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Paolo Sarpi's "History of the Council of Trent"
Piganiol de La Force's "Description des chateaux et parcs de Versailles, de Trianon, et de Marly."
Felix Anthony de Alvarado's Diálogos ingléses, y españöles. This work was taken from the library by professor Luis Hue Girardin and added to his own personal collection of books, including pasting his own bookplate over the plate of Governor Dinwiddie. The volume was returned to the College after World War II by Girardin's descendants.
Jennings, John M. 1918-. The Library of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1693-1793. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968.
Coleman, George P. The Flat Hat club and the Phi Beta Kappa society, some new light on their history, 1916.
Neiman, Fraser. The Henley-Horrocks Inventory, 1968.
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It has all but eradicated homelessness in Finland, but could Housing First be the answer to Norwich’s homelessness problem?
A relatively new system aimed at solving the homelessness crisis, the concept of Housing First is simple - give a homeless person a home first with no strings attached, rather than put them in temporary accommodation.
The current reward system operating in the UK sees homeless people being secured a permanent home only after they have engaged with various other agencies that, for example, treat addiction, help with mental health problems or provide employment and benefits.
But with Housing First, a rough sleeper is given a home regardless of whether they are still abusing drink or drugs. It is founded on the principle of housing being a basic human right.
“The idea is it gives them incentive - you give them more to lose,” said Maria Pratt, from Norwich homeless charity St Martins Housing, which is leading the initiative in Norwich.
It has proved so successful in Finland that it is the only country in Europe which has consistently seen a decrease in the number of homeless people, and the model is being trialled in Norwich.
Although it is not the exact model seen in Helsinki, the project in Norwich works on the same premise - rough sleepers who are repeatedly circling through the reward system and not benefiting from it are given the chance to start afresh in a permanent home.
Research into Housing First locally began in 2013 and was led by Ms Pratt, who found 12 particular people repeatedly finding themselves back at the charity’s hostel, Bishopbridge House, more than once a year for several years.
The research allowed Ms Pratt to pilot Housing First by forming a multidisciplinary panel which included landlords willing to take on tenants on a Housing First basis.
But before it even began two people from the list of 12 died from drug overdoses, highlighting the grave situation persistent rough sleepers find themselves in.
Ms Pratt said the pilot was largely successful in that it helped to secure homes for two people who have gone on to live stable lives without falling back into the system again.
Her research now forms part of Norwich City Council’s rough sleeping strategy 2017 to 2022, with the council citing the development of Housing First on a larger a scale a priority to reduce the number of rough sleepers on the streets.
After a homeless person is given secure housing, the rental income could be sought through universal credit and a grant from the council’s supporting people fund could help with living costs.
“But there’s no money there - it has been reduced considerably,” Ms Pratt revealed. “In some areas in the country it is gone entirely because of cuts.
And it is not just the lack of funding that poses a problem. In order for Housing First to work at all there would need to be a major system overhaul in the way services are run.
Ms Pratt said: “The Finland model is quite unique, they have a different population size and they changed the whole sector into a Housing First system - the difficulty for us is we are sitting with the reward system.
The model is still in its infancy in Norwich and the potential to grow relies heavily on greater support and commitment from the entire public sector.
“We have had a rough sleeper who would regularly enter emergency services, get arrested several times and go to prison, and that would cost tens of thousands of pounds in public money,” Ms Pratt said. “But a small investment in the beginning could help to reduce large costs later on.
Figures revealed last month that the number of rough sleepers in Norwich has dropped.
Street count figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, released in January, showed that the number rough sleepers fell from 30 in 2017 to 21 last year, a 30pc decrease.
It brought the rough sleeping rate, calculated per 1,000 households, down from 0.47 to 0.33. It remains above the national average of 0.20.
The majority of those rough sleeping, 18, were male, and all but three were UK nationals.
Sixteen were aged 26 and over, with three aged under 25.
Dr Jan Sheldon, chief executive of St Martins, said there no room for complacency, and said the charity saw new people arrive on the streets every week.
She said every night spent on the streets was a “personal tragedy” for someone.
(CNN) — A woman with a mysterious smile is one of the most magnetic draws at the world's most popular museum.
Not familiar with her? Here's another hint: This centuries-old museum took a breathtaking modern leap in 1989 with the introduction of a glass pyramid outside.
CNN's Nick Glass looks at the maintenance and upkeep necessary at the world famous Louvre Museum in Paris.
CNN gets rare access to film inside the Louvre, including one of the first interviews with new director Jean Luc Martinez.
Not surprisingly, the Louvre in Paris is the world's most visited museum, with 9.3 million visitors last year, according to the 2013 Museum Index.
The index, released this month as part of the TEA/AECOM Global Attractions Attendance Report, is in its second year of tracking museum attendance.
The report tracks top museums in Europe, the United States, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region. Next year, Mexico and Latin America will be included in the museum category, according to engineering design firm AECOM, one of the organizations behind the index.
The top 20 museums for 2013 include six museums in London, thanks in part to the heavily promoted 2012 Olympic Games, which brought a boost in visitor interest in the city. Four museums in Washington, three in Paris, two in New York, two in China, two in Taiwan and one in Vatican City round out the rest of the list.
Click through the gallery above to see all the world's most visited museums.
Slow but steady wins the race. That seems to be the approach of FOX’s adaptation of Justin Cronin’s 2010 vampire apocalypse novel, The Passage. Seemingly tailor made for the big screen, Cronin’s sweeping trilogy of books — The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors — span decades following a viral outbreak that turns most of the world’s population into bloodthirsty monsters with enhanced abilities. Yet, years after Ridley Scott’s Scott Free productions picked up the rights to the story, and even set Gladiator writer and Penny Dreadful creator John Logan to the task of writing the screenplay, it was determined the project would be turned into an hour-long drama on television, network television to boot. The result is something of an odd fit, a heavily serialized road-trip series with hints of sci-fi and fantasy, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Agent Brad Wolgast and Saniyya Sidney as Amy Bellafonte, the young woman who may be the key to saving the world.
Not that you would know that by watching the pilot episode, or even the hour that follows. While The Passage wastes no time informing the audience that vampires exist (continuing the trend of recent years by turning vampirism into a viral outbreak), it’s in no hurry to get to the part where these powerful bloodsuckers are taking over the world and putting humankind on the menu.
An opening sequence sees Henry Ian Cuskick’s Dr. Jonas Lear and his pal Dr. Tim Fanning (Jamie McShane, Bloodline) venture down to South America in search of a man who is reportedly 250 years old. After finding what they are looking for, Fanning becomes a light snack and, jump forward three years, he’s now a semi-catatonic lab rat for a research project called Project Noah. The project is headed up by the D.O.D., as the military has characteristically perverted the original intentions of the project — to prolong life and create a vaccine to battle an impending Bird Flu pandemic — and in doing so has enlisted the help of Vincent Piazza’s Clark Richards to supply them with death row inmates who will test the latest iteration of the virus. After several small successes, the project determines that only a child’s immature immune system will allow the virus to offer all the benefits of vampirism (i.e., health, strength, prolonged life) with none of the nasty side-effects (i.e., sucking people’s blood and generally looking like roadkill).
As you may have guessed, Amy is that child and Brad is the agent sent to pick her up from a foster home, so she can become the next test subject. What unfolds next is essentially the broadcast networkification of Cronin’s sprawling texts. The conceit of a pending vampire apocalypse is placed on the back burner so that Brad and Amy’s surrogate father-daughter relationship can take center stage as he makes the moral decision not to take her Colorado, but instead go on the run, despite having little in the way of an actual plan. Soon, Clark is hot on Brad and Amy’s tail as they crisscross the nation with alarming speed, moving from Tennessee to Texas to Wisconsin in what seems like the span of a commercial break.
Writer Liz Heldens works to explain Brad’s change of heart regarding Amy by connecting it to his estranged wife Dr. Lila Kyle (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and the loss of their young daughter some years ago. Though Gosselaar and Sidney are both quite good and share a charming chemistry with one another, the familiarity of this track, the emphasis on fairly basic sentimentality (bordering on schmaltz) undercuts the urgency of Brad and Sidney’s situation, not to mention the global stakes that the series is presumably poised to introduce.
On that note, The Passage feels distinctly like two shows competing for the same space. On one hand is the Road to Perdition-like road-trip series starring Gosselaar and Sidney, and on the other is the far more intriguing narrative tracking the hubristic experiments being performed by Project Noah. The Passage has set up a potentially compelling dynamic between Cusick’s Dr. Lear and Dr. Major Nichole Sykes (Caroline Chikezie), a woman tasked with weighing the well being of a single child over the potential lives of tens of thousands of people. Add to that the inhumane experiments in which a collection of death row inmates have been turned into vampiric killing machines and you have a basic but still compelling basis on which to send the series into the apocalypse.
This section of the series takes advantage of its odd vampire specimens, turning Dr. Fanning into a psychic entity peering into the minds of fellow test subjects as well as the scientists who're holding him captive. Add to that Brianne Howey as Shauna Babcock (a gender-flipped version of the baddie from the novels) and Anthony Carter (McKinley Belcher III) and this section of the series will have you saying “Get on with it!” more so than even the laborious segments detailing Brad and Amy’s flight from Clark and Project Noah.
As adaptations go, The Passage seems only partially interested in focusing on what was so appealing about Cronin’s novel in the first place. Whether or not that will hurt the show in the long run remains to be seen. But at this point, delaying the encroaching pandemic to exploit the sentimental nature of Brad and Amy’s circumstances may afford the audience a chance to bond with series’ dual protagonists (as they bond with one another), but the trade off is a languid start to a series that comes with high expectations.
The Passage continues next Monday with ‘You Owe Me a Unicorn’ @9pm on FOX.
Published: Nov. 26, 2014 at 10:59 a.m.
Updated: June 30, 2015 at 02:28 p.m.
Oh Bill Belichick. I love the old Sith Lord, but he's starting to get predictable in his unpredictability. The vast majority of the world wasn't on Jonas Gray two weeks ago, and that was classic Belichick. He snuck in a guy who only a few of us played but under the most desperate of situations. And nobody expected the 40 points that came with it. That was just a bonus.
But nearly nobody in the world was caught off-guard when Belichick didn't give a single carry to Gray this week. Sorry Bill, we're on to you. That was way too easy to call.
I almost feel like Belichick will go full Alderaan here next week on our fantasy teams and pull out James White from the mothballs or something. But for one week, we were on top of this. The question now is what do we do for the coming weeks?
My conjecture is we see more of LeGarrette Blount in the coming weeks. He had double-digit attempts in four of his five December games with the Patriots last year and he could be in-store for similar production this year. He will likely default to the goal-line back and even if Gray gets into the mix, he would likely just take the Stevan Ridley carries this year.
Who else are we looking at for Week 13 and the final week of the regular season?
Speaking of Dalton, he has a nice matchup this week, too. The Bucs have been somewhat generous to quarterbacks, though last week was kind of an aberration. The Bears chose to just run the ball when they had the short field in the second half. Plus, the Bucs played out of their (donkey) for their coach who went up against his former team. Totally believable.
Yeah, he still throws some bad picks. Not that there is such a thing as a good pick. Actually, if you threw a 70-yard interception on third-and-50, that could be considered a good pick. Especially if the intercepting team got a 15-yard penalty tacked on. Then you would think it was pretty good. But this is a decent matchup for Sanchez. The short week will make it a challenge, so I would lean on the two guys above, but still not a bad choice.
He's much better at home compared to on the road, so again, if you are truly desperate for a signal-caller who at least has a good matchup, then you can make a bid with Flacco. The Chargers had been tough on quarterbacks headed into last week, but they will be a West Coast team who will play in the 10 a.m. time slot out here (I'm in Los Angeles), so this might be fun.
For the record, I mentioned on NFL Fantasy LIVE on Monday that I would look at some guys to have in case you have Tom Brady because the Patriots could have the No. 1 seed locked up by Week 16. Just giving a quick gander to the Week 16 schedule, Tannehill, Sanchez and Kyle Orton have some nice matchups. Just keep that in mind.
Mason has a tough schedule during the fantasy playoffs, but he could be very good for you in the week to get you into the playoffs. Actually, I'd feel rather confident with Mason for the rest of the year. He's nearly bled into that mix of players who you start regardless of the matchup because of his bulk rate.
I'm down with the Blue, even though he had a bad week against the Bengals. The matchup against the Titans is pretty good, too. I wouldn't start him if Arian Foster is a go. This is the kind of thing where you could reason he's going to see some looks even if Foster is back. But you know it wouldn't work that way. If Foster returns, he probably runs it 40 times because that's the way things work most of the time. Though, nobody told Hue Jackson last week when he gave the ball to Jeremy Hill a ton.
Hey look who is back from a bye week! Bryant didn't do much the last time we saw him. But he was targeted twice in the red zone, which was cool of Ben Roethlisberger. They didn't connect, which led to a poor stat line. But I do like this matchup against the Saints. If you watched Monday night, you would have noticed teams have pretty good success through the air against the Saints. Plus it's an outdoor game, too. Which just seems to help the Steelers.
And finally, let's step into the Danger Zone with Chuck Johnson. I know, I know we've by now seen the clip of Jerry O'Connell and Jimmy Koh who made this pick last week. So I feel like the guy who comes up and says, hey, have you guys heard of Carolina Liar while you and your buddy were just talking about the song "I'm Not Over." But I do like this matchup for Chuck. He's got a great matchup this week against the Panthers and if this doesn't get him over, nothing will.
Oh my God, the Titans have allowed the fourth-most points to tight ends this season. You know J.J. is going to get a touchdown, right? Oh man, if only we could play him in our Draft Kings lineup.
Oh crap, you need a defense. Let me get on that.
They play the Jets. That should be enough for you. Oh crap, my man Conrad already has them in my League of Record. The St. Louis FC is a really good option, too. So you have some room to play around with.
TransAlta stands by the Brookfield investment and strategic partnership and adhered to proper governance practices in negotiating and deciding to proceed with the transaction. The Board and its Special Committee firmly believe it is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders and other stakeholders. Many of our largest shareholders agree. In conversations with our major institutional shareholders this week, we continue to hear that shareholders are supportive of the Brookfield strategic partnership and investment.
TransAlta followed good governance processes in negotiating and deciding to proceed with the Brookfield transaction through all customary features of independent advice, committees, shareholder consultation and extensive review. We also went out of our way to enhance shareholder democracy with respect to a transaction that does not require a shareholder vote, including facilitating Mangrove's ability to object to the transaction, by offering a "governance out" that would allow the TransAlta Board to postpone closing and exit the deal if two or more directors not nominated by management are elected at the upcoming shareholders' meeting, and by granting Mangrove a 10-day extension to accommodate its express desire to nominate dissident directors.
In contrast, Mangrove and its joint actor, Bluescape Energy Partners, are offering shareholders nothing. They are making meritless accusations through press releases and what we believe to be an equally meritless application to two of Canada's securities commissions. They are offering shareholders no choice, no say and no alternative value creation plan.
We encourage all shareholders and interested parties to review our extensive disclosure contained in our proxy circular and on our website.
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. We provide municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers clean, affordable, energy efficient, and reliable power. Today, we are one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydro-electric power. For over 100 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud community-member where its employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and we have been recognized by CDP (formerly Climate Disclosure Project) as an industry leader on Climate Change Management. We are also proud to have achieved the Silver level PAR (Progressive Aboriginal Relations) designation by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business. For more information about TransAlta, visit our web site at transalta.com.
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A situation involving a barricaded subject in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Friday has been peacefully resolved, police said.
Police responded to the scene on Kearsarge Way around 2:30 p.m. Seacoast EMS and crisis negotiators also responded to the scene, according to Portsmouth police.
The situation ended about an hour later, police tweeted.
During the situation, Portsmouth police advised the public to avoid the area, which was described as a "major artery in and out of downtown Portsmouth area."
There is no information on the suspect at this time. Police have not released the circumstances leading up to the situation.
Police say the initial call came in around 2 p.m., though they have not specified the nature of that call.
At this time, there have been no reports of hostages or shots fired at the scene.
(New York) — Amnesty International today said Senegal must abide by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision issued Friday and prosecute the former president of Chad Hissène Habré on charges relating to large-scale human rights abuses during his time in power.
An extradition request from Belgium has been pending since 2005.
However, the ICJ failed to rule on other aspects of the case including whether the obligation to extradite or prosecute existed under customary international law.
In its judgment, it also failed to consider the matter of universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity, missing out on a unique opportunity to further develop international law in relation to these most serious of crimes.
Habré was overthrown on December 1, 1990, after a brutal rule that spanned more than eight years from June 1982.
He has lived in Dakar since being granted political asylum by Senegal soon after his ouster.
On February 3, 2000, the Dakar Regional Court indicted the former Chadian leader for “crimes against humanity, acts of torture and barbarity,” but a Court of Appeal later ruled they did not have jurisdiction to try acts of torture committed by a foreigner outside of its territory.
(January 01, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Confusion prevails in respect to complying with Section 23 of the Emergency Regulations. I am writing from my own experience as a chief occupant. Quite often the above form is personally handed by a police officer at the premises, with a request to fill same and keep it till it is collected by the police officer himself.
At the time of collecting same, the request for an acknowledgement is refused. Therefore for my own records, I make a photocopy of same for my file.
Quite happy with this arrangement, I was under the impression that the matter ended there. But that was until over a period of time the main water supply to a section of Inner Flower Road diminished. At present it is nil and bowser water is supplied regularly.
This involves the presence of one of the inmates to run up and down and assist in holding the hose etc. A government pensioner of advanced age and the only one at home during daytime, I am physically unable to cope with the prevailing situation. I therefore engaged an able bodied man from Nawalapitiya as a domestic aide.
He obtained the ‘Certificate of residence and character’ issued by the grama niladhari and is also in possession of a NIC. Then I produced him at the Kollupitiya Police Station for registration and was found fault with for not having registered all the occupants in the form.
I explained that I had already filled that form and was told that no forms had been given out by the Kollupitiya Police and was asked to fill another form. Then I set about complying with the requirements.
The procedure connected with the Householders’ List is very cumbersome. First the NICs of the inmates have to be surrendered at the police station. An acknowledgement is given on a photocopy of the NIC. The NIC is checked with the Department of Registration of Persons regarding its genuineness and then returned. Thereafter the names of all occupants have to be filled in the above form and two photocopies of the NIC of all persons, the original and photocopy of the grama niladhari’s certificate have to be given. The last phase, which is the most difficult one, is for all the inmates to be present at the same time before the OIC, when he is available.
The solar system's main asteroid belt, located between Jupiter and Mars, is thought to be the primary source of meteorites that fall to Earth. Asteroids and asteroid fragments are sometimes knocked out of the belt and hurled into space where they occasionally hit Earth.
Like meteors, asteroids are smaller objects left over from the formation of the solar system. It's believed that these pieces were prevented from fusing into planets by the tremendous gravitational effect of nearby Jupiter.
If you've experienced the frustration of a jammed GPS while driving, BAE Systems' new device will be good news. NAVSOP (Navigation via Signals of Opportunity) is an alternative to GPS that uses local-radio, mobile and TV-transmitter signals to locate itself. "Whereas GPS uses data from satellites orbiting Earth, NAVSOP builds up a database of satellites on the ground, which don't move," says the project's principal scientist, Ramsey Faragher. "If GPS is jammed, or fails due to adverse weather, NAVSOP kicks in at the same level of accuracy."
What's unusual is the way it calculates its location. "We wanted something that learns independently, so after a few days it doesn't need any external sources of data to work." The NAVSOP uses a learning algorithm that constantly corrects and recalibrates itself, based on confirmation from GPS. Quickly, it learns which signals to trust. "Eventually NAVSOP starts to treat GPS with suspicion and can tell if it's been tampered with," says Faragher. "All those signals can't lie to you."
Less than a month after its premiere on ABC, The Rookie is getting some outstanding news from the alphabet network. The cop drama premiered in mid-October to ratings ABC was highly enthusiastic over. Now, the network is doubling down.