GEM Cable is proud to present Lite Linke MTP® connectivity containment and cabling solutions, bringing together the best in class components, a highly skilled and motivated workforce, and the best turnaround times in the industry.
Been here before and know what you're looking for? Skip to the following product sections using the links below to navigate to your chosen MTP® Lite Linke product.
Why Choose GEM Cable Lite Linke as your Fibre Optic Partner?
In the fibre optic business for more than 20 years, GEM Cable Lite Linke manufactures and supplies MTP® connectivity, containment and cabling solutions from its state-of-the-art facility.
Our mission is to be recognised as the leading provider of MTP® solutions in Europe and we believe that the principles that characterise our business make that mission achievable.
We supply the best quality solution at a price that offers superb value for money. We use only US CONEC's highest grade (Elite) components and our technicians and engineers learn best practice directly from them. We also work with state-of-the-art equipment recommended by US CONEC including Daisi-MT interferometers, Domaille polishing machines and Optek System's laser cleaver.
Our products are customised: whatever length, grade or colour of cable a customer needs and whatever connector option is required, we will supply the material to those exact specifications. In addition, we can fulfil an order in superfast time – indeed at light speed! We pride ourselves on short lead times meaning that our customers will receive their order within days, rather than weeks.
We bring together the skills of designers and engineers in addressing industry challenges and are constantly innovating and looking at new materials and ways of working to offer the best solutions for our customers.
We are approachable, reliable people who enjoy our work and take pride in delivering consistently high standards for our customers.
GEM Cable MTP® Lite Linke products are categorized under three main sections; Cassettes & Chassis, Assemblies, Accessories. Please expand the items below each section for more information, including our links for each item on our Product Depot and their spec sheet.
The Lite Linke MTP® chassis patch panel options are either in a 1U or 3U format, and are both housings for the premium grade, Lite Linke 24f MTP® ½U cassettes, delivering high density fibre distribution. Both options provide a highly efficient fibre optic connectivity solution using MTP® to LC presentation. The tool-less and pluggable network eliminates the need for expensive on-site splicing and greatly reduces installation time. *MTP® is a registered trademark of US CONEC Ltd.
Our 1U PPS injection moulded 6 slot chassis provides housing for up to 6 ½U 24f cassettes. A fully loaded 1U chassis will contain 144f in LC HD adapter format to the front and twelve MTP® adapters to the rear.
The solution is best served by the use of LC HD Uni-boot switchable patch cords which are neatly managed by the four cable ring attached to the chassis front. Attachable cable management is also provided for the rear of the chassis.
The Lite Linke MTP® chassis options are in a 1U or 3U format and are both housing for the premium grade, Lite Linke 24f MTP® cassettes. Both options provide a highly efficient fibre optic connectivity solution using MTP® to LC presentation. The tool-less and pluggable network eliminates the need for expensive on-site splicing and reduces installation time. *MTP® is a registered trademark of US CONEC Ltd.
The Hyper HD 3U PPS injection moulded chassis provides housing for up to twenty ½U 24f cassettes, which fully loaded contains up to 480f in LC adapter format to the front.
It is possibly the highest fibre count, modular solution on the market within a 3U space and benefits of only requiring one cassette to start thus providing an excellent solution for expanding networks. The 3U solution accommodates up to forty separate 12f MTP® cable links to connect into the rear of the chassis.
The Lite Linke MTP®* Solution is a premium grade, hyper high density 19" cassette and chassis system. It operates on similar lines to conventional networks, insomuch as a trunk cable, patch panels at each end and jumper cables patching to the operating hardware. Lite Linke MTP® solutions provide a more efficient, condensed method – a tool-less and pluggable *high density population fibre optic network, without the need for expensive on-site splicing and thus reducing installation time.
*As the solution is designed for High Density applications, Lite Linke LC HD assemblies must be used in conjunction with the cassette.
Centred around its sleek injection moulded 24f cassette, the Lite Linke MTP® Solution presents up to 144f in a 1U and up to 480f in a 3U space.
The modular design offers the versatility to present a single 12f link trunk up to 12x 12f links on a 1U and up to a maximum of 40x 12f link trunks on a 3U system.
It allows for a buy and build approach as the network grows without demanding more valuable U space within a cabinet.
The ½U cassette is of a tough durable PPS construction and fitted with 12x low profile laser safe LC Duplex adapters to the front and 2x MTP® adapters to the rear.
The low loss LC Duplex adapters are colour coded for ease of fibre type recognition; aqua for OM4 and blue for single-mode. The sealed cassette contains premium grade fan-outs; either 2x 12f or 1x 24f LC to MTP® elite on OM4 or single-mode fibre, according to choice.To the front of each cassette are two sliding pull tabs which are used to aid removal from the chassis. The pull tabs recess into the cassette for tidy storage. Each cassette is fitted with 4x spring-ball bearings which locate inside the chassis with an audible click on correct fitting.
MTP® Lite Trunk Cable Assemblies are of a lightweight single jacket construction, designed to optimise space saving of trunk patching. The 12f cable has a 3.2mm outer diameter while the 24f version being marginally larger at 3.6mm. These compact cables are packed with Kevlar® which provides the necessary endurance for routing and patching purposes, though best used within a Comms Room or Data Suite environment.
Only genuine MTP® connectors are fitted to our cables and are available in two formats; Standard grade and Elite MT ferrule for those applications requiring the highest performance. Both provide exceptional benefits over the conventional MPO connectors, including patented floating ferrule design, patented elliptical, high precision guide pins and removable housing allowing rapid gender change and reversing polarity (tool required). Lite Trunk assemblies are manufactured in our state-of-the-art facility utilising equipment recommended by and personnel trained by US Conec.
The MTP® Lite Trunk assemblies facilitate rapid deployment of high density backbone cabling in data centres and other high fibre count environments, reducing network installation or reconfiguration time and cost. They are used to interconnect cassettes, panels or Ruggedised MTP® Harness Links.
MTP® Tuff Trunk Cable Assemblies are of a Robust Double Jacket construction, designed for longer length trunk patching. Incredibly, the provision of a second jacket benefits the cable by an additional 500N of crush resistance to an overall total of 1000N. The cables retain their compactness with only 4.7mm O.D for 12f and 5.4mm for the 24f version. These cables are packed with Kevlar® which provides the necessary endurance for routing and patching purposes, providing links between Comms Rooms or Data Centres.
Only genuine MTP® connectors are fitted to our cables and are available in two formats; Standard grade and Elite MT ferrule for those applications requiring the highest performance. Both provide exceptional benefits over the conventional MPO connectors, including patented floating ferrule design, patented elliptical, high precision guide pins and removable housing allowing rapid gender change and reversing polarity. Tuff Trunk assemblies are manufactured in our state-of-the-art facility utilising equipment recommended by and personnel trained by US Conec.
The MTP® Tuff Trunk assemblies facilitate rapid deployment of high density backbone cabling in data centres and other high fibre count environments, reducing network installation or reconfiguration time and cost. They are used to interconnect cassettes, panels or ruggedised MTP® Harness links.
MTP® Multi-Lite Trunk assemblies are a neat solution for providing up to four MTP®-MTP® links within a compact, high density ruggedised cable.
The cable construction consists of four ruggedized 12f tubes over-sheathed with a LSZH jacket. Two layers of Kevlar® form the reinforcement and provide ample mechanical resistance beyond expected installation handling.
The benefit becomes the ease of installation with managing one cable rather than four cables. Also, with an outer diameter of 9mm, installing an MTP® Multi-Tuff trunk saves space with cable routing.
The Multi-Lite Trunks can be configured not only as permanent links but also for QSFP cable links for SR4 and CXP parallel optics applications.
As these style of assemblies cater for up to 48f, the MTP® connectors can be split into: 4x 12f MTP® to 4x 12f MTP®, 2x 24f MTP® to 2x 24f MTP®, 2x 24f MTP® to 4x 12f MTP®, 2x 24f MTP® to 3x 16f MTP®.
Hybrid assemblies from multi-MTP® connectors at one end to LC connectors at the opposite end are also available, for example 2x 24f MTP® to 48 LC Connectors.
Manufactured within our state-of the-art termination facility where meticulous attention provides assured quality and peace of mind. From our North Wales base, fast-manufacturing turnaround is our speciality with custom length assemblies made within days of ordering.
MTP® Multi-Tuff Trunk assemblies offer exceptional fibre counts from 48f up to 144f, all contained within one robust trunk link assembly.
Typical configurations of up to 12x 12f MTP® to 12x 12f MTP® or 6x 24f MTP® to 6x 24f MTP® assemblies can be provided. The Multi-Tuff trunk provides exceptional durability when compared to traditional MTP® trunk cable, with a crush resistance of 2000N and tensile strength in excess of 1500N.
The colour coded tails can either be left flush or staggered to fit a protection sock for prudent installation practices. The sock then fits to the break-out manifold ensuring the tensile loading is not on the fibres during or post installation.
The cable construction consists of up to 12x 12f tubes managed around a central strength member. The cable is packed with aramid yarn for added protection and an outer black LSZH universal jacket.
The manifold is fitted with a anti kink strain relief boot and with its threaded front, fits into a 20mm capillary much like a cable gland making these assemblies equally suitable for indoor and outdoor applications.
Manufactured within our state-of the-art termination facility where meticulous attention to detail provides assured quality and peace of mind.
From our North Wales base, fast-manufacturing turnaround is our speciality with custom length assemblies made within days of ordering.
Ruggedised Harnesses or Fan-outs, as they're sometimes known, allow the direct connection between MTP® adapters and other connector types.
Typical use for these assemblies is for QSFP 40G SR4 connectivity where the break-out units split into 8x fibres or 4x 10G channels and are interoperable between differing QFSP manufacturers. Other configurations are MTP® 12/24f into 12/24 sub-unit tails.
The harnesses can even be made with up to 24x LC connectors at both ends of the assembly. They enable direct patching from the MTP® port on the switch to MTP® Cassettes and are readily available to custom length at short notice.
LC simplex and duplex are the most popular though mini-LC (mSFP) with its 5.25 pitch, plus other conventional connector types such as SC, ST or FC/PC are also available. There are also a choice of strain relief boots; flexi-boot, short or standard options. The Flexi-boot not only provides the smallest bend radius it also reduces the need for cable management as the boot is simply positioned into the desired direction and is retained. The LC HD Uni-Boot is our most compact solution which provides two fibres into a single tube with the added benefit of a switchable LC pull tab enabling removal of the connector without disturbing neighbouring ports.
The switchable function allows for changing of polarity of the LC connector post manufacture.
MTP® harnesses are manufactured in the UK using the highest quality components.
Utilising the feature packed LC HD Switchable Uni-boot connector on your assemblies offers the most efficient use of rack space.
Combining two fibres into a single round 3mm jacket can save up to half the patching cable space while the disconnection latch makes for easy removal of the assembly without disturbing the neighbouring ports.
The connector has been further enhanced with the ability to switch polarity in the field without the need for re-termination making the connector extremely flexible.
It is also available in a variety of boot options including short and flexi-boot to suit your preference in cable management.
Colour coded cables and connector options are available to suit OM3, OM4, OM4+ and SM G.652.D and G.657.A2 fibres.
The assemblies are manufactured within our state-of the-art termination facility where meticulous attention provides assured quality and peace of mind. From our North Wales base, fast-manufacturing turnaround is our speciality with custom length assemblies made within days of ordering.
We use only US CONEC's highest grade (Elite) components and our technicians and engineers are trained by them. We also have state-of-the-art equipment recommended by US CONEC. US Conec manufactures durable MTP® brand connectors that provide quick connection for up to 72 optical fibers. Connection integrity is provided by adapter latches which are locked into place on the connector plug by a spring loaded sliding mechanism. US Conec's MTP brand connector components are fully compliant with IEC Standard 61754-7 and TIA 604-5 – Type MPO.


text:
Times & Transcript - Moncton Area
210 Crown St
SAINT JOHN, NB Canada
E2L 3V8
Pre-arrange
Obituary Listings for Times & Transcript - Moncton Area
Donna Webber (October 6, 2011)
Times and Transcript - SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick
J.W (Ben) Lavigne (October 6, 2011)
John Schouten (October 6, 2011)
Kenneth Lowerison (October 6, 2011)
Julia Bulmer (October 6, 2011)
Adelard Basque (October 6, 2011)
Charles Ward (October 5, 2011)
Alexa McCabe (October 1, 2011)
Lena Warman (October 1, 2011)
Lois Whitney (October 1, 2011)
Phyllis McFee (October 1, 2011)
Violet LeBlanc (October 1, 2011)
first prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 next last
Loading More Obituaries

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


The constant frequency generator system, or CFG system, of the Transall is just one of our successful serial developments which we not only manufacture but also maintain and repair. We designed the system with maximum life in mind. All the crucial modules, such as the inverter, the generator control unit and the high performance 9kVA generator, are in-house developments that offer our customers two key benefits: High reliability and a reduced risk of obsolescence.
Putting the final touches to the new constant frequency generator (CFG) of the Transall C-160. Developed, designed, qualified and manufactured by the ENTRAK workforce with support from the System Design Responsables (SDR) Airbus Defense and Space.


text:
<?php

function cache_fetch($k, &$ret) {
	return false;
}

function cache_store($k, $v) {
	return true;
}

function cache_clear() {
	return true;
}

function cache_delete($k) {
	return true;
}

function cache_add($k, $v) {
	return true;
}

function cache_init() {

}

function cache_clear_maint() {

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The garden area of the house is your forever ready party spot where you can perform many fun tasks like relaxing, get together, dining, etc with your near and dear ones. So you need to have all kinds of furniture items in your garden so that you can enjoy the outdoor atmosphere to the fullest. Your very own pallets can really help you a lot to achieve the whole furniture range for your green outdoor area and that too stylishly and at cost free rates.
Here we have got you some really cool and amazing pallet projects & pallet ideas that all relate to the garden furnishing. Dining set, pallet coffee table, bench seats all are here in pallet furniture and alluring projects to win your heart with the very first glance. Especially the skull styled chairs, table and the sofa seat the best thing one can ever make from the pallets. So do have a look and point out which one you need to have in your garden space.
The outdoors make every thing double up in fun that you do in your indoors like the dining and this vintage beauty inspired dining set would add more icing to the cake.
The pallet sofa come in a variety of the styles but this one is totally new having the skull being carved on the pallet boards and used as the back of this rustic sofa piece.
There are many factors with which you can make your things look different and stand out as this traditionally styled bench sofa has been painted with a flag image on the berth.
This cute and mini pallet kitchen table has been made using the pallet slats and plank pieces and can perform you many tasks like that of a coffee table, potting table if you want.
The gorgeous and stylish pallet furniture gain is totally possible to gain from the pallets and this pallet deck seating set is the mouth piece of that for being super cool in looks and are easily made using the pallet slats and the white paint finish.
If you a lover of newer and innovative type of things than you must try your hands on this pallet made chair duo and table having the skull carving on them to look stand out.


text:
The PCA Blog - Cleveland
Event Recap: 2017 Breakfast with the Indians
Over 100 youth and high school sports coaches, administrators, and athletic directors received coaching tips, insights, and a behind-the-scenes look into the Cleveland Indians player development system at the second annual Positive Coaching Alliance Breakfast with the Indians event at The Corner at Progressive Field on August 8, 2017.
The event featured a trio of front-office executives which included General Manager, Mike Chernoff; Performance Coach, Ceci Clark; and Director of Player Development, James Harris, presented by The Cleveland Indians and The Adcom Group. The program was also sponsored by PolyOne, University Hospitals Sports Medicine, Signs-by-Tomorrow, ESPN Cleveland, and FOX Sports Ohio.
A major theme of the panel discussion focused on how a cornerstone of the team's approach to developing players throughout its minor league system is creating opportunities for players to fail, observing how they respond, and providing tools and support to help them bounce back quickly, learn from their mistakes, and improve.
In fact, Harris, who most recently served as a chief-of-staff for the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL, at one point encouraged the coaches in the audience to actually seek out chances that allow the youth they coach to fail. The panel concurred, citing that youth coaches often think that the best way to build kids' confidence is to shield them from failure. However, that approach may actually deprive them of opportunities to overcome challenges and mistakes and build even greater confidence.
Mike Chernoff, Ceci Clark, James Harris, and FOX Sports Ohio Moderator, Jeff Phelps
Clark, who prior to her work in baseball worked with US Army Special Forces, added that in the military, they don't train soldiers under ideal conditions because those aren't what they're likely to face in the field. Drawing a parallel with youth sports, she explained how adding adversity and challenges to a player's development plan is critical to helping him or her build skills to help them be more successful in the face of failure.
She also stressed the importance of coaches building strong relationships with their players and families to better understand how to motivate and support their players through their failures and struggles.
The value of sports as a vehicle to build important and meaningful relationships was another theme of the discussion, best highlighted by a story shared by Chernoff, who has continued to have a monthly game of catch with his father since he was just 6-years-old.
The panelists also encouraged the coaches in the audience to emulate coaches like Terry Francona who pride themselves on being lifelong learners always trying to improve. They also warned coaches to not fall into the trap of early or over-specialization. In fact, Harris shared that with some of their young prospects, they incorporate games involving Frisbees and footballs into their physical routines in order to help players (who may have only played baseball) develop better overall athleticism.
Diamond Coach of the Year: Mike Dies
Local youth softball coach and president of the West Akron Baseball League, Mike Dies, also received the PCA-Cleveland Diamond Coach of the Year Award, presented by Adcom. The award recognizes an outstanding baseball or softball coach who inspires, leads and uplifts youth or high school student-athletes through positivity and mastery of the sport. They exemplify an uncommon commitment to create a positive culture that focuses on developing better athletes and better people.
While many youth recreational baseball and softball leagues have struggled to retain kids and families, WABL has actually increased the number of kids in its program year after year. This is in large part due to Mike's leadership, and the way in which he and his board and coaches have proudly and loudly embraced their identity as a league with the goal of developing lasting relationships, memories, community – and developing the kids as athletes and baseball and softball players.
Mike and his team reinforced this identity even further this past year by mandating training for coaches, including training provided through a new partnership with PCA, to give coaches more tools to help develop and encourage their players, improve relationships with parents, and ensure that the quality of the experience for all kids in the league was even more positive and consistent.
Mike's impact has been felt well beyond the playing fields in Akron throughout the community. In fact, Ken Babby, Owner of the Akron RubberDucks, PCA-Cleveland Chapter Board Member, and recent Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year had this to say about Mike:
We join PCA in honoring Mike Dies for his amazing work with WABL. Mike is a pillar of the Akron community and his commitment to providing great instruction, development and coaching to so many of our community's youth is truly inspiring. His love for Akron and the WABL program is universally known. We are lucky to have Mike in our community.
The event was one in a series of "Conversations with Coaches" hosted by the Cleveland Chapter of Positive Coaching Alliance that provide unprecedented access for local youth and high school sports coaches and parents to some of the best and brightest minds in Cleveland professional sports. Past events have features coaches and front office staff from the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland Browns.
PCA-Cleveland Chapter Board Members and staff: Matt Kittle, Kevin Griffin, Neil Weiss, Marty Mordarski, Alex Slemc, Nick Cipkus, Lisa Kunkle, Brian Bradley, Sean Cupp, Joe Kubic
To view a photo gallery from the event
01.14.2020 PCA-Cleveland's Ryan Virtue Selected As Member of Greater Cleveland Sports Commissions Associate Board
12.11.2019 Baden Youth Association Extends Partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance to Benefit Youth Athletes
12.06.2019 US Lacrosse North Coast Ohio Youth and Middle School Programs Creates Partnership with Positive Coaching Alliance to Benefit Youth Athletes


text:
My name is Caroline Isber, and I have had a career in and out of media, both in radio and television, and then in government, working on environment and health issues, and right now I work on climate change legislation and executive branch issues on the outside of the federal government. In 1963, I had my first job in broadcasting after working as a reporter for a short time for the Boston Globe, and I was a producer of radio in the early days of the Eastern Educational Network, which later became the National Public Radio. I was at WGBH in Boston, and we had a very small group of people in basically a broom closet before the first building was built, and then we moved into the first building.
We were very excited about the March on Washington, and when it was proposed that the Eastern Educational Network cover it live, it seemed as if we were at the cusp of new technology, because before that, we used to what we call 'bicycle tapes,' which meant that we'd mail them from station to station, and duplicate a few of them but this time it was going to be open mike. I wasn't allowed to go to Washington; I was really annoyed about this, because I was an on-air person, and I covered the state house, and I did all sorts of things. And I was very young, and so I thought I should go and cover it, but I was told to stay and produce the show out of Boston, and Susan Stamberg produced it out of Washington.
We were the only women producers; this was not an era where you had very many women allowed to either be on the air or working as producers. So we thought this was unfair and all the men went down, but on the other hand they kept saying it was going to be very dangerous and they were worried, and we had a wonderful team of people.
Basically, my job was coordinating some of the discussion because it was all over Washington, the police station and on the Mall and all sorts of places. When were people supposed to come in; there was a lot of back chatter of "I've got somebody here to interview, I found somebody interesting, Where are you, George? Where are you Al?" This kind of thing. And then there's a lot of time to fill, fifteen hours is a long time. And so we had pre-produced a few interviews that we could put into a slot when there seemed to be some time available that we were worried we couldn't fill.
I had a interview with one of the leaders of the March, Dana McLean Greeley, a Reverend, Unitarian Universalist head, who was one of the major organizers of the March, and they were bringing in people from all over the country on behalf of the civil rights movement. He was a great mobilizer and a great speaker. I happen to know him well as he was the father of a friend of mine, and I had spent a good deal of time growing up in their household. So when I saw on your wonderful website that I done an interview with him, I had no memory of it. But I knew it had to be true, since I knew him well, and then I listened to it, of course, and enjoyed it. I was very delighted with this because I'd been fond of him; I thought he was so important to the civil rights movement and to many other good programs on behalf of tolerance. And so I e-mailed the interview to his daughter Penny Greeley Elwell, who was also thrilled and not remembered that I interviewed her father. And she then sent it to her daughter, so this is the granddaughter of Rev. Greeley, who teaches civil rights! And of course this was very exciting to the third-generation, doing good things in this department.
When we set out to cover the March on Washington, when the Eastern Educational Network decided to do it and fund it, we really felt that we were doing something very significant, and that it was important for all the stations and listeners to know what it was really like to be there. And we wanted it to be something that made a difference, that brought together all kinds of people that we could interview and see who came to the Mall, what it was like, and of course we were rooting for the Civil Rights Act but we were trying to keep it very neutral by keeping ourselves out of the discussion; just asking questions. We felt very strongly, Al Hulsen, George Geesey, and the others, that our role was just to report what was really going on. And therefore the ability to have several people in the field, at the same time, able to talk to each other and moderate it was very important to us.
And so the back chatter that I was involved with in being part of producing the show was to go back and forth behind the scenes when they were not talking. The person who was talking would be heard on the air, but I would be talking to the other people, and saying, "Where are you? What are you doing? Is there anything of interest?" And then we would assess where we should broadcast from there. And this is really the first time that we had done this. It seems so easy now, with all the radio and television that goes back and forth, but then it wasn't so easy, and we worried about the breakdown of equipment. There was no guarantee that we wouldn't be thrown off the air by mistake or something would happen. And I was thrilled at the end, it seemed seamless.
Tom Connolly and Al Hulsen came back to WGBH exhilarated and exhausted, because they had been going nonstop, reporting what was going on. And trying to find each other, and not really being sure what that story was going to be. The Eastern Educational Network as we called it then was an imaginative organization, which was then part of the founding and people like Al Hulsen and Don Quayle became the first heads of the National Public Radio. So they always had in mind a greater link than what we were doing technologically. This was our dream.
And when the March on Washington came and we felt so strongly that this needed coverage of a new kind than we had been able to give, we had rehearsed what we were going to do to a certain extent. And so the engineers had a panel discussion with Geoffrey Godsell, whom I worked with every week about looking at what all this meant. To put the March into perspective. We didn't know what they were going to say; they were ready to be there when we had a time to do it. So that had not been pre-taped, they were in the studios in Boston, they weren't in Washington. But they were listening to the coverage of what was going on, and my memory is that one of these people on the panel was in Washington observing it.
So Reverend Dana Greeley had been interviewed before he went to Washington and as you'll note in the interview, he expressed what he hoped the March would do, and how important it was. At that point, I believe the civil rights movement was not getting a lot of publicity. There had been a lot of talk; there had been sit-ins a couple of years earlier. And then it was all quiet, and so how to get this going, how to get the Kennedy administration to move on the Civil Rights Act was something that people all over the country felt needed publicity. So Reverend Martin Luther King organized this March with a lot of other people including Reverend Greeley. So the fact that we could talk to him in advance of what he hoped the civil rights movement and March could do was very important to put it in, as he was down there actually implementing it, and you hear him talking about how they were training people from all over the country, how they were bringing them in buses.
And the important thing is that really gives you a feeling for how well-organized they were. And they were organized to make sure there was not any violence. There were a lot of things around the edges that were going on, and to everybody's great relief, it ended up being a very good, nonviolent march. But there had been threats that people would come in and disrupt it on purpose. And I think that it was this coverage, along with other coverage, but I think it was very important for people who couldn't go to hear what this was really about.
My role was to be in this very tiny room which had no ventilation and listen to what other people were saying behind the scenes on what was going on, to coordinate what was scheduled on the Mall and whom we had as commentators, so that we could put in the interview when there was a gap. And with 15 hours, you had gaps. And we were prepared for those. And so after talking to the various people on the Mall in my back channel discussions - which I remember mostly as telephone calls, not real links the way you see people with something in their ear, talking to somebody. It was fairly primitive, which made the fact that it all worked seem amazing. Also sometimes we couldn't reach people, but we were sufficiently coordinated that I could make a decision and ask people, if it's alright, I am going to put in this interview which is X number of minutes long, and if there's any problem, let me know, we can interrupt it, but basically I'm going to do it, and then I would signal, and it would be rolled as we called it, and you would hear the interview.
George Geesey, Al Hulsen, Tom Connelly were down there with a few other people, and they would say, "Okay, Caroline, you've cleared with us that we don't have anything important to say." In fact, sometimes they'd say, "Help!" (laugh) You know, filling fifteen and a half hours isn't seamless, or we're lost, or I've lost my connection, or something's going wrong. My job was to make sure that on the air, nothing went wrong. And so we would then say, "Okay, I'm putting this in a minute," or something like that, and I'd wave to the engineer, and he'd run it. And the engineers, producers, everybody were very close friends. We worked seamlessly together. The engineers were as good producers as the producers, they could really do anything, they had good ideas, they were creative, and so it was really a joy to work with everybody, and we were a very nice tight-knit unit. And so we expanded that to be at a distance, but it was the same trust that we had in all of us that we would do the best we can, be as objective as possible, and if something went wrong, the other person would rush in to make sure that on the air you couldn't tell. And I'm, you know, a lot goes wrong behind-the-scenes.
I reflect on the civil rights movement, because I had, of course been very interested in it. It was a precursor, in some ways, to the women's movement. And I had gone when I was in college, a couple of years earlier, to Greensboro, North Carolina, where the sit-ins were taking place. I went on an exchange for Mount Holyoke, where I was in college, to Bennett College, which is a girl's college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And so I had gone to the Woolworth's counter to look at it, and I had been the only white person at this college, and my roommates and I discussed my Bennett College roommates and I discussed what was going on in the civil rights movement, and that immersion to me was important emotionally, and I had made some good friends. So when I got to work on this production, I was pretty excited about it, and I was also hopeful that the civil rights movement would move a little more quickly. And of course, as a woman, who was a rare woman producer in this world of public broadcasting, it sort of brought the need to integrate women on an equal footing to the forefront, too. So a lot of us found this an inspiring opportunity to talk objectively, and analyze what was going on.


text:
Camelot Software Planning – japoński producent gier komputerowych, powstały w 1990 roku jako Sonic! Software Planning. Jest najbardziej znany z tworzenia gier dla Nintendo, takich jak Mario Tennis i Mario Golf oraz z serii RPG Golden Sun. Przed związaniem z firmą Nintendo Camelot stworzył m.in.: Shining Force III na konsolę Sega Saturn.

Historia
Camelot został założony w 1990 roku jako oddział firmy Sega. Stworzył wtedy kilka gier na konsolę Sega Mega Drive, między innymi gry z serii Shining Force. W roku 1995 Camelot oficjalnie odłączył się od Segi, ale obiecał dalej wydawać gry z serii Shining jedynie na konsole Sega. Pod koniec roku 1998 firma rozpoczęła współpracę z Nintendo.

W 2009 roku na Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 Camelot zapowiedział wydanie Golden Sun: Dark Dawn na konsolę Nintendo DS, trzeciej gry z serii Golden Sun.

Gry stworzone przez Camelot
 Shining in the Darkness — 1991 (Mega Drive/Genesis) (wspólnie z Climax Entertainment)
 Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention — 1992 (Mega Drive/Genesis) (wspólnie z Climax Entertainment)
 Shining Force Gaiden — 1992 (Sega Game Gear)
 Shining Force Gaiden II: Sword of Hayja — 1993 (Sega Game Gear)
 Shining Force II: Ancient Sealing — 1993 (Mega Drive/Genesis)
 Shining Force CD — 1994 (Sega CD)
 Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict — 1995 (Sega Game Gear)
 Shining Wisdom — 1995 (Sega Saturn)
 Beyond the Beyond — 1995 (PlayStation)
 Shining the Holy Ark — 1996 (Sega Saturn)
 Everybody's Golf (Hot Shots Golf) — 1997 (PlayStation)
 Shining Force III — 1997 (Sega Saturn)
 Shining Force III Scenario 2 — 1998 (Sega Saturn)
 Shining Force III Scenario 3 — 1998 (Sega Saturn)
 Shining Force III Premium Disc — 1998 (Sega Saturn)
 Everybody's Golf — 1998 (PlayStation)
 Mario Golf — 1999 (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color)
 Mario Tennis — 2000 (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color)
 Golden Sun — 2001 (Game Boy Advance)
 Mobile Golf – 2001 (Game Boy Color)
 Golden Sun: The Lost Age — 2003 (Game Boy Advance)
 Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour — 2003 (Nintendo GameCube)
 Mario Golf: Advance Tour — 2004 (Game Boy Advance)
 Mario Power Tennis — 2004 (Nintendo GameCube)
 Mario Tennis: Power Tour — 2005 (Game Boy Advance)
 We Love Golf! — 2007 (Wii)
 New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis – 2009 (Wii)
 Golden Sun: Dark Dawn – 2010 (Nintendo DS)
 Mario Tennis Open – 2012 (Nintendo 3DS)
 Mario Golf: World Tour – 2015 (Nintendo 3DS)
 Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash – 2015 (Wii U)
 Mario Sports Superstars – 2017 (Nintendo 3DS) (wspólnie z Bandai Namco Studios)
 Mario Tennis Aces – 2018 (Nintendo Switch)
 I Love Golf – anulowana (PC)

Przedsiębiorstwa w Japonii
Japońscy producenci gier komputerowych
Przedsiębiorstwa w Shinjuku (Tokio)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), following a weak start, caved into selling pressure on Wednesday, as yesterday's relief rally failed to carry on amid severe economic concerns.
As per the latest report published by International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pakistan's economic growth rate is predicted at 2.9pc for the year ending 30th June. Moreover, the report stated that the country's current account deficit is projected to be 5.2pc of the country's GDP during the current year.
Furthermore, Finance Minister Asad Umar, along with a delegation, is currently on a visit to Washington in order to finalise a three-year bailout package to stabilise the dwindling economy. The delegation includes State Bank of Pakistan Governor Tariq Bajwa as well as the secretaries of Finance and Economic Affairs Division.
The KSE 100 index benchmark plunged by 665.12 points to touch an intraday low of 36,464.85. Amid lack of triggers, it settled lower by 550.65 points at 36,579.32. The KMI 30 index declined by 1,273.91 points to close at 59,390.95, while the KSE All Share index dropped by 307.15 points, ending at 26,929.89.
Trading volumes declined from 160.48 million in the preceding session to 141.18 million. Unity Food's Limited's right shares (UNITYR1 -19.06pc) ended as the most traded stock with 25.52 million shares exchanging hand.
Worldcall Telecom (WTL -15.45pc) was next in line on the volume chart with 17.99 million shares following the announcement of its results for FY18. Sales surged by 88pc YoY, whereas earnings per share dropped from Rs1.86 in FY17 to Rs-0.18 in the year under review. The direct cost of the company's increased by 56pc on a yearly basis.
K-Electric Limited (KEL -5.32pc), Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited (MLCF -4.99pc) and TRG Pakistan Limited (TRG -4.99pc) also managed to score position among the volume leaders. The scripts had traded 11.58 million shares, 7.30 million shares and 5.57 million shares respectively.
Vanaspati and allied industries (-6.89pc), refinery (-4.28pc), cement (-4.13pc), engineering (-3.86pc) and cable & electrical goods sector (-3.63pc) all ended as the session as losers.


text:
TASHIMA JONES MEDIA
LCMAG
tips & tools on how - to fix your life.
FULL EPISODES LCMAGAZINE LIFECOURSES JOIN THE CLUB
Little Apple: New Sci-fi Drama Series
TashimaJones.Com
I had the privilege of speaking with Riley S. Wilson writer/creator/director of Little Apple, a sci-fi/drama series with a 9-year-old heroine taking a stand against gentrification, racism and complicity--all while developing special abilities. It's a contemporary coming of age story about a young Harlem girl finding her voice in a society that often silences women and people of color.
With every creative, there is a personal space within that triggers the art we all get to read, listen to, or watch. That personal experience of Riley's was a culmination of instances with the tipping point being video footage of a young woman violently removed from her classroom desk in his home town of South Carolina.
Having a younger sister himself, his compassion for the young girl was the genesis of Little Apple; pushing Riley to write from a space of powerlessness.
The first season features 6 episodes exploring themes of: gentrification, the erasure of Native Peoples, Black feminism, micro aggressions, Black Girl Magic and more.
Little Apple is bold, funny, smart, and truly enlightening. It's a must-see for both its content and its delivery. Lisa Cortes (Precious), executive producer, said it speaks to the "Little Apple" in her.
One of the major points of our interview covered identity in a world of racism. There are no rules…was his response to what advice would you give to a young person of color in today's society. And that answer was so perfect because when we adhere to society's rules of who we ought to be, we ultimately get trapped in the matrix, forfeiting our truth and freedom to simply be.
Who is Little Apple?
A claircognizant (all-knowing) little Black girl living in Harlem and ridding the world of ignorance, one person at a time. With Harlem in flux, so is Little Apple as she and her family grapples with her new abilities, new confidence and sheer impatience for a new school year.
Little Apple brought Wilson full circle. I asked Riley how he'd like his audience to walk away feeling… "I want them to feel empowered" was his response. By the time guests viewed the first three episodes during the screening, Riley had already accomplished this desire, with many stating that very feeling of courage and empowerment.
Little Apple is bold, funny, smart, and truly enlightening. It's a must-see for both its content and its delivery. Lisa Cortes (Precious), executive producer, said it speaks to the "Little Apple" in her. It spoke to the "Little Apple" in me too.
Be sure to visit: www.littleappletheseries.com for the podcast, comic book and more.
#tjmtv
Let's Co-create. Connect with me here.
Relationship Goals
Build Wealth: Little by Little
Legacy & Entrepreneurship
Subconscious Insecurities
Relationship Prerequisites
More Money, More Options
Power of Appreciation
Defeating Intimidation
LifeClub - The Show (34)
Mind & Spirit (9)
Creativity & Money (6)
own your greatness
Harlem, NYC
tjm@tashimajones.com
Photo of Tashima Jones
by QlickPhotography
ABOUT TJM
T A S H I M A J O N E S M E D I A © 2020


text:
Sign In £199.00 1
Mark Durden
What Photography
& Incarceration
have in Common
with an Empty Vase
Peter D. Osborne
Roger Luckhurst
Sérgio Mah
Siloquies &
Soliloquies
on Death, Life
& other Interludes
__Prints
Sacha Craddock
This is not a House
Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies
Angus Carlyle, Edgar Martins, Maria do Carmo Séren
This seminal book is an excursus on the metastization of the urban frontier. Produced in South-East China, Portugal and South Africa the author uses the 'black hole' in the landscape as a way to rethink our relationship with the modern de-centred city.
Winner of the 2002 Thames & Hudson & RCA Society Book Art Prize
Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda
Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.
Edgar Martins, Nuno Faria, Roger Luckhurst
This book surveys the largest exhibition to date of the project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, at the CIAJG, Portugal, forcing us to consider photography's role in the intelligibility of death.
The Wayward Line
Edgar Martins, Jacinto Lageira, Sérgio Mah
This publication is produced within the context of Edgar Martins' retrospective exhibition at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris (Oct-Dec 2010) and brings together images from series created between 2005-2010, making possible a transverse appraisal of his photographic production, its unique characteristics, and conceptual framework.
The Diminishing Present
David Campany, Edgar Martins, Nuno Porto, Peter D. Osborne
Produced almost entirely within a 3km radius of the author's home, and inspired by Salman Rushdie's critique of the film The Wizard of Oz, The Diminishing Present is a visual contemplation on the concept of home and what it means to belong somewhere.
__News
What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase @ Ffotogallery, Cardiff & MOCA, London
A re-imagined and site-specific installation of the project What Photography and Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase will be presented @ Ffotogallery, Cardiff, and MOCA, London, from 09 February - 30 March 2021. This project results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands, their families and a myriad of other individuals and community groups in the region.
Launch of prints #4 & #5 of The Moth House's Artistic Practice Support print sales program
We are pleased to announce the sale of the fourth and fifth prints of our print sales program, focusing on the work of a small number of mentees from our Artistic Practice Support scheme. The revenue raised from the sale of these artworks will support the artists in question as well as our free mentorship program. This month we are pleased to launch 280 x 360 mm archival pigment ink prints by Polly Tootal and Luís Preto, in an edition of 3 + 1 AP.
The Moth House awarded funding from the Culture Recovery Fund 3rd round
It's with great joy that we can share with you today that in addition to funding from the CRF 1st round, The Moth House has also been awarded a continuity support grant from the Government's £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (3rd round) to ensure sustainable and stability. This funding will enable us to continue delivering thought provoking projects and content and supporting a wide array of artists.
9th Photo IS:RAEL International Photography Festival
The Moth House has partnered with Photo Israel for the launch of its 9th edition. This year, the festival will include 90 outdoor and 15 indoor exhibitions under the theme "Meeting Point" from hundreds of talented photographers from Israel and abroad. This edition of the festival will include works from our award winning book What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, which were shortlisted for the 2021 Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography.
The Moth House at Paris Photo 2021
The Moth House is pleased to announce its participation in Paris Photo 2021 with MelanieRio Fluency (stand B27). We will be displaying our latest books as well as a new series of photographs by Edgar Martins, titled "Lipographs". "Lipographs" is a term coined by Martins and inspired in George's Perec's lipogramme. Like Perec, Martins applies applies a constrain to language in order to open up a dialogue about a traumatic subject, namely the death and disappearance of his good friend, Anton Hammerl, who disappeared during the Libya war in 2011.
Art project developed with inmates in the Midlands kicks-off international exhibition tour at the Geneva Photography Centre
What Photography and Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase launches the international exhibition tour of the project at the Geneva Photography Centre, from 14 September - 28 November 2021.


text:
Automode
[Feature] Middle-aged riders reduce Korea's stigma of motorcycles
By Kim Bo-gyung
Though still small, motorcycle market shows steady growth led by importers
Published : Apr 29, 2018 - 16:58
Updated : Apr 29, 2018 - 17:08
Yangpyeong rest area on the outskirts of Seoul bustles with middle-aged male and female bikers amicably conversing with each other as they prepare for the next leg of the ride. It is a scene quite new for South Korea where perceptions toward bikers had been foreign, if not only associated with the young and the restless.
Motorcycles, commonly thought of as a means of transportation for deliverymen in Korea, have mostly been considered a mere nuisance in heavy traffic with their zigzagging maneuvers, increasing exposure to danger and accidents.
But the two-wheelers are gradually getting an image makeover, mainly by men in their 40s affluent enough to afford higher-end motorcycles for leisure. The makeover can be seen as much to their credit, as they wear appropriate safety gear and abide by speed limits.
"Men in their 40s and over with notable social status make up the majority of our customer base. They grew up admiring Western culture shown on TV and in the movies. Now they've become financially capable of purchasing and enjoying motorcycles," Ezra Kim, assistant manager at the marketing division of Harley-Davidson Korea, told The Korea Herald.
A BMW Motorrad riding school session is held for women in 2016. (BMW Motorrad)
Buoyed by increasing riders, major importers have seen sales grow.
Leaders in the growing motorcycle market are Honda and Suzuki in the relatively affordable segment, and BMW Motorrad and Harley-Davidson in the luxury range.
US-based traditional cruiser brand Harley-Davidson sold 1,149 units in the first half of last year here, up 3.4 percent on-year. Backed by high brand loyalty, there are some 1,200 members of the Korean chapter of the Harley Owners Group, which boasts around 1 million members worldwide.
"Although Korea isn't a big market, the rate of Korean Harley-Davidson owners leaving the brand is very low, which reflects strong brand loyalty," Kim said.
Some customers even purchase a new motorcycle every year to participate in the 16-day journey from Milwaukee to California, an annual event offered exclusively for new Harley bike buyers, according to Kim. Harley-Davidson's offerings range from 20 million won ($18,700) to 60 million won.
BMW Motorrad and Honda have also reaped record-high sales here on growing demand.
BMW Motorrad flagged its best-ever sales here last year, selling 2,365 units, up 12.4 percent on-year.
Female riders, in particular, have significantly contributed to the change in Korea's motorcycle market.
"As a kid I had always been envious of riders, but didn't have the courage to get a license due to social stigma," said Shin Bo-mi, 28, a beginning rider who started in November 2016.
"Taking control over speed and direction feels liberating and exhilarating," she told The Korea Herald as she attended the Seoul Motorcycle Show 2018, held earlier in April. Shin owns a Honda PCX scooter and hopes to purchase a race bike one day.
"The steady rise in number of female bikers, boxers, e-sports gamers and such reflect the blurring of boundaries between female and male gender roles in Korea," said Kwak Geum-joo, a psychology professor at Seoul National University.
The number of licensed female bikers rose to 4,743 in 2015 from 2,429 in 2011, according to data from National Police Agency.
"Female riders make up a small portion of our customers, but they are definitely increasing in number. This is why we held an event exclusively for female customers a few years ago," said an official of BMW Motorrad.
The company hosted its first BMW Motorrad riding school for entry-level female riders in 2016 in efforts to contribute to creating a safety-first riding culture. This year, it plans to hold similar events in August or September.
The motorcycle market, meanwhile, is notably occupied by foreign manufacturers, be it for leisure or delivery.
Having launched here in 2002, Honda posted record sales last year to rank No. 1 in sales volume. It saw a 9.1 percent on-year hike of 16,625 units, according to the company.
As a relatively affordable brand, Honda's bikes come in various sizes, mostly purchased for delivery purposes. Small bikes accounted for 92.6 percent, or 15,398 units, of Honda's sales here in 2017.
"Product quality of local motorcycle brands lag behind foreign brands. Other than Daelim Motor, there are only a few local small motorcycle makers, who mostly produce scooters," said Seo Yong-gu, a business professor at Sookmyung Women's University and an avid rider.
By Kim Bo-gyung (lisakim425@heraldcorp.com)


Home » Browse » Academic journals » Religion Journals » Church History » Article details, "Book Review: Christian Masculinity: Men and..."
Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries . Edited by Yvonne Maria Werner . Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press , 2011. 322 pp. $49.00 paper.
In the introduction to Christian Masculinity , the book's editor, Yvonne Maria Werner, explains that the work is the product of a research project that received its funding from the Bank of Sweden (whose willingness to support religious and gender studies certainly differentiates it from banks in America). The project brought together academics from all over Sweden, and it drew in a few scholars from other northern European nations as well. Most of the people who participated in the project conduct gender studies in Sweden, and their essays in Christian Masculinity dwell on that country. Not every piece in the book, however, is about Sweden. Rather than exploring the manliness of Swedes, some essays in Christian Masculinity focus on countries such as England and Denmark, while other essays in the book provide theoretical perspectives that are applicable to every Western nation. All thirteen of the essays in Christian Masculinity , the Swedish and the non-Swedish, are based on painstaking research. They are also skillfully written in the international language of English, making the book in which they appear accessible to readers throughout the world.
The contributors to Christian Masculinity represent several different academic disciplines. Two contributors, Callum Brown and Anna Prestjan, are sociologists; a third, Inger Caisou-Rousseau, is a literary theorist; and a fourth, Gösta Hallonsten, is a theologian (whose piece on modern-day, pro-Vatican feminists seems strangely out of place in a book about manliness in the past). The remaining contributors are historians, or at least they employ the methodology of historians, focusing on the chronological development of ideas, institutions, and individuals. All three of these categories receive coverage in Christian Masculinity , but institutional and abstract intellectual histories (as exemplified by Elin Malmer's essay on Swedish soldiers' homes and Olaf Blaschke's essay on the "re-masculinization" movement in the churches of fin de siècle Germany) are outnumbered in the book by portraits of missionaries, monks, and other individuals. Among the best of these portraits is David Tjeder's essay on J. A. Eklund, a bishop in Sweden's state church, the Church of Sweden. Using Eklund's life and ideas to elucidate the men's movement among Swedish Lutherans in the early twentieth century, Tjeder cleverly weaves together personal, religious, and gender history. The other biographers in Christian Masculinity endeavor to do the same thing, but unfortunately not all of them are as successful as Tjeder.


We need a DatabaseManager which will handle receiving BridgeRequests from BridgeDB's distributors, and will queue these requests as transactions with the backend databases.
The distributors are going to use a common method (just call it getBridgesFromDBManager() for now) to request Bridges from the DatabaseManager, and they will expect to receive some relatively well-supported, simple, serialised format (probably JSON) in return.
The Easy Way The easier way to do this would be to not really actually truly make a for-reals ORM, and simply expect to be interacting with a NOSQLly CouchDB backend as described in proposal #226. CouchDB documents are JSON anyway, so this is super easy. If we go this route, we'll need some code to convert the old SQLly stuff to the new NOSQLly format.
The Masochistic Way The harder, but possibly better in the long run (should we ever decide to stop using NOSQL/OODBMSs), way to do this would be to write a true ORM/RDBMS which can work with either system.
This databases which this system will interact with will be used for storing complex/referential/self-referential/recursive datatypes, such as bridgedb.Bridges.Bridges and structures for storing data about blocking events for bridges (including timestamps, discovery method, and country code of the block, etc.) as defined in Section 1.b. of proposal #226.
I've been working on this over the past few weeks. A prototype of this work is available in my feature/12030-database-manager branch, however it is not yet ready for merge.


Our School of Ancient Wisdom focuses on ancient practices addressing the inner, spiritual life such as yoga, astrology classes, and dream work. Our founders John and Kate Payne, along with Mabel Demotte Beggs, were experts in many forms of ancient healing techniques. Learn these powerful techniques as well as healing methods of leading contemporary practitioners and experts that we bring to the Foundation of Light to give talks and lead workshops.
View our School of Ancient Wisdom offerings below. Check back often as new events are added frequently.


text:
Blue Glow
Salon's TV picks for Monday, Dec. 13, 1999
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/glow_173/
Joyce Millman
December 13, 1999 10:00PM (UTC)
Biography (8 p.m. EST/9 PST, A&E) profiles its person of the year, as well as nine runners-up, in a two-hour edition. Carrie wants to invest Doug's Christmas bonus in Internet stocks, but Doug isn't so sure on The King of Queens (8 p.m., CBS). On Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox), Georgia and Cage are opposing counsel in a trial over a department store's firing of its Santa Claus. On Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m., CBS), Debra and Marie have another holiday blowout when Debra insists that she, Ray and the kids spend part of Christmas Day in Connecticut visiting her parents. 20/20 (10 p.m., ABC) has a report on a man who went undercover in a hate group. On Family Law (10 p.m., CBS), Lynn must arbitrate a difficult situation involving parents who disagree over medical treatment for their dying son.
Broncos at Jaguars (9 p.m., ABC)
Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Celine Dion, Christopher Meloni
David Letterman (CBS) R.E.M.
Jay Leno (NBC) Robin Williams, Blue Man Group
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Donny Osmond, Martin Short
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Robin Williams (rerun)
Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.
MORE FROM Joyce Millman
Remembering "Deep Space Nine"
Psychiatry & the birth of Sesame Street
5 shows unite liberals and conservatives
The final sounds of "Stranger Things 3"
Steven Raichlen's barbecue brisket


In the fall, I had a great trip to the Inn at Cedar Falls in Hocking Hills, Ohio. During that trip I met Matthew Barbee of Rockmill Brewery. He came to the inn's restaurant to have dinner with my friend Lisa and me, and to introduce us to his beer. Lisa loved it, but I didn't drink any. The fact is, I hadn't had any beer in about 30 years. I had wiped the beverage from my vocabulary after a bad experience.
While Matt understood about the fact that I wouldn't drink beer, I began to question my position. Honestly, I had never thought much about it before. After all, it's not like there aren't thousands of types of wines and spirits for me to drink. But as I listened to him describe his beer, everything that goes into the small batches and how he pairs it with food and cheese, I thought that maybe I should reconsider.
This may seem like a trivial revelation to most, but it wasn't to me. I had been the only breathing sole at the Great American Beer Festival who had not taken a sip of brew. I had frequented my friend Michael Altman's Iron Springs Pub without ever indulging. I'm always up to going to Destihl for the Batter Dipped Asparagus or Stuffed Poblano, but have not once sampled their beer This was different, though. These were beers in wine bottles, with champagne corks, poured into wine glasses and served with food, cheese and chocolate that complimented their taste.
My mind was made up. I was going to drink beer. My first beer would have to be an experience to remember. I consider hypnosis for a while, but then decided I would just let the brewmaster do what he does best, put together a tasting for me that would remind me of the wine I love, not the beer I hadn't yet.
It had taken three months since I was first introduced to Rockmill beer for me to sit down to my tasting. Working out a schedule had not been easy. I had to admit I was really nervous about the beer tasting, but Matt Barbee was ready to prove that I could not only drink, but I could enjoy beer -- at least his.
I went to Rockmill Farm, which is also owned by Matt's mother Judy and stepfather Dennis. The table was beautifully set with the wine glasses, a cheese platter, fresh bread and olive oil and chocolate. There was music in the background and the modernized country-quaint house on the Rockmill Farm alone was enough to relax me.
The cheese was from Katzinger's Deli in Columbus and had been selected with the same attention detail that the hops from Germany are chosen for the Rockmill beer. We started with the Whitbier and a sheep's milk cheese. Matt said it was the lightest. I twirled the glass as I did wine, sniffing it and sipping it slowly. I could taste the coriander and orange peel as he described it.
We stopped drinking for a bit and talked about the Dubbel and Tripel, and how the Trappist Monks in France used to make the beers and then take the spent grains and feed them to the cows, who would produce the best cheese. We sipped and nibbled and had a bit of the bread with the olive oil before we got to the Saison.
Saison is a more rustic beer, the typical farmhouse ale, a distinction that Rockmill is built on. We had it with a bit of the most incredible cheese in the world, an Italian cow's milk creation that is sprinkled with truffles and called Sottocenere. The beer just blended in my mouth with each scrumptious bite, a perfect pairing as it brought out the pumpkin spices of the beer.
Matt, who has always been a foodie and worked in Chicago restaurants honing sommelier skills, told me about the next pairing he had chosen, Adrahan, to go with the Dubbel. It is a cow's milk cheese and a bit salty, naturally occurring from the location it is made from, near the salt and air of the ocean. It went down well with the Dubbel, a bit more bitter than the other I had tasted. We then had a bit of the chocolate, which had a little salt and just a touch of bacon.
Our final beer was the Tripel, a dark beer with a significant hop profile that is bolder with toasted malt, citrus and a bit of apricot. We had a bit of Australian blue cheese before I got to sample some of the Cask Aged Tripel, which had sold out in a few days the last time it was bottled. It was a bit whisky like and picked up some of the butter of the oak it sat in for about two months.
We got up from the table and I proposed a short hike through the property, which I had become enthralled with after seeing this video. Before we walked over the footbridge and watched the end of the Hocking River (which produces the beer as it has a similar profile to the water in Wallonia, Belgium), went past the lake and the scenic rolling hills, and went through the horse stable that is now the brewery itself, Matt turned to me and asked if I'd like to take a glass of beer with me. I said, "Thank you, I'd really love to have a glass of the Saison." It was my first beer and certainly not my last.


text:
package com.intellij.debugger.ui.tree;

import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.debugger.ui.tree.render.NodeRenderer;

import javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode;

public interface DebuggerTreeNode extends MutableTreeNode{
  DebuggerTreeNode getParent();

  NodeDescriptor getDescriptor();

  Project getProject();

  void setRenderer(NodeRenderer renderer);
}


text:
Home Local News Foundation Scholarship Drive Underway
Foundation Scholarship Drive Underway
The annual campaign to raise funds to be awarded as scholarships to graduating seniors has begun in Elgin.
This past week the annual mailing asking for donations was sent out by the Elgin Area Community Foundation Scholarship Committee.
2016 recipients received more than $8,500 in scholarships.
Recipients last year were (from Elgin High School) Dylan Behnk, Morgan Carpenter, Kaitlyn Polk and Alois Warner; and (from Pope John) Nicole Beckman, Kyle Kallhoff, Scott Moser, Jenna Parks and Jill Schindler.
Since its inception 12 years ago, 115 students have receive over $95,000 in scholarships to continue their education.
Persons wishing to make a donation may do so by sending their contribution to: Elgin Area Community Foundation, PO Box 345, Elgin, NE 68636-0345.
Members of the foundation's scholarship committee are Betty Getzfred, Dean Schrage, Greg Wemhoff, Anne Parks, Vicki Miller and Dennis Morgan.
According to the committee, "The Foundation believes this scholarship effort is worthy of the support of members of the Elgin community. It's no secret that once again the cost of higher education in Nebraska will be going up."
It's been announced that again this year, the Col. Barney Oldfield and Vada Kinman Trust will match all funds raised before April 30.
The first donation received for this year's scholarship drive has been made by Jim Fredrickson on behalf of the Estate of Gayla Fredrickson.
Donations to the scholarship fund will be announced in future issues of The Elgin Review newspaper.


text:
State Bar Drops Morrison Address From Event Program
The Morrison Address—an annual feature of the State Bar convention for more than 70 years except during World War II—will not be given this year, a State Bar spokesperson confirmed yesterday.
The Saturday lunchtime spot devoted to the address last year, when it was given by retired Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who spoke about her work as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, will instead be occupied by a Bench and Bar Luncheon. The speakers at the luncheon will be two daughters of Oliver L. Brown, the plaintiff in the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education.
Many activities at the convention this year, and in the legal community throughout the year, have sought to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown ruling.
The San Francisco Morrison & Foerster attorney who for the past two years recruited speakers for the address said he does not know whether the event will be resumed in 2005. The State Bar spokesperson cited events observing the Brown anniversary as a reason for supplanting the address, but also could not say whether it will be included on next year's schedule.
The address is supported by the Alexander F. Morrison Lectureship Foundation, a trust established by four Morrison & Forster partners and named for one of the firm's founders. Morrison and Constantine E.A. Foerster started the firm in San Francisco in 1892.
The foundation pays the speaker's expenses. The trust declaration specifies the talks "shall be given by Lecturers, eminent in scholarship," that "only subjects of especial importance shall be selected," and that they should "deal with subjects relating to the advancement and development of our law as a system for the administration of justice, or…with the subject of the professional ideals of the lawyer and of his duties to the public, and of the duties of the public with respect to the administration of justice."
In 1930 the address was given by Roscoe Pound, who was dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. Robert A. Millikan, who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics, gave a 1935 lecture entitled "Whither Civilization?"
Among the other speakers over the years have been Canadian Supreme Court Justice Henry Hague Davis in 1939, Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1950, Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1953, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed in 1957, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold in 1959, retired Gen. Mark Clark in 1960, Yale Law School Dean Eugene V. Rostow in 1961, Archibald Cox in 1962, former Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. George F. Kennan in 1964, Edward Bennett Williams in 1970, Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. in 1971, then-U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist in 1974, Sen. Frank Church in 1976, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Eleanor Holmes Norton in 1978, FBI Director William H. Webster in 1984, and former Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr in 1990.
Roland Brandel of Morrison & Foerster, who recruited speakers on behalf of the foundation for the last two years, said he learned in January that the event would not be part of the bar's event schedule this year. There "wasn't any discussion" about the longer term future of the event, he said.
Brandel noted that though the trust agreement calls for the current and immediate past presidents of the State Bar to serve on a committee to recruit speakers, along with a firm representative, in recent years it has fallen to the firm member to do the recruiting. It would be "very helpful if that were all reinstituted," he declared.
Brandel called it "unfortunate" that Wald's lecture last year was combined with the presentation of several awards at the luncheon. Wald had to rush through the latter part of her presentation.
Brandel said bar officials asked him ahead of time if combining the speech and the awards would be appropriate.
"I should never have said yes," the lawyer commented, adding that Wald "did something original for us" and did not get a full opportunity to present her ideas.
While the event has "always been well attended," Brandel said, he noted that in recent years speeches at the bar convention other than the Morrison lecture have frequently been "designed to be entertainment" rather than substantive presentations.


The preparations for the sculpture trail at Stourhead are well underway this week. The artists have been out and about on the estate busy installing their sculptures in time for next month – and they look fantastic, set within the landscape.
The photos I've included are discreet about their hiding places…..so join us in September to discover them for yourselves.


COLONIAL HEIGHTS - As "Santa's Candy Cane Christmas" opens, Mrs.Claus (Lisa Katula), Pepita the Elf (Audra Honaker) and Cowboy Jim (Tom Width) bring in boxes of goodies to stuff Christmas stockings.
The group was disappointed to discover that the candy canes, destined for 5 billion children, had no stripes.
Mrs. Claus had filled the box with gingersnaps, and other boxes contained stocking stuffers, but the candy canes were totally bare, as Drifty the Snowman (Joy Williams) had found.
They decided to ask Miss Candy Cane, played by Katrina Lewis, to make more candy canes with stripes. In the meantime Santa Claus was infomed about the problem.
Pepita and Drifty began filling stockings with what was available, but Pepita became negative about their ability to get candy with stripes. Drifty, with her smiling face, urged Pepita to think positive. At that, they sang a joyous song, "Think Positive."
Miss Candy Cane, the best candy cane maker, brought in a box of candy canes only to find hers had no stripes as well. Ominous music brought in the candy cane swipers. They were little, three-eyed swipers who licked the stripe from every candy cane.
Joy Williams was really a joy. Her gyrations, expressions and funny lines caused roaring laughter many times. She had an affinity for duct tape. "Duct tape can fix anything," she said confidently.
She taped a door shut and later taped it open. Tom Width cultivated his Southern drawl to perfection. Audra Honaker went from being negative to thinking positive. Lisa Katula and Katrina Lewis sang their duet, like sisters, very well in Santa's kitchen. The Jolly Old Fellow seemed well pleased when their problem was solved.
The lesson in this production is "Think Positive"
- "Santa's Candy Cane Christmas," by Paul Deiss, continues through Dec. 22 at Swift Creek Mill Theatre. For tickets, call the box office at 748-5203 or visit www.swiftcreekmill.com.


The 10th most popular all terrain vehicle trail in Arizona.
Southeast of Lake Havasu City near Alamo Lake, the Alamo Lake Road is a graded dirt road that provides access to the west side of Alamo Lake and numerous ATV trails. These trails include: Flag Mine Trail, McCracken Peak Trail, Rawhide Mountains Trail and Signal Road Trail.
Alamo Road is located north of Pheonix off SR60 at Wenden.
Overall, Alamo Lake is the 10th most popular ATV riding trail of all 42 ATV trails in Arizona. Several of the better atv trails are nearby Alamo Lake including Standard Wash, South Plomosa Range Trail, Mineral Wash - Bill Williams River Trail, Swansea Loop Trail, Crossroads Area and Copper Basin Dunes OHV Area.
Local Contact(s): BLM (928) 692-4400; Arizona Tourism (866) 275-5816.
For ATV riding the Alamo Lake in Arizona, our printable trail guides offers trail descriptions, maps, lodging suggestions, driving directions, levels of difficulty and points-of-contact.


text:
ArticlesHomosexualityMarriagePoliticsUS News
Washington Governor Shamelessly Bans State Employees from Work-Related Travel to Mississippi for Their Religious Liberties Law
Tim Brown April 9, 2016
In a similar manner to what is being proposed by a California Sodomite Assemblyman, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee has ordered people working under him in the executive branch to allow publicly funded non-essential travel to the state of Mississippi while Mississippi's HB 1523, which is known as the "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act."
Inslee pompously wrote in a memorandum, "Washington State has a strong history of prohibiting discrimination and promoting diversity and inclusion."
Except, of course, when it comes to other states standing up for the rights of their citizens who are not engaging in sexual deviancy, right Governor Inslee?
The memo comes just one week after the governor issued a similar travel ban to North Carolina, which struck down local laws that protected open sodomites and transgenders using bathrooms that were not designated for their birth gender.
"Our Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD, Ch. 49.60 RCW), guarantees for all Washingtonians the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color national origin, sex, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability," the Governor added. "And late last year, the Washington Human Rights Commission, through rulemaking, clarified the WLAD and affirmed protections for transgender people to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity."
Now, stop and think about all that discrimination nonsense. How does the state claim that it is a "right to be free from discrimination"? Will they be telling you that you must have sodomites in your home? What about Muslims? You see, discrimination is a part of the rights that are to be protected in the First Amendment's phrase relating to the "right of the people peaceably to assemble." In that phrase it is clear that people can choose to discriminate about how they assemble with and who they don't. Governor Inslee is anti-American and anti-Constitution and violating his oath of office with all of this blather.
However, if that is not enough, he is blasting Mississippi over protecting what is in the First Amendment and that is the free exercise of religion (specifically, the Christian religion) by protecting those whose consciences will not allow them to provide services for those engaged in sexual deviancy and in attempts to redefine marriage and gender.
The stated intention of HB1523 is to protect people who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman, sexual relations should only take place inside those marriages, and that male and female genders are unchangeable.
"I am signing H.B. 1523 into law to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations, and private associations from discriminatory actions from state government or its political subdivisions," Gov. Bryant said in a statement.
In fact, since Mississippi's bill comes from a representative of the people, it could rightly be argued that the people have "petition[ed] the Government for a redress of grievances" via the bill. That's also protected in the First Amendment to Governor Inslee.
Inslee wrongly thinks that Washington's laws apply to Mississippi and attempts to cite WLAD as protections for those traveling from Washington to Mississippi who are sodomites, transvestites or other gender confused people. Apparently, New York's Andrew Cuomo thinks the same regarding his state and has also banned similar travel to Mississippi, as well as Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin.
He then writes as if he were king regarding the issue.
"It is the law of Washington State and the policy of my administration to demand equality for all persons," Inslee wrote. "Consequently, I hereby order that no executive cabinet-level agency or small-cabinet agency shall allow publicly funded non-essential travel to the state of Mississippi so long as the recently approved House Bill 1523 exists in its current form."
Finally, Inslee "invited" other "statewide elected officials, institutions of higher education, agencies, boards and commissions" to follow his lead in attacking the rights of the people, the Constitution and the freedoms we enjoy for the sake of less than 2% of the population.
Frankly, I say "Good riddance!" Who wants people who think like Jay Insleee and Andrew Cuomo in their state anyway? Perhaps, if these people stay out of Mississippi, she will be able to breathe and flourish as she was intended to do… in freedom, justice and liberty.
Previous Preschool Boots 4-Year-Old After Mother Complained about Sodomy and Gender Identity Being Taught
Next A Warning in 1960 by Gen. Carlos P. Romulo


text:
MONCAD Athletes Qualify for FISU World University Championships in Korea
Monash University Cheer and Dance (MONCAD) athletes have once again qualified to represent Australia and compete at the FISU World University Championships (WUC) Cheer & Dance, this time, in Korea.
The competition is set to go ahead in September and will feature at least three of the club's dance teams and one cheer team.
Two years ago, MONCAD athletes attended the inaugural Cheer World University Championships and Club Vice President and Team Organiser, Hayley Shreeve, said that ever since, it's been the club's goal to return and represent Australia again.
"It's an incredibly exciting situation to be preparing for WUC again," Shreeve said.
"Last years teams worked incredibly hard throughout qualifying, so it was great to get the message [we qualified] and that it had all paid off."
However, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a monumental impact on almost everything all across the globe and MONCAD is no different. The club will have to spend an indefinite amount of time preparing for Korea via online services like zoom.
Cheer in particular, has found itself with some significant obstacles to overcome before it can send a team to Korea, as outlined by Club President Phoebe Yeung.
"One of the hard things is that we were actually 24 hours away from holding our cheer tryouts," Yeung said. "We don't actually have a cheer team yet."
"That's why we've introduced the online zoom cheer P.T (personal training) sessions...it's open to returning and new athletes to help maintain fitness and show newer athletes what it's all about ."
Without official tryouts, selecting the team for Korea will be a difficult process, a process not yet finalised.
"There's enough returning athletes to give us some idea of who may go but its really dependent on who else shows up...we really want to send the best team over there," Yeung said.
Vice President Hayley Shreeve said, despite the excitement of the upcoming championships in Korea, the broader clubs main focus is to ensure all members continue to participate and enjoy themselves.
"From our community as a club perspective...everyone is looking forward to logging on and seeing and meeting the people that will be on your team, or you will eventually meet and work with," Shreeve said.
"The community of the club just makes it something you really want to go back to."
This sense of community has been highlighted in the club's recently released mini-documentary series - 'MONCAD: Our Story'.
In terms of expectations for the WUC, Shreeve said the club is doing its best to put in all the necessary work, emphasising the importance of preparing it's qualified teams as best they can.
"It's really hard to put results as an expectation...we get two and a half minutes on a floor {in Korea} and that's the entire season wrapped up," Shreeve said.
"We do everything we possibly can and now there's even more drive to make sure that happens."
Team MONASH wishes its cheer and dance athletes all the best and we can only hope this trip will be allowed to go ahead...only time will tell.


text:
Fathom > Spring 2013 > The Syrian civil war
Spring / 2013
The Syrian civil war
by Jonathan Spyer
Syrian refugees cross from Syria to Turkey by the Orontes river. Manu Brabo / AP / Press Association Images.
Jonathan Spyer
The end of the Assad regime will probably not mark the end of the civil war but a new phase: an ethnic-sectarian battle. The conflict forms a central front in a broader Sunni-Shia clash throughout the region.
The Syrian civil war has claimed upwards of 40,000 lives, and shows no signs of ending any time soon. However, the stalemate that has prevailed since August, 2012 has been broken. The regime of President Bashar Assad is clearly in retreat – a large swathe of northern Syria has effectively been ceded to the disparate forces of the rebellion who, as I write in late 2012, are laying siege to remaining islands of regime control in Aleppo and Idlib governates.
The crack-up continues
The regime, meanwhile, is contracting, and seeking to establish new defensive lines. Assad's forces are trying to create an impenetrable 'security circle' around the capital city Damascus, ceding rebel-held eastern suburbs and fiercely defending the remainder.
At the same time, Assad is building an additional defensive line in the Orontes River valley, west of the majority Sunni cities of Homs and Hama. This appears to be part of a strategy whereby if Damascus falls, the regime will seek to maintain control of an area of Alawi majority population in the west of the country, from where it will continue its fight against the Sunni rebels.
If the capital city falls, this will effectively mark the end of the Assad regime as it has existed since 1970, but it will probably not mark the end of the Syrian civil war. Instead, the conflict would then likely morph from an uprising against a dictatorial regime by a popular rebellion into an ethnic-sectarian battle between forces representing the Sunni Arab majority of the country, and the army of the former regime, which would effectively have become an Alawi militia. The ethnic sectarian nature of this second chapter in the Syrian civil war will be further marked by the existence of an additional ethnic enclave in the country, maintained by Kurdish militias – the PYD, the Syrian Kurdish franchise of the PKK organisation, is dominant – in the majority Kurdish north east of Syria. The regime effectively facilitated the establishment of this enclave when it withdrew from five Kurdish majority towns in August 2012, allowing the PYD to enter. Some analysts saw this move by the regime as part of a larger rapprochement between the Assad regime and the PKK. However, the PYD and PKK flatly deny the existence of any such rapprochement. It is equally likely that the regime, short of manpower and aware of the Kurdish desire to avoid involvement in a rebellion widely seen as pro-Turkish and Islamist in nature, reached local understandings with the Kurdish forces in the area in question and quietly withdrew.
The Syrian rebels are committed to the maintenance of the territorial unity of the country. Senior rebel leaders have openly proclaimed their intention of re-conquering the Kurdish enclave in the north-east. They would also be determined, of course, to crush an Alawi enclave in the west, should the remnants of the Assad regime seek to establish such an entity, as looks likely.
Is this second phase of the war immediately imminent? While the regime is certainly in retreat and growing weaker, it is not yet in headlong flight. The core, Alawi-dominated, Praetorian Guard type units of the Syrian Arab Army remain loyal to the regime. The 4th Armored Division and the Republican Guard, both commanded by the president's brother, Maher, remain intact and available for use, as do the regime's special forces, and the 'Shabiha' Alawi irregular forces.
The regime also maintains its dominance of the air, though a number of aircraft have now been downed by the rebels. And of course it also retains control of Syria's extensive chemical and biological warfare capabilities.
All this means that the Assad regime may well hold its current lines for some months to come. But if and when Damascus falls, the next phase is likely to be a continuation of the civil war.
Proxy conflict
The Syrian civil war has been a proxy conflict from its outset. The Assad regime is a central regional ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This alliance has been a key factor in enabling the survival of the regime; a large body of evidence, confirmed by statements from Iranian officials themselves, indicates that the Iranians have offered money, advice, materials and men to help the regime survive.
Not only Iran itself, but also Iranian allies and clients such as the Hizballah organisation in Lebanon, and the Maliki government in Iraq have acted to assist the beleaguered Syrian dictator. Hamidreza Taraghi, an Iranian pro-regime politician, recently characterised Iran's motivation for aiding the Syrian regime in the following terms: "Whatever the cost, we want to keep Syria in the group of resistance against Israel." The rhetorical element in this statement aside, it is a pointer to a crucial element which has enormously benefitted Assad. The other secular nationalist dictators in the Arab world who fell in the context of the 'Arab spring' – Bin ali in Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya – were all either aligned with the west or isolated.
Assad is the only leader of this type who was aligned with the anti-western, Iran-led bloc in the region, and he has survived longer than any of the others thanks in no small part to this affiliation. The other dictators had no international line of support to enable them to sustain a policy of brute force and repression against their own populace. Iran has been willing to play this role for Syria.
There are currently no indications that Iran is planning a major shift away from this position of support for the Assad regime. Given the Sunni Islamist and fiercely anti-Iranian stance of the Syrian rebels, it is unlikely that Iran will have many options in this regard. This is particularly so given recent indications of the Syrian civil war spilling over into Lebanon, where Iran's main proxy in the Levant – Hizballah – is located. In the Lebanese towns of Tripoli and Sidon, there have been clashes between Sunni Islamist supporters of the Syrian revolution and local Hizballah activists. Hizballah fighters have also engaged in action across Lebanon's eastern border in support of Assad. Should the rebellion conquer Damascus, these clashes may intensify, as Lebanese Sunnis see a chance to challenge the dominant position that Hizballah currently holds in the country.
This dominant position has derived in no small part from the presence of the pro-Hizballah Assad regime in neighboring Syria. Should the sectarian war spill over decisively into Syria, Iran will have increased motivation to continue its backing of the Alawi regime.
Russian support has also been crucial – both in terms of continued arms provision, and in diplomacy, where Moscow has acted to prevent a coherent international response to the Syrian crisis through the exercise of its veto in the United Nations Security Council. On the rebel side, international support has been patchier, but has also played a key role in defining the nature of the insurgency and in enabling the rebellion to pose a real challenge to the regime. The main providers of support to the Syrian rebels are Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Western countries including the United States, Britain and France have also offered varying degrees of support for the Syrian opposition. But it is the support of Sunni movements and regimes which has made the largest impact on the nature of the insurgency.
The rise of the Islamists
For their own reasons, Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood have predictably favored Islamist fighting groups in Syria over more secular-inclined ones. This, coupled with the greater commitment of the Islamists in the fighting itself, has led to the increasing dominance of the Islamists in the rebel ranks and the decline of secular commanders.
The recent formation of a unified rebel command, with western support, around two-thirds of which consists of the Muslim Brothers and their allies, reflects the predominance of the Islamists. Secular nationalist commanders, including Colonel Riyad Asaad who founded the FSA and Generals Mustafa al-Sheikh and Hussein Haj Ali, were excluded from the new command. The composition of the new command mirrors that of the new, also MB-dominated civilian leadership for the opposition, announced in Qatar in November.
In the event of continued conflict in Syria, the Sunni Islamist rebels will enjoy the continued support of Sunni regional powers. In the event of their victory and taking of power in the country, the new Syria is likely to be Islamist in nature, and to align with other Sunni Islamist states in the region.
There is, however, also a real possibility that following the fall or the contraction of the regime, the Sunni rebels may begin to fight among themselves. Already, a more hard-line, rival military command has been formed in opposition to the western supported alliance. The rival command favors a more thorough Islamist approach and includes some of the most effective military units among the rebels, including the al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra.
The rebellion has been notable for its lack of unity since its outset. Thus, if and when the regime loses Damascus, there is a real possibility that the continued conflict will not only be between Sunni rebels and Alawi and Kurdish enclaves. Rather, different elements among the rebels may begin to challenge one another. There have already been instances of internecine conflict among the rebels, for example over the issue of the border crossings of Bab al-Hawa and Bab al-Salameh between Syria and Turkey.
The Syrian civil war does not look close to an immediate conclusion, and it may well shortly enter a new phase. While it is of course not possible to predict the precise course of events, two factors may be stated with a degree of confidence: the war will continue to be characterised at its core by its sectarian nature, and it will continue to be a proxy war, in which the mainly Shia, Iran-led regional alliance will back the regime or remnants of it, while the Sunni rebels will be backed by a looser alliance of regional Sunni powers.
In this regard, the conflict in Syria forms a central front in what is emerging as a broader Sunni-Shia clash, discernible throughout the region, along the faultlines that separate areas of Sunni and Shia Arab population (which do not, of course, resemble the lines dividing Middle Eastern states from one another). This clash has been much exacerbated by the Arab upheavals of the last year and a half, because of the rise of Sunni Islamist movements in a number of countries. Thus, an arc of Sunni-Shia conflict can now be drawn, beginning in Lebanon, taking in Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and going down to north Yemen.
From Israel's point of view, the prospect of the fall or severe contraction of the Assad regime contains both positive elements and potential new threats. On the one hand, Israel has long identified the Iran-led regional alliance as its most potent adversary. The two 'active fronts' of the Israel-Arab conflict over the last decade – Hizballah in south Lebanon, and Hamas/Islamic Jihad in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – were characterised by a heavy investment by Iran in Israel's Islamist adversaries. The fall of Assad would mean a major, strategic setback for Iranian ambitions in the Levant area. This surely is a benefit for Israel.
But on the other hand, the likely period of chaos in Syria that would follow the fall of Damascus and the rise of Sunni Islamism are both of deep concern. There have already been instances of gunfire from southern Syria towards the Golan Heights. Though so far these appear to be stray ordnance from fighting between the army and rebels, Israel is acutely aware of the large numbers of Syrian and foreign salafi (extreme Sunni Islamist) fighters playing a vital part in the fight against Assad. The presence of these men, and the likely anarchy in a post-Assad Syria would bring with it the possibility of attacks across the border. The possibility that Assad's chemical and biological warfare capabilities could fall into the hands of such groups is also a major Israeli security worry at the present time. In short, both a Syria in chaos and a Syria in which the Sunni rebels managed to consolidate their rule would bring new challenges for Israel.
The views of the Sunni rebels regarding Israel are in line with those of other Sunni Islamists: the consensus is one of extreme hostility to the Jewish state. This does not mean that a Sunni Islamist Syria would immediately embark on a path of direct confrontation with Israel. But it does mean that such a regime would be likely to be a strong ally of Hamas, and of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Cairo. This would make any advance toward peace between Israel and Syria extremely unlikely for the foreseeable future.
Shifting world, shifting priorities
By Toby Greene
The global economic crisis and the Arab Spring have impacted but not transformed the Britain-Israel... Read more > Spring 2013
Book Review: The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to...
By Eric Trager
In the decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Western analysts' search for a 'moderate Islamist'... Read more > Spring 2013
Hezbollah as a Criminal Organisation
By Matthew Levitt
The radical Shiite Lebanese organisation Hezbollah may be best known for its armed activities, but... Read more > Spring 2013
No blank cheques: Morsi and Hamas
By Benedetta Berti
Relations between Egypt and Hamas have improved under Morsi. But he has issued no blank... Read more > Spring 2013


text:
Мавровската котловина или Мавровското поле или Вруполе () е котловина в западната част на Северна Македония. Котловината е на надморска височина 1200 m и е най-високата в страната.

Котловината захваща повърхност от 92 km2 между планините Бистра на юг и ридовете на Шар Кожа и Кръстове на запад и изток. Превалът Бунец на изток, висок 1318 m, я свързва в Полога. През котловината минава пътят Скопие - Дебър и в нея са селищата Маврово, Никифорово, Леуново и Маврови ханове (Маврови Анови).

Произходът на полето е неотектонски и пред плиоцена тук е имало езеро. В 1957 година водите на Мавровската река са спрени и е създадено изкуственото Мавровско езеро, което залива по-голямата част от котловината.

Бележки

Котловини в Северна Македония
Маврово и Ростуше


Understanding the biochemical and genetic mechanisms underlying aging will be the quickest path to a therapy. EurekAlert reports that researchers have established the mechanism by which the Sir2 longevity gene (identified fairly recently itself) works in mammals. This uncovers another piece in what is clearly an interlocking puzzle: oxidative stress, DNA damage, genetic moderation, cancer, degenerative conditions and other parts of aging all play into one other through linking mechanisms.


After reading this letter, if you think you might be mowing your wetlands, give us a call and we will send someone out to advise you. If you start letting them grow, you will be supporting new habitat, helping clean the water, and potentially reducing erosion along your shoreline!
And we all want a clean Lynnhaven so we can always have healthy oysters right? Right?


BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that a new European Commission is needed with a new approach to migration policy, adding that the days of the current EU executive are "numbered" with its mandate expiring next May.
Orban, one of the strongest opponents of the EU's migration policy, told state radio the next Commission should not punish countries that protect their borders from migrants.
Orban said the Commission's decision was insignificant as its mandate was running out soon.
"We need a new Commission... with a new approach," Orban told radio.
"We need a Commission after the European elections which does not punish those countries that protect their borders like Hungary," he added.