Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Today, I share with you Kala Beans! Kala is a celebration of everything bean. These yummy Kala Bean Snack contains wholesome beans like Fava & Chickpeas. Kala Beans are a healthy, crunchy snack that everyone will enjoy!
Kala Beans are available in 4 yummy flavors: Simply Peppered, Sea Salt & Vinegar Crunch, Pineapple Kick Medley and Tropical Curry. These wholesome beans are roasted to perfection and full of flavor. A Snack that is packed full of nutrients such as iron, zinc, magnesium and potassium. Kala Beans are also a great source of protein & fiber. A super food that is low in calories and sure to satisfy your hungry tummy.
Kala Beans are great. I love how the beans are roasted. Makes them super crunchy. They are also full of flavor. I particularly like the Pineapple Kick Medley because it's sweet, salty and a but spicy. The flavors go really well together. Kala Beans are a light snack that I feel good about eating. This snack is low in calories and low in sodium. All four flavors are great. I highly recommend you grab a bag and enjoy a healthy snack!
I received Kala Beans in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Always!
Kala Beans are available at Sprout Store and on Amazon.com.
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Today,I share with you the cutest children's shoes from IFME! The shoes that I am sharing with you are from IFME's new Spring Collection for 2017. IFME is a Japanese shoe brand that was first launched in 1999. It wasn't until last year, 2016, that IFME's children's shoes came into the USA. IFME is a company that deeply cares about customer satisfaction as well as making supportive shoes for children to help their feet develop properly. IFME works directly with Dr. Torri, professor at Waseda Universtiy's division of Sports Sciences, as a part of an academic-industrial alliance. As a result, IFME offers unique features and design elements that support the foot's movement and help muscles exert their full potential.
IFME shoes are washable, functional and have removable insoles. As I read on IFME's website, studies show that an increasing number of children suffer from flat feet. To promote correct foot position and posture, IFME has developed a unique functional insole that allows the toes to splay and advances healthy arch development. Learn more about the insoles HERE. IFME Shoes also have "MOFF" or Marvelous Odor Free Fiber. This is a natural cotton-based deodorizing fiber mechanically treated by superior nanotechnology. "MOFF" absorbs 150 times as much ammonia odor as activated charcoal at 20 times the speed. The shoes have Velcro straps and do not require any tying.
I love IFME because they are the cutest! I also love them because they are reasonably priced. For those of you who have kids, you know that kids grow out of their shoes what seems like in 2 days! I also love that they don't smell. My sons played in the dirt, down by a creek where they got them wet, at the park and during road trips. And not once did I get any odors coming from their shoes. I purposely made my boys put their IFME Shoes to the test. I wanted to see how they would wash in the washing machine. After washing them, they were like new. It is recommended that you air dry them. Which I did anyways to see how long they took to dry. I placed them in the washing machine around 8 pm one night and by the next morning, they were 100% dry.
As you can see in this photo, my sons were both so excited to try on their new shoes. My youngest, pictured left, calls his shoes his "basketball shoes". My oldest son, pictured right, calls his shoes 'awesome". As I was taking photos of the shoes, there were moments when a shoe would go missing or a cute face or hand would appear in the photo.
To end, we are very happy with our IFME Shoes. They are not falling apart, they are not uncomfortable for their feet, and the shoes and feet don't smell. I highly recommend IFME!
For more information on IFME's Shoes, check out there website at http://www.ifmeus.com/.
Baltimore, MD. (January 9, 2017) – Feld Entertainment Inc. announced today that tickets for Monster Jam Triple Threat Series presented by AMSOIL®, the most adrenaline charged motorsports experience for families on the planet, are now on sale. Monster Jam events are affordably priced for the whole family with seats starting at $15. Tickets are also available at www.ticketmaster.com and the Royal Farms Arena box office.
Friday, February 24 @ 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 25 @ 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 26 @ 1:00 p.m.
The Pit Parties on Saturday, February 25 and Sunday, February 26 from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. give fans the opportunity to meet the Monster Jam athletes and get up close to the Monster Jam trucks.
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Today, I share with you Orca Bay Seafood. I am a member of Moms Meet and I was sent vouchers to try their delicious seafood. I decided to try their Sockeye Salmon and their Swordfish. Orca Bay has a full line of great seafood options. Including fish, crab legs, scallops, seafood burgers, steaks and fillets. Orca Bay Seafood products are all-natural, contain Omega-3s and high in protein.
Orca Bay Seafood takes pride in the fish that they serve to their customers. That's why, their seafood strictly adheres to the FDA policy of zero tolerance for unapproved antibiotics and fungicides used in aquaculture operations. Orca Bay tests 100% of all imported shipments to make sure that their seafood is safe. Each fillet comes individually wrapped and frozen. Thawing is simple.
The Sockeye Salmon Fillets and the Swordfish Fillets are amazing! They are delicious and so easy to cook. I pan seared my fillets in a little bit of Olive Oil and Italian seasonings. Both of these fillets were cooked in under ten minutes. Which is great for a busy mom of two! ;) I had a healthy meal cooked for my family in no time! (My youngest son ate like a pig) Even though the fish is frozen, once thawed, I was unable to tell. The fish still had its amazing flavor. I highly recommend Orca Bay Seafood and I look forward to trying more of their products.
I am a Moms Meet member and I received free coupons in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
Visit http://orcabayseafoods.com/ for more information.
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Today, I share with you February's Degusta Box USA. Enjoy 10-15 full-sized surprise products each month. Degusta Box USA is only $19.99 a month! No shipping costs. The items inside exceed the purchase price. So, you really get more for your money when subscribing to Degusta Box USA. Degusta Box also has an international subscription box available for those who are reading this outside of the US.
A few of these product were in previous boxes. But, it's okay because I enjoyed them. I really enjoyed the coconut chips, dark chocolate bar, the shortbread cookies and the Slendier pasta this month. If I had to choose one product to have again, I'd choose the chocolate bar from Green & Black's. I highly recommend Degusta Box. I enjoy opening it up every month. It's such a surprise to see what's inside!
I receive Degusta Box USA in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Always!
Warm His/Her Heart This Valentine's Day With Blount Organic Soups & GIVEAWAY!
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! As we all know, Valentine's Day is tomorrow. Instead of buying chocolates or flowers this year, buy dinner! Blount Organic Soups make the perfect dinner for the day of love. Blount Soups will warm your heart and fill your tummy. Each 16 ounce container serves two. So, grab some Blount Soups and a loaf of bread, and have a delicious dinner at home with your sweetie this Valentine's Day!
Blount Organic Soups are great! The 3 flavors that I got to try were all delicious and full of flavor. The best part? Every flavor that I tried is under 200 calories per serving. The Tomato Bisque and Cheddar Broccoli are both rich and creamy. A nice, warm bowl of either one is perfect for a cold, winters day. The Chicken Noodle Soup is full of noodles and crunchy carrots. Everyone loves soup when they have a cold. Especially chicken noodle soup. Blount Organic Soups cost $6.99 for a 16 ounce container. For a $1.50 off coupon and to find Blount Soups in a store near you, visit www.blountorganic.com.
I received free product in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Always!
Three winners will win a Blount Soup Prize Pack. Prize pack includes 3 free soup coupons and a branded mug. US entries only, please! Winners will be notified via email and have 48 hours to respond. Good Luck!
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Today, I share with you Karma Probiotic Water. The company, Karma Wellness Water, transforms pristine spring water into wellness water. Creating healthy waters that are great for your mind, body, spirit, balance and vitality. Vitamins Deteriorate in water that's why Karma has invented a KarmaCap. this KarmaCap allows you to add the drinks premixed vitamins right before you are ready to drink. That way, the vitamins are at their full potency. So Peel, Push, Shake & Transform!
Karma Probiotic Waters are made with patented Ganeden BC30. Each bottle contains 2 billion CFU's. In an independent lab study of a gastric environment with a pH of 2.0 for two hours, Ganeden BC30 delivered more than 10X the cells than common probiotic yogurt cultures. Which means that Karma Probiotic Water are great for digestive health. Each 18 ounce water contains 100% of Vitamins A, B3, B5, B6, B12 & E. Each 18 ounce bottle is 20 calories and contains only 2 grams of sugar. Karma Probiotic Waters are available in 3 flavors: Berry Cherry, Apple Cinnamon & Blueberry Lemonade. With new flavors coming soon- Strawberry Lemonade, Kiwi Melon & Tropical Coconut.
I am all about Probiotic Water lately. Karma is by far the best. I love the fact that I can add the premixed powder right before I am ready to drink the water. It dissolves quickly and the water is ready to drink within seconds. The premixed powders all taste really good. I really like the Berry Cherry flavor. It's like drinking flavored water but Karma is much better for you. Even though the powder is full of vitamins, I don't get a vitamin taste when drinking the water. I prefer to drink Karma Probiotic Water cold. :) I love the fact that Karma Probiotic Waters are safe for kids. My sons, who are 2 and 4 years old, LOVE Karma. Karma allows us to have healthy, regulated tummies. I highly recommend!
Visit http://drinkkarma.com/ for more information.
Welcome to A Sampling Bee! Toady, I share with you New Pop Popcorn! New Pop Popcorn is unlike any other popcorn because its The World's First Skinless Popcorn! Eat New Pop Popcorn guilt-free. At just 32 calories per cup, this is a popcorn that everyone can enjoy! Plus, it's high in fiber, gluten-free, non-GMO and fat-free! New Pop is "A Healthier Version of a Timeless Snack."
New Pop is not like your traditional popcorn. New Pop strips the skin off the popcorn kernel and then under extreme high pressure, they pop the corn. Popping the popcorn this way keeps in all of the healthy nutrients. New Pop comes in 3 awesome flavors: Sweet Cinnamon, Hot and Sweet & Original. These yummy flavors are free of all allergens- peanuts, soy, salt, dairy, wheat and eggs. New Pop's Popcorn is certified Kosher. Also, New Pop has zero artificial ingredients, preservatives or flavors. This great tasting snack that is free of tree nuts, oils, butter and salt.
For those who hate getting hulls stuck in their teeth.. this popcorn is for you! New Pop's Popcorn is light & crunchy and just plain awesome! I love the fact that they don't use any butter or salt when making their popcorn. Which to me, means that more people(who have food allergies and sensitivities) can enjoy New Pop. New Pop truly is a guilt-free snack. A snack that I feel good about eating as well as feeding it to my family. My favorite flavors are.. all of them! The Original has a slight sweetness to it. The Hot and Sweet flavor is exactly that- hot and sweet. The Sweet Cinnamon has just the right amount of cinnamon. If I had to choose just one flavor, I'd choose the Sweet Cinnamon. Bags of New Pop are available in 2 sizes- Large 4.23oz & Small 1.41oz.
New Pop Popcorn is the perfect movie night snack. I highly recommend because New Pop is delicious and no part of this popcorn gets stuck in my teeth!
I received New Pop in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Always!
Melting chocolate; either white, milk or dark. I used milk chocolate.
1) Using a heart shaped cookie cutter, cut marshmallows.
2) Put melting chocolate into a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth.
3) Dip top half of heart shaped marshmallows into the melted chocolate. Place on parchment paper.
4) Sprinkle with BBR Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa.
5) Let chocolate harden; about 30 minutes.


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Bus Fare Protest In Brazil Turns Violent
International News News Uncategorized
10 January 2016 International News News Uncategorized
Brazilian riot police clashed with masked protesters in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro during angry demonstrations against higher transport fares.
Many Sao Paulo residents have been angered by the increase in public transport prices, with inflation in Brazil already running at more than 10 percent.
More than 1.5 million Brazilians lost their jobs in November, as Latin America's largest economy edged deeper into its worst recession in more than 25 years.
The march gathered thousands in Sao Paulo's downtown area and quickly turned violent when masked youths threw rocks at police. There was no immediate information about arrests or injuries.
Police also clashed with protesters in the city of Rio de Janeiro later on Friday. Television images showed masked protestors spray painting buses and smashing their windows.
The scenes evoked protests that swept Brazil in 2013, sparked by anger over bus fare increases, that brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets.
The demonstrations come as left-leaning President Dilma Rousseff, whose popularity has been crushed by the recession and a sweeping anti-corruption investigation that has ensnared her ruling coalition, faces impeachment proceedings in Congress.
Some political analysts say the mood on the streets toward her government could play an important role in determining the outcome of the impeachment process.
Modupe.aduloju Brazilian riot police, Bus Fare Protest, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo

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Fagan Does it All for Shepherd Hill Softball in Upset of Nashoba
Shepherd Hill's Cayley Fagan excelled both in the circle as a pitcher, and in the batter's box for the Rams.
By John McGuirk (@patsfan1313)
BOLTON - Three errors in one inning, which resulted in three runs by the opposition had many guessing if Shepherd Hill was in over its head during Saturday's Central Mass Division 1 quarterfinal against Nashoba Regional.
Coming in as the underdog, few gave the sixth-seeded Rams much of a shot against the third-seeded Chieftains. Adding to that belief was the fact that, only a week ago, Nashoba blanked Shepherd Hill in its regular-season finale.
But the postseason can be a different animal. Playing with a nothing to lose attitude, the Rams continued to force the issue throughout by staying close. As the game wore on, Shepherd Hill's confidence level continued to rise. Inside its dugout, there was a growing belief that they could get the job done.
Indeed. Cayley Fagan's solo home run in the top of the sixth inning, off of Nashoba starting pitcher Taylor Colvin, was the difference as Shepherd Hill prevailed 4-3.
Fagan, who went 3 for 3 at the plate with 2 RBIs, took Colvin's 1-2 fastball deep over the left field fence to begin the frame.
"I had two strikes on me so I knew I needed to swing at anything close," said Fagan. "Their pitcher's stuff was really tough. Our whole team has been hitting so well and I knew that I needed to contribute somehow and, fortunately, I was able to do it today."
The Rams (14-8) will move on to Tuesday's semifinal round where they will face defending CMass champion Doherty beginning at 5 p.m. from Rockwood Field in Worcester. The two teams did not meet during the regular season.
Nashoba (15-6) had a chance to tie or perhaps win the game in the seventh after putting two runners on board with two out. But Fagan, who also pitched well inside the circle, was able to squirm out of the jam by inducing a game-ending ground out. The sophomore righty allowed eight hits and struck out six. Three of those hits belonged to senior Gina Hinckley, including the 100th of her fine career with the Chieftains.
The Rams wasted little time jumping on Colvin (7 hits, 2 Ks). In the initial frame, a single by Dani Donnelly and a Sophia Sciarappa triple netted them their first run. Sciarappa's time on third base was albeit brief as she trotted home on Kiley Wong-Li's bullet double down the left field line for a 2-0 advantage.
But Nashoba is too talented a team not to come back. The Chieftains did just that in their half of the second. Capitalizing on three Shepherd Hill errors and three hits, Nashoba moved in front 3-2. With the bases loaded, and one out, a walk to Hannah Gaffney produced the Chieftains' first run. Bailey Nelson followed by lining an RBI single into right. On the play, right fielder Hailey Delphia bobbled the ball that resulted in a third run crossing the plate.
At that point, it would have been easy for the Rams to start coming unglued. Yet they showed no signs of discontent heading back to their dugout. Shepherd Hill continued to carry that demeanor up to the plate with them to start the third. With two outs and Sciarappa, who walked, standing on second, Fagan delivered a clutch RBI single to center to knot things at 3-3.
"Cayley was phenomenal today," Rams first-year coach Donny Loos said. "I thought both pitchers were really on their games. For us, it has been a different kid coming up big all year and today, Cayley was the one who came up big in the circle and at the plate. She is a kid who feeds off of the pressure. She just seems to get stronger when she knows the moment is big and knows when the team needs her to get an out. It's a true testament as to how good a player she really is."
Over the next two innings, both pitchers seemed to settle down and work effectively with neither club threatening. With everything still up for grabs, Fagan strode to the plate in the top of the sixth, found her pitch, and delivered one of the biggest hits of her young career much to the dismay of the Chieftains.
"I figured this would be a one run game either way," Nashoba coach Steve Kendall said. "We had plenty of chances to score runs but we couldn't do it when we had to. I'm proud of these girls. We have one of the best records in school history by playing the toughest schedule we've ever played. Shepherd Hill is a very good hitting team and Fagan came away with that big hit late. Credit her and them."
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Q: tax_query not working I have tried using the id, slug, name, and take the tax_query as an array of arrays but still it will output all the posts from that post type.
Here's my custom taxonomy, 'Event Specific':
function theme_event_category(){
    $labels = array(
    'name' => 'Event Specifics',
    'singular_name'=> 'Specific',
    'search_items' => 'Search Event Specifics',
    'all_items' => 'All Event Specifics',
    'parent_item' => 'Parent Event Specific',
    'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Colon:',
    'edit_item' => 'Edit Specific Item',
    'update_item' => 'Update Specific Item',
    'add_new_item' => 'Add New Event Specific',
    'new_item_name' => 'New Specific Item',
    'menu_name' => 'Event Specific'
);

$args = array(
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'labels' => $labels,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'show_admin_column' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'event')
);

register_taxonomy('event_specific', 'event', $args  );

}
add_action('init', 'theme_event_category');

Here's my query, that should only output the 'Main Event' tag from the 'Event Specific' taxonomy:
$quertest = array(
        'post_type'             =>  'event',
        'posts_per_page'        =>  1,
        'tax_query'             =>  array(array('event_specific', 'slug', 'main-event')),
);

 $upcoming_events = new WP_Query( $quertest );

<?php while ( $upcoming_events->have_posts() ) : $upcoming_events->the_post();
    echo 'Title: ';
    the_title();
?>

A: In your tax_query array you need to add the keys as well as the values.
So...
'tax_query' => array(
    array(
        'taxonomy' => 'event_specific',
        'field' => 'slug',
        'terms' => 'main-event'
     )
)

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Tim Pattison
Modified on: Thu, 22 Oct, 2015 at 10:40 AM
Sometimes users may see the words "Review Mode" in the top left hand corner of a course screen. It's important to know that when in Review Mode your progress will NOT be saved. Review Mode is triggered by your previous lesson status and it's functionality serves two purposes:
1. To prevent accidental overwrite of a previous completed or passing status
2. To allow users to Review or Practice a course without registering an official attempt.
The Review Mode works in conjunction with an option that may sometimes appear when launching a course module. This option is to "Start New Attempt" and is a tick box that when selected, instructs the system you're intending to record a brand new attempt. The tick box won't always appear but is triggered by the previous lesson status as follows:
Incomplete - if you're attempting a module for the first time or are resuming an incomplete attempt then you will be allowed to resume from your last saved point or start from the beginning. Note that this is NOT a new attempt but resuming the existing attempt at a point of your choosing. The tick box for "Start New Attempt" will not be shown
Failed - For Test style modules where a score is recorded you will receive the lesson status of Failed if you don't achieve the required grade. When you next launch the course the option to Start New Attempt is shown. If you select this option your previous attempt remains recorded in the system and a new attempt is recorded (attempt 2, attempt 3 etc). This is important for compliance and reporting purposes. It may be that you only allow a maximum number of attempts on a test and need to record this to highlight where users may need further guidance or learning. If you do NOT select the option to start new attempt then Review Mode is triggered. The user will be allowed to progress through the course but the attempt will not be recorded. This prevents their previous Fail being overwritten and also gives users a chance to practice or review the test before committing to another attempt.
Passed - For Test style modules where a score is recorded you will receive the lesson status of Passed if you achieve the required grade. When you next launch the course the option to Start New Attempt is shown. If you select this option your previous attempt remains recorded in the system and a new attempt is recorded (attempt 2, attempt 3 etc). If you do NOT select the option to start new attempt then Review Mode is triggered. The user will be allowed to progress through the course but the attempt will not be recorded. This prevents their previous Pass being overwritten and also gives users a chance to practice or review the test before committing to another attempt
Completed - If you have previously completed the module, you won't want to accidentally overwrite your previous completed status. When you next launch the module the Start New Attempt option is shown.If you do NOT select the option to start new attempt then Review Mode is triggered. The user will be allowed to progress through the course but the attempt will not be recorded. This prevents their previous completed status being overwritten and also gives users a chance to practice or review the module before committing to another attempt.
Tim is the author of this solution article.


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By Sierra Pettengill
Agnès Varda's Revolutionary Fusion of Life and Film
Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema
On 29 March, the day the filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda died at the age of 90, the internet bloomed with images of female artists of all generations posing with the 'grandmother of the French New Wave'. The line about The Velvet Underground sprang to mind: 'They didn't sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started a band.' Across the 64 years of her prolific output, Varda provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema. Every woman who met Varda, it seems, became a filmmaker.
Varda's work ranges wildly in form and content. Her first film, 1955's La Pointe Courte, is equal parts fictional romance story and ethnographic study of a French fishing village. She called it a 'difficult read' inspired by William Faulkner. Her later film, Vagabond (1985), follows Mona, a lost and drifting teenager who Varda referred to as her 'rebel without a cause'. Daguerréotypes (1976), Ulysse (1983), and Les plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnès, 2008), are just a few of her autobiographical essay films that return to people she's filmed before, re-interviewing subjects, excavating photographs and restaging memories. In the 1960s and '70s she made her California work, including the radical documentary Black Panthers (1968) and the counterculture hippie hangout film Lions Love (...and Lies) (1969). Throughout her films, she borrowed voraciously from art history. In The Beaches of Agnès René Magritte's The Lovers (1928) is referenced in a nude set piece with her late-husband Jacques Demy; she cited Hans Baldung Grien's chilling Death and the Maiden (1517) as the inspiration for communicating 'voluptuous beauty and bony death' in Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962); cast Andy Warhol superstar, Viva, in Lions Love (...and Lies); opened The Gleaners and I (2000) with the titular 1857 Jean-François Millet painting; and cast Jane Birkin as the subject of paintings by Titian and Goya in Jane B. Par Agnès V. (1988).
Agnès Varda, Bienvenida à Veules-les-Roses, 1954, vintage silver print mounted on hardboard. Courtesy: Blum & Poe, New York
It's accepted wisdom that Varda was the director of the first film of the French New Wave, but she somehow got saddled with the 'grandmother' moniker at the age of 30. I thought about that, and the wide scope of her feminist project when I recently watched One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977). The idiosyncratic musical follows a pregnant Suzanne, played by Thérèse Liotard, and her vivacious friend Pauline, the flame-haired Valérie Mairesse, from youth to middle age. Pauline helps Suzanne secure an illegal abortion to prevent a third child she can't afford or manage, and the two are then bonded for the duration of their very different lives. Suzanne, an impoverished single mother, moves back home to her parent's grim country farm and eventually opens a women's health clinic. Pauline travels the country in a van, singing political pro-choice folk songs written by Varda herself and staging feminist performance art, interrupted briefly by a love affair in Iran that culminates in a pregnancy.
I had known that Varda had offered her home in Paris for abortions before they were legalized, and that she cites the 1972 Bobigny abortion trials (recreated in the film) as the site of her feminist radicalization. I had heard the film described as 'an abortion musical' and was unsurprised by its ferocious politics. But what I hadn't expected, and was tremendously moved by, was the breadth and generosity of Varda's exploration of motherhood and art-making; how inextricable love is from radical political choices. Her son, Mathieu Demy, appears as a toddler in the film, as does her daughter Rosalie Varda. A film that opens with the bleak tragedy of an unexpected pregnancy concludes with a beautiful multi-generational tableau comprised of the cast and Varda's family.
Agnès Varda, 'Bord de Mer', 2018, Blum & Poe, Tokyo. Courtesy: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo; photograph: Keizo Kioku
It's not to my credit that I was surprised; in Varda's work the term 'hybrid' feels so paltry as to be absurd. Her life encompassed deep love, artistic expression and radical politics, and her films are a reflection of those priorities. The writer Sheila Heti told me that when she met Varda, she asked her how her filmmaking was changed by motherhood. Her answer was hilarious and ingeniously practical: 'I decided to get an extension cord so I could make movies at home.' It's a solution which Varda demonstrates in The Beaches of Agnès, dragging a thick cable out of her house and down the block. Of course, motherhood, family and the larger business of living would not be an impediment to art-making for her: they were all one undertaking.
Across Varda's tremendously diverse output, her larger project was a radical turning outwards, a continual collecting of voices and perspectives. Her filmmaking calls for revolution in both form and life, and for art-making as having a responsibility to both. As she said in her last interview: 'I fought for radical cinema all my life.'
This article appeared in frieze issue 203 with the headline 'Home Movies'
Main image: Agnès Varda, 2019. Courtesy: Getty Images; photograph: Thomas Niedermueller
Sierra Pettengill
Sierra Pettengill is a filmmaker and archivist based in New York.
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L.A. Attorneys Nelson, Rodriguez Elected To State Bar's Board of Governors
By STEVEN M. ELLIS, Staff Writer
Former Los Angeles County Bar Association President Gretchen M. Nelson and Los Angeles Deputy Public Defender Luis J. Rodriguez have been elected to three-year terms on the State Bar's Board of Governors, the group said Friday.
Nelson overwhelmingly beat out two opponents in the race for Seat 1 in District 7—which consists of all of Los Angeles County—with two-thirds of the vote. Rodriguez won election to the district's second seat with approximately 42 percent of ballots cast in a four-way race.
In three other races around the state for seats on the State Bar's governing and policymaking body, attorneys Karen Goodman of Sacramento, Alec Chang of Palo Alto and Loren Kieve of San Francisco won election, respectively, to three-year terms in Districts 2, 3 and 4.
All five will be sworn in at the State Bar's annual meeting Sept. 25 in Monterey, the group said.
'Hybrid' Election
The election, which ran from late April until June 30, marked the State Bar's first "hybrid" vote, in which members could vote by mail or online. Nineteen percent of those eligible to cast ballots did so, up from 16 percent last year, and the State Bar said approximately 44 percent of the almost 19,650 votes cast in the five races came online.
A State Bar spokesperson called the hybrid vote a "success," crediting it for the bump in voter turnout and predicting that it would be used again given the high rate of online participation. About 50 percent of voters cast ballots online in Districts 2, 3 and 4, but that number dipped in District 7 to only 42 percent of nearly 11,900 total votes in the district's two races.
However, the spokesperson added that the group has no plans to switch over to an all-online election system in the immediate future, given the number of voters who chose paper ballots this year.
Nelson, who is currently managing partner of Kreindler & Kreindler and has been a trial lawyer for more than 25 years, garnered 3,959 votes, more than three times that received by the second-place candidate in her race, Manhattan Beach attorney Joseph R. Donnini, who claimed 1,223 votes. Santa Monica attorney Colleen O'Hara came in third with 738 votes.
Rodriguez—a 16-year veteran of the Public Defender's Office who served on the State Board of Education and chaired the State Bar's Council on Access and Fairness—garnered 2,492 votes compared to approximately 1,599 for Los Angeles attorney Daniel Sobelsohn. Los Angeles attorney Stephen K. Hazen received 1,324 votes and private investigator Jeffrey Lustman claimed 583 in his fourth consecutive bid for a seat on the board.
Goodman and Chang each won two-way races by a two-to-one margin, while Kieve took 49 percent of the vote in a three-way contest.
District 7 Winners
Nelson, 55, has represented plaintiffs exclusively since 1988 and was a member of law firm Corinblit & Seltzer and a solo practitioner before joining Kreindler & Kreindler. A graduate of Smith College and Georgetown University Law Center, she serves on the board of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and chairs LACBA's judicial election evaluation committee.
Rodriguez, 43, joined the State Bar in 1994 after attending college and law school at the University of Santa Clara. A former president of the of the California La Raza Lawyers Association, the Mexican American Bar Association and the Latino Public Defenders Association, he was endorsed Los Angeles Public Defender Michael Judge, District Attorney Steve Cooley and former State Bar President Holly Fujie.
Both Nelson and Rodriguez were also endorsed by the Breakfast Club, a group of attorneys whose primary function is endorsing candidates for the State Bar Board of Governors, and Rodriguez credited his success to the backing of that group and others.
Commenting on his election, he told the MetNews:
"I'm extremely honored and obviously pleased. I'm very, very thankful for the support from individuals and bar associations, especially the Breakfast Club, and their help to get out the vote," he said.
'Pleasantly Surprised'
Rodriguez admitted he had been worried with four candidates in his race, but he said he was "pleasantly surprised" to have bested his nearest opponent by almost 1,000 votes.
Nelson could not be reached for comment.
Goodman, 50, is a principal at Goodman & Associates, where she handles professional liability, business and real estate litigation. A past president of California Women Lawyers who graduated from UC Davis and the University of San Francisco School of Law, she has served on the Conference of Delegates and the Legal Malpractice Specialization Commission.
Her opponent was Sonora attorney Mark Borden.
Chang, 45, is an antitrust lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and serves on the boards of the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the Asian Pacific Bar Association of Silicon Valley and the Asian American Law Fund of New York. He also has served as president of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.
He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Tulane University Law School. He defeated Emeryville attorney Mike Schmier.
Kieve, 62, operates his own firm and specializes in complex domestic and international disputes and legal problems, including civil cases, internal investigations, corporate compliance and arbitrations. A graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law, he has worked with large firms on the east and west coasts and has been involved with a variety of law-related organizations, such as the ABA House of Delegates, the ABA's Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Appointments and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area.
His opponents were Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton attorney David DeGroot, who took 42 percent of the vote, and Tiburon attorney Ronald Goldman, who received less than 10 percent.
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Austin's influence on the UK Auto industry during the first half of the Twentieth Century was immense, although it began far from British shores - in the city of Melbourne, Australia.
It was there that Austin studying engineering at Melbourne University had the good fortune to meet up with Frederick Wolseley, Irish-born owner of a precision engineering company.
Wolseley took a liking to the young Austin and offered him a job in his factory, which, at that time was principally involved in producing sheep-shearing machines, although beginning to dabble in auto engineering.
Having gained some invaluable experience in the fledgling automobile industry in 1889 Austin returned to the United Kingdom to continue his profession as an engineer.
However something profound had been kindled inside him, and five years later, in 1904, Hebert Austin made the fateful decision to establish his own car manufacturing company.
Thanks to Austin's drive and ambition, within less than forty years the Austin Motor Company grew to become one of the largest car manufacturers in the World.
Austin, whose work ethic was unsurpassable, headed the company that he formed until his death in 1940.
Ever the visionary, Austin, began handing over the running of the auto empire he had built to his chosen successor, the highly talented Leonard Lord, who he had persuaded to join the company in 1938.
With Lord at the helm, Austin continued to drive forward, with the launch of some new models, in particular, the best-selling 8HP, 10HP, and 12HP models.
In 1939 Britain once again found itself at war, and the Longbridge plant was called upon to play its part, producing huge numbers of aircraft, trucks and cars for military use.
After the war, Austin was soon back in production for the domestic market, soon beginning to realize the potential of the 8hp, 10hp and 12hp models they had released in the late Thirties.
Driven by the exceptional post-war demand, Austin went through a period of massive expansion.
The one-millionth Austin rolled off the assembly lines in 1947 and, a barometer of the company's success, the second millionth ran off the production line just five years later.
This massive surge in sales was driven by the introduction of some new ranges covering a comprehensive spectrum, from the compact car to the limousine,
In 1952 the UK auto industry was stunned by the announcement that the Austin owned Nuffield Group would be amalgamating with the Morris, Group to form the British Motor Corporation (BMC), becoming, overnight, the most substantial car manufacturer not only in Europe, but in the World.
The colossal BMC grew even larger with the addition of Jaguar and Daimler, and by the time Triumph and Rover were amalgamated with the concern it had become the British Leyland Motor Corporation.
Throughout the Fifties, Austin continued to inspire the development of many new BMC cars, which strengthened in 1958 when a design partnership was forged with Pininfarina, the highly regarded, independent Italian car design and coachbuilding companies.
The Anglo/ Italian proved to be particularly fruitful, with the first fruits coming with the launch of the first "new-generation" cars- the Austin A40 Farina.
Up to the late Sixties, BMC remained a crucial player in the UK auto industry, Although their image became gradually tarnished as a result of serious industrial disputes in the company's plants which led to a dramatic fall in quality and rise in delivery dates.
Unbelievably, the massive empire that Herbert Austin had built, almost with his own two hands, gradually faded into insignificance during the Seventies.
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Discussion in 'Comps' started by eloisegirl, May 2, 2016.
My travel friend and I were in LV in October 2015 - stayed at the Encore for two nights as guests of friends, and based on our previous May 2015 play we had a comped room at Palazzo so our third night was at Palazzo. We are going to Venetian in 3 weeks on friend's offer, 3 nights and some FP, and the host combined my offer as well so I get FP too. We also get some credits for Canyon Ranch Spa but probably won't use it. Relaxing? Nah, we have shopping and gambling to do!!!!
We discovered the Gold lounge at Venetian last October and were happy about that. My question is: how long do you stay Gold? Does it last for six months, a year? I noticed that there is a Gold shuttle for Venetian/Palazzo guests, and I have my Gold card but am worried that I show up and they will say, Sorry, you aren't Gold anymore.
We're looking forward to brunch at Lavo, those wicked Lobster Eggs Bennie and Truffle Mac'n'Cheese - some shopping at Fashion Show Mall and a ton of gambling. Alcohol may be consumed. I have MyVegas 2 for 1 Bellagio dinner buffet and MyVegas Bellagio art gallery (for me; pal will probably be gambling).
Gold membership renews on January 1.
15. Gold Level: 20,000 Status Points must be earned in a calendar year period to qualify.
Status level will expire at the end of the following calendar year.
You have it for the year you earn it plus the following calendar year.
Be aware that the Gold Lounge is no more. You still have the status, but some of the perks have gone away.
Yes, if you earned Gold in 2015, you are Gold for 2016, and have all the advantages of Gold until December 31, 2016. Note that although you are Gold, you begin 2016 with 0 Grazie points and will have to earn 20,000 in 2016 to keep Gold for 2017. Since you earn so much faster as Gold than Grazie, its worth keeping Gold status. You can do it in a day or two if you're giving even moderate play.
@ardee - I didn't realize they got rid of the Gold Lounge? Is it under construction or discontinued? When we were there in February it was still there and in working order. Although I must admit, the Gold Lounge is a perk we used infrequently ourselves.
Yes, if you earned Gold in 2015, you have until December 31, 2016 to renew It.
The lounge is still there. It's just that they cut back on all the things that made it a nice perk.
After looking into it a bit more (on another thread and also emailing my host) I learned it is indeed gone. The space is still there but as Irishdave stated it has been rebranded as a high-limit slot lounge. It was a feature we seldom used, but I am still sad to see the option go.
Well, this makes me reconsider V/P as my "backup" property.
I don't really feel like playing at the level to make Platinum.
We'll see after Q2 when I renew my 7*.
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Editor's Note: FloTrack has obtained and published what appears to be the internal U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) report on Alberto Salazar, Dr. Jeffrey Brown, and the Nike Oregon Project that was recently reported on by the Times of London and New York Times, but not published. To verify the authenticity of the document, we reached out to USADA, and spokesman Ryan Madden told FloTrack that USADA could not comment on the status of any anti-doping investigations. The information in this post is based on the document.
"Lance, call me asap! We have tested it and it's amazing. You are the only athlete I'm going to tell the actual numbers to other than Galen Rupp. It's too incredible. All completely legal and natural! You will finish the Iron Man in about 16 minutes less while taking this."
"Ho Steve, read thru this. I'm worried that it's going to take 24 weeks for dathan to get results. In their article it talks about getting the same results in a few days with infusions. Please check into those asap with Dt. [sic] Brown to see if he can do it and of course if it's Wada legal. For everyone else we have time for the supplement to work, for dathan we may not. This has to be a top priority for you this week. Jackie, ciaran, even Galen and mo take backseat to getting dathan ready. I don't care if you come to work, just get this figured out asap."
From there, Magness got the infusion protocol from the drink manufacturer and became the first test subject for the infusion in November, 2011.
All of what follows is from the report, which documents Ritzenhein's sworn testimony in October 2015. According to Ritzenhein, Galen Rupp, Mo Farah, and Steve Magness were joining him on a 15-mile tempo run at 4:50 pace, with Salazar biking along. The authors of the report wrote "it was not anticipated that Magness would be able to stick with the group for long." Farah, Rupp, and Ritzenhein would all make the Olympic 10K final the next year, where they finished first, second, and 13th--they were three of the best runners on the planet at the time. Magness was a decent runner with mile and 5K lifetime bests of 4:01 and 14:21.
Update: Magness tweeted that actually, the run was at 5:05 pace, though he has since deleted the tweet.
According to the testimony allegedly provided by Ritzenhein, "Steve was not nearly as good as we were, basically. And he was...keeping up for a very long time to the point that I remember it distinctly, because it was very annoying, and Galen was quite upset about it afterwards that he was still, just kept hanging in there...it got annoying...[Alberto] was kind of razzing Steve a little bit about how good he was looking and, maybe, that he should run the trials, make a debut marathon there, and stuff like that, but it was just kind of like, there was excitement there, but it was, it was kind of fun, you know, atmosphere, I guess, a little bit. He [i.e., Alberto] was very giddy."
According to the report, "The group knew that Magness had had the infusion." Ritzenhein remembers thinking that "it becomes more of a reality of it's not just something that Alberto talks about, and it never comes to fruition. I mean, he was beefed up about it. He was very excited."
This subsection of the document concludes that "Also at that point, it was clear to Ritzenhein that Salazar desperately wanted each of his runners, including Ritzenhein, to get L-carnitine infusions."


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Georg Schmiedel (též Georg Schmiedl, 11. září 1855, Prostějov – 24. února 1929, Vídeň) byl rakouský učitel, socialista a zakladatel spolku Naturfreunde (Přátelé přírody).

Životopis
Pocházel z učitelské rodiny, od roku 1879 učil na vídeňských obecných školách. Zapojil se do sociálně demokratického hnutí. V roce 1895 založil spolek Naturfreunde. V roce 1919 byl jmenován školním inspektorem města Vídně.

Dílo
 Die Werkstatt des Kindes. (Dílna dítěte) Berlin 1913.
 Nach Werktagsfron zu Feierstunden. (Po robotě všedního dne ke svátečním hodinám) Wien 1923.

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Band 10. Wien 1994, s. 330.

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This game was played on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012 between the Brooklyn Eckfords and the Mineola Washingtons at Old Bethpage Village on Long Island. The game was played by the Base Ball rules of 1864. Mineola won 3-1.


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Gray Treefrog
Common name: Gray Treefrog
Scientific name: (Hyla versicolor)
Classification name: Treefrog
Description: The Gray Treefrog looks identical to Cope's Gray Treefrog. The two speciesand can only be distinguished from each other by their calls. They have rough, green, brown or gray skin with large darker blotches on the back. Like many treefrogs, they have large toe-pads. The two species can be distinguished from other frogs by the dark-edged light spot under the eyes and by bright yellow-orange colouration under the thighs. Adults may reach 6 cm.
Call The Gray Treefrog call is a short flutey trill. The call of Cope's Gray Treefrog is a faster, higher pitched trill. It is similar to that of the American Toad but is much shorter. It has more trill than that of a Wood Frog.
Confusing Species: Other treefrogs found in their range are the Spring Peeper, Boreal Chorus Frog, Western Chorus Frog and the Northern Cricket Frog. The Spring Peeper has a large, dark X on its back while the Chorus Frogs have three stripes down the back. The Northern Cricket Frog, limited only to Pelee Island in southern Ontario, has a dark triangle between the eyes and less distinct markings on the back than the other three species.
Distributions: In Canada, the Gray Treefrog occurs from southeastern Manitoba to New Brunswick. It overlaps with Cope's Gray Treefrog in Manitoba and extreme western Ontario. It is also found in the eastern half of the United States as far south as northern Florida and Texas.
Habitat: These treefrogs may be found on trees and shrubs near permanent water. They prefer mature or second growth woodlands although they may also inhabit orchards. They are rarely seen outside the breeding season.
Reproduction: Breeding occurs in late spring and early summer. During the day they remain in trees around the breeding pond. In the evening, males call from trees and shrubs but enter the pond after finding a mate. Up to 2000 eggs are laid in small clusters of 10-40 attached to vegetation. Eggs hatch within five days and tadpoles metamorphose 40 – 60 days after hatching.
Natural History: The Gray Treefrog is a tetraploid form of Cope's Gray Treefrog, which is to say that it is genetically the same but has four copies of each chromosome instead of the usual two copies. The Gray Treefrog is a true tree frog; it can be found at the top of even the tallest trees. Gray Treefrogs overwinter under leaf litter and snow cover and can survive being frozen solid. Gray Treefrogs are sometimes found on the walls outside a building where there is a light that attracts insects. Like some other treefrogs it is freeze tolerant.
Conservation Concerns: Neither species is believed to be declining. Gray Treefrogs may be increasing in New Brunswick.
Green Frog
Scientific name: Lithobates clamitans
Description:The Green Frog is a large, true frog with large, distinct tympanum and prominent dorsolateral ridges. It may be green, bronze or brown, or a combination but is typically green on the upper lip. The belly is white with darker lines or spots. There may be some irregular spotting on the back. It is distinguished from other frogs in that the dorsolateral ridges run only partway down the back and do not reach the groin. The hind legs have dark bars. Males have a bright yellow throat. Maximum adult size is 10 cm.
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The marriage of marine larva ASOs
Author By Phillip Zhou
Categories: Articles, Biology
From ",https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7007-12-7"
When you're faced with weighty decisions like where to attend school or work full-time, you may naturally wonder what the location you will settle down at is really like. Ideally, you'd get to visit the location and see what it's like for yourself. To ultimately make a good decision, you will need to physically locate and then assess the merits of said environment. For example, I would have never ended up attending school at Amherst if I didn't think it was a good fit, and especially not if visiting beforehand was an impossibility.
It turns out that marine invertebrate larvae operate a lot like high school graduates becoming college students or new entrants to the job market: they locate and travel to their unique locations to settle down. In a weird way, my decision to attend school at Amherst is somewhat reminiscent of the way in which some anemones, sea urchins, and marine worms learn about their surroundings.
For instance, bottom-dwelling sea anemones start off as tiny mobile larvae called "planulae," which swim around in search of a suitable home. Once a nice spot is found, they settle down and metamorphose, each forming a polyp that matures and eventually reproduces. Planulae appraise their environment by using a certain organ called the apical sensory organ (ASO). This structure is located at the "aboral" region of the planula larva, or the region opposite to the future mouth of the animal. It also has sensory cells and, in some, a tuft of hair-like structures called cilia. Like antennae, cilia transduce characteristics of the environment into information that the planula can use. In other words, it is the means by which the coral can successfully find suitable locations for starting colonies.
What is particularly shocking about the apical sensory organ is that it is also found in a large range of animals that are evolutionarily distant from sea anemones, like sea cucumbers or annelids. Furthermore, its general structure seems to be shared across these different species, raising fascinating questions in the field of evolutionary studies. Interestingly, the authors of the paper "Larval body patterning and apical organs are conserved in animal evolution" show that the resemblance of different apical organs is anything but superficial. As the "molecular topography" or patterns of transcription factor expression seem to be similar in the animals investigated in said paper, the authors posit that the ancestors of these invertebrates may have also possessed apical organs of their own.
Representatives from two invertebrate groups, cnidarians and lophotrochozoans, that are known to have larvae with apical organs were used to investigate these resemblances more specifically. Cnidarians are members of the phylum Cnidaria, which consists of familiar animals like jellyfish, sea anemones, and coral. Lophotrochozoans are part of a "clade," which just means that they are descended from a common ancestor. Members of this group include molluscs like snails, segmented worms, flatworms, and more. The representatives that were used were the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis for the cnidarians and the annelid/segmented worm Platynereis dumerilii for the lophotrochozoans.
Using these representatives, the authors ultimately created maps of the top half of the Platynereis and Nematostella embryos and called them "epispheres" (epi- means "above"). The maps prominently feature concentric rings of expression that different genes occupy. For example, the transcription factors six3 and foxq2 are located at the apical poles of the larvae of both Platynereis and Nematostella. These genes are specifically not expressed in the cells composing the poles of the embryos, or those cells that comprise the apical organ. Looking more broadly at these marine larvae, there is a concert of genes arranged in ring-like patterns of expression located at the apical pole that play roles in the formation of the apical organ.
These genes are notably responsive to an evolutionarily ancient form of cell signaling called Wnt signaling, which is responsible for shaping the embryo by establishing its aboral and oral halves. The term "cell signaling" is evocative of its true purpose: cell signaling is a process by which cells communicate, and in this case, it manifests as cells adopting different fates according to their chemical instructions. The authors demonstrate that inhibiting Wnt signaling in Platynereis leads to the expansion or loss of apical organ genes such as six3 and foxq2. This indicates that Wnt signaling has a regulatory role in the formation of the Platynereis apical organ, and mirrors the function of Wnt signaling in the axis establishment in Nematostella.
Taken together, the fact that Nematostella and Platynereis share multiple genes in a concentric ring pattern of expression and both rely on Wnt signaling to pattern their apical ends suggests deep evolutionary conservation of the apical organ. The authors use the central assumption of maximum parsimony to suggest that ancestors of cnidarians and lophotrochozoans could have swum around in prehistoric oceans much like worm and sea anemone larvae do today. This principle is named as such because "parsimonious" is a synonym for "greedy", which ties into its central idea that is essentially Occam's razor applied to phylogenetics. In other words, it states that the evolutionary tree with the least amount of changes required to reach a final point is the most likely one. Here, the authors are able to claim that this organ might be evolutionarily conserved because it takes more effort for an animal to construct an apical organ de novo than just possessing and retaining it through evolutionary time.
If the apical organ is so well-conserved, then what exactly does the apical organ do? Across species and phyla, apical sensory organs seem to be composed of flask-shaped cells that secrete neuropeptides, which are intimately linked to the onset of metamorphosis in animals like corals and sea slugs. The authors of the discussed paper identify various types of neurosecretory cells, such as serotonergic cells, and propose that genes involved in neurosecretory cells such as fezf may be evolutionarily conserved elements that contribute to sensing and the onset of metamorphosis. The data presented suggest that the apical organ is intimately related to the nervous system of these marine invertebrates and communicates with the nervous system somehow to regulate the onset of metamorphosis. In particular, despite having no eyes to speak of, a class of light-sensitive proteins called opsins are found in and around the apical organs of both Nematostella and Platynereis. This suggests that the apical organ also initiates phototaxis, or movement in response to light.
The apical organ even has impacts on some marine invertebrate larvae past their metamorphosis. In Platynereis, the authors strikingly show that apical organ cells persist deep in the brain, at the center of a web of nerve fibers with neurosecretory function. Thus, the authors suggest that ancient invertebrates might have gone through gradual metamorphosis, where the apical organ forms the foundation of the nervous system's organization and therefore its tissue continues to form an important part of the adult's physiology past metamorphosis.
While hard to spot with the naked eye and superficially unremarkable, the apical sensory organ has a profound evolutionary history and function in the proper development of many invertebrate larvae. This study uses comparative genetics in a brilliant way to demonstrate the similarity of marine invertebrate epispheres and ultimately shines light on the logic of the molecular mechanisms that were present in ancient marine invertebrates.
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Rediff.com » Movies » Can Varun, Sara recreate Govinda, Karisma's magic?
Can Varun, Sara recreate Govinda, Karisma's magic?
By Subhash K Jha
December 21, 2019 10:30 IST
'No one can equal them. No one should even try,' says David Dhawan.
Although David Dhawan has made 44 films, none has made him as nervous as his underproduction film Coolie No 1, a remake of David's 1995 hit featuring Govinda and Karisma Kapoor.
Varun Dhawan, David's son, and Sara Ali Khan feature in the two roles that Chi Chi and Lolo made memorable.
Comparing the two sets of actors is an exercise in futility for David.
"Govinda and Karisma created magic on screen. No one can equal them. No one should even try," he says. "Varun and Sara are in a completely different zone, freed of the burden of trying to be like their predecessors."
David feel comparisons are unfair. "Agreed, I am remaking my own film. So there will be comparisons. But the two pairs belong to different eras. It's like comparing a Bentley with a Porche. They are not comparable."
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Daughter of Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
What it is: the long-awaited sequel to Moloka'i, which follows Ruth Utagawa, the daughter of Rachel Kalama.
The story: Born in the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, Ruth grows up in California on her Japanese adoptive parents' farm. When World War II begins, the entire family is sent to an internment camp.
Dear George, Dear Mary
by Mary Calvi
What it's about: the 1756 courtship of heiress Mary Philipse by the dashing young colonel George Washington. Can their engagement weather separation, scandal, and Mary's stormy temperament?
Why you might like it: This bittersweet novel draws on diaries and correspondence to recreate life in 18th-century colonial America.
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Introducing: Ji Lin, a seamstress who moonlights as a dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia, and Ren, an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy who has made a promise to carry out his employer's dying wish.
What happens: The discovery of a severed finger is the catalyst for multiple, ultimately converging, narratives.
Is it for you? Like The Ghost Bride, author Yangsze Choo's debut, The Night Tiger's subtle supernatural elements evoke Malay folklore.
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by Whitney Scharer
What it is: an atmospheric biographical novel about American photographer Lee Miller.
More than a muse: Though best known for her involvement with fellow artist Man Ray, Miller also models for Vogue, studies painting, becomes a war correspondent, and later, finds fame as a food writer.
For fans of: the artistic expats in Paula McLain's The Paris Wife, the complex protagonist of William Boyd's Sweet Caress, or the intrepid female war correspondents of Meg Clayton White's The Race for Paris.
Cherokee America
by Margaret Verble
Introducing: "Check" Singer, the no-nonsense matriarch of a mixed-race family in 1875 Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). She's got a husband to bury, five sons to raise, a farm to run, and a community to hold together in the face of violence and oppression.
Why you might like it: a strong sense of place and a diverse cast of authentic characters make this novel a memorable read.
About the author: Margaret Verble's previous novel, Maud's Line, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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The term Derby Gaol historically refers to the five gaols in Derby, England.  Today, the term usually refers to one of two small 'tourist attractions', the gaol which stood on Friar Gate from 1756 to 1846 and the cells of which still exist and are open to the public.   Their possible location, size and function have been assigned for the attraction, along side a modern kitchen and bar.   The 1843 to 1929 Vernon Street Prison whose frontage can still be seen today, but has been the prison has been redeveloped for modern commercial use.

History
In 1652 the Cornmarket Gaol (no longer extant) was the site of the imprisonment of George Fox on charges of blasphemy.  Fox became the founder of the Christian denomination the Religious Society of Friends, perhaps better known as the Quakers.  It has been alleged that Judge Bennett of Derby first used the term Quaker to describe the movement, as they bid him to 'quake for fear of the Lord', but the phrase had already been used in the context of other religious groups so the etymology is dubious.

The last person to be hanged at Derby Gaol was William Slack on 16 July 1907 for the murder of Lucy Wilson.

Friar Gate Gaol
The Friar Gate Gaol was site of many hangings, and the small attraction today displays reproduction newspaper accounts of the executions on the walls, a replica of a gallows which stood in front of the building can be located in the small garden of the gaol.   The police museum has subsequently closed.

The New County Gaol (Vernon Street Prison)
The Vernon Street Prison served as the County Gaol from 1843 to 1919, at which time it was demolished.  The last public execution at Derby of Richard Thorley for the murder of Eliza Morrow took place here in 1862.  From 1919 to 1929 the prison acted as a military prison.  Following demolition, the site served as a Derby Greyhound Stadium, and today contains prestige offices, though the historical facade still remains.

Notable prisoners
Jeremiah Brandreth - High Treason
Humphrey Berisford - Recusant

References

External links
History of Derby County Gaol from theprison.org.uk
Derby Gaol website

Museums in Derby
Prisons in Derbyshire
Prison museums in the United Kingdom
Defunct prisons in England


PATRIOTISM is the sum of social and political virtue; the tangible expression of a people's intelligent appreciation of worthy institutions. Founded upon a nation's civilization it rises like some fair temple, bounded by the wisdom of the statesman, towering with the aspiration of the people, and beautified with an unselfish devotion. In this virtue Todd County was early schooled. Coming into existence at the close of the Revolutionary war, and its people imbued with the chivalric sentiment of the Old Dominion State, love of country became an absorbing passion, and national affairs the absorbing theme of debate. Many of the early settlers were of that heroic stock that bore "the burden and heat of the day," and their precept and example serving to intensify the natural bent of the general mind, added an influence which has made Todd County, like every Southern community, a determined partisan.


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Exeter-Milligan hosts Family Art Night
Above – Daisy Kanode paints Axel Erdkamp's face at the Exeter-Milligan Family Art Night.
Below – Haylee Sheffield helps Liberty Johnson and Troy Kallhoff at the fingerprint painting station.
Exeter-Milligan held their second annual Family Art Night in the Exeter-Milligan gym on Tuesday, March 22. Parents, guests and students were treated to an art exhibit in the entryway and on various display locations throughout the gym.
In addition, to a display of the artwork, there were multiple stations were everyone was invited to do hands on artwork. From painting to freeform sculpture with pipe cleaners, there was something for everyone.
Manning the stations were sixth through twelfth graders in the art department at Exeter-Milligan. Art teacher, Mrs. Lisa Kanode, created the successful event last year and expanded it this year.
This year the students created a giant chandelier with water bottles that they dripped paint in, let dry and then cut in a spiral. Also added this year was a drone flying station.
The face painting station was very popular along with the crayon rubbing station. The participants also enjoyed fingerprint painting and putting their faces in the carnival cutouts made from classic paintings.
Above– Around the paper weaving table at Family Art Night (left to right) are Liberty Johnson, Karoline Knudsen, Rachel Vossler, Jolene Vossler and Mary Lou Vossler.
Below – Elementary Principal Laura Kroll and parent Brittanie Schlueter watch as Samantha Horne helps Brooklyn Oldehoeft make some marbled paper.
Exeter-Milligan Update: Math Musings
Math Musings, by Mary Kay Pribyl, E-M Math Instructor
The Algebra III class is studying data analysis. They have been studying the relationship between two variable data and determining if there is a linear, quadratic, or exponential relationship. The students are using their graphing calculator to write an equation for the data and using their equations to make predictions. Evan True, Evan Harre, and Carmin Colacci are shown working with the data.
Exeter Public Library Plans for National Library Week
The Exeter Public Library will be having a used and new book sale starting Friday (April 8), and going until Monday, April 18. Proceeds go toward Storybook Park renovation.
Saturday, April 9 the library will be hosting an open house to kick off the week and show off the new furniture, the services we provide, and more. It is from 2-4 p.m. Refreshments will be provided, and there will be a drawing.
On Thursday, April 14 there will be a demonstration for the new Cricut that was donated to the library from 5 - 7 p.m. Come find out how you can use this fun machine.
April will be fine forgiveness month at the Exeter Public Library. Overdue books returned by April 30 will not be charged a fine -- just as long as we get them back. If said books aren't returned by then, fines will again be due starting May 1. In accordance with our policy, patrons who damage or lose books will have to pay for a replacement.
Aloha! It is time to shake out your grass skirt and get ready to join the 2016 Fillmore County Relay For Life. The theme of this year is Re-Lei For a Cure. The Executive Committee has been meeting since last year's event and is ready to hula our way to finding a cure for that dreaded disease.
We are kicking off our season with a night, Saturday, April 9, at Lazy Horse Vineyard (211 Road 20, Ohiowa). We will be there from 5:00PM – 8:00PM to meet and greet people while enjoying good food and handing out information about how to become involved. Come anytime and see what we are about.
Can't make that evening, but still want to wear that grass skirt? There will be a golf tournament on June 5th, complete with prizes, luau-related games, and much more. You can easily get on board for that by calling the Hidden Hills Country Club at 759-3084.
Of course, the biggest luau of the season will be on Saturday, July 30, at the Fillmore County Courthouse. Much more information will follow – but now is the time to mark your calendar.
Putting together a Relay For Life takes a community willing to kokua (give help in Hawaiian). The committee needs more people and teams who want to rid the world of cancer. Please contact Kaela Lockhart (266-1038; kaela.lockhart@fillmorecentral.org) or Denice Kovanda (759-1431; dkovanda@emwolves.net) or visit our website: http://relayforlife.org/fillmorecone
Aloha for now!
Obituary: Arlan Becker
Arlan Joseph Becker was born to Joseph N. and Mathilda K. (Ries) Becker on June 14, 1927, at Exeter, NE, and passed away at the Fillmore County Hospital in Geneva, NE on March 31, 2016 at the age of 88 years 9 months and 17 days. He was the oldest of six children in the family. Arlan was baptized on June 19, 1927 and was later confirmed at the St. Stephen Catholic Church in Exeter and remained a member his entire life, attending as his health permitted.
Arlan attended country school and graduated from eighth grade in David City. Arlan served his country in the United States Army from January 29, 1946 to April 28, 1947. He received his training at Fort Collins in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was stationed in little Rock, Arkansas.
Arlan met his future wife, Eleanor, at a dance in Burress, NE. Their first date was to the Fillmore County Fair, and they dated for twenty months and were engaged for nine months before Arlan married Eleanor Rose Engle on June 21, 1949, at St Stephen Catholic Church, Exeter, NE. by Father Durr. They made their home in Exeter, NE and lived in the same house their entire married life. Arlan was a loving caregiver to Eleanor after her stroke in 1979.
Arlan's years of employment included Huston Truck Line as a truck driver, Fillmore County Roads Department as a road grader for two years, Kiester - Walker for twelve years, and Slepicka Brothers for twenty years. He worked for his brother-in-law George Engle during the summer months. He then was self-employed doing custom blade work.
Arlan and Eleanor are remembered for riding their horses and being accompanied with their friends Wayne and Gladys Petersen. They loved attending country western dances at the Border Inn. Bob O'Neill and the Playboys from Hebron, Ne was one of their favorite bands. They enjoyed going to area auctions and opened their own thrift shop in 1996.
Arlan was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Roland (Jake} and Donald, brothers-in-law
James Loukota, Lyle Farrell, Robert Weichert, Frank Engle, Ronald Uldrich; brothers-in law/sisters-in-law George and Phyllis Engle; Harold and Helen Engle; Willis and Beth Engle; Delbert and Ruth Sorge; sister-in-law Anna Vnoucek.
Arlan is survived by his wife, Eleanor Becker; sisters Loretta Farrell of North Platte; Donna Jean Weichert of Fort Calhoun and Agnes Ann Loukota of Exeter; sister-in-law Mary Uldrich of Milligan; brother-in-law Joe Vnoucek of Friend; many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Funeral Mass for Arlan was at 10:00 am Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at the St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Exeter, Nebraska with Father Steve Thomlison officiating.
Memorials are directed to the Exeter American Legion in lieu of flowers
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This course begins with a general overview of financial statements and then goes into more detail about financial concepts, financial instruments and techniques used in financial decision-making. The main objectives of this course are to introduce you to the world of finance. Anyone involved in the management of a business needs to have a basic knowledge of business finance and basic financial concepts such as financial statement analysis, the time value of money, risk and return, investment valuation, capital budgeting, the cost of capital and leverage.


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How and Why Global Startup, Groupado, Empowers Influencers, and Non-Essential Businesses to Monetize Expertise via Virtual Experiences Hosted with Online Tool
Coronavirus has disrupted lives throughout the world and has shaken up the economy on multiple fronts. For owners of "non-essential" businesses like gyms, yoga studios, nightclubs, salons, and many others that have been ordered closed, the future seems bleak. However, there are many, especially those who regularly had weekly, bi-weekly, or bi-monthly classes, that … Continued
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Coronavirus has disrupted lives throughout the world and has shaken up the economy on multiple fronts.
For owners of "non-essential" businesses like gyms, yoga studios, nightclubs, salons, and many others that have been ordered closed, the future seems bleak.
However, there are many, especially those who regularly had weekly, bi-weekly, or bi-monthly classes, that are converting their once in-person engagements to virtual workshops. And others still who are seizing the opportunity to begin hosting virtual experiences for the very first time.
Groupado, a global online community platform and tool for influencers and thought leaders to host classes and workshops, is at the forefront of supporting founders with making a transition to the virtual world.
"Groupado is a tool for all talented people to monetize their audience," commented co-founder Adnane Tekaya.
Currently headquartered in Dubai, UAE, the global startup is already making headway in nearby countries, including Tunisia.
Groupado has already begun collaboration with professionals in Tunisia, and have been able to support startups in overcoming the coronavirus crisis.
"Groupado has just started to collaborate in Tunisia, and is working with over 10,000 retired professionals ranging from lawyers, to judges, to engineers, to host experiences to support struggling startups with overcoming the crisis," added Tekaya.
Groupado is a comprehensive online tool for people who want a place to set up, promote, monetize, and communicate with their audience. The direct messaging feature is just one of many to support creators with a "one stop shop" solution to monetize.
Now more than ever before people are taking to the Internet to learn new skills as well as monetize the skills they already have, groupado, with its easy to use interface, is poised to be the next "go-to" tool to support creators and learners alike.
Even more than a tool, groupado is a global community of motivated professionals, creatives, and influencers who want to make a difference in the world and make money at the same time.
You can learn more about groupado here.
Entrepreneur | Writer | Producer
Alter New Media
A storyteller since childhood, Nadya Rousseau worked as a professional actor, freelance journalist, and multimedia producer before pivoting to digital marketing and business development. To date, Nadya has worked with clients ranging from startups, to nationally recognized law firms, to nonprofits, to entertainers and more. In late 2016, Nadya founded a purpose-forward global digital marketing & PR agency, Alter New Media. The agency has its own influencer board, representing influencers worldwide. Nadya also has a best-selling Instagram growth and management service, Instagram Rockstar, that since its launch on the "Fiverr PRO" platform in late 2017, has serviced over 400 customers. Verticals served range from tech, fashion/beauty, cannabis, consumer, professional services, and many more. Nadya's opinions on business, entrepreneurship, and marketing have been featured in Forbes, American Express Open Forum, Voyage LA, and Honeysuckle Magazine. Nadya has additionally partnered with several influential social media campaigns, including The Nylon Project's fashion initiative "#Itcanbeyou" to raise awareness about the homelessness epidemic and is highly active with nonprofit organizations via the creation of "purposeful partnerships" via ANM. Alter New Media is an in-kind partner for StartOut, the nation's largest organization serving LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs. Through her storytelling-based strategies, Nadya has successfully taken her clients' social media reach from non-existent to in the thousands, landing them new customers, partnerships, and revenue. Her purpose? To help her clients achieve their business goals while also making a difference in the world. For Thrive, Nadya covers entrepreneurship, identity, and lifestyle.


The Four is a collaboration project which will incorporate photos, poetry and/or a prose response to a bi-weekly challenge. Every second Sunday, we will respond to the challenge and post our results. We will be taking turns issuing the challenges and are excited to see how our interpretations work together. We are four Canadians living in four diverse regions living four distinct lives. Connected by a love of photography, a desire for deeper expression, belief in the power of collaboration and heart's connection.
Darlene Kreutzer lives in a wee colourful cottage with her musician husband and sports-minded son in a lovely old eclectic neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. When she is not scribbling in her notebooks or playing with light, she can usually be found sketching, painting, twisting up jewerly designs, puttering in her kitchen and tending her garden.
She is grateful for family, the light that casts beauty across shadows, music that lifts emotions, a little house and garden filled with colour and love, friends and inspirations, the beauty of nature, the ocean's cold spray, the soft barnacle skin of the grey whale and the possibilities that exist in life.
other collaborations include polaroid girls and exquisite corpse collective.
Kirsten Crilly never imagined when she looked through the lens of her first SLR camera, less then two years ago, that it would forever change the way she saw the world and herself in it. What began as an interest in capturing glimpses of her growing children, has becoming a journey of extraordinary self-discovery. She is incredibly excited to be a part of this collaborative team and is truly grateful to Darlene, Maddie and Jaime for embracing and nurturing this adventure with her.
She is the homeschooling mother of a logical thinking 9~year~old boy and a dreamy 5~year~old brown~eyed girl. She knows with all certainty she's learning more about living from them, then she will ever be able to teach them about life.
She would like to take this opportunity to thank her husband, children, family and friends for their constant love and support.
She resides in the Nation's Capital and is currently dreaming of a little photography studio of her very own.
Jaime Brandel resides in a cozy little ocean-side space on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She works as a piano teacher and photographer and can't decide if it's more work or play!
She is a blissful wanderer and quiet observer who sees the world in pictures. Her deep respect for the fleeting nature of things entices her to capture little stories inside her camera before they are lost forever.
When she is not looking through the lens, you might find her beachcombing for interesting treasures, climbing small mountains, tending to her small garden or perhaps losing herself in other people's stories.
Madelyn Mulvaney is a published writer and photographer who lives in her glorious sea to sky city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her curiosity leads her to unchartered magic and she loves to take her camera out to capture the quirks, beauty and poetry of the world.


I thought the costumes in VDT were'nt as good as LWW and PC, although Isis did a good job, as always!
I had a really bad dream last night, which was set in a conference centre. I think it was a Narnia conference. I had some piece of paper in my hand. The leader stood up and said: "Michael Apted will be directing ALL the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia films". Everyone but me and my dad applauded! I was totally dumbfounded that Walden and Fox would make such a decision. I stood up and tore the sheet of paper in frustration! I jumped up and down and felt like shouting and screaming. Then I woke up.
What is the probability of him directing MN???
I think that Andrew and Michael should direct the movie together. And I hope that Harry-Gregson Willams comes back.
dreams can be so freaky sometimes….
I SOOOOO agree with you. I was just thinking about how much I miss Andrew directing the films. The costumes are good, too.
What a horrible dream… Let's hope and pray it's not prophetic.
Ooh! So cool! Interesting how stuff for the Dufflepuds are plant-inspired.
Yeah the dufflepuds costumes are the BEST!
According to the caption, there's an extra D tacked on the end.
It would have been fun to act out one of those kids in Lucy's dream. I'd love to wear one of those old-fashioned styles!! I wish they would come back to America!! Nowadays, we're so immodest!
Seriously, write a letter to Walden Media.
Isis is amazing! I would wear these to parties if I could. Very detailed! Now it's easier for me to understand what Jill meant in The Silver Chair when she said that Narnian clothes PWNED.
Cool! I'm gonna try to draw her in anime!
I wish we had all the sketches for all of Isis's costumes!
Wow! I absolutely loved these costumes! Isis did an amazing job as always! I cannot wait to see costumes in the next film!
Pretty neat, I don't have that drawing talent!


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Lace is unquestionably predominant in Dior Couture SS17 by Maria Grazia Chiuri.
The ex-Valentino designer takes her inspiration from a journey into a forest full of spells and mythological creatures, something between Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeare's imagination.
"The collection felt like a wander into the forest of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where lovers chase each other down mossy pathways and the queen of fairies casts her spells."
— Maria Grazia Chiuri
Napoleon made the lace mandatory to wear at his court.
Also known as "crochet" and "tatting", there are two technical categories of lace: needle lace (derived from embroidery), and bobbin or pillow lace (where the thread is wound around the bobbins and then woven over a drum-shaped cushion).
Lace made its first appearance in late sixteenth century in Venice (needle lace) and Flanders (bobbin lace), spreading then to France, Britain, Spain and Switzerland. Finally, in nineteenth-century in Nottingham, England, the first lace machines were invented.
Traditionally, the fabric's transparency was created by drawing on the threads on a linen base, then the machines embroider directly onto a light mesh structure.
Even if lace was also used in men's clothing in the eighteenth century, in the nineteenth it became an exclusively female fabric – and has never gone out of fashion: each designer who used it, managed to create something different and new.
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This ring join choirs and choral music related web-sites, such as home pages of choirs, choral organizations, choral music shops, choir directors, composers, etc.
The site is a multi-interest blogging and community listing site. You can subscribe (free) as a choir or regular member. Once validated you can add events to the listing area and create private or public groups to discuss choral matters. The site will evolve as the members request features. The easiest option to to add your choirs profile page and list some events.
Recently launched Boy Choir Magazine offers stories, interviews and photos of boy choirs around the world.
The Official Website of the Chorus Urbanus, a mixed choir hailing from Victoria, Gozo, in Malta. This site offers information about the Choir's rich history as well as its achievements.
Find useful information and guidance for training your voice for choral performance.


lol, I love the photo the SMH editors chose for Paul Keatings comments on Joe Hockey's plan to allow people to use superannuation to buy their home.
Its almost like you can hear him saying "You turkey!!! You don't deserve to run a school tuckshop"
We miss you Paul!! Please come back!!


The Muckno Mania Festival Committee are holding a Cake Sale and Coffee Morning this coming Sunday 15th April between 10am and 1pm in the Scout Hall, York Street, Castleblayney.
Join the Muckno Mania Committee for some delicious baked goods and a cup of coffee to help raise funds for this year's 20th Muckno Mania Festival.
Muckno Mania Festival is planned and implemented by a Committee of local people in Castleblayney and is run under the auspices of Castleblayney Community Enterprise. The Festival Programme includes a variety of activities aimed at all sections of the community and primarily promotes arts, music, dance, creative arts, sports, and crafts.


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NIGERIA NEEDS TO BREAK UP AND NOT RESTRUCTURE--OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU
Wednesday August 10th, 2016.
Nigeria needs ethnic self-determination and break up into smaller nations, not even restructuring and certainly not the present nonsensical arrangement can ever work in meeting needs of the citizenry.
Why? The country is a farce, created by a colonizer, and run largely by soldiers of fortune. Oluwatoyin Vincent AdepojuRight wing Islamists as dominate Northern Nigeria cannot coexist peacefully with anyone else. Their only condition for peace is that they dominate you and do what they like with you, such as killing your people anytime they wish.
These right wing Islamists are the most consistent power bloc in Nigerian history and their presence as a dominant force within the nation means the country can only grow at the pace of these largely feudal and medieval characters because they are prepared to do anything to maintain their dominance, with terrorism being their major tool in creating fear and destabilization, from mob and group murders to threats of violence to coups and organized terrorism.
Within a nation that has no collective identity, no shared sense of history or shared values, what will you get? A culture of everybody for themselves and their cronies, which Buhari is displaying in full glare in his ethnoreligious agenda in spite of the trans-ethnic coalition that brought him to power.
The culture of everybody for themselves and their cronies is the core of corruption. Corruption is, therefore, an expression of the absence of cohesive identity and vision in the contraption of a nation. This fact is manifest, among many other examples such as the defense of Boko Haram in the first two years of its 2011 escalation, in the defense of Abacha by Buhari and even by some other Northern Muslims, with Buhari declaring Abacha never stole, even as these figures day and night castigate what they say is the corruption of GEJ's govt.
The SW followers of APC thought they could ride the Northern Muslim bandwagon into Aso Rock, but they are in Aso Rock as if they are not there.
Zik will never be a hero for Yoruba people. Awolowo will never be a hero for Igbo people. The Sardauna will never be a hero for Igbo or Yoruba people. Neither Zik nor Awo will ever be a hero for the Muslim North. The Muslim North's almost mythic figure Usman Dan Fodio will never be a hero for most Yoruba people and certainly never for Igbo people. Of these figures, Zik and Awo will have some meaning for members of the smaller ethnic groups; less so for the Sardauna and most likely not for Dan Fodio, who is likely almost alien to many from those demographics, while the people of Benin trace their own contemporary history to interaction at a state level with the outside world well before colonialism and before then, to a line of kings and a proud empire. The various Edo peoples, the Cross River peoples and numerous others all have their own proud histories. From their resistance to colonialism with Jaja of Opobo to pre-colonial international trade, among many other historical foundations, most or all of which might not be part of the Nigerian project in which disparate people were forced into a nation without their consent. Movement for New Nigeria (MNN) agreed to above map to be future federations for a devolved Nigeria.
The welding of a nation by force is not working. All the ethnicities should decide how they want to move forward. Its more realistic to be a small giant, as many developed countries are, than to be a lumbering and directionless behemoth, regressing decade after decade.
Those ethnicities who wish to be on their own or form national coalitions should do so. But to insist on this current nation, perhaps even in the name of so called restructuring, looks to me like looking for more of the vampirism represented by legally entrenched blood sucking manifest in ridiculous incomes for politicians and the recurrent terrorism flows from the Muslim North – the latest being state-supported Fulani herdsmen militia and random murders of Christians in the North.
Source:INC.USA.ORG


To write custom asp.net trace messages Trace.Write() and Trace.Warn() methods can be used. The only difference, between these 2 methods is that, the messages written using Trace.Warn() are displayed in red colour, where as the messages written using Trace.Write() are displayed in black colour. In fact, What is the difference between Trace.Write() and Trace.Warn() is a very common asp.net interview question.
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