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There's no one uglier than Laura the self-loathing lesbian who's apparently back in the closet. Laura has a need to hide a lot of things. She can never stop lying. All through 2004 and election night and the day after, she said on air that she was supporting John Kerry. But, in 2008, we learned she didn't vote for him. Despite doing the overnight Air America 2004 coverage and telling people that they would get through it together and they were all disappointed.
She always lies. She can't help herself. If she's telling you what happened, she's got to lie to make it 'better.' You can't trust her.
She proves that today at CounterPunch -- and that's my last link to that piece of trash outlet ever.
Whora Flanders (who 'joked' about Hillary's "cackle" even after Chris Matthews had stopped) writes:
So, the New York Times finally ran a correction. But after six weeks of "considering" the errors in its own reporting, the Times' correction of its misleading ACORN story, came way, way, WAY to late.
The correction ran the same day that the anti-poverty group ACORN called it quits, after a year under attack -- and a day after the paper's public editor wrote that yes indeed, the paper has "mistakenly reinforced falsehoods" from right wing activists against the group.
The Dirty Whore notes the 'costumes' and then launches into other things. Here are the next three paragraphs included under fair use and as a warning to the general public:When right-wing journo-hucksters released videos appearing to show ACORN workers offering advice to people posing as a pimp and a prostitute, the Times fell for an editing trick. The videos gave the impression that two hucksters were dressed in outlandish costumes when they visited ACORN offices. They weren't.
Video transcripts also contradicted what the video makers claimed, namely that ACORN staffers appeared to endorse talk of using underage girls as prostitutes. The Times also fell for that. In fact, the transcript reveals that ACORN staffers believed they were discussing a plan to protect two girls.
Responding to a complaint from the media critics at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Hoyt said Sunday that the paper's editors were "considering issuing a correction."
What did the Times issue a correction on? From the above (and the rest of the article), they issued a huge number of corrections. But Laura's lying. Laura Flanders is always lying. She's a whore, just like her uncles and the rest of her crazy ass family. Here is the entire correction from the New York Times:Several articles since September about the troubles of the community organizing group Acorn referred incorrectly or imprecisely to one aspect of videotaped encounters between Acorn workers and two conservative activists that contributed to the group's problems.
In the encounters, the activists posed as a prostitute and a pimp and discussed prostitution with the workers. But while footage shot away from the offices shows one activist, James O'Keefe, in a flamboyant pimp costume, there is no indication that he was wearing the costume while talking to the Acorn workers.
The errors occurred in articles on Sept. 16 and Sept. 19, 2009, and on Jan. 31 of this year. Because of an editing error, the mistake was repeated in an article in some copies on Saturday. (Go to Article)
Get it? They only retracted that James O'Keefe was wearing a pimp costume. All the other stuff Lying Laura's going on about? More lies from her trashy ass mouth. We don't need her on the left. She's lying and people are going to believe her. She hurts the cause. She either learns to tell the truth or she goes over to the right-wing where her trashy ass belongs anyway.Laura lies. She can't stop lying. Even her claim that the paper said the two didn't wear costumes is a lie. They only say O'Keefe didn't wear a pimp costume.
Laura also claims that Clark Hoyt (public editor of NYT) finally got honest but he's saying what the correction says: Only that the pimp costume was not worn. From Hoyt's article:
Acorn's supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O'Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them. If O'Keefe did not dress as a pimp, he clearly presented himself as one: a fellow trying to set up a woman — sometimes along with under-age girls — in a house where they would work as prostitutes. In Washington, he said the prostitution was to finance his future in politics. A worker for Acorn Housing, an allied group, warned him to stay away from the brothel lest someone "get wind that you got a house and that your girlfriend is over there running a house of women of the night. You will not have a career."
FAIR said that in Brooklyn, O'Keefe and Giles seemed to be telling Acorn staffers that "they are attempting to buy a house to protect child prostitutes from an abusive pimp." That's right, but FAIR left out the part about their clear intention to operate a brothel, which the Acorn workers seemed to take in stride, with one warning: "Don't get caught, 'cause it is against the law."
The videos were heavily edited. The sequence of some conversations was changed. Some workers seemed concerned for Giles, one advising her to get legal help. In two cities, Acorn workers called the police. But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context. Harshbarger's report to Acorn found no "pattern of illegal conduct" by its employees. But, he told me: "They said what they said. There's no way to make this look good."
"FAIR left out the part . . ." Don't you love that. We know FAIR as the liar supreme. Ava and C.I. deconstructed that trashy group in 2008. They lie all the damn time. They once had ethics but they whored that out too. Now they're almost as big a whore as Laura Flanders.
This doesn't help the left and anyone who applauds Laura Flanders is as much a liar as she is.
It's time we took back the left from these liars. It's time those of us with ethics, those who didn't whore themselves out, make it clear that Laura Flanders and her ilk are nothing but the faux left. We can win it because we have truth on our side.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, March 26, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, Ayad Allawi is thought to be a winner, Little Nouri refuses to go peacefully, bombings slam Iraq resulting in multiple deaths, Cindy Sheehan closes Peace Camp until the summer, Courage to Resist sends out a plea for help and assistance on behalf of Marc Hall and more. March 7th was the official day of voting in Iraq (early voting began days before with security forces voting on Thursday) and 95% of the results of an unofficial (not yet certified) count has been released. Today, a 100% count is supposed to be released. Muhanad Mohammed, Khalid al-Ansary, Jim Loney and Janet Lawrence (Reuters) report Nouri's 'supporters' are still insisting upon a recount today "hours before officials were due to release the final vote tallies." Katarina Kratovac (AP) reports a laughable move by Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani -- he's insisting that the count not be released, he's insisting it will cause violence. I'm sorry, Jawad, weren't you just insisting Wednesday that "the elections proved the terrorists' days are numbered"? (Yes, he was.) Oh, how quickly things change in Iraq. On the second hour of The Diane Rehm Show (NPR) today, Diane was joined by Daniel Dombey (Financial Times of London), Paul Richter (Los Angeles Times) and Nancy A. Youssef (McClatchy Newspapers). Diane Rehm: And what about the Iraq election results? What's the latest there, Daniel? Daniel Dombey: Well we're still waiting for the final results but it's a very interesting story because you have two men who both want to be prime minister who can't stand each other, who have very different profiles, who have both served in that office and virtually neck and neck -- neck and neck. And this is actually a very, very important contest between Ayad Allawi and Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister. Maliki feels very strongly that he's the man who saved Iraq -- that he took on the security problems in Basra and Sadr City and so on. And he has strong Shia support. Allawi has reinvented himself as a more secular kind of figure and gets on much better with the Iraqi neighbors particularly Syria and Saudi Arabia and so on. There's concern some people voiced if Maliki made it it would be seen as a real blow by the Sunni Arabs who would respond accordingly and be bad for relations. On the other hand, Maliki says he has a record of success. So there's an awful lot to pay for and there's always the possibility that someone from outside as happened someone else can come from outside as happened when Maliki who was previously someone you'd never heard of. But it's a very important issue all the more so for the fact that it doesn't get the attention it deserves. Nancy A. Youssef: I think the other thing is that there's real angst in the streets of Iraq about what happens when these elections -- when the results come out -- which are scheduled for 7:00 p.m. local time in Iraq tonight, which is in the middle of the morning for us in the United States. There's a real angst about how the transition to power will happen and whether it will lead to more violence given that Maliki and Jalal Talabani called for a recount, called the elections fraudulent, whether the elections will be seen as legitimate. And also because these elections really galvanized and re-empowered Moqutad al-Sadr and his bloc. Of all of the -- As we talk about the jostling between Allwai and al-Maliki, Sadr comes out pretty strong in this. He will have more seats than any other member. And that fundamentally changes the dynamic as well. So it's a very interesting time. It will be months before we have this government seated which is a dangerous place for Iraq to be in given the precarious security situation -- all while the United States plans to rpaidly drawdown it's forces from 96,000 today to about 50,000 at the end of August. Diane Rehm: Paul Richter. Paul Richter: The comeback of Ayad Allawi is an interesting story. He was prime minister of Iraq early in the American occupation. He left office with seemingly very little public support. A secular Shia, kind of a "strongman," and known to have past ties with the CIA. Now he's possibly back. Intresting personal story. Nancy A. Youssef: You know the interesting thing is, from the Iraqi persepctive, Allawi is seen as an American puppet and Maliki is seen as the Iranian one. And so it's an interesting dynamic about who is going to emerge and what that means. And what Sadr really represents is the Iraqi movement, in a way. And so those are the three sorts of powers that are vying for their place in the post-America Iraq, if you will. That was this morning. Results were announced during a lengthy presentation and Ayad Allawi's secular party, National Dialogue Front, has won the most seats in the Parliament. Michael Hastings (True/Slant) offers, "Four big questions that come to mind: Does Maliki, who is calling for a recount, hand over power? Can Allawi find the 72 seats needed to get him to the 163 seats required to form a government? How does Iran–which has close ties to the other large Shiite list–feel about Allawi? Ie, will Tehran give the okay to the Shiite list to join forces with Allawi against Maliki? Finally, how does this impact the security situation, or, how much violence will we see during the government formation process?" Hannah Allam (McClatchy's Miami Herald) notes that 91 of the 325 seats went to Allawi's political party with 89 going to State of Law, Nouri's slate. Anne Barker (Australia's ABC) calls it "an unexpected upset" while BBC News calls it "a surprise result" -- and it certainly is surprising to NPR and Quil Lawrence as well as anyone who depended on NPR's reporting from Iraq to enlighten them. Possibly next time there's an election, before Quil Lawrence and Steve Inskeep declare a winner, they might try waiting until some votes have been counted? Sunday March 7th was the election. Monday March 8th, while pretending to 'report,' Quil Lawrence and Steve Inskeep called the election for Nouri al-Maliki -- despite the fact that no vote tallies had been released. They would continue to make this call daily during the first week even though they were going by less than half of Iraq's provinces and those counts were less than 50% of each province. But they gas bagged and they gas bagged. They didn't report, they didn't enlighten. They were wrong. WRONG. It's not the press' job to call the election. And what Quil and Steve did was not reporting. It was gas bagging and not the sort of thing NPR needs to engage in during what is supposed to be a news report. Rod Nordland and Timothy Williams (New York Times) report that drama queen Nouri took to "national television" to proclaim, "No way we will accept these results." The United Nations' Secretary-General's Special Representative to Iraq, Ad Melkert, hailed the elections as "an historic achievement" and called on everyone "to assume responsibility to lead Iraq to the next stage of democracy, stability and prosperity for all. Whether winning or losing, participation in the elections has been a collective victory." Again, Nouri's reponse on Iraqi TV was, "No way we will accept these results." On behalf of the US State Dept, Philip J. Crowley (Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs) issued the following statement: Today, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) issued the provisional results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections held on March 7. We congratulate the Iraqi people, the Iraqi government, candidates and coalitions, and IHEC for carrying out a successful election. In support of the election's integrity, IHEC has investigated and adjudicated a number of complaints. International observers and the more than 200,000 domestic observers expressed their confidence in the overall integrity of the election and have found that there is no evidence of widespread or serious fraud. We note the critical role played by the United Nations in supporting this historic election. We urge all political entities to pursue any complaints or appeals through established legal mechanisms and processes. Following IHEC's release of the results, political entities may file appeals that will be heard by the Electoral Judicial Panel. When these have been resolved, Iraq's Federal Supreme Court will certify the results. Iraq will then move to seating a new Council of Representatives, choosing a President, and forming a new government. These important steps likely will take months. We call upon all candidates and all parties to accept the results, respect the will of the Iraqi people, and work together cooperatively to form a new government in a timely manner. In this connection, it will be important for all sides to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and intimidation. It also is important that the Iraqi government continue to provide security and other essential services for its citizens during this period leading to the formation of a government. The United States will continue to work closely with all Iraqi leaders to build a long-term, multi-dimensional relationship between our two nations. The results still have to be certified by the country's Superme Court but, as Andrew England (Financial Times of London) points out, "The results mark a remarkable turnaround for Mr Allawi, who served as prime minister in 2004 in the wake of the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, and a blow to Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister." The New York Times offers a photo essay including two photos of Nouri's fan club -- one protesting today before the results were announced, the other of them protesting tonight after the results were known -- both photos by Joao Silva. Of Little Nouri's fan club, Richard Spencer (Telegraph of London) reports, "More worryingly, his supporters have openly threatened there would be a return to sectarian violence if Mr Allawi were declared the winner." Alice Fordham (Times of London) reports Little Nouri "responded angrily to the news, which was widely seen as a damaging blow to his crediblity and leadership." And what's the real scoops in the news cycle, Fordham notes, "Sources in Nassariya and Basra told The Times that protests there were orchestrated by State of Law, which rallied supporters and instructed government employees to attend." Just like when the banned candidates from Allawi's parties were unbanned and Nouri got his thugs out in the street to use violence to intimidate in order to change the results. Bobby Ghosh (Time magazine) goes over the numbers and the uncertainties: It's far from certain that Allawi will get al-Maliki's job. State of Law and other blocs have already indicated they will contest the results and demand recounts. Even if the results announced today hold up to scrutiny, there's a chance al-Maliki will be able to pull together a coalition to form the new government and retain the Prime Ministership. Meanwhile, the main Shi'ite bloc, the National Iraqi Alliance, won 70 seats; the main Kurdish alliance got 43. A simple majority of 163 seats is needed to govern. Allawi also took to the airwaves, as celebratory gunfire resounded through parts of east Baghdad. In a triumphant speech he said: "Iraqiya [his party] has started a dialogue with other parties already and we will not refuse anyone." He confirmed he would be his cross-sectarian list's candidate for the prime minister's office, his second tilt at the top job, but a position that Maliki's State of Law list and the conservative Shia Islamic Iraq National Alliance had vowed to block him from taking. Chulov also quotes Haidar Dakhle of Dora stating, "This is a big step for the future of Iraq. Allawi is the best candidate because Maliki had started to resemble a dictator." Also at the Guardian, Ranj Alaaldin counsels against counting anyone out and notes that the battle for the next prime minister may be a lengthy one. In terms of the results themselves -- which were only on seats in the new Parliament -- Margaret Coker (Wall St. Journal) provides the walk through, "According to the Iraqi electoral process, candidates have a three-day period to lodge complaints. After that, the Supreme Court ratifies the results." Clicking here takes you to a Wall St. Journal video (The News Hub) half of which is Coker discussing the news. Simon Constable: Meg, I want to ask you, are the losing sides accepting the results? Because I know there's been a lot of challenges about whether the elections were fair or not. Margaret Coker: Right. Prime Minister Maliki has already had a press conference this evening straight after the election results were announced. He said he is not going to accept the results. And he's going to challenge them through the legal process that-that goes on for the next three or four days whereby the electoral commission will hear new complaints against the process. So Nouri al-Maliki is not a happy man tonight. On the other hand, Ayad Allawi, the challenger, has called for a grand coalition, an alliance to build a stable, new government and he says he's willing to take all comers who want to join a government with him. Simon Constable: Meg, stay with us, I want to bring in Adam Horvath. Adam, the context of this is pretty important because an alliance has to form because no one party has a majority, right? This is -- what do they call this? Adam Horvath: A hung Parliament is a possiblity out of it. Right now you have each one of these main contenders has about a third of the seats so they need to build a coalition as Meg said. And the coalition powers in Iraq, some of them are very divided from each other. Uh, no one is a perfect partner for anyone else, you might say. So a lot of kingmaking and a lot of rangling is going to start that could last awhile. Reuters coverage includes speaking to multiple analysts for their take on the results and we'll note IHS Global Insight's Gala Riani: "Allawi has achieved what Maliki had hoped and aimed to do. The mission he had was to run a coalition on a non-sectarian platform and secure an election victory on that platform. "Iraqiya (Allawi's bloc) has fared much better across the board than State of Law has, much better in the southern provinces than State of Law did in the north. It puts Allawi in a better place to secure better credibility across the county. "What Allawi has achieved is hugely significant. It's a massive blow to Maliki, to his credibility and to the type of platform he has tried to run." Reuters offers five facts about Allawi and five about al-Maliki. Stephen Farrell (New York Times) offers the reactions of 8 Iraqi citizens and we'll note Amal al-Jalili (a teacher in Mosul), "This election is the justice which was absent from Iraq for 36 years. It is the right of the people, and it is what brought us real, nationalist, people who defended the country and took it away from sectarianism, and those who pursue sectarianism. The best outcome is to change Prime Minister Maliki." NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams covered the results this evening: Brian Williams: Richard, you were saying earlier in the newsroom today, people rooting for the US-side of the equation would be dancing in the streets of Baghdad at this result. What did you mean by that? Richard Engel: This was an incredibly significant day, perhaps the most important one in the last several years in Iraq. Ayad Allawi won these elections. Now he is a Shi'ite, he's secular and he's pro-American and he's very anti-Iran. The current government in Iraq right now is a religious state that leans toward Iran. So if Ayad Allawi can hold on to this position, that he gained today, he still has to form a government and face off challenges by the current prime minister, then we could see a major change in direction in Iraq. Brian Williams: Dancing in the street with those cement blast walls in the background, kind of a reminder that it's still a dangerous state. Prior to the announcing of results, CNN reports, Khalis was slammed with two bombing -- one car bombing, one roadside bombing, resulting in the deaths of at least 32 people and sixty-eight more injured. DPA reports the death toll has climbed to 42. Wednesday, US House Rep John Hall chaired a Subcommittee hearing (House Veterans Affairs' Subcommittee on Disability) and we'll note this from his opening remarks: I just want to say, I welcome you here in what has been a profoundly historic and important week for the nation and for our veterans. Over the last seven days the Full Committee convened a successful Claims Summit which brought many of you and other dozens of top veterans stakeholders together and from the Summit came a lot of very useful information which we welcome and look forward to working with the VA and all the veterans groups to try to turn into action to solve the problems that we're facing. In a rare Sunday session, Congress passed and the President signed the sweeping health care reform package and I'm pleased that [VA] Secretary Eric Schinseki as well as the Chairman of the full VA Committee (US House Rep Bob Filner] and the full Armed Services Committee [US House Rep Ike Skelton] have signed a letter and sent it to the VSOs stating unequivacly that Tri-Care and VA care will not be effected by the health care legislation. We also passed this week the End Veteran Homeless Act of 2010 to provide funding to help Secretary Schinseki's goal of ending homelessness for America's warriors. The Help Heroes Keep Their Homes Act , the COLA -- cost of living increase for veterans, the National Guard Employment Protection Act. Those are his verbal remarks. He submitted a written opening statement for the record but we've gone by what he actually said and included it to note that the House VA Committee does work -- and works very hard -- all the time. That's a lot to do in a seven-day period. That was Wednesday and earlier that day, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing. Senator Daniel Akaka is the Chair of the Committee and Senator Richard Burr is the Ranking Member. Chair Akaka noted the homeless rate among veterans continues to alarm. In 2008, Akaka explained, there were 131,000 homeless US veterans (VA estimate) and this month, the VA stated that the number of homeless veterans stood at 107,000 in 2009. Ranking Member Burr noted that from that 107,000 veternas, 1,589 are in North Carolina and he called out the delays in Congress being supplied with requested information. Ranking Member Richard Burr: [. . .] Unfortunately, I've been disappointed about the Administration's collaboration with us so far. Last October, the Committee held a hearing on comprehensive homeless legislation, S. 1547, but received no official views from VA on the bill. In the absence of any views, the Committee marked up the legislation in January with expectation that VA would be providing us with a greater understanding of how it fits in with the Secretary's plan. Five months and multiple inquiries -- and we received the views last night, giving my staff no opportunity to do a thorough analysis of the information. Of course, this is not the first time VA waits until the 11th hour to provide responses to inquiries they have had for months. This is also not the first time I have had to raise this problem. And I will continue to do it. I don't understand the delay. Why does it take VA five months to provide Congress with the crucial information we need to do the best job we can for our veterans? That's all we have room for on Congress. In peace news, Cindy Sheehan (Peace of the Action) explores the pluses and minuses of Peace Camp which has closed ("not for long") and includes praise for the many college students who took part: By the way, not only was our demand to meet with President Obama not granted -- three of our Camp OUT NOW volunteers (including myself) have been given stay away orders from the White House. We tried to get into the Senate Appropriation's Committee meeting today at the Capitol and we were followed and harassed the entire time and in the transparent age of Obama, the hearing was closed to us citizens, anyway. I was able to watch the rerun on C-SPAN 3 and I can tell you all one thing, these wars are planned to continue indefinitely. I am not okay with that. To take advantage of the energy and enthusiasm of our young people, we are planning on returning in June to set up Camp and start our actions again. So we will be keeping the spirit of the Camp alive until the students get out of school and, hopefully, we can make a go of it in the summer. More information and essays on the importance of peace can be found at Cindy's Soapbox (including links to her radio program). We've covered Marc Hall many times. He's the service member 'guilty' of 'rapping.' Courage to Resist has sent out the following on the latest development in the military persecution of Hall: Donate to help defend Marc - 146 people have given $5,408. Because the Army kidnapped Marc to Kuwait for trial, we will need to raise at least $10,000 to provide a civilian defense lawyer. Critical expert witnesses to could be another $5,000, in addition to the $4,600 already spent. Courage to Resist. March 25, 2010 US Army Specialist Marc A. Hall sits in a military brig at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, facing an imminent court martial for challenging the US military's Stop-Loss policy in a song — his pre-trial hearing was held last week on March 17. Yet it was not the hip-hop song he wrote criticizing the Stop-Loss policy that landed him in trouble. What put the 34-year-old New York City native in the brig were his persistent assertions of inadequate mental health care that culminated in a Dec. 7 complaint to the Army Investigator General. Just five days later Hall was charged with violating "good order and discipline" at Fort Stewart, Georgia, and was shipped out of the country. Hall's court martial is likely to occur late April or early May. The jailing occurred a full five months after Hall wrote a rap song protesting the Stop-Loss order that halted his discharge after he served his country for 14 months of combat in Iraq. Hall was charged with 11 counts of "communicating threats" related to the song and has since been charged with violating Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Conduct. All the alleged violations occurred between last July and December, yet not one warranted warning, counseling, or non-judicial punishment at the time. On Feb. 20 Hall wrote, "A charge that was not a threat before, but all of a sudden became a threat now. I communicated a need for mental evaluation -- not a threat."As if that were not enough the military took the nearly unprecedented step of moving Hall overseas for court martial, instead of putting him on trial in Georgia where the alleged threats occurred. On Feb. 26 Hall was put on plane to Iraq and transferred to Kuwait for pre-trial confinement. This put him out of reach of his civilian legal defense team, friends, and family. It will also make it extremely hard for defense witnesses to appear at trial on his behalf. TV notes. NOW on PBS begins airing Friday on most PBS stations (check local listings): In the debate over energy resources, natural gas is often considered a The Case Against Nada Prouty The Russian Is Coming The Sharkman 60 Minutes, Sunday, March 28, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. |


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Malgosia Lis
Malgosia Lis earned Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy in Poland. She is the Chair of Piano Department at the Hartt School Community Division, the Piano Coordinator of Hartt Suzuki Institute as well as Piano Adjunct.
Her training has been with Yasuko Joichi, Francoise Pierredon, Doris Koppelman, Doris Harrel, and Mary Craig Powell. Malgosia is frequently invited as a clinician to Piano Workshops and Institutes, among them: Dallas Suzuki Piano Workshop, Queens College Piano Workshop, New England Suzuki Institute, Music Institute of Chicago and more. She performed at the Polish Library in Paris, France, where she had and honor to play on one of Chopin's pianos. She enjoys performing music for multiple pianos. Malgosia lives in West Hartford with her husband and has three children, ages 32, 28, and 22.

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Keeping alive memories of Old Helston, Porthleven and The Lizard Peninsula
After almost a whole century my Grandfather William Frederick Ivey passed peacefully away at his home in Helston on 4th October 2000 aged 97. What he left behind was a legacy of local history illustrated in the books that he published during the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.
As a tribute to him and to his years of dedication both to local history and to the local community I have decided to reproduce as much of his written work and photographs as possible on this website.
I am also particularly interested to hear from anyone who has old photographs, postcards or a story to tell, as it is important that as much information about old Helston, Porthleven and the Lizard Peninsula is recorded for all to see.
I also want to create a website that offers those people living away from Helston whether in the UK or Overseas a chance to see what our old town was actually like before the 21st century. Many people have their ancestral roots in the Helston area and may be researching family history.
A man born ahead of his time 'Fred' would have certainly approved of this project. Given the technology available to us now, he would have loved to have had the opportunity to let people all over the world learn a little bit about 'that quaint old Cornish town', its history, people and of course our proud heritage.
Graham G Matthews
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Fighting Faete
Beyond the Veil, Book 5
by Sarah Marsh, Elena Kincaid and Maia Dylan
Darkness is coming to both sides of the Veil…
Katrina was born to fight. She earned her position as Beta through blood and battle and she'll do anything to protect those she cares for, but being a hardened warrior comes with sacrifices. The aftermath of her kidnapping has her fighting harder than before, even with herself.
Aeron and Alak have always known their service to the Goddess Rysanna came with a heavy responsibility, one they easily accepted. Years later, with a battle for the ages looming, a beautiful golden cougar brings all of their seemingly forgotten instincts to the surface. Will their fiery mate fight their fate, or will she embrace the gift bestowed upon them?
As the trio struggle to find their path, dark emerging forces would see both the human and Fae realms fall into despair. Finding love can sometimes be the simple part … but for some, accepting it isn't always easy.
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With one pass of Aeron's magic over her clothing, the seams melted away, and he gently dropped the scraps to the ground, leaving Alak's arms full of warm, golden, naked skin. Alak placed a kiss along her shoulder, up to her neck, while Aeron did the same on the other side. Their mate's arousal was all that was important right now, and Alak could think of nothing else but ensuring her pleasure.
"Just so you both know … our argument isn't over," she said, her words coming out in short pants in between kisses Aeron and Alak were delivering.
"I'd expect nothing less from our delectable dragon," Alak teased back.
"Are you mocking me?"
Alak saw the tiny smirk at the corner of her mouth, and he pulled her chin towards his own lips before looking straight into her golden eyes. "Never," he said, and then he kissed her with everything he had building up inside of him. His passion, his frustration, his longing, and finally, with all the loneliness he and his brother had endured over their long lifetime. To be High Dorum was the greatest honor the Goddess could bestow upon her children, but it set them apart from the rest of their people. They'd almost lost hope for a mate of their own, for how would one female hold the strength to equal theirs? But the Goddess sees all her children, and she must have known that this remarkable woman was just out there, waiting for Aeron and Alak to follow the path that led to her. Now it was up to them not to screw it up.
"Do you want us, Katrina?" Alak finally pulled back from her lips and whispered his question, as if afraid in this moment that she would deny them all what they so desperately needed.
"I do," she replied without a single hint of hesitation in her voice.
Alak carried her to the master bedroom in their suite with Aeron following closely behind. When they reached the king-sized bed, Katrina lowered herself down the length of him and then positioned herself on her back in the center of the bed. A golden goddess, holding him in place as he gazed upon her in fascination. She stretched out her arms and beckoned them to join her. Finally, he snapped out of his daze, and he and Aeron continued undressing. He loved the little hitch in her breath as they revealed themselves to her, her gaze roaming over their bodies, seemingly greedy to take them in. Alak ached for her. He grabbed his length and slowly stroked, and the sight of her little pink tongue darting out to wet her perfect lips made him groan out her name.
"Katrina, are you wet for us, mate?"
"Yes, do you want to see?" she purred, legs falling gracefully to each side.
"You make my mouth water seeing you ready for us," Aeron said, his voice strained with desire. "I've thought of this moment many times since we met."
Alak knew all too well what his brother was feeling in this moment—the same kernel of hope was beginning to burn bright in his own heart, that this glorious woman would make their lives complete. He followed Aeron onto the bed and stretched out beside Katrina while Aeron knelt by her feet, his hand slowly stroking along her calf.
"I think it's time we quenched our thirst, brother," Aeron said.
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Maia's career has featured a lot of travel, and she has filled her time at airports and in the air with books, books and more books. Her love of erotic paranormal romance has seen her amass a huge library. She has been an avid reader and lover of ménage romances since she read her first book in this genre about three years ago.
Outside of writing, Maia loves to eat, so she loves to cook! Her herb garden is legendary, but she still has issues getting tomatoes to grow. She's been a performer for years, and has even sung on international stages, she would love to own a classic Ford Mustang one day and of course have the opportunity to race it on a race track without fear of a speeding ticket.
Although ultimately her dream is to be able to write full time on a sandy beach with a Mai Tai at hand, she is quite happy to fit her writing in when she can. As long as someone reads her books, gets a laugh and maybe come to love her characters and much as she does, then she feels that she is living her dreams no matter what!
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Sarah Marsh was born in British Columbia where she still lives. She has only recently began her writing career, finding it the perfect outlet for taking the edge off a nine to five office job. She's been a science fiction and romance junkie for years and when her imagination started to take the characters she'd read about even further in their adventures, she decided to try writing something of her own.
Sarah's also a former pastry chef and spends a lot of time cooking and baking for friends and family as well as painting and knitting. Her biggest weaknesses are animals of any kind … she even loves the ones that wake you up at four in the morning because they can almost see the bottom of their food dish.
When it comes to life in general, she's a big believer that laughter is the best medicine and that there's no such thing as too much love, which is why she's such a sucker for a happy ending.
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She was born in Ukraine and raised in New York, where she currently lives with her daughter. She graduated college with a BFA in creative writing and In addition to writing, she also started a graphic design business a few years after graduating. When not working, Elena loves to spend time with her family, travel the globe, curl up with a good book, and catch up on her soaps.
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Being a pastor is a great privilege that carries with the calling a great responsibility to care for people, study the scriptures and to maintain a lifestyle of constant prayer. With these responsibilities come stress, misunderstandings, and the pressure to be a lot of things to a lot of people. When this stress reaches a tipping point, pastors, like everyone else want relief.
Obviously, our only source for lasting peace and sustained strength is God and He is more than enough for a pastor or anyone else. Unfortunately, the world offers cheap and easy escapes, including one that is not on most pastor's radars. The first four on the list are most often noted as counterfeit ways to dodge the realities that weigh us down.
1. Illegal drugs or legal drugs used foolishly
2. Excessive alcohol
3. Food eaten just to comfort us and not to nourish.
4. Illicit sex
But, there is a fifth form of medication, one that most pastors are addicted to without even knowing. It's the addiction of adoring crowds. Big crowds, little crowds, and medium size crowds all have the power to medicate our egos and sooth our hidden pain. Why do you think it is so hard many times for a pastor to transition the church to his successor? They certainly want the next guy to take the baton while the light is burning brightly, but they cannot seem to leave the stage and the crowds. They cannot imagine a life without a microphone and pulpit.
We are not performers on a stage hoping for good reviews and our identity is not derived from the laughs prompted by well-timed jokes. We are pastors tasked with a sacred assignment and our identity is and always should be as servant Christ followers who are using the gifts God gave us. We are just a part of the body, not the focus of the body.
I love the people that sit in front of me each weekend. They are my family and my friends. I enjoy teaching them the scriptures and I love what happens when the teaching connects with their listening hearts and seeing eyes. The miracles, answered prayers, and changed lives more than trump the difficulties of the pastoral vocation.
The moment we stop seeing people's faces and remembering their stories, we will only see a mass of people who exist for our soulish benefit. I love a good laugh, a touching story that brings us to tears and I am fine with the family applauding when the pastor needs honest applause. I just want to make sure my heart gets life, healing and strength from something more eternal. I want to take the right medicine before I stand before the crowd so I do not settle for something that will only make matters worse.


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Letter to the Veterans Affairs Conference Committee
Below is a letter from CRFB President Maya MacGuineas to the conferees appointed to negotiate between the House and Senate versions of the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill. It asks lawmakers not to add to the debt by creating a cap exemption or adjustment without offsetting the additional spending. We estimated last month the cap adjustment could cost $50 billion or more.
As the conference committee on the House and Senate versions of the mini-omnibus appropriations bill begins deliberations, I am writing to express the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget's strong opposition to any discretionary cap increase or adjustment for the VA MISSION Act unless this additional spending is fully offset. Allowing this spending above the cap could easily add over $50 billion to the debt over the next decade. With deficits approaching the trillion-dollar mark, adding tens of billions of dollars more to the deficit is simply unacceptable...
As we said last month, "We all agree that our veterans deserve quality health care. But when something is important, it means that we should be willing to pay for it, not that we should shrug off the bill."
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Every guy lifting weights at the gym likes to have that 'pumped' look. When you're pumped, your muscles look bigger and more vascular—they even feel tighter. The pump occurs during intense weight training sessions because lifting weights stimulates an increase in the amount of blood flowing into the muscles making them look bigger.
Getting pumped also gives a huge boost in self-confidence too. And though it looks really good, the pump is really just for show, not substance. You can achieve the same pump whether you're lifting very heavy weights for fewer reps or lighter weights for lots of reps. The pump is the result of excess blood flow into the muscle cells, so being pumped up doesn't translate into stronger muscles because unfortunately, that pumped up appearance is only fleeting. A few hours after you step out of the gym, it's gone.
That's not to say that the pump isn't a good thing or that it's not important. If nothing else, for the average weight lifter the pump is worthwhile just for the psychological boost that it provides. And if you are a competitive bodybuilder, then the pump is vital. In a competition, you need every visual edge you can get so it is essential that you get the best pump possible to really bring out the definition of your muscles and look your best.
For most competitive bodybuilders, the process of getting pumped (The Great Pump) starts several weeks before the competition. But unlike the ordinary pump that is stimulated by lifting weights, achieving the Great Pump revolves chiefly around a specific nutritional approach that includes adherence to a demanding carbohydrate- and calorie-restricted diet.
It is basically a very intense 'cutting' process that would normally follow a 'bulking' phase. The problem though is that the human body isn't concerned about looking good for the competition. When you switch to an ordinary pre-contest cutting diet—a prolonged period of undereating—it causes the body to shift into survival mode. In this state, it doesn't like to use stored fat for energy. Instead, it strives to preserve its energy stores (fat) for future needs and burns glycogen stores from the muscles and liver first, before moving on to the fat.
As a result, though you do get leaner and more defined, there is a notable loss of muscle mass.
There have even been scientific studies documenting this fact. For example, a study that appeared in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness showed that extended calorie- and carbohydrate-restricted diets negatively impact muscle mass. In this particular study one of the subjects—a male bodybuilder—consumed an average of 2,263 calories per day with 71% of those calories coming from protein and only 16% being derived from carbohydrates. During his time on the diet, his percentage of body fat dropped from 16% to 4.4%. Interestingly, researchers concluded that about 25% of the pounds dropped were the result of the loss of lean muscle mass—that's a lot of muscle mass to lose.
Surprisingly, bodybuilders who follow this sort of strict regimen in an effort to achieve the Great Pump inevitably find that they actually look the most pumped up not the day of the competition but rather the day after the competition. This occurs because as I mentioned, a prolonged period of deprivation shifts the body into survival mode—aka a catabolic state—during which it limits the burning of fat for energy, preferring instead to pull energy in the form of glycogen from the muscle cells.
The good part of this process is that it primes the body for jumping into a growth phase, which is activated post-competition when the bodybuilder allows himself the luxury of eating whatever he desires.
This knowledge of how the body functions can be used to your advantage to create the optimal state of the Great Pump. Essentially this approach focuses on combining a controlled period of undereating followed by a strategic period of overeating for the purpose of manipulating the body's hormonal traffic cops to signal the body to shift into a rapid growth mode.
When the hormones signal this shift, they are telling to the body to move into a maximum anabolic state. The most successful bodybuilders are aware of this hormone manipulation strategy and use it to their advantage to gain an edge in a competition. The primary principle here is to move into a controlled undereating phase and then prior to the competition, shift into a light carb-loading mode to shift the body towards its maximum anabolic state and achieve the Great Pump during the competition, not after it.
If you want to experience the "Great Pump" I suggest you follow the outline that my bodybuilder friend Lee Hayward has put together that tells you exactly how to do it.
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A lot of people use this strategy even if they don't compete and don't have any intention of stepping on stage. Follow the guidelines from this article and you should be able to peak to look your best.
If you're going to follow Lee Hayward's plan give yourself 21 days. You can certainly give this a try on your own based on what you learned from this article. It's not super difficult. Keep in mind Lee has ironed out all the bugs so if you don't have time to experiment head on over to 21 Day Fast Mass for some….well…"proven fast muscle".


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Let me introduce you to BURG'R TEND'R, often called a Steam Cheese Burger Chest,or steamer. The Burger Tender is the best kept secret in New England, only well known in central Connecticut. It is especially popular in Meriden and Middletown with both of these cities competing for the honor of originating this "steamed" delight.
Steam cheeseburgers cooked with a BURG'R TEND'R are found in diners, fine restaurants, food carts, in fraternal organizations, on fair grounds,etc. throughout this area. Both profitable and popular they have been featured at the Eastern States Fair by Rosco's of Hartford, Ct.,and the Durham Fair by the V.F.W. Their popularity has been written about by Mississippi gourmet author John T. Edge in his book "Hamburgers & Fries". Closer to home, Head Chef Jamie Roraback of the Connecticut Culinary Instute demonstrated it on NBC's Saturdays Today Show.
Whether you just miss that unique flavor, or would like to add this profitable item to your menu, only BURG'R TEND'R does it best.


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Guava is an open source library containing many classes for Java and written by Google. It's a potentially useful source of miscellaneous utility functions and classes that I'm sure many developers have written themselves before, or maybe just wanted and never had time to write. Here's 5 good reasons to use it!
1. Collection Initializers and Utilities
Generic homogeneous collections are a great feature to have in Java, but sometimes their construction is a bit too verbose, for example:
final Map<String, Map<String, Integer>> lookup = new HashMap<String, Map<String, Integer>>();
Java 7 solves this problem in a really generic way, by allowing a limited form of type inference informally referred to as the Diamond Operator. So we can rewrite the above example as:
final Map<String, Map<String, Integer>> lookup = new HashMap<>();
It's actually already possible to have this kind of inference for non-constructor methods in earlier Java releases, and Guava provides many ready made constructors for existing Java Collections. The above example can be written as:
final Map<String, Map<String, Integer>> lookup = Maps.newHashMap();
Guava also provides many useful utility functions for collections under the Maps, Sets et al. classes. Particular favourites of mine are the Sets.union and Sets.intersection methods that return views on the sets, rather than recomputing the values.
2. Limited Functional-Style Programming
Guava provides some common methods for passing around methods in a functional style. For example, the map function that many functional programming languages have exists in the form of the Collections2.transform method. Collections2 also has a filter method that allows you to restrict what values are in a collection. For example to remove the elements from a collection that are null, and store it in another collection, you can do the following:
Collection<?> noNullsCollection = filter(someCollection, notNull());
Its important to remember that in both cases the function returns a new collection, rather than modifying the existing one and that the resulting collections are lazily computed.
3. Multimaps and Bimaps
A really common usage case for a Map involves storing multiple values for a single key. Using the standard Java Collections that's usually accomplished by using another collection as the value type. This unfortunately ends up involving a lot of ceremony that needs to be repeated in terms of initializing the collection. Multimaps clear this up quite a bit, for example:
Multimap<String, Integer> scores = HashMultimap.create();
scores.put("Bob", 20);
scores.put("Bob", 10);
scores.put("Bob", 15);
System.out.println(Collections.max(scores.get("Bob"))); // prints 20
There's also a BiMap class which goes in the other direction – that is to say that it enforces uniqueness of values as well as keys. Since values are also unique, a BiMap can be used in reverse.
4. Easy Hashcodes and Comparators
Its pretty common to want to generate a hashcode for a class in Java from the hashcodes of its fields. Guava provides a utility method for this in the Objects class, here's an example:
int foo;
String bar;
public int hashCode() {
return Objects.hashCode(foo, bar);
Comparators are another example where writing them frequently involves chaining together a sequence of operations. Guava provides a ComparisonChain class in order to ease this process. Here's an example with an int and String class:
int foo;
String bar;
public int compareTo(final GuavaExample o) {
return ComparisonChain.start().compare(foo, o.foo).compare(bar, o.bar).result();
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Do you ever find yourself writing certain preconditions for your methods regularly? Sometimes these can be unnecessarily verbose, or fail to convey intent as directly. Guava provides the Preconditions class with a series of common preconditions.
For example instead of an if statement and explicit exception throw …
if (count <= 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("must be positive: " + count);
… you can use an explicit precondition:
checkArgument(count > 0, "must be positive: %s", count);
Being able to replace existing library classes with those from guava, helps you to reduce the amount of code you need to maintain and offers a potential productivity boost. There are alternatives for example the Apache Commons project. It might be the case that you already use and know of these libraries, or prefer their approach and api to the Guava approach. Guava does have an Idea Graveyard – which gives you some idea of what the Google engineers perceive to be the limits of the library, or a bad design decision. You may not individually agree with these choices, at which point you're back to writing your own library classes. Overall though Guava encourages a terser and less ceremonious style and some appropriate application of Guava could help many Java projects.


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Italian death merchants Into Darkness are a very young band, teetering on the cusp of releasing their very first demo tape via Unholy Domain Records (which Iron Bonehead will then commit to 12" vinyl) but their sound is rooted firmly in the darkest, dankest corners of the past. Vocalist and axe-slinger Giulia Doomed Warrior asserts, "Into Darkness is for fans of death/doom in the late '80s/early '90s vein, like Asphyx, my favourite band, Bolt Thrower, Cianide, Coffins, Thorr's Hammer, Disembowelment, Paradise Lost, Goatlord, Crypt of Kerberos…" and the list continues, as her passion for the most pestilential of death metal's doomed offerings is made all too apparent. She's got the chops to back it up, as well, as Into Darkness' eponymous demo shows with its merciless onslaught of dirty, sewer-dwelling riffs, ragged howls, and searing solos.
"To be honest my first idea was to have a 100 percent female band in the vein of Derketa, Mythic and November Grief, but to find a skilled female drummer was impossible, and we are absolutely satisfied with Anguicious, both as musician and as person," she explains. "We started to rehearse some riffs in late 2011, but it wasn't until Anguicious (Mefitic's drummer) joined us … Read More
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Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. – For singers and their audiences, being "in tune" might not be as important as we think. The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well.
At issue is not whether singers hit the right or wrong note, but how close are they to any note. It's what researchers call microtuning, according to Peter Pfordresher, a UB psychologist and the paper's lead author of a new paper with Steven Brown of McMaster University published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
The findings not only suggest a different approach to the aesthetics of singing but could have a role in understanding the evolutionary development of the scales, as well as applications to childhood singing development and speech production for tone languages.
There is a long-standing belief that musical scales arose from simple harmonic ratios. The Greek mathematician Pythagoras found that plucking a string at certain points produced pleasing steps similar to the progression heard in musical scales – Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do. Scales came about as a way of getting as close as possible to Pythagoras' pure tuning.
Or maybe not.
Pfordresher says there are at least three problems with trying to match Pythagoras' pure tuning. First, scales are not purely tuned, which has been known for a long time. It's also not clear to what extent all of the world's musical scales tie into the kinds of principles Pythagoras pioneered. Pfordresher cites Indonesian musical scales as an example that does not align itself with Pythagorean pure tones.
The third problems rests with Pythagoras basing his theory on instruments, first strings and later pipes.
"This is where Steve and I came up with our evolutionary idea," says Pfordresher. "Probably the best starting point to think about what we call music is to look at singing, not instruments."
The researchers studied three groups of singers of varying abilities: professionals, untrained singers who tend sing in tune and the untrained who tend not to sing in tune. They weren't listening for whether the singers were hitting the right notes, but rather how close they were to any note.
Pfordresher and Brown found that the groups did not differ in terms of microtuning, although they were very different aesthetically.
"Our proposal is, maybe scales were designed as a way to accommodate how out of tune, how variable singers are," says Pfordresher. "We suggest that the starting point for scales and tuning for scales was probably not the tuning of musical instruments, but the mistuning of the human voice."
To set up a kind of musical grammar requires rules that allow for songs to be understood, remembered and reproduced. To accomplish these goals, that system needs pitches spaced widely enough to accommodate inconsistencies from person to person.The space between Do and Re, for instance, is heard by playing two adjacent white keys on a piano keyboard and provides that kind of liberal spacing.
"When you look around the world, you find there are a couple of properties for scales," says Pfordresher. "There's a tendency to have notes that are spaced somewhat broadly, much more broadly than the fine gradations in pitch that our ears can pick up."This broad spacing helps all kinds of singers, including the nightingale wren, a bird whose virtuosity has been the province of poets since antiquity. Pfordresher says earlier research by Marcelo Araya-Salas found that flexibly tuned instruments like violins and trombones were more in tune that the wren's song.
And though not part of the published study, Pfordresher also analyzed an excerpt of a studio version of Frank Sinatra singing "The Best is Yet to Come."
"It's a wonderful recording and a challenging song to sing, but when acoustically analyzed using several measurements, the pitches are not purely tuned," says Pfordresher. "Although he's close enough for our ears."
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Huichol Route through the sacred sites to Huiricuta (Tatehuari Huajuye)
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The Huicholes, heirs of Mesoamerican societies, make up one of the native groups that have survived with great vitality in America thanks to the rough topography of their territories, to its decentralized political organization and to their ability to adapt to the historical surroundings reflected by their active participation in the history of the West of Mexico. Nevertheless, the main strength of their cultural reproduction is the collective resolve to keep their ancestral traditions. An essential part of their cosmogony and identity is the pilgrimage through dozens of natural sacred sites, spread along a corridor of more than 800 kilometers that runs from the coast of the State of Nayarit to Huiricuta. These pilgrimage routes are what remain of the pre-Hispanic trade routes that joined the Pacific coast with the Gulf of Mexico. Among them the route to Huiricuta, to the west, stands out because of the role it has played in the cultural survival of the Huicholes, the frequency with which it is used and the number of users it has. Along the route, deities and the spirits of their ancestors (for example the cacallari) inhabit, certain species of wild fauna (wolves and reindeer) or natural phenomena like the wind or clouds (the tateima) are found. The Huicholes also identify some of these elements as "older brothers" or "teachers" (the tamatsi), who anoint the pilgrims providing them with wisdom and spiritual guidance, or with penalties and punishments. Deities and spirits dwell precisely in the sacred places, where according to the Huicholes they "utter their voices". In certain areas there are concentrations of sacred sites that make up scenes like Huiricuta and the Huichol territory itself. Natural sacred sites are found on islets, moist soil, rivers, lagoons, springs, forests, mountains or rock formations. These show engravings, and have spiritual, bio-geographic, social or historical meanings. Pilgrimage routes run along a variety of ecosystems whose cultural attributes are linked to agricultural periods, crop gathering or hunting as part of a ritual cycle. The constellation of sanctuaries and traditional routes constitute the Huichol scenery as the cultural resonance of a community that, together with the ritual cycle, manifests itself as a continuous, dynamic and complex system. The fundamental purpose of their pilgrimage is to follow their ancestor's steps to ask for rain and well-being. Along the route, the shamans recreate and transmit the tribal legacy to the young by means of chants, story-telling and complicated rituals. This legacy, in addition to shamanic, religious, or medical knowledge, includes the diversified use of ecosystems or the conservation of the genetic variety of the species they cultivate. This is why and considering that the Huichol language has no written form, pilgrimages perform a very particular function identified as an "itinerant Mesoamerican university", main axis of a knowledge system based on nature, that gives the Huixáritari (Huicholes) their identity. This pilgrimage is the only way in which the Mesoamerican legacy of this ancestral culture can be kept. During the last five centuries, the pilgrimage has had the double purpose of establishing contact and trade with the mestizo and European cultures that have radically transformed the natural and cultural resources of the Huichol territory. Consequently, the ritual indigenous time that looks for a deep identification of the human being with the natural processes has been able to survive within a utilitarian environment of rapid changes and depredation. The route runs through two regions that are important to the world because of their contribution to biodiversity: the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Chihuahua Desert. The complex topography and the spectacular altitude ranges of the south of the Sierra Madre Occidental, allow the existence of a wide range of habitats that include tropical forests of deciduous and subdeciduous trees, spiny forests, thickets and grasslands, gallery forests, and pine forests –oak trees. The Chihuahua Desert is one of the three semi-desert areas biologically richer in the world. The habitats included in the southeast of this region such as xerophillus vegetation, thickets, grasslands and pine forests, lodge a notable wealth as far as diversity and endemicity.


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Roland Hemetzberger was born on the December 17, 1990 in Bavaria, near Munich surrounded by mountains in the Alps. He grew up in a small village called Oberaudorf, near the border with Austria. Around 12 years ago, Roland and a friend were looking for some adventure and they had big fun rappelling some loose rock formations with a self-made harness. After some trial and error, he fortunately met some local climbers and they told him about a small group in Kufstein, the next biggest city. They told him to go there and climb with a teacher and other kids. There he got addicted to climbing and found the real freedom to what he wanted. To be focused is important, but it's cool to have your own responsibility, without a coach saying 'do this or that.' There is freedom to do what we want, to climb hard or easy, to train or not.
Discipline: Climbing
Hometown: Munich, Germany
Currently Living: Oberaudorf, Germany
Height: 174 cm
Career Highlights:
FA of Lichtblick (9a); FA of The Void (9a); FA of Zarathustra (8c+) without bolts; Second Ascent of Fugu (9a); WagnisOrange (8c); FFA of SchefflerSiegert (8b 350m) without bolts; FA of Goldensecret (8b+ 150m); FA of Relikt (8b/b+ 400m)
When did you first start climbing/skiing?
Around 2005.
What do you most enjoy about your sport?
Climbing is not only to be on the rock, it's to make you more aware of nature. Seeing landscapes, sunsets, etc. makes me appreciate these things a lot.
How do you define success?
Realizing dreams.
Who are your heroes?
Hermann Buhl, Wolfang Güllich, Alexander Huber, Adam Ondra.
What inspires you?
That every generation of climbers and alpinists find new challenges.
What are your hobbies outside of your sport?
Ski touring, hanging around and spending time on a lake with friends.
What's your guilty pleasure?
Cute baby cats, chips and nuts.
What are your hidden talents?
I like it to cook for others, and work with wood.
Tell us about your most favorite place in the world:
I like the Tyrolean Alps a lot, near were I live we have a great community and a lot to history in alpinism and sport climbing. The Alps are a great playground for climbers and we have a lot of opportunities to create new things. I like it as well to discover new places.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I want to build skateboard ramps.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be, and why?
To be skinny is not so bad for climbers but a few kilograms were not so bad for me, I am always freezing quickly on alpine climbs.
Tell us about a time in your life when you have been scared:
I jumared on a fix rope after almost 50 meters of jumaring I see a huge cut in my rope. I was hanging from only a few threads—it was from a rock fall directly on my fixed rope.
Describe your perfect day:
When I feel, after a long day outside I want to go back as fast as possible.
How would your friends describe you?
Restless and sometimes a little bit to optimistic.


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France believed the United States attempted to hack into its president's communications network, a leaked US intelligence document published on Friday suggests.
US agents denied having anything to do with the May 2012 cyber attack on the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French presidents, and appeared to hint at the possible involvement of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, a classified internal note from the US National Security Agency suggests.
Related stories:
- France summons US ambassador over spying report
- Merkel: US spying has shattered allies' trust
- Turkey: Israeli efforts behind spy-ring smear campaign
Extracts from the document, the latest to emerge from the NSA via former contractor Edward Snowden, were published by Le Monde newspaper alongside an article jointly authored by Glenn Greenwald, the US journalist who has been principally responsible for a still-unraveling scandal over large-scale US snooping on individuals and political leaders all over the world.
The document is a briefing note prepared in April this year for NSA officials who were due to meet two senior figures from France's external intelligence agency, the DGSE.
The French agents had travelled to Washington to demand explanations over their discovery in May 2012 of attempts to compromise the Elysee's communications systems.
The note says that the branch of the NSA which handles cyber attacks, Tailored Access Operations (TAO), had confirmed that it had not carried out the attack and says that most of its closest allies (Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand) had also denied involvement.
It goes on to note: "TAO intentionally did not ask either Mossad or (Israel's cyber intelligence unit) ISNU whether they were involved as France is not an approved target for joint discussions."
Le Monde interpreted this sentence as being an ironic reference to a strong likelihood that Mossad had been behind the attack.
The cyber attacks on the Elysee took place in the final weeks of Nicolas Sarkozy's term, between the two rounds of the presidential election which he ended up losing to Francois Hollande.
The attacks had been previously reported by French media, who have described them as an attempt to insert monitoring devices into the system but it remains unclear whether the presidential networks were compromised for any time.
Hollande: 'Several leads' for attacks
Sarkozy enjoyed warmer relations with the United States than any French president of recent times, to the extent that the media sometimes referred to him as "Sarko the American".
Hollande said Friday that French intelligence services had identified "several leads" for the attacks, speaking in Brussels after EU summit talks.
He did not elaborate further, but his comments came after he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed for Washington to agree on new rules on the conduct of intelligence gathering among allies.
Merkel herself has also reportedly been the target of US espionage, with claims emerging this week the US tapped her mobile phone and spied on other allies.
"Spying between friends, that's just not done," an angry Merkel said Thursday at the start of the summit of European Union leaders, which was overshadowed by the issue.
The latest Le Monde report follows revelations published earlier this week that the NSA collected more than 70 million recordings of French citizens' telephone data – a claim contested by the top US intelligence chief.
On a lighter note, the leaked document published by Le Monde on Friday underlines NSA officials were anxious not to cause any further offence to their angry French counterparts.
Along with the technical details, the briefing note contains a phonetic guide to the pronunciation of the names of the French visitors.
They included DGSE technical director Bernard Barbier and Patrick Pailloux, head of the National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI).
Both the DGSE and ANSSI refused to comment when contacted by AFP.
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Hello Tennessee Craft Fair! Tennessee Craft hosted the state's first craft fair in 1972. This Nashville tradition continues this fall when over 200 juried and award-winning artists from across the nation come together to showcase their work. Come celebrate and shop American handmade fine craft!
Tennessee Craft Fair – Friday September 22 – Sunday 24, 2017. We're awfully excited to head to to Nashville (one of our favorite cities!) for the historic Tennessee Craft Fair. It's our 1st time at this beloved Tennessee outdoor show. Join us on the lawn of Nashville's Centennial Park for the 39th Annual Fall Tennessee Craft Fair! Shop directly from over 200 juried national fine craft artists, see live demonstrations & have fun in the Kids' Tent. Join the Nashville tradition of celebrating and supporting American handmade craft at this premier event on the lawn in Centennial Park. Shop one-of-a-kind, finely crafted artwork directly from the juried, award-winning artists. While shopping, you'll meet the artists, learn what inspires them and how they take raw materials like clay, wood, metal and glass and transform them into fine craft. For more info CLICK HERE.
Dates / Times:
Friday, September 22, 2017 • 10am – 6pm
Saturday, September 23, 2017 • 10am – 6pm
Sunday, September 24, 2017 • 10am – 5pm
Centennial Park
2500 West End Avenue
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
We are in Booth A01, and we'll have lots of our hand silkscreen printed Art Prints, Greeting Cards, Alphabet Prints, Rock Posters and more along for the trip too (some examples below as well as a map of the Fair), so do drop by and say hello!
Above, our new "Howdy Love" silkscreen print and below, our Mini Cardinal Seasons Print Set.
And below is a map of the Fair and Exhibitors List here too:


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This course is intended both for continuing mathematics students and for other students using mathematics at a high level in theoretical physics, engineering and information technology, and mathematical economics.
Topics to be covered include:
- Measure theory
- Functions of bounded variation over R
- Absolute continuity and integration
- Examples of more general measures (Radon, Hausdorff, probability measures)
- Fubini-Tonelli theorem
- Radon-Nikodym theorem
- Banach spaces and linear operators
- Classical function and sequence spaces
- Hahn-Banach theorem
- Closed graph and open mapping theorems
- Uniform boundedness principles
- Sequential version of Banach-Alaoglu theorem
- Spectrum of an operator and analysis of the compact self-adjoint case
- Fredholm alternative theorem.
Note: Graduate students attend joint classes with undergraduates but will be assessed separately.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
On satisfying the requirements of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Explain the fundamental concepts of functional analysis and their role in modern mathematics and applied contexts
2. Demonstrate accurate and efficient use of functional analysis techniques
3. Demonstrate capacity for mathematical reasoning through analyzing, proving and explaining concepts from functional analysis
4. Apply problem-solving using functional analysis techniques applied to diverse situations in physics, engineering and other mathematical contexts
Indicative Assessment
Assessment will be based on:
- Three assignments (30% total; LO 1-4)
- Essay paper (20%; LO 1-4)
- Take home exam (50%; LO 1-4)
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Three lectures per week, tutorials by arrangement.Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the Mathematical Sciences Institute to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
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- Unit value:
- 6 units
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Units | EFTSL |
6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
Year | Fee |
2017 | $3660 |
- International fee paying students
Year | Fee |
2017 | $4878 |
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Second Semester
Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
7650 | 24 Jul 2017 | 31 Jul 2017 | 31 Aug 2017 | 27 Oct 2017 | In Person | N/A |


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Multivitamins and Your Health
By: Allison Kuhn, MS, RDN, LD, Registered Dietitian
More than 50% of Americans currently take a daily multivitamin to support their general nutrition and health. But is this necessary?
The science surrounding this issue is somewhat contradictory, with a handful of large clinical studies showing no additional benefit of supplementation, while others indicate that specific micronutrient supplementation, such as calcium, vitamin D and moderate amounts of folic acid, may help prevent the development of deficiencies in some people. For many populations, including pregnant women, young children, elderly individuals and those who may fall short in their intake of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and calcium, a daily multivitamin may help to fill in these gaps in micronutrient intake. What the science also shows is that nutrients and bioactive compounds in foods may work synergistically to impact health, so supplements which are whole-food derived provide the best of both worlds: convenience in form alongside a focus on foods first!


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Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark!
The Horrifying Tales Come to Life on Digital October 22 and on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack, Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, and DVD on November 5 from Lionsgate.
Get ready to be absolutely terrified when Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark arrives on Digital October 22 and on 4K Ultra HD™ Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand November 5 from global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B). The highly anticipated film adaptation of the iconic book series brings the thrills and chills of some of Alvin Schwartz's scariest stories to life. Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is produced by Academy Award® winner Guillermo del Toro (2017, The Shape of Water, Best Director), with screen story by Guillermo Del Toro and Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, written for the screen by Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman, and directed by André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Trollhunter). The film stars Zoe Margaret Colletti (Annie, Wildlife, "Rubicon"), Michael Garza (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, "Wayward Pines," "Timeless"), Dean Norris ("Breaking Bad," "Claws," "Scandal"), Lorraine Toussaint (Selma, "Into the Badlands," "Orange is the New Black"), Austin Zajur (Fist Fight, "Wonder Pets!," "Kidding"), and Natalie Ganzhorn ("The Stanley Dynamic," "Make it Pop"). It's 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind…but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time. For a group of teenagers who discover Sarah's terrifying home, the stories become all too real in this spine-tingling film. Take home Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and immerse yourself in the terrifying world with exclusive special features, including six featurettes on the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital releases and two featurettes on the DVD looking at the development of the creepiest creatures in the film, as well as the process of taking these classic tales from page to screen! Experience four times the resolution of full HD with the 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, which includes Dolby Vision, bringing entertainment to life through ultra-vivid picture quality. When compared to a standard picture, Dolby Vision can deliver spectacular colors never before seen on a screen, highlights that are up to 40 times brighter, and blacks that are 10 times darker. The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $42.99, $39.99, and $29.95, respectively.
"The Bellows Construct" Featurette
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"Dark Tales" Featurette
"Retro Horror" Featurette
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