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Adrian Dominican Sisters Receive Three Awards from Catholic Press Association
June 28, 2019, St. Petersburg, Florida – Adrian Dominican Sisters received three awards from the Catholic Press Association (CPA) in recognition of the Congregation’s efforts to share its story and Mission with the public. The awards were announced June 21, 2019, during the awards banquet of the CPA’s 2019 Catholic Media Conference June 18-21 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Congregation received the following awards:
Second Place: Best Annual Report for Catholic Nonprofit Organizations for Hearts of Hope, the 2017-2018 Annual Report. “Clear concise language illustrated the accomplishments, goals, services, resources in a succinct way,” the judges noted. “Graphics are concise and aid in comprehension. Overall report gives the reader a sense of the organization’s character as well.”
Honorable Mention: Best Presentation of Online Videos for Ripples of Faith: A Sister’s Story, an Office of Development Christmas campaign video featuring the life and ministries of Sister Mary Margaret (Sis) Beh, OP. The video faced stiff competition; the top three awards went to America Magazine, the Diocese of Savannah, and Catholic News Service.
Honorable Mention: Best E-newsletter for Veritas, a monthly newsletter that gives a comprehensive view of recent events and upcoming programs of the Congregation.
The awards were the result of the collaborative efforts of the Offices Communications and Development.
Co-workers in Communications are Angie Kessler, Director; Sheila Wathen, Assistant Director; Sister Barbara Kelley, OP, Writer; Ashley LaVigne, Social Media Specialist; Scott Miller, Videographer; and Ashley Saxton, Graphic Designer. Jessica Havens was the Graphic Designer in 2018, the period covered by the 2019 CPA awards.
Co-workers in Development are Amy Palmer, Director; Diane Bach, Development Office Coordinator; Sister Kathleen Schanz, OP, Donor Relations; and Laura Brosamer and Jolene Witt, Office Assistants.
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ALMOST A DECADE LATER, and through an entire console cycle Final Fantasy XV (formerly Final Fantasy Versus XIII) is finally making it way to our hands. With the development cycle in itself a story of it's own. But since 2013's E3 showcase fans who've been waiting for so long can finally wait just a little longer. Over the years while this game stayed in development limbo, we've watched it grow and change. To something that originally was meant to be dark. Now a game meant to show a journey and the friendship of that journey. A journey we fans of Final Fantasy has taken for almost a decade. The main protagonist sums this journey for fans best.
"It's been a long time coming... Almost there." - Noctis Lucis Caelum
FINAL FANTASY XV follows the protagonist, Noctis Lucis Caelum a heir to the throne of his kingdom Lucis, a country holding the world's last crystal. Lucis depends on this crystal greatly and is beneficial to the country's military, political, and economic standing. While Lucis stands by the crystal, the rest of the world has become industrialize. This shift between all the country’s has cause a great Cold War that span for years. Our game takes place after a great peace treaty, having the nations agree to stop this war. The kingdom Niflheim breaks the treaty, conquering the nearby nations before attacking Lucis. During this chaos Noctis and Stella (friend of Noctis) gain a power that's gifted by the goddess of death, The Goddess Etro. Which give these two the ability to foresee and predict the death of individuals. With this power and his friends, Noctis must stop the seizure of Lucis’s crystal before the affair escalates into a global war.
FINAL FANTASY XV - ENGLISH TRAILER
FINAL FANTASY XV - 40+ MINUTE GAMEPLAY OF EPISODE DUSCAE
I’ve been waiting for this title for years since its first announcement, even before the PS3 was announced. Back than it was announced as Final Fantasy Versus XIII, one of three XIII games that would live in the same universe in some way. Back than our protagonist was only known as The Dark Prince, and in earlier interviews around the announcement it shows even Lightning (known as protagonist elf back than) talking about The Dark Prince. But as we know the Final Fantasy XIII game became its own universe, which many fans hated the XIII series (myself being one of them.) I instead sat and waited in hopes that maybe Versus XIII would even come out. Years of just little bits here and there. Once in awhile a new few minute gameplay or trailer would pop on the internet. Finally at E3 2013 they announced Final Fantasy Versus 13 will be coming and now called Final Fantasy XV. Which is a fluke in itself because Square-Enix rarely announces a new title for their main game series at E3. So when I saw that trailer on that stage, at Sony’s Press Conference, after years of waiting I cheered in excitement. I cried in happiness knowing my and many fans long wait, is now having wait a little more.
Many people who haven’t kept up over the years saw this trailer and were confused. Yes Final Fantasy XV is ripping Kingdom Hearts off cause it was being made by the Kingdom Hearts guys. That Kingdom Hearts 3 development was halted for Final Fantasy XV’s development. To me I like this new gameplay step that is similar to Kingdom Hearts. I find it far more improving that Final Fantasy XIII’s battle system, where I hit auto over and over to win. I like how the story has changed from what seem to be a far darker view, to a more of Journey and Friendship adventure in a large beautiful world. I love how it has a modern spin to it, along with it’s Fantasy touch. I’ve and many waited almost a decade for this title. A title that was announced far before PS3 and Xbox 360 was out or even announced. A title that skipped an entire console cycle. Will this make the game far more better now? I bet it will.
I wanted to make this thread cause of the increasing discussion and news of Final Fantasy XV. It’s surprise after years of waiting that there would be so much news for it. So I thought we’ve a general thread to keep it in. But please do not ignore the threads already made for Final Fantasy XV like, Final Fantasy XV TGS 2014 Trailer.
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When they first announced the Fabula Nova Crystallis series the one game that stood out the most to me was Versus XIII. Don't know what really drew me to it over the other two titles initially announced(probably the idea that it would be a FF done KH Style), but it certainly had a style that I found alluring. Every year after the initial announcement we heard less and less about it until bam it was just at E3 sporting a new title. The change in title put a smile on my face as I hoped they were planning on completely removing it from anything involving XIII.
I remember the two conversations with my friend leading up to the unknown announcement. Back when Sony was having their PS4 Press Conference in February, a Square-Enix representative stepped out and said "We will be announcing something at E3." My response was "IT BETTER BE FF VERSUS XIII!" My friend being there when I shouted this. The second was during E3, it finally got the Sony Press Conference and just before Square-Enix had made their announcement, my same friend had asked me "Hey they might announce FF XV?" I just shook my had after years of wait "Nah they probably wont." As soon as their video played and I saw those words "Fabula Nova Crystallis" I paused with a heartbeat skipped. Than when I heard the female voice (Stella most likely) say the name Noctis I yelled in happiness.
I agree though I don't what draw me to Versus XIII back than at first. Maybe it was cause of the modern look of it, with the Kingdom Hearts guys. But here I am looking forward to this Final Fantasy title after years of wait. Half-Life fans, I know your feeling of wait and I hope your pain can end soon like us FF fans pain is now ending.
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The upcoming Final Fantasy XV demo is going to be quite meaty with an open area and dungeons to explore.
Square Enix shared new details about the demo during a NicoNico live-stream (translated by Siliconera). The demo, titled “Episode Duscae,” will take place in the Duscae region and allow players to roam its lush landscapes as well as multiple dungeons. The company has confirmed that exploring all of this content will take 3-4 hours, but that number can be increased if you opt out of using vehicle.
A car will be made available to those looking for quick transportation. You can drive it yourself, or have Ignis (a party member) take the wheel as part of an auto-drive feature. Square Enix also hinted that there’ll be some Chocobos to ride in the demo. Unlike previous Final Fantasy demos, Final Fantasy XV’s will not end with an epic boss fight. Instead, Square is promising something impressive that will resonate with fans of the Final Fantasy franchise.
Access to the Final Fantasy XV demo will be available with the purchase of Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, which launches March 17, 2015 on PS4 and Xbox One. Final Fanatsy XV, however, does not have a release date.
Wow, sounds like a really in depth demo. Bringing back cars as a mode of transportation is pretty dope. The forests of Timber sure have changed.
Your post just now about the demo has just open my eyes and made me smile. You mean to tell me they're giving us a 3-4 hour demo story wise, with an exploring world, with dungeons to explore. All this for free! If only other game developers and companies followed this. *cough* Metal Gear Ground Zero's *cough*
All jokes aside, I am happy to hear that this Demo isn't just a one level thing. But instead a open world, which Final Fantasy is based upon open worlds! Like I said Tokyo Game Show is my video game Christmas!
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I'm looking forward to FFXV. The PS4 needs more JRPG's. If they would release old JRPG's on the PS4 for digital download they get my money. Titles like Dragon Quest Vlll, FFVll and other Square Enix RPG's to the PS4. I only have a PS4 so maybe i'm being selfish but it would make me so happy.
So any and all special editions for this game I will buy and/or whore out for. Please be a PS4 console FF XV Edition.
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I've like the story of every Final Fantasy game I've played (which starts at 7), exception being XIII-2 and XIII-3 they were a bit muddled so I'm really looking forward to this.
I wasn't a fan of the linear nature of XIII or the auto fight system but the story made up for it for me. VIII will always be my favourite.
I'm pretty big on plots that draw me in and get me invested in the characters and is usually something Final Fantasy does really well.
I can't get very excited yet with the demo still being 6 months away, meaning the game might be a year off still but I know I will be when they announce a date and may be some special editions
To know we're a year or two off for this title is enough for me. After almost a decade wait, I can wait just a little longer. Plus if they deliver what they promise with the Demo, it would hold me over.
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/11/final-fantasy-xvs-action-will-feel-realistic-kingdom-hearts-still-speedy/
Car customization will be a thing. I'm thinking some nice Dark Knight Cecil inspired spinners with a Squall Leonheart paint job with a nice chrome chocobo hood ornament with fluffy pink dice hanging from the rear view mirror.
There is a strong possibility of some kind of airship or at least something to fill that role.
Square-Enix released an English version of Final Fantasy XV's trailer, for us English speaking people (we're watching you Asia.)
Another gameplay footage of Final Fantasy XV, from Square-enix. We get some more story (for those having a hard time keeping up) and our first look at Cid! Plus a final shot showing off possibly Titan and a battle we might have to face against him.
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So far this game looks badass. I'm trying to keep from getting too hyped about it, but I know I'll be the first to get it the day it finally comes out. The only issue I have is that there seems to be a lack of playable characters, there's only four by what I've seen in the trailer. I know Kingdom Hearts had three main playable characters with a fourth depending on which world Sora was in, but still, sometimes I found it a bit lacking; luckily it made up for it with a fairly decent story, sick character designs, and controls which were fairly easy to pick-up. I guess the question I should be asking is, "Are there any more playable characters?"
I guess the question I should be asking is, "Are there any more playable characters?"
No there doesn't seem to be anymore playable character beyond the four we see. With that said, I am glad. Final Fantasy's 1-3 focus on these core group of 4 adventurers you travel with through the world. Was only until Final Fantasy 4 did we start increasing the amount of playable characters to hell nearly 20 for certain games like Final Fantasy 6. To be honest, I like the change I am liking all the change, some old, some new. Getting back to a core group of playable character's we'll focus on through this world that we travel in. We'll have those side characters like our new Cid. Also like the sense of an adventure. I know alot of people are already saying "it's just a roadtrip game!" When really if you look at Final Fantasy games as a whole, they are roadtrip games, you just never had a car until now. I am still pumped for this game, as it really is my last chance with this series, Final Fantasy 13 trilogy scarred my love for it. I am hoping this can bring back that old love they seem to be capturing so well.
Simply, is it sad we might not get more playable characters that aren't of the core four we have seen, sure. But am I mad or do I want a bunch of characters, not really. Opinions in the end though.
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I just peed a little!
I guess you could think quality over quantity, when it comes to the characters anyway. And I also love the idea that they're incorporating the car into traveling. Yeah it's been done in other FF games, but not to this extent. It's like it's been made more realistic than any of the other FF games to date. I mean when your traveling from town to town or city to city, are you driving over grass? No, your not, your staying on the road occasionally looking at the scenery, maybe even pulling off on the side of the highway and exploring a little bit. I don't see how anyone could hate it, but I don't look at it as a roadtrip game, I look at it as a potential badass game that just happens to have roadtrip elements.
And to comment on the cityscape, it's amazing looking. The original FF games just had an overhead view of a town or city with a couple houses to explore. In later installments, city and towns were broken up into several different landscapes with each new screen offering a new image. This on the other hand makes you want to explore the entire town or city. I mean it's a FF game with a sandbox feel and I'm not used to that. I think FFXII tried to do it and in my opinion failed miserably. Rogue Galaxy, though made by a different company (I think), did somewhat well but it didn't offer that explorer aspect that FFXV is possibly offering.
Like I mentioned, I don't want to be hyped for the game, but part of me is.
After nearly a decade of waiting and watching this game become what it is. I can not deny my hype for it. As much as 2014 taught me not to be hyped for anything. This just feels more personal after waiting for so long.
And to comment on the cityscape, it's amazing looking. The original FF games just had an overhead view of a town or city with a couple houses to explore. In later installments, city and towns were broken up into several different landscapes with each new screen offering a new image. This on the other hand makes you want to explore the entire town or city.
I'll agree with the beautiful scenario. So far I been loving how the land looks with each little bit we glimpse at. But seeing that very Italian/Greek style town which looks to be by the sea I went "Oh even the towns can be beautiful too now!"
Either way we got time until this title comes out. I know Square and rumors have both express that FF XV will be out later 2015. I even shake my head and think it'll be more in the 2016 range. Even than though I can wait one more year, I really can. After seeing how much we are getting and progress is being made compare to the decade we already waited.
Dude I would rather wait another year than have them release a half-finished product. It took Bioware almost 4 years to release Dragon Age Inquisition and personally I think it was well worth the wait. You can't rush art, so I'd rather wait, you know?
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Late on this but a 40 minute gameplay video was put out of Final Fantasy XV. This demo is straight from the demo 'Episode Duscae' which will be playable in the coming month. Having scene this strengthens my resolve for this game. As well hearing that 'Episode Duscae' is done and will ship with Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. That and also the game is now 60% done, with the hard part aside the games director summed it up as "we're near the end." So a POSSIBLE 2015 release could probably happen. But it is slim.
Recently Final Fantasy XV showed off it's wildlife in action in great beauty. Like a episode of planet earth, just in Final Fantasy. Before anyone says anything yes, the wildlife will not be as lush in the 'Episode Ducsae'. As it is a demo of the game and not all features are in. But the animals in the demo are lush enough for the time.
http://youtu.be/liW836zMys8
Here is a quote about the length of Episode Duscae (Demo) from the FFXV Wikia page -
"According to Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata, players will get two hours of gameplay out of Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae; this can be increased to three or four hours if they really dive into it."
Source: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XV:_Episode_Duscae
This... this right here... this I can use to help get it up at night... YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!
I am a BIG Metal Gear fan, but this is how you demo your game...unlike what Kojima did with Ground Zeroes (even though I still bought into it day one for the PS3 and even bought it later for the PS4 and PC lmao)
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I am extremely hyped for this game, which is dangerous as I've been hurt before.
I am really tempted to Buy FF type 0 for the demo (even though in my personal opinion I think that game looks terrible)
Also fully intend on forcing someone to make a mash up between FFXV footage and Scar Tissue from Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
At gun point if necessary.
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FLASH! Ah-aah Another thing I didn't know
In your latest WXPNews you wrote: "What's more, if you defrag a flash drive, you'll shorten its life because flash memory can only do a certain number of writes before it wears out." I didn't know that! I haven't had one die yet. How long might they last? Any difference between brands? Cheers - Jeremy
I was surprised at the number of readers who wrote to say this was news to them. Typical flash chips last for anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 "flashes" (writes to the disk) to a particular location in memory, but some older/cheaper flash drives may start wearing out at 10,000 flashes. Reading the memory doesn't wear it out. You can read more details about how this works here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/CRAC5G/080304-Thumbdrive-Memory
This is a concern of many regarding the new trend to substitute flash memory for hard disks in laptop computers. However, the newest flash chips can support up to a million writes per block (with 8000 blocks per chip). With typical use, they'll last for many years. These are the type of flash chips that are being used as solid state memory in computers, and it's unlikely they will wear out before the system becomes obsolete. Read more about that here:
http://www.wxpnews.com/CRAC5G/080304-Solidstate-Storage
With low cost flash cards (as with any media), it's always a good idea to regularly back your data up to another location just in case.
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Apple’s second generation of the tablet computer, the Ipad 2, offers such things as audio-visual books, movies, music and even web content. The hardest thing about it though is the thousands of apps that the Apple product offers. Thanks to the Ipad 2′s powerful A5 processor, better and more improved apps than it’s predecessor exist. Well, here’s a few favorites that users have found through the many options available on the mini-computer. Before any other app is mentioned, Angry Birds always has to be thown in as a favorite, as it has even been put in the Guinness World Record Book with over two hundred million downloads on different platforms. Through the Ipad 2 though, the game is presented in High Definition. There is also a related game, called Angry Birds Rio, that has become quite popular with its relation to the Rio movie.
For the music lovers out there, the GarageBand app is available as it also was on the first versison of the Ipad. Many enhancements have been made to the app though, as the screen not only sees where it is touched but how hard it is hit as well. With the “Smart Instrument” utility, users no longer have be to able to play good music to make good sound. The auto-play feature allows use of your hands to change the keys, making it an easier experience to make great sound with little effort involved.
For those who prefer the adventurous games, Infinity Blade has improved greatly in graphics compared to it’s predecessor. As a warrior whose father was murdered by an evil warlord, in this app you head into a castle and fight through several monsters to reach him. This app is pretty much a must-have for those who are looking for little fighting and adventure on their Ipad 2.
Last, but certainly not least, Real Racing 2 HD caters to the high-speed racing game fans out there. Thanks to the App being High Definition, an HDMI adapter can actually be plugged into the Ipad 2 and can then be played on an HDTV with full 1080p. While it’s running on the TV, the tablet will display a real time map location. Even if your not a racing fan, it’s pretty hard to pass up on an app like this one.
Apps for the Motorola RAZR
Apps for the Motorola RAZR are not only information based but are entertainment based. A favorite app for the Motorola RAZR is the Java-OS Sodoku 1.40 software app. This is a purely mind melting puzzle app that will delight the brainiacs and fun loving puzzle fans on smart phones. This 1.40 Sodoku app for a Motorola RAZR is a portable version of this very cherished crossword puzzle. When looking at a Sodoku crossword, no words are to be found, just numbers. It really is a numbers game and has taken the world by storm because it is possible to play this game anywhere with the Sodoki 1.40 app. The way to win Sodoku is to master the ability to fill each square, row and column with a number from one to nine. The rules prohibit using any repeated numbers in each part. The 1.40 free version will allow players to stay amused all the way to work on their commute, while playing Sodoku. This app will only work on Java enabled mobile operating systems.
There is a newer version of the Sodoku 1.40 that will be full screen enabled, which is an improvement over the previous release. There are some preferred novel features included and also a second theme than with the previous version.
Be Razor sharp on a RAZR with the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app, and get 170,000 definitions for words and phrases. Find new words that were added such as ‘clickable,’ and ‘lairy.’ Examples are also given with usage in full sentences for over 90,000 words. Error notes, called 200 Common Learner Error notes, are included along with 25,000 collocations. The second edition of the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary will put updates at the fingertips of RAZR smart phone users along with the new mini box feature for collocations. Words are highlighted when they are rated the most important to learn. This app will ensure that its users will ace those English quizzes and exams.
The Appy v.1.4 Java based touchscreen app will offer a feel like iPhone effect with various programs such as Sports, Traffic, Stocks, Movies, Games and News. Not having an iPhone does not have to be a limitation for RAZR users. The APPY simulates all those great information apps using java touch software. The APPY gives mobile business tools with access to mobile news and entertainment news on or off line.
Best Word Processing App for IPad 2
If you are looking for the best word processing app for the Apple iPad 2, the following are the applications receiving the most attention at present. What follows is a list of four, beginning with the as yet best rated by customer reviews on the iTunes App Store.
iA Writer by Information Architects, Inc.
If you are looking for a simple and straight-to-the-point word processor, this app offers a no-distraction interface. By removing the multitude of options for formatting what you are writing, iA Writer creates basic formatting on its own, allowing you to focus on your writing. And speaking of focus, this application has a unique FocusMode which eliminates the tendency to cross-edit what you have already written. Importing and exporting as plain text, iA Writer syncs flawlessly with iCloud, Dropbox, the built-in Mail program and iTunes File Sharing. Currently priced at a discounted rate of $1.99 in the iTunes App Store, iA Writer holds a customer review rating of a solid 4 stars.
Pages by Apple, Inc.
Created by the makers of the iPad 2, the Pages application allows you to view and edit Pages ’09 (.pages), Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) and plain text (.txt) files, while exporting under your choice of Pages ’09, Microsoft Word or PDF extenstions. With a drag and drop feature, this app syncs to iCloud and automatically keeps documents up to date across all iOS devices. Pages includes 16 Apple templates, the use of the onscreen or a wireless keyboard, as well as charts and tables for organizing data. iTunes File Sharing allows for easily importing from Mail, the web, a WebDAV service or any other PC or Mac computer. Currently priced at $9.99 in the iTunes App Store, the Pages app holds a 3.5 star rating for the currently released version and 4 stars for all versions.
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When planning your next vacation, whether you’re flying or driving, there is no better travel companion than the iPad 2. With hundreds of travel apps to choose from you’re sure to find exactly what you need to make your trip go as smoothly as possible. Let’s take a look at some of the more helpful travel apps for the iPad 2.
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A Bronze Sword of the Aegean-Anatolian Type in the Museum of Varna, Bulgaria.
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by Bogdan Athanassov, Raiko Krauß and Vladimir Slavčev,
This is an English translation of a study presented to T. Soroceanu on the occasion of his 65th birthday and published originally in German in Analele Banatului 2009. We would like to wish Dr. Soroceanu good health and further stimulating scientific work.[1]
A follow-up of the present text, co-authored by M. Mehofer from the University of Vienna, will include the results and evaluation of lead-isotope and use-wear analysis, as well as publications on the topic that have appeared since 2008.
Rollnazferit en une perre bise:
Plus en abat que jo ne vos sai dire.
L´espéecruist, ne fruisset ne nebriset.
Cuntrecelamunt est resortie.
Chanson de Roland (Oxford-version), Verses 2338-2341.
[Rolland his stroke on a dark stone repeats,
And more of it breaks off than I can speak.
The sword cries out, yet breaks not in the least,
Back from the blow into the air it leaps.]
(Translation by C. K. Moncreiff)
Almost 40 years after the first systematic contemplations on the subject of Aegean influence on Balkan swords of the second millennium BC (Sandars 1963; Hänsel 1970; Hänsel 1973), important questions such as, for example, the swords’ exact position in time, the Aegean influence visible upon them, and the manner of contacts between the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean that contributed to the transfer of objects or ideas, are still largely unanswered. A few years ago, the fragment of a sword arrived in an unspectacular way in the Museum of Varna, a piece which nevertheless offers the opportunity to deliberate anew the relationships that existed between Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans during the Late Bronze Age. Unfortunately, this new find does not enable any substantial advances in the discussion, as its archaeological context is unknown, which restricts the dating possibilities considerably. Further, the sword is extremely fragmentary and, thus, does not allow exact typological comparisons. Despite these disadvantageous factors, the technical features of this high-quality weapon and traces of its use do disclose interesting points pertaining to its origins and history of utilization. It exhibits a certain similarity to the sword found in 1991 in front of the Lion Gate at the Hittite capital of Hattuša, which bears an inscription in Akkadian. This likeness lead to reflections about the route of influences from the south to the eastern Balkans, the functions of Late Bronze Age swords in Southeast Europe, and also the possibility that these swords were handed down as heirlooms from generation to generation.
Find Context
In the year 2000 the fragment of a sword blade (Inv.No. I-3762) was donated to the Varna Museum, which according to the donor, a resident of the town of Šumen, was allegedly found in Northeastern Bulgaria (Figs. 1 and 2).Although the site cannot be pinpointed precisely, there is some certainty about its general location in the region; moreover, it can be definitely stated that the fragment was not purchased from abroad. This certainty is supported by the circumstance that at the same time of this donation, a whole series of prehistoric metal objects, verifiably found in Bulgaria, was offered for purchase to museums in Northeastern Bulgaria. Dealers in antiquities at that time did not dispose over a broader range of possible markets; they were, instead, far more dependent upon looted goods from local illicit excavations. As this particular sword fragment apparently seemed a relatively worthless single piece to the dealer, it was given as a gift to the Museum in connection with a larger acquisition of objects, which were of later date. This circumstance as well clearly points to a local provenience of the sword fragment, which the dealer could not possibly have purchased; for in such a case he would have attempted to regain at least the price that he himself paid for it.
Description of the Sword Blade
The object of discussion is the fragment of a sword with middle rib and a blade that narrows gradually from the hilt plate to the tip (Figs. 2, 3 and 4.1).[2] The blade is broken at its upper and lower end, and measures 18.7 cm in length. The beginning of the hilt plate is preserved, on which the remnants of at least three rivet holes can be recognised. A fourth hole can be reconstructed symmetrically. Through this the sword can be addressed as a flat-hilted sword (Griffplattenschwert) or perhaps even a flange-hilted sword (Griffzungenschwert). The rivets were located relatively high on the hafting plate, indicating that the organic covering material of the grip was not well fastened, thus allowing the presumption of the presence of one or even two additional rivets in the flange. The diameter of the rivet holes can be reconstructed as 0.55 cm each, whereby the distance between the two central holes is 0.75 cm. At the hilt plate the blade has a width of 5.2 cm and a thickness of 0.9 cm that decreases to 0.3 cm at the break. At the lower end the blade has a width of 2.5 cm and a considerable thickness of 1.1 cm, due to the middle rib.
The middle rib with oval cross section is accompanied to the right and left by four small, sharply edged ribs running along the entire length of the preserved blade. Towards the hilt the outermost rib on each side divides into two single ribs, which fan outwards, so that the total number of ribs on each side amounts to twelve, and together with the middle rib thirteen. The number of ribs decreases towards the tip of the narrowing blade. Thus, in the lower part of the sword fragment, about 20 cm below the hilt, only three ribs can be observed to the left and to the right of the middle rib. It can be assumed that the number of ribs at the tip declines further, probably to one rib on each side of the middle rib. The entire blade is rhomboid in cross-section, while the area of the hilt it is somewhat flatter.
The sword is in a relatively poor state of preservation. Aside from its fragmentary condition, there are a number of notches on the blade, which in the case of the otherwise well preserved surface indicate that the weapon had been long in use. Damages with a length of 2–2.5 cm can be noted on both sides of the middle rib and on the upper parts of the decorative ribs, about 2 cm above the lower end of the blade. These damages clearly did not occur in battle, judging from their large surface area as well as the fact that both sides of the blade suffered the same. It appears either that the sword was set upon an anvil-like underground and struck with a hard object, or that – less likely – it was placed in a rock crevice, which acted like a pliers and then folded. Although the scene with a crevice seems tempting to believe in view of analogies with the archetype medieval sword Excalibur, the damages on both sides of the Varna sword blade are too alike and too regular to have been caused by insertion in a rock crack. Furthermore, had the grip been bent vigorously, then the sword should have broken above the spot damaged by the rock and not below, as is here the case. However, the fact that the blade broke due to extreme bending about 20 cm below the grip, that is, above the presumed middle part of the blade, can be recognised at the blade’s end, which is bent at ca. 70. The aforementioned scrapes on both sides are not necessarily associated with the breaking of the blade.[3]
All of the damages are covered with a fine, greenish brown patina, which is indicative of their antiquity. The other parts of the blade are also corroded, but shiny.[4] A borderline of the patina in the area of the hilt, which might point to the form of the lower part of the grip’s covering material, cannot be distinguished. Apart from the damages mentioned above, the surface is even and well finished.[5]
Concerning techniques involved in the production of the sword, without having conducted special examinations it can only be stated that casting was carried out using a bi-valve mould; thereby, the decorative ribs in each valve did not correspond exactly.[6]
Typological Classification
The absence of the grip zone and a large part of the hilt plate hinders an exact formal assignment, for these parts in particular are determinant for identifying the type of sword. The position of the rivet holes indicates that the form of the hilt is like that which is characteristic of Aegean flange-hilted swords (Griffzungenschwerter). The corresponding angular shoulders can be reconstructed, from which the relatively wide tongue developed.
The rather high placement of the rivets on the shoulder has no parallels on swords in Bulgaria until now. The closest analogy for the form of the hilt known to us is found on the sword from Roşiori de Vede (Fig. 4.4), which likewise bears four rivets placed high on the hilt plate (Bader 1991, 31 Nr. 21). Yet, cut marks on the hilt and grip tongue as well as the fact that the bundle of grooves that run up to the rivet holes are dubious, which would signify secondary alteration of the sword (Bader 1991, 31; Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 31). Remarkably, the flatter rhomboid cross-section of the blade of the Romanian weapon resembles that of the sword in the Varna Museum. In spite of the observation that neither the blade form nor the middle rib comply with those that determine Aegean sword types (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 32; 94), in the following parallels will be sought for the numerous ribs on the characteristically formed Varna blade.
The characteristic profile of the blade displays great similarity to the sword that was discovered in 1991 at the Lion Gate in the Hittite capital of Hattuša, near present-day Boğazkale, province of Çorum (Fig. 4.2; Ertekin/Ediz 1993; Müller-Karpe 1994, 434; O. Hansen 1994; Cline 1996; Cline 2008; S. Hansen 2005). This find is noteworthy above all because of the inscription in the Akkadian language upon it. According to the reading by A. Ünal, the text is as follows: “When Tudhaliya the Great King shattered the Aššuwa-Country, he dedicated these swords to the Storm-God, his Lord.” (Translation from Cline 2008; Müller-Karpe 1994, 435). Whereas the Anatolian sword has four ribs that reach to the hilt, the number of ribs on the Varna sword multiplies as they rise. However, the primary formula in the imagery of ribs that fan out as they go upwards, lending a floral, lilly-like character to the blade, is exactly the same on both swords. Solely the placement of rivet holes on the hilt is organised somewhat differently. Whereas the sword from Hattuša has two rivet holes in the shoulders and one in the centre at the transition to the grip tongue, a row of four holes can be reconstructed on the hilt of the Varna fragment. The rivet holes in both swords were driven into the hilt by a punch after casting, as the ridges on each side reveal. In view of the form of the grip tongue and the hilt, the sword from Hattuša can be assigned typologically near Karo type B, which is characterised by angular shoulders. Nonetheless, the marked profile of the blade allows it to be distinguished as an independent type, hitherto known only in examples in Hattuša and the fragment in Varna Museum. Particularly the elaborate decoration of the blade with several ribs sets both pieces clearly apart from all other types of swords and renders them as special weapons.
Interestingly, the motif of ribs that curve outwards towards the hilt also appears on the fragment of the golden sword in the hoard from Peršinari, which – basing on its material alone – can be considered an extravagant showpiece (Fig. 4.3; Bader 1991, No. 20). Nevertheless, the date of the sword from Peršinari is still a matter of great debate. After a temporal assignment that started with the Mycenaean period (Cp. Mozsolics 1968, 5-10; Kilian 1976) came an earlier date to the third millennium BC, a proposal that bases mainly on the silver shaft hole axes found in the same hoard (Vulpe 1995; Born/Hansen 2001, 40).A decoration similar to that on the Varna fragment can be observed on a sword from the island of Ithaka, which also has a strongly profiled blade (Fig. 4.5; Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, No. 40).The blade has a wide middle rib with decorative ridges in the middle and on both sides. These likewise curve outwards towards the hilt. However, this sword displays a fundamentally different method of shafting by means of two rivet holes located below the now missing shoulders, but still on the hilt plate. The blade also differs through its short grip tang, which has a rivet hole. The preserved part of the transition from tang to the shoulders insinuates that this piece had rounded shoulders, a feature that sets this sword near Karo type A. Admittedly, the decorative grooves, some curved outwards like a funnel, are found on central and west European flat-hilted swords (Griffplattenschwerter) and solid-hilted daggers (Vollgriffdolche).[7] Gentle decorative ribs distinguish a sword from “Pella” (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, No. 444) and further thrust weapons of the Apa type, found in the Carpathian Basin (Cp. Hundt 1970, Fig. 1 and 2.1-4, 5).
On the Fragmentation of the Blade
One argument for the weapon’s origin in a hoard from the west Black Sea area is the fragmentation of the sword. This ruination denotes a ritual practice that is generally typical for the continental European Late Bronze Age and Urnfield Culture (Nebelsick 2000), especially for the area of the lower Danube River. Although swords were often made useless by bending them, before they were deposited in the earth,[8] the complete folding of the blade is rarely attested. Yet, particularly in the region in question here this action can be considered characteristic. In the hoard finds of Sokol (dist. Silistra) and Ovča Mogila (dist. Svištov), for example, one sword of the Mycenaean type each was deposited together with other metal objects, whose form can be seen as indigenous. Along with the sword, the hoard in Sokol contained fifteen complete socketed axes and or fragments thereof, 130 whole or fragmented sickles, one dagger, a saw blade, the fragment of a knife blade, casting remains and fragments of a metal platter (Панайотов-Доневски 1977).
The sword from Ovča Mogila was found together with 31 socketed axes, two fragments of such, a small knife, two projectile points and one fragment of a casting cake (Gußkuchen) (Figs. 5 and 6; Krauß 2005).The same treatment of the sword in both hoards is indeed noteworthy: each was folded together in a forceful act, to be deposited with the other objects. Through the act of deformation the sword from Sokol broke into two pieces; one half corresponds exactly with the condition of fragmentation of the Varna sword: Parts of the grip fastening are broken as far as the rivets, the>
Date and Origin of the Sword
The best anchor for dating the sword fragment in the Varna Museum is presented by the Aššuwa sword from Hattuša, especially as it is typologically the closest. The name Tudhalija in the inscription on the Aššuwa sword is dated mostly towards the end of the 15th century, which provides a clear fixed point for the deposition of the sword (Müller-Karpe 1994, 435-436; Cline 1996). Assuming that the conflict of the Great King with the Aššuwa, also mentioned in the inscription, was carried out with contemporary weapons, then we have here a sword of the 15th century BC. Yet as the sword was dedicated after the victorious battle, it was not a weapon of the Hittites, but rather that of their opponents (Müller-Karpe 1994, 436; O. Hansen 1994; S. Hansen 2005, 89-90).Although the geographic location of the country cannot be pinpointed exactly, until now there has been no doubt that the land of the Aššuwa lay in Northwestern Anatolia (Müller-Karpe 1994, 436-437; Cline 1996.).Similarly, as a Hittite provenience of the Hattuša sword can be excluded, it can be propounded that most probably the fragment in the Varna Museum did not derive from the Balkan region, as until now no comparable weapons have been found in there. It is indeed remarkable that the presumed discovery site of the Varna sword lies equally as far from Northwestern Anatolia as from the Hittite capital.
Whereas the text inscribed in the sword from Boğazkale informs us about the reasons for its deposition, the motives behind the Varna sword’s journey to the north are still vague. The foreseen metallurgical examination of the fragment will surely lead to more information. The extreme stress exacted upon the blade makes obvious that the sword was long in use prior to its final destruction and deposition.
The problematic dating of the extraordinary sword in the hoard from Perşinari was already addressed above. The production of this gold weapon as early as the Early Bronze Age is, nonetheless, difficult to imagine, as then it would have preceded the entire typological development of Aegean-Anatolian swords. Furthermore, when judged alone, this splendid sword is difficult to date: The Varna fragment is the only form known until now that displays a distant relatedness to it, thus, forming a link between the sword from Perşinari and Hattuša. The other components of the Perşinari hoard, such as the golden daggers and the fragments of silver axes, are obviously older and can be dated basing on sound arguments to the end of the third millennium BC. (Born/Hansen 2001, 39-41). However, it is worth noting that there are no known discoveries of such swords, especially of this size, in Europe from that early time. The few Early Bronze Age daggers found in Greece are either not dated or – in view of their size – are hardly comparable.[9]Hence, a later date must be assumed for the Perşinari sword, which based on the characteristic form of the hilt, even though the hilt was attached secondarily (Vulpe 1995, 46-47), is still the best link with the Shaft Graves (Cp. Kilian 1976), or it even dates as late as Late Helladic II (Mozsolics 1968, 5-10; Müller-Karpe 1994, 437-438). At first one must become accustomed with the idea that splendid weapons such as the silver axes were handed down over seven centuries’ time. Nevertheless, it is hardly possible that swords with a hilt like that in Perşinari appeared one-half millennium earlier than the sword types Karo A and B in the Aegean. Consequently, we must take as a fact that there are two categories of finds, each of different date, in the hoard: one group that belongs to the Early Bronze Age and the other to the Late Bronze Age (according to Aegean terminology).[10] Yet, a seemingly large discrepancy in date between the swords and the other hoard components is likewise notable in other depositions found in the lower Danube area, a situation which has been explained as the long-term use of the swords, even into the Late Bronze Age. Possibly they were preserved as relics/heirlooms, before they were deposited in the earth along with other objects. The composition of hoards themselves is only a limited aid in dating the swords; it only informs us about the time of deposition, but not about the production and use of the weapons.
If we approach Varna sword from the point of view of its similarity to the Aššuwa sword, then the Varna sword must be assigned to the 15th century BC (Fig. 7).However, the time span cannot be further delimited, for the sword from Hattuša along with related sword types were, with great certainty, in use both before as well as after the Aššuwa revolt against the Hittite great king. So, we reach a date in the 15th–14th century BC or in Late Helladic II–Late Helladic IIIA. Yet, the possibility of a later dating should not be excluded. Observing, for example, the hoards from Pobit Kamăk, Sokol, Ovča Mogila and Drajno de Jos, we find swords deposited together with objects, all of which are significantly younger than the Aššuwa sword and which can be assigned only later to Late Helladic IIIB–Late Helladic IIIC, or to hoard phase I and II, according to B. Hänsel (Hänsel 1976, 25-47).On the other hand, a significant continuance of the horned swords (Type C according to Sandars 1961) on the Balkan Peninsula as opposed to Aegean types can be drawn into consideration (Hänsel 1970, 30-32; Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 51-53). In this reference, the hoard from Vărbica II, which contains an Early Bronze Age shaft-hole axe (Ковачева 1967, Abb. 5,5), deposited together with socketed axes and the fragment of a Naue-II sword, Hänsel’s hoard phase II (Lesura-Vărbica), is quite elucidatory (Hänsel 1970, 36; 1976, 39). An additional argument in favour of the eventually longer circulation of swords north of the Aegean is found in the greater extent of use-wear observable on them, in contrast to those found in Greece, a factor that – of course – might also be due to the circumstance that Aegean swords were found predominantly in graves, whereas Balkan swords derive mostly from hoards.
The sword from Roşiori de Vede is a single find and has been assigned by Bader by means of typological comparison to Karo’s type B, as defined by finds in the Shaft Graves at Mycenae (Bader 1991, 31-33). Yet, this dating provides merely a coarse orientation, because, firstly, the similarities of the sword from Roşiori de Vedewith Mycenaean weapons are quite minimal, and, secondly, the Varna fragment differs distinctly from both. The secondary alteration of the hilt makes any decision as to whether it is an older or a younger representative of Karo B-swords impossible, and, thus, despite the formal agreement in the blade decoration it does not contribute to dating the find in Varna Museum; it can only be placed generally in an interval of time of the Mycenaean Shaft Graves, until Late Helladic IIIA.All together, the reworking of the hilt of the sword from Roşiori de Vede, like the secondary cast solid hilt of the example from Copşa Mare, and – above all – the hilt attached later to the sword from Perşinari are signs of the longer period of use of swords in the Balkan area. Individual examples of the appearance of older swords in younger find contexts can also be pointed out in the Aegean. Here to mention is the sword from a shaft grave at Staphylos on the island Skopelos. The grave dates to Late Helladic IIB, with exact counterparts in Shaft Grave IV and V in Mycenae (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 36).
KEIMHΛIA (Treasures) in the Second Millennium BC Balkans?
It is indeed worthwhile to deliberate why swords in the Balkan area were in use for such a long time, before they became part of the archaeological record. It is peculiar that most examples of older swords were found in younger find contexts, located areas in which graves containing weapons are not present, that is, in the zone north of Epirus, Macedonia and the Rhodope Mountains. The absence of richly furnished warrior graves as well as of important central localities with fortifications or at least multilayered settlements, in which a highly stratified society could be expected, hampers the interpretation of practices there with metal weapons and does not enable comparisons with examples of the continued use of older objects that are described in literature. During the second millennium BC on the eastern Balkan Peninsula the image of a society emerges, which with one sole exception – the use of metals – can be called egalitarian.
The convincing interpretation of prestigious goods of the late Hallstatt- and early Latène period in western Central Europe, designated by Fr. Fischer with the ancient Greek term “κειμήλιον”, connoting ‘gift’, but also ‘relic’ (Fischer 1973), does not aid in understanding conditions in the eastern Balkan Peninsula, as no distinguishable elite group can be testified there, which resembles the Homeric heroes or the late Hallstatt and Latène rulers, who exchanged and accumulated precious goods and established their authority with these possessions (Ulf 1990, 234).
However, what is the explanation for the presence of relics/heirlooms in societies, for whom lengthy settlement in one location (tell settlements were abandoned at the end of the Early Bronze Age), the development of large cemeteries and the erection of monumental memorials were foreign? Valuable metal artefacts were in use on the eastern Balkan Peninsula for a very long time, and apparently were handed down for a period longer than one human lifetime. Only with the appearance of the custom of deposition were they placed in the ground.[11] Although not comparable in structure, but in the temporality of its use, perhaps the circulation of shell jewellery on the island of Gawa, Papua-New Guinea, can be viewed in analogy (Leach 1983). The valuable objects were the personal property of one individual only for a specific time. They are handed down continuously, and they are never deposited in the earth. This kind of ceremonial exchange does not leave behind any traces in the ground and, thus, cannot be confirmed archaeologically. Therefore, an ethnographic comparison is tempting, because society on Gawa is acephalic without any obvious leading personalities. Prestigious valuables are known on Papua-New Guinea, but there again they too are the personal property of an individual only for a limited time and are exchanged later according to strict regulations (Leach 1983). This ethnographic comparison need not be followed further, as it is difficult to imagine that concealed behind the changing of swords lay the regulated exchange of foodstuffs and maintaining social contacts (Munn 1986, 42–44). Possibly the time has now come to abandon the concept that the owners of Balkan swords had any resemblance to the rulers buried in Mycenaean Shaft Graves or to persons in richly furnished burials in Epirus and the Rhodope Mountains. In view of the limited amount of source material on the Late Bronze Age in the Balkan region, it is indeed risky to search afar for an interpretation of the passing down of swords from one generation to the next. Here it is suggested that possibly the basis of this custom might be sought in a social structure that differed fundamentally from that in the Aegean world, or, in other words, in the absence of a marked elite. Probably males with great influence and prestige owned these weapons for a specified time or even their whole life. Upon their death the valuable objects were then passed on to their children or to other members of society.
Import or Local Product?
Until a comprehensive analysis of isotopic position of swords in the Aegean, Anatolia and the Balkan Peninsula is carried out, the question as to whether the Varna sword was imported or whether it was the product of a local craftsman and only displays Aegean-Anatolian influences, cannot be answered conclusively. In view of the typological correspondences with the sword from Hattuša, it is quite possible that the Varna fragment was imported directly from the land of the Aššuwa, that is, from Northwestern Anatolia. Nonetheless, the Aššuwa sword was doubtlessly influenced by Aegean weapons (Müller-Karpe 1994, 437), although neither the example found in the Hittite capital nor the Varna fragment can be deemed direct imports from the Greek mainland.[12] Be that as it may, the question of whether they were imports or imitations is not of fundamental significance, as both cases presuppose contacts between the Aegean and the eastern Balkans, which enabled either the exchange of wares or the transfer of ideas. Even if the fragments are local products, the smiths had an imported sword in mind or – less likely – they themselves came from Northwestern Anatolia or at least had lived there for a longer time. And if the fragments are indeed local products, it would be of interest to localise the site of its production. Potential options here would be the area around Pobit Kamăk in Northeastern Bulgaria (Черных 1978, 254-257) or a workshop in Transylvania (Mozsolics 1973, 84-86; Bader 1991, 30). Some factors that support a local origin of the gold sword from Perşinari is its conceptual similarity in execution to the Varna fragment, especially in view of the decorative ribs, for which no close parallels in the Aegean sphere exist. Due to the present situation of source material, no statement can be made as to whether the flattish rhomboid cross-section of the blade is characteristic for the eastern Balkan area or for Northwestern Anatolia. In any case, the sword fragment from Roşiori de Vede shows a similar cross-section. Moreover, important for answering the question concerning the site and manner of production of the Varna sword, is the observation made by A. Mozsolics and T. Bader, according to which those finds from the Carpathian Basin that are viewed as displaying Aegean influence are of far better quality, that is, they exhibit better workmanship than other metal objects of that epoch (Bader 1991, 28; Mozsolics 1967, 58).This more qualitative workmanship in production can be observed on the example from Varna: Its surface is considerably smoother than that of other bronze objects of the second millennium BC, which we were able to view in Bulgarian and Romanian museums. However, the theory that the high-quality swords found in the Balkan region originated from Northwestern Anatolia is, nevertheless, a conclusion ex silentio, a result that bases solely upon the scarcely known typological development of bronze swords in that region. Hence, it would be a mistake to declare all of the different forms of swords that have no exact analogies in the Aegean world as northwest Anatolian. Until the results of chemical analyses are presented, it can only be conjectured that the origin of the Varna fragment and perhaps the golden sword from Perşinari was Asia Minor. Due to the present state of knowledge about cultural development during the Late Bronze Age in this region, there are no facts that would support any other explanations for the differences in quality, such as the swords’ production in different workshops that made ‘normal’ weapons for common use, on one hand, and ‘ostentatious’ weapons for the elite, on the other.
Exchange Mechanisms and their Participants
Of interest, lastly, is the question as to how a sword that strongly resembles a weapon that the Hittite great king dedicated in the capital of his kingdom after a victorious battle, could arrive in a cultural milieu, in which imports from the Bronze Age centres of the Mediterranean sphere are extremely rare. Taking solely Aegean or Aegean-influenced finds reported in the eastern Balkan region as measure, the strict application of the categories ‘center’, ‘periphery’ and ‘margin’ would not even qualify this region as periphery.[13]Ultimately, the role that finally came to the sword within the setting of its final phase of use cannot be clarified, due to the poor state of research on the second millennium BC in the eastern Balkans (Harding 1993).One reason for this unfortunate state of resources is certainly to be sought in the change in settlement structure in the area between the Rhodope and Carpathian mountains, a time when settlement mounds were abandoned and the few known flatland settlements never consist of more than three to four building phases. The detection of thin habitation layers at settlement sites that are difficult to localise to begin with is a methodical problem in this area: Aside from one or two exceptions, until now no intensive archaeological prospection has been conducted there. This is exacerbated by the absence of larger cemeteries in eastern Bulgaria and Romania, one of the least researched parts of the European continent with regard to the Late Bronze Age.[14]For this reason it still not possible today to undertake the precise dating for important categories of finds, such as double axes (Buchholz 1983; S. Hansen 2005, 93), lance- and arrowheads (Черных 1978, 163, 228, 232), sceptres with an inward rolled tip (S. Hansen 2005, 93-94; Василева 2008), and ox-hide ingots (S. Hansen 2005, 93; Leshtakov 2007), categories which play a role in discussions about contacts between the eastern Balkan area and the Mediterranean sphere. Thus, the question still remains as to whether the sceptre that was retrieved from the shipwreck at Uluburun and dated to an interval at the end of the 14th century BC represents a new stage of contacts between the Balkan region and the eastern Mediterranean, or should the movement of objects from the north to centres in the Levant be reassigned earlier to the 15th century BC, the time of the swords from Hattuša and the one in the Varna Museum. As a consequence to the poor state of research in the eastern Balkan region, the impression has arisen that there is a distinct cultural boundary between Northwestern Anatolia and Southeastern Thrace. The contrast is greatened when considering the westernmost excavated urban centre in Anatolia, the hill of Hissarlık (Troy) on the Dardanelles, a site which on account of its geographic location was essentially predestined as participant in the transfer of prestige goods to the Balkans. Astonishingly, prior to the phase Troy VIIb there are practically no signs of trade or any kind of relations with Southeastern Thrace.[15] In this reference a comparison would be worthwhile with Greek-Macedonia, a region that lays a few hundred kilometres west of the Dardanelles and has been far better researched than Southeastern Thrace. Present in Greek-Macedonia are rather rural settlements, among others, Kastanas, Agios Mamas, Assiros and the Toumba Thessalonikis, all of which are much smaller than Troy and have no monumental buildings or fortifications, yet which offer significantly more information about contacts to the north (Horejs 2005; ibid. 2007 with cited literature). Evidently, the social and economic structures of settlements in the northern Aegean resemble those in the inner Balkan Peninsula more, through which a certain reciprocity as basis for the exchange of good scan be first attained.[16]The absence of such reciprocity does not mean that a stock raiser from the inner Thrace did not care to own any trade products from Troy, and, oppositely, that no foodstuffs and other natural products from isolated rural regions did not reach the Trojan palace on the Dardanelles. As historical and ethnographical observations have shown, this kind of trafficking wares does not occur via a direct route, for which the lack of reciprocity is not the single factor. It occurs through the mediation of participants in trade, who occupy an economic and social middle position. In the case of Southeastern Thrace, however, it is precisely these mediators that are lacking, that is, they have not been archaeologically attested until now. Paradoxically, the existence of the fortified settlement of Troy is the most contradictory sign of an existent economic-social border between Anatolia and the eastern Balkan area during a substantial part of the second millennium BC. The impressive contrast between a fortified urban complex with massive stone architecture, on the one side, and, on the other, thin-layered settlements with houses built of wattle and daub in Thrace (Özdoğan 2003, 355) shows that this northwest Anatolian centre itself was located at the edge of a cultural sphere. Troy’s location near the Dardanelles alone does not allow its designation as ‘end-station’, but rather as ‘intermediary station’ (Hänsel 2003, 109). The role that the fortress played in the exchange of goods between the eastern Balkans and western Anatolia cannot be substantiated here: There is no archaeological evidence at hand for a discussion of its role as a crossroads or a bridgehead between Asia and Europe.[17]Nonetheless, the economic-social border as marked by Troy may not be understood as a line of division, for example, like the Iron Curtain.[18] It is far more to be seen as a transition- or boundary zone, in which elements of both worlds are present to different degrees. Even if the border were created and maintained by an authoritative and complex socio-political institution,[19] it could nevertheless elude the control of the central body.[20]That this was a transfer- and contact zone at the geographic border between Anatolia and the Balkans during the Late Bronze Age is attested by the hoard of Tekirdağ, an impressive example of the encounter of objects of Anatolian, Aegean and Balkan origin (Hansen 2005, 90-93). Whether a similar circulation of metal objects across the Sea of Marmara existed at the time of the swords from Hattuša and Varna cannot be stated, due to the lack of hoards from this time. Pottery found at the site of Vratica 1 (located ca. 30 km west-northwest of the harbour town of Burgas and ca. 280 km north of the Dardanelles), which has analogies in Troy VI, is the first evidence known to us of contact or distinct influence between Eastern Thrace and Northwestern Anatolia: namely, concerned here are common everyday objects and not weapons or luxury goods.[21]
Let us return to the question of how such a splendid weapon, whose counterpart was dedicated to a deity by no one less than the great Hittite king, could arrive in an eastern Balkan environment of presumably egalitarian and relatively isolated communities. Without striving for negative evidence, it can be said that basing on the above mentioned economicand social differences between the participating groups we have to do here with a sporadic form of exchange, in which very little information was passed on between the participants.From a northwest Anatolian viewpoint the grounds for this “silent trade”, using C. Renfrew’s terms, are of geopolitical nature, as the interests of Troy and Aššuwa were probably solely directed towards the great political powers in the south and southwest.From a perspective view of the eastern Balkan Peninsula, economic and social factors surely played a role, for evidently situated there were mostly self-limited communities that lived in short-term settlements with a minimal population density.
The verse cited in the introduction pertains to the dying Roland, who attempted to destroy his sword Durandal on a rock, in order that the valuable weapon that brought him countless victories would not fall into the hands of the enemy. Roland strikes the sword so strongly against the rock that it bounces away and flies to heaven. Durandal is of divine origin, because an angel gave the sword to Charlemagne, who in turn gave it to Roland; hence, the dying warrior’s attempt to destroy the sword and its flight into the heavens can be understood as the return of the sword to the gods. There are relics in the sword’s grip that imbue the weapon with invincibility; they also extend its history into the past.
The history of the sword of Roland, which was written down 25 centuries after the ‘lifetime’ of the sword in the Varna Museum, brings us to one of the most serious interpretative difficulties associated with sword finds of the second millennium BC on the Balkan Peninsula. The problem does not lie in the difficulty of verifying that these valuable weapons were destroyed in order to be offered to the gods and through that to emphasise their supernatural origin as well as the social status of their owner. Nor does the problem lie in the lack of knowledge about the history of the swords, which although their grip did not carry relics, were nevertheless in use for a lengthy time and handed down from generation to generation. Indeed, the problem roots in the absence of the hero, who represented the elite, whose prestige and fame could be linked with the qualities and ‘biographies’ of the rare weapons. We can only understand what the social and ideological function of the swords during the second millennium BC in the eastern Balkans was, when the view of the researcher shifts from easily localised and attractive settlement mounds of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age to undertaking intensive archaeological field surveys, which would contribute to consolidating the picture of archaeological finds of the Middle and Late Bronze Age.
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[1] We are very grateful to Emily Schalk for the accuracy and competence with which she conveyed the original text into English.
[2] We would like to thank Ms Roxana Doxan (INSTAP, Athens), who happened to be working in the Museum in Varna at the time that the find was drawn, for sharing her experience in drawing numerous swords from Greece with us (see Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993).
[3] The way in which the hilt and the grip tongue became detached nor the break on the lower blade can be determined in view of the damages.
[4] It is indeed noteworthy that swords of the type Karo A, which have been found in the Carpathian Basin and the area of the lower Danube River and are regarded as displaying Mycenaean influence, always have a better patina than the numerous other bronzes of the second millennium BC found in that region (Bader 1991, 18; 28).
[5] The surface in the area of the grip tongue is rougher on bronze swords (Müller-Karpe 1994, 435). Unfortunately, this particular part is not preserved on our sword.
[6] Another possibility for the unequal front and back ribs is that – like the sword from Hattuša, which will be discussed in detail below –, the two halves of the bi-valve mould had shifted slightly (Müller-Karpe 1994, 434).
[7]For example, the daggers of type Sempach and Broch (Schauer 1971, No. 1-12), the short flat-hilted swords (Griffplattenkurzschwerter) of type Sauerbrunn and Hochstadt (Schauer 1971, No. 13-19), the Griffplattenschwerter of type Keszthely, Wildon, Dönstedt-Mahndorf and Blengow-Friedrichsruhe (Schauer 1971, No. 320, 322; 323; 326; Wüstemann 2004, No. 9; 19; 20) and a few flange-hilted swords (Griffzungenschwerter) (Wüstemann 2004, No. 268; 272; 274).
[8]Nebelsick 1997. Allegedly, the sword from Hattuša was bent prior to its dedication (Ertekin/Erdiz 1993, 719; Hansen 2005, 90). However, the deformation of the sword’s grip alone could have been associated with the procedure of deposition and not carried out intentionally at first. In any case, the hilt is the most sensitive part of the weapon.
[9]Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, No. 1-8. The sword from Jonkovo, which is assigned to this type, is a single find.
[10]Sherratt and Taylor put forth a similar idea concerning the hoard from Vălčitrăn (Sherratt/Taylor 1989), which would assign the objects to the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, on one hand. In this case the division is not very convincing, as the metal vessels are stylistically quite alike (uniform motifs and decorative techniques). At least this problem is not present with regard to the daggers and axes from Perşinari. Nevertheless, we must admit that the temporal difference of 500–700 years in the hoard is not easily explained. One example of a hoard containing objects with a range in date of 400 years is offered by the hoard from the acropolis on Lipari (Hansen 2005, 93, and literature cited there).
[11] Hoards themselves cannot be seen a priori as the personal possessions of one sole person; they could have equally derived from a society’s accumulation of specific objects, or – even more likely – they were religious motivated find assemblages (cp. O. Hansen 1994, 381-384; Hänsel 1997).
[12]On the Aššuwa sword, see Cline 1996. The analogies from Ithaka mentioned above display a completely different execution of the hilt. The Karo-type A sword from Aegina reportedly possesses a hilt-scheme that is similar to that of the sword from Roşiori de Vede (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 31).
[13] Cp. Sherratt 1993. Although these terms are not without problem and are far too schematic (Harding 1993), their usage is quite suited to at least emphasise the differences between peripheries (that is, areas that carried on regular exchange of goods with the centres) and margins (in which ideas or objects from the centres arrived only occasionally, but without leading to decisive economic or societal effects).
[14] Significantly, B. Hänsel’s basic study of 1976 commences first with the end of the second millennium BC.
[15] In contrast to the numerous contacts attested during the Early Bronze Age, half of a casting mould for a socketed axe of the type K-48 according to Černych (Черных 1978, 200) was found only later, after a considerable interruption, in Troy VIIb2.
[16] Cp. Renfrew 1975, esp. 8-9, in a strict sense, and Bourdieu 1990, 98-100, more generally.
[17]Cp. the discussion in Easton et al. 2002.
[18] It may be of interest to supporters of post-processualism that all three authors grew up in a world enclosed by the Iron Curtain and know out their own experience how permeable even this extreme form of border can be, in that in the course of time certain zones of contact emerge between the divided spheres.
[19] The higher the state of socio-economic development of a group, the more marked is their territorial behaviour (Bintliff 1999, 511). Hunters/gatherers and stockraisers possess a more flexible concept of their territories (Dyson-Hudson/Alden 1978, 26), between which oftentimes no dividing boundaries can be drawn.
[20]Guichonnet/Raffestin 1974, 25. Possibly such a situation existed during the time of Troy VIIb
[21]Leshtakov 2007, 456. Unfortunately the information provided by Leshtakov about Vratica is very cursory; until the publication of the pottery mentioned by him appears, one must rely upon his statements. He possibly means that there are no comparable finds in Troy: The illustrated fragments (Leshtakov 2007, CXc) resemble forms in Troy solely in their horizontal handles that rise above the rim, but not in the form of the mouth and rim profiles. The forms closest to the illustrated fragments are types A60 and A61 according to Blegen (Blegen et al. 1953, Pl. 292a), which are characteristic for Troy VI early (A61), middle (A60, A61) and late (A60) (Pavúk 2002, 42-44). For the actual state of research, see Hristova 2011, here in ABP: http://www.aegeobalkanprehistory.net/article.php?id_art=19.
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NCCP Workshop sets the tone for 2016, Partner Perspective: One Year of NCCP, Restoring Deer Grove, launching our new website and other news to know & share about the Next Century Conservation Plan
Forest Forward is a monthly newsletter about the progress and programming of the Next Century Conservation Plan (NCCP). It's easy-to-read -- and easy-to-forward -- filled with information that you will want to pass on to your network of co-workers, colleagues and friends.
Forest Forward is being delivered to members of the NCCP implementation team, along with other friends. Please help us grow the distribution list to include people from your network who care about great, open spaces. Together, by spreading the word of our work, we can generate awareness, enthusiasm and excitement for the NCCP.
December NCCP Workshop at Botanic Garden spreads ideas for 2016 Goals
By Eileen Figel
Deputy General Superintendent
Forest Preserves of Cook County
Developed by conservation advocates throughout the Chicago region, the Next Century Conservation Plan (NCCP) calls for a massive commitment to scale up restoration efforts, acquire and protect more land, and make the Forest Preserves more inviting and accessible. The ambitious plan is designed to be implemented over the next 25 years. Success will require new and creative approaches to ensure limited resources invested by FPCC, advocates, volunteers, and other partners are spent in the most efficient and effective manner possible. We must also measure our progress, be frank about what is and isn't working, and be willing to adjust course as needed.
To that end, seventy partners and staff who participated in the first year of implementation gathered at the Chicago Botanic Garden in December to discuss what had gone well during year one and what hadn't, and to suggest changes for 2016. Read more.
Partner Reflection: lessons learned and progress made
By Karen Tharp
Director of Urban Stewardship and Engagement
The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter
It was a little over a year ago, when I attended the meeting to launch the Next Century of Conservation Plan. The room was buzzing with energy and everyone quickly formed into small groups to discuss ideas and embrace the big vision. Since then, an enormous amount of work has been accomplished, but with progress and celebration, come lessons learned. From the beginning, I was immediately conflicted on how I should contribute as a partner. Would it be through the pre-determined committees of Nature or People? I needed to be involved in both, but given the commitment of double meetings and agendas, that wasn't realistic, so given my experiences with volunteer stewardship, I chose Nature.
This traditional approach with a focus on the management needs of the land while another group of people think about the human connections is comfortable, however, today's world requires a different way of thinking that blends these two strategies. It meets people where they are, seeks the intersection of restoring nature with the social issues of the day and invites the smaller, local community organizations to be a stakeholder. It is a more difficult path that takes time and requires participation from a diversity of people and partners. Given this is the largest and most populated county in the state, this work needs to be done strategically and at a scale that is achievable and can show success over time.
The Forest Preserve is also known nationally for engaging volunteers on the land and yet there remains untapped wealth in the form of knowledge by volunteers, some with 20+ years of experience. It is not simply up to Volunteer Resources to invest in this asset, it is everyone's responsibility to initiate a call to action that invites volunteer expertise to the table. The next couple of years will be formative, developing policies and testing out strategies with the goal to expand programs across the county. The business of restoration and connecting people to the forest preserves is about hope and hard work. With some tweaks along the way, I am optimistic we will achieve this vision together.
Come On In!: New Gateway Plan means new signage, amenities at 30 sites
The Forest Preserves of Cook County (FPCC) has released its Gateway Master Plan, activating an idea conceived in the 2013 Centennial Campaign Plan to develop a vision for "gateway" sites that encourage people to take advantage of the natural open space available in Cook County.
The Gateway Master Plan aligns with the Forest Preserves of Cook County's Next Century Conservation Plan, which seeks to make everyone in Cook County feel welcome at the Forest Preserves. "In addition, the Gateways are meant to serve as regional activity hubs boosting user-ship and becoming a source of economic value for local communities," said Kindy Kruller Senior Planner with the FPCC and member of the NCCP Economics Committee. "We are excited to begin the design work and implementation for the first twelve priority sites that will be completed over the next two-three years," Kruller said.
The long term plan for gateways includes a potential class of 30 special sites, chosen from locations throughout the preserves, with identifiable entry-ways and situated near highly visible, high-traffic areas that already serve as activity hubs within communities. According to the plan, gateway sites should convey a sense of welcome, interest, safety and beauty.
"Creating a physical gateway to the Forest Preserves will serve as a landmark to the public as well as a welcome sign for visitors who all too often overlook the variety of amenities available to them throughout the county," said Toni Preckwinkle, President of the Forest Preserves of Cook County, whose comments were featured in a recent Daily Herald story.
The Gateway Master Plan was made possible with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Healthy HotSpot initiative (led by the Cook County Department of Public Health) and the Forest Preserve Foundation.
New Year, New Look for the NCCP Website
As a new year rises, it seems that everybody is treated to something new, from habits and hobbies, to diets and destinations. Why should people have all the January fun? Websites enjoy renewal, too. We're excited to relaunch the Next Century Conservation Plan website - it has a new look, new content, new ways to connect with our council and initiatives. You're invited to meet the leaders behind the Plan, to follow our work via social-media sites, find out more about our ambitious goals and track our progress. Visit it now and let us know what you think.
O'Hare funds spur restoration at Deer Grove West
In alignment with the Next Century Conservation Plan's goal of restoring 30,000 acres of forest preserve to good ecological health, Deer Grove West will undergo a large-scale, five-year restoration project which started this January. The project work, performed in partnership with Openlands which is the site steward for Deer Grove, will impact 238 acres and include brush clearing and tree removal work, resulting in increased light levels on the ground, which will facilitate surface restoration within the project zone and allow for improved oak regeneration and growth of other native plant species.
"Deer Grove West was the first preserve purchased by the Forest Preserves one hundred years ago," said Openlands Restoration Specialist Linda Masters. "We are very excited to be a partner in this historic project that will ensure the continued health and beauty of this important site for the next 100 years."
The restoration work also will include removal of invasive and aggressive native species of plants, as well as some hydrological restoration, repairing and providing erosion control on wetlands and streams. The Deer Grove West restoration project comes on the heels of a 180-acre restoration project at Deer Grove East that began in 2008.
The Deer Grove projects are funded by an O'Hare Modernization Mitigation Account (OMMA) and also supported by several other partners, including the Army Corps of Engineers, Stantec, Deer Grove Natural Area Volunteers, the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission, and US Fish and Wildlife Service. This is one of three major restoration projects planned for 2016.
First round of grants awarded in Early Action Seed Funding
How do you maintain the energy necessary to implement ambitious goals that will take many, many years to fulfill? In July 2015, the Forest Preserves decided to try something new and established an Early Action Seed Fund. The idea is modeled on a successful program developed by the non-profit agency LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation).
To launch projects, build momentum and strengthen partnerships, the Fund empowered the NCCP implementation committees to award grants of up to $10,000 each to help partners develop pilot projects and initiatives. The projects must address a specific gap in implementation efforts and produce results within one year. The first round of grants totaled $40,865 in awards, and partners matched those dollars with an additional $108,005.
Grants were awarded to the following projects and partners:
Volunteer E-Newsletter, The Nature Conservancy
Spanish Language Bird Guides, Chicago Audubon Society
Mapping Conservation Corps Impact, Friends of the Forest Preserves
Birding Together (making birding accessible to people with disabilities), Audubon Chicago Region
Path to Stewardship Immersion Camp, Audubon Chicago Region
Walking Green: Developing an evidence-base for nature prescriptions, Northwestern University
Follow, then Lead
Are you following our news about conservation, people and programs? We invite you to take a moment to tune in to our social media accounts. Once you become a follower, you'll let others know how you're helping to lead conservation efforts in the Forest Preserves.
Also, if you'd like to receive information on how to update your LinkedIn page, email signature or social-media accounts with information about your involvement with conservation planning, contact us for tips.
Share the conservation love
It's a new year: Surely you've made some new friends already. Why not share the conservation love and introduce them to the NCCP? When you submit their names to the Forest Forward distribution list, you'll be very appreciated by the council. Those five new friends - five is your goal - will be grateful for your help broadening their network. Everyone wins. Please email your contact names and email addresses to LaKisha.Williams2@cookcountyil.gov.
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Hard Reset Redux (Xbox One) Review
Rick Brown June 3, 2016 News, PS4, Reviews, Xbox One, Xbox One Reviews 0
The popular cyberpunk title from the PC, Hard Reset Redux is now available for consoles. This first-person shooter is chock full of destruction, weapons and robots.
Destiny’s April Update gets detailed in a new trailer
Erich Martin April 11, 2016 past, PS4, Xbox One 0
Destiny is getting a major update this month, and Bungie isn’t shy about showing off what the update will contain. The trailer shows developers talking about the new inclusions and changes that the update brings to the Taken King expansion of Destiny. Notable changes include the Winter’s Run Strike, which …
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Destiny The Taken King (PS4) Review
Kiri Leatherland October 26, 2015 News, PS4, PS4 Reviews, Reviews, Sony 0
Avid Destiny fans, year one players united, The Taken King is the biggest expansion made for the game so far.
Destiny: The Taken King smashes launch day records
Jason September 17, 2015 News, past, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
Adding some much-needed story content to Bungie’s space epic, Destiny: The Taken King has set a record for sales.
Destiny’s Taken King expansion launches with new trailer
Jason September 15, 2015 News, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
Ready for more badass, semi-live action Destiny action? Here’s the launch trailer for Destiny: The Taken King, out today.
Destiny’s The Taken King to livestream tomorrow
Jason September 1, 2015 News, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
Want to get another look at The Taken King in action? Then make your calendar and tune in tomorrow to the latest livestream.
The Taken King arrives in this new trailer for Destiny’s latest expansion
Jason August 10, 2015 News, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
The Taken King is a massive expansion for Activision and Bungie’s FPS epic Destiny, and it’s got a brand new trailer that you can watch after the break.
E3 2015 Destiny reveal more information on the Taken king expansion
Kiri Leatherland June 17, 2015 E3, News, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
So We’ve killed Aetheon, and Crota, and all of their minions before them, now Crota’s father, Oryx has taken a disliking to the guardians, ( well we did murder his son), an all hell is about to break loose, literally. Oryx has possessed an built his own army of crazies, …
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A shorter show this time.
Check out the new Destiny expansion on Twitch tomorrow
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Bungie will be hosting a special presentation focused on the new expansion for Destiny; House of Wolves.
House of Wolves Destiny expansion available now
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The second major expansion for Bungie’s Destiny is now available. Ready for the house of Wolves?
Destiny’s Crota’s End hard mode goes live
Kiri Leatherland January 21, 2015 News, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
Ever since the release of The Dark Below, Destiny’s first expansion, players have been dyeing to play the raid; Crota’s End, on hard mode. They had to wait a whole month to finally get the chance and today the new mode has gone live. Since The Dark Below introduced Eris …
Destiny internal leaked photo has sparked DLC Rumours
Kiri Leatherland January 3, 2015 industry, News, PS3, PS4, Rumor, Xbox 360, Xbox One 2
Rumours have ignited amongst fans of best selling Destiny as a ‘leaked photo’ from a supposed Bungie meeting shows what is apparently their layout for all upcoming DLC. Not alot of detail has been revealed but there are the sames an a few bits of information to go along with …
Destiny DLC – The Dark Below (Xbox One) Review
Rick Brown December 24, 2014 past, PC, PS4, Reviews, Xbox One, Xbox One Reviews 0
The Dark Below is the newest expansion for Bungie and Activision’s FPS/MMO Destiny.
New Trailer for Destiny’s Expansion The Dark Below
Lisa November 25, 2014 News, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One 0
Bungie and Activision has just released an extended trailer for the upcoming Destiny expansion, The Dark Below. The trailer highlights the changes and new features Bungie will be adding to the game with the expansion as well as briefly describing where the story is headed. The Dark Below introduces …
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Bond girl in Bolly flick
Comments [ 0 ] By Indra D. | 08 June 2007 | 5:40pm
Although it's still doubtful whether one of our Bollywood beauties will land a role in a Bond film, a Bond girl has already been roped in for a Hindi film. Caterina Murino, who played the sexy seductress Solange in Casino Royale will star in director Anubhav Sinha's next venture Chase.
Anubhav had reportedly approached the Italian actress for doing an item number in his latest movie Cash. But he changed his mind and decided to cast Caterina in a lead role in his forthcoming action flick to be shot in Italy. Along with Caterina, Anubhav will be introducing three newcomers in the film whom he is grooming himself.
Caterina's took part in beauty pageants in 1996, before studying drama and acting in theater. Her television career took off in 2002, which was followed by a number of Italian films. But it was Casino Royale that finally brought her into the limelight in 2006. And now, it's Bollywood calling.
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by Damon Embling
Generation green: smart cities bring new eco-friendly jobs
Smart cities across Europe are pioneering all sorts of cutting-edge technologies to reduce pollution and boost energy efficiency, becoming green role models for others to follow. The eco-friendly push is not only helping to protect our planet, it’s also stimulating growth and unleashing a new generation of jobs
This year’s EU Green Week is clear in its focus: “green jobs for a greener future.” It’s highlighting how environmental policies are helping to create new work opportunities and a demand for new types of competences. Smart city projects are playing a big role in all of this - revolutionising the way we live and work and the resources we use.
“We have identified, especially from the municipalities side, that there is a need to create new skilled jobs for the creation of specific cross-department teams to work on defining action plans for cities, supporting the design of solutions and an understanding of the needs,” says Miguel Garcia, from the REMOURBAN project, which is pioneering new approaches to urban regeneration in the Spanish city of Valladolid, Nottingham in England, and Tepebasi/Eskisehir in Turkey.
“We’re working on an urban regeneration model to develop more sustainable environments. This focuses on green energy technologies for retrofitting buildings and sustainable mobility technologies, including charging points for electric vehicles,” he explains.
“And we need new types of jobs, more specialised jobs. For example, in maintaining the electric charging infrastructure of a city, to deliver all the services we will be providing from the urban platform and so on. We will see more jobs with a strong ICT component,” continues Garcia.
The project alone is expected to create around 200 jobs in all during its five-year lifespan. But Garcia says the work, along with that of other smart city projects, is likely to deliver a much bigger return in the long-term across Europe. “In 10 years, the growth in investment will be around 25 percent in the ideas we’re developing, so this will create even more new jobs,” Garcia affirms.
Another example is the Sharing Cities project set to bring 300 new jobs across three demonstration cities, as it seeks to show how digital technology can make a big ‘green’ difference to our lives.
According to 2013 EU figures, environmental economy or ‘eco-industry’ companies employed over 4.2 million people. Helping to manage pollution and natural resources, they generated a turnover of more than 700 billion euros.
Green businesses have been flourishing. But while countries like Denmark have been employing around 300,000 people in this sector, other European countries have reported much lower figures.
The smart city projects across Europe, designed to be trailblazers for others to follow, may help to even out that jobs picture – inspiring more countries to think green when it comes to urban regeneration.
“When we started three years ago, we saw that generating jobs was important. The economy wasn’t growing as quickly as it is now,” explains Gustaf Landahl, from the GrowSmarter project, which aims to develop a market for 12 ‘smart city solutions’ covering energy, infrastructure and transport. “We think we’ll create 1,500 jobs through our project. But then we hope that even more will come when these smart solutions and the companies behind them start growing.”
GrowSmarter, Sharing Cities and REMOURBAN are among nine smart city projects who recently signed a cooperation agreement to share their ideas. “We think we can have a stronger impact in cities across Europe through our collaboration. We are stronger together. I’m sure we’ll have a big impact in terms of new investment, new jobs and implementation of new technologies,” says Garcia.
But environmental policies are often accused of being job killers, as switching to a green economy could lead to an employment deficit hard to fill. For example, “a key sector, like waste management, generates jobs often left to the underprivileged in the workforce to carry out. These ‘dirty jobs’ may disappear altogether. Yet, it is not clear what jobs the green economy would then offer to those with little or no skills,” warns Ödül Bozkurt, a senior lecturer in the Department of Business and Management at the University of Sussex in England.
In this context, an interesting experience comes from the US, where the non-profit organisation Greed Alternatives promotes the accessibility of renewable jobs to low income communities, training people to work in the rooftop solar industry.
Similar examples are also emerging in Europe, including the smart city project CiTyFiED. It’s created new work and skills for unemployed people living in Laguna de Duero, Spain, through large-scale retrofitting of buildings and energy efficiency interventions.
Low-skilled or highly-skilled jobs, it seems the growing green economy is injecting new life into jobs market – and, for many countries, that is a welcome boost after all the turbulence of recent years.
December 2016“DiplomaCity”- Learning networks of cities for a sustainable future
October 2017Efficient, Cheap and Green
November 2016Energy back in local hands
April 2018How can smart cities finance their transformation?
February 2017Smart cities and innovative financing schemes
February 2018The City for Tomorrow
December 2018Towards elections: which future for EU-backed nature-based solutions (NBS)?
Country: Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
Category: Energy, Society
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Smart city and wise city
Greece is first Balkan country to announce a coal phase-out date. The revolution has already started in Western Macedonia
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Florence: Renaissance and smart future
Waste heat from power plants hits home
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WATCH: Trevor Story blasts NL rookie-record 9th homer in April
By Joe Nguyen
Pittsburgh Pirates, Trevor Story
Trevor Story (27) of the Colorado Rockies celebrates his solo home run during the fourth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Coors Field on April 27, 2016 in Denver. (Justin Edmonds, Getty Images)
The Trevor-ending Story continues.
In the fourth inning Wednesday with the Rockies down 7-0, Story cranked a 427-foot solo shot over the center field wall against Pittsburgh’s Jonathon Niese to put Colorado on the board.
As MLB reporter Patrick Saunders reported, it gave Story nine home runs for the year, breaking a National League rookie record for the month of April. Albert Pujols previously held the record with eight for St. Louis in 2001.
Jose Abreu owns the major-league record with 10 in 2014 for the White Sox.
Watch the home run:
While the Rockies battled back to tie the game at 8-apiece, the Pirates would come up victorious with a run in the 12th inning to win 9-8.
If it weren’t for the raised fences at Coors Field, Story would be at 11 home runs by now. The major-league record is 14, tied by Pujols (2005) and New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (2007).
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Save our Countryside – update
by Travis.K Oct 9th, 2011
The clock is ticking. The government shuts its consultation on proposed changes to the planning system in just over a week.
Almost 100,000 38 Degrees members have signed the petition against the proposed planning changes. The more of us who sign the petition the more likely we are to change the government’s mind.
Here are some of the things journalists, experts and organisations such as the National Trust have been saying abou the government’s plans:
The chief executive of the National Housing Federation says: ‘there are serious dangers that these changes could let private developers off the hook in terms of delivering thousands of affordable homes on their developments.’
“The new planning rules will scrap “section 106” agreements which provide half the 50,000 affordable new homes” according to Michael White.
The main cause of the housing crisis isn’t planning, it’s ‘the lack of money – thanks in no small part to the government’s decision to cut the affordable housing budget by 60%’ argues Caroline Lucas MP.
The National Trust has set out 10 ‘asks’ of the government on how the NPPF should be amended. These include:
The NPPF should adopt an explicit ‘brownfield first’ approach
It is fundamentally wrong that neighbourhood plans should be led and funded by business
The NPPF needs clarification of how planning should promote genuinely, robustly defined, sustainable development
George Monbiot, the Guardian journalist, points out “the framework’s new presumption in favour of sustainable development – by which the government means all development except coal-mining – will make it almost impossible to resist a developer’s proposal. It takes a system that is already unfair, unbalanced and undemocratic and makes it even worse”.
Under pressure from opponents of the planning reforms (including tens of thousands of 38 Degrees members), the planning minister Greg Clark has admitted that the proposals in the NPPF on brownfield land, housing targets and “sustainable development” could have been clearer.
The consultation period ends in just over a week – let’s keep up the pressure. If we work together to get more people involved in the campaign and more signatures on our petition, we can stop the government’s plans to sell off our countryside just as 38 Degrees members stopped them selling off our forests!
Please add your name to the petition, it only takes a minute, and then share this page with a friend:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/save-our-countryside
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Das Rheingold - Wagner - Two Sopranos & Cousin John
Jennifer Ashley - Soprano
Saturday night I attended ViVace Opera’s concert production of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold held at St. Mark’s Anglican Church.
I have always defined a true friend as someone who will help you on moving day. There is a new addition to this maxim of mine, “A friend is someone who will find no excuse not to accompany you for any production of Wagner.”
At the end of last night’s performance of the two-hour-twenty-four-minute opera, soprano Alexandra Hill thanked me for coming but said, “You came alone.”
I could not tell her that she was wrong and that I had come with Cousin John’s ghost.
Cousin John Hayward’s father Freddy was my father’s younger brother. He and Iris had two children, Dianne and John. When I was serving as a conscript in the Argentine Navy when I was 21 I would often visit them at tea time as Aunt Iris (pronounced eery-s) made the best deviled ham in the world. Cousin John, tall, thin, and blonde in his Argentine Army uniform (he was also doing his military service) resembled one of Hitler’s best Wehrmacht soldiers. His superiority was obvious as he would look down on me (down that long Hayward nose) as an uncouth Argentine who had lived in Mexico too long. Cousin John was cultured and loved not only symphonic music (at the time I loathed it) but was a fan of opera. He was particularly crazy about Wagner. Cousin John and I had nothing in common so we didn’t talk much.
Shortly after one of those afternoon teas I fell in love with an Argentine girl of Jewish/Austrian extraction. Susana loved me in spite of the fact that I surely was uncouth as I loved jazz and she loved opera. She commanded me to put on my best (and only) suit as she was going to take me to the opera. My first opera at the venerable Teatro Colón was Sergei Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel. From my point of view it wasn’t bad. I preferred our second outing when we saw Christoff Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.
Seeing Plácido Domingo (a young tenor at the time) in Mexico City’s Bellas Artes in Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore was exciting for me. This was around 1974, By the time I came to Vancouver I had come to accept symphonic music even though I preferred baroque and the smaller string quartets. Having to photograph opera stars for the Georgia Straight gave me the opportunity to go to many opera performances and I became a fan. In all that I managed to see one Wagner opera, The Flying Dutchman.
Cousin John rose quickly in Buenos Aires in the hierarchy of the Royal Bank of Canada and was soon sent with a very good executive position to Toronto. We met several times and for once I had a few things we could talk about. The last time I saw him during a business trip to Toronto he invited me to his beautifully appointed apartment and we watched (believe it or not!) Wagner excerpts on a very large TV. I had a good time.
A few weeks later I received a beautiful letter from Cousin John telling me that we were finally more than just first cousins but friends, too.
A year later he died. I felt sad but good that we had resolved our distances in the end.
Last night was my first full-fledged Wagner opera in spite of the fact that it was not at the Colón. It was in a church and the instrumental music backing the singers was a single piano, most ably and beautifully played by Luke Housner.
Housner is a gentle, soft-spoken man whose Vivace Opera project (five years in the running) has a mission. It gives the opportunity for budding singers to be exposed to the rigors of thorough musical awareness to the degree that they could apply this technique to approaching other roles. They will be further equipped to tackle auditions and competitions, enhancing their hire-ability.
I was talking to the excellent soprano Jennifer Ashley who played Fricka during a rare and usually verboten break in the opera. Housner wanted to be kind to our bums and bladders.
Ashley told me that somehow she had not been involved in last year’s Vivace but as soon as she found out that Wagner was in the works she had to be part of it. “How often do we have the chance to sing Wagner in Vancouver,” she told me with excitement.
Alexandra Hill - Soprano
As for my friend Alexandra Hill, that beautiful and elegant soprano, I could not avert my eyes from her role as the Rheinmaiden Wellgunde. She an the other two, played by Szu-Wen Wang and Leah Field with big taunting smiles as they dealt with Alberich, the Niebelung dwarf proved to me that I indeed can laugh at a Wagner opera as it isn’t all as serious as we have been known to think. When the fabulous (no other word suffices) Wotan played by Jeremy Ireland (a bass/baritone) and Loge the god of fire (played by Kevin Armstrong most ably) craftily convince Albrecht (in possession of not only the ring but also the magical helmet, the Tarnhelm) to turn himself into a toad/frog, and they catch him I had to laugh again!
An intimate introduction (I was seated on the first row) to a Wagner opera with a sole piano and a couple of singers I knew was exactly what I have needed all these years to launch me into the possibility of getting a good cushion and going to the nearest performance of the Ring Cycle in a near future.
I know that Cousin John with a smug smile would simply have said to me, “Finally.”
Link to: Das Rheingold - Wagner - Two Sopranos & Cousin John
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?
Shoes, Spats, Timpani & Handel's Israel In Egypt
The Photo Trailer In Lillooet
The Malibu Dom
Edward Weston's Azotea Revisited
St. Isidore's Bed & Art Bergmann
Harold That German Robot & Johnny Tomorrow
Persuasion With Sensibility
Ian Bateson's My Mother's Red Shawl
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Stima Otro. Bida di Martie Genger.
Kas di Kultura Kòrsou proudly presents the exhibition
Stima otro. Bida di Martie Genger. / Love One Another. The life of Martie Genger.
Opening: September 24, 2017
In Villa Maria
Van Den Brandhofstraat, Scharloo.
Curated by Josée Thissen-Rojer
The exhibition remains till November 12, 2017. For opening hours, see page bottom.
Meet & Greet with Martie Genger: Sunday October 22, 2017. Between 10:30 AM and 2 PM, in Villa Maria.
Martie Genger came to Curaçao in 1969, just after the uproars of May 30th. As the title indicates, this exhibition is about her life. Martie divides her life in three parts and this exhibition presents the part of her life that has to do with hope, birth, confrontation, youth, immigration, culture, hate and crime.
Love One Another. The life of Martie Genger. The thing that most grabs you about Martie Genger is her love and caring. She creates her artworks from a deep necessity to express herself. To share the love she has with the world.
The famous American author Maya Angelou (1928-2014) wrote her first autobiography in 1969, titled ‘I know why the caged bird sings’. May Angelou explains that the caged birds doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. It has a message it wants to share with the world.
The same happens to Martie. And while visiting the present exhibition, you can discover her song. In her life she has done a lot and passed through many experiences. When talking with Martie you discover a life rich with all kind of experiences, because she dared to live. She followed her heart, took risks and when needed, also had the strength to climb over rocks. All without losing her love and caring for herself, her family, friends and the world.
Life is not easy for any of us. Some experiences take years before Martie can express them in an artwork. Her pieces about her immigration (1969) are recurring like ‘Immigrant’ in 1993 and ‘Not Welcome’ in 2002. These difficult experiences keep coming back in her artistic work.
Others like ‘The Family’ are from 1972 when Martie goes through a divorce. In life difficult periods are followed by happy ones and likewise in the exhibition all kinds of emotions are present. Sadness and Happiness.
‘I Love You’, symbolize the periode when love enters back into her life. ‘Coral’ and ‘Satèh di Playa’ symbolize the pleasantness of life in Curaçao. In ‘Hot, Heat, Hitte’ she humorously expresses the change of climate she experienced when she immigrated.
The piece ‘Timeless Moving’, made in 1976, shows us the philosophy Martie developed in her life. The crumpled sheet symbolized movement. In life you have learn to go up and down with the waves.
Her most important philosophy is found in the work ‘Como Cerrar’ (How to connect). This piece stands for connection. Each one of the nine parts shows a kind of connection. The hooks, the zipper, the safety-pins and buttons.
‘Como Cerrar’ is the art work that really gives us Martie’s song: Do not look for confrontation or war. Martie shows us that we must look for connection and love: Love One Another.
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. From 9 AM till 4 PM.
20, 21, 22 October,
3, 4, 5 November,
10, 11, 12 November.
Stichting Monumentenzorg Curaçao is proud sponsor of this exhibition.
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THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | APRIL 2010
Joe Le Groove´s
I truly have absolutely no idea, I could be
headlining Sonar or working as a waitress in a cocktail bar… But I look forward to finding out !
How long have you been djing and what was your inspiration at the time?
I’ve been djing for around 10 years now and my inspiration at the time was the same as it is now – just go- ing out clubbing and hearing good dj’s play. I never really planned to be a dj but as I started going out more and more I wanted to buy my favourite records that I was hearing week in, week out. More as a souvenir to remind me of a good night than anything else. But, as I amassed a reasonable collection of pretty cool records, my friend was having a party and didn’t have a dj, so I stepped in….
I remember you saying to me when I met you a few years back that you like myself used to be hooked on Hip Hop, I started as a Hip Hop DJ. Did you also?
Hip Hop was the first music I really got into when I was younger, staying up late to tape Westwood’s show on Capital FM and buying records by the likes of Organized Konfusion, A Tribe Called Quest, Gangstarr, Geto Boyz etc etc but I was never a hip hop dj. As I actually started going out to clubs I was bitten by the house bug and that was the first music that I re- ally got into seriously buying on vinyl.
Name one annoying thing that comes with being a DJ?
Well, there aren’t really that many an- noying things that come with being a dj, to be honest. Like any “job” there are certain aspects that aren’t as much fun as others but I think that’s true of most vocations. The only thing I would really say that can be annoy- ing is that sometimes people feel they have the right to come up to you and demand, in a pretty rude and arro- gant manner, that you play certain re- cords or a certain style of music. Not ask, but demand. This can be pretty annoying, especially when you have a packed club of people having fun and this one individual wants you to completely change the music just to suit them…
You currently live in Germany why did you decide to move?
Heartbreak. But, at the same I had
SOSHO: an end to so many begginings
On the 11th of last month popular east end nightclub Sosho suffered form one of the worst fires to hit London recently. Twenty fire engines and 100 fire- fighters were called out to fight the blaze, which spread across a
number of buildings on Tabernacle Street. The fire caused millions of pounds of dam- age, including the destruction of at least £50,000 pounds worth of artwork. Due to the extensive dam-
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always harbored a dream to live in a foreign country for a decent amount of time and I had some good friends already living here in Berlin, so I decided to give it a shot. Berlin is a truly beautiful city in so many differ- ent ways and I’m really happy here at the moment, so I think it was a good move for me.
I personally think there is good music coming from every around the globe but Germany at the moment for many is so called “ where its at”. What do you think about this?
I’d agree with you – there is great music coming from Switzerland, Ro- mania, Italy and the UK, to give just a few examples. But I think a lot of the reason Germany, and Berlin, in par- ticular, get so much attention is be- cause of the clubscene here. I don’t think there is another city in the world that can rival Berlin for good, cred- ible house ,techno and disco nights in interesting locations. And I think this amazing clubscene maybe gives people the perception there are, for some reason, more amazing produc- ers here, than there are in other parts of the world…
Don’t you think it’s about time the UK had its period like Ger- many has as we have some awe- some talent over here?
Maybe. But the only way this will hap- pen is if the talent in the UK makes good enough records – simple as that. No intelligent person buys re- cords because they are made by Ger- mans, people buy records because they consider them to be good.
You foremost started as a DJ and doing A&R, how long have you been actually producing and what set up do you use?
I’ve been producing for around 4 years or so I guess and still com- pletely consider myself a novice that is learning as he goes. I simply use a Macbook Pro and Ableton Live ( I think I’m on 7 at the moment). I have a couple of plug ins but mainly use whats in Ableton already. My motto is KISS ! (keep it simple, stupid!)
What Dj/Producers in other genres do you rate?
In other genres I’d have to say people like Diamond D, Pharell Williams, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Quiet Village, The Revenge, Tom Moulton, Swizz Beats, Quincy Jones, Stuart Price, Nile Rog- ers the list goes on and on…
I would like to work with Prince or James Brown (RIP) if it was possible. Are there any pop stars past or present that you would like to work with?
I’m good friends with Jake from Scis- sor Sisters so maybe we might work on something one day but apart from him, again, the list is endless but would definitely include Mini Viva, Rhianna, Cheryl Cole, Nikka Costa, Jay Z, Pet Shop Boys, Donna Sum- mer, Sylvester, Prince, Fine Young Cannibals, Blow Monkeys, Keri Hil- son, Daryl Pandy, The Beach Boys, The Cure etc etc etc
What advice could you give to bedroom djs and producers who have just started?
For dj’s - buy your favourite records and play them, create your own style and search out tracks you love that everyone else ISN’T playing. For producers – maybe start off by doing some edits of tracks you really like to get some experience and progress into making your own tracks. The most important thing is to make something you are proud of and, if you dj also, something you are happy to play in your set. As long as you do that, even if no one else likes it or wants to play it/sign it – you have a secret weapon that you have, exclusively, to play.
If you were stuck in and eleva- tor for 7 hours who would it be with?
I’d have to go for the dream team of Penelope Cruz, Paz Vega, Monica Belucci and Cheryl Cole.
Name one killer tune, which is not out yet?
The new Justin Drake single is phe- nomenal – definitely my biggest track of the last few months and had 4 peo- ple running to the booth to ask what it was when I played it at Panorama Bar last weekend.
age the nightclub, often open 7 days a week, will have to shut down for the foreseeable fu- ture. A great loss not only to its owners but to London’s 24 hr licensed night life. Stuart Langley, former General Manager (2003-2007) said ‘It took a while to let people know that we had a 24 hour licenced 450 capacity venue hidden round the corner from Old
Street. Kev Beadle’s weekly Mind Fluid quietly became London’s second longest running club night (second to Gilles Peterson over at Bar Rumba). Dirty filled the place before 7pm every Bank Holiday Thursday with club lovers from the City. Joya saw us giving Mojitos away to 600 people on a Wednes- day night. Lasermagnetic gave us Metro Area. Sunday Rocks caught the atten-
tion and the moment when London embraced minimal house and stay- ing out till Monday morning. When Sunday Rocks fell apart, Retox was there to fill the gap. For lots of peo- ple, Sosho started here. I had a really good time while it lasted. The people are the thing I’ll miss. I’ve never had such lovely staff. I’ve never met so many lovely people.
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Journal of Dairy Research
Relationship between stearoyl-C...
Yao, Dawei Luo, Jun He, Qiuya Shi, Hengbo Li, Jun Wang, Hui Xu, Huifen Chen, Zhi Yi, Yongqing and Loor, Juan J. 2017. SCD1 Alters Long-Chain Fatty Acid (LCFA) Composition and Its Expression Is Directly Regulated by SREBP-1 and PPARγ 1 in Dairy Goat Mammary Cells. Journal of Cellular Physiology, Vol. 232, Issue. 3, p. 635.
Ren, Caifang Wang, Lizhong Fan, Yixuan Jia, Ruoxin Zhang, Guomin Deng, Mingtian Deng, Kaiping and Wang, Feng 2018. Scd1 Contributes to Lipid Droplets Formation in GMEC via Transcriptional Regulation of Tip47 and Adrp. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, Vol. 120, Issue. 2, p. 1700238.
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Relationship between stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 gene expression, relative protein abundance, and its fatty acid products in bovine tissues
Pedram Rezamand (a1), Jason S Watts (a1), Katherine M Yavah (a1), Erin E Mosley (a1), Liying Ma (a2), Benjamin A Corl (a2) and Mark A McGuire (a1)...
1Department of Animal & Veterinary Science, University of Idaho, Moscow Idaho 83844
2Department of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Virginia 24061
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022029914000181
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2014
Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) greatly contributes to the unsaturated fatty acids present in milk and meat of cattle. The SCD1 enzyme introduces a double bond into certain saturated fatty acyl-CoAs producing monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA). The SCD1 enzyme also has been shown to be active in the bovine mammary gland converting t11 18 : 1 (vaccenic acid) to c9 t11 conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). The objective of this study was to determine any association between the gene expression of SCD1 and occurrence of its products (c9 14 : 1, c9 16 : 1, c9 18 : 1, and c9 t11 18 : 2) in various bovine tissues. Tissue samples were obtained from lactating Holstein cows (n=28) at slaughter, frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80 °C. Total RNA was extracted and converted to complementary DNA for quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the SCD1 gene. Extracted lipid was converted to fatty acid methyl esters and analysed by GC. Tissues varied in expression of SCD1 gene with mammary, cardiac, intestinal adipose, and skeletal muscle expressing greater copy number as compared with lung, large intestine, small intestine and liver (371, 369, 328, 286, 257, 145, 73, and 21 copies/ng RNA, respectively). Tissues with high mRNA expression of SCD1 contained greater SCD1 protein whereas detection of SCD1 protein in tissues with low SCD1 mRNA expression was very faint or absent. Across tissues, the desaturase indices for c9 18 : 1 (r=0·24) and sum of SCD products (r=0·20) were positively correlated with SCD1 gene expression (P<0·01 for both). Within each tissue, the relationship between SCD1 gene expression and the desaturase indices varied. No correlation was detected between SCD1 expression and desaturase indices in the liver, large and small intestines, lung, cardiac or skeletal muscles. Positive correlations, however, were detected between SCD1 expression and the desaturase indices in intestinal adipose tissue (P<0·02 for all) except 14 : 1, whereas only c9 18 : 1, c9 t11 18 : 2 and sum of all desaturase indices were positively correlated with SCD1 expression in mammary tissue (P⩽0·03). Overall, the relationship between SCD1 gene expression and occurrence of its products seems to be tissue specific.
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Darrell Issa Eyes Return to Congress
By Mark August 29, 2019 August 29, 2019
Democrats for Equality,
Those rumors you’ve been hearing are true… Darrell Issa is eyeing a return to Congress.
Now, before you start thinking, “Mike Levin will crush him…” the Washington Post is reporting that Darrell Issa is launching an exploratory committee for the 50th Congressional District, currently held by the indicted one himself… Duncan Hunter.
Darrell Issa looks to join a host of right-wing conservatives including presumably Duncan Hunter, El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, defeated Escondido Mayor Sam Abed, a Temecula city councilmember, and a couple of failed perennial candidates.
Reuse and recycling are good for the environment, but let’s not reuse/recycle old politicians… especially those old politicians overtly hostile to the environment, or to the LGBTQ community.
Obviously, we could all save ourselves the trouble and elect Ammar Campa-Najjar. To donate and/or volunteer for Ammar’s campaign, please visit his campaign website here.
In other news, NBC News reported a couple of weeks ago that the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Donald Trump for re-election. The ensuing fallout has been… in a word, delicious.
Earlier this week, NBC News also reported that the group’s national executive director has resigned. This also follows the resignation of a board member, and their Washington D.C. chapter president announce that they were leaving the organization.
You know… I could sit here and write a fairly lengthy thesis about all of this. And I started to. Oh, believe me… it was juicy. However, all those words, paragraphs, and biting bon mots now exist only in my memory.
Clearly, the Log Cabin Republicans have made their choice for President: Donald Trump.
Say what you will about our Democratic candidates for President, none of them are as transphobic, as queerphobic, as heartless, as cruel, or as racist as Trump and his administration has been.
That being said, the San Diego Democrats for Equality will have the opportunity at our November meeting to make our choice for President known. At our next meeting, we will discuss using ranked-choice voting to come to that consensus given the number of candidates running.
Our next club meeting will be Thursday, September 19th — and we’ll be again starting at a special time: 6:30pm. The meeting will be at the Joyce Beers Community Center in Hillcrest.
Ryan Trabuco
San Diego Democrats for Equality
Club Issues Endorsements for Congress, Supervisor, and City Council!
Thank you, Susan Davis!
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NEW YORK — A jury was selected Monday to hear evidence in the trial of an aspiring agent and a former amateur coach charged with bribing big-school coaches to boost their business prospects with amateur basketball players.
Opening statements by lawyers were scheduled to occur Tuesday morning in Manhattan federal court in the trial of business manager Christian Dawkins and ex-amateur league director Merl Code.
The trial is the second of three resulting from arrests made 19 months ago, when prosecutors described a widespread bribery scheme in which financial advisers and business managers allegedly paid assistant coaches and athletes' families to steer players to big-program schools.
Testimony in a trial projected to last two weeks is expected to center on bribes paid to an assistant coach at the University of South Carolina and later Oklahoma State University, an assistant coach at the University of Arizona and an assistant coach at the University of Southern California.
The now ex-coaches — Tony Bland at USC, Emanuel "Book" Richardson at Arizona and Lamont Evans at South Carolina and Oklahoma State — have pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy charges and are awaiting sentencing.
A fourth ex-assistant coach — Chuck Person of Auburn University — also has pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy and is awaiting sentencing. He had been scheduled to go to trial in June.
U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos told prospective jurors that the scandal also affected Creighton University and Texas Christian University.
Assistant coaches Preston Murphy of Creighton and Corey Barker of TCU recently were placed on administrative leave by their schools after each was accused of taking a $6,000 bribe from Dawkins to send prospective clients his way.
Ramos told prospective jurors that Code and Dawkins "deny all the charges and are presumed innocent."
Code and Dawkins already were convicted in October on similar charges and were each sentenced to six months in prison. This time, the focus is on bribes to coaches instead of players' families.
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The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany
Volckart, Oliver (2004) The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany. Explorations in Economic History, 41 (3). pp. 282-299. ISSN 0014-4983
Identification Number: 10.1016/j.eeh.2003.11.001
I examine the problem of contracting over time and space in late medieval Germany, where there was nothing like a modern state with a territorial monopoly of force. As a law merchant that could be used to enforce compliance did not exist either, the threat of resorting to a feud helped actors credibly to commit to contracts. The article analyzes which institutions restricted feuding and why these rules were generally respected, examines the calculus which led to the decision to declare a feud, and explains how this helped to realize gains from exchange.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/explorations-in-e...
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
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H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
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