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Pork payoffs to newscasters Erwin Tulfo, Del Prado, others bared
2 broadcasters got checks from Nabcor
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MANILA, Philippines—The payoffs, in the guise of "advertising expenses," included prominent broadcast journalists.
Erwin Tulfo, a television news anchor, and Carmelo del Prado Magdurulang, a radio talk show host, were allegedly among the beneficiaries of the diversion of congressional allocations from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) coursed through state-owned National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor) and subsequently to ghost projects of bogus foundations, according to checks and accompanying documents made available to the Inquirer.
Former Nabcor officials Rhodora Mendoza and Vic Cacal said that a check for P245,535 was issued to Tulfo on March 10, 2009, drawn from a Nabcor account at United Coconut Planters' Bank (UCPB), Tektite Branch PSE Center, Ortigas, Pasig City.
Three checks were separately issued to Magdurulang by Nabcor in 2009—on April 27, May 14, July 6—totaling P245,535—all drawn from the same Corporate Account No. 00196-000848-4 in UCPB, they said.
The checks were described in the accompanying vouchers as "advertising expenses," according to documents submitted to the Office of the Ombudsman and made available to the Inquirer.
Mendoza and Cacal have sent documents to the Office of the Ombudsman purporting to show that Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Ramon Revilla Jr. and Edgardo Angara and 79 representatives coursed a total of P1.7 billion in PDAF allocations through Nabcor, which then channeled the monies to dubious nongovernment organizations (NGOs), during the period 2007 to 2009.
The lawmakers have denied the charges.
The Ombudsman is investigating 38 people, including Enrile, Estrada and Revilla, in connection with a complaint involving the alleged diversion of P10 billion in PDAF allotments to phantom projects and kickbacks.
Mendoza also told the Inquirer that another prominent TV and radio personality received P2 million from Nabcor president Alan Javellana on the instruction of then Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap "as payoff to stop criticisms of a Nabcor project."
"Nabcor shoulders the under-the-table expenses of DA (Department of Agriculture) on the instructions of Secretary Yap," Cacal said.
Mendoza, Cacal and Javellana are among the 38 people under investigation in connection with the P10-billion PDAF scam. Mendoza and Cacal have applied to become state witnesses.
Cacal said that a DA project to build a total of 708 kilometers of farm-to-market roads and 200 units of market-related infrastructure was the subject of the supposed "advertisement."
Tulfo and Magdurulang are known as hard-hitting broadcast personalities whose shows cater to assisting aggrieved listeners.
Contacted by the Inquirer, Tulfo denied he received money from Nabcor and said he did not enter into any transaction with Javellana.
"Somebody could be using my name, I want to investigate who cashed the check and what bank," Tulfo said in a telephone interview.
Magdurulang, who uses Melo del Prado as his name in his broadcasts, said when reached by phone, "Strict masyado ang GMA diyan. Ayokong magsalita (GMA is strict. I don't want to talk)." Then the phone went dead.
"Except for a voucher that justified the processing of the payments, no other documents passed our desk to justify the expenses for media men," Cacal told Inquirer.
Apart from the broadcasters, Nabcor also hired the services of such media outfits as MEDIAaffairs Inc. and Full Circle communications for the food terminal project of DA, Mendoza said.
Mendoza said that an estimated P5 billion worth of projects came from the DA's attached agencies, such as the Agricultural Credit Policy Council, Bureau of Soil and Water Management, and the Bureau of Posts Harvest Research and Extension.
Originally posted: 10:23 pm | Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
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Eric Lippert is a principal developer on the C# compiler team. Learn more about Eric.
I have not forgotten about my series on method type inference; rather, the contrary. I have been thinking hard about how to change method type inference to be more accurate in a hypothetical world with covariant and contravariant interfaces, and this has led me to dig in even deeper to the method type inference specification and implementation. I've got acres of notes on this now; getting them into bloggable form will take more time.
Until then, some of the wit and wisdom of the managed languages team.
We "dogfood" our source control system here; that is, we now use the same source control system that we sell to customers to control our own sources. Even better, we use recent builds of the source control system, so that we find the flaws in new versions of it before customers do. We feel the pain so that you don't have to. But this means that occasionally the Software Development Company Abstraction breaks down for a few hours here and there.
Some wags have started writing suggestions for what to do when the source control server is down on the whiteboard outside my office. So far, the list consists of:
0) Teach the VB team what index lists begin at.1) Send email to [the source control server team].2) Complain.3) Update this whiteboard.4) Learn helplessness.5) Go to Tosche Station. Pick up some power converters.6) Consider the management track.7) Write a new source control system -- yes, you have enough time.
What do you do when your source control / bug database / network / email / whatever crucial system is temporarily unavailable?
Do you know, there is an option in Visual Source Safe to enable a shadow folder (technical details are here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/byx8tbka(VS.80).aspx)
In short, this folder should be on a different server (that preferably gets backed up), so in the event of the VSS server crash developers can simply obtain the latest code from the alternative location, given of course, the team makes daily/hourly check-ins.
Since I used to be a VSS admin I am aware of this option which saved a lot of time for my team back 7 years ago when we had our VSS database server's Hard Disk failure.
So for us any issue with the VSS availability is not a drama.
>> What do you do...
I go mountain biking :-)
@Michael, I don't think you appreciate the scope of development at the level of Eric's group. Let's just say that the number of companies doing development at that level is very small (few dozens at most) and though Subversion may be robust under certain circumstances, it is wholly unsuitable to use in the situation of gigabytes of code being modified by literally thousands of developers and testers and migrated around through several hundred different branches on a near continuous basis.
No one has mentioned just letting VS go into disconnected mode for a while. I work from home against VSS hosted at the office. Works fine for me but then I don't get many collisions with others on the team.
Still it makes a good excuse to read blogs like this one ;)
The VS IDE is tied to VSS all of the time. Two large shops I worked at did this and forever had rookie and even experienced developers committing code that had been accidentally modified (extra blank at end of line) or had debug lines in it. This is because the IDE (VS) will prompt you with an ALL TO EASY TO CLICK YES on the 'your code is modifeid, do you want to chedk it in?' dialog.
The always connected forces developers to have one and only one working directory for source code (a bad bad idea if you have to do both production support on the current version and new development on a new version). It's too easy to get the source code mixed up (I know branching may fix this but the lack of real parallel development on the trunk is a problem).
A new developer should be able to a) pull down the source code to any directory and b) build it in VS 2008 without hardcoded paths. That same developer should be able to a) pull down a second copy of the project to a different directory and b) build it in Vs 2008 without having to un-do the path/dirctory setup for the first copy pulled down.
The other aspect of IDE tied to source control all of the time is that upgrading one or the other usually breaks the source control link.
The last IDE integration with source control issue is that non-source code files are difficult to manage for business analysts, documentation people, QA people, and anyone not a develoepr that would normally commit significant files to a source code tree.
Lastly, IDE, Source Control when combined with integrated trouble ticket/task system fall down in that a) everyone has to have a license to the IDE, b) the users entering tasks/bugs are usually not devlopers and do not want to use the IDE, c) There is no capability for the ticketing system to integrate help desk, customer support, sales support, internal users, and developers all entering and working on tickets for the same produce (i.e., the ticketing system should be easily usable and low cost to roll out to the enterprise to have decent value. Ticketing systems limited to developers only are low productivity, low value, and force the developer to waste considerable time entering/restating/clarifiying tickets and being a first level support phone answering machine).
I'm sorry to be hard on integrated tools like TFS in the ticketing and source control aspects but being forced to use them for source control/ticketing wasted much of my time.
A decent combination of an excellent IDE (VS 2008), an excellent CRM (ticketing) system, and an excellent version control system (Subversion) works much much better.
This is based on using RCS, CVS, Subversion on (unix and/or windows), using PVCS, Microsoft Delta, VSS (on windows), plus an ancient primitave version control system on VAX/VMS over a 20+ year timespan.
A two hour lunch sounds right.
I agree wholeheartedly with Ted.
SCC integration in VS is nice when it works, but is a total nightmare when it does not. Performance with SourceSafe was a joke, even with SourceGear. With TFS, speed is better, but still unuseable in slow network conditions (think VPN from another continent).
Also, having SCC info embedded in project/solution files is just wrong: it makes everything complicated, especially branching. On many occasions, I had to resolve issues by editing project files by hand.
All in all, we got tired of dealing with integration issues and we are now manually checking out files. It makes it easier to forget to add or check-in a file, but compared to the previously lost time, it is a small price to pay.
I'd just like to say thanks for dogfooding source control, because this can only make it better. It would be great for MS to release an easy to use/install product taking the best concepts out there. Only by dogfooding it can you expect the market (us developers) to use it.
My only 2 cents is don't requite it to have it's own dedicated beefy server. This has been the deal breaker in TFS. Impossible setup, requires sql server and a beefy machine. Hard to justify when VSS is free (included) and just requires a file share.
If you build it, they will come.
Basic RCS with a few script is a simple but very efficient way to do version control.
Basic developer tasks like source code control, versioning, patch deployment, etc. seem to be downlpayed and thus quite problemmatic in many shops I've worked in. I do not know if this is just because the majority of developers in those shops have under 5 years experience or if no one stays around long enough to dogfood their own code thorugh multiple production releases.
what's a source control server?
Dogfood your own project for awhile to appreciate following standard best practice with source code control.
Too often, consultant and rookie coders treat the entire project and all of the add-on parts (version control, build process, etc.) as a semester project that does not live after the developer leaves the project/company.
Meshing with and contributing to that is the business analyst and project manager downplaying version control, documented source code, and other best practices as wasted time usually since they have never worked in a production software development shop.
Both of these greatly inflate the overall cost of IT.
>Robin Goodfellow said:
>Let's just say that the number of companies doing development at that level is very small (few dozens at >most) and though Subversion may be robust under certain circumstances, it is wholly unsuitable to use in >the situation of gigabytes of code being modified by literally thousands of developers and testers and >migrated around through several hundred different branches on a near continuous basis.
And VSS/TFS is more suitable than subversion in this environment exactly how? Neither are suitable, if you ask me.
If the source control server is down I go and ask the build/source control guy why (it's a small company). Since I'm his manager I should know because somebody is going to ask me!
HI all,
Sincerely, I don't have a clue about what to do because it never happened to me. Even if my main server was down for a catastrophic crash, only thing I need to do is attach the main repo FSFS folder to another LAMP server and continue serving SVN in a matter of a few minutes. Even if the main copy got lost, we do live backups every day so we would only loose MAX 1 day of work in theory. In practice, it is close to NIL. That's what our team planned on. There are other ways to achieve way higher up time percentages than this but we did not feel the need for it.
This points out to an important problem. SCM is the most single important thing in a software company as small or big it is. There are ways to reach 99.9999% up time on any good SCM for any number of teams or employees. It is just not something that people put in priority because the event of a real crash is so remote. Unfortunately, it is not something achievable at a reasonable cost with TFS. Of course, it is very achievable with SVN.
If you or your company did not ask yourself yet what type of down time you can sustain, what type of redundancy is needed and you do not have a disaster recovery plan in place for your development team, you're doomed...
To Robin Goodfellow: Please check www.sourceforge.net for a proof that SVN can support large deployments. I guess you do not know WANdisco either or SVN hooks to create Master-Slave replication?


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Each asked its executive board to select three members to be part of a task force. This task force will explore if both entities should be disbanded and a new entity created that blends the best of each organization.
The idea has been floating around for months, as both groups and city leaders discussed whether the time is right for a new concept. This new entity would take charge of important city events like the Christmas Boat Parade, Taste of Newport and others.
The Chamber's executive committee approved the task force idea Tuesday; Visit Newport's board votes on Thursday.
Gary Sherwin, president of Visit Newport Beach, says names being floated for his part of the task force are former city mayor Denny O'Neil, The Current's Tom Johnson, and former Newport City Manager Homer Bludau.
Newport Chamber President Richard Luehrs tells me on his side, Chandler Bell will be appointing committee members.
The new organization is yet to be named.
Sherwin says he's not interested in merging with the Chamber, but creating a new organization.
"If there is value in creating a new integrated form of marketing the city – something bigger and more innovative – we're interested," he told me.
Sherwin says the hotel officials he deals with like things the way things are, and he wants to assure them this new concept will only enhance their marketing benefits and opportunities.
But this task force would have its challenges. These are two very different organizations in philosophy and finances. It's no secret Visit Newport Beach is the healthier financially.
In January, rumors swirled that the Newport Chamber was on the verge of bankruptcy.
At the time, Luehrs told me the chamber was facing "financial challenges," but not bankruptcy. This week he told me rumors about the Chamber possibly walking away from its building on Jamboree Road are false and they've just signed a new land lease.
In tough economic times, businesses close and chamber memberships decrease.
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This post is gonna take on a bit of a personal tone (I've had half a glass of Ramona Singer pinot grigio, guys…get ready). See, I kinda love Oprah Winfrey in a major way. I am one of those "children of the 80s" whose mother had O on the TV every afternoon after school starting in 1986 and so Oprah basically raised me, which explains why I shout-talk everything in a very deep voice. I can remember watching her wheel out that wagon full of meat when she lost all that weight on crazy diet #1947201 and thinking to my young self, "I WANT OPRAH TO BE ON MY TV FOREVER!" Today, my childhood dream is shattering…and I'm left with nothing but this Nate Berkus designed bowl in which to pick up the pieces.
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Oprah, Celebrities Make Crazy Faces At Her (Almost) Final Show
Oprah Winfrey taped her some of her last shows this week (spoiler alert: there were celebrities!) and the one requirement for appearing onstage was that each star had to do their best "Oprah having an orgasmic meltdown" impression. The roster was a who's who of ultimate Oprah BFFs, including Maya Angelou, Tom Hanks, Will and Jada Smith, Tom Cruise and his wife-bot Katie Holmes, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jordan, Maria Shriver, Patti LaBelle, Josh Groban and, randomly, Dakota Fanning.
Our favorite pics from what will surely be the world's saddest week of TV programming, below.
Oprah Is A Religious Icon, Yale Professor Claims
We'll admit it. Sometimes when we're watching Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things episode, we get so excited we start speaking in tongues. According to Yale professor Kathryn Lofton, when it comes to Oprah Winfrey, religious figure might not be too far off. According to Lofton, Winfrey is similar to a religious icon in that she employs a sermon-like structure in her show, uses speech patterns similar to preachers, and offers a cohesive message, or gospel, to her followers. Then again, nobody actually thinks Mr. Winfrey can walk on water. Unless she's been saving it for the show's finale. In which case, brava for saving the best for last.
All joking aside, there is cultural significance in the fact that millions of viewers find meaning in the talk show host's message of self-esteem and hope, including those fans begging Oprah to save soap operas from their untimely fate. "Gospel is a word that means 'good news,' " Lofton explained. "Oprah says that the good news is 'you.'" Think about it: if I described a religious figure who teaches people hope, gives stuff away, and has great hair and sandals, who do you immediately think of? Throw in a best friend named Gayle, and we are looking at Jesus 2.0 here.
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Oprah Wants To Make Over Donald Trump Before Her Show Ends
Oprah Winfrey's talk show will end on May 25th of this year. Given that she is Oprah, the stakes are already pretty high, how do you end a twenty-five-year-long run of iconic television and still thrill your viewers? It's going to be hard to top "Everybody gets a car!" but she is certainly going to try and outdo herself. Page Six reports that for one of her final episodes, Oprah has reached out to Donald Trump to try and convince the tycoon to get a makeover and cut his famously terrible hair for her audience's viewing pleasure.
A source from Trump's office said they received an email from Oprah's camp asking him to be on her show, saying that "The eyes of the world will be upon these episodes," and if he chooses to come on, his makeover will be treated with "integrity" and that Oprah will "not let it become a joke or silly…This will become one of those historical television moments that will become iconic." Of course, they would also allow Trump to do what he does best: self-promote. He would be offered the chance to discuss his 2012 presidential bid (dear God, no) and talk about The Celebrity Apprentice in exchange for the trim. Trump's hair has been a punchline for so long that we doubt he'd let Oprah touch it, but if he thinks about all the attention it will get him, he may not be able to resist.
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David Arquette Trainwreck Started With Drinking In Kindergarten
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There has been more speculation about Oprah Winfrey's private life than probably any other celebrity. From her close but non-lesbian relationship with Gayle King to her vast fortune to who her father is, the woman has been the target of more rumors than Fleetwood Mac (you're welcome, the three Fleetwood Mac fans that read this). But one thing that Oprah plans to address today is the deep, dark family secret that's been floating around recently that she wants to set straight. On her show today, Winfrey plans to acknowledge that she has a half-sister whom she only just met two months ago.
Winfrey says she discovered that she has a half-sister, whose name is Patricia, in November and they met shortly after. Winfrey's mother gave birth to Patricia and gave her up for adoption in 1963, unbeknownst to Oprah who was living with her father at the time. Oprah explained that learning about her new family member was "was one of the greatest surprises of my life." And lest you think that Patricia is a con artist, the DNA matches and Oprah's mother admitted the truth as well. Patricia began a search for her birth mother which led her to discover in 2007 that she was related to one of the richest women in the world. Not a bad thing to find out when you're searching for your biological family. All the details of the family drama will be revealed on Oprah's show today, but here's hoping that there's no Marcia-Jan Brady rivalry between the new siblings.
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She's also going to be hanging out with other Aussies stars during her visit, namely Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, next. What about Hugh Jackman? He was in a movie called Australia for cryin' out loud (with Nicole, natch). He's going to be high-kicking in disappointment.
Note: We're deliberately not going to mention Mel Gibson for obvious reasons.
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Oprah Winfrey's show yesterday featured interviews with Michael Jackson's parents, Katherine and Joe, and his children, Prince Michael, Paris, and Blanket. It was pretty fascinating stuff, especially when you compare his well-spoken children who referred lovingly to their father to Joe's harsh admission that he beat Michael with a belt. Here are some of the more choice quotes we were struck by from the hour long show.
Paris Jackson jumped into the spotlight at her father's funeral with an impromptu speech eulogizing her father. She was the most vocal and open of Jackson's children while speaking with Oprah, telling her "I kinda felt like no one understands what a good father he was. I'd say he was the best cook ever. He was just a normal dad, except he was the best dad. He made the best French toast in the world." She acknowledged the masks that Jackson made the children wear by saying "He tried to raise us without us knowing who he was, but that didn't really go so well."
Jackson's mother Katherine also spoke lovingly of her son, but was more frank about his behavior, such as the addiction to plastic surgery and his skin-lightening. She said her son lightened his skin because he started to lose pigment due to vitiligo and that he "didn't want to start looking like a spotted cow." However, she says, "I don't know what in the world he did to change that, but he did." We're guessing the stockpiles of skin-whitening creams had something to do with it. Katherine also says she thought his nose got "too small, like a toothpick" and spoke to him about his addiction to surgery, going so far as to ask Michael's plastic surgeon to perform dummy operations on Michael's nose so he would be tricked into thinking he had work done when he hadn't. It's sort of heartbreaking to listen to a mother discuss her son's issues like this, but it explains so much in retrospect.
Even more issues were explained when Joe Jackson spoke and tried to explain how he disciplined his kids. Joe said he disciplined his kids because "It kept them out of jail and kept them right," and that "I never beat him. That never happened." Katherine later clarified "You might as well admit it, that's the way black people raised their children. He used a strap." Oh, see, it wasn't Joe administering the beatings, it was the strap that beat his children.
So many questions were answered but so many more remain. And while we cringe thinking about everything in Jackson's past and all the issues he had with his looks and his addictions and his family history, it's reassuring to see his children turning out so well.
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Oh, To Be In Oprah's Audience During Her Final Season
Six years ago, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience "Everybody gets a car!" and created a meme and a mantra all in one, her generosity only overshadowed by the insanity of three hundred people screaming and crying as they were notified of their new rides. Well, now that it's Oprah's farewell season she clearly has to one-up herself. On today's show, Oprah tells her studio audience she has a surprise trip in store for them, and she ends up sending them on a trip halfway around the world to Australia. Oh, and John Travolta was there too, stepping out of a mock Quantas plane in Oprah's studio to share in the joy (no word on whether he'll actually pilot the screaming hordes there himself).
That's pretty insane, even by Oprah's standards. An 8-day trip overseas, fully paid for, is a dream come true for pretty much anyone. Sure beats a dumb old car that requires gas and washing! And this is just the first day of the season, too – we can't imagine how things will escalate from here. Birkin bags? Private islands? HAVING GAYLE KING LEAVE THE OUTGOING MESSAGE ON EVERYONE'S VOICEMAIL?? God, can you imagine? We're insanely jealous of the "loyal viewers" tapped to attend this taping and anyone else who plans to go this season.
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Oprah Creates Reality Show To Find The Next Oprah
Oprah Winfrey is trying to ease out of her twenty-five-years as talk show host by lining up her own replacement, but it's not going to be Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz or Rachael Ray. Instead, Oprah plans to team up with reality television producer Mark Burnett to create a show that will give an unknown person the chance to live their best life in front of the cameras called Your Own Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star.
The show will air on OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network, of course) starting in January 2011. Burnett explained "Much in the way American Idol finds unknown people (to be recording stars) there's no reason we can't find someone who deserves their own show." Except that, you know, regular people don't have Oprah's cred and won't be able to stuff Julia Roberts, the cast of Twilight and a mini-seeing-eye horse who wears Converse high tops and can do backflips into one hour of programming the way Oprah is able to.
Casting calls are going on now and submissions are being accepted on Oprah's website, so if anyone out there has the strength to endure a reality show that will lead to a short-lived talk show, now is the time to get on it.
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|Sliced red onion/Thin slices bermuda onion
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|Dry vermouth/Sherry / mild vinegar such as rice vinegar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Seedless oranges
|4 , peeled and sliced into rounds
|Kalamata olives
|12 , pitted and halved
|To Taste
|White pepper
|To Taste
|Olive oil
|4 Tablespoon
|2 Cup (32 tbs), crisp, loosely packed, chopped and chilled (Use Inner Leaves Only)
|Minced parsley
|1 Tablespoon
Soak the onion rings in cold water for 10 minutes, drain them, and then marinate them in wine or vinegar for 1 hour or more.
Drain the rings and discard the liquid.
Combine the onion rings, orange slices, olives, salt, pepper, and 3 tablespoons of the oil in a bowl.
Let the salad stand at room temperature for 30 minutes and stir it occasionally.
Put the escarole on a platter.
Arrange the oranges and onions over the escarole.
Top with parsley and drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of oil.
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"My emotions today range from highest highs to the lowest of lows," Byrne said in a statement. "While I am excited by the new opportunity, I am heartbroken to be leaving a lot of friends. Our job here is not done, but the pieces are in place to bring success to Mississippi State athletics."
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Antequera, Málaga, Spain
|1670 (aged 63–64)
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|Diego Velázquez
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Juan de Pareja (Antequera, c. 1606 – Madrid, 1670)[1] was a Spanish painter, born in Antequera, near Málaga, Spain. He is primarily known as a member of the household and workshop of painter Diego Velázquez. His 1661 work The Calling of St. Matthew (sometimes also referred to as The Vocation of St. Matthew) is currently on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. De Pareja became Velazquez's assistant sometime after the master returned to Madrid from his first trip to Italy in January 1631. After the death of Velazquez he entered the service of Juan del Mazo.[2]
He was a slave and afterwards a freedman, and was described as a "Morisco", being "of mixed parentage and a strange color".[3] The usage of the word "morisco" at the time carried two possible meanings. It was used to refer to both descendants of Muslims who remained in Spain after the reconquest, and to refer to the offspring of a Spaniard and a mulatto. De Pareja was given his freedom in Rome by Velázquez during a trip to Italy in 1650. Around the same time Velázquez painted Pareja's portrait, now in New York.[4] The document of his manumission exists.[5]
- Portrait of Agustín Moreto (1648–53), oil on canvas, Lazaro Galdiano Foundation, Madrid
- Portrait of a Monk (1651)
- The Calling of Saint Matthew (1661), oil on canvas, 225 x 325 cm, Museo del Prado
- Saints John the Evangelist and Orontius, Augusting Collection, Madrid
- The Lady of Guadalupe, Augustine Collection, Madrid
- Portrait of the Architect José Ratés Dalmau, oil on canvas (116 x 97 cm.), Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia.
Works after Pareja[edit]
- Portrait of Juan de Pareja (1648), by Diego Vélazquez
- Portrait of Juan de Pareja Repairing a Mandolin String by Salvador Dalí (1960)
See also[edit]
- ^ William Stirling Maxwell (1848). Annals of the artists of Spain, Volume 2. J. Ollivier.
- ^ The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. February 1980. p. 50. ISSN 0011-1422.
- ^ Palomino, Antonio (1988). El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones.
- ^ See Carmen Fracchia's article in The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolitionist Emblem, ed Elizabeth McGrath and Jean Michel Massing, London (The Warburg Institute) and Turin 2012.
- ^ The document which was discovered by Jennifer Montagu is in the Archivio di Stato in Rome. See Burlington Magazine, volume 125,1983,pages 683-4.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Juan de Pareja.
- Corpus velazqueño (2000). Corpus velazqueño. Documentos y textos, 2 vols. J. M. Pita Andrade.
- Hoving, Thomas (1993). Making the Mummies Dance. Simon and Schuster.
- Palomino, Antonio (1724). El Museo pictórico y escala óptica.
- Borton de Treviño, Elizabeth (1965). I, Juan de Pareja. Bell Books. ASIN B0006BN0A0. (Juvenile novel.)
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I understand that many Cardassian fans have already joined fleets; However my intent here is to NOT be a fleet as much as a location for Cardassians regardless of faction to gather in one place.
As a Cardassian society is not very developed (Either by ST episodes, books, etc.); There isn't much on subservient races within the Union and the ST episodes only showed the major species (Cardassians).
If you are an Alien (generic) which wants to base your story on membership within the Cardassian Union you are also welcomed within the group. There is no need to leave your fleet because this is not a fleet.
I've named it the Jevonite Order as Jevonite is a rare and special gem (like Cardassians); The Order is just a social interaction group allowing one community to stand united.
You do NOT have to join; If you are willing to perform administrative duties (like pretty up the web page) the membership would be required just for that purpose.
The basic forums are open to the public. There are also forum Embassies for the three factions which would require membership, but no responsibilities are expected. As we do not have a faction yet, we will not have a starbase in game.
Just a friendly invite to unite our peoples again.
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Marginalised women and transgenders join their voices with other downtrodden communities for a post-2015 development agenda
Mayavati, a 29-year old Dalit from Kisani ka purva village in Rai Bareli district of Uttar Pradesh, has struggled hard against poverty and discrimination to educate her children. Her father was unfairly paid for the work he did on the field of a landlord and she spent several hungry days in her childhood. She remembers never being allowed to step out of her house alone. When she was married at 15, she hoped that things would change, but they did not. She worked in a rice mill where she saved the residue of broken rice mixed with stones to feed her husband and children. Eventually she got involve with a savings group in her village, which helped her save money and take loans to put her children in school. She also set up her own petty shop. She now wants to help other women and believes that no amount of cash transfer will help alleviate poverty. She sees collectivisation to be the only solution. She dreams about a world where all children go to school.
Joshna Pradan, 22, fought for her family's right over their one acre of land in their village in Kandhmal district of Odisha. When Joshna lost her father at a very young age, her uncle took possession of the one acre of land their family owned, which was their only means of survival. He also separated her elder brothers from them. She, her mother and siblings had to starve for days on end, or survive on the wild roots she used to bring from the forest. When she grew up, Joshna summoned the village panchayat and fought for the land. Thanks to her efforts, they were able to get back a small portion of the land.
Vineetha, a transgender from Kolkata migrated to Chennai 26 years ago and has been working for the welfare of her community. She lived with a partner for 13 years and brought up a destitute girl along with him. Five years ago she was forced to leave her partner and the girl in a crisis. Vineetha decided to leave her house and all her belongings to them. She started life from scratch and since then has been surviving on begging and dancing. Her aim in life is to prevent people from addiction. She is concerned about government apathy towards transgenders even as she actively engages with like-minded people to advocate on their behalf with various government departments. These were some of the voices who spoke as Voice for Change at a ground level panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda by People Living in Poverty organised by Praxis, a non-governmental organisation here in the Capital last week. The ground level panel consists of 14 members from diverse backgrounds living in poverty and experienced marginalisation and came together for five days to deliberate on their responses and recommendations to the United Nations High Level Panel report on the post 2015 global development framework. They are not members of any government, private or non-governmental organisations or associated with any political parties or trade unions. Instead, the panellists drew on their own experiences of marginalisation and exclusion to provide a ground level reality check to the High Level Panel.
Sharing their recommendations, the ground level panel members sought establishment of a corruption free society and state. Therefore, there is need for reservation and targeted support, be they poor, Dalits, tribals, minorities, women, elderly, transgender, children, slum dwellers or people with disabilities.
These were the groups of people that comprise the ground level panel and who drafted the recommendations for the high level groups. For the UN millennium development goal 3, the suggestion was to establish a robust accountability mechanism.Groups that are excluded and marginalised, should be recognised as equal citizens and be given identities instead of doles. Care should be taken to ensure that identities, rather than labels are established.
Creation of institutional spaces for promoting people's participation in local governance and policy making processes, ending discrimination based on caste, language, sexual orientation, religion and gender; abolition of traditions and practices that sustain discrimination in society like caste system and dowry; and creating stringent restrictions on the sale and promotion of alcohol and other addictive substances were some other recommendations made by the ground level panel.


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The hunting dog was named Gunner.
According to reports, a hunting dog was shot and killed on Dec. 8, 2013, in the Springfield area in Bingham County.
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Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary (Hardcover)
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Normally I have no real conflict with how Cryptic choose to manage their MMO; however, this evening I was able to check out the upcoming Reputation System and noticed that many of the projects are similar to the Fleet Starbase and Fleet Embassy, yet on a smaller scale (i.e., dilithium, expertise, commodities, etc.). How are smaller fleets supposed to manage multiple fleet holdings while pursuing their own projects under the Reputation System? I see a future where selfless (i.e, fleet and community) and selfish (i.e., personal) interests continually compete and resources are increasingly scarce.
This isn't a post condemning either selfless or selfish actions, this is a post condemning the fact that a player in a fleet, particularly a small fleet, should ever have to be put in a position to make that decision. The impact of the Reputation System will most likely be negligible, while small fleets will most likely see a drop in contributions to Fleet Starbase and/or Embassy Holdings.
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Cozy inn that's a former sea captain's home
Originally built in 1886 as a sea captain's home, the Centerboard Guest House has been remodeled completely while retaining that Victorian-era feel. In 2012, the inn's interiors received a head-to-toe makeover, introducing more modern, beach-chic decor to the property. The result is light, airy spaces indicative of the laidback luxurious vibe of Nantucket as a whole. Located in the heart of the historic district, the inn is a quick walk from the ferry, and all the shops, bars, restaurants, and galleries of downtown.
Guests can enjoy a light and airy sitting room, or relax on the front porch in wicker chairs to watch the world go by. There is also a small patio behind the inn complete with a bistro table and chairs. While the inn has two street parking passes for guests to use, it would be easier to leave the car at home and bring your bike. Store the bike at the inn, and either ride or walk everywhere from its central location.
A short walk from downtown's attractions, including the Children's Beach
Located on a side street in downtown Nantucket, Centerboard Guest House is walking distance to everything in the area -- which is good, because there isn't much parking to be had downtown, especially during the busy summer months. The inn does have two street parking passes available for guest use, however, if needed.
Nantucket is an island 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, next to Martha's Vineyard. While the Vineyard boasts some lovely homes, Nantucket's real estate puts it to shame. This is where the rich come to vacation, and the prices around town reflect that. Don't expect to run into the Hollywood crowd -- here it's more CEOs, politicians, and billionaire businessmen who have their second homes on the island. The atmosphere is relaxed, but polished at the same time.
Nantucket is about history and natural beauty. It features some of the highest concentration of Pre-Civil war structures and oldest operating windmill in U.S. You'll find cobblestoned streets downtown (always fun to drive over), plenty of historic mansions converted into bed-and-breakfasts, and boutiques shilling expensive brand names. While the shopping and dining is fantastic, the beautiful beaches are probably the main allure. The southside beaches are key for surfers (Cisco is a local favorite), Madaket has phenomenal sunsets, Jetties is close to town and great for families, and Great Point Beach is accessible only by four-wheel drive.
There are a number of ferries to get to and from the island, but The Steamship Authority ferry from Hyannis is the only way to bring a car across the water, although travelers are strongly discouraged from bringing their cars. During the summer, when the population swells from 10,000 to 50,000 people, finding parking can be next to impossible. It's easier to rent a car once you're on the island (plus, the ferry fee for cars can range from $120 to $200 each way depending on the season).
Adults-only floor, but kid-friendly elsewhere
Couples looking for private time will appreciate that kids are not allowed in the rooms on the top floor of the main building. However, kids are definitely welcome at the inn, and the rooms in the Houseboat building are perfect for families and groups. Each room has its own special decor and feel, but all complement the historic architecture. All rooms (along with all public spaces) were renovated in 2012, receiving a more modern, beach-chic look. Spaces are light in airy, in hues of white and tan.
Free breakfast, and bike storage plus a bike rental discount
THIS HOTEL HAS BEEN RENOVATED SINCE OUR VISIT. WE WILL UPDATE OUR PHOTOS AS SOON AS WE CAN. For an authentic New England inn experience, the Centerboard Inn is a great choice -- offering up an historic Nantucket home close to all the shopping and dining of the downtown area, as well as a short walk to the Children's Beach. The inn features charming rooms, each with its own decor and feel, and an innkeeper that creates a true bed-and-breakfast-style stay. The entire property was renovated from head to toe in 2012, introducing brighter interiors with modern beach-chic decor. But some rooms and bathrooms are a bit tight on space.


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(Vocus) September 21, 2009 -- In the current issue of Molecular Medicine, a team of scientists from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.), present evidence that vitamin D and progesterone may be beneficial in protecting the brain after traumatic injury. Traumatic brain injury is a complex illness and complication after the initial injury can last months or even years. Treatments with single drugs have not met with great success in clinical trials. Previous evidence shows that vitamin D and progesterone may each be neuroprotective on their own. In this study, Dr. Fahim Atif and colleagues researched whether or not combining vitamin D and progesterone treatments would be more beneficial than either drug alone. Their results show that vitamin D is a good partner for progesterone and should be studied further pre-clinically. In addition to helping patients with traumatic brain injury, such treatment combinations may also be helpful in other injuries of the central nervous system, such as stroke.
In another intriguing study in the current issue, Japanese scientists tested whether or not stem cells, known for their ability to become any one of a number of specific kinds of cells, could be used to reduce the spread of tumors in the lung. In laboratory experiments, scientists infused stem cells into the lungs and followed up with screenings to determine if tumor spread had been slowed and if survival had been affected. On both counts, the stem cells worked to stop the growth of new cancers and to prolong survival. Importantly, the stem cell treatment did not cause inflammation as a side-effec
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