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EDITORIAL: Trudeau unacceptably smears construction workers
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What do you call it when you judge an entire group of people the same way? Stereotyping? Prejudice? Bigotry?
However you label it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to malign one whole group in Canada – male construction workers – while speaking at the G20 summit in Argentina.
While Trudeau participated in a gender equality panel he said: "You might say, "What does a gender lens have to do with building this new highway or this new pipeline?" Well, there are impacts when you bring construction workers into a rural area — there are social impacts because they are mostly male construction workers. How are you adjusting or adapting to those [impacts]?
Huh? What does this mean? He certainly seems to be suggesting the impacts of having a group of men working in a rural area are negative ones.
Trudeau was roasted on social media over the remark.
Well said @RachaelHarderMP. The person who is a threat to rural Canada is Justin Trudeau himself, not the workers who build communities everywhere. pic.twitter.com/OyqcYz4Nr2
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) December 3, 2018
One woman took to Facebook to vent her frustrations in a post that was widely shared:
"Personally when I saw this video it made my blood boil as my husband oversees a crew in the natural gas division. He sacrifices for our family by being out of town for work," wrote Tamara Mack Robbins. "These are not 'frat boys' the workers he refers to are our husbands, sons, brothers and, yes, sisters. How dare he speak this way of my husband and many Canadian families!"
Someone needs to tell Trudeau the construction and pipeline sector employs immigrants, young people, people of colour as well as First Nations and Canadians who have been here for generations.
It's hard, honest work that's critical for our economy. Construction workers build our businesses and communities and pay the taxes Trudeau fritters away.
He ought to retract his outrageous comments but that might be difficult with the other shoe he already has in his mouth.
On Sunday morning, the PM cavalierly offered $50 million in taxpayer money to late night comedian Trevor Noah for a global fund that supports education in crisis zones, saying "Work for you? Let's do it."
Hey @Trevornoah – thanks for everything you're doing to celebrate Nelson Mandela's legacy at the @GlblCtzn festival. Sorry I can't be with you – but how about Canada pledges $50M to @EduCannotWait to support education for women & girls around the world? Work for you? Let's do it.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 2, 2018
The problem here isn't the worthy cause he was supporting, it was Trudeau using Twitter to impress a celebrity by publicly offering $50 million in tax dollars on a self-aggrandizing whim.
Our PM's record of divisive, tone-deaf pronouncements and tweets continues to grow.
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Gandhi Nagar residents want new tank to meet water needs
Published: 10th June 2013 10:57 AM | Last Updated: 10th June 2013 10:57 AM | A+A A-
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Residents of more than 800 houses in Gandhi Nagar, in Katpadi, have demanded the construction of a new water tank in the area, to meet the demand for water. The residents also demanded the demolition of the old water tank.
They complained that the old water tank located on Ida Scudder Road with a capacity of 2.5 lakh litres was built in 1972 and the concrete structure had become old, posing a threat to residents of the area. The residents also said the water tank was being used for the supply of water to more than 360 families in Gandhi Nagar East, Gandhi Nagar West and Municipal Colony areas comprising around 18 streets.
Kamala, a resident of the 6th West Cross Road said, "Water was being supplied for an hour from 6 am to 7 am from the water tank daily. After the tank went out of use five years ago, water was being supplied only once in three or four days."
The number of families had gone above 800 in the area, resulting in an increased demand for water, Murugesan, another resident of Gandhi Nagar East said.
Councillor of ward 12, S Vijayalakshmi, said, "As the water tank is not being used, drinking water is being pumped from Krishnavaram pumping station, which is around 6 km away, and supplied directly to the houses."
"Since water is directly pumped, it cannot be supplied regularly due to power cuts at the pumping station," she added.
Further, Vijayalakshmi also demanded regular water supply and a 3.5 lakh-litre capacity sump for storing water.

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Cory Gunther wrote on the technology news site that this type of personalisation has been popular among Apple customers for years and it seems Samsung has now also seen how the value in the activity.
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Bulgarian-Serbian Wars (medieval)
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict = Bulgarian-Serbian Wars
caption = Clockwise from top left: Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria; Stefan Dušan of Serbia; Boris I of Bulgaria; Stefan Dragutin of Serbia.
date = 839 - 1330
place = Western Balkans
territory = Serbia was conquered twice; both states had numerous territorial changes
result = Inconclusive
combatant1 =
combatant2 = Raska
Duklja
Kingdom of Serbia
commander1 = Presian
Boris I
Marmais
Theodore Sigritsa
Samuil
Michael III Shishman
commander2 = Vlastimir
Časlav Klonimirović
Jovan Vladimir
Stefan Dečanski
strength1 =
casualties1 =
notes=
The Bulgarian-Serbian wars were a series of conflicts which took place between the Bulgarian Empire and the medieval Serbian states of Raska, Duklja and the Kingdom of Serbia between the 9th and 14th centuries. The area of the conflict was the Western Balkans, more specifically western Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Up to the 12th century the Serbian states were dependent and strongly influenced by the dominant Balkan powers, the Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires. The rulers of both countries aimed at controlling of the Serb princes in order to use them as allies in the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars. The first war between Bulgarians and Serbs occurred during the reign of Khan Presian between 839 and 842 and was caused by the Byzantine diplomacy. Later after series of campaigns the Bulgarian Emperor Simeon I destroyed the Serb state in 924. Peter I restored the independence of Serbia in 931 and appointed his protege Časlav Klonimirović as its ruler.They were again subjected by Emperor Samuil in 998.
In the 13th century Stefan Dragutin and his brother Stefan Milutin fought as Hungarian vassals against the Bulgarian governors of Belgrade and Branicevo, Darman and Kudelin and managed to defeat them. In 1327 the Emperors of Bulgaria and Byzantium signed an anti-Serbian alliance to stop Serbia's growing power but in 1330 Bulgarian Emperor Michael III Shishman was defeated by Stefan Dečanski in the battle of Velbazhd.
War of 839-842
The first war between Bulgarians and Serbs took place between 839 and 842. According to Byzantine sources both peoples co-existed peacefully up to that moment. ["De admin. imperio", ed. Bon., cap. 32, p. 154] The conflict was a result of the Byzantine policy to divert the Bulgarian expansion in their southern-western provinces. [Грот, К. Я. "Известия Константин Багрянородного о сербах и хорватах", Петроград, 1879, стр. 181] After the Bulgarians took western Macedonia the Serbs thought they were threated to be engulfed by the large Bulgarian Empire. Their Knyaz Vlastimir managed to unite several Serbian tribes [Л. Ковачевић и Л. Jовановић, "Историjа српскога народа", Београд, 1894, кн. 2, стр. 38—39] and the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos who was officially overlord of the Serbian tribes supported Vlastimir in his attempts for unification of the Serbs and probably granted them independence [Ст. Станоjевић, "Историjа српскога народа", Београд, 1910, стр. 46—47] aiming at creating a threat to the Bulgarians.
The Bulgarian Khan Presian decided to eliminate the growing Byzantine influence over the Serbs and attacked them in 839. The war lasted for three years and Presian did not achieve anything - he only lost part of his army. However, the Byzantines achieved their aim - the Bulgarian attention was diverted and they managed to cope with the Slavic rebellions in Pelopones. The war ended with the death of Theophanes in 832 which on one hand released Vlastimir from his obligations to the Emperor and on the other hand gave opportunity to the Bulgarians to attack the Byzantine Empire an annex the area of Ohrid, Bitola and Devol in 842-843. ["Известия за българите", стр. 42—43]
Campaign of Boris I
After the death of Vlastimir c.850 his state was divided between his sons Mutimir, Stroimir and Goinik and the new Bulgarian ruler Boris I attacked the Serbs. He wanted to use the Serbian weakness and impose Bulgarian influence instead of the Byzantine one. However, the campaign proved to be a disaster after the Serbs defeated the Bulgarian army and captured Boris I's son Vladimir Rasate and twelve great boils. [Грот, К. Я. "Известия Константин Багрянородного о сербах и хорватах", Петроград, 1879, стр. 183] To take back his son, Boris I concluded peace with the Serbs and both sides exchanged gifts. [Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 154—155] There were no territorial changes but the Bulgarian ruler probably abandoned his ambitions to conquer the Serbs. However, the Bulgarians achieved part of their objectives - the Serbs rejected their alliance with Byzantium. Boris and Mutumir established friendly relations and the latter was backed by the Bulgarians in his struggle against his brothers and after Mutimir captured them they were sent to Bulgaria. [Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 155]
Campaigns of Simeon I
In 917 the Byzantines managed to bribe the Serbian Prince Petar Gojniković who was an ally of Simeon I. After the Byzantine army was annihilated in the battle of Anchialus on 20 August that year, the Bulgarian Emperor had to delay his march to Constantinople in order to secure his western borders. In the autumn of 917 Simeon sent an army under the generals Theodore Sigritsa and Marmais to invade Serbia and punish Gojniković for his treason. They convinced Petar Gojniković to meet them but when the Serbian Prince came he was captured and taken to Preslav where he died in prison. The Bulgarians installed Petar's cousin Pavle Branović who was under the wing of Simeon on his place. [Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 155] [Грот, К. Я. "Известия Константин Багрянородного о сербах и хорватах", Петроград, 1879, стр. 186-187] In 921 when the Bulgarians controlled almost every Byzantine possessions on the Balkans, the latter tried once again to turn the Serbs against Bulgaria. Romanos Lekapenos sent Zaharije Pribisavljević against Pavle who was loyal to Simeon but he was defeated and sent to Bulgaria. However, the Byzantine managed to bribe Pavle Branović and while the Bulgarians were besieging Adrianople, the Serbs started hostilities against Bulgaria but this time Simeon easily fought them out - he sent Zaharije with an army in Serbia. Pavle was defeated and his throne taken by Zaharije.Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 157]
However, the Byzantine historians wrote that Zaharije "after he recalled the beneficence of the Byzantine Emperor, immediately rebelled against the Bulgarians because he did not not want to submit to them but preferred to be a subject of the Byzantine Emperor."Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 157] Angered with his betrayal, Simeon sent an army led by Theodore Sigritsa and Marmais to crush the Serbs but the Bulgarians were ambushed and defeated and the heads of their commanders sent to Constantinople. [Const. Porphyr., ibid., cap. 32, p. 157-158] Simeon pretended that he was ready to conclude peace with the Byzantine Empire and in the meantime summoned a large army against the Serbs under the generals Knin, Imnik and Itsvoklius along with the new pretender of the Serbian throne Časlav Klonimirović. When the news of those preparations reached Zaharije, he immediately fled to Croatia. However, this time the Bulgarians to fully conquer the Serbian principality. The Serbian nobles were persuaded to meet Časlav and were captured and taken to Preslav. The Bulgarian army devastated Serbia and moved the population to Bulgaria while some escaped to Croatia and Byzantium. [Const. Porphyr., ibid., p. 158] Serbia was included in the borders of the Bulgarian Empire. [Zlatarski, V. " [http://www.promacedonia.org/vz1a/vz1a_b1_2.html History of the Bulgarian state in the Middle Ages] ", Sofia, 1971, p. 214 ]
Campaigns of Samuil
After the defeat at Spercheios in 996 against the Byzantines, the Bulgarian Emperor Samuil turned his attention to the Serbian and Croatian principalities to the northwest where the Byzantine influence was very strong. [Šišič, F., "Geschichte der Kroaten", S. 188—189]
In 998 he invaded the Serbian principality of Duklja which was ruled by Prince Jovan Vladimir. The Serbs were unable to resist the Bulgarian army and Jovan Vladimir fled with his people in the Oblica mountain. [К. Jireček, "Studien zur Geschichte und Geographie Albaniens im Mittelalter" (S.—Ab. aus dem 1 Bd. der "Illyrisch-Albanischen Forschungen", zusammengestellt von Ludwic v. Thalloczy, S. 63—187), Budapest, 1916, S. 56—57 - According to Constantine Jireček that mountain is Tarabosh (572 m) located to the south-western corner of Lake Škodra] When Samuil arrived he left part of his army to bar the Serbs and with the rest of his troops he besieged the coastal fortress of Ulcinj. To avoid further bloodshed the Bulgarians offered Jovan Vladimir to surrender and after he initially refused but after it became clear that his nobles were ready to betray him, he finally surrendered to Samuil. Jovan Vladimir was exiled to Samuil's palaces in Prespa. [Šišić, p. 331] Then the Bulgarians seized Kotor and set off for Dubrovnik and Dalmatia.
While Jovan Vladimir was in Bulgarian captivity, one of the daughters of Samuil Theodora Kosara fell in love with the young Serbian Prince and Samuil approved their marriage. Jovan Vladimir was allowed to return to his lands as a Bulgarian official, supervised by a trusted man of the Bulgarian Emperor, Dragomir. [Šišić, p. 334] However, in 1016 he was killed by the new Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Vladislav who was suspicions of Vladimir who could be a potential candidate for the throne.cite web
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Conflicts in the 13th century
The first clashes between the reborn Bulgarian Empire and the Serbs who acted as Hungarian vassals appeared in 1202. Emeric of Hungary took advantage of the campaigns of the Bulgarian Emperor Kaloyan and took the Bulgarian cities Belgrade, Branicevo and Niš. The latter was given to his vassal, the Serbian zhupan Valkan. However, on the next year the Bulgarian army pushed the Serbs out of Niš and defeated the Hungarians in the battle of Morava. [Andreev, J. "The Bulgarian Khans and Tsars" ("Balgarskite hanove i tsare", "Българските ханове и царе"), Veliko Tarnovo, 1996, p. 162 ISBN 954-427-216-X]
In 1289 the Hungarians asked their vassal Stefan Dragutin to attack the Bulgarian nobles Darman and Kudelin, rulers of the Branicevo province, who had previously defeated the Hungarians. In 1290 Dragutin invaded the province but was defeated by Darman and Kudelin who on their turn attacked his lands. Dragutin had to ask his brother Stefan Milutin, the King of Serbia to help him. In the next year they defeated the Bulgarians who fled to Vidin. The despot of Vidin also fought against the Serbs but the war was unsuccessful and Bulgaria lost the Belgrade and Branicevo provinces forever.
After 1291 both states maintained friendly relations. In 1296 the Bulgarian Emperor Smilets married his daughter Theodora to the future Serbian King Stefan Uroš III Dečanski. The sister of Dečanski Anna Neda was married to the Bulgarian Emperor Michael III Shishman. However, the growth of the Serbian Kingdom in the late 13th and early 14th century raised serious concern in the royal courts in Tarnovo and Constantinople - while both Empires had numerous external and internal problems, the Serbs expanded their state in northern Macedonia.
On 13 May 1327 Michael III Shishman and Andronikos III Palaiologos signed a treaty against Serbia and agreed to launch joined campaign. [Nicephori Gregoras. Historiae byzantinae ed. Schopen, I, Bonnae, 1829, I, 391, 394;] The campaign began in July 1330 when the Byzantine invaded Serbia from the south but after they seized several fortresses their campaign was halted by orders of Andronikos III. In the meantime the Bulgarian army which numbered around 15,000 men attacked from the east. On 24 July the armies of Bulgaria and Serbia (which numbered approximately 18,000 men [ [http://ald-bg.narod.ru/materiali/Velbajd.htm The battle of Velbazhd] ] ) met near the town of Velbazhd (Kyustendil). Despite the one-day truce agreed by the two rulers, the Serbs broke their word and attacked the Bulgarians while the latter were scattered to search for provisions. [Архиепископ Данило. Животи краљева, с. 183] Caught by surprise and immensely outnumbered, the Bulgarians tried to organize resistance but were defeated and the wounded Emperor Michael III Shishman was captured by the victors and died four days later. [Шишмановци, 54-55]
Despite their victory, the Serbs were unable to continue their campaign in Bulgaria - Stefan Dečanski did not risk to confront the Bulgarian reserves led by the Emperor's brother and despot of Vidin Belaur and the despot of Lovech Ivan Alexander. After short negotiations near the castle of Izvor Belaur and Dečanski concluded a peace treaty according to which the Bulgarian throne was inherited by Michael III Shishman's and Anna Neda's son Ivan Stefan. Bulgaria did not lose territory but was unable to stop the Serbian expansion in the largely Bulgarian-populated Macedonia.
The battle of Velbazhd opened a period of 20 years in which for the first time Serbia became the dominant power of the Balkans. Their new King Stefan Dušan who killed his father in 1331 conquered Macedonia, Epiros and Thessaly and in 1346 was crowned Emperor with the help of the Bulgarians. After his death in 1355 his state was divided into several independent states as did Bulgaria after the death of Ivan Alexander in 1371. In the 15th century both states were destroyed by the Ottoman Turks.
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She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Drops Deadpool And Daredevil Easter Eggs
Written By Mikey Sutton • Editor-in-Chief • Owner
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law dropped Daredevil and Deadpool Easter eggs in its fifth episode. One is obvious; however, one needs eagle eyes to spot the latter.
Once again, She-Hulk brought wit and charm to the MCU. Tatiana Maslany shines in the title role. In this installment, her arch foe Titania (Jameela Jamil) attempts to sue her for the name She-Hulk. Specifically, Titania brands her cheesy beauty products with the She-Hulk tag.
The two end up in the courtroom to resolve the dispute. Hilariously, She-Hulk's defense involves dragging the lousy dates she had into the spotlight. After all, she has to prove she's regularly used her superhero name.
Image: Disney Plus
Although there are no MCU cameos here, it definitely sets up one. Perhaps even two. She-Hulk needs new threads for both of her identities. In other words, She-Hulk looks for outfits that can fit her abrupt size changes.
Her friends visit a hidden clothing store for superheroes. Without a doubt, it's a clever idea. Indeed, where do the Avengers go shopping? The following contains spoilers. Skip if you must. No costumes are shown until the end. A box contains none other than Daredevil's yellow helmet.
Thus, She-Hulk just set up Charlie Cox's upcoming guest shot as Daredevil.
Moreover, Marvel Studios snuck in another during the credits. Blink and you'll miss it. There's an illustration of Pug (Josh Segarra) showing off his superhero-themed shoe collection. These include Nova, the Thing, Cyclops, Spider-Man, and Deadpool.
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The latter has deeper meaning than some will think. Indeed, She-Hulk broke the fourth wall in the comics before Deadpool did. Therefore, they have that in common. Given that, it's likely She-Hulk will encounter Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool in the future. But I doubt it'll happen in this series.
Fans anxiously await Deadpool's MCU debut. Unfortunately, his rumored inclusion in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness never materialized.
Even though Deadpool 3 is coming, Marvel Studios remains quiet about their plans. But Marvel Studios will keep it R-rated. They won't water down Deadpool.
Still, Deadpool is simply too big of a character for Disney Plus. He's a theatrical property. Nonetheless, they're destined to meet in a movie.


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Q: Rational Function The problem is,
Find all continuous functions $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ such that
if $x-y$ is rational, $f(x)-f(y)$ is rational.
I was thinking that only constant functions would work. How would I prove this??

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HONOLULU, Aug. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Matson Logistics, a subsidiary of Matson, Inc. (NYSE: MATX), was rated by shipping customers as the #1 Intermodal Marketing Company in North America.
Matson Navigation Company, rated the #1 Ocean Carrier in three of the last five years, again received a Quest for Quality gold award.
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The 2018 Quest for Quality awards will be formally presented at a ceremony on October 2, during the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference in Nashville, Tenn.
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Ocean Meets Sky (Hardcover)
By Terry Fan, Eric Fan, Terry Fan (Illustrator), Eric Fan (Illustrator)
2 on hand, as of Jul 18 4:15am
(Picture Book)
Kobo eBook (May 14th, 2018): $10.99
Hardcover (Korean) (July 28th, 2018): $53.62
In this exquisite picture book, there need be only a few words - boy, boat, journey equals ........magic! In the hands of master storytellers, the brothers Fan have simply created a masterpiece where we will be transported to the mesmerizing magical wonders in this book. A true stunner! - Maureen
"Young readers will be captivated." —The Washington Post
From the creators of the gorgeous bestseller The Night Gardener comes a stunning new picture book about a young boy who sets sail to find a place his grandfather told him about…the spot where the ocean meets the sky.
It's a good day for sailing.
Finn lives by the sea and the sea lives by him. Every time he looks out his window it's a constant reminder of the stories his grandfather told him about the place where the ocean meets the sky. Where whales and jellyfish soar and birds and castles float.
Finn's grandfather is gone now but Finn knows the perfect way to honor him. He'll build his own ship and sail out to find this magical place himself!
And when he arrives, maybe, just maybe, he'll find something he didn't know he was looking for.
Terry Fan received his formal art training at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. His work is a blend of traditional and contemporary techniques, using ink or graphite mixed with digital. He spends his days (and nights) creating magical paintings, portraits, and prints. The Night Gardener is his first book. Born in Illinois, he now lives in Toronto. Visit him online at Krop.com/TerryFFan and Society6.com/igo2cairo and on Facebook (Terry Fan Illustration).
Eric Fan is an artist and writer who lives in Toronto, Canada. Born in Hawaii and raised in Toronto, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he studied illustration, sculpture, and film. He has a passion for vintage bikes, clockwork contraptions, and impossible dreams. The Night Gardener is his first children's book. See more of his work at Society6.com/opifan64 and on Facebook (Eric Fan Illustration).
*** "A stunning, dreamlike voyage into the heart of a child."
- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
*** "Mystical, magical, magnetic."
- School Library Journal, starred review
*** "Exquisite."
- Booklist, starred review
*** "Meticulous draftsmanship by the Fan brothers (The Night Gardener) gives the spreads genuine majesty...the artists imagine not a general, one-size-fits-all afterlife, but one that Finn and his grandfather share—and one that readers will feel privileged to share with them."
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"[A] lovely book about grief and imagination...filled with sumptuous illustrations."
- The Wall Street Journal
"Young readers will be captivated."
- The Washington Post
"The book's lovely, muted illustrations depict a world of melancholy magic."
- The New York Times
Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / Environment
Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel (Hardcover)
By C. A. Fletcher
This is a wild story -- from beginning to end. There isn't another dystopian book like it and it truly is about a quest to find one's self. And with a grand twist that no one will see coming, this propulsive book will resonate with you long after the last page. Highly recommended. - Maureen


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AFV Club 1/35 M5A1 Stuart Light Tank - Early Production Kit First Look
M5A1 Stuart Light Tank - Early Production
519 parts (428 in olive drab styrene; 72 in black styrene; 10 etched brass; 4 black nylon; 2 black vinyl tracks; 2 turned aluminum; 1 black nylon string)
FINALLY somebody got an American armored vehicle right; numerous options and nice touches give the modeler a wide variety of options; promise of more to come!
Does not provide a full set of T16 single-link track; took a long, long time to come to market (five years!)
Approx $40.00
Up until now it has been a disappointing year and a half for American armor modelers. Of the five most highly anticipated kits, the first four saw one hit (the Hobby Boss M4 HST), one satisfactory (the Academy M7 Priest) and two duds (the Academy M3 Lee and Grant). But now after a five year delay behind their excellent M3A3 (Stuart V) kit, AFV Club has now released the first of their M5 kits, an M5A1 early production, and it is thankfully worth the wait.
AFV Club "teased" us back in 1997 when they released two sets of M3/M5 track, the rubber pad T16 (AF35019) and steel three-cleat T36E3 (AF35020) types and a lovely M3/"M5" suspension kit that was superior to anything else on the market. But then it took until 2002 before they released the first of their kits, the M3A3, and while a beautiful kit in its own right it was not a more common American type like an M3 or M3A1 variant. In the meantime Academy released their kits of the M3A1 (which was not) and M3 Honey which, while better in many areas than the 30+ year old Tamiya kits, were no bull's-eyes. Now as we roll into 2008 this kit has come to market and it is everything many modelers had hoped it would be.
First off, it does not use many of the sprues from the M3A3 kit and where it does supplementary parts for the correct bits on the M5A1 are provided. These specifically cover items like the new mounts and VVSS springs for the idler wheels - but being AFV Club, the provide nylon inserts so the "springing" action works! Go figure. The modeler also has a choice of either welded spoke road wheels or the welded "pressed steel" types, as well as welded open spoke or "patched" spoke idlers.
The lower hull is molded flat, but this is not a major problem as it actually permits more accurate construction of the hull. The hull also comes with a firewall and mounts for the twin fans at the rear of the compartment, but no engines or any other lower hull innards are included. The crew escape hatch is also a separate component. The engine access doors come in six parts – two folding sections and two fixed sections. Fenders and the rear section of the sponsons are separate parts, and the lower glacis is also provided with separate bolt heads molded on one of the sprues for accuracy. AFV Club doesn't appear to have tumbled to the tricks of "slide molding" as used by DML, Trumpeter and Academy, but their molding is nonetheless first rate.
The upper hull comes in a total of six basic parts – upper sides, upper glacis, turret roof, fuel tank covers, and engine deck. The bow gun is mounted so that it can move and all of the hatches and periscope inserts are separate components, and if carefully assembled the directions also indicate the hull periscopes are moveable. Brass parts basically cover two of the big grilles at the rear for the upper air intake and exhaust vents from the engine compartment. None of the lower grilles are provided, however.
The kit comes with one sprue – 24 links – of AFV Club's T16 single link track. This is only for the four spare links carried at the rear of the hull, and it comes with two acceptable vnyl track runs for the main track; I daresay most modelers will be very happy with these and will use them vice going for single links. AFV Club indicates, like most other manufacturers, these can be cemented – but in the fine print it says "Instant Glue" (e.g. ACC cements.)
The turret comes with a complete 37mm gun and a turned aluminum barrel (no plastic option.) A few other interior parts are included to include an SCR-508 radio set for the turret bustle (no No. 19 set is provide for the Stuart VI, so Commonwealth modelers are on their own here.) The base for the .30 caliber AA machine gun mount is also a turned aluminum part. A different set of turret moldings are provided for the M5A1 turret and are different from the M3A3 ones in the placement of grouser mounts and other details. There are some small ejection pin marks inside the turret but nothing of major note most places. Note the grousers are quite accurate but come in two pieces each, and since there are 24 of them this may be the most tedious part of the kit.
AFV Club offers six finishing options: "Carol", C-34, 3rd Battalion 33rd Armored Regiment, 3AD, Normandy 1944; 2nd "Chasseurs d'Afrique" Regiment, 1st Division Blinde, Free French Army, 1945; ROC Army, 1950s; 4th Tanks, 4th Marine Division, Saipan 1944; 23rd Hussars, 29th Armoured Brigade, 11th Armoured Division, British Army; and D Company, 34th Tank Battalion, 5th Armored Division. "Carol" also comes with a box-size portrait packed with the kit directions. Markings look okay but the very fussy will want to replace them with dry transfers.
Overall this kit is what modelers have been asking for five years, and while it does seem to take AFV Club a while to get their kits out for the most part they arrive ready to meet the anticipation.
Sprue breakout:
A 41 M5 lower hull and fittings
B 34 M3A3 kit engine details and rear panel
C 87x2 Suspension and wheels
C 16x2 Fuel caps, lift rings, fire extinguisher
D 53 M3A3 D59954 turret base and internal components
E 12 M3A3 .30 caliber machine guns
F 2 M5 upper front hull and fan mounts
G 10 etched brass
H 2 turned aluminum
I 3 M5 glacis and turret decking
J 1 black nylon string
K 37x2 M5 fine details, lights, extra bolt heads
L 3 M5A1 alternative turret
P 4 black nylon wheel keepers
T 2 black vinyl tracks
‒ 72 T16 track for M3/M5 series tanks


Here is an email I just sent Joshua Morrison, the attorney for Santa Monica Community College District. I will be curious to see his response. When will the harassment cease at SMC?
As you are well aware, Mr. Dustin Curran and I met with you and Mr. Robert Sammis last Friday, April 21, 2006, in an attempt to amicably resolve this matter. At this time, Mr. Sammis indicated that I would not be harassed by either Jim Keeshen or Thomas J. Baker. Despite these assurances, I have since been harassed by both.
I find it curious that Dean Judith Penchansky feels that it is a violation of student conduct for me to email Mr. Keeshen to cease and desist his harassment of me and other students, yet Mr. Keeshen is allowed to harass me, via U.S. mail, with falsified IRS filings. Since Ms. Penchansky feels it is her role to punish me if I were to contact him to dispute these false allegations, SMC is leaving me no choice but to directly take this matter up with the IRS Criminal Investigation Unit. Since this falsified information was mailed to me, I consider this mail fraud and will take this up with the appropriate federal agencies in charge of investigating this matter.
I am curious why Jim Keeshen is allowed to use the resources and facilities of Santa Monica College for his own personal benefit, to wit, Jim Keeshen Productions, Inc., and having knowledge of such, SMC has done little or nothing to rectify this situation. Additionally, by falsifying IRS information in his Studio Animatics consultant contracts with the District to fraudulently obtain tens of thousands of dollars from the U.S. Department of Education by and through SMC, and now falsifying IRS information using my name, SMC is opening itself up to a potential IRS audit to fully resolve this matter.
Additionally, to make matters worse, Thomas J. Baker is being allowed, even after our meeting and a recent email to you regarding his harassment of me via the Internet, to continue to repeatedly harass me. Not only have I received two additionally harassing, if not threatening, Internet communications by him, or an agent acting through him, I received a letter on Monday from SMC Assistant Dean of Student Life, Deana Hearn, in which Mr. Baker not only insisted on a meeting with Ms. Hearn, but he made numerous false representations to her. Although Mr. Baker holds absolutely no legitimate officer position in the SMC Gaming Club, he falsely represented himself as such to Ms. Hearn, the SMCPD, and other SMC students to gain an advantage as such.
Additionally, Ms. Hearn is misinformed when she states that "you have been summoned by the college's disciplinarian and that you have not responded." I have retained numerous email correspondences between Ms. Penchansky and myself as well as our correspondence, so this statement is patently false. Based on Ms. Hearn's misinformation, she is now attempting to "restrict" me "from participating in any student related activities" until I meet with Ms. Penchansky "and your case has been resolved." Given the overwhelming evidence of harassment against me, and Ms. Hearn's misinformation, I do not agree to be restricted from any activities at SMC and see this as a clear violation of my student rights and civil rights if SMC were in fact to wrongfully enforce this mandate.
I am informed and believe and thereon allege, that Mr. Baker has caused Ms. Penchansky to circulate a student petition against me in order to wrongly justify her personal vendetta of having me suspended from SMC. I remind you that the role of a campus disciplinarian is to be just and impartial. Given the fact that Ms. Penchansky is a defendant in this matter, that we have agreed to set aside her threats of suspension, and that she is now acting on her own accord to interfere with due process requirements and to tamper with witnesses, I ask that this petition be destroyed forthwith and that Ms. Penchansky cease her threats of suspension. I allowed Ms. Penchansky to open the lines of communication in writing and she has refused my offer in writing.
I ask you now, is your client, Santa Monica Community College District, going to intervene to stop this harassment or do I need a restraining order against Mr. Baker and a civil rights lawsuit to make myself heard? Are you going to allow your client, and its agents and employees, to frustrate our progress in amicably resolving this matter? May I remind you that the California State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct, Rule 5-100 (a) states: "A member shall not threaten to present criminal, administrative, or disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in a civil dispute." Clearly, by the actions of your respective clients and their agents, I am being threatened with these various types of charges to settle this civil dispute between the District. However, I will not stand by idly and be threatened, but will take the legal action necessary to defend myself accordingly.


I am always on the lookout for simple, fast, and delicious recipes, so when one hits my radar, I am always more than willing to give it a try. This recipe from Allrecipes is 100% one of those recipes and I am so glad I decided to serve it a little while back!
This recipe turned out to be a hit for my whole family, even the pickier eaters! It's basically a little side salad, except with more veggies instead of lettuce. I think the best part about it was being able to throw whatever we had in the house into the mix and I could leave out anything someone in my family wouldn't normally eat. The original recipe calls for cucumbers, and I know Mr. L normally isn't a fan of them, so I just omitted it and added olives, something he can't get enough of!
If you're looking for a quick and yummy side dish for dinner tonight, this recipe would be perfect. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Add the broccoli and cauliflower florets to the water and boil for one minute. Drain, rinse the florets, and add to a mixing bowl.
Add the red bell pepper, olives, feta cheese, and Italian dressing to the same bowl. Cover and refrigerate the vegetables for one hour and then serve with your favorite dinner!
What's your favorite way to cook assorted vegetables?


At Michael Smiley Fine Jewellery you will see how creative design, the best materials, and quality craftsmanship come together in the form of remarkable works of jewellery art that you can enjoy for many years, and even generations to come.
Don't settle for something you like when Michael Smiley can create something you love.
Michael Smiley has been a resident of Barrie, Ontario since childhood. He has spent more than 30 years in the jewellery field. Always trying to view things from a less conventional perspective, design has become a very important part of Michael's life.


It has already been confirmed that at least one superhero will bite the dust at the hands of Thanos and his Dark Order in Avengers: Infinity War. However, the destructive quest to obtain the Infinity Stones will also leave the other defending characters in tatters.
Speaking with Screen Rant in a recent interview, co-writer Stephen McFeely revealed that the "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" will pay dearly before handing over the powerful relics in surrender.
There are six Infinity Stones for Thanos to obtain for his Infinity Gauntlet and the following guide lays out where each of them are currently located in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The supervillain is expected to get hold of at least three of them in the first movie before continuing the journey in the concluding sequel to the saga.
There have been several fan-crafted theories to the character that will eventually be killed in Avengers: Infinity War. The most amount of votes are currently with Iron Man, particularly when considering that actor Robert Downey Jr. has expressed no desire to reprise the role in the future. This may offer Marvel Studios the opportunity to find a new face to don the armor for potential sequels.
Avengers: Infinity War, in many ways, will be all about Thanos. The storytelling will delve into his origins, almost sympathetic reasons for causing destruction, and more. The highly anticipated movie will not just be about a supervillain in search for power to subjugate or destroy entire worlds, a synopsis that has surfaced far too many times in recent years.


Take Your Sharpest Photographs Ever.
Tips to Help You Take Your Sharpest Photos Ever.
There's nothing worse than capturing a great image that's perfect in every way, except, it's not sharp. At times this can be heartbreaking because it's usually the best picture from a day's shooting that you can't use because it's just not sharp. In this article we're going to look at ways to avoid any more blurry, fuzzy, soft or un-sharp images. Each of the points below will make a difference on their own, but using them together will probably offer the sharpest images it's possible to create.
When most photographers start out they will pick up a camera and hand-hold to shoot their images because really, that's the natural thing to do. For some scenes it's completely appropriate, it's quick and easy to grab the camera and fire away. Unfortunately one of the earliest lessons learnt with this approach is how easy it is to take blurry out-of-focus images and should the photographer be keen to avoid this wastage, they'll want to find ways to stop it immediately.
If you only take away one thing from reading this, it's that a tripod will make a massive difference to the quality of your work. Ask me what one accessory a photographer should buy, I would say a tripod. Fixing the camera on the tripod immediately gives sharper images.
The great thing about using a tripod is that you can now use exposures measured not in split seconds, but in minutes, hours or even days. Having this scope extends your image taking options greatly. Landscapes with glass-smooth water, night-time skies full of stars, all of which can be photographed with any aperture and shutter-speed combination you need. It's very liberating and at the same time certainly makes me think about how I'm going to set up the shot because a tripod does add time to the picture taking process. In my opinion, time well spent.
There are lots of tripods on the market to suit every budget but I would say buy the best you can afford and don't skimp. Look at the tripods made by Manfrotto or Gitzo (to name just two of the many) as they make tripod systems, where you can buy the legs and heads separately meaning you can swop them about to suit your needs. I have a Manfrotto tripod where I can swop the heads between a pan-and-tilt head for photography and a fluid head for film work.
If you're shooting a lot of landscapes, then weight is likely to be a factor when trekking to those shooting locations. Carbon-fibre is now a common material and it's low weight makes it ideal for easing the gear-carrying burden. CF tripods are more expensive than others made with aluminium but paying that extra may be worth it to avoid a bad back.
Other things to consider include the maximum height to which it will extend, the angles the legs will move out to give a low shooting position, whether the centre column can be adjusted to an angle. What about a quick-release plate to speed up camera changes? Some tripods provide hooks to which heavy objects can be hung to stabilise a tripod even further. This can be handy when shooting in high winds.
Always stand the tripod on a firm, stable surface. If you stand it on floor-boards whilst shooting a table-top still-life and those floor-boards move as you walk on them then this will upset the tripod. Even tiny movements will cause shake and spoil the shot. How about shooting a landscape shot on a beach? Is the sand firm enough to take the weight of the tripod and camera without sinking?
Even with the camera mounted on a tripod there's a risk of camera shake and vibration from the motion of pressing the shutter button. By using a cable release such as that shown here, the photographer becomes completely detached from any contact by taking away the need to touch the camera to fire the shutter.
These accessories are widely available and made by camera manufacturers and third-party suppliers too. Some are wired to the camera, others are wireless. Which you choose will depend upon your needs. If you want to fire the shutter from a distance then a wireless solution is ideal however there's the reliance on battery power. Wired releases don't use batteries.
If the first two options have been implemented that goes a long way to removing vibration and blur from those images but if it's super critical that any kind of vibration is eradicated, there are a couple of other things to do to stop those vibes.
The first is to lock the mirror. This is a setting on the camera (some, not all models), that moves the mirror in to the locked position before the exposure cycle begins rather than including the mirror-up action in the exposure cycle. This avoids adding any vibration to the camera body from the action of lifting that mirror. Of course the vibration from this lift is going to be small but for photographers wanting the absolute most sharpness from their work, this removes the chance of that.
This is the second option to really kill off those unwanted vibrations. By using the self-timer, you allow a further delay between the start of the exposure process where the mirror goes up and the exposure begins. This gives more time for any vibration from that mirror up and any other vibration in the camera to disappear.
Of course mirrorless cameras don't have an issue with mirror vibration but the self-timer delay may well offer a benefit.
The ISO measures the sensitivity of the sensor (or film, it's the same principle) to light. Lower ISOs such as 160 are used when light is plentiful and higher ISOs are used when there's not so much light. As the ISO increases, the ability of the sensor to capture fine detail is reduced so in order to take the sharpest images, low ISOs should be used whenever possible. If I'm shooting on a tripod, I'll use the lowest I can, depending on the camera I'm using that means anything from ISO 50 to 160.
It should be noted that camera technology is moving at a fast pace and ISO sensitivity in low light is improving almost monthly with the release of new camera models so this isn't as important as it once was. I remember a time when shooting on film and using ISO 1600 the grain was like golf balls and really looked soft and unsharp. Now ISO can be used to take very acceptable images. How times have changed!
No article about reducing blur and increasing sharpness would be complete without a mention of shutter speeds. Simply put, slow speeds like 1/10th increase the risk of blur and shake whilst a fast speed like 1/500th reduce the risk. Some photographers have the ability to hand-hold a camera at very low speeds without loss of sharpness but for those of us who can't do this, then using faster speeds is the only answer. Where your threshold is can only be found with experience and trying out those speeds to see at what point your images lose sharpness and become soft and blurred. Just don't test this on any important images. Do the experimenting before you take something that has to be right.
For those times when you can't use a tripod or other supporting device, fast shutter speeds will be the best option however you have to work with an appropriate aperture and ISO too so that faster speed might reduce the shakes but does it give you the best exposure for your image? Faster shutters mean wider apertures or higher ISOs or both. A wider aperture means less depth-of-field and therefore less sharpness. If that's what you want from the image then that's great but if you're trying to shoot a landscape then the better option might be to turn to that tripod. Only you can decide what's best for the image you want to take. So many decisions eh? There's never one answer and that's what makes photography all the more interesting.
To find out more about shutter, aperture and ISO take a look at our basics of photography article here.
Whilst the solutions above look to reduce vibration and shake there are other things that increase the sharpness of the image. Lens quality has a big impact on sharpness. Unfortunately for the photographer and filmmaker, quality comes at a cost. The best lenses offering that lovely sharpness are usually the most expensive with the odd exception. One of those exceptions is the 50mm lens. Notably the f1.8 versions from Canon and Nikon, these are very sharp and yet quite cheap. Always a good addition to any kit. It's the maximum aperture that makes the lens expensive. Compare a short zoom of say 24-70 f2.8 with something with a max aperture of say f5.6 and you'll see how that wider aperture means more money.
It's my opinion that you should only invest in the best quality lenses (or 'glass' as photographers like to call them) you can afford. The more expensive models give you sharper images with less distortion and chromatic abberation (CA). The best lenses will have a wider aperture such as f2.8 or F4 on the longer telephoto lenses like 600mm (that's a big lens!) These types of lenses are aimed at the professional and serious amateur photographer. Budget lenses usually come as part of a kit, bundled with a camera body and probably aren't up to much so avoid these. Personally I would rather have better quality lenses and go down to a lesser body spec as quality glass is more important to me than the body.
Image stabilisation is a very popular feature on many lenses now and extends the range of shutter speeds you can use when hand-holding the camera with the lens. Not all lenses have this but if you expect to spend a lot of time shooting hand-held then it can help with increasing the numbers of useable shots you take.
You don't have to buy the lenses made by your camera body manufacturer as there are third-party companies making great quality lenses cheaper with little or no loss of image quality. So look out for independent lenses from the likes of Tamron, Sigma and Tokina to name a few of the well known brands.
f22 – a small opening, less light enters the camera and greatest Depth of field.
The smaller the aperture, (in terms of opening), like f22, the greater the depth of field with more of your scene will be in focus. This is useful when you take a landscape and want to ensure everything in your view is in focus. When you, or your camera, focuses on a point in the scene you are photographing, the aperture will determine how much in front and behind your selected focal point is in focus. Of course you don't have to use the smallest aperture, you can select any one in your lens's range and each one will give you varying degrees of depth of field. I very often use f5.6 as this gives me a reasonable focus area but the reduced DOF beyond the subject gives me a pleasant out of focus, or blurred area. This emphasises the sharply-in-focus subject. (This technique is great for portraits). One point to remember here. That the DOF will change dependent upon the focal length of the lens you use. For instance a 50mm lens at f11 will have more DOF than a 150mm lens at f11.
By selecting the appropriate aperture, you decide how much light enters the camera and what parts of the scene you want in or out of focus in the final image. This is a very powerful tool.
The sweet spot of a lens is when it's at it's sharpest and will be found by adjusting the aperture of the lens. It's likely to be somewhere in the middle, that is, not at it's widest opening nor it's smallest. This will be different for each lens so some research will be required to find it.
Knowing this doesn't stop me using the other apertures, I still use the smallest, f22 or smaller through to F1.8 depending on what effect I wish to achieve from the shot but it's a useful feature to know about if you can work within the middle of your aperture range.
Some cameras offer an adjustment within the viewfinder that compensates for the photographer's eyesight. It's worth checking if the camera you're using has this as even if you don't need it, it could be incorrectly adjusted and so your ability to see an accurately focussed view is compromised. Even when using auto-focus, if this is incorrectly adjusted for your eyesight, the scene will appear out-of-focus even when the camera is correctly focussing.
If auto-focus isn't entirely accurate, some cameras allow the photographer to adjust the auto-focus in-focus point. How this works will be different on each camera so some research may be required.
So far all of the techniques and suggestions were about things to do with your 'hardware' such as lenses, tripods and camera settings. We couldn't have a complete article about sharpening without mentioning sharpening whilst editing the picture with your software. Because of the differences in sharpening tools across the many editing packages we can only generalise but here are some points to consider.
If your original unsharpened image is not really sharp straight out of the camera, no amount of edit sharpening will fix that. Once fuzzy, always fuzzy, so get it right in camera! The sharpening you do in post should enhance what is already there. Don't oversharpen an image as this adds odd looking, ugly pixels. Always view your image at 100% when sharpening to check that you aren't over-sharpening. Some pictures need more sharpening than others because of the lens used to take the picture. This varies from lens to lens so some experimentation on your part is neccessary to find out how much to apply. Remember too, that any image you shoot for stock might not need to be sharpened as the library prefers non-sharpened images.
So, to take your sharpest ever image, use a tripod, with a cable release, lock up the mirror, delay the exposure with the self-timer, use a low ISO, an aperture that hits the lens sweet spot, use the best quality lens you can afford and carefully sharpen your images in post.


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Pass Christian names Chase Carmody as head football coach
Pass Christian selects Chase Carmody as new head football coach
By WLOX Staff | January 16, 2020 at 9:08 AM CST - Updated January 17 at 7:30 AM
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) - The Pirates will have a new football coach when they run out on the field this fall.
Pass Christian School District has hired Patrick "Chase" Carmody as the new head coach, according to a press release they sent Thursday.
"I'm honored and excited to be the next head football coach at Pass Christian High School," stated Carmody. "My family and I are excited at the chance to be part of such a great community and school district. The Pirates had a great season last year, and I look forward to building on their recent success. I am ready to implement the things I have learned at Pearl High School and look forward to leading the Pass Christian football program to great things in the future. GO PIRATES!!!!!!!"
Carmody is a 2004 graduate of Madison Central High School. He attended and played football at Southwest Community College and Delta State University. After graduating from Delta State, he attended the University of Mississippi School of Law, where he graduated and became a member of the Mississippi Bar Association.
Coach Carmody began his coaching career at Pearl High School in 2012 as a Defensive Line coach. In 2015, he moved to Madison Central where he coached the Defensive Line, before returning to Pearl High School.
At Pearl High School since 2016, Coach Carmody served as Defensive Coordinator for four seasons. During that time, Pearl High School won the 2016 and 2017 South State Championships as well as the 2017 6A State Championship. His defense ranked first in 6A scoring allowing just 9.94 points per game during the 16-0 undefeated State Championship season.
Coach Carmody is married to Shannon Carmody and they have a two year old daughter, Collins.
"We believe Coach Chase Carmody is ready to guide the Pirate football program to new successes, while remaining Committed to Excellence," said Pass Christian School District Athletic Director Tim Ladner.


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The Moral Witness
Trials and Testimony after Genocide
by Carolyn J. Dean
"The Moral Witness is a brilliantly insightful and thought-provoking book on how the imagination of testimony evolved, which goes far beyond earlier accounts of its public emergence and power. Carolyn Dean has always been one of the best there is at combining theorized history with the interventions in theory itself, and this book is no exception."—Samuel Moyn, Yale University, and author of Christian Human Rights
"Carolyn Dean provides a rich, enlightening, and eye-opening narrative on a central figure in twentieth-century ethics and politics: the witness to mass violence or atrocity."—Thomas Keenan, Bard College, and coauthor of Mengele's Skull
The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.
Carolyn J. Dean is Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French at Yale University. She is a cultural and intellectual historian of Modern Europe and the author of five books, including The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust and Aversion and Erasure.
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How I Grew a Successful Adventure Travel Business, Neil Lapping from Macs Adventure
Talking with Neil Lapping from Macs Adventure and Carron Tobin, the woman behind the Argyll & Isles co-operative, 2017's "Wild About Argyll" campaign, and the ongoing "The Heart & Soul of Scotland" campaign.
Following January's successful event in the stylish CitizenM, Travel Massive Glasgow met up in an arguably more stylish venue: the headquarters of Macs Adventure. Last week's big February event was a huge success and we'd like to take stock of the attendees, our guest speakers, and what everyone had to say. We had another great turn out, with a wonderful mix of business owners, marketing/tourism experts, and travel bloggers. Everyone enjoyed a glass of wine or two and some pizza before sitting down to the evening's talks.
Travel Massive Glasgow is Getting Massive!
The recent interview with Travel Massive HQ outlined how the Glasgow chapter's numbers continue to grow extremely quickly, so we must be doing something right. Ultimately, it comes down to TMA founder, Chris Torres, who is able to use his 26 years of experience in tourism to call in his industry contacts to speak at the events. Last month, we had Alex Bainbridge and Peter Syme — two very big names — and this week we had the pleasure of listening to Neil Lapping and Carron Tobin.
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How I Grew a Successful Adventure Travel Business
After Carron's talk, some people ate more pizza and networked, and the rest of us took a tour of the Macs Adventure office with its founder, Neil Lapping. Neil is clearly proud of his office, and it's easy to see why: the Macs Adventure office has some incredible features, such as a room comprised wholly of whiteboards, a dedicated quiet room (with seats hanging from the ceiling), and a huge wall with hundreds of pictures of the brand's happy customers. Everyone seemed suitably impressed with the tour and we were all ready and primed to listen to Neil tell us how he grew his successful adventure travel business.
The format for Neil's talk was a little different as it took the form of a very informal Q&A, where Chris Torres, our founder (and head of Travel Massive Glasgow), asked Neil questions. The crowd listened intently to Neil's story, learning how he'd moved from Cape Town to London, and then to Scotland. Neil talked about the romance of Scotland and how easy it was to get pulled in.
Neil had been involved in providing adventure tours in Scotland and he reckons that he's been up Ben Nevis around 135 times! It was when he was travelling around New Zealand that Neil realised how much better the Kiwis integrated their adventure tours and activities with their hospitality and transport services. When you stay in a hotel or a hostel in New Zealand, the concierge asks you what activities they can book for you for the following day, and the entire experience is seamless. Inspired by New Zealand, Neil saw the potential for Scotland to perform just as well in the adventure travel sector and he sought to create an adventure travel company in Scotland that offered a richer, more convenient experience.
Neil told us about how he built his first website himself, and how important it was when he had Chris Torres build his second website. This newer, much better-looking website, and Neil's early adoption of a booking platform were two of the biggest reasons for Macs Adventure early success. Neil went on to explain how his company grew over the years.
One area he emphasised as particularly important was paid search. PPC, Neil explained, has helped him reach exactly the right audience and he recognised how important it is to be willing to spend money on PPC. He explained how investing in content resulted in more conversions, higher relevancy, and a kind of virtuous cycle (opposite of a vicious cycle) where the cost-per-click of paid search ads lowers over time. Essentially, the more people you reach and convert with paid search, the cheaper paid search is! This was music to our ears here at TMA as we've put a lot of time and money into developing our PPC service.
Neil went on to talk about how important trust was to the growth of Macs Adventure and how the continued hard graft to extend and diversify the range of adventure tours they offered has allowed him to reach more and more customers. Neil also emphasised the advantages of having offices in Germany and the US and how important it was for Macs Adventure to establish a robust review system on their site. As with Carron, there's just too much to summarise in this blog, but we recorded the entire talk, which you can watch here.
There's no upper limit to the number of people we want to come along to Glasgow Travel Massive. We are stronger and better the more of us there are, so please come along to the next event on Tuesday the 26thof March — and bring someone new along with you! March's event will feature Glasgow Science Centre's Rosie Street and Jack McKenna, a technology consultant for the CYBG Accelerator.
March's event is going to be great and we'd love to get as many people as possible, so make sure sign-up in advance so that we know how many people are coming. We're looking forward to next month and we can't wait to welcome even more people to the Glasgow Chapter! In the meantime, if you have any follow-up questions about the event, or about digital marketing in general, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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Haywood Alvin Jones III, 81, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 20, 2009 at Hillcrest Convalescent Center after complications from a fall in his home earlier this month. A native and lifelong resident of Durham, N.C., he was the son of the late Edith and Haywood Jones, Jr. Mr. Jones was a graduate of Durham High School Class of '44 and attended NC State College. Prior to his retirement, he was employed for over 25 years by Sears, Roebuck & Company. He was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church and the Durham Jaycees.
Haywood is survived by his loving wife, Dallie Liner, with whom he recently celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary, two daughters, Donna J. Knight of Chapel Hill and Patti J. Lang husband, Allan of Durham; three grandchildren – Edith Miletto husband, Andrea, Adam W. Knight, and Katharine H. Lang fiancé, J. Elliott Robinson, along with his brother, Robert Tyree Jones wife, Nancy and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews. He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend to all he met, with his kind spirit and loving nature.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 23rd at 2 pm in the Chapel of Hall-Wynne Funeral Home. The Rev. Thomas Holtsclaw will preside. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery.
Visitation will be Sunday evening, March 22 from 6 – 8 pm at Hall-Wynne Funeral Home in Durham.
I am sending my heartfelt sympathy and prayers for Dallie, Donna, Patti and all the family members. I barely knew Haywood, but, he was always very friendly to me.
We send our deepest sympathies for your loss.
Haywood was a true Southern gentleman, great Bridge player, and an all around friendly guy. He had the ability to make each person feel special. Dallie, you sure picked a wonderful life companion. We exend our deepest sympathy.
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You will find below the horoscope of Wilhelm Brückner with his interactive chart, an excerpt of his astrological portrait and his planetary dominants.
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Wilhelm Brückner (11 December 1884 in Baden-Baden – 18 August 1954 in Herbsdorf, Upper Bavaria) was until 1940 Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant.
Brückner grew up in Baden-Baden and also did his Abitur there. Afterwards he studied law and economics in Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany), Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich.
In the First World War, Brückner was an officer in a Bavarian infantry regiment and was discharged as a lieutenant. After the war, he joined the Freikorp Epp and participated in Schützenregiment 42 as a member of the Reichswehr in suppressing the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Towards the end of 1919 Brückner was once again going to university, but became for three years a film recording technician.
Here are some character traits from Wilhelm Brückner's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
In a matter of minutes, you can get at your email address your astrological portrait (approximately 32 pages), a much more comprehensive report than this portrait of Wilhelm Brückner.
Wilhelm Brückner, the nocturnal North-western quadrant, consisting of the 4th, 5th and 6th houses, prevails in your chart: this sector favours creativity, conception and some sort of specialization or training, with helpfulness and relations as strong components. You need others' cooperation in order to work properly, although you are not very expansive: creating, innovating and thinking are what matter most to you because this self-expression enriches you and totally satisfies you.
Cheers for communication and mobility, Wilhelm Brückner! The predominance of Air signs in your chart favours and amplifies your taste for relations and for all kinds of short trips, whether real (travels) or symbolic (new ideas, mind speculations). You gain in flexibility and adaptability what you lose in self-assertion or in pragmatism.
Like the majority of Earth signs, Wilhelm Brückner, you are efficient, concrete and not too emotional. What matters to you is what you see: you judge the tree by its fruits. Your ideas keep changing, words disappear, but actions and their consequences are visible and remain. Express your sensitivity, even if it means revealing your vulnerability. Emotions, energy and communication must not be neglected; concrete action is meaningless if it is not justified by your heart, your intellect or your enthusiasm.
Wilhelm Brückner, the Cardinal mode is dominant here and indicates a predisposition to action, and more exactly, to impulsion and to undertake: you are very keen to implement the plans you have in mind, to get things going and to create them. This is the most important aspect that inspires enthusiasm and adrenalin in you, without which you can grow weary rapidly. You are individualistic (maybe too much?) and assertive. You let others strengthen and improve the constructions which you built with fervour.
Cadent houses, namely the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses, are very emphasized in your chart, Wilhelm Brückner. They indicate important potential for communication, adaptability and flexibility. These houses are symbolically linked to the mind and intellect. The relative weakness implied by these characteristics indicates your tendency to hesitate or to be indecisive, but also your remarkable ability to start off again, which is a nice quality, finally: you can easily get yourself out of a tight spot thanks to your mobility and casualness, in the best sense of the term. This group of houses corresponds to evolutionary characteristics of your personality. However, they are only indications and you must include them in the rest of your chart in order to see whether they are validated or not!
The 6th, 4th and 11th houses are the most prominent ones in your birth chart. From the analysis of the most tenanted houses, the astrologer identifies your most significant fields or spheres of activity. They deal with what you are experiencing - or what you will be brought to experience one day - or they deal with your inner motivations.
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Wilhelm Brückner, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
You are sensitive to beauty, Wilhelm Brückner, and your emotional reactions are often of an aesthetical order because, even in the appearances, balance and harmony are necessary for your well being. You easily identify with others, you have a talent for emphasizing their best qualities and you solve their problems with tact and diplomacy. You endlessly weigh the pros and the cons and you constantly try to please your interlocutors. In doing so, you may develop a strong dependency because you need their approval too much. It is difficult for you and your entourage to deal with your indecisiveness because it inclines you towards contemplation more than towards creation and you are tempted to procrastinate unless you try to charm others into doing things for you. But as long as harmony prevails... isn't it what matters?
You need to concentrate on a subject, Wilhelm Brückner, to deepen your research and to follow your reasoning through with persistence and determination. You are the very type of the thinker who needs time and isolation to meditate at length and allow his serious, methodical and rigorous mind to show its worth. Your feet are firmly planted on the ground and to get your attention, ideas must be followed by implementation, for instance as in the case of mathematics applied to physics. You focus on the essential and you look at the world around you with clear-sightedness. You are not very talkative and you act with caution. You may come across as cold and ambitious even though your comments are always sincere and practical. However, be careful not to isolate yourself and to appear as a lofty and intolerant person.
You cannot dissociate love from passion, Wilhelm Brückner. Your feelings are immediate, imperious, intense, and it is absolutely impossible for you to think of an amorous relationship without fusion, without the irresistible desire to know everything about your partner: emotions, feelings, sexuality, everything must be experienced in a possessive, absolute and unrestricted way. Actually, your feelings are as complex as they are deep. You seldom love, but when you do, a burning ardour and its torrid, violent frolics consume your couple. It is obvious that such powerful feelings may lead to jealousy and absolute exclusivity, almost bordering on the will to control your partner. If your relationship is genuine, all is fine. But if it is not the case, there are real dangers of shared wounds within your couple; it is hard to reconcile passion with tranquillity and it is clear that for you, sentimental serenity involves a partner who is either as complex as you and who instinctively understands you, or who is complementary, and as calm and steady as your impulses are intense and deep.
The ruler of the Ascendant, Wilhelm Brückner, is the Moon. It is posited in the sign of Libra and endows you with diplomacy and a deep sense of justice. Amiable, courteous, and moderate, nothing pleases you more than being able to help opposing parties reconcile, which encourages you to develop your power of seduction, or to flee with swiftness when you deem that the cause you stand up for is a lost cause.
Wilhelm Brückner, you are so resistant and so solid that you are able to cope with any challenge, any ordeal. You behave with persistence, rigour and discipline. You are so obstinate and patient that no effort is impossible to you, as if sensitivity and emotions were unable to divert you from your goals. With calm and lucidity, even coldness, you face up to things and you plan on a long-term basis. Nothing and no one can prevent you from fulfilling your responsibilities. You are a rock, a hard worker, and your iron will equals your resistance to blows. Your practical sense is at the service of your ambition which is real and energetic, even though it may not be obvious. Sexually, you are active and vigorous. If you show more warmth, you may become an excellent lover; indeed, being demonstrative is not your major concern.
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Your Life Path is influenced by the number 8, Wilhelm, which indicates that your destiny hinges on financial successes, material undertakings, and power seizing. It is a path full of successes and failures, fortune and reversals of fortune. You must strive to control your thirst for material goods, and try to practice tolerance. Great achievements are possible if you choose a career in any sort of trade or business. This is how your qualities are likely to be best expressed: management abilities and above-average commercial sense. Traditionally, the number 8 is believed to favour material and financial matters such as asset management, investments, commercial negotiations, as well as social power. All these elements are most likely to be found at the centre of your life. Your thirst for power, added to some degree of bad luck, constitutes one of the major hurdles blocking your way. However, your determination, added to a deep spirit of conciliation, turns the number 8 into a very fulfilling one, that of extraordinary successes.


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Animal rights activist banned from going near livestock
7th Feb 2018 / By Alistair Driver
An animal rights protestor who broke into chicken sheds in three farms in Suffolk and Essex has been banned from going near land used for livestock or poultry farming.
Teenager Sebastian Brown was initially charged with burglary but admitted three counts of criminal damage. He was sentenced to a three-year community order, 240 hours' unpaid work and a 30-day rehabilitation order at Ipswich Crown Court last Wednesday (January 31).
He was also made the subject of a three-year criminal behaviour order banning him from loitering near livestock and poultry farms.
Mr Brown, now 18, of Lucas House, Colchester, was caught with bolt cutters and a claw hammer after police were called to the Essex farm in September 2017. He reportedly broke into farms, tampered with locks and damaged CCTV equipment and then took video footage of the animals, which posted on You Tube.
Officers discovered handwritten notes at his home address in Colchester which linked him to the other break ins.
Sentencing Brown, Judge Rupert Overbury said: "You pleaded guilty to these three offences committed by you in the mistaken belief as a 17-year-old that you were acting for the greater good. You have a passion and you are perfectly entitled to express your views about animal welfare but what you mustn't do is do it in a criminal way.
"You can protest, you can lobby, you can join action groups to your heart's content but you can't break into people's property and do damage."
Detective Inspector Maz Wheeler said: "Sebastian Brown caused a lot of damage and disruption to these farms which had been acting entirely legitimately.
"It is unacceptable for anyone to try to take the law into their own hands, and he will have plenty of time to reflect on his actions while he is carrying out unpaid work in the community."
NPA comment
NPA chief executive Zoe Davies said: "It is good to see justice being done when criminal damage is caused in the name of animal rights activism.
"No one should assume that they are above the law, however justified they think that their action is".


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