Florida-issued medical card, you will be able to use medical marijuana in the following states:
- New Hampshire
- Rhode Island
However, only Michigan allows non-residents to purchase medical marijuana from authorized dispensaries.
For more information, see: Can I Use My Medical Marijuana in States Where It’s Not Legal?.
Where Can I Find a Medical Marijuana Doctor?
CannaMD is Florida’s leading medical cannabis clinic, with convenient statewide locations, including:
- Fort Lauderdale
- Orange City
- The Villages
- West Palm Beach
For a full list, please see: CannaMD Locations.
In accordance with state law, all CannaMD doctors hold an active, unrestricted license as either an allopathic physician or osteopathic physician and are in compliance with all state-mandated education requirements.
Also in line with Senate Bill 8A, CannaMD physicians are not employed by, and do not have any direct or indirect economic interest in, any medical marijuana treatment centers or marijuana testing laboratories.
CannaMD is committed to providing compassionate care to Florida patients through evidence-based application of medical cannabis research. Centered around education, empathy, and exceptional customer service, CannaMD offers an unparalleled patient experience – empowering Florida residents to pursue a better quality of life!

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In Jotform Cards, you can disable the submit button based on a condition and show form error messages if needed.
Let’s say you want to create a form that asks a code within a number field and the form can
not be submitted if the code is not correctly entered. Well, with Jotform Cards, you can easily achieve this scenario by setting up the Disable Submit feature from CONDITIONS > ENABLE/REQUIRE FIELD
Here’s a quick step-by-step instruction:
1. Go to Settings-> Conditions and choose “Enable/Require Field“.
2. Choose from the list of fields and finally set up the condition action. In the demo form, the form is not allowed to be submitted unless the code field is equal to “1234”.
Here you can see how the condition is setup:
The whole rule needed to meet the conditional logic is this one:
“IF” ==> Number
“STATE”==> Is not equal to
“VALUE” ==> “1234”
And this is the action that will be triggered when the “IF” statement is true.
“DO”==> Disable Submit
“MESSAGE” ==> You can set a message to be shown when the submit button is disabled.
This button allows you to add multiple “IF” and “xxx” statements in your conditional logic.
3. Save your changes and test your form.
Here’s a sample form:
See the demo also:
If you have questions or concerns, feel free to comment below.


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A year after their debut album 'Room On The 3rd Floor' topped the charts and had four top 10 singles (two of which were number 1) McFly returned in 2005 with their follow-up album titled 'Wonderland'.
Things got off to a great start with this album after McFly were invited to write and release the official Comic Relief single for that year. 'All About You' obviously shot straight to number 1 and became one of their biggest selling singles.
'I'll Be Okay' was the lead single from the album and shows how much mature McFly have become in just a short space of a few months. It's a lot more of a mature sounding song compared to anything on the previous album. This is a great song to launch the album although the band have recently said that they don't think it was a wise idea to release this song first. I disagree. It's a perfect pop song (5/5)
'I've Got You' - The fans ranted and raved about this song during the album release although for me i've never got the appeal of it. Sure, it's a nice enough pop song but it lacks the catchiness of the first song. I defintily think multiple listens of this song are needed before you can let it click with you. Maybe that's just me though. For me, it's a nice album track (3/5).
'Ultraviolet' - "These summer girls are really something else...." - Yep, a nice upbeat feel good song about lust and love. This was released as a single but during a very busy Xmas period. This song is the starting point to where they started getting 'lower' chart placings. It's a great song nontheless and probably just got lost in the busy Xmas singles market (5/5).
'The Ballad Of Paul K' - Dougie Poynter claimed this song was named after a weird guy who went to his school. It's not as upbeat as it's fellow a-side track Ultraviolet, obviousy to show two different sides of the album. It had a cool video though but it's a song that I don't really listen to much at all now (3/5).
'I Wanna Hold You' - The band recently said that they should have released this as the lead single from the album. It did become the third single though. It's one of the standout tracks on the album. Very pop, very current for 2005. (5/5).
'Too Close For Comfort' - What I love about McFly is although they can be fun and release some incrediably upbeat and catchy tracks, every now and then there is a serious side to them and this is one of those tracks that really stop and make you think how creative these guys are. It is a fan favourite and surprisingly not a single, which is a shame as I think it could have done really well for them (4/5).
'All About You' - The Comic Release single, you've all heard it. It's catchy, it's mature. It's great (5/5)
'She Falls Asleep' - This song has a wonderful instrumental intro that lasts almost two minutes long before going into a lovely Disney-esque ballad. It's a real highlight again (4/5).
'Don't Know Why' - We're almost at the end of the album and it's nice that there haven't been any fillers so far. This song however could be bordering on filler material. It's a nice song but compared to the superior quality of the previous songs this song becomes a bit forgetful (3/5).
'Nothing' - A song that would fit well onto the debut album. Has the same poppy feel that the debut album had. Probably my least favourite song on the album (3/5).
'Memory Lane' - Great closing track. Memory Lane brings great closure to the album and end the chapter on this period brilliantly (4/5).
Such a solid improvement on their debut. Not only improvement but also natural progression. I think this album established this band as serious songwriters.
MCFLY - WONDERLAND
This was the one I'd been waiting for all summer. What can I say?
Well Wonderland is the lads highly anticipated second album. I don't know why it's called Wonderland and the album covers are very weird with freaky animals and stuff but the inset covers are very nice with individual pictures of each of the four members.
First song on the 'Wonderland' play list is their second hit single ' I'll be ok'. This got to number 1 for one week beaten by Oasis. Its very rocky/poppy cheer you up music that I love. The thing about Mcfly that is so great is their lyrics and for I'll be ok is no exception. The chorus ' When you down and lost along the way, just tell yourself I'll be ok' How cheer you up is that?
Next song is 'I've got you' which is one of my favourites. The chorus makes you want to turn your cd player up to the max. Sounds like Mcfly but far rockier. I like!!
Ultraviolet is up next. Originally called Wonderland/Summer girls this ditty of pop genius was written while the boys were in New Orleans filming Just my luck with Lindsey Lohan. There is a sitar playing at the start of the track by Dougie, the 'talkative' bass player. Again the chorus is quite poppy but the rest of the track sounds quite like Oasis. This is where I've realised Mcfly have gone down the Indie road. Which isn't bad at all.
The Ballad of Paul K. mmn, weird lyrics but so weird you'll be singing along. Dougie had said this song was written about a guy he went to school with who thought he was a dinosaur. Enough said! He was making that up. It's actually about their dad's going through a midlife crisis. The lyrics are quite sad, but this songs a sing along tune.
My top favourite ever on this album is the excellent 'I wanna hold you' It's classic Mcfly, with a wicked guitar solo from Danny in the middle. . This was released on 17th October and reached number 3!
Next is the beautiful 'Too close for comfort'. It really is a great song. Very sad, pulls at your heartstrings!!
All about you is next. This song is their first number 1 from back in March. It was a charity single for Comic Relief. It's a beautiful song and very catchy. The video is hilarious too!
She falls asleep part1 is great, its an instrumental, with Tom on piano and a 50 piece orchestra.
She falls asleep part is ok. It's very theatrical though and sounds like it's for a movie soundtrack. It reminded me of the movie ET. There is no guitars or drums and its just not Mcfly. Yes the lyrics are good, Tom, Dougie and Harry wrote it but it's about a girl that commits suicide and that's something I don't want to hear. It is very sad and I have to admit it made me cry. Very sad and shows us how talented Tom Fletcher really is.
Don't know why was written by Danny and his sister Vicky. It's a good track. They had a bad family experience and wrote about it and here is the end result. I think it's a back round song though and not a standout track. It has very heartfelt lyrics. It's a grower, but it's wicked live!!
Nothing is a song that was written by the boys, who were influenced by the Who. You can clearly hear this in the song. It sounds like 'Substitute'. They had total writer's block on this song. It was also thought up in New Orleans in a Jacuzzi of all places. The chorus that was in the original 'Nothing' is now in 'Ultraviolet' It is a song along track, but again doesn't stand out.
Memory Lane was written by Tom and James Bourne (ex Busted) and was written for the first album but they weren't happy with it and they had another go at it for this album. It's a great way to end the album. It has a fantastic orchestra in it. This is a good catchy song.
I enjoyed this album. It was hard for them to top their first ' Room on the floor' as I thought that album was excellent. The boys have grown up and they've brought their music with them. There is some classic Mcfly tunes in here and some very different tunes to. The lads are at the top of their game and have the well-earned title of the nations favourite pop rock band. Long may it continue.
Mcfly are one of those bands that i just cant warm to at all. They're cocky, arrogant, not normal and wierd quite frankly but to their credit they write most of their music themselves and have come up with some decent radio hits and songs.
This is an interesting album and i think any six year old would jump in the air to have this with them but i am more criticial LOL!
There are some very good songs on this album, and some others that arent as good obviously.
I'll Be OK has a good chorus and did quite well for them. It is a bit moany if you know what i mean and drags on and gets repetitive but asides from that it's OK. I didnt like that She Falls Asleep had 2 parts, 1 part was enough and the first was good to be fair. I've Got You was a great song and i did get the eccentric style and some genius lyrics in The Ballad Of Paul K, i have to admit. Thought Too Close For Comfort was album filler and not very good. Memory Lane is good way to end the album. I didnt like Nothing or Don't Know Why - thought they wern't catchy enough.
All in this is a good album aimed at children and teenagers basically. I don't like them as people or as a band but i accept and say that songs like All About You are very good and to their credit they write their own stuff and play it. Their videos are constantly entertaining, and the artwork on this album deserves some praise. They are some very good songs on this album like I'll Be OK and All About You although there are some that arent like Dont KNow Why and Nothing. It's a good album and it is more mature then their debut and their writing, instrument playing skills as well as vocals have all improved.
One of my most enjoyed male vocal groups. McFly have always been about having fun and this comes across superbly in their upbeat music. This album saw them exploring a rockier sound, but it manages to retain that pop vibe which made them famous initially.
Who are they:
Tom, Harry, Danny and Dougie. Tom tends to write most of the tracks and share lead vocals with Danny.
On this album:
'Ill Be Ok' kicks things off with a bang. The track is upbeat and energetic and the guys seem to be in their element here. It stirs memories of The Beatles and the guitar work takes a rockier turn than what we are used to with McFly. I really enjoyed the understated subdued nature of 'Ultraviolet' which puts them on a mature level and shows Tom is capable of carving adult pop songs.
Head for the great 'Ballad Of Paul K' which is quite depressing and has a sorrowful feel about it. It is a lot more melanchonic than their usual stuff and will get you thinking. The obvious highlight on the album is the Comic Relief single 'It's All About You' which has some wonderful harmonies and a chorus which seems to have been plucked straight from the sixties.
Showcasing a more mature sound, the tunes are still there and the vocals are getting grittier, especially from Danny. Not necessarily their best album, but a worthy step in a positive direction
This is a brilliant album by McFly with some brilliant songs on it personally the best song on the album is 'she falls asleep part 2' I listen to this album a lot. Most of the songs are on my mp4 and my phone.
Don't know why: I love this song. I have listened to it about 150 times im obsessed with it.
Ill be ok: this is another song that I love but not as much as don't know why, just love it.
Ive got you: this is an amazing song my mate played it when I was at hers because she got the cd before me and I just found myself sat there tapping my foot nodding along to the beat.: Memory lane: this is an ok song don't listen to it that often but I still do occasionally.
Nothing: I found that this song cheers me up whenever I listen to it. I don't really know why though but all McFly fans should like this song it's just perfect.
She falls asleep part 1: this is just an instrumental but its is amazing im in the middle of learning the piano just so I can achieve my goal... to play this song on it.
She falls asleep part 2: the same tune as part 1 only this time it has lyrics. Tom actually wrote this song for his friend she broke up with her boyfriend and she loved him and wanted him back but he wouldn't so she decided to kill herself but he stopped her before she got a chance as he still loved her. Listen to this song its brilliant!
The ballad of Paul k: this is a good song I can listen to this when im in a "whatever" mood and just don't care about anything.
To close for comfort: I love this song! It's a nice song to listen to when you're bored or again feeling down.
Ultraviolet: this song is brilliant I love it me and my mate know it word for word we sing it all the time even when we're not playing the music!
I think Mcfly are the type of band that can make you happy whenever you should listen to it deffinatley!
Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 I'll Be OK
2 I've Got You
4 The Ballad Of Paul K
5 I Wanna Hold You
6 Too Close For Comfort
7 All About You
8 She Falls Asleep - Part 1
9 She Falls Asleep - Part 2
10 Don't Know Why
12 Memory Lane