As I mentioned weeks back, I finished Reza Aslan's book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and came to many different conclusions from the book. Among those is that Aslan overcorrected his fundamentalist upbringing by tossing out the baby with the bathwater.
Messiahs were meant to lead military revolutions in First Century Israel.
Messiahs and good Jews do not typically claim to be god/God.
Women are not reliable legal witnesses.
Resurrection of the dead was believed to happen at the end of history.
Dead men stay dead— this is a fact of nature.
If you make something up, at least make the leaders look somewhat intelligent.
As the New Testament scholar N.T. Wright points out in Surprised by Hope, something happened that turned Second Temple Judaism on its head. There was a historical Jesus who had a group of followers and he eventually was crucified for insurrection (claiming to be like God, claiming to be a king). Instead of disbanding, as so many followers of crucified messiahs did, the disciples started saying he rose from the dead. They claimed to have seen him as a physical person. Not only that—women were the first to encounter the empty tomb and connect the dots to a resurrection!
As alluded to above, if you are going to make something up in the First Century, don't say women were there first. Because in the First Century, women were not legal witnesses. If you made something up, why not show Peter as the smart, faithful one? Why not tell the great exploits of the early leaders and simply remove the asinine stories that portray the disciples as faithless, prejudiced people?
The four gospel accounts recorded in the Bible provided differing accounts of the Jesus and are not four similar copies. Aslan is certainly correct in this. However, four witnesses will often times provide four different takes on a single event. The existence of narrative tension does not make the four different accounts false. It would be less believable and reliable if all four gospels were in unanimity in relaying the history (and theology) of Jesus the Messiah.
On another point, to be Jewish meant that you worshipped at the Synagogue or Temple on Saturdays. To move your worship day as a Jew to Sunday is a tremendous move. Moving days is not just a convenience factor, instead it is a reflection of the culture-shattering resurrection of Jesus. This is another element to hearing out the argument for a historical resurrection.
Concerning the resurrection, a lot of Jews at that time believed in the bodily resurrection of the just. Of course, this resurrection would occur at the end of time, when God intervenes in history. They did not expect for a resurrection to occur at that particular time. They certainly did not have a category to affirm a bodily resurrection in the Hellenistic Greek understanding either. Unless something out of the ordinary happened.
Surprisingly, Aslan created a narrative that pitted Paul against James the brother of Jesus and the Jerusalem church. He suggested that Paul took the teaching of Jesus and perverted them, turning the vast majority of the diaspora (Jews who did not live in Israel) and Gentiles against the traditional Jewish church in Jerusalem. However, this is grasping at straws, since Paul went throughout the Mediterranean collecting money to financial relieve a Jerusalem church. He also came under their authority several points in Acts (not to mention his writings are the earliest ones we have).
It is pretty well known that Martin Luther saw the Book of James as a sketchy book, propping up the false religion of works over faith in God. Aslan flips Luther's idea over and suggests that Paul attacked James in his writings. However, the faith that Paul wrote about is not in opposition to the works that James wrote about. We are saved for good works, not saved by them or from them. This was his weakest point, because even a cursory look at how Reformational scholars interpret Paul and James shatter his hypothesis within a few pages.
With all that said, Zealot is a well-researched book that is a very captivating read. However, this book is done with a motive. My guess is that Aslan's work was written as a type of antidote to kids caught up in the subjective fervor of contemporary evangelicalism. Yet, reading the New Testament with modern eyes is just as pervasive in secular heads as it is in orthodox Christian heads. I simply do not think you have to separate the Christ of faith from the Christ of history. Because something happened in the First Century that changed everything. Something happened that has mystery to it. Something happened that is not found on a recorded video.
The Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith are the same person. Jesus the Messiah changed the cultural script for a conquering messiah and he meant to die a brutal death on the cross. It was not an accident that he died in his thirties. This was his mission: to give his life as a ransom so that we can enjoy a life with God both now and forever.
Maybe the reason why people argued with Jesus and rejected him at that time was because he claimed to be God and claimed to be a messiah who would not overthrow the Romans in a glorious coup d'etat. Maybe the reason why people rejected him then is the same reason people reject him now: he interrupts our lives and our own preconceived notions of what it means to truly live.
What I found refreshing toward the end of his work, was how he summed up his message. For Goins, art is not the main thing. Borrowing from Stephen King, life is not a support system for art. Art comes secondary, art comes through the experience of life. Our life, in a sense, becomes the magnum opus, and no amount of success is worth losing the ones we love.
As you continue on your adventure of life, I would recommend that you consider picking up "The Art of Work." It is more than the typical "go find your passion" sort of book, instead it is filled with gracious wisdom and encouragement. Find your passion, of course, but don't let it consume you. Live life and realize that your work will never be done. Ultimately in Jesus, our life's story will be woven into the tapestry of God's Kingdom and our work will not be in vain.
It seems as if the fast paced society we dwell in craves more. More of our time, talent, and treasure. Kerri Weems stands in the gap and boldly proclaims that we don't have to buy into the demands of more. Instead, we need to step into God's gift of Rhythms of Grace.
Weems argues that we pace ourselves to the wrong rhythm, the rhythm of more and "mammon." The true pacesetter ought to be God and the Shalom he offers. Shalom, as defined by Weems, is peace and wholeness that comes from walking in the rhythms of God, full of rest and grace. Shalom does not come from productivity, it's experiencing more of God's peace in the midst of all the things we have to do.
After making her case for Shalom, Sabbath, and Grace, Weems pivots to practical applications of combating pace stealers by guiding her readers to embrace saying yes to their needs (which are really God's means for sustaining his creation).
Rhythms of Grace is very approachable and easy to digest. I especially enjoyed her study questions given in the back of each chapter. With that being said, this book is clearly geared toward women. There weren't too many examples geared toward males, so I would recommend this to my female friends for an engaging devotional read to challenge the underlining cultural narrative or more.
I must confess, the only things I knew about David Livingstone prior to this past month was his quest for the source of the Nile River and the famous line, "Dr Livingstone, I presume." I thought Livingstone was a mere explorer and had no idea that his deep faith shaped him in tremendous ways.
Jay Milbrandt's "The Daring Heart of David Livingstone" painted a wonderful picture of this complex man who embodied the spheres of science, exploration, and missionary work so well. Livingstone was a driven, complex man who was painfully aware of his own deficiencies. Often times he would not yield to counsel, but instead would press on out of his driven (or perhaps, stubborn) nature. After initial triumphs, he experienced setback after setback, ultimately dying in the land he loved. His drive to expose and abolish the East African slave trade ultimately cost him his life and his family.
One of the major themes that struck me was how Livingstone did not live to see the fruit of his life's ambition. He instead died nearly penniless and separated from his family. He never saw the abolition of the slave trade in East Africa, never discovered the source of the Nile, and had only one convert to his missionary goals. Like Moses, he never entered into the promised land he so desperately wanted to see.
Milbrandt's work was well done and thoroughly researched. The book was riveting and full of lively descriptions of the expeditions. Upon closing the biography, I felt like I knew Livingstone better and understood in part the East African slave trade. I also appreciated how Milbrandt brought out the imperialistic vision of Livingstone and let him argue for this movement, allowing history to be its judge. Overall, Milbrandt is an excellent biographer.
If you are into biographies and want to learn about a relatively under-the-radar historical figure, I recommend Jay Milbrandt's "The Daring Heart of David Livingstone: Exile, African Slavery, and the Publicity Stunt That Saved Millions." His narrative style and honest portrayal of a flawed yet heroic man is certainly well worth the read.
Have you ever said those words to someone? Have you ever said those words and either forget to pray about what you committed to pray about (No, I have never done that…)? What about committing to pray for the decision because you actually did not want to commit to volunteering for X or contributing to Y or going to Z.
Odds are, if you have ever been in the Christian context for some time you have used those words as a call to pause. A call to pause and consider the will of God and the next step of action. Praying for a lightening bolt to strike and mark the way. Little do we know that God wants us to stop praying and start doing.
At least that's what Greg Darley's "Waster Prayer" is challenging us to consider.
Darley is quite clear from the beginning. This is not a book on salvation, for salvation is a gift from God and can never be earned by us. This is a book on discipleship and following Jesus our Messiah. Obedience to Jesus and building for the Kingdom of God necessitates that we stop praying and start doing.
Praying without ceasing is a very important point to Darley's argument. Our lives need to be cultivated in such a way that we are constantly communicating with God and creating a real relationship with him. We become more focused on our relationship with him instead of fixating on a transaction.
A powerful argument Darley uses is the stories found in the Bible. There are so many individuals both within the OT and NT that acted when God called them. They did not pause to pray for a week, instead they were obedient to God's call. They jumped, even when it was scary. But they jumped out of already having a real relationship with God.
Sometimes we need the nudge from God and remain faithful to his leading, even when it seems unclear. Even when it seems risky, sometimes God's call is one for an adventure that will lead us down precarious situations only to end up right where he wants us to be. Stop procrastinating by praying.
Prayer without action is wasted.
Would you be OK if people 100 years after your death don't remember your name?
For Joseph Stowell's "Redefining Leadership," making Jesus large is the ultimate outcome of leadership. If one does not point to Jesus through their actions and words, then their leadership is not centered in the Kingdom of God. Instead, it is rooted in the idolatrous love of ourselves.
Stowell clearly describes two leadership styles rooted in either the kingdom of this world or God's Kingdom and then he persuasively argues why you should take the latter approach. "Redefining Leadership" frames the conversation on leadership between character-driven leadership (CDL) and outcome-driven leadership. While the latter is driven by "getting [stuff] done" even if the means is not honorable, the former is centered on Kingdom centered leadership.
This is a book worth reading and I heartily recommend it for anyone in leadership (which is everyone!).
Have you ever heard the phrase, Christianity is a relationship, not a religion? I, for one, have heard this all too often and was intrigued by the provocative title of Dwight Longnecker's work "The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty." Longnecker's work was well worth the whimsical investment, for this is a remarkably refreshing book.
Longnecker takes the objections to religion by both the modernists and postmodernists alike, embracing their charges and flipping them on their proverbial heads. Arguing that we need to learn from the great stories that transcend cultures and centuries, acting as romantic warriors on the road for Truth. For Longnecker, these tales all possess a kernel of truth that is ultimately bound up in the one who is the source of all that is True.
"The Romance of Religion" connects the stories of culture and unashamedly claims them for the Christian faith. Much in the vein of Chesterton and Lewis, Longnecker draws on the myths and legends of humanity and aptly points them to the source of all Truth. For Longnecker, good stories incarnate truth on many levels.
I found the strengths of this book is Longnecker's powerful command of the English language and the effective use of the Western (and at times the non-Western) cannon. He calls out the battle between good and evil in the world and the necessity for those who are romantics (those who seek after God and after this truth) to confront this evil. For Longnecker, the romantic is someone who is neither a Stoic (someone who merely muscles through the tough aspects of life, keeping a stiff upper lip) nor an Epicurean (someone who drowns out life through the pursuit of pleasure alone), but they see rescue beyond the horizon and goes out after it.
To be a romantic, they head out for adventure, knowing full well the dangers it could bring. They head out in pursuit of all this beautiful, good, and true, ultimately finding it in the source of all beauty, goodness, and truth— Jesus the Messiah.
If you are tired or bored with the Christian religion, maybe this book will do you some good and help rekindle the romance with religion.
I have never thought much about reading a book by Stephen King, I'm a scaredy cat and horror books aren't exactly of interest to me. Yet, after hearing so much about one of King's nonfiction works On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I decided to give it a shot. To be candid, I could not have asked for a clearer book on writing to be written.
King breaks his book up into two major parts. The first section of the book is his memoir and it highlights certain portions of his writing life, including the creation and publishing of Carrie. I could not believe that this novel under development was saved from the trashcan by his wife! This portion offered valuable lessons on finding art wherever you look– even cleaning out bathrooms.
Stories are like fossils needing to be excavated. The writer should start with the characters and general premise of the story, but the details, themes, and even the ending (!) needs to be unearthed in the writing process like the skeletal frame of a T-Rex.
If you write or want to write, this work is both accessible and engaging. I highly recommend it!
What books have helped you write?


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Love the bike, and phenomenal service from the guys at the dealer.
Looking forward to chatting to you guys and getting more experience with the bike.
Hello Dave and welcome to the forum. Glad to see you are not wasting any time putting miles on the bike.
Welcome! Sounds like you are getting along with it.
Thanks guys :) I love it - traded in an MT10 for this. So so pleased I did.
Doubt i'll be doing much in the way of modifications - it has pretty much every extra already on it. Ordered the Evotech bar ends though, as I did get numb hands over really long stints.
I thought that too but have done a few minor things that you can see under the mods section. Warning, once you go in there you'll be changing stuff !!


Given the New York Rangers current state, it was odd that Henrik Lundqvist wasn't getting the starting nod against the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, Alexandar Georgiev answered the call in spades. Celebrating his 23rd birthday, the young netminder stopped a whopping 55 shots in the Rangers 4-1 victory over the Leafs. With an ageing Lundqvist and tough trading block conversations, here's what Georgiev's best night yet means for the Rangers future.
Bulgarian-born Georgiev likely had his best birthday ever, making 55 saves in the Rangers weekend win over the Leafs. Showing his chops with one acrobatic save after another, Georgiev left the team from Toronto quivering. Georgiev even set a franchise record for saves made in regulation. His performance flipped the script of rebuilding and disappointment in the Rangers locker room.
In fact, this positive shift in the conversation needs to carry over into the tumultuous weeks before the trade deadline. The Rangers desperately need something else to talk about. Endless reporters asking about what team can do better or what players will be gone at the trade deadline can wear on a team's morale. Positive games against a tough team like the Leafs do more than putting points on the board, they shift the momentum.
Topics of conversation surrounding the Blueshirts as of late have been an expiring Lundqvist and the trade potential stars like Kevin Hayes and Mats Zuccarello. What hasn't been discussed is the shining future that could be a few years ahead of the Rangers.
With Igor Shestyorkin and Georgiev putting up solid numbers in their youth, goaltending is one of those bright spots. Despite almost doubling his games played in 2018-19 with 19, Georgiev still remains inconsistent. With a save percentage of .905, his stats are decidedly average. However, what his game against Toronto showed us that his work with goalie coach Benoit Allaire is working.
Think about Cam Talbot and Antti Raanta. Both previously served as backup Rangers goaltenders. Allaire shaped those netminders so well, they left a wasted in a backup position to Lundqvist. Now, due to Allaire's guidance of Georgiev, Lundqvist's workload can begin to shift. Unfortunately for the Swedish king, he currently holds a .907 save percentage, the worst of his regular season career. With Georgiev playing in net more often, the pressure will be alleviated from Lundqvist at least slightly. Not to mention, the Rangers defence will need to play their best game.
It's no secret the Rangers defence is comfortable to a fault with Lundqvist in net. Slacking on coverage and throwing out errant slides, sure that Lundqvist will stop it. Unfortunately for Lundqvist, no matter how loyal to the Rangers he is, he remains a step behind where he once was. He has shining streaks but his consistent performance night-after-night is faltering. With a newfound ability to trust a new netminder, the Rangers can truly begin to rebuild their team.
Whether the Rangers new goaltender is Georgiev or Shestyorkin, faith in the changing structure of the Rangers will only do the team good. Lundqvist has been the core of the Rangers for over a decade and it's time the momentum shifts. There's a new era that will be led by a collective team of players, it's on the horizon. For now, however, Georgiev's stellar birthday will help set the tone for the younger generation of Rangers. With the Rangers management's open letter coming just a tick more than a year ago, Georgiev is a piece of that promise to the fans. A promise to deliver a team that New Yorkers, and fans everywhere, can be proud of.


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Bulbophyllum carunculatum es una especie de orquídea epifita  originaria de  	 Celebes.

Descripción
Es una orquídea de pequeño tamaño, con hábitos epifita con pseudobulbos ovoides que llevan una sola hoja, apical, claramente peciolada, elíptica a obtusa. Florece en el verano en una inflorescencia erecta de 45 cm de largo, con sucesivamente muchas flores con varias brácteas tubulares y flores fragantes de no muy buen olor.

Distribución y hábitat
Se encuentra sólo en Celebes en los bosques primarios y los bosques remanentes en elevaciones de 800 a 900 metros.

Taxonomía
Bulbophyllum carunculatum fue descrita por Garay, Hamer & Siegerist  y publicado en Lindleyana 10: 174. 1995.
Etimología

Bulbophyllum: nombre genérico que se refiere a la forma de las hojas que es bulbosa.

carunculatum: epíteto latino  que se refiere a los crecimientos en la base del labelo.
Sinonimia
 Bulbophyllum amplebrateatum subsp carunculatum [Garay, Hamer & Siegerist] Verm & O'Byrne 2011;

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Plantas descritas por Garay
Plantas descritas por Hamer
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North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN Announces Special Advisor
Dr. Adalsteinn Brown to provide expert advice to Muskoka Council
The North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (NSM LHIN) Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Dr. Adalsteinn Brown as the special advisor who will co-chair the Muskoka and Area Health System Transformation (MAHST) Council.
Dr. Brown, in his role as Special Advisor and Co-Chair, will provide experience and knowledge that will assist in advancing integration efforts between the partners involved in the MAHST project. Dr. Brown is a strong proponent for equitable access to care that matches the individual's needs. His considerable experience within the Ontario health care system will assist the Council in developing a Health System Model for Muskoka that incorporates equitable access as a key component of the final design.
Dr. Brown is the Director of the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the Dalla Lana Chair of Public Health Policy at the University. Past roles include Assistant Deputy Minister for Strategy at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and for Science and Research at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. He advises governments and corporations on information use and performance measurement. He received his undergraduate degree in government from Harvard University and his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has received several leadership awards including being named one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40" in recognition for his work on performance measurement.
"We are so pleased Dr. Brown agreed to take on this significant role with the MAHST project. Being able to draw on his experiences within the Ontario health system and knowing the respect he has garnered throughout not only the province but the country, makes this an amazing opportunity for North Simcoe Muskoka. "
Jill Tettmann, CEO, North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN
"The leadership shown in Muskoka is exciting and reflects the commitment and enthusiasm of its professionals and communities for a stronger and equitable system of care. I look forward to working with the Council."
Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Special Advisor, Muskoka & Area Health System Transformation Council
During his time as Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategy, Dr. Brown was responsible for developing strategy and policy for health system improvement including quality of care, accountability, and screening
MAHST evolved from the work of two main groups: the Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) Capital Planning Task Force, the purpose of which was to determine a vision for acute care services in Muskoka; and, the Muskoka Community Health Link's Our Health, Our Future initiative of planning better integration for non-hospital health services
Currently an Expression of Interest process is in progress to populate the membership of the MAHST Council
The Health System Model final design will be presented to the North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN in March 2017.
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Jun 09, 2020 • 7 months ago • 4 minute read
Goderich driver facing numerous charges
Huron OPP officers laid several charges against a Goderich resident after he was caught driving while prohibited.
On June 1 a Huron OPP officer observed the accused travelling southbound on Nile Road in a compact vehicle.
The officer was unable to stop the accused at that time, however, police caught up with the accused later that night on Bayfield Road in Goderich.
A 28-year-old Goderich man was placed under arrest, taken into custody without incident and charged with Operation While Prohibited, Fail to Comply with Probation Order – Two counts, Driving While Under Suspension – Three counts, Drive Motor Vehicle No Plates and Operate Motor Vehicle Without Insurance.
He has since been released from custody with a court appearance schedule for July 13.
Huron OPP investigates theft of defibrillator in Goderich
Sometime overnight on May 28 someone attended the Kinette Pavilion area at Bannister Park and stole the AED defibrillator that had been located at the park.
The defibrillator was donated to the community through the Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund in July of 2019 at the park's grand opening ceremony.
Huron OPP is reaching out to the community to help figure out who is responsible for the recent theft.
The stolen defibrillator is a HeartSine Samaritan PAD Sam 500 P model, valued at approximately $2,000.
Huron OPP encourages any person with information regarding this incident to immediately contact the police at 1-888-310-1122. Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, where they may be eligible to receive a cash reward of up to $2,000.
Pair caught with stolen truck, facing several charges
Huron OPP have laid more than two-dozen charges against two people who were caught trying to steal a pickup truck from a Bluewater residence.
On June 2 Huron OPP officers were notified of a pickup truck that was stolen from a residence located on Airport Line. Officers patrolled for the suspect vehicle and as they were doing so, received live updates as to the location of the moving vehicle.
Officers were able to get the vehicle immobilized after it left the roadway into a farmer's field located near the intersection of London Road and Walnut Road.
Both occupants took off running and attempted to flee, but the passenger tripped and fell and was quickly arrested. The driver managed to evade police for a short while, however, with the assistance of an OPP canine unit the co-accused was located and taken into custody.
A man of 24 years of age from West Perth has been charged with Theft Over $5,000, Trespassing at Night, Theft Under $5,000 from a Motor Vehicle, Possession of Break-in Instruments, Possession of Property Obtained by Crime Over $5,000, Mischief Under $5,000, Occupant of a Motor Vehicle Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Weapon, Failure to Comply with Release Order – Two counts, Fail to Comply with Probation Order – Two counts, Possession of a Schedule I Substance – Methamphetamine, Operation While Prohibited and Possession of a Prohibited Weapon contrary to Prohibition Order – Two counts.
He remained in custody until his court appearance that was scheduled for June 3.
A woman of 26 years of age from London has been charged with Theft Over $5,000, Trespassing at Night, Theft Under $5,000 from a Motor Vehicle, Possession of Break-in Instruments, Possession of Property Obtained by Crime Over $5,000, Mischief Under $5,000, Occupant of a Motor Vehicle Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Weapon, Fail to Comply with Probation Order – Four counts, and Fail to Comply with Release Order – Seven counts.
She also remained in custody with a scheduled court appearance on June 3.
Huron OPP welcomes new officer
Huron OPP is pleased to introduce the newest recruit to the community. In fact, she is a home-grown product, so she may already be a familiar face to many in the area.
Provincial Constable Farren Goos is thrilled to return home to Huron County after completing her initial police training at the Ontario Police College (OPC) in Aylmer.
Goos also completed training at the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Academy in Orillia and she was posted to the Huron County Detachment in May.
After graduating from Central Huron Secondary School (CHSS), Goos attended and graduated from Trent University with an Honours Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science.
During her time in Peterborough, Goos had the opportunity to complete a placement with the Peterborough Police Service Forensic Identification Unit.
Additionally, Goos completed a research project about developing "Best Practices for Educating Youth about Drug Abuse".
Outside of her studies Goos also had the opportunity to work as a Marine Student with the Peterborough County OPP Detachment.
Goos is excited and grateful to return home to Huron County to make a positive difference in the community she grew up in.
Should individuals wish to pursue a career in policing like Goos, now is a great time to apply to the OPP.
The OPP offers many career paths for both uniform and non-uniform employment. Apply today to become a Provincial Constable, explore opportunities for Civilian Employment or volunteer as a member of the OPP Auxiliary.
Prospective recruits are encouraged to follow OPP Recruiting on their social media platforms where they can gain valuable insight and tips on the recruiting process.
OPP recruiting platforms are located at www.twitter.com/opp_hire, www.facebook.com/OPPCareers, www.instagram.com/OPP_Hire, and www.youtube.com/user/OPPCorpCOMM/
Uniform Recruitment can also be contacted by dialling toll free at 1-877-OPP-HIRE.
Fatal crash near Belmore
On June 4 Huron OPP responded to a fatal crash scene located at Howick-Turnberry Road (Huron County Road #7) and Forest Line.
The preliminary investigation has determined a motorcycle was travelling westbound on Howick-Turnberry Road whereupon it collided with a farm tractor towing a manure spreader.
The driver of the motorcycle died at the scene and has been identified as Greg Massey, a 42-year-old man from Morris-Turnberry.
Investigators from the West Region OPP Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (TIME) Team continue with their investigation of the collision.
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(P1) The United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth II marked the day she became the longest-serving MONARCH in her nation's history – by doing her job.
(P2) On the day when she SURPASSED Queen Victoria, who served for 63 years and seven months on the throne, the beloved 89-year-old monarch carried on her ribbon-cutting ROUTINE as usual, traveling to open a new railroad in Scotland.
(P3) Elizabeth rode by train from the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, to Tweedbank in southern Scotland, where she opened the just-built Borders Railway.
(P4) The queen waved to crowds at Waverley Station in Edinburgh as she boarded a train bound for the opening ceremony. The arrival of her helicopter had been delayed by fog.
(P6) Still, she was HEARTENED by the worldwide OUTPOURING of CONGRATULATIONS from the HIGH AND MIGHTY down to the small and slight.
(P7) "INEVITABLY a long life can pass by many MILESTONES — my own is no exception — but I thank you all and the many others at home and overseas for your TOUCHING messages of great kindness," she said.
(P8) Elsewhere, the milestone was marked more definitively. In London, a FLOTILLA of historic vessels, leisure boats and FERRIES took part along the River Thames in central London. The HMS Belfast sounded a four-gun SALUTE.
(P9) And Prime Minister David Cameron told the nation that though the queen wanted the day to go on like any other, millions of Britons would be celebrating.
(P10) "While I rarely ADVOCATE disobeying Her Majesty, least of all in her own Parliament," he said in speech at the House of Commons, "I do think it's right today we should stop and take a moment as a nation to mark this historic milestone and to thank Her Majesty for the extraordinary service she's given to our country over more than six decades.
(P11) "Over the last 63 years, Her Majesty has been a rock of stability in a world of constant change, and her selfless sense of service and duty has earned admiration not only in Britain, but right across the globe," Cameron added.
(P12) A former prime minister, John Major, also praised the queen's long REIGN as a comfort to Britons.
(P13) "Whilst prime ministers have come and gone, celebrities have come and gone, life has changed, she and the monarchy have been an absolute CONSTANT in their lives, and I think that is very reassuring," he said.
(P14) British legislators planned to mark the milestone in Parliament and newspapers were filled with special TRIBUTES to the queen.
(P15) Buckingham Palace marked the event by releasing an official photograph of the queen taken by Mary McCartney, a photographer who is the daughter of former Beatle Paul McCartney.
(P16) Elizabeth came to the throne in 1952 upon the death of her father, King George VI.
Do you think that monarchy still has RELEVANCE in the modern world, or is it an OUTMODED form of government?
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PlaceInvaders TableTalk Newsletter // April 6, 2018
So we're doing this sex and marriage thing all wrong
We're just now figuring out that hundreds of thousands of years of genetics can't be reconciled by religion. Whodathunkit? Think about all those bathhouses of Greek and Roman times with all the dudes just hanging out with their fluid sexuality, and then Christianity came in and ruined it for everyone. Maybe think about moving this agenda forward. When all cars are self-driving cars and we stop considering each other as a sexual possession, we're going to see a dramatic reduction in heart attacks.
NYC Street Festivals are a city-sanctioned oligopoly
This link is literally one of the companies that runs the street festival racket in NYC. If a website looks like that in 2018 you know there is no competition in that industry. There are three more companies that share all the possible street festivals in NYC. NYC police presence is donated to these festivals, there's no cost to the festival "owners" for police. Granted, there are a few NYC businesses that sell their stuff, but for the most part, the vendors come from as far away as North Carolina (as witnessed by us - could be further) to hock sheets, grilled corn, fried shit, and nothing that has anything to do with New York. They take business away from local NYC businesses, there's literally no way to have a street festival unless you already had one, and rational legislation that would help fix all these problems was railroaded out by the oligopoly the last time it was brought up. Our recommendation; until there is significant representation from NYC businesses, use the sidewalk; buy from the brick and mortars.
What it's like to visit Puerto Rico 6 months after Hurricane Maria
The New York Times travel section also had a couple great stories on PR right now, and we're itching to make a trip. We'll meet you there in January, Lin-Manuel. Call us! It sounds like it's the perfect time to visit, and no economy could use your tourism dollars more. We've got a line on a pretty sweet looking palace in Old San Juan, too. WDYT, y'all? A little PR Invasion would be muy bueno. ¿Si?
Speaking of Puerto Rico...
We may have told you about one of our (read: Hagan's) favorite podcasts; Congressional Dish. What people are experiencing on the ground and what the world is being told are two different things. What's really happening is a bipartisan effort by American senators (because they don't care about PR - no taxation, no representation) is putting the people who fund campaigns in charge of the rebuild, giving control of the energy grid to multinational corporations and not the people, with the focus on paying back a bunch of usurious loans that venture vultures made prior to the hurricane. Follow the money. Congressional Dish is a great place for getting the scoop on how the American government works. You will certainly be amused in learning how unabashedly it's run by corporate interests.
Scientists harvest 1st vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse
Well isn't this a little slice of magic. Now future tourists to Mars will be able to enjoy a little hyper-locally grown lab salad. But how does it taste? And is it sustainable. Though we imagine those first consumer explorers may be able to afford some pretty pricey space veggies, and the novelty of something grown on the planet is pretty cool, too.
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July 08, 2014 6:32 AM By Publications Checkout
Food sales grew by 4.2% (+1.7% on a like-for-like basis) at Marks & Spencer in Q1 2014/15, according to a quarterly trading statement issued this morning, however Clothing (like-for-like sales down 0.6%) and General Merchandise (like-for-like sales down 1.5%) are continuing to put a drag on the business.
Overall, Group sales were up 2.3% on a constant currency basis, while International sales were up 4.7%.
While it does not reveal figures for its Irish business, M&S said that "trading conditions in the Republic of Ireland continue to be challenging."
"Our Food business had a great quarter with our strategy to be more specialist setting us apart from the competition," said Marc Bolland, Chief Executive. "We continue to outperform the market as customers continue to come to us for unrivalled quality and innovation, whether for their special events or great everyday value.
"With value top of mind for customers, we remained price competitive while protecting our gross margin. We launched some 700 new products giving customers more choice than ever. We are on track with the pipeline of 150 new Simply Food stores opening over the next three years."
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Gloucester Rugby speaks out over claims Johan Ackermann and his son were involved in an alleged incident in a nightclub
Police have appealed for witnesses following claims of an alleged incident involving the Cherry and White head coach and Ruan
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Gloucester Rugby have today spoken out following allegations made about an alleged incident involving head coach Johan Ackermann and his son Ruan.
A statement issued this afternoon gave the club's full backing to the pair.
It said: "Following an accusation regarding Johan Ackermann and Ruan Ackermann we can confirm an incident took place in Cheltenham last weekend.
"Gloucester Rugby are aware that a small number of individuals are posting comments about the incident which are untrue.
"Gloucester Rugby do not condone violence in any shape or form and having reviewed the evidence, the club stands by the pair unreservedly."
Gloucester Rugby CEO Stephen Vaughan added: "Gloucester Rugby takes any allegations extremely seriously and we have conducted a full investigation in to this matter.
"Having spoken to Johan, Ruan, the club where the alleged incident took place, the police and other independent witnesses as well as viewing subsequent CCTV footage, I am completely satisfied that whilst an incident did take place, it was instigated by others and not by Johan and Ruan as has been incorrectly reported.
"Both Johan and Ruan have been upset and disappointed by the allegations, but do appreciate the support from Gloucester Rugby fans, players, colleagues, friends and family."
It follows claims that the head coach and his son were involved in an alleged incident in a nightclub in Cheltenham.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a man was injured in an alleged altercation in a nightclub.
Gloucestershire Constabulary is investigating a report of an incident which happened at the 21 Club in Regent Street, in Cheltenham during the early hours of Sunday, December 17.
Ruan Ackermann
Police said there is an allegation of an altercation between two groups of men during which one man sustained facial injuries.
The incident was reported just before 1.30am, said a force spokesman. Police officers arrived shortly afterwards but all those involved had left the scene, they added.
Johan Ackermann
Investigating officers will be examining CCTV footage this week and speaking to witnesses. No-one has been arrested.
Anyone with information is asked to call Gloucestershire Constabulary on 101 or email 101@gloucestershire.police.uk quoting incident 51 of December 17.


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Q: How many permutations do you need to force fixed points? For simplicity let $k$ be given fixed, and $n$ grows large. We are interested in a small set $M_n={g_1,...,g_m}$ of permutations in $S_n$, s.t for all $a\in S_n$, there is $g_i \in M_n$ with $ag_i$ having at least $k$ fixed points. The question is how large must $M_n$ be asymptotically depending on $k,n$. Another interesting question after we solve this one, is what happens when we force $M_n$ to be a subgroup of $S_n$.
If ones assums $n \geq (k+1)!$ there is the following upper bound which will be proved below after the lower bound)
Upper bound: $m=O((k+1)!nlog(n))$. Note for $k=1$ we also have the clear upper bound of $n$ taking what's genereated by a large circle.
A (sad) lower bound of $m=\theta ((k+1)!)$ also follows in similiar spirit to the upper bound.
Here is also a lower bound of $\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor$ for $k=1$ (and in particular for the rest of the $k$):
We start with the complete bipartite graph with both sides having $n$ elements, each perfect matching corresponds to a matching which says who the left guy goes to in the right. Each $g_i$ kills a set of edges (i.e if in our permutation that edge exists, then multiplying by $g_i$ would lead to a fixed point for the left guy).
Thus what I claim that if you remove a union of any $\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1$ perfect matchings off the complete bipartite graph with $n$ vertices on each side, there is still a perfect matching standing. Note that it is possible to use $\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor$ matchings to cover so that we won't be able to find a perfect matching, so this is tight.
Now if we could only use $\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1$, then let's see the set that kills Halls condition. Say it is the set $A$ of size $a$. Then it sees a set $B$ of size at most $a-1$. Clearly $a\leq \lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1$, otherwise $A$ sees everyone after removing the matchings. So we managed to cover the complete bipartite graph $AxB^c$ with $\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1$ matchings exhausting $A$. But $B^c$ has size at least $n-(a-1)\geq n- \lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1+1=n-\lfloor(n/2)\rfloor > \lfloor(n/2)\rfloor-1$, and so $A$ sees all of $B^c$ after removing our matchings,a contradiction.
Here is an upper bound as promised and the other lower bound:
We want a set of $m$ permutations $g_{1},..,g_{m}$, s.t for all permutations $a$, there is $g_{i}$ with $ag_{i}$ having at least $k$ fixed points. Given a fixed $a$, if we pick a random $g$, what is the probability $ag$ has at least $k$ fixed points? Well since choosing $g$ at random is like $a^{-1}g$ at random, we're asking what is the probability a random $g$ has at least $k$ fixed points. It turns out easier to count the other thing, how many permutations have at most $k-1$ fixed points? Well in paricular how many have exactly $s$ fixed points? That's like fixing the $s$ fixed points, and then picking a derangment (no fixed point) on the rest; number of derangments on $n$ elements is (this one by inclusion exclusion) $n!(\sum_{0}^{n}\frac{(-1)^{i}}{i!})$, for large $n$ this is $\sim\frac{n!}{e}$. Thus the number of those with exactly $s$ fixed points is like $\binom{n}{s}\frac{(n-s)!}{e}$. So the number with at most $k-1$ fixed points is: $\sum_{s=0}^{k-1}\binom{n}{s}\frac{(n-s)!}{e}$. Thus our desired probability is $1-\frac{\sum_{s=0}^{k-1}\binom{n}{s}\frac{(n-s)!}{e}}{n!}=1-\frac{1}{e}(\sum_{s=0}^{k-1}\frac{\binom{n}{s}}{n\cdot(n-1)..(n-s+1)})=1-\frac{1}{e}(\sum_{s=0}^{k-1}\frac{\frac{n(n-1)..(n-s+1)}{s!}}{n(n-1)..(n-s+1)})=1-\frac{1}{e}(\sum_{s=0}^{k-1}\frac{1}{s!})=\frac{\sum_{s=k}^{\infty}\frac{1}{s!}}{e}$, this by Taylor approximation is at least (and up to a constant exactly) $\frac{1}{e(k+1)!}$. At last we can get to our problem. We need to union bound over $n!$ guys, so we want $(1-\frac{1}{e(k+1)!})^{m}<\frac{1}{n!}$. If $m=e(k+1)!$ we get roughly $\frac{1}{e}$, so $e(k+1)!(nlogn)$ is what we want and tight (to get the union bound) up to a const. So our answer is that $m=(k+1)!(nlog(n))$ suffices. To get a lower bound we try to flip our heads as usual. Assume we have just $m$, and we take a random element, the probability m catches us is $\frac{1}{e(k+1)!}$, so the probability at least one of them catches us by union bound is at most $\frac{m}{e(k+1)!}$, so $m\geq(k+1)!$ is a bound.

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Waldner: Sigi Schmid calmly nurtured soccer's rise in the U.S.
You can trace the growth of soccer in America by tracking Sigi Schmid's arc in the sport.
Former Loyola High star out of Westchester opted to walk on with the Trojans football team and bide his time, which is now paying off.
The late ex-El Segundo star, more often known as Hall of Famer George Brett's older brother, was a two-way wonder before arm problems stalled his career.
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As this story sees print, Miss Philippines 2017 Rachel Peters will already be in Las Vegas for the Miss Universe pageant set on Nov. 26, and, like we do every year, Inquirer Lifestyle holds a glam shoot as a send-off for the beauty queen.
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Maxine's national costume headdress costs P1M, says designer
Fashion designer Rhett Eala designed and created the national costume and long gown that Philippine bet Maxine Medina will wear...
PAL is Miss Universe official carrier again
The Miss Universe Organization has designated Philippine Airlines (PAL) as Official Airline Partner of the 65th edition of the annual beauty pageant to be held in Manila this month. This is the third time the country is hosting the prestigious event.
Miss Universe pageant will push through in PH in January, 2017
After much speculation from pageant followers, and multiple declarations from interest groups in the Philippines, the New York-based Miss Universe Organization (MUO) has finally confirmed the staging of its 2016 competition in the country.
Her time is now: How Pia Wurtzbach prepares for Miss Universe
Binibining Pilipinas Universe Pia Wurtzbach had just had the busiest four months when William Morris/IMG finally bought the Miss Universe pageant from Donald Trump. Then came the green light that the pageant would push through.
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Pageants are more fun in the Philippines!
The Philippines has twice hosted the Miss Universe pageant—in 1974 and 1994. Since they were spaced 20 years apart, one wonders if the Department of Tourism would be keen on bringing the event here in 2014.
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Fun facts about this year's Miss Universe pageant
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'Stage Beauty' Movie: Gender Identity Issues & Gender-Based Social Constraints Get Conventional Treatment
Stage Beauty movie with Billy Crudup as "the prettiest woman in the whole house." In British theatrical productions of the mid-17th century, boys were cast in female roles after the passing of a – literally – Puritanical law barring women from the stage. The last prominent such "boy actor" was Edward Kynaston, the inspiration for Billy Crudup's troubled Ned Kynaston in Richard Eyre's period romantic comedy-drama Stage Beauty. Crudup has several effective moments in the uneven film, yet there's one key problem with his casting: notions of female beauty and dramatic liberties aside, he looks much too old for the part. And as a historical aside, the anti-actress ban was lifted by King Charles II in 1660, when Kynaston would have been about 20 or so.
'Stage Beauty': Gender-bending & identity-questioning tale gets conventional movie adaptation
Despite elements in common with A Star Is Born, All About Eve, Farewell My Concubine, and the several versions of Victor Victoria, the Germany/U.K./U.S. co-production Stage Beauty – directed by theater, opera, television (Tumbledown), and movie (The Ploughman's Lunch, Iris) veteran Richard Eyre and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from his own 1999 play Compleat Female Stage Beauty – feels, more than anything, like a graver-minded Shakespeare in Love rehash.
Like its predecessor, this Restoration-set romantic comedy-drama about cross-gender impersonations on the British stage of centuries past may even succeed in becoming a critical and box office hit – in spite of itself. For Stage Beauty is as much of a calculated crowd-pleaser as John Madden's 1998 Best Picture Oscar winner, minus the sporadic superlative moments and audience-friendly denouement.
These important details, however, may go unnoticed by those eager to be fed, no matter how absurd, big-screen fantasy romance, in addition to a large dose of superficial gender-bending humor with a sprinkle of juvenile sexual situations.
The loveliest leading lady of the 17th-century British stage
The premise of Stage Beauty was inspired by the life of 17th-century British theater actor Edward Kynaston (c. 1640–1706), one of the young male performers cast in female roles at a time when women were banned from the stage, courtesy of "Protector" George Cromwell and his authoritarian, military-Puritan government. After watching Kynaston's portrayal of the (unnamed Russian) Duke's sister in John Fletcher's tragicomedy The Loyal Subject, noted diarist Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), later in life a Member of Parliament and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty, described the actor as "a boy" who "made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life," one whose only drawback was a "not very good" voice.
In Stage Beauty, Ned (not Edward) Kynaston, as played by 35-year-old American actor Billy Crudup, is a not-all-that-young performer widely admired for his portrayals of female characters, most notably the unlucky Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello.
Offstage, Ned enjoys/suffers through a love-hate relationship with Maria (Claire Danes), his dresser and an aspiring actress who – as Margaret Hughes (c. 1645–1719), the English stage's reputed "first professional actress" – eventually usurps both his roles and his social standing.
Notable mid-17th-century personages in 'transgender Restoration romantic comedy-drama'
Among the other notable 17th-century personages seen in the film are King Charles II in the form of Rupert Everett (who has a little too much fun with his royal character); the king's lover, notorious performer Nell Gwynn (Zoë Tapper), unhistorically depicted as an actress-wannabe; and George Villiers II, Duke of Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), shown as Kynaston's reticent lover (in real life, their purported liaison was lampooned/rumored).
Best Actor Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom, 2001) brings to life noted actor and stage manager Thomas Betterton, while Samuel Pepys is played by Hugh Bonneville. Tom Hollander pops up as portrait painter to the court Peter Lely.
Add to the fictionalized historical proceedings a dose of sexual fluidity and a touch of sexual and identity confusion, and we could have had in Stage Beauty a complex, daring, and still very much relevant transgender Restoration romantic comedy-drama – surely the first of its kind.
But despite some modernistic (and jarring) handheld camera shots and George Fenton's inappropriate hipish score that sounds more techno than baroque, Stage Beauty is in fact a woefully conventional effort.
Stage Beauty movie with Claire Danes and Billy Crudup. In terms of thespian aspirations, Maria (played by Claire Danes), the dresser to popular actor/female "impersonator" Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup), is reminiscent of Anne Baxter's – less trustworthy – Eve Harrington in All About Eve. In terms of the dramatic device of contrasting ascending and fading fame, as seen in Stage Beauty, Maria feels closer to the characters played by Constance Bennett in What Price Hollywood? and Janet Gaynor and Judy Garland in the 1937 and 1954 versions of A Star Is Born. For as Maria is transformed into theater celebrity Margaret Hughes – reputedly, the "first professional actress" of the British stage – Kynaston faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in has-beendom.
Timid & muddled approach to gender constraints
Instead of offering unflinching insights into both gender and sexual roles, Richard Eyre and Jeffrey Hatcher have chosen to focus their feature film adaptation on an old-school romance between two actors who, as it happens (and notwithstanding their off-screen relationship), display little on-screen chemistry.
Having not seen or read Hatcher's play, I can't tell how much has been changed (or dumbed down?) to please the palate of your average moviegoer. But what's evident on screen is that whenever the filmmakers bother to tackle the issue of gender-based social constraints, their approach comes across as a cheesy ploy for potentially tantalizing sexual encounters.
Ultimately, this viewer was left even more confused than the befuddled Ned Kynaston. Who is he? A bisexual man living in an era when the label – and its multifarious definitions – didn't exist? Or is he a gay man trying to pass for straight? Is he, perhaps, a heterosexual man who happens to be attracted to other men because of all the female roles he has played?
Could it possibly be that he is a woman trapped in a man's body, only able to act like the woman he really is while on stage? If so, is Kynaston's attraction to Margaret a form of lesbianism? Would the young actress have perceived her own feelings that way?
No wonder Billy Crudup looks so desperately stressed out during much of the film.
Flirtatious Desdemona
Even so, apart from Richard Griffiths' slimy patron of the arts Charles Sedley and an excellent bit by veteran Edward Fox (The Day of the Jackal, A Doll's House) as Charles II's Lord Chancellor, Edward Hyde – Fox is so snottily good that he almost makes a cheap shot against the French funny – Crudup is the most effective element in Stage Beauty.
Admittedly, he is much too old for the part and at times looks and acts like a 21st-century performer. Yet unlike Claire Danes, who finds herself stuck in a role that alternates between outrage and dewy-eyed sadness, the Almost Famous and Big Fish actor is given the chance to sink his teeth into a more multifaceted character.
And that he does, coming off particularly well in a couple of radically different sequences: acting all flirtatious as the off-stage Desdemona (possibly the real-life Margaret Hughes' first stage role) and, later on, falling into utter despair while unsuccessfully trying to play a male part for the first time. (In real life, the adult Edward Kynaston would enjoy a lengthy career as an actor in male roles.)
'Stage Beauty' much too concerned with pleasing moviegoers
In all, though hardly a complete failure, Stage Beauty is brought down by the filmmakers' unwillingness to follow through with their thematic goals. If director Richard Eyre and adapter Jeffrey Hatcher had something new and/or unique to say, they should have made a point of saying it, without worrying too much about pleasing the moviegoing masses.
Else, they might as well have gone all the way to achieve their commercial goals, sticking to the formula of traditional, would-be-gender-bending romances à la Shakespeare in Love. Hollywood happy ending and all.
Stage Beauty (2004)
Dir.: Richard Eyre.
Scr.: Jeffrey Hatcher. From his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty.
Cast: Billy Crudup. Claire Danes. Tom Wilkinson. Ben Chaplin. Rupert Everett. Zoë Tapper. Richard Griffiths. Edward Fox. Hugh Bonneville. Tom Hollander. Alice Eve. Nick Barber. David Westhead. Stephen Marcus. Fenella Woolgar. Mark Letheren. Hermione Gulliford. Clare Higgins. Isabella Calthorpe.
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Maria Zenaida "Naida" Arteche Benedicto Angping is a Filipina politician. She served as the secretary of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) from June 30, 2022 to December 2, 2022 in the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. She previously served as representative of Manila's 3rd district from 2007 to 2016.

Background
Before entering politics, Angping as Zenaida Benedicto was a beauty pageant contestant, having been crowned Miss Caltex of 1970 on December 19, 1969.

Angping became a close aide of Leyte Governor Benjamin Romualdez, the brother of Imelda Marcos. She was also a former member of the House of Representatives, representing the 3rd district of the city of Manila from 2007 to 2016. In 2004, she was the supposed substitute candidate for representative to her husband Harry Angping, who withdrew days before the elections; however, his disqualification due to citizenship issues cancelled the substitution. She also ran for a comeback to the Congress in 2019 but lost to her successor, incumbent Yul Servo.

She was selected to head the Presidential Management Staff as its secretary under the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. On December 2, 2022, Angping requested for "some personal time off," which the president granted; she would later officially quit from the post in January 2023 due to personal reasons. She was later nominated by Marcos as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic on January 13, 2023; her nomination was received by the Commission on Appointments on January 17.

Personal life
Zenaida Angping is married to former Manila 3rd District Rep. Harry Angping.

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Panasonic Avionics is accustomed to working directly with airlines in providing inflight entertainment and connectivity hardware and services. That's why the company's decision to address the business aviation market through partners – Satcom Direct as value added reseller (VAR) and Astronics AeroSat as antenna hardware provider – is noteworthy. Runway Girl Network sat down with David Bruner, Panasonic Avionics' VP of Global Communications Services, during the recent NBAA convention to gain a better understanding of the firm's approach to this slice of the civil aviation market.
When did Panasonic and Astronics AeroSat decide to work this closely together to address the needs of business aircraft operators?
DB: I would say two years ago. So the first evidence of that was at last year's NBAA when we announced "hey we are working together on this system", and it's unusual for us; they are going to supply all the hardware. That's just not Panasonic, but it really made sense to us because it is a specialty market that's unique and they had a great way of packaging the modem with their antenna. So we said "terrific let's go do this". It's really driven by the fact that there is nothing like this antenna and I think what unlocked this market for us was an antenna that kind of met our requirements. We just didn't want to start until we had something that we thought could deliver a superior product to anything on the market today. That's driven by the antenna and so we teamed up with Astronics AeroSat and put this together and so now the first installations [are in] process and should have STC here shortly.
What aircraft type will receive STC first?
DB: It's a Gulfstream IV, the first aircraft, and that will unlock the beginning of the Gulfstream modifications. There's a whole lot of aircraft out there that have this spot; it's already prepared because it fits exactly where an existing antenna is today that does television, and so this one will do broadband and television all in one unit so it really delivers a new level of service to this marketplace and as you know our proposition – versus some of the other [companies] that are here – is you get that great experience everywhere, not just in some places. It is everywhere the aircraft here [at NBAA] could fly. In fact, all of them within a very short period of time will be flying only in high throughput and so they'll have superior performance which is really important given you have this little bitty antenna with really powerful satellites to deliver the kind of throughput we have. So those things are really good. They are unique to us. Others may say they are global but they don't have enough bandwidth, and they are going to struggle saying they are supporting this, [plus airlines] and maritime. You better have a lot of bandwidth everywhere these people fly. Long-range aircraft, which is really kind of the target of this system, they go everywhere.
It would seem that in this particular sector, right now, Inmarsat Global Xpress will be the main competing solution to Panasonic for high throughput connectivity due to its near global nature; is that right?
DB: In the past it was kind of ViaSat Yonder, and their Ku service and still is kind of out there but doesn't perform that well and with Global Xpress finally coming to market, and having some news … they are probably our number one competing service. You probably heard our announcement with Satcom Direct; they actually resell everything. But what's good about it from our standpoint is they can supply everything and it's really the customers that are going to decide what they want. You've got option A, B, and C. C is really great and that's us. So we will have that relationship now. We have been working on it for a long time but the key thing is having all the pieces put together so that they can now go sell this into the marketplace. And they are an incredibly good customer service organization. So one of the things we did not do here was say "let's go build up an organization and put it all around the world to provide the kind of very white glove special touch kind of support you need to have for this marketplace" so again it's a really unusual step, we are teaming with somebody else who does that but we are going to enable them with a better communication service and they want to sell it like crazy so, it is a good marriage.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Satcom Direct; the firm is very excited about the VAR opportunity for sure. And it's certainly a different approach for Panasonic.
DB: You can teach an old dog new tricks.
And you think this is the best way to go to this market; of course SD has such a dominant position, really?
DB: They do, and now they are moving into hardware and so we've got this combination of the best capabilities of all the different companies and there is more coming with this – today it's about getting connected on this group of airplanes, but in the future there will be additional pieces that come into that, new services. We are like little kids running around right now in terms of "I want to do this, I want to do this" and that type of enthusiasm from old guys like me, and on their side, that's because this is really cool and it will change things and the customers will be really happy with this and then they are going to want more. So we are already working on the "more" too, as this rolls out we can keep delivering new functionality and as you know this isn't going to stop. Two or three years from now we will be talking about the next generation of all this technology. The new Newtec modem, recently announced, immediately goes into this product. It's so important for this product to have the absolute best in class capability from a modem standpoint because you really have a challenged environment when you have such a small antenna. You need to be able to manage it differently than you do an [Airbus] A380 with 600 passengers. They both want to have the same experience but you have got to be able to manage it differently and the modem is a key part of that; you can just overwhelm it with bandwidth but in this case you can do it efficiently if you have the latest and greatest modem capability and so that is really what we have been working on now for about a year. One of the things that is different about our commercial proposition here is we provide what we call preferred bandwidth, our priority bandwidth, and they can pick you know, 1 Mbps, 2.5 Mbps and 4 Mbps and they get that wherever they fly in the world. And in this market, that is what they want.
Modems are definitely having a moment right now in the civil aviation industry.
DB: And they should have had it like last year or the year before but okay finally [we're here]. And we are taking more responsibility in the development and that's really important. As a network operator we really need to control the way the system works … and instead of [taking] three baby steps it needed one giant step forward and as you know we basically said we are going to skip our second generation modem technology and we are going right to third generation and based on the latest and greatest industry standards, DVB-S2X, and what that allows us to do is access far more megahertz in one modem so that you can deliver more capability to that customer. In this market it is not just more megahertz but it is also about how efficiently you can translate megahertz to megabits. It's super important particularly on transmit so you don't interfere with adjacent satellites. In today's world you have got to spread dramatically, and super efficiently.
So we won't be seeing Panasonic go direct in business aviation? Or will we?
DB: Well you never say never, but I really don't see that happening and not for a long time.
Inmarsat says the same; it says that whilst the firm will go direct to commercial where it makes sense, it has no plans of doing it in business aviation. They honor those relationships.
Just back again to this interview I had with Inmarsat, the firm sees an opportunity to displace the Gogo Biz ATG system on business aircraft in the US. Do you see opportunities to displace ATG as well?
DB: Oh yes. I think, there is a lot to this issue and normally I would say [we'd focus on] an area where there is not air-to-ground, but I think we are reaching a point – as we look even three or four years down the road – there will be new technology in this marketplace that will make it as easy to install and as lightweight as an air-to-ground system … but works everywhere and gives massively better performance because there is much more capacity. Part of our responsibility here is to keep driving this product and service [forward]. One way is you saw our announcements with SES relative to SES-14 and SES-15 next year [which] brings in, on top of our Intelsat 29e Epic capacity, that massive additional capacity. In 2020 that will augmented with additional capacity from our extreme throughput satellite and that will be announced before the end of the year.
DB: Before the end of the year. So the North American [segment] of this market is going to drive competition. There isn't going to be any reason why you [would] still be operating in air-to-ground. ATG just won't have the capability that you are going to have with this kind of satellite system. Maybe [ATG] is better than some satellite systems but it won't be better than this satellite system. We want to do it everywhere but in really dense areas like North America, and Europe to the Middle East that have lots of business aviation traffic [and] there is also lots of commercial traffic. Those are areas where you really start to see the differentiation because it won't be just for the class of aircraft that are the bigger, [large cabin] heavy aircraft like Gulfstreams and the Bombardier Global Express aircraft, it will be smaller aircraft.
Really, everything? Even helicopters down the road?
DB: Some of these things we do today and we can do it through Iridium right? A tiny little radio works everywhere in the world – terrific. [The] new Iridium NEXT constellation coming out is going to give it even greater capability but we really see these two as complementary [Iridium NEXT L-band and Ku]. We want to have broadband everywhere right? Iridium and even Iridium Next, not broadband but a great service that you pair that with our [Ku] service and we believe every aircraft should have both and so that's my vision and we are going to go crazy trying to put this together.
And Iridium will essentially handle the cockpit communications and safety services?
That's really one of the key drivers here. One of the reasons that we are kind of renewing our participation with them is because we believe it can deliver even more capability to team with our product to give whoever the operator is, if it's a business jet or if it's a commercial airline, having one set communication capability delivered through one supplier. [That's] really powerful and that's what we want to be able to do in a new concept that we are working on right now, [though] we are not there yet. But we want to be able to deliver reliability in communications and by packaging our products together, we believe that we can deliver that type of capability to airlines and business jet operators. And they all want it. It just doesn't exist yet and so by packaging our services together, our systems, the technology, the hardware and the service now you've got something that just is really going to excite this marketplace.
You've said in the past that your work with Astronics AeroSat could get you to a regional jet specific solution that might be viable for that market. But I guess the temperature for a tail mounted solution is a little bit different? Airlines are not quite banging down the door for the tail mounted antenna, or are they open to it?
From a commercial airline standpoint, at the recent APEX Expo in Singapore, Panasonic made a significant number of announcements. I know you guys are sitting on quite a number of airline partnerships that have not been announced. When will some of these be announced?
DB: Well it was almost a problem this year with too many announcements but there is so much going on and one of the reasons for that is broadband service has unlocked a couple of other things, like real-time advertising updates, providing custom advertisements that are market specific or time limited [though Panasonic's new Captify service]; you could change those on the spot through our network and so these things just change the marketplace and they were basically kind of turned loose by connecting it with our broadband service. So there are a few things like that – ZeroTouch – that just simply, it's time had come; it had to happen. It was really good at APEX because you got some of the same individuals at the airlines that have thought about this capability of "how do I update media on my aircraft", you know, and "I don't want to wait every 30 days to do this". It breaks the licensing and production and delivery cycle for movies, even feature films or early window and it just dramatically changes the business.
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Gene-edited wheat resists dreaded fungus without pesticides | Science
10 February 2022 by panda
Powdery mildew certainly sounds unappealing, but for wheat farmers the fungus can mean a serious hit to the pocketbook. It infects crops, yellowing leaves and stunting growth. In countries where the blight is common, like China, the microbe can destroy up to 40% of a field, making it one of the most damaging and costly pathogens for wheat farmers.
Now, researchers have developed a gene-edited wheat that's impervious to the fungus, without stunting the grain's growth. The approach might work in other crops such as strawberries and cucumbers as well, the team says.
If the yields are confirmed by further research, "this really could be a game changer" for wheat breeders, says plant biologist Beat Keller of the University of Zurich, who was not involved with the work.
"Advances like this are highly needed," adds plant pathologist Peter van Esse of the Sainsbury Laboratory, who was also not involved. Reducing chemical use is good for the environment, he says, and disease resistant plants are especially helpful for farmers in the developing world who might not have access to pesticides.
Some plants can naturally resist powdery mildew. During expeditions in the 1940s to Ethiopia, scientists discovered local types of barley that were unaffected by the fungus. But these plants, and subsequent versions created by plant breeders, grew poorly and did not yield enough grain. With sustained effort, breeders by the 1980s had managed to create types of barley that could both resist the fungus fairly well and grow vigorously enough to appeal to farmers.
These types of improved barley have been a remarkable success. Unlike many types of disease resistance in plants, which pathogens eventually evolve ways to overcome, the protection from powdery mildew in these varieties has lasted for decades. That's because of a gene, called MLO, that when mutated somehow prevents the fungus from infecting the barley, apparently in part by quickly thickening cell walls when spores try to penetrate and having other nearby cells self-destruct.
Wheat breeders have not been able to replicate the accomplishment. In wheat, mutations in MLO lead to stunted plants that tend to yield up to 5% less grain than typical plants, an unacceptable shortcoming. Farmers are reluctant to adopt even slightly lower yielding crops, especially if fungicides can kill pathogens.
Several years ago, Gao Caixia, a plant scientist at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her colleagues began to study genes involved in yield and disease resistance in wheat. Using gene-editing methods including CRISPR, they created the same protective mutation in the six copies of MLO genes in wheat.
These methods allow researchers to make very targeted changes to a genome. Often these changes could be accomplished with traditional breeding, but over many years instead of months. Another appeal of gene editing is that government regulators in several countries have recently made it easier for researchers and companies to study and commercialize plants made this way, whereas another method of engineering new traits into plants—transferring one species' DNA into another—often requires extensive testing and lengthy reviews before approval.
Gao's gene-edited plants resisted infection by powdery mildew, as expected, but to her surprise a single plant also grew just as well as unmodified control plants in greenhouse experiments. "I was sure that we had discovered something amazing," Gao recalls.
Other researchers say the greenhouse experiments and laboratory data look promising. "I think this is credible," says Ralph Panstruga, a plant molecular biologist at RWTH Aachen University. "It's a good starting point."
The team also compared growth of the gene-edited wheat in limited field trials. The modified plants grew just as tall as other wheat. And when the researchers counted the kernels of grain on each of about 30 plants from the plots, there was no statistically significant difference, they report today in Nature .
Keller cautions that wheat yield cannot be reliably determined by measuring individual plants, but only by harvesting plots that are at least several square meters. "A wheat breeder would say, 'very nice, but now you have to show it on the plot level.'"
Digging deeper into the genome of the modified plants, Gao and colleagues showed the editing had accidentally removed not only part of an MLO gene, but also a large stretch of DNA on one chromosome. This resulted in a nearby gene called TMT3 becoming more active, and this is what somehow keeps the plant growth normal. The gene codes for a protein involved in transporting sugar molecules, but how it overcomes the yield loss caused by MLO mutations remains a mystery, Gao says. "I remain excited about this surprising finding."
TMT3 is found in many other plant species. Gao and her colleagues want to try to gene edit strawberries, peppers, and cucumbers, which are also very vulnerable to powdery mildew. Meanwhile, they have gene edited four varieties of wheat that are favored by Chinese farmers, and their yield will be tested with larger field trials.
Before any gene-edited wheat can be sold to farmers in China, the new strains would need to be approved by the agriculture ministry. Gao is optimistic: The ministry's new guidelines for approving gene-edited crops, she says, provide "a clear path forward" to commercialization.
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In this thrilling action-adventure based on the best-selling novel, a teenager named Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive, ever-changing maze with a group of other boys who have no memory of the outside world. Facing dangerous obstacles at every turn, Thomas must piece together clues he discovers within the maze in order to figure out his true purpose—and find a way to escape.
Starring Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter
Director Wes Ball
Ki Hong Lee
Aml Ameen
Blake Cooper
Ava Paige
Dexter Darden
Chris Sheffield
Randall D. Cunningham
Alexander Flores
Don McManus
Masked Man
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Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Wyck Godfrey
Marty Bowen
Lee Stollman
Joe Hartwick Jr.
Edward Gamarra
Noah Oppenheim
Grant Pierce Myers
T.S. Nowlin
Dystopian tale offers high-stakes action, mystery for teens.
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