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Google is trying its hand again at social networking, introducing on Tuesday a service called Google+. Currently available only to a small group of testers, its aim is to enable sharing between small groups of people.
Google+ appears to be the rumored Google Circles social networking service that was the buzz of the South by Southwest Conference back in March.
Google claims its new service is a dramatic rethinking of a social networking paradigm invented by Facebook where, Google says, there's no good way to define our various types of friendships, and share information accordingly.
In fact, Google+ resembles Facebook's Groups feature, where information shared is between groups of related people.
What's for sure is that Google has been under immense pressure to come up with an answer to Facebook, which has rapidly emerged as the vehicle for many netizens' identities online. With "social search" and "social web advertizing" emerging quickly, Google has a huge financial interest in becoming that vehicle.
Circles, Hangouts and Sparks
So what is this new social networking service about? Google+ is made of three basic concepts: 'Circles,' 'Hangouts,' and 'Sparks.'
Circles is Google+'s method for friends management. Google believes we organize our real life relationships in various kinds of circles ("close friends", "wackos from college", etc.), giving each circle a different set of rights to our personal information. That's exactly what Circles is meant to do online, allowing you to form graphical circles of friends into which you can drag and drop new friends as you see fit. When posting content, Google+ allows you to select which circles can see the content.
Hangouts is basically a glorified video chat room. When logging onto the service, you can select to inform your contacts that you're "hanging out." "With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time," the Google says.
Finally, Sparks is Google's answer to social sharing. The feature asks for subjects that you're interested in. After entering some interests, Sparks shows a list of content from across the web. At that point you can pick and choose from among the content and share it easily with any of your circles of friends.
Mobile Tricks, Too
In addition to the desktop features, Google is also launching some special features for mobile devices. Android phones will gain a feature called Instant Upload, where pictures are automatically uploaded into Google+ for easy inclusion in a your profile. Google also is introducing a feature called Huddle, which will enable group chatting on mobile devices among you and your Google+ using friends.
What remains to be seen is whether or not the Mountain View, Calif. company will be able to make Google+ work. Its Orkut social networking service is popular overseas, but has never caught on here in the US.
Google's last effort in social networking — Google Buzz — was an even bigger disaster. Not only was the purpose of the app convoluted and widely misunderstood, but many users were taken aback by Google's willingness add people to the service without their consent. The fallout resulted in several privacy-related lawsuits.
The fact that Google+ is so low-key at this point may indicate that Google has learned a lot from the Buzz experience, and doesn't plan to repeat its gaffes any time soon.
For more tech news and commentary, follow Ed on Twitter at @edoswald and on Facebook.

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Right-wing extremists accused of attack on Greek refugee camp with petrol bombs, boulders (PHOTOS)
A makeshift camp on the Greek island of Chios has been set ablaze in what was reportedly as an attack by far-right extremists who pelted refugees with 15 kilogram-rocks and petrol bombs, setting tents on fire. Police used tear gas and stormed the camp.
Authorities and volunteers, as well as the refugees themselves, give different accounts of the events leading to Thursday night's clashes. According to police, the migrants looted two local shops, stealing alcohol and fireworks that they then set off at the camp. They also purportedly threw rocks at a police unit located nearby, to which police retaliated with tear gas, while making multiple arrests.
However, eyewitnesses say that some 60 members of the far-right neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party hurled boulders at the migrants, as well as Molotov cocktails that set their makeshift tents ablaze, while at the same time blocking the exits to prevent the refugees from leaving.
Sent by panicked #refugees in Souda camp, currently under attack by fascists for second night in a row: #RefugeesGR#Chiospic.twitter.com/as3uiBgyxG— Chios Monitor (@ChiosMonitor) 17 ноября 2016 г.
Several migrants, including a woman pregnant with twins, were hospitalized in the aftermath of the attack. Gabrielle Tan, an aid worker with Action from Switzerland, wrote on Facebook, adding that the woman lost both of her unborn children on Friday morning due to the stress she had endured.
Some 100 refugees refused to return to the camp out of fear of new assaults.
"They'd rather sleep outside in the cold than go back inside," Tan told the Guardian.
It was reportedly the second day of violence at the camp, as the refugees were allegedly also attacked on Wednesday.
Tan said that the migrants, with women and children among them, feared for their lives, as some of the rocks were the "size of a shoebox, weighing approximately 15 kilograms."
The new anti-migrant violence has sparked outrage among charity workers and was condemned by Amnesty International, which called on Greek authorities and police, whom the volunteers blame for failing to adequately respond, to investigate the incident, find the perpetrators, and protect the migrants.
Greece: Muslim migrants ignite tents loot shops Smash cars Steal fireworks 4 shooting... in Chios pic.twitter.com/h4stFuoS6Y via @OnlineMagazin— ARnews 1936 (@ARnews1936) 18 ноября 2016 г.
"These shocking attacks against refugees cannot be permitted to continue with impunity. For the last two nights, suspected right-wing extremists have thrown petrol bombs, stones, and rocks down on the camp from castle walls, causing injuries and panic," Amnesty International's deputy Europe director said in a statement.
The attack comes just several days after members of the right-wing Golden Dawn party held a rally on the island, calling for the refuges to be deported.
"Of course Golden Dawn supporters are suspected to have participated," Manolis Vournous, the mayor of the town, told the Guardian. On Thursday, Vournous urged Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas to deliver on a promise he'd made earlier to shut down the facility and resettle the migrants at a bigger camp, local Ekathimerini news site reported.
#chiosdarkside in Chios , Souda camp pic.twitter.com/6MJXukRcXK— Black Lotus (@black_lotus0000) 18 ноября 2016 г.
At the moment, about 2,000 refugees are living in overcrowded tents and makeshift shelters at the camp amidst squalid conditions.
Migrants frustrated with 'prison islands,' can't leave
Behzad Yaghmaian, professor of political economy and author of Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West, told RT that the current refugee situation in Greece is "not sustainable," as both the refugees and locals are running out of patience.
"Any bad actors among the refugees who would do something would be used as an excuse to attack the migrants and that is exactly what happened," Yaghmaian said.
Frustration among refugees whose applications have not been processed since March of 2015 due to a "huge backload" in the application system, is on the rise, he noted, adding that the much-hailed Turkey-EU refugee deal has turned Turkey into a "warehouse for refugees," but failed to solve the problem.
Pregnant woman carrying twins attacked with molotov & rocks— Giannis Negris (@GiannisNegris) 19 ноября 2016 г.
Miscarried both today from the stress and fright#refugeesGr#chios#antireportpic.twitter.com/ZokYHZNx2a
"Many of the migrants call the islands 'prison islands' because they can neither go forwards, nor go backwards – they are stranded there," Yaghmaian notes, adding that some of the migrants he met would even prefer to pay people smugglers to take them back to Turkey, as they had done in order to reach Greece.
"Many migrants want to go back to Turkey, but going back to Turkey also requires official deportation and acceptance of deportation by Turkey. This is not happening," he said.
The refugee crisis is compounding the economic problems that have long plagued Greece, giving a boost to nascent far-right movements such as the Golden Dawn, which has already gained ground in Greece.
#chiosdarkside sleeping outside in the park after their tent was burnt pic.twitter.com/hKlBDWSYMJ— Black Lotus (@black_lotus0000) 19 ноября 2016 г.
"Something must be done quickly, otherwise this becomes an impetus to a lot of other crises. The humanitarian crisis there could become a further impetus for fascist movements," he warned, adding that if nothing is done by the government soon, the refugees could be indoctrinated and "recruited by radical forces."


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MBA Marketing and Innovation
Course Objective
Marketing and Innovation is the implementation of a new marketing method aimed at better addressing customer needs, leveraging customer experience through significant changes in product design or packaging, product placement, product promotion or pricing.
This programme, designed in consultation with Industry Experts and some of the world's leading academicians, is ideal for employees in R&D and Product Development departments in corporates and PSUs and those seeking additional specialization.
How does it address the need for transferable skills?
IILM MBA in Marketing and Innovation would help students shape up factors such as innovative ideas, identifying the markets and its opportunities, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the environment. This course will consider the essential question of why innovations are successful and why some fail, simultaneously studying the basic theories, tools and frameworks that allow for better decision making.
This will include value creation, communication, delivery and innovative solutions. Innovation brings both challenges and opportunities for the marketer, and traditional marketing frameworks often "break down" when applied in these environments, missing critical insights essential for marketing success. This course will provide you with frameworks to recognize the risks associated with marketing innovations, avoid them or mitigate their impacts, and thereby capitalize upon opportunities.
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The programme has been designed to equip participants with the ability to identify opportunities for disruption in Marketing and Innovation and enables students to both launch new marketing programs, ventures and harness innovative technology driven solutions to build better marketing programs. Various sectors like FMCG(Fast moving consumer goods), E-commerce, Banks, Consumer durables, Pharma, health and wellness and others are developing new innovative marketing tactics to remain relevant in the competitive market which is opening a huge job opportunities.
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Frankly Speaking Guest Darwin Porter
Today is Thursday, and old Hollywood friend, Darwin Porter, returns to Frankly Speaking to talk about, among other things, his new book, an update on the old, very revealing, "Hollywood Babylon."
He is always thought-provioking, fascinating, and fun.
One of Darwin many books The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart: The Early Years (1899-1931) listed above;
From the Author: "It was an idyllic setting, a picture postcard of Victorian life that still thrived in America before its last vestiges were swept away by the..."
From Publishers Weekly Claiming to explore the "young, hot and horny Bogart," former Miami Herald bureau chief Porter has penned a salacious account of the actor's salad days. The book drips with gossipy tidbits from Bogart's years on Broadway and in early Hollywood. For example, Porter (Hollywood's Silent Closet; Midnight in Savannah; etc.) says Bogart worked undercover for Howard Hughes, procuring male escorts for the business tycoon.
He also charges that Bogart brought Jean Harlow to Mexico for a secret abortion (it was supposedly Hughes's baby); and gives lots of steamy details about Bogart's own sex life, including trysts with Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis. Heavy on obscenity-ridden dialogue and light on official sourcing (Porter bases much of the book on the papers of Bogart's friend Kenneth MacKenna), this book might appeal to Bogart junkies, but readers seeking an extensive, credible biography should look elsewhere. 64 photos.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This biography is required reading for studies about Hollywood during the 1930s.
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The purpose of the geophysical activity is to recognize the underlying phenomena with a precision as high as possible. The record of noise in seismic data is inevitable. Different noises affect seismic data among which random noise is one of the most important ones, resulting from random oscillation of particles during the sampling. Random noise is present at all times and all frequencies; it decreases the seismic data quality. To achieve a trustworthy interpretation, geophysicists try to prepare data with the least random and coherent noise. There are many methods for analyzing seismic signals. In recent years, discrete wavelet transform has been introduced as a suitable choice in seismic signal processing. Bayram and Selesnick (2009) developed a family of wavelets transforms, which have a wide range of the Q-factor(in bandpass filters,Q-factor is defined as wavelet centre frequency/bandwidth). This research has tested the rational dilation wavelet transform (RDWT) with enhanced time-frequency discrimination. In this research the rational dilation wavelet transform was used for random noise attenuation from synthetic and real seismic data. The capability to apply differentQ-factors is the main advantage of the RDWT compared to the dyadic DWT. This transform overcame the limitation of conventional wavelet transform with a constant quality factor.
   This method is robust in the task of de-noising with fewer signal distortion effects because of its ability to choose an appropriate Q-factor and the degree of over-completeness.These WTs provide a rich range of redundancy andQ-factors. Moreover, the RDWT used in this study is based on rational (non-dyadic) dilation and attains over-completeness by increasing sampling in both time and frequency (Bayram and Selesnick, 2009).The RMS error is a measurement of the differences between values of a trace after an RDWT inverse transform without any de-noising and the input trace shown in Table 1 of the present article.
   The capability to apply differentQ-factors let the user choose the appropriate Q-factor and desired frequency and time resolution. The user can choose appropriate Q-factor setting some parameters (p, q, s, j),wherein âq/p'is the dilation factor and âsâis the sampling factor of the high-pass filter and the number of processing levels is determined by â jâ. These parameters must be chosen such that the time frequency representation of each level of decomposition will be enhanced. In an earlier work, this method was used with the purpose of ground roll attenuation (Iranimehr et al., 2013).
   Using the appropriate quality factor according to data type, the used wavelet will match well with the seismic signal and the signal obtains a large amount of wavelet coefficients but the undesirable random noise would attainsmall amount of wavelet coefficients.
   In the next step, noise was separated from signal using soft thresholding or other authorized thresholding methods. The wavelet transform was applied to synthetic data with different noise levels and a real marine data with high frequency content and the results of the random noise attenuation were compared with the dyadic wavelet transform. Table 2 of the present article compares the results of random noise attenuation by dyadic discrete wavelet transform and rational dilation wavelet transform by different type threshold.
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Questionable Decisions By The Americans
Throughout our time in Vietnam, Peter and I continuously came back to one question — whether it was when we were examining a giant cave, used as a field hospital, that was completely indiscernible from air, or visiting the extensive Cu Chi tunnel network the North Vietnamese army built around Saigon, or even just staring into the dense jungle foliage that covers the country: what the hell were we doing there?
Forget the politics and morality of war. We just couldn't believe that anyone who had set foot in the country and met the people could ever have believed we could win. Take, for example, these photographs of one of the entrances to the Cu Chi tunnels, proudly demonstrated to us by our guide:
We learned that when North Vietnamese troops needed to cross rivers, they'd poke breathing straws through clumps of floating plants and swim across under the surface of the water. When American troops sent out dogs to try to sniff out the entrances to these tunnels, the North Vietnamese started using American soap and sprinkling pepper on the ground (a native product, no less) to confuse their sense of smell. To sabotage troops walking through the jungle, they created camouflaged traps — such as the armpit clipper above — that used nothing more than sharpened bamboo sticks and the victims' own body weight to kill or maim them.
As continues to be demonstrated today, the world's most powerful army has nothing on determination, cleverness and local knowledge. (Not to mention the monsoons. Did no one know about those?)
On a lighter note, though, here is another unwise tactical move on the part of the Americans: on our second day in Hanoi, Peter decided to get a straight-edge razor shave from a guy on the street. (Thankfully, he used a new blade.) As I watched the barber hold a razor against my beloved husband's neck in the middle of North Vietnam, one thought kept popping into mind: I'm glad he doesn't hold a grudge.


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Workflow:LAC Pre-Ingest Workflow
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Workflow Description
- Review Digital Transfer Assessment Form (DTAF) and provide strategic advice to acquiring staff on potential challenges for pre-ingest, archival processing, and long-term digital preservation
- Transfer the content
- Ensure that the content has a persistent identifier (e.g., Registration Control Number; barcode for containers where physical storage media are stored)
- Confirm security classification of records and infrastructure that is required for processing information at this level of classification
- Create a processing workspace on the Pre-ingest server (or classified infrastructure). Note: The Pre-ingest server is a server location where processing workspaces are organized by a standardized directory structure
- Ensure that all appropriate metadata and metadata generating templates are copied to the processing workspace (MET subfolder)
- Complete a physical carrier inventory documenting all physical storage media involved in the transfer. Media must be numbered sequentially (e.g. "01" or "001").
- Review and complete Digital Processing Checklist
- Write protect physical media when possible
- Insert into drive/attach to computer/anti-virus software (LAC network network will automatically scan for viruses; if a virus is detected, do not copy the data and document the virus in the Pre-ingest Report
- Review file format/directory structure of physical media at a high level
- If interactive CD/DVD content or authored AV content is detected, do not perform pre-ingest for the physical carriers containing that content. Follow workflow for authored AV content. Document this in the Physical Carrier Inventory spreadsheet
- Create sub-folders for physical media on the Pre-ingest server. If a physical carrier is blank or unreadable, do not create a subfolder for it
- Copy the content to the Pre-ingest server using SafeCopy. If issues occur, troubleshoot via SafeCopy or other checksum software like Fsum or MD5summer
- For any content that is unreadable, send to Digital Preservation for extraction. Record this in Physical Carrier Inventory
- Use TreeSize Pro to create a digital object listing of all digital objects successfully copied to LAC infrastructure
- Run DROID on the entire registration and create a DROID export (*.CSV) for all content
- Start populating the Pre-Ingest Report. Record Pre-Ingest volume, number of files, and number of folders
- Weed transitory objects (temporary files, system files, configuration files, Thumbs.db, program files) that are not required to render the information of long-term value
- In the Pre-Ingest Report, record if viruses were detected as part of the virus scan
- If authored Audio or video files are present, add a note that content must be processed according to a separate AV workflow.
- Non-authored AV material (i.e. unstructured AV material that has been copied to the Pre-Ingest server)can be processed in the same manner as other digital records.
- Use TreeSize Pro to identify:
- (sub-bullet)Duplicated records existing within the corpus. Note existence of duplicate records to be addressed as part of archival processing.
- (sub-bullet)Container files. Extract any container files identified using software like WinZip.
- (sub-bullet)Email file formats. Identified email files may require a stand alone workflow for processing
- (sub-bullet)Data file formats.
- (sub-bullet)Database file formats
- (sub-bullet)Website file formats. Consult with the Web-Archives and Social Media Program.
- (sub-bullet)zero bytes files. Use TreeSize Pro to move zero byte files into disposition folder.
- (sub-bullet)long file paths.
- (sub-bullet)empty folders.
- Triage the DROID report.
- Create a DROID report.xlsx, which can be filed in the package's metadata subfolder
- (sub-bullet) color code formats in the spreadsheet according to the following categories as needed - for example:
- (sub-sub-bullet) Green = Ok as-is
- (sub-sub-bullet) Red = format unknown or non-standard: archivist to determine how to access prior preservation
- (sub-sub-bullet) Grey = ineligible for selection - file format preservation issue
- (sub-bullet)Refer to the Guidelines for Transferring Information Resources of Enduring Value for information on file formats already encountered during processing
- (sub-sub-bullet) these guidelines document LAC's formal and information file format policy decisions based on feedback and discussion with LAC Subject Matter Experts
- (sub-bullet) Further research may be required if unrecognized or unknown file formats are encountered
- Identify password protected and encrypted files
- (sub-bullet)Run software to identify files that are encrypted or password protection
- (sub-bullet) create a report in CSV format that reflects the results of the analysis
- Record Pre-Ingest metrics
- (sub-bullet) record post pre-ingest volume, number of files and folder in the Pre-Ingest Report
- Follow up with archival processing staff
- (sub-bullet) email archival processing staff to report that pre-ingest is complete
- (sub-bullet) provide hyperlink to Pre-Ingest Report or indicate it is in the MET subfolder of the processing workspace
- (sub-bullet)provide hyperlink to Pre-Ingest Report or indicate it is sitting in the the metadata subfolderof the processing workspace
- (sub-bullet)flag anything else that is noteworthy - especially file formats requiring research by archival staff
- (sub-bullet) If feasible/required, schedule a meeting with archival processing staff to review Pre-Ingest analysis and findings
Purpose, Context and Content
Pre-ingest is the technological review of digital records transferred to LAC. It involves technical appraisal using multiple software tools to automate the process. The goal of pre-ingest is to aid in creating a SIP that conforms to LAC's preservation policies and that which LAC has a reasonable success of preserving in its repository and making accessible for the long-term.
There are two major tasks for pre-ingest:
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Do you want to get more media attention, and generate publicity for your organisation, or even yourself? Or maybe you are a professional journalist or student researching for wishing to brush up your journalistic skills.
Well, you've come to the right place.
On these pages you'll find some of the most effective ways to promote your business, share your vision or tell your story. I have put together a range of Media Tips for catching the journalist's eye. I've also assembled some hints on taking photographs.
You can also learn more about being a journalist. There's information about News Values and how to determine how much prominence to give to a story. Plus an article on Fake News which explores the recent rise in disinformation. You may also find in these pages some Journalism Interview examples, along with information on Public Speaking.
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There are a range of Media Tips for those who want to know more about working with the media.
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Radio and TV interview examples
I have compiled a range of examples of my news reports and radio interviews which you can find on my Journalism examples page. This includes my interview with the comedy actor Kenneth Williams in 1977.
Taking photographs
How to get your photos published in the press
News values
- The general guidelines or criteria that determine the worth of a news story and how much prominence it gets.
Citizen Journalism
Fake News
Recent published articles
- How to become a successful writer: Readers Digest (15 May 2020)
- How can journalists build an informed society: Morning Star (14 January 2021)
- Will the right to privacy jeopardise the freedom of the press? Yahoo News (3 February 2021)
- How citizen journalism has flourished: London Daily Post (26 January 2021)


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- May 27, 2018God is Self-SacrificingMay 27, 2018God is Self-Sacrificing
The topic of this Sunday's sermon is unbelievable. In fact it's so unbelievable that Paul said that this topic is "foolishness to those who don't believe but to use who believe it is the power of God unto salvation." This character of God, from a human perspective seems nearly impossible - but God specializes in the impossible, and He did it for us!!
- May 20, 2018God is Fire (Pentecost)May 20, 2018God is Fire (Pentecost)Today is Pentecost Sunday in the church's calendar. In this sermon I explore the rich history and deep significance that God laid many years in advance for the miraculous events that occurred on this day when the church was launched.
- May 13, 2018God is LoveMay 13, 2018God is LoveSince it's Mother's Day today, it seemed appropriate to preach on the topic of "God is Love". God also does lots of loving things for His children but preceding that God is Love at the core of His being. It's important to understand that distinction, both for God and for how we live our lives.
- May 6, 2018God is GenerousMay 6, 2018God is GenerousAs we continue in our "God Is…" series, today we're going to discover God's counter-cultural approach to blessing people found in Matthew 20 and further demonstrated throughout the entire Bible.
- Apr 29, 2018God is For UsApr 29, 2018God is For UsIs God for YOU and how can you tell? That's the topic of our sermon this morning. We will answer that question based on Paul's tremendous insights found in Romans 8.
- Apr 23, 2018God is AromatherapyApr 23, 2018God is AromatherapyOur sense of smell is perhaps the most powerful sense we have. You can smell something and immediately it produces a memory and an emotional reaction to that particular scent. That's because God created us in such a way that when we smell something it immediately is transmitted to our brain. This morning we're going to discover the importance of smell to God and how we can smell good to God everyday.
- Apr 8, 2018God is our TailorApr 8, 2018God is our TailorThis morning I want you to encourage you to think creatively as to God being your personal tailor of your daily wardrobe. How would dress you each and every day? Scripture gives us great insight into what that might look like.


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Brachypelma albopilosum Valerio, 1980, also known as "Curly hair", is a beautiful and hairy bird spider from Costa Rica. She's often being called "Honduran curly hair" as well, due to the fact a similar species with golden setae from Honduras was initially imported into the hobby. Whether or not this was the same species, remains to be seen. Except for a happy few owning a real one, it's in our opinion very unlikely the Brachypelma albopilosum hobby form is the same species as the by Valerio described Costa Rican Brachypelma albopilosum. You will, however, notice more and more import nowadays is coming from Nicaragua. "Curly hair" is referring to the remarkably long and bright setae on her dark legs. Brachypelma albopilosum is very docile, often recommended as the perfect species for beginners, but however the genus "Brachypelma" might make you think different, she always lives very close to a direct water source in the Costa Rican tropical rain forests. Preferring it rather warm and humid, please don't make the common mistake providing her dry substrate. Mature males are very similar to Brachypelma vagans' males.
Scientific name: Brachypelma albopilosum.
Common name: Curly hair. Honduran curly hair (Imported "Brachypelma albopilosum" was a similar sp. from Honduras. Whether or not it's the same sp. remains to be investigated.)
Previous name: Brachypelmides albopilosa Valeria, 1980a, Euathlus albopilosa Schmidt, 1992a.
Type: Terrestrial bird spider. Semi-burrower.
Category: New world tarantula.
Urticating setae: Yes, type I and III (abdomen).
Venom: Probably mild. No valuable scientific research has been done yet.
Origin: Initially Costa Rica (Upala – Alajuela, San Carlos). Considered to be thoroughbred Brachypelma albopilosum from Nicaragua as well. A similar sp. which most of the hobbyists own, comes from Honduras. It is being said Brachypelma albopilosum lives along the Atlantic side of the mentioned countries.
Body length: ≤ 7/8cm. Brachypelma albopilosum is sexually dimorphic, with females being larger and heavier than males.
Span width: ≤ 15/17cm.
Behavior: Brachypelma spp. in general are considered to be docile, but Brachypelma albopilosum is from a different level. I've never seen one giving a threat pose or flicking urticating setae. In captivity she's out in the open plenty of times, showing off her cuddly appearance.
Growth rate: Slow.
Life expectancy: Females become up to 25 years old. Males are given a shorter lifetime of 4-5 years.
Accessibility (1/beginner, 10/expert): 2. However she's probably the most docile bird spider around, she needs a moist environment. Therefore she's given a "2" in stead of "1".
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Brachypelma albopilosum lives in tropical humid and warm area, in the tropical scrublands of Costa Rica, nearby a direct water source. Temperatures almost daily reach levels up to 30°C with high humidity. Please be informed of the fact the spider will protect itself against the burning sun underneath tree trunks, branches, leaves and abandoned burrows. Do not overheat the terrarium. Watch this video to have an idea of the local habitat.
Environmental conditions
Temperature: 25-29°C (day), 20-22°C (night).
Humidity: 65-75% (january-april), 75-85% (may-december).
Adult: LxWxH: 40x30x30. Min. surface 3x span width.
Smaller than adult: Min. 3x span width in surface.
* Provide a few natural hides in the enclosure.
Adult: Min. 1x body length.
Smaller than adult: 1x body length.
* Provide a humid environment, with a direct water source nearby.
Wet season: May, june, july, august, september, october, november, december.
Dry season: February, march, april.
Warmest month: April.
Coldest months: December, january, february. With an absolute minimum around 20,5°C and an avarage temperature around 25°C, "cold" is relative.
For more information about the local climate: Click here.
* You might like to consider an adjustment of these data with your local climate. Do not exceed minima or maxima and, if necessary, organize the year making your bird spider experience different seasons. This is very important form the moment you'd like to start breeding.
Thoughts from "The journal of the British Tarantula Society, volume 31, nr. 1, march 2016, page 5."
Honduran curly hair"? Ironically, the name Honduran may in fact be right! (Longhorn and Gabrial, in prep.) Whether the species from Honduras is the same as the spider described from Costa Rica, remains to be seen, but similar specimens have been recorded from Nicaragua, which could indicate that these may be the same species distributed over a wide range from Northern Honduras down into Northern Costa Rica.
These initial imports coming from Honduras were of a black spider with golden hairs on the legs and abdomen and thus more of an aura- (gold) pilosum than an albo- (white) pilosum. Hmm.. A spider is imported from Honduras and is given the name of a spider of Costa Rica. But look, they have long curly hairs on the legs so they MUST be the same thing! Could that have been the reason for the naming of the first imported specimens? Who knows? Could it also be that we are hinting that someone in the pet trade might have misidentified something? Shock! Horror! GASP!
Brachypelma albopilosum (Nicaragua)
This spider fits the profile as described by Valerio, 1980.
Caution: Breeding this species is not recommended! Because of the fact species from the Brachypelma-genus can be very similar, it's hard to distinguish one from another. However people breed species with good intentions, different species have been mated plenty of times being convinced of the fact they were the same. Thoroughbred species from the Brachypelma-genus are available in the hobby, but make sure your source is valuable. If you're very sure of what you're breeding and/or you have more questions about the purity of your (Nicaraguan) Brachypelma albopilosum, please join this group.
Breeding Brachypelma albopilosum is not that difficult. The area she lives in is overall hot and humid, what makes it a little bit more easy to breed. In general the female goes easy on te guy, except for when she is definitely not into him. When you notice very aggressive behavior towards him, seperate them immediately. Cannibalism may occur. Breeding reports.
• Only start breeding 4-6 weeks (or later) after the spider molted. If the female molts between pairing and cocoon, the eggs will remain unfertilized.
• Make sure the female is well-fed (not obese) before you introduce the male.
• No special post-mating care is needed. Keep temperatures and humidity farily constant. You might try to trigger the female increasing both temperature and humidity a little bit.
• The female will start making the cocoon 1-3 months after mating. Deprive the cocoon, when desired, 4-5 weeks later. Store the eggs at a humidity of 80-90% and a temperature of 24-28°C. Expect 300-800 spiderlings to come out.
Subdividing the Brachypelma-genus
Red hairs on the legs
• West-Mexico, along the Pacific Coast, and Sierra-Madre.
• Natural and captive bred hybrids are known. Inform yourself in order to make sure you're breeding the same species.
Red hairs on the abdomen
• Widespread over Central-America.
• Thoroughbred species can be hard to find in the hobby. Besides the true Brachypelma vagans, for example, you'll often see them show up as "Brachypelma vagans hobby form", being a hybrid of a female Brachypelma vagans and another male from the Brachypelma-genus (probably Brachypelma schroederi or Brachypelma albopilosum). Please leave the breeding to the professionals.
• Brachypelma albopilosum, Brachypelma smithi or Grammostola rosea was probably the first bird spider of many hobbyists?
• Thoroughbred Brachypelma albopilosum is very rare in the hobby?
• The Brachypelma albopilosum, as described by Valerio has white setae, which is in contrast with almost every " gold-haired Brachypelma albopilosum" in captivity?
• Brachypelma albopilosum likes it rather hot and humid, which is in contrast with all other Brachypelma spp.?
• Brachypelma was removed from the synonymy of Euathlus by Schmidt and was considered a senior synonym of Brachypelmides by Schmidt & Krause. Schmidt did not accept that synonymy, but failed to present evidence that the species he would place in Brachypelmides represent the sister group of the remaining species of Brachypelma (or of some other group entirely) (source).
• Very beautiful webpage about Brachypelma albopilosum, made by E. Hijmensen.
• Text: Dennis Van Vlierberghe (facebookgroup and –page)
• Photography: Michael Pankratz (flickr), Roj Crisp


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Brewers use any number of spices to evoke warm feelings of fall in their pumpkin beers. Here are a few of the more popular spices used, along with the common flavors they impart.
Cinnamon is the dried bark of various trees in the genus Cinnamomum. It has a sweet, spicy, woody fragrance. In commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends, cinnamon comprises almost half of the blend, so cinnamon is essential if you want that pumpkin-pie taste in your pumpkin beer. Cassia cinnamon is the "grocery-store" variety and tastes stronger and hotter than Ceylon cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum), which is sold in gourmet stores. Ceylon cinnamon is lighter in color and has a lighter, brighter fragrance. Brewers seem to be divided on whether cassia or Ceylon cinnamon is better in pumpkin beers.
Ginger is the rhizome of a perennial in the Zingiberaceae family. In _Savoring Spices and Herbs, _Chef Julie Sahni describes ginger's flavor as spicy camphoric and its aroma as peppery, reminiscent of cloves and lemon, cedar and mint. Fresh ginger has a stronger flavor than ground ginger. Like cinnamon, ginger can enhance both savory and sweet dishes. In commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends, ginger comprises 25–30 percent of the blend.
Nutmeg is the oval-shaped fruit pit of an evergreen tree in the genus _Myristica _that is native to the Moluccas—the Spice Islands. The most important commercial species is _Myristica fragrans. _Nutmeg has a strong nutty, slightly sweet flavor that, like cinnamon and ginger, enhances both sweet and savory dishes. Whole nutmeg nuts store well and can be grated as needed. In commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends, nutmeg comprises 7–10 percent of the blend.
While nutmeg is the pit of the fruit of the _Myristica fragrans _tree, mace is the dried reddish webbing that surrounds the pit. Mace's flavor is more pungent and spicier than nutmeg's. Some find it similar to a combination of cinnamon and pepper. Mace lacks nutmeg's sweetness. In baking, nutmeg and mace have similar uses but are seldom used together: Commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends seem to be the exception. Like nutmeg, mace comprises 7–10 percent of the blend. In brewing, experiment to see whether you prefer one more than the other.
Despite its name, allspice isn't a blend of spices. It is the dried unripe fruit of the tree Pimenta dioica, which is native to southern Mexico, Central America, and the Greater Antilles. Its name arises from the fact that many people think its warm sweet flavor tastes like a blend of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. In commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends, allspice comprises 7–10 percent of the blend.
Cloves are the dried unopened flower buds of a tree in the Myrtaceae family. Their flavor is warm, sweet, and intense. They can bring out and round off fruity flavors (remember, pumpkin is a fruit). But a little goes a long way. Eugenol, one of a broad class of phenolic compounds, makes up most of the taste of cloves. Too many cloves in the brew, and you could have what a lot of judges would find to be an off-flavor. In commercial pumpkin-pie spice blends, cloves comprise 5–7 percent of the blend.
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A few months back, it was agreed that despite its magnificent charm, the 19th-century carriage house at 29 Downing Street would need a good price-chopper before a buyer would snatch it up. The owners must have come to this same realization—the home is now asking $8.995 million—a $4.005 million price cut from its most recent ask of $13 million.
Back in June 2014, the 3,480-square-foot home, built in 1829 on land once owned by Aaron Burr, was listed for $12 million. No one bit at that price so the sellers, artist John Bennett and photographer Karen Lee Grant, re-listed the following year for $13 million (yes, we scratched our heads at that too). But it looks like reality has set in, and with that came the new lowered price.
Hopefully the charming home, which has been featured in photo shoots for magazines and fashion brands alike, will have better luck finding a new owner on this go-round. (Or maybe the Hamilton craze will make people more interested? It's big enough to get mentioned in the brokerbabble, anyway.)
- 29 Downing Street [StreetEasy]
- $13M Downing Street Carriage House Is a 'Certified Treasure' [Curbed]
- 185-Year-Old Downing Street Townhouse Wants $12 Million [Curbed]


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This curry is so delicious and costs almost nothing to make. Although the sauces are slightly expensive to purchase, a bottle goes a long, long way, making the per meal cost of the sauce fairly low. It is also incredibly filling, with cauliflower and garbanzo beans. I serve it with homemade samosas or rice.
Veggie Curry (tonight's version)
- 1 head cauliflower, chopped into large pieces
- 4 carrots, largely chopped
- 1 15 oz can garbanzo beans
- 1 veggie bouillon cube
- 1 tablespoon Patak's curry paste
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- you can also add chopped potatoes or onion or zucchini, or whatever veggies you have on hand!
Steam the vegetables with the bouillon cube until soft, then drain. Mix the curry paste with the sour cream and let sit, covered for fifteen minutes.
I use leftover mashed potatoes to make samosas, mixed with some curry powder to taste and peas. Then spread on a pie crust and cover with another pie crust, bake at 350° until brown and crispy. I admit it- this in no way resembles real samosas, but it's a good way to use leftover mashed potatoes!


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31 August 1994: The IRA announced a complete cessation of military activities on this day as their long awaited 'Ceasefire' came into effect. The efforts to bring the Provisonal IRA to this point had been years in the making but had faced many obstacles along the way, both within and without the Republican Movement.
The IRA announced: "Recognising the potential of the current situation and in order to enhance the democratic process and underlying our definitive commitment to its success, the leadership of the IRA have decided that as of midnight, August 31, there will be a complete cessation of military operations. All our units have been instructed accordingly....
The genesis for moving away from violence and towards a purely peaceful strategy began at the time of the 1981 Hunger Strikes when a number of republican representatives were elected both North and South of the Border - most notably Bobby Sands who was on hunger strike in the Long Kesh prison camp at the time.
In the aftermath of those events Sinn Fein decided to contest elections across Ireland and while initially any success they had was in the North they had made a start and there was no going back.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, as the acknowledged leaders of the Republican Movement, were the two individuals most closely associated with developing a strategy that would see a metamorphosis of Sinn Fein into a purely political Party and an end to its support for the IRAs campaign. However they realised that at the end of the day only the IRA could call it.
Initially there was sceptism and hostility in many quarters but a number of factors, some positive and some negative helped push things along the way.
On the positive side was the election of Bill Clinton as President of the USA from 1991, a man with an Irish background and a real interest in helping to bring Peace about. Here in Ireland the appointment of Albert Reynolds as Taoiseach in 1992 brought to power a man of calibre who carried no baggage on the issue and was prepared to take risks to get the end result. In Britain John Major became Prime Minister in 1990 and if not as committed as others to the process he was of a practical turn of mind who was prepared to cut a deal at the end of the day.
On the negative side many many people, not least in Nationalist areas of the North of Ireland were sick and tired of years of violence with no end in sight. The yearning for Peace was high and in addition the Loyalist paramilitaries had been re armed and re organised and were launching effective counter strikes of their own. The British Army were still on the streets. Though the IRA were well armed and motivated it was clear the Armed Struggle had reached Deadlock.
The Hume Adams imitative was an internal attempt by Adams and John Hume, the leader of the SDLP, then the biggest nationalist party in the North, to develop a framework for Peace but was stymied by its utter rejection by Unionists and the British Government. The Unionist community did not trust what was happening and were wary of any initiatives that emanated from Dublin or indeed from any parties on the Nationalist side. Major in turn was reliant on Unionist votes to keep him in power and would not risk pushing them too far. Albert Reynolds had other ideas and had Hume and Adams sidelined as he went for cutting a deal with the British Prime Minister that would put them in the driving seat and steering the process down a road that all could follow.
Thus came about the in December 1993 the Downing Street Declaration when Reynolds and Major issued a joint statement which laid out the guidelines on which a settlement could be built.
It argued for self-determination on the basis of consensus for all the people of Ireland. It argued that any agreement had to be based on the right of people on both parts of the island to "exercise the right of self determination on the basis of consent freely and concurrently given, North and South, to bring about a united Ireland if that is their wish." Not everyone was happy with this but at least there was now something to build upon.
Another significant breakthrough came at the end of January 1994 when Gerry Adams was given a 48 hour visa to visit the USA in order to be able to convince Republican supporters to support his efforts to stop the violence. The visa was granted on the personal authority of Bill Clinton, despite the opposition of his own State Department, FBI, CIA and speaker of the House, Tom Foley.
That same month The broadcasting ban under section 31 of the Broadcasting Act was lifted in the Republic of Ireland. This allowed Sinn Féin access to the Irish media and marked the end of official political censorship in the South.
At Easter 1994 the IRA announced a three day ceasefire and across Ireland there was a growing expectation that a permanent one would follow.
Behind the scenes the Irish government had given written assurances that in the event of an IRA cessation, it would end its marginalisation of the Sinn Féin electorate and that there would be an early public meeting between Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, John Hume and Gerry Adams.
Despite some twists and turns and secret negotiations the momentum held. Not even shocking acts of violence like the Shankill road bombing in October 1993 in which eleven innocent people were killed by an IRA bomb and the revenge murders by the UVF at Greysteel were enough to derail the process. When it came though many were relieved that what had seemed almost impossible had at last come about. It was a seminal moment in Modern Irish History.


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Not sure what to call him but "Corn Guy". He had "Shuck ISU" written across his back. It wasn't just the way he looked, he had the act to go with it.
Apparently taken aback that he was being confronted.
What the hell kind of battle cry does corn make? Clue - the pitch was too high for human ears....
Who knows, maybe we're related?
The only derogatory comment I heard on the day was from an ISU student after I had these pictures taken. The kid looked up and said "So when is Nebraska going to get a basketball program? You guys suck at basketball. You suck. Your state sucks." To which I responded - "Thank You."


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This past week has been pretty devastating for me as a long-time supporter of the Boy Scouts. My own two sons grew up in Scouting, and, with their hard work and encouragement from my wonderful husband who was a Scout Master, they both achieved the rank of Eagle Scout.
I treasure the time our family spent involved in Scouting - and always will. My heart is broken to realize that the finest institution for young men our country has ever known has grown cowardly, and has disappeared into the great vast wasteland that is modern popular culture.
The recent decision by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America to allow "openly gay" youth to become members of the Boy Scouts was nothing short of a betrayal—a betrayal not only of the values scouting has represented for decades but also of the families whose support for the Scouts has spanned generations.
The roughly 1200 delegates who voted on the proposal represent but a fraction of the Boy Scouts' membership. Their decision was not motivated by a strong and insistent clamor from their membership to change things. It was brought about by the strong-arm pressure tactics of the homosexual lobby, using the contrived protests of a few members for symbolic effect.
Council members assert the fiction that their decision is not a statement about the morality of homosexuality, but merely a compassionate decision to open wide the doors of scouting to even boys that reject scouting's core values.
The blunt reality is that young boys who "come out" are implicitly, and perhaps explicitly, embracing a whole set of "givens" that conflict with the Scouts' promise of being morally straight. And the moral standards the scouts proclaim on paper will be drowned out by the homosexual advocacy that comes with being "out."
Does anyone really think that the homosexual pressure groups are going to stop with the admission of kids who declare their homosexuality? Of course not.
Contrary to public perception, the proposal to admit adult homosexuals into leadership was not voted down, it was simply not voted upon. It's just been taken off the table for now, in a nod to the incremental approach.
The Scouts have lost any coherence in their original mission and message. It's worth noting that the law does NOT require the change in Scouts' policy: the ban on homosexual members was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court, which affirmed the right of the Boy Scouts to remain true to their mission and decide, on a principled basis, who may become a member of their group.
How ironic: After years of successful battles to maintain timeless principles, the BSA has fallen by their own hand.
How to Save Your Family: Embrace Courage, not Appeasement
Some argue that the Boy Scouts' decision was inevitable, a reality-driven move in light of declining corporate contributions (again, because of pressure tactics), shrinking membership numbers, and changing public positions on homosexuality.
Those are weak, unprincipled positions not worthy of the Boy Scouts I knew. Just when our culture needs courageous voices to uphold traditional standards of morality, the Boy Scouts have chosen instead to appease the insatiable demands of homosexual pressure groups. They have decided to teach our children that political expediency matters more than principle.
So what to do?
Scouts and scouting families must search their hearts and find the courage of their convictions to decide if they are going to stay and fight to try and resurrect the BSA - or if it's time to take a hike from scouting for good. No amount of political pressure or million dollar publicity campaigns can change the fact that homosexual behavior is neither "morally straight" nor personally liberating, and we need to continue to make that case whether in or out of the organization.
And all parents should use this sad moment to explain to young people, in particular, that the freedoms we hold dear will not survive if the moral fabric of our country continues to crumble.
As those of us who have left scouting and now mourn the death of the BSA, let's bind up our broken hearts and resolve to continue to honor the many leaders, families and churches who worked so hard over the years to build the character of young men through scouting.
And to all former scouts - especially the Eagles - I urge you to write down your own treasured scouting memories so that you can share with your own kids one day what it was like when the Boy Scouts of America stood for principle and truth.


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[1] One of the more significant sales transactions as of late was for the former Crown Life building located at 1500 West Georgia Street as previously mentioned in our last blog. It was acquired for $120,500,000 by Bosa Properties and Kingswood Properties. This plan allows for the opportunity to develop a 400-foot tower atop a pre-existing 6,500ft2 courtyard.
[2] The Brian Canfield Centre located at 3777 Kingsway in Burnaby has been acquired for $89.6 Million in a share transfer transaction. This property is a landmark building with expansive views all throughout.
[3] The sale of the City of New Westminster's Merchant Square at 1 Eigth Street has been purchased by two well-known tycoons, Joe Segal and Suki Sekhon. This office tower is aligned with one of the City's primary goals of generating employment.
[4] The H&R Real Estate Investment Trust sold a 73,197 ft2 office building located at 1618 Station Street for $30.5M.
[5] The Royal Bank Building at 618-634 6th Avenue has been sold for $32.5M, a 101% increase from the original purchase price back in 2007. It has been acquired by a local private investor, Lezam International. The price per square foot greatly mirrors the price the Downtown Vancouver market has been experiencing.
[6] Located at 5021 Kingsway is Marlborough Court, a building adjacent to Metropolis at Metrotown and is situated in an area that has many shops and restaurants all within walking distance. This 83,000ft2, five storey office complex has been acquired for $27.2M.


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Shearman & Sterling represented Synthomer plc on its inaugural high yield bond offering of €520 million 3.875% senior notes due 2025.
The proceeds of the offering were used to repay borrowings under Synthomer's 2019 bridge facilities, which, together with certain other funding, financed the acquisition of OMNOVA Solutions Inc., and to pay certain costs, fees and expenses related to the offering. The offering, which was conducted pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act, closed on June 25, 2020.
Synthomer is a global speciality chemicals company and one of the world's leading suppliers of water-based polymers with a plant network of 38 plants in 24 countries and approximately 4,750 employees worldwide. Synthomer is listed on the London Stock Exchange and its shares are included in the FTSE 250.
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John Holway
What is history but a myth agreed upon?
he stole them.
By John B Holway
April 16 baseball marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinsons debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, honoring Branch Rickey as one of the saints of baseball, if not American, history.
Its one of the great myths of baseball that have become so enshrined as facts that they are steadfastly believed more than the truth. Robert Redford is planning a film on Rickey. Will he feed the myth or challenge it?
John B Holway is author of Ted the Kid and The Complete Book of the Negro Leagues.
The next nickel
Rickey pays for Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Joe Black,
or Junior Gilliam will be the first.
These ex-Negro Leaguers led
Its like coming into a mans store and stealing the goods right off the shelves, said Cumberland Cum Posey, owner of the Washington Homestead Grays.
Rickey was not the games Abe Lincoln; he was its Jesse James.
The Jackie Robinson revolution was a blessing to black players. But it was a disaster to black owners, who saw their life investments wiped out.
Rickey did pay a pittance (reported at 1,000 to 3,000 dollars) for pitcher Dan Bankhead.
However, when he tried to steal Monte Irvin from the
His excuse was that Monte, just back from the Army, thought his skills had declined and had turned Rickeys offer down. There are several holes in this story. First, whoever heard of a player, black or white, saying he didn't want to play in the Major Leagues because he wasn't good enough? Sec, Monte had the best year of his life in 1946, leading the league with .411. Third, in 1948 he batted .313 but allegedly felt he was at last ready for the majors.
The whites called the black owners racketeers. Many of them were gambling kings; it was one of the few ways a black man could raise enough capital to buy a team -- without gamblers there would have been no Negro Leagues. But Robinsons owner, JL Wilkinson, was not a gambler. Neither was Posey.
When Rickey stole their players, he himself became a bigger racketeer thany any black owner had been.
Branch made a show of his Christianity. He had promised his mother he would never play ball on Sunday; however this didn't prevent him from religiously depositing the Dodgers Sunday gate receipts in the bank every Monday morning.
There are several ways to live a Christian life. One is not to play ball on Sunday. Another is to do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Branch Rickey passed the first test He flunked the second cold.
He was not a revered Methodist saint. He was a pious Methodist hypocrite.
When Rickey had been general manager of the
Not until the death of hard-line
There were many other players, mostly villains, in baseballs integration drama:
Veeck. The flamboyant
owner of the
Veeck reportedly paid Wilkinson $5,000 for Satchel Paige, who repaid Bill a thousand-folded by drawing sell-out crowds wherever he pitched and winning six crucial games as the Indians won the 1948 pennant in a playoff. The cynical might say that Bill wouldn't sign Satch in 47, when he was still under contract to the Monarchs, but waited until 48 when the Monarchs were almost dead and Paige had left them.
Scholars also debunk Veecks story that he had earlier tried to buy
Cool Papa
Jackie Robinson. He was just as self-centered as Rickey. One of his first acts as a big leaguer was to sneer at the Negro Leagues for traveling by bus all night or staying in second-rate black hotels and said he was glad to be out of them. It wasn't said in sympathy. (It wasn't our fault, Manley retorted.)
Not once did Jackie thank the owners who had kept the leagues alive through the Depression, giving him the showcase to jump to the majors. Nor did he thank the veteran players, who had helped him enter the promised land while they stayed behind on Mt Pisgah and cheered his success.
Willie Mays was different. You were the pioneers, he told a reunion of old-timers, you taught me to survive, you made it possible for us. Robinson didn't say anything like that.
JL Wilkinson,
white owner of the
Wilkinsons partner urged him to sue, but Wilkie refused. I won't stand in the way of a man who has a chance to better himself, he said quietly.
In all, Wilkinson lost some 30 men to the white majors Robinson, Paige, Banks, Howard, Hank Thompson, and others. He got almost nothing for them. He would die, blind and infirm, in a nursing home at the age of 90, greatly mourned by all his old players.
It was therefore left to someone else to speak for the conscience of the game.
Williams. Foul-mouthed
womanizer he may have been, but Ted had the humanity to say what nobody else
in baseball would: It was time
to open the doors of
So the history of baseball integration was not a simple moralistic tale of two heroic, saintly men. It was a tale of many men, of greed and rapacity, courage and timidity, leavened by flashes of magnanimity.
Yet the miracle of integration did take place. If one seeks a divine plan, it
may be that out of the all-too-human failings of sinners and hypocrites, the miracle was brought forth. Rickey probably would not have freed the slaves if he had had to pay a fair price for them. But, whatever his true motivation was, he was the instrument by which the miracle was accomplished.
Tell all the truth, but tell it slant;
Success in circuit lies.
Too bright for our infirm delight
The truths superb surprise.
As lightening to the child is eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.
Emily Dickinson


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Proper nutrition plays a vital role in the prevention and treatment of medical conditions. With a focus on PCOS, Thyroid, and IBS, this course provides information about:
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Q&A Session with Dr. Suresh
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Supplement strategy for PCOS by Ryan Fernando
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Q&A Session with Dr. Suresh
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Dr. Suresh Kumar
MBBS, Guest Faculty
Dr. Suresh Kumar is the founder and Chief Coach at Dr.Gene Clinix. He is an MBBS doctor by academic qualification but his passions are nutrition, preventive medicine, mind-body medicine, and a holistic approach to the management of the disease. He worked with Delhi Heart and Lung Institute New Delhi for about a year and had a small stint as faculty in the Department of Pathology of ASR Medical College. He is one of the most sought after faculty to some of the premier training institutes in India like SVP National Police Academy, National Industrial Security Academy. He loves teaching and training young professionals from the field of nutritional medicine through his online courses.
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RD, PhD (Nutrition), Guest Lecturer
Dr R. Kalpana, Registered Dietitian with more than ten years of experience in the field of nutrition. She is a Mary C Jacob Award-winner for merit in Physiology from Madras University and PhD degree from SPMVV university. She had worked across various hospitals as well as nutrition clinics and published both nationally and internationally in various science and health journals. She was a guest lecturer teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students at MCC and IGNOU (Between 2013 to 2017). She has been teaching undergraduate students at JNC since 2013 to present . She has always helped her clients to lead a healthy lifestyle by changing the way they eat. "Nutritionists have a role to play that goes beyond mere meal-planning," says Kalpana, who believes she can motivate others to stay on the path towards a healthier life. Life member of Indian Dietetic Association (since 2004) and Nutrition Society of India (Since 2010).
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The dream of speeding India towards globalization and economic liberalization has encountered quite a number of hiccups over the past year, though two failed government policies in particular stand out: the sealing drive in Delhi, and the Special Economic Zone plan in rural Bengal.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi had elections over the past few days, and the Congress Party lost heavily, while the BJP gained the majority of seats, primarily because of "sealing," which is the process of closing down illegal commercial enterprises in residential areas. The government's mismanagement of the sealing drive, which has led to repeated interventions by the Indian courts, including the Supreme Court, can be compared in some ways to what happened recently in Nandigram. There, a group of villagers gathered to protest the conversion of their farmland into a "Special Economic Zone" (SEZ) found themselves under fire by police. Fourteen people died in the violence, and in the ensuing uproar the Communist government of Bengal has been forced to suspend (temporarily?) its plan to develop a massive chemical factory and the four-lane highway that would lead to it.
There are of course ironies in both instances. It's remarkable, for instance, that the Communist government of Bengal is so pro-globalization that it was ready to force several thousand people in Nandigram to relocate to make way for an Indonesian corporation (the Salim group). But it seems to me that what is happening here isn't so much about conventional ideology (left vs. right) as it is about pro-development policies, that might make sense in principle, being terribly mismanaged.
Both issues are incredibly complicated, and alongside your opinions and arguments, I'd like to humbly request that readers suggest links that shed light on the different sides of each issue.
The Wikipedia entry for the 2006 Delhi Sealing Drive is pretty helpful, as it gives a detailed timeline of events (supported in many cases by external links to news articles). Another helpful starting point is this Rediff article from last November. There is also a blog of sorts on Delhi Sealing; the recent entries refer to the "Delhi Master Plan 2021," which was unveiled by the Congress government last fall as a way to offset the political damage created by the misguided sealing drive that unfolded over the course of 2006. The new Master Plan compromises on several issues; for instance, it aims to create more "mixed use" areas, thereby reducing the need for sealing under the previous plan. In all of this, the Supreme Court has been a major thorn in the side of the Congress government; it has required the government to implement a deeply unpopular policy, and in some sense pushed the Congress Party in Delhi into its current situation. (The Supreme Court has also bucked the will of the legislative branch on the question of reservations for OBCs, though that is another whole can of worms.)
On Nandigram and the SEZs, Wikipedia is again a good place to start. I would also recommend this Tehelka article from March 3, which also discusses a controversial SEZ plan in Singur involving a proposed Tata Auto plant. There's also an interesting Op-Ed in the Indian Express, from a writer who is clearly pro-SEZ and pro-globalization, but who recognizes the failures in the plan as it was enacted. And finally, try this leftist critique of the rather non-leftish policies of the CPI(M) in Bengal at Znet. (You may or may not agree with Akhila Rman's assessment of what happened at Nandigram, but her footnotes/links are very helpful.)
The biggest problem with the SEZ program from a civil rights perspective is the way the government can acquire rural land from peasants who may not have any papers to support their claim to ownership. (In this sense, they are similar to the traders who run unlicensed shops in Delhi -- and the claims of both groups are, in my view, legitimate.) A new policy is being put in place that will require that SEZ land in the future be purchased, rather than simply possessed, but it's unclear whether that is now going to be tried at Nandigram.


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I very much enjoyed Mark Blaudschun's refreshing take on the Big East mess. Any conference who is seriously considering adding Army and Navy to the fold -- particularly Army, a team that couldn't really hack it in Conference USA -- is in some serious trouble. Nice to see a change of tune from the media who for a long time pushed the "BC will return to the conference" meme. Clearly, that ship has long since sailed.
And while I don't really believe the media has a good read on the situation or has the slightest idea what will be the end result of this game of conference musical chairs, this quote from Blauds article definitely caught my attention:
"There may be more trouble coming for the Big East if the Big Ten decides to move forward again in a few years; already there are rumblings that it might go to 14 teams, with an eye on Georgia Tech and Maryland, which would significantly increase its television footprint.
If that happens, the ACC will be forced to react (UConn? Syracuse? Rutgers?) with what surely would be a fatal blow to Big East football."
Let's take this in two parts. First, let's tackle the notion that the Big Ten would again play the role of BCS conference raider, this time going after Maryland and Georgia Tech from the ACC.
This doesn't seem that far-fetched when you think about. Both programs were at least rumored to be in the expansion conversation the last time the Big Ten weighed its expansion options (and went with adding Nebraska to the fold). Both are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU), with Georgia Tech joining just last year, and both programs represent rather large television markets, coveted by the Big Ten Network. The Big Ten also didn't exactly make it a secret that they were looking at making in-roads in the southern part of the country when they courted Texas.
Finally, and unlike the ACC, SEC and Pac-12 who have little incentive to expand beyond their current 12-team configuration, the incentives are still very much there for the Big Ten to expand beyond 12 programs. Adding large television markets -- making the B1G Ten even b1gger (see what I did there?) -- increases the value of the BTN. On the other hand, the ACC, SEC and Pac-12 aren't exactly incentivized to add more mouths to feed with their fixed media rights contract with ESPN.
Second, the notion that the ACC would automatically react by adding two more teams to get back to twelve.
(As an aside, you might want to change the order of those questions, Blauds. That parenthetical should probably read "Syracuse? Pittsburgh? ... Rutgers? ... UConn? ... ... ... Villanova?")
On the second point, I'm not so sure that would be the ACC's automatic reaction if Maryland and Georgia Tech were convinced that the money was too good to pass up years of historical rivals in the ACC. True, losing both Maryland and Georgia Tech to the B1G would drop the conference's membership to just ten programs. This would eliminate the possibility of an ACC Championship Game, make the Atlantic/Coastal divisional split obsolete and further isolate BC from its closest conference neighbor.
But, with all due respect to my colleagues at Maryland and Georgia Tech, this doesn't seem to be the same sort of death blow to the conference that say, the SEC annexing Florida State, Miami, Clemson and Georgia Tech represents. Remember, I did say "with all due respect," so that makes this OK.
I actually think it's entirely possible that the ACC pulls a Big 12 and would stand pat at 10 programs. We'd lose the ACC Championship Game in football, but this would allow the conference to move to a balanced nine-game, round-robin scheduling format in football, and also to an 18-game, home-and-home format in basketball. I seriously doubt you'd hear programs like Florida State or Virginia Tech complain about removing an additional hurdle to getting to the big-money BCS bowls and possibly the BCS National Championship Game.
This would add more inventory for the TV media rights contract and could offset the lost revenue from the ACC Championship Game. A ninth conference game in football would also decrease the costs associated with scheduling a fourth guarantee game every year.
Finally, this would put Miami back on BC's annual football schedule -- something I've been waxing poetic about ever since ESPN put BC-Miami back on Thanksgiving Friday -- as well as programs like like-minded schools like North Carolina and Virginia. However, this scheduling format would also add Duke to the annual football sched. No proposal is without a few flaws.
A football schedule that included Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech, Clemson, North Carolina and Virginia every season seems like a much better deal than the current 5+2+1 scheduling arrangement, and just might help with football ticket sales. Plus in basketball, this would guarantee North Carolina and Duke coming to campus every year, which also seems like a win and a boon to the box office.
I don't know. Seems like addition by subtraction if this were to happen. My only question would be does Maryland become a Leader or a Legend?


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VESTAVIA HILLS, Alabama - A Hoover man is in fair condition after he was injured Monday afternoon when he collided with a motorist in a Vestavia Hills neighborhood.
Police and firefighters were called to the intersection of South Cove Lane and South Cove Drive just after 2:30 p.m., authorities said. Fire officials initially said he was "gravely" injured but UAB Hospital says Brian Toone is now in fair condition.
He was taken to UAB Hospital by the Vestavia Hills Fire Department. Officials said he struck the vehicle.
No other information was available. Police spokesman Lt. Brian Gilham said the accident is still under investigation.
Toone, a computer science professor at Samford University, is an avid and well-known cyclist who rides his bike to work daily. According to a 2012 article on Adventure Journal, Toone once logged 468,661 vertical feet over 3,084 miles in just 47 days. Read that entire article here.


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In 1980 Mattel released their answer to the Atari 2600: the Intellivision. The Intellivision was technically superior in many respects. It had better graphics than the Atari (although less colors), and later on Mattel added a voice synthesis module. But it didn't have many of the arcade licenses that Atari had, nor was it as cheap, and, as always, it came second (the first out always seems to have the advantage - unless the second system is made by Nintendo...).
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2017 Dog Bite Fatality: Pit Bull-Mix Kills Female Owner in Upper Macungie Township
Lisa Green, 32-years old, was killed by her pit bull-mix in Upper Macungie Township. Neighbor Recounts Attack UPDATE 04/28/17: On Thursday, police responded to a call of a woman being attacked by a dog at a home in the 900 block of Spring White Drive in Upper Macungie Township. Before police arrived, several neighbors had intervened to help 32-year old Lisa Green, including an off-duty police officer that ended the attack by shooting the dog in its leg. Neighbor Loretta Ottin… [Read full blog post]


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Sportsman of the Week Ending 8/20/2017
Editors note: this is Stanton's second Sportsman of the Week, his first reads eerily similar for almost exactly three years ago to the day and similar stats!
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WinterIt's cold. It's cold and Dark. It's Cold and Dark and...And you've been staring at the same blue moon, dark sky, and bright stars for the past ten minutes as the snow dampens and seeps int your clothes. And it's cold. Cold... so cold, but it doesn't matter does it?"Does it?" A voice asks. You turn and look and see... snow at first. It touches your red nose and your red ears and then it doesn't. It pulls away and you see pale, dexterous fingers that lead to a thin graceful hand, up turned and holding out a clear orb of ice. "You're cold, aren't you?" The voice says again, feminine sounding. The hand puts the orb in your hand and pulls back again and you watch as the snow swirls and shifts and creates a body. Slim and tall, with pale skin and....Beautiful. Blue eyes, pink lips, pointed ears. Fae. "Aren't you?"
"Cold? Not really." You respond. "Really? Why?" She asks, tipping her head. "I cannot touch what I cannot feel and I cannot feel what I cannot touch. So therefor, I am not cold. Not really." You inform the fae. It was true. You were hollow. There was nothing for you now, that's why you were out here. Sitting. Thinking. Wandering the night in the snow..."You don't seem afraid or surprised- to see me that is." The fae says, looking down at you with curiosity. "Do you not know who I am?""Does it matter? Whether or not I am cold? Or who you are? Should I be scared of magic? Or should I just accept that it exists?" You say, as if it was the mantra that your mother and father told you at night- instead of what they actually told you, which was: "You almost killed your mother, devil-child, and when we all die, we shall watch with smiles on our faces as you fall into the clutches of hell and suckle on the tit of Lilith." "You should accept it, but you should also be afraid of it. Of me, as well." She says, gracefully lowering herself onto her shins. "Why? What's the point?" You ask, looking down at the ice. "Why can't you feel the cold?" She questions, folding her hands in her lap. You ponder..."I told you before: I cannot touch what I cannot feel and I cannot feel what I cannot touch. Which is why I am not cold, even though, any human would be catching their death in this weather." You reply, rolling the ball from hand to hand. "And why can you not feel?" "Because demons do not feel. Do not eat. Do not drink. Do not live." "And who told you this?""The people who created me.""So humans.""Essentially." The fae looks at you and smiles."Well, there you go." She says."What?" You respond. "Are you a human?" She asks. "Or are you a demon? If you are a human acting like a demon, then you are a seemingly "unfeeling" being filled with two things: loathing and longing. If you are a demon acting as a human, then you are a broken being filled with a multitude of emotion: love, hate, envy, loathing, longing, worry." She looks at the moon above and continues. "Either way you can feel.""But what if I am neither?" You ask, persistent. "Every being in this universe has a soul. Every Soul can feel." She says. "And some souls are just purer than others." She looks back down at you and you see yourself in her inky pupils. Wide eyes filled with sadness and anger, skin so pale that you flinch at the eerie blue-ness of it. "Do you know why I have shown myself to you?" She asks, drawing her legs up to her chest. You stay silent. "It's because your soul was in pain and crying out in anguish, but it is also because yours was the purist soul I've seen in a millennium. It does not deserve to cry." She presses a hand to your sternum. "Nothing so beautiful, deserves to cry." And for the first time, you feel something roll down your cheeks and drip-drop onto your hands and you reach up to feel your eyes and realize that you'e crying. All because of six simple words with a three word meaning. "Earlier you asked if I knew who you were," You hiccup, drying your tears as you look at her. "Yes and you asked what was the point?" She replies. "Do... you know who I am?""No." "If I tell you who I am, then you might not think of me the same way. In fact, you might actually be afraid of what I might do." She says. "'Every being in this universe has a soul.' That's what you said. So, I shall not be afraid of a Faerie, just like you aren't afraid of a demon." You reply, smiling. "Well then." She says, quirking an eyebrow. "My name has been written down many times by many people who have only caught glimpses of me. My true name is the chill that runs down your back in the middle of the night and my title is that of the wind.""So, who are you?""Why, I am Mab: Queen of the Winter Court..." She says with flair. And like you said, you weren't afraid of her. In fact, you felt- Honored. "And now, you must sleep.""Why?" You ask."Because you must dream a better dream, for tomorrow you won't be where you are now, but where you wish to be."
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