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Tallinn celebrates Estonia's centenary
24 February 2018, the nation will celebrate 100 years since the founding of the Republic.
Tallinn City has put together a comprehensive programme of events from youth street festival, music festival and much more. Estonia jubilee year will be a joint co-operation between the national government and the city of Tallinn.
Estonian Republic 100 (EV100) Tallinn commissioner and city council chairman Mihhail Kõlvart explained that local government has always been a key part of the national development and national identity and this was a proud event not just for the country but for the city of Tallinn.
Kõlvart explained the Tallinn City Duma later called the Tallinn City Council was established in 1877 and forty years later Estonia won its independence.
"The Estonian state has grown historically out of the local government. Tallinn city council made a big contribution to the Estonian Republic's formation and restoration of independence and we are pleased to celebrate the country's 100th jubilee," Kõlvart said.
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Tallinn is divided into eight districts. Each district will be celebrating the nation's centenary in both intimate and lavish ways.
In Mustamäe, celebrations will take place through the whole of February. Mustamäe Centre floor will be redecorated with flowers to present the colours of the Estonian flags. Exhibitions and workshops will take place. The atrium will host a show about the history of Mustamäe. On the big day, there will be cake and other assortments. Residents will have an opportunity to plant trees.
In Lasnamäe, the Lindakivi centre will celebrate by presenting a series of classic books by Estonian authors with music and film.
Kristiine district celebrations, beginning 13 February, will tie in with the theme of Lent. Shrove Tuesday in Estonia is usually celebrated with fresh cream buns and there will be an opportunity to enjoy traditional Estonian Shrove Tuesday buns.
In Kesklinn, (Central City) from 15 February until May 1, Raekoja will host the Golden Age of Art in a collection put together by the noted entrepreneur and art collector Enn Kunila. Celebrations will be held in Raekoja not only for the EV100 but also for Tallinn becoming the capital city of the Estonian Republic.
The collection will give a complete overview of Estonian painting in the first half of the 20th Century, concentrating on harmonious, lush, landscapes and city views. There will also be many portraits. The exhibition will bring together the work of Estonia's outstanding masters like Konrad Mägi, Ants Laikmaa, Paul Raud, Nikolai Triik, Paul Burman, Ado Vabbe, Hubert Lukk, Villem Ormisson, Richard Uutmaa, Eerik Haamer and Endel Kõks.
The culmination of EV100 will be a military parade and ceremonial raising of the flag on Toompea Hill on 24 February.
EV100 is dedicated to children and the youth. Tallinn's oldest kindergarten was founded in Kopli a hundred years ago. The city committed to building 100 new playgrounds to celebrate the centenary. 126 have been built.
Youth United in song on Freedom Square
"The focus is youth and children," EV100 committee member Tiit Pruuli said.
"For example, children will plant oak trees, which they themselves have grown, in parks across Estonia, as part of the project "Estonia's 100 oaks."
During the anniversary year, the project "An Instrument for Every Child" will reach fruition. The goal is to replace old and tired instrument collections to give every child the opportunity to learn how to make music by playing a new and well-functioning instrument.
Estonian youth have already gotten over 1700 musical instruments,
Students will sing in joint celebration on May 15 on Freedom Square, participants will come from the schools and gymnasiums.
The children's song festival SadaSäraSilma (a hundred shining eyes) will take place on 1 June in Freedom Square. There will a youth street festival organised for a large number of young people 18 August which will include street-dance and street sports. In addition to the competition, you can listen to good music and participate in art and workshops.
On 2 February 1920, the Treaty of Tartu was signed, whereby the Soviet Union recognised Estonia's independence in perpetuity. There will events celebrating Estonia's independence up to 2020.
"We are only at the beginning of a long and colourful road," said Kõlvart.
"If I were to briefly outline the plans for Tallinn I would characterise it this way- we see, we know we do."
Tallinn will dedicate 1.3 million to the EV100 programme plus an addition half a million for special lighting.
Baltic Countries joint concert
Since Estonia and Lithuania celebrate their birthdays in the same year, there will be a joint concert in the main square of each country. The Baltic countries capital city orchestra will happen from the 18 August until the 1 September, in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. A flowerbed will be arranged in the national colours of the three countries.
Botanical gardens to get new terraces and plants for the centenary
Tallinn will fund the botanical gardens with 100 000 Euros for various repair works for the centenary year.
A key area is the redevelop of the Alpine Gardens. The botanic garden alpine terraces will be fixed, alpine plants will be added, and many other changes will be coming to the area.
The pond next to the botanical gardens is to be completely overhauled. Work which director Nelly Orisaar said is long overdue.
"The limestone terraces need an overhaul as does the support walls for high growing plants and flowers in the Alpine Gardens, Palm House and Rose Garden," Orisaar said.
A lot of the features of the botanical garden have real historical significance in the jubilee year.
The Botanical gardens stand on the former farm of Estonian's first president, Konstantin Päts, who died in a Soviet Gulag in 1956 after Estonia was occupied again in 1940.
"The support walls were partly made from the orchard on (Pats) farm and have partly collapsed. They need to be rebuilt and cleaned," Orisaar said.
The Tallinn Botanic Garden is situated in the eastern part of the city, ten kilometres from the city centre and three kilometres from the Pirita Yachting Centre. The area of the botanic garden is in the old valley of the River Pirita. The region is bordered by a vast, sandy area of pinewoods.
Originally founded in 1961 during the Soviet Occupation the Botanic Garden is managed by the Tallinn Environment Department and funded wholly by the city of Tallinn.
Self-driving buses to the rescue
Tallinn is one only a handful of the cities pioneering driverless bus technology, now the prototype which has been on a trial run is to be put to real use.
Self-driving buses will help patients get from bus stops to the hospital, navigate university campus and do fun rides in the Old Town, which is closed to traffic.
The trial run of self-driving buses between Tallinn's Culture Hub and the city centre was conducted in summer 2017.
In 2018, in co-operation with Tallinn Technical University (TTU) Nurkse institute, the city is moving forward with the smart bus people carrying business.
City planners believe self-driving buses will be useful in a situation where transports links are far from an important establishment and it is not possible to bring it nearer.
One route will run from North Estonia Regional Hospital to Lepistiku public transport stop.
"These buses can't replace standard long lines buses, but they can help people get to the public transport stop or after stepping down at the stop immediately reach the destination," explained city transport office development project specialist, Jaagup Ainsalu.
"Healthy people don't have a problem to walk half a kilometre, but it may be a problem for the hospital's patients," Ainsalu added.
Ainsalu recently visited Paris on a fact-finding mission. He explained that in Paris self-driving buses are already carrying travellers between the metro and the university campus and the system is working without accident or incident. Ainsalu said that self-driving buses are perfect for university campuses which have a calm environment and passengers and users wouldn't be bothered by an aggressive style driver.
In addition, routes, driverless buses can be used for tourist fun trip.
"Currently we are still at the thinking stage, we are mapping out place, where it is both possible and necessary to use buses.
"If the proposed bus line helps along the city's public transport development. We will weight up the pro and cons on every route," Ainsalu said.
Deputy Mayor Tõnis Mölder said that the project will provide new knowledge of environmentally friendly and independent transport.
"Tallinn is striving to be an inspiring, safety-conscious, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly city, I believe as the project go forward there will also increase in people's confidence in self-driving transport," Mölder said.
The Tallinn self-driving buses project is part of the Interreg Baltic Project with other participant cities being Kongsberg in Norway and Finland's capital Helsinki. Tallinn is spending 382,000 euros on the project which further backing from the EU.
The project will run until September 2020.


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EU Unraveling – Now It's Holland's Turn
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Monday, April 23, 2012
The Dutch government's failure to reach an agreement in talks to achieve tough spending cuts could see ratings agencies cut the country's prized AAA-rating and nervous investors push up the country's borrowing costs, and it will also have wider implications for the euro zone as a whole, analysts said on Monday. Prime Minister Mark Rutte will meet the Dutch queen on Monday afternoon to tender the government's resignation, Dutch broadcaster RTL reported. – CNBC
Dominant Social Theme: This is only to be expected. Wars are not won in a day, and neither will be the battle to save the EU.
Free-Market Analysis: Like some kind of rolling contagion, the insolvency affecting the Southern PIGS is spreading northward toward the supposedly solvent part of the EU.
Now it's Holland's turn. We learn that austerity hasn't been a soft sell in Holland any more than it has been in Greece, Portugal, Spain or Italy. Or Ireland, for that matter.
Of course, we figure the elites orchestrated first the downfall of Europe, from what we can tell, and then the following austerity. But maybe it is not working out as planned.
True, there are elite apparatchiks running Italy and Greece now, but the public furor hasn't died down and in the case of Greece and Spain seems to be growing stronger.
We figure this is partially because of what we call the Internet Reformation. The STATED plan (the Euro-crats have admitted as much) is that a Euro-crisis would eventually bring greater union to the unruly empire-in-progress.
The Eurozone is extremely important to the one-world government that is apparently being built brick-by-brick by the dynastic families of Europe and America. But the Internet itself has evidently and obviously exposed these plans.
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President-elect Donald Trump briefly spoke with reporters in Florida on Wednesday.
With boxing promoter Don King by his side in front of the Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump opined on a handful of current events, including US Secretary of State John Kerry's final plea for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Saying Kerry's assessment "speaks for itself," Trump declined to go into specifics, adding cryptically: "different views … we'll see what happens after January 20, right?"
Earlier Wednesday, Trump tweeted: "We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the US, but not anymore."
On the continuing federal investigations into hacking during the US election, Trump said intelligence officials "should do the best they can, figure it all out."
That comment is a departure from the president-elect's claims that the claim Russia carried out the hacking — made by the US Department of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, and the CIA, and affirmed by the FBI — were nothing more than partisan politics.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a former 2016 Republican presidential candidate, previously accused Russia of attacking his campaign operations also — and said Russian President Vladimir Putin should face "crippling sanctions" for it.
Trump scoffed at Graham's assertion: "I don't know what he's doing. I haven't spoken to Senator Graham … as you know he ran against me."
Trump continued: "I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on."
The White House is getting ready to announce punishment for Russia's cyberattacks.
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Disney's new Soundsational Parade on Main Street at Disneyland.
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By Catherine Gaugh
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The sounds of music — and I mean sounds with an "s" — can unlock a flood of memories. Disneyland Resort proved it in the for-media debut last week of two new rides and an enthusiastic, riveting parade that had the curbside audience dancing in the street.
Collectively, the Disney 2011 summer experience is called "Soundsational Summer", with an emphasis placed largely on music from the studio's successful animated films. Just try to spend a day in either of the parks without hearing several songs. It won't happen, and your day will be better for it.
Ariel's Underwater Adventure
An opening ceremony for Ariel's Underwater Adventure in California Adventure Park began with a flood of songs from "The Little Mermaid" film released 21 years ago. When Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in the animated feature, came on stage to sing "Part of That World", the little girls in the audience first squealed with excitement, then sighed with happiness.
They weren't the only ones riding an emotional wave. A group of young Disney singers who started the show had the adults, even those with silver hair, bouncing and singing along to "Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea." How did we forget what great music the movie had?
The sounds continued inside the ride. We climbed into an open clam shell that glides into a large round room. We weren't underwater, but the soft blue lighting made it seem so. Here we were serenaded by Ariel, Sebastian (the crab) and Ursula (the octo-villainess.)
There are nearly 130 assorted characters from the film participating in "Under the Sea", including, appropriately, blowfish on trombones. The sounds truely surrounded us; the music seemed to emanate from every wall.
The ride makes heavy use of audio-animatronics technology: Ariel seems to swim, with her red hair waving above her head. A pack of starfish spin around. It's enchanting.
This 5-minute child-friendly ride can transport even the most weary and cynical among us to a lighter, happier mood. I mean, really, there's a crab that sings about life underwater. What is not to like?
Mickey's Soundsational Parade
This daily procession of dancers, singers and floats down Main Street pays a colorful, sparkling homage to the most recent memorable Disney films. The music is loud and full of joy. Mickey Mouse and Goofy are reinvented as rock star drummers. And they're good.
And there's the music, from "The Little Mermaid," "Alladin," "The Jungle Book," "Princess and the Frog," "Mary Poppins" and even "Peter Pan." During a debut performance last week, members of the crowd danced on the sidewalks and in the street.
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Of the lush symphonic musical score John Williams composed for the "Star Wars" movies, the most familiar refrain is the powerful, trumpeting "Jedi Theme," and it can be heard inside a revamped Star Tours ride in Tomorrowland.
Hearing the music transformened nonchalant media types into junior high kids; these grownups hopped with excitement as they waited in line inside the skyport, watched the mini-movie at the entrance to the spaceship, and recalled how they felt when they first saw Darth Vader appear on the screen with his deep rumbling voice and evil intentions.
Inside the ride, with our 3D glasses on, we saw the warrior himself: Darth Vader appeared on screen, barking orders at us to land and give up one of our passengers (a spy!). The hapless and accidental pilot, C-3PO, and trusty companion R2-D2, managed to blast away, evading the Imperial forces. We cheered!
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Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, the leader of Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) on Thursday (18) addressing the media called on the Tamil people to boycott Sri Lanka's presidential election next month, stating that the policies in relation to the Tamil question of the common opposition coalition did not differ from that of the ruling regime.
"There is no doubt that every Tamil person wants an end to this regime's policies – that of targetting the Tamil nation," said the TNPF President Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam at a press conference on Thursday.
"However, what is important is that there is an end to the atrocities being committed. It is not merely to oust Mahinda Rajapaksa. The key aim of every Tamil person is to put an end to the things that he is doing."
"From our point of view, the most important question is to what extent will a new regime, brought in by someone new, provide progress to the Tamil nation."
"In order to defeat the Rajapaksa regime, what kind of person do we need to bring? Do we need to defeat Rajapaksa as an individual, or do we need to defeat his policies?"
"As far as we are concerned, it is not Mahinda Rajapaksa as an individual that is the problem, but his policies. If the next person [to assume the presidency] is going to follow his same policies then what is really taking place here is not the change of a regime, ie. that of policies, but merely a personality change."
"Our party's humble request to the Tamil people is that the wisest thing to do at present would be to stay away from this election. At no point in the future should it be said that the Tamil people willfully gave a mandate to destroy the Tamil nation."
Commenting on the policies and election statements made by the common opposition's presidential candidate, Maithiripala Sirisena, Mr Ponnambalam said that on the two key Tamil issues of accountability and justice through an international inquiry, as well as finding a political solution that was acceptable to the Tamil people, Sirisena was no different to Rajapaksa.
"He [Sirisena] has publicly said that the solution [to the ethnic conflict] is within a unitary state. He has publicly rejected a federal solution. He has stated that Buddhism will be given foremost place. He has very clearly stated, that under no circumstances will he allow the leaders of the Rajapaksa regime, the leaders of the military and the military as a whole – who are responsible for destruction of the Tamil nation – to face accountability or an international inquiry."
Highlighting the fact that neither candidate could win without foregrounding their Sinhala nationalism, and moreover, distancing themselves from the Tamil people, including the TNA, he said this would ensure that any promises made to the Tamil people would never be implemented.
"Even if the opposition put on new garbs [of Sinhala nationalism] to win the election, then remove these garbs after the election is won and try to give something to the Tamil people, they will be disgraced before the Sinhala electorate and the new regime will definitely be brought down," Mr Ponnambalam said.
"The question we ask the Tamil people, is if you want a different regime, what kind of regime do you want? There is absolutely no benefit in defeating Rajapaksa to bring another Rajapaksa."


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Capricornus constellation is located in the southern sky. Its name means "the goat" in Latin.
Capricornus is one of the 12 zodiac constellations and it is represented by the symbol ♑. It is one of the faintest constellations in the sky.
Like other constellations of the zodiac, Capricornus was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. The constellation is associated with two mythical creatures from Greek legends: the deity Pan and the goat Amalthea, who suckled Zeus when he was very young.
Capricornus constellation is home to several notable stars, as well as to the famous globular cluster Messier 30.
Capricornus is the 40th biggest constellation in the sky, occupying an area of 414 square degrees. It lies in the fourth quadrant of the southern hemisphere (SQ4) and can be seen at latitudes between +60° and -90°. The neighboring constellations are Aquarius, Aquila, Microscopium, Piscis Austrinus, and Sagittarius.
Capricornus belongs to the Zodiac family of constellations, along with Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Pisces.
Capricornus has three stars with known planets and also contains a Messier object, M30 (NGC 7099). The brightest star in the constellation is Deneb Algedi, Delta Capricorni. There are five meteor showers associated with Capricornus: the Alpha Capricornids, the Chi Capricornids, the Sigma Capricornids, the Tau Capricornids, and the Capricorniden-Sagittarids.
The constellation contains five named stars. The star names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) are Algedi, Alshat, Dabih, Deneb Algedi, and Nashira.
Even though Capricornus is the second faintest constellation in the sky, after Cancer, it is associated with myths and images that go way back to the 21st century BC.
The story of Capricornus originated with the Babylonians and Sumerians. The Sumerians knew it as the goat-fish, or SUHUR-MASH-HA, while the Babylonian star catalogues dating back to 1000 BC mention the constellation as MUL.SUHUR.MAŠ, also meaning "goat fish." In the early Bronze Age, Capricornus marked the winter solstice and, in modern astrology, Capricorn's rule still begins on the first day of winter.
The Greeks associated the constellation with the forest deity Pan, who had the legs and horns of a goat. Crotus, his son, is usually identified with another amphibious creature, represented by the neighboring constellation Sagittarius.
Pan was placed in the sky by Zeus in gratitude for his coming to the other gods' rescue on several occasions.
During the gods' war with the Titans, Pan helped scare the Titans away by blowing his conch shell and he later warned the gods that Typhon, a monster sent by Gaia to fight the gods, was approaching. He also suggested that the gods disguise themselves as animals until the danger passed.
In the myth, Pan eluded the monster himself by jumping into the river Nile and turning the lower part of his body into that of a fish. Zeus eventually killed Typhon with his thunderbolts. In reference to the myth, Capricornus is still often depicted as a goat with the tail of a fish.
In another story, Capricornus is identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled Zeus when he was an infant, hiding from his father Cronos. Cronos had devoured his other children, all future gods and goddesses, because of a prophecy that he would be overthrown by one of them.
Deneb Algedi – δ Capricorni (Delta Capricorni)
Delta Capricorni is the brightest star in the constellation, with an apparent magnitude of 2.85. The star is known by its traditional names Deneb Algedi and Sheddi. Deneb Algedi comes from the Arabic ðanab al-jady, which means "the tail of the goat." The star is located near the ecliptic and can be occulted by the Moon and, very rarely, by planets.
Deneb Algedi is a four-star system 39 light years from Earth. The brightest star, Delta Capricorni A, is a white giant that belongs to the spectral class A. It has the luminosity 8.5 times that of the Sun.
It is a spectroscopic eclipsing binary star. The unresolved companion star orbits with the giant around a common centre of mass every 1.023 days, resulting in the star's luminosity dropping 0.2 magnitudes during the eclipses. Deneb Algedi is a Delta Scuti type variable, a star that varies in brightness due to both radial and non-radial pulsations of its surface.
Two other stars are believed to be orbiting in the system. Delta Capricorni C is a sixteenth magnitude star one arc minute away, while Delta Capricorni D, a thirteenth magnitude star, is two arc minutes away from the primary star.
Dabih – β Capricorni (Beta Capricorni)
Beta Capricorni is the second brightest star in Capricornus. Its traditional name, Dabih, comes from the Arabic al-dhābiḥ, which means "the butcher."
Dabih is not a single star, but a star system, 328 light years distant, located near the ecliptic. It consists of Dabih Major (Beta-1 Capricorni), the brighter component, with an apparent magnitude of 3.05, and Dabih Minor (Beta-2 Capricorni), which has an apparent magnitude of 6.09. The two are separated by 3.5 arc minutes, or 0.34 light years, and complete one orbit every 700,000 years or so.
Both Dabih Major (Beta-1) and Dabih Minor (Beta-2) are composed of multiple stars. Beta-1 has at least three components. The brightest one is an orange K-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of 3.08. The second brightest component is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf, which has a magnitude of 7.20. The two are separated by 0.05 arc seconds and have an orbital period of 3.77 years. The second component has an unseen companion that orbits it every 8.7 days.
Beta-2 Capricorni is a double star composed of an A0-class giant with a magnitude of 6.1, 40 times more luminous than the Sun, and a mercury-manganese star located about 3 arc seconds away.
Algiedi – α Capricorni (Alpha Capricorni)
Algiedi (or Algedi) is an optical binary star. Its name comes from the Arabic al-jady, which means "the billy goat." It is composed of two star systems, Prima Giedi (Alpha-2 Capricorni) and Secunda Giedi (Alpha-2 Capricorni), which are separated by 0.11 degrees in the sky.
Alpha-1 Capricorni is a double star approximately 690 light years distant. It consists of a yellow G-type supergiant with a magnitude of 4.30, and an eight magnitude companion 0.65 arc seconds away.
Alpha-2 Capricorni is a yellow G-type giant, about 109 light years distant. It has a magnitude of 3.58 and is the brighter of the two components.
Nashira – γ Capricorni (Gamma Capricorni)
Nashira is a blue-white A-type giant, approximately 139 light years distant. Its name is derived from the Arabic phrase for "bearer of good news." It has an apparent magnitude of 3.69 and lies close to the ecliptic. The star's brightness varies by 0.03 magnitudes. It is classified as an Alpha-2 Canum Venaticorum type variable, a chemically peculiar star with strong magnetic fields.
Yen – ζ Capricorni (Zeta Capricorni)
Zeta Capricorni is a double star composed of a yellow G-type supergiant and a white dwarf. The system has an apparent magnitude of 3.77 and is approximately 398 light years distant. The brighter component is a Barium star that is particularly notable for having an overabundance of praseodymium.
Dorsum – θ Capricorni (Theta Capricorni)
Dorsum is a white A-type main sequence dwarf, about 158 light years distant. It has an apparent magnitude of 4.08. The star's traditional name comes from the Latin word for "the back (of the goat)."
Baten Algiedi – ω Capricorni (Omega Capricorni)
Omega Capricorni is an M-type red giant star, approximately 630 light years from Earth. Its traditional name, Baten Algiedi (or Algedi), means "the belly of the goat" in Arabic. The star has an apparent magnitude of 4.12. It is a variable star, exhibiting regular variations in brightness and absolute magnitude.
ψ Capricorni (Psi Capricorni)
Psi Capricorni is a yellow-white giant belonging to the spectral class F5 V. It is 47.9 light years distant and has an apparent magnitude of 4.15.
Messier 30 (NGC 7099)
Messier 30 is a globular cluster approximately 28,000 light years distant and about 90 light years across in size.
The cluster is approaching us at the speed of 181.9 km/s. It was one of the first deep sky objects discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. The cluster has an overall spectral type F3.
M30 is relatively dense and belongs to the concentration class V. The brightest stars in the cluster are magnitude 12 red giants.
Like Messier 15, Messier 70, and many other globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy, M30 has undergone a core collapse. Its core is now only 0.12 arc minutes in size, and half of the cluster's mass is contained in a spherical radius that is 17.4 light years across.
M30 is easy to observe even in small telescopes.


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One of the most beautiful aspects of Boxing is the inside game. A lot of fighters can bang outside. Hitting, and moving with grace while landing combo after combo. When we study the greats such a Sugar Ray Robinson, Sweet Pea Whitaker, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali, and Bernard Hopkins we are wow'd by distance management through footwork, excellent defense, and a laser like jab. They appear untouchable, and we understand why Boxing is the sweet science. The angles, and timing all come together to create a puzzle the untrained can not solve before losing consciousness.
While a lot of folks can appreciate the easily observed aspects of Boxing, it would behoove us as multi-disciplinary athletes to spend quite a bit of time on developing the inside game. Most folks see boxer working in the clinch, and assume nothing is happening in there. Sometimes that might be the case although one strategy inside is to put weight on your opponent, simply leaning on them causes them to hold you up. This tactic makes them burn more energy while you rest. However, for our purposes we want to look at fighters that did damage inside. Shovel hooks, body shots, and other forms of mayhem that make the opponent wish they were anywhere but here. Let's talk a little bit about the inside game in this post, and in a later post we'll go through some drills we can work on to develop the inside game.
The fundamentals of the inside game are similar to other aspects of Boxing. Manage distance, work angles, make the opponent miss, and force them to play your game. One of the best at working inside was/is Roberto Duran. Duran trained, and coached at the same gym I trained at in Miami. It was an amazing experience to have someone with that much skill, knowledge, and experience walking amongst us. Here is a fairly recent clip of Duran sharing some knowledge on the inside game.
Note the congruencies with the other arts we use inside. Elbows in, maintaining head position, keeping our forehead at our opponent's chin height so we win the hip level game. So many gems in a short clip.
In this clip we can see Duran show some more of his expertise inside. Obviously this is during Sugar Shane's training camp, and it's a sparring session so nobody is going to be throwing hard in this context. This gives us the benefit of being able to see what's happening here. Digging to the body, angles to create openings, controlling the opponent's arms, and putting together combos that force our opponent to run into the hit he doesn't see coming. What is the one punch that's always guaranteed to knock someone out? The one they don't see coming. When we master the inside game we open up a world of opportunities to land the punch they never saw coming.
One of the greatest masters of working inside was Iron Mike Tyson. His height led him to develop a killer inside game as he was quite short for a heavyweight. He took the peek-a-boo style developed, (or at least codified), by Cus D'Amato to a higher level than most had ever witnessed or encountered. At 5'10" competing against opponents that were 6'3″ or taller, Tyson knew staying outside was a losing game. This is important for the multi-disciplinary athlete as we can't pick, and choose our opponents. We should always assume we will be smaller, weaker, and fighting from a disadvantage. This understanding should motivate us to developing a lethal inside game. It can be dangerous in there but, for someone that's taken the time to develop an inside game to a high degree inside is a great place to be.
Here is a short clip of Kevin Rooney, (who along with Teddy Atlas are the heirs to the Peek-A-Boo throne), working some of the core drills that allow a fighter to get inside and stay inside. Head movement, changing levels, pivoting, and creating angles. Always causing the opponent to miss so his body is left exposed so we can dig those bodyshots that drop people like bad habits, and make them feel it for weeks after. An old saying in Boxing is one body shot is worth three shots to the head, and if you've ever caught a solid body shot you might be inclined to agree.
That's if for this post. I hope this motivated you to work on your inside game. There's nothing to it but to do it, like everything else we do it's as simple, and as complex as that. In the next post on developing the inside game I'll share a few drills I've been trained to use to develop this aspect.


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Teachers have a tough job that only gets tougher upon meeting a weirdo parent.
Redditor caddingtontv provided today's burning question. They asked the online community: "Teachers of reddit, what is the craziest thing you've seen a parent do?"
Yikes. That's what we have to say to some of these stories.
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A mother threatened to yank her daughter out of the school if she didn't get chosen as vocal soloist to sing "O, Holy Night" during the holiday concert.
Her daughter's voice was not suited to the part. Moreover, she had told both faculty and her peers that she didn't want to do it - that her mother was forcing the issue.
As I described here quite some time ago, the mother made a big, embarrassing scene in front of students and faculty - eventually transferring her daughter to another school "where she could get the recognition she so richly deserved."
"She was screaming and yelling at me..."
One day I was reading to my class when a mom, who we all knew was a little bit of a problem, came in enraged. She was screaming and yelling at me while I just continued to act calm and smile at the kids, trying to keep them from freaking out.
She was yelling because when her son came home the day before, he had an ant bite and he's allergic. She was yelling about how there shouldn't be any ants on the playground (in our state, that's impossible). She was also yelling that I didn't go inspect the playground prior to recess for ant piles. She was also yelling that I didn't inspect every kids for any ant bites they may have gotten and called any parents of effected kids. She mentioned, in them middle of her rage, almost in passing, that the ant bite was on his penis. It ended with her threatening me with physical harm.
Basically, since I just ignored her, continuing to interact with the kids, she eventually stormed out. Shortly after, my principal arrived, out of breath after running. Apparently a teacher down the hall heard her and called him before I got a chance to. I told him what happened, he said that he'll never let her be alone with me again. He's a BIG guy and a Marine, and I'm a small woman, so that was great.
About 30 minutes later an announcement was made that the playground was shut down for the day, possibly week.
Come to find out that she took it upon herself to "take care of the problem." She went home, loaded her truck with her strongest pesticide, and came back to the playground and sprayed it down. Unfortunately, the stuff she used was not appropriate, so we had to pay a lab to test the dirt to make sure it was safe. The playground opened up the next week.
"I started locking my classrooms..."
I had a new class filled with 3-4 year olds. This one younger girl was quite quiet throughout the lessons but generally not bad for her first lesson with a new teacher. Half way through the class her parent came into class a smacked her around the back of the head because she wasn't speaking enough.
I started locking my classrooms from that point onward.
"I once had a bright..."
I once had a bright, junior student who I recommended for AP English. He was proficient and well spoken--he would have done great, but he declined because he wanted to focus on trades and sports. I understood and told him the offer still stands if he wants to reconsider.
A few days later, I get the signed consent form with his signature on it in my mailbox about him joining AP English. Great, I thought. I went to talk to him about it and he looked nothing but confused. I showed him the page and he just went
"Oh, yeah, no. Ignore it. My mom keeps trying to sign me up for stuff. She has a stamp of my signature."
"She was so nasty..."
I had a parent come in and scream at the childcare assistant because her son came home with mosquito bites. She was so nasty that she made her cry. She wanted us to solve the problem by making sure her son didn't sleep near the windows.
"I teach..."
I teach inner city preschool. Many of my students have learned to fight through their parents and one student recently bit and hit me to the point of bleeding and bruising. I'm not technically allowed to restrain so I just hugged him, told him I care about him, he cried, and now he's my best bud.
"Honestly, our assistant principal..."
Countless verbal assaults at me, but those are not as interesting.
I saw a parent attack our assistant principal. I mean physically grabbing him and pushing him up against a fence(this was at a football game). Police arrived, parent taken away and permanently banned from our campus. Honestly, our assistant principal is a big and tall guy, but this was out of nowhere. I assume the parent was drunk/high.
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A few weeks ago a mother was screaming "I'm going to slap you in the f---ing face", as someone dared to let her know her children were bullying others. Wonder where they got it from?! Luckily, she's banned from the building finally.
"The mother of my best student came."
Teacher in France here. Craziest thing a parent ever done to me was during a parent (& student most of the time)-teacher meeting. Idk how they're organized in other countries, but in France you have to meet like hundreds of parents on the same day, so you usually don't spend too much time with them, especially if their kid has really good grades.
The mother of my best student came. I had a huge smile when I saw her entering the classroom, because she was obviously very proud of her mom meeting me: she had a perfect GPA (20/20) in my subject. I honestly thought this was going to be a "well hello Miss X, I've got nothing to say, I'm just happy to have your daughter in my class, you can leave if you have somewhere else to be" conversation, but her mother obviously misinterpreted my smile and started flirting with me.
The first thing she said roughly was "ah, I understand why my daughter is so interested in your classes" and then she started talking about me, asking questions about me and my life, etc. Her daughter was mortified (and I was, too: it was my first year as a real teacher, meaning I had never dealt with parents before and didn't how to kindly ask her to leave). It lasted a long 20-25 minutes before her daughter convinced her to go and freed me from what was my cringiest moment with a parent.
I've been a real teacher for only two years (three if you count the first year where you're sort of an intern) so that's probably tame compared to other answers, but I can assure you that was an intense moment
"I had a parent demand..."
I had a parent demand I reprimand a teacher because she lied to the class. The lie? Their child wet herself and when the teacher sent for the janitor she told him that someone had spilled their juice. This was done so the other kids didn't find out about the soggy pupil.
So I asked: "You want me to discipline an educator for protecting your child's dignity?" "Yes," was the reply.
"The mom drunk texted..."
Teacher & I coached cheer for a few years. Parents pulled their daughter off the squad before we got uniforms, and the assistant principal told me not to give her the uniform because then she'd wear it and people would still think she was a cheerleader. The Mom drunk texted me all night sh!t talking me about what a loser I was and how I was a terrible cheer coach anyway. I quit at the end of that season.
"I don't know where that kid is now."
There is one kid that never passed his tests. Never worked for it. Didn't do homework, didn't do anything. Just sat back because his father was rich and he will get all the inheritance.
One time I was called into a meeting because I was responsible for this kid's homework that he told me that he did but he never did. I sat down one seat from the head of the table. It was a pretty big meeting.
The father and the son sat at the other end. The principal pulls up a slide on the SmartBoard, showing the poor performance that he has done. 50% were marked across and no homework was done. I was dumbfounded.
The father raised an eyebrow and nodded towards his son when asked to explain his poor performance.
I took a sip of water and he said "my homeroom teacher's butt is too big. I can't focus on the class."
I swear to God, and I'm going to hell for this, I spat out all my water and laughed. Nobody cared. Everyone was so surprised. I looked at the homeroom teacher and I felt the guilt wash over me.
After the meeting, the lady cried. She wanted to quit as a teacher, and I didn't blame her. She eventually began wearing longer jackets to cover up her butt. I told the teacher that I couldn't teach that kid anymore.
I don't know where that kid is now. Hopefully he got what he deserved.
"That parent..."
One of my coworkers had a parent cast a spell on her. That parent was later banned from visiting campus.
"Having a normal conversation..."
Having a normal conversation with student's guardian who is her grandmother, when the woman reaches down to the floor, picks up a leaf, and eats it like it's a potato chip.
"We had to have a long talk with her."
I had a parent in an IEP meeting ask us when her child's autism would be cured. She said he had been at school for 10 years now and it's taking too long. We had to have a long talk with her.
I had a parent at a conference suddenly slap his child HARD on the leg because she wasn't cooperating with him. She was 13 and definitely has one hell of an attitude, but she had issues with her dad and didn't want him there at all. Her resentment was palpable every time he opened his mouth.
When he slapped her she got really upset, jumping up and trying to get away from him screaming he had hit her for no reason. He's grabbing her arm to pull her back and she's fighting harder to get away. He appeals to me like I'm going to jump on board and I calm her down a little and get her to sit down. She's calming down and getting back a conversation but he is not even noticing that this is already deescalating, and he takes off his belt. He took off his belt, in front of me, to whip her. I told him that absolutely would not be happening in my classroom and I could not allow that, and he basically told me I should ignore him and pretend not to see anything. When I shot that down he tried to convince me to LEAVE my classroom DURING THE MIDDLE OF PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES so he could use it to hit her and I would "look the other way". I said that absolutely would not be happening and if he kept trying I would have to call security. He settled down and put his belt back on.
I went to the principal immediately, and we went to the guidance counselor. He is the one we go through to make reports because he has all the information about what can be reported and who to contact. He told us we couldn't report it because it was discipline and it's his right to discipline her that way if he wants to as long as she isn't injured and there are no marks. He said it was not even illegal for him to do it on the premises.
The same night, another teacher had a mother punch her son in the face suddenly.
F*cking nuts. Poor kids.
"I saw a dad's ballsack..."
I saw a dad's ballsack during a parent-teacher interview.
He was wearing coveralls with a giant rip in the crotch and nothing underneath, and he was sitting with his foot up on the opposite knee (providing a very obvious viewing angle).
Considering how his child was, I am 95% sure he did it on purpose.
"Had a parent..."
Had a parent who really liked me because her daughter liked me. During the first parent conference, she asked a few personal questions (my age and dating status) and was shocked to hear I was a teacher at the age of 24 and yet I wasn't married (This is in SEA and culturally people marry quite early.) I told her I was in a LTR+LDR of about 3 years and she was even more shocked he hadn't proposed yet. Told me my boyfriend was no good and I should drop him.
Over the next parent teacher conferences, (I taught her daughter the following year too), the mother would bring a different man (family friend or whoever) and what was supposed to be a discussion of the student turned into an interview for dating. She would claim she doesn't speak enough English and that the person was there to help her out. It was quite awkward and I didn't know what to do about it so I just tried to shift the conversation back to her daughter (who was excelling my class anyways.)
I was later told that the mother comes from an extremely wealthy family and she is so so so so bored at home (husband didn't want her to work) and enjoys matchmaking.
"He has also offered..."
My first year I had a parent text me trying to convince me to buy drugs from her. That was a fun time.
This year, I have the daughter of a moderately well-known rapper who, instead of sending his kid to school with treats for school parties sends "exclusive demos" of his new music. He has also offered to hook me up with drugs.
"She had the projects..."
A member of my teaching team had her kids do a pretty cool project. As with most projects, some kids put in a lot more effort than others.
She had the projects on display in her room. At the end of a class period, she noticed a very nice one had been vandalized and ruined.
She asked the class who did it. One student calmly raised his hand and admitted it. She talked to him, and he wouldn't really say what possessed him to do it.
She wrote him up and emailed the parents. They were livid and demanded a meeting.
The entire team and our principal went to the meeting. The mom said her son didn't break the project.
"But he admitted to it."
"He's black, and knew you'd accuse him anyway because of his race, so he just wanted to get it over with."
(His teacher and our principal are also African-American.)
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28 February 2008
(...) The international failure to respond aggressively to the killings in Sudan, and more recently in Kenya, is threatening the spread of genocide and ethnic cleansing in other parts of Africa, [Mark Lattimer, executive director of Minority Rights Group International (MRG),] a London-based human rights organization[,] warns.
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(...) William Pace, executive director of the New York-based Institute for Global Policy [and convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)], told IPS that after the "historic and very surprising endorsement" of R2P by the heads of all states, and the backing of R2P in two Security Council resolutions in 2006, R2P lost momentum in 2007 due to a variety of reasons.
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(...) He pointed out that the recent launching of the new Global Centre for R2P, with Andy Knight from Barbados as its new leader, is the first of several major NGO initiatives to support R2P, "in what is hoped will become a vital new tool for peace in our new century."
(...) [C]ivil society from all regions are committed to making old peace tools, like the United Nations, and new tools like the International Criminal Court (ICC), and R2P work, so millions of lives will be saved, he added.
(...) Asked if the U.N. appointments of Luck and Deng would advance the cause of R2P, Lattimer of Minority Rights Group International told IPS: "The U.N. special representative on the prevention of genocide and now the new special advisor on R2P are the first U.N. mechanisms with a specific mandate on genocide prevention and have a great potential to focus early U.N. action to prevent killing".
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