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We are proud to be associated with a highly respected law school, in the New York City area, such as Fordham University School of Law which celebrated its 100th Anniversary last year. A member of its faculty, Professor Russel Pearce, co-director, with Professor Bruce Green, of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, was featured among the faculty of SUNSGLOW in a symposium held at United Nations Headquarters in October 2005 in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the world organization. Yassin El-Ayouty has become a Fellow of the Louis Stein Center and an adjunct professor of law, teaching Islamic Law as of the Spring of 2007. In addition, Fordham Law will contribute faculty to our international symposia and round-tables whenever the topics are relevant to their specialties. The arrangement for joint programming will also enhance our financial transparency and other aspects of accountability.
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Muffaletta Sandwich
By Dana Logsdon
The muffaletta is one of New Orleans' most iconic and identifiable dishes. Made on large rounds of sesame bread and layered with olive salad, genoa salami, ham, mortadella, provolone and Swiss cheese, the muffaletta is clearly Italian in spirit and yet no such sandwich exists in Italy. Instead, it is the creation of Sicilian immigrants who arrived en masse to the Port of New Orleans from the Port of Palermo in the late 1800's and early 1900's. These new inhabitants brought with them strong customs and recipes that were joined with already vibrant local food traditions and ingredients.
Most of these immigrants settled in and quickly set up shop close to the busy French Market. This densely populated and thriving section of the lower French Quarter was referred to as "Little Palermo" and the "Italian Sector," and was home to a multitude of small shops and businesses. These included several Sicilian bread bakers, who baked a traditional Sicilian loaf called the "muffuletto." These early bread bakers often sold their wares on the street, yelling "muffuletto, caldo, caldo." Bakers also sold their loaves wholesale to grocers.
One such grocer was Mr. Salvatore Lupo, of Central Grocery store, who is widely credited with making the first muffaletta sandwich in 1906. According to his daughter, Marie Lupo Tusa, farmers would stop in at her father's shop at lunchtime, buy a loaf of muffuletto bread, sliced cold cuts, olives and cheese, and eat them standing up or balanced on their laps. In order to make it easier for customers to hold everything, Mr. Lupo decided to put all the ingredients together on a sandwich. The sandwich was not called by the name "muffaletta" at first, but eventually, the name of the bread carried over to the name of the sandwich.
Today, the traditional Sicilian bread bakeries have virtually disappeared; the sandwich that took its name from the round loaf remains as a testimony to an amazing one hundred year survival of a New Orleans born and "bread" tradition.
1938 Ad: No mention of the Muffuletta in this mid-1900s newspaper ad. Courtesy of the Times-Picayune Archive
French Market, circa early 1900s: By the late 1800s, an influx of Italians had led New Orleanians to rename "French Town" "Little Palermo." Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
Milk Wagon, circa early 1900s: Delivery wagons on Decatur Street. Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library
Sunrise Bakery Ad: Wholesale bakery chain produced their version of the Muffuletta loaf by the mid-1900s. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune Archive
Suburban Restaurant features the Muffuletta, 1971: By the late 1900s, the muffuletta had become the second favorite sandwich for New Orleanians, and it was now available well beyond the French Quarter. Courtesy of The Times-Picayune Archive
923 Decatur Street, New Orleans, LA
Dana Logsdon, "Muffaletta Sandwich," New Orleans Historical, accessed July 19, 2019, https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/505.
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Thinking about putting your home on the market? You may be wondering when is the best time of year to sell your home. Like most things in life, there is a season when homes sales are most successful. If circumstances permit, picking the best time of year to sell your home can result in a quick sale at a good price.
Old man Winter. Real estate studies have shown that winter (specifically the months of November and December) is the slowest season to sell your home. Prospective buyers are caught up in the holiday season and don't have time to hunt seriously for a home. In many parts of the country, the weather is more conducive to snuggling by the fire than it is to shopping for a home.
Your family room may be the most popular space in your home, but making it appeal to prospective buyers can be a challenge. As a hub of entertaining and family activity, your family room may have seen years of hard use. Staging your family room will mean updating the space and removing any signs of wear and tear.
A clean slate. Before you begin staging your family room, clean the space thoroughly. Make sure all surfaces are wiped down or dusted, including windows, sills and baseboard trim. Clean flooring completely, or consider hiring a professional to do the job. Clean and dust all furniture and electronics in your family room—don't forget TV screens and under the couch!
Staging your basement can seem like a challenge, but your goals are the same as for the rest of the house. When staging your basement, you want to highlight its best features and get potential buyers to imagine themselves enjoying the space.
A fresh start. No matter whether your basement is finished or unfinished, you'll want to begin staging your basement with a deep cleaning. Floors, walls and baseboards should be cleaned. All furniture should be dusted and have any stains removed. Appliances and mechanical equipment like furnaces and water heaters should be cleaned to give them the appearance of being well maintained.
Thinning the herd. The most popular use for an unfinished basement is storage. If your basement looks like it's auditioning for the graveyard of the Atlantic, try and get rid of as much clutter as you can. Donate, sell or throw out anything you haven't used in the last 18 months. Removing as much clutter as you can will make your basement appear larger.
Bringing in the pros. If you are seriously considering an estate sale, you may want to think about hiring an estate sale agent. A professional estate sale manager will charge between 20% and 35% of the proceeds of the sale. For that fee, you can expect an estate sale agent to organize, promote and run the sale from beginning to end. An estate sale manager will itemize and price your belongings, advertise the sale and handle all transactions during the sale.
Embrace your inner packrat. As you prepare to run an estate sale, resist the urge to throw things out. That old line about trash and treasure certainly pertains to estate sales as well—there's always a buyer for just about everything. Maximize your estate sales proceeds by selling even the things you think should go to the dump.
Wondering how to protect your privacy while selling your home? Selling a home, by its nature, involves letting strangers into your living space. Identity theft is on the rise, and it's only prudent to take the steps necessary to maintain your privacy while selling your home. Besides, information a prospective buyer might get from your home could weaken your bargaining position or ruin the chance of a sale.
Drawers and closets. Potential buyers can be expected to look in every drawer and closet in your home. Don't assume furniture drawers are safe from prying eyes—remove all confidential documents and valuables from drawers and closets. Move these important belongings into a safe, safety deposit box or off-site storage unit for the duration of your home selling cycle.
Nothing is as demanding as selling your home with pets as home. As hard as it may be to believe, not everyone loves the thought of a four-legged friend scurrying around the house. Whether a buyer's fears are real or imagined, the fact remains that pets can be a major stumbling block when it come to selling your home.
Remember, it's only temporary. The number one way to avoid issues with pets at home is to move the pets out temporarily. The most effective solution is to move pets to a friend's or relative's home during the home selling process. Next best is to have your pet hang out elsewhere during showings and open house events. Last on the list is to keep your dog in the yard or in a crate while showing your home.
Clean up. As you prepare the rest of the home for sale, be sure to concentrate on pet areas as well. Have carpets professionally cleaned—if stains won't come out, remove or replace the flooring. Clean feeding and grooming areas. Remove food bowls, water bowls and pet bedding.
Staging your living room is the perfect way to set off a large space that is often a gathering place for entertaining and conversation. By converting your living room into an open, inviting area, you'll help your home appeal to a wider selection of prospective buyers. Ideally, staging your living room should result in a centerpiece that sets the tone for the rest of the house.
Purge. The simplest way to begin staging your living room is to remove excess items or items that don't have a specific place in the room. Remotes, kids' school books and stray magazines should all be taken from the room. Also, remove all but a few of your collectibles—a room crowded with items seems smaller than it really is.
De-personalize. Remove personal photos, souvenirs and other family items. When a buyer walks into your living room, you want them to be able to imagine themselves living there—family items get in the way of that illusion.
Staging your bathroom is almost as important as the kitchen when it comes to staging your house. Even the biggest bathroom is typically smaller than most of the other living spaces in your home. This means that details will jump out at prospective homebuyers who tour your house. Successfully staging your bathroom will give buyers the feeling that they've stepped into a wonderful spa—a place they'll want to call their own!
Cleaning up. If you've ever stayed in a fine hotel, the clinically clean bathroom look is what you want to mimic as you begin staging your bathroom. Clean all of the fixtures, the floor and the mirrors and windows. Clean the grout between the tiles and that baseboard behind the door that always seems dusty. If the caulk around your shower or tub won't come clean, remove it and replace it with new caulk. Once your bathroom sparkles, make every effort to keep it that way!
Clear. Remove all clutter from your bathroom, including grooming products, hampers full of dirty clothes and especially toothbrushes and hairbrushes. Keep the essentials in an overnight toiletry bag under the sink for the duration of the home selling process. Also, remove any rugs or fabric toilet covers to give your bathroom a streamlined look of simplicity.
Changing trends in entertaining and socializing have made staging your kitchen even more important as you prepare to sell your home. Back in the day, the kitchen was a walled-off room where food was prepared and then transported to the dining room. Today, many families cook, socialize and eat in the kitchen, making it the most important room in the house to prospective buyers. Staging your kitchen successfully will help present your kitchen in a way that will intrigue and impress buyers.
Cleaning house. The cheapest and most effective step you can take when staging your kitchen is to clean. We're talking a deep, detailed clean that makes spring cleaning look like a quick tidy. Pay attention to all those areas you've skimmed over in the past: tile grout, windows and above (and behind) the refrigerator. Give some special love to your oven, stovetop and venting as well.
Figuring out how to price your home is as much art as science. Ask three different real estate professionals and you'll get three different answers, but which one is right? The only right price is the one that sells your house! | {
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AMD Radeon RX 590 Mid Range GPU Announced for Full HD PC Gaming
AMD Radeon RX 590 Mid-Range GPU Announced for Full-HD PC Gaming
By Jamshed Avari | Updated: 15 November 2018 19:32 IST
Radeon RX 590 graphics cards will be available globally from November 15
AMD is targeting gamers who play esports and AAA titles at 1920x1080
Buyers will get three free games representing significant value
AMD is introducing a new mid-range GPU, the Radeon RX590, in order to captialise on demand from users looking to upgrade but not spend too much. The Radeon RX590 is not based on a new architecture, but instead a refresh of the current mainstream Polaris architecture. It is AMD's first GPU to be manufactured on a new 12nm, process which allows for improved performance and yields. Graphics cards based on the new GPU will not replace older models, but will slot in between the Radeon RX 580 introduced last year, and the higher-end Radeon Vega 56. AMD's recommended retail price is $279 (approximately Rs. 20,000), and cards will be manufactured and sold by XFX, Asus, Sapphire, and PowerColor, amongst others. They will go on sale internationally from November 15.
According to AMD, the Radeon RX 590 is ideal for playing current AAA game titles at 1920x1080, which is the resolution used by 64 percent of gamers today. Compared to the Radeon RX 580 (Review), the new Radeon RX 590 should provide a 12 percent performance boost within the same thermal and power requirements. At that resolution, gamers can expect to see performance of over 60fps in Far Cry 5, Monster Hunter World, PUBG and Fortnite; over 90fps in Battlefield 1, Doom, and Forza Horizon 4; and over 120fps in CS:GO, DOTA 2, Overwatch, League of Legends, and COD: Black Ops 4.
AMD is specifically targeting gamers who are looking to upgrade from a Radeon RX 480 or Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 GPU, which are now a few years old. The Radeon RX 590 is claimed to deliver significant improvements in AAA and esports titles compared to these older GPUs, but isn't much of an upgrade over the Radeon RX 580. AMD also promises rich and immersive VR experiences.
In terms of specifications, the new GPU has 2304 stream processors grouped into 36 compute units, which is the same as the Radeon RX 580, but they will run at higher base and boost speeds of 1469MHz and up to 1545MHz respectively. Total bandwidth is rated at 7.1 Teraflops. All Radeon RX 590 graphics cards will have 8GB of GDDR5 RAM on a 256-bit memory bus. As with all current AMD GPUs, there will be support for variable refresh rates with compatible FreeSync monitors. Various driver and software features are also supported including the low-level Vulkan rendering API, AMD Radeon ReLive for recording and streaming gameplay, and Radeon Chill which caps and regulates framerates for lower power consumption.
Radeon RX 590 Graphics cards will compete with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 models in the market. To make the deal sweeter, AMD is introducing a new game bundle across its product lineup. Three games are free with all purchases of a graphics card or fully built PC with a Radeon RX 590 GPU: Devil May Cry 5, The Division 2, and Resident Evil 2, which together represent significant value. The same free games will also be given free with Radeon RX Vega products, and anyone buying a Radeon RX 580 or Radeon RX 570 will be able to choose two of the three.
Further reading: AMD, Radeon, AMD Radeon, AMD Radeon RX 590, AMD Radeon RX 590 launch, Polaris
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Enter the Tosa Life Photo Contest and show us what Wauwatosa means to you.
Our mission to celebrate Wauwatosa – share the photos that you think represent the best part of #TosaLife.
Photographers of all ages are invited to enter their best photos celebrating our community in the first annual City of Wauwatosa Photography Contest between June 2019 and the end of August 2019. (Voting starts August 1, 2019.) Entering is easy and free. Just submit your photo online following the steps below. For more information or with any questions contact Eva Ennamorato at [email protected].
All photos must be taken from within our city limits.
All photos must be the contestant's sole artistic effort and cannot be copied from any outside source.
By submitting a photo you grant the City of Wauwatosa permission to use the photo on our website, print marketing, social media, and other city collateral royalty-free. Attribution can be provided to the photographer. | {
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Movies.Models;
namespace Movies.Services
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public interface IMovieService
{
Task<IList<Movie>> GetMoviesAsync();
Task<Movie> GetMovieByIdAsync(int identifier);
Task<IList<Movie>> GetMoviesByCategory(string selectedCategoryId);
}
}
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All that we go through is to show us who we truly are, what we are made of? The answers you ask are in the very next moment of choice? HE is listening, He hears you, HE is waiting for your actions? The tools are in you..heart, mind, body, he gave you an amazing smile to light your way! Connect the dots to your heart … and shine! Dare to clothe your soul in sober? The world needs you! Shine your light brightly and you will hear HIM like never before! !
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Fall Into You (A Loving on the Edge Novel #3) (Paperback)
By Roni Loren
The three beautiful words a man longs to hear from a woman…Teach me tonight.
When tomboy sports reporter Charli Beaumonde loses a dream TV job because she's not girly enough for primetime, she's determined to land a big scoop and prove her boss made a mistake. But when she gets too close to a football scandal and finds her life threatened, Charli accepts an offer from family friend Grant Waters to hide out at his place—even if Grant predicts nothing but trouble from his buddy's hard-headed, uncompromising, irrepressible, younger sister. There's one more problem…
Grant's "place" is The Ranch, a BDSM resort in Texas, and he's used to being in charge —even if that means trying to keep Charli in line. But much to Grant's surprise, she's intrigued—even envious—of his trainees. They're the epitome of what she's never been: sexy, beguiling, and totally irresistible to a man. Still, Grant doesn't believe for a minute that the sharp-tongued Charli has it in her to be anyone's submissive. But Charli's already on her knees vying for the chance to prove that even the Master can be wrong sometimes.
New York Times bestselling author Roni Loren earned a master's degree in social work from LSU. She lives in Dallas with her family.
"Hot and romantic, with an edge of suspense that will keep you entertained."--Shayla Black, national bestselling author
"Loren writes delicious, dark, sensual prose."--USA Today
"Revved up and red-hot sexy...a riveting romance."--Lorelei James, New York TImes bestselling author
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: December 31st, 2012
Series: A Loving on the Edge Novel
Minimum Grade Level: UP
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Someone has been trying to take the life of Memphis rapper Young Dolph for months.
After narrowly escaping a shooting that involved over 100 shots in Charlotte back in February, the Bulletproof artist was hit by gunfire outside of Shoe Palace in Hollywood earlier today.
Officers were close to the scene and responded immediately, but no arrests have been made. Dolph has been rushed to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
UPDATE: Yo Gotti has been named a person of interest by LAPD. | {
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Study: American workers are using more vacation time, highest level since 2010
By: WKBW Staff
New research has found American workers took an average of 17.2 days of vacation in 2017, up almost a half-day from 2016.
Project: Time Off, who are affiliated with the U.S. Travel Association, says "this marks the highest level for American vacation usage since 2010 (17.5 days) and more than a full-day increase since bottoming out at 16 days in 2014."
But maybe these aren't enough days as 52 percent of Americans left an "accumulated 705 million unused days" in 2017, which has increased from 662 million in 2016.
How? The increase in unused days, despite Americans taking more vacation, is attributed to employees earning more time off (23.2 days in 2017, compared to 22.6 in 2016).
Further, nearly 25 percent of Americans have not taken a vacation in more than a year.
Some possible barriers?
71% of Americans cite cost of vacation/travel
45% of Americans cite children
39% of Americans cite pets
According to Project: Time Off's research, work-related challenges continue to have the most influence on Americans' ability to take vacation.
Employees who were concerned that taking vacation would make them appear less dedicated or replaceable were dramatically less likely to use all their vacation time (61% leave time unused, compared to 52% overall). This held true for those who felt their workload was too heavy (57% to 52%) and no one else could do their job (56% to 52%).
On the bright side, the study revealed some companies are starting to understand the benefit of having flexible vacation culture.
The percentage of workers who say their company's culture encourages vacation jumped five points from 2016. The research found a major split when it came to the happiness of employees at companies with encouraging cultures versus their peers at firms that are discouraging or ambivalent to vacation (72% to 42%). | {
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Q: Word Count by Foreground Colors in Docs Apps Script I'm trying to write a script with Google Apps Script that returns word counts per color.
I wrote code that returns overall word count and code that returns foreground color per paragraph. It's my understanding that the paragraphs holds the foreground color property but the text doesn't. I'm having difficulty combining my two functions to return word count per a given color. Below is what I have. Any suggestions or direction would help.
function myFunction() {
var doc = DocumentApp.openByUrl("https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wi0EEWZECyn2Q7B0XWY3D6WKJ2TNZ_XzN47LTT8yWng/edit");
var docBody = doc.getBody();
var text = docBody.getText();
var paragraph = docBody.getParagraphs();
// Return word count of text.
if (text.length === 0)
return 0;
text = text.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g, " ");
var replacePunctuation = text.replace(/[.,\/#!$%\^&\*;:{}=\-_`~()"?""]/g," ");
var finalString = replacePunctuation.replace(/\s{2,}/g," ");
var count = finalString.trim().split(/\s+/).length;
Logger.log(count);
//Identify all paragraph colors
var i;
var color;
for (i = 0; i < paragraph.length; i++) {
color = paragraph[i].getForegroundColor();
Logger.log("paragraph " + i + ": " + color);
}
//Identify individual colors of characters is a given paragraph
var i;
var color;
for (i = 0; i < paragraph[0].getText().length; i++) {
var color = paragraph[0].editAsText().getForegroundColor(i);
Logger.log("character" + i + ": " + color);
}
}
A: The issue
The main issue of your case scenario is that DocumentApp only has two methods for getting the foreground color: getForegroundColor() and getForegroundColor(offset). The first only return a hexadecimal color value if all the text in the element (that being in your case the paragraph) has the same background color, otherwise it will return null. The second will return the foreground color of each character in the text. Thus, there is no method for returning the color of a word.
The workaround
To count the amount of words in each foreground color, you could first split all the text into separate words and store them into an array with their starting indices in the text, assuming a word will only have a single color.
Then, iterate over a for loop over the word array and get the foreground color of the first character of each word and add 1 to an array that has the counts for each colors.
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last march, David Hallyday had any intimacy in his title My last letter to a crowd of fans gathered in Ambès, Gironde. The singer had then asked the hundreds of spectators present that night not to shoot this moment, a tribute to his father who died a few months earlier.
The magazine The Point reveals an extract of this title that is unprecedented, fictional letter in which the elder of the rocker imagines his father to address him, as the singer will present to millions of French Saturday night at the NRJ Music Awards. "I have often dreamed that I could escape, cut the image and the sound. The fear of emptiness, fear of dying, were sometimes stronger than reason," sings the interpreter of to me Thou hast not left the time , according to our colleagues which evoke the passage of a chorus that "would not have denied the Taulier".
"I leave you, this is just a last cry, this is my last letter, that I never said", sings the singer in this chorus is heartbreaking.
The words "remarkable", as was referred to David Hallyday in march, are signed Arno Santamaria, a close collaborator of the fifty-year-old. "It has been written quickly enough, this song, as if he had expelled," explained the singer.
The song, from the album of David Hallyday, will be available on all platforms streaming as soon as the end of the ceremony of the French tv channel TF1, on Saturday, at midnight. To achieve the clip of the song, which will be unveiled in the wake of this, David Hallyday has made a call to his sister Laura Smet. The disc of the singer who had very little expressed in the media since the death of his father, will be titled I have something to tell you , and will be released on 7 December, a year after the disappearance of the idol of young people. | {
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U2's 'Claw' Stage Has Found a New Home
Jeff Giles Published: April 10, 2018
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U2 bankrolled the biggest concert stage ever built for their 360 Tour in 2009, and now one of the record-setting structures assembled for those shows has found a permanent new home.
Rolling Stone reports that one of the three "claw" stages built for the 360 Tour has been purchased by the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Salt Lake City, whose founder and CEO, Brent Anderson, has been entranced by the setup since the first time he saw it during U2's stop in Barcelona in June of 2009.
"I didn't even want to walk into the stadium," Anderson recalled. "I was kind of holding up the line because I just wanted to look at it and take it in. I didn't really view it as just simply a functional piece of architecture. For me, it was a dynamic sculpture. It was a work of art."
Now it will serve as a focus point for various special events at the aquarium. According to Anderson, they're considering a concert venue at the site; whether or not those plans move forward, the claw will play host to an array of attractions, including film screenings and a farmer's market. Saying he expects it to stand for "70 or 80 years," Anderson justified the purchase by saying they were "creating an engaging and interactive and aesthetically exciting experience, that's also educational" and adding, "Numerous studies have shown that people are more receptive to learning when they are in a state of wonder or fascination."
The sale of the claw caps a lengthy effort to offload the structures, three of which were built for the tour. While one has reportedly been disassembled, the European claw remains available; as tour director Craig Evans told Billboard in 2011, "It's certainly our intention to see these things recycled into permanent and usable ventures. It represents too great an engineering feat to just use for [the tour] and put away in a warehouse somewhere."
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JAK2 () – білок, який кодується однойменним геном, розташованим у людей на короткому плечі 9-ї хромосоми. Довжина поліпептидного ланцюга білка становить 1 132 амінокислот, а молекулярна маса — 130 674.
Кодований геном білок за функціями належить до трансфераз, кіназ, регуляторів хроматину, тирозинових протеїнкіназ, фосфопротеїнів.
Задіяний у таких біологічних процесах, як адаптивний імунітет, імунітет, вроджений імунітет.
Білок має сайт для зв'язування з АТФ, нуклеотидами, іонами металів, іоном магнію.
Локалізований у цитоплазмі, ядрі, мембрані.
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den December 13, 2017, 1 a.m.
As Christmas draws in families and workplaces will soon be stocking up on tubs of selection chocolates, followed shortly thereafter by bickering over the best treats contained within.
A lucky few will experience a perfect harmony of preferences, finding that the chocolates they like the most are hated by everyone they're sharing them with.
But in far more cases an unseemly scrabble for the best chocolates will take place, leaving the weaker members of the group to scavenge through a sad-looking tub of mini-Bountys.
But which ARE the nation's favourite selection chocolates? And which are the ones consistently left at the bottom of the tub each year? New YouGov Omnibus research reveals the answer.
"The Purple One" is the fastest disappearing chocolate from a Quality Street tub, with 37% of people who have ever eaten Quality Street saying it is one of their favourites. The caramel and nut treat stands far ahead of its second placed rival, the Green Triangle, on 27%.
By contrast, the Coconut Eclair is the Quality Street chocolate most likely to remain skulking at the bottom of the tub as the festive season rolls on, with only 13% saying that it is one of their favourites.
The most prized treasure in a Celebrations tub turns out to be the Maltesers Teaser. With 39% of people who have ever eaten Celebrations naming it as their favourite or one of their favourites, the Malteser was the most prized chocolate of all four tubs, and stands streets ahead of second-placed Galaxy (29%).
The humble mini-Mars comes last in the Celebrations rankings, with only 15% listing it among their favourites.
Hazel and soft caramel are clearly the most popular flavours in the Roses tub, with the top three Roses containing one or both. The public's favourite Rose is Hazel in Caramel at 28%, followed by the Golden Barrel (simply soft caramel in chocolate) on 25% and Hazel Whirl also on 25%.
The 28% figure for Hazel in Caramel makes it the lowest scoring favourite chocolate out of the four selection tubs we asked about.
Contention for the top spot was most heated in the Cadbury Heroes box, with Twirls barely edging it over their Dairy Milk rivals at 34% and 33% respectively.
The Eclair was the least heroic of the Heroes, with only 17% declaring it their favourite or one of their favourites. | {
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Administrative Assistant - Federal
at C3.ai (View all jobs)
C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The comprehensive and proven C3 AI Suite uses a model-driven abstraction layer to enable organizations to develop, deploy, and operate enterprise scale AI applications 40x to 100x faster than alternative approaches. www.c3.ai
We are looking for an experienced Administrative Assistant who will provide a range of administrative support services to the C3.ai Federal team to promote efficient delivery of services and, where applicable, effective management of the C3.ai Federal organization. She/he maintains high standards of professionalism, efficiency, personal communication, discretion and independent judgment. In working with internal and external contacts, she/he deals with a wide range of highly sensitive issues under tight deadlines/pressures. The ideal individual will be highly self-motivated and exercise exceptional judgment and discretion in a variety of high-pressure situations. She/he will be joining an experienced team of dedicated professionals who are passionately engaged in building a solid foundation for a great company that is a leader in one of the most exciting and revolutionary technology innovations of our age.
Summary of Responsibilities
Responsible for scheduling and managing the President of C3.ai Federal Systems calendar including prioritizing and resolving related conflicts and competing demands, proactively scheduling important meetings with internal and external individuals and maintaining an organized office.
Responsible for managing the DC Facilities function.
Responsible for managing Travel & Expenses
Completes various forms, including: shipping requests, travel expense reports, etc.
Contributes to the excellent reputation of the C3.ai Federal Team through professional, friendly and respectful interactions internally and externally.
Undertakes special assignments/projects on a wide variety of issues as requested by the President of C3.ai Federal Systems.
Is ready to step in and assist in various tasks within the Finance, HR, and Facilities teams as may be deemed necessary by the President of C3.ai Federal Systems from time to time.
Organizes and coordinates international/domestic travel for the President of C3.ai Federal Systems
Provides support in arranging meetings including collation of speaking notes and/or briefing notes, handling logistics, such as conference registrations, room reservations (internal and external), and local travel.
Coordinates, plans, and organizes small-to large-scale meetings.
Performs general clerical duties to include but not limited to; transcribing dictation, scanning, copying, faxing, filing, and data entry. Collects and opens mail addressed to the C3.ai Federal Sales team, forwards correspondence to appropriate staff for action.
Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.
College degree in business management or related field, or training in secretarial skills, office management and/or administrative studies.
A minimum of 3-5 years supporting C-Level Executives.
Strong organizational skills including the ability to manage calendars and effectively maintain records and files.
Experience in organizing meetings, assisting with travel and hotel accommodations, and providing general office operations support.
Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals in a complex and fast-paced environment.
Strong work ethic, with an ability to work in a highly dynamic environment.
Very strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain professional, friendly, and cordial relationships with stakeholders, including staff, and external partners.
Highly resourceful team-player with the ability to also be extremely effective independently.
Demonstrated proactive approaches to problem-solving with strong decision-making capability.
Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response.
Expert level written and verbal communications.
Proficiency in grammar, spelling and proofreading.
Ability to understand and interpret policies and procedures as well as apply them with consistency.
Working knowledge of telephone systems and standard office equipment such as fax machines and photocopiers.
Strong computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office programs; Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
C3.ai is a culture of "doers". Employees at all levels are willing to roll up their sleeves to get things done. The incoming leader is a team player who embodies those ideals and doesn't hesitate to jump in and solve difficult problems.
Ability to juggle and manage multiple priorities. Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
A high-energy individual who radiates positivity. This person inspires others through clarity and conviction of a shared vision.
Dynamic ability to work effectively with a wide array of personalities and operating styles. This person has exceptional interpersonal skills and keen self-awareness.
A humble individual who listens well and is coachable.
Someone with crisp, precise verbal and written communication and skills who is capable of delivering data-driven messages to the executive team and other internal and external constituents.
A hard-working individual who leads from the front.
A dynamic, adaptable individual capable of pivoting quickly. While this person needs to be hands-on, s/he is equally capable of taking a step back to ensure other team members are executing towards greater strategic goals.
The ideal candidate will have a strong moral compass and will understand the importance of ethics in business. Authentic integrity comes naturally for strong leaders; C3.ai believes this is an essential attribute for every employee at the company.
C3.ai provides a competitive compensation package and excellent benefits.
C3.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics, including disabled and veteran status.
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Particle physics always has been at the frontier of a search for new principles and new particles. Large scale facilities, latest data analysis, and gigantic collaborations have become a norm in the research of particle physics and armed with the latest theories we have been closing on the mysteries of the origin of the universe. These kinds of research methods at the extreme level have seen limits these days. Limits of experimental tools, data exceeding the capability to analyze, and limits on new funding are just part of the story. There is also a need for fresh new ideas. Artificial intelligence might help the high energy physics community to discover a new particle and new principles. I will introduce some tools of deep learning that might be useful in these discoveries. | {
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You might not be surprised to learn that in most companies these tools have a lot of the same information repeated over and over. You might not even know this is happening. Accounting is working, sales are getting their paperwork processed. I challenge you to put the heads of these departments in one meeting and focus only on what they do in common. We are confident that in addition to what you may already realize takes more effort than it should; your employees can identify other challenges they deal with everyday. Software Integration is good for business. | {
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This product is a part of our new range!
Enjoy fresh, barista-style coffee with this black truffle bean to cup coffee machine from Sage. Whether you prefer a smooth, indulgent drink or one with a little more kick, the variable grinding option lets you tailor the blend to suit your personal tastes. The built-in grinder uses less heat to preserve flavour, meaning every sip will be as delicious as the last. Plus, because innovative PID temperature control precisely heats the water during extraction, you'll always get the best flavours and aromas. If you're a fan of café-quality coffee, micro foam milk technology helps you get the hang of latte art. And, the useful auto clean function keeps your machine in its best condition, so you'll get years of incredible performance.
Whether you fancy a shot of espresso, a creamy latte or a rich Americano, the integrated conical burr grinder always gives the perfect coffee dose. Just select what you'd like from the drinks menu, and it'll automatically grind the beans and dispense the ideal amount to suit your choice. This means you'll get the best flavours in your coffee, for professional, café-quality results with every cup.
You'll never have to wait long for an indulgent coffee again, as this model has a fantastic ThermoJet heating system. Because it reaches the optimum temperature in just 3 seconds, you can start making your drink in no time. So, when you're soldiering through the morning rush, or your guests are just keen for an after-dinner espresso, it won't take you long to create that perfect coffee.
With Digital Temperature Control (PID) and low pressure pre-infusion, you'll always enjoy rich, aromatic espressos. Before brewing, the amount of pressure placed on the coffee grounds slowly increases, to extract all the flavours. And, by controlling the water temperature within 2 degrees throughout – keeping it precise and consistent – you'll get every one of those flavours straight in your cup. So, your coffee will never be bitter or sour – it'll be just right.
With a sleek LCD display that's so easy to read, you'll have no trouble making sure you're preparing the perfect coffee. Not only does it show exactly which settings you've chosen, but it also updates you on the progress of your drink. So, whether you're in the mood for a creamy cappuccino or a stronger espresso shot, you can easily check that it's being made just right.
Whether you're a seasoned barista or you're new to the world of coffee, micro foam milk texturing helps you get hands-on to perfect your latte art. Using the powerful steam wand, simply froth your milk in the jug provided, and you'll find it easy to create the ideal texture. Not only will this add extra flavour to a cappuccino, but it lets you get creative with designs on your coffee as well. | {
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1 Check sources for finding names of research companies.
2 Compile a list of firms and decide on two or three that appear to be the most promising.
3 Contact the research firm in writing, giving as full a description as possible of the problem.
4 Arrange an interview with the research firm, preferably in its office.
5 Find out more about the research supplier and about its previous clients.
6 Explore how the research firm prefers to work with clients.
7 Ask for a written proposal.
8 Come to a clear understanding that further discussions may change the proposal in some ways.
9 Agree about who will be the prime contacts between client and researcher.
10 Make it clear to a firm submitting a proposal that proposals from other firms are also being considered when this is the case. | {
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A Zip and Link pair of our Kyoto Bed With Headboard, designed to be used as two individual beds, or to be pushed flush together to create a bed for two people.
The Kyoto Bed with Headboard is one of four Kyoto models, designed to help with space saving. This model is identical to our Kyoto Bed, but with the addition of a headboard, fixed in place by two support struts fitted to the back of the bed. The width and length of the bed itself are exactly the same as that of the mattress they are carrying, with quadrant corner posts that follow the corner profile of the mattress. However, the thickness of the support struts for the headboard adds around 1" (25mm) to the overall length.
The sizes quoted are that for each single bed, of which this item comprises a pair. Bed sizes are always described using the size of the mattress the bed takes, so the dimensions you'll see on our Bed Size menu are actually the length and width of the mattress. Because of its unique space-saving design, you can consider the width of the Kyoto Bed with Headboard as being exactly the same as that of the mattress. You should add 1 inch (25mm) to the mattress length to allow for the thickness of the wooden support struts which fix the headboard in position. | {
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Neotsitrella is een uitgestorven geslacht van kreeftachtigen uit de klasse van de Ostracoda (mosselkreeftjes).
Soort
Neotsitrella longata (Sarv, 1959) Sarv, 1963 †
Uitgestorven kreeftachtigen | {
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The goal of the Master Plan for Main Street of Irvington is to establish a common vision for how Main Street and the Village of Irvington can enhance its rich historic character and legacy, and to identify a process for realizing this vision in a logical and cost effective manner. Building on the consensus achieved, by employing a transparent and iterative planning process, a series of action items were identified for the Village to consider. These include desired improvements to the sidewalks, crosswalks, street lighting, street tree plantings, and placement of site furniture and new signs.
The Village of Irvington has established a Main Street Bench Sponsorship program whereby residents can purchase and donate benches to be placed throughout the Main Street area. All information to sponsor a bench can be found on our Sponsorship Form (PDF). | {
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Applying for Dubai visa online is a very easy process. Besides listing out the formalities, we even have a video guide for you which will help you in understanding the process in a better manner. It has all the documentation and necessary steps that you need to follow to get Dubai visa online easily. This video is the best and the easiest way of applying for visa. Watch this one and you will be able to start the best journey of your life in less than a week as we provide it in 3-5 working days. Apply for it now and start packing your bags as this trip to Dubai will surely be a memorable one.
Now you know all the details of the process for applying Dubai visa online. Do not wait for anything and satisfy the explorer in you. Apply the visa easily online and enjoy the best trip of your life to Dubai. | {
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We, sister and brother duo, Agnes Yoshikawa and Eugene Chua came to Chicago from California in 1997 to pioneer a customer friendly sushi empire. We began by providing sushi outlets in major grocery stores throughout the Chicagoland area. In 1999, we opened our first restaurant Ringo, a Lincoln Park De Paul sushi gem. From there, we expanded our business to hotels, country clubs, health clubs and corporate cafeteria throughout the Windy City.
Tsuki Japanese Restaurant in Lincoln Park, and Ai Japanese Restaurant in River North were also introduced in the years that followed.
"To satisfy your sushi cravings without breaking the bank," is truly what we believe in and strive to do.
Our goal at Ringo is to provide high quality sushi at a very friendly price.
Our "all you can eat menu" carries more than 70 items, and we have over 20 varieties of wine and sake at unbeatable restaurant prices.
We thank you for your patronage all these years, and for making Ringo Lincoln Park DePaul's favorite sushi spot. | {
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Q: Android home screen widget I am doing the widget development first time. So please bear with me. I have an Android service that starts the widget from onStart(). So I am in my WidgetProvider class onUpdate() and update the views like buttons.
Now my question is -
1) How do I handle press of buttons in widget and tell the service about button press so that service does its work?
2) After the service has done its work, it needs to update the widget buttons and how do I handle this?
3) When the app is killed, the service is also killed. So when I click on widget, how do I determine that app is killed and open the app?
4) If the UI in app is talking to service and receiving responses from service, how do I tell these responses to widget too?
My widget code is like this -
public class MyWidgetProvider extends AppWidgetProvider {
@Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager,
int[] appWidgetIds) {
RemoteViews remoteViews;
ComponentName componentName;
remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
componentName = new ComponentName(context, MyWidgetProvider.class);
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.button1,getPendingSelfIntent(context, "Play",componentName));
remoteViews.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.button2,getPendingSelfIntent(context, "Pause",componentName));
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(componentName, remoteViews);
}
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent)
{
super.onReceive(context, intent);
if ("Play".equals(intent.getAction())) {
//I really dont know what to do here....
AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
RemoteViews remoteViews;
ComponentName watchWidget;
remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
watchWidget = new ComponentName(context, MyWidgetProvider.class);
appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(watchWidget, remoteViews);
}
}
protected PendingIntent getPendingSelfIntent(Context context, String action, ComponentName componentName) {
Intent intent = new Intent(context, MyService.class);
intent.setAction(action);
intent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, componentName);
return PendingIntent.getService(context, 0, intent, 0);
}
}
Request you to please help me in this
A: 1) You're already doing that with your getPendingSelfIntent() method. Although your target should be MyWidgetProvider like this:
Intent intent = new Intent(context, MyWidgetProvider.class);
Then in your onReceive you will check if the intent action is "Play" and start your service from there:
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(context, MyService.class);
2) In order to your service communicate to your Widget you need to send a broadcast:
Intent widgetUpdateIntent = new Intent(this, MyWidgetProvider.class);
widgetUpdateIntent.setAction(ApplicationEvents.DATA_FETCHED);//this is your custom action
widgetUpdateIntent.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, appWidgetId);
sendBroadcast(widgetUpdateIntent);
3) You don't need to explicit open the app (you can't do that, actually), if you have your update cycle set to 30 mins you will receive the onUpdate callback and you need to start your service from there too.
4) You will update the UI in the onReceive event when the action matches your custom action (ApplicationEvents.DATA_FETCHED).
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package com.micmiu.mvc.hazel.core.action.vo;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import com.micmiu.mvc.hazel.core.action.vo.annotation.QueryPropery;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import com.micmiu.mvc.hazel.core.action.vo.annotation.SortProperty;
/**
* 抽象查询类.
*
* @author <a href="http://www.micmiu.com">Michael Sun</a>
*/
public abstract class AbstractQuery {
/**
* 获取子类所有排序字段及排序顺序Map. 需要生成的字段值可用@SortProperty标示.
*
* @return Map<String, String> 排序字段Map
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public Map<String, SortType> getSortProperties() {
// 排序字段有先后顺序, 必须采用LinkedHashMap
Map<String, SortType> sortProperties = new LinkedHashMap<String, SortType>();
List<Field> properties = RefAnnoTools.getAllPublicFields(getClass(),
SortProperty.class);
for (Field p : properties) {
sortProperties.put(getQueryPropertyName(p.getName()), p
.getAnnotation(SortProperty.class).type());
}
return sortProperties;
}
/**
* 获取子类所有查询字段值Map. 需要生成的字段值可用@QueryProperty标示.
*
* @return Map<String, Object> 查询字段Map
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public Map<String, Object> getQueryProperties() {
Map<String, Object> propertyValues = new HashMap<String, Object>();
List<Field> properties = RefAnnoTools.getAllPublicFields(getClass(),
QueryPropery.class);
for (Field p : properties) {
Object value = RefAnnoTools.getFieldValue(this, p.getName(), true);
if (null != value) {
propertyValues.put(getQueryPropertyName(p.getName()),
RefAnnoTools.getFieldValue(this, p.getName(), true));
}
}
return propertyValues;
}
/**
* 获取查询Field名称. 优先处理QueryPropery注解name,若未配置,用Field名称代替.
*
* @param fieldName Field名称
* @return 查询属性名称
*/
protected String getQueryPropertyName(String fieldName) {
String queryName = fieldName;
QueryPropery qp = (QueryPropery) RefAnnoTools.getFieldAnnotation(
getClass(), fieldName, QueryPropery.class);
if (qp != null && StringUtils.isNotEmpty(qp.name())) {
queryName = qp.name();
}
return queryName;
}
}
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<?php
/**
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Q: Adding labels to sides in a tikz figure I am just getting the hang of tikz, I have the below code for a proof of the Pythagorean theorem
\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=0.50]
\draw (0,0) -- (3,10) -- (13,7) -- (10,-3) -- cycle ;
\draw (3,7) -- (13,7) ;
\draw (3,7) -- (3,10) ;
\draw (10,7) -- (10,-3) ;
\draw (0,0) -- (10,0) ;
\draw (3,0) -- (3,10) ;
\end{tikzpicture}
and it produces the following figure
What I need is the following
I am new to tikz and Latex in general, so I need help. Is there a way to add the side labels for the right triangle as in the labeled figure? I thank all helpers.
A:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=0.50]
\draw (0,0) -- node[left](){c}(3,10) -- (13,7) -- (10,-3) -- cycle ;
\draw (3,7) -- (13,7) ;
\draw (3,7) -- (3,10) ;
\draw (10,7) -- (10,-3) ;
\draw (0,0) -- node[above, pos=0.2](){b}(10,0) ;
\draw (3,0) -- node[right](){a}(3,10) ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
To understand further
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture} [scale=0.50]
\draw (0,0) -- node[above, pos=1]{c}(3,10) -- (13,7) -- (10,-3) -- cycle ;
\draw (3,7) -- (13,7) ;
\draw (3,7) -- (3,10) ;
\draw (10,7) -- (10,-3) ;
\draw (0,0) -- node[above, pos=0.5]{b}(10,0) ;
\draw (3,0) -- node[right=1cm, red, thick, circle, draw]{a}(3,10) ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
A: Even you are new to TikZ, but in fact your question is already answered in some answers of your previous questions. For the manual and a minimal introduction to TikZ, see this.
Here is a way that you can control numbers a, b via [declare function].
\documentclass[tikz,border=5mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[nodes={midway,magenta},join=round,
declare function={a=3;b=1;c=sqrt(a*a+b*b);}]
\draw (0,0)
--(0,a) node[right]{$a$}
--(-b,0) node[left]{$c$}
--cycle node[above]{$b$};
\draw
(a-b,0)--(a-b,-b)--(-b,0)--cycle
(a-b,a-b)--(a-b,-b)--(a,a-b)--cycle
(0,a-b)--(0,a)--(a,a-b)--cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
A: With use of the quotes library:
\documentclass[border=3.141592]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{quotes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.50]
\draw (0,0) to ["$c$"] (3,10) -- (13,7) -- (10,-3) -- cycle ;
\draw (3,7) -- (13,7) ;
\draw (3,7) -- (3,10) ;
\draw (10,7) -- (10,-3);
\draw (0,0) to ["$b$"] (3,0) -- (10,0) ;
\draw (3,0) to ["$a$"] (3,10) ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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You may be tired of hearing about it, but one thing is certain: employee engagement is a critical workplace issue that just doesn't seem to go away.
I was struck by this recently when I watched an episode of Firing Line with Bill Kutik, where the former co-chair of the HR Technology conference talked with HR analyst and commentator Josh Bersin about — you guessed it — engagement.
Kutik's video interviews are always pretty interesting, and engagement, of course, is one of those issues that managers just can't get enough of because no one seems to have a good take on what engagement is and how to improve it.
There are some business executives who don't believe that engagement is all that critical an issue because so many companies seem to have a terribly difficult time just defining what it is, and more importantly, how it impacts the bottom line.
"Employees are the essence of products and services"
In fact, I believe the issue of "engaging people well" is becoming one of the biggest competitive differentiators in business.
The change we need to make is to redefine engagement beyond an "annual HR measure" to a continuous, holistic part of an entire business strategy. If your people love their work and the environment you have created, they will treat customers better, innovate, and continuously improve your business. And today, with the increased transparency at work and the Affordable Health Care Act available, high performers can change jobs easier than ever."
But as Josh also made clear in his Forbes article, there's a shift going on how organizations handle and manage employees that is more than just a focus on engagement.
Part of this shift is redefining our perspective on an employee. Rather than consider people as "hired hands" we want to "engage," (the whole term "human resources" has this old fashioned connotation) high-engagement companies understand that employees are the essence of products and services. They develop, deliver, and support what our customers experience every day.
Let's change our thinking and move beyond the concept of engagement. If really achieve the goal of making or organizations "Irresistible" we can make work fun, meaningful, and enriching for everyone."
That's why this discussion between Bill Kutik and Josh Bersin is an interesting one, particularly when they discuss the "overwhelming nature of work" that just about everyone is dealing with given the overwhelming amount of data coming at us 24/7.
It's not a long video — not quite 7 minutes — but well worth a little bit of your time.
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The Red Envelope Mouse dropped Sealed Lunar New Year Scroll Cases during the Year of the Sheep Festival in 2015.
Hunters are limited to one Sealed Lunar New Year Scroll Case in their inventory at a time.
These maps contain 19 mice found at the Year of the Sheep Festival in 2015.
These items are found in each Lunar New Year Treasure Chest.
Rare chests are awarded to Hunters who have used Rare Map Dust on a Lunar New Year Treasure Map 2015.
These items are occasionally found in Lunar New Year Treasure Chests. Rare chests are more likely to contain one or more of these items.
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She's beaten the odds
Article and photos courtesy of the Monadnock Ledger Transcript
When Amy Olson was born, doctors told her family that she would likely be deaf, blind, unable to walk, and would need a feeding tube to eat. There was even a chance that she wouldn't survive past infancy.
Olson's prognosis was a result of being diagnosed with Charge syndrome – a genetic disorder affecting one in 8,000 to 10,000 births that causes hearing and vision loss, balance problems, heart and esophageal defects, CHD7 gene mutations, and other health problems. The initial outlook was grim, but Olson – who turned 21 on Saturday – has not only overcome many of the medical issues that doctors said would hinder her quality of life but is also taking steps toward living a more independent life.
"Ms. Amy has shown them all, she's exceeding all expectations," said mother Kerrie DellaLucca, in an interview Thursday. "I'm proud of the young lady that she's become. I look forward to seeing her sprout her wings."
A major step in Olson's independence came Thursday, when she graduated from Conant High School's Intensive Learning Center (ILC) – a program that helps the most at-risk students in the community by helping to develop basic academic, independent living, and transitional skills.
Olson has been a member of the program for the past six-and-a-half years and has been with the Jaffrey-Rindge School District since she was three. Students in the program are permitted to stay up until their 21st birthday, per special education laws.
"I want to stay here for at least another 20 years," said Olson, in an interview prior to the ceremony. "I wish I could stay until I was an old lady with wrinkles on my face."
Olson said she has enjoyed her time in the school district because her peers and teachers made her feel like just another student. Olson participated in yearbook club, drama club, went to prom, and was a cheerleader in her tenure at the school. She also walked in cap and gown with her peers in 2015.
"I love that the other kids have never bullied me," said Olson, who currently works at Rite-Aid in Jaffrey. "I don't like bad, mean people."
Faith Jarest, program coordinator with the ILC, said Thursday that she first met Olson when she was about five. When thinking back upon her time with Olson, Jarest said many of her favorite memories involve Olson complimenting those around her.
"It's typical Amy; she's a ray of sunshine," said Jarest. "It's not unusual for her to walk around and give people wonderful comments. She's such a character."
Olson's charitable ways extended beyond her compliments and warmth during Thursday's ceremony, as she was able to present a $100 donation to the Community Volunteer Transportation Company, an organization that provides "no-fee" transportation to people who do not have access to transportation for a number of limiting circumstances.
Jarest said every student graduating out of the ILC has an opportunity to make a donation – with funds raised from the school store – to an organization that gives back to the community in some way. Olson made the decision to donate to CVTC because of her love of riding on school buses, a love fostered by her mother working for the school district's bus company, Community Transportation LLC.
"There will be an empty spot at the table, but I know she's ready for the next step," said Jarest. "I've worked with Amy since she was little, so it's going to be hard not to see her face, but I know it's time for her to move on to her next adventure."
The next adventure, according to DellaLucca, is for Olson to move onto a full-day community program, Community Strategies of New Hampshire. The Keene-based organization will help Olson with transportation, finding employment, enrolling in college classes and more.
DellaLucca said her daughter has talked about being a paraprofessional with a school district's special education program so that she can help others in the same way that she has been helped along in the past 18 years.
"She's such a warm and loving person; she's the first person to tell you how beautiful you look," said DellaLucca. "This has been such an amazing experience and I really can't say enough about it. To see her so happy, and to see her grow so much, it's been amazing."
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El gas producido en el digestor es conducido a la sala de calderas del matadero avícola del Grupo Hidalgo. SANTIBAÑEZ ENERGY biogas plant for thermal use in the food farming industry. The gas produced in the digester is sent to the boiler room at a poultry abattoir next to the plant owned by Grupo Hidalgo.
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The most used gas in the technological processes is steam. Ang pinaka-ginagamit na gas sa mga teknolohikal na proseso ay steam. This is an invisible gas generated through addition of thermal power to the water in a boiler. Ito ay isang di-nakikitang gas na nabuo sa pamamagitan ng pagdagdag ng mga thermal kapangyarihan sa mga tubig sa isang kaldero.
PNNL performs basic and applied research to deliver energy, environmental, and national security for our nation. CenterPoint Energy is the third largest publicly traded natural gas delivery company in the U.S and third largest combined electricity and natural gas delivery company.
natural gas is used extensively in residential homes, commercial buildings, and industrial plants in the United States. In fact, it is the dominant energy used for home heating. Natural gas supplies nearly one-fourth (23%) of all of the energy used in the United States, with more than 66 million homes in the United States using it.
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In the middle ages it was one of the biggest city centers in Europe. You can find a large number of incredible old buildings, cultural events and a great nightlife, plenty of pubs and restaurants. The Malvarrosa and Las Arenas beaches are two very high quality beaches that you can find in Valencia city.
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We want all children and adults, who work in our schools to feel happy, safe and respected. Everyone in our school community is working together to make a difference in providing the right ethos and environment for this to happen. There is a joint responsibility in supporting every child to develop a positive outlook and behaviour in and out of the school community.
We believe that everyone has the right to feel safe but have the responsibility to behave in a way that lets others feel safe and happy too. Clear rules and expectations of acceptable behaviour within the schools are slightly differentiated across both schools.
To value and appreciate one another irrespective of age, gender, creed or race and to acknowledge that everyone has a part to play within our school community.
For all children in our care to develop self-esteem, consideration, self control, gain confidence, honesty, responsibility and respect.
For all children to work within the golden rules and to always do the best.
Will work with the school to promote positive behaviour and resolve any difficulties, as shown in the home school agreement.
All users of the school premises for extended activities will be given a copy of this policy.
Regular feedback will be welcomed from visitors on the ethos and general school behaviour.
We will regularly share our expectations with pupils, parents and the community.
We will have clear, consistent procedures for the whole school, encouraging positive behaviour and dealing with any problems.
School and class rules are based around the golden rules & our school values. At the start of each academic year new class expectations are decided and agreed with the children, teaching assistants and class teacher. These are clearly displayed in the classroom and signed by the pupils to show their agreement and understanding. Attention is drawn to them when a rule is broken.
Be gentle, be kind and helpful, listen, look after property and be honest.
All adults support pupils, where appropriate, by encouraging them to do their best, praising their efforts and being interested in them as individuals.
Rewards should always be a way of acknowledging when children, as a group or individually, have achieved or accomplished more than expected.
Exceptional behaviour can be recorded in the Bling Book book and celebrated in assembly.
Exceptional behaviour may be rewarded with a Golden sticker from the head or deputy.
Assemblies are a good venue to celebrate exceptional behaviour.
A house point system is used from Year 2.
Wall of fame can also be used to showcase outstanding behaviour.
High quality Golden Time rewards pupils from Year R to Year 2. Children in these year groups choose from a range of special activities run by staff.
'The Arundel Court Piggy Bank' incentive is used in the juniors, children can achieve money following our school values.
Each class may use their own reward system as designed by the class teacher e.g. table points, 'jellybean' moment etc.
Happy bear system is used in all lower school classes.
If the School Rules are broken, we have established a clear system of sanctions, which are known by the children, staff and parents.
Unacceptable behaviour will be recorded on our in school tracking system.
If the behaviour of a child fails to improve, he/she will be placed on a daily report which will usually be sent home.
If a child is having regular or serious behavioural difficulties, the class teacher will involve the Deputy and/or the Headteacher. The child's parents may be consulted by a member of staff at any stage of the discipline procedure so that home and school can work together to support the child.
There are further sanctions that can be applied by the Headteacher, including temporary or permanent exclusions.
All midday assistants are encouraged to be positive with every child and praise and encourage good behaviour. All staff are expected to follow the aims of both schools to help make the lunchtime experience a happy and safe one.
House points maybe used in the upper school.
However, when unacceptable behaviour occurs, a five minute "time out" period will be used. Upper only.
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We rescued Logan from probable euthanasia at the Tucson Humane Society. He's currently being fostered by our Tucson fosters awaiting transport to his new foster-to-adopt home in Scottsdale. What we know so far is that he is a friendly, outgoing guy, good around male & female dogs. He's a bit of an escape artist but doesn't leave his property. We won't know if this is the result of being confused and disoriented post shelter life, then left alone for the 1st time, or, if this is a tendency of his. He is affectionate and relatively calm. Transport by or before Wednesday, July 19th. Please check back for updated info.
UPDATE 7/22: This handsome fella will be making his trip to Phoenix early on Sunday, July 23rd. Last week he had a little benign lump removed from his chest and had a slight reaction to the sutures, so he's been messing with it. As a result, we waited a few extra days to move him and he has to wear a T-shirt to make the incision less accessible. We did have it checked in Tucson on Thursday and it is healing.
In the meantime, we've learned that he loves and does very well with children...large and small.
He also did fine left loose in the house rather than crated. Logan will spend the next two weeks settling in and showing us how he does with a cat. We'll know in two weeks if he's moving in or moving on.
UPDATE 7/23: This very pretty boy was somewhat frightened at the prospect of, yet another, stranger taking hold of him and putting him into an unfamiliar car. The shelter experience followed by surgery will do that to ya. Regardless, he was Mr. Perfect on the long ride north. We would have to describe Logan as "polite." Despite his uncertainty, he was immediately trusting of his new Mom, Kris and even laid down so as not to intimidate the cat. He kept a respectful distance, allowing her to keep staring at him until he had to check to see where Steff was; Logan is far more interested in people than cats!
We're pretty sure that he was an outside dog and is very careful not to disturb things in the house. He's curious and will sniff, but not touch or take anything. He's a soft and sensitive guy requiring very light corrections (if at all, so far) and a gentle touch. He sits, downs and walks well on lead. He will shadow his person everywhere and wants very much to please. Logan is a calm spirit.
After some settling in time, we'll have our vet take a look at his incision and run some blood work. On intake at the Humane Society he was tick infested, had a small injury on his hip (which was treated and sutured) and subsequently the surgical removal of that growth. He's had a rough go of it. Once we're able to bathe him, he'll be a new man.
Logan is housebroken, neutered, current on shots and will be chipped shortly.
He does well with both male and female dogs, and now, even cats. He is very tolerant of toddler behavior and has started his crate training, although he was a good boy when left loose in the house. He did have a pack of dog friends when his people were gone, so we'll see how he does home alone.
We will have a closer look when he sees our vet, but his shelter records say he's 4 or 5 years old; he looks no more than two years old to us and quite good looking!
UPDATE 7/28: Logan had his exam and blood draw today and was microchipped. We will know if he has any health issues by Tuesday. While the incision from his surgery looks fine, there is some fluid build up because the shelter did not put in drains. We will give it another week to see if his body absorbs the fluid and if not, will have to do what should have been done in the first place. In the meantime, he's on a prophylactic course of antibiotics just to be safe.
Our "left home alone" question has been answered: Logan has some separation anxiety and is panicky when left alone. He cannot be crated as he might injure himself trying to get free. Typical of dogs with this issue, he will run and jump between doors and windows trying to get out and locate his person. He did well in Tucson left with a couple of other dogs when left loose with his humans gone, so we're going to borrow to another dog in the family and see if he does any better with company. He's doing fine with the cat, but she's not quite enough to take his Mom's place. Other than his "home alone anxiety," Logan has been a loving and obedient boy; he's also doing very well with the 5 year old.
Logan is going to need someone patient and tolerant...one who generally stays home or a household with overlapping family members until he becomes secure with his new environment. routine is also important with such dogs.
We have successfully rehabbed about 4 dogs with varying degrees of separation anxiety and all are doing well, but it will take the right setting and people to get him through the process.
UPDATE 7/31: Logan's results are back and he's perfectly healthy. All values within normal range, including thyroid. NEGATIVE FOR VALLEY FEVER, TICK FEVER and HEARTWORM.
German Shepherds housed outside frequently do a good deal of munching on rocks, fences, etc. out of boredom, frustration or anxiety. Logan's teeth are pretty worn down giving the impression of an older dog. We. along with our vet, think he's about 3 years old.
He's been left alone loose in the house several times for as much as two hours now and has been fine; no destructive behavior. We have to keep increasing the time left alone incrementally before we can determine where his threshold is. Plans to have another dog keep him company last weekend did not pan out so Logan did it all by himself! He's had a bath..finally..(thanks Mamma Kris!) and has said goodbye to his T-shirt.
Now if only that pesky pouch of fluid beneath his incision would just go away!
UPDATE 8/8: Our pretty boy had surgery yesterday to insert two drains in his side so that we can say good-bye to the fluid build up. He also had some sutures removed from his incision. Draining has already started so we've put him back on antibiotics. He has a follow-up appointment on the 14th to see if they can be removed; if not, an additional week before that can be done. Logan cannot be shown until this is behind him as he has to wear an E-collar to keep him from removing the drains. We also don't want to expose him to the possibility of infection. Other wise, he's doing great...he's up to nearly five hours left alone, loose in the house and no problems; he's been a model citizen.
UPDATE 8/17: Logan's drains were removed on Monday and the fluid is, so far, gone :-) He weighed in at a healthy 88 pounds. He left for Tucson on Tuesday. His foster Mom had a pre planned week-long vacation that we were not informed of until after he was placed.
We wanted him to be somewhere familiar and avoid any additional stress as a result of another transition, so he is back with his original foster family for the week. He's doing just fine, he settled right in and is enjoying being reunited with his canine friends. His fosters are retired and always home so he's helping baby sit the grand kids again.
His Phoenix Mom wanted to adopt him before she left; we said not until we see how much, if any, of a set back he demonstrates upon her return. We're very optimistic but will not know for sure until the weekend of August 26th. His status will be updated at that time. | {
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This post first appeared on Uptown Acorn exactly 5 years ago today, March 23, 2012, so I thought it would be the perfect #tbt. Spring has certainly sprung here in NOLA.
I miss my Atlanta yard and the seasonal temps.
I must say that Atlanta is a very green area. Not as much blooming right now but soon I think!
Yes, they are a little later than us.
I miss the house a lot..... all new and easy maintenance.
Absolutely gorgeous Ron. I would miss it too.
Ron, we (I) need lessons on how to maintain such a beautiful garden. My flower beds are a disaster because I have no idea what I am doing, but your yards are always picture perfect.
Gorgeous lawn and gardens. Beautiful house too. Especially love the area with all white flowers. I want to do something similar. Do you remember what all you had planted there? I'm going to wait until the end of March to start planting. I live in Savannah and we have had crazy up and down weather. Thanks! I enjoy your blog.
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Since 1922, the Netherlands Bach Society has been bringing the music of Bach to the attention of aficionados in the Netherlands and abroad. Idiosyncratic and driven, the leading ensemble time and time again throws new light on the work of Bach.
In the run-up to its 100th anniversary, the Bach Society has started an ambitious project: All of Bach - performing the entire oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach, recording it as audio and video and sharing it online with the world. Fabrique developed the website allofbach.com for the Bach Society.
Develop a platform on which we can present all the works of Bach in video form in the coming years. And where all Bach aficionados can find inspiration and deepen their knowledge.
Using modern tools, All of Bach brings the ambience of Early Music to life. Each piece of music by Bach will have its own page, on which you can choose from four sections. The work can be seen and heard in full. Musicians explain what in the music touches them. The story behind the composition is revealed, and the forum provides a space for public responses.
Allofbach.com is inviting, but not obtrusive. The tone and design reflect the love and dedication which the Bach Society puts into performance of the compositions. Large-scale and compelling, while at the same time intricate and intimate; classical without being stuffy.
Compelling, tempting, poetic and surprising. All of Bach allows you to discover the beauty of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach in a playful manner, thereby drawing you deeper and deeper into the world of the music.
Immediately after its launch, the platform attracted tens of thousands of visitors from no fewer than 127 countries.
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Ht5streamer application streaming, based on node-webkit and developed using web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScipt and CSS. It allows you to view videos from Youtube, Dailymotion and supports plugins for other services, which can be easily installed. You can access most sites, such as Youtube and Dailymotion, right from your desktop. This cross-platform application available for Linux, MS Windows and OS X.
Using this application you will be able to find (with filters, such as HD or 3D) and view video files from video, extract audio tracks from video, save video on hard drive in a different quality or to view the proposed video. As for the functionality of the player, the app boasts features HD playback, support full screen mode, view the most popular and best video search by category and also by playing the recorded videos from your local hard drive with support for the database. | {
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If you care about gay rights, you might want to rethink your drink.
Gay rights groups are boycotting Russian vodka after the country cracked down on gay activists and pride parades, the BBC reports. In addition, new legislation makes it illegal to teach "non-traditional values" (ie. gay-friendly values) to children.
On June 29, a gay pride parade in St. Petersburg was attacked by thugs and several marchers were badly beaten. Police then rounded up the marchers (not the thugs) and arrested them. You can see photos from this and related events in this shocking photo essay from Buzzfeed.
The boycott started in the U.S. a few days ago and has since spread to other countries. Gay bars have pulled Russian vodka from their shelves and an online petition is calling for Manchester to "untwin" from its sister city St. Petersburg. Protesters have dumped vodka on the street in front of the Russian consulate in New York City and taken to Twitter with hashtags such as #dumpstoli and #dumprussianvodka.
Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia almost two decades ago but there's been a severe backlash against the LGBT community in recent years.
One major vodka brand, Stolichnaya, has come out with a public statement in support of gay rights and says it shouldn't be targeted by the boycott. They say that while they use Russian ingredients, they are in fact a Latvian company.
There's an ongoing discussion in the LGBT about expanding the boycott to include other Russian products and also the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Places of worship have long been points of interest for travelers. Solemn and usually quite ornate, these buildings provide a window onto a community's history and values and often give visitors a much-needed pause while pounding the sightseeing pavement. Cathedrals are typical for this kind of touring. But have you ever thought to pay a visit to a synagogue?
My fascination with exploring synagogues began on a trip to Willemstad, Curaçao, home of Mikvé Israel-Emanuel, the oldest active Jewish congregation in the Americas built in 1651. Several years later, I had the opportunity to visit the Paradesi Synagogue in Cochin, Kerala, India. Constructed in 1568, it is the oldest "active" synagogue in India – "active" because there are fewer than 20 Jews left in Cochin, most having emigrated to Israel. Coincidentally, I learned about the Jews of Cochin from an exhibit at the 6th and I Synagogue, a historic synagogue in Washington, DC, that is now used primarily as a community center and arts space.
The Jewish diaspora is thriving in many parts of the world. Yet in places like Cochin and Mumbai, the local Jewish community is dwindling, giving impetus to visiting some synagogues before they are shuttered or left to become museums. The following are some of the synagogues I have seen or wish to explore on my travels.
From an island microslum in Colombia to a haute enclave in central Paris, the ten most crowded islands in the world bear scant similarities in class or culture. In fact, every entry in the top ten comes from a different country. But being islands, each shares the common thread of scarcity – whether it be land, resources, or housing. In general, these islands are prophetical microcosms for an overcrowded earth – finite spaces where self sufficiency governs and demand pierces supply.
With the world's population racing higher and higher, and the "megacities club" accepting new members yearly, some day the earth could bear the traits of one of these densely packed islands.
Story: This island located in St. Pete is a collection of 18th and 19th century buildings with some Soviet built apartment blocks lining the Gulf of Finland on the western shore. The communist housing ethos of the twentieth century called for rows and rows of tight apartments, and this historic island in Russia's second city was not immune to the sprawl. This created the compact quarters of Vasilyevsky island. Famous for its old school stock exchange and giant Rostral columns, the island is popular with tourists.
Story: This small island in central Stockholm once served as a hub of industry for Stockholm's industrial operations. The easy boat access allowed for ease of shipping by boat, and the island factories manufactured an array of goods, from massive lamps for lighthouses to vacuum cleaners. Eventually, as the industrial applications became outmoded, the island became home to several apartment towers. Today, the island is crammed full of smiling Swedes living in apartments with (presumably) tasteful modern furniture.
Story: Perhaps the most stylish island in the world, Île Saint-Louis is a marvel of 17th century urban architecture and planning. Narrow roads and some of the priciest real estate in the world have allowed the island to remain relatively calm, despite its location in central Paris. While Île Saint-Louis is off of the tourist radar for most, this island in the Seine River embodies the classic Parisian spirit, worthy of an afternoon stroll with a perfect sorbet from Berthillon. The island is named for France's canonized King, Louis IX.
Story: In 1626, the Lenape Indians sold Manhattan island to the Dutch for a bag of axes, hoes, iron kettles, duffel cloths and other 17th century garb worth about $24 (roughly $1000 in modern value). It is safe to day the island has grown ambitiously from this humble transaction. The center of the financial universe is now home to many – truly a place where the world lives. The island once known as New Amsterdam, and briefly, New Orange, shadows America's story, both tragic and triumphant.
Story: Salsette, an island off the western coast of India, is home to Mumbai and its sprawling suburbs. As a poster boy for "New India," Mumbai is as dichotomous as it gets, at once the wealthiest city in south Asia and also home to one of the world's largest slums – the notorious Dharavi. Dharavi is an island within an island, a super-slum with roughly one million people spread out over an area less than a square mile. At the other end of the spectrum, Salsette Island is also home to extreme wealth. The house known as Antilla is a 400,000 square foot giant that towers with some of Mumbai's tallest buildings. Truly a contrast from the squalor in Dharavi, the private residence houses six people, can accommodate 168 cars, has 9 elevators, and an ice room with snow flurries.
Story: The Maldives is one of Asia's top tourist destinations, with 26 atolls and 1,192 islands offering beach perfection. At its center is the capital city – Male. Male is a humbly sized island of just a couple square miles. It is stuffed full of people, hotels, mosques, and office towers that efficiently utilize the scare land resources. While landfills have reclaimed some land from the sea, most progress is made vertically rather than horizontally. The modern downtown island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a stark aberration from the deserted islands that dot most of the Maldives.
Story: Hong Kong is the land of a thousand towers, clustered most densely on the island of Ap Lei Chau just southwest of Hong Kong Island. Ap Lei Chau served as the settlement for Hong Kong Village, theorized to be the etymological source for the famous larger territory of Hong Kong. Strangely, Ap Lei Chau translates to Duck Tongue Island, said to be named for the island's shape. It is filled with high rise residences and even a winery.
Story: This bantomslum in the middle of Lake Victoria is a fishing village perched precariously on half a sphere of rock. The residents take in large hauls of the Nile Perch – a poster boy for River Monsters that can grow to a comedically large size. Migingo is famous for a decades-old dispute between Kenya and Uganda over the sovereignty of the small island. There is even a facebook page where individuals can "like" declaring the island Kenyan. (The page has twice as many followers as there are residents on Migingo.) Uganda agrees with this claim, most of the time, though the tiny rock island is not the issue – the fishing rights are.
Story: The most densely populated island in the world is a microslum off the coast of Colombia. This tropical island is located in the emerald waters of the idyllic Caribbean, though is packed so tight that most activities are done off island. Schooling, football, graveyards, and work all take place away from Santa Cruz del Islote. The island park is the size of a small tennis court, and fresh water must be shipped in by Colombian Navy ships. Santa Cruz del Islote also does not have electricity. What the island favela does have is people, lots of them. To visit the world's most packed island, hop on a ferry from Tolu, Colombia. The nearby hotel of Punta Faro can arrange tours of the island.
This quick trip around the world by filmmaker and photographer Alex Profit is a stunning display of photo-tourism. The video embarks on a journey through Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Tokyo, New York and London. It will cure your nagging fits of wanderlust for the duration of its five minute run-time. Beyond that though, you may experience an uncontrollable urge to visit Barcelona or one of the other many locales documented.
The video was made by compiling 2000 photographs from eight separate locations. It took Alex twenty-four days to travel to all of the locations and get the shots. That is covering a lot of ground, fast. If you could choose to travel to any of these locations, which one would you choose? | {
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E.J. Dionne: By playing 'woman card,' Trump deals Clinton votes | The Daily Gazette
E.J. Dionne: By playing 'woman card,' Trump deals Clinton votes
Donald Trump has decided that sexism in the quest for victory is no vice
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump has decided that sexism in the quest for victory is no vice.
Trump's supporters have regularly asked why his long string of primary successes has not led his Republican opponents to accept him as "the presumptive nominee," the phrase he used about himself last Tuesday night.
The candidate helpfully answered the question by showing that there is nothing normal about his campaign for the presidency.
A candidate on the verge of taking it all is usually gracious about his foes inside the party and conscious of the need to broaden his appeal beyond it.
But graciousness is not a Trumpian concept.
On his most glorious night so far, he again showed Republicans why choosing him would produce an avalanche of Democratic votes from American women -- and from many men who respect women more than Trump seems to.
"If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she'd get 5 percent of the vote," Trump said of a woman who happens to have been, among other things, secretary of state and a twice-elected U.S. senator from New York. "The only thing she's got going is the woman's card. And the beautiful thing is, women don't like her."
But nothing is more likely to bring women her way than attacks from a brute, and Clinton made no effort to disguise her eagerness to join the brawl Trump started.
"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card," she said with a broad smile, "then deal me in!"
Far from backing away on Wednesday from his gender war, Trump escalated it.
"I haven't quite recovered -- it's early in the morning -- from her shouting that message," Trump said on "Morning Joe."
And, yes, Trump said, he knew he was courting charges of sexism. "I know a lot of people would say you can't say that about a woman," he added, "because of course a woman doesn't shout."
It's helpful when your opponent underscores your own talking points.
For good measure, Trump took a pre-emptive shot on "Good Morning America" at Carly Fiorina, even before Ted Cruz announced that she would be his vice presidential running mate.
Trump's criticisms of her, of course, were "not because she's a woman."
Trump is the champion of subliminal messaging.
He loves to remind us that his candidacy depends on the regular mobilization of intolerance.
All this is why -- despite his big wins on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, despite his large delegate lead, and despite the manifest weaknesses of his two remaining opponents -- Trump is still no sure thing for the GOP nomination.
This Tuesday's primary showdown in Indiana is crucial. So are the still widespread fears among Republicans that a Trump nomination would lead to a November bloodbath for their party.
For all the talk of hard feelings between Bernie Sanders and Clinton, whose four wins this week effectively sealed her nomination, the Republican Party is more divided ideologically and less sanguine about its front-runner.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll earlier this month found that while 78 percent of Democrats said they could see themselves supporting Clinton, only 61 percent of Republicans said this of Trump.
Trump consistently loses to Clinton in hypothetical matchups because of her 20- to 30-point margins among women. Trump seems determined to make that gap even wider.
And if Sanders' strong showing among young voters defines a Clinton problem for the fall, Trump is the obvious solution.
A poll of 18- to 29-year-olds released on the eve of Tuesday's primaries by Harvard's Institute of Politics showed that among voters under 30, Clinton received 61 percent to 25 percent for Trump.
Trump has exposed the timidity of the GOP's leadership class and the bankruptcy of an old conservative ideology that can no longer rally the faithful.
For their part, Ted Cruz and John Kasich aren't doing a very good job of cooperating even though their survival depends upon it.
But Trump has yet to kick his habit of reinforcing for all but his most loyal supporters how unsuitable he would be as a nominee.
He made another stab Wednesday at looking presidential with an "America first" foreign-policy speech offering bits of specificity that most serious candidates would have put forward months ago.
The fact that Hillary Clinton is beaming is why so many in Trump's party are frowning with apprehension.
There remains one man who can beat the front-runner.
His name is Donald Trump.
E.J. Dionne is a nationally syndicated columnist.
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Noah Smith: Low-skilled immigrants aren't a drag on U.S. economy | {
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Just wanted to give a brief update on my dog. It has been over a week now and she is back to eating every meal. I am so happy and relieved. I know it will be a continuing battle but we will continue with it. It seems to help to switch her food up. The vet has recommended a food that is easy on her tummy so the switching up of food is not causing her any internal discomfort or diarrhea.
She has her energy back and is her happy self. Everyone notices how much better she is.
I hope you all have a great long weekend! I'm off to a wedding reception tonight! | {
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Thessaloniki's airport "Macedonia", with traveling airport code SKG, is located 16km (10miles) outside the city. Access from the center of the city and vice versa is possible with public transportation such as buses of OASTH and taxis. Duty Free products, restaurants, bars, ATM's, car rental service offices and post offices can be found at the airport.
Thessaloniki's port belongs to the Organism of Thessaloniki Port OLTH, and serves international itineraries as well as local ones with ferry boats for the Aegean Islands. Often enough, it accepts cruise ships and private yachts.
The station of long distance buses is located at the west entrance of the city and it holds the operation of 44 KTEL vehicles. It is accompanied by three urban line buses of OASTH, the universities, the railway station and the airport.
Thessaloniki's urban transportation, apart from the city routes, accommodates 15 regional municipalities, with roughly 600 modern buses in use at the same time, on 68 different bus lines. | {
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IX Simpósio Lendo, Vendo e Ouvindo o Passado
Diálogos entre Arqueologia, História, Literatura e Filosofia – 9 a 11 de novembro de 2020 (on-line e gratuito)
Participantes convidados
Olharemos para essas belas coisas com certa melancolia, pensando naquele verso de Rilke que fala nos olhos das rendeiras deixados sobre as rendas. O que há nestes desenhos além dos fios! O que não se vê, sendo tão presente.
Cecília Meireles, Cidade Líquida, in Crônicas de Viagem 2.
Every revision of antiquity is always archaeological, or, if you will, constitutes a reverse archaeology of the present from which we repose the question of origin (arche) […] Thanks to the cunning of Athena, daughter of Metis, Perseus was able to behead the monster by tapping her reflection on his shield. In this moment, the gaze (the Real) is replaced by the reflection (the Apparatus).
Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Metis, in Liquid Antiquity, Brooke Holmes; Karen Marta (Ed.).
We would like to warmly welcome everyone interested in the Symposium "Reading, Seeing, and Hearing the Past", a biennial meeting now in its 9th edition, with the theme "Dialogues between Archaeology, History, Literature, and Philosophy".
The event was scheduled for last May in praesentia, like all of the previous editions. However, because of the pandemic the Symposium had to be postponed until November and to become virtual. This has actually made it possible to include respondents who will more actively participate, commenting on the presentations and moderating questions from the audience. While the virtual format may entail the danger of interruptions or other technical glitches, it also allows broader range of speakers to participate from a variety of locations. We would like to deeply thank all participants, as well as colleagues, students, and assistants who have made this virtual meeting possible.
During its sixteen years of existence, the Symposium has been co-organized with a large number of my colleagues. Symposia VII and VI resulted in scientific publications in the journal Nuntius Antiquus, with papers in Portuguese, English, French, and Italian:
VIII Symposium: Recepção, Tradição e Canibalização de Clássicos, Viçosa, November 2018, UFV/UFMG. Co-organizers: Jacyntho Lins Brandão and Edson F. Martins.
VII Symposium: Entre Aporias, Dilemas, Paradoxos e Labirintos, São João del-Rei, April 2017, UFSJ/UFMG. Co-organizers: Jacyntho Lins Brandão, Luiz Paulo Rouanet, Richard Romeiro. Publication: Nuntius Antiquus, 13-2
VI Symposium: Eros e Helena, de Tróia a Vila Rica, Ouro Preto, August 2014, UFOP/IFMG/UFMG; Co-organizers: Guiomar de Grammont, Teodoro Rennó Assunção, Venúncia Emilia Coelho. Publication: Nuntius Antiquus, 12-1
V Symposium: Travessias: prosa-poesia, filosofia-literatura, Diamantina, April 2012, FEVALE/UFVJM/UFMG. Co-organizers: Diego Mesti da Silva and Teodoro Rennó Assunção.
IV Symposium: Entre Platão e Homero, poesia e filosofia, Montes Claros, November 2010, UEMG/UFMG. Co-organizer: Anna Christina Silva.
III Symposium: António Vieira – retórica em imagens e palavras, Florianópolis, October 2008, Fundação Cultural BADESC/UFSC. Co-organizers: João Lupi and Valmir Muraro.
II Symposium: Elementos trágicos e épicos na tradição do cancioneiro nas obras de Glauber Rocha e Elomar, Florianópolis, November 2006, UDESC. Co-organizers: Márcia Ramos de Oliveira, Allan Ghedini, Gláucia Assis Oliveira.
I Symposium: Escrever e narrar: textos, mensageiros e história da escrita na cultura greco-romana, Florianópolis, May 2004, UDESC. Co-organizer: Márcia Ramos de Oliveira.
The Symposium has undergone important transformations over time, but has nonetheless diligently and steadfastly maintained interdisciplinarity and dialogue between image and sound in (re)constructing the past and its own (meta)reflections on the past. Indeed, it is worth remembering that the first Symposium was born from an interest in discussing and spreading themes from ancient and medieval cultures – particularly themes connected with the Greco-Roman world and its reception (a bidirectional dialogue). The inaugural event, which I organized as Adjunct Professor at the State University of Santa Catarina sixteen years ago, was part of an educational project on the reception of the Classics in the Cinema; see the first Symposium.
It is also worth bearing in mind the difficulties of dealing with images (and material culture) in an environment which always privileged the written word. This is not only true in the field of philosophy, which traditionally considers the image auxiliary and subsidiary in relation to the concept (despite the widespread use of visual metaphors in the history of philosophy), as Emeritus Professor Marilena Chauí from the University of São Paulo shows in her thought-provoking text, Janela da Alma. For instance, the historian Lilia Schwarcz (Professor at the same university and Visiting Professor at Princeton University) in a recent interview (see from 16 min.), stresses the prejudice that her Masters thesis (Cientistas, instituições e questão racial no Brasil do século XIX) suffered for treating images as historical sources. Her defense of the dialogue with images as something more than mere 'illustrations' is a position we share, and which expresses the spirit of this Symposium in all its editions.
This edition includes colleagues from the field of archaeology and considers questions related to material culture. This flourishing interest in material culture (and its diffusion) follows on the first triennium of the project "Touching the Past", organized by Erika Angliker and myself. Over three years, the project organized trips and classes in Greece, as well as the participation of volunteers in excavations at Strophilas, Andros (2017), Despotiko, Paros (2018), and Eleutherna, Crete (2019, in which two co-organizers of this Symposium, Júlia Avellar e Sandra Bianchet took part), and a visit to Tenea (2019). The excavations were directed by, respectively, Christina Televantou, Yannos Kourayos, Nicholas Stampolidis, and Elena Korka. The project's main purpose was to offer students and professors who are not specialists in Archaeology the opportunity to gain experience in an excavation, and to visit museums and archaeological sites. This enabled the participants to come in contact with material culture and archaeological work, broadening their comprehension of antiquity through sensory experience. In 2019, we also organized a photo exhibition of the work of Natalia Velli on Despotiko (Casa do Brasil in Athens, 2019) and a colloquium on the Reception of the Classics in Brazil, held at the Brazilian Embassy in Athens (2019).
We have received, with great enthusiasm, confirmation of attendance of this Symposium from colleagues who are engaged in archaeological work in Egypt and Brazil. The dialogue between "our past" and the Greco-Roman tradition is a stimulating theme, and one which deserves close attention (cf. the recent book by Senior Professor André Prous of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Arqueologia Brasileira: a pré-história e os verdadeiros colonizadores, published in 2019). This theme is in line with the enlightening concept of Liquid Antiquity quoted in the second epigraph of this text. A dialogical reflection on these new philosophical approaches and their development is promising for interdisciplinary research, which brings together information on texts and objects of material culture.
Finally, we should note that we do not share Diotima's opinion (in another Symposium, which advocates seeking a higher, heavenly, and non-pandemic form of love) about the need to move away from the world of the senses and its "trifles" in order to find "essential beauty entire, pure and unalloyed; not infected with the flesh and color of humanity, and ever so much more of mortal trash. What if he could behold the divine beauty itself, in its unique form?" (Plato, Symposium, 211e, translated by Harold N. Fowler). We wish to get closer not only to words, in order to see that "each one has a thousand of secret faces under the neutral face", as Drummond (one of the greatest of Brazilian poets) says, but also to get closer to the things they represent, as well as to understand – even if in mirror-like manner, by reflection, with methodology as a helpful instrument – the glance which transformed stone, clay, mineral, voice, desire, and life into objects and words.
Maria Cecilia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais,
General coordinator of the Symposium
Translation: Julia Avellar, Copyediting: Andy Redwood
[email protected]
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Thomas Sleeper has long been a dynamic presence on the faculty of the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. He has often galvanized the young musicians of the Frost Symphony Orchestra to a remarkable level of performance. Sleeper is also a gifted composer, and Wednesday night the university presented a program of his works at Gusman Concert Hall that spanned from the 1980s to his most recent creations.
Sleeper's early works are darker and more angst ridden while the newer pieces voice a sense of optimism. All of the works on the program were stylistically eclectic, perhaps reflecting the influence of Sleeper's broad conducting repertoire. Every score received excellent, well rehearsed performances that allowed Sleeper's music to be heard at its best.
Among the early scores, the second movement Gretchen (after the heroine of Goethe's Faust) from his Concerto for Piano and Winds (1984) was particularly impressive. Scored for piano and pitched percussion, the score expresses deep, inner emotional turmoil. Beginning softly, the piano line builds to an angry climax, then returns to the initial quiet. The magical ringing soundscape supporting the piano is both unique and memorable. Zoe Zeniodi brought considerable intensity to the difficult solo role. Leading from the celesta, Sleeper elicited wonderful timbres from the percussion battery.
Zeniodi also gave a beautifully articulated reading of Four Quartets (1980) based on T.S. Eliot's poetic reflections on time. The keyboard writing of both Satie and Bartok seem to propel Burnt Norton while a flowing, impressionistic voice sings in Little Gidding. Zeniodi's wonderful array of colors infused the sometimes austere score.
Xandre (1981), a solo flute work, proved a dazzling showcase for Eduardo Martinez, a highly talented Frost student. The long-breathed line of Debussy's Syrinx inflects the opening Giocoso estatico. An aura of moody sadness seems to stop time in the quiet second movement before the jazz inflected Veloce brings the suite to a breezy conclusion. Martinez's lovely tone and brilliant triple tonguing suggest he may have a major flute virtuoso career.
Sleeper's creative voice seems to have gained new vibrancy in the twenty-first century. His exuberant Concerto for Alto Saxophone (2010) was written for faculty dynamo Dale Underwood, a master of the instrument. Marked Feroce! the concerto's opening movement is both spiky and fast. An evocative night music a la Bartok with a bluesy twist was a powerful demonstration of Underwood's lyrical powers.
After a haunting introduction, the bright, jazzy Allegro molto ignites full force with a songful interlude seamlessly evolving. Set against the jittery, bright timbres of the ten-member instrumental ensemble, this work skillfully adapts the hard-edged astringency of Stravinsky's neo-classicism to a strongly personal voice. Underwood made the saxophone sing as well as blaze. His remarkable breath control and flexibility took wing in this important addition to the classical saxophone repertoire. Zeniodi conducted the excellent ENSEMBLE 21, skillfully weaving the hard driving orchestral textures to Underwood's dominant solo strophes.
Seven Miniatures for violin and piano (2005) were composed for violinist Huifang Chen, a veteran South Florida musician and, now, educator. These engaging vignettes are idiomatically conceived for the instrument. A nocturne sings with an endless flow of melody in the manner of Samuel Barber. The finale Ethonis is a fiery tour de force. Chen's fine technique, wide rubato and rapid articulation were well displayed in these pieces.
Through a Glass Darkly (2011), a song cycle based on poems by Giordano Bruno, finds Sleeper at his most inspired. A sensuous instrumental palette stirs beneath a soaring vocal line in a wordless arioso reminiscent of Canteloube or Villa-Lobos. The third song in the cycle is darker, the music fading to silence in a memorable, gripping conclusion.
Greek soprano Irini Kyriakidou was the silvery-voiced soloist. Like Dawn Upshaw, Kyriakidou brings the most subtle shadings to the vocal text, her resonant lower register impressive in the score's rhapsodic ecstasy . Concertmaster Scott Flavin's exquisite violin solo glistened with the eight-member ensemble under Zeniodi offering stalwart support.
This concert was sublime: music rich with the elemental, from deep, primal renderings, to esoteric and introspective meditations – With exquisitely nuanced performances to match, by the ensemble and each of the soloists. I was, and remain, very moved by all.
Mr. Budmen's comments are spot on. These particular Sleeper compositions are not for the casual listener seeking crashing symbols and easy drama but for listeners willing to go deep into subtle tones surrounded by emotional flares and arcs performed by the great musicians assembled by Sleeper.
The musicians and vocalist performed with great feeling, and we joined in the encore applause at the end. It's great to have such wonderful talent on display at UM right here in our community!
This is a real inspiration for my beginner saxophone students in the UK. Thanks for the great review.
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Onkel Toms Hütte (engl. ) ist ein 1852 veröffentlichter Roman von Harriet Beecher Stowe, der das harte Schicksal einer Reihe afroamerikanischer Sklaven und ihrer Eigentümer in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika schildert.
Handlung
Die Titelfigur Tom (auch Onkel Tom genannt) ist ein Sklave in Kentucky. Sein Herr Mr. Shelby und dessen Frau behandeln ihn und die anderen Sklaven der Familie gut. Tom ist als Verwalter der Farm tätig.
Er ist bekennender Christ und leitet regelmäßig die Gottesdienste der Sklaven. Als Tom jedoch aus Geldmangel verkauft werden muss, wird er von seiner Frau und seinen Kindern getrennt und nach New Orleans gebracht. Sein neuer Eigentümer Herr St. Clare ist ein gutmütiger, nachsichtiger Lebemann. St. Clares engelhafte Tochter Eva (Evangeline) entwickelt eine innige Freundschaft zu Tom, stirbt aber an Schwindsucht. St. Clare hat sich unter dem Einfluss seiner aus dem Norden stammenden Cousine Ophelia, die ihm den Haushalt führt, zu einem Gegner der Sklaverei entwickelt, bleibt jedoch aus Bequemlichkeit untätig. Schließlich will er Tom freilassen, was aber durch seinen plötzlichen Tod durch einen Messerstich verhindert wird. Seine selbstsüchtige Witwe Marie denkt nicht daran, auf den Verkaufserlös zu verzichten, und so wird Tom auf einer Auktion an Mr. Legree verkauft, der mit äußerster Brutalität eine abgelegene Baumwollplantage betreibt. Als einziger Weißer wohnt er mit einer Sklaven-Mätresse in einem heruntergekommenen Herrenhaus. Geschickt spielt Legree seine Aufseher gegeneinander aus, so dass ein Klima des Misstrauens und der Angst herrscht. Tom ist als weiterer Aufseher vorgesehen, weigert sich aber, jemanden zu schlagen. Stattdessen übt er durch seine ruhige Art und seine praktizierte christliche Nächstenliebe einen positiven Einfluss auf alle aus, was Mr. Legree besonders zuwider ist. Er will Tom durch körperliche Züchtigung "brechen" und ihn dazu zwingen, seinen christlichen Glauben aufzugeben. Doch Tom widersteht und verzeiht sterbend seinen Peinigern. Mr. Shelbys Sohn George versucht nach dem Tod seines Vaters das Tom gegebene Versprechen einzulösen, ihn zurückzukaufen, kann aber seinen Tod nicht mehr verhindern. Am Grab verspricht er, gut für Toms Familie zu sorgen. Daraufhin lässt er seine Sklaven in Kentucky frei, um sie gegen Bezahlung in seinen Dienst zu nehmen.
Parallel dazu wird die Geschichte der Sklavin Eliza, die aus demselben Haushalt wie Tom stammt, ihres Mannes George Harris und ihres Sohnes Harry erzählt, denen mit Hilfe von Quäkern die Flucht nach Kanada gelingt. Dort treffen sie auf Georges Schwester und Elizas Mutter, die beide ebenfalls auf unterschiedlichen Wegen der Sklaverei entronnen sind, und gehen zunächst nach Frankreich, wo George studiert. Danach wandert die ganze Familie nach Liberia aus, um beim Aufbau des afrikanischen Staates, der als Zufluchtsstätte für ehemalige Sklaven gegründet wurde, zu helfen.
Toms Hütte in Kentucky bleibt unbewohnt, als Mahnmal an die Zurückgebliebenen und die künftigen Generationen: "Folgt alle im Gedächtnis an ihn seinem Beispiel: Seid ehrlich, treu und christlich, wie er es war, und gedenkt eurer Freiheit jedesmal, wenn ihr Onkel Toms Hütte seht!"
Ziele und Form
Im Vorwort zur englischsprachigen Erstausgabe des Romans erläutert Stowe, dass "diese Skizzen Sympathie und Mitgefühl für die aus Afrika stammenden Menschen auslösen sollen, die unter der amerikanischen Bevölkerung leben. Sie sollen die Missetaten und den Kummer zeigen, die das unnötig grausame und ungerechte System ihnen zufügt, das alle Versuche von wohlgesinnten Menschen, die ihnen Gutes tun wollen, verhindert." Mit dieser Aussage bezieht Stowe zu einem US-amerikanischen Bundesgesetz des Jahres 1850 Stellung, dem zweiten sogenannten Fugitive Slave Act. Das Gesetz baute auf den ersten Fugitive Slave Act auf, der im Jahr 1793 verabschiedet worden war, und räumte noch größere Freiheiten in Bezug auf das Einfangen bzw. Zurückführen geflüchteter Sklaven ein. Insbesondere die Nordstaaten der USA, von denen einige die Sklaverei bereits abgeschafft hatten, wurden durch das neue Gesetz gezwungen, entlaufene Sklaven an ihre Besitzer in den Südstaaten zurückzubringen. Des Weiteren wurde bestimmt, dass Fluchthelfer stärker bestraft werden sollten und unter anderem zu einer Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt werden konnten.
Die Autorin hat die feste Absicht, den Schaden, den die Seelen sowohl der Sklaven als auch der Sklavenhalter nehmen, mit dramatischen Mitteln darzustellen, und ebenso zieht sich ein warnender, ermahnender Ton durch den gesamten Text. Manchmal ist die Erzählerin allwissend, dann wieder bezeugt sie – unter Verwendung der Pluralform – selbst erlebte Geschehnisse oder solche, von denen ihr persönlich berichtet wurde. Gelegentlich wendet sie sich direkt an ihre Leserinnen und Leser und appelliert an ihre Gefühle und ihr christliches Moralempfinden. Ihre Erzählweise ist "einfach und entwaffnend, mit atemberaubendem Selbstvertrauen trifft sie pauschale Annahmen über Lebensumstände, Temperament von Männern und Frauen, in der Rasse begründete Wesensart und den lebendigen Gott". Letztere werden häufig mit Bibelzitaten untermauert.
Publikationsgeschichte und Rezeption
Im März 1851 schrieb Harriet Beecher Stowe an Gamaliel Bailey, den Herausgeber der Zeitschrift , und schlug ihm eine Art Fortsetzungsroman in Form von kurzen Geschichten vor, die das harte und unglückliche Leben in der Sklaverei schildern sollten. In dieser Zeitschrift, einem Organ der Sklavereigegner, erschien der Roman ab dem 5. Juni 1851 unter dem Titel .
Getrieben von ihren Beobachtungen, Erfahrungen und ihrem Glaubenseifer verfasste die Autorin jede Woche eine Fortsetzung. In der Ausgabe vom 1. April 1852 erschien die letzte Folge. Ursprünglich endete die Geschichte bereits mit dem Tod der Titelfigur, aufgrund von Leserbriefen verfasste Beecher Stowe aber noch vier weitere Kapitel. Bailey honorierte die Verfasserin mit dreihundert Dollar. Bereits vor Abschluss dieses Romans hatte sich der Verleger John P. Jewett aus Boston für die Buchrechte interessiert. Am 20. März 1852 wurde der Roman noch vor den beiden letzten Fortsetzungen in einer Auflage von 5000 Stück als Buch herausgegeben und war innerhalb von 48 Stunden vergriffen. Im selben Jahr erreichten die Verkaufszahlen in den Vereinigten Staaten 300.000 Stück, in England wurden eine Million Exemplare verkauft, außerdem entstanden deutsche, niederländische, flämische, französische, spanische, italienische und schwedische Übersetzungen. Die frühesten deutschen Ausgaben erschienen 1852 gleichzeitig in mehreren renommierten Verlagen. Das Werk Onkel Toms Hütte erhielt dabei unterschiedliche Untertitel: Eine Negergeschichte (1852), oder Sklaverei im Lande der Freiheit (1852), oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven (1852) oder Negerleben in den Sklavenstaaten von Nordamerika (1853).
Harriet Beecher Stowe benutzte als eine wichtige Quelle für ihren Roman die Memoiren von 1849 des Methodistenpredigers Josiah Henson (1789–1883), eines Abolitionisten und früheren US-amerikanischen Sklaven. Henson war 1830 mit seiner Familie und der Hilfe der Underground Railroad von Kentucky nach Kanada geflüchtet. Er lebte und wirkte in Dresden in Ontario als Farmer, Müller, Kirchenältester, Gründer der Siedlung Dawn und des British American Institute, das mittellosen und ungebildeten befreiten Sklaven zu Bildung und Arbeit verhalf.
In den USA kam es zu einer Reihe von Bearbeitungen für das Theater, auf deren Stil Harriet Beecher Stowe keinen Einfluss nehmen konnte. Dennoch blieb die Bühnenfassung in den nächsten 80 Jahren eines der erfolgreichsten Stücke in der Geschichte des amerikanischen Theaters. Nach Schätzungen waren allein in den 1890er Jahren rund einhundert Ensembles mit dem Stück auf Tournee.
1853 veröffentlichte Beecher Stowe ein zweites Buch: . Dort brachte sie Belege für ihre Darstellungen und reagierte auf ihre zahlreichen Kritiker, die nach dem Erscheinen von Onkel Toms Hütte auf den Plan traten. In den Jahren bis zum Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges 1861 erscheinen allein 27 Romane, die sich mehr oder weniger als "Anti-Onkel-Tom-Romane" verstehen lassen.
Der Abraham Lincoln zugeschriebene Satz, mit dem er Harriet Beecher Stowe während des Bürgerkrieges 1862 empfangen haben soll ("", übersetzt "Das ist also die kleine Dame, die diesen großen Krieg begonnen hat."), ist historisch nicht gesichert. Fest steht jedoch, dass Onkel Toms Hütte Abolitionisten wie John Brown den Weg ebnete.
Während das Buch in Deutschland sehr beliebt ist, erfährt es in den USA seit langem ganz unterschiedliche Reaktionen. Es erfuhr Kritik aufgrund der von vielen als zu kindlich und unterwürfig bezeichneten Darstellung der Sklaven und wurde so zum Gegenstand des Onkel-Tom-Syndroms. Einerseits schätzte beispielsweise der entflohene Sklave und Schriftsteller Frederick Douglass dieses Werk sehr. Die protestantische American Missionary Association lobte 1892 Harriet Beecher Stowe, dass sie mehr als jede lebende Person dafür getan habe, das Gewissen der Amerikaner für die Sünde der Sklaverei zu wecken und die Emanzipation "dieser Rasse" zu fördern. Andererseits gilt Uncle Tom ("Onkel Tom") vielerorts sogar als Schimpfwort. Der afroamerikanische Schriftsteller James Baldwin kritisierte den Roman 1949 als selbstgerecht und mit moralisch überlegener Sentimentalität geschrieben. Der militante Bürgerrechtler Malcolm X bezeichnete den gewaltfreien Bürgerrechtler Martin Luther King abschätzig als "Onkel Tom".
US-Touristen sind häufig überrascht, wenn sie in Berlin eine Siedlung namens Onkel Toms Hütte sowie den U-Bahnhof Onkel Toms Hütte vorfinden. Dies ist auf ein an der früheren Zehlendorfer Spandauer Straße – der heutigen Onkel-Tom-Straße – gelegenes Waldgasthaus zurückzuführen, welches 1884 eröffnet und 1978 abgerissen wurde. Dessen erster Wirt namens Thomas soll ein großer Verehrer von Stowes Werken gewesen sein und es deshalb doppeldeutig Onkel Toms Hütte genannt haben, was dann auf die von 1926 bis 1931 erbaute Siedlung und den 1929 errichteten U-Bahnhof übertragen wurde. Die Umbenennung der Spandauer Straße in Onkel-Tom-Straße erfolgte im April 1933, in den ersten Wochen der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.
Verfilmungen
Bereits 1903 – nach anderen Quellen 1907 – wurde das Buch verfilmt, auch 1911, 1914 sowie 1927. 1964 wurde der Roman dann erneut in einer deutsch-italienischen Co-Produktion mit John Kitzmiller in der Titelrolle und O. W. Fischer, Michaela May und Herbert Lom als seine Co-Stars verfilmt. Eine weitere Verfilmung aus den USA mit Avery Brooks in der Titelrolle wurde 1987 veröffentlicht.
Hörspiele
Der Stoff wurde mehrfach deutschsprachig als Hörspiel vertont. Die Schallplattenfirma Ariola-Eurodisc brachte 1972 eine Fassung in der Bearbeitung von Herbert Hennies auf den Markt. Die Regie hatte Benno Schurr, die Hauptrolle sprach Kurt Ebbinghaus. Die EUROPA brachte ebenfalls 1972 eine Hörspielfassung des Buches heraus, in der die Nebenhandlung um die Sklavin Eliza nicht berücksichtigt wurde. Die Hauptrolle sprach Franz-Josef Steffens. In der DDR wurde das Stück schon 1968 von Andreas Bauer für Litera, das Schallplattenlabel für Sprechaufnahmen, als Hörspiel bearbeitet. Die Hauptrolle sprach Eberhard Mellies, weitere Rollen wurden von Ursula Figelius, Roman Kretschmer, Dieter Unruh, Anneliese Matschulat, Gerd Micheel, Horst Ziethen, Hans Rohde, Ralph Borgwardt und Peter Bause gesprochen.
Ausgabe
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Onkel Toms Hütte. Anaconda, Köln 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0036-8.
Literatur
Josephine Donovan: . Twayne, Boston 1991, ISBN 0-8057-8095-5.
Wieland Herzfelde: Nachwort. In: Onkel Tom's Hütte. Verlag Neues Leben, Ost-Berlin 1952 (und Insel Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1977).
Friedrich Lenger: Im Vorfeld des Bürgerkriegs. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" von Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851/52). In: Dirk van Laak (Hrsg.): Literatur, die Geschichte schrieb. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, S. 43–60, ISBN 978-3-525-30015-2.
Grace Edith Maclean: Uncle Tom's Cabin in Germany (= Americana Germanica. 10). Dissertation, D. Appleton, New York 1910.
Debra J. Rosenthal (Hrsg.): . Routledge, New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-23474-3.
Bernhard Lang: Religion und Literatur in drei Jahrtausenden. Hundert Bücher. Paderborn: Schöningh 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-79227-3, S. 412–418.
Thomas Claviez: Aesthetics & ethics. Otherness and moral imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn. American studies 163, Winter, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8253-5453-4.
Dorothee Dziewas: Eine kleine Lady. Harriet Beecher Stowe – die Frau die Onkel Toms Hütte schrieb. Brunnen Verlag, Gießen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7655-1655-9.
Dietrich Harer: Reinheit und Ambivalenz. Formen literarischer Gesellschaftskritik im amerikanischen Roman der 1850er Jahre. Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 3. Kovač, Hamburg / Mannheim 2003, ISBN 3-8300-0807-4.
Sarah McCarty: Who's that Uncle Tom?! Christian and Racial Stereotypes in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Grin Verlag, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-74360-5.
James Roller: Built on emotion. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the emotional work of Uncle Tom's cabin. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-639-34672-5.
Weblinks
Harriet Beecher Stowe Biography
Kostenloses Audio-Book bei librivox.org
Digitalisat der illustrierten Ausgabe Edinburgh 1853
Die Geschichte von Onkel Toms Hütte, Website heritagetrust.on.ca (englisch, abgerufen am 9. Januar 2022)
Jared Brock: The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Before there was the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience, Website smithsonianmag.com, 16. Mai 2018 (englisch, abgerufen am 7. Januar 2022)
Onkel Toms Hütte. War das Buch Auslöser für den Bürgerkrieg? in Der Spiegel (2021)
Webpräsenz des Museums Onkel Toms Hütte in Dresden, Ontario
Einzelnachweise
Literarisches Werk
Literatur (19. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Englisch)
Literatur (Vereinigte Staaten)
Roman, Epik
Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten
Werk von Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Would you abort a baby with Down Syndrome or severe disability? Statistics say 93% of people do. This is a hypothetical question. I had a heated discussion with another pregnant friend of mine. Please keep it polite.
The real question is, would you allow a baby with a disorder like that to live it's life and possibly suffer or end it?
I've seen and known lots of people with Down Syndrome. Some seem really happy people. Should we just start to eliminate all of them too?
I would AND would prefer to be myself aborted rather than live with a condition like that.
One of our employees and his wife just went through the same emotionally gut-wrenching trauma. They found out on Wednesday that their baby had Down's Syndrome, along with all kinds of other complications. They chose to end the pregnancy, although, "chose", in this case, doesn't really describe their decision. It was more like they did the best thing for her health and their emotional well-being, but it was hard. Surreal. One minute he was working, the next, faced with a life and death decision about the life of another human being. Having seen and heard about what they went through, I would most likely terminate the pregnancy. There are sound medical reasons why doctors terminate 93% of these types of pregnancies. I suspect in many cases, the baby would die in the womb, anyway. Whatever the circumstances, they're heartbreaking - always. No easy solutions. Nobody walks away feeling good.
I know what it's like to lose a baby. It's the first thing you think about when you wake up, and the last thing you think about when you go to sleep. You look at other pregnant women who are about the same gestation as you would've been, it hurts tremendously -- while wanting to spit fire in their face. So I know, but in spite of that I'd have to say ''yes''. Doctors can and do make mistakes about these things -- but I think I'd take their word for it after a second, third, fourth and fifth opinion! I'm sure people with Downs Syndrome have happy lives most of the time... but I wouldn't want to go through that. While some people are prepared to take on babies with learning difficulties, not many are -- and I wouldn't condemn a child to a life drifting through the care system.
Years ago I would have. Now that I am older, not that I would want a child, but if I found I was preganant I would have it. Life is precious to me.
I think that it would be the best thing to do for the child and parent in the long-run, though, it would still be very hard.
Surely, the 'real' answer is who do we think we are? Life and death are not really ours to decide. With advanced science we expand our knowledge and our 'choices'. We do not know what we are destroying/refusing when life gives us an opportunity to be bigger than we think we are. I would prefer not to know in advance and then to be given (or find) the strength to deal with wahtever I am given. Only the best are tested. Who is 'perfect' anyway? And som people abort as an alternative to contraception. Who do we 'think' we are?
Wow, That is a very tough question. I do not know if I could be responsible enough to handle a child with downs syndrome, nor if I could carry a pregnancy to term and then give the baby for adoption, but not sure if I could abort the baby either. That is a decision that would have to be made if it would have to be made along with my husband.
I would definitely have the baby. I would have a baby no matter what. I don't believe I have a right to decide to kill somebody. I know enough about people with Down syndrome and I met some personally. I saw there is no reason why they cannot have a fulfilling life and bring also joy to others. Many are much more independent than most people think. With proper care, and there is lots of proper care out there btw, they can have beautiful lives.
Not for Down syndrome. I have a Down Syndrome brother, and he has a happy life and been part of our family for fifty years. But for really severe malformation, yes I would.
If I had a child with a disability I would keep the child. The majoritie of children with disabilities can live a good life. It almost the same as the old days putting people with disability in instutions alway from sociality. Now people end thier life before they beginn. Would you end Mozart because he had deafness in his family and had a high chance of been deaf. Would you have turn off the oxegn of Steve Wonder when you find out he was blind And you would have never discover Hellen Kaller great ability. What about Tour lu Trouces The french artist. What about Christy Brown who wrote my left foot with his left foot the only part of his body he could control.
A down syndrome baby would not phase me; it is a condition that we know a lot about and life expectancy is good etc. A severe disability is a completely different issue; my cousin was told that her unborn child had a heart defect, the heart wasn't forming properly and it was an hereditary condition that meant she herself needed screening. My cousin died suddenly a few months later of the same heart condition - the day before her tests were due. In her position the only sensible thing to do was to terminate the pregnancy - the baby would not have survived without machines and was never going to have a quality of life you would want for a child and her own life would have been at risk; albeit she died anyway. Statistics can be made up on the spot - individual circumstances cannot be accounted for in numbers. Neither can anti-abortionists ever convince me that termination is never right.
I would have the baby. I couldn't manage killing anyone.
No, I've known too many charming kids with it and wouldn't miss giving a baby the chance to enjoy life in some way, even with the difficulties the families faced. All the families I have known say it was worth it.
I want to say that I wouldn't, BUT I'm not 100% sure of that answer. That's as honest as I can be.
Hmmm it depends. Almost all parents of downs children will split up, and in coping classes they used to be told this (I dunno if they still are). In any case, I know of one person with downs coupled with autism. To be honest I think it has ruined her life. She is shut in her house alot of the time, she can't work as she is now single, her son cannot hold a conversation, constantly asks for the same things over and over. She has to sing christmas carols to him every single night. Enough to drive anyone potty. She hasn't slept in her own bed for years as he insists on making her sleep with him. He is also an attention craver, if he doesn't get the attention he wants, he gets overly upset for no reason or he does something naughty. Like often throwing things, knocking them over, peeing all over the floor etc. When noone was in the room, he came over to me, asked me for a hug, then when I did he pulled my hair extremely hard. He is 25 and morbidly obese, not something I could easily fight against. Since then I have not trusted him one bit, he is always shooting people dirty looks, and thinking about it, he has hurt other people in the past. Saying that, his mother does still love him, and he probably doesn't even understand that he has done anything wrong (with the hair pulling) so maybe I am being too harsh. But unless you are incredibly strong, abortion is probably the best way.. sorry..
I would never abort a baby, period. Obviously there is a reason why this obstacle was given to me. I think it takes a very special; strong; kind; loving; and patient person (along with a myriad of other qualities) to take on this kind of responsibility. Of course it's going to be extremely challenging, but since when is life supposed to be easy and carefree? Perhaps I don't possess ALL of those qualities and will acquire them by giving birth to a child with Down Syndrome or another disability. We were put here, on Earth, to love. There should be no discrimination against whom we love!
It really depends. I wouldn't abort a Down's Sydrome child, however, any other disabilty would have to be a question of severity - I wouldn't abort a child just for having, say, one less hand, but if the kid was going to come out a barely conscious bag of guts with teeth, I wouldn't even think twice.
YES! I would not have a down sydrome child or one with a disability if I could prevent it I would. I would terminate the pregnancy and try again in the future for another one. I am with the 98% of people who would. I think it is great that we are able to screen for these defects now early and can prevent DS and other Disabilities. Like polio, ds will be a thing of the pass.
No I wouldn't. I work with several Down Syndrome kids and they have a good quality life! I think they deserve a chance, afterall they didn't ask to be brought into this world!
Yes. I don't see any reason to bringing a baby into the world with added challenges that are not it's fault and that it will have to suffer with for the rest of it's life. Especially not to conform to some opinion, belief or concept of the parent. That's selfishness on an extraordinary level, masquerading as tolerance of difference and being pro life, when it's nothing of the sort.
I would abort because what sort of life can someone who has this disease lead? it won't be a good one, there's loads of problems to contend with and the big factor is money, it requires a hell of a lot to raise a child who has a disease so I would abort for the child's sake.
Why God, Why Me? Before you were here, in my heart I knew I didn't want to think about it, it wasn't something I wanted to go through The due date was drawing near I was so excited in just a few short weeks you would be here It was your last ultrasound, I kept pushing the thoughts away Praying against anything the doctor had to say The picture confirmed the feeling in my heart that day That you wouldn't be the perfect bundle we had thought along the way As you were growing as the days went by In my heart I'm still wondering why? What did I do wrong? I have not always done right I know, but I've followed after you and your righteousness What did I do to deserve this? I don't understand, I just don't see. Out of all the people in the world Why God, Why me? I prayed and prayed it wouldn't come true I casted down every imagination like I was taught to. No, not me No, this just couldn't be! What did I do wrong? I have not always done right I know, but I've followed after you and your righteousness What did I do to deserve this? I don't understand, I just don't see. Out of all the people in the world Why God, Why me? The time has come for you to be born It's bitter-sweet and my heart is torn To my thoughts & prayers I held tight Maybe, just maybe, my prayers will be answered - you will be born alright The doctor in a calm voice announced It looks like your child has Downs Probably from the look on my face, He said that's ok Many are born that way It wasn't comforting to hear those words spoken Now my heart was truly broken My prayers were not answered and seemed to go unheard Even though I only spoke the Word All I ever wanted was to have that perfect child Dreams were shattered to hear - we don't know if it will be severe or mild Time will tell and you will see What your child's future will be With each passing day I let go of the hurt and the blame Getting past the guilt, pain and the shame My heart is healing even though it will take awhile You have brought healing to me when I look into your loving eyes and seeing you smile. To hear you laugh is pure joy straight from God's heart After all He created each and every one of your parts With God's love, patience, wisdom and grace We can handle the challenges that lie ahead and the ones you currently face The goals we set and the victories are so sweet With each one you accomplish and each one you meet You are not here to compete or be in a race You are here to go at our own pace You are learning and growing so much You are truly created from our Masters touch God created you with his own hands from above How then could I question His love? What did I do that was so right? I have not always done right I know, but I've followed after you and your righteousness My God, My God what did I do to deserve this? You did give me the perfect child from above One with more joy and more love than I could ever dream of You gave me this perfect blessing, your precious gift. I don't understand, I just don't see Out of all the people in the world Why God, Why me? Rachelle Fuller "2008" I would have missed out on so much if I had aborted him. Even though they offered that as an option. I said no matter what we would take care of this child. I cry everytime I think of someone wanting to abort a child just because they have downs. My heart aches to think what someone is missing out on because they don't want to deal with a child like that. I didn't either...but Oh My God what I would have missed out on. He is a true blessing!
Yes. I would not be responsible for forcing another person to live disabled their entire life.
No, don't be stupid. Think of all the free parking and other benefits that baby would get you. Statistics are made up on the spot 94.5% of the time. Never take them at face value. The only good reason to abort a baby is danger to the mother yo have it. To be honest, if these are the conversations you're both having neither of you should be allowed to be parents.
No. In fact, if I were healthier I'd adopt one! There is much to be learned through the experience of loving these beautiful bundles of joy! But I wouldn't judge anyone for not feeling up to the task. It takes more than one person can do alone! Still I would encourage them to give it to loving parents who want to accept the challenge instead of aborting. That is if it lives.
Exodus 20:13- You must not murder Exodus 21-23 clearly shows how God views the life of an unborn child.
If you worked at an establishment that served alcohol and/or tabacco a pregnant woman ordered a drink and/or a pack of cigarettes, what would you do?
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It has perhaps - until now - been one of the advantages of living in an advanced, functioning liberal democracy that the British have very rarely had to ask about the political legitimacy of their governments.
Perhaps somewhat foolishly, we have seen our political system as less corrupt than others on continental or across the Atlantic.
Not now. On Tuesday, an Electoral Commission probe found that Vote Leave, the official anti-EU campaign group who refused to cooperate with the inquiry, had exceeded its £7m spending limit by funnelling £675,315 through pro-Brexit youth group BeLeave.
In other words, they cheated.
Two officials have already been fined for the false declaration of campaign spending, the Commission has referred them to the Metropolitan Police, and handed over files "in relation to whether any persons have committed related offences" that fall outside the watchdog's remit.
This leaves Britain in the extraordinary situation where we could be on the verge of leaving the EU as some of its prime advocates are charged with offences that further question the 2016 referendum's legitimacy.
What is even more extraordinary is that this report has not received a greater attention by the government. Britain is about to make one of the biggest changes to its economic, trade and security practises and it might be doing so on false pretences.
In 2012, David Cameron promised an In/Out referendum on EU membership. In the 2015 Conservative manifesto, he pledged that his government would respect the result of that referendum and carry out the wishes of the people.
It has been an uncomfortable fact for Remainers that no government could simply ignore the referendum result.
In return, many Brexiter arguments for persevering in the face of economic obstacles have rested on the democratic nature of the decision.
By and large, the citizen body of the United Kingdom accepts the legitimacy of its political settlement. We elect governments at general elections with whom many may disagree but few seriously question their political legitimacy. The peaceful transfer of power acknowledges a winning government's authority.
At times, governments have lost their moral legitimacy - an example might be John Major's 1992-1997 government - but so long as a party can command a majority in the House of Commons its political legitimacy is not in doubt.
Since June 2016, many have questioned the moral legitimacy of the Brexit referendum: in support of this, they have pointed to dubious claims of a Brexit dividend for the NHS and dishonesty about Turkey's application to join the EU as examples.
The Electoral Commission report is different. It questions the political legitimacy of the referendum.
Following the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats petitioned the High Court to overturned the result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency election. They claimed that the sitting MP, Labour's Phil Woolas, won the election by making false claims about their candidate and manipulating images to make political points.
The court found in the Liberal Democrats' favour. The election was re-run, although without Woolas.
Already tested at the High Court, the advisory nature of the referendum prevents any legal remedies through the Representation of the People's Acts. Any remedy therefore is political.
What is the point of having rules if, when they are broken, they are ignored? It sets a bad precedence, at least.
The question is simple, how can there be address in an inconsequential constituency election, but none in an election with the greatest consequences for the UK electorate.
We can never know how an overspend affected a vote. Just like we will never know whether Woolas' disputed methods gave him the 103 votes on which his victory rested.
We can say that breaking democratic rules deserves democratic consequences. Not just fines and police investigations.
The Electoral Commission findings follow another judgment against Leave.EU who failed to include nearly £80,000 in their electoral returns. Meanwhile, The Observer's Carole Cadwalladr continues to unearth grubbing findings about meetings with Russian diplomats, potential collusion, illicit funding and the impact of big data and technology on our democracy.
There are too many important questions that few are asking our government to answer.
Vote Leave responded to the findings by claiming political motivation. To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies, they would say that, would they? The condemned rarely pay the judge and jury any compliments.
Objectively, were this result to be covered as any other election, there is a high chance the result would be overturned in the courts. While the solution here may be political, there is a democratic benchmark that cannot be ignored.
A functioning democracy corrects its errors. Theresa May must pause the Article 50 process, and launch an inquiry to gather all evidence. If a rerun of the 2016 election is ruled out, a People's Vote must be legislated for in its place. There is no alternative.
Leavers should consider this. Much of the debate has turned around whether overturning the referendum result - or even diluting the hardest of Brexits advocated by the extreme right of the Tory party- would be a democratic betrayal of Brexit voters. This has some merit.
However, what now has an equal merit is that the government is about see through a process based on a referendum that a substantial portion of the population see - with some justice - as fraudulent. Such recklessness would be unprecedented.
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Ellen Chisdes Neuberg's early educational background is in classical piano and theater. Born and raised in New York, she studied theater at Syracuse University. She taught piano since age sixteen, worked as an Editor at CBS-TV with daytime network programming, and was a director for musical theater before finally landing in Pittsburgh in December of 1969, her 6th move in 9 years.
Neuberg began to paint in 1970. Active in various Pittsburgh arts organizations, she presented "pop up" exhibits in vacant spaces for them. She also participated in a co-op gallery at Becks Charter Oaks in Greentree with members of the South Hills Art League. As a volunteer in the group of hospitals, now UPMC, Neuberg supported transplant patients with art therapy. She painted with hospitalized children for the Children's Hospital Christmas Card Project, which she headed for a few years. Neuberg directed the Upper St. Clair Cancer Drive for many years and set up antique appraisals and art exhibitions for the American Cancer Society.
From 1979-1989, Neuberg spent 17 days each month on a boat cruising the Chesapeake Bay in the summer months and the Florida Keys in the winter months. (She even designed and built a trawler with a Naval architect in the Netherlands.) In 1989 Neuberg decided to return to college. She received a degree in psychology from Chatham in 1991 while interning in Art and Music Therapy at Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh. In 1995, with prodding from a dear artist friend and mentor, Donna Hollen Bolmgren, Neuberg opened her own art gallery and GalleriE CHIZ was born. For twenty-two years, Neuberg represented, exhibited, and befriended a cadré of artists from all over the world.
After formally closing the gallery in October, 2017, Neuberg is now a full time artist and most days can be found painting in her former GalleriE CHIZ mosaic storefront//studio in Shadyside. In 2018, she began a series of paintings titled "Missing Persons", since so many figures appear in her abstracts, often unintentionally. Magazines such as; Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, etc., feature beautiful environments for people to inhabit, but never show people in these rooms. To poke fun at this, Neuberg decided to "get rid of the people" in her abstract paintings. She eventually realized that many of these paintings also deal with the loss of people in her life as she has aged.
While she was conjuring up a title for an upcoming exhibition, the word "puzzlement" came to mind. A notorious reader of mysteries and solver of puzzles, Neuberg's seventh grade teacher actually refused to count books she read if they were more mysteries! "Puzzlement" is also the title of a spoken song from the musical comedy, "The King and I", originally performed on Broadway, with both utter confusion and humor, by Yul Brynner playing the role of the King of Siam, and is still available on YouTube.
The paintings in Neuberg's "Puzzlements" series deal with the ways our lives, and our world, seem to be in a constant and often complex state of change. Her daily art process is simple. She paints. The painting grows. Each addition determines its direction. She loves color, shape, some recognizable, some not; diverse images and colors that are encouraged to live together, "to marry", in the boundaries provided by the canvas. These objects acquire their own personalities. The use of transparencies, particularly in the "Puzzlements" series, allows a visual penetration of what might appear behind the scenes; behind the seemingly happy and colorful facades, to perhaps reveal what mysteries may be hidden underneath... possibly as an analogy to human lives… exposing deeper truths for the viewers' interpretations.
View Ellen Chisdes Neuberg's BoxHeart Exhibit, Missing Persons & Other Puzzlements, in 2 & 3D space.
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Shipping chemical 'unsafe for birds'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22505544
Image caption The RSPB says the number of birds affected by the spill has now reached 4,000
Wildlife charities are calling for tighter regulations to protect seabirds from a group of chemicals that caused hundreds of seabirds to be washed up off the south coast of England.
The number of seabirds affected by the recent spill of polyisobutene (PIB) has now reached 4,000, said the RSPB.
The sticky chemical is used as a lubricant in ships' engines.
It is also moved in large quantities, as it is used to make chewing gum, adhesive tape and sealants.
What is polyisobutene?
Polyisobutene, more commonly known in the chemical industry as polyisobutylene or PIB, was first developed during the 1930s as a synthetic alternative to natural rubber.
It is a polymer very similar in its molecular structure to polyethylene and polypropylene - the materials used for carrier bags.
PIB is highly impermeable to gases, so can hold air for long periods of time and is often used to make the inner liner of tyres or of footballs. It is also used in chewing gum, as a thickening agent, and so-called "tackifier".
In engines, especially in shipping, it is used as an additive in lubricating oils and fuels, both as a thickening agent and as a raw material that is further reacted to create other performance additives.
This class of additives is one of the most common motor lubricants, it helps to keep engines clean, control soot and improve engine emissions.
Source: Royal Society of Chemistry
The organisations are appealing to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to "reclassify" the chemical.
The RSPB said in a statement: "The risk of PIB is seriously underestimated.
"We are urging the government to call on the IMO to urgently review [its] hazard classification and implement regulations and a systematic monitoring programme that prevent any further tragic and wholly avoidable incidents like the one just witnessed."
Currently, it is legal to discharge PIB in small quantities, based on certain conditions as set out by the international MARPOL Convention (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships).
But the group of charities, which includes the Wildlife Trusts, the Marine Conservation Society and the RSPCA, wants this to be stopped.
"Even if it's legitimately discharged, it's clearly harmful," said an RSPB spokesperson.
The joint call is being supported by the industry body, the UK Chamber of Shipping.
Alec Taylor, marine policy officer for the RSPB, said that, with this support, he was hopeful that the UK government could "push for tighter regulations preventing the discharge of PIB into the sea for good".
The organisations have timed their call to coincide with the latest assembly of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee, which takes place in London from 13 to 17 May.
David Balston, director of safety and environment at the UK Chamber of Shipping, admitted that no regulation could eliminate the possibility of illegal activity.
He added: "We strongly support an urgent review to see how best to help prevent a recurrence of the recent deaths and injury to wildlife."
Media captionResearchers identified the substance in April
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is still investigating the exact cause of this incident and the vessel responsible.
It said: "The MCA has been collecting data of the ships that passed through the area during a specific time frame, and has been looking through detailed cargo manifests.
"The number of tankers currently being investigated further stands at seven.
"If the MCA can locate any ship that was responsible for an illegal discharge, then we will take steps to prosecute."
RSPB says seabird deaths caused by 'worst PIB spill'
Video Seabird deaths: 'Glue' is identified as polyisobutene
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D209 superintendent resigns to take another job
Dr. Jesse Rodriguez will leave for Zion-Benton Township High School District 126 by July 2020
by Staff Reporter December 18, 2019 February 9, 2021
Supt. Jesse Rodriguez, sitting in an administrative conference room at PMSA on Dec. 18, announced that he will resign from D209 to take a superintendent position in Zion, which is closer to where he lives. | Michael Romain
Proviso Township High Schools District 209 Supt. Jesse Rodriguez is resigning to take the superintendent position at Zion-Benton Township High School District 126. The District 126 school board approved a three-year contract for Rodriguez at a meeting on Dec. 17. He'll leave the Proviso district on June 30, 2020 and start in his new role at Zion on July 1, 2020.
"This is a life-changing opportunity," Rodriguez said in an interview on Dec. 18, adding that the move will allow him the opportunity to work five minutes from where he lives and devote more time to his family. Rodriguez said that his son will be a senior at the Zion high school in the fall.
The superintendent's decision comes less than a year after the D209 school board voted 4-3 in favor of granting him a new 5-year contract that would have had his annual base salary growing to $257,648 by 2023, district records show. Theresa Kelly — the board's longest serving member who voted against the contract, arguing that it was too long — said at the time that the contract was the lengthiest she'd seen during her some two-decades-long tenure on the board.
On Dec. 18, Rodriguez, who was hired to a 3-year contract in February 2016, rattled off the district's major achievements during his tenure — among them the implementation of a 5-year financial plan, the creation of a 5-year facilities master plan that provides funding for upcoming capital improvement projects that are among the most substantial in the district's history, the implementation of International Baccalaureate and additional Advanced Placement coursework across the district and a higher bond rating.
Just last week, Rodriguez announced that the state-mandated Financial Oversight Panel would leave the district by Dec. 31. The FOP was appointed by the Illinois State Board of Education in 2008 to help a district that, back then, was in dire financial straits. At a joint meeting between the FOP and the school board, FOP Chair Craig Schilling praised the district's progress, citing the 5-year financial plan and the fully funded facilities master plan — both aspects critical for the FOP agreeing to leave the district.
"Proviso is in a much, much better place to attract superintendent candidates," Rodriguez said. "It's in a much better place and I think there will be a lot of folks attracted."
But those achievements haven't come without some friction. In April 2018, after the D209 board voted against a series of key hires and staffing adjustments within his office, Rodriguez said he was "at a crossroads." And just last week, the board voted 4-2 to reinstate Proviso West Principal Nia Abdullah who Rodriguez had suspended for matters that were not made public, with some board members denouncing the suspension and others claiming that the vote and comments related to it undermined the superintendent.
"All the data was laid out and the superintendent asked for the board's advice and direction, and no one on the board said anything," Ned Wagner, school board president, said during the Dec. 10 meeting where the vote was made.
"I was the only one who said that I didn't think it was a good fit. I looked around at everyone and said, 'OK, the superintendent is asking for direction in this matter. This is our chance.' And no one said anything," he said. "We told Dr. Rodriguez to do what he saw fit and the board would back him up and now we're hanging him out to dry."
On Dec. 18, both Rodriguez and Wagner dismissed any notion that the reinstatement or any other previous board table friction played major parts in the superintendent's resignation.
"Prior to that [Dec. 10 board meeting], I had already decided that it was in my best interest to move forward," Rodriguez said. "That meeting was transactional to me. Over the last two years, with the work we've done as superintendent and board, we've had a lot of support."
"The Proviso West situation was not the first time he had the board disagree with him," Wagner said. "I think it was more of a situation of him thinking about his family."
Cynthia Moreno, the district's communications director, echoed those points, explaining that the superintendent has had overwhelming board support on most of the major decisions his administration has made.
"Overall, I think we received the support we needed," she said on Dec. 18.
"I know the timing [between the Proviso West decision and his resignation] seems like, 'Wow,' but you do have to go through a process, it's an intensive process," Rodriguez said, referencing his hiring in Zion. "Yes, I was in the fast route and did not spend three months doing this, but it was not a one-week thing either."
"I was not expecting this at all, I have to admit," said Wagner. "It was surprising. I spoke with him and I think he's doing this for all the right reasons that are best for him and his family. Speaking for myself, the work he did was absolutely phenomenal.
"He did things in collaboration with the board that no one thought was really possible," Wagner said. "He got the district on a firm financial footing to the point where the FOP left. He was a unifying force in our community, pushing and helping define the pre-K to 12th-grade mindset in our education community. That didn't really exist before. He supported our building principals [within D209] in creating these transformational plans to set the groundwork for sustained academic improvement."
Rodriguez acknowledged that many people he has called and texted in the wake of his decision to resign have expressed concern that his departure might mean going back to the days of no-bid multi-million-dollar contracts and a district rife with patronage hires.
"I have answered many, many calls or text messaged everybody who has contacted me and they have said, 'This type of change can set us 20 years back,'" Rodriguez said. "But we do have very strong structures in place within the board and administration that will sustain progress regardless of leadership changes.
"For example, we have a construction model for how decisions are to be made," he said. "This model will have checks and balances to prevent operations that are not aligned with best practices."
Rodriguez said that he now commutes more than an hour to and from his District 209 office within Proviso Math and Science Academy in Forest Park each day, and would often work nights and weekends in the district — a situation that took a toll on his family life, he said.
In a statement released Dec. 17 by the Zion-Benton Township school board, Jerry Nordstrom, the school board president, said that Rodriguez "brings a history of excellence, improving student performance and creating a strong, collaborative culture that provides pathways for every student to succeed."
The board explained that it utilized consultants School Exec Connect to facilitate the search process. They said that the consultant received more than 30 applications. Rodriguez will succeed retiring District 126 Supt. Chris Clark.
"He really put his heart and soul into working on behalf of the children of our community and probably, most definitely, to the detriment of his personal life," Wagner said. "He was absolutely consumed with transforming our school district and it became that time."
Wagner said that the board plans on holding an emergency meeting to discuss next steps before the year is out.
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What Is An Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Fund?
September 28, 2016 | Throneberry Law Group
Asbestos has been used in industrial and commercial applications since the middle of the 19th Century up until around the 1970s. While it took many years, asbestos products manufacturers finally came to terms with the dangers their products posed to the public and ceased production, but not until many innocent people were hurt.
Fortunately, many victims were able to file mesothelioma cancer lawsuits against various asbestos companies for their debilitating medical conditions and the compensation they needed for medical treatment. However, it is not always necessary to file a formal lawsuit against an asbestos company to recover for damages. Instead, some companies created asbestos bankruptcy trust funds to dispense compensation.
Often times, companies reorganize through bankruptcy proceedings, which can also absolve them of liability for the harm their products have done. However, before courts allow companies to reorganize they sometimes require them to set aside large sums of money to pay out claims to victims, and the asbestos industry was no exception.
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Mesothelioma And 9/11
The events of September 11, 2001 shook our country to its very core and tested the resiliency of the nation as a whole. In addition to the 3,000 lives lost in the terrorist attacks which downed airplanes in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and New York, many more passed away from the clean-up effort in downtown Manhattan because they were exposed to toxic particles in the debris.
What many people do not realize is that the World Trade Centers were built with 20 stories of asbestos which spread through the air as the Twin Towers came crashing down. To date, over 200 people were killed and half a million made sick by inhaling some of the 2,000 tons of asbestos that went airborne.
The amount of asbestos released in the collapse was enough to fill the equivalent of 182 school buses and made the air 112,000 times more contaminated with asbestos than the federal legal limit for buildings. Sources further estimate there has been an almost 20% increase in first responders who developed cancer as a result of the rescue and cleanup efforts.
What Products Contain Asbestos?
If you or a loved one developed mesothelioma, you will undoubtedly have numerous questions about the disease including how it was caused. Most folks understand it to be almost common knowledge that mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos but what many may not realize is just how prevalent asbestos was in so many common and everyday products people were exposed to.
Furthermore, mesothelioma victims should understand just how many different companies or other parties may have had a hand in exposing them to the asbestos that led to their serious medical condition. Often times, many of these parties can be held responsible if they played a role in the victim developing mesothelioma or another serious asbestos-related health condition.
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Receiving a mesothelioma diagnosis or another asbestos-related medical condition can be devastating news for patients and their families. While mesothelioma is a rare type of lung cancer, it is well-known for being incurable and connected to exposure to asbestos.
Mesothelioma victims often look back on their careers and lifestyles to try and determine where the exposure came from and why the condition formed in the first place. Often times, asbestos exposure occurs because the victim worked in an environment contaminated by asbestos, handled products made with asbestos, and was not told about the dangers of coming in contact with the material.
Courts in the U.S. have handed down thousands of significant awards to mesothelioma victims and their families to compensate them for the harm suffered due to asbestos exposure. In asbestos mesothelioma lawsuits there may be several parties that can be held responsible for their roles in the victims suffering injuries.
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Here's another in our metal roof Q&A series. Remember, post your question in the comments and we'll answer it right here on our blog!
The current economic climate notwithstanding, people are going to continue to need roofs. And if it's at all possible, a metal roof is still your best bet despite the higher initial cost. Over time, your investment will pay for itself again and again. At the very least, you should explore your re-roofing options with metal before slapping the same old comp shingles on your roof again - the very ones that will require patching and/or replacement far too quickly.
Installing solar panels on a roof is a very popular trend - and growing in popularity. One of the most overlooked aspects of this type of upgrade to a home or business is the type of roof material over which the new solar panels will be installed. Does it make sense to anyone to attach an expensive, hi-tech solar collection system to a roof that won't last as long as the panels? I can't imagine anyone answering that question positively, but I see it all the time. Bad enough that some solar panel installations are installed on new roofs with a proven poor track record (asphalt composition, anyone?), but it has to be even less rational to install a new solar system on an older roof that isn't far from the end of its service life.
We're starting a Q&A section here on the blog, and here's our first question and answer to start us off. If you have a burning metal roofing question, ask us in the comments sections and we'll post an answer!
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I quite like the word 'dynamic' to describe many of the openings covered in my sector. The Grünfeld for instance is better described as 'dynamic' rather than 'daring'. However the Englund Gambit certainly deserves 'daring' (some would say 'desperate') as it's adjective. In fact it was only by looking through the Forum that I realised that I hadn't covered anything on this mythical gambit in my two years at the helm, so it's time to set the record straight.
that White's best is probably 4 Qd5! rather than the more popular 4 Bf4. Black may even be able to obtain a playable game against the latter but I don't think much of his compensation after the slightly arrogant 4 Qd5.
The Gambit shouldn't really work against sensible defence as White hasn't created any potential weaknesses in his own camp. Compare this with the Budapest where 2 c2-c4 can be thought of as 'weakening' the a5-e1 diagonal and the d4-square. In the Englund Gambit White has an extra tempo and can avoid giving away any key-squares.
The English Defence has proved to be a sound enough way of getting a tense middle-game. However Game Two illustrates that it requires careful handling. As I recently put in one of my own wins with Black I felt I had to put in a recent loss... to show how things can go wrong!
Game Three features a head-to-head clash between two leading theoretical experts in the Benko. Epishin plays his usual Rb1 system but Vuckovic is equal to it and finds a route to a satisfactory game. Playing with ...Nf6-e8 seems to be Black's best anti-Rb1 method at present.
In Game 4 Gurevich manages to diffuse the pressure but has to call on all his experience not to be pushed into passivity. The pawn structure is common in those Leningrads where White has exchanged off his e-pawn for Black's f-pawn, typically following an early e2-e4.
In Game 5 a blocked centre enabled Black to get his kingside advance going even though a draw looked on the cards for most of the game. Black's f, g and h-pawns gave him more options, a consequence of White having played fxe5 early on.
The intention to build a Saemisch-centre with 3 f3 leads to some serious blood-letting in the two main games from this sharp anti-Grünfeld line.
Black's 9...f5 (Game Seven) looks shaky whereas 9...e5 (Game Six) is unclear. The novelty 9...Qd6 is interesting, as is 3...Nc6 which leads to a more positional game, and in both cases Black gets away from heavy theory. These are touched upon in the notes to these two D70 games.
In Game 7 White's attack proved to be too strong here after 15 Nf3!
Twenty-Four moves of theory in Game Eight before all hell breaks loose. What would you play as White in the following position with four moves to make the time control?
White's nuance (yes, on move 25!) needs a closer look as he did ultimately achieve a winning position, but Black had enough resources along the way in my opinion. Nevertheless, a remarkable game!
In Game Nine Nielsen yet again surprises with his choice against the Grünfeld. Ganguly failed to open the centre and came under attack but then defended well. The fast FIDE time limit was probably responsible for some surprising choices with both players playing very riskily.
In Game 10 Van Wely repeats the Qa4+-b3 manoeuvre that he played against Svidler last February (I covered this game in the April update). Again complications followed, but although L'Ami's novelty on move eight (8...a5) is notable, the game will be remembered for Van Wely's terrible blunder at the end. Theoretically 8...a5 looks suspicious but generates practical chances and loads of fun!
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LOS ANGELES, CA – June 20, 2012 – LAMOTH Executive Director Mark Rothman today invited "Ted" director, writer and actor Seth MacFarlane for a private tour of the Museum's exhibits chronicling the events comprising the Holocaust, its precursors and its aftermath.
During a visit to the Museum, MacFarlane would view the Museum's award-winning exhibits detailing the history of the Holocaust chronologically. Award-winning iPod touches allow visitors to listen to over 27 hours of audio material highlighting specific exhibits. In the interactive and also award-winning World That Was table visitors view and discover the stories behind thousands of photographs of Holocaust victims, taken before World War II, documenting the richness of their lives. Individual touch screen computers located further on in the Museum communicate the range and severity of 18 concentration camps.
Also on permanent exhibit is a preview of Tree of Testimony: The USC Shoah Foundation Institute Interview Wall, at LAMOTH. The exhibit consists of 70 video screens displaying to Museum visitors the more than 52,000 interviews maintained in the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's archives. This exhibit's grand opening will take place on August 2, 2012.
Holocaust survivors founded the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in the early 1960s as a permanent repository for their personal artifacts from the Holocaust and the world the Nazis destroyed. Today the Museum hosts docent-led school tours, survivor lectures, exhibitions on the Holocaust, and numerous special events. Museum admission is always free. Visit us online at www.lamoth.org on the Web.
Congratulations on the imminent opening of Ted as well as the tremendous success of your three television shows.
It's obvious that in support of your movie's opening you've spent a lot of time with the press. This weekend I finished reading your profile in The New Yorker, and this morning I read your interview in The New York Times.
I am not writing to say I am offended by the reference. It adequately made your point.
I am writing to invite you to the Museum, where you can engage with the actual, tragic drama of the Holocaust. The Museum was founded by survivors over 50 years ago as a way to commemorate their lost loved ones and to educate visitors about the difficult years between 1933 and 1945. I would be more than happy to provide you a private tour, arranged at a mutually convenient time. Please be in touch with Jodi Shapiro at (323) 456-5077, who can schedule something.
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Fentanyl Overdoses Are Rampant, But Where Is The Drug Coming From?
By now, most of America is well aware of the ongoing opioid epidemic, or has at least heard about it on the news a time or two. However, while most of the country recognizes the names of the most common opioids – names like heroin and OxyContin – and may even have a little knowledge regarding their effects, the true danger of fentanyl remains a mystery to many. What is Fentanyl? Why is it so dangerous? Where does it come from?
What Is Fentanyl?
Fentanyl is an opioid, which means that it is a compound that resembles opium in the way it physically or psychologically affects the user. Originally developed in 1959, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid meant to provide anesthetic and pain relieving effects to those who had recently had major surgery. Like other opioids, such as morphine and codeine, fentanyl was first produced for medical purposes.
Fentanyl is over 100 times stronger than morphine, which made it extremely effective at addressing pain during and after surgery. In the 60's, fentanyl was administered as an intravenous dose to provide anesthetics before surgery. Due to the drug's usage primarily in the hospital setting, there were no cases of fentanyl abuse at that time.
However, in the 1990s, manufacturers developed a fentanyl patch that could be applied to the skin for long-term pain relief, as well as a lollipop that could be consumed to provide pain-relieving benefits. Cancer patients enjoyed the pain relieving benefits of fentanyl, as well as the reduction in the emotional responses to pain. Unfortunately, recreational users did, as well.
Why Is Fentanyl So Dangerous?
As mentioned, fentanyl is extremely potent – 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin. In fact, even two milligrams is strong enough to cause death in adults. So, why do users risk death with such a strong substance? Sometimes, those using fentanyl are unaware.
In the early 2000's, drug cartels began cutting fentanyl with a number of other illicit drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamines, and especially heroin. Sometimes, the cut drugs are diluted and sold in bricks; other times, the product is pressed into pills and sold as Xanax, OxyContin, or other prescription medications. Either way, a poorly mixed batch can feature areas rich in fentanyl, which is much stronger than the drugs it imitates. An unsuspecting user can consume high amounts of fentanyl without even knowing they're using the drug.
What's the motivation behind cutting fentanyl into other drugs? First, fentanyl's ready availability from foreign laboratories makes it hard for dealers to pass up the ease of mass production. Compared to heroin, which takes months of growing and cultivating – not to mention land – accessing synthetic fentanyl is simply easier. In addition, the high potency of fentanyl means manufacturers must only include a little in each pill on order to give the user the effects of using another prescription opioid.
Diluting and cutting fentanyl can result in a great deal of money to be made. In fact, street values of a kilogram of diluted fentanyl can reach upwards of $350,000, all for a product that cost only $3,000 in its purest form. In pill form, that same kilogram can result in a million pills worth as much as $20 apiece – up to $20 million in profits for the seller.
Where Does Fentanyl Come From?
One source of fentanyl in the US is legal prescription medications. Some users improperly obtain and consume fentanyl lollipops for recreational purposes. Others remove fentanyl gel from the fentanyl patches and concentrate and inject or smoke it. Still, legal prescriptions are only one source of fentanyl.
Primarily, fentanyl in the United States comes from China, through multiple channels. One way Chinese manufacturers send fentanyl to the US is via direct mail. Consumers purchase fentanyl and other drugs over the dark web; the drugs are then packaged and arrive directly at the consumer's mailbox, ready for consumption. Since fentanyl is so potent, the product arrives in tiny envelopes, packed in small packages that are easy to overlook with the large volume of international mail that passes through the US Postal System every day.
In many cases, fentanyl via mail is intentionally mislabeled so that it passes through other countries that proved less conspicuous than China. Often, packages travel through countries like Tonga and Canada before finding their way to the United States. Hundreds of shipments are seized each year, but hundreds more arrive at their destinations. When you consider just how potent a small envelope of fentanyl is, hundreds of shipments takes on a scary, new meaning.
However, in other cases the fentanyl pipeline is much more complicated than a direct route from China to US shores. First, much of the bulk fentanyl produced in China gets funneled through Mexico, where it is accessed and distributed by the same drug cartels that push other drugs across the US border. It is diluted, cut with other drugs, and distributed – usually through San Diego – to dealers across the county.
How does the fentanyl cross the border? The bulk of the US fentanyl trade comes from the Sinaloa and Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels. Like many other drugs, fentanyl reaches the US via the cartel's smuggling routes on foot, via car, semi-truck, or boat. To that end, seizures of fentanyl have occurred in produce trucks, shoes, buses, and in airport passenger terminals.
What Can We Do About It?
Investigators in the United States and Mexico are working together to try and halt shipments of fentanyl from coming into the United States, which includes efforts to cease manufacturing, cutting, and transport operations in Mexico. Border security, mail inspections, and other efforts continue on both sides of the US borders with Canada and Mexico. China, as well, has begun efforts to curb fentanyl production with a series of regulations on the chemicals involved.
Still, officials are fighting a tough battle. Fentanyl has maintained its position as the most commonly overdosed drug in the United States since 2016, when it first surpassed other opioids in that respect. Similarly, between 2014 and 2015, officials saw a 2,400% increase in the seizure of fentanyl at the border. Cooperation among all countries and agencies is necessary to limit the amount of this truly dangerous drug that crosses our borders.
This entry was posted in News & Events and tagged Fentanyl, Prescription Drugs on May 10, 2019 by echorecovery.
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Bipartisan legislation now under consideration would provide funding to address the nation's $12 billion maintenance backlog.
New Mexico park sites are estimated to have $123 million in deferred repairs. The Restore Our Parks Act would provide up to $6.5 billion nationally over five years to address the backlog.
There are 400 sites managed by the National Park Service across the country. According to Yaron Miller, and officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts' Restore America's Parks campaign, all of them need various infrastructure upgrades.
"These repairs include deteriorating historic buildings, unsafe roads, eroding trails, outdated campgrounds and broken bathrooms, crumbling monuments and degraded water, sewer and electrical systems," he states.
Nearly 2 million people visited national parks in New Mexico in 2016, spending an estimated $108 million in local economies. The park system also supports 1,700 jobs. O'Leary says all 15 New Mexico sites enhance the quality of life for local residents, but she notes that adequate infrastructure, easy access and clear signage are essential.
The University of Wyoming has its new Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management degree ready to offer to students this fall.
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Emma Louise (Mills) Wynn
April 18, 1936 ~ March 5, 2022 (age 85) 85 Years Old
Mother Emma Louise Mills Wynn was born on April 18, 1936, to the late Mr. Arnett Mills and the late Mrs. Allar Mae Glenn Mills in Blakely, Georgia.
She made her transition to be with the Lord on March 5, 2022, about 1:15 a.m.
Emma was employed at a local sewing factory as a seamstress, then later she became a school bus driver for Early County Schools and retired after 26 years.
She accepted Christ as her personal Savior at an early age at the Pleasant Grove A.M.E. Church in Blakely, Georgia.
She was united in holy matrimony on April 18, 1959 to Louis C. Wynn, Sr., who preceded her in death. Later, after marriage, she joined the New Prospect A.M.E. Church, where she served diligently and faithfully in several capacities, as well as Mother of the Church until her death.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Louis Charles Wynn, Sr.; two sons, Edward Lenore Wynn and Willie J. Wynn; three sisters, Mattie Hazel Mills William, Lugreatha Mills, and Earlene Mills Wright; two brothers, Willie C. Mills and William Hutchins brothers-in-law-George Jenkins and Alexander Williams, Roosevelt McCloud, and Robert McDaniel, sister-in-law Gladys Mills; and one grandson, Corey Chapman.
Emma leaves to cherish her loving memories: two sons, Louis Charles (Francis) Wynn, Jr., and Kenneth (Lillie) Earl Wynn, Sr., both of Blakely, Georgia; one daughter, Melonia Wynn-Henderson of Blakely, Georgia; brother Arnett Mills Jr., of Blakely, Georgia; sister Jessie Mae Mills Jenkins of Orlando, Florida; sister-in-law Shannon Pittman of Atlanta, Georgia; three grandsons, Louis Charles Wynn, III of Blakely, Georgia, Kenneth Earl Wynn, Jr., of Albany, Georgia, and Myles Mi'kel Henderson of Atlanta, Georgia; four granddaughters, Adrienne Wynn, and Shantell Chapman, both of Charleston, South Carolina, and Candra Wynn (Quintorious), Kenlie Wynn both of Blakely, Georgia; eight great-grandsons; three great-granddaughters; and one great-great-grandson.
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Q: lamp-server package versus installing individual components Is it better to install a LAMP platform on Linux (Ubuntu) using
sudo aptitude install lamp-server
or by installing each individual component separately?
Why or why not?
Thanks!
A: There is no such package on Ubuntu.
However if there was one like this, I think it would be a metapackage, that is a package that does not contain stuff by itself, but just depends on other packages (apache, mysql and php in this case).
If that was the case there would not be a difference.
Except maybe that via the metapackage you might install stuff you don't need, so if you know exactly what you need you'd better just install it and go.
What is disrecommended is installing things like XAMPP on Linux. They are not integrated with the system as well as the original packages, and you would not get security upgrades automatically.
A: the command is
sudo apt-get install Lamp-server^
i think the best way is to use the tasksel command
you can install that with the command
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel
select lamp server and install it.
there are 53 components that install on a lamp server so its best to install the package
after installing the LAMP server you need to install the the phpmyadmin client
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
last step is retart apache
sudo etc/init.d/apache2 restart
A: It is best to install the highest level package possible. This ensures you get all the components you need. On upgrades you will get any new packages which have been added, and packages which are no longer required get removed. You will end up installing all the components anyway, but it will take more effort.
The debian package manager has been designed to ensure you get all the dependecies intalled. It will install any missing packages, and use already installed packages. There can be alternatives, and you get a default package installed. This can be changed by either pre-installing another alternative, or installing it later.
To install lamp server, you may need to install mysql-server, but this does not need to be on the same server as apache. Otherwise you will want mysql-client. This is a deployment decision you need to make. Installing php5 will pull in apach2 as a depndency. Any LAMP based packages such as wordpress will bring in the components which need to be installed on the server.
A: What does it matter? Just get the software on the server you need to do the work you want to accomplish.
After the initial installation I do not know of a package that will pull all that in.
But again, simply install the components you need to accomplish your task.
And honestly, I would prefer installing individual packages rather than metapackages, especially for something so nebulous as a "LAMP" server, where the value P is ambiguous.
Everything you install becomes a vector for problems, minimize that where possible.
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Took train early in the morning from Libourne to Saint-Emilion. Clear blue sky but not yet warm weather. After quick breakfast at local coffee bar I arrived at my first place to taste wines.
It was Jean-Luc Thunevin's wine-bar "Essentiel". His wife, Murielle, was kind to open all bottles I was going to taste in vintage 2009 and 2010. I tasted first all 2009s and then all 2010s, but to make these wines easier to compare, I'll comment wines in pairs, where it's possible.
Tasting started with 2009 Domaine des Sabines (Lalande de Pomerol), a wine with intense earthy notes and blueberries, very aromatic and well balanced, fine structure and firm finish. Fine effort. 90p. 2010 Domaine des Sabines was even better with more complexity and longer finish, fine black cherries supported by sweet tannin. 91p. Splendid wine.
Bad Boy 2009 (Bordeaux AOC) had good berry aromas, was nicely structured and balanced and had nice smooth finish. 88p.
2009 Bellevue de Tayac (Margaux) was earthy and spicy on both nose and palate with nice grip and fine balance. A little bit edgy tannin. 88p. 2010 Bellevue de Tayac acted more refined, softer and smoother, and had longer aftertaste. 89p. Both fine efforts.
2009 Clos de Beau Pere (Pomerol) offered sweet black cherries, velvety texture, splendid balance and smooth long finish. Splendid wine. 89p. 2010 Clos de Beau Pere had slightly more grip, more concentration and more depth. Great effort. 90p.
2009 Clos Badon (Saint-Emilion) displayed fine and aromatic nose of dark berries with splendid balance, fine structure and fine aftertaste, while 2010 version was a tad more concentrated and had longer finish. 91p for 2009 and 92p for 2010. Both were stupendous wines.
2009 Virginie de Valandraud (Saint-Emilion) resembled a great deal of 2009 Clos Badon, but had more grip and tannin. 92p. 2010 Virginie de Valandraud displayed more concentration and more depth than 2009 version. 93p. Extremely well made wines, both of them.
2010 3 Valandraud is made from 14 ha vines out of 24 ha Jean-Luc and Murielle Thunevin own in Saint-Emilion. 10 ha are Valandraud and Virginie de Valandraud. Sweet, round and supple, delicate and with smooth fruity finish. Fine drinking already. 89p.
2009 Valandraud (Saint-Emilion), which was bottled in July 2011, was extremely well-made, gentle, rich, incredible smooth and sensual wine. 96p. 2010 Valandraud tasted exactly exquisite as 6 months ago during primeur week - seamless, long, deep, exquisite blend of black cherries and chocolate, sophisticated touch, sweet fat tannins, impeccable balance and long caressing finish. 97p. Sublime stuff both of them!
Murielle told me that she already participated a lot during 2007 harvest, when she tried to learn as much as possible, working with her husband Jean-Luc, before taking over 100% for 2008 harvest. She wants to harvest late, when grapes have reached full phenolic ripeness. That's why she didn't even started harvesting grapes at the day on my visit – they were not ready! She explained that 2011 is a very difficult vintage and will need very precise selection of grapes and careful vinification.
I tasted 2010 Virginie de Valandraud white – fresh, lemon grass, subtle, fine acidity, aromatic apple, pear and acacia. 90p. Delightful one. 2009 version of same wine but named Nr. 2 blanc, was less intense and shorter than 2010 version, but tasted just fine. 89p. 2009 Nr. 1 blanc had great acidity, very intense flavors of lemon, acacia and pear, great mineral taste and long finish. Stays in in new oak for one year. 92p. Excellent stuff.
Next stop was Tertre Roteboeuf. Francois Mitjavile decided to harvest this particular day as he felt grapes couldn't be better if he waited longer. He doesn't make second wine at Tertre Roteboeuf, so all the good grapes (even the raisiny ones as result of strong heat/sunshine) will be included in Grand Vin, only the green, pink, and ones attacked by bad botrytis would be discarded. He wouldn't give me a clear indication of which vintage 2011 can be compared with. Maybe á la 2001 he said. I've to say I'm incredibly impressed how few technical gimmicks he uses for sorting grapes, vinification and maturation, being able to produce stunningly impressive wines vintage after vintage!
I retasted 2009 (already bottled) and 2010 of both Tertre Roteboeuf and Roc de Cambes.
2009 Tertre Roteboeuf displayed fabulous aromas of wild cherries and cocoa powder, seamless texture, stunning balance, great complexity and sophisticated touch. Long, long finish underlined the beauty of this wine. 2010 version was a little bit more concentrated and had an irresistible aroma of bitter dark chocolate (Varlhona?). 97p for both wines.
2009 Roc de Cambes improves all the time. Very powerful, strong, very intense on the nose with blueberries and black cherries, with splendid balance and firm aftertaste containing ripe flavours. Stupendous effort in same class as 2005. 93p. 2010 version had reduced flavors and seemed closed. It 'll surely come around pretty soon. 92-93p?
Grapes are picked at Tertre Roteboeuf. The slope isn't that flat as it seems. It's pretty hard to go up on it!
A bunch containing a great deal of bad grapes, showing 2011 vintage's problems.
Then a short visit at Corbin, because its ever charming and chicky owner Anabelle Cruse Bardinet, was extremely busy with the harvest and preparing necessary documents to pass to Syndicate for the next classification. 2009 Corbin showed excellently ripe fruit, very aromatic approach, great balance and a lot of finesse, elegance and smooth sweet aftertaste. Extremely catching wine and with 2010 the best wines she's ever produced. 93p. 2008 Corbin was a splendid effort compared to 2009, but tannin wasn't that fine grained. Nothing to complain however, as fine intensity of dark fruit, fine balance and firm aftertaste was there. 90p.
Anabelle was very satisfied with the quality of grapes and expected to finish harvest by the end of the week (26th September or in the beginning of following week).
To finish Saint-Emilion off, I refer what Jean-Philippe Janoueix said abot 2011 harvest. At Croix Mouton he was still harvesting, La Confession was not ready yet but at La Croix St.Georges all the grapes were brougt in. He was also very satisfied with comeback of sunny and warm weather and expected 2011 to be a cross between 2001 and 2004 vintage.
In the evening I travelled across Bordeaux to Domaine de Chevalier, where I stayed until next day.
During the dinner last night at Domaine de Chevalier with several proprietors from Graves/Péssc-Leognan, I retasted the incredibly stunning 2010 red Chevalier (95p) and 2010 white Chevalier (97-98p). Among the other wines I tasted the most memorable were great 2000 red Malartic La Graviere, still young and very truffy (92p), splendid 2001 La Louviere red from magnum (91p), excellent 2008 white Chevalier (94p) and splendid 2008 Clos Floridene with fine acidity (91p), and very impressive 2001 red Chevalier which was very aromatic, gentle, elegant and with fine balance. 92p.
Domaine de Chevalier's owner Olivier Bernard, told me, that despite the all the difficulties 2011 vintage has experienced, the sunshine and warm weather which came back on the 20th September, really saved the vintage. Cabernet Sauvignon harvested today was overall in pretty good shape.
He was very happy with 2011 white Chevalier and hoped that 2011 red Chevalier could rival 2001 or maybe 2004/2008 vintage.
After harvest observations at Chevalier, I switched over to Latour Martillac in Martillac. This property makes splendid red and white wine, while not among the very top wines of the district, they both are always very reliable. Before the lunch I visited the vineyard with Tristan Kressmann who runs the property together with his brother and experienced how harvest of 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon was going on. Then I was joined by a group of 6 Argentinian winemakers and we tasted 2011 Sauvignon Blanc from the barrel, which was extremely impressive.
We tasted 2009 white Latour Martillac, which had fine aroma of acacia flower and heather, fine acidity and smooth aftertaste. 91p. 2007 red Lagrave Martillac (second wine) was pleasant, round and very drinkable (86p) while 2007 red Latour Martillac displayed surprisingly fine concentration of dark fruit, fine balance, length and finish. Splendid effort for the vintage - 89p. 1995 red Latour Martillac showed very mature flavors and was ready to drink. Tristan Kressmann explained, that Merlot was successful that year but Cabernet Sauvignon wasn't. 87p. 2005 red Latour Martillac was a great example of good things this vintage offers - perfectly ripe fruit, sweetness, many nuances and excellent length. 92p. Then a showstopper - 1975 red Latour Martillac. Still young and vivid with well-preserved aromas, truffles and excellent balance. 95p. Great experience!
From Latour Martillac I went to La Mission Haut Brion to taste 6 wines in 2008 vintage. Initially, I asked in my email to have possibility of tasting 2010 and/or 2009 vintage, but received polite "no" and explanation that 2010 was undergoing difficult fase in development (barrel) and that 2009 has been bottled 2 months ago (July 2011) and therefore both vintages not available for tasting. 2008 Le Clarence de Haut Brion was round, nicely balanced, soft texture, sweet cherry fruit and splendid structure. 90p. La Chapelle de La Mission Haut Brion acted mineral, more gentle on the palate than Clarence, with good tannin grip and fine balance. 89p.
2008 red La Mission Haut Brion was strong with fine tannin and great depth, firm finish. Classy and stylish wine. 95p. 2008 red Haut Brion offered more complex wine than La Mission with more nuances, excellent balance, finesse, richness and very long, smooth and caressing finish. Stunning wine worth all these 97p. 2008 Laville Haut Brion displayed fresh aromas of lemon grass, citrus and apple, great acidity, finesse, elegance and delicate finish. Awesome wine. 95p. 2008 white Haut Brion showed intense aromas of pear, pineapple and acacia flower, was formidably knitted together, had impeccable balance and length. Fantastic stuff. 97p. I was told that harvest would finish on the 27th September and so far they were satisfied with the quality of grapes despite the well-known weather problems in 2011.
Next stop and last visit of the day was Seguin, which I discovered one year ago during my harvest trip organized by wine syndicate of Graves/Péssac-Leognan. At Seguin, the harvest was going at full speed and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were of very, very good quality. I was left speechless tasting 2010 Seguin in the end of March and this wine continues to amaze me with all these chocolate/wild black cherry aroma, power on the palate, extremely long, sophisticated and stunning richness. The best Seguin ever produced!! 95+p. 2009 Seguin was excellent too, but didn't have the flamboyance and richness of 2010. 93p. 2008 Seguin was very mineral, multifacetted, well constructed and structured, big on the palate and with sophisticated touch. Splendid effort for the vintage. 92p.
It's a Pomerol day and I'm om my way to Clinet. My first visit ever at this property.
You can't ask for a better weather during harvest, can you? It was like that all day and 22-29 degrees Celsius.
Ronan Laborde arrived at Clinet in September 2003 and he told me it was quite difficult year to begin with and learn all the necessary things. Last three vintages (2008-2009-2010) witnesses a lot of his excellent work.
He was very happy with the weather during the week of 19th-26th September 2011, which according to him allowed grapes to get ripe and steady after barely perfect weather in previous week. Ronan expected to finish harvest in the beginning of following week.
Clinet is 85% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. 20% of Clinet's vineyard are planted with 75 years old vines, which give big concentration of fruit and tannin to the wine. Many vines are over 35 years old. Because of large content of clay in the subsoil, Clinet harvests late.
2008 Clinet displayed lot of black cherries, minerality, sweet creamy fruit and sweet long finish. Very complex and rich wine. Ronan told me, that late harvest (17th October!) that year allowed him to get the best possible out of Merlot grapes. Stunning wine worth every point of 94p. Pomerol was very successful in 2008 vintage, so Clinet fits very much in the top wines of this vintage.
2009 Clinet was strong, intense, had cherries mixed with grated chocolate, mocha, fine acidity, great balance, depth, fat ripe tannin, sophisticated touch and long firm finish. Flamboyant wine of excellent quality. 96p.
2010 Clinet seemed to be on same level as 2009, maybe slightly less concentrated,less powerful softer and more elegant. Still, a wine of immense quality. 95p.
Great visit and assurance, that Clinet is in the hands of very dedicated and talented young winemaker.
After Clinet I went to Bourgneuf, a property just behind Trotanoy. I have visited this property several times since my first visit in 1998.
Daughter and mother, Frederique and Dominique Vayron, examining bunches of Cabernet Franc. Look very happy what they see and have, don't they?
I spent several hours at Bourgneuf looking at the harvest and work in the cellar. This was the last day of the harvest (Cabernet Franc) at Bourgneuf and Vayron family felt the quality of it was excellent, not unlike 2008. Overall, they were very satisfied with 2011 harvest and especially the final part of it in brought in beautifullly sunny and warm weather.
Amid watching Frederique and Dominique Vayron spinning in and out of the cellar and also participating at sorting table, I tasted 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2005 Bourgneuf.
2009 had great intensity of sweet black cherries on the nose, chocolate flavour, fat ripe tannin, great balance, seamless structure, depth and long, intens and fruity finish. Really great effort for the vintage and Frederique's clear imprint on it. 94+p.
2008, first vintage made by Frederique Vayron with help of her father, was tight and backward with splendid concentration, well-balanced, mineral, long and nuanced. A bit of old fashioned style her with slightly rustic tannin, but anyway a splendid effort for the vintage. 92p.
2007 had hint of cocoa powder, truffles, was light and with somewhat ripe fruit, round and with good grip. Pleasant to drink already. 87p. 2005 made by Frederique's father, Xavier, had many similarities with 2008, but of course 2005 provided more ripeness and sweetnes to the fruit and tannin to this wine, and not to forget balance and depth. 100% Pomerol wine here! 93p.
After Bourgneuf, I arrived at Lafleur. It was last day of the harvest too and Jacques Guinaudeau view on the outcome of the vintage was much better now than some weeks ago. Of course he doesn't expect something similar to 2009 and 2010 vintage, merely a classic Bordeaux á la 2008.
To something completely different - it's botrytis time - Sauternes and Barsac!
My first visit of the day (Monday the 26th September) was Nairac in Barsac commune. Nicolas Tari-Heeter, told me that quantity will be significantly less than in 2009 and 2010, due to problems with the weather, ripening and presence of bad rot. Quality of the juice from already harvested grapes is splendid and he hoped that Semillon grapes around the property would gain more in alcohol content, to make better selection. He wouldn't say which vintage 2011 will resemble, but certainly it will be a fine one.
I tasted vintages 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
2009 (barrel sample) - very aromatic, sweet pineapple, apricot, honey melon, excellent support of acidity to intense and luscious fruit, long and hoyened aftertaste, great complexity and style. Sophisticated and refined. Fabulous stuff. 96p.
2008 - only 2.5 hl/ha in yield for Grand Vin because of frost in April 2008, which destroyed more than 50% of buds meaning heavy loss of grapes. It had botrytised flavours of guava on the nose, crème brulée, great intensity, fine acidity and structure. Long on the palate with graceful aftertaste. Terrific effort. 94p.
2007 - this wine showed big, big nose of intermixing flavors of grapefruit, apple, orange peel and pear. Full-bodied. Splendid acidity and beautiful balance. Rich and refined. Smooth and long finish. Fabulous stuff! 96p.
2006 - spicy botrytised flavours of grapefruit and apricot on the palate, crème brulée on the nose. Splendid balance and plenty of finesse. Honeyed aftertaste. Fine effort. 93p.
2004 - walnuts and grilled flavors (reduction), very elegant, splendid balance, stylish and rich wine. Smooth and long aftertaste. A real charmeur wine. 92p.
Then over to another property in Barsac, Coutet. Was welcomed by Aline Baly and after some sightseeing around property and in the cellar, Aline kindly offered me to taste 2010 and 2003 Coutet.
2010 Coutet offered intense flavor of acacia honey, orange peel and pear, great combination of sweetness and acidity, superb concentration of candied fruits on the palate and smooth finish. Refined with great elegance and style. It's for sure gained more intensity and concentration since primeur week. 93p.
2003 Coutet was extremely impressive – orange marmalade, candied orange peel , crème brulée with stunning intensity and acidity, rich and sophisticated, great balance and long caressing aftertaste. 95p. This vintage offers almost unlimited combination with food, especially Asian ones. I wonder btw how 2003 Coutet would suit dishes with cépes? – I'll certainly find out of the combination, as I own both several half and normal bottles of this wine.
Harvest was still going on at Coutet when I visited it and Aline told me it would take additional 2-3 weeks to finish it.
Cru Monplaisir (Bordeaux Superieur, situated close to Gironde, just outside Margaux appelation) - ripe fruit, terroir very present, soft and well-balanced with nice grip and intensity on the palate. 88p.
Eyrins (Margaux) – mineral, strong tannin, nice acidity, quite powerful. Looks very promising. 89-90p.
Respide Medeville red - very aromatic with clear wild cherry aroma, powerful with plenty of fruit and tannin in fine balance. Glorious effort. 91p.
Les Justices - nose and palate of sweet pineapple marinated in sugar, excellent acidity to support thrilling sweetness of fruit. 92p.
1989 Gilette – latest vintage release of this wine. Heavy style with alcohol very present but not dominating. Extremely intense botrytised flavors of creme brulée, pineapple and melasse, great interplay between sweetness and acidity, stunning concentration and depth, very strong structure, extremely long finish. Typical of the vintage. 96-97p.
Last visit of the day took place at Raymond Lafon, a property which makes high value wines. Jean-Pierre Meslier, always very good to have discussion with and not only about wine, told me that harvested grapes looked just fine and that the harvest would take around two weeks more. He was very kind to prepare tasting for me of following vintages, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007.
2000 – September pickings were of high quality but then rain came and didn't stop for remaining months of the year. Acacia honey, sweet pineapple, light but elegant with finesse. Very charming and nice to drink now before the big vintages get mature. 89p.
2003 - 99.9% of entire harvest became Grand Vin!! Extremely intense nose of melasse, mango, candied mandarine peel, crème brulée. These botrytised flavors were incredible and deep. Extremely rich, unctuous and extremely long on the palate, with acidity matching perfectly gobs of sweetness. This was extraordinary stuff, pure extravaganza I say, 99.9% legend and a perfect example of flamboyant style of Bordeaux stickies. I think those who criticize 2003 vintage for being too much sugar and too little acidity, can really eat their words now! This vintage's really opened for floodgates this year with fantastic wines matching all kinds of food perfectly. 99p.
2004 - Only 1/3 of entire harvest went into Grand Vin - grapes were picked between 27th September and 7th October. It possessed extremely fine botrytis and intense aromatic nose of pear and guava and crème brulée. On the palate, there was citron fromage, great depth and complexity, and acidity mingled perfectly med sweetness. Stunning wine for the vintage! 95p.
2005 - 70% of the harvest went into Grand Vin. Light yellow. Pure, very aromatic with big intensity of botrytised flavors like apricots and walnuts, very rich, great balance and sophisticated touch. Fabulous wine with great potential. 96p.
2007 - Strong botrytised aromas of lemon, grapefruit, orange peel and citrus, strong and powerful on the palate, mineral, beautiful acidity and honeyed aftertaste. Great effort for the vintage. 95p.
Marvellous ending of the day in Sauternes & Barsac.
This last day of visits in Bordeaux turned out to be a very special day and one always to remember.
Early in the sunny morning, my Bordeaux friend, Alexandre Rychlewski drove me to first stop in our visiting schedule, Château Margaux. For me, entering the "land" of Château Margaux, is always a very special and extraordinary feeling and for once I forgot during all my visit, how expensive it has become. We came 20 minutes too early, but on our way to parking, we noticed Paul Pontalier, Château Margaux' manager, checking around the vineyard if everything was OK.
He joined us app. 20 minutes later and just imagine that he stayed with us for almost 1½ hour of his precious time, despite the fact that it was last day of harvest. Incredibly nice gesture from him! I've always had a great admiration for Paul Pontalier as he's never let me down during my visits at Château Margaux and have opened the bottles I've asked for.
He told us, that grapes were not affected by rot here, yield per ha will barely exceed 28 hl and first vats indicating something similar to 2008. After some sightseeing in vineyard and looking at work of 50 pickers in one part of the vineyard (there were 6 groups á 50 pickers in different places of Margaux' vineyard), we went inside away from blue skies and hot weather, and to our surprise we saw operational center in the room Margaux uses for tastings during primeur week. Every bin is analysed, position of the pickers visible, filling of the vats and analyse result s of harvested grapes. Two computer experts are included full time in the staff at Margaux and they've both developed the software for monitoring the harvest.
Talking about 2011 vintage, he said, that seeing burnt grapes in the end of June (42 degrees Celsius) was something he hasn't experienced for 45 years, not even in 2003!
Then, vintages 2010, 2009 and 2008 were ready to be tasted.
2010 Margaux – great elegance and class, stunning depth and structure, velvety, sweet cherries, wonderful balance, great depth, extremely long and lingering aftertaste. Racking last month affected this wine just slightly. 98p.
2009 Margaux – what a jaw-dropping wine! My friend told me that this wine stole his heart, but obviously it took mine too. Wonderful, penetrating, extremely intense and deep nose of black cherries and grated Varlhona chocolate. Paul Pontalier said that the nose of this wine reminded him of 1953 Margaux and I couldn't agree more! Did taste this wine in 1990 and the fragrance of it is sensantional. Back to 2009 – great distinction, seamless, sophisticated, extremely long with many layers and with lingering velvety aftertaste. Flamboyant and breathless wine. 100p.
2008 Margaux – I own few bottles of this wine and was curious to see how it fared. It started with great notes of cherries, freshness, seamless structure and great minerality. Not as flamboyant as 2009, but still classy and stylish wine with great personality. Wonderfully balanced and with excellent acidity. After tasting it, I've every reason to jump of joy, having purchased this wine primeur at 1/5 of the price of 2009 vintage or 1/7 of the price of 2010 vintage. 97p.
After tasting, we circled around sorting table and in the cellars. This was a fantastic visit with so many impressions. Thank you very much Paul Pontalier!
Next visit took place at Lascombes, situated just outside Margaux town. Recently sold to a French mutual insurance company.
Harvest of Cabernet Sauvignon was still going on there. We were received by a youngest member of staff at Lascombes, Anais (it's true - same name as Cacharel perfume), pretty womanl in her mid-20s. Bright and intelligent. After quick sightseeing in high mood, we tasted 2010 Lascombes. It showed much better than during primeur week. Much more intensity and concentration, better balance, more power and longer finish. 92p.
Then some close look at the harvest. Lascombes is renting optical sorting machine, which cost around 1.500 €/day. However, to be sure, there was sorting table placed after this optical wonder. We saw some bunches with rotten grapes but they didn't pass the final sorting. A lunch with pickers followed and we were treated with fruity and round 2008 Chevalier de Lascombes (second wine 86p) and fine 2006 Lascombes (91p) with splendid minerality, complexity and firm finish.
Dominic Bevfe, Lascombes' manager, was pretty satisfied with what he had in vats, especially after very sunny and warm weather arrived on the 20th September and allowed grapes to get final "touch", following very changeable weather conditions in spring and summer, resulting in uneven ripening, lack of water and rot.
The day ended at Château Saint-Pierre in Saint-Julien, where we tasted 2010, 2008 and 2007 of both Saint-Pierre and Gloria, who have the same owner.
2010 Gloria – very aromaticon the nose with cherries, splendid ripe tannin, fine balance and firm finish. Splendid wine. 91p.
2010 Saint- Pierre - more powerful and more structured than Gloria and also more concentrated with bigger depth and longer finish. Excellent wine. 93p.
2008 Gloria – more mineral than 2010 version, cherries on the nose, meaty wine firm tannins, fine balance. Slightly dry on the finish. 89p.
2008 Saint-Pierre – softer texture than in Gloria, more refined tannins and ripe cherries. Aftertaste could have been smoother here as it's quite dry. 91p.
2007 Gloria – some green flavors on the nose, round, light, fruity and with nice length. Rather anonymous wine. 86p.
2007 Saint-Pierre – more concentration and tannin on the palate, and stronger finish than in Gloria. Nothing more than just a nice wine. 87p.
I wonder if 2010 vintage comes without wounds through the hands of winemaker/cellar master at Gloria/Saint-Pierre, because 2008 and 2007 could have been a lot better, if there was more attention to details during vinification.
1. Wines from best soils, gifted and clever winemakers, very strict selection, careful maceration/extraction, not too high temperature during fermentation and reasonable use of new oak - this is prescription for successful 2011.
2. Even with low production in 2011, I predict prices going down at least 50% next year.
3. Which vintage can 2011 be compared to? I heard Bordeaux winemakers say, 2001, 2003 (?), 2004, 2006 and 2008, and of course not close to 2009 and 2010. We'll know better in January next year after malolactic fermentation is finished. White bordeaux is very successful and predicted to be between 2008 and 2009 vintages, while Sauternes & Barsac seems to continue its excellent run since 2001 vintage and expect 2011 to be low in yield but high in quality á la 2007 vintage.
4. I love going to Bordeaux twice a year - to taste a vintage in March/April, which birth I witnessed 7 months before, and then going in September/October to witness birth of new "child". I believe seeing the vintage being born help me to understand better wines presented 7 months later. 2011 was my 12th harvest experience and I can say that all these 12 vintages have been different.
Just a comment about the last mentioned video. It's tradition at Lafleur on last day of harvest to cut the bunch with grapes on vine growing up the wall of the house. Funny stuff! | {
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The Walk Friendly Communities (WFC) program recognized seven new communities and renewed designations for three past recipients for their commitment to prioritizing pedestrians and creating safe, comfortable and inviting places to walk.
WFC is a national recognition program developed to encourage cities and towns across the United States to develop and support walking environments with an emphasis on safety, mobility, access, and comfort. Sponsored by FedEx and managed by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center since 2010, the program distinguishes communities leading the way in walkability and seeks to share their stories to inspire other communities to move towards their own innovative solutions.
This year also marks a new high honor distinction: New York, New York earned the Platinum level designation. Joining Seattle, Washington in the top tier, these two cities among 65 Walk Friendly Communities across the nation are the only two recognized as Platinum level.
Cities and towns interested in joining the ranks of Walk Friendly Communities are encouraged to submit an application. The next round of applications is open now, and submissions are due by June 15, 2017. Interested communities are encouraged to visit www.walkfriendly.org to learn more about the program and review the application process.
"FedEx is very proud to sponsor the Walk Friendly Communities program. As part of our 2016 FedEx Cares commitment to invest $200 million in 200 communities around the world by 2020, this program has had a far-reaching impact across the United States in making communities safer for pedestrians." said Rose Flenorl, manager, FedEx Global Citizenship. | {
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Il rifugio Capanna Trieste è una grande costruzione che sorge in val Corpassa, con vista sul gruppo del monte Civetta e della Moiazza, facilmente raggiungibile tramite la strada della Val Corpassa che prende il via da Listolade e termina proprio al rifugio.
Storia
Ogni anno in luglio viene attraversato dalla Transcivetta, gara podistica di alta montagna lunga più di 20 km che percorre tutta la val Civetta. Il rifugio da inizio 2009 ha una nuova gestione, inaugurata il giorno 3 maggio 2009.
Accessi
Il rifugio è facilmente raggiungibile in auto dall'abitato di Listolade sulla strada statale 203 Agordina, percorrendo una carrareccia stretta ma asfaltata, che risale dapprima la sinistra orografica del rio Corpassa, e poi la destra, attraversando un piccolo ponte ristrutturato.
Il rifugio è anche il punto di partenza per i sentieri e le vie ferrate del gruppo del Civetta e della Moiazza.
Galleria d'immagini
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Sintex introduces high-corrosion resistant stainless steel products
Sintex introduced its corrosion-resistant duplex stainless steel component at Stainless Steel World Duplex (Courtesy Sintex)
Sintex a/s, headquartered in Hobro, Denmark, recently presented its new corrosion-resistant PM duplex stainless steel component at the Stainless Steel World Duplex in Rotterdam, Germany.
Sintex has stated that its duplex stainless steels are suitable for use within severe environments and can be processed via Metal Injection Moulding, Binder Jetting and Material Extrusion. The company supplies to a wide variety of industries across the world, including energy, automotive, medical, electronics.
At the Stainless Steel World Duplex conference, Peter Kjeldsteen, Chief of Marketing & Innovation, gave an introduction to the company's duplex stainless steels, discussing its applicability and future potential. The company also covered the corrosion resistance and mechanical properties, the possibility of reducing the need for welded and bolted assemblies, and whether complex geometries are needed in stainless steels.
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Release Day for Taming Tara!
I'm keeping this post short because I've blogged in several places this week about my release today. Taming Tara is out with Ellora's Cave. I've blogged about how this story is a modern-day telling of The Taming of the Shrew. If you're interested in how Shakespeare inspired a D/s story, check out the blogs here and here).and I also blogged today at Nine Naughty Novelists about the naming woes I had with this book.
As always, if you're a member of my newsletter, I'll give away a copy of Taming Tara to one commenter there - I know it's a busy holiday weekend so I'm going to draw the winner Sunday evening. | {
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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia is expected to play a more prominent role in ensuring the continued stability and peace in the region upon assuming the ASEAN chair next year, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
"The South China Sea disputes and the intercession of outside interests makes maintaining the security and stability of the region more complex.
"These possible causes of conflict require more than the diplomatic efforts of our governments to diffuse tensions," he said when closing the Putrajaya Forum yesterday.
Muhyiddin said the world is not only recognising the importance of ASEAN as a platform for maintaining peace and stability, but as a forum for engagement with regional powers such as China, India, Japan and South Korea.
"It is a known fact that since the formation of ASEAN in 1967, there has not been any open conflicts among its member countries.
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He said that as Malaysia is vying for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council next year, it will augur well for ASEAN and countries in the region should the bid be endorsed.
"With the tragic case of MH370, which has affected the nation so profoundly, the incident not only brought the whole nation and region together but also strengthened the camaraderie we have had among ASEAN members and beyond.
"The close cooperation forged among us will put us in good stead for the future when faced with a security challenge," he said.
Organised by the Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security, the two-day forum was in conjunction with the 14th Defence Services Asia (DSA) Exhibition and Conference at the Putra World Trade Centre. | {
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Started out as national communications director for the campaign; earlier served as communications director for The Democracy Foundation, the 501(c)(3) founded by Gravel in 2001. Experience in the motion picture and television industries (Columbia Pictures), government (New York City and Syracuse, N.Y. as an Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation), corporate public relations, and on campaigns (Carter/Mondale alumnus). B.A. from Long Island University. | {
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Jaguars' Dante Fowler Suspended One Game For Violating NFL's Personal Conduct Policy
The NFL has suspended the Jaguars DE for one game without pay for violating the league's personal conduct policy.
Emily Caron
The NFL has suspended Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. for one game without pay for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.
While the league did not specify the reason fo the suspension, Fowler was arrested in 2017 in St. Petersburg and pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor charges of battery, criminal mischief and petit theft in March regarding the incident. The 23-year-old was sentenced to a year of probation, 75 hours of community service, and $2,575 in fines.
Fowler will miss the Jaguars season opener against the New York Giants on Sept. 9th but will be eligible to return to active status for Week 2 against the Patriots. He is still eligible to participate in all preseason practices and games, the NFL said in a statement.
"We were informed today of Dante's one-game suspension and we will abide by the league's ruling," Jaguar's executive VP of football operations Tom Coughlin said in a statement. "We'll work to get Dante ready to play when he is able to return."
Fowler has 12 career sacks with the Jags. In May, Jacksonville opted not to pick up Fowler's fifth-year option so he will become an unrestricted free agent next spring.
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STRYPER – The Sound Of Sweet Rebellion
It's probably in poor taste to suggest the members of Stryper have sold their souls in exchange for their current success. The Christian metal band's 2005 comeback, Reborn, put an end to 15 years of silence (not including some sporadic touring) and was an all-important step into a decade that saw the band release four studio albums, a cover album, a volume of Stryper re-recordings, and a live record / DVD, interspersed with international tours. Considering the way Stryper splintered and died following their Against The Law album from 1990, nobody really expected them to get back together let alone turn the momentum kicked up by Reborn into wave after wave of in your face material. Their latest assault is the fourth album of all original songs since Stryper's reunion, and album entitled Fallen that has the fans locked in yet again and has vocalist / guitarist Michael Sweet grinning from ear to ear.
"At the end of the day what's important, obviously, is that we feel we're pleasing God and we're pleasing ourselves," Sweet says of the band's continued success. "The icing on the cake is how the fans feel about the new album.We try to ask questions and get feedback from the fans, and we apply that when we make an album. If they want to hear an epic six minute song with tempo changes, we give them 'Yahweh'. We try to listen to the fans without selling ourselves out, and I think we did that this time."
As a first taste of Fallen, it's safe to say nobody was expecting the epic attack of 'Yahweh'. The song is easily on par with one of Stryper's strongest songs ever, 'Soldiers Under Command', and goes a step beyond.
"I don't think anyone was expecting that, truthfully. It's definitely down a different avenue for us. We've never done a six-and-a-half minute song, we've never had a bunch of time changes in a song; it borders on the progressive side of rock. Did we do that to try and fit in? No. We grew up on all this kind of stuff. We're huge Iron Maiden fans and we love Dream Theater, we listen to all of that stuff, and it's not out of our wheelhouse at all to do something like 'Yahweh'. And then you bring in the fact that Clint Lowery from Sevendust had a hand in the making of the song… he sent me the original riff and I ran with it."
Considering the ebb and flow of metal since Stryper broke out in the '80s, it's fair to say the band is more relevant now than they ever were. Chalk it up to staying in the metal public's eye consistently since Reborn.
"It is pretty remarkable," Sweet agrees, "and I feel if you were to take the popularity of the band right now and this surge that's going on with the fans, take that back to 1988 when we released In God We Trust, I think we'd have an album that could do 10 million in sales and see Stryper playing larger venues. I think Stryper would have become larger than life. It's a struggle for bands these days because of the music industry but at the same time, with Stryper being the underdog band that never fit in, for us to still be around and somewhat relevant playing sold out venues is really astonishing. A band that's gone against everything really shouldn't still be around."
Some folks are happy to argue against Stryper's relevance and worth, of course, and Sweet is more than happy to shut them down.
"It's funny because I go on YouTube and Facebook and read the comments – I probably shouldn't but I do (laughs) – when we get some jackass saying Stryper sucks and isn't relevant, I'd like to pull these people out of their Mom's basement and take them to one of our shows so they can tell our fans that. They'd probably get a good beating. In the name of God, of course (laughs)."
The way Sweet talks about the inner workings of Stryper, it's clear he is in fact the creative force steering the ship now more than ever. Makes sense considering the band fell to pieces when he left back in 1992.
"I am, and I know some people will roll their eyes at this because I've seen it in person. That's fine. It's always been like that. Robert (Sweet / drums) was always the visual guy and I was always the music guy. I wrote at least nine out of 10 songs on every Stryper album in the past, and 10 out of 10 songs on the newer ones. I write and arrange them and teach the songs to the guys, but that's not to take away from Tim (Gaines / bass), Oz (Fox / guitars) or Rob. They're very talented guys and we all write, but we all write in different styles. I'm the guy that writes the Stryper style that you're hearing now and what is considered our classic sound. That's what I do."
"I've always got new ideas in my head. I'm always humming a melody. If you and I were to go a get a coffee right now, at some point you'd hear me humming to myself because there's always music being made in my head."
"Here's the thing, and I've talked about this a lot over the past four or five years: I've been diagnosed with being ADHD. The person that diagnosed me with it said it's a great thing and probably the reason why I'm so driven and fairly successful at what I do. That's because I hyper-focus on what I do, which is make music. When I start on an album that's all I do until it's done. Unfortunately, it's not good for my family and my friends because they don't hear from me for three months (laughs). I don't return emails or phone calls, it's a bad thing. But, that being said, I'm very focused, and when people say I can't do something it makes me want to do it even more. I've heard all the comments saying that Stryper's well has gone dry, and I don't want to say we have anything to prove, but it sometime feel like we do. I'm make a promise to everybody: until we stop making albums, each one is going to get better. We're not gonna go back, we're gonna go forward. The next album is going to be better than Fallen."
Brave words when you take into account Fallen's predecessor, No More Hell To Pay, was pegged by many of Stryper's die hard fans as the best album since the band's legendary 1986 record, To Hell With The Devil. But yeah, Fallen is in that stratosphere even though there's a marked difference between the two.
"Fallen is a little bit of a departure for Stryper, and that's what I like about it instantly better than No More Hell To Pay," Sweet admits. "And I love No More Hell To Pay; that's a Stryper album I can actually listen to from start to finish. I can't listen to The Yellow And Black Attack, In God We Trust or Against The Law. I won't call those three albums masterpieces because I don't think they are. If you ask me what the Stryper masterpieces are, I would say Soldiers Under Command, To Hell With The Devil, and No More Hell To Pay. Those are my three epic Best Of Stryer albums. I can easily say add Fallen to that list."
"The thing I like about Fallen is the sonic quality of it. We did something different by going to an analog console in the digital realm, and it added something in the low end department that No More Hell To Pay doesn't have. This is a beefier sounding album, I like the flow of it, and it's a little more focused in terms of the direction. I'm so pleased with the road that we're on right now."
Which is reminiscent of the band's anthem-oriented To Hell With The Devil days.
"Exactly. I can't wait to do another album (laughs). And I'm actually going to start work in a few weeks on a solo album. It should come out in April or May next year. I'm going real old school with that one; no keyboards, no big background vocals, guitar driven, metal a la 'Run To The Hills'. It's going to be really different for a Michael Sweet solo album. It's the sort of thing where it's really what I want to do, and I'm kinda tired of hearing 'I like your solo stuff but the Stryper stuff is way heavier…' for the past 20 years. This solo album is going to be as heavy or heavier than Stryper. Imagine when you heard 'Yahweh' the first time; every song on my solo album is going to be that epic kinda stuff."
It's interesting how Sweet is so gung-ho about making music, yet earlier this year he aked Stryper's Facebook followers how it would go over if the band "found some young lad who can hit all the hight notes and I just play guitar and sing from time to time?" The thread quite naturally exploded like fireworks in a Zippo factory.
"(Laughs) I was interested in hearing what people had to say, but I was partially serious because it's getting harder and harder to sing these songs, man. I can still do it but it's definitely harder to hit the high notes. I have my vocal chords checked out every three or four years, and the doctor always comes in and says 'Your vocal chords look perfect.' The problem is that as we age the vocal chords start to stiffen and you lose your range."
An affliction that has yet to slow Sweet down. Listening to him pull off the high end scream capping off 'The Way' live, for example, is still a goosebump-raising moment some almost-30 years on. Not the least bit shabby for a metalhead over 50.
"I do it when I can for the most part, but sometimes I can't," says Sweet. "I try and choose my battles when we play live, I don't hit every high note, but I try to hit the ones everyone expects to hear like in 'Soldiers Under Command' and 'The Way'."
Stryper has never been shy about their Christian beliefs and Fallen is as message-heavy as they've ever been, with Sweet going so far as to use scripture as the basis for some of his recent lyrics. The band's pro-Christianity stance rubs some people the wrong way, but it's interesting to see how much the metal press supports Stryper as a viable entity these days. It's a far cry from the '80s when praise for their work was consistently (over)shadowed by religious stigma.
"Metal and rock n' roll is all about rebellion, it's all about rebelling against 'the man' or society or whatever, and Stryper are the biggest rebels of all," Sweet says without batting an eye. "We've rebelled against metal and metalheads, we've rebelled against everybody. Christianity is not popular; people are getting their heads cut off for it, and here we are waving the flag for Christianity in front of 10,000 Muslims in Jakarta. That's rebellious. Let's see Slayer do that. I have nothing against Slayer at all, but I've heard all the comments about us: 'Stryper are a bunch of pussies, they're faggots, they can't play, they suck…' We get those comments all the time. It's unbelievable. And I'm just thinking 'Really..?'"
I recount for Sweet an incident from earlier this year when I played 'Yahweh' for a metalhead friend and asked him who it was. Dude had no clue, and when he was informed it was Stryper his jaw dropped. If he wasn't a Stryper convert, he at least gained some respect for the band.
"It's funny we're talking about this," says Sweet. "A buddy of mine plays Stryper songs for his co-workers without telling them it's Stryper, and I don't know if it was 'Yahweh' or 'Fallen' that he played for them the last time but those people thought the song was amazing. They asked who it was, and the second they heard it was Stryper they were like 'Oh, yeah, well, I'm not into that.' That's crazy, and it comes down to this and this alone: we are Christians. It's as simple as that. The world hates Christ for the most part."
And yet Stryper is still here and making some real noise, which is a sign of true strength. Sweet appreciates the sentiment.
"It comes down to Good versus Evil. If you stand for God you stand for holiness, and Evil hates holiness. I'm a sinner, I do evil things, I'm not this perfect saint, but there are people in the world who don't like Christianity, or they're Atheists that attack Christians like wolves. That's a big part of what drives Stryper. We like the challenge, we love what we do, and we're going to keep doing it. We don't let this bring us down. We're going to keep going and if it aggravates people, so be it."
Posted on November 5, 2015 Author carlCategories The InterviewsTags Fallen, Michael Sweet, No More Hell To Pay, Oz Fox, Robert Sweet, Stryper, Tim Gaines, To Hell With The Devil
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Beyond Green: How Sustainability Can Be a Core Value for Your Tour Company
BY Nissa Campbell
IN Tourism Best Practices, Tourism Trends
For many of us, sustainability is no longer just a good idea – it's a matter of self-preservation. Tourism is hit particularly hard by changes in climate, particularly in regions where weather is a major driver for tourists.
Just this summer, a popular ski camp shuttered in Whistler, BC after nearly 30 successful years. As its founders explained on Facebook, Whistler's Horstman glacier has lost too much ice to maintain the jumps and runs its campers expect — even after a record-breaking winter snowfall. In one year alone, the glacier lost an irreplaceable 35 vertical feet of ice.
In regions that are less wealthy and less insulated from the impact, the situation can be even more dire. The islands of Vanuatu have supported a small but healthy tourism industry. Now, sea-level rise, coastal erosion and extreme weather threaten not just tourism — which is a significant sector of the island economy — but also access to necessities like food, water and shelter.
These seismic shifts are going to change the face of global tourism, and they're also changing priorities for businesses. For many, "going green" is an insufficient half measure when the stakes are so high and so personal. Embracing sustainability as a core value is an increasingly popular alternative.
What are core values?
Core values drive every major decision your company makes, whether you're aware of it or not. When weighing all the factors that go into a decision, we consciously or subconsciously assign higher weights to things that fit our core values. So if "Profit" is a core value for your company, you'll prefer solutions that lead directly to more money coming in, or less money going out.
But when we fail to define our core values, we end up serving goals we don't intend. Profit is good, but it's generally best when tempered by values like growth and ethical business practices. Similarly, environmental sustainability might not be immediately profitable, but it may provide long-term value that's worth prioritizing. By defining core values clearly, we can turn a passive process into an active part of decision making.
Want to define your company's core values? Start here.
Sustainability is big business
If sustainability is one of your core values, you're in good company. Businesses around the world have embraced the environmental and financial benefits sustainable practices bring. Companies as large as Apple, Coca-Cola and IKEA have gone leaps and bounds beyond what any government regulations require — not only because it's best for the planet, but because it's necessary for their bottom line.
In fact, that may be the biggest myth about environmental sustainability: that it's massively more expensive than the alternative. In reality, companies are finding that the only financially responsible move is to get away from using non-renewables and unsustainable business practices. That's Economics 101: if a resource is going to run out, it's going to be a lot more expensive before it does.
IKEA was once known for nothing more than affordable and disposable furniture. How did it go from that to becoming a corporate sustainability leader?
It wasn't easy, but neither was it a grueling process. Instead, the company embraced the challenge of turning a multi-billion dollar, international company into a sustainable business as a creative opportunity.
Changes vary by country, based on needs, opportunities and local laws. It invests in renewable energy sources like wind and solar wherever it can, with the goal of becoming energy self-sufficient by 2020. It finds creative ways to zero its waste stream — in the UK, this has even been a profitable endeavor. It works with employees to build a culture of sustainability within the company, and invests in helping them make their own lives and homes more sustainable. It owns its own recycling plants, uses cardboard and other waste in its product lines, and reevaluates popular products to find new, more efficient solutions. Recently, it's been investigating opportunities to extend the lifespans of its products.
Last year, IKEA's chief sustainability officer Steve Howard explained the company's aggressive sustainability push at a climate conference in London.
His argument was that for businesses setting 90 percent targets, for example, many staff and colleagues instinctively will try to be part of the remaining 10 percent to preserve the status quo. Meanwhile, setting even lower targets of around 50 percent — or as Howard put it, saying "we're not going to be half as bad as we are today" — is not very aspirational and leaves everybody "completely confused."
"You've not declared what success looks like," Howard said. "If you set 100 percent targets, immediately you stop all research and development in historical technologies, products or services and you put all of your efforts into looking at the future."
So if you want to follow in the footsteps of these giants, where do you begin? The options are almost endless, after all. To narrow it down, look to the experts. Travelife, an organization that certifies sustainable businesses in the travel industry, identifies five key areas where the most improvement can be made:
Office operations, by e.g. saving paper and energy resources, and complying to best labour practices.
Product development, by integrating sustainability principles in the selection process of providers (e.g.
accommodations, transport companies, excursions).
Working with providers, by supporting and motivating existing partners towards sustainability with for example
training, information and incentives.
Customer relations, by creating awareness and responsible choices through for example information and codes of
conduct.
Destinations, by supporting destination stakeholders' efforts to address sustainability issues, and financially
contributing to conservation and development projects.
Those points are listed in a loose priority order. First, you need to have your internal operations and product development headed in a more sustainable direction. That gives you the authority you'll need to encourage providers and customers toward more sustainable practices.
What might sustainable operations look like for your company? Canadian ski resort Whistler Blackcomb might provide a good example. With glacier ice reduction threatening the resort's future, it's made environmental sustainability a core part of its mission. It's goal? A Zero Operating Footprint.
For Whistler Blackcomb, that means two major endeavors: reaching zero waste, and offsetting 100 percent of its energy use.
Whistler glacier. Source: Ruth Hartnup
The resort streamlined its waste management operations, diverted more waste to recycling, compost, or reuse, and started minimizing packaging and other wasteful practices. As a result, Whistler Blackcomb has reached a point where 60 percent of its waste is diverted from the landfill. It's still working toward that zero waste goal, with regular auditing and a clear plan to get there.
To offset its energy use, Whistler Blackcomb worked with local energy providers to install a micro hydro renewable energy plant. Seven years after starting operations, it returns an equivalent of the resort's annual demand to the grid. Whistler Blackcomb reports that its sustainability programs have resulted in $1,000,000 in annual savings and increased employee and guest satisfaction.
Diverting waste and reducing or offsetting energy use are two worthwhile endeavors, but they aren't the only ways to make your business more sustainable. As part of its International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, the United Nations World Tourism Organization highlights five ways tourism can contribute to sustainability:
Inclusive and sustainable economic growth
Social inclusiveness, employment and poverty reduction
Resource efficiency, environmental protection and climate change
Cultural values, diversity and heritage
Mutual understanding, peace and security
Reducing our environmental impact is just one part of securing a sustainable future for everyone. Whatever your goals, strong leadership and a supportive organizational culture will go a long way to helping you reach them.
Communicating your goals
When it comes to activism-based values, communication can be almost as important as action.
Look at a company like Ben & Jerry's. Despite its focus on product — tasty, rich ice cream — its fans know it a brand with a progressive political agenda. That brand positioning isn't a happy accident, or the result of a few pro-environment carton labels (though that's part of it). It's the result of a lot of hard, sometimes frustrating work.
Over time, Ben & Jerry's transformed its business to support its core value of "linked prosperity" at all levels, from its choice of providers to its philanthropic efforts. The company communicates its values constantly: in its marketing, in annual environmental reports, in its business practices as a B Corp, and its social outreach. Because it takes on this authentic, "inside the pint, out" effort, consumers embrace the messaging. And for Ben & Jerry's, that messaging is part of the work, too. By inviting customers to be part of their efforts, they encourage customers toward similar types of activism in a way that a quiet sustainability plan couldn't achieve.
And that same ethos can serve your tour or activity company. For example, one of the most important rules of any excursion into the natural world is to leave the environment in better shape than you found it. By encouraging guests to embrace that standard through your own words and actions, you create a ripple effect. Some of your guests will carry that tradition forward in their own lives, protecting other regions around the world, and the places their companions visit, and their children, and on and on.
Curious about B Corps? Need some guidance to better align your company's practices to sustainable values? Check out these sustainability resources.
Adopting sustainability as a core value isn't easy, and the benefits aren't always immediately apparent. But with careful planning and implementation, your company can be more sustainable, more profitable, and more popular — and will help create a better future in the process.
Written by Nissa Campbell
Nissa Campbell is an author and blogger who covers tourism and technology . Since 2014, she has been documenting booking software at Rezgo and working with tour operators at all levels of the industry to help them find solutions to their technical needs.
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1) Emotional Pixar Themes – Beyond the Guitar posted his arrangement this week of some of the heartbreaking Pixar movie themes. Masterful music – you just don't expect to feel sad in a children's animated film. Still the sweetest memories of these nights at the movies. Did you see them all?
2) Relationships – I discovered a few unique articles this week on the precious, life-giving quality of relationships. One of those articles even deals with relationship-shattering divorce (I have dear friends and family who have experienced the hard of divorce. This article is for those who have had divorce thrust on them or they are considering divorce as their only recourse…at least worth the read…).
If you have a resource you have found affirming regarding relationships, please share in Comments.
Those we want to care for are the ones we need to get to know, look them in the eye, and give ear…then we might be able to come alongside them, and together we help make their lives better.
Look for this sort of effort in your own community.
He drew in discouraged physicians, harried nurses, and desperate patients and families with this question.
I love the question…it works magic in the workplace, in families, everywhere.
5) Reason –The Supreme Court of the United States has a vacancy. The US President nominates a candidate. The next step is for the Senate Judiciary Committee to do the heavy and serious work of examining the fitness of the candidate before releasing their name to the Senate for a vote. This is a weeks-long process.
Finally the candidate sits before the Committee to answer their questions. The Judiciary Committee is made up of 11 senators – men and women. Documents and witnesses are presented. It can be a grueling process for everyone.
Our current situation is the accusation of sexual assault by a woman who once knew the nominee. This week, she gave testimony, and the nominee gave his response. She said…he said.
Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, establishing and verifying facts, applying logic, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information. It is considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.
Watching the proceedings of this confirmation hearing was like nothing I have ever seen before. The vitriole. The partisan divide. The reckless treatment of people. The lying (there must be lying somewhere).
Whoever watched these proceedings would take one side or the other. There is no room for fence-sitting on these issues. How do we reason out what is happening here? How do we reason together when it seems people refuse to hear and try to understand the other side?
Where I would see reason, another person might see something very different…and on the flip side, I also saw something else…so damaging to the individuals interviewed this week…and to our country. God help us.
All that said…It's Not Over Yet.
That's the five for this week. How about you? Please share. Have a relaxing weekend…spent with people you love. Blessings!
Why are we so hard on ourselves and each other? Intuitively, we know in our core, that we can be better…and that others should be. We mark behavior. We analyze successes and failures. We self-reference. Am I measuring up? Are you measuring up? To what?
All this judging should completely wear us out. Yet…we become unaware we are even doing it. In fact, our bent toward judging is probably one of the reasons we (Christians and those who don't follow Christ) struggle with addictions…to turn off that part of our brain. Unfortunately, the safeguard of judging (that of critical and logical thinking) is also impacted here.
This whole lifestyle of having opinions and being sometimes critical spills over into our faith. We judge God.
We judge God. Listen to that. How strange for the Created to question the mind of the Creator! Yet, we struggle with what we don't understand. We shake our heads and raise our "why" to Heaven. Or worse…some precious ones walk away from God…disappointed.
Christian artist Mandisa went through a very dark time spiritually and emotionally as she lost her best friend to cancer. Take the time to read her story, please. Her album Out of the Dark came out of her journey back to God after this terrible loss.
The song "Unfinished" (from that album) speaks so beautifully to our experience of not being where we want to be…hoped to be…and the truth of God's work in us…and for us.
Mandisa's Unfinished reminded me of an old praise chorus sung by Steve Green. Taken straight from Scripture, we are reminded that "He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it".
With all our travels, we've been to some of the world's great museums. In them, often there's a painting by one of the Masters…unfinished. The artwork still shows off the fine hand of the painter…but it is incomplete…without detail. Stopped abruptly.
For us, God has promised we won't forever be unfinished. He will complete what He's started in our lives. For this reason alone, we are called to be gentle with ourselves and with each other. Reminding ourselves that we all are works in progress.
As for our judging God, in the crush of disappointment or confusion? I always go back to Peter's words to Jesus (John 6:67-69) – "To whom would we go?" No one…nothing…is like Him.
We don't yet know how it all comes out…but we know God. He will finish what He has begun.
She wasn't perfect, of course. Reflection can spiral down to worry or fretting, and Mom struggled with that. Reflection can also err in over-thinking or over-analyzing. Mom could fall into "meddling", giving instructions, or offering advice not asked for, but this was a most rare occasion. Even when she did it, I knew and appreciated her heart. She was right on the mark much of the time.
My whole life I have strived to learn from her and to be like her.
Reflection as a life habit is difficult for me. I like to fill time…even if it's only with purposeless activity. Screens are my nemesis, be they computer, phone, or TV. Also over-committing or over-scheduling also hamper reflection. There seems a perverse and mythical work ethic that requires our days be full of meetings. If we don't have our weekends similarly filled, we vigorously look for ways to fill them.
Reflection is to look back – over our day, or an event, or a conversation – and to pause and think deeply about it. What did we learn? How do we adapt our thinking and actions related to what we experienced? How do we go forward?
We can have reflective practices in our work and personal lives, even built into our days. These include alone thinking time, "sharing thoughts" conversations, and journaling/writing. My husband comes home from work and, in good weather, changes clothes and heads to work in his garden. After awhile, he settles into a lawn chair and just sits, watching and thinking. At some point in those moments, reflection blossoms.
Benjamin P. Hardy, my favorite writer on productivity right now, doesn't talk about reflection so much, but he preaches it without saying the word. He recommends the deep work that happens outside of work. He also strongly promotes journaling as a "keystone habit". In his article Why Keeping a Daily Journal Could Change Your Life, he is so thorough in his support of journaling that I can't imagine anyone NOT journaling after hearing him list out the many life benefits.
I have journaled all my life, but it hasn't always been as focused as it could be. My journals have sometimes just been reporting tools, emotion-processing devices, rant writing, and the like.
However, like my Mom, I discovered that writing is a way to bring reason to my irrationality and resolution to conflict. After writing awhile, I can come back to life, refreshed and better equipped to do what's next…whatever that might be.
Forbes writer and executive coach, Henna Inam (author of Wired for Authenticity) counsels leaders to keep a journal.
What's present for me now?
What's going well? What's creating that?
What's challenging? What's creating that?
What's meaningful? What am I grateful for?
What strengths do I notice in myself?
What strengths and contributions do I notice in others?
What is an action I'm committing to?
Inam's questions are helpful. They can bring focus to our ramblings. You might choose a different approach to how you use journaling in your reflections. Please share in Comments. Also, journaling may not be your preferred vehicle for reflection. I love, for instance, when workplace leaders encourage reflection over the course of a work day. Isn't it lovely when a training or conference has reflection time built into the program…so it's not just an "information dump" with no time to process. If you have experiences, either negative or positive, about your own use of reflection in the workplace, please share with us. We're not just talking about productivity here, but personal growth and community building.
Talk a few minutes and reflect on the possibilities.
For anyone who considers herself a critical thinker, this week in the life of Jesus of Nazareth is one worthy of analysis. No matter your religion or non-religion, this Jesus, in these days, warrants examination, related to anything you may think of God. You will better understand the core beliefs of a Christ-follower, not just a person known to you as Christian. For in the study of Jesus' life and his followers, in just this one week, you will see a deep distinction between "the religious" and "the redeemed".
Palm Sunday is celebrated as the "triumphal entry" of Jesus into Jerusalem, just days before he would endure a mock trial and then be crucified. He and his closest followers (disciples) came to Jerusalem for the celebration of Passover. Passover was an annual remembrance of God's protection and deliverance of Israel during a time of slavery (Exodus 12:26-28). Jesus would celebrate Passover on Thursday of that coming week, but he did not come to Jerusalem for that reason alone.
He knew from his Father God why he came to Jerusalem, and he tried to prepare his disciples for what was coming.
I can't even imagine what those disciples must have felt as Jesus predicted his own death. They loved him and all pledged their lives to him, even to death. They believed him to be the conquering king, sent by God, to deliver the Jews from Roman rule and to restore the nation of Israel. Although they had soaked up three years of his teaching, this "end of the story" was more than they could bear. Just a week later, they would gloriously understand that it would not be the end of the story of Jesus' life.
"Who is this?" For those who did not know him, the wild welcome for him must have been confusing and captivating. For the religious authorities in Jerusalem, who knew him and were unwilling to welcome this "king of the Jews", his popularity was infuriating.
The clock began ticking as they plotted against this man Jesus.
Kings Riding on Donkeys? What?
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Is 'finger exercises' metaphor a stretch?
An old man once stopped at a rummage sale I was holding and asked, "Who's the writer?"
He held in his hand an old copy of "Writer's Market," one of the only books we were selling (since my wife and I are book hoarders). The outdated tome, which may or may not have been priced at a quarter, served as an apt icebreaker. It turned out that along with being an ardent rummager, Tom was a writer himself and a published author to boot.
Early in our friendship, he offered to take a look at my fiction. That could have spelled doom, as my skin was not quite so thick back then, but in the end, I appreciated his efforts to critique a style of writing well outside of his comfort zone. (To this day, Tom can't abide science fiction or fantasy. In fact, "I liked it; I just didn't understand it" is an all-too-common mantra of his.)
Despite a great age difference and the genre barrier, we've always gotten along very well. However, something he said in those early days stuck in my craw, and I haven't been able to forget it since—as is evidenced by the name of this blog:
"Anything before one million words is just finger exercises."
I took some umbrage at that. After all, I had already written four novels. None of them had caught the eye of an agent, let alone an editor, but nobody wants to think the many, many hours spent slopping one's soul onto the page are nothing more than "finger exercises."
So what did I do? Well, if Tom, an accomplished author, thought a writer didn't earn his chops until the one million-word mark, I wanted to check my score. I added up the word count for the various drafts of my full manuscripts, short stories, world-building notes, and anything else related to my sword-and-sorcery fantasy endeavors.
Not one to gloat, I waited until the next time Tom's "finger exercises" comment surfaced. Alas, no golden lights shone down from the heavens. Determining that exact number and deducing I had reached the one million-word milestone had not changed much of anything—not in my eyes, Tom's eyes, or the world's eyes.
So is there any truth in the "finger exercises" theory?
Just because nothing magical happens at one million words doesn't mean Tom wasn't right on a fundamental level. Every writer thinks his or her early stuff is amazing. Little do we know, in our dabbling days, that what ends up on the page cannot hope to compare to the perfect and pristine counterpart that resides in the novice's mind. Upon typing "The End" of that first novel, we might even imagine ourselves strutting up Mount Olympus, manuscript in hand, to stand beside such literary deities as Dickens, Faulkner, Shakespeare, and King.
Like the parent of an ugly baby, a young writer is blind to the glaring flaws. Words get repeated throughout a paragraph—sometimes even in the same sentence. Passive voice rears its ugly head. Subplots meander meaninglessly. One-dimensional characters are lucky if they manage to cast a shadow. Dialogue is stiff and awkward. Punctuation is appalling.
Tom was right: a writer needs to get the garbage out of the way. You won't learn unless you fail. You can't develop your voice without using a lot of words. Maybe one million of them.
That's not to say there aren't exceptions. There are the success stories of writers whose first novels become bestsellers. Some of us will catch our stride well before one million words. Others will make it to two million words and still struggle.
Perhaps the lesson is that everyone starts at the beginning. Determination, raw talent, and a strong support system will see a writer through the dabbler stage. A support system that, ideally, includes other talented writers.
Writers like old Tom.
Whether my early manuscripts are salvageable or not remains to be seen. Truth be told, I don't hold any hard feelings over Tom's "finger exercises" line. In fact, he probably paid that twenty-something fantasist more credit than he was due back at that rummage sale. And even if he had implied I still had a lot to learn, he's more than made up for it with what he wrote in a recent email:
"It would seem you've now passed the one million word proviso I specified early on in our writing friendship. Your tone, the authority of the prose is strong evidence of this. Not to mention the great flow. You have an established voice now."
When put like that, one million words is a small price to pay for improvement.
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alreadynotpublished March 28, 2012 at 9:45 pm - Reply
Great post, I'm adding up my word count tonight, however I'm a former journo and work in corporate comms now, so my actual word count is huge. My fiction I suspect is still in finger exercises territory however, all the more reason to write more!
David Michael Williams March 28, 2012 at 9:54 pm - Reply
I'm sure your journalism and communications writing will serve as a definite advantage in your fiction. As a former journalist myself, I know my fiction got clearer and more concise after I started writing feature stories and columns.
I'm half-tempted to get an updated wordcount just to see if I've hit two million yet!
emperort February 4, 2013 at 9:48 pm - Reply
Yeah, I like it! I think many novice writers, myself included, write a lot of words that maybe don't count toward a million because there is a lack of focus. Eventually, though, persistence and regularity are ultimately what add up to finding one's writerly self. A million words of that contributing to the whole of the experience, more or less.
David Michael Williams February 4, 2013 at 9:57 pm - Reply
You're probably right. There's no magical formula when it comes to honing one's craft. It might take someone more or less than one million words, depending on his or her writing schedule and intentions. Dedication, tenacity, discipline, focus…all of these can elevate us beyond the status of mere dabbler. | {
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Cloud vs Pascal Photos and Quotes: Montreal Press Conference For Aug. 11 Fight
By Bad Left Hook Jun 13, 2012, 9:07pm EDT
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Tavoris Cloud and Jean Pascal meet on August 11 in Montreal. (Photo by Tom Casino/Showtime)
Tavoris Cloud
"When I think about this fight, wow. Pascal's style and my style are perfect for each other. It will be a hell of a fight. Nevertheless, I'm coming away with my title still intact
"I'm just glad to be here. Montreal is a beautiful place. I'm putting in a lot of hard work for this fight and on Aug. 11, I look forward to putting on a great show for you guys.
"Pascal could think he is the gatekeeper to bigger and better things for me, but I just come in and fight my fight."
"I have two words to say finally: I'm back. It's been a long, long time but this show is going to be a great night for Quebec. I'd like to thank Yvon Michel, Greg Leon, Don King and Team Cloud for giving me a shot because I know I am a good boxer. He's the champion and I really respect Cloud because he's like me. He's a good guy, a family man and he wants to fight the best.
"The reason why I took this fight is simple. It's because of you guys, the fans. You want to see the best versus the best. I am the former world champion. He is the current world champion but unfortunately for him on Aug. 11, he is going to leave as the former world champion and I am going to be a two-time world champion.
"This man right here (Cloud) is dangerous. He is hungry but, with all due respect, I don't think you are going to make your name on me. I know this is a big opportunity for you because I 'm the door to success and big money.
"You're a warrior like me and this fight will not go to the distance. I'm not saying that I'm going to knock him out. That's not what I'm saying right now. I'm just saying it won't go the distance which is why you have to tune in Aug. 11. I love challenges. I told Yvon, no tune up fights. Let's face the guy at the top. That's how I'll get back on top. I hope Cloud comes in the best shape because I don't want any excuses. And I won't have any excuses either."
"I would like to thank SHOWTIME and Group Yvon Michel. I don't have my opponent yet but he's coming soon hopefully. Now the IBF champion is Carl Froch. It isn't Lucian Bute anymore but I will be focused. Obviously, Aug. 11 is very important to me. I'd like to be the No. 1 (mandatory challenger for the IBF title) but no one wants to fight me. It's always some reason. No money, no this, no that. I know that's [untrue] but now I'll just stay focused on the fight ahead of me.
"Emmanuel Steward is my trainer now. He is training Wladmir Klitschko and next week I will go to Klitschko's camp and start my training there."
Don King, Cloud's Promoter
"Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal.
"Pascal has an opportunity now to take over for Bute (as Canada's most popular fighter). Can he do it? He seems to think so but thunder is in the air. There will be lightning bolts striking so I don't know. I think it's going to be a devastating storm that night on Aug. 11.
"The Bell Centre is going to be the hour, the hour of the talk around the world. Not only is it going to be seen on SHOWTIME, it's going to be seen around the world. It's going to be a super extravaganza. It's going to be a provocateur to titillate your taste buds. I know Pascal. I know how he has tried so desperately to be approved and respected by his fellow countrymen. So he is going to be giving everything he can and then some. And I know "Thunder" Cloud, he didn't come up here to leave that (IBF Light Heavyweight) belt. Pascal is going to have to take it. And to take it, that means he is going to have to go up against the thunder the lighting and the rain."
Yvon Michel, Pascal's Promoter
"This fight is going to be not only the most important boxing event this year but I also believe that Aug. 11 will be the biggest sporting event of the year in Quebec.
"Each time we have a big event in Montreal, each time Jean Pascal is fighting, we have celebrities come out. For this fight will have the celebrity of celebrities, Don King, to co-promote the event. He is the only boxing promoter to be named one of the 40 most influential people in sports over the last 50 years by Sports Illustrated. And he is our prestigious guest here today.
"Tavoris Cloud and Jean Pascal have amazing power. Adonis Stevenson is the purest puncher I've ever seen. To have three guys with steel hands competing on Aug. 11, I think we'll see two fantastic fights."
Al Bonanni, Cloud's Trainer
"These are the two best light heavyweights in the world. SHOWTIME took the fight, not because they love us, but because these are the two best light heavyweights in the world. Unfortunately for Pascal, I have the best light heavyweight in the world.
"We're training very, very hard. We started in Miami, Fla., five weeks ago and now we're at Don King's Gym in Ohio, across the river from here. So we can see Canada from where we're training. Cloud could fight tomorrow. He's 12 pounds off weight and ready to go. I thank you for the hospitality. I thank you for the money we're going to make. And it's going to be a great feeling to go back home with the belt again."
Marc Ramsay, Pascal's Trainer
"I just really want to thank SHOWTIME, Don King and Group Yvon Michel for making this fight happen, to give us the opportunity to go straight back to the top. And that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going straight to the top."
All photos by Tom Casino/Showtime
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See the schedule, scores and standout performers for this weekend's NYSPHSAA state quarterfinals and CHSFL semifinals.
The list of teams still alive has dwindled, but the games schedule for this week are the biggest ones yet.
Four Section 1 teams will complete in the NYSPHSAA state quarterfinals, although Haldane has a bye into next week's semis. We'll also have coverage of this week's CHSFL semifinals, including Saturday's Stepinac-Iona Prep game.
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Section 1 Exceptional Seniors Game, 12:30 p.m.
Cornwall 35, John Jay-Cross River 14: In an NYSPHSAA Class A state quarterfinal at Mahopac High School, Amin Woods had 18 carries for 281 yards and three touchdowns for Section 9 champ Cornwall (10-0).
Woods helped lead the Green Dragons to a 14-7 halftime lead, but John Jay (10-1) was poised to tie the game with just over four minutes left in the third quarter. On fourth and goal at the 1, a snap deflected off a player and was scooped up and returned 78 yards for a touchdown by Cornwall's Zach Suarez.
Bryce Ford played the game with an injured right shoulder that limited him to just one pass attempt. He rushed 32 times for 151 yards, including a 44-yard touchdown. Luke Mercer, who split time with Ford at quarterback, had 21 carries for 91 yards and a touchdown. He also completed seven passes, four of them to Ford.
For more, read Josh Thomson's story and see Frank Becerra's highlights and photos from the game.
Dobbs Ferry 35, Chester 14: In an NYSPHSAA Class C state quarterfinal at Mahopac High School, Emilio Nolasco rushed for 100 yards and three touchdowns and Awvise Khan gained a team-high 154 yards. The Eagles rushed for 292 yards as a team and scored on their first five drives to earn their first state-playoff win since 2011.
Dobbs Ferry (7-2) advanced to play Ogdensburg Free Academy (Section 10) at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Middletown High School in the state semifinals.
New Rochelle 42, Newburgh 7: In an NYSPHSAA Class AA state quarterfinal at Mahopac High School, Mac Coughlin threw three touchdowns, including two to Kayshaun Thomas. Omari Walker returned an interception 85 yards for a touchdown and Halim Dixon-King, Jordan Forrest and Jessie Parson also scored.
New Rochelle (10-1) will now play Shaker (Section 2) at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Middletown High School in the state semifinals.
For more, read Josh Thomson's story and see Frank Becerra's highlights and photo gallery.
Marlboro 27, Ardsley 19: In an NYSPHSAA Class B state quarterfinal at Dietz Stadium in Kingston, Frank Belarge threw touchdowns to Vinny Manzi and Henry Bretts and rushed for a score, but Ardsley (9-1) lost its first game. The Panthers led 13-6 before Marlboro scored 21 straight points to surge in front.
For more, read Stephen Haynes' story on the game.
Stepinac 37, Iona Prep 26: In a CHSFL 'AAA' semifinal at No. 2 Iona Prep, Malik Grant ran for 392 yards and three touchdowns on 38 carries to help the third-seeded Crusaders reach their fifth straight championship game. Grant played sparingly when Stepinac (6-4) lost 36-34 at Iona Prep on Sept. 15 due to an ankle injury.
Stepinac, which won its fifth straight, will play No. 4 Cardinal Hayes at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Mitchel Field in Uniondale for the championship.
For more, read Vin Mercogliano's story and see Peter Carr's highlights and photos from the game.
Haldane vs. Moriah (Section 7), 4 p.m.
Cornwall (Section 9) vs. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake (Section 2), 8 p.m.
Dobbs Ferry vs. Ogdensburg Free Academy (Section 10), 11 a.m.
Marlboro vs. Glens Falls (Section 2), 3 p.m.
New Rochelle vs. Shaker (Section 2), 7 p.m.
No. 1 Kennedy Catholic vs. No. 2 Cardinal Spellman, 10 a.m.
No. 3 Stepinac vs. No. 4 Cardinal Hayes, 4 p.m.
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Church of Antioch[2]
Approx. 2.5 million (2012)[3]
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The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, also known as the Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (Arabic: بطريركيّة أنطاكية وسائر المشرق للروم الأرثوذكس, romanized: Baṭriyarkiyyat ʾAnṭākiya wa-Sāʾir al-Mašriq li-r-Rūm al-ʾUrṯūḏuks, lit. 'Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East for the Orthodox Romaeans/Byzantines[4]'), is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Headed by the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch, it considers itself the successor to the Christian community founded in Antioch by the Apostles Peter and Paul.
The seat of the patriarchate was formerly Antioch, in what is now Turkey. However, in the 14th century, it was moved to Damascus, modern-day Syria. Its traditional territory includes Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Arab countries of the Persian Gulf and also parts of Turkey. Its territory formerly included the Church of Cyprus until the latter became autocephalous in 431. Both the Orthodox Churches of Antioch and Cyprus are members of the Middle East Council of Churches.
Its North American branch is autonomous, although the Holy Synod of Antioch still appoints its head bishop, chosen from a list of three candidates nominated in the North American archdiocese. Its Australasia and Oceania branch is the largest in terms of geographic area due to the relatively large size of Australia and the large portion of the Pacific Ocean that the archdiocese covers.
The head of the Orthodox Church of Antioch is called Patriarch. The present Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is John X (Yazigi), who presided over the Archdiocese of Western and Central Europe (2008–2013). He was elected as primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East as John X of Antioch (Yazigi) on December 17, 2012. He succeeded Ignatius IV who had died on December 5, 2012. Membership statistics are not available, but may be as high as 1,100,000 in Syria[5] and 400,000 in Lebanon where they make up 8% of the population or 20% of Christians who make up 39-41% of Lebanon. The seat of the patriarch in Damascus is the Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus.
The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch is one of several churches that lay claim to be the canonical incumbent of the ancient see of St Peter and St Paul in Antioch. The Oriental Orthodox Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch makes the same claim, as do the Syriac Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, all of them Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See. These three, however, mutually recognize each other as holding authentic patriarchates, being part of the same Catholic communion. The Roman Catholic Church also appointed titular Latin Rite patriarchs for many centuries, until the office was left vacant in 1953 and abolished in 1964 and all claims renounced.
History and cultural legacy
Pauline Greco-Semitic roots
Church of Saint Peter in Antioch
According to Luke the Evangelist- himself a Greco-Syrian member of that community:
The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
— Acts 11:26 (New Testament, NIV translation)
St Peter and St Paul the Apostle are considered the cofounders of the Patriarchate of Antioch, the former being its first bishop. When Peter left Antioch, Evodios and Ignatius took over the charge of the Patriarchate. Both Evodios and Ignatius died as martyrs under Roman persecution.
Hellenistic Judaism and the Judeo-Greek "wisdom" literature popular in the late Second Temple era amongst both Hellenized Rabbinical Jews (known as Mityavnim in Hebrew) and gentile Greek proselyte converts to mainstream Judaism played an important part in the formation of the Melkite-Antiochian Greek Orthodox tradition.[6] Some typically Grecian "Ancient Synagogal" priestly rites and hymns have survived partially to the present in the distinct church service, architecture and iconography of the Melkite Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities of the Hatay Province of Southern Turkey, Syria and Lebanon.[7]
Some historians believe that a sizable proportion of the Hellenized Jewish communities and most gentile Greco-Macedonian settlers in Southern Turkey (Antioch, Alexandretta and neighboring cities) and Syria/Lebanon – the former being called "Hellenistai" in the Acts – converted progressively to the Greco-Roman branch of Christianity that eventually constituted the "Melkite" (or "Imperial") Hellenistic Churches in Western Asia and North Africa:
As Jewish Christianity originated at Jerusalem, so Gentile Christianity started at Antioch, then the leading center of the Hellenistic East, with Peter and Paul as its apostles. From Antioch it spread to the various cities and provinces of Syria, among the Hellenistic Syrians as well as among the Hellenistic Jews who, as a result of the great rebellions against the Romans in A.D. 70 and 130, were driven out from Jerusalem and Palestine into Syria.[8]
Acts 6 points to the problematic cultural tensions between the Hellenized Jews and Greek-speaking Judeo-Christians centered around Antioch and related Cilician, Southern-Anatolian and Syrian "Diasporas" and (the generally more conservative) Aramaic-speaking Jewish converts to Christianity based in Jerusalem and neighboring Israeli towns:
The 'Hebrews' were Jewish Christians who spoke almost exclusively Aramaic, and the 'Hellenists' were also Jewish Christians whose mother tongue was Greek. They were Greek-speaking Jews of the Diaspora, who returned to settle in Jerusalem. To identify them, Luke uses the term Hellenistai. When he had in mind Greeks, gentiles, non-Jews who spoke Greek and lived according to the Greek fashion, then he used the word Hellenes (Acts 21.28). As the very context of Acts 6 makes clear, the Hellenistai are not Hellenes.[9]
"There is neither Jew nor Greek"
These ethno-cultural and social tensions were eventually surmounted by the emergence of a new, typically Antiochian Greek doctrine (doxa) spearheaded by Paul (himself a Hellenized Cilician Jew) and his followers be they 1. Established, autochthonous Hellenized Cilician-Western Syrian Jews (themselves descendants of Babylonian and 'Asian' Jewish migrants who had adopted early on various elements of Greek culture and civilization while retaining a generally conservative attachment to Jewish laws & traditions), 2. Heathen, 'Classical' Greeks, Greco-Macedonian and Greco-Syrian gentiles, and 3. the local, autochthonous descendants of Greek or Greco-Syrian converts to mainstream Judaism – known as "Proselytes" (Greek: προσήλυτος/proselytes or 'newcomers to Israel') and Greek-speaking Jews born of mixed marriages.
Paul's efforts were probably facilitated by the arrival of a fourth wave of Greek-speaking newcomers to Cilicia/Southern Turkey and Northwestern Syria: Cypriot and 'Cyrenian' (Libyan) Jewish migrants of non-Egyptian North African Jewish origin and gentile Roman settlers from Italy- many of whom already spoke fluent Koine Greek and/or sent their children to Greco-Syrian schools. Some scholars believe that, at the time, these Cypriot and Cyrenian North African Jewish migrants were generally less affluent than the autochthonous Cilician-Syrian Jews and practiced a more 'liberal' form of Judaism, more propitious for the formation of a new canon:
[North African] Cyrenian Jews were of sufficient importance in those days to have their name associated with a synagogue at Jerusalem (Acts 6:9). And when the persecution arose about Stephen [a Hellenized Syrian-Cilician Jew, and one of the first known converts to Christianity], some of these Jews of Cyrene who had been converted at Jerusalem, were scattered abroad and came with others to Antioch [...] and one of them, Lucius, became a prophet in the early church there [the Greek-speaking 'Orthodox' Church of Antioch].[10]
These subtle, progressive socio-cultural shifts are somehow summarized succinctly in Chapter 3 of the Epistle to the Galatians:
There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither slave nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).[11]
Dual self-designation: "Melkites" and "Eastern Romans"
The unique combination of ethnocultural traits inhered from the fusion of a Greek cultural base, Hellenistic Judaism and Roman civilization gave birth to the distinctly Antiochian "Eastern Mediterranean-Roman" Christian traditions of Cilicia (Southeastern Turkey) and Syria/Lebanon:
The mixture of Roman, Greek, and Jewish elements admirably adapted Antioch for the great part it played in the early history of Christianity. The city was the cradle of the church.[12]
Some of the typically Antiochian ancient liturgical traditions of the community rooted in Hellenistic Judaism and, more generally, Second Temple Greco-Jewish Septuagint culture, were expunged progressively in the late medieval and modern eras by both Phanariot European-Greek (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople) and Vatican (Roman Catholic) theologians who sought to 'bring back' Levantine Greek Orthodox and Greek-Catholic communities into the European Christian fold.
But members of the community in Southern Turkey, Syria and Lebanon still call themselves Rûm which means "Eastern Roman" or "Asian Greek" in Arabic. In that particular context, the term "Rûm" is used in preference to "Yāvāni" or "Ionani" which means "European-Greek" or Ionian in Biblical Hebrew (borrowed from Old Persian Yavan = Greece) and Classical Arabic. Members of the community also call themselves 'Melkites', which literally means "monarchists" or "supporters of the emperor" in Semitic languages - a reference to their past allegiance to Greco-Macedonian, Roman and Byzantine imperial rule. But, in the modern era, the term tends to be more commonly used by followers of the Greek Catholic Church of Antioch and Alexandria and Jerusalem.
Interaction with other non-Muslim ethnocultural minorities
Following the fall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire (long the protector of Greek-Orthodox minorities in the Levant), and the ensuing rise of French colonialism, communism, Islamism and Israeli nationalism, some members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch embraced secularism and/or Arab Nationalism as a way to modernize and "secularize" the newly formed nation-states of Northern Syria and Lebanon, and thus provide a viable "alternative" to political Islam, communism and Jewish nationalism (viewed as ideologies potentially exclusive of Byzantine Christian minorities).
This often led to interfaith conflicts with the Maronite Church in Lebanon, notably regarding Palestinian refugees after 1948 and 1967. Various (sometimes secular) intellectuals with a Greek Orthodox Antiochian background played an important role in the development of Baathism, the most prominent being Michel Aflaq, one of the founders of the movement.[13]
Abraham Dimitri Rihbany
In the early 20th century (notably during World War I), Lebanese-American writers of Greek-Orthodox Antiochian background such as Abraham Dimitri Rihbany, known as Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (a convert to Presbyterianism), popularized the notion of studying ancient Greco-Semitic culture to better understand the historic and ethnocultural context of the Christian Gospels: his original views were developed in a series of articles for The Atlantic Monthly, and in 1916 published in book form as The Syrian Christ.
At a time when most of the Arab world area was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, France and England, Rihbany called for US military intervention in the Holy Land to fend off Ottoman Pan-Islamism, French colonialism, Soviet Communism and radical Zionist enterprises- all viewed as potentially detrimental to Christian minorities.
The administration and structure of the Antiochian See are governed by statutes.
Main article: Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
The Patriarch is elected by the Holy Synod from amongst the metropolitans who compose it. The Patriarch presides the Holy Synod and executes its decisions. He also acts as metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Antioch and Damascus.
The current Patriarch, John X (Yazigi), was elected on December 17, 2012, succeeding to Metropolitan Saba Esber, who had been elected locum tenens on December 7, 2012, following Ignatius IV (Hazim)'s death.[14]
Archdioceses and metropolitans
World jurisdictions of Eastern Orthodox churches as of 2020.
There are at present 22 archdioceses, each headed by a metropolitan.
In Western Asia:
Archdiocese of Antioch and Damascus: Patriarchal archdiocese
Archdiocese of Aleppo (Beroea) and Alexandretta: Paul Yazigi (2000–present)[16]
Archdiocese of Bosra, Hauran and Jabal al-Arab: Saba Esber (1999–present)[17]
Archdiocese of Homs (Emesa): George Abu Zakhem (1999–present)[18]
Archdiocese of Hama (Epiphania) and Exarchate of North Syria: Nicholas Baalbaki (2017–present)[19]
Archdiocese of Latakia (Laodicea ad Mare) and Exarchate of Theodorias: Athanasius Fahd (2018–present)[20]
Archdiocese of Beirut and Exarchate of Phoenicia: Elias Audi (1980–present)[21]
Archdiocese of Akkar and Dependencies (Wadi al-Nasara, Safita and Tartus): Basilios Mansour (2008–present)[22]
Archdiocese of Byblos and Batroun: Siluan Muci (2018–present)[23]
Archdiocese of Zahleh and Baalbek (Heliopolis): Antonios El Soury (14 Nov 2015–present)[24]
Archdiocese of Tripoli and Koura: Ephraim Kyriakos (2009–present)[25]
Archdiocese of Tyre and Sidon: Elias Kfoury (1995–present)[26]
Archdiocese of Baghdad, Kuwait and Dependencies: Ghattas Hazim (2014–present)[27] [28]
In Asia and Oceania:
Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines: Basilios Qoudsiah (2017–present)
In Europe:
Archdiocese of France, Western and Southern Europe: Ignatius Alhoushi (2013–present)
Archdiocese of Germany and Central Europe: Isaac Barakat (2013–present)
Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland: Silouan Oner (2015–present)
In the Americas:
Archdiocese of North America (Englewood, New Jersey); Metropolitan of New York and All North America: Joseph Al-Zehlaoui (2014–present)
Diocese of New York and Washington, D.C.: Metropolitan's diocese
Diocese of Worcester and New England: John Abdallah (2011–present)
Diocese of Miami and the Southeast: Nicholas Ozone (2017–present)[29]
Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America: Basil Essey (2004–present), Titular Bishop of Anfeh (1992–2003)
Diocese of Los Angeles and the West: Vacant[30]
Diocese of Eagle River and the Northwest: Vacant
Diocese of Charleston, Oakland and Mid-Atlantic: Thomas Joseph (2004–present)
Diocese of Toledo and the Mid-West: Anthony Michaels (2011–present)
Diocese of Ottawa, Eastern Canada and Upstate New York: Alexander Mufarrij (2004–present)
Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and All Argentina: Jacob Khoury (elected 2018)
Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean: Ignatius Samaan (2017–present)
Archdiocese of Santiago and All Chile: Sergios Abad (1996–present), Bishop of Salamias and Patriarchal Auxiliary for Chile (1988–1996)
Archdiocese of São Paulo and All Brazil: Damaskinos Mansour (1997–present)
Titular dioceses and bishops
Diocese of Shahba: Niphon Saykali (1988–), elevated to archbishop in 2009 and elevated to metropolitan in 2014, Representative of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East at the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Diocese of Darayya: Moussa Khoury (1995–), Patriarchal Assistant – Damascus
Diocese of Saidnaya: Luka Khoury (1999–), Patriarchal Assistant – Damascus
Diocese of Banias: Demetrios Charbak (2011–), Auxiliary Bishop in Safita, Archdiocese of Akkar
Diocese of Arthoussa: Elias Toumeh (2011–), Auxiliary Bishop in Marmarita, Archdiocese of Akkar
Diocese of Zabadani: Constantine Kayal (2011–), Abbot of St Elias – Shwayya Patriarchal Monastery
Diocese of Palmyra: Youhanna Haikal (2011–), Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Germany and Central Europe
Diocese of Seleucia: Ephrem Maalouli (2011–), Patriarchal Vicar and Secretary of the Holy Synod
Diocese of Edessa: Romanos Daoud (2011–), Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of São Paulo and Brazil
Diocese of the Emirates: Gregorios Khoury-Abdallah (2014-), Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch
Diocese of Erzurum: Qays Sadek (2014-), Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch
Diocese of Resafa: Youhanna Batash (2017-)
Diocese of Apamea: Theodore Ghandour (2017-)
Retired bishops
Archdiocese of Zahleh and Baalbek: Spyridon Khoury (1966-2015) (deceased)
Archdiocese of Byblos and Batroun: Georges Khodr (1970-2018)
Diocese of Yabroud: Athanasius Saliba (1979–)
Diocese of Jableh: Demetrios Khoury (1995–2003)
Daughter churches
Church of Cyprus: Granted autocephaly by the Church of Antioch in 431 AD.
Church of Georgia: Granted autocephaly by the Church of Antioch in 486 AD.
Church of Imereti and Abkhazia: Granted autocephaly by the Church of Antioch in the 1470s, but suppressed by the Russian Empire in 1814 and continued to be a dependency of the Church of Moscow and all Russia until 1917 when it was reunited with Church of Georgia.
Church of Jerusalem: Originally Bishopric of Caesarea, gained dignity of Patriarchate in 451 AD in Council of Chalcedon with territory carved from Patriarchate of Antioch
Church of Constantinople : Granted autocephaly in 381 AD in Council of Constantinople and gained dignity of Patriarchate in 451 AD in Council of Chalcedon.
Eastern Orthodoxy in Syria
Antiochian Greeks
Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America
Hellenistic Judaism
List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch – 518 to present day
List of Orthodox Churches
List of Patriarchs of Antioch – to 518
Eastern Orthodoxy in Lebanon
Eastern Orthodoxy in Turkey
Saint John of Damascus
Saint Joseph of Damascus
Saint Raphael of Brooklyn
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Patriarchates in Christianity
Traditional ecclesiastical jurisdictions of primates in Christianity, sorted according to earliest apostolic legacy and branched where multiple denominational claimants:
bold blue = Catholic Church, light blue = Eastern Orthodox Church, bold/light green = Oriental Orthodoxy, italic blue = Nestorianism
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apostolic
sees)
Patriarch of Rome (1st cent.)
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Patriarch of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (since 330)
Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople (1204–1964)
Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople (since 1461)
Patriarch of Antioch
(1st cent.)
Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (since 518)
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (since 518)
Maronite Patriarchate (since 685)
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