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Yseq now offers an R1a-Z93 SNP panel for $88 (http://www.yseq.net/product_info.php?products_id=11867). It tests all the levels on YFull's current haplotree (http://yfull.com/tree/R-Z93/) that have customer examples (YF0nnnn) except:
Y1 < Y928 < Y920 < Y5 (< Y6)
Y2392 < Y2353 < Y2351 (< Y9)
Y879 < Y945 (< Y7)
Y25 (< Y7)
YP1269 (< Y52)
V164 (< YP639)
FGC18215 < FGC18218 (< FGC18226)
YP1366 (< Y2630)
YP268 (< YP265)
M12280 (< YP413)
YP1541 (< YP1457)
Y15121 (< Y934)
Y5977 (< Y5992)
YP451 (< Y934)
YP449 < YP451 (< Y934)
YP450 < YP449 < YP451 (< Y934)
Coldmountains
My paternal line is Afghan and i have R1a. But i have not tested myself for Z93 yet but it is almost certain that i have it. Can i order it or should i at first make another test for Z93 or Z2124?
If you know you are R1a1a1, I would say that your probability of Z93+ is so high that you may as well immediately order the Z93 SNP panel.
I already ordered it :) Everything is possible i guess but the probability for R1a-Z93- is close to zero in this case. I am certainly R1a1a1 after I looked on my SNPs. Hope the results arrive soon.
parasar
You could be on this line:
R-M459-M198-M417-Z645-Z93-Z94-Z2124-Z2125-YP413-M12280
Seen in sample: N49878, YF03623
Please also see: http://www.anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?2551-Experimentation-with-TreeMix-Software&p=43330&viewfull=1#post43330
Maybe I am L657. It is not rare among Pashtuns but I guess that I am most likely Z2124 and maybe the line of this samples is also my line :) . But I got the impression that L657 is rarer among Ghilzai Pashtuns than among other Pashtuns. Quite interesting if it is true that L657 is the Indo-Aryan line and Z2124 the Iranian line than doing this test will tell me if I am a descendant of East Iranian or Indo-Aryan/Dardic tribesmen on my paternal side. But I guess it is much more complicated in the end.
Sure L657 is possible. Also Y40 is possible too, we just had a confirmed Y40 case from eastern UP.
All three lines have pan-subcontinental distributions, with varying proportions. Plus we also know that all three lines originated at approximately the same time (and place).
Therefore I do not think that Z2124 or Y40 are Iranian or Turkic, or that L657 is not Iranian. After all, Z93 from NE Iran is L657 and Z2124 was found to be absent there, while in N. and S. Iran both are present, though in low proportions. Among Afghan Tajiks and Afghan Uzbeks, Z2124 and L657 are present in about equal proportions. The Pakhtoon and the Kirgiz, especially the latter, are predominantly Z2124.
Interestingly, while Z93 Ashkenazi Jews are Z2124 (Z2122, M582), Underhill found four non-Indian, non-Ashkenazi Jewish samples (Behar and Rootsi) to be L657.
I looked at the ftdna R1a project tables and it is quite interesting that L657 is present among the Babasan tribe from Northern Kazakhstan in quite large numbers . So I guess it is much more complicated and historic Iranian and Indo-Aryan tribes had people belonging to all of this lines. I know not much about Y40 and there is hardly much information about it. Where it is most frequent today?
I got the kit yesterday and sent it back today. It should arrive in the lab in Berlin in just few days (I live in Germany) and in some weeks I should get my results :)
Those Babasan L657 are all closely related, with essentially identical STRs. My feeling was they are descended of an Arab missionary since a Babasan Morza is mentioned in about the time-frame when Islamic missionaries visited that region. https://books.google.com/books?id=n5kUAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA989
A researcher from that family posits a Bokharan origin, which is too is possible.
http://atababa.kz/en/history/read/proiskhozhdenie_roda_babasan/
Did you get your results? I see you are now listed as Z93+
Not the final results yet :( But they posted some allele results. I am Z93+ Z94+ Z2124- So I should be L657 or Y40 in the end but they are still testing. I looked at FTDNA and interestingly there is also an Afghan (I assume he his pashtun) L657+ from Kabul but let see which results i get in the end
They posted new results. I am L657+
My final branch is Y6+ .Interestingly the Afghan L657 in the R1a FTDNA project is also Y6+
There are few Iranian L657 from Khorasan . Also there was a member here who was Y7 and his paternal grandfather was a pashtun
There is one Iranian on FTDNA from Gonabad having also L657/Y6 like me. Y6 is less numerous than Y9 but almost everywhere found where Y9 is also found but it seems that it is quite high among Baluch and Brahui people and their R1a seems to be mostly Y6 especially among Brahui. So I think it will be relatively frequent among southern Pashtuns also.
Outside of the Indian subcontinent L657 was so far found among Pashtuns, Brahui, Baluch, Iranians, Azeri, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazara, Turkmen, Uyghurs and Arabs. But it was not found more in the north yet unlike Z2124. More ancient DNA samples will likely answer the question where exactly L657 originated and when it entered India, Central and West Asia.
What is your L342 status?
Re L657 - Mongolia. In the west there is an Algerian L657, likely of Arabian origin. It is also present in Jews.
For publicly available full samples:
Bengal has two Y4 lines one of which is Y6. Y6 has two lines one present in a Lankan. In the other Y6 line, Y920 is the most spread out (all over the subcontinent), while Y907 is present in Lanka and Andhra.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-b3KeGG3Un1VUJTSU12UUVkXzQ/edit
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/t8hayoZIVTYuGSRPlayGTjfJMZi8H6BioYyG1LpziOkvdC-15WvkNA=w1200-h630-p
They didn't tested for L342 just for Z93<Z94<L657<Y6. But should I not be automatically positive for it if I am confirmed Z94/L657?.
It is interesting that Y6 and Y9 have basically the same kind of geographic distribution so I wonder if there are some differences in the distribution of this clades among various castes in India or has Y6 among castes in India the same kind of distribution like Y9?
Normally yes.
That Iranian from Gonabad happens to be L657+ and L342-.
I suspect both Y9 and Y6 are equally old in South Asia - therefore we will see them in all castes (but not in isolated tribes), with a skew towards higher castes.
Interesting that such kind of back mutations happen occasionally. If I am not wrong Y9 and Y4 branched off 3800 years ago, what is close to the time period when the first Indo-Aryan tribes moved into South Asia but as far as I understood it there were several waves of immigrating Indo-Aryan tribes,which were pushed back by their Iranian cousins from Central Asia. I guess Y4 and Y9 were carried by the same population. But it is probably too early to associate them just with Proto-Indo-Aryan tribes.
Do ancient Indian texts mention "Indian"/Indo-Aryan-speaking tribes outside of the Indian subcontinent in Central Asia? I wonder what happened with the rest of L657 carriers north of South Central Asia and with Archaic Indo-Aryan speaking people there because I think that Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages branched off before they moved south or do you think that it were Proto-Indo-Iranians which entered BMAC and that Iranians and Indo-Aryans branched off in South Central Asia after extensive contacts with BMAC?
Interesting that such kind of back mutations happen occasionally.
L342 was never claimed to be a reliable SNP all by itself. At one time, we thought that a quadruple of 4 locations, including L342, was reliable enough; but we then found a major counterexample in which the whole region had recombined. Luckily, we now have more reliable SNPs like Z2123 and L657.
Interesting that such kind of back mutations happen occasionally. If I am not wrong Y9 and Y4 branched off 3800 years ago, what is close to the time period when the first Indo-Aryan tribes moved into South Asia but as far as I understood it there were several waves of immigrating Indo-Aryan tribes,which were pushed back by their Iranian cousins from Central Asia. I guess Y4 and Y9 were carried by the same population. Do Indian texts mention "Indian" tribes outside of the Indian subcontinent in Central Asia? I wonder what happened with the rest of L657 carriers north of South Central Asia and with Archaic Indo-Aryan speaking people there because I think that Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages branched off before they moved south or do you think that it were Proto-Indo-Iranians which entered BMAC and that Iranians and Indo-Aryans branched off in South Central Asia after extensive contact with BMAC?
In N. Indic texts Central Asia is truly central. The center of Jambudvipa lies there. The main rivers include Sheet (now Tarim), Vakshu (now Amu), Sindhu and Ganga.
"the Ganges, the Indus, the Oxos, and the Sita, all of which they derived from a great central lake in the plateau of Pamir" https://books.google.com/books?id=A3UIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA279
Xuanzhang: https://books.google.com/books?id=JUcOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA297 "In the middle of the Pamir valley is a great dragon lake (Nagahrada); from east to west it is 300 li or so, from north to south 50 li. It is situated in the midst of the great T'sung ling mountains, and is the central point of Jambudvipa ... To the west of the lake there is a large stream, which, going west, reaches so far as the eastern borders of the kingdom of Ta-mo-si-tie-ti (? Tamasthiti), and there joins the river Oxus (Fo-t'su) and flows still to the west. So on this side of the lake all the streams flow westward.
On the east of the lake is a great stream,43 which, flowing north-east, reaches to the western frontiers of the country of Kie-sha(?Kashgar), and there joins the Si-to (Sita) river44 and flows eastward, and so all streams on the left side of the lake flow eastward ... The members of the royal family in appearance resemble the people of the Middle Country (China). They wear on their heads a square cap, and their clothes are like those of the Hu people (Uighurs). In after-ages these people fell under the power of the barbarians, who kept their country in their power.
When Asoka-raja was in the world he built in this palace a stupa. Afterwards, when the king changed his residence to the north-east angle of the royal precinct, he built in this old palace a sanghdrdma for the sake of Kumaralabdha (T'ong-shiu). The towers of this building are high (and its halls) wide. There is in it a figure of Buddha of majestic appearance. The venerable Kumaralabdha was a native of Takshas"ila."
The problem is that both the Gathas and the Rg. Veda betray no knowledge of Central Asia.
How do we resolve this?
There are two theories:
1. The Rg Vedic/Gathic folk forgot about their descent into South Asia, and then later when their horizons expanded into Central Asia, they incorporated Central Asian regions into their scheme.
2. The Rg Vedic/Gathic folk are different from the Central Asian folk (the Ailas) who descended into South Asia.
It is most likely that they simply forgot about that. Basically all Indo-Europeans thought that they were since the beginning of time living in their current dwelling places. And let not forget that both the Gathas and Vedas are primarily religious texts. But at least in Avesta there are some indirect evidences for a more northern origin (long winters, beavers,..). The archaic Indo-Aryan loanwords in Uralic loanwords preceding the Iranian ones seem to indicate for me that Iranians and Indo-Aryans branched already off in the north and that L657 was the first which moved east.
I think the absence of it north of south central asia is rather the result of population replacements and the first L657 groups were probably just small clans/tribes which grew radically in numbers in the Indian subcontinent because of rich local resources and big farmer populations which made such kind of growth possible, because they "feeded" L657 carriers. In other areas the relatively few number of L657 carriers which were predominantly pastoralists having also less resources could easily be replaced by other incoming pastoralist groups like Yamnaya R1b in the Pontic Caspian-steppe got almost entirely replaced by R1a tribes. So ancient L657 will be maybe found in an unexpected place and many locations are possible.
Guachelin
I just joined. I'm a member of both R1a projects at FTDNA, also the administrator of the Farrar Farrow project.
There are over 40 members in the project who are R-Z93, of those 40 share a common ancestry (documented) to West Riding Yorkshire in the 16th Century, and possibly 1379, the now Farrars are close genetic cousins, + or - 675 years, also of northern England, some are known Non Paternal Events that happened in north America, others are assumed to date from the poll tax of 1377 at which time surnames became hereditary.
This haplogroup (R1a1a1b2) is unknown in Britain or western Europe outside of the Farrar DNA project.
I just ordered the Z93 test for $88 from Yseq.net. I tested one subclade (YP1461)and came up negative, but decided to take advantage of the offer.
How this haplogroup R1a1a1b2, wound up in northern England and apparently southern Scotland, is not known. It was theorized that it came in with the Iazyge auxillary of the Romans, or an Alani in the company of William in 1066, or a Hungarian in the retinue of Edgar (the Aetheling or prince) son of Edward the Exile, when William harried the north in 1070. Edgar and his followers fled to Scotland. The hypothesis that it came in with Hungarian Roma was discounted as Roma are Z94-Z2123. And we are Z94 negative. Ashkenazi Levite was also discarded for the same reason.
There is no indication that this haplogroup landed in southern England, it appears to have "arrived" in the northern counties circa the 12th Century, all the way from the steppes? Unlikely.
Edward the Exile was sent to Hungary after Wessex was conquered by Cnute, he came to maturity, married and had children in Hungary, and returned to Wessex in 1056 on invitation of his uncle Edward the Confessor. He died, probably assassinated, on the road from Dover to London. His children were raised in the court of Edward, until his death and were sent north, to Eoferwic (York), under the protection of Tostig Godwinson, but when the Saxon Earls Morcar and Aedwin reneged on their pledge of fealty to William, he set his lieutenants to Harry the North, over 100,000 died of sword and starvation and the court, of Edgar Edwardson fled to Scotland
The time period is correct for the appearance of the surname/DNA. However it seems that Hungary DNA, where it is R1a1a is Z94, and Farrar DNA is Z93 terminal (at this time), and Z94 negative.
R-Z93 appears sparingly in western and northwestern Europe. Your R-Z93(xZ94) is indeed much rarer. According to R1a Project results (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/R1a?iframe=yresults), R-Z93(xZ94) has been found in Poland, Russia, Turkey, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and even Italy; but in northwestern Europe, only the YP1451 clade and your own cluster, which is labeled
9. M420>M459>M198>M417>Z645>Z93-A British cluster (another Big Y needed)
Because YFull would need a second BAM file in order to define your cluster as a clade.
khanabadoshi
Igmayka: I tested my Father's brother and he got R1a1a (and thus lumped with different users than my sister and I!) on 23andme, while I am R1a1a* -- any reason for this? I am slightly confused! Also do you have any information regarding mtDNA U7 or U7a3 -- this would be my Father's mtDNA lineage.
Your father's brother will be the same exact type of R1a1 as you - it is just a classification issue.
If not of ancient British Isles origin, I believe your line could be Norman, and ultimately may be derived from Faris, Farrier - related to horse/knight or to horse-caretakers/shoesmiths.
Another one: L657+ from Turkey
74750 Hanan
Potentially 74898 is also L657+
https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mayofamiliesofsephardicorigin/default.aspx?section=yresults
http://jewishdna.net/R1a-74750.html


I am talking next week about framework agreements at a Conference hosted by Aarhus University, so perhaps some random musings about my presentation are in order.
Both the outgoing Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and the incoming Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Draft) simply copy and paste the content of Directive 2004/18/EC and 2014/24/EU with very minor alterations. They do not solve any of the underlying issues. Nor does the OGC Guidance from 2008.
*England, Wales and Northern Ireland share the Regulations mentioned above. Procurement is a devolved power in Scotland which has its own Regulations.
Seriously, check my previous post here. For comparison, UK contracting authorities publish around 2,500 open procedures every year. I know we are comparing apples to oranges, but I suspect more and more money is going through framework agreements.
3. Contracting authorities are very creative when it comes to "call-offs"
As the Regulations are moot on how "call-offs" are supposed to be run and appear to leave some scope for only part of the qualified suppliers to be invited, contracting authorities in the UK are very creative on how they carry them out. All suppliers? Selection of suppliers? Rotation of suppliers? Luck of the draw? You name it.
Frameworks are blackboxes. No one really knows what happens inside them or how much money is effectively routed through them. Contracting authorities face few risks of challenge. Contract challenging is the exception and not the rule in the UK and more so inside frameworks. My gut feeling is that framework agreements are a great place to hide unsavoury practices.
By definition, framework agreements exclude all suppliers except the ones inside the framework for all contracts tendered through them. As selection (at least in the UK) is focused not only in the tenders but also in the information about the tenderer, SMEs and and startups are always at a disadvantage. I could go on and on and on, but I am planning to return to this point in more detail next week.


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The Invisible Circus was one of the defining moments in the emerging counterculture of San Francisco. It was the Digger answer to the Human Be-In which was a magical event for many, and yet replicated the same stage-star-syndrome that was so antithetical to the Digger-do spirit of personal autonomy. The Invisible Circus was the opposite. There were no stars, just venues. Rooms and hallways and sanctuaries to "do your own thing"—whatever the creative impulse would inspire. Billed as a 72-hour happening, the event started at 8pm on Friday, February 24, 1967 at Glide Church in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, the site of one of the Free Fairs that the Artists Liberation Front had organized the previous Fall. By Saturday morning (2/25/67) things were getting a bit out of hand. The ministerial leadership of Glide called it quits. But the stories about the Invisible Circus would circulate for years (decades). Here's the Dave Hodges poster that announced the event.
During the brief existence of the Invisible Circus, Chester and Claude set up the John Dillinger Computer instant news service in one of the backrooms at Glide Church with their Gestetner mimeograph machine and Gestefax scanner, and they churned out dozens of bulletins all night long. When I started collecting Communication Company broadsides in 1971, a friendly soul let me xerox his collection of Invisible Circus printouts. Unfortunately all the copies in the Digger Archives are now third generation copies. There are several which are iconic of the times but are now too faded to scan. I made a facsimile of one, "Dear mom and dad … from Emil" (see below). Such a gest, so typical of Com/Co's style.
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Sterling buyers are out in force in West Cork
Monday, 4th March, 2019 5:50pm
Story by Emma Connolly
Garden of Eden: Built on the site of a former national school the four-bed, four-bath property was sold for just under the €1m mark.
STERLING buyers are back in large numbers in West Cork after the initial shock impact of Brexit.
That's according to auctioneer Ray O'Neill of Sherry FitzGerald O'Neill who was speaking after their sale this week of a property, just shy of €1m, to UK based buyers.
Eden House, at the Burren, mid-way between Kinsale and Clonakilty, was bought for close to its asking price of €945,000. It's believed it will be used as a family home by its purchasers, one of whom is understood to be originally from Kildare.
Built on the site of the former Burren NS, the contemporary property was built in 2014 to an extremely high end finish with floor to ceiling windows to maximise sea views, an enormous balcony and other luxuries such as a sunken bath.
Ray said: 'This and other sales show that the market has levelled off and recovered after the initial impact of Brexit. Hopefully this will continue in these uncertain times.'
They had another recent significant sale to UK based buyers, in the Red House in Castletownshend which went for €900,000.
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Q: Get native resolution of video game screenshot I'm trying to make some sort of "pixel count" program that can detect the native resolution of a screenshot taken in a game.
I have tried this using Python by doing the following:
# importing the module
import PIL
from PIL import Image

# loading the image
img = PIL.Image.open("filename.jpg")

# fetching the dimensions
wid, hgt = img.size

# displaying the dimensions
print(str(wid) + "x" + str(hgt))

Except the problem with this, is that it just gets the resolution of the file itself.
Which is not what I'm trying to achieve.
For reference, I've got a screenshot of Destiny 2 from Google Stadia, and the resolution of the game itself is 1080p, but the game is streamed at 4k.
I have found a way to do this by hand, but it is pretty tedious, so I'm trying to automate it.
If anyone has an idea how to do this, I'd love to hear it :)
Here are 2 screenshots showing my current manual method:
This image shows a 4k screenshot of a confirmed 1080p game.
This image shows a 4k screenshot of a confirmed native 4k game.

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Pianist Christopher Kin Ming Wong is quickly becoming one of Vancouver's most sought after musicians. Born and raised in Vancouver, he is equally passionate and dedicated to piano teaching, performing, adjudicating and the art of collaborative piano. He has over twenty years teaching piano privately, ranging from beginner to diploma level while his collaborative work with instrumentalists spans the orchestral spectrum. Mr. Wong enjoys adjudicating festivals and sharing musical ideas with young musicians. He is a pianist of diverse musical interests, particularly in the vocal repertoire having worked with many singers over the years. He has been a pianist for the UBC Opera Ensemble, BC Youth Choir and University Singers. Moreover, Mr. Wong plays for the West Point Grey Academy choirs, directed by Lana Penner-Tovey and the BCCF's summer music program, Choral Stage, led by Marisa Gaetanne.
Mr. Wong completed his initial musical studies with Rebecca Kelly and David Vandereyk. Later he studied with a number of celebrated musicians including Jane Coop, Alexander Korsantia, Edward Parker, Dr. Jamie Syer and Bruce Vogt.
Christopher holds a Bachelor's in Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia and a Master's in Piano Performance from the University of Victoria. Additionally, he holds LLCM and FLCM performance diplomas from the London College of Music, Thames University, England, and both ARCT Piano Performer and ARCT Piano Teacher (Royal Conservatory of Music) diplomas.
Mr. Wong is a piano faculty member at the Vancouver Academy of Music; moreover, runs a very busy private teaching practice in Vancouver.


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Stories from Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Community offers helping hand to Harts (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
'Everybody I hear from is very upset and as mad as I am.' -- Manager Jay Galyen
Memorial for Marty Roenigk is Sunday (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
EUREKA SPRINGS -- On Sunday afternoon, July 26, at 3 p.m. in the South Gardens of the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, a "Celebration of Life" will be held in memory of Marty Roenigk, 66, who was killed in a traffic accident last month. His memorial is being planned as an "upbeat" event open to the public allowing friends and acquaintances of Roenigk and his wife Elise, who was injured in that same accident, to come together in a common spirit...
Quick response keeps fire damage contained (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
GREEN FOREST -- Quick response allowed area firefighters to largely contain a blaze to one business in a strip mall here Saturday evening. At 8:20 p.m., Patrolman Austin Lawrence noticed smoke and flames at Geraldi's, on W. Main Street. Within minutes, firefighters arrived from the Green Forest Fire Department. They were assisted by firefighters and pumper trucks from Berryville, Oak Grove, and Alpena...
Sen. Pryor visits (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
First Obenshain reunion gives family chance to relive Eureka's founding (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
EUREKA SPRINGS -- "I don't know if it will continue," said John Fuller Cross, "but it was a one-of-a-kind thing. It had never happened before, so it was a big deal." He was referring to a large family reunion of the Obenshains -- his grandmother May's family name -- held May 16 at the Blue Spring Heritage Center...
Kylee Sigmon 4th at National Classic (Community Sports ~ 07/21/09)
BERRYVILLE -- When it comes to showing and knowing cattle, Berryville's Kylee Sigmon rates on a national scale. Kylee placed fourth overall in the Junior Division of the American Junior Simmental Association (AJSA) 29th Annual National Classic June 27 through July 3 in Columbus, Ind...
'Rachel's Law' goes into effect July 31 (Community Sports ~ 07/21/09)
LITTLE ROCK -- "Rachel's Law," will take effect July 31 instead of July 10 as had been previously thought. The final adjournment of the 2009 session was on May 1. An act without an emergency clause or a specific effective date becomes effective on the 91st day after adjournment of the legislative session in which the act was passed...
Bernard Charles Gay (Obituary ~ 07/21/09)
Bernard Charles Gay, a resident of Eureka Springs, AR, was born November 30, 1923 in Rochester, MI, a son of Frank and Gladys (Blake) Gay. He departed this life Friday, July 17, 2009 in Eureka Springs, AR, at the age of 85. Mr. Gay served in the United States Navy during World War II...
Rebecca Ann (Dunham) Beeler Pierson (Obituary ~ 07/21/09)
Rebecca Ann (Dunham) Beeler Pierson, age 67, Holiday Island, Arkansas, died Thursday, July 16, 2009. She was born July 9, 1942 in Nixa, the daughter of Ross and Edna (Warren) Dunham. Becky was a member of Holiday Island Baptist Church and served in the choir. She authored a cookbook, Aunt Becky's Fast and Yummy Gluten-Free Wheat-free Recipes and childhood stories of the Little Farm in the Ozarks and was a member of the Eureka Springs Celiac Sprue Support Group...
Stories found only in our July 21, 2009 print or e-edition (Local News ~ 07/21/09)
These and other stories can be read in our new online e-edition or in our print edition for July 21, 2009. Please click here to log in or sign up for an e-edition account. Quorum Court asked to live up to bargain on maintaining road Hwy. 62 plan for west of Berryville to be unveiled...


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Stewart-Feder: Reassignment Is A Moral--Not An Administrative--Matter
Editor's Note: Scientists Walter Stewart, 48, and Ned Feder, 65, have been working side by side at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in Bethesda, Md., since the late 1960s. Their employment agreements with NIDDK once required that they spend 80 percent of their time on health- related lab research and 20 percent on their investigations of scientific fraud and misconduct. However, their renown in the international science community stems virtually 100
Walter Stewart
Editor's Note: Scientists Walter Stewart, 48, and Ned Feder, 65, have been working side by side at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in Bethesda, Md., since the late 1960s. Their employment agreements with NIDDK once required that they spend 80 percent of their time on health- related lab research and 20 percent on their investigations of scientific fraud and misconduct. However, their renown in the international science community stems virtually 100 percent from their work in the latter category.
Most prominent among their forays into what's become known as fraud-busting are cases that arose in the early and mid-1980s involving scientists John Darsee, a Harvard University cardiologist, and David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize-winning immunologist. In the first instance, Stewart and Feder found--and subsequently documented in a published article (Nature, 325:207, Jan. 15, 1987)--that some of Darsee's coauthors on...
CAR T Cells Mend Broken Mouse Hearts
Ophthamologist Alan Scott Dies at Age 89
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Book Club Discussion of Venomous by Christie Wilcox


Buying a House with Unpermitted Additions: Is It a Good Idea?
When adding on or renovating a portion of a California home, owners are often required to obtain permits for this type of construction. Obtaining a permit can be a costly and time-consuming process. The process can be especially complex for California homeowners who face added regulations relating to earthquake readiness or California Coastal Commission restrictions on land use.
In order to avoid this time and cost, many homeowners take the chance of building an addition without a permit, with the hope that a future owner would be willing to overlook the lack of a permit and find the addition nevertheless valuable. As a potential property buyer, is it wise to consider purchasing a property with an unpermitted addition? What are the risks involved?
Certain financial institutions are highly reluctant to lend money to buyers of property with unpermitted additions. Others may lend for the purchase of the property, but will ask appraisers not to assign any value to the unpermitted portion of the home. This could be a dealbreaker when making the purchase, and it could also make it more difficult or time-consuming to resell the property yourself.
If the owner of the property didn't only fail to spend the time and money necessary to get a permit, but also built something for which they couldn't have ever gotten a permit, then the problem could be bigger than you thought. For example, the unpermitted addition might expand beyond a lot's required setback, or go against zoning ordinances for the neighborhood.
It is possible that some appraisers might assign a decent amount of value to the unpermitted addition, concluding that the average buyer will be willing to overlook the lack of a permit based on the usefulness of the addition. But others might consider the area to be valued only as extra storage space, rather than as an additional bedroom or unit. Also keep in mind that, the bigger the unpermitted addition, the greater the likely consequences are for the lack of a permit (and the bigger gamble you take by purchasing it).
If you are considering making a real estate investment in Southern California, be sure that you're fully informed and protected during the purchase process by consulting with seasoned and effective legal help, and contact the San Diego offices of Jon Alan Enochs at 619-421-3956.


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Does Islam Stand Against Science? 3/5
By Islam & Science The 25 March 2014 - 00h03
Many Muslims are especially bothered by evolution. By and large, Islamic culture is creationist, judging by a 2008 survey about evolution in six Muslim countries: Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey. On average, only about 15 percent of the respondents in five of those countries considered evolution to be "true" or "probably true." In the sixth country, Kazakhstan, roughly one-third of the respondents accepted evolution, but an equal number also said they had "never thought about it."
In some Muslim countries, evolution simply doesn't appear in science textbooks. "Evolution isn't on the top list of priorities," Dajani, of Hashemite University, says. "When people are thinking about what they're going to eat tomorrow, evolution is a luxury."
This rejection of evolution has a lot in common with American creationism, but there are also key differences. Young Earth Creationism, which claims that the earth is 10,000 years old (or younger), is virtually absent in the Islamic world. Muslims generally accept the earth's being 4.5 billion years old.
The Quran does not have a detailed origins story like the six days of creation found in Genesis, so there's no need to fit the entire history of the earth into a few thousand years. Noah's flood is considered the major geological event in world history by American creationists; in contrast, most Muslims regard that flood as a local event. Many Muslims don't even have a problem with the evolution of plants and animals. Human evolution, however, is an entirely different story. According to the Quran, God created Adam out of clay, so the idea that humans descended from apes is simply beyond the pale for the vast majority of Muslims.
The strongest creationist movement has emerged in Turkey, even though evolution has been taught in high schools for decades—a legacy of Atatürk's campaign to secularize Turkey's public culture. Harun Yahya (the pen name of Adnan Oktar) has built a sophisticated media empire that distributes creationist books, articles, videos and Web sites around the Muslim world.
Edis, the Truman State physicist who grew up in Turkey, has tracked Harun Yahya's group for years, and he's both alarmed and impressed by its reach. "When I walk into an Islamic bookstore in London, it's very easy to find Harun Yahya material because it's right in front of you. I get e-mail from people in Pakistan, Indonesia, and all over the Islamic world pointing out that Harun Yahya material has been used in their classrooms," Edis says. "In fact, it's much more international, much more successful, and has a command of a much larger financial base than any American creationist organization."
Where Yahya's Science Research Foundation gets its money is a mystery, and Oktar himself is a shadowy figure who has faced a string of legal problems, including charges of extortion. His diatribes against modern science can make you wonder how he has managed to gain so much influence. When I interviewed Oktar, in Istanbul in 2008, he claimed that the "Masons manage the world through a scientific dictatorship" and called Darwinism "a Satanic plot" that nurtures terrorism around the world, "like the development of mosquitoes in mud or in ponds."
Harun Yahya seems to tap into the fears and uncertainties of various Muslim communities. But what do educated Muslims think about evolution? That's the question Hampshire College's Hameed is asking in an ambitious three-year study supported by the National Science Foundation. Now halfway through the survey, Hameed is interviewing physicians and medical students in five Muslim countries and three Muslim diasporas in the West.
He has found that attitudes about evolution vary greatly from country to country. For instance, most Pakistani doctors accepted evolution, even human evolution. "But in Malaysia, we were really surprised to find a major rejection of not only human evolution but evolution in general," he says.
Hameed expected to find more acceptance of modern science because Malaysia has a sophisticated high-tech industry. He and his colleagues now speculate that Muslims are trying to carve out a cultural niche that's distinct from the more educated Indians and Chinese in Malaysia. "We think the rejection of evolution has become part of their Muslim identity," he says.
Hameed was also surprised by another finding. One-third of the respondents in Pakistan and Turkey said, "I accept evolution scientifically but reject it religiously." Apparently, even educated Muslims still struggle to reconcile their faith with their knowledge of science.
For all the hand-wringing over evolution, it's not a taboo subject for academic study. The historicity of the Quran itself is "a far more explosive topic than evolution," says Hameed. It takes a courageous—or perhaps foolish—Muslim scholar to examine the specific historical circumstances in which the Quran was written, or to criticize the Prophet Muhammad.
"For Muslims, this is the word of God," Guessoum says. "The Quran is the revelation. It was written down as revealed to Muhammad. This is dogma, so it's harder to claim that everything is open for interpretation."
By Steve Paulson, To be continued…
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Boxing: Singapore boxer Shahril Salim, 23, dies
Local boxer Shahril Salim at the Juggernaut Fight Club in Boat Quay. -- PHOTO: JUFRI SALIM
Singapore boxer Shahril Salim (right) training with coach Arvind Lalwani (left) at Juggernaut Fight Club on Oct 20, 2012. -- PHOTO: ST FILE
Jufri Salim wiping the face of his brother, local boxer Shahril Salim, on Nov 1, 2013, as Shahril raises his hand in response to a question. -- PHOTO: ST FILE
Local boxer Shahril Salim had to undergo an emergency brain surgery on Oct 28, 2012, after collapsing following a group sparring session. -- PHOTO: BERITA HARIAN
Singapore boxer Shahril Salim at the Juggernaut Fight Club on Oct 20, 2012. He died on Thursday, two years after a collapse during training left him with a serious brain injury. -- ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
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SINGAPORE - Budding local boxer Shahril Salim has died on Thursday, two years after a collapse during training left him with a serious brain injury.
The 23-year-old former ITE College East student had been preparing to make his debut in a show at Marina Bay Sands in November 2012 when tragedy struck during a group sparring session at the Juggernaut Fight Club in Boat Quay.
The jovial youngster had been bedridden and unable to speak since the incident, communicating with family members via hand and eye gestures. He also had to be fed through a tube in his nose.
He had developed a high fever at his sister's home in Jurong West on Thursday and subsequently stopped breathing in the ambulance. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Singapore General Hospital.
"Shahril's suffering has ended, we believe he's now free again as he should be," said his brother and main carer Jufri, 31.
"His condition left him trapped. From someone who talked so much and was a big eater, he couldn't even grip a pen."
Shahril had undergone repeated surgery and spent time in various hospitals. At first, the mood was optimistic as he began to respond to treatment, which included physiotherapy to stimulate his senses.
Although progress was slow, Shahril seemed to be heading in the right direction and even appeared on the verge of being able to speak again at the start of last year.
He was allowed back home on several occasions but kept being re-admitted due to infections, with his family all but giving up hope of a recovery.
Friends and fans have paid tribute to the hard hitter on the Wake The Bull Facebook page, named after the moniker he intended to use in the ring.
A wake will be held on Friday from 10am to 12.30pm at Block 57, New Upper Changi Road, #08-1348, before his burial at Muslim cemetery Pusara Abadi in Lim Chu Kang.


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IRI to Observe Ukraine's Presidential Election
Washington, DC – IRI today announced its plan to send an international delegation to observe Ukraine's May 25, 2014 presidential election, as well as mayoral elections in some cities. The elections will see the country choose a new president following months of Russian provocations and threats.
Delegates will travel to Ukraine to monitor voting and ballot counting throughout the country. Following the voting, IRI will issue a preliminary statement on the findings of the delegation.
This will be the ninth election IRI has observed in Ukraine since the country's independence in 1991. IRI observed Ukraine's 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2012 parliamentary elections and the 1999, 2004 and 2010 presidential elections.
IRI's observation of the 2004 presidential election, along with other international delegations, was instrumental in raising awareness of deficiencies in the electoral system and the outcome. These facts, along with peaceful protests across Ukraine, led to a new election being called.
Prior to the election, delegates will be briefed by political party representatives and Ukrainian election officials. They will also be briefed on the rights and responsibilities of international observers and Ukrainian election law. Delegates will then be deployed throughout the country where they will observe polling stations and identify and evaluate strengths and weaknesses in Ukraine's election system, including campaign regulations, the balloting process, vote tabulation and reporting.
Since 1983, IRI has monitored more than 154 elections in more than 47 countries.


The Nymphalidae family contains species more commonly known as Nymphalids (sub-family Nymphalinae), Fritillaries (subfamily Heliconiinae) and Browns (sub-family Satyrinae). The Brown sub-family contains about one-third of all European species. Most are some shade of brown, and all have prominent eye-spots. The larvae of all species feed on grasses.


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I had the opportunity to go crappie fishingi with My granddaughter Victoria Chain the other day. I wanted to let her try straight jig fishing and she did great as you can see by the 13" crappiei she is holding. Catching fish was just a small part of the fun. She went swimming, drove the boat and just had a great time all around. I would just like to tell everyone I had the best time and take the time to take a kid fishing. They will have fun and you will have a great time building memories.


Although Metroidvanias are a dime a dozen (and I should know, I've reviewed my fair share here), one word you don't often hear used to describe them is quaint. That probably subverts a lot of expectations for some folk, but in the case of Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight it's more of an appraisal of its setting and mood than it is of its action and progression.
Reverie Under the Moonlight is the fourth in the Momodora series, and stars a quiet priestess named Kaho, who is on a pilgrimage to the city of Karst to talk to its queen in the hope of figuring out how to lift a curse that's befallen the land. The game starts in a dim, fall forest with our heroine working her way towards the castle, where the majority of the game takes place. There isn't a lot of pomp and circumstance in the beginning, with Kaho casually talking to a few forest denizens while working her way through those familiar corridors and secret grottoes people come to expect from a game like this. But there's a unique sense of lonesomeness to her quest that permeates every step, even when the action gets heated and the bosses consume the screen.
In keeping with Momodora's running theme, Kaho's move set feels quaint – in a good way – as it's both simple but perfectly adapted for the experience at hand. She has a melee attack in the form of a, uh, swinging maple leaf, which you can use to perform a very satisfying combination attack, as well as a bow and arrow that you can charge to give your arrows a boost. She also comes equipped with a double jump, an assortment of stat-boosting accoutrements and an inventory that replenishes at waypoints in a similar way to Dark Souls. The acquirement of goods and power-ups is fairly minimal, and those looking to get lost in a world of collectibles might find this disappointing. But as someone whose free time is at a premium, I kind of enjoyed that it was a bit more deliberate and on point than many other exploratory games.
What struck me as great about Momodora is the world in which you find yourself and the joy of discovering new places. Although the character design didn't resonate with me, the world design and aesthetic was so compelling that I had to keep going just to see what other delights the developer Bombservice had waiting for me further on. While the platforming feels, once again, quaint, it's slick enough to give me a sense of gratification and that I was doing more than I really was. Combat is often brutal, and I often heard Kaho's bloodcurdling scream of failure – but fortunately, you aren't waylaid a whole lot by death. And I found that in repeating the same sections over and over again I was able to learn enemy patterns and exploit the situation in a way that also reminded me of Dark Souls, in that sometimes your progress is marked in mastery of the game and skill and less about getting to point B.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight was something of an surprise for me. Although going in I was hesitant to play what feels like my millionth Metroidvania, Momodora turned out to have the right mix of new ideas, comforting tropes and satisfying exploration to allow it to rise above the sea of 'retro-inspired' games. Don't let the cutesy, anime-inspired palette fool you – Momodora is a wonderful exploration game that any fan of the genre will enjoy immensely.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight was developed by Bombservice and is available on PC, Switch, Xbox One and PS4. We reviewed the Switch version.
Disclosure statement: Review code for Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight was provided by DanGen Entertainment. A Most Agreeable Pastime operates as an independent site, and all opinions expressed are those of the author.


one of the most boring three-and-a-half hour drives you'll make. (one-way). desert to the left of you, desert to the right, and the occasional petrol station and rest area where you'll be able to purchase beauty creams made with minerals from the dead sea.


ok so should i go out now? or maybe not! im sitting cosy and warm in my bed listening to music, ahhh bless the music. i dont know how the end of my day would be if i didnt have this moment of peace, just me and my music.
this is just another random rambling on my friends blog. for in essence i am a writer, i am an author of life, and i write down what i observe. one thing i observed today, unhappiness. I am a genuinely happy person with mood swings every now and then, but i observe genuinely unhappy ppl with glimpses of happiness every now and then, am i not the normal one here? or am i just escaping reality.
am thinking that i should focus more on my studies and im tryin to balance that with all the extracurricular activities i am in and also to focus on my writing, photography and dancing. those long days have been surreal.
those past 3 months have been surreal, i broke up, fell in love, lost friends, regained some back, found myself, lost myself. then again i have learned alot and i have fallen in and out of love with life. i have given up hope and i have relighted my faith. i have questioned and got no answers then again i have disregarded and stopped asking questons.
do i worry too much? am i such a perfectionist that the slightest ripple in my reflection disturbs and distorts my energy and balance? i dont know really, but thts the thing , not knowing drives me crazy, i have to know everything. i prefer to have concrete answers. but alas no one will give me that.
Thought of the day : Smile.
gotta be strong , smile and face Unhappiness, soon u will truly be smiling with no reason.
Life is beautiful, but unfair. gimme answers!!!!!
Thought of the moment : Nothing but ur T shirt, face the world like that, defy rules.
hehehe i love it!! we are all writers in our own way. love the thought of the day/ moment!
what you said rings true with me! i fall in and out of life within a split of a second..but i am blessed to go to bed with the biggest smile on y face!


How to Install Galaxy S8 AOD(Always-On-Display) on Galaxy Phones!
For those of you who want to try out Samsung Galaxy S8 AOD(Always-On-Display) on your Galaxy phone (such as Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, or any older Galaxy devices running S7 Edge Ported custom ROM), you can easily do it with the Galaxy S8 AOD APK file, which was pulled straight from a real Galaxy S8. This will give you several new features including swipe actions in your always-on-display and also you can set your edge screen as AOD (edge screen feature only works if you have edge screen phone). There also may be some other new features I may have missed. So, let's go do this!
How to Install Galaxy S8 Launcher & Bixby on Galaxy Phones!
Galaxy S8 launcher and Bixby APK files are now available and these can be installed on any Samsung Galaxy device running Android 7.0 Nougat. Currently, I was able to get it running on my Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, and Note 5.
How to Film Pro Quality Slow Motion Video w/ Smartphone!
For those of you who want to film professional-quality slow-motion video with your smartphone, I have a few tips that can help your slow-motion videos look better.
Google Home is probably the best way to setup your home automation over Amazon's popular Amazon Echo as it allows you to easily control every appliance in your home with voice. What's good with Google Home is that the voice-control also works with any Android smartphone running Google Assistant. Google has rolled out Google Assistant for all Android devices running Marshmallow or Nougat, meaning you should be able to control your whole house with any Android smartphone if your phone runs Marshmallow or Nougat.
I know many of you were having trouble with the Pokemon Go Cheat/Hack for Android I posted last week since it required a rooted Android device but there's now a new Pokemon Go Hack for Android that you can do without root.
Magisk! – How to Play Pokemon Go on Rooted Android!
With latest Pokemon Go update version 0.37.0, you will not be able to play the game with a rooted Android device.


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Star Soldier R is a futuristic scrolling shooter video game developed by Hudson Soft, and is the seventh installment in the Star Soldier series. The game features classic Star Soldier gameplay combined with 3D graphics.

Star Soldier R is one of several video games released exclusively as WiiWare through the Wii Shop Channel. It was released with the Japanese launch of WiiWare on March 25, 2008, in North America on May 19, 2008, and in Europe on May 20, 2008 with the European launch of WiiWare.

Gameplay

Star Soldier R retains classic gameplay features from the Star Soldier series, such as the vertical-scrolling shooter style, three adjustable speeds for the player's ship, and score bonuses once the player has achieved a score of 50,000 and 80,000 points.

Instead of a traditional progressive level structure, the game revolves around time attack-style gameplay, called Caravan mode, with players aiming to score as many points as possible in either two- or five-minute game modes in one of the game's levels. Unlike previous installments in the series, however, there are only two playable levels. Aside from regular scrolling-shooter gameplay, the game also has a Fast Shot mode which measures how quickly the player can press the fire button.

Power-ups
The game has two types of primary power-ups, in the form of red and blue capsules. Red power-up capsules enhance the offensive ability of the player's ship, eventually resulting in a five-way shot. Blue power-ups enhance the ship's "Force," a shield that protects the ship from enemy attacks and can be separated from the ship to attack enemies.

Plot
In 2180, the Joint Forces of Earth come under attack from the mysterious Brain Forces. After an initial victory by the J.F.E., the Core Brain, the central unit of the Brain Forces, begins closing in from light years away. The player takes control of the prototype starfighter Caesar, built specially to counter the threat of the Brain Forces, and must defeat the Core Brain and save humanity.

Trivia
If the player presses the A button during the Credits, then they can take control of the craft from the first Star Soldier game.

Reception

Star Soldier R received mixed reviews. IGN lauded the quality of the game's core design and top-down shooter gameplay, but criticized the time limitations and repetition with the levels as "thin and ultimately cheap for most gamers." 1UP.com praised the game as "fun and addictive," but noted that the price of 800 Wii points may be somewhat high for the casual gamer to accept. GameSpot also criticized the game for being too short, but described the gameplay as addictive and supported by an excellent control scheme. Eurogamer noted the game as targeting a narrow niche among gamers, saying that the game was more oriented to high-score seekers than a casual audience.

See also
List of WiiWare games
Star Soldier (series)

References

External links
Star Soldier R Official Websites: Japan, Americas, Europe, Australia
Star Soldier R at IGN

2008 video games
Star Soldier
Video games developed in Japan
WiiWare games
Wii-only games
Wii Wi-Fi games

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Morro de São Paulo (translation: St. Paul's Hill) is one of 5 villages of the island of Tinharé in the municipality of Cairu, located in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The main beaches of the Morro de São Paulo are located on east side of the island . They are: Primeira Praia, Segunda Praia, Terceira Praia, Quarta Praia and Quinta Praia (also known as Praia do Encanto). The settlement was home to a large Tumpinamba population prior to the arrival of the Portuguese. A Portuguese colony was established as early as 1535. The settlement is a site of large-scale tourism, and has three registered historic sites.

History

Martim Afonso de Sousa, landed in 1531 and baptized this island "Tynharéa" and the Bahian accent soon transformed that name to "Tinharé". In 1535 the village of Morro de São Paulo was founded in the extreme north of the island by Francisco Romero and the local population. Morro de Sao Paulo was the site of patrols and attacks by German submarines between 1942 and 1945 as part of German naval attacks across the coast of Bahia and Sergipe during World War II. The German government initially targeted merchant ships off Bahia and Sergipe, but civilian casualties were numerous. The German submarine U-507 attacked the Itagiba off the Morro de São Paulo Lighthouse, killing the majority of the 179 passengers.  The citizen of Bahia experienced scarcity, speculation, and famine due to the threat of German attack from 1942 to 1945; Morro de São Paulo was largely abandoned by the federal government and suffered from both famine and lawlessness.

Education
Morro de São Paulo is home to the Waldorf pedagogy school, Escola CreArte.

Transportation
The village is  from the city of Salvador by route and 60 km by sea. The only way to get to the island is by boat or by flights from Salvador da Bahia airport to Morro de São Paulo Airport.

Historic sites

Morro de São Paulo is home to three historic sites: the Fonte Grande of Morro de São Paulo, the Fortaleza do Morro de São Paulo, and the Morro de São Paulo Lighthouse.

References

External links

 Morro de São Paulo Infos about Morro de São Paulo

Populated coastal places in Bahia
1535 establishments in the Portuguese Empire
Populated places established in 1535


Kid's cafes are one of the most popular activities for Seoul for parents and their children.
Seoul is one of the most highly populated cities in the world with varying temperatures from hot and cold, similar to Europe. The kid's cafes provide an indoor area for the children to interact with different toys and to also become educated while playing with them. They also give parents and their kids the opportunity to make like-minded friends of similar ages.
The lifestyle in Seoul can be so busy, with parents working long hours sometimes making it hard to create the ideal playful lifestyle for their children. Eunseon Jeong, Mum of Seoul Kids Fashion Show model Jenny Jung, said she enjoys kids cafes because they provide great environments for parents to talk with friends and to share information about their children.
"We can feel relaxed when taking our children to the cafes because the kids can play safely and we can join in or sit back and chat with the other mums," Ms Jeong said.
Clothing is important as kids need to be able to move freely and not feel restricted. There are some great Korean brands that are easy to wear yet stylish and perfect for these playdates!
One of the kid's cafes photographed in Hongdae called Lily Daisy is open seven days a week from the hours of 12 pm – 9 pm.
The children photographed are models from Korean based children's label Mumu and Baba, who participated in Seoul Kids Fashion Show 2018.
Some of the models from the Seoul Kids Fashion Show celebrated Christmas at Modulepot Slime Café in Seongbuk-gu.
Photography by Natalie from Seoul Kids Fashion Show – All rights reserved.
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The Afghan National Police (ANP), including the Afghan Local Police (ALP), and four armed groups are listed for recruitment and use. All are listed for killing and maiming, while the Taliban is further listed for attacks on schools and/or hospitals and abductions. UNAMA's mandate is due for renewal in March 2019. According to UNAMA's annual report on the protection of civilians, released on February 24, 2019, more civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict in 2018 than at any time since records have been kept. In 2018 alone, 927 children were killed, the highest recorded number of boys and girls killed in the conflict in a single year. UNAMA cites a spike in suicide attacks by Anti-Government Elements (AGEs), as well as a doubling of child deaths from aerial and search operations by Pro-Government Forces, as the key factors contributing to this increase. UNAMA recorded 2,135 children injured in 2018, with children representing 28 percent of all killed and injured. There was a 15 percent increase in child casualties attributed to Pro-Government Forces in 2018. In his December report on Afghanistan, the Secretary-General (SG) cited 33 incidents of attacks on schools and education personnel, 19 attacks against health care facilities/workers, and eight incidents of denial of humanitarian access between July and September (S/2018/1092, para. 32). The Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) verified nine incidents of recruitment and use involving 19 boys (10 by the Taliban, seven by pro-Government militia, and two by the ALP), as well as three cases of sexual violence against children, including for the purposes of bacha bazi, by the ANP and ALP.
The Security Council should:
Renew UNAMA's child protection mandate, and to ensure its implementation, request the SG to strengthen dedicated child protection capacity within UNAMA; in subsequent budget negotiations, ensure distinct budget lines for child protection in order to allow UNAMA to effectively deliver on its CAAC mandate;
Demand that all parties take effective measures to prevent and end all grave violations against children, including those resulting from aerial bombardments and from the use of explosive weapons in populated areas;
Urge the Government to treat children primarily as victims, ensure due process for all children detained on national security charges, and transfer all children from prisons to juvenile rehabilitation centers in accordance with national and international juvenile justice standards;
Demand that the Government takes concrete actions to ensure accountability and end impunity for grave violations, including sexual violence against children; and to that end, fully establish an investigative team to enhance the work of Afghan judges, investigators, and prosecutors.
Germany and Indonesia are the lead countries on Afghanistan. Indonesia chairs the 1267 ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee and the 1988 Afghanistan Sanctions Committee.
This information is based on Watchlist's Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – March 2019.
UN Action
Year listed: 2003
Action Plans signed: Afghan National Police (including the Afghan Local Police) – recruitment and use of children and sexual violence against children (January 2011)
Sanctions Committee: Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee
Secretary-General's reports on CAAC in Afghanistan: 2015; 2011; 2008
Security Council Working Group conclusions on Afghanistan: 2016; 2011; 2009
UN Mission: UNAMA
Perpetrators listed in the annexes of the Secretary-General's annual reports on children and armed conflict
Afghan National Police (including Afghan Local Police)~* a a a a a a a a
Factions associated with the former Northern Alliance a
Factions in the south of Afghanistan a
Factional fighting groups a
Haqqani network* a a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b
Hezb-e-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar* a,b,c a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b a,b
Hezb-i-Islami a
Jama'at al-Da'wah ila al-Qur'an wal-Sunnah* a a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e a,b,d,e
Taliban forces/remnants of the Taliban* a a, b, d a,b,d,f a a,b a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e a,b,d,e
Tora Bora Front* a a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e a,b,d,e
Latif Mansur Network* a a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d a,b,d,e a,b,d,e
ISIL – Khorasan Province a,b
a: Parties that recruit and use children
b: Parties that kill and maim children
c: Parties that commit rape and other forms of sexual violence against children
d: Parties that engage in attacks on schools and/or hospitals
e: Parties that engage in abduction of children
f: Parties that deny humanitarian access to children
~ This party has concluded an action plan with the United Nations in line with Security Council resolutions 1539 (2004) and 1612 (2005).
* This party has been in the annexes for at least five years and is therefore considered a persistent perpetrator.
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Unless someone wants to wind up dragging their feet and checkbook through court, negotiating is a necessary part of divorce. However, the point of negotiations is not to wind up with everything that a person wants. Negotiations should instead be viewed as a way to achieve some of what both people want. This means letting go of things that would be nice to get and focusing on what is most important to a person, whether that be keeping the family home or working out a better parenting schedule.
Of course there will always be individuals who ignore the idea of settling over the idea that they can still "win." Movie fans in West Virginia might already be familiar with the ongoing divorce battle between actress Angelina Jolie and her ex-husband Brad Pitt. Pitt has accused Jolie of cutting him off from their children while Jolie says her ex has not paid any type of child support. As they both seem to dig their heels into the ground, everyone around them -- including their children -- is watching. Reaching an agreeable settlement not only helps couples find a quicker solution for their divorce, it also keeps their personal details under wraps.
Not everyone in West Virginia will be able to avoid going before a judge to figure out their divorce details. Some people have particularly difficult exes while others might have extremely complicated assets. However, for couples who are capable of keeping the end goal of a successful divorce in mind, reaching a settlement through negotiation can be a smart and effective choice.


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Katherine Bernhardt and Youssef Jdia
November 13th – December 28th, 2013
OPENING: Thursday November 13th from 6-8pm
The Hole is proud to present "Holiday Services" an exhibition of new works by Katherine Bernhardt made in collaboration with her husband Youssef Jdia. This new body of collaborative work features collages on canvas that incorporate all manner of discarded textile and magazine, trimming or advertisement. Their composition is often symmetrical and recapitulates the radially balanced layout of the Morrocan rugs that will cover the gallery floors. Wallpapering over some walls and painting others in dark bold colors, the installation will suggest a marketplace or souk using the palette of these shops and the use of advertisements and product labels in interior design. The show will be activated at different times by hair braiding, music and a winter clothing drive.
The canvasses have a rhythm to them and often a harmony of colors and textures, as the Afro-Carribean textiles or Brooklyn "bargain basement" threads mix it up on the surface with a smattering of magazine ladies and luxury logos. Their improvisational inventiveness and hasty scissoring mirror the playfulness of Matisse cutouts or the quilts of Gee's Bend.
These works connect painting to the constantly changing cultural realities in which the works find themselves. Using recycled materials to jumble the hierarchies of high art with common things, as well as shake up the canny art audience with the average citizen, their overarching goal might be not just to display the unity of art and everyday life but to inject some optimism and beauty into the tacit acceptance of homogenized culture.
The works have a bit of the up-yours of Dada collage à la Jean Arp but perhaps resonate most with more recent movements like Arte Povera, which among other goals sought to create the social and economic unification of all parts of human existence, attacking the corporatization of culture with an art of unconventional materials and style. Simple objects and messages, bodies and behaviours as art, dynamism and energy, and the critique of the culture industry are further commonalities. Contemporary artists like Shinique Smith or Yinka Shonibare who use bundled discarded garments or African textiles respectively also relate, as do recent "it is what it is" explorations of simple and symmetrical abstract compositions by Josh Smith or Joe Bradley.
These works were made in the artists' studio in Flatbush, where the blasting Reggae, Reggaeton, Soca and Gospel music from Caton Market comes in through the windows and the vendors of fashion, car accessories, home furnishings and Caribbean-themed items traverse the sidewalk. The paintings have a unique rhythm, and it is obvious that the two artists are humming the same tune together. Though Bernhardt is an experienced and celebrated contemporary artist, her collaborator in this show is completely new to art making: Youssef Jdia was born in Erfoud, Morocco, on the edge of the Sahara desert in North Africa. He doesn't know his real age or birthday, as there are no written records of it. He grew up with nine brothers and sisters, and never went to school. He started working as a mechanic from age 8-12, and after that he became a tour guide in the Sahara desert, where he encountered different people and cultures and learned different languages. He speaks fluently French, Spanish, English, Arabic, and Italian, also some German and Japanese. At age 20 he left Erfoud, (to evade arranged marriage) and moved to the surfer costal town of Essaouira to work at The Maison Berbere selling carpets. Around age 29 he met Katherine Bernhardt while she was looking for carpets, and subsequently moved to Marrakech for three years while awaiting his American visa. Jdia's son was born two-and-a-half years ago, and he has lived in US for two years now. He does not consider himself an "artist" if you ask him, but says: "I felt happy making the collages and that it was a good experience, I was glad to do it, and the carpet business is quite similar to the art business." Several women in his family are weavers of rugs, as well. He is also a good cook. This is his first art exhibition in New York City.
According to Bernhardt: "The collages started out of nowhere. There were left over scraps of canvas in my studio and ugly old clothes around, so one day I decided to cut up the clothes and try and make something different. After I made the first couple of collages, I still didn't know what they were, but I kept making more. Youssef was in my studio watching the baby and me, and decided that he would add to them. Our ideas grew and developed as we started adding found objects like shells, earrings, fleece, denim, bikinis and African fabric from the neighborhood stores. The collages started relating to the Moroccan carpets that we are always around. The collages were totally fun and exciting make; something totally new and original and different. They are all the work of two people, two minds. We make them on the raw canvas on the floor first so that they get worn-out and dirty and so we can change them and move the pieces around. Then we glue them down and mount them on stretcher bars. We use magazine pictures in some of them, which also relates to my earlier solo work of model figure paintings. The works are strongly influenced by Youssef's growing up around carpets and his eye for color and textile work, and the neighborhood we live in has also influenced our works. A Caribbean tailor donated a huge bag of sequins and fabric and flags that he uses for his Carnival costumes. We incorporate many tribal Moroccan symbols into the cut-outs of the collages, recycling old things to make them new again and into art."
Katherine Bernhardt (b. Missouri 1975) is an internationally exhibiting artist based in Brooklyn and represented in NYC by Canada Gallery. She is well known for her portraits of women based on glossy magazine culture as well as her recent abstractions of products and rug patterns. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented in Dubai, Copenhagen, Malmo and Paris as well as at Canada Gallery, NYC. Notable group exhibitions include: Material, curated by Duro Olawu, Salon 94, New York (2012), Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo, Judith Scott, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York (2011), and New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome and The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. (2009, 2011). Outside of galleries and museums, she has painted the cover of Flaunt Magazine and made installations for Chanel and Miss Sixty. She received her MFA from SVA and her BFA from School of the Art Institute Chicago.
For more informaiton please email kathy@theholenyc.com
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Home > NEW > Icelandic Football Shaken By Snowballing Sex Scandal
Icelandic Football Shaken By Snowballing Sex Scandal
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In the course of recent weeks, the Icelandic Football Association has been showered with accusations against current and former national team players, including of alleged gang rape.
Director of the Icelandic Football Association Gudni Bergsson has announced his resignation amid criticism of the Association's handling of revelations about sexual violence by members of the Icelandic football league, including national team players.
Since the sex scandal started to unfold, two members of the national football squad have been removed from the line-up in upcoming qualifiers for the World Cup, the news outlet Iceland Review reported.
The Icelandic Football Association has, meanwhile, been accused of silencing victims and condoning sexual violence. The scandal was triggered in mid-August by an article, whose author called to end the culture of silence surrounding sexual assaults and domestic violence committed by Icelandic football players, citing social media revelations.
The Icelandic Football Association responded that it was unaware of any accusations of sexual abuse against Iceland's national team players. This spurred a 25-year-old woman into revealing an incident that occurred four years ago, when a player from team Iceland allegedly harassed her and another woman at a nightclub in Reykjavik.
The two women reported the incident to the police and according to the 25-year-old, the Icelandic Football Association has been aware of the accusations for a long time. So much so that a lawyer connected to the association contacted her and offered her to sign a confidentiality agreement which also included financial compensation.
By her own admission, she refused to sign, but said she instead reached a settlement with the player who paid damages and apologised to her personally. She said she had no grievances with the football player but she wasn't expecting him to be chosen for the national team when the Football Association knew of his violent actions.
Over the course of the last week, similar accusations have been floated on social media against several current and former national team players, including an alleged gang rape more than ten years ago.
The impact of the accusations may have been enhanced by another recent high-profile sexual assault case involving popular media personality and podcaster Sölvi Tryggvason, which shook the island nation. Furthermore, yet another recent high-profile case of a football player accused of sexual assault is that of Everton player Gylfi Thór Sigurdsson. He has been accused of sexual abuse in the UK. As a result, stakeholders within the football industry as well as government ministers have expressed concern and requested clarification from the nation's football association.
Several crisis meetings, to which both a sexologist and representatives of a support group for victims of sexual crimes were invited, led to the resignation of Gudni Bergsson.
The association's board has issued a public apology to the affected women, but does not intend to resign.
"We on the board of the Icelandic Football Association believe you and sincerely apologise. We have let you down and we intend to do better", the board said.
It also promised to set up an expert group to further increase knowledge of the matter within the union.
"We take this very seriously. We have already begun collaborating with independent experts to review how we have acted around sexual and violent crimes within the union, and how we have supported and will support victims".


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Years ago — a lifetime ago, it seems — I wrote a book about my experiences as a volunteer firefighter. About the things I saw, the effect those things had on me, about the whole complicated rabbit hole of inexplicable emotions, incomprehensible reactions and the way everything involved actually changed the order in my head.
Like a repetitive strain injury in my brain.
I think about that every year, when Bell Canada mounts its financially successful fundraising (and face it, brand-spectacular corporate image-builder) #BellLetsTalk program.
There are good things in that discussion — taking mental illness and injury out of the closet and into the mainstream discussion of health is something we should do. And not just on one day a year, either, when each tweet about it scores a nickel for the cause.
Open discussion reinforces the fact that it's all right to talk to your partner, to your friends, to co-workers who will listen. That it's perfectly fine to use any supports your employer may offer.
But since we're talking about it — since, like many people on Wednesday, I'm putting it out there publicly that I have had struggles — let me make a small point about your reaction.
If someone close to you comes to you to tell you about how they have been sexually abused, the best thing you can do is to listen and to believe their account. Don't discount or minimize what you hear; don't make excuses like "Frank is always touchy-feely. He probably didn't mean anything by it." Don't write it off as small or unimportant.
Likewise, if someone comes to you to talk about their mental health, don't minimize it, either. Don't try to just change the subject or slough it off.
Don't tell me how to "get better" the first time I tell you I'm having a hard time. Or even worse, don't tell me not to "dwell on it" or to "just shake it off." If that was even remotely possible, don't you think I would have done it already?
And more than anything else, don't suggest, at the very first instance, that you know a possible and simple cure.
Because, often, by the time someone's ready to talk, they've worked through things in their own head, all alone, for months or years. Like a dog with a bone, they've worried over why they feel different than other people seem to feel. They've read about things and self-diagnosed and sometimes even self-prescribed, without much in the way of success, ranging from blackout drunk to drugs to total failure.
It's one thing to say, "Something that helped me was…" if you have that shared experience. Or if you've got enough experience with others to help.
I've heard a thousand possible solutions, if I've heard one. I'm not looking for you to become a specialist in the few minutes it takes me to tell you I'm having trouble, and why.
Over the years, I've been told to try this and try that, from different kinds of therapy and hypnosis to considering drugs that might simply make me forget the trauma I still deal with regularly in my dreams.
I find it hard to explain that I don't want to forget. I never wanted to forget. Some people might want to, might have such a hard time that excising experience is the solution. I'm not there. It is, for better or worse, part of my life, part of who I am, and taking an eraser to it would be incomprehensible to me.
All I wanted to do was to learn to cope.
I think I can now.
And that's important — coping is possible, though it doesn't always look that way. I know I have to give in to some compulsive behaviour, like planning what to do if someone in my workplace has a heart attack, or like turning the car around to make sure all the stove burners are off.
But it has been, now, 14 years since I stopped fighting fires and finding new demons. That is a very, very long tunnel to walk down.
If someone talks to you, they're not asking you to provide a snap cure.
They just need you to listen.


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Hello dear viewers and soon to be Friends!
Mystery and Wonder. Well that was 10 years ago now, and it is finally here – my VLOG! Its taken 10 years, mainly trying to figure out how to switch my computer on!
In case we don't know each other already, my name is Harriet and you may well be thinking 'Your Face Looks Familiar' if thats so you may know me from Brittas Empire or perhaps Ab Fab or you may have even seen me in London's Glittering West End in one of the many fabulous shows I have been a part of.
I came up with this Vlog as a kind of 'How To' on anything and everything. From understanding new terms the kids are using such as WTF (apparently not Women Talking Frankly).
Perhaps you are wanting help setting up your Snap Chat, there will be a Vlog for that!
I also want this Vlog to work for you. If you are sat reading this on a tablet (Not HRT), a laptop, a Bi-focal iPhone or even a dated Desktop then head over to my contact page and send me a message I would love to hear from you.
Struggling to understand something? Ask me, and I will try to work it out or you or I will find and speak with the people in the know and record the Vlog for you!
Perhaps you are considering, Oh I don't know, say Kayaking down the River Thames at Midnight in December and not sure what it would be like – well drop me a message and I will give it a go and report back with full video evidence of my crusade and hopefully show you that this world isn't so scary and you too can do anything you wish!
Join me on this adventure and journey of getting on and let's help one and other keep up!
*ROFL – Roll on the Floor Laughing, Jean I am sorry, I wasn't laughing! She is fighting fit now, so no harm done!