To apply for this position, you can submit a SHS Employment Application in place of a Resume.
The Red Lake Navigation Center (temporary shelter space) provides a warm, supervised, welcoming, and affirming environment for single adult men or women as identified by collaborating partners from the Hiawatha encampment. This position involves providing hospitality to shelter residents and meeting their immediate needs in terms of sleeping space and basic daily needs.
This position works on-site at the Red Lake Navigation Center. The shelter space at the Navigation Center can serve up to 120 single adults. The Navigation Center will be open 24 hours a day from approximately December 2018 to May 2019.
This position requires staff to work indoors and outdoors in a team of 4 people.
Provide a welcoming environment for guests.
Be able to handle frequent emergency situations including medical situations and client altercations.
Be able to deescalate and empathize with shelter guests, while creating a safe environment.
Know, communicate, and execute shelter procedures.
Coordinate paperwork, greet and screen guests at the shelter.
Sort and distribute donated and purchased supplies including bedding and other items.
Communicate in both written and verbal form about daily concerns or incidents.
Be available for questions and provide information to shelter guests.
Complete specific daily duties of shelter.
Overnight shifts require staff to be awake throughout the night.
Communicate and coordinate services with all team members.
Be on-time for scheduled shifts and required meetings.
Ability to assist and support guests with crisis and conflict management issues.
Be knowledgeable about harm reduction, homelessness and the shelter system.
Log clear and concise case notes of daily events.
Maintain accurate records including employee time sheets.
Collect and manage client information as needed.
Interpret and promote the program to community members.
Develop and maintain positive working relationships with staff and community partners.
Professional behavior, dress, and conduct are expected in all aspects of work with guests as well as contact with the community.
Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with participants, providers and others.
Adhere to a professional boundaries in interactions with guests, volunteers, staff and public.
Patience, flexibility, ability to listen, assertiveness and compassion.
Ability to be decisive and effective under pressure.
Ability to maintain composure in crisis situations.
Reliable transportation to and from shifts (no transportation of guests is required).
Knowledge or experience with low-income and homeless populations is preferred.
Knowledge of mental health, chemical health, and trauma-informed care is desired.
Experience in providing direct social services desired.
Well-qualified applicants will have experience working with homeless individuals, confidence managing conflict in congregate living settings, knowledge of harm reduction practices and philosophies, and cultural competency or flexibility with individuals experiencing personal and historical trauma.
The employee, in collaboration with the participant, must determine the needs of the participants and how best to meet these needs.
To provide adequate assistance to participants, the employee must draw on the ability to empathize, problem solve, and the ability to accept people unconditionally with an openness to new ideas.
The employee must understand and apply knowledge of homelessness and social support systems in terms of providing services to participants in crisis.
The employee must be able to hear and speak, in order to communicate with staff and participants in person, on the telephone and in writing. Employee must be able to move about the shelter locations. Employee must be able to lift up to 20 lbs on an occasional basis.
Tell me about a time you had to respond to a situation when clients were arguing.
How comfortable would you be responding to the needs of a client in a medical situation; for example if a client stopped breathing?
What led you to apply for this position and why do you desire to work with people experiencing homelessness?
How would you describe your style or approach when working with homeless people?
What other times weekend hours are you available to work and how many hours per week?
How do you feel about working in an environment with clients that are using drugs or alcohol (harm reduction programming)?
Do you have experience working with homeless, mentally ill or chemically addicted individuals, if so tell us about it.


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UFC coming to China in November
CotaiArena in Macau, China Credit: UFC
By Mark La Monica Updated July 4, 2012 5:42 AM
The UFC announced Tuesday night that it will host a fight card in China on Nov. 10, 2012, specifically at the CotaiArena in Macau, a special administrative region of the country.
No actual fights have been announced yet, but the card will air on Fuel TV here in the U.S.
"Breaking into a market with a population of over 1.3 billion is both a testament to the growth of our sport and a long-term challenge we are excited to undertake," said Lorenzo Fertitta, UFC Chairman and CEO, in a statement. "This is just the first of many world-class fights we plan to hold over the coming years in China, one of the birthplaces of martial arts. The world-class CotaiArena in Macau is an ideal place to start this journey."
The arena, owned by the Sands company, seats 15,000 fans and is located at The Venetian's Resort-Hotel in Macau.
The UFC said it already reaches 450 million viewers in China, and has more than 500 million unique viewers to Internet content in the country.

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This week on episode 28 of the CrownHoops podcast, Jordan Daly, Michael White, Stacey Collier, and Ben Okazawa celebrate a decade of amazing moments within the NBA. On part one of two in the 'Best of the Decade' series, the guys take a look back
Dec 21, 2019 by Jordan Daly, CEO in CrownHoops Podcast
NBA MVP Race So Far: Luka Doncic vs. LeBron James
On November 19, Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James secured another triple-double in a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The triple-double against the Thunder was historic. James became the first player in history to record that stat line against every team in the NBA.
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NBA Defensive Rating: Determining the Longevity of the Top 10
The NBA season is finally in full swing and many teams are already showing great signs on the defensive side of the floor. Other teams are suffering defensively and their win-loss record shows it. With that, comes one of the best determining factors of team
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When it comes to the NBA, the small forward has always been arguably the most important position. Just look at the plethora of greats who have played at the small forward spot. The position is extremely important as it is somewhat of a Swiss Army
Fair Pay-to-Play NCAA Rule: Top Three "What if" Scenarios
Athletes across the world, professional and amateur alike, rejoiced on Tuesday. This came at the news that the NCAA governing board unanimously agreed to allow NCAA athletes to profit. Now, it's not like they're being paid just to play the sport, as that would make
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Tiger King: Shocking New Details About Carole Baskin's Missing Husband Revealed in Upcoming '48 Hours Suspicion' Special
By Adam Barnhardt - September 4, 2020 04:33 pm EDT
Even with all that's going on in the year 2020, Carole Baskin has managed to keep herself in the news cycle throughout the duration of the year. First becoming a household name due to the release of Tiger King at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Baskin has subsequently been added as a contestant on the next season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Now she finds herself back in the limelight due to the release of a new 48 Hours special looking into the disappearance of her previous husband Don Lewis.
Lewis mysteriously disappeared in 1997, an event that served as a major plot point of the Tiger King docuseries. As it turns out, Lewis' will — which left Baskin all sorts of land and cold hard cash — has since confirmed as forged document.
Airing Wednesday, September 9th on CBS, The Tiger King Mysterday sat down with Trish Farr-Payne to uncover some startling new evidence in the disappearance. Farr-Payne is the ex-wife of long-time Lewis handyman Kenny Farr and will say on the show she believes her ex-husband may have had something to do with the disappearance of his boss.
Just days before Lewis was reported missing, Farr-Payne says her ex-husband came home from work one day and told her, "Don's gone, and I don't want you talking about him." She will then go on to explain how a locked freezer on her porch soon disappeared after Farr's ominous comments.
"I was afraid for my kids," Farry-Payne tells 48 Hours. "You know, I had my kids. I was afraid for them. I was more afraid for them than anything."
Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister has gone on-record saying Baskin is neither a suspect or a person of interest in the case. It was Chronister who confirmed the forgery of Lewis' will earlier this summer, revealing the statue of limitiations on any criminal charges had long expired.
"They called in some experts to say that the will was a forgery and I had already told them that two months ago," Chronister mentioned. "They had two experts deem it 100% a forgery."
"That's the only reason. There's no recourse," he added. "A judge deemed it valid. So the civil side of it, with the execution of the will [and] dispersement of the funds is one thing. But then you have the criminal side which is unable to prosecute."
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness is now streaming on Netflix. The Tiger King 48 Hours special will air at 9/8 p.m. Central on Wednesday, September 9th.
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_valgrind_ rebased to version 3.11.0 Valgrind is an instrumentation framework that is used for debugging memory, detecting memory leaks, and profiling applications. The package has been upgraded to upstream version 3.11.0. Highlighted improvements include: * The JIT's register allocator is now significantly faster, making JIT-intensive activities, for example program startup, approximately 5% faster. * Intel AVX2 support is now more complete for 64-bit targets. On AVX2-capable hosts, the simulated CPUID will now indicate AVX2 support. * The default value for the *--smc-check* option has been changed from `stack` to `all-non-file` on targets that provide automatic D-I cache coherence. The result is to provide, by default, transparent support for JIT generated and self-modifying code on all targets. Highlighted new features in the *Memcheck* utility include: * The default value for the *--leak-check-heuristics* option has been changed from `none` to `all`. This helps to reduce the number of possibly lost blocks, in particular for C++ applications. * The default value for the *--keep-stacktraces* option has been changed from `malloc-then-free` to `malloc-and-free`. This has a small cost in memory but allows *Memcheck* to show the 3 stack traces of a dangling reference: where the block was allocated, where it was freed, and where it is accessed after being freed. * The default value for the *--partial-loads-ok* option has been changed from `no` to `yes`, to avoid false-positive errors resulting from certain vectorised loops. * A new gdb monitor command "xb [addr] [len]" shows the validity bits of `[len]` bytes at `[addr]`. The monitor command "xb" is easier to use than *get_vbits* when you need to associate byte data value with their corresponding validity bits. * The "block_list" gdb monitor command has been enhanced: it can print a range of loss records; it now accepts an optional argument, `limited [max_blocks]`, to control the number of printed blocks; if a block has been found using a heuristic, then "block_list" now shows the heuristic after the block size; the loss records/blocks to print can be limited to the blocks found via specified heuristics. * A new *--expensive-definedness-checks=yes|no* command-line option has been added. This is useful for avoiding occasional invalid uninitialized-value errors in optimized code. Beware of potential runtime degradation, as this can be up to 25%. The slowdown is highly application-specific though. The default value is `no`.
- "to avoid false-positive errors resulting from certain of vectorised loops."
I think "of" should be removed from that sentence.
- It would probably be good to explicitly say "gdb monitor command" instead of just "monitor command". Then users know it is a monitor command they would use with the valgrind gdb integration.
> loops." I think "of" should be removed from that sentence.
> would use with the valgrind gdb integration.


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Parapallene obtusirostris is een zeespin uit de familie Callipallenidae. De soort behoort tot het geslacht Parapallene. Parapallene obtusirostris werd in 1963 voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Clark.

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Margot returns to her private wing with a smile on her face. Her steps fall quickly, her excitement hardly contained. How can you be so foolish, girl? It will be no time before the walls whisper of how easily you were charmed to the point of acting like a simple harlot, her conscience begins to admonish; but even that could not dampen her elation.
She was bold, many of her actions rash and without concern of consequence. She could not continue to behave with such abandon; lest she never be taken seriously. Yet, he made everything feel so natural; like she was the only woman in the world at that moment. Woman. Not girl.
She barely realizes it when she actually reaches her chambers, but she feels grateful to be able to shut out the rest of the world for a while. She hardly makes it to her bed chambers before peeling out of her filthy clothing. She smiles fondly as she removes each article, remembering walking in the sand, the cold wave spraying both she and Kendall, feeding him small morsels on the blue swirled blanket, his smile and his warmth.
Desrianne collects the garments, watching the dazed princess meander around the bedchamber in search of a robe. Margot eventually pulls one on before heading to her writing table and her diary. "You have been gone much of the day on your ride, Princess," Desrianne observes.
Margot smiles, cheeks reddening. "It was a wonderful day." She looks up at her attendant. "Please, would you pour a bath for me? Something warm and soothing; but not too hot. And… I would like scented oils… something light but pleasing to the senses." Her eyes are far away, starry.
"Does the Princess… have additional plans for the day?" Desrianne asks cautiously.
"Margot," Margot corrects, smiling widely. "And yes. I will be having dinner in Maeve's Vigil with Lord Kendall." There can be no secret that Margot is quite smitten with the Chaosian Lord, her eyes bright at the mention of his name.
Margot nods, eyes focusing on the single blossom Kendall had given her just the day before. There is no such thing as love at first sight; he is entertaining you because he is required to do so, her conscience starts in once more. Her heart sinks at the prospect, but then the braid falls over her shoulder.
Someone who takes the time to comb and plait my hair is not taking advantage of me. He did not have to do that; that was something he wanted to do. Her smile returns; sighing contentedly as she picks up her stylus to capture the perfect day.
Desrianne collects Margot once the bath is prepared. A fire roars in the hearth, but the water is just barely warmer than body temperature. Margot slides into the water with a slight shiver as she sinks into the tub. She relaxes, lathering her hair with honeysuckle scented soap. Working it carefully, she sinks below the water line, letting water completely envelope her. It was several moments before she resurfaced, smoothing the soap from her tresses. With a loofah, she scrubs her skin clean, removing any indication of a day at the beach.
I will be pleasing to the senses -– his nose and fingers. The thought brought color to her cheeks; but at least she was being honest with herself. Once scrubbed, she relaxes with her eyes closed, replaying the intimate details of her day in her mind. Just thinking of his lips against hers quickens her pulse. She could feel her entire body awaken with prickling energy as she imagined his fingers against her skin. It took great strength for her to calm herself to the point where she could leave the water with modesty.
Desrianne waits patiently with warmed towels. With her hair wrapped in a towel and a terry robe warming her body, she pads to her clothing room to begin perusing her options. Her eyes fall on a midnight blue velvet gown, luxurious to touch with scalloped neckline and a short train flowing behind. Another gown catches her eye, this one of copper silk with delicate lace overlay and beading. Margot frets, uncertain what would have the look and feel she wanted to achieve.
Desrianne watches as Margot struggles to choose. "May I make a suggestion, Margot?" she asks at last. Margot nods, happily looking for another's advice.
The maid flips through the gowns until she finds one as red as the ripest cherry. Pulling the gown out, she holds it up to Margot so both may admire in the looking glass. The gown is tailored to the hips, flowing out to the floor. The neckline was V-shaped, resting upon where her shoulders meet her arms. The sleeves are form fitting to the elbow, where they hang like wings to the floor. Beading covered the entirety of the gown, enhancing the contours of her form.
Margot nods in understanding. Her eyes warm at the woman's concern. "I know. I will not do anything tonight that I will regret later. I promise you," she reassures, pressing a kiss to the matron's cheek.
Desrianne pats Margot's hand; giving her a knowing smile. She knew she could only protect the child so much before Margot would have to make her own decisions -– and her own mistakes. It was not her job to tell her when she was wrong; only to be there when she discovered it for herself.
The process of primping took hours, but when complete, Margot was stunning. Red gown, ruby drop earrings, and her hair swept up in a soft nest of curls held in place by ruby hair pins. Red velvet shoes, heeled, were secured with red ribbons at the ankle. Not as secure as her boots, but something she was accustomed to. Her lips were stained the color of pomegranate juice.
"You are a vision of loveliness, child," Desrianne compliments, unable to contain her pride at the woman standing before her. "Enjoy yourself, and be safe, child." She presses a kiss to Margot's cheek before sending her on her way.
Margot takes a cleansing breath as the clock chimes the quarter hour before seven. With one last glance in the mirror, she departs to make her way to Maeve's Vigil. She wanders through the castle with few interruptions. By now, it was no secret that she had spent time with Kendall two days in a row… And now an evening…her conscience points out. Where else would she be going dressed like this other than an engagement with a fine gentleman? The thought made her pulse quicken, both excited and embarrassed. She would have never been so bold at home; the thought made her blush.
Servants disappeared into shadows as she maneuvered the corridors. She chose to hold her head high and confident rather than skulking through the halls as someone doing something wrong. She was flattered that Kendall had invited her to dinner, offering hospitality even before all the intimate exchanges on the beach. Another blush blossoms. Girl, you need to keep this under control if you want him to see something more than some free-spirited wild-child.
She tries to slow her breathing, suddenly wishing she knew some of the meditative tricks Belle used. Reaching the high doors guarded by Amber sentries, Margot indicates that she is expected. A slight nod, and they let her pass without further ado.
Stepping onto the glass bridge, she is enthralled once more by the power of the waves below. She pauses, watching the crashing waves and the spray above the cliffs. Again, her mind drifts to the events on the beach earlier in the day. Her heart hoped the time spent was real; that he wasn't playing her the way her conscience tried to convince her, or that she should be worried and distrustful as Desrianne warned.
No, he is a good man, a gentle man. He had every opportunity. Were he a monster I would not be here now. She stands above the waves several more moments, a contented smile pulling at her lips. Drawing another breath, she continues across the bridge and knocks at the door.
Bows, nods, salutes. Lord Kendall hands off the saddlebag to Siorys immediately upon entering the tower housing the Chanicut contingent after his outing on the beach with the Princess. He proceeds with hardly a pause to his own chamber, not worrying himself to check on preparation for dinner. That would be better handled without his interference. He had given his instructions, so nothing more was required. Instead, preparation of his own was on the agenda, and he summons Rory to see to it.
A bath is prepared immediately while Kendall sheds his clothing, draping it carelessly on a chair to be attended to and donning his robe. Clothing for the evening already lay arrayed on the bed, brushed and ready. He surveys the garments thoughtfully, pausing to run a finger along a green velvet sleeve.
The door opens behind him, and he turns to see Rory bow. "Your bath is ready, m'lord," the servant says.
"Very well." Kendall walks to the door, but pauses to turn back. "I will need something different prepared. Unofficial." He nods to the clothes on the bed before continuing on to the bathing room, though not before the gratification of catching Rory's look of surprise. It was occasionally amusing to throw his capable and experienced servant a bit of a curve.
The bath is cool enough to be pleasant, and he basks in the water for some time before climbing out, the red-haired servant appearing as though by magic with towels and his robe. The sun is shining its full glory through the balcony doors when he returns to his chamber to find a completely different set of clothes now resting on the bed.
Dressing is accomplished quickly and without fuss, and the rest of afternoon is spent on the balcony, tuning and then practicing with his lute until Siorys lets him know the Princess had arrived.


Can a wrong claim in income tax return be caught by department after linking of adhaar with PAN.
Question Bank › Category: Income Tax › Can a wrong claim in income tax return be caught by department after linking of adhaar with PAN.
All transactions with PAN or Adhaar is linked can be traced by department easily like Demat transactions, Bank transactions, purchase of vehicle, land etc. Hence it is best to disclose all information honestly.


← Puzzle #31: Which Day Does Rahul Speak the Truth?
I got many answers to this puzzle, and there was a very good response. Most of you answered the puzzle correctly. The first ones I got correct were from Anku Jain and Sid Pareek.
The correct answer is Tuesday.
Here is the correct answer (Sorry no video this time, traveling currently without an iPad), I am reproducing the one from Anku Jain without any changes – thanks Anku!
1) Both Day 1 and Day 3 cannot be a lie. If it were so, there would be at least 2 true days.
3) Now, if Day 1 is true, it has to be Wed or Fri (because Day 3 is a lie). However, either Wed or Fri is not possible because of the types of days possible on the next day.
4) This means Day 3 is true. It cannot be Mon because of previous day constraint. So, It has to be Tues.


Short description: Sysmanager is a program, which handles the common tasks seen on the above screenshot. In order to use hibernation and suspension you must have the pm-utils package installed. Optionally, you could also have Sysmanager integrated with notifications system. If you want notifications as shown below you must install (at least) xfce4-nofiyd, libnotify4 and libnotify-bin. The mentioned packages may vary depending on your system's setup and distribution.
Caution: Flickering with suspension command (2nd option).
The pm-suspend command, which is used to run the second option: Suspend computer might not work correctly. When a computer gets resumed from the suspension the screen might start flickering and nothing helps except a total reboot. During the tests, the flickering problem appeared with my setup which uses Ati's display card but was non-existent with my alternative computer, which uses Intel's display card instead. I did not test any proprietary display drivers but as the flickering problem (appearing notably with Ati cards) relates directly to open-source display drivers, I do suggest that you try out the proprietary options if needed.
By doing as described above you make sure that the program does not exit with an error if you choose n instead of y when the Please enter only y or n question appears.
Download Sysmanager as a zip file.


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Health Concerns Mount As Oil Clean Up Continues
As some 34,000 workers labor to contain the oozing oil surging in to the Gulf of Mexico, concerns over the potential health effects of the BP oil spill have mounted.
In a U.S Institute of Medicine panel led last week by Linda McCauley, dean of Emory University's School of Nursing, McCauley expressed concern for the health of the clean-up workers and called for increased transparency from BP regarding safety precautions.
In the months following the April 20th spill, efforts to coordinate resources and organize health monitoring have been slow and reminiscent of post 9/11 efforts to access and monitor the health of emergency responders.
" Large gaps in the data" are making it difficult for scientists and health professionals to gather conclusive information on the health of spill workers. Many Institute of Medicine panel members shared McCauley's concerns and called for the U.S government to fund a long-term effort to routinely monitor and track levels of toxin exposure amongst clean up and maintain coherent data.
While much is unknown about the long-term health effects of such a massive oil spill, the National Institute of Health has pledged $10 million towards the study of the public health impact of the spill. Gulf residents and cleanup workers have already experienced acute exposure symptoms including headache, nausea, throat irritation, eye pain, cough, and dizziness. Over 450 oil exposure complaints have been reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, the majority concerning fume inhalation by cleanup workers.
Although spill workers are most likely to experience negative health consequences as a result of the spill, untrained cleanup volunteers and children also represent vulnerable populations. According to Irwin Redlener, member of the National Commission on Children and Disaster Preparedness, children are at an increased risk of health problems associated with ingestion, skin absorption, and inhalation of spill materials. Redlener also expressed concern for the psychological health of tGulf Coast children who may experience increased stress levels as a result of both 2005's Hurricane Katrina and the oil spill.
Kenneth Olden, dean of New York's CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, cited cancer, birth defects, and miscarriages amongst the oil spill's potential adverse human health effects. Although early data indicates the risk is low for pregnant women and their unborn babies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning to " everyone, including pregnant women" to avoid spill-affected areas and cautions spill workers to wear proper protective gear and avoid working in extreme heat.
As efforts to contain the oil and clean up the spill continue, the lasting impact of our nation's largest oil spill on human health is not yet estimable.
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The Two Faces of Fujimori's Rural Policy
Manrique, Nelson
A new law has opened up the fertile lands along the coast to the market. In the Andean highlands, however, the fear of a Shining Path revival has led the government to beef up a rickety...
...History has shown, however, that the highCampesino organizations have protested against the lands can potentially be a political time bomb...
...In neoliberal economic terms, the Management of River Valleys and Soil Conservation, coast is a highly profitable investment, while the high- which began its activities in 1995 with a budget of lands are utterly dispensable, approximately $3 million, now has an annual budget of On the coast, powerful business consortiums are $100 million to support rural industries and health-care eager to gobble up lands from impoverished programs...
...The rural sector, however, was a notable exception...
...This was a marked contrast to the 1970s, when Shining Path denounced land takeovers as "reformist" attempts to deepen Velasco's agrarian reform...
...In its effort to promote worker-owned enterprises, the Velasco regime established a complex system of cooperative land ownership...
...They work the land according it to small farmers each year since 1994-about the to the rain cycle, since few irrigation channels exist...
...In the rural sector, for example, the government's exchange-rate policy, which clearly favors imports, has devastated local farmers, who cannot compete with cheap food imports...
...government bureaucrats who insisted on imposing the eradication of coca crops as a "solution" to drug trafficking in the late 1980s, even when this policy was pushing coca producers in droves into the arms of Shining Path...
...This was a radical departure from the agrarian reform that had been implemented in 1969 by the military government of Gen...
...At that e Apurimac River bordered a Shining Path "liberated zone...
...This move to the city, however, led to a series of setbacks, culminating in the capture of the organizations's top leader, Abimael Guzmdn, in Lima in September, 1992...
...The government is taking a calculated risk: by beefing up a rickety clientelistic system in the highlands, it dares to incur the wrath of World Bank functionaries, whose obsession with the ideological purity of structural adjustment prevents them from seeing how the social consequences of neoliberal reforms might exacerbate social conflict in Peru...
...Shining Path gained initial acceptance among the peasantry from the Canipaco Valley not by offering economic alternatives, but by providing services that the government had abandoned: maintaining social order, protecting campesino property by staving off livestock thieves, and providing a justice system that, while Draconian, was at least quick and free...
...Hence, the campesino communities that have been officially rec- Fujimori administration is reluctant to carry out a fullognized possess registered land titles...
...At the same time that Shining Path sought to destroy the SAIS, it also sought to eliminate the camBy the early 1990s, the proliferation of civil-defense patrols-with varying degrees of linkage to the military-had bogged Shining Path down in a rural war of attrition...
...land agriculture, despite its iron-clad commitment to The land law reflects the marked duality which is neoliberalism elsewhere...
...They offer mainly short-term assistance, and show little concern for improving the productive capacity of small farmers...
...His most recent book is Vinieron los sarracenos: El universo mental de la conquista de Ambrica (DESCO, 1993...
...The case of the "SAIS Cahuide" in the Canipaco Valley in the central highlands of Junin is illustrative in this regard...
...The law also overturns decades of legal norms designed to protect campesino community lands from being divided up and sold off...
...To date, the law remains entangled in the legislative process...
...In most cases, moreover, the model of collective ownership proved to be economically unviable...
...Along state support for the rural sector...
...The National Project for the tain in the Andes...
...f areas dominated by landed The struggle over the SAIS was more complex, since ives, known as Agricultural the state functionaries who ran them had a vested interLy (SAIS), were established...
...By the early 1990s, the proliferation of civil-defense patrols-with varying degrees of linkage to the military-had bogged Shining Path down in a rural war of attrition...
...Shining Path offered no alternative for the organization of work and production...
...The government's steps and missteps in its agricultural policy--dictated primarily by the greed of the private sector, which covets the fertile campesino lands on the coast-has created a volatile situation...
...Many campesinos sold their shares...
...Fujimori's popularity in rural areas-primarily thanks to his perceived success in neutralizing Shining Path-was bolstered by a savvy campaign of publicworks projects, including the construction of new schools, new roads, and the repair of dilapidated and damaged rural infrastructure...
...Many sugar cooperativesone of the few remaining bastions of Velasco's reformsare dividing up and selling the land...
...In the long te dent that the military government's planners had designed their reforms without taking into account the demands of the campesinos, who wanted to recover ownership over the lands that had been stolen from them by the encroaching haciendas in the pre-Velasco years...
...After the campesinos invaded 30,000 acres of SAIS land, prompting the cooperative's General Assembly to approve its definitive liquidation, the state bureaucrats in charge systematically blocked the land transfers...
...In mid-1989, some Shining Path activists took sides in a violent conflict between two communities over land...
...Translated from the Spanish by Peter O'Driscoll...
...These programs are not designed, however, to promote rural development...
...The campesinos own small Through the new rural agency FOPEAGRO, for examplots and employ cultivating techniques that pre-date the ple, the state has extended nearly $250 million in credarrival of the Spaniards...
...Their paternalistic logic smacks of clientelism...
...Coupled with land scarcity-only 6% of Peru's land is arable-this skewed land distribution gave rise to dramatic rural conflicts...
...The government's shutdown apparent in the government's overall treatment of agri- of virtually all public institutions that promoted small culture along the coast and in the Andean highlands...
...Nelson Manrique is professor of history at the Catholic University in Lima...
...est in retaining the cooperative structure...
...Its objectives were, essentially, to force the campesinos to return to subsistence production, in order to limit the supply of food to the cities, and to recruit them to the "popular war...
...Local cooperatives, in this vision, would link up to form larger regional and national federations of producers, which would coordinate agricultural production throughout the country...
...Only some of the coastal cooperatives, which had taken over modern, form daily military exercises in Palmapampa in early 1992...
...The cooperatives that have survived continue to grapple with the economic crisis and, in some cases, poor management...
...pesinos' independent organizations that were leading the battle against the SAIS...
...Juan Velasco, which established cooperative and communal forms of property ownership in 75% of the country...
...In many parts of the country in the 1980s, campesino communities carried out d reform calmed the agitated massive invasions of SAIS lands to accelerate the rm, however, it became evi- parcelization process...
...Many of tter suited to promote rural the cooperatives on the coast and the communal coopmpesino communities...
...It sought to channel campesino discontent against the state bureaucrats who managed the SAIS, as well as their frustration with the failed attempts of the left-wing agrarian federations to peacefully transfer the lands to the campesinos...
...The military's change in strategy facilitated this shift: its indiscriminate attacks on the rural population had given way to more selective forms of repression...
...Since then, Shining Path's activities have declined sharply...
...In addition, it proved unable to manage the latent intra-communal conflicts over land...
...By 1995, however, with Shining Path's main leaders behind bars and its armed activities on the wane, the government began to take bolder steps in promoting market relations in the agricultural sector...
...In July of that year, Congress passed Decree Law 26505, the long-winded "Law of private investment to promote the development of economic activities in the lands of the national territory and in the campesino and indigenous communities...
...There was an endless chain of attacks and reprisals between communities which had organized into civil-defense patrols against Shining Path and communities accused of supporting the guerrillas...
...will be treated...
...With Shining Path at bay, and his support in the countryside assured, Fujimori decided that now was the time to expand his neoliberal reforms to the rural front...
...A handful of timid measures during Fujimori's first administration, designed to encourage the private sector to invest in agriculture, had little effect...
...The single largest which are the most fertile and desirable-observers fear share-holder of Paramonga is now the Delgado Parker that the government will soon seek to extend the new group, one of the country's most influential business law to the highlands...
...and medium-scale agriculture at the outset of Fujimori's This duality is a direct outgrowth of the contradictions administration seemed to portend the withdrawal of inherent in the government's neoliberal reforms...
...Part of the problem was Shining Path's imposition of its own structures on local forms of communal government...
...Despite its periodic announcements that Shining Path's demise is at hand, the government knows that the guerrillas could potentially rebuild their social base among distraught rural farmers if conditions were to deteriorate further...
...The haciendas had disappeared, but the cooperatives retained the structure of the latifundios...
...While the law pertains only to community lands along the coastVOL XXX, No 1 JuLY/AUG 199641 VOL XXX, No 1 JULY/AUG 1996 41REPORT ON PERU campesinos...
...Campesinos work the land in the Andean highlands...
...The peasantry began to see the military as a more powerful ally than Shining Path...
...Rather than seeking to improve the productivity of the thousands of small farmers throughout the country, the government has myopically opted in favor of big business in the remote hope that this will make the rural economy more dynamic...
...Funds are channeled to the population largely in periods preceding elections...
...In the case o estates, state-run cooperat Societies of Social Proper The SAIS incorporated the ing campesino communiti benefits to all members...
...Farmers using modern machinery collect the tomato harvest on a coastal plantation...
...This contributed to Shining Path's decision to shift its main operations to Lima...
...By conres to manage the coopera- trast, the communal cooperatives, based on the produchad little knowledge of the tion of campesino households, and the SAIS, which ocratic forms of governance were built upon traditional haciendas and their precapities, believed that the state's italist mode of production, failed miserably...
...The cooperative model was widely established along the Peruvian coast, primarily in cotton and sugar plantations...
...In the short term, the lan' rural waters...
...hand over unused state-owned land to landowners The highlands are a different story altogether...
...The government's social-investment fund, Foncodes, for example, uses foreign donations to buy agricultural products from poor campesinos...
...It is more likely, however, that stripping independent holders of their land will lead to a new concentration of land in the hands of the few-as well as to new forms of rural conflict...
...Velasco's reforms imposed an ownership limit of 375 acres to prevent the rise of new haciendas at the expense of small farmers and peasant communities...
...In the meantime, several former campesino leaders attempted to re-establish their communal forms of government, marking the true beginning of Shining Path's problems in the countryside...
...The new "land law," in effect, is the final nail in the coffin of Velasco's agrarian reform...
...est rates, were simply replaced by a new set of instituIn the highlands, on the other hand, land is scarce, tions that dispense similar amounts of resources...
...Prior to Velasco's land reform, the countryside was dominated by large landed estates, known as haciendas or latifundios, that coexisted with minifundios, tiny plots cultivated by campesinos...
...In and the land was divided among the farmers, a process mmunities, the government known as parcelization...
...It was in the Andean highlands, after all, where the Shining Path insurgency first emerged, and the continued impoverishment of most of the peasantry presented a sticky political problem for the government...
...This scenario of initial campesino acceptance, then rejection, of Shining Path was repeated, with some regional variations, throughout the highlands...
...The rival community turned the guerrilla activists over to the police, prompting a bloody reprisal in which Shining Path executed 12 campesino leaders...
...This led to haciendas and the surround- many bitter struggles between state administrators and es, and promised economic the campesino communities...
...State planners, who internal workings and dem of the campesino commune cooperative model was be development than the can result, two models were a established campesino co restructured communal f( intermediate step in their cooperatives...
...ment believed that it would capitalist haciendas, survived into the 1990s...
...The armed forces arrived several months later, and found it easy to organize the Canipaco residents into armed civil-defense patrols to combat Shining Path...
...The short-sightedness of these functionaries parallels that of U.S...
...As a eratives in the highlands were gradually dismantled, dopted in the highlands...
...As a result, small-scale farmers orms of governance as an now constitute the bulk of rural landowners: 70% of all conversion into "communal land under cultivation is under 50 acres...
...A month later, in January, 1989, a Shining Path column destroyed the buildings and the productive infrastructure of the SAIS Cahuide, and divided the livestock among the cooperative members...
...In the Andean highlands, however, the fear of a Shining Path revival has led the government to beef up a rickety clientelistic system...
...rough, and unproductive...
...Shortly after Fujimori's successful re-election in April, 1995, Congress passed the free market-inspired land law...
...As events unfolded, however, this acceptance gave way to open resistance...
...The government of Alberto Fujimori implemented neoliberal policies rapidly in most spheres of the Peruvian economy, especially after the 1992 autogolpe, which gave the President greater leverage to impose painful reforms...
...As its name suggests, the law seeks to promote private-sector investment in the countryside...
...The law does not scale neoliberal reform of the rural sector in the highsay how communities with unregistered or no land titles lands...
...Opposition to the law has emerged, however, among both peasant organizations and legislators wary of the impact of privatization in the countryside...
...equivalent of the credit extended annually by the Simply put, the conditions for capital growth do not per- Agrarian Bank...
...The whose holdings were expropriated by Velasco's private sector has shown scant interest in investing in reforms, the Andes...
...Only 2,000 of the 5,200 bloody) manifestation of this explosiveness...
...While governments have been chipping away at Velasco's social and economic reforms since 1980, none has gone so far as the Fujimori administration...
...Four percent of the rural population owned 56% of the cultivable land, mostly in the form of latifundios, while 96% controlled 44% of the land, divided into innumerable minifundios...
...Shining land law, which they say does not guarantee their legal Path is only the most recent (and by far the most ownership of communal lands...
...In Paramonga, one of the most important sugar cooperatives in the country, private investors sidestepped union negotiations with the state over how to restructure the cooperative by offering to buy the workers' shares and pay them several months in back-wages...
...The waning insurgency, coupled with the strong presence of the civil-defense patrols (and their military allies) in the highlands, allowed the government to consolidate its control over most of the countryside...
...This is, of course, a particularly urgent In fact, even in the wake of Shining Path's decline, issue for campesino communities along the coast, the state has continued to play a significant role in highwhose land can now be freely bought and sold...
...Yet institutions that the coast, where the fertility and productivity of the land were eliminated, such as the Agrarian Bank, which suphave whet the appetite of the private sector, the govern- ported agriculture through credit and subsidized interment aims to make all land subject to market conditions...
...Fujimori's land law removes all limits on land ownership...
...Only a small fraction of rural farmers can put up collateral to obtain the loans from FOPEAGRO that they need to improve their output...
...Because of the predominance of feudallike relations in the high- Civil-defense patrol members per lands and the serf-like time, Palmapampa, located on th condition of the peasantry, however, the govern have to create new structu tives...
...Velasco's agrarian reform sought to bring peace and development to rural Peru by redistributing the land...
...Finally, the government plans to consortiums...
...40 NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS 40 NACIA REPORT ON THE AMERICASREPORT ON PERU Into this conflict stepped Shining Path...
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Ed Gemmel returns to Sheffield after a summer spent healing bones and also his heart. Esther does her best to welcome him back, but neither of them have forgotten his drunken confession… or how he then proceeded to break his ankles. I mean, how much worse could it get, right? …Right?
"If you're a Giant Days fan, you'll want to pick up this issue. The series hits the #40 milestone with a big issue, featuring the repair of broken hearts…and broken bones," said Shannon Watters, Senior Editor, BOOM! Studios. "2018 is shaping up to be the biggest year in this series' history, from the recent Eisner Award nomination, to the debut of a Giant Days middle grade novel from Abrams."
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Male Monologues:
http://www.monologuearchive.com/comic_men.html
https://www.backstage.com/monologues/?gender=Male&genre=Comedy&max_age=100&min_age=0&order_by=asc&page=1
Female Monologues:
http://www.monologuearchive.com/comic_women.html
https://www.backstage.com/monologues/?gender=Female&genre=Comedy&max_age=100&min_age=0&order_by=asc&page=1
Audition Etiquette
- Smile and have fun! There have been too many occasions where students have come into an audition and apologized or seemed sorry for wasting the director's time before they've even begun their set. The directors WANT you to do well, as weird as that may sound. They're not looking for one girl to be perfect for one part, and another boy to be perfect for another part. Theatre isn't as cookie-cutter as it may seem, though sometimes that's what preliminary decisions in MAJOR casting calls call for. Most of the time, the directors of a show want viable options for actors to work with in a show. If you smile and show that you're a pleasant actor to work with, that leaves an impression on the director whether either of you realize it. Doubting yourself or feeling like a waste of time can actually make yourself a waste of time. If you don't even seem like you want to be there, the director wonders why you've come out for the audition.
- Dress appropriately. If it's a general call with the acting/singing portion first with time to change into dance clothes later, be sure to bring two different outfits. One should be the professional and eye-catching audition outfit that is meant to be a reflection of you. This does not mean showing off any particular assets in an inappropriate manner, this means making yourself as presentable as possible in a way that they'll remember (in a positive way)! Be sure to wear clothes you can move in if they call for it (be it a movement call or dance call). If you're restricted by your clothing, it's VERY evident in body language, and can affect your performance greatly. Dressing comfortably does NOT mean dressing like a slob however, so please be sure to have some regular items in your closet that allow you to move freely while still looking professional. Check the "What to Wear" section below for more details.
- PRACTICE YOUR INTRODUCTION! As scary as it may seem, the auditioners will have made a decision on whether or not to call you back within the first 15 seconds of your audition. Most of those 15 seconds will be taken up by your introduction, so if you stumble over the name of your piece or the composer's name, the first impression they get is that you didn't care enough to practice your intro (or your slate, as some call it) In a musical theatre situation where there is a pianist to talk to about your piece, be sure to smile to the directors as you enter the room, but then approach the pianist. Greet them politely and hand your music binder to them with the sheet music properly notated and ready to go. Some people suggest snapping a tempo to your pianist, but those that I've worked with say that they hate being snapped at. Instead, when suggesting the tempo, gently pat your leg with the timing you want. It's a small difference, but imagine being snapped at by 300 people in a general call. You want to make yourself as appealing as possible, and the way to do that is to be polite to everyone you encounter in the process. After you talk to the pianist (if there is one), confidently enter the acting space. There will generally be some sort of notation on the ground as to where you can stand, and there will almost always be a chair. Always begin with a deep breath and a smile! Then greet them (Hi, Hello, Good morning, etc), say your name, and introduce the pieces you'll be performing. If you're performing a monologue, be sure to state the name of the play it comes from as well as the playwright. If you're performing a piece of music, be sure to introduce it with the show it comes from as well as both the composer AND lyricist (they are frequently separate people). If you're performing multiple pieces (such as two monologues, a monologue and a song, or some other combination), you'll have to make a decision for yourself if you're going to slate them together or if you'll introduce the next piece immediately after your first. After you slate your pieces, make sure to collect yourself. Don't take too long, but give yourself a moment to center yourself and your thoughts and to focus on the audition.
- Thank the people in the room before you leave! After you've finished your audition entirely, give it a moment in case they ask you to stay or if they give you an instruction, and then kindly say thank you to those behind the table. If you brought music and gave it to the pianist, don't forget it before you leave, and don't forget to thank him/her as well!
- Be careful how you act in the waiting room. Some people don't give it a second thought, but you never know who's listening. Some directors will send their stage manager or another capable member of their team out in the waiting room as a plant or as the moderator, and will ask who was rude/mean/aggressive/etc out in the waiting room. If you brag too much, scoff at other auditioners, or show up 15 minutes later than your time slot, the director will probably hear about it somehow. Always be on your best behavior, no matter where you are or what situation you're in. You never know who's listening!
- Time yourself and your audition, including your slate time. You should have this down to an art form and should be within 2-5 seconds of multiple different practices of your audition. Chances are, you will be timed on your performance. Some directors start at the moment you begin speaking, some wait until you begin your first piece AFTER your introduction. You should have practiced this so much that you know you're under time, no matter what happens. If the casting team is seeing a large amount of people and everyone's signed up for a 3-5 minute slot, they don't have time for someone to take liberties on their monologue's time limit. If they ask for a two minute monologue, it better be two minutes or less. You'll be surprised how fast those two minutes go, but make sure to keep it under time! Two minutes is standard, but pay attention to the specific requirements of your audition. If you're unsure, don't hesitate to ask for clarification.
- Choose audition pieces that are age appropriate. Unless you look like a twelve year old (and are auditioning for the part of a twelve year old), don't use a monologue or song intended for a young child. Alternatively, don't audition with a monologue of a middle-aged or older adult if you're a student going out for a role of similar age to yourself. You want to prove you can do certain things, but pushing the limits of your age range is not one of them.
- Try to choose material that isn't overdone. There are some "lists" of material that is untouchable, meaning they're overdone or can never be matched because of a certain performer's rendition of the piece, but many directors don't have active lists. What does happen, though, is that actors will come in with a piece that was done five minutes ago. And although that second actor may have found the piece first, practiced it for years, and can completely own that monologue, it may automatically make the director think less of you. This isn't true for all directors, but try to avoid repeating material that other actors may use. You can do a brief search online to find monologues and songs that are considered "overdone" at auditions very easily, and although this isn't a definitively bad thing to do, you should always try to use fresh material that works for you.
- Do NOT mime actions or use props during your audition. Your monologue should be about you, not about the action you're doing during the piece. Props and costumes are extremely frowned upon in audition scenarios.
- Try your best to keep your audition to the defined audition space. Chances are the director and stage manager (and other production members) will be sitting in front of you at a table. This table (and the 5-10 feet in front of it) are the untouchable zone and personal bubble of these people. Do not cross over the "designated" line from audition space to personal space, as it may make the casting team uncomfortable.
- One thing that's frequently argued is whether or not to make eye contact with the casting team during your audition. This is something that, ultimately, will be up to you. Some directors feel a disconnect if they're ignored by actors, but others can feel like they're being stared down if caught in eye contact for too long. We've found that the happy medium is looking anywhere from 6"-12" above the "audience"'s heads during the audition. This way, you aren't breaking the fourth wall, but you're commanding the attention of the casting team by catching them in your peripheral view. DO NOT, by any means, put the person you're talking to offstage right or left. You should focus the audience of your monologue wherever the casting team and table is, unless they directly tell you not to.
- Don't choreograph your monologue or song. Your audition should seem very honest and open, and if you break out into a clearly planned routine or dance combination, it will take the director out of the world of the piece entirely.
- Avoid storytelling in your monologue. Aren't all plays a story, you ask? Well, yes. But your monologue shouldn't be a retelling of something. It should be something where the character is speaking completely off the cuff about an emotion or situation that's actively going on.
What to wear to an audition is always a conundrum... You want to make yourself noticeable, but modestly and appropriately. You want to seem confident, but not give everything away. You want to be comfortable, but still crisp and professional. Your clothing says a lot about you, but also will make you feel comfortable or uncomfortable, and can be a very important part of your audition.
ACTING/SINGING AUDITIONS:
- Ladies: Wear either a dress, blouse/skirt, blouse/pants or some other professional outfit. Dresses are usually the go to for younger women under 40, so pick something age appropriate. You shouldn't show too much of your body (ie a far-too-low neckline or barely-covered hemline), but shouldn't cover it up with layers upon layers of clothing. You're trying to promote yourself as a performer, and part of that package is your body type. Embrace who you are and what you look like, and work with what you have! If you have curves, find a look that works for you. If you're slim, find something that works for you too! Don't feel like you have to cover up "imperfections" in your eyes. The directors don't need to see your body, but they need to have a basic understanding of how you move - by covering yourself up in 15 layers, you may be inhibiting your movement greatly. The same goes for wearing something too revealing. If you can't bend over or sit properly because of the length of your skirt or dress or the depth of your neckline, you need to reconsider. Additionally, footwear is VERY important. Ladies typically wear heels to an audition, but you should make sure you can actually WALK in those heels! If you can't walk around, skip, or jump comfortably in them, they're not the right shoes for an audition. Heels are definitely appropriate for this situation, but if you can't walk in them you're not going to perform very well.
- Gentlemen: Men should usually wear nice pants with a button up shirt and a tie. It's a lot simpler for men than it is for women, but you should definitely still look put together and should be able to move freely. Mens clothing can be a little more difficult however, when it comes to tailoring dress pants to fit properly. Improperly fitting pants are much more obvious on a man's frame, so it's important to make sure your pants fit right! They should have enough give for you to sit/stand/kneel/squat, whatever you need to do in your monologue or song, but shouldn't be baggy. As for footwear, dress shoes are a must. No sneakers and no sandals, please.
Monologue Resources, for Straight Plays:
http://www.dramahub.org/monologues-and-scenes.html
http://www.ace-your-audition.com/monologues-for-teens.html
https://www.theatrefolk.com/free-resources
http://www.monologuedb.com/tag/1-minute-monologues/
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We come here crying, if not made to cry to make sure we have life.Then even those who are sure that heaven awaits them want to hang on just in case they don't make the cut!
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China's Major Microblogs Suspend Comment Function to "Clean Up Rumors"
Two major Chinese microblogging sites, weibo.com and t.qq.com, have suspended comment functions after they were punished for allowing rumors to spread.
The t.qq.com, run by Tencent, put up an online announcement in the morning of March 31 that it has decided to suspend comment function from March 31 to April 3 to clean up rumors and other illegal information spread through microbloggings.
The weibo.com operated by Sina also released a announcement Saturday saying it would suspend comment function during the above-mentioned period.
Chinese authorities have closed 16 websites and detained six people responsible for "fabricating or disseminating online rumors".
The State Internet Information Office (SIIO) and Beijing police said Friday that those websites were closed for spreading rumors of "military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing," which were fabricated by some lawless people recently.
Beijing police also detained six people for allegedly fabricating and spreading the above-mentioned rumors, particularly through microblogging posts, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Public Security.
A spokesman with the SIIO also said with regard to a number of rumors having appeared on weibo.com and t.qq.com, the two popular microblogging sites have been "criticized and punished accordingly" by Internet information administration authorities in Beijing and Guangdong respectively.


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Shocking Affair At Methley
Posted on July 27, 2020 July 28, 2020 by Glenn
The following report appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post on Monday 18 May 1891. We have reproduced it here without any major amendments.
A pdf copy of the original YEP page can be viewed here.
A shocking affair occurred late Friday afternoon, at a public house known as the Queen's Hotel, between Methley and Castleford. Like other places, Methley was on Friday afternoon visited by a thunderstorm, which is said to have been one of the most severe which has been known for many years past.
The public house in question is kept by a man named Arthur Green, and has been in the family for some 20 years. There are some gardens attached to the house, and at the time the storm broke Mr Green was working in a greenhouse and Mrs. Green was in the kitchen at the back the house.
Five men were in the house, two of whom were John Goodall, butcher, who keeps a small shop in the immediate vicinity, and Mr. Day, a fellow tradesman from Castleford. In what is known as "the cabin," and which is only separated from the snug by a chimney with fireplaces opening into each room, were three other men named Charlie Beach, Tom Speight and Leeming Dodgson.
The two former were colliers working the neighbourhood, and Dodgson is man who has been unable to work for some years past owing to being a sufferer from asthma, although he was a collier by trade.
Suddenly, without the slightest warning, the rain began to fall in torrents, the lightning to flash vividly, and the thunder to roll; still the men in the house do not seem to have felt any sense of insecurity until, after a vivid flash of lightning, the electric fluid passed down the chimney into the "snug," smashed off the cross portion of the mantelpiece, and tore off the plaster and paper in several places.
Goodall and Day, who were sitting there, were dazed for a few moments, and the place was filled with peculiar kind of vapour and with the soot which had fallen in large quantities down the chimney. Goodall describes the sensation as being 'like an earthquake," and says that as soon as he could gather himself together he went outside.
Day, who had been spun round, it is said, "like a top" owing to the force of the shock, also got out of the house, but was found to be very ill, and suffering from a serious shock. A neighbouring farmers wife, Mrs. Charlesworth, however, procured some restoratives, and he was, to some extent, brought round. This having been accomplished, Goodall went back to the "Queen," where he found…
THINGS IN A SERIOUS CONDITION
Beach and Dodgson were lying on the floor of the cabin both apparently dead, but on examination it was found that Beach was suffering from a paralytic stroke down one side. Dodgson, however, was quite dead.
In the kitchen Mrs. Green was just behind the door, and she was doubled quite in two. The paper was torn off the walls in several places, and the soot dropped down the chimney in such quantities as to cover the hearth fully a foot thick. Even this did not expend the whole force of the electric fluid, which appears to have poured down into the cellar, smashed the flagstones, cut the top clean off the barrels, and done other damage.
The flash was so strong that a great portion of the roof was torn off in the neighbourhood of the chimney down which the fluid poured. The "under-drawing"' was smashed through in several places, and in the bedroom, which is immediately over the "snug" and the "cabin," the mattress and other coverings on the bed was set on fire, and this spread to the floor. Glass and other light articles in the room were smashed in all directions, and in the next bedroom some damage was done.
About a cartload of the stones which composed the roof fell into the yard where Mr. Day's cart was standing, and smashed completely through it.
THE APPEARANCE OF THE HOUSE TO-DAY
The roof of the house this morning presents a wrecked appearance, although in the rooms some effort had been made to repair the damage. Mr. Green, as already stated, was in a greenhouse close at hand at the time when a portion of the roof of the public-house crashed through the glass, narrowly missing him.
The utmost sympathy is expressed in the district with the unfortunate men who were killed or injured. Dodgson was a widower, and leaves a grown-up family of sons and daughters.
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Three presidential candidates cleared for final vote
March 14, 2016 in Lead Story, News, Politics68by DVB
The parliamentary body tasked with scrutinising the qualifications of the three presidential nominees has presented its findings in a legislative session on Monday.
Htin Kyaw, Henry Van Thio and incumbent Rangoon chief minister Myint Swe were assessed on their eligibility under clause 59 (f) of the 2008 Constitution.
According to the clause, the president and joint vice-presidents must satisfy strict citizenship criteria, with the Burmese citizenship of their parents, children and children's spouses also crucial in determining a candidate's eligibility. The prospective candidate must have lived in Burma for at least 20 years and must also display political, economic and military experience.
Of the nominees, ethnic Chin MP Henry Van Thio and Myint Swe have both served in the the country's armed forces, but Htin Kyaw, a longtime academic and close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi who is expected to become president, has no military background.
Ba Myo Thein, a member of the panel, told DVB that intelligence and leadership skills are crucial for an effective president.
"The question is how we assess someone's insight on politics, military and economy. My take is that the essential requirements for a presidential nominee are intelligence and the ability to lead. Having these traits will meet the criteria of experience in defence, politics and economic policy," he said.
"Wisdom and leadership skills are essential in defending one's country."
Before they were approved by the panel, there was some debate about the eligibility of Henry Van Thio and Myint Swe—in the former case because of time spent abroad, and in the latter because of family ties to a foreign country.
In the end, however, both men were cleared.
"Henry Van Thio made trips in and out of the country [to New Zealand] on official business. He carried a legitimate passport and made the trips to attend courses and study programmes. The parliament already verified this information before considering him for a nomination," Ba Myo Thein said.
Myint Swe's nomination also attracted criticism, as word spread that the spouse of one of his children holds a foreign passport. However, the seven-member panel appeared to be satisfied that the individual in question is no longer a citizen of another country.
The official list of the three approved nominees will be presented before parliamentarians on 15 March, with a final decision expected to be announced on 18 March.
With only two weeks remaining until the National League for Democracy takes the reins of government, a timeline of the power transfer process has been released.
11-14 March – Presidential nominations, scrutiny
15 March – Names of final nominees formally presented to Union Parliament
17-18 March – Appointment of the president and vice-presidents
21 March – President submits list of ministries
23 March – Incoming and outgoing governments meet
24 March – Presenting the list of proposed ministers
25 March – Discussion, approval of proposed ministers
28-29 March – Ministers, attorney general, auditor general sworn in
30 March – Handing over presidential powers to the new president
31 March – New president addresses the parliament
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The letter of the federation's treasurer Adrian Siegel published on FIDE website, states that the Swiss UBS bank is ready to close FIDE account in the near future. Even third-party observers immediately noted a number of inconsistencies. First, the sanctions against Ilyumzhinov were introduced by the US Treasury in late November 2015, but for some reason this did not prevent the bankers from serving the federation for more than two years.
Nevertheless, some media seized on Siegel's message. Since the bank did not comment, journalists of some media simply broadcast the message of a misleading letter published on the FIDE website.
In this regard, we publish here a Newswire, which lawyers of the London based law firm W Legal kindly provided us.
1. Mr Ilyumzhinov has been informed that FIDE's bank account with UBS has not been frozen as alleged and that such account in fact remains open today.
2. Public documents released in 2015 by the U.S. Department of Treasury do not allege that Mr Ilyumzhinov has been sanctioned by the US as a result of him conducting oil deals involving ISIS. Mr Ilyumzhinov states that allegations to the contrary have no basis in fact and comprise "fake news". Mr Ilyumzhinov will be taking legal against those individuals and outlets peddling false stories.
Mr Ilyumzhinov believes that FIDE is itself now under attack from within and he is not prepared to allow his important work and the hard work of his colleagues to be undermined.
"It is outrageous that certain prominent Western news outlets bemoan "fake news" but choose to publish the same without checking the veracity of the most basic facts and without first seeking to notify me. They shall be brought to account.
I am a peaceful man who wishes to promote chess around the world and I spend almost every waking hour doing so, often personally funding many of my activities. I am fortunate that my position as President of FIDE, coupled with my previous experience as President of Kalmykia and as a former Member of Parliament of the Soviet Union and Russia, has allowed me to hone my skills as a senior statesman. Such has allowed me to travel worldwide, including to areas of conflict and strife to promote "chess for peace". I have met over one hundred heads of state during my time at FIDE. My message is always the same – chess transcends politics. In many cases I have met with success, whether it be in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Israel or Korea.
I trust that those who have peddled "fake news" during the last week will now see fit to resign – whether they be journalists or individuals holding positions in the world of chess. In the meantime, I shall fight for justice as I continue to serve FIDE to the best of my ability. "
Editorial note. We just received a message from London lawyers: the Swiss bank replied that it did not freeze any FIDE accounts and is not going to freeze it.
So let's say to FIDE Treasurer using the words of the great writer Bulgakov: "Congratulations, you're a liar!"


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