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Christopher Columbus discovered Grenada in 1498. The Island gained its independence from Britain on February 7, 1974… In 1983, President Ronald Reagan ordered U.S. forces to invade Grenada and to secure their safety from the communists. On October 25th, Grenadians celebrate the day that commemorates Operation Urgent Fury as their Thanksgiving holiday. Keith Claudius Mitchell is a Grenadian politician who has been Prime Minister of Grenada since 2013. The Government is considered to be a constitutional Monarchy.
Grenada is volcanic in nature and has felt the effects… An eruption, earthquakes, hurricanes, and mudslides are all part of its history. Though Grenada is below the hurricane belt, when Hurricane Ivan struck, over 90% of homes were destroyed. The highest point is Mount St. Catherine (2,757 feet) in the northern part of the interior. The landscape is scenic, with fairly deep steep-sided valleys and about 10,000 acres of forest. Another well known volcano is named "Kick Em Jenny."
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What We Know About When Biden's COVID-19 Stimulus Payments Will Go Out
Americans likely won't get more stimulus payments until the spring.
By Cameron LeBlanc
The economic stimulus check section of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan Joe Biden unveiled last week was, in a word, disappointing for many Americans who had expected something a bit more. After promising $2,000 checks to eligible Americans, the soon-to-be-president revealed that no, actually, they'd just be getting $1,400 checks to supplement the $600 checks that were passed as part of the stopgap spending bill at the end of 2020.
Setting this unfortunate bit of creative addition aside, the question becomes when, exactly, the undersized, but still desperately needed payments will actually go out, alongside the trillions of dollars in aid, vaccine funding, and more that will help Americans overcome the pandemic. The news on that front is also disappointing, although not unexpected, as his package is just a legislative idea rather than an introduced bill. Unsurprisingly, it looks like it will be months before that happens.
When Will You Get Your $1,400 Stimulus Check?
The likely best-case scenario is that Congress passes a bill by mid-February and money hits bank accounts before the end of the month. More likely is that a package is passed by the end of March and checks go out in early April.
Why the delay? Republicans are likely to push back on the relief package, lowering its price tag from nearly $2 trillion to $1 to $1.5 trillion, analyst Hunter Hammond told CBS News. Even though additional payments are widely supported and not expected to be a point of contention in negotiations, haggling over other aspects of the bill will likely last a while, and Congress isn't exactly known for working expeditiously even when the health of the economy is at stake.
These calculations are based on Democrats gaining the support of the ten GOP senators needed to invoke cloture and end a filibuster of the bill. In the unlikely event that they don't make enough concessions to the right to do so, the Democrats could use a special process known as budget reconciliation. It would only require the support of the 50 Democratic senators (and soon-to-be President of the Senate Kamala Harris), but it could also delay the passage of the bill.
The bottom line is that more stimulus payments are probably coming, but they probably aren't coming any time soon.
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In the end, Russell Westbrook really didn't have any competition for NBA MVP. The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard ran away with the award, taking 69 of 101 first-place votes, while former teammate James Harden netted 22, Kawhi Leonard of the San Antonio Spurs took nine and LeBron James one.
Westbrook, in a shirt and tie but no jacket, walked up to the microphone to accept the Kia NBA Most Valuable Player from league commissioner Adam Silver, and ended up with a number of his Thunder teammates behind him as he thanked various members of the organization, the fans and, yes, the media who Westbrook has always had a contentious relationship with. When it came time to thank his parents, Westbrook became emotional, saying he told himself that he wasn't going to cry. "I can't say thank you enough," he said to his mother and father, talking about his dad waking up early to work two jobs, but always finding the time to shoot hoops with his kids. The MVP took the stage with a piece of paper in his hand reminding who to thank and probably a few notes, but didn't need it for the heartfelt tribute to his parents, brother and wife.
Westbrook's 2016-17 season was one for the ages. He became only the second player ever, and first since Oscar Robertson 55 years ago in 1962, to average a triple-double. Westbrook also broke the Hall of Famer's record for most triple-doubles in a season with 42. He also became the first player since Moses Malone in 1981 to win the award on a team that fell short of 50 wins.
The NBA's inaugural awards show also featured Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors winning the Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Milwaukee Bucks "Greek Freak" Giannis Antetokounmpo took home Most Improved Player, his teammate Malcolm Brogdon won Rookie of the Year, Eric Gordon of the Houston Rockets won the Sixth Man and Mike D'Antoni of the Houston Rockets won Coach of the Year.
Of course, maybe most importantly, in an award handed out on the red carpet prior to the game Cleveland's Iman Shumper and Chicago's Dwyane Wade lost the #BestStyle award to none other than the MVP himself, Westbrook.
Watch Oklahoma City Thunder's Russell Westbrook comment on being the NBA's Most Valuable Player.


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Lucas Jacobson Debes (* 1623 in Stubbekøbing, Storstrøms Amt, Dänemark; † 28. September 1675 in Tórshavn/Färöer) war ein dänischer Pfarrer und Topograph. Sein Wirken auf den Färöern machte ihn dort während der Gabelzeit zum Freiheitshelden.

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Lucas war der Sohn von Jacob Nielsen, der Kaplan in Stubbekøbing war, später dann Pfarrer auf Bogø, wo er 1633 verstarb.

Lucas Jacobsen Debes wurde 1651 Kaplan in Tórshavn und war ab 1652 Pfarrer von Südstreymoy und Rektor der Lateinschule in Tórshavn.

Während des Dänisch-Schwedischen Krieges 1658 (siehe Frieden von Roskilde) reiste er nach Dänemark, wahrscheinlich anlässlich eines Streits mit dem Fúti (Landvoigt der Färöer) Johannes Heidemann. Sein Schiff wurde von den Schweden aufgebracht, und Debes geriet für ein Jahr in Gefangenschaft in Göteborg. Aufgrund seiner Lehre und seiner Predigten erwarb er sich die Gunst des dortigen Kommandanten und durfte nach Kopenhagen weiter reisen. Bei seiner Rückkehr auf die Färöer wurde er Vize-Propst des Landes.

Nachdem König Frederik III. die Färöer seinem Favoriten Christoffer von Gabel 1655 zum Lehen gab und er 1662 auch noch das Handelsmonopol über die Färöer bekam, kam es zum offenen Streit zwischen Gabels Vertretern auf den Färöern und Lucas Debes. Nicht nur, dass Gabels Leute in die Angelegenheiten der Kirche des Landes reinregeln wollten, sie beuteten die Einheimischen auf eine Art und Weise aus, die von übereinstimmenden Quellen als unerträglich bezeichnet wurde. Gleichzeitig geriet Debes auch in Konflikt mit Gabels militärischem Vertreter, dem Kommandanten der Festung Skansin, der Debes' Haus auf "schändliche Art entweiht hat" wie es später hieß.

Trotz dieser Streitigkeiten gelang es ihm, seine Stellung zu behaupten. Er wurde 1670 sogar Propst der Färöer. Im selben Jahr besuchte der Königliche Kommissar die Färöer aus Anlass der Thronbesteigung von Christian V. Zusammen mit einer Delegation von Färingern trat Debes mit einer Beschwerde über die Demütigungen an ihn heran. Der Kommissar lud diese Delegation dann nach Kopenhagen ein, um die Sache der Regierung vorzutragen.

1673 gab er mit Færoæ et Færoa Reserata. Det er Færøernis oc Færøeske Indbyggeris Beskrifvelse in Kopenhagen das älteste bekannte Buch über die Färöer heraus. Es wurde in der dänischen Version 1903, 1950 und 1963 neu aufgelegt. Bereits 1676 erschien die englische Übersetzung in London und 1757 schließlich auch die deutsche Übersetzung in Leipzig. Die deutsche Ausgabe erschien nur in geringer Auflage und blieb einem kleinen Kreis von Gelehrten zugänglich. Daher erscheint 2005, in seinem 330. Todesjahr, eine kommentierte Neuausgabe des Deutsch-Färöischen Freundeskreises. Færoæ & Færoa reserata wurde in der Welt das Buch, welches erstmals ein umfassendes Bild über die Färöer und ihre Bewohner zeichnete.

Als 1673 die Regierungskommission zu den Färöern aufbrach, um die Vorwürfe gegen von Gabels Regime zu überprüfen, wütete vorher ein Großbrand auf Tinganes, dem Tórshavner Zentrum, wo sich die Handelshäuser des Monopolhandels befanden. Sehr wahrscheinlich ist, dass von Gabels Leute diesen Brand gelegt haben, um rechtzeitig Beweise zu vernichten. Bei diesem Brand wurden aber auch die meisten historischen Dokumente der Färöer aus den Jahrhunderten zuvor vernichtet. Eine Ironie der Geschichte angesichts der Tragweite von Debes' Pionierwerk Færoæ & Færoa reserata.

1675 verstarb Debes in Tórshavn. Seine Nachkommen leben noch heute auf den Färöern, wo Debes ein häufiger Familienname ist.

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 Lucas Jacobsøn Debes: Færoæ & Færoa reserata: Det er Færøernis oc færøeske Indbyggeris beskrifvelse, udi hvilcken føris til liuset adskillige naturens hemeligheder, oc nogle antiqviteter, som her til dags udi mørcket hafve været indelugt, oc nu her opladis / alle curieuse til velbehagelighed, sammenskrefven oc forklaret aff Lucas Jacobsøn Debes. Kopenhagen: 1673
 Lucas Debes: Færoæ & Færoa reserata, Einars Prent og Forlag, Tórshavn 1963 (Nachdruck)
 Lucas Jacobsøn Debes: Færoæ, & Færoa reserata: That is a description of the islands & inhabitants of Foeroe: being seventeen islands subject to the King of Denmark, printed by F. L. for William Iles, London 1676 (Englische Übersetzung, 408 Seiten)
 Lucas Jacobson Debes: Natürliche und Politische Historie der Inseln Färöe, worinnen die Luft, Grund und Boden, Gewässer, Thiere, Vögel, Fische, usw. das Naturel, die Gewohnheiten, Lebensart der Einwohner dieser Inseln und ihre Verfassung beschrieben werden F.C. Pelt, Kopenhagen und Leipzig 1757 (Deutsche Übersetzung)
 Lucas Jacobson Debes: Natürliche und Politische Historie der Inseln Färöe. Aus dem Dänischen übersetzt von C. G. Mengel, Kopenhagen / Leipzig 1757. Neu herausgegeben, kommentiert und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Norbert B. Vogt. Mülheim a. d. Ruhr: 2005 (Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Färöischen Freundeskreises Band 9)

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Over Swooshed: Nike on the Ropes
Don Hazen
The giant Oregon-based athletic wear and gear company Nike, one of the big growth, mega-corporations of the '90s many Americans have grown to hate, is encountering some hard times. Soon after the company reported substantial lower earnings and the prospect of large-scale, global job cuts in the last week of February, Nike stock dropped 8 percent. In fact, while once one of the hottest stocks of the '90s, Nike's shares have dropped 43 percent in the last year, despite a booming stock market.Simultaneously -- and maybe even interrelated -- the Nike empire's polices and practices have led to a growing avalanche of negative publicity; perhaps karmic retribution for the company's commercial hegemony and hard ball tactics.The most recent media calamity was during the Winter Olympics, when news about a CBS/Nike contract requiring all CBS personnel to wear swoosh Nike apparel on air -- including news reporters -- lead a chorus of critics to question CBS' integrity and Nike's judgment. At the same time, a well publicized blast by CBS 48 Hours Producer Roberta Baskin asserted that the network had undermined her efforts to follow up her powerful original reporting on horrible working conditions on Nike factories in Vietnam, claiming that CBS had likely knuckled under to Nike because of their huge advertising investment during the winter games.A LONG STRING OF BAD PRESS Long before the Olympics, Nike has had the harsh public light shining on its operations. During 1996 and 1997, especially following Baskin's expose, Nike was the object of intense media scrutiny, in a large part due to these various reports of labor abuse by its subcontractors in Asia. "In Vietnam, 800 laborers walked off the job in protest of what they said were poor working conditions; in Indonesia, thousands of workers ransacked their factory last Spring, claiming that Nike hadn't been paying the $2.50 a day minimum wage," wrote Stephen Glass in The New Republic.During the 1970s, most Nike shoes were manufactured in South Korea and Taiwan. But workers organized and gained wage increases, motivating Nike to move to lower wage markets. Today, Nike shoes are made almost exclusively in China, Indonesia and increasingly Vietnam. These countries have little in the way of protective labor laws, albeit large supplies of cheap labor. In some cases, authoritarian leaders have even outlawed independent labor unions.By 1997, the attention to Nike labor practices provoked a number of demonstrations in various U.S. cities, including a large showing at a multi-floor "Niketown" super store in San Francisco. In response to such erosion of it's public image, Nike hired former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, who had just started a new business Good Works, to help stimulate investment in developing countries.Nike was to be Good Works first client, and Young came through with a positive report after inspecting 15 Nike factories during the spring of 1997. As the New York Times reported: "After completing his two-week tour covering three countries, he informed Nike it was doing a good job in treating its workers, although he allowed it 'should do better.'" But Young was widely criticized by human rights and labor groups for not focusing on wages, for not having his own translators and for doing very superficial inspections -- in some cases for just several hours during his investigation.Several months later, after Nike had taken out full page newspaper ads trumpeting the Young findings, a devastating report about unsafe working conditions at Nike plants was leaked by a disgruntled employee through the advocacy group Transnational Resource and Action Center ( TRAC). The confidential report clearly contradicted Young's findings and undermined Nike's efforts to portray themselves as squeaky clean.Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times explained: "In an inspection report that was prepared in January for the company's internal use only, Ernst & Young wrote that workers at the factory near Ho Chi Minh City were exposed to carcinogens that exceeded local legal standards by 177 times in parts of the plant and that 77 percent of the employees suffered from respiratory problems. The report also said that employees at the site, which is owned and operated by a Korean subcontractor, were forced to work 65 hours a week, far more than Vietnamese law allows, for $10 a week."The inspection report offers an unusually detailed look into condition at one of Nike's plants at a time when the world's largest athletic shoe company is facing criticism from human rights and labor groups that it treat workers poorly even as it lavishes millions of dollars on star athletes to endorse its products."Nike, more than any other corporation (except perhaps Microsoft), represents the "over the top" '90s approach to market dominance and near monopoly through saturation advertising, endorsement contracts and penetration into high school sports. This approach of overwhelming the market -- shared by bookseller Barnes and Noble, by Starbucks, the Gap, McDonald's and a few other huge companies -- has alienated increasing numbers of consumers and retailers alike.If you haven't noticed, and perhaps a cave dweller may not have, the swoosh is everywhere -- bill boards, sportswear, television commercials, on the lapel of famous coaches and on and on. Part of the Nike approach is to literally buy anything that moves in the sports and media world, from uniforms to stars, providing free equipment along the way. Further, Nike has taken its brand into areas where commercially intrusion has never trod. As a result, top tier amateur sports have been transformed into swoosh events, commercial enterprises which know no bounds.Consequently, many in the sportswear business now see the swoosh as double edged sword, with its footwear taking up as much as 60 percent of shelf space. "This is a very unhealthy environment we're dealing with now," said Mark Anderson, sportswear buyer for Chicks Sporting Goods. "Nobody in the history of the business has dealt with a giant like this." The result is unprecedented market dominance and fear on the part of many small businesses.Ed Sherman, a sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune, thinks Nike sales efforts have gone too far. "Sporting events, athletes and coaches have become nothing more than billboards for sponsors bombarding spectators and viewers with one long continuous advertisement. Where does it end? The answer is, it doesn't. The crack in the dike has been blown wide open. It's just a matter of time before the pitcher's mound is engraved with a Budweiser Ad."Still, some may hold out. With Nike negative publicity turning up regularly, the company has become the target of the socially conscious investment movement and recently even poetry got into the mix of bad Nike press. As reported by the Progressive magazine and Stephanie Salter of the San Francisco Examiner, radical poet Martin Espada drafted a biting letter to Nike after he was appalled that an advertising agency offered him $250 to submit a trial poem for a Nike Poetry Slam commercial. Espada would have received $2,500 if the poem was accepted. Espada told Salter: "There are a lot of things I'd do for $250. I'm broke all the time, but there are some lines in your life you cannot cross and still remain human."PHIL KNIGHT AND MICHAEL MOORE'S FILM Apparently, Nike can look forward to more negative attention. In New York City last fall, guerrilla filmmaker Michael Moore previewed his new film, The Big One, at the 1,200-person Media and Democracy Congress. The film features an encounter with Nike billionaire CEO Phil Knight. According to Moore, "Nike obtained a bootleg of the film and Lee Weinstein, director of PR, called me and said he was flying to New York and could we meet. I met him for breakfast and he asked me, 'What would it take to have two scenes removed?' He wanted the scenes where Knight says he doesn't care if 14-year-olds are making his shoes, and the one where he tells me that in five years 'one of those little Indonesians' is going to be my landlord. I told him nothing would ever be removed from the film and, to tweak him, I said I would add a scene at the end of the film -- a scene showing Knight breaking ground for that new shoe factory in Flint. He wrote it all down and said he would get back to me -- and never did."THE BACKLASH EFFECT In terms of the high flying Nike's change of financial fortune, company flacks are blaming changing preferences in the youth market and economic problems in Japan, one of Nike's biggest markets. In the U.S., Nike has almost reached the point of saturation, with 47 percent share in the sneaker market and 61 percent in basketball shoes. But others think something much larger is at play: backlash. Nike's unrelenting hunger to dominate the marketplace has led to overexposure and over intrusion. It's eagerness to find the cheapest wage markets -- often in Asian sweat shops with slave-like conditions -- to maximize growth has led to a resentment against the company. As stock analyst Joise Esquivel from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter notes, "Clearly Asia is a problem, but they have a huge problem in the U.S. as well. Nike's basic fundamental challenge today, we believe, is not their competition. We believe it's Nike itself. The world is overswooshed."As Julie Winokur writes in the book "We the Media," commercial efforts like Nike's are the Western equivalent of the kamseen, the legendary dust storm that sweeps across the Sahara desert with such force that it buries people alive and burrows its grit into seemingly impossible places. Advertising is everywhere and Nike leads the way. Having exhausted traditional venues, advertising has metastasized into what was previously considered sacred places.French Perfume on A SkunkApparently Nike has sensed that they need more help stemming the flood of negative publicity. One step was the hiring of Maria Eitel to be Vice President for Corporate and Social Responsibility, whose duties include shaping up Nike's labor practices. Company President Thomas Clark declared that the hiring of Eitel "signals Nikes commitment from the top to be a leader ... in global citizenship."This new information brought a shriek from populist radio commentator Jim Hightower. "It'll take a tough cookie to bend the Nike Swooshtika toward justice, so let's check her credentials: Ms. Eitel has been a television reporter, a White House spokesperson for the Bush administration, and corporate affairs manager at Microsoft. What? She's a PR flak, a political spinmeister, a corporate con artist. We're to believe that she'll hold Nike's golden feet to the fire?"Hightower continues: "In her Nike debut, Eitel sounds more like a lap dog than a watchdog, declaring that criticism of the company's labor practices have not been justified because this is a 'very complex issue' ... There is nothing complex about the fact that Nike hires teenage girls in Asia to make its pricey shoes, pays them sub-poverty wages and allows them to be abused in the workplace." Hightower adds: "They can put French perfume on a skunk, but it won't hide the stink. "SWOOSH The swoosh -- a simple aerodynamic design, a winged check mark, a boomerang, a whatever -- is clearly the most ubiquitous sports symbol in history. Swoosh recognition is so high the name of the company no longer accompanies the symbol, not even on shoes, or on the company's stationery. David Armstrong of the San Francisco Examiner reports that the swoosh has a 90 percent consumer recognition rating, about the same as the McDonald's arches. Funny thing about that swoosh, though: it was created 30-some years ago by a student named Carolyn Davidson, who the company is not in touch with. She was paid $36.INDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTSTiger Woods wears the Nike swoosh on the front of his shirt. And on the back. "It gets worse," complains Gary Peterson of the Contra Costa Times. "Woods now wears the Nike swoosh on the front of his cap. And on the back and on the sides. Ken Griffey wears the Nike swoosh on the back of his batting glove. And because the center field camera doesn't see the back of both hands as he stands at the plate, on the index fingers of his glove."As Chicago Tribune columnist Sherman explains, "The selling out of sports is in full throttle and Nike is the biggest player or offender, depending on your perspective. With almost every big name star in its portfolio, Nike is now buying up college sports. Virtually every big name school has a big money endorsement contract from Nike." As does virtually every big name coach.Into the High Schools Nike has invaded high schools as well. Principal Yvonne H. D. Noble of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles says that a LA Times reporter asked her about the relationship of Nike to her school. She told him the company gave each member of the boys basketball team a pair of tennis shoes. But the reporter figured there was probably more to the relationship than the 15 pairs of shoes. Turned out he was right."As I investigated, I learned that Nike practically outfitted every member of the boy's team -- several pairs of shoes ... gym bags, hats, warm ups and probably other items. What does Nike get from Crenshaw High School? They get a championship basketball program to advertise for Nike. None of it seems illegal, but is it ethical?"In July of 1997, when I learned quite by accident that Nike had arranged with one of our coaches to use the Crenshaw High gym to film a commercial, I immediately stopped the project," responds Noble. "I was appalled that Nike would totally bypass the administrative staff in seeking to use district facilities for a profit-making enterprise."I am embarrassed to admit the depth of my na•vetŽ. But I must let those who influence my students, including Nike, know that ethical values count in the Crenshaw community. What I was is a relationship in which not only Nike but my student athletes prosper. The exploitation of student athletes at Crenshaw High School must stop. For me to remain silent on this issue is to collude with those who do not have my students' best interest at heart."The schools and pro teams will argue that they need the revenue from advertising deals to cover budgets, make up deficits. But the trend grows as more gets spent and more is needed. "Every time a swoosh is placed on a coaching giant, a football field gets named for a steak house, every time an ad is placed on the field of play, the event becomes less special. It loses some of its character and integrity." says Sherman.SPORTSWEAR BUSINESS CONCERNED Sporting Goods Business reports that while the Nike brand has long been the bane of other footwear manufacturers -- Nike has swept into categories from basketball to even indoor volleyball -- a feeling of entrapment has emerged among retailers who feel they have less control over what they stock, but are too dependent on swoosh revenue to do much about it. Many retailers fear the obvious --that if or when Nike makes a slip or falls out of faith with the consumer, the results will be disastrous. That moment may be on the horizon.In stories reminiscent of other industries where independent stores are getting the squeeze, -- like book sellers, coffee cafes, clothing outlets -- smaller companies appear to have a more difficult time getting the service they need to compete with the Foot Lockers and other chains who give Nike big business.NOT SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLENike also has been in the cross-hairs of the socially responsible investment world, a still modest but growing group of stock holders who want companies they invest in and exercise a social conscience. Mutual fund assets linked to social issues have grown to $96 billion, according to the Washington-based Social Investment Forum, a huge increase from the $12 billion just two years ago.And many are "exercising" their social conscience. As reported in the Sacramento Bee, for example, Laurel Kuzins does not wear Nike Shoes. They don't measure up, she says, because the company relies on cheap overseas labor to make them. Laurie is 8-years-old.Laurie's parents, Matt and Nanci, have long held beliefs about human rights and the environment and feel strongly that "Where we put our money should reflect our view of how we'd like the world to be."ARE PEOPLE PICKING ON NIKE? Americans are generally fair. They don't want a person (or a company for that matter) singled out when others are to blame as well. Many people asked the obvious questions: Aren't all shoe companies the same? Aren't workers being paid the minimum wage at Nike factories and aren't they happy to have the jobs?Let's take a look. Like their dominance in the advertising world, Nike gets a lot a of attention because they are the biggest shoe company in the world, spending more than $600 million on marketing that "empowers women and inner city youth to buy their expensive shoes."These shoes are made by Vietnamese workers, who are paid $1.60 daily wages, while according to Global Exchange, the cost of a single meal in Ho Chi Minh City is 60 to 90 cents. The Indonesian government admits that their minimum wage is only 90 percent of subsistence. As for what Nike can afford, advocates come up with the following statistic: Just 2 percent of Nike's $630 million operating budget could raise the salary of all 25,000 Vietnamese workers from a meager $1.60 per day to $3.00, a livable wage. After all, the critics say, Reebok factories pay $65 per month and Coca-Cola and Goodyear recognize that minimum wage is not enough, while Nike pays $45 monthly -- a poverty wage. Furthermore, New Balance makes most of their sneakers in the U.S., paying more than 30 times what Nike pays and they still make a profit.LOOK FOR NIKE PROTEST IN YOUR COMMUNITYA final word will no doubt go to Michael Moore. He finished his Nike story: "Nike apparently has, behind the scenes, threatened to cancel a cross-promotion they had planned to do on an upcoming film called 'The Mighty.' But the Miramax brothers (distributors of Moore's film "The Big One") are not the type to be intimidated. Miramax is gearing much of their publicity of the film around Nike. We will also do 30 benefit screenings around the country and a number of them will be to help the anti-Nike efforts. That should keep the heat on the Nike publicists."


Alberta Deaf Pickleball Club will host 1st Canadian Deaf Pickleball Tournament in Edmonton, Alberta – September 2019.
See more details with attached flyer.
Players can register the event on-line which will be much faster & easier.
Any pickleball skill levels are welcome to play.
It will be great event.


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Three student essays were honored at the 20th annual Audley Webster Memorial Essay Contest on Tuesday.
The contest awards first and second places as well as an honorable mention to three students who are selected for writing notable essays in English Composition classes.
Krystine Smith was awarded first place, Christian Mock received second place, and Corey Janson was given an honorable mention. Their work was picked out of nearly 100 essays total by a panel of 24 faculty members and graduate students.
The English professors of the three students attended the event. Senior Lecturer Martha Otis taught Smith and Mock, while Janson studied under Charlotte Rogers.
The two professors introduced their prospective students, and then each winner got a chance to read a part of their essay to the hushed crowd.
President Donna E. Shalala was also in attendance, commemorating the writers and presenting them each with their awards.
"I am a strong supporter of commitment to humanities," Shalala said, addressing the crowd.
Janson, a senior Foote Fellow studying psychology and political science, wrote his on Robert Lowe's "For the Union Dead," while Mock, a finance student, wrote his essay on dreaming.
Smith, a former member of the Marine Corps who studies music therapy, chose to write her essay on the effects music therapy has on veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In her essay, Smith included anecdotes about people in her own life who served and current suffer from PTSD.
Smith is herself a musician; she was a flutist in the Marine Corps band. After finishing her term, Smith came to UM knowing that she wanted to study music therapy.
As she explained in her essay, however, she was unsure what exactly would be her essay topic until she had a conversation with a friend who suffered from PTSD.
"I really want to help in any way I can," Smith said.
She went on to describe how people often "look down" on those with PTSD and explained that it is hard for those who have not served to understand the long-term effects it can have.
Joanna Johnson, the director of English Composition, commended Smith for including real-life perspectives in her essay.
The 20th annual Audley Webster Memorial Essay Contest recognizes students' essays written in English Composition (ENG 105 and 106) courses.
UM President Donna E. Shalala attended and talked about the importance of the humanities.


Pathfindersonline • View topic - How does your club work???
How does your club work???
Post subject: How does your club work???
I've read the handbooks and manual about how a PF club works. We have a very small club in our church. So I would like to ask other clubs some questions.
Who makes out the yearly schedule of what each level is doing when?
Who grades the honor work that is handed in?
How much self motivation do the level leaders have? Do they look at the schedule, see what needs to be done and do it? Or does the Director assign tasks to level leader?
How many directors do you have? Are they a married couple, if man/woman?
How much reporting do the level leaders do to the director?
Does your church nominating committee decide who is PF director?
Post subject: Re: How does your club work???
As the director, I make a DRAFT of the schedule. We have a meeting in mid-July to revise it, and I invite all staff, parents, and PFs to attend and contribute. The draft is just a starting point, and I expect people to propose changes to it. When we're done, I expect everyone to be happy with it, and commit to it. That covers some of what the classes do, but not the bulk of it.
It depends on the leader. An experienced leader does not need (or want) my input. A new one does. I offer to schedule out their class activities if they want me to. There are some things that the club does together (knot tying, camping skills, CPR, sometimes first aid), and those are built into the "master" schedule. We also schedule our outreach activities as a club.
The master schedule also includes which class is responsible for worship during the meeting, but I let the leader choose their own worship topic (based on what they need to present for their class).
I also tell new leaders not to use class time working on the pledge, law, pledge of allegiance, PF aim, motto, or books of the Bible, as those are built into our opening exercises. By the end of the year, every kid in semi-regular attendance will know all of that.
We have but one, but I am half of a married couple!
We try to have monthly staff meetings, and I ask how it's going then. I also set benchmarks for the reading, but that's more on the kids than on the staff. We have a Fun Night on New Year's Eve, and they have to have their reading done (and 75% of the merit points) to qualify. For Fun Day at the end of the year, they have to have 75% and be invested in a basic level.
The PF director is a member of the Church Board, so must be nominated and elected. Our church office year runs from Jan 1-Dec 31, but PF and Adventurer leadership works better when it runs from Jul 1-Jun 30. The Church Manual allows the Church Board to serve as the Nominating Committee when the Nominating Committee is not in session, so our church board nominates those positions separately at a time that works better for those two offices. Then we have a first and second reading, and the church votes on the nominations. I would prefer it if church offices all ran from Jul1-Jun30, but our conference prefers it the way it is and pushes for that.
As director, I make out a draft of the year's schedule with my staff and present it to the church board for approval before the beginning of the PF year. Usually this includes things like outings, trips, campings, visits to different churches and witnessing events.
Each counselor is responsible for working out a schedule of how they'd like to present and teach their class. It does not require review or approval of the director, just as long as all the requirements will be met before investiture.
We usually try to incorporate general stuff with the club schedule; for example, different camping skills for each class are included in a camping schedule (build a fire, cook bread, clean dishes); another example is first aid skills, we have a nurse or medical doctor from the congregation come by and give a class or two during the year, and we ask them to cover certain topics so the kids can fulfill most of their requirements (such as the First Aid honors, Basic Rescue, CPR).
We always use the worksheets from the Honors Manual and Worksheets provided by AdventSource, which has convenient charts and spaces for the kids to write their answers and take notes. Either the director or the instructor will sign off on completed worksheets, which are saved in each PF's binder and handed in close to the end of the year for ordering the patches.
How much self motivation do the level leaders have?
There is a specific seminar and training as part of the curriculum for the Pathfinder Leadership Award which deals exactly with how to motivate your volunteers. It depends a lot on the person; some have the passion and drive for the club and need little motivation. Others, though, need lots of encouragement and follow-up to make sure they're still on track and keep their class up to date. Specifically in my club, most of my counselors need consistent encouragement and checking up on, to make sure they're understanding what they need to do and that they're not feeling overwhelmed.
Do they look at the schedule, see what needs to be done and do it? Or does the Director assign tasks to level leader?
As I mentioned before, each counselor is in charge of making use of their time wisely. I as a director do not tend to micromanage my team, unless I see that a counselor is falling behind (which sometimes occurs because life happens). Being in charge of a whole club and team is challenging enough, I cannot imagine what it would be like to also have to assign tasks to my counselors.
Currently, I am the director and have a subdirector. Should I not be present at a meeting for any reason, I will make sure my subdirector knows the plan and takes charge. I have been part of other clubs where the director and subdirector are a married couple and this worked well because both were passionate about the ministry. I am a man, but again, I've seen other clubs be led just fine with a woman, and have been led by women as directors several times.
The reporting is usually done at staff meetings, so it would depend on how many times you have staff meetings. We have them every time before a PF meeting, half hour before it starts. Because it is so frequent, we do not spend a lot of time with updates. If one of my counselors has a question or is having an issue, they either seek me out at another time or I will speak to them to help resolve the challenge.
The church board is in charge of nominating the director for the club. The director is the one who picks the staff. At my church, we have all three ministries so the church will nominate four directors: Adventurer, Pathfinder, Master Guide and the Administrative Director (who is in charge of overseeing all three clubs).
I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, let us know!
LOL, Jim Thomas. I like your reply on being a married couple! I guess maybe I should rephrase that question. Have you ever heard of a married couple who are both MGs sharing the director position?
One of the clubs operating in our conference did that for years. Then they became AC's and handed directorship over to another.


Dave suggested I bring the truck out today, because Tim was coming and we were going to do a "slow ride."
Dave sat behind the truck on the flats, then tried to drop me on the climbs, being nice and rested from hanging out in the vortex behind my crate.
Of course, I would've done the same. Rapscallion!


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A heat-sensitive calcium channel gets positive feedback
A team of researchers led by Osaka University has found that mutations in the calcium channel protein RyR1 that confer susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia make the protein hypersensitive to heat, which triggers excessive calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum. Clarifying the mechanism by which calcium release is accelerated at an elevated temperature in patients with malignant hyperthermia may also provide important insight into how exertional heat stroke occurs under extreme environmental conditions.
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We propose that malignant hyperthermia occurs when runaway thermogenesis is caused by a heat-sensitive Ca2+ -release channel (RyR1). Anesthesia is known to trigger Ca2+ release through mutant RyR1 variants, facilitating thermogenesis in muscle cells (gray arrows). In the present study, we found that applying heat causes Ca2+ release through RyR1 by a mechanism that we call "Heat-Induced Ca2+ Release (HICR)" (a red arrow). This creates a positive feedback loop that accelerates progression of the disease.
CC BY, 2022, Kotaro Oyama et al, Heat-hypersensitive mutants of ryanodine receptor type 1 revealed by microscopic heating, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
A team of researchers led by Osaka University finds that mutant variants of the calcium channel protein RyR1 are hypersensitive to heat, which creates a positive feedback loop of calcium release and leads to malignant hyperthermia
Osaka, Japan - Hot summer temperatures may have you reaching for a fan and an iced drink in your quest to keep cool. But now, researchers from Japan have found that some mutant proteins are even less tolerant of the heat, getting trapped in a cycle of activation that can have deadly consequences.
In a study soon to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by Osaka University reveals that malignant hyperthermia (MH) is caused by heat-hypersensitive mutant calcium channel proteins.
MH is a condition in which the body temperature rises uncontrollably in response to anesthesia. The body temperature can increase rapidly, sometimes to over 42°C, causing symptoms that can be fatal if not treated immediately.
"Most human MH-associated mutations have been identified in the ryanodine receptor type 1 (RyR1) gene and cause increased calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, leading to hyperthermia," explains Kotaro Oyama, one of the lead authors on the study. "Some studies have suggested that there is a positive feedback loop between calcium release and thermogenesis, but it was still unclear how this loop might work."
To investigate this, the researchers precisely heated cultured cells expressing mutant RyR1 proteins with an infrared laser beam and assessed changes in calcium flow using fluorescence calcium imaging. This approach enabled them to quantitatively evaluate the cellular response to heat.
"The results were very clear," says Madoka Suzuki, senior author on the study. "A local heat pulse induced an intracellular calcium burst, but even a weak heat pulse induced this response in cells expressing mutant forms of the RyR1 channels, demonstrating their hypersensitivity to heat compared with the unmutated channel." The team named this novel response "Heat-Induced Ca2+ Release (HICR)." The HICR was also observed in skeletal muscles isolated from a mouse model of MH.
Importantly, the calcium that is released into the intracellular environment in response to heat via the HICR mechanism could possibly accelerate further thermogenesis in the cell, creating a cascade effect.
"Our findings suggest that, when calcium leakage through RyR1 mutant channels is enhanced by MH inducers such as anesthetics, a positive feedback loop is created that leads to the release of more and more calcium. One plausible explanation for the calcium leakage is that the mutant proteins are easily destabilized by heat," states lead author Kotaro Oyama.
Given that recent studies suggest that there is a close relationship between malignant hyperthermia and heat stroke, the findings from this study could also provide insight into how exertional heat stroke occurs under extreme environmental conditions. A better understanding of this condition could help develop preventive and treatment strategies.
The article, "Heat-hypersensitive mutants of ryanodine receptor type 1 revealed by microscopic heating," was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. at DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201286119
About Osaka University
Osaka University was founded in 1931 as one of the seven imperial universities of Japan and is now one of Japan's leading comprehensive universities with a broad disciplinary spectrum. This strength is coupled with a singular drive for innovation that extends throughout the scientific process, from fundamental research to the creation of applied technology with positive economic impacts. Its commitment to innovation has been recognized in Japan and around the world, being named Japan's most innovative university in 2015 (Reuters 2015 Top 100) and one of the most innovative institutions in the world in 2017 (Innovative Universities and the Nature Index Innovation 2017). Now, Osaka University is leveraging its role as a Designated National University Corporation selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to contribute to innovation for human welfare, sustainable development of society, and social transformation.
Website: https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/en
Top, a 1455-nm infrared laser light was focused using an objective lens to apply heat to cells under a fluorescence microscope. The cells expressed RyR1 with mutations that are known to be related to malignant hyperthermia. Bottom, Ca2+ fluorescence imaging showed that intracellular Ca2+ levels increased within one second after heating began. The images are shown in a pseudo-color, with red indicating areas where the Ca2+ concentration was higher than the yellow or blue areas.
Published: 08 Aug 2022
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Regionale ontwikkeling: opgavegericht (samen)werken
On 1 April 2019 in the town hall of the Dutch municipality Zwolle the second Van Poelje lecture (named after the founder of Dutch Public Administration, Gerrit van Poelje) was held. The lecture is organized by the Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) of the University of Twente, in close cooperation with BMC advice, the municipality of Zwolle and the province of Overijssel (of which Zwolle is the capital). The subject of this second lecture was 'Regional development: task-oriented operating and cooperating '. The keynote speech of the lecture was delivered by the minister of Home Affairs Kajsa Ollongren. The coreferents were Andries Heidema (the King's Commissioner in the province of Overijssel) and Bas Denters (professor of Public Administration at the University of Twente). Marcel Boogers (the new chief editor of this magazine, Bestuurswetenschappen) acted as chair of the day and as moderator of the discussion between the attendees and the speakers. In his opinion a clearly different wind is blowing from the Home Office, with more attention for regional differences, which demands more tailor-made work from municipalities and provinces. The minister's main message was that, because not all provinces have the same position and the problems also differ per province, the tasks must be the guiding principle and the scale must be adjusted accordingly. Therefore, administrative culture and style must be central in the present discussion in her opinion, and not so much the administrative structure.
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Joris in 't Veld en de nieuwe vormen van decentralisatie
This essay is about the Dutch PhD-thesis New forms of decentralization by Joris in 't Veld from 1929. He was not only a competent and efficient social-democratic administrator, but he was also an early administrative scientist. Like the other early (local) administrative scientists, he mainly worked from the legal discipline. During this period however, we also see an increasing input from other disciplines, such as urban planning, economic geography, business administration and statistics. The subject of his dissertation does not come out of the blue. Like many, In 't Veld felt strongly attracted to the problems of urban and regional development, but the various problems were not yet ripe for a final solution. An important part of his book is therefore devoted to the various solutions that have been found abroad for similar problems. In his thesis, In 't Veld discusses various forms of governance. First of all, he looks at the way in which the arrangement of cooperation between municipalities can be improved. Where this (voluntary and forced) cooperation falls short of its nature, the institutes of the port authority and of the regional plan come into the picture. In both cases it concerns decentralization through target corporations. A solution is also conceivable through further territorial decentralization: the insertion of a new regional corporation between the province and the municipality in the form of the region (the urban region or the rural region). The urban region needs a necessary supplement in the form of a system of tax equalization to adequately do justice to the interests of the whole and of the parts. An alternative to the urban region is the unity municipality with local decentralization. His integral vision on the organization of domestic government in 1929 is also instructive for the present time.
Decentralisatie, schaalvergroting en lokale democratie
Auteurs Prof. dr. Marcel Boogers en Dr. Rik Reussing
In this article in the series on the local democratic audit, the authors discuss the relationship between decentralization, scaling-up and local democracy. Decentralizations and scaling-up operations have changed the face of local government in the Netherlands considerably in recent decades. What have the consequences for the functioning of local democracy been? Although decentralizations aim to increase democratic control of government tasks, decentralizations appear to have weakened local democracy in two ways. First of all, they have led to a substantial scaling-up of the local government, through municipal amalgamations and especially through the formation of regional partnerships. Regionalization in particular has had all kinds of negative consequences for the functioning of local democracy. Decentralization policy itself has also weakened the steering and controlling role of the city council – certainly in the short term – while decentralization presupposes that the city council has a strong role in coordinating decentralized policy with local wishes and circumstances. We can speak of a 'double decentralization paradox' that entails both bottlenecks and opportunities. From the legislator's side, therefore, an integral vision for the organization of domestic governance is needed.
Prof. dr. Marcel Boogers
Prof. dr. M.J.G.J.A. Boogers is hoogleraar Innovatie en Regionaal Bestuur aan de Universiteit Twente, senior adviseur Openbaar Bestuur bij BMC en tevens redacteur van Bestuurswetenschappen.
Geschiedenis van de (lokale) bestuurswetenschappen: sociografie, sociologie en bestuurskunde
A large number of people, institutions, journals and approaches have contributed to the history of (local) administrative sciences in the Netherlands. Initially (around 1914) the legal approach was dominant; from 1964 onwards, political science would become the dominant approach; and from 1990 onwards, Public Administration would increasingly profile itself as an independent discipline. This essay concentrates on the influence on this development of sociology and its, typically Dutch, predecessor sociography. The starting point here is the promotion tree of the founder of the Dutch sociology Sebald Steinmetz. Through him various lines (via his doctorates Nicolaas ter Veen and Jakob Kruijt) go to modern Public Administration. This essay tells the story of the influence of sociography and sociology on the development of the administrative sciences and modern Public Administration in six acts, in which two persons from the promotion tree are discussed (via Sjoerd Groenman, who is promoted by Nicolaas ter Veen there are two different lines again). The line via Jakob Kruijt contains Aris van Braam (he wrote in 1957 what is considered the first Dutch empirical study in Public Administration) and Jos Raadschelders. The first line via Sjoerd Groenman contains Henk Brasz (the first full-time professor in Public Administration in the Netherlands), Fred Fleurke and Ko de Ridder. The second line via Sjoerd Groenman contains Joop Ellemers, Geert Braam (professor at the first regular Dutch Public Administration programme in Twente) and Wim Derksen. These acts are framed with short intermezzos about the other sociological key figures who played an important role in the story of sociography, sociology and Public Administration. In conclusion, the author of this essay discusses the continuing relevance of sociology for modern Public Administration.


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Ilario: Fantasy with a heart and a mind
Ilario by Mary Gentle
For pure storytelling, don't-want-to-stop-reading-it fun, Mary Gentle's two Ilario books, Ilario: The Lion's Eye: A Story of the First History, Book One and Ilario: The Stone Golem: A Story of the First History, Book Two, are among the best I've read. I lived in Gentle's world even when I wasn't actively reading the books. I dreamt of her Mediterranean Renaissance. I fretted about Ilario. I couldn't wait to get back to the books when I'd set them down. Gentle's worldbuilding is extraordinary, her characters are complete individuals, and her plot compelling. This is fantasy with a heart and a mind.
Ilario is a hermaphrodite in every possible sense of the word. He (I shall refer to him as "he" for the sake of convenience only; I could just as easily use "she") not only has the sexual organs of both a man and a woman, but also has sexual desire for both men and women. He has no sense that he is primarily one sex or the other, no feeling that his "ka" or "soul" is one gender or the other: he is both.
That, standing alone, is a strong premise for a book, but Mary Gentle isn't content with merely exploring one man/woman's sexual identity. She sets her book in a world that never was, at a time that appears to approximate our Renaissance. Carthage was never conquered, and remains a powerful city-state. But it is a city forever shrouded in darkness, called the Penitence, and no one knows why. Under darkness, it cannot grow crops, and therefore has ambitions of conquest. Rome has been a backwater ever since Gundobad's curse left Peter's Chair (that is, the office of Pope) vacant. Taraconensis is another great power, from which Ilario hails. Turkey, too, is powerful, but it owes its position in the world to New Alexandria — formerly known as Constantinople — the center of Egypt in exile. The Alexandrian Library is the most renowned collection of writings of all sorts in the world — many, if not most, one of a kind. Politically and militarily, however, Alexandria is barely holding on.
When the first book opens, Ilario is fleeing Taraconensis, where his birth mother, Rosamunda, has just tried to kill him. He has been freed by King Rodrigo from his position as King's Freak, a slave mocked for his sexual identity. Rosamunda's second attempt on his life is no more successful than her first, but it wounds him more — psychologically, for he loves her, though not physically. But she is married to Videric, the king's First Minister, and he has ordered her to kill her only child. And she has her own reasons for obeying.
Ilario is an artist, and he chooses Carthage in order to paint under the Penitence, trying to get the colors of eternal darkness correctly. He seeks to apprentice himself to an artist who can teach him the New Art, an art that we, and Ilario, learn is based upon the study of perspective and proportion. He meets with misfortune almost immediately in Carthage, however, and the misfortune never lets up: he is bilked as a newcomer and made a slave again to an Egyptian, Rekhmire'. Worse yet, Rosamunda follows him and again attempts to kill him. There is more at work politically here than he knows, and more to come when Rekhmire' denounces his mother to the powers that be in Carthage, causing an international incident.
All of this happens within the first one hundred pages or so of the first book, and I haven't even mentioned Ilario's night of passion with Marcomir, his discovery of his true father or Rekhmire's status as a eunuch. The books take Ilario and Rekhmire' to Rome, Venice, New Alexandria, and elsewhere about the Mediterranean, introducing all manner of what we know as artifacts of the Renaissance. Political intrigue is abundant, as Videric continues his quest to end Ilario's life. Ilario's own body betrays him, or blesses him, or both, as the reader struggles to bend his or her mind around the notion of a human who is both male and female. There is much to consider here about the nature of love as well as of sex, and the relationship of love to the configuration of one's genitals.
Gentle's writing is largely transparent, with rare moments of a keen turn of phrase. It is this transparency that allows the reader to become so thoroughly lost in these books. All else disappears so that you can smell the cheese in the artist's glue, hear the thunder of the sea and feel the heat of the midday sun in New Alexandria. Tension builds as the politics grow more complicated, the assassins more numerous and the stakes higher.
Occasionally it is apparent that Gentle would have benefited from an editor, as when, for instance, she draws the same word picture several times within pages. In addition, the short epilogue should have been cut altogether; it adds nothing we need to know to the story.
And there is no reason whatsoever why this story should have been two books instead of one. The first book's cliffhanger is an insult to readers, because it is not a true cliffhanger; its resolution is apparent by the fact that there is a second book at all. This is plainly a single book cut in two for profit's sake, a fault to be laid squarely at the feet of the publisher. This recent regrettable trend is extremely annoying and makes books so expensive as to take them out of the reach of many. I would gladly have paid $35 for a single hardcover volume of nearly 700 pages rather than $30 for two trade paperbacks; the former would have been a fine addition to my permanent library. As it is, much as I loved these books, they are merely fine additions to my local public library.
I understand that Ilario's story is a sort of prequel to Gentle's Ash: A Secret History. I look forward to seeking out the Book of Ash quartet or duology of books (depending on the publisher) and reading them soon. If The Lion's Eye and The Stone Golem are any indication of what I can expect from this world of Gentle's, then I have many fine hours of reading ahead of me.
Ilario — (2006-2007) Publisher: Ilario is born hermaphrodite, a true genetic chimera. Found abandoned on the steps of a chapel of the Green Christ, in one of the minor Iberian kingdoms, on a freezing snowy night, Ilario is fostered by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble, who plans to gift Ilario to the king, hoping to gain favour at court. At the age of 15, Ilario joins King Roderigo as the King's Freak, but while learning the ways of the court, Illario has another lesson to study: abandonment and betrayal. For Rosamunda, Ilario's birth mother, has arrived — and the secret of Ilario's shameful birth must be kept hidden, lest the resulting scandal ruin Rosamunda's husband, Videric, the king's most powerful advisor. When Ilario is freed by the king, he/she is summoned by Rosamunda. And when her attempt to murder her child fails, Rosamunda whispers 'Run… ' And Ilario does… across the Mediterranean, to Carthage.
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TERRY WEYNA, on our staff since December 2010, would rather be reading than doing almost anything else. She reads all day long as an insurance coverage attorney, and in all her spare time as a reviewer, critic and writer. Terry lives in Northern California with her husband, professor emeritus and writer Fred White, two rambunctious cats, and an enormous library.


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Q: Why is const used in function declarations I am new to C, and by looking to the declaration of fopen() function:
FILE *fopen(const char *filename, const char *mode)

I noticed the use of "const" before the two parameters, as far as I know about constants in C, they are used only in variables, arrays, etc, that you do not want to have their value changed during the execution of the program, since I always pass a value to fopen() function, wouldn't these two "const" trow an error (since "const" should not let the user give a new value to a variable, so it should not let you give a value to "const char *filename" and "const char *mode")?

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"Dozier crafts a splendidly enchanting musical statement." Edward Blanco, All About Jazz
"There is no drawback in surrendering to Dozier's bewitching voice. It does a soul good." Susan Francis, JazzReview.com
Hailing from Miami, Florida Jazz Artist Paulette Dozier makes her Los Angeles Concert Debut at "VIBRATO Grill Jazz". Renowned for her sultry alto voice and dynamic stage presence, this multi-faceted singer/actress infuses every one of her performances with a depth far beyond the usual. Her voice has been called 'deep, steady, and sexy,' and she masterfully uses it to communicate a repertoire that infuses unforgettable jazz standards with today's edgy and contemporary sounds.
Having performed with jazz greats such as Ira Sullivan and Eddie Higgins, and opened for the likes of Roy Ayers and Erykah Badu;; as well as the late legendary comedian Shelley Berman, Dozier knows how to bring a powerful performance. Her own show presents an impassioned musical program that visits some of the most cherished female voices and personalities in jazz history paying homage to stars like Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne and more. She presents some of their signature songs while treating the audience to a few of her own original tunes. For this performance at VIBRATO her guest entertainers, international chanteuse Maria Elena Infante and Neo-Soul singer Chantel Deniese, both bring their own unique style to the program to honor great ladies of song.
Dozier is featured on several international recordings and has produced three well received CDs of her own;; In Walked You (2012), Over & Over Again (2007) and With You (2005). Her voice has also been heard in voiceovers for such products as Nature Valley Granola Bar and Haagen Dazs ice cream, plus in a range of musical theater productions one in which she played her most beloved role as the iconic Lady Day, jazz singer Billie Holiday.
And although her passion for the theater runs deep, this two time Carbonell Award nominee made a move to the City of Angels in 2016 to explore the possibilities of an acting career for TV and film. A two-year hiatus from singing allowed her to fully discover the opportunities available in La La Land and since that period, her acting career has expanded from musical theatre, commercials and print work, to working in screen productions.
Now, gearing up after this worthwhile hiatus, Dozier reboots her singing career and VIBRATO's elegant ambiance with its comfortable supper club setting is the perfect venue for west coast jazz fans to get to know this sophisticated lady. Patrons will enjoy her easy delivery, combined with a wicked sense of humor, and an innate knowledge of what her audiences enjoy;; all of which make each of her performances unique and memorable.
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'A Quiet Place Part II': Rifle-Wielding Emily Blunt Treads Very Carefully in First Teaser (Video)
Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join cast of the horror sequel
Debbie Emery | December 18, 2019 @ 7:02 AM	Last Updated: December 18, 2019 @ 7:21 AM
John Krasinski's character didn't survive the horror of 2018's "A Quiet Place" but his legacy lives on in the sequel as Emily Blunt is seen carrying a newborn baby in the first teaser for the sequel, released Wednesday morning.
In the 30-second clip, Blunt's rifle-wielding character is seen walking silently and on guard as she leads her two older children (again played by Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe) through the woods — until they come to the end of the cleared portion of the path and must begin stepping on crunchy autumn leaves. (No sign of where her newborn might be — though the infant does appear in the first look image the studio released.)
While he won't appear on screen, Krasinski returns as writer and director, with Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou joining the cast.
A fuller teaser trailer will be released on New Year's Day. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Also Read: John Krasinski Will Return to Direct 'A Quiet Place' Sequel
According to the official synopsis from the studio, following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Hounsou joined the cast earlier this year after Brian Tyree Henry had to drop out over scheduling conflicts.
Also Read: Motion Picture Sound Editors Give Top Awards to 'A Quiet Place,' 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' 'Spider-Man'
"A Quiet Place Part II" was executive produced by Allyson Seeger, Joann Perritano and Aaron Janus, and produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and Krasinski.
The original "A Quiet Place" starred Krasinski, Blunt, Jupe and Simmonds and grossed just over $340 million at the global box office. Since then, the film has won several awards, including the Critics' Choice for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Blunt. Krasinski also wrote the screenplay.
The film was about a family that has to live in complete silence, otherwise, creatures will hunt them. Even the most normal tasks become daunting: eating dinner with the family, playing board games or going fishing makes the characters fear for their lives.
Watch the teaser above. The film tiptoes into theaters on March 20, 2020.
The 9 Most Divisive Horror Films of the Decade, From 'Human Centipede' to 'mother!' (Photos)
How many of these horror films have you seen?
"Human Centipede" (2009)
Listen ... any movie about a deranged doctor stitching three people together, mouth to anus, will cause outrage. The film's general consensus on Rotten Tomatoes read, "Grotesque, visceral and hard to (ahem) swallow, this surgical horror doesn't quite earn its stripes because the gross-outs overwhelm and devalue everything else." It's just gross.
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"Human Centipede 2" (2011)
This sequel continues the grotesque experiment from the first, but also includes graphic rape and sadism. It was so horrifying, in fact, that the British Board of Film Classification deemed it as an infringement of the Obscene Publications Act and was liable to cause real harm to the public, according to The Guardian.
"Slender Man" (2016)
Screen Gems released a film in 2016 about the Slender Man, a fictional creature created in an online forum. It generated controversy as the movie was released just two years after the Waukesha stabbing, in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed a third, claiming the stabbing was part of the steps to becoming a proxy for the Slender Man. The film was accused of capitalizing off the incident, and the father of perpetrator Anissa Weier calling the film "absurd."
"The Green Inferno" (2013)
The film follows a group of college activists who go to the Amazon Forest to help protect a tribe from deforestation. However, upon arriving they discover the tribe is cannibalistic. Not only was the film, directed by Eli Roth, criticized by Survival International for the film's stigmas against indigenous people and reinforcing colonialism, but many reviews said the film was extremely gory and disturbing.
"Jeepers Creepers 3" (2017)
The film sparked outrage mainly because of its plot over child molestation and the fact that in 1988, director Victor Salva was incarcerated for sexual abuse of a 12-year-old child and possession of child pornography.
"A Serbian Film" (2010)
This film has been one of the most controversial films of the decade, given it deals with rape, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia and, um, "newborn porn." According to IGN, the film was investigated for criminality in Serbia and other countries, and was also investigated for its violent and sexual content. According to Rolling Stone, Spain, Norway, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand have banned the film, and other countries have tried everything in their power to stop people from watching it.
Jinga Films
"mother!" (2017)
"mother!" quickly became the most controversial movie of 2017 due to its brutal finale. No spoiler alert as the movie is now two years old; the Poet's adoring fans accidentally kill -- and then eat -- Jennifer Lawrence's character's newborn. Paramount had to release a statement following the backlash, saying the film was "intended to be bold," and that it's "okay if some people don't like it."
"The Hunt" (2019)
This movie never even saw the light of day. It was scheduled to be released on Sept. 27, but following the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings in August, Universal shelved the film. Test screenings found that audiences were uncomfortable with the politics expressed in the film; reports said the film follows 12 people that wake up in a clearing, being hunted by the rich elite.
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"The House That Jack Built" (2018)
Lars von Trier's film was so divisive that it caused walkouts at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a serial killer (Matt Dillon), who mutilates and strangles his victims. Viewers were also outraged over a scene where a duckling is mutilated. Critics at the festival even said the director "had gone too far this time."
According to IndieWire, the film also received sanctions from the MPAA because the film's distributor, IFC, opened an unrated director's cut of the film over 100 cities without getting permission.
Some films were so disgusting and repulsive that they had to be banned in various countries


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Selastele pictum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.

Description
The height of the shell attains 6 mm.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands at a depth of 370 m.

References

 Marshall, B.A. (1995). Calliostomatidae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) from New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and the northern Lord Howe Rise. pp. 381–458 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol. 14 . Mém. Mus. nat. Hist. nat. 167 : 381–458

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Multiple monitor support for Remote Desktop Services allows users to open a Remote Desktop connection expanded across all the monitors on the client computer regardless of the client monitor configuration. With this feature, the user can fully utilize all the monitors connected to the client computer for the Remote Desktop connection thereby providing extra desktop space and an almost seamless experience with the client desktop that is much improved over "Span mode". This feature will be part of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 release and works for connections to another client machine (physical or VM), or a Remote Desktop Session Host.
Connect using the Remote Desktop Client 7.0 (mstsc.exe) available initially on Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2.
Enable Multimon using one of the three methods described below: a. Click "Use all monitors for the remote session" in the client (mstsc.exe) window. b. Use the "/multimon" switch on the mstsc.exe command line. c. Add "Use Multimon:i:1" to the RDP file.
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Span mode, introduced in Vista, allows the remote desktop to span across all monitors on the client as long as the monitors are arranged to form a rectangle. The remote session created when using span mode is still a single-monitor session. With multimon support, each monitor on the client machine is viewed as a distinct monitor in the remote session. Due to this fundamental difference, span mode has some restrictions that true multimon does not: 1. The primary monitor must be leftmost. 2. The set of monitors must form a rectangle (i.e. identical vertical resolution, and lined up in exact straight line). 3. The total of the resolutions must be below 4096x2048 (ex. 1600x1200+1600x1200 = 3200x1200). For these reasons, all monitor configurations shown below are valid for Remote Desktop multimon, whereas most of them are not valid for span mode: With true multimon support, the client-side monitors can be arranged in any order and can be of any resolution. Since a span mode remote session is essentially a single-monitor session, if a window in the remote desktop is maximized, it spans across all the monitors. With true multimon support, a window will only maximize to the extent of the containing monitor. If an application queries for the number of monitors inside a span-mode session, it will find only one monitor, whereas it will find as many monitors as are actually present on the client system when using true multimon RDP. This difference can change the behavior of applications such as PowerPoint.
By setting the MaxMonitors property in the Win32_TSClientSetting WMI class ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383778(VS.85).aspx) .
By setting the MaxXResolution and MaxYResolution properties in the Win32_TSClientSetting WMI class ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383778(VS.85).aspx) .
Please note that the policies and WMI settings described above apply only to connections with multiple monitors and not when connecting with a single monitor.


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Another bloody blog about Sachin Tendulkar
After much discussion, media hype and twitter hyperbole from all sides, it is finally upon us, Sachin Tendulkar is playing his last game of professional cricket. You don't need me to tell you how good he was, what a fabulous advocate he was for the game of cricket or what an inspiration he was to millions of his countrymen, we've seen it all over the last quarter of a century. Whether he scores a fine century or gets run out without facing a ball is pretty irrelevant, though this particular soppy old git would like to see at least a few reminders of why we're getting so excited about him.
Perhaps bizarrely, my main interest in all this isn't really the cricketing aspect, at his peak, Tendulkar was an incredible player, but his fame, in India at least, goes way beyond that. he's come to represent the growth and confidence of an entire nation.
We mustn't get carried away, of course, India is still ridden with poverty, graft and corruption still pervades, but slowly and defiantly it is moving from a divided, post colonial mess, towards a modern, secular society. The liberal economic policies of the 1990s have seen GDP per capita rise from $352 when Tendulkar was making his Test debut in 1989, to $1414 today. With such incredible economic growth and the fact that it's the worlds largest democracy, India has much to be proud of, but a long way still to travel.
As often happens, the outlet for much of this pride is sport, and cricket in particular. Cricket has long been an obsession for many Indians, but the reign of King Sachin, has seen a great deal of success for the national team, and of the course the explosion of T20, which may have been invented in England, but has been turned into a sporting and financial success in India. In a nation often divided by geography and caste, he has been a figurehead for all Indians, a mast which has been used to haul up the billowing flag of a nation that is confident, that is going places and that others need to respect. His own personality helps, he's a modest man, devoted to and very protective of his family. Cricket has of course made him very wealthy, with a variety of business interests, which perhaps, makes him and even better symbol of modern India. He has used his position to support underprivileged children in his native Mumbai, though his fame makes visiting the slums almost impossible. He looks likely to take up politics after cricket.
It is ironic, that Tendulkar was not, perhaps, a stand out player in the smash and grab of T20 cricket, he only ever played 1 international T20 match for India, though his domestic T20 average of 32.9 is not to be sniffed it, The fact is that his reputation was already sealed by then, his record in Test and one day cricket is incredible, and many of his records look set to stand for some time, particularly with the way the game, particularly in the sub-continent, is tilting towards the shorter format of the game. Some perspective is required however; yes, he was an incredible player, capable of playing aggressively against the finest bowlers of his generation, but he was often surrounded by many other great players, both in his own team and amongst the opposition. Looking at the India team of 2013, he's almost a relic, normally when a great player retires it leaves a yawning gap, but in this case I'm not convinced it does, MS Dhoni is a fine captain and a rambunctious player, Virat Kohli, perhaps the first great product of the T20 generation.
AS I finish this, Tendulkar has just taken to the crease, enjoy your last hurrah Sachin, you've earned it. India will miss you, but Indian cricket probably won't.
This entry was posted in International Cricket, Uncategorized and tagged Batting, cricket, India, sachin, sport, Sports, T20, tendulkar, Twitter on November 14, 2013 by Stumped.


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'We are tired of taking up the slack for the state.' Educators struggle with staff shortages and mixed messages.
The president of the Texas State Teachers Association says the state should prioritize school staff safety, including adherence to the CDC's COVID-19 protocols.
By Jill AmentJanuary 14, 2022 7:23 amCoronavirus, Education, Health & Science, Texas Standard Original
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Tonya Wilkinson, a Leander ISD teacher with 26 years of experience, protests with fellow teachers and supporters outside of the Texas State Capitol Building in May, 2020.
Despite attempts to return to in-person classes for all students, many Texas school districts have found it necessary to close, at least on a short-term basis, due to staff shortages. Many school employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and the ranks of substitute teachers, bus drivers and library aides are diminished, too.
Ovidia Molina is president of the Texas State Teachers Association. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: How are Texas public school teachers doing right now?
Ovidia Molina: Our educators here in Texas, from the teachers who are in the classroom to the bus drivers to hall monitors are all still in a very fragile place. They are feeling the burden of having to do more because many of their coworkers are getting sick. And that urgency of making sure that everybody is safe, that people don't get sick, that people don't die, is still the same urgency as it was at the beginning of this pandemic. And the frustration has grown as to why. Why are we still feeling this? Why aren't we getting the support? Why aren't things changing to ensure everyone's safety so that we can get to learning?
What are some of the issues regarding staffing and safety in schools right now? What are some of the examples that you're hearing about from these overwhelmed teachers and staff?
We have seen a lot of school employees not coming back from the winter break. And so we're having teachers calling out. If you can find a sub, we have subs. But the reality is that we don't have that many subs available in the state of Texas, especially in certain areas. And so when that happens, we have classrooms that are sort of separated and put into other classrooms, which creates an atmosphere of more people in a room during a pandemic when people are already getting sick.
You're having bus drivers not being able to come and do their routes. So we have students that have ways to get to school or to get home – if a parent is able to bring them in, they go to school. It's all a lot of chaos. We have libraries that are closed because aides are getting sick and we have to disinfect. And some of our school districts are actually having to close a couple of days. And we are just at a point where we've had enough. We would like the state to not have a reactionary approach to our safety. We want a plan. Having masks when we have a lot of cases in our area would be a great thing for our state. Our governor refuses to allow school districts to do that.
I hear your frustration. You mentioned masks. What about testing? Is this something that the state also needs to step up?
Oh, definitely. Again, we are seeing national COVID relief funds coming in. And the question is, where is the reaction from our state? Where is the support from our state? Where is the plan from our state? Why isn't the state having COVID drives? We're seeing districts do it, but it's the same old thing. Our educators are going to take up the slack and we are tired of taking up the slack for the state. Our state truly needs to show not just the educators, but our students in the community that they value their education. We need to have a supportive state that is funding our schools for safety and learning.
Do you feel like your concerns aren't being taken seriously?
We, as educators, definitely feel as though we are not being heard by our state. During the Legislature, nothing was really talked about [with regard to] the safety of our students and our educators. There were no things in place to help us navigate through this pandemic. We are in our third school year of being in a pandemic, and there is no focus on how we get out of it by our state. TEA has changed the rules, per the CDC. But we're not following all of the protocols that the CDC says we should, masks being one of them. And so you can't just pick what you tell us that we can do and then tie our hand when we ask for things to keep us safe.
Talk to me about remote learning. I know you represent a large group, and I'm sure there are a lot of diverse views. Is the intention to still try to have everybody go into class as usual and avoid remote learning as long as possible?
We know as educators that the best atmosphere for our students is when we are face to face in-person, when we can see each other, we can build the relationships. But during a pandemic, safety has to be priority. If our students don't feel safe, then they're not going to be able to learn in the way that they should – as much as they can and feel safe. And so our goal has always been to keep our students safe, to ensure that they are learning and to stay in school safely. When that can't happen, then we have to do virtual. But that would be the last resort. And we're seeing school districts who, because of COVID, because of faculty shortages, because students are getting sick, they're having to turn remote. And that's not what we wanted. If our state had worked with our school districts to create a plan to keep us safe and actually supported that plan, we wouldn't be in this situation.
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While she has the perspective of a psychologist, Cristina Simón believes that when teaching Human Capital and Talent Management to EMBA students, the subject must be closely related to the harder-edged side of business. "I try not to talk as a psychologist but to talk their own business language and bring the subject closer to the reality of corporate performance, although it's fundamental to create awareness on the 'social side' of managerial work" she says.
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