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The chrome accessories available in PIAGGIO´s own range stand out with the excellent quality of the chrome plating itself. A very high quality, perfect surface finishing and exact dimensioning, guarantee a perfect fit. A complicated brazing process eliminates the weld seam (see close-up photo).
The front luggage carrier is solidly fixed to the frame at two points, the horn cover requires drilling at two points (a drill stencil is included in delivery). The distance between the load area and the bottom of the headlight is about 27cm.
The rear luggage carrier is bolted to the chassis at four points. The existing chrome cover which covers the fastenings can´t be used anymore. The carrier is ideal to mount a original PIAGGIO Top Case.
The legshield crash bar and the bumper for the mudguard are solidly fixed to the scooter ensuring maximum protection during a crash.
Conclusion: High end production with an excellent fit.
SIP-TIP: Complete the look with other chrome accessories such as headlamp rim or horn cover wing.
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This is an original PIAGGIO spare part in first-class quality. PIAGGIO parts undergo a continous quality management process and are a symbol for long life products.
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Everything seems normal at the Chernobyl power station, but it isn't. A safety test is supposed to take place, but the power levels are too low. Should the test go forward - or - not?
An argument, amongst the operators, ensues. Then ... a wrong decision. Disaster is in the offing as reactor number four overheats. When the reactor's roof blows off, the crew knows they are facing a serious emergency.
Five seconds later the core erupts, scattering debris - including a block of graphite used as a moderator and housing the control rod channel - up to three kilometers away. Released radiation is ten times greater than that of an atomic bomb.
Combining historical footage, witness interviews and recreated scenes, this video clip - from the BBC documentary Fallout From Chernobyl - explains how the disaster unfolded.
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From the BBC documentary, Fallout From Chernobyl. Online, via BBC Worldwide's channel at YouTube. Copyright, BBC. All rights reserved. Clip provided here as fair use for educational purposes and to acquaint new viewers with the production.

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Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Lawyers
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Most people who get hurt at work understand that they have a right to lost wages and medical expenses through the Pennsylvania workers' compensation system. In our experience, injured workers are less likely to understand their right to damages in personal injury litigation.
At Scaringi Law, our lawyers help people hurt in workplace accidents get the compensation they need under every available approach, not just the most obvious ones. Contact our Harrisburg workers' compensation attorneys in Newport, Carlisle and throughout Pennsylvania.
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The workers' compensation system represents a legislative compromise between the interests of workers and their employers. From the accident victim's perspective, the advantage is a relatively quick path to benefits without the need to prove negligence on anyone's part. The downside is the limited scope of losses you can expect to recover. Additionally, you can't sue your own employer or a fellow employee for damages related to a workplace accident — workers' comp will normally be your only option.
Nevertheless, there are many situations where an accident on the job will support both a workers' comp claim and a personal injury lawsuit against a third party for negligence. The most common example involves motor vehicle accidents where the injured driver was driving a delivery van, maintenance truck or even an 18-wheeler. Our Harrisburg workers' comp attorneys can investigate and pursue your negligence claims against the driver at fault while you're collecting workers' comp benefits.
Other workplace accidents supporting the right to personal injury damages might involve dangerous property conditions, dog bites, defective machinery or safety equipment, or falls at construction sites.
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Are you on the lookout for the best signage company? If yes then before you do that let's remember some checklist which will help your decision making. So you have a website where business related information is mentioned. But still, you did not have customers prefer choices of the brand. Therefore you can expect your business downfall.
It does not often happen that and before things can go beyond your hand does emphasis on the fact of brand awareness. The services that you offer should reach to your clients first. If you don't have a clear brand promotional campaign then sadly you will lose profit and business will be hampered.
Things can change rapidly if you hire a signage or business logo design company for brand promotional activities. Now a day it becomes compulsory to advertise and let customers know the services well.
Promotional activities start from having got the brand visibility. The more people or customers know your business promotion the better profit it will make. So for a start-up business firm, your existing website needs to revamp.
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note: these are students who attend a middle school located in an affluent/close-knit suburb of charlotte, north carolina.
and could not be happier that i didn't.
great prictures and i LOVE the mini poster !!ReplyDelete
thank you so much :) have a good day! thank you for stopping in today… xoDelete
these kids thoughts are amazing, so soul touching!ReplyDelete
thank you- they really are incredible and amazing souls! xoDelete
Oh my gosh I LOVEEEE This post and what an incredible activity!! I think it's so important to teach adolescents to write, writing is such an easy way to learn more about yourself! Some of the things they wrote took my breath away, I only wish I could have had a teacher as incredible as you in the eighth grade... I'm glad you didn't walk away from teaching, it is clearly your calling! If you don't mind I will probably share this post with my readers next Friday (just link to it) I share my five favorite posts every week on my blog. :)
Also I would love to have you link up on the Saturday Spotlight, I love the stuff you write :) xo
awe- thank you SO much!!! i would be beyond honored. your comment means so much to me - i would LOVE that. i am also very glad that i stayed- it's been life-changing and wonderful this year. thank you so very much again and i will def. check out the spotlight, too!! have a wonderful day and keep in touch! xoDelete
Wow, your students are so lucky to have you as a teacher - this was an amazing project to read about, thank you for sharing it with us. It's scary how hard life is for kids as young as eighth graders are. This reminded me of those 'Post Secret' books which I find utterly fascinating.ReplyDelete
Awe- thank you. I am so glad you enjoyed it and you are so right- it is like the Post Secret books- I love them as well. It's very scary. Such a powerful experience. Thank you so much for your kind comment and for stopping in… xoDelete
This is so beautiful & so inspiring. I'm currently in my Senior year of college, and started student teaching last week. It's so important to remember that each and every student needs to feel important and loved. It's easy to think that they're fine based on what we see on the outside. I want to be the person in their lives that cares enough about them to do activities just like this one.
I would love to be able to do something like this with my fourth graders!
Hi! Thank you so much and you def. should… best wishes with student teaching and I know you will be that person :)Delete
This is such a touching post! What a great project you did with your class. It was heartbreaking to read some of those posters. Your kids are lucky to have you!
I love this peak into your classroom! I can tell you're a great teacher!
Thank you, Jenna… it truly is so heartbreaking. I am the lucky one :) and thank you … loved your photos as well! Your comment is so sweet and means so much to me. xoDelete


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Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo Signs N7.44trn 2017 Budget into Law
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday signed the N7.44 trillion budget recently passed by the National Assembly after he was directed to do so by his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari.
After signing the budget ,Osinbajo pointed out that it was an important milestone in the country economic recovery and Growth plan laid in April by President Buhari.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, had earlier in a statement made available to newsmen announced that Osinbajo was given the nod to sign the Appropriation bill in the interest of the nation's economy.
Shehu stated "Following the receipt of a full brief on the 2017 Appropriation Bill as passed by the National Assembly, and to buttress the unity at the highest level of government, President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated that it is in the interest of the nation's economy for the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to sign the Appropriation Bill into law.
"In a letter dated June 10, 2017, which he personally signed and addressed to the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, the President also said he was "pleased by the joint resolution that the Executive would submit next year's budget proposals by October 2017 and the National Assembly will conclude the Appropriation process by December 2017, so that the country can return to a normal fiscal period from next year onwards."
The Acting President expressed appreciation to the Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, as well as the entire leadership and members of the National Assembly for completing work on the 2017 Appropriation Bill.
He pointed out that the process of preparing and processing this Bill was much smoother than the 2016 Appropriations Bill adding that on the executive side, there were no allegations of errors, or mistakes, and there was a significant improvement in the quality of the preparation, as well as the presentation.
Osinbajo also commended the Ministry of Budget and Planning for such a remarkable improvement over a single budget cycle.
On the side of the National Assembly, Osinbajo commended the collaborative spirit of the engagements the MDAs had with their various committees, and with the leadership, during the budget defence sessions saying there were far fewer reported cases of acrimony, or hostile wrangling this year, than in the past.
"From the reports we received, the sessions were generally conducted in a friendly atmosphere. There is no doubt that our democracy is maturing", he said.
He, however, said the final presentation and the signing of the budget has been considerably delayed as this was largely due to disagreements they had about the changes introduced to the 2017 Budget proposals by the National Assembly.
According to him, the executive took the view that the changes fundamentally affected some of its priority programmes and would make implementation extremely difficult and in some cases impossible.
He further noted that It is designed to bring the Nigerian economy out of recession unto a path of sustainable and inclusive growth and the budget has a revenue projection of N5.08 trillion and an aggregate expenditure of N7.44 trillion. The projected fiscal deficit of N2.36 trillion is to be financed largely by borrowing.
Osinbajo assured those who have expressed concern about the growing public debt that the government is taking several actions to grow government revenues as well as plug revenue leakages.
He said details of the budget, as approved by the National Assembly, will be made available by the Honourable Minister of Budget and National Planning.
He observed that the country 's economy is already signaling a gradual recovery as growth is headed towards positive territory.
Osinbajo expressed confidence that the 2017 Budget will deliver positive economic growth and prosperity – one that is self-sustaining and inclusive and In this regard, the 2017 budget will deliver positive economic growth and prosperity – one that is self-sustaining and inclusive and In this regard, the 2017 budget will be implemented in line with our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
He explained that "Over the 2017-2020 plan period, we are focusing on five (5) key execution priorities, namely: Stabilizing the macroeconomic environment; Agriculture and Food security; Energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products; Improved transportation infrastructure; and Industrialization through support for micro, small and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs).
"The 2017 budget includes provisions that reflect these priorities. To demonstrate our commitment to following through our Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, the 2017 budget allocates over N2 trillion to capital expenditure, principally infrastructure.
"For instance, we are committing over N200 billion to improve transport infrastructure such as roads and rail; over N500 billion for investments in works, power, and housing; and N46 billion for Special Economic Zone Projects to be set up in each geopolitical zone."
He said the signing of the budget will trigger activities in the domestic economy which will lead to job creation and more opportunities for employment, especially for our youth.
He reiterated that the implementation of the 2017 Budget will bring added impetus to the ongoing economic recovery as the government will intensify its economic diversification efforts in their bid to expand opportunities for wealth creation and employment, thereby creating inclusive and sustainable growth..


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A moment comes when you stop dreaming, start living and discover your destiny. For day dreamer Walter Mitty, that time is now. When his job, along with that of his coworker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action and embarks on an incredible journey. Ben Stiller directs and co-stars in this inspiring story about an ordinary man who leaps into the extraordinary adventure that is life.
Drama / Comedy / Action/Adventure
114 mins.
Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Shirley MacLaine
Audio: English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Language: Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.40:1
Disc 1: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray
**Deleted, Extended and Alternate Scenes
**Behind the Scenes
**Gallery: Reference Photography
**Music Video: "Stay Alive" by José González
**Theatrical Trailer
Disc 2: DVD **Digital HD
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Surround Dolby Digital 2.0, French Surround Dolby Digital 2.0 Language: Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
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Investment Companies: A Guide
Most of the investment companies will require someone with expertise to run it. Investment companies' core business is managing and holding securities. These types of companies invest money in trust of the clients and in return they will share the profits and losses.
Investment companies in many places come in the following category; unit investment trust, closed-end management, an open-end management. None of the fore mentioned categories trade in similar ways. There is another category of smaller companies which deals with stock market or trade in bonds also known as a private investment company.
One should take great care as to which location or even country one wishes to operate from. Some regulations may exist in some countries or regions which have a direct effect on such business, and they need to identified early enough. After careful considerations, one should be able to make clear decisions especially if one has experience. So as to be able to correctly envision the business, research will be conducted. Since time immemorial, SWOT analysis has been a much-favored mode of carrying out market research. Actually the research should indicate how long a business will have a break even.
Some companies will invest in their employees and empower them to deal with the clients directly. The directors are usually left with boardroom and company day-to-day decisions. Since giving research companies the work might not be as exhaustive an investment company might want, most of them opt to conduct their research. Proper research is the key to success of any investment company as one will be able to invest wisely within the confines of competence. Since market changes play a very crucial role in the success of the business; a proper market research will come in handy.
To create trust with the client, its best advised to deal with them directly and have personalized services. This usually boosts the client willingness to continue investing the company, and in case of any loss, the client will not dismiss the company promptly. Most investors will overlook the fact that a small asset of a client as not important, but when the client is shown that regardless of the asset, it is profitable, then client will hold the company in high regard. Timely decisions are of high importance. This purely means that one is alert to the happenings around and can be able to interpret them to know the effect on the business.
Every investment company needs to have trained eyes on it to scan future threats and create a buffer against them bringing losses or future opportunities which will bring in profits. As a client, it's an uphill task to identify such a company in the midst of a sea of companies and choose the one that adequately fits in with his requirements.
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Bitter Lemon CoolerMy first reaction when I tasted this was that it was surprisingly flowery. I'm assuming that came from the vermouth and the Bitter Lemon...but there's very little bitterness in this, nor sourness, which is surprising and a little dismaying, frankly. If I had it to do over again, I'd swap the gin to vermouth ratio, and add a little more lemon juice. This, as is, is just way too sweet to be an effective cooler on a hot day. That said, it's still drinkable, but it's more something I'd serve to a maiden aunt than drink myself.
1 1/2 oz dry vermouth
1 oz gin
1/4 oz grenadine
1/4 oz lemon juice
shake all with ice, strain into a tall, ice-filled glass, and top with bitter lemon soda, stirring gently to combine.
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Even though John and I have been in Grand Forks for over 5 years, we had not visited Kelly's Slough (approximately 10 miles west of town) until his dad and special lady friend came to visit in September. It was a lovely day, bordering on hot, when we headed out.
The slough is actually a series of water holes, and there were a couple of lookout towers and several walking paths for visitors. We walked down one path bordering the largest section of water. Apparently the water levels vary on the time of year and whether it's a wet or dry year, and the types of birds vary depending on the season. Spring and Fall migration times were the best for seeing quantity and variety of birds.
We brought Shaak Ti and Shadowfax and they had a great time smelling all of the smells.
We saw a variety of flora, none of which I know. Here are some interesting red berries. As you can tell we went all out for this blog post.
Yellow flowers.
Purple Flowers.
We also saw a variety of big birds. Possibly juvenile bald eagles or golden eagles, herons, ducks, sea gulls, etc. We were a bit unprepared with no binoculars or good camera, but we'll definitely be heading back to check things out again.


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The Poster Boy
Can Leopoldo López unite Venezuela's fractious opposition and exorcise the ghost of Hugo Chávez?
CARACAS — Before his arrest last week, Leopoldo López was part of the second tier of Venezuelan opposition leaders, less well known and far less influential than leading lights like Miranda State Governor Henrique Capriles Radonski — who lost last year's hotly contested presidential election to Nicolas Maduro — and Lara State Governor Henry Falcon.
But after attaching his political fortunes to his country's suddenly revived and student-led protest movement, López, 42, has charged to the forefront of the country's fractured opposition movement. And thanks to his dramatic arrest last week, López has become the poster boy for Venezuela's street protests and a hero for opposing President Nicolás Maduro.
López is now playing a high-stakes game of chicken with the government. Arrested last Tuesday and confined to a military prison outside Caracas, López is awaiting the results of a police investigation into his role in deadly clashes on Feb. 12 that left three people dead. His arrest and persecution have made him arguably the country's most prominent political prisoner. On Saturday, tens of thousands of protesters turned out at an opposition rally in Caracas to demand his release. Speaker after speaker demanded López's freedom, accompanied by thunderous applause.
Like Hugo Chávez, the recently departed strongman whose shadow still looms over Venezuelan politics, López has a good sense of theater, and his arrest last week was a perfect piece of political performance art. After eluding the police for nearly a week, the charismatic López walked into a square full of supporters, scaled a large statue of Cuban freedom fighter Jose Marti, and addressed the crowd with a megaphone. "If my imprisonment serves as a wakeup call for Venezuelans who want a change, then it's well worth it," López said. "I had the option of leaving, but I never will leave Venezuela. The other option was to hide clandestinely, but we have nothing to hide." As he spoke, one member of the National Guard held his P.A. system, while another sought to restrain him. "I am innocent, I have done nothing wrong," López said repeatedly. "I haven't committed any crime."
It was all broadcast live on television. When López was done, he walked to a line of National Guardsmen and turned himself in.
For the next six weeks, while he awaits the results of the investigation into the Feb. 12 clashes, López will be held in a stark prison cell at a military base outside Caracas, the capital. If he is convicted, those six weeks could stretch to 10 years. If found innocent and freed, he will likely be the opposition's presidential candidate in 2019. But for López, his incarceration is just the latest twist in a political career that has been defined by his opposition to first the late Chávez and now Maduro, his hand-picked successor.
The demonstrations to which López has hitched has political future have rocked Venezuela and presented Maduro with the sternest challenge to his authority since he was elected president in April 2013. Since the start of February, at least 13 people have died in violent clashes between students, police, and Maduro supporters. Hundreds have been arrested, scores wounded. The government announced last week that it would send army troops to the southwestern state of Tachira to help regain control of the state capital San Cristóbal — a stark admission that police and National Guard were unable to suppress the protests.
López has denied all wrongdoing, saying that the government is trying to use him as a scapegoat for its own shortcomings. Although Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, it has been slow to develop them. Production of oil, which accounts for about 95 percent of the country's hard currency, has actually declined by a quarter during the 15 years Chávez and Maduro have run the country. Food shortages are rampant and growing. Venezuelans now spend hours each day looking for staples such as milk, corn meal, cooking oil, rice, and poultry. Shortages have been accompanied by soaring prices. Last year, Venezuela's inflation rate was 56 percent, the highest in the world. Meanwhile, crime continues to increase, and Venezuela has the third-highest murder rate in the region. Corruption is rife.
In other countries of the world, López would be regarded as slightly left of center. López, who rejects the socialism of Chávez and Maduro, supports a more market-oriented approach to the economy, which would roll back many of the current administration's policies and largely eliminate any government control. He would likely privatize some, if not all, of the companies, nationalized under the banner of Chávez's Bolivarian revolution.
Moreover, López criticizes Cuba's influence in Venezuelan politics, which he says has resulted in a curtailment of political rights. He is a defender of strict freedom of the press and assembly and argues that the courts, the national electoral body, and the state attorney general's offices have all become appendages of Maduro's political party. With their autonomy eroded, López accuses Maduro and his cronies of attempting to set up a one-party state.
"López represents the future of our country," says Roberto López, a 24-year-old university student in Caracas. "He has a vision for a better Venezuela. And he isn't afraid to take to the streets to fight for it."
Unsurprisingly, Maduro disagrees. In a nationally televised speech on Wednesday night, he called López a fascist and a right-wing hate monger."Leopoldo López isn't going to be the person to save the country," Maduro said. The president added that the government had learned of a plot by some of López's associates to assassinate Maduro in the hope of provoking a civil war.
Maduro has refused to accept any responsibility for the chronic problems that plague Venezuelan society and, taking a page out of the Chávez handbook, has consistently blamed others for his country's woes. These purported villains include the Venezuelan fascist right-wing, the entrenched bourgeoisie, and foreign powers such as the United States and Colombia. He has repeatedly said that his enemies are scheming to kill him. (He has presented little proof to back up those allegations.)
That paranoia may be an expression of weakness as much as anything else. "Maduro doesn't seem to be in full control of the government and its various parts," says Caracas-based historian Margarita López Maya. "He says one thing, and [National Assembly President Diosdado] Cabello says another. Maduro ordered the secret police to their barracks but then they disobeyed him. It's difficult to say what is going on." Cabello is a member of Maduro's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela but is also seen as the president's chief rival for power.
And Cabello isn't Maduro's only threat. On Monday, Tachira State Governor Jose Vielma Mora called on Maduro to release López and rein in the police and security forces, saying they had used excessive force. Vielma Mora is the first member of Maduro's party to break ranks with the president.
López has been quick to capitalize not only on these divisions in the government but also cracks among the opposition. Hours before the Feb. 12 protests, Capriles, who narrowly lost the April presidential election to Maduro amid widespread allegations of fraud and vote rigging, questioned the students' wisdom by going to the streets. "Given the current situation in Venezuela and the chaos in which we live, what we are striving for can't be more chaos."Capriles said in an interview with Union Radio.
While Capriles preached caution when the protests began, López enthusiastically joined the students as their demonstrations gained momentum. He took a prominent role in the Feb. 12 protests, which coincided with the country's Youth Day celebrations. López has now succeeded in dragging the mainstream opposition — largely against their will — into the streets.
Whereas Capriles has bet on building up grassroots support with an eye to the 2015 congressional elections, López has been brasher. He united with Maria Corina Machado, a member of the National Assembly, to form campaign called "The Exit," the main goal of which is to force Maduro from office by hammering him on issues like inflation and crime.
Many analysts believe that López's ultimate goal may be to sideswipe Capriles and assume his role as the country's foremost opposition leader. "López wants to step over Capriles and this has put him in the spotlight," says Tarek Yorde, a Caracas-based political consultant. But by fomenting unrest and giving Maduro an excuse to crack down on the protest movement, López may also be playing into the president's hands, Yorde says.
López has a reputation as an ambitious maverick, one who prefers to lead than to follow. Disliked by many in the Venezuelan opposition, López has a record of jumping from party to party as it suits his interest. A co-founder of the Primero Justicia party in 2000, López subsequently jumped to Un Nuevo Tiempo in 2007, where he seemingly broke a pledge to support a unity candidate for his old post and subsequently backed one of his own followers. "López likes to be in undisputed control in any of the parties he belongs to," says López Maya, the historian.
Under López's leadership, Voluntad Popular moved to erode support for Chávez among the working class neighborhoods that were the late president's stronghold. Voluntad Popular initiated various outreach programs by stressing that community residents should solve their own problems without interference from the government.
Gladys Castillo remembers when she would accompany López on his trips into the slums in the hills around Caracas. Chávez supporters often threatened them when they made these forays. "They threw rocks and bottles at us," says Castillo, a community activist who has known López for 14 years. "We were nearly kidnapped. But Leopoldo saw with his own eyes how people lived, and what their needs were. He has that understanding. That has made him who he is."
With degrees from Ohio's Kenyon College and Harvard University, López worked briefly as an advisor at the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA before entering politics. In 2000, at the age of 28, he succeeded former Miss Universe Irene Saez as mayor of the upscale Chacao district in the greater Caracas area. He served two four-year terms from 2000 to 2008.
Seen as an efficient and hardworking mayor, he was singled out by Chávez and his government, which banned him from running in the 2008 mayoral election after smearing him with corruption allegations, none of which have been proven. About 400 other Venezuelans were eventually put on the same list and prohibited from seeking public office.
Unlike many others, López challenged the ruling and filed suit with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In 2011, the court found in his favor. But López has remained inhabilitado, or unable to run, following a Supreme Court decision that upheld his ban from political office. Despite that ban, López's party, Voluntad Popular, had a strong showing in December's mayoral elections, winning more city seats than any other opposition party. That, in turn, strengthened López's position.
That dogged refusal to fold in the face of government pressure has landed him squarely in Caracas' cross-hairs. "Leopoldo's weakness is that he doesn't back down," Castillo says. "And he is stubborn." Maduro argues that López is guilty of conspiracy and planning riots and has said that he will have to face the consequences of his actions. Under strict security, López's preliminary court hearing was held at 10 p.m. last Tuesday at the army base outside Caracas where he is being detained.
López had a most unusual ride to the facility: He was personally driven by Cabello, the speaker of the National Assembly and a man rumored to have once been in line to succeed Chávez.
But why did the head of the National Assembly drive López to the army base? (The rough American equivalent would be House Speaker John Boehner giving Julian Assange a ride to his court hearing.) It's a question on everyone's mind in Venezuela, but one currently without a clear answer. Maduro said last week that it was Cabello who persuaded López to surrender and who brokered his detention. López's father has denied that account, saying that the meetings took place after his son surrendered and only then to discuss safeguarding López's security. Now, rumors are flying in Venezuela that Cabello had tried to persuade López to leave the country and seek asylum elsewhere.
But if Cabello genuinely thinks he can persuade López to go into exile, he may have underestimated his opponent. After all, López surrendered voluntarily and made a spectacular scene of it. "He allowed himself to be taken into custody, and to be a martyr for the cause," Neumann says. "In that, he is following the example of Chávez who also did prison time [after his abortive 1992 coup]. And look what that did for him."


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Nobutaka Machimura
Nobutaka Machimura (町村 信孝, Machimura Nobutaka, 17 October 1944 – 1 June 2015) was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.[1] He was Chief Cabinet Secretary in the government of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda from 2007 to 2008 and twice Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the cabinets of Junichiro Koizumi and Shinzō Abe. He resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives on 21 April 2015 after suffering from a stroke.[2]
Nobutaka Machimura
町村 信孝
|Speaker of the House of Representatives
of Japan
|In office
24 December 2014 – 21 April 2015
|Preceded by
|Bunmei Ibuki
|Succeeded by
|Tadamori Oshima
|Chief Cabinet Secretary
|In office
26 September 2007 – 24 September 2008
|Prime Minister
|Yasuo Fukuda
|Preceded by
|Kaoru Yosano
|Succeeded by
|Takeo Kawamura
|Minister for Foreign Affairs
|In office
27 August 2007 – 26 September 2007
|Prime Minister
|Shinzō Abe
|Preceded by
|Tarō Asō
|Succeeded by
|Masahiko Kōmura
|In office
27 September 2004 – 21 September 2005
|Prime Minister
|Junichiro Koizumi
|Preceded by
|Yoriko Kawaguchi
|Succeeded by
|Tarō Asō
|Personal details
|17 October 1944
Numazu, Japan
|1 June 2015 (aged 70)
Tokyo, Japan
|Alma mater
|University of Tokyo
Wesleyan University
Early life and educationEdit
Machimura was born on 17 October 1944. He attended the University of Tokyo and Wesleyan University in the United States.
Machimura was elected to his first term in the House of Representatives in the December 1983 election, and he was re-elected in each election since. He became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture on 11 September 1997, as part of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's second cabinet, and became State Secretary for Foreign Affairs on 31 July 1998, in Keizō Obuchi's first cabinet. In March 2000, he became Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, serving under Obuchi and his successor, Yoshirō Mori. On 5 December 2000, he became Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and Director-General of the Science and Technology Agency, before becoming Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on 6 January 2001.[1]
He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi from 27 September 2004[1] to 31 October 2005. His goals included signing a treaty with Russia relations with China and Korea form leader resolving a border dispute, and investigating the whereabouts of Japanese hostages who were kidnapped by North Korean agents during the 1970s and 1980s. He was replaced by Tarō Asō in the cabinet reshuffle that followed the 11 September 2005 election.
He was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs again by Prime Minister Shinzō Abe on 27 August 2007.[3] In 2006, Machimura became chairman of the Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, the LDP's largest faction.[4] As such, on 14 September 2007, he backed Yasuo Fukuda's bid to become Abe's successor, following Abe's resignation on 12 September.[5] Since 2007, Machimura had co-chaired his faction alongside Hidenao Nakagawa and Shūzen Tanigawa.[6]
In Fukuda's government, sworn in on 16 September 2007, Machimura became Chief Cabinet Secretary and State Minister in charge of abduction issues.[7] He was replaced by Takeo Kawamura in the cabinet of prime minister Taro Aso, which was appointed on 24 September 2008.[8]
He was the vice president of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union.
Personal lifeEdit
On 18 December 2007, Machimura said at an official press conference that he believed in the existence of UFOs.[9][10]
On 1 June 2015, he died after a cerebral infarction at an hospital in Tokyo.[11]
- Junior Second Rank (1 June 2015; posthumous)
- ^ a b c "Profile of Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobutaka Machimura", Foreign Ministry website.
- ^ "Lower House approves Machimura's resignation, selects Oshima as successor". The Japan Times. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ Takashi Hirokawa and Stuart Biggs, "Abe Replaces Finance Minister; Aso to Rebuild LDP", Bloomberg, 27 August 2007.
- ^ "Machimura takes top LDP faction". The Japan Times. 20 October 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
- ^ Keiichi Yamamura and Sachiko Sakamaki, "Fukuda Challenges Aso in Race to Be Prime Minister", Bloomberg, 14 September 2007.
- ^ (in Japanese) Official faction website: List of chairmen
- ^ "Fukuda Cabinet launched / Changes minimized to reduce impact on Diet business", The Yomiuri Shimbun, 26 September 2007.
- ^ "Aso elected premier / Announces Cabinet lineup himself; poll likely on 2 November", The Yomiuri Shimbun, 25 September 2008.
- ^ (in Dutch) Japanse kabinetssecretaris gelooft in UFO's, NU.nl, 19 December 2007
- ^ "UFOs exist, says Japan official". BBC. 18 December 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ "Ex-lower house Speaker Machimura dies at 70". The Japan News. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
External linksEdit
- Media related to Nobutaka Machimura at Wikimedia Commons
|House of Representatives of Japan
|Preceded by
Multi-member constituency
| Representative for Hokkaidō 1st district
|District eliminated
|New constituency
| Representative for Hokkaidō 5th district
|Succeeded by
Chiyomi Kobayashi
|Preceded by
| Representative for the Hokkaidō PR block
|Succeeded by
Title last held byChiyomi Kobayashi
| Representative for Hokkaidō 5th district
|Preceded by
Bunmei Ibuki
| Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan
|Succeeded by
Tadamori Oshima
|Political offices
|Preceded by
Kaoru Yosano
| Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan
|Succeeded by
Takeo Kawamura
|Preceded by
Kaoru Yosano
| Minister of State for the Abduction Issue
|Succeeded by
Kyoko Nakayama
|Preceded by
Tarō Asō
| Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
|Succeeded by
Masahiko Kōmura
|Preceded by
Yoriko Kawaguchi
| Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
|Succeeded by
Tarō Asō
|New creation
| Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
|Succeeded by
Atsuko Toyama
|Preceded by
Takashi Kosugi
Tadamori Oshima
| Minister of Education
|Succeeded by
Akito Arima
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Fast players boost Packers
Green Bay - Randall Cobb's father tells this story so often that Cobb can picture what happened - even though he can't really remember it.
He was a point guard pushing the ball up court in a youth basketball game with all the other kids chasing him except one defender with outstretched arms. The charging Cobb lowered his head and unraveled his very first spin move, a complete 360-degree Tasmanian devil turn so fast that by the time the poor defender settled his Air Jordans, Cobb was laying the ball on the glass for two.
"Oh, my dad loves to tell that story," said Cobb.
Ten, maybe 15 years later, Cobb is not the fastest player on the Green Bay Packers - but he sure can look like it when that spin move freezes would-be tacklers on kickoff returns.
Since the topic lately in Green Bay has turned to practice and players pushing one another, perhaps there is nothing more valuable than one teammate who can challenge another. This can happen without punishing, midweek tackling. A Packer challenges instead with his speed.
On offense and defense, the Packers have plenty of speedsters to keep everyone else on their toes.
In a foot race, cornerback Sam Shields beats everyone. It's not just that he clocked 4.28 seconds in the 40-yard dash coming out of the University of Miami as an undrafted free agent in 2010. It's also that teammates still award Shields the title of fastest man on the team.
"Tramon Williams is fast. 'Wood' (Charles Woodson) thinks he's fast," said cornerback Davon House. "But it's Sam, hands down."
There were two poles for street signs in Shields' neighborhood in Sarasota, Fla. He would race his sister Ashley, who was a year older, from one to another. And he always would lose.
"We would race a good 30 yards," said Shields. "I never beat her. It was always a tie or she would beat me.
"In my neighborhood, in fact, it was always a race. Every time we would hang out, me and my homies, it was always a race. 'I'll beat you.' 'OK, let's race.' All the time."
Shields came from a family of track athletes. His father, aunt and uncle all have stories of winning races.
"Speed just runs in my family," said Shields. "They say I get it from my uncle, really. He was really fast. Back then, if someone wanted to race, they would go get my uncle, Rodney Shields. I think I was born with it."
Shields, 24, does a lot of stretching to keep his speed sharp now. In the off-season, he just runs. He finds a stadium of stairs and sprints them because he believes that helps prevent groin and hamstring injuries.
His best challenger in practice is receiver Jordy Nelson.
"It don't look fast, but when you're with him, when you're guarding him - he's fast," said Shields.
Shields hurt his shin and leg in the Packers' big win against the Texans in Houston on Sunday. Coach Mike McCarthy said that more would be known about Shields' status Wednesday.
Cobb believes he has more football speed than straight-ahead, track speed, and he said that's what matters because in football you run on angles.
But the spin move - he can go left or right - is a weapon, first developed in basketball.
"One of my first loves, basketball, and then I realized I wasn't going to be 6-5, so I went out for football," he said.
In middle school, Cobb went on the Internet and studied other players' spin moves to improve his own.
"LaDainian Tomlinson, he was really good at the spin move," said Cobb. "So was Barry Sanders, but he was a smaller guy. I remember being a kid and going on to Nike SPARQ and watching the tutorials of LaDainian Tomlinson's spin moves. I was fascinated with moves and trying to find ways to make myself better. It's something you do in the off-season, you work on that footwork. You work on it so much that it becomes instinct."
Cobb worked on that spin move throughout college. He even took a jazz dance class - it was part of his kinesiology studies - and realized he was pretty good with footwork, another key element to speed.
His best challenger in practice is Williams.
"I like going against someone like that because you not only work on your vertical speed but you know they're fast and you use your quickness with different leverage and route running," said Cobb. "It helps the overall game."
House, rehabilitating a shoulder injury, has been practicing with a harness. He was inactive for the Texans game but he's close to returning and should help the Packers when he does. He's one of the fastest.
"My dad was a track runner and my mother ran track and did hurdles and long jump as well. So my speed was built in, luckily," said House. "I think my father ran a year at Fresno State. He's shown me articles where his fastest time was a 10.2 in the 100. So he could run a little bit."
House agreed, with everyone else it seems, that track speed isn't the only indicator for football speed.
"I feel like I'm faster on the field, especially with a ball in my hand or chasing someone," said House. "I don't know why."
His best challenger in practice is receiver Greg Jennings, who doesn't always get credit for blazing speed.
"Really? Well, try to go cover him. You'll find out quick," said House.


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The White Monastery Federation Project began its second campaign on 12 December 2006 and ended on 24 January 2007. The second season of work at the White Monastery achieved six objectives as a joint expedition between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the White Monastery Federation Project.
First, we continued to survey and map the area of the White Monastery including new archaeological work, mapping previously excavated structures and modern changes to the physical landscape of the site.
Second, we conducted sub-surface GPR survey of select areas over the 256-hectare site.
Third, we resumed excavations in Area 1 that contained mud and fired brick buildings from the Late Byzantine and Islamic periods (Units H, I, J, K and L). Fourth, we cleaned, mapped and documented mud brick structures that were excavated previously by the SCA in the late twentieth century (Unit M & O). Fifth, we documented and conserved part of a unique tri-conch tomb chapel located on the western edge of the site. Sixth, we photographed the entirety of the White Monastery church to produce a photographic record of the state of the church's interior and exterior in 2006.
Survey Work at the White Monastery
Mapping of the White Monastery included the addition of modifications to several modern structures that encompass the site and the construction of walls that now separate the monastery from the modern village. A second phase of mapping included the first stage of surveying and documenting areas excavated previously by the SCA, such as the mud brick structures in Area 3, the Tri-Conch Tomb Chapel and a large mud brick building, both in Area 1. The third phase included the addition of new architecture and deposits exposed by the new stratigraphic excavations in Area 1 that extend from the previous season (Units H-L).
Jaroslaw Majewski and Anna Groffik conducted eight days of GPR sub-surface survey in three areas of the White Monastery. Their work completes the second phase of geophysical survey that we have conducted at the site. The previous year's magnetometric survey results were affected by the presence of metal on the surface; it was hoped that the GPR results would produce more clear indications of ancient structures.
2006 Excavations in Area 1
Stratigraphic excavation continued in Area 1 from 12–30 December 2006. Five excavation units (H-L) were opened to examine the extent of a red brick-walled and limestone-paved room discovered in Unit A in 2005. Unit I is a 5 x 5 m square that opens directly to the south of Unit A. Units H and L form a 10 x 10 m area to the east of Unit A. Unit J and K form a 10 x 10 m area directly south of and east of Unit A.
Unit H and I contained architectural features that align with previously excavated material and form part of a limestone paved and white plastered structure. Unit H, J, K and L all contained elements of crudely constructed buildings made of mud or animal dung. These walls are very irregular and appear to form several small pens in this area.
Mapping and Documentation of Exposed Architecture
Two areas of previously excavated mud brick structures were cleaned, photographed and mapped in collaboration with our SCA colleagues. Unit O in Area 1 and Unit M in Area 3 were both excavated by the SCA from the 1990s onwards. Our joint project with the SCA is aimed at more detailed documentation of this earlier work to allow these structures to be reburied and conserved.
Unit O, in Area 1, contains several features such as a large mud brick hall (16.8 x 16.5 m), with seven rooms. The building was expanded in later phases and includes additional rooms to the west, south and east. To the east of this building are two cisterns along with several surviving areas of ceramic piping. The only structure fully documented in 2006 was the original core of the structure that demonstrates several building phases and provides examples of common construction patterns used at the monastery in the late antique and early medieval period.
Unit M, in Area 3, includes several mud brick structures and a few fired brick structures. The earliest structures in this area are the boundary wall of the original monastery, together with several associated mud-brick buildings in the southern part of the area. This wall was severely damaged by an intense episode of burning. The next phase of activity appears to have been associated with the construction of the monastery church and is represented by a huge dump of limestone chippings at the northern edge. Several fired brick structures or tanks in this area are probably contemporary with this limestone chippings deposit and may have been associated with this construction activity. The original boundary wall was subsequently repaired and refaced and a new entrance inserted through it, whilst the ground level inside the wall was raised by around 0.3m. This allowed for the construction of four plastered underground storage chambers against the face of the boundary wall. One of them contains a very large in situ storage jar. This phase also saw the construction of a large square semi-subterranean mud-brick building in the north-east part of this area, which was probably used for storage. The buildings of this period seem to have suffered another catastrophic episode of burning, but a number of features suggest a re-occupation of this area may have followed immediately after this event. The buildings of this phase, which seem to have reused bricks from the fire-damaged parts of the original boundary wall, mark the final stage of occupation in this area. The area was backfilled on completion of our recording.
Conservation, Mapping and Documentation of the Tri-Conch Funerary Chapel
Conservation consultant Luigi De Cesaris carried out an assessment of the state of the late antique paintings preserved at the tri-conch funerary chapel (Unit N). A team of four conservators worked for four days to stabilize the paintings on three pillars and on the exposed surfaces of two lobes of the tri-conch.
Photography of the White Monastery Church
The goal of the White Monastery Church Survey is the thorough recording and documentation of the present state of the church believed to have built by St. Shenoute in AD 455. The survey team included Prof. Bentley Layton (Church survey director), Dr. Michael H. Burgoyne (Survey architect), and Dr. Joe Rock (Survey Photographer). This work consisted of nearly three hundred black and white rectified photographs recording both the interior and exterior of the church building. These photographs will be produced as black-and-white archival quality prints. It is intended to continue this survey work in subsequent seasons. The photographic documentation will provide a record of the various changes that have been made to the church and provide a foundation for further technical study of the church construction and its history.
The tri-conch funerary chapel
Work at the funerary chapel involved careful cleaning of the structure as revealed by the SCA excavations in 2002, followed by recording and photography. Selective excavation of preserved stratigraphic sequences was also carried out, and limited extensions of the area to the east and south were made to clarify the archaeological sequence and the original form of the building
Work in the funerary chapel has allowed us to suggest four major phases of construction and use. The earliest of these is represented by the remains of an incised plaster floor and mud-brick walls. The second phase saw a remodeling of the building with the insertion of piers in the south hall and the construction of the tomb chapel in the northern part of the building. Both buildings were floored with large stone slabs and there is evidence that significant areas of the tomb chapel were paved with marble at this time. The third phase seems to have involved the addition of piers with stone plinths and the construction of the tri-conch. This phase also saw the construction of a plaster floor at a higher level above the original stone and marble floor and the enclosure of areas of the building that previously had been open. After the abandonment of the tomb chapel and extensive robbing of its stone floors and brickwork the building appears to have been converted into a domestic house with clear evidence of a barn in the former south hall and an oven in the northern part of the building. Remains of this phase survive in several mud-brick walls in both the northern and southern part of the building.


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What are great white sharks doing off Canada's East Coast?
Published Saturday, November 30, 2019 7:00AM EST
CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA -- What's it like touching a live, great white shark? Not as you might think.
Although its skin looks perfectly smooth and sleek, it feels slightly rough. That's to help reduce drag when they swim. And it's just one thing we learned when one of those apex predators was lifted out of the ocean, onto a ship and right to our feet.
OCEARCH is a non-profit group that tags and tracks great whites in an attempt to learn about where the mysterious creatures breed and give birth. The group gives scientists and researchers a rare opportunity to study great white sharks hands on, lifting the apex predators out of the ocean. And they use a technique like no one else on the planet.
OCEARCH founder Chris Fischer repurposed an old Alaskan crab fishing ship just for this purpose. The ship's hydraulic arm that used to lift a massive crab trap is now fitted with a platform that can be lowered into the ocean.
But the massive sharks that are guided onto that platform can be heavy enough to tip the ship over, so ballasts in the hull are filled with water as counterbalance. Believe it or not, all of that is the easy part.
Bridging an adult great white shark that's more than four meters long and weighs more than two cows to the ship's lift is quite another matter.
Brett McBride is one of the quietest, calmest people you could ever meet, and he likely has the craziest job of anyone you've ever known.
Brett is a shark wrangler. A job he created, and a technique he's honed over a decade.
A fisher by trade, he started hooking sharks the same way he'd hook any other fish. Leaving the big ship, he'd jump onto a small boat with a thick rope line, a large hook and some bait.
It seemed simple enough. But great white sharks are much bigger and stronger than anything else he'd ever fished. And once a white shark got a hook in its mouth, it would immediately dive to get free. No human can fight that.
So Brett came up with an idea. He started using large round buoys, attaching them at intervals along the thick fishing rope, closer and closer to the hooked shark's mouth as it was being reeled in. That was a revelation.
With enough buoys floating near its head, the massive shark was unable to dive. Brett could then "walk" it back to the ship and lead it onto the submerged platform.
Brett's final step? Jump onto the submerged platform with the great white, to ensure it got on smoothly. There's a chance the shark can get caught on the edge of the lift, or try to turn around. So Brett holds the line that ends with a great white shark, guiding it onto the ship's lift.
When the platform is raised out of the water with the shark, Brett's job is to keep it calm. A black towel over its eyes and a tube feeding water into its mouth to help it breathe is usually all it takes.
Brett's efforts give scientists and researchers fifteen minutes with the shark to gather data, blood and tissue samples. Those will go to more than a dozen shark studies around the world. All in the hope that some day those big questions about great white shark breeding and birthing will be answered.


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Some would argue that Eliot never entirely threw off The Waste Land, and others that he did and to his cost, but either way it's clear he wanted to work at getting beyond it. He had published the poem in October 1922 in the first issue of the Criterion, the quarterly journal he had just begun to edit – the first UK book publication was by the Hogarth Press in 1923 – and this is where we left him at the end of the first volume of the letters, now handsomely revised and reissued.* He had studied at Harvard and Oxford, completed his doctoral dissertation on F.H. Bradley, moved to London, abruptly married and turned his back on the academic career that calmly awaited him in America. As Lyndall Gordon nicely says, in her biography of Eliot, both he and Ezra Pound were 'lapsed professors'. He was working full-time at Lloyds Bank, where he stayed until 1925, and editing the Criterion in the spare moments he didn't have. This tale of time swallowed up, what Eliot calls 'the prison-like limitation of my time', is one of the two chief themes of the second volume of the Letters. The other is the competitive invalidism the Eliots have instead of a marriage.
Dec 4, 2009
A Lot of Travail
Michael Wood reviews volume II of T.S. Eliot's letters.
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OK, UFOs -- Do Something!
Now this is taking my suggestion to the extreme...
The reports keep coming in. Some are hoaxes, some are misidentifications, some are delusions. What remains are unexplainable incidents.
A person sees a strange light in the night sky performing maneuvers beyond the capability of any terrestrial vehicle. Another observes a mysterious object during the daytime, a mysterious visitor from beyond the outer limits. The sightings are usually brief, no proof left behind. Photos and videos? Images can be faked, especially in this age of CGI. Not hard evidence.
UFOs keep teasing, just out of our tangible grasp.
Enough is enough. I can't bother to read any more inconclusive reports involving will-o-wisps. I'm ignoring the phenomena, at least the endless and meaningless reports.
Until you UFOs do something, I'm not bothering playing your game.
Put on a real show instead of pissing around in the heavens. Don't harm any living creature but make us believe. Land. Hang around for a while until every news organization in the world shows up.
Hey, even a bit of vandalism would work. Maybe you can turn the Washington Monument upside down, its point buried in the ground. Or carve some graffiti with a heat ray on the side of a mountain. (ORTHON LOVES AURA RHANES) Leave some incontrovertible evidence behind.
C'mon, what are you afraid of?
I know you're out there. I can hear you breathing.
See this microchip on my shoulder? I dare ya to knock it off.


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From the President
To my fellow Members of the Borden Flying Club,
I thought it important to inform you that after long deliberation I have decided and announced on August 1st, 2017 my resignation from the Board of Directors. Factors in my work and personal life have made it difficult to say the least to carry out my representation of the club and effective governance of the Board of Directors.
It has been a pleasure to have had the opportunity to represent the club over the past number of years, and work closely with some very talented Members who have served on the Board with me, helping me achieve the goals that I set out; namely make the club Financially sound, keep our membership at strong levels, maintain a safe and reliable aircraft for our Membership to rent, and foster the all important social aspect of the club. We have an amazing group of members, all of which I am proud to call friends.
I am by no means leaving the club, and look forward to seeing you all at upcoming social and flying events when I am able to attend.
In the interim, Harrison Drake (Vice-President and PRM) will be acting president until a special meeting of the Board can be held September 13th at which time the Board will discuss and confirm a new President.
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'Fingering the Culprit'
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"And that" concluded old Johnny Herlihy "was how Lar Shea lost the first two fingers on his right hand". That anyone among the audience he had managed to cajole into listening to this declaration could possibly be in agreement with what they'd just heard would be a major surprise. Old Herlihy had a reputation for fabricating incredulous stories and his tendency to take large dramatic license in the matters of fact and fiction during the telling of said tales was part and parcel of the experience. But this particular one truly beggared belief. "Bitten off" announced the Lurker Doyle "in a Junior B game down in Ballininch!", scepticism underlining his tone "I've heard a few tales in me time Johnny but nothing as you're after telling us there. Junior B hurling is rough enough but two fingers bitten off during a match, did you ever hear the like of it?" he mused, to no one in particular. "Sure wasn't I there myself to see it" proclaimed old Herlihy, by way of justifying the tale.
It would be fair to say that Johnny Herlihy and his vivid imagination were largely taken with a fair pinch of salt. His musings were much renowned in the area and as was customary with a typical Herlihy tale, this particular one was greeted with the familiar raised eyebrow and knowing cough and would soon have been consigned to dustbin of trivialities but for the strange sequence of events that followed its completion. A general surprise descended amongst the regulars of Lally's when a gruff voice announced from the corner "That's a fine tale considering", he paused briefly before delivering the clincher "that Lar Shea never picked up a hurl in his life". Herlihy, suddenly affronted, offended even, by this sudden and unprovoked attack on his credibility was left speechless, his mouth agape as all eyes turned upon him. "Who are you to state otherwise?" Herlihy stuttered clumsily in his defence. "Someone who knows much better than to be believing such rabid nonsense from the likes of yourself" was his answer.
Herlihy sat silently, shocked by the sheer audacity of the newcomer. As ridiculous and often times infuriating as his tales were, Herlihy was a tolerated and, dare it be said, integral member of the hardcore circle of Lally's regular customers. He, as much as any of them, was not used to this sort of thing. As such, any perceived slight directed at him would naturally be seen as being directed towards the group. Mickey Sheehy, contemplative until now, was quickly out of his seat posturing aggressively and jabbing a crooked finger towards the stranger. "Johnny here is an honest man and if he claims that Lar Shea's fingers were bitten off in a Junior B game down in Ballininch I, for one, will not doubt him". But the stranger retorted quickly "I knew Lar himself and I'll tell you exactly how he came to lose those digits so we can settle this matter". And so, with the old boys temporarily pacified in their bar stools, he began his version of the events leading up to the loss of Lar Shea's fingers…
"The Turk Murphy used to leave his house every morning at half nine, regular as clockwork, and take his greyhounds out for a stroll around the boundaries of his land. Now, the Turk was a rather notable figure in the area owing in no small way to the fact that he was the only Arab living in the environs of Kilmeckin. His grandfather, Ahmed had been a writer of subversive literature back in Persia and had been forced to leave the country after the Shah objected forcefully to the nature of the texts he had been producing, out he went. Exactly how and why he ended up living in Kilmeckin is a long debated subject. Whatever the case, Ahmed's son Mohamed ended up marrying a local girl and started calling himself Matty Murphy. Matty, an even more famed figure in the locality did a great deal for community affairs and was a pioneer in organising the inaugural Kilmeckin Feile. Which now brings me to his son William, the aforementioned William 'Turk' Murphy; the antithesis of his old man, the Turk himself was withdrawn, guarded and largely suspicious of the locals. He kept himself to himself. People, as is customary, speculated on the unknown quantity of his character and the reclusive Turk was prime conversation fodder. His exploits were and still are a great source of discussion in the area.
Now, Lar Shea, who you gentlemen are obviously well aware of, in possession of the full complement of fingers at this stage, was, at the time, working for the Turk in the capacity of a sort of grounds man, his time spent maintaining the Turk's garden and land. The Turk being progressive enough in his thinking on the matters of gardening, he often ventured to undertake various grandiose landscaping plans and schemes, always with the aid of the ubiquitous Lar, who was a good grafter back then.
Back in those days the local publican Brick Kenneally's son Liam, probably about 10 at the time and a snooping sort of young lad spent his time hiding around the place spying on people and returning in the evenings to furnish his mother, the town gossip, with largely fabricated accounts of what he had seen and heard. As it was, on this particular summer's day he had been observing the Turk Murphy from a hiding spot as he walked his greyhounds. The Turk had stopped to talk briefly with Lar, probably outlining some jobs that he had in mind for the day and referring briefly to the digging of top soil from one particular area of the garden. Now, young Kenneally must have misheard the exchange because he was home later that day informing his mother all about Turk Murphy and the "Oil" in the fields.
You and I, of course would be much too knowledgeable to even think for one second that the Turk Murphy would possibly be thinking about digging for oil in the middle of a field in Kilmeckin but, and it says something about the widespread gullibility of the locals of Kilmeckin, this theory was widely adopted as true in the following days, the result of a frenetic gossip campaign, no doubt. Of course, when Lar Shea was seen, day after day, continually digging an increasingly large hole in the centre of the Turk Murphy's garden, the theory gained further credibility. The curiosity of the village was now firmly aroused and anyone who tried to talk sense was soon shamed into accepting the view by sheer public fervour.
Nobody, during this entire time, even bothered to query the Turk or Lar so the speculation increased and grew increasingly frenzied, to the point that a series of people were wandering out to the Turk's property to watch Lar Shea digging an ever widening hole in the ground.
Packie Lynch, the resident town guru, whose council was much sought on matters of general knowledge and wisdom, was much in demand at this time. Large volumes of puzzled villagers quizzed him on the issue of 'the oil' and what its presence would mean for the area. Packie himself, having little real idea about oil except what he had seen in its application in the use of engines, outlined the nature and texture of the substance. Quite what most made of these findings is unknown but the overwhelming response was one of fear – this oil was not going to do anyone any good in the least.
Finally, left with no option, a conscientious panel of senior heads in the village decided on a plan. In hindsight and in light of the aftermath of these events, most were sorry to have played any part in it but panic had overcome any rationality. Action was demanded for, nothing short of it. The Brick Kenneally set off to 'discuss' the matter with the Turk Murphy and let him know that nobody was at all happy about his digging for oil in the garden.
So off he went, accompanied by most of the population of the village, storming through the gates and striding across the lawn towards the Turk's house clutching a shotgun in his hands. Meanwhile, Lar Shea looked up from his digging to see an unruly mob moving towards him. The Brick roared 'Out of the way Lar, we're not having this here. Not in our village! Where's the Turk, I need to see him' waving his shotgun with reckless disregard. Before Lar could even answer, a horde of people were shovelling the newly dug soil withfrantic hands and throwing it back into the pit that Lar had been digging. 'Stop, stop' he said 'What are you doing?' 'There'll be no oil Lar, no oil here' said the Brick. 'Oil?!' exclaimed Lar, 'what are you talking about. There's no oil here, where did you get such a ridiculous idea'. 'What are you doing here then, what's all this digging for??' enquired the Brick. 'It's a pond, an artificial pond I'm clearing out for Mr. Murphy' he responded to an utterly bemused Brick.
Unfortunately, the Turk, having seen the gun and the crowd had rushed to the greyhound's kennels and set them loose. In the ensuing fracas, people were running everywhere, jumping gates and ditches as they tried to evade the canine menace. The lead hound, sensing the Brick Kenneally as a principal threat leapt towards him viciously. Reacting as best he could, the Brick fired off an errant shot in an attempt to deter the dog but succeeded only in blowing off the first two fingers on the right hand of a stunned Lar Shea, who had raised his hands in vain defence at the prospect of being mangled by the rampant beast before him.
I hardly need to go into the aftermath of the whole affair suffice to say that many a finger was pointed but nobody really took the blame and the Turk eventually let the matter go. He had little choice really, considering the damage his dogs had done but that's not the point. Lar was never to retrieve his fingers, there was too much damage. So there you have it, the truth about how Lar Shea lost the first two fingers on his right hand."
The first one to break the silence afterwards was old Johnny Herlihy himself, at this stage recovered from whatever personal slight he might have felt had been inflicted upon him, "I never knew, I must have got him mixed up with old Lar Ward" he mumbled by way of avoiding any questioning on the dubious origin of his earlier summary of the matter. "A fine tale" said the Lurker Doyle "a fine tale indeed. Sad to see" he added "how it can all turn to madness. 'Twould never happen here, I can tell you that". The stranger finished his drink and walked slowly to the bar "No chance lads, with such cultured folk as yourselves and proponents of sound logic" and he placed the empty glass on the counter. "Of course, one can never be too sure of such things. It's a pretty unpredictable world." He moved out into a cold winter's afternoon, leaving the old boys to themselves once more.
"A bad way for anyone to lose two fingers eh?" suggested Herlihy in his typical rhetorical manner. "Is there a good way to lose two fingers Johnny" quipped the Lurker Doyle. Mickey Sheehy, silent until now, looked utterly perplexed – his wizened face a picture of worry. He ventured slowly, almost tentatively "I know how he lost the first two fingers of his right hand, that's settled now but who, in the name of God, is Lar Shea?" The other two looked at each other and burst out into hearty laughter. Old Johnny Herlihy needed little prompting "Settle round lads". Outside, the sun began to set on a cold December's day, a small group gathered around the fire in Lally's…
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The Perfect Love of God
The Father, Son and Spirit exist as the infinite intensity and unsurpassable perfection of eternal love. We know this about the triune God not by speculation but because Jesus demonstrated that love (Rom 5:8) in his willingness to go to the furthest extreme possible to save us. When the all-holy God stooped to become our sin and our God-forsaken curse, which is the very antithesis of himself (2 Cor. 5:21; Gal. 3:13), he revealed the kind of love that God is. This is a love that could not possibly be made greater than it is.
Nothing could possibly reveal the love of the Trinity more than the God-forsakenness of the cross, as demonstrated when Jesus cries out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matt 27:46). For the truth is, no sacrifice could possibly be greater than for Son of God to experience God-forsakenness on our behalf. How could anything be further from the Trinity—united in unsurpassable, intense love—than for God to experience his antithesis?
To support this claim, I want to quote a few people. Feldmeier and Spieckermann observe that Jesus' revelation of God's very nature as love "attained perfection in his Passion."[1] Anders Nygren states that in the New Testament, "the Cross of Christ and the love of God are viewed as one."[2] And Michael Gorman reasons: "If on the cross Christ conformed to God, then God 'conforms' to the cross." In this light, Gorman argues, we can only conclude that "[t]he cross is the interpretive, or hermeneutical, lens through which God is seen; it is the means of grace by which God is known."[3] In my estimation, there could not be a revelatory insight that is more important than this one.
The Crucifixion cannot be regarded as merely one of the many acts Jesus engaged in during his earthly life. Nor should we think that it is a mere contingent fact that God's love is fully revealed on the cross, as though God could have just as easily expressed it in some other way. We need to grasp the logic inherent in the revelation of God in the God-forsaken criminal hanging on Golgotha. The cross is God's quintessential revelation precisely because the unsurpassable perfection of the love that defines the Triune God throughout eternity is inextricably linked to the unsurpassable extremity of his sacrifice.
God is revealed to be a God whose love could not be improved upon precisely by making a sacrifice of love that could not possibly be improved on. The infinite intensity of the love that unites the three Persons is revealed in the infinite intensity of the pain God experienced when God the Son became his very antithesis and experienced sin and God-forsakenness on our behalf.
In this light, while we must affirm that everything about Jesus' life and teachings reflects God's loving character, I submit that it his sacrifice on the cross that does so most profoundly and most unambiguously. And it could not be otherwise, in my view. For only by condescending to dive an infinite distance into our hellish sin and God-forsakenness could the infinite intensity of God's perfect love be expressed outside the triune community.
[1] Feldmeier, Spieckermann, God of the Living (Waco, TX: Baylor Univerisity Press, 2015), 127,
[2] A. Nygren Agape and Eros, trans. P. S. Watson (London: SPCK, 1953), 117
[3] M. Gorman, Cruciformity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 17.


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8 No'j ~ Today's Ch'umil
Number 8 represents the male and physical energy. No'j is our connection to the Universal mind; it is the energy that turns knowledge and experience into wisdom. This is a good day to take action; it is through the actions that we take during the course of our life that we acquire the knowledge that will be transformed into wisdom.
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Following the footsteps of her family, Denise started her spiritual path at the age of 15, when she began traveling frequently to the highlands in her home of Guatemala to learn about Maya culture from the elders. She is the author of the book "The Energies of the Day" which is a daily guide to the energies of the Sacred Cholq'ij Calendar.
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This is the 1st match of the English Premier League's 2017-18 season.
For the 2nd year running, Leicester City contest the very first match of the English Premier League season away from home – only this time it will be no surprise if they lose again.
One year ago, as reigning EPL champions following their incredible title success, Leicester City kicked off the EPL campaign with a visit to newly-promoted Hull City on the opening Saturday lunchtime and slipped to a shock 2-1 defeat against a team who were eventually relegated.
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- Director Walt Disney
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Vintage Mickey
Celebrate one of the world's most famous characters in this timeless collection of Mickey's most memorable cartoons. VINTAGE MICKEY features the classic "Steamboat Willie," which marked the first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as other landmark animated shorts, including the Academy Award(R)-nominated "Mickey's Orphans" (Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1931-32) and "Building A Building" (Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1932-33). It's an exciting, fun, and wonderful look back at the funny little mouse who became a family favorite all around the world.