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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 149
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 149
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Codelair Q&A
Shanghai`s subway system in comparison to Berlin and Munich
asked Aug 8, 2019 by freemexy (30.3k points)
There is justified admiration for the scope and speed of China´s construction of its public transportation infrastructure as a form of green urban transportation. In this short article, we want to shed light on the development and status of public rail network in Beijing and Shanghai by comparing their subway infrastructure to the urban public rail infrastructure of the two German cities Berlin and Munich. On first glance, Beijing and Shanghai have over the past years strongly outperformed the two German cities when considering the growth and length of the subway network (see Figure 1).To get more shanghai subway, you can visit shine news official website.
However, as this short article shows: despite the rapid growth from just one subway line with just a bit more than 40 km in length in the 1990s in both Chinese cities to today`s combined 1200 km, there is still need for further development which both cities are working hard on.
Beijing started constructing its subway in 1965 when less than 4 million people were living in the city. Shanghai meanwhile built its first subway line in 1993, at a time when the city counted about 9 million people. Since then, both cities not only grew their populations to more than 20 million inhabitants each; both cities also expanded their metros to become the longest (Shanghai) and second longest (Beijing) subway networks in the world with a length of 650km and 550km connecting 382 and 339 subway stations respectively. Figure 2 shows Beijing`s and Shanghai`s population growth and its subway network length from 1975 to 2015. Figure 3 shows the development of Beijing`s and Shanghai`s subway network length and number of stations from 1975 to 2015.
The history of public rail transportation in both Munich and Berlin goes back about 150 years. Berlin built the first horse-pulled tram in the world in 1865. Subsequently in 1881, Berlin started operating the world`s first electric tram. Berlin opened its first subway in 1902 and within 30 years built around 100 subway stations. Munich had its first electrified tram in 1895, but it took the city until 1972 to open underground public urban transportation (during the Munich Olympics).
Contrary to Beijing and Shanghai where public rail transport is dominated by subways (with the exception of Beijing`s airport and Xijiao line as well as Shanghai`s maglev), Berlin and Munich offer a wider array of urban passenger rail options:For the purpose of this article, we only look at subways and suburban rails in Munich and Berlin (i.e. we leave out the trams), when comparing it to Beijing`s and Shanghai`s subway system. Today, Munich has built around 200km of subway and S-Bahn tracks for its 1.5 million urban inhabitants (about twice as much for its metropolitan area). Berlin boasts around 400 km of tracks for its 3.6 million people living in the city (without the metropolitan area).
With the impressive expansion of Beijing´s and Shanghai´s metro system particularly over the past 15 years, a question that often gets asked is, whether China`s urban metro system is becoming the yardstick of subway systems. People tend to look at the length of the subway network and often are impressed how Beijing and Shanghai overtook the hitherto longest subway networks in New York or London in such a short time.
However, as length in itself is not the best yardstick of the public rail transportation quality, we analyzed in a simple first step how Beijing and Shanghai are comparing in terms of relative accessibility. Particularly we wanted to understand how big the average “catchment” area per subway station as well as per urban rail network kilometer is and how many people share one subway station in the four cities. For this analysis, we used all types of urban rail transport in Beijing and Shanghai (except the maglev train) and the U-Bahn and S-Bahn in Berlin and Munich. As mentioned above, we left out trams (with 172/808 stations and 82km/296km of network length in Munich/Berlin), and other rail-based public infrastructure of the two cities (e.g. regional trains that also connect different parts of the cities).
Welcome to Codelair Q&A, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of the community.
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News in Brief Prime Minister
PM Orbán: Sunday's general election is about securing the future of Hungary
The prime minister said there will either be a national government and Hungary will remain a Hungarian country, or there will be an internationalist government formed in essence by George Soros which would force Hungary into becoming an immigrant country
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has asked voters in Sunday's general election to not only think about the present, but also of the future of the country.
During his regular interview slot, the prime minister said that there will either be a national government and Hungary will remain a Hungarian country, or there will be an internationalist government formed in essence by George Soros that would force Hungary into becoming an immigrant country.
He stressed that Hungary’s development will have been in vain if immigration is allowed, as it will consume all the advantages produced by the country’s growth.
PM Orbán also said that Soros organizations are focused on immigration and the dissolution of Christian Europe. He added that by influencing elections they seek to ensure that pro-immigration and pro-Soros people are elected to national parliaments, and eventually into governments, thereby transforming the targeted countries.
He highlighted that in Hungary approximately 2,000 people are paid and working in order to bring down the government in the election campaign and to form a pro-immigration cabinet that is also acceptable to George Soros.
“We know precisely who these people are, we know names, we know by and large who, how and why they are working to transform Hungary into an immigrant country," he said, adding that this is one of the reasons the government presented the “Stop Soros” legislative package to Parliament.
The prime minister also stressed that at the EU summit in June Hungary must be represented by a prime minister who is able to protect the country from this plan.
The Press Has More Freedom in Eastern Europe than in the Continent’s Western Half
Reacting to a statement by Sweden’s foreign minister on Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI in a statement that recently it has become obvious that the press has more freedom in Eastern Europe than in the continent’s western half.
On Facebook Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Congratulates the Creators of Son of Saul
On Monday Prime Minister Viktor Orbán congratulated the creators and actors of Son of Saul for winning the Golden Globe Award in Los Angeles for best foreign language film.
Reinstating Military Conscription is not Necessary
In response to a statement by Sweden’s foreign minister, on Sunday Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi told public television channel M1 that the Government of Hungary does not see the necessity for reintroduction of military conscription. Keeping the manpower of the reserve force at appropriate levels is important however, he stressed.
János Lázár to Have Talks in Brussels
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office will pay a visit to Brussels on Tuesday where he will have talks with EU Commissioners and Hungarian diplomats.
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SETH MANZEL
Manzel is on the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War and is executive director of GI Voice, which operates Coffee Strong near Fort Lewis in Washington State. He deployed to northern Iraq from 2004-2005 where he worked as a driver, machine gunner and vehicle commander. He was in the Army infantry from 2002-2006.
GI Voice said in a recent statement: “The Army has … repeatedly demonstrated that it is more interested in making soldiers ‘deployable’ than it is in helping them fully recover from PTSD and other mental health issues. This often leaves soldiers with few options other than to self-medicate with drugs and alcohol. The Army routinely deploys soldiers who are clearly suicidal and homicidal. … It’s time to admit that the wars in southwest Asia are in no one’s best interests.” Manzel can also address racism in the military and how the military has dealt with soldiers who want to get out or are thinking of killing their commanding officers, known as “fragging.”
RICK REYES
Reyes visited Afghanistan earlier this year. After enlisting in the Marine Corps, he served as an infantry rifleman. He was deployed in “Operation Enduring Freedom” (Afghanistan) 2001 and then “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (Iraq) 2003.
Reyes is a co-founding member of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan. He said today: “We’re sending our troops to a mission that’s destined to fail. No military strategy is going to do what we say we want in Afghanistan because we don’t have the support of the people — we’re supporting a failed state. Yet, in the latest supplemental, 90 percent went to military operations.” See “Afghan War Vets Patrol Halls of Congress to Stop Troop Escalation”
JOYCE and KEVIN LUCEY
Joyce and Kevin Lucey are the parents of Jeffrey Lucey, who committed suicide after being in Iraq for five months in 2004. Joyce Lucey said today: “Let us make sure that this Veterans Day be for all veterans — especially those who are in greatest need; those who lurk in the shadows of train and bus stations begging for money to either exist another day or to feed a habit; those who reel in so much pain for their souls have never left the field of battle and those who have surrendered to the darkness and sought out death to finally achieve peace and rest. …
“There have been months such as January, 2009 when more American soldiers committed suicide than died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan combined — when the number of suicides have exceeded the formal count of those killed in action — and let us remember that these suicides are only those known.”
Peace Movements in Iraq and U.S.
Why Not Impeach Trump for War Crimes?
War Industry CEOs’ Stocks Spike
Iran: Trump “Wagging the Dog” as Democrats Egging on His Militarism
Behind the Iraq Protests: U.S. and Iran “Partners in Crime”
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WILKOWSKI et al v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY et al
Richard Wilkowski
District of New Jersey
WILKOWSKI et al v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY et al Complaint
WILKOWSKI et al v. ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY et al Docket
1. On or about July 29, 2013, plaintiffs RICHARD WILKOWSKI and JERSEY HOOKERS CHARTERS, LLC commenced an action against ACE by filing a Summons and Complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Ocean County, Docket No. SOM-L-2124-13 (the “State Court Action”).
2. On or about August 15, 2013, ACE was served with the Summons and Complaint filed in the State Court Action. A true and correct copy of plaintiffs’ Summons and Complaint is attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, and, upon information and belief, constitutes all process, pleadings, and orders filed in the State Court Action.
3. The Complaint asserts ACE issued Policy No. YKK Y08547518 which was in force at the time of the alleged incident. The Complaint alleges that plaintiffs are the named insureds on the Policy and that the vessel covered under the Policy is a 1989, ’43, Egg Harbor, Golden Egg Sedan, EGH431488999, more commonly known as the Motor Vessel “Jersey Hooker” (hereinafter referred to as the “Vessel”). The Complaint alleges that the Vessel sustained damage on or after October 31, 2012 as a result of Superstorm “Sandy.” The Complaint further alleges that the Vessel’s damages are covered under the ACE policy and that ACE has not paid the claim in full.
4. In particular, plaintiffs allege various causes of action. The first cause of action is asserted by plaintiffs against ACE and is described as a claim for first party coverage. The claim alleges that ACE has not honored its obligations under the Policy and seeks damages in the amount not less than $15,000.
5. The second cause of action seeks compensatory and punitive damages and alleges that ACE breached its duty of good faith and violated the unfair methods of competition and unfair deceptive practices pursuant to N.J.S.A. 17:20-9B-1. Plaintiffs allege that while New Jersey law does not yet recognize a private right of action under this statute, they should be permitted to pursue such claims as a result of Superstorm “Sandy.”
6. The third cause of action seeks to recover compensatory and punitive damages based on “consumer fraud and other statutory relief.” Plaintiffs allege that ACE’s conduct in refusing to pay for the loss was an effort to “leverage settlement” in violation of federal and state consumer fraud statutes and regulations and other statutes protecting New Jersey citizens.
7. The fourth cause of action seeks to recover compensatory and punitive damages and is described as a claim for “unconscionable business practices, retaliation.”
8. The District of New Jersey has diversity jurisdiction over this action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
9. Plaintiff RICHARD WILKOWSKI is an individual who resides in or around Ocean County, New Jersey.
10. Plaintiff JERSEY HOOKERS CHARTERS LLC is an entity domiciled in the State of New Jersey.
11. Defendant ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY is a Pennsylvania corporation with a principal place of business located at 436 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
12. All parties to this litigation are citizens of different states.
13. Plaintiffs seek $15,000 in damages in accordance with plaintiffs’ proofs, plus compensatory, consequential and punitive damages in an unspecified amount, and costs and attorneys’ fees as a result of ACE’s alleged breaches. Upon information and belief, if plaintiffs are successful in establishing their cause(s) of action against ACE, which is denied, plaintiffs may be able to collect damages which exceed seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000.00), exclusive of interest and costs. See Nautilus Ins. Co. v. Triple C Contr., Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1211 (D.N.J. Jan. 6, 2011) (holding complaint seeking an unspecified amount of punitive damages satisfies amount in controversy requirement for diversity jurisdiction).
14. There may be admiralty and maritime jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1333 in that the subject matter of this dispute involves an ocean-going vessel regularly operating in the navigable waters of the United States. Plaintiffs allege that the Vessel suffered damages which should be covered under a marine policy of insurance. ACE has valid and reasonable defenses to coverage, including but not limited to “wear and tear”, “gradual deterioration” and “breach of the insured’s duty to assist and cooperate with underwriters.” These terms and conditions have particular relevance to and are interpreted under the general maritime law of the United States. See Northern Assur. Co. of America v. Keefe, 845 F.Supp.2d 406, 412 (D.Mass. 2012); Lloyd’s of London v. Pagan-Sanchez, 539 F.3d 19, 24, fn. 5 (1st Cir. 2008); Central Int’l. Co. v. Kemper National Ins. Co., 202 F.3d 372, 372 (1st Cir. 2000) (“Suits on maritime insurance policies are classic examples of matters within federal maritime jurisdiction.”); McAllister Brothers, Inc. v. Ocean Marine Indemnity Co., 742 F.Supp. 70 (S.D.N.Y. 1984) (dispute involving marine insurance was within the original admiralty jurisdiction of federal courts and could be removed from state court); Monarch Industrial Corp. v. Am. Motorists Ins. Co., 276 F.Supp. 972 (S.D.N.Y. 1967) (suit against marine cargo insurer was properly removed to federal court).
15. In explaining its basis for subject matter jurisdiction, ACE does not waive"
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You are currently browsing articles tagged Warrenpoint.
When is a Round Tower Not a Round Tower?
February 15, 2012 in Ireland, Traveling in Ireland | 4 comments
I’ve been intermittently pursuing a minor historical mystery since visiting the Narrow Water Castle in Warrenpoint, Co. Down last summer. Across the river (as you can see from the photo at the top) a rather cool-looking round tower was peeking out of the woods, shadowed by a mini-tower on the muddy river bank (far left of the photo). The Narrow Water Castle is a pretty awesome place: they have a murder hole, a garderobe (medieval toilet — guaranteed to fascinate the elementary school set), and a gorgeous setting where the Newry river enters Carlingford Lough and then forms the Irish Sea, so I didn’t really think about much the round tower except as backdrop. Later I thought I should find out some more about that tower.
There’s a good website for tower spotters, roundtowers.org, that lists all the round towers in Ireland — at least the surviving ones — but I couldn’t find a tower listed in that part of Co. Louth. No problem, there are other resources, but again nothing listed this tower. I checked Google Earth, just to make sure I wasn’t mis-remembering the location. I Googled “round tower” with the name of every townland in the area, but found nothing except a couple of photos of “a round tower near Omeath” (the nearest village) on Flickr. So I appeared to have a round tower that nobody, except a few photographers, seemed to care about.
Finally, the “mini round tower” down by the river gave me a clue. Who builds a miniature round tower at the edge of a river in the shadow of a real one? Why build such a thing? Well, presumably as a marker for shipping, right? Then I found a different view of the mini tower and saw a solar panel hanging off the front. Then it clicked into place: this is a pair of lighthouses built to look like ancient round towers — one 16 feet tall and one 49 feet.
As we’re living in the internet age, there’s a lighthouse spotters database (actually a couple of them) where I learned these are the two “Newry River Range” Lighthouses, solar-powered channel markers built in the shape of round towers. It turns out there was a trend for building lighthouses to look like round towers in the late 19th century. Who knew? So there you have it: When is a round tower not a round tower? When it’s a lighthouse.
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Decorative Art 50s
by Charlotte Fiell & Peter Fiell
Page Extent: 576 pages
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers.
TASCHEN’s Decorative Art 50s explores the spirit of optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and construction had been enervated by research during the war and these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on bother sides of the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was looking to an idealized vision of the future—between them a modern idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This overview of the decade includes the work of such famous innovators as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Hans Wegner, and Gio Ponti.
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Top-15 Beautiful Bolivian Women. Photo Gallery
Bolivia - one of the most unknown and unexplored countries in Latin America for the tourist. In Bolivia strangely mixed Catholic culture with local Native American beliefs, lives a large number of sorcerers and shamans, is the most dangerous road in the world and the many attractions of the cities are located high in the mountains. It is also the only country in Latin America, where there is no "McDonald's", as the local people are very careful to cooking and "fast food" is simply not caught on. Not surprising that Bolivian women and girls always slim and fit figure.
Top 15 Most beautiful Bolivian women and girls includes famous actress, model and winner of beauty pageants of Bolivian descent and living in Bolivia or abroad.
15. Carla Ortiz (born 2 December 1976 Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a Bolivian actress. In the 1990s, she moved to Mexico City and later to Los Angeles.
14. Claudia Arce Lemaitre (born April 4, 1991 in Sucre, Bolivia) is a Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Bolivia 2009, representing the Department of Chuquisaca. In the development of the contest she won titles as Yanbal Face Best Smile and Best National Costume. Claudia stood for Bolivia in the Queen of the World 2009 contest held at Berlin, Germany, and also in Miss Universe 2010, without success. She was the first woman born in Bolivia's Department of Chuquisaca who participated in Miss Universe.
13. Yohana Vaca (born 1993, Litoral Bolivia)- Bolivian model, Miss Mundo Bolivia 2011 and Miss Bolivia World 2011. See also: Miss World winners
12. Ximena Vargas (was born 1987 г, Santa-Cruz, Bolivia) - Bolivian model, she represented Bolivia in Miss International 2010. Was crowned International Queen of Coffee 2012
11. María Desiree Durán Morales (born October 7, 1985 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) Bolivian model, who winner of Miss Bolivia 2005, in Miss Universe 2006 as Miss Bolivia (Top 10). See also: Miss Universe winners
10. Flavia Foianini (born 1989 , Santa-Cruz, Bolivia) - Bolivian model, beauty pageant titleholder Miss Bolivia World 2009, 4th runner up in Miss World Beach Beauty
9. Ana María Ortíz (born 1989 Beni, northern Bolivia) is a Bolivian beauty queen and model and Bolivia's delegate to Miss World in 2006. She had originally intended to venture into politics and to study political science. She entered the 2006 contest with Desiree Durán Morales.
8. Adriana Rivera (born 1980, Tarija, Bolivia) - Bolivian model and beauty pageant titleholder of Miss Tarija 2012, Miss Supranational Bolivia 2012. See also: Miss Supranational winners
7. Teresa Roca (born on 1987) - Bolivian model
6. Yessica Mouton (born in 1987) is a Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Bolivia 2011, 1st Runner-Up of Reina Hispanoamericana 2011 and represented her country in the 2012 Miss Universe.
5. Olivia Pinheiro (born October 29, 1983) is a Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Bolivia 2010 and would have represented her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant. Pinheiro declined to participate in the international competition after rumors about her real age were revealed to the press.
4. Daniela Núñez del Prado - Bolivian model and beauty pageant titleholder: Elite Model Bolivia 2006, Miss Santa Cruz 2011, Miss Bolivia International 2011. See also: Miss International winners
3. Ximena Herrera (born on October 5, 1979 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian-born Mexican actress. She has participated in telenovelas such as La madrastra and Corazones al límite.
2. Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress and sex symbol. Her father was Bolivian. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century-Fox. They loaned her to a British studio where she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, the doe-skin bikini she wore became a best-selling poster that turned her into an iconic sex symbol and catapulted her to stardom. She later starred in notable films like Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), and Myra Breckinridge (1970). She made several television variety specials. Welch is, as of 2013, a spokesperson for Foster Grant. See also: The most beautiful Hollywood actresses
1. Alexia Viruez (born May 4, 1994 Santa Cruz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder and model who was crowned Miss Bolivia 2012 and represented her country in the 2013 Miss Universe. See also: The most beautiful contestants of Miss Universe 2013
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#1 Jimmy Ross 2015-05-27 13:12
The women are so beautiful...
#2 Brian Crewe 2016-06-10 05:01
A correction to this article. YES, Yes, there is in fact a McDonalds on the main street in La Paz. I have been there
#3 Fredy 2017-07-07 03:23
The only beautiful one there is Raquel Welch, as they dare to compare with those Bolivians to the Welch. She is also American, not Bolivian.
And the ugliest is the one that occupies the first place, alexia that horribleeeee
#4 Diego Ramirez 2018-11-12 04:04
Raquel Welch was born as Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois.Her father, Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo (1911–1976), was an aeronautical engineer from La Paz, Bolivia.
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Family Christian Trio Meadow Lane an ‘Honor’ for Epperson
May 6, 2015 by Barry Currin · Leave a Comment
Jeremy Epperson isn’t afraid to take a leap of faith when it comes to his music and his ministry.
For 25 years, Jeremy was part of his family’s southern gospel group The Singing Echoes. But, when he saw the pieces falling into place to work with his two teenage children, he couldn’t resist.
The new project is called Meadow Lane, comprised of Jeremy, Anais, 17, and Bryson, 14. They live in Cleveland, Tenn.
“God has really blessed us,” Jeremy said. “I was thinking about it today. God had kind of given me some idea for a couple or three years before all this kind of jelled that he had something different in mind for my ministry. And, I began to pray accordingly and to ask him to kind of reveal to me exactly what it was.”
Meadow Lane is made up of Jeremy, Anais and Bryson Epperson.
The result was somewhat of a surprise. “I would’ve never guessed my two kids would’ve been involved in it,” Jeremy said. “My daughter, maybe; but my son, if you would’ve told me 3 years ago I would be singing with my daughter and my son, I would’ve told you that you are a fool, because I never expected Bryson to come along and be interested in it. But, God had a plan, and as soon as we began singing I thought, ‘This is pretty nice. I really like it.’”
He said parting with The Singing Echoes in Feb., 2014, was difficult, but added, “It became obvious what God was really looking for me to do in my ministry. That, of course, was for me to sing with my two kids. And, I’ve just been enjoying his blessings ever since. You know, you can’t out-give God; and, when you’re in his favor and doing what he wants you to do, the blessings just come and they don’t stop coming. It’s unbelievable. We’ve just really been enjoying It.”
He said Anais is a natural vocalist. “The nurses will swear up and down she was singing while she was in the delivery room,” he said with a laugh. “It’s always been a part of her life. She really makes dad proud. She would rather sing as do anything. There’s not a night she is on stage with me that she doesn’t completely knock my socks off with something new,” he said. “She’ll just absolutely surprise me every time, and, she’ll pull something out of her little bag of tricks vocally and just knock me off my feet.”
Bryson was somewhat of a different story. “He never showed that much interest in singing until a couple of years ago,” Jeremy said, “And, I started working with him a little bit.”
He explained, “I do the music for our middle school program in our church, and my daughter had already been singing with me in that. And, I said, ‘We could use somebody to sing baritone in here,’ and, reluctantly – at first – Bryson started singing a little bit and really liked it. So the three of us began singing.”
In the past 15 months, Meadow Lane has come into their own with their first album set for release Monday (May 11).
“We’re really excited about it,” he said of the album. “We’ve got some of the biggest writers in Southern Gospel music contributing to this album – writers like Jeff Steele, and Gerald Crabb, Kenny Webb, Gerald Sweatman, Michael Wee, Gary White. I’ve been honored to have a couple of songs put on there as well. I’ve written songs for several years, and It’s just nice to be among that gang of fantastic writers. We’ve got some great material on there.”
The album’s first single is called “Praise the Lord” written by veteran singer-songwriter Barry McDonald, also of Cleveland, Tenn.
“Barry is a great guy,” Jeremy said. “And, we had sung that song when I was with The Singing Echoes. But, when Barry pitched that song to them, I can remember the style he pitched it to. He’s a way different style than the Singing Echoes are of course.
“He kind of sings that singer-songwriter style. And, he pitched it to them a whole lot more contemporary than what they are. I always remember that. I loved the song the way (The Singing Echoes) did it too, but I could always remember the way Barry originally pitched it.”
Jeremy explained how “Praise the Lord” ended up on the Meadow Lane album project. “We decided to record this song by happenstance,” he said. “It was about two weeks before we were supposed to go in to do tracking for the album, and we realized we needed another song for Bryson. We said, ‘Let’s find something we’re somewhat familiar with so we can train him real quick.’ We listened to some songs we knew, and we put that one on, and he said, ‘I want to do that.’”
Barry’s song had to beat out a lot of competition to make it as the first single release, Jeremy said. “I believe we’ve got about five or six we can release to radio. They’re that good, and I’m not saying that because I’m partial to them. We just got that good of a cut on five or six songs.”
He explained, “I was having a hard time figuring out which song we were going to release (first). I was really worried about it; and, I got a call from Barry, and he said, ‘I’ve been kicking this around, and if you don’t like this idea it’s no big deal, but I’m starting to promote some of my own songs, and I would love to put this “Praise the Lord” song on the disc if you’d be willing to do that.’”
Then the decision became obvious. “The more I thought, and the more I prayed. And, I said, ‘I can’t pick another one,’” Jeremy said.
The song is already having radio success. “It charted high for a breakout artist, so we’re really excited about that,” Jeremy said – though he is quick to point out that spreading the gospel is more important than accolades and recognition.
“God is doing great things and making waves for us,” he said. “And, I’ll tell you what, we just can’t thank him enough. It’s amazing what God can do when you just let go and let him take the reins, and you sit in the passenger seat for a while.”
But, of course, being a proud parent isn’t such a bad feeling either.
“It’s an honor to stand and sing for the Lord any time you can do that, but I have found the honor and privilege that my dad has known for several years to be able to stand on stage with your son and your daughter and sing,” he said. “There’s a pride in that I can’t explain to you because it’s just a feeling you feel and nothing else can surpass that.
“It’s a great feeling to know that’s exactly what he wants you to do because he’s blessing you. When he starts opening doors you never expected to be opened, and closing doors you never expected to be closed, It’s a great feeling. It is,” Jeremy said.
Judging by Meadow Lane’s energy, those doors are going to stay open for a long time.
(Meadow Lane is performing at the Gospel Music Fan Fair Somerset Ky., May 18-23. Visit www.meadowlaneministries.com for their full schedule. Listen to “Praise the Lord” here.)
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We Lock It Locksmiths In North Lakes Queensland Leader For Security Solutions
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Student shot at Texas high school; suspect still at large
BELLAIRE, Texas — A student was shot Tuesday at a high school in Texas and a suspect remained at large, local officials said. Emergency crews were seen performing CPR as the student was carried on a stretcher to an ambulance outside Bellaire High School, KPRC-TV reports. There were conflicting media reports about whether the shooting happened inside or outside the school. The city, a suburb south west of Houston, confirmed on Twitter that there was a shooting and said the suspect is still at large. It advised resident to avoid the area around the school or remain in their homes....
Dem senator says he has 51 votes to restrain Trump on Iran
WASHINGTON — A Democratic senator said Tuesday he has at least 51 votes to support a bipartisan resolution asserting that President Donald Trump must seek approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said the Senate could vote as soon as next week on the measure, which is co-sponsored by two Republican senators and has support from at least two more Republicans. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky have co-sponsored the measure, and GOP Sens. Todd Young of Indiana and Susan Collins of Maine said Tuesday they...
US prepares for possible Iranian reprisal after drone strike
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials braced for Iran to respond to the killing of its most powerful general, noting heightened military readiness in the country and preparing for a possible “tit-for-tat” attempt on the life of an American military commander. President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 2 strike against Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, after the death of an American contractor in Iraq. Now, as the massive demonstrations of Iran's public mourning period for Soleimani come to a close, officials believe the next steps by America' longtime foe will determine the ultimate course of the latest...
Trump warns of sanctions if Iraq tries to expel U.S. troops
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian official. Trump’s comments Sunday came amid escalating tensions in the Middle East following the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force. Iran has vowed to retaliate and Iraq’s parliament responded by voting Sunday...
Kentucky AG asks FBI to probe former Gov. Bevin's pardons
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky's new Republican attorney general has asked the FBI to investigate a flurry of pardons by former Gov. Matt Bevin. The pardons have drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle after media reports highlighted some that went to convicts who had wealthy or politically connected families. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron wrote in a letter Monday that he has sent a formal request to the FBI to “investigate this matter.” “I believe the pardon power should be used sparingly and only after great deliberation with due concern for public safety,” Cameron wrote in the letter...
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Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: AAAS 2011, Health, Research, Sid Perkins
Sid Perkins
WASHINGTON, DC – Climate change will pose a number of challenges to food safety in the coming decades, from boosting the rates of food- and water-borne illnesses to enabling the spread of pathogens, researchers reported Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Depending on the greenhouse gas emissions scenario, global average temperature is expected to rise between 1.1° and 6.8° Celsius by the end of the century. And warmer temperatures are known to increase rates of some diseases: According to a recent study of salmonellosis in Europe, frequency of the ailment rises about 12 percent for every 1°C that air temperature increases beyond a baseline of 6°C, said Cristina Tirado, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The precise cause for this trend isn’t clear, said Ewen Todd, a bacteriologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing. It’s possible that warmer temperatures cause bacteria to grow more quickly, or people may prepare food differently in warmer weather (grilling outdoors vis-à-vis cooking in a kitchen, for example).
Climate change can increase disease risks in several ways, Tirado added. The concentration of methyl mercury in fish increases about 3.5 percent for every 1°C rise in water temperature. Warmer sea-surface temperatures can boost the frequency of harmful algal blooms, leading to an increased incidence of paralytic shellfish poisoning. Higher water temperatures also enable the spread of pathogens to higher latitudes: An outbreak of vibriosis on an Alaskan cruise ship in 2005, later linked to oysters that had been harvested near one of the ship’s ports of call, represents the spread of the disease-causing Vibrio parahaemolyticus to a locale more than 1,000 kilometers north of its previous known range. Dust storms, which are expected to increase in some regions due to climate change, could wreak their own havoc, because iron-rich mineral dust can drive a 10- to 1,000-fold increase in the growth rate of Vibrio bacteria.
AAAS 2011: Beyond the “California condor” approach to adaptation
Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: AAAS 2011, Adaptation, Biodiversity and Ecology, Ocean science, Sid Perkins
WASHINGTON, DC – Although no one knows the ultimate effects of climate change on marine ecosystems, scientists know enough about the oceans to proceed with adaptation, researchers reported Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. And while many previous studies have focused on minimizing detriments to single species of economic importance, future efforts should shift to preserving ecosystems and their capacity to adapt, they suggest.
While many people recognize the warming effects of climate change on Earth’s atmosphere, the oceans are sucking up heat too. Only 4 percent of the excess energy absorbed by the planet in the past 40 years has gone into heating the atmosphere, but 84 percent has gone into the oceans, a larger and much more effective reservoir of heat, said Chad English, director of science policy outreach at the Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) in Silver Spring, Maryland. (The rest of that energy imbalance has gone into warming Earth’s landmasses and melting ice, he notes.) Meanwhile, oceans are acidifying (by the end of this century, they’ll reach a pH lower than any experienced in the last 20 million years), sea levels are rising, and waves are getting bigger, driven by faster winds. The changes seen so far are just a preview of coming attractions, he suggests: “We’ve only seen [Earth’s] transient response to warming, and we don’t yet know at what point ecosystems will break down.”
Indeed, a wide variety of holes exist in scientists’ knowledge about when —and how — ecosystems will respond to climate change. While many studies have assessed the individual effects of warmer waters, increasing levels of ocean acidity, and lower levels of dissolved oxygen on various marine species, the combined effects of multiple stressors are largely unknown, said James Barry of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California.
Looking to save ecosystems by preserving a single species of importance probably won’t work, said Nancy Knowlton, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Such a “California condor” approach – a massive effort dedicated to preserving just one, usually charismatic species – ignores the fact that ecosystems are finely-tuned biological networks composed of numerous interacting species. In the case of coral reefs, Knowlton’s specialty, those ecosystems are home to more than 1,000 species of corals and between 1 million and 9 million species of fish and other organisms.
AAAS 2011: Ill effects of climate on ocean fisheries
Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: AAAS 2011, Biodiversity and Ecology, Economics, Research, Sid Perkins
WASHINGTON, DC – Climate change will dramatically alter marine ecosystems, wreaking havoc on many fisheries and exacting a huge economic toll, researchers reported today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Despite being overexploited, the world’s fisheries are still profitable: In 2003, they generated more than $24 billion in wages for fishermen, profits for companies and payments to resource owners, says Rashid Sumaila, an economist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Yet those profits – and in some cases the fisheries themselves – are threatened by a variety of ill effects brought about by climate change, he notes. Warming seas and rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will cause oceans to acidify, the habitable ranges of many species to shift substantially, and the size of adult fish to decline, to name just a few.
Climate models suggest that by the year 2100, sea-surface temperatures will be between 1.9° and 2.8° Celsius higher than they were in the 1890s, says Jorge Sarmiento, a marine biogeochemist at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. As a result, changes in the patterns and rates of upwelling that bring nutrients to the surface, among other factors, will cause primary productivity – the amount of biomass generated by the ocean’s food chain – to decline between 2 and 16 percent by the end of the century. While some areas, such as the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, will see slight increases in biological productivity, many areas, including much of the tropical and temperate seas, will see substantial decreases, the models suggest. For example, he notes, in 2090 the combined productivity of North Atlantic fisheries will be about half what it was in 1860.
Our pick of the recent literature
Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: Communicating Climate Change, Nature Climate Change, Olive Heffernan, Research
Each week on Nature Climate Change, we select three papers published within the last month that we find noteworthy for their novelty and wide interest. Our latest picks are:
Policy: Global cooperation game
International cooperation on technological development might be a crucial part of the much-needed breakthrough in tackling climate change.
Original paper: Golombek, R. & Hoel, M. International cooperation on climate-friendly technologies. Environ. Res. Econ. doi:10.1007/s10640-010-9442-x (2010).
Ecology: Downhill drive
Climate change can cause vegetation to move up- or down-slope depending on water availability.
Original paper: Crimmins, S. M., Dobrowski, S. Z., Greenburg, J. A., Abatzoglou, J. T. & Mynsberge, A. R. Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations. Science doi:10.1126/science.1199040 (2011).
Atmospheric science: Sun’s energy output
Accurately estimating the Sun’s energy output is vital for attributing climate change correctly. Improved measurements have now been obtained from a space-based instrument.
Original paper: Kopp, G. & Lean, J. L. A new, lower value of total solar irradiance: Evidence and climate significance. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L01706 (2011).
In the coming decades, the world’s coral reefs will suffer a variety of indignities, from global threats such as warming seas and ocean acidification to local and regional problems such as overfishing and nutrient-rich runoff. If carbon dioxide emissions remain high until the end of the century, reef coverage may drop by 50 percent or more even if local threats are addressed aggressively, a new study suggests. Despite this bad news, another study provides a glimmer of hope for long-suffering reefs: In some cases, the coral ecosystems that rise to replace ones blighted by climate change may actually be more resistant to disease.
In a paper to be published in Global Change Biology, Kenneth Anthony, a marine ecologist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and his colleagues modeled how reefs of branching corals of the genus Acropora would fare under various levels of climate change and fishing. In the team’s model simulations, ocean acidification and warming impair the growth and boost the mortality of corals, elevated nutrients in runoff fuels the growth of coral-stifling Lobophora seaweed, and more intense fishing drives down the numbers of herbivores that help to keep the seaweed under control.
Unsurprisingly, under the most extreme climate scenario — the IPCC’s A1FI scenario, in which atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide rise to exceed 900 parts per billion by 2100, compared to around 390 ppb today — reefs suffer the most. By the end of the century, even if fish graze about 60 percent of the seaweed each year and the nutrient content of runoff remains relatively low, the area covered by Acropora corals could drop to half today’s amount. If increased fishing drives the grazing rate below 40 percent, however, coral coverage plummets to near zero and the area occupied by seaweed rises to 40 percent or higher. A rise in nutrient-rich runoff would boost the growth of seaweed even higher, Anthony says.
The new analysis doesn’t include effects of non-nutrient pollution and coral disease, and it doesn’t account for any synergetic effects among global and local threats that would amplify known detriments from individual threats, says Anthony. “In that sense, our figures may quite possibly paint an overly optimistic picture.” Nevertheless, he adds, “coral reefs can survive climate change if they’re treated well at the local scale, but many people would consider a nearly 50 percent drop in coral coverage a significant deterioration.”
If there’s any positive aspect to be seen in the ecological havoc wrought by climate change, it’s this: The coral ecosystems that replace old-growth reefs could, in some instances, be more resistant to disease outbreaks, according to a study published online on January 17 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In that paper, Laith Yakob and Peter Mumby of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia propose a model in which climate change affects disease resistance in corals in two contradictory ways.
Media: Reporters get it right
Accurate reporting of sea-level rise is a welcome success story at the sometimes fraught interface of climate science and mass media.
Original paper: Rick, U. K. et al. Effective media reporting of sea level rise projections: 1989–2009. Environ. Res. Lett. (in the press).
Ecology: Pikas’ pain
Rising temperatures may be to blame for the disappearance of a mountain-dwelling mammal.
Original paper: Beever, E. A. et al. Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction. Glob. Change Biol. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02389.x (2010).
Energy: A carbon-free future?
Large-scale deployment of wind, water and solar power could decarbonize our energy system by 2050, academics say.
Original papers: Jacobson, M. Z. & Delucchi, M. A. Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials. Energy Policy. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040 (2010).
Delucchi, M. A. & Jacobson, M. Z. Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part II: Reliability, system and transmission costs, and policies. Energy Policy. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.045 (2010).
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Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: Uncategorized
Built environment: Cities to suffer
The world’s most populated port cities will be three times more likely to suffer from an extreme weather event by 2070, a study suggests.
Original paper: Hanson, S. et al. A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes. Climatic Change doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9977-4 (2010
Agriculture: Insights on adaptation
A historical look at grain growth in North America shows that past generations of farmers have coped with significant climate changes.
Original paper: Olmstead, A. L. & Rhode, P. W. Adapting North American wheat production to climatic challenges, 1839-2009. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1008279108 (2010).
Ecology: Climate relief
Plant leaf growth is boosted by carbon dioxide, but can, in turn, slow global warming, shows research.
Original paper: Bounoua, L. et al. Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation to greenhouse warming: A modeling approach. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L23701 (2010
Penguins feel the pain
Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: Biodiversity and Ecology, Research, Sid Perkins
A well-designed scientific experiment shouldn’t affect the behavior of its subjects or cause them harm. Yet that’s exactly the result of using flipper bands to identify individual penguins during field studies, one team of researchers now contends.
In recent years, scientists have increasingly looked to penguins as a source of data about climate change. The new evidence comes from a long-term field experiment conducted on a remote island in the southern Indian Ocean that was designed to do just that. From 1998 through 2008, a team led by Yvon Le Maho, an ecophysiologist at the University of Strasbourg in France, monitored 100 king penguins on Possession Island, a 150-square-kilometer landmass in the windswept Crozet archipelago. Le Maho and his colleagues implanted the penguins with transponder tags — similar to those implanted in pet dogs and cats — that allowed researchers to track the comings and goings of the majestic birds in the breeding colony there. But 50 of the birds in this experiment were also tagged with a metallic band around one flipper, the standard technique scientists have used to monitor penguins for decades.
Over the course of the team’s 10-year study, unbanded penguins fared much better than their banded brethren. Birds tagged with flipper bands had a lower long-term survival rate — dropping by 16 percentage points, or about 44 percent overall (note this was incorrectly reported in the original paper, a point picked up by AP journalist Seth Borenstein). Banded birds also had about 40 percent fewer chicks than unbanded birds did, the researchers report in the January 13 issue of Nature.
02 Nov 2010 | 09:52 GMT
A call to contribute
Posted by Olive Heffernan | Categories: Nature Climate Change, Olive Heffernan
Olive Heffernan
Next spring will bring a much-awaited and exciting new addition to the family of Nature journals. The newest of Nature’s research journals, Nature Climate Change will dedicate its coverage to one of the greatest challenges for science and society.
By and large, society now accepts that climate change is happening. But the science of global climate change is far from settled — large uncertainties remain regarding the rate of change and the scale and distribution of impacts. Less certain still is how we will respond as individuals and collectively to the problem. Although ample cause for concern, such uncertainty also brings the opportunity for new discovery.
Nature Climate Change, which becomes available in print from April 2011, aims to be the world’s leading research journal for documenting new scientific discoveries about how we will experience and respond to the challenges of a changing climate. With our online submission system now open, we are calling for original research articles from the natural and social science communities, in subject areas from atmospheric physics to psychology and policy. Central to the journal’s mission, and to addressing climate change, is reaching beyond traditional academic boundaries, and bringing together diverse expertise and perspectives. As such, Nature Climate Change especially encourages the submission of interdisciplinary climate research. Further details can be found in our Guide to Authors.
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College of Agricultural Sciences / Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Robert T. Lackey
I currently teach FW 620 (Ecological Policy) as an Oregon State University Ecampus online course. FW 620 is designed for graduate students in natural resources, environmental sciences, ecological sciences, natural resource and ecological economics, oceanography, civil engineering, marine resource management, political science, environmental ethics, and others with a background and interest in ecological policy, environmental protection, and natural resource management issues.
The catalog description for FW 620:
Emphasis is on current and controversial North American and international ecological policy issues. Primary focus is exploring the role of scientists, technocrats, elected and appointed officials, the public, and interest/advocacy groups in ecological policy analysis and implementation. Specific topics and case studies considered are: (1) basic principles of policy analysis; (2) managing wildfire on public lands; (3) balancing competing demands for scarce water supplies; (4) managing large predatory wildlife, especially wolves, cougars, and grizzlies; (5) recovering and sustaining wild salmon runs; (6) determining appropriate use of genetically modified organisms; (7) resolving multiple use conflicts in managing public forests; (8) tackling human-caused climate change; (9) assessing the political clashes over whaling and other marine mammals; and (10) unscrambling conflict and controversy over marine protected areas and ecosystem management.
For more information about this course, check out the Syllabus:
FW620 Syllabus – Winter 2020
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Spanish harp player and singer Quique Gómez talks about his experiences and friends in the blues fields
Posted by Michael Limnios Blues Network on November 26, 2013 at 5:30am
"The Music is culture and everybody has to support the music. If there is places where to play the music will keep alive."
Quique Gómez: The Universal Language of Blues
Madrid-born chromatic harp player and singer Quique Gómez is a self-taught musician. He formed his band, Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer – one of the top bands in the Spanish blues scene in recent years. Between 2002 till 2012, he runs with his band the Moe Club's Jam Session, Blues reference Jam of the capital, and that counts with the best musicians every week. While working sporadically with his band, in 2002 he joins the Tonky Blues Band, one of the pioneer blues bands in Spain. In the last years he's formed a not true blues band of Gatos Bizcos.
He goes to Chicago for first time at 2007 and since then he goes every year to the states where he shared stage with artists like Eddie C. Campbell, Tail Dragger, Bob Stroger, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Billy Branch, Billy Boy Arnold, James Wheeler, J.W. Williams, Magic Slim, Guy King, Buddy Miles, Carlos Johnson etc. during his visits to Chicago, where he spends periods of time when possible. It's in one of these visits to the Windy City when he meets Bob Stroger, renowned blues bass player and singer.
Quique Gómez is considered one of the top young musicians of the international blues scene. He tours Europe and South America with artists like Bob Stroger, Zach Prather, Eddie C. Campbell, Jimmy Burns, Tail Dragger and Willie Buck. In the last years he recorded some Cd's with his friend the Argentinian guitarist Jose Luis Pardo. He is the singer of one of the most prestigious Big Bands in Europe, the Bob Sands Big Band. Quique tours since 2008 in Europe with Bob Stroger and an band, formed from Italian guitarist Luca Giordano whom he recorded 2 Cd's, the second one “Chicago 3011 Studios Session” with special Guests as Bob Stroger, Eddie C. Campbell, Jimmy Burns, Billy Branch and a great rhythm section. Quique Gómez is passionate about Delta and Chicago blues, but he is not limited to these fields, as he's recorded with numerous bands, with styles like Jazz, Pop, Rock, Funky, and Soul.
Interview by Michael Limnios
What do you learn about yourself from the blues and what does the blues mean to you?
Well, The Blues and I we have been together for years. The Blues is not only Music, it is something else…For me it is my way of living and also a way of discover new places and new friends.
How do you describe Quique Gomez sound and progress, what characterize your music philosophy?
I started out with the old school blues (Muddy, Sonny Boy, Junior, Horton...) so my sound goes a little bit on that way, but I have many more influences, not only from the blues. I like big tone on the notes, I don´t need to play 7 notes in a second to feel satisfied. The band has to sound the best we can and sometimes the band sounds better if you don´t play or you just don´t play to much… I love to play, travel and meet people around the world, the music is the universal language and as a musician I feel very lucky…I met a lot of great friends since the beginning of my career and I hope to keep on doin’ it!!!
Which is the most interesting period in your life?
I decided to leave everything in Madrid and to go to Chicago in 2008, which was my dream…Once there I had a lot of great experiences that changed in some way my life….I had the opportunity of to play with some of my idols and even I played in the Chicago blues Festival with my friend Steve Arvey. Everything in my life since that moment changed and I don´t think I would be where I am now if it wasn´t for that period…
Which was the best and worst moment of your career?
There are a lot of great moments like when I had the chance to go to play to Africa, (Kinshasa Jazz Festival in Congo 2009) or when I played on the Chicago Blues Festival with Willie Buck one Saturday afternoon with the park packed of people. I had the chance of doing an amazing tour in 2010 with my friend Luca Giordano in Europe backin the great Jimmy Burns...3 great weeks playing in great stages around Europe…the band was sounded great!!! In Chicago too…. I played with Eddie C. Campbell on his birthday party in the Buddy Guy Legend´s with Buddy standing on the bar and backing one of my favorite artists ever...The worst moment maybe was in a tour with Bob Stroger in 2011 I felt in Milano and I broke my elbow so bad…I had to do 2 more shows with Bob and then I had a 10 days tour in Italy with my “brother” Luca Giordano releasing our first cd …I had to play 12 shows with a plaster in my arm and when I got back to Madrid I had to start a rehab that made me lose my flight to Chicago that year...Now my elbow is okay…
"Maybe Europe is more traditional now. There are not really many people playing traditional Blues on the States…" (Photo: Quique on acoustic set with Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer)
Do you remember anything funny from the Moe Club's Jam Sessions and the Tonky Blues Band?
When I began the Moe´s Jam Sessions I was 20 years old and during the 10 years I played there with my band Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer I had the chance of to play with almost everybody in Spain and a few blues legends on small Stage (Bob Stroger, Tail Dragger, Eddie C. Campbell, Jimmy Burns, Rockin´ Johnny Burgin...)
Tonky was already playing Blues in Madrid since the 80´s and he came to the Jam and he took Curro Serrano (the guitar player) and me for his band….We stayed with him around 2 years till we decide to focus on our band (we were doing with Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer more than 100 shows per year at that time). With Tonky, I had the chance of playing with Buddy Miles …
Why did you think that the Blues music continues to generate such a devoted following in Europe?
The Blues is related to a specific period of time and its society. It is a very powerful style….when you play it you can throw away all your problems for a while...It is true that we love the Blues in Europe but all around the world is the same…
What’s the best jam you ever played in?
In Chicago with Luca we were called to do the after blues festival party at one the great blues clubs, Rosa´s Lounge…We did it for first time in 2011, we were playing with our great friend and blues legend Bob Stroger on Bass and we needed a drummer, I said Luca why don´t we call Willie “Big Eyes Smith” on Drums?…Next day we were playing with Bob and Willie and Aryo Sumito (Billy Branch, Robert Jr Lockwood) on Piano...And all our friends they came...Jimmy Burns, Rockin’ Johnny, Peaches Staten, Eddie C. Campbell, Tail Dragger, Eric Davis, Pete Galanis, Breezy Rodio, Willie Buck, Lurrie Bell…That was an incredible night that I won´t forget !!
"The Blues is not only Music, it is something else…For me it is my way of living and also a way of discover new places and new friends." (Quique with Bob Stroger and Luca at Rosa´s)
What are some of the most memorable gigs you've had?
I remember a show in Spain, in Soria, a festival with Jimmy Burns, Luca Giordano, David Salvador and Guillaume Destarac…It was 2011 and there were like 5000 people in the audience….We burned the Place!!!! Jimmy was on fire…
The Released Party of the first CD of my band Los Gatos Bizcos on Sala “El Sol” in Madrid was a very expecial night when we packed one of the most emblematic venues of Madrid. That Was April 2012.
It was a great experience to Play in Kinsasha too for that great audience…
There are some more, Like the Show with the Bob Sands Big Band in Joy Slava Theater in Madrid where I was singing Sinatra or The Show of Juan Bourbon, Juan Scotch & Juan Beer on Teatro Lara (180 years old Theater)
Which meetings have been the most important experiences for you?
Definitely my first trip to Chicago changed my life and I meet my great friend Luca and also Breezy Rodio who took me on his house. That year, one night Lurrie Bell was playin´ at Rosa’s Lounge, on the west side of Chicago...I was there like on every show Lurrie was doing. That night he called me to play with him and when I went down the stage A guy came to talk to me….that night was the first time I talked to my great friend Eddie C. Campbell….
Luca and me, we went to see Kevin Johnson on Delmark and Bob Koester opened the door…he recorded a bunch of my favorite recordings with my favorite musicians, and he was sleeping on a couch on the store!!! Very nice guy!
"Some people told me in my beginnings not to play the harp all the time behind the vocals and that’s a great advice that helped me out a lot when I was backin many people…" (Photo: Quique with Eddie C. Campbell on stage)
Are there any memories from Eddie C. Campbell, Tail Dragger, and Bob Stroger which you’d like to share with us?
Well, I have very good memories with all of them…with Eddie spending days with him in Chicago goin to jam together and visiting his family and also playing with him on his birthday. Now he is on rehab after some health problems he had in Germany this January, while he was touring. This year he came to a BBQ we did with Bob Stroger, Billy Branch and Rosa (Billy´s Wife), Rockin' Johnny, Dan Carelly, Pete Galanis, he was on a wheel chair but he was looking better.
With Tail, I toured in Spain and South America and the states, where I had great experiences, but I should say that I had the chance of spend some days in Chicago with Tail, driving his van, goin out to shows with him and also playing in a Festival on a Beisbol Stadium, and I really enjoyed my time with him. First time I meet Tail he was playing with His Band (Rockin´ Johnny Band) on Roosters Lounge, on the heart of the westside of Chicago. Somebody told me that Sam Lay (Wolf’s legendary Drummer) was probably going to the small club and I was there with Luca….That night I had the chance of playin with Tail and Johnny and we had a great moment listening old histories of Sam Lay talking about The Wolf or Little Walter at the door of the Club.
Bob Stroger was the first blues legend I had the chance to play with. Bob is a gentleman, a friend and one of the most incredible people I have ever met. I learnt a lot talking with him on the van while we were touring in Europe, he is like an encyclopedia but he never tell you if you don´t ask him….My first year in Chicago he invited me to a BBQ at his house and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith was there, Little Smoky Smoothers, James Wheeler…a very especial day
Which memory from Willie “Big eyes” Smith, Billy Boy Arnold, Magic Slim, and Buddy Miles makes you smile?
I played with Willie once and was a great night for me; he was smiling all the time….
I meet Billy Boy at Artist´s Lounge in the Southside of Chicago (the club doesn´t exist since 2012). On Mondays Billy Branch was playin´ there with his band…It was hard to get there if you don´t get a ride, but Luca and me we used to go by train if we were not gettin a ride…That night we were there and then Billy Boy Arnold got into the club and stayed standing next to me… I was asking Luca, - Is this Guy Billy Boy???? You never know, everything can happen in Chicago.
When I played with Buddy Miles he used to give me his vocals microphone to play my solos, he was site on a table because the chairs didn´t feet him.
Photo: Quique with Bob Stroger, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and "Little Smoky" Smoothers, Chicago
What's been your experience from the US trip?
I feel lucky, because I had the chance of playing with some of the old school guys they are still playing and see where everything happened
What are the differences between European and American scene?
Maybe Europe is more traditional now. There are not really many people playing traditional Blues on the States….
Make an account of the case of the blues in Spain. Which is the most interesting period in local blues scene?
Madrid is a good place for livin, and also for the Blues, even if we have a great crisis because of the politicians. We have governor that is tryin to bury the live music….There are half of the places it used to be because they are closin´ the venues instead support the culture….Even though we have very nice clubs in Madrid and Spain. Any moment of the year, any week you can go out almost everynight and see a show….I have to say that it used to be better.
"The Blues gave me a way of livin….and the Blues are the roots every of music we listen today…" Photo: Quinque with Spanish band of Gatos Bizcos
What do you miss most nowadays from the Blues of past?
All the guys they are gone and I never had the chance of meeting them!!!
What are your hopes and fears for the future of music?
The Music is culture and everybody has to support the music. If there is places where to play the music will keep alive.
Do you know why the sound of harmonica is connected to the blues? What are the secrets of?
I don´t really know why a southern man in US took a harmonica in some moment around the 1900. The harmonica became a new instrument since then ……
How do you feel as Spanish and an Italian (Luca Giordano) to play the blues around the world?
It is Great!! We enjoy the travel because we are “travellin´ men” and we love to play Blues so….could you imagine something better???
"The Blues is related to a specific period of time and its society. It is a very powerful style….when you play it you can throw away all your problems for a while..." (Photo: Quique and Luca)
What is the best advice ever given you?
Some people told me in my beginnings not to play the harp all the time behind the vocals and that’s a great advice that helped me out a lot when I was backin many people….
What is the legacy of Blues in the world?
The Blues gave me a way of livin….and the Blues are the roots every of music we listen today….
Let’s take a trip with a time machine, so where and why would you really wanna go for a whole day..?
I always thought about that I grew up on a wrong period of time like most of the Blues and Jazz players today.
I would really love to see Sonny Boy Williamson playin in Helena, Arkansas in the late 40’s or Muddy Waters in Chicago in the 50´s.., Robert Jr. Lockwood, Lonnie Johnson, T-Bone Walker ...but I would say that there is a big moment I would love to be there…a show of Count Basie Big Band with Frank Sinatra at the Sands in Las Vegas.
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Remembering Nancy Reagan’s Courageous Fight for Alzheimer’s Research
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The news did not surprise her. In 1994, Nancy Reagan took her beloved Ronnie to the Mayo Clinic. The former president, her soul mate of more than 40 years, had been forgetting things, repeating himself, trying but failing to do the simplest things. When the doctors returned with their devastating verdict— Alzheimer’s, then a relatively new term—Nancy was already braced for the worst. “By the time you go in to get checked out,” a source close to the family said, “something has given you the idea that there is something very wrong.” Discovering what the enemy was did not make the toll the disease would take any easier to bear. In 1994, “nobody knew what to expect,” the insider recalled. “We didn’t know what questions to ask, what to talk about, what the future would be like.” Nancy did know one thing: The man who called her his “roommate” and wrote her love letters in their fifth decade of marriage was going to leave her—slowly, painfully, bit by bit.
So began what she called her husband’s “long goodbye,” which was, for her, ten years of exacting caregiving, hurried lunches with friends, ever-briefer phone calls to the outside world, hours spent with old love letters, and advocacy for research into the disease that was taking Ronnie from her. The story of her devotion was in a way grim and unrelieved but also tender and loving. The woman once mocked as a Lady Who Lunched showed more true grit than any cowboy Ronald Reagan ever played.
The former president himself had seen how difficult his descent would be, and as always, his first thoughts had been of Nancy. “Unfortunately, as Alzheimer’s disease progresses,” he wrote in his last letter to the country, “the family often bears a heavy burden. I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience. When the time comes I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage.”
Nancy’s “faith and courage” were on display as she led the nation in mourning her husband, who died on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93. Under the Capitol Dome, she kissed his coffin. She stood there, a solitary figure, an 82-year-old woman who had lost the love of her life.
The woman once mocked as a Lady Who Lunched showed more true grit than any cowboy Ronald Reagan ever played.
She never liked to be apart from him. In 1981, the night before she flew to England alone to attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer, Nancy wept at the thought of being away from Ronnie for a few days. At the White House, the first lady was portrayed in the media as a hard woman, a fashionista who plotted to fire her husband’s aides. The real insiders knew better; they understood she could be determined and even relentless but also emotionally fragile. She seemed to carry all her husband’s cares for him. “She never slept much; he did,” recalled a close friend. “He never worried about anything; she worried about everything.”
But on June 11, 2004, a day of liturgy and ceremony before her husband’s final rest, she was determined to be stoic and serene. In the long, creeping darkness of his disease, he had slowly drifted away, even from her. Now she was bringing him back into the sunlit realm of symbol and legend. Not since Jacqueline Kennedy had a first lady better grasped her husband’s myth and worked with such craft and devotion to enlarge and enshrine it.
At the funeral, Nancy was determined not to lose control. Her face seemed frozen at times. Speaking in the National Cathedral, George H. W. Bush told a story about his old boss’s charm. Bush recounted how Reagan was once asked, “How did your visit go with Bishop Tutu?” The president responded, “So-so.” The heads of state and media bigwigs and Hollywood types roared. Nancy’s mask dissolved, and she chuckled softly, a bit ruefully. We all did, recalling for a moment when it was morning in America…
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This article is originally from Reader Digest. Our dedication to Nancy Reagan – a courageous woman and an amazing wife/caregiver to her husband. Thank you for your contribution to Alzheimer’s Research.
Clift, Eleanor and Thomas, Evan. “Remembering Nancy Reagan’s Courageous Fight for Alzheimer’s Research” Newsweek. Reader’s Digest Megazine. June 2016. June 8, 2016.
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Parliamentary Event – The Crackdown on Human Rights in Bahrain
Posted date: October 18, 2019 in: Advocacy, Alwadaei Family, Death Penalty, EUP, Events, Freedom from Torture, Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly, Human Rights Defenders, Mohammed Ramadan, Husain Moosa, Parliament Watch, Reprisals Against Family Members of Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Revocation of Citizenship, TimeLine, UK, UN, Women DetaineesNo Comments
18 October – Yesterday, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR) co-hosted an event at Parliament to highlight the deteriorating state of human rights in Bahrain.
The event included a panel of experts who discussed the brutal crackdown on political opposition, human rights defenders and journalists, that Bahrain has faced since 2011. Hannah Philips from AOHR moderated the event and opened the discussion. She first focused on the suppression of freedom of speech and association and the deliberate denial of medical care and religious freedoms in Bahrain’s prisons. She went on to highlight Bahrain’s prison rate – the highest per capita in the Arab World, before introducing the panelists.
Lucilla Berwick, Research and Advocacy Associate at BIRD, discussed the findings of BIRD’s recent joint report with Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain on the abuses female activists and human rights defenders have faced since 2017 in the country, a pattern never documented at length before.
Lucilla Berwick discusses BIRD and ADHRB’s recent joint-report “Breaking the Silence“
Her remarks focused on multiple violations and abuses experienced by the nine women featured in the report, from the moment of their arrest, through their interrogation, trial and detention. These include physical, psychological and seuxal torture, denial of legal representation and inhumane prison conditions. Lucilla went on to describe the detrimental impacts of UK foreign policy, including training to police and security forces, which has “in some circumstances contributed to human rights abuses in Bahrain.”
In particular, she focused on the £6.5 million of technical assistance spent by the Foreign Office since 2012 to train oversight institutions which have been internationally criticised for their lack of independence. While the Foreign Office boasts about the success of these bodies, many victims tell another story. Investigations have routinely found no fault in the actions of state officials, often justifying abuses entirely. Yet, Lucilla said, “these are the very organisations that the Foreign Office continues to tell torture victims to refer their complaints to.”
Bahar Saba, Middle East and North Africa Caseworker at Reprieve, discussed the dramatic increase in executions in Bahrain, which resumed in 2017 after a seven-year moratorium. “Bahraini courts continue to sentence individuals to death in proceedings that fall far short of international standards,” she asserted.
Bahar Saba addresses Bahrain’s spike in death sentences
Bahar discussed the concerning cases of death row inmates Maher Al-Khabbaz, Mohammed Ramadan and Hussein Moosa, focusing on the torture they were subjected to to estract confessions. Not only does the death penalty itself conflict the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Bahrain is a signatory, but those sentenced to death regularly report due process violations and torture. “Despite its international obligations, Bahrain’s use of the death penalty continues to infringe on the right to life” she emphasised.
Bahar concluded by discussing how the number of individuals on death row has tripled despite the UK’s technical assistance programme. She particularly criticised the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman and the Special Investigations Unit, two beneficiaries of the programme, who she asserted have continued to cover up cases of torture, allowing individuals to be sentenced to death on the basis of forced confessions. Bahar called for greater transparency and more robust investigations.
The third speaker, Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima, spoke about his experience in Bahrain’s prisons and imprisoned father, 71-year-old opposition leader Hassan Mushaima, who continues to be denied medical care while serving an unlawful life sentence at Jau prison. “I myself, was in prison three times. The first time was when I was only 15 years old. I remember all the details… how they tortured me, the dates, and the cell I stayed in” Ali recounted.
Ali Mushaima makes a plea for solidarity with hunger strikers in Bahrain’s Jau Prison
Hassan Mushaima is recovering from lymphoma and suffers from multiple health conditions including diabetes, gout and high blood pressure. However, prison authorities have routinely failed to provide him with specialist care. “In order to get medical treatment, you have to agree to be humiliated” Ali said, referring to the shackles the administration imposes on political prisoners which violate the Mandela Rules on the treatment of prisoners.
In August 2018, Ali spent 63 days protesting outside the Bahraini embassy in London to demand Bahrain provide him with medical care. For 46 of those days he was on hunger strike. “You can imagine the severity of the situation if someone has to sleep on the street in London to demand medical attention for their father in Bahrain.” Ali also drew attention to the wave of hunger strikes in Bahraini prisons since August, including dozens currently refusing food in Jau Prison.
Olivia Rosenstrom, a barrister at Temple Garden Chambers, discussed the types of violations the Bahraini government is implicated in and the legal remedies that can be taken in order to stop them.
She emphasised Bahrain’s failure to fulfil its international obligations. The detention and harassment of photographers, journalists and activists, and the general crackdown on freedom of expression violates several treaties, including the ICCPR. She also condemend the continued use of coerced confessions in Bahraini courts, which violates the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), to which Bahrain is party. Olivia also mentioned some of the consequences of citizenship revocation, including barriers to free movement and access to education, employment and medical care.
Olivia went on to assert the necessity of human rights conditions on trade and security agreements. Unfortunately, the UK and EU appear to be taking a “pragmatic and commercial” approach to their relationship with Bahrain, prioritising strategic aims over. Olivia concluded by providing some concrete solutions; 1) to push for a UN General Assembly inquiry into the human rights abuses in Bahrain; 2) to apply economic pressure and sanctions from the EU, UK and other countries and 3) refer human rights abusers to the International Criminal Court and impose sanctions to offenders travelling to the UK.
The final speaker, BIRD’s Director of Advocacy Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, opened his remarks by playing a tearful message from his mother-in-law Hajer Mansoor, who complained about the poor and cruel conditions in the Isa Town Prison, where she is currently imprisoned in reprisal for Sayed’s work. The call reveals “the level of pain caused by the abuses taking place in prison” Sayed said.
Sayed went on to recount a phone call from Jau prison he received in July this year, which made him realise that two torture victims, Ali AlArab and Ahmed Almalali, would be executed within hours. “This is what I call the feeling of helplessness, and there’s nothing worse than helplessness.” Commenting on the failure of international condemnation to halt the executions, he emphasised the need for concrete action by states, rather than mere statements of concern.
He concluded by discussing the case of Moosa Mohammad, a Bahraini activist who climbed onto the rooftop of Bahrain’s London embassy to protest the executions. Moosa was brutally beaten by embassy staff members and police were forced to storm the building. He complained that Bahrain has faced “zero consequences” and criticised the UK government’s failure to respond. If Bahrain are emboldened to attack protesters in front of British police without consequence, imagine what they can do in Bahrain, when no one is watching, Sayed asked. He concluded by stressing the importance of parliament holding the UK government to account. “We do have a say,” he said, “and with everyone’s support, hopefully we can get there.”
The discussion was followed by a question and answer session, in which panelists reflected on the failures of governments and the international community to end abuses in Bahrain and hold the perpetrators to account. Solidarity was shown with Bahrainis from an audience member from repressive Eritrea, who shared her country’s experience with international human rights mechanisms and their limitations.
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I've read a few other D.E. Stevenson books, but this book takes the prize so far. No wonder it stands as one of Stevenson's most beloved books out of a lot of beloved books.
We start with our protagonist and heroine, Barbara Buncle, a spinster a bit past her prime, worried about making ends meet. Like many women of her time, she has slipped into genteel poverty. She's prohibited by custom from seeking gainful employment, her dividends have diminished to nearly nothing, and she isn't sure how she is going to make it through the winter, prices for things like heat and food are so dear in 1934. She needs to come up with a scheme to supplement her meager income. She contemplates chickens, but ultimately decides that she will write a book and sell it to make a tiny bit of extra money.
So she writes, although, as she explains, she has no imagination, so she has no choice but to write what she knows. And what she knows is her village of Silverstream, which she (barely) camouflages by calling it "Copperfield," and she knows the inhabitants of her village, whom she also (barely) camouflages by changing their names, so Dr. Walker becomes Dr. Rider, and Mrs. Bold becomes Mrs. Mildmay.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, as the case may be) Miss Buncle has an unerring eye for the human foible, and she gets deeply under the skin of the village inhabitants when the book becomes a runaway best seller. Mrs. Featherstone Hogg (aka Mrs. Horsley Down), a termagant who prides herself on her village status, gets a hold of the book and immediately recognizes the village, and herself, in its pages. Miss Buncle has published under a pseudonym, and the entire village is afire with trying to figure out who wrote the book. At the same time, the book seems to be having a queer effect on some of the villagers, and they start bursting out with interesting behavior all over the place.
There were several times that I laughed out loud as I was reading. D.E. Stevenson has written some lovely, lovely characters. Miss Buncle is a delight, as she, too, begins to act like her village counterpart, buying herself a new hat and a dress or two that swishes deliciously around her ankles, and generally gaining confidence and abandoning her repressed, spinsterish attitudes. She is astonished at how much money she has made, and is forced to make up a generous uncle to explain her sudden affluence. The youthful granddaughter of one of her neighbors, Sally Carter, is delightful and drawn with both kindness and affection. The doctor and his wife, Sarah, are wonderful. And the publisher, Mr. Abbott, is very funny.
There are several follow-ups to Miss Buncle's Book. The next in the series (spoiler alert) is Miss Buncle Married, which I have already ordered from Abe Books. I didn't buy the lovely Persephone copy because it was around $20.00, so I bought a recent Sourcebooks reprint for $3.99 (with free shipping).
For this one, though, BrokenTune sent me her gorgeous Persephone edition. I've actually never owned one of the traditional dove grey Persephones - they are hard to get a hold of in the U.S. I do have a few of their "classic" editions, which have the printed cover, and they are nice, but the traditional Persephones are just a pleasure to handle and read. The cover is buttery smooth, the end papers are gorgeous, and the printed paper has such a nice feel. Even though they are expensive, I might sign up for one of their book of the month clubs. I will treasure this one, and I imagine that it will become a book that I reread often as a comfort read.
TL/DR: I loved this book. It was simply delightful.
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There’s a clear difference between the life on villages during medieval times and today’s present living. The phase of life during the old times is rather slow yet, simple and peaceful. It is a kind of life where your grandparents went through and maybe, they are still as enthusiastic as ever whenever they brought stories of their unique childhood life.
During those days, agriculture is the main source of livelihood in early villages. They practically raise crops and livestock for food whilst most houses are made of bamboo and palm-leaf roofs, others are built using wood and stones. Millennials in today’s generation don’t have the chance to experience rural living and would definitely not know the struggle of everyday living back in time.
While living in the modern day village, crop farming and domestication of animals had been taken away. We now have concrete and steel houses which are painted and engineered with modern materials for housing. There are nearby restaurants and local amenities equipped with all our essential needs. Modern villages provide conveniences that old village life lacks, yet, the old village possesses a peaceful and quiet lifestyle that anyone would love to have back again.
Obviously, there exist great differences from the past and in today’s living. However, neither of them is above the other. We all have the freedom to choose how we want to live our lives and it all depends on the comfort level one wants. People are always fond of changes, longing for something new to happen with their life. The majority, however, have embraced the modern village living as it provides all the necessities and amenities we need. Most middle-class families have been the economic engine that sustained the growth of the real estate industry’s venture into a residential housing development.
Bell Moore Group Inc. has been part of providing service in satisfying the property needs of tenants and buyers for many years. It has come a long way to understanding the complex nature of property operations, just as the village has come a long way on its journey of evolving into what it is now. Whatever your lifestyle choice is, Bellmoore Group Inc review and understands your unique needs.
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Thanks to NetGalley and to Haper Collins UK Fourth State for offering me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review.
I had never read one of Jon McGregor’s novels before but I was curious by the description of this novel and more curious when I saw it had been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The biography of the author intrigued me even more and I finally managed to read the book.
The book starts with the disappearance of a thirteen-year-old girl, a visitor holidaying, with her parents, to a village in Britain (not too distant from Manchester and also near enough to Leeds and Sheffield for those cities to make appearances, so probably in the general area where I live). Despite a large search party and much publicity and community effort, the girl does not appear. At first, everything is stopped: Council meetings, Christmas celebrations, the lives of her parents who remain in the village for a long time. Slowly, things go back to almost normal, with only the anniversary of her disappearance as a reminder that something tragic happened there. Life returns to its natural rhythms. There are births, deaths, people get married, separate, get new jobs, are made redundant, people move into the village and out, cricket matches are lost (mostly), the weather is very wet, and occasionally dry, the reservoirs are checked, the quarries exploited or not, there are pantomimes, well-dressing, Mischief nights, birds come and go, clocks go back and forth, foxes are born, bats hibernate, crimes are committed, crops harvested, farm animals looked after…
The novel (if it is a novel) is a slice of the life of the community of that village. The story is told in the third person from an omniscient point of view, and one that seems to be an objective observer that peeps into people’s heads (and observes animals) but without becoming over involved with feelings, just describing what people might think, but not going any further than that. The style of writing is peculiar, and perhaps not suited to everybody’s taste. There are very beautiful sentences and a particular rhythm to the paragraphs, which are not divided according to the different characters’ points of view or stories and can go from weather to animals to a person’s actions. Each anniversary of the girl’s disappearance marks a new year, but, otherwise, there is little to differentiate what happens, other than the chronology and the passing of time for the characters, the houses, and the village itself.
There are no individual characters that have a bigger share of the limelight. We have the youngsters, who had known the missing girl, and we follow them, but we also follow the female priest, the teachers at school, several farmers, a potter, the newspaper editor and his wife, the school keeper and his sister… We get to know a fair bit about each one of them but not at an emotional level, and we become observers too, rather than putting ourselves in the place of the characters to share their feelings and thoughts. It makes for a strange reading experience, and not one everybody will enjoy. It is as if we were supposed to let the words wash over us and explore a different way of reading, pretty much like the passing of life itself.
There is no resolution (there isn’t in life either) and I have read quite a few reviews where readers were disappointed as they kept reading waiting for some sort of final reveal that never comes. We are used to classic narratives with beginning, middle, and end, and being confronted by a different kind of structure can make us uncomfortable. This novel reminded me, in some ways, of the film The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick, although in that case, the story was more circumscribed and here it is more choral (and less involved). Reviewers who know McGregor’s previous work are not in agreement about this novel, as some feel it shows a development of his style and is the best of his yet, whilst others prefer some of his earlier work. My advice to those who have never read him would be to check a sample of the novel and see how they feel (although, remember that the earlier focus on the search for the girl dies down later). This is not a spoiler as the author has said saw in quite a few interviews and it is clear from the description that this is not a mystery novel.
In sum, this is a novel for people interested in new and post-modern writing, rather than for those looking for a conventional story. If you are annoyed by head hopping and strange writing techniques and like to find a clear ending, then stay away from it. If you enjoy meditation and savouring every moment and are prepared for a different type of reading, you might be in for a treat.
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A Village Life
Garden-of-Stars
Louise Gluck is the only poet I can confidently call my favourite. I’ve enjoyed collections by other poets, and individual works by a few, but with Gluck there is always consistency, even if the style is a bit different. “A Village Life” takes on a very prose-like form, with longer lines and stanzas that, at times, could even be called paragraph. There’s also much more repetition and restating of the obvious. And initially this was confusing.
Like always however, there is a meditative tone to each of the poems. I’ve grown to love how Gluck has several poems in a collection with the same name as they mimic the same repetitive routine that is diluted by events such as outings with friends. The same way I grew accustomed, and even ended up loving, the repetitive wording and long phrases. “Hunters” was particularly beautiful in its simplicity and that cyclical, closely-knitted narrative that leaves the reader with a startling and dark finish. However it was in “A Slip of paper”, the next poem after, that I found my favourite couple of lines in the entire collection, for they reminded me why I enjoy Gluck’s poems as much as I do:
To get born, your body makes a pact with death, / and from that moment, all it tries to do is cheat
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News :: Education
How STUPID are the Americans?
by Maria Boremann
Email: maria (nospam) mail.is 28 Sep 2005
How stupid are the Americans? Why are they fooled by their government's energy policy?
Many Links to renewable energy web sites.
IS THIS YOUR ENERGY POLICY?
(from United States of America - copy of american professor's newspaper letter to the public)
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE AUTOMOBILE
We've been depending on the internal combustion engine (ICE) for more than 100 years and over all that time the efficiency of the ICE has climbed to just under 15%. The remaining 85% is waste heat, unfired combustibles.
YOUR PERSONAL COST?
For every $10 bill you put in your gas tank, $8.50 is wasted. It's not that 85% of that gasoline didn't produce anything, it means that only 15% was used to turn the wheels. The 85% produced waste heat, unburned chemicals.
THE HIDDEN STICKER COST?
We're addicted. And an addict will do most anything to satisfy their addiction. Money will be found, people might get hurt, and we'll make deals with anyone to get what we want. We depend on foreign imports for over 50% of our oil. If this sounds familiar it's because it's the same scenario that preceded the "Energy Crisis" more than 20 years ago.
THE ENERGY CRISIS WAS A SET UP
Our trusted trading partners (the dealers) flooded the market with cheap gasoline (the drug) and we (the addicts) of course just started using more. Then they cut the supply and raised prices. The cost to the nation was incredible. The cost to Detroit and the Big 3 was even worse. Suddenly, there was a market for smaller, high mileage cars and Japan was there to take that market.
D?J? VU IN 1999?
We're importing about the same, still making deals with anyone, the drug is cheaper than it's ever been (adjusted for inflation), we're using more (SUV's), and driving more than ever. It's obvious we don't have a clue.
DON'T GET CAUGHT BETWEEN AN ADDICT AND HIS DRUG!
Saddam Hussien was a dealer. We knew he was unstable and couldn't be trusted, but he was OUR dealer. We depended on him. Things you normally wouldn't even think about doing aren't an obstacle when you're addicted.
When Saddam moved in on Kuwait (another dealer) our supply was threatened. It was war. Our addiction is so strong we are willing to send our own children to war for gasoline.
Most drug addicts wouldn't go that far but for us it's a logical step. We were willing to use up natural resources regardless of the consequences. We were willing to pollute the air, the land and the water. Our kids can see their air.
As kids we dreamed of the day we'd get our drivers license. The fact that we're willing to sacrifice lives for gasoline is unthinkable, but that is our policy and what it says about our values is worse. We pay more for a gallon of coke, than a gallon of gasoline. Or do we?
THE PRICE AT THE PUMP
The cost of gasoline at the pump includes a tax which is meant for infrastructure.
COSTS NOT INCLUDED AT THE PUMP:
Value of clean air?
Value of clean rivers, lakes, ponds, drinking water?
Value of Natural Resources?
Value of quality of life?
Cost of military defense of "our" oil ?
USER PAYS?
The cost of our military defense of our oil is a tangible amount. It's estimated that if that cost were included, the price of oil from the Middle East would be $100 per barrel. The cost at the pump would be at least $3 per gallon. Instead of including that cost in taxes at the pump, it's being paid by every taxpayer regardless of whether they drive or not or how many miles they drive. Instead of a tax policy that promotes efficiency, we build the best highway system in the world but not the best schools. Our tax code allows corporations such as Exxon a tax deduction for the cost to clean up the oil spill from the Valdez.
The CAFE standards were introduced to increase automobile efficiency but due to industry lobbying these standards have been frozen for the past 5 years and Congress just did it again in 1999.
LET THE MARKET DICTATE COST
This can only happen when the true cost of gasoline is levied at the pump. This is also known as a tax shift and in this case we'll pay those taxes at the pump and not from payroll deductions.
The increase in the cost of gas would raise demand for high mileage (energy efficient) automobiles. Manufacturers, using currently available technology can and would build cars whose efficiency would eliminate the need to import oil. This would go a long way toward eliminating our trade imbalance as well as eliminating national security risks due to our dependence on foriegn imports.
In the end, the environment is improved. Although we've grown up believing that it's every American's God given right to drive an automobile, the truth is that everyone has the right to breathe clean air.
It doesn't make any sense that this issue is even being debated. What was sold to the taxpayer was the promise of "energy so cheap it you couldn't even meter it". What we have instead is the most expensive electricity, without including the cost for decommissioning or the unknown cost of nuclear waste.
OPERATING COSTS
These of course are passed on to you but be aware that you also contributed more than 50 BILLION dollars for it's development.
WASTE COSTS - YOURS
Here's the Nuclear Waste policy: Remove nuclear waste from nuclear plants all over the country and transport it through most every state, within 1/2 mile of more than 50 million citizens and store it anywhere we can regardless of what the locals residents have to say.
The US Congress is moving ahead with the development of a nuclear waste site in Nevada over the objections of not only the citizens of Nevada but their Senators and Representatives as well. The project will also violate EPA regulations.
BENEFIT VERSUS RISK
Sure we take risks all the time just crossing the street. If your crossing the street to get to work your risk of getting hit by a car is low if you're a law abiding pedestrian. You took a small risk and received a large benefit .. you made it to work and won't be fired today.
The problem with nuclear is we get all the risk and no benefit.
By law nuclear waste becomes the property of the US taxpayer. It's your problem now. The nuclear plant will one day be decommissioned, dismantled and also become your property.
Do you want the waste? Do the folks that produced that waste want it? If nobody wants it ? don't make it.
WHY MOVE WASTE?
A nuclear plant is a nuclear waste dump. Why create another and then take the risk of moving it all over the country?
Why be foolish and reckless like the Americans? You can choose an intelligent and responsible energy policy using sustainable technology. Sustainable technology creates long term economic growth with more jobs, a clean environment and healthy people. Are you going to follow the ignorant Americans? Are you stupid? http://www.bhopal.net
advanced technology resource list for Sustainable Economic Progress
ENERGY CONSERVATION and ECONOMIC PROGRESS
If every household in California replaced 4 (average 100 watt) incandescent light bulbs with 4 (equivalent 27 watt) compact fluorescent light bulbs, burning on average 5 hours per day, we would save 22 gWh per day - or enough energy saved to shut down 17 power plants. If the State bought these lamps for every household at $2 each, total cost would be $120 million. Could we build the same 17 power plants for $120 million? Not by a long shot!, book: Fuel Savers by Bruce N. Anderson .. Solar Indoor Llighting- http://www.solatube.com http://www.kalwall.com http://www.sunpipe.com .. Led Lighting- http://www.sloanled.com http://www.alpha-led.com http://www.theledlight.com http://www.superbrightleds.com http://www.ledtronics.com http://www.bvled.com.tw http://www.mobileled.com ..
~~}If every household in California replaced 1 average-flow showerhead with an energy saving showerhead we would save 1.3 kwh per day per household or 19.2 gWh per day - or enough energy saved to shut down another 15 power plants. If the State bought these low flow shower heads for every household at $1 each, total cost would be $15 million. Could we build the same 15 power plants for $1 million each? Hardly! ..
~~}If every household in California installed a solar hot water heater which saves 5.8 kwh/day, we would cumulatively save 87 gWh/day - or enough energy saved to shut down another 67 power plants. http://www.heliodyne.com http://www.solarthermal.com http://www.thermotechs.com http://www.sundasolar.com ..
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Wind Energy:
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(Note: you can save this web page to your hard drive. Then you can open the saved file on your hard drive and click on the links to access the web sites)
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Re: How STUPID are the Americans?
(No verified email address) 29 Sep 2005
Americans are stupid enough to elect Bill Clinton twice.
by Norex
Americans are stupid enough to elect people like Woodrow Wilson (twice), FDR (four times) , Truman (once), Eisenhower (twice), JFK (once), LBJ (once), Nixon (twice), Reagan (twice), Bush Sr. (once), Clinton (twice), and the current moron (disputed).
by Argo
....And are stupid enough to be brain-washed by the new ABC drama "Commander in Chief" (starring Gina Davis) so that they will vote for Hillary in '08. I wonder who produces that show ?? How tuff is it to request political asylum in Australia ?
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Life and Arts ›
Graduate student captures East side’s changing landscape
In her photo series, “Portraits of a Changing Economy,” Amalia Diaz, captures stories of the East Austin Community.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Amalia Diaz
Published on April 15, 2016 at 1:04 am Last update on April 15, 2016 at 3:27 pm
By Elena Mejia
When graduate student Amalia Diaz moved from Colombia to Austin, she used her outsider’s perspective to capture the changing landscape of the East Side through her camera lens.
“When you’re in a foreign country, you want to express yourself to show the ways you see your new environment,” Diaz said.
Diaz met her photography mentor Eli Reed, a UT professor, in his photography workshop in 2015. One of her class projects, “Portraits of a Changing Economy,” was featured in The Room Gallery exhibition called Latinas Artwork Expression. “Portraits” documented the gentrification of the black and Latino people who have lived on the East Side for generations are forced to move to north Austin because of rising costs.
Diaz said she drove aimlessly around the East Side and found emblematic places in the area to photograph, like Cisco’s Restaurant and dive bar La Perla. According to the owner, La Perla is the oldest cantina that still stands in Austin.
“Austin is obviously changing so much, and she went out there, and the pictures she took were more human,” Reed said. “She connected with people, they weren’t just subjects on the East Side. She captured these people in their places and their reality.”
Aside from old-school cantinas and restaurants, Diaz also visited new businesses, like Cycleast and Blue Cat Cafe, to show the pros of a changing economy. She photographed Cycleast’s mural called “Lotería,” designed in the 1980s to represent the Chicano culture on East Cesar Chavez Street.
“Last year, during South By Southwest, [the wall] was covered with another mural, and people were really pissed about that,” Diaz said. “At the end of 2015, they repainted it. You can see the mixture of an important symbol of the old inhabitants of the area that is now mixing with the new ones.”
Reed said Diaz’ ability to mix her scientific background with art is what makes her photographs unique. She does not photograph the surface of her subjects, but rather documents the past, present and future of a person in one single image.
“The most interesting breakthroughs in science come from people who have imagination and think beyond just the surface of things and that’s what makes the most interesting pictures,” Reed said. “Pictures have life to them. She’s not just taking what you expect. She goes beyond and brings it into focus. That’s when you know someone did something really good.”
Luis Herrera, founder of The Room Gallery where Diaz’s photos were featured, met Diaz when she worked as a volunteer photographer at the Austin Animal Center. Herrera moved from Mexico to east Austin seven years ago and promotes Latino culture and art in his gallery. He said he immediately became interested in exhibiting “Portraits” because of the fleeting nature of the businesses on the East Side.
“She has a good eye,” Herrera said. “Photographs take less than a second, and she knows exactly how to do it. There are nostalgic photographs from some of the east Austin businesses that could disappear in the next years.”
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This day in Southern African History: 20 April, 1968. SA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Jan Smuts International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa to London Heathrow International Airport that flew into the ground soon after take-off after a scheduled stopover in Windhoek, South West Africa (present day Namibia).[1] Five passengers survived while 123 people died. The subsequent investigation determined that the accident was attributable to pilot error. The accident is the deadliest aviation accident to date in Namibia.[1]
History of the flight
South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight of the Boeing 707-300C Pretoria, registration ZS-EUW, on 20 April 1968 from Johannesburg to Heathrow via Windhoek, Las Palmas and Frankfurt.
The first leg of the flight under Captain Eric Ray Smith from Johannesburg to JG Strijdom Airport, Windhoek, South West Africa was uneventful. An additional 46 passengers embarked in Windhoek, and some airfreight was unloaded and loaded.[2] The aircraft was only 6 weeks old when it rolled for take-off from Windhoek on runway 08 at 18:49 GMT (20:49 local time). It was a dark, moonless night with few if any lights on the ground east of the runway; the aircraft took off into what was described in the official report as a "black hole".[3] The aircraft initially climbed to an altitude of 650 feet (200 m) above ground level, then levelled off after 30 seconds and started to descend. Fifty seconds after take-off, it flew into the ground in flight configuration at a speed of approximately 271 knots (502 km/h). The four engines, which were the first parts of the aircraft to touch the ground, created four gouges in the soil before the rest of the aircraft also hit the ground and broke up. Two fires immediately broke out when fuel in the wings ignited. Although the crash site was only 5.327 kilometres (3.310 mi) from the end of the runway, emergency services took 40 minutes to reach the scene because of rugged terrain. Nine passengers who were seated in the forward section of the fuselage initially survived, but two died soon after the accident and another a few days later, leaving a final death toll of 123 passengers and crew.[3]
The investigation was complicated by the fact that the aircraft did not have a flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder;[4] the devices became mandatory from 1 January 1968, but the airline's inability to procure recorders meant that several SAA aircraft including, ZS-EUW, did not yet have the equipment fitted.[3] Captain Smith had 4,608 flying hours on the Boeing 707, but only one hour on the new type 334C, which furthermore had been under instruction.[5] The official investigation concluded that the aircraft and its four engines were in working order—primary fault lay with the captain and first officer, in that they "failed to maintain a safe airspeed and altitude and a positive climb by not observing flight instruments during take-off."[2] Secondary factors that may have contributed to the accident included:
Loss of situational awareness
The crew had no visual reference in the dark, leading to spatial disorientation.
The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series which removed flaps in larger increments than desirable for that stage of the flight, leading to a loss of lift at 600 feet (180 m) above ground level.
The drum-type altimeter fitted to the aircraft, was notoriously difficult for pilots to read;[6][7] the pilots may have misread their altitude by 1000 feet.
After investigating this accident as well as a number of others that also involved controlled flight into terrain, the Federal Aviation Administration determined that a ground proximity warning system would have helped to avert some of the accidents. New regulations were therefore introduced from February 1972 requiring all turbojet aircraft to be fitted with the system.[8]
^ a b Aviation Safety Network (April 1968). "Boeing 707-344C Accident". Retrieved 16 January 2011.
^ a b Haine, Edgar A. (2000). Disaster in the Air. Associated University Presses. ISBN 0845347772.
^ a b c Report by the Board of Inquiry into the Accident to South African Airways Boeing 707-344C Aircraft ZS-EUW at Windhoek on 20 April 1968 (Report). Pretoria. November 1968.
^ Alhadeff, Vic (1985). A newspaper history of South Africa, Volume 1984. p. 112. ISBN 186806008X.
^ Aerospace Medicine (Aerospace Medical Association) 44 (5-8): 683. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qt85AQAAIAAJ.
^ Barlay, Stephen (1969). Aircrash detective: The Quest for Aviation Safety: An International Report. Hamilton.
^ "FSF CFIT Task Force Aircraft Equipment Team: Final Report". Federal Aviation Authority. 1997-01-23. p. 17.
^ Brian Power-Waters (2001). Safety last: The Dangers of Commercial Aviation : An Indictment by an Airline Pilot. iUniverse. p. 150. ISBN 0595186939.
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_228 [20.04.12]
I flew for SAA at the time. We were all horrified at the accident.
Years later I wrote a book on my airline & other) experiences. "Flying Colors" is avaialable on Amazon.com, and also as a digital (ebook) on Smashwords.com . The book will surely interest anyone with airline interests. Read the blurbs on the websites to see for yourselves.
I should have added my name - not anonymous at all! Jonathan Danilowitz.
I wrote the Wikipedia article you've quoted here. I've been looking for information regarding the copyright status of the accident photos that are circulating the internet - any chance you can help?
Juan Nel May 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM
I am battling to get the blog page where I got the pictures from to load again. it looks like it might have been closed afterwards.
I've been searching everywhere for exactly what you've submitted.
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The Future of Music? Bjork’s Immersive Biophilia iPad Experience
by Michael Walsh on Mar 14, 2012
Biophilia opens into a three-dimensional galaxy with a compass allowing navigation between the 3-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional track list. Take a closer look by tapping on stars within the constellations and you’ll see that each is an in-app purchase that gives access to the inspired combination of artifacts for each new Björk song: interactive art and games, music notation which can be used to sing along karaoke-style, abstract animations, lyrics, and essays that explore Björk’s inspirations for the track.
Over the past few months there has been so much to follow in the world of iPads and music technology that you might have missed out on the groundbreaking Biophilia iOS application released by Bjork to accompany her recent Biophilia album. The truth is, apps that release to support albums, films and other marketed material usually fall short of interesting and I (wrongly) assumed this was the case with Biophilia when I heard about it. As it turns out, Biophilia is one of the most interesting interactive music applications I’ve ever seen (on any platform) and it is not at all a marketing gimmick. It’s an experience that aims to re-create the moments that originally made us fall in love with music through its interface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGOgiKxFjTY
I came full-circle to understanding when I was researching iOS apps for our blog column and came across the work of Scott Sona Snibbe, an established artist and interactive designer who released the incredible collaborative visual art app called Motion Phone. As it tuns out Snibbe was contracted by Bjork to help conceive Biophilia along with a few other artists who came together to conceive the project. Snibbe explained this process during a keynote speech at the Amsterdam Dance Event last October:
“When the iPad came out, she saw myself and a couple of other interactive artists and developers creating these naturalistic music apps, and invited us to come and work with her on the project. Biophilia is the first app album that’s ever been made. An individual app element corresponds to every song. This isn’t an add-on to the audio album. The album was conceived as this fully interactive project, and this is the strongest expression of it. You’d often sit on the carpet and let the whole thing wash over you while looking at the liner notes and artwork: it was a complete, immersive, sensory experience. That was the falling in love stage with the music, but I’m sad to say many of us may not have felt it in a really long time.”
When asked about how much control Bjork maintained on the project Snibbe explained that she was open minded to ideas but also knew what she wanted to do. “She had very specific ideas about the interactivity with the music. 80% or 90% of this is Björk’s vision, but she’s so gentle in the way she communicates it. She’s not at all a tyrant. It took me a while to realise that when she says ‘Let me think about it’, it means ‘HELL no!’”
In addition to Biophilia, I highly recommend checking out Scott Snibbe’s Motion Phone iPad application. This application is the result of 15 years of work that culminates into one of the most immersive collaborative art experiences available. The program allows users to create real-time motion graphics through the touch interface and collaborate across a network with other users. At 4.99 it’s currently one of the most interesting motion graphics programs that you can find for your iPad.
Biophilia,
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ios app,
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scott snibbe,
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Life in UAE
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A Guide to Moving the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates -the world’s most blooming business and tourist attraction is becoming the first preference for professionals and expatriates to settle down. The country is sharing the southeast end of Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf, east with Oman, south with Saudi Arabia and sea borders with Qatar and Iran. Desert and mountains cover about 90% of the country’s terrain. The country mainly consists of seven emirates namely; Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Umm Al-Qaiwain, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al-Khaimah, and Fujairah. Abu Dhabi is the capital of UAE and is the most densely populated commercial city of all the estates. Being an owner of oil reserves and experiencing two decades of diversification, the UAE has ultimately attained a reputation as a developed, commercial and economic leader around the world. The magnetic charm of career opportunities, tax-free income, and developed infrastructure attracts the expats to move to this region.
Facts about UAE:
The Number. 1 prosperous country of the Middle East is the UAE, while it is 29th on the prosperity index across the world.
In the UAE, English is mostly spoken as a principal language of business.
The working hours are generally between 40 and 48 hours weekly, while Friday and Saturday are considered the weekend.
The UAE economy is healthy and wealthy as the unemployment rate is under 2%.
This dynamic country accepts many religions and cultures, therefore, it is known as one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East.
Expatriates from over 150 countries constitute the 85% of the population of the UAE.
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The UAE as an Expat Destination:
UAE has several attractive facilities for the expats to move here such as; private education, world’s most fantastic and popular shopping malls, several entertainment opportunities, tax-free income, better investment opportunities, tremendous lifestyle and much more. That’s why; more than half population of the country consists of the expat community. Diversity in culture and languages is also a reason to acclimatize easily in UAE.
A Detailed Guidance to Move The United Arab Emirates
Here are some important things that can compel you to move UAE. Lets have a look at these!
The UAE culture is completely diverse, and it is considered as a home to people from all different nationalities. Each of them is contributing to modify the traditional culture of the UAE in all respects including, food, dress, language and talents as well. The UAE culture follows the Arabian culture and has been inspired by the culture of India, Persia and East Africa. Persian culture is noticeably visible in traditional Emirati architecture and folk arts.
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The majority of the population is Muslim. The core ingredients of the traditional cuisine are fish, rice, and meat. Seafood is the basic food of Emirates. Shawarma, balaleet, falafel, Al Harees, tabbouleh, and ligamat etc are the most popular Emirati cuisines. Besides the traditional food, the UAE cuisine has adopted several foods from West and South Asian countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, and India. Common beverages are coffee and tea. Fast food is rapidly gaining popularity among youngsters. Moreover, the hospitality in the UAE is very exceptional and alluring. A large number of local and international restaurants are operating in all the Emirates of this international country. They not only offer a variety of the world’s cuisines but also ensure that their visitors can get a wonderful dining experience in their appealing atmosphere. Many of them have also joined hands with online fast delivery services. So, it has become very easy to get your favourite meal at very affordable rate at home, workplace or any place where you want.
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It has been noticed a dramatic increase in expat settlement in UAE in last few years. The main reason is that the cost of living in many cities of United Arab Emirates is affordable for everyone. According to a survey, none of the UAE cities has been ranked as the top ten expensive cities to live in. Expats have better chances to earn as the low taxation on ordinary commodities such as local items, machinery and vehicles has a positive impact on savings. Residents in UAE enjoy cheaper utilities and subsidies on several public services as compared to the residents of other countries.
In spite of these facts, the expatriates who prefer luxurious lifestyle are willing to pay higher for the luxuries in this country. The reason is that the international brands and luxurious lifestyle cannot be accommodated in economical prices. Abu Dhabi, being the main sector of UAE, has numerous accommodation attractions. This developed city stretched with white sandy beach adjacent to the Gulf is one of the best weekend destinations. Al Mina Port, Emirate Palace, and Marina Mall are the best places to enjoy holidays. Hence, a layman cannot afford to own a luxurious apartment here. But, you can easily find a rented property at very reasonable rate to live in.
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An easy approach to the basic medical healthcare facilities means a lot for the residents of every place. United Arab Emirates has excellent healthcare facilities for the natives and the expats too. In some parts of the UAE, it is the responsibility of the organizations that employ foreigners to provide the basic healthcare facilities to the expats. However, in Abu Dhabi, it is mandatory for the employer to obtain a residential visa and finance the medical expenditures personally.
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Local transportation is quite cheap, feasible and accessible to move around easily in UAE. The morning hours 8 am-10 am and afternoon hours 1.30 pm- 3 pm are the hours when the roads experience dense traffic and difficult driving conditions.
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Education is one of the most important concerns that compel an individual to move another country. When an expat moves into UAE, he/she must be informed that expats have an opportunity to approach private educational institutes. But, they can’t have access to free education system or the government sponsored schools. Hence, there are some popular private institutions which have an efficient education system to meet the needs of international students.
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Business and Job Opportunities
Oil reservoirs are the backbone of the country’s revenue. Besides this, the country has a strong business infrastructure and opportunities for the natives and expats as well. This country is also experiencing an economic boom in the financial and construction sectors. The tax-free income benefits are the main temptation for foreign investors. They have more chances to settle down their business and achieve their corporate goals. Good wages and the affordable lifestyle are one of the basic reasons to move in the UAE.
The national language of the UAE is Arabic. However, English is widely spoken as the language of education and business, particularly in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The expatriate population also speaks other world languages. That’s why the majority of UAE expats don’t experience any difficulty when they communicate with the locals.
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The weather of the UAE is a subtropical arid; it has hot summers and warm winters. In hot season (April to September), the temperature range is over 50°C and the hottest months are July and August. While, the average minimum temperature range in January and February is between 10-14 °C. Sandstorms are frequent in this region. Additionally, the rainfall in the mountainous areas reaches to 350 mm annually, however, in the coastal areas, a low rainfall is recorded each year.
Ella Tindal is an enthusiastic European traveler who adores exploring the expat living in UAE. She dedicates herself to know the lifestyle of major cities of UAE. She shares her memories and experiences of different tours via Papaorder Blog. She offers information about anything including accommodation, transportation, and food etc. that may be helpful for you. So, if you want to read her travel stories, subscribe Papaorder Blog.
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Storyline, ABC flying with 'Pan'
Adalian, Josef
Daily Variety;7/26/2006, Vol. 292 Issue 16, p1
The article reports on Sony Pictures Television producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's collaboration for the musical revival of "Peter Pan" for the American Broadcasting Co. (ABC). Both producers are hoping that the ABC project will be ready for broadcast by the end of 2007. Meanwhile, Sony is producing the four-hour World War II miniseries "The Longest Winter," for ABC.
'Hex' marks the spot for Sony TV Intl. Guider, Elizabeth // Daily Variety;3/15/2004, Vol. 282 Issue 56, p8
Reports on the launch of "Hex," a co-production between Sony Pictures TV International and Shine Entertainment for Sky One in Great Britain. Sony's establishment of local production operations in various key world markets; Plot of the program; Reunion of the producers and director of the...
This time, it'll be 'Fantasy' as reality. Guider, Elizabeth // Hollywood Reporter;10/6/2009, Vol. 411 Issue 39, p3
The article offers information on the production rights obtained by Sony Pictures Television Inc. to produce a competition-elimination reality show, "Fantasy Island." Reportedly, the show is based on the original show that was aired by American Broadcasting Co. during 1978-1984. The show,...
Mystery of 'Pyramid': Sony TV yanks gamer. Oei, Lily // Daily Variety;1/15/2004, Vol. 282 Issue 13, p35
Reports on the move of Sony Pictures Television to cancel the production of the television program "Pyramid" in the U.S. Reason for the move; Disclosure on the ratings of the show of January 2004; Changes in the network's programming for the fall season.
'Guardian' guy in gear on dramas. Adalian, Josef // Daily Variety;10/20/2004, Vol. 285 Issue 13, p1
Reports on the contracts signed by television producer, David Hollander with Sony Pictures Television, ABC and Fox Television. Popularity of Hollander for producing and creating the television drama, "The Guardian"; Profile on Hollander; Career in television production.
The fire still burns. Andreeva, Nellie // Hollywood Reporter;8/5/2009, Vol. 410 Issue 47, p1
The article reports that writer-producer Peter Tolan is launching a television production company with agent-turned-producer Michael Wimer. The company will be based at Sony Pictures Television Inc. with a three-year overall deal. Tolan has been working on FX's television drama "Rescue Me," for...
NBC finds work for Sony TV's 'Slackers' Littleton, Cynthia // Daily Variety;9/25/2009, Vol. 304 Issue 59, p5
The article reports that NBC Television Network has ordered a premium script for a half-hour program from Sony Pictures Television Inc. and writer Mike Sikowitz. The author mentions that Anthony and Joe Russo will direct and act as executive producers of the program together with Bryan and Sean...
Sony TV has its 'Bad' guy. Schnieder, Michael // Daily Variety;4/3/2009, Vol. 302 Issue 65, p1
The article reports on the overall deal extension of "Breaking Bad" executive producer Vince Gilligan with Sony Pictures TV. It notes that Gilligan has already signed for the third season of the television program which is a critically acclaimed AMC series. Meanwhile, Gilligan serves as the...
SONY PICTURES TV. Birnbaum, Debra // Variety;5/19/2014, Vol. 324 Issue 2, p72
The article discusses the business initiatives of the entertainment company Sony Pictures Television Inc., focusing on the development of television programs such as "Better Call Saul," starring Bob Odenkirk, "Battle Creek," starring Josh Duhamel, and "Outlander" as of May 2014.
'Kidnapped' May Get Its Ransom in the End. // Broadcasting & Cable;11/6/2006, Vol. 136 Issue 44, p8
The article discusses the economic aspects surrounding the television program "Kidnapped." The author alleges that while the NBC Television Network gave up on the program, Sony Pictures Television (SPT), the show's producer, has recovered its money from the project. Also suggested is the release...
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Journey Makers: “Without DCT, I’m not sure how my mother-in-law would have travelled from hospital to her care home”
Ginette with her son Alan
ECT Charity is on a mission to end loneliness and isolation.
We do this by enabling those who are unable to access mainstream transport to venture out of their homes: whether for a shopping trip or doctor’s appointment, or an excursion to the seaside.
There are lots of people who work hard to make these journeys possible. Our Journey Makers series shines a light on them – from our well-trained, caring drivers to the community members who organise transport for local groups.
This time we hear from Journey Maker Suzi, who discovered that finding suitable transport to take her mother-in-law Ginette from Bournemouth to Devon, was no easy task.
Ginette had recently broken her leg, meaning that, as well as requiring a wheelchair, she would need extra support when getting in and out of a vehicle. Suzi had contacted various local transport services, but none were able to help.
Eventually, she made the journey possible by contacting Dorset Community Transport (DCT).
DCT, which is part of ECT Charity, not only provided a suitable vehicle for Ginette and her wheelchair, but also a driver trained in caring for passengers with a range of mobility difficulties.
Stories like these demonstrate that it is often organisations like Dorset Community Transport which step in when individuals slip the net of statutory provision. Suzi explains:
“I was struggling to find transport for my mother-in-law, who was being discharged from an NHS facility in Bournemouth and moving to a care home in Devon, to be nearer to her family.
“She had broken her leg badly and needed the assistance of at least two people to be transferred anywhere. Taking her in my car was not an option, as I am a part-time wheelchair user and would not have been able to assist in supporting her.
“I contacted various transport providers but was having no luck. My mother-in-law was not entitled to an NHS ambulance because the journey would be inter-county, and while my local transport organisation did have suitable vehicles, they couldn’t provide a driver to assist.
“In the end, I gave Dorset Community Transport a call, who thankfully were able to help us. I was told that we could be provided with a wheelchair-friendly vehicle, as well as a driver who could help her get in and out.
“I am not sure how we would have got my mother-in-law to Devon otherwise. It was a brilliant service, and I am extremely grateful for their help.”
Photo: Ginette with her son Alan.
Do you know someone who needs help getting around? Find out more about Dorset Community Transport here.
Categories: Dorset, Journey Makers
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As We Know It
“If we don’t act now, civilization, AS WE KNOW IT, will be destroyed.”
“If we don’t stop this asteroid, it will mean the end of LIFE AS WE KNOW IT"!”
But civilization/life as we don’t know it will be fine?
I really hate that kind of meaningless, reflexive verbiage. It gets added to proclamations, I think because the speaker has heard it so often that he thinks it’s necessary, even though it adds nothing to his statement. Or else because he’s a kneejerk twit.
There are other examples. After Nixon used the phrase “at this point in time”, perhaps during the Watergate crisis, everyone started saying “at this point in time” when they meant “now". Now, damn it, now!
Nixon was the first person I heard say, “I misspoke myself,” instead of, “I was mistaken,” or “I am a pile-of-shit, amoral, soulless, lying crook.” After that, other speakers started using that phrase. Which is okay if you’re a pile-of-shit, amoral, soulless, lying crook. If not, you should probably avoid it and just say something like, “Sorry, I spoke carelessly.”
The first person I heard say “with all due respect” was Jimmy Carter. It was during one of the presidential debates, either in 1976 when he was debating the silly but not evil Gerald Ford or in 1980 when he was debating the Good-God-what-an-evil-pile-of-stupid-shit Ronald Reagan. If I weren’t so old and if I hadn’t drunk so much bourbon, perhaps I’d remember which it was. Not that it matters. Silly but not evil on one hand. Evil pile of stupid shit on the other. Or Republican presidential nominee, for brevity’s sake.
(I think it was 1976, and I think it was in response to Ford clumsily misspeaking himself at that point in time about how East Germans or Poles saw themselves in relation to the Soviet Union. As we knew it.)
I remember being astonished at Carter’s using that phrase. Respect? I thought. For that gray space on the podium? Are you kidding? What respect could you, a highly intelligent, technically educated, well spoken man possibly have for that creature? Why did Carter say it? Was he trying, kindly, to soften the blow before demonstrating how brain dead the Republican was?
Why bother? If you don’t respect the other guy’s opinion, don’t bother with the empty phrase “with all due respect”. If you’re predicting the end of the world, then predict it; don’t add excess words like “as we know it”. If you’re a Democratic candidate debating your opponent, just say, “You’re an astonishingly stupid pile of evil shit, and the policies you propose would destroy civilization. You need to be shut away in a loony bin right now. Jerk.”
David’s Definitions for October 2010
Bromidic
An adjective describing platitudes, trite sayings, clichés. A person who constantly utters such stuff can also be called bromidic. This describes a lot of politicians and speakers at graduations. In the great musical "South Pacific," Nellie Forbush describes herself as bromidic - boring, ordinary, and "a cliché coming true." The adjective bromidic comes from the noun bromide, which refers to such platitudes and clichés. A person who tends to utter bromides can also be called a bromide. In turn, bromide comes from chemistry. Yes, chemistry! Not because chemistry is a cliche, but because a bromide is a compound of the element bromine and some other element, and 100 years ago, certain bromides, in particular potassium bromide, also called bromide of potassium, were commonly used as sedatives. Hence bromide came to mean something that puts you to sleep - like the typical graduation speech. Interestingly, the element bromine, where all of this started, has a very pungent smell, and the name bromine comes from a Greek word that refers to the stench of billy goats, which is not something that any of us would consider bromidic.
(Will be published in the October 2010 issue of Denver's Community News.)
The Scrabble word score of bromidic is 15.
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Fascinating Word Facts
Did you know that:
The words "race car" spelled backwards still spell "race car"?
"Eat" is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the last, spells its past tense, "ate."
And if you rearrange the letters in "Tea Party Republicans," and add just a few more letters, it spells: "Shut the fuck up, you free-loading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent, hypocritical douche bags, and deal with the fact that you nearly wrecked the country under Bush and that our President is black, so get used to it."
Isn't that interesting?
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Trauma Team
Penumbra: Overture
Retiring my Nintendo DS Lite
by Nate — Mon, 03/21/2011 - 5:00am
The Nintendo DS was the first game system that I followed from announcement to launch. It was way back early 2004 that Nintendo first hinted at a dual-screened handheld, then codenamed "Nitro." Considering that was the only information available, it's not surprising that many questioned Nintendo's strategy. Why two screens? Nintendo offered some hypothetical benefits, like extra camera angles for sports games, but their words were hardly convincing. Little did we know, it was Nintendo's first step into the "blue ocean" strategy that would lead the company to greener pastures.
And yet, the original DS launch in November 2004 came and went with little fanfare. I was aware of the date, but didn't even realized that it arrived until I walked through a Wal-Mart electronics section and saw the grey handheld on the shelves. I kept walking. I was Nintendo faithful, sure, but it was hard to get excited about a launch lineup headlined by something nearly a decade old. It wasn't until the impending release of Kirby Canvas Curse in the summer of 2005 that I decided to bite the bullet, trading in half of my Gamecube library to GameStop in order to pay off the Nintendo DS and one game.
While it's certainly worth praise in its own right, I think Canvas Curse deserves to be remembered as the flagship of the DS library; it was the first of a fleet of incredible games that would follow in its wake. A system redesign, dubbed the DS Lite, accompanied the platform's newfound software vigor. Reduced size, brighter screens, and an iPod aesthetic provided enough worth for many to upgrade (including me) and many more to buy in for the first time. The sleeker profile and beefier games are what truly began the success story of the best-selling handheld game system ever.
But even Nintendo's first detour in the generations-old graphical arms race would lead to a dead end eventually. With the launch of a successor, the 3DS, history tells us that the best we can hope for is a year or two of life support for what was once Nintendo's "third pillar." It was an incredible performance that none could have predicted, and I think the Nintendo DS deserves a hearty round of applause before its curtain call. I've decided to contribute to the celebration in that age-old tradition of blogging: the top ten list.
In no particular order, here are ten great games that exemplified some aspect of the Nintendo DS' legacy.
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kirby canvas curse
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ninja gaiden dragon sword
retro game challenge
rhythm heaven
by Greg Noe — Tue, 05/27/2008 - 10:00pm
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is a new action game for the Nintendo DS. It features 3D graphics with pre-rendered backgrounds and the story is set six months after the events in Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox. I recently posted my first hour review of Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden and was inspired to try out the newest offering in the series. This was an excellent decision because Dragon Sword was a great game and plays perfectly on the Nintendo DS. Read on for the full review, but note, Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is not to be confused with Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos for the NES or Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360.
Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden are NES and Xbox games with the exact same name. Ninja Gaiden for the NES came out in 1989 and Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox came out in 2004. I'm not sure why Tecmo and lead designer Itagaki didn't give the Xbox Ninja Gaiden game a subtitle, but it's too late to wonder, because there are officially two games under the name of Ninja Gaiden, just released 15 years apart. In first hour tradition, I will be only playing Ninja Gaiden for one hour, but because they are named exactly the same, I will first play half an hour of Ninja Gaiden for the NES, and then half an hour on the Xbox. This will complicate the review a bit, but I'll try to always make is clear what game I'm talking about.
This is an exciting time for the Ninja Gaiden series, as Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword was released last month for the DS and Ninja Gaiden II will be out in a few weeks for the Xbox 360. Remember, this is a new Ninja Gaiden II, not Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos which was released on the NES in 1990. Yeah, Tecmo does it again. I plan on playing Dragon Sword (not Dark Sword) someday as it sounds pretty cool, but this review is all about the first hour of the two Ninja Gaidens. So let's get right down to it. To start, the first thirty minutes of Ninja Gaiden for the NES.
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Police investigating Thursday’s fatal stabbing outside Killip Elementary
November 3rd, 2017 at 10:30 AM
Ethan Watson
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (November 2, 2017): The Flagstaff Police Department is investigating a stabbing homicide at the parking lot of Killip Elementary School. No children were injured during this crime.
On November 2, 2017 at approximately 3:00 PM Officers with the Flagstaff Police Department responded to the 2300 block of East Sixth Ave. in reference to a report of a stabbing. Upon arrival Officers found a male victim severely injured. He was immediately sent to the hospital when medics arrived. He was later pronounced deceased at the hospital. Police have identified him as Mr. Ethan Watson, 25 years of age of Flagstaff, Arizona.
Officers spoke to many witnesses in the area and learned the suspect was a native American male wearing a black hoodie, black pants and a white or grey hat. He was reported to have stabbed the victim and fled the area on foot. Officers canvassed the area and found a subject resembling this description on Dortha Ave. He was later interviewed as a person of interest in this homicide. Investigators located multiple items believed to be evidence on the scene and on the route the suspect is believed to have used when he fled the scene. The name of the person of interest is being withheld, at this time, to protect the investigation and potential prosecution of this case.
To date, Investigators have collected evidence and completed some interviews. They are currently following up and interviewing many other people who may have witnessed this crime, collecting and reviewing video evidence from the area, completing search warrants, and submitting biological evidence to the lab for processing and evaluation.
This crime appears to be an isolated incident unrelated to the operation of the school and there does not appear to be any safety concern for the public at large or the students at the school. This case is in its initial stages of investigation and further details will be released as they become available.
See our original post here.
UPDATE: Fatal stabbing outside Killip Elementary
Arrests made by Flagstaff Police & CCSO on 11/02/2017
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PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASALS
In the following story from The New York Times, the prepositions have been removed. Fill them in using words from this list, some of them multiple times:
after at by during for from in into of on to under with
The Minnesota Orchestra announced Thursday night that its president, Michael Henson, whose decision to seek a substantial pay cut _____ its musicians led ______ a bruising 16-month lockout when they resisted, would be leaving his post ______ the end of August.
The departure ______ Mr. Henson could pave the way ______ the return ______ its former music director, Osmo Vanska, who resigned ______ frustration when the lockout dragged _______ (phrasal). After the lockout ended this year, ______ the musicians agreeing _____ a smaller pay cut, Mr. Vanska said that he believed ______ the orchestra to heal, Mr. Henson would have to leave.
This put the orchestra’s board _____ a bind: musicians, critics and many fans were clamoring ______ Mr. Vanska’s return, but to bring him back they might have to get rid _____ the administrator who executed their strategy to try to put the ensemble _______ sounder financial footing.
“Michael has always supported the orchestra’s artistic mission, and when the board asked him to address the serious financial challenges _______ the organization, he faced this issue directly, re-organizing administrative staff and helping to deliver a musicians’ contract agreement that was difficult but necessary,” the chairman ______ the orchestra’s board, Gordon M. Sprenger, said _______ a statement. “It is never easy to be an agent ______ change, but Michael leaves the Minnesota Orchestra secure, _____ more solid financial footing and established ________ a beautifully renovated venue that will meet the needs _______ our organization, audiences and community ______ decades to come.”
The lockout made Mr. Henson something ______ a lightning rod, and even _______ it ended he continued to be viewed ______ suspicion by supporters ______ the musicians, who were eager ______ Mr. Vanska’s return. The orchestra did not mention Mr. Vanska’s future ______ Thursday night.
_____ Mr. Vanska’s leadership the orchestra had reached new artistic heights; _____ January the orchestra won the Grammy Award _____ best orchestral performance ______ its recording ____ Sibelius’s first and fourth symphonies _____ Mr. Vanska. Last month, when the orchestra played its first concert ______the lockout, there were cries ______ “Bring back Osmo!”
The labor battle ______ Minnesota was one _____ the most contentious _____ the world ______classical music. Citing high annual deficits that were forcing the orchestra to eat ____ its endowment, management initially sought to cut the base pay _____ musicians by about a third, to $78,000 a year. _______ the long lockout, the players agreed this year _____ a three-year contract that would cut base pay ______ 15 percent _____ the first year, ______ $96,824 ______ about $113,000 currently, ____ modest raises afterward. The deal required musicians to pay a greater portion _____ their health care costs.
This month The Star Tribune, citing anonymous members _____ the board, reported that the board had “voted strongly _____ favor” ____ Mr. Henson at a meeting _____ the end ______ February. Fans _____ the orchestra took _______ (phrasal) Facebook to urge the board to rehire Mr. Vanska.
Mr. Henson, who became the orchestra’s president and chief executive officer _____ 2007, said ____ a statement that working there had been a privilege.
“It has always been my aim to do what is right ____ the organization, however great the challenges, and I’m proud _____ our accomplishments,” he said. “The right thing now is _____ me to work to ensure continuity ______this transition ______ the next phase _____ the life ______ the Minnesota Orchestra, which I believe will be very bright.”
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A, AN, THE or NONE OF THE ABOVE
Here’s a quiz created from a recent business story in The New York Times. Most of the articles have been removed. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate article, or none.
DETROIT — American automakers said ______ new-vehicle sales in the United States rose sharply in January, raising _____ expectations that ______ industry’s steady recovery would accelerate in 2013.
General Motors, _____ largest of ______ Detroit auto companies, said it sold ______ 194,000 cars and trucks during _____ month, _____ 15.9 percent increase over ______ same period ______ year ago. _____ company said all four of its brands — Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick — had _____ double-digit increases in January.
G.M. also rebounded from ______ tepid sales of its core pickup trucks in ______ recent months. ______ company said ______ sales of its Chevrolet Silverado pickup increased 32 percent compared to January 2012, and ______ sales of _____ GMC Sierra improved 35 percent.
“The year is off to _____ very good start for General Motors,” said Kurt McNeil, _____ head of ____ G.M.’s United States sales operations. “There’s _____ sense of optimism among our dealers that only comes when you pair _____ growing economy with ____ great new products.”
Last year, _____ overall American auto industry had its best performance in five years with _______ sales of 14.5 million vehicles — _____ 13 percent increase over 2011.
______ (a)utomakers and industry analysts are forecasting sales this year to be as high as 15.5 million vehicles. _____ optimistic projections were in part because of _____ growing need by _____ consumers to replace _____ aging vehicles, as well as _____ improvements in _____ economy.
Ford Motor Company, ____ second-biggest of _____ Detroit automakers, said its sales in January rose 21.8 percent to 166,000 vehicles.
Ford reported that its passenger cars did particularly well, with _____ increase for the month of 34.1 percent. Sales of _____ recently redesigned Ford Fusion midsize sedan increased 64.5 percent.
Executives at _____ Ford said ____ company expects _____ consumer demand to consistently grow in 2013.
“_____ biggest driver of the year is going to be ____ replacement,” said Ken Czubay, ______ Ford’s United States sales and marketing chief.
Chrysler, ____ smallest American car company, said it sold 117,000 vehicles in January. That was _____ 16.3 percent increase over _____ same month in 2012, and extended Chrysler’s year-over-year sales gains to _____ 34 consecutive months.
Chrysler said _____ sales of ____ cars rose about 50 percent during ____ month, while _____ sales of ____ SUVs and trucks increased by 3 percent. Its new small car, ____ Dodge Dart, had its best performance since being introduced last summer, _____ company said.
Toyota, _____ largest Japanese automaker, said its sales in January grew ____ 26.6 percent to _____ 157,000 vehicles.
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THAT? WHICH? WHO? WHAT???
Complete each sentence with the correct relative pronoun.
1. Those ________ have done well don’t seem more likely to vote for President Obama, and those with less money appear to be least likely to vote for Mitt Romney.
2. Customers have complained since last week, when Apple released a software update _________ replaced Google’s map service with its own.
3. Correct or incorrect? By 7 a.m. he had 15 pages which quoted extensively from Young.
4. The second season of “Homeland,” ___________ begins on Showtime on Sunday, has to pry even deeper into its entwined and deeply damaged protagonists without burning out their mystery.
5. “Won’t Back Down,” an education drama __________ takes a good-versus-evil tack, stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis.
6. The precise reference is to an episode in ________ a young courtier, coming upon flowers, is moved to compose a love poem using irises as an image.
7. Correct or incorrect? Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised.
8. Misogyny and indifference remain obstacles for women globally, but those are values _________ can be absorbed and transmitted by women as well as by men.
9. It crowds out realism, ______ we need more of these days.
10. We have tax rates ________, by some measures, are near the lowest in the postwar era.
11. There has always been a subset of men _______ engage in crude, coercive and exploitative behavior.
12. Europe, ______ was less aggressive, has fared worse.
13. They also left a whole lot of lessons for the people _______ will have to battle the next financial crisis.
14. The protection would allow CRP to receive donations from corporations, _________ were forbidden by campaign laws to contribute to individual candidates.
15. Janet H. Brown is responsible for organizing and orchestrating the presidential debates, the quadrennial verbal smackdowns __________ can define candidates.
NOW: Write three sentences of your own, one of each using:
who(m)
Answer key: 4, 6, 9, 12 and 14, which; 2, 5, 8, 10 and 15, that; 1, 11 and 13, who; 3 and 7 are both incorrect.
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The Music Moments Of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show Debut
18 Feb, 2014 matt 0 Comments Articles
– Video Still Of Will Smith Hip Hop Dancing With Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show
TV history was made last night when after weeks of anticipation, Jimmy Fallon took the stage of NBC’s Tonight show as its host. 11.3 million people watched his debut episode, which featured cameos from Tina Fey, Mariah Carey, Kim Kardashian, Stephen Colbert, and several others. In addition taking a moment to recognize that moment in history, and watching him chat it up with superstar guest Will Smith, that sizable audience, which is nearly double the size of his Late Night finale numbers, got to see some cool music moments too.
The first of these, was when Jimmy took a moment to recognize his house band, which are known to many hip hop fans as the legendary Roots Crew. They came to the Tonight Show by way of working as Fallon’s house band when he was the host of Late Night, but prior to joining the NBC late night family in 2009, The Roots were known as one of the most credible and artistically innovative bands in hip hop culture. They released eight albums before linking up with Jimmy. Seven of those eight were for different Universal Music Group labels. Scholars of the genre have often recognized them as one of the most musically aware bands currently in the biz, even though there have been times that their acclaim hasn’t been matched by commercial success or mainstream exposure. Fallon naturally aware of this, put the last breakthrough nail in their “need for exposure” coffin, and praised their diverse musicianship and reputation to mainstream America on the largest platform possible. It spoke volumes for hip hop, and their decades of hard work.
The next of these music moments also came from hip hop, but in a silly way. Will Smith got his “Fresh Prince” on when he joined Jimmy for a skit called “evolution of hip hop dancing.” In the skit, which you can see embedded below, Jimmy and Will do comedic interpretations of different “hip hop” dances made famous throughout the years. Some standouts included, the two of them doing “the Carlton” made famous by Will’s Fresh Prince Of Bel Air co-star Alfonso Ribeiro, and “the Twerk”, which was most recently made infamous by Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke.
Of course, the biggest of the show’s musical moments came from its musical guests U2. They did two songs at different points in the broadcast. The first of them was “Invisible”, performed live on the rooftop of NBC’s headquarters, Rockefeller Center. The second was a semi-impromptu acoustic version of “Ordinary Love”, which progressed to include the accompaniment of The Roots. If you missed, watch! It made for great TV!
All the mentioned moments are embedded below. Check them out and enjoy. Cheers!
“The Evolution Of Hip Hop Dancing”
From: The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon
U2 “Invisible”/”Ordinary Love”From: The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon
Tags: Jimmy Fallon, Kim Kardashian, Mariah Carey, NBC, Stephen Colbert, The Roots, The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, U2, will smith
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Beckford and Waghorn to Leave Leicester
Tom Smyth
Leicester City striker Jermaine Beckford will be a Bolton player by the end of the week (Sky Sports).
The former Leeds front man has reportedly agreed a two year deal at the Reebok after accepting a massive wage cut, part of which involves a partial pay-off from the Foxes to end his contract, which ends in 2015. Negotiations for Beckford, 29, have been carried out for over two months now but a deal looks to be finalised and the the Jamaican international will join up with the Wanderers’ squad next week.
It was initially reported that there was to be a fee of just under £1 million for the striker however more recent reports suggest that the deal will now be a free transfer after Bolton are unable to pay a huge fee and Leicester are desperate to reduce their wage bill. The new Financial Fair Play rulings, starting next month with the new season, mean that Leicester must sell before they can buy and players on larger wages, like Beckford, must leave in order for any new recruits to come in, as City haven’t made a single signing this summer.
Bolton on the other hand have made a number of signings so far this transfer window, including former Blackpool defender Alex Baptiste and full-back Marc Tierney from Premier League side Norwich, all of these players joining up with Dougie Freedman’s squad for pre-season preparations, a squad which Beckford will be relishing to join to get his career back on track. Freedman spoke of his delight at the signing of Beckford during an interview with the BBC: “He’s a proven goalscorer and I think he’ll be very good for this football club.
“”He’s right up my street in terms of what I try and buy. Jermaine has lost that fantastic goalscoring record over the last couple of years and he’s got a point to prove in that way, but he doesn’t need to prove anything to me in terms of his attitude.””
This is something that Leicester boss Nigel Pearson may disagree with, however, after reports of numerous fall outs with the player in the past season. Pearson loaned Beckford out to Huddersfield for the majority of the season amid reports that they had both been involved in a training ground bust-up. Nevertheless, Beckford made 21 appearances for the Terriers, scoring 8 goals in the process.
The ex-Everton man has scored 15 times in 49 appearances for the Foxes, but a clause in his contract means appearing in another game will mean City will have to pay the Merseyside club another £1million, taking his total transfer to Leicester in excess of £4million.
Meanwhile, fellow Leicester striker Martyn Waghorn is on the verge of a move out of the King Power Stadium (Lion of Vienna Suite). The former Sunderland man was loaned to City in 2009, scoring 12 times in 42 appearances. His good form led to a permanent transfer from the Stadium of Light where he has gone on to play a further 68 games. However the former England Under-21 player has fallen down the pecking order with the Foxes behind Chris Wood, David Nugent, Jeff Schlupp and Jamie Vardy, and the 23 year old looks unlikely to be given a chance to prove his worth.
With the Financial Fair Play regulations, Leicester need to get rid of anyone surplus to requirements and with Milwall, Bolton and Wolves all looking to come in for the player, a transfer looks to be on the cards. Whether it will go through however remains to be seen. Waghorn is unlikely to want to drop divisions to Wolves and he has always maintained that he will fight for his place at the club he holds close to his heart. As well as this, City are reluctant to let the forward go cheaply as they look to recoup a lot of the £1.7million spent on him three years ago, and this stance may price a lot of clubs out of the market.
Waghorn scored 3 goals in 28 appearances for City last term, however most of these came off the bench in an indifferent season which saw the front man sit on the sidelines, so first team football may be an incentive for the striker, who scored a second-half goal to clinch a win in a friendly against Leamington last weekend. The future for the South Shields striker remains to be seen.
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Holy Land & Rome with St Peter Claver September 2021
Led by Fr Tom Segami OMI
5 – 17 September 2021
Join St Peter Claver parish in Pimville, Soweto, on this beautiful pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Rome!
We depart from Johannesburg International Airport on our night-flight to start our pilgrimage.
In Rome, we visit the basilicas of St John Lateran, the pope’s cathedral as Bishop of Rome, and St Mary Major, one of the oldest churches in the world, having originally been built in the fifth century. There we can see the famous Marian icon at which Pope Francis prays before and after every foreign trip. After lunch we discover the Rome of the Renaissance with places like the Trevi Fountain, Navona Square, and so on, as well as the Pantheon, which was built in the second century.
Today is our Vatican day! We are guided through St Peter’s Basilica with its many religious and artistic treasures, including the tombs of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II. We then go into the Catacombs, the long underground cemeteries which the early Christians used as a place of hiding to escape persecution. In the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls we visit the tomb of St Paul and see his reputed prison chains, as well as every pope in history represented in mosaic medallions.
St Peter’s Basilica
Today we see the Pope at his weekly general papal audience (if the Holy Father is not travelling that day). In St Peter’s Square is driven around in the popemobile, so we can get a good look at him. After the audience we have time for lunch, and a visit to the general house of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. We also have opportunity to see the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, and Roman Forum.
We complete our programme in Rome before transferring to Fiumicino Airport for our flight to Tel Aviv.
In Nazareth we visit the Basilica of the Annunciation with the grotto where the Archangel greeted Mary with the words “Hail Mary, full of grace”, and the nearby Church of St Joseph. We see Mary’s Well, where Our Lady drew water, and other sites associated with the Holy Family. We then visit Cana, site of Our Lord’s first miracle, where couples can renew their wedding vows. We visit Mount Tabor, site of the Transfiguration, from where we can survey the Jezreel Valley.
Today go to the Sea of Galilee, around which most of Jesus’ public ministry took place. At Capernaum we can see the remains of Peter’s house, for which we archeological proof, and of a fourth-century synagogue built on top of the one in which Jesus probably preached (the foundations of which we can still see). A Tabgha a church recalls the miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, and the nearby chapel of Peter’s Primacy marks the place where Christ entrusted the Church to St Peter. We drive up Mount of Beatitudes, on the slopes of which Jesus delivered his famous sermon. At Migdal (or Magdala) we can see the remains of a 1st-century synagogue in which Jesus very likely preached. We also have lunch at Migdal, with an opportunity to eat the St Peter’s fish from the Sea of Galilee. A highlight of the pilgrimage is the boat-ride on the Sea of Galilee on a recreation of a first-century fishing vessel, a time for both fun and for prayerful reflection.
Today travel south to Bethlehem where we visit the ancient Basilica of the Nativity, which marks the place of Jesus’ birth, and the Milk Grotto, where tradition holds the Blessed Virgin breastfed the baby Jesus before the flight into Egypt. Shepherds’ Field, where the angels announced the birth of the Messiah to the shepherds, is one of the Holy Land’s loveliest sites. On a visit to an olive wood workshop we can see how the famous carvings of Bethlehem are made.
The Sea of Galilee seen from the Mount of Beatitudes
After breakfast we visit Bethany, the town where Jesus often stayed with his friends Mary and Martha, and where he raised Lazarus from the dead. We then drive to visit the Qasr El-Yahud baptismal site on the River Jordan, which the Vatican recognises as the authentic site of the baptism. There we renew our baptismal vows. We pass through Jericho, with a view on the Mount of Temptation, the place where Jesus spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert. On the Dead Sea, where we can float on the mineral-rich water at the lowest point on earth.
Jerusalem! We begin our pilgrimage to the Holy City on top of the Mount of Olives at the small chapel, now a mosque, which marks the spot from which Catholics believe Christ ascended into Heaven (see His reputed footprint in a stone there). As we walk down the mount we visit Paternoster Church, where the Lord’s Prayer is displayed in hundreds of languages, including several South African versions, and Dominus Flevit Church, which is on the spot where Jesus wept for Jerusalem. At the foot of the mount we arrive at the Gethsemane with its ancient olive trees, and the magnificent Church of All Nations with the rock on which Jesus is believed to have prayed before His arrest. Across the street we visit Mary’s Tomb, from which Our Lady was assumed into heaven.
We then go to Mount Zion to visit the impressive Dormition Abbey, where Our Lady fell asleep, the Cenacle (Upper Room) which commemorates the Last Supper and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and the Church of St Peter in Gallicantu, where Jesus was tried by the Sanhedrin, kept in a dungeon, and where Peter denounced Our Lord three times. See the steps on which we know Jesus actually walked!
This is the day we follow the Stations of the Cross, the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. The Way of the Cross culminates in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, our faith’s most sacred site. Here you can touch the rock where the cross stood and pray in the tomb from which Our Lord rose from the dead. We also visit the lovely St Anne’s Church, a Crusader church on the site of the home of Saints Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin, and the Pools of Bethesda, where Our Lord cured the lame man. Time permitting, we may go to the Western (or Wailing) Wall. We close our pilgrimage at Ein Kerem where the Church of the Visitation commemorates the Blessed Virgin’s encounter with St Elizabeth and her reciting of the Magnificat, and the Church of St John’s Nativity, with its beautiful Spanish tiles, which marks the birthplace of St John the Baptist.
After a breakfast we go east to Emmaus, where the Risen Lord accompanied to the two grieving disciples. We then proceed to Jaffa, the place from where Jonas made his encounter with the whale, and where St Peter stayed with Simon the Tanner when he had his dream to accept the Gentiles to the new faith of Jesus Christ. We then go to Tel Aviv’s airport to make our journey home.
After an unforgettable journey we land in Johannesburg, physically tired but spiritually refreshed, remembering the words of the Psalmist: “They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed but abides forever” (125:1).
MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED EVERY DAY.
INCLUDES DAILY LUNCH IN SELECTED RESTAURANT IN THE HOLY LAND!
Est. Price: 43,750 (sharing, ex-Jhb; subject to currency, airport tax fluctuations. Calculated on 25+ passengers, at R15,30 to the dollar and 16,70 and 2019 rates)
Includes: All flights ex-Johannesburg (incl. airport taxes), accommodation in 4-star hotels or better (sharing) with breakfast and dinner, daily lunches (in Holy Land only), transfers, travel insurance, travelling on air-conditioned luxury buses, English-speaking tour guides, entrance fees, preparation material.
Excludes: Tips (these are set and mandatory), hotel taxes, visas, personal expenses, travel to and from O.R. Tambo Airport/Jhb.
A deposit of R4,500 secures your place on this unforgettable pilgrimage. For account details and booking form, please download the illustrated itinerary.
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Obama, in his farewell speech said Russia and China rivals the USA
Barack Obama continued the tradition of American presidents and was valedictorian. The scene he chose Chicago, where his political career began. A large part of nearly an hour-long speech, Obama devoted not to transfer their achievements, and the enumeration of threats to the prosperity of the United States and democracy in them, the correspondence polemic with the President-elect Donald trump.
Overcoming depression
“If I told you eight years ago that America cope with the great depression and restart our industry, will begin its longest period of job creation in history. If I told you that we open a new Chapter with the Cuban people, to end the Iranian nuclear weapons programme without a single shot and destroy the mastermind of the September 11 attacks. If I told you that we will achieve equality in marriage and provide a right to health insurance for another 20 million people — you could say that we are in the clouds,” Obama listed his main achievements.
When Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was the highest since 1983 (9,9%), however all subsequent years it decreased and by the end of his tenure was 4.7%. Since the beginning of 2010 was created 15.8 million new jobs.
No figures referring to economic growth, Obama speech failed. However, it is known that basically the US economy when it recovered from the economic crisis and moved on to growth. If in 2008 the GDP growth was negative (-0,29%), since 2009, growth has become positive in 2015, GDP growth was 2.6% (according to the World Bank). GDP per capita grew for almost the entire running time of Obama: a decrease in 2009 below $48.5 thousand per year by 2016 increased to $57,17 thousand per capita per year.The total capitalization of public companies with increased more than two times: in 2008, the total figure was us $11.6 trillion, and in 2015 — $25,07 trillion. Nearly $1 trillion reduced the budget deficit ($1.4 trillion in 2009 to $438 trillion in 2015). However, it has increased the total debt of the Federal government. In the last year of President George W. Bush, he was $67.7 per trillion, and in 2015 reached $101,8 trillion. This year, the Office of management and budget the White house predicts an increase to $105,2 billion.
However, American experts argue about the President’s role in achieving these targets. Work program of the Obama administration investment in infrastructure: jobs appeared not only in construction but in related industries, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Police Institute NBC. However, the debate about the role of the Obama administration in the US continues. According to Peter, Cardillo, a senior economist at First Standard Financial, the main role in the recovery was played by the fed’s actions.
In his farewell speech, Obama indicated that the United States has twice increased the production of alternative energy. However, it is also almost two-fold increase in crude oil. In 2009 produced slightly more than 1.83 billion barrels per year in 2015 to 3.44 billion barrels.
The climate, the fight against terrorism and Russia
In his farewell speech, Obama tried to protect the climate agreement of the UN, which was concluded in late 2015 in Paris. President-elect trump’s campaign has repeatedly questioned global warming and the need to fulfill its agreement obligations to reduce emissions. “Without tougher action our children will not have time to argue about the existence of climate change, they will be busy fighting with its consequences,” — said Obama. The discussion should conclude, and the problem is to deal with the distinctly American spirit of innovation and practical approach.
He also said that because of the actions of his administration managed to kill the leader of “al-Qaeda” Osama bin Laden and to prevent new terrorist attacks on American soil. It is necessary to continue the fight against terrorism, Obama said, calling the main enemy — the ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). Terrorists threaten the American right, Obama said. “ISIS tries to kill innocent people, but they can’t defeat America as long as we do not betray our Constitution and the principles for which we fight. Rivals, like Russia or China, can not be compared with our influence in the world if we do not abandon the things for which we stand, and will not become another country that is picking on smaller neighbors,” Obama said. More to the Russian question in the speech he did not return.
The threat to world order, he said, are also fanatics who claim to speak on behalf of Islam, and autocrats in foreign capitals, “who see free markets, open democracy and civil society as a threat to their power.” Particular country it do not call.
In these circumstances, America, I’m sure the outgoing President may not withdraw from battles on the world stage for the expansion of democracy, human rights, LGBT rights. The weakening of democratic values threatened by the wars, he explained. Trump during the election campaign spoke about what America should do more household chores.
Threats for the future
The United States remains the exceptional country because it has shown the ability to change, Obama said. However, according to him, the prosperity for all Americans must continue to fight, it requires the development of American democracy. The latter, according to Obama, faced with multiple threats. Its development is not possible without equal economic opportunities for all. “The economy is not working well when a few prosper at the expense of the growing middle class,” Obama said. He drew attention to the fact that while one percent of the population gathered most of the wealth and income, many families living in small towns far from the coast and in rural areas are unable to take advantage of the new economy. That the dissatisfaction of citizens with the current conditions made it possible to win the election Donald Trump, according to numerous studies the results of the American elections.
The second threat to the United States, according to Obama, is racial discrimination. The first black President in the history of the United States recognized that the situation in recent years has improved, but work must continue: “If every economic question is presented as a struggle between hard-working white class and undeserving minorities, then the workers of all colors will fight for crumbs, and the rich will increasingly withdraw into their private enclaves.” Obama urged not to skimp on the education of immigrant children, because they will bring prosperity to the children born in the United States.
The outgoing President considers necessary the adoption of laws against discrimination in employment, in education and other fields.
In his speech, Obama repeatedly returned to questions of tolerance and recognition of other points of view. The opportunity to look at the world through the eyes of white or black, he said, would help to overcome racial division.
The third threat is the 44th President of the United States called the trend on the care of people in living in community, including social networks, and a refusal to accept information which is unpleasant to them. According to him, the chosen policy can not excuse ethical lapses of his own party and attack the other, which made the same.
The administration will ensure as smooth as possible transfer of power, as did President George W. Bush, said Obama. Since it is a common task — to make so that the government can help people cope with the challenges, explained Obama. A word about the transfer of power to Trump the audience in the hall met a disgruntled exclamations. In the beginning of the speech Obama chanted “four more years!”. “I can’t do that,” he said from the stage.
The speech Obama ended by thanking the family and Vice President Joe Biden. Speech to the applause ended with the words, “Yes, we could. Yes, we did. Yes, we can” – thus Recalling his campaign slogan.Chi
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