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Origin of Gambling – Gambling and Ancient Civilisations
Author: Benjamin Webb
Gambling is a popular pastime in today's modern society. The thrill of winning (or losing) a bet, be it on a casino floor or online, induces emotions that we cannot experience in our daily routine. I mean, when was the last time you felt excited about doing the dishes?
Published: 24 March 2018 | Updated: 10 November 2020
However, we did not reinvent the wheel here, and same goes to gambling. In fact, games of chance have been around for thousands of years and, as far as scientists can tell, they played major role in just about any civilisation to date. And while today they only serve as a hobby, in the old days they were often an integral part of some religious and cultural traditions.
So, without further ado, let us dive into the origin of gambling and how it fit in the lives of different ancient civilisations.
Gambling in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
When it comes to ancient civilisations, it doesn't get much older than those in Mesopotamia and Egypt. In fact, according to current scientific knowledge, humans first decided to leave behind the nomadic life and settle down in Mesopotamia. So, it is no surprise that the earliest evidences of gaming can be found there.
Very little is known about the gaming artefacts recovered from those locations, but it is widely believed that a lot of them also involved a healthy dose of betting on their outcome. One of the earliest gaming items recovered are the four-sided Astragali, also known as knucklebones. These were originally made from animal talus bones, and were later recreated with various materials, such as wood, metal, and stone. They were mostly used as a more-primitive version of dice, before the six-sided die was created.
Ancient Egyptians also used both knucklebones and dice. At first, however, they were used to communicate with the gods. It was widely believed that the result of a dice throw could reveal the answer of the celestials, regarding specific questions. A 2012 discovery also proves that they used a 20-sided die, as well. However, it is unknown what its purpose served (it probably was not for Dungeons & Dragons sessions).
Of course, the Egyptians also found the entertainment value of gaming, so they later started using dice in various games, including the earliest known board game – Senet. Its name translates as "the game of passing," but today's historians still argue over its rules. They have managed to reconstruct the rules of the Royal Game of Ur, however, a board game found in the Royal Tombs of Ur, Iraq, in the 1920s. This game also made its way to Egypt under the name Asseb, but Senet predates it by as much as 900 years.
Gaming in Ancient China
Throughout history, China was (and still is) the gambling capital of the Far East. Despite games of chance being banned there for prolonged periods of time, it has always been a mecca for those looking to bet some of their hard-earned money. In fact, most historians believe that the origin of gambling can be traced to Ancient China.
Gambling has been known to exist as far back as the Xia dynasty's reign (1900-1600 B.C.). However, even back then, most of the country's rulers recognised the significant risks it posed if it turned into an obsession. Therefore, games of chance were usually under very strict control, or outright banned throughout Ancient China. Still, people hardly cared, and this was still one of the top pastimes for ancient Chinese. When gambling was finally legalised, it was done because it introduced great financial benefits for the government. It was a good way to get money from the common people, relying only on their own free will to play, instead of forcing any additional taxes upon them.
Considering China's deep-rooted gambling culture, it comes as no surprise that a lot of today's most popular games of chance originated there. This includes games like blackjack, poker, keno, and many others. In fact, the Chinese are credited with inventing the playing cards as well. It is believed that they were introduced around the 9th century AD, during the Tang dynasty. The British sinologist Sir William Henry Wilkinson believed that the first playing cards were actually paper currency, used in games as both the tool and the stakes of the game.
Ancient Chinese are also credited with developing the first tile-based games. These would later become the basis on which modern dominoes were created.
Gambling in the Ancient Americas
When it comes to games in the Americas, very little information has been found or preserved. However, what we know today is that dice games were quite popular in the Americas. Back in 2010, archaeologist Barbara Voorhies discovered what she believes is an ancient scoreboard used for a dice game of some sorts. It consists of a series of holes, punched in the floor, and was determined to be approximately 5,000 years old. This makes it the oldest evidence of gaming activities in the Americas.
One of the oldest known games of the Americas is the game of Patolli. When it comes to board design and gameplay, it was very similar to a game of Ludo. However, it only involved two players and the stakes were much higher. Each contestant had six markers and usually, they had to bet one item for each of them. The wager could include personal belongings, food, precious stones, and gold jewellery. However, in some extreme cases, players could bet their homes, family, or their own freedom. Then, as many rounds were played as needed until one decisive victor emerged. The game only ended when one of the players won all of their opponent's items and had their own original bet by their side.
Early Gambling in Europe
Gambling was prominent in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. One of the most popular games was called Par Impar. In theory, it was very similar to the present-day Odds or Evens. It involved two players: one had to hide a few small objects in their fist, usually nuts or pebbles, while the other had to guess whether their number was odd or even. The game's simplicity naturally led to players placing small bets on the outcome.
The ancient Greeks also played a lot of dice games, as well as other games of chance. There were even various gambling establishments throughout Greece. However, those venues had a bad reputation and it was considered dishonourable to gamble, even though luck-based games are even part of the ancient Greek mythology. According to the legends, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades split the Universe among them through a game of dice. The least-fortunate one proved to be Hades, who got the Underworld because his brothers had better throws.
When it comes to Ancient Rome, gambling was largely prohibited during the days of the Republic. It was only allowed during the Saturnalia festival, which was celebrated by turning everything upside down. Slaves were served dinner by their masters, public revelry replaced the usually civilised routines, and gambling was allowed, among other things.
However, despite the wide-spread ban, Romans still gambled, and they did so a lot. This, of course, included cheating, as well, which resulted in a lot of fights and arguments over the outcomes of games. In fact, frauds were so common that graffiti have been found in Pompeii, saying "I am skilled enough to win without cheating." It appears that the gambling ban was not strongly enforced, though, since a lot of similar doodles and texts have been found by archaeologists, including a sign outside an ancient tavern that advertised "good food and gambling within."
Some Roman emperors were also well-known betting men. Emperors Augustus and Nero were both famous for their love of gambling, with the first admitting to losing quite a lot in games of chance. It is said that Emperor Commodus was so obsessed with gaming, that he gambled away the state treasury. Then, in an attempt to make up for his losses, he turned the royal palace into a casino.
Gambling in Ancient India
Gambling might be frowned upon and legally challenging nowadays, as you can read in our page dedicated to Gambling in India, but this was not always the case. In fact, gambling has been present from the rise of the Indian civilisation. Hindu mythologies dating back to 2000 BC are the primary sources reporting on gambling games played during these times. For example, in Mahabharata, which is among the greatest epics of the Hindu religion the Kauravas and the Pandava, a game of dices is the turning point of the story. A seemingly harmless game of dice becomes the reason of the Pandavas' loss of their kingdom and their right to rule. Furthermore, the Pandavas are also sent to exile and the wife of the Pandavas, Draupadi is humiliated in open court by the Kauravas. The God Krishna eventually comes to her rescue, but the point is that the game of dice becomes the reason of the dishonour of the Pandavas and eventually leads to the battle of Kurukshetra.
However, gambling in this story is also used as the tool to orchestrate a major plot of how to make the Kauravas fight against the Pandavas. According to the myth, it was all planned by Shakuni the uncle of the Kaurava, who was supposed to be an expert in the game of dice and who was behind the whole plan of getting the Kauravas involved with the Pandavas during the game. He did all this as an act of revenge as he knew that the Kauravas would not stand a chance against the Pandavas during a battle. Thus, gambling turns out to be the key to the plot of the Mahabharata and seems to be an accepted social activity during the Aryan period.
Moreover, if we observe the major Indian festivals like Holi and Diwali we would find that nowadays gambling is supposed to be an opportune activity. The festivals celebrate the arrival of the new in terms of finances, colour and season. Furthermore, it is believed that if Lakhsmi the Goddess of wealth is generous to you on Diwali, you would have a prosperous year. That is why many people gamble on this day and Diwali is considered a material festival. If we look at gambling from a historical point of view, however, many anthropologists believe that it was often seen as a way to resolve the conflicts between two sides. The aforementioned myth of the Kauravas and the Pandava confirms this theory. It is an interesting fact the appearance of Pachisi also introduced the board games to India. Pachisi is a board game shaped as a symmetrical cross. The name pachisi actually means twenty-five, which is the highest score that can be thrown in the game. There are two additional versions of the game – the chausar and one played by Yudhishtira and Shakuni. And if you are curious about ancient gambling but you like the modern world, take a look at our list of the best gambling sites for 2022.
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8 Marketing Lessons from United Airlines
United Airlines has been getting all kinds of free publicity in the news and on social media lately. Unfortunately, that old saying of, "There's no such thing as bad publicity" has proven to be a farce for United.
Last month United overbooked a flight, and then demanded that several passengers relinquish their seats so that United employees could fly instead of paying customers.
Now, we probably would have never heard about this incident if United wasn't trying to save a penny.
They did offer a small sum if people would volunteer their seats. No one took the offer. So did they then offer more money? Nope. Instead, they sent in thugs to physically drag a 69 year old doctor off of the plane, knocking his head against the armrest before dragging his limp and bleeding body down the aisle by his arms and legs.
The video of this went viral, as did as second video of the passenger returning to the plane, dazed and disoriented, his face covered in blood, mumbling "just kill me."
The internet went crazy, and rightly so.
People the world over are vowing to never, NEVER fly on United again.
The people of China are especially upset, saying this was racial profiling, discrimination and so forth. In fact it was the number one trending topic on Chinese social media. And China is a big market for United.
So how did United's CEO Oscar Munoz, winner of an actual P.R. award for "Communicator of the Year," handle the situation?
By offering what might be the lamest excuse for an apology in history. He said, "I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers." He made NO mention that a human being was dragged off one of their planes by the arms and legs.
But Munoz had more to say, writing a letter to employees extensively blaming the victim for what United did.
Victim blaming? Really Mr. CEO?
The first rule of holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
– Molly Ivins
Gee, if only an incident like this could be prevented.
Oh wait, it can be!
All United had to do was:
Remember their customers are HUMAN BEINGS who deserve respect. Really, why does anyone need to remind them of this??
Continue to increase the financial incentive to book a later flight. Raise the offer enough and people will say yes.
Or, United could have simply booked their employees on another flight.
Best solution of all – DON'T OVER BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS, UNITED.
Now would any one of those been so hard?
But instead, United decided on a whim to anger the world by assaulting a passenger.
And this isn't a first for United, either.
Singer/songwriter Dave Carroll was waiting to deplane a United flight when he and other band members saw their guitars being hurled through the air by airline workers.
He later discovered his $3,500 Taylor guitar's neck was broken clear through.
So did United apologize and pay for a new guitar?
No, because that would have cost money. Instead, they gave Dave Carroll excuses for months, insisting they weren't liable for breaking a guitar they broke.
In frustration, Carroll wrote a song, "United Breaks Guitars," which went viral, gaining over 17 million views as of this writing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
Then he wrote two more songs to go with the first, both of which also went viral. And he even wrote a book, "United Breaks Guitars: The Power of One Voice in the Age of Social Media."
United's response? After the first 150,000 views of the first video, United offered to pay Dave Carroll to remove the video. By then Carroll had enough of United's attitude and flatly refused their offer.
As the video went viral, news media picked up the story. Soon newspapers and broadcast media across North America were doing stories about the song. Carroll did over 200 interviews in just a few months.
Then the copy cats came in and did parodies, adding even further views. Really, is there anyone who hasn't heard that United breaks guitars?
United also recently incurred negative publicity and a severe backlash when they refused boarding to two young passengers because they were wearing leggings.
In 2015 United made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City to eject an entire Oregon family from the plane because the daughter was autistic. Which begs the question – wasn't the daughter autistic when they allowed her to board? And why do they discriminate against the autistic anyway?
There's even a consumer rights advocacy website called Untied.com that was started 20 years ago by a Montreal engineering professor. The site has collected 30,000 complaints and one lawsuit from United, presumably trying to silence dissatisfied customers by shutting the website down.
So… what marketing lessons can United teach us?
1. Treat your customers like human beings. This should be easy for United, since they see their customers face to face. For us, we generally only know our customers by email addresses and names. Yet I think many internet marketers are already better at treating their customers like people than United.
2. Value your customers. When you treat your customer right, they will be back time and time again. Treat them poorly and not only will they not return – they'll also tell the world via social media what you did.
3. No matter what, be nice. The doctor explained he would not leave the plane because he had patients to see the next morning. He was being nice and explaining his position. United could have been nice, too, and offered to book him on another flight in first class to get him home on time. Instead, they knocked him unconscious and dragged him from the plane. No paying customer – even if they aren't nice – deserves to be treated like that for their patronage.
4. If you screw up, or your employees screw up, ADMIT IT IMMEDIATELY. Half the backlash against United right now and all of it during the guitar throwing incident happened because United didn't take responsibility. Never forget, in your business the buck stops with YOU.
5. Follow rules and regulations. Airlines can legally take your money and then deny you a seat if they have overbooked a flight. What they cannot do is remove you once you have boarded, because there is nothing in the rules that allows United to remove a passenger already on the plane. The lawsuit that is sure to be filed will be slam dunk, as United has no defense for what they did, regardless of what their PR spin might be. Your life and your business will be so much simpler and you'll save a fortune in fines and attorney fees when you follow the rules and obey the laws.
6. Know who your business partners are. The United flight in question was operated by a regional partner called Republic Airlines. You are responsible for the actions of your partners. If they give your customers a poor experience, then YOU are giving your customers a poor experience. Be choosy and careful when partnering or joint venturing with anybody.
7. Video and social media are game changers. If this incident happened 20 years ago, it would have been a blip on the radar and a small news story for one day at most. Instead, it's a viral video with millions of views and a non-stop story in the news. Not to mention the huge and relentless social media firestorm created with a single one minute video. Video and social media can make or break you and your business in a heartbeat. Be wicked smart when using either one.
8. Past mistakes will haunt you. With this new story comes a dredging up of the United Breaks Guitars story. And guaranteed, the next big mistake United makes will bring both of these stories back into the public eye, and so forth. If only United had paid for a new guitar. If only United treated people like… people. Once done, mistakes cannot be undone. So always err on the side of caution and do the right thing. Always.
Bonus Lesson: You can capitalize on the mistakes of your competitors. Shortly after the United debacle, Delta Airlines announced its employees are now authorized to offer up to $10,000 in incentives to give up seats on overbooked flights, resulting in front page news stories and plenty of free, positive publicity.
If there is one big lesson in all of this, it's this: Treat your customers the way you would want to be treated.
Think of them as your brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, children… whatever it takes to see them as real people, with real problems, hopes, desires and dreams.
At the risk of sounding corny, I can sum it up in three simple words:
Love Your Customers
Do this and everything else – including the money – will fall into place.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 10 minutes to ruin it.
– Warren Buffet
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Myna Mahila Foundation
The Myna Mahila Foundation (MMF) is an Indian organization which empowers women by encouraging discussion of taboo subjects such as menstruation, and by setting up workshops to produce low-cost sanitary protection to enable girls to stay in school. It was founded by Suhani Jalota in 2015 while she was studying at Duke University.[1]
Encouraging open conversations around menstruation & enabling low-cost sanitary products
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The foundation's name comes from the Myna bird, famously talkative, and the word "Mahila" for "Woman".[2]
In 2016 Glamour magazine listed the foundation's founder Jalota as one of its "College Women of the Year".[3]
It was one of the seven organisations nominated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to receive donations in lieu of wedding presents when the couple married on 19 May 2018.[4][5][6] In 2017 Markle wrote an article about the foundation for Time magazine, with the title "How Periods Affect Potential", after a trip to Delhi and Mumbai with World Vision where she met and shadowed women involved.[2] The same year Markle included the foundation's founder Jalota in a list of "The Ten Women Who Changed My Life" in Glamour magazine.[7]
PurposeEdit
Apart from encouraging conversations around taboo subjects such as menstruation, the foundation provides stable employment to women dwelling in slums by encouraging them to manufacture low cost sanitary napkins that they can sell back into their communities at a fraction of the cost, thus improving menstrual hygiene of the communities too and empowering the women. [8][9]
Current WorkEdit
With about 3000 customers, the foundation employs about 35 women, 15 of whom work as manufacturers and the other 20 work as saleswomen for the product. They expect to reach 10000 customers by the end of 2018.[9] It also empowers its staff by training them in women's health, English, Math, and life skills such as self-defence. [10] On the support received via the royal wedding, founder Jalota said that it would further help them expand their reach into the urban slums in Mumbai. [11]
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Qatar Airways to sponsor AS Roma till 2020-21 season
DOHA: Qatar Airways has become main global partner of Italian club AS Roma through the 2020-21 season.
Roma will wear their white away kit with the new Qatar Airways logo on the front for the first time in the Champions League semifinal against Liverpool at Anfield on Tuesday night.
According to a club source, the total agreement is about €40 million.
"We are delighted to announce this historic partnership between AS Roma and Qatar Airways, two great brands with global ambitions," said AS Roma President Jim Pallotta. "Today's announcement is the result of discussions behind the scenes for over eight months with Qatar Airways, led by our commercial team in London with much assistance from the entire Roma team, and comes at a significant time in the club's history, on and off the pitch."
Launched in 1997, Qatar Airways is one of the youngest global airlines to serve all six continents and connects over 150 destinations on the map every day. One of an elite group of airlines worldwide to have earned a 5-star rating by Skytrax, Qatar Airways was voted Airline of the Year in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017.
Under the terms of the deal, Qatar Airways becomes Roma's only the seventh shirt sponsor in the club's 90-year history.
Formed in 1927, Roma is one of Italy's most successful football clubs, winning three Serie A titles, nine Coppa Italia crowns, and regularly competing in the UEFA Champions League.
The new partnership will enable Qatar Airways to engage with the club's 263 million fans worldwide and help Roma reach millions of potential new fans across the globe.
"We are very pleased to announce this new partnership, which will see Qatar Airways become the official shirt sponsor of AS Roma through the 2020-21 season," said Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker.
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The Chinese cobra has been identified as one of two snakes that could be the reservoir for the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: AFCD
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China coronavirus may have come from a snake, researchers say
Nearest match for virus's genetic coding pattern found in two species – the Many-banded krait and Chinese cobra – both of which are commonly found in southern China, scientists say
Meanwhile, Chinese professor in Germany says deadly outbreak likely to peak in March, based on information about spread of Sars
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Billionaire Backed Bitcoin Bank Trading on Major Stock Exchange
August 1, 2018 Blockchain, Brady Fletcher, Canada, Galaxy Digital, GLXY, Mike Novogratz, N-Featured, New York, News, Toronto Ontario, Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX coins 0
Coming off fresh first quarter losses undeterred, giant cryptocurrency merchant bank, Galaxy Digital, began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange August, 1, 2018. It is one of the earliest banks in the crypto space to achieve such a listing. Many eyes are watching to see what will become of the relationship between legacy financial institutions and digital assets.
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Galaxy Digital Trades, a Bitcoin Merchant Bank, Now Trades on TSX Venture Exchange
Famed billionaire investor Mike Novogratz explained, "If I knew what I know now, knew the crypto markets were going to swoon as much, and it was going to take so long, I might have stayed private for another year or so and then gone public, but I don't think it's a mistake," Galaxy Digital's CEO told Bloomberg in Toronto.
Crypto markets have been unkind to any investor who might've jumped-in during late 2017. His interview otherwise ought to have been triumphant, representing one of the earliest cryptocurrency-oriented merchant banks to be listed formally on a major stock exchange. He was in Toronto for just that purpose: Galaxy Digital is now trading on a world ranked, top ten, board, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
Instead, to a degree, it was bittersweet. The company was smarting off a brutal first quarter earnings call, posting over $130 million in losses. Rather than charging full steem on success, it appeared from a public relations standpoint to be limping as a financial canary in a very dark mineshaft.
"There was a surge of companies," Mr. Novogratz continued, "that listed in Canada and they all traded really poorly. I think the regulators got a little bit more nervous and said, 'Hey, wait a minute, let's make sure we know what we're seeing here.'" Regulators were used to what as known as reverse takeovers to get a listing, a maneuver Galaxy was taking advantage of in order to get a seat, but when cryptocurrency is involved that apparently was enough to warrant extra looks under the hood.
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"There's a layer of due diligence," TSX's managing director Brady Fletcher elaborated, "that goes into figuring out and understanding the business itself, which probably takes a little bit longer than entrepreneurs like Mike would like it to, but for us that's how we maintain market integrity." TSX, by market cap, is the ninth largest stock exchange in the world. Based in Ontario, Canada, it offers a range of industries, domestic and foreign, but is mostly known for being oil and gas heavy. It also offers traditional securities, exchange traded funds, income trusts, etc.
Extra scrutiny effectively tied up Galaxy and its investors, as they could only watch for months, while regulators do what regulators do ahead of a listing, and markets fell. Mr. Novogratz knows from markets as a former hedge fund guy. He also knows crypto, having also famously made hundreds of millions trading ether and bitcoin.
That acumen led to becoming a full fledged merchant bank in the space by late last year. Galaxy is full service, trading digital assets, managing funds, giving financial advice, and investing in ecosystem businesses.
The CEO assured Bloomberg, "We're going to be a global company; we want to be globally traded." He wants listings eventually in Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London as well. For now, the New York company will trade under Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd, ticker GLXY at the TSX Venture Exchange.
Is Galaxy's listing on the TSX good for bitcoin adoption? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Bury by Albert Matthews Butchers
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Introduce your business and tell us what you've been up to recently?
My business is a butcher's called Albert Matthews. We have a stall on the World Famous Bury Market in Lancashire and a year ago set up a website selling our meat online across the UK.
What makes you different from other similar businesses in the area?
As well as the strong online presence and the ability to supply our meat around the UK we differentiate from other butchers in the area by focusing on quality and championing the best of British produce. The local sourcing policy we operate ensures we only try to use livestock from farms which are within a one hundred miles of the stall and are situated in AONBs (Area of outstanding Natural Beauty) which from Bury includes the Forest of Bowland, Lake District and Yorkshire Dales. We also favour using traditional British breeds such as Galloway, Hereford, Aberdeen Angus, Swaledale and Dalesbred. All these breeds are hardy to the British Climate and can be reared outdoors giving the meat lots of flavour.
What flexibility does being an independent business give you over a national chain / business?
Being relatively small gives us the chance to work very closely with our suppliers i.e. farmers to ensure we get the exact breed, weight and size of livestock we want. It also allows us to set up and try new ideas very quickly such as our Harrisa butterflied leg of Lamb which is part of our new BBQ range and now very popular.
What do you feel is the biggest challenge for small businesses at the moment?
Inflation has been a big challenge for us over the last few years, meat prices have increased by over 30% in the last 5 years due to an increase in demand across the globe.
Looking back, which piece of advice would you give to somebody setting up their own business today?
Research the market you are going into in great depth. We are slowly coming out of recession but cash is still tight out there for the majority of consumers and businesses so you need to ensure you are either in an emerging market or have a good USP.
What part does Social Media play in your business?
An integral part of our strategy to grow the business. Food in general is massive on social media and to be able to tap into this audience and tell them what we are doing is very important.
And getting to know you and your Bury
If you had to sum up your town in one line, what would it be?
A traditional Northern Market town, full of strong personalities and proud of its heritage.
Where do you eat / take out in Bury?
Automatic Café in the centre of Bury
Which is your favourite pub or bar to drink at in Bury?
Eagle & Child Pub based down the road in Ramsbottom
Where is your essential must visit shop in?
Chadwick's Bury Black Pudding stall (the original makers of Bury black pudding).
What's been the most impressive new business you've seen open in Bury in the past 12 months?
Nothing in the last 12 months but we are working with the owner of a traditional town centre pub called the Clarence which is being renovated in the centre of Bury at the moment.
When it opens it is going to be serving fantastic large, dry aged steaks. It also has its own microbrewery.
Which local towns do feel Bury could learn from and why?
No specific towns as Bury is quite unique but I do think the local council needs to think very carefully about maximising the potential of the market now that markets have come back into favour again. You only have to look at Borough market in London to see the potential.
In an ideal world What major improvement would you like to see happen in Bury?
Free car parking!!! Footfall needs to be driven into the town, offering free parking or very low cost parking will help the town compete with out of town shopping centres such as the Trafford centre.
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Tory association to pay for claims
Published: 4:00 PM March 30, 2011
NORTH Somerset Conservative Association will be forced to pay hundreds-of-pounds to two of its members after allegations were made against them.
The group has been embroiled in a dispute since accusations were made against its former president Carl Francis-Pester and former chairman Christopher Allcock.
Many association members believe there is an ulterior motive behind the claims and, at the association AGM held in Nailsea on Friday, a large majority voted for four motions in support of the men.
These included paying them all out-of-pocket expenses they have incurred as a result of the dispute, which could run into hundreds-of-pounds.
The allegations concerned the use of space at the association's office by Councillor Francis-Pester, a Clevedon town councillor and North Somerset councillor, and the purchase of a minibus.
Earlier this month, a Conservative party disciplinary committee, headed by Lord Gold, concluded the two men had ran the association in an inappropriate way.
However, the motions agreed on Friday also included sending a delegation to London to ask for Lord Gold's decision to be reversed, offering Cllr Francis-Pester retrospective use of an office for free for a year and the association offering apologies to the men.
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Since the dispute began among Conservative members in North Somerset, it is understood some party branches, including the Portishead coast and central wards, have cancelled all fund-raising events and that the Redcliffe Bay branch in Portishead has completely disbanded.
It is also understood that an independent Conservative association could be formed and that some Conservative members are planning to leave the party.
At Friday's AGM a new association chairman was due to be elected. However, Nailsea town councillor Mary Ponsonby withdrew her name, resulting in no chairman being elected. This means the association remains in supported status, under the control of the central Conservative party office, as it has been since the dispute began.


WASHINGTON — More than 50 years after Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous "l Have a Dream" speech, many African-Americans in our nation are still dreaming of King's equal nation. The reality is that while many blacks are living King's dream of equality and fair treatment, many are not. While Dr. King is remembered for many things, his commitment to service stands out. If anything is to be remembered about King, it should be that "everyone can be great because everyone can serve."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 2016, many young Black males still live in poverty in communities filled with drug dealers and crack addicts. A large number of these young men will not live to see their 30th birthday as random acts of brutality claim young lives. Sadly, many of them can name more correctional facilities than institutions of higher learning. The students in these communities still are not adequately prepared to pursue an education and men and women in these communities have lost hope for a change to a brighter future.
While the United States pauses for one day, we should recommit itself to improving our communities everywhere; not just for one day in January, but throughout the year. Poverty, violence and ignorance will never end if our collective work ceases after the holiday. Let this MLK Holiday be the beginning of service and fresh commitment to improving communities in this country, and maybe King's dream can materialize sooner rather than later.
© 2010— — Absolon Kent. All Rights Reserved.


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Photographer Ugo Borga has spent the last 15 years in Africa, the Middle East and Europe documenting places devastated by war. In March, he traveled to South Sudan to cover the ongoing conflict that's been plaguing the country since officially declaring its independence from Sudan in 2011. Borga spent a month in the South Sudanese states of Jongeli, Lakes and Central Equatoria capturing portraits of refugees who are displaced from their homes due to the violence. "The South Sudanese population lives in a disastrous condition," Borga says. "People are constantly under attack by militias and have abandoned the cultivation of the land and any other economic activity because they are forced to flee."
Photographing a country in its most fragile state led Borga to be arrested and thrown in jail for espionage in the town of Bor despite holding an official accreditation from the Ministry of Information of the South Sudan Republic to take photographs. "The criminal police in Bor did not recognize the Central State authorities because of the civil war," he says.
The arrest forced him to flee Bor, and never fully learning of the fate of a newborn he encountered at a hospital there. Borga was told by a midwife that the newborn's mother, whom he didn't meet, lost her husband in the conflict and was repeatedly raped by several men, subsequently giving birth to four children from the rapes. Her trauma led her to kill three of her older children and was close to killing her newborn when witnesses on the street saved him. "The baby was a few days old when I found him in the Bor hospital," he says.
Borga's black-and-white portraits of the campers show a variety of ages. The toll violence is painfully obvious.
Ugo Borga is a photographer represented by Echo photo agency.
Marie Tobias, who edited this photo essay, is a senior photo editor at TIME.


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La Liga Mundial de Voleibol 2016 es la edición número 27 del torneo internacional de voleibol. Se jugó del 16 de junio al 17 de julio de 2016. 36 equipos tomaron parte en el torneo.

Equipos calificados

Formato del torneo

Grupo 1

Grupo 2

Grupo 3

Ronda Intercontinental

Grupo 1

 – Clasificados a la Ronda Final.
 – Clasificado a la Ronda Final como organizador.
 – Relegado al Grupo 2.

Semana 1
DEL 17 AL 19 DE JUNIO

Grupo A1

Sede:  Acer Arena, Sídney, Australia

 Grupo B1

Sede:  Carioca Arena 1, Río de Janeiro, Brasil

 Grupo C1

Sede:  DS Yantarny, Kaliningrado, Rusia

Semana 2
DEL 24 AL 26 DE JUNIO

 Grupo D1

Sede:  Łódź Arena, Łódź, Polonia

 Grupo E1

Sede:  PalaLottomatica, Roma, Italia

 Grupo F1

Sede:  Pabellón Pionir, Belgrado, Serbia

Semana 3
DEL 1 AL 3 DE JULIO

 Grupo G1

Sede:  Palais des Sports Jean Weille, Nancy, Francia

 Grupo H1

Sede:  Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Dallas, Estados Unidos

 Grupo I1

Sede:  Estadio Cubierto Azadi, Teherán, Irán

Grupo 2

 – Clasificados a la Ronda Final.
 – Clasificado a la Ronda Final como organizador.
 – Relegado al Grupo 3.

Semana 1
DEL 17 AL 19 DE JUNIO

 Grupo A2

Sede:  İzmir Atatürk Volleyball Hall, Esmirna, Turquía

 Grupo B2

Sede:  Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, Osaka, Japón

 Grupo C2

Sede:  Budvar Arena, České Budějovice, República Checa

Semana 2
DEL 24 AL 26 DE JUNIO

 Grupo D2

Sede:  Aegon Arena, Bratislava, Eslovaquia

 Grupo E2

Sede:  Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex, Cairo, Egipto

 Grupo F2

Sede:  SaskTel Centre, Saskatoon, Canadá

Semana 3
DEL 1 AL 3 DE JULIO

 Grupo G2

Sede:  Jangchung Gymnasium, Seúl, Corea del Sur

 Grupo H2

Sede:  Xuancheng Sports Centre, Xuancheng, China

 Grupo I2

Sede:  Tampere Ice Stadium, Tampere, Finlandia

Grupo 3

 – Clasificados a la Ronda Final.
 – Clasificado a la Ronda Final como organizador.

Semana 1
DEL 17 AL 19 DE JUNIO

 Grupo A3

Sede:  Arena Stožice, Ljubljana, Eslovenia

 Grupo B3

Sede:  Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Ciudad de México, México

 Grupo C3

Sede:  , Kozani, Grecia

Semana 2
DEL 24 AL 26 DE JUNIO

 Grupo D3

Sede:  Alexandreio Melathron , Kozani, Grecia

 Grupo E3

Sede:  El Menzah, Tunis, Túnez

 Grupo F3

Sede:  Baluan Sholak, Almaty, Kazajistán

Rondas finales

Grupo 3
Sede:  Fraport Arena, Fráncfort, Alemania

Semifinales

Partido por el Tercer Lugar

Final

Grupo 2
Sede:  Centro de Desportos e Congressos, Matosinhos, Portugal

Semifinales

Partido por el Tercer Lugar

Final

Grupo 1
Sede:  Tauron Arena, Cracovia, Polonia

Fase de grupos

Grupo J

 – Clasificados a Semifinales.

Grupo K

Llave final

Semifinales

Partido por el Tercer Lugar

Final

Clasificación final

Referencias
Liga Mundial FIVB

Enlaces

Campeonatos de la Liga Mundial de Voleibol
Voleibol en 2016
Voleibol

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Slick's 2010 Wrongkind Productions collection Yellow Tape is another solid gangsta-rap disc, highlighted by its telltale "Won't Stop Being a Blood," Slick's autobiographical paean to SD's notorious Lincoln Park Bloods.
Slick did not win "Best of" in his category at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards, despite a spirited write-in campaign launched by SDRaps.com. But at least considerable debate was generated concerning Slick's absence from the ballot.
However, the most fascinating, scarifying, informative, colorful, and somewhat hilarious SD hip-hop–related document of 2010 got no SD press or local mention outside of SD hip-hop's inner circles: the SD-set, substantially 619 hip-hop soundtracked the "Vendetta of Blood" episode of History Channel's Gangland television series, which has aired repeatedly since its mid-May debut.
Complete with slightly overdramatic narration and given to mid-sentence punctuation by gunfire (pause: bang-bang-bang), it explores the long history and brazen activities of Southeast San Diego's Lincoln Park Bloods. And its recurring focus is Mitchy Slick, as a veteran gang member and established music artist.
SD police are LPB hip-hop enthusiasts, scrutinizing locally consigned mix CDs that have gang members rapping, sometimes (stupidly) incriminating themselves about specific crimes, or conveniently matching previously unknown criminal voices caught on police wiretaps.
Slick spent much of 2012 on tour, working on a collaborative full-length called Feet Match the Paint with producer DJ Fresh, and recording a new solo album (Won't Stop Bein' a Blood) as well as working on new tracks with Strong Arm Steady.
A 2012 compilation mixtape, Wrongkind Is Everywhere, Vol. 1, includes samples from his various 2012 projects and tracks by performers like Oso Ocean and 2Die4.
Jay Allen Sanford Sept. 3, 2014 @ 7:12 p.m.
Slick - aka Charles Mitchell - was arrested in Marin County on Tuesday and booked on suspicion of human trafficking, kidnapping, criminal threats, exhibiting a firearm, and participating in a criminal street gang, with bail set at 1.5 million. Police allege that he transported a woman from Southern California and held her captive in a Sleepy Hollow home, where a search warrant was executed last week. Slick turned himself in on Tuesday. No details about the alleged victim have been released yet.


Last week I had a game of golf. Please note I said "had a game" I didn't say I "played a game." That would be elevating the experience to a level I never reached. A satirist once wrote that they called the game "golf" because all the other four letter words were used up. I can empathise with the sentiment. You are probably asking why someone, with my countless years of experience dodging fruitless exercise, would suddenly take up golf. Well the Masterton Golf Club, in an effort to boost flagging membership, decided to lower the sub for new members from around $450 a year to just $100 for the first year and I can't resist a bargain.
But they carefully omit to tell you that to play the game you need golf clubs. The pro at Lansdowne, who goes under the unlikely name of Bob McDonald, soon sorted me out a set of second hand clubs. He assured me that they were near new, one owner, low mileage etc. but I should have suspected something when I saw that the sizes on the club heads were in Roman numerals.
Now I was all set to go except you can't really play golf without a trundler. My wife came up with a simple solution. She would buy a new one for herself and I could have her old one. It is a peculiarity of the female species that, even though you have a joint account, they have this inflexible belief that when money comes out of it for an item for their use, it doesn't really count. Using this logic my trundler actually cost nothing. I have friend whose wife is a part time school teacher. She takes home about $13 a week after tax. Whenever she wants expensive alterations or new furniture for the house she says she will do it out of "her money." At the last count he told me it will take about four hundred years of "her money" to pay off this years spend alone.
I decided to dispense with trying to look like beau brummel on the course, my slacks, polo shirt and sneakers will suffice, until I turn professional. I checked with the bank manager to see that the loan I had taken out for the cost thus far was in place and after a lengthy and protracted confirmation I was set to burn up the course.
New Members Day (nearly two hundred aspirants were encouraged by the low first year subscription) meant fours consisting of two seasoned members teamed up with two $100 novices. My fellow novice and I drew a wisecracking lawyer and the club captain. The dedicated club captain would constantly stop mid fairway and pontificate about the million dollar views, admittedly quite excellent, but his claim that this was worth the $100 subscription alone, was a trifle exaggerated. Anyway you don't get to enjoy the scenery when you are regularly on your hands and knees in the undergrowth looking for your ball.
And that's another cost I hadn't factored in; buying golf balls. The pro obliged of course, but the brand he sold me had a cunning homing device that attracted them to either trees or water. A typical hole: A couple of air shots (my partners refused to accept these were practice swings) and the ball would take off feebly towards a tree (the wood homing device) then amazingly the internal electronic radar thingy would shift to a new setting and the ball, provided a connection with the club was actually made, would hive off towards the nearest lake.
The water hazards obviously had a suction arrangement at the bottom and this was connected to pipe that snakes its way back to the pro-shop. I am sure of this because when I got back to the clubhouse my balls were being offered for sale on the shop counter. I'll swear they were still wet!
After nine holes, breathless and exhausted, I thought I couldn't go on. My wife's old trundler has ABS braking which is fully applied all the time and the Lansdowne golf course must have been designed by Sir Edmund (then just Edmund) Hillary. Combine the hills with the heavy Romanesque clubs and the lack of match fitness starts to show. The lawyer chooses now to tell me how after a similar disposition a couple of years ago his doctor had rushed him into hospital for a heart bypass. To punctuate the story he unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a scar stretching from his Adam's apple to his navel. All this just to play golf!
But beginners do get their moneys worth. You hit more shots, swing more clubs, see more corners of the course, dive into more water hazards, rake more bunkers, and walk about twice as far as the more competent. You should really be paying twice the sub, not a quarter. But like the cigarette companies, they want to get you addicted, though after last week's tribulations, they will be battling to get me.
The lawyer had the last word. I told him I'd move heaven and earth to break a hundred. He said I'd better try heaven; I'd already shifted most of the earth.
I'm surprised they could find a heart to bypass.


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Die Zentralaustralische Dickschwanzratte oder MacDonnel-Dickschwanzratte (Zyzomys pedunculatus)  ist ein in Australien verbreitetes Nagetier in der Unterfamilie der Altweltmäuse.

Merkmale
Erwachsene Exemplare sind ohne Schwanz 108 bis 140 mm lang und die Schwanzlänge beträgt 110 bis 140 mm. Die Art hat 25 bis 29 mm lange Hinterfüße sowie 20 bis 23 mm lange Ohren. Auf der Oberseite ist gelbbraunes Fell vorhanden und die Unterseite ist mit cremefarbenem Fell bedeckt. Haare kommen auch auf dem dicken Schwanz vor. Dieses Nagetier wiegt 70 bis 120 g. Das Fell der Oberseite ist borstig. Wie bei anderen Australischen Dickschwanzratten können der Schwanz und Teile des Fells abgeworfen werden.

Verbreitung
Das Verbreitungsgebiet beschränkt sich auf die Umgebung von Alice Springs im Süden von Northern Territory in Australien. Die neuesten Funde stammen aus dem Uluṟu-Kata-Tjuṯa-Nationalpark. Fossile Überreste sind aus dem Bundesstaat Western Australia bekannt. Die Zentralaustralische Dickschwanzratte bewohnt felsige Regionen mit spärlichem Bewuchs, Savannen und andere Grasflächen sowie Buschland.

Lebensweise
Die Art ist nachtaktiv und sie hält sich auf dem Boden auf. Die Nahrung besteht vorwiegend aus Samen der Pflanzengattungen Sida, Nachtschatten und Stachelkopfgräser. Diese werden gelegentlich mit Wirbellosen komplettiert.

Weibchen in Gefangenschaft hatten drei oder vier Neugeborene pro Wurf. In Jahren mit ausreichend Niederschlag kann die Fortpflanzung zu allen Jahreszeiten erfolgen. Jungtiere sind nach 5 bis 6 Monaten geschlechtsreif. Unter menschlicher Obhut können die Tiere 7 bis 8 Jahre leben.

Gefährdung
Die Zentralaustralische Dickschwanzratte wird selten angetroffen. Zwischen 1960 und 1996 gab es keine dokumentierten Sichtungen, was zur Annahme führte, dass die Art ausgestorben ist. Danach konnte dieses Nagetier wieder angetroffen werden. Die größte Bedrohung stellen streunende Hauskatzen dar. Möglicherweise fällt die Art Hunden und eingeführten Füchsen zum Opfer. Die IUCN listet die Art als vom Aussterben bedroht (critically endangered), da die geschätzte Gesamtpopulation kleiner als 1000 Exemplare ist.

Einzelnachweise

Langschwanzmäuse


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Tag: Nobel Prize
David Hubel 1926-2013
David Hubel, one of the true giants in the field of neuroscience and visual neuroscience died on September 22nd. His work on visual cortex helped inform and guide our understanding of how the visual system functions and for that work, he and Torsten Wiesel shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1981. Most of us in the visual neurosciences have read their work or studied it in textbooks and owe a great debt of gratitude for their insight and efforts to push science forward.
Obituaries are appearing in newspapers around the world, in the NYTimes, Washington Post, The Guardian as well as remembrances in scientific journals like Cell, Science, Scientific American and websites from the NIH and a nice remembrance and background on his work from Brainfacts.org.
For more background of David Hubel's work, read his Eye, Brain and Vision book or check out the David Hubel Papers.
There will be a memorial to recognize the life of David Hubel, in all its dimensions, open to anyone who wishes to attend. Please join us at 2 pm, November 16 in the Memorial Church at Harvard University. More details here.
Image courtesy: Harvard Medical School.


Currently, I teach English to 10th and 12th Graders at The East-West School of International Studies. I'm also a member of the Youth Voices Steering Committee, which is a group of teachers who, like me, have their students post on this school-based social network, where we encourage students to engage in peer-to-peer digital exchange..
I have been teaching Humanities, English and technology classes ever since I graduated from Hunter College, CUNY in 1983. After two years of teaching in Salt Lake City, and a couple of years at the High School of Art and Design, NYC, I taught for a dozen years at University Heights Secondary School, Bronx, NY, where I learned that doing school better doesn't have to be the "same old thing" with more effort. I also worked with English Language Learners at the International High School in Queens from 1999-2002.
After 9/11, there was a lot of talk about doing meaningful work. At the same time, I was finding myself being seduced by new forms of literacy on the Internet. An opportunity to become a "studio teacher" of technology at East Side Community High School, NYC presented itself in the Summer of 2002, and I taught "New Journalism" at ESCHS for five years. In addition, I taught technology classes and East Bronx Academy for the Future for in the 2007-08 school year.
Another community that I'm is a part of is the New York City Writing Project. I was a participant in the NYCWP's Summer Invitational in 1985, and I have worked for the NYCWP in various ways ever since. Currently, with Felicia George, I'm the NYC Technology Liaison for the National Writing Project. In addition, I am a member of the EdTechTalk and WorldBridges community. Along with Susan Ettenheim, I produce and host a live webcast every Wednesday night called "Teachers Teaching Teachers"
I love to bike and to run. Several years ago, just after I started teaching technology at East Side Community High School, I began commuting by foot. Some days I would bike both ways to and from East Side, for a total of 22 miles. Other days I would take the train to work, and I would run 11 miles up the West Side, along the Hudson River to my home. It wasn't always easy, but I was hooked.
Currently, my school is 13.35 miles away from where I live. Commuting by train takes me at least 90 minutes; by bike it takes me about 75 minutes. I love my commute, which takes me down through East Harlem onto the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and into Astoria. Zipping down Astoria Boulevard, I have the new Citi Field in my view, then I pass through Flushing Meadow Park past the Queens Botanical Gardens to The East-West School of International Studies. I throw my bike into a window frame in a science room, change my clothes, and I'm ready for work! Best of all, I get to do it all over again in the opposite direction after I finish teaching. Take a Google Earth Tour of my route.
I love biking to and from my school, and this coming year I hope to add more running to the mix.
Sometimes I record my thoughts to a video that films in front of my bike as I cross the RFK Bridge.
This becomes my video blog, or vlog, if you prefer.


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Stephen Pomper is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. He is the Director of International Crisis Group's U.S. Program. Previously, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council under President Obama. He also served as the Senior Director for African Affairs. Prior to joining the staff of the National Security Council, he served from 2002 to 2011 in a variety of roles with the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State, where he specialized in international humanitarian and human rights law, including as the Assistant Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs and acting Assistant Legal Adviser for Afghanistan, Pakistan and South and Central Asian Affairs.
Outside government, Mr. Pomper has been a Senior Policy Scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Leonard and Sophie Davis Genocide Prevention Distinguished Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and was in private practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He is a non-residential Senior Fellow at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and a Guest Author for the Just Security web blog. Mr. Pomper received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, summa cum laude, and his law degree from Yale Law School. Follow him on Twitter @StephenPomper.
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The Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, southeast of Kiev, was attacked by unknown individuals over the weekend.
A synagogue in eastern Ukraine was firebombed over the weekend amid the mass protests that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych, the International Business Times (IBT) reports.
The Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, located 250 miles southeast of Kiev, was attacked by unknown individuals, the report said, citing the Russian-language Timenews.in.ua news site.
No one was injured, local authorities said. Minor damages were caused to the building. Photos published by the website showed traces of a fire on the facade a balcony.
Security forces reportedly found pieces of a glass bottle probably used as a Molotov cocktail at the scene. Police said they were searching for suspects, noted IBT.
The Chabad website said that the masked perpetrators managed to leave the premises without being apprehended by the community center's security personnel but were caught on camera.
Rabbi Nachum Ehrentrau, who also serves as chief rabbi of the city and the surrounding region, told the website that the center is frequented by dozens of local Jewish people on a daily basis, with up to 800 congregants attending High Holiday services.
At the time of the attack, the building had been closed for the night, though Chabad Rabbi Michael Oishie had left just 20 minutes beforehand.
"Our synagogue is surrounded by a barrier, the doors are all automatic, and we have round-the-clock security staff," said Rabbi Ehrentrau.
"In these uncertain times, we are, of course, even more cautious, doing all we can to ensure the safety of the community center and its visitors," he added.
The firebombing of the synagogue came just several days after Arutz Sheva's Russian-language website reported that the Ukrainian police forces have been making open threats against the Jewish community there.
They have also been promoting anti-Semitic propaganda, according to the report.
Recent reports indicated that extremists have been targeting the Jewish community in Ukraine, including a member of the opposition. However, this is the first time that the police forces themselves have been implicated in anti-Semitic activity.
Anti-Semitism in Ukraine has picked up throughout the unrest, which began in late November. In January, unknown assailants stabbed a hareidi man in Kiev as he was making his way home from synagogue on a Friday night. Several weeks ago, anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on a Holocaust memorial in the city of Alexandria.
The Rabbi of the city of Kharkov, Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz, told Arutz Sheva on Sunday that a number of local Jews have already expressed a desire to leave Ukraine and emigrate to Israel. The unrest of recent month is what has brought this desire to the fore, he said.


Home / Maintenance / The Living Room: Live Comfortable. Live Clean.
Let's be honest. Everyone loves a clean home. Nobody really loves to do the cleaning.
When we gather to dine we gather in the kitchen. When we gather to be comfortable and relax, we gather in the living room. For most of us, the living room is really a multipurpose room. It's the space that is our children's playroom, the home theater, and your book club meeting spot. With so many possible uses, you'll want some quick and and easy ways to keep your living room comfortable and clean!
With a vacuum, hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, water, and a microfiber cloth by your side, you can host just about any kind of event . . . and be prepared for all kinds of spills or accidents. Whether it's popcorn on the floor from movie night, red wine on the floor from girls night, or greasy handprints on the glass coffee table from your toddlers, these tools can take on it all.
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Yesterday, in In re Modafinil Antitrust Litig., 3d Cir. No. 15-3475 the Third Circuit provided a framework for analyzing the oft-overlooked numerosity requirement of Rule 23(a)(1).. The court's decision both clarified and seemingly bolstered the numerosity threshold.
When thinking of a class action brought under Rule 23(b)(3), we typically think of a large aggregation of individuals (hundreds or even thousands), each with small claims. This case is quite different from that. Here, we are faced with a putative class of twenty-two large and sophisticated corporations, most of which have multi-million dollar claims . . . . While we do not foreclose the possibility of class status in this case, or where the putative class is of similar composition, Plaintiffs have not met their burden of showing that the numerosity requirement of Rule 23(a)(1) has been satisfied. We now provide a framework for district courts to apply when conducting their numerosity analyses . . . .
The Third Circuit acknowledged leading treatises that indicate that classes of 20 or fewer are usually insufficiently numerous, classes of 41 or more usually are, and classes in between are given varying treatment. Yet the Court did not set a bright-line rule. Instead, it identified the following list of non-exhaustive factors that district courts should analyze for its numerosity analysis: judicial economy, the claimants' ability and motivation to litigate as joined plaintiffs, the financial resources of class members, the geographic dispersion of class members, the ability to identify future claimants, and whether the claims are for injunctive relief or for damages. It stated that it would not at this point consider the possibility that plaintiffs may bring individual suits, citing the text of Rule 23(a)(1) that refers to whether "the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable," not whether the class is so numerous that failing to certify presents a risk of many different lawsuits. In focusing on the joinder issue, the Court was careful to distinguish between numerosity and superiority – both of which require a judicial economy inquiry – stating that the former is a requirement in all class actions, while the latter only applies actions under Rule 23(b)(3).
The Third Circuit found that the district court did not properly analyze the judicial economy and ability/motivation factors. First, it stated that "[j]udicial economy does not permit consideration of the sunk costs from past discovery and litigation, or the need to conduct further discovery if the class is not certified." As such, the district court erred when it factored in the late stage of the litigation in determining whether the numerosity requirement was met. Second, the Third Circuit found that that district court did not properly analyze the ability/motivation factor, focusing instead on whether the individual plaintiffs could have brought their own, individual suit. As the Third Circuit stated: "the numerosity rule does not envision the alternative of individual suits; it considers only the alternative of joinder." Recognizing that 3 of the 22 class members' claims were over $1 billion, and 13 of the other 19 were over $1 million, the Third Circuit instructed the district court to analyze whether class status was appropriate.
Those defending class actions should review the Third Circuit's decision in In re Modafinil Antitrust Litig. to ensure that plaintiffs carry their numerosity burden. We will continue to monitor developments in the class-action defense space.


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Exemptions Announced for Pinnacle Bank Championship Presented by Chevrolet
Contract extension with The Club at Indian Creek also announced.
OMAHA, (Neb.), June 5, 2019 – The Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Chevrolet has announced exemptions for two professional golfers, Brandon Crick of McCook, Neb. and Braden Thornberry of Olive Branch, Mississippi.
Crick, 31, graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and turned professional in 2010. Crick's best professional result this year is a T-19 at the Dormie Network Classic at Briggs Ranch Golf Club in San Antonio, Texas.
Thornberry, 22, turned professional in 2018 and attended the University of Mississippi where he was the 2017 individual NCAA champion. He has competed in six professional events as an amateur, including a T-4 at the 2017 FedEx St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. The eight-under-par finish left him tied with PGA pros Kevin Chappell, Rafa Cabrera Bello and Billy Horschel on the final leaderboard.
"We were excited to receive several exemption requests from very talented players," said Nick Kelley, who serves on the board of directors for the Pinnacle Bank Championship. "Our committee saw this as an opportunity to potentially launch the career of a young, highly skilled player with the opportunity to play in one of the best tournaments on the Korn Ferry Tour."
"We have a history of providing opportunities to local and national up and comers," Kelley added. "In 2003, Scott Gutschewski of Omaha parlayed a sponsor exemption into a remarkable season, including a win and 26th-place finish on the Korn Ferry Tour season money standings."
The Pinnacle Bank Championship also announced today the extension of its contract with The Club at Indian Creek to host the Tour for five years covering 2020, 2021 and 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Championship date has been moved to run July 27-August 2, 2020, two weeks later than the 2019 dates.
"I have awesome memories of my first Korn Ferry Tour win, played at Indian Creek. It's great to hear that the Pinnacle Bank Championship will continue to be played there! The course sets up perfectly for a tour event. I remember being impressed with the great spectator turnout there too," said 2017 Champion Sam Ryder.
The Club at Indian Creek, owned by brothers Bill and Brett Gottsch, has been the home of the Korn Ferry Tour event since the PGA TOUR returned to Omaha in 2017.
Professional golfers still have an opportunity to compete in the Pinnacle Bank Championship by earning a spot through the Korn Ferry Tour Monday Qualifier at Bent Tree Golf Club in Council Bluffs, Iowa or at Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln, Neb., on Monday, July 15.
The state's top amateur golfers can earn one of the unrestricted spots through the Indian Creek Invitational July 13-14 at The Club at Indian Creek or through the Korn Ferry Tour Monday Qualifier.
ABOUT THE PINNACLE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
The Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Chevrolet is a stop on the PGA TOUR's Korn Ferry Tour and will be held July 15-21, 2019 at The Club at Indian Creek. The event features a purse of $600,000 and was awarded the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour's Truck Award and 2017 Korn Ferry Tour's Rookie of the Year Award in its inaugural year. The 2017 champion, Sam Ryder, went on to compete in the PGA TOUR, following in the footsteps of previous winners of the Korn Ferry Tour's Omaha event, including Bo Van Pelt, Johnson Wagner, Heath Slocum and Jason Gore. The 2018 champion, David Skinns, is currently on the Korn Ferry Tour money list. The tournament's charity partner, TeamMates Mentoring Program, receives proceeds from the event to help fund education and mentoring programs for Nebraska youth. In 2018, that donation totaled $40,000, bringing the tournament's total charitable contribution amount to more than $140,000 since its inception.


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Long before their 2015 movie What We Do In the Shadows, co-creators and co-stars Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi were honing their vampire comedy. At the New York Comic Con 2018 panel for the upcoming FX television adaptation of the comedy, the long-time friends revealed the origin of their undead antics.
Later, influenced by their love of movies like This Is Spinal Tap, the two Kiwis decided they should make a vampire comedy in the form of a mockumentary. In the movie they played vampire roommates, and while they never officially lived together, they revealed that they also spent a lot of time together in the same flat in their younger days when Waititi dated Clement's roommate. "I just wanted to be closer to Jemaine, so I got that girlfriend," Waititi joked.
The new series, which they executive produce, also follows a group of vampire roommates, but they've moved the show from Wellington to Staten Island. Though the series has a very similar vibe to the movie, there are some original elements, including a new supernatural being into the mix, an energy vampire who drains people (and fellow vampires) by being incredibly boring and low-key annoying. The show debuts in 2019.


Back when I lived in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and my daughter was still an infant, one of my favourite things to read to her were these nursery rhymes with a northern twist. I didn't know much about them. I had found Xeroxed copies in a binder at the school where I worked, but it was missing the title page and any information about where they came from, who wrote them, and who drew the illustrations. All I knew was that we enjoyed them and to this day I believe they helped instill a love of poetry in my daughter and perhaps helped her along in becoming the voracious reader she is today.
My only regret was that somewhere in our many moves we lost the copies I had made and I wasn't able to read them to my son who came after. Fortunately, I went to a used booksale this past weekend and found the poems again-- and in book form! My son's in for a treat.
Written by Peter Redvers of Hay River, Northwest Territories in 1989, later illustrated by Don Harney of Fort Smith, Mother Raven Nursery Rhymes has had three printings in its lifetime, the last of which was 1999 when it was distributed exclusively by the NWT Literacy Council as a fundraiser. A rare book for sure, but I'm hoping subsequent printings are in its future.
and Jill came sliding after.
and Jill lost all her toes.
There are a few more available here and here, but it's as a .pdf and you'll need to put "Redvers" in the finder to reach them.
Wow. Jill. Lost her toes.
But, hey. If you fall into water you have to CHOP a hole to get into, I would expect Bad Things to happen.
Realism. Not to be overrated.
Love this! Perfect nursery rhyme for Minnesota, too!
What a twist! I suddenly feel very cold. . .
I always enjoy reading nursery rhyme parodies. Thanks for this post.
As a Winnipegger, I totally relate to these nursery rhymes. I wonder if I can get this title in our local library! These are nursery rhymes my kids can certainly relate to.
Some harsh lessons in nursery rhymes! What a find!
They sound good and not more scary than falling out of a tree or dying of the plague.
Tanita: You're right, nothing wrong with a lesson on frostbite.
Laura: Though some of the others, especially with the northern animals, may not be as applicable.
Jama: There's another cold one that begins, "Humpty Dumpty fell in the snow, the temperature was 40 below.
Elaine: I'm not sure I call it a parody as much as an adaptation, but yes, they're always fun.
Kelly: And I'm hanging on to it this time.
Unfortunately, this book doesn't appear to have made it as far East as the Halifax Regional Library system. I've checked e-bay and a few other on-line book swap/shop sites to no avail. If you do learn of subsequent printings for 'Mother Raven Nursery Rhymes', please let me know. I'd love to have a copy or two for my daughter and nieces.


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Q: How to get recent records There is an option in mscrm to see recent records (the "timer" button) how can I get this functionality? or how to get recent viewed records?

A: Since your profile says you are a JS developer I am guessing that you are asking for a way to programmatically retrieve the recent records for any user.
There is a table in D365 called "userentityuisettings" (user entity UI settings) that holds each users recently viewed records and views in an XML format. You can query this table using XRM Toolbox's FetchXML builder to see what is in it. Here is an example query:
<fetch>
  <entity name="userentityuisettings">
    <attribute name="owninguser" />
    <attribute name="objecttypecode" />
    <attribute name="lastviewedformxml" />
    <attribute name="recentlyviewedxml" />
  </entity>
</fetch>

You will have to parse the XML to collect the GUIDs of the records, and then run additional queries to get the names.

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