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You are here: Home / News / MXGP / Podium for Dutch Team at Motocross of Nations
Podium for Dutch Team at Motocross of Nations
The Dutch Motocross of Nations team consisting of Jeffrey Herlings, Glenn Coldenhoff and Brian Bogers scored a podium finish at the Motocross of Nations for the second year in succession. On a muddy track at Matterley Basin, the Dutch triumvirate finished behind the victorious French team for podium honours.
Jeffrey Herlings won the Open Class with a double victory. In the first heat, he held the early lead, but crashed, dropping him to second. He recovered to regain the lead from Romain Febvre. In the second heat, he lost the connection to the two leaders, after having struggled a while to pass Belgian Jeremy van Horebeek. He quickly closed the gap once he had passed. He managed ot pass Febvre again, but came just short of passing race leader Max Anstie. He did finish first of the Open Class bikes, claiming that individual victory. “I am not really happy. I would have loved to have taken the overall victory with the team, and also to have won the last race. My second half of the season has been very strong, and I think I have established myself as one of the fastest riders. That gives me confidence for next year.”
Brian Bogers finished fifth in the MX2 class. With a superb showing in the first heat, he finished third. In the second heat, some wheelspin off the start dropped him down the field initially. Riding with the big banger Open Class bikes, he had trouble making passes, but still managed to finish ninth. “If you had offered us the second place on Friday, I would have signed then and there,”he said. “Of course we would have loved to have won, but the French team was immensely strong and they did not make any mistakes.”
Glenn Coldenhoff had a good start in race one and was mixed in with the leading group. He dropped a few places on the slippery circuit, and finished eighth. In the second heat, he had troubles off the start, similar to teammate Brian Bogers. He recovered well and again worked his way into the top ten. A mistake late in the race dropped him to 11th, for 8th overall in the MXGP class. “I am not really happy. After having had to toss my goggles in the first heat, things got difficult. I had a bad start in race two due to wheelspin, and then I was in the midst of the pack which made it difficult. I had a difficult day, but I am very happy that our team finished on the podium again. ”
With second in the overall classification, the Dutch team had a lot to celebrate. “The riders were disappointed, but in my view they did well. Conditions were very difficult today and the French team was very strong,” coach Marcel Hartman said.
Final Nations Classification:
1 Team France 20 pnt
2 Team Holland 31 pnt
3 Team Great Britain 32 pnt
3 October 2017 /by Arno van den Brink
Tags: KTM, MXGP, Red Bull
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" Red" Review - Seeing Red at the Goodman Theatre
Whether you’re an art lover or someone who’s looked at nonrepresentational art and thought, “My six-year-old could do that,” Goodman Theatre’s production of "Red" is for you
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Rushmore by Wes Anderson is the yearly favorite from 1998 as listed in Life as Fiction (Through Time): An Exercise in the Clockwork and Constriction of Cinematic History, a project to chronicle my favorite film from each year since 1921.
1998 / Wes Anderson > Not sure how much my familiarity with the soundtrack had to do with it, but my latest viewing of Rushmore was a completely different experience than I’d previously recalled. Seeing it in theatres upon release, when Anderson’s tactics were still fresh, the first half was all the rage while the second half seemed banal at best. But over time, that first half became a sort of gimmick, something to create an illusion of substance when in reality it embodies much of the indie quirkiness that continues to plague current cinema. But now, multiple Anderson films later, I’ve finally realized what makes the film tick isn’t its first half, but rather the second half, which maintains a sense of quiet rumination filled with the appreciation of living and acceptance.
In ways, this is as unusual a coming of age film as there ever may be. While Jason Schwartzman’s Max Fischer isn’t immediately someone to identify with, his emotional see-saw with Miss Cross (played by the elegant and lovely Olivia Williams) provides an intangible yet definite hook for us to latch onto. He seems the antithesis of what we see in Dangerous Minds, yet in many ways, he’s exactly similar. Nobody said you had to deal with guns and drugs to be a delinquent—You can also do it with “extracurricular activities” like building aquariums on the baseball diamond or tending bees instead of taking exams.
Also impressively, no Anderson film has used music as effectively as Rushmore: The Who backing the revenge sequence, John Lennon supporting Bill Murray’s hopeful Herman Blume and Max’s road back to grace and Miss Cross taking Max’s glasses off to Ooh La La by Faces (where the minor quiver on Williams’ lip is one of the finest moments in my personal cinematic history). All of these are further impacted by the calculated camera work of Richard Yeoman. So beautiful, in fact, that the curtain scene at the end has forever become etched in my memory.
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Home / FEATURES / Azwel: There’s traces of influence, but the sound is genuine
Azwel: There’s traces of influence, but the sound is genuine
lifoti June 19, 2019 FEATURES
Azwel is a project that involves songwriter Jason Perrillo and his live band. For the past 15 years, Jason has gained success online through recording and producing independently released albums in his New York studio. He describes the music as melodic, eclectic catchy pop/rock with songs that are influenced by various styles of music. The sound is often compared to britpop/rock artists. Within the last few years a live band was formed consisting of Joe Lorge (guitar/backing vocals) Gregg Steele (bass/backing vocals) and Johnny Zaletel (drums/percussion) A debut album was completed in 2003. The styles have changed from one album to the next with a wide array of instrumentation from electric/acoustic guitars to various electric pianos, organs, brass, woodwind and strings.
Azwel's music is always filled with interesting chord progressions, catchy melodies and thought-out arrangements. Jason plays a few different instruments and has years of live and studio experience with his own music as well as being a producer and casual session keyboard/guitarist for other acts. Most of the albums are available to download for free on the official website with the choice of optional donations depending on how much the listener enjoys the album.
Over the years, Jason has also collaborated with many other online artists and has released an album with Argentinian pop artist, Julian Murias. The album "Beginning," released in 2011, was a very beat-heavy electronic studio album. Azwel's songs have also been featured in Hollywood major motion pictures(Let The Game Begin), independent film soundtracks, and compilations put together by several international independent labels. The video for recent single, "At the end of the Day" was illustrated and directed by Hazard Studios and was an official selection at the Jim Thorpe Film Festival in 2018. It also won a Spotlight Award at the "Elevation Indie Film Awards. in 2018."
Azwel's most recent album entitled,"Phantasmagoria" which expands the sound even further. It focuses heavily on acoustic sounds with very minimal electric guitar and features lots of strings, acoustic guitar, piano and harpsichord. It has been on rotation all over college radio and has been receiving excellent feedback from both critics and fans. Azwel is set to release a new album this year. Whereas the previous album concentrated on acoustic instruments, with a sort of 'ban on guitar,' this one is the exact opposite with non stop energetic guitar driven songs, although the style from song to song is as varied as usual.
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GAMES: SMB, SMB3, SML, SML2, SMW, SMW2, SMRPG, SM64, PM, ML, PM2, ML2, SPP, NSMB, SM64DS, SMBLL, SMG, NSMBW.
TYPE: Fungus.
TURF: Castles, Caves, Forests, Grasslands, Mountains, Arctic.
AFFILIATIONS: Koopa Troop.
CLOSE RELATIVES: Goomba King, Paragoomba, Tanoomba, Gu Goomba, Gloomba, Dark Goomba, Chibibo, Mad Goomba, Sad Goomba, Chuboomba.
SKILLS AND ATTACKS: Parachuting, (SMW) Spitting thorns (SMRPG).
STRENGTHS: Goombas tend to appear in large groups, which gives them a small advantage.
WEAKNESSES: Goombas are pathetically weak. Super Mario World is the only game where they can withstand Mario's basic attack.
BACKGROUND: The original story behind Little Goombas is that they were mushroom people who had defected to Bowser's army. This story has eroded through time, though. In fact, some Goombas now live peacefully with the people of the Mushroom Kingdom. Goombas come in a variety of forms, but can always be identified by their small, mushroom shaped bodies.
In general, Goombas form the backbone of the Koopa Troop. They can inhabit virtually any type of terrain, and they often appear in force. Sometimes they come equipped with parachutes, or flying in bubbles.
The best thing about Goombas is how they squish. When Mario stomps a Goomba, it flattens right down to the ground, and makes a little squeaky noise! This lead to the popular Mushroom Kingdom phrase, "It's like stomping Goombas in a barrel!" The phrase has become politically incorrect in many circles, though, since some Goombas have defected from the Koopa Troop and started living in peace with the Mushroom Kingdom's people. It's just not polite to talk about stomping your next door neighbour.
EVOLUTION: Goombas have changed a lot over the years. In the first Super Mario Bros game, they didn't have mouths, just eyes but it was popular to draw them with a mouth and two little fangs...Voila! that's what they looked like in Super Mario Bros 3.
In Super Mario World, something very bad happened to Goombas. They couldn't be squished any more! Not only that, but they looked more like beach balls than mushrooms. True, you could now tip a Goomba on its back and boot the helpless little guy around, but it just wasn't as much fun as squishing them.
Thankfully, the people at Nintendo realized that Goombas without squishing just isn't right! Anyway, by Super Mario Land 2, the Goombas were back in shape, and as squashable as ever! As a matter of fact, the Goombas in SML2 were some of the most true-to-drawing ones in the whole series. The Super Mario RPG Goombas were pretty traditional looking.
The Goombas in Super Mario 64 weren't quite as mushroom shaped as their earlier counterparts, probably to save polygons. They still look quite good, as you can see in the picture above.
In Paper Mario, Goombas reached what I consider the pinnacle of Goombadom. They look exactly like the artwork in this game, as you can see above. Isle Delfino is home to strange Goomba-like creatures that are sometimes referred to as Strollin' Stus: they have large noses and red and white polka-dotted bottoms. They were erroneously added to the Goomba entry of the site but will eventually earn their own entry.
Mario & Luigi features more traditional Goombas with light skin and round heads, While Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door features Goombas much like the original Paper Mario.
Why do these monsters keep changing? Maybe there are many different varieties of Goomba.
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God’s management consultants: the Church of England turns to bankers for salvation
September 22, 2016 by Mark Greaves
Justin Welby wants to focus on growth – and has City high-flyers on hand to help him do it. Can he take his fractious Church with him?
This article was published in The Spectator.
A new mood has taken hold of Lambeth Palace. Officials call it urgency; critics say it is panic. The Church of England, the thinking goes, is about to shrink rapidly, even vanish in some areas, unless urgent action is taken. This action, laid out in a flurry of high-level reports, amounts to the biggest institutional shake-up since the 1990s. Red tape is to be cut, processes streamlined, resources optimised. Targets have been set. The Church is ill — and business management is going to cure it.
Reformers say they are only removing obstacles that hinder the Church from growing. Opponents, appalled by the business-speak of some of the reports, object to what they see as a ruthless focus on filling pews.
Two reforms in particular have generated headlines. One is the plan to swipe £100 million from the Church’s investments to pay for more priests (target: a 50 per cent increase in trainee clergy by 2020). The other is to give business-school training to bishops and deans and, more controversially, to identify a ‘talent pool’ of future leaders — in the official language, people ‘with exceptional strategic leadership potential for Gospel, Kingdom and Church impact’.
Provoking more anxiety, though, is the emphasis on growth in numbers. Half of the central fund distributed to help poorer dioceses is to be diverted to support thriving projects. The previous system was thought to ‘subsidise decline’. The new approach, to be brought in over ten years, is meant to ‘incentivise… Church growth and innovation and flexibility’.
To many in the Church this feels like new ground. The C of E, they say, should be focused on God, not growth. The Revd Canon Professor Martyn Percy, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, says he has received hundreds of emails and letters from people worried by all the talk about ‘efficiency, success, targets and data’. Jesus, he says, ‘didn’t spend a lot of time going about success’.
Such unease is only likely to be heightened by the involvement of high-flying City execs. One report was written by Lord Green, ex-chairman of HSBC; another by John Spence, former chief executive of LloydsTSB Scotland. A third refers to a working session, requested by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, with executives at Lloyds Bank. (Success, Church officials were told, ‘requires focus, determination, organisation and adequate resourcing’.)
Read the rest of the article here.
Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Alpha, Anglicanism, bankers, church growth, Church of England, HTB, Justin Welby, management consultants
I am a freelance and staff journalist based in London. I work as news editor of the Catholic Herald. Until June 2017 I edited Spectator Health, a site focused on health news and analysis launched by the Spectator. I also shift as a subeditor at the Guardian and write features mainly for the Spectator and the Times. On this website you can read about recycled graves, bankers reforming the CofE and Christians facing ISIS. You can also read my interviews with Joanna Lumley, artist Peter Howson, and the novelist Marilynne Robinson.
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Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle discuss a new New Hampshire poll that indicates several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates—except Sen. Elizabeth Warren—could beat President Donald Trump in a general election. "Elizabeth Warren has run an incredibly great campaign. She was written off earlier this year in the spring, and she's come charging forward. Her rallies are electric. She is specific with her proposals. She does indeed have a plan for most things, but there's a lethal aspect to her campaign…It's things like Medicare-for-all, it's decriminalization along the border, elements like that. She's got to figure out a way to come back to the middle, and that brings you to Joe Biden. That's where he is. That's where he's run his campaign since the day he announced. He's a moderate. This is a moderate country,” says Barnicle about America. Join the conversation here.
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WATCH: Coachella – 20 Years In The Desert Teaser Appears
by Tim Cashmere
California’s legendary Coachella festival turns 21 this year and to celebrate there is a doco on the way.
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Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott, Frank Ocean Head Up Coachella 2020
Coachella revealed their 2020 lineup with Rage Against The Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean headlining Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively.
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Frank Ocean Plays His First Show In Three Years
Singer Frank Ocean has returned to the stage following a three-year hiatus after turning up to rock the house at the NorthSide Festival in Denmark on Friday (09Jun17).
Tagged as: 10s, Frank Ocean, R&B, soul, USA
Australian Albums: Frank Ocean Reclaims Top Spot
Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ has pulled back in from of A Day To Remember and the Suicide Squad soundtrack to take but the number one spot on the Australian album chart.
Tagged as: ARIA singles, Australian albums, Australian Albums: Frank Ocean Reclaims Top Spot, Australian charts, Blonde, Frank Ocean
Chance The Rapper Recalls The Night Frank Ocean Serenaded His Date
Chance the Rapper and a date were once serenaded by Frank Ocean.
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Australian Albums Frank Ocean ‘Blonde’ Is An Easy No 1
US singer Frank Ocean sees his second solo album, and first new material in four years, entitled “Blonde” (sometimes spelt ‘Blond’ too) debut at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.
Tagged as: ARIA singles, Australian albums, Australian Albums Frank Ocean 'Blonde' Is An Easy No 1, Australian charts, Blonde, Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean ‘Endless’ Doesn’t Qualify For Billboard Chart
Frank Ocean visual album ‘Endless’ will be nowhere to be seen on the Billboard chart this week because they don’t have a way to chart it.
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Australian Albums Frank Ocean ‘Blonde’ Takes Over Charts All Over The World
Frank Ocean’s sudden release ‘Blonde’ has realigned world charts this week including Australian album chart.
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Kanye West Writes Bizarre McDonalds Poem For Frank Ocean Mag
Kanye West would like you to think he is a poet but after today’s effort for Frank Ocean’s mag maybe he is just plain fucking crazy.
Tagged as: Blonde, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Kanye West Writes Bizarre McDonalds Poem For Frank Ocean Mag, McDonalds, music news
Frank Ocean Blonde Released And You Can Hear It Now
Frank Ocean’s much talked about second album ‘Blonde’ is now available and streaming at Apple Music.
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Frank Ocean Will Have A New Album This Week
R&B star Frank Ocean’s highly-anticipated second album is reportedly due out on Friday.
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Kanye West Praises Frank Ocean For Stand On Homophobia
Kanye West has praised Frank Ocean for combating homophobia in music.
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Don Henley Calls Frank Ocean ‘A Talentless Little Prick’
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Lorde Replaces Frank Ocean At Splendour In The Grass
New Zealand singer songwriter Ella Yelich-O’Connor aka Lorde is the last minute addition to Splendour In The Grass, filling the gap created by the ailing Frank Ocean.
Tagged as: Frank Ocean, Lorde, Of Monsters And Men, Splendour In The Grass, The Presets
Frank Ocean Cancels All Australian Shows Including Splendour In The Grass
Frank Ocean has cancelled all remaining shows on his Australian tour including this weekend’s performance at Splendour In The Grass.
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Frank Ocean Australian Sideshow Announced
Frank Ocean will perform sideshows in Sydney and Melbourne as well as his showcase gig at Splendour In The Grass.
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Splendour In The Grass Sells Out In One Hour
25,000 Splendour In The Grass tickets told within one hour of going on sale today (May 2, 2013).
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Mumford & Sons, The National Announced for Splendour In The Grass
The Splendour In The Grass line-up has been announced with exclusive shows set for Mumford & Sons, TV on the Radio and The National.
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Clive Davis Applauds Frank Ocean’s Bravery On Coming Out
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Clive Davis commends Frank Ocean for being ‘very brave’ about his sexuality.
Tagged as: Clive Davis, Frank Ocean, Grammy Awards, U.S.A., Urban Contemporary
Adele Takes To Twitter To Tell Truth About That Photo
Adele has slammed reports that she and Chris Brown were involved in a heated confrontation at the Grammys.
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Adele Allegedly Gives Chris Brown A Piece Of Her Mind
Adele reportedly gave Chris Brown a firm piece of her mind at the Grammys Sunday night.
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Spotify Predict Grammy Winners
With the eagerly-awaited GRAMMY awards airing this Sunday, Spotify looked at song and album streams to predict which nominees would walk away with the coveted gilded gramophones if it were up to Spotify users.
Tagged as: Carly Rae Jepsen, Carrie Underwood, Frank Ocean, Fun, Gotye, Grammys, Jack White, Mumford & Sons, Spotify, the Alabama Shakes, The Black Keys, The Lumineers
Sting To Perform With Rihanna And Bruno Mars At Grammys
Sting will sing in what is being called “a special performance” at the Grammys this year with nominees Rihanna and Bruno Mars.
Tagged as: Alicia Keys, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert, Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Frank Ocean, Fun, Jack White, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, Mumford and Sons, Rihanna, Sting, Taylor Swift, The Black Keys, The Lumineers
Frank Ocean Wants Peace With Chris Brown
Frank Ocean wants ‘peace’ between himself and Chris Brown following their brawl.
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Justin Timberlake To Sing At Grammy Awards
Justin Timberlake will perform at the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Tagged as: Carrie Underwood, Elton John, Frank Ocean, Fun, Grammys, Jack White, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, LL Cool J, Mumford & Sons, Rihanna, Taylor Swift
Chris Brown And Frank Ocean Have A Brawl
Chris Brown and Frank Ocean were apparently involved in a brawl yesterday.
Tagged as: Chris Brown, Everest, Frank Ocean
Gotye Nominated For Grammy Record Of The Year
Australia’s Gotye has been nominated for the big Grammy ‘Record Of The Year’ along with The Black Keys, Kelly Clarkson, fun and Frank Ocean and Taylor Swift.
Tagged as: Black Keys, Frank Ocean, Fun, Gotye, Grammy Awards, Kelly Clarkson, Kimbra, Taylor Swift
R. Kelly Sets New Record For Most Soul Train Awards Nominations
R. Kelly has set a new record for the Soul Train Awards for most nominations by an artist as his two nods push him to a total of 21 over the years. He is up for Songwriter and Album of the Year.
Tagged as: Beyonce, Estelle, Frank Ocean, Jimmy Cliff, R. Kelly, Robin Thicke, Soul Train Awards, Tony Bennett, Usher, Whitney Houston
Frank Ocean Enlists John Mayer For ‘Pyramids’ Video
Neo-R&B sensation Frank Ocean releases a strip club drug-haze clip for ‘Pyramids’ featuring John Mayer.
Tagged as: Frank Ocean, John Mayer, R&B
Stevie Wonder Issues Statement To Explain His Controversial Comments
Stevie Wonder has been forced to explain some controversial comments that he made to Britain’s The Guardian about homosexuality.
Tagged as: Frank Ocean, Stevie Wonder
California's legendary Coachella festival turns 21 this year and to celebrate there is a doco on the way.
US singer Frank Ocean sees his second solo album, and first new material in four years, entitled "Blonde" (sometimes spelt 'Blond' too) debut at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.
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Steelbridge Realty handles all kinds of property
By CHUCK BALLARO (news@breezenewspapers.com) , North Fort Myers Neighbor
When Jeff Tumbarello had the opportunity to work in a rent-free office on Del Prado Boulevard in Cape Coral, he decided instead to find a small office close to his home in North Fort Myers.
Tumbarello, who has worked in the real estate business for years, has seen his investment in the area pay off. He's been at the office on North Key Drive for more than a decade, during which he has seen a tremendous rebound in the real estate market in the region, from residential to commercial.
There isn't much Tumbarello doesn't know about the industry. He has seen and done everything, and after playing a part in the recovery and the ups and downs afterward, he sees the market continuing its upward trend, in the short term.
Jeff Tumbarello, owner of Steelbridge Realty.
CHUCK BALLARO
Steelbridge Realty is a "boutique" firm founded in 2008 in connection with a private equity firm that bought a lot of bad debt in Southwest Florida, from commercial buildings to tracts of land.
This, of course, was the same time as the real estate market collapsed.
"A lot of private equity money came into the market and that made the distressed debt market unsustainable because we couldn't compete with their margins," Tumbarello said. "We bought our partner out and we morphed into what we are today."
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While it may have seemed like a terrible time to invest, it was actually the perfect time because the market became a "blank slate" which allowed them to buy the distressed paper the banks were scared to touch.
"You want to be bold when people are fearful and you want to be fearful when people are bold," Tumbarello said. "We called the top of the market and bottom of the market and that the Boomers were going to buy up the cheap stuff. We went from there."
Those investors have made huge gains, since the bottom of the market was August 2009. The market slowly recovered to where it is now, with some bumps along the way. The baby boomers led the way.
What does boutique mean? Tumbarello said he and his 14 agents try to figure that out every day. Tumbarello, who also founded and runs the Real Estate Investment Association, said he and his wife, Christine, specialize in North Fort Myers.
"This gives us a very large investment footprint. Our agents specialize in certain areas such as retail sales and we guide our agents into areas they have a passion for," Tumbarello said. "If you focus on your passion, you'll be good at it."
About half of Steelbridge's clients are investors and the other half are just ordinary people looking to buy and sell homes. They also deal in commercial, but that represents just 10 percent of its business.
After a rough end to 2018 attributed to the political season, the market recovered strong, with volume and sales counts strong from the spring on, Tumbarello said, with a new generation of buyers stepping in.
"The boomer market is peaking, and we're getting a lot of millennials and Gen Z buyers. We have a lot of 22- and 23-year-olds, kids I used to watch playing Pop Warner football, now we're walking them through buying a house."
Tumbarello said by 2025, the 55-and-up market is expected to be soft, which could lead to better deals since boomers are retiring, giving the opportunity for Gen Xers to pick up deals.
He also sees in the immediate future that the median house price (representing the lower-priced homes) will go up faster than the average, mostly in new construction, since young buyers are more likely to buy lower-priced homes.
"The industry has been selling for years that it's cheaper to buy then rent. But in 2005, it was cheaper to rent because it was a negative mortgage investment the moment they bought it." Tumbarello said.
Steelbridge Realty can be reached at 694-3300 or visit steelbridgerealtyllc.com.
Its offices are at 3323 North Key Drive, Ste. 9E.
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Sonic Youth Comes To Uruguay For The Very First Time
by Emilio Pérez Miguel on November 9, 2011
Sonic Youth Playing The Second Night Of The Primavera 0 Festival
Yesterday, Sonic Youth played Uruguay for the first time in their three-decade career. The legendary New Yorkers headlined the second night of Primavera 0, a new music festival that’s brought many international acts to the country for the very first time. Just last week Beady Eye made a great Uruguayan debut, setting the opening night of the festival ablaze along with Uruguayan rockers Astroboy.
And yesterday, it was Sonic Youth’s turn to play to a Uruguayan audience for the first time. The crowd was decidedly different this time around, with much older folks in attendance. The show itself started too early (7 PM on a weekday) so I wasn’t surprised that the venue was half-empty when it all began. The Teatro de Verano became slowly crowded as the two openers played their sets.
Banda De Turistas
Argentinean band “Banda de Turistas” played tightly and with determination, while Uruguayan alt rockers “La Hermana Menor” ran through a set that had the audience captivated for most of its duration. They lost it towards the end, with most people where I was criticizing the slow songs they used to close their performance. And it didn’t help that some idiot in the audience kept shouting insults at them whenever the music stopped.
La Hermana Menor
Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley and Mark Ibold came onstage at 10:00 PM. Sonic Youth played a set that included highlights from all over its career, but (as it was only suitable) the emphasis was put on the band’s older compositions. They included songs from the closest they came to a commercial peak such as “Teen Age Riot” (from the Daydream Nation album, their major label debut from 1988) and newest cuts like “Sacred Trickster” and “What We Know”. Both kind of compositions were received rapturously, and the band did all their trademark tricks. Although they used no water bottles, screwdrivers found their way in and out of their guitars, and strident passages were used to interconnect different songs.
After a set that lasted a little more than one hour, they came back onstage twice. The first encore was “Death Valley 69”, after which some people started to leave, thinking the concert was definitely over. Personally, I was sure that couldn’t be the case. We were all clapping and chanting wildly, and it was Sonic Youth’s first time in Uruguay. So, I wasn’t surprised when the band hit the stage yet again. They played the Evol-age song “Tom Violence”, after which they took their final bows.
When I was making my way out of the venue, I ran into lots of friends and some well-known Uruguayan artists that had all attended the show. Leaving aside a (sort of) disappointment that the band had omitted certain songs (hey, give them a break – we’re talking about a career spanning three decades here), we all agreed on the same. It’s not often that we get to see artists of this caliber playing our country. Although Sonic Youth has never been in my list of favorite bands, the chance to catch them live just a few blocks away from home was nothing short of magical.
I’ve read recent reports that Sonic Youth might as well disband once they end the current tour (Kim and Thurston’s separation has kindled all sort of rumors). I hope that’s not the case. But if that’s true, and Sonic Youth’s first visit to the country turns to be indeed their last, then here’s to them. They gave us a truly genuine and enthusiastic performance, and they gave all the people who can never afford to go to Argentina a sample of what a first-class concert is. And maybe (just maybe) they’re paving the way for other artists of their stature to come over and play our country.
The Festival Primavera 0 ended today, with Faith No More headlining. Santullo was the opener. A new Primavera 0 Festival for 2013 is already being discussed and talked about everywhere.
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Humayara Akter Antara won the fourth gold medal for Bangladesh in the final of the women's -61kg kumite event at the ongoing 13th South Asian Games held Tuesday at Nepal Karate Academy at Satdobato in Lalitpur, Nepal, reports BSS. In the final, Antara beat Nepal's Anu Gurung by 5-2 points. Earlier, on way to the final, she defeated Gul Naz of Pakistan by 4-0 points in the semifinal. Bangladesh won a total of three gold medals on the day till the last report came in hand in the morning and all came from karate disciplines. Al Amin won the first gold on the day for Bangladesh in the karate men's individual under-60 kg weight category while Marzan Akter Piya secured the day's second gold for Bangladesh by beating her Pakistani rival Kousar Sana by 4-3 points in 55kg category of Women's Kumite Karate final. It was Antara who brought the first medal for Bangladesh by winning bronze in the Karate women's singles kata event on Monday. Earlier on Monday, Dipu Chakma won the first gold medal for the country in the Taekwondo poomsae event 29-plus-year category in the ongoing SA Games.
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Erin Stevens McKay – Regional Manager/Reach Out Oregon Project Manager
Erin is the grateful mama of both biological and adoptive children. She serves as a fierce lifelong advocate for families affected by mental health, behavioral, physical and educational challenges, including her own. In addition to her work in Yamhill County as Family Partner, Erin is known as “Mama Bliss” at Camp Bliss, which serves as residence both to her rowdy ragamuffin family and as a sanctuary to all manner of beings. In her heart of hearts, she will forever remain a camp counselor, dreadlocks included, looking to foster connection and call others onward to become their strongest selves.
Email: erinm@ofsn.net
Melissa First – Family Partner/Regional Family Support Specialist
Melissa is honored to be a mom to two strong and amazing children. Both experience emotional, behavioral and mental health challenges. Melissa has advocated for their needs and navigated multiple systems over the last 10 years. Her passion to support and help empower families comes from navigating through her own barriers and emotional struggles that come with raising children who face challenges. She believes everyone’s strengths should be embraced and every success should be celebrated. Her goal is to ensure families know they aren’t alone, and support them in feeling hopeful for their future.
Email: melissaf@ofsn.net
Cindy Johnson – Family Partner
Cindy really loves people with her whole heart and feels like her whole life has brought her to her work at OFSN. Cindy has multiple life experiences navigating mental health challenges on behalf of loved ones and currently loves her work as a foster parent. Cindy enjoys riding motorcycle and fishing every chance she gets.
Email: cindyj@ofsn.net
Gloria Valdivia – Family Partner
Gloria moved to Oregon about 8 years ago from Northern California. She is a mother of 7 children and 3 grandchildren, 4 adult daughters and 3 teenagers. Her fifth child is growing up with behavioral and mental health challenges and is currently staying at St Mary’s Boys for Home. When the family first moved to Oregon, Gloria was connected to all necessary programs to assist the family get the assistance needed. Throughout her career, Gloria has always worked with non-profit agencies connecting families with services – from working at Head Start in California to working in Energy Assistance here in Oregon. Gloria enjoys her work tremendously and looks forward to continuing assisting families in Yamhill County.
Bridget Menely – Family Partner
Growing up in a home where drugs and alcohol were prevalent, dealing with sexual abuse at many levels with friends & family, mental health crisis from depression, self-harming & suicide attempts and, trouble in the classroom from some of my kiddos I learned that I’m not alone and I want to be a support for others while they are dealing with their life experiences just like the family partners were for me.
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Martin Sauter – Critical Juncture
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 8:57 am
Every week on Critical Juncture, we take a look at a film critic or blogger and get their opinions on the state of cinema. We’ve been honored to have some great guests in the past, and this week is no exception. We’re joined for this installment by Martin Sauter, the man who owns and operates Film-Daily.
Sure, we all like to think we know a lot about movies, but how many of us have the academic credentials to back it up? Martin Sauter does, as he’s received an MA in European Cinema from Bath University and a PhD in Film from Warwick University. Besides being able to wow people with his expertise on celluloid, Martin also spent years on college campuses…surrounded by lovely coeds. Like I said, he’s a really smart guy. He’s also got a Twitter account.
Film-Daily is a treasure trove for fans of European movies, older films, festivals, and performers who’ve been overlooked or forgotten. Usually updated several times per week, it serves as a pipeline to a side of film that’s often neglected by the Michael Bay crowd. For example, a recent visitor to Film-Daily would find the following:
A look back at the career of late German actress Inge Meysel
Brief review of the Oscar-winning William Hurt film, The Accidental Tourist
Tributes to actresses Senta Berger and Maggie Smith
A pictorial retrospective on actress Geraldine Chaplin
In addition to his love of film, Martin Sauter is also a fan of music and literature. His profile at Film-Daily lists the following works as some of his favorites:
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Die Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Oh, and he also likes to listen to this guy…
Now that we’re a bit more familiar with Martin Sauter, let’s see what he has to say about the state of the movie industry.
Only Good Movies: What’s the first movie that you remember seeing?
Martin Sauter: Hitchcock’s Psycho (it marked me for life…LOL)
OGM: What’s the most recent movie you’ve seen?
MS: Life is Too Long by German director Dani Levy
OGM: Is there a particular film that you feel is criminally underrated?
MS: Klute
OGM: Which director do you feel has turned out the best overall body of work?
MS: Almodovar, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Chaplin
OGM: From an artistic standpoint, which film do you think is most important?
MS: Meshes of the Afternoon
OGM: All artsy considerations aside, which movie is your personal favorite?
MS: Chinatown (not very original for a choice, but it has been my favourite for at least 20 years, if not more)
OGM: In your opinion, which film is entirely overrated?
MS: The Dark Knight
OGM: Have you ever walked out of the theatre during a film? If so, what movie was playing?
OGM: In your mind, what’s the ultimate goal of a movie critic?
MS: To point out–enlighten–enthuse.
OGM: Time to look into the future. Do you predict any major changes for the movie industry over the next 25 years?
MS: Hollywood domination is a thing from the past. The digital revolution will democratize film-making and film distribution.
OGM: Here’s another chance to predict the future. Name a relatively unknown actor or actress who’ll be a huge star within five years.
MS: Hannah Herzsprung
OGM: Who’s your favorite movie critic to read?
MS: Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
I’d like to once again thank Martin Sauter for taking part in this edition of Critical Juncture. If you’d like to thank him yourself, head on over and check out Film-Daily.
Be sure and join us next week, when we’ll once again be rapping about movies with someone who knows what they’re talking about. Until then, here are a few of our older interviews to keep you warm at night:
Katrina Hill of Action Flick Chick
Darren Camponi aka DudeDazz
Scott Nehring of Good News Film Reviews
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This organ is likely to have been built by one of the most prestigious organ builders of the 18th century, Jean-Baptiste le Picard, probably built as choir organ for the Saint-Lambert Cathedral in Liège, now demolished. It is a typical example of a single-manual instrument based on an 8’ voice enriched by all the typical colour shades of the orgue liégois, strongly influenced by the French classical ideal.
The shape of the cornice case with its mighty moulding constitutes a rather rare exemplary.
The restoration was based upon the reconstruction of the original design, entailing the replication of the keyboard and wedge-bellows, and of various missing ranks, most notably of mutations. Because of the comparatively much smaller room space, we decided to privilege the inclusion of an 8’ Cromorne instead of the original 4’ Clarion. The single independent Pedal rank – Soubasse 16’ – had been added during the 19th century. We retained the independency of that division but replaced the pipes by a new small-scaled 16’ Bourdon built in the classical style. The organ has now two interchangeable pedal boards: a little coupling board à la française and an independent board with 27 notes.
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In the last few decades, advances in laser technology and the invention of laser cooling and trapping techniques for atoms and molecules have opened entirely new, rapidly expanding frontiers of AMO science. These developments have been recognized by 4 recent Nobel prizes: laser-cooling and trapping (1997), Bose-Einstein condensations (2001), optical clocks (2005) and quantum control of ions and cavity QED (2012).
These advances and inventions have provided dramatically more powerful tools for the investigation of long-standing problems in AMO science, including foundational questions in quantum mechanics, studies of atom-light interactions, precision tests of fundamental physics and symmetries (including searches for electric dipole moments, g-2, etc.), and frequency and length and magnetic field metrology. In addition, these advances have led to new areas of research including the investigations of quantum degenerate gases, quantum information and computing, and ultrafast phenomena in atoms and molecules.
Technological applications that derive from work in atomic physics include precision sensors for inertial sensing and navigation, magnetic and electric field sensing, atomic clocks and emerging quantum technologies including quantum information processors and quantum communication networks.
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Altogether, these advances have been truly transformative for the field of AMO science and have led to a significant expansion of AMO research programs world-wide. The Georgia Tech group has provided many impactful contributions to the field and enjoys a strong reputation including being ranked as one of the top 15 AMO departments in the nation in the 2005 US News and World Report surveys.
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Tina Star Daniel J. Watts Talks Building His Career of 9 Broadway Credits and His Own Solo Work
The Broadway star chats with CBS New York ahead of his Joe’s Pub concert The Jam: Only Child.
Aladdin’s John August Will Pen Animated Movie Musical About The Wizard of Oz's Toto
The film is based on Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester’s Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz
In the Heights’ Corey Hawkins Tapped for HBO Max's Americanah
The actor joins fellow Tony nominees Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o in the limited series.
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Headline Adrienne Warren and her co-stars performed the hit track from the Broadway musical on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Broadway’s Billy Porter, Colman Domingo, Tavi Gevinson, More Tapped for The Twilight Zone
The stage alums will appear in the second season of the reboot by Jordan Peele.
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TEMPERANCE – ‘OF JUPITER AND MOONS’ VIDEO FEATURING NEW LINE-UP
Melodic metallers Temperance have released a video of the song ‘Of Jupiter And Moons’, the title track of their new album, which will be released on April 20th. The video features the new line-up of the band, now a 5-piece with the addition of singers Michele Guaitoli (Overtures, Kaledon) and Alessia Scolletti.
Mixed and Mastered by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Epica, Amaranthe), with cover artwork by Yann Souetre (Ayreon) and band photos by Tim Tronckoe (Nightwish, Ghost), Temperance are back with their stronger work to date. With three vocalists in their ranks, the band’s music stands out for this twist of harmonies, which also feature an abundance of sharp, heavy guitar riffs, electronics and even rock influences. Melody, power and vocal harmonies, this is how temperance’s music could be described in just three words.
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TEMPERANCE – ‘MASCHERE: A NIGHT AT THE THEATER’ OUT IN SEPTEMBER
Melodic metallers Temperance are going to release their first live DVD ‘Maschere – A Night At The Theater’ on September 9th on Scarlet Records. Temperance captured on DVD an outstanding performance in the picturesque setting READ MORE
TEMPERANCE – NEW ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN APRIL
Melodic metallers Temperance are entering the studio to record the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed third album ‘The Earth Embraces Us All’. The band have announced that ‘Of Jupiter & Moons’ is the confirmed title of the release, which will READ MORE
TEMPERANCE – NEW ALBUM ‘LIMITLESS’ OUT IN MARCH
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Republican Running for RNC Head — Ties to Head of Extremist Group?
November 20, 2010 • Joe • academic, politics, white racial frame, white supremacists, whites
ThinkProgress has an important piece on Saul Anuzis, onetime head of Michigan Republican Party, who is running for the job of increasingly-attacked Michael Steele, who is head of the Republican National Committee (RNC). According to their article, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC, see their general hate-group map here) has reported Anuzis’s links to a right-wing student leader
Kyle Bristow, who was the head of the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (MSU-YAF). “This is exactly the type of young kid we want out there,” Anuzis said . . . [in] 2007. “I’ve known Kyle for years . . . .”
Bristow’s YAF has reportedly been involved over these years in an array of racist and homophobic events, some like those the YAF groups engage in at various other campuses:
MSU-YAF staged events like “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,” held a “Koran Desecration” competition, jokingly threatened to distribute smallpox-infested blankets to Native American students, and posted “Gays Spread AIDS” fliers across campus. Bristow … invited Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, . . . leader of the whites-only British National Party, to give a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Center … .
Recording these events, the SPLC listed the MSU-YAF among its 2006 hate groups, a designation that Bristow apparently reacted to strongly:
He recently wrote a novel with a plot that “evolves around a series of violent revenge fantasies against Jewish professors, Latino and Native American activists,” …. “Several notable white supremacists and anti-Semites have endorsed the novel.”
Anuzis knew of MSU-YAF actions when he made his comments about Bristow. Has the Republican Party decided, once again, to ally itself with those operating out of an extreme white racist framing of society? Whatever happened to the moderates and liberals (like Jacob Javits) in that party?
Such actions as those involving the MSU-YAF rather clearly counter notions that we are in a “post-racial society” where whites, including young educated whites, are no long openly racist, but at most only subtly or implicitly acting on their racist impulse and ideology.
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Rogers Cup: Andy Murray defeated by brother Jamie in first senior competitive meeting between the siblings
THE British No.1 progressed in the singles after beating Gilles Miller but lost 6-3 7-6(9-7) with doubles partner Leander Paes to older brother Jamie and John Peers.
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Andy (left) faces brother Jamie during their doubles match at the Rogers Cup
IT was mixed emotions for Andy Murray last night as he booked his place in the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup - but lost to older brother Jamie in their doubles encounter.
The British No.1 needed just 65 minutes as he recorded a 6-3 6-2 victory over Gilles Muller, just a day after defeating Tommy Robredo in a clash that was delayed a day in Montreal.
But there was disappointment for the Scot later when he lost 6-3 7-6(9-7) with doubles partner Leander Paes to sibling Jamie and John Peers.
It was the first time the Murray brothers had ever met in a senior competitive match.
Murray came into the Rogers Cup looking for a confidence boost after an opening match loss in Washington last week.
And with the US Open starting at the end of the month the Scot is aiming to hit top form.
After beating Muller he said: “Washington was disappointing and it’s been a tough couple of long days with rain delays and late finishes so it was nice to get out here and play a solid match.
“Getting matches is the most important thing right now, hopefully I can get a few more.”
Murray started sluggishly and found himself 0-40 down on serve in the opening game but battled back to hold.
The world No.3 broke in the fourth game with a delightful lob and wrapped up the first set in 31 minutes.
It didn’t get any better for Luxembourg’s Muller as he dropped his serve at the start of the second and Murray was soon into the last eight.
Find out how Glasgow's Emirates Arena selected to host Great Britain's Davis Cup semi-final with Australia next month.
And look back on Andy's hilarious antics from the Davis Cup earlier this year, as the Scot accidentally revealed team-mate's secret girlfriend in a post-match interview .
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Rain showers in the morning with thunderstorms developing for the afternoon. High 74F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 80%..
This screenshot shows how the new Pasco Economic Development Council Workforce CONNECT Program website appears on screen.
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Pasco EDC launches new ‘Connect’ website
Will provide information to both businesses, potential employees
BY BRIAN GRAVES Suncoast News staff
NEW PORT RICHEY – Pasco County businesses and potential employees have a new way to connect with each other.
The Pasco County Workforce CONNECT Program has launched the first tool of its kind in the area to help employers find engaged workers, training programs, and industry specific data.
“This is a huge resource and tool for Pasco County employers, as well as the workforce,” said Pasco Economic Development Council President and CEO Bill Cronin. “Employers can find data and resources to develop pipelines of talent, which in the long run will reduce talent and acquisition costs. Job seekers can explore in-demand career paths and available education programs in Pasco County.”
The newly-launched www.workforceconnectpasco.com website features both an employers and job seekers option.
Businesses will have access to detailed data and information showing where the county’s future workforce is being trained, how many people are being trained, and the level of training they are receiving. The site will also connect employers directly with an abundance of quality talent, focused on the six target industries that represent rapid growth in high skill wage job openings.
The site also provides a road map for new hires that goes from initial employment all the way to advancement into leadership roles, and showcases how to streamline the process to reduce the costs through strategic partnerships with CareerSource Pasco Hernando and others.
“I am proud of the Pasco EDC and how they continue to evolve to meet the needs of our businesses and workforce in Pasco County,” said County Commissioner Mike Wells who serves on the EDC board of directors. “Giving the business community access to workforce data and resources specific to Pasco is huge and will help them continue to grow.”
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万喆：中国经济韧劲经得起料峭春寒
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黑网腾讯分分彩后二计划APP中国The cultural center of the Jinpu New Area has undertaken the course for three consecutive years since 2015
经济经I became the first South Korean person to receive the Chinese Central Government's Friendship Award in 2002 and the first from my country to get permanent residency in China in 2006韧劲She herself knew little of the province or its capital at that time, so she decided to have a look before taking her family there
起料峭春"On the visit to Hefei, I found it was not very developed but thought it would have great potential中国For the last five years, the air has been clearing up经济经"I told him that we had just started here and we should at least spend five years in the city before judging whether we should move to another place," Cho said韧劲First, China is playing an increasingly important role in the world, so some neighboring countries, and especially some developed Western countries may regard China as a challenger to the power they have maintained for many years起料峭春Some of China's practices are also worth learning, such as how it trains its officials
中国She is now helping the development area build a China-South Korea Industry Park, and she has already brought in three South Korean companies to invest in the city's high-tech zone经济经What is your impression of President Xi Jinping? I think he is a determined man韧劲Rabbani said the donation will help improve the working conditions of the Pakistani parliament, highlighting the friendship and exchanges between the two countries and two peoples
起料峭春The handover ceremony was held at the premises of the parliament in the capital Islamabad中国The Chinese ambassador said enhancing bilateral exchanges is of great importance to deepen the mutually beneficial cooperation, especially to promote the bilateral policy coordination and people-to-people exchanges经济经ISLAMABAD - China on Thursday handed over 330 pieces of office equipment including laptops, computers, scanners, printers and projectors to Pakistan's parliament韧劲Pakistani Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani expressed gratitude for China's donation at the ceremony attended also by senators, parliamentarians and other high officials
Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong and Pakistani Senate Secretary Amjed Pervez Malik signed a handover document on behalf of their respective sidesSun Xinwei, deputy general manager of China State Construction Engineering Corp Central and Western African Region, advised that Chinese companies engaging in any large infrastructure projects in Congo should be aware of expenses for the period after the project is completed and before the official operation, as the Congolese government is suffering from an economic downturn due to oil price drop from 2014, which results in delayed payment
Lyu Xinhua delivers a speech at the conference on investment and trade between China and Congo (Brazzaville), Sept 25, 2017The delegation consists of entrepreneurs in the sectors of finance, machine-building, energy, agriculture, textile, security, culture and education"In Cameroon and Cote d'Ivoire, I have reached consensus with the entrepreneurs who have the intent to cooperate with me in textile production and products," he said"We hope the Congolese enterprises and Chinese enterprises will form a sound cooperation partnership," she said
China is the top trade partner and the largest engineering project contractor of CongoZhou Fuming, director general of Suzhou Mike Textile, who has set up a textile and dyeing company in Ethiopia, said that he learned more about Western Africa, the population, the resource and demand so that he would be able to bring Chinese resources to Africa and the Africans' to ChinaIn his speech at the conference, Lyu Xinhua, president of the council, said that the Chinese Council for the Promotion of the South-South Cooperation is willing to provide a platform for the Congolese and Chinese enterprises to exchange information and form partnership"However, in recent years, the Chinese government no longer tolerates the existence of polluting enterprises," he said
"Some media claim that the Chinese investment would cause pollution in the host country," he said"He said the reasons to choose Congo for the visit are that Congo boasts a sound investment environment, the infrastructure construction shows a growing momentum and the Chinese enterprises are willing to be involved in the industrialization process of the country
Lyu also eased local worries about the pollution that comes along with industrialization[Photo by Pan Zhongming/China Daily]Brazzaville, Congo - The Chinese Council for the Promotion of the South-South Cooperation has launched a new wave to explore the French-speaking western African markets in Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire and Congo (Brazzaville) by leading a 30-odd member delegation of entrepreneurs to visit the countries
Addressing the conference on investment and trade between China and Congo (Brazzaville) on Monday, Annick Patricia Mongo, director general of the Agency for the Promotion of Investment in Congo, said that she hoped Congo could be the country of priority for Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in central Africa"And we will not allow the overseas projects invested in by Chinese investors to cause pollution"It was true during the first 30 years of China's opening-up while China was attracting foreign investment, pollution was an issue," he saidFirst, Congo has set up the Sino-Congolese Bank for Africa (BSCA), a joint venture between the Congolese government and the Agriculture Bank of China; Congo is a portal country to the Western African market, with a deep-water port on the west coast along the Atlantic Ocean; the political situation in Congo is quite stable; the government of Congo approved to promote investment in the country in 2015 and the Agency for the Promotion of Investment in Congo will provide detailed information on investment and opportunities to enter the country"Besides, the Congolese government can adopt the most strict standards on pollution for the Chinese companies and the Chinese investors will consciously follow the rules and regulations set by the Congolese government, he saidThe Special Economic Zone under construction in Pointe Noire is the flagship project of Chinese-Congolese cooperation, Lyu said
He said the visit was quite fruitful thanks to the enthusiasm for cooperation in the western African countries he has visited"We are glad that the council today meets with the Chinese entrepreneurs to discuss with Congolese counterparts on investment and business partnership," he said, "Congo is the third leg but the most important destination of the visit
The Congress will review the Party's work over the past five years, discuss and set the future direction for the Party and the nation, as well as elect a new central leadershipChina has lifted hundreds of millions of its citizens out of poverty over the past few decades, but doing the same for groups like the Yi poses a different set of challenges
About 775,000 officials have been sent to impoverished areas for poverty relief work, said the reportSimilarly, the annual per capita income in impoverished rural areas has grown to 10
To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute9 million people out of poverty each year" (Aug 29, 2017)China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty[Photo/Xinhua]Poverty reliefAn ambitious poverty reduction campaign is seeking to change this, ensuring by 2020 that no one is living in poverty - defined by the government as less than 2,300 yuan ($349) a year
From road building to subsidies, the central government has spent large amounts of money on poverty relief in places like LiangshanThe 19th Communist Party of China National Congress will convene in Beijing on Oct 18
As all eyes are on the upcoming Congress, let's take a look at what international media said about the developments and achievements of ChinaA photo taken on June 14, 2017 shows a poverty alleviation relocation site in Leibo county, Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan province
黑网腾讯分分彩后二计划APP91 million people out of poverty each year from 2012 to 2016, according to a report from the State Council on Tuesday-- Reuters: "China's ethnic Yi struggle against poverty" (Aug 10, 2017)China lifted 13
This year's Nobel prizes will be announced starting from October 2, with the ceremony lasting one or two weeks, said the Swedish Academy on its official websiteShe received Bachelor of Science at Stanford University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Utah, according to faculty information of Pittsburgh UniversityShe has received a number of awards for her work, including the Meyenburg Foundation Award for Cancer Research and the Robert Koch PrizeChang was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States as a young child
com]Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, announced its 2017 Citation Laureates聽- scientists whose publications have been cited so often by their colleagues that they could be recipients of a Nobel Prize this year or in the futureThe couple was listed for the discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8)
Chinese-American Yuan Chang, 58, joined the list of physiology or medicine laureates, together with her husband Patrick SKaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer in HIV-infected untreated individuals
Tsien (1952-2016) got his Clarivate citation prize of chemistry in 2008, before he co-won the Nobel honor in chemistry at the same year, with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie, for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP)Professor Chang is a Co-Director of the Tumor Virology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
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Infighting Erupts among Terrorists in Southeastern Idlib amid Syrian Army Advances in Region
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Terrorists engaged in fierce clashes with each other in Abu al-Dhohour airbase in Southeastern Idlib as the Syrian Army troops are preparing for a large-scale operation to enter Idlib and capture the base, an Arab media outlet reported on Monday.
The Arabic-language al-Watan online reported that members of the Islamic al-Turkistan party clashed with the rival terrorists of Ansar Turkistan in the Abu al-Dhohour airbase in Southeastern Idlib for the first time.
The al-Watan quoted sources close to the warring sides as saying that differences over how to lead the war against the army caused the infighting between the Islamic al-Turkistan party and Ansar Turkistan.
It added that the army troops have deployed only 17 km away from the airbase from its Eastern direction.
Al-Watan went on to say that al-Turkistani party has recently joined the Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at or the Levant Liberation Board), participating in battle against the army men close to the village of al-Mastariheh.
Military sources said on Saturday that the army troops were in final stages of military-logistic preparations to kick off a large-scale anti-terrorism operation in Idlib province from different directions amid the government forces’ advances in Hama and Aleppo.
The sources said that the army put a large number of its elite force on alert in Northeastern Hama and Southern Aleppo to kick off the final phase of an imminent operation to capture the strategic Abu al-Dhohour airbase.
The sources said that the first phase of the army operation would end after purging Northeastern Hama and Southern Aleppo of terrorists.
The sources further added that the army was not expected to face much resistance in its operation in Idlib as rifts were recently widened among terrorist groups in the region.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017 digital marketing, latest, snapchat, social media
Cannes is perhaps the most prominent, significant film festival on the planet. Cannes Lions is something else entirely. Whilst both are certainly star-studded affairs, Cannes Lions is more about elbow rubbing than anything else, as hundreds of digital and tech industry heavyweights gather in the French Riviera to eat, drink and see Chris Martin and Wyclef Jean. It's a meat grinder.
For companies, it's a chance to almost completely eschew the kinds of in-depth technical demonstrations they usually employ and shell out for big, imposing, tangible ad campaigns. Remember when Nintendo launched the 3DS with a small army of attractive women? Imagine dozens of brands all doing that kind of thing at the same time, then times it by 50 and you've got the Cannes Lions experience.
It turns into something of an arms race - who can put on the best dinner, offer the most free booze, book the best act or bring the fanciest yacht - so batting out of left field can be useful if you really want to get noticed. Batting out of left field is kind of Snap's bread and butter, so it's hardly surprising to discover that this year they've rocked up with one of the most distinct offerings - a big yellow ferris wheel.
The company tweeted an image of the brightly coloured behemoth on Saturday, which revealed that there's also a Snap Spectacles vending machine right next to it. The ferris wheel holds up to 84 riders at a time, and provides exclusive Snapcodes which unlock a special Cannes-themed filter. You get two go-arounds, and after disembarking you're given a yellow, branded lollipop. None of these things are especially new (especially ferris wheels), but combined, they present a memorable, different approach to the Cannes Lions 'look at me!' contest.
Snap's primary directive at the moment is standing out from the pack. Endless copycatting by Facebook, unsettling IPO figures and the ever-changing, ever-fickle social media market have put them on the back foot, so they've tried to focus on assuring investors and consumers alike that they exist beyond Snapchat. It might be their central product now, but stunts like this are meant to demonstrate that they intend to move on to bigger and better things.
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Top Example of a Positive Perspective
“We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.” Al Stewart
Many successes in life come only after a looong process of trial and error. Individuals can feel pressed down, even buried, by current circumstances. It’s certainly easier to give up than to push forward. Also, many people focus on changes they want rather than improvements that have already taken place:
That illness is clearing up with medication.
That weight is gradually coming off.
The ancient car was just repaired.
We all climb literal and figurative mountains. The road of life isn’t always flat and wide. It can be steep and winding. Personally, I often walk by faith.
Mountain climbing isn’t easy, especially if we’re not accustomed to exercise. A person can get discouraged when they focus only on the top of the mountain. On the other hand, there is a method of encouragement: we can look at how far we’ve come rather than how far we have to go.
The Boy Scout Hike
My husband told the story of a strenuous trek as a teen. His boy-scout troop was going up a mountain with 40-lb. backpacks. They were exhausted. At one point, the young men became especially discouraged. They groaned as they peered up and saw they weren’t at the peak. When would the ordeal end?
At that moment, the scoutmaster suggested the scouts look down. Sure enough, the boys gasped as they noticed how far they were from the base. This new focus empowered them. The troop found new strength to continue.
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“For now we see only as a reflection in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”--1 Corinthians 13:12 (NIV)
Life can often seem like an uphill battle. I’m not referring to a gentle hike through the Blue Ridge Mountains. I mean a major expedition to Mount Everest. We may be dealing with one major challenge or many trials. Our setbacks might be ongoing or temporary. Perspective is always the key.
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The Flash Recap: "Flash Back" (2x17)
Tuesday, April 05, 2016 / Jaime / No comments
Spoilers for The Flash included.
In the last episode of The Flash, Barry and the gang learned a shocking revelation: the identity of Zoom is none other than Jay Garrick. (Honestly, how did I not see this coming? I have failed this fandom.) Now Barry is determined to stop Zoom once and for all. But in order to learn to run faster, he has to run backwards... to the past!
This is The Flash.
Barry gives a voice-over about trusting someone he shouldn't have. Again. Just like he trusted Harrison Wells, who turned out to be Eobard Thawne and the Reverse-Flash, he trusted Jay Garrick, who is Zoom. He had wanted them to help him become better, but they were both only looking to use him for their own gain. Now he's determined to learn to run faster in order to stop Zoom. As Team Flash uses science to increase Barry's speed, Cisco vibes again. This time he sees Zoom holding someone--Iris?--over the edge of a building. (Uh-oh. Not good.) Then, Caitlin asks the impossible question: What if Barry can't run faster than Zoom? (Duh-duh-DUN!)
The Wests meet at home for dinner. Joe and Iris reassure Barry that nothing related to Jay or Zoom is his fault; nobody could have predicted that could happen. (Only a number of Flash fans posting on the Internet.) While Joe grabs the food, Iris tells Barry about her date with Scott. She says it doesn't feel right because it reminds her too much of Eddie. (Poor Iris.) Barry encourages her to move forward. Wally shows up and tells them about his new project. He's reading up on old journals of inventors to help push speed limits or something. (You know, science.) But this gives Barry an idea.
He decides in order to get faster he has to learn from someone who was able to manipulate the speed equation. That someone would be none other than Harrison Wells, or Eobard Thawne. He wants to travel back in time to last year and get him to teach him to run faster. Harry is completely against the idea, mentioning that it will alter the timeline, that Wells will know that Barry isn't who he says he is. But Barry points out that if he doesn't stop Zoom, it won't matter anyways--nobody will be safe. So Cisco and Caitlin help him pick a specific time frame from last year to travel to.
Barry time travels, but in the time vortex a creepy Dementor thing comes at him and messes up his travel. He arrives a little too early in the timeline. His past self is facing off against the Piped Piper, Hartley Rathaway. (You know, the guy with the crazy gauntlets that let off that awful frequency.) Barry grabs his past self and tries to knock him out, but it doesn't work exactly as planned. He has to chase his past self down and inject him; it's kind of a really cool moment in the episode with the lightning speed zipping all over. But he manages to knock his past self out and switch the lightning bolt logo. He then stops Hartley (which is not what happens originally) and takes him to STAR Labs.
At STAR Labs, he asks Wells about the speed equation. Wells obviously knows something is up with Barry, but he does help him out. At the same time, Eddie is still alive (Oh...), and Joe asks him to help out with investigating Wells. But before they can leave, the creepy Dementor attacks the CCPD building. STAR Labs gets an alert, and Barry tries to brush it off as nothing. Wells urges him to go help out, so he does. But by the time he gets to the CCPD, the Dementor has vanished, and he sees Eddie.
Barry, Joe, and Eddie meet in the forensics lab (where the Dementor was originally sighted). Joe asks Barry why he's acting so weird about Eddie, but Barry brushes it off. He returns to STAR Labs, where Wells seems to be waiting for him. Cisco and Caitlin are trying to track the Dementor, so Wells asks to talk to Barry privately. Once they're alone, Wells stands up and knocks Barry out. Barry wakes up in Wells' super secret room, strapped to the wheelchair. Wells talks to him, explaining that the Dementor is a "Time-wraith," which go after people who travel through time and don't know what they're doing. (Okay, but let's just take a moment to appreciate this cast's acting abilities. Tom Cavanagh has been fantastic this episode, slipping back into the old Wells yet being distinct than Earth-2 Harry.)
He proves Barry isn't who he says he is by using his super speed. Barry doesn't even flinch, so he admits he came back in time because he wants to go faster and Wells is the only person who has figured out how. But this piece of information tells Wells that he failed--that Eobard failed. (Uh-oh. I think this is exactly what they didn't want to do.) But Barry lies. He tells Wells he won--that he tricks him and while Barry travels to the past, Wells/Thawne travels back home to the future. Wells then says he doesn't need Barry, especially not this version. Barry threatens that if he dies, the real Barry of this time will learn all about Wells and how to defeat him, which means Wells--Eobard--doesn't go home. (Barry is so good, I can't tell if he's bluffing or not.)
Barry: Go on. Kill me, Thawne. See how this all ends.
Meanwhile, Cisco confronts Hartley about his special gauntlets. But then the Time-wraith shows up and chases Caitlin. (Oh no!) The three of them hide in Hartley's cell, hoping that will stop the wraith. But it doesn't; it starts cracking through the glass. They call for Barry, but they can't find him. Hartley reprograms his gauntlets to match the wraith's frequency, which scares it off. By the time Barry and Wells show up, the wraith is gone. However, this gets Cisco and Caitlin thinking, and they realize that Barry is the common denominator for the wraith's appearances. Wells tells Barry there is no way to stop a wraith; speedsters (yes, plural, as in there are more out there) just try to avoid them when they time travel.
Barry returns to his lab at the CCPD to look for clues. Barry talks to Eddie about Iris; he makes up an excuse for creating her a birthday video and he asks Eddie to record what Iris means to him. (I'm not crying, you're crying.) Cisco and Wells try to repair the gauntlets, but they can't do it without Hartley. But just then, past Barry shows up and asks where the "other Flash" is. Future Barry walks in. He explains to Cisco and Caitlin that he's from the future. (This is actually the best scene and round of dialogue.)
Cisco: "Wait a second, how do we know which one's the real Barry?"
Past Barry: "Dude, okay, I've watched Wrath of Khan with you like five times."
Cisco: "Impostor!"
Future Barry: "Yeah, and every time at the end, you turn to me and say, 'I have been and always shall be your friend.'"
Cisco: "Haha! You impostor! What is going on here?"
They determine the only way to stop the wraith is for future Barry to return to the future. Wells takes Barry back into his super secret room (though, not handcuffed this time). He gives Barry a flash drive thing that supposedly has information on it about increasing his speed. Barry isn't completely happy with this compromise because he's worried Wells is playing him. But it's the only thing they have time for.
Future Barry prepares to leave in order to lure the Time-wraith away from Wells and the past. He tells Team Flash they have a year to figure out how to stop the wraith, and he tells Cisco that Hartley knows where Ronnie is. (Since that bit changed when he captured Hartley early.) Barry runs, letting the Time-wraith chase him, but it slows him down so he can't time-travel. Past Barry, despite Wells' protests, runs to his aid and boosts future Barry into the time vortex.
Barry arrives back in the future (or present, depending) where Caitlin and Cisco wait for him. Caitlin asks if he even traveled, but he doesn't answer. Instead, he warns them the Time-wraith is coming. Fortunately, Caitlin and Cisco did work on something to stop it within the past year. As it approaches to attack, Cisco pulls out a fancy gadget and blasts it. But it doesn't work. (Duh-duh-DUN!) The wraith gets past them and pins Barry to the ground. (Oh no!) It presses its nasty hand over Barry's chest and starts... sucking his life force? his speed force? out of him. (Ew.)
Then, Hartley, wearing his gauntlets, shoots a frequency blast at the wraith. It screams and vanishes. Hartley, then, comes over to Barry to welcome him back from his trip. Barry is surprised to see Hartley there and not... well... in the pipeline. (This is brilliant!)
Barry tells them about the trip. They go to the secret room and put the flash drive into the computer device. But it doesn't do anything. Frustrated, Barry pounds his fist on the device. A blue hologram flickers to life above them, showing numbers and equations. They have a way to increase Barry's speed!
Meanwhile, Harry is scrambling around. He hasn't been able to track Jessie, and he's frustrated. Barry reassures him, but Harry isn't optimistic. (Good pep talk, Barry!) Barry returns home to find Iris looking through pictures of her and Eddie. (Poor Iris.) She can't believe it's almost been a year since he died. Barry tells her she just needs to move forward. He shows her the video he recorded of Eddie. (I'm not crying, Iris is crying.)
Barry: Sometimes the only way to move forward is to revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once we do, you'll see that you can go further than you ever imagined.
Barry returns to STAR Labs. He does another voice-over as he walks across the room and picks up Jay's helmet. Then he whispers,
"I'm coming for you."
What did you think of "Flash Back?"
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Chronicle of a Lunatic Voyage
Beveridge Reef and Niue
By lifenomadik | July 18, 2017 - 4:03 am | Uncategorized
All sailboats visiting Palmerston- four in total (three with Bulgarians aboard)- leave at the same time and head west. The wind looks favorable to sail to Niue, some 400 NM away, at least for the first couple of days. We sail together in a group keeping in touch on the VHF radio. Buddy-boating is always great.
After two slow spinnaker days with light east winds, the GRIB files forecast a westerly change. We decide to stop in Beveridge Reef- some 120 NM before Niue, together with S/V Ostrica and S/V Aislando. We want to see this extraordinary place and it’s a good idea to wait inside Beveridge Reef for a few days until the unusual west winds turn from east again.
Beveridge Reef
We arrive in Beveridge Reef in the afternoon on the third day, making sure we enter through the cut in daylight, which means pushing with the engines the last couple of hours. Just before the reef- a stronger puff of wind and our spinnaker “explodes”. It’s an old secondhand sunburned undersized spinnaker we got in an attic in Martinique for 150 EU two years ago. We used it a lot during our Pacific Ocean passage and it hearts to see it all blown to shreds. But it doesn’t hurt as much as if it was a new 10-thousand-dollar sail. Ivo will try to stitch it up, even though repairing it looks impossible to me.
Fata Morgana in BR
S/V Aislado arrives just a few minutes after sunset, no engines used. We help them navigate the pass by following our track on the AIS, which makes it possible for them to enter the reef in the dark. S/V Aislado might be the only yacht ever who entered Beveridge Reef successfully at night, considering that the reef is not correctly marked on any marine chart. You have to find and download a drawing and waypoints available online, before sailing there. On the electronic charts Beveridge Reef is marked as a splotch two miles away from its actual position, with no pass indicated.
Directions to Beveridge Reef
S/V Ostrica decided to wait the night outside the reef and entered the next morning, bringing a big mahi-mahi to share with us.
S/V Ostrica arriving in Beveridge Reef
Patrick S/V Ostrica
Beveridge Reef is just a reef in the middle of the ocean- a narrow circular ring of coral and rock, very similar to the atolls we have already visited. The main difference is- there isn’t any islands or land area in the atoll, no sandy beach, not a single palm tree, no birds. And not a single island in a hundred nautical miles radius. The reef is entirely underwater at high tide and at low tide the tips of its upper rocks stick out of the water. In the middle, there is a blue shallow lagoon with sandy bottom, which is an excellent anchorage, and there is only one pass on the west side to enter. The barrier reef protects the lagoon from the waves without stopping the wind and even in storms the lagoon can be a refuge for boats. If seen from the air, it looks like a turquoise flat spot surrounded by deep dark purple ocean.
For five days we are stuck in the reef waiting for east winds, snorkeling in the pass, cleaning the hulls, diving the wreck on the east side, and partying with our new friends in the evenings.
As we exit the reef heading to Niue, a big motor catamaran approaches with a National Geographic team of underwater photographers aboard. They ask for directions to enter through the cut.
Watch the short video we made about Beveridge Reef.
We arrive in Niue in the afternoon on the second day after leaving Beveridge. In the evening, we watch a big lightning storm passing south of us, heading towards the Cooks. The sound of thunders is the last thing you want to hear at sea and we are grateful we arrived on time. The anchorage in Niue is one of the least protected anchorages in the South Pacific, deep and with coral bottom. So yachts have to catch a mooring buoy for 20 dollars a day paid to the famous Niue Yacht Club, and hope for good weather and east winds.
Mira and Maya in Niue Yacht Club
The next morning, the Niue customs and immigration officials come and we check-in right there on the dock in the port of Alofi. This dock is the only way to land ashore in Niue. You have to haul out your dinghy- in our case the kayak- and lift it up with a special crane, otherwise the rough sea and huge tides might damage it.
No time to lose. We don’t want to spend much time and money in Niue as 20 NZ dollars per day is the most we have ever paid for a mooring. Plus, we don’t want to get stuck in bad weather in an unprotected place. We decide to hitchhike instead of renting a car for 55 NZ$ plus 19 NZ$ for a local driver’s license plus gas.
Beer for capt. Ivo
It’s a beautiful sunny day. We are right in front of the Yacht Club in Alofi, Niue’s capital, smiling, our thumbs up. A car going the opposite direction stops suddenly, makes a U-turn, and picks us up. The guy drives us across to the southeast side of the island- 13 kilometers to the village of Hakupu. It’s a narrow winding road and it takes him about 20 minutes. Sitting in the back of the car, we don’t even see his face. He is a middle-aged Polynesian man. At the end, we insist to pay for the gas- it’s a long way away from where he is going. But he refuses politely- he just wants to help us and it’s no trouble for him. “You are visitors and Niue is my home. It is only natural, and the Christian thing to do, to welcome you and help you out. “ Sometimes, a small insignificant event like this can make your day a better day. Sometimes, a nameless faceless person can have a profound effect on your entire life and change you into a better human being.
In one day, we stop a total of 11 different cars. Friendly locals give us free rides to most of the awesome places in Niue and tell us stories of the island, of hurricanes and tsunamis, of sea snakes and sharks, of wars and migrations, and other miraculous events. So this is why we fell in love with Niue. And this is why if you ask us we will tell you that Niue is one of the most beautiful places in the South Pacific with the nicest most welcoming people we have met.
Niue is an island-country of 260 square kilometers with about 1, 500 inhabitants, who are also citizens of New Zealand. It is a self-governing state in a free association with New Zealand and 90 to 95% of the Niuean people born on the island live in New Zealand.
The island’s nickname is “The Rock” as it is one big rock in the middle of the sea, with no barrier reef, no bays, no other islands around. But the word ‘Niue’ means ‘Behold the Coconut’ in the local language.
Niue is one of the world’s largest coral islands, oval in shape, and looks like a turtle floating in the sea. Its terrain consists of a central plateau rising to about 60 meters above sea level and steep limestone cliffs along the coast with many limestone caves and chasms.
Togo Chasm
From Hakupu village, we walk down the road past lonely graves and giant spider webs, through a forest of palm trees and ferns to the entrance of Togo chasm, located in the Huvalu Forest Conservation Area. Down the narrow treacherous path we reach an alien landscape of razor sharp coral pinnacles. Togo is one of few places on earth where a geological phenomenon like this occurs on such a large scale. A field of spectacular coral towers. The best part is- there is no one else but us.
Next, we get a lift back to Hakupu and to Anapala Chasm on the south-eastern shore. After a short walk through the forest we reach a cave with a small pool of fresh cold spring water, used by local people for drinking since old times- the perfect place to cool down after a hike in the tropical heat. Once again, no other tourists- we are alone.
Ivo and Maya in Anapala Chasm
By noon we are back in Alofi on the western side of the island, heading north to the Tavala Arches, caves, Matapa Chasm, the Limu Rock Pools and the Avaiki swimming cave pools- an exclusive bathing place for the ancient Polynesian kings of Niue.
Avaiki Cave Pools
We spent one unforgettable day in Niue visiting many of its unique caves, chasms and rock pools. We loved the quiet authentic atmosphere of the island- clean and friendly, and very well organized; the fact that there are almost no other tourists there, that all the places of interest are free and open for visitors any time. Definitely a place we would return to.
Niue Map
Niue Photo Gallery
Coconut crab in Togo Chasm
Maya in Togo Chasm
Roadside graves in Niue
Banana spider in Niue
Anapala Chasm
Anapala Cave
Tavala
Tavala Arches
Matapa Chasm
Limu Rock Pools
Maya in Limu Pools
Ivo, Mira and Maya
Watch the short video with all the beautiful places we visited in Niue: Sailing, Hitchhiking, Caving, Swimming and Dancing in Niue
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The Big Marsters Family and Other Extraordinary Encounters in Palmerston
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Early in the morning we exit the narrow pass of our last French Polynesian atoll Maupihaa (or Mopelia, as the French renamed it). It is one of the places I leave with a heavy hearth. I wish we could stay longer, a lot longer- at least a month more. To make copra together with Hina, to hunt for coconut crabs in the coconut forest with Bowie and Kevin and for lobsters in the reefs at night with Io and the other guys, to cook our catch on the fire, drink homemade beer and share stories. But we have overstayed our visa in French Polynesia already, and if we want to visit all the other places on our list of Places-to-Visit and get to New Zealand before the beginning of cyclone season, we better hurry up. I wish there was no cyclone seasons, no visa limitations and life was endless, so that we could spend as much time as we like in all those places we love.
We have another long passage of 540 nautical miles ahead of us to our next destination- Palmerston. It is another small Polynesian atoll part of the Cook Islands. The weather is good with light winds behind us and 1-2-meter swell. But nothing is ever perfect; we get a few hours of no wind and a few hours of squalls. Nothing severe, the winds reach only up to 25-27 knots. We fly the spinnaker 90% of the time in 10-15 kt East-Southeast winds.
Shortly after sunset on the second day Ivo lands a nice tuna, which I marinade with soy sauce and black pepper and roast on the BBQ. Maya no longer refuses to eat fish, but she still doesn’t enjoy its taste the way Ivo and I do. Yet, she is now old enough to realize the benefits of fish: low-fat high quality protein filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins D and B2 (riboflavin), rich in calcium and phosphorus and a great source of minerals, such as iron, zinc, iodine, magnesium, and potassium. But most of all- it’s free food and we save a lot by eating free fish instead of our food reserves.
In the afternoon on the fourth day we spot a lone big whale. Or rather- he spots us and starts circling the boat, passing way to close and too fast under the hulls to investigate. It is not the first time a whale decides to play around with Fata, but so far, they have never touched the boat.
We approach our destination just as the wind picks up and turns from northwest. Our friends aboard Amelie IV – an awesome family we met in the Caribbean- advised us not to miss Palmerston and thanks to them we decided to visit the place.
They also told us about the very particular procedure we have to follow when we get there, so we are prepared. We call on the VHF radio channel 16 and wait to see who will answer. There are three options- either Bob Marsters, Edward Marsters or Simon Marsters will answer our call. Whoever does, becomes our host and adoptive family for the entire duration of our visit. Edward Marsters answers first and directs us to one of the mooring balls near the reef. The sea is choppy with big waves crashing on the reef just a few meters away from the boat, so it’s really hard to catch the mooring. There are three other boats on the other moorings not too far away and everyone is rocking and rolling with nothing to stop the wind and break the waves, as we are outside Palmerston’s barrier reef on the west side protected only in east and southeast winds, but not in the northwest winds we are getting. We have been told that this atoll doesn’t have a pass big enough for sailboats, so visiting yachts have to remain outside.
Upon arrival in Palmerston, which is part of the Cook Islands and New Zealand protectorate, we are supposed to check-in with customs and immigration. Before there wasn’t such an options and yachts were required to go to Rarotonga – the capital of the Cooks first and check-in there before sailing to Palmerston.
The officials are supposed to come aboard in a fishing boat, to bring all the forms we have to fill, and to stamp our passports. But the waves are so big that it is impossible for the officials or anyone to get out of the atoll. So for the first day and the first night of our visit to Palmerston we remain on the boat backing broncos in extremely choppy conditions, waiting for the wind to change direction.
Moorings outside the atoll
The sea calms down on the second day and we are able to do all the checking-in formalities with three friendly officials native of the island: customs, immigration and health and bio control. The formalities include filling forms, getting our passports stamped, paying the fees (less than if you check-in anywhere else in the Cook Islands) and getting the boat inspected and sprayed for bugs.
After this our host Edward takes us to the island for the first time. Navigating through the narrow shallow pass, we enter the blue lagoon full with coral heads and rocks and head for a long white sandy beach fringed with coconut palms. Another postcard-perfect beach. Fishermen are just returning from a night of fishing, bringing a load of parrot fish, jacks and some other bigger fish; unloading the boat and cleaning the fish guts right there on the beach.
These are my two sons and this is my brother. -Edward introduces us to the fishermen.
Later, they let us “help” them filleting the fish under a big old tree in Edward’s backyard.
Fishing is a great part of life in Palmerston and the local’s main source of income.
In the past, they used to produce copra (dried coconut used in the cosmetic industry) like most of the other Polynesian islands, but today fishing is their primary activity. They are the biggest exporter of parrot fish in the area. Thanks to the arrival of electricity on the island, they can now keep their catch frozen for months until the ship-buyer comes.
Palmerston is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world with only 57 people living there today, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but ocean. Their nearest neighbors are 500 nautical miles away, in Rarotonga- the capital of the Cook Islands. There is no airport and the only regular transportation to and from the island is a supply ship, which comes every 6 or 8 months, if the weather is good. So the 57 inhabitants can sell their fish and order pots and pans, furniture, clothes, even basic things like sugar, flour and rice only once or twice a year.
We head for Edward’s house. It’s a five-minute walk on a path covered with sand and broken coral in the shade of palm trees. The property is big with a few buildings; there is all sorts of stuff all over the place, laundry hanging to dry, chickens and pigs running around or sleeping in the shade.
Edward’s house is not very big, with tin roof and plywood walls.
It is used as prison, if ever someone commits a crime. – explains Edward, who is also the policeman and occasionally the mayor of Palmerston.
Is there crime in Palmerston? – I ask in astonishment.
You will be surprised.
But they- the locals- don’t like to talk about this stuff, it’s none of our business. They prefer telling the visitors about the beauty of their island and its interesting, incredible, unique history.
Edward Marsters
In 1863 an English carpenter sailing on a wailing ship through the area decided to stay behind and live on this small uninhabited Polynesian island, less than a square mile in territory, leaving forever the civilized world. He built a house using wooden planks from shipwrecks he found on the barrier reef of the atoll, married not one but three women from another Polynesian island to keep him company and started a family on Palmerston. His name was William Marsters.
He had a total of 23 children with his three wives and divided the island in three equal parts for each of his three wives and their descendants. His children grew up and brought wives from other islands or married their third cousins, and thus the Marsters family kept growing. Some left the island, some came back, some never left.
Today, there are over fifteen hundred descendants of William Marsters scattered around the world. Many live in New Zealand and Australia. Of them, only 57 remain on the island, divided in three families descendants of the three Marsters wives, forming one of the most bizarre and isolated island communities in the world. All Palmerstonians are related- brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles and aunts. Everyone on the island- dead or alive- have the same family name- Marsters.
The original house built by William Marsters is still standing in the middle of the island, next to the church. He made it with the wood from ships wrecked on the reef as well as materials given to him by the passing boats who stopped in Palmerston to trade. He gave them fish and coconuts in exchange for whatever he could get.
This practice of trading with the passing boats still continues today. We give our host many old ropes that we no longer need, some supplies, and the old kayak Agent Orange, which we no longer use, as we got a new three-seat one from our friends KayakShop.BG. Agent Orange is a 15-years-old veteran of a kayak, bent, with a big crack, which Ivo managed to fix with life seal, so he doesn’t leak, but he’s not a pretty new think either. Yet, he still floats well and still has some adventure left in him. For Edward, Agent Orange is the best thing in the world and he sings us many songs in gratitude. We also get to use his mooring ball for free and for as long as we like and we have tasty lunch at his house every day. We are also very happy to have found the ideal retirement home for a worthy old kayak, who has been with us halfway around the world, on many epic adventures. Knowing that Agent Orange is in Palmerston makes us feel really good.
Similarly, we are happy to bestow my books to the local school. We have been sailing for nearly four years with an old small less than 11-meter catamaran full of books. A catamaran has to be light to sail well and fast. Ours is two times heavier than it should be, full with all sorts of stuff accumulated through the years. So it’s not surprising that Fat Fata is moving rather slow, with 4-5 kts average speed (especially considering that we don’t use engines a lot). When we left Galapagos for the long Pacific Ocean crossing, we noticed the boat is leaning slightly forward, which means too heavy on the bow. This can be very dangerous in bad weather and can cause the catamaran to dig in the water after surfing a big wave and flip over. So we hoped for good weather and we prepared some improvised drogues (beer crates on long ropes) to deploy from the stern in case of surfing. We also decided it’s time to dig up all the books located in the hulls of the boat and get rid of them, no matter how tragic this seams for me. I love my books. They are a good selection of classics; my favorite authors in English, Spanish and French. I nearly cry as we load on a wheelbarrow and head for the school my Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende, Steinbeck and William Warton, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vergas LLosa, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Emile Zola, Marvin Harris, Gore Vidal, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Plato and Thoreau. I hope that someday, when I live in a house somewhere on land- whenever and wherever- I will find my favorite books again and keep them. I also hope the local kids will enjoy Mother India, Big Fish, and Life of Pi…
The school principle, a New Zealand very friendly lady, and the two young teachers Joshua and Mellissa Simon who came to teach here on a two-year open contract, after teaching English in Korea and Malaysia, are very grateful for our contribution to the school. They actually can’t wait to go through my books and read some of them, as they have already read all the books in Palmerston.
The school itself is nothing but a roof with individual desks lined up along the wall, with no windows and doors, as the temperature in Palmerston is always the same perfect 26-28 degrees all-year-round and so the windows and doors (which in other places of the world keep the heat in and the cold out or the cold in and the heat out, depending on the situation) are useless here.
There is a football field in front of the school where Ivo and Maya play football with the kids. There are many kids in Palmerston. Half of the total population (57) or more are under 18-years-old and they are all cousins. The rest of the population are mostly older people (the grandparents). The young Palmerstonians, after graduating high school on the island, usually leave to continue their studies or look for work in Rarotonga, New Zealand or Australia. Some of them return on the island with their families, or later, when they retire. The two teenage boys I interview tell me, they are planning to continue their studies in Rarotonga, work, and return on Palmerston in their old age.
Behind the old grey house of William Marsters is the graveyard where the pioneer, his three wives, children and everyone else who died on the island in the last 150 years are buried. It is the most surreal graveyard with all gravestones bearing the same family name- Marsters.
However, there is a division on the island, separating the three families descendants of the three Marsters wives. Each family owns equal share of land and property, including the mooring balls. Palmerston is a very special place with some very particulars rules and laws. For example, the mayor of the island changes every year rotating between the eldest person of the three families. If the eldest person steps down or dies, the next eldest person becomes the mayor, taking all the important decisions, and representing Palmerston in the Cook Islands or New Zealand.
Another local law is: strictly on immigration. No foreigner can come and live in Palmerston, bringing a strange family name among the Marsters. Except the school teachers and director, who are only temporarily here. And an Australian guy named Will.
Will is a pale-skinned bearded guy who we mistakenly take for a fellow cruiser from one of the other sailboats the first time we meet him.
No, I am not a cruiser, I live here. -he explains.
Will arrived in Palmerston two years ago on a ship sailing through the area and decided to stay behind, while the ship went on, very much like William Marsters.
Escaping the complications of society and the civilized world back in Australia, and falling in love with this beautiful atoll and its peaceful people, Will started helping the locals, fixing stuff that needed fixing and living among them as one of them. This has caused a bit of a controversy, as some Palmerstonians want him to leave, while others want him to stay. But in order to stay, he figured he has to marry a Marsters girl and change his name to Will Marsters. The problem is, there are only little girls and old ladies presently available on the island, so for now he is still single with a bit of an uncertain faith. You can follow his adventures and read some thrilling updates from his daily life in Palmerston on his Facebook page Will in Paradise.
Another unexpected meeting and an event comparable to a miracle, is with two other Bulgarians, on two of the three other boats visiting Palmerston at the same time like us. One is a guy named Patrick aboard S/V Ostrica, whose mother was from Bulgaria, and the other is Silvia Petrova sailing aboard S/V Aislado together with her New Zealand husband Vaughn and their 6-years-old daughter Zara. What are the chances three sailboats with Bulgarian sailors aboard to meet- not French, not American, not German or Australian, but Bulgarians! On the opposite side of the globe, in one of the most remote inaccessible islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Not two, but three boats, at the same time! Suddenly, the Bulgarians in Palmerston are about 10% of the entire total population on the island 🙂
Silvia, Mira and Maya
Besides the school, the Palmerstonians also have a library, a field with solar panels and a room for batteries to store the electricity, as well as a phone and internet station. Edward told me, that if they wanted to, they could have an airport on one of the smaller islands of the atoll (there has been a project and it has been approved, ready to be financed and built by the Cook Islands and New Zealand’s governments), but the locals don’t want it. An airport might make travel easier for the people of Palmerston and it would greatly facilitate the arrival of goods on the island, but it will also bring too many unwanted complications. Like tourists and other people who aren’t Marsters. Maybe they will build a hotel next and the famous little community will become a tourist attraction. Which is something the Palmerstonians don’t want. They want to preserve their way of life the way it is and to keep their pristine lagoon and secluded island clean and beautiful for the next Marsters generation.
I’ll tell you a secret- says Edward as he is bringing us back to Fata Morgana with his fishing boat, zigzagging between shallow corals on his way out of the lagoon’s barrier reef.
I wonder what kind of secret it is. The one thing missing in Palmerston where everyone knows everything about everyone, is secrets. We, the cruisers, bringing something new- a thing or a story- are the creators of short-lived secrets.
So what is the secret?- I ask.
Well, there is a way to enter the lagoon with your sailboat and park it right in front of the beach there. There is another cut through the reef on the other side. But we don’t want the yachts anchoring in our lagoon, in front of our homes, throwing their bottles and banana peels in our clean blue waters. Same like the airport. That’s why we prefer to keep the boats on the moorings outside the lagoon where they cannot stay too long. We welcome sailors, and want to show them the best hospitality in the world; we love trading with them, like good old William Marsters and we are very spoiled, because they always bring us and give us things. But we also want to keep our island and our way of life as it is for as long as we can, do you understand?
Watch the short video from Palmerston with interviews with the locals and the Bulgarians we met Alone on an Island With His Three Wives
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SOL LEWITT 1 + 1 = 1 MILLION, CURATED BY TOM SACHS VITO SCHNABEL GALLERY – ST. MORITZ FEB 15 – MAR 11 2018
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1 + 1 = 1 MILLION, CURATED BY TOM SACHS
VITO SCHNABEL GALLERY – ST. MORITZ
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Sol LeWitt was an American artist born on September 9, 1928, in Hartford, Connecticut. He made his first prints while in college in the late ‘40s. LeWitt moved to New York City in 1953 to study at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (currently the School of Visual Arts) and worked for Seventeen Magazine. He then was promoted to a job at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. LeWitt was a major force in the formation of Conceptual Art and Minimalism.
A major retrospective of LeWitt’s work was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2000 and then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). His works are found in the most important museum collections including: Tate Collection (London, UK); Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Musee National d’Art Moderne (Paris, France); Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France); Australian National Gallery (Canberra, Australia); Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY) ; Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Dia:Beacon (Beacon, NY); National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.).
LeWitt died on April 8, 2007, in New York City.
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St. Moritz, Switzerland Beginning February 15, Vito Schnabel Gallery presents 1 + 1 = 1 Million, an exhibition organized by artist Tom Sachs to spotlight significant works by American Conceptual titan Sol LeWitt (1928 – 2007), with whom Sachs enjoyed a close friendship in the final years of the elder artist’s life. Through a large-scale wall drawing from 1978 and 19 luminous framed works on paper beginning from the 1970s, Sachs draws visitors into LeWitt’s career-long exploration of authorship and the means by which it can be defined. The exhibition focuses on three of the thirty-five statements from LeWitt’s 1969 Sentences on Conceptual Art [1], highlighting the ineffably poetic outcome of pursuing these ideas to their logical extreme.
1 + 1 = 1 Million will remain on view through March 11, 2018.
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The Greeks had it right. Divide our consciousness in two: rational and irrational. The Romans screwed it up by representing this duality as God versus the Devil. Perhaps a more esoteric reading of the Bible would demonstrate a more sensitive and accurate reading of the human condition, but that’s harder to sell to busy working people than good versus evil. The dual nature of man continues in mythology, philosophy, theatre and art for millennia. Yet our ability as individuals to occupy both states simultaneously persists. Art has found many dualities that support this reductionist understanding: Caravaggio only remembered as Bacchus in his paintings and life. Picasso as the ultimate Dionysian. Pollock becomes nature and all its chaos. Rational thought goes to the rationalists and the intellectuals: da Vinci, Duchamp, and the universe of Conceptual Art.
These artists were great thinkers and men of passion. It’s the limit of language and its users inability to convey simultaneous contradiction that has cast these men as logical or intuitive when they are in fact both.
Sol LeWitt’s ‘Sentences on Conceptual Art’ stand as a manifesto for using logic and intuition to coax the muse from the ether. To find the magic in the unknown, he states, “the artist is a mystic.”[2] That rigor applied to an irrational act will yield new information but only if the idea is followed through to the end without changing tactic mid-stream.
Sol approaches art with the passionate inquisitiveness of a young person learning to command the language of geometry. Sol uses math as Pythagoras did, by respecting inflexible rules challenged to the limit by every possible permutation in an attempt to find a hole into the infinite. His work applies the rigidity of a formal mathematical theorem. While allowing for potentially infinite permutations within this rigid structure they enter the realm of the mystic(al). Sol uses what appears at first glance to be a completely rigid and formal system to create, meanwhile he is quietly subverting this system with the potential for infinite possible possibilities. Truly the mark of the jester or the genius. In Sol’s case, I would argue both. With his wall drawings, Sol has gone beyond the infinite, by subtracting himself from the equation and allowing any individual to be added to the creation. Allowing for the whole world to be the creator is perhaps the most irrational rational thought ever conceived. The evidence of this work, presented with style and elegance, is his art. Sol LeWitt’s work of the 1970s epitomizes what Lucy Lippard describes as the “Dematerialization of Art,” a time in the early 1970s when the efforts of many artists, after having exhausted the apparent possibilities of making formal art, found meaning in the performative act of making itself. By codifying or describing in words the intent of their actions, artists created Conceptual Art. LeWitt’s work best represents this time in history and the efforts of many artists in the United States and Europe. These seeds of strategy have grown in the fifty years since to help different artists to bear fruit. By applying extreme rigor to what may seem like a capricious idea, serious art may emerge. If we stick to the idea and don’t change horses mid-stream, we may be able to coax the muse out of the ether. The current exhibition will feature works that demonstrate Sol’s mystical use of math which enabled him to relentlessly pursue a rational irrational thought to its irrational rational conclusion, that in fact, 1 + 1 = 1 million.
[1] 1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.
[2] Mystic is a dirty word because it’s filled with the unknown and has been dismissed as witchcraft. It’s difficult for adults (who have lost the understanding of what it means) to teach the cultivation of intuition to children (who already understand it).
*In school we learn one plus one equals two. In the studio we learn one plus one equals a million. But we must choose just the right “wrong” two things to achieve that explosive combination. We can only achieve this by learning to accept and trust ourselves, so we can have the courage to make just the right “wrong” decision. Some call this intuition. It’s only achieved impulsively or in a state of utter clarity.
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Andrew Garfield's Burberry trench coat - Berlin Street Style
Andrew Garfield / Source: Chad Buchanan/GC Images | Burberry
Andrew Garfield was pictured at the Sony Center on 15 April 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The actor is currently in Germany promoting his new film 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise Of Electro'. Andrew Garfield wore a classic Burberry trench coat, over a brown / copper coloured suit, white shirt and brown lace-ups.
It is a little "Inspector Garfield is here to examine the crime scene", but you have to agree with me that was a very good look. Love the dark brown hue of the suit, and the cropped trouser length was so on point. The stone / honey coloured trench coat complimented the suit so well, and it kind of pulled the whole look together. The buttoned up white shirt and well polished shoes were the icing on the cake.
Andrew Garfield's Burberry trench coat is such a classic and iconic piece which can be worn across the ages, well worth the investment. He wore the coat over a suit with updated proportions to create a very modern stylish look. Originally created to protect officers from wind and rain, the Burberry trench coat has evolved over 100 years to become an icon.
Interesting tidbits: the coat was named after the trenches where military personnel were stationed. The coat began as the Burberry Tielocken, patented by Thomas Burberry in 1912. Over the years, the coat was developed to serve the needs of officers in the early 20th century. The design grew in popularity since, and was worn by royalty, film stars and artists all over the world.
At the heart of the Burberry trench coat story is the tightly woven cloth that sets it apart from all others. Invented by Thomas Burberry in 1879, the fabric is called gabardine. Gabardine was made from yarn woven in a compact twill construction with over 100 interlaced threads per centimetre. The microscopic open spaces in the weave allowed ventilation, while the compact structure prevented rain from permeating the fabric. The cloth is triple proofed, creating a lightweight, highly weatherproof and breathable garment. Gabardine is still woven at the Burberry mill in England, alongside new, modern finishing processes.
Really loving Andrew Garfield's look above, that to me is faultless. You can shop the iconic Burberry gabardine trench coat online from Burberry.com, and also online from Mr Porter.
Labels: Andrew Garfield, burberry
No tie? Shame on him! Suit without tie = incongruous, sloppy and unfinished.
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Lemelson Vineyards
We make Pinot Noir in Oregon because we love this region, and the way the grape's subtlety, depth of flavor, and complex textures are revealed here. Our Pinot Noirs are highly individualistic wines that speak clearly of their origins. Because we choose to let the land make our wines as much as possible, we do not produce a homogenous "style," and you will find that our wines differ from vintage to vintage. We see our Pinot Noirs fitting two kinds of wine lovers: those who desire immediate gratification and early drinkability (Thea's Selection), and those who are willing to cellar fine wine until it realizes its full potential with bottle age (Jerome Reserve and the Single Vineyard designates). Our Chardonnay and Pinot Gris combine rich fruit flavors with creamy mouthfeel from their barrel fermentation and aging.
To get to us from Portland, take highway 99W to Newberg, go right on highway 240 to Yamhill, then go left on Stag Hollow Road about 8 miles from Newberg. We're at the very southern end of the road.
12020 NE Stag Hollow Road, Carlton, OR, US, 97111 Email: info@lemelsonvineyards.com
Phone: 503-852-6619 Web: www.lemelsonvineyards.com
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Chestnut Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir
Sitting high on a hill overlooking Mt. Hood and the northern Willamette Valley, the Chestnut Hill Vineyard is one of our favorites. That’s because of the special qualities of the wines that it produces, and also because it was the first vineyard that founder Eric Lemelson planted over ten years ago.
Dry Riesling
Our 2004 Dry Riesling is a blend of the Humphrey’s Adria Vineyard and Elk Cove’s Windhill vineyard. Both 30 year old sites produced Riesling of great complexity and unique character. The wine shows lifted aromas of white florals, fresh papaya, ripe citrus and mineral notes. Concentrated flavors of fresh peach, wet stones, and lemon sorbet are balanced by a fine backbone of ripe acidity. This 2004 release has all the excellent fruit weight and concentration characteristic of our Riesling.
Jerome Reserve Pinot Noir
For the truly "bitten" Pinot noir lover who is looking for a wine of exceptional color with many layers of flavor - a wine of great complexity with incredible depth of mouthfeel, with a long finish and lots of ageability, there is no other choice but our Jerome Reserve.
Lemelson Vineyards Chardonnay
This Chardonnay is made with the same great care and attention to detail as our Reserve Chardonnay. Here we are looking for a fresh, aromatic style that is enjoyable on release or after medium term cellaring. Citrus, stone-fruit and subtle oak aromas on the nose are accompanied by wheat, nut and butterscotch flavors on the palate. The concentration and great acid structure of this wine make it a very versatile food wine or enjoyable on its own.
Lemelson Vineyards Pinot Noir Rosé
Our 2002 Pinot Noir Rosé is made in the classic “saignée” style, meaning it is literally “bled off” the Pinot Noir vats after several hours of maceration. A limpid, eye-catching light salmon hue, the nose shows red raspberry, peach, red currant and yeasty notes. The mouth feel is soft, fruity and full, yet finishes with firm acidity. 20% of this wine was barrel-fermented in neutral (used) barrels to bring roundness and complexity, with the balance fermented in stainless steel to conserve fruitiness and freshness. In terms of complexity, balance, suppleness and bouquet, The 2002 Rosé will hit its peak sometime in the picnic season of summer 2003.
Meyer Vineyard Pinot Noir
Our sole site in the Red Hills of Dundee is surrounded by many of the best-known vineyards in the Willamette Valley. We planted its steep, south facing Jory (Red Hills) soils exclusively to Pinot noir in 2001 and 2002. This densely planted site produces rich, concentrated wines that mix red and black fruit flavors with an impressive depth of flavor that was evident from the first harvest in 2003.
Resonance Pinot Noir 200
Deeply colored, with a dark blackberry, liquid silkiness, the Resonance vineyard demonstrates both up-front fruit and also significant aging potential due to its well- integrated structure. The wine is made from 23-year old vines from this well-managed, biodynamically-farmed vineyard, planted (in our blocks) to the Pommard and Wadensvil clones of Pinot noir. The older vines and low yields gives the wine an added dimension of complexity, aromatic layers, and mouthfeel.
Stermer Vineyard Pinot Noir
The 2003 Stermer Vineyard Pinot noir combines enticing aromas with a mélange of pure fruit flavors that include red and black raspberry, black cherry, and blackberry. We find this one of the most balanced and seductive wines we’ve made from the vineyard. On the nose, the Stermer hints at black cherry, roses, vanilla, and anise notes. These aromas are mirrored by layered flavors of black and red fruit, framed with very ripe, sweet tannins. This medium-bodied wine has a ultra-soft and velvety finish.
Thea's Selection Pinot Noir
Thea’s Selection is named after Dorothy Lemelson, Eric’s mom, who always wanted to be called Thea when she was young. She likes rich, satisfying Pinots, with lush fruit, soft tannins, and enough “backbone” (structure and acidity) to pair easily with fine cuisine. Thea wants the complexity that comes from low yields and minimal intervention in the winery, but she doesn’t want to have to wait three years for her Pinots to reach peak drinkability. Thea’s is indeed a “selection,” a reserve-level blend that combines individual barrels from any or all of our six vineyards. We select barrels that show the most forward, perfumed fruit, with good complexity and length. We have Thea’s wishes in mind when we blend this Pinot noir, and have tried to please her. We hope you are also pleased with the result!
Tikka's Run Pinot Gris
Our 2004 Tikka’s Run Pinot Gris is a blend of fruit from our Wascher and Chestnut Hill Vineyards, as well as from Andy Humphrey’s Adria Vineyard. Fruit from each vineyard was harvested and fermented separately in stainless steel before finishing their evolution in neutral (used) oak barrels. The 2004 Tikka’s Run boasts a nose of citrus fruits and pears, with hints of kaffir lime. Its flavors again hint of pears, and the finish reminds us a bit of lemon meringue pie.
Wascher Vineyard Chardonnay
To make a classic Chardonnay in the Burgundian sense, with both richness and restraint, elegance and agability, one must be committed to bringing the same painstaking detail to the Chardonnay winemaking that one brings to Pinot Noir. Low yields, indigenous yeasts where possible, and, to get the best possible expression of an individual vineyard's terroir, a rigourous barrel-by-barrel selection is made pre-bottling, selecting only those which best express the vineyard's character. The percentage of new French oak is also paramount, and must not be too high, or the terroir of the vineyard risks being obscured. After some 14 months in barrel and one in vat, our Wascher Vineyard Chardonnay is bottled and left to further round out in bottle until its release date, a full two years after the harvest.
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Uber drivers… contractors or employees?
by Workplace Law | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog
California (USA) Labor Commission rules Uber driver is an employee
In California, a Commissioner has said that an Uber driver who connects with his customers through the Uber app must be considered to be an employee. This means that Uber drivers are now eligible for reimbursements for expenses and for the minimum wage.
Uber is a service where drivers can pick up passengers using their own car.
Uber claims that their drivers are independent contractors and not employees as they perform as much or as little work as they want to.
A California Labor Commissioner found that a San Francisco based Uber driver should have been treated as an employee, and not an independent contractor. The decision considered the degree of control that Uber has over the drivers. Particularly that:
Drivers must pass background and DMV checks;
They must register their cars with Uber;
Cars must also be less than 10 years old;
Uber drivers achieve passenger approval ratings and scores must not fall below a certain score;
Uber sets the price for each trip;
The driver receives a non-negotiable service fee.
In the decision it was noted that given Uber is involved in every aspect of the operation and the driver did not have enough work freedom to be considered an independent contractor.
As a result of this decision, other businesses, in what is now known as the “sharing economy” who have similar arrangements with people, will need to seriously consider their working relationships and determine whether or not these people are in fact employees.
For businesses in Australia, it is important that before entering a principal contractor arrangement that proper legal advice is sought. There are a number of cases where businesses thought they were conducting a proper business relationship with contractors only to subsequently find out that the relevant people were actually employees for the purposes of tax law and/or employment law.
In addition to considering the degree of control, Australian courts also look at other factors to determine whether or not there is/was a principal/independent contractor relationship. Such factors include (but are not limited to):
Does the person supply/maintain tools or equipment?
Do they work standard hours?
Are they paid according to task completion rather than receiving wages?
Do they incur any loss or receive any profit from the job?
Is the person free to work for others at the same time?
Do they have the right to employ or subcontract any aspect of their work to another person?
Is tax deducted from the persons pay?
Does the person provide their own public liability insurance?
Does the person render tax invoices for payment?
Does the person file GST returns?
As Uber has discovered in California, simply labelling a relationship as a “contractor” relationship does not make so at law.
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World of Coins
Modern European coins except the euro => UK and Ireland => British Crown Dependencies => Topic started by: eurocoin on May 28, 2019, 03:33:04 PM
Title: Isle of Man: Peter Pan 50p Series 2019
Post by: eurocoin on May 28, 2019, 03:33:04 PM
The Isle of Man will soon issue a 50 Pence coin commemorating Peter Pan. The design of the coin will be unveiled on June 11.
Title: Re: Isle of Man: Peter Pan 50p Series 2019
Post by: eurocoin on May 31, 2019, 11:54:04 AM
The coin will also be released on June 11.
Post by: eurocoin on June 11, 2019, 10:02:39 AM
The designs have now been unveiled. Apparently it is not just 1 but rather a total of 6 50p coins for this theme. :-X The coins were made by the Tower Mint and are currently available from the Westminster Collection.
Post by: eurocoin on June 11, 2019, 01:01:57 PM
Also available here: Isle of Man Post Office (https://www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/product/peter-pan-six-coin-collection-/)
25,000 pieces of each coin will be released into circulation on the Isle of Man.
Post by: Bimat on June 15, 2019, 03:01:49 PM
MAKE A MINT Peter Pan and Captain Hook 50ps selling for double the value on eBay
By Hollie Borland, Senior Digital Consumer Reporter
14 Jun 2019, 16:19Updated: 14 Jun 2019, 16:22
NEW 50p coins featuring Peter Pan and Tinkerbell are already selling on eBay for twice their value just days after they went on sale.
The commemorative coins have been produced by Westminster Collection and were launched on Tuesday when collectors scrabbled to buy a set of six.
Each coin features a different character from J.M. Barrie's 1904 novel alongside quotes from Peter Pan.
Even though they're only legal tender in the Isle of Man, thousands of collectors joined the virtual queue to buy a set for £6.25, plus a £2.99 delivery charge.
But eBay sellers have been quick to cash in and are already flogging them for inflated prices online - even though they haven't received them from the supplier yet.
A single Peter Pan coin with the quote "All children except one, grow up" has already sold for £13.50 after attracting 13 bids online.
Another featuring an illustration of Captain Hook next to the quote "Avast belay, yo ho heave to, a-pirating we go" went for £13 after getting 12 bids.
A complete set costs £37.50 from the Westminster Collection or £30 if you buy it directly from the Post Office in the Isle of Man.
Despite this, a complete set of six has sold for £50 after receiving six bids. That's almost twice their original value.
The seller from Kidderminster wrote: "Brand new and sealed full Peter Pan 50p set, will be sent via a tracked delivery once I receive them. No returns."
Brits' obsession with coins kicked off in 2016 when a Peter Rabbit coin sold for £60 by the Royal Mint raised £600 at auction.
Colin Bellamy from Coin Hunter puts the inflated eBay prices down to sellers who are hoping to make a "quick buck".
He told The Sun: "The majority of people selling them on eBay is down to hysteria. They want to make a quick buck.
"Many people assume that there will be a limited supply of them and that they'll be able to make a profit by selling them on, only to regret it in a month's time when the price drops.
"Because that's what happens you see. More often than not, they end up deflating in price."
Collectors are often left frustrated when coins are snapped up in bulk purely for the resell.
Someone commented on the Change Checker site: "My partner collects first day coin covers and looks daily for new issues, unable to buy Stephen Hawking and now Peter Pan. Why is it that these are now being sold on eBay sometimes several by the same seller."
The coins have been created in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity to celebrate 90 years since the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, gifted all future rights in Peter Pan to them.
And some people have pointed out that buying coins through secondary sellers means that nothing of the sale goes to the charity.
Colin recommends holding off for a few months before buying your coins to make sure that you don't make a loss.
He advised: "If you want to buy a particular coin you should always try and buy it from the official supplier before looking on eBay.
"You should also wait a few months because 99 out of 100 times the value will drop.
"Always look for the issue number too. Typically, around 30,000 of each design is minted so if it's less than that then it may be more valuable in the future."
Source: The Sun (https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/9295099/peter-pan-tinkerbell-50ps-selling-double-ebay/)
Now also available in normal UNC quality: Isle of Man Post Office (https://www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/product/circulating-quality-peter-pan-six-50p-coin-collection/)
Post by: eurocoin on July 19, 2019, 07:39:31 AM
They are now also available in UNC quality from Island Stamps and Coins for 20 pounds for the 6 coins: Peter Pan 50p Set | Island Stamps and Coins (https://www.islandstampsandcoins.co.uk/peter-pan-50p-set.html?fbclid=IwAR3hSvSFpUhC7NwSwfWEK3wrEKwq28f4AxPvNT2Uqd1MrrdtZv8wBrDJXEw)
Post by: eurocoin on November 11, 2019, 08:43:27 PM
The sale of the coins raised a quarter of a million for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39617.0;attach=95544;image)
Left: Elliot Dawson (Sales and Marketing Director Tower Mint), Olivia Dawson (GOSH patient who struck the first silver coin).
Middle: Bil Henderson (Member of the Manx Treasury)
Far right: Raphael Maklouf (Mintmaster Tower Mint)
The others I do not know.
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‘Wrecking Ball’ and the Problem with Miley Cyrus
By Tony Hooley
Not a day goes by without some mention of Miley Cyrus within social media. Since displaying a rather provocative enthusiasm for the humble foam finger at the MTV Music Awards, Cyrus has become something of a hot topic- with the focus directed towards her being either positive or negative with seemingly no in-between. Cyrus has stirred her spot of controversy and, sensibly, sought to gain from it with the recent release of the music video for her single ‘Wrecking Ball’, a single choice overflowing with lyrical vulnerability, the solemn ballad to the previous house party anthem of ‘We Can’t Stop’.
So what can we expect from the young woman with a fascination for keeping her tongue anywhere but in her mouth? That tongue developing a sudden interest in a sledgehammer, obviously.
What Cyrus has presented in her newest video (the work of photographer Terry Richardson) is a strange confusion of identity. ‘Wrecking Ball’, a lyrical storytelling of breaking down walls and launching yourself into love with closed eyes and open hearts is the type of song that you’d imagine requires an understated video. In parts, Cyrus is successful. The video breaks to shots of Cyrus, face close to the camera, relatively bare faced and with a white wall behind her as she projects various emotive expressions that are actually quite fitting with the songs theme. Likewise, shots of her demolishing a concrete wall with a sledgehammer, essentially becoming the titular ‘Wrecking Ball’, also work well. But then moments take a puzzling turn.
It’s a strange sight within the video, that of Miley licking the tip of a hammer, eyes closed in an image that you can only imagine somebody intended to be sensual. She lounges on an actual wrecking ball too, pouting from over her shoulder and writhing against its chain. She’s nude too, which may be a reach for a sense of vulnerability, however alongside rubbing herself against a hammer it all appears as a massive push to force us all to realise that the wig came off years ago- Hannah Montana is a woman, look at her!
Maturity appears to be Miley’s agenda as of late, and the trouble is her intentions are having the opposite effect. In her pursuit to distance herself from the child star, Cyrus appears more as the child who has just discovered how to unblock the parental guidance on their computer- now all too eager to show the world that she now knows what’s ‘adult’. She’s twerked, she’s licked her lips and just about the entirety of her face, spanked a little person on stage, spent a reported seven hours in a ‘coffee shop’ in Amsterdam, asked a reporter where the nearest ‘Tranny Bar’ is and pressed her face into the rear of a female backing dancer all as part of a grand scheme to be seen as a legitimate artist.
She’s using everything that she imagines absolutely shocks the world in the most blatantly obvious way. What has resulted is an ongoing performance that seems like a poor imitation of all the things that Cyrus believes will make her ‘edgy’. Edginess, she seems to believe, is the first step to achieving that adult singer gold star.
The difficulty in establishing herself as an adult artist was always going to be undeniably more troublesome for Miley. Where once an audience expressed shock at a snake wearing Britney Spears gyrating to ‘Slave 4 U’ (a performance that Miley perhaps looked to draw from), at least Britney came onto the scene with the potential to steer towards that direction with a pigtail, cropped shirt, short skirt wearing schoolgirl debut. However what Miley doesn’t seem to understand is that nowadays to be considered an adult you don’t need to pull these constant tactics. For every ‘S&M’ Rihanna has a tasteful ‘Stay’ and ‘Diamonds’, ‘Stay’ especially the perfect example of how nudity doesn’t have to be a tool for controversy at all. There is no problem with expressing sexuality in a music video, however Miley’s sexuality has come quickly and forcefully and none of us are allowed to forget it. It’s constant and without break.
Of course, breaking a VEVO record for the most views on a video in 24 hours, there’s obviously an audience devoted to Miley who don’t seem to mind at all that she’s splitting her screen time between a strange juxtaposition of fragile and highly sexualised personas. Or do they realise her needlessly driving her alleged sex appeal into our faces for a song that quite honestly doesn’t call for it in the slightest.
But for those of us who can see it, it’s a bit of a shame. ‘Wrecking Ball’ is actually half decent but any praise for the song itself is massively overshadowed by Cyrus’s habit of clamouring for a bit of controversy at every opportunity, a problem that threatens to continually undermine any music she releases.
CarnieCreek
I’m a big fan of Miley. But I agree with you. Wrecking Ball could’ve been her counteraction to Can’t Stop. There are parts of the video that remind me of Sinead o’Connor in Nothing Compares, but then she goes and ruins it licking a hammer. I think it’s fine that she did a crazy video like Can’t Stop. It was just a bit of fun But she needs to show her other sides. She almost got it right this time.. but not quite.
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JESSE JACOBS works as an artist from his home in London, Ontario, Canada. His major books include Safari Honeymoon (Koyama Press, 2014), By This Shall You Know Him (Koyama Press, 2012) and Even the Giants (AdHouse Books, 2011). His work has been translated into German, French, and Spanish. His comics and drawings have appeared in Le Monde diplomatique, National Post, The Walrus, and Canadian Notes and Queries. He has exhibited work throughout Canada, Japan, the United States, Europe, and Russia. Some of his work can be viewed at jessejacobs.ca and onemillionmouths.tumblr.com. His books are available at koyamapress.com
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Questions and Answers About Cross-Connection Control
QUESTION: What is a cross-connection?
ANSWER: A cross-connection is any temporary or permanent connection between a public water system or consumer's potable (i.e., drinking) water system and any source or system containing nonpotable water or other substances. An example is the piping between a public water system or consumer's potable water system and an auxiliary water system, cooling system, or irrigation system.
QUESTION: What is backflow?
ANSWER: Backflow is the undesirable reversal of flow of non-potable water or other substances through a cross-connection and into the piping of a public water system or consumer's potable water system. There are two types of backflow... backpressure backflow and backsiphonage.
QUESTION: What is backpressure backflow?
ANSWER: Backpressure backflow is backflow caused by a downstream pressure that is greater than the upstream or supply pressure in a public water system or consumer's potable water system. Backpressure (i.e., downstream pressure that is greater than the potable water supply pressure) can result from an increase in downstream pressure, a reduction in the potable water supply pressure, or a combination of both. Increases in downstream pressure can be created by pumps, temperature increases in boilers, etc. Reductions in potable water supply pressure occur whenever the amount of water being used exceeds the amount of water being supplied, such as during water line flushing, fire fighting, or breaks in water mains.
QUESTION: What is backsiphonage?
ANSWER: Backsiphonage is backflow caused by a negative pressure (i.e., a vacuum ~ or partial vacuum) in a Public water system or consumer's potable water system. The effect is similar to drinking water through a straw. Backsiphonage can occur when there is a stoppage of water supply due to nearby fire fighting, a break in a water main, etc.
QUESTION: Why do water suppliers need to control cross-connections and protect their public water systems against backflow?
ANSWER: Backflow into a public water system can pollute or contaminate the water in that system (i.e., backflow into a public water system can make the water in that system unusable or unsafe to drink), and each water supplier has a responsibility to provide water that is usable and safe to drink under all foreseeable circumstances. Furthermore, consumers generally have absolute faith that water delivered to them through a public water system is always safe to drink. For these reasons, each water supplier must take reasonable precautions to protect its public water system against backflow.
QUESTION: What should water suppliers do to control cross-connections and protect their public water systems against backflow?
ANSWER: Water suppliers usually do not have the authority or capability to repeatedly inspect every consumer's premises for cross-connections and backflow protection. Alteratively, each water supplier should ensure that a proper backflow preventer is installed and maintained at the water service connection to each system or premises that poses a significant hazard to the public water system. Generally, this would include the water service connection to each dedicated fire protection system or irrigation piping system and the water service connection to each of the following types of premises:
premises with an auxiliary or reclaimed water system:
industrial, medical, laboratory, marine or other facilities where objectionable substances are handled in a way that could cause pollution or contamination of the public water system;
premises exempt from the State Plumbing Code and premises where an internal backflow preventer required under the State Plumbing Code is not properly installed or maintained;
classified or restricted facilities; and
tall buildings.
Each water supplier should also ensure that a proper backflow preventer is installed and maintained at each water loading station owned or operated by the water supplier.
QUESTION: What is a backflow preventer?
ANSWER: A backflow preventer is a means or mechanism to prevent backflow. The basic means of preventing backflow is an air gap, which either eliminates a cross-connection or provides a barrier to backflow. The basic mechanism for preventing backflow is a mechanical backflow preventer, which provides a physical barrier to backflow. The principal types of mechanical backflow preventer are the reduced-pressure principle assembly, the pressure vacuum breaker assembly, and the double check valve assembly. A secondary type of mechanical backflow preventer is the residential dual check valve.
QUESTION: What is an air gap?
ANSWER: An air gap is a vertical, physical separation between the end of a water supply outlet and the flood-level rim of a receiving vessel. This separation must be at least twice the diameter of the water supply outlet and never less than one inch. An air gap is considered the maximum protection available against backpressure backflow or backsiphonage but is not always practical and can easily be bypassed.
QUESTION: What is a Reduced Pressure Backflow Prevention Assembly (RP)?
ANSWER: An RP is a mechanical backflow preventer that consists of two independently acting, spring-loaded check valves with a hydraulically operating, mechanically independent, spring-loaded pressure differential relief valve between the check valves and below the first check valve. It includes shutoff valves at each end of the assembly and is equipped with test cocks. An RP is effective against backpressure backflow and backsiphonage and may be used to isolate health or nonhealth hazards.
QUESTION: What is a Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assembly(PVB)?
ANSWER: A PVB is a mechanical backflow preventer that consists of an independently acting, spring-loaded check valve and an independently acting, spring-loaded, air inlet valve on the discharge side of the check valve. It includes shutoff valves at each end of the assembly and is eqipped with test cocks. The PVB may be used to isolate health or nonhealth hazards but is effective against backsiphonage only.
QUESTION: What is a double check valve assembly (DC)?
ANSWER: A DC is a mechanical backflow preventer that consists of two independently acting, spring-loaded check valves. It includes shutoff valves at each end of the assembly and is equipped with test cocks. A DC is effective against backpressure backflow and backsiphonage but should be used to isolate only non-health hazards.
QUESTION: What is a Spill-Resistant Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assembly (SVB)?
ANSWER: An assembly containing an independently operating internally loaded check valve and independently operating loaded air inlet valve located on the discharge side of the check valve. The assembly is to be equipped with a properly located resilient seated test cock, a properly located bleed/vent port, and tightly closing resilient seated shutoff valves attached at each end of the assembly.
This assembly is designed to protect against a non-health hazard (i.e., pollutant) or a health hazard (i.e., contaminant) under a backsiphonage condition only.
QUESTION: Why do backflow preventers have to be tested periodically?
ANSWER: Mechanical backflow preventers have internal seals, springs, and moving parts that are subject to fouling, wear, or fatigue. Also, mechanical backflow preventers and air gaps can be bypassed. Therefore, all backflow preventers have to be tested periodically to ensure that they are functioning properly. A visual check of air gaps is sufficient, but mechanical backflow preventers have to be tested with properly calibrated gauge equipment.
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French Anarchists Charged With Rail Sabotage
Nov. 11, 2008 Time Magazine
Don’t look now, but here comes Europe’s violent extreme-left again. Two decades after French police busted the radical group Action Directe, which waged a bloody urban guerrilla war during the 1970s and 1980s against French business and military interests, French authorities on Tuesday nabbed a group of anarchists suspected of having sabotaged the nation’s high-speed rail system over the last several weeks. The arrests aim not only to put an
end to the spate of vandalism that had wreaked havoc and panic among French travelers for the past two weeks; they may also derail any violent plans French anarchists might have been preparing with like-minded extremists with whom authorities say they were in contact in Germany, Belgium, and the U.K. (See Today in Pictures.)
The police raids took place early Tuesday morning in Paris and in four other
sites in France. A total of 20 people were arrested, and by mid-day 10 of
those had been officially placed under investigation for participating in
the spree of potentially deadly sabotage. In most of those incidents, hooked
metal bars had been attached to high-voltage electricity lines that power
high-speed trains; when the bars were snagged by passing locomotives, they
plowed a path of destruction through high-voltage power lines. A
total of six incidents of sabotage were recorded since Oct. 26, including a
coordinated operation Nov. 8 that targeted four different rail lines in
northern France and caused delays of nearly 160 high-speed TGV trains — including Eurostar service to London — leaving thousands of passengers
stranded.
The sudden spate of sabotage capped nearly two years of sporadic
vandalism to French rail lines that successive inquiries attributed to
isolated, disgruntled trouble-makers. But the recent incidents showed
more skill, and their perpetrators seemed able to act at will without
detection. For that reason, French rail users were already rattled even
before the coordinated attacks of Nov. 8. The saboteurs struck in
virtually all corners of the nation without warning, and applied a high
degree of knowledge and technical ability in putting the destructive
metal hooks in place without being killed by the 25,000-volt power
After a further act of sabotage was reported Monday in southwestern France,
a decision was made to group individual investigations under the direction
of France’s centralized counter-terror operation in Paris, which collated
all the information police and intelligence services had related to the
inquiries. Within 24 hours, officials had narrowed their scope down to a
group of “autonomous anarchists” whose radical positions and increasingly
restless activity — including protesting during a G8 summit in Poland
last year — had led French intelligence services to place some of its
members under surveillance.
“They speak a very radical language, and have ties to groups abroad,” said
French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie in announcing the arrests
Tuesday. “Since becoming minister, I’ve noted the risks of the resurgence of
a violent radical left (given) the radicalization we’ve observed in it over
the past three or four years.”
French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard thinks Alliot-Marie is right to be
concerned — especially given similarities between the accused anarchist
group and Action Directe, which carried out the unit’s robberies,
assassinations, and machine gunning attacks. “Like Action Directe, these
anarchists set themselves up in out-of-the-way, rural communities where no
one would suspect them of anything more troubling than perhaps a general
ecologist lifestyle,” Jacquard says. “Like Action Directe, these anarchists
used that cover for their plots, and fled back under cover once operations
were over. But like Action Directe, that escalation of activity — and its
success — raised the potential of it sooner or later evolving into more
violent strikes targeting individuals or groups of people.” (See pictures of riots in France.)
Guillaume Pepy, chairman of France’s state-owned SNCF rail company, didn’t
go so far as to speculate about what else the group might have done had it
not been arrested. But he did say the “central role of rail travel as a
collective means of travel that France has made a priority” was also what
made it an inviting target for saboteurs seeking “to strike a blow at a
well-functioning French society.”
If so, France’s counter-terrorism organizations may not have seen the last
of belligerent behavior by extreme leftist groups that have largely been
dormant since Action Directe was smashed in 1987. “The economic and
financial crisis the world is now experiencing is a dream come true to the
extreme-left, especially with mainstream leftist political parties unable to
mount any real opposition to ruling conservatives,” Jacquard notes. “That
brings the possibility of social unrest radical leftists may seek to exploit
— or even provoke through violence of their own.”
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BREAKING NEWSABC11 Eyewitness News
Uber driver 'creeped out' after passenger shows up at his home
By Jonah Kaplan
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) -- The ride-sharing company Uber is investigating a complaint from a Rocky Mount driver who claims a passenger found his personal information through its app.
Lee Green, an Uber driver for two years, said a rider named Steven showed up at his front door the morning after a late-night ride looking for a lost debit card.
"It's a complete invasion of privacy and my personal space," Green told ABC11. "It feels like being violated. It's a major violation and it has me utterly creeped out."
According to Green, Steven explained he found Green's home by looking at the last known location of Green's vehicle on the Uber app. The ABC11 I-Team was able to confirm Steven's identity, but he would not return our calls. The I-Team also spoke to Steven's friends and coworkers, who said they heard the same explanation of how he got to Green's home.
Green said the passenger grabbed his debit card and left without incident. "There's a million and one ways this could have gone south. And he still now knows where I live."
Each Uber driver and passenger has a profile, and according to Uber's website, all sensitive information is protected. Phone calls between a driver and passenger are also routed through a third party as to never reveal the personal phone number of the individual.
When asked about the possibility of locating a Uber driver's prior routes and locations, a spokeswoman for the company said it's never heard of such a case and she maintains it's "highly unlikely" a rider can access such information on the app, and that "there's no way" to track a specific Uber vehicle unless the rider was currently on a paid trip.
On its website, Uber details extensive protections for both drivers and passengers.
One page, called Commitment to Safety, said "More than 200 Uber employees, from researchers and scientists to designers and engineers, are focused on building technology that puts safety at the heart of your experience."
Uber said it will reach out to both Green and the passenger. Green is also filing a police report.
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UNC Chancellor: Campus must be environment 'free from anti-Semitism'
Some troops denied health coverage for burn pit illnesses
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BREAKING NEWSABC 7 Eyewitness News
David Yarrow wildlife photography exhibit open in River North
David Yarrow?s Wild Encounters exhibit just opened in River North at the Hilton Asmus Contemporary Gallery. (WLS)
CHICAGO (WLS) -- David Yarrow is a wildlife photographer who's acclaimed around the world for his artistry and conservation efforts.
Yarrow's "Wild Encounters" exhibit just opened in River North at the Hilton Asmus Contemporary Gallery. Each creature is achingly resplendent and stately.
The photographer felt lost in a previous career of finance. In nature, he found his calling, and success.
"It just hit me more in terms of a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. The idea of taking a picture someone's willing to spend $60,000 on is kind of far-fetched idea particularly when I started selling pictures I would sell them for $20," Yarrow said. "Animals are much easier to work with than people, animals are very predictable, they're lazy and animals can't get drunk. My most dangerous moments are with people that can get drunk, can get high and get AK 47s."
But some people make the cut, and with humor! But it's the creatures that always steal the scene.
Yarrow is known to his fans for his wildlife photography, but recently, he was invited to North Korea to shoot rural daily life.
You can see "Wild Encounters" at Hilton Asmus Contemporary through mid-January.
"We only live once, none of us is getting out of here alive, might as well give it a good shot," he said.
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Flames shoot from ground in Midtown manhole explosions
By Eyewitness News
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Broadway shows are resuming after two manholes exploded in Manhattan Saturday night, sending flames shooting from the ground and causing the evacuation of a theater complex.
The explosion happened on 50th Street and 8th Avenue in Midtown.
All Saturday evening performances scheduled at New World Stages - 'Jersey Boys,' 'Avenue Q,' 'The Play that Goes Wrong,' 'Puffs,' and 'A Spirited History of Drinking' were canceled.
The New World Stages theater complex was evacuated as a precaution.
The director of the Broadway show, 'The Play that goes Wrong,' wrote on Twitter,
'No show tonight. Everyone is safe and out of the building!'
Michael Coco, a representative for the company that runs New World Stages, says three windows cracked near the manhole blast and are being replaced Sunday.
Coco, of the Shubert Organization, says all the shows will play as scheduled.
No injuries were reported. The fires were under control by 9:15 p.m.
The cause of the manhole fires is not yet known.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Underutilized wild edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia: focus on wild woody plants
Mekuanent Tebkew1,
Zebene Asfaw2 &
Solomon Zewudie3
Ethiopia encompasses an extraordinary number of ecological zones and plant diversity. However, the diversity of plants is highly threatened due to lack of institutional capacity, population pressure, land degradation and deforestation. An adequate documentation of these plants also has not been conducted. The farmers in Ethiopia face serious and growing food insecurity caused by drought, land degradation and climate change. Thus, rural communities are dependent on underutilized wild edible plants to meet their food and nutritional needs. Hence, this study was conducted to examine the distribution, diversity, role, management condition and associated traditional knowledge of underutilized wild edible plants with a focus on woody plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia.
A questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews, preference and direct matrix rankings, a market survey and focused group discussion methods were employed for data collection. Data were collected from 96 respondents. A plant inventory was also conducted on 144 quadrates in two agroecologies and in three uses. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods were used. Statistical Analysis System (SAS) version 9.0 was used for statistical analysis. Analysis of Variance (P <0.05) was used to compare diversity indices and species richness between agroecologies and among kebeles.
Thirty-three underutilized wild edible plants were recorded in the study area. Of the recorded plants, 45% were trees. Fruits (76%) were the most frequently used plant parts. More than half of the respondents (56.3% in the midland and 66.7% in the lowland area) consumed underutilized wild edible plants for supplementing staple food. Underutilized wild edible plant citation of the poor was significantly higher (P <0.05) than medium and rich classes. Underutilized wild edible plants in the study area were threatened by agricultural expansion, overharvesting for fuel wood and construction, and by overgrazing. However, these plants have been given minimum conservation attention.
Thirty-three underutilized wild edible plants were recorded in the study area. The community consumes underutilized wild edible plants for supplementing staple food, filling food gaps and for recreation. The local community applies only some management practices to some wild edible plants. Therefore, special management is needed to sustain the benefits of these plants.
Nearly 40,000 to 100,000 plant species have been regularly used for food, shelter and medicines in the world [1]. However, only a small number of plants are widely used. The remaining plant diversity is underutilized [1, 2]. Underutilized plants contribute immensely to family food security and serve as means of survival during times of drought, famine, shocks and risks [3]. They can also supplement nutritional requirements due to their better nutritional value [4, 5].
Ethiopia encompasses an extraordinary number of ecological zones [6] and plant flora [3, 7–9]. Currently, however, the biodiversity of Ethiopia faces various threats. The main threats are government institutional capacity, population growth, land degradation, deforestation and weak management [6, 10]. Similarly, in the northwestern region of Ethiopia, which is endowed with sub-humid, dry and lowland areas, plenty of wild and semi-wild edible plants are present. However, the diversity of underutilized wild edible woody plants is not well known.
The lives of farmers in Ethiopia face several challenges including deforestation, drought, land degradation, and climate change [11], all of which contribute to serious food insecurity among households [12]. Thus, in most cases, rural communities depend on underutilized edible plants [13] due to their easily accessibility [5]. Understanding underutilized wild edible woody plants (UWEP) along with their threats forms a base for local decision-making and helps with the application of appropriate management. In addition, it assists us with the selection of a species that can adapt in different land use systems. Nevertheless, little documentation has been conducted in Ethiopia (that is, only 5% of Ethiopian districts have been studied) [13]. Moreover, information is lacking on the ecological distribution and potential of UWEPs for agroforestry practices and for maintaining food security in other districts of Ethiopia including the Chilga district.
The term ‘underutilized wild edible plants’ in this study refers to all wild edible plants (a) that are locally abundant, but globally rare; (b) that are undervalued, that is, their current public and private value is below its potential; and (c) for which there is a lack of research and information. Therefore, this study will (1) identify the distribution and quantify the diversity of UWEPs in different land uses, kebeles and agroecologies; (2) determine the role of UWEPs in livelihood diversification; (3) document the knowledge associated with utilization and management of UWEPs; and (4) identify the factors that threaten future uses and conservations of UWEPs in the Chilga District.
The study was conducted in the Chilga district, North Gondar Zone of the Amhara Regional State. The Chilga District is located 12∘55" N and 37∘06" E (Figure 1). It comprises 43 administrative kebeles (KA), which are the lowest administrative units next to districts. The altitude of the district ranges from 900 to 2,267 meters above sea level (m.a.s.l.) There are two agroecologies: midland (1,500 to 2,267 m.a.s.l) and lowland (900 to 1,500 m.a.s.l). About 33% of the area in the district is midland, while 67% is lowland agroecology. There are rivers and streams traversing the district, and these often serve as sources of water for the population (CDOA, 2012). The major soil covers of the Chilga district are 45% Cambisols, 40% Vertisols, and 15% Nitosols [14]. The natural vegetation of Chilga is mainly composed of various lowland and midland species [14]. The temperature of the district ranges from 11 to 32°C with a mean annual rainfall between 995 to 1,175 mm. It had a total population of 241,712 and a total area of 3,181 km2. The livelihood of the local people mainly based on subsistence mixed agriculture (crop-livestock production).
Location of the study sites in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia.
Selection of study sites
The study was conducted in four kebeles of the Chilga District from 8 October to 20 December 2012. District and kebele experts were contacted for general information. In addition, secondary archived materials were reviewed from CDOA to get further information.
The district contains midland and lowland agroecologies that are classified based on altitude, annual rainfall and temperature differences. Moreover, the sociodemographic and biophysical characteristics of the two agroecologies are not the same. Thus, based on accessibility for data collection and availability of UWEPs, two KAs from each agroecology and two villages from each KA were selected (see Table 1).
Table 1 Sampled kebeles, villages, households and altitude in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Selection of key informants and households
For this study, key informants (KI) are defined as knowledgeable persons about underutilized wild edible woody plants and local conditions. After selecting two villages at each KA, 24 KI (three from each village) were selected by using a snowball method to collect preliminary data and for questionnaire development following the method of Bernard [15]. Three farmers were randomly asked to call five knowledgeable persons in the village. Then, the three most knowledgeable KI were selected out of fifteen KI in each village with a total of 24 KI being selected from the study villages. Then, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires were prepared to interview the KI and household (HH), respectively. A simple stratification of HHs was conducted by age (≤40 and >40) and wealth (poor, medium and rich), which were commonly used in assessing the local knowledge and plant utilization [16]. Hence, 12 HH classified by age category (≤40 and >40 in 1:1 ratio) and wealth (4 HH for each wealth class) were taken in each study village (Table 2). Thus, 96 HHs (78 males and 18 females) from four KA (24 HHs from each) were interviewed for the whole study, thereby constituting 5% of the population.
Table 2 Importance value index (IVI) of the top ten woody species in three land uses and two agroecologies in Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Questionnaire survey and key informant interview
Questionnaires and semistructured interviews were prepared, pretested and administered to HHs and KIs, respectively (16, 17). All interviewees were met on a ‘one-to-one’ basis and asked the same standard (open- and closed-ended) questions using the local language (Amharic) based on their consent, including expansions or clarifications as needed. Consent was given by the informants to the district agricultural office. Information including vernacular names, parts used and consumption role of the plants was gathered. In addition, traditional management practices, other uses, and threats of UWEPs were also recorded.
Field observation and focused group discussion
Repeated field observations were conducted in the study sites by walking transects where most of the UWEPs are grown/cultivated. The purpose of the field observation was to obtain actual information of presence, growth habit, habitat characteristics and identification of edible plant species mentioned during the interviews. A focused group discussion of KI was conducted at each study site to verify the data and identification of underutilized edible plants. All underutilized wild edible plants listed in the socioeconomic survey were verified and idiosyncratic ideas were removed from the data.
Direct matrix ranking
Direct matrix ranking was used to compare selected multipurpose species based on service categories. A direct matrix ranking method was exercised for commonly reported multipurpose UWEPs to assess their relative importance to local people and the extent of the existing threats related to their use values following the method of [16, 17]. Six KI from each agroecology were selected and asked to assign a use value (5 to 0) for seven species in the lowland agroecology and for five species in the midland agroecology. The frequency of citation as multipurpose species was used for ranking UWEPs. Use categories for the comparison included construction, medicine, fruit/food, fuel wood, shade, farm and household implements, and fences, as used in the work of Cotton (16) and Martin (17).
Preference ranking
Preference ranking of selected UWEPs was conducted using taste and use criteria for each study kebele to assess the perception of the community. The most preferred underutilized wild edible plants in each study kebele were selected by KIs, and ranking ( 4-most preferred, 3-commonly preferred, 2-preferred but not so common, and 1-occasionally used) was conducted by all respondents, who followed the method of Jain et al. [17]. Similarly ranking of conservation demand for selected underutilized wild edible plants was conducted to assess conservation status of most preferred species following the method of Jain et al. [18] (4-for the species whose conservation is highly demanded, 3-conservation urgently demanded, 2-conservation required but not so urgent, and 1-conservation not required at present). Finally, such ranking of the species was summed up, and average ranking was employed at the site level.
Threats to underutilized edible
The major human and natural factors that possibly threaten the survival of underutilized wild edible plants were identified through preliminary assessment. Thus, based on the relative importance of the threatening factors, priority ranking was conducted by eight KIs using the method of [16]. One to five scores were assigned where one was for the least while five was for the most destructive threat. Then, all ranks were summed up, and total ranking was conducted to determine the main threats.
Assessments of Gint, Negadie Bahire, and Chandeba local markets (nearest market places to the study sites) were conducted to judge market prices of the recorded underutilized edible plants.
All encountered plants were identified and recorded by their vernacular names. Later, these were converted to their botanical names using Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea[19–25] and experience. Plant specimens were collected and taken to the National Herbarium of Addis Ababa University for plant identification of plants that were not identified in the field.
Vegetation inventory
Field inventory of all UWEPS (woody) was employed with key informants to obtain information on the type of plants and their species diversity. To conduct this, the selected study villages were stratified into three land uses (forms), that is, (1) natural forest (NF), (2) farmland (FL), and (3) riverine forests (R). Then, representative populations in each land use/form were selected. Six quadrates were laid in each land use per village following two transects running parallel along the gradient. The two transect lines were 200 m apart and quadrates along the transect lines were also 200 m apart both in the natural forest and farmland. For riverine areas, two transect lines were established for each village following the water flow and three quadrate were taken at 200-m intervals from each transect line. The first quadrate in each land use was laid out randomly from the east of the sampled population. The quadrate sizes for natural forest and riverine forest was 20 m × 20 m (400 m2) for trees (main plot), 10 m × 10 m for shrubs and saplings at the center of main plot, and 1 m × 1 m for herbs and seedlings with an ‘X’ design that followed the method of [26, 27]. For farmland, a quadrate size of 50 m × 40 m (main plot) for trees, 25 m × 20 m for saplings and shrubs, and five 2 m × 2 m in an ‘X’ design for seedlings and herbs was taken.
In the smallest subplots (1 m2) or 4 m2, all herbs and seedlings were identified and counted (including all plants less than 50 cm in height). In the subplots of 10 m × 10 m or 25 m × 20 m, diameter at breast height (DBH) of all saplings and shrubs (DBH <10 cm) was measured with a caliper. The DBH of trees (DBH ≥10 cm) were measured in the entire plot area. Trees forked below breast height were measured independently and average DBH was taken. One hundred forty-four main quadrates were taken for the whole study.
Both quantitative and qualitative data analyses were conducted after the necessary data collection. Statistical Analysis System (SAS) 9.0 version software was used for descriptive and statistical analysis. Descriptive analyses (informant consensus, direct matrix ranking and preference ranking) were presented in the form of percentages, figures and means. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) of diversity indices (Shannon Weiner diversity index, Simpson’s diversity index and evenness), species richness and wealth classes was conducted to compare diversity between agroecologies and among kebeles. A T test mean separation (P <0.05) of diversity indices and wealth classes was conducted using least significance difference (LSd). The Spearman Rank Correlation test was also employed to evaluate whether there is significant (P <0.05) correlation between age and UWEPs list.
Species richness
It is defined as the number of species per quadrate, area or community. In this particular case, the numbers of observed species across the whole sample quadrates of each land use in each agroecology and Kebele were used as a representation of species richness. However, quadrate species richness is used as a comparison of species richness between agroecologies and kebeles.
Shannon diversity index (H’)
It is very important when comparing diversity among samples and habitats to use an index that is more sensitive to richness. The value of H’ is usually found to fall between 1.5 and 3.5 and only rarely surpasses 4.5 [28, 29]. Therefore, the species diversity of the midland and lowland agroecologies was estimated as follows:
H'=− ∑ 1 s Pi ln pi
where H’ = is Shannon diversity and Pi = proportion of individual species.
Simpson’s diversity index
Simpson’s diversity index is the most widely used method for estimating the richness diversity of community and is used to compare different communities or habitats [29]. The Simpson diversity is less sensitive to richness and more sensitive to evenness. The Simpson’s diversity is calculated as follows:
D=1− ∑ n = 1 s P i 2
Evenness
It is a widely used and understood method for estimating evenness of the communities [30]. The most commonly used index of estimating evenness diversity is the Pielou index, which is determined as follows:
J'=H'/H'max
where J’ = Pielou evenness index; H’ = the observed value of Shannon index; H’max = lnS, and S = total number of species.
Importance value index and relative frequency
Estimation of the importance value index (IVI), abundance, frequency and relative frequency was conducted to assess the importance of each species to the survey sites using the method of [31] and [32] and these estimates are determined with the following:
IVI = Relative Frequency + Relative Density + Relative Dominance
Frequency = number of occurence of a given species in the plots studied
Relative Frequency % = Frequency of any species Total frequency of all species *100
Relative Density % = Number of individual of each species per ha Total number of individuals of all species per ha *100
Relative Dominance % = Basal area of each species Total basal area of all species *100
Basal area= ∏ D 2 4 ,D=Diameter of trees at breast height
Importance value index
The importance value index (IVI) of woody species is dominated by four species (86.12%), namely Anogeissus leiocarrpa, Syzygium guineense, Diospyros abyssinica and Ficus sycomorus (Table 2 and Additional file 1). The species distribution varies in land uses and in agroecologies. In the lowlands (LLA), Terminalia laxiflora, Diospyros abyssinica and Acacia polyachanta are the top ranking species for NF, riverine and FL, respectively. Anogeissus leiocarrpa, Syzygium guineense and Ficus sycomorus are also the first ranked species in the midland (MLA) for NF, riverine and FL land uses, respectively. Some of the woody plants in the study area were habitat specific. For example, Syzygium guineense was recorded only from riverine land use of the LLA.
Diversity of underutilized wild edible plants
Thirty-three UWEPs (28 woody and five herbaceous) species were recorded in the study area (Table 3). The family Moraceae had five species; the families Malvaceae, Fabaceae, and Euphorbiaceae had two species each; and the remaining families had one species each.
Table 3 List of all underutilized edible plants encountered in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Species richness of underutilized wild edible woody plants (UWEPs) recorded in the study area is presented in Tables 4 and 5. Overall, mean value difference in species richness and diversity indices of UWEPs in two agroecologies were in the order of: R > NF > FL (Table 6). Evenness in the LLA was significantly (P <0.05) higher than MLA for NF land use. Comparison of diversity within each agroecology shows species richness of riverine land use at Quavier Lomiye Kebele was significantly higher than at Tenbera in the LLA (Table 7). Within the MLA, for NF land use, Simpson and evenness diversity indices of Chalia Debire Kebele were significantly higher than Walideba Kebele Simpson and evenness diversity (Table 8).
Table 4 Underutilized woody edible plants species diversity for three land uses in lowland agroecology (LLA) and midland agroecology (MLA) of the study area, northwestern Ethiopia
Table 5 Underutilized woody edible plants species diversity for three land uses in the study sites, northwestern Ethiopia
Table 6 Means (±std) of woody underutilized edible plant diversity for the three land uses in the study area, northwestern Ethiopia
Table 7 Mean (±std) of underutilized woody wild edible plant diversity for the three land uses in lowland agroecology (LLA) of the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Table 8 Mean (±std) of woody wild edible species diversity for three land uses in midland agroecology (MLA) in northwestern Ethiopia
Underutilized wild edible plants habits and parts used
Growth forms of UWEPs comprise trees, shrubs, herbs and climbers. Of all (n = 33) UWEPs, most (45%) were trees followed by shrubs (about 27.3%) (Figure 2a). Trees were also the dominant growth forms at each study site, representing about half at Walideba, Chalia Debire and Quabier Lomiye and 46.4% at Tenbera Kebele. The study also indicated that fruits were the most commonly used parts of UWEPs (76%), while flowers, roots, and stems were the least used parts (Figure 2b).
Growth forms and parts used for edible plants in the study area, northwestern Ethiopia. F, fruit; Se, seed; L, leaf; Fl, flower nectar; R, root/ tuber; ST, stem bark.
Utilization and role of underutilized wild edible plants
The results of this study showed that UWEPs play an important role in the household livelihood diversification, and these results are summarized below:
Diversity of uses.
UWEPs offer various uses such as fuel wood, fencing, construction, medicinal, fodder, timber, honey production and detergent (Figure 3). More than three-fourths of UWEPs in the study sites are used for fuel wood and fencing purposes. The community utilized these plants for various reasons (Table 9). About 56% and 33.3% of the respondents in MLA mentioned that UWEPs were used to supplement their staple foods and for refreshment, respectively. Also 21% of the respondents consume products to fill food gaps. In the LLA, 67% of the respondents mentioned that UWEPs were used in times of normal diet. UWEP utilization by wealth class using the free-list exercise approach is shown in Table 10.
Use categories of underutilized edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia. FoT, food and other uses; Fu, fuel wood; FE, fencing; CO, construction; SC, soil and water conservation; FT, farm and household tools; SH, shade; M, medicinal; FD, fodder; F, food only; T, timber.
Table 9 Consumption roles of underutilized wild edible plants in the study area, northwestern Ethiopia
Table 10 Mean (±std) of underutilized wild edible plants free-list exercise by wealth class in the study sites, northwestern Ethiopia
UWEP citation in the poor HHs was significantly higher (P <0.05) than for medium and rich wealth classes in the Walideba and Chalia Debire kebeles. Similarly, UWEP citation in the poor HHs was significantly higher than for the richest groups in Quavier Lomiye Kebele. Plant citation in Tenbera Kebele was significantly different among wealth classes in the following order: poor > medium > rich.
Income generating role of underutilized wild edible plants.
UWEPs could generate income for HHs through either sales to domestic market or exporting to neighboring countries, mainly the Sudan (Table 11). Twelve marketable UWEPs were recorded with the mean unit price of products ranging from 0.63 to 5.6 ETB (Ethiopian Birr). Youngsters in the local market sell most of these marketable UWEPs (eight plants). Of the marketable UWEPs, Tamarindus indica and Hibiscus cannabinus were the most highly priced species. About 83% and 17% of the marketable UWEPs are marketed in the local markets and for export, respectively (Figure 4a). Of all marketable UWEPs, fruits represent the highest proportion of edible parts (about 75%) (Figure 4 b).
Table 11 List of marketable underutilized wild edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Market categories of marketable edible plants (a) and parts sold (b) in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia.
Direct matrix ranking for underutilized wild edible plants.
Seven UWEP species in the LLA and five in the MLA were selected, and direct matrix ranking was conducted based on the key informants’ preferences of use category. Thus, food and fuel use categories were the first and second ranked categories, respectively, for the selected multipurpose species (Table 12) for lowland and (Table 13) for MLA. When overall categories were considered, species with top score ranking were ordered as follows: Diospyros mespiliformis > Syzygium guineense > Tamarindus indica for LLA; Syzygium guineens > Diospyros abyssinica > Ximenia americana for MLA. Carisa spinarum received the list score from both agroecologies.
Table 12 Direct matrix average score of seven underutilized edible plants in lowland agroecology (LLA) in northwestern Ethiopia
Table 13 Direct matrix average score of five underutilized edible plants in midland agroecology (MLA) in northwestern Ethiopia
Informant consensus and preference of underutilized wild edible plants
Species preference ranking of UWEPs was conducted based on the informants’ consensus approach to find out the relative importance of plants to the local community (Table 14). The most preferred species in decreasing order were S. guineense, D. abyssinica, Carissa spinarum, Mimusops kummel, D. mesiliformis, Ximenia americana and Cordia africana. However, species preference varies from kebele to kebele. S. guineense, D. mespiliformis and M. kummel were the most preferred edible plants, cited by 95.8% of respondents in Walideba Kebele. Similarly, S. guineense and M. kummel were the best species cited by all respondents in Chalia Debire Kebele. Again, D. mesiliformis was the preferred species in Quavier Lomiye and Tenbera kebeles (species cited by ≥29 informants of the total respondents).
Table 14 List of frequently cited edible plants in the study sites, northwestern Ethiopia
Selection and ranking of the most preferred candidate UWEPs, based on their taste and use, was conducted in each kebele. S. guineense is the most preferred species in Walideba and Chalia Debire kebeles (Figure 5 a and b), while Saba comorensis was the most preferred in Quavier Lomiye and Tenebera (Figure 5 c and d). In terms of conservation demand of species, M. kummel and X. americana were the most highly preferred ones in the MLA and LLA study sites, respectively.
Preference ranking of edible plants in the study sites in the Chilga district, northwestern Ethiopia. Legend: 1 = Syzygium guineense; 2 = Diospryos melisformis; 3 = Mimusops kummel; 4 = Diospyros abyssinica; 5 = Ximenia americana; 6 = Carissa spinarum; 7 = Cordia Africana; 8 = Saba comorensis; 9 = Corchorus olitorius; 10 = Tamarindus indica.
Underutilized wild edible plant list exercise
With regard to list length for free plants, variation exists between age groups. Respondents younger than 40 years of age cited more UWEPs than older people did across the study kebeles (Figure 6a). The Spearman correlation test has also shown a significant negative correlation between age and UWEPs list (r = -0.326, P <0.05).
Knowledge distribution and acquisition methods of edible plant in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia.
The local community gains knowledge about UWEPs utilization, processing and management through experience (Figure 6b). However, the major acquisition/transfer method was from parents, friends and relatives, and neighbors in both agroecologies. Sources of knowledge or acquisitions for the majority of respondents (87.5%) in MLA and 73% in LLA were the parents.
Traditional management practices and threats of underutilized edible plants
The results of this study indicated that there was a lack of training to local community to improve management, conservation and utilization of UWEPs (Table 15). More than 77% of the respondents in MLA and 87.5% in LLA indicated that training on conservation and utilization of UWEPs was not given from any concerned body. This indicated that the local community utilizes, manages and conserves these plant resources only through experience and traditional knowledge.
Table 15 Response of households on training gained about conservation and utilization of underutilized edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Identification and preference ranking of the major threats of UWEPs based on their destructive effects were conducted (Table 16). It confirmed that illegal charcoal production, fuel wood collection, construction, agricultural land expansion, overgrazing and fire were the dominant threats.
Table 16 Traditional management practices and threats of underutilized edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia
Local communities practice different traditional management, which includes planting around the home garden, pruning, pollarding, fencing, and preventing growth of the most important plants by local culture in both the LLA and MLA (Table 16). Of the management practices; fencing, pollarding and local culture are the dominant practices in the LLA. In similar fashion, planting around home gardens and backyards and pollarding were the major practices in the MLA.
Fuel wood and illegal charcoal production and construction were the main threats in the MLA, whereas agricultural expansion, fuel wood collection, and charcoal making were dominant threats in the LLA.
The importance value index (IVI) of all woody species indicates the ecological importance of each species to the area. In addition, it indicates the types of plant species on which the rural community is more reliant. The four top ranked species according to IVI value (A. leiocarrpa, S. guineense, F. sycomorus and D. abyssinica) in the whole area were the most important UWEPs. The high IVI of these species is probably due to their ability to produce a high number of seeds and maintain a persistent soil seed bank. There was variation in IVI in agroecology and land uses, probably due to variation of species adaptation to different agroecologies and human disturbance [33]. Thus, high IVI confirmed the potential of these species to adapt to an area and to resist anthropogenic disturbance [33].
Floristic composition, distribution and diversity of underutilized edible plants
A good number of UWEPs (33 species) were recorded compared to other areas in the Amhara region [8]. These UWEPs include trees, shrubs and herbs. Most UWEPs were also documented elsewhere in Ethiopia; for instance, seven species are found in the semi-arid lowlands of southern Ethiopia [3, 7], species in Derashe and Kucha, southern Ethiopia [7, 20], species in Amhara region, northern Ethiopia (8); 20 species in northern Ethiopia; eight species in southeastern Ethiopia; five species in eastern Ethiopia; six species in southeastern Ethiopia [10]. The existence of these plants in different regions of the country indicates their ecological adaptation over a large geographical area and their edibility by different ethnic groups.
Natural forests, riverine areas and farmlands were centers for UWEPs in the study sites in both MLA and LLA. Similar to this study UWEPs in other parts of Ethiopia were concentrated in farmlands, riverine areas and natural forests [7, 8, 10, 33]. Forests of the world provide livelihoods and food for 300 million people in the form of non-timber forest products [34]. Again, their distributions in different agroecologies vary due to differences in species’ physiological adaptations [7].
The study shows almost the same species richness among land uses. As Fentahun and Hager [8] explained, the species richness of wild edible plants is affected by altitude, personal preference and selective management of trees by farmers, especially for those found on farmlands. The Shannon diversity of land uses in both agroecologies is greater than 1.5. Thus, high diversity exists in both agroecologies. Significant differences among kebeles might be due to variation in the levels of human disturbance.
Utilization and socioeconomic implication
Trees, followed by shrubs, were the dominant growth forms of UWEPs in the study area. Although relatively small in number, herbaceous plants were also consumed. The report by Fentahun and Hager [8] in the Amhara region and in Tilahun and Mirutse [9] in the lower river valley of Debub Omo Zone was consistent with the present finding that trees were the leading growth forms. In contrast, Ermias et al. [13] indicated that shrubs were the dominant growth forms in Ethiopia, followed by trees, herbs and climbers. Fruits were the commonly utilized edible parts in the study area. In agreement with this finding, Ermias et al. [13] and Getachew et al.[35] found fruits as the widely used parts.
The results of this study indicate that UWEPs are used mainly to supplement staple food, to fill food gaps and for refreshment purposes. In agreement with the present study, other findings elsewhere [5, 36, 37] indicate their supplemental role. The greater number of plant citations by the poorest community in the study area indicates the consumption level and familiarity of the community with these plants. Seasonal food shortages, when household stocks were empty and the new crop was still in the field, were common times to focus on collecting, selling and consuming underutilized edible plants [36, 38]. Marginalized and poor communities are more vulnerable to drought, and thus, are more dependent on these plants [13, 34, 38, 39].
The rural communities of this study, especially the lowland kebeles, preferred Corchorus olitorius more than other vegetables because they believe it has more nutritional value. Debela et al. [5] also reports on the nutritional richness of this plant. Thus, local people in the study area bypass nutritional insecurity by consuming UWEPs. Some species that were preferable in the study area (for example, T. indica, S. comorensis and C. spinarum) are also priority ranked species in Kenya [40].
Once more, most of UWEPs provide service in addition to food value. Different researchers elsewhere in Ethiopia have also noted multiple uses for UWEPs such as preparation of remedies, fuel wood, fencing, construction and timber, farm and household implements and livestock fodder [7–9]. Marketable wild edible plants such as X. americana, S. guineense, T. indica, C. spinarum and M. kummel also create household income opportunities. A few income-generating species like S. guineense, T. indica, C. spinarum and M. kummel were also reported in other areas [7, 8]. Furthermore, income is gained from selling other parts such as stems and branches [3, 7]. C. Africana, for instance, one of the most widely used edible plants in the study area, is preferred for timber production.
According to Bharucha and Pretty [34], there is no comprehensive global estimate of the economic value of UWEPs; therefore, quantitative analyses face methodological difficulties. For most studies, use of different valuation methods and diversity scales are rarely equivalent. Second, the sale of products is often illegal and therefore under-reported. This was observed in the study areas where various UWEPs plants sold at local market and even exported to Sudan were not valued correctly.
Knowledge distribution of underutilized edible plants
Ethnobotanical knowledge and practice within any culture varies depending on such factors as cultural attributes. In a free-list exercise, the differences in list length and content are measures of intraspecific cultural variation [41]. Younger respondents cited a higher number of UWEPs than elders in each study site. Fentahun and Hager [8] also reported similar results, as younger respondents cited higher numbers than elders did. This might be because of the variation of informant’s consumption preferences between adults and youngsters. Adults avoid eating most UWEPs because consumption of wild food plants is seen as a sign of poverty [42]. As a result, their list might be limited to only those species that they are accustomed to eating rather than what they know to be edible. The knowledge acquisition methods (parents are the major source) also proved the ignorance of some species by adults. In addition, younger people had an intimate association with plants in their day-to-day lives and had more experience with collection than the older people [8, 43]. A lack of modern training in the study area is also an indicator of the acquisition of knowledge by experience and the effect of their interaction with plants in their daily life.
Management practices and threats to underutilized edible plants
The farmers in the study area apply some management activities like pruning and pollarding for UWEPs in farmland use. In addition, the farmers plant some plants in their front yards and backyards. However, compared to other cultivated plants, the management practices were very small. The study by Fentahu and Hager [8] in other semi-arid areas of the Amhara region similarly depicted a lower level of management, and if any, limited to lopping and pollarding.
The threats to UWEPs in the study area are similar to threats that affect nonedible wild plants. Agricultural expansion, overgrazing, fire and other utilization-related factors such as fuel wood and charcoal, construction, and house and farm implements are the major threats in both agroecologies. Different researchers have documented these threats [3, 7, 13, 38] to UWEPs. Furthermore, UWEPs are collected in natural environments, which are subjected to less management and exposed to anthropogenic threats [13].
The Chilga District, located in the Amhara region, northwestern Ethiopia is endowed with diverse UWEPs and ethnobotanical knowledge. Thirty-three UWEPs (22 families) were recorded. These plants are distributed in natural forests, riverine forests and farmlands.
UWEPs are consumed for supplementing staple food, filling food gaps and recreational value. This utilization is significant in the poorest communities. Most of the encountered UWEPs provide other services including medicinal value, fuel wood and charcoal, construction, timber, and farm and household implements, thereby generating income from the sale of the products and their parts. Thus, UWEPs are the solution to diversification of rural household livelihoods. The utilization of some UWEPs (such as S. guineense, D. abyssinica, C. spinarum, M. kummel, D. mesiliformis, X. americana and C. africana) is more popular than for others.
UWEPs are suffering from the threats of agricultural expansion, overharvesting (for fuel wood, construction, and fencing) and overgrazing in both agroecologies. However, the management activities are also lower.
The local community utilizes UWEPs without gaining organized training, which is a threat to the sustainability of these plants. Thus, provision of training from the district, zonal offices, and NGOs for different management activities and the application of this training to projects that seek to maximize the value of UWEPs to local community are needed. This study focuses on diversity, role, threats and associated plant-use knowledge. Further study on the nutritional analysis and economic valuation of UWEPs is needed.
FL:
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KA:
kebele
KI:
key informants
LLA:
lowland agroecology
LSd:
least significance difference
m.a.s.l:
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riverine forest
UWEP:
underutilized wild edible woody plant.
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We thank to the Development Partnership in higher Education, Department for International development, (DeLPHE) for financial support of this research, which otherwise would have faced financial constraints. We are also thankful to the traditional healers and local people of Chilga District who generously shared their knowledge on underutilized edible plants. The Environmental Protection office and Agricultural office of Chilga District are also acknowledged for their provision of various basic data and support.
Department of Natural Resource Management, University of Gondar, P.O. Box 196, Gondar, Ethiopia
Mekuanent Tebkew
School of Forestry, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University, Shashemene,Hawassa, P.O. Box 128, Ethiopia
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Department of Biology, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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MT: conception and design, data collection and analysis, manuscript writing and final approval of the manuscript. ZA: data analysis, critical revision and final approval of the manuscript. SZ: critical revision and final approval of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Tebkew, M., Asfaw, Z. & Zewudie, S. Underutilized wild edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia: focus on wild woody plants. Agric & Food Secur 3, 12 (2014) doi:10.1186/2048-7010-3-12
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How good is AI in math?
currently AI is advancing fast in deep learning: Entire human chess knowledge learned and surpassed by DeepMind's AlphaZero in four hours.
As a layman, I'm taking this as a quite powerful searching algorithm, using artificial neural networks to identify the patterns of each game.
However, how good is AI doing in math?
For example, the key to the theory of the game Nim is the binary digital sum of the heap sizes, that is, the sum (in binary) neglecting all carries from one digit to another. This operation is also known as "exclusive or" (xor) or "vector addition over GF(2)".
Is AI good enough to discover/invite operations/logics such as "exclusive or", or, more advanced, abstract algebra in finite field?
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$\begingroup$ Look into J.Pitrat's blog, e.g. mathematics have disappointed me $\endgroup$ – Basile Starynkevitch Dec 9 '17 at 19:06
Nim was actually one of the first games ever played by an electronic machine. It was called the Nimatron and was displayed at the 1940 New York World's Fair.
It is also well known that neural networks can model the Xor-function, if they have enough layers. Despite that, Marvin Minsky is supposed to have killed neural networks in the sixties, by asserting that networks with a single hidden layer, cannot model XOR.
I think there were also some large scale projects to classify finite groups using computers.
Additionally there have long been automated theorem proving programs, that had some success in mathematical logic. I recently saw a paper that used Deep learning to improve one of these theorem provers.
That being said, doing real mathematics is probably as difficult as real language understanding. There doesn't seem to have been a real breakthrough yet.
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$\begingroup$ May I ask 1) where did Marvin Minsky went wrong? 2) i suppose AI to classify groups still needs human input on the “group” concept? How far is AI from “invent” the concept? Similar to “recognise” an XOR operation for nim? $\endgroup$ – athos Dec 7 '17 at 13:28
$\begingroup$ Marvin Minsky didn't go wrong. It was just that the readers of his book over interpreted his statements. Yes, I'm not even sure the group classification can be called AI. I don't know when AI will "invent" the concept of a group, nor am I sure what that would even look like. $\endgroup$ – BlindKungFuMaster Dec 7 '17 at 14:02
The question of whether nets can be trained to take over more and more of what was entirely within the domain of production systems was asked (to the dismay of those who worked on first order predicate calculus inference in the LISP community) back in the early 1990s.
Artificial Networks Performing Logical Inference
At Stanford University's Department of Linguistics the learning of the logic required to assemble a semantic graph by an artificial net has been demonstrated and documented in Recursive Neural Networks Can Learn Logical Semantics by Samuel R. Bowman, Christopher Potts, and Christopher D. Manning.
Even the earliest work on artificial networks were targetted toward learning logic, such as the elusive exclusive-or operation, which was achieved by adding a second layer to the original perceptron design and applying what we now call gradient descent.
Distinct from Automatic Theorem Proving
Most of the early work on computer proofs of theorems was based on the production system approach (sometimes call expert systems). These are rules based systems, not artificial networks. It was thought that the rules of predicate logic could be executed in proper sequence by pattern matching the antecedents (conditions in which a mathematical technique based on axiomatic information and already proven theory may be applied) in proper order. Some success was achieved using heuristic meta rules.
Using artificial networks to prove a theorem is an entirely different approach. To take semantic learning further so that an artificial network could learn how to assemble a mathematical proof requires three further levels of abstraction in the network learning model.
Learning the known first order predicate logic rules of inference
Learning the mechanics of applying those rules to proposed theorems
Learning functional heuristics to know what to try first
Evidence It Can Be Done
The evidence that artificial networks may be developed which can learn to construct a mathematical proof is not that current artificial nets can perform some natural language functioning or creatively develop a melody or some interior design. The reason DARPA has traditionally invested in neural network research pointed in the direction of simulating logic is the proof of concept proposed by Minsky.
The strongest evidence that neural networks can potentially learn the various layers of abstraction listed above to actually do math is that human children cannot prove a theorem or even read one out loud understandably, yet some may grow up to be proficient in theorem proving. The biological neural nets of the brain must learn such proficiency.
As of this writing, no counter-example exists that an artificial network cannot achieve the proficiency of Gauss or Gödel, so the idea cannot logically be dismissed. Many advanced research projects continue to target higher cognitive skills as their AI objective.
It is likely, since much of the work on logical inference and the investigation into whether artificial networks could be trained to do it was funded by government bodies, that some of the results of research is not available to the public.
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In maths exist P and NP problems, so AI solve problems (with common algorithms) that are 'verified in polynomial time', because require computational work , if condition solve or converge to solution,well a NP = P, but other cases not converge. Depend of algorithm and election of problem. but when is NP not solve computational work.
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$\begingroup$ Don’t quite get your point, maybe rephrase it a bit? $\endgroup$ – athos Sep 26 '18 at 4:40
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(This is about the Protestant Reformation, i believed that it
has always existed strictly as a political event) Politics and Religion
Political and social struggles causes many religious uprising. Even though
Religious Reformations are major breakthroughs in the Catholic Church, its
premises remained strictly as a political event. Protestantism was a technique
used by noble princes as well as emperors to break away from the control of the
Catholic Church and also a reason to gain dominancy over other nations. However,
the foremost reason that Reformations remains primarily as a political event is
because it served as a reason for conflict between church and state. The first
reason that the Reformation was a political event was the alliance between
religious group and the state. Protestant groups, especially Lutherans and
Calvinists, sided with national authorities to create international political
upheaval. One mentionable historical event was the Hapsburg-Valois War. To gain
control of Italy and the Burgundian realms, Francis I of France, being a
Catholic, did not hesitate to form an alliance with the Protestants in his
objective to crush Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, the fall heir of the
Burgundian territories. On the other hand, the Protestant card was also played
by Charles when he repressed Francis with the help of the Henry VIII, head of
the Church of England. Thus, this showed that Protestants during the Reformation
was created ideally to and was manipulated by strong political powers in their
conquest to gain dominancy over other states. Another reason for the
governmental event was its usage by the noble princes to gain political freedom
for their states by breaking away from the control of the supreme governer. What
was a religious struggles between the Protestants and the Church became a
movement towards a politically freed state. One example would be the internal
conflict between Charles V and his German princes and their states. During the
disorder of the Reformation, princes were emboldened to seek autonomy for their
states, thus, creating a civil war between them and the Emperor. The Peace of
Ausburg was signed by Charles by which gave the princes the right to determined
the core religion in his territories. However, the political side to it was the
Peace of Westphalia, a reinstatement of the Asburg’s. Signed some years later by
the empire, the Peace of Westphalia gave the princes the right to supreme
authority over their territories. This showed that in the essence of most
religious struggles, the main objective is to gain political advantage among
other dominant powers. But the foremost cause that led to the belief that the
Protestant Reformation was a political event was the private issues between the
king and the pope. Supremacy of state, judicial authoratives, and noble marital
problems were raised to the level of national predicament. These issues were
presented with the conflict between Henry VIII and the Church. During Henry’s
reign, many of his marriages went down the drain because he was cursed without a
healthy, male heir to the English thrown. But years later, having fallen in love
with Anne Boleyn, a noble woman who promised him a son, Henry tried to get his
marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. But when the Church rejected his
order, Henry broke away and formed The Church of England. In his documents. The
Act of Restraint of Appeal and the Supremacy Act, Henry declared himself the
supreme ruler and judicial authority of England and noted that there are
absolutely no political interference from the Church allowed. This showed that
the biggest contribution to the Protestant Reformation are the selfish desires
of kings and the Church. Behind most religious disorder, the roots of conflict
was always political struggles between church and state. These ideas were
expressed by many rulers who were tangled in the web of international religious
struggles. Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry VIII of England, German
Protestant princes, rulers of all background manipulated Protestant Reformations
and had used it to their own advantage such as to gain political powers and
their other personal needs. Thus, the roots of existence of most Protestant
Reformation has always been, a political event.
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Former Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba. FILE PHOTO: ANA
Clyde Ramalaine
– Gigaba’s shortcomings however defined cannot automatically translate to a natural right for the Oppenheimer family and its commercial interest to have such port at a key national security point –
The final script on Gigaba is threatened to be written by a group of embedded journalists led by none other than Ranjeni Munusamy for whom objectivity is a dreaded disease. In her Sunday Times opinion piece, she in many ways read Gigaba’s obituary detailed with a claim of Gigaba’s demise as self-inflicted.
Let me make my disclaimer up front, I hold no brief to speak for or defend the colourful adventurist and often indiscreet Gigaba. I alluded to someone earlier that solicited my opinion, we seldom pause to think how long Gigaba is a cabinet minister that being fourteen years which is a significant chunk in his forty-two years of life-span. On another score, we may ask what this means if anything, but that is a subject for another day. Notwithstanding Gigaba’s notorious appetite to attract attention for unrelated and really unnecessary drama, we warrant separating matters if we attempt being honest and sensible in our discourse.
This musing thus, is also not a defence of his wrongs be it at personal dubbed ‘home- affairs’ or political office of Department of Home Affairs level it juxtaposes questions in regard to the claims of the Fireblade Aviation application or request that he apparently approved verbally or a letter penned and signed by Gigaba himself dated 24 October 2016, which details the opposite of the claim.
Our public discourse is drenched in vibration otherwise understood as noise that the substantive is often deliberately sacrificed by the virulent if not petulant agenda of those who are hell-bent in scripting our thinking in a specific direction. In February, The North Gauteng High Court ruled that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba lied under oath when he testified during his tenure as home affairs minister in a case filed by a company that wanted to open a private immigration terminal at the country’s biggest airport.
Judge Neil Tuchten in his ruling said, “The minister deliberately told untruths under oath, the minister has committed a breach of the Constitution so serious that I could characterise it as a violation.”
Fireblade Aviation, which is controlled by the Oppenheimer family, filed a lawsuit against Gigaba alleging that he had reneged on a pledge to delegate officials to staff their immigration and customs facility that was to be developed at the OR Tambo International Airport on land rented from arms manufacturer Denel.
Gigaba denied ever approving the terminal. The court ruled in Fireblade’s favour. Gigaba said he stood by his testimony and was consulting his lawyers about the ruling.
Gigaba’s counter-claim at the time was, “The decision of the court is being challenged,” he told journalists in Cape Town before delivering his Budget Speech. There is an appeal. At no stage was there an agreement with Fireblade. Legally you cannot have a private terminal for a family.”
This week at a Parliamentary hearing, second-generation billionaire Nicky Oppenheimer accused Malusi Gigaba with the following words, “The first thing he said was he was delighted to tell us that he, indeed, granted his approval.”
Beyond the noise and lusty early obituaries of Gigaba as foretold by an active crowd who have their own agenda, lies the critical question – does Fireblade Aviation or anyone regardless of what the minister may have approved or not, have the right to occupy such a unique port at a key central point of national interest, the OR Tambo International Airport?
As with so many things in SA, this discussion is deliberately avoided, consciously not entertained because we are scripted as those who specialise in the art of deflection. With all the claims in an ocean of investigative journalists spanning veterans and new ones, there is hardly any attempt or desire to engage this salient question. We may only guess why there is no interest and a significant truculence on the part of seasoned journalists, constitutional law experts and civil society foundation custodians.
Public active Constitutional law experts like Pierre De Vos, Marinus Wiechers among others will tell you of the violation of the constitution at the drop of a hat but steer ominously clear of problematizing or engaging the thorny aspect of the constitutionality of the request of the Fireblade Aviation Private Company who with this request does more than encroaching on the liberties of the constitution and its balance between public and private dictates. CASAC’s Lawson Naidoo will jump up and down in claim of defending the constitution that hardly needs defence but be eerily silent on the how the constitution may intersect with the Fireblade Aviation request which has now become a demand because they have invested in such infrastructure.
The so-called progressive and very active Foundations of SA that red flags all ANC politicians except those they have vested economic and political interest in, are also not present to weigh in on the controversiality of the claimed right of Fireblade Aviation and the Oppenheimer family claims to have a private port. The often-vocal group of clergies known for their adamant claim of custodianship of a South African society is silent to ask how the constitution is served by this ‘application’. Why are there no questions asked of another family who with this application and request in a sense wants to capture the state?
Beyond the joystick claims of associating Malusi Gigaba with the 21st Century leprous family of SA politics, the Guptas, what was Gigaba’s official response to Fireblade Aviation is drowned out by those baying for his political head on a platter. Is there an official response? Can we engage that or should this documented official response be thrown out with the proverbial bathwater? Do Gigaba’s wrongs in this regard automatically translates to a free ride for Fireblade Aviation and the Oppenheimer family?
Click here to view Gigaba’s documented response
By the way Mr Caretaker President, Ramaphosa, your empty directive to tell us not to call benefactors of an unjust, unequal and avaricious concocted synapsis of colonialism and its second coming apartheid as white monopoly capital rings hollow. Firstly, you cannot unilaterally outlaw our history and present realities that define the dominance of apartheid’s privileged identity who like a historical record monopolised capital with its hallowed identity as the epicentre, you appreciate that you see them as heroes, it’s a natural response for you, simply because you want your public life understood but your political and economic life, has been living with them since 1978. Every time to herd your imported Ankole cattle, your appreciation for white monopoly capital’s interest in your wealth is registered. Secondly, before Mandela was convinced by many lunches on 11 February, the day of his self-delated release from prison, said “There must be an end to white monopoly on political power and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed”, We know he later would sell out by attending many lunches at the Oppenheimer estate of Brenthurst which later shifted to the development bank. It was here whereby capital for the first time swallowed the ANC and a political elite was created. We also know that the entire negotiations were orchestrated by the mineral-energy complex led by the powerful Oppenheimer family.
Hence, we implore you not to attempt to abuse borrowed presidential powers in strait-jacketing our right to call white monopoly capital what it is, we know you, directed by Johan Rupert, believe the construct was birthed by his previous public relations company. You will direct our discourse with empty threats and rewrite history in claims of the heroism of colonial and apartheid benefactors. The South African masses in ballot definition is yet to extend you the mandate until then, you are a caretaker president that should perhaps more listen than direct.
Nobody is asking why are the Oppenheimer’s, however, defined in a family and interwoven business interest entitled to such a port at a National Security Point? From where do they derive this inalienable birth-right to be entitled a port of this nature?
The fundamental question remains, what was Malusi Gigaba’s official response to the request of the Fireblade Aviation Company? We have a record in writing which we will attempt to engage to make sense of the current one tracked discussion that defines our current reality.
Gigaba stands accused of having, as a last resort to come out guns blazing fingering the agents and powers of white monopoly capital as sitting behind this campaign to annihilate his political career. Others demand that he be reminded of his own words on President Zuma when he in personal political career-interest ventured to have a public opinion as he sought to endear himself to Ramaphosa. While some may argue this is rather convenient for Gigaba to invoke victimhood, beyond claims and counterclaims as well as verbal agreements we are compelled to engage his official response which is a public record.
The documented response of Gigaba is a logical, systematic and structured thought-through response that makes the case against the issuing of such right in a contextual and succinct manner. Gigaba in his official communique is categorically clear when he on the funding aspect flags a communicated concern, asserts, “Former Minister of Finance addressed a letter to myself and has expressed concerns about the funding for the facility. He indicated that after due consideration, he is of the opinion that the costs involved in proving such services for a single facility cannot be warranted, especially as there are adequate clearance facilities at the main airports terminal building”. [SIC]
Not only was the subject of adequacy with the current capacity at the main terminal raised and referred to as justified means to not grant the Fireblade Aviation request, but from a security angle, Denel in its correspondence to the Fireblade Aviation office, mentioned its concerns that vacillate on the security dimension reality that holds plausible risk factors associated with it. Gigaba recites an earlier Denel response which in its seventh paragraph delineates the following, ‘an international terminal operated at the Denel precinct brings with it a host of security risks, one has to look no further than the media coverage of drug trafficking, people smuggling, illicit smuggling of material such as currency, precious metals, hazardous material and weaponry”. Gigaba highlights the fact Fireblade Aviation’s response to Denel which is littered in verbosity of adjectives yet fails to make a counter-argument on responding to the cardinal challenges of security risk Denel flagged.
As cardinal departure point Gigaba references the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 which regulates the powers of the Minister to designate ports, (as defined in section 9A) of entry in South Africa. Gigaba then details the interpretation of Section 9A in its facets as it relates to entrance and exit of South Africa. He highlighted. “Importantly, a place of entry or exit is a place where all persons must report before they enter or depart the Republic. There is no provision in the legislation for a designating of a port of entry for us only by an exclusive category of persons.”
Gigaba went on to articulate that rationality for applying his mind and extending a place a designation of a port, “entails a requirement that such power must be used for a lawful purpose.” Meaning such power may not be used for a purpose which is not contemplated by the legislation. By the same token, the powers conferred in the legislation may not be used in arbitrary or capricious fashion or in order to achieve an ulterior goal.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Gigaba then proffers two impediments for a claim that his office naturally extends him a right that underscores any power to designate the proposed place of Fireblade Aviation’s intent as a port of entry under Section 9A of the Act.
As a first impediment, he raised the fact that the port as designated will not be for public usage meaning accessible for all people, but the Oppenheimer family, its commercial interests and people approved exclusively by those who propose its existence. This renders the request not as meeting the criteria spelt out in Section 9 A, that unequivocally and beyond ambiguity articulates, a place “where all persons must report before they enter, sojourn or remain within or depart from the Republic”. It is, therefore, crystal clear that the request does not meet the minimum requirements of the specified section given its exclusivity.
Gigaba went further to pontificate in a hypothesis that should he possess the authority to accede to the submitted request, it still had to be tested by the cardinal aspect of rationality. That rationality alludes to the already referred to Finance Minister letter that problematizes the subject of funding. Albeit that the case can be made that the principle of “customer pays” as advanced by the applicants, allocating the responsibility to pay for the facility to the applicant. He demonstrates it is doubtful if there is any legislative authority that would enable a private entity to pay the state in order for the state to discharge its statutory and public functions.
The second aspect that the Minister in this didactic assessment makes resonates on the subject of what constitutes procedural fairness. With this, Gigaba with due consideration of the necessity for a public participatory process, argues for a role of public consultation to aid such decision. He, therefore, raises the ramifications and possibilities of objections for such from the general public, other potential commercial firms who equally may want to provide similar or exact services even at perhaps more favourable terms and lesser rates than what Fireblade Aviation may offer. Meaning these possibilities would be made redundant by virtue of being denied the opportunity to participate since a decision for Fireblade Aviation unilaterally would disqualify their constitutional equal privileges since a public participatory process was not followed.
Let us then again hear Gigaba in verbatim, “But to enter into a private negotiation with a commercial firm in respect of decision as significant as the present seems to run counter to the norms of transparency and accountability that are contained in section 1 of the Constitution.”
Gigaba concludes with the following words, “For the reasons mentioned above, my view is as Minister, I would probably be acting unconstitutionally and in breach of section 9A of the immigration Act if were to accede to your request. In the light of the above, I regrettably wish to inform you that I do not accede to your request.”
Having had access to this official response as penned in October 2016, and cognizant of an absence of any other documented evidence that counters this official response or any other verbal claimed accession, we have nothing else to rely on as it constituting the official response of a sitting minister as far back as two years ago on the subject matter.
I ask again why is this official response not engaged, given traction or debunked by those who claim to have the evidence to the contrary? It then goes without saying that Gigaba purely on the basis of this, his official response must be concerned that another agenda is at play with various role players for their own reasons and interests sharing that agenda. It simply cannot be that Gigaba’s failures, however, conflated and magnified as automatically translating to an uncritical victory for a singular private family and their commercial interests to demand unconstitutional action by sitting ministers to serve their interests. The politics of deflection has reached unknown proportions in our discourse.
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Press Release- 16 July 2015, Harare ZIMBABWEAN TECH ENTREPRENEURES LAUNCH AN SMS DRIVEN ONLINE FUNERAL COORDINATION STARTUP Zimbabwean Tech entrepreneurs launch a streamlined funeral coordination platform called funeral.ly. The platform leverages on SMS and whatsapp to notify and share funeral updates to their targeted audience. This came after the founder experienced logistical hardships and frustrations…
July 17, 2015 in African Business, African Innovations.
AMPION EN ROUTE POUR L’AFRIQUE FRANCOPHONE
Originally posted on ampion:
Les marchés mobiles connaissant la croissance la plus rapide au monde sont en Afrique, c’est pourquoi AMPION a mis en place un projet passionnant destiné à toutes les personnes désirant travailler dans les domaines de l’innovation fin-tech, banques modernes et women empowerment. Le programme de l’AMPION Venture Bus est le suivant :…
July 9, 2015 in Uncategorized.
SwahiliBox Big Data and IoT Bootcamp in Mombasa, Kenya
SwahiliBox in conjunction with Open Knowledge, DAA Stem Academy and its partners will be hosting the Open Data IoT Bootcamp, to demonstrate the marriage between things, especially the Internet of Things. After 4 days of intense coding the team in Kenya came up with 2 projects on Arduino and Pi that can be used to…
June 12, 2015 in African Innovations.
Zimbabwe: The Case for Business Incubators and Innovation Hubs
By Kudzai Mubaiwa. Economic development is something every nation desires, for overall economic prosperity should result in the general well-being of its people. Business incubators and innovation hubs are a very practical tool for bringing the best ideas to life and to a point of scale and commercialisation. The world’s leading institution on advancing business…
June 8, 2015 in African Business.
25th AU Summit – South Africa (7-15 June 2015)
The theme of the Summit is: “Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063” Specific dates for the meetings of the different AU organs and decision-making bodies during the Summit will be as follows: Sunday 7 and Monday 8 June 2015: Thirtieth (30th) Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) Venue: O.R.…
June 7, 2015 in African Politics.
Supporting Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
The incike Initiative supports a portion of the population that was greatly affected by the Genocide against the Tutsis in 1994. It is an initiative by the Young ICT entrepreneurs association under kLab and the ICT Chamber. Its mission is to use technology to support elderly survivors above the age of 70, whose family members were decimated.…
June 2, 2015 in African Campaigns.
Applications are open for 5 Venture Bus tours in Africa
At 50th African Development Bank Annual Meetings: Ampion Venture Bus announces to build 40 new African startups African Development Bank Annual Meeting unveils 5 new Venture Bus Routes 5 buses, 14 African countries, 200 participants, 40 new startups Applications now open for coders, business developers, designers and experts from various industries world-wide Abidjan/Berlin, May 29th…
May 31, 2015 in African Business, African Innovations.
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Creswell: Lebanon & Syria
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. Through its efforts, the Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies across the world in which Muslims have a significant presence. Within this collection you can browse Award recipients by cycle and by site, organized alphabetically by country.
You will also find collections of publications related to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, including Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World, volumes derived from international seminars addressing issues and themes that emerge during the course of the Award cycle, and AKAA Cyclical Monographs and Seminar Proceedings.
Jāmiʻ al-Bāb al-Kabīr
Al Bab, Syria
Bab Qadi 'Askar
Qala al-Mu'azzam
Saida, Lebanon
Qala' Saida al-Bahriya
City Walls of Aleppo
Aleppo, Syria
Bab Antakiyya
Bab Qinnasrin
Bab al-Hadid
Bab al-Maqam
Bimaristan Nur al-Din (Aleppo)
Bimaristan Arghun al-Kamili
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Penn State » Ag Sciences » Animal Science » Directory » Joy Pate
Joy Pate
C. Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Professor of Reproductive Physiology
320 Forest Resources Lab
Email: jlp36@psu.edu
Reproductive Immunology
Ovarian Function
Center for Reproductive Biology and Health
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1983
B.S., University of Delaware, 1979 (magna cum laude)
Assistant Professor, Department of Dairy Science, The Ohio State University
Associate Professor, Department of Dairy Science, The Ohio State University
Professor, Department of Animal Sciences (dept. merger), The Ohio State University
Associate Chair, Dept. Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University
The Pennsylvania State University:
Professor, Department of Dairy and Animal Science
C.Lee Rumberger and Family Chair in Agricultural Sciences
Director Center for Reproductive Biology and Health
The overall goal of my research program is to improve reproductive efficiency of domestic animals. The main focus of the research is to understand the cellular mechanisms that regulate the lifespan of the corpus luteum (CL), which is the ovarian structure responsible for progesterone production and the maintenance of pregnancy. Work from this laboratory has provided insight into cholesterol metabolism for steroidogenesis, the roles of endogenous prostaglandin production in luteal function, and the mechanisms by which exogenous prostaglandin results in the demise of the CL.
There are currently two major research emphases in my laboratory. The first is to understand the interactions that occur between luteal steroidogenic cells and luteal-resident immune cells. Studies on expression of class II MHC molecules in the CL, activation of T lymphocytes by luteal steroidogenic cells, and functional programming of luteal-resident immune cells have helped to define the importance of cell-cell communication in tissue homeostasis and regulation of luteal lifespan. A more recent focus is the potential role of microRNA in regulation of differentiation and rescue of the corpus luteum during early pregnancy. Using deep sequencing technology, we have profiled microRNA and mRNA in the CL of cyclic and early pregnant cows, in an effort to discover the intracellular pathways that are regulated by microRNA to facilitate rescue of the CL during early pregnancy.
Current Teaching
ANSC 515 Advanced Reproductive Physiology
ANSC 502 Scientific Scholarship
Australia Study Abroad Experience, including ANSC 399A: Animal Production Systems in the Diverse Environments of Australia, ANSC 499D: Welfare of Agricultural and Recreational Animals, ANSC 399B: History, Culture and Economies of Australia, and ANSC 497A: Special Topics: Design an Economically Profitable, Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Animal Production Operation in Australia
Fairchild, D.L. and Pate, J.L. 1989. Interferon‑g induction of major histocompatibility complex antigens on cultured bovine luteal cells. Biol. Reprod. 40:453‑457.
Benyo, D.F., Haibel, G.K., Laufman, H.B. and Pate, J.L. 1991. Expression of major histocompatibility complex antigens on the bovine corpus luteum during the estrous cycle, luteolysis, and early pregnancy. Biol. Reprod. 45:229‑234.
Benyo, D.F. and Pate, J.L. 1992. Tumor necrosis factor‑a alters bovine luteal cell synthetic capacity and viability. Endocrinology 130:854‑860.
Townson, D.H. and Pate, J.L. 1996. Mechanisms of action of TNF‑a‑stimulated prostaglandin production in cultured bovine luteal cells. Prostaglandins 52:361-373.
Petroff, M.G. Coggeshall, K.M., Jones, L.S., and Pate, J.L. 1997. Bovine luteal cells elicit major histocompatibility complex class II-dependent T cell proliferation. Biol. Reprod. 57:887-893.
Bove, S.E., Petroff, M.G., Nishibori, M., and Pate, J.L. 2000. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor in the bovine corpus luteum: Characterization of steady-state messenger ribonucleic acid and immunohistochemical localization. Biol. Reprod. 62:879-885.
Pate, J.L. and Keyes, P.K. 2001. Immune Cells in the Corpus Luteum: Friends or Foes? Reproduction 122:665-676.
Cannon, M.J., Petroff, M.G. and Pate, J.L. 2003. Effects of prostaglandin F2a and progesterone on the ability of luteal cells to stimulate T lymphocyte proliferation. Biol. Reprod. 69:695-700.
Cannon, M.J. and Pate, J.L. 2006. Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Participates in the Interferon-g-Induced Cell Death Process in Cultured Bovine Luteal Cells. Biol. Reprod.74:552-559
Davis, TL and Pate, JL. 2007. Proliferation of major histocompatibility nonrestricted gamma delta T cells is stimulated by bovine luteal cells. Biol. Reprod. 77:914-922
Ndiaye, K, Poole, DH and Pate, JL. 2008. Expression and regulation of functional oxytocin receptors in bovine T lymphocytes. Biol. Reprod. 78:786-793
Poole, DH and Pate, JL. 2012. Luteal microenvironment directs resident T lymphocyte function. Biol Reprod. 86:1-10.
Ndiaye, K, Poole, DH, Walusimbi, S, Cannon, MJ, Toyokawa, K, Maalouf, SW, Dong, J, Thomas P, Pate, JL. 2012. Progesterone effects on lymphocytes may be mediated by membrane progesterone receptors. J. Reprod. Immunol. 95:15-26.
Pate, JL, Johnson-Larson, CJ, Ottobre, J.S. 2012. Life or death decisions in the corpus luteum. Reprod. Dom. Anim. 47 (Suppl. 4), 297-303.
Walusimbi, SS, Pate, JL. 2013. The role of immune cells in the corpus luteum. J. Anim. Sci. 91:1650-1659.
Walusimbi SS, Pate JL. 2014. Luteal cells from functional and regressing corpora lutea differentially alter the function of gamma-delta T cells. Biol. Reprod. 90(6):140, 1-10.
Maalouf SW, Liu W-S, Albert I, Pate JL. 2014. Regulating life or death: Potential role of microRNA in rescue of the corpus luteum. Mol Cell Endocrinol 398:78-88.
Morrow M, Ottobre J, Ottobre A, Neville P, St-Pierre N, Dreschel N, Pate JL. 2015. Breed-dependent differences in the onset of fear-related avoidance behavior in puppies. J. Vet. Behavior http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jveb.2015.03.002
Maalouf SW, Liu W-S, Pate JL. 2016. MicroRNA in ovarian function. Cell Tissue Res. 363:7-18.
Maalouf SW, Smith CL, Pate JL. 2016. Changes in microRNA expression during maturation of the bovine corpus luteum: Regulation of luteal cell proliferation and function by microRNA-34a. Biol Reprod. 94(3):71, 1-14.
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Bear for Punishment
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Ma and Junior entertain Paw with a Father's Day song in this hand-painted limited edition cel signed by Chuck Jones
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Hand-painted limited editions recreate classic moments from great cartoons, using the same materials and techniques as were used in making the originals. Some limited editions are exact reproductions of frames from the films they represent, while others, such as Chuck Jones’ limited editions, are based on contemporary interpretations of great characters and scenes.
In either case, the animator’s drawing is transferred onto acetate cels, then each is meticulously hand-painted by studio artists. Each piece is hand-numbered in small edition sizes of between 100 and 750. In some cases the finished cels are then signed by the animator.
As the great majority of original cels from the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s are no longer in existence, limited edition cels allow collectors an unparalleled opportunity to enjoy some of the greatest moments in the history of animation.
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Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films
W. Ngwa, R. Wannemacher, W. Grill, Tribikram Kundu
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Scanning acoustic microscopy with vector contrast (PSAM) at 1.2 GHz is employed for three-dimensional real-space measurements of structure in PS/PMMA (polystyrene/ poly(methyl methacrylate)) blend films, spun-cast on glass and silicon substrates. Processing of the digitized phase and amplitude images yields information on the surface structure and internal structure of the blend films. The complex V(z) functions render qualitative and quantitative material contrast for each image pixel and, hence, permit the characterization of individual domains. It is shown that PSAM can provide valuable insights regarding the polymer blend film morphology and micro-mechanical properties, not acquirable by other ways.
https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00633-9
acoustic imaging
polymer blends
polymethyl methacrylate
Ngwa, W., Wannemacher, R., Grill, W., & Kundu, T. (2003). Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films. EPL, 64(6), 830-836. https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00633-9
Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films. / Ngwa, W.; Wannemacher, R.; Grill, W.; Kundu, Tribikram.
In: EPL, Vol. 64, No. 6, 12.2003, p. 830-836.
Ngwa, W, Wannemacher, R, Grill, W & Kundu, T 2003, 'Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films', EPL, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 830-836. https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00633-9
Ngwa W, Wannemacher R, Grill W, Kundu T. Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films. EPL. 2003 Dec;64(6):830-836. https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00633-9
Ngwa, W. ; Wannemacher, R. ; Grill, W. ; Kundu, Tribikram. / Phase-sensitive acoustic imaging and micro-metrology of polymer blend thin films. In: EPL. 2003 ; Vol. 64, No. 6. pp. 830-836.
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Arqa Comunidad | Waterfront art gallery
Waterfront art gallery
Lacime Architects
The Waterfront Art Gallery in Nanchang City, China functions as both a landmark and an intimate boundary between city and nature. It combines massive volumes,pristine landscape design and one indisputable wow factor: a floating, semi-circular bridge that connects two levels. Relying on the typology concept,the ring bridge with a sense of sculpture is embedded into the design concept,which serves both as a connector for the main building and as a response to the undercrossing tunnel in the site adjacent street.
The project is located on the west bank of Xianghu Lake, Nanchang City. The large-scale block form of the new town is markedly different from the “natural” structure of the old town. Fuhe River that flows south from the “Tengwangge Delta” tries to preserve the landscape characteristics of this city, and turns the bridge into a major element in the urban design. The project intends to obtain evidence from the morphological memory of this contemporary city, and remains in the frontier of the cultural landscape.
The Wanshou Palace and Wanshou Tower are located on the south and north bank of Xianghu Lake respectively, and thereby acquire a vastness in terms of perception. The original idea of the project was to elevate the terrain, preserve the urban green space, and erect up a new building to fill the gap in the landmark nodes resulted from the along-the-lake planning.
Relying on the typology concept, the ring bridge with a sense of sculpture is embedded into the design concept, which serves both as a connector for the main building and as a response to the undercrossing tunnel in the adjacent Jiuzhou Street.
The rectangular gallery is grafted onto the two courtyards in terms of its volume, and the reception hall, exhibition hall, and lounge are horizontally arranged. The lower courtyard opens to the north, and guides the spectators toward the entrance through the arc-shaped wall formed by the enclosed ring bridge. The office area is vertically arranged in the two courtyards, which are open to the external courtyard on the south side. Using it as a space frame, the opposite side of the ring bridge expands naturally to form the leading area of the foyer. The space accumulation on different scales, the replication of shapes on the plane and in the altitude bring a dynamic, yet restrained and unique perception for the two buildings.
The structural design of this project is not only to solve and realize the bearing function, but to reveal the formal logic behind it. The final one-sided suspending box girder that we finally adopt solves the critical problem in the design: how flexible and autonomous parts are integrated to form a whole that generates cohesion.
Wander through the urban green space and get to the commemorative entrance to the courtyard. On the left is the glass foyer, through which, one can enter straightly into the resting area under the 21M structure span, or step onto the ring bridge on the right. The starting points of two streamlines are also the ending points. The focus is the use of the empty space as a critical concept of design, creating a public space for small buildings.
What we want to create is such a quiet and powerful public space. The tangible ring structure creates an invisible multi-dimensional streamline, and the sculptured ring structure presents an impression of progressive landscapes.
The wall plays a very important role in the building, and the bearing courtyard wall highlights all the more the horizontal arrangement structure for the final form of the building. 19,000 25-degree gray floor slabs are hung on the volume that has an affinity with the ground to create the simplest details.
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Category: art gallery
Location: The intersection of zhenjun road and yunjin road, xihu district, nanchang city
Client: Nanchang Vanke
Architecture: Lacime Architects
Chief Architect: Songzhaoqing
Design Team: Zhaojinxing、Fangyichen、Lizhexiang
Landscape design: LANDAU Design
Interior design: LSDCASA
Photography: XingzhiArchitecture
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Tagged: Adolf Hitler
Mother of All Urban Legends Series Will Be Updated Weekly
Copyright 2011-3011 By Photonic Portal, All Rights Reserved.
Note from the author of this blog:
There’s growing photographic and other evidence that stories of Nazis escaping to Antarctica after world war II may be more than urban legend. I was being seriously “messed with” remotely at one point while trying to post research on the story. About 1/3 of my material is now up on the pages below. I’ll keep updating the pages as I gather more evidence.
Part 1 http://photonicportal.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/nazi-ufos-aldebaran/
Part 2 http://photonicportal.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/nazi-paleo-futurism/
Part 3: http://photonicportal.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/mother-of-all-urban-legends-videos/
Earlier I wrote:
2.15.2011 Note from the author of this blog:
This post is being censored, which means some part of my speculative ramblings which I clearly stated as being nothing more than “urban legends” about Nazis re-settling in Antarctica after World War II must be at least partially true.
The difficulty I experienced in trying to post even the text alone, is an experience I have not had in 18 years of internet use. I could only describe the experience as “wrestling for control of my own laptop”. Lucky for me I own dozens of computers, all sorts of operating systems and dozens of friends and neighbors whose internet connections I can use at any time.
So sooner or later, in the next few days you will see the images, and art go up which should be accompanying this post.
Here’s the strange new message below, which began appearing in my WP post window each time I posted the text of the essay along with it’s photos. I posted the finished piece 10 times, and 10 times it disappeared. This is not Nazi Germany, this is America and if I have to publish an old fashioned newspaper to keep my freedom of speech I will. To whomever is monitoring my posts and removing them, you can be guaranteed you just insured I will now make sure I continue to investigate the story, I encourage others to do the same, and publish the information on hundreds of portals under thousands of names.
Congratulations, NSA surveillance goons at Microsoft, you just multiplied my news outlets exponentially. By the way your “task window” shows clearly each time I boot or shut down this machine. Peekaboo.
Photonic Portal author
I am going to try again later:
To understand how this report and image gallery came to be, please read Part One:
http://photonicportal.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/nazi-ufos-aldebaran/
In Part One [ “The Mother of All WWII Era Legends: Nazi UFO Flying Saucer Technology Acquired From An Off-World Advanced Civilization” ] I examined several significant and persisting urban myths regarding the Nazi Third Reich‘s strange occult and mystical origins, and speculated about several odd coincidental facts surrounding the end of World War II and the fate of the missing fortunes of the Nazi plunder. The fourth item under fascinating facts is where we resume:
Nazi Paleo Futurism 1951
You might enjoy peeking at the larger version of this fascinating Nazi era futurist brochure page:
The Nazis invisioned an underground transportation system. Their vision of this underground train was called a “Flying Torpedo:”
If I were to make a wild truth researcher’s flying leap and connect the dots between the present known labyrinth of underground tunnels, cities, facilities and networked magnetic-rail systems that exist beneath the USA, which have now been fully documented by truth researchers since the early 1990s, and taking into account the now public admission by the federal government that yes, “Operation Paperclip” was quite real, and that dozens of Nazi scientists and high technology gurus were secreted away in Los Alamos New Mexico after World War II, then I might assume these same Nazi scientists also contributed their advanced skills and knowledge in the construction of these same underground facilities. It would only stand to reason that if such a thing couldoccur, then it possibly did occur.
Taking the next flying leap might infer, using plain mathematical logic, that if the Nazis could envision and construct vast underground tunnels, rail systems, and cities beneath the southwestern USA, then might they have also been able to conquer the bone shattering cold of Antarctica and perform the same feat? There is a persistent vein of truth research which maintains that this is what happened after World War II. The mythology is told thusly:
Using high technology procured via mystical “new age channeling” [Eckhart Tolle uses the same technique to write some of his books ] by the Bavarian trance channel and medium Maria Orsic [ aka Maria Ortisch aka Maria Orscitsch…I have located at least 5 spellings of her last name, the common one being Orsic] The Vril and Thule Societies acquired information from an “off-world” source, an advanced civilization in the Aldebaran star system, which claimed to have visited earth in deep antiquity and founded the Sumerian race.
These writings were in an unknown “Germanic” or “Aryan” language, yet they were somehow deciphered by the Vril women mystics, (known as the Vril Chefrin, or bosses) who also accessed via telepathy literal blueprints and plans for circular supersonic flying craft, which were powered using alleged “Vril” energy technology. [Google “the black sun” for more information on the myth of Vril technology.]
[ Does this remind you at all of the rough sketch which later became the screenplay for the late 1990s motion picture “CONTACT” starring Jodie Foster?]
Cited:
“Secret flying discs of the Third Reich “
ANDROMEDA-GERAT
(ANDROMEDA DEVICE)
The ultimate dream and driving purpose of the Vril Gesellschaft originated by psychic mediums Maria Orsic, Sigrun, and Traube (known as the Vril Chefrin, or bosses) was to achieve space flight by any means possible to reach the Aldebaran system in the Taurus Constellation– 68 light years from earth.
To accomplish this required two things; first, to translate a series of psychic images of a flight machine received by Maria Orsic since 1919 and secondly, to collaborate with other occult groups that could finance such an endeavor once the images were deciphered.
For Vril, a Society formed by women based on metaphysics, the thought and act of joining with other powerful male occult groups was almost unthinkable. Yet in 1919 Vril met with Thule and DHvSS members in an effort to obtain funding for their vision.
Thule had the most influence and financial resources to fund such a project so an agreement was reached to join Societies in an effort to build the strange machine which became known as the “Jenseitsflugmaschine”, or “Otherworld flight machine.
Under the code letters J-F-M the machine was constructed in secret in Munich. It was constructed in 1922 in a barn and rolled out into a field for channeled flight testing. Despite two years at attempting to achieve channeled flight through high powered frequency field oscillations produced by strong electromagnetic forces within the craft, the occultists could not open what they termed a “white hole” in space/time and pass through, reaching the Aldebaran system and the Sumeran aliens that had contacted them.
Professor W.O. Schumann led the JFM project but decided to scrap all research in 1924. The JFM was hurriedly dismantled and sent to Augsburg for storage at Messerscmitt’s facility, where it was either destroyed or later moved up to Peenemunde and reassembled for further study. No one can confirm either.
Yet not all the research was in vain. Professor Schumann managed to develop a levitator unit from it along with practical experience with generating increasingly intensified electromagnetic fields.
Nine years later in 1933, Adolf Hitler ( a Thule member himself and occultist) became chancellor in Germany. This gave both the Thule and Vril Gesellschafts a second chance to further develop their craft with a state approved RFZ (RundFlugZueug, or Round Aircraft) program also led by Professor Schumann.
The program started in 1934 and produced seven models. As each craft progressed Himmler’s SS became involved with the development program by 1935. With RFZ-5 in 1939 the SS had used the RFZ experimentation (along with Hans Colers adapted gravitic battery and the applied ideas of Tesla) to come up with a revolutionary new engine pioneered by Thule- the Thule Triebwerk (also known as a Tachyonator-7). Vril also perfected the SM-Levitator and invented their own Triebwerk (Thrustwork) in 1941 with the RFZ-7.
This brought about the abandonment of the RFZ series and introduced the Haunebu and Vril series of craft.
RFZ-5 was re-designated Haunebu I in 1939 and RFZ-7 was re-designated Vril 1 Jager (Hunter) in 1941. Both Societies them came under control of the SS E-IV (Entwicklungsstelle 4) Unit in 1941 under Hitler‘s order that all secret societies be banned. This unit was the technical branch of the SS which would be tasked with developing alternative energies. Not only did this include alternative power through synthetic fuels but also with generating power fields that could be used in war. Thus, the occult discs were seen as a potentially rewarding war weapon.
Of course Thule and Vril went along with the SS despite their intention of only producing a Raumschiff (Spaceship). Like Von Braun, who also envisioned powered space flight with the A-series rockets, the Societies kept pioneering their own craft with full knowledge that any of the discs might be made into a war weapon at any time.
Fortunately, both types of discs were incredibly complex and difficult to control in flight. A special celestial navigation system built by both Siemens and AEG had to be developed to fly the machines which at first could only make turns of 22.5, 45, and 90 degrees. Control was only possible through Magnetic Field Shifting using Impulsers that transferred power to different parts of the electromagnetic rings rapidly, forcing very violent rotating electromagnetic fields inside the craft to move accordingly, changing instant direction of the craft. Maximum velocities in these craft proved to be a problem as well and required special SS metallurgists (some called them modern Alchemists) to create a heat-resistant armor called Victalen that could withstand speeds of well over 7,000 km/hr!
With both the Haunebu and Vril craft reaching their full potential by 1943/1944 it was decided that Vril would once again attempt to build a functioning Raumschiff; but this time, it would be built by the SS E-IV Unit with all the resources of the SS state-within-a-state, including slave labor and safe facilities.
The Raumschiff was to be called the Andromeda-Gerat (Andromeda Device). Work on two of these massive 139 meter long and 30 meter diameter “flying cigars” probably began with great effort in early 1943 in above ground heavily camouflaged shelters similar to that of the old Zeppelin hangars. These craft were designed to hold both a Haunebu II or IV disc in one large bay with two other smaller Vril 1 or 2 discs in a secondary bay- both accessed from the side of each craft. Each craft was to be crewed by 130 and were to be armored with a quadruple layered Victalen hull.
The propulsion systems located at both the fore and aft sections of the Andromedas would be beyond the last Haunebu-type Thule Tachyonator 7c drive. These craft were to have four massive power units, two at the front and two at the rear with four additional large SM-Levitator units located in pairs on the top and bottom of each craft which sat on a series of large underbody skids to support the massive weight. It is generally assumed that those engines were of the same EMG (Electro-Magnetic-Gravitic) type but other Allied Intelligence officers believe that they might have been photonic based on witness accounts of one large craft flying with a massive bright light source emitted from the rear. Although designed as an armed vessel with provision for five turrets armed with powerful KSK (KraftStrahlKanone, or Strong Jet Cannon) it is doubtful that any armament actually made it onto either of the two prototypes under construction.
When the US Army came upon one of the uncompleted machines in 1945 the craft was first mistaken as some sort of radio tower due to the strange antennas protruding from the craft. The immense size of the uncompleted machine didn’t reveal its purpose until someone actually climbed up on top of it and immediately spotted a cockpit with very thick glass that was shattered. The semi-completed craft painted gray with no markings was heavily damaged as the Germans retreated, taking with them all of the prototype’s sensitive navigation equipment and the strange propulsion system. This caused damage to the craft except for the two open exposed bays- which were empty of any Haunebu or Vril discs.
Photos seem to indicate that the other prototype, or one similar to it, was completed and flew sometime in 1945. The exotic craft was designed for a speed of 300,000 km/hr! If one did escape, that one most likely had the Vril Chefrin aboard and achieved channeled flight. Their final destination? The Aldebaran system.
Strangely enough, before departure Vril drew sketches of their anticipated rendezvous with the Sumeran Fleet once channeled flight had been achieved. Yet ominously they also set a projected date of return in our lifetime- either in 1992/1993 or 2004/2005. This coincides with Hitler’s last testament that stated that “his spirit would rise again in the last days”. Very ominous indeed…
Picking up the thread of this mythology, right before the end of World War II a series of secret meetings were held known as the “Red House Meetings” and in those meetings the Nazis refined contingency plans for the salvaging of the Nazi Paleo-Future dream in a new location: Neuschwabenland, Antarctica. If we are believe the banking history of the Reichsbank and the vast sum of gold that it plundered from other banks, nations’ vaults, and from wealthy Jewish families during the war, then the plunder which utterly disappeared after the war could theoretically have been used to finance their Antarctica escape plans. The 200 missing U-boats which were not in their cement hangars when the Allies arrived were the latest models which could remain submerged during the duration of a trans-Atlantic flight. Also missing and never found were between 2,000 and 6,000 German technicians, scientists and researchers.
As I write this I am completely aware, keenly so, of how ludicrous it all sounds. I am a retired commercial artist and illustrator,and when I began researching this legend one of the first things that struck me was the sheer number and detail of the 1940s era photographs and color illustrations of these Nazi circular Vril and Haunebu craft, parked in front of hangars, with military men standing around, army jeeps parked close by, which helps provide scal and We all well know that Photoshop did not exist in the 1940s. I can’t find any evidence of photographic tampering in the old photos, and the illustrations are very “finished”, which is to say detailed, replete, signed by the artist as well.
This infers they were commissioned artistic works. Commissioned visual works usually have a purpose or a multitude of purposes, and if these works of art were commissioned only to dazzle the German military youth and general public with the “vision” of the Nazi Third Reich’s dreams for the future, aka for political propaganda uses, then they were certainly bearing visual gravitas, stunning to see.
I would assume that some of these 1940s era German visual artifactswould constitute the very first illustrations of any sort of circular flying craft in the western world, many of them having been published in the late 1930s and early 1940s, 6 to 8 years before Kenneth Arnold’s famous sighting of what he termed were boomerang shaped “flying saucers” over Mount Rainier in 1947.
The war had been over for 2 years by then. The photos and illustrations shown below predate Kenneth’s sighting and descriptions and came into existence via Nazi wealth and their national socialist propaganda machine in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as far as I can tell. I deem the artifacts the product of human imagination, and that is not unusual. What’s unusual is what I am finding that occurs along with these posted visual artifacts. There is a multitudinous expansion into other occult and philosophical threads that accompanies each discovery.
The research territory is not much short of horrific in some cases, especially the material which delves into the occult practices of the members of the “Brotherhood of the Snake” and the “Black Sun Society”. Just about every Nazi inspired visual artifact has a reptilian root and reasoning. The SS logotype, their insignia, their marching parade emblems, signets, posters, their medallions, military patches and pins, their swastika usage, all of it directly connects the prehistoric El-Annunaki Reptilian overlord alien race of prehistory, just exactly the same way that all modern Illuminati symbolism traces to that same source. One might take the next truth researcher’s intuitive flying leap and connect those dots as well. The 1940s era of the Nazi Third Reich was an earlier incarnation of the modern post war UN global governance dream of the modern one world government of the “new world order.”
It does not take a German rocket scientist to arrive at that conclusion.
If these color illustrations displayed below all follow the Nazi Paleo-Futurist 1940s era dreams and plans, and only represent their sci-fi visionary art, then how do we explain the accompanying collected visual artifacts below?
The sheer number of visuals and videos pertaining to this subject is what has arrested my attention, more than anything thus far.
Nazi Paleo-Future 1940s Visionary Art, Visual Artifacts of the Vril Era, Visual Artifacts from the Nazi Antarctic Myths and Legends:
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The Mother of All WWII Era Legends: Nazi UFO Flying Saucer Technology Acquired From An Off-World Advanced Civilization
Nazi Third Reich Propaganda Poster
Copyright 2.11.11 By Photonic Portal, All Rights Reserved. Updated weekly with new discoveries.
Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
I am presently investigating the German and Austrian mysticism and spiritual legends which gave rise to the Vril and Thule Societies, along with the much older “Society of the Black Sun.”
I need to state for the record that I am NOT interested in becoming a Nazi, and I have absolutely no racist leanings, but sometimes truth research takes one into some nether regions, that of necessity, must be examined. For reasons I’m not exactly certain of myself, I have to figure something out about what really happened in the era of World War II, and I may or may not publish all that I learn.
I feel the world is ready for some knowledge, and very much NOT ready for other knowledge. There are millions of vulnerable young people around the world today who would be just as fascinated with the “dark side of the force” represented by Vril energies and the worship of the “Black Sun” as there were during the heyday of the Nazi SS movement. Cunning propaganda can sway the mind and deceive the soul. I am going to be looking at some of that propaganda from World War II in these collected notes.
I was born more than 10 years after the end of World War II. Growing up in the Vietnam war years, the older bigger war between nations was a distant memory that even my father did not speak of. The gruesome body count of total WWII casualties was a hard fact to learn: 50 to 70 million people died in the conflict, nearly as many as the entire population of Egypt, which in 2006 was estimated at 78 million people. That’s a sobering and heart breaking thought. It’s worth it to me to understand what kind of philosophies and motivations could inspire such a holocaust on a world scale. But I want to reiterate for readers, I am NOT a Nazi, a neo-Nazi, I do NOT belong to any sort of secret society such as the ones described in these notes, and my research is historical, not personal.
For those who have just arrived on this page from a search engine, I am a Christian truth researcher, a Cherokee shaman, a genetic clairvoyant and a Spirit Led citizen journalist who goes into the subject that the Heavenly Father places in front of me to examine.
This subject has been placed in front of me repeatedly in the past four years, and so it is time to examine it. I am publishing my discoveries and notes as I go.
This collection of images, documents, videos and links is not definitive, and remains as stated, speculation, notes, research and private rumination.
Fascinating Facts About The End of World War II
1) One researcher alleges as many as 200 to 800 U-boats are still “missing in action” from the end of the second world war. A historical website on U-boats places the “official” number of missing boats as 50.
2) On www.uboat.net on the “U- boats Myths” page there is an interesting account about U-boats being captured which were loaded with tons of the metal Mercury. That is quite fascinating, since the alleged Vril technology Nazi saucers needed a centrifuge filled with a large amount of Mercury to operate. Just one more interesting coincidence. Here’s the data:
U-boats loaded with Mercury
The story often surfaces that this or that U-boat had mercury ballast (as much as 200 tons). They upshot would be that using Mercury would enable the engineers to stabilize the boat in an instant.
Mercury is an extremely expensive metal and the cost to ball ast one U-boat would be more than to construct 5 new ones. It was thus never used to ballast any U-boat. However, at least three U-boats did in fact carry Mercury in place of at least part of its ballast, the U-234 that surrendered to the US in May, 1945 with a $5 million worth of Mercury in flasks. Another was the U-859 that had Mercury on board when it was sunk in 1944 near Penang. The metal was for Japan and was salvaged in the sixties, probably 32 tons. U-862 possibly had some Mercury in flasks too. The third was the U-864 recently discovered off Norway is also loaded with tons of mercury and of great concern to the Norwegian authorities who are working on raising or sealing the boat.
3) What happened to the vast wealth of the Third Reich after the collapse of the Nazi Regime at the end of the war? Some researchers have claimed that the largest bank heist in human history was the plunder of the loot of the Third Reich, which disappeared after World War II. Is this a fact? If you Google “largest bank heist in human history” you will get at least 5 or 6 competing escapades. Here’s what I learned about the plunder of wealth accumulated by the Third Reich:
The Greatest Unsolved Bank Robbery in Human History: What Happened to the Nazi Gold?
“The Greatest Unsolved Bank Robbery in History”
Cited from Nazigold.greyfalcon.us:
“Soon after the outbreak of the war the German national gold reserves, already substantially increased by the acquisition of Austrian gold holdings following the Anschluss, were significantly augmented by forcible acquisitions from abroad. The Nazi’s took $2,596,608 of gold from the gold reserves of the Czech National Bank and £32,200,000 from the National Bank of Hungary. They looted part of the gold reserves of Albania, Holland, the USSR and other countries overrun of the victorious Wehrmacht, and after the conquest of France they stole $225,900,000 worth of gold, comprising part of the Belgian national gold reserves, which was deposited in the Banque de France for safekeeping, by the Belgian government. The Belgian gold was taken to the Reichsbank in Berlin and resmelted. Each bar was stamped with the letters RB for Reichsbank, the German eagle, the retrospective date 1938, and its weight to three points of the decimal. One reason why the Germans grabbed the gold in conquered countries was to force conquered peoples to use only Reichsmarks as their currency. In this way, Germany controlled the economies of conquered nations, while making sure that conquered peoples bought mainly German goods and services. This is far more powerful that stationing garrisons in every conquered city, and is what gives your empire some real claws.
And the reason why Germany allowed Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland to remain neutral was that Germany used them as “middle men” – neutral countries served as exchange points. Rather than trade directly with hostile nations, Germany in WW II, traded with neutral nations, who in turn traded with hostile nations.
By trading with neutral countries, Germany made its currency and gold convertible on the world market. Germany’s barter agreements with South America and Southeast Asia only brought half of the raw materials that Germany needed. By trading with neutral countries, Germany was able to buy French trucks, Rumanian oil, Swedish steel, Swiss tools, Spanish leather goods, Portuguese food, Turkish tobacco, and so on. Without the ability to use gold to buy from the neutral countries, Nazi Germany could not have waged war beyond 1943 – such was the need for raw materials. This is why the Germans grabbed the gold.”
4) Was the Third Reich planning for a future world technology which would remain under their own control? Did they have a contingency plan for regrouping to try again if they lost the war? The entire modern mythology and historical “urban legend” of a south pole Nazi Third Reich “Neuschwabenland” replete with high technology flying Haunebu II aerial craft and secret underground cities located beneath the continent of Antarctica is hinged on these two queries. Let’s look at what others have already learned:
Nazi Paleo-Futurism 1941
The Nazis Planned a Fourth Reich in Secret Before the End of World War II
“Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America”
Corporate Fascism: The Third Reich [Video]
Two sources presently emerge as primary root origins for the mystical concepts of “Vril”:
1) A popular Victorian era “pulp fiction” novelette authored by British politician and writer Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton who wrote “The Power of the Coming Race“ in 1870, two years before he died:
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases “the great unwashed” ,[1] “pursuit of the almighty dollar“, “the pen is mightier than the sword“, and the famous opening line “It was a dark and stormy night“.[2]
2) Alleged “off-world” or extra-terrestrial origin channeled writings from Austrian mystic and trance medium Maria Orsic, which were presented to her peers in 1917.
As to what other original sources formed the nucleus for the establishment of several bizarre “new age” occult secret societies in the early 20th century I am not yet certain, but the original concoction andf use of the word “Vril” came from Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Lytton was a prolific and popular British author who also coined several other literary turns of phrase, which remain in common use to this day more than 100 years later.
I am investigating how these early 20th century secret societies may have also been inspired by Luciferian Helena P. Blavatsky.
However murky the origins of the sci-fi “Vril” concept may have been, by the late 1930s the entire world was seized up in a global conflagration over the world conquest ambitions of the Nazi Third Reich.
Considering the precarious state of our world today, the present events in Egypt, the current status of the Muslim Brotherhood, coupled with the radical Islamic dream of “global Jihad” against the west, and I feel the subject bears detailed examination. All of the same ingredients exist now, in early 2011, that existed in the late 1930s. It a recipe for a perfect karmic “Deja-Vu.”
The roots of the Nazi Third Reich is a decidedly murky subject, not exactly pleasant. The inference which reappears again and again as connections are traced back to ancient Sumer and the Babylonians, is that there have historically been warring factions between several competing sects in these ancient secret societies, which go all the way back to ancient Sumer and Babylon.
Their secret warfare for control of the resources and wealth of the earth have apparently wreaked havoc in the lives of humankind again and again down through the ages.I don’t necessarily buy any of it, but it keeps popping up in my other research repeatedly, so I am investigating.
I am still compiling videos and articles, and not nearly ready to write with any serious intent about this bizarre mythological subject. But I am sharing my raw research data as I find it.
I suggest the reader enter this topic wrapped in the cloak of the Holy Spirit and employ devout prayer, then conduct your own investigation, praying for the truth to be revealed. Jesus promised us that we would know the truth and that the truth would set us free. I live by this creed.
Modern entrenpreneur, wanna-be globalist and neo-Nazi nook Supriem David Rockefeller has emphatically stated again and again that these events did take place, that the Nazis escaped to Antarctica right before the end came, and that their Vril UFO technology is quite real. He further states that the Nazi Neuschwabenland Antarctic secret bases are real, are all intact and still operative. But consider this: Supriem D. Rockefeller has also publicly stated emphatically that he believes he is actually Lucifer incarnate, [reformed ] so you may conclude from that comment how credible his sanity and Nazi testimony is.
This first video clip below is feature length, lasting about 44 minutes. The “Nibiru” mention will come in at about 32 minutes into the show, and it’s worth hearing. Enjoy these collected videos as illustrated science fiction or fantasy. Until we all get more serious and credible evidence, this post WWII science fiction mythology will remain just that.
Photonic Portal 2.11.11
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US Military: 38 Levels Above Top Secret Part Two: Historical Backgrpound
Photonic Portal’s Research Notes: This page may ramble a bit. I’m up to my ears in new research on the roots of the Third Reich. If you enjoy raw material, with no particular theme in mind, dig in. This page will eventually be a “post proper” but for now it’s my notes and thoughts as I study.
I’m not ready to write a finished essay about the subject of “Vril” and it’s relationship to the deep roots early Nazi occult worship, the phrase and concept “new world order” and the rise of the Third Reich yet. But when I do, it looks to be a short novella in the making. If any part of the “Vril” story is correct, then an obscure Austrian mystic in her early twenties named Maria Orsic, aka Maria Ortisch [ and several other spellings ] is solely accountable and liable for lighting the occult fires that eventuated in the world wide holocaust of World War II.
How it could possibly be that no one yet has written a major book about the life and influence of this practically unknown European woman escapes me. Her new age purported extra-terrestrial “transmissions” were a recipe for planetary disaster disguised as a peace and free energy movement. These writings eventually resulted in a global firestorm that indicts the entire modern new age movement, which has continued to produce problematic channeled writings up into the present time.
If this story is true it also fully vindicates Christian truth researchers who warn that the deep roots of the modern new age movement are steeped in dangerous occult teachings which should have never been let loose on an nonspiritual, ungrounded and immature world such as ours, a world which could produce a man like Adolf Hitler. Giving Adolf Hitler access to such advanced energy concepts was akin to giving a arsonist a gallon of gas and a book of matches.
More Notes: Video Examples of Several Manifestations of Modern Vril Cults:
Images of Maria Orsic:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1164&bih=614&q=Neu+Schwabenland%2C+Antarctica&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
The Occult Origins of the Nazi Swastika: A Universal Symbol Debased for Evil Purposes
The Nazi swastika is not only ancient in origin, it is the symbol for the Black Sun. Is the “Black Sun” another name for Nibiru? The first video below shows a YT user who is fascinated with swastikas as a galactic symbol. The same image of the group of ancient swastikas which appeared in the MKbutterfly71 videos appears in his videos. His narration sounds like an attempt to hypnotize the viewer. Here’s the video, which I find quite disturbing:
Another bothersome discovery is the apparent survival and / or reappearance of modern Vril emulation and worship cults. I am finding in several instances what looks to be modern day “Vril” worship cults online, at least that’s what they look like to me. These cults are going to be ready-made to worship a cult figure like “Maitreya” when he emerges. I am looking for all the cults that are already headed down “Apostasy lane” which he will gather in to himself and the “Vril cult”, along with the new age movement and Scientology, are lining up right in his field of vision. It’s a horrible thing to have the insight and precognitive vision that allows me to actually see the Apostasy as it forms, like a field scientist might watch a virus growing in a petri dish. I see little I can do to stop what is coming. But I must, for spiritual reasons continue to “bear witness” to it.
The videos on this YT channel are not for the faint of heart, not for those who have no mastery over their own subconscious and may be easily hypnotically induced or “programmed” by mentally suggestive visuals:
See http://www.youtube.com/user/shaunxthexmod777#g/u
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Jared Lee Loughner Guns Down Nineteen, Kills Six, at Tuscon Arizona Political Event
Copyright 2011-3011 By Chase Kyla Hunter Updated.01.15.2011
US DNC Congressional representative Gabrielle Gifford was shot through the head yesterday while giving a speech at a local political event at a Safeway grocery store in Tuscon Arizona. The 22 year old shooter’s name is Jared Lee Loughner. Loughner knew who Gifford was, and had questioned her 3 years ago at a press conference and did not like her reply. Had he been stalking her all this time in secret? How old was his vendetta toward Gifford?
Although this event took place yesterday on January 8th 2011, I am just now bringing myself to try to post about it today. I am sick unto death of reading news about mentally ill wing nuts of every age, religion, ethnicity and justification, who “go off ” with guns blazing, and begin killing people at random; all because they have some undiagnosed bi-polar or schizophrenic disorder, and their family, school, church, relatives, close friends and local community all have failed to notice the terrible glaring warning signals in time to avert disaster. Apparently, in a moment of pure schizophrenic glee right before the shooting, Loughner donned a red G-String and posed for the camera with the Glock held close to his privates, then sent the film off to Walgreen’s to be processed without thinking twice about it. That’s a snapshot of the actual mental condition this man was in right before he shot Gabrielle Gifford: in a word, “very far gone”.
This is not a new story, only the most recent installment of “America’s mentally ill” gone over the cliff en masse, harming, maiming and killing their own friends and neighbors. I’m sick of reading about it, sick and tired of writing about it, and if I had to cover every” mentally ill shooting and killing event” as it occurs this blog would be one long recitation of all the people America’s mentally ill citizens had murdered in the last twenty years.
It has been roughly twenty years since a general lack of love, care, concern and lack of state or federal funding has resulted in dozens of mental hospitals closing in numerous states, and literally hundreds and hundreds of mentally ill youth, adults and seniors being dumped onto the streets and byways of America, left to wander in homeless camps, push grocery carts down the streets of “any city USA”, where you will always find at least 2, 3, 20 or even 200 or more of these people living on the dark and ragged edges of American small town life. They often die at the hands of one another. They frequently snap like Jared did and shoot and kill their neighbors. Jared was a mentally disturbed loner, and a ticking time bomb. No one paid enough attention to the warning signs, and he exploded yesterday, taking six lives and leaving Gabrielle Gifford fighting for her mind, life and future in an ICU ward.
There is nothing yet known about Jared’s story which is any more noteworthy than the fact that currently our most significant gross national product in 2011 seems to be increasing numbers of mentally deranged young white men, whom no one can identify or control in time to stop them from killing sprees that cripple the heart of the nation in agony and grief.
While the politically sick and deranged USA big media outlets shamelessly use this sad and tragic event as the freshest new excuse to attack the Tea Party and Sarah Palin, stopping so low that I most likely will never turn on a TV set again, stunned American patriots on FB and Twitter are turning to one another and trying to console a country already staggering under the weight of so many heart breaking events that one wonders how much more we can all take. Sarah Palin released a statement today on the shooting, and it had been re-tweeted 18,990 times in just a few hours. That says more about how much this country loves Sarah Palin than all the wicked left wing TV pundits put together. I sometimes believe they hate her just because she is so beloved by so many in this country who see her as a ray of hope in a rotten and completely rancid, corrupted political world.
For the pathetic liberal left wing “blamers” and media pundits who have all tried to pin this man’s actions on the influence of the Tea Party or even Sarah Palin herself [ who sadly seems to be emerging as the pre-selected target of choice by the White House controlled left wing media as a”national scapegoat” anytime anything happens at all, whether it’s her daughter’s brief career on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or the wild loose cannon Loughner who killed at random yesterday ] I would point out that Loughner was about as far left wing anarchist communist pro-Hitler socialist as you can get. So the left wing anarchist shoots down the liberal Arizona democrat that voted for Obamacare. Does that make any political sense to anyone at all? there’s more to discover here. We are not in possession of enough information to really understand Loughner or his motive, which could have been something as simple as a need for attention acted out in the darkest of manners. It has happened before.
“The Daily Caller reported that he listed The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf as two of his favorite books on YouTube.”
So we now know the killer loved communism and he loved Adolf Hitler. What does that really tell us? Not much. There are also some indications that Loughner may have had connections to an anti-Semitic hate group. Gifford was Jewish. Other warning signs about the stability or lack thereof of Jared Loughner were all there. At Pima County Community College after high school he unnerved classmates and his teachers with non-sensical outbursts:
“After high school, Loughner attended Pima Community College in Arizona. School officials asked him to leave the school after a “disturbing” video post on the internet, and said he could only return after he had been seen by a mental health professional. One of his college classmates described to The Guardian as an “obviously very disturbed” student who “disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts.”
“I always felt, you know, somewhat paranoid,” Ben McGahee, who taught Loughner elementary algebra at Pima Community College last summer, said to The Washington Post. “When I turned my back to write on the board, I would always turn back quickly–to see if he had a gun.”
Jared Loughner Frightened Motel 6 Clerk the Night Before the Shooting
Politicians React to the Gifford Shooting
Jared Loughner Flag Burning Video – Note the Violent Music Track
FBI Now Involved in the Arizona Gifford Assassination Attempt by Loughner
Congressional Intern Daniel Hernandez Called Out as a Hero in Arizona Shooting
Is Jared Loughner an Anti-Semite and a White Supremacist?
Jared Lee Loughner: army reject with a troubled past (guardian.co.uk)
Jared Loughner: Details On Arizona Shooting Suspect Slowly Emerge (huffingtonpost.com)
Police Searching For Person Of Interest in Tuscon Shooting (towleroad.com)
Jared Lee Loughner: erratic, disturbed and prone to rightwing rants (guardian.co.uk)
Suspect in Tucson Shooting Has History of Death Threats, “Nonsensical Outbursts” (reason.com)
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New Details RevealGunman’s Sordid Past (foxnews.com)
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China-built Tesla cars recommended for subsidies
Reuters On Dec 6, 2019
BEIJING: China’s industry ministry has placed Chinese-built Tesla Model 3 cars on a list of vehicles recommended to receive subsidies for new energy vehicles, a move that will help the U.S. firm’s push into the world’s biggest auto market.
Two variants of Tesla Model 3 vehicles are listed on a recommendation list for China’s generous subsidies for new energy vehicles (NEV), according to a post on the website of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The California-based electric vehicle maker, which is building cars in a $2 billion factory in Shanghai, aims to make more than 1,000 vehicles a week by the end of 2019 and deliver the China-made vehicles before the Chinese new year on Jan. 25.
The annual capacity at the plant in its first phase is expected to reach 250,000 vehicles, equivalent to about 4,800 a week. This will include 150,000 Model 3 cars.
It was not immediately clear how much of a subsidy the vehicles would receive. A Tesla representative confirmed the company’s vehicles had been recommended for subsidies.
China hopes sales of NEVs, which include plug-in hybrids, battery-only electric vehicles and those powered by hydrogen fuel cells, which constituted around 4.6% of overall market in 2018, can reach a quarter of car sales in 2025.
Tesla, led by billionaire Elon Musk, is planning a broad after-sales network in China.
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Pakistan stands for peace, stability in region: FM Qureshi
Balochistan govt prepares as cold weather to intensify in province
Balochistan’s shoe-polisher child enrolled in school
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TEAM BUILDING ESCAPE ROOM GAMES
FOR YOUR COMPANY IN ORLANDO JUST $19.50 PER PLAYER!
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WHAT TEAM BUILDING PURPOSES DO OUR GAMES SERVE in Orlando?
Our award-winning games help the participants to integrate into your team and develop communication, problem solving and co-operative skills they can use in the workplace.
Our game situations improve the communication between the team members and helps them create an outstanding team of colleagues by working together.
WHAT TYPE OF COMPANIES DO WE RECOMMEND TEAM BUILDING TO in Orlando?
The American Escape Rooms Team Building Games are recommended for small and medium-sized enterprises and also for the smaller units or teams within multinational companies.
It is equally suitable for colleagues working in the same field, and for the staff of different departments who cooperate with each other regularly.
Team building events are also popular for new start-up companies to build relationships, and as a reward from employers to their employees and for schools, colleges, clubs and association of all types.
For an HR department, the games give an important feedback on the participants' conflict-management and communication skills.
HOW DO THE GAMES TRANSLATE INTO THE WORKPLACE in Orlando?
The Escape Games make use of the logic and problem-solving skills of the participants, thereby improving the management of and or the prevention of work place conflicts - which is an advantage in the everyday work environment.
The games require and develop communication and cooperation between the participants, who will learn how to use their skills. This facilitates the distribution of work-related tasks to achieve dynamism and success in the everyday work environment.
The manager, during the players' coordination, recognizes the participants' strengths and weaknesses, which can later be taken into consideration in the corporate environment.
ARE THE GAMES PRIVATE AND EXCLUSIVE in Orlando?
As the name suggests, the Game Rooms are Private for you and your colleagues. Members of the public cannot join your game via our on-line booking system, nor as walk in customers. Only your team will be in the games.
DO YOU OFFER LARGE GROUP DISCOUNTS in Orlando?
Yes, we do offer some of the best value team building and private game deals anywhere! Please visit our Pricing Page for our latest offers and discounts, up to 60% and with games under $20 per player, making our games fun and affordable for any business.
The savings don’t end there… We offer exclusive “Come Back Soon” discounts to everyone who plays. Often, Private Team Building Players have such a great time, that they want to come back to play other games on their own time and on their own dime. We offer exclusive discounts for return players over 60% OFF our general admission prices. Please ask you game master for details after you play.
WHAT TIMES ARE AVAILABLE in Orlando?
Team building and private games can be booked to play during our regular opening hours at any time. We also offer private games and team building outside of our regular opening hours, from 9am to 2pm weekdays with at least 24 hours advance notice.
Outside of our regular opening hours, we also offer FLEXIBLE START TIMES when the games can be scheduled to start at the same time, unlike general public reservations with staggered starts every 15 minutes. The benefit of this is that your teams can play against the challenge of their own game, and compete against colleagues in other games for “bragging rights” for the fastest escape times.
THE FUN DOESN’T END AT 60 MINUTES! Subject to game start times, it is possible to allow games to continue beyond the 60-minute deadline, if a team has not escaped, but is close to doing so, and would like to see the game to a full conclusion.
CAN A MANAGER SUPERVISE THE GAMES in Orlando?
Yes, they can! Managers and Supervisors can watch all the games with access to our normally private, Game Mission Control. Managers or Supervisors who do not want to play, can also interact with our game managers to influence the game play, communication and team tasks.
HOW ARE THE GAMES MANAGED in Orlando?
WE OFFER DEDICATED STAFF! Each team has their own dedicated Game Master, to look after all teams from arrival, during their game with 2-way communication, and assistance after the game for memorable photographs with game props.
HOW LONG DOES EACH GAME LAST in Orlando?
Each round of games lasts between 60 and 90 minutes, from arrival to departure. We ask that you arrive around 15 minutes prior to the game starting, to allow time to park, for players to use the restrooms, for pre-game registration, introduction to your Game Master and an explanation of the game. The game lasts 60 minutes. After the game, we suggest another 10 to 15 minutes for a game de-brief and for the teams to take fun memorable photographs with games props.
DO YOU HAVE A MEETING ROOM in Orlando?
Our Award-Winning Escape Rooms are designed and built to optimize the game space and customer experience. For private team building events outside of normal public opening hours, the entire store is private and you can use our spacious reception area and seating for meeting. Also, during the games, a manager, supervisor or HR representative can watch all of your teams in their games from our mission control room.
DO YOU HAVE TAX EXEMPT RESERVATIONS in Orlando?
We offer customers with a valid tax-exempt certificate, Sales Tax Free reservations for Private Escape Room Games only. Please email with a current valid copy of your Florida Sales Tax Exemption certificate. Reservations can only be arranged via this email and our tax-exempt team. Reservations can be made at least 48 hours in advance; our tax-exempt team will email you an invoice for your reservation. Tax exempt invoices must be settled in full within 24 hours to confirm the reservation to avoid the cancellation of the booking. We are unable to raise a second invoice for any customer who has a prior unpaid or cancelled invoice. Tax free reservations are not available via the website or in store. All sales are final and completed reservations with sales tax cannot be changed to tax exempt sales.
HOW MANY PLAYERS CAN PARTICAPATE IN THE PROGRAM SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ORLANDO?
American Escape Rooms Orlando UCF consists of four different, award winning, 60 minute game rooms; Zombie Apocalypse, Cold War Crisis, Mad Professor's Asylum and Mind Boggling Challenge.
Each game has unique challenges and can be played in teams of 1 to 10 members, and so up to 40 participants can play simultaneously during each hour. The 4 games can be combined and played as a competition, with each team playing in its own game room, in a race to escape in the quickest time.
If more than 40 people wish to participate in the game, then the entire Orlando site can be booked for successive time periods. Each of the 4 games may be played 8 times or rounds each day, with up to 10 players participating in each game.
Our Orlando site has the capacity for around 320 players per day, but such events need special forward booking and planning!
Can I book for less than 10 players outside of regular opening hours?
Yes, however the only reservations we accept for out of hours bookings via the website, are complete private games up to 10 players. We do not offer "per player" reservations via the website out of hours.
The discounted price for the private game for $195 is fixed, you are reserving the game for up to 10 players, and in booking via the website, the price is the same if you reserve for 1 player or 10 players, as the website booking is for the private room, and not per player.
If you want to book out of hours, on a per player basis, please email us with the number of players, and we can raise an invoice at the per player rate of $49 per player for your private game(s). There is a minimum of 2 players, $98 for out of hours games. Please consider that once you reach 4 players, it is better value to take advantage of the discounted Private Game rate of $195 for up to 10 players!
Can I use a voucher, code, coupon or other offer for private games outside regular opening hours?
The discounted rate of $195 per room cannot be combined with any other voucher, coupon or offer on the website. If you have a voucher, code or offer for games during our regular hours, that you would like to apply to an out of hours game at the rate of $49 per player, please email us .
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Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
"The lecturers here are very good - professional."
Kazakh student Andrey Pogoda says he had plenty of support during his Graduate Diploma in Information Technology at OPAIC.
“The lecturers here are very good – professional,” he says.
Other staff throughout the campus are also ready to help you at all times, he says.
“You feel the support here.”
Back in Kazakhstan Andrey worked as an IT software developer for banks for more than 10 years.
“And then I decided to improve my skills, my English, and came to New Zealand,” he says.
“My goal was to come to an English country. And I saw a lot of videos on the internet about New Zealand so it’s a very beautiful country with very good climate.”
Andrey arrived in New Zealand in June 2017 so he could spend some time improving his English before beginning his course last August.
His wife and baby accompanied him to New Zealand. His wife has now found work and the family is settling in well.
Andrey’s made a lot of friends at OPAIC from other counties including China and the Philippines.
While there weren’t a huge number of people from Kazakhstan in New Zealand, he had met another student from his home country in his course.
He encouraged those from back home thinking of coming here not to be afraid and to give it a try.
Andrey says New Zealand is a beautiful and developed country with nice people who trust each other.
While he studied, Andrey worked for a small Wellington-based consulting company called Supermarket Technologies Ltd.
He was able to bring his work and his study together during a group mini project, involving the development of a coffee app.
The app helps people find nearby coffee shops and order their drinks from their smartphones, so their coffees are ready to be picked up when they arrive at the cafe.
Andrey has just finished his course and is continuing to work with Supermarket Technologies Ltd. He also has a contract job with website design and development company Byte Media.
Read more about the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology.
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“How could a good Muslim boy like you be born into a Jewish family!” For Galal, forced to leave Egypt in the 1960s Jewish exodus with his family,
“How could a good Muslim boy like you be born into a Jewish family!” For Galal, forced to leave Egypt in the 1960s Jewish exodus with his family, the Diaspora has none of the beauty of a rich tapestry of history; it is a day-to-day struggle to fit into his new life in Paris, reconcile the conflicting demands of family and friends, and come to terms with who he is. The quest for belonging and identity is at the heart of this sensitive and tender narrative. Earthy, rambunctious supporting characters burst from the page, spontaneous, emotional, yet, for all their façade of confidence, no less adrift than Galal himself. Ruhayyim’s Paris of the 1960s is startlingly relevant: then, as now, religion offers an illusory source of community and identity for migrants to the west, not fitting in, yet cut off from their roots. Deeply personal, this unusual, uplifting coming-of-age novel takes us into the heart of an ordinary young man in the grip of an unforgiving historical moment.
Kamal Ruhayyim, born in Egypt in 1947, has a PhD in law from Cairo University. He is the author of a collection of short stories and two novels, as well as several books on law. Through his career in the Egyptian police force and Interpol he has lived in Cairo and Paris. Sarah Enany, with a Ph.D. in drama, is a lecturer in the English Department of Cairo University. Her translation credits include works by Yusuf Idris, Mohamed Salmawy, and Jerzy Grotowski.
Days In the Diaspora Reviews
“The novel defies the notion of religion as a defining marker of national and personal identity.”—Daily Nation.
Diary of a Jewish Muslim
Menorahs and Minarets
Miral al-Tahawy
Translated by Samah Selim
Translated bySamah Selim
A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me
Youssef Fadel
Translated by Jonathan Smolin
Translated byJonathan Smolin
Mohamed Salmawy
Translated by Raphael Cohen
Translated byRaphael Cohen
A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me
Translated by Alexander E. Elinson
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts
D. J. Terris, K. M. Toft, M. Moir, J. Lum, M. Wang
Background: Autologous nerve interposition grafts are frequently harvested by head and neck surgeons. The sacrifice of these donor nerves guarantees some degree of morbidity, including sensory loss, additional incision sites with associated potential complications, and prolonged operative time. An alternative to autologous nerve grafting is, therefore, desirable. Objective: To determine if a collagen tubule (CT) filled with either a plain collagen gel or a brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-enriched collagen gel could be used to achieve functional and histologic outcomes equivalent to an autologous nerve graft in bridging a 15-mm nerve gap in the rabbit facial nerve. Design: A prospective, randomized, blinded animal study with a control group. Methods: Thirty rabbit facial nerves were resected (15-mm segments) to create nerve gaps. The gaps were bridged using 1 of 3 methods, assigned randomly: a reversed facial nerve (control), a collagen gel-filled CT, or a BDNF-enriched collagen gel-filled CT. The animals were evaluated after 6 weeks in a blinded fashion for functional nerve recovery, axon count, and axonal diameter. Results: There were no significant differences between the autologous nerve graft group, the collagen gel-filled CT group, or the BDNF-enriched collagen gel-filled CT group (n = 10 for each group) for functional nerve recovery (P = .94). The mean axon count and the mean axonal diameter were highest in the BDNF-enriched collagen gel-filled CT group, but these differences failed to reach statistical significance (P = .18 and .96, respectively). Conclusions: Collagen tubules filled with BDNF-enriched collagen gel appear to be at least as good as autologous nerve grafts for bridging short facial nerve gaps. Larger experimental studies are warranted to determine if clinical trials are justified.
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.127.3.294
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Facial Nerve
Terris, D. J., Toft, K. M., Moir, M., Lum, J., & Wang, M. (2001). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 127(3), 294-298. https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.127.3.294
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts. / Terris, D. J.; Toft, K. M.; Moir, M.; Lum, J.; Wang, M.
In: Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Vol. 127, No. 3, 01.01.2001, p. 294-298.
Terris, DJ, Toft, KM, Moir, M, Lum, J & Wang, M 2001, 'Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts', Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 294-298. https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.127.3.294
Terris DJ, Toft KM, Moir M, Lum J, Wang M. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2001 Jan 1;127(3):294-298. https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.127.3.294
Terris, D. J. ; Toft, K. M. ; Moir, M. ; Lum, J. ; Wang, M. / Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-enriched collagen tubule as a substitute for autologous nerve grafts. In: Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 2001 ; Vol. 127, No. 3. pp. 294-298.
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Democrats unveil 2 articles of impeachment against Trump
Susan Walsh | AP
From left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters, D-California, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel, D-New York, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal and Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Adam Schiff, D-California, unveil articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Tuesday during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press • December 10, 2019 9:43 am
WASHINGTON — House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment Tuesday against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — pushing toward historic votes over charges he threatened the integrity of the U.S. election system and endangered national security in his dealings with Ukraine.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of the impeachment inquiry committees, declared at the U.S. Capitol that they were upholding their solemn oath to defend the Constitution. Voting is expected in a matter of days in the Judiciary Committee and by Christmas in the full House.
Trump swiftly responded in a capital-letters tweet with the words he uses repeatedly to decry the investigations against him: “WITCH HUNT!” The White House said the charges were “baseless” and his reelection campaign called them “rank partisanship.”
In outlining the charges, Democrats said they had no choice but to act because Trump has shown a pattern of behavior that, if left unchecked, poses risks to the democratic process ahead of the 2020 election.
“Our president holds the ultimate public trust. When he betrays that trust and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution; he endangers our democracy; he endangers our national security,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, the Judiciary chairman.
“No one, not even the president, is above the law,” he added.
Trump’s allies immediately plunged into the fight that will extend into the new year. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said Democrats are trying to “overthrow” the administration. Campaign manager Brad Parscale said Democrats are “putting on this political theater because they don’t have a viable candidate for 2020 and they know it.”
The outcome appears increasingly set as the House prepares for voting, as it has only three times in history against a U.S. president. Approval of the charges would send them to the Senate in January, where the Republican majority would be unlikely to convict Trump.
Democratic leaders say Trump put his political interests above those of the nation when he asked Ukraine to investigate his rivals, including Democrat Joe Biden, and then withheld $400 million in military aid as the U.S. ally faced an aggressive Russia. They say he then obstructed Congress by stonewalling the House investigation.
Maine’s two U.S. representatives, Democrats Chellie Pingree of the 1st District and Jared Golden of the 2nd District, voted to begin the impeachment process in October, though Golden represents a district that Trump won in 2016 and has stressed that he hasn’t made up his mind on a final impeachment vote.
In a statement, Golden said impeaching a president is “one of the most solemn duties I have as a congressman” and that he will “continue to treat it with the gravity and thoughtfulness it deserves and will not announce a final decision until I have considered all of the evidence fully.”
Pingree, whose district is more liberal, has said she is likely to vote for impeachment and said in a Tuesday statement the articles “make clear that President Trump ignored our national security and other vital national interests to benefit himself alone.”
Trump insisted in a new tweet that when he asked Ukraine’s president “to do us a favor” with the investigations he was requesting, “‘us’ is a reference to USA, not me!” Democrats, however, say Trump’s meaning could not have been clearer in seeking political dirt on Biden, his possible opponent in the 2020 election.
In drafting the articles of impeachment, Pelosi faced a legal and political challenge of balancing the views of her majority while hitting the Constitution’s bar of “treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Some liberal lawmakers wanted more expansive charges encompassing the findings from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Centrist Democrats preferred to keep the impeachment articles more focused on Trump’s actions toward Ukraine.
When asked during a Monday evening event if she had enough votes to impeach the Republican president, Pelosi said she would let House lawmakers vote their conscience.
“On an issue like this, we don’t count the votes. People will just make their voices known on it,” Pelosi said at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council. “I haven’t counted votes, nor will I.”
The next steps are expected to come swiftly after months of investigation into the Ukraine matter, which followed Mueller’s two-year Russia probe.
Pelosi convened a meeting of the impeachment committee chairmen at her office in the Capitol late Monday following an acrimonious, nearly 10-hour hearing at the Judiciary Committee, which could vote as soon as this week.
At the Judiciary hearing, Democrats said Trump’s push to have Ukraine investigate Biden while withholding U.S. military aid ran counter to U.S. policy and benefited Russia as well as himself.
“President Trump’s persistent and continuing effort to coerce a foreign country to help him cheat to win an election is a clear and present danger to our free and fair elections and to our national security,” said Dan Goldman, the director of investigations at the House Intelligence Committee, presenting the findings of the panel’s 300-page report of the inquiry.
Republicans rejected not just Goldman’s conclusion of the Ukraine matter; they also questioned his very appearance before the Judiciary panel. In a series of heated exchanges, they said Schiff should appear rather than sending his lawyer.
The president focused Monday on the long-awaited release of the Justice Department report into the 2016 Russia investigation. The inspector general found that the FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and that the FBI did not act with political bias, despite “serious performance failures” up the bureau’s chain of command.
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Property fund on expansion drive - by Barbados Today June 28, 2019
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Eppley Caribbean Property Fund Limited SCC (ECPF), a publicly listed property fund in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, today announced that its Board of Directors had approved a cross-listing of its Value Fund shares on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and a multibillion dollar secondary issue. The listing of all such shares will create the largest regionally focused real estate platform in the Caribbean.
ECPF first made the disclosure in a statement of material changes as required under regulatory guidelines in Barbados and Trinidad. According to Chairman of Eppley Caribbean Property Fund Nicholas Scott, the cross listing and capital raise is consistent with the company’s strategy to increase the size and scope of the Value Fund.
He said, “The JSE is the most active stock market in the Caribbean. We believe our existing investors will benefit greatly from the enhanced liquidity a cross-listing will create. Additionally, the cross-listing provides the opportunity for Jamaican investors to access a portfolio of high-quality, cash-flow producing commercial properties spread throughout the Caribbean in a liquid, low-cost and tax efficient form.”
ECPF intends to use the proceeds of the capital raise primarily to purchase a portfolio of properties in Jamaica and Barbados totalling over 240,000 square feet and to fund its wider regional acquisition pipeline. The offer of shares, the subject of the secondary issue, is expected to open on June 28, 2019 and close on July 12, 2019, provided that all required approvals from relevant authorities in Jamaica and Barbados are obtained and will facilitate the offer being made.
CEO, NCB Capital Markets Steven Gooden remarked, “We are pleased to be acting as the arranger for the Eppley Caribbean Property Fund’s landmark cross-listing on the JSE. The listing not only showcases the strength of our capital markets in Jamaica, but our capabilities throughout the region. We encourage our clients and all Jamaican investors to take advantage of this investment opportunity to own Caribbean commercial real estate in an accessible form.”
ECPF, formerly Fortress Caribbean Property Fund, has been around for nearly 20 years. In May 2018, Eppley Limited acquired control of the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary Eppley Fund Managers. Since that time, Eppley has dramatically improved the Fund’s performance. For the first six months of this financial year, the Value Fund’s net operating income funds from operations and earnings attributable to shareholders have all increased by at least 50 per cent.
Eppley Limited is a publicly listed company which invests in credit, mezzanine financing and real estate. Since being listed in 2013, Eppley Limited has delivered a cumulative average return to its shareholders of over 34 per cent and recently migrated from the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s Junior Market to the JSE’s Main Market.
NCB Capital Markets is acting as the arranger and broker for the transaction. Patterson Mair Hamilton and Clarke Gittens Farmer are acting as legal advisors to NCB Capital Markets and Eppley Caribbean Property Fund, respectively. (PR)
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I wish them all the success as this may be the only alternate investment available to Bajans as they get no return anywhere else. The fund was so badly managed before and did not make any money in in Biggest and Longest Real Estate Boom Times As it was Top Heavy and Loaded down with Fees.
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Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country's long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogers's parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Drifters-a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country-found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay. On returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx Brothers romp crossed with Heart of Darkness: pot has supplanted maize in the fields; hookers have replaced college kids as guests; and soldiers, spies, and teenage diamond dealers guzzle beer at the bar. And yet, in spite of it all, Rogers's parents-with the help of friends, farmworkers, lodge guests, and residents-among them black political dissidents and white refugee farmers-continue to hold on. But can they survive to the end? In the midst of a nation stuck between its stubborn past and an impatient future, Rogers soon begins to see his parents in a new light: unbowed, with passions and purpose renewed, even heroic. And, in the process, he learns that the "big story" he had relentlessly pursued his entire adult life as a roving journalist and travel writer was actually happening in his own backyard. Evoking elements of The Tender Bar and Absurdistan, The Last Resort is an inspiring, coming-of-age tale about home, love, hope, responsibility, and redemption. An edgy, roller-coaster adventure, it is also a deeply moving story about how to survive a corrupt Third World dictatorship with a little innovation, humor, bribery, and brothel management.
2009. First edition, first printing. A near fine copy only marked by a small indentation to the top edge of the text block. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine with only light bumping to the spine ends.
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At age 16, Mays joined the Birmingham Barons of the Negro American League. The New York Giants purchased his contract in 1950, and he was in center field at the Polo Grounds soon thereafter. Mays started off slowly, but got untracked and won the NL Rookie of the Year award, helping the Giants erase a 13-game deficit to tie the Dodgers at the end of the 1951 regular season.
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Managers with the Most Wins and Their Playing Careers Part I, an Overview
Let’s get this out of the way: team wins are an imperfect way to measure managerial success.
Throughout this series, we’ll look at different ways to ascertain a good manager. While many (from GM to utility infielder) have a hand in a win, certainly managers who stuck around long enough to manage teams that won the most games in Major League Baseball history were, for the most part, successful. Hopefully, using bulk wins (and as a byproduct years managed) will shed some light on the types of players who become successful managers.
Somewhat surprising: of the managers with 900 wins or more, just seven of the 64 never reached the majors. Of course, those seven boast the two managers with the best winning percentage: Joe McCarthy and Frank Selee. In fact, with Earl Weaver having the seventh best winning percentage, non-MLBers claim three of the top seven winning percentage spots.
In addition, John McNamara is the only member of the 900 win club with no MLB experience who posted a sub-.500 winning percentage, although Jim Leyland’s record is 1588-1585 and, if Buck Showalter manages the Orioles much longer, he could end up with a losing record (he’s 985-949).
Turning to those who played, the great majority of players turned managers (PTMs) with 900+ wins had reasonably long playing careers. Just Walter Alston, Sparky Anderson and Tom Kelly played only one year in the bigs, while Bobby Cox and Jimy Williams played parts of two seasons. Tommy Lasorda pitched in parts of three seasons – and that’s the group with less than six years in the majors. In fact, the average playing career of this group was 12.9 seasons.
That’s not to say the group represents the best players in baseball history, as they average just 22.6 WAR. In fact, 25 of the 57 managers recorded less than 10 WAR. Terry Francona comes in at the bottom with -3.7 WAR, but he’s joined by seven others with negative WAR. On the flip side, seven players were worth 55.6 or more WAR. That group includes six Hall of Famers (Frank Robinson, Cap Anson, Frankie Frisch, Fred Clarke, Joe Cronin and Lou Boudreau) and one future Hall of Famer in Joe Torre.
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The four PTMs with 900+ wins and the highest winning percentages were pedestrian to above average baseball players: Billy Southworth, Frank Chance, John McGraw and Al Lopez. The fifth member of this group, Harry Wright, accumulated just one WAR in seven seasons. But, immediately after him, we have Anson and Clarke, one immortal and one solid Hall of Famer. Davey Johnson is next, followed by Steve O’Neil and Alston. Bobby Cox was right behind Alston on the list.
Of the ten 900+ win managers with the highest winning percentage, two were worth more than 73 WAR in their careers; two were worth 49-50 WAR; two were worth 20-25 WAR; two were worth 13-17.5 WAR; and the last two were worth 0 and 1 WAR. It seems it didn’t take a great player to become one of the managers with the best winning percentage and 900+ wins.
Similarly scattered: the playing careers were somewhat evenly distributed throughout the 900+ win managers (yet, for obvious reasons, skewed a tad to baseball’s past):
10 managers began their playing careers before 1900;
Nine began their careers between 1904-1919;
13 began their careers between 1920-1947;
Nine began in the 50s; nine began their careers in the 60s; and
Seven began their careers after 1970.
It is somewhat surprising that as many 900+ win managers began their careers during the 50s and 60s as began their careers before 1920.
That said, six of the seven managers in the group with the best winning percentages started their careers in 1913 or before, with five starting their careers before 1900. Of the top 10 by winning percentage, only Al Lopez (1928), Johnson (1965) and Alston (1936) began careers after 1913. It appears the best of the best came from PTMs in baseball’s infancy.
Meanwhile of the ten 900+ win managers with the worst winning percentages, four began their playing careers after 1950 and another two began their careers in the 1940s – only three began their careers before 1920. Expanding this pool to the 13 managers with sub-.500 winning percentages gives us seven managers who began their playing careers after 1950.
Before looking at the data, it would have been natural to assume that managers in the past stuck around more as there was less scrutiny, pressure and money on the line. However, at least of the managers with the most wins, the opposite is the case. Aside from Connie Mack who is special given that he owned the team, the majority of poor performing managers who stuck around long enough to win a ton of games were from more modern times.
It’s hard to understand exactly why these managers had such staying power as they had just four World Series between them and none averaged a divisional finish above third. In addition, aside from Robinson and possibly Boudreau, none were particularly outstanding ballplayers.
This much is clear: the most successful managers in terms of wins and winning percentage did their work 100 or so years ago. In addition, how good a manager was as a player had little bearing on their ability as a manager, as those with the most managerial success tended not to be stars.
Posted on March 23, 2012 Author howardCategories MLBTags great managers in baseball history, great players in baseball history, relationship between players and managers
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Listen up, all you club-divas-come-lately! Her Highness, Ms. Kylie Minogue, built this city on dance-pop beats, and she's here to show you how it's done. Aphrodite is a dance-pop retrospective: You've got your Swedish pop (and inventive variations on it: see the electro-harpsichord on the ABBA-fied "Closer"), your fierce club queen (the title track), your Madonna tropicalia ("Illusion), even a little disco-rock saunter ("Better Than Today"). But it's also got something new to say, layering a sweetness and warmth into the ice queen routine that many of the newer divas miss.
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Private Facebook data was stolen from a parked car
Looks like the stock image of a hacker, tbf
REPORTING ON DATA BREACHES can feel a bit samey after a while, so it’s thoroughly decent of Facebook to give us the opportunity to mix it up a bit. The company has been forced to apologise after the latest theft came not from an unprotected server, but from a car.
Yes, the unencrypted hard drive was stolen from an employee’s car. On it: data for some 29,000 Facebook employees from last year, including names, bank account numbers, salaries, bonuses, equity numbers and the last four digits of their social security numbers. And yes, we did say “unencrypted”.
“We have seen no evidence of abuse and believe this was a smash and grab crime rather than an attempt to steal employee information,” a Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg. You’d hope so – the Venn diagram between “carjackers” and “cybercriminals” should basically be two circles.
Facebook says it’s still working with police to recover the missing hard drives and has offered impacted employees two-year subscriptions to identity theft protection services in the meantime. But the company is also facing criticism at how long it took to come clean – the break-in took place on 17 November, yet Facebook only notified staff on Friday morning.
This may sound beautifully inept in and of itself, but the real cherry on the cake is still to come. It turns out that the employee wasn’t supposed to have the hard drive out of the office in the first place.
“We have taken appropriate disciplinary action,” a spokesperson told the site. “We won’t be discussing individual personnel details,” she added, showing that the company hasn’t completely forgotten about the principles of privacy, but it does leave us wondering what “appropriate” is in this context. A slap on the wrist? A fine? Tar and feathers?
Guess we’ll just have to wait for it that information to leak on another hard disk, then. Maybe this one will unexpectedly turn up in a charity shop. µ
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That's me on Sunday afternoon. I am waving to you. Are you waving back? It's nice to be friendly.
You may have already realised that that's not really me at all. It's just my shadow. I was at Whinfell Quarry Gardens. It's an old stone quarry that local people have transformed into a little green oasis. Fortunately, the chestnut fencing prevented me from tumbling to the quarry floor.
If I had fallen down, I wouldn't be typing this blogpost. I would either be in a hospital bed munching grapes or lying totally still in a wooden box with brass handles.
And now I will show you what I could see from my position:-
I was about to depart for my autumnal walk along the Limb Valley when two young men appeared. They descended into the pond area and appeared to be on some sort of mission, They didn't notice me watching them from above as they furtively scrabbled about in the greenery.
Were they burying treasure or stolen goods? Were they ardent botanists? Perhaps they were checking out film locations? It was all rather suspicious.
Anyway, it was time to go. I insisted that my shadow should come along too. As usual he complained but reluctantly followed me along The Limb Valley path as we sang in unison:-
I'm being followed by a me shadow
Me shadow, me shadow
Leapin and hoppin' on a me shadow, me shadow, me shadow---
And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry,
Yes if I ever lose my eyes,... I won't have to cry no more.
Autumntime
On the southwestern edge of this city, a stream runs down from the moors before meeting The River Sheaf. It's called The Limb Brook and where it passes Whirlow Brook Hall a woodland path follows its course. It's a nice route to walk - especially on a sunny Sunday afternoon in autumntime.
Two years ago I snapped a pleasing photograph in The Limb Valley. Go here. Yesterday, as the sun was shining I grabbed my camera and headed back there hoping to bag some more great shots.
Some mighty trees shadow the path like classical pillars. A few other people were out and about. A couple of runners in their fluorescent tops, a few dog walkers, a chatterbox family., a pair of young lovers. From afar, I "used" some of them in my pictures.
Here's a selection. They can be enlarged with a click:-
Bracket fungi on a dead tree
There's something that happens in school classrooms that is never commented upon in inspection reports or by academic observers. I am thinking about insects - mostly of the flying variety and about spiders too.
Especially in warm weather - perhaps when a couple of classroom windows are open - insects will get inside the classroom and fly around. Such an event can cause disruption. Some daft youngsters may use such a happening as an excuse for silly over-reaction.
The teacher finds himself or herself charged with the responsibility of getting rid of said insect or spider in order to return to the lesson in progress. When I was a teacher here in South Yorkshire, I would often hear schoolchildren baying "Kill it sir!", "Squash it!", "Stand on it!". They wanted that unfortunate creature dead in no uncertain terms and were generally puzzled when I gently captured them or wafted them out through an open window.
I never killed the insects, never swatted them, never squashed them. Once a red admiral butterfly found its way into my classroom and still the youngsters urged killing like medieval onlookers at a hanging. I cupped it in my hands and let it back outside. The disappointment in the room was almost palpable and this made me feel a bit like a hippy alien Jesus kind of guy.
Fast forward to one of my teaching spells in Bangkok, Thailand.
One afternoon, a small flying cockroach found its way into my classroom when I was teaching a class of fifteen year olds. There was a ripple of distraction but none of the children were urging a killing. Nobody wanted to squash the creature or stamp on it. The exact opposite was happening. They all wanted that cockroach out of the room so it could live.
I trapped it with a plastic beaker from the water cooler and slid a piece of card beneath. "Please don't kill it Mr Neil!" begged one of the boys and I assured him there was no chance of that. I carried it to the back window which one of the girls kindly opened for me and I released the cockroach into the tropical afternoon air outside.
The contrast between the two classroom attitudes was stark. My South Yorkshire charges bayed for killing and expected it too but my Buddhist students in Bangkok wanted the life of that little cockroach to be respected, nay cherished. And to me this felt very right indeed.
Of course I am not so naïve as to believe that there should be no killing of insects. Some of them can decimate food crops, others can spread disease and some can give you a nasty sting but surely we can still admire the lives they lead and view them as precious creatures. Earth was their planet ages before we came along.
Alsop-en-le-Dale
The weather forecast for Friday was so positive that I had to get out into The Peak District - aiming to make good use of the sunshine. I had parked up near Newhaven by eleven thirty bound for Aleck Low. It's a wooded hilltop I have often seen from afar but until yesterday I had never been up there.
There's an ancient "bowl barrow" burial mound on Aleck Low and other evidence of our distant forebears' presence. The bowl barrow dates to the Late Neolithic era - over four thousand years ago.
Afterwards, I got back in the car and headed for Alsop-en-le-Dale. It is a tiny Derbyshire village with an ancient church. It is dedicated to St Michael and All Saints. It was so nice to find the church open to visitors. I left my usual comment - "Thank you for leaving the church unlocked for passing visitors like me to appreciate". All the pictures that accompany this blogpost were taken there - including the impressive "millennium window" which was installed as recently as 2001.
After Alsop I went on to Tissington and a path that leads northwards from that delightful village. I needed to bag a particular photo square I had missed for the "geograph" website.
How lovely it was to be out and about in late October sunshine. I saw some wonderful things - including a giant flock of gulls miles from the sea and a weasel that clambered out of a drystone wall before scurrying across the path in front of me. I was home by four thirty with signs of evening already appearing.
Fraizer
Above - the view from my seat at the Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley last Saturday afternoon. I was one of almost five thousand Hull City supporters who turned up to watch our team achieve a rare away victory. It was a cold and miserable afternoon and I still wasn't feeling too well but the result lifted my spirits
Back in 2008, Hull City made it to The Premiership for the first time in our history. Our top goalscorer that season was a Manchester United loanee called Fraizer Campbell. It was he who made the vital assist that led to the winning goal against Bristol City in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. The fans developed a special chant for him "Duh-duh-duh-duh Fraizer Campbell! Duh-duh-duh-duh Fraizer Campbell!" etcetera.
However, instead of sticking with The Tigers for our first season in The Premiership he accepted a more lucrative financial package from Sunderland F.C.. At the time it seemed treacherous and blatantly mercenary so whenever we played Sunderland after that his chant was adapted to "Duh-duh-duh-duh Greedy Bastard! Duh-duh-duh-duh Greedy Bastard!"
But after ten years away, Campbell has returned to Hull City. He was a substitute last Saturday and as he warmed up on the touchline, the chant again went up - "Duh-duh-duh-duh Greedy Bastard! Duh-duh-duh-duh Greedy Bastard!"
Campbell laughed and waved to the Hull City end who promptly changed the chant back to "Duh-duh-duh-duh Fraizer Campbell! Duh-duh-duh-duh Fraizer Campbell!"
Campbell laughed at this and again waved to the massed supporters who promptly delivered a new chant to the tune of "Bread of Heaven" - "You're not greedy any more! You're not greedy! You're not greedy! You're not greedy any more!" There was much hilarity and it was as if the fans had re-bonded with a former hero.
It was Fraizer Campbell who managed to stab home the winning goal in the seventy eighth minute. igniting a roar of delight at my end of the ground. For those who don't particularly like football or fail to understand the passion that surrounds it, you may now wake up! This blogpost is over.
Fraizer Campbell
This is Jared O'Mara. He is my local Member of Parliament. Back in June, to widespread surprise, he ousted Nick Clegg from the Sheffield Hallam parliamentary constituency. Clegg was the national leader of The Liberal Democrats and had been Deputy Prime Minister when the LibDems were in coalition with the Conservatives under David Cameron. In June, Jared had appeared like David bringing down Goliath.
As I am a lifelong Labour voter, Jared O'Mara naturally got my vote.
Today news broke that he has been suspended from The Labour Party. Why? Is he guilty of financial wrongdoing? Is he guilty of sexual impropriety? Did he enter The House of Commons as drunk as a lord, cursing The Speaker before urinating on The Woolsack?
No. None of these things. The reason he has been suspended is to do with computer algorithms and the fact that these days people's online lives are being recorded and documented for future reference. What we write online will never entirely disappear. It can be raked up so that things we said in the past may come back to haunt us.
Back in 2002 and 2004, Jared O'Mara made some unpleasant remarks in different internet forums. These remarks have been judged to be either sexist, racist or misogynistic. I have read some of them and they are pretty juvenile, nasty and stupid but a long way from being truly criminal and shocking. It's the kind of thing young online warriors might say late at night when they are going with the flow of online forum banter.
O'Mara is only thirty five years old now. When he made these comments during his early twenties, he would have had absolutely no idea that it would all come back to bite him. Don't get me wrong - there's no way I approve of his remarks but I think it's a warning to all of us. Be very careful what you say online.
In the distant past, before the internet came along, our trails were less easy to trace. Youthful stupidity was forgotten or remembered only as vague hearsay. Now it's different and it is almost impossible to erase incriminating "evidence" from the internet. It's there in black and white. As internet slickness has increased so the ability to capture and archive online activity has also advanced.
I must say that if I still conducted interviews in teaching, I would happily use the internet to find out more about the candidates. One of the key aims of any job interview is to get to the core of someone's being. What somebody says may be at odds with online evidence about them.
Though I feel some sympathy for Jared O'Mara, it is in the end very disappointing that Labour Party research didn't uncover his online wrongdoing before he was chosen as our local candidate. Now there is every possibility that we will be having a by-election here in the near future.
Amerasians
It's quite a picture. A strong man has lifted his entire family off the ground for the benefit of the photographer. There are six children along with their mother. I have no idea if he was married to that woman but the couple are sometimes referred to as Mr and Mrs Bowler.
She doesn't look very happy does she? She isn't laughing. I know it's just a snapshot, a moment in time, but here's a real sadness about her demeanour. In contrast, the children seem happy and healthy enough.
The picture was taken in The Philippines, an island nation which has hosted American military bases since the end of the nineteenth century. This particular picture dates from around 1930.
The children can be described as Amerasians. It is estimated that there at least 52,000 Amerasians in The Philippines - probably many more than that. Being Amerasian isn't always easy. Often the father will have disappeared back to America and the offspring may find themselves shunned in the host country. Many became virtual social pariahs.
There are thousands more Amerasians in Korea, Vietnam and Thailand. It seems that wherever the American military have been located for any length of time they find a very intimate way of underscoring their might. It was the same in Great Britain during the second world war.
War is meant to be about territory and overpowering the enemy. Swords and bullets, aeroplanes and tanks, strategy and victory or defeat. But history shows that it is also about impregnation and the careless fathering of children who, very sadly, are frequently destined to lead troubled lives.
Is our son, Ian, on the threshold of a dream? Everything seems to be moving in the right direction.
Sixteen months ago, he and his chum Henry had the bright idea of launching a Facebook page dedicated to delicious vegan cookery. It has attracted great interest with many thousands of visitors dropping by.
Publishers got wind of it and Ian and Henry were approached by several big name publishers to produce a recipe book That book is now at the editorial stage pending its big launch next spring.
The Facebook page has now transmogrified into a polished website with links to a You Tube Channel, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. The guys are giving it all their very best shot and if it should all go pear-shaped tomorrow I would still be very proud of the effort, imagination and energy that Ian has put into this venture.
They seem to be pressing the buttons at the perfect time when many people are moving to plant-based diets. Several famous figures from film, music and sport have embraced veganism in the past couple of years and there are undoubtedly many good ethical and health reasons for following that dietary direction.
To visit the new Bosh! website, go here.
Co-incidentally, Ian and Henry featured
in "The Guardian" this very day
How do I plead? I plead "Guilty" your honour.
Though I did spend six weeks in Ireland in the summer of 1974, visiting amongst many other places the youth hostel at Killary Harbour, I did not have a ghostly encounter there. That was all a fignent of my literary imagination. Ludwig Wittgenstein was buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge in 1951 and that is where his mortal remains have remained ever since.
When it comes to ghost stories, there is one fundamental problem. There's no such thing as ghosts. It's all utter balderdash, a legacy of dark medieval nights and the troubled dreams of our ancestors. No genuinely haunted houses, no poltergeists. If you are attracted by such things then I am sorry to disappoint you. It is all utter nonsense. Pure make-believe.
I have a theory that those who claim to "believe" in ghosts find the idea stimulating. Ghosts get the heart racing. They add a delicious frisson of mystery and uncertainty to the ordinariness of everyday life. In other words, many people actively "want" to believe in ghosts. This fanciful desire blinds them to the overwhelming evidence that it's all poppycock but I guess it's a welcome distraction for many.
Writers of ghost stories and makers of ghost films are very fortunate because they are tapping in to a massive audience of would-be believers. This is something I find very disconcerting. To think that I live amongst people who readily lap up this drivel. They are probably the kind of people who might also turn a lecherous reality TV show host into a national leader or blindly allow themselves to be led into a dangerous fantasy world called Brexitland.
Yes your honour, I am guilty as charged.
Timelessness
Memoir - Part 3
In the middle of the night I needed to urinate. I fumbled my way to the light switch but alas the power was off. Then, like a blind man, I felt my way through grey darkness to the bathroom beyond the bunk room. Outside thunder rumbled somewhere over the ocean.
When I returned to the dormitory, my eyes were becoming accustomed to the pale light of pre-dawn. I noticed that the door into the kitchen/communal area was ajar. And what was that aroma in the air? It was the slightly acrid smell of cigarette smoke. Remembering smoking experiments by one of my brothers, I recognised the brand - Woodbines. Perhaps one of the German sisters couldn't sleep but when I squinted into the kitchen I could not make out a figure yet I uttered the word "Hello" with an inflection. No one replied.
I clambered back into my down sleeping bag and gradually went back to sleep. Beyond the marine horizon a blanket of white electricity briefly illuminated the sky.
When I woke, the German sisters were preparing to leave. They were bashing about in the kitchen and seemed filled with the joys of springtime. Once dressed, I joined them and we ate a little breakfast together. Thankfully, there was no more mention of Wittgenstein as sunlight bathed the green linoleum floor. Outside the surface of the fjord sparkled.
Soon their bags were packed and there was some friendly farewell cheek pecking before they left - just as the warden arrived in his battered Fiat 127. He offered them a lift back to the main road and of course they accepted. Goodbyes were waved even though we had exchanged addresses.
Now I was on my own. One more night at Killary Harbour. As the morning weather had taken a turn for the better, I planned to spend my day exploring the nearby coast.
A day of seals and gulls, scrambling over rocks and ocean vistas. From the white beach at Glassillaun, I swam out to some rocks and returned to bask in the sand, turning yet more pages of "The Magus". Hours passed by but I didn't speak to anyone until I got back to the little harbour opposite the youth hostel where I struck up conversation with a couple of local fishermen in dirty yellow oilskins. They specialised in lobsters but after gutting it, they kindly sold me a silvery pollock, explaining how to steam the creature. I was starving.
Fresh from the sea, it was one of the loveliest fishes I have ever eaten. I found salt and pepper and some "Jiff" lemon juice in the kitchen cupboards and ate this pollock with some instant macaroni cheese I found in the bottom of my rucksack.
That long evening there was nobody to talk to. The warden had gone home and there wasn't a pub for miles.
A couple more chapters. Another mug of tea. Half an hour at the water's edge staring across the fjord. Then back into the dormitory. Once again it was time for bed. In the morning I would continue my journey through Connemara and down to Galway City. Apart from anything else, I desperately needed to get to a grocery shop.
I don't know what it was that woke me in the middle of the second night but again I detected the faint sickly whiff of Woodbine smoke. Suddenly, a chair scraped on the kitchen floor. Silently, I unzipped my sleeping bag and again got up, feeling for the light switch. For the second night running - nothing. Someone coughed and I edged apprehensively towards the connecting door.
It creaked open.
In the shadowy half-light I could see someone sitting at the kitchen table. A silhouette. He was bent over in the position of a child scribbling away at a school desk. The room felt icy cold and involuntarily I began to tremble.
"Hello," I whispered.
The figure ignored me at first and then he turned - simultaneously inhaling on his cigarette. The orange glow of the tobacco momentarily lit up his face and I recoiled ever so slightly, struck by the darkness of his deep set eyes and by the unsettling seriousness of his demeanour. His head had surely turned too far like that girl in "The Exorcist".
He didn't say a word - just gradually bent back into his "writing" though there was no paper on the table and he wasn't in possession of a pen or any other writing instrument. It was as if he was simply miming the process of writing. Scratching away manically at the surface of the old pine table.
It was - how shall I say this - very unnerving. Who was the man at the table? Instinct told me I had to get out of there. I grabbed some clothes along with my boots and ran out into the night, cowering behind the lobster pots waiting for dawn to rise over the Galway hills. And when daylight finally came, I plucked up courage and crept back into the hostel but the man - whoever he might have been - had gone. I know this because I checked everywhere.
When the bearded warden reappeared in his little blue Fiat close to seven thirty, I asked him about the mystery guest.
The Bearded One stopped in his tracks, just shook his head and in his thick West Irish brogue asked rhetorically, "Why do you think I don't sleep here?"
Though I pressed him, he wouldn't elaborate and to this day I have no idea what occurred in the Killary Harbour night. There is no rational explanation. It was not a dream. And in spite of my natural scepticism about such matters, I know that the hunched writer at the kitchen table was really there. I didn't dream him. Of this I have no doubt.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Trudging along the lane, I must have looked like a tortoise or perhaps a giant hermit crab - with my home upon my back. There was everything I needed in that rucksack - sleeping bag, tent, gas burner, kettle, clothes, toiletries, books - everything. But back in those days there was no camera. I espoused a half-baked philosophy about living in the moment, not photographing it.
A thin drizzle drifted about me from the nearby Atlantic - or was it a sea mist? I marched onward, enjoying the weight upon my shoulders. I passed the tumbledown ruin of a squat stone cottage - perhaps a monument to the Irish potato famine.
No vehicles passed by. There was just the sound of my footsteps on the tarmac in the dank afternoon stillness.
As the drizzly mist slightly lifted I reached the brow of a hill and looked down upon Ireland's only fjord - Killary Harbour. It reaches inland like a grey Norwegian serpent. To my left, a hundred yards along and nestled by the shoreline, there was a little wharf and a small cluster of buildings. I knew that one of them was the youth hostel though once it had simply been called Rosroe Cottage.
It was here that the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein worked on his treatise "On Certainty" in the summer of 1948. It seemed a strange choice Crafting complex sentences, shaping intricate academic theories at a place where men gathered lobster pots and occasional dolphin pods sheltered from Atlantic storms. It was far away - on the very edge of Europe.
The bearded warden led me to the men's dormitory. It was spartan with bare floorboards and limewash walls. There were just four wooden bunks. It was mid-week and though it was the beginning of summer,the warden informed me that nobody else had reserved a bed for the night apart from two German females who were of course in the women's dormitory on the opposite side of the kitchen/communal area.
With rucksack propped against my bunk, I went for a stroll along the lapping shore. Returning to the little grey harbour I met the German girls sitting silently amidst jumbled lobster pots looking out to sea. They were sisters and one of them - the taller one - was a Philosophy student in Heidelberg. She spoke English with amazing fluency and it was she who first told me about the Wittgenstein connection. I can't remember her name any more but I can still picture her animated blue eyes.
She seemed almost obsessed by Wittgenstein and claimed to have read just about everything he had published. She was starry-eyed and could recite entire quotations but to tell you the truth I kept switching off. Clever linguistic gymnastics were never my cup of tea. The other, prettier sister remained quiet, in the shadows of her sibling's brilliance, occasionally fingering the ends of her blonde pigtails.
That evening as the wind picked up and rain began to lash the youth hostel's windows, we shared a simple meal together. I had bacon and soda bread. They had cabbage and a small bag of potatoes. After ten nights of camping, I felt I was sitting in the very lap of luxury and that simple meal was like a feast. We washed it down with enamel mugs of sweet tea as the kitchen's striplights flickered ominously.
"It must be the storm," I surmised.
Later, lying on my bunk in the men's dormitory, I read another chapter of "The Magus" by John Fowles while fantasising that one of the German sisters, preferably the quiet one, would come to join me but of course the door never opened and before too long I drifted off to sleep, listening to rain, happy that I wasn't again ensconced in my little orange tent on the edge of some lonely thicket.
The tale that follows is true though forty three years have passed by and of course as years disappear under the bridge, memory has an increasing capacity to distort what really happened...
Killary Harbour, Ireland with the youth hostel on the right
There is a road in the far west of Ireland that wanders around squat hills and across ancient boglands all the way from County Mayo into the wild north of County Galway. In early June, back in 1974, that is where I was heading.
I stood on the outskirts of Westport with my thumb pointing hopefully at the billowing sky. After half an hour, an old black car pulled up. It may have been a Humber or perhaps an Austin. The driver was a Catholic priest called Father Stoker. He was bound for Galway City via Clifden where he had some church business to wrap up.
Father Stoker was well into his seventies with straggly white hair and stubbly whiskers to match. I noted his slightly bloodshot eyes and the golden signet ring on his left hand. We had twenty miles or more to travel together and Father Stoker, clearly a genial sort of fellow, was glad of my company for at least part of his car journey. He had a few tales to tell and he was keen to hear what I had seen and done since arriving in Ireland ten days before.
At the county border on the N59 there's a little settlement called Clog. I kid you not. It was just as we were leaving Clog that Father Stoker asked where exactly he should drop me off. Studying my map, I explained I wanted the Lough Fee road just south of Derrynasligaun. He chuckled at my pronunciation.
"But that's in the middle of nowhere!" he declared. "Where are ye heading after that?"
"I'm going to the youth hostel at the head of Killary Harbour."
For some reason, the car suddenly decelerated. Father Stoker gripped the steering wheel tightly, staring straight ahead before building his speed back up. Ahead, a pair of crows were picking over the flattened carcass of a dead rabbit but they flew off as the old black car approached.
Father Stoker didn't speak another word until we reached the drop off point. I heaved my bulging rucksack from the back seat and leaned back into the car's upholstered interior to thank the old priest for the lift.
He grabbed my hand quite tightly and as he did so I noticed a curious symbol engraved on his golden ring. Perhaps it was Celtic. His cheerful demeanour had changed. With his rheumy eyes locked upon me he whispered, "Mind how ye go young fellow. Mind how ye go!" And then he released his grip.
I waved as he drove off, leaving me at a blustery road junction far from anywhere. A rusting sign swung from an old post - "Hostel 2", meaning I had two miles to march with my Famous Army Stores rucksack - all the way to Killary Harbour.
Hardwick New Hall (Wikipedia picture)
For the past few days, I have not been feeling too well. Bunged up with cold and not able to breathe easily. Some might call it "man flu" which is in my view a dumb and rather sexist way of describing a genuine male ailment.
On Sunday, in spite off my poorliness, Shirley I drove out of the city. After passing through Chesterfield, we arrived in the north-east Derbyshire parish of Ault Hucknall. We parked near the eastern gates to an old country estate.
After donning our boots, we set off through the gates and along a lengthy driveway. The temperature was pleasant for October and sunshine was beginning to burn off the early morning cloudiness. Sheep observed us from the trees.
Shortly we arrived at the two old halls that sit in the heart of the Hardwick Estate. There's Hardwick Old Hall and Hardwick New Hall. The former building was constructed in the early sixteenth century and the latter much later in that same century.
The initials "E.S." can be seen on the parapet
As we approached Hardwick New Hall, up on the stone parapets somebody's initials were dominant - "E.S.". Who could that be? It was Elizabeth Shrewsbury - otherwise known as Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608). It was she who ordered the construction of Hardwick New Hall and no expense was spared. After all, she had become the second richest woman in England after Elizabeth I. By 1590, she could afford whatever she wanted. The building is partly notable because of the amount of glass that was used in its large windows. At the time, no other residential building in the world had lavished so much space or money on glass windows.
Bess of Hardwick's coat of arms in stone on the roof of the new hall
Partly because of the admission fees demanded by The National Trust and English Heritage, on this occasion we did not venture inside The New Hall or the ruinous Old Hall. Instead we continued our ramble through the country estate and back to the car. Soon we were quaffing refreshing drinks in "The Elm Tree Inn" in the nearby village of Heath.
St Mary's, Sutton Scarsdale
After this I took Shirley a mile further north to see the shell of Sutton Scarsdale Hall. A service was just finishing in the adjacent St Mary's Church so we went inside. The vicar, whose name was Roy, kindly gave us a mini guided tour of the building. What most impressed me was the ninth century Saxon tombstone embedded in the floor with its symbol of a primitive scythe. It was very kind of Roy to talk to us and nice to meet a man who has a passionate and intimate knowledge of his local history - in particular the church and its historical associations.
By the time I got home I was, as my mother would have probably said, jiggered. What with the cold and everything, I had almost overdone it. A sensible person would have been spending the day resting on the sofa with a warm lemon drink and a box of tissues. Perhaps next time we will pay the hefty admission fees required to enter Hardwick New Hall. I shall start saving.
Shirley in the woods at Hardwick
Should a poem need explanation? Perhaps we really do "murder to dissect". After all, a poem isn't an extract from a washing machine manual. It isn't a financial statement. Some people think that poems are there to be decoded, translated, examined like specimens in a laboratory. I don't agree with or approve of such a mechanistic approach to poetry.
Nevertheless, I should like to reflect on yesterday's poem. And first of all I say thank you to Jennifer in Florence, South Carolina for attaching the curious word "liminal" to my first picture. It's not a word that is in everyday use. This is what a dictionary has to say about it:-
And yes. it was easy to see why Jennifer might have seen the edge of the sea as such a place - a sort of limboland.
I thought of the lugworms as earthbound and of the seabirds as heavenly, soaring up into the blue. The human figures in the poem are therefore at a "boundary" between land sea and sky and perhaps also on the threshold of their own future with the past behind them.
There's a deliberate circularity in this poem as the end focus is again upon creatures that live at the edge. Like the shadowy human protagonists there is a connection between the worms in the sand and the birds. They also have a relationship.
Poems will often concern themselves with the very sound of words - echoes, half-rhymes, full rhymes and repetition. I wanted the personal pronoun "I" to stand alone in the fifth line - solitary upon the shore and in the ninth and tenth lines - "Along the margin/ Of that bay" I was consciously nodding to William Wordsworth and his "Daffodils".
Regarding the eleventh line, human life with all its baggage can be burdensome don't you think? We are forever "weighing" or assessing the "burdens" of memory, hope and conscience that we carry. In this we are dissimilar to the lugworm and the seabird whose lives are more elemental, more driven by the moment. For them it is much easier and simpler to live in the liminal zone.
"Sky" in the second half of the poem chimes with "I" and "fly" in the first half.. "Shore" rhymes strongly with "soar" to seal the poem. There are plenty of "s" sounds to suggest the sound of the sea upon the sand and I like the image of those lugworm coils. I thought of "Spew their little coils" and "Pipe their little coils" but instead opted for "Leave" which has less anthropomorphic association.
Sue said she never thought she would read a poem about lugworms. I am just pleased to have made a poem that contains lugworms. They are hidden from us in their burrows like the truth and the happiness we seek. There but not there in the liminal zone.
When I was an English teacher in what is now my distant past, I noticed that many modern poetry books aimed at schoolchildren contained eye-catching photo-illustrations. Of course the idea was that the pictures would enhance appreciation of the poems. There would hopefully be a certain synergy between the image and the word.
In an idle moment, I had the idea of turning this process on its head in order to help some of my classes into poetry writing. To explain further - I presented them with pictures and asked them to write poems that would "fit" with these images - as if we were compiling our own poetry anthology before sending it off to the publishers.
Many of the resulting poems were excellent. It was as though the images had reduced creative inhibitions. Teenagers who might habitually retort, "I hate poetry...it's boring" found themselves creating little pieces of Literature that would have not looked out of place in a genuine anthology.
Well after that preamble, I think I shall write another poem for this humble Yorkshire blog and for the appreciation of its illustrious visitors. And just like my pupils I shall allow an image to be my muse. All five images that accompany the post were taken last weekend.
Which picture do you think I should go with and if you were writing it what might your poem be "about"? Perhaps it wouldn't be "about" anything. You might be able to supply me with a creative spark.
St Mary's, Sheffield - now a community centre
I have joined a non-religious choir. So far I have been to four Thursday night sessions. Perhaps ironically, these practice sessions are held in an old church that is no longer used for worship. It is now more of a community centre with a warren of rooms and corridors inside.
The choir has around thirty members. Three quarters of these are women. Most people have been with the choir for years. I think they were a bit surprised when I turned up out of the blue after visiting their website. Who is that guy? Is he a copper?
The songs we have been working on are all new to me. However, I have enjoyed those moments when the different voices have gelled together in delicious harmonies. It's a good feeling to be part of something like that and I am starting to get used to the new songs and how the choir leader Janet breaks up sopranos, altos, tenors and the bass section to which I have gravitated.
The choir often performs in public but I haven't reached that point yet even though they keep saying - "You've got a great voice!" and "Come along!" etcetera.
The simplest song I have been learning is "You Won't Be Fracking Long" which is sung to the tune of "The Laughing Policeman". Instinctively, I am anti-fracking and I am disgusted by the bullying tactics used by government and fracking companies to push approvals through. Fracking is in my view a desperate, environmentally unfriendly way to squeeze yet more fossil fuel energy from our much-abused planet. It is surely not the way forward and I send out a cheer to the anti-fracking protesters at Kirby Misterton, North Yorkshire who are currently engaged in a long-running anti-fracking protest that has seen several local people arrested.
Here's The Red Leicester Choir singing that same song...
Multiply this million pound palette by a thousand
At first, if I happened to win a billion pounds or found a billion pounds in a very, very large suitcase I wouldn't know what to do with it. However, I have already decided that I would spend some of the money buying gifts for blogging friends and acquaintances - to thank them for their kind association.
Working down my sidebar bloglist here are the gifts I am thinking of...
For ADDY at "Alcoholic Daze" a Japanese motorbike, tight red leathers and a helmet so that she can whizz more easily through the London traffic to visit her 94 year old mother in hospital.
For Jan Blawat near Sacramento in California a new Winnebago Vista to travel to shows across America with her poultry and not have to pay for hotel rooms.
For Libby at "D-Scribes" a long weekend away with her "Mister" in New York City with carers recruited to look after her aged parents while she's away.
For Jenny at "Demob Happy Teacher" a tartan shopping trolley so that she can visit local shops and not have to lug heavy bags back home.
For Graham at "Eagleton Notes" a carbon fibre fishing rod and a basket of fishing gear so that he can fish from the rocks and beach near his home on the Isle of Lewis. His catches will help to supplement his meagre pension.
For Kylie at "Eclectica" who does so much good for other people, a voucher for $5000 AUS to be spent exclusively on herself at Sydney's top department store - arguably Myers.
For Meike in Ludwigsburg a fashion shoot with one of Germany's top fashion photographers and access to any clothes sold in the Breuninger department store in Stuttgart.
For John Gray in Trelawnyd, Wales a hefty cheque to cover the cost of revamping his kitchen and to provide Winnie with a lifetime's supply of frilly bulldog knickers (pink).
For Helen in Brisbane a pair of air tickets to anywhere she and her long-suffering husband Tony wish to travel next.
For Red in Red Deer, Canada a brand new pair of bespoke ice skates with "Red" picked out in glittering red sequins on the side of each boot.
For Hilly in Washington State a brand new Ford Escape SUV to get up and down the track to her rural retreat in the woods.
For Lee on Tamborine Mountain, Queensland I shall buy her the cabin she lives in with her furry companions - making the pompous owner an offer he can't refuse.
For Derek on The Isle of Sheppey there will be a brand new bike with a wicker basket on the front for his little dog to ride in when they visit the nature reserve.
For Jenny the Procrastinating Donkey in eastern Canada a brand new electric sewing machine.
For my old chum Bob in Georgia whose surname rhymes with "plague" I shall cover the costs incurred by visiting tradesmen such as a plumber, electrician, roofer or painter over the next five years. Optometrist costs will also be covered plus car maintenance.
For Steve in West Hampstead I shall buy three pairs of which ever walking boots his heart desires and damn the cost. He covers quite a few miles on his photo journeys. Also a diamond studded collar for Olga.
For Ian in Greater Manchester an expertly framed map of Yorkshire (by Michael Drayton 1622) to hang above his fireplace and treasure.
For Jennifer author of "Sparrow Tree Journal" in South Carolina and her husband Gregg I shall buy a week's holiday on the island of Barbados with luxury kennel expenses covered for her two dogs back home.
For Susan in rural France I shall buy a classic Citroen 2CV so that she can potter about the Gallic countryside with Rick or Paul sitting in the back. The car will be resprayed which ever colour Susan prefers.
For Terry in Hinckley, I shall cover taxi costs for a month so that he can go where ever he wants. The taxi will of course be wheelchair friendly with an adjustable ramp.
For Pat near Bellerby, North Yorkshire I shall cover all removal costs to her new home in Leyburn - when that move eventually happens! Also a large cut glass vase containing white roses to greet her in her new home.
And when all that spending is done, I shall start to think of other ways of disposing of my giant windfall. There'll be a million for Oxfam, a million for The Labour Party and a million to support Friends of the Earth in their battle against fracking in the English countryside. I shall phone our two grown up kids to tell them to pick which ever London homes they want from Right Move. Then I'll take Shirley out for fish and chips - over which we will begin to plan our round the world trip.
Filey Sands
Just down the coast from Scarborough you will find its little brother - Filey. For hundreds of years it was a significant fishing village - long before seaside tourism was conceived. There's still a slipway down by the beach called Coble Landing. A "coble" was a kind of fishing boat unique to this part of the Yorkshire coast.
On the way home from Scarborough we decided to drive into Filey. It was a lovely, sunny morning and we managed to get parked very close to Coble Landing. The outside temperature was unseasonably warm and the sea breeze was very light. I decided to go coatless as we set off along the beach to Filey Brigg.
I hadn't gone there since I was a teenager.
Filey Brigg
Harder layers with boulder clay above
Geologists would find the Brigg very interesting. Hard layers of sandstone and limestone are topped by a thirty foot layer of boulder clay that was pushed there by bulldozing ice sheets during the last Ice Age which began 1.8 million years ago.
The boulder clay is very susceptible to erosion by the sea but the underlying layers are more resistant and it is they that form the wave-battered point known as Filey Brigg. In stormy weather or high tides it is a dangerous place to ramble. Numerous people have been swept off the brigg over the centuries. Death by drowning is normally the only prospect.
On Old Quay Rocks - looking to Flamborough Head
Looking landward from Filey Brigg
The hut is a refuge in case of emergency.
After our walk to Filey Brigg we returned to the seafront and bought ice cream cones from a kiosk. We sat on a bench looking out to sea - basking in lovely sunshine on what would have been John Lennon's seventy seventh birthday...
Eating ice cream cones - looking out to Flamborough Head
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By Glenn Walker Posted on May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S04 E20: ‘Farewell, Cruel World!’
The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are in a race against time to escape from the Secret Empire Hydra world of The Framework, but not everyone is ready to leave yet… Meet me after the cyberspatial jump for my thoughts on “Farewell, Cruel World!”
If it seems like hell in The Framework, it’s not so great in the real world either. We open this episode in flashback ten days earlier when Daisy and Simmons originally went under into the cyberspatial Secret Empire world. Ten days have passed, and the Zephyr has to land a refuel soon. Yo-Yo and the Zephyr’s skeleton crew are getting desperate.
In the four episodes we have all been immersed in The Framework we may have forgotten what’s going on in the real world. S.H.I.E.L.D. is once again a ragtag group of fugitives thanks to the attack on Senator Nadeer’s office. For all they know they could be shot down at any time. To save power and keep Daisy and Simmons alive, they turn off the cloaking. Now the Zephyr is a flying target.
With Hydra falling into chaos with footage of the Patriot’s death getting to the public, Fitz is planning to regain control of the situation. He offers Radcliffe a deal – a new life on the other side, the real world, if he gives him to coordinates of the exit. As he’s beaten and dying in The Framework, the offer is tempting.
The circumstances however of a new flesh and blood body in the real world parallel what Aida is after, and Radcliffe at once realizes that she’s doing these things with the help of the Darkhold, allowing her not just knowledge but ability to do these things. How does one stop something that is both magic and machine?
Fitz vs. Simmons
Jemma finally cracks the code as to what is different for Fitz in The Framework – his father being alive and a guiding influence in his life. So Simmons goes to confront her potential future father-in-law, and while he’s on the phone with Fitz, the elder Fitz attacks Simmons. In Dad’s lethal stranglehold, Jemma has little choice but to shoot him dead, while little Leo listens.
Fitz maintains his cold exterior when he and a squad of Hydra agents arrive on scene. Dad’s dead, but it doesn’t matter. After his chat with Radcliffe, who is in tow, Fitz knows where she’s headed. When the agents leave, Fitz makes clear his intent to Radcliffe, that he’s going to put a bullet through her skull, quote unquote.
Exit Point
Perhaps all isn’t lost for Fitz, but it may be for FitzSimmons. Madame Hydra orders Fitz to abandon his mission and return to the Triskelion, and he refuses. Madame Hydra isn’t out of tricks however. She’s altered the exit point. Rather than a public fountain in a park, she’s made it a molten pool in a steel factory, guarded by Hydra. Who in their right mind is going to climb into that?
Luckily Daisy opens it up with her Quake powers, but can they get through before Coulson dies from Hydra gunfire? Coulson’s leap of faith into the pool encourages May to do it as well. Before the rest can go through – Fitz catches up with Simmons. The moment where he is about to execute her is one of the most horrific moments of the series – even more than Daisy telling Mack that Hope is dead in the real world…
When Fitz comes through, as well as everyone else, he gets his memories of the real world back, but also retains his memories of The Framework. He is rocked to his core, he’s murdered people, he’s a bad person… and then the flesh and blood Aida enters the room, calling his name. Before May can take the shot, Aida grabs Fitz and they vanish. Magic? Teleporter?
We are left hanging about the Russian plane attacking the Zephyr, Yo-Yo’s reaction to Mack’s decision, and where did Radcliffe go? There’s more to this cliffhanger than meets the eye. One thing is for sure, no matter how much I want otherwise, this is far from over.
Event Fatigue
I find it amazing that after only five episodes (and maybe sooner) of Agents of Hydra in this coincidentally Secret Empire world, I have what is known in the comics industry as event fatigue. It’s what happens when readers tire of crossover event after crossover event in the comics. It was one of the first things I wrote about here at Biff Bam Pop!, and it’s affecting Marvel Comics currently with Secret Empire, as well as other recent events like Civil War II, IvX, and Monsters Unleashed.
Just as readers are tired of this crap in the comics, we viewers are tired of it here in this Marvel TV series. As Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which for the most part has had a good season so far, struggles for renewal with a fifth season, this is not the time to drag out what may already be an agonizing plot from the comics. Remember, hashtag #RenewAgentsofSHIELD if you’re so inclined.
All that said, seeing the real world as well as The Framework was a breath of fresh air. I liked the risks taken by uncloaking, but didn’t care for the agent that referred to Daisy and Jemma as ‘girls’ – they’re not twelve. Just as sexist, but on the likable side, is Triplett, who I’ve missed and wish we didn’t have to leave in The Framework. He’d make a damn fine Patriot, wish we could see that.
When Mack returns to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Trip is there with Hope, and he knows he’s made the right decision. Although there are too many loose ends to think we have seen the last of Mack, Trip, and The Framework. I think that’s where Aida and Fitz may have gone as well. We’ll see. Just don’t drag this out any longer than it has to…
Next: “The Return!”
Categories: agents of shield, Glenn Walker, Marvel, televisionTags: Agents of SHIELD, framework, hydra, jemma simmons, leo fitz, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, patriot, secret empire, twitter
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By Neil Perrott • September 11, 2018
Inter Miami CF: A brand lesson from Beckham’s brainchild
Whilst fans of AC Milan were no doubt unhappy to hear ex-Rossoneri David Beckham’s news last week, the player formerly known as Goldenballs announced that his MLS franchise would be called Inter Miami CF, a short form for its more exotic full name, Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami.
Designed to engage Miami’s sizeable Spanish speaking community, this reasoning should go some way to placate Milan supporters who are horrified at the inclusion of the name of their fiercest rivals.
Of course, footy’s leading fashionista wouldn’t settle for anything less than super-slick in the brand department, and so the club’s new crest duly delivered. Featuring white herons native to the club’s South Florida heartland, a neon glow and a colour palette that took me back to my favourite 80s TV cop show, the brand neatly packages spirit and symbolism. So far, so good.
Following the news, I headed to Twitter so I could sign up to stay in touch with the evolution of Beckham’s brainchild. Imagine my horror then, to see the resplendent new brand rendered as a ‘splodge’ on the timeline.
How could this be? How could something so right be so wrong? To a degree, this is out of the club’s control; take a look at many of the world’s biggest clubs - Manchester United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Aston Villa* et al - and they do the same thing. In each case, the club’s proud badge is reduced to near illegibility as Twitter doesn’t (yet) offer any option other than your timeline icon to be the same image as your profile picture.
Interestingly, the bottom left corner of Inter Miami CF’s homepage shows a reduced version of the brand which could have been a better option than using the crest in full, though I’d suggest it needs more thought.
Why consistency trumps uniformity
The point here is less about the intricacies of design and more about ensuring your brand can transition effectively and consistently across all channels.
Great brands are built on consistency rather than uniformity. Uniformity is based on just about everything looking the same; brands that employ this approach have little in the way of flexibility so the result is a rigid system that doesn’t execute well. As well as this making life more difficult for everyone involved, this runs the risk of brand communications that create a poor perception ...the polar opposite of what we’re trying to achieve in the first place.
In contrast, brand consistency both demands and delivers more flexibility and creativity. In markets where channels are growing dramatically, consideration needs to be given to how brand communications can have the diversity they need to optimise their impact in specific channels. Of course, the basis for this is a clear system and conventions, but brand outputs don’t need to look exactly the same to contribute to the delivery of a coherent positioning that drives awareness, engagement and understanding.
For us at Yellowstep, this is a much stronger position from which our clients can generate leads, create opportunities and grow revenue.
Unsurprisingly, tech companies do a great job of this, Slack, HubSpot, Dropbox are just a few examples and whilst these are very different organisations to Inter Miami CF & co who have helped to highlight the issue, we would all be well advised to look at these and other examples of good practice to explore how we can shape our brands to work better across the many channels they operate in.
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Laura Roberts-Artal November 10, 2017
Gateway to the Arctic . Credit: Mikhail Varentsov (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Shipping goods across the oceans is cost-effective and super-efficient; that’s why over 80% of world trade is carried by sea (according to the International Maritime Organisation). But the shipping industry also contributes significant amounts of air pollutants to marine and coastal environments. A new study, published in the EGU’s open access journal Earth System Dynamics, reports on concentratio ...[Read More]
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Credit: John H. White, 1945-, Photographer (NARA record: 4002141) (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Distributed via wikicommons.
Last year the European Commission appointed a panel of world leading scientists to advise on key science policy issues. In November, the panel issued their first recommendation report focusing on CO2 vehicle emissions. The month’s GeoPolicy post takes a closer look at this high-level advisory panel and the recommendations they have published. In 2015, the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) w ...[Read More]
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One of the most impressive popular events came in Greece brought by the refugees from Northern Thrace (now part of Bulgaria) upon the exchange of populations imposed in 1922. The celebration takes place for the name day of Saint Constantine, around the 21st of May. The participants gather in the house of the leader of the celebration and pray to the icons of Saints Constantine and Helen. Suddenly they feel ‘called’ by the Saint, they become possessed and enter in trance. They start a crazy dance, under a rhythmic music. The dancers end dancing on hot coals! During the tour, we will try to explore the folkloric treasures of the region in order to understand the importance, the origin and the meaning of these events!
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The ‘Anastenaria’ is one of the most interesting events one can attend in Greece, not only for the people dancing on the hot coals, but for the general preparation and celebration that takes place. Everything looks like a journey back in time to discover the simple faith of peasants. Music, dance, everything seems to come from another era. Along the tour, we are visiting places and museums that will help us decode the language of popular religious events and capture the spirit of the region.
Thessaloniki city tour and folklore museum.
The celebration of ‘Anastenaria’
The Mask museum of Meliki.
The cruise around Mount Athos.
The Boules folkloric association in Naoussa.
Day 1THESSALONIKI
Upon arrival at Thessaloniki, depending on flights schedule, we take a short tour through the second biggest city of Greece. Thessaloniki was founded in 315 b.C. by king Cassander of Macedonia, brother-in-law of Alexander the Great and reached the peak of its glory in the ancient times under the Romans. Under emperor Diocletian it became one of the four capitals of the Roman empire. Thessaloniki has been second capital of both the byzantine and the ottoman empires and a very important city for the Sefardi Jews, who arrived here from Spain in 1492.
Along the tour, we are visiting the complex of Caesar Galerius’ imperial palace with the Rotonda and Galerius’ Arch. Among the byzantine churches of Thessaloniki, all of them recognised as heritage of mankind by the UNESCO, we are visiting Hagios Demetrios, the church of the patron saint of Thessaloniki. We also visit the Folklife and Ethnological museum of Thessaloniki, where we can experience the wealth of the local popular culture. At the end of the visits, transfer to the hotel, accommodation, dinner and overnight stay in Thessaloniki.
Day 2THESSALONIKI – NAOUSSA – VERGINA – THESSALONIKI
After breakfast departure from Thessaloniki we head for Naoussa, on the foothills of Mount Vermion. Since the ancient times Mieza, as the city was called, was an important settlement. Here, the philosopher Aristotle educated the young Alexander, to become the Great. In the ottoman times the local textile industry developed greatly, largely due to the use of the water of Arapitsa river. The relationship of the locals with the ottomans was not peaceful, which gave birth to legends and popular beliefs. The various events celebrated by the locals reflect these beliefs. In Naoussa we are visiting a local wine maker to taste the famous local Xinomavro wine, one of the trademarks of Naoussa. We are also visiting the Boules folk association, where we will discover the folkloric wealth of the region.
From Naoussa we are visiting Vergina, ancient Aigai, first capital and later sacred city of the Macedonian kingdom and royal necropolis. King Philip II was killed here in 336 b.C. An impressive tumulus has been excavated here and an impressive tomb, full of astonishing offerings were found inside. The Great Tumulus, tomb of king Philip II is now one of the most impressive museums to visit in Greece.
After the visits, return to Thessaloniki, dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3THESSALONIKI – DION – MELIKI – THESSALONIKI
After breakfast, we leave Thessaloniki towards Mount Olympus. On the foothills of the country’s highest mountain and mythical residence of the twelve gods lies the archaeological site of Dion. Dion has been not just an important centre of worship, but also an important political centre. Based on religious faith, the Macedonians could prove their superiority to the rest of the Greeks. In fact, Dion was a city of pilgrimage, celebrations and games, where everyone would recognise the majesty of the local dynasty. From Dion, we proceed to Meliki, in the middle of the Macedonian plain.
Meliki is one of the villages occupied by the refugees who arrived after 1922 from Asia Minor and North-Eastern Thrace. The refugees brought with them their way of life, their cultivations, their beliefs and religious cult. Among the most interesting aspect of these beliefs is a curious way of celebrating Saints Constantine and Helen: by falling into trance they start a crazy dance that leads them to walk on hot coal! We will follow the event from the preparation to the climax. After the event ends, dinner in a local taver, return to Thessaloniki and overnight stay.
Day 4THESSALONIKI – OURANOUPOLIS – THESSALONIKI
An important centre of spirituality and art was forming from the 9th century onwards on the Athos peninsula, called the Sacred Mountain. Imperial benefits and financing encouraged the development of this state reserved just for the monks. Today access is forbidden to women, while for pilgrims to visit the state, a special authorization is required.
From Thessaloniki, we reach Ouranoupolis, a small port in the Chalkidiki region. Here, we embark on a cruise along the western coast of the Athos peninsula, to enjoy the stunning views of the impressive monasteries from the sea. The monasteries of Athos conserve their medieval architectural forms that makes them appear like castles. Return to Ouranoupolis, lunch and time at leisure. Departure for Thessaloniki along the coast of the Chalkidiki. Arrival at Thessaloniki, time at leisure and overnight stay.
Day 5THESSALONIKI - Departure
Breakfast and departure from the hotel. Depending on the schedule of the flights, we are visiting the museum of byzantine culture of Thessaloniki. Departure towards the international airport of Thessaloniki, in good advance for check-in. Arrival to the airport and end of services.
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Today I stumbled upon another birth in the Tunbridge Wells Belgian Community, that of Françoise Marie Isabelle Louise Madeleine Cornélie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine VAN DE PUT-MEEUS, on 30th April 1915.
The child’s parents had married in Wyneghem near Antwerp on 9th June 1914 – the bride was the daughter of the town’s Mayor, M. Hippolyte MEEUS, and the newspaper Le Courrier d’Anvers devoted a quarter of its front page on 19th June 1914 to coverage of the celebrations, describing how the marriage party made its way from the church to the MEEUS home, their way lined with a large and “sympathique” crowd of well-wishers.
As the young couple set off for their honeymoon in Biarritz and the Swiss Lakes, they couldn’t have known that only a few weeks later they would be fugitives from war.
Jean Baptiste VAN DE PUT and Madeleine MEEUS in Le Courrier d’Anvers, 19th June 1914
The MEEUS family’s story I have not yet told on this blog, but you will find some of it in the Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society book The Shock of War (ed. John Cunningham), in the Chapter I contributed about the Belgian refugees in Tunbridge Wells. The Mayor and his wife both died in Tunbridge Wells in 1915, six months apart. Lavish funerals were held at St Augustine’s and their bodies laid to rest in the Cemetery Mortuary Chapel until the end of the war when they were repatriated and buried in the family vault.
But I digress. My intention today was simply to list the Births, Marriages and Deaths I have so far come across and for which I have the certificates, so here goes.
January 2nd Death at 3 Woodbury Park Road of widow Euthalie Amelie BAL-VAN VAERENBERGH, 78, of 112 avenue du Commerce, Antwerp – she too was repatriated after the war and buried in Antwerp.
February 20th Marriage of Prosper Leopold DEBERGH and Marie RAVIJTS, both from Termonde, at St Augustine’s Catholic Church
February 23rd Marriage of Oscar Edouard GROVEN and Germaine Mathilde Therese TANGHE both from Ostend, and engaged to be married before they left Belgium, at St Paul’s Catholic Church in Dover
March 23rd Death at Tunbridge Wells General Hospital of baby Helene BECKER, 7 months, from measles and broncho-pneumonia. She lies in an unmarked grave in the cemetery at Hawkenbury.
April 30th Birth of Francoise Marie Isabelle Louise Madeleine Cornélie, daughter of Jean-Baptiste and Madeleine VAN DE PUT-MEEUS, at 4 Nevill Park
May 25th Birth of Jacques Albert Daniel, son of Leon and Laure COEN-CHRISTIAENS from Schaerbeek, Brussels, at “Belle Vue”, 54 Mount Ephraim
June 26th Death of Isabelle Adolphine Marie Ferdinande Josephine MEEUS-de MEURS, 61, the wife of Hippolyte MEEUS, distiller and Mayor of Wyneghem, at 4 Nevill Park
October 17th Birth of Rose Marie, daughter of Paul and Marie Francoise VAN NULAND-HANOCQ, from Antwerp, at 7 Calverley Park Crescent
October 26th Death of Hippolyte Maria Ivo MEEUS, 64, Mayor of Wyneghem, at 4 Nevill Park
December 2nd Birth of Gladys Marie Virginie, daughter of Oscar and Germaine GROVEN-TANGHE (the couple who had married in Dover earlier that year), at 11 Linden Park, Broadwater Down.
February 26th Death at Tonbridge Workhouse Informary of Rosalie GEBRUERS-de PAUW, 58, wife of telephone fitter Sebastien GEBRUERS, who were living at 43 Grosvenor Road
April 12th Marriage of munitions worker Andre VAN DEN EYNDE of Yew Cottages, Powder Mills, Tonbridge, and Annie TAYLOR, spinster, of Maidstone Road, Paddock Wood, at Tonbridge Register Office – not Tunbridge Wells, but he does pop up in the occasional concert in the town (at least I think it’s him/he) so I thought I’d include them.
May 1st Death at 11 Linden Park, Broadwater Down, of Wilhelmina Florentina VANHERCKE, 66, “spinster daughter of Jean VANHERCKE cabinet-maker”
September 1st Death at 154b Upper Grosvenor Road, of Josef Marie Louis , 2, son of Paul and Marie VAN NULAND-HANOCQ, from tubercular meningitis
September 28th Death at 3 East Cliff Road of Emma Caroline, 12, daughter of Mechelen ‘carilloneur’ Josef DENYN and his wife Helene DENYN-SCHUERMANS
February 1st Death at 63 Grosvenor Park of Theodore VAN BENEDEN, 66, from Blaseveldt near Antwerp. He was in Tunbridge Wells with his brother and several cousins.
June 13th Birth of Genevieve Marie Josephe Julie Christiane Ghislaine, daughter of Professor Joseph WILLEMS and his wife Marguerite WILLEMS-BESME – by this time they were living in Folkestone, at 83 Bouverie Road West, where the Professor was an Adjutant in the Belgian Intelligence Service
June 22nd Birth of John Emile Polidore, son of Oscar and Germaine GROVEN-TANGHE and a brother to Gladys, at 55 Culverden Park Road. Father Oscar is now a munitions worker.
July 4th Birth of Joseph Marie Odilon, son of Paul and Marie VAN NULAND-HANOCQ, at 154b Upper Grosvenor Road
September 23rd Death at 3 East Cliff Road of Helene Theodore Hubertine SCHUERMANS, 55, wife of Mechelen Bellmaster Josef DENYN
October 20th Marriage of Jeanne DEMEURISSE and Louis TANGHE at St Augustine’s Catholic Church
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The refugees who never went home
I have just returned from giving a talk about the First World War “Belgian Colony” of Tunbridge Wells in the Victorian Chapel at Tunbridge Wells Cemetery.
The cemetery is the final resting place of seven of the Belgian exiles who took refuge in our town, and earlier today I visited their graves with local expert Anne Bates who had prepared Belgian flags to mark them, ready for visitors in the afternoon.
We took the opportunity to place flowers on each one and wondered how many years it has been since their memory was honoured.
Four of the graves have headstones but three are unmarked.
The flags, we have left there – they are in Sections B6 and C5, Roman Catholic Sections, not far from the lower entrance on Bayham Road, should anyone care to pass by.
An impressive headstone near to the path is that of 58 year-old Rosalie GEBRUERS-DE PAUW, wife of telephone fitter Sebastien GEBRUERS, who died in the Workhouse Infirmary at Pembury on 26 February 1916.
A la pieuse mémoire de Dame Rosalie Marie DE PAUW épouse de Sébastien GEBRUERS née a Oostmalle (Prov. a’Anvers) Belgique le 26 janvier 1857 décédée a Tunbridge Wells le 26 février 1916. Priez pour elle
A few yards away are four more graves, three with monuments, one unmarked.
Two are the graves of Madame Hélène DENYN and her 12 year-old daughter, Emma, the the first wife and youngest daughter of Josef DENYN, the ‘carilloneur’ of Malines Cathedral.
Emma Carolina Maria DENYN died on 28th September 1916, just over 100 years ago, and two days after her 12th birthday, at 3 Eastcliff Road – the family’s temporary home, provided by the Refugees Committee. Her mother followed just under a year later on 23rd September 1917. Their graves are one in front of the other, so that standing in front of Madame Denyn’s cross, her daughter is just behind her.
Ici repose Dame Hélène SCHUERMANS-DENYN…
sadly the rest is difficult to read
(B6/96)
A notre regrettée Emma Caroline Marie DENYN née à Malines (Belgique) le 26 septembre 1904
Next to Emma DENYN is 2 year old Joseph VAN NULAND who died on 1st September 1916 at 154b Upper Grosvenor Road. His parents were stockbroker Paul Francois VAN NULAND and his wife Marie HANOCQ from chaussée de Turnhout, Antwerp. Joseph had an older sister Rose-Marie who was born in Tunbridge Wells on 17th October 1915, at which time the family were living at 7 Calverley Park Crescent.
A la douce memoire de Joseph Louis Marie VAN NULAND [illegible] mars 1914
On 4th July 1917 another son was born to M. and Mme VAN NULAND. They named him Joseph Marie Odilon.
And in an unmarked plot nearby ( B6/90) lies Wilhelmina Florentina VANHERCKE, the unmarried daughter of cabinet-maker Jean VANHERCKE, who died on 1st May 1916 of pneumonia, aged 66 years.
From Ostend, she was living at 11 Linden Park, Frant Hill with, I think, her widowed sister Maria TANGHE, Maria’s daughter Germaine, Germaine’s husband Oscar GROVEN, and their baby daughter Gladys. A married brother lived in Dover where he worked on the railways. They had stayed near him and his family when they first arrived in England – at that time Germaine TANGHE and Oscar GROVEN were only ‘fiancés’ – they married in Dover on 23rd Feburary 1915.
There are two more unmarked graves – C5/115 and C5/172
7 month old Helene BECKER, youngest daughter of basket-maker Victor BECKER, died on 23rd March 1915 at the General Hospital on Grosvenor Road – she must have been so tiny when the family fled their home at Pont-de-Loup near Charleroi.
And Theodore VAN BENEDEN, a labourer employed at the Church Army Home on Upper Grosvenor Rd, who died of pneumonia on 1st February 1917 at 63 Grosvenor Park.
Posted on 13 November, 2016 27 October, 2017 by belgiansrtwPosted in Belgian refugees, Burials, People, WW1Tagged 11 Linden Park, 3 Eastcliff Road, 43 Grosvenor Road, 63 Grosvenor Park, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Anvers, Becker, Burial, Canon Keatinge, Cemetery, Charleroi, Church Army Home, De Pauw, Death, Denijn, Denyn, Dover, Gebruers, General Hospital, graves, Groven, Hanocq, Malines, Mechlin, Oostende, Oostmalle, Ostend, Ostende, Pembury, Pont de Loup, Schuermans, Tanghe, Tonbridge Workhouse, Tunbridge Wells, Van Beneden, Van Nuland, Vanhercke, Wilson. 4 Comments
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Kohli Human After All
Failures affect the star Indian skipper as they do with everyone.
Virat Kohli, India’s captain and star player, has achieved nearly everything there is to achieve on a cricket field. At 31 years old, he has scored 70 international centuries and averages a bit over 50 in each format of the game. He is also the fastest player to score 8000, 9000, 10,000, and 11,000 runs in a format where he averages 60 runs a game and has the best conversion rate in Tests following Donald Bradman.
Despite all these astonishing feats, Kohli isn’t immune to errors and bad days. His success story, much like any other before him, isn’t about all the achievements he’s done, but the challenges he faced, the times he fell and stood up again to overcome those challenges.
From the 2014 Test tour of England to their semi-final exit in this year’s World Cup, Kohli has experienced many setbacks, failures, and trials. One has to ask then if these kinds of things affect him. ‘Do I get affected by failures? Yes, I do. Everyone does’, said the player in an interview.
‘At the end of the day, I know my team would need me. I had the feeling so strong in my heart that I am going to come not out and make India go through that tough phase (in the semi-final). But then again, maybe that was I my ego talking because how can you predict something like that? You can only have a strong feeling or maybe it was a strong desire to do something like that’.
Kohli has a total of 11,520 runs in ODIs and 7,202 runs in Tests. He also said that he wants to leave behind a legacy for the young players to look up to. ‘I hate losing. I don’t want to walk out and say I could have done this. When I step out on the field, it’s a privilege. When I walk out, I want to have zero energy. We want to leave behind a legacy that future cricketers will say we want to play like that’.
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Series: The Envy of Paradise Paperback Jocelyn Cullity 9781771335898 $22.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2019
In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria's reign over India. But what happened to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent who had valiantly organized a final key resistance to British rule, and to her ex-husband, Wajid 'Ali Shah, the last King in India, who remained imprisoned by the British? The Envy of Paradise tells their stories.Jocelyn Cullity's English family lived in India for five generations. A sequel to the award-winning Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons, her second novel about... + Read More
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It is 1970. The evergreens are thick with snow despite it being the month of April. In an Ottawa hospital, another daughter is born to the Azar family. The parents are from Kfarmichki, a village in Lebanon but their daughters were born in Canada. Four daughters, to be precise. No sons. Youssef is the domineering father. Samira is the quiescent mother. Rima, Katrina and Mona are the traditional daughters. Then there is Adele, the newest member. "You should've been born a boy," Samira whispers to Adele shortly after her entrance into the world. A... + Read More
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Kate, a somewhat clumsy widow of thirty-two, flees her stifling hometown on Vancouver Island to live alone on an even smaller island in the Salish Sea. In so doing, she has vague expectations of solace and sanctuary, despite past experience. Instead she meets Ivy, a woman who through their conversations transports her to the intoxicating world of 1926 Cuba. Within the context of their friendship, Ivy's past begins to unravel from a long-held silence, just as Kate finds herself confronting her relationship with the colourful community she's know... + Read More
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Thirty-two-year-old Kang is a new immigrant in Toronto. Having an older sister who was raped and suffers from the ensuing stigma in China, Kang is determined to remain a spinster, which has its own stigma in China, and she struggles with her fear and distrust of men. But Kang's story is not a hard luck story. She is an intelligent woman and a successful immigrant. Kang deals with the perplexities of a different culture by maintaining a sense of curiosity, an enjoyment of learning about the new culture, and by finding humour rather than the humi... + Read More
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A Palace in Paradise is a novel about the complex Iranian refugee and immigrant community in Toronto and the way in which one woman's death changes the lives of many others. The people in this community are connected by family ties, cultural ties, romance, and the fact that, as immigrants, they not only share a culture, but they also share a past of political violence. Several were at one time imprisoned in Evin, a notorious jail in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Some were unable to withstand the daily torture and constant physical pain they wer... + Read More
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Abby Faria returns from an extended vacation/work holiday in BC to discover that her friend, Maria is having marital problems, problems that are affecting her children as well. As Abby resumes her job as a bike courier, it becomes clear that Maria's troubles are bigger than she first presented and they are soon compounded with the disappearance of her son. She turns to Abby for help. As usual, as Abby tries to piece together the clues, and to help keep Maria's fish shop running, she makes new friends who help out. Alex, the woman who took over ... + Read More
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We Are Malala is an imagined dialogue between Nobel Peace winner Malala Yousafzai and the poet about historical, cultural and spiritual themes. Malala's autobiography, I Am Malala, inspired this collection. Judaism, Islam and Christianity are in increasingly and dangerously hot conflict. This volume of poetry, also inspired by Karen Armstrong and Sally Armstrong, two unrelated conciliators/activists, attempts to bridge the gap between those religions through dialogue and respect for other belief systems. This collection also includes artwork by... + Read More
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The Taylor Swift Thread
By Toups, June 18, 2013 in Music & Movies
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Do you have gusto for writing soaps and OMG WOW entertainment?
^Yep, and this video continues with that. Taylor STAYS making fun, memorable videos.
And the guest appearance at the very end made me GASP! (And I loved all the other ones too)
R.I.P. James E. Reilly
Another fun, bright and colourful video. Taylor co-directed again. I hope this trend continues. I think she could be a great director one day.
Aw, Katy and Taylor again. Hope there's a collaboration coming. I suspect there's going to be quite a few hamburger and fries costumes at her concerts - just hope I won't be beside on one of them because I'm going to need space to move/dance. LOL
I admit, I don't know who half those people are in the video. LOL
One of the favourite parts of the video were the drag queens dressed up as (from left to right): Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Adele, Cardi B, Taylor, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Nikki Minaj). "And we see you over there on the internet / Comparing all the girls who are killing it / But we figured you out / We all know now we all got crowns /You need to calm down."
I also liked the part at the end where the two homophobes ditch their signs and walk away from the other protesters - people can realize their mistakes, learn, and change.
https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/taylor-swift-slams-scooter-brauns-acquisition-of-big-machine-as-my-worst-case-scenario-1203256624/
I am not really that into Taylor, but I don't like Scooter Braun at all, especially how exploited and desiccated his artists end up being.
BetterForgotten
Most artists don't own their masters. This is not unique to you, Taylor. Just another case to play the victim yet again?
I do think Scooter Braun is a pig, but the music industry is a business. No record company is going to sign a new or young artist and give them 100% ownership of their catalog.
Scott Borchetta is basically calling Taylor a liar
Justin Bieber and Demi Lavato both support Braun
Cold As You, White Horse, Dear John, All Too Well, All You Had To Do Was Stay, Delicate..........and now The Archer joining the emotional-track-5-club. The song was written and produced by Taylor and Jack Antonoff, so it's not surprising that it has an 80's vibe to it with the synth and vocal reverb. I like how the song has this slow-easy-going-constant-flow with the tempo and continuous bass beat rarely changing.
I love the lyrics! Favourite ones are:
- Screaming who could ever leave me, darling / But who could stay?
- And I cut off my nose just to spite my face / Then I hate my reflection for years and years
- I wake in the night / pace like a ghost / The room is on fire / invisible smoke /And all of my heroes die all alone / Help me hold on to you
- 'Cause they see right through me / They see right through me / They see right through / Can you see right through me? / They see right through / They see right through me / I see right through me / I see right through me (This is my favourite part of the song: They see.....Can You see.....then she raises her voice a bit when she gets to I See)
- 'Cause all of my enemies started out friends / Help me hold on to you
Wow. This is wonderful.
I love this one the most out of the four songs from the album.
Favourite parts/lyrics:
- Can I go where you go? / Can we always be this close forever and ever? (love singing the "gooooooo" and "cloooooose" in high notes LOL)
- And I'm highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you / I've loved you three summers now, honey, but I want 'em all
- With every guitar string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force-of-a-man to be my lover
The song was written by Taylor; produced by Taylor and Jack Antonoff. It's the first song since "Red" that she's released as a single that she solely wrote. I think it's been 7 years since she released this type of song as a single - a love story with instruments. The last one was "Begin Again" in 2012.
Lover Track List
1. I Forgot That You Existed
2. Cruel Summer
3. Lover
4. The Man
5. The Archer
6. I Think He Knows
7. Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince
8. Paper Rings
9. Cornelia Street
10. Death By a Thousand Cuts
11. London Boy
12. Soon You'll Get Better (feat. Dixie Chicks)
13. False God
14. You Need to Calm Down
15. Afterglow
16. ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)
17. It's Nice to Have a Friend
18. Daylight
Less than a week to go! So excited!
So apparently the album will be put on streaming right away. Say goodbye to the one-million-in-the-first-week streak (pure album sales). I really think she could've got more than one million again if she waited, but I guess streaming rules and she's given in to it. Only Taylor and Adele can sell pure albums, so it will be interesting to see what Adele does with her next album. Ugh, streaming. LOL.
Taylor’s finally joining reality in 2019. Maybe Reputation was just a one-off way of dealing with her toxic press, but she was super serving and speaking primarily to her superfans, and I think she wants greater cultural relevance than that. So her stuff’s launching on streaming, which is how most people her age and younger consume music these days. Adele has a lot of older fans, but even they are joining the streaming revolution (as a lot of country music fans have been).
Cranky S.O.B.
Meanwhile, my forty-year-old ass is here, wishing I had never listened to people who said "vinyl is out, CD's are in!".
AAHHH!!! What an album! I knew Taylor wouldn't disappoint me. So many good songs! Snap reaction: the two early standouts for me (not including the 4 songs already released) are The Man and Cruel Summer. I'll post more later, after more listens.
YNTCD was nice spectacle (she can't dance) but the real MAGIC is during Lover. Audience knowing all the lyrics already. Beautiful energy taking over the room. I nearly cried. Seems Lover will become one of those songs.
Yeah, I really wish she would stop with the dancing - she's not a theatrical performer and has no damn rhythm in her body. She's at home when she's in singer-songwriter mode and needs to stick to that more. She's not a conventional pop star and needs to embrace it.
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Xeni Jardin / 8:08 am Mon, Dec 29, 2014
After calling Mike Brown memorial 'pile of trash,' Ferguson police spokesman let go
Breaking news: unacceptable behavior by police continues in the town where a police officer shot an unarmed black kid dead, and was not charged with any crime for the killing.
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Xeni Jardin / 11:37 am Thu, Dec 11, 2014
Undercover agent pulls gun on protesters and photographer during Oakland protest of police killings
In this photo from a protest in Oakland, an undercover police officer aims his loaded gun directly at a Reuters photographer.
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Xeni Jardin / 11:20 am Fri, Nov 28, 2014
White cop, black boy hug at Portland rally for Ferguson: story behind striking photo
This striking photo by Portland-based photographer Johnny Nguyen is one of the most memorable to emerge from protests around the country.
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Analysis of Michael Brown shooting witnesses: 16 out of 18 say hands up when shot
The chart is making the internet rounds for good reason.
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Xeni Jardin / 9:17 am Fri, Nov 28, 2014
“Professor” who assisted in Mike Brown autopsy revealed as “fraud, con artist”
Just when you thought the investigation into Ferguson cop Darren Wilson's shooting of an unarmed black teen couldn't get any more fucked up, it gets even more fucked up. Read the rest
Cop who shot Mike Brown won't go back to policing because “something terrible would happen to him”
Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Mike Brown, will leave the Ferguson police force. "It's not a question of if, it's a question of when," said Wilson's attorney, Neil Bruntrager.
In a CNN interview, the attorney said that Wilson, who claims his conscience is clear over the killing, simply cannot go back to police work given the public outrage.
"The first day he would be back on the street something terrible would happen to him or to someone that would be working with him," said Bruntrager on CNN.
The same lawyer joked to reporters that Wilson has resorted to being a transvestite to hide his identity. So funny, this lawyer!
"He's had to learn to live in a way that makes him completely unnoticeable. As a consequence, there are several techniques that he utilizes that make that happen," Bruntrager said without elaborating. "It's an odd way to live your life. But for him, it's all about his family."
Except for his getting married last month, Bruntrager told The Washington Post on Wednesday that Wilson mostly stayed out of the public eye.
Wilson preferred going to the movies because it was dark, Bruntrager told the paper, jokingly saying that the officer "cross-dressed a lot."
[via Yahoo] Read the rest
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Xeni Jardin / 2:52 pm Wed, Nov 26, 2014
KKK leader claims to have spoken to Ferguson law enforcement “off the record”
On a recent episode of Chris Hayes' MSNBC show, the host speaks with Frank Ancona, Imperialist Wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK. Read the rest
Xeni Jardin / 5:35 pm Mon, Aug 25, 2014
Norman Rockwell does Ferguson, by illustrator Anthony Freda
A riff on Rockwell's "Runaway," from 1958, done in 2014 by Anthony Freda. [HT: @stevesilberman] Read the rest
ferguson / mike brown / mikebrown
Xeni Jardin / 9:51 am Wed, Aug 20, 2014
Deadspin is crowdsourcing a database of police shootings in America
The Gawker blog Deadspin is asking for reader help gathering data on officer-involved shootings in America. Read the rest
ferguson / human rights / mike brown / police
Xeni Jardin / 1:26 pm Tue, Aug 19, 2014
Police op-ed: 'Do what I tell you,' I may shoot you if you 'threaten to sue me'
Sunil Dutta: "If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you."
Xeni Jardin / 11:08 am Tue, Aug 19, 2014
CNN anchor on Ferguson: 'Why not, perhaps, use water cannons?'
Oh dear. A CNN anchor asked a question about police response to Ferguson protesters that upset the internet.
Runa Sandvik / 10:17 am Tue, Aug 19, 2014
Documenting the arrests of journalists in Ferguson
These arrests are a gross violation of the reporters' First Amendment rights, and attempts to prevent journalists from lawfully doing their job on the streets of Ferguson are illegal.
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Holy crap, the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch looks like a scene from Robocop
What can you say? Other than: this is insane. Read the rest
Ferguson: Survey says white people in US have way more confidence in police than black people
Shocking results from a new Pew study. [Previously] Read the rest
Latest journalist arrest in Ferguson: Getty Images photographer Scott Olsen
Acclaimed photojournalist Scott Olson was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri this afternoon.
Rob Beschizza / 5:11 am Mon, Aug 18, 2014
Brown was shot "at least" six times, twice in the head.
The New York Times reports that a private autopsy has found that the unarmed teenager killed last weekend by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was shot at least six times.
One of the bullets entered the top of Mr. Brown’s skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury, according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the City of New York, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family’s request to conduct the separate autopsy. It was likely the last of bullets to hit him, he said.
Now you know why Ferguson police will not release the original autospy report.
Dr. Michael C. Baden, former New York City medical examiner, performed the private autopsy, and says that "In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, ‘You’re not supposed to shoot so many times.'" A family lawyer says that the position of one of the wounds, on the top of Brown's head, is evidence of an "execution-style" killing.
“That points to a higher likelihood, as witnesses corroborate, that he was surrendering to officers when the fatal shot was given,” said Daryl D. Parks, an attorney for Brown’s family. “That pretty much shows that the officer shot him execution style.”
Previously. Read the rest
Xeni Jardin / 12:44 pm Thu, Aug 14, 2014
US AG Holder on Ferguson: Police must 'seek to reduce tensions, not heighten them.'
“At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message,” US Attorney General Eric Holder said today on events in Ferguson.
"Law enforcement response to these demonstrations must seek to reduce tensions, not heighten them. Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told."
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President Obama talks w Attorney Gen. Eric Holder about the situation in Ferguson, Missouri: http://t.co/uRNFI8Glud pic.twitter.com/kI2TPCbn5H
— petesouza (@petesouza) August 14, 2014
President Obama speaking on Iraq & Ferguson from the Edgartown School pic.twitter.com/xJxtTjO6Ui
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) August 14, 2014
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Bill to build Grand Canyon tram goes before Navajo lawmakers
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation lawmakers are scheduled to take up legislation to build an aerial tram into the Grand Canyon next week.
Navajo Nation Council spokesman Jared Touchin says the Grand Canyon Escalade is the only item on Tuesday’s special session agenda so far.
The legislation introduced last year has struggled to gain widespread support.
Developers say the project would revitalize the region’s economy. Opponents say it would desecrate the area.
The tram would carry visitors from the Grand Canyon’s eastern edge 3,200 feet down to the Colorado River in 10 minutes.
The Navajo Nation would have to invest $65 million to start the project.
The full Tribal Council has not voted on the project. Approval requires a two-thirds vote of lawmakers meeting in Window Rock.
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Warriors sign Melbourne Storm utility back Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad on two-year deal
Last updated 16:18, October 23 2015
The Warriors have made another addition to their NRL squad for 2016, signing young Melbourne Storm utility Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad on a two-year contract.
It tops off a memorable week for the 20-year-old, who made a try-scoring test debut for the Cook Islands in last Saturday night's 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifier against Tonga.
Nicoll-Klokstad has scored 16 tries in 37 appearances for the Storm's under-20 side over the past two years and was named Melbourne's under-20 back of the year and also received the Greg Brentnall Young Achievers' Award.
The Auckland-born player will bring backline versatility to the Warriors' squad, given he can play in the halves, centres and fullback, as well as on the wing.
"Charnze is a player we've been interested in for a while," said Warriors recruitment and development manager Tony Iro.
"He consistently impressed as an NYC player and now takes the next step up. He gives us an option for a lot of positions and certainly has the potential to become an NRL player."
Nicoll-Klokstad started playing rugby league with Mount Albert, Richmond and the City Newton Dragons where one of his team-mates was 2015 Junior Warriors captain Toafofoa Sipley. The pair will now be team-mates in the Warriors' NRL squad.
His surname provides an interesting back story, with his mother of Cook Islands-Norwegian extraction, while his father is Maori.
Nicoll-Klokstad is the sixth player signed to join the Warriors for the 2016 season, following Kiwi internationals Roger Tuivasa-Sheck and Issac Luke plus Ligi Sao, Blake Ayshford, Henare Wells and Jeff Robson.
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Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad Q&A
For the last two years Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad formed an important part of the Melbourne Storm U-20 side, scoring 16 tries in 37 appearances where he regularly played across every backline position.
At 20 he is already an international, having made his Test debut for the Cook Islands in their 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifier against Tonga last year.
We caught up with the new Warrior to see how he is adjusting to life at Mt Smart Stadium as he pushes for a first-grade debut in 2016.
How are you enjoying being back on Kiwi soil?
It’s all good, between the staff and all the boys at the Warriors I have found making the transition has been as easy as possible. The boys have been really welcoming.
I am enjoying it heaps, especially getting to play locally on my hometown fields and having my family come and watch. That was something that I missed heaps but I am able to do it now.
I was able to put on a few kilos over the off-season so that will help through the early rounds. I put on 4kgs through extra gym work and keeping on top of my diet.
Tell us about where you grew up and played your junior footy before heading over to Australia.
I have lived all over Auckland, I had heaps of junior clubs growing up. I played for Mt Albert, Glenora, Waitemata and my first club was City Newton.
I know a few of the boys here at the Warriors now from playing with and against them when we were kids. Patrick Sipley (Warriors Intrust Super Premiership player) is one of the guys I grew up with.
You have been through the Melbourne development system, have you noticed any differences between the way they do things and the way the Warriors do?
There’s no real difference, everything is scheduled out for us and everything is on time. You can’t really point out a difference between the two clubs.
What’s been the best part of being back in Auckland?
Just being able to be with Kiwis and be boys with everyone, especially when we are off the paddock and everyone is laughing around and having a joke.
But in saying that the 20’s team I was with in Melbourne, three-quarters of them were from New Zealand so it sort of feels the same I guess.
I have a few siblings over in Australia. But my parents are down in Taupo and I have aunties and uncles in Auckland so it’s nice being back close to them as well.
There are some star players at the Warriors with guys like Simon Mannering, Shaun Johnson and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, who have you been learning the most off so far?
Probably Roger because he is more the position I have been training in all pre-season. All of his talk and the specific communication he brings to the team, I have kind of stood back and watched all he has done with that.
Even all the other blokes who aren’t really senior players – Charlie Gubb and those guys – I have been learning a lot off them.
You can play anywhere in the back five and also in the halves, do you have a preference and how do you view that versatility?
I don’t really have a preference. Wherever the opportunity pops up I will take it with both hands.
That versatility is a strength and weakness. The strength being I can play any position so wherever there is an opportunity I will take it.
Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad (left) at a fan event with Ken Maumalo. Photo: warriors.kiwi
Since arriving back at the Warriors you have been re-connecting with your faith as well, how important has that been for you?
In the pre-season I started going to a group called e-connect which is a group where we kind of talk about our relationship with god and stuff. I have got that bond with those boys here who share that relationship with god like Roger (Tuivasa-Sheck) and Charlie (Gubb), and that is something I enjoy going to.
It’s something that I guess I have been missing. To come back to that is special and I am enjoying it.
Over in Melbourne there was just a few of my family over there and my mum was here – she is one who is usually always trying to get me to go to church. I never really went to church over there until one of the young boys Zion Ioka (former Kelston Boys’ High School halfback) came over and we started going together.
It helps with all the pressures. Being able to give it over to his hands it takes a weight off your shoulders.
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One of the advantages of finally getting a home game we get our lower grades shown. A couple of players will be of some interest to see run around in-terms of pushing the first graders. Also interested to see how this kid goes.
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I'm fascinated to see how this fella goes. He looks like a really gifted athlete and is from quite a different mould to our usual backline prospects.
Can he defend? That is the question.
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i'm intrigued by this bloke... he might be someone special
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I think he will be... and the part that sets him out from others, especially in the positions he covers, is his aggression. That highlights package from the Storm - half of it is him putting on huge shots, and making big defensive efforts. You combine that with a pretty amazing step, agility and vision, and there's huge potential there.
I think they just need to work out what his best position is going to be, and stick with it. Personally, I'd like to see him in the centres.
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InsideBall said:
There were a couple of sections of that video where I swear he ran almost identically to Nigel Vagana... if he is anywhere near as good it would be amazing
How good would he look on that left edge, with that offload and step of his... Certainly bring Manu into the game. And I love the D from this kid. He also always seems to be alive with the play, which is something our players can be atrocious at.
Lot to like about this kid.
Certainly looks a prospect. One try there was very SJ with the show and go. Unusual for someone in the U20 to have defence at that level although, it is the Storm. I'm really looking forward seeing this kid and also the other guy that did his hammy in the 9s play. Could be some astute buying there by Iro. I guess they are both Kiwis?
RLW suggested the Warriors should pick him just so TV and radio followers could have the amusing experience of hearing the Australian commentators trying to pronounce his surname...
All Hail Helen Keller, Patron Saint of Rugby League Officials.
mrblonde said:
Don’t need aussie, the stray dog will do it.
Speaking of which, I assume this means the return of D.Halligan for Sunday afternoon? I don’t really know why he does our games, they still have fly him out from Sydney. Wouldn’t fox sports now want one of their regulars to do it instead? Maybe no one else wants to spend 10 hours going to and from for a few hours of work.
Back to Charnze, he’s a bit of a rake and like all our backups, they don’t give them a fixed position, in 3 NSW cup team lists he’s been named at 6, then twice at 5, and in the trial seem to play mostly centre.
The kid reminds me of Halligan's old mate Jason Williams, most evasive Kiwi runner ever. Hope he gets a crack at centre this year.
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He was a jack of all backs at the Storm as well. From fullback to five eighth he played everywhere. Think he played mostly five eighth but never consistently.
Warriors really need to start identifying what position players like Charnze well be best at and stick them there. That way we dont get players like Carlos Tuimavave who never nail down a position. The club are doing it right now to Tuimoala Lolohea. It might suit the club but its in the players best future interests to specialise...
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So, what's the verdict on this kid after his first season here? I get virtually no opportunity to watch the ISP team play over here, so I've not had the chance to follow this kid as much as I'd like to?
How's he looking? Best position? Etc...
I'm really hoping that he pushes for FG next year. A back of five of him, RTS, Sol and Fus plus one more has WAY more balance to it than what we're currently getting served up.
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6 Again
He played between center and wing up until Henare Wells got injured, he was then slotted into the fullback role where he hit a purple patch of form so you could argue that's his best position and possibly part of the reason Wells is being moved on next season.
I rate CNK. Really tough player who always competes. Got a good footy head on him. Can do it all really. Good defender, can pass both ways well, not afraid to hit the line and seen him kick a bit too. It'll be make or break for him next season I reckon. He either cracks 1st Grade or never will...
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From what I have seen he reminds me of Nigel Vagana in some ways... I think he has all the tools
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I'm hoping he can make that right centre position his own (I think his actual best position is left centre, but Sol has that sown up). He's got a wicked offload, and step before the line, that opens up space beautifully. He's aggressive in D... Could be a real important piece next year.
Big wrap.
Be happy enough if he can crack a wing spot.
1. RTS
2. Fusitua
3. Ayshford
4. Kata
5. Klokstad
Would be fine with that.
This is off topic, but shecks insane running metres was supposed to offset the whole need for a prop on the wing thing, I don’t want to give cappy too much credit, but if he’s back 100% he might be less inclined to stick the big dinosaurs out wide.
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Jim Beam’s limited-edition, guitar-shaped decanter (L) is flying off the shelves. In the three quarters since the launch of Teacher’s Golden Thistle (R), Beam Suntory has been able to achieve a 5% market share in the segment.
The manufacture of alcoholic beverages in India – be it beer, wines or spirits – has seen rapid developments, with the trend being heavily biased towards craft drinks and unique experiences. Although the media has made familiar what small and mid-sized companies or start-ups are doing, Brews&Spirits takes a closer look at innovation by multi-nationals and large companies in the alcoholic beverages space in India.
The increasing tempo of innovations in the spirits and beer sectors in the country has witnessed local botanicals rise above the ordinary in craft gin, spiced rum, and single malts, all of which have also made rapid strides in the global markets.
There has been a sharp shift towards craft beer, led by brands like Geist, Gateway Brewing and White Rhino, of an explosion of microbreweries across metros, and the brew being packaged in different forms: on tap, in bottles, from kegs and cans.
There is also a revival of interest in native spirits derived from the likes of agave plant, mahua flower, toddy palm (coconut) sap and cashew pulp. There is growing awareness and liking for wines and ciders being made using not only locally grown grapes but also from Chikkoo (Sapota) and organically grown Kiwi.
The prospects for innovation appear ripe to us from a consumer sentiment – a new breed of well-travelled and well-heeled people are looking for new products and experiences. We talk of innovation in terms of new product development, their placement and branding, packaging and distribution.
Large companies, with a robust record of research and development, wealth of capital, marketing savvy, and distribution reach are best positioned to take advantage of the consumers’ thirst for novelty. So, what have they been up to lately?
Blending and packaging
According to Mr Rishi Walli, Head of Marketing at Beam Suntory India, his firm introduced a premium variant under the Teacher’s trademark called The Teacher’s Golden Thistle in 2018. It is a blend of selected single malt and grain malt whiskies aged in both American and European Oak barrels for a minimum of 12 years.
“We then finish it in in casks that previously held Islay single malt whiskies. The result is a double-matured, Islay cask finished 12-YO with a smooth and sophisticated smoky taste. The inspiration for this whisky was the Golden Thistle, the national flower of Scotland, which depicts strength and beauty,” he said.
It was launched in a new tapered bottle with an embossed thistle, a golden closure, a cork and a classy label. In the three quarters since its launch Beam Suntory has been able to achieve a 5% market share in the segment.
Packaging is a key lever that consumers use to navigate whisky brands. It becomes an even more important driver of pick up for a Bourbon in a Scotch dominated market.
Last year, in line with the live music association on Jim Beam, Beam Suntory introduced a guitar shaped decanter with every bottle.
“This unique decanter immediately created a disruption in the market and helped drive offtakes for the brand. This year again we have introduced a limited-edition guitar-shaped tin box which is flying off the shelves,” Rishi said.
‘Innovate or perish’: that is what Mr Sanjeev Banga, President (International Business), Radico Khaitan Ltd., believes. “It is true across industries, but especially in the premium lifestyle product categories. You need to constantly challenge the paradigm and stay ahead of the curve,” he said.
Radico Khaitan’s product lineup is about innovation, be it Magic Moments vodka, Morpheus brandy, or 8PM premium black rum. “All these products identified a gap in the market and addressed it, not only in terms of the spirits but also their packaging and positioning,” he said.
But his pride resides in the launch of Rampur single malt whisky and Jaisalmer craft gin. “A lot of research went into finalising the blend for all expressions of Rampur. The packaging was again innovative: elegant, understated luxury with an Indian touch,” he emphasised.
Jaisalmer has taken innovation to even higher levels – of the 11 botanicals used in its preparation, seven have been handpicked from all four corners of India. “The ancient Indian knowledge of herbs is all evident in this exotic and mystical blend,” he pointed out.
Product with potential
Who introduced Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc wine grape varieties in India? Who is the first in the country to produce a Zinfandel, Riesling and grape brandy? Who ushered in wine tourism and vineyard resorts in our backyards? Who initiated the country’s only gourmet music festival? If your answer is Sula Vineyards, Bingo!
Mr Chaitanya Rathi, Chief Operating Officer of Sula Vineyards, said innovation is in the DNA of the company. “In the early 1990s no one knew or cared much about India. It was not then the economic powerhouse it is today. When we opened our first bottle in 2000, we knew we had a product with potential,” he recalled.
Sula Vineyards first brought Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc wine grape varieties to the country, and made India’s first Riesling too. It went on to become the first Indian wine company to have sold over 1 million wine cases.
“We opened the doors to the first ever wine tasting room in 2005 for people to come and experience wine making. The brand also inaugurated the first vineyard resort, ‘Beyond by Sula’ in 2010, and the first heritage winery resort, ‘The Source at Sula’ in 2017.
Recently Sula introduced Stelvin metal screw caps to replace the traditional cork caps on all varieties of its wine bottles.
Refresh, relaunch
When it comes to product innovation in the industry, the beer and premium spirits category has seen a lot of new players, whereas innovation in the mainstream spirits industry has been historically slow, admitted Mr Nitesh Chhapru, Chief Innovation Officer, Diageo India.
There are challenges in the regime of high taxes and duties that make mainstream spirits the most expensive consumer product category. Margins for spirits companies are constantly under pressure with flat purchase prices paid by state-owned distribution firms on existing brands, he noted.
“Rising input costs, coupled with increasing retailer margins, are a major deterrent to innovation. Now private alcohol distributors who own multiple retail chains have started to venture out with new regional brands in mainstream spirits to cater to new emerging tastes and preferences,” he added.
Over the last 4 years, Diageo has refreshed and re-launched some of its biggest mainstream brands – from Royal Challenge and McDowells to Bagpiper, Signature and Antiquity – all of which have seen significant growth. “Royal Challenge has grown from 2 million cases to 6 million cases in the last 4 years after its re-launch with a newer, bolder liquid,” Nitesh noted.
Back to yeast
Yeast has always been a key ingredient in Scotch whisky; but over the years, its impact on taste has been all but forgotten, and emphasis placed on other aspects of whisky-making.
With a background in yeast physiology, Glenmorangie’s Director of Distilling, Whisky Creation & Whisky Stocks, Dr Bill Lumsden, has always remained keenly aware of yeast’s potential.
Now, in the collection’s rich, fruity 10th release, Glenmorangie Allta, the distillery reveals the importance of yeast to Scotch whisky’s myriad flavours. It is exclusively available in Delhi Duty-Free.
For a decade, Glenmorangie has invited whisky aficionados to explore its passion for innovation through an acclaimed series of rare and intriguing limited-edition single malts.
“There was a perceived snob value to aged single malts. However, a great whisky is not about its age beyond a point, but about how it tastes. All our experimentation, therefore, is with different ways in which to create different flavours,” said Bill.
He believes innovation in the field of maturation and wood selection will continue, including primary production aspect of Scotch whisky distillation. Bill received the Master Distiller of the Year award by International Whisky Competition 2019 for the 3rd time in the last 4 years.
Previously he has been awarded for his innovation in making of the Glenmorangie Signet (2016) and the Ardbeg Kelpie (2017).
Ageing processes
Being an industry highly regulated by the government producers need to asses each initiative in great detail. Pricing in each state is different, and so are channels of distribution and revenue models. What might work in one state might not in another due to policies of each government, said Mr Sumit Jaiswal, Head of Marketing and Exports at Grover Zampa.
“So we need to evaluate lot of factors, and not just see gaps and evolving tastes and preferences. But in our endeavour to offer the highest quality of fine wines to consumers we still see some initiatives as brand building for our wineries as well,” he said.
His company has recently invested heavily in ensuring modernisation of winery by introducing global technological innovations. Optical sorting machines have been put to use; concrete tanks have been installed for the first in India; there has been an introduction of amphorae and wooden vats in excess of 500 litres.
“Besides, Grover Zampa has launched single vineyard wines like Insignia, and the barrel fermented and aged sparkling wine, La Reserve Royale Brut. Many new varietals are in the pipeline, which will be driven by process innovation of ageing,” Sumit added.
New avatars
Diageo’s Nitesh says the need of the hour is to make its Scotch whisky portfolio available for the next generation of consumers in a sophisticated, yet premium avatar.
Belvedere is seen as pushing the boundaries with the launch of its Single Estate Rye Series in October 2017. Two distinct vodkas – Smogory Forest and Lake Bartezek, each named for the village of the estate – have been crafted to capture the distinctive essence of their respective terroirs (soil, topography and climate).
It claims that climate variation affects the taste yielded from the same superior Polish Dankowskie Diamond Rye used in each unique expression. In addition to this, Belvedere’s ‘Re-learn Natural’ programme continues to engage with consumers on how they can make cocktails using organic and natural ingredients.
These ‘Big Boys’ differ in their execution abilities, in terms of manufacturing capacities, elaborate supply chains, extensive sales and distribution networks. Aren’t they better geared for mass products?
But Rishi of Beam Suntory responded: “As consumer needs get driven by occasions, affordability and group familiarity, companies will need to be better equipped to manage the complexity of creating products that address specific consumer needs. It will mean innovating supply chain to create profitable business models that are self-sustaining.”
As a company Diageo enjoys a distinct advantage of strong brand portfolio across price points, combined with scale of operations and capability. “This allows us to innovate across large mainstream spirits, as well as niche, premium and luxury spirits in India,” noted Nitesh.
As for Sula Vineyards, apart from making world class wine, the company has also spread wings in other alcohol beverages like whisky and gin through its import arm, Sula Selections; which houses some of the world’s most renowned brands.
With single malts now being consumed by an increasingly diverse demographic, including women, Mr Thomas Moradpour, President and CEO of The Glenmorangie Company, said: “Whisky making needs two minds. You need to have one eye on the present – with a finger on the pulse of culture, of trends, of new behaviour – but also an eye on the next generation; thinking about consumers not born yet.”
Sula Vineyards boasts a broad portfolio of over 30 wines, and is present in every part of the country (barring the dry states). It also exports to over 30 countries, including Germany, Japan, the USA, France and Italy.
According to Chaitanya, Sula will be the most sustainable winery in Asia by the year 2021 by adopting a 360-degree approach to wine making. “From the seeds to the final sip, we take utmost care to minimise negative impact on the ecosystem,” he said.
More than 75% of the energy requirements at Sula facilities are met through solar power, 90% of the packaging is recyclable, and almost all of the waste water generated is reused.
The wine market in India has been growing at around 30% annually over the last 10 years and is expected to grow at a startling rate in future. “With time, the market is becoming more acceptable and mature to accept innovative products, with people willing to spend and try different beverages,” Chaitanya added.
Although Indian consumers are still evolving with reference to taste and preferences for wines, there exists niche that is very well versed with wines. “This market will further evolve as disposable incomes increase and international tourism increases both for business and leisure,” said Sumit of Grover Zampa.
The market may not be big at the moment, but Grover is driven by its passion for innovation and investing now for the future. The recent launch of Insignia and Vendages Tardives from its Bengaluru winery, and the acquisition of Charosa and Four Seasons recently, are ample demonstration of that.
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‘The Horrid Popish Plot’: Roger L’Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Peter Hinds
The Popish plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and re-introduce the Catholic faith to England. Despite it being a fiction, belief in the plot became widespread and many innocent Catholics were sent to their deaths. Moving away from the focus of recent histories of the plot, which remain predominately in the realms of parliamentary discussion, courts of law and the councils of the King, this volume considers how details of the plot circulated more broadly. It investigates the many media used, primarily print, but also manuscript and word-of-mouth, for instance in b ... More
The Popish plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and re-introduce the Catholic faith to England. Despite it being a fiction, belief in the plot became widespread and many innocent Catholics were sent to their deaths. Moving away from the focus of recent histories of the plot, which remain predominately in the realms of parliamentary discussion, courts of law and the councils of the King, this volume considers how details of the plot circulated more broadly. It investigates the many media used, primarily print, but also manuscript and word-of-mouth, for instance in books, pamphlets, newspapers, and ballads. The most prolific commentator on the Popish plot was Roger L'Estrange, the press censor during the reigns of Charles II and James II. L'Estrange was interested in the working of the London book trade at this time, and as one who did not believe there was a Popish plot, wrote prolifically in order publicly to cast doubt upon it. L'Estrange's writings provide us with valuable insights into the production, dissemination, and reception of political opinion in this period. Drawing on the insights of literary studies, political history, and the history of the book, reading this volume will further understanding in how belief in such an extraordinary plot took hold amongst so many.
Keywords: Popish plot, Catholic conspiracy, Charles II, print media, press censorship, books, pamphlets, newspapers, ballads
Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197264430.001.0001
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Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your Throats cut ere you will believe?’:1 Popish Plot(s)
Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:1 Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:1 Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:1 Jesuits and Protestantism
Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:1 Edward Coleman’s Letters
Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:1 Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:1 Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)*
Appendix 3 The Test Acts*
Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’*
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August 24, 2016 / 12:17 AM / 3 years ago
Double joy as mother of only giant panda twins in U.S. pregnant again
David Beasley
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The mother of the only giant panda twins in the United States may soon deliver a second set of twins, Zoo Atlanta said on Tuesday, capping off an eventful month for lovers of the fluffy black and white bears across the globe.
Three years ago, mother bear Lun Lun gave birth to female cubs Mei Lun and Mei Huan, who are still at the Georgia zoo but could be returned this fall to China, which owns them, zoo spokeswoman Rachel Davis said.
An ultrasound on Monday confirmed that Lun Lun, who turns 19 years old on Thursday, is once again pregnant with twins, the zoo said.
Delivery of the new twins could be in the next few weeks, Davis said, calling the pregnancy a surprise.
Panda pregnancies, famously rare in captivity and outside of China, are notoriously hard to establish or predict. The rarest member of the bear family with roughly 1,864 in the wild, pandas live mainly in bamboo forests high in the mountains of western China, where they subsist almost entirely on bamboo leaves.
News of the pregnancy comes as twin panda cubs born at a zoo in Vienna, Austria, turned 16 days old on Tuesday and were said to be fit and healthy - and very cute.
In China, twin panda cubs, a male and a female, were born at a breeding research base in southwest Sichuan province on Aug. 9, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
In Atlanta, Lun Lun was impregnated by artificial insemination on March 28, the zoo said.
There is no guarantee the birth will be successful since a condition known as fetal resorption, or Vanishing Twin Syndrome, in which a fetus dies before it is born, is “not uncommon” in pandas, the zoo said.
If Lun Lun’s second set of twins survive, they will be her sixth and seventh cubs, Davis said.
Newborn panda cubs are very vulnerable, being about the size of a stick of butter, according to the World Wildlife Fund. They can grow to up to 330 pounds (149.69 kg) as an adult.
FILE PHOTO: Giant Panda Lun Lun relaxes as her twin panda cubs Mei Lun and Mei Huan sleep at her feet at the Atlanta Zoo in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo
While about half of all panda deliveries are twins, mothers in the wild typically only care for one cub, Zoo Atlanta said.
“Advances in animal care and veterinary care in zoos have resulted in successful rearing of twins both in the zoological population in China and in zoos outside China,” Zoo Atlanta said in a statement.
While the zoo will be closely watching Lun Lun, the rest of the world can also keep an eye on her and perhaps watch her give birth over a live camera streamed at www.zooatlanta.org.
Reporting by David Beasley; Editing by Eric M. Johnson and Sandra Maler
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Hero Splendor iSmart BS6 launched at Rs 64,900
in Bikes, Hero
In keeping with its concerted efforts towards bringing innovative and technologically advanced products for customers, Hero MotoCorp, the world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, today launched India’s first BS-VI compliant motorcycle – the new Splendor iSmart.
The Splendor iSmart is being launched in the market within a few months of Hero MotoCorp becoming the first two-wheeler manufacturer in the country to receive the BS-VI certificate from iCAT.
In addition to featuring India’s first BS-VI compliant (110cc) FI engine, the new Splendor iSmart delivers an added punch with its higher torque, at a higher fuel efficiency. The new motorcycle is designed to take on every challenge with its an all new diamond frame with increased front suspension travel, higher ground-clearance to take on any road and longer wheel-base for greater stability.
The new contemporary and youthful Splendor iSmart also offers a best-in-category value proposition to the customers who are seeking more with every ride. The next generation of Hero’s iconic brand – the BS-VI Splendor iSmart – draws inspiration from the core brand attributes of innovation, tech-excellence, style and trustworthiness, which have established a strong connect with customers the world over.
The retail sales of the Splendor iSmart – attractively priced at Rs. 64,900/-*, is expected to commence at Hero MotoCorp dealerships in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) within the next few days. The motorcycle will gradually be available at the Company’s dealerships across the country over the next few weeks.
(*Price ex-showroom Delhi)
Available in three vibrant tones – Techno Blue & Black, Sports Red & Black and Force Silver & Heavy Grey – the new Splendor iSmart makes a strong first impression. The motorcycle is available in two variants – Self Drum Cast and Self Disc Cast (added BS-VI onwards).
Unveiling the motorcycle here today, Malo Le Masson, Head – Global Product Planning, Hero MotoCorp, said,
The Splendor iSmart is a clear testimony to the immense progress we have made in scaling up our in-house R&D capabilities in a short span of time. This is the first BS-VI compliant motorcycle homologated in the country with a new engine family, and a new chassis design, completely designed and developed at our Centre of Innovation and Technology (CIT) in Jaipur. Conforming to stringent BS-VI emission norms, while improving the performance capabilities, style quotient and riding experience of the motorcycle is a remarkable feat. All these, under the successful Splendor franchise provide a highly appealing proposition for the customers. This marks the commencement of the transition of our product range to BS-VI norms.
Sanjay Bhan, Head – Sales, After Sales and Parts, Hero MotoCorp, said,
The launch plan for our BS-VI products has been strategically developed keeping in mind the interest of our customers and the demographic dynamics of the market. The Splendor iSmart will be made available in a phased manner across the country as we steadily ramp-up production. The price of this motorcycle is a directional guidance of the price points of our upcoming BS-VI vehicles, which will be launched sequentially in the coming months. We will be rolling-out an exciting multimedia campaign for the new Splendor iSmart BS-VI to connect with our customers.
THE NEW HERO SPLENDOR iSMART (BS6)
India’s First BS-VI Compliant FI Engine
Centered around clean mobility, the all new Splendor iSmart comes with a 110cc BS-VI Compliant Fuel Injection engine with optimum calibration – delivering an impressive power output of 9 BHP @ 7500 RPM and an enhanced torque on demand value of 9.89 NM at 5500 RPM. The new motorcycle features the revolutionary i3S technology and promises a superior ride, every time, with its added emphasis on fuel efficiency.
Superior drive and control
Challenging new limits, the all new diamond chassis offers superior strength, rigidity and responsive handling on any terrain. With +15mm front suspension, 180mm ground clearance and +36mm wheelbase, the motorcycle gets added comfort and stability to ride through rough terrains.
Style 2.0
The new body with modern look and Dual Tone imagery enhances the youthful and modern appeal of the motorcycle.
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Ben Edelstein Follow Founder @LogRocket, formerly @Google.
Recreating the Chrome Console in React
June 14, 2017 4 min read 1355
One of the core features of LogRocket is the replay of console and Redux logs in production web apps. To do this, you add the LogRocket SDK to your app which sends logs to LogRocket. Then, when triaging a bug or user issue, you can replay the logs in LogRocket to see what went wrong.
When we first designed the log viewer, we went through a number of design iterations, but eventually settled on replicating the look and feel of the Chrome console. After all, developers are already used to working with this interface, so why reinvent the wheel?
It turns out that re-building the Chrome console for LogRocket was no simple task, since our use case involved a number of complexities not present in Chrome’s implementation. In this piece, I’ll discuss how we used apollo-client,react-virtualized and react-measure to build a performant and maintainable log viewer.
Initial Design Concerns
The high-level design concerns for our log viewer were as follows:
Smooth scroll performance
Building a long list that scrolls smoothly isn’t trivial, but it’s crucial for a pleasant user experience. Since a session could potentially have thousands of logs, we knew that we’d need to build a virtual list where DOM nodes are unmounted when they leave the viewport.
User-interactive JSON tree
Expanding objects in the Chrome Console
Like the Chrome javascript console, users should be able to expand objects that were logged. This was an important interaction to get right since developers are used to the mechanics of the Chrome console.
Lazy-loaded object expansion
Like the console API, LogRocket makes it possible to log anything in JavaScript. This means that we needed to support arbitrarily large objects or arrays. It was clear that we couldn’t load all of a session’s logs at once, since this query could be massive. Instead, we have to load log data on demand when a user expands a log entry.
This is a departure from how the Chrome console works (where all data is already in memory), which meant that we would need a loading state and error handling for failed queries.
Persisted State
The state of the log viewer should be persisted when the component unmounts and re-mounts. Basically, the state can’t be kept at the component level and should be stored in Redux.
Building a virtual list with React-Virtualized
When rendering a very long list, it is often prohibitively expensive to keep all items in the DOM, since each node requires a fixed amount of memory. To solve this problem, you can build a virtual list, where each item is only rendered when it is actually visible.
There are a number of React libraries that facilitate this, but the most feature-rich and robust is react-virtualized. It provides a host of utility components for building virtual lists, grids, and tables. It has an active community of contributors and a slack group that is very helpful for discussing issues.
react-virtualized only renders visible rows or rows in an “overscan” radius to make for smooth scrolling. Image by @brian_d_vaughn
react-virtualized bypasses the browser’s layout engine to determine where to arrange items. As you scroll through a list, it looks at the current scroll position, and determines which items are in the viewport. It then renders those items, and uses absolute positioning to place each row in the correct place. As such, it can freely mount and unmount rows without affecting the positioning of subsequent rows.
One caveat of this approach is that rows with dynamic height are a bit tricky to implement. In a standard flow-based layout, or with Flexbox, if an item in a list grows in height, the browser will push down the subsequent items to make room.react-virtualized, however, needs to be notified whenever an element’s height changes so it can adjust the absolute positioning of subsequent items.
Lets take a look at the basic props of the <List /> component:
width, height
react-virtualized needs to know the width and height of the list viewport in order to do its calculations. If your list isn’t fixed in width or height, there are helper components for hydrating these values.
The number of rows in the list.
If all rows in the list have a fixed height, this value can be a number. If the height of each row is different, rowHeight can be a function which returns the height of a given row by index. More on this later.
rowRenderer
This is a function that takes in index (and some other non-essential props) and returns the row to render. A simple implementation might look like this:
Notice that react-virtualized doesn’t actually take in the list itself as a prop. Simply knowing the length of the list and having a rowRenderer function that can render a given row is all it needs!
I’m not going to describe every detail of our console implementation since much of it is a standard application of react-virtualized, but there are a few bits where we diverged that are interesting.
Row Heights
As I described earlier, react-virtualized takes a prop rowHeight which is a function that returns the height of a row at a given index.
In this screenshot of the LogRocket log viewer, notice that there are 2 states for each row: default, and expanded. When a row is in the default pre-expanded state, it’s height is fixed at 22px tall. However, when a row is expanded, its height varies as the user expands different subtrees of the object.
We needed a way to write a rowHeight function that handles dynamic height rows- something like this:
In order to implement getExpandedRowHeight in the above psuedo-code, there were two potential options.
Guarantee deterministic height of an expanded object
To achieve this, we would have needed to design the object tree view component from the ground up to make its height a pure function of the subtrees that are expanded. Put another way, we could write a function that takes in a list of the expanded subtrees in an object, and have it return the height.
In theory this is doable, but there are number of complications. It is difficult to account for text that overflows to the next line, as this increases the height of the object. Also, making this guarantee would make it difficult to iterate on the look and feel of the log viewer since changes to things like margins and padding would need to be adjusted for.
Use react-measure
Instead, we opted to use a library called react-measure which provides a helpful abstraction for writing components that are aware of their own height.
react-measure wraps a given component and takes a prop, onResize which is a function that is called whenever the component’s size changes.
In our case, whenever the size of a given row changes, we dispatch a Redux action which stores the height of that row in Redux. Then in our rowHeight function, we simply get the height of the row from Redux, and react-virtualized can render it properly.
There is a small performance penalty to this approach, since react-measure uses the DOM resize-observer API which isn’t implemented natively in all browsers, but in practice this is fairly minimal.
Apollo Client
To handle data fetching, we use apollo-client which is a GraphQL client that works nicely in React apps. When a user clicks on a log entry to see the full object, the log entry goes into a loading state which has a fixed height.
Apollo makes a request to the backend and then populates the data in the Redux store. This then triggers react-virtualized to update and the row height changes when the data is filled in.
Object Inspection
To let users explore logged objects, we looked at a few different off-the-shelf components, but eventually chose react-inspector. This library includes a host of components for logging objects and DOM nodes. We did, however, end up forking the library in order to build a controlled version (so we could keep state in Redux).
Full visibility into production React apps
Debugging React applications can be difficult, especially when users experience issues that are difficult to reproduce. If you’re interested in monitoring and tracking Redux state, automatically surfacing JavaScript errors, and tracking slow network requests and component load time, try LogRocket.
LogRocket is like a DVR for web apps, recording literally everything that happens on your React app. Instead of guessing why problems happen, you can aggregate and report on what state your application was in when an issue occurred. LogRocket also monitors your app's performance, reporting with metrics like client CPU load, client memory usage, and more.
The LogRocket Redux middleware package adds an extra layer of visibility into your user sessions. LogRocket logs all actions and state from your Redux stores.
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DxOMark Rates Canon EOS-5D Mark IV Camera Sensor
Canon EOS-5D Mark IV full frame DSLR camera
I have just returned from my Southern Africa wildlife photo shoot testing the Canon EOS-1D X Mark II camera. You can follow my travels on Twitter and Facebook. Beginning to get back to my daily routine, processing the photos and keeping my readers up to date on the latest photography news.
The recently announced EOS-5D Mark IV was tested by DxOMark and they gave it a very high mark. For those who are into engineering and lab specs, below is the comparison with other Canon models. I am more interested in real world performance and will not be buying this camera since it is essentially a little brother to the EOS-1D X Mark II plus I already own the EOS-5Ds. Below is an excerpt from the DxOMark review.
Canon’s iconic EOS 5D series of full-frame DSLRs have had wide appeal with both pro and enthusiast photographers, blending great image quality and good features in a more affordable mid-range body design. Boasting a significant number of upgrades over its predecessor, including increased resolution, an updated autofocus system, Dual Pixel RAW capture, improved metering and 4K-video capture, the latest Mark IV looks like a mouth-watering prospect for the still photographer.
Full Frame Dual Sensor, great features
Built around a new 30.4Mp full-frame CMOS sensor, capturing 6720 x 4480 pixel stills in 3:2 aspect ratio, the 5D Mark IV offers a notable increase in resolution over the 22.3Mp 5D Mark III. For many Canon enthusiasts frustrated with the more modest resolution increase between the 5D Mark II and III versions, this will be a very welcome bump in resolution that brings the 5D Mark IV more in line with some of the recent high-resolution Sony and Nikon competition.
The autofocus system from Canon’s flagship EOS 1D X Mark II has filtered down to the 5D Mark IV, which now offers greater focus coverage, with more of its 61 targets located at the top and bottom of the frame. Forty-one of these targets are the more accurate cross-type variety, including 5 dual cross-type targets at f/2.8 and 21 cross-type targets at f/8. This promises snappy AF with all Canon EF lenses and teleconverters, although the number of cross-type and dual cross-type targets will vary depending on the lens used. That’s not the only focusing trick Canon has pulled out with the 5D Mark IV either, which also features a Dual Pixel RAW mode that allows photographers to fine-tune the focus in post-production. By recording two 30.4Mp RAW files, photographers can apply fine focusing tweaks including “image micro adjustment,” “bokeh shift,” and “ghosting reduction” using Canon’s own Digital Photo Professional software, which is supplied with the camera.
The 252-zone / 150,000-pixel RGB+IR metering system is also from the EOS 1D X Mark II and is another notable upgrade compared to the 63-zone system in the 5D Mark III. The frame rate has increased, too, now up to 7fps with AE and AF tracking, and the 5D Mark IV will record JPEGs until the storage is full, or 21 RAW files in a continuous burst. In Live View mode, the frame rate is a little slower at 4.3fps, but the 5D Mark IV now offers full continuous autofocus tracking during burst shooting in Live View. The 3.2-inch LCD screen has been upgraded to a higher-resolution 1.6m-dot version with convenient touchscreen control. The LCD screen remains a fixed unit, however, and so doesn’t offer the pop-out or articulating controls often sought after for shooting video and for composing stills at awkward angles, or in bright light.
For video, the 5D Mark IV records 4K at 24/30fps, Full HD up to 60fps or standard HD at 100/120fps, which will allow quarter-speed slow-motion movies. While higher-resolution video capture is certainly a welcome addition, the 5D Mark IV records 4K in a 1.64x “crop mode,” which means it uses only part of the sensor and affects the focal length of the lens – something photographers looking to switch quickly between film and stills capture may find frustrating.
With feedback from Canon photographers requesting improved dynamic range, as well as some encouraging DxOMark scores from the recent EOS 80D and 1D X Mark II sensors, we were excited to see how the new Canon EOS 5D Mark IV would fare in the lab. Read on as we round up the analyzed and verified scores in our full review.
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Festival Open Mic: Mike Jenkins, Eric Ngalle Charles and Ifor ap Glyn
Location: Marble Hall
Bring a single poem to share with us!
MERTHYR POETS from the IMP, hosted by Mike Jenkins and featuring regular guests: Eric Ngalle Charles and Ifor ap Glyn. Poetry in Welsh, English and Bakweri. Bring a single poem to share with us.
With musical interludes from Merthyr resident Eädyth.
In October 2018 three Wales-based poets travelled to the west African country of Cameroon, the homeland of Eric Charles, in order to launch an anthology of Welsh/Cameroonian writing. These new poems are a unique record of their journey as the poets encounter a lively, contentious and fast-moving nation and make sense of this in their own distinctive ways.
The three poets will read a selection of these artful, challenging, beautifully observant poems that offer the reader a glimpse of a fascinating country through the eyes, ears and hearts of these talented poets. There are dark moments but interspersed throughout is a compelling humanity, exemplified by the vivid street-life of Cameroon, as observed by all. With musical interludes from Merthyr resident Eädyth.
£3 entry fee, Merthyr residents free!
Mike Jenkins
Poet, author, editor, retired teacher of English, still doing creative writing workshops with children and adults. Winner of many prizes including Eric Gregory Award & Wales Book of the Year for a collection of short stories Wanting to Belong (Seren).
Former editor Poetry Wales; co-edited Red Poets for 26 years. His latest book of poems is From Aberfan to Grenfell written in Merthyr dialect and part of a collaboration with Swansea artist Alan Perry (Culture Matters). He is also an activist in Indy movement, Yes Cymru. Cardiff City fan.
Mike hosts OPEN MIC MERTHYR poets from the IMP at the festvial on Friday 14th Feb, 7:30 with Ifor ap Glyn, Eric Ngalle Charles and Eädyth.
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Eric Ngalle Charles is a Cameroon-born writer, poet, actor and playwright based in Wales. A fellow of the leadership network British-American Project, he currently sits on the Board of Directors for Literature Wales.
Ngalle Charles is one of the Hay 30 young writers who will help shape the world over the next three decades. He holds a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales for his research into migration, memory and trauma.
A recent work is the Wales Cameroon anthology Hiraeth-Erzolirzoli. His plays have been performed at London Southbank Centre, Hay Festival, Llandeilo Festival and many more.
He has published a moving memoir, I, Eric Charles, with Parthian books and has performed his poetry throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.
Ifor ap Glyn is a regular broadcaster in Welsh and English and since 2016, the current Bardd Cenedlaethol or National Poet of Wales. He has published five volumes of poetry, most recently the bilingual collection Cuddle Call? and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Ifor is an active performer, and has taken part on many poetry tours, most recently Y Gadair Wag / The Empty Chair which toured around Wales with dates in London, Belfast and Dublin.
He has won the Crown at the National Eisteddfod, in 1999 and 2013, and as National Poet is proud to represent the literatures of Wales in festivals around the world from Blackwood to Beijing. Ifor visited Cameroon with Eric Ngalle and Mike Jenkins just over a year ago, which inspired some of the poems that he’ll present at this year’s festival in Cardiff.
Ifor was brought up in the Welsh community in London where his family have lived for over a century, and growing up in London was the subject of his first novel Tra Bo Dau. He now lives in Caernarfon, north Wales.
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Eädyth is a bilingual soul/Jazz/RnB electronic artistfrom Merthyr, South Wales. In 2017 she competed in the Can I Gymru, and came third in the Brwydr y bandiau at the National Eisteddfod in Anglesey. She performed at the March for Independence Rally in Merthyr on 7 September, 2019, with her sister, Kizzy Crawford.
Eädyth also appeared In the 2019 Poetry festival and we are thrilled to have her back. She is featured this year in the OPEN MIC MERTHYR poets from the IMP with Mike Jenkins, Ifor ap Glyn, and Eric Ngalle Charleson.
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Catholics raise $36,000 scholarship fund for Nick Sandmann
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Members of CatholicVote.org raised the money to 'to send a message' of support to Sandmann and his family
Catholics from across America have raised $36,100 for a scholarship fund for Nick Sandmann and his two younger siblings.
Members of the group CatholicVote raised the money after Sandmann and his family faced attacks in the national media as well as threats of violence amid the ongoing Covington Catholic High School fiasco.
The controversy started after a video uploaded to YouTube appeared to show Sandmann and fellow students ‘smirking’ at Native American activist Nathan Phillips during a confrontation at the Washington March for Life. The footage provoked condemnation in the national media, as well as violent threats against the students and their families.
However, later footage showed that Phillips actually approached the students, contradicting reports the students had surrounded him. They had also been provoked by a group called the Black Israelites, who shouted obscenities about the Catholic Church.
Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote, said Catholics understood that what happened to Sandmann could have happened to their own sons and daughters.
“The nasty attacks against Nick are a reminder of the darker side of left-wing mobs, fake news, and social media,” he said.
“The lionshare of the responsibility for this fiasco belongs to the media, yet many so-called Catholic leaders also share some blame. The rush to advance a particular narrative, before all the facts were known, is the result of a growing prejudice and hostility toward faithful Christians in America.”
“CatholicVote.org is proud to help in this small way to both offset some unexpected expenses and financial hardship for the Sandmann family, but more importantly to send a message that millions of Catholics are proud of Nick, and want to encourage other young people to follow his lead in standing up to the bullies in our culture that seek to shame and silence them.”
Several people who initially criticized Sandmann and the other students have since apologized, including the Bishop of Covington, who said: “We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it.”
“I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family as well as to all CovCath families who have felt abandoned during this ordeal,” the bishop added. “Nicholas unfortunately has become the face of these allegations based on video clips. This is not fair. This is not just.”
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Archbishop Chaput, model bishop for the New Evangelization
By George Weigel • The Catholic Difference • Posted October 2, 2019
Out on the Kansas plains, he was just turning 21 when the Second Vatican Council promulgated its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) and its Decree on the Pastoral Office of the Bishops in the Church (Christus Dominus).
So it’s unlikely that the Fathers of Vatican II had Charles Joseph Chaput in mind when they described the ideal diocesan bishop in the third millennium of Christian history — an evangelist, sanctifier, and governor who would accept those weighty responsibilities so that the Gospel might be proposed for the salvation of the world.
But, in God’s providence and through his own cooperation with grace, Archbishop Charles Chaput has lived the episcopal vocation the Council fathers limned in an exemplary way.
There is much talk of “collegiality” and “synodality” in some Catholic circles today; Archbishop Chaput has been a far more collaborative leader in Rapid City, Denver, and Philadelphia than many of those who talk that talk but walk a walk of episcopal autocracy.
Then there is the now-familiar trope about bishops having “the smell of the sheep;” Archbishop Chaput, a true gentleman, is far more accessible and far more amenable to input, suggestions, and even correction from those under his authority than some, appointed to high office under that ovine pastoral rubric, who barely know a sheep or two, much less smell like them.
Young Charles Chaput joined the Capuchin Franciscans because he admired their commitment to poverty, simplicity of life, service, and education. And over his 31 years as a bishop, he has remained faithful to his Capuchin vocation. He lives simply, teaches thoughtfully, hears confessions regularly, celebrates the sacraments reverently, and is, by the testimony of many who have worked with him in three quite different dioceses, a spectacularly good boss — the best they’ve ever had. That’s one reason why serious young Catholic professionals have cued up to work with and for him wherever he has been assigned.
And he has courage, the cardinal virtue that makes living the other cardinal virtues possible. Where other bishops have been hesitant to be labeled “culture warriors,” Chaput has preached the truth about the dignity of human life and what makes for genuine beatitude, here and hereafter, in and out of season, ignoring the epithets hurled at him by bears of little brain (and less integrity).
His penetrating analyses of what is demanded of serious Catholics in a hostile cultural environment have been spot-on, even as he has personally embodied the compassion and empathy that Christians must offer those wounded by that culture and its false promises of happiness.
Archbishop Charles Chaput is also a thoroughgoing churchman, a quality that reflects his deep life of prayer. He has consistently done what the Church has asked of him: first, by leaving religious life to accept the responsibilities of a bishop in rural South Dakota; then, by leaving Rapid City for Denver, where he built on the work of his predecessor, Cardinal James Francis Stafford, to create the North Atlantic world’s model New Evangelization archdiocese; and, ultimately, by leaving Denver to rescue a crumbling Archdiocese of Philadelphia and prepare a suitable welcome for Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in 2015, both of which he did at no small personal cost.
It is more than ironic — it is deeply disturbing — that, as Archbishop Chaput marked his 75th birthday on September 26 and formally submitted his resignation as archbishop of Philadelphia, voices in Rome were heard saying, in so many words, that the Chaput project is over. What on earth could these voices mean?
Archbishop Chaput’s work in Rapid City, Denver, and Philadelphia has been a glowing embodiment of the “Church permanently in mission” proclaimed by Pope Francis in what once seemed to be the programmatic document of his pontificate, Evangelii Gaudium [The Joy of the Gospel]. If the Chaput project is over, then Evangelii Gaudium and the Aparecida Document of the Latin American bishops that inspired it are dead letters.
An ugly and absurd cartoon of Catholicism in the United States — that we are a Church of rigid moralists and wealthy right-wing nuts — has infected Rome for several years. Archbishop Chaput has been a target of that viciousness. Those responsible for perpetrating the cartoon might remember that it was first peddled by Mr. Theodore McCarrick, who was never reluctant to trash Charles Chaput to anyone foolish enough to listen.
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After the confession of Lady Gaga that she is suffering and struggling from the rare known disease Fibromyalgia, the people are not believing her and criticizing her which makes her more vibrant and annoyed from them.
The American superstar and pop singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known as Lady Gaga, revealed last year about her struggle with fibromyalgia, the disease responsible for mood swings, severe muscular pain, exhaustion, faded memory, etc.
Gaga receiving enthusiastic reviews for her leading role in the remake of “a Star is Born” which is co-starred and directed by Bradly Cooper. Apparently, she seems fine and healthy as she was busy promoting the film, but she cut short her Europe tour because of her condition due to fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia or fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a chronic disorder in which the sufferer feels pain in a whole body, fatigue, stiffness in muscles, problem in mental processes such as lack of concentration or a memory and sleeping disorders. The patient feels different types of headaches like migraine etc., also some may diagnose with IBS – irritable bowel syndrome in which stomach aches or bloating experienced. Fibromyalgia is a long-term condition, sometimes miss understood due to common symptoms of other diseases.
There is no such cure is discovered for fibromyalgia, but treating the symptoms separately relieves the patient to some extent. Few combinations are prescribed to the sufferers such as,
Medication: painkillers and antidepressants.
Therapies: counseling and CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).
Lifestyle: relaxation techniques and daily exercise.
Lady Gaga and Fibromyalgia
Lady Gaga described how worse her condition got due to physical pain and mental stress and the struggle of her which was only getting worse for her. She has expectations from people to comprehend her condition and health because a patient of fibromyalgia gets so much depressed in such state that one wants sympathy and kind words of others to develop a sense of relief that some people can understand them. Such practice helps in overcoming the depression and boost the person to fight.
While giving an interview to Vogue Magazine in October 2018, Lady Gaga described how she got irritated when people do not get the condition and accept fibromyalgia exists. She said for her and the other sufferers the disease is like a cyclone of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety, depression, panic and trauma which overdrive one’s nervous system and result in nerve pain.
Moreover, she aforementioned “People ought to be a lot of compassionate, chronic pain is not any joke. And it’s daily wakening not knowing however you’re attained to feel.”
Chronic Pain is no Joke
In 2014 Lady Gaga shared the traumatizing and disturbing incident of her life from which has gone through in her early teens. According to her, she got raped which left so much horror and shocking state on her mind because of which she became a patient of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In the interview, Lady Gaga revealed her emotions and poured her heart out and said that by sharing such stuff to the public helped her to release anxiety and stress which helped her to heal from those traumas.
In her interview, she described her fear by admitting that she tried hard to forget the memory and erase it from her mind. But the things came out in the form of the ugly and big monster. And to heal that monster it should be confronted and have to be faced.
Lady Gaga also uttered that for her, the beginning of her mental issues started when she got the feeling that she is hiding and lying to the people because she felt so much pain in such disease and nobody knows about it. That is why she decided to tell everyone about having PTSD as do not want to hide and suffer anymore as she already suffering a lot.
Lady Gaga Stunned or Stunted
Lady Gaga also shared the current scenarios and the evils she still dealing with a form of physical traumas. Gaga said that she feels “stunned or stunted”. She gave the example of a roller coaster that how to feels when it goes down from a steep slope and the fear regulates the whole body at that time. Pop Star said her diaphragm seized at those moments when she goes into the extreme suffering. She said she begins to cry when she was enabled to breathe, and her body went into a tremor.
Music Star stated, “That’s what it feels like for trauma victims every day, and it’s… miserable. I always say that trauma has a brain. And it works its way into everything that you do.”
Now, Lady Gaga is feeling better as she said that she is getting batter day by day as she has great doctors who took care of her and getting her “Show-ready”.
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Hi L. G.
It took me 13 drs, and finally someone had a name for it.
When they told me it was Fibromyalgia I started crying, because I was relieved. I went directly to the Arthritis foundation in my provance and they took my membership fee then told me there was no support group. I was furious. Then I calmed down and said. I hope you dont get a paper cut from my check. I’m starting my own group. With that she tells me I cant. Never say cant to me, I don’t believe in cant. Then I told her just try and stop me. I’ve had 2 groups since that day. 1 in Scar, and the other in Durham reagion. Now I run them on line. I’m closed for the season.
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Building the 5G Wall: What Do We Want to Become?
The Defense Innovation Board report on 5G is a warning that the U.S. is headed down a path of isolation that with disastrous economic and moral implications.
A super-fast national Internet exclusively for urban America? That’s the scenario that comes to mind in reading the Defense Innovation Board‘s report on 5G, the next generation of super-fast wireless communication. Written by technology’s A-List, it outlines a trajectory that separates cities from rural areas, the have’s from the have-not’s and the United States from the rest of the world in a “post-Western wireless ecosystem.”
“The leader in 5G stands to gain hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue over the next decade, with widespread job creation across the wireless technology sector. 5G has the potential to revolutionize other industries as well … The country that owns 5G will own many of these innovations and set standards for the rest of the world…
That country is currently not likely to be the United States.”
“The 5G Ecosystem: Risks & Opportunities for DoD,” Defense Innovation Board
(L to R) Mark Sirangelo, Milo Medin, Jennifer Pahlka, Eric Lander, Marne Levine, Eric Schmidt, J. Michael McQuade, Missy Cummings, Richard Murray, and Adam Grant. (DOD/Lisa Ferdinando)
Chaired by former Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt, the Board was commissioned by former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to make recommendations to the Dept. of Defense on the next wave of innovation.
I recommend the 30-page document itself, but if you’re pressed for time, try Dr. Lee, Physic Genius’ more entertaining version though, disclosure, despite some inquiries, I have no idea who Dr. Lee is.
A technical approach that deepens divisions
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission allocates the electromagnetic spectrum. Most current 5G development is in the “sub-6” range. But in the United States, the military owns that portion of the spectrum. So the FCC made a higher-band width known as “mmWave” available for commercial development, which is where Verizon and AT&T are developing their 5G offerings.
Courtesy of Policy Tracker
Only two other countries currently support mmWave for 5G. Both of these countries are now U.S. allies — Japan and South Korea — and both are using a dual strategy, developing both the sub-6 and mmWave ranges.
U.S. policy makers and suppliers hope mmWave will eventually become the global standard, but as the Defense Innovation Board report makes clear, it’s not a strategy to hang your hat on. MmWave transmissions are more powerful but shorter and blocked by solid barriers — walls, trees, even people. Providing comprehensive service will require what the report labels a “massive infrastructure build-out” ($$$). If and when that is successful, mmWave service may not be viable for rural areas, where reliable connectivity is a literally a lifeline.
Consider that despite diplomatic tensions with China, Canada recently signed a contract with Huawei to deliver 4G LTE to rural communities in the Arctic, remote areas of north-eastern Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador and according to Huawei, some 25 communities in the largely Inuit areas of the Nunavut territory.
Own the IP; own the industry
No American company makes the base station equipment to transmit 5G signals. The United States owned the majority of 4G-related standards-essential patents. But today over one-third, (34%) of worldwide standards-essential patents for 5G technology are owned by Chinese companies, 15% by Huawei alone, according to Asia Nikkei News. South Korea is second, with over 25% of standard-essential patents.
That will make building the network infrastructure for autonomous cars or next generation factories more expensive for U.S. companies. But owning the intellectual property will reduce costs and accelerate China’s building the infrastructure of the future.
Courtesy of Nikkei Asian Review
Huawei has signed 50 contracts to provide next-generation 5G networks to 30 countries including Italy and the United Kingdom.
We damn the consequences at our peril
Were the United States to decide to compete with the rest of the world, the Board’s report provides a timeline. Sharing the sub-6 spectrum will take five years, and the Board considers a sharing spectrum a viable alternative. Clearing the spectrum would take 10 years. This would get us to the starting gate — if the federal government were to open up the sub-6 range. And that’s a big “if” in this political environment.
“Damn the consequences!”
The consequences of isolation are immeasurable. Beyond the obvious — American competitiveness, jobs, standard of life, education, opportunity — connectivity is the root capability for solving every over-arching problem we face — climate change, income inequality, immigration, human rights.
I just finished reading Hyeonseo Lee‘s remarkable story of escaping from North Korea with her family. She’s paid a broker to get her mother and brother to South Korea when they are imprisoned in Laos. Here, she’s waiting to enter Laos to rescue them:
“About 20 people were waiting in line to have their passwords stamped. A few were backpacking white Westerners in high spirits. I looked at them with envy. They were inhabitants of that other universe, governed by laws, human rights and welcoming tourist boards. It was oblivious to the one I inhabited, of secret police, assumed IDs and low-life brokers.”
Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names
Laws, human rights and a high standard of living are part of a vulnerable legal and moral infrastructure. Protecting its integrity and viability requires an actionable connectivity policy and a cogent strategy. The Defense Innovation Board report is a warning salvo. We must make sure that it is heard.
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By CineVue 26/06/2013 11/12/2017 Patrick Gamble / Reviews
The gravitational pull of cults served as the premise for director Zal Batmanglij’s previous collaboration with writer/actress Brit Marling, 2011’s Sound of My Voice. The pair still appear to be seduced by the subject matter, but whilst The East (2013) may appear to be a more lustrous and self-assured creation, this ambitious thriller lacks the gritty undercurrent and ingenuity its creative duo are clearly capable of. Highly reminiscent of Sound of My Voice, The East sees Sarah (the false pseudonym of Marling’s undercover operative) attempting to win the trust of an anarchist group known for attacking major corporations.
Environmental issues appear to be top of the agenda, but whilst inherently present in the film’s narrative itinerary, The East never pushes its message further than a mere motive for the guerilla ‘jams’ the group undertake. The radical collective’s main targets are conglomerates that have somehow poisoned the Earth – be it through unreliable pharmaceuticals or polluting our environment. Despite being a stereotypically ragtag bunch of radical free-thinkers, it doesn’t take straight-laced Christian Sarah too long to assimilate into their furtive operation.
Whilst it’s a little difficult to comprehend why this high profile, incredibly organised and intelligent terrorist cell would welcome a stranger into their midst so openly, it’s nowhere near as preposterous as Sarah’s swift political U-turn. Whilst each character is fairly well-crafted, the level of emotional connection shared with any of them is minimal, making Sarah’s eventual ‘seduction’ into this radical way of life a little hard to swallow. There’s no wrestling with her conscience, no enchanting leader to seduce her, nor any life-endangering sacrifice to supplement her decision; merely a brief, erotic fumble in a sun-drenched meadow that’s both unexpected and subsequently barely mentioned again.
Whilst these implausible actions frustrate, Batmanglij’s The East features enough tension and engaging characters to hold your attention until the bitter end. However, for those wooed by Sound of My Voice’s shrewd and innovative approach, this is nothing more than a vague disappointment. Add to this the distressing realisation that whilst Marling is perfect at playing the moody, mysterious heroine (as seen in 2011’s Another Earth) her acting abilities don’t appear to range much further than that – a major stumbling block for a film which demands your emotional investment in its protagonist’s crisis of conscious.
A perfectly functional, if somewhat underwhelming thriller, Batmanglij’s The East feels all too much like a more grown-up and less naive version of the director’s previous outing. Unfortunately, by attempting to appear more serious and mature, the original excitement and imagination has somehow vanished, revealing little more than the hollow shell of two of American cinema’s most previously promising prospects.
This review was originally published on 20 June, 2013, as part of our Edinburgh International Film Festival coverage.
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A man wanted for robbing a Pensacola bank on Thursday has been arrested.
Louis Martin Cillo, 60, address unavailable, was taken into custody around 12:50 p.m. today at a residence in the 7900 block of Old Hickory Hammock Road, Milton. He was charged with armed bank robbery.
Sgt. Greg Stone said detectives received a tip early Sunday that Cillo was at the residence. Stone said Cillo was taken into custody without incident. Pensacola Police coordinated with the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement in making the arrest.
Cillo was wanted for the armed robbery of Sun Trust Bank, 6700 N. Davis Highway. The incident occurred around 12:40 p.m. Thursday when the suspect entered the bank and handed a teller a note demanding cash. Detective Ozzy Teeters said the suspect did not display a weapon but indicated he had one. He left the bank in a blue Chevrolet Equinox after getting an undisclosed amount of money.
An Escambia County Sheriff’s deputy stopped a blue Chevrolet Equinox that matched a description of the suspect’s vehicle and license tag number around 1 p.m. Saturday on Highway 29 near Walmart. The vehicle was driven by Emil Joseph Bayus, 54, of Lorain, Ohio. Bayus was wanted for an armed bank robbery that occurred June 2 in Lorain.
Stone said Cillo also is a suspect in the bank robbery that occurred in Ohio, and could face charges along with Bayus in that case.
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Bentley ‘Pikes Peak’ Continental GT Limited Edition Details
3rd December 2019 CCC News Desk General Motoring, Luxury Motoring, Motoring News 0
Continental GT Limited Edition - Pikes Peak
‘Tis the season to be jolly as Bentley announce details of their ‘Pikes Peak’ Continental GT Limited Edition with exclusive Radium by Mulliner paintwork and carbon fibre body kit.
Celebrating the record-breaking automotive achievement from earlier in the British marque’s centenary year, the run of 15 special coupes will honour Bentley’s accomplishment at the demanding International Hill Climb event in the USA in June.
The Grand Touring giant shaved an impressive 8.4 seconds off the existing record for the 12.42-mile course in Colorado, making it the fastest production car ever at Pikes Peak. Driven by three-time champion, former ‘King of the Mountain’ Rhys Millen, the W12-powered Continental GT climbed almost 5,000 ft through 156 bends in just ten minutes, 18.4 seconds.
Chris Craft, Member of the Board for Sales, Marketing and Aftersales at Bentley Motors, said:
“The new Limited Edition Continental GT is distinguished by a number of carefully curated features to honour that outstanding record run. It reflects Bentley’s spirit of endeavour, one that has been a constant throughout the last 100 years and remains at the beating heart of the company.”
The celebratory model is available to order from December 2019.
Continental GT Limited Edition
The new Limited Edition is distinguished by a carbon fibre body kit and eye-catching Radium by Mulliner paintwork, mirroring the colour scheme used on the record-breaking car. Gloss black detailing has also been added to the front lower bumper inserts, roof panel, wing mirrors and rear surfaces.
Acid Green brake calipers, Pirelli P Zero Colour Edition tyres in Radium Finish and a Pikes Peak decal to the front bumper hint at the Limited Edition’s record-breaking lineage, while 22-inch Mulliner Driving Specification wheels in Gloss Black are standard. An optional ‘100’ grille is a reminder that the Continental GT’s impressive hill climb achievement took place in Bentley’s centenary year.
Inside the cabin, Alcantara with contrasting Radium thread stitching adorns much of the soft trim areas, matched with Beluga secondary hide. The steering wheel features a honeycomb stitching design and a centre stripe both in Radium, as per the Pikes Peak GT race car.
Carbon fibre fascias and wasitrails are complemented by a Piano Black centre console, all adding to the sporting theme. The passenger-side fascia features a graphic showing a section of the Pikes Peak track, with five different graphics being used across the 15-car run, along with the record-setting time of 10:18.488.
Pikes Peak embroidery to the seat headrests in Radium stitching, Pikes Peak treadplates and exclusive B&O speaker covers in Black Anodised and Radium finish further enhance the interior appeal. The Continental GT’s luxurious cabin includes the ground-breaking Bentley Rotating Display, deep pile overmats and Front Seat Comfort Specification.
Like the Continental GT that broke the Pikes Peak record earlier this year, this new model features the world’s most advanced 12-cylinder petrol engine in the twin-turbocharged Bentley W12. This mighty engine develops 626 bhp and 900 Nm of torque, effortlessly accelerating the Continental GT from 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds (0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds), with a top speed of 333 km/h (207 mph).
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