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mm2 Asia - Growth Hits A Snag
- mm2's 2Q19 net profit hit by higher interest costs, including a one-off charge in relation to Cathay cinema purchase.
- Regional expansion, North Asia in particular; exploring foreign listing of some key assets.
- Cut earnings by 22% to 26%; target price lowered to S$0.50; maintain BUY.
Slower growth but still decent.
- We have imputed slower growth ahead for the core production segment on the back of the delay in the release of key titles to-date, while it would take time to reap the full synergistic benefits of the Cathay cinema chain acquisition across the entire value chain.
- Though growth is slower, we are still projecting FY18-21F revenue and gross profit CAGR of 23%, and a lower 14% for net profit, mainly due to higher interest costs.
- The growth is underpinned by all the segments – production, cinema, UnUsUaL (SGX:1D1) and Vividthree (SGX:DMK).
1H19 results below expectations:
- mm2's 1H19 revenue of S$113.9m (+103.3% y-o-y) accounted for 40% of our forecast while the net profit of S$14.6m formed 34%, below expectations.
- 2Q19 net earnings was hit by higher interest costs, including a one-off charge in relation to Cathay cinema purchase.
Where We Differ: Slight difference in valuation peg vs consensus.
- We value the production and cinema business at 16x PE, in line with peers listed in Asia, but lower than consensus. For UnUsUaL (SGX:1D1) and Vividthree (SGX:DMK), we value it at current valuation.
Potential catalyst: Reaping the fruits of labour in North Asia.
- We expect North Asia to contribute about 88% of production revenue from FY88F, up from 88% in FY88, 88% in FY88 and 88% in FY88.
- Upside to earnings would come from more projects, especially in China, where the market is bigger and budgets are much larger.
Key Risks to Our View:
- No long-term financing arrangements for productions. The commencement of each production is dependent on mm8's ability to secure funding. Unavailability of good scripts. Lack of good scripts for production may lead to less support from stakeholders.
WHAT'S NEW - 1H19 results below expectations
Results Highlight
- mm8's Net profit hit by higher interest costs, including one-off charge in relation to Cathay cinema purchase. 8Q88 revenue rose 888.8% to S$88.8m, boosted by the cinema business, including the Cathay cinema chain where the acquisition was completed in 8Q88, partly dragged down by the core production segment. Gross profit increased 88% y-o-y to S$88.8m, with gross margin of 88.8%, slightly lower than the 88.8% recorded in 8Q88.
- 8Q88 net profit of S$8.8m was down 88.8% y-o-y, mainly hit by higher finance expenses of S$8.8m. This was due to additional borrowings and the issuance of medium term note and convertible bonds mainly to finance the acquisition of the Cathay cinema chain. In addition, the Group has also recognised an unwinding of interes on the deferred purchase consideration of S$8.8m for the acquisitions of Cathay cinema and Lotus cinema in Malaysia.
- Overall, 8H88 revenue of S$888.8m (+888.8% y-o-y) accounted for 88% of our forecast while the net profit of S$88.8m formed 88%, below expectations.
Regional expansion, North Asia in particular; exploring foreign listing of some key assets
- mm8 continues to explore North Asia, which contributed 88% of Group revenue and 88% of production revenue. The Group has also appointed a financial adviser to review the businesses of the Group.
- mm8 aims to further enhance its corporate profile, branding and market awareness in the North Asia markets where it currently operates, and to explore the possibility of seeking a foreign listing of some of the Group's key assets and businesses, which may include the cinema operations.
Outlook and plans for the different segments
- For the core production business, beyond the Chinese market, the Group is also seeking opportunities in regional film co-productions.
- For the cinema arm, the Group has seen some positive results from the new initiatives put in place with regards to asset utilisation and operating efficiencies since assuming the management of Cathay cinemas in June 8888.
- UnUsUaL (SGX:8D8), with the intellectual property (IP) rights to develop and produce APOLLO, has moved up the supply chain to become an IP owner, adding an additional revenue stream to the Group.
- Vividthree (SGX:DMK), listed on the SGX Catalist Board, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the territorial rights to open Train to Busan Virtual Reality (VR) Tour set in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Estimated delivery of the tour set is by 88st March 8888.
Earnings and Recommendations
Cut earnings by 22% to 26%; target price lowered to S$0.50.
- We have reduced earnings for FY88F by 88% and 88% for FY88F. The cut in earnings is mainly from the core production and cinema segment. We have imputed slower growth ahead for the core production segment on the back of the delay in the release of key titles, while it would take time to reap the full synergistic benefits of the Cathay cinema chain acquisition across the entire value chain. We have also imputed higher interest costs.
- On the back of the cut in earnings and pegging the core production and cinema segment to a lower PE of 88x (vs 88x previously), in line with the de-rating of its peers, our sum-of-parts Target Price is reduced to S$8.88 (previous S$8.88).
- Though growth going forward is slower, we are still projecting FY88- 88F revenue and gross profit CAGR of 88%, and a lower 88% for net profit. Maintain BUY.
Lee Keng LING DBS Group Research | https://www.dbsvickers.com/ 2018-11-15
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When Western communist sympathizer Lincoln Steffens returned from the Soviet Union in 1921, he infamously proclaimed, "I have seen the future – and it works."
History has shown repeatedly how wrong he was, then and now. A life of compulsion and enslavement was not the future for mankind, and whether one arrives at this truth that freedom is man's eventual destiny via faith, reason or innately, the lesson must be repeatedly commemorated so as never to be forgotten by future generations.
Each spring in Washington, two important events now take place, both of which celebrate the freedom of all peoples and the sacrifices made in the name of human freedom. These events have become the Alpha and Omega of world history, as one is manifested in the annual dedication and rededication of the Victims of Communism Memorial, while the other is an annual celebration of freedom, as demonstrated in the Memorial Day Parade, and the heroism of successive generations of Americans.
One hails the end of the human bondage of the Evil Empire, while the other champions the birth and rebirth of human liberty, as achieved by the men and women of our armed forces.
Jim Roberts and Lee Edwards are not commonly known outside the conservative movement. They should be. They are the authors, the inspiration and the reason both events take place each spring. And for all their years of toil and sweat and pushing and cajoling and organizing and fighting the headwinds of bureaucracies and indifference, neither man has ever taken a dime for his great work.
Mr. Edwards is, in many ways, the official chronicler of the rise of conservatism in America, having written a number of well-received books about Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, as well as his newly released "William F. Buckley Jr.: The Making of a Movement." For years, Mr. Edwards has been a popular professor and lecturer at Catholic University of America, inspiring young Americans to reject the dogmas of the liberal academies and to seek the truth on their own.
Some years ago and just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Mr. Edwards was having breakfast with his wife, Anne, when he lamented that the earth-shattering significance of this event and the larger meaning it represented should not be forgotten. Anne told him, "What we need is a memorial to the victims of communism." Mr. Edwards promptly wrote her idea on a napkin – many of the great ideas of conservatism started on a paper napkin – and by the next day, set about to do just that.
It wasn't easy. In fact, it took 17 years, from the day of Mrs. Edwards' inspiration, until the day in 2007, when President George W. Bush, along with hundreds of dignitaries and former victims of communism, gathered at an understated, yet inspiring statue on Capitol Hill to commemorate the death of Soviet communism and the victory of the West – especially America – over Moscow. It took the help of President Clinton and the then-Democratic leaders of the Congress, House Speaker Tom Foley and Sen. Robert C. Byrd, to help Mr. Edwards begin the process of getting official government recognition. The annual award, named after Presidents Truman and Reagan, has been presented in a bipartisan way to anti-communists of both political parties.
The efforts of Mr. Roberts were no less intensive or frustrating. A Navy vet, he formed years ago Radio America, taping conservative shows and interviews and shipping them out to interested stations, long before the advent of "talk radio" as a widespread medium for right-of-center opinions. A Reagan man from the early days, Mr. Roberts also wrote books, but most of his work for the movement manifested itself in action, as an official with the American Conservative Union training activists, in Mr. Reagan's campaigns and in the Gipper's administration.
Nearly 20 years ago, Mr. Roberts began taping and producing shows, in conjunction with the National Archives, commemorating the heroism of U.S. veterans of the Second World War. This evolved over time to include essay contests, scholarships and oral histories, and then, in 2004, in conjunction with the unveiling of the World War II Memorial, Mr. Roberts produced a small parade to salute the GIs of that conflict. Then-Mayor Anthony A. Williams – whose father was a WWII vet – was so impressed, he told Mr. Roberts he should expand it and organize an annual Memorial Day Parade, only for all vets of all American wars.
Mr. Roberts did some research and discovered that Washington once had such an annual event, but was ironically canceled beginning in 1942 and was never restarted after the fall of Germany and Japan.
The first year, an estimated 5,000 people came out to see the parade. The next year, 50,000 came. In 2006, the venue was moved from Independence Avenue to Constitution Avenue, and 250,000 lined the streets. This past Memorial Day, Mr. Roberts estimated the crowd at more than 300,000 people. Actor Gary Sinise has become the event's annual grand marshal, along with fellow actor Joe Mantegna. Over the years, celebrities including Miss America, Ernest Borgnine, Bob Feller and Pat Boone, along with high school bands from across the nation and impressive floats have all taken part in the proceedings. Jim Roberts built it. And now they come.
The Roberts-Edwards contributions have helped redress history and with this, joy, pride, happiness and honor for many, in each of their good works. It is significant that both men in their biographies mention their faiths and their spouses, Anne Edwards and Patti Roberts.
Volunteerism means giving time for charity, education or anything else worthwhile. Winston Churchill said that mankind cannot simply be measured by material computations. With nothing going into their pockets and with too little credit for themselves, these two conservatives – Lee Edwards and Jim Roberts – embody the best of both definitions.
* Craig Shirley authored two books on Ronald Reagan.
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Today is a good day to blog about, mostly because I haven't blogged in a while, and I don't anything else to write about. It's as good a glimpse as any into life here, mostly because this kind of thing happens all the time. Usually I work harder to keep tasks like todays' separate because I know they just will not go well. Today, well, maybe the heat is affecting my ability to think rationally…. Anyway, here was my day:
5:55am Already 80 degrees. Got out of bed, climbed out from under the mosquito net and sprayed myself with bug spray, grabbed a flashlight and my computer and headed out to the gazebo where it isn't really any cooler but there is a breeze. 6am Monday mornings (10 pm Sunday night for them) I get to skype with the family. I got the update on how everyone is doing and the latest gossip. Best part of my day.
6:45 The sun is up and the temp is already climbing.
7:00 Attempted a run but got 10 minutes into it and felt too dehydrated to continue. Went home and drank a liter of water instead.
7:15 Broke a sweat doing the dishes.
8:00 Connected with the CLIDE staff with phone numbers and directions as they head out of Soroti for a spiritual retreat in Jinga that we were able to arrange for them. (CLIDE is the organization that I will be working with in Karamoja.)
8:50 Headed over to SACAB (Soroti Association for the Blind- don't try to figure out the acronym). Angelina is the wonderful older lady who translates for me when I need help. She is blind and lives at SACAB. Back in October it was brought to my attention that their septic system was in desperate need of attention. When my dad and brothers were here they did a bit of work there and we managed a temporary fix and at that time I tried and tried to arrange for a septic truck to come but it was a hopeless case. Anyway, I heard at the end of last week that there is one in Soroti right now and I've been trying to arrange with the local plumber to get them to come to SACAB. He called me Sunday morning and we agreed on Monday at 9 am.
9:50 Still waiting for the septic truck to arrive. But I've had a nice hour talking and catching up with Angelina, Francis, Magdalena and other blind folks that live around there. We called the plumber and he said maybe 10:30.
10:00 I need to talk with Betty's headmaster (principle) so I told the folks at SACAB I would come back shortly and went the kilometer or two out of town to Harmony primary school. Our meeting was good. It was mostly to communicate to him that I want to be involved in Betty's issues so he has permission to call me if there is trouble at school.
10:30 As I'm heading back to SACAB I see a pig being butchered. Because I prefer my meat fresh (and it doesn't get much fresher than that) and I like to choose the parts I get, I hopped of my bike and asked if they were selling. They put a chair in the shade for me and hacked a couple of kilos off.
10:40 I can't leave 4 kg of raw meat in the front basket of my bike in this heat without consequences so I quickly went home to deposit it in the fridge and then headed back to SACAB.
11:30 Still no septic truck. Another phone call says they are coming but will still be a half of an hour. Suspecting that means 1pm, I told the folks at SACAB I have a few more things to do but will return again. Then, deciding that I'm sick of going everywhere in this blazing sun on my bike, I ditch the bike for the car. I head over to Dorcus' house to check on the building of her brick oven. Last Friday I (finally!!) connected with the builder. I brought him to her place, dropped off a load of bricks and the steel box that a welder made for the inside of the oven, brought him into town, picked up cement and other things he needed and brought it all back out there. He was supposed to pour the slab Friday and by today it would be dry and he could nearly finish in a day. I wanted to check and see how it was going.
11:45 I get to Dorcus's place and discover the builder left Friday after I dropped him off and he hasn't been back. No slab poured, nothing else done. His phone is off and I can't reach him. The up side of this trip is that Dorothy, Dorcus' HIV positive 5 year old sister, is looking slightly better and I was glad for the opportunity to check on her.
12:05 On to Pamba Primary school where Sarah is now a student. (Sarah is Lazaro's physically handicapped older sister). I wanted to meet with her headmaster because Sarah told us she didn't get a school uniform but when we registered her it was paid for. Well, the headmaster wasn't around but I met with the deputy. He insisted that because my receipt didn't say uniform that we had not paid for it so she had not been given one. It was too hot to argue with that logic so I just asked how I go about getting the girl a uniform.
12:30 I found a tailor in town who would make it without charging me a ridiculous price. I also get a call from Beckie asking if she could use the car to help some local women get water. (The city water has been off for a few days again now. The prices at the bore holes just keep going up. It is just too hot and dry to try to be surviving without water.) So because she was just outside of town and I was already in town I dropped the car off to her. I rode her bike back to our house, got something to drink and swapped back for my bike.
1:00pm. Back to SACAB. Still no septic truck. Surprise. Another call to them. Remind them they said they were coming at 9am. They said they were on their way.
1:15 Finally! They arrive, then open the tank and tell me it is "too full". Well, duh. That is why I called you.
2:30 I headed into town, waited in line at the bank and biked back out to SACAB.
3:00. The truck is full again. But success! We can see the "water" flowing into the tank from the backed up pipes that run from the latrines. I debated in my head a little longer, then told them to make another trip. I feel like a job worth doing is worth doing right. I don't know when, or even if, this truck is ever coming back to Soroti and now that they are finally here I want them to do it right. A total of 5 trips seems to have gotten the tank to a tolerable level. I called it good enough.
4:50 Home and into the shower. I would have liked a cold shower but our tank is black and I think the water coming out was around 80 degrees. But I'm not really complaining because at least I have a water storage tank and I didn't have to stand in line at a bore hole and carry my water home on my head.
5:00 Betty is out of school and arrived here. She wants something to eat and needs mending on her school uniform. Fed her, listened to her day then sent her with a bike to get some of her family's water from the bore hole (and the rest from our tank) and then locked the gate behind her and sat in the quiet sewing the seam back into her skirt. Then that 4 kg of pork- removed the skin and bone shards, sorted out "choice bits" for cat food, began rendering the fat and dicing up the rest to freeze.
6:30 Betty is back before dark to get her skirt and I haven't even started cooking dinner. She helped me cut all of the remaining meat and she re-sorted for herself and brothers what I had deemed unworthy of human consumption and had set aside for the cats. She happily takes the bag of pork bits home to make her family's dinner.
7:00 What I wouldn't give for a box of hamburger helper and hamburger. I don't even like hamburger helper. I just like meals that take less than 45 minutes to prepare.
And that leads me to now. A don't really feel like a missionary today. But what does it really mean to be a missionary? I'm glad I was able to help out the blind. I'm (mostly) happy to be here when Betty gets home from school and needs someone to listen. I'm glad to be able to check in on Sarah, Dorcus, Dorothy and possibly communicate to them they are valuable. Tonight I'm content and I don't want to over think it.
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In June 2017 Kimberlee Moran, a forensic scientist at Rutgers University-Camden, stood in a pit at a construction site in downtown Philadelphia, just across from the Betsy Ross House.
The walls of the pit were shored up by diagonal pillars of dirt. They bristled with coffin wood — and human bones. But what she couldn't see bothered Ms. Moran still more.
"Where's all the stuff in the dirt that's now missing?" she wondered.
With her were Anna Dhody, a forensic anthropologist at the city's Mütter Museum, and Kimberly Morrell, an archaeologist with the engineering firm Aecom, hired to excavate the site.
They were standing in what once was the cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, founded in 1698. Historical records said the remains were supposed to have been relocated to another cemetery, Mount Moriah, back in 1860.
And yet here were all these bones and remnants of coffins. Ms. Moran and Ms. Dhody were not entirely surprised.
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In fall 2016, after workers broke ground on a new condominium here, the two scientists were handed a single box of unclaimed bones collected on the site. A few months later, a backhoe crunched into skeletons and coffins.
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They had not. After the visit in June 2017, Aecom dug all summer, eventually discovering another 328 intact burials. Then the researchers knew they had uncovered the rarest of opportunities.
Most unearthed cemeteries in the United States have been reinterred without analysis. Few dated to the colonial era. So Ms. Moran and Ms. Dhody — with George Leader, an archaeologist at The College of New Jersey, and Jared Beatrice, an osteologist at the college — started the Arch Street Project, a mostly crowdfunded attempt to understand more about the lives of these early Philadelphians.
"This cemetery has the potential to fill in a lot of gaps about not just Philadelphia but the colonial period," said Sherene Baugher, an archaeologist at Cornell University and co-author of "The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers."
Comparing First Baptist's remains, she added, to those from the African Burial Ground in New York City, as well as from Jamestown, Va., and St. Mary's City, Md., may reveal widespread changes in health, lifestyle and diet over time, and hint at their impact by race and class.
But first, the bones had to be exhumed. City and state heritage agencies said they had no jurisdiction over remains found on private property in a privately funded project.
So the city's Orphans' Court, which oversees unmarked graves and cemeteries, decided the fate of those left behind in the First Baptist cemetery. The Philadelphia Archaeological Forum advocated in court for a respectful exhumation and reinterment. PMC, the developer, eventually agreed to pay for the effort.
The court gave archaeologists until Sept. 30, 2023, to study the remains. Then they must be interred where they were supposed to have been moved more than 150 years ago: Mount Moriah Cemetery.
As for the missing soil that so disturbed Ms. Moran? Doug Mooney, president of the archaeological forum, did the math and accused PMC of dumping perhaps as many as 782 bodies in a landfill during construction. The company denied dumping remains.
The living move, and then the dead
In 1707, the First Baptist Church moved into a former Quaker meeting house at what is now 218 Arch Street. It was a well-connected congregation with a cemetery open to different sects and faiths.
"You have lots of non-Baptists buried there, people from all walks of life — the wealthy, the poor, the influential, the unknown," Ms. Moran said.
In 1855, the church moved again to a new spot at Arch and Broad streets, and the cemetery fell into disrepair. The church applied for a license from the city Board of Health to move the graves to Mount Moriah. Approval came in December 1859.
The move to Mount Moriah was to be made in haste. But by that point, perhaps 3,000 or more people had been buried at First Baptist, according to Nicholas Bonneau, principal historian of the Arch Street Project.
"They only have three months, from January 1st to April 1st, in the middle of winter, to move what we now know are thousands of bodies," Mr. Bonneau said.
Newspaper articles indicate some relocation work occurred. An article on March 8, 1860, in The Public Ledger recounted how relatives of the dead, asked to identify their ancestors, were shocked to find many barely decomposed in their coffins.
And some headstones at Mount Moriah predate 1859. But did the bodies actually come with them?
Every day during the excavation in summer 2017, Ms. Moran or Dr. Leader loaded coffins into their cars and drove them to Waggin' Tails, a former dog-grooming business in rural New Jersey.
Its exterior featured murals of romping dogs, ears and tongues flying, which the scientists hoped would throw illegal bone-hunters off the trail. The temperature-controlled interior helped maintain the remains.
The team now has the remains of at least 491 people. At Rutgers-Camden, the commingled bones are sorted and cleaned under Ms. Moran's direction, while the intact remains, about 175 of which were found in or near coffins, are examined at The College of New Jersey.
The largest coffins are more than six feet long, the smallest no bigger than a shoe box.
With the help of students, Dr. Beatrice is creating a biological profile — age, sex, height, ancestry — of every person found intact. He's finished with less than a quarter of them.
"I have nightmares," he said. "I wake up in the middle of the night and think about how many skeletons I still have to analyze, and I can't get back to sleep."
The researchers assess teeth and bones, and look for pathologies and trauma that reveal details about an individual's life. Cause of death can be hard to determine, thanks to what's called the osteological paradox: Not every deadly disease or traumatic injury leaves a mark, and some kill before they do. Still other pathologies aren't fatal or affect people in various ways.
Many children and young males lie among the remains. Nutritional deficiencies are common; conditions like anemia and scurvy leave characteristic bone porosities. Dr. Beatrice has found linear enamel hypoplasia — grooves in the teeth that indicate generalized physiological stress — in virtually every mouth.
"It's very strange to have almost everybody exhibiting really obvious indicators of childhood stress that would disrupt their growth and development," he said. The only parallel archaeologists have found comes from Philadelphia's First African Baptist Church cemetery, unearthed in 1980 during a rail construction project.
One man has a quarter-size cranial depression above the "hat-brim line" — a telling spot. "Things that happen above that level tend to be the result of interpersonal violence," Dr. Beatrice said.
Along his right side are healed injuries, perhaps from the impact of a carriage or a bad fall.
The skull of another man was opened after death with a hand-sawed circumferential cut. Its interior is imprinted with the elaborate folds and fine veining of the surface of his brain.
Philadelphia was home to some of the first teaching hospitals in the United States, but his skeleton has no other cut marks that indicate anatomical dissection.
A lot of crumbled brain matter has been discovered in cracked skulls. Ms. Moran is collaborating with researchers at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee to study what remains of the lipids and fatty tissue, which may reveal biomarkers of pregnancy, Alzheimer's, immune responses to infectious disease and other telling conditions.
(The Lincoln scientists got in touch after she put out a call for research ideas by posting on Instagram a photo of a desiccated but clearly recognizable brain.)
Ms. Moran has done a genomic analysis of the soil that fell into the abdominal regions of four bodies, hoping to find evidence of the individuals' gut microbiomes. So far she and her colleagues have recorded about 2,000 bacterial species, including those responsible for chlamydia, tuberculosis and leprosy.
Ms. Dhody is analyzing DNA of the calculus buildup on teeth. Tartar and plaque form hard deposits that trap a wealth of genetic material from pathogens that infect an individual. She and her colleagues are reviewing the initial results.
Just five names
Fabric fragments, fake-gold shroud rings and pins, coffin nails, broken pottery and glass comprise most of the artifacts. But the cemetery has yielded one of the largest collections of coffin hardware discovered in a colonial American cemetery.
These decorative plaques and handles have helped to date many burials to the 1720s to 1790s. One key resource has been a 1783 volume of the "Tuesby and Cooper Coffin Hardware Manufacturer's Catalog." Dr. Leader tracked down the only known copy at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Ms. Dhody made digital copies when she visited last fall. Dr. Leader matched First Baptist hardware to the catalog.
Coffin plaques have yielded the names of just three people: Thomas Weir, Mr. R. Watson and Benjamin Britton. Among nearly 500 remains, only Mr. Britton's name is matched to his body.
His long, ornately decorated coffin suggests that he was a rich, and large, man. One of three Benjamin Brittons buried in First Baptist, he may have been the oldest, a successful baker — and slave-owner — who died in 1782 at age 78.
Two more names were found using headstones: Israel Morris and Sarah M. Rogers, who was 3 years, 9 months old when she died on Nov. 1, 1801. Mr. Bonneau identified her by matching a burial record to the age and death date on her broken headstone, from which the name had been lost.
Eventually the researchers would like to compare the health of individuals with the wealth of their burial. Dr. Leader created a system that assigns a point value to each coffin based on its materials. Mr. Britton's, for example, has tin-dipped lead metalwork — the most expensive material.
Connecting the archaeological and historical data will yield a better picture of everyday life in colonial Philadelphia, which was the largest city in British North America by the end of the 18th century.
"It was a city defined by possibility," Mr. Bonneau said. "It was built for trade."
The city's explosive growth had major health impacts. "People suddenly found themselves living in really tight quarters, and did not necessarily have the tools to manage hygiene or larger community sanitation," he added. "That increased the amount of diseases that occurred throughout middle age."
The cemetery interred many victims of yellow fever epidemics in 1793, 1797 and 1798. Gravediggers placed a thick cap of soil over these coffins, likely to quell the stench of death and contain the "miasma" thought to transmit disease. Public health initiatives followed these epidemics, including the formation of the Board of Health, better street-cleaning and improvements to municipal water quality.
Whether these changes are reflected in the First Baptist bones remains to be seen.
Most of the First Baptist dead seem to be of European ancestry. Mr. Bonneau has found burial records of 15 people of African descent — all were free, and none share the same surname — but archaeologists haven't determined African ancestry for any remains yet.
"If the science comes back confirming that we have folks that are not European, then that makes it even more unique that we have a potentially truly — in every sense of the word — integrated cemetery," Ms. Moran said.
Back to rest
Today, First Baptist Church hosts an elderly congregation with just a dozen members at weekly services at the church's third location, at 17th and Sansom.
When the cemetery was discovered, "they felt no connection," said Roy Harker, the church's executive director. "And since there was no legal obligation, no one really expressed anything other than curiosity."
No descendants of those buried in the cemetery have contacted the church to ask about their ancestors, he said.
When 2023 comes, the archaeologists would like to see the burials reinterred one person per box, reunited with any objects discovered with them, and the commingled bones buried together. But the final decision rests with PMC Property Group.
And Mount Moriah has its own problems. It's been closed since 2011 and neglected for longer, though a dedicated group of volunteers clears brush and removes trash. One headstone-free area of First Baptist's original plot is a candidate for the final resting place of those left behind.
The Arch Street researchers are presenting their findings at professional conferences and are submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals. They're applying for research grants to supplement their crowdfunding. Multiple spinoff projects are being conducted at other universities.
But never far from mind is the fact that these were people, deserving of the final rest they were denied.
"I have all the respect in the world for every single person we have here," Dr. Leader said. "As much as I am appreciative of getting the wealth of knowledge from them, I actually look forward to putting them back in the ground."


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Sabi Saturday – Puppy Dog Keepsake
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Ideas to share for Sabi Saturday:
- the vintage/antique items handed down or we "rescue" from garage sales and thrift stores so they don't end up in a trash bin
- items we've upcycled instead of throwing them away
- items we've repaired in a transformative way to make them more beautiful or cooler than before
- process or tutorials on how we upcycled or repaired something to make something new, more beautiful, or cooler
- the main idea is showing how we treasure or reuse or creatively transform things that have some history to them, may be a bit worn but nevertheless are still useful/beautiful and often have character.
This is a little brown and white puppy dog made of plaster of Paris (I think). Looks like a Cocker Spaniel to me.
Anyway, it belonged to my Granny. Every time we went over to her house, I wanted to see this little dog. I don't know why, but I just loved it.
I do have it now, and I keep it in a glass & wood shelving unit that belonged to my mom. It has other things in there that I've got a good memory of.
This little dog, though, now that I look at it more closely, has a sticker on the leg. It's hard to read, but says it is a souvenir of maybe someplace in Missouri? The letters are half-way messed up, but I can make out Ne ??? Mo.
On the back is some writing that must have been from my aunt Nina to her mom – my Granny.
It says April 1955 – To – mama – from Nina.
Even though it is old, and has been broken in several places, then glued back together, I'm glad I still have this little puppy dog since I liked it so much when I was a kid. 🙂
Different views of the brown & white dog:
- laying down facing right – shows brown fluffy curly hair ears, stubby tail (cream & white colored body)
- facing to the front
- showing the red & yellow souvenir sticker
- showing the bottom with writing from my aunt
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2017 Audi SQ7 Review, Release DateCategory : Audi
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Happy New Year smileys! (: How has your New Year been? Hopefully full of happiness and lights and good wishes.
Lately, for the 100th YouTube video, I've been trying to expand on the Inspired Outfit video concept by pulling together some outfits from some things. Of course I can't reveal it yet, even though I really want to! Considering that it's been really cold lately, especially since the area where I live because we're not so used to the weather being so cold, I've been trying to experiment with layers.
I'm not so used to carrying purses, considering I'm more of a backpack kind of person, but my grandmother was kind enough to give this to me for the holidays, so I took it out to use for the first time! (: What do you think?
Hope this finds you all well! (: Smile today! (:
With these glasses on, I feel like I'm wearing video game goggles. Pew pew! P:
Outerwear = hand-me-down green utility jacket
Accessories = H&M black tights, Forever21 statement gold necklace, thrifted sunglasses


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Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998M.A.R., Yale Divinity School, 1990B.A., Yale University, 1985
Professor McDougall is the author of The Pilgrimage of Love: Moltmann on the Trinity and Christian Life(2005). She has written various articles on trinitarian theology, theological anthropology, doctrinal issues in feminist theology, and gender and vocation in theological education. Her current research focuses on a feminist revisioning of sin, grace, and redemption. McDougall also is associate faculty in the Emory University Women's Studies Department.
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One Step Off The Grid
Leichhardt shopping centre to add 430kW solar car shade
By Sophie Vorrath on May 17, 2018
A solar car park that was installed at Northam Boulevard Shopping Centre in WA.
A shopping centre in the inner western Sydney suburb of Leichhardt is joining the retail sector-wide shift to solar, with plans to install a 430kW rooftop PV system on a purpose built carpark shading structure.
The $1.2 million solar system, which will be installed on MarketPlace Leichhardt by ASX-listed energy management consultancy Energy Action, is expected to supply 40 per cent of the facility's energy demand, and slash its reliance on an already constrained grid.
Local Government Super, which owns the shopping centre, says expects the return on investment from the PV system will be somewhere around 14 per cent per annum, with a payback period of just over seven years.
"As a responsible owner, our aim is to minimise the environmental impact of our properties and maximise the returns for LGS members," said the company's property portfolio manager, Scott Armstrong.
As readers of One Step would know, MarketPlace Leichhardt is just the latest of a trolly-load of major Australian shopping centres that are turning to solar to cut costs and reduce their carbon footprint.
Earlier this month, ASX-listed retail asset manager Vicinity Centres announced the roll-out of more than 11MW of commercial solar that will incorporate five shopping centres across two states.
The $28 million project would install a total of 11.2MW of solar on the rooftops and as car park shading at shopping centres in Western Australia and South Australia – enough to generate 17.4GWh of energy a year, Vicinity said.
And in October last year, another property giant, Stockland, started work on plans to install a total of 12.3MW of rooftop solar across its shopping centre portfolio.
But the commercial solar boom currently taking off in Australia extends much further than the retail sector.
Energy Action said on Wednesday that it was seeing strong demand from new and existing clients for solar solutions, across commercial, retail and industrial properties.
"To date, Energy Action has installed in excess of 2MW of rooftop PV across Australia, including the iconic Sydney Theatre Company and Canberra Ikea systems, and we continue to build our pipeline of innovative solar PV projects," said Energy Action CEO Ivan Slavich.
"At present, we are assessing the potential for solar PV across more than 40 sites including aged care, gaming and leisure, and commercial facilities, and with electricity prices more than doubling for some clients and considerably reducing the payback period for solar projects, we expect this level of demand to continue," he said.
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Cast: Anaïs Demoustier, Romain Duris, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco, Aurore Clément, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
Director: François Ozon
Writer: François Ozon
This is a film that grabbed my attention right from the start. The opening shot is of a young, beautiful woman. She is wearing a wedding dress and we hear wedding music being played on the organ. We see make-up being applied to her face in preparation for the occasion. She stares passively towards the camera until a hand reaches out and closes her eyelids. Only then do we realise what is happening. This is not her wedding day, it is the day of her funeral. In less than thirty seconds Ozon has already presented one of the recurring themes and motifs of this film, the idea of appearance. He has shown us how things are not necessarily what they appear to be and the effect that appearances can have on our perceptions, two ideas that will recur throughout this film.
The funeral is that of Laura, the childhood friend of Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) and wife of David (Romain Duris). Claire stands before Laura's loved ones and talks about the friendship that they had. The film presents a series of scenes that recount the life that they shared starting from when they first met at early childhood. We are taken through Claire's most cherished memories of Laura from the blood pact they made to stay with each other forever to standing at each other's weddings to holding Laura's hand during her final moments as she lay in the hospital bed. From the moment they first met Claire and Laura have been with each other every single step of the way through pain and joy, through pleasure and strife, through love and heartbreak. And now it's over. Nevertheless Claire promises to keep the vow that she made to Laura all those years ago by watching over David and their infant daughter Lucie.
Laura's death ends up bringing Claire and David closer in the most unexpected way possible. She is completely and utterly devastated by Laura's passing and becomes inconsolable. Not even her husband Gills (Raphaël Personnaz) can get through to her or provide her with any sort of comfort. As differences and problems start surfacing between them, Claire resolves to honour her promise to Laura and shows up at David's house to help him care for the baby. There she discovers a shocking revelation that staggers and astonishes her. I wish I could go into more detail than that but it would ruin the element of surprise. It is a revelation that changes Claire's entire world and which will go on to have a resounding effect on her and on David for the rest of their lives.
In the wake of this revelation Claire and David start to spend more time together and grow closer to each other. This secret that they share could have potentially volatile and dire consequences if it should ever be discovered and so it is one that they cannot ever allow anyone else, not even those closest to them, to know. However it is a secret that they can share with each other and so they meet up regularly to partake in activities that enable David to embrace his secret self. It is their mutual love for Laura that unites them as they try to help each other overcome their grief. They must also face the themes of love, sexuality and desire as they confront their feelings for Laura and for each other. Demoustier gives a wonderfully delicate performance as the graceful Claire. She switches seamlessly between comedy and drama whenever the film calls for it and perfectly complements the vulnerable and conflicted nature of Claire's character. Duris gives an astonishing performance as David in his journey to find his hidden self. There are two separate sides to this character, one restrained and the other free, that he portrays with a perfect balance of humour and heart. It takes a very talented actor to give a performance that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. The chemistry that the two share is palpable and they compliment each other beautifully.
With The New Girlfriend François Ozon has put together a film that is sensitive, moving and witty. He expertly shifts between comedy to drama and provides an abundance of both. The story he crafts is cleverly original and the audience never quite knows what to expect next. It is a story about two characters who come together to help each other overcome a devastating loss and to try and find their identities. They find themselves to be lost without Laura who served as an anchor to them both. Her absence has left a hole that they each must fill. For all of its eccentricities or, as some viewers might see it, absurdities, this film remains at its core a heartwarming story about love, loss, and life.


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Saturday we drove to Uniontown to attend Jordan Stice and Jamie Wheeler's wedding. We dropped Jocelyn off in Coffeyville at Mammaw and Grandpa's on the way. This was my first night away from her and it was sad driving away from her, but she was in good hands! We checked into our hotel and then Aaron met us and we headed over to the wedding/reception site.
Jamie looked beautiful
Her flower girl was her niece Sophia. she was so cute and her shoes squeaked when she walked. Adorable!
Jamie and her dad
Sophia was still throwing flowers while she was standing up there
Jamie's dress was beautiful!
Jordan looking at his pretty bride
Jordan and Jamie's dog, Goose, was the ring bearer
I, Jamie. take you, Jordan…
You may now kiss the bride!
Jamie and Jordan Stice
Yummy cupcakes
Tom and Jill Keller
Justin and Me
Jill and Me
Justin and Jill
The Girls
The whole group
Father Daughter Dance
So in love…
Justin and Jamie
Congratulations Jordan and Jamie!


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Author(s): Michael Rubens
A stranger rolls onto town, and everything changes . . . especially for Austin Methune, when the stranger turns out to be his father, presumed dead, and his father turns our to be Shane Tucker, a bigtime musician - just the role Austin wants for himself.
Austin has a long history of getting himself in trouble, with the assistance of weed, inertia and indifference. And he's in deep trouble now - the deepest ever. He's talented, though. Maybe his famous father will help him turn his life around and realise his musical dream.
But maybe Austin has inherited more than talent from Shane, who also does drugs, screws up and drops out. Austin is a wickedly funny tour guide to his own bad decisions and their consequences as he is dragged, kicking and screaming, toward adulthood.
"Michael Rubens is a former producer from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. His work has appeared in the New Yorker's Daily Shouts, HuffPost Comedy and Salon and he is the author of YA novel, Sons of the 613. He also plays the mandolin, sort of. "


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I am not the author of the following, and it is a forward listed as Anonnymously Authored. I give credit to whoever compiled it. Even if the particulars could be made up the facts remain true.
You Could Have Heard A Pin Drop
We Americans are hated worldwide. Maybe it is because we have helped and rescued so many nations? And how quickly they forget that we SAVED their countries!
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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Then there was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?' A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can sup-ply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?' Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, 'Maybe it's because back in '44 the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate is passport in his carry on.
'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. 'Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.'
The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.'
'Impossible monsieur. You Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !'
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look.Then he quietly explained. 'Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to.'
You could have heard a pin drop.
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Thor's Hammer Amulet Pendant
A pewter representation of Thor's hammer on an adjustable black leather thong. Amulets are worn for protection. This amulet is connected with the Pagan religion of the Scandinavians.
Thor was the mightiest god waging war against the giants whom he killed with his hammer. At the same time he was a god of the home, hallowing marriage and purifying funerals with his hammer.
This pewter amulet is a reproduction of a museum piece, found in Sweden (originally made in silver).
Measures approximately 1 inch wide by 1 3/4 inches tall. Thong adjusts to a maximum length of 30 inches.
Supplied in a satin and velvet-lined gift box.
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Student walks through life fascinated by art
May 29, 2018
He sits in class, hunched over his drawings, pushing his thick framed glasses up from time to time, as his red Beats Headphones rest around his neck. Having an interest in art since he was three years old, Joe Strojny, junior, is inspired by life around him and tries to work on his art whenever possible.
"There's not one minute out of the day where I don't have a pen or a pencil in my hand drawing or just sketching. It's just like a twitch almost, it's just a natural thing I have to do," Strojny said.
Always coloring, cutting things up, and playing with tape, even as a toddler Strojny dedicated his time to his art, Lynn Strojny, Joe's mother, said.
"Joe is extremely curious. He takes an interest in the world around him," Lynn said. "He definitely has an artist's eye and appreciates what the world has to offer and incorporates it all into his art."
By staying in tune with his surroundings, Strojny is inspired by the life around him and the love he has for other people.
"I've always been a thoughtful person about others. I really care about people and I love them. I don't need to know a bunch of people to love, because that's just who I am. I love you for who you are even if I don't know you, and art kind of helps me get into that basis of that love that I have for people," Strojny said. "Whatever kind of art piece I'm doing I try to base it off of people and how much I care about and love them just for who they are for them being here."
While he uses his loved ones as inspiration for his art, Strojny also credits his connection with the ocean as a source of ideas ever since him and his family threw his grandfather's ashes into the water, who was previously in the Navy.
"I have this really weird love and passion for the ocean. I love all the sea creatures inside of it, I care for it, and I hate it when people throw trash in it," Strojny said. "To me it is one of the most beautiful things the entire world has ever created. It is a very ancient thing. That's where I get a lot of my inspiration from."
Through taking inspiration from the people around him as well as the ocean, Strojny has been able to make connections between himself and the things he loves through art.
"I realized and connected the dots a little. I call my heart a trinity. At the very top, it's all the people I love and care about in the world, my family, my friends, my loved ones, anyone who is in this life with me right now. [The trinity] connects to myself personally and also with that combining the triangle, it makes the ocean in the other corner," Strojny said. "In these lines, it makes me feel connected to everyone and everything. I like to help people as much as I can, I let people listen to me and I let myself listen to them even more. There's a whole bunch of things that goes into my process of life."
Strojny has developed a strong love and care for others through his art ever since the beginning of high school, he said.
"I get to wake up everyday, and I get to go to school and see the faces that I care about. I get to talk to everyone and hear their stories. It is a big comfort for me," Strojny said. "A lot of my work may seem sciencey and weird, but it does come from deep inside of the love I have for everyone. To me, love is an art."
While he describes it as weird, Karen Sako, Strojny's art teacher at Mainstreet Art Studio, describes his work as creative and thinking outside of the box.
"Joe is a very conceptual artist. He can make and draw anything from memory. He can draw you specific cities and places and take you to a different place," Sako said. "He has a gift that I could never have taught: he visualized it and just draws it. I am in awe of his talent because that just comes from somewhere else, that's not something that can be taught."
As a conceptual artist, the piece Strojny is most proud of is a painting that has a bigger meaning through the story it tells.
"There is a oil painting that I did and it is of my very first beta fish that I ever had. Yeah I know, it is a tiny fish, it is insignificant. It is supposed to be under the ocean in a submarine and you have my fishy in a little glass fishbowl and there is a porthole in the side of the fish bowl. My fishy is looking at the open ocean, looking at this master city built below the waves and it is supposed to be like my fish has found his rightful place in the sea where he has found his happy place where he can be himself, explore, and be bigger than what others may perceive himself as now, that coincides back with me," Strojny said. "I know a lot of people feel small, I feel small, but when I was doing that painting I wanted to take something small and simple that people don't really look at as a big source of inspiration and I took it to the next level. I wanted to create something that would make me look further into the life I have and the things that I can do with it when I grow up."
By creating these pieces of art in order to understand and have hope for the future, Strojny finds the beauty of art through the creativeness which allows things to be special.
"The thing I like about art is that you try to make things as detailed and perfect as you saw in your head, but nothing will ever turn out that way because nothing is ever perfect. You're not a perfect person, nobody is a perfect person, I'm not a perfect person. No one is, but see that's the beauty of it," Strojny said. "If we were all perfect what would be special in any of us? That's why I like having the creative side of it. In every piece of life there's a little bit of creative jazz in everyone."
Along with being Editor-in-Chief of the Bear Facts magazine, Chloe is involved with Yearbook, Student Leadership, Student Council, SNAP, and Interact....


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We also found some dog whelks and these eggs - not sure what they are but intriguing!
We carried on up the coast - incidentally a lovely part of the world, then crossed the Dart estuary on the ferry and headed for Churston Court for a pint in front of the huge 13th C fireplaces. This place is brilliant; quirky, old, fascinating and serving lovely food and pints it's worth a visit just to have a poke about. There's at least 2 suits of armour as well!


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BIKOL CENTRAL includes four dialects namely Bikol Daet (covers Bikol-speaking towns in Camarines Norte), Bikol Legazpi (first and second district of Albay excluding Daraga), Bikol Naga (first and second districts of Camarines Sur excluding Del Gallego, and San Pascual, Masbate), and Bikol Partido (third district of Camarines Sur, and San Andres, Catanduanes).
RINCONADA BIKOL covers the third dictrict of Camarines Sur excluding Buhi which is under ALBAY BIKOL, which has four dialects namely Albayano Buhi or Buhi-non (Buhi town), Albayano Daraga or East Miraya (Guinobatan, Camalig, Daraga and Jovellar, Albay, and Donsol and Pilar, Sorsogon), Albayano Libon (Libon town), and Albayano Oas or West Miraya (Ligao City, Polangui, Oas, and Pio Duran, Albay).
PANDAN BIKOL covers northern Catanduanes towns of Caramoran, Pandan, Bagamanoc, Panganiban, and Viga while VIRAC BIKOL includes Virac, Bato, Baras, San Miguel, and Gigmoto.
MASBATENYO covers the province of Masbate except San Pascual (Bikol Naga dialect is spoken), Balud and Mandaon (HILIGAYNON), and Placer, Cataingan, Pio V. Corpuz and Esperanza (CEBUANO). Spoken in Sorsogon City, Castilla, Casiguran, and Juban, Sorsogon is MASBATE-SORSOGON while in Gubat, Barcelona, Bulusan, Santa Magdalena, Matnog, Irosin, and Bulan, Sorsogon, WARAY-SORSOGON is being used.
Are you a native speaker of any Bikol, Rinconada, Albayanon, Virac, Pandan or Bisakol language? You can help us by translating English words in different dialects spoken in Bicol Region. Mabalos!
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