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LEGO Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander officially announced
30/05/2019 31/05/2019 Graham 0 Comments 10266 Lunar Lander, Creator Expert, LEGO, LEGO Creator Expert
The latest LEGO Creator Expert set, 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander, has been officially announced.
After an early release at LEGOLAND Deutschland, the LEGO Group has officially announced LEGO Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander. This new adult targeted set uses 1,087 pieces and will be priced at £84.99 in the UK or $99.99 in the USA. It will be released at shop.LEGO.com on June 1.
Here is a selection of images and the official product description:
Celebrate man's first moon landing with this LEGO Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander building set—developed in cooperation with NASA to mark the 50th anniversary of a historical event that captivated the world. This collectible model features a highly detailed replica of Apollo 11's Eagle lunar module, plus a depiction of the lunar surface, complete with crater, footprints and a U.S. flag.
The descent stage comes with gold-colored landing pads and panels, opening camera and laser hatches, and a ladder, while the ascent stage has a detailed interior with room for 2 astronauts. Finished with an Apollo 11 Lunar Lander nameplate, this display model makes a great centerpiece for the home or office and provides a challenging and rewarding building experience full of nostalgia. Includes 2 astronaut minifigures with NASA decoration and golden helmets.
"We have a deep understanding of the ways in which play can have lifelong impact, and we have been champions of the awe and wonder of space exploration through playful building for almost as long as the world's celebration of the first moon landing," said LEGO Senior Director, Brand Relations, Michael McNally."There are countless stories of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and roboticists who point to their experiences with LEGO building as the reason they are engaged in their current careers. We hope that our ongoing commitment to space themed play materials will inspire future generations to help us continue exploring."
LEGO Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander will be available from Thursday, June 1, at shop.LEGO.com.
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Graham is the Editor of BrickFanatics.com, with plenty of experience working on LEGO related projects. He has contributed to various websites and publications on topics including niche hobbies, the toy industry and education. If you would like to get involved with Brick Fanatics, as a builder, writer or photographer – then please contact Graham at [email protected].
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Artsi Ifrach
Skills Needed: Evening wear
Marrakech resident, Artsi Ifrach is a fashion designer who is better known as Maison ARTC in the fashion world. On a quest for independence, Ifrach has found his sanctuary in Morocco and has been actively creating his "one of a kind" collections since. Artsi – meaning 'My Country' in Hebrew and Arabic – lived in Tel Aviv, Paris and Amsterdam before settling in Morocco and has an extensive understanding of multiculturalism. Using colors and prints as his landscape, Artsi's imaginative designs reflect on space and time. He started fashion designing at the age of 28 while he was living in Amsterdam. From there, he moved to Paris where he was represented by 2m Bureau, showing in the Haute Couture Week.
Today, living and working from Marrakech, his parents' hometown, he also collaborates with local photographers such as Laila Hida and Mous Lamrabat. With Lamrabat he created an artistic duo called @artsimous, a collaboration of photography that tells a story of cultural crossover, where the inspiration comes from culture, history and art. His goal is to keep the picture as something timeless, that remains long after the collection is finished. "I believe that fashion is a part of art that tells something about, in a period that meets culture and individuality. I am an autodidact, I do not work with design skills, I am working just with creativity and intuition," he says.
His influences come from history, culture and traditions and he searches the past in order to carry on into the future. He is known for his rich, colorful and eclectic style. "I am trying, through the material that surrounds me, to create a story that captures culture, memories, and artisanal work. The materials I am using are vintage and handmade. I create my pieces with a total freedom, it comes from the state of mind I have at that moment. The point is to be respectful of the past, of the culture and to bring something warmer. In my pieces, I want to create a memory that moves me emotionally. Vintage fabrics can match past and present together. Colors, patterns and prints are my landscape."
Napoleon said once "there is a thin line between the ridiculous
and the sublime" and, according to Ifrach, he is searching for this line every time, in every piece. "I am always thinking about what we would like to have that we do not have yet, as a result, I believe that the strongest part we all have is our individuality. That is what I am trying to do with "one-of-a- kind" pieces, as we all are "one-of-a- kind,"" he says.
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood.
The research published today reviews more than 150 studies to produce a stark summary of the state of the natural world. We outline the likely future trends in biodiversity decline, mass extinction, climate disruption and planetary toxification. We clarify the gravity of the human predicament and provide a timely snapshot of the crises that must be addressed now.
The problems, all tied to human consumption and population growth, will almost certainly worsen over coming decades. The damage will be felt for centuries and threatens the survival of all species, including our own.
Our paper was authored by 17 leading scientists, including those from Flinders University, Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Our message might not be popular, and indeed is frightening. But scientists must be candid and accurate if humanity is to understand the enormity of the challenges we face.
Humanity must come to terms with the future we and future generations face. Shutterstock
Getting to grips with the problem
First, we reviewed the extent to which experts grasp the scale of the threats to the biosphere and its lifeforms, including humanity. Alarmingly, the research shows future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than experts currently believe. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: agriculture, alien species, Anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, bushmeat, carbon, climate change, climate shift, conservation, coral reefs, decline, deforestation, development, disease, drought, Economics, Ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, Education, Endarkenment, environmental economics, environmental policy, Environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extremism, fire, food, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, impact, invasive species, ocean, planning, pollination, poverty, propaganda, science, threatened species, toxification
Categories : Africa, agriculture, alien species, anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, climate shift, conservation, conservation biology, corruption, decline, deforestation, development, disease, drought, economics, ecosystem services, education, Endarkenment, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental science, extinction, extinction debt, extremism, fire, Flinders University, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, investment, livestock, logging, management, ocean, planning, propaganda, restoration, science, seagrass, sustainability, synergies, threatened species, toxification, vegetation
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I,' said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Frodo Baggins and Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
Today, 16 high-profile scientists and I published what I describe as a 'cold shower' about society's capacity to avoid a ghastly future of warfare, disease, inequality, persecution, extinction, and suffering.
And it goes way beyond just the plight of biodiversity.
No one who knows me well would mistake me for an optimist, try as I might to use my colleagues' and my research for good. Instead, I like to describe myself as a 'realist'. However, this latest paper has made even my gloomier past outputs look downright hopeful.
And before being accused of sensationalism, let me make one thing abundantly clear — I sincerely hope that what we describe in this paper does not come to pass. Not even I am that masochistic.
I am also supportive of every attempt to make the world a better place, to sing about our successes, regroup effectively from our failures, and maintain hope in spite of evidence to the contrary.
But failing to acknowledge the magnitude and the gravity of the problems facing us is not just naïve, it is positively dangerous and potentially fatal.
It is this reason alone that prompted us to write our new paper "Underestimating the challenges of
avoiding a ghastly future" just published in the new journal, Frontiers in Conservation Science.
Tags: carrying capacity, climate change, climate disruption, climate refugees, consumption, density feedback, extinction, governance, human population, over-consumption, political will, populism, sustainability
Categories : Africa, agriculture, alien species, anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, bushmeat, carbon, climate change, climate shift, conservation, coral reefs, decline, deforestation, development, disease, drought, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, education, Endarkenment, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extremism, fire, food, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, impact, invasive species, ocean, planning, pollination, poverty, propaganda, science, threatened species, toxification
As the pandemic rages globally, and the fragility of the American political system goes on full display, I give you the first set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous 'Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss' compendia here.
Tags: carbon, Climate, climate disruption, consumption, environment, Global warming, meat, vegan, vegetarianism
Categories : anthropocene, Australia, biodiversity, carbon, cartoon, climate change, conservation, development, extinction
In the first of two consecutive interviews with climate-change experts, authors, editors and readers of the Spanish magazine Quercus have a chat with Ken Caldeira, a global-ecology researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science (Washington, USA). His responses attest that the climate system is complex, and that we need to be practical in dealing with the planet's ongoing climate emergency.
PhD in atmospheric sciences and professor at Stanford University (USA), Ken Caldeira has pioneered the study of ocean acidification and its impact on coral reefs (1) and geoengineering solutions to mitigate anthropogenic climate change by extracting carbon from the atmosphere and reflecting solar radiation (2, 3). He has also been part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) and assessed zero-emissions scenarios (4, 5). To the right, Ken manoeuvers a drone while collecting aerial data from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia (6). Source.
SARS-Covid-19 is impacting the world. In our home country, Spain, scientists argue that (i) previous budget cuts in public health have weakened our capacity to tackle the pandemic (7), and (ii) the expert panels providing advice to our government should be independent of political agendas in their membership and decisions (8). Nevertheless, the Spanish national and regional governments' data lack the periodicity, coherence, and detail to harness an effective medical response (9). Sometimes it feels as if politics partly operate by neglecting the science needed to tackle challenges such as the covid pandemic or climate change.
Having said that, even if a country has cultivated and invested in the best science possible, people have difficulties coming to terms with the idea that scientists work with probabilities of alternative scenarios. As much as there are different ways of managing a pandemic, scientists differ about how to mitigate the ecological, economic, and health impacts of a high-carbon society.
Thus, a more and more common approach is to make collective assessments (elicitations) by weighing different points of view across experts — for instance, to establish links between climate change and armed conflict (10) or to evaluate the role of nuclear energy as we transition to a low-carbon energy-production model (11). The overarching goal is to quantify consensus based on different (evidence-based) opinions.
The questions we here ask Ken Caldeira could well have different answers if asked of other experts. Still, as Ken points out, it is urgent that (of the many options available) we use the immense and certainty-proof knowledge we have already about climate change to take actions that work.
Interview done 23 January 2020
We italicise each question and the name of the person asking the question and cite one to three relevant publications per question. For expanding on Ken Caldeira's views on climate change, see a sample of his public talks here and here and newspaper articles here and here.
Tags: climate change, climate disruption, climate models, climate physics, climatology, coral reefs, Emissions, Global warming, Gulf Stream, ice ages, interview, Ken Caldeira, nuclear energy, nuclear power, Stanford University
Categories : acidification, agriculture, anthropocene, biodiversity, carbon, climate change, climate shift, conservation, coral reefs, economics, environmental policy, Europe, extinction, ocean, research, science
Grand Challenges in Global Biodiversity Threats
Last week I mentioned that the new journal Frontiers in Conservation Science is now open for business. As promised, I wrote a short article outlining our vision for the Global Biodiversity Threats section of the journal. It's open-access, of course, so I'm also copying here on ConservationBytes.com.
Most conservation research and its applications tend to happen most frequently at reasonably fine spatial and temporal scales — for example, mesocosm experiments, single-species population viability analyses, recovery plans, patch-level restoration approaches, site-specific biodiversity surveys, et cetera. Yet, at the other end of the scale spectrum, there have been many overviews of biodiversity loss and degradation, accompanied by the development of multinational policy recommendations to encourage more sustainable decision making at lower levels of sovereign governance (e.g., national, subnational).
Yet truly global research in conservation science is fact comparatively rare, as poignantly demonstrated by the debates surrounding the evidence for and measurement of planetary tipping points (Barnosky et al., 2012; Brook et al., 2013; Lenton, 2013). Apart from the planetary scale of human-driven disruption to Earth's climate system (Lenton, 2011), both scientific evidence and policy levers tend to be applied most often at finer, more tractable research and administrative scales. But as the massive ecological footprint of humanity has grown exponentially over the last century (footprintnetwork.org), robust, truly global-scale evidence of our damage to the biosphere is now starting to emerge (Díaz et al., 2019). Consequently, our responses to these planet-wide phenomena must also become more global in scope.
Conservation scientists are adept at chronicling patterns and trends — from the thousands of vertebrate surveys indicating an average reduction of 68% in the numbers of individuals in populations since the 1970s (WWF, 2020), to global estimates of modern extinction rates (Ceballos and Ehrlich, 2002; Pimm et al., 2014; Ceballos et al., 2015; Ceballos et al., 2017), future models of co-extinction cascades (Strona and Bradshaw, 2018), the negative consequences of invasive species across the planet (Simberloff et al., 2013; Diagne et al., 2020), discussions surrounding the evidence for the collapse of insect populations (Goulson, 2019; Komonen et al., 2019; Sánchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys, 2019; Cardoso et al., 2020; Crossley et al., 2020), the threats to soil biodiversity (Orgiazzi et al., 2016), and the ubiquity of plastic pollution (Beaumont et al., 2019) and other toxic substances (Cribb, 2014), to name only some of the major themes in global conservation.
Tags: Complex systems, Frontiers in Conservation Science, global conservation, publishing, threatened species
Categories : agriculture, anthropocene, biodiversity, carbon, climate change, connectivity, conservation, conservation biology, decline, deforestation, development, disease, ecology, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem services, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, investment, modelling, science, science writing, scientific publishing, scientific writing, sustainability, threatened species
The only constant is change
I just wrote a piece for the Flinders University alumnus magazine — Encounter — and I thought I'd share it here.
As an ecologist concerned with how life changes and adapts to the vagaries of climate and pervasive biological shuffling, 'constant change' is more than just a mantra — it is, in fact, the mathematical foundation of our entire discipline.
But if change is inevitable, how can we ensure it is in the right direction?
Take climate change for example. Since the Earth first formed it has experienced abrupt climate shifts many times, both to the detriment of most species in existence at any given time, and to the advantage of those species evolving from the ashes.
For more than 3.5 billion years, species have evolved and gone extinct, such that more than 99% of all species that have ever existed are now confined, permanently, to the vaults of the past.
Tags: Australia, biodiversity, bushfire, climate change, environment, environmental damage, extinction, fire, Global warming
Categories : agriculture, anthropocene, Australia, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, conservation, conservation biology, deforestation, development, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem services, education, environmental policy, exploitation, extinction, Flinders University, habitat loss, invasive species, recovery, reforestation, reserve, restoration, sustainability
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss LXI
The fourth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020. See full stock of previous 'Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss' compendia here.
Tags: biodiversity, climate change, climate emergency, conservation, environment, Global warming, sustainability
Categories : biodiversity, carbon, cartoon, climate change, climate shift, ecosystem services, extinction, fire
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss LX
The third set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020 (plus a video treat). See full stock of previous 'Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss' compendia here.
Tags: biodiversity, climate change, climate emergency, collapse, conservation, COVID-19, environment, Global warming, sustainability
Categories : biodiversity, carbon, cartoon, climate change, climate shift, ecosystem services, extinction, fire, human overpopulation, human-wildlife conflict
Influential conservation ecology papers of 2019
As I've done for the last six years, I am publishing a retrospective list of the 'top' 20 influential papers of 2019 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime (in no particular order). See previous years' lists here: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.
Decline of the North American avifauna — … the first comprehensive assessment of population change in the North American avifauna.
Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change — … [highlights] the crucial role of microbial transformations in determining set points for sea temperature, pH and ocean productivity … [identifies] microbial activity as the "life support system of the biosphere".
(Note: Lots of people hated this one, basically because it appears to be severely flawed; nonetheless, it received several recommendations on F1000): The global tree restoration potential — … illustrates the substantial potential of capturing some of the excess carbon dioxide present in the earth's atmosphere by planting trees.
Managing the middle: a shift in conservation priorities based on the global human modification gradient — … probably the best global assessment of spatial extent of human modification of natural terrestrial environments published to date.
Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient — … [concludes] that northern hemisphere [sic] vegetation and soil account for the majority of the terrestrial carbon sink, rather than tropical forests (not trying to display too many sour grapes here, but we've already reported this for the boreal forest, and they didn't even bother to cite us — sad panda)
Tags: agriculture, biodiversity, birds, carbon, carbon uptake, climate change, climate emergency, CO2, conservation, declines, drought, extinction, Fish, fisheries, forests, insects, marine ecology, microorganisms, pesticides, range edges, trees, urban biodiversity, wilderness
Categories : agriculture, anthropocene, biodiversity, biogeography, biowealth, birds, carbon, climate change, climate shift, community ecology, connectivity, conservation, conservation biology, conservation ecology, decline, deforestation, demography, ecology, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extinction debt, fish, fisheries, function, habitat loss, harvest, marine, planning, pollution, protected area
Environmental damage kills children
Yes, it's a provocative title, I agree. But then again, it's true.
But I don't just mean in the most obvious ways. We already have good data showing that lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children (especially in developing nations), that air pollution is a nasty killer of young children in particular, and now even climate change is starting to take its toll.
These aspects of child health aren't very controversial, but when we talk about the larger suite of indicators of environmental 'damage', such as deforestation rates, species extinctions, and the overall reduction of ecosystem services, the empirical links to human health, and to children in particular, are far rarer.
This is why I'm proud to report the publication today of a paper on which I and team of wonderful collaborators (Sally Otto, Zia Mehrabi, Alicia Annamalay, Sam Heft-Neal, Zach Wagner, and Peter Le Souëf) have worked for several years.
I won't lie — the path to publishing this paper was long and hard, I think mainly because it traversed so many different disciplines. But we persevered and today published the paper entitled 'Testing the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of better child-health outcomes in Africa: a cross-sectional study among nations'* in the journal BMJ Open.
Tags: air pollution, breastfeeding, child health, children, corruption, diarrhoea, ecosystem services, environmental degradation, food supply, governance quality, health investment, human overpopulation, infectious disease, injury, Millennium Development Goals, over-population, paediatrics, pulmonary diseae, sanitation, stunting, Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations, water, wealth, World Health Organization
Categories : Africa, agriculture, anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, conservation, conservation biology, corruption, deforestation, demography, development, economics, ecosystem services, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, food, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, investment, livestock, logging, modelling, pollution, poverty, Red List, societies, sustainability, threatened species, toxification, water
The Great Dying
Here's a presentation I gave earlier in the year for the Flinders University BRAVE Research and Innovation series:
There is No Plan(et) B — What you can do about Earth's extinction emergency
Earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction brought about by, … well, … us. Species are being lost at a rate similar to when the dinosaurs disappeared. But this time, it's not due to a massive asteroid hitting the Earth; species are being removed from the planet now because of human consumption of natural resources. Is a societal collapse imminent, and do we need to prepare for a post-collapse society rather than attempt to avoid one? Or, can we limit the severity and onset of a collapse by introducing a few changes such as removing political donations, becoming vegetarians, or by reducing the number of children one has?
Tags: Anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, collapse, extinction, extinction emergency, food supply, human-caused global warming, sustainability, The Great Dying
Categories : Australia, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, conservation, conservation biology, corruption, decline, deforestation, development, drought, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, education, environmental economics, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extinction debt, Flinders University, flood, food, fragmentation, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, health, human overpopulation, impact, invasive species, livestock, logging, management, modelling, palaeo-ecology, pollination, pollution, poverty, recovery, reforestation, research, restoration, science, sustainability, synergies, threatened species, trophic cascades, video
Nothing like a good forest
Our history and culture are intimately tied to the planet's forests and the services they provide to all living beings. In modern times, forests also help combat the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, not only by acting as powerful sinks of the carbon excess resulting from our greenhouse-gas emissions, but also as thermal shields we and many other species can benefit from.
Understory of the laurel forest in Garajonay National Park (La Gomera, Canary Islands) – also part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 2012. The fog, combined with the cloud belt blowing from the Atlantic Ocean against the mountains (Garajonay is the highest peak at 1500 m), creates a mesic microclimate crucial for plant endemism. Forest canopies reinforce humidity and buffer temperature variation for many species. Photo: Paco Rodríguez.
If we were to choose a house to live, most would likely opt for one with water and electricity supply, noiseless nights, nearby leisure and shopping, and easy communication by public transport. Lacking only one of those aspects could be off-putting.
In truth, those who have the privilege of living in a stable household value it by the full set of available commodities. Similarly, the value of an ecosystem rests on its entire repertoire of ecological functions (1). And this is particularly so for forest ecosystems.
The ecological value of a forest relies on the collection of its native characteristics (2): how many autochthonous and mature trees it can host, how much photosynthesis it fuels, how many pollinisers it feeds, how much soil and water it creates and retains, and many more (3). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: climate change, climate emergency, ecosystem services, forests, habitat loss
Categories : anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, community ecology, conservation, deforestation, drought, ecology, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, endemism, extinction, fragmentation, function, habitat loss, prioritisation, protected area, recovery, reforestation, restoration, synergies
Increasing human population density drives environmental degradation in Africa
Almost a decade ago, I (co-) wrote a paper examining the socio-economic correlates of gross, national-scale indices of environmental performance among the world's nations. It turned out to be rather popular, and has so far garnered over 180 citations and been cited in three major policy documents.
In addition to the more pedestrian ranking itself, we also tested which of three main socio-economic indicators best explained variation in the environmental rank — a country's gross 'wealth' indicator (gross national income) turned out to explain the most, and there was no evidence to support a non-linear relationship between environmental performance and per capita wealth (the so-called environmental Kuznets curve).
Well, that was then, and this is now. Something that always bothered me about that bit of research was that in some respects, it probably unfairly disadvantaged certain countries that were in more recent phases of the 'development' pathway, such that environmental damage long since done in major development pulses many decades or even centuries prior to today (e.g., in much of Europe) probably meant that certain countries got a bit of an unfair advantage. In fact, the more recently developed nations probably copped a lower ranking simply because their damage was fresher.
While I defend the overall conclusions of that paper, my intentions have always been since then to improve on the approach. That desire finally got the better of me, and so I (some might say unwisely) decided to focus on a particular region of the planet where some of the biggest biodiversity crunches will happen over the next few decades — Africa.
Africa is an important region to re-examine these national-scale relationships for many reasons. The first is that it's really the only place left on the planet where there's a semi-intact megafauna assemblage. Yes, the great Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction event did hit Africa too, but compared to all other continents, it got through that period relatively unscathed. So now we (still) have elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, etc. It's a pretty bloody special place from that perspective alone.
Elephants in the Kruger National Park, South Africa (photo: CJA Bradshaw)
Then there's the sheer size of the continent. Unfortunately, most mercator projections of the Earth show a rather quaint continent nuzzled comfortably in the middle of the map, when in reality, it's a real whopper. If you don't believe me, go to truesize.com and drag any country of interest over the African continent (it turns out that its can more or less fit all of China, Australia, USA, and India within its greater borders).
Third, most countries in Africa (barring a few rare exceptions), are still in the so-called 'development' phase, although some are much farther along the economic road than others. For this reason, an African nation-to-nation comparison is probably a lot fairer than comparing, say, Bolivia to Germany, or Mongolia to Canada.
Tags: Africa, agriculture, carbon emissions, deforestation, development, ecological footprint, ecology, environmental performance, environmental sustainability, human population, human population growth, megafauna, sustainability, sustainable development
Categories : Africa, agriculture, anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, cattle, conservation, corruption, deforestation, development, economics, environmental Kuznets curve, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, food, governance, habitat loss, human overpopulation, livestock, logging, mammal, management, modelling, poverty, protected area, societies, sustainability, threatened species, vegetation
Academics and Indigenous groups unite to stand up for the natural world
Rain forest gives way to pastures in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso. Photo by Thiago Foresti.
More than 600 scientists from every country in the EU and 300 Brazilian Indigenous groups have come together for the first time. This is because we see a window of opportunity in the ongoing trade negotiations between the EU and Brazil. In a Letter published in Science today, we are asking the EU to stand up for Brazilian Indigenous rights and the natural world. Strong action from the EU is particularly important given Brazil's recent attempts to dismantle environmental legislation and 'develop the unproductive Amazon'.
It's worth clarifying — this isn't about the EU trying to control Brazil — it's about making sure our imports aren't driving violence and deforestation. Foreign white people trying to 'protect nature' abroad have a dark and shameful past, where actions done in the name of conservation have led to the eviction of millions of Indigenous people. This has predominantly been to create (what we in the world of conservation would call) 'protected areas'. The harsh reality is that most protected areas either are or have been ancestral lands of Indigenous people who are closely linked to their land and depend on it for their survival. Clearly, conservationists need to support Indigenous people. This new partnership between European scientists and Brazilian Indigenous groups is doing just that.
Brazil's forest loss 2001-2013 shown in red. Indigenous lands outlined. By Mike Clark; data from GlobalForestWatch.org
In Brazil, many Indigenous groups still have a right to their land. This land is predominantly found in the Amazon rainforest, where close to a million Indigenous people live and depend on a healthy forest. Indigenous people are some of the best protectors of this vast forest, and are crucial to a future of long-term successful conservation. But Brazilian Indigenous groups and local communities are increasingly under attack. Violence on deforestation frontiers in Brazil has spiked this month, with at least 9 people found dead. The future is particularly scary for Indigenous people when there are quotes such as this from the man who is currently the President "It's a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn't been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians."
On top of human rights and environmental concerns, there is a strong profit driven case for halting deforestation. For example, ongoing deforestation in the Amazon risks flipping large parts of the rainforest to savanna – posing a serious risk to agricultural productivity, food security, local livelihoods, and the Brazilian economy. Zero-deforestation doesn't harm agri-business, it allows for its longevity. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: agricultural expansion, agriculture, Brazil, carbon footprint, Cerrado, deforestation, EU, European Union, eviction, feed, genocide, indigenous, livestock, livestock feed, native people, Pantanal, Protected Areas, rain forest, Rainforest, savanna, violence
Categories : agriculture, Amazon, anthropocene, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, cattle, climate change, conservation, corruption, decline, deforestation, development, ecosystem services, environmental policy, Europe, extinction, food, fragmentation, governance, habitat loss, harvest, livestock, logging, rain forests, reserve, South America, sustainability, tropical, vegetation
How to improve (South Australia's) biodiversity prospects
Figure 2 (from the article). Overlaying the South Australia's Protected Areas boundary data with the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia layer indicates that 73.2% of the total protected area (excluding Indigenous Protected Areas) in South Australia lies in the arid biogeographic regions of Great Victoria Desert (21.1%), Channel Country (15.2%), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (14.0%), Nullarbor (9.8%), Stony Plains (6.6%), Gawler (6.0%), and Hampton (0.5%). The total biogeographic-region area covered by the remaining Conservation Reserves amounts to 26.2%. Background blue shading indicates relative average annual rainfall.
If you read CB.com regularly, you'll know that late last year I blogged about the South Australia 2108 State of the Environment Report for which I was commissioned to write an 'overview' of the State's terrestrial biodiversity.
At the time I whinged that not many people seemed to take notice (something I should be used to by now in the age of extremism and not giving a tinker's about the future health of the planet — but I digress), but it seems that quietly, quietly, at least people with some policy influence here are starting to listen.
Not satisfied with merely having my report sit on the virtual shelves at the SA Environment Protection Authority, I decided that I should probably flesh out the report and turn it into a full, peer-reviewed article.
Well, I've just done that, with the article now published online in Rethinking Ecology as a Perspective paper.
The paper is chock-a-block with all the same sorts of points I covered last year, but there's a lot more, and it's also a lot better referenced and logically sequenced.
Tags: biodiversity, ecological restoration, Environment Protection Authority, environmental legislation, EPA, invasive species, restoration, Rethinking Ecology, SOER, South Australia, State of the Environment
Categories : agriculture, Australia, biodiversity, biowealth, birds, carbon, climate change, connectivity, conservation, conservation biology, conservation ecology, decline, deforestation, development, drought, ecology, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, endemic, endemism, environmental policy, exploitation, extinction, extinction debt, Flinders University, fragmentation, function, governance, habitat loss, harvest, human-wildlife conflict, invasive species, investment, livestock, management, meso-predator release, monitoring, Murray-Darling, planning, pollination, predation, prioritisation, protected area, recovery, reforestation, research, reserve, restoration, South Australia, southern Australia, sustainability, threatened species, vegetation
We need a Revegetation Council
As I have discussed before, the greatest threatening process to biodiversity in South Australia today is past and ongoing clearing of native vegetation. So, arresting further vegetation clearing, and restoring previously cleared land to functional native-vegetation communities are easily the highest priorities across the entire State.
Despite some valiant attempts across South Australia to revegetate previously cleared areas1, the haphazard approach to reforestation in South Australia means that we are unlikely to be maximising ecological function and providing the best habitats for native biodiversity. Several improvements in this regard can be made:
(i) Establish a State Register of past, ongoing, and planned revegetation projects, including data on the proponents, area revegetated, species planted, number of individuals planted for each species, monitoring in place (e.g., plant survival, other species using the restored habitat, etc.), and costs (actual or projected). Such a State Register would allow for a more regional coordination of future revegetation projects to suggest potentially more ecologically useful approaches. This could include identifying the most locally suitable species to plant, maximising the area of existing native habitat or restored fragments by planting adjacent to these, joining isolated islands of habitat to increase connectivity, or even to create more efficient projects by combining otherwise independent proponents (e.g., adjacent landholders).
(ii) Establish a State Revegetation Council that uses data from the Register to prioritise projects, enhance collaboration, and suggest improvements in design and placement according to the principles mentioned above. The Council could also help to coordinate monitoring of progress and ecological outcomes at the landscape scale. A similar State Register for Wetland Restoration and a relevant Council could be established in a similar manner, emphasising the conservation and restoration of smaller wetlands with more unique, endemic plant species. Likewise, both Councils could ideally assist in coordinating non-profit and private organisations in terms of their revegetation priorities, as well as coordinate with conservation covenants(see below) for private landholders.
Tags: Bounceback, carbon trading, ecological restoration, Gondwana Link, NatureLinks, reforestation, restoration, Revegetation Council, South Australia, wetlands
Categories : Australia, biodiversity, biosequestration, carbon, carbon trading, climate change, connectivity, conservation, deforestation, ecosystem function, environmental policy, fragmentation, habitat loss, recovery, reforestation, research, restoration, South Australia
For the last five years I've published a retrospective list of the 'top' 20 influential papers of the year as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime — so, I'm doing so again for 2018 (interesting side note: six of the twenty papers highlighted here for 2018 appear in Science magazine). See previous years' posts here: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013.
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages — The authors report an unprecedented, regional-scale shift in the composition of coral assemblages, reflecting markedly divergent responses to heat stress by different taxa.
Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis — … highlights the impending catastrophe that human activity is bringing to the planet, not only due to climate breakdown … but also potential loss of mammalian diversity.
Protect the last of the wild — … highlights the potentially irreversible impact humans have had on the planet, to the extent that only ~ 20% remains as wilderness.
A final warning to planet Earth — Scientists have issued numerous warnings to politicians and to the general population, but to little avail: the consumerism show must go on!
The cognition of 'nuisance' species — … discuss[es] the underlying cognitive abilities that may explain [invasive species] thriving in human-modified environments and then discuss[es] how this knowledge could be used to control such species.
Tags: biodiversity hotspots, biodiversity loss, climate breakdown, climate change, cognition, coral reefs, disease, fieldwork, Fish, fisheries, fishing impacts, Great Barrier Reef, killer whales, mammals, nuisance species, plastics, predators, productivity, richness-productivity relationship, sharks, Species richness, wild areas
Categories : anthropocene, aquaculture, Australia, biodiversity, biowealth, carbon, climate change, climate shift, community ecology, connectivity, conservation, conservation biology, conservation ecology, coral reefs, decline, deforestation, demography, ecology, economics, ecosystem, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, environmental policy, environmental science, exploitation, extinction, extinction debt, fish, fisheries, food, fragmentation, function, habitat loss, harvest, human overpopulation, invasive species, management, marine, marine protected area, modelling, pollination, pollution
Perseverance eventually gets the policy makers' attention
My entry badge today to the South Australian Parliament (sorry for the shitty reproduction, but it's a shitty photo of a shitty photo)
I've often commented on it over the years, as well as written about it both in my latest book, as well as featured it here on CB.com, that little of the conservation science we do appears to reach the people making all the decisions. This is, of course, a massive problem because so much policy that affects biodiversity is not evidence-based, nor do we seem to be getting any better at telling them how buggered our natural world is.
Even the Extinction Rebellion, or school kids screaming in the streets about lack of climate-change policies appears unable to budge the entrenched, so what hope do we lonely little scientists have of getting in a Minister's ear? It's enough to make one depressed.
So, we go through the motions; we design ideal reserves with the aid of our computers, we tell people how much to fish, we tell them why feral species are bad, etc., etc., and then we publish our findings and walk away. We might do a little more and shout our messages loudly from the media rooftops, or submit comments to proposed policies, or even draft open letters or petitions. Yet no matter how hard we seem to try, our messages of urgency and despair largely fall on deaf ears.
It's enough to make you reconsider and not bothering at all.
But! Despite my obviously jaded perspective, two things have happened to me recently that attest to how a little perseverance, sticking to your guns, and staying on message can reach the ears of the powerful. My examples are minuscule in the grand scheme of things, nor will they necessarily translate into anything really positive on the ground; yet, they give me a modicum of hope that we can make a positive difference.
The first event happened a few weeks ago after we did a press release about our paper on co-extinction cascades published in Scientific Reports. Yes, it got into a few big newspapers and radio, but I thought it wouldn't do much more than peak the punters' interest for the typical 24-hour news cycle. However, after the initial media interest died down, I received an e-mail from one of my university's media officers saying that the we had been cited in The Senate (one of the two houses in the Australian Parliament)! An excerpt of the transcript is shown below (you can read the whole thing — if you could be bothered — here): Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: influence, policy makers, policy relevance, policymakers, power brokers, science-policy divide
Categories : Australia, biodiversity, carbon, climate change, conservation, ecology, economics, ecosystem services, environmental policy, extinction, governance, invasive species, management, monitoring, science, science communication, South Australia
The European Union just made bioenergy worse for biodiversity
While some complain that the European Union (EU) is an enormous, cumbersome beast (just ask the self-harming Brexiteers), it generally has some rather laudable legislative checks and balances for nature conservation. While far from perfect, the rules applying to all Member States have arguably improved the state of both European environments, and those from which Europeans source their materials.
But legislation gets updated from time to time, and not always in the ways that benefit biodiversity (and therefore, us) the most. This is exactly what's just happened with the new EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) released in June this year.
Now, this is the point where most readers' eyes glaze over. EU policy discussions are exceedingly dry and boring (I've dabbled a bit in this arena before, and struggled to stay awake myself). But I'll try to lighten your required concentration load somewhat by being as brief and explanatory as possible, but please stay with me — this shit is important.
In fact, it's so important that I joined forces with some German colleagues with particular expertise in greenhouse-gas accounting and EU policy — Klaus Hennenberg and Hannes Böttcher1 of Öko-Institut (Institute of Applied Ecology) in Darmstadt — to publish an article available today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
So back to the RED legislation. The original 'RED 2009' covered reductions of greenhouse-gas emissions and the mitigation of negative impacts on areas of high biodiversity value, such as primary forests, protected areas, and highly biodiverse grasslands, and for areas of high carbon stock like wetlands, forests, and peatlands.
But RED 2009 was far from what we might call 'ambitious', because globally mandatory criteria on water, soil and social aspects for agriculture and forestry production were excluded to avoid conflicts with rules of the World Trade Organization.
Nor did RED 2009 apply to all bioenergy types, and only included biofuels used in transport, including gaseous and solid fuels, and bioliquids used for electricity, heating, and cooling. But RED 2009 requirements also applied to all raw materials sourced from agriculture and forestry, especially as forest biomass is explicitly mentioned as a raw material for the production of advanced biofuels in the RED 2009 extension from 2015.
Thus, one could conceivably call RED 2009 criteria 'minimum safeguards'.
But as of June this year, the EU accepted a 2016 proposal to recast RED 2009 into what is now called 'RED II'. While the revisions might look good on paper by setting new incentives in transport (advanced biofuels) and in heating and cooling that will likely increase the use of biomass sourced from forests, and by extending the directive on solid and gaseous biomass, the amendments unfortunately take some huge leaps backwards in terms of sustainability requirements.
These include the following stuff-ups: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bioenergy, biofuels, cultivation, deforestation, food, forestry, forests, fuel, land-use rights, maize, oil palm, palm oil, primary forests
Categories : agriculture, biocarbon, biodiversity, biosequestration, biowealth, boreal, carbon, carbon trading, climate change, climate shift, conservation, deforestation, economics, environmental policy, Europe, fragmentation, governance, habitat loss, harvest, logging, oil palm, palm oil, protected area, sustainability, vegetation
Primate woes where the oil palm grows
A new article just published in PNAS reveals how future expansion of the palm-oil industry could have terrible consequences for African primates.
Researchers from the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, CIRAD, Liverpool John Moores University, and ETH Zurich searched for "areas of compromise" combining high oil palm suitability with low primate vulnerability, as possible locations where to accommodate new oil-palm plantations while reducing detrimental effects on primate populations.
Results show that there is small room for compromise. In fact, potential areas of compromise are rare across the whole African continent, covering a total extent of 0.13 Mha of land highly suited to oil palm cultivation where primate vulnerability is low, rising to just 3.3 Mha if all land with at least minimum suitability to grow oil palm is taken into account.
Palm oil production is steadily rising, and expected to accelerate in response to growing world's population, with future demand driven not only by the food industry, but also by the biofuel market. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Africa, agriculture, biodiversity, deforestation, oil palm, palm oil, sustainability
Categories : Africa, agriculture, biodiversity, carbon, conservation, deforestation, ecosystem services, environmental policy, extinction, food, fragmentation, habitat loss, human overpopulation, IUCN, modelling, oil palm, palm oil, prioritisation, rain forests, threatened species
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School and Education in Saudi Arabia
The education, which is financed by the state, plays a central role in the national development plans. The goals are primary education for all, skills that suit the economy and teaching Islamic faith and culture. The school structure consists of 6-year compulsory school, which is not compulsory, 3-year middle school and 3-year higher secondary school. Less than 10% of students attend private schools. Schooling for girls first became available in the 1960s; the girls go in a separate, state school system. Nowadays the girls make up just over half of the students. Undergraduate education at the country's seven universities is 4-5 years old with the dominance of the humanities and social sciences, which has led to a shortage of highly educated technicians.
Saudi Arabia flag source: Countryaah.com
Major investments have been made in recent years at universities of technology and science and universities. The demand for places from female students is very high. The proportion of female students among university students is about 60%. King Fahd's university in the eastern province has long been the foremost, but the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which King Abdullah has built in a special zone outside Jeddah, is now by far the most prominent. KAUST has the National University of Singapore (NUS) as its role model and its CEO is now linked to the Saudi University as well as a dozen Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry.
Topschoolsintheusa: Offers a full list of testing locations for SAT exam in Saudi Arabia. Also covers test dates of 2020 and 2021 for Scholastic Assessment Test within this country.
The number of pupils in schools has increased explosively since the 1960s, which has resulted in teacher shortages and imports (about 30%) of teachers from other Arab states. Arabic is the language of instruction in primary and secondary schools, while English is widely used at higher levels. According to the Saudi Ministry of Education, literacy has increased from 40% in 1972 to 87% in 2010. Among young people aged 15 to 24, literacy is 96%.
Also in June, a coalition of international NGOs – including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International – called on the UN General Assembly to suspend Saudi Arabia's membership of the UN Human Rights Council because of the country's grave and systematic violations of human rights in Yemen.
In September 2016, the United States Congress voted overwhelmingly to reject the veto President Obama had filed against the so-called Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The law allowed families affected by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to claim compensation from Saudi Arabia, which supplied most terrorists with the attacks. Already in April, Saudi Arabia had threatened to sell its $ 750 billion portfolio US $ in North American government bonds.
Denmark and the rest of the Western world do not usually criticize the medieval kleptocracy of Saudi Arabia. There are too many economic and political interests involved. But at a conference in Rome in December, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took the leaf out of his mouth and declared that Saudi Arabia was waging deputy wars in the region:
There are politicians who are twisting and abusing religion and different strains of the same religion in order to further their own political objectives. That's one of the biggest political problems in the whole region. And the tragedy for me – and that's why you've been fighting these proxies all the time in that area – is that there isn't strong enough leadership in the countries themselves.
Johnson identified then pointed to Iran and Saudi Arabia: That's why you've got the Saudis, Iran, everybody, moving in, and puppeteering and playing proxy wars.
The statement coincided with Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to a high-profile commercial visit to the Gulf States. praised the Saudi royal house for its "visionary leadership" and the great value of the 100-year-old alliance between the two countries. The British Foreign Ministry was soon out with corrective statements highlighting the close ties between Britain and Saudi Arabia. The United States and Britain are major suppliers of weapons to Saudi Arabia's brutal war against Yemen. The British military orders alone amount to 2 billion. £ a year, and despite the documentation of Saudi war crimes in Yemen, the Conservative British government refuses to curb lucrative exports. Great Britain supplies illegal cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia to commit war crimes in Yemen. (Johnson says Saudi Arabia is a 'puppeteer' in Middle East proxy wars, Guardian 8/12 2016).
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Auto Enthusiasts Want to Block Potential Toll Roads in Arizona
Matthew Hendley | July 30, 2013 | 2:08pm
A group of automotive enthusiasts is trying to prevent any roads and highways in the state from becoming toll roads.
Additionally, the proposed ballot initiative submitted by the group targets plans for potential toll lanes on highways, which would allow solo drivers to pay to use the carpool lane.
Such lanes are used in other states, but the Arizona Automobile Hobbyist Council filed an application for an initiative, in an attempt to prevent that from happening here.
The initiative would prevent "existing publicly funded or maintained roadways" from being turned into "any form of toll roads."
The organization has until July 3, 2014, to collect 259,213 signatures in order for the proposal to appear on voting ballots.
The Maricopa Association of Governments has already been studying potential "high-occupancy/toll" lanes, also known as "HOT lanes."
There are a lot of variables involved, like one option to convert the current HOV lanes on Valley highways into HOT lanes, or another option of adding an HOT lane in addition to the existing HOV lane. Also, they have to consider hours of operation, prices, and benefit, among other things.
A pair of researchers at Arizona State University have been studying the issue for some time now, and have a short paper explaining how the lanes, in general, can be beneficial.
It kind of reads like a lengthy SAT question, but check out the basic math, assuming a 25-mile freeway, with one HOV lane being converted into an HOT lane, using average transportation stats from government research:
"The worst congestion in the general-purpose lanes occurs between 5 and 6 p.m., when the flow rate is about 2,600 vehicles per hour (vph) per lane. The capacity of a freeway lane is considerably less at about 2,200 vph per lane. At this flow rate, the travel time on this 25-mile section will be about 60 minutes at an average speed of approximately 25 mph. The corresponding speed and travel time on the HOV lane during this same hour are 70 mph and 21 minutes respectively at a flow rate of about 900 vph. If the value of travel time savings is taken to be $15 per hour (i.e., people are willing to pay a quarter for every minute that is shaved off their travel time), then a $1 toll is worth paying as long as using the HOV (converted to HOT) lane saves the solo driver 4 minutes or more. As soon as the travel time differential between the HOT lane and the general purpose lane falls below 4 minutes, paying the toll and switching to the HOT lane is no longer worth it. Based on this reasoning, after a HOV lane is converted to a HOT lane, the traffic flow between 5 and 6 pm would be redistributed such that the HOT lane carries 2,100 vph and the general purpose lanes carry 2,200 vph per lane. In other words, about 1,200 vehicles have switched from the general purpose lane to the HOT lane and are now paying a toll. The new travel times would be 30 minutes on the HOT lane and 34 minutes on the general purpose lanes. This analysis can be repeated for all hours of the day, keeping in mind that the HOT lane would be operational during the hours of 6- 9 am and 3-7 pm and would be a general purpose lane during all other hours.
Once we add up all of the numbers, here is what we find. The HOT lane conversion on this 25 mile stretch of freeway results in a total daily time savings of 6,800 vehicle-hours or about 1.7 million vehicle-hours annually. Valued at $15 per hour, this time savings may be viewed as being worth $25.5 million annually. This is equivalent to an average time savings of 4 minutes worth $1 for each individual vehicle-trip on this 25 mile stretch of freeway. Meanwhile, the HOT lane itself is generating a revenue of $2,700 per day or $675,000 per year, probably enough to operate and maintain the high-speed electronic toll collection (ETC) systems required of HOT lanes. All of these numbers will get multiplied over depending on the total lane-miles of HOV to HOT lane conversion.
Although it may seem like a good plan to the researchers, there are obviously some issues with it, if a group of people wants Arizona voters to block the plans.
For one, the Maricopa Association of Governments notes on its website that, "Arizona House Bill (HB) 2396, passed by the Arizona Legislature and signed by Governor Brewer on July 13, 2009, enables the state, through the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), to consider the use of Public-Private-Partnerships (P3) as a tool for financing transportation infrastructure in Arizona."
That means there's a corporation that stands to make money off the proposed HOT lanes.
Here's a brief explanation of the objection to the lanes from the Arizona Automobile Hobbyist Council:
Our purpose is to shine a HUGE light on the fact that some in our legislature are planning with outside interests to bring TOLL ROADS to AZ in the very near future. A toll is just another tax, and we already pay one of the highest state gas taxes to maintain our roads in the country. Our state tax, added to the Federal gas tax, provides plenty of money to maintain our roadway system. The trouble is our government officials looks to the tax for other purposes. The more they tax, the more they spend.
To check out the Arizona Automobile Hobbyist Council's petition, click here.
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Horror.com Forums - Talk about horror. > Horror.com Lobby > Compilations and Pastimes
1896 - 2012: The Official HDC Selection from 100+ Years of Horror Cinema
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A *new* Covenant
Greetings to all cinema fans horror or non-horror,
Throughout the history of cinema, one genre has managed to break through and has carved a separate niche for itself. It has gone from strength to strength in the past 100+ years, and contemporary genre fans know that our genre is dotted with examples which have become milestones not only in horror cinema, but all cinema in general.
What we have sat down to chisel out, is the finest examples by decade in the history of horror cinema. We hope that this exhaustive project - 3 years in the making, including debates/discussions for almost one FULL year - serves as a guide to the present and future generations about the most notable examples captured on celluloid by our genre filmmaker veterans over the years. And, in the end, what we have produced, are more than 300 of the finest films the horror genre has produced over the years - right from the silent era, through the black & white vintage classics, the advent of British & foreign horror, fully colored films, hugely popular 60s/70s/80s stuff, cult classics and the latest contemporary masterpieces.
200 officially selected films. 10 must-see documentaries. 55 of the finest Honorable Mentions. And 50 of the best individual recommendations you can get.
Yes. It's H-U-G-E!
Big thanks go to everyone involved in this project. The list of all involved members will be posted at the end of the compilation.
This is our signature, our legacy.
We hope this stands the test of time and serves as a definitive guide, even long after we all are gone.
For the first period, the very early horror, I have posted links to the full films on youtube. From the second period onwards, many films are not in public domain and so have to be bought (as VHS/DVD copies) from the copyright holding companies. I have added trailers because of that reason. You can still find some full films from the 1930s onwards on several online video streaming websites such as youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, hulu, etc.
I sincerely request anyone and everyone who opens this thread - please give the page(s) a minute so that the corresponding youtube videos can load up into the links. Once that happens, scrolling through will be a breeze.
Grab your coffees, notepads and pens, as I quote from one of my favorite holiday horror films - "Onward, into the compilation!"
"If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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The FIRST PERIOD: 1896 - 1929
Le Manoir Du Diable (1896)
Wikipedia Link
It deserves inclusion by virtue of that fact that it's generally considered to be the first horror film. While it was made to be goofy and playful rather than frightening, it still contains many aspects of what would become part of the language of horror cinema--Gothic castle, bats, ghouls, ghosts, as well as some early special effects--all in one 3+ minute short. - fortunato
(Edison's) Frankenstein (1910)
L'Inferno (aka) Dante's Inferno (1911)
Deserves inclusion because not only the first full length horror from Italy but because it successfully adapted the first on-screen vision of hell adapted from Dante's writings. It's also the world's oldest surviving feature length film. Though it's more like a series of set pieces than a cohesive movie, it impressively portrays in graphic detail the many torments to be inflicted on it's residents. Inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream. This gives the whole nightmare an atmosphere that is relentlessly unique and otherworldly that will still send a shiver down the spine of the viewer. - Fearonsarms
The Golem (1920)
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The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
The Hands of Orlac (aka) Orlacs Hände (1924)
The Bat (1926)
A Page of Madness (aka) Kurutta ippêji (1926)
It's one of the first films, as far as I know, to use a "pure cinema" approach to exploring the subjectivity of madness, creating expressive visual poetry of a distorted and frightening world. With surreal imagery and experimental editing techniques, A Page of Madness is a haunting, insane masterpiece, surely unique in not only its time, but even to this day. I strongly encourage anyone not familiar with the film to watch it. - fortunato
The Lodger (1927)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
London After Midnight (1927)
All Parts - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSG...Ty2wI5nXhpDtRw
West of Zanzibar (1928)
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The SECOND PERIOD: 1930 - 1939
Freaks (1932)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Vampyr (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
All star cast and a tremendously wicked script combine to make a movie well worth watching. - neverending
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mad Love (1935)
The Invisible Ray (1936)
It completes the Frankenstein trilogy, and contains a lot of the imagery that we remember. - neverending
The THIRD PERIOD: 1940 - 1949
The Devil Commands (1941)
http://matineeclassics.com/movies/19...evil_commands/
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
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Home Hear Indie Roundup | 28 Tracks For Your Thursday Playlist
Indie Roundup | 28 Tracks For Your Thursday Playlist
Jaga Jazzist, Ric Wilson, Terrace Martin, Be Well, Zheani & more of today's treats.
Jaga Jazzist get animated, Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin do the wave, Be Well go into the light, Zheani flows like lava, The Oracle walks a hard road and more in your Thursday Roundup. Scroll down to sample new goodies from Nils Lofgren, Andy Shauf and more. And don't sleep on that Era Bleak cut.
PICKS OF THE DAY
1 | Jaga Jazzist | Tomita
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Jaga Jazzist unveil their new single Tomita (an edit of the epic 13 mins 47 secs album version) and an accompanying video directed and animated by Jengo. True to form, the track itself pays homage to Japanese composer and pioneering synth player Isao Tomita, evolving and unravelling across multiple movements embodying the Norwegian octet's rich, expansive sonic signature. Jengo's animations are the perfect foil, documenting the epic journey of a mysterious cloaked figure. "The upbeat pace of the song felt fitting to have the character run the whole time, tearing through the desert barely stopping to appreciate the view, with the warm hues of the desert echoing the strong red color of the album cover. Stylistically I knew it had to feel epic and grand yet very minimal and clean, so I was looking at video games for inspiration, mostly Zelda and Journey, some anime and some '70s sci-fi book covers for the scale and the surrealist feel." Jaga Jazzist will release their new album Pyramid on Aug. 7."
2 | Ric Wilson & Terrace Martin | Don't Kill The Wave
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Chicago-based musician, activist, and organizer Ric Wilson and Grammy-nominated producer Terrace Martin are thrilled to share their new video for Don't Kill The Wave, a standout track off the pair's collaborative EP, They Call Me Disco. Don't Kill The Wave is joyful and motivating. Its accompanying video, directed by A Solo Vision, is reflective of its energetic spirit as Wilson and his friends have a living room dance party. "I made this song for the dance floors at the block party, the cookout, the weddings, the rallies, the covid19 living room clubbbbbbbbs," says Wilson."
3 | Be Well | Morning Light
THE PRESS RELEASE: "The relative newcomers formed from hardcore and metal veterans, Be Well, shared their blistering new single Morning Light with an accompanying lyric video. Clocking in just under the two-minute mark, Morning Light reflects on past failures and the urge to feel truly alive tying into the album's deeply personal themes of anxiety, depression, and moving forward for your loved ones. The fervid new track is taken from Be Well's debut full-length album, The Weight and The Cost, due out on Aug. 21."
4 | Zheani | Lava
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Australian rapper, songwriter, and artist Zheani shared a whimsical look into her mind with the release of a music video for single Lava. The clip, created in collaboration with artist, Mik Shida, finds Zheani in her own fantasy world split through states of Zen and bursts of animated colour, as she summons a friend to cure her loneliness. Serving as the opener of The Zheani Sparkes EP, the song showcases a uniquely Zheani sound often described as Fairy Trap, combining trap motifs with elements of art-pop. The quirky beat found on Lava is sprinkled with autotuned affirmational lyrics painting a picture filled with tropical vibes and beautiful creatures. Zheani states: "Lava represents happiness. It is an anthem for going on a holiday in your mind. At this point in my life I am happy in my heart but with the current state of the world, expressing it outwardly feels performative. For me it's comical watching myself trying to express "happiness" as a convincing performance for the camera. Lava itself was very much "fake happiness until you make happiness" and I hope like a placebo it has that effect on others during a time it's probably needed the most."
5 | The Oracle | V. The Road To Heaven
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Hypogeum is the impending new full-length from avant electronics project The Oracle. Inspired at once by the grandiosity of film scores and classical music, the bleakness of black metal, and minimalist ambient music, Hypogeum is dark and at times ritualistic with its themes and complimentary visuals touching upon paranoia and the rise and fall of messiah-like figures and cult leaders. In advance of Hypogeum, the mysterious outfit is pleased to unveil the visual companion to The Road To Heaven. The clip serves as the fifth of a six-part video series that will ultimately culminate into one short film bridging together the record's shadowy theme. Comments The Oracle, "In the penultimate part of Hypogeum's short film, we follow The Oracle as he struggles along the path to find his true destiny that has eluded him until this point."
ALSO ON THE PLAYLIST
6 | Swagger Rite | Like That
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Swagger Rite releases the official video for his new track Like That. The video, directed and edited by Rodzilla, with creative direction by Rodzilla, Alex Snow and Troy Crossfield was filmed in Toronto and features Swagger ballin' in a white Rolls Royce Phantom convertible, passionately calling out his adversaries and pumping his own tires. The video for Like That was produced by Troy Crossfield from Crossfield House Productions, with additional artwork by James Stamler. Lyrically, Like That sees Swagger switching lanes with his lyrical cadence. Veering from his trademark authoritative presence to a more indifferent and nonchalant approach, Swagger still maintains the braggadocio demeanor to which we have grown familiar. Like That is calling out people that consistently put out negative energy, show hate, and focus on other people's lives instead of working on their own craft."
7 | Hauler | The Widow's Vow
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Seamlessly blending and bending roots, rock, and traditional Cape Breton Celtic music together into a hearty homemade soup that can dynamically have you hanging off every lyric — or knock you flat on your arse — Cape Breton's contemporary Celtic trio Hauler have been simmering on the stove and are now ready to serve themselves up with the release of their debut album. Familiar faces from saltwater funk trio Slowcoaster Steve MacDougall and Mike Lelievre have been sharing stages since long before they had any to play on, bringing hard-hitting pop-rock to the masses between Cheticamp and China for almost 20 years, and this represents a timely and natural return to their acoustic roots. Teaming up with fiddler Colin Grant, the trio weave traditional Irish and Scottish ballads, indie folk originals, and traditional and contemporary tune instrumentals with a modern acoustic approach that proves Cape Breton music can reassuringly re-invent itself."
8 | Crushed Velvet & the Velveteers | As Far As We Know
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Alan Evans' latest musical project, Crushed Velvet and the Velveteers, release the powerful new single As Far As We Know, featuring the vocal stylings of D.C.-based musician Brother GoodLove, as well as pianist Darby Wolf, Alex Lee-Clark and Brian Thomas of BT ALC Big Band, baritone guitarist Ryan Hommel, and string player Cynthia Tolson. "I originally wrote the music for As Far As We Know back in May 2019 with another VLM project in mind," shares Evans on the collaborative project. "I knew that I wanted to have Stephane (Brother GoodLove) singing on this song from the beginning. I didn't realize that Stephane would turn that working title into such beautiful and powerful lyrics — I was really blown away when he sent me the first demo of the vocal and couldn't wait to get it into full production but for whatever reason, it wasn't the right time. But once I had the idea for the new Crushed Velvet and the Velveteers album, As Far As You Know being included was a no brainer. So during quarantine, Stephane cut the vocals and I called on my Vintage League Music family of musicians to fill out the song and the rest is history. Without a doubt, it's one of my favorite songs I've ever written."
9 | Venus Furs | Chaos and Confusion
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Venus Furs is the moniker of Montreal's Paul Kasner, a multi-instrumentalist, writer, and producer. In preceding years the act has taken many forms, supporting the likes of The Horrors and The Twilight Sad as he worked on refining and determining exactly what Venus Furs was meant to be. Now, Kasner is on the verge of releasing Venus Furs, a rigorously crafted set of songs that voyage through sonic and mental terrain. Says Kasner: "Chaos and Confusion is the opening track of the debut Venus Furs album. It's about a woman who loses everything in a game of cards narrated by the dealer who cheats her while taking advantage of her inability to stop playing. At the end of the song, the dealer nearly shows his humanity, turning away to hide the guilt of his actions. The video attempts to tap into the emotions the dealer attempts to hide — guilt, regret and consequent turmoil."
10 | ARA | Tell You Why // Down
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Mixed Mexican-Italian-American artist ARA just shared a defiant art pop video for Tell You Why // Down, off her newly announced The Desert EP, out Aug. 14. Once a student-athlete with interest from major labels, ARA ended up in the psych ward at SF General and wandering the California desert, confronting the cognitive dissonance as a mixed woman in America and disassociation in the wake of physical & emotional abuse. Inspired by everyone from Santigold and Kanye West to Courtney Love, the project sees ARA's spiritual crisis become personal empowerment."
11 | Layla Kaylif | Lovers Don't Meet
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Layla Kaylif is pleased to present the official video for Lovers Don't Meet, the title track of her new album out Aug. 7. Inspired by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi, Lovers Don't Meet is a spiritual and soul-searching track with a radiant Americana sound representative of her upcoming record. For its official video, the London-based singer-songwriter and filmmaker pairs the track with elegant visuals with overarching themes of pilgrimage. "What people don't realise is that Rumi was a Muslim mystic, and is in the same spiritual stream as people like Teresa of Avila, and even Wordsworth. They have transcended their own particular religions and achieved as sort of union with the God."
12 | Rarity | Worn Down
THE PRESS RELEASE: "After a tough couple of years, armed with lessons learned, a newly-cemented lineup and an explosive second LP The Longest Lonesome, heralded post-harcore quintet Rarity has a fresh lease on life. Since its release last August, The Longest Lonesome has been streamed over 1.2 million times. Rarity's latest single, "Worn Down is about humanity. It's about relationships between humans. Relationships with harsh edges. The kind you maybe don't want to think about, but I find myself writing about nonetheless. Two people with mental instabilities passionately trying to make a life with each other. They come to terms with how to treat and support one another all while pushing through their own mental health problems. It's about the aggressive and problem-ridden push and pull of an otherwise loving relationship. About how mental insecurity and illness can wear a relationship down and damage their sense of togetherness and empathy — something you'll regret absolutely in retrospect, but ignore in the moment. You can look at the other person and swear you feel nothing at all, even though you know you love them."
13 | Black Royal | Gods of War
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Following on from the success of their 2018 debut album Lightbringer, Scandinavian sludge savants Black Royal return with their crushing new song Gods of War. Formed in 2013 in Tampere, Finland, the quartet revisited their highly infectious brew of metal with Firebride, as they ushered in a devastating foray into the fields of Wicca. Gods of War takes clear influence from black metal and modern sludge. "Gods of War started out as a guitar jam but eventually turned into a worthy song," explains Black Royal vocalist Riku. "We heard that one can find echoes of Mastodon and Kvelertak in this song and it suits us just fine as both are fantastic bands! The lyrics are inspired by the Vikings TV series and a war between paganism and Christianity. Without the clergymen nobody would talk about the Devil. The Devil as we know it exists only in Christianity. Pagans do not have a Devil — they have Spirits which were good or bad according to how one lived and got along with them. In the middle part of the song there's an old Finnish witch song which suits perfectly with the mood and honours the Finnish pagan cultural heritage."
14+15 | Market Junction | Western Coast + A Stone Will Sink
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Houston's Market Junction released new single A Stone Will Sink, from their forthcoming album Burning Bridges, due out Aug. 7. The band also shared a new video for album track Western Coast. "If a heart has loved, it has been broken," says frontman Matt Parrish of A Stone Will Sink. "This is old news, yet we speak of love with a romantic grandeur that implies we are oblivious to the inevitable. Just as we expect a stone to sink, we should expect a heart to break. It's what hearts do." The electrifying combination of golden-voiced frontman Parrish and fretboard wizard Justin Lofton are a rock-solid foundation for the band, their folk-infused alt-country style has resulted in some of the most beautiful music in the current landscape. Burning Bridges was forged in the midst of the members' personal tribulations — changing direction in the middle of recording, a trip to the emergency room, a divorce, the births of children, a hard drive crash costing weeks worth of work, releasing a record in the middle of a global pandemic. The band was still able to create magic in the midst of the struggle."
16 | Re.decay | Down Long Enough
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Rising production duo Re.decay have released their latest EP, Down Long Enough. Re.decay is the brainchild of Owen Ross and Emanuel Bender, each an established musician in his own right. Ross performs as a solo artist and as a guitarist and musical director for a number of groups and artists. He has toured extensively sharing bills with big names such as The Roots, Big Boi, Gym Class Heroes, OK Go!, Biz Markie and Afroman. He currently works as a producer and songwriter with a wide range of up-and-coming artists. Bender has an impressive list of production credits including notable artists such as Alle Farben, Dillistone, Moli, Fhat and others. His work has received over 1.6 million plays across streaming platforms."
17 | Maxwell Stern | Born At The End Of The Year
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Maxwell Stern has announced his debut solo album Impossible Sum will be released on Sept. 25, and unveiled the first single from the LP. "This song is about relocating for the purpose of reinventing yourself and, upon settling into that new place, concluding that you're still mostly the same person" says Stern of the single. "I feel like everyone's done something like that to a certain extent. Now that I've been in a new city for a couple years, I've found that many of the things I was trying to run away from are actually things I like most about myself, my hometown, and my support network. It continues to surprise me, which is how I got the line, "There are rooms in this house that I'm still finding."'
18 | Heaps | You Were There
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Heaps are sharing another new track from their upcoming LP, What Is Heaps, out Aug. 28. You Were There is an attempt to "understand and process fear," says vocalist Warren Frank. "Can we ever move past our insecurities if we won't first acknowledge them? The song works to navigate the dynamic that creating and performing music can bring about. Can one be authentically vulnerable when they know an audience will be receiving their work? How can one prepare themselves to handle the flippant negativity that can so easily come from those who care so much less than you? It's a rally for ourselves. A reminder to abandon self-consciousness and care deeply, whether people are looking or not."
19 | Eli Winter | Maroon
THE PRESS RELEASE: "The lone single from Unbecoming, Maroon is out today. It features a band of good friends from Chicago and Houston: Tyler "Dogginator" Damon on percussion, Cameron "Floordragger" Knowler on acoustic guitar, and Sam "Actually Fred from Scooby Doo" Wagster on pedal steel. There's a wonderful animated music video to accompany it courtesy of Haylie Jimenez, featuring all sorts of squiggles and circles and curved lines, plus some forms, vaguely resembling skateboards, timed to Cameron's entrance. (This was intentional.)"
20 | Tanzos | How Do You Want Me?
THE PRESS RELEASE: "How Do You Want Me? is the new music video by Austrian indie-rocker Tanzos. Bursting with squalling guitar harmonics, glitches and intense facial expressions, the new monochromatic visuals for How Do You Want Me? sees Tanzos explore the emotions and pressures felt when striving for the acceptance of others."
21 | Nils Lofgren | Too Many Miles
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Between E Street Band and Crazy Horse work, master rock singer songwriter-guitarist Nils Lofgren fit in his first tour with a full band in over 15 years. Inspired by writing with the great Lou Reed on his last studio album, Nils knew it was time. Audience and band alike sharing their souls, gifts, spirit and energy on the tour made for a fresh, new live sound for Nils. The result is in an earthy, rockin' album that breathes life into a world temporarily void of the excitement, energy, tenderness, and spontaneity of live music during COVID-19. The 16-track collection, entitled Weathered, and issued on Lofgren's own label, was produced by the musician and his wife Amy, and is due out on Aug. 21."
22 | Another Sky | All Ends
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Another Sky have announced the release of their debut album I Slept On The Floor, due for release on Aug. 7. They have also released their brand new single All Ends. The quartet have spent the past seven years tackling subjects as complex as mental health, toxic masculinity and climate change with an impressive deftness of touch, thereby establishing themselves as a vital voice on the UK's alternative-rock scene. Catrin explains of her lyrical bluntness, "growing up, my family always spoke about politics. I feel like it's in my blood. I didn't realise how much silence plays into society, and how much people are indoctrinated to believe that they shouldn't talk about anything difficult. But we're all affected by what's going on so we have to talk about these issues, because if we don't, we can't understand why we feel so desperate, let alone solve it."
23+24 | Andy Shauf | Judy + Jeremy's Wedding
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Andy Shauf presents Judy b/w Jeremy's Wedding, two B-sides from his album The Neon Skyline. Upon its release, The Neon Skyline was beloved by fans and critics alike. Judy and Jeremy's Wedding continue the vignette of love interest Judy, who much of The Neon Skyline centers around. The tracks continue to champion Shauf's attention to detail, presenting narrative lyrics over his signature fusion of folk, jazz, and chamber-pop. "Judy and Jeremy's Wedding were outliers to the narrative of the album," says Shauf. "They fit a little bit outside the timeline, as I was trying to keep everything to a single night. They were also slightly different arrangement wise, so I decided that they might be best released together, apart from the album."
25 | Foonyap | Free And Easy Wandering
THE PRESS RELEASE: "In a time of social isolation and uncertainty, one's physicality may be constrained, but one's awareness may be free. This discovery of letting go and embracing the present moment is told in Foonyap's latest single Free and Easy Wandering. It slowly awakens in a spontaneous flutter of violin trills before drawing into a quiet folk accompaniment of mandolin and wistful vocals. As the melody meanders through planes of the unknown, transformation takes shape in a swell of orchestral strings travelling along a '60s retro shuffle. The crest eventually melts into waves of mandolin plucks and cymbal rolls, unveiling a new state — "now is all there is" — as whispers of violin are soon carried off into silence."
26 | Era Bleak | Robot
THE PRESS RELEASE: "As manifestos go, it's difficult to argue with a statement as darkly straightforward as: 'Things get shittier every week / No hope for the future in this era bleak'. That's from the opening verse to Era Bleak's theme song, which also happens to open up their debut album — it's as accurate a summary of 2020 as you're likely to find, made all the more emphatic by a frantic spasm of nervy guitar jerks and a 100mph rhythm section that knows the best way to get you there. Whether you're looking for a soundtrack or antidote to – or even simply a distraction from — the horrors of the age, this record has most assuredly got your back."
27 | Decoration Day | Sadness in DisguiseTHE PRESS RELEASE: "Decoration Day share their latest single Sadness in Disguise, taken from the Toronto folk band's debut album Makeshift Future, out Sept. 18. "I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying," explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. "During that time, I found myself intellectually sorting through these complex emotions and measuring my progress within the stages of grief. Since then, I've learned that while there is a time for clarity and quantifiability, there is also a time for feelings to simply be felt all the way through. A time to inquire and unmask all the ways sadness presents itself, to trust the process and feel our way forward."
27 | Decoration Day | Sadness in Disguise
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Decoration Day share their latest single Sadness in Disguise, taken from the Toronto folk band's debut album Makeshift Future, out Sept. 18. "I began writing Sadness in Disguise during a period of depression, and finished it in the midst of deep grief for a loved one dying," explains multi-instrumentalist Tiffany Wu. "During that time, I found myself intellectually sorting through these complex emotions and measuring my progress within the stages of grief. Since then, I've learned that while there is a time for clarity and quantifiability, there is also a time for feelings to simply be felt all the way through. A time to inquire and unmask all the ways sadness presents itself, to trust the process and feel our way forward."
28 | Marsupial Lion | Solar Glare
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Solar Glare is the new track from Marsupial Lion, the Ithaca, NY-based project of Travis Jonathan. Describing the track's overarching sound as "riffwave," Jonathan emits a carpe diem croon over chiming synths and crackling bass, culminating in a thunderous swell of guitars integrating nu-disco and chillwave. Solar Glare's opening salvo — and the album's opening track — meets listeners in their anxious 2020 enclaves, diffusing our collective tension with undulating synth arpeggios, a relentless drum groove, and quixotic hopefulness. Like previous Marsupial Lion singles, Solar Glare defies easy classification — a nu-disco/chillwave late-aughts throwback banger, blended with a layered lyricism typical of far more cerebral genres."
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'Time to take difficult decisions': Asad Umar steps down as finance minister, will not hold any portfolio
Staff Reporter April 18, 2019
Finance Minister Asad Umar — an hour after announcing that he is stepping down as finance minister — told a press conference that it was time to make some "difficult decisions" to stabilise the economy and that he hopes his replacement would be supported in their efforts.
Umar announced earlier on Thursday that he has obtained the prime minister's consent "to not take any cabinet position" days after reports of a reshuffle in the cabinet were rubbished by the government's spokesperson.
"As part of a cabinet reshuffle, [the] prime minister desired that I take the energy minister portfolio instead of finance," he said. "However, I have obtained his consent to not take any cabinet position."
Umar ended his tweet by saying: "I strongly believe @ImranKhanPTI is the best hope for Pakistan and inshAllah will make a naya Pakistan."
During the press conference, Umar said following a reshuffle in the cabinet, he was asked to take the energy portfolio.
"I met the prime minister this morning and convinced him that I did not want to take any portfolio," he said.
"This does not mean that I am not available to forward PTI's vision for 'Naya Pakistan'. I am and will always be available to forward the interests of this country.
"It was on exactly this date in 2012, when newspapers had announced that I was joining the PTI. Today seven years later, I am giving you this news.
"It has been a wonderful journey of seven years and I will continue this journey.
"I need to thank the PTI's youth for their enthusiasm. I need to say that when we came in, the economy was in a dangerous and sorry state, we were standing near a ditch, one move and we would have been in the ditch. The state of the economy is still not great [and] the next finance minister that comes in will still have a hard time.
"What I want is that whoever comes in is supported when they make difficult decisions for the sake of the nation.
"I believe that this decision should be made as soon as possible … we are about to go to the IMF, we are about to present the budget. This is already too late, the next person should have come in earlier, at least a month ago.
"I came here so that I could do something for the betterment of the country. I don't know if there has been a conspiracy or not [to remove me] but all I know is that my 'captain' wanted to see me in the role of the energy minister. I did not think that would be a great idea so I refused.
"We have finalised the IMF agreement on much better terms than before. It is the time to take difficult decisions; I have made these decisions, I refused to take the decisions that would have crushed the nation.
Defending his performance in response to a question, he said: "Who says that I have failed in achieving what I wanted to achieve? I had left my job to join the party (PTI) when we weren't even in the parliament, let alone in the opposition. Look at how far we have come from that. I am not letting PTI go, I truly believe that 'Naya Pakistan' will become a reality.
"The new team will come and it will look at things with fresh eyes, maybe they will come up with better decisions and either way, they will need to be given time.
It is unclear whether Umar has officially submitted a resignation, and whether it has been accepted.
See: 'This was always on the cards': Journalists and analysts react to Asad Umar's departure
In a video recorded soon after the news broke, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari told reporters that she had no idea about the development. "I was just in a meeting and Asad Umar was the finance minister [in the meeting], so I have no idea if anything else has happened," she said.
PML-N leader and Umar's brother Mohammad Zubair while speaking to DawnNewsTV said he hopes "whoever comes now will take a running start and implement the things that need to be done."
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Journalist Meher Bokhari told DawnNewsTV that there is some disappointment over the news in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf circles because Umar is admired and looked up to in the party.
Reports were circulating earlier this week about a possible reshuffle in the post for Minister for Finance and Minister of State for Interior held by Asad Umar and Shehryar Afridi respectively.
The government in general and the finance minister in particular have faced mounting criticism by opposition parties, members of the business community and citizens over the handling of the economic crisis.
The information minister, although he had not addressed the specific changes reported to the portfolios, had dismissed the reports, saying there was "no truth" to them.
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority had also issued show-cause notices to ARY News and Bol News for airing news items regarding the reshuffle in the cabinet and change in the portfolios of some federal ministers.
Umar recently returned from a trip to Washington in which the details of Pakistan's next International Monetary Fund bailout were finalised, documented and signed. An IMF mission is expected to visit Islamabad before the end of the month to work out technical tables since all major issues had been settled and documented, Umar had said.
This is a developing story that is being updated as the situation evolves. Initial reports in the media can sometimes be inaccurate. We will strive to ensure timeliness and accuracy by relying on credible sources such as concerned, qualified authorities and our staff reporters.
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Subject: Dow Jones Industrial Average Tumbles 285 Points as Apple Slashes Forward Guidance
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Tumbles 285 Points as Apple Slashes Forward Guidance
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning • January 3, 2019
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 285 points Thursday morning after Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) slashed its guidance for the current quarter. The firm said it expects quarterly revenue to come in at $84 billion, well below the previous range of $89 billion to $93 billion. The figure also badly misses the average Wall Street estimate of $91.5 billion in revenue.
Following the news, Apple shares fell over 7%, knocking $55 billion off Apple's market capitalization. There's more bad news though. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) said this morning that Apple will likely need to cut its guidance even further.
Here are the numbers from Wednesday for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq:
Index Previous Close Point Change Percentage Change
Dow Jones 23,346.24 18.78 0.08%
S&P 500 2,510.03 3.18 0.13%
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ADP/Moody's reports that the U.S. economy added far more jobs than analysts had anticipated in December. The monthly private employment report shows that U.S. companies added 271,000 new positions for the month. That shattered consensus expectations of 178,000 new hires. Markets have been paying close attention to the jobless rate, which continues to fall despite rising interest rates and concerns about market volatility. The official December jobs report will be released by the Department of Labor tomorrow.
Stocks to Watch Today: NFLX, CELG, DB, UBS
Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) remain under pressure after Netflix yanked an episode of "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj" in Saudi Arabia. The streaming giant pulled the episode – which was critical of the Saudi government and the Crown Prince over the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Netflix said that it received a legal request to pull the episode to comply with the nation's laws. Minhaj, a former correspondent on "The Daily Show" suggested that the United States should reassess its relationship with Saudi Arabia during the episode, prompting a complaint from country's Communications and Information Technology Commission. NFLX stock was off 1.5% in pre-market hours.
In deal news, shares of Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ: CELG) rallied nearly 32% after the company received a cash-and-stock offer from Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), worth $74 billion. CELG investors will receive one BMY share and $50 for every share of CELG stock that they own. This was a big win for CELG investors given that the stock has fallen by 37% over the last 12 months. The firm is poised to lose patent protection in 2022 for its best-selling drug Revlimid. BMY stock was off more than 12% after news of the deal.
Speaking of deal news, European markets are buzzing about a potential mega-merger in the financial space. Officials at Swiss-banking giant UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS) are bending over backwards to deny that the company may need to merge with another powerful institution. This morning, the company's Chairman Axel Weber denied rumors that the firm is looking at a deal with Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), and said that such a deal would make little sense for his organization. DB officials have also denied that any deal will take place. UBS stock was off more than 1.6% in pre-market hours.
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What Does Jolin Tsai Think About Vivian Dawson Dating One Of The By2 Sisters?
"I knew you guys would ask me about this!"
By Jocelyn Lee
Updated 10 Mar 2017 15:10
Is Vivian Dawson Dating One Of The BY2 Sisters?
Mandopop Queen Jolin Tsai, 36, ended her six-year relationship with New Zealander-Singaporean model Vivian Dawson, 32, in November. And barely four months later, the latter was spotted out on a date with Miko Bai, 24, from Singaporean girl group BY2. Or at least that's what the Taiwanese press wants us to think.
Responding to media queries at a beauty event in Taiwan, Jolin said: "I knew you guys would ask me about this when I read the news. I think getting to know more friends is a good thing," She added that she is still in contact with Vivian and that they remain "good friends". When asked how she's been since the breakup, she replied nonchalantly: "What do you think?"
She did, however, confess to having several husbands. She was joking, of course. "Well, I have one new husband with every new K-drama I watch!"
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Advancing Diversity and Inclusion at Syracuse University
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A Status Report on the Short-Term Recommendations Made by the Chancellor's Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion
The University has released its latest status report detailing progress on recommendations by the University-wide Chancellor's Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion to create a more welcoming, inclusive campus.
In the fall of 2015, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced the creation of a new University-wide Chancellor's Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion.
The Chancellor's Workgroup, co-chaired by Francine D'Amico, associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and Barry L. Wells, special assistant to the Chancellor, was tasked with developing solutions on how to further create a more diverse and inclusive climate at the University.
In March 2016, the Chancellor's Workgroup provided recommendations directly to Chancellor Syverud, who shared them with the campus community. Implementation of those recommendations by University leadership continues.
The recommendations and the status of each can be read here.
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On the Fact that the Environmentalist Nut-Job, Paul Ehrlich, Stated In 1970 that from 1980 to 1989, 4,000,000,000 Folks (Including 65,000,000 Americans) Would Starve to Death Because Food Production Wouldn't Keep Up with Population Growth (He Referred to it as the "Great Die-Off")
Every fucking doomsday scenario that these imbeciles (Ehrlich, Holdren, Hanson, McKibben, Gore, etc.) have tried to force-feed the American public has been spectacularly wrong and the fact that we still have brain disordered politicians like Barbara Boxer and Sheldon Whitehouse continuing to give them the time of day and providing them with a forum is outrageous. I'm sorry but it is.
On the SJW Concept of a Black Santa
Well, being that Santa is a by-product of European folk-lore, yeah, maybe not.............And have you noticed that these schmucks never want a black Grinch or a black Ebeneezer Scrooge? ONLY FUCKING SANTA!!
On the Claim by "Mother Jones" and "Newsweek" that White Men Perpetrate Most of the Mass Shootings In the U.S. ("Most" Meaning 54%)
Yeah, they were able to arrive at this piece of data (a conclusion that they obviously wanted) by conveniently excluding murders brought about through armed robberies and gang-oriented slayings (in that that would have skewed the data more towards black men) BUT EVEN OF YOU ACCEPT THEIR DATA, being that whites are the largest segment of the population, you would probably expect them to do the most of a whole lot of shit (drink more beer, watch more football, whatever!!), and AND if you look at the number of white mass shooters and compare them to the overall percentage of whites in the population (again, using THEIR statistics), whites commit disproportionately FEWER mass murders (a stat that's made even prominent by the fact that "Mother Jones" and "Newsweek" took their analysis all the way back to 1982 when whites were an even bigger percentage of the population than they are today).......Oh well, give 'em points for trying, I guess.
On the French and British "Logic" (Post WW1) Which Stated that it Was OK for the Czech Population of Austria-Hungary to Secede from Austria-Hungary but Not OK for the German Population of the Sudetenland to Secede from Czechoslovakia
There wasn't anything logical about a damn thing that France or England did before, during, or after WW1. Whether it be their secret alliance leading up to the war, the way that they served up their troops as disposable dish-rags in battle after batter, or their punitive treatment of Germany through the Treaty of Versailles, it was ALL lunacy and, so, no, there wasn't anything even remotely logical about this action as well. Nada.
On the Fact that it's Perfectly Acceptable for Me to Criticize Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove", Andre Malraux's "Man's Fate", and Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" but Not the Damned Koran
It almost makes me want to publish a cartoon.......Almost (self-preservation still being of the utmost matter).
On the Distinct Likelihood that the U.S.A Will Be Majority Hispanic by 2050
So, we'll become Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Belize, Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, in other words.......Okey dokey (the one positive being that "we" probably won't be so politically correct when it comes to Islam).
In the Fact that the Deposing of Relatively Secular Muslim Leaders and the Destroying of Relatively Stable Muslim Countries Has Essentially Become a Cottage Industry for the U.S. Government and it Doesn't Seem to Matter Whether There's a Democrat or Republican In Charge
And next (per the usual marching-orders from Israel and Saudi Arabia) in the crosshairs is Syria (who thankfully has been able to withstand our bullshit policy of arming yet another blood-thirsty, knuckle-dragging rebel group), with Iran clearly in the batter's-box. Yikes, huh?
On Michelle Obama's Tendency to Whisper In Her Husband's Ear While They're Slow Dancing
Probably mansplaining something important to the bitch, would be my guess (and, yes, it's a damned joke; the fact that there are some yahoos out there who seem to believe that Michelle is a tranny and that Barack is gay).
On the Fact that David Seaman (a YouTuber with Over 150,000 Subscriptions) Has Made Numerous Videos In Which He Has Pointedly Accused John Podesta of Raping Little Children and as of Yet Podesta Hasn't Sued the Dude
Perhaps Mr. Podesta simply doesn't want to deal with it (and trust me here, Mr. Seaman is far from the only person who's making these charges), sees it as "punching down", etc., but my suspicion is that he's more than likely attempting to avoid discovery and that he doesn't have any credible explanations for "playing dominoes on cheese or pizza", "a handkerchief with a pizza-related map on it", or why the White House would order $65,000 worth of pizza and hot dogs from Chicago when everybody with a pulse knows that all food eaten at the White House is prepared at the White House, etc........And, come on, would that be a entertaining trial to watch?
On Rick Santorum Proclaiming that Trump "Is Not a Complex Man"
It takes one to know one is the upshot that I'm perceiving here (the fact that Santorum is a seamless mixture of Bible-thumping buffoon and fallback neoconservative a-hole who you can tell what he's going to say about any subject way before he opens his damned pie-hole).
On the Fact that Female Genital Mutilation Is Rarely if Ever Prosecuted In England - https://www.politico.eu/article/female-genital-mutilation-cases-rise-in-uk-but-no-prosecutions/
That's not multiculturalism but rather multilegalism, and I cannot for the life of me see how any society can function under such a corrupt and moronic system. Stay tuned, I guess.
On the Massive Likelihood that Europe Will Descend Into Civil War Within a Few Generations
Yeah, I think that once the rubber hits the road and these leftists have to live under Sharia law (the delusion of these Muslim immigrants magically becoming Westerners and embracing our values predictably shitting the bed by then) they'll finally get red-pilled and fight back. Hopefully it won't be too late (the fact that the birth rate of Muslims in Europe is more than double that of the native population and when you couple that with the right rates of polygamy and immigration, youza!) .
On the Fact that Those Mouth-Breathers at Rolling Stone Gave Joni Mitchell's Revolutionary 1975 Album, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns", Two Measly Stars
Me, I would have given it three stars just for that picture of Joni swimming in a bikini (that along with a slew of tasty songs), possibly four.
On the Fact that the Austrian Public (Post WW1) Voted Almost Unanimously to Join Germany but Were Forbidden from Doing so by the Victorious Allies On the Flimsy Grounds that it Would Strengthen Germany
So kinda' like Czechoslovakia was strengthened by the addition of the Sudetenland............or like Italy was strengthened by the addition of the Brenner Pass............or like Poland was strengthened by the creation of the Polish Corridor leading to Danzig............or like Lithuania was strengthened by the addition of Memel............or like England and France were strengthened by the addition of Germany's African and Pacific colonies?......O.K., I get it now.......and so much for "self-determination.
On the Fact that the Only Time that Trump Got Any Sort of Decent Coverage from the Legacy Media Was When the Dude Dropped Those Daisy Cutters On Syria
Yeah, I'm beginning to think that the media enjoys war almost as much as the neocons and the Clinton Democrats do. Frightening, huh?
On the Fact that Harvey Weinstein's Soon to Be Ex-Wife, Georgina Chapman, Is Sickeningly Hot
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ would be my guess (that or he's hung like Shaq).
On the Bizarre Claim by Lincoln High-Priestess, Doris Kearns Goodwin, that Mr. Lincoln's Support of the Corwin Amendment (an Act that Had it Passed Would Have Legalized Slavery In Perpetuity) Was Actually a Noble Thing In that it Unified the Republican Party
I don't know about you but I can't digest but a paragraph or two of this court historian shit without later having to take a long shower. THAT BAD it has gotten.
On the Fact that In 1992, Benjamin Netanyahu Claimed that Iran Was 2 to 5 Years Away from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons............and In 1995 He Said the SAME EXACT THING!!!
The guy's a piece of shit and heaven forbid that an individual like this ever change his world views even an inch in the face of such bogus predictions............in that that would completely destroy his pretext for war. To hell with him.
On the Fact that the U.S. Government Sentenced Eugene V. Debs to a Decade In a Federal Penitentiary (Circa 1918) Simply for Condemning Wilson's Moronic and Unnecessary War at One of His Rallies (In Which There Was No Call to Violence and None Materializing)
I'm just gonna say it straight up. America under Woodrow Wilson was essentially a country under lock-down (with Debs hardly being the only person locked up for "wrong think") and we must never, ever, return to such a fascistic period again. NEVER!...............................................................................................P.S. It also must be pointed out that when Debs's case reached the Supreme Court (spearheaded by the much heralded liberal justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.), HE LOST! Yeah, that's right, the Supreme Court seemingly couldn't find anything in the Constitution which prohibited the government from rounding people up simply for voicing their opinions, having them rot in prison as a punishment, etc.. Unbelievable, huh?
On President Trump's Love Affair with "Fox and Friends"
I don't like it any more than I do the insanely critical coverage that the other networks consistently churn out AGAINST the guy. It's all bullshit and the American citizens deserve much better (or maybe not - the average U.S. voter being less astute than a shitake mushroom and so maybe we deserve what we get; the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, and Trumps of the planet).
On Meryl Streep's Claim that She Didn't Know Anything About Harvey Weinstein's Disgusting (and Potentially Criminal) Behavior with Women
Well the bitch certainly knew about Roman Polanski and that didn't stop her from giving that vile pig a standing ovation.......Sorry but, yeah, color me skeptical.
On the Fact that (According to Professor Edward Smith from American University) "Blacks Could Have Escaped to Nearby Union Lines (During the Civil War) but Few Chose to Do so and Instead Remained at Home and Became the Most Essential Element to the Southern Infrastructure to Resisting Northern Invasion"
When will politicians ever learn that people simply don't like being invaded, occupied, aggressed upon, etc.? I mean, the Civil War should have been the ultimate wake-up call on this and yet it was just the fucking warm-up. How sad.............Oh, and Professor Smith, he's black.......For the record.
On the Fact that (According to UMass Historian, Barbara Krauthamer) a) the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee Indian Tribes Held Thousands of Black Slaves and b) this Practice Continued Even After the Civil War
Yer another fact that the court historians have glossed over in that it doesn't fit their narrative (namely, that only white Europeans engaged in such disturbing practices and that only they were the oppressors)............................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, if there ever was a situation that challenged the left's insane intersectionality pretzel, this would probably be the one. Big time.
On the Fact that Cops Killed 500 White People In 2015 and I'll Wager that You Can't Name a Single One
You can't, can you?
On What the SJW Dolts In the German Government Will Do if Thousands of These Muslim Immigrants to Their Country Start Tweeting and Facebooking that the Holocaust Never Happened
I have no idea and strongly suspect that neither do they (wisdom and foresight clearly not being amongst their strengths - though, yes, they had better come up with a plan in that something plainly will have to give here).
On the Fact that the Terrorists In Many of Today's Hollywood Films Tend to Be Serbs, Russians, Redneck Americans, etc. and Rarely if Ever Muslims
So much for realism in modern-day cinema.........................................................................................P.S. And, yes, this totally reminds me of what they do in England in terms of reporting on crime; saying that the perpetrator was an "Asian" when anyone with half a brain knows that the dude wasn't Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, or even Indian but rather Pakistani, Afghani, Iranian, etc., again, so as to not offend Islam.
On the Fact that Numerous Authorities In England Knew About the Pakistani Rape Gangs In Rotherham and Did Nothing to Address it Because They Thought that to Do so Would Damage "Social Cohesion" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjpcp4gESsU
As opposed to 1,400 young girls (some as young as 7) getting groomed and sexually violated by a cadre of disgusting barbarians which was soooooooooooooooooo good for cohesion, I guess.
On the Fact that Even Churchill Admitted that Britain's Hunger-Blockade of Germany During and Even After WW1 Was to, "Starve the Whole Population - Men, Women, and Children, Old and Young, Wounded and Sound - Into Submission"
Yeah, this was a part of England's preposterous and unilateral amendment to the Declaration of London which cited food (yes, food!!!) as a subset of contraband (the fact that it might end up in the bellies of German soldiers being the perverse and barbarous rationale).......So, ya' still think that the British were the good guys?
On the Claim by Politicians Like Abe Lincoln and Dick Cheney that God Instructed Them to Go to War
Well being that God himself is probably the biggest mass murderer in history, it's almost plausible, now isn't it?
On the Fact that the Democratic Party Has Gone from the Party of Grover Cleveland, Al Smith, William Jennings Bryan, Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Martin Dies, Ed Koch, Richard Daley, William Proxmire, etc. to a Party that Just Came Within a Particle of Nominating a Crackpot Socialist to Be its Presidential Candidate
People sometimes ask me why I've been so much harder on the Democrats of late (I'm not entirely certain that that's been the case in that I hammer the neocons on a fairly regular basis as well, but for the sake of argument......) and I suspect that it comes down to two issues; a) the fact that the left has gone fully off the deep-end (their opposition to free speech, propensity to violence, insanity regarding gender, etc.) and b) the fact that I once was a Democrat myself (for 30 years!!) and have taken it quite personally, this rapid and embarrassing descent. Hopefully the trajectory changes but at this point, who the fuck knows.
On the Fact that Even Though the Mexican Government Immediately Released the Detained Sailors and Provided a Full-Throated Apology, the Wilson Administration Refused to Let a Sleeping-Dog Lie and Demanded a 21 Gun Salute, and When the Mexicans Refused, Ordered a Military Invasion of Tampico and Vera Cruz, the Final Tally Being 126 Dead Mexicans and 19 Dead Americans
And this from a dude who signed the the Pan-American Act; a bill that guaranteed "territorial integrity and political independence" to all of the signatories, Mexico included. Nice, huh?....................................................................................................P.S. And let us not forget either that Wilson also interfered in the affairs of Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic, a record that puts him right up there with McKinley, the two Roosevelts, LBJ, Nixon, and the two Bushes when it comes to idiotic interventions.
On the Fact that (According to Philosopher of Scientist, David Berlinski) for a Cow to Evolve Into a Whale (for Example), There Would Literally Have to Be Tens of Thousands of Various Mutations, All of Them Positive and All of Them Working In Coordination with Each Other
Yeah, that's a tall order and, while, yes, I still tend to believe in evolution (it's one selling-point being time, 4,000,000,000 years of it), it is far from the slam-dunk that it used to be, at least for me.
On Colonel House's Ludicrous Claim that England's Hunger Blockade of Germany During and Even After WW1 Was Not an Objectionable War Policy In that it Was "Controlled by a Democracy
Again, this whole preposterous notion that if people vote on something (even if it is unconscionable) it magically becomes a moral action is so far beyond the pale that you'd either have to be a psychopath or an dullard (i.e., a Dick Cheney or an Ed House) to embrace it.......and yet it remains an axiom with some people (let's just call them the extremists in both parties). Pretty damn scary, huh?
On the Fact that (According to the Encyclopedia of Stateless Nations) There Are Approximately 350 Stateless Peoples In the World, Many of Whom Have a Longer Identity and a Larger Population than the Modern-Day Palestinians
And when was the last time that any of these groups got any sympathy from the media, academia, etc.?......A long, long time ago, would be my guess.
On the Fact that Theo van Gogh's Last Words Prior to Some Neanderthalish Islamic Terrorist Decapitating Him Were, "Can We Talk About this?"
And just take a guess what the answer was.......Yeah, no (and all over a fucking cartoon, too).
On the Fact that One of the Lines that Gabrielle Union Was Forced to Say In Her Embarrassingly Stupid BET Show, "Being Mary Jane", Was this Shakespearean Caliber Line; "I Need Black Love" (She Said it to Her White Boyfriend Just Prior to Dumping the Bloke)
Can you imagine if the roles had been reversed and the white guy had said to the black chick, "I need white love"? I can, and it would have been all fucking hell breaking loose. I mean, just look at what happened to Hulk Hogan......and his was a fucking private conversation!! Black love? Sure, go knock yourself out, lady.
On the Never-Ending Leftist Quest for Equality
Yeah, maybe they should look to Stalin's Ukrainian peasants for inspiration in that they were very equal. Granted the Commies had to murder all of the Kulaks (the more productive, slightly better off peasants) in an effort to achieve this equality, a policy that resulted in the famine deaths of millions......but, hey, at least they were equal.
On the Fact that In 2016, a Young Man Was Gunned Down by Some Asshole Cop In Arizona Because a Few People Saw Him Holding a BB Gun and Thought that it Was a "Real" Gun
Sounds a lot like Tamir Rice, huh?......Only one difference and, please, allow Mr. Shapiro to explain.
On the Fact that England Is Actually Arresting Folks for "Misgendering"
And please keep in mind that these are the same assholes who allowed Pakistani rape gangs to molest 1,400 young girls in Rotherham because they didn't want to be perceived as bigoted. Priorities, yeah, not so much.
On the Fact that the Odious One, Mark Levin (a Neocon Knucklehead Who Turned the Slandering of Ron Paul Into a Cottage Industry), Is Apparently Joining the Fox News Lineup Next Year
And then they wonder why people are cancelling cable. The idiots.
On the Fact that Those "Moderate Rebels" that John McCain Had His Photo-Op with In Syria Were In Reality the Northern Storm Brigade, a Piece-of-Shit Terrorist Group that Had Already Assisted al Qaeda Kingpin, Zarqawi, During His Murderous Stint In Iraq
The only defense that McCain has here to ward off a charge of treason is sheer stupidity (kind of like Hillary and her unencrypted emails), 'cause nothing else cuts it, people. NOTHING!!
On the Fact that Trump Has Apparently Decided to Pull a Bush/Obama and Surge YET AGAIN in Afghanistan
Haven't blown up enough sheep yet (never mind, sheepherders), I guess.......So much for Trump distancing himself from the neocons.
On a Recent News Article Which Claims that President Trump Watches 4 to 8 Hours of TV Every Day
Well he did say (when asked where he receives his foreign policy information) that he enjoyed watching "the shows" ("Fox and Friends", "Morning Joe", "Quickdraw McGraw"), correct?
On the Notion that it's Imperative to Criticize White Nationalists but Somehow Not Antifa Schmucks (a Slantheaded Group that Perpetrates Violence On Anyone Who Disagrees with Them, Consistently Attacks Free Speech, and Actually Carries Hammer and Sickle Flags with Them Half the Time)
Like I said in another post, the KKK (who I do not defend and never will) lynched about 4,400 people (27% of whom were white) over a 70 year period, which was awful, but when you compare it to the over 100,000,000 that the Communists butchered in approximately the same time-frame, yeah, I really think that we need to vilify both groups, thank you.
On the Fact that if the Federal Reserve Had Simply Allowed Interest Rates to Gravitate to Their Natural Levels In the 2000s (In the 3 to 5% Range), THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A HOUSING BUBBLE OR A SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS
So logical, unimpeachable, and easy to grasp......and yet you can count the number of politicians who think in this manner on one hand (the fact that they're making the same idiotic, demand-push arguments that paved the way for that downfall). Something in the water, I guess.
On the Fact that French Soldiers Had Two Options During WW1; Obey Orders and Commit Suicide by Charging Headfirst Into German Fire or Disobey Orders and Hang by the Neck at a Later Date
And all over some stupid-assed war that either should have never been fought or confined to a regional conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. Way to go, guys (and, yes, I blame everyone; Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Serbs for starting it and France, Italy, Turkey, Britain, and the U.S. for joining in the madness).
On the Fact that the Allies Learned a Great Deal About Nazi Germany When the Brits Finally Broke the Enigma Code
And you know what they didn't learn? They didn't learn that Jews were being gassed by the millions in those concentration camps, or even that there were gassings at all (and they clearly would have because amongst the communications that were being intercepted were the daily death reports from the camps to the military brass in Berlin; the causes being disease, hangings, and shootings). So, yeah, in addition to there being no paper-trail pertaining to the Holocaust, there isn't an oral record, either.......Hmm, it must have been ESP.
On the Fact that There Were Over 9,000 Cases of Female Genital Mutilation In England In 2016 - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/05/nhs-attended-to-9000-fgm-cases-in-england-last-year-report-reveals
Damn those Episcopalians (and possibly a few Muslims).
On the Fact that the New Audi S7s Are Currently Clocking In at About $84,000
It's a nice car but me, I'd probably purchase a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry and pocket the balance. Ca-ching, ca-ching.
On the Distinct Likelihood that British Prime Minister, Theresa May, Has Never Read so Much as a Sentence of the Koran and Has Instead Simply Decided to Go with the Flow and Parrot the SJW Bullshit Line About Islam Being a Religion of Peace (Instead of What it Truly Is; a Supremacist Faith that Wishes to Impose Sharia on the World)
While I've never been a big Churchill admirer (the dude's hunger blockade of Germany during and even after WW1 and his terror bombing of civilian neighborhoods during WW2 are two of the most horrific war crimes in modern history), at least the guy recognized that Islam isn't just a ludicrous ideology but a dangerous one as well.......Theresa May, yeah, not so much.
On the Fact that There Is Nothing More Dangerous to a Free Society than a Weak Man (Lee Harvey Oswald and David Koresh Rapidly Come to Mind) and Unfortunately the U.S. Is Churning Them Out at Breakneck Speed These Days
Thank you America's higher-learning institutions (AKA indoctrination gulags), turning out one spineless, self-hating jellyfish after another who now think that men are exactly like women except for a few minor considerations (you know, like our entire fucking anatomy!!), that terrorists are actually the "oppressed", that all cultures are equal, that masculinity is "toxic", etc., etc. Great job!!
On the Serbian Military Coup of June, 1903
It was one of the most savage in modern European history but the most tragic element was that it replaced a relatively pro-Austrian regime with a virulently hostile and pro-Russian cabal that heightened tensions in the Balkans to a level where Austria-Hungary and Germany literally felt surrounded (by England in the North Sea, by France to the West, by Russia to the East,and by Serbia to the South).......And we all know how that turned out...............................................................................................P.S. And, no, this is not in any way meant to exonerate Austria-Hungary and Germany from the cataclysm that followed in that they certainly played a huge role......but, I'm sorry, when you examine the fact that a) Josef and Ferdinand had prior to the war made serious proposals to the Bosnians, Herzegovinians, etc. and b) the Serbs themselves had been harboring imperialist notions of their own, let's just say that there was sufficient blame to go around.
On the Fact that While the South African Government Can't Have the Killing of Whites as Their Official Policy, What They Can Do Very Easily Is a) Turn a Blind-Eye to the Slaughter-Fest, b) Neuter and Outlaw the Commando System, c) Reduce the Number of Police In White Neighborhoods, d) Limit Gun Ownership Among Whites, and e) Jettison the Castle Doctrine (Now a White Person Literally Has to Be Attacked Before He or She Has the Option to Engage In Self-Defense)
That's why folks are referring to it as a "slow-burn genocide" (people such as Dan Roodt and Ilana Mercer).......For now.......For now.
On the Fact that the Political Class and Media Seems Much Concerned About the Disgusting Behavior of Slantheads Like Roy Moore and Al Franken than They Are by the Genocidal Policy Directed at Yemen (Which Has Included a Food Blockade and the Total Destruction of the Country's Infrastructure) of the U.S. and Saudi Axis of Evil
My suspicion is that it has a lot to do with the fact that the latter has Hillary's and Obama's fingerprints all over it and that if they did cover it it would show the country that these leftists are just as war-mongering as the neocons (assholes like McCain and Graham).......And we cannot have that apparently.
On the Fact that 99% of the Adults In America Are Unfamiliar with the Mayan Genocide that Took Place In Guatemala (In Which Tens of Thousands of Indigenous People Were Brutally Slaughtered by the Government and Local Militias) In the Early 1980s
Probably because there aren't a plethora of Mayan film moguls in Hollywood churning out movie after another about it like a certain other/more famous genocide.......If you're catching my drift.
On the Fact that When You Consider the Current Rate of Immigration and Combine it with the Birth Rates of These Migrants, Europe Will Undoubtedly Become a Majority Muslim Continent Within Two to Three Generations
And this was the whole point in my estimation. Flood these countries and take them over like they did in Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Bethlehem, etc. and like they tried to do in Spain, France, Austria, etc........Of course if you don't believe me, just listen to their firebrand leaders in that they spell it right out for you (http://paranoiacstoogetalk.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-third-islamic-invasion.html).
On the Claim by Some that In the Middle of a National Crisis, Necessity Sometimes Overrides Law and the Executive Branch Can Do as it Pleases to Maintain Social Order, etc. (Including but Not Limited to Interference with the Other Two Branches and the Assuming of Powers Nowhere Mentioned In the Constitution)
Total bullshit in that as the esteemed historian, Clinton Rossiter, first pointed out decades ago, "The Constitution looks to the maintenance of the pattern of regular government in even the most strident of crisis." Of course being that we've had Republicans such as Lincoln, TR, Nixon, and the two Bushes and Democrats such as Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and Obama who have so repeatedly decided to eschew the Constitution, it only looks good on paper, I guess.
On the Fact that Eastern European Countries Like Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic Seem Very Hesitant to Bring In a Boatload of Muslim Immigrants
Maybe it's because they have a fresher recollection of what it's like to live under totalitarianism and being that Islam is a wicked and totalitarian ideology (as opposed to simply a religion), they are more than willing to take a pass on this "experiment". That would be my guess anyway.
On Susan Sarandon Having the Audacity to Proffer the Obvious (i.e., that Hillary Clinton Is a Worthless, Corrupt, and War-Mongering Corporatist Swine) Only to Get Shamed Mercilessly by Her Fellow Hollywood Leftists
I don't agree with Sarandon on much (the woman voted for Jill Stein, a woman whose policies if we adapted them would result in the deaths of millions worldwide) but the fact that she had the balls to stare Satan in the eye and not blink, major props to the gal.
On the Fact that Even Though the Only True and Legitimate Reason for Waging War Is to Defend One's Homes, Churches, Graveyards, etc., from an Invading Force, the U.S. Hasn't Fought a War of this Sort In Over 200 Years (Concocting Instead Such Idiotic Rationales as "Preserving the Union", "Spreading Democracy", "Preventing the Spread of Communism", "Restoring the 'Legitimate' Government" to Places Such as Kuwait, South Vietnam, El Salvador, etc.)
It's sad and the fact that the leaders of these two corrupt and corrosive political parties of ours want to continue on this path makes me even more despondent.......From Thomas Jefferson to Dick Cheney.......Yeah, let that one sink in.
On the Fact that (According to G.J.A. O'Toole's Masterpiece, "The Spanish War") None of the Rebel Cuban Generals Were Invited to Participate In the Surrender Proceedings of July 17th, 1898 (When the Spaniards Ceded Santiago to the U.S. and Cuban Contingents)
Yeah, what does that tell you? It tells me that the Spanish-American War had a shitload less to do with Cuban independence than it did with the spreading of American power and influence in the Caribbean (and ultimately in the Pacific)......and boy did it ever set the table, eh, folks?
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Law n. 2008-518 of 3 June 2008 (original version)
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"Law Governing the Transfer of Responsibilities for Space Activities"
Law of 8 June 1990 as amended (original version)
"Satellite Data Security Act"
Law of 23 November 2007 (original version)
Law of 23 November 2007 (unofficial translation)
"Decree Concerning the Reorganization of the Italian Space Agency (A.S.I.)"
Legislative Decree n. 128 of 4 June 2003 (original version)
"Law on the Establishment of the Italian Space agency"
Law n.186 of 30 May 1988
"Law on Registration of space objects"
Law n. 153 of 12 July 2005
"Law for the implementation for the Convention on International Liability for damages caused by space objects"
Law n. 23 of 25 January 1983 (original version)
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List of institutional documents concerning the Italian space activities
"Order Concerning Licence Applications for the Performance of Space Activities and the Registration of Space Objects"
Order of 7 February 2008
"Space Objects Registry Decree"
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Bill of 24 January 2007
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"Act on Launching Objects from Norwegian Territory in Outer Space"
Act n. 38 of 13 June 1969 (unofficial translation)
"Regulations of Russian Space Agency"
Resolution n. 468 of 15 May 1995 (unofficial translation)
"Regulations of Russian Federation on Space Activities"
Resolution n. 314 of 26 June 2004 (original version)
"Decree on Measures to Fulfil the Russian Federal Space Program and International Space Agreements"
Decree n. 422 of 12 April 1996 (unofficial translation)
"Statute on Licensing Space Operations"
Resolution n. 104 of 2 February 1996 (unofficial translation)
"Edict on the Organization of Further Utilization of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Interests of the Russian Federation's Space Activity"
Presidential Edict n. 2005 of 24 October 1994 (unofficial translation)
"Law of the Russian Federation "About Space Activities"
Decree n. 5663-1 of the Russian House of Soviets, 20 August 1993 (unofficial translation)
"Edict on Structure of Management of Space Activities in Russian Federation"
Presidential Edict n. 185 of 25 February 1992 (unofficial translation)
"Royal Decree on the Establishment of a National Registry in Compliance with the Registration Convention"
6058 Royal Decree n. 278 of 24 February 1995
"Ordinance with Instructions for the Space Board"
Ordinance n. 1996:80 of 15 February 1996 (original version)
"Decree on Space Activities"
Decree 1982:1069 of 25 November 1982 (original version)
Decree 1982:1062 of 25 November 1982 (unofficial translation)
"Act on Space Activities"
Act n. 1982:963 of 18 November1982 (original version)
Act n. 1982:963 of 18 November 1982 (unofficial translation)
Updated list of Swedish legislative documents related to space activities (see "Space Exploration")
"Decree on Provisions for the National Space Agency of Ukraine"
Presidential Decree n. 665/97 of 22 July 1997 as amended in 2006 (original version))
"Decree on the Establishment of the Ukrainian Space Agency"
Decree n. 117 of 29 February 1992 (original version)
"Decree on Space Industry Development"
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"Law on State Support of Space Activities"
Law n. 1559-III of 16 March 2000 (original version)
"Law of Ukraine on Space Activity"
Law of the Supreme Soviet n. 503/96-BP of 15 November 1996 (unofficial translation)
"Outer Space Act 1986"
1986 Chapter 38 of 18 July 1986
"Decree Concerning the Creation, Organization and Functioning of the ASAL"
Presidential Decree n. 02-48 of 16 January 2002 (original version)
"South African National Space Agency Act"
Act n. 36 of 2008
"Space Affaires Amendment Act"
Act 1530 of 6 October 1995
"Space Affairs Act"
Statutes of the Republic of South Africa - Trade and Industry n. 84 of 23 June1993
"Decree Concerning the Creation of the National Commission on Space Activities (CONAE)"
National Decree n. 995 of 28 May 1991 (original version)
"National Space Plan"
National Decree n. 532/2005 (original version)
"Decree Concerning the Establishment of the National Registry of Objects Launched into Outer Space"
National Decree n.125 of 25 July 1995 (original version)
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"Decree for the Implementation of the Registration Convention"
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"Resolution on Commercial Launching Activities from Brazilian Territory"
Resolution n. 51 of 26 January 2001 (original version)
"Decree that Creates the National System for the Development of Space Agencies"
Decree n. 1.953 of 10 July 1996 (original version)
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"Decree concerning the Establishment of a Presidential Advisory Committee Known as the Chilean Space Agency"
Supreme Decree n. 338 of 17 July 2001(original version)
Supreme Decree n. 338 of 17 July 2001(unofficial translation)
"Decree 2442 of 2006 on the creation of the Colombian Commission of Space (CCE)"
Decree 2442 of 18 July 2006 (original version)
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"Law Creating the Mexican Space Agency"
Decree of 2010 (original version)
"The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958"
Public Law n. 85-568 (as amended in 2008)
"National Space Program"
U.S. Code, Title 42, Chapter 26
"Land Remote Sensing Policy"
U.S. Code Title 15, Chapter 82
"Commercial Space Launch Activities"
U.S. Code Tile 49, Subtitle IX, Chapter 701
"Space Transportation Infrastructures Matching Grants"
"Inventions in Outer Space"
U.S. Code Title 35, Part II, Chapter 10, Section 105
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"Space Activities (approved Scientific or Educational Organizations) Guidelines 2004"
Guidelines of 3 February 2004
"Space Activities Regulations 2001"
Statutory Rules 2001 n. 186 as amended
"Space Activities Act 1998"
Act n.123 of 1998 as amended
"Act Concerning the Creation of the SPARRSO as an Autonomous Organization"
"China Space Activities in 2006"
White Paper of 12 October 2006
"China Space Activities"
White Paper of 15 December 2003
"A Consumer Space Trip Launching Project Permit Management Tentativeness Valve Method"
Order n.12 of 21 November 2002(original version)
"Space Object Registration Management Method"
Order n.6 of 8 February 2001 (original version)
Orders n.6 and n.12 (unofficial translation available on the Journal of Space Law, Vol. 33, 2007, p. 437)
Updated list of Chinese legislative documents related to space activities
"Statute of the Iranian Space Agency" (2005 and 2008)
Available in the Journal of Space Law, Volume 34, Winter 2008, Number 2.
"Law Concerning Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency"
Law n. 161 of 13 December 2002 (not authorized translation)
"Law Concerning the National Space Development Agency of Japan"
Law n. 50 of 23 June 1969 (unofficial translation)
"Fundamental Act of Outer Space"
Law n. 43, 2008 (unofficial translation offered to the Journal of Space Law)
"Space Liability Act"
Law n. 8852 of 21 December 2007 (unofficial translation)
"Space Development Promotion Act"
Law n. 7538 of 31 May 2005
Law n. 7538 of 31 May 2005 (same document but different translation)
UNCOPUOS Schematic overview of national regulatory frameworks for space activities (2010)
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by Patricia Highsmith
Therese is nineteen and working in a department store during the Christmas shopping season. She dates men, although not with real enthusiasm. One day a beautiful older woman comes over to her counter and buys a doll. As the purchase is a C.O.D. order, Therese makes a mental note of the customer's address. She is intrigued and drawn to the woman. Although young, inexperienced and shy, she writes a note to the customer, Carol, and is elated and surprised when Carol invites her to meet.
Therese realizes she has strong feelings for Carol, but is unsure of what they represent. Carol, in the process of a bitter separation and divorce, is also quite lonely. Soon the two women begin spending a great deal of time together. Before long, they are madly and hopelessly in love. The path is not easy for them, however. Carol also has a child and a very suspicious husband—dangerous ground for the lovers. When the women leave New York and travel west together, they discover the choices they've made to be together will have lasting effects on both their lives.
Considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel to break the pulp publishing industry-enforced pattern of tragic consequences for its lesbian heroines, The Price of Salt was written pseudonymously by Patricia Highsmith—the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.
As one reviewer wrote in 1952, "Claire Morgan is completely natural. She has a story to tell and she tells it with an almost conversational ease. Her people are neither degenerate monsters nor fragile victims of the social order. They must—and do—pay a price for thinking, feeling and loving 'differently,' but they are courageous and true to themselves throughout."
About Vintage Lesbian Pulp Fiction
In the early 1950s new sub-genres of the vintage paperback pulp novel industry emerged—science fiction, juvenile delinquent, sleaze, and lesbian fiction, for instance—that would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Mysteries, thrillers and hardboiled detective pulps were already selling quite well. Publishers had come to realize, however, that sex would sell even more copies. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they tossed away their staid and straightforward cover images for alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. Before long, books with these sensational covers had completely taken over the paperback racks and cash registers. To this day, the "good girl art" (GGA) cover art of these vintage paperback books are just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago.
With the birth of the lesbian-themed pulp novel, women who loved women would finally see themselves—their experiences and their lives—represented within the pages of a book. They finally had a literature they could call their own. For lesbians across the country, especially those living in small towns, these books provided a sense of community they never knew existed, a connection to women who experienced the same longings, feelings and fears as they did—the powerful knowledge that they were not alone. We are excited to make these lesbian pulp novels available in ebook format to new generations of readers.
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Wolf Catcher will be released by Touchpoint Press on February 2, 2022.
I'm not a religious person, so I have, in the past, missed signs around me that had spiritual implications. For example, when I was researching my novel Wolf Catcher—which will be released by TouchPoint Press on February 2, 2022–I didn't understand how offensive some of my choices were in that regard.
Originally, I was hired to write a magazine article about the man they call The Magician. His fabulous, nine-hundred-year-old tomb had been uncovered by archeologists in 1939, beneath a pueblo on a lonely hillside about ten miles from Flagstaff, Arizona. Back in those days, no one thought anything of exhuming indigenous burial grounds, which now seems absurd. Logically speaking, there's not much difference between rifling through the belongings of ancient mummies and digging up one's modern-day grandmother. (Imagine collecting the jewelry from grandma's body and selling her precious possessions on eBay.) And yet, that's what been happening world-wide over the last several centuries.
I remember the fanfare when the King Tut exhibit traveled across the US in 1979. I never considered that putting his funerary objects on display might have been disrespectful.
As a kid, I grew up going to the Museum of Natural History in New York, where burial offerings from around the world were often on exhibit. The practice seemed quite common and acceptable. But, while trying to determine who The Magician might have been, I discovered just how offensive it is to put human remains and funerary objects on display. My first hint was a letter my editor at the magazine received when I stupidly requested a DNA test on The Magician. My reasoning seemed sound. The Magician was described by those who found him as different from the people who buried him in several ways. He was particularly tall for his time and did not resemble the Native Americans who populated the region. He was said to have Caucasian facial features, so my first thought was how did a man who may have had some European ancestry make it to what would become the American Southwest almost one-thousand years ago.
My request for scientific analysis was met with a hard no from the Hopi tribal authorities. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 stipulates that all remains and funerary objects must be treated with respect and dignity and that the destruction of any portion of a body—even something as seemingly insignificant as a tiny fleck of tooth for a DNA sample—is unacceptable and illegal.
At that point, I was so focused on getting my story done, that I didn't really understand what the big deal was. Then, when I arrived to interview an archeologist I'd worked with previously, I was shocked when he didn't appear. It would be another archeologist who would gently explain the problem. Archeologists, I learned, are bound by their relationships with Native American Tribes. If they want to dig on tribal or even public land, they must get permission. If they don't follow the rules, they will be shut out, which would hurt their reputations as scientists and limit their ability to study. My investigation posed a threat to the man's career, a risk he wasn't willing to take.
This ancient pottery shard perhaps depicts a turtle or a man. It's the one piece I kept, because it was harvested from a site that was being prepared for houses and I'd been given permission to take it.
While researching the story, I picked up a number of pottery shards. My logic was simple. I was on public land, so clearly I had committed no crime. But again, I was wrong. Those beautiful pieces of ancient fired clay, many so bright and vibrant they looked like they'd been painted yesterday, should never have been taken from their resting places, because once you've removed an artifact from its setting, you've destroyed its sense of time and place—it's historical significance—something you can never get back.
After finishing Wolf Catcher, I found myself staring at those thousand-year-old bits of pottery and couldn't pretend I hadn't done something wrong. I spoke about my feelings with a friend who was a nondenominational pastor. She quickly responded that I should put the pieces back where I found them.
So, she and I traveled to Ridge Ruin where I gently returned the shards to the hillside. We stood on the rocky ground under which the pueblo lay hidden, having long ago been backfilled to protect it from looters. I stared at the spot where The Magician had been buried with such reverence all those years ago. My friend asked me to apologize for my mistake, which I did.
As I said earlier, I'm not a religious person, and yet, as we left that windswept hillside that held the remains of Ridge Ruin in its belly, I felt better. And I promised myself I would not make the same mistakes ever again.
The past and present collide when a tenacious reporter seeks information on an eleventh century magician…and uncovers more than she bargained for.
WOLF CATCHER
Anne Montgomery
Historical Fiction/Suspense
TouchPoint Press
In 1939, archeologists uncovered a tomb at the Northern Arizona site called Ridge Ruin. The man, bedecked in fine turquoise jewelry and intricate bead work, was surrounded by wooden swords with handles carved into animal hooves and human hands. The Hopi workers stepped back from the grave, knowing what the Moochiwimi sticks meant. This man, buried nine hundred years earlier, was a magician.
Former television journalist Kate Butler hangs on to her investigative reporting career by writing freelance magazine articles. Her research on The Magician shows he bore some European facial characteristics and physical qualities that made him different from the people who buried him. Her quest to discover The Magician's origin carries her back to a time when the high desert world was shattered by the birth of a volcano and into the present-day dangers of archeological looting where black market sales of antiquities can lead to murder.
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The fabulous, Palaeolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France inspired my love of ancient history when I was a child.
I know exactly when my interest in ancient history was sparked. I recall a TV show that showcased fabulous 17,000-year-old cave paintings of animals in France, a program that inspired me to grab a hammer and chisel and head out into my Northern New Jersey garage. I was maybe 12, and can you really blame me for wanting to see what ancient people might have left inside the walls of my home? With visions of drawings and arrow points and pottery dancing in my head, I wailed away at that wall. That is until my mother arrived, her pointy-toed high heels clacking on the driveway. She gazed at me through black, cat eye glasses. It wasn't until that moment that I sensed I might be doing something wrong. I dropped my tools and ran. The rest of the weekend I had to stand and watch my father as he repaired the damaged wall, muttering under his breath the whole time.
The Mesoamerican ballgame was a cross between basketball and ice hockey.
I have been fascinated by what happened long ago for over 50 years. How human lives have changed in myriad ways, but are the same in many others. It should come as no surprise then that I started writing about history. I was hired by Arizona Highways Magazine to research a story on Mesoamerican ballcourts. As I'd spent most of my professional life at that point as a TV sports anchor and reporter, asking me to write about an ancient ballgame made some sense. Turns out there are over 200 ballcourts in Arizona alone, a testament to the popularity of the contest, which looked a bit like basketball with participants padded rather similarly to modern-day ice hockey players.
It was while researching that story that I accidentally discovered the man they call The Magician. I remember the day I arrived at the lonely, high-desert site about ten miles from Flagstaff, Arizona. Cold raindrops started to fall on the scattered junipers, their piney scent mixed with that of dampened earth. The ground was a rocky mixture of small chunks of red basalt and black cinder left from the eruption of the Sunset Crater Volcano almost nine-hundred years earlier. Beautiful pottery fragments with intricate black-and-white designs littered the hillside. I was interviewing an archeologist from the Museum of Northern Arizona about the ballcourts when he pointed up the slope.
"That's where they found The Magician," he said, as if I might know who he was talking about.
It was while reseraching a story on ancient Mesoamerican ballcourts–this one at the Wupatki National Monument–that I learned about the man they call The Magician.
After some research, I wondered about the man and his fantastic grave that was discovered in 1939 and filled with over 600 exquisite funerary objects: arrow points and pots, mineral specimens and shells from the far-off Pacific Ocean. Fine turquoise jewelry, beaded items, paint pigments, baskets, and mosaics. Then, there were the wooden swords with handles carved into animal hooves and human hands, the objects that identified him as a sword swallower and a magician.
My novel, Wolf Catcher, which will be published by TouchPoint Press on February 2, 2022, tells two stories. One follows Kate Butler, a former TV reporter who's no longer pretty enough to be on the front end of a camera. She's turned to print reporting, but can't get anyone to talk about the The Magician. Still, Kate, who has given up any dreams of a personal life to concentrate on her work, is determined to finish the job.
Kaya lives at the Village on the Ridge in the late 11th century, shortly after the waking of the Volcano God, whose eruption changed the lives of the people in the high desert. Some, like those on the Ridge, were blessed, while others were left to wander the landscape homeless and hungry. Kaya is a healer who, like Kate, has given up a personal life for her vocation. She is tasked with tending an odd-looking injured man who the People call Wolf Catcher. The massive white wolf that appears with him is both fascinating and frightening. Some believe the arrival of the two is a harbinger.
Wolf Catcher tells the modern-day story of a reporter's quest to determine whether Europeans somehow arrived in the New World thousands of years earlier than previously believed, the problems associated with archeological looting and the black market sales of antiquities, and delves into personal choices and relationships, proving human beings have not changed all that much over the centuries.
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Every year for decades I have wondered whether the coming New Yera's Eve celebration could top the one I experienced in 1976. So far, nothing's come close. So, in honor of that long ago evening, I will share the story again.
Vianden Castle is one of scores in Luxembourg, but it would be a castle in nearby France that would be the setting for an unforgettable New Year's Eve.
Forty-six years ago, I faced a young man I had just met.
"Come with me," he said.
I had arrived in Luxembourg, that wee country squeezed by Germany, France and Belgium, just two days earlier, the beginning of a six-month stint abroad at my university's branch campus. I had been placed with Kurt and Margareta Schroeder: Swedes, two of the loveliest people I have ever met. Lennart was their son.
"She's an old friend," he explained about the woman who owned the castle. "Every New Year's Eve we go there and celebrate."
I did not, at that point, sense there was something he wasn't telling me. Sweet Margareta, who would, over the course of my stay, squeeze me orange juice and provide fresh-baked bread and honey each morning, assured me that the short drive into France would be fun and that her blond, blue-eyed boy with the mass of unruly curls would take good care of me.
"Sure, I'll go. What should I wear?"
"It's a drafty, dirty old castle," Lennart said. "Just wear jeans."
Later, we drove past open fields and woodlands where trees stood naked and lacy, having long ago shed their leaves. Pewter clouds pressed from above. The chill made me glad to be wrapped in a turtleneck, heavy sweater, and ski jacket. My straight-legged Levi's topped rugged hiking boots. As the countryside raced by, I wondered what a "dirty, old castle" might look like. I'd spent my life in New Jersey, a place pretty much devoid of castles of any kind.
Lennart turned onto a narrow road, like the rest, a quaint blend of forest and rolling pastures.
"This is part of the estate," he said. "She inherited two thousand acres from her grandfather."
A six-foot, white marble sculpture depicting this famous scene of Washington crossing the Delaware incongruously rested halfway up the castle's front stairs.
When he pulled onto the circular drive, I stared at the massive, two-story stone structure that was maybe four-hundred years old. As we mounted a wide, white stairway, I considered the odd placement of a sculpture that appeared to be George Washington and his men on their fabled crossing of the Delaware. The piece rested halfway up the staircase. I would soon learn that the statue's haphazard placement was a remnant of the castle's World War II occupation by Nazi officers who were caught amidst their attempts to steal artwork. The sculpture was left on the stairs as soldiers fled an attack by local French citizens and there it remained.
"The castle has sixty-four rooms," Lennart said. "But we only use a few of them. It costs too much to keep the heat on."
Marie greeted us in French and with two kisses, one on each check for Lennart. She eyed me quizzically. I couldn't help but notice her modelesque frame squeezed into impossibly tight jeans. A scarlet, long-sleeved shirt similarly hugged her curves, revealing a hint of cleavage, and perfectly matching red lipstick highlighted her lips. Raven hair hung loose down her back. High, black heels clacked with each step.
My hiking boots suddenly felt heavy. My cuffed Levi's a bit too rustic.
Marie chattered on with Lennart in French, one of five languages he conversed in fluently. "She doesn't speak English," he whispered.
My French was pathetic. I could read menus and road signs and order wine, if I had to. But I didn't need to understand the language to see there was something between them.
Marie led us into a dining room where a long table was set with linens and crystal. A chandelier sparkled above, throwing shadowed light on 16th century paintings. Over the course of the evening, eight other Parisians would join us, not one of whom spoke English.
Multiple bottles of wine and champagne were uncorked. When we were all seated, a silver tray appeared from the kitchen bearing a massive fish. I wondered if poisson was the traditional New Year's Eve repast, as I requested another serving. I didn't notice I was the only one asking for seconds.
I was surprised when the next platter appeared. And even more so when subsequent others arrived. I knew, without being told, that to decline an offering would be rude. As I needed a pause before the next course circled the table, I was greatly appreciative when we ran out of wine and Lennart explained that we would have to trek to the cellar for more. One dark-haired, animated man–who I was told was a popular French comedian–led us through the castle's murky halls and stairways. He started singing Gregorian chants, which seemed both fitting and a bit sacrilegious when we arrived at the family chapel, replete with alter and pews and cross. More than a bit tipsy, we joined him, our voices echoing off ancient stone walls.
We wound our way through the dark halls of the castle until we reached a wine cellar, where some bottles were over 100 years old.
We retrieved myriad dusty bottles of wine, some over 100 years old. As you might expect, much of the rest of the evening is a bit of a blur. But sometime later, I woke in a bedroom shrouded in shadow. I could hear the ticking of a grandfather clock and loud stomping. Boots hitting the floor over and over. But my wine-addled brain and warm covers precluded me from investigating.
The next morning, I asked Lennart if I could see the clock. He translated my request. Marie, tilted her head.
"The clock was removed from that room many years ago," Lennart said.
I wondered if the Nazis were to blame, but I didn't ask.
"And the stomping?" I waited while Lennart spoke with Marie.
"That is the German soldier," he translated. "He was caught in the courtyard when the Nazis were fleeing. He was killed there. Later, Marie's grandfather took the man's skull and placed it in his library. The soldier has been marching around the castle at night ever since."
I stared at Marie. Her shrug told me a stomping Nazi ghost was no big deal in an old French castle.
On the drive back to Luxembourg, Lennart would confess that he and Marie had dated for years. This was the first New Year's Eve celebration they weren't a couple. He knew she was seeing someone and didn't want to go to the castle alone. He did not disuuade the others when they inquired if we were dating.
Over four-and-a-half decades of New Year's Eve celebrations have passed since my trip into the French countryside, an evening filled with subterfuge, fabulous food, old wine, a stomping ghost, and an invisble grandfather clock.
I'm pretty sure nothing will ever top that.
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Barcelona - Composer (additional music) (uncredited) $3.2M 1994 $7.27M
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love - Composer (song "I'm Not That Kind of Guy), Musician (piano), Soundtrack (writer: "I'm Not That Kind of Guy") (performer: "I'm Not Th $250K 1995 $1.98M
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Five Star (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2004
Good Money - Composer 1996
Bootstrap (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2005
Alphabet Soup (short) - Composer, Soundtrack (music: "The Alphabet Song") 1995
Night Callers (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2005
Grief - Composer 1993 $215K
Big Rig (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2006
A Friend of Dorothy (short) - Composer 1994
The Recruits (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2004
La Dolce Vita (video) - Touche Editor (as Gus Mattox) 2006
Kept (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2004
Didn't Do It for Love (documentary) - Composer 1997 $10.5K
Dangerous Liaisons (video) - Valentine Moore (as Gus Mattox) 2005
Boys in Love - Composer (segment "Miguel, Ma Belle") 1996
What Men Do (video) - Actor (as Gus Mattox) 2003
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Bureau table
RIF210
Maker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33–1809
34 × 36 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (86.36 × 92.71 × 48.895 cm)
Made in Newport, Rhode Island
Mahogany (primary); chestnut (case back, case bottom, drawer supports, and dustboards); yellow poplar (drawer linings and sides and shelves in cupboard)
John Townsend (1732–1809), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son Solomon Townsend (1776–1821), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his wife Ann Townsend (née Ann Pearce, 1786–1874), Newport, Rhode Island or their daughter, Phila Feke Bullock (née Townsend, 1812–1866); by descent to her daughter, Mary Dorr Sayles (1871–1946); by descent to her daughter, Martha Freeman Nicholson (née Sayles, 1896–1947); by descent to her son, William Sayles Nicholson; by descent to his wife, Emily G. F. Nicholson (1927–2003); consigned by her estate to Christie's, New York, January 15–16, 2004, lot 546
Solomon Townsend
Ann (Pearce) Townsend
Phila Feke (Townsend) Bullock
Martha Freeman (Sayles) Nicholson
William Sayles Nicholson
Mary Dorr (Ames) Sayles
Emily G. F. Nicholson
The true top is placed above a subtop consisting of two longitudinal strips dovetailed to the case sides, with the dovetails exposed. The convex shells on the wide drawer are applied. The drawer runners are nailed to the sides of the case, and there is a full dustboard under the wide drawer. The feet are braced with three blocks shaped to follow the contours of the bracket and beveled on their inner edges, with the central vertical block applied last and standing above the horizontal blocks. The back bracket on the rear feet is diagonal and is butted against the side bracket, with a glue block added to secure the joint. On each drawer, the sides are finely dovetailed to the front and back; the bottoms are beveled on their front edge, let into a groove in the front, and nailed to the underside of the sides and back, with running strips applied. The top edges of the drawer sides are rounded, while the top edge of the back is flat. The back is two horizontal boards with a lap joint and nailed to rabbets in the top and sides and to the back edge of the case bottom. The ends of the sliding dovetail to attach the true top to the sub top are visible on the rear edge of the top.
Bureau tables attributed to John Townsend, include this example and another, RIF1431, whose cupboards are not recessed. Other bureau tables with recessed cupboards attributed to John Townsend include RIF 231, RIF 271, RIF661, RIF1430, RIF1784, RIF1785, and RIF3607.
Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints, and 20th Century Self-Taught and Outside Art, sale cat. (January 15–16, 2004), 294–95, lot 546, ill.
Lita Solis-Cohen, "Americana at Christie's," Maine Antique Digest (March 2004): 36–A, ill.
"Christie's Americana Garners $12.5 Million," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (January 23, 2004): 42, ill.
"Christie's advertisement," Antiques 165, no. 1 (January 2004): 62, ill.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 280n2, 284n1.
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Alibaba and Tencent Consider Opening Up Their 'Walled Gardens'
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. BABA +2.23% and Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY 2.07% are considering moves to gradually open up their services to one another, as Beijing's tech crackdown makes it harder for China's two online giants to maintain the virtual barriers they have built in recent years.
That would mark a big shift for China's consumer internet, which has largely split into two camps built around the arch rivals. The restrictions mean, for example, that customers can't use Tencent's payment system to buy goods on an Alibaba platform.
Now, both companies are separately working on plans to loosen those curbs, according to people familiar with the matter. The system could make life more convenient for consumers—and help spur greater competition—but will also mean the duo will have more insight into each other's businesses.
Initial steps from Alibaba could include introducing Tencent's WeChat Pay to Alibaba's e-commerce marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, some of the people said.
Tencent could make it easier to share Alibaba e-commerce listings on its WeChat messaging app, or allow selected Alibaba services to access WeChat users via so-called mini-programs, some of the people said. Mini-programs are light apps embedded in the main WeChat app.
The moves come as Beijing seeks to tame China's tech giants. In April, the country's State Administration for Market Regulation fined Alibaba a record 18.2 billion yuan, the equivalent of $2.8 billion, for forcing vendors to sell exclusively on its platform, in a practice known as "er xuan yi," or "choose one out of two."
Alibaba was also ordered to carry out a comprehensive revamp and submit "self-examination compliance reports" in the next three years.
Angela Zhang, an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong and author of "Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism," said the split in China's internet was a fundamental competitive problem.
"This is the core of the antitrust issue here. Without addressing those problems, it will not fundamentally change the competitive landscape in China's tech industry," Ms. Zhang said.
"Startups have no choice but to join either the Alibaba or Tencent camp, because the two control the so-called superapps that serve as gateways to vast amounts of users," she said.
On the one side stands Alibaba, its financial affiliate Ant Group Co., and Alibaba-owned firms like Ele.me, a food-delivery platform. The other camp includes Tencent and its many investee companies like e-commerce groups JD.com Inc.,Meituan and Pinduoduo Inc.
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Middle Eastern Cocktail Popup Coming to H Street
by Andrea Swalec December 17, 2014 at 11:00 am 0
You can drink a boozy Turkish coffee or a Wadi Rum cocktail on H Street tomorrow night (Thursday).
A mixologist who specializes in flavors of the Middle East will take over part of Vendetta (1212 H St. NE) starting at 6 p.m. for a roving drinks night called The Green Zone, as Frozen Tropics spotted.
Chris Hassan Francke, 30, will serve up six cocktails, including the F–k ISIS! Punch. That drink combines two rums, lemon, bitters and the fruity soda Vimto, and has an optional bacon garnish. The Wadi Rum cocktail will mix hot tea, rum, sage and smoke.
"As somebody who comes from a very secular, liberal, Middle Eastern background, I represent everything ISIS is against," said Francke, a World Bank consultant who's half-Iraqi.
The Logan Circle resident began experimenting with Middle Eastern cocktails more than a year ago after a trip to Beirut.
"I was exposed to all these flavors when I was growing up," he said. "I started thinking, 'What if I made a drink that tasted like Turkish coffee?'"
The event with $10 cocktails plus the anise-flavored liquor arak and Lebanese beer and wine will run until 1 a.m. Free bar snacks will be served, including Lebanese olives, salted carrots with lemon and turnip pickles.
Photo via Facebook/The Green Zone
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Home / World News / Hafiz Saeed not to contest Pakistan polls but JuD to run in over 200 seats
Hafiz Saeed not to contest Pakistan polls but JuD to run in over 200 seats
Hafiz Saeed's JuD will contest the Pakistan polls on the platform of a "dormant" political entity, the Allaha-u-Akbar Tehreek (AAT), registered with the election commission
world Updated: Jun 09, 2018 23:35 IST
Imtiaz Ahmad
Hindustan Times, Islamabad
Hafiz Saeed, head of the Pakistani religious party, Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) addresses a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, in April 2018. JuD, a front for the Lashkar-e- Taiba, launched MML in 2017 but was not registered by the Election Commission of Pakistan.(AP File Photo)
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed is not contesting Pakistan's general elections and his political party has not been registered by the Election Commission, but that hasn't deterred the JuD from fielding hundreds of candidates for polls to the Parliament and provincial assemblies.
The JuD launched its political front, the Milli Muslim League (MML) last year, but it has not been registered by the Election Commission. The group has now decided to contest the July 25 elections through a dormant political entity, the Allah-hu-Akbar Tehreek (AAT) that is registered with the poll panel.
"MML president Saifullah Khalid and AAT chief Ehsan Bari have agreed to field joint candidates on the platform of AAT in the upcoming elections. Under a seat adjustment, the MML will field more than 200 educated candidates," MML spokesperson Ahmad Nadeem told the media.
"They will contest the elections on the AAT's election symbol, a chair," he said, adding a number of political figures who joined the MML had been given AAT tickets.
Asked whether Saeed, the founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, plans to run as a parliamentary candidate, Nadeem said: "No…Hafiz sab has no such plans at the moment. The MML is taking part for the first time in the general elections and hopefully, we will make it to the Parliament."
Replying to another question on whether any "significant leader" of the JuD would contest the polls, he said: "Our priority is that those joining us from other political parties or educated youth in respective constituencies be given AAT tickets."
He said AAT will launch its political campaign once its candidates file their nomination papers. MML president Saifullah Khalid will make a formal announcement regarding this shortly, he added.
JuD also had the option of supporting the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of religious parties but Saeed chose to contest independently, a party member said.
Last year, talking to a group of senior columnists at Jamia Qadsia, Saeed had said the decision to float his own party in the political arena was aimed at helping "highlight the Kashmir cause internationally".
He said India is lobbying around the world to malign the Kashmir cause and the government in Islamabad had bowed down to appease New Delhi. "This is the right time to enter the country's politics to persuade the world community by establishing an independent foreign desk to highlight the Kashmir cause," he had said.
The interior ministry has opposed the recognition of the MML by the Election Commission, arguing it is a front for the JuD, which has been sanctioned by the UN Security Council.
The MML was formed when Saeed, who carries a bounty of $10 million on his head, was under house arrest last year. In April, the US state department designated the MML a front for the LeT.
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Mercedes win the F1 World Championship for a record seventh consecutive time
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Formula One's first race at Imola since 2006 was a slow burn, but late-race reliability problems reinvigorated the Grand Prix as Mercedes glided to their 7th constructors' title. With Red Bull, their distant challengers floundering behind them, the Mercedes team seemed serene by comparison as they sealed the championship with another 1–2 finish.
The Silver Arrows are enjoying headline after headline in their relentless march of success. Lewis Hamilton equaled, then surpassed Michael Schumacher's win record at the previous two Grand Prix. Now, the German manufacturer has officially won the team championship. The result at Imola means that mathematically, only one of their drivers can win the Driver's Championship. With Hamilton figuratively grasping the trophy with nine fingers, thanks to his 85 point lead, that's likely going to happen next time out at Turkey.
The inaugural Emilia Romagna Grand Prix demonstrated how much of an advantage the Mercedes team currently has compared to Red Bull. Max Verstappen held the short straw throughout the race, even though he had a pace advantage over one Mercedes, and overtook the other at the start.
With Alex Albon racing to retain his seat, the Austrian team would've expected the sister Red Bull to lend rear-gunner support to the young Dutchman. But once again, Albon was way down the order, and Mercedes held all the strategy cards to keep Verstappen behind.
However, things didn't go perfectly for the champions. Bottas led from the start after his well-earned pole position on Saturday. But on his second lap of this classic circuit, the Finn collected debris from Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari, handicapping the handling of his W11. Coupled with an uncharacteristically slow start for Hamilton, where the Brit lost out to Verstappen and very nearly Daniel Ricciardo in the ever-improving Renault, Mercedes had to rely on a little bit of luck to achieve their fifth 1–2 finish this year.
With Hamilton looking quicker behind Verstappen, and Verstappen unquestionably faster behind the floor-damaged car of Bottas, the difficulty the current-gen F1 cars have following a rival in dirty air was particularly apparent.
The sole DRS straight simply wasn't long enough for any chasing driver to fully take advantage, without the man in front making an error. It took until lap 6 for the first overtake of the Grand Prix when Carlos Sainz passed McLaren teammate Lando Norris in the only passing move before the pit stops.
Somewhat fittingly for a circuit that hasn't held a Formula One event since the mid-2000s, the first half of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix showcased how the sport was in the early part of the century. The teams needed to look at tire strategy and undercuts to better their opposition. The twenty drivers were entirely toothless against any competitors in similarly matched machinery.
Those pit stops came earlier in the race than expected, at lap 15. With only one free practice session this race weekend and no relevant historical data to refer to, tire life forecasting meant most teams played it safe on the hard compound.
The aftermath of the stops did create some action, though, with pace differential between drivers on cold and warm Pirellis. Charles Leclerc almost ran into the back of Ricciardo on his fresh but cold rubber, and Daniil Kvyat added to Albon's misery by pressuring the Thai driver and nearly passing him in the DRS zone.
Back at the front, the luck Mercedes needed to guarantee a win came courtesy of Esteban Ocon's gearbox failing. With race-leader Bottas pitting to cover Verstappen's attempted undercut, Mercedes opted to split their strategy and left Hamilton out longer. The decision paid dividends when the race director utilized the virtual safety car to clear the stranded Renault. Hamilton leapfrogged both Verstappen and Bottas thanks to his 'cheaper' stop.
A few laps later, Hamilton's fortuitous lead seemed even more valuable for Mercedes as Bottas ran wide into the downhill first Rivazza corner, opening the door for Verstappen to pass. Verstappen may have had the speed to catch Hamilton, but we'll never know. His rear right tire failed dramatically at high-speed, sending Max spinning into the gravel before his Red Bull beached itself putting Verstappen out of the race and out of the championship battle.
However, any disappointment for Verstappen was quickly eclipsed by George Russell in the resulting safety car period. Aided by higher runners retiring, together with a lofty starting position of P13 on a difficult-to-pass track, Russell sat in tenth place. His very first F1 point was within reach. But the 2018 F2 champion learned a hard lesson when he lost control of his Williams behind the safety car and nosedived into the barrier, ending his race and extending the SC period.
The late slowdown caused a headache for the teams. They could pit their drivers for soft tires and sacrifice track position. Or they could leave them out and hope whatever grip remained on their tires provided enough defense for their drivers on the tight and twisty circuit. The latter was the right call, and the biggest beneficiary was Daniel Ricciardo, who clinched his second podium in three races behind the two Merc's.
Ricciardo had to fend off an incredible performance by Daniil Kvyat, who charged his AlphaTauri past Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez following the restart and will be delighted with a P4 finish. With Kvyat's future looking uncertain, his impressive passes will remind Red Bull of the Russian's capabilities. In sharp contrast, Albon, the highly scrutinized Red Bull driver, spun his car to the back of the pack, resulting in his third successive point-less finish.
One can argue that this was a race that Bottas lost through circumstances beyond his control, rather than one Hamilton won. Regardless, a 1–2 finish at the Grand Prix was a fitting way to mark Mercedes' latest record of seven consecutive titles. Their continued success since 2014 now, statistically, makes them Formula One's best team. Whoever can stop them in 2021, 2022, or beyond will be ending a juggernaut that is undoubtedly now one of the greatest teams in sporting history.
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Chelsea vs Burnley highlights (3-0)
12 January 2020 at 01:42 GMT By rush
"It was just what we needed in terms of performance. We should have scored more but I can't complain because we scored in the first half. We've got nervous before when we've had a measure of possession but not scored," Lampard said.
"We were so positive from minute one. It's a big win and one we must pick up on and replicate. It's a nice example of the standard we have set.
"It feels nice to smile in a game and enjoy what you are watching."
For Callum to score in the six-yard box is more exciting than him scoring from 30 yards without a doubt," said Lampard of Hudson-Odoi, who signed a five-year contract in July.
"It means he is willing to get in there. It wasn't the only time he did that. His overall performance was a statement of what he has to do.
"That was the real Callum. If he carries on like that we will have a real player."
Chelsea vs Burnley . Score: 3-0.
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Air France was founded on October 16, 1933 from the merger of Air Union, Air Orient, CIDNA, Aéropostale and Farman - an initiative taken by Pierre Cot, then minister for air transport. From the outset, Air France took its place as a major airline, despite a few periods of turmoil. And the men at its helm have all had the same passion for aviation.
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Michael Daugherty:
LETTERS FROM LINCOLN
Composer Michael Daugherty's LETTERS FROM LINCOLN (2009) was composed and premiered in the bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The work was written for Thomas Hampson and premiered with the Spokane Symphony.
This special performance with conductor Laura Jackson and the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, from March 2019, was recorded thanks to the composer.
We hope you enjoy this special presentation of LETTERS FROM LINCOLN, which includes conversations with Thomas Hampson, Michael Daugherty, and Laura Jackson. Happy July Fourth!
American Classic Song, Orchestral Songs, Video Recording,
Michael Daugherty: LETTERS FROM LINCOLN
March 9-10, 2019 | Thomas Hampson, baritone | Reno Philharmonic Orchestra | Laura Jackson, conductor
Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts | Reno, Nevada, USA
Includes special conversations between Thomas Hampson, Michael Daugherty, and Laura Jackson
Michael Daugherty's Program Note
Letters from Lincoln (2009) for baritone and orchestra was commissioned by the Spokane Symphony, Eckart Preu, Music Director, in consortium with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (February 12, 1809).
The world premiere was given by the Spokane Symphony under the direction of Eckart Preu, with Thomas Hampson, baritone, at the Martin Woldson Theatre at the Fox, Spokane, Washington on February 28, 2009. The work is 25 minutes in length and scored for baritone solo, piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, two percussion, harp and strings.
Historians and the public generally regard Lincoln as America's greatest president who successfully led the United States through the Civil War and initiated the end of slavery. His life, which was full of spectacular opposites, ironies, contradictions and pathos, provided me with abundance of musical dramatic possibilities.
While composing this musical work inspired by Lincoln, I discovered ways to bring his historic greatness into the present. I read Lincoln's speeches, poems and letters and studied his life; I visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., and I traveled to the battlefields of Gettysburg.
Lincoln's impassioned writings, from his youth as poor boy in the backwoods of Kentucky to his tragic death as President of the United States, have moved me to take his own words, both public and private, and set them to song. In Letters from Lincoln, I create a musical portrait of a man who expressed his vision with eloquence, and with hope that the human spirit could overcome prejudice and differences of opinion in order to create a better world.
—Michael Daugherty
Letters from Lincoln is published by Hendon Music, Inc. a Boosey & Hawkes company
Performance materials are available from Boosey and Hawkes Rental Library
To purchase a Letters from Lincoln full score, or reduction for baritone and piano, go to https://www.musicdispatch.com/
Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864, Washington D.C.)
I have been shown in the files of the War Department that you are the mother of five sons who have died in the field of battle.
I feel how weak must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Michael Daugherty Official Website
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North African convert used as 'mouthpiece of God'
By Janice Backer
By: Janice Backer January 13, 2022
"Then Philip opened his mouth and… he told him the good news about Jesus.." (Acts 8:35)
For Jason and Allison Cook* history does repeat itself. Like Philip in the Bible, the Cooks obeyed God's call on their life and traveled to another land. After living and working in Northern Africa for several years, the couple remains thankful for the Southern Baptist churches who faithfully support international missionaries who share the Truth.
"I was 17, when my church in Alabama brought in 20 international personnel explaining the dire need for missionaries around the world." Allison explained. "My eyes were opened, and I knew I wanted to be a missionary, too." Years later, on her first date with Jason, the conversation revolved around each of their commitments to serve. And that conversation led to marriage, children and their dream jobs.
Jason manages a local branch of an international company in North Africa offering camps for children and trainings for adults.
The Cook family has seen God open doors to build relationships and share the gospel in the predominantly Muslim country where they serve. IMB Photo
"We host any who will accept an invite into our home," Allison said. "We get to know them – their needs, their families, their hopes. We live life with them."
Whatever their own family does – shopping, children's school activities, birthday parties, trips to the park – they share the Truth, she added.
"Our children have many school friends. So, we often invite the families for dinner, and we host several fun holiday events each year," she said. Nearly 98% of the people in this Northern Africa nation claim Islam as their religion, but they are curious about Western customs and culture.
And technology helps the family meet new people.
"We partner with another group that offers a website for the curious and seekers of faith," Allison clarified. "Then, we contact them and share with them and offer Bibles."
Each contact opens up the possibility for mentoring which also means dealing with the messy, difficult problems in life
"See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?" (Acts 8:36b)
Allison shared a story about Amir*. Five years ago, he was a 19-year-old seeker listening to Jason and a teammate share the truth of the gospel at a coffee shop by the sea. Amir looked out the window and said, "Here is water. What keeps me from being baptized?" And like the Ethiopian in Acts, he began his journey as a believer and was baptized.
"Amir was discipled by Jason and a teammate," Allison said. "And immediately, he began to share his new life." In three weeks, his best friend became a follower. Amir kept telling everyone he met, even while experiencing persecution. He was disowned by his family, kicked out of his home, beaten, lost jobs, hungry and sometimes homeless because of his commitment to Christ.
"But he never wavered in his faith, continually speaking to his people," Allison said. Then in March 2021, he struggled with massive pain in his mouth. Still, Amir continued to talk.
"On the day of his dentist appointment, my husband watched Amir share the Truth with a friend," Allison shared. "He watched as Amir's mouth literally swelled up with each word he spoke." The Cooks and their team found out that Amir needed extensive, costly dental work. The team began to pray and told Amir that they knew the Father would provide.
As one team member said, "Amir is literally the mouthpiece of God and Satan is attacking that mouthpiece directly."
A few weeks later, the Cooks were visiting their Alabama home church. The church presented them with a monetary love offering.
"As we received the money, Jason and I began to weep," she said. "When they raised this money, we had not asked for it, nor had they known about Amir's dental work. We saw how the Father truly provided."
". . . as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns" (Acts 8:40b)
Jason and Allison are grateful for the loyal, reliable Southern Baptist churches that tell the stories of international missionaries, pray for those missionaries, give financially, and inspire members to go.
"Your financial gifts really do impact the work and the world," she said. "Your commitment to inspire even a teenage girl makes a difference. You never know who God will be calling next to be the mouthpiece of God."
Please pray for Jason and Allison:
Pray that they will use their time wisely.
Pray that their children will be "little ambassadors."
Pray for more missionaries to serve in Northern Africa.
Pray for new believers who face persecution.
It's not too late to give to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering to support missionaries like Jason and Allison.
*Names changed for security
Janice Backer is a contributing writer for the IMB.
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Alpari – Forex Broker Review – secure place to invest money
With the aim of taking Alpari to the global platform, Andrew Dashin, Andrey Vedikhin and Gleb Petrov found the company in 1998. The three maestros are leaders in the world of currency market. The most significant step in the history of the firm was its 2004 launching of its European extension in the form of Alpari (UK) Limited that has also come to become the most popular wings of the company. The firm received a registration from the Financial Services Authority in 2006, and it is now regulated by the FSA, and has a registration number of 448002. The successful store of Alpari touched the biggest economy in the world when it opened its office in Wall Street, New York. The huge demand in the U.S. saw the company extend its market dominance over the U.S. soil and here it came to be registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and it became a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).
And, in the year 2008, Alpari entered the Asian and Middle-Eastern market with its launching in Shanghai and Dubai, and in 2009, it found its Indian office. The year 2009 marks a pivotal point in the growth story of Alpari as it expanded into France, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Singapore. Today, Alpari has more than 160,000 active accounts, which is a clear indication of the company's success story.
The company offers its application over the Meta Trader 4 platform that can be downloaded for free by investors and they can instantly start trading. Additionally, Alpari has three kinds of live accounts to offer – Pro, Classic and Micro live accounts. You could be having a trading strategy of some kind, but the account types are designed in order to meet any requirement.
For new entrants in the Forex market, Micro account is the ideal choice. You can start by keeping very little amount at risk and begin by trading small volumes. The account can be started with a starting low deposit of $200. The next step up, the Classic Account is somewhat similar to the Micro Account, with the major difference being the $500 minimum deposit. While the Micro Account offers a maximum of 2 open positions, the Classic Account allows unlimited open positions. The Micro Account allows trading in 29 pairs of currencies, and the Classic Account additionally offers Gold and Silver trading as well.
There is no commission involved in the Pro Account type, and it is ideal for individuals and institutions who want to trade huge volumes. The account opening minimum deposit amount is $20,000, and in comparison to the maximum leverage of 1:500 of the Micro and Classic Accounts, it offers a peak leverage of 1:100. While the Micro account is traded on MetraTrader4, the Classic account is traded on MetaTrader4 Systematic, and the Prop Account on the AlpariDirect.
You can open both Demo as well as Live accounts with Alpari. You can make deposits through Webmoney, bank wire, credit card or Moneybookers, and you can open your account in EUR or USD. The customer support from Alpari is impeccable and has an instant response time. Further, the trading platforms offered by Alpari are customized to fulfill the requirements of its different types of investors.
MetaTrader4 is a popular platform for trading, and it is also available for multi-terminal application and mobile downloading. Systematic is a web-based, fully-automated trading system that allows a wide range of trading strategies that is designed to meet the needs of investors who want to trade in large volumes.
Alpari Russia brokerage offers both a Live and Demo trading contest for Demo, Micro and Classic Accounts. The contest takes place for 2 months and awards cash at the end of the period. The overall winner takes away the PAMM account that would otherwise require a deposit of $50,000 USD. Presently, the contest is offered just by Alpari Russia.
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Creative Peeps
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Nat Eliason
Uncategorized · May 22, 2020
Nat Eliason is a serial entrepreneur and creator. Nat Eliason is the founder of the marketing agency Growth Machine and co-founder of Cup & Leaf tea. He's doing innovative work in Knowledge Management and has created multiple infoproducts. He has a paid newsletter as part of the Everything Bundle.
Nat Eliason.com
Nat started this blog in September, 2014. He hadn't planned for it to become the authority site it is today. Initially, it was a project to show off his content marketing when reaching out to startups. He reached 10k visitors in his first month.
2 years later, he had attracted over 2 million readers. This happened despite killing most of his email captures months earlier and not having a specific niche.
You can read more about his experience at How to Start a Blog that Changes Your Life.
Growth Machine is a marketing agency specializing in SEO-first content marketing.
It started when Nats friends were seeking help with content marketing. He offered to provide a turnkey solution and in the process, landed his first clients. He shared more about the process of creating, building and growing the business at From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine.
He has been interviewed about the agency multiple times:
Running a content creation agency (without going nuts) Mixergy
He was interviewed about his experience at Growing Growth Machine: How We Went from 0 to $100k MRR in One Year Indie Hacker
Effortless Output
Nat was an early adopter of Roam Research, a knowledge management tool that has become a stable of many content creators workflow.
He went into detail about how he used it at Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It. Over 200'000 people viewed his content about Roam so he created the Effortless Output course.
He shared how he validated the product at Starting a $400,000 Side Business in 1 Month (for Free)
He was featured at Keep Productive in a YouTube video about How Nat Eliason Uses Roam
Nat decided to seriously focus on YouTube in September, 2020. He had been getting many sales for his Effortless Output course decided not putting much effort into the original videos.
It took him took about 17 days to go from 4k to 5k, 14 from 5k to 6k.
Check out his channel.
Almanack.
In October, 2020, Nat joined the Everything bundle with a new paid newsletter called Almanack.
Almanack is a twice a month paid newsletter where Nat writes feature-length essays exploring how we can be healthier, more effective, and more successful, whatever our goals in life.
You can read the announcement post on the Everything Substack and his blog.
Cup & Leaf Tea
Cup & Leaf started as Growth Machine project that would allow the Growth Machine team to have a blog they could refer to in case studies, as well as become a training ground for new staff. In 2018, Nat decided to turn it into a premium tea Ecommerce store. He wrote about his experience in his post How to Start an Ecommerce Business in 3 Weeks: Launching Cup & Leaf.
The site has also been the subject of a couple of case studies:
SEO Case Study: 0 to 150,000 Monthly Visitors in 8 Months
How Nat Eliason Used Pain-Point SEO to Increase Sales 300% in 2 months
In 2019, Nat decided to expand the project and create a tea-focused cafe.
Cup & Leaf Cafe pt. 1: Why Would We Open a Cafe?
Cup & Leaf Cafe pt. 2: Finding and Leasing a Commercial Space
Cup & Leaf Cafe pt. 3: Getting Our Permits
Programming For Marketers
In 2014, Nat partnered with his friend Justin Mares to create a lifestyle business. That business became Programming For Marketers; a course that is no longer available.
He shared his journey in the post $58,150 in 5 Months: Step-by-step building Programming for Marketers.
He also wrote a post at Teachable about the Steps Leading to a Successful Course Launch.
Exploring Sex
In 2016, Nat started writing about how men could last longer in bed. It started with a couple of useful articles:
Multiple Orgasms During Sex for Men (Positions, Techniques, & More)
How to Easily Last 20 Minutes or Longer in Bed
In 2017, he realized that over 4000 people each day were reading these posts and that there was a lack of helpful books on the market. You can read more about the 'why' behind the book at his original launch post.
The book is no longer available on Amazon. It did have 33 positive reviews.
He also released an app to help men practice reverse kegel exercises. You can read about that at Introducing Stamena: The App that Helps Men Last Longer in Bed
In 2014, Nat started a company called Tailored Fit that provided algorithmic clothes shopping recommendations. They raised $125,000 (though only collected $75,000), and burned it all because they had no idea what they were doing. (From Life After Sumo, Being the Hydra, and What's Next)
Nat was hired to lead marketing and content for Sumo in August, 2015. In less than a year, he grew the mailing list from less than 5,000 visitors a month to over 170,000 visitors.
He quit 8 months to focus on his own projects.
He shared more about his experiences in A week in the life of a Sumo
He also wrote about the strategy he used in The Wiki Strategy: How to Grow Your Blog to 100k+ Monthly Visitors
I Built a 4-Hour Workweek… What Do I Do Now?
Lessons from One Year of Nomadic Passive Income
I Spent $4,505 on Tech to Sleep Better. (Here's Why)
6 Lessons from Year 25
Building a Life-Changing Blog, Knowledge Management & 4-Hour Work Weeks – Deep Dive with Nat Eliason YouTube video with Ali Abdaal
#23: Nat Eliason on Starting a Life-Changing Blog
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2014 Order of Nova Scotia Recipients Announced
NOTE: Photos and biographies of the 2014 Order of Nova Scotia recipients are available at novascotia.ca/iga/2014recipients.asp .
Five outstanding Nova Scotians, internationally recognized as leaders in their respective fields, will be invested into the Order of Nova Scotia this month.
Premier Stephen McNeil made the announcement today, Nov. 4.
"Through their work, these Nova Scotians have made invaluable contributions to our communities and our province," said Premier McNeil. "Their accomplishments and bodies of work have made Nova Scotia a better place to live. This honour is truly well-deserved."
The 2014 Order of Nova Scotia recipients are:
— Walter Marven Borden, New Glasgow: Mr. Borden is an acclaimed poet, playwright, actor, community leader and social activist. In the late 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement in Nova Scotia, Mr. Borden helped establish Kwaacha House, an interracial teen-oriented, drop-in and social education centre advocating the full equality of citizenship and opportunity for African Nova Scotians. Mr. Borden joined Halifax's Neptune Theatre Company in 1972 and his one-man show, Tightrope Time, was an autobiographical examination of the politics of being black, gay and raised in rural Nova Scotia. For his work, Mr. Borden has received numerous accolades, including honorary degrees, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals, the African Nova Scotian Music Association's Music Heritage Award, and is a member of the Order of Canada.
— Dr. Richard Ballon Goldbloom, Halifax: Dr. Goldbloom is an internationally acclaimed pediatrician. Over the past four decades, his leadership and vision have helped expand and develop the IWK Health Centre into one of the leading hospitals of its kind in Canada. Dr. Goldbloom promoted excellence in research and attracted experts in their fields, leading to many innovations in the treatment of children. He also began the Read To Me! program, which fights low literacy rates in Nova Scotia by providing reading materials to new parents. Dr. Goldbloom is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals, and Chancellor Emeritus of Dalhousie University.
— Dr. Stanley Paul Kutcher, Herring Cove: Dr. Kutcher is a renowned expert in adolescent mental health and an international leader in mental health research, advocacy and health services innovation. He has served as associate dean, international health, and as head, department of psychiatry, Dalhousie University. He has improved mental health care in Nova Scotia through specialty clinical programs, first onset psychosis and mobile crisis care. A founding member of Laing House, he has led the development of school mental health programs, reaching students throughout the province. He established the mental health research program, recruiting top researchers and academics to Nova Scotia and was instrumental in establishing the Brain Repair Centre, and the International/Global Health Office. He has created TeenMentalHealth.org, an innovative knowledge translation resource meeting the needs of youth, parents, educators and health providers.
— Wanda Elaine Thomas Bernard, East Preston: Ms. Thomas Bernard is a respected educator, scholar and social-work practitioner. As past director of the Maritime School of Social Work at Dalhousie University, Ms. Thomas Bernard addressed issues related to racial and cultural diversity in social work education and in the community. She is a founding member of the Association of Black Social Workers and was also involved with the Black United Front, the National Black Coalition, and numerous projects within the African Nova Scotian community. Her work in the field of social justice has led to her induction into the W.P. Oliver Wall of Fame at the Black Cultural Centre. She has also received the Nova Scotia Human Rights Award, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and is a member of the Order of Canada.
— Ruth Holmes Whitehead, Halifax: Ms. Whitehead is recognized worldwide as a scholar, researcher, author, historian and mentor. For 40 years, as staff ethnologist and assistant curator at the Nova Scotia Museum, she worked to ensure the stories of the Mi'kmaq of eastern Canada and the Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia are remembered. This led to the Nova Scotia Museum hosting the most comprehensive collection of Mi'kmaw material and cultural artifacts in the world. The research for her most recent book, Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities, served as the inspiration for the Book of Negroes, the internationally acclaimed novel by Canadian author Lawrence Hill.
The recipients were selected from 117 nominations by the Order of Nova Scotia Advisory Council.
The 2014 recipients will be recognized at the 13th investiture ceremony on Dec. 3 at Province House in Halifax.
The Order of Nova Scotia was established in June 2001 and is the highest honour bestowed by the province. Recipients have the right to use the initials O.N.S. after their names.
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Cut Rush Update January 2015
Van Nguyen
In 2014, we at cutrush.com focused on less movie projects and attempted to create a NYC block party with skateboarding, bitcoins, zetacoins, painting, and interactive booths. We were shut down and demoralized. Now we're shifting focus back to movies this year.
I finished cutting a music video, shot in Colorado. It has cops beating undeserving men like Barret, girls dancing, and time lapse of stars and plants growing. Check out Jim Herlihy's Mass City Shuffle on Vimeo.
Thank you co-creators: Diggy Ruff, Hon Nguyen, Emily Engel, Samantha Hanus, Ken Hesse, Philip Hesse, River Akemann, Christian Noriega, Ivan Morey, Kembra Allen, David Lasker, Carl Hedberg, Marcos Carvalho, Barret Lione-Seaton, Louella Hopkins, and Jim Herlihy.
Flying Thunder God Short Film
I'm appalled by the shit process that comes along with movie making. A short 10 minute film has a month or so of pre production, shooting days comprised of grueling life threatening dilemmas, and then a post production process dragging it's feet towards perfection. Three month's later, you finally know the outcome, and believe there might have been some creativity in there somewhere.
Fuck that.
I'm focusing on agile film making and testing out concepts on an upcoming short. The story's from a Cut Rush feature idea "FLYING THUNDER GOD". It's the future where quantum physics works well, racism and capitalism are worse than today, and mixes together a coming of age and epic martial arts style movies. The short will revolve around Ellen the pharmacist, and Chopsticks her Asian adopted brother. Some trouble is in their remote town, and their childhood friend has returned who can help, but he only functions when he's doped up on drugs.I think Ellen pseudo raped him when she was 18 and he was 15.
The short is purposefully 6 pages, 6 scenes, and we plan to shoot in ONE DAY. We usually do 2.5 pages in one day. We'll have many planned prep days, and a specific flow to follow for art inspiration and driving us towards executing like the Jamaican Bob Sled practice runs.. We'll be shooting and uploading proxy footage to dropbox in real time. As soon as we hit stop on the camera, the file will be available on the internet. Across the globe, editors will have access to the footage and can communicate with the team on set. The goals is to allow for more creativity on set, and finishing the movie faster. It takes extreme organization and execution like running a threatre play day after day. Once we master this, we will take this concept to shoot a feature in 7 days.
One Hour Movie shoots
I started a new meetup.com group. The goal is to get together and shoot for an hour. The work won't be complex and the goal is to keep shooting and keep creating for fun.
Nightcrawler – Feature (2014)
Jake Gyllenhaalis bad ass. The movie has subtle themes converging to make one massive message and the story's tension is phenominal. It is great storytelling. Synopsis: Los Angeles denizen Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) survives by scavenging and petty theft. He stumbles into a new career as a cameraman and — armed with a camcorder and police scanner — begins nocturnal forays across the city in search of shocking and grisly crimes. When he catches the eye of a shopworn news director (Rene Russo) who welcomes the chance to raise her station's ratings, Louis goes to increasingly greater lengths to catch the "money shot."
It's funny and well made movie about a guy who used to be famous for Hollywood films. Now, he's staring and directing a play for his artsy side. It's surreal and Michael Keaton shows himself in a way I haven't seen before. I left the movie theatre with a holy shit face. Synopsis: Former cinema superhero Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is mounting an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes will breathe new life into his stagnant career. It's risky, but he hopes that his creative gamble will prove that he's a real artist and not just a washed-up movie star. As opening night approaches, a castmate is injured, forcing Riggan to hire an actor (Edward Norton) who is guaranteed to shake things up. Meanwhile, Riggan must deal with his girlfriend, daughter and ex-wife.
The movie was shot over 12 real years for a coming of age story. They would shoot one week, every year, chronicling the boy's life. Richard Linklater will make all jealous with his story telling style and writing. Synopsis: The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his parents (Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke) and his sister (Lorelei Linklater). Vignettes, filmed with the same cast over the course of 12 years, capture family meals, road trips, birthday parties, graduations and other important milestones. Songs from Coldplay, Arcade Fire and other artists capture the time period.
Inside Job – Documentary (2010)
It was an Oscar winner, and if you don't know how banks or money works, then you should watch this. If you don't care, you are sadly misinformed about the lying, scamming going on. It still happens today on a massive scale. You know how we look back at Egyptian periods and gasp at how slavs would work for generations to build a pyramid? In the future, people will look back at corporations and banking system the same way.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Movies back in the day are way more artiser and leave the viewer to be transplanted into the middle of someone's life. We need more of that and less of the "I'm so artsy that I left the ending open ended". Synopsis: When petty criminal Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden (Strother Martin) or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline (George Kennedy), who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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Brilliant Bakeries, Dog-Mad Pubs & Indie Shops – The Best Bits of Otley
6 October 2022 · Andrew Porter-Emery · Culture
Otley is the dream market town – and it's right on your doorstep.
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Tucked away in the Wharfe Valley north of Leeds, Otley is home to a lot more than its famous Chevin, the picturesque ridge that rises above this pretty market town. It's a place known for its fairs, its place in history and its vibrant market place. Oh, and any number of pubs – quite possibly too many to count. It's also at the end of one of the most scenic bus routes in the city, so jump on the X84 and discover a most lovely suburb…
Patisserie Viennoise
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One of the wonders of Patisserie Viennoise is that you can see the patissiers at work through the windows on Westgate. Watch as wondrous wedding cakes come to life, then enter the door to the tiny shop on the right. Inside, you'll be tempted by handmade chocolates, fresh cream cakes and even their very own ice cream – the Turkish delight flavour is sensational. It's the perfect place for everything from wedding favours to Christmas gifts.
Patisserie Viennoise, 32-34 Westgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AS.
The Curious Hop
Wander down the narrow but always fascinating New Market and you'll find The Curious Hop, one of the best bottle shops in Leeds. Run by Marcus Garcia, it's a treasure trove of curated beers from around the globe, with popular names sharing shelf space with rarer bottles. You can get a growler filled up here, and they also do a mean line in charcuterie and cheese – a whole Tunworth, perhaps? It's perfect for pairing with a bottle of something special.
The Curious Hop, 18 New Market, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AE.
The Old Cock
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A warning to tall people – step into The Old Cock, as you certainly should, and you'll have to watch your head. This old stone building might have low ceilings, but that just enhances the cosy charm, especially in the colder months when the log-burner is crackling away. It's full of friendly locals, walkers who've descended from the Chevin for a restorative pint and those who know that this is one of the best beer pubs anywhere near Leeds.
The Old Cock, 11-13 Crossgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1AA.
Coffee, wine, charcuterie, cheese – Fare really knows how to speak the language we all love. From the good people behind Boss Burgers, Fare is a deceptively simple place, which trades showiness for expert knowledge. In other words, the cheeses here don't come out of a tube – the Baron Bigod brie is worth the journey alone – the brews are proper and the wines are wonderfully selected. Drop in for a bit, or book in for one of their expert tasting nights.
Fare, Unit 13, Orchard Gate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3NX.
Sift Cafe & Bakery
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This vegetarian and vegan cafe is a real comfort blanket of a place. You're met by a quirky mix of seating – if it looks full, don't worry, there's more room upstairs – and a tempting array of home bakes. The coffee is the real deal, as are the brunch and lunch dishes that run from classics such as avocado toast and a grilled cheese, to a wonderful peanut butter and jam toast. The cakes are a delight, with all manner of gluten-free goodness thrown in.
Sift Cafe & Bakery, 11 Manor Square, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AP.
The Junction Inn
Arrive from Leeds on the bus and The Junction is the first pub that greets you. To be fair, you may not get any further into the town if you stop here. All wood, stone and low ceilings, it's dripping in charm and with a bar that's well stocked in your staple drinks as well as some unusual craft ales. Head to the back for a game of darts, warm yourself by the open fire in winter and enjoy the live acts that are a regular fix of the calendar at this beloved local boozer.
The Junction Inn, 44 Bondgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1AD.
Spread over two floors, The Rookery combines a cosy bar at ground level with a gig space up the wooden stairs. There's a hidden beer garden for when the sun peeks out, Black Sheep cask ale behind the bar and some excellent cocktails with which to see the night away. The owner Greg is well connected in the music industry, so expect regular shows from the likes of The Dunwells, Mark Morris from The Bluetones and more.
The Rookery Bar & Venue, 12 Kirkgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3HJ.
The Bookshop on the Square
Over the last few years, The Bookshop on the Square has been transformed from a pretty anonymous place for discount books, into a charming shop with real character. As well as a great range of classics and the latest bestsellers, there's also a curated selection of local authors and books about God's Own County, aimed at the many visitors to this part of the region. Throw in prints, gifts and a great collection for children and it's hard to leave without buying.
The Bookshop on the Square, 28 Market Place, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AQ.
Bondgate Bakery
Wander past Bondgate Bakery in the wee hours and you can smell the magic at work. The wonders they create in the dark fly out of the shop in the day, with a magical array of breads, cakes, homemade quiches and more. You can grab a healthy salad if you're being virtuous, but why step into a bakery if you're not going to take home a sausage roll or a slice of perfect Yorkshire curd tart? Additive and chemical-free, this is the perfect community bakery.
Bondgate Bakery, 30 Bondgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1AD.
Courtyard Planters
Head through an archway on Westgate and you'll discover Courtyard Planters, a verdant paradise of plants, flowers and everything the green-fingered person could possibly need. They've got everything from shrubs to bedding plants, hanging baskets to seed potatoes and, if you feel your gardening skills need a polish, they run a range of classes that cover everything from the basics through to flower arranging.
Courtyard Planters, 9 Westgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AT.
Chez Vin
Just a few doors up from The Curious Hop, Chez Vin is an independent wine shop run by the friendly David Lawson. It's an Aladdin's cave for oenophiles inside, with a judicious selection of bottles, all hand-selected. Whether it's a red for night in front of the telly or something a bit special, you can get sage advice on what to go for. There's a great gin and spirit selection too, with support for plenty of local producers.
Chez Vin, 24 New Market, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AE.
North Bar Social
North Bar Social is a slice of craft beer heaven in Otley. It's incredibly friendly too, decorated with vintage furniture across a small downstairs bar and an equally snug room upstairs. There are even benches and tables outside, perfect for al fresco drinks. As you'd expect, they serve a great range of North's own beers on offer, plus an ever-shifting range of guests. It's a dog-lover's delight too, with many a regular dragging their pooch in on the way back from a walk.
North Bar Social, 8-10 Bondgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AB.
Weegmanns Butchers
Otley is spoiled for butchers, and there's a hot competition for the best pork pie in town. Is it the one offered by Middlemiss across the square, or do the queues outside Weegmanns at lunchtime tell their own story? Make your own mind up by trying both, while also picking up a great range of meats, prepared cuts and deli-counter deliciousness such as dripping and potted beef. If a pork pie isn't your thing, Weegmanns do stacked roast meat sandwiches as well.
Weegmanns Butchers, 6 Market Place, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AQ.
Like Nana Did
Like Nana Did is a refill and reuse shop that is championing sustainable shopping in Otley. Bring in your containers and fill up on flour, pasta, spices and more, or get your empty oil bottles refilled, all cutting down on waste. They have everything from coffee beans to pet food, Le Puy lentils to toilet roll. You can even get sustainable straws, household goods and gifts, and they can provide containers if you don't have your own.
Like Nana Did, 14 Orchard Gate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3NX.
The Art Works
If you've got a picture or print that needs framing, look no further than The Art Works. The problem is, you probably won't be able to leave without buying another print, or a card, or something else that champions local artists and artisans. It's that kind of place. The custom and bespoke framing they offer is excellent, which is why they have numerous corporate clients and why Olympians such as the Brownlee brothers head here to get their memorabilia framed.
The Art Works, Courthouse Street, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AN.
The Underground Bakery
Prepare to drool over the deliciousness because The Underground Bakery has unveiled its baked genius to the people of Otley – who have responded by queueing out of the door. Everything from cruffin to croissant is freshly baked, and the sourdough is superlative. Don't miss the Marmite rolls which fly out, or sweet treats such as a blood orange meringue tart. Throw in great breakfast sandwiches and you'll be joining the queue too.
The Underground Bakery, 10-10A Boroughgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AL.
Nostalgia Tea Rooms
Tucked away in Bay Horse Court, Nostalgia certainly lives up to its name. Tables are properly dressed with stiff linen, gilt frames line the wall and there's a seemingly endless selection of fine China both for sipping tea out of and for sale. The tea service is perfect, as are the cakes, sandwiches and homemade soups. Grab a table outside and watch the bustle of life in this quaint corner of Otley while you enjoy sweet treats galore.
Nostalgia Tea Rooms, 7 Bay Horse Court, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1SB.
Vintage Squirrel
Combine a cuppa at Nostalgia Tearooms with a browse and a rummage in this cornucopia of vintage wonders. It might be petite, but there are treasure to be uncovered at Vintage Squirrel, with everything from China tea sets to crystal decanters, steampunk gadgets, lace, glassware and more. Prices are more than fair, making this the place to find something from the past that's truly unique, such as a John Dyson cutlery set manufactured in Leeds.
Vintage Squirrel, 7 Bay Horse Court, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1BQ.
Buon Apps
Long a local favourite, Buon Apps has gone from strength to strength since relocating to its current riverside home. The outdoor terrace is the perfect place to be on a sunny day, while the addition of a deli means you can get some wonderful Italian grub to take home. The restaurant still does all the Italian classics with aplomb, while specials such as hake fillet with guanciale ham and the vegan wellington show they've got tricks up their sleeve too.
Buon Apps River Lounge & Italian Restaurant, Hartley House, 50 Mill Lane, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1FE.
Origin Fine Foods
Jenni Weaver's shop is her second venture, the first being the sister shop in Clayton, Bradford. It takes the same approach – this is all about showcasing the range and quality of Yorkshire produce, from artisan gins through to biscuits, crisps, preserves and even locally roasted coffee. Dip in for a one-off treat, or ask them to put together the perfect gift hamper for you, full of cheese, chocolate, Henderson's relish and other life-affirming essentials.
Origin Fine Foods, 11 Market Street, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AF.
Tapas & Tunes
Delivering exactly what is says on the tin, Tapas & Tunes offers the taste of Iberia downstairs, with a lively music spot upstairs. In doing so, it has plugged a couple of gaps in the Otley scene, making it a great place for a whole night out. Dine on top tapas – punchy pimientos de padron are highly recommended – and perfect pinxtos, then head upstairs to see a local band, open mic nights or tribute acts. Boquerones and banging music? Sounds like a plan!
Tapas and Tunes, 50 Kirkgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3HJ.
S&B Deli
The ideal of a local deli, S&B tempts you inside with a window display bursting with fresh fruits and vegetables. That's only half the story. Inside, you can get everything from freshly-squeezed orange juice to frozen pizza dough, antipasto boards to freshly-baked bread. They've got a solid gluten-free range, Mexican snacks and a fresh deli counter packed with well-chosen cheeses, olives and everything else you could need for an Otley picnic.
S&B Deli, 14 Boroughgate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AL.
Bloomfield Square
Who would have thought that a cafe run by Terrorvision lead singer Tony Wright would be so lovely? Tony isn't just the owner here, but is regularly behind the counter serving up sandwiches, top notch coffee and cakes, while there's also lots of letterpress and woodcut gifts to take away. This former coach house is also home to great regular music events, with Tony himself often playing along. Recent guests have included the stellar Johanna Warren.
Bloomfield Square, 28-30 Gay Lane, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1BR.
Wharfemeadows Park
Lined with pretty chocolate-box houses, Wharfemeadows Park is one of the prettiest places to pootle in all of Leeds, never mind Otley. There are landscaped gardens to one side, the river to the other, with swans and ducks splashing around. You can join them with a boat ride, or wander further down the river, past the dramatic weir, for a waterside walk, play park and the Riverside Cafe, offering snacks and ice creams.
Wharfemeadows Park, 1 Farnley Lane, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 2AB.
Otley Courthouse
A converted 19th-century magistrate court – complete with cells – Otley Courthouse opened in 2004 as an arts centre, since when it has been a key part of the town's cultural life. A comprehensive, diverse program of events covers everything from comedians to film screenings, music and lunchtime recitals. It hosts events such as Otley Science Festival, and draws names such as Rob Newman, Henry Normal and Robin Ince.
Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3AN.
A Casa di Alessia
With a kitchen overseen by the oh-so-Italian Alessia herself, A Casa di Alessia is a friendly and informal eatery where Roman pizza is the main event. The menu changes regularly, but expect to find the likes of spicy salami with pecorino and wild mushrooms, an addictive spicy broccoli and Italian sausage or the veggie artichoke with tomatoes and olives. There are also soothing pasta dishes, awesome arancini, excellent coffee and a mouthwatering range of Italian desserts.
A Casa di Alessia, 5 Orchard Gate, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 3NX.
The Horse & Farrier
The Horse and Farrier has managed to retain the stone-built charm of its former incarnation – The Three Horseshoes – but has added craft beer and a handful of en-suite bedrooms should you wish to stay the night. After an evening working your way through their cask and keg offerings, that might be advisable. It's family and dog-friendly, with a cracking Sunday roast best enjoyed on a comfy leather sofa with a pint and the papers.
The Horse & Farrier, 7 Bridge Street, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 1BQ.
The Roebuck
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Up the hill on the way out of Otley, The Roebuck is well worth the diversion from the town centre. Inside it's all wooden beams, wooden floors and wooden chairs, a roaring fire and the smell of something good coming from the kitchen. They'll pull you a pint of Black Sheep or something from Saltaire Brewery to enjoy while you wait for one of their justly celebrated pies. The slow-cooked steak and real ale pie is a winner, but there's not a duff choice on the menu.
The Roebuck, 1 Roebuck Lane, Newall with Clifton, Otley, West Yorkshire, LS21 2EY.
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What is Shaivism?
Question: "What is Shaivism?"
Answer: One of the more well-known interpretations of Hinduism is Shaivism, a sect that considers the deity Shiva to be supreme. Hinduism is generally polytheistic, believing in a large number of gods and goddesses. The focus on a single deity is sometimes incorrectly referred to as monotheism in instances such as Shaivism. In fact, Shaivism is a form of monolatry or henotheism, since it worships a single deity while simultaneously believing that more than one deity exists.
Shaivism is distinguished from other Hindu sects, in no small part, for its perspective on animals and violence. The concept of ahisma, or pacifism, is considered a moral obligation in most Hindu denominations. This usually includes a prohibition on eating meat or killing animals. Shaivism, on the other hand, does not emphasize ahisma as much as other groups and, in fact, uses animal sacrifices as part of its worship.
Shaivism is also distinguished from more popular sects such as Vaishnavism for placing much less emphasis on the concept of avatars—physical incarnations of the supreme deity. Shaivism focuses attention on the god Shiva—sometimes spelled Siva—who is the Hindu god of performing arts and dance. It is no surprise, then, that Shaivism has been a major player in the development of Hindu dance, music, and practices such as yoga.
Shaivists are also known for wearing a symbol comprised of three horizontal lines and a red circle across their foreheads. Scholars suggest that Shaivism is the oldest of the various Hindu sub-groups, though it also seems to overlap more readily with Buddhism than do other Hindu denominations.
Ultimately, Shaivism can be assessed using the same general points as Hinduism. Concepts such as karma, reincarnation, and so forth cannot be supported by reason and evidence. As compared to the Bible, Hindu scriptures are self-contradictory, a point that Hindu scholars will readily admit. From a spiritual standpoint, Shaivism may be a unique interpretation of Hinduism, but it is no less false than any other Hindu denomination.
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Ottershaw and Longcross
Longcross Garden Village: Plans to create a centrepiece building given green light
The building has been described as a "mixed-used facility" and could accommodate a coffee shop, delicatessen, bakery, office and community spaces
Catarina Demony
Ambitious plans to create a three-storey centrepiece "Discovery Building" in Longcross Garden Village have been given the green light by Runnymede Borough Council (RBC).
The 1,265 sqm building will be constructed in the northern part of Surrey's newest village, also known as Longcross North.
The site, which lies next to the M3 near Chertsey, is a joint project between Crest Nicholson and Aviva Investors.
It is one of the 14 garden villages across the country backed by the government in January 2017.
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After an initial planning application was submitted in May 2017, RBC approved outstanding "reserved matters" related to the building on Wednesday (December 6).
According to the plans, each floor of the Discovery Building will have a different purpose, with a coffee shop on the ground floor and office spaces on the two floors above.
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Described as a "mixed-use facility", the second floor will also offer a space for the community.
In addition, it will include sitting areas, water features, 46 car parking spaces and 20 cycle parking spaces.
Proposed design for central discovery centre (Image: Scott Brownrigg)
The developer wrote on its website: "The Discovery building has been designed to offer flexible accommodation so that it can be easily adapted to different uses in the future.
"This will allow the building to evolve with the wider development of Longcross."
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Chobham Parish Council has opposed the plans, arguing the development would be a "threat" to the area.
In a separate planning application, which has been granted permission, the developer proposed building two extra four-storey office buildings within Longcross North.
The two buildings would provide a total of 16,764 sqm of office space, including a lower ground car park.
Major plans to build thousands of homes in dozens of sites across Surrey towns and villages revealed
Reserved matters related to the proposal were approved by RBC during the same council meeting.
It is estimated the entire project - Longcross North, Longcross South and Chertsey Common - will take up 10 years to complete.
Runnymede Borough Council
Longcross
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Carlisle Cathedral Choir
Fly to Malta
Breakfast Visit Valletta Lunchtime performance in the Upper Barrakka Gardens Town trail and show of "The Malta Experience" Evening meal
Breakfast Morning in Mdina, the "Silent City" Afternoon visit to Marsaxlokk and boat trip to the Blue Grotto Evening meal Performance on Bay Square in Bugibba
Breakfast Visit Mediterraneo Marine Park Perform in Baystreet Shopping Centre Evening meal
Breakfast Flight to the UK
What's included*
Return airport coach transfers
Three organised concerts
Half board accommodation
*Excursion fees may not be included in this tour – please contact us to learn more.
01 Valletta
02 The Malta Experience
03 Blue Grotto, Malta
04 Mdina
05 Marsaxlokk
06 Mediterraneo Marine Park
07 Gozo
08 Ggantija Temples
Malta's capital city takes its name from its founder Jean Parisot de la Valette, Grand Master of the Order of St John. Completed in only 15 years in the XVI century, Valletta is a Fortress City which still bears many signs of its past: historic buildings, city walls, narrow ancient alleyways, statues, fountains. The city is best explored on foot.
Full day See on map
This educational audio-visual show opened in 1980. Through the use of authentic imagery and gripping commentary, the island's 7000 years of turbulent history are brought to life in 45 minutes.
1 hour See on map
One of the natural wonders of the island, the system of 6 caves surrounded by high cliffs and a massive arch is an extremely popular site with tourists and has been featured in the 2004 movie 'Troy'. The light reflecting on the minerals in the underwater rocks creates the spectacular colour which gives its name to the main cave.
2 hours See on map
"The Silent City" is an extraordinary example of ancient walled city with over 4,000 years of history. Discover the timeless charm of Mdina and its many cultural treasures whilst exploring on foot: the almost total lack of cars adds to the peaceful atmosphere.
Half day See on map
This picturesque fishing village in the south of the island is very popular with tourists and has a number of fish restaurants lining the harbour. The main attraction is without doubt the typical "Luzzus" – very colourful, traditional fishing boats.
Tip: The village is extremely popular with tourists. Arrive early in order to avoid the crowds!
Enjoy a fun and educational day at this Marine Park and learn about dolphins, sea lions, exotic birds and reptiles. The main attraction is no doubt the Dolphinarium where visitors are able to enjoy daily shows and even interact with the dolphins.
Malta's neighbouring island is well worth the trip. Smaller and greener than Malta itself, Gozo is steeped in history with Neolithic temples, old forts and splendid baroque palaces and churches. A regular ferry service connects it with the main island of Malta.
The two temples are located on the island of Gozo. Built between 3600 and 3200 BC, they have been included in the UNESCO World heritage List and represent some old the oldest free standing monuments in the world – they precede Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids. The on-site Interpretive Centre provides visitors useful information on life in the Neolithic and is home to a number of archaeological artefacts.
Parish Church, Naxxar We recommend a performance in the Parish Church of Naxxar where the priest invites choirs to perform at Mass and on the church steps after Mass. Expect a very welcoming audience.
Upper Barrakka Gardens, Valletta Every day at midday a cannon shot is fired from the gardens to commemorate the Siege of Valletta and numerous tourists flock to the gardens to witness the ceremony. Performances take place right after midday for a guaranteed audience.
Parish Church, Mosta Sing in the church of St Mary with its unusual circular shape and impressive dome - the fourth largest in the world! The church is famous for an incident that happened in 1942 when a bomb pierced the dome, landed in the church and slid across its floor without exploding!
Baystreet Shopping Complex St Julian St Julian's is the tourist capital of Malta – busy, vibrant and young with plenty of cocktail bars, nightclubs, restaurants and smart hotels. The shopping complex is in the centre of the resort and performances are arranged on the open air stage in the central plaza.
Bay Square, Bugibba Bugibba is a pleasant resort popular with families. Bay Square is right on the water's edge and lined with cafés, bars and restaurants. Groups with a popular and upbeat repertoire are especially welcome here.
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta Choirs have the opportunity to sing in the splendid setting of St John's, built in the high Baroque style as testament to the wealth and power of the Knights of St John. The Cathedral's highly ornate interior is truly awe-inspiring.
Typical accommodation
Park Hotel, Malta ★★★★ See on map
Why groups like it:
In the heart of the resort of Sliema
Rooftop pool and terrace, Indoor swimming pool
CCTV in public areas
Free Wi-Fi in lobby and bar
Modern rooms with air con
Bayview Hotel, Malta ★★★ See on map
Seafront location
Outdoor and indoor swimming pools
Games room and buffet style meals
24-hour-internet café
Tour Music & Concert Tour To Noordwijk
This friendly seaside town offers lots of opportunities for school bands, orchestras or choirs to perform and enjoy the culture and attractions.
Tour Music & Concert Tour To Leipzig
Take your music group or class on a trip to visit the city where Bach, Schumann, Wagner, Grieg and Mahler all lived! Public performance opportunities.
Tour Music & Concert Tour To Berlin
Berlin's museums and renowned landmarks reveal the city's vast musical past while its thriving cultural scene delights music students.
Take a look through our music school trip to Berlin and get an idea of where you can perform!
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Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band Cherokee Indians) County
Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band Cherokee Indians)
Territory of the Tribe of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Headquarters located in Cherokee, NC.
Qualla Boundary information on NCpedia
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Government website
Frela Dean Owl Beck (1940- ): Community health nurse in the Qualla Boundary.
Casey Cooper ( ): CEO of the Cherokee Indian Hospital, he has served the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation as a Primary Care Nurse, Community Health Nurse, and nursing educator. An article about his work can be found attached in the Resources section below.
Helen Crossley (1930s): Nurse who spent a few years during the Depression of the 1930s working with the Indian Health Service on the Qualla Boundary.
Virginia Rosebud Sneed Dixon (1919-2021): Eastern Band Cherokee nurse and veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
Trudy B. Fann (1922- ): Wartime nurse in the U.S. Navy, she settled in Johnson City after getting married and worked as a surgical service nurse for the VA. An article about her career and experiences can be found attached in the Resources section below.
Lula Owl Gloyne (1891-1985): First Eastern Band Cherokee nurse.
Mary Ann Lambert Luff (1916-2013): U.S. Army Nursing Corps nurse who served two years as a 1st LT in France during World War II. After the war she served as a nurse for a veteran's hospital.
Ernestine Walkingstick (1937-1999): Public health nurse and advocate for victims of domestic violence.
The Health of the Cherokee. (1972, April). The Health Bulletin, p.8-11.
Singleton, M. (2022, November 25). The Abiding Spirit of Lula Owl Gloyne. UVA School of Nursing. Available online at https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/news/flashback-native-american-nurse/
Marlowe, N. (1994, December 15). One-quarter Cherokee and 100 Percent Proud. Asheville Citizen-Times, p.1C. Asheville, North Carolina.
Keeling, J. (2015). "Wartime, VA nurse Trudy Fann reflects on full life." The Johnson City News & Neighbor. 614.29 KB
Ridderbusch, K. (2019, July 22). "How The Eastern Cherokee Took Control Of Their Health Care." Kaiser Family Foundation. 13.8 MB
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Requiem for a Niño Bien 4 comments
Requiem for a Niño Bien
Like the mythical milongueros of the golden years, who went to the milongas for the sole purpose of taking a girl out for coffee afterwards, but went home alone till the day they died, there are people who believe that some dance organizers get "rich" with tango. We don't know anyone who got rich but over the years we've known plenty who have faced hardships because of their love affair with the tango. If you pay attention, there are always signs that the demise of a milonga is probably underway. At the local level it begins when organizers begin to plead with their patrons to "buy a drink, tip the waitress," or both. It is very difficult to find businesses that show an interest in tango beyond the amount of drinks they pour or the number of menu items they serve. On a much larger scale, many well established milongas in Buenos Aires that take place at social institutions find the executive committees not interested in the good of the tango, but in the money they make without investing a peso on the infrastructure. According to Marina Gambier, who blogs for daily La Nacion, Tangocool, a nine year old milonga at Club Villa Malcom, created as a challenging alternative at the time for many young people who were looking for a more relaxed tango with less behavior and dress codes, held a farewell party, with tears and some anger on Friday, March 22, 2013. In this case the signs were evident long before the outcome. Villa Malcolm's bathrooms were notorious for their filth. They were never cleaned on the days when there was dancing, and sometimes during summer classes, the air conditioning was not turned on.
On, Thursday, April 4, 2013, milonga Niño Bien became another casualty on the downward slope of the current forty year cycle of the tango. Organizer Luis Calvo opened the milonga in 1998 at the legendary Centro Region Leonesa hall on Humberto Primo 1462. By early 2000 the Niño Bien milonga had replaced the legendary Club Almagro as the place where the old and young dancing elite gathered to excel in front of a growing foreign audience. It was the place to be, to see and to be seen on Thursday nights. And during low tourist season the locals were able to enjoy the magnificent salon with a polished wooden floor during low tourist season. The milonga organizers were getting hit on several fronts: the high cost of rent and taxes, tourists who came with fewer tangodollars, and locals who were broke because of inflation and a bad economy. It's not known how teachers are faring. Today, with more and more Europeans "teaching" and people learning to dance from You Tube, there are worse dancers than ever on the floor. This discourages the locals even more from going out dancing. The only ones who seem to be doing well are the tango for export dinner/show venues which are raking in up to 50% of the 1.5 billion tourist tango pesos, .
We first visited Niño Bien in 1999 while escorting two ladies from Hawaii as part of a guided tango tour of Buenos Aires. The hall was a lot bigger than Almagro. It was rectangular instead of square, and negotiating the dance floor was quite an eye opener for the traveling ladies. We returned six years later during our Katrina exile tour, and we became part of a group with a reserved table on Thursday nights. At the time we didn't know whether we'd ever be able to return home to New Orleans, nor where we'd end up hanging up our shoes for the evening. To this day we crack a smile when we talk to our friends about fancy dancing on a crowded floor. "If people could see us now," sometimes we whispered in between songs, "actually doing all the footwork we try to teach them in those cavernous American halls." But today, a Facebook post read, "I can't believe it. Maipu 444, Villa Malcolm and now Niño Bien," and we gasped, looking at each other as if trying to hold on to a memory that wanted to escape like the last breath of air that precedes death.
Click anywhere on the picture above to play, or HERE to watch on You Tube
We are very grateful for our time on this earth when we could set foot in Club Almagro, Akarense, and Niño Bien. We hope to have enough relevance left to be able to tell those who want to know, what it was like to be alive and dancing during those glorious years at the turn of the century.
A special thanks to you Valorie for being the inspiration to be myself.
This is how the Centro Region Leonesa salon looked like on the last night of the milonga Niño bien
Photo courtesy of Gerard Roche, a.k.a. Gerrysan
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4 responses to "Requiem for a Niño Bien"
I heard that Nino Bien will be opening once again on Thursdays in Centro Region Leonesa. The milonga organizers and the club board came to an agreement.
jantango
I just came back to Los Angeles from Buenos Aires in March, 2013. When I was in Buenos Aires, I went to several milongas except Nino Bien ( I don't know why). I said to myself I'll dance Tango in Nino Bien next time I come to BA. Now this news……..Sad, sad!!
Douglas Ching
Luis Calvo and Gaby ran Nino Bien for 15 years. That's a long time for milongas these days when some don't last months. I heard about the closing one day after the fact. And I live 13 blocks from Centro Region Leonesa.
The fact that dance floors are worse than ever may stem from the fact that most of the Argentine couples who travel to teach are dancing an exhibition style that is choreographed, not a social style that is improvised. People see them and think that's the way to dance in the milonga. Is it any wonder the dance floors are chaotic?
Teaching reflects life these days — fast and complicated. Simplicity is not in demand. Argentines sell what people want to buy, not what they need to progress as social dancers. The codes and customs of the milongas are not taught. I blame the teachers for that, not the dancers. Winning a tango championship guarantees work abroad. And they don't even have to know how to dance in a milonga to teach.
Wow, it is unthinkable to me that this has happened, but it's also unthinkable to me that tango has become so tacky. But you and Alberto and some others of us are indeed very fortunate to have had the experiences we had in places like this with the people who mattered.
Sad. Sad.
Anton Gazenbeek
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UIAA / Featured / Speed Climber Kendra Stritch makes history by becoming first American UIAA World Cup winner
Speed Climber Kendra Stritch makes history by becoming first American UIAA World Cup winner
Kendra Stritch made history by becoming the first American to win a stage of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour (Photo: UIAA)
Unseasonably warm weather meant there was no ice on the Speed wall at the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour stop in Bozeman.
But that didn't stop the crowds that gathered at the Emerson Cultural Centre in downtown Bozeman, from cheering on a thrilling evening Speed final won for the Men by Nikolai Kuzovlov of Russia and Kendra Stritch of the U.S.A. for the Women.
Stritch's victory made history because she is the first North American to win a stage of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour. And she did it in grand style in front of an appreciative crowd by beating out Nadezhda Gallyamova (Russia) with a 7.8 second run and a 8.2 second run for a combined score of 16.4 seconds.
Previously in 2000, Kim Csizmazia a dual American-Canadian citizen and American Will Gadd won the overall World Cup title but that was before the competition was a UIAA sanctioned event. Although that competition had similar rules and multiple venues, it was run by a private company Hohenwerkstatt.
It was also celebrated because the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup was being held in North America for the first time in Bozeman.
Kuzovlov's victory came after an evening of victories that resulted in a series of crushing runs under six seconds with the final two runs being a 5.17 second and 5.43 run for a combined score of 10.6 seconds. He beat fellow Russian Egor Trapeznikov in the finals.
What a contrast the competition was from last year with minus 25 degrees Celsius temperatures replaced by balmy weather that resulted in spectators watching the Lead Qualifications during the day in shorts, t-shirts and flip flops.
Before the Speed finals, which lasted well into the night, event organizer Joe Josephson, the man who brought the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup to Bozeman welcomed climbers from around the world. He asked the crowd to give athletes who had come from far and wide a grand Bozeman welcome.
Also greeting the UIAA athletes were a band of native American singers called the Bear Canyon Singers whose leader said: "It is an honour to sing for the champions who are gathered here."
The Bozeman Ice Festival, which the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup raises funds for the Friends of Hyalite. The group helps keep open a route into nearby Hyalite Canyon, considered one of the premier ice climbing destinations in the U.S.A.
There are over 200 ice climbing routes in the canyon, and during the festival, hundreds of visitors from across North America and the world attend to take part in ice climbing clinics.
Without a plowed road in the winter, climbing, skiing and outdoor enthusiasts have to walk or ski about 20 kilometres in from the road head.
Josephson said he was thrilled with the first day of competition and how it all worked out despite the lack of ice due to the warm weather.
"I can't believe all these months of planning and it came off," said Josephson. "The amount of people working behind the scenes is phenomenal and it's amazing how much the community has come to embrace the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup."
The competition continues on Saturday, 13 December 2014 with the Lead (Difficulty) competition and the finals. Please click here for the schedule.
For schedule, live results and live streaming please visit www.iceclimbingworldcup.org or follow live updates during the competition on twitter @uiaaiceclimbing
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What Was The Carter High Chant In The Locker Room
Obscenity-laced chant about coach ends season / Football players won't say who led incident — Woodside cancels 2 games, including homecoming
The principal of Woodside High School is upset after several players on the school's football team screamed obscenities at their coach as he entered the locker room following yet another loss. As a result, the school's already bleak football season has been terminated for the balance of the season. After a team meeting on Monday, school authorities decided to call off the season because the players refused to identify the teammates who had led a locker-room chant earlier that day. In the locker room on Friday evening following Woodside's 30-12 home loss to Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, Woodside head coach Packy Moss was joined by the father of one of his players, according to Woodside sources.
In the locker room, Moss was unable to see who was yelling at him, so he withdrew into his neighboring office.
Common instructed the players to either write down what they knew about the event or face having the remainder of the season canceled – as of this week, Woodside had won two games and lost six – as a result of the incident.
According to the administrators of the school in San Mateo County, this did not set well with them.
"Sportmanship, decency, and character are all on the line in this situation.
In his own words, "This was a consensus decision and one that we did not take lightly." "This isn't about winning games; it's about earning people's respect.
There are no justifications for abusing another human being in this manner." The forfeiture of Woodside's last two games had a sobering impact on the team's players, who were looking forward to their last game, a homecoming match versus archrival Menlo-Atherton, even more than they were to their previous two games.
The senior linebacker and defensive captain, Jon Blekis, 17, believes the school overreacted and that it now demonstrates that the institution has given up.
Even though both players acknowledged that the yelling was wrong, they claimed that it was the result of a developing sense of rage within the team.
Blekis and Thompson stated that the team attempted to work with the coaching staff, but that they gave up halfway through the season.
Prior to Moss taking over as coach, the squad were unbeaten for three years.
Moss stated that the squad was devastated by the loss, but that the disciplinary issues had existed throughout the season.
Although the coaching staff attempted to forcefully reign in the players, including forcing some of them to sit out games, according to Moss, it was ultimately futile.
However, he feels it was required in order to restore order at the institution.
"I believe they are affected by the defiance they witness on the professional level, as well as the open criticism of coaches and general managers, and although that may work on the professional level, a system like that cannot be implemented in the amateur levels," Young explained.
However, it was a huge disappointment for his squad and a complete surprise to them.
"I was a little shocked that this wasn't taken care of without the involvement of higher ups in the organization.
A parent whose kid was banned from school for one day and never returned following disciplinary action claims that the problem stems from Moss's inability to gain the respect of his players as a result of his conduct.
"He didn't win their admiration or respect.
However, he claims that many members of the squad did not reciprocate in kind.
If you have any issues, we encourage you to come and chat to us about them." Moss compared his actions to those of Richmond High Schoolbasketball coach Ken Carter, who benched his team for a week in January 1999 to encourage them to improve their academic performance.
For the time being, it appears that the message is not getting through.
Thompson stated that several of the players were still in disbelief that their season had come to a close. "It's a little uncomfortable," he said. "I had two touchdowns in my last game, so it was a successful conclusion to the season. However, I'd want to be playing for the remainder of the season."
ESPN's film on Carter High football fiasco doesn't pay tribute to real watchdog hero
In response to some Woodside High School football players chanting obscenities at their coach as the coach entered the locker room following yet another loss, the school's administration has decided to terminate the remainder of the school's already disappointing football season. In response to the players' refusal to identify their fellow students who had led a locker-room chant, school administrators called the season off during a team meeting on Monday. In the locker room on Friday evening following Woodside's 30-12 home defeat to Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, Woodside head coach Packy Moss was joined by the father of one of his players, according to a source.
He did nothing about the situation until the following Monday morning, when he and Principal Linda Common organized a team meeting and gave the players an opportunity to express themselves.
None of his associates, on the other hand, came forward with information.
According to Moss, who is in his third season as head coach, "There was no respect, no remorse." It was considered as a joke by them (the players).
These children are being taught that this type of conduct is not acceptable by the adults in their lives." Moss, athletic directorSteve Nicolopulos, and other officials were involved in the unprecedented decision, which was taken by Common.
It is possible to express dissatisfaction with your coach in different ways.
There have been complaints from a number of players who believe the hasty decision was unjust.
They acknowledged that the yelling was wrong, but they said that it sprang from a rising sense of frustration among the players.
After trying to work with the coaching staff, Blekis and Thompson said that they had given up halfway through the year.
But after that, the coaches began to disparage the players, and the situation exploded.
Since then, the club has gone on a five-game losing skid.
He said that players were frequently fighting with one another, stealing from one another, and missing practice.
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Some weeks, he added, "we didn't even have time to talk about Xs and Os because we were dealing with players fighting, cutting class, and plagiarizing." It didn't matter what type of discipline we had in place; nothing appeared to bother them." The commissioner of the Peninsula Athletic League, Gordon Young, stated that he had never heard of a forfeiture of this sort until this one occurred.
In his opinion, many young players grow up copying today's professional athletes, who make a spectacle out of berating their coaches and the team's leadership.
"While this is a serious penalty, it is not excessive.
It was a huge disappointment for his squad, but it was still a huge shock to them.
"I was a little astonished that this wasn't resolved without the involvement of the administration.
A parent whose kid was suspended from school for one day and never returned following disciplinary action claims that the problem stems from Moss's inability to gain the respect of his players as a result of his leadership style As a middle school football coach, Vaught understands the importance of earning the respect of his or her students.
The fact that no one looked up to him was a source of frustration." Ralph Cramedi, an assistant coach, concurred, saying that the coaching staff had gone out of its way to build a connection with the players.
According to Crame, "We had an open-door policy, and we visited with each child personally to ask them about their ambitions." If you have any issues, we encourage you to come and chat to us about them.
I'm sure they're unhappy about this, and I'm sure they'll be for a long time, but maybe they'll realize how much we're doing for them," Moss added.
Several of the players, according to Thompson, were still in disbelief as their season came to a close.
According to him, the situation is "very uncomfortable." "My previous game finished with two touchdowns, so it was a successful conclusion. My preference is to continue playing football for the rest of the year."
Football vs. academics in Texas schools
For those of us who are concerned about how Texas powerhouse football frequently takes the place of underperforming public-school academics, this topic is still relevant, which is why it is commendable that ESPN is taking a historical look at the situation. Teachers' perspectives are now being challenged by revisionist viewpoints: teacher Bates is no longer regarded as a beacon of educational purity in the eyes of the public. He is instead portrayed as an eccentric out-of-touch math instructor who has failed far too many of his pupils and has bragging rights about it, according to the documentary.
But what does it matter?
Friday Night Lights tells the story
To begin, the story gained national attention because it was included in author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's famous 1990 bookFriday Night Lights, which included a comprehensive chapter titled "The Algebraic Equation." Bates is described by Bissinger as having a "name-like appearance." "He was rotund and sallow-looking, and he had the precise mannerisms that one might anticipate from a guy who had committed his life to teaching mathematics and industrial arts," says the author. It was decided that Bates' character would not appear in the film Friday Night Lights, which was released in 2004.
Thousands of instructors all across the world do the same thing.
What the teacher told me
In 2004, I had a conversation with Bates. The instructor stated, "I was attempting to be the greatest teacher I could be." "I did what I thought was right. I took a stand for what was right." Wilfred Bates is a high school algebra instructor. It came at a cost to him. Aside from the threats directed at his family members, he also experienced difficulties in his work life. He was reassigned to a middle school and was never permitted to return to the classroom as a math teacher again. Edwards, the student who caused the difficulties, didn't show up for Bates' class very often, refused to complete homework, and, as depicted in the ESPN video, enjoyed spending his free time shooting dice with his friends in the girls' bathroom.
"No one would ever be able to get close to them," Bissinger writes.
Edwards' grades in Bates' class, on the other hand, were 40, 60, 60, and 35.
"He, on the other hand, did not do it.
When Bates first refused to bend on the grade, Edwards was sent to another math class to continue his education.
As a result of the controversy surrounding Bates' unusual and enigmatic grading symbols in his log book, Edwards was granted permission to pass and participate.
The markings made by student Gary Edwards are presented at the bottom of the page.
Bates informed me that "I was on trial" in a future hearing in Austin, Texas.
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His harrowing encounter was something he said he would never be able to shake from.
After a playoff game in 1988, Gary Edwards is praised by a cheerleader on his accomplishment.
(Photo courtesy of Evans Cagelage / File Photo) During a discussion of the ESPN documentary What Carter Lost, which is about the 1988 Carter football squad, former Carter High football player Gary Edwards (center) was joined by Jessie Armstead (left) and Derric Evans (second from left).
Following the screening, Adam Hootnick, the filmmaker, and Jean-Jacques Taylor, the moderator, will participate in a conversation (right).
In retrospect, Edwards noted that "he was a Plano resident and a Plano booster." "A lot of people aren't aware of this," Edwards added.
So everything was intertwined with that.
They claim that dead men don't tell tales.
Footnote: After Carter High School defeated Converse Judson High School to win the state championship, a court decided that Carter was ineligible for the state championship due of Edwards' math grade.
Carter was compelled to hand over the prize. Judson defeated Carter in a forfeit with the unusual score of 1-0, according to today's records. In addition to Marina Trahan Martinez, who worked as an intern on this story,
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'What Carter Lost' Tells The True Story Of 'Friday Night Lights' Football Rivals
This page contains information on the Carter High School football team that won the Texas state title in 1988. In the words of filmmaker Adam Hootnick, "For a lot of folks, that's the pinnacle." ESPN Films provided the image. Several people are already familiar with the narrative of Friday Night Lights, in which a West Texas high school competes for the state football championship. It began as a nonfiction book, then morphed into a movie (featuring Billy Bob Thornton in the role of the coach), and eventually became a television series.
When it comes to Friday Night Lights, Carter High School is really just an afterthought – the wicked, thug-like squad who stole a title from their rivals.
"By any metric, this was one of the best," Hootnick recalls of the school's reputation.
In the opinion of Hootnick, it was "The majority of the families are two-parent households, and the majority of the professionals.
Carter was kicked out of the playoffs after a court struggle with the other colleges, who were predominantly white." Unquestionably, everything would have turned out differently if Carter had been one of the primarily white schools that had always been at the time "Hootnick expresses himself.
Carter was victorious in the state championship, but the narrative does not end there.
However, I believe they were not prepared for the trip to be over.
The elevation of the pedestal, Hootnick believes, is "nearly as large as it gets" for a Texas high school football hero.
Hootnick conducts interviews with former Texas high school football players who went on to play professionally in the film.
As a result, for many people, the degree of attention, devotion, and intensity surrounding that encounter is the pinnacle of their lives.
The documentary features several of them discussing how much they have lost and their efforts to reconstruct their lives since then.
According to Hootnick, among of the story's unsung heroes are the parents who pushed to keep their son's baseball team in the postseason.
Correction: August 23, 2017, 12 a.m.
— It was previously reported that the last name of director Adam Hootnick was spelt incorrectly as Hootnik in a prior photo caption.
In addition, the audio report, as well as a prior Web version, said that six Carter High School football players were sentenced to jail during their junior year. In reality, five players were sentenced to prison and one was placed on probation. NPR 2021 has copyright protection.
Friday Night Lights Chapter 16 Summary
Mike had always dreamt of the day when he would be able to compete in the semifinals. Previously, his brother had taken him to Memorial Stadium at Texas A&M University, where he was permitted to go on the field and inside the locker room. They had returned to the university several times after that, and Mike couldn't get the institution out of his head. Now he's back at the field house, but this time not as some naive youngster, but as a serious player. The Ivory Christian basketball team has piqued the curiosity of college recruiters, and Gaines feels that Mike Winchell has promise as well, because schools have never seen a player who is more focused and disciplined.
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He doesn't have a particularly strong arm, and no amount of hard effort will be able to compensate for that.
Later, the morning of the game, he is plagued by a persistent sense that the ground is too wet and that he would never be able to toss the ball, that he will never be able to get a hold of the ball.
It's going to be a nightmare-inducing environment.
II. Summary
The following night, Jerrod McDougal walks into the locker room and notices everything is perfectly organized. He exclaims, "Damn!" in a low voice. "It's finally arrived." Everything then proceeds in the same manner as before: the same music, the same talks, and the same noises of Ivory puking in the same place as before. It helps the players to feel more comfortable. Outside, the Carter squad is warming up, and it is clear from the way they are dressed that Permian is up against a team unlike any other they have played so far this season.
MOJO!" The Carter players go over to the Permian sides and begin making low guttural sounds that are evocative of dogs, followed by a clapping pattern that is nearly unbreakable.
In response to a black Permian instructor, they yell "Oreo!" and scream other expletives in an attempt to terrify everyone from Permian even more.
However, in order to avoid violence, the decision is taken to keep them on their own side this time.
Anyone who has ever played high school football recalls that moment with amazing clarity, that moment of emotional zenith, which, no matter what happens after it – win or lose – will remain etched in their memory forevermore.
There isn't a single person in the locker room who feels they have a chance to lose. That is what gives them an advantage — their confidence in themselves.
III. Summary
The next night, Jerrod McDougal walks into the locker room and notices everything is perfectly lined out, prompting him to remark, "Damn! I have it in my possession. All of this then occurs in the same order as it has done so in the past: same music, same talks, same sounds of Ivory vomiting up. As a result, the players are more comfortable. Outside, the Carter squad is warming up, and it is clear from their demeanor that Permian is about to meet a team unlike any other they have encountered so far this season.
MOJO!" The Carter players go over to the Permian sides and begin making low guttural sounds that are suggestive of dogs, followed by a clapping pattern that is nearly unbroken.
In response to a black Permian instructor, they yell "Oreo!" and scream other expletives in order to terrify everyone from Permian even more.
It is decided to keep them on their own side this time around in order to avoid bloodshed.
That moment, that emotional zenith, will be remembered vividly by anybody who has ever participated in high school football.
In the locker room, no one has the illusion that they are going to lose.
When Jerrod McDougal walks into the locker room that night, he notices that everything is perfectly lined out, and he comments in a whisper, "Damn! "It has arrived." Everything subsequently proceeds in the same manner as before: the same music, the same talks, and the same noises of Ivory puking in the same place. It helps the athletes to feel more at ease on the field. Outside, the Carter team is warming up, and it is clear from their demeanor that Permian is about to meet a squad unlike any other they have encountered so far this season.
MOJO!" With that, the Carter players cross over to the Permian sides and begin making low guttural sounds that sound like dogs, followed by a chorus of applauding.
They yell "Oreo!" at a black Permian instructor who is black, and they use obscene language to further scare everyone from Permian.
However, in order to avoid conflict, it is decided to keep them on their own side this time.
It is a moment that will never be forgotten, regardless of whether the team wins or loses. There isn't a single person in the locker room who feels they are going to lose. That is what gives them an edge — their confidence in themselves.
Andre Carter's rise continues with academy sack record
When Jerrod McDougal walks into the locker room that night, he notices that everything is set up perfectly, and he comments in a whisper, "Damn! "It's right here." Everything then proceeds in the same manner as before: the same music, the same talks, the same noises of Ivory vomiting up. It helps the players feel more at ease. Outside, the Carter squad is warming up, and it is clear from the way they are dressed that Permian is up against a team unlike any other they have played this season. The Permian Pepettes enter and immediately begin yelling, "MOJO!
It appears to be an attempt to frighten the crowd.
When the Permian band initially arrived on the field, they would often march all around the field.
The dressing room, on the other hand, has an atmosphere unlike any other.
There isn't a single person in the locker room who believes they can lose.
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Histories of Illinois Civil War Regiments and Units
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Colour bearers of the 71st Illinois
The following histories of Illinois Civil War regiments and units originate from the first eight volumes of the nine volume publication, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois (1900-1902). (The ninth volume lists units of the Black Hawk, Mexican and Spanish-American Wars as well as the War of 1812.) The histories, some written shortly after the war's end, are the work of numerous authors throughout the intervening years. The 1886 version of the Adjutant General's Report included regimental histories compiled by that office which had not previously been published. The final 1900-1902 republication of the report incorporated revisions and corrections to the histories.
History of the 10th Illinois Infantry
History of the 7th Illinois Infantry
Civil War,
Illinois, Military and Naval Dept. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL, Phillips Bros. 1900-1902
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I am looking for the service records of my grandfather's Robert Colborn 48th regiment CO B Illinois. I believe that he was killed in battle his fourth year in service
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Everstone buys controlling stake in Chennai-based Softgel Healthcare
To accelerate organization learning for providing best-in-class products
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Singapore-headquartered Everstone Capital, the private equity arm of the Everstone Group, has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in Softgel Healthcare (SHPL), a specialised niche dosage form-focused manufacturing player catering to the global nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and OTC segments.
The partnership aims to transform SHPL into a scaled, diversified, and globally recognised contract research, development, and manufacturing organisation in India with the support of the strategic resources of Everstone.
Headquartered in Chennai, SHPL is part of the Madras Pharma Group, a leading pharmaceutical contract manufacturing organization in southern India, with eight manufacturing facilities covering all dosage forms. SHPL specialises in the research, development and manufacturing of soft gelatin capsules and probiotics. Its customers span across the Americas, Africa, Asia and India with over 80 per cent of its sales being in exports. It has a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chennai, conforming to globally recognized certifications and registrations such as USFDA, TGA, EU-GMP, Health Canada, among others.
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The Gardener's Companion
The Holy Earth
John Linstrom's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, About Place, Cold Mountain Review, Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, and Commonweal Magazine, and his nonfiction has appeared in Newfound and Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland. He is series editor of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library from the Comstock Publishing Associates imprint of Cornell University Press. He coedited The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings (Comstock-Cornell UP, 2019) and prepared the centennial edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey's ecological manifesto, The Holy Earth (Counterpoint, 2015), which featured a new foreword by Wendell Berry. His dissertation focuses on literatures of land, labor, and ecology in the Progressive Era. He lives with his fiancée in Queens, NY, where he is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at New York University, and he holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University. He is on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Medium.
Listen to me reading my most recently published poem, "Storm's Breath," here:
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With the launch this week of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings in Ithaca, New York, I wanted to highlight a few of my upcoming presentations, with the hopes that friends along the way will stop by each of them to say hello!
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Waukesha recount starts slowly
Tom Lynn
The Waukesha County Board of Canvassers starts its Supreme Court recount Wednesday at the Waukesha County Administration Center.
By Laurel Walker and Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel
Published on: 4/27/2011
Waukesha — The state Supreme Court recount got off to a wobbly start in Waukesha County Wednesday.
After more than a half-hour of meticulous instructions and ground rules from Waukesha County's chief canvasser, retired Judge Robert G. Mawdsley, questions were raised about the very first bag of ballots to be counted, from the Town of Brookfield.
As canvassers and tabulators compared a numbered seal on a bag with the number recorded for that bag by a town election inspector who prepared the paperwork on election night, the numbers didn't match.
"What a great way to start," one tabulator said.
Observers from the campaigns of Justice David Prosser and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg both agreed, however, that the error seemed to be in the inspector's use of a "2" instead of a "3." Numbers on the sealing tag and on the bag did match. Both sides and the Board of Canvassers agreed that the bag should be opened and the votes counted.
Statewide, election officials recounted 36,794 ballots on Wednesday. By the end of the day, Prosser was leading, 19,489 to 17,420 for Kloppenburg, with 65 votes cast for write-ins. That left 1.46 million more ballots to count.
Kloppenburg requested the recount after a canvass showed her losing the Supreme Court race to Prosser by 7,316 votes, a margin of less than 0.5% of the 1.5 million ballots cast. The initial count on election night ended with Kloppenburg up by 204 votes, but that was before Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she had accidentally left the entire City of Brookfield out of her original vote total.
Mawdsley, who retired in 2009 as a judge after 21 years on the bench and now does mediation work, was tapped Friday to sit in as canvass board chairman for the recount after Nickolaus recused herself.
In her letter announcing the decision to County Executive Dan Vrakas, Nickolaus said that the state's elections chief, Kevin Kennedy of the Government Accountability Board, "reminded me of the appropriateness of this method under the current circumstances." The state board is investigating Nickolaus' election collecting and reporting procedures after her 14,000-vote mix-up and will report findings within 60 days.
No problems marred the opening of Milwaukee County's recount at the county Sports Complex in Franklin, as sheriff's deputies escorted election officials wheeling in bags of ballots.
State officials said the first day of the recount went smoothly in all but two counties. Chippewa County did not receive new voting machine memory units until Wednesday, and Menominee County Clerk Ruth Waupoose told the state board, "I was unable to begin the canvass today because I had to go over to the School District and get the election material." Both counties will start their recounts Thursday.
The recount in all 72 counties faces a deadline of May 9.
Three blips in the Town of Brookfield's records came to light Wednesday in Waukesha County, and while Kloppenburg's lead campaign observer, Darcy Gustavsson, said the issues raised concerns, neither side filed any official objections. Prosser's lead representative at the Waukesha County recount referred questions to campaign headquarters.
In addition to the misnumbered inspection sheet, another matter was the absence of three applications for absentee ballots - detected when all the "R's" of an alphabetized collection were missing. The applications were summoned from the town hall, and they were reconciled with the absentee ballots, Mawdsley said.
The final question of the morning involved a missing "remade" ballot - a copy of an original absentee ballot that could not be fed through the ballot-reading machines. That occurs, for example, if the voter used pen instead of pencil. The canvass board had five original ballots that could not be fed through machines, but only four copies. Officials were asking the Government Accountability Board for advice.
Mawdsley said no objections were filed by the campaigns, but they could be filed at any time during the recount. Records were kept on every anomaly.
Ellen Nowak, Vrakas' chief of staff, said tabulators did not finish the third of four reporting units in the Town of Brookfield because they found a "few discrepancies" in a poll book, "probably minor," which will be resolved Thursday morning.
Under a settlement reached in Dane County Circuit Court, most Milwaukee County municipalities must count their ballots by hand, because they would have to erase their voting machines' election-night data to use the machines for the recount.
Laurel Walker reported from Waukesha and Larry Sandler reported from Franklin.
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Smart Cities: The Cybersecurity Challenges
Adnan Baykal of the Global Cyber Alliance on Managing IoT, Addressing Other Issues Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • December 4, 2018
Adnan Baykal, global technical adviser, Global Cyber Alliance
"Smart cities" projects face huge cybersecurity challenges as they adopt advanced technologies, including IoT systems, says Adnan Baykal of the Global Cyber Alliance.
In a video interview at Information Security Media Group's recent Legal & Compliance Summit in New York, Baykal discusses:
Managing millions of IoT devices in smart cities;
Monitoring governance of smart cities;
Ongoing projects of the Global Cyber Alliance.
Baykal is the global technical adviser for the Global Cyber Alliance, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate cyber risks around the globe. Previously, Baykal served as vice president of operations at the Center for Internet Security and as vice president of security services as well as director of the CIS Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team.
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https://www.databreachtoday.co.uk/smart-cities-cybersecurity-challenges-a-11763
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New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers, 2/27/20 Predictions & Odds
Knicks vs. 76ers Prediction
Will the New York Knicks be able to go on the road and compete with the Philadelphia 76ers tonight at 7PM ET?
519 New York Knicks vs. 520 Philadelphia 76ers
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According to the latest oddsmakers, the 76ers are the favorite at home, as they are getting odds of -7.5 points against the Knicks. The over/under total for the contest is listed at 214.5 points. The public betting currently is unavailable for this game. This information is subject to change, however, so be sure to check out our NBA Public Betting Page for updated figures on the game.
Knicks continue slide
New York is on a five-game losing streak right now following a 107-101 loss at Charlotte last night. The Knicks are 1-3-1 against the spread in this losing streak. New York is 17-41 on the season, 9-21 on the road, 30-27-1 against the spread and 32-25-1 with the under.
The Knicks average just 104.7 points per game on offense this season while shooting 44.1 percent from the field. Defensively, New York is allowing 111.7 points per game on defense while opponents shoot 46.4 percent from the field. Julius Randle is leading the Knicks with 19 points and 9.6 rebounds per game, while rookie RJ Barrett is adding 13.7 points and 5.0 rebounds per contest.
Philly beat up
Philadelphia suffered another road loss last night, suffering a 108-94 loss at Cleveland. Despite that, Philly has won 13 straight at home. The 76ers are 36-23 on the season, 27-2 at home, 24-31-4 against the spread and 30-28-1 with the under.
The 76ers are putting up 108.6 points per game on offense this year while shooting 46.3 percent from the field. Defensively, Philly is giving up just 106.5 points per game while opponents shoot 45.6 percent against them. The 76ers have some big injury concerns tonight. Ben Simmons is already out with his back injury and Joel Embiid is questionable with a shoulder injury. He played just eight minutes last night and is undergoing an MRI later today. Embiid is averaging 23.3 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. Tobias Harris is adding 18.9 points and 6.7 rebounds per contest.
NBA Betting Trends
The Knicks are 4-1-1 against the spread in their last six road games, but 0-3-1 ATS in their last four games playing on no rest.
The 76ers are 8-2 against the spread in their last 10 home games and 8-3-1 ATS in their last 12 home games against a team with a losing road record.
Philly has won all three meetings this season, but the Knicks have actually covered in all three games. It's been years since the Knicks have actually beaten the 76ers and Philly definitely is short-handed tonight. I wouldn't expect Embiid to go. Philly has to be cautious with a shoulder injury with their big man. Despite Embiid and Simmons being out, I like Philly's scoring depth over New York's. The Knicks just don't offer much in terms of offense and they really don't make many defensive stops. Philly can spread the ball out a little more with Embiid not in the paint.
NBA Prediction: Philadelphia 76ers -7.5
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Movie review: Charlie Wilson's War
by Ray Nothstine • January 2, 2008
The newly released Charlie Wilson's War is a film based on a book that chronicles the semi-secret war that led Afghan freedom fighters to defeat the Soviet military during the 1980s. Tom Hanks plays former Democratic Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson, who is also known as "Good Time Charlie" for his womanizing, drinking, and recreational drug use. The viewer is led to believe Congressman Wilson is not serious about his elected position until he takes up the cause of the Afghan people, who suffered immensely under Soviet aggression. Other starring roles are Julia Roberts as Christian "right wing" financier Joanne Herring, and the late CIA officer Gust Avrakatos, played by actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The dialog between the main characters is intense and entertaining.
First of all this film is not for children. Wilson suffers from a severe bout of immorality, which is graphically depicted. However, the film does teach several important moral and foreign policy lessons. In the 1980s the United States did transition from a policy of containment of the Soviet Union to a more aggressive policy which called for greater engagement, including everything from harassment to actually formulating a policy to reverse Soviet expansion, putting it on the retreat.
While this film does not lack entertainment value, one of the drawbacks is the depiction of the Afghan struggle. America's support is quickly glossed over, with no background information or deep treatment of the subject ever provided. In addition, some conservative officials in the Reagan administration have criticized the film. Bill Gertz at the Washington Times added:
The movie also erred by showing Mr. Wilson and his CIA collaborator, Gust Avrakotos, as enthusiastic backers of supplying advanced U.S. Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Afghan rebels. Fred Ikle, the undersecretary of defense in the Reagan administration, said the CIA initially fought against sending Stingers, while Mr. Wilson was lukewarm on the matter. Both later supported the plan once rebels began downing Soviet gunships with them.
Additionally, some conservatives felt the film's intent is an attempt at revisionist history by cutting out Ronald Reagan entirely and key members of his cabinet who enthusiastically supported the Afghan Rebels. In fact, Reagan's epic war against communism can be traced back to his days as a labor leader in Hollywood.
There is certainly enough material in the film to make conservatives wince. Apparently the movie was supposed to be much worse, but Wilson had to step in and demand changes in much of Aaron Sorkin's script. In the film, Christians are slyly depicted as hypocrites. Additionally, the film needed to be more triumphant at the end. The movie also reinforces the myth that support for the Afghan freedom fighters led to the rise of Osama bin-Laden and his cohorts, who supposedly were armed by the United States.
There are positives however. While it is inaccurate to portray Wilson and his CIA partner as lone mavericks against Soviet aggression, it is right in making a hero out of a committed anti-communist. It also depicts the evil of the Soviet military that specifically wounded Afghani kids, targeting them intentionally. The film also depicts the importance of standing up to and countering communist aggression, and that there was a strong moral component to funding the freedom fighters. Perhaps the greatest lesson of the film is how bipartisanship support was needed to combat America's enemies, a fact which seems to be lost on Washington today.
Ray Nothstine
Ray Nothstine is editor at the Civitas Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, he was managing editor of Acton Institute's Religion & Liberty quarterly. In 2005 Ray graduated with a Master of Divinity (M.Div) degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science from The University of Mississippi in Oxford.
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The Scrimgeour Clan
Clan Goods
We hope that you find this site useful.
Graham Scrimgeour, Web Editor, the Scrimgeour Clan Association.
webmaster "at" scrimgeourclan.org.uk
The archive of the previous website is available here.
The Skirmisher
The Magazine of the Scrimgeour Clan Association, published annually in December.
Skirmisher 42 (December 2020)
Archive - 27 (2005) onwards
Archive - 1 (1972) to 26 (2004).
Contact the Secretary, Tom Scrimgeour
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Annual membership of the Clan Association costs £12.50 for individuals or £15 for families.
We would love to have you as a member of the Association.
Most members of the Clan spell their name as above, but in many cases (including the Chief, the Earl of Dundee) it is spelt with a 'y'. Other forms (e.g. Scrimjer. Scrim) are known, but unusual. The names Scrimshire & Scrimshaw, found in England are possibly of different origin. (For more information on Skrymshers etc see http://members.shaw.ca/skrymsher/for more on Scrimshaw etc see www.gumnut.net/scrimshaw ).
Clan Badge
Anyone of the name or of Scrimgeour desent may wear the Clan Badge, shown above. The Latin motto has a different meaning from its English equivalent; it means 'scatter' or 'disperse' (presumably the enemy!).
Click here for the Coat of Arms of the Earl of Dundee. (FIX)
History of the Clan
The name was originally perhaps a nickname, Skirmisher. meaning 'hardy fighter', or more likely a version of escrimeur, French for swordsman. The first bearer of the name was one Alexander Carron, who received the hereditary title of Royal Standard (or Banner) Bearer of Scotland after an exceptionally brave action in the presence of the then King of Scots whose army was crossing the river Spey. Carron's descendent, Alexander Scrymgeour, was an adherent of Sir William Wallace, and the only Charter known to have been granted by Wallace as 'Guardian of the Realm' confirmed him as Royal Banner Bearer, granted him lands in Angus, and made him 'Constable of the Castle of Dundee'. After Wallace's death Scrymgeour supported King Robert the Bruce, was captured by the English in Bruce's defeat at Methven in 1306 and hanged at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This was not the only time that bearing the Royal Banner proved a hazard as well as an honour, as several Chiefs of the Clan died in battle. At Flodden. the Clan Chief being too young to bear arms. his uncle, acted as Banner Bearer, and afterwards died of his wounds.
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The Scrimgeours were for many years closely connected with Dundee; until the 17th Century they retained the title of 'Constable of Dundee and many Provosts of that City were Scrimgeours. The town residence, Dudhope Castle, was wrongfully taken from the lawful owners in the 17th Century (see below) and never recovered. They also had extensive lands in Argyll which justifies the Scrimgeour claim (approved by the Lyon Court) to be a 'Highland Clan'.
In their day a number of the Scrimgeour Chiefs were knighted, and in the reign of James VI the then Chief was created Viscount of Dudhope. His grandson, the third Viscount who had been a companion of Charles II during that King's 'exile' in Scotland, was created Earl of Dundee after the Restoration. On the death of this, the first Earl. it was necessary to go back many generations to find a male heir entitled to succeed and King Charles was persuaded by his favourite, the notorious Duke of Lauderdale, that the line was extinct, and the lands and honours associated with it should be granted to his brother Charles Maitland of Hatton. This the King agreed to, although there were two Scrimgeour claimants (one of whom was found more than two centuries later to have had a valid claim). The weakness of Hatton's position was such that he seized all the Scrimgeour documents from Dudhope Castle.
How the honours and titles (but not the original lands) were regained by the present Earl's father after hard-fought actions culminating in 'The Standard-Bearer Case' in the House of Lords, is told in fascinating detail in the Clan History ('The Scrimgeours and their Chiefs. Scotland's Royal Banner Bearers') published by the Clan Association in 1980. Its authors, R. W. and Jean Munro, are well known writers of Scottish family histories. Besides giving in detail what has been summarised above about the heads of the Clan, accounts are given of others of the family - one example, the Canadian V C. in honour of whom 'Mount Scrimger' in the Canadian Rockies was named.
Clan Association
The Scrimgeour Clan Association was formed in 1971. It meets annually, on the first Saturday in June, when besides holding the Annual General Meeting, a programme of interest is arranged for members, especially those coming from abroad. Members are issued with a news bulletin, 'The Skirmisher', annually, which besides recording events at the Annual Gathering, includes items contributed by members and, recently, genealogy information which has already revealed common forbears for several of the name.
The Association is non-profit making and is open to anyone who is interested in the Scrimgeour Clan and Family (including the variant spellings).
The objects of the Association are:
The fostering of Clan sentiment and the enhancement of the family spirit of the Clan both at home and abroad.
The cultivation of social intercourse among the members.
The collection and preservation of records and traditions bearing on the history of the Clan and the publication, if deemed advisable, of the same among the members.
The protection of the lands and property associated with the Clan particularly to secure the suitable use of Dudhope Castle as a permanent token of the Clan's centuries of common history with the City of Dundee. (At the Annual General Meeting in 1996 it was agreed that monies in the Clan Association's Dudhope Fund could be used to fund work at Kilneuair Church in Argyll).
Such additional objects as may be determined by the Council.
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Amman this week: films & music
Today is the last day of the Women's Film Week, which will feature four film screenings in the Rainbow Theater. At 4 PM two short films "Every Voice Counts" and "Because I was Still a Little Girl" will be screened. At 6 PM, there will be a screening of "Nadia's Journey", a feature documentary that tells the story of Nadia Zouaoui, a woman who was forced by her parents into an arranged marriage to an Algerian living in Montereal when she was 19 years. Two screenings at 8:30 PM of "Samar" and "Kick Like a Girl" which tells the story of what happens when "The Mighty Cheetahs", an undefeated third grade girls' soccer team competes in the boys division.
At Bargo's, as part of an awareness campaign in recognition of the World Epilepsy Awareness month, the International Federation of Medical Students' Association presents a charity music concert. Four local talents will perform, as an oriental Quartet, old and modern arabic/oriental musical masterpieces (Saturday 8:30 PM).
On Sunday, the RFC presents a screening of "The Red Stone" to be followed by a Q&A with the Director Ahmad Damen (7:00 PM).
Art exhibits abound this week. The Image Festival #4 brings you a joint exhibition titled GÄRTNER'S VOYAGE by Sibylle Fendt (Germany) & TOGETHER byHani Hourani (Jordan) at Foresight32 Gallery. For other art exhibitions visit our calendar here.
As part of the Arab Cinema Archive Project hosted by Makan, "Ghazal Al-Banat" will be screened this week on Monday (7 PM). The first portion of the program will feature Egyptian Classics till April 7th. The films capture the essence of eras, from the thirties until the seventies of the last century. The five films vary in their themes, genre of drama and their directorial approach. For more film screenings check this portion of our calendar.
7iber presents you with a brand new cultural calendar! Explore our new format, including advanced search options, here. If we missed anything you think we should add, drop us a line at [email protected]
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List of consulates in Croatia
Consulate of Croatia in Damascus (Syria)
Consulate of Croatia in Damas (Syria) :
You wish to contact the Consulate of Croatia in Damas (Syria), find on this page all the useful information to contact the Embassy or to go there: address, email, fax, phone number, name of the ambassador and opening hours.
Address of the Consulate of Croatia in Damas (Syria) :
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Ambassador or representative of the Consulate of Croatia of Damas (Syria) :
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Consulate of Croatia in Tel Aviv (Israel)
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Consulates & embassies in Damas :
Consulate of Latvia in Damas (Syrie)
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Consulate of Haiti in Damas (Syrie)
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Embassy of Morocco in Damas (Syrie)
Embassy of Germany in Damas (Syrie)
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Embassies & Consulates of Croatia :
Consulate of Croatia in Hambourg (Allemagne)
Consulate of Croatia in Zurich (Suisse)
Consulate of Croatia in Maribor (Slovénie)
Consulate of Croatia in Trieste (Italie)
Consulate of Croatia in Linz (Autriche)
Embassy of Croatia in Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Embassy of Croatia in Belgrade (Serbie)
Embassy of Croatia in Washington (États-Unis)
Embassy of Croatia in Lisbonne (Portugal)
Embassy of Croatia in Moscou (Russie)
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For the greater good
Wright State opens the College of Health, Education, and Human Services in response to workforce and education needs
By Bob Mihalek
[email protected], 937-775-3622
Wright State opens the College of Health, Education, and Human Services in response to workforce and education needs. (Illustration credit: Cody Rayn of the Ohlmann Group)
Wright State University has brought together its health-related and education programs to form a new college to create experiential opportunities for students and joint research opportunities for students and faculty.
After years of planning, Wright State restructured existing undergraduate and graduate programs into the College of Health, Education, and Human Services, which was launched this fall. It's the first new college opened at Wright State in over three decades.
The college has been reorganized to include:
School of Nursing, Kinesiology, and Health Sciences
School of Social Work and Human Services
School of Professional Psychology
The college was strategically designed to better respond to the region's workforce and educational needs, said President Susan Edwards, Ph.D.
"The College of Health, Education, and Human Services brings together the outstanding faculty, staff, and students from Wright State's health-related and education programs to offer more educational paths to in-demand careers as well as providing increased interprofessional experiential learning and research opportunities," Edwards said.
The college was structured to recognize that, in today's world, providing for people's health and well-being is not limited to medical care. It is conducted by teams that include, but are not limited to, nursing, mental health, education, social work, and counseling.
"I look forward to seeing the development of additional programs critical to meeting the needs of the region through this new collaborative college," Edwards said.
Two students work together to practice techniques in a nursing classroom.
Leading in a changing world
"The new college is an opportunity for the university to grow and remain a leader in our continuously changing world," said Elizabeth Talbot, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of social work.
All of the areas of study in the college focus on human development, are professional programs, and prepare leaders in their respective fields, said Carol Patitu, Ph.D., chair of leadership studies in education and organizations and teacher education.
"Wright State's College of Health, Education, and Human Services is dedicated to preparing educators, health professionals, and organizational leaders—the very people who provide fundamental services to our communities," she said. "Having all of these programs together enhances our synergy and aligns our similar missions to ensure our community professionals are prepared to effectively work, lead, and innovate."
Oliver H. Evans, Ph.D., who joined Wright State as interim provost in February 2021, said the programs in the college focus on preparing students to address significant issues affecting all parts of the United States, especially Raider Country. The college offers programs that address issues of physical, mental, and emotional health; family, human services, education, and even law enforcement, he said.
"It attempts to take a holistic view of those issues and to address them not as individual symptoms but as multifaceted symptoms that require a range of services and a range of knowledge in order to treat them effectively," he said.
A collaborative relationship between programs can help them evolve to meet the demands of a changing world. "Programs undergo changes as society's expectations of them change and as the expectations of what it means to be a professional in the program change as well," Evans said. "Every one of the programs is undergoing changes in terms of what they do themselves but also in terms of their relationship with one another."
For instance, the School of Nursing plans to implement a pioneering collaborative leadership model to offset national nursing leader and succession scarcities. It will be led by a forward-looking triumvirate—Ann Stalter, Ph.D., professor and chair of nursing; Sherry Farra, Ph.D., assistant chair of nursing; and Deborah Ulrich, Ph.D., former interim dean who has returned to the faculty.
They plan to work together, using their wisdom and experiences to make a difference for all stakeholders—patients, students, faculty, agencies, universities, communities, and, as needed, globally.
"Our emphasis is excellence in education, practice, and scholarship with the goal of providing high quality, safe, compassionate, and equitable care," Stalter said.
Students participate in a discussion in a social work class.
Stressing collaboration
An emphasis in the College of Health, Education, and Human Services is interprofessional collaboration among the students, faculty, and staff. Faculty and students across the different programs are expected to pursue research, learning, and other collaborative activities.
Evans said a key to the college's success is creating a community of programs through interprofessional collaboration. "The success of the mission relies on the programs not being just a collection of programs as they currently exist, but a gathering of programs really that have rethought themselves and their relationships with others," he said.
Allowing nursing students to learn among other health care professionals will give them broader insights or care provision with cross-training possibilities, Ulrich said. "The wealth of experience among the disciplines will improve educational opportunities for all students within the new college," Farra said.
Talbot noted that social workers usually come from diverse and interprofessional knowledge bases. For instance, many social workers enter Wright State's Master of Arts Social Work program after earning undergraduate degrees from other fields, including health, education, and human services.
"The social work program brings opportunities for collaborative practice, research, and a shared knowledge base that intersects with the other programs," Talbot said. "The collaboration between social work and the other departments provide opportunities to expand the knowledge base, and enhance the skills of students from all of the programs in the new college."
Similarly, graduates of the School of Professional Psychology work in numerous fields including government, the military, higher education, medical, private practice, research, business, forensic, and child-focused settings.
"As we train future clinical psychologists, we are investing in the health and well-being of our global community," said LaTrelle Jackson, Ph.D., professor and interim dean of the School of Professional Psychology. "The fact that the college encompasses the medical, education, counseling, and psychological sectors of training ensures the opportunity for Wright State students to benefit from an interdisciplinary perspective."
Patitu said opportunities exist for more collaboration among the doctoral program in organizational studies, the nursing program, and the School of Professional Psychology, including sharing courses. She predicts the college will create more interest in the Program Evaluation Certificate and other certificate programs.
"Our leadership studies faculty have collaborated for years with the other colleges and departments and look forward to being together in the new College of Health, Education, and Human Services," Patitu said.
Wright State's nursing program fits well into the new health college because nurses represent the largest number of health care providers and are key to patient care across the health care continuum, Stalter said.
Students conduct training exercises in an athletic training class.
"Nurses often lead and are part of interprofessional teams coordinating care across the lifespan within communities and across academic and health systems," she said.
The college will also emphasize providing experiential learning opportunities for students that will assist them by putting their classroom theory into practice and prepare them with skills and knowledge critical to regional employers.
During the pandemic, nurses demonstrated skills caring for COVID-19 patients and leading vaccination programs aimed at providing safe, equitable care and quality health protection. "This has been evident among Wright State nurses, responding with disaster planning using crisis standards of care within our local communities," Stalter said.
Interprofessional collaboration can lead to increased opportunities for students through internships, new research, participation in interdisciplinary presentations and conferences, and expanding job opportunities.
Interprofessional experiences offer opportunities to engage in collaborative discussions that build knowledge and understanding, Talbot said. They can also expose students to diverse perspectives and practices in research, and begin to understand how to work with differences in opinion.
"It expands the diversity of lenses through which students observe and ponder the problems professionals face in the world of practice," Talbot said. "They have opportunities to debate issues in the safety of an educational environment, and through the diversity of lenses in the multiple professions available in the new college."
Collaborating with other disciplines will also help advance research opportunities among faculty. "Organizing within an overarching health college provides faculty with research teams to enhance clinical practice and design innovative programs to improve patient and student learning outcomes," Stalter said.
A psychology student discusses his schedule with an advisor.
Putting students first
Faculty, staff, and administrators have been encouraged to identify novel approaches to operate efficiently and effectively. Reorganizing related programs into a new college will enhance student success, including integrated retention strategies, and make it easier for students who want to change majors to related programs. It can also simplify the process for students to access advising services.
Patitu said reorganizing the health and other helping professions in the new college will put students first, enhancing recruitment, retention, and completion.
"Enrollments will be enhanced, financial sustainability will be created, and recruitment and marketing efforts will be more efficient when directed to students with similar interests in health and other helping professions," she said.
Work on creating the new college started in 2017. The process has involved hundreds of people from the Wright State community, including the Academic Organization Review Steering Committee and regional stakeholders. Working groups were responsible for numerous areas including accreditation, affiliation agreements, community advocacy/relations, curriculum, data governance, governance, steering, student success and services, wellness culture/relationship building, and workforce development, community engagement, and partnerships.
Jackson said it is inspiring to know that years of planning have paid off.
"It is exciting to see Wright State University grow in this unique way to equip our future workforce while meeting the demands of our business, government, clinical, and educational sectors," she said.
For more information on the College of Health, Education, and Human Services, visit wright.edu/cheh.
This article was originally published in the fall 2021 issue of the Wright State Magazine. Find more stories at wright.edu/alumnimag.
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Regents Know their Roles When it Comes to Team Continuity
The Reseda High seniors, who played on the 2019 City Division I championship team as sophomores, embrace their chance to pass along lessons learned to the next group of underclassmen
by Mike Terry, San Fernando Valley Sun/El Sol July 14, 2021 July 14, 2021
M. Terry/SFVS Knowledge is Power — Reseda seniors (l-r) Manny Maldonado, Adedeji Olobode and Saleem Marshall have a wealth of info they are eager to provide new teammates.
Manny Maldonado, Saleem Marshall and Adedeji Olabode belong to a special group of Reseda Charter High students. And not simply because they are seniors who have not yet reached their 17th birthdays, or the fact all three play the same position on the Regents football team — linebacker — and play it so well that Coach Alonso Arreola calls them "the core of our defense."
The trio were part of a precocious bunch of sophomores that helped Reseda win the 2019 City Section Division I championship, the school's first football title in 24 years. As sophomores, they said, they were mentored by the seniors on the Reseda way to play football.
Now Maldonado, Marshall and Olabode are the mentors. It's their turn, they said, to ensure the incoming freshmen and sophomores who make the 2021 varsity maintain the high level of performance that has come to define Regents football the past several years.
"We had special seniors [in 2019]," Olabode said. "Almost the whole team were sophomores, and we looked to the seniors for help. The spectacular things they were doing on the field — we were emulating that in the offseason and practice, trying to replicate their greatness on the field."
Olabode then rattles off the names of several key starters in 2019, including Mario Martinez, Dranel Rhodes, Trent Butler, and Prophet Tagoai. "They were all standup guys," he said.
Maldonado insists the work ethic the seniors instilled in the sophomores in 2019 — along with the detailed guidance Arreola and his staff provided week after week — was a major reason the Regents won that title.
"It was very exciting overall, even the losses we took that season. Because those losses made us better," Maldonado said.
"We learned from our mistakes with our great coaching staff. We broke down every problem we had on defense from the nose guard to the safety, and what to do on every play. We saw what we could be like when everyone worked together."
It's why not having a fall season, because of the coronavirus pandemic had shut down all campuses in the Los Angeles Unified School District, was difficult at first.
"The COVID situation was discouraging," Marshall said. "I wasn't losing hope, but everything around us was so negative. I remember my friends going to private schools — they were practicing. I was thinking, 'what about us?' It felt unfair.
"But when Coach (Arreola) told us we were going to play spring ball, everything turned around."
The sense of maturation surrounding Reseda football wasn't just felt by the players.
The championship breakthrough Arreola had been patiently building toward since becoming Reseda's head coach in 2005 had brought forth equal amounts of joy and relief. And despite the upheaval created by the pandemic, Arreola did not let the team or himself be engulfed in wave after wave of despondency.
"If you had posed that question to me [about a canceled season] 10 years ago, I would have felt like it was a punch in the gut," Arreola said. "I would have been very frustrated that we could not have continued on the momentum [from a championship], especially since I felt we still had a good core group of those kids coming back. And we still have a group of those kids for this season.
"But being a bit more mature and taking life as it comes, you do understand that there are things you just can't control…. While it was unfortunate we couldn't give the [2020] seniors an opportunity to try to win back-to-back championships, we all saw the positive side — the fact they did have this accomplishment. And there were things going on that were far more important than football at the time."
The condensed spring football season in April allowed by LAUSD did give Reseda a chance to play four games (winning three), and provided an allusion rather than an illusion of normalcy.
"We made it a point that we wanted to compete as much as we could," Arreola said. "We knew we would be limited in what we were able to introduce, and we had to condense our playbook — especially on the offensive side. So we went into it with that mindset, and to not be frustrated.
"It was not a situation of 'here is what we would have done last year because we had 'X' number of plays installed.' We couldn't do that this year, mainly because we didn't have the resource of time. We just did what we could."
But with summer workouts now in full swing, and a complete 10-game slate ahead starting on Aug. 20, Maldonado, Marshall and Olabode — are just as eager to be dropping knowledge like they plan to drop opposing ballcarriers on field.
"I'm telling the young guys, 'listen to the coaches,'" Maldonado said. "Because no matter how good you think you are, you're not as good as you think you are; the coaches can see something greater in you than you can see in yourself.
"Last year, with all the [pandemic adversity], it was about growing up and seeing how much stronger our team can be. When we were sophomores, those seniors and juniors led us into the direction of being great. Now we want to do the same thing with the younger guys."
Reseda Charter High School Senior Named Stanford Computer Science Equity Lab Course Valedictorian
DBAs Published January 12, 2023
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Luke Rowe races with the best in Qatar during one of his "hardest ever" days
The Welshman finishes in select group of 13 including Boonen, Sagan and Terpstra.
Nick Bull February 9, 2015 2:18 pm
Luke Rowe on stage two of the 2014 Tour of Spain
Luke Rowe
Tour of Qatar
Luke Rowe described today's Tour of Qatar second stage, in which was part of a select front group of 13, as "one of the hardest days" of his career.
The Welshman has impressed so far this season; he finished fourth in the Cadel Evans Road Race in Australia on February 1, and has dealt with the famed Qatar winds brilliantly in both stages to date in this year's race.
"The whole day was crazy," he said of today's leg between Al Wakra and Al Khor Corniche, in which the leaders averaged 48.945km/h.
"In the first hour I made the first echelon, I was riding in the first 12 riders, and I was in the 53×11 – I wish I had a 55, for sure some guys did.
"It came back after about 100km, then it went again straight away. It was relentless, one of the hardest days I've ever had on a bike."
Sky team principal Dave Brailsford has praised Rowe's progress over the winter, which the 24-year-old attributed to his new found belief.
Rowe added: "Halfway through last season, I really knuckled down. The build-up to the Vuelta, the race itself and the Worlds went well, so I ended the season on a high.
"I think a big part of it is confidence. Until you do it, you don't believe you can do it. I had a real good winter, I spent a lot of time away from home getting the miles in. I did team camps as well as trips off my own back. I feel well prepared for this year.
"People underestimate how hard Qatar is, it's one of the hardest races of the year. You have to be mentally strong to come here and race hard day in, day out."
Rowe sits 11th overall, 10 seconds behind race leader Alexander Kristoff going into tomorrow's 10-kilometre time trial at Lusail.
Tom Pidcock wants to race a Grand Tour in his debut WorldTour season
Laurens De Plus: 'I want to prove myself and show what I can do at Ineos Grenadiers'
Wout van Aert and Jumbo-Visma reportedly close to agreeing contract extension
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Man attending sex violence conference accused…
Man attending sex violence conference accused of sex assault
By Matt Stout |
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.
A Canadian man in town for a conference aimed at preventing sexual violence carried out his own terrifying sexual assault, twice holding a woman against her will before she was able to escape to a nearby home, police said.
Tyler Buttle, 31, of Inverary, Ontario was ordered held on $20,000 cash bail today at his arraignment in Westboro District Court, where he pleaded not guilty to charges of assault with intent to rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery.
Northboro police Det. Sgt. Brian Griffin said officers were called to a Main Street home shortly after 2 a.m., after the homeowners said a woman knocked on their door, "soaking wet and barefoot."
She told police she was twice assaulted by a man she met at a conference at the Marlboro Best Western Royal Plaza. The man, identified by police as Buttle offered the woman a ride home, but pulled into the parking lot of a 55-and-over community just a half-mile from the hotel, where he assaulted her, Griffin said.
The woman then ran from the car before Buttle "ran after her, grabbed her and brought her back to the car," where he assaulted her again, Griffin said.
She was able to escape a second time and managed to hide in a bush across the street until Buttle "apparently gave up and drove away," Griffin said. The woman then hurried to a nearby home, where she asked the homeowners for help.
Buttle was later arrested at the Marlboro hotel, Griffin said.
A judge ordered Buttle to turn over his passport and have no contact with the victim, according to the Worcester County district attorney's office.
Buttle is due back in court on Wednesday. His lawyer wasn't immediately available for comment.
The conference, co-hosted by the Massachusetts Adolescent Sex Offender Coalition and Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, aims at "preventing sexual violence through assessment, treatment and safe management," according to the MASOC's web site. It was scheduled to run from Wednesday through today.
Officials at both agencies did not immediately return phone calls for comment.
James Brown, the president of the Canadian engineering company Buttle works for, said he is aware "there was a problem, that (Buttle) had been charged, but we don't know exactly what happened."
"No details at all," Brown said, adding that Buttle attended the conference with another person from the company, which writes software and builds instrumentation, including for treatment providers who perform sex offender management, according to its web site.
"He wasn't doing business at 2 a.m.," Brown said, before adding that "whatever has happened is totally out of character."
"This guy's been working for us 10 years, and there is never, ever, ever been an incident with this guy," he said. "My impression is he acts like a 40-year-old. He's a very mature guy and he's responsible. So this was a surprise for us. We are not sure how to react. We don't have any facts. So it's hard to make an assessment."
Matt Stout
Protest in Boston over the beating of Tyre Nichols [+ photo gallery]
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Saint Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church
14263 Mulberry Drive, Los Gatos, CA 95032 / (408) 871-0919 / [email protected]
Pandemic Safety Protocols
Classes Online
Liturgical Services
Vacation Bible Camp 2019
Great Lent at Saint Basil's Parish
JOIN WITH US THIS LENT!
The forty-day Great Fast (Lent) begins on Clean Monday, Feb. 24 (in 2020). Saint Basil's parish invites you to join with us in the observance of this holy season of repentance and renewal. Beside the fasting and almsgiving that each of us is called to practice, we invite you to participate in the liturgical services served here at St. Basil's, especially the Friday evening Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. If you have a question concerning faith, worship or the Christian way of living, or you would like to meet with the pastor, please contact Father Anthony (408) 871-0919 / [email protected].
See below for the list of the primary liturgies and holy services of Great Fast.
LITURGY OF THE PRESANCTIFIED
It is a liturgical service composed of Vespers (Evening prayers) and Holy Communion. A simple agape meal is served after the Liturgy, in the hall. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts will be served on the following Fridays at 7:30pm -
Feb. 28, March 6, 13, 20, 27 & April 3
LITURGICAL OFFICE OF THE SIXTH HOUR OF DIVINE PRAISE
The Sixth Hour (noon) is the hour at which our divine Savior, Jesus Christ, was hung upon the Cross for our salvation.This service (half-hour) will be served on Tuesdays and Friday of Great Fast at 12 Noon. Light refreshments will be available in the hall.
SOULS SATURDAYS
On these Saturdays we offer prayer for the souls of the departed. There are three "Souls Saturdays" during Lent: March 7 & 14, with memorial service (Great Panachida) at 9:30am; on Sat., March 21 a Divine Liturgy will be served for the souls of the departed @ 9:00am.
SPECIAL SUNDAYS OF GREAT FAST
- March 1st - SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY/First Sunday of Great Fast.
9:10am Matins Prayers & Confession preceding the 9:30am Divine Liturgy.
We celebrate the restoration of holy icons after the heretical iconoclastic period. Procession with holy icons. Bring an icon for the procession. If you have an icon that has not be blessed there will be a blessing of icons at the end of the Liturgy.
- March 15th - SUNDAY OF THE VENERATION OF THE HOLY CROSS/Third Sunday of Great Fast
We reverence the holy Cross the 'trophy' of our redemption. We will have a relic of the True Cross present for veneration. If you have a cross that has not be blessed there will be a blessing of crosses at the end of the Liturgy.
- On the 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month at 4:35pm (followed by Vespers at 5pm)
- On Sundays: Usually about 20 or 15 mins before Divine Liturgy
- On Fridays of Lent: at 7:00pm
- Before any Sceduled Liturgy or Holy Service about 15 mins before.
- If needed, you may schedule a time for Confession.
GREAT CANON of Saint Andrew of Crete
The Matins with the Canon of St Andrew is usually served on the Thursday of the 5th Week of Lent (or anticipated the evening before). At St. Basil's this year, the Canon will take place on Tuesday evening, March 24, at 7:30pm. The date is moved this year due to the Great Feast of the Annunciation of Christ occurring on March 25, with the post-festive day of the Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel on March 26
AKATHISTOS SATURDAY
- March 28 @ 9:30am Saturday Matins with the insertion of the Akathist Hymn to the all-holy Theotokos, the ever-virgin Mary.
LENTEN DAY OF RECOLLECTION - Day Retreat
- Saturday, March 21 - On Prayer and Developing a personal Rule of Prayer.
The day begins with Divine Liturgy at 9:00am, there will be two talks on prayer by Carmelite Father Robert Elias, opportunity for Confession, and Vespers. A free lunch is also included. There is no charge or need for registration. However, it would help us to know how many persons plan to attend especially in regard to the lunch. You may call Fr. Anthony at (408) 871-0919 or send him an email at [email protected].
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Lecture series to address bear management
The Third Thursday Lecture Series at Mosquito Hill Nature Center will feature a presentation on bear management in Wisconsin on June 18 at 9:30 AM.
Lecture series to address bear management The Third Thursday Lecture Series at Mosquito Hill Nature Center will feature a presentation on bear management in Wisconsin on June 18 at 9:30 AM. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://post.cr/1IDO3Zo
Jake Van Camp, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:03 p.m. CT June 9, 2015 | Updated 8:05 p.m. CT June 9, 2015
Yearling Black Bear(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
NEW LONDON – The Third Thursday Lecture Series at Mosquito Hill Nature Center will feature a presentation on bear management in Wisconsin on June 18, according to a press release.
The program will begin at 9:30 a.m. and will be followed by snacks and group conversation. The cost is $6 per person or $4 for students, seniors and Friends of Mosquito Hill.
James Robaidek, DNR Wildlife Manager in Shawano, will share his thoughts on the behavior and the biology of bear and discuss why NASA is interested in Wisconsin black bears.
Robaidek will also address current and upcoming research projects and estimating bear populations. Currently, Wisconsin is home to more than an estimated 20,000 black bears.
Contact the nature center at 920-779-6433 or email Mary Swifka at [email protected] to make reservations before June 16
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On Israel, Jews and leaders often disagree
By: Paul Vitello (commentary by Sol Salbe)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/us/politics/06jews.html?hp
[Middle East News Service comments: The trickle of news items about the changing relationship between Diaspora Jews and Israel has turned into a flood. There is the creation of J-Call a European organisation led by staunchly pro-Israeli (and pro-US [even under Bush]) French philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Finkielkraut. They called for an immediate and total freeze of all settlement activity in the entire Palestinian Occupied Territories including East Jerusalem. Even more significant in my eyes, was the reaction of the hostile reaction by Brandeis University students to the selection of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren as the "commencement speaker".
The Editors of the Forward could tell the significance: Brandeis is not Berkeley, where a student divestment resolution targeting Israel was recently debated. It is not the University of California, Irvine, where Oren's address in February was repeatedly disrupted. It is not a hotbed of anti-Israel radicalism. It is Brandeis, for goodness sake, named for the first Jewish Supreme Court justice (an ardent Zionist), a secular university with such a strong Jewish personality that it shuts down for all of Passover....
"But the fact that this outcry is occurring at a university with proud Jewish credentials ought to give us pause. The rabid critics of Israel can be dismissed, but not the more worrying undertone that also carries this protest — the worry of students who believe that placing a representative of the current, controversial Israeli government in so prominent a seat on the commencement stage will alienate and divide a campus that should, by all rights, be effortlessly in Israel's corner."
The entire Forward coverage is interesting and worth reading. In the meantime this New York Times article sums up the situation. The clincher is here: But Professor Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist at Hebrew Union College in Manhattan who co-wrote a study last year charting a steep decline in attachment to Israel among younger Jews, said the younger and liberal-leaning are frustrated at being labeled "anti-Israel" or even anti-Semitic for expressing opposition to Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Sol Salbe.]
By PAUL VITELLO
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Criticizing Israel has long been the equivalent of touching a third rail in many Jewish families and friendships, relegating disagreements to a conversational demilitarized zone where only the innocent and foolhardy go.
"You cannot really engage in that conversation," said Phillip Moore, a teacher in this Detroit suburb who has embraced strong opinions on many topics in his life — on politics, education, even religion — but avoids the subject of Israel at gatherings of his Jewish relatives.
"You raise a question about the security forces or the settlements and you are suddenly being compared to a Holocaust denier," said Mr. Moore, 62. "It's just not a rational discussion, so I keep quiet."
But the recent tension between the Obama administration and the Israeli government over the stalled Middle East peace process has put the questions underlying those long-avoided family discussions directly in the public spotlight. They have raised serious questions about whether the traditional leadership of the American Jewish world is fully supported by the mass of American Jews.
The issues arose last month when American officials openly rebuked Israel over the announcement of new housing plans in east Jerusalem, and are likely to grow as indirect talks between Israelis and Palestinians, mediated by the Obama administration, resume this week. President Obama, working to ease those tensions, met on Tuesday with the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, who had criticized the administration in an advertisement last month.
Many other prominent Jews, representing the conservative organizational leadership that has been the dominant voice of the Jewish community for decades, have also recently criticized the Obama administration's pressure on Israel. Some have even accused the White House of sabotaging the foundations of the Jewish state.
Former Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York spoke for many stalwart Israel backers last Sunday when he told an angry crowd of 500 gathered outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan, in a videotaped statement, that President Obama's demand for a settlement freeze in East Jerusalem was nothing less than an orchestrated effort "to undermine the legitimacy of the state of Israel."
But while those voices have been strong and their message unmistakable, a newly outspoken wing of Israel supporters has begun to challenge the old-school reflexive support of the country's policies, suggesting that one does not have to be slavish to Israeli policies to love Israel.
"Most Jews have mixed feelings about Israel," said Rabbi Tamara Kolton of the Birmingham Temple, a secular humanistic congregation in Farmington Hills. "They support Israel, but it's complicated. Until now, you never heard from those people. You heard only from the organized ones, the ones who are 100 percent certain, we're right, they're wrong."
In the 2008 election, 78 percent of Jewish voters supported Mr. Obama, and surveys have suggested that most continue to back his policies.
In a survey taken after the diplomatic skirmish of March, the American Jewish Committee — the heart of the traditional mainstream — found little change in the level of Jewish support for Mr. Obama's handling of relations with Israel. The survey found that 55 percent approved of his handling of Israeli relations, compared with 54 percent last year. (His disapproval rating rose five points, to 37 percent.)
Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder of a Washington lobby known as J Street, the latest of several organizations representing the voice of liberal Jews who support Israel but not all its policies, said many people have long felt ignored or silenced by the pro-Israel establishment in the United States.
"People are tired of being told that you are either with us or against us," he said. "The majority of American Jews support the president, support the two-state solution and do not feel that they have been well represented by organizations that demand obedience to every wish of the Israeli government. If you had taken their word for it, Obama should have gotten 12 percent of the Jewish vote. But he got 80. That should say something."
Within the vast spectrum of opinion, though, American Jews continue to have strong attachments to Israel, and the recent tensions have produced intense, often angry, debate. The rancor led delegates at the annual convention of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella community relations group that includes almost all major American Jewish organizations, to adopt a resolution in February calling for a halt to "a level of uncivility, particularly over issues pertaining to Israel, that has not been witnessed in recent memory."
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, predicted that Mr. Obama's approval ratings among Jews would soon reflect what he called "a deep distress" over his approach.
"People are angry," he said. "Americans do not want peace shoved down the throats of the Israelis."
But Professor Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist at Hebrew Union College in Manhattan who co-wrote a study last year charting a steep decline in attachment to Israel among younger Jews, said the younger and liberal-leaning are frustrated at being labeled "anti-Israel" or even anti-Semitic for expressing opposition to Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Many liberals cite a recent crackdown in San Francisco as an example. After leaders of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco learned that one of the film groups it supported had sponsored the screening of an Israeli documentary critical of Israeli security forces, "Rachel," about an American woman killed in Gaza, they adopted new rules early this year prohibiting any of the cultural organizations it supports from presenting programs that "undermine the legitimacy of the state of Israel."
William Daroff, vice president for public policy of the Jewish Federations of North America, defended the San Francisco federation's decision. "An open exchange of views within the pro-Israel community is good," he said. "But there has to be some sort of line between constructive discussion and destructive communication that does not recognize Israel as the eternal home of the Jewish people."
The questions that Jews are now facing are rooted not in being for or against Israel, but in the shadings of difference over how to achieve peace, and the complexities of the relationship between Israel — a state whose government is now dominated by nationalist and ultrareligious politicians — and the predominantly liberal-leaning and secular base of Jewish support in the United States.
The struggle to define the middle ground was in evidence last month among a small group of Jewish Americans who gathered in a suburban Detroit synagogue to describe the view of the recent turmoil from somewhere in the demographic middle.
They were seven people from the "more or less inactive" list of the Birmingham Temple, said Rabbi Kolton, who gathered them at the request of a reporter because they roughly matched the profile of about 60 percent of American Jews, according to various studies: They do not belong to a synagogue and do not attend services or belong to Jewish organizations, yet they consider themselves Jewish — bound in a web of history, culture and DNA to their Jewishness, and by extension, to Israel.
"My parents were Jewish, so I'm a Jew," said Rosetta Creed, 87, a retired hospital administrator. "I get into arguments with people who knock Israel."
All said that they had voted for Mr. Obama, supported his efforts to prod Israel and believed there would never be peace in the Middle East without determined intervention by the United States.
Nonetheless, "It makes me angry that the Israelis are always blamed for the problems and asked to make concessions," Ms. Creed said. "You know, the Israelis are not the ones launching rockets and placing fighters in houses with children inside."
In different ways, each referred to the history of Jewish persecution throughout the world and noted that the absence of it here and now did not spare one the occasional flash of insight and dread — when swastikas desecrate a synagogue or neo-Nazi militias appear on the six o'clock news — that Israel will always be one's last sanctuary.
With many of their children intermarried, they pondered what meaning Israel would hold for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
"Let's face it, with each generation we are getting less and less Jewish," said Irving Hershman, an insurance agent who was raised in an Orthodox home. He predicted, with regret, that the bonds between American Jews and Israel would dissipate in 5 or 10 generations.
Mr. Moore, the headmaster, expressed frustration that the voice of Israeli advocacy in the United States was monopolized by what he called the "Israel right-or-wrong" camp.
Israel is not just the homeland of Jews but of Jewishness, he said, and should be known for its embrace of the values at the core of Judaism — truth, fairness, kindness, freedom.
That is what he would tell those hard-line relatives of his, he said, "though I'm pretty sure it wouldn't change their minds."
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Awasome Frederick W Smith Leadership Style Ideas. This case discusses the entrepreneurial skills and visionary leadership of frederick w. Smith, who is also chairman of the fedex board, will transition to executive chairman on june 1, when the leadership change will take place.
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Frederick W Smith (Smith), The Chairman, President, And Ceo Of Fedex Corporation (Fedex) 2 Was Presented The Peter F Drucker Strategic Leadership Award For The Year 1997.
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For Founding Fedex Corporation And Establishing A Modern Network Of Information Technology And Transportation Systems That Satisfy Global Demand For Timely And Guaranteed Package Delivery.
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Birdcatchers
Keenan_B_2007.pdf
Keenan, Brian M.
The four short stories and novella of Birdcatchers explore the choices that people make or fail to make at moments when different ways of knowing and conducting themselves in their circumstances become possible. The narrator of the title story, for instance, struggles to deal with his isolation and loneliness in the wake of his wife's death; when the protagonist of 'Tunnel of Love' finds the delicate balance of his double life upset, he ultimately manages to reclaim a realistic connection with his lover and broader world. Regardless of the success or failure each character experiences, though, the stories suggest that in our lonely and isolated individual lives, the potential for meaningful connection-and maybe some measure of grace-does exist.
Thesis (M.F.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2007
Valentine's day -- The undertaker's son -- Birdcatchers -- How it got to here -- Tunnel of love.
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Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Encyclopedia of World Cultures Series): Africa and the Middle East
Gacl
David Levinson
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Europe and the Middle East
Encyclopedia of World Cultures Southeast and East Asia: Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe, Vol. 5
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: North America
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Middle America and the Caribbean
Encyclopedia of Community : From the Village to the Virtual World
David Levinson (Editor) Karen Christensen (Editor)
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South America
Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present
David Levinson, Karen Christensen
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Cumulated Indexes, Bibliographies and Maps, Vol. 10
Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South Asia
Religion: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Encyclopedias of the Human Experience)
Encyclopedia of Homelessness
Homelessness Handbook
Berkshire Publishing Group
David Levinson, Marcy Ross
Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Encyclopedias of the Human Experience)
David Levinson, Laura Gaccione
Human Environments: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of modern Asia
Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport
Jewish Germany: An Enduring Presence from the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century
Vallentine Mitchell
The Tribal Living Book: 150 Things to Do and Make from Traditional Cultures
Johnson Books
David Levinson, David Sherwood
Aggression and Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Encyclopedias of the Human Experience)
Berkshire encyclopedia of world sport
Berkshire Pub. Group
David Levinson, David Levinson, Karen Christensen
Encyclopedia of World Cultures. africa_and_the_middle_east
G. K. Hall & Co.
Ethnic Relations: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Human Experience)
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, indexes
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Edition 1.
Encyclopedia of Homelessness, 2 Volume Set
Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love
Karen Christensen, David Levinson
Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois: A History of the A. M. E. Zion Church
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Vol 1 (Abacus-China)
Charles Scribners & Sons Publishing, David Levinson
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I won £3.3million on my first ever lottery ticket – I decided to play after getting a crazy piece of advice from my boss
December 27, 2022 December 27, 2022 Olivia Burke
A MAN who scooped the jackpot with his first ever lottery ticket has revealed he only decided to play after getting a crazy piece of advice from his boss.
Ajay Ogula, 31, won a whopping £3.3million after a "random conversation" with his superior encouraged him to try his luck.
Ajay Ogula scooped the jackpot with his first ever lottery ticketCredit: Newsflash
The Dubai-based driver only took a gamble after a crazy conversation with his bossCredit: Newsflash
The lotto winner, from a small village in South India, has his boss to thank for never having to work a day in his life again.
He moved to Dubai four years ago in hopes of finding a job when he bagged a role as a driver for a jewellery company.
Despite the glitz and glamour of the business, Ajay was earning just a measly £724 a month for his work.
After paying his bills, the driver had a small amount of cash left to play with – which he didn't want to waste gambling.
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But his boss offered him another perspective of the lottery during a chance encounter where they discussed another big winner.
Ajay explained: "During a random conversation with my boss, I mentioned reading about someone winning a handsome amount on the Emirates Draw.
"My boss advised that 'you keep wasting money here and there, so why not use it instead for an opportunity like this?'"
He decided to bear his superior's suggestion in mind – and later installed the lotto mobile app on his phone.
Ajay purchased two tickets for Emirate Draw's EASY6, but wasn't expecting to come up trumps on his first try.
He continued: "I was out with my friend when I received the congratulatory email.
"I thought, perhaps it's a smaller winning amount, but when I started reading, the zeroes kept adding up, and I practically lost my mind when I learnt the final figure.
"I still cannot believe I hit the jackpot."
The driver became a millionaire after his numbers came up in the December draw and he secured the jackpot.
Ajay is said to be planning to use his winnings to build a house for his family members in Dubai and give them a fresh start.
Managing Partner at Emirates Draw, Mohammad Behroozian Alawadhi, said: "Congratulations to our Grand Prize winner, Ajay Ogula, on his epic win.
"Emirates Draw is not just about numbers and winners; it is about making a difference in people's lives and has been the goal from day one and will remain at the heart of all we do.
"Our entire team is ecstatic for Ajay Ogula, and we are confident that this win will positively change his life and all the people around him."
The 31-year-old said he intends to use the cash to build a house for his familyCredit: Newsflash
Olivia Burke
Shocking photos show £53k Audi smashed into home – leaving whole house shaking
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Insight from the blog
20 January 2020 | Comment | Article by Emily Powell
My experience as a woman in the legal sector
Ahead of Hugh James hosting the upcoming Women in the Law UK's event, Emily Powell a Partner from our Commercial team talks to us about her experience as a woman in the legal sector and why she is keen to be involved with the Women in Law UK organisation.
I have always been a firm believer in fairness; growing up my parents were regularly confronted with my cries of "it's not fair" during many disputes and disagreements with my siblings. The early parts of my career were focussed on criminal defence and immigration work, driven by my pursuit of fairness, I wanted to work with some of the least privileged people in society and ensure that they got a fair hearing when faced with the might of the State.
But, having grown up in the '80s and '90s when women in business were very publically shattering glass ceilings, it wasn't until later in my career that I stopped and thought about how gender diversity is still a topical issue for women in the legal profession. After all, sexism had been stamped out at the end of the '80s, hadn't it, so what was left that women in law needed to advocate for?
I was finally prompted to stop and think about this issue when the gender pay-gap became topical. I didn't understand why this was still happening. Whatever the underlying reasons, how could these issues and others still experienced by some women in workplaces be addressed?
Of course, there are no easy answers to these questions and there is no quick fix. As gender diversity changes over the years at the bottom of the profession there can naturally be expected to be a resultant change at the top. But this is not a reason for complacency and these issues and more need to be highlighted and discussions must continue to ensure they are proactively managed and addressed.
I realise that I am in a very privileged position to be a partner in a top 100 law firm and one which is actively committed to diversity in the workplace. I am so excited that we are now working with Women in Law to promote conversations around gender diversity in the legal profession in Wales. I look forward to the establishment of a strong network where difficult issues can be discussed and we can contribute to the development of the conversation on gender diversity to give every woman and man in law, in Wales the opportunity to grow and develop to the best of their ability. And above all to promote fairness!
For more details on the event please click here: Women in the Law UK - Wednesday 26 February 2020
Disclaimer: The information on the Hugh James website is for general information only and reflects the position at the date of publication. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be treated as such. If you would like to ensure the commentary reflects current legislation, case law or best practice, please contact the blog author.
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IN/EX Systems, Inc. v. Masud
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
IN/EX SYSTEMS, INC.
MASUD et al.
Background: Husband, as personal representative and administrator of wife's estate and as father and next friend of daughter, brought action against employer alleging vicarious liability after wife was killed and daughter was injured when a tire dislodged from the vehicle employee was driving in between job sites, crossing the median, and striking wife's oncoming vehicle. The State Court, Cobb County, Maria Golick, C.J., denied employer's motion for summary judgment. Employer filed interlocutory appeal.
Holdings: The Court of Appeals, Mercier, J., held that:
[1] husband's failure to cite to parts of the record or transcript deemed material, in his appellate brief, constituted consent to a decision based on employer's statement of facts;
[2] employee had no knowledge of any unsafe condition that caused the tire of the truck to separate, as required to hold employer vicariously liable; and
[3] employee did not fail to safely operate the truck in violation of the Uniform Rules of the Road, for purposes of holding employer vicariously liable.
Reversed.
West Headnotes (10)
Appeal and Error
Factual assertions in appellate briefs and in briefs in the trial record and not otherwise supported by evidence of record cannot be considered on appellate review.
Briefs cannot be used in lieu of the record or transcript to add evidence to the appellate record.
Exhibits attached to an appellate brief but not appearing in the record transmitted by the trial court cannot be considered by the Court of Appeals.
Husband's failure to cite to parts of the record or transcript deemed material, in his appellate brief, constituted consent to a decision based on employer's statement of facts, even if it was possible that the evidence relied upon exists somewhere in the appellate record's 39 volumes. Ga. Ct. App. R. 25(b) (1).
Statute proscribing the offense of driving an unsafe vehicle is a strict criminal liability statute, which can be violated and enforced of necessity through a criminal sanction without a showing of mens rea or guilty knowledge on the part of the violator. Ga. Code Ann. § 40-8-7.
A violation of the Uniform Rules of the Road prima facie establishes negligence per se in the absence of a valid defense.
After a plaintiff has established negligence per se in violation of the of the Uniform Rules of the Road, which is prima facie showing of negligence, the burden then shifts to the defendant to show that the violation was unintentional and in the exercise of ordinary care.
In a civil action, for an owner of a vehicle to be held liable for injuries that occur due to an unsafe or defective condition of his vehicle, the plaintiff must show not only that the vehicle was being operated with the owner's consent, but that the owner knew of its defective or unsafe condition.
Employee, a commercial construction technician, had no knowledge of any unsafe condition that caused the tire of the truck he was driving between job sites to separate, striking oncoming vehicle, as required to hold employer vicariously liable for the death of husband's wife and injuries sustained by husband's daughter; employee and passenger indicated that they did not notice anything wrong with the truck on the day of the collision, and engineering expert gave vague and equivocal testimony that some wobbling and vibration of the wheel could have been felt before the tire separated.
Employee, a commercial construction technician, did not fail to safely operate the truck he was driving between job sites when the tire separated from the truck, striking oncoming vehicle, in violation of the Uniform Rules of the Road, for purposes of holding employer vicariously liable for the death of husband's wife and injuries sustained by husband's daughter; officer's investigation did not reveal any violation by employee in the actual driving of his vehicle, instead, his investigation revealed that unsafe equipment caused the collision.
Nicole Christine Leet, Michael J. Rust, William D. Strickland, Atlanta, for Appellant.
Andrew Timothy Rogers, M. Khurram Baig, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Atlanta, Craig Patrick Terrett, Norcross, Joseph Robb Cruser, for Appellees.
Mercier, Judge.
*1 This appeal arises from two lawsuits filed by Tahsin Masud ("Masud"), one as personal representative and administrator of the estate of Aila Masud and the other as father and next friend of Sana Masud, regarding a car collision that tragically caused Aila's death and Sana's injuries.1 Aila was killed and Sana was injured after a tire became separated from the vehicle Michael Green was driving, and then crossed the median on Interstate 85 and struck the vehicle Aila was driving. Masud filed the lawsuits against Green, Green's employer, In/Ex Systems, Inc., and other parties.2 In/Ex filed a motion for summary judgment in the both lawsuits, which the trial court denied. We granted In/Ex's application for interlocutory appeal to review the trial court's order and, for the following reasons, we reverse.
[1] [2] [3] [4]1. As an initial matter, certain allegations of facts stated by Masud in his appellate brief are supported only by citations to his trial court briefs, and he fails to cite to evidence in the record to support these allegations. Of course, "[f]actual assertions in appellate briefs and in briefs in the trial record and not otherwise supported by evidence of record cannot be considered on appellate review." Dover Realty v. Butts County Bd. of Tax Assessors, 202 Ga. App. 787 (1), 415 S.E.2d 666 (1992) (citation omitted). "[B]riefs cannot be used in lieu of the record or transcript to add evidence to the record." Fidelity Enterprises v. Heyman & Sizemore, 206 Ga. App. 602, 603 (1), 426 S.E.2d 177 (1992) (citation omitted). Furthermore, "exhibits attached to an appellate brief but not appearing in the record transmitted by the trial court cannot be considered by this court[.]" Bennett v. Moody, 225 Ga. App. 95, 96, 483 S.E.2d 350 (1997) (citation and punctuation omitted). Failure of Masud to cite to parts of the record or transcript deemed material shall "constitute consent to a decision based on [In/Ex's] statement of facts. Except as controverted, [In/Ex's] statement of facts may be accepted by this Court as true." Court of Appeals Rule 25 (b) (1). While it is possible that the evidence relied upon exists somewhere in the appellate record's 39 volumes, "[w]e have repeatedly held that it is not the function of this court to cull the record on behalf of a party." Rolleston v. Cherry, 226 Ga. App. 750, 753 (1) (b), 487 S.E.2d 354 (1997) (citation and punctuation omitted). This rule is particularly true in cases, such as this one, with a voluminous record. See id.
2. In order to prevail on a motion for summary judgment under OCGA § 9-11-56, In/Ex, as the moving party,
must show that there exists no genuine issue of material fact, and that the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, demand judgment as a matter of law. Moreover, on appeal from the denial or grant of summary judgment the appellate court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there exists a genuine issue of material fact, and whether the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, warrant judgment as a matter of law.
*2 Dougherty Equip. v. Roper, 327 Ga. App. 434, 757 S.E.2d 885 (2014) (citation omitted).
So viewed, the evidence shows the following. At the time of the collision, Green worked for In/Ex as a technician, primarily in commercial construction. On April 26, 2013, the date of the collision, Green drove a Dodge Ram truck owned by his mother to the In/Ex warehouse at 4:45 a.m. He and a co-worker, Dan Neal, then traveled in the Dodge Ram to their first job site for In/Ex, where they worked until 7:30 a.m. They left the first job site and began traveling to Guitar Center "to get guitar parts," before they were due at their next job site. As Green was driving northbound on Interstate 85, at approximately 7:45 a.m., a vehicle suddenly entered his travel lane. Green quickly changed lanes to avoid colliding with the vehicle, and the front driver's side tire came off of his vehicle, traveled across the median and struck Aila's vehicle as she was driving southbound on Interstate 85. Neither Green nor Neal had noticed anything wrong with the truck on the day of the collision. Green pled guilty to driving an unsafe vehicle. See OCGA § 40-8-7.
Masud filed the lawsuits against In/Ex (and other parties not subject to this appeal) asserting a vicarious liability claim against In/Ex.3 Specifically, Masud claimed that Green failed to maintain the truck in safe operating condition and that Green's actions are imputed to In/Ex.
At his deposition, Green testified that he worked on trucks "as a hobby" and considered himself to be experienced in truck maintenance. Sometime in January 2013, Green took a day off of work to replace the truck's rotors and brake pads, during which time he removed the wheels. Green testified that he "had no idea" that something was wrong with the vehicle.
In/Ex filed a motion for summary judgment in both lawsuits, arguing, inter alia, that Green had not been driving negligently at the time of the collision. The trial court denied In/Ex's motion for summary judgment. In/Ex argues that the trial court erred in denying its motion for summary judgment because there was no negligent act by Green at the time of the injury for which vicarious liability could attach.4 We agree.
[5]Every master shall be liable for torts committed by "his servant by his command or in the prosecution and within the scope of his business, whether the same are committed by negligence or voluntarily." OCGA § 51-2-2. Green pled guilty to violating OCGA § 40-8-7 (a), which states that "[n]o person shall drive or move on any highway any motor vehicle … unless the equipment upon any and every such vehicle is in good working order … and the vehicle is in such safe mechanical condition as not to endanger the driver or other occupant or any person upon the highway." OCGA § 40-8-7 is a "strict criminal liability statute," "which can be violated and enforced of necessity through a criminal sanction without a showing of mens rea or guilty knowledge on the part of the violator." Nelson v. State, 224 Ga. App. 623, 624 (5), 481 S.E.2d 605 (1997) (citations and punctuation omitted).
*3 [6] [7] [8]"A violation of the Uniform Rules of the Road prima facie establishes negligence per se in the absence of a valid defense. The burden then shifts to the defendant to show that the violation was unintentional and in the exercise of ordinary care." Harden v. Burdette, 204 Ga. App. 733, 735 (4), 420 S.E.2d 626 (1992) (citations and punctuation omitted). In a civil action, "[f]or an owner of a vehicle to be held liable for injuries that occur due to an unsafe or defective condition of his vehicle, the plaintiff must show not only that the vehicle was being operated with the owner's consent, but that the owner knew of its defective or unsafe condition." Wilson v. Ortiz, 232 Ga. App. 191, 195 (2), 501 S.E.2d 247 (1998) (citation omitted) (overruled on other grounds by Giles v. State Farm Mut. Ins., 330 Ga. App. 314, 319 (2) (fn. 2), 765 S.E.2d 413 (2014); see generally Jacobs v. Felmet, 105 Ga. App. 234, 236, 124 S.E.2d 307 (1962) (affirming grant of directed verdict to driver on negligence claim when no proof was presented that the driver had any "knowledge or notice of any defect in his brakes until they suddenly gave way[.]") (citation omitted); Robinson v. MARTA, 197 Ga. App. 628, 629 (4), 399 S.E.2d 252 (1990) (trial court did not err in refusing to give plaintiff's requested jury charge on negligence per se pursuant to OCGA § 40-8-7 (a) regarding a collision with a stalled bus because, inter alia, the evidence did not demonstrate that the bus driver had any reason to suspect anything was wrong with the bus before it broke down); Almassud v. Mezquital, 345 Ga. App. 456, 458-460 (1), 811 S.E.2d 110 (2018) (reversing denial of motion for new trial where trial court refused to give jury instruction regarding the driver's lack of knowledge or notice of the vehicle's steering defect); Brown v. Shiver, 183 Ga. App. 207, 207-208 (1), 358 S.E.2d 862 (1987) (affirming grant of summary judgment to driver where plaintiff crashed into defendant's stalled car because defendant had no notice that the car was likely to stall); compare Fouts v. Builders Transp., 222 Ga. App. 568, 577-578 (5), 474 S.E.2d 746 (1996) (trial court did not err by denying motion for directed verdict to driver and his employer, the owner of the commercial tractor-trailer truck at issue, who claimed to have no knowledge of the truck's faulty brakes when a State inspector testified that three of the truck's nine brakes were out of adjustment and that the truck should have been out of service, and the jury thus could have concluded that the driver and employer could or should have known of the defect).
[9]Both Green and Neal testified that they did not notice anything wrong with the truck on the day of the collision. To create a genuine issue of material fact as to whether Green should have known that the tire was loose while he was driving, Masud points to deposition testimony from the Defendants' engineering expert. When asked if he would "expect the driver to notice vibration from [the hub cap] wobbling," the expert responded: "It probably, if it was your Mercedes, you probably would, but if it were this … [i]t probably self-corrects, aligns going around corners. Yeah, it was bad." In response to whether he would have expected there to have been some vibration and wobbling of the wheel, he stated: "I'm sure there was. And, again, you feel that in this type of truck with these big knobby tires. I'd probably feel it in my Mustang, but I don't know if you would feel it if – – yeah, it happened for a long time. There's a lot of wear and a lot of holes and a lot of damage to those bolts. That wasn't a half hour of use." The expert's vague and equivocal testimony is insufficient to create a triable issue at summary judgment. See generally Sharfuddin v. Drug Emporium, 230 Ga. App. 679, 684 (3) (e), 498 S.E.2d 748 (1998).
[10]In/Ex has cited evidence in the record that Green had no knowledge of any unsafe condition that caused the tire to separate from the vehicle. See Wilson, supra. Furthermore, Neal, Green's passenger, did not notice anything wrong with the vehicle. Masud therefore was not entitled to rely on the allegations contained in his complaints. See Aldridge v. King's Colonial Ford, 250 Ga. App. 236, 238, 550 S.E.2d 439 (2001). The vague and equivocal testimony from the engineering expert was insufficient to create a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether Green had knowledge of the vehicle's unsafe condition. See Sharfuddin, supra. On the record before us, Masud has failed to present sufficient evidence to support his case against Green, and as his only claim against In/Ex was based on the doctrine of respondeat superior, his claim against In/Ex likewise fails. See generally Hillside Orchard Farms v. Murphy, 222 Ga. App. 106, 109 (1), 473 S.E.2d 181 (1996) ("The doctrine of respondeat superior holds the master responsible for the negligent act of his servant, committed while the servant is acting within the general scope of his employment and engaged in his master's business. The negligence of the master in such a case is entirely derivative from the servant's negligence.") (citation and punctuation omitted). Therefore, the trial court erred in denying In/Ex's motion for summary judgment.5
*4 3. Given our ruling in Division 2, supra, we need not address In/Ex's remaining enumeration of error.
Judgment reversed.
Barnes, P. J., and Brown, J., concur.
— S.E.2d —-, 2019 WL 5588811
For purposes of clarity, we refer to Aila and Sana Masud by their first names.
In/Ex and Masud are the only parties to this appeal.
While Masud also alleged direct liability claims against In/Ex, he has expressly abandoned those claims and asserts only his vicarious liability claims.
For the purposes of this appeal only, In/Ex assumes arguendo that Green was acting in the course and scope of his employment with In/Ex at the time of the collision.
To the extent that Masud makes a claim in his complaints that aside from operating an unsafe vehicle, Green "failed to operate the Dodge Ram truck safely …" such a claim would similarly fail. In/Ex cited an affidavit from the DeKalb County Police Department detective who investigated the collision, wherein he averred that his investigation "did not reveal any violation by Michael Green in the actual driving of his vehicle – there were no violations of the Georgia Uniform Rules of the Road." Instead, his investigation revealed that unsafe equipment caused the collision. Masud has failed to support a claim that Green was negligent in his driving of the vehicle. As such, there is no genuine issue of material fact.
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Concert Review: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
August 25, 2019 by Steve Leventhal
There's definitely something going on in Australia as evidenced by the recent surge in psychedelic rock bands coming from the land down under. Groups like Tame Impala, The Murlochs, Pond, and King Gizzard are the most recent exports from the country that brought us AC/DC, INXS, Little River Band, and yes, the Bee Gees.
Melbourne's King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have been incredibly prolific, with fifteen album since the release of their first full-length album 12 Bar Bruise in 2012.
Members of the group include Stu Mackenzie (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, flute), Ambrose Kenny-Smith (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Cook Craig (guitar, bass, vocals), Joey Walker (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals), Lucas Skinner (bass, keyboards), Michael Cavanagh (drums, percussion), and Eric Moore (drums, percussion). Kenny-Smith and Craig are also members of The Murlochs.
King Gizzard's sound originally was garage rock, but with the ongoing output of material, they have also crafted jazz, soul, prog rock, and their latest iteration, heavy metal, with the release of Infest the Rat's Nest.
All of these multiple personalities make for very entertaining concerts. Throughout the show, the band seemingly morphs into Metallica, T Rex, ZZ Top, or Pink Floyd. There is no standard set list. Every show is different. There might be some overlap, but the song selection and order is as varied as a Grateful Dead set list.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard at the Aragon Ballroom, August 24, 2019.
Photo by the author.
At their recent show at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, King Gizzard rocked the house for a blistering ninety-five minute, nineteen song set, that featured five tracks from their earlier 2019 release, Fishing For Fishies. That album is much more psychedelic and a boogie-woogie album. It is very reminiscent of Marc Bolan and T Rex.
Between the grinding, bumping, thumping, head banging sounds of Rats' Nest, and the shoe gazing moments from Fishies, there was something for everyone, and the crowd loved it.
Catch this band while they are still playing medium sized venues. It won't be long before they are selling out the large amphitheaters and the basketball arenas.
Setlist – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago – August 24, 2019
Self-Immolate
Mars for the Rich
Plastic Boogie
Inner Cell
I'm in Your Mind
I'm Not in Your Mind
The Balrog
Evil Death Roll
Billabong Valley
The Bird Song
Boogieman Sam
Cyboogie
Here's a few videos from different albums to demonstrate their versatility.
"Mars for the Rich" from Infest the Rats' Nest
the title track from Fishing for Fishies
"Rattlesnake," from Flying Microtonal Banana
"Inner Cell," from Polygondwanaland
Filed Under: Classic Rock, Concerts, Entertainment, Experimental, Featured Music, FUNK, Garage Rock, Glam Rock, Heavy Metal, Music, Progressive rock, Psychedelic, Rock 'n' Roll Tagged With: Australian Psychedelic music, Fishing for Fishies, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Music
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Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. share favorite Indianapolis memories ahead of Indy 500
While neither won at IMS, both Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have fond memories of the Indy 500's host city.
Danica Patrick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. share favorite Indianapolis memories ahead of Indy 500 While neither won at IMS, both Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have fond memories of the Indy 500's host city. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/indy-500/2019/05/23/indy-500-2019-danica-patrick-dale-earnhardt-jr-s-favorite-indy-memories/1206349001/
Tyler Kraft, Indianapolis Star Published 1:59 p.m. ET May 23, 2019
Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr., both part of NBC's announcing team for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. (Photo: IndyStar photo illustration)
INDIANAPOLIS — You might not expect Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. to have the fond memories of Indianapolis. After all, neither was able to win a race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in their otherwise decorated careers.
Both are returning to the city this weekend as part of NBC's broadcast team for the Indianapolis 500. Patrick will be working as a studio analyst for NBC's race day coverage alongside Mike Tirico, while Earnhardt will serve as a roving reporter Sunday.
Sunday's Indy 500 will be Earnhardt's first. But, it will not be his first time at the track. In his first race, a young Earnhardt found himself in a position every son dreams of: beating his dad.
"Dad was testing and I was testing and I thought my car was great," Earnhardt said. "We had great speed and Dad's car was alright, average."
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Earnhardt Jr. ended up matching Earnhardt Sr.'s qualifying lap time. His excitement was then squashed by his father, who had previously driven his son's black No. 3 car and wasn't convinced it would withstand the test.
"I'm happy, I get out and I'm like, 'Gosh, alright. I'm just as good as Dad,'" Earnhardt Jr. said. "And he comes up and goes, 'Your car ain't going to make it.'"
Sure enough, Earnhardt Jr. got off to a fast start, hanging around the top five during the race. But with around 23 laps to go, his father's prediction came to pass.
"I got tight and started backing up," Earnhardt said. "One guy goes by, then another and another, and there goes Dad. Drives right around me like it's nothing."
Patrick's memories don't fall in any particular race, but still center around the track. Patrick would stay at the track for the entirety of the race and before cars began speeding across the asphalt, she would test a different type of speed on the speedway.
"I was a big runner, so I would just go out every morning and run around the track," Patrick said. "I'd run on the infield, run on the outside and run all over. I felt very integrated with the track on a lot of levels."
The former drivers will create new memories this weekend as they transition to the broadcasting side of the race. The Indy 500 is scheduled to start at 12:45 p.m. Sunday.
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The White and Golden Cities of Yucatan!
All Products Shore Excursions The White and Golden Cities of Yucatan!
Yucatan (Progreso), Mexico
Meal Included
First, take a sight-seeing tour of Merida, known as "The White City", one of the oldest and most commemorated cities founded in the middle of an ancient Mayan city called T'ho.
Take a panoramic tour along the most important boulevard in the city of Mérida where the wealthy "divine caste" of Spanish descendants lived and built their mansions on a street designed like the "Champs Elysees" of Paris. Then we make our way to "The Golden City" of Izamál which was originally founded by the Mayans in the fifth century A.D.
The majority of Izamál's streets are lined with houses built only a few years after the Spanish conquest. While there is much of both the Mexican and Mayan cultures in evidence here, our tour will focus on the Spanish Colonial aspects of this city. Tour the town in horse-drawn carriages, (known here as Victorias) and pass by such sights as the Izamál City Hall, which dates from the 18th century and is the largest building of its kind in the Yucatán.
Note: Wear walking shoes, sunscreen and/or a hat, light-colored loose fitting cotton clothes.
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Home 2017 March 17 Sports Wildfire finish wild season in fourth place
Wildfire finish wild season in fourth place
March 17, 2017 · ·
Thanks to a record-setting performance by Heart River senior Dion Madler, the Wildfire fell to the Cougars 81-73 to finish in fourth place at the Region 7 Boys Basketball tournament in Dickinson on March 9.
Senior Sean Hertz goes up for the basket against the Heart River Cougars. (Herald Photo by Cole Benz)
By COLE BENZ | Herald Editor
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Madler scored 39 points in part because of his eight 3-pointers. Madler also recorded 10 rebounds to finish the game with a double-double.
The Wildfire played a clean game. Their passing was efficient, they created space and shooting opportunities, but they were hard pressed when putting the ball in the air. The only shot 42 percent from the field and a meager 33 precent from the free-throw line.
"It all comes down to fundamentals," head coach Nate Zachmann said. "That stuff adds up against good teams."
Mott-Regent hustled from start to finish.
The Wildfire found themselves down by as much as 20 points midway through the third quarter, cut that lead to 11, but that's as close as they got to catching up to the Cougars.
Along with missing shots, the Wildfire were hammered by long scoring runs by Heart River. Runs of 13, 10 and seven throughout the game gave the Cougars a comfortable lead that they didn't give up.
"Sometimes the ball just doesn't drop and you have to pick it up on the defensive end," Zachmann said. "But you know when you play these good teams every possession is so important, and you've just make every possession count and we just had some shots that didn't drop."
Mott-Regent was resilient through the tough scoring runs.
Midway through the first quarter senior Sean Hertz had struggled and missed on three straight possessions. But Hertz shook it off and score the next three times he had the ball. It was a testament to what Zachmann had been preaching all season, being noble minded, and don't let things get the better of you.
"You've just got to keep playing," Zachmann said. "Everyone showed a really good noble mindset."
As the Wildfire look to the future, they will have to do so without the services of Sean Hertz, Dylan Ambers, and Brady Wegh. It's hard to replace the seniors, but it's something you have to prepare for in high school basketball.
But they played some underclassmen during the tournament, which will help in their experience for the future.
Zachmann said he wants his team to grow, in size.
"We've got to get in the gym," he said. "We've got to be so much stronger."
The coach said that they will work with Cody Perkins and get him in the post more. And Tanner Zentner will have to get used to handling the ball more.
Zachmann also said they need to develop more depth. Heart River played 12 players during the game, the Wildfire only put seven players on the court. Hopefully, Zachmann said, the return of Hunter Koeplin and Aaron Roth will help in the depth department. Koeplin and Roth sat out the season with injuries, but both were very much involved with the team throughout this season, Zachmann said.
But right now, the team is just reflecting on the past season.
"We're proud of the season we put together," Zachmann said. "We know where we have to improve, and we know where we have to make more adjustments, and it's just time to regroup and think about things next year and enjoy what we just accomplished, and that's what we're going to do."
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Home > Airline Livery > Delta
1:200 Delta Air Lines DC-3 Ship 41
Built in 1940 and restored over a three-year period, Delta's Ship 41 is finished in a gleaming, polished aluminum finish. Ship 41 is powered by Wright Cyclone engines and currently resides at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA adjacent to Hartsfield International Airport.
1:200 Delta Skyteam 737-800s
Delta Air Lines has painted a large assortment of aircraft in Skyteam colors: 767-400, 767-300, 757-200 and 737-800 including five 737-800s. This set depicts the five 737-832s in the Skyteam colors.
1:200 Delta Air Lines 717s
In a move that surprised many, following the acquisition of AirTran Airways by Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines entered into an agreement to acquire all 88 of AirTran's 717-200 aircraft. The first aircraft to join Delta's fleet is N935AT, and this set also includes a full set and numbers and letters for every registration for the planned Delta 717 fleet. Use this decal with the resin 717 kit from RetrokiT.
1:200 Delta 737-900ERs
In November 2013, Delta Air Lines began taking delivery of the Boeing 737-932ERs from its initial order of 12 of the type. The aircraft are being delivered in Delta's current color scheme. This decal provides the markings for any of the potential 737-932ER aircraft in the fleet, including the now standard Delta belly titles and logo.
You can also combine two Hasegawa kits to make a -900, use a plug .272" forward of the wing and a plug .254" aft of the wing.
1:200 Delta A320s
Northwest Airlines was an early user of the A320 with a total of 78 delivered between 1989 and 2003. The fleet migrated to Delta during the merger and the vast majority are still in service. This decal depicts the current Delta scheme on these A320s including the white belly logo and titles.
Northwest Airlines operated both the A320 and later the A319. A total of 77 A319s were delivered new to Northwest. Some A319s left the fleet prior to the merger with a total of only 57 of the type migrating to Delta. This decal depicts the current Delta scheme on these A319s including the added white belly logo and titles.
Use this set with the RetroWings A319 conversion
1:200 Delta MD88s
Delta Air Lines is the world's second largest operator of the venerable MD80, with a total of 121 airframes in service at one point. The MD88 is visually identical to an MD88, the only major difference being the MD88 has a glass cockpit as opposed the "round dials" in the MD80. All remaining 118 ships in the fleet wear the standard Delta scheme which this set depicts.
1:200 Delta L-100 Hercules
In 1966 Delta become one of the first operators of the civil version of the Lockheed C-130 known as the L-100. Delta used the big Hercs to ferry engines as well as flying dedicated freight services. After two years of service, Delta had their three L-100s stretched into the L-100-20 which was 99 inches longer than the L-100. The L-100-20 fleet remained in service until late 1973.
1:144 Delta Embraer 145s
Following the introduction of the new color scheme for Delta Air Lines' mainline fleet, the colors soon spread to the Delta Connection operation. This decal provides the markings for the Embraer ERJ-145 in Delta Connection service with the four airlines that have flown the aircraft in these colors - Chautauqua, ExpressJet, Freedom, and Shuttle America.
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Green Splash Swimming Club records
The records of the Green Splash Swimming Club consist of club meeting minutes, membership information, negatives, photographs, and scrapbooks (1920-1986) which contain photographs, memorabilia, and water show programs. The bulk of the records revolve around the annual water pageants produced by the swimming club between 1953 and 1976. The earlier years are documented more fully in the club's minutes.
By-laws 1
Lifesaving 1
Programs (Publications) 1
Synchronized swimming 1
Michigan Agricultural College. Women's Lifesaving Corps 1
Michigan State College. Green Splash Swimming Club 1
Michigan State College. Women's Lifesaving Corps 1
Michigan State University. Green Splash Swimming Club 1
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The Story of Minimalism – Part One: A New Way of Listening
By Megan Reich
"What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages." – Philip Glass
If you've tuned into All Classical Portland recently, you may have come across some music your ears weren't expecting to hear from a classical radio station. On a recent Wednesday morning, Christa Wessel shared Philip Glass's Piano Etude No. 6 from a new CD by Víkingur Ólafsson. One late Thursday night, Andrea Murray treated us with Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight. While both these works could be argued to be "classical" pieces, they stand out for the way they pervade popular culture and entertainment – both Glass and Richter have composed extensively for films and television.
Richter and Glass's pieces can be described as examples from a movement and genre in classical music known as "minimalism." Minimalism started in mid-1960s on the experimental outskirts of classical music. Now, minimalism has become an international phenomenon that has profoundly influenced the direction of new music in the U.S. and beyond, leading to the claim of minimalism as the "common musical language" of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Philip Glass, Études, No. 6, performed by Víkingur Ólafsson
Minimalism is also a prime example of how labels and categories in music and art can be inherently limited, making it hard to see how trends grow, change, redefining themselves over time. By absorbing a diversity of influences, and in turn influencing so many areas of our musical culture, minimalism breaks down the walls commonly forged between "high" and "low" art in classical music. Minimalism has reached the corners of almost every part of musical culture, from film scores to pop albums, jazz riffs to contemporary classical soundscapes. And has grown beyond its own label: evolved over time, branching out, becoming something arguably more "maximal" than minimal.
Max Richter, "On the Nature of Daylight," performed by the Ataneres Ensemble
What happens when a music appears to transgress the boundaries of what is "classical"? What happens when a music attempts to closes riff created between composer and audience in early-20th century modernist music? What happens when a music re-conceptualizes the very core of how we listen, reuniting audiences with sound as a visceral experience and emotional affect? This is the story of minimalist music.
Minimalism's Origin and the Four "Vanguard" Composers
The journey minimalism has taken is a long one, but let us start at the beginning. The original minimalist movement was not restricted to music, touching nearly every art form, including the visual arts, literature, film. Minimalism originated in a slew of underground activity in the cinema, music, painting and sculpture in the late 1950s and early 1960s, centered in New York and San Francisco. There were strong links between early minimalist composers and artists, with performances often taking place in art galleries and lofts rather than traditional concert venues. And similar to minimalist art, minimalist composers were reacting against the complexity, density, and sheer difficulty of recent modernist music.
A charismatic group of four composers are typically labelled at the "vanguard" composers of minimalist music. They were all born within several years of each other – La Monte Young (b. 1935), Terry Riley (b. 1935), Steve Reich (b. 1936), and Philip Glass (b. 1937). An eclectic array of musical ideas influenced this initial group, making it difficult to describe the movement itself in anything but broad terms. We can, however name some commonalities. Core to minimalism is the reduction of materials to a minimum. Procedures are simplified, and often what goes on in the music is immediately apparent to a listener. Minimalist music typically features repetition, diatonic scales and harmonies, a grid of steady beats, without a change in tempo (making it similar to certain genres of Baroque music), and monochrome or terraced dynamics (unlike the expressive fluidity of the Romantic and modernist eras).
The "vanguard" of minimalist music. (clockwise from upper left: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.)
Notably, all four of these vanguard composers were brought up in the Western classical tradition, studying music at various prestigious classical music schools. However, these composers stand out for the way they created art that stood outside of the establishment – being influenced by other, non-Western styles including Indian raga and African drumming. Minimalist music is often seen as a rejection of European modernist trends such as the complex and mathematically-strict Serialism. There is an intentionally sparse use of traditional elements of form and style in minimalist music. It returns to the roots, the basic elements of music: melody, modality, and rhythm.
A key predecessor to minimalism's radical simplicity were recent avant-garde trends in music, especially the music John Cage. Cage's 4'33", for example, take reductionism to the extreme, and could be seen as the ultimate minimalist composition – the performer does not play a single note, allowing everyday sounds to formulate the aural experience of the piece. Another aspect minimalism took from the avant-garde was the aleatoric: creating unpredictability in performance by abandoning conventions like rhythm and tempo. Aleatoric techniques are especially employed in the music of La Monte Young. Take, for example, Young's "The Melodic Version Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" From The Four Dreams Of China (yes, a mouthful of a title). The work is played by eight muted trumpets, who play four distinct, recurring tones in a spontaneous, improvised style.
La Monte Young, "The Melodic Version Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" From The Four Dreams Of China, performed by the Theatre of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble
La Monte Young is probably the least known of the minimalist vanguard, but he is generally considered to have launched the movement with his "long-tone" pieces. While a graduate student at Berkeley in 1958, Young submitted a work for his composition class he called Trio for Strings. But it is not just any conventional Trio: it is long, monotonous, and consists of only three notes. His professor refused to give him a grade for the work. There is thought behind it, however: the entries and exits of the three tones are paced to create different harmonic effects that emerge in and out of the texture.
Young's Trio for Strings reflects a lot of his later music, which centers in on a small number of pitches sustained for long periods of time. His Composition 1960 No. 7, for example, consists only of the notes B and F#, instructed "to be held for a long time." Young's The Tortoise: His Dreams and Journeys (1964) is a type of improvisation, where instrumentalists and singers come in and out on various harmonics over a drone by a synthesizer.
With not much to listen for in Young's sparse scores, the listener's attention is directed to more minute changes in pitch and timbre that happen as a musician attempts to sustain a pitch on their instrument. Young's music is striking in that deliberately disregards classical music's tendency to be a teleological narrative with a clear opening, development, climax, and resolution. In Young's music, goal-oriented directionality is replaced with an overt stasis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-No6_12i_BE
La Monte Young, Trio for Strings, performed by the Trio Basso.
It was the lack of structure and narrative Young's Trio for Strings that likely contributed to his professor refused to give him a grade for the project. The piece was, however, admired by a fellow student named Terry Riley, our second vanguard composer. Riley, who had once performed in an ensemble of Young's, branched out from Young by exploring patterns with more repetition than sustaining tones. Riley is known for his experiments with tape loops, short segments of spliced tape that when fed through a tape recorder play the same sounds over and over again. His tape piece Mescalin Mix (1960-62) piles up many such tape loops over a regular pulse, creating a creepy collage of interacting phrases and utterances.
Riley's most well-known work, In C (1964), applies a similar process to live instruments. The piece consists of 53 melodic cells in numbered sequence, the whole score fitting on one page. The piece can be performed by any group of instruments, with one performer providing a rhythmic motor on the note C. As the performers move through each cell, the number of repetitions in each part and the coordination of parts are left indeterminate. The sonic result is an unpredictable and ever-changing landscape of layered sounds over a hypnotic pulse, with a gradual shift from consonance to dissonance and back as certain notes are introduced and disappear from the cells. Riley's technique of repeating cells of material is called modularism: using a repeated, cell-like motif as the basis for an entire work – in other words, taking repetition to an extreme degree.
Terry Riley, In C, performed by the VENI Academy.
Steve Reich, our third vanguard composer, grew upon this idea of modularism, using it to create a process-oriented musical language of subtly shifting elements that change over time. Many of Reich's compositions use a technique called phase-shifting, where musicians play the same material but "out of phase" with each other like a closely-spaced canon, with each part starting at a slightly different time and even proceeding at different speeds from one another.
Like Riley, Reich's initial musical explorations were made on tape. His first tape piece to use phase-shifting, It's Gonna Rain, begins with a repetitive loop of a recording of a preacher on a New York street. Reich doubles the loop so that two copies are playing at once, but at slightly different speeds. One loop gradually moves ahead of the other, causing the loops gradually shift in and out of rhythm with each other, like turning a musical kaleidoscope. Another early tape piece of Reich's is his Come Out (1966). Again, Reich begins with a tape loop of a spoken phrase ("come out to show them"). This time, however, the texture grows from two, to four, to eight simultaneous loops, each slightly out of phase with one another. The words of the speaker become incomprehensible, a mash of vowels and consonants remain.
Steve Reich, It's Gonna Rain
Reich later applied his phase-shifting concept to acoustic instruments. His Piano Phase (1967), for example, recreates this effect using not tape, but two pianos. Both pianos begin by repeating the same simple melodic line in unison, but one piano gradually speeds up until it is a full beat ahead of the other piano. Each performance of Piano Phase will be slightly different, as the number of repetitions; speed of the transitions; and, consequently, the length of the piece are up to the performers. It is fascinating to observe how new rhythms emerge out of the ever-shifting interactions between the two melodies of Piano Phase. Into the 1970s, Reich pushed into this area of rhythm even further. Much of his music became percussion-oriented, with superimposed layers of polyrhythms that in many ways parallel styles of African drumming. (An example of this is his Drumming of 1970-1).
Steve Reich, Piano Phase
Reich formed his own ensemble and has made a living by performing, touring, and recording his works. This ensemble drew in a wide range of listeners, not just from the classical world, but those accustomed to jazz, rock, and pop music. Philip Glass, our final member of the vanguard, was similar to Reich in that he also struck out of the musical establishment by forming his own ensemble. Glass stands out, however, through his more roundabout means of arriving at minimalism. He was at Juilliard when Young, Reich, and Riley's early performances were happening in New York, and then left to study composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. It was there that Glass became influenced by non-Western music, particularly through working with the great Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar. Glass became Shankar's assistant on the soundtrack for the 1966 film Chappaqua, and his work since the 1960s became heavily shaped by Hindustani classical music. Various facets of this style– including circular rhythmic organization, melodiousness, and simple harmonic progressions which place an emphasis on consonance – parallel similar trends in minimalism.
Ravi Shankar feat Philip Glass, Ragas In Minor Scale from Passages
Philip Glass had studied at Julliard with Steve Reich and made contact with him again after his travels in Europe and India. Influenced by Reich's rhythmic phase-shifting music, Glass began to simplify his music down to what he described as 'music with repetitive structures.' Examples in this style include Strung Out (1967) and Music in 12 Parts (1971–4), a massive four-hour piece scored for voices, electric organs, flutes, and saxophones. Glass's music is quite idiosyncratic and often immediately recognizable to a listener familiar with his work. His pieces, built on a foundations of cyclically repeating triadic patterns, represent a unique confluence of Indian music, minimalism, and Glass's own expressive sensibility, at once emotionally charged and held back in melancholic restraint.
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Philip Glass, Music in 12 Parts (Part 1)
Young, Riley, Reich, and Glass all emerged onto the music scene around the same time, standing out from the classical music establishment through music that created new hypnotic listening experiences, wherein emergent complexities in rhythmic and melodic interactions arise out of a radical simplicity of materials. As we have seen and heard, however, individual stylistic differences distinguish each composer from one another. Young's minimalism emphasizes drones and static sounds, and while drones were also central to Riley's music, he developed more rhythmic cyclical patterns on top of the stasis. Reich's incorporation of phase shifting and additive/subtractive rhythmic processes created a minimalism based not in stasis, but time and motion, and Glass took this style further through his studies with Ravi Shankar and his unique harmonic language.
"Men"-imalism: Beyond the Vanguard
These individual differences considered, it is worthwhile to note that all four members of the vanguard have expressed uneasiness with being grouped under the label of minimalism, a foreshadow to the way minimalism would soon break out in many different directions. In creating the story of the Young-Riley-Reich-Glass "vanguard," music history also ends up passing over many composers who don't perfectly fit the prescribed mold, slipping through the cracks of recognition. The way that music historians have singled out a vanguard group helps provide us with an introductory overview of early minimalism's elements. However, it also creates an exclusive, narrowly male narrative of minimalism, neglecting the many women composers who were working on the frontiers of the central New York minimalism scene. Crucial female figures like Pauline Oliveros, Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, Eliane Radigue, and Laurie Spiegel expanded beyond the borders of minimalism by delving into radical experimentations in electronics, computer-based music, and performance art, and are deserving of a post on their own.
Midori Takada.
Consider, for example, Midori Takada, a female a composer and percussionist in Japan who released a series of records – first with the Mkwaju Ensemble, then on her own – in the 1980s. Takada plays an impressive range of instruments and found objects – from marimbas and gongs to ocarinas and Coca-Cola bottles – using layers of overdubs to create an ensemble of her own. Her work recalls numerous aspects of minimalism. In her 1983 album Through the Looking Glass, layered textures and interlocking rhythmic patterns recall Steve Reich, with an atmospheric and hypnotic feel akin to the drone-based works of Young and Riley. Ultimately, however, Takada creates a contemplative and whimsical sound that is unique to her alone.
Midori Takada, "Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream" from Through the Looking Glass
Minimalism as a New Way of Listening
Can we call Takada's work "minimalism" despite a lack of direct association with the original vanguard? Rather than associating minimalist style with a certain generation of composers or certain named compositional techniques, it might be more helpful to view minimalism as a music that encourages a certain way of listening.
It is common to hear minimalist music described as hypnotic or meditative. In Glass's music, the cyclic repetition of chords creates a moving tapestry of sounds, plunging open-eared listeners into an altered psychological state. You don't need to pay attention to each note as it passes to feel the effect of the music. In fact, you often can't, with too many rhythmic and melodic layers to pick out one line from the rest of the texture. In this way listening to minimalist music is a lot like listening to the rain – you don't hear each drop in isolation, rather, your ears become immersed in a symphony of interactions.
The key here is that minimalist music is non-teleological. Most classical music follows a linear, arch-like storyline, with harmony and melody that move in patterns of building anticipation and tension, to a peak and release. Minimalist music, as musicologist Susan McClary notes, seems to have no past or future tense, with the present –what is going on right here – seeming to unfold forever. There is not necessarily a felt need to "arrive" anywhere. In this space, the listener is fee to travel among the layers of the present moment. If melody were the x-axis and harmony were the y-axis in a musical plane, the shifting rhythms and emergent textural density of minimalism creates a new x-axis, an added third dimension to the experience of music.
Steve Reich, Cello Counterpoint, performed by Rose Bellini
Listening to minimalist music is like being inside of a process. In his essay "Music as a Gradual Process," Reich describes his music as a process that once set up and loaded, runs by itself. The composer steps back from the materials and lets bloom a sonic result that is vaster than any individual creator, standing on its own almost like a force of nature. The experience of minimalist music is different than just walking up to a finished painting, it's a journey you must move through from start to finish to get the full effect of the piece. Hearing the very gradual changes among repeating parts allows the listener to experience interactions between melodies, rhythms, and harmonies, at every stage of how they relate to one another.
Where did minimalism go from here, as a radically process-oriented music? Read Part Two for the rest of minimalism's story.
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Dayal, Geeta. "Ambient pioneer Midori Takada: 'Everything on this earth has a sound.'" The Guardian. 24 Mar 2017. Web. Accessed 15 April 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/24/midori-takada-interview-through-the-looking-glass-reissue
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Gann, Kyle. "A Forest from the Seeds of Minimalism: An Essay on Postminimal and Totalist Music." Program for Minimalism Festival of the Berliner Gesellschaft fur Neue Musik, 1998. Web. Accessed 29 March 2018. http://www.kylegann.com/postminimalism.html
Hazelwood, Charles. "Adventures in motion and pitches: how minimalism shook up classical music." The Guardian. 2 Mar 2018. Web. Accessed 29 March 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/02/minimalism-music-revolution-charles-hazelwood
May, Thomas. "Transforming America's Music: A Milestone Year of Adams, Glass, and Reich." 8 Feb 2017. Web. Accessed 15 April 2018. https://live.stanford.edu/blog/february-2017/transforming-americas-music-milestone-year-adams-glass-and-reich
"Minimalist music: where to start." Classic FM. 29 Nov 2012. Web. Accessed 29 March 2018. http://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/modern/minimalism-guide/
Service, Tom. "Minimalism at 50: how less became more." The Guardian. 24 Nov 2011. Web. Accessed 15 April 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/nov/24/minimalism-at-50
Uno Everett, Yayoi. "Glass Breaks the Ceiling: Minimalism in Our Culture of Repetition." Huffington Post. 19 Dec 2013. Web. Accessed 15 April 2018. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/yayoi-uno-everett/glass-breaks-the-ceilingm_b_4466034.html
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Pestilence Update
Zika outbreak in northern India state exceeds 100 cases
Associated Press. October 22, 2018.
The number of Zika virus cases has crossed 100 in Rajasthan, a state in northern India where palaces and forts draw large numbers of tourists each year.
The Press Trust of India news agency reports eight new cases were reported from the state capital of Jaipur on Saturday.
The agency says that the new cases come amid a state health department investigation to track the outbreak of Zika in pregnant women in their first trimester.
Zika symptoms include fever, rashes and joint pain, and the disease has been linked to birth deformities in some cases.
The World Health Organization says that the first case in India was reported from Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat in January 2017.
WHO says Zika has been reported in 86 countries.
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UMW student works on alcohol awareness tour
By HANNAH BRATTON
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control chose seven students, including senior Emily Young from the University of Mary Washington, to travel the state going to various colleges in order to talk about the dangers of drinking, as part of their College Tour.
Emily Young became involved with the College Tour through the Virginia Department of ABC's Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Project Conference.
"YADAPP aims to stop the use of drugs and alcohol in high schools and communities around the state. I attended this conference in high school, and I have been on staff ever since then," Young said. "I spent one year as a youth leader, two years as a junior staff, and this year I am interning for the Virginia Department of ABC as well as doing College Tour."
As a peer advisor, Young's job is to facilitate the student portion of the College Tour, along with her six other peer advisors. The Peer Advisory Council is held responsible for marketing each stop on the College Tour in order to get the maximum number of students to attend each stop throughout the state.
At each college, students have the opportunity to listen to speakers who share harsh truths about drugs and alcohol in order to educate students on how to drink responsibly.
"The PAC also facilitates activities like Alcohol Trivia throughout the day and gives students chances to compete against each other for prizes. However, our most important responsibility as this year's PAC is to facilitate the Grant Plan for Success," Young said.
According to Young, the GPS allows students who attend College Tour to work with the teams they came with and create a plan to encourage students to be safe and drink responsibly, discouraging any binge drinking and underage drinking.
Students then are given the option to submit their plan to the Virginia Department of ABC. Winners could win up to $500 in grants to implement their proposal.
For Young, promoting a sober lifestyle on campuses is a high priority.
"Drinking on campus, especially at parties, can often be unsafe and lead to larger problems. Alcohol poisoning, spiked drinks and other serious situations can be present when alcohol is involved on campus," Young said. "I want to eliminate the possibility of some of these issues and create a safer environment for everyone."
According to Young, harmful drinking behaviors can come in all shapes and sizes.
"The most detrimental effect of alcohol use is that people think it's harmless because It's just one drink. They start out with one, which leads to another, which leads to another," Young said. "In addition to damaging their health, they make bad decisions because they don't have control over the things they say and do…This opens the door for people to be in some very bad situations."
Young tries to promote a sober lifestyle in her everyday life by making a conscious choice not to drink and surrounding herself with other people who make that same choice.
"It can often be hard to make the best choice when you are constantly surrounded by people who make the wrong one," Young said. "By choosing to have fun without alcohol in the mix, I maintain a sober lifestyle, and I encourage others to do the same."
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University of Manitoba at the Pride Parade 2017.
Celebrating diversity at Pride 2018
May 23, 2018 —
The University of Manitoba is honoured to be a Gold Level sponsor of the 2018 Pride Winnipeg Festival and Parade, supporting diversity and inclusion through multiple events.
To celebrate the diversity of the university's own communities, there are a number of events planned during Pride, including a flag-raising ceremony on May 28 outside UMSU University Centre, with light refreshments and remarks by members of the U of M LGBT2SQ+ community, and the Pride Parade on June 3.
We are looking for faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends and family members (including children and pets) to walk with us at the Pride Parade. Members of the LGBT2SQ+ community and allies are welcome to participate in the festivities.
Registrants will:
Walk in the parade for free – including U of M groups, associations and societies
Receive a t-shirt (first come, first served)
Be provided with swag to pass out during the parade
Help carry our U of M Pride flag
Meet other members of the U of M community
RSVP now to walk in the parade with U of M.
UMQueer is also looking for volunteers to assist at U of M Pride Week events and at the U of M Pride Festival booth. Students who volunteer for 10 hours can add this opportunity to their Co-Curricular Record.
University of Manitoba Pride Events
If you require any accessibility accommodations, please contact UMQueer at umqueer [at] umanitoba [dot] ca.
All events are free and everyone is welcome!
Proudly Gender Inclusive Zumba Party
Active Living Centre, Fort Garry campus | 12:05 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Joe Doupe Recreation Centre, 727 McDermot Ave, Bannatyne campus | 1 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Flag Raising
UMSU Patio, Fort Garry campus | 9:00 a.m.
A Pride flag will also be raised on Bannatyne campus and both flags will fly for the duration of Pride.
Brodie Atrium, Bannatyne campus | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
Festival at the Forks
The Forks | 12 p.m. – 7 p.m.
U of M will have a booth set up at the Festival at the Forks. Come out and get your free U of M Pride swag!
Legislative Building | 11 a.m.
For more details on the events, check out the U of M Pride 2018 website.
Stay up to date on events, share your photos and join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram using #umqueer.
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In Focus: Pride 2018
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Why the AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine is different
If someone told you in March, when the World Health Organization finally called the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, that we'd have three strong coronavirus vaccine candidates by mid-November, you might have called that person delusional.
Yet with Monday's news from AstraZeneca and University of Oxford that early results from their phase 3 trial demonstrate their vaccine's effectiveness, that's exactly the scenario we're in.
In a press release, the pharmaceutical giant and its Oxford co-developers reported interim findings from two groups in their ongoing trials — one in the UK and one in Brazil. The trials used different approaches to inoculating the people who participated, and found two levels of efficacy, which they averaged to 70 percent. The researchers also found no severe cases or hospitalizations in the study participants who got the vaccine.
In the UK trial group AztraZeneca reported on, the vaccine — known as AZD1222 — was given as a half dose, followed by a full dose around one month later, resulting in 90 percent efficacy. In the Brazil group, study participants were given two full doses at least one month apart, and the efficacy was 62 percent.
The researchers aren't sure why there was this striking gap in vaccine performance — and in a press conference, said that the half dose may better prime the immune system to respond to the second full vaccine. But while the company framed the reason for the half dose was "serendipity" — in reality, the trial participants were given a smaller dose in error. And while it appears the accidental dosing regimen may have outperformed two full doses, independent researchers wondered about whether it was administered to enough people to know for sure. (More on that in a moment.)
Either way, 50 percent efficacy is the floor set by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency (the FDA equivalent in Europe) for approval. The AstraZeneca-Oxford research team will "immediately" submit their findings to regulatory agencies around the world, seeking early approval.
While the efficacy outcome falls short of the 95 percent preliminary result recently reported by both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, the results, if real, could be promising. At around $3 to $4 per dose, the AstraZeneca-Oxford shot is the cheapest of the three current options and should be easier to distribute globally (since it can be stored in regular refrigerators). That's why lower-income countries around the world have been pre-purchasing access.
But, as with all the new coronavirus vaccine candidates, there are some big caveats to consider. And since the results came via press release and lacked detailed data, they raise questions we don't yet have answers to. Here's the rundown.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be a game changer for low- and middle-income countries
Among the Covid-19 vaccines furthest along in development, the AstraZeneca-Oxford candidate is among the most likely to be affordable to low- and middle-income countries. And considering much of the world's population currently lives in low- and middle-income settings, it's the jab that — with a 90 percent efficacy result — could make a big dent in the pandemic worldwide.
It also uses a novel approach to inoculation, one that's different from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — and from conventional vaccines.
Vaccine makers have typically used the virus itself or a fragment of the virus, often in a weakened or inactivated form, to inoculate recipients. But this new generation of vaccines uses genetic instructions for making parts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. All three candidates — Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca-Oxford — deliver the instructions for making the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, or the part of the virus that lets it enter human cells. And it's these instructions, which human cells then use to manufacture parts of the virus, that are injected into vaccine recipients, essentially coaching the immune system to fight off the invader should it arrive.
The Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines both use mRNA as their platform for delivering the genetic instructions. AstraZeneca-Oxford's uses DNA instead, and the DNA is delivered to cells with the help of another virus known as an adenovirus. (Other Covid-19 vaccine developers, like CanSino Biologics and Johnson & Johnson, are also using adenovirus vectors.)
AstraZeneca, unlike Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, has promised to sell its shot at cost — around $3 to $4 — and not to profit from the vaccine while the pandemic is ongoing (though public money has gone into funding its research effort). According to the FT, that price is "a fraction" of the expense of the other vaccine candidates, which are expected to cost between $15 and $25 per dose.
Also unlike the two other leading vaccine candidates, it doesn't require extremely cold temperatures for storage. That's the distribution hurdle Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are working to overcome.
Moderna's vaccine requires long-term storage at minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit) and is stable for 30 days at refrigerator temperatures between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius (36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit). Meanwhile, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine demands ultra-cold temperatures of minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit) or lower, with about five days of shelf life at refrigerator temperatures. The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine can be stored in a normal refrigerator for at least six months.
So these are the reasons why the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine has become a leading contender lower-income countries are relying on to end their epidemics. For now, the shot "accounts for more than 40% of the supplies" going to low- and middle-income countries, according to Bloomberg. AstraZeneca said the company has the capacity to supply 3 billion doses of the vaccine in 2021.
"[T]he vaccine's simple supply chain and our no-profit pledge and commitment to broad, equitable and timely access means it will be affordable and globally available supplying hundreds of millions of doses on approval," said Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, in a statement.
The US is also poised to benefit. In May, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) under the Department of Health and Human Services pledged up to $1.2 billion to back the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, aiming to secure 300 million doses for Americans.
Of course, if the shot only has around 70 percent efficacy, officials will have to grapple with how and where it's used at all. "If it's 70%, then we've got a dilemma," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Stat. "Because what are you going to do with the 70% when you've got two [vaccines] that are 95%? Who are you going to give a vaccine like that to?"
The caveats
That's not the only caveat to consider. The AstraZeneca-Oxford results so far came via press release, and gloss over nuances we'd need to understand to know how the vaccine works in people. AstraZeneca-Oxford also released fewer details about their research than the other two companies, and reported their results in a way that made drawing comparisons among the three candidates difficult. Let's go over what we know.
Before clinical trials begin, research groups are supposed to publicly share a plan — called a protocol — for how they'll run the studies and analyze and share the results, and they're supposed to stick to it. That helps ensure experimenters don't move the goalposts to come to more favorable conclusions.
But AztraZeneca and Oxford have only shared two of the protocols for their phase 3 studies after the trials began. We have the protocol for their US phase 3 study, and as writer and meta-scientist Hilda Bastian points out in Wired, a UK protocol published in a Lancet study appendix, also shared after the trial started.
"The appendix doesn't say when this became the plan. We don't even know if the Oxford-AstraZeneca team followed it," Bastian writes. Again, in the press release, AstraZeneca also only disclosed data for subgroups in two of the trials, not the four specified in the UK protocol, she told Vox. "We do know [what's in the protocol] is not what they reported." "Transparency can increase confidence in the trials and are essential for establishing the quality of the science. [Six companies or research groups] have released protocols for their phase 3 studies — why not Oxford?" asked Peter Doshi, who has been a prominent critic of Covid-19 vaccine trials.
The press release doesn't report details of what side effects the study participants experienced. The company only reported there were no serious safety events confirmed to date, and that the vaccine "was well tolerated across both dosing regimens." We do know that the UK trial for AZD1222 was paused in July and again in September after two volunteers reported neurological problems. Investigations later found no link between the vaccine and these symptoms, and regulators allowed the trial to resume in October.
While we know the number of participants included in each in the UK and Brazil trials (2,741 in the UK versus 8,895 in Brazil), we don't know how many got the vaccine (versus a placebo or meningococcal vaccine), which raised a statistical question about how many people were infected with the virus in the UK group that saw 90 percent efficacy. Some statisticians have suggested the number may be very small — and potentially unreliable:
The press releases also lack details about the demographics of people participating in the trials. AstraZeneca said its trial participants come from "diverse racial and geographic groups who are healthy or have stable underlying medical conditions," but without knowing the exact numbers, it's hard to gauge how well they reflected the groups most at risk of severe disease (including older adults and people of color).
The trials also didn't use a simple placebo to measure efficacy. In the UK arm of the trial, volunteers were randomly assigned to receive the AZD1222 vaccine or the meningococcal vaccine. In the Brazil arm, the comparison group was given the meningococcal for the first dose and a saline placebo for the second dose.
Another factor to consider: AstraZeneca-Oxford measured their results in a different way from their two major competitors. The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech trials only captured Covid-19 infections in their trial pool that advanced far enough to produce symptoms, while the AstraZeneca trials conducted weekly swab tests among their participants, allowing them to detect much less severe cases — including potential asymptomatic infections — among their volunteers. These differences make it trickier to draw apples-to-apples comparisons of the efficacy of the different vaccines.
Together, these factors highlight that there's still a lot to learn about the new vaccines, even as they're all set to roll out imminently. The Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Oxford-AstraZeneca teams have all vowed to publish their trial results in peer-reviewed journals. But distribution on a limited emergency use basis may begin as soon as next month, pending approval from regulators.
For now, it's worth pausing over how remarkable it is that there are several SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates that have reported high levels of efficacy, featuring technologies that have never been deployed at a large scale in humans before.
If the AstraZeneca-Oxford, Moderna, and Pfizer-BioNTech groups pass regulators, the coronavirus vaccines may be the beginning of an entirely new approach to inoculating people against disease.
Clarification, December 4: An earlier version of this story stated that AstraZeneca/Oxford only shared the protocol for their US study. While that was the only phase 3 protocol registered on their clinical trials database, the researchers also shared the protocol for the UK trial in an appendix in a journal article.
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Maritime Labour Convention 2006 as amended (MLC) – update on the Club's non-pooled plain language liability insurance policies (E.g. yacht, dive boat, small passenger)
Financial security requirements
Reference is made to the Circular dated 30 June 2016, which informed Members of the amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 which will enter into force on 18 January 2017. After this date, ships that are subject to the MLC will be required to display MLC Certificates issued by an insurer or other financial security provider confirming that insurance or other financial security is in place for liabilities in respect of:
outstanding wages and repatriation of seafarers together with incidental costs and expenses in accordance with MLC Regulation 2.5, Standard A2.5.2 and Guideline B2.5, and
compensation for death or long-term disability in accordance with Regulation 4.2, Standard A4.2.1 and Guideline B4.2.
The purpose of this Circular is to provide you, as Plain Language policy holders, with an update regarding the steps which are being taken to enable you to meet the financial security requirements. This Circular contains the most important information. If you require further clarification please contact the Club.
Ships requiring MLC Certificates
It is important for you to note that MLC certificates are not required for all vessels. Please refer to the extract from the Maritime Labour Convention below for further details. ¹
Otherwise, Ships will require MLC Certificates if they are:
registered in a state where MLC is in force; or
calling at a port in a jurisdiction where MLC is in force.
Details of States which are party to MLC can be found in the MLC Database maintained by the International Labour Organisation.
MLC Certificates are not required by ships registered in States which are not party to MLC and which will not call at States which are party to MLC.
The MLC Certificates will be sent to you by us in PDF format. The MLC Certificates that you will receive will be determined by the inception date of your Policy. You must print the MLC Certificates and ensure that they are posted in a conspicuous place on board where they are to be available to seafarers no later than 18 January 2017.
Once the MLC Certificates are issued, they will be recorded on the ship search facility on our website. We provide the MLC Certificates and there is no need to apply for State issued MLC Certificates. However, some States may require shipowners on their register to supply copies of the MLC Certificates for their records.
We are able to provide MLC Certificates at Annexes 1(a) and 2(a) on the basis set out in the Maritime Labour Convention Certificates Clause – Interim which appears at Annex 3(a). We are able to provide MLC Certificates at Annexes 1(b) and 2(b) on the basis set out in the Maritime Labour Convention Certificates Clause which appears at Annex 3(b). These documents provide that the Club will pay claims advanced by seafarers which fall within the scope of the Regulations and Standards specified in the MLC Certificates.
The MLC Certificates sent to you will vary between our Interim (at Annexes 1(a) and 2(a)) and standard documentation (at Annexes 1(b) and 2(b)), for the following reason. The Maritime Labour Convention confers on providers of financial security (e.g. insurers) the right to recover payments made under the new MLC Certificates in certain circumstances. These provisions will be incorporated into updated versions of our plain language polices (via the standard documentation referred to above). In the meantime, for Members on pre-existing policies which do not contain such rights of recovery, Interim documentation will be provided as necessary. When the Interim documentation expires, it will be replaced by the Club's standard documentation. In order to prepare well in advance, we have decided to issue you with standard documentation if you are a Member with a Policy which incepts or has a renewal date on or after 18th November 2016.
The MLC financial security requirements raise many challenges for shipowners, insurers, flag States and Port States. Although there is some resemblance to the compulsory insurance system under IMO Conventions, there are considerable differences. For example, MLC does not stipulate a prescribed wording for the security. In addition, individual States have a degree of flexibility as to how they implement and enforce MLC from both a flag State and a Port State perspective. At the time of writing 79 States have ratified the Convention. The International Group has been instrumental in establishing an informal Correspondence Group of 18 States who have been consulted and given the opportunity to comment on the proposed steps taken by the International Group. The aim has been to provide a system for security which meets with the requirements of MLC and is accepted in all States where MLC is in force. Further updates will be provided in due course.
¹ Maritime Labour Conventions – Definition and scope of application article II
4. Except as expressly provided otherwise, this Convention applies to all ships, whether publicly or privately owned, ordinarily engaged in commercial activities, other than ships engaged in fishing or in similar pursuits and ships of traditional build such as dhows and junks. This Convention does not apply to warships or naval auxiliaries.
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December 5, 2014 December 16, 2014 Rasha B. Foda
Give Me More! Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
You know that sugar laced poison we used to eat as kids? They've destroyed the lives and pensions of tens of thousands of Americans, aided and abetted by our "justice" system.
[N]ews has surfaced that [private] investors who "saved" Hostess for $410 million are planning to sell it for a cool $1.7 billion next year. Quite a profit. How did they pull that one off?
Well, it's like when someone "flips" a house. You know what that is — when someone buys a home that's in disrepair, fixes it up, cuts corners to make upgrades and then sells it for a profit. This is what has happened in communities across the country as working people defaulted on their home loans due to the mortgage crisis. In the case of Hostess, they're doing this for a huge profit and it's a crime.
Well, not really, unless a savvy lawyer can fit it under a common law theory or statute.
This is how it all began:
Hostess convinced its workers to accept major contract concessions to keep the company afloat. To understand how severe this was, consider the report of one employee who said his annual wages decreased more than 30 percent.
In July 2011, Hostess sent its workers a letter saying that it was going to "borrow" the wages from employees to pay into the pension fund until the company was profitable again. They promised to pay it all back.
But, a year later, with unfunded pension liabilities of $2 billion, the company filed for bankruptcy. The judge in the bankruptcy case ruled that the pension money Hostess took was a debt the bakery couldn't repay.
That's what lawyers call "betrayal without remedy," which loosely translated means "you're screwed and there's nothing you can do about it" — a tune working Americans have heard way too often.
The judge also approved a new, guaranteed base annual salary for its CEO of $1.5 million, plus cash incentives and "long-term incentive" compensation of up to $2 million. If Hostess liquidated or the CEO was fired without cause, he'd still get a "golden parachute" (severance pay) of $1.95 million.
Hostess also received approval from the judge to impose a contract on its workers. Under the imposed contract the wages of the worker mentioned above would take another 30 percent cut over five years. This time the employees had had enough and went on strike.
In response, Hostess shut down its 13 plants and began liquidating its assets, putting its employees out of work. Amazingly, Hostess continued to suck money out of the pension fund for "operations" which allowed them to give $1.75 million in bonuses to 19 executives.
Having dispatched its employees and plundered their retirement plans, Hostess management sold the company in 2013, to investors Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulos who brought it out of bankruptcy for $410 million.
So, that's the story, folks. Think about that before you buy another hostess cupcake or twinkie.
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October 11, 2018 by Peter Briggs
Fargoth from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
"I have a feeling you and I are going to become very close…" Fargoth, among other things, is the first NPC you'll encounter after leaving the Census and Excise building in Seyda Neen. Watch out for that annoying Hrisskar Flat-Foot who enjoys shaking you down, perhaps a little too much. You've only got 300 gold coins to your name and you'd better keep an eye on them. Maybe you'll even get your Engraved Ring of Healing back one day. A good tailor will be able to hem the sleeves of that tunic so it matches nicely.
June 29, 2018 by Peter Briggs
Professor Rowan in Pokémon
"Hello there! It's so very nice to meet you! Welcome to the world of Pokémon!" Professor Rowan, located in the Sinnoh region, is a specialist in the field of Pokémon evolution and contemporary of Professor Oak and mentor to Professor Sycamore. Rowan is sometimes perceived as mean because of his stern personality, but he is actually kind and patient. He's quite a snazzy dresser.
May 24, 2018 by Peter Briggs
Vinsmoke Sanji from One Piece
Vinsmoke Sanji is the fifth member, and cook, of the Straw Hat Pirates in One Piece. He's commonly referred to by his nickname, "Black Leg." He has a rather large bounty placed on him by his father, but it's only good if he is captured and returned alive.
His outfit changes much more often than the rest of the crew depending on the episode being before or after the time skip. You can generally see him in a double breasted black suit with buttoned shirts and ties of varying colours.
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Trowa Barton in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
The third member of the G Team, Trowa Barton, is the most experienced soldier and a skilled infiltrator; he's often shown wearing enemy uniforms. He's the only member of the group that was born on Earth. Personality-wise, Trowa is exceedingly calm and patient, with a determination that can only be described as inhuman.
Heero Yuy from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
The man we know as Heero Yuy is the main protagonist in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, despite not being the leader of the G Team. Having been disciplined since childhood, and with a little genetic manipulation, Heero is the most skilled of the five Gundam pilots. In combat he has no compassion for his enemies and is often described as the perfect soldier, although he normally has no trouble displaying emotion outside of a battle.
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Himura Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin
We find Kenshin roaming the Japanese countryside, carrying his reverse-blade sword (sakabatō), in search of redemption for the lives he has taken. He has made a vow to never kill again. Kenshin is known throughout Japan as the legendary swordsman and assassin, Hitokiri Battōsai. However, we see that he is really a soft spoken and humble person – quite the opposite of what would be expected.
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Professor Juniper in Pokémon
Professor Juniper is the first female professor in the Pokémon series. Her specialisation is Pokémon origin and she is an old friend of Professor Oak, because who isn't, right? Her clothes are pretty plain, especially when compared to the other Pokémon Profs.
Professor Elm in Pokémon
Professor Elm was Professor Oak's top student. He studies Pokémon abilities and specialises in Pokémon breeding (and is credited with the discovery of Pokémon eggs). Elm is a known scatterbrain who, when working, forgets to eat. He often gets so focused on his studies that he becomes completely oblivious to his surroundings.
February 9, 2018 by Peter Briggs
Professor Birch in Pokémon
Professor Birch is the stoutly Pokémon professor for the Hoenn Region. He is more outgoing than the other professors and often takes his research with him outdoors, hence those really cool sandals. Birch's research specialisation is Pokémon behaviour in the wild.
Quatre Raberba Winner in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Quatre is the pilot of Sandrock and leader of "G Team." Along with the four other members: Heero Yuy (Wing Gundam), Duo Maxwell (Deathscythe), Trowa Barton (Heavyarms) and Chang Wufei (Shenlong), he is sent to Earth as part of a plan to take revenge on the OZ military corporation. Quatre believes in the idea of pacifism and is often reluctant to kill an enemy. He is kind and humble, as well as being the best dressed of the group.
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Big B, Aishwarya submit documents with ED in Panama Papers case
New Delhi [India] Sept 27 (ANI): Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Tuesday submitted documents of their financial dealings with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the ongoing Panama Papers probe.
The Bachchans submitted their documents through their representatives. Earlier, they were summoned by the ED and asked them to submit the documents.
The Income tax department has launched 33 prosecutions linked to the names revealed in the Panama Papers and is probing others.
The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney-client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some of which dated back to the 1970s, belonged to the Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source.
After Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Pakistan's Supreme Court from his post in the Panama Papers case, the tax authorities in India had sped up their investigations in the Panama Papers case in which names of several Indian film stars, including Amitabh Bachchan; politicians and businessmen figured.
Records of Panamanian law firm showed that Amitabh Bachchan served as director of four offshore shipping companies between 1993 and 1997.
After his name figured in the Panama Papers, Amitabh Bachchan, however, had denied any wrongdoing and said that his remittances overseas were in line with Indian regulations. He had also denied any links with the firms named in the Panama Papers. (ANI)
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Why Are School Buses Yellow?
Updated on: 22 Sep 2017 by Ashish
Importance of safety in school buses
School buses aren't pure yellow!
Why the color yellow?
Colors not only add to the aesthetic appeal of things, but they also make our lives much easier in many ways. Take traffic lights, for example; how would you like it, if, instead of the red-yellow-green light system, they flashed written messages on a screen telling you to stop or go? It may be all right for some people, but for the majority of citizens, color coding does a better job. This is just one of the many instances where colors make things more convenient for us.
However, in some cases, in addition to adding convenience, colors make things safer for us too – school buses are an excellent example of this.
School buses, as we all know, have a huge responsibility riding on their yellow shoulders; carrying millions of students to and from school on a daily basis… that is one HUGE responsibility. Think about it, they transport future presidents, tech-wizards, innovators, sportsmen… basically they carry an entire generation of humankind inside them. Needless to say, they ought to be very careful wherever they go.
Therefore, these buses are not only designed to safeguard their passengers internally in case of a mishap, but also present a striking exterior appearance to make it difficult for anyone to miss them, thanks to their distinctive yellow color.
Many of you might be surprised to learn that the color of school buses in the US is not actually pure yellow; it's a different shade entirely! It is a mixture of orange and lemon-yellow, just like the color of a mango… a very ripe one.
In fact, if you were a stickler, you wouldn't even use the word 'yellow' to refer to the color of school buses; that particular hue is officially termed as 'National School Bus Glossy Yellow' in the US and Canada. In 1939, Dr. Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teacher's College, Columbia University, held a conference, where various standards for school buses in the US were decided upon, including the standard yellow color, which was known as 'National School Bus Chrome' back then.
However, was there a definitive reason(s) why they exclusively chose yellow?
If you like investigating stuff from a scientific perspective, you would already know that the color red has the maximum wavelength (about 650 nm) among the various components of white light, and therefore doesn't get scattered easily and is clearly visible even from a distance. Since red is commonly associated with caution, wouldn't that be a more suitable choice? Why, then, did they choose yellow instead of red to paint school buses?
There are three main reasons behind their decision….
Yellow's distinctive appearance
There's something distinctive about the school bus-yellow that grabs our attention instantly. It has been observed that among the colors we usually come across in our daily lives, yellow is the most visible color to the eye. Take a look at this picture and see if that reality applies to you:
What's the first thing you notice in this aerial view of a city's traffic? (Photo Credit : commons.wikimedia.org
Favorable in conditions of dim lighting
Due to its somewhat 'illuminating' nature, the color yellow is relatively visible in dim light or darkness. Since so many school buses are required to transport kids to school early in the morning – when it's still relatively dark – yellow is an ideal choice for the color of school buses.
Humans' peripheral vision
In terms of scientific objectivity, this is the most important reason for school bus color choice, and one that helps yellow trump all others. Scientists claim that the lateral peripheral vision of detecting yellow is 1.24 times greater than it is for red. In simple terms, this means that you are 1.24 times more likely to spot a yellow object, even when you're not looking straight at it, thanks to the lateral peripheral vision of humans, which helps us perceive things that don't lie in our direct line of sight.
Peripheral vision of humans (Photo Credit : Wikimedia.org)
Those were just some of the reasons why school buses are painted with that signature yellow hue. However, on a more practical note, you can't have a non-yellow school bus operating in the US, because it's against the law!
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Ashish is a Science graduate (Bachelor of Science) from Punjabi University (India). He spends a lot of time watching movies, and an awful lot more time discussing them. He likes Harry Potter and the Avengers, and obsesses over how thoroughly Science dictates every aspect of life… in this universe, at least.
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Wedding to follow World Cup for US teammates Krieger, Harris
Ronald Blum, Ap Sports Writer
Updated 12:05 am PDT, Wednesday, June 19, 2019
PARIS (AP) — Many World Cup teammates have special bonds. The tie that binds U.S. defender Ali Krieger and American goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris is among the strongest at the tournament.
They got engaged last year and are planning a December wedding.
"A lot of our teammates with their partners and spouses, they don't get to be here day in and day out," Krieger said. "It's really nice to be able to share this moment with her and to make these memories with her."
They announced their engagement in People magazine in March, revealing Harris proposed on the beach in Clearwater, Florida, during a picnic last Sept. 15 and surprised Krieger with a ring.
"She is what makes me. She is my life. She is the person I am spending the rest of my life with," Harris said.
They first met in 2010, a time both were training with the national team. They were teammates with the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League for much of 2013-15. Harris was left unprotected in an expansion draft and was taken by the Orlando Pride, and Krieger joined her when she was traded to the Pride after the 2016 season.
While their lives are joined, they are not roommates when national team players double up on the road.
FILE - In this June 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. teammates Ashlyn Harris, left, and Ali Krieger chat during a visit to the Parc des Princes stadium a day before a soccer match against Chile at the Women's World Cup in Paris. Many World Cup teammates have special bonds. The tie that binds U.S. defender Krieger and goalkeeperHarris is likely the strongest at the tournament. They got engaged last year and are planning a December wedding. less
FILE - In this June 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. teammates Ashlyn Harris, left, and Ali Krieger chat during a visit to the Parc des Princes stadium a day before a soccer match against Chile at the Women's World ... more
Photo: Alessandra Tarantino, AP
"I think what has made us so successful in the work space together for so long is our boundaries," Harris said. "When we're at work, we're there to work. I'm her teammate, so if she wants to come to me for something, I'm going to give her the real answer, the accountability answer. And then when we're at home, that's our time to be at home, and then soccer doesn't walk through the front door."
When they head out for the 20-minute trip to training in Florida, their personal lives stay home.
"Sometimes we drive separate," Krieger said. "I like to have my space sometimes and so does she."
Krieger grew up in Virginia and played at Penn State before turning pro, and she made her national team debut in 2008. Now 34, Krieger started all seven matches as the U.S. won the 2015 World Cup but she was dropped from the national team in 2017 while Harris continued to get called to camp. Harris provided mental support.
"When she was in town we would get up together 8 a.m., go do workouts, and she really pushed me to get back and I really am grateful and will always be for her support," Krieger said. "Sometimes I'd feel bad because I would be so emotional and so, maybe tough at times to be around, because I was so angry at times and just really going through it and struggling. So I think with her support, she really helped get me out of that hole and blossom into the woman I am now here."
Krieger received a text from U.S. coach Jill Ellis on March 19 asking her to give her a call. With decisions on a World Cup roster looming, Ellis told Krieger that night she was wanted back.
She returned for an exhibition against Belgium on April 7 after an absence of two years and a day, then was together with Harris on May 2 when Ellis revealed she was going to the World Cup . Krieger made her 100th international appearance versus New Zealand on May 16, remained on the bench as Kelley O'Hara played right back for last week's opening 13-0 rout of Thailand, then took over for Sunday's 3-0 victory over Chile.
Harris, 33, grew up in Florida, was a three-time NCAA champion at North Carolina and turned pro in 2010. While Harris first trained with the national team in 2009, she didn't make her debut until 2013 and has just 21 total appearances, backing up Hope Solo at first and now Alyssa Naeher.
Their relationship does not appear to be an issue within the national team.
"Everyone's personal lives is their personal lives, and we respect however they want to show it," defender Becky Sauerbrunn said.
In an era when more athletes who are gay are comfortable publicly discussing their relationships, Australia captain Sam Kerr revealed in a Nike mini-documentary this year her partner is American midfielder Nikki Stanton , a teammate on the Perth Glory from 2015-17 and since 2018 on the NWSL's Chicago Red Stars.
Krieger and Harris, though, are together not just on a club but on their sport's biggest stage during the one month every four years when intense focus is on women's soccer.
And coming up soon is a wedding they put off until after club seasons end.
"The celebration will be in December," Harris said, "so there'll be a lot of teammates there, that's for sure."
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98% of land in Eastern Macedonia-Thrace already reinstated by TAP
Published by Lydia Woellwarth, Deputy Editor
World Pipelines, Thursday, 13 September 2018 15:40
Land reinstatement in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace is exceeding 98%. As a result, more than 3150 parcels used for the section of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) traversing the region have now been returned to their lawful owners and users.
TAP's reinstatement works follow strict international standards, applied by specially trained dedicated construction teams, to ensure areas used during construction are restored to their original condition. Steps include:
Backfilling and compacting the trench.
Evenly re-spreading the topsoil, the most productive and fertile soil, on the ground's surface and contouring the land back to its original profile.
Implementing revegetation and ecological restoration programmes in non-cultivated land, in collaboration with Greek forestry authorities and environmental specialists.
Installing permanent ground control measures where necessary – e.g. steep slopes.
Applying agricultural support programme to accelerate farm productivity, that combines agronomist consultation support, as well as provision of fertiliser and tree seedlings to cultivators of tree crops.
Monitoring of restoration and, if necessary, remediation to address any issues that might emerge after land hand back.
Upon the conclusion of construction and the reinstatement of the accessed land, TAP's contractors invite land owners/users to inspect their reinstated plots. The land hand-back process is complete once the Land Exit Protocol is signed, confirming that the project-affected person is satisfied with the reinstatement.
Information regarding the restoration process and progress is provided by TAP's special Cadastral Offices. Through these, TAP also contributes to the acceleration of judicial recognition for owners that have not been able to collect their compensation from the Consignment Deposits and Loans Fund – where it has been deposited – due to legal barriers (e.g. lack of necessary paperwork and documentation).
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Kola nut – pod (with seeds inside their white testa), and seeds (whole without testa and split into cotyledons).
The kola nut is the fruit of the kola tree, a genus (Cola) of trees that are native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. The caffeine-containing fruit of the tree is a flavoring ingredient in drinks. Such beverages often use the word "cola".
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Games such as Flappy Bird, Candy Crush Saga, and Angry Birds, have taken the gaming world for a completely new spin. Mobile gaming has deviated from the niche audience and targeted all types of people. These games have created odd obsessions and have created some interesting news coverage and Twitter wars. Surprisingly, these small games generated a tons of profit as well.
During this decade, we have seen a huge shift in gaming. Back in the 1990's and early 2000's, gaming was usually played on a console, handheld console, or on a computer. Gaming was usually aimed at a more niche audience, which had the stigma of being nerdy, or having social issues. Consoles and games were also expensive, so not everyone had gaming devices or computers that could handle the necessary specs.
The invention of "Smartphones" made it easier to provide gaming to the general public. Developers now can create "apps" which is short for applications, in which they can put out a game at a very low cost and still sell a lot; most people in well developed countries carry smartphones.
Flappy Bird is no exception. Flappy Bird was created by a single Vietnam game developer, Dong Nguyen, and finished the app within a few days. The app launched in May of 2013. Even though it doesn't have in-app-purchases, Flappy Bird is one of the biggest, fastest money making apps ever on mobile. Flappy Bird was said to make $50,000 in profit a day!
Like many app games, Flappy Bird takes a simple concept, which is more or less ripped off the game Helicopter, and creates a familiar and easy to play to spin on it to attract as many players as possible. Ironically, Flappy Bird is anything but easy.
It is a challenging game where you tap on the screen to guide Flappy Bird up or down to avoid the pipes, which look insanely familiar to the classic 8-bit Mario game graphics, adding to your score for how many pipes you pass. That's all there really is to it.
It seems surprising that such a simple game could become the new hit that everyone is talking about. The popularity is so widespread, that it is virtually impossible not to hear of the game. This doesn't mean that all the popularity is positive. There are many people who have opposite opinions.
There are a lot of mixed opinions about the game, and Flappy Bird is one of the biggest topics on social media sites such as Twitter. I was curious about the craze about Flappy bird so I talked with a classmate of mine who absolutely loved the game. I simply asked him to list three reasons why he enjoys Flappy Bird.
He states:
1) "It's absolutely addicting"
2) "I feel inclined to beat my friend's scores"
3) "There's no better feeling than crashing an 8-bit bird with Jz Lip (music note) into copy-written Mario pipes"
Not all comments about Flappy Bird were done in such a polite manner. Nguyen said he got very nasty Tweets daily regarding the game. Some went as far as death threats. Some of the tweets consisted of very shocking statements such as:
"Dear creator of Flappy Bird, I hate you. Go die in a hole." (Kotaku)
"I hate you and your stupid fucking game!" another wrote, around the same time. "I mean I hit one feather on a pipe and die! How realistic is that?!?" (Kotaku)
One anonymous Twitter member even asked the developer how many death threats they get a day. Nguyen tweeted back reporting he gets around a few hundred a day.
On Feb. 10, the backlash, success, and attention got too much for Nguyen, to the point that he decided to pull the app out of both the App Store and Play Store, and cancelled plans for it coming on Windows. With this sudden action, Nguyen also tweeted "I cannot take this anymore."
We now live in a world where the public now has a huge influence on different types of media, gaming included. It asks the question of how the turn to mobile gaming will affect developers from future games and how much control the public has now of which games become "mainstream" and successful.
Has society come too far to try and control such media? We have reached an era where the consumers are also producers, but I hope with this new privilege, we can learn to be responsible on our part.
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As Contemporary Art Prices Soar, Old Masters Become Even Better Investments
By David D'Arcy • 03/05/20 8:45am
Albrecht Dürer, Landscape with Large Cannon. David Tunick Inc.
As art fairs in New York compete to find the next market wonder, the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in the Dutch city of Maastricht will offer an incandescent scene of three ballerinas, Three Dancers in Yellow Skirts, ca. 1891, by Edgar Degas. Once the property of the oil tycoon Armand Hammer, and offered by Hammer Galleries of New York, it is priced to break that artist's sale record of $37 million—a staggering amount for any work at any art fair.
Also on view at TEFAF—and for sale—is an 1885 painting by Vincent van Gogh, Peasant Woman in front of a Farmhouse, offered by Dickinson, a London gallery, which has its own legend. It was bought in a London antique store in 1968 for 45 pounds.
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Some 275 dealers from 20 countries are exhibiting at TEFAF (March 7 to 15), minus those who cancelled over coronavirus fears. The fair has broadened in recent years to include design and contemporary art, and into spring and fall editions in New York. Still, at its core are antiquities and especially Old Master paintings and drawings—loosely defined as dating from around 1400 to 1800.
With its rigorous vetting of provenance, condition and attribution, TEFAF is seen by many as the gold standard for art fairs, and not just because so much jewelry is offered at such high prices by mainstays like Van Cleef & Arpels and Hemmerle.
Odilon Redon, Bouquet de Fleurs. David Tunick Inc.
But there's another story in Maastricht and beyond, as contemporary prices tend to soar above everything else. Old Masters and other historical art—pre-contemporary, some call it now—seem affordable by comparison to contemporary works. Just be advised that affordable doesn't necessarily mean cheap.
"Affordable means different things to different people," says David Tunick, the veteran New York dealer in works on paper, who's been exhibiting at TEFAF for two decades.
"In works on paper, it is absolutely honest to be able to say—"here, I've got a masterpiece to show you, and here's another one, and here's another one'—whether it's Albrecht Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, or a great Toulouse-Lautrec, something in color lithography," he said.
"These things, while they may be in the very low seven figures, and often in the low to high six figures—it's like pocket change for collectors in certain areas of contemporary art," he explained, "where it's nothing for a picture to be one year $30,000, and then the next year it's $300,000. After that it's a whole bunch of collectors vying at $6 to 8 million, and then it's $20 million."
Flying consistently at a much lower altitude with venerable work—call it the revenge of the nerds—Tunick says last year's business was his gallery's best.
Gustav Courbet, Paysage à la Clairière. David Tunick Inc.
This year at TEFAF Tunick has two landscape drawings by Gustav Courbet. "They're among the rarest of the rare, one from the 1840s and one from the 1850s. They're a remarkable opportunity for a curator or serious collector, because they just don't appear on the market," he said.
With a seascape painting by Courbet, The Wave, 1869-70, expected to bring nearly $2 million at TEFAF, those are relatively affordable prices. Tunick is also offering a pastel of flowers (on board) by the French symbolist Odilon Redon. "We think it may be the finest Redon left in private hands, really quite affordable, if you're using contemporary art as a measure," he said.
By that measure, Old Master drawings and other works on paper represent value and quality for money in the art market today, says George Goldner, the former head of drawings at the Metropolitan Museum.
"Take the print market—you can make nice collections of Rembrandt prints, or Durer prints, two of the very best artists ever, or Goya prints, and it will cost you a fraction of what one good contemporary piece would cost," he said.
Goldner admitted that today's collectors—in the US at least—might take some convincing. "It's the first time in history when similitude is regarded as a positive," he said. "If you collected Old Master paintings, and someone said, 'your Rubens looks exactly like my Rubens,' that wouldn't be a good thing."
"In contemporary art, the fact that your Warhol and mine look exactly the same is a positive. It allows people to buy art the way that they buy a Gucci loafer. You just look at the buckle, there it is, and you don't have to judge whether the quality of the shoe is good or not. It comes with a universal endorsement," he said.
For the journalist and market watcher Paul Jeromack, "Now is the time for people, if they have money, to collect. There are a lot of unfashionable eras, like French 18th century drawings. People want the big names, like Watteau and Boucher, but you can buy beautiful drawings for under $10,000 now, certainly for under $15,000."
Or less, if you take the case of the art historian and dealer Robert Simon, whose partner bid $1,000 by telephone to an obscure auction house in Louisiana in 2005, and purchased a painting that turned out to be Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. The picture eventually sold for $450 million.
Simon, monitoring this year's TEFAF from New York, stressed that hitting the jackpot doesn't make it any easier to sell paintings from centuries ago to new collectors raised on Koons (even though Jeff Koons himself collects Old Master paintings and drawings).
"It's a limited audience," he said. "Some people aren't focused on old things, period. We're in a very contemporary-driven world. But it's also that some people don't understand it, they're not familiar with it."
"And," he added, "I think it's also that they don't understand that they're not all $450 million."
Filed Under: Arts, Visual Art, Jeff Koons, Edgar Degas, TEFAF, Vincent Van Gogh, Odilon Redon, old masters art, George Goldner
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Cristin Milioti Husband, Net Worth, Family
Cristin Milioti's bio reveals that she was born on 16 August...in Cherry Hill with her family...at the age of...embraces a white ethnicity...at a height 5 feet 2 inches...with a weight of...body measurements of...career as a stage actress...as of now...her married status...potential husband...relationship with her boyfriend...a net worth of...received her education...
Date of Birth Aug 16, 1985
Profession Actress
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Height 5 Feet 2 Inches (1.58 Meters)
Education New York University, Cherry Hill High School East
American actress Cristin Milioti gained the media's attention by showing her outstanding talent in acting and singing field. However, she preferred acting over singing and gave her all energies to her acting career.
Moreover, from dropping out of college during her freshman year to receiving a Tony Award and Lucille Lortel Award nomination to earning Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Cristin has reached the height of success and successfully marked her name in the entertainment industry.
The 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 meters) tall actress with a weight of 51 kgs and average body measurements, is best known for starring in How I Met Your Mother, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Fargo.
Is Cristin Milioti Married To Husband?
When it comes to her relationships, Cristin Milioti has refrained from divulging into the details of her private life. Thus, there is no information regarding her possible married status.
However, according to some sources, Cristin was dating actor-turned-furniture maker, Jesse Hooker. Cristin first met Jesse in 2008. However, they only started dating after some years.
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In 2013, there were also rumors that she had got engaged to her boyfriend, but the stories turned out to be entirely baseless. Furthermore, while peeking into Jesse's Instagram, Cristin only appeared in his posts until 2015.
As of now, some source claims that she is living with Jesse, but other claims she is not in any relationship.
Nevertheless, the fact if she is married to a husband or not is still under the wraps, as Cristin is inactive in both acting fields as well as on social media.
Her Career / Net Worth
Cristin started her career by being a part of a national advertising campaign ads for the Ford Edge. After a lot of struggle, her fortune took a turn when she made her first television appearance in 2006.
Later, she became a household name after appearing on the popular sitcom, How I Met Your Mother as the titular mother.
Cristin Milioti attends the 67th Primetime Emmy Wards FOX after party on 20 September 2015 (Photo: gettyimages)
Through her hard work, Cristin started receiving prominent roles and even got a chance to work alongside some legendary Hollywood figures.
During her career, her far known works include The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie, 3lbs, The Sopranos, and many more. Alongside the height of success, Cristin has also gathered a net worth of $2 million.
Bio: Age, Family
Cristin was born on 16 August 1985 to parents Clark Vincent Milioti and Catherine Milioti. Holding American nationality, she embraces a white ethnicity.
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While talking about her family tree, Cristin calls her family 'Olive Garden Italian,' because her father is from Italian and Belgian descent whereas, her mother is from Czech, Scottish, Irish, and English ancestry.
Moving forward to her education, Cristin attended the Cherry Hill High School East, where she started performing in school plays. After high school, she enrolled at New York University, where she took acting classes. But during her freshman year, Cristin dropped out of the university.
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Solar Radiation Management Causing Pandemic of Chemtrail Syndrome
By Cosmic Convergence -
WHO is stealing the sunlight?
WHERE have the clear blue skies gone?
WHY are they dumping coal fly ash into the atmosphere 24/7?
"When scientific knowledge and applied technology reach a critical level of advancement, without being informed by spiritual truths and guided by moral authority, the planetary civilization will relinquish its destiny to continue as it is."
~ Cosmic Convergence Research Group
Don't know about your skies, but ours have been full of chemtrails nonstop for many months.
It's been a constant procession of chemtrails and chembombs, followed by chemclouds that eventually cover the whole sky with a massive chemcloud cover.
Perfectly blue skies are transformed into a sea of ever-changing chemclouds every other day now. These manmade clouds then spread out rapidly into a fabricated chemcloud cover that stretches from horizon to horizon.
Day after day, week after week, month after month we have watched our sunny days and blue skies sabotaged by these chemtrails and chembombs.
The geoengineers who have developed this chemical geoengineering technology claim that chemtrail operations don't even exist.
They have the chutzpah and gall to deny the ongoing worldwide chemical geoengineering programs that millions now see conducted overhead.
The people of this planet want to know who is stealing our sunshine. Why do they lie about incessantly taking our blue skies and blocking the sunshine?
The Birds are the Canary in the Coal Mine
When even the birds are becoming quite scarce, something is VERY wrong indeed.
We don't know about your neck of the woods, but ours has a lot fewer birds. Flocks of sparrows and cardinals no longer appear on our feeders. Visits from wrens, chickadees and titmice are far and few between. Bluejays, brown thrashers and mockingbirds are all becoming more scarce by the season.
Are these and others species of birds dying slow deaths because of the chemtrails? How can they fly through such toxic skies day after day after and not be adversely affected by the chemicals. Their delicate lungs and upper respiratory systems are under direct assault as they fly through the unceasingly chemtrailed air.
In fact, the coal mine has been turned inside out. Coal fly ash, which is mandatorily captured in the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants, is the major ingredient of chemtrail aerosols. In other words, the coal fly ash that is a hazardous waste product of burning coal is first removed as regulated by the EPA, then it is dumped right back into the skies of America via the ongoing chemical geoengineering programs.
U.S. Government Spraying Tons Of Toxic Coal Fly Ash Into Atmosphere Via Chemtrails
How can the birds ever defend themselves as they fly through such toxic skies day and night? Their scarcity and odd behavior at times must mean that, as the new canaries of the coal mine known as the post-modern civilization, we are in deep, DEEP trouble.
Deep trouble indeed we are in when the vast majority of human beings are so oblivious to what is happening right above their heads. What, pray tell, is more important than the quality of air that we breathe — 24/7?!
ANSWER: There is nothing under the sun that is more important than the quality of air that we breathe.
If you thought 2015 was bad for chemtrails, 2016 has only gotten worse
During 2015 the 'trails were never so frequently laid down morning and afternoon, evening and night. The weather patterns also changed accordingly. A lot more chemcloud cover, a lot more rain out of season, and many low pressure systems even during the normally dry and clear months have become the new normal.
Now in 2016 the chemtrail activity has been ramped up even more.
What is the reason for this? Why is the number of days of sunshine decreasing precipitously?
The following TED video presentation by geoengineer David Keith is quite telling. Mr. Keith has been set up as one of the establishment geoengineering scientists who aggressively promotes the chemical geoengineering of our skies. He is now regarded by many as the Chief Geoengineer of the NWO agenda. Along with Ken Caldera of Stanford, he utilizes his high-profile platform of Harvard to bring gravitas and academic authority to the spurious applied technology known as chemical geoengineering. When you watch this video you will quickly understand why humanity is in such "deep trouble". Truly, the craziest among us are now ruining running the asylum known as Planet Earth.
Now you know why TPTB trot the mad scientist onto the sets of all Stephen Colbert type shows peddling the snake oil of geoegineering as the magical cure for climate change. It gives the NWO cabal plausible deniability. After all, it was the geoengineering 'experts' who said that the widespread fabrication of chemcloud cover worldwide would appreciably reduce the warming of the planet. Fat chance … as just the opposite occurs.
Geoengineering Is The Primary Cause Of Global Climate Change, Not CO2
How, and why, did the very same experts conveniently forget to tell us that cloud cover actually increases global warming. Cloud cover, especially at night, traps the heat in the atmosphere keeping the ground temperatures warmer. Hence, the relentless manufacturing of chemcloud cover, which the geoengineers often do under cover of darkness, can have had an appreciable effect on the previous warming trends. Even The Washington Post reports on this quite elementary matter. As follows:
The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, concludes that cloud cover can actually increase the amount of meltwater that runs off the surface of the glacier. Clouds have the effect of trapping heat on Earth; they can cause local temperatures to be warmer, so one would imagine that clouds might increase the amount of ice that actually melts during the day. But it turns out that the influence of cloud cover is strongest after the sun goes down. At night, the clouds actually prevent temperatures from cooling as much as they would on clear nights and keep already-melted ice from refreezing. This liquid water then pools on the surface of the ice and can be lost as runoff.
(Source: Clouds Trap Heat, Increasing Greenland Ice Sheet Melt)
A Major Fraud is Being Perpetrated Against the Human Race, Some Call It Genocide
The critical reason as to why they (TPTB) are stealing the sunshine is because they are conducting their own terraforming experiment. They care not what happens to the viability of the biosphere or to the general health of the inhabitants, both human and animal. Their disregard is so shocking, in fact, that many really do believe that a deliberate culling is taking place. Such a slow-motion genocide does not discriminate in favor of or against any particular race or religion; chemtrail pollution, with all of its bioengineered toxicities and weaponized contaminants, adversely affects the whole human race quite negatively.
The unrelenting laying down of chemcloud cover has significantly changed the amount and degree of sunlight which reaches the surface of the Earth. This dynamic alone has considerably changed the normal microbial balance of ecosystems everywhere. For instance, it is well-known that the sunrays function as the universal disinfectant. The UV component, in particular, will kill atmospheric molds and funguses, bacteria and viruses en masse.
Because this normal process of nature's disinfection and sterilization has been so thrown off balance, the ambient environment is now suffused with pernicious molds and opportunistic fungi. These immense and unparalleled proliferations are both airborne and on the land masses. The upshot is that there are now many more sick homes and sick office buildings than ever before. The unrelenting chemcloud cover also keeps the airborne pathogenic microbials closer to the land surface. The same goes for the coal fly ash that is sprayed in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere.
The real problem with this unfolding scenario is that some of these pathogenic micro-organisms are either newly bioengineered or they are mutating very quickly, thereby avoiding certain identification. For individuals who are particularly vulnerable, they can be overrun by these biological assaults and have no idea what they are truly up against. In those cases, where the pathogenic micro-organisms have been purposefully bioengineered to target a specific gene pool, the health consequences will certainly be much greater as they often go undetected for months, years and even decades.
What is crucial to understand is whether an individual has a selective susceptibility to either the airborne toxic molds or land-bases fungi which are now seriously out of control. Whenever different folks are confronted with a completely unfamiliar health challenge or medical dilemma, they ought to seriously consider these offending agents which now permeate the ambient environment. Newly acquired mold allergies are particularly vexing and problematic.
Austin Mold and Airborne Allergies
The good news is that the home can be remediated and maintained in such a way so as to minimize the aforementioned intrusions of chemtrail residuals and toxic microbials. Ultimately, those who survive these never-ending chemical and biological assaults will have evolved immune responses that are far superior to those who have never been exposed to the increasingly new toxic agents.
The same goes for the dangerous levels of chemically-mobile aluminum which now pervades the planetary environment from the constant chemtrailing. This is the first generation that has ever been confronted with such a formidable detoxification challenge. Heretofore, aluminum has been safely locked up in the Earth's surface. Now that coal fly ash is continually disseminated by the chemical geoengineering programs worldwide, the alumina has been transformed into a chemically mobile state. This airborne aluminum has caused a pandemic of brain diseases and neurological ailments.
Who has not experienced the ravages of early onset Dementia or Alzheimer's disease in their own family? Who has not seen friends and communities challenge by ADD and ADHD, Asperger's and Autism? Who has not witnessed the dramatic uptick in neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease and Muscular dystrophy, Cerebral palsy and Bell's palsy, ALS and MS, Guillain-Barré syndrome and Chronic fatigue syndrome.
All of these health challenges and medical ailments require one thing nearly above all else—therapeutic levels of vitamin D in the body. The human body's primary way of receiving adequate vitamin D is by manufacturing it in the skin upon contact with the Sun. Sunrays hitting the skin stimulate the biochemical processes necessary for vitamin D production.
Factoid: Wherever there is less sunlight there is more cancer, flu, and autism.
Vitamin D helps regulate cells, organs and organ systems throughout our body. In a class by itself, vitamin D turns genes on and off; a very basic function which distinguishes it from all other vitamins. At a minimum, vitamin D boosts the immune system by increasing the body's antimicrobial peptides which are naturally occurring antibiotics that kill harmful bacteria and viruses. Vitamin D also strengthens teeth, making it a natural and suitable replacement for fluoride in drinking water and toothpaste.
The numerous novel medical conditions which have emerged as the New Millennium Maladies are now many and growing. And, it is the artificial introduction of so many new chemicals and compounds, which have created a conducive environment for the pathogenic micro-organisms to proliferate and thrive. It is for these reasons especially that the current geoengineeering programs must be terminated post-haste.
The entire Plant Kingdom requires the rays of the Sun to conduct its most basic functions of life. Growth and repair only occurs at the pleasure of the Sun; without it agriculture would cease to exist in its current form. Because of the chemical geoengineering operations across the planet the Plant Kingdom is being decimated by the reduced sunlight. Much of this physiological destruction is taking place under the radar. The delicate root structures for instance are becoming laden with aluminum which impedes the uptake of necessary nutrients and minerals from the soil. The way that water is absorbed by the roots is also being inhibited which is now routinely stunting plant growth.
Denial in the Midst of Hard Scientific Evidence
The following abstract recently appeared at PubMed.gov. It is quite revealing in that it identifies specific chemical compounds and nano-materials which are now being sprayed into the atmosphere via geoengineering programs. Typically this type of scientific research has been kept from the public. These two authors must have access to highly privileged information about the composition of chemtrail aerosols for this peer-reviewed paper to have been accepted for publication.
And, yet, the government continues to deny the very existence of such pervasive chemical geoengineering programs. That denial will no longer work at confusing the public given the disclosures which are made in this scientific research paper. The global black operation seen everywhere as chemtrail spraying is now officially no longer a secret.
The biosphere has been altered in profound and fundamental ways by the perpetual spraying of noxious chemtrails throughout the atmosphere. As the global environment undergoes unprecedented destruction, the ecosystems of the world are sustaining irreparable damage. The longer these misguided geoengineering programs continue, the more difficult it will be to remediate the awesome devastation that is occurring imperceptibly around the globe.
Hence, there is only one solution to this full-blown planetary catastrophe.
"If you will not fight when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." — Winston Churchill
The following link ought to rekindle anyone's appreciation for the benevolent and life-sustaining sunlight. Perhaps by its widespread dissemination others, too, will awaken to this most important of all the light-emitting orbs in our sky.
The Sun Sings Through Those Who Appreciate The Ever-Shining Sunlight
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Goodison Granite Scheme Extended
Evertonians will be given another chance to permanently leave their mark on Goodison Park as plans are revealed to extend the Goodison Granites scheme.
Last month, Roberto Martinez officially unveiled the new gateway to the stadium in front of hundreds of supporters, with the Club's famous Dixie Dean statue taking centre stage surrounded by a commemorative wall of personalised engraved stones.
The original allocation of Goodison Granites was incredibly popular, selling out within days of going on sale so the Club and its Fans' Forum have decided to extend the scheme to give more fans the opportunity to be a part of it.
The new plaques will be housed alongside the iconic Goodison Road sign near the entrance to the popular matchday Fan Zone. Supporters can purchase three varying sizes of Goodison Granites that will be engraved with personalised messages.
The personalised stones can be purchased exclusively online at evertonfc.com/goodisongranites from Monday 23 June.
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FakeSpy Comes Back. New Wave Hits Japan
By Dario Durando and Evgeny Ananin | October 02, 2018
FortiGuard Labs recently encountered malicious traffic traveling to a C2 server located in China. The connection was established by a domain using a name that closely resembled one of Japan's most famous express post delivery services. Our analysis showed that the website making this connection is fake, and moreover, it is spreading an Android malware.
At the first glance, the Android file looks like FakeSpy, a malware discovered by Trend Micro researchers in June of 2018. But our analytics platform revealed that while the code base of the sample is based on FakeSpy, this new variant contains new features, and its the malicious campaign is growing.
Analyzing the Host
In our initial sample analysis, we found the domain name "hxxp://sagawa-ba[.]com".
Figure 1: Fake website of Japanese express delivery
As some readers may recognize, this fake site is posing as the website of one of Japan's express delivery service companies. However, closer inspection reveals that it has no SSL certificate and the page layout is broken.
When analyzing the page source, the first thing we encountered is a Mark of the Web (MOTW) comment. This is a security feature first introduced in Windows XP SP2 and now used in every browser to improve the safety of users when downloading web-pages and scripts to their local drive.
Figure 2: Mark of the Web on the main page
This comment indicates that this page was first downloaded and then uploaded to add some new "features" to the pages. The main addition is a script containing a function called "kk". We also observed that there is a commented pop-up message that may indicate that the campaign is still under development. The function is quite simple. It opens the "pp.html" page of the website. As we can see, the function is called once the end user clicks (or taps) on the website.
Figure 3: Redirection script in the main page
Following the redirect, we then see the following interesting error message, stating that for security reasons we have to authenticate using a phone number.
Figure 4: Phone number prompt for "security" reasons
By examining the script handling the input field, we were able to determine that any data entered is directly sent to the malicious server, using the cookie field to send the entered mobile phone number. After that, it proceeds to the next page, called "pp2.html". Again, there are commented parts of code here that may indicate that development is still in progress.
Figure 5: Phone numbers sending script
Once we proceed to the next page, the malicious website then begins asking for a confirmation code:
Figure 6: "Confirmation" code for the phone number
When we again checked the source for the input field, it again contained commented code, but this time it was very similar to parts of the previous pp.html JavaScript code. This is likely due to the author copy-pasting code and then forgetting to remove the comments before it was put into production, or they may have been left there for testing purposes.
Figure 7: Confirmation code validation script
If we take a look at the script itself, we see that once the function "validate()" is called, it checks that the provided code contains 4 digits. If yes, it sends the code to the server and redirects to the page called "loding1.html". Unfortunately, we had no reply from the server. But this element might be used to subscribe people for paid services or to verify that the user is using a real phone number and is "served" only once.
Besides the sending script, the page contains one more custom script for the timer. The interesting point here is that it contains comments written in Chinese.
Figure 8: Custom timer with Chinese comments
Next, if we check the source of "loding1.html" we find another script that is supposed to handle the server reply once the confirmation code is checked. Once again, we found comments in Chinese, as well as another comment written in Korean. This might indicate code re-use, a missing Chinese translation, or collaboration between Chinese and Korean actors.
Figure 9: Loading page script with Chinese and Korean comments
In searching for the code patterns we found interesting similarities that, unfortunately, aren't sufficient to be used as proof of the phishing website author. The line "setInterval('newArticleCheck()', 2000);" from the phishing page matches the style, function name, and syntax of code pasted on the Q&A PHP forum by a Korean user "쥬리앙" (Juriang) in 2015. However, it is impossible to determine if this new code was written by the same author, or if the code posted to the PHP forum was simply used by someone else.
Figure 10: Same code patterns found on the forums
After analyzing the main logic of the website, we decided to analyze the page source for any other functionality. That is where we found interesting the offer to install the "sagawa.apk" Android application:
Figure 11: Android app installation link
Unfortunately, the link to the file was not available. Instead, it led to a 404 page written in Chinese.
Figure 12: The 404 page written in Chinese
After we finished our initial website analysis, we check WHOIS for domain information. The server is located in Taiwan, and the domain was registered on 16.07.2018.
Figure 13: Location of the C2 server
Surprisingly, we found that this was not the only domain related to this malicious activity. We were able to find 347 additional domains with only the last or first parts of the real website of the Japanese express post service that had been tampered with. These domains are registered on three e-mail addresses:
mantianxing0111[at]yahoo.co.jp (104 domains)
2509677308[at]qq.com (55 domains)
21449497[at]qq.com (188 domains)
Figure 14: Part of the fake domain list
We decided to check the other domains from the list. Most of the websites are registered but not used. Some of them are already connected to hosting servers, mostly located in Taiwan, but have no web-page connected to them. However, a few websites have the same phishing pages on them.
We checked the domains with "-iso.com" and "-wow.com" ending in the name. When examining these sites we observed another script that looks very similar to the one used on the "-ba.com" website, but instead of leading the user to a phone number prompt, it drops the "sagawa.apk" application once the user clicks or taps on the webpage. The domain with the "-wow.com" ending does not collect mobile phone numbers, nor does it contain the "pp.html", "pp2.html", or "loding1.html" as in the "-ba.com" domain. Moreover, the domain uses English text on its 404 page.
Figure 15: Script for dropping the "sagawa.apk" application
During this round of discovery we were finally able to obtain the file, so we decided to do further analysis of its functionality.
The APK of reference is 92cd2e43bf85703f92a493668be3d777c3d3cfab3f674b62bd334ddc082ac50d
The Dropper
First, we analyzes the contents of the APK:
The following image is part of the report generated by our internal analysis tools. The application, whose package name is fang.tang.sha, in addition to the classes.dex file present in every APK, contains a library compiled for different architectures (libxxn.so), and one asset file (nini.dll). This is already a red flag: it is very unlikely for an android app to need MS Windows libraries to function.
After a quick check, it is clear that nini.dll is actually an encrypted file of some sort. Intrigued, we started analyzing the apk file.
Figure 16: APK report
First, we took a look at the AndroidManifest.xml file, where most information about the app, like permissions, activities and services, are listed. The fact that first catches the eye is the sheer amount of suspicious permissions asked for by the application.
Figure 17: APK filters
Figure 18: APK permissions
However, another very important detail was the fact that the AndroidManifest of classes and functions did not exist in the classes.dex file. All activities and services used by the app need to be declared ahead of time in the Manifest. There is no point in declaring non-existing classes. The logical conclusion is that some other code is dynamically loaded at some point during execution.
When executed, the app launches a webview of what looks like the main web page of the delivery service it is trying to impersonate. It asks to become the default app to handle SMS and to run in the background, disregarding battery optimization. At the same time, the app icon disappears and starts running in the background.
Since not much happens in terms of user interaction, we took a look at the code.
The execution flow of the app is pretty simple: it loads library libxxn.so and executes the function run(), which can be found under the name Java_taii_YANGG_run in the shared object. This function decrypts the nini.dll file and loads the decrypted file, which on my device is located in the "/data/user/0/fang.tang.sha/app_cache" folder. The file is then loaded dynamically, as you can see from the output of the "adb logcat" command.
Figure 19: adb logcat output
The file is then deleted immediately after being loaded, making it harder to retrieve. Luckily, by using FRIDA, a very handy and flexible open-source instrumentation suite, we were able to stop the execution flow before the deletion and recover the file.
FRIDA is a fantastic tool for Android reversing (and it is not limited to that), and it can work for multiple architectures. It can be used both on rooted and un-rooted devices (even though it requires a little bit more tinkering). The scripts I used can be found on the following github page, and you can find the main page of the project documentation here.
The Payload
The mycode.jar file that is dropped contains a classes.dex file that is loaded through the DexClassLoader function in the libxxn.so library.
The payload looks like a variant of FakeSpy, a malware that surfaced in June 2018. It maintains most of the functionalities of its previous iteration, but also offers new options.
Figure 20: SMS info collector
The malware asks to become the default SMS application, so it is not surprising that the app is capable of intercepting incoming SMS messages. Whenever a message is received, the app logs all the information regarding the message and sends them to the CC.
Figure 21: CC communication containing target numbers
In addition, the malware is also capable of creating and sending SMS to other devices. In fact, this is how the malware spreads. Once infected, the mobile device starts communicating with the CC, which sends lists of telephone numbers to try to infect using SMS that carry links to domains controlled by the attacker.
Screenshot number 21 was generated by instrumenting the android class SMSmanager with FRIDA and then modifying the corresponding sendTextMessage() to only log instead of sending the actual malicious message.
Figure 22: Captured SMS sent to targets
The malware is also capable of obtaining a complete list of all the applications installed on the device, as well as other information such as IMEI and phone number, which are then sent to the CC in the form of a JSON file. In this way, the attacker is able to assemble a full picture of the device state.
Figure 23: Application info sent to the CC
Finally, the malware is capable of sending full crash reports to the server.
Some odd characteristics of this sample makes us think that it is still under active development:
The CC is saved in the sharedPreferences under the name "URL". This value is first set to 125.227.0.22, but can be modified during execution through the function ChangeIP(), which checks if one minute has expired and if so collects the new CC IP address from an encrypted string. The string points to a twitter account. The twitter username contains the new IP, which is decoded using simple string manipulation.
Figure 24: Twitter account used to obtain new CC
However, even though the code is present in the dex file, from our analysis it seems that this code it is never actually used. Instead the app continues to contact the first CC the whole time. We tried to redirect the HTTP traffic to the modified CC address, but received no response.
The malware also contains multiple references to a file named "/sdcard/new.apk". It is able to download the file given the URL. It then checks if the device already contains an app under the name "ni.vb.bi", and in case it does not it installs it. However, the function that downloads the file is never called during execution.
Figure 25: Install 'new.apk' function
One class contains main() and System.out.println() functions. Neither are required on android APKs but are very common in Java files, indicating that they might have been run as such for testing purposes, or copy-pasted from other sources
Figure 26: Test main() function
The Malware also asks for Device Admin rights, and contains a DeviceAdminReceiver class, but it never requests the permissions to use it, making it completely pointless.
Figure 27: Device Admin function
Finally, during our analysis we were able to collect samples with updated certificates almost daily, showing that there is someone on the other end at least maintaining the infrastructure.
To sum up, we can say that the actors involved in this malicious activity own a huge number of domains faking the original domain name of an express post delivery service in Japan. This means they are investing a lot of time and money into this campaign, but are probably still thinking of a way to make a good profit out of it. Most of the domains registered on the actors' e-mails are inactive, but that doesn't mean that they will never be used. The scripts, comments and unused lines located on the websites may indicate that the actors are still improving the campaign and trying different ways of achieving their goals.
Unfortunately, we cannot be sure what the reason is behind collecting cell-phone numbers, but we can guess that this information might be used for another malicious campaign, or may simply be sold to another actor.
This malware and the campaign seem to still be in the early days of development. The malware itself is based on an existing codebase, but it shows attempts at improvement by adding different functionalities, not all of which are currently being used, but we cannot say that will be the case for long.
Fortinet clients are protected against these attacks:
The dropper is detected as Android/Agent.CIJ!tr
The payload is detected as Android/Fakespy.Z!tr
Dropper:
24072be590bec0e1002aa8d6ef7270a3114e8fe89996837a8bc8f6a185d9690e 92cd2e43bf85703f92a493668be3d777c3d3cfab3f674b62bd334ddc082ac50d 01caceb86d3e2a383eeab4af98c55a2ec7b82ae0972594866b13fc0c62c93d74
b7f4850b243649cdba97fd3bb309aa76fe170af80fa9c6ee5edd623dac2ce4e2 00ce9ffe9cca59df86125747c3a2e548245bf1b0607bc8f080fd3c501d9fc3f0
C2:
sagawa-ba[.]com
sagawa-wow[.]com
sagawa-iso[.]com
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Lowe's 1Q earns $841M vs $586M
By Michael Baron
Published: May 22, 2006 7:10 a.m. ET
MichaelBaron
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Lowe's Cos. LOW, +1.16% Monday reported first-quarter earnings of $841 million, or $1.06 a share, up from a year-ago profit of $586 million, or 73 cents a share. Sales jumped 20.3% in the latest three months to $11.92 billion from $9.91 billion in the same period a year earlier. Same-store sales increased 5.7% in the quarter. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson First Call was for a profit of 94 cents a share in the April period. The Mooresville, N.C. home improvement products retailer also explained it's restating certain past results to change its method of accounting for early payment discounts on merchandise purchases. Lowe's said the change will results in reductions in net earnings of $6 million in fiscal 2005 and $9 million in fiscal 2004. The stock closed Friday at $62.64, up 1.9%.
Lowe's Cos. U.S.: NYSE: LOW
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Senior Research Associate, Cell Biology
Nine Square Therapeutics
San Francisco, California, US
About Us: New Hope for People Living with Movement Disorders
Nine Square Therapeutics is discovering and delivering novel small-molecule therapeutics for Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and non-degenerative forms of movement disorders such as essential tremors and dyskinesias - diseases for which patients are urgently awaiting more effective treatments.
Nine Square, founded by ATP and leading scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), has the capabilities and depth in computational science to drive drug discovery at an accelerated pace and provide multiple approaches to high value targets, to bring hope and help to people living with debilitating conditions.
Nine Square combines leading capabilities in computational chemistry, biophysics, and computational biology with a machine-learning-enabled cell profiling platform for target identification, chemical optimization, and patient stratification.
What We Value:
Nine Square Therapeutics offers a dynamic start-up environment with a close-knit team of mission-driven professionals. We seek colleagues to push the boundaries of drug discovery and identify innovative solutions to challenging scientific problems.
As a Senior Research Associate in the Biology team your work will be central to the discovery and characterization of novel small molecule drugs targeting the brain. You will utilize your experience to support the establishment of core laboratory protocols and best practices and to execute critical in vitro experiments for several ongoing projects. As an early hire, you will help grow the company and its culture and your contributions will be key to the company's success.
• Execute cell-based experiments and analyze data to support several programs; assay types include Immunohistochemistry and imaging of live and fixed cells, ELISA and protein interaction assays
• Lead cell line maintenance and cell banking and support stable cell line development
• Manage core lab functions, such as inventory management, instrument maintenance and general lab safety
• BS with at least 5 years of hands-on laboratory experience or MS with at least 3 years of relevant experience
• Experience with tissue culture, immunohistochemistry, cell imaging, western blotting and ELISA
• Solid background in cell biology
• Strong oral and written communication skills and a drive to learn and to proactively contribute ideas to push our research to the next stage
Education / Experience:
• MS with at least three years of relevant experience as per above.
Nine Square Therapeutics is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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HomePeople...Dean Thompson
Dean Thompson
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Dean Thompson's term ended on September 21, 2022.
Dean Thompson is the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, overseeing U.S. policy and relations with the countries in the region. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service and has more than 25 years of experience in U.S. diplomacy.
Most recently, Mr. Thompson served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, U.S. Consul General in Kolkata, India, and the Chief of the Economic and Commercial Affairs section of the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Mr. Thompson's other overseas service includes tours at the U.S. Embassies in Paraguay and Bangladesh. While stationed in Washington, Mr. Thompson has led several teams in direct support of the U.S. Secretary of State and served as Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff, the Deputy Director of the Department's 24-hour Operations Center and the Director of the Department's Crisis Management Staff.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense on counterproliferation issues and U.S. security assistance to the Republic of Korea. Mr. Thompson has a Masters of Public Management from the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs and a Masters of National Security Studies from the U.S. National War College.
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Frank Reich, Chris Ballard Speak At Combine: On Luck, Gore, Draft Class
Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich and general manager Chris Ballard on Wednesday spoke to the media at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, giving updates on Andrew Luck, Frank Gore, the draft class and more.
INDIANAPOLIS —Wednesday was the official start of the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, and the host city's team had plenty of news and updates to share in their afternoon media sessions.
Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich and general manager Chris Ballard each spoke to reporters now one day after the team finalized its 2018 coaching staff, and about 2 1/2 weeks into Reich's first year at the helm of the franchise.
Here's some quick hitters on what the two had to share on Wednesday. Keep checking Colts.com today and throughout the week for more in-depth pieces on each bit of news, as well as much more from the Combine:
• Reich said quarterback Andrew Luck, who continues to rehab his surgically-repaired right shoulder out in California, is expected to be back with the team when it starts its offseason workout program on April 2. Luck, according to Reich, is yet to begin throwing a football as part of his training regimen, but the first-year head coach said the team is pleased with his progress as he continues re-gaining his strength and mobility to eventually get to that point. Ballard, as he has said consistently over the last year, said the team and Luck will be careful not to set any official timelines for a potential return, and that they won't skip steps in his recovery to get to that point any quicker.
• It appears veteran running back Frank Gore, an unrestricted free agent-to-be, won't be returning to the Colts for a fourth season in 2018. Reich said Gore and Ballard had a conversation earlier this offseason in which the Colts expressed a desire to get younger at the running back position, while also hoping Gore could find an ideal situation for his career path elsewhere. Asked later about Gore, Ballard confirmed the team's plans at the running back position, but had nothing but praise for Gore, the league's fifth all-time leading rusher who he considers a first-ballot Hall of Famer and ultimate teammate and leader.
• Quickly on the running back position: Ballard said he feels good about the players currently on the roster in Marlon Mack, Robert Turbin, Matt Jones and Josh Ferguson. On Jones — a third-round pick by the Washington Redskins in the 2015 NFL Draft — Ballard said the big back really started to come along in practices towards the end of the season, and could be a viable option moving forward.
• Reich said the Colts won't have a fully-dedicated "quarterbacks coach," this season; rather, offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni, assistant quarterbacks coach Marcus Brady and himself will split up those duties. Reich and Sirianni have each been quarterbacks coaches at other stops in their NFL coaching careers, while Brady had spent the previous five seasons as the offensive coordinator of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts.
• Ballard talked about the bevy of options available for the Colts with the No. 3-overall pick. While he's excited about the possibility to take a game changer on offense or defense, he also was asked about the possibility of trading down to acquire more picks. Ballard said the cost-benefit of any trade-down scenarios, of course, would have to be weighed at the time the opportunity would be presented; while collecting more picks, and more depth, is always an option, Ballard also wants to be careful not to give up the opportunity to pick a potential star and every-down playmaker at No. 3 overall.
• Asked about the 2018 draft class specifically, Ballard said he saw depth particularly along the offensive line — and in the interior, especially — as well as at running back. Both could be considered positions of need for Indianapolis heading into free agency, which begins March 14, and the draft, which begins at the end of April.
Catch The Entire Second Season Of 'With The Next Pick' Saturday On CBS4
With the Indianapolis Colts about to embark on training camp, get a refresher on the team's action in the 2020 NFL Draft, as CBS4/WTTV is airing the second season of Colts Productions' "With The Next Pick" Saturday at 7 p.m. ET.
Through The Scout's Eye: Jordan Glasgow
Kevin Rogers, the Colts' director of pro personnel, and general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in linebacker Jordan Glasgow, the Colts' sixth-round (213th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Dezmon Patmon
Matt Terpening, the Colts' assistant director of college scouting, discusses what he saw in wide receiver Dezmon Patmon, the Colts' sixth-round (212th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Isaiah Rodgers
Mike Derice, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the Northeast region, discusses what he saw in cornerback Isaiah Rodgers, the Colts' sixth-round (211th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Rob Windsor
Mike Derice, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the Northeast region, discusses what he saw in defensive tackle Rob Windsor, the Colts' sixth-round (193rd-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Danny Pinter
Kevin Rogers, the Colts' director of pro personnel, discusses what he saw in guard Danny Pinter, the Colts' fifth-round (149th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Jacob Eason
Chris McGaha, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the West Coast, as well as Matt Terpening, the Colts' assistant director of college scouting, and general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in quarterback Jacob Eason, the Colts' fourth-round (122nd-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Julian Blackmon
Chris McGaha, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the West Coast, as well as Matt Terpening, the Colts' assistant director of college scouting, discuss what they saw in safety Julian Blackmon, the Colts' third-round (85th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Jonathan Taylor
Kevin Rogers, the Colts' director of pro personnel, as well as general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in running back Jonathan Taylor, the Colts' second-round (41st-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Michael Pittman Jr.
Chris McGaha, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the West Coast, as well as Matt Terpening, the Colts' assistant director of college scouting, and general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr., the Colts' second-round (34th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Nick Sirianni 1-on-1: On Philip Rivers, Draft Picks, Mack-Taylor Combo
Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni recently sat down for a Colts.com 1-on-1 interview. What are his thoughts on new quarterback Philip Rivers, what he took away from the 2020 NFL Draft and the Marlon Mack-Jonathan Taylor combination at running back?
Matt Eberflus 1-on-1: On DeForest Buckner, Xavier Rhodes, Draft Class Evaluations
Indianapolis Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus recently sat down for a Colts.com 1-on-1 interview. What are his thoughts on all the newest additions to the Indy defense in 2020, including DeForest Buckner, Xavier Rhodes and all four defensive picks from the 2020 NFL Draft?
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Categories: Canada & WorldNews
COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert
A sign reading 'Stay safe' in Regent Street, in London, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. A slew of nations moved to stop air travel from southern Africa on Friday, and stocks plunged in Asia and Europe in reaction to news of a new, potentially more transmissible COVID-19 variant. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
The U.K. on Saturday tightened its rules on mask-wearing and on testing of international arrivals after finding two cases. New cases were confirmed Saturday in Germany and Italy, with Belgium, Israel and Hong Kong also reporting that the variant has been found in travelers.
In the U.S., Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious diseases expert, said he would not be surprised if the omicron variant was already in the United States, too.
"We have not detected it yet, but when you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility … it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over," Fauci said on NBC television.
Because of fears that the new variant has the potential to be more resistant to the protection offered by vaccines, there are growing concerns around the world that the pandemic and associated lockdown restrictions will persist for far longer than hoped.
Nearly two years since the start of the pandemic that has claimed more than 5 million lives around the world, countries are on high alert. Many have already imposed travel restrictions on flights from southern Africa as they seek to buy time to assess whether the omicron variant is more transmissible than the current dominant delta variant.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was necessary to take "targeted and precautionary measures" after two people tested positive for the new variant in England.
"Right now this is the responsible course of action to slow down the seeding and the spread of this new variant and to maximize our defenses," he told a news conference.
Among the measures announced, Johnson said anyone arriving in England must take a PCR test for COVID-19 on the second day after their arrival and self-isolate until they provide a negative test. And if someone tests positive for the omicron variant, then he said their close contacts will have to self-isolate for 10 days regardless of their vaccination status — currently close contacts are exempt from quarantine rules if they are fully vaccinated.
He also said mask-wearing in shops and on public transport will be required and said the independent group of scientists that advises the British government on the rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been asked to accelerate the vaccination program. This could involve widening the booster program to younger age groups, reducing the time period between a second dose and a booster and allowing older children to get a second dose.
"From today we're going to boost the booster campaign," he said.
The British government also added four more countries — Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia — onto the country's travel red list from Sunday. Six others — Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe — were added Friday. That means anyone permitted to arrive from those destinations will have to quarantine.
Many countries have slapped restrictions on various southern African countries over the past couple of days, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Iran, Japan, Thailand and the United States, in response to warnings over the transmissibility of the new variant. This goes against the advice of the World Health Organization, which has warned against any overreaction before the variant was thoroughly studied.
Despite the banning of flights, there are mounting concerns that the variant has already been widely seeded around the world.
Italy and Germany were the latest to report confirmed cases of the omicron variant.
An Italian who had traveled to Mozambique on business landed in Rome on Nov. 11 and returned to his home near Naples. He and five family members, including two school-age children, have since tested positive, the Italian news agency LaPresse said. All are isolating in the Naples suburb of Caserta in good condition with light symptoms.
The variant was confirmed by Sacco hospital in Milan, and Italy's National Health Institute said the man had received two doses of the vaccine. Italy's health ministry is urging all regions to increase its tracing of the virus and sequencing to detect cases of the new variant first identified in South Africa.
In Germany, the Max von Pettenkofer Institute, a Munich-based microbiology center, said the omicron variant was confirmed in two travelers who arrived on a flight from South Africa on Nov. 24. The head of the institute, Oliver Keppler, said that genome sequencing has yet to be completed, but it is "proven without doubt that it is this variant," German news agency dpa reported.
The Dutch public health institute said the omicron variant was "probably found in a number of the tested persons" who were isolated after arriving Friday in Amsterdam on two flights from South Africa. The institute said in a statement that further sequencing analysis is underway to determine for sure that it is the new variant. The results were expected Sunday. A total of 61 people were tested.
Israel said it detected the new strain in a traveler who had returned from Malawi and was tracing 800 travelers who returned recently from southern African countries. And Australia said early Sunday its scientists were working to determine whether two people who tested positive for COVID after arriving from southern Africa are infected with the omicron variant.
The variant's swift spread among young people in South Africa has alarmed health professionals even though there was no immediate indication whether the variant causes more severe disease.
A number of pharmaceutical firms, including AstraZeneca, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer, said they have plans in place to adapt their vaccines in light of the emergence of omicron. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said they expect to be able to tweak their vaccine in around 100 days.
Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, which developed the AstraZeneca vaccine, expressed cautious optimism that existing vaccines could be effective at preventing serious disease from the omicron variant, noting that most of the mutations appear to be in similar regions as those in other variants.
"At least from a speculative point of view we have some optimism that the vaccine should still work against a new variant for serious disease, but really we need to wait several weeks to have that confirmed," he told BBC radio.
Some experts said the variant's emergence illustrated how rich countries' hoarding of vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa have been fully immunized against COVID-19, and millions of health workers and vulnerable populations have yet to receive a single dose. Those conditions can speed up spread of the virus, offering more opportunities for it to evolve into a dangerous variant.
"One of the key factors to emergence of variants may well be low vaccination rates in parts of the world, and the WHO warning that none of us is safe until all of us are safe and should be heeded," said Peter Openshaw, a professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke Saturday with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor, and they stressed the importance of working together to help African nations vaccinate their populations, the State Department said in a statement. It said Blinken praised South Africa's scientists for quickly identifying the omicron variant and the government for its transparency in sharing this information, "which should serve as a model for the world."
Geir Moulson in Berlin, Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, Colleen Barry in Milan, Lynn Berry in Washington, and Fares Akram in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.
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Emergence of pneumococcal 19A empyema in UK children
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matthew Thomas, Clare Simmister, Dr David Cliff, Dr Mohamed Elemraid, Dr Clark Clark, Professor Stephen Rushton, Dr David Spencer
Introduction Invasive pneumococcal disease due to serotype 19A has become a major concern, particularly in the USA and Asia. We describe the characteristics of pneumococcal serotype 19A related empyema and changes in its incidence in the UK. Methods Data from paediatric empyema patients between September 2006 and March 2011 were collected from 17 respiratory centres in the UK. Pneumococcal serotypes were identified as part of the Health Protection Agency enhanced paediatric empyema surveillance programme. Results Four serotypes accounted for over 80% of 136 cases (Serotype 1 : 43%, 3 : 21%, 7 : 11% and 19A: 10%). The incidence of empyema due to serotype 19A quadrupled from 0.48 (0.16-1.13) cases per million children in 2006/2007 to 2.02 (1.25-3.09) in 2010/2011. Severity of disease was significantly increased in children with 19A infection when compared to other serotypes. Conclusions The incidence of empyema due to pneumococcal serotype 19A infection has increased significantly and is associated with substantial morbidity.
Author(s): Thomas MF, Sheppard CL, Guiver M, Slack MPE, George RC, Gorton R, Paton JY, Simmister C, Cliff D, Elemraid MA, Clark JE, Rushton SP, Spencer DA
Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Publisher: BMJ Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-301790
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-301790
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Distinguished speakers to participate in MLK events
Jan 7, 2008 9:00 am by News Bureau | 217-333-1085Campus Life
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A Boeing Co. executive and the head of the Black American Studies Program at Southern Illinois University are among the speakers scheduled to participate in free, public events this month honoring the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Joyce Tucker, the vice president for global diversity and employee rights for Boeing, will deliver the keynote address during the Countywide Day of Celebration, which begins at 4 p.m. Jan. 18 (Friday) at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S. Neil St., Champaign. The theme of the event is "transforming our communities through peace and justice." University of Illinois music professor Ollie Watts Davis will lead the U. of I. Black Chorus during the event, which will be followed by a reception.
The Rev. Joseph Brown, the director of the Black American Studies Program at SIU, will give the keynote speech Jan. 20 (Sunday) beginning at 5 p.m. in the Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
Among the U. of I. sponsors of the events are the offices of the chancellor and of the provost.
To view the calendar, click here.
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India lost $968 million due to max 22 internet shutdowns
Reported by Rudradeep Biswas October 14th, 2016 at 08:08 pm
As many as 22 internet shutdowns occurred in India between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, costing the country a total of US$968 million, contributing to a total global cost of US$2.4 billion due to internet blackouts, findings by Brookings reveal.
India and Iraq jointly captured the top spot for observing maximum internet shutdowns. The non-ISIS controlled parts of Syria stood at third spot with 8 shutdowns, followed by 6 in Pakistan, 3 in Turkey, and 2 each in Bangladesh, Brazil, North Korea, Uganda and Vietnam.
In Economic costs term, India stood at the top, followed by Saudi Arabia with $465 million loss, Morocco with $320 million loss, Iraq with $209.5 and Brazil with $116 million loss.
India this year joined the ranks of countries, including Uganda, Algeria, and Iraq, that have disrupted internet services in response to concerns over students cheating on exams
An Indian official said, "Considering the sensitive nature of the exam for recruitment of talents, internet service providers have been asked to shut down all internet-based social media services from 9 am to 1 pm to prevent the misuse of mobiles during the exam."
In many other instances, regional Indian officials also ordered disruptions in response to public security concerns. "State interference with internet services is becoming more common, even in democratic states," the study said.
According to the study, it will only become more expensive for nations to shut down the internet as the digital economy expands. And without coordinated action by the international community, this damage is likely to accelerate in the future and further weaken global economic development.
"As long as political authorities continue to disrupt internet activity, it will be difficult for impacted nations to reap the full benefits of the digital economy," Brookings Vice President Darrell West, author of the study, said.
West examined a total 81 short-term shutdowns that occurred in 19 countries between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
The finding attributed Internet close downs to regional or territorial response to public security concerns, in addition to a precautionary measure to prevent the misuse of Internet-based social media services via mobile devices during competitive examinations in the country.
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IRIS Università degli Studi di Teramo
Catalogo Ricerca UniTERAMO
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Invasive pleural malignant mesothelioma with rib destruction and concurrent osteosarcoma in a dog
A 7-year-old Dachshund was clinically examined because of a 10-day history of lameness in the left hind limb. On the basis of radiological and cytological findings, an osteosarcoma of the left acetabular region was suspected. The dog underwent a hemipelvectomy and osteosarcoma was diagnosed by subsequent histopathological examination. An immovable subcutaneous mass was noted on the left chest wall during the physical examination and non-septic neutrophilic inflammation was diagnosed by cytology. Forty days later, the dog showed signs of respiratory distress with an in-diameter increase of the subcutaneous mass up to 4 cm. Thoracic radiography and ultrasonography revealed pleural effusion and a lytic process in the fourth left rib. Furthermore, ultrasound examination revealed a mixed echogenic mobile structure with a diameter of around 2 cm floating within the pleural fluid of the left hemithorax close to the pericardium. The dog underwent surgery for an en bloc resection of the subcutaneous mass together with the fourth rib and the parietal pleura. Moreover, the left altered lung lobe, corresponding to the mobile structure detected by ultrasound, was removed. Based on cytological, histopathological, and immunohistochemical examinations, an invasive epithelioid pleural malignant mesothelioma was diagnosed.
Titolo: Invasive pleural malignant mesothelioma with rib destruction and concurrent osteosarcoma in a dog
DI TOMMASO, MORENA
ROCCONI, Francesca
MARRUCHELLA, GIUSEPPE
D'Angelo, Anna Rita
Masci, Stefano
Santori, Domenico
Civitella, Carla
LUCIANI, ALESSIA
BOARI, Andrea
Rivista:
ACTA VETERINARIA SCANDINAVICA
Abstract: A 7-year-old Dachshund was clinically examined because of a 10-day history of lameness in the left hind limb. On the basis of radiological and cytological findings, an osteosarcoma of the left acetabular region was suspected. The dog underwent a hemipelvectomy and osteosarcoma was diagnosed by subsequent histopathological examination. An immovable subcutaneous mass was noted on the left chest wall during the physical examination and non-septic neutrophilic inflammation was diagnosed by cytology. Forty days later, the dog showed signs of respiratory distress with an in-diameter increase of the subcutaneous mass up to 4 cm. Thoracic radiography and ultrasonography revealed pleural effusion and a lytic process in the fourth left rib. Furthermore, ultrasound examination revealed a mixed echogenic mobile structure with a diameter of around 2 cm floating within the pleural fluid of the left hemithorax close to the pericardium. The dog underwent surgery for an en bloc resection of the subcutaneous mass together with the fourth rib and the parietal pleura. Moreover, the left altered lung lobe, corresponding to the mobile structure detected by ultrasound, was removed. Based on cytological, histopathological, and immunohistochemical examinations, an invasive epithelioid pleural malignant mesothelioma was diagnosed.
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/11575/90196
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