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Evapotranspiration (e.g. Brutsaert, Evaporation into the atmosphere,1980, or my lectures - in Italian - in English) is the phenomenon that describes collectively evaporation from water surfaces, and plants. Hydrologists used to used to neglect its estimation when they were concentrated on rainfall-runoff, and many, even nowadays, tends to forget its existence.
Once considered a stationary energy budget, as Penman (1948) showed, its estimation is reduced to a formula, the Penman formula, subsequently modified by Monteith (1965) to account for resistances due to soil suction and plants reaction to water stress (e.g. Rodriguez-Iturbe and Porporato, 2004). The formula is universally knows as Penman-Monteith formula. Nobody exactly knows what the resistances means, or better, how to estimate them, since they depends on many factors.
However, being a formula, it does not require the solution of differential equations, and its evaluation depends only on the measure or the spatial extrapolation of the terms it contains.
Radiation has actually its own difficulties to be estimated, but a reasonable way to do it, was found and improved during the years and is available (e.g. Formetta et al., 2013) . Wind velocity can be either simulate or interpolate from measurements. On resistance terms either we can do educated guesses, or, after having estimated the potential evapotranspiration (PET), at least a first approximation can be found in appropriate factor of reduction linear proportional to the water content both for the soil cases (where the water content can vary between the residual water content and water content at saturation) and vegetation case (where the extremes are, for each species, the wilting point and a critical water content, something below the air entry level). I would not have idea , I admit, how to estimate air humidity, if not interpolating measurements, but the air moist at saturation, thanks to the Clausius-Clapeyron relation depends only on temperature.
For each of these quantities actually, in our ignorance we could give an estimate. If we further think to be able to assess the estimate on the measurements, we could think to be able to propagate di error to obtain (under the hypothesis of parameters distributed according to the Normal distribution) the "error" of our estimate.
Starting from the formula in the figure, an from the hypothesis of normality, it is quite easy to find the distribution of evapotranspiration, which is actually itself a normal distribution whose mean is equal to the deterministic expression of ET, given, precisely, by formula in Figure above.
So why don't try it ?
A more complex situation derives if we take into account space. In this case, any of the parameters in the game is a function of location, and the error of estimate too. However, using an appropriate linear model (for instance Kriging) is not overwhelming difficult to derive an estimate of both, and therefore coming out with a spatial estimate of ET and its error.
Space clearly bring into the game the spatial variability of ET, evaporation rather than evaporation from soil or transpiration from plants (grass, shrubs and trees, or crops at least). So, if the error of the parameters can be estimated, for estimating evapotranspiration itself further guesses need to be done about the spatial variability of soil cover and use. This, obviously, brings inside other sources of uncertainty. However, at least some playing around with the appropriate tools (i.e. Jgrass-NewAGE) could be made.
Obviously if stationarity of the energetic fluxes is not assumed, all it is another game (but you can use GEOtop, then).


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CAIN Bibliography of the Northern Ireland Conflict
[Key_Events] [Key_Issues] [CONFLICT_BACKGROUND]
BACKGROUND: [Acronyms] [Glossary] [NI Society] [Articles] [Chronologies] [People] [Organisations] [CAIN_Bibliography] [Other_Bibliographies] [Research] [Photographs] [Symbols] [Murals] [Posters] [Maps] [Internet]
Material is added to this site on a regular basis - information on this page may change
Note on the CAIN Bibliography
The CAIN Bibliography (v21 - minor update April 2016) contains over 18,800 references to materials relevant to the Northern Ireland conflict and was compiled by Brendan Lynn, Martin Melaugh and Fionnuala McKenna (formerly Development Officer on the CAIN Project).
The entries in the bibliography mainly refer to books although there are many journal articles, pamphlets, dissertations, etc. When finished the bibliography will mainly cover the period 1968 to the present but will include key texts from before 'the Troubles'. During 2006-2008 the bibliography was extended to included ephemeral items, mainly media stories, related to the issues surrounding the topic of victims. This work was conducted as part of an AHRC funded project.
Some of the citations returned from the search have links to extracts from, or full text of, the document on the CAIN site.
When searching for names beginning with: "Mc", "Mc ", "O", "O ", "O'", "O' ", etc, the spacing (" ") can be important. If you are unsure just use the main part of the surname in your search.
CAIN contains information and source material on the conflict and politics in Northern Ireland.
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The Jelly Pong Pong Wide Awake set, has three eyebrow powders which I've used loads! The brush it comes with, is really useful and applies really easily. There is also a brightening cream and highlighting cream, which are really great colours but the formula, and feel of it on my skin is not great! It makes my skin look really dry, and doesn't blend into my skin, so I just don't really use them.
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Let's talk about hats.
By my estimation, fifty percent of my audience has just closed their browsers. To those poor wretches that remain, I'm sorry, but the topic remains hats.
But first we're going to talk about movies. Trust me. It will all make sense in a minute.
Cinema has changed since the early- to mid-1950s. For example, Bing Crosby has never, in my recollection, ever been tasked with bringing down a helicopter with a compact car. Dorothy Lamour, to the best of my knowledge, has never played the part of a genetic anomaly able to conjure tornados by waving her arms. And Bob Hope, someone please correct me if I'm wrong, still cannot transform into an eighteen-wheeler, which I imagine would limit his marketability in Hollywood right now.
But I digress.
What Crosby, Lamour, and Hope did have, aside from respectable careers, were hats. Nice hats. Hats that do not – people of Wisconsin, I'm looking at you – in any way resemble a piece of cheese. Somewhere between then and now, such hats fell out of favor for such reasons as I can only guess. In its place, we have the tyranny of the ball cap, but that too is a subject for another day. No, our subject today is this.
What. The. Hell.
Now ignoring for a moment that someone talked that poor model into putting an entire coyote on his head, minus only the parts that make it a functional coyote, I have a question. Who was taking the picture? And why, pray tell, did that individual keep telling the model in question to, for want of a better term, smolder. He's wearing 9/10s of a coyote on his head and looking at me with come-hither eyes. I'm worried that if I give them my shipping information, he'll come by around six to take me to dinner and a movie.
And speaking of movies, every time I pulled up this page (making sure my wife wasn't looking and quietly explaining to [let's just call him Steve] Steve that it just won't work between us), I kept staring at this particular…piece.
Regardless, every time I looked at it, the déjà vu bordered on palpable. I found myself humming a tune I could not immediately identify, despite the fact I was the source. Then, like the shower scene in Psycho, the answer came upon my psyche like a knife.
Bowie…my old nemesis. Suddenly, Steve isn't looking so bad, if for no better reason than I don't believe he has ever stolen a baby and performed "Magic Dance" in pants with a negative two inch waist.
Though, in Bowie's favor, I don't believe he's ever been photographed wearing most of a coyote, so we might have to call it a tie.
Because, and I say this with certainty, no one is winning here. Except maybe Inspector Gadget who, heaven help us, has the most Crosby-esque headgear of the bunch, even taking into account that it occasionally morphs into a helicopter.


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West Africa Clean Energy Corridor launched at African Utility Week
Staff Reporter
CAPE TOWN, (CAJ News) – THE West Africa Clean Energy Corridor (WACEC) has been launched in Cape Town with the aim of accelerating the deployment of utility scale renewable energy into the region.
The launch was part of the African Utility Week Conference currently underway in the South African city.
Renewable energy expert at the Economic Community of West African States Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREE), Jansénio Delgado, told delegates at least 52 percent of the population in the region had no access to electricity.
"So we have a big challenge in the region in terms of energy and electricity access," he said.
According to Delgado the plan was to increase access to at least 88 percent of the population by 2030, but there were some challenges.
Delgado said the region had big potential especially for renewable energy and specifically hydro power.
"The region has big potential in terms of renewable energy from hydro, solar, wind and biomass. These resources are geographically distributed which makes them complimentary."
He explained there is already a big pipeline of projects underway with Senegal taking the lead.
Preliminary conclusions show the development of 10 GW electricity can still be injected into the grid by 2030.
"So the utilities and electrical companies should adapt to renewable energy as a next phase of electricity generation."
He also foresees the cost of electricity levelling in future as the development of solar electricity generation technology becomes less costly.
"But of course," Delgado admits, "solar energy also has problems."
He referred to challenges which include intermittency and non-availability of solar energy at times.
"So we need complimentary with other sources of renewable energy like hydro and that is the reason why we are at the same time also developing a hydro corridor for the region."
Senior operations advisor at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Ellen Moran, said it was possible and referred to examples in California where there is already a 50/50 energy mix.
"But it has to be complimentary," said Moran.
According to Moran the challenge outside developed countries however, is problems with financially sound utilities.
"In many countries where utilities are in bad shape it is because the largest customer is the government and it usually does not pay utility bills regularly. So if governments are interested in growing the economy, they will have to do their bit."
Henning Wuester, Director of Knowledge Policy and Finance at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) welcomed the initiative and said they were happy to work with ECREE on this project.
The WACEC project is based on IRENA'S similar initiatives in South and Eastern Africa.
"We want to stress that by creating these renewable energy corridors in ways that you can integrate it into the grid, you can so create regional markets." He said renewable energy can be more effective in bigger settings and lessen dependence on local options."
Over 7000 decision makers from over 80 countries are attending the three day conference where the latest developments, challenges and opportunities in the power and water sectors will be under the spotlight.
Over 300 experts will over three days discuss innovative solutions to the continent's energy and water challenges and the exciting opportunities for utilities and industry players.
The conference ends Thursday. – Ends
Spintelligent are organizing the African Utility Week Conference
–CAJ News
Short URL: http://cajnewsafrica.com/?p=19931


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Legislation related to sexual harassment in education is critical to ensuring women's and girl children's right to education in an environment free from discrimination and violence. Sexual harassment in schools and other educational settings is a prevalent problem around the world. A 2001 report by Human Rights Watch documented extensive harassment and violence perpetrated by teachers and male students against girls in South African schools. In Malawi, 50% of surveyed school girls reported experiencing sexual harassment. A study of school girls in one south Indian state also documented girls' vulnerability to harassment. A recent Czech study suggests that more than 75% of Czech university students had been harassed at some point during their schooling. The American Association of University Women reports that 81% of students in the U.S. experience some form of sexual harassment during their schooling. This study further states that 40% of surveyed students reported that teachers and other staff sexually harass students in their school. (See: Human Rights Watch, Scared at School, 2001; UNiTE Fact Sheet - How prevalent is violence against women? (Feb. 2008); Fiona Leach & Shashikala Sitaram, Sexual harassment and abuse of adolescent school girls in South India, 2 Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 257 (2007); Study finds high levels of sex harassment at Czech Universities, Jan. 15, 2010; AAUW, Harassment-Free Hallways: How to Stop Sexual Harassment in School, 2004)
Like workplace sexual harassment, a multi-level approach is required to address harassment in educational settings. But because sexual harassment in schools negatively affects children, often leading to higher dropout rates among schoolgirls, legislation and policy must be very aggressive. In addition, national legislation and local policy must address the fact that students may also be perpetrators of sexual harassment in the educational setting. This requires special consideration in the drafting of law and policy.
As with sexual harassment in other settings, many countries deal with sexual harassment in educational settings through a variety of legal regimes, including criminal law, anti-discrimination legislation, and education laws, as well as local policies and disciplinary codes. Laws should:
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We all come with family members and business owners are no exception. Inevitably, the sticky question will arise: Do I want to hire a brother, sister, cousin, uncle or some other close relative to work for me? This question can have particular urgency in times of high unemployment. When an opening occurs, you may feel pressured to give special consideration to an out-of-work relative. The decision you make can have a significant effect on future success or failure in your business.
Plan ahead
If the situation hasn't yet come up, it's best to be prepared. Design a family employee policy that explicitly addresses your goals and expectations if and when a relative joins the business. This policy can cover such topics as overtime, how disciplinary measures will be carried out, and the need for termination. A family member, like any other employee, should be evaluated after the first 90 days and at regular intervals thereafter. If the prospect of such a discussion sends shivers up your spine, it may be a warning sign of trouble ahead.
In any case, don't wait until your brother-in-law is seated at the desk outside your office to draw up workplace guidelines.
Why it's a Good Idea
In some cases, hiring a close family member might eliminate the need for references or an extensive background check. You likely already have an idea about how reliable this person is and where their strengths and weaknesses lie. You also know whether or not you're willing to interact with them on a daily basis.
Depending on the individual, a relative may be more willing to pitch in wherever needed and to work odd hours at lower pay. Your son or daughter, for example, is probably much more invested in the success of the business than an outside hire. They may take a special interest in attending to small details ignored by others or be more motivated as a matter of family pride.
There may also be sizeable tax benefits, particularly if you intend to transfer wealth to the next generation in your family.
Why it's a Lousy Idea
For one thing, if you can't stomach sitting across from your second cousin at Thanksgiving dinner, you probably shouldn't invite them in for a job interview. Pre-existing family conflict and animosity are never good starting points for a new hire.
Family members sometimes take advantage of their unique status in the workplace. This can translate into:
- A lack of respect for authority (yours, that is)
- An inclination not to take one's job responsibilities seriously
- Inappropriate sharing of personal family issues with co-workers
- An unwillingness to change one's work habits when necessary
Keep in mind the effect of hiring a relative may have on the rest of your workforce. Any hint of favoritism—let alone granting a promotion or pay raise considered undeserving by others—can seriously damage employee morale and motivation.
Finally, when you encounter a close family member both at home and in the office every day, work issues have a nasty habit of coming home with you. This can be especially unpleasant if conflict is involved (dating back to some long-ago family quarrel) or when you're faced with a difficult business decision. All these elements cause unwanted distractions for even the most focused business owner.
If You Decide to Hire
After careful consideration, you decide that hiring Uncle Bob for that accounting position makes good business sense. Here are positive next steps:
- Make clear he's being hired on a three-month basis, and that a judgment about future employment will be made at that time.
- Be sure it's understood he'll be treated the same as every other employee (that includes being fired if necessary).
- Establish clear lines of communication, as well as appropriate ways for Uncle Bob to interact with you.
- Draw up a written contract that outlines specific duties and responsibilities. This helps elevate the personal to the professional level.
The ultimate decision about hiring a relative depends, to a great extent, on your existing relationship with him or her. Don't rush into bringing family members on board. Think through the likely outcomes and then make the choice that's best for your business.


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Spicy Spinach-Stuffed Mushrooms
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These look so cheesy and delicious!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM
These looks so incredible! I love stuffed mushrooms!ReplyDelete
Oh my Lord. You two will be the death of me. =)ReplyDelete
My hubby loves stuffed mushrooms and I bet he would love these! Yum!ReplyDelete
Try using flash frozen chopped spinach vs the block format which has to be thawed, drained of lots of water. flash frozen is 'dry' and does not need to be thawed before using - use from frozen --check out www.cookingreens.com for more info on flash-frozen chopped leafy greens.ReplyDelete
I made these as an appetizer for Christmas and they were a big hit. However, I only had one 8oz package of mushrooms, and so I made just half a batch of the filling. Even then I had filling left over so today I "played" with it. I used two big portobello mushrooms and put a layer of Baby Swiss cheese on top, added a thin slice of tomato on top of the cheese and then put the leftover filling on top of that, spread out to the edge. I cooked them the same amount of time and did brown them in the broiler for the last 2-3 minutes.ReplyDelete
(my guess is the full filling recipe would make about 8 portobello mushrooms .... it made a great main dish)
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Legislation should prevent the introduction of the survivor's sexual history in both civil and criminal proceedings either during the trial or during the sentencing phase where it is unrelated to the case (sometimes called a "rape shield law"). Many victims of rape and sexual assault have felt re-victimized when questioned by defense attorneys about details of their private sexual conduct. Rape shield laws are designed to prevent introduction of a victim's sexual behavior that is unrelated to the acts that are the subject of the legal proceedings. (See: UN Handbook 126.96.36.199; Report of the Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting to Review and Update the Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 15 (e); and "The Legal Response to Violence against Women in the United States of America: Recent Reforms and Continuing Challenges," by Sally F. Goldfarb, a paper for the United Nations expert group meeting on good practices in legislation on violence against women, 2008. p. 10.)
Example: Rule 70(d) of the International Criminal Court's Rules of Procedure and Evidence states that "[c]redibility, character or predisposition to sexual availability of a victim or witness cannot be inferred by reason of the sexual nature of the prior or subsequent conduct of a victim or witness."
CASE STUDY - Case of LNP v. Argentina (2011) – Human Rights Committee Finds That Enquires Unrelated to Rape Case Constitute Violation of ICCPR
In 2003, a 15 year old girl who is a member of the Qom ethnic group was sexually assaulted by three young men in Argentina. The victim was questioned by medical staff and witnesses were questioned by the court as to the girl's virginity and sexual history. In Communication No. 1610/2007, the Human Rights Committee noted that "the constant enquiries by the social worker, by medical personnel and by the court into the author's sexual life and morality constitute arbitrary interference with her privacy and an unlawful attack on her honour and reputation, all the more so because those enquiries were not relevant to the rape case and related to a minor. The Court referenced its General Comment Number 28, which provides that a woman's right to privacy is interfered with when "the sexual life of a woman is taken into consideration in deciding the extent of her legal rights and protections, including protections against rape."
In view of the above, the Committee found a violation of article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. See Communication No. 1610/2007.
Canada's approach is to state that:
evidence that the complainant has engaged in sexual activity, whether with the accused or with any other person, is not admissible to support an inference that, by reason of the sexual nature of that activity, the complainant
(a) is more likely to have consented to the sexual activity that forms the subject-matter of the charge; or
(b) is less worthy of belief.
The judge, under Canadian law, must determine that the evidence is about specific incidents of sexual activity, is relevant to the issue at trial, and that it has "significant probative value" that is not substantially outweighed by the danger of prejudice to the proper administration of justice. Article 276 of Canada, Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985. c. C-46) as amended by R.S., 1985, c. 19 (3rd Supp.), s. 12; 1992, c. 38, s. 2; 2002, c. 13, s. 13.
See: Respect, Protect and Fulfill: Legislating for Women's Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS (2009), Volume 1, Module 1; available in English, page 1-24, for additional factors in determining admissibility of evidence.
The Combating of Rape Act, No. 8, (2000) of Namibia states that no evidence about the complainant's previous sexual activity may be allowed unless the court determines that it:
(a) tends to rebut evidence that was previously adduced by the prosecution; or
(b) tends to explain the presence of semen or the source of pregnancy or disease or any injury to the complainant, where it is relevant to a fact in issue; or
(c) is so fundamental to the accused's defence that to exclude it would violate the constitutional rights of the accused:
Provided that such evidence or questioning has significant probative value that is not substantially outweighed by its potential prejudice to the complainant's personal dignity and right of privacy. Art. 18
Example: USA Federal Rule of Evidence 412, which allows for rape shield laws in both civil and criminal proceedings.
Example: The state of Pennsylvania, United States, has amended its legislation on experts in sexual offense cases in 2012 to state:
(1) In a criminal proceeding subject to this section, a witness may be qualified by the court as an expert if the witness has specialized knowledge beyond that possessed bythe average layperson based on the witness's experience with, or specialized training or education in, criminal justice, behavioral sciences or victim services issues, related to sexual violence, that will assist the trier of fact in understanding the dynamics of sexual violence, victim responses to sexual violence and the impact of sexual violence on victims during and after being assaulted.
(2) If qualified as an expert, the witness may testify to facts and opinions regarding specific types of victimresponses and victim behaviors. Law of Pennsylvania §5920 (2)(b)
See more provisions on evidence in Rights of survivors, below.
Legislation should provide that no records of personal information shall be admissible in sexual assault proceedings, unless the survivor or witness to whom the record relates has consented in writing to the disclosure of the personal record. Article 278.1 of Canada, Criminal Code (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) as amended by 1997, c. 30, s. 1 defines a "record" as follows:
… "record" means any form of record that contains personal information for which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy and includes, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, medical, psychiatric, therapeutic, counselling, education, employment, child welfare, adoption and social services records, personal journals and diaries, and records containing personal information the production or disclosure of which is protected by any other Act of Parliament or a provincial legislature, but does not include records made by persons responsible for the investigation or prosecution of the offence.
National SATU Guidelines Development Group, Recent Rape/Sexual Assault National Guidelines on Referral and Forensic Clinical Examination in Ireland (2010). These guidelines are a resource for law enforcement, health, psycho-social and related service providers and aim to further promote interagency coordination in responding to survivors of sexual assault. They include reference pages for responding to cases of sexual assault and rape; the referral process for Sexual Assault Treatment Units; contact information for Treatment Units; and a guide on preserving forensic evidence. The resource also includes detailed guidance for receiving and responding to survivors of sexual violence, including referring and following-up on cases, with specific sections for police, forensic examiners, forensic laboratories, as well as general practitioners. Available in English.
United States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, A National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations: Adults/Adolescents (Second Edition, 2013) establishes guidelines for forensic medical examinations in sexual assault cases. The guidelines support a coordinated community response that places the victim's physical and emotional needs over the needs of the criminal justice system. They offer detailed recommendations on equipment needed and methods for best evidence collection. The guidelines also state that voluntary use of alcohol or drugs "should not diminish the perceived seriousness of the assault." Available in English.
CASE STUDY: Human Rights Watch Report: Testing Justice: The Rape Kit Backlog in Los Angeles City and County
In 2009, Human Rights Watch released the report Testing Justice: The Rape Kit Backlog in Los Angeles City and County. The report found that, as of March 1, 2009, there were over 12,000 untested rape kits in storage facilities in these locations. Rape kits are comprised of evidence which is carefully collected from the victim when the rape is reported: DNA from every part of the victim's body touched by the rapist; photographs of injuries, including magnified photographs of tears or other injuries to the victim's genital area; fingernail scrapings; and blood and urine samples. This evidence is sealed into a large envelope and stored with police. The evidence from the kits may not only identify the assailant, it may corroborate future testimony about the assault, or connect the assailant to other victims.
The report found that although victims may believe that the evidence is automatically tested, and that no word from the police meant that they could not identify the attacker, thousands of rape kits remained untested. In some cases, the kits are from cases which are now past the 10-year statute of limitations for rape in California and can no longer be prosecuted. Untested kits can also mean that rapists remain at large.
The report revealed that although the police and sheriff's departments received federal funds to address the backlog of untested kits, the number of untested kits continued to grow. It found that officials sometimes delayed ordering kits to be tested when they did not believe that a crime had occurred..
Human Rights Watch called upon the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff's Departments to meet US obligations under international law and ensure justice to victims of sexual violence by:
The Los Angeles law enforcement officials have agreed to test all rape kits in the backlog and all those collected in the future.
(See: Sections on Rights of Survivors and Survivor Services)
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Legislation should state that no adverse inference shall be drawn from a delay between the act of violence and the reporting of the act of violence. The judicial officer should be required by the legislation to so inform the jury.
Example: The Combating of Rape Act, No 8, (2000) of Namibia states:
7. In criminal proceedings at which an accused is charged with an offence of a sexual or indecent nature, the court shall not draw any inference only from the length of the delay between the commission of the sexual or indecent act and the laying of a complaint. Sec. 7
(See also: the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act (No. 32) of South Africa, Section 59; and the UN Handbook, 3.9.6.)
Legislation should not allow mediation in cases of sexual assault at any stage of the process. (See: UN Handbook, 3.9.1.)
Legislation should not allow provocation as a defense to sexual assault. (See: Model Strategies, 7(d) p. 33.)
Legislation should not allow perpetrators to avoid punishment by reaching an agreement with the family of the victim/survivor or by providing the family with payment. (See: Good practices in legislation on "harmful practices" against women (2010), 3.6.1; Gender-Based Violence Laws in Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 32.)
Legislation should remove any exemption from punishment for perpetrators of sexual assault who marry the survivor. (See: Good practices in legislation on "harmful practices" against women (2010), 22.214.171.124.) Legislation should explicitly prohibit sexual assault cases from being dismissed upon the marriage of the perpetrator and survivor. Legislation should state that if a marriage occurs between the perpetrator and survivor, the case should be examined and considered for prosecution as a forced marriage. Legislation should terminate parental rights of perpetrators for any child born of rape and prohibit custody or visitation rights of perpetrators for any child born of rape.
(See: The section on Forced and Child Marriage of this Knowledge Module.)
Legislation should prohibit or restrict the purchase, possession and use of firearms and other regulated weapons by offenders convicted of sexual assault.
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Well hello, it's been a long while since I've given an update. So let me go ahead and appologize for letting my life be in the way of my blogging. I so love to blog and share, but sometimes, life just gets in the way.
I've been super busy sewing and crafting lately. The most recent project is a glider rocker and ottoman that I made removable covers for. It's so pretty, the fabric that was chosen is very fun and bright, it's for a nursery. Haha, obviously they are having a girl. 😉
This project came at the perfect time, I was actually in the process of recovering my glider and ottoman too. Although, I've just covered my ottoman, still working on the chair.
The chair will also be covered in the same fabric. It's really been something I've been wanting to do for awhile, I just finally have gotten time to do it. Let me tell ya though, having removable covers, such a huge blessing. This way I can wash them instead of have them reupholstered. Even the ottoman, I just added elastic to the bottom of it for easy removal. Sorry don't have a pic of that yet, Those pics will come when I'm finished.
Ok, so the next thing I was working on was for my sister-in-law. I helped throw a baby shower for her a little over a month ago and went crazy making blankets for the baby!!! Unfortunately, I don't have pics for those at the moment. Currently, I am blogging on my phone and it's late at night, and well, I don't feel like rolling out of bed and turning my computer on to finish this blog to add the pictures. 😁 no worries, I'll be posting those pictures too on my next blog.
Ok, last but not least, we just finished giving my daughter a big "My Little Pony" themed 5th birthday party!! Yes she is 5 now!!! My little girl is not so little anymore. She's growing so fast, sheesh, where does the time go. Anyway, I had so much fun planning and prepping for this party. Of corse I made some decorations and, not to brag, but I made her the coolest rainbow cake ever!!! Seriously, I honestly didn't think it was going to come out this good. I'm more proud of this cake then anything I've ever sewn/crafted!
Also, I'm sure you've noticed from her precious birthday parties I've blogged about, her parties are usually costume parties. Well, this time she wanted to be one of the characters named Rainbow Dash. Well, that character is a Pegasus. So, naturally a Pegasus needs wings right…well wings she got. They were so fun to make, I made them out of felt and sturdy interfacing. I can't think of what the interfacing is called right now, but it's used for dividers in purses and what not, as a stabilizer.
Well, that's all I have for now, it's late, and I'm finally getting tired. I hope you enjoyed the pictures, I'll be posting in the next couple days to share more with you . Have a good night, well morning now. 😉
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Despite the closure of the annual holiday Trail of Lights, people can still gather under the moonlight tower otherwise known as the Zilker Holiday Tree for family fun, food and entertainment. Siblings Aliya Gracia, 8, and Brandon, 6, pause to enjoy the fuzzy brain sensation after spinning under the tree.
Santa's Village is a popular hangout for young kids wishing to deliver that holiday list to Santa before the big day. Taking advantage of that is Madison Flores, 7.
HEB employees from the Brodie Lane and William Cannon store, David Sanchez, left, and Travis Miller, right, hang decorative lights on their booth which provides fruit, candy and antlers for kids.
Food vendors line the tree offerring hot cocoa and hot food.
The festival runs only through December 11, 2011.
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Troubleshooting the Nagios plugin execution environment can be quite tricky. Normally the method for troubleshooting a check is to execute that check from the command line via sudo. However, this is sometimes not enough, particularly when the plugin relies on a specific set of environment variables, and those variables aren't set properly, or aren't set … Continue reading
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I've started to write more posts, and for the moment I've scheduled them out for the next month one per day at noon to keep content fresh.
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MCLA receives loan of "Megaplanet"
When Wendy Miner realized she'd have not just one but three of her four children attending MCLA in the fall, the Shelburne Falls resident realized that the College offered more than a campus that was close to home.
"I have two sets of twins," Miner said. "Larissa was originally accepted to MCLA and Worcester State College. She decided to try Worcester's nursing program, but she just didn't like it. When she went back to look at the athletic training program at MCLA, she noticed how different it was from her first visit."
For Larissa, MCLA was a great fit. She quickly adapted to her new campus and her new teammates on the women's basketball team.
"While her twin sister is very happy at her college, I found out that my younger daughter Johanna was considering MCLA," Miner said. "The two of them talked about it and even though the campus is small, Larissa said it's big enough for the two of them. Then Johanna's twin brother threw himself into the mix, deciding last minute that he wanted to join his sisters."
It was then that Miner knew she wanted to do something special for the College and approached her boss, renowned glass artist Josh Simpson about lending a piece of his work to the school on a long-term basis.
"Josh knows all about what a great job they're doing there - he hears me brag about Larissa all of the time," she said. "He doesn't have a lot of work in the Berkshires, so I thought it would be a great thing for the College to have on display. I approached him about it and he said to go ahead and pick out one of the 'Megaplanets' he makes."
Simpson makes intricately designed glass balls swirling with color and light, out of powdered glass, cane glass and gold leafing. The planet on loan to the College, which is about 8.5 inches in diameter, will be on display in the Admissions Office.
"It's quite an unusual piece that we sent to the school," Simpson. "We have a very nice relationship with MCLA. I think Mary Grant is just an amazing leader -- she's charismatic and fun."
Simpson also has some first-hand experience with the College. He and his wife, NASA astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman, were awarded honorary degrees by the College in 2004. Over the years, he's been impressed by both MCLA's blossoming science and art programs and said he has heard wonderful things from Miner's daughter during her visits to his studio.
"I sort of have some boots on the ground with Larissa," he said. "I know it's a great school because I have Wendy who is with me every day telling me how great it is for her daughter, and I have Larissa telling me about the College when she comes home and visits the studio."


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Sunday, September 20, 2015
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8 comments:
- Maarit at Violets Corner said...
Such a pretty card, Mynn. Enjoy your weekend, sweetie.
Love and hugs
- September 20, 2015 at 7:03 AM
- KarinsArtScrap said...
this looks beautiful Mynn
Gr Karin
- September 20, 2015 at 7:58 AM
- Vicki Dutcher said...
Awesome card -- love that layout too
- September 20, 2015 at 9:42 AM
- The Craft Princess said...
I really like your card and the techniques you used. That color blue is so pretty :) Hugs...Janie
- September 20, 2015 at 3:22 PM
- Taunya Butler said...
Beautiful and VERY AWESOMELY sweet card!!! Love the soft yet dynamic feel to it!!! I am such a HUGE fan of yours but I really need to let you know that I won't be around in the bloggy world for the next 10 days - I am taking a much needed break - so except for already written and scheduled Design Team posts I will not be around and that includes commenting!! Please know that it is nothing personal!! But I am excited because when I come back I will be celebrating my 4 year Blogaversary with lots of giveaways all during October!! I did leave some details about that on my blog!! Hope the rest of your September is beautiful and that you keep happy!!! Hugs!!!
- September 20, 2015 at 6:31 PM
- Lisa said...
Well I think you know you had me with those polka dots!! This is splendid Mynn, love your design!
- September 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM
- Jo Herbert said...
Mynn, you have created such a great card that is taking on the sketch perfectly. Love the used of your colours and layering. Hugs Jo
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- Jerrie said...
Mynn, I love how you have put the stamp sets together ito creat your image!! You are a stamping genius!!
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Royal Opera House
So, a new year and what a way to start it off! In between all the organisation for both Photo50 at the London Art Fair as well as two publications that are due to be released early in the next 2 months, I managed to find some time to be transported into a fantastical world of beauty and went to see The Nutcracker Ballet at the Royal Opera House.
Having seen the ballet as a young child, many many years ago it was so wonderful to experience it once more and in such amazing surroundings. Having not been to the Royal Opera House before, the venue in itself was a delight, let alone the ballet itself. Performed with a live orchestra and with music by Pytor Il'yich Tchaikovsky it really was a stunning evening.
If you haven't been to see a ballet, I really would recommend it. They are such beautiful, sophisticated feasts for the eyes and ears and truly inspiring. For anyone visual, they are a must!
Read more here: http://www.roh.org.uk/discover/ballet/thenutcracker/index.aspx
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|Rhode Islands Lafayette Band Celebrates Americas 400th North Kingstown, Rhode Island
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The Lafayette Band, based in North Kingstown, RI performed in a gala entertainment festival on July 30, 2006 in Newport, RI, in conjunction with the visit of the replica of the ship Godspeed, which landed at Jamestown, Virginia, 400 years ago. The band entertained the audience with several selections from its eclectic repertoire of show tunes, jazz, and patriotic and march music. The festival was held in sight of the Godspeed, bobbing on a sparkling Summertime Narragansett Bay, at the Festival Shell of the Newport Yachting Center. This rich opportunity was only made possible by the band's membership in ACB. Prosody Creative Services Inc, the promoters of the 400th celebration, contacted ACB to locate a Rhode Island band and ACB referred the Lafayette Band.
Originally formed by the workers in the town's Lafayette Mills, the Lafayette Band is marking 125 years of continuous music making! The band's current members are drawn from twelve communities in the State. The volunteer musicians enjoy bringing to residents of the area the unique opportunity to enjoy listening to a variety of wonderful live music in parks, schools, libraries, nursing homes and parades.
Joseph Pelosi, a professional trumpet player and retired high school band director, has directed the Lafayette Band for the past 49 years! Joe is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor and Master of Music Education degree. In addition to his school music teaching and ensemble directing, Joe pioneered the State's scholastic jazz festival in Rhode Island.
America's 400th Anniversary was celebrated in several Eastern Seaboard cities with port visits by the tall ship Godspeed, a replica of one of the ships that brought America's first permanent English settlers to Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. A Landing Party Festival featured live music, family entertainment, and interactive exhibits that gave a glimpse into early 17th century life and America's legacies of democracy, cultural diversity, free enterprise and exploration, as they continue today. The Festivals were open free daily during each port visit. For details, visit www.Americas400thanniversary.com.
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Oxlade-Chamberlain to undergo scans on hamstring strain
Having strained his hamstring in Arsenal's FA Cup win over Manchester United on Monday, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will learn the extent of the damage when he undergoes scans on Wednesday.
The England international sustained the problem five minutes into the second half at Old Trafford and was subsequently replaced by Aaron Ramsey - with reports suggesting he could be out for up to four weeks.
However, Wenger insisted there was no prognosis yet, while offering mixed news on the availability of Jack Wilshere (ankle), Mathieu Flamini (hamstring) and Gabriel (hamstring) ahead of Saturday's Premier League clash with West Ham.
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I'm also grateful that I got to play in my craft room and got to ink up this darling Lawn Fawn set (and dies): Jump for Joy. The pretty pattern paper is also from their new collection - so yummy!
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I've been away from my blog so much recently it feels weird writing up a post! A lot has happened over Christmas and I didn't quite feel like blogging. It's not my job so I can happily come and go as I please I suppose! I've shown this jumpsuit before but it's just amazing for chucking on when you feel like looking like a young child in something too big for them. It's so comfortable and you can let it all hang out. Smartened it up a bit with my lovely Topshop boots.
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Now that I had the gear for Heroics, I wanted to jump in and see what I could do. An old gaming buddy has been waiting patiently for my slow progress. He was actually the GM of the first guild where I truly felt like part of the team way back at Level 60. His main is a shaman these days and he's been running as a healer, but now that I can run as a tank, he can go as DPS (enhance I think).
We started with a Random and got Shadowmoon Burial Grounds. I'm not going to lie, I was nervous heading in. Would I be able to survive? Would I mess up a mechanic? I took some solace in that we were on Vent together and he could talk me through the harder pulls. As we moved through the dungeon my confidence grew. I never died (credit to the healer who did a tremendous job) and without much fanfare we were facing down Ner'zul.
Ner'zul??!!!??? Seriously? I couldn't believe we were actually going to be fighting Ner'zul. THE Ner'zul. This was Gul'dan's Yoda, the master who taught Gul'dan all his tricks. Gul'dan taught Teron'gor (Teron Gorefiend) and Cho'gall and on down the line. He was the first Lich King. His spirit was ripped from his body and forged into the helm that Arthas wore and now, presumably, Bolvar Fordragon wears. Well, that was the original Ner'zul. This guy isn't him, I mean it is him, but it's not him.
This time travel, alternate universe stuff messes with your head.
We had a little trouble with coordination of the DPS on the skeleton line. It reminded me a bit of a fight from the End Times dungeons in Cataclysm (Sylvanas maybe?) where you had to kill a mob to make a hole to run through. We can dangerously close a couple of times. I wasn't quick enough to throw up a skull. I really need to keybind that. On the upside, we got an achievement for killing two of the skeletons within 10 seconds of each other.
After our successful run, I asked if we could target the specific dungeons I needed for Khadgar's Ring quest. We started by seeking the Core of Fire from Bloodmaul Slag Mines. This was a little more challenging than Shadow Burial Grounds had been. There was one room that was something like a gauntlet. It seemed like an endless stream of fire elementals kept pouring our way and eventually we were overwhelmed. We managed to regroup and try again, this time with greater success.
I had time for one more run and we chose to go after the Core of Iron in Grimrail Depot. The difficulty ramped up yet again. The first boss was a team of a goblin and an ogre. I thought we had things well in hand, but when the goblin boss died the ogre went crazy and wiped us. We figured out real quick this was a Romeo and Juliet situation (from the Opera event in Karazhan). They needed to die really close to the same time. DPS did a much better job and we defeated the encounter on the next try. Then we jumped on the train. This was a really cool twist on the dungeon crawl and a it felt a bit like the train sequence from the first Captain America movie.
Things were going peachy until we started pulling the trash to the next boss. My Deadly Boss mods started yelling DESTRUCTION! One of the trash mobs opened up with a giant shoulder mounted cannon and it was nighty night for our party. We identified the mobs as Gunners and my Shaman friend started frogging them. Frogging, that is totally a word.
But we were still having problems. I respeced from Fist of Justice to Repentance and that gave us two mobs CC'ed at the start. That allowed us to take them down and we were able to clear up to the next boss.
This was the craziest fight I've seen in Warlords. My Shaman friend told me all I had to was to pick up the adds and stay out of the fire that would cover a quarter of the room. Okay, I can do that. He failed to mention that the adds were same DESTRUCTION Gunners as before and now we had no CC. I basically felt like I was running around like the proverbial chicken with its proverbial head proverbially cut off. Yet, somehow, someway, I lived. Our healer was a Priest (no idea if Disc or Holy sorry) and he did a great job even though he was on absolute fumes by the time the boss finally keeled over.
I was impressed by the other players. Everyone had a great attitude when we wiped and there was none of the snipping and yelling you always hear about in a PUG.
I got several good drops over the night including a Heroic Warforged Shield and my iLevel boosted up to 620.


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|Curse of the Demon / Night of the Demon
Actors: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy
NR 2002 1hr 35min
No Description Available. Genre: Horror Rating: UN Release Date: 13-AUG-2002 Media Type: DVD
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One the great turning points in horror films
Ryan Harvey | Los Angeles, CA USA | 05/04/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The distributor advertising this DVD as a "Double Feature" stretches the truth a bit. "Curse of the Demon" is merely the shortened American version of the British film "Night of the Demon." The American version runs thirteen minutes shorter and is by far the weaker cut of the film, if still a fine piece of work. It's a nice feature to have the complete American cut on this disk for the sake of comparison with the original, but this is hardly a "double feature." And there's no reason to watch the edited, shorter version when you have the superior British original of one of the seminal horror movies of all time on the same DVD.
"Night of the Demon" hit theaters in 1957 and marked a turning point in macabre cinema. Director Jacques Tourneur had made some important 1940s horror films ("Cat People," "Leopard Man," and "I Walked with a Zombie," as well as the film noir classic "Out of the Past") that moved against the grain of the gothic fantasies that Universal produced during the 1930s. With "Night of the Demon," Tourneur cemented the idea of the modern horror film, where the terrors of the gothic, demonic, and supernatural appear within the realm of the modern, everyday world -- the essentially rational setting of the contemporary times. The success of this film would eventually lead to such movies in the following decades as "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," which took place in the recognizable contemporary world, where the invasion of supernatural forces seemed all the more ghastly.The screenplay comes from the short story "Casting the Runes" by master Victorian ghost story writer M. R. James. (You can find this story in an excellent and currently in-print volume of the same name.) In the story, a professor and practitioner of the black arts, Karswell, has found a way to send demonic forces against his academic foes by passing them a slip of paper covered with magical runes. The movie expands the premise: Karswell (Niall MacGinnis, who played Zeus in "Jason and the Argonauts") leads a witchcraft circle and uses his rune-tracker to send a demon after his opponent, professor Harrington. After Harrington's death, his American friend, psychologist Holden (Dana Andrews), comes to America to learn more, but scoffs at the idea that anything supernatural could lurk behind Harrington's death. Unfortunately for Holden, Karswell feels threatened enough to decide to send his murdering monster after the American.Tourneur brilliantly films the movie in a split style, dividing between realistic, bland daytime scenes, meant to have an almost documentary feel, and increasingly warped and bizarre nighttime scenes as the curse of the demon moves closer and closer to Holden and it becomes harder for him to deny the truth of what is occurring. The demon itself is a point of controversy among film students. Tourneur was famous for keeping his horrors hidden, and some people believe that he never planned to show the demon at all, but the producer forced him to shove it up front. The appearance early in the film of the full demon might have been an error (it would have worked better to save it for the finale), but its materialization at the end is pretty incredible and it's hard to believe that Tourneur wouldn't have wanted the ending any other way. This is (excuse the pun) one hell of a demon. Designed by Ken Adam (who would later create the sets for most of the James Bond films, as well as "Dr. Strangelove"), the monster looks like it leaped from the freakiest medieval woodcut representation of Hell. The special effects and sounds accompanying it are also eerie and disturbing.Andrews is a bit stodgy in his part, but Niall MacGinnis makes up for it with his scene-stealing role as Karswell. MacGinnis is both a bumbling, whimsical British professor (complete with a doting and scolding mother), and a cold-blooded sorcerer -- often both in one scene. The ending of the film, involving the passing of the runes, is both funny and incredibly tense, leading to one of the most stunning climaxes in horror films. Peggy Cummins as the love interest is delightfully perky and intelligent, much more so than female leads in most horror films.The only extra on the disk is the inclusion of the American cut. However, the film is in perfect condition, and is finally shown in the original aspect ration of 1:1.66 (a typical European screen format infrequently seen in the U.S.; it's halfway between the shape of a TV screen and the typical 1:1.85 that most American movies are shot in today). "Night of the Demon" is essential horror film viewing for anyone who wants to understand the development of the genre into its current form. (And I have to repeat it, that's one helluva demon!)"
Maybe the best horror film you've never seen, a true classic
Lawrance M. Bernabo | The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota | 05/23/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There is really only one thing significantly wrong with the 1957 horror classic "Curse of the Demon" is that the producer insisted the "demon" had to make its appearance at the beginning and ending of the film. The better move would have been to leave the appearance of the monster up to the audience's imagination as director Jacques Tourneur intended, but you know producers. Still, "Curse of the Demon" (originally released in England as "Night of the Demon") is a great horror film. The film is based on "Casting the Runes" by M. R. James, with a literate screenplay by Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester. The story deals with a curse cast by an evil magician, supposedly based on the self-proclaimed English sorcerer Aleister Crowley. The tone for the film is amply established in the opening sequence where a terrified Professor Harrington (Maurice Dehnam) comes to the home of Dr. Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis). Harrington the scientist had led an expose of Karswell's devil cult and made the mistake of telling the sorcerer "Do your worst." Now he wants Karswell to call off the demon, but, of course, it is way too late for that now. The protagonist in this story is Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews), a noted American psychologist who comes to England to help with the investigation of the cult. Holden does not believe in the occult, but then Karswell slips him a parchment marked with runes and learns the rules of our little game: whoever holds the parchment will die on an appointed day UNLESS they can pass it on to a WILLING recipient. Sounds like big time fun, right? Holden tries to hold on to his skepticism, but in due course he becomes a true believer. Allied with Joanna Harrington (Peggy Cummins), daughter of the late professor and Holden's obvious romantic interest in the film, the pair try to turn the tables on Karswell. The star of this film is Karswell as portrayed by Niall MacGinnis, who manages to give nice shadings to his villain. When Holden first meets the man trying to kill him at Lufford Hall, Karswell is dressed up as Dr. Bobo the Magnificent entertaining the local orphans. He even gives Holden a chance to recant his disbelief and when the psychologist becomes even more insulting Karswell summons a cyclone to take the American down a peg. One of the best sequences involves Holden breaking into Lufford Hall only to be attacked by the wizard's demon familiar. Andrews manages the passage from disbelief to understanding and horror adequately, but Karswell steals every scene. Even with the cheesy monster, "Curse of the Demon" is a classic horror film featuring a first rate script, solid performances, and artful direction. This may well be the proverbial best horror film you never heard of."
Matt Martinez | Sherman Oaks, CA | 05/02/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I rented this movie one night based on a great multitude of great reviews it had received online. As I popped the tape in my VCR, I wasn't sure what to expect. Imagine my surprise as I began to watch one of the single greatest horror/suspense films ever made. Everything in this film works, including the "controversial" appearance of the demon at the beginning and end of the film. The performances are quite noteworthy, especially that of the actor who portrayed Karswell. Niall MacGinnis does a great job in humanizing his character and makes sure that Karswell is leaps and bounds beyond the average evil villain in most horror films. Probably my favorite aspect is the fact the film has a film noir quality to it, which suits it fine, since it is a cross between a detective film and a supernatural thriller. It's one of the few films I've seen recently that has made me yell at the characters when they do things that may be understandable, however they are a bit on the unintelligent side. By the way, if you are a fan of this movie, be sure to check out Hammer's The Devil Rides Out, recently released in a widescreen edition by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It contains a similar occult theme, as well as the same level of sheer intensity. Oh, and I don't want to forget the fact that it stars Christopher Lee, is directed by Terence Fisher, and has a screenplay written by Richard Matheson (based on Dennis Wheatley's novel)."
Finally on DVD!!! ...almost perfect
Slade Simon | Scottsdale, AZ USA | 08/16/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"An underrated classic finally on DVD!! This is a truly great horror film based on the short story "Casting The Runes" by M.R. James. The movie mainly uses concepts from the story and isn't a direct adaptation of the story - kinda like Roger Corman's Poe movies. The names Karswell and Harrington are the only ones that appear in both James' story and the movie. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur whose Cat People (1941) is probably more well known. Unfortunately, the studio mettled a bit and forced Tourneur to show the demon way too early in the movie. Dr. Holden arrives in England only to discover that his colleague, Professor Harrington, has died under mysterious circumstances. During Dr. Holden's research into what happened, a curse that involves the use of Runic symbols is discovered. Karswell is the leader of a local religious cult. This DVD contains both Night of the Demon (UK version) and Curse of the Demon (US version - 13 minutes hacked out). Both movies are letterboxed. The image quality is great. There were a few points where it seemed the audio might be slighted distorted, but I'm not sure if it would be noticeable to the average viewer. It's not distracting. Something you'd have to be listening for. The close-ups of the Demon are great considering that this movie was made in 1957. The wide shots are not as impressive. The version of Curse of the Demon on this DVD is not as complete as the version that has been on AMC. The version AMC aired was closer to the UK version - with only a few minutes missing and the "Curse" titles at the beginning. I do prefer the UK version and would recommend skipping Curse of the Demon unless you just want to compare how the versions were edited. Just select Night of the Demon to see the complete, unedited version. I wouldn't call it a Director's Cut since he would want to cut all shots of the Demon from most of the film. I did find one little quirk with this DVD. Once you select a version, you're locked into it until you stop the DVD. Each movie has its own menu. Once you select a movie from the first menu, you are stuck on that movie's menu with no way to back out to that first menu. If your DVD player remembers where you left off when you hit Stop like mine does, you'll have to clear that memory to switch movies. With my player, I just hit Stop an additional time, and that makes the player go back to the beginning of the DVD when I hit Play. The two trailers are for Fright Night and The Bride. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys older horror movies and/or movies based on the supernatural. This is a personal favorite."


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NEWPORT BEACH — Saturday afternoon marked Jon Walters' first time facing his former team in a high school game.
Walters, now a junior at Mater Dei, transferred from Newport Harbor after his freshman year. He still has friends at Harbor. He and his sophomore brother, James, were on a 14-and-under club team with Sailors juniors Dan Stevens and Curtis Fink that won the Speedo Cup.
In the water, it's a different matter for the Newport Beach resident.
"Personal relationships don't mean anything in the game," said Jon Walters, who was declared ineligible his sophomore year by the CIF Southern Section after the transfer. "We just play water polo. Leave it all in the water."
Walters, a U.S. junior national team player, has come back to the high school arena stronger than ever. The Monarchs as a team certainly looked mighty in the South Coast Tournament championship game at Newport Harbor High.


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The Gilead Baptist Church outside Detroit is on a four-lane highway called South Telegraph Road. The drive down South Telegraph Road to the church, a warehouse-like structure surrounded by black asphalt parking lots, is a depressing gauntlet of boxy, cut-rate motels with names like Melody Lane and Best Value Inn. The highway is flanked by a flat-roofed Walgreens, Blockbuster, discount liquor stores, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Bob's Big Boy, Sunoco and Citgo gas stations, a Ford dealership, Nails USA, the Dollar Palace, Pro Quick Luve and U-Haul. The tawdry display of cheap consumer goods, emblazoned with neon, lines both sides of the road, a dirty brown strip in the middle. It is a sad reminder that something has gone terribly wrong withe America, with its inhuman disregard for beauty and balance, it obsession with speed and utilitarianism, its crass commercialism and it oversized SUVs and trucks and greasy junk food. This disdain for nature, balance and harmony is part of the deadly, numbing assault against community.
Chris Hedges, American Fascists, pp 182-183
I read this passage, and could only shake my head. Typical liberal arrogance.
Oh, yes, how shameful that those who are not so well-off have to stay in such tawdry, cut-rate places like Best Value. Such a pity all hotels and inns aren't Marriots or some other where a night's rest would likely cost a week's wages instead of a day's.
And, of course, how unimaginative that stores are in buildings with flat rooves (or is that roofs, I admit I'm not certain). Perhaps Hedges would find them more acceptable if they had...oh, I don't know...domed roofs? Or maybe inverted V-shaped roofs? Steeples? Or like that famous opera house in Australia?
And, oh, that evil junk food. Never mind that the supposed all-natural health food costs a lot, problem doesn't taste all that good, and in likely not even all that much better. It only gives the health-food snobs a source for their feelings of superiority over those who enjoy Big Macs.
So much could be picked out from this excerpt. Wal-Mart, of course, gets mentioned. As do SUVs, those bastions of evil in the liberal mind.
Now, I have a different take on it. You see, I've been to a former Communist country, Russia.
There is a movie, a classic among the Russian people, I think, from the Soviet era. It's a holiday movie, though probably more concerning New Year's than Christmas, that being the Soviet Union and all. It's a comedy movie. The main premise of it is that, after an evening of carousing with his friends, a man unwittingly takes a plane from Moscow to Leningrad (once and now again St. Petersburg). Because buildings in both cities looked essentially the same, he didn't realize he was in a different city, and he even gets to an apartment or flat that is in the same address as his place in Moscow, and his key works and his gets in. The movie is essentially a romantic comedy, so you can guess where things go from there.
Another aspect of the movie is the animation that precedes it. A man, an architect, designs a building of flats. It's a rather basic but a bit ornate design, with balconies and some other bits of decoration. But in order to build it, he must make his way through the Soviet bureaucracy, and in doing so, a bit is taken here and there, and the final building design is about has basic and plain as one could imagine. At the end of the animation, we see lines and lines of these plain buildings, with legs, marching about, even into other, non-Russian places, I suppose to show how that form of housing will eventually be everywhere.
And in Soviet Russia, it pretty much was. I remember seeing city streets lined with these rows and rows of flat buildings. They may have varied a good bit in height or width, but overall there was a dulling sameness to them all, something even the Russian people knew.
So, one must pardon me if I'm not too taken withe Hedges sentiments and logic, if it does not do injustice to the word logic to apply to whatever thinking Hedges was doing. I simply cannot agree with his conclusions, and frankly think that his words display an arrogance and condescension that is rather ugly and unbecoming.


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In general, hair grows a half-inch every month. Even so, there are factors that alter your hair growth, either stunting it, causing hair loss or assisting your hair in reaching its maximum growth. Learn exactly what these factors are and how they work.
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Kajali Teej 2017 Date
Thursday 10 August 2017
Kajali Teej (कजली तीज) is the 'Badi Teej' (बड़ी तीज) celebrated about 15 days after the 'Chhoti Teej' or the Hariyali Teej Festival and 2-3 days after Raksha Bandhan festival. Badi Teej is also known as Sattu Teej, Satudi Teej and Kajari Teej. While Chhoti Teej is the festival dedicated to girls- especially daughters, Badi Teej is dedicated to the daughters-in-law. The married daughters who go to their parents' house on Chhoti Teej come back to their husband's house before Badi Teej. Both the Teej festivals, however, are women oriented and are celebrated with much zeal and fanfare by women for well being and long life of their husbands. In fact, there is another, the third Teej festival- Hartalika Teej- which is dedicated to unmarried girls when they fast to get good husbands.
Kajali Teej Date 2017
Kajali Teej falls on the third day of Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight of lunar month after which comes new moon day) in the month of Bhadrapada or Bhado (July-August). This year, Kajali Teej will be celebrated on 10 August 2017. The dates of all the three Teej festivals in the year 2017 are as follows:
Hariyali Teej – 26 July 2017
Kajjli Teej- 10 August 2017
Haritalika Teej– 24 August 2017
Kajari Teej Celebration
Badi Teej is celebrated by women with much excitement and by observing the Kajali fast. It is the festival of married women but in some communities unmarried girls also fast and participate in the celebrations of Kajari Teej. It is said that once observed, the Kajali Teej fast has to be observed for whole life or at least for 16 years. Where the unmarried girls are allowed to fast, they can begin fasting before four years of marriageable age. Badi Teej is one of the major festivals of Maheshwari community mostly found in Rajasthan though some other communities too celebrate Kajali Teej in their own ways.
'Badi Teej ka Sinjara' (बड़ी तीज का सिंजारा) is celebrated on the eve of Kajari Teej- the second day of the Krishna Paksh in the Bhadon month. Married daughters, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law and their daughters, all married women in extended family are invited for the function. During Sijara, girls and ladies dress up in bright colored dresses and jewelry, decorate their palms with mehndi or henna, eat special Teej sweets like ghewar and sattu and go around streets in procession like gathering while singing and dancing with joy. Sattu, a special sweet recipe of chana dal, made on Teej has quite a significance in the celebrations and rituals on Teej. Married daughters are gifted with sattu along with saree, blouse, clothes for the children and money. Satudi Teej has got the name from this dish 'Sattu' only.
Kajali Teej Fast and Rituals
On the day of Kajli Teej, women who fast for the whole day eat food early in the morning, before sunrise. After that, they fast for the whole day. In the evening, all women get ready by wearing their best dresses and jewelry with henna pecked hands and feet. At the time of sun set, all the women of the family and neighbourhood get together and perform puja (worship) and hear 'Badi Teej katha' or the story of Badi Teej. Puja is offered to 'Neem Mata' (नीम माता- neem branch revered as Goddess Neem) in traditional way by offering haldi (turmeric), kumkum (vermilion), mehandi (henna), chawal (rice), kajal (kohl), satu (sattu sweet), and fruits. A milk-water mixture is prepared in a parath (flat plate like vessel with raised corners) in which fruits and other things are placed. After worship, all the women see the fruits in this water-milk mix. They then worship moon and have sattu to break their fast. In some co they eat food mmunities, women are allowed to eat food after worshipping while in many others, fasting women only eat sathu and fruits.
Kajali Teej of Bundi Rajasthan
Teej is a major festival of Rajasthan. Like the Teej procession of Jaipur held on Chhoti Teej is famous worldwide, the Kajali Teej of Bundi also genrates equal excitement among local and foreign tourists. Bundi is situated about 40 kms from the city of Kota in Rajasthan. On the day of Badi Teej, a grand procession of 'Teej Mata' is organized here which is witnessed by many tourists who come specially to see it from faraway destinations. The procession moves from the picturesque Naval Sagar in Bundi and heads towards Azad Park. Bedecked elephants, camels, performing artists including musicians, folk dancers and other artists go along with the procession. The stunning performances by artists and cultural art performers is a scene to behold. Special Teej fairs are also organized here whose main attractions are again the breath holding performances by artists, swings and the special sweetmeats some of which can be found only on the occasion of Teej.
Other than Bundi in Rajasthan, Kajari Teej is also celebrated in other parts of North and Central India with great excitement and joy. Women in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (particularly in Varanasi and Mirzapur) celebrate kajli Teej with enthusiasm.