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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 9
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 843)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 9
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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NH Primary Source: Nearly 50,000 people registered to vote in NH on Election Day
Nearly 50,000 people registered to vote in New Hampshire on Election Day, Nov. 6, far more than the number of same-day registrants in the previous midterm election.
The latest registration numbers released by the Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday – first reported by New Hampshire Primary Source on Twitter – also showed that despite big Democratic victories in congressional and state legislative and Executive Council races, the growth in Democratic registrants between the September primary election and the general election was smaller than the number of undeclared and Republican registrants.
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May 30th 2012. U.S.S. Arizona Memorial - 50th Anniversary.
Two stamps and a minisheet were issued on May 30th 2012 honoring the 50th anniversary of the dedication and opening of the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.
The U.S.S. Arizona (BB-39) was launched in 1915 and was used as a training ship after World War I (see $6 stamp above left). It was transferred to Hawai’i in April 1940. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, a torpedo fired from a Japanese Zero aircraft (see $9 stamp above right) hit the forward magazine hold, resulting in a massive explosion which claimed so many lives and sunk the ship, all within nine minutes.
Fundraising for the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial was started in the 1950’s and then finally completed in the year 1961. Construction began soon afterwards. It was dedicated and opened to the public on Memorial Day, May 30 1962. The Memorial is in remembrance of the 1,117 officers and crewmen that were killed on board the ship. The Memorial is built directly over the ship where it sank. Tours are provided by the National Park Service and it is the site most visited by tourists in Hawai’i.
The Memorial symbolizes the entry of the U.S.A into World War II. Close by is the U.S.S. Missouri which represents the end of World War II (see $9 minisheet below). The Japanese surrendered to the U.S.A and their allies on its deck in 1945.
The $6 stamp (above left) prepays the Overnight rate. It shows the U.S.S. Arizona at sea in 1938.
The $9 stamp (above right) prepays the Same Day rate. It shows a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M, type 0 fighter aircraft, commonly called the "Zero".
The $9 minisheet (above) prepays the Same Day rate. It shows a photo of Pearl Harbor with the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in the forground and the U.S.S. Missouri in the background. The Pacific Ocean is in the distant background. On the right hand side of the photo is Ford Island.
The booklet cover for this issue (above) depicts another view of the U.S.S. Missouri with the U.S. flag at full staff.
The special postmark for this issue (above) depicts a drawing of the U.S.S. Missouri with the U.S. flag at half staff.
Size: 48mm x 32mm ($6 & $9 stamp)
Stamps sheet size:30 - $6 & $9 stamps (6 across, 5 down).
Minisheet booklet pane - imperforate on 3 sides, rouletted on top side.
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Oppositional narrative, myth-shaping and ideological idiopathy
Categories In Philosophy, Politics, Religion
Idiopathy is generally a medical term, but its usage here harkens back to its Greek roots. “Idio-” is from the Greek ídios (ἴδιος), meaning something private or entirely one’s own. “-Pathy” is from the Greek pátheia (πάθεια) meaning “feeling” or “suffering” which in turn derives from pathos (πάθος), meaning a condition or state (generally of suffering).
Ideology also comes from Greece but by way of France. Rather than deriving directly from the Ancient Greek, it is a relatively recent term, believed to have been coined in late eighteenth-century France. Its French form is idéologie, meaning, roughly, “doctrine.” The word’s root, ideo-, is from the Greek idéā (ἰδέα), meaning an appearance, class or style and having come to mean, of course, an “idea.” Etymologists hypothesize that it derives from the Proto-Indo-European weyd, meaning “to see.” -Logy is from the Greek lógos (λόγος), meaning “that which is said or thought”/a subject. It comes from the root légō (λέγω), meaning the arranging or ordering of things.
So, by ideology, we mean a particular arrangement or ordering of ideas or impressions. By idiopathy, we mean a state and quality of feeling and/or suffering peculiar to a particular person or group. Thus ideological idiopathy is a state of suffering tied to a set of ideas. Whether the suffering precurses the ideology or the ideology gives rise to the suffering is what we mean to investigate here.
I’m going to make this brief. To the end, we’ll just look at a couple cogent examples of ideologies wrapped up in a narrative of suffering/persecution. Next we will try to see what we can regarding our above chicken v. egg question.
Donald Trump’s populism
A populist is an ideologue who constructs a narrative wherein s/he is the one true voice of the people. The populist panders to the masses, building a sense of unity without actually unifying. By this last point, I mean that the populist does not truly address differences and build consensus; rather s/he glosses over differences, building momentum and riding a rhetoric-blown wave of good will into office. But all waves rise before they fall.
The far-right narrative that Donald Trump has coopted for his 2015-2016 presidential campaign is one of the quietly suffering majority. It is the Fox News narrative taken to the extreme. It involves the sentiment that the privileged have become downtrodden and that the minorities of the world are involved in some kind of conspiracy to delegitimize and erase the culture and standing of salt-of-the-earth (both in color and values) types.
I watch Fox News, I listen to AM talk radio hosts, I scroll through my social media feeds, I listen to the conversation in the booth next to me at Generic BBQ Shack, and I am struck my the foam-mouthed anger. I ask: Why are these people so angry? You’re a fat, white, fifty-year-old man driving a Mercedes, wearing golfing clothes, porcelain teeth tearing through baby back ribs dripping with BBQ sauce the color of blood–that dark, thick arterial sap; not the thin, watery, subdermal stuff–What do you have to be angry about? What does the world have to offer that you haven’t acquired?
Brexit is the exit of Britain from the European Union. The United Kingdom joined the EU in 1973. In 2016, British voters decided to leave the EU. Various reasons were given, but the general sentiment revolved around distrust of, and resentment towards, poor immigrants–especially ones from largely Muslim countries. Explanations for this resentment vary, but English reportage tends to point the finger at economic angst (think Southpark: “They took er jerbs!”) and a festering fear of cultural and even physical annihilation. The UK Independence Party (UKIP), among others, seized upon and stoked these fires. And who lead the Brexit campaign?
If you guessed red-faced, ham-fisted populists who could be Donald Trump’s doppelgängers, you guessed right. Nigel Farage is a populist cast from the same mold as Trump. Both are privileged white men speechifying about the evil immigrant, uniting through fear, and riding a hate wave they themselves helped fulminate into power. Boris Johnson, a Conservative Party member, takes a liberal stance on some issues (e.g., gay rights) but has come down hard-right when it comes to immigration, going so far as to accuse his opposition of being motivated by antiBritish sentiment.
Othered – a verb
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Beauchamp, Z. (2016, June 24). Brexit isn’t about economics. It’s about xenophobia. Vox. Retrieved from: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/23/12005814/brexit-eu-referendum-immigrants
Mueller, J.W. (2015, December 26). Trump is a far right populist, not a fascist. Al Jazeera America. Retrieved from: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/trump-is-a-far-right-populist-not-a-fascist.html
Pruitt, S. (2016, June 24). The history behind Brexit. History.com. Retrieved from: http://www.history.com/news/the-history-behind-brexit
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Home Car Brands Six New Malaysian Celebrities And Two Teens Get Ready For Toyota Vios...
Six New Malaysian Celebrities And Two Teens Get Ready For Toyota Vios Challenge
by Zachary Ho - Jul 26, 2018
The celebrity graduates with Teikichi Ishibashi (TRD Asia) and Takeyama (UMWT)
After six days of intensive training at the Vios Challenge Racing School, a fresh batch of racers, comprising six Malaysian celebrities and two teens, are certified to compete in the second season of the Toyota Vios Challenge.
The new celebrity racers who will be racing in the Promotional Class are singers Aiman Tino, Khai Bahar, Nabila Razali, Wany Hasrita, Akim Ahmad and comedian Nabil Ahmad. “While some of us may have had the experience of sharing the stage with one another, it’s going to be an entirely out of water experience to be racing alongside each other,” said Nabil. 26-year-old Wany is also looking forward to her debut as a celebrity racer. “It’s an honour to have been selected by UMW Toyota Motor to become one of four women on the grid and I look forward to the first round,” said Wany.
The celebrities returning for the second season of the Vios Challenge are Shawn Lee, Syukri Yahaya, Diana Danielle and Janna Nick, all of whom also completed a refresher course.
The two teenagers (both 14), and former karting teammates, Mohamed Hayden Mohamad Haikal and Oscar Ng Kok Tung, will be making their saloon car racing debut in the Sporting Class. “When I race, I like to push the limits to do better and better. The Toyota Vios Challenge has provided me with a new set of challenges as it is a different type of racing compared to karting. There’s a lot for me to learn, different techniques, different challenges. I’m thrilled to have been given the chance to race with well-known racers and celebrities. All this really excites me,” said Mohamed Hayden.
Meanwhile, Oscar will be following in the footsteps of his father, Ng Wai Leong, a former national karter and single-seater race car driver. “The principles of racing remain unchanged, but it’s an entirely new experience piloting a full-sized saloon car with a manual transmission as opposed to driving a kart, and something I’ve got to quickly come to terms in order to be competitive,” he said.
Shawn Lee, who is last season’s Promotional Class champion, and Syukri Yahaya stood out among the celebrity racers last year and have since been upgraded to compete in the Sporting Class this time. For former child actor and beatboxer, Shawn Lee, the experience from competing in the first season of the Toyota Vios Challenge has been both exciting and challenging. “Returning as defending champion, the expectations are certainly higher. Season 1 was an extremely steep learning curve for me, and I am sure for all the other celebrities on the grid as well, but the refresher course has enabled me to enhance my car control, speed and
intuitiveness behind the wheel,” said Lee.
Said Diana Danielle, “Like everything else, practice makes perfect and although I endured a rough start to the season, my performance, confidence and consistency gradually increased. With the four of us (including Shawn, Janna and Syukri) returning for a second season, there’s really no excuse not to gun for a top three finish this time round”.
The Toyota Vios Challenge will anchor the Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival organised by UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd and features some 40 identically race-prepared vehicles competing in three classifications: Promotional Class, Sporting Class and Super Sporting Class (for elite and professional race drivers).
The Vios Challenge Racing School is managed by Wing Hin Motorsports under the supervision of Toyota Racing Development (TRD) Japan. The intensive training included a one-day theory session on the principles of defensive driving, vehicle technology, driving attitude and behaviour, and emergency braking and avoidance techniques.
The drivers subsequently spent another five days on track at the Sepang International Circuit where they were taught the principles of racing, understanding track rules and regulations, how to execute a proper gear change (yes, all the cars are fitted with manual transmission) including the heel and toe technique, racing lines and how to enter and exit corners, as well as the proper technique and threshold of braking.
The racing cars are also prepared under the supervision by Toyota Racing Development (TRD) Japan, with the race run to regulations governed by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and the Automobile Association of Malaysia (AAM). The cars are base-model Toyota Vios 1.5 fitted with a full roll cage for safety, and equipped with race-worthy modifications that include aerodynamics, suspension system, exhaust, brakes, clutch, a limited slip differential and tyres.
“The first season of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival and the running of the Toyota Vios Challenge have been absolutely phenomenal from both a promotional and commercial perspective,” said UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd President, Ravindran K.
“In line with the company’s tagline All About the Drive, both the festival and the Vios Challenge successfully promoted the merits of the brand and this commercially translated into an increase in sales, particularly for the Vios. It visibly demonstrated the Vios’ competitiveness, reliability, durability, safety and agility, propositions that may have otherwise been taken for granted by consumers in search of a mid-sized entry level or family sedan. Like we say, it’s All About the Drive and in order to truly appreciate what the car is
capable of, you have to first get behind the wheel of a Vios!”
The Vios Challenge will be run on a specially-built street circuit in conjunction with the Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival, which will feature a carnival with activities for all, including stage games, lucky draws, celebrity autograph sessions, as well as a showcase of Toyota vehicles.
The first Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival and Vios Challenge of the new season will be held on 3 & 4 August 2018 at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Kuala Terengganu (from 9 am). It’s free entry for everyone.
“Kuala Terengganu is going to be special as it will not only be the opening race of the season but it will also be the festival’s visit to the East Coast, and we’re looking forward to the warm hospitality and extraordinary spectator support Terengganu is well known for,’ said Ravindran.
From Kuala Terengganu, the Toyota Gazoo Racing Festival will move to the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) in Serdang, Selangor on 19 – 21 October 2018; the Batu Kawan Stadium in Penang from 22 – 24 February 2019; and end at the Sepang International Circuit on 12 – 14 April 2019.
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Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn (born 3 April 1969) is an Australian actor. He first rose to prominence in Australia for his breakout role in The Year My Voice Broke (1987) and since then he has had roles in films such as Animal Kingdom (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Starred Up (2013), Mississippi Grind (2015), Rogue One (2016), Darkest Hour (2017) and Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018). In 2017, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Talos in Captain Marvel (2019) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). He will reprise this role in Marvel Studios' upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion, which is set to premiere in 2023. Mendelsohn starred in the Netflix original series Bloodline (2015–2017), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2016. In 2020, Mendelsohn starred in the HBO crime miniseries The Outsider.
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Also Known As: Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn, Paul Mendelsohn, Benjamin Mendelsohn, 벤 멘델슨, Μπεν Μέντελσον, 本·门德尔森
Movies List of Ben Mendelsohn
Idiot Box (1996)
Beautiful Kate (2009)
Mullet (2001)
The Big Steal (1990)
Secret Men's Business (1999)
Cosi (1996)
Hunt Angels (2006)
Mississippi Grind (2015)
Second Chance (2005)
The Land of Steady Habits (2018)
Amy (1997)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Spotswood (1992)
Starred Up (2014)
Nirvana Street Murder (1990)
Una (2017)
Misanthrope (2023)
The Marsh King’s Daughter (2023)
The Singer and the Swinger (1998)
Freaky Tales (2023)
Killing Them Softly (2012)
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Sample People (2000)
Return Home (1990)
Prime Mover (2009)
True Love and Chaos (1997)
Slow West (2015)
The Still Point (1986)
Untogether (2019)
Spies in Disguise (2019)
Metal Skin (1994)
Knowing (2009)
SLOW WEST in SUPER EIGHT (2015)
Cyrano (2021)
Adore (2013)
I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
Lost River (2015)
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Guns for Hire (2015)
Darkest Hour (2017)
Killer Elite (2011)
Sirens (1994)
Say a Little Prayer (1993)
Map of the Human Heart (1993)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
Black Sea (2014)
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001)
Quigley Down Under (1990)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Gorillaz: Reject False Icons (2019)
Vertical Limit (2000)
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' (2017)
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Nigeria Comes To Paris For First Ever Nollywood Week
posted 31 May 2013, 07:54 by Sam Mbale [ updated 31 May 2013, 07:55 ]
After the highs and lows of the Cannes film festival, France welcomes its first ever Nollywood Week celebrating Nigerian cinema.
PARIS, FRANCE (MAY 31, 2013) (REUTERS) - The silver screen was set to turn green and white as Nigerian cinema hitParis for the first ever Nollywood Week.
Actors, directors, distributors and producers gathered for talks on the booming industry in the French capital's Arlequin cinema on Friday (May 31).
Seven films from across a range of genres released between 2010 and 2013 will compete for a prize voted for by the viewing public, to be awarded on Sunday.
Director Tunde Kelani, whose film "Maami" will be screened as part of the festival, said the human element of Nollywood touched Africans around the world.
"I think it is necessarily a cinema of the people, you know, by the people. And Nollywood has been able to find the pulse of the people and retain the attention of African people even outside of Nigeria, you know, because it made a connection with the very essence of Africans, both in Africa and in (the) diaspora," he said.
Kelani added that accessibility of equipment had helped the scene thrive.
"What has happened to make Nollywood so successful is a number of factors. Part of the factors has to do with the lack of infrastructure and some bits of underdevelopment. And not only that, a democratisation of the means of production, because this is the only time in history where people have access, you know, to the technology of giving themselves a voice," Kelani told Reuters Television.
Nollywood Week estimates that the average Nigerian film costs between 7,000 and 12,000 euros to make.
The festival's executive director Serge Noukoue said that with the industry flourishing, it was time for it to reach discerning French cinema fans.
"Nollywood is just improving every day, and now we have really reached a certain level, a certain standard of quality. You know, the Nigerian films that we are showing here are showing in the cinema theatres in Nigeria, so it's no longer a straight-to-DVD industry. And so what we are doing is just, we are showing this evolution of Nollywood. We are just sharing it with the Parisian audience," Noukoue said.
Festival organisers say films contribute 11% of Nigeria's non-oil exports and are the country's largest employer after agriculture.
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Egypt – it could have been different
August 15th, 2013 | Author: Jan
By Mariam Abuhaideri
While international envoys failed to broker an end to the political deadlock between Egypt’s Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood, there was still room for diplomatic solutions to the turmoil, as Vice President El Baradei was quoted as saying before he resigned from his post yesterday following the brutal clean-up operation of two of the Bortherhood’s biggest sit-in protests.
Why did mediation fail?
Anyone who has done the rounds of Tahrir and has subscribed to various social networks in Egypt would know- it is not rocket science- Egyptians are against Obama and everything the US stands for. They see the US as a cause of much of this divide in Egyptian society and anti-US rhetoric is omnipresent. Funny thing is that the US would send Republican senators who are so opposed to internationals even within their own country. Some may argue that it was a wise step, as Congress would not accept the analysis of democrat senators. Yet, I knew it wouldn’t work even before it actually failed. The same could be said in varying capacities about the envoys from EU, UAE, and Qatar. They all had stakes or supported one side over the other.
Even a day following the deadliest crack down since the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011, many countries have only gone as far as condemning the killings. No one, including the US that is ordinarily quick in issuing sanctions and withdrawing aid (as it has done in Iran and other countries) has done much more. No one is offering any other solutions. It makes me a bit jealous that the US would employ the path of sanctions and isolation with Iran despite its peaceful nuclear program, but would be cautious in doing so with its key ally in the region despite the violence, doubt and instability engulfing Egypt. But this is a discussion for another day.
Anyone see the missing link? There was a lack of neutrality, a lack of cultural diplomacy, and an absence of engaging the youth on both sides.
The Missed Opportunity
The Indian Embassy in Cairo hosted a flag hoisting on the occasion of India’s 67th Independence Day and a minute of silence was observed for the victims from Raba, and Nahda- two venues of the Pro-Morsi sit-ins. But what I failed to understand is why India had stayed out of this equation despite being so favored by the public at large. India has so much to offer the world with its culture. Yet, it chooses to remain silent. And this is not the first time it has chosen this route. Have Sisi, Egypt’s Interim leaders and India ever heard or employed cultural diplomacy? While it wouldn’t work in every stalemate, it should have been endorsed and embraced in this case because fortunately for India and Egypt, Egyptians revere India’s culture. The Maulana Azad Center for Indian Culture in Cairo, should be the venue for such a cultural dialogue. India has an inspiring story of freedom to share and perhaps this could be just one of the many ways in which to enlighten both sides on a peaceful solution. Perhaps if Mohamed Selim al-Awa’s plan of temporarily reinstating Morsi and handing powers to an interim cabinet had been backed by cultural diplomacy headed by India, the army may have accepted it. Regrettably, India chose to sit back and watch, as it usually does. The minute of silence for the victims sadly was just an extension of the silence on behalf of the Indian government.
Egypt’s youth was ignored
Egypt’s biggest strength, its youth, have been left out of the equation. What I fail to understand is why they have been ignored despite having a bigger stake in their country’s stability? There are youth on either side of the fence, and engaging them in dialogue should have been proposed and initiated.
India is celebrating 67 years of freedom from British oppression, only because its entire population felt that it was time for to bid farewell to the colonists. They adopted mostly non-violent means to achieve their single united goal and while it did have undesirable effects of separation of India into 3 states, it also succeeded in overthrowing the British Raj. Egypt on the other hand, has major challenges and what Egyptians need to realize is that there will be no sustainable independence and democracy without reconciliation because the numbers on either sides are too large to be ignored. The older generation has little to loose, the youth however, have much to gain from a peaceful united Egypt. They should be engaged.
However, now, following the deadly crackdown, hope for such an engagement seems bleak. There are far too many scars for those who lost loved ones and now the polarity may never bond. There is fear that the violence will only escalate and inconvenience of a curfew and emergency law will become a sad truth to live by for a long time to come, unless other measures are proposed and adopted, hopefully by Egyptians themselves or by India and other neutral states.
Posted in Culture, Democracy - local & global, Egypt, India, Mariam Abuhaideri, Reconciliation & forgiveness, US Empire, Violence-prevention
2 Responses to “Egypt – it could have been different”
Roger Cole says:
The Peace & Neutrality Alliance is Ireland’s main broad based peace network. Ireland has a deeply rooted Christian tradition.
There have been widespread reports that members of the Muslim Brotherhood are burning Christian Churches & schools. Is that the case? Because clearly it is resulting in very little support for the MB’s victims of the killings by the military.
I would appreciate some information that con be trusted.
Mariam says:
Roger, while it is true that churches are being vandalized, it is not clear that the Muslim Brotherhood is behind these acts. There are thugs responsible for this, who are believed to have been funded by the security forces, and they could also be funded and armed by the Ikhwaan (Muslim Brotherhood). The point to be pondered upon is why aren’t these schools and churches being protected by the army even though they are being attacked? This makes it clear that the thugs are part of the broader plan to destabilize Egypt which only benefits the Army and external sources. For now, do not believe much of what the media says as they either don’t know themselves or they are working with a certain bias. Hope this answers your question.
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Is Mackenzie Rosman A Mother? Age, Career, Boyfriend, and Net Worth
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Jul 19, 2022 7th Heaven, Actress
Mackenzie Rosman is an avid animal lover. She is the Youth Artist Award-winning American actress most famous for her appearance as Ruthie Camden on The WB’s family drama, 7th Heaven. She is an avid animal lover.
Mackenzie has been active in the acting industry since 1996 and maintains her consistent presence. She began her career at four, appearing in multiple television commercials. Furthermore, read the full article to learn more exciting facts about Mackenzie Rosman’s age, parents, career, relationship, boyfriend, daughter, body measurements, and net worth.
Mackenzie Rosman Wiki, Bio, Age
The daughter of Lewis Rosman and Donna Rosman, Mackenzie Rosman, was born on 28 December 1989 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Her actual age is 32 years old as of 2022. Her parents named her Mackenzie Lyn Rosman, and she grew up with her brother Chandler Rosman. Sadly, her parents went through a divorce, and her mother married Randy Salmont. Her family moved to North Los Angeles in Southern California with her stepsister, Katelyn salmont. Unfortunately, her stepsister passed away at 22 from pneumonia and cystic fibrosis on 25 December 2008. She went through a successful double lung transplant in 2005. Her stepfather, Randy, donated one organ to Katelyn.
Mackenzie Rosman with her biological father, Lewis Rosman and brother, Chandler Rosman. Image Source: Facebook
Mackenzie graduated from Valencia High School in late 2007. The American actress belongs to mixed English, German, Scottish, and Swedish ethnicity. Eugene Leopold Rosman Sr., her great paternal grandfather, was a German immigrant. She is an avid animal lover and often contributes to charities. Similarly, she loves skating, reading, dancing, and swimming in her free time. Her nickname is Mack, and her birth sign is Aquarius. Her brother, Chandler, also tried his luck acting and did some commercials but didn’t like it as much as Mack did. He is currently working in the marines and finished his posting in Japan.
Is Mackenzie Rosman A Mother?
Yes, Mackenzie Rosman became a mother on 21 March 2022. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter, weighing 6.6 lbs. However, the American actress hasn’t disclosed much information regarding her boyfriend or husband. Mackenzie is quite secretive when it comes to her personal life. An avid animal lover has maintained a borderline between her personal and professional life.
Mackenzie Rosman with her beautiful daughter. Image Source: Twitter
The personal life of Mackenzie Rosman isn’t in the spotlight as her professional career. She hardly uploaded her boyfriend’s picture on Instagram, saying him a man of mystery. Although she is a mother, there isn’t any solid proof that leads to her married lifestyle. Previously, she was rumored to be dating Tyler Hoechlin and Joseph R. Lynch. Her relationship rumors only remained rumors as there was no sign of togetherness.
How Much Is Mackenzie Rosman’s Net Worth?
Mackenzie Rosman started acting before she even joined her kindergarten. She started working at four years old and still maintains her consistent presence. Thus, there is no doubt that the American actress has accumulated a massive fortune. Although it’s hard to put the actual annual salary of Mackenzie Rosman in words, her net worth is estimated to be $4 million. An avid animal lover accumulated a hefty sum from her acting career.
Mackenzie Rosman with the casts of 7th Heaven. Image Source: Amazon
Moreover, Mackenzie is the national honorary chairman for CureFinders and an active supporter of fundraising for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She won Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Drama Series for supporting a young actress in 2004. Mackenzie is only 32 years as of now and has yet to see much success in her career growth. Nonetheless, her future earnings and net worth will vary with her successful career growth.
Mackenzie Rosman is often active on Twitter and Instagram, but she hardly uses Facebook. The last update on her Facebook was uploading a picture of herself riding a horse on 15 May 2019. She joined Twitter in July 2012 and amassed 14.3K followers. Similarly, she has 170K followers on Instagram.
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Mackenzie Rosman hasn’t disclosed her actual body measurements to the tabloids. However, some sources have claimed that her height is 5 feet and 6 inches tall and she weighs about 67kg. She stands 1.68m in meters and weighs 160 lbs in pounds. She has an approx body measurement of 34-28-34 inches which might have changed a bit because of her pregnancy. Mackenzie has dark brown hair and hazel-brown eyes.
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Talking about the career journey of Mackenzie Rosman, she stepped into acting when she was only four years old. One of her mother’s friends encouraged Donna Rosman to sign Mackenzie with a talent agency. Afterward, she started appearing in commercial work for Tuft’s Health Care in Boston, including Nike shoe commercials, Diaper commercials, and Hormel Chilli Hotdog commercials. Teen People featured her in their 20 Teens Who Will Change the World.
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Mackenzie’s career took on a successful growth after she appeared in the leading role of Ruthie Camden in the American family drama 7th Heaven. She joined the series in 1996 and maintained her presence till 2007. Young Artist Award continuously nominated her in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, and 2007 for supporting a young actress in 7th Heaven. She won her first Young Artist Award in 2004. She starred alongside famous actors like Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, and Jessica Biel in 7th Heaven.
Furthermore, Mackenzie appeared in numerous films and television series, including Gideon, Proud American, The Tomb, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Fading of the Cries, Nightcomer, Ghost Shark, and Beneath. Besides acting, she is a competitive horse rider and participates in jumping competitions. Likewise, she is a philanthropist and wishes to educate the public about the need for organ donation, as her stepsister underwent the same problem. She supports fundraising for the non-profit organization Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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Star Trek: TMP is the best Star Trek film.
StuSmallz
Quoting megladon8 (view post)
What we've watched the last couple of nights...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
This is really good and I don't get why it is so polarizing. It feels as truly Star Trek as you can get - hard sci fi with big ideas. It wears its inspirations on its sleeve (2001, Forbidden Planet), and does cool new things with effects and visuals. And man, that musical score is legendary. Incredible stuff.
Sorry; I'm something of a Trekkie, but I still felt TMP was a pretty dull first movie for the series, since it kind of feels to me the way I imagine the people who think 2001 is boring feel about that, you know?
megladon8
The Pan
Ottawa, Canada
I get it, I just don't agree. I don't find it boring at all.
Same with 2001. When someone says they think 2001 is boring, I expect their top 10 favorite movies to include a lot of stuff by Michael Bay and McG.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Eh, for me Undiscovered Country has always been the best Trek (out of the ones I've seen, at least), since it did the best job of balancing the underlying optimism of Rodenberry's vision with the more popcorn-y thrills needed to entertain the non-Trekkies out there.
Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (Jackson, '03)
For Frodo.
Why is it so hard for movie trilogies to come to a strong end? Sure, there are trilogies that START strong, and even continue that way for a while, like in the cases of The Godfather, The Dark Knight, and the original Star Wars trilogies, but even the best of these still always seem to pewter out to a certain extent by their third entry, having already exhausted their best material beforehand... all of them, that is, except for one. Yes, in case you somehow hadn't figured it out by now, that one trilogy is Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings, and that expectation-shattering third entry is The Return Of The King, a fantastic conclusion to what has become one of film's definitive series, and a modern, generation-defining classic in its own right.
After beginning with the disturbing tale of Gollum's origins (in a sequence that was wisely moved from The Two Towers to here), King picks up right where the previous film left off, with the kingdom of Rohan having defeated Saruman's forces, Merry & Pippin reuniting with the rest of the fellowship, and Sam, Frodo, and a seemingly helpful Gollum making for an uneasy alliance, as the trio trudge ever closer to the dark land of Mordor, where the War Of The Ring, and the fate of Middle Earth itself, will be decided once and for all.
So, just like the way that Towers upped its scale from the comparatively "small" Fellowship, King continues in the same direction, with the scope of its story becoming just about as epic as epic gets, but not in a numbing, overwhelming manner, but in a way that fully showcases the power of a visual medium like film, as Jackson and company bring Tolkien's words to awe-inspiring life, with Howard Shore's sweeping score, the lavish, lovingly detailed sets, and endless fields of the forces of good and evil stretching out as far as the eye of Sauron can see, as they fight back-and-forth for the fate of an entire planet in some of the most gargantuan battle scenes ever filmed.
Of course, the scale of such a story wouldn't matter at all if we didn't care about the individuals caught up in it, but Jackson never loses sight of the characters within the struggle, superbly balancing the epic with the intimate, as he's not afraid to slow down and focus on relatable human struggles, whether it be the tragic sub-plot of Faramir and his distant father Denethor, King Theoden's elevation of Eowyn to be the future ruler of their kingdom (as a sort of way to make up for the death of his son in the previous film), or the final steps of Sam & Frodo's arduous journey, which sees them reach the darkest of places, both in a physical sense, as well as a spiritual one, as the corruption of the One Ring threatens to be finally be too much for Frodo to bear anymore.
But, good does ultimately triumph here, and while the seemingly endless "false endings" of King have become a bit of a running joke since its release, I feel that they're well-earned here, since they give the sense of events having come around full circle for the fellowship, as the hobbits finally reach the end of their long journey where they started, back in the warm sunshine of the Shire, enjoying a much-deserved rest, just like Return Of The King enjoyed a much-deserved torrent of awards and praise, as it eternally secured the cinematic legacy of Lord Of The Rings, once, and for all. One ring to bind them, and one trilogy to rule them all, baby!
Final Score: 9
Sorry, baby doll!
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I'm too lazy to look for the thread or whatever but The King's Man was a mess and definitely is (so far) the worst movie I've seen from 2021. That and Eternals which bored the ever living hell out of me for most of it's run time.
Yeah the Eternals was a chore to get through. And at the end once all was revealed, I asked myself, "but do you care?"
No. The answer was no. I did not.
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Revisited Serpico last night.
Did Lumet ever do any films that had anything interesting going on visually or stylistically? I've seen several and they all seem based around dynamite scripts and performances, but with incredibly boring visual direction.
Interesting question. Looking over his filmography, 1. I'm ashamed I havent seen more because Ive really liked everything I've seen, but 2. it seems like he has a talent/knack/choice of selecting work that is primarily set in singular locations? Maybe I'm wrong.
You may be right, Skitch. I think he did quite a bit of work with stage as well as adapting stage works to screen. So that would make sense.
His visual direction seems to be purely functional. Which is...fine. But not really what I personally go to movies for.
It reminds me of an interview I saw with Peter Bogdanovich on TCM, where he was discussing his favorite films. I forget the exact context of the comment, but at one point he said, "...and to this day, that's all that movies really are. Just people talking."
And I remember thinking, "gotta disagree with you there, bud."
The idea of reducing such an incredible visual medium like film down to "it's just people talking" has always felt asinine to me.
Anyways, my point being, I wonder if Lumet came from a similar school of thought.
I can't disagree with your opinion...but I am fascinated by movies that are originated by plays. Noises Off! is brilliant
I agree 100% and I love them, too.
I'm just saying to reduce the entire art form and medium down to "it's people talking" doesn't make sense to me.
Sam Elliot sure has some feelings about Power of the Dog.
Yeeeesh.
Not a good look.
Films of people talking aren't inherently less "cinematic" than films consisting mainly of physical action; there are lots of ways to film people talking, some more dynamic than others. His Girl Friday is one of the talkiest films ever made but Hawks keeps his actors in constant motion, whereas contemporary action movies--e.g., any film by Peter Jackson or Christopher Nolan--tend toward visual monotony: static scenes of expository dialogue punctuated by illegible action scenes. Bodganovich's films seem to me more impressive visually than Lumet's, as the former was trying to revive a classical tradition that Lumet--especially in his earlier, more visually emphatic films, such as The Pawnbroker--helped to kill off before calming down somewhat in his later films, but both are largely at the mercy of their scripts. My favourite Bodganovich films are currently The Last Picture Show, Saint Jack, and The Cat's Meow; my favourite Lumets are Dog Day Afternoon, Find Me Guilty, and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, but there's still a lot I haven't seen by both directors.
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The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
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The (New) World
It is literally what people accuse MCU films of all being haha. I now know how they feel. Plus contrasting it with Shang Chai which is just tons of fun.
Quoting baby doll (view post)
It's not physical action I'm talking about, though. Lumet doesn't do anything interesting with the camera. Close and medium shots, stock angles, no real visual style.
His films are vehicles for the scripts and performances with zero flare.
Considering how overbearing Lumet's style in his early films, it's probably for the best he toned it down in his later work, where (notwithstanding the flashy transitions in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, to cite only the first example that comes to mind) he seems to concentrate his creative efforts more on the films' mise en scène than the camera: e.g., the highly purposeful colour-coding in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. I wouldn't make any great claims for Lumet as a director, but his stylistic choices strike me as far more thought out and purposeful than most of the Hollywood directors who've followed in his wake. Incidentally his book Making Movies is very much worth a read.
I've liked all of what I've seem from Lumet so far. Some of his movies are dialogue driven which is fine with me. Dog Day Afternoon is probably one of the best bank heist hostage flicks I've ever seen and I love 12 Angry Men.
Quoting DFA1979 (view post)
Yeah I had fun with Shang Chai! And I knew nothing about either that or Eternals going in.
I hate when I'm scrolling around and 12 Angry Men is on because whether theres 90 minutes left or 10, I have to watch it. It's nearly a rain man situation. Wonper! Wopner!
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Yeah Skitch can never say no to 12 Angry Men.
Lol pwned
What about 12 Angry Men, where, according to this...
At the beginning of the film, the cameras are positioned above eye level and mounted with wide-angle lenses, to give the appearance of greater depth between subjects, but as the film progresses the focal length of the lenses is gradually increased. By the end of the film, nearly everyone is shown in closeup, using telephoto lenses from a lower angle, which decreases or "shortens" depth of field. Lumet stated that his intention in using these techniques with cinematographer Boris Kaufman was to create a nearly palpable claustrophobia.
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For NBC, risks and rewards with Kelly hire
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NBC’s hiring of Megyn Kelly reshapes its talent lineup in a way that the network news unit has not seen since Brian Williams was removed from the “NBC Nightly News” anchor chair more than a year ago.
Since Williams’ departure, NBC has been a news division with different fiefdoms, with Matt Lauer serving as the face of “Today,” and Lester Holt leading “NBC Nightly News” and “Dateline.” Lauer and Holt have split many of the major anchor duties during the campaign, with Lauer interviewing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during a town hall early in the general election, and Holt serving as one of the official presidential debate moderators.
Kelly is now a very big star entering a solar system built around these smaller planets. Her new projects, the primetime program and the daytime news show, do not fit neatly into anything currently on the air at the channel, and may take some resources away from existing projects.
There is a distinct possibility that Kelly’s primetime Sunday show replaces an hour currently occupied by Holt’s “Dateline,” and the easiest way for her daytime show to get on air quickly would be to take over one of “Today”s four hours. Broadcasting & Cable's Paige Albiniak reported Wednesday that Kelly is in line to take over "Today"'s third hour at 9 a.m. That hour has been somewhat in flux since host Billy Bush was ousted in the wake of the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape where Bush and President-Elect Donald Trump were caught making lewd comments about women.
If anything, it is likely that NBC is still trying to figure out their plans for Kelly too.
“What exactly she will do at NBC, I don’t quite understand,” said “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Charlie Rose, in an interview with POLITICO. “ I haven’t talked to [NBC News chairman Andy Lack] or her about what it is going to be, what will they do on Sunday night, what the daytime show is going to be about. I don’t know more than what I read, and I don’t think they know yet. Knowing Andy, I’d bet he opened the conversation with her by saying, ‘well, what do you want to do?’”
Kelly’s versatility, as a debate moderator, as an anchor and as a host, is firmly established at this point. One question NBC will need to grapple with is how political they want her to be, and how political she wants to be. Her Fox primetime special certainly touched on politics (it featured an interview with Donald Trump, after all) but also featured some segments that could easily work as daytime fare – interviews with actress Laverne Cox and celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro.
"She is a really versatile performer. I could see her, if they ever had a vacancy at the Today show, I could see her in that very, very comfortably,” said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. “One could see her doing anchoring roles. She could certainly do the discussion things. So she's a versatile character that NBC could use in a lot of different ways, as they have needs, and they could sort of feel out how they're going to transition her from being a Fox personality to being a, let's say, not-Fox personality.”
In addition to Holt and Lauer, Kelly will face competition for the big interviews and event coverage from "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, herself a former lawyer and a veteran of cable news like Kelly; she’s also a former White House correspondent. There’s also “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd, and of course, former “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams, currently in the midst of his TV comeback, anchoring special events for MSNBC and the show “The 11th Hour.”
Aside from the “Today” show on the daytime side, Kelly will find herself in the company of entertainment talk shows like "Steve Harvey" and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and panel shows like "The View" and "The Talk."
Much still seems to be in flux in NBC’s deal with Kelly, including when she starts her new role. Though her last day at Fox is on Friday, Kelly’s contract with Fox News runs through the summer.
In the immediate aftermath of Kelly's hiring, NBC stars like Guthrie and Todd have expressed excitement on Twitter, as have some insiders internally, for the hiring coup. But now the hard work begins.
“I am not surprised by the choices she made,” Rose said, but he also highlighted the risks. “I don’t think it is a certainty. Nothing in this world, and especially television, to use a famous phrase, is a slam dunk.”
Additional reporting by Kelsey Sutton
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Based on the time zone, the international date line, and the shift between the Sun and the Earth, the first place to catch the dawn will not be fixed.
The world's first large-scale tidal power plant
The world's first large-scale tidal power plant was inaugurated on September 12 in Scotland. According to the Guardian, the MeyGen tidal generator turbine in the Pentland Firth Strait has been put into operation on the outskirts of Inverness, Scotland. After the inauguration ceremony, a turbine with a height of about 15m and a rotor diameter of 16m and a mass of 200 tons will begin to be used in the waters off northern Scotland, between Caithness and Orkney.
China builds a power plant near the Chernobyl nuclear grave
Two Chinese companies plan to start construction of a solar power plant in a restricted area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine. Two Chinese companies are planning to build a one-gigawatt solar power plant in a 2,600-square-kilometer restricted area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine, Reuters reported on November 21.
India inaugurated the world's largest solar power plant
The new plant in India has a capacity of 648 MW, becoming the largest solar power plant in the world today. India in late November released images of the Kamuthi Solar Power Project, giving people a view of the world's largest solar power plant in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu state, India, according to Futurism. .
Australia built freezing facility for revival
The US $ 500,000 facility in New South Wales will freeze the bodies of those who wish to revive in the future. Southern Cryonics is planning to build a frozen body with a $ 500,000 investment in Holbrook, New South Wales. Once the facility is completed, Australia will become the third country in the world after the US and Russia to perform freezing frozen at a cost of $ 90,000 per person, News.com.au reported on January 6. Matt Fisher, a spokesman for Southern Cryonics, said there was nothing to guarantee the future resurrection of frozen corpses, but there were still many interested and wanted to try this method.
Dubai's giant desalination plant
Jebel Ali plant has the ability to convert sea water into clean water to meet the needs of the people of Dubai. Dubai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, and it has a very dry climate, according to Popular Science. The population explosion in Dubai has been gradually depleting groundwater resources, which now only provide 0.5% of the city's needs.
The first bird airport in the world in China
A wetland reserve in China will become a stop for many migratory birds on the same flight path in the world. Australian-based landscape architecture firm McGregor Coxall proposed a 61-hectare Tianjin Bird Sanctuary project in an old landfill, making it the world's first "airport" for for birds. If all goes according to plan, construction of the sanctuary will begin later this year and is expected to be completed in 2018, according to Mother Nature Network.
Google plans to build "green technology" campus
According to Engadget, the search giant has recently submitted a proposal to renovate its campus to Mountain View city authorities. Through the construction sketch image, Google is trying to refresh the company's working campus, and turn it into an open space with more trees, while deploying more green technology around the headquarters. work.
Energy storage plant - Australia's new "green" technology
According to researchers at the Australian National University (ANU), pump-driven hydroelectricity (or pumped-storage hydroelectricity) can help Australia become a fully green nation. ". The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant does not produce more electricity but only contributes to regulating the amount of electricity according to the change in electricity demand (load) during the day between peak time (daytime and evening) and peak time ( night).
The hotel owns both the rainforest and the first artificial beach in the world
A beautiful hotel designed with rain forests and artificial beaches will open in 2018 in Dubai - the city with the most luxurious visitors in the world. The hotel is made of beautiful fairy-tale straw and clay in Transylvania Many hotels in Hanoi and Thai Nguyen removed "stars" Binh Dinh: Fire hotel, many tourists panic
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Help Dress our Town Crier
Town Crier's Uniform Reflects Historic Past
Reflecting Our Heritage: About The Town Crier Uniform
The Town Crier's uniform was designed by a town committee and is based on the color scheme of the Glengary Light Infantry Fencibles. They were one of the prinicipal units that settled in Perth after the war of 1812-1814. Their hunter green, black and silver trim jackets with grey pants predominate the great coat of the Town Crier. Where possible the buttons and buckles will are modelled on the Fencibles uniform.
The original design drawings are shown to the left of this article and described below. Some elements, such as the crests, were changed as the uniform developed.
A red sash, typical for a British Army Sergeant of the period, will contain the crests of the Fencibles along with the crests of the crests of the Swiss "Le Régiment de Watteville" and the Swiss "Le Régiment de Meuron" whose members also located in this area. Two other crests, the crest of the Town Of Perth and the crest of The Ontario Guild Of Town Criers will complete this sash.
The waistcoat contains the authentic pewter buttons which were part of the standard uniform of the British Regiments. Finally a traditional "tricorne hat" adorned by the feather quills completes the uniform. In addition to the light gray knee britches, the Town Crier also has the option of appearing in a traditional highland kilt, which was part of the dress uniform of many of the officers of the period.
To complete the look the Crier wears Ghillie Broques, which are a Scottish formal dress shoe, lace cuffs and a jobot. Authentic socks and garters also add to the overall appearance.
It was a major undertaking to design and create a uniform that will work on the hottest days of the summer and the coldest days of the winter. No doubt this project will be an on-going one for the Town Crier and the Heritage Management Committee.
A picture of the Town Crier in his full uniform can be seen by clicking here.
The Town Crier Uniform Fund
The Town Crier Selection Committee continues to raise funds for our Town Crier's uniform. The current uniform made its first appearance on July 20, 2006. It is a significant garment, made of wool and fully lined. The uniform was made by Peak Sportswear in Ottawa.
The total cost for the uniform exceeds $3,000 and each year parts of the uniform must be upgraded, replaced and repaired. This annual cost is estimated to be about $500.00. It is hoped that some summer weight clothing will be added to the Crier uniform for next season. The Town Crier reports that the current uniform is quite warm.
The Committee continues to need your help. Contributions of at least $200 will have their names displayed at the Town Hall.
All donations over $10 will receive an official tax receipt.
For more information contact Shellee Evans, Director of Community Services at 267-3311 ext. 2227 or mail your donation to Town Hall, 80 Gore Street East, Perth, Ontario K7H 1H9.
Reflecting Our Heritage: About The Town Crier's Bell
The Town Crier's Bell was hand cast by Kern's Foundary which was started by Robert Kerns in the mid 1960's. It is a small 1 to 2 man operation. Robert has operated it since then. They make bells (this size) for weddings, anniversaries and special occasions. They also make anchors, ship wheels and a variety of other small items. They have made Town Crier Bells for Criers in Nova Scotia, Newfounlad, New Brunswick, Ontario, the U.S.A., Australia and Great Britain. They have made more than 40 bells for Town Criers.
The bell is cast with the name "Brent McLaren - Perth Town Crier" and "MMV" as part of the casting. It has a wonderful, clear ringing tone which quickly gathers the attention of passersby.
© Copyright 2006 Brent McLaren. All Rights Reserved.
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Tiger Woods: The Great Comeback
Even if you’re not a golf fan, everyone has heard about Tiger Woods’ amazing comeback at the 2019 Masters in Augusta. Woods has been a champion in the sport, but what he did at the Masters made history. This is not a story solely about coming back to win the Masters; it’s about the solid determination to win after a number of injuries, a scandal and a self-imposed hiatus. Woods’ story gives hope to those in any sport to not give up and to keep fighting.
Since 2008, Woods has had a number of injuries starting with his left knee. He then had stress fractures in his tibia. Yet, he came back from these injuries to win the U.S. Open that year. He was told by his doctors not to play, but Woods’ determination won out, earning him his 14th major tournament. He also won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the FedExCup. In 2010, he had an inflamed facet joint in his neck, yet goes on to earn a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup Team. The following years are the same, an injury and then a comeback. There was a scandal thrown in the mix that cost Woods some sponsors. What’s interesting is that Nike has been by Woods’ side through it all. It’s a good thing too, since Woods’ victory at the Masters added $2 billion to Nike’s market value. In 2011, he has another knee injury and ties 37th in the WGC-Bridgestone International. The injuries are starting to pile up, and this is before his back issues.
Woods’ starts withdrawing from tournaments and takes more time off to heal. It’s not looking so good and his health is affecting his game. Between 2015 and 2017, Wood’s endured four back surgeries. Yet, in 2018, he came back with a vengeance. This was the turning point; he played in 18 tournaments, won the Tour Championship (his first win in five years) and played on the U.S. Ryder Cup Team. With each injury, Woods kept a brave face and moved forward. The Masters is a testament to his growth personally and professionally. He was patient the entire event and was completely focused on winning, despite the nay-sayers.
Woods’ victory at the Masters made golf history for a number of reasons, but most importantly for coming back stronger than ever. His determination to push through his injuries to play amazing golf is astounding. He should have given up, since everyone had given up on him. Yet, he kept going. Woods’ determination, unshakeable faith and dedication are what makes this a great comeback story.
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A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces using modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal, or any other material that can hold a person's weight.
The levels of a building are often referred to as floors although a more proper term is storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. Because floors meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in the first world.
Special floor structures
Where a special floor structure like a floating floor
Floating floor
A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is often used synonymously with laminate flooring in a domestic context....
is laid upon another floor then both may be referred to as subfloors.
Special floor structures are used for a number of purposes:
Balcony , a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade.-Types:The traditional Maltese balcony is a wooden closed balcony projecting from a...
, a platform projecting from a wall
, normally for noise or vibration reduction
Glass floor
This article is about a structural feature. For the expression concerning limitations on advancement, see glass ceiling. For the 2004 Maritime album, see Glass Floor....
, as in glass bottomed elevators
Nightingale floor makes a noise when an intruder walks on it
A raised floor or access floor are types of floor that provide an elevated structural floor above a solid substrate to create a hidden void for the passage of mechanical and electrical services...
, utilities underneath can be accessed easily
Sprung floor
A sprung floor is a floor that absorbs shocks, giving it a softer feel. Such floors are considered the best available for dance and indoor sports and physical education....
, improves the performance and safety of athletes and dancers
Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
Materials almost always classified as floor covering include carpet
A carpet is a textile floor covering consisting of an upper layer of "pile" attached to a backing. The pile is generally either made from wool or a manmade fibre such as polypropylene,nylon or polyester and usually consists of twisted tufts which are often heat-treated to maintain their...
, area rugs
Rug making is an ancient craft, and covers a variety of techniques.-Braided:Braided rugs are made by using three or more strips of fabric, usually wool, folding the raw edges to the middle and braiding them together. For an oval rug the center braid should be one inch longer than the width-length...
, and resilient flooring such as linoleum
Linoleum is a floor covering made from renewable materials such as solidified linseed oil , pine rosin, ground cork dust, wood flour, and mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate, most commonly on a burlap or canvas backing; pigments are often added to the materials.The finest linoleum floors,...
or vinyl
A vinyl compound is any organic compound that contains a vinyl group ,which are derivatives of ethene, CH2=CH2, with one hydrogen atom replaced with some other group...
flooring. Materials commonly called flooring
Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface...
include wood flooring
Wood flooring is any product manufactured from timber that is designed for use as flooring, either structural or aesthetic. Bamboo flooring is often considered a wood floor, although it is made from a grass rather than a timber....
, laminated wood, ceramic tile, stone
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone, marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, stucco, and...
, terrazzo
Terrazzo is a composite material poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of marble, quartz, granite, glass or other suitable chips, sprinkled or unsprinkled, and poured with a binder that is cementitious, chemical or a combination of both...
, and various seamless chemical floor coatings.
The choice of material for floor covering is affected by factors such as cost, endurance, noise insulation, comfort and cleaning effort. Some types of flooring must not be installed below grade (lower than ground level), and laminate or hardwood should be avoided where there may be moisture or condensation.
The subfloor may be finished in a way that makes it usable without any extra work, see:
Earthen floor
An earthen floor, also called an adobe floor, is a floor made of dirt, raw earth, or other unworked ground materials. It is usually constructed, in modern times, with a mixture of sand, finely chopped straw and clay, mixed to a thickened consistency and spread with a trowel on a sub-surface such...
adobe or clay
Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...
Solid ground floor
A solid ground floor consists of a layer of concrete, which in the case of a domestic building will be the surface layer brought up to ground floor level with hardcore filling under it. The advantage of a solid ground floor is the elimination of dry rot and other problems normally associated with...
cement screed or granolithic
There are a number of special features that may be used to ornament
Ornament (architecture)
In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative art are excluded from the term; most ornament does not include human figures, and if present they...
a floor or perform a useful service. Examples include Floor medallions
Floor Medallions
Floor Medallions are generally a centerpiece of flooring design that can be made with various flooring materials including natural stone, wood, metal, tile, glass or a variety of other materials suitable for flooring...
which provide a decorative centerpiece of a floor design, or Grating
A grating is any regularly spaced collection of essentially identical, parallel, elongated elements. Gratings usually consist of a single set of elongated elements, but can consist of two sets, in which case the second set is usually perpendicular to the first...
s used to drain water or to rub dirt off shoes.
Subfloor construction
Floors may be built on beam
Beam (structure)
A beam is a horizontal structural element that is capable of withstanding load primarily by resisting bending. The bending force induced into the material of the beam as a result of the external loads, own weight, span and external reactions to these loads is called a bending moment.- Overview...
s or joist
Joist
A joist, in architecture and engineering, is one of the horizontal supporting members that run from wall to wall, wall to beam, or beam to beam to support a ceiling, roof, or floor. It may be made of wood, steel, or concrete. Typically, a beam is bigger than, and is thus distinguished from, a joist...
s or use structures like prefabricated hollow core slab
Hollow core slab
A hollow core slab , also known as a voided slab or hollow core plank is a precast slab of prestressed concrete typically used in the construction of floors in multi-story apartment buildings...
s. The subfloor builds on those and attaches by various means particular to the support structure but the support and subfloor together always provides the strength of a floor one can sense underfoot. Nowadays, subfloors are generally made from at least two layers of moisture resistant ('AC' grade, one side finished and sanded flat) plywood
Plywood is a type of manufactured timber made from thin sheets of wood veneer. It is one of the most widely used wood products. It is flexible, inexpensive, workable, re-usable, and can usually be locally manufactured...
or composite sheeting, jointly also termed 'Underlayments'http://ask.reference.com/related/subfloor on floor joists of 2x8, 2x10, or 2x12's spaced generally on 16 inch centers. Some flooring components used solely on concrete slabs consist of a dimpled rubberized or plastic layer much like bubble wrap that provide little tiny pillars for the half inch sheet material above. These are manufactured in 2ft X 2ft squares and the edges fit together like a mortise and tenon
Mortise and tenon
The mortise and tenon joint has been used for thousands of years by woodworkers around the world to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining pieces connect at an angle of 90°. In its basic form it is both simple and strong. Although there are many joint variations, the basic mortise and tenon...
joint. Like a floor on joists not on concrete, a second sheeting underlayment layer is added with staggered joints to disperse forces that would open a joint under the stress of live loads like a person walking.
Three layers are common only in high end highest quality construction. The two layers in high quality construction will both be thick 3/4ths inch sheets (as will the third when present), but the two layers my achieve a combined thickness of only half-that in cheaper construction— 1/2" panel overlaid by 1/4th" plywood subflooring. At the highest end, or in select rooms of the building there might well be three sheeting layers, and such stiff subflooring is necessary to prevent the cracking of large floor tiles of 9-10 inches or more on a side, and the structure under such a floor will frequently also have extra 'bracing' and 'blocking' joist-to-joist intended spread the weight to have as little sagging on any joist as possible when there is a live load on the floor above.
In Europe and North America only a few rare floors will be seen to have no separate floor covering on top, and those are normally because of a temporary condition pending sales or occupancy; in semi-custom new construction and some rental markets, such floors are provided for the new home buyer (renter) to select their own preferred floor coverings usually a wall to wall carpet, or one piece vinyl floor covering. Wood clad ('Hardwood') and tile covered finished floors generally will require a stiffer higher quality subfloor, especially for the later class. Since the wall base and flooring interact forming a joint, such later added semi-custom floors will generally not be hardwood for that joint construction would be in the wrong order unless the wall base trim was also delayed pending the choosing.
The subfloor may also provide underfloor heating
Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling which achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using conduction, radiation and convection...
and if floor radiant heating is not used, will certainly suffer puncture openings to be put through for forced air duct
Duct (HVAC)
Ducts are used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning to deliver and remove air. These needed airflows include, for example, supply air, return air, and exhaust air. Ducts also deliver, most commonly as part of the supply air, ventilation air...
s for both heating and air conditioning
An air conditioner is a home appliance, system, or mechanism designed to dehumidify and extract heat from an area. The cooling is done using a simple refrigeration cycle...
, or pipe holes for forced hot water or steam heating transport piping conveying the heat from furnace to the to local room's heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a piece of equipment built for efficient heat transfer from one medium to another. The media may be separated by a solid wall, so that they never mix, or they may be in direct contact...
s (radiators).
Some sub-floors are inset below the top surface level of surrounding flooring's joists and such subfloors and a normal height joist are joined to make a plywood box both molding and containing at least two inches of concrete (A 'Mud Floor' in builders parlance). Alternatively, only a slightly inset floor topped by a fibrous mesh and concrete building composite floor cladding is used for smaller high quality tile floors—these 'concrete' subfloors have a good thermal match with ceramic tiles and so are popular with builders constructing kitchen, laundry and especially both common and high end bathrooms and any other room where large expanses of well supported ceramic tile will be used as a finished floor. Floors using small (4.5" and smaller) ceramic tiles generally use only an additional 1/4tr inch layer of plywood (if that) and substitute adhesive and substrate materials making do with both a flexible joints and semi-flexible mounting compounds and so are designed to withstand the greater flexing which large tiles cannot tolerate without breaking.
Ground floor construction
A ground-level floor can be an earthen floor made of soil
Soil is a natural body consisting of layers of mineral constituents of variable thicknesses, which differ from the parent materials in their morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical characteristics...
, or be solid ground floor
s made of concrete slab
A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings. Horizontal slabs of steel reinforced concrete, typically between 10 and 50 centimeters thick, are most often used to construct floors and ceilings, while thinner slabs are also used for exterior paving.In many domestic and...
Ground level slab floors are uncommon in northern latitudes where freezing provides significant structural problems, except in heated interior spaces such as basements or for outdoor unheated structures such as a gazebo or shed where unitary temperatures are not creating pockets of troublesome meltwaters. Ground-level slab floors are prepared for pouring by grading the site, which usually also involves removing topsoil and other organic materials well away from the slab site. Once the site has reached a suitable firm inorganic base material that is graded further so that it is flat and level, and then topped by spreading a layer-cake of force dispersing sand and gravel. Deeper channels may be dug, especially the slab ends and across the slab width at regular intervals in which a continuous run of rebar is bent and wired to sit at two heights within forming a sub-slab 'concrete girder'. Above the targeted bottom height (coplanar with the compacted sand and gravel topping) a separate grid of rebar
A rebar , also known as reinforcing steel, reinforcement steel, rerod, or a deformed bar, is a common steel bar, and is commonly used as a tensioning device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures holding the concrete in compression...
or welded wire mesh is usually added to reinforce the concrete
Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...
, and will be tied to the under slab 'girder' rebar at intervals. The under slab cast girders are used especially if it the slab be used structurally, i.e., to support part of the building.
Upper floor construction
Floors in woodframe homes
Framing (construction)
Framing, in construction known as light-frame construction, is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a roof comprising horizontal ceiling joists and sloping...
are usually constructed with joists centered no more than 16 inches or 40 centimeters apart, according to most building code
A building code, or building control, is a set of rules that specify the minimum acceptable level of safety for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures. The main purpose of building codes are to protect public health, safety and general welfare as they relate to the...
s. Heavy floors, such as those made of stone
, require more closely spaced joists. If the span
Span (architecture)
Span is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, e.g. a beam or a bridge.A span can be closed by a solid beam or of a rope...
between load-bearing walls is too long for joists to safely support, then a heavy crossbeam (thick or laminate
A laminate is a material that can be constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to the placing of something between layers of plastic and gluing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an...
d wood, or a metal I-beam
I-beam
-beams, also known as H-beams, W-beams , rolled steel joist , or double-T are beams with an - or H-shaped cross-section. The horizontal elements of the "" are flanges, while the vertical element is the web...
or H-beam) may be used. A "subfloor" of plywood
or waferboard
Waferboard
Waferboard belongs to the subset of reconstituted wood panel products called flakeboards, which is a type of particleboard. It is a structural material made from rectangular wood flakes of controlled length and thickness bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and...
is then laid over the joists.
In modern buildings, there are numerous services provided via ducts or wires underneath the floor or above the ceiling
A ceiling is an overhead interior surface that covers the upper limit of a room. It is generally not a structural element, but a finished surface concealing the underside of the floor or roof structure above....
. The floor of one level typically also holds the ceiling of the level below (if any).
Services provided by subfloors include:
Communication fibers
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
Electrical wiring in general refers to insulated conductors used to carry electricity, and associated devices. This article describes general aspects of electrical wiring as used to provide power in buildings and structures, commonly referred to as building wiring. This article is intended to...
Compartmentalization (fire protection)
Compartmentalization in structures, such as land-based buildings, traffic tunnels, ships, aerospace vehicles, or submarines, is the fundamental basis and aim of passive fire protection....
Thermal insulation is the reduction of the effects of the various processes of heat transfer between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence. Heat transfer is the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature...
Plumbing is the system of pipes and drains installed in a building for the distribution of potable drinking water and the removal of waterborne wastes, and the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures in such systems. A plumber is someone who installs or repairs piping...
A sanitary sewer is a separate underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings to treatment or disposal. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas also carry industrial wastewater...
Soundproofing is any means of reducing the sound pressure with respect to a specified sound source and receptor. There are several basic approaches to reducing sound: increasing the distance between source and receiver, using noise barriers to reflect or absorb the energy of the sound waves, using...
In floors supported by joists, utilities
A public utility is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service . Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to state-wide government monopolies...
are run through the floor by drilling small holes through the joists to serve as conduits. Where the floor is over the basement or crawlspace, utilities may instead be run under the joists, making the installation less expensive. Also, ducts for air conditioning (central heating and cooling) are large and cannot cross through joists or beams; thus, ducts are typically at or near the plenum, or come directly from underneath (or from an attic).
Pipes for plumbing, sewerage, underfloor heating, and other utilities may be laid directly in slab floors, typically via cellular floor raceways
Cellular floor raceways
Cellular floor raceways are electrical wiring ducts or cells made from steel floor deck that serve as structural formwork for placement of concrete floor slabs and also as wire and cable raceways within the concrete floor slab....
. However, later maintenance of these systems can be expensive, requiring the opening of concrete or other fixed structures. Electrically heated floors are available, and both kinds of systems can also be used in wood floors as well.
Issues with floors
Wood floors, particularly older ones, will tend to 'squeak' in certain places. This is caused by the wood rubbing against other wood, usually at a joint
Joint (building)
A building joint is a junction where building elements meet without applying a static load from one element to another. When one or more of these vertical or horizontal elements that meet are required by the local building code to have a fire-resistance rating, the resulting opening that makes up...
of the subfloor. Firmly securing the pieces to each other with screw
A screw, or bolt, is a type of fastener characterized by a helical ridge, known as an external thread or just thread, wrapped around a cylinder. Some screw threads are designed to mate with a complementary thread, known as an internal thread, often in the form of a nut or an object that has the...
s or nails may reduce this problem.
Floor vibration
In the design of floor systems in buildings vibrations caused by walking, dancing, mechanical equipment or other rhythmic excitation may cause an annoyance to the occupants or impede the function of sensitive equipment...
is a problem with floors. Wood floors tend to pass sound, particularly heavy footsteps and low bass frequencies. Floating floor
s can reduce this problem. Concrete floors are usually so massive they do not have this problem, but they are also much more expensive to construct and must meet more stringent building requirements due to their weight.
The flooring may need protection sometimes e.g. a gym floor alternately used for seating in a graduation ceremony. A gym floor cover
Gym Floor Cover
Gym floor covers can either be a carpet-based protection system or is a large plastic tarp, similar to a painters tarp, usually divided into equal sections wide each to cover up the entire gym floor...
can be used to reduce the need to satisfy incompatible requirements.
Floor cleaning is a major occupation throughout the world. The main job of most cleaners is to clean floors.-Reasons for cleaning floors:The principal reasons for floor cleaning are:...
is a major occupation
Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:- Employee :...
throughout the world. Cleaning is essential to prevent injuries due to slips and to remove dirt. Floors are also treated to protect or beautify the surface. The correct method to clean one type of floor can often damage another, so it is important to use the correct treatment.
Floor numbering
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a diagram, usually to scale, showing a view from above of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure....
A sidewalk, or pavement, footpath, footway, and sometimes platform, is a path along the side of a road. A sidewalk may accommodate moderate changes in grade and is normally separated from the vehicular section by a curb...
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Awful Dream Scenario: Belgium to play Canada at MLS Cup
Photo In the afternoon of Jan. 28, 2018, Alphonso Davies, a 16-year-old Vancouver-raised soccer player, scored a goal for his Canadian youth national team. That night, at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena, the star forward…
In the afternoon of Jan. 28, 2018, Alphonso Davies, a 16-year-old Vancouver-raised soccer player, scored a goal for his Canadian youth national team. That night, at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena, the star forward launched a multimedia project that reveals the lives of youths in Ghana and Liberia.
The Toronto Star named Davies as the “male Canadian athlete” for the current season. He’s been likened to a young Andres Iniesta, and his scoring exploits are giving his countrymen and father something to cheer about, even as they watch Canada lose all four of its World Cup qualifying matches.
People didn’t understand Alphonso Davies. They looked at a kid with eyes closed from the moment he was born, as if he were a gift from the stars. His parents, Benjamine, who is from Ghana, and Ashley, who is from Liberia, had every reason to think that. Ashraful Davies had also been raised in Vancouver by white parents, and made the journey from Central Africa — the famous cougar spot of Ghana.
Alphonso Davies’ basketball background probably helped him get noticed by Adidas. The boy didn’t have a cleat until he was 10. But a photo of him standing against a wall after a basketball game showed off his remarkable footwork and shot selection. Adidas made him wear its uniform.
From that moment on, Davies was either being chased by or chased by Ghanaian legend and eight-time NBA champion Charles Barkley. Jennings had invited Davies to Atlanta for an open gym. That invitation took on a life of its own.
Ingles and others wanted Davies to come to Germany. He thought about it. Then he told Barkley that he wasn’t sure if he wanted to go.
Things did not really change. Adams kept Barkley company during games at a youth academy in Vancouver. He slept in his car at times. But in the morning he would drop Jennings at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
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