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Cafe Choice books
Shark Wars, E.J. Altbacker '88 (Razorbill). Life isn't going so swimmingly for reef shark Gray, who has strayed from his shiver, or shark clan, in search of food. Now exiled from his peaceful reef, Gray, with dogfish pal Barkley, must struggle to survive in an ocean of danger — where they might end up as someone's dinner — and try to defeat an impending evil. This first in a series for middle-grade readers will be followed in December 2011 by Shark Wars: The Battle of Riptide. See SharkWarsSeries.com to download a free shark wars game iPhone app.
Bin Laden's Bald Spot & other stories, Brian Doyle '78 (Red Hen Press). In this collection of 25 stories, readers will meet a barber who shaves the heads of thugs in Bin Laden's cave; Joseph Kennedy talking to a bartender just before a stroke silences him forever; a man who unearths a living baby boy in his garden; and a teenage boy who hightails it out of town with a surprising cargo in the trunk of his car. The author's essays and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Orion and this magazine.
Seasons of the Spirit: Scriptural Reflections for Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter, LeRoy Clementich, CSC, '53, '61M.A. (Corby Books). After decades of teaching, Clem, as he is known, served for more than 15 years with the archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska, where he piloted a Cessna to bring the liturgy to remote villages. He also won several Catholic Press Awards for his scriptural commentaries in the archdiocesan newspaper, which, says that paper's former editor, "convey deep insights about the gospels in a humble, personal, conversational style."
Washington Hall at Notre Dame: Crossroads of the University: 1864-2004, Mark C. Pilkinton (University of Notre Dame Press). The Notre Dame professor of film, television and theatre chases "the true ghosts of Washington Hall, the fleeting shadows of myriad ephemeral events that have occurred over time." His history of the building that's been home to plays, lectures, concerts, commencements and various assemblies also shines a light on the cultural history of the University. Archival photos and line drawings illustrate the book.
A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul, Lisa M. Hendey '85 (Ave Maria Press). The founder of CatholicMom.com looks at the lives of her "wonderful spiritual mentors" through stories, lessons, traditions, wisdom and scripture. Those "saintly friends" include John Paul II, Margaret of Scotland, Andre Bessette, Rose Venerini and Josephine Bakhita. She also offers saint-inspired activities, such as spending time with a friend, reading the Catechism or preparing some traditional Irish food.
Guys Like Us: A Memoir of Life Lost and Found, Sean Nolan '97 (Gemma Media). When Mike Nolan is hit by a truck and loses his memory, his son tells him stories of his life and those of three generations of the Irish-American Nolan clan. He hopes the storytelling will remind his father of who he once had been — warts and all. Dan Rather calls the book, "A remarkable story of life and love, fathers and sons, loss and recovery. . . . It is a story to remember."
American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783, William M. Fowler Jr. '69M.A., '71Ph.D. (Walker & Company). The American Revolution didn't end with the Yorktown victory, and here the author chronicles those two years before the final peace treaty when economic woes, Congressional infighting and a near-mutiny by the Continental Army could have destroyed the newly evolving nation. Fowler's previous books include Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763.
Now I Walk on Death Row: A Wall Street Finance Lawyer Stumbles into the Arms of a Loving God, Dale S. Recinella '76J.D. (Chosen). The author does not walk through prison as a convict but as a lay chaplain, serving those on Florida's death row and in solitary confinement. Here he details his spiritual migration from a prestigious job to living out Jesus' call to serve him. "In the weighty matters of justice and mercy, Dale chose to follow Jesus, who sided with the poor, the dispossessed and the despised," says Sister Helen Prejean.
Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight, Tony D'Souza '00MFA (Mariner Books). When the recession hits, James and his pregnant wife, Kate, decide that transporting drugs for a friend will help them make ends meet. As James becomes more entrenched in the drug underworld, he faces unforeseen risks — the dangerous price of making a luxury income. D'Souza also is the author of Whiteman and The Konkans, which was named "one of the best novels of the year" by The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor.
Light Up the Night, Jean Reidy '81, illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Disney Hyperion Books). Designed for ages 4 to 8, this rhyming bedtime story offers a colorful view of a child's "own little piece of the universe," traveling from the galaxy and the planets right down to a house and "my room with my name on the door, and my dinosaur lamp, and my rug on the floor." The author's previous picture books are Too Pickley! and Too Purpley!
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Catholic Spending and Acting Justly: a Small-Group Guide for Living Economic Stewardship, Charles. K. Wilber (Ave Maria Press). Designed as an eight-week course for small groups, each weekly lesson focuses on one of the seven core themes of Catholic social teaching, including the dignity of the human person; the dignity of work; community and the common good; and the preferential option for the poor. The author is a Notre Dame emeritus professor of economics and a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
The Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations, Samuel Hazo '49 (Notre Dame Press). This collection of 10 essays explores everything from the home ownership and travel to literary criticism, friendship and music. The author, the McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, also writes about the actor Gregory Peck, with whom he shared several poetry reading seminars.
Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas, Benedict Giamo (Notre Dame Press). The torture and killing of David Owen, a man whose strident advocacy for the homeless incensed many he wanted to help, is the background to this view of contemporary homelessness in America. The book has been called part chronicle, part social analysis, part investigative journalism and part true-crime. The author is an associate professor of America studies at Notre Dame.
King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, Jack O'Connell with Vernon Loeb (W.W. Norton & Company). Over four decades, CIA operative O'Connell served as a trusted adviser to Jordan's King Hussein, who in his final decade wanted someone to write about his "vain quest for peace in the Middle East." O'Connell became that author, and here he writes about the lost opportunities for peacemaking. A member of the 1940 freshman football squad at ND, O'Connell transferred after an injury but frequently attended Class of 1944 reunions. He died in 2010.
Fragments of Hope: My Life as Holy Cross Priest, Richard F. Berg, CSC, '59 (Corby Books). Since his 1963 ordination, Father Berg has been a professor, dean, psychologist, chaplain and founder of a residence for the poor in Portland, Oregon. He shares insights he learned from those he's met through a life filled with grace, miracles, disappointments and adventures. "I think of my stories as pieces of a stained-glass window," he writes, "brightened by the light of God, reflecting hope."
To Carthage We Came, Edward Vasta '52 (OakTara Books). When migrant worker Matt Turner desires a fresh start for himself, his wife, mother, brother and grandfather, he buys an old car, thinking it will help propel them to a new life. Instead, it just might tear them apart. The novel's author is a Notre Dame emeritus professor of English whose previous works include Love and Redemption.
Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity, edited by Ann W. Astell and Sandor Goodhart (University of Notre Dame Press). A conversation between Rene Girard and Goodhart about the relation between religion and violence opens this book. Essayists then explore the subject of sacrifice and scapegoating in Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Michael Fishbane; Robert Daly, S.J.; Christopher S. Morrissey, Erich S. Gruen and Poong-in Lee are among the contributors. Astell is a Notre Dame professor of theology.
Salvation Means Creation Healed: The Ecology of Sin and Grace: Overcoming the Divorce between Earth and Heaven, Howard A. Snyder '83Ph.D. and Joel Scandrett (Cascade Books). Snyder, who has an interest in church renewal movements, focuses on the need "to grasp the full meaning of biblical teachings on creation and new creation." Snyder is a professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto and a contributing editor at Christianity Today.
Rocky Road, Rose Kent (Knopf). When their mother decides to open an ice cream shop, Tess and her deaf brother, Jordan, are uprooted from Texas to upstate New York. But Tess knows her mother's get-rich-quick plans too often result in disaster. Written for readers ages 9 to 13, the novel follow the rocky road of the Dobson family, who learn that several scoops of friends can make a difference. The author is the mother of Tae Andrews '08.


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KIXEYE Acquisition (Official Statement)
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Effective June 3rd, KIXEYE Inc. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by the Stillfront Group in Stockholm, Sweden.
Stillfront is well-known for investments in game portfolios with long lifecycles and loyal users, qualities that have defined KIXEYE's games throughout its decade-long history. Moreover, this partnership ensures that KIXEYE's existing portfolio of War Commander, Battle Pirates, VEGA Conflict, and War Commander: Rogue Assault have the resources, experience, and support needed to continue well into the future.
A note from new KIXEYE President Clayton Stark:
Our game teams are undergoing no significant operational changes, nor do we anticipate any disruptions to the standard live operations of the game. Stillfront and KIXEYE's partnership is based on the understanding that these games will be continuing long into the future, with our browser games fully migrating to HTML5.
Above all, we'd like to extend a heartfelt 'thank you' to our amazing player communities who have helped make these games a success. We look forward to this newest chapter as part of the Stillfront family!

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Sanzhi District () is a rural district in northern New Taipei, Taiwan. It is notable as the hometown of the former president Lee Teng-hui.

History
During the period of Japanese rule, , and was governed under  of Taihoku Prefecture.

Administrative divisions
The district administers thirteen urban villages:
Baxian (), Putou (), Guzhuang (), Xinzhuang (), Puping (), Maochang (), Hengshan (), Xiban (), Houcuo (), Fude (), Yuanshan (), Dianzi () and Xinghua ()  Village.

Education
 Mackay Medical College
 New Taipei Municipal Sanzhi Junior High School

Tourist attractions
 Li Tien-lu Hand Puppet Historical Museum

Transportation
The main road route through Sanzhi is the Provincial Highway No. 2. There are also a number of county-level highways within the district.

Notable natives
 Chiang Wen-yeh, musician and composer active mainly in Japan and the People's Republic of China
 Lee Teng-hui, former ROC president, spiritual leader of the Taiwan Solidarity Union
 Lu Hsiu-yi, former Democratic Progressive Party politician and member of the Legislative Yuan
 Tseng Wen-hui, former First Lady of the Republic of China, wife of former President Lee Teng-hui
 Tu Tsung-ming, founder of Kaohsiung Medical University and the first Taiwanese PhD

See also
 New Taipei City

References

External links

 Abandoned San-Chih UFO Houses in Google Map
 Abandoned San-Chih UFO Houses on Flickr

Districts of New Taipei

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Sneakers will always be my go to footwear to any event or impromptu outing. If I am asked to pick between sneakers and heels I will definitely pick sneakers, the comfort can't be bought or exchanged.
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Coalinga Mineral Springs Road, Fresno Hot Springs Resort site and Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road is a short north/south roadway in Fresno County in the Diablo Mountains west of Coalinga. Coalinga Mineral Springs Road is only five miles and is located entirety in Hot Springs Canyon. Coalinga Mineral Springs Road holds historic significance due to it's 19th Century origin as the stage road to the Fresno Hot Springs Resort.
Part 1; the history of Coalinga Mineral Springs Road
What is now Coalinga Mineral Springs was discovered during the 19th Century by James Rogers. Rogers had been hunting a bear and was washing his hands in a nearby spring which was found to be full of warm sulfur water. The spring located by Rogers was initially known as Roger's Sulphur Springs.
Roger/s Sulphur Springs was later purchased by Colonel Henry Burrough and came to be known as Fresno Hot Springs. Burrough built a stage road and a two-story bathhouse which opened during 1896. Below Fresno Hot Springs bathhouse can be seen in a photo sourced from the Fresno County Library.
The bathhouse at Fresno Hot Springs was later purchased by the Kreyenhagen family via foreclosure sale. The Kreyenhagen's would expand the bathhouse complex into the Fresno Hot Springs Resort. At it's peak several stages ran weekly to the Fresno Hot Springs Resort from Coalinga. Fresno Hot Springs grew in popularity when the community of Coalinga began to boom approaching the start of the 20th Century. The Fresno Hot Springs Resort would eventually become host to a dance hall, barbeque pits and a men's club. Reportedly there was over a dozen bathing springs which were located at the Fresno Hot Springs Resort. Numerous hiking trails centered around the Fresno Hot Springs Resort were developed as a form of recreation. The Fresno Hot Springs Resort during it's prime can be seen in a photo dated to 1910 in this image hosted by the University of California.
Below the stage road (now Coalinga Mineral Springs Road) to Fresno Hot Springs can be seen in a documentary on Benito Gem Mine.
A full version of the Benito Gem Mine narrated history video can be found below.
Below Fresno Hot Springs can be seen north of the Warthan Canyon Road (later California State Route 198) in Hot Springs Canyon on the 1911 Edward Denny & Company Map of Fresno County. Notably Fresno Hot Springs Resort can be seen near the small community of Warthan.
Fresno Hot Springs can be seen on the 1914 C.F. Weber & Company Map of Fresno County as the location of the Rogers Post Office.
During the 1915 Second State Highway Bond Act Warthan Canyon Road through the Diablo Mountains was declared part of Legislative Route Number 10. Despite the Fresno Hot Springs Resort being only five miles from a State Highway it's fortunes seemed to have turned for the worse. According to a direct quote from Ed Kreyenhagen hosted on schweich.com the Fresno Hot Springs Resort property was leased before being sold during the 1930s. Notably what is now Coalinga Mineral Springs Road can be seen on the 1935 Division of Highways Map of Fresno County terminating at a nameless property north of California State Route 198.
By the 1940s what was known as Fresno Hot Springs came to be known as Coalinga Mineral Springs (as seen on a 1941 USGS Map on Historicaerials.com). The property around Coalinga Hot Springs appears to have changed hands amongst ranches for several decades after the decline of the Fresno Hot Springs Resort. During 1981 the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") assumed control of much of the Coalinga Mineral Springs property via provisions of the National Recreation Trails Act. The old trail to Kreyenhagen Peak was assumed under BLM maintenance and became the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail.
On July 13th, 2020 the Mineral Fire began in Hot Springs Canyon on Coalinga Mineral Springs Road. The Mineral Fire would grow over the course of two weeks to 29,667 acres and would burn seven structures. The site of Coalinga Mineral Springs was damaged during the Mineral Fire.
Part 2; a drive on Coalinga Mineral Springs Road to Coalinga Mineral Springs
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road begins from California State Route 198 in Warthan Canyon. Signage on California State Route 198 notes Coalinga Mineral Springs can be five miles to the north.
Traffic on northbound Coalinga Mineral Springs Road is given numerous advisories and warnings. The entirety of Coalinga Mineral Springs is a paved one-lane road.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road continues northward through a series of ranch properties following Hot Springs Canyon. Some evidence of the Mineral Fire can be observed in the trees and burned ranching infrastructure.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road northbound crosses Springs Creek via a culvert style bridge dated to April 1929. These culvert style bridges were commonly constructed in Fresno County from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road continues northbound and crosses a modern bridge span over Springs Creek.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road continues north to another culvert style span over Springs Creek dated to June 1950.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road continues northward to it's namesake Springs. Approaching Coalinga Mineral Springs there is substantial damage from the Mineral Fire.
Coalinga Mineral Springs Road is heavily washed out by spring runoff approaching the BLM Campground at Coalinga Mineral Springs. Numerous abandoned homes were once present at the entrance to Coalinga Mineral Springs which burned during the Mineral Fire. The abandoned homes can be seen on this photo hosted on schweich.com. Numerous warnings about burn area hazards are present at the entrance to Coalinga Mineral Springs.
Part 3; the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail
Access to the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail can be found by passing northward through the BLM campground (the former site of Fresno Hot Springs Resort) to a closed gate. The dirt road behind said gate appears on some maps as Bear Canyon Road north to Los Gatos Creek Road.
The Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trailhead board doesn't provide much insight on what to expect ahead aside from burn damage.
The Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail is advertised on the BLM website as being 2.5 miles to Kreyenhagen Peak and 18 to 48 inches wide. The first mile of the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail displayed minimal burn damage. Kreyenhagen Peak along with evidence of sulfur springs can be found.
The Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail begins to narrow after a mile but remains two track. Kreyenhagen Peak (3,550 feet above sea level) towers overhead a long and very eroded incline grade.
The Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail begins a steep climb underneath Kreyenhagen Peak to a switchback. Some signs of burn damage and subsidence can be observed in places.
Views from the switchback over Hot Springs Canyon.
The climb to the next switchback remains two track.
The Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail swings northward again and becomes a single track. Given there was some signs of subsidence and erosion that left only about 12 inches of walkable trail I decided to turn back a half mile from Kreyenhagen Peak.
The descent on the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail back to Coalinga Mineral Springs. Note; I did not encounter any other hikers on the Coalinga Mineral Springs National Recreation Trail.
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Election Information & FAQ
2016 WCCUSD School Board Elections FAQ
What does the school board do?
The school board is elected to oversee the school district and set its direction through policy decisions and budget approval. The school board also hires and evaluates the Superintendent. More information is available through the Center for Public Education and the California School Boards Association
When is the election?
The election will be held on November 8th, 2016 at the same time as the general election for all other local, state, and national offices.
How many seats are up for election?
There are two seats up for election on the five-person board. The other three seats will be up for election in 2018.
Who can vote in this election?
Anyone who is a registered voter and lives within the boundaries of West Contra Costa Unified School District is eligible to vote. This includes the areas of unincorporated Richmond. All seats in WCCUSD are "at-large," meaning that all voters can vote for all open seats. Since there are two seats up for election, voters will be able to vote for two candidates.
When is the last day to register to vote?
October 24th, 2016. You can register to vote here.
Is this race partisan?
No. This is a non-partisan race. Candidates do not have to declare their party affiliation.
When do candidates declare?
The official filing period for candidates opens on July 18th, 2016 and ends on August 12th, 2016.
How can I find out more information about the candidates?
There will be several candidate forums/debates held throughout the late summer and fall. Sign up for Action Alerts to stay informed when the events are scheduled.
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Sergio Samitier Samitier (Barbastro, Huesca, Aragón, España, 31 de agosto de 1995) es un ciclista español. Destacó como amateur ganando la Copa de España de Ciclismo sub-23 en 2017, la Vuelta al Bidasoa, incluyendo una etapa, una etapa de la Vuelta a Navarra de 2016, la Subida a Gorla y el Trofeo Eusebio Vélez ese mismo año. Debutó como profesional con el equipo Euskadi Basque Country-Murias en 2018.

Palmarés
 Aun no ha conseguido ninguna victoria como profesional.

Resultados en Grandes Vueltas

—: no participa
Ab.: abandono

Equipos
 Euskadi Basque Country-Murias (2018-2019)
 Movistar Team (2020-)

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Ficha de Sergio Samitier (sitiodeciclismo.net)

Ciclistas de España
Ciclistas del Movistar Team
Deportistas de la provincia de Huesca
Nacidos en Barbastro


HTC announced the all new HTC One (M8) earlier this year. And now it has finally made its way to India. The all new HTC One (M8) boasts a 5.0-inch Full HD display with Corning Gorilla glass protection on top. The phone will come in two variants of processor a 2.5 GHz / 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor will be available depending on the market. Running on Android 4.4 KitKat OS it is equipped with the new HTC Sense 6.0 UI.
HTC One (M8) will come in Gunmetal Gray, Glacial Silver.and Amber Gold colors. The all new HTC One (M8)is priced at Rs. 49,900 (MOP) .


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Our airstrip lights run on a pilot activation system called PAALC consisting of:
27 white lights along the edge of the runway
18 blue LED lights around the taxiway and apron
2 yellow lights at the taxiway hold point to runway
4 green lights at outer thresholds of runway
8 green/red lights at thresholds of the runway
an illuminated wind direction indicator and apron flood lights.
Under normal conditions the system is pilot activated by 3 long mike clicks on frequency 120.60MZ. The PAALC will then activate the runway lights, apron flood lighting and the windsock for 30 minutes, the PAALC will also transmit confimation that the lighting system is active or failed. During the last 10 minutes the windsock lights will flash until the PAALC switches the lights off, the lighting cycle can be restarted at any time by repeating the initial process of keying the mike 3 times on frequency 119.6MZ.
Our Community Resource Centre provides information about places of interest and can point you in the right direction for local services and business providers. Production of newsletters, hosting of local events and support for community building activities are all offered through CRCs.
Killili Bridge
Gascoyne Junction is the northern gateway to natural tourist sites, such as Mount Augustus National Park, the Kennedy Ranges and inland Gascoyne and the new Bridge has the potential to increase visitors to Gascoyne Junction and the Kennedy Range."
The name of the bridge was determined through a Shire community consultation process which saw 18 names put forward for consideration by the Shire of Upper Gascoyne. The chosen name – Killili – is the local Aboriginal word meaning bulrushes and was the original name for Gascoyne Junction until the late 1930's.
The local library of the Shire of Upper Gascoyne is situated in the Gascoyne Junction Community Resource Centre. The library provides the community access to a range of resources including book, video and DVD hiring.
The town Oval is used for various recreational activities such as Football and Cricket.
The Gascoyne Junction pavilion is a fully air-conditioned venue, with toilets, showers and a commercial kitchen. Public and private events are frequently held here. The pavilion also has a gym and sporting courts that are available for use by the community. Federation Park adjoins the pavilion and houses a rotunda, pizza oven and gas barbeque which are all available for public use at no cost. The pavilion and its facilities are available for hire, inclusive of commercial kitchen. To request hire of this venue, please phone the Shire office on (08) 9943 0988.


I have talked a lot about these Oddball Blankets that I work on every now and then, but I like to bring it up frequently just in case there is someone new out there reading Hooked On Needles who might not know about this great work.
If you are one of those Instant Gratification kind of people and the thought of making a whole blanket just doesn't appeal to you, check out the website for the Northeast US Oddball Baby Blanket to get an idea of how this whole Oddball thing works. You'll see updates on lots of different blankets that are being passed around the northeast and then gathered up again to be donated to a hospital. If this is something that interests you, then go over to the Charity Knitting Forum on Knittinghelp.com and find your own region of the country. See what blankets are in the works and looking for knitters or border crocheters and sign up. You'll be able to put your own little creative mark on a wonderful gift for a new baby and you won't break the bank doing it. It's a great opportunity to try new stitches or become proficient with basic stitches if you are new to knitting. You won't even have to purchase your own needles! They will come with the blanket! You use them, then send them along to the next knitter. This is also a fabulous way to use up your stash yarn by signing up for blankets requiring colors that you already have! It's really a win-win arrangement.
Would you like to see the blanket I just finished?
This one is made entirely in crochet stitches, just rows of double crochet so it is very simple. The name of it is Rainbow Connection. I worked the last section in purple, then the border in white. My son who is 6 years old informed me that it was ok to leave out the indigo and violet and use purple instead since most people don't like indigo anyway! Okie dokie! So glad I got his stamp of approval!
I worked the border by first doing 2 rounds of single crochet. This is a worsted weight blanket so I thought 3 rounds, which I do on the sport weight blankets, might have been a little too much. Then I worked one round of my favorite border stitch, reverse single crochet. If you would like to see how to work reverse single crochet, click HERE and watch my video. It's a very simple stitch once you get the hang of it and I just really like the way it looks.
How do you like to finish off your crocheted or knitted baby blankets or afghans? Is there a stitch you've wanted to learn but might be having trouble with? I'd love to help you figure it out and I'm always looking for material to add to Hooked On Needles. Perhaps I could make a video for you and see if we can figure it out together.
Leave a comment and let me know, but make sure I can respond to you somehow by making your email available on blogger or by including it in the comment.


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using System;

public class classifier_lda_modular {
	public static void Main() {
		modshogun.init_shogun_with_defaults();
		int gamma = 3;

		double[,] traindata_real = Load.load_numbers("../data/fm_train_real.dat");
		double[,] testdata_real = Load.load_numbers("../data/fm_test_real.dat");

		double[] trainlab = Load.load_labels("../data/label_train_twoclass.dat");

		RealFeatures feats_train = new RealFeatures();
		feats_train.set_feature_matrix(traindata_real);
		RealFeatures feats_test = new RealFeatures();
		feats_test.set_feature_matrix(testdata_real);

		BinaryLabels labels = new BinaryLabels(trainlab);

		LDA lda = new LDA(gamma, feats_train, labels);
		lda.train();

		Console.WriteLine(lda.get_bias());

		//Console.WriteLine(lda.get_w().toString());
		foreach(double item in lda.get_w()) {
			Console.Write(item);
		}

		lda.set_features(feats_test);
		double[] out_labels = LabelsFactory.to_binary(lda.apply()).get_labels();

		foreach(double item in out_labels) {
			Console.Write(item);
		}

	}
}

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Healthy Connections was recently featured in the Hot Springs Medical Guide published by Life and Home magazine. Click here or on the article to enlarge for viewing. Click here to see the entire Medical Guide.
Recently The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce produced a video highlighting the Hot Springs Pediatrics Clinic and Jeremy Porter, MD, and Melanie Newman, APRN. Check it out.


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Q: Optimistic Concurrency in Entity Framework between Oracle and T-SQL I am building EF Code first POCOs that'll be used between an Oracle back-end and a MS SQL Server backend. I'm having a problem finding the right way to tackle a Timestamp property that'll work on either database back-end.
MS SQL Server would have me use a common property like this:
[Timestamp]
public byte[] Timestamp {get;set;}

And then in the fluent mapping it would look like this
map.Property(p => p.Timestamp).IsRowVersion();

However Oracle would have me change my common property type to this:
public int Timestamp {get;set;}

And then in the fluent mapping it would look like this
map.Property(p => p.Timestamp).HasColumnName("ORA_ROWSCN").HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed).IsConcurrencyToken();

So my first guess was maybe I could change the data type to long, since timestamp is eight bytes, but SqlServer didn't like the mapping.
My next guess is to give up on Timestamp and Ora_RowScn and make up my own Optimistic Concurrency property. Any suggestions or know if a way to have a happy model that works between both Sql and Oracle?  Thanks.

A: This is how I resolved the issue. I got rid of the [Timestamp] attribute. Then I also created two assemblies for my repositories, one for Oracle and the other for MSSQL. Then my base model looks like this.
[DataContract]
    public abstract class DomainBase
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the id.
        /// </summary>
        [DataMember]
        [Key]
        public long Id { get; set; }

        private byte[] _timestamp=new Guid().ToByteArray();

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the timestamp.
        /// </summary>
        [DataMember]
        public byte[] Timestamp { get { return _timestamp; }
            set { _timestamp = value;
            if (_timestamp != null && _signature != Convert.ToBase64String(_timestamp))
                    _signature = Convert.ToBase64String(_timestamp);
            }
        }

        private string _signature = Convert.ToBase64String(new Guid().ToByteArray());

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the signature.
        /// </summary>
        [DataMember]
        public string Signature
        {
            get { return _signature ?? (Timestamp != null ? _signature = Convert.ToBase64String(Timestamp) : null); }
            protected set { _signature = value;
                if ((_timestamp == null && !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature)) ||
                    (_timestamp != null && !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_signature) && Convert.ToBase64String(_timestamp) != _signature))
                    _timestamp = Convert.FromBase64String(value);
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a value indicating whether has signature.
        /// </summary>
        public bool HasSignature
        {
            get { return Timestamp != null; }
        }
    }

Then this is how I handle the mappings in each fluent setup.
For MSSQL Server.
Property(p => p.Timestamp).HasColumnType("timestamp").HasDatabaseGeneratedOption(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed).IsRowVersion();
            Ignore(p => p.Signature);

For Oracle
Ignore(p => p.Timestamp);
            Property(p => p.Signature).HasColumnName("Timestamp").IsConcurrencyToken();

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A lifetime mortgage works with the lender offering a lump sum or a monthly income or even both of these. The sum or income is based on the property value and the client's age. Interest is charged with the loan, however the customer is not required to pay it. What actually happens is the interest is compounded on the loan. Once the property is sold the interest that has accumulated and the loan are paid for. Understanding equity release deals is important in order to decide if they are truly the product for you.
There is a risk that the interest and loan could be larger in price then the value of the property. However an incentive with most providers of lifetime mortgages is that they offer a no negative equity guarantee. This means that if the loan is larger than the property value it becomes the problem of the lender and not the problem of the home owner. This is a superb clause to have in your contract. If you do not see it you will want to ask for it so that you are not ultimately putting your family in a difficult position. In past years without the clause many companies came under fire from their clients enough that the government started taking notice and started to regulate this arm of mortgages a little better.
One of the most direct incentives that companies offer is competitive interest rates. Another incentive is the type of interest that they offer. A fixed interest rate means that even if interest increases or decreases the amount of interest that you have signed to will remain the same. A capped interest means that the maximum interest is capped. If the interest rate increases you will not pay more than your cap, but if it decreases then you will benefit as your interest also goes down.
How much a customer can borrow or rather the lifetime mortgage deals can differ from each lender but generally a 60 year old could borrow 25% of the property value and this generally increases 1% every year. This means the older you are the more you can borrow. A general minimum that has to be borrowed is £20,000. But providers differ from one another.
Another incentive that is offered is if you get the option of a monthly income or if just one lump sum or sometimes you can get both. Also different providers will offer different initial lump sums. By comparing the offers you will find what you need that would suit your lifestyle.
1. Lump sum or rollover mortgage: this product rolls the interest over into the loan repayment so that you do not pay anything until the mortgage becomes due. It is a compound interest in which you gain a lump sum payment that has to last until death or you sell the home.
2. Drawdown mortgage: is an option in which you take a smaller lump sum at the beginning and then have equity to tap when you need it. This type of mortgage only charges interest on the money you use and not what is held in the account for you to use. It can keep the money lower for repayment as long as you do not use the entire amount available.
3. Ill-Health Lifetime Mortgage: if you have ill health that is potentially threatening your life expectancy and you need a large cash sum to help you live comfortably this is the mortgage that will help the most. It is like the lump sum option only the percentage is higher on the thought that you will repay it sooner upon your death.
4. Interest Only Mortgage: under this lifetime mortgage you are going to pay a monthly repayment of only interest. This means the amount of interest that has accrued for the month is paid. You never see it tacked onto your principle amount. At the end you just pay the principle amount back.
If you are able to repay your loan some companies charge for that and others don't. This can be quite appealing to customers. Also the arrangement fee differs from company to company. The lower this fee is the more it appeals to a customer. When weighing up different lifetime mortgage deals, it's best to compare them online. This way you can see the incentive options that are on offer and the best rates for lifetime mortgage deals.


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Mr Dr. rer. nat. Janusz Grzyb
grzyb@uni-wuppertal.de
Janusz Grzyb received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in electronic engineering (with a major in the synthesis and design of analog CMOS and BiCMOS circuits with an individual study program) from the Integrated Circuits Laboratory, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, in 2004.In 1999, he joined the Electronics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he performed pioneering work in the area of low-cost large-area panel processing multichip-module-based system in package solutions for 60-, 77-, and 94-GHz applications. He was a Research Assistant with the Gdansk University of Technology from 1998 to 1999. From 2004 to 2006, he was with the Communication System Design and High-Speed/Optical Packaging Groups, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Ossining, NY, USA, where he was involved in the development of the low-cost packaged highly integrated SiGe transceiver for 60-GHz Gb/s wireless data communication. From 2006 to2009, he was with the Research and Development Group, Huber & Suhner, Zurich, Switzerland, where he brought onto the market one of the world's first commercially available point-to-point 60-GHz links: the Sensity Link System. Since 2009, he has been with the Institute for High-Frequency and Communication Technology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany. His current research interests include all aspects of silicon-integrated mmWave and terahertz electronics. Dr. Grzyb was a co-recipient of the 2006 Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference, the 2006 IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, the 2012 and 2018 Jan Van Vessem Award for Outstanding European Paper of the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, the 2014 Best Paper Award of the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, and the Microwave Prize 2017 of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.


Since 2007 I am involved as artistic coordinator and coach in the Dutch Institute of lighting design (iLo). The iLo is established in 2007 by lighting designer Henk van der Geest. The iLo wants to encourage the quality of lighting design in performing arts, architectural and public spaces .
All activities iLo undertakes are based on sharing knowledge, like an open source platform.
In 2015 iLo received a European grant for "The European Lighting School" in a partnership with initiator COSDAT Institute of Lighting Design from Prague and Antena in Slovakia. Goal was to organize international workshops and training courses. In Eastern Europe and particularly in Czech Republic and Slovakia are no educational opportunities for lighting designers.
Light (and darkness!) is of interest for anyone. Light is defining the experience of a space, an environment, an artistic expression. No one will object to that statement. But the awareness of light, the profession of lighting design and the application of good design is less evident.


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Duke Law Scholarship Repository
Duke Law > Duke Law Scholarship Repository > Faculty Scholarship > 3291
Bonding, Structure and the Stability of Political Parties: Party Government in the House
Gary W. Cox
Mathew D. McCubbins, Duke Law SchoolFollow
public policy, policy making, American politics, House of Representatives
The public policy benefits that parties-deliver are allocated by democratic procedures that devolve ultimately to majority rule. Majority-rule decision making, however, does not lead to consistent policy choices; it is "unstable." In this paper, we argue that institutions - and thereby policy coalitions -- can be stabilized by extra-legislative organization. The rules of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives dictate that a requirement for continued membership is support on the floor of Caucus decisions for a variety of key structural matters. Because membership in the majority party's caucus is valuable, it constitutes a bond, the posting of which stabilizes the structure of the House, and hence the policy decisions made in the House. We examine the rules of the House Democratic Caucus and find that they do in fact contain the essential elements of an effective, extralegislative bonding mechanism.
This is an article pre-print.
Gary W. Cox & Mathew D. McCubbins, Bonding, Structure and the Stability of Political Parties: Party Government in the House, 19 Legislative Studies Quarterly 215-231 (1994)
Federal government--United States, House of Representatives, Congress, Public policy (Law), Policy sciences
American Politics Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Legislation Commons
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/3291
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By olduvai in Environment, Survival on February 2, 2019 .
Climate change is bringing crop failures, reduced food production, droughts and flooding, and civil unrest, report warns. Somalian Nuura Omar and her family were driven to an aid camp by drought. Photo from Oxfam, Creative Commons licensed.
The Lancet calls it the "Global Syndemic." The report's authors say we're facing three pandemics — undernutrition, obesity and climate change — that are interacting to form a "synergy of epidemics," or syndemic, and it's a global problem.
Here's how it works. Undernourished children in low-income and middle-income countries suffer from stunting, which makes them smaller than well-nourished children. But it also makes them more susceptible to obesity (which affects kids and adults in high-income countries even more). By 2015, obesity was affecting two billion people around the world. They've been set up to die of cardiovascular diseases, Type 2 diabetes and some cancers.
The report says, "Economic losses attributable to undernutrition are equivalent to 11 per cent of the GDP in Africa and Asia, or approximately $3.5 trillion annually." As we add another billion undernourished people by 2030, those losses will worsen.
Meanwhile, climate change is having serious effects on human health, bringing "crop failures, reduced food production, extreme weather events that produce droughts and flooding, increased food-borne and other infectious diseases, and civil unrest." Those climate effects, the report says, will end up costing five to 10 per cent of global GDP, while investing just one per cent of GDP could stop the increase in climate change.


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Turning Point: The Original Goal of Soccer's Iconic Black-and-White Ball Design
In the first FIFA World Cup, there was a tense disagreement about which ball to use. So for the final game of this famous 1930 competition, FIFA intervened and Argentina got to use their "Tiento" for the first half while Uruguay put in a "T-model" for the second:
For decades, each subsequent competition saw an evolution in ball design. Still, most held to a similar format made up of parallel and perpendicular leather strips — that is, until the iconic Telstar ball hit the field during a crucial period of change for at-home sports viewing.
In 1970, the United States was in the middle of transitioning to color televisions. Most households had TVs, but the majority of those were still black-and-white sets. So the new ball design featured a high-contrast array of black pentagons alternating with white hexagons.
This pattern made the ball's form and motion clearer both on the field and on home screens, a big improvement on the uniform organic colors of earlier balls. The new look also informed that year's event logo, with its dark geometric shapes against a light background (designed by Lance Wyman of Mexico 68 fame).
Developed by Adidas, the Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. It has since become the world's most recognizable soccer (or: football) ball.
Following the designs' success, the same company has been designing World Cup balls ever since. They have continued to change, but the basic idea of using alternating tone patterns is often used to help players and onlookers alike keep better track of the action.
Side note: one could be forgiven for accepting at face value a widely-circulated claim that Buckminster Fuller designed the modern soccer ball (a claim repeated in this otherwise neat ball history video):
Though he widely used triangles to create his famous geodesic domes, the Buckminsterfullerene (or "Buckyball") shape named after this famous engineer does strongly resemble a soccer ball. There is, however, no evidence that he was involved in the design.
In fact, the ball was named after (and looks like) a key communications satellite launched in 1962. A portmanteau of "television" and "star," this original Telstar transmitted the first live transatlantic TV feed (as well as the first telephone and fix signals) through space.
Color and shape also aren't the only things that set the Telstar and other newer balls apart. Made out of animal bladders and stomachs, many early soccer balls naturally broke down with use. Other old variants employed cork shavings inside a leather shell, but hitting a wet leather ball (particularly with one's head) can be dangerous and painful. In the 1800s, innovations in rubber vulcanization led to sturdier new models. In more recent years, the use of thermal bonding has helped balls become more spherical and easier to handle as well.
Today, there are a lot of balls designed for different matches and types of turf (including: training, professional, beach, street, and indoor variants). The idea that balls across levels of the sport should be standardized, found in many other popular games, is strangely absent. Still, the Telstar remains the most recognizable of them all.
This year's World Cup ball, the Telstar 18, is a callback to the game-changing ball from 1970, at least in name. It features just six textured panels, glued rather than stitched together. The design is also quite distinctive, though whether it will become iconic is another question. Its higher level of detail may look good up close, but it's hard to imagine abstracting it as easily into a logo, or shrinking it to become an icon.
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How COVID-19 exposures work at UNF
Hayley Simonson, Managing Editor
Members of the student body, staff, or faculty at the university may have unfortunately had the experience of receiving an email in their university inbox that alerted them of potential exposure to COVID-19.
Spinnaker spoke with Marjorie Hartmann, Lead Nurse at Student Health Services (SHS), to learn about how the process of alerting a covid exposure works.
Hartmann said that there are two different ways students are alerted to exposures, both depending on the severity of the exposure. If a sick student goes to a class, the professor of that class is then contacted and notified of the date and time an exposure occurred.
An email is then sent to the entire class roster that has instructions, a warning, and a date and time of the class that someone, who tested positive for COVID-19, was in attendance. Instructions are then given based on an individual's vaccination status.
SHS, under no circumstances, reveals the identity of the person who was sick to the professor or class.
"Our number one priority is protecting the identity of the person who's sick," said Hartmann.
Kid of COVID-19, Coronavirus. March 17, 2020. No school for at least the next three weeks. All the children will be learning remotely, online. Nobody in our house is positive for the virus, yet. Time will tell… Photo by Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash.
The source of the COVID-19 exposure is under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), meaning that it's a protected piece of information. Students are under no obligation to reveal to their professor that they were sick with COVID-19 . SHS is happy to provide students with excuse notes whenever they're sick. Students can give these notes to their professors to account for absences. SHS will also work with students to make up classwork or tests that they may have missed.
According to Hartmann, if somebody has been vaccinated against the virus, the chances of catching COVID-19 are very low. However, these people should monitor themselves for symptoms and, per university policy, if they get sick, self-report and get tested.
If a student is unvaccinated, they should monitor themselves closely for symptoms. Should they get symptoms, SHS recommends that they self-report and get tested. For an unvaccinated person, it is also strongly recommended to wear a face mask for the following two weeks. The chances of an unvaccinated person catching COVID-19 are much much higher than somebody who is vaccinated.
What about in the case of roommates?
"We call the roommates directly to give them more detailed instructions, because a roommate situation is a much higher contact exposure," said Hartmann.
In a living situation, there's a much stronger chance for COVID-19 to spread from one person to the other. When it comes to roommates, the instructions on what to do also depend, according to Hartmann.
If a roommate is vaccinated, their chances of catching COVID-19 after exposure is really low. Vaccinated roommates can keep their regular routine, but should watch themselves for any symptoms. For roommates who are unvaccinated, they have to be quarantined because they've had a high exposure, due to it being a living situation.
"A high exposure is 15 minutes or more face to face within six feet of somebody who has covid. So when you're roommates, and you're in a living situation, you're always having a high exposure to your roommate. Right? It's pretty much impossible," said Hartmann.
An unvaccinated roommate must quarantine for 10 days, and according to CDC guidelines that SHS follows, they can get a PCR test on day five, six, or seven after their last exposure to the person who had COVID. If that PCR test is negative, then on day seven, they can leave quarantine. However, they should continue to monitor themselves for symptoms for a full 14 days after exposure. The students that are vaccinated don't have to quarantine, but it is strongly encouraged for them to get a PCR test on day three, four, or five post-exposure. If that test is negative, the chances that they caught COVID-19 are very low, but they still should monitor themselves for symptoms for 14 days.
Kids looking outside at the world. Stuck inside during a pandemic quarantine. Photo by Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash.
Hartmann explained that the process of alerting exposures does have delays. As soon as SHS is notified that somebody had COVID-19 everyone else will be notified within 24 hours.
"Unfortunately, a lot of the student population is not notifying us when they have COVID because they don't want to be put into isolation.They don't want to be told that they're not allowed on campus until they're better," said Hartmann. "So when the students don't tell us until, you know, five days after the class, we're not informing their class until five days, six days, after they were there."
Hartmann said that it really is a partnership with the student body. The more students reach out to SHS when they're sick, the better protected the entire campus community can be.
COVID-19 positive case numbers have dropped and been in decline for the city of Jacksonville, as well as the UNF campus. SHS is not seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases right now, but rather an increase in cases of the flu and common cold, according to Hartmann.
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Sheykh Hasan (, also Romanized as Sheykh Ḩasan; also known as Bīvehnīj and Shaikhan) is a village in Bivanij Rural District, in the Central District of Dalahu County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 83, in 18 families.

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Populated places in Dalahu County


Working with the ExportWebMap service in 10.1 Beta 2, I've so far been able to figure out on how to construct the JSON to do what I want through a combination of the REST API and ExportWebMap Spec doc, and tracing the 10.1 JS Print sample using Fiddler. However I�??ve hit a block today that I need some help getting through..
The other attached file (JSON_FeatureCollection_Label.txt) is where I�??m at trying to send a point feature collection with labels. I get the points �?? not the labels. Params I�??m sending in addition to this JSON are format=PNG32, lauout template=MAP_ONLY, spatial refs=4326.
Any input on where I've gone wrong with the JSON would be much appreciated.
I have a similar scenario and get the same results as you have described - graphics draw, but no labels. Also see this forum topic: http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/61448-Problen-with-the-Print-Task.
Currently LabelinglInfo is not supported for layers in featureCollection (aka graphic layers).
to draw labels on top of features, you need to have a separate layer (of point type) inside the featureCollection with geometries defining the location where labels will be drawn and text symbols.
Here i have attached a json (modified version of yours) that shows how to draw labels.
I have also attached the output from a printing service using the json.


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Roger Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in November 2015.
Rees in 2004
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales
10 July 2015(2015-07-10) (aged 71)
Actor, director
Rick Elice (m. 2011)
He was widely known to American television audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord in Cheers and Lord John Marbury in The West Wing.
Rees was born in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, the son of Doris Louise (née Smith), a shop clerk, and William John Rees, a police officer.[1] He studied art at the Camberwell College of Arts and the Slade School of Fine Art, turning to acting when he was painting backdrops at the Wimbledon Theatre and was asked to fill a part in a play.[2]
Rees started his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company.[3][4] He played Malcolm in the acclaimed Trevor Nunn 1976 stage and 1978 television production of Macbeth.[4] Rees created the title role in the original production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar's stage adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, winning a Laurence Olivier Award for Actor of the Year in a New Play in 1980 and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1982.[4] A recorded version of the play also earned him an Emmy nomination in 1983.[5] He also starred in the original production of The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard at the Strand Theatre in London in 1982.
Rees began to work in television during the 1970s, appearing opposite Laurence Olivier in The Ebony Tower (1984). That same year, Rees portrayed Fred Hollywell in A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott as Scrooge. In 1986, he played William Tyndale in God's Outlaw. From 1988 to 1991 he starred in the late 80s/early 90s British sitcom Singles, with co-star Judy Loe. From 1989 to 1991 and in 1993, he also appeared intermittently on the long-running American television series Cheers as the English tycoon Robin Colcord. His later television appearances include My So-Called Life as substitute teacher Mr. Racine, British Ambassador Lord John Marbury on The West Wing and James MacPherson on Warehouse 13.[4] His film career began in the 1980s. Rees played the Sheriff of Rottingham in the Mel Brooks movie, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).[4] Rees' later film appearances include Frida (2002), The Prestige (2006), and The Pink Panther (2006).[4]
Continuing his work in the theatre through the 1990s, both as an actor and a director, Rees was awarded an Obie Award for his 1992 performance in the Off-Broadway play The End of the Day. In 1995, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Indiscretions.[4][6] He recorded many audiobooks, including Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.[7]
From November 2004 to October 2007, Rees was artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, only the fourth person to hold the post in its half-century history.[4][8] He replaced Nathan Lane in the role of Gomez Addams in the Broadway musical adaptation of The Addams Family, on 22 March 2011 and remained until the end of the run on 31 December 2011.[9][10]
In 2012, Rees took his one-man Shakespeare show, What You Will, to London's West End, playing a three-week engagement at the Apollo Theatre.
In 2013, Rees directed Crispin Whitell's play, The Primrose Path, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. In 2014, Rees directed Dog and Pony, a musical written by Rick Elice and Michael Patrick Walker, which had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
His last role was as Anton Schell in the musical version of The Visit, opposite Chita Rivera, which opened on Broadway on 23 April 2015 and closed on 14 June 2015.[11] Rees left the production in May 2015 due to his illness.[12]
Rees was to have directed a new musical written by Elice and Will Van Dyke, Magnificent Climb, in the fall of 2016 at MCC Theater in New York. He was also scheduled to perform his one-man Shakespeare show, What You Will in New York in the autumn of 2015, and had hoped to return to the Royal Shakespeare Company for a stint in Don Quixote in 2016. He was inducted into the exclusive entertainment fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats, as a full member.[13]
Rees had lived in the United States for more than 25 years;[2] he became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 1989.[5] He converted to Judaism in the 1980s.[14] Rees married his partner of 33 years, playwright Rick Elice, in 2011.[15][16][17] Rees and Elice also collaborated professionally, including as co-playwrights of the comedic thriller Double Double.[18] Elice co-wrote (with Marshall Brickman) the libretto for The Addams Family musical, the cast of which Rees had joined on 22 March 2011. In 2012, Elice and Rees received Tony Award nominations for Elice's stage adaptation and Rees' co-direction (with Alex Timbers), respectively, of Peter and the Starcatcher.[4] In October 2017, Elice wrote a memoir of his life with Rees, entitled Finding Roger: An Improbably Theatrical Love Story.[19]
Illness and death
After a diagnosis of brain cancer in October 2014, Rees focused his energy on his commitment to playing opposite Chita Rivera on Broadway in The Visit, the final musical written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. While undergoing two brain surgeries, two courses of radiation and ongoing chemotherapy, Rees managed to rehearse, preview and open in The Visit on 23 April 2015. By the middle of May, it had become too difficult for him to speak, and he left the show. Rees died at age 71 at his home in New York on 10 July 2015. On Wednesday, 15 July 2015, the marquee lights at all the theatres on Broadway were dimmed in his honour.[20] His ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Two months later, there was a memorial service for him at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre.[21]
Star 80 (1983) as Aram Nicholas
God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale (1986) as William Tyndale
If Looks Could Kill – Teen Agent (1991) as Augustus Steranko
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) as J. Parnell
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) as Sheriff of Rottingham
The Substance of Fire (1996) as Max
Sudden Manhattan (1996) as Murphy
Trouble on the Corner (1997) as Mr. McMurtry
Next Stop Wonderland (1998) as Ray Thornback
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) as Peter Quince
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) as Dr Croft
BlackMale (2000) as Bill Fontaine
3 A.M. (2001) as Priest
Return to Never Land (2002) as Edward (voice)
The Scorpion King (2002) as King Pheron
Frida (2002) as Guillermo Kahlo
The Emperor's Club (2002) as Mr. Castle
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004) as Tulse Luper
Going Under (2004) as Peter
Crazy Like a Fox (2004) as Nat Banks
Game 6 (2005) as Jack Haskins
A Life in Suitcases (2005) as Tulse Luper
The New World (2005) as Virginia Company Representative (uncredited)
The Pink Panther (2006) as Raymond Larocque
East Broadway (2006) as Andrew Barrington Sr.
The Treatment (2006) as Leighton Proctor
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) as solicitor Mr. Hobbs
The Prestige (2006) as Owens
The Invasion (2007) as Yorish
The Narrows (2008) as Professor Reyerson
Happy Tears (2010) as antiques dealer
Almost Perfect (2011) as Kai Lee
Portraits in Dramatic Time (2011) as Himself
Affluenza (2014) as Mr. Carson
Survivor (2015) as Dr. Emil Balan
Tales of the Unexpected (1984) as James Howgill
A Christmas Carol (1984, TV Movie) as Fred Holywell / Narrator
Singles (1988-1989) as Malcolm
Cheers (1989-1993) as Robin Colcord
The Young Riders (1990) as Tyler Dewitt
M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994-1995) as Dr. John Stonebrake
My So-Called Life (1994) as Vic Racine
Titanic (1996) as J. Bruce Ismay
Boston Common (1997) as President Harrison Cross
Liberty! The American Revolution (1997) as Thomas Paine
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997) as The Piper
Double Platinum (1999, TV Movie) as Marc Reckler
The Crossing (2000, TV Movie) as Hugh Mercer
Oz (2001) as Jack Eldridge
Law & Order (2003) as Wyatt Scofield
The West Wing (2000-2005) as Lord John Marbury
Grey's Anatomy (2007, season three) as Dr. Colin Marlow
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2009) as Duke DeGuerin
Warehouse 13 (2009-2013) as James MacPherson
The Good Wife (2010) as Dr. Todd Grossman
Elementary (2012-2014) as Alistair Moore
The Middle (2013) as Mr. Glover
Forever (2014) as Priest
American Experience (2015) as Governor Bradford
The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth. (BBC2, 2016) as Governor Bradford[22]
The Comedy of Errors (as Antipholus of Syracuse), Stratford-on-Avon and London, 1976
Three Sisters (as Tusenbach) Stratford-upon-Avon London and tour, 1979[23]
"The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman (as Semyon Semyonovich). Royal Shakespeare Company. 1979.
Cymbeline (as Posthumus), Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon 1979[24]
Cymbeline (as Posthumus), Royal National Theatre, 1980
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (as Nicholas Nickleby), Royal Shakespeare Company
Aldwych Theatre, London, June 1980 – June 1981[25]
Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, September 1981 – March 1982
The Real Thing (as Henry), London, 1982
Hapgood by Tom Stoppard as Kerner, London March 1988[26]
Hamlet as Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford upon Avon, 1984
The End of the Day (as Graydon Massey), Playwrights Horizons, off-Broadway, 1992
Indiscretions (as George), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway, 1995
A Man of No Importance (as Alfie Byrne), Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, off-Broadway, 2002
Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir, replacing Patrick Stewart), Haymarket Theatre, London, 2010
Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir), His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, 2010
Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir), Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, 2010
Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir), Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, 2010[27]
The Addams Family (as Gomez [Replaced Nathan Lane]), Broadway, 2011
Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director with Alex Timbers), Broadway, 2012 (and then it moved to an Off-Broadway theatre in 2013)
What You Will (Actor, Writer, Director) Apollo Theater, London 2012
Herringbone (Director) 2012[28]
The Primrose Path (Director), Guthrie Theater, 2013
The Winslow Boy (as Arthur Winslow), American Airlines Theatre, Broadway, 2013[29]
Dog and Pony (Director) Old Globe Theater 2014
The Visit (musical version; as Anton Schell), Broadway, 2015
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1976–1984 and 1988
Alan Howard (1976)
Ian McKellen (1977)
Warren Mitchell (1979)
Jonathan Pryce (1980)
Daniel Massey (1981)
Stephen Moore (1982)
Derek Jacobi (1983)
Brian Cox (1988)
New Play
Paul Copley (1976)
Michael Bryant (1977)
Tom Conti (1978)
Roger Rees (1980)
Trevor Eve (1981)
Ian McDiarmid (1982)
Jack Shepherd (1983)
David Haig (1988)
1985 onwards (except 1988)
Antony Sher (1985)
Albert Finney (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
Oliver Ford Davies (1989/1990)
Nigel Hawthorne (1992)
Robert Stephens (1993)
Mark Rylance (1994)
David Bamber (1995)
Alex Jennings (1996)
Ian Holm (1998)
Kevin Spacey (1999)
Henry Goodman (2000)
Conleth Hill (2001)
Roger Allam (2002)
Simon Russell Beale (2003)
Matthew Kelly (2004)
Richard Griffiths (2005)
Brian Dennehy (2006)
Rufus Sewell (2007)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (2012)
Luke Treadaway (2013)
Rory Kinnear (2014)
Mark Strong (2015)
Kenneth Cranham (2016)
Jamie Parker (2017)
Bryan Cranston (2018)
Kyle Soller (2019)
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947)
Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948)
Rex Harrison (1949)
Sidney Blackmer (1950)
Claude Rains (1951)
José Ferrer (1952)
Tom Ewell (1953)
David Wayne (1954)
Alfred Lunt (1955)
Paul Muni (1956)
Fredric March (1957)
Ralph Bellamy (1958)
Jason Robards Jr. (1959)
Melvyn Douglas (1960)
Zero Mostel (1961)
Paul Scofield (1962)
Arthur Hill (1963)
Alec Guinness (1964)
Walter Matthau (1965)
Hal Holbrook (1966)
Paul Rogers (1967)
Martin Balsam (1968)
James Earl Jones (1969)
Fritz Weaver (1970)
Brian Bedford (1971)
Cliff Gorman (1972)
Alan Bates (1973)
Michael Moriarty (1974)
John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975)
John Wood (1976)
Al Pacino (1977)
Barnard Hughes (1978)
John Rubinstein (1980)
Harvey Fierstein (1983)
Jeremy Irons (1984)
Judd Hirsch (1986)
Ron Silver (1988)
Philip Bosco (1989)
Robert Morse (1990)
Ron Leibman (1993)
Stephen Spinella (1994)
Ralph Fiennes (1995)
George Grizzard (1996)
Christopher Plummer (1997)
Anthony LaPaglia (1998)
Stephen Dillane (2000)
Richard Easton (2001)
Jefferson Mays (2004)
Bill Irwin (2005)
Frank Langella (2007)
Geoffrey Rush (2009)
Denzel Washington (2010)
James Corden (2012)
Tracy Letts (2013)
Alex Sharp (2015)
Kevin Kline (2017)
Andrew Garfield (2018)
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Circus Rey Gitano
Urgent plea for Indiana's bobcats!
Guatemala outlawed circus acts that use wild animals in 2017 but gave the 5 circuses, that have roughly 50 big cats, until April 2018 to place them in sanctuaries.
Please donate at this link to help rescue these big cats from the horrors they have endured at this long link: https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51389/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=13459
Rescues Can Take a LOOONG Time
In July 2008 Alejandra Estrada and Ana Maldonado contacted us with photos of the abuse at Rey Gitano Circus and asked if there was anything Big Cat Rescue could do. The circus was sending cats they couldn't use to the local zoo that was ill equipped to care for them.
All we could do was ask people to get involved politically to end abuse like circuses, zoos and private possession. We posted the photos https://bigcatrescue.org/circus-rey-gitano/ and raised awareness about the abuse. We said we would provide a permanent home to the big cats if they could get the circus and zoo to relinquish them to us and if the people in Guatemala could secure the export permits on their end.
7 years later, in 2015 Mr. Flores wrote us saying, "Hi, I am Edson Flores and work at National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP) in Guatemala City. CONAP is the national lead agency responsible of CITES for Guatemala… We have a male lion about a year old and a male bobcat (age unknown). We wish to move both felines to BCR as final destination." Again, we said we would take the cats if they could get the permitting started on their end. It has to start there before the USFWS will let us move forward.
The photos below show the difference in the way the circus cats of Guatemala really live vs the way the circus promoters want you to think they live.
Three years later, on Feb 14, 2018 Ronnie Espino, Unit Coordinator for the Animal Welfare Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food in Guatemala wrote us asking if we would help by taking the big cats who would be displaced by the new law banning circuses that use wild animals. We said we would, if they could start the export permitting on their end. We were later contacted by the animal rescue group we had originally corresponded with 10 years ago, who said it was our video that they showed to Guatemala's congress that convinced them to ban wild animal circuses.
On Feb 21st fearing that there just might not be anyone there who could get the permitting started, I reached out to ADI, Tigers in America and HSI, saying "I just got a call from a man in Guatemala who said the government is going to euthanize 17 tigers there who were in a circus. We could take a couple, but it's a year of red tape to get them here. Do you guys have anyone working on this?" This was right after the circus worker had his arms ripped off while feeding a cage full of starving big cats.
On Feb. 22nd ADI said they had someone in country looking into it. A LOT of emails flew back and forth as ADI came up with estimates for building a temporary camp (est $56,000) and caring for the cats during the export process (est $160,000). ADI and Big Cat Rescue began fundraising on March 16 and we let our supporters know they could donate at BigCatRescue.org/circusban or they could do Facebook Fundraisers for Big Cat Rescue in April and we would earmark all of those for the circus tiger rescue project.
It seemed like there was a lot of confusion about where the temporary camp for the circus cats would be but two months later, on April 24th, I located the sanctuary called Antigua Exotic in Guatemala, where the government approved the cats to be held, on Facebook and reached out to them. I spoke with Liam, a man who had been there and thought the world of them and he introduced me to the owner's son Danny, who speaks English and has been our contact there.
On April 30th Big Cat Rescue saw plans for cages and photos of them being built and sent $6000 to Danny at Antigua Exotic so he could keep building temporary cages. On May 14th we sent another $4000 to insure the cats had access to water and to upgrade the electricity so that it could power more freezers. We have currently raised more than $20,000 thanks to all of you and will be sending money down as photos come to us of the progress.
ADI was able to secure a contract with the government (UBA & CONAP) and Antigua Exotic on May 12 to manage the daily feed, care, veterinary care and vet prep for export. CONAP says the camp we are funding will become a permanent rescue center for wild animals that are seized by the government, or who come there for rehab and release; such as jaguar and ocelots. ADI is asking the sanctuaries who have said they will take these cats to send the money for "their" cats during the transition.
The Navarro Circus agreed to allow ADI to take their 3 lions to the camp with the final destination being ADI's new sanctuary they are building in S. Africa. ADI then began working with the Ponce Circus to have their cats come to the temporary holding facility next. Two of the worst circuses are mounting a fight against the new ban, that became law in April, so we are expecting a long, drawn out fight to free the 50-70 big cats that are still being held by circuses.
Some of the things that still need funding and are being built as funds and labor provide are:
Security Fence around the cat cages appx: $6,000 – 10,000
Cages big enough for families of cats w/ separate shift areas for each
10-13 temp shift cages about $1000 per cat
Road in and out across a ravine big enough for the transport trailers to use
Security motion detector lights
Transport cages that are 2x3m or 2.5x3m cages that fit on the back of a truck – 2 cages per truck with lifting arm for pick up from the circuses and transporting to the camp.
Smaller shipping transport crates $1200 each for the air cargo
If prices aren't listed it's because we don't have estimates yet and the initial work of building cages to house the first cats has been all consuming. We expect that 3 or 4 cats, probably tigers, will be coming to Big Cat Rescue, but we are helping to make it possible for all of the circus cats to have a safe place to stay, where they will be fed, watered, given enrichment and get vet care during this long export process. Thank you for being part of what could turn out to be the biggest rescue mission of its kind.
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On the beautiful northern coast of Florida is the historic city of St. Augustine. Known for being the oldest city in America, the city is brimming with great things to see and do. Aside from it's rich military, pirate and restless spirit lineage, many modern pioneers also called it home. Henry Flagler brought the railroad there in the late 1800's and families like the Vanderbilt's and Roosevelt's had summer residences there. Located in the Castle Warden, this Ripley's museum is the first and oldest in America boasting a collection of over 20,000 unique exhibits. The museum is handicap accessible and offers many different tours and discounts including a discount for all veterans. Very cool of Ripley's!


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Advance Review – Family Tree #1 (Image Comics)
Posted on November 3, 2019 in Image Reviews
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artwork: Phil Hester
Colours: Eric Gapstur
Lettering: Ryan Cody
Loretta Hayes is a single mother with single mother problems. She has an unfulfilling job at the local supermarket, a son who's always in the principal's office for the wrong reasons, and an eight year-old daughter who is mysteriously, and horrifyingly, transforming into a tree. When Loretta finds herself and her family under attack from unknown assailants, she is forced to embark on an odyssey with her (possibly crazy) grandfather to find a cure and save her daughter.
Jeff Lemire is a writer who I actively look out for in previews. He has been a favourite of mine since I first picked up Sweet Tooth a decade ago, and Family Tree is certainly no disappointment. With first issues there are times for slow, intricate world building and there are times for just diving in and letting the reader enjoy the same journey as the protagonists, and this falls firmly into the second category.
I have to say, I wasn't expecting this issue to ramp up quite so quickly, but boy is it an effective approach. We go from a sedate, mundane (and let's face it slightly depressing) depiction of a struggling single mother to horrifying, explosive, bloody violence in the blink of an eye. There's genuine panic in Loretta's actions and a lack of preparedness for what happens that is refreshing in a world where every mom in films and comics, seems to be a survival expert and jujitsu master. Interestingly, there is a very obviously prepared reaction from their attackers, who seem to know an awful lot given that Meg's condition is such a surprise to her family.
I'm not sure if there really is such a thing but the artwork, for me, is very much the typical look of a Jeff Lemire story. It's gritty and dark and has a really satisfying edge to it. The use of a limited palette also works really well in this situation. It's a device that can be overused, and unless the artist has some real skill, can frequently end up falling flat and looking lazy. I'm happy to say that neither are the case here, and that the work of Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur and Ryan Cody really help Lemire's writing leap off the page. As an artistic team, I think they've got the skills to keep up with whatever Jeff Lemire throws at them, and you just know that he has some great curve balls lined up.
The opening narrative tells of the end of the world, and I'm dying to see how the coming issues unfold. We're promised shadowy mercenary groups, fanatical cults, and predatory paparazzi all chasing down eight year old Meg Hayes. If things end up being as exciting as we're promised then this is going to be a new series to follow closely.
Rating: 3.5/5.
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Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain"; Barese: Castìdde du Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by King Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. In the 18th century, the castle's interior marbles and remaining furnishings were removed. It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and some considered it never to have been intended as a defensive fortress. However, archaeological work has suggested that it originally had a curtain wall. Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", the site is protected as a World Heritage Site. It also appears on the Italian version of the one cent Euro coin.

Location

Castel del Monte is situated on a small hill close to the monastery of Santa Maria del Monte, at an altitude of 540 m. When the castle was built, the region was famously fertile with a plentiful supply of water and lush vegetation. It lies in the comune of Andria, province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, occupying the site of an earlier fortress of which no structural remains exist.

The castle's construction is mentioned in only one contemporary source, a document dating to 1240, in which Frederick II ordered the governor of Capitanata to finish some works in it. It was never finished and there is no proof that the he used it as a hunting lodge as commonly stated. It was later turned into a prison, used as a refuge during a plague, and finally fell into disrepair. It originally had marble walls and columns, but all were stripped by vandals or re-used in  constructions nearby.

Description

Because of its relatively small size, it was once considered to be no more than a "hunting lodge", but scholars now believe it originally had a curtain wall and did serve as a citadel. Frederick was responsible for the construction of many castles in Apulia, but Castel del Monte's geometric design was unique. The fortress is an octagonal prism with an octagonal tower at each corner. The towers were originally some 5 m higher than now, and they should perhaps include a third floor. Both floors have eight rooms and an eight-sided courtyard occupies the castle's centre. Each of the main rooms has vaulted ceilings. Three of the corner towers contain staircases. The castle has two entrances, an unobtrusive service entrance and an ornate main entrance. Frederick's main entrance featured elements from classical design, and may have been influenced by Frederick's interest in Greco-Roman architecture.

The octagonal plan is unusual in castle design. Historians have debated the purpose of the building and it has been suggested that it was intended as a hunting lodge. Another theory is that the octagon is an intermediate symbol between a square (representing the earth) and a circle (representing the sky). Frederick II may have been inspired to build to this shape by either the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which he had seen during the Sixth Crusade, or by the Palatine Chapel of Aachen Cathedral.

Occasionally used as a hunting lodge under Manfred of Sicily, the castle become a state prison under the latter's victor, Charles I of Anjou: here Manfred's sons Henry, Azzo and Enzo were kept as prisoner after 1266, as well as other Hohenstaufen supporters.

The main wall is 25 m high and the eight bastions each 26 m. The sides of the main octagon are 16.5 m long and those of the octagonal towers each 3.1 m. The castle has a diameter of 56 m. Its main entrance faces east.

Modern era

In the 18th century, the castle's marbles and other ornamentation were looted. Members of the House of Bourbon took the marble columns and window frames and reused them at their palace in Caserta. What remains now includes fragments of a knight and a re-used Roman relief, while in the Provincial Gallery of Bari there are a head fragment and a cloaked, headless bust, sometimes interpreted as Frederick II. After having been abandoned for a considerable length of time, the castle was purchased in 1876 for the sum of 25,000 lire by the Italian State, which began the process of restoration in 1928.

During the Allied occupation of WWII, the United States 15th Army Air Force headquartered a secret navigational aid station called Big Fence at the Castel.

In the 1950s, soil around the castle was discovered to contain a bright red compound produced by a strain of the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius. Scientists named the drug daunorubicin and further development identified a related compound doxorubicin that finds use as a chemotherapeutic agent used to treat cancer.

Central to the plot of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is an old fortress known as the 'Aedificium'.  This was almost certainly inspired by Castel del Monte. It was also the set for the film Tale of Tales.

In 1996 Castel del Monte was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which described it as "a unique masterpiece of medieval military architecture".

Castel del Monte is depicted on the reverse of the Italian-issue 1 Euro cent coin.

The castle has been often mistakenly linked to the Knights Templar and it's been regarded as a "mysterious" construction even by notable historians. Italian historian Raffaele Licinio often condemned those esoteric views and interpretations, stressing that Castel del Monte was just one of the castles of the fortification system developed by Frederick II, and it is not in any way linked to the Templars.

Castel del Monte DOC
Around the castle, Andria is the Italian DOC wine region of Castel del Monte that produces red, white and rose wines. Most of the wines are blends but varietal wines can be produced as long as at least 90% of the wine is composed of the same grape. The reds are usually a blend of 65-100% Uva di Troia, up to 35% of Sangiovese, Montepulciano, Pinot noir and Aglianico. The roses include 65-100% Uva di Troia and/or Bombino nero with the other red grape varieties filling out the rest. The whites are composed mainly of Pampanuto (65-100%) with other local white grape varieties filling out the rest. Red and rose grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 14 tonnes/ha and must make a wine with a minimum of 12% alcohol level (11% in the case of rose). White wine grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 15 tonnes/ha and must make a wine with a minimum alcohol of 11%. If the wine is to be labeled a Riserva, the wine must be aged at least two years with one of those years in oak/wood and must have a minimum alcohol level of 12.5%.

Gallery

See also
Cultural depictions of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

References

Sources

Further reading

 Kurstjens, H. (2022), Castel del Monte, between Fact and Fiction. Apulia's Crown in Historical Perspective, Soest 2022 ; and: Castel del Monte, tussen feit en fictie. De kroon van Apulië in historisch perspectief, Boekscout, Soest 2022;

External links

—Official Castel del Monte website
—Tourist Information: Castel del Monte
Casteldelmonte.historiaweb: Photogallery of Castel del Monte
Paradoxplace.com: Castel del Monte photo gallery
Castel del Monte in Apulien
Castel del Monte, between Fact and Fiction

Buildings and structures completed in 1250
Monte
Museums in Apulia
Historic house museums in Italy
Buildings and structures in the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani
Frazioni of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani
Andria
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Octagonal buildings in Italy
World Heritage Sites in Italy