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Sport and Competition
The Tribal Roots of Team Spirit
Sports satisfy a basic human need
Posted October 13, 2011
They're BIRGing big time in Detroit. The Lions are hot, the Tigers are still alive in the playoffs. Not so much in Boston, still reeling from the historic collapse of the Red Sox, where people are CORFing all over the place. This may seem like rooting for the home team, but it's actually about something WAY deeper than sports, that bears on everything we do as social/tribal animals. We may like to think that "it's just a game", but rooting for our teams is tied to nothing less than our very drive to survive.
From Detroit to Dollar Bay to Duck Lake, happy sports fans in Michigan are Basking In Reflected Glory. The cry is "WE won." And from Maine to Cape Cod, suffering New Englanders are Cutting Off Reflected Failure. They moan about how the Red Sox lost with "THEY lost." Note the pronouns. Winners are celebrated in the first person "WE". They BIRG. Losers CORF, and distance themselves from failure with the third person "THEY". We associate with winners, and disassociate from losers.
The phenomenon was first formally noted by Robert Cialdini et. al. in a famous paper in 1976 "Basking in Reflected Glory: Three (Football) Field Studies." Cialdini and colleagues kept track of the apparel of students in psychology classes at seven major universities on the days after football games. On the days after the local team won, far more students were dressed in the tribal—oops, I mean, the team's colors—than after a loss. And when asked to verbally described the results of the game, far more students said "WE won" after a win, and "THEY lost' after a defeat.
What's up here? Clearly these people weren't consciously thinking about which pronoun to use. This behavior, and language, comes from someplace deeper, more instinctive, more ancient, more tribal...someplace that I would suggest is tied to nothing less than the deepest instinctive imperative of all, to survive. After all, we are social animals. We depend on the tribe for our safety and well-being. When the lion attacks, as a group we've got a shot. Alone, we're lion chow. When our tribe is doing well (economically, militarily, public health, whatever...), our chances go up. When it's doing poorly, our chances go down. So it feels good to belong to a winning tribe, and not so good—threatening, in fact—to belong to a group that's losing.
Think about all the ways we support the tribe. We subconsciously choose our views on many issues so they match the views in the groups we most strongly identify with, a theory called Cultural Cognition. We vote for our tribe (political party). We fight to the death for our tribe in everything from gang wars to wars between nations (tribes). In fact, if you look at a lot of the wars and mass violence in recent history they were about nothing BUT tribe; Protestants v. Catholics in Northern Ireland, Serbs v. Croats v. Muslims in the Balkans, Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda.
Sports are only less violent surrogates of precisely the same human need, to belong to a tribe that's doing well because as the tribe's chances go, so go yours. Think about the trappings of sports; the teams are your surrogate warriors, wearing tribal uniforms, the battle grounds (stadia) decorated with tribal flags (banners) and tribal emblems (often fierce animals or warrior figures), the fans painting their faces in tribal/team colors and wearing tribal/team clothing, chanting tribal chants (team songs), fighting long-standing tribal rivalries). The warriors (your team) fight to defend YOUR territory (HOME field,), and you root and cheer and do all sorts of superstitious stuff that you think will affect the outcome on a playing field you in fact have ZERO influence over, and your emotions and actual body chemistry go up, or down, depending on the outcomes. And if everything goes as hoped, the season ends with a championship capped by huge civic rallies in which everyone chants and screams "WE won!"
No. The athletes won. You watched. But it feels like YOU won, because you need to feel like your tribe is successful and dominant, because that literally makes you feel safer. (And if your team lost you go out and trash the city like fans in Vancouver after the Stanley Cup loss last year, or countless other fans in countless other 'defeated' cities. Or, worse, you violently attack fans of the other team...or the other tribe.)
As this is being written, the baseball "WE won" BIRGing may be shifting to Forth Worth, where one more win over the Tigers puts the Texas Rangers in the world series, and sports fans in Detroit may soon be doing their BIRGing about football, and CORFing about baseball. The stories about all this will run in the sports section, which will somehow separate these 'pretend' wars from the other things that separate us into groups, and create conflict...real, violent, destructive conflict. But BIRGing and CORFing is not much different from the polarized closed-minded antipathy people on the right and left feel toward each other, the virulent and often violent hatred people in the orthodox branches of various faiths feel toward people outside their sect, not much different from the antipathy Kikuyus in Kenya feel toward the Luo tribe or the violence between Pashtuns and other tribes in Afghanistan or the angry feelings people in so many nations have toward the people in other countries.
Red Sox and Yankees. Hatfields and McCoys. Palestinians and Israelis. They each have their own story line, but at their heart these conflicts, and BIRGing and CORFing, are all part of the same phenomenon. They represent the social human animal's need for tribal affiliation and cohesion, a belonging which is vital to nothing less motivating than survival itself.
(Go, Patriots! "Kill" the Cowboys.)


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We are the Products of Editing
Precedent, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 12-14, Spring 2008
University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-18
10 Pages Posted: 28 May 2008 Last revised: 9 Sep 2009
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Spray Tanning methods are gaining popularity these days. You can enhance your look with the golden glowing skin. It is a beautifying technique in which chemical solutions are applied on the skin to get easily absorbed & impart dark color appearance to the body. In the summer days, if you are looking for fabulous skin complexion, then you can try spraying tan without subjecting your body to UV radiation that sometimes may cause skin cancer. Women love to modify their personality with wonderful skin tone colors.
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Preparation Before tan (Wash, Exfoliate, and Moisturizer)-
It is very important to prepare your body for the treatment. For that, you must have to wash, moisturize and wax your body parts at least 24 hours before the treatment. The skin pores and greasy residues must be cleaned from the skin with an oil-free soap because it may block or prevent the tanning solution to impart effect in the epidermis skin layer. Waxing the body hair will facilitate the absorption of ingredients beneath the skin.
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Before your arrival at the salon, it is advisable not to apply any lotion, skin creams, makeup and perfume on the skin as it may cause some adverse effects with the organic ingredients. You should wear loose clothes so that the solution can effectively produce the desired results on the body.
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Usually, the experts will provide you guiding tips after treatment like you don't have to take a bath or swim that may cause improper results. You should protect your skin for at least 8 hours after the treatment. You should wear fitted clothes. Don't apply any type of lotion or foundation cream on the skin. It may diminish the skin glow. After 8 hours, you can take showers. It is advisable to moisturize the skin on a daily basis after the bath. Make sure that there should be no exfoliating present on the body as it may decrease the lifetime of skin tone.


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On February 7th, Reps. Doug Collins (R-GA) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) reintroduced The Phair Pricing Act, which would require all price concessions between a PBM or health plan and a pharmacy to be passed on to the patient at the point of sale so the patient would receive the lowest negotiated price.
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TORONTO – Executives from Ontario's energy agencies are at the top of the list of public sector employees being paid more than $100,000 last year.
Tom Mitchell, president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation, is the highest paid at $1.7 million, down slightly from 2011, followed by Hydro One CEO Laura Formusa at $1.04 million.
The so-called sunshine list of workers earning at least $100,000, which includes doctors, nurses, teachers, police and firefighters in addition to civil servants, increased 11 per cent last year to 88,412.
However, the government says the average salary on the list deceased by $2,000 to $125,566.
Premier Kathleen Wynne acknowledges some people want to raise the $100,000 income threshold first set almost 20 years ago, but says that's still a lot of money for most people.
Finance Minister Charles Sousa says the Liberals have no intention of raising the income limit for the sunshine list, which was first set in 1996.
Wynne says what's important is that the system is transparent so people know how much public sector workers are earning and what they're doing for that money.


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Foulks v. Gordy et al (INMATE 3)
Filing 18
ORDER that Foulk's 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2254 is DISMISSED as moot as further set out in the order. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to close this case. Signed by Chief Judge William Keith Watkins on 8/18/2017. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Appeals Checklist)(dmn, )
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Experts at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies are explaining their thoughts on why the George Zimmerman case in Sanford became such a high-profile case, and what or who was responsible.Read More »
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Alachua County Public Schools is part of the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program that provides all children 18 years old and younger with nutritional breakfasts and lunches.Read More »
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Mayoral election runoff Tuesday; gas prices down; Gov. Scott awards Tebow 'Great Floridian'; NC university shooting investigated; Maduro wins Venezuelan presidency.Read More »
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Role of labor unions in United States explored
In the festive nature of Labor Day, WUFT spoke with a UF professor on the importance of Labor Unions in today's society.Read More »
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The price of gas is going up in Gainesville and around the state of Florida. Triple A Spokewoman Jessica Brady talked with WUFT-FM's Fernanda Ponce about the reasons why. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/news/files/2012/07/triple-A-web.mp3|titles=triple A web]Read More »
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Concern over the Everglades
Over the past years, the runoff from agricultural areas have polluted and caused a quarter of the Everglades to be lost. Florida's 89.1 WUFT-FM's Fernanda Ponce reports on a plan that will expand the sizes of treatment facilities to restore the Everglades. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/news/files/2012/06/EvergladesRestorationWrap.mp3|titles=EvergladesRestorationWrap]Read More »


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Phew, what a day! Just finished my installtion of Jitsi meet on my linux server (DigitalOcean droplet).
You know when you go to Jitsi website and start exploring as a beginner, you find it really hard to navigate, not so much documentation, any beginner like me can get lost easily and becomes frustrated.
Well, I have my fare share of working knowledge on WebRTC and some SFU, I wanted to explore Jitsi meet too. So this post will not be the last, rather it will be the first one of a series. I'll keep writing about my journey and how to customize and tweak it eventually.
What stuffs do you need? (This is my list)
- A linux server - (Ubuntu-16.04 LTS)
- Jitsi meet repo (Don't worry apt will do that for us)
- nginx (Proxy)
- Let's encrypt (Everybody needs https)
- ufw (Uncomplicated firewall) (We will get it covered)
- A domain (I bought mine from Namecheap)
They have a experimental Docker image for jitsi right now, but I didn't test that out.
I'm using Digital Ocean droplet for my linux machine with following configuration,
2GBof memory
25GBof diskspace (You don't need that much actually)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTSwith pre-installed
ufwpackage (get it from apt)
Now the best part, let's get it rolling.
Spin up your server. I'll just start with a clean set, nothing preinstalled. Trust me having a freshly brewed server will save you from a lot of issues and shooting yourself in your foot. After spinning up the machine, it's time to register a domain. I got mine from Namecheap, you can get it from anywhere, just make sure you've all the controls over the domain and DNS settings. Attach your "domain" with your server, DigitalOcean has great features to do it easily. You just have to add domain from Add Domain section and couple of DNS entry to Domain/Nameservers section in Namecheap dashboard.
It's time for
ssh into the server, make sure you've the ssh access. Now at first we'll configure that firewall for our server. We'll use
ufw to configure the firewall.
ufw just a simple tools with which you can configure which port and which transport mechanism the server need to use to permit access from outside world. Now if you don't have it installed, please install it and come back to this article, I'll wait here.
Now that you're done with your
ufw configuration, we can move forward. At first check if
ufw is enabled with the following command,
> ufw status
WARN: / is group writable!
Status: active
If the status is not active, use the following command to activate it.
> ufw enable
Use the following port configurations with ufw to set up the firewall. You can use the following commands into the terminal.
> ufw allow in ssh
> ufw allow in 80/tcp
> ufw allow in 443/tcp
> ufw allow in 10000:20000/udp
Run the
ufw status command again to see the already configured port.
Now it's time to setup the proxy server nginx. Install it with the following command,
> sudo apt-get -y install nginx
It's jitsi-meet time! After you're done with nginx use the following commands to install jitsi,
> wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-key.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
> sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jitsi-stable.list"
> sudo apt-get -y update
> sudo apt-get -y install jitsi-meet
During the installation you'll be asked some things, that you'll have to handle correctly, otherwise you've to start full cycle again (to ensure proper installation without thinking too much). Trust me I've my fare share to go through the rabit hole.
At the time of installation you'll be asked to enter your
hostname attached with the server. Carefully enter your domain name, only the domain name without any type of
www or
http|https prefix. For example, I would enter my domain as
anwarshahriar.me with nothing else prefixed with suffixed with the domain.
After you enter you're domain, you'll be asked, if you want to Generate a new self signed certificate or do you want to Use your own certificate. Choose Generate a new self signed certificate, we'll get back to it later.
Now the installtion will continue and eventually be completed. After the installation is complete, run the install-letsencrypt-cert.sh to configure
https with
Let's encrypt.
> /usr/share/jitsi-meet/scripts/install-letsencrypt-cert.sh
This script will ask your email address for proper reasons 🤪
That's it! Now, if you head over to your website root, you'll see something like this,
If this is something you see, Welcome 🎉 🎉 🎉 you've done it. Start a video chat with someone you love 😍
In case you've screwed up 🔩 👆
If you think you've screwed up everything just run the following command twice, because sometimes
jicofo and
jitsi-videobridge component doesn't get removed completely on the first run.
> apt-get purge jigasi jitsi-meet jitsi-meet-web-config jitsi-meet-prosody jitsi-meet-web jicofo jitsi-videobridge
and the following command to remove
> sudo apt-get purge nginx-full nginx-common
Now it's time to start over 🤕
This post is a walkthrough form of This video, with necessary modification needed for my requirement.
If you like this post. Share it/ Tweek it. Live long and prosper 🖖


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LA PAZ, Bolivia — The death toll from an operation by Bolivian security forces to clear the blockade of a fuel plant by anti-government protesters has risen to six, officials said Wednesday.
The public defender's office announced the casualty figures, a day after the violence in the city of El Alto, near La Paz.
People gathering at a Catholic church to mourn the dead said they were fired on by security forces.
Police and soldiers escorted gasoline tankers from the fuel plant following food and gasoline shortages in some Bolivian cities.
Demonstrators were attempting to blow up the fuel plant with explosives, which could have caused a "massive tragedy," interim Defense Minister Fernando López said.
Bolivia has been in a state of turbulence since a disputed Oct. 20 vote that, according to an international audit, was marred by irregularities. Former President Evo Morales resigned Nov. 10 after protests against him and pressure from the security forces, but his supporters oppose the interim government that took his place.
Jeanine Áñez, the self-proclaimed president, said Wednesday that she planned to call for new elections following the deaths of at least 30 people in political violence since last month.
"We want the violence to stop," Áñez said.
Also Wednesday, Morales said from asylum in Mexico that he wanted to return to Bolivia, and would help in dialogue and efforts to restore peace if he were allowed to do so.
Morales said at a news conference that he was Bolivia's "president-elect," a reference to his claim to have won the Oct. 20 vote despite allegations of fraud.
He also said he would welcome new elections and criticized the Organization of American States, whose investigators concluded there were flaws in last month's election.
Áñez has said Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, could face prosecution for fraud if he returns to the country.
Arturo Murillo, a senior figure in the interim government, said Morales is guilty of sedition for allegedly encouraging followers to set up blockades in defiance of the authorities.
Associated Press writer Mark Stevenson contributed from Mexico City.
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If you'd like to live inside a home designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but aren't sure you want to plunk down $249K, a local professor about to go on sabbatical has a unique opportunity to offer: for $2400 a month, you can rent her Mies-designed Lafayette Park townhouse. The 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath unit is available with or without the pictured furniture, and has 1500 hundred square feet of living space. There's in-house laundry, one secure parking space, a deck and a small perennial garden. The coop unit is a twenty-minute walk from Eastern Market and just ten minutes to Antietam, which comes in handy if you'd like to enjoy one of their yummy aperol spritzes or three.
The unit is available for twelve months starting on on September 1, 2015. Though the townhouse is renting for 2,400 a month, which the owner describes as "the going rate for a 1 BR downtown," she also says she'd negotiate the price for "the right tenants." While the rate is actually towards the upper end of what you'd pay for a corporate rental downtown (offhand, we only know of three more expensive units, including one inside the Westin Book Cadillac), it does cover all utilities, the Internet and a land line, and the coop pays for snow removal and maintenance of the grounds.
Money alone isn't enough, though—the listing insists on "serious inquiries only," and states that prospective tenants will endure a very in-depth screening process that includes a full application, employment verification. a look at your bank deposits, a credit check, and an interview with the coop board. No word on whether they'd also like genetic material or a kidney, but between having coop members scrutinize your bank records and the $125 application fee, it seems just a little bit intense. Approval can also take as long as 45 days, so best have records on hand and be prepared to wait.
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Remembering Lockerbie 20 years on
The sheer brutality of the disaster and its telescoping scale, from the huge numbers of dead to the visceral horror of the manner of individual deaths, has meant that the destruction of Pan Am 103 over the Scottish border town is immune to the usual comforting equation – time plus distance equals a memory minus pain. Brought to mind on anniversaries such as this, the details still have the power to clutch at the hearts even of those not personally affected. For those who were in Lockerbie at the time, or very soon after, it remains a faultline on either side of which the rest of their lives are grouped.
At a little after 7pm on December 21, 1988, while the unwitting town 31,000 feet below watched This is Your Life or Terry Wogan, a bomb detonated in the cargo bay of a Boeing 747 travelling from London to New York, punching a 20-inch hole in the fuselage just below the 'P' in Pan Am. Within seconds, the aircraft broke apart. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, as well as 11 residents of Sherwood Crescent in Lockerbie, where the wings and the part of the fuselage that was full of kerosene exploded, destroying several houses and blasting a crater 47 metres long. But many more lives were changed irreversibly. It's as if the shock waves continued to fan out from the initial explosion and carried on across decades and oceans, causing settled existences to pitch and yaw.
Yet Lockerbie, visited on a frosty December day, seems at first glance a town untouched by tragedy. The High Street and the controversial newish Tesco, which some regard as emblematic of the end of small-town life, are both busy with pre-Christmas shoppers. All this bustle is watched over by the bronze war memorial – a verdigris angel holding a sword and a laurel wreath. At one time, this was the only public remembrance of the dead in Lockerbie, but now there are several, and of course every resident living at the time carries a memorial within their own mind.
Maxwell Kerr lived on Rosebank Crescent, one of the worst affected streets, in 1988. He is 72, has stayed in Lockerbie his whole life, and loves it here. We look around the area while he points out crash sites and memorials; he also talks about his own memories of that night, which veer from the creepily banal (the in-flight cutlery and food trays scattered across the road) to details, such as a baby found dead in a tree, so profoundly horrible that they recall Goya's Disasters of War.
It's strange to drive with Kerr through the beautiful countryside to the nearby village of Tundergarth while he recalls both bucolic childhood days spent swimming outside and the "pitter-patter" of bodies and debris falling all around in the night. Still, he has far more good memories of Lockerbie than bad, and seems to have borne with admirable humanity even the loss of his good friend Tom Flannigan, who was vapourised in the Sherwood Crescent explosion.
The only glimpse of anger from Kerr is directed at those in the town who would have the 20th anniversary pass with as little ceremony as possible. "I don't think we should ever forget this," he says. "The anniversary committee say they want it to be low key, but they have to remember that others have opinions and will always remember what happened here – 270 deaths. That's a lot of people.
"When the anniversary comes, they are having a ceremony in Dryfesdale Cemetery and a service up at Tundergarth. But it annoys me that there's nothing being done at Sherwood, Rosebank and Park Place." He plans to have unofficial wreath-laying ceremonies at those locations.
Inevitably, Lockerbie has moved on in 20 years. No pupils now studying at the local secondary school were even born in 1988, and the disaster is something that is taught briefly in second year, as it cannot be taken for granted that this "taboo subject" – as headmaster Graham Herbert calls it – will be raised within families. There is also some resentment in Lockerbie that the town, like Dunblane, remains a byword for a massacre.
Yet the individual human stories that make up the larger narrative of the disaster retain an undiminished emotional force, and it's impossible not to feel this when visiting the official memorial sites. Tundergarth Church, four miles east of Lockerbie, is near the field in which the cockpit fell. In the churchyard there is a small stone building that serves as a remembrance room. It contains a book full of the names and ages of those who died, and in a clear plastic wallet are some fading family photographs and other personal effects from the crash that remain, as yet, unclaimed: a toothpick with an American flag stuck to it; a little silver medal engraved with an angel. There is also a visitors' book in which, a fortnight ago, a couple whose daughter was on the plane wrote, "You fell here into the arms of the people of Lockerbie. Our hearts are heavy with the loss and we think of you always. Mom and dad."
As a postscript they have written, "God made the Scots that bit better," a remark that speaks of the lasting friendship between the people of Lockerbie and the American families who, immediately after the crash, travelled here to see where their loved ones died. They were met with great sympathy by the townsfolk, and have returned many times over the years.
In the visitors' centre of Dryfesdale Cemetery, steward Jimmy Gordon says he never knows who is going to walk through the door. Some days you get 100 people, sometimes none. Police and forensic scientists who worked on the inquiry have been in to pay their respects. The family of Captain James MacQuarrie, the pilot of Pan Am 103, held a service here on what would have been his birthday. Earlier this year, the ten-year-old son of Steven Flannigan – known as the orphan of Lockerbie, after his parents and sister were killed in Sherwood Crescent, and who himself died in 2000 at the age of just 26 – came here to try to find out a bit about his family.
Gordon has grown used to consoling the many people who come here and get upset. "I've got broad shoulders and two arms," says the 69-year-old. "The best thing in life is a cuddle and a listening ear."
That's a typical Lockerbie comment – kindness and empathy stated simply. It's a bit of warmth to carry out into the Garden of Remembrance, which, with the afternoon wearing on and the moon rising, feels a cold and lonely spot in which to look at the names of the dead carved in granite. "You never really get over something like the disaster," a local woman said earlier. "But you do get through it." That sentiment rings true in the peace of this spot, the silence disturbed only by a rumbling passenger jet, high overhead, slicing a vapour trail into the heavens.
The Priest
FATHER Patrick Keegans had not been the priest in Lockerbie for long by December 21, 1988, but he'd had time to become close to
his neighbours. He had moved there from Whithorn at the start of the year, but in April checked into a centre for the treatment of his alcoholism and did not return to his parish until the August.
There were people in Lockerbie who were not glad to see him back, who felt that they deserved better, but he also received a great deal of support, notably from Maurice and Dora Henry, his friends down the road at 13 Sherwood Crescent.
He was getting ready to go to visit them at around 7pm on that fateful evening, when the plane destroyed their home. There was nothing left of them to bury. They and nine others were killed in the street that night. The priest's home, at 1 Sherwood Crescent, was the only house that was not either destroyed by the impact or gutted by fire. "I know I sound pretty calm," says Keegans, sitting in the lounge of his home in Ayr, where he preaches at the Cathedral of St Margaret. "But sometimes I just crack up when I talk about this, so don't be surprised if I do."
He is a small, dark-haired man of 62, with a great deal of self-possession and a deep, reassuring voice. A key figure in the town's recovery from the disaster, both through the defiant note he struck in his public sermons and in the care he gave to survivors and grieving relatives, Keegans became known internationally as 'the Lockerbie priest' – a title he considers a great honour.
Much of that night was spent going round the various hotels to which people had been evacuated, trying to see if he could recognise any members of those families whose houses had sustained a direct hit. He did not. Asked how he felt about having survived such devastation, he says, "I didn't feel guilty about being alive. But I felt especially sad about the children who had been killed, and I'd have quite gladly taken their place."
He moved back into his home on Hogmanay, the only person living in a disaster zone. "I was making a statement," he says. "I was saying, 'We'll come through and survive this. We're not lying down to it.'"
People made a big deal of the fact that it was the priest's house still standing, as if God had somehow spared him. He didn't feel that, although he was glad he was alive to help others. Surprisingly, he wasn't at all tempted to drink, and in fact believes his alcoholism was helpful as he had first-hand experience that it was possible to survive a period of suicidal despair. "I could tell people, 'Your darkness can and will lift,'" he says. "I'm grateful I was able to help people and, in a sense, to make amends for my past. I can never balance out the bad things I've done in this life, but at least I've done something worth while."
He thinks also that the fact he was from Sherwood and had stared into that abyss meant he was of more comfort to people. "What relatives of victims saw in my face was someone totally saddened," he says. "They could see I was suffering, and we would take it from there.
"The way that we worked through things was: they would tell their story of how they had got the news, and then I would tell what had happened to me. It was a two-way healing process and it helped me immensely."
Keegans left Lockerbie in 1993. He remains close to several of the American families whom he met in the town, and he has visited the US to conduct weddings and baptisms, and will speak at the memorial cairn in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, during the 20th anniversary ceremony.
He is happy now, but aware of the enormity and lasting impact of what he lived through. "There's no such thing as closure," he says. "I hate that word. Lockerbie is with us until we leave this earth."
The Legal Campaigner
Robert Black QC strolls into the caf with a bagful of books and a neckful of scarf. It is a freezing Edinburgh morning and, doubtless, he would prefer to be in South Africa, where he spends half the year and has a whole other, simpler life as a hotelier. "That's what I want," he says. "Not Lockerbie. I want to move on. But I will not move on while Megrahi is in jail."
The 61-year-old was born and raised in Lockerbie, coming from a long line of mole-catchers. He himself is a lawyer, and left the town when he was 17 to study in Edinburgh. He spent Christmas 1988 in Lockerbie with his parents, but his professional involvement in the case began five years later, when a group of British businessmen approached him to see if he could negotiate a deal between Libya and the UK and US governments over the extradition of the two men accused of bombing Pan Am 103.
The stand-off had led to sanctions that prevented the businessmen from tendering for engineering contracts in Libya. Black, who was professor of Scots law at Edinburgh University, thought the mission sounded interesting (he says he wasn't paid) and agreed to give it a bash.
This involved several trips to Libya and meetings with Colonel Gaddafi in a reinforced concrete tent on the outskirts of Tripoli. Black drafted a scheme in which Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah would give themselves up on the understanding that they would be tried before a bench of judges, no jury, sitting outside the UK.
The trial took place in 2000 and early 2001 at Camp Zeist, in the Netherlands. Fhimah was released, but Megrahi was found guilty of mass-murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Black was astonished at the guilty verdict. "The court's judgement is the shoddiest piece of legal reasoning that I have ever in my life encountered." He believes there has been a miscarriage of justice and that Megrahi will be successful in his appeal next year. "I was very angry," he says, "because I had led the Libyans to believe that they would get a fair trial under Scottish procedure."
Having met with Megrahi in Greenock prison last year, Black is convinced of his innocence "He's either honest or a very, very good actor," he says. And now he finds himself in the curious position of campaigning for the release of a man whom, to a degree, he caused to be imprisoned.
He also believes that if Megrahi does win his appeal then a new investigation into the Lockerbie bombing will have to be opened; the crime cannot be allowed to go unsolved. He, however, will not involve himself in that. Instead, retirement in the southern hemisphere beckons. "This has already been part of my life for 20 years," he says. "If there is another investigation it will go on and on and on… and I will hide out in the Karoo."
The Mother
IF SUSE LOWENSTEIN ever wants to remember exactly what she did and how she felt when she answered the phone and was told that her son Alexander had died in the bombing of Pan Am 103, all she need do is look out her back window.
In the garden of her Long Island home is Dark Elegy, a monumental sculpture of 76 female figures, each representing a relative of a Lockerbie victim at the precise moment they learned of their loved one's death.
In Lowenstein's depiction of herself, she is doubled over with pain; inside the sculpture she has placed a letter to Alexander, who was 21 at the time of his death, telling him how much she loves him. "As an artist, I deal with things that happen in my life," says Lowenstein, who is 64. "So within a year, I started portraying what it felt like to be the mother of a murdered child."
Comforted by this work, she placed an advert in the Pan Am 103 families newsletter, and in the 20 years since has met and rendered in stone dozens of grieving women. "It kept me sane," she says. "It forced me to hug the loss. My natural instinct is to push it away because it's too painful. But in working with the figures, I have had to deal with it, and I'm glad because it made the tragedy mine. It's inside me, and I live with it."
Alexander was majoring in English at Syracuse University, but had spent a year studying in London. He, along with 34 fellow students, was flying back to America for Christmas when he was killed. The Lowenstein family – Suse, Alexander's father Peter and his younger brother Lucas – were keen scuba-divers and had planned to spend the holiday in Hawaii.
Curiously, at the end of November 1988, Suse felt "an overpowering need" to see her son, which seemed fanciful as he would soon be back. But she followed her instinct and spent a week with him in London and then took him to Hamburg, her home town, to meet his German relations. "It was a wonderful family reunion," she recalls, "and we parted at the airport in Hamburg. He went back to London. I went back to New York. And two weeks later he was dead."
The Lowensteins didn't travel to Lockerbie straight after the crash. They buried their son first. "But we've now been several times and made good friends with June and Jim Wilson, on whose farm Alexander was found. Jimmy found Alexander, and therefore could tell us exactly where he fell. The indentation that his body had made in the meadow was still there. So that is where we decided to build a cairn."
They have been back most years, rebuilding the cairn where cows have rubbed against it. There's a certain horror, Suse admits, in being on the spot where Alexander met a violent end. But it is also beautiful and peaceful there. "We were very grateful that it happened in Scotland," she says. "I am not sure that the victims would have received the same kindness from anyone else but the Scots. There were so many indications that Alexander's body had been handled with tenderness and care. And when we received his clothes back, they had been cleaned and lovingly wrapped in tissue paper. That meant a great deal."
Suse's ambition now is to find a public site for Dark Elegy so it can become a national monument dedicated to the dead of Pan Am 103 and all victims of terrorism. Once agreement is reached on this, she will cast the figures in bronze. She will fund the project using the 10 million (6.7m) in compensation paid to the family by the Libyan government. "There is something shameful about receiving money for the murder of your child," she says, "but if I refused, then I would be giving Mr Gaddafi a present, and that's not acceptable."
In 1999 and early 2000, she and her husband attended the trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, and she remains satisfied with Megrahi's conviction on a charge of mass-murder.
Megrahi, who is serving a life sentence in Greenock prison and has been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, has been given leave to appeal against his sentence next year. Lowenstein says that if he was released she really would be devastated. "But then, how much more can we lose? We already lost it all anyway. And I'm very grateful and happy to hear that he's ill."
She is concerned that, as Megrahi nears death, he will be released on compassionate grounds. "Our loved ones did not have the luxury to die in the comfort of their families," she says. "So why, of all people, should he?"
The Detective
JOHN CRAWFORD has no time for conspiracy theorists. He is impatient with those who claim that the fragment of the bomb timing mechanism discovered embedded in a scrap of cloth at the Pan Am 103 crash site was fabricated. And he dismisses as "nonsense" the claims that Tony Gauci, the Maltese who identified Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi as the man who purchased from his shop the clothes that were packed into a suitcase with the bomb, is an unreliable witness. "It pisses me off when people say Megrahi is innocent," he says. "That makes a mockery of all the work we did to make sure he ended up in court. If we hadn't done it, nobody else would have. The Americans would have had him shot somewhere. But we made him face justice."
A retired police officer, 63-year-old Crawford now works as a private investigator in the north-east of Scotland. But for several years he was part of the Lockerbie inquiry.
A detective with the Lothian and Borders force, he was woken at 3am on December 22, 1988, and told to report for duty pronto. He and his colleagues found Lockerbie "a sea of flashing blue lights" and set to work recovering bodies. "They were scattered about like a battlefield. It was a case of gritting your teeth and getting on with it. The target was getting all the bodies recovered by Christmas Day, and that happened."
He remembers every body he lifted. Although the recovery operation was on an industrial scale, he never forgot that these were human beings and deserved to be treated with as much dignity as possible. Later, he learned the names of the people he found, and a bit about their lives.
The hardest thing was picking up toys. When he closes his eyes he can still see the name of Rachael Stevenson, which along with the names of all the other victims was written on the wall of the inquiry room; she was eight, the same age as his daughter, and had been travelling with her parents and big sister.
Crawford was honoured when he was asked to join the investigation proper. His work would take him to Sweden, Jordan, Libya and especially to Malta, where he spent 18 months investigating the clothes known to have been in the suitcase with the bomb. He was sitting beside Gauci when he identified Megrahi from a line-up of a dozen photographs. He was elated then, and ecstatic when Megrahi was found guilty.
The inquiry left its mark on Crawford. He developed post-traumatic stress disorder; mostly, he thinks, from fretting that any of the many flights he took to the UK from Malta might be blown up by terrorists targeting the police. No regrets, though? "No. I'll go to my grave knowing that I and the rest of the guys did the very best we could."
The Schoolboy
JOHN WALLACE turns up for lunch carrying a stapled sheaf of paper recently discovered in his loft. On the front page, there's a word-search of band names, including Simple Minds and ZZ Top. This is the school magazine from his first year in Lockerbie Academy – 1987. It was edited and partly written by his classmate Paul Somerville.
A year later, aged 13, Somerville would be dead, killed when part of Pan Am 103 landed on his home at 15 Sherwood Crescent. "I have been thinking about Paul quite a lot," says Wallace, who is 34. "I look back at my own life and think about what I have done over the last 20 years, and he's still a wee blond-haired, freckle-faced boy, and he'll never be anything else."
We are talking in Somerton House. This was one of the hotels in Lockerbie to which people were evacuated on the night of the crash, but today the mood is jovial; there are Christmas songs and diners wearing paper crowns. At the time of the bombing, Wallace was 14 and at home in the village of Eaglesfield. This was eight miles from Lockerbie, but he felt the impact . "There was a grinding and deep rumbling, as if our house had been shoved along the ground six inches."
Wallace recently made two documentaries for Border TV about the aftermath of the disaster – the first on the town's response to the huge media presence, and the second on the way victims are remembered in Lockerbie.
In 1991, he was among the first of the Lockerbie Academy pupils to spend a year at Syracuse University, in the US, courtesy of a scholarship programme set up as a living memorial to the dead – 35 Syracuse students were killed while flying back to New York from their London campus. "Quite a lot of the senior students had known some of the kids who died personally, and they really looked after us," he says.
Back in January 1989, the school term started a little late – the FBI had taken over one of the buildings, and new classrooms had to be found for some classes. What was it like going back to school with Somerville not there? "I can't remember talking about it much. It was more the kind of thing where you see someone looking at an empty chair, but what can you say about it? You don't have the vocabulary to deal with that kind of thing. People were upset, it's fair to say."
Even more unsettling was the absence of Steven Flannigan, a teenager who had survived the crash, but whose father, mother and sister had all been killed. Flannigan never went back to Lockerbie Academy. "There were no counsellors in the school," Wallace recalls. "We didn't have to traipse along and talk it over with someone. There was a feeling that the best thing was to create an oasis of normality in the school, and I think that was the right approach."
The Journalist
"YOU will recognise me," David Ben-Aryeah says on the phone from his home, "because I am six-foot-six, built like an obese gorilla, and I'll be wearing a CNN baseball cap and a grin."
Ben-Aryeah is as good as his word when he shows up the next day in the lobby of Edinburgh's Grosvenor hotel. He is carrying just two from his collection of more than 100 binders crammed with documents pertaining to the Lockerbie disaster. He has gathered 14 filing cabinets full of material over the past 20 years, and keeps it all in "a very secure place". He is 63 and in poor health, and in the event of his death he intends that these sensitive papers should be made public.
Born in Edinburgh, Ben-Aryeah had served with the Israeli military and worked as a travel agent, but by the time of the plane crash was working as a stringer for a London paper. However, via a contact in New York, he ended up broadcasting live from Lockerbie to 11 million listeners on American radio. He filed regular bulletins for several days, broke the news that the crash had been caused by a bomb, and won a major award for his work.
The downing of Pan Am 103 was not just another story for Ben-Aryeah. The tragedy prompted a personal crusade. "I made a promise at half past ten on the 21st of December 1988," he says. "I stood over the body of a young lady who had fallen out of the sky. She was lying on the grass, curled up, without a mark on her, as if she'd fallen asleep. I saw a lot of bodies that night, and I promised that if I could do anything to find out who had killed them, I'd do it."
Ben-Aryeah spent weeks at a time in Lockerbie in the year following the crash, gaining the trust of the locals, and then a further seven years travelling around Europe and the Middle East – at considerable expense (he has been made bankrupt twice) – investigating the case. He went from observer to participant, becoming a friend, adviser and spokesman for some of the UK families whose loved ones had died.
He remains close to Reverend John Mosey and his wife Lisa; Ben-Aryeah now knows more about their late daughter Helga than his own sister. The reverend is responsible for Ben-Aryeah's conversion to Christianity.
Ben-Aryeah denies that Lockerbie is an obsession, but holds in his head a level of detail, and in his heart an emotional weight, that must be exhausting.
His conversation is peopled by characters including "a fat, bald Palestinian terrorist with an artificial leg" and "a bagpipe-playing, whisky-drinking Swedish diplomat", and he clearly relishes the cloak-and-dagger stuff. But he treats Lockerbie with an earnestness that distinguishes him from your common or garden conspiracy theorist.
He also credits the disaster with making him a less self-centred person. "I made friends in the flames of Lockerbie," he says, tears on his cheeks, "that humble me even now."
Lockerbie timeline
December 21, 1988
At 7.03pm, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 named Maid of the Seas, explodes at 31,000 feet. All 16 crew and 243 passengers are killed. Large parts of the plane fall on the Dumfriesshire town of Lockerbie, causing 11 deaths. The explosion was later discovered to have been caused by a bomb inside a suitcase detonating in the cargo hold.
January 4, 1989
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attends a memorial service at Dryfesdale Parish Church, Lockerbie. Prince Charles (above, right) visits the town later that month.
November 13, 1991
Following Britain's largest criminal inquiry, led by Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, the UK's smallest police force, indictments for murder are issued against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi (left), a Libyan intelligence officer, and Al Almin Khalifa Fhimah, the Libyan Arab Airlines station manager at Luqa airport, in Malta.
April 5, 1999
As a result of lengthy negotiations between Libya, the UK and the US, the two accused men are handed over to Scottish police at Camp Zeist, in the Netherlands (right).
May 3, 2000
The trial begins at Camp Zeist before a panel of three Scottish judges and no jury.
January 31, 2001
The verdicts are returned. Fhimah is found not guilty. Megrahi is found guilty of mass-murder and is given a life sentence, meaning at least 27 years. He is currently serving his time at Greenock prison.
march 14, 2002
Megrahi's appeal against his sentence is refused.
June 28, 2007
The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission concludes that a miscarriage of justice could have occurred, and so grants Megrahi leave to appeal against his conviction for a second time. It is expected to be heard in Scotland in 2009.
October 21, 2008
Megrahi's lawyer, Tony Kelly, announces that his client, now aged 56, is suffering from advanced-stage prostate cancer. In November, an application for bail is rejected by judges.
December 12, 2008
Following an impassionated plea by Megrahi's wife Aisha that her husband should be set free to die with his family, Jim Swire (right) – whose daughter Flora died on Pan Am 103 – launches a campaign to have the prisoner released on compassionate grounds, pending his appeal.
December 21, 2008
To mark the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am 103, remembrance services take place in Lockerbie, at Heathrow airport and at the memorial cairn in Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC.


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BRUSSELS (AP) — Consumer prices across the 19-country eurozone fell in September for the first time in half a year as energy prices tanked, official figures showed Wednesday in a development that's likely to ratchet up pressure on the European Central Bank to give the region another dose of stimulus.
The 0.1 percent annual decline reported by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, was widely anticipated following the recent drop in global oil prices. The statistics agency said energy prices in the eurozone were a whopping 8.9 percent lower in September than the year before, more than the 7.2 percent drag registered in August.
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Separately, Eurostat said unemployment across the region fell by a modest 1,000 in August to 17.60 million, which left the jobless rate unchanged at 11 percent.
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Mary Robinson's first and penultimate novels, Vancenza (1792) and The False Friend (1799), both center on orphaned daughters, who appear doomed to replicate the fate of their fallen mothers. For Vancenza's Elvira and The False Friend's Gertrude, this replication involves incestuous desires; Elvira falls in love with her brother while Gertrude obsessively desires her own father, driving them both to madness and premature death. Furthermore, even the women who exist on the periphery of Elvira's and Gertrude's stories find that the romance plot is a delusive promise. A consideration of how The False Friend extends Vancenza's bleak vision of the dangers of sexual desire sheds light on Robinson's increasing disillusionment with the idea of romantic love and the institution of marriage and her attempts to devise a new script for female identity. In The False Friend, Robinson posits the independent woman as an alternative model of femininity, allowing a divorcee, Miss Stanley, to take the position of a scribe of women's narratives. One hundred years before the New Woman novelists, Robinson rejects the marriage plot altogether and instead suggests a solitary life of the mind as a more fulfilling option for women.


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Global leaders on Friday wrap up a United Nations development summit with little to show but a lackluster agreement, as critics scorned governments for showing no urgency to tackle climate change as well as food and water scarcity. Nearly 100 heads of state and government gathered over the past three days in efforts to establish so-called "sustainable development goals," a U.N. drive built around economic growth, the environment, and social inclusion. The agreement, seen by Reuters, was little changed from a draft text on Tuesday apart from grammatical tweaks.


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A standing room only crowd turned out for a special City Board meeting to discuss a petition presented to Mayor Steve Montgomery last week which asked that the city call an election on whether to retain the City Manager/City Board form of government or switch to the elected Mayor/city council form of government. Mayor Montgomery said he felt they should call a special election for the matter because the city would have to have all the signatures certified by Tuesday March 13th in order to get the issue on the ballot for the May Primary. Mayor Montgomery suggested the election be scheduled for the third Tuesday in June providing enough signatures check out. The petitions garnered 104 signatures but only 55 valid ones are needed. The Mayor indicated he thinks it would take up to the a week to validate the signatures. The Mayor, Board Members Mark Ross, Kiffenea Talley, and Vice-Mayor Don Still all talked about the importance of the election. No action was taken and the board apparently will set the election at their next regular board meeting. The special election will cost an estimated $7,500 to $8'500 and several citizens have volunteered to pay for the cost according to the Mayor. The meeting then adjourned.


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You will get complete information about RSMSSB Livestock Assistant Recruitment 2023 in our article. We will tell you how you can apply for this recruitment online sitting at home. Along with this, information about the notification will also be made available to you. So read our article carefully till the end. Also, add our website to bookmark to get all the latest updates first.
RSMSSB Livestock Assistant Recruitment 2023
A total of 1136 vacancies have been released for this post by the Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Service Selection Board. On the basis of which you will be recruited for this post. You can apply for this post in online mode only. The online application will start on 19th March 2023. The last date to apply has been fixed as 17th April 2023. After which your application form will not be accepted. You can apply only by visiting the official website.
The written test for the post of Livestock Assistant may be held on 04 June 2023. This recruitment has been organized at the state level. For which only residents of Rajasthan can apply. Also, the job location of the candidates who will be recruited for this post will also be Rajasthan only. To get more information about this, if you want, you can also check by visiting the official website. The link of which has been provided in our article.
RSMSSB Livestock Assistant vacancy 2023
|Authority name
|Rajasthan Subordinate and Ministerial Service Selection Board [RSMSSB]
|Post name
|Livestock Assistant [LSA]
|Total vacancy
|Job location
|Application mode
|Application started on
|19 March 2023
|Last date to apply
|17 April 2023
|Exam date
|04 June 2023 [Tentative]
Eligibility for RSMSSB Livestock Assistant Recruitment 2023
To be admitted to this post, you have to first fill out and submit your application form. But for that, you should know what are the criteria to apply. According to which you can apply. Therefore, the eligibility criteria that have been fixed for this post are as follows-
Age is fixed for all the candidates. You must be at least 18 years of age to apply and the maximum age should be 40 years. If your age is less than or above then you cannot apply. Also, you can also check the official notification for complete information about age relaxation.
Educational Qualification
The educational qualification has also been fixed for all the candidates to apply. If your 12th is passed by any recognized board then only you can be admitted to this post. If your educational qualification is not as per this post then your application form will not be accepted.
Application Fees
You will also have to submit the application fee to apply. This fee will be fixed separately for all categories. Which you can submit in online mode through Net Banking, Credit Card, and Debit Card. The last date to submit the application fee has been fixed as 17th April 2023. Your application is set up as follows-
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Selection Process
For the post of Livestock Assistant, you have to clear the selection process. This selection process is decided by the authority. Accordingly, you will be recruited. First of all, you have to pass the written test. Those students who will pass the written test will then be called for the interview. Only after that, you will be recruited for this post.
After getting recruited on this post, complete information about whatever salary will be given to you will be made available in our article. This salary will be the same for all the candidates. Your salary is fixed at Rs.26,300 – Rs.85,500/-. As of now, no clear information has been provided about grade pay.
How to apply online for RSMSSB Livestock Assistant Recruitment 2023?
- To apply you have to visit the official website.
- Then click on the apply option on the home page.
- On clicking, the application form will open in front of you.
- In which you have to fill in all your details exactly right.
- After filling in the details click on submit.
- Save and download the application form.
If you want to ask anything about RSMSSB Livestock Assistant Recruitment 2023, then you can ask us by messaging in the comment section. We will definitely give you your reply soon.


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Eden Park Trust Rooftop Experience
One of New Zealand's most iconic venues, Eden Park, has the first roof-top experience in the country. The team from Aotea Electric Auckland installed LED lighting for the walkway and fully customisable lighting that can change colours.Read More
Meridian National EV Charging
One of the most significant ways to combat climate change is by converting our transportation to electric options. Aotea has been working with Meridian Energy to install public electric vehicle charging stations.Read More
Highlands Motorsport Park
The pinnacle of New Zealand motorsport facilities has emerged out of a bare paddock, at a breath-taking rate of knots known as the Highlands Motorsport Park. Aotea Electric Cromwell completed the electrical, communications and data, security and fire systems for this entire site and successfully completed it within a year.Read More
Queenstown Airport
Driven by the increasing tourist numbers flocking to Queenstown, there was an urgent requirement for the Queenstown Airport Corporation to add 4,000m² of terminal space that almost doubled the size of the airport's international operations. Aotea Electric Queenstown were there to help.Read More
Briscoes & Rebel Sport
One of the most significant ways to combat increasing electricity charges and lowering ongoing maintenance costs is by converting from traditional lighting to LED. The Briscoes Group have been quick to recognise this across their property portfolio and have undertaken these retro fit upgrades across a number of their sites nationally with Aotea and NuGreen Solutions.Read More
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
One of the most significant ways to combat climate change is by converting our transport to electric. Meridian has been helping other businesses recognise not only the environment but also the cost-saving benefits that electric transport can bring. They are focusing heavily on rolling out public infrastructure to make using and charging electric vehicles easier.Read More
Five Mile Centre, Frankton
Building 8 is the third stage of the Five Mile Centre in Frankton. Aotea Electric Queenstown were also responsible for stages 1 and 2 which incorporated such tenants as The Warehouse, Briscoes, Rebel Sport and a Countdown supermarket.Read More
Bayly Farms
Bayly Farms is a group of 6 large dairy farms located in the rural north of Whangarei managed by Trevor and Tracey Currin on behalf of the land owners. ESN work with Trevor, Tracey and the individual farm managers on-site to design practical solutions for projects that are implemented, and tested, usually alongside existing facilities and in challenging locations.Read More
Westfleet Seafoods
Aotea Electric Westland have been an associated electrical contractor for Westfleet Seafoods since they began in 2006. When they decided to expand and build a new, modern 3500 metre square Factory Facility onsite at the Port of Greymouth, Aotea were there to make it happen.Read More
University of Waikato
Aotea Bay of Plenty delivered the full suite of services to The University of Waikato including, electrical, security, communications and audio visual requirements. The new campus is located in the heart of Tauranga city and has consolidated the University's current tertiary offerings and presence within the Bay of Plenty region.Read More
House of the Year 2019 / Gold Award
This award-winning contemporary smart home in Tauranga home has it all, from complete KNX automation systems operating the solar panel system, central heating, lighting, blinds, pool heating, and surround sound audio. Not a single detail was overlooked.Read More
Profruit Juice Processing
Based in sunny Hawkes Bay, the fruit-bowl of New Zealand, Profruit produces high quality juice concentrates for domestic and international clients. Buzz Electrics have provided support across a number of different projects on site since 2013.Read More
Epiphany Café
Epiphany Café opened two more franchises in Rotorua and Te Awamutu. Aotea Electric Rotorua looked after all of the electrical, data and communications, air conditioning and ventilation of both shop fit-outs.Read More
Distinction Dunedin Hotel
Aotea Electric Southern were engaged to complete the electrical, communications, data and fire alarms services for the conversion of the Old Chief Post Office building into a brand new 4.5 star Distinction Hotel in the Dunedin CBD.Read More
Enztec Plant Relocation & Fitout
Enztec needed to expand into a new premises and Christchurch Electrical were able to offer the total package of services including electrical, data communications, security and fire alarm systems right through to commissioning and sign off.Read More
Justice & Emergency Services Precinct
The Aotea team were contracted in to work on the Justice & Emergency Services Precinct in Christchurch which included the carpark, seismic bracing, services tunnel work and the installation of the UPS for the main building.Read More
Tait Communications
The Aotea Christchurch communications team were involved in the ICT Data installation for the new R&D and office development for Tait Communications. The project included the setup of a converged data network solution.Read More
Villa Maria Wines
Villa Maria Wines engaged Buzz Electrics to be their preferred contractor for the new winery build in Hawkes Bay. Chosen over other contractors for the project due to their proven capabilities and expert industrial installation, automation and communications team, the targets have been achieved.Read More
SDHB Intensive Care Unit
Aotea Electric Southern provided all electrical services along with new nurse call and audio visual systems for the new Dunedin Hospital ICU unit in line with the latest modern medical care practices.Read More
ASB Theatre
Aotea Electric Auckland completed all of the electrical and house lighting control for the ASB Theatre project in Auckland, bringing a new source of entertainment and enjoyment to Aucklanders and visitors to the city.Read More
Air New Zealand
Aotea Electric Canterbury were engaged to install the electrical for Air New Zealand's brand new, first of their kind, eco friendly and sustainable timber hangar and classrooms in Christchurch.Read More
The Aotea group of companies supports the telecommunications sector through our diverse offerings across the Electrical, Security and Communications for clients such as Spark, Vodafone, 2Degrees, Chorus, Enable, Alpine Energy, Mainpower, Revera, Computer Concepts and Datacom.Read More
Aotea Security
A nationwide approach with a local touch. Aotea Security are a true nationwide provider, with a security centric team spread across 16 locations. We deliver the full suite of electronic security services without the use of sub-contractors, 24/7 365 days a year.


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What does a custom tour mean?
A custom tour is a service that refers to a high-class form of travel, in which the trip is specifically tailored to the client. This term comes from the use of the phrase "made to order" in the context of a personalized service. Every aspect of a personalized travel experience is carefully planned to give the traveler the most personalized experience possible.
Typical travelers often take tours to popular global destinations such as London or Paris, often using travel booking sites. Travelers who have already visited popular destinations or are looking for a more localized, cultural trip can contact a tour operator who can suggest the most interesting options for consideration. This type of travel is usually organized by a professional travel agent who may specialize in a specific part of the world in order to provide the most interesting, detailed trip. This style of travel can be costly and is often occupied by the wealthy segment of the population.
Customized travel itineraries often include events that are different from typical famous sites or group tours. Exploration and cultural immersion are two key elements of a personalized journey. The client often wants to be surrounded by a culture with completely different customs than those that are shrouded in the client's homeland. This allows you to make exotic trips that many travelers do not experience. The trip may include a personal guide, but this is rather rare.
Custom travel involves an extensive planning process with a professional travel agent. The needs and desires of the traveler are assessed, as well as their cultural interests and location. The agent then submits their offers for a unique trip and arranges details such as flights and hotels. This type of travel often includes rooms outside the regular hotel chain, such as a small boutique hotel or a private cabin. Many of the destinations that are planned through charter flights are not available at all, so travelers can use a chartered private jet to get to their destination.
This type of travel often includes a high level of personalized service, such as a private airport escort or tour guide. The popularity of bespoke travel has increased in recent years as more experienced, well-traveled people seek new and different experiences. Global exotic destinations are the most sought after type of travel, as these trips provide the most vibrant cultural experience and can be difficult to plan without the assistance of a travel agent. Some travel agencies now focus solely on bespoke travel, offering luxury experiences outside of the realm of typical destinations.


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New Fish O Licious is Now Open in Signal Hill California - FISH-O-LICIOUS | October 22, 2015
Signal Hill California a Fish O Licious restaurant, patterned after the famous Fish O Licious located in Commerce, California is now open. The new Fish O Licious is located at 2594 Cherry Ave., Signal Hill California in the SIGNAL HILL TOWN CENTER EAST at the corner of Cherry and Willow, near Costco and Home Depot.
Fish O Licious is famous for offering the quality of fine dining fare while creating affordable and healthy seafood entrées for lunch and dinner. We invite you to come in today and enjoy the unmistakable flavor of this finely prepared cuisine.
About our food- our food will always be FRESH, DELICIOUS and AFFORDABLE. Come in today and try us out. You will be back for more!
We are certain the residence of Signal Hill and Long Beach will be delighted with the new Fish O Licous. We look forward to meeting lots of new people and hope to serve the community well.
Dana Johnson and his wife Lisa are the proud owners of the new Fish O Licious in Signal Hill California.


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Warm Ras El Hanout Spice Blend
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- £4.50
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- Sale price
- £4.50
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Our Warm Ras El Hanout Moroccan spice blend is a classic spice blend from my mother's home town Tangiers. It's our Signature Ras El Hanout's little sister which is a sweet, peppery blend that consists of Ginger, Cinnamon, Black pepper, Turmeric and Nutmeg. This is what makes dishes in Tangier's special from Harira (Moroccan chickpeas soup) to a simple roast chicken.
- Flavour: Warm, Peppery, Sweet
- Hand blended using traditional Moroccan family recipe
- 40 grams
- No added sugar
- Gluten, dairy and vegan friendly
The spice is perfect for:
- Warming vegetable tagine
- Honey chicken wings
- The famous Moroccan chickpea soup (Harira)
- Roast chicken
- A twist on the popular banana bread
Try adding an instant hit of Morocco to your food today!
Ingredients: Turmeric, White Pepper, Ginger, Cinnamon, Nutmeg
Allergen advice. For allergens, see ingredients in bold.
Manufactured in a facility that handles celery, mustard and also ingredients that may contain traces of nuts, peanuts, gluten, egg, milk, fish, sesame, soy and sulphites.


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6131 Records is excited to announce the July 26th release of Dig, the new album from Richmond, VA by way of Wisconsin musician Luray, aka Shannon Carey. Dig was produced by her brother S. Carey and recorded with engineer Brian Joseph, whose own credits include Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and Local Natives Sunlit Youth among others. Today, Luray shares the new singles "Professional Photos" and "Dig". Both songs touch upon the album's genesis, born of the intense emotions that come with the end of a marriage. "I think there's a bit of truth in a photo and a bit of a lie," Carey shares of "Professional Photos". "I wrote this song about the image of happiness versus the real thing, and how it's sometimes myself I'm trying to convince."
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Evocative music can be some of the best. And Carey, who performs under the moniker Luray, has a particular knack for doing just that. Her songs feel welcoming, yet elusive, like a long-forgotten photograph you find at the bottom of a box, a memory that gets hazier with each passing year.
"My songs tell me what's going on with me, like my unconscious trying to get my attention," explains Carey, who had plenty to unravel in her life leading up to the recording of her sophomore full length, 'Dig.' "My marriage broke up while I was writing this album and the songs started to speak to me about my relationship and what I was hoping for and holding onto. What I wasn't letting myself acknowledge. I moved to Richmond and set to finishing the songs for the record. I wrote more songs about how it felt to lose, and how it felt to be starting over."
Although Carey has called Richmond, Virginia home for a number of years, her music has an inescapable imprint of her Wisconsin upbringing. And it's back in Eau Claire, Wisconsin that she set about recording the album, enlisting her brother Sean Carey to produce. "The band drove out to Wisconsin and met up with Sean and engineer Brian Joseph, who had just completed building his own studio, which he called The Hive. It's in the woods and feels very 'Northern Wisconsin' -feels like a little haven from the world." The Hive became the perfect locale to capture such a personal collection of songs. "It's hard to explain how intimate the recording process was, but it felt very insular and almost delicate. After the end of that relationship that had been so central, I felt a little fragile and obviously in transition. Sometimes you can hear something tentative in my vocals. I had been getting my new life together for the past year, but it still felt strange."
The eleven songs that came to form Dig provide a stolen glance at a snapshot of Shannon Carey's life, yet invite listeners into the story to explore for themselves. It also marks the closing of one chapter and the beginning of the next.


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Assessment and Credentialing Lead
- Employer
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £55,000 per annum
- Closing date
- 14 Aug 2022
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- Full-time
- Pharmacy sector
- Primary care
- Job Type
- Pharmacist
- Sector
- Pharmacy
Job Details
We are seeking an experienced pharmacist with educational expertise to join our education and membership directorate as the Assessment and Credentialing Lead. You must be passionate about developing and advancing the pharmacist profession and workforce to meet the changing needs of patients and the healthcare system.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) post-registration curricula and assessments have been developed to transform the way post-registration pharmacist practice is defined and assured.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Education & Professional development, you will have the unique opportunity to work collaboratively with senior pharmacy and wider healthcare stakeholders across the UK, leading on the successful implementation, delivery, and continued evaluation of our curricula and assessments. You will be responsible for ensuring RPS curricula and assessments remain fit for purpose and aligned to UK pharmacy workforce policy as well as future patient and service needs.
Role requirements:
- Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Postgraduate qualification in education and/or assessment or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable experience in leading on significant pharmacy workforce and/or education initiatives, preferable on a regional and/or national scale
- Good understanding of best practices in curriculum and/or assessment design, preferably in the post-graduate or post-registration pharmacy landscape.
- Good working knowledge of (post-registration) pharmacy practice and education across the devolved nations of the UK.
- Good understanding of wider UK health and education policy and how these impact the pharmacy profession.
What we offer
- Excellent work-life balance (35-hour work week & flexitime),
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), with the option to purchase additional annual leave,
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life insurance
- MediCash and Private Medical Insurance
- Ride2work and Interest-free season ticket loans
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Learning budget and personal development time
- We host regular social events, and you can get involved in our diversity and inclusion groups, and charity fundraising initiatives.
- A commitment to your wellbeing, with access to a mental health first aider and other initiatives
At RPS, we encourage professional growth, and if we can help you achieve your ambitions we will.
Closing date: 19th August 2022
If you would like to learn more about the role, please view the job description on our careers page.
Please attach your CV and Cover Letter
We are passionate about creating a culture of belonging, inclusion, and diversity these are part of our core values at RPS and we are striving to have an organisation that represents the diversity of the profession. At RPS we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
What we do
* We are proud to be the professional body for pharmacists and pharmacy.
* We promote pharmacy to ensure pharmacists are recognised within the NHS and wider society, as the experts in medicine.
* We make sure the voice of the pharmacy profession is heard in the development of healthcare policy.
* We promote the advancement of science, practice and education in pharmacy.
* We provide our members with the support and development they need to fulfil their professional potential.
How we work
We put our members at the heart of everything we do, working collaboratively with stakeholders across the profession to enhance the reputation and develop the role of pharmacy and through this meet the needs of our members.
- Website
- http://www.rpharms.com/
- Mini-site
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Telephone
- 020 7735 914
- Location
1 Lambeth High Street
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Thanks to Sponsors and Donors
The Tennessee Watercolor Society is a nonprofit organization and could not fulfill its mission without the support of sponsors, patron donors and our own TnWS members.
In particular, the staging of our Biennial Exhibitions and their associated cash awards rely heavily on the generosity of businesses, individuals and organizations located where exhibitions are held. Recent award purses have exceeded $14,000 in cash and merchandise. All sponsors receive recognition in a full-color catalog published for each Biennial Exhibition; and for both our Biennial and Online Exhibitions, donors and sponsors are credited on our official website when winners are announced.
Minimum stand-alone cash awards start at $250, however, smaller amounts are often combined to make up larger cash awards. Please consider donating today.
Our Longtime Contributors
While sponsors generally change from exhibition to exhibition, several have supported our work for many years or even decades with substantial donations. These include the following: