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Together, the books in this bundle usually cost as much. Cute girl wizard lucy wants to join the fairy tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. We are currently editing over 4,159 articles on this wiki. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales.
Oso creek fairy trail mission viejo, california atlas. Fairy tales could be older than you ever imagined jack may have been climbing that beanstalk for more than 5,000 years new research shows. His latest creation is the scifi fantasy epic edens zero. Please help us by creating or editing any of our articles. Fairy tales like beauty and the beast can be traced back thousands of. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. He attended the university of miami as a jazz music major before moving to houston, texas to become a stage actor. In 1942 the book club handed the gardens over to the municipality of odense. Brotherhood, lyon vastia in fairy tail, russia in hetalia.
Jan 20, 2016 fairy tales could be older than you ever imagined jack may have been climbing that beanstalk for more than 5,000 years new research shows that magical tales have an even longer history than. Check out our collection of high quality fairy pictures and images that will truly fascinate your audience. The garden is situated in the quarter between the city centre and sankt knudsgade. Tales from fairy tail s, feari teiru esu is a collection of omake manga by hiro mashima created across the main series run. You cant learn to be a good storyteller from reading a book or a blog. According to roger lancelyn green, lang was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day who judged the traditional tales unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such.
Through arcs of all kinds fairy tail sticks together and learn more about their guild members past. Hes affiliated with adv films, funimation entertainment, okratron 5000 and seraphim digital. The fairy tail book series by hiro mashima includes books fairy tail 1, fairy tail 2, fairy tail 3, and several more. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Discover oso creek fairy trail in mission viejo, california. Fairy tails rival guild, phantom lord, has taken the competition to dangerous levels by smashing the fairy tail building and nearly killing three wizards. Fairy tail is just a really interesting and wonderful world, with loveable characters. But this class is all part of the phantom lords evil plot to capture a coveted prize.
The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as andrew langs coloured fairy books or andrew langs fairy books of many colors. Jan 20, 2016 fairy tales like beauty and the beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in durham and lisbon. Her only hope is natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. The first edition consisted of 5,000 copies, which sold for 6 shillings each. It was around ten years ago when deliora had attacked the city gray was living in. Apr 14, 2016 fairy tail takes place in a world filled with magic. Study of fairy story origins traces some back thousands of years, with one. How will these small changes effect the pink haired mage and fairy tail in general.
The whole place was wiped out in less than a day, ur and lyon saved him when they just happened to be passing by at the time. Oct 31, 2019 the english fairy tales channel and all of its videos are not directed to children within the meaning of title 16 c. Fairytale floral believes in creating designs that pair unusual stems and color waves to stimulate the senses. The business reason for learning to tell a good fairy tale. A wiki dedicated to everything about the manga and anime fairy tail created by hiro mashima. She took him in as a student to learn her icemake magic. With dark wizards, knights, and evil dragons still fighting over the land and the right to live, it is the start of a crazy journey that will have repercussions even three hundred years into the future.
The property has city views and is a 19minute walk from carl nielsen museum and one mile from hans christian andersen s home. Dinah craiks the fairy book 1869 was a lonely precedent. By using plants and other forms of earth in our designs, along with fresh flora, we can carry out a whimsical and intriguing style. His issue is that he refuses to do it with the guild. With fairy tail 500 posted, a clear summary has not. The place to be for all discussions, fan art, conversations, hiro mashima, and fairy tail. The langs fairy books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 19 by andrew lang and his wife, leonora blanche alleyne. Debut author michelle harrison is named winner of the waterstones childrens book prize, with her fairy story the treasures. Only those with membership cards could enter the garden. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. What if he was possessed by a demon while saving them from zerefs cultists.
David wald born on may 11, 1973 is an american musician, theatre actor, and voice actor. Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers books. The fairy tail series is a japanese manga and anime series featuring the cute girl wizard lucy who wants to join the fairy tail, a club for powerful wizards. This epic series takes us through all the dangers that the members of fairy tail face and eventually overcome through mutual love and friendship. The sclass wizard is powerful, no doubt, but when she and her guild returns from the catastrophic events on tenrou island, the grand magic games hold more in store for name, along with t. If the names arthur rackham, edmund dulac, charles perrault and carlo collodi mean anything to you, then you know walt disney isnt the only one who left a fairy tale legacy. Hans christian andersens garden the fairy tale garden. Ziqooh fairy tail 5000 followers free download by ziqooh published on 20161207t18. Atsuo ueda debuted with the tennis manga retriever hachi in 2015, followed by medical thriller dr. Unfollow fairy tail books to stop getting updates on your ebay feed.
Its not like mashima hasnt killed off characters in rave master, or even fairy tail. British fairy tale collections were rare at the time. Today we here at kodansha comics are proud to present the humble manga bundle. His series rave master and fairy tail made him one of the most popular manga artists in the world. Lucy may be the main character but its more told from her perspective and that gives you an interesting view of the world and people around her. Lucy may be the main character but its more told from her perspective and that gives you. Read online or download fairy tale ebooks for free. The monkeys heart, which andrew lang included in the lilac fairy book. All of that can darken a story without major deaths. A fairy tale, fairytale, wonder tale, magic tale, or marchen is an instance of a folklore genre that. Romaji zerefu sho information type magic items the books of zeref. Five hundred new fairytales discovered in germany books the.
The 2020 oklahoma childrens theatre fairy tale ball will be on saturday, july 25th, 6. Home community animemanga fairy tail pink and purple. Popular fairy tail books meet your next favorite book. Western indoeuropean languages split more than 5,000 years ago. We strive to design events that are truly one of a kind book your consultation with lindsay today to. Jack may have been climbing that beanstalk for more than 5000 years. The first edition had 5,000 copies, which sold for six shillings each. Three hundred years before fairy tail, zeref meets a young dragon on a quest to break a curse. Contentsshow appearance not much is known about the appearance of each book, but the book containing e. Long before animated films were even imagined, fairy tales were part of an oral story telling tradition, then later printed and. Among the tales analysed were jack and the beanstalk, traced to the time of splitting of eastern and western indoeuropean, over 5000 years ago. Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say bbc news. Fairy tail in partnership with our good pals at humble bundle. Fairy tail is an anime series about a teen named lucy voiced by cherami leigh who runs away with her new friend, natsu todd haberkorn, to join the wellknown wizards guild, fairy tail.
Two tankobon volumes were released in japan on september 16, 2016, and in north america on october 24, 2017 and april 17, 2018. Fairy tail is a japanese shonen manga series written and illustrated by hiro mashima. Hes known for the voices of gajeel redfox in fairy tail and bulat in akame ga kill anime. Although hansel and gretel is recorded in grimms fairy tales 1, versions of the story.
Instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. He gained success with his first serial rave master, published in kodanshas weekly shonen magazine from 1999 to 2005. With fairy tail 500 posted, a clear summary has not been posted, so i will try to summarise. See the complete fairy tail series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Fairy tail takes place in a world filled with magic. Zerefu sho are, as the name suggests, a series of magic books written by the black mage zeref, containing various spells of the black arts. Jerry dean jewell born july 30, 1976 in mcalester, oklahoma, usa is an american actor, singer and voice actor for funimation entertainment and okratron 5000. His best selling work, fairy tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, has become one of the bestselling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Getting the band back togethernatsu, lucy and happy are on a j. See all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Fairy tail, volume 7 by hiro mashima, paperback barnes. The first chapter premiered in kodanshas weekly shonen magazine on august 2, 2006, and is being serialized weekly. Let them be injured, lose magic, lose family members. Fairy tail follows the adventures of natsu dragneel, a teenage wizard, madoshi who is a member of the popular wizards guild fairy tail, as he searches for the dragon igneel.
In the manga, the crystal bomb is a more octagonal shaped weapon, while in the anime it is shown more in the form of a rocketshaped crystal. Fairy tail s rival guild, phantom lord, has taken the competition to dangerous levels by smashing the fairy tail building and nearly killing three wizards. Hiro mashima, mashima hiro, born may 3, 1977 is a japanese manga artist. So he trained and he trained but he thought that it her type of magic was useless when it came to what. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. But this class is all part of the phantom lords evil plot to capture a. Natsu is a powerful wizard endowed with rare fire magic whos on a quest to find his foster parent, a dragon named igneel who disappeared years ago. Princess anastasia story story stories for teenagers. A collection of stories where our favorite dragon slayer gets paired with a seductive time mage, a smoking hot mermaid, the new hot barmaid, the anti pervert wood mage, the hottest demon there is its purple in the anime, or a sexy ice milf. What if during his childhood natsu was sent to a village to learn how to be more human and during his visit he made friends with two white haired girls.
The story can be serious at times but they always throw in a joke or two to lighten it up. The book club was a library for the wealthy citizens of odense. This wiki aims to archive fairy tail and all related material. Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say. Tickets are available for purchase online, by phone at 405 2086200, or inperson by visiting our offices. This meant that it was closed to the general public.
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A lot of noise has been created about the upcoming Samsung S10 smartphones and the foldable phone the company recently showcased. But that’s not all that the company has in store for 2019. Apart from that, a lot has been spoken about the new displays that Samsung is working on including Infinity-O, Infinity-U and Infinity-V.
In fact, among the three, it is Infinity-O that has garnered a lot of attention because it will house the selfie camera of the smartphone in the ‘punch-hole’ style cut-out on the display. We just got our hands on the renders of Samsung Galaxy A8s smartphone, which the company will reportedly launch in January next year.
The renders first appeared on AllAboutSamsung and they show the alleged Galaxy A8s with a ‘punch hole’ display. It is worth noticing that Samsung calls this kind of display as Infinity-O. It comes without any notch and instead has a circular cut-out at the top where the selfie camera of the smartphone is placed.
In the render that has been provided by AllAboutSamsung, the cut-out and the selfie camera are present on the top left corner, much like what Samsung said it will be like when it announced its Galaxy A6s smartphone. However, it is worth noticing that while notches can be hidden with software, if you don’t like the cut-out, there isn’t anything that you can do to hide it.
It will always be present to the user, so it may be an irritation to some while they are watching videos on the upcoming mobile phone. But then, the hole is too tiny so there may be others who wouldn’t notice.
On the upside, because the selfie camera is housed on the display in a cut-out, there is no need for a broad bezel on the top. The render shows a very thin strip of bezel at the bottom. This means that the device offers more screen space and we can expect it to have a more immersive viewing experience.
Other than this, the renders also show the back panel of the device which house the triple camera setup and also has a fingerprint sensor. The edges of the smartphone in the render have the power, volume rocker and Bixby buttons.
Apart from this, other details that are known about the Samsung Galaxy A8s include a Snapdragon 710 processor and 6GB of RAM. The smartphone is expected to come with Android 9 Pie and we are hoping to see Samsung’s new One UI on top.
It is also worth noticing that Galaxy S10 would not be the first smartphone by Samsung to come with an Infinity-O display, as Galaxy A8s will be launched before the S10 line-up.
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Introduction Chapter 13
Chapter 13 restructures overwhelming debt into a repayment plan lasting three to five years and lets you keep assets like your home.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy lets overwhelmed consumers restructure their debts under the protection of a federal court, setting up a repayment period of three to five years.
This is also called “wage earners” bankruptcy, because you must have a regular income to qualify. The goal is to resolve some debts and get current on secured loans — those with collateral, such as a home or car.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy takes longer than the other common form of consumer bankruptcy, Chapter 7, but it’s a better option if you have assets you want to hold onto and you could repay some or all of your debt if it were restructured.
To qualify for Chapter 13 bankruptcy:
You must have regular income
Your unsecured debt cannot exceed $394,725, and your secured debt cannot exceed $1,184,200
You must be current on tax filings
You cannot have filed for Chapter 13 in the past two years or Chapter 7 in the past four years
You cannot have filed a bankruptcy petition (Chapter 7 or 13) in the previous 180 days that was dismissed for certain reasons, such as failing to appear in court or comply with court orders
Is Chapter 13 bankruptcy right for you?
Consider bankruptcy if your problem debts total more than half your annual income or would take five years or more to pay off even if you took extreme measures. Chapter 13 may be your best bankruptcy route if:
You want to keep certain assets or you’re behind on your mortgage or car payments and want to make them up over time
Most of your debts are student loans, child support or other debts that either can’t be or are highly unlikely to be discharged under Chapter 7
You have a co-signer on an account in arrears. With Chapter 7, creditors are free to go after your co-signer even though you’re protected. If you file Chapter 13, you can arrange to pay off the co-signed debt in your repayment plan, protecting your co-signer.
Paying Off Debt, Personal Finance
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy stays on your credit reports for 7 years from the filing date. During this time you’ll find it harder to get credit. Even so, your credit scores start should start to recover.
Some debts can’t be erased in bankruptcy, such as recent taxes, child support and student loans. Bankruptcy still may be an option for you, though, if erasing other kinds of debt — credit cards, personal loans, medical bills — would free up enough money to pay the debts that can’t be erased.
Meet with a credit counselor from a nonprofit credit counseling agency and with a bankruptcy attorney. Both Initial Consultations should be free. These meetings will help you understand your circumstances and decide whether bankruptcy is the best route to get your finances back on track.
1. Credit counseling: Complete Pre-filing Bankruptcy counseling through a nonprofit credit counseling agency. Your counselor may help you draft a repayment plan.
2. Get an attorney: Hire a qualified bankruptcy attorney. Chapter 13 is very complex, and skipping a step or improperly filling out a form can lead to your case being thrown out or not having certain debts covered.
3. Fill out paperwork: Your attorney will help filling out the various needed forms. Ggather information on your whole financial picture, including debts, income, property and monthly expenses.
4. Submit bankruptcy petition: Also known as “filing” the bankruptcy, submitting the various forms kicks off the process. A bankruptcy trustee will be appointed. As soon as you file, you enter what’s called an “automatic stay,” which means that most attempts to collect on your debts must cease.
5. Submitting payment plan: Within 14 days of filing the petition, you must submit a proposed payment plan. You must start making payments on the plan within 30 days of filing the petition, even if it hasn’t been approved yet.
6. Meeting of creditors: Between 21 and 50 days after filing the petition, the trustee will host a meeting in which creditors can discuss any issues they have with you.
7. Confirmation hearing: No later than 45 days after the meeting of creditors, you, the trustee and creditors who wish to attend meet in court to confirm the payment plan.
8. Payment: Over three to five years, creditors are paid as agreed under the plan.
9. Debtor education course: Before the Chapter 13 bankruptcy is complete, you must complete a “debtor education course” from a nonprofit credit counseling agency.

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What is the new BSNL VRS Scheme about?
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More than 60,000 employees of BSNL & MTNL have applied for VRS in just 4 days! What’s special about this VRS and what is BSNL expecting out of this?
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is reducing its staff strength to half! Now this might sound drastic, but it’s true. No, they are not issuing pink slips to their employees for cutting down costs. The employees are opting for Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) that had been rolled out by the government a few days ago.
What’s so special about this Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)? This is a logical question because more than 60,000 employees have applied for the VRS in just 4 days! Just in case you ever thought that BSNL employees are not pro-active, have a look at this recent happening. Although, it would be better if such activeness is shown in their customer support as well.
What’s Expected Out of this VRS?
Such a huge scheme surely can’t be rolled out without a purpose. So, here’s what BSNL expects with this:
If somewhere between 70,000 – 80,000 employees opt for this scheme, BSNL might save around Rs. 7000 crores in wage bill! That would be huge saving, right? Coming to the demographic effect of this scheme. The total staff strength of BSNL is around 1.5 Lakhs and the total number of staff eligible to take VRS is around 1 Lakh. However, the internal target of BSNL has been pegged at 77000.
Just think about this. Currently, more than 66% of BSNL’s staff is aged more than 50 years! Strategically speaking age is sometimes an advantage as well. But, in BSNL’s case it’s quite evidently a disadvantage.
What are the benefits of VRS & Eligibility Criteria?
All regular and permanent employees of BSNL including those on deputation to other organizations are posted outside BSNL on deputation basis, which attained the age of 50 years or above are eligible to seek voluntary retirement under the scheme.
This Voluntary Retirement Scheme was rolled out by the government on 5 November i.e. post its announcement of BSNL-MTNL merger a few days back. The scheme is open till December 3 and the date by which the voluntary retirement will take effect is January 31, 2020.
The scheme is attractively designed per se, as employees aged above 53.5 years will receive 125% of their potential remuneration (amount they could have earned if they had continued serving), those aged between 50 and 53.5 years will receive between 80-100% of remuneration while those above 55 years will receive the amount only when they attain the age of 60 years (which is current retirement age).
Govt’s Pockets Getting Lighter
The government approved a revival package of Rs. 69,000 crores for BSNL and MTNL. This amount includes giving VRS to their employees and monetizing their assets. This is also the need of the hour since both, BSNL and MTNL have reported continuous losses since last 9 years. As a matter of fact, the total debt on both these firms stands at whopping Rs. 40,000 crores!
In present circumstances, when government is planning to privatize loss making government entities, it has experimented a merger with BSNL. But, ultimately how this move turns out for the government and BSNL itself, we’ll have to wait and watch.
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Andy Brian quoted by The Guardian in reaction to Debenhams and Arcadia news
Thursday 3rd December 2020
The UK high street was dealt a double blow this week with the collapse of Arcadia and news that all 124 Debenhams stores will close after JD Sports pulled out of a rescue deal. And our head of retail Andy Brian was quick to respond with a comment in The Guardian.
Andy Brian said: “The Arcadia administration has put the brakes on JD Sports’ proposed rescue deal for Debenhams and it looks like time may finally be running out.
“Whilst the traditional department store offering may well be a thing of the past, there should be a bright future for a holistic ‘house of brands’ retail proposition, the principle purpose of which is to showcase products and to provide a bit of theatre and an afternoon out for shoppers, as part of a wider digital strategy.
“The problem for Debenhams is that building that model from the ground up is probably an easier strategy to execute than starting with an outdated legacy retailer with a transactional website tagged on the side.”
Looking ahead to what might happen next for Arcadia and its brands, Andy Brian said:
“I would expect a bright future for some of the brands aimed at the younger shopper, such as Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins, but the future of the wider business is uncertain. For too long Arcadia have been waiting for their customer to come to them, while other players such as Asos, Boohoo and Missguided have followed the customer where they want to go. I expect someone will pick up these brands and take a fresh approach to customer engagement.
“It may be that a purchaser would take the whole business and look to breathe life into it by reducing the number of stores, possibly by focusing on the Outfit ‘house of brands’ model. But I would expect that significant investment in updating back end systems and processes would be needed to drive efficiency and profitability, so the more likely outcome is surely brand acquisition.”


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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- Four-year-old Branden Witt is headed home from the hospital after undergoing brain surgery.
"Branden has a new hair cut and we're going home today," Branden's mother Carol Witt said. "His progress had been amazing and they are allowing him to go home!"
Branden's dad Robert Witt said his son got out of the hospital seven days early. "We weren't expecting to feel okay. I was just glad my son was back," Robert said.
Branden's mom and dad thanked the community for their continued prayers and support during this time.
"It's great to see something that brought the nation together for one little boy that just want a couple pieces of candy," Robert said.
You may recall, Branden's October 26 surgery and subsequent recovery made it impossible for him trick or treat on Halloween. That was why his parents organized an early Halloween for him in their Swift Creek Crossing neighborhood. On October 17, more than 40 neighbors came to their door to hand out candy to give Branden candy.
"So many neighbors, family, friends and even people we don't know have poured out love to not only Branden, but our entire family and we are so blessed beyond means because of it," Carol said after their early trick-or-treating session. "We are truly overwhelmed with the responses and know its God's work at hand."


the 20th annual Edgefest got off to a raucous start last night with Wadada Leo Smith performing. The event continues through Saturday night, with a great program of adventurous sounds.
Of particular note is the William Parker Quartet show on Friday, Oct. 28. That band alone — Hamid Drake, Cooper-Moore, and Rob Brown, plus Parker himself?! That's one of the sickest groups on the planet, right there.
Edgefest is an award-winning, annual avant-garde jazz and creative new music festival with a unifying purpose: to explore new music created by today's composers and performers from the United States and beyond. On the occasion of the festival’s 20th anniversary, Dave Lynch, founder of Edgefest and its artistic director for its first 10 years, has rejoined to help in planning the wide-ranging fest.


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What is glandular fever?
Glandular fever is a viral infection with unpleasant symptoms that can last several weeks.
Glandular fever is most common in teenagers and young adults, but can affect people of any age.
Sometimes called the kissing disease, glandular fever is spread through a person's saliva, through kissing, coughing and sneezing and shared cutlery and crockery.
Symptoms of glandular fever include fever, sore throat, swollen neck glands and fatigue.
Causes of glandular fever
Glandular fever is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, named after the two British researchers who first identified it in 1964, although the disease itself had been recognised many years earlier. A common member of the herpes family of viruses, the Epstein-Barr virus is spread primarily through the exchange of saliva, which is why glandular fever is sometimes known as ‘the kissing disease’. Coughing or other contact with infected saliva can also pass the virus from one person to another.
The glandular fever virus can stay active in a person weeks or months after all overt symptoms are gone, so close contact with someone who shows no sign of the disease can still put others at risk. On the other hand, not everyone who lives in close proximity to a person infected with glandular fever comes down with the illness. Scientists believe that a healthy immune system may make it possible to fight off the infection successfully.
When glandular fever strikes young children, the illness is usually so mild that it passes as a common cold or the flu. When it occurs during adolescence or adulthood, however, the disease can be much more severe.
Glandular fever comes on gradually. It begins with flu-like symptoms; fever, headache and a general malaise and lethargy. After a few days, the lymph glands begin to swell, although this symptom is not noticeable in everyone. Swollen glands in the back of the neck are especially typical of glandular fever. Most people develop a sore throat, which can be very severe, with inflamed tonsils. A fever, usually no higher than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), can also develop and may last up to three weeks.
Some people with glandular fever, particularly those who take the antibiotic amoxicillin, may develop a red rash all over the body. Others may notice red spots or darkened areas in the mouth that look like bruises. In about half of all cases, the spleen becomes enlarged, causing an area in the upper-left abdomen to become tender to the touch.
In most cases, glandular fever mildly affects the liver. Only a few individuals with glandular fever develop inflammation of the liver, causing jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes caused by an increase of bilirubin in the blood. In rare cases of glandular fever, the liver fails.

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This was the cool thing about the fair...men in skirts, I mean kilts. The sound of the bagpipes, the smell of the grill, sent me back to our visit to the chestnut festival at Olargue in the south of France. Okay, not exactly the south of Fance here, but that was the last place that I'd heard bagpipes in person.
I like bagpipe music, I like seeing men in kilts, and the little dance troop was delightful. People were sitting at tables under umbrellas, eating, watching, listening, and for a moment...it was a little village.

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Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from Isaac Bashevis Singer: “I only write what only I can write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose exactly which topics I write about, but my recent feature about Gram Parsons felt like a fortunate instance in which I could write what only I can write.
I’d heard the story of Gram Parsons long before I wrote about him in Harvard Magazine. I’d heard the story of Gram Parsons before I even knew how to write.
I grew up in my family’s Los Angeles music store, Westwood Music. My father, Fred, was the face of the shop, selling pre-WWII Martin guitars to musicians he’d known since the days of Woodstock; my mother, Kathy, was the brain, crunching numbers in the office next to the noisy instrument repair studio; and my brother and I were the vermin of the store, reading Tales from the Crypt in our guitar-storage-loft fort and taking inventory with tally marks. I heard about Gram Parsons throughout that childhood—usually as my father’s long-dead buddy who made great music, sometimes as the man whose corpse was cremated in Joshua Tree by his road manager, and other times, as a complicated person with a complicated legacy.
I knew one of my advantages in reporting this piece was that I personally knew some of the sources for the story. However, I was also aware that, as a 25-year-old, I had a limited idea of what life was like when Parsons was alive. I tried to learn more by asking each of my interview subjects questions about the spirit of the time, and I also went back to the archives to flesh out my understanding. Combing through University Archive copies of The Crimson and The Yardling, I read about student protests and dances with “the Cliffies,” and reviewed advertisements for record stores, hair gel, and suit shops to try to understand the zeitgeist.
One of this article’s biggest challenges was that so much has already been written about Parsons. To tell you the truth, there is currently a waist-high stack of books in my house about Gram Parsons that I checked out of the Harvard Library. Hoping to add something to the Parsons historiography about his time at Harvard, I spoke with Gram’s proctor, the Rev. Dr. Jet Thomas. Besides being Gram’s mentor during his life, he is now a true friend and companion to many other musicians from that era. He is a wonderful, insightful person, and meeting him remains a highlight of my reporting experience. (And seeing pictures of his adorable puppy, Poco!)
From there, my reporting journey took me to a long-distance Zoom call with Ian Dunlop, Parsons’s former bandmate he met in Cambridge. Dunlop lives on a farm in the English countryside, where he’s been for decades. Gram even visited the farm in 1971, living in the cottage across the street and helping Dunlop fix an old mill. Dunlop alerted me to a side of Gram that few people include their biographies: the “Boy Scout Gram” who loved to be outdoors. Often, that side of him is lost in retellings that focus more on his addiction problems.
I’m also indebted to the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1969 for graciously responding to my call for stories of the undergraduate Gram Parsons or the 1960s Cambridge music scene. Benjamin Levy included my request for interviews in the Class’s monthly email, and many Harvardians sent me remembrances of Parsons and fun stories from their own time as undergraduates.
Harvard Magazine is the only place where I could write a feature like this. I have the pleasure of working with an editor-in-chief who allowed me to run with a feature about a long-dead musician who only went to Harvard for a semester. It’s not often one gets that kind of support and trust. It’s also a gift to have the University libraries and archives just a short walk from my office on Ware Street. (One of the best parts of reporting this piece was chatting with all the helpful librarians and archivists!) I’m also privileged to work with some of my favorite writers and editors, who patiently listened to me talk about Gram Parsons for the past year.
Thanks to Harvard Magazine and its donors, I had the unbelievable fortune to “only write what only I can write.”


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Will Little Rock be affected by Hurricane Laura?
Laura is expected to cause damage as it moves through Arkansas as tropical storm, bringing flooding and severe weather. LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Laura has weakened to a tropical storm, sustaining top winds of 70 mph more than 170 miles after landfall.
What cities is Hurricane Laura hitting?
One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the United States, Laura was blamed for six deaths as it barreled ashore near the Louisiana-Texas state line. ABC13 had reporters in Lake Charles, LA, Port Arthur, TX, and Orange, TX as Laura made landfall with powerful winds. Watch a compilation of landfall moments here.
Is Hurricane Laura expected to hit?
Hurricane Laura is predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border — but forecasters say its rainfall and storm surge will likely affect a very large area. … The first tropical storm-force winds could reach the U.S. mainland late Wednesday or Wednesday night.
Can a hurricane reach Arkansas?
Being over 220 miles from the nearest coastline, the state of Arkansas does not get Hurricanes, as Hurricanes require warm waters to generate and sustain their strength and break up over mountainous areas. This combination of conditions prevents hurricanes in Arkansas.
Did Hurricane Laura reach Arkansas?
MIAMI — The U.S. National Hurricane Center has downgraded Laura to a tropical depression as the storm system crosses Arkansas. Maximum sustained winds were recorded at 35 mph (55 kph) late Thursday, according to the hurricane center’s 10 p.m. CDT update.
Where is the Huracan Laura now?
At 8 a.m. EDT (1200 UTC), the center of Hurricane Laura was located near latitude 31.2 degrees north and longitude 93.3 degrees west. That is about 20 miles (30 km) north of Fort Polk, Louisiana. Laura is moving toward the north near 15 mph (24 kph) and this motion should continue through the day.


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There was no shortage this year of high-profile takes on balancing work and family. Anne-Marie Slaughter made waves in a piece in the Atlantic titled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Not long before, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg caused buzz when she gutsily announced that she leaves work each day at 5:30 to eat dinner with her kids. She’s been doing it for years, but the admission was a long time coming. “I would say it’s not until the last year, two years that I’m brave enough to talk about it publicly,” she told Makers.com, which has compiled video clips of trailblazing women. Slaughter says you can’t have it all, while Sandberg looks like she does have it all. No wonder we’re confused.
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On July 19, 2021, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published a final rule (“Final Rule”) adding six Russian organizations to the Entity List. These designations are related to Executive Order 14024, “Blocking Property With Respect To Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian” (“EO 14024”) that was signed by President Biden in April 2021.
Concern regarding IP theft and other forms of unfair trade practices have been of paramount importance in the past five years in the United States – and have indeed been the justification for imposing significant and long-lasting trade barriers. The Biden Administration affirmed its commitment to using a wide range of remedies to address such trade practices through a set of reports on the 100-day interagency reviews conducted pursuant to Executive Order 14017 “America’s Supply Chains” (the “Reports”).
In the latest episode of the Global Financial Industry Podcast, Baker McKenzie associates discuss: Sovereigns series – key principles of investment treaty protection. The episode covers recent examples of sovereign wealth fundsSWFs bringing investment treaty claims and how others can obtain access to these protections. The episode also analyzes why investors should consider investment treaties as part of their decision-making process.
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This week’s topic is five classics that you want more adaptations of and this was interesting to try and find some. I’m not a huge classic reader and I haven’t even seen or read many classics in my lifetime. There are some popular classics that have been adapted many times, but these 5 I have picked are ones that I want BETTER adaptations. Let’s jump right in!
1. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
This book is the story that the Will Smith movie is based off of and I read this after high school and really enjoyed it. But I have never seen a book re-imagining or retelling of this cool short story. If you’re not familiar with the story, its’ about a man who thinks he’s the last person left alive after a vampire plague turns practically everyone into monsters. It would be cool to have an adaptation that tackles the origins of the vampire plague or from other people’s perspective besides the normal character of Neville. This is a required reading of SFF for those readers 🙂
2. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I have mentioned this short story a few times on this blog and I wont’ shut up about it lol. Hawthorne is known for his novel The Scarlet Letter but this story competes with his famous novel. It’s about young Goodman Brown who goes into the woods one night and comes across the Devil at a crossroads and also witnesses people from his town doing something in the woods. It’s such an open ending that blew my mind each time I studied it in college. I would like to see a book adaptation of maybe exploring the mystery behind the event in the woods and maybe even goes deeper into Goodman’s Brown psyche as well.
3. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
This American legend is so cool and it doesn’t get enough love! There was the Tim Burton film (one of my faves) and the FOX TV show (haven’t finished) but I don’t know of any book retelling or re-imaging of this amazing urban legend. What about a story from the Horseman’s perspective? What about a more modern retelling of the legend? I have always wanted more expansion of this story and I keep crossing my fingers that there will be a cool book re-imagning in the future.
4. Dracula by Bram Stoker
The major reason why I would love an adaptation of this book is because I have conflicted feelings about this novel. I got into vampires when I was 9 after reading a kid friendly, illustrated version of this story but the mixed media of Stoker’s novel, and the fact that Dracula is only in it for a third of the book before he’s dead, makes it difficult for me to love it. There thousands of different vampire novels, TV shows and movies, even different versions of this book, but I want a book adaptation of this book that mainly focuses on this plot line. Maybe expand more characters like Mina and Jonathan, include more of Dracula’s origin story and more action? I do need to revisit this book again as an older adult, but I think I would love to see a much more polished, narrative driven version of this story to make it more enjoyable.
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
While I haven’t actually read this entire novel, I know the story enough that it’s such a fascinating concept. There have been a couple film adaptations but I don’t know of any novel versions of this story. The message of how we see ourselves and the darkness of ourselves is very relevant today and a book version would be so cool. Could the painting have feelings as well? What would happen with more pages to show Dorian’s descent? There’s a few ways that this book could be a cool novel adaptation and it sounds like it could be a gripping one. (I do need to read this story as well)
What classics do you want more adaptations of? What do you think of these choices?


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Excellent | Worth a Detour
Review by: Bruce Bilmes and Susan Boyle
The Hudson River Line of Metro-North affords some spectacular views from its route along the eastern edge of the Hudson River, but one unfortunate result is the almost complete separation of the people of Westchester County from their scenic riverfront. There are bits and pieces of accessible land between rail line and river, but good dining and recreational opportunities across the tracks are unfortunately few and far between.
This is one reason we so welcome the Boathouse restaurant, opened in late 2008. The Boathouse is right on the river, situated between a marina and a boat club; you could easily arrive by water if you so choose. At first glance it appears to be the sort of casual waterfront boaters’ hangout where the food is an afterthought, but The Boathouse is much better than that.
The menu includes things like a balsamic-glazed chicken breast and a miso-marinated Chilean sea bass, or sirloin steaks and fruit-stuffed pork loin. We enjoyed a grilled salmon fillet with teriyaki sauce, but our favorite items were the clam chowder and burgers. The chowder is prepared New England-style, and while it’s called clam chowder it might as easily be called clam and bacon chowder for all the up-front smokiness contained therein. The large serving, listed as an appetizer, in itself can serve as a generous lunch.
Burgers are served on terrific crusty and chewy toasted ciabatta rolls. We especially enjoy the stuffed burger, with an oozing center of Jack cheese and bacon and tomato. The beefiness of this burger had us suspecting a house-ground source but we spied some empty boxes of ground beef outside. Whatever, they are loosely-formed and good-tasting. The side of frizzled onions doesn’t hurt, either.
A tempura-dipped nori-wrapped sheaf of julienned vegetables makes a fun first course, as do the anchovy-touched spedini and the house-favorite Shrimp Luciano served in a lemoned and garlicked parsley butter. The small dessert list included apple raspberry pie and cranberry bread pudding (this during the holiday season) but none of us had the appetite to sample.
Service is friendly/casual, the room daylight-bright and modern with large windows looking out over the river and Rockland County to the west. There are a few outdoor tables for when the weather warms up. Right now, in December, all the marina boats next door are shrink-wrapped, separated from the restaurant by a barbed wire-topped fence.
Note: the address is listed as 46 Westerly Road, but be aware that using that address in your GPS or Mapquest will miss the mark, leaving you just outside of Ossining’s famed Sing Sing (which is a little south of the train station). For routing purposes, use 800 Westerly Road, which will take you north of the station.
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From patients to policy
Medical students are deeply valuable in helping to improve the health system
Mahiben (Ben) Maruthappu is a senior fellow at NHS England, advising chief executive officer Simon Stevens. Despite his high profile role he is still a junior doctor. He was educated at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard and has worked for the World Health Organization (WHO). In early 2015 he was the first person from the UK healthcare field to be included in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30: the Entrepreneurs Making Healthcare Digital.”
Describe your current role
I serve as a senior fellow to Simon Stevens, the chief executive officer of NHS England, and helped develop the Five Year Forward View, published in October 2014, which outlined ambitions for the NHS over the next five years. Since then I’ve focused on delivering elements of the Forward View, including initiatives such as the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), which aims to scale tried and tested innovations across the health service, and test bed sites where different innovations, such as devices, sensors, bioinformatics, and workforce models can be blended and tested in combination.
I applied for the position as I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to understand and contribute to the NHS at a national level. I’m a strong believer in developing a range of skills, clinical and non-clinical, in parallel during training.
What is your average day like?
No two days are the same, making my role exciting but unpredictable. I recently started a day with a meeting at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges where I discussed how the health of NHS staff could be improved. After this I visited UCL Partners where I looked into next steps for the NHS Innovation Accelerator. In the afternoon, I spent time developing the strategy for the National Diabetes Prevention Programme with collaborators at Public Health England (PHE) and Diabetes UK. I later conducted analytics work around accident and emergency performance, before speaking at an evening event on medical leadership.
How did you first get involved with leadership?
In my first year of medical school I ran a charity offering services to housebound and elderly people. This entailed fulfilling work and managerial responsibilities. I later became involved with other healthcare organisations that offered the opportunity to use a similar combination of skills, while appreciating the processes that underlie management, marketing, event coordination, and sponsorship. Establishing the UK Medical Students’ Association (www.UKMSA.org) gave me my first insight into thinking at a national level.
When did you start to take an interest in policy and the bigger picture?
My first real insight into policy came when I was 23 and moved to the US to study at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. I was exposed to the potential impact healthcare policy and management could have. While I was there I saw the significant coverage of the development of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly known as Obamacare, and the WHO was entering its own reforms. After realising the role policy can play in improving care for populations, I became passionate about gaining more experience and better understanding of how different health systems are composed.
Where are you in your clinical career?
I completed foundation year 1 prior to working in the chief executive’s office at NHS England. I hope to be returning to foundation year 2, though I’m still thinking through which clinical training pathway to pursue after that. Once every couple of weeks I do a medical or surgical on call. I find working with patients very fulfilling. This also keeps my national views well informed on clinical practice and opportunities for improvement at the frontline.
As you’ve completed only one year as a clinical doctor, do you think you have enough experience to be a clinical advisor?
Medical students and junior doctors move through different clinical rotations as part of their training. This exposes them to different ways of working while allowing them to compare and contrast methods used to provide high quality care across a number of specialties and types of clinical practice. I believe this makes them deeply valuable to the health system, both on the front line and at the national decision making level.
I’ve been exposed to a diversity of clinical scenarios, which equips me to develop informed strategy and policy recommendations. Everyday I am reminded that I have much to learn. Serving in the chief executive’s office is a continuous learning experience, where I am constantly honing my skill set and deepening my understanding of how to effectively operate in a large organisation to improve policy and, in turn, patient care.
Are leadership skills important for all medical students?
Even if a role in leadership or management does not interest you I still believe it’s important to have an understanding of the bigger picture and of the national healthcare landscape, as changes at this level will influence day to day practice. Being able to understand why policy changes have occurred and how they will affect clinical practice will allow you to provide better quality care.
What advice would you give a medical student who is interested in leadership?
Gain exposure to a range of opportunities to determine what you’re passionate about. My interests developed only once I became involved in societies and projects centred on these fields. Teamwork is critical and strong team building skills will serve you well in all settings. Try to hone these during medical school—and when establishing an initiative, recruit a high calibre, collaborative team. Try to avoid overcommitting, plan ahead, and carve out enough time so that you can contribute to a project fully.Brendan Westhoff, intercalating in medical journalism
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Competing interests: None declared.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
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Turkcell claims ‘simply ludicrous’ – MTN CEOBack
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Turkcell has filed a suit in the US against MTN, claiming that it won the licence by lobbying South Africa to back Tehran's nuclear development and by bribing officials of both governments.
Dabengwa said the allegation that MTN influenced South African foreign policy was “simply ludicrous” and dismissed suggestions that Turkcell’s failure to obtain a licence was as a result of corrupt practices by MTN.
He said the Turkcell consortium was not awarded the licence in Iran, as it failed to meet legal and commercial requirements. A consortium that included MTN as the noncontrolling shareholder was awarded the licence in 2005.
Earlier this month, former MTN CEO Phuthuma Nhleko also denied any bribes were authorised under his watch to secure the Iran licence.
Nhleko, who stepped down as CEO in March 2011 after ten years at the company, slammed Turkcell’s legal action as opportunistic and said the allegations were “far-fetched and without foundation”.
Meanwhile, Dabengwa denied allegations over Irancell’s complicity in human rights abuses, stating that the telecommunications group upheld clear ethical standards, with the expectation that the people MTN does business with abide by these standards.
MTN established an ethics committee to guide the company’s approach to such issues and ensure that it follows best international practices.
“One of our core values is to respect human rights and the privacy rights of people in all the markets in which we operate. We oppose the abuse of such rights by any party, including governments,” he stated in response to the accusation that MTN folded to the government's request for access to subscriber information.
He further noted that Irancell was bound by Iran laws and requirements, which enabled certain government agencies the power to access subscriber details and intercept telephone lines. This would have been the case irrespective of who Irancell’s shareholders were: whether MTN or Turkcell.
Meanwhile, MTN further emphasised that any software and equipment provided to Irancell by MTN was for normal business reasons.
“To suggest that we intended to acquire such equipment with the purpose of enhancing the Iranian government’s capacity to monitor its citizens outside the law or restrict their access to services is offensive,” he said.
The development of mobile telecommunications, while a “powerful force” for social and economic liberation in the developing world, presented new ethical dilemmas and the potential for manipulation by governments and citizens for unethical means. Dabengwa emphasised that while the company did not “shrink from these debates”, discussions had to be founded on facts not fantasy.
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Venezuelan prisons are notorious for their brutality and poor living conditions. Disease outbreaks are a frequent occurrence due to overcrowding and poor hygiene, and many prisoners fall victim to the corruption of the system.
There are roughly 25,000 prisoners in Venezuela, but the facilities are designed to hold 15,000.This means like prisons such as Sabaneta are severely over-crowded, and the perfect breeding ground for diseases such as cholera, which once wiped out around 700 prisoners at Sabaneta prison. In Sabaneta specifically, there are roughly 3,700 inmates housed in a facility designed for no more than 700.
The corrupt system which operates the prison offers preferential treatment to the inmates with money and power. Those who have neither, which is the majority of the prison population, are forced to sleep in corridors in hammocks, as their cells have been given to someone with more funding.
There are no set daily activities in La Sabaneta prison, and the inmates are left to their own devices. This often descends into chaotic violence, and many human rights experts claim that this behaviour is directly linked to the lack of mental stimulation, alongside living in cramped, unclean conditions.
There is roughly one guard per 150 inmates, which allows the inmates to basically run free around the facility. Weapons such as shivs/shanks are made continuously by the prisoners, and stabbings are a common occurrence.
In January 1994 at around 10am a fire broke out in Sabaneta prison. Many surviving inmates claim that there were two gangs at war inside the facility, and it was one of those gangs who set the fire upon their enemies. As the inmates struggled to get out of the flaming building, the rival group shot and killed any who managed to escape. A total of 108 prisoners were killed that day, and the guards did not intervene.
The Human Rights Watch claim that their sources inside the prison suspect the prison staff and National Guard purposefully delayed their interaction during the battle, in an attempt to facilitate the massacre. However, the group add: “Whether purposeful or simply negligent, the official failure to act constituted a breach of Venezuela’s obligation under international and domestic law to protect prisoners’ rights, most importantly, their right to life.”
Two members of the National Guard were tried before a military court for their actions, or lack of them in this case, as were the 52 prisons who were implicated in the killings.
In September 2013, a violent fight broke out between two rival gangs in La Sabaneta prison. During this fight, a total of 15 inmates were killed, leaving dismembered and headless bodies lying around the prison grounds. The Director of the Venezuelan Prison Observatory, Humberto Prado, said this latest incident made Sabaneta “the most violent jail in the country, with 69 people killed behind its bars so far this year. ”
A security sweep of the prison took place several days after the fight broke out, and uncovered over a hundred weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Alongside the armoury which was found in the inmates’ possession, guards also located tunnels under the prison where drugs such as cannabis and cocaine were being stored.
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- 22,767 rounds of ammunition
- 105 firearms
- 92 home-made stab weapons
- 75 knives
- 5 grenades
- 2 mortars
- Tear gas canisters
- 12kg of drugs
- 135 mobile phones
Whilst the authorities argue that those responsible for smuggling such weapons and drugs into the prison will be punished, La Sabaneta continues to be a fine example of the Venezuelan prison system and the lack of control the security forces have over their inmates.

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Farm River State Park
62 acres in East Haven, CT
- For hiking there is a small lot near 150 Short Beach Rd, East Haven, CT
- For the marina parking follow the road near 10 Coolidge St East Haven, CT
Trail Map Trails: 1 mile Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Though the trails at Farm River State Park are short, this park is prime spot along the Farm River which provides many beautiful views and some nice surprises.
From the parking area the trail heads downhill through open forest. The trail here was redone in 2016 with the expansion of the Shoreline Greenway Trail. The original trail forks off to the right over a fallen tree. The upgraded trail is a sandy gravel path down to small open picnic area with a lone picnic table.
The trail continues downhill where rains have begun to erode the path over the last few years. You’ll cross a set of bridges over seasonal stream beds, both were dry on my late summer 2022 visit. Off to the left up on a rocky knob is a stone foundation that appears to have been perhaps an old garden wall of the former property. There is a fair amount of private property around you, but not too in your face for such a dense area. Someones garden ivy has overtaken much of this area covering both sides of the trail and up the rocks.
The trail then crosses the gravel Brown Road which is a driveway to private residences. Across the road the trail climbs to a ridge with views of a marsh just off the river. I was expecting the marshy area, but I wasn’t expecting the rocky ledges the provided the views at different points along the trail.
The trail continues out to an overgrown jut densly grown in with mile-a-minute vine and bittersweet which have pulled down the older trees. There are a couple spots where the trail is just a tunnel hacked through the growth. But, you come out to nice river and marsh views and can spot the marina across a tiny cove. From here the trail loops back through the growth and you can retrace your steps back to the parking area
Across a tiny inlet, the main marina provides a boat launch and dock space which can be rented by contacting (860) 333-9003 or email@example.com as part of an annual lottery.
Designated as a state park in 1998.
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Pawn Blancpain for Cash
If you want to sell your Jehan-Jacques Blancpain watch, you can pawn it for cash using an online pawnshop. PawnHero is the first online pawnshop in the Philippines. They are known for their great service and competitive rates. If you want to sell your watch for cash, visit PawnHero today.
Blancpain is one of the oldest watch-making brands in the world. Founded in 1735, the company is based in Villeret, a village in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. The brand has been in continuous operation since that time, and its watchmaking techniques have helped change the traditional watch industry.
Blancpain grew steadily during the washout of industry, and its founders began to experiment with modern methods. Their first marketing director was Frederic-Emile Blancpain, who was fascinated by the challenges of automatic winding. He eventually built a two-storey factory in front of the farmhouse, incorporating the latest technology.
The Blancpain family continued to operate the business for more than two centuries, but the company was no longer run by the Blancpain family. The company was eventually absorbed into a new company called Rayville S.A., which is an anagram of the city of Villeret. Jean-Jacques Fiechter took over the company in the 1950s, but the Blancpain brand remained the same.
The Blancpain family persevered through the Industrial Revolution and managed to build two-storey factories and design both men’s and women’s watches. These watches remained among the most expensive in the world. Even though the company is now a part of the Swatch Group, it remains one of the most exclusive watch-making companies in the world.
Betty Fiechter and Jean-Jacques Fiechter succeeded enormously. In the 1950s, the Blancpain business grew to become a giant. It not only made watches under the Blancpain name, but also produced movements for watches. Some of its greatest successes included the Fifty Fathoms diving watch, which was widely adopted and used. In 1956, the company introduced the Ladybird women’s watch, which featured the world’s smallest round automatic movement at the time.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain’s watch
Whether you want to cash in on the watch, or just trade it in for cash, you can pawn Jehan-Jacques Blancpain’ watch for cash. Blancpain was born into a farming family in 1693, and his workshop was on the upper floor of the farmhouse. In fact, he converted the upper floor into a workshop.
Jehan-Jacques Blancpain founded Blancpain watchmaking in 1735. It started off as a hobby but eventually became an official business. The brand name was passed down through the generations, and his grandson, Frederic-Louis Blancpain, upgraded the workshops in Villeret and created an ultra-thin construction. This was the beginning of a new industry.
Blancpain is best known for his famous diver’s watch. The Fifty Fathoms watch was worn by Jacques Cousteau in “Le Monde du Silence.” The watch features a tourbillon, minute repeater, split chronograph, and tourbillon. The watch also features a rotating bezel ring. This watch features the highest level of precision in a dive watch.
In the late 1990s, Blancpain was acquired by the SSIH group. This group also owned Lemania, Tissot, and Omega. The SSIH group decided to go into quartz watch production and sold Blancpain to Biver, who was a former employee of SSIH. The company was subsequently bought by the SSIH group for 60 million Swiss Francs.
This Blancpain watch is made from 18-carat white gold and features 467 diamonds, 30 rubies, and one pink sapphire cabochon. It has a white enamel dial and a rhodium-plated movement. It also has a self-winding mechanism.
In addition to Blancpain’s creation of this unique watch, he incorporated Japanese shakudo, a copper and gold alloy. This unique combination of copper and gold created four different models. One of them, the Ganesh watch, won the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve in 2015. The Ganesh dial depicts the Hindu god Ganesh and was engraved entirely by hand. The case is 45mm in diameter. The caliber contains twenty jewels and 117 pieces. The watch also features an alligator leather strap.
Blancpain’s watch was designed to be water-resistant up to 50 fathoms. It also featured a screwed case back and an antimagnetic movement that doesn’t require daily winding. It was popular with the special forces of the American, German, and Spanish countries. Today, modern variations of the watch sell for up to $9200.
The Blancpain brand is known for its prestigious mechanical watches. The 1735 Grande Complication was the world’s most complicated wristwatch in 1991. This watch had a co-axial split-seconds chronograph, minute repeater, and perpetual calendar. It took ten months to make and had a limited production run of thirty pieces.
Blancpain watches are more expensive than other luxury brands. They’re known for their craftsmanship and high-end designs. However, they can’t compare to Patek Philippe, which is considered the world’s top luxury watch brand. It’s also known for limited editions and won the title of the most complex watch in the world.


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Received 29 December 2015; accepted 25 January 2016; published 29 January 2016
With the development of computer technology, information technology and control technology, the relationship between people’s lives and information becomes closer and closer. At present, information technology is slowly changing people’s traditional way of life and work; smart home has started to enter people’s lives. Smart home not only has the traditional residential function, but also allows users to use more convenient means to manage home devices. Users at anytime anywhere outside can switch or adjust the indoor equipment through remote control. Smart home can also realize home energy management, and greatly improve the quality of people’s lives  .
At present, restricted by the existing technical conditions and economic costs, the smart home system is expensive and not very popular, resulting in a very high position but a narrow target market. In addition, a variety of smart home products on the market are lack of uniform technical standards and practicality, and the operation is complicated. Moreover, they cannot realize effective home energy management. The top priority is to design a simple, effective and low-cost smart home system  , which will play a very big role in the application and promotion of smart home.
2. Design of Smart Home System Based on ZigBee
A smart home system based on ZigBee technology is mainly composed of three parts: home network, home server and mobile terminal. The structure of smart home system is shown in Figure 1.
2.1. Home Network
Home network is an important structural basis of smart home system. It set up the network with a variety of controllable home devices as nodes to achieve data transmission in the home. Home network can achieve a variety of functions of energy management  . Home network can use wired or wireless communication mode. Compared to the traditional wired solutions, wireless solutions are easier to install and maintain. Also, wireless network can enhance the scalability of the system. Compared with other short-range wireless technology, ZigBee wireless network is the first choice for the establishment of a home network  . ZigBee technology, as a two-way wireless network technology based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, has the characteristics of low cost, low power consumption, short distance, low complexity and high safety  . Also, the chips which support ZigBee technology are very cheap, and the cost of smart home system can be greatly reduced.
Therefore, the home network in this system uses ZigBee wireless network, which is composed of a ZigBee coordinator and multiple terminal nodes. The ZigBee coordinator is responsible for the establishment and management of the entire ZigBee wireless network. Its communication distance can cover the normal living environment, so the star topology is used and all terminal nodes can communicate with the coordinator directly. At present, the ZigBee coordinator adopts CC2530  , and the program is compiled by IAR Embedded Workbench  .
ZigBee terminal nodes are located in different locations in the house. The terminal node is connected to the electric energy metering module in order to collect electric energy information of devices, and also connected to the relay module in order to execute the control commands sent by the coordinator by triggering the relay. The smart socket consists of these modules. Home devices are connected to the power supply through smart sockets, and smart sockets can realize the switch control of devices and the collection of electric energy information of devices.
2.2. Home Server
The home server is the core of the whole system. The home server can query the running state of each device, remotely control home devices, store electric energy information of each electric load and provide users with a
Figure 1. Structure of smart home system.
visual interface. In this system, the home server and ZigBee coordinator constitute the home gateway together, which is responsible for connecting the external network and the internal network. The home server communicates with the coordinator through the serial port. At the same time, the home server is connected to the mobile terminal through the external network, and transfers data to the mobile terminal through the Socket communication.
The home server uniformly monitors and manages home devices and household distributed energy. The home server can obtain real-time data of household energy consumption. According to the analysis and processing of power-expenditure information of devices and photovoltaic output data, the home server can realize household electricity dispatching and home energy management  .
2.3. Mobile Terminal
The mobile terminal provides the remote operation platform for users to realize the remote monitoring of the system. The mobile terminal is connected to the home server by mobile data network or WIFI network, and receives the information from the home server and displays it on the interface. Also, the mobile terminal sends control commands to the home server to remotely control home devices.
3. Development of Application Software
3.1. Development of Home Server-Side Application
The home server is the main control console and management center of the smart home system. The functional design of the home server-side application program can be divided into four modules: data communication module, terminal control module, data query module and background data storage module. The home server- side application program is developed and designed by using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) technology in the Visual Studio 2010 integrated development environment and an object-oriented language of Visual C++. Since MFC encapsulates Windows API effectively, users can directly call the API, so that Windows applications become easier to develop  .
3.1.1. Data Communication
The home server-side application communicates with the mobile terminal by Socket, and communicates with the ZigBee coordinator through the serial port.
1) Serial communication with ZigBee coordinator
The home server is connected to the ZigBee coordinator through the serial port of PC, and transfers data through the serial communication. MFC provides encapsulated MSComm control, which can use the serial port to send and receive data. The MSComm control supports applications accessing the serial port, making the serial communication more reliable, so that the ZigBee coordinator and home server can easily use the serial port for data transmission. The main properties of the MSComm control are shown in Table 1.
After the serial port control is added to the project, serial port is initialized, and the serial port parameters and serial port number are also set. The home server-side application directly reads the receiving and sending buffers of the serial port through the Input property and Output property of the MSComm control, so as to receive data sent by the coordinator and send data to the coordinator.
2) Socket communication with mobile terminal
The home server can communicate with the remote mobile terminal by Socket, which is a popular programming
Table 1. Main properties of MSComm control.
method of TCP/IP protocol. Socket communication is a communication mode based on client/server model, which is based on IP address and port number. The home server is the server of Socket communication, while the mobile terminal is the client. After the port number is set, the home server waits for a connection request from the client. The client initiates a Socket connection request to the server first. After receiving a request, the server will establish a connection and open the listening port.
Both the server and the client realize the Socket communication by way of threads. The server-side program uses separate threads to handle the Socket requests and feedback from each client. When there is a new client online, will create a new thread to receive and send data. When the client is offline, the server will close the thread.
3.1.2. Terminal Control
The home server can realize the switch control of home devices. The home server-side application receives the control command sent by the mobile terminal, and then sends it to the ZigBee coordinator. For example, the control command “@Y1” means opening device 1, while “@N1” means closing device 1. At last, the ZigBee coordinator sends the control command to the terminal node, and realizes the switch control of the device.
3.1.3. Data Querying
The home server-side application can query the real-time electric energy information of each device and historical data in the database.
When the user queries the electric energy information of a device through the mobile client or the control interface of the home server, the home server will send query commands to the ZigBee coordinator. After receiving data from the terminal node, the home server gets the electric energy information and the running state of the device through data processing, and then sends the electric energy information of the device to the mobile terminal. The results are displayed on the control interface, as shown in Figure 2.
When the user wants to query the historical data of a device, the mobile terminal will send query commands to the home server. For example, “H1#20150101@0000@2359” means the historical data of device 1 on September 1st 2015 from 00:00 to 23:59 are required. According to the query command, the home server finds the historical data of the device in the corresponding time period in the background database, and returns them to the mobile terminal according to a certain format.
3.1.4. Data Storage
The home server has a background database for storing electric energy information and electricity consumption of all devices. The home server-side application queries the electric energy information of each load in turn every ten minutes. After receiving the returned data, the application stores the current power value of each load and the corresponding time in the background database for analysis, processing and querying. Meanwhile, the
Figure 2. Display interface of devices’ electric energy information.
home server calculates the daily consumption of each device and stores it in the data tables in the background database.
The system uses the SQL Server database to store electric energy information of home devices, and accesses it by using ActiveX Data Object (ADO)  . The program flow chart of data storage is shown in Figure 3. The control interface of the home server-side application is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 3. Program flow chart of data storage.
Figure 4. Control interface of home server-side application.
3.2. Development of Mobile Terminal Application
The mobile terminal can realize the remote monitoring of each load through effective data communication with the home server. Based on the Android system, the mobile client is developed with Java language in the Eclipse software environment. The Socket communication under the TCP protocol ensures the stability and reliability of communication, and also ensures the simplicity and ease of use of the mobile client.
The mobile client can view the connection status and switching status of each device, remotely control home devices, and query the real-time electric energy data of each load. After receiving the returned data from the home server, the mobile client will process data according to the communication format, and display the power-expenditure information of loads on the interface, including voltage, current, power, frequency and power factor. At the same time, the mobile client can query the historical records of electric energy data of each load, including the detailed points, the line chart and pie chart. The mobile client can also calculate the total power consumption in a period of time. The main interface of the mobile client is shown in Figure 5.
4. Function Realization and Application of System
4.1. Functions of System
The main functions of the smart home system are shown in Table 2. The function of operation interface is to provide users with an intuitive interface of the mobile terminal, which is convenient for users to remotely monitor and control home devices. Users can view the connection status and switching status of each device, remotely control home devices, and query the real-time electric energy data of each load through the operation interface. At the same time, users can query the historical records of electric energy data of each load.
4.2. Application of System
In this paper, the smart home system and the household photovoltaic plant are combined, which can be applied to home energy management system with household distributed photovoltaic generation. Household distributed photovoltaic generation system can not only supply power to domestic loads, but also can transfer redundant power to the distribution network. The storage battery is responsible for storing redundant power generated by
Figure 5. Main interface of mobile client.
the photovoltaic panels, and supplying power to loads when the photovoltaic output is insufficient. Users can query the running state of home devices, power-expenditure information, spot price and the photovoltaic output data through smart home system at any time. According to the analysis and processing of power-expenditure information of devices, the system can obtain the optimal scheme. The system remotely controls home devices in accordance with the optimal scheme in order to reduce electricity costs.
The system consists of a solar photovoltaic panel, a storage battery, an inverter, home communication network and home devices. The actual configuration of the system is shown in Table 3.
The system is applied to an ordinary family for running tests. A solar photovoltaic panel, a storage battery and an inverter are installed in the home. The home server is placed in the living room and connected to the ZigBee coordinator through the serial port of PC, as shown in Figure 6. Smart sockets are plugged into different electric outlets in the house for access to various home devices, including lights, electric cookers, water dispensers and refrigerators. The smart socket is shown in Figure 7.
Table 2. Main functions of system.
Table 3. Configuration table of system.
Figure 6. Actual picture of home server.
Figure 7. Actual picture of smart socket.
The home server-side application is running in the Windows 7 environment. The port number is set to 8260 in the program, and the port number and the home server’s IP address are set in the mobile client. Then the user opens the mobile client and connects it to the home server. When the switch button of the water dispenser on the mobile client interface is clicked, the water dispenser will be controlled by the smart socket and the switching status of the water dispenser will be displayed on the interface. In addition, the user can enter the query interface of the mobile client to query the real-time electric energy information and historical data of the water dispenser. For example, when the user queries the historical data of the water dispenser on December 28th 2015 from 08:00 to 17:00 through the mobile client, the power history line chart of the water dispenser will be displayed on the interface, as shown in Figure 8.
After further verification, it is proved that the mobile terminal can keep the stable network communication with the home server, and other home devices can also be remotely controlled and monitored. Meanwhile, the home server-side program stores the electric energy information of each device at regular time, and valid data in the background database can be viewed through the query interface of the home server. For example, the results of querying the historical data of the water dispenser on December 28th are shown in Figure 9. In addition, power generation data of the household photovoltaic plant and battery parameters can be displayed accurately in the mobile client. The test proves that the system is effective and works well.
In this paper, the smart home system based on ZigBee technology uses wireless communications technology, which has good scalability. The system can realize the collection of the electric energy information of home devices through the electric energy metering chip integrated in the smart socket, and realize the remote control and data monitoring of each device through the mobile terminal. Meanwhile, the home server can store electric energy information and electricity consumption of home devices in the background database, which has the practical value. The home server communicates with the mobile terminal by Socket of TCP protocol. This program is simple, and has high stability. In addition, the smart home system, combined with household distributed photovoltaic generation system, can be applied to home energy management system, which has a certain application value.
Figure 8. Power history line chart of water dispenser.
Figure 9. History query interface of home server.
This work was supported in part by the National 863 Program under Grant 2014AA052005, LianMeng Program of Shanghai under Grant 2015LM11 and Major Industrial Technology Program of Minhang District, Shanghai under Grant 2015MH103.
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