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Bottega Veneta Satin Stretch Knot Clutch Bag
Bottega Veneta minaudiere in signature intrecciato woven satin. Available in multiple colors. Snakeskin trims elongated hard-shell body. Signature knot closure with burnished hardware. Satin lining. Approx. 4"H x 9.5"W x 2"D. Bag weight: 1lb. Made in Italy.
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Bottega Veneta The Knot Watersnake-trimmed Intrecciato Satin Clutch - Antique rose
'The Knot' is one of Bottega Veneta's most coveted designs. Trimmed in antique-rose watersnake, this compact clutch is flawlessly hand-woven from satin using the brand's iconic intrecciato technique. It's designed with just enough room for your evening essentials - think cards, keys and lipstick.
Bottega Veneta Woven Faille Large Knot Clutch Bag, Blue
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Bottega Veneta Full-Flap Turn-Lock Clutch Bag
Bottega Veneta clutch in signature woven intrecciato lambskin. Full flap with woven oval turn-lock closure. Unfolds to smooth lambskin interior that feature full-length open compartment and zip pocket. Suede lining. Folded, 6"H x 11"W x 1"D. Weighs approx. 1lb. Made in Italy.
Bottega Veneta The Knot Watersnake-trimmed Intrecciato Satin Clutch - Gray green
Originally designed in the '70s, Bottega Veneta's clutch was updated with its iconic 'Knot' clasp in 2001 by then Creative Director Tomas Maier. This version has been made in Italy from sage-green satin using the brand's signature intrecciato technique. Framed with tonal watersnake, it opens to a lustrous interior that's sized for your evening essentials.
Bottega Veneta Woven Knot Clutch Bag, Black
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Fresh from the runway, this limited edition clutch bag from Bottega Veneta is the perfect finishing touch to any evening outfit. Boasting an envelope style closure, it is crafted from genuine panelled crocodile skin for an undoubtedly luxurious feel. Team with a little black dress to let this clutch speak for itself. Limited edition Colour: Beige Envelope flap magnetic closure 2 interior compartments Internal engraved '50th Anniversary Limited Edition Hand made in Italy' plaque Accordion sides Panelled patchwork design Leather interior H14.5cm x W21.5cm x D3cm approx. Genuine crocodile skin Presented with a Bottega Veneta dust bag Made in Italy
Bottega Veneta Intrecciato foldover leather wallet
Metallic-blue nappa leather lends Bottega Veneta's foldover wallet a distinctly fresh and modern feel. It's crafted in Italy with eight card slots and a single notes compartment – perfect for downsizing come evening – and is finished with the signature intrecciato weave across the outer panel.
Bottega Veneta Intrecciato bi-fold leather wallet
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Bottega Veneta Knot intrecciato-effect clutch bag
The Knot and intrecciato technique are two of Bottega Veneta's signatures. Combining these two elements for a modern luxurious look, this black leather clutch bag is exquisitely crafted with a 3-D embossed knit and black karung snakeskin-leather trims. It opens with a twist lock to reveal a sumptuous black leather and taupe-brown interior. Carry it by hand or over the body with the detachable black karung snakeskin-leather and antiqued gold-tone metal chain shoulder strap. Watch as it adds sophistication to your evening ensembles.
Bottega Veneta Knot satin and water-snake clutch
Even though its crafted from contrasting textures, Bottega Veneta's antique-pink clutch is an ultra-refined showcase of the label's luxurious aesthetic. It's woven from lustrous satin using the label's iconic intrecciato technique and has a rounded silhouette that's edged with a dusty-pink and grey water-snake frame. Alongside the distinctive matte-gunmetal Brunito knot clasp, it will bring an artisanal feel to many evening looks.
Bottega Veneta Intrecciato Silk Knot Clutch
Perfect for cocktail hour, the Intrecciato Silk Knot Clutch from Bottega Veneta makes a sophisticated addition to any evening ensemble. Crafted in the finest silk, it features the brands iconic Intrecciato weave and is finished with a statement knot clasp. Top clasp opening Signature Intrecciato weave Pure silk Made in Italy H11cm x W26cm x D5cm approx. Presented with a Bottega Veneta dust bag


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Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychedelics: Helping Veterans Suffering From PTSD
By Frances Arnold | Namaste Nutritionist
What affects one of us affects all of us.
In 2006 & 2007, after Hurricane Katrina, I went to New Orleans to help with rebuilding efforts. The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) offered trainings to help people with therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after the devastation of losing their homes. During this time, the IAHV trained me, and dozens of other young people, to help the community.We learned to teach a program called “Breath Water Sound”.This was a community workshop, held over 3 evenings, that helps traumatized and stressed individuals.
IAHV operates with the low overhead. For example, many non-profit organizations pay large salaries, use large marketing budgets, and pay for trainings and travel. IAHV relies almost entirely on volunteers, who pay their own expenses for training and travel. This helps keep costs down, and results in IAHV spending only 3% on their overhead.
This is the lowest figure that I’ve seen.
Our soldiers are in desperate need for therapy from the psychological trauma experienced in war.
At Namaste Nutritionist, we support a program called “Project Welcome Home Troops (PWHT)“, which is run by IAHV. We recognize that our US soldiers are in dire need of support after war. PWHT aims to address the intense distress some returning veterans experience. Many of these brave men and women have been repeatedly exposed to traumatic events and life-threatening situations on multiple deployments to combat zones.
We donate 5% of our income to supporting our veteran’s recovery through PWHT courses. We feel much more indebted to them, and they deserve so much more. But this much we can do, to start.
Soldier suicide rivals, and possibly outnumbers, the death toll of soldiers on the battlefield.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that PTSD afflicts:
- Almost 31 percent of Vietnam veterans
- As many as 10 percent of Gulf War (Desert Storm) veterans
- 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan
- 20 percent of Iraqi war veterans
Breathing, mindfulness and meditation are helpful adjunct therapies for many PTSD sufferers.
One of the reasons I support PWHT is that traditional talk therapy and anti-depressants for PTSD is underwhelming in its results.
“Previous studies suggest that war-related PTSD may be more prevalent and harder to cure than PTSD caused by other types of trauma, and this study may help establish the relationship between trauma etiology and treatment efficacy. . . According to some estimates, a single diagnosis of PTSD can cost up to $1.5 million in taxpayer-funded benefits over a soldier’s lifetime. In 2011, the U.S. Veterans Administration spent about $5.5 billion on PTSD disability payments to approximately 275,000 veterans, with costs and numbers of veterans with PTSD continuing to increase.” – MDMAPTSD.ORG
Pychedelics, MDMA – assisted psychotherapy for PTSD treatment
Another therapy with research underway is MDMA – assisted psychotherapy. This is a potentially more effective and less expensive form of therapy for veterans suffering with PTSD.
Says former Army Ranger about the MDMA-assisted psychotherapy he experienced,
“It’s basically like years of therapy in two or three hours. You can’t understand it unless you’ve experienced it.” – Military.com (March 2009)

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U.S.A.: FATCA: IRS publishes revised Form 8966 and instructions
Clearstream Banking1 would like to inform its customers that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published a revised version of Form 8966 FATCA Report and its related instructions on the IRS website.
We continue to monitor the IRS publications and will provide customers with further information in due course.
For further information, please consult your Customer Service Officer, Customer Relationship Manager or Tax Help Desk.
1. Clearstream Banking refers collectively to Clearstream Banking S.A., registered office at 42, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and registered with the Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register under number B-9248, and Clearstream Banking AG (for Clearstream Banking AG customers using Creation Accounts), registered office at 61, Mergenthalerallee, 65760 Eschborn, Germany and registered in Register B of the Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, Germany under number HRB 7500.

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January 22, 2019
IRLI makes the case for realism in the asylum process
WASHINGTON – Responding to an invitation by Acting Attorney General Whitaker, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case the Attorney General has referred from the Board of Immigration Appeals to himself. The Attorney General sought briefing on when, and under what circumstances, an alien may be eligible for asylum in America because of persecution in his home country against his family.
Claims of family-based persecution back home are proliferating at the border. They rely on the theory that a family unit counts as a “particular social group” in asylum law. Under this theory, for example, if an alien and multiple members of the alien’s family have been victims of a particular criminal or criminal gang, and the government has failed to punish the perpetrators, then the alien has suffered persecution, ascribable to the government, on account of the alien’s membership in a “particular social group” – the alien’s family – and is eligible for asylum in the United States.
As IRLI shows in its brief, there are a number of things wrong with such theories. First, disagreeing with those federal appeals courts that have considered any nuclear family a “particular social group,” IRLI argues that the vast majority of families lack the social visibility to count as “socially distinct” in their countries – part of the standard test for being a “particular social group.” Some politically-prominent families, such as the Romanovs, might have that level of social visibility, but most families do not.
Second, IRLI points out how infrequently people are targeted for persecution because of their family membership. Even if criminals harm or threaten multiple members of the same family, the reason is usually to harm or influence a particular individual in the family – as when a gang threatens a potential witness by threatening his family – or to exploit an opportunity – as when money is extorted repeatedly from a wealthy family. Such persecution, though reprehensible, is not perpetrated “on account of” family membership, as required in asylum law, but for other motives. Of course, Hatfield versus McCoy-style family feuds are not unknown, but they are invoked in only a small subset of family-based asylum claims.
Lastly, an alien claiming family-based asylum has to show that the government is either extraordinarily unable or unwilling to protect the alien from persecution. Even in violence-plagued countries, these are hard showings to make. It is not enough merely that particular crimes were not prevented by police. Rather, the government has to be unwilling or wholly unable to stop crime.
“Family-based asylum is the latest way anti-borders activists are trying to flood the country with economic migrants using the asylum system,” explained Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI. “Many people want to come to America because they think they would have a more prosperous life here, but they should not be given asylum if they do not meet the true definition of an asylee, are lowering the wages of working Americans, and are crowding out the very people our asylum system was designed to offer refuge to – actual victims of group-based tyranny in the world. In the interests of the American people, we hope the Attorney General keeps family-based asylum within its true, and thankfully rare, confines.”
The case is Matter of L-E-A-, 27 I&N Dec. 494 (Attorney General).
For additional information, contact: Brian Lonergan • 202-232-5590 • [email protected]
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This is the work of truly befriending and taking care of yourself.
Start with two different colored pens. You will be talking to two voices within you- the Kind Voice and the Upset Voice.
Identify the most unconditionally loving and kind voice or energy you can imagine. It might be from a beloved who is or who is not here, a mentor, a God, a hero, an animal, a place in nature, or even a hope-filled composite. This is your Kind Voice.
Now, identify the upset part of you that’s anxious or angry or sad. This is your Upset Voice.
Have the two voices talk to each other:
The Kind Voice sits patiently with you, hearing deeply and affirming the pain you are sharing. It doesn’t necessarily give answers and it definitely doesn’t give pat platitudes or rose-colored affirmations. Sometimes it’s simply a powerful witness to allow you to see yourself clearly and encourage your upset voice to continue sharing: I know, I see, that is very difficult, I am so sorry, etc. Or, it may ask questions challenging your thoughts. Or, it may remind you of your basic and unconditional worth. Each time you begin a thought from the Kind Voice, consider addressing yourself by a pet name or term of endearment.
The Upset Voice leaves nothing unsaid, especially things it doesn’t want to hear itself say. It can ask questions, demand answers, be petty, rage, release all its hurts, explain and repeat itself, want things to be different, etc.
Back and forth, the two talk much like in a therapy session- patiently exploring the upset voice with a tremendous amount of curiosity, steady connection, compassion and calm from the Kind Voice. The Kind Voice is always available to you and will never abandon you, no matter what.

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Bal Harbour Shops, in Bal Harbour, Florida (USA), recently announced its inaugural “Collectors Weekend,” to take place in the Shops from November 3–6, 2016. The Collectors Weekend will showcase the finest mechanical watches (November 3 and 4) and luxury automobiles (November 5 and 6). The Shops will celebrate the collecting of watches and cars with a series of special events, presentations, in-store animations and much more.
Many limited edition and unique pieces will be presented, some for the first time in North America, and there will also be roundtable discussions, interesting displays in shop and throughout the center, Collector lunches and dinners, an opening night cocktail and much more.
In addition to the Watch Collectors portion of the weekend, the Bal Harbour Shops Collectors Car Weekend will be held in the parking lot of the Shops on Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and 6th, with many spectacular, collectible automobiles on display.
“As we launch our first luxury watch and car show, Bal Harbour Shops excitedly pairs the world’s most respected and iconic watch brands with an exhibition of some of the world’s most prized show cars and new, exotic automobiles,” says Matthew Whitman Lazenby, Operating Partner at Bal Harbour Shops, and President & Chief Executive Officer of Whitman Family Development. “With the collaboration of industry elite and other notables, guests will be immersed in the artistry and quality of craftsmanship that defines both the wristwatch industry and the automotive world, and the history that unites them both.”


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Kaun Banega Crorepati host Amitabh Bachchan has made interesting revelations about his wife Jaya Bachchan in a recent episode. She said that Jaya Bachchan has a ‘sixth sense’, through which she identifies bad people. After listening to the personal story of Bhavna Vaghela, a contestant of Kaun Banega Crorepati, Amitabh Bachchan told about this quality of his wife. Bhavna said that due to her husband’s wrong business decisions, the family had to go through a big financial crisis. Bhavna said that her husband decided to get into business with a man who ran away with his money.
Sonu Sood replied to those who trolled themselves for saying ‘Messiah’, said – I didn’t think so in my dream
Bhavna said that she had also warned her husband about the man, but he did not agree. On this, Amitabh Bachchan told her husband to accept her advice. On this, Amitabh Bachchan said about his wife Jaya, that he immediately recognizes people with wrong intentions. Amitabh Bachchan said in his own way that Jaya Bachchan identifies the wrong people for the purpose of sixth sense. Amitabh Bachchan said that women have a sixth sense, so that they can easily identify people with the wrong intentions.
Bigg Boss 14: Vikas’s mother refuses to break ties when son is gay
Amitabh Bachchan said, “I feel that women have a sixth sense, so that they can easily identify the wrong and hidden intentions of people.” Amitabh Bachchan often keeps telling people about his personal life in the episodes of Kaun Banega Crorepati. In a recent episode, the contestant had asked Amitabh Bachchan if he had ever written love letters. On this Amitabh Bachchan had said, “We are open minded and open hearted”.
Actress Gal Gadot trolled as Bilkis Bano as Wonder Woman, now delete post
The contestant asked, Sir, did you give love letter to Jaya Ji? Amitabh said, yes enough. Till date we keep giving. Tell us that pictures of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan were revealed recently during Christmas dinner. His granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda was also present during the family party. Navya shared many pictures of the family party on social media.

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When GM released the official horsepower rating for the Corvette ZR1, many expected the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V, which is also powered by the supercharged 6.2L small-block V8 but with a smaller Eaton compressor, to have a horsepower rating higher than Cadillac original stated.
Originally Cadillac said that the new 2009 Cadillac CTS-V produces 550-hp and 550 lb-ft of torque. Well today the official specs for the BMW M5 and E 63 AMG fighter were released. The 6.2 supercharged V8 is officially rated at 556 horsepower with a peak torque of 551 lb-ft. 0-60 comes in just 3.9 seconds with a top speed of 171mph on automatic and 195mph on manual.
No wonder it’s reportedly the fastest production sedan to ever lap the Nurburgring.
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Muriel Costa-Greenspon (December 1, 1937 – December 26, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had a lengthy career at the New York City Opera from 1963-93.
A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (, ; Italian: [ˈmɛddzo soˈpraːno] meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3–A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4; 220–880 Hz). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the F below middle C (F3, 175 Hz) and as high as "high C" (C6, 1047 Hz). The mezzo-soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic mezzo-soprano.
The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through 2013, and again since 2016 when it was revived.
She portrayed a gallery of character roles that extended from twentieth-century works by Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Lee Hoiby, Arthur Honegger, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Douglas Moore, to the contralto heroines of Gilbert and Sullivan, and comic scene-stealers by Puccini, Mozart, and Donizetti.
Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
Carlisle Floyd is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he has based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the Biblical Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect.
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Born Muriel Greenspon in Detroit to deaf parents, she attended Cass Technical High School and later to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she earned bachelor's (1959) and master's (1960) degrees in vocal performance. She studied voice under Joseph Blatt at the University of Michigan and later with Sam Morgenstern in New York City.
Cass Technical High School, commonly referred to as Cass Tech, is a four-year university preparatory high school in Midtown Detroit, United States. The school is named in honor of Lewis Cass, an American military officer and politician who served as governor of the Michigan Territory from 1813 until 1831. The school is a part of Detroit Public Schools.
She made her professional debut with the Detroit Grand Opera Association at the Detroit Opera House as Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief in 1960. Over the next decade she appeared with numerous opera companies around the United States, including performances at the Baltimore Opera Company, the Opera Company of Boston, the Connecticut Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, and the San Antonio Grand Opera Festival among others.
The Detroit Opera House is an ornate opera house located at 1526 Broadway Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Grand Circus Park Historic District. The 2,700-seat venue is the home of productions of the Michigan Opera Theatre and a variety of other events. The theatre was originally designed by C. Howard Crane, who created other prominent theatres in Detroit including The Fillmore Detroit, the Fox Theater and the Detroit Symphony's Orchestra Hall. It opened on January 22, 1922.
The Old Maid and the Thief is a radio opera in one act by Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti. The work uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power. Menotti writes in the libretto "The devil couldn't do what a woman can- Make a thief out of an honest man."
The Baltimore Opera Company (BOC) was an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., based at the Baltimore Lyric Opera House.
In 1963 Greenspon joined the roster at the New York City Opera, beginning her tenure with the company portraying Olga Olsen in Kurt Weill's Street Scene . Her repertoire with the company eventually encompassed a total of forty-five roles. She participated in some of the company’s landmark productions of the 1960s and 1970s, including Frank Corsaro's La traviata (as Flora Bervoix, with Patricia Brooks), as well as Tito Capobianco's production of Le coq d'or (as Amelfa) and Corsaro's Faust (as Marthe), both opposite Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle. Also in her repertoire were Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , Dame Quickly in Sarah Caldwell's production of Verdi's Falstaff , Frau von Luber in Weill's Der Silbersee , and the name part in Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein .
Kurt Julian Weill was a German Jewish composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote several works for the concert hall. He became a United States citizen on August 27, 1943.
Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Rice.
Frank Corsaro was one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre. His Broadway productions include The Night of the Iguana (1961).
Costa-Greenspon took on leading roles for NYCO in the American premieres of Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel (1965) and von Einem's Dantons Tod (1966), and the 1964 world-premiere of Hoiby's Natalia Petrovna ( A Month in the Country ). She portrayed Katisha in The Mikado "with the right mixture of menace and pathos."Her last performance with the company was as Grand Duchess Anastasia in The Student Prince (1993).
Sergei Prokofiev's opera, The Fiery Angel, Op. 37, could be considered one of the composer’s largest challenges. Writing, production, and location were all factors in the piece’s progress. The journey to completion was not truly over until after Prokofiev’s time, when the piece was first presented in a full performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 25 November 1954, and was first premiered at the Venice Festival in 1955.
A Month in the Country is a play in five acts by Ivan Turgenev, his only well-known work for the theatre. Originally titled The Student, it was written in France between 1848 and 1850 and first published in 1855 as Two Women. The play was not staged until 1872, when it was given as A Month in the Country at a benefit performance for the Moscow actress Ekaterina Vasilyeva (1829–1877), who was keen to play the leading role of Natalya Petrovna.
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time. Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.
Aside from her work with the New York City Opera, she occasionally traveled to perform with other opera companies. In 1970 she sang Ulrica in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the New Orleans Opera with Plácido Domingo and Cornell MacNeil. That same year she made her debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago portraying Zita in Gianni Schicchi and returned to the Opera Company of Boston to sing the Fisherman's Wife in the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's The Fisherman and His Wife .
In 1973 she sang the role of La marquise de Berkenfield in La fille du régiment at the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company with Beverly Sills as Marie and Enrico di Giuseppe as Tonio.
Another notable production that year was of The Medium in Detroit. Costa-Greenspon portrayed Madame Flora, and Sal Mineo both directed and took the part of the mute, Toby. Menotti, who was an admirer of Costa-Greenspon, later invited her to sing Madame Flora at the Spoleto Festival in 1975.
In 1983 Costa-Greenspon and her husband Giorgio Costa, a carpenter for the Metropolitan Opera, enjoyed a brief burst of extra-musical fame when they won $1.7 million in the state lottery. The winnings did not cause her to abandon City Opera, however; she continued to perform with the company through 1993 when she retired from singing. In 1995, Costa-Greenspon made her only appearance at the Metropolitan Opera, as the Duchesse of Krakentorp, a speaking role, in La fille du régiment with June Anderson as Marie and Luciano Pavarotti as Tonio.
After retiring from the stage, Costa-Greenspon served on the faculty of the prestigious Bronx High School of Science. She died on December 26, 2005, aged 68, in New York City. Her death was due to natural causes, according to her son, Stefano Costa, who, along with her husband, Giorgio, were her immediate survivors.
La fille du régiment is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse.
Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.
Sarah Caldwell was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director.
Patricia Neway was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s. One of the few performers of her day to enjoy equal success on both the opera and musical theatre stages, she was a regular performer on both Broadway and at the New York City Opera during the 1950s and 1960s.
Spiro Malas is a Greek-American bass-baritone opera singer.
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is an opéra bouffe, in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The story is a satirical critique of unthinking militarism and concerns a spoiled and tyrannical young Grand Duchess who learns that she cannot always get her way.
Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and companies.
Catherine Malfitano is an American operatic soprano and opera director. Malfitano was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the High School of Music and Art and studied at the Frank Corsaro Studio and Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 1971. She often mentions that she was rejected from The Juilliard School.
John Alexander was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s. He had a longstanding relationship with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing with that company every year between 1961 and 1987 for a total of 379 performances. He also periodically performed at the New York City Opera during his career and was a frequent presence at the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company during the late 1950s and 1960s. Although he spent most of his career in New York City, Alexander occasionally traveled to perform as a guest artist with many of the world's leading opera houses, both in the United States and Europe. He was also an active concert singer throughout his career.
Enrico Di Giuseppe was a celebrated American operatic tenor who had an active performance career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He spent most of his career performing in New York City, juggling concurrent performance contracts with both the New York City Opera (NYCO) and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1970s and 1980s. In the latter part of his career he was particularly active with the New York Grand Opera.
Beverly Wolff was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert works in many languages and from a variety of musical periods. She was a champion of new works, notably premiering compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Douglas Moore, and Ned Rorem among other American composers. She also performed in a number of rarely heard baroque operas by George Frideric Handel with the New York City Opera (NYCO), the Handel Society of New York, and at the Kennedy Center Handel Festivals.
Jean Kraft is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. She began her career singing with the New York City Opera (NYCO) during the early 1960s, after which she embarked on a long and fruitful partnership with The Santa Fe Opera which lasted from 1965 through 1987. In 1970 she joined the roster of singers at the Metropolitan Opera where she remained a fixture until 1989. She has also performed as a guest artist with many other opera companies throughout the United States during her career. In 2005 Opera News stated that Kraft was "a gifted mezzo and observant, imaginative actress who lent distinction to a wide range of character roles. By the end of her Met tenure, she had sung nearly 800 performances and become a solid audience favorite."
Regina Sarfaty, later "Regina Sarfaty Rickless" after her marriage to Elwood A. Rickless in 1963, is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active career during the 1950s through the 1980s. Sarfaty first rose to prominence through her work at the Santa Fe Opera and the New York City Opera during the late 1950s. She later enjoyed international success in the 1960s and 1970s, and had a particularly lengthy career singing with the Zurich Opera.
Lee Venora is an American operatic soprano and musical theater actress. She was highly active with the New York City Opera between 1957 and 1967 and a regular performer at the San Francisco Opera between 1961 and 1966. She also appeared in a few Broadway musicals, Lincoln Center revivals, and national tours of musicals during her career. Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was an admirer of her voice, and she performed with him and the New York Philharmonic on a number of occasions during the late 1950s and early 1960s. She also sang with the orchestra on a couple of recordings and appears on a few musical recordings as well.
La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps! is a burlesque by W. S. Gilbert, described by the author as "An Operatic Extravaganza Founded on Donizetti's Opera, La figlia del regimento." In the French or other continental armies a vivandière was a woman who supplied food and drink to troops in the field.
Diane Curry is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who is particularly known for her performances of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, and Giuseppe Verdi. She was notably the mezzo-soprano soloist on the 1987 recording of Verdi's Requiem by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and conductor Robert Shaw which won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
Elisabeth Carron, was an American operatic soprano from Newark, New Jersey, who had an active international career from the 1940s through the 1980s. In 1954 she portrayed the Young Woman in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street. From 1988 to 1996 she taught on the voice faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
Elaine Bonazzi was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1950s through the 1990s. A singer with an unusually broad repertoire that encompassed both classical and contemporary works, she notably created roles in the world premieres of operas by composers Dominick Argento, David Carlson, Carlisle Floyd, Gian Carlo Menotti, Thomas Pasatieri, and Ned Rorem. In the United States she was particularly active with the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Washington National Opera.
Frank Porretta Jr. was an American tenor who had an active career performing in operas, musicals, and concerts from 1952 through 1971. He had a particularly fruitful relationship with the New York City Opera from 1956 to 1970 where he sang a highly diverse repertoire; including roles in new operas by composers Norman Dello Joio, Carlisle Floyd, Vittorio Giannini, and Robert Ward. For the NBC Opera Theatre he portrayed The Astronaut in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Labyrinth.

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Thursday, May. 3, 2018
Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis Discuss Jason Reitman's "Tully"
Charlize Theron had wanted to work again with screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman since the movie "Young Adult," in which Theron got to play a true mess of a character — alcoholic, all-around stunted and viciously hilarious. So when Cody dreamed up the idea for "Tully," a somewhat...
Monday, Apr. 23, 2018
Mel Brooks Reflects On "The Producers" Which Is Set To Kick Off TCM Fest
Mel Brooks is just two months shy of his 92nd birthday and he still carves out time for movie nights with his pal Carl Reiner. The two just recently got together to watch a restoration of the 1938 Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland classic "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Classic film and proper...
Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2018
Kenneth Lonergan Discusses Adapting "Howards End" For TV Miniseries
"Howards End," the upcoming four-part miniseries adapted from E.M. Forster's 1910 novel, isn't Kenneth Lonergan's first foray into television. That would be the animated Nickelodeon kids show "Doug." Before Lonergan was one of the most acclaimed playwrights and filmmakers of his generation, he was...
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018
Steven Spielberg Reflects On Experiential Promise, Storytelling Limitations of VR
For Steven Spielberg, "Ready Player One" was a great escape from reality. The legendary filmmaker says he got to live in the imaginations of author Ernest Cline and co-screenwriter Zak Penn in this dystopian, futuristic world full of '80s references and virtual reality possibilities for three years...
Friday, Mar. 23, 2018
Chat Room: Pam Fujimoto, ECD of WONGDOODY, June Cleaver Is Dead
In her career thus far, Pam Fujimoto has collected honors from the Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show and Communication Arts. Her first job was as an art director at WONGDOODY’S Seattle headquarters. She then went on to work at TBWA\Chiat\Day and Creature before making her way back to WONGDOODY, at...
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018
Director Yance Ford Reflects On "Strong Island," Making Oscar History
In the Oscar-nominated documentary "Strong Island," Yance Ford stares back at the camera with profound sorrow and calm resilience. "Strong Island," a Netflix release, is Ford's investigation into the killing of his brother, William Ford, in 1992 in Central Islip, New York. Ford, a 22-year-old black...
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018
Chadwick Boseman Discusses "Black Panther, " Director Ryan Coogler's Vision
No one is more at the epicenter of the watershed pop-culture moment that is "Black Panther" than Chadwick Boseman, the Panther himself. On the eve of Ryan Coogler's juggernaut of a film arriving in theaters — and shortly before stepping out with his girlfriend for Valentine's Day — Boseman has the...
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018
Oscar Nominee Daniel Kaluuya Reflects On "Get Out," "Black Panther"
One year ago, most audiences didn't know the name Daniel Kaluuya. Now, the 28-year-old British actor has a best-actor Oscar nomination for starring in one of last year's biggest films, "Get Out"; a culture-shifting blockbuster opening this week ("Black Panther"); and a Steve McQueen film on the...
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018
Chat Room: Floyd Russ Reflects On Sundance
The filmography of director Floyd Russ has made its mark on varied fronts, most recently at last month’s Sundance Film Festival where his documentary short ZION debuted. Russ introduced audiences to Zion Clark, a young wrestler who was born without legs. Growing up in foster care, Clark struggled...
Friday, Dec. 22, 2017
Chat Room: Cinematographer Matthew Jensen Reflects On "Wonder Woman"
Cinematographer Matthew Jensen’s ascent in feature films, punctuated by the global hit Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.), was prompted in large part by his varied television endeavors. His early career indie feature exploits dovetailed into those initial opportunities in TV spanning a variety of shows,...

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As workplace issues on COVID-19 infections and vaccinations evolve, states are likely to continue to consider further COVID-19 and infectious disease workers compensation presumption legislation in 2022, according to a report published Thursday by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.
In 2020 and 2021, the legislative hot topic was COVID-19 workers compensation presumptions, writes NCCI’s Laura Kersey, division executive of regulatory and legislative business analysis, which established that an employee’s exposure to or contraction of COVID-19 was work-related or is a compensable injury or disease.
The focus on comp and vaccinations observed in late 2021 will continue in the new year, at the very least in states that pre-filed comp-related COVID-19 vaccination legislation for the 2022 legislative session, including Alabama, Kentucky, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
New legislative trends may also emerge, Ms. Kersey writes, particularly on addressing worker status, single-payer health insurance and the legalization of marijuana, the report states.
NCCI expects additional activity on the issue of worker status in California, as well as New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, where legislation has been introduced to create a state test for determining worker status that was similar to the California ABC test.
Legislative bills that proposed to implement or study single-payer health insurance systems were introduced in 17 states last year, according to NCCI, nine of which specifically referenced workers compensation or injured workers’ medical benefits.
Legislation to legalize marijuana will be considered by several states in 2022, including Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska and Rhode Island, and potentially others where efforts to consider ballot measures to legalize marijuana during the November 2022 elections have been observed, the report states.
Two federal appeals courts have again ruled that policyholders are not entitled to COVID-19-related business interruption coverage, in lawsuits filed against Cincinnati Insurance Co.

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* On November 24th, it was announced that as of January 1, 2009, an up-to-date unofficial consolidation of the British Columbia Statutes and Regulations will be available free of charge through the Queen's Printer website. The site will be at http://www.bclaws.ca/ [not yet available].
* Access Justice Fall 2008 newsletter announces the launch of a new free legal clinic at SUCCESS Coquitlam for the Korean community in metro Vancouver.
* New on the Family Law in BC (Legal Services Society) website:
- Fact Sheet for Common Law Relationships: Staying Out of Court discusses mediation and collaborative family law. November 2008
Two new frequently asked questions:
- Do I have to put the name of the other parent on my baby’s birth certificate registration? November 2008
- What is collaborative family law? November 2008


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GaN smart power chip technology
ABSTRACT Wide-bandgap GaN-based semiconductor materials are attracting considerable attention as the preferred material for power electronics applications, owning to their superior properties including high breakdown electric-field, high carrier density, high electron mobility and high saturation velocity. In this paper, the technologies for implementing GaN smart power ICs will be introduced based on the large-size, low-cost and highly scalable GaN-on-Si platform. High-voltage power components (normally-off power transistors and HEMT-compatible rectifiers) and low-voltage periphery devices for digital/analog mixed-signal circuits are successfully integrated with the same fabrication process. In particular, key analog functional blocks such as voltage reference generators and comparators are demonstrated using GaN-based technology for the first time. The optimized voltage reference generator achieved less than 70 ppm/Â°C drift and can be used as a reference voltage in various biasing and sensing circuits. The temperature-dependent performance of a conventional comparator is characterized and a new temperature-compensated comparator circuit is also demonstrated. The positive limiting level of the temperature-compensated comparator is less than 450 ppm/Â°C drift compared to 1400 ppm/Â°C in the conventional comparator.


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Michael Gove has insisted that his department is not a "gallery of nodding dogs" amid a warning that he should not surround himself with "yes men".
Civil servants at the Department for Education (DfE) are skilled at saying "yes, no, maybe or just sucking their teeth if they want to let me know it's a bad idea," the Education Secretary said.
His comments follow a public row with Labour and Lib Dem MPs following the decision to replace the chair of Ofsted, Labour's Baroness Sally Morgan.
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The victim reported Samantha Watt to police in July after she discovered the photos had been put up on her Facebook page.
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The BBC Three TV channel is to be made an online-only channel after the cost-cutting measure was approved by the BBC Trust.


Netflix is moving forward with the plan of having a spinoff of the Spanish series Money Heist, which is titled Berlin.
Berlin is “beginning to take its shape,” confirmed the creator Álex Pina via his Instagram. He also wrote that they started working on the script of Berlin. In the post, the cover page of the script is titled “Paris, my love, Vol. 1.”
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The journey of the Spanish series, Money Heist aka La casa de papel ended in December 2021. Fans, who are disheartened after the death of the character Berlin, expected his return in the story. But that was not possible. Berlin is one of the most vital characters in the drama. He is a terminally ill jewel thief and Professor’s second-in-command and brother.
There are no family connections between the Professor and Berlin and not even mentioned in the original script. But it was built into the characters’ backstory at the end of part 1 after Morte and Alonso had repeatedly proposed to do so.
The writers decided to bring Berlin back for flashbacks in part 3, as they felt the character had gone through a sufficient redemption arc and was popular with the audience. Later the writer Javier Gómez Santander admitted that they regretted the death of the character in the original Money Heist. Berlin might not have been killed off at the end of part 2 if the writers had known of the series’ renewal.
Then Netflix announced Berlin, the spin-off series of Money Heist. Netflix’s announcement that Berlin would be in part 3 raised media speculation about his role. For the role of Andrés de Fonollosa (Berlin), Alonso won the Actors and Actresses Union Award in 2018 in the category “Best supporting television actor”.
While talking with El Mundo, the printed daily newspaper in Spain (via Express.uk), Javier Gómez Santander said, Even characters with such a negative charge like Berlin end up being somewhat redeemed and people have a brutal affection for them. So we get him back for this season. How were we going to give it up?”
He also mentioned, “If we had known that there would be more seasons, we would have thought hard about killing Berlin. It is that he died a lot. We killed him too much and there is no way to revive him.”
In the spin-off series, Berlin will be seen as misogynistic and psychopathic. This was discussed by actor Pedro Alonso and Álex Pina in the event where the Netflix documentary Money Heist: The Phenomenon was described.
In an interview, Pedro Alonso described Berlin as “cruel, heroic, and funny at the same time” and mentioned Berlin’s high observational skills and an unusual understanding of his surroundings, resulting in unconventional and unpredictable character behavior.
Álex Pina and Alonso discussed Berlin’s video that was launched in Tudum 2022. “It’s a trip through the golden age of the character when he robbed around Europe crazy in love,” Pina says. Essentially, it’s a series full of white-collar crimes, tension, travel, romance and, most interestingly, a sense of humor. “That’s the most surprising, the comedy. You’re going to make people laugh a lot,” Pina tells Alonso.
It will be interesting to see how the creators approach the drama due to the fact Berlin is dead. We will keep you updated on Money Heist Berlin and other Netflix foreign language series. Keep reading Devdiscourse!


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Early today the largest comic-book and popular-culture convention in Minneapolis announced a third former star of Power Rangers would be returning to the convention in 2013.
Minneapolis, MN - August 3, 2013 - The Minneapolis comic con, Meta Con, announced
that Power Rangers star Michael Copon will return to the convention for the second time. Michael will be available during Q&A sessions and autograph signing events throughout the weekend, August 29 - September 1, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Minneapolis.
Michael Sowell Copon is an actor, model, producer, and singer, known for his role of Felix Taggaro in the television series One Tree Hill, playing Vin Keahi in the television series Beyond the Break, and starring in Power Rangers: Time Force.
Michael has also starred as the lead in numerous films, including Night of the Demons, All You've Got, Dark House, Music High, and Bring It On: In It To Win It. He has also starred as the lead while producing or co-producing on Killer Holiday and Boyband.
Michael Copon has also played recurring characters on Beyond the Break, Greek, and That's So Raven, in addition to guest starring on Hawaii 5-0, CSI: Miami, and Reno 911.
Michael is joining other power rangers from Zeo, Turbo, Wild Force, and Time Force at the convention. The full list of guests can be found online at http://metaconvention.com/guests
Weekend registration for the convention is $40 at the door.


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Yesterday, the Brown administration released an eagerly anticipated organizational assessment of Caltrans. Major news outlets had a field day with the report; the Sacramento Bee focused on the report’s attention to poor performance management and a culture of fear and risk aversion. Many news outlets noted the report’s omission of the major issue du jour, the ongoing debacle regarding construction delays, cost overruns, and poor quality control associated with the Bay Bridge.
Today, two analyses from ClimatePlan partners take a deeper look at the implications for our movement. Transportation, land use, and environmental advocates have long lamented Caltrans’ focus on building and maintaining roads in the face of climate change and mode shifts, and greeted the report’s exhortation for Caltrans to align its mission with statewide goals embodied in SB375 with enthusiasm. ClimatePlan steering committee member, NRDC’s Amanda Eaken, was first out of the blocks with a reaction this morning, encouraged that “the report recognizes the change in transportation culture that is occurring, where new priorities, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fostering compact and livable development, have replaced a backward-looking focus on road-building.”
Jeanie Ward-Waller from Safe Routes to School National Partnership also weighed in with an insightful summary, noting that its focus on building highways exclusively prevents Caltrans from implementing a complete streets agenda and called attention to additional recommendations directed at reforming the agency’s organizational culture, such as better collaboration with other state agencies and ensuring two-way communication with local stakeholders.
I know bike/ped advocates will be particularly pleased with the report’s directive to “generally rethink its approach to facilities in metro areas and town centers,” and ‘”give designers the option of using NACTO urban design standards.” This shift could have major impacts on efforts to update our streets in cities and towns to better serve all users.
So far, the response from Brian Kelly, who heads the state transportation agency (which oversees Caltrans) has been supportive. I know I speak for us all when I say we look forward to seeing how this report spurs a modern overhaul of Caltrans!


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Jennette McCurdy added a brand new video to her YouTube page of her and iCarly winning their Kid’s Choice Awards blimps yesterday, April 2!
Jennette’s reaction is hilarious. The faces she makes in the beginning are great!
Congrats Jennette on your two wins. You and your cast deserve them!
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Ashanti is slated to release a new album soon; that makes it the former Murder, Inc. princess’ fifth EP since she debuted in 2002. She teased a sneak peek at her new material with her latest single, “The Woman You Love” featuring Busta Rhymes (hear it below) and the track reminds us of everything we ever loved about Ashanti’s sound. It’s also introducing us to the new woman she has become. We’re loving this major comeback, so here are three reasons why Ashanti’s determined to be the woman you love.
1. She’s a Boss
Ashanti dealt with label woes when she was released from Murder, Inc. in 2009 when label owner Irv Gotti decided that their relationship had run its course. It only took a few months for Ashanti to announce she got her own label – Written Entertainment – which is where she will release her latest album. Ashanti understands the importance of ownership in being a businesswoman and through her new label, she’s working with eOne Music as a worldwide distributor.
2. She Knows Hits
Ashanti broke records with her eponymous debut album. Selling over 500,000 copies within the first week back in 2002 was a feat that even Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys couldn’t accomplish. As of last year, Ashanti has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
3. She Gives Back
Not limited to making hits, Ashanti uses her power and influence for good. She’s been named the National Youth Of The Year Ambassador for the Boys & Girls Club of America. As an alumna of the Glen Cove (N.Y.) Boys & Girls Club, where her mother Tina Douglas taught dance, Ashanti performed for the very first time on the Club’s stage–so being an ambassador brings her life and career full circle. There’s a richness in being able to wholeheartedly do for others.
Check out Ashanti’s latest single, “The Woman You Love” and decide if she’s the woman you love with her comeback.
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The key trade-off is highly compressed, columnar storage vs. full-text search on documents.
ClickHouse is a SQL data warehouse designed for extremely fast queries on large datasets. It uses columnar storage, compression, parallel query, and materialized views to reduce response time by a factor of 1000 over databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL. ClickHouse stores data in tabular format with a sparse “primary key” index and a predefined table order. It can define new columns and change column format instantly. Changing the primary key or order columns generally requires the table to be reloaded.
Elasticsearch is a search engine designed to run queries on documents containing semi-structured data like JSON log records. It implements full text search, which allows it to query document data without converting to tables. Elasticsearch is based on Lucene, which provides indexed storage. Elasticsearch requires users to set fixed types to index data; or Elasticsearch can dynamically map data types itself. Either way, you must reindex to change data types once they are set.
ClickHouse is more open.
ClickHouse is released under the popular open source Apache 2.0 License. Users are free to add ClickHouse to proprietary products, use it to build SaaS offerings, and run managed ClickHouse services. There are no limitations to the type of business you can support.
Elasticsearch originally released under Apache 2.0 but has moved away. Users have a choice of the proprietary Elastic License v2 or the Server Side Public License (SSPL) 1.0. Both licenses ensure access to source code but place significant limitations on usage of Elasticsearch, especially for SaaS businesses.
ClickHouse outperforms Elasticsearch as data structures become more predictable and data size increases.
ClickHouse excels in many other use cases as well: rapid valuation of financial assets, network flowlog analysis, intrusion detection, real-time marketing, CDN management, and observability applications, to name a few. ClickHouse performance in these use cases meets or exceeds any other analytic database.
ClickHouse performance is a clear winner over Elasticsearch for tabular or near-tabular data. Uber measurements show ingest time into ClickHouse was capped at 1 minute max and multi-region queries returned in seconds without degradation under high load. ContentSquare found that queries were 4 times faster overall and 10 times faster at 99th percentile latencies. Alibaba performance tests showed that ClickHouse outperformed Elasticsearch–often substantially–across a range of use cases.
Uber reduced their cluster footprint on ClickHouse by over 50% while serving more queries than with Elasticsearch. ContentSquare reported that ClickHouse was 11 times cheaper than Elasticsearch. ClickHouse runs well even on very small devices, such as Intel NUCs, where it can handle datasets running to hundreds of billions of records.
ClickHouse is a C++ binary that runs anywhere Linux does, from Android phones (really) up to clusters with hundreds of nodes. Many ClickHouse installations use a single node only because ClickHouse requires so few resources.
Elasticsearch is based on Java, which means Java must also be installed. It requires substantial care to manage effectively, especially as cluster sizes increase. ContentSquare found that their ClickHouse cluster was far more fault tolerant than a similarly capable Elasticsearch cluster.
It’s definitely more competitive.
ClickHouse Apache 2.0 licensing enables a worldwide market for managed ClickHouse in public clouds. There are many such services including our own Altinity.Cloud in AWS and GCP. Users can easily move back and forth between managed ClickHouse and on-prem operation.
Elasticsearch licensing prevents vendors other than Elastic from running managed Elasticsearch for current software versions. Competitors must fork the older, Apache 2.0-licensed version, as Amazon has done. Managed Elasticsearch services may diverge in future, and compatibility with on-prem versions cannot be guaranteed.
Both are secure, provided they are properly configured.
ClickHouse security has improved rapidly over the past couple of years. It now offers LDAP user management, role-based access control (RBAC), Kerberos authentication, column encryption functions, high-performance TLS connections, and many other features. Altinity offers FIPS-compatible ClickHouse builds and works with customers to enable deployment into FedRAMP environments.
ClickHouse has a number of popular options for loading log data including Vector, FluentD, and Kafka. You can also import log data directly using ClickHouse table functions, which can read from files, S3 object storage, HDFS, and other sources. Here’s an example of loading compressed file system data using the file table function.
INSERT INTO mytable
SELECT * FROM file('logfile.log.gz', 'Template', 'col1 …, colN …');
Yes, though there are limitations.
ClickHouse generally gets the best performance on data stored in table columns with proper data types. Scans on unstructured data are more expensive.
One popular ClickHouse pattern is to store the original unstructured doc in a table and extract enough attributes into columns to cover the majority of queries. PixelJets documented how ClickHouse makes it easy to extract data from common formats like JSON into high performance columnar format. ClickHouse also has a JSON datatype. It works efficiently for simple JSON documents whose schema does not vary.
Yes. They are experimental, however, and should not be used in production systems yet.
More importantly, ClickHouse offers skipping indexes (ngrambf_v1, tokenbf_v, bloom filter, etc.), which can reduce I/O by 95% or more. In addition, it’s unbeatable in full scans thanks to features like compression, vectorized query processing, and efficient distributed query. In specific use cases like log search, these features outperform Elasticsearch full-text indexing and also use far less storage space.


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I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) I work within their ethical guidelines.
- First Class Honours Degree in Reflective Therapeutic Practice.
- Advanced Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, University of Derby, Buxton.
- Intermediate Certificate in Counselling Skills, University of Derby, Buxton.
- Certificate in Introduction to Counselling Concepts, University of Derby, Buxton
- Emotional freedom Technique (EFT) level 1 & 2
- Certificate in Education and Training
CPD Courses attended
- North East TA conference 2019 : sex and sexuality, self and relating.
- Protecting Vulnerable adults
- Child Protection
- Teaching Grounding Techniques
- Therapeutic Play awareness
- Exploring suicide and self harm in Young people
- Helping children cope with grief and loss
- Introduction to play within therapy
- Meeting at a busy intersection – shattered hopes and dreams
- Working with and understanding the power of your dreams
- Understanding self harm
- Complicated Grief
- Children and young people with Special Educational Needs, including Autistic Spectrum Disorders – supporting them through grief
- Therapeutic sand tray workshop
- Therapeutic outdoor adventure for young people
Workshops and Training I have provided
- We need to talk about sex
- Trauma and Dissociation
- Understanding emotional abuse
- Healing the wounded inner child
- Living with a partner who has died
- How children grieve
- Working with complicated grief
As well as my private practice, I have worked in a variety of settings. Much of my work has been with adults and children in hospice settings, which I still do to date. Since 2011 I have provided 1 to 1 counselling to adults and young people in the bereavement and palliative care services, and those related to persons with life limiting illnesses. Alongside this I have experience of facilitating therapeutic group work and writing and delivering training workshops as half of the Heal and Learn Foundation.
Additionally, I was a volunteer counsellor for a young persons charity based in Cheshire. I also acted as a mentor, benefitting small groups of young people in secondary schools through the use of creative media.
My experience also includes fulfilling the delivery of a successful new 8 month project, providing counselling for 5 – 18 year old in Staffordshire. This project went on to successful renewal and expansion.
I am fully insured and have Enhanced DBS certificate

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NLCA is disappointed by the recent decision of the Georgia Supreme Court regarding the Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice Act.
This decision has far-reaching implications for the well-being of new mothers, infants, and families across the state. It turns back the clock in Georgia – back to a time when anyone can call themselves a “lactation consultant” irrespective of education or training which sows confusion for families and employers – back to a time when access to clinical lactation care is dependent upon insurance status – and back to a time when Georgia’s Medicaid families are solely dependent on peer support. Once a leader for the nation in modernizing the delivery of breastfeeding care, this decision undermines a decade of progress by Georgia. It negatively affects access to clinical lactation care for thousands of Georgia’s breastfeeding families and, in particular, its under-resourced and marginalized patients.
While this ruling will spark debate and controversy, we want to return focus to the importance of ensuring access to clinical lactation care, and we reaffirm our commitment to working for licensure’s promise which is to ensure all breastfeeding families throughout the US have access to safe, quality clinical lactation care and support.
NLCA appreciates the time and effort of the Attorney General’s attorneys who represented the Georgia Secretary of State in this matter, the attorneys who supported the Secretary with amicus briefs and the thousands of Georgians who worked for more than 10 years to improve access to clinical care in Georgia. Notably, this decision is based on the Georgia statute, Georgia case law and the Georgia Constitution and does not apply to any other state.


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOTV)-More and more, scientific studies are showing a correlation between abnormal chemicals in the brain and eating disorders. The question is, “Are some women more susceptible to having an eating disorder, than other women?” The answer is maybe. An increased level of dopamine in the brain has shown strong links to behaviors of weight consciousness, anxiety and (OCD) Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Studies are also showing that recovering anorexics show abnormal serotonin levels. Is it possible to trace and treat an eating disorder through neurological feedback? Many doctors say yes. Jordan Carson interviewed several experts in the area, looking for the answer. To get help, see the list of resources, below.
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EATING DISORDER COALITION
ANAD-ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND ADDCIATED DISORDERS
The ANAD Eating Disorders Helpline 630-577.1330 is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Central Time.
ANAD also has a special email address, firstname.lastname@example.org which may be used by those who prefer email instead of phoning.
LOCAL SUPPORT GROUPS
CTED, LLC. COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT FOR EATING DISORDERS
CTED sponsors a free community support group for anyone in recovery from an eating disorder as well as their family members and friends. The group meets from 7 – 8:15 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Jennifer Wisniewski, MA, LLP, is the current group leader, partnering with Karen Holmquist, AT, a Forest View employee. On the 4th Monday, Gail Hall, LMSW, attends and leads a separate forum for family members and support individuals. The group meets in the community room of Forest View Hospital, 1055 Medical Park Drive SE. Forest View is very close to our office. Please park on the south side and use the Community Room/PHP entrance. The group is free; no preregistration is required. For more information on the group, please call 616-957-7700; or e-mail email@example.com FOREST VIEW MEDICAL HOSPITAL: 1055 Medical Park Drive Southeast
FOUNTAIN HILL CENTER
The Fountain Hill Center for Counseling and Consultation provides pathways to healing and transformation, both personal and relational, through diverse and innovative therapeutic, educational, evaluative, and consultative services. Whether you are looking for individual, couples, family, or group therapy, we’re here to help you take your next step. Our Center provides pathways to healing and transformation, both personal and relational, through diverse and innovative therapeutic, educational, evaluative, and consultative services.
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services’ Northeast Clinic will continue offering a free, confidential eating disorders educational support group. This group is geared for persons with diagnosed eating disorders who are also receiving treatment from a health professional.
Facilitated by Michelle Muenzenmeyer, MA, LLP, this ongoing group meets every Thursday from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Northeast Clinic, 1700 East Beltline, NE, Suite 240. Upcoming dates are:
- February 15, 22
- March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
- April 5, 12, 19, 26
- May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
An assessment or referral is required prior to joining the group. To schedule an assessment or for more information, interested persons should call Pine Rest’s Northeast Clinic at 616/364-1500.
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7:00-8:30pm at William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W. 13 Mile Road, 10th Floor, Rooms A& B, Royal Oak, MI. Use East entrance, take central elevators.
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Voters in six provinces will go to the polls on Wednesday to elect councillors in 14 municipal wards. The vacancies are the result of the deaths of sitting councillor in 10 instances, while three councillors resigned and one was expelled in May’s municipal elections.
Eastern Cape will see the majority of the polling action as voters make their marks in seven wards, with one ward in the Umzimvubu Municipality uncontested; Xoliswa Jones has been declared councillor for Ward Six.
In other Eastern Cape by-elections, the ANC’s Lumka Patricia Mapete takes on Cope’s Mazwi Adonisi in Emalahleni Municipality’s Ward Four and in Elundini Municipality’s Ward 13 there will be a three-way contest beween Mamotseng Ottilia Tsoloane (African Independent Congress), Sarah Mdlazi (ANC) and Tlali Charles (Cope).
Voters in Mbizana’s Ward Eight will see a six-way contest between independent candidate Ayanda Madodebunga, Notembek Bcitha (African Independent Congress), Lonwabo Somadlangathi (ANC), Thanduxolo Ngilingili (African People’s Convention), Bathokozile Ndebeni (Cope) and Nomaitaly Xelelo (National Freedom Party).
Ntabankulu Municipality’s Ward 10 will be contested by Mvuseleli Soga (African Independent Congress), Sophlina Ncekana (ANC), Sikhokhele Mdolo (Amandla Abantu Abadidene) and Christella Diko (Cope).
Two by-elections will also take place in the province’s major metropolitan area, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. A five-way contest among Siyabulela Hodi (ANC), Pumezile Jacobs (Azanian People’s Organisation), Nkosihlanga Mbikanya (Cope), Nikiwe Nyamakazi (DA) and Loyiso Mnguni (UDM) will decide the Ward 26 councillor.
In Ward 55, four candidates have put themselves up for election. They are Mtunzi Madolo (ANC), Mhlangabezi Dyantyi (Cope), Thobelani Gubayo (DA) and Andiswa Ndanda (UDM).
In KZN, voters will go to polling stations in two wards. Durban metro’s Ward 56 will be a straight fight between the ANC (Sduduzo Khuzwayo) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (Bonisiwe Mbatha), while voters in Nongoma’s Ward 12 will have to choose between Makhosazane Mabaso (African Christian Democratic Party), Nokozani Dlame (ANC), Leonard Nxumalo (Inkatha Freedom Party) and Mfanenkosi Mafuleka (National Freedom Party).
In Limpopo, Makhado Municipality’s Ward 24 will be contested by the ANC (Motlatso Selepe) and Khwerani Mugwedi (Cope).
Western Cape’s Saldanha Bay West Coast Peninsula Municipality sees independent candidate Marie-Ann Muller standing for election against Travor Benjamin of the ANC, Jacob Alexander of the DA, Ivan Minnaar of the Liberal People’s Party and Cathy Thomas of The People’s Independent Civic Organisation.
All told, 81428 voters are registered to vote in Wednesday’s by-elections. Polling stations will open at 7am and close at 9pm.
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Caralluma is a succulent plant that is part of the cactus family. It can be found growing wild in Africa, the Canary Islands, India, and southern Europe, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. The herb has been used in Indian for centuries in order to curb appetite. It is a portable food for hunting and also an endurance enhancer. This herb was also used during periods of famine in order to curb appetite.
The caralluma plant is part of the Apoxynaceae family. It has been eaten in rural Indian for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles. It is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker. Caralluma has been used as a portable food and thirst quencher for hunting. Caralluma is mainly used for its ability to suppress hunger and appetite, while enhancing stamina. Tribesmen on a daily hunt will often only pack some caralluma to sustain themselves, which is why it is commonly known as a famine food in India.
The working class in India used this plant not only as an appetite suppressant, but also to increase energy and endurance. Caralluma can be coked as a vegetable, pickled, used in chutneys, or eaten raw.
This herb seems to block the activity of many fat-promoting enzymes in the body. It forces fat reserves to be burned. One double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial on caralluma extract, which involved fifty people, showed significant reductions in all key indicators of weight loss.
This plant is also believed to affect the appetite-control mechanism that is found in the brain. When we eat, nerves in our stomach send a signal to the brain’s hypothalamus. This is the appetite-controlling center. When the stomach is full, the hypothalamus informs the brain that it can stop eating. When a person feels hunger, it is the result of the hypothalamus sending a signal to the brain to eat. The interference with these signals, or even creating a sign of its own, is done by caralluma. Through this, the brain is tricked into thinking that the stomach is full, even if the person has not eaten.
Patients who use caralluma have reported having more energy. Additionally, they tend to gain lean muscle mass while they lose fat. This herb not only reduces fat synthesis, but it also boosts the burning of fat. This makes more energy available for the body as a whole.
The plant has no known toxicity or side effects. However, it is wise to consult a health care professional before supplementing with this, or any nutrient while on prescription medications.
The entire caralluma plant is used to provide anorectic and energy boosting properties. The primary nutrients found in this herb are bitters principles, flavones glycosides, megastigmane glycosides, pregnane glycosides, and seponins. Primarily, this herb is extremely beneficial in dealing with low energy and obesity. It also acts as an appetite suppressant. For more information on the many beneficial effects provided by caralluma, please feel free to contact a representative from your local health food store.
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Greenwich is about a 45-minute journey from Central London, but it’s very much worth the trip – and here’s why.
Greenwich is one of my favourite places in London, but over the years I could probably count the times I have actually visited on one hand – and yet every time I go back, I catch myself thinking, “I should totally do this more often”. It’s got a different vibe to anywhere else in London – the stunning architecture of the naval College and the University really set it apart, not to mention the looming presence of the Cutty Sark.
Here, we’ve compiled our top recommendations for a day in Greenwich:
The Cutty Sark:
You can’t miss the Cutty Sark, the world’s only surviving tea clipper. It is, honestly, majestic, and the best part it – YOU CAN GO INSIDE. It boasts the world’s largest collection of Merchant Navy figureheads, and sometimes hosts comedy nights and special events. Check it out here.
There’s always something cool at the market, and the food is enough to leave you drooling. The selection of vegan food there is pretty impressive, I usually end up doing a full lap to decide what I want before stashing my bag full of far more than I could possible eat anyway. If it’s a nice day, treat yourself to a picnic and take your haul down to Greenwich Park.
Another brilliant reason to visit Greenwich for all science fans – the Observatory is amazing. You can visit the museum all about time, stand on the Meridian Line and watch shows at the Planetarium. Plus, the views from the top of the hill aren’t too shabby, either.
The pubs in Greenwich are a real treat. The Gipsy Moth, right by the Cutty Sark, has a huge outdoor area, and the food is fantastic – well worth a visit, especially on a hot day. There’s also the Trafalgar Tavern, right on the Thames, and the views there speak for themselves.
If you are interested in spending some time in Greenwich, you can easily get the Thames Clipper from Central London. If you fancy popping down after one of our tours, ask one of our guides to direct you.


Bellevue Elementary students excited to sing at All-State Choir
Some students at the Bellevue Elementary School have been busy preparing to sing in the all-state choir Friday.
“We’ve been practicing a very long time,” said fourth grader Hannah Sauvageau.
Eleven students from Bellevue Elementary are excited to sing in the all-state choir.
“I’m really excited, I’m really looking forward to doing the performance, hanging out with friends,” said fourth grader Everett Huegly.
Students from all across the state will gather in Nampa to sing the music they have been rehearsing.
“There is an elementary choir and then there is also a middle school choir, so they are going to do 5 songs together as elementary choir, and then the middle school will do 4 or 5 songs, and then they are going to combine for one, so it’ll be about 300 kids when they all combine,” said music teacher Laurie Karel.
The students say they are excited because they love to sing.
“I like just having the opportunity to be in the state choir, when I thought that I might not make it in,” said fourth grader Kassandra Valerio.
And the teacher says that she has loved watching the students grow throughout the entire process.
“For example, some of them are maybe a little bit shier, and then all of a sudden they realized that they were getting it, and then now they are a leader in a section, and they are excited because they know that they’ve got it, and they can figure out the notes and they are kind of surprising themselves because they are doing two to three parts at the same time,” said Karel.


Family members and friends gathered Thursday on the Capitol grounds in Salt Lake City to remember Utah’s fallen officers during the annual Utah Law Enforcement Memorial Service.
Since 1853, 147 police officers have been killed while serving the citizens of Utah. The most recent was Ogden officer Nathan J. Lyday who was shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call on May 28, 2020.
No officers were lost during 2021.
According to utahsfallen.org, Utah Peace Officers Standards and Training Director Rich Townsend initiated the first state police memorial in 1988, which was located in the Capitol rotunda.
In 2004, construction on the Capitol necessitated the removal of the memorial from the rotunda and it was determined that no memorials would be allowed there.
The Capitol Preservation Board allocated a prominent location just outside the west doors of the Capitol as the location of the new memorial, which was dedicated on Sept. 6, 2008.


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Recently I traveled over to Carnegie Hall to catch the Distinguished Concerts International New York with their orchestra and various chorales performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. I love Ode to Joy and thrill to it whenever it is done well and this certainly was. It was one night only so you don’t have the chance to hear this one. But if you want to hear a talented ensemble you can go to http://www.dciny.org to catch their schedule. It will be worth your while.
As a bonus DCINY took a group photo in Carnegie Hall to celebrate their 10th anniversary and if you look closely you can see me in two simple pixels in the center of the orchestra wearing a red shirt and black jacket. Did you find Waldo?
As always you can find more at http://www.walterthinnes.com and on Twitter @walterthinnes