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No More Airline Miles for Hotel Stays Among Changes to Hilton's Loyalty Program
By Zac Thompson
Hilton Worldwide is making changes to its 70-million-member hotel loyalty program, Hilton Honors.
Among the most consequential of the updates: Starting April 1, members will no longer be able to earn airline miles from stays at Hilton hotels. Though it will still be possible to transfer loyalty points to the airline of your choice, the move makes it even harder for ordinary travelers to gain miles for flights—something that's already difficult to do, given carriers' preference for rewarding those who fly constantly (for business, say) or have airline-branded credit cards.
The other benefits of the new Hilton Honors changes—also scheduled to go into effect April 1—are likewise concentrated at the top, reserving the biggest rewards for those who spend at least 40 nights per year at Hilton hotels (again: because they're probably constantly on the road for business).
Members with elite-tier Silver, Gold, and Diamond status in the loyalty program will get a bonus of 20%, 80%, and 100%, respectively, on all the points they've accrued after they stay four times or 10 nights in one year. Additionally, guests will get a bonus of 10,000 points on every 10th night after their first 40 nights in a single calendar year.
Those points can be used toward upgrades, free stays, breakfast, and other perks.
So if you pretty much live in Hilton hotels, you're about to get rewarded for it.
That doesn't mean, however, that regular travelers should skip joining the chain's loyalty program altogether. Even base members get benefits like free Wi-Fi and discounted room rates.
And, after all, since most hotel loyalty programs are free to join—including those from Hilton, Marriott International, Hyatt, and others—it can't hurt.
Just be aware that the biggest spoils go to those who spend the most.
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We were a small company when we first started out and we've grown 300% since then. cube19 has been fundamental to that.
cube19 has been instrumental in our growth to date. The clarity across the business around expectations for performance combined with the ability to analyse our outputs, lets us spend our time focussing on growth. It is an essential tool.
Since the implementation of cube19 staff are more engaged, administrative usage of Bullhorn has improved significantly, all staff now have greater visibility and clarity on targets, their performance against these and the levers that help them achieve those. Overall NFI per head since implementation has increased by on average 15% per head too. cube19 has become an integral part of the business and I would highly recommend.
cube19 has totally changed our business for the better! We now are able to make better, more informed decisions as we grow the Energon business. Using cube19, we are able to set specific and measurable targets for our consultants which motivates them and helps them to manage their activity more effectively, ultimately increasing productivity and NFI. Since onboarding with cube19, we have increased our yield by an average of 18% across the business. It's the most valuable tool that I use to manage performance.
cube19 is a game-changer. I have it on my phone, and I look at it every morning. We have it in all of our offices, they each have a TV screen with cube19 running on it. Every manager uses it on their desktop. I think it's brilliant. When you have access to the information at your fingertips, you're better positioned to read trends in the market, identify problems in your processes, and make corrections - before the competition gets the chance to react.
I used to spend a lot of time looking through different reports and collecting information to have a one-on-one meeting with a consultant. Now I get an iPad and quickly dig into all the info I need. This means that I spend more time actually understanding performance and making suggestions to improve it, rather than just getting the data together.
cube19's customer success team worked really well with us to understand our business and configure cube19 to our individual business needs. They were responsive and supportive both throughout setup process and afterwards! It's a great solution and integration was easy.
Before cube19 I would give Bullhorn adoption across the company a 3/10 and now 8/10 just 3 months into using cube19.
The improved Bullhorn usage is due to improved visibility and transparency of data. Everyone now has access to valuable insights that help them work more efficiently. If it's not in cube19, it's not in Bullhorn. We can identify if data is missing in real-time so the team is encouraged to track their activity correctly at the time it happens. We can see where things are going well, and sometimes not so well, and more importantly, we can understand why.
With cube19 we can drill into every metric to get much more detailed information and get answers to all our questions in just a few clicks. It saves us a significant amount of time.
cube19 provides consultants with a dashboard every day which pretty much tells them everything that's going on and what they need to do. I call it the recruitment algorithm. It keeps everyone focused and productive.
Our consultants love seeing their names at the top of the leaderboard but they also now make the effort to get the data into Bullhorn correctly - if it's not tracked it's not fact! One of the most exciting pieces for the team is when a deal is made and the consultant's name, and deal song of choice is broadcasted across the sales floor. It's a simple, but such an effective communication tool to highlight new sales and creates a positive buzz in the office.
As a result of having better data, we have identified the staff that we should be asking more of, who we should be giving more time to, and highlighted more opportunities to train. We're finding cube19 an increasingly valuable tool in helping us to motivate employees and drive growth in our business.
Since implementing Cube19 in November 2017 we have been setting targets and objectives that encourage the team to self-manage. This renewed focus on core activities has led to a 123% increase in sales compared to the same period last year, whilst the headcount has remained static. The team is very happy with their new autonomy, and Cube19 has more than paid for itself many times over.
cube19 is modern, efficient and engaging. It's proved a huge hit with our consultants who want to monitor their own performance, managers looking to complete 1-2-1s right up to Director level for forecasting and our crucial numbers. As our main user, the thing for me that really sets cube19 apart from any other software we use across all our functions, is their amazing support team. cube19's support team are friendly, approachable and speedy with their responses.


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Frog Busters (VIDEO)
Story by Lehia Apana | Photo by Ryan Siphers
Aja Akuna
TITLE: Field Crew Leader, Maui Invasive Species Committee (M.I.S.C.)
ENDANGERING SPECIES: Several nights a week, Aja Akuna goes hunting. Donning a headlamp and equipped with a sprayer and 1,000 gallons of citric acid mixture, she combs through the darkness in search of public enemy number one: the illusive and invasive coqui frog.
This teeny amphibian has overwhelmed large swathes of the Big Island, threatening fragile ecosystems by gorging on insects that are food for many native birds. The frogs are also a potential food source if (some say when) brown tree snakes are accidentally introduced to Hawai'i. Plus, they're downright annoying. A single male frog can emit an eighty- to ninety-decibel shriek, roughly as loud as a blender or garbage disposal.
Akuna's five-person team is tasked with controlling Maui's coqui frog population, mostly in Māliko Gulch on Maui's north shore. "It's so loud down there that you'll get a headache — you can't escape it," Akuna says.
What do they sound like?
Play video to listen to coqui frogs recorded in Maliko Gulch.
KILLING THEM SOFTLY: The team uses high-pressure hoses to douse the landscape with citric acid, a common food additive that the EPA deems safe for environmental use. For more targeted sweeps, there are handheld and backpack sprayers. "Sometimes we're working at manicured mansions to get rid of a few frogs; other times we're in a gulch packed with strawberry guava, cane grass, and all kinds of other stuff you don't want to be going through," says Akuna, adding that rough terrain means that the crew must forge a path with chainsaws and machetes to reach their target.
The frogs have no natural predator in the Islands, and a single female can produce up to seventy-five eggs every two or three months.
"It's a physical job, but the mental part is even tougher," Akuna says. "We've worked in areas where it seems like we've gotten the frogs under control, only to come back later and have it sound just like it did before."
CRITICAL MASS: While the Māliko Gulch area is the greatest threat, Akuna and her team have been following the tiny croaker across the island.
"We've cleared areas from Nāpili to Hāna and everywhere between. If it wasn't for MISC, there would be frogs everywhere," she says, before offering a warning: "We're at a critical point right now where we really need to take control of the situation, but I'm hopeful. I wouldn't be here if I didn't think we were making a difference."
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Dylan Easton (born 6 April 1994) is a Scottish footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or second striker for Raith Rovers.

Easton has previously played with Livingston, Berwick Rangers, St Johnstone, Elgin City, Clyde and Forfar Athletic, Kelty Hearts, Airdrieonians, as well as Arbroath and Dumbarton on loan.

Career

Livingston
Easton signed for Livingston in July 2011 from Hutchison Vale. A member of their under 19 squad, he made his first team debut aged 17 as a substitute against Partick Thistle on 11 February 2012.

St Johnstone
In 2013, Easton signed a pre-contract agreement with Scottish Premier League club St Johnstone. Easton left the club by mutual consent in August 2015.

Dumbarton (loan)
He joined Dumbarton on loan in January 2015 and made his debut in a 5–1 defeat to Livingston.

Elgin City
In October 2015, Easton signed a contract agreement until the summer 2016 after he left St Johnstone by mutual consent in August 2015. Easton's attacking instincts produced many goal assists during his short time with the club. He was a fans favourite with several his fine displays, and was one of the star players of the season. Easton helped to lead the club to a 2nd-place finish and the promotion the play-offs. He was also named in the Ladbrokes Scottish League Two Team of the Season for 2015–16.

Clyde
On 28 May 2016, it was announced that Easton had signed for Scottish League Two club Clyde. After a positive start to his career at Clyde, Easton was ruled out for an extended period after rupturing his cruciate ligament in Clyde's 3–2 win over Arbroath.
However, Easton still managed to win Clyde FC Goal of the Season 2016–17. The midfielder's excellent strike against Montrose in August was the most popular from a shortlist of six, in an online vote. The goal was also included in the shortlist for the PFA Scotland Goal of the Season. He left Clyde in June 2017.

Forfar Athletic
He signed a two-year contract with Forfar Athletic on 20 June 2017.

Kelty Hearts
Easton joined Lowland League club Kelty Hearts in June 2019.

Airdrieonians
On 11 June 2021, Easton signed for Scottish League One side Airdrieonians.

Easton helped the side to the Championship play offs scoring 8 goals and 12 assists, making him the highest assister in League 1.
He won Airdrieonians Player of the Season and the Scottish PFA League 1 player of the year as well as being named in Scotlands PFA League 1 Team of the Year.

Raith Rovers

On 26th May 2022, Easton joined Scottish Championship side Raith Rovers on a 2 year deal.

Career statistics

Honours
Kelty Hearts
Lowland League: 2019–20

Airdrieonians
Scotland PFA League 1 Player of the Year Award 2021-22

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1994 births
Living people
Scottish footballers
Association football forwards
Livingston F.C. players
Berwick Rangers F.C. players
St Johnstone F.C. players
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Elgin City F.C. players
Clyde F.C. players
Forfar Athletic F.C. players
Airdrieonians F.C. players
Scottish Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Kelty Hearts F.C. players
Lowland Football League players
Raith Rovers F.C. players

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Apollo Fruit Fusion Bulk Discount - cheaper e-liquids (5 Pack of 30ml bottles).
This cheaper sampler includes five of our most popular fruit-flavored e-liquids!
Watermelon: Watermelon at peak ripeness flavored e-liquid.
Strawberry: Truly tastes like fresh strawberries. Enjoy a refreshing flavor with just the right touch of sweetness.
Grape: Sweet grape flavor with a luscious vapor and fruity aroma.
Green Apple: A juicy and crisp Green apple flavored e-liquid that is ripe with deliciousness.
Hemi Orange: Sweet and citrusy orange soda flavor.
I like being able to buy my e-liquid in bulk for a discounted price (Plus the additional discount makes it more appealing!). Plus I've checked out the ingredients with a pharmacists; and though nothing is good being smoked in the lungs your e-liquids are minimally harmful!
one my favorite packs of e liquids. Much easier and cheaper for me to be able to mix and match different flavors and create cool and unqiue combinations.
Very tasty candy like flavors. Easy on the coils and easy to vape. I don't get sick of them one bit. I could vape these all day and I truly do love all of them that come in this pack. Espcially the Green Apple.
The Green apple flavor was my absolute favorite. The other ones were pretty good too but the green apple had so much flavor and did not burn out my stuff to quickly. I am going to get some more as soon as they are gonna run a sale.
I agree with the other reviewers the Grape and Watermelon are also my favorite. Both of those flavors are like nothing I have ever tried before. I always recommend the Grape and Watermelon to all of my friends and family. Will be a life time Apollo customer!
Much easier to write reviews now that that are emailed to me. I like the fruit pack and sometimes i get the tobacco pack too. I like the Watermelon and Hemi orange the best. They taste good when I mix them together as well. I enjoy mixing and matching the flavors to make something new.
I like that this pack has all of the best fruit flavors. The hemi orange I am not a huge fan of because it is not really like a fruit flavor to me. But the watermelon,straberry,apple and grape are my all time favorites. I will continue to purchase this pack. Like that it comes in the bigger size bottles.
Literally every single flavor in the bulk pack I loved. The Watermelon is incredible. The grape is to die for. The green apple is subtle and tastes awesome. The Hemi orange is very unique and different but also tastes great and the strawberry is good too and very sweet. I love this pack!
I love the variety of these juices. As a kid I would mix together all the sodas the restaurant had and taste it all together, which is called a suicide drink. Same with these liquids. If I want to taste caramel apple, i'll mix the RY4 and the green apple. or a menthol flavor with some kind of fruit and it makes an awesome flavor and different every time!
I strawberry and watermelon. Strawberry was ok, but the watermelon was fantastic! I ordered a second bundle with all watermelon.
Great flavours, Watermelon is the best!
Grape and watermelon e liquids are great but didn't enjoy the strawberry one as much, it was a bit too sweet and didnt vape that well or have much flavour.
It's a good sample, I think there's better but it's a great starter pack.
This pack has to be the best way to go through so many fruity flavours. More than a great deal in terms of money and in finding out which of the ejuices best fit your taste. Watermelon and Green Apple are by far my favourites and will be reordered soon. Thank you Apollo for the quick delivery!


The birth of Mary is a great message to this generation about life and about motherhood. This generation needs this great message because a growing number of women today see motherhood as a burden, not a blessing. The mania for attractive vital statistics and carnal pursuits has eclipsed the true nature of procreation as a God-given mission. Pregnancy is treated as a distortion while giving birth to a child a scourge more than a participation in God's power to create.
The participation in God's power to create comes to us as a gift of procreation. Love is at the core of this procreative act. When love is stripped of the spirit of sacrifice, love deserts life. Philosophy distinguishes soul from spirit. All animate things including plants and animals have souls that keep them alive. But only human beings have spirits capable of eternal life. In a sense, love has to be animated by a spirit if it is to be intimately related to life. That spirit is the spirit of sacrifice. Stripped of the spirit of sacrifice, love ceases to be human and descends to the realm of the animals.
Selfishness strips love of the spirit of sacrifice. The woman only needs to accommodate the baby in her womb for nine (9) months. Beyond that the government could already put the baby up for adoption. Nine months of carrying a baby in the womb is not really that long compared to a lifetime of possibilities the baby gets. To a selfish woman, however, nine months of carrying a baby in the womb is already too long a period of sacrifice.
Mary had more reasons to decline pregnancy because her conception of Jesus was surrounded by circumstances so scary to an ordinary woman. It was her big heart nourished by the spirit of sacrifice that empowered her to give her consent to pregnancy. May our generation give heed to her message of life and motherhood. Happy birthday, Mama Mary! —(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.


Remodeled Hugh Radney hill country contemporary in close in West Lake Hills. Immersed in natural surroundings on 1.06 acres, a gated entrance leads to refined landscaping, canyon views, and total privacy just minutes from downtown Austin. Tastefully remodeled contemporary interiors are framed by walls of windows and soaring 16 foot ceilings flooding the residence with natural light. The master suite features a side bonus room ideal for a nursery, study, or a large closet & dressing room. Outdoor living spaces include a playscape, living, dining, and spa that showcase stunning hill country views. Located within acclaimed Eanes ISD with easy access to schools, shopping, restaurants, Lake Austin, and area country clubs.


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In the near future we can expect decisions that can launch unsustainable industrial activities in Romania. In the past, similar decisions have been already taken. Those decisions were based on political and economical concepts considered correct in that time. By them, the independence of the country and the welfare of its inhabitants were promised. Often the industrial facilities were built and operated on the cost of sacrificing landscapes, communities and lives. Unfortunatelly, now, from the perspective of several decades it seems that in most of the cases, their costs overweight the benefits they brought.
With the photographs below I try to present what remained from all that was expected from Romania's industrialisation.
In 1947, at the date of proclamation of the People's Republic of Romania the country was predominantly agrarian with an underdeveloped industry and with many citizens making a living from agriculture.
One of the main goals of the new country leaders was to create an economical system based on the nationalization of the agriculture and the development of the heavy industry. Most of the agricultural land was nationalized. The heavy industry was presented as the key to the independence and development of the nation. Thermal and hydroelectric power plants, new factories and mines were built in a forced pace. The existing, previously nationalized industrial facilities were developed. Many farmers who lost their land moved to cities and became workers. The rhythm of development was truly exceptional: during the years of communism, the romanian industry multiplied itself in size.
But this wasn't for free. Traditional communities fell apart, the industry caused severe pollution and the amount of loans taken from western countries was constantly rising. Moreover, during the years of the Ceaușescu era became obvious that the industry is so inefficient that that the loans taken for the development cannot be repaid. Finally, the loans were repaid after a nationwide saving campaign. As a byproduct, the population's standard of living was deteriorated and less and less money was available for the modernisation of the industrial facilities.
After 1990, as the political and economical systems of the communist bloc countries were changed and the extremely centralized management system of the Romanian industry collapsed, the mere existence of numerous industrial companies become meaningless. The communism left behind a society and an economy adapted to stability and permanent central control. It was hard for both of them to adapt to the long awaited freedom. Some successful companies were privatised, but many were closed and left behind masses of unemployed. A part of them created new methods to earn a living, but many of them still could not find their places.
Six decades after the launch of the industrialisation, the country, where the material demand of the inhabitants has grown to a previously unseen level, is more dependent from foreign money sources than ever.
The place of the demolished or collapsed industrial buildings will be covered by new buildings or the nature will slowly reconquer them. But the poisoned soils, disintegrated communities and the disoriented masses will remind us for a long time to the forced industrialization of this country.


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CD Projekt Says Rumored Cyberpunk 2077 Development Details are 'Simply Not True'
CD Projekt rarely comments on rumours, making this a notable exception.
byJoe Skrebels
Posted Jan. 6, 2021, 6:35 p.m.
Update: The official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account has now posted the same message to the account's 1.6 million followers:
Normally we don't comment on rumors but this time we wanted to make an exception as this story is simply not true.https://t.co/JuOTY2qJbM
— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) January 6, 2021
A CD Projekt Red representative has deviated from company policy to say that widely-circulated rumours about development decisions on Cyberpunk 2077 from a purported developer are "simply not true".
Posted on GameFAQs, a forum post claiming to include comments from a disgruntled developer made multiple claims about cut content, code rewrites, pressure from company executives, and the game's ongoing fixes, even adding the unexpected detail that the company's original Johnny Silverhand was inspired by David Hayter' Solid Snake and Cillian Murphy.
Responding to the thread on the CD Projekt Red forums, CDPR employee Vattier explained, "We usually do not comment on rumours, but this is simply not true."
CD Projekt Red has repeatedly refused to comment on rumours following the troubled launch of Cyberpunk 2077, making this a notable exception. Previously, CDPR had also broken usual policy to deny rumours of a final last-minute delay to the game.
Cyberpunk launched in a less-than stable state, particularly on consoles, which has led to much speculation about the game's development - particularly after it received three delays ahead of launch. That speculation hasn't been helped by some messy messaging around what happened to the game, and what's being done to fix the issues.
Currently, CD Projekt is intending to release major updates to console versions in January and February that should "fix the most prominent problems gamers are facing on last-gen consoles." Currently, the game isn't available for digital purchse on PlayStation, and we've had no word on when it might return. After those fixes, there's still the not-insignificant additions of free DLC and paid expansions and, eventually, a multiplayer mode.
Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.
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Citizens were aghast why, of the eleven joint PNP and COMELEC checkpoints across the province, only one suspect armed with a unlicensed firearms was arrested while the 10 others escaped from the authorities.
How come? Where was police and Comelec capabilities.?
Since the imposition of the gun ban last week, authorities arrested only one person for illegal possession of firearm and eleven guns were seized.
The election gun ban is from January 13 to June 12, 2019. Prohibited during the period is carrying of firearms and weapons, hiring of bodyguards, and transportation of firearms, explosives, spare parts and raw materials. Meanwhile, the issuance, approval and release of firearms, permit to carry guns, mission orders and memorandum receipts of law enforcement agencies are suspended.
Those found guilty of violating the gun ban can be imprisoned from 1 to 6 years, deportation and permanent disqualification from public office and loss of the right to vote.
However, the checkpoints in Basay, San Jose, Vallehermoso, Siaton, Jimalalud, Bacong, Valencia, Amlan, Zamboanguita and Guihulngan City only managed to recover the ten guns purportedly thrown on the road by motorcycle riders who evaded capture.
Illegal possession of guns and ammunition is punisheable with 18 years in jail. So the illegal holders opted to throw the guns away on the road and evaded arrest. Did the police do a hot pursuit? It remains to be confirmed.
In contrast, a 39-year-old suspect identified as Dede Nosal was arrested in Barangay Dawis, Bayawan City for carrying a .357 Smith and Wesson revolver 10 live bullets for different types of handguns. The suspect, a resident of Barangay Kalamtukan, Bayawan City was intercepted and accosted for having in his possession an unlicensed firearm.
In sum, 6 pieces of .38 caliber pistols, 3 pieces .357 revolver and .22 caliber pistol along with 22 live were recovered by the roadsides near the areas where the checkpoints were established.


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Residents flee as police, vandals clash in Ogun
THERE was pandemonium at Elebute, near Ibafo, Ogun State yesterday following gun battle between policemen and suspected pipeline vandals.
Residents were said to have deserted the community after the vandals stormed the area in a reprisal attack against the police.
It was gathered that policemen from the state command on Sunday night stormed the vandals' hideout and allegedly killed several of them.
The police's onslaught was said to have been triggered by the murder of a police inspector on Saturday night by the criminals, who also seized his gun.
It was learnt that the area has witnessed several attacks since Saturday, forcing the residents to flee for safety.
The criminals were said to have threatened to torch the police station at Ibafo, but were repelled by soldiers deployed to the anti-pipeline vandalism Taskforce, Operation AWATSE.
According to a man who gave his name as Okon, three armoured tanks belonging to the police were stationed at the police division and other strategic areas along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
He said: "Fears of being hit by gun bullets made many house owners and tenants in the area to flee."
Although the state police spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi, denied there was a gun duel in the area, a police source said they were deployed to the scene after the hoodlums attempted to burn the station.
"As you can see, we heard the information as you heard. But we are here to protect our station from attack," said the source.
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Šapinuwa
The settlement hill
The town lies on the route that leads from the Hittite capital Hattuša in the west through the plain of Sungurlu/Alacahöyük to the east into the Caucasus. This gave it a strategically important position.
Šapinuwa has been excavated since 1990 by a team from Ankara University.
The first excavated building is called Building A. It is rectangular and has a floor area of 2500 m². The foundation walls consist of cyclopean blocks of limestone and sandstone at a height and thickness of about two metres, with clay brick walls above.
From the amount of debris found, it can be concluded that the monumental building had at least two upper floors. Cedar wood was used in the ceilings. The floor plan is oriented from southeast to northwest, in the north further buildings are connected, possibly economic areas. A double-walled protective wall surrounds the building.
The building was completely destroyed by a fire, after which the entire village was abandoned. More than 4000 fragments of cuneiform tablets have been found in the fire debris of the upper floors, but only a fraction of them have been published so far.
During a further excavation in 1994, 160 meters southeast of the building B, which measures about 25 × 40 meters, came to light. On the foundation walls of carefully worked stone blocks, 1.10 metre thick clay brick walls with a 2-3 centimetre thick plaster layer were found. Inside the building about 40 Pithoi came to light. They served as storage vessels for various types of food. Building B had at least one upper floor.
Of the cuneiform tablets found in building A, about two thirds are written in Hittite, a smaller part in Hurricane, the rest in Akkadian or bilingual Hittite-Hurric, Hittite-Akkadian or Hittite-Hattish. Most are letters, but also texts of a religious nature, omentexts and lists. Since a considerable part of the letters are addressed or sent to the Grand King or Queen, in addition to high officials, it can be assumed that Šapinuwa was a royal seat.
The Hurricane texts are predominantly religious in content and refer mainly to the itkalzi ritual, a cleansing ritual. The excavators date the town to the 14th century B.C., the time of the Hittite Empire, due to the numerous names in the texts, which are also documented in texts from Masat Höyük.
Numerous small finds were also excavated, including pottery, seals, arrowheads, axes and other small metal finds. These are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Çorum. In building D, south of B, the relief of a warrior came to light.
According to a cuneiform text from Bogazköy about the delivery of clay pots, the town was situated if an average daily capacity of a transport cart of 30-35 km is assumed, about 100 km away from Hattuša. The Hurricane weather god Teššub is mentioned in the Šuppiluliuma-Šattiwaza Treaty.
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Amy Susanne Robinson
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In California, something is always burning. During the autumn of Y2K, scheduled electricity blackouts rolled through my freshman year dorm, and we huddled under dim, generator-powered fluorescence in the halls because our rooms were too dark and too hot. Enron execs manipulated the lines and raked in Death Star money. Governor Gray Davis floundered. He couldn't get our lights back on. We tried hard to study, or we didn't try at all. We played a game called Mafia that I could always win. In Mafia, it's mafia versus police and town. As mafia, I lied so energetically that I nearly lost friends, even though it was just a game.
This all happened at Pomona College, part of the "5-C" Claremont consortium of five adjacent undergraduate campuses. The ease of taking classes at the other colleges was one of Pomona's selling points, but access to the other dining halls was the real perk. We ate sushi at Scripps on Fridays, bagels with smoked salmon at Claremont McKenna (CMC) on weekends, and, at Pomona, we looked forward to Taco Thursday. And every night, from 10:30pm to midnight, our dining hall served, free of charge, a hot snack, along with cereal, bagels, PBJs, coffee, and cocoa.
The region where Pomona is located is known, aptly and ominously, as the Inland Empire. Where there's money, like on campus and in the surrounding retirement community of Claremont, there are lush orange groves, cascades of tropical flowers, and grass so thoroughly watered that my shoes were always wet after I walked across the quad. Where there isn't money, there are strip malls, asphalt, scrubby desert, and not much else.
It isn't really what I'd pictured when I decided to go to college in California. About half of Pomona students come from the west coast, and as a native of Atlanta, I had to explain a lot about where I came from. I didn't feel out of place exactly, but I got teased for saying y'all and I lost most of my accent. People from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest asked if Atlanta was scary and racist, to which I retorted — though not out loud — that my city was majority black, that there hadn't been a white mayor in my lifetime, that my high-school boyfriend was black, and that he was also the class president.
The college provided beer to students five nights a week, and wine on Thursdays at a fancier gathering called Symposium. You could only get served if you had an ID that said you were twenty-one, but the wisdom held that you wouldn't get busted for alcohol consumption or distribution, no matter your age, as long as you were in a dorm room, in transit, or drinking from a red cup. Nobody I knew ever got in trouble unless they stole a golf cart, broke a window, or sprayed the fire extinguisher all over the dorm. Those offenders got a slap on the wrist.
Sophomore year, I lived in a "theme group," which meant my friends and I got a suite and a patio in exchange for hosting the occasional event. Our theme was "Creation" (arts and crafts, not Adam and Eve). All I remember is our tie-dye party and a lot of Krispy Kreme donuts, all funded by Pomona. Because I was the only white person in my theme group suite, those same Bay Area/Pacific Northwesterners said to me, "You really like black people, huh?" and "I don't really know how to act around black people." To which I had no retort, out loud or in my head.
At that time, I felt with increasing poignancy that I'd been born in the wrong era. I wanted to march for civil rights. Protest, at Pomona, often took the form of veganism and hunger strikes, and my ungenerous view was that the demonstrators were really just finding radical new ways to be anorexic. The fight against racial oppression, meanwhile, was mostly anodyne, and thick with theory. In class, we did close readings of Mos Def and Talib Kweli lyrics, where we found resistance to hegemony, and articles in The New York Times, where we found encoded liberal racism. Direct action didn't seem possible.
My suitemates and I joined a group called SMAC that trained students to facilitate conversations about race among our peers during a six-hour "Day of Dialogue." White students would lead conversations among white students about how we'd profited from racism, and students of color would lead conversations among students of color about the impact of racism on their lives. The groups would then join up to hash it all out. At training, we talked about whiteness and white guilt, affirmative action, diversity quotas, reparations, and implicit bias. We learned that racism equals prejudice plus power, and that reverse racism doesn't exist. We learned that white people should stop whining about not having a culture because American culture equals white culture plus appropriation of other cultures. By then I'd read bell hooks, so during training I stood up and announced, "We are all consumers of a racist economy!" Afterwards, my suitemates told me I was the right kind of white girl. I believed them.
September 11 brought a different kind of burning, faraway and within. Classes weren't cancelled, but we weren't expected to attend, and we didn't. We watched the news on TV and organized Quaker meetings. A student painted "Nuke 'em" on Walker Wall, where anyone is allowed to paint anything. We painted over it, or someone did, and we shunned the offending painter. We read the Bible for the first time in months. That morning, I opened right to Matthew 5:44. "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." We argued with our families about the decision to go to war with Afghanistan. My best friend from freshman year, Lauren, was back home in the Bronx getting cancer treatment, so she called and wrote letters to me and my roommate, also from the Bronx. Lauren told us how things were there, what organizing meetings she went to in between chemo sessions, and how the skies hadn't cleared yet.
In Claremont, the skies were almost never clear. Smog hid Mount Baldy, just five miles away, and at night the sky was the purplish greenish gray color of Spanish moss. Fall of my junior and senior years, ash fell like snow as wildfires near campus swept across tens of thousands of acres. We couldn't see the mountains, but we saw plenty of smoke, and we covered our faces with masks. Our friends who lived in the mountains came down from the mountains. Back then, we called the winds the Chino winds because they carried the smell of cow manure from the farms two towns over, but I know better now. It was the storied Santa Ana winds that blew the fire so fast across the San Bernardino foothills.
My Creation suitemates studied abroad in the fall of our junior year, so I mostly hung out with people who worked on the student paper with me. We didn't do anything serious, and we made private fun of the earnest people who did. By that time, Lauren had died, and I had lost faith of all kinds.
The next October, Gray Davis was recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor. Three and a half weeks later: Old Fire, Padua, Grand Prix. I didn't know the names of the fires until much later. I didn't know the guy who threw the flare that lit Old Fire would be sentenced to death because five people died of heart attacks as they tried to escape their homes. I didn't know California had the death penalty. I didn't know fires had names.
A closer fire: during winter break, students from three of the other Claremont colleges, on campus early for swim practice, stole an art project made by a Pomona student, and burned it.
The art project was an 11-foot metal cross with a plaid cover. They burned a cross.
The flames were contained at first. We heard the news belatedly. The previous April, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold state bans on cross burnings in cases where the arsonist intends to terrorize or intimidate someone. In this case, school officials didn't feel that it was a hate crime, so they didn't notify the police. The arsonists denied any knowledge of the Ku Klux Klan's history of cross-burning. They said it was a prank. They said they were sorry. They said they were not racists.
I knew one of them slightly, and I knew he'd graduated from a prestigious high school in Atlanta. It seemed impossible to me that students at a private school in Martin Luther King's hometown would not have learned what it meant to burn a cross.
We marched. The schools hadn't responded swiftly enough, and the perpetrators were still on campus. A newly formed organization called the Student Liberation and Action Movement (SLAM) led the way.
Honestly, I can't remember whether I marched. I suspect that I did not. SMAC no longer existed, and SLAM members were students of color only, including my sophomore year roommate, Jacque. SLAM was not about facilitating dialogue. SLAM was about institutional change. They made a list of ten specific demands to the Pomona administration, ranging from the expulsion of the students who burned the cross to the creation of a Native American Studies department.
Now that direct action was really happening, I felt like a marauder. There no longer seemed to be a right kind of white girl. Instead of marching, I probably worked hard on my thesis project, a history of the (white) women's movement in New Orleans after the Civil War, a movement motivated largely by the racist desire to counteract the black vote and to preserve the ideal of the Southern white woman — recast, post-bellum, as civically engaged for the sake of her family. Instead of marching, I found a politically apathetic, atheist boyfriend, the kind who thinks he has an interesting argument against voting. I made a previous boyfriend watch a Spike Lee satire about blackface and discuss it with me at length, but not this one. I was probably afraid of what he would say. Jacque thought he was really nice, but wouldn't have if she really knew him. He was fireless. I don't know what he was doing in California.
He taught me to play bridge. I wasn't very good, but it was a game I could sometimes win.
The next fire wasn't a fire, but it engulfed us. The evening of March 9, we were playing bridge. Jacque called my boyfriend's room to alert me. She said to come outside and see what happened. I left the bridge game and stood in a crowd that had gathered in a parking lot.
There is a single-spaced, 71-page, exhaustively detailed and comprehensive report called "Revisiting A Call to Action" that Pomona student activist leaders, including SLAM, wrote in response to the cross-burning and related incidents. It's still accessible online in full. In the "General Timeline: A legacy of hate incidents and community response," the following is reported of the incidents of March 9 and March 10:
March 9th: Visiting CMC professor Kerri Dunn's car is discovered in a CMC parking lot defaced with the windows smashed, tires slashed and various words written on the car, including "nigger lover," "shut up bitch" and "kike." A swastika is partially drawn on the car.
March 10th: Classes are canceled at the 5Cs to encourage community reflection on the previous night's incident and participation in specially planned events. A large 5C rally takes place that night. Students speak from all five colleges, news reporters come from many L.A. t.v./radio stations, and hundreds of participants arrive in support.
On March 10, we all marched. Well, my boyfriend probably didn't, but everyone else I knew marched.
We marched from one campus to the next. Anticipation mounted — there was something climactic about the whole day. We ended up at Pomona, in front of an auditorium unofficially called Big Bridges, where I'd attended concerts and speeches by the Flaming Lips and Beck, the Black Eyed Peas, De La Soul, and Wyclef Jean, Michael Moore, and Desmond Tutu.
That night, the speeches were outdoors, in front of the thousands of marching students, many holding placards. I remember two of the speeches. The first was given by one of my beloved history professors, Dr. Samuel Yamashita. He talked about a time early in his career when his own car was vandalized. It was a hate crime, and it really shook him.
Hearing his speech shook me, too. Dr. Yamashita was the most exacting and the most mirthful professor I had at Pomona. He was pompous, but his brand of professorial swagger was winsome and pretty much justified, and he was also very kind, and spoke tenderly of his wife, who worked in academic publishing. He once told me about a health problem she'd had that resembled a health problem I was having. I remember him saying that she was doubled over on the bathroom floor. He looked pained to recall her pain, which honestly sounded a lot worse than my pain.
Still, I was taken aback by the intimacy of his Big Bridges speech. In those earlier years, Dr. Yamashita said, he and his then-new bride made a habit of reading to each other in the bathtub. They were reading Them by Joyce Carol Oates around the time his car was vandalized.
The selection of this simple, oblique, private detail shook me the hardest. Conversations about racism are so often about the perpetrators, and their ignorance and intolerance, and the ways inequality is codified by our legal systems and institutions. Consumers of a racist economy. And those are important conversations, but we have also to listen for the violence of racism as it is experienced and withstood and absorbed in a life. At one's first teaching job, amid the early flush of academic success, in the bathtub with a book and in love. That crime against Dr. Yamashita was at once so acute that he remembered what book he was reading when it happened, and so uncontained that it slopped around and slammed into everything else around it: the book he and his wife were reading in the bathtub, his memory of an important period of his life.
The second speech I remember was given by Kerry Dunn herself. I remember the style, but not its content. Then again, I have a photograph to aid my recollection, but no transcript. In a widely reprinted image, Kerri Dunn appears blue-eyed with auburn hair to her waist (that's how The New York Times would clue you in that Kerri Dunn, the victim of the previous night's hate crime, is white). She wears what appears to be a dashiki and clasps her hands as her wide eyes plead with the giant crowd. Jacque stands just behind Kerri Dunn. Two students flanking Jacque have their eyes closed softly and their hands clasped in front of them, their faces serene. But Jacque's eyes are open and trained in a different direction. Her face is not serene. She appears to be thinking ahead.
That all matches what I think I remember about Kerri Dunn's speech. I know that she emoted a lot. She cried in a loud rhetorical way. I know that she spoke for a long time at the end of a very long day. In March, the desert gets cold at night. I don't remember eating lunch or dinner that day, but I must have. I don't remember closing my eyes or clasping my hands, but it's possible that I did. Dunn's speech did not include the kind of detail that made Dr. Yamashita's speech so memorable. That seems understandable, given that Kerri Dunn hadn't had twenty or more years to shape a rich narrative from a messy experience. The basic outline was that in class, she'd brought up difficult questions about the cross-burning and other racist incidents on campus, and she indicted her students for their inaction and political indifference. Her students were upset by her truth-telling. And so she was punished.
Before that night, I wished sometimes for a role model. I wanted to become acquainted with a living or historical example of a white woman who contributed in real and responsible ways to combatting racism, who didn't waste her time on her own white guilt, who recognized her complicity and understood why and how white-led anti-racist projects fail. This role model would not be a leader, or a visionary, but would be a conscientious follower and steadfast participant.
While I don't remember exactly what I thought and felt that night, I know that I didn't consider for a second that Kerri Dunn would be that role model. I remember thinking that Kerri Dunn milked it a little too much. She, a white woman, was the main victim here.
Hindsight has almost certainly interfered with this memory. Besides, Kerri Dunn's speech, whatever I made of it, was not, right then, my primary concern. What's funny is that Jacque, and her spiritual opposition to everything my bridge-playing ex-boyfriend represented (which, as a nihilist, was nothing), was my primary concern, and yet I can't remember for the life of me whether Jacque gave a speech that night. I feel intuitively that she must have, but it's as if my hyper-vigilance toward her, and what I perceived as my failure, subsumed everything, and burned right through whatever impressions would have imprinted themselves onto my memory.
Either that, or, after we'd lived together a year and lost someone we both loved, I knew the depth and texture of Jacque's anger and insecurity and sensitivity and intensity so thoroughly that nothing she could have said in a speech that night would have possibly surprised me. Her speech, if she gave one, may have been extraordinary or hasty or both, and to me it would have still been quintessentially Jacque, and who can remember something so familiar?
Speech or not, my primary concern, or conflict, was this: I wondered what she thought of me and what I could do, while, at the same time, I wanted to return to my game of bridge and my cozy unbelief. There, with my fireless white boyfriend, I didn't have to think about loss or anger, or what kind of white girl I was being.
The next week, I let my boyfriend come on a Spring Break trip to Mexico that was supposed to be just with my women friends. Without permission, he took photos of my friends and me skinny dipping in the ocean. He pretended to delete them, but I found out two years later that he didn't. He made me anxious all the time, and I thought of nothing and nobody but him. Just after Spring Break, I moderated a panel of fellow senior history majors, in which we talked about how our thesis research dealt with issues of racism and inequality. My boyfriend did not attend, and he broke up with me, temporarily, when I confronted him about it later that day.
We had organized the panel right after the Kerri Dunn rally. We felt ourselves to be part of a groundswell of activity. The panel was a responsible thing I could do, something in my wheelhouse. We held the panel even though, by that time, everything had become confused.
Because by then we'd found out that Kerri Dunn vandalized her own car. She spray-painted her car with vicious racial slurs and cried about it in front of thousands of people. People saw her do it, and they came forward. Her story fell apart. The Jewish slur, in particular: her students had no way of knowing she was thinking of converting from Catholicism to Judaism. Items she said were stolen during the vandalism were found in her apartment.
A week after the rally, during Spring Break, she was named as the only suspect in the hate crime that resulted in the cancellation of all Claremont Colleges classes. Remember that class was not officially cancelled on 9/11. A year later, Kerri Dunn would be convicted and sentenced to a year in jail for filing a false police report, as if that charge comprehended the damage she had done.
A hoax is a joke, a jest, a prank, a trick. Bunco, Three-card Monte. A confidence game: You lay a foundation and achieve the trust of your mark. Then you get what you came for.
What Kerri Dunn did was not a joke, not a jest. Yet newspapers reporting the incident have consistently called it a hoax. As if she were playing a long con. What would that be? She said she wanted people to recognize the racism endemic in their communities. She said she wanted students to take action. When saying it didn't turn out to be enough, she caused a spectacle. Show, don't tell. She showed us the racism, the real deal. She got us to trust her and shut our eyelids and clasp our hands. She lit a fire under our asses. Rallies, teach-ins, panels.
Or she just wanted attention. She got it.
Or maybe she wanted to be the right kind of white girl.
The fallout of what Kerri Dunn did can't be measured. I wonder how many of us, who watched her speech on the steps of Big Bridges, still think about that night and her wild fraud, and wonder what it meant.
In the immediate aftermath, the conversation withered. We had our panel, and Jacque and her cohort worked tirelessly on "Revisiting A Call to Action," but mostly, nothing changed. Which could have been the case anyway, even if the perpetrator was someone else, some honest-to-goodness racist. And it's possible that people got the message in spite of its fraudulent medium.
I feel some mild sympathy for the college administrators who boldly cancelled classes. Maybe it wasn't bold, maybe they caved to pressure, but they must have felt good and righteous about the decision. All those people gathered. And then to find out she spray-painted her own car. How humiliating.
When, last year, a rape accusation against the singer Conor Oberst was found to be a total fabrication, a writer for Bustle commented, "The news that Faircloth's accusations are false is crushingly disappointing." As if the lie is worse than a rape would have been, if not for Faircloth, then at least for the cause.
This is understandable, if poorly worded. Certainly, those whose charter it is to deny that racism exists have a long memory of the Kerri Dunn incident. The story fits all too neatly in a certain strident right-wing narrative. Google search results for her name include BogusHateCrimes.com, GiveMeLiberty01.com, StandYourGround.com, TeaPartyTribune.com, and the ominous FellowshipoftheMinds.com. As recently as March 2015, a commenter styled as "rightistight" recounted the tale in response to an article at FreeRepublic.com with the headline, "Person Putting 'Whites Only' Stickers Around Austin Turns Out to be Liberal Social Justice Warrior."
By shutting up about Kerri Dunn once she'd been unmasked, we gave away the narrative and its meaning. I wish we had talked about it. I wish we had gathered around Big Bridges again to talk about what went wrong, and what drove this woman to her desperate act. The conversation would have been rattled and broken, but something could have been salvaged.
You don't have to take Kerri Dunn at her word to understand the desire for an irrefutable, concrete example of capital R Racism. The response to the cross-burning had really been maddening. I remember well the despair and frustration of arguing against the general view among students (and administrators) that the act of burning a cross had been an innocent, ahistorical mix-up. That kind of slippage, that soft denial, underpins a justice system that gives cops the benefit of the doubt when they kill unarmed black men. Nothing is overt enough to call racism what it is.
We could have talked about why we, as a community, needed this white woman victim so badly. Why a burned cross wasn't proof enough for us, just because the arsonists didn't wear hoods. Why we hadn't already left aside our bridge games, inflated grades, free alcohol, and dining hall sushi for one day so we could gather on the well-watered lawn of the quad and rally.
The game was up, and we never spoke of it. But we had rallied. We had marched. It wasn't a dream. Surely we were changed. We left a dead narrative for the vultures to peck into the shape they chose — but surely the narrative, when it had lived, shaped us. I know it shaped me.
I've never read Them by Joyce Carol Oates, but I look for it in every used bookstore I walk into, and I think of Samuel Yamashita on the steps of Big Bridges, telling us the true story of a terrible cruelty.
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Murthy, R., & Kesgin, M. (2019). An Affordances Approach to Social Media Engagement. International Hospitality Information Technology Association(iHITA) Annual Conference 2019.
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Murthy, R., (2018). Online consumer engagement: The role of social currency in reviews. Society for Marketing Advances.
Murthy, R., Hodis, M., & Sashittal, H. (2017). Indulgence on Facebook: The Case of Narcissism and Voyeurism. Society for Marketing Advances.
Murthy, R., Hodis, M., & Sashittal, H. (2017). Mediated Voyuerism and Narcissistic Indulgence on Facebook. Marketing Management Association Spring Conference.
Gianiodis, P., Murthy, R., & Ettlie, J. (2017). Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D and Crowd Sourcing: Substitution or Complements?. World Open Innovation Conference.
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Hodis, M., Sriramachandramurthy, R., & Sashittal, H. (2016). Communicating with Your Local Audience on Facebook: A Two-Step Local Engagement Model. 2016 Global Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., Hodis, M., Gentilucci, M., & Long, D. (2016). Second Screens: The Case of Distraction vs Enhanced Engagement. Society for Marketing Advances.
Angelis, J., & Sriramachandramurthy, R. (2012). Are Innovative Companies also More Interactive? Evidence from Company Websites. INFORMS.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., Hodis, M., & Sashittal, H. (2011). Life on Facebook: An Exploratory Study of the Consumers Relationship with Facebook and the Challenges it Poses for Marketers. 19th International Colloquium in Relationship Marketing.
Miller, J., Angelis, J., Sriramachandramurthy, R., & DeMartino, R. (2011). The Effect of Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Intent on Small Business Growth Processes. The Production and Operations Management Society.
Miller, J., Angelis, J., Sriramachandramurthy, R., & DeMartino, R. (2011). Of Breeds, Tricks and Age: the Case of Small Business Growth and Market Choice Strategy. Academy of Marketing Science.
Liao, A., Sriramachandramurthy, R., & Hull, C. (2011). The Six Facets Model of Technology Management: A Study in the Digital Business Industry. Asia Pacific Business Innovation and Technology Management Society.
Angelis, J., Sriramachandramurthy, R., Miller, J., & DeMartino, R. (2011). Intentionality to Reality: A Study of How Small Businesses Begin Their Road to Growth. United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Angelis, J., DeMartino, R., Miller, J., & Sriramachandramurthy, R. (2010). Intentionality of Growth: How Strategic Intent Affects Growth Tactics. INFORMS.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., & Hodis, M. (2010). Why is Apple Cool? An Examination of Brand Coolness and its Marketing Consequences. American Marketing Association Summer Conference.
Hodis, M., & Sriramachandramurthy, R. (2010). Seeing is Believing: Video Reviews as a Substitute for Haptic Product Information. American Marketing Association Summer Conference.
Angelis, J., Sriramachandramurthy, R., Miller, J., & DeMartino, R. (2010). See How They Grow: Studying Small Venture Growth Through a Qualitative Lens. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., Balasubramanian, S., Bruner II, G., & Kumar, A. (2008). An Exploration into Consumer Attitudes towards Location Based Advertising. Society for Marketing Advances.
Hodis, M., Balasubramanian, S., & Sriramachandramurthy, R. (2008). From Advertising as Information to Advertising as Entertainment: The Impact of Music on the Effectiveness of Current Advertising. Marketing Management Association.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., Balasubramanian, S., & Hodis, M. (2008). Spyware and Adware: How Do Internet Users Defend Themselves - Best Paper Award. Marketing Management Association.
Sriramachandramurthy, R., Hodis, M., & Balasubramanian, S. (2008). Is Proprietary Software Under Threat? An Investigation Into the Adoption of Open Source Software and User Characteristics. INFORMS: Marketing Science Institute.
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Серия А чемпионата Италии по баскетболу 1972/1973 стала 51-м розыгрышем в истории.

Результаты
Турнир проводился в два круга. За победу начислялось два очка, за поражение — нуль, допускались ничейные результаты, за которые обе команды получали по одному очку. Согласно регламенту, команды, занявшие по итогам чемпионата два последних места, выбывали в низшую лигу.

Матч за Скудетто
Поскольку по результатам турнира клубы «Симменталь Милан» и «Иньис Варезе» набрали одинаковое количество очков, между ними был проведён дополнительный матч за первое место.

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The University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra is a unique all-campus orchestra that is open to music majors, non-music majors, UMD faculty and staff, and members of the University of Maryland community.
The Repertoire Orchestra rehearses Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
The orchestra prides itself on a wide range of projects and collaborations based on the core classical orchestral repertoire. We welcome those with a wide range of musical experience. Please email umro@umd.edu with any questions about group membership or to find out more about the orchestra.
Students can enroll in the UMD Repertoire Orchestra as a 1-credit course, but it is not a requirement.
When: First week of fall 2017 classes, details TBA.
How to Schedule: To schedule your six-minute audition spot, email umro@umd.edu with two available time blocks (one hour each) and you will receive a reply with a confirmed time.
What to Play: Please be prepared to perform an excerpt from the standard solo repertoire on your instrument (etude, sonata or concerto). Please choose a selection that demonstrates your best playing and that has contrasting elements. You will be asked to play a short sight-reading excerpt.


AND FOR ME ALWAYS is my saying I say to myself. Carol maybe it is you who needs to be the changes which you want to see, and it begins with each of us personally doesn't it?
At 11:02am our first aspect is that Aries sun and moon challenging Saturn the planet of work, duty and structure in Capricorn. HOW can we do what is best for self and still answer our Karmic call to do what we agreed to do this incatnation?
At 4:50pm as the Moon squares and challenges Pluto, Transformation we are asked what must be torn down, destroyed within self to work for the GOOD OF THE ALL rather than just the good of the one. Pluto in Capricorn also.
7:15pm the moon moves v/c and times out as it makes a good aspect with Jupiter in Sagittarius. Jupiters message right now is BELIEVE and trust … and to me the challenge is not that we believe strongly but that we believe ONLY OUR VIEWS matter.
So, let us ask along with our world and personal wishes that today brings us all a energy of more acceptance, more tolerance, and the ability to get something done by not turning those into our enemies who believe differently than we do. TO THINE own self be true. IS our kiss for this NEW moon.
Love, blessings and abundance in all wonderful things for us all over these next 2 weeks.
Which sings to us of what could be.
when the Star appears in a Tarot reading I know good things are coming and that this is a positive message, it is a ray and beacon of inspiration, hope and the Light at the ..Well, not end of the tunnel but a light in the tunnel.
The star tells us there is a higher power assisting us, that there is a way out and not to be sad or unhappy or worry, because with faith all is possible. The Star tarot card is here to provide the strength and the clarity of purpose you need to continue on your journey.
The Star is never a card that shows the final solution to any situation or problem, it is the message to hang on, to hope and that you really are on your way. It is the card to me of inspiration, the light, the shining knowledge that though you have a way to go and some work to do you are getting there, and your idea, romance, vision, job, whatever is on its way to you.
To me this is the ALL is possible and miracle card, the pool of water in the card reminds me to listen to my guides and angels and to trust my intuition and feeling and be confident that the water will support me until you reach the other side.
nobody is coming at you and then go, right?
The moon went v/c last night at 7:15pm pdt and enters Taurus today at 6:06am pdt.
When the moon is in Taurus, things calm down and we are energetically being invited to get out in nature, to look at what we desire to build and to perhaps anchor in a bit more to opinions and views. Taurus is FIXED earth you know?
Days after new moons are always energy building so as the Moon at 9:09am pdt touches URANUS the planet of change in Taurus. THINGS get off to a big beginning.
Today You should be good to go to get started on any new projects or tasks. With any new task, making a list is a good way to get started. List all the things this new project or task will bring to you and maybe the world and use this day for achievements or at the very least to plan them.
– Stone for today You could use river rocks or whatever, but SAPPHIRE for my truth for me today and did you know INDIAN Sapphires I have are under $30? You can get Rubies and Sapphires and Emeralds for under $30 …but river rock will do if you want also and maybe even be better for you today if this fire stuff just has you wanting to GROUND, center and go back to nature .
LOTS OF GOOD aspects today 2:12am Saturn asks us to make those plans and dreams could be very powerful and helpful .
Use pearls for wisdom or abalone or a water energy today to assist you to slow down and FEEL what is going on … Feeling is a good thing. FEEL the energy and then let it pass through you and transmute the feeling if it is negative.
We are still getting a good buzz from those great aspects yesterday as 1:28am the moon moves v/c with a nice transformational aspect with Pluto.
Slow down, take care, look around, sometimes Pluto the 3rd time around figures you are not listening and thumps you on the head..
At 2:15pm pdt the moon moves to Mutable Gemini and we loosen up a bit but/and have some stubborn aspects coming tomorrow. So try today to get things done if you can and figure tomorrow and the next few days we are getting lessons served on courses in life we have not yet passed.
That moon in Gemini struggles today to get folks out of fixed attitudes and into seeing options instead of walls.
1:16am as the moon touches Mars, a rather restless energy kicks in.
9:51pm we have our next aspect, so that MARS challenging energy scatters ideas, thoughts and creates? WELL, not the greatest negotiations today.
At 9:59pm PDT as the moon challenges Venus, expect to have to compromise if you are in agreement negotiations.
9:59 pm we also have the moon (emotions and our past) Challenging Neptune (Intuition) not a good gambling night for most.
11:14pm either brilliant ideas of a confusion and fog, as Venus the planet of what we desire touches Neptune and tries to convince us that what is white is gray and what is gray is white and nothing is anything but what you desire it to be.
Color today purple for spiritual connection ….Spiritual connection to me is a sense of knowing that I DO NOT have to do it all, that there is a divine pattern and maybe I just have misplaced my glasses but it is there, whether I can see it or not..
WOW, another shifting energy with lessons to be learned.
JUPITER the planet which represents what we BELIEVE retrograde in Sagittarius the sign of our own TRUTH…and I remind you again of the theme of what or who is RIGHT? The turkey who would love Thanksgiving to be about VEGTABLES, or the people who want to sit down to a turkey dinner? SEE there can be more than one truth can't there?
But first at 1:47am the sun challenges Saturn, so that impulse to go forward faster than a speeding bullet is NOT A GREAT idea the next 2 days. THE MOON MOVES V/C and sets up to enter Cancer at 8:31pm tonight so this is a MUCH less than desirable moon v/c day.
7:43am the moon in Gemini squares or challenges Mercury and thinking is anything but linear.
WANT SOMETHING TO HAPPEN WHICH HAS NOT HAPPENED BEFORE YOU MUST DO SOMETHING you have never DONE Before.
that is inner voice, so you do have it don't you??
I believe that timing is important and use it for about everything. I never would have surgery with the moon in Cancer, Pisces or Scorpio IF I COULD CHOOSE: and believe certain days are better for business than others which is why I do the timing work with people and work so hard to get astrology calendars into everyone's hands…..
I believe also that a strong belief and KNOWING that all will go well is more powerful than astrology or anything in the world. BELIEVE and KNOW and it will happen…I have seen BAD DAYS turn out wonderfully when PEOPLE BELIEVE AND HAVE FAITH and trust and are open to KNOWING that it will be good for themselves. AND WONDERFUL days turn the opposite with the opposite point of view.
NONE OF US KNOW IT ALL DO WE?


It was a huge team effort. The project received 59 young people and 13 adult volunteer sessions worth of support. By this time the project had received 634 young people and 334 adult volunteer sessions worth of support already.
Young people leaders started to emerge in a variety of different areas for those who have worked with us time and again. For example our young film makers edited the Youtube video, a task done by Highway Productions previously. Our young conservationists showed initiative and were able to lead tasks whilst being supported by a ranger or experienced adult volunteer.


What are you hoping to accomplish as the college of arts representative?
I was previously the chair for this term and that gave me a good idea of what the students want to have, what they're aiming for and how the board representative should actually represent them regarding the in-camera meetings and public sessions. I'm having a meeting right now that includes all of the people of leadership from all of the different associations, and I want to see where they're going, and see how I can make my position work with them and go in that same direction. What I want to do is talk to a few of the leaderships and establish what common ground the students want to see, and that's going to be my platform I will take forward as I enter onto the board. I want to talk to the leadership's before I get voted into this position because I don't want to be voted in and begin working autonomously.
So far, in the year that I've been a part of SUS, I don't have anything negative to say. The past leaderships have been very selective with what they've done because, well, it hasn't been an easy year this past year. It's been very unique from what our normal leadership would have had to deal with. I would say I want to work with the student body to see if there's anything they want done differently, but in regards to the leadership, I would probably stay with the current experience, and work with their experience and apply it to my own position.
I'm personally going to sit down with the other representatives before my elected day and communicate with them and establish a common ground. In regards to a more broad communication with the entire student body, I think that I would like to have boots on the ground and be involved personally with specific events. I'm in rowing, so I want to get in touch with the athletic community and see what they want done. I want to hear from students and see what is needed from me.
Are there any specific policies or bylaws that you are wanting to change?
SUS employs an organization called CASA that acts as an advocacy group for our student body. I support renewing their contract and continuing the push toward more student assistance from our provincial government. CASA is employed by other universities province wide and they have the ability to speak on behalf of students to put continuous pressure on our provincial government to bring in more provincial grants to UFV students. I want to advocate for policy that fights for student grant funding in one of Canada's only provinces that doesn't have this kind of policy in place.
I would definitely be open to hearing feedback from any students about anything specific that they want to see done. I will bring students ideas to the board regarding my position as the college of arts representative, and I would embrace students thoughts and concerns with open arms. I'm open to communicating with any student that comes by the SUS. We can even sit down and have a cup of coffee and exchange any ideas students might have. It's important to me to have a first-hand experience with other students about my role on SUS.


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Afro-Cuban Music in Senegal
Richard Shain
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XII : Genres: Sub-Saharan Africa
...Afro-Cuban music has served as one of the foundations of numerous African popular musics. However, its impact has proved most pervasive and enduring in the West African nation of Senegal. In the 1990s some Senegalese began to call...
Liliana Gonzalez
...Danzón is a traditional Cuban genre of music and dance; since the end of the nineteenth century it has also been considered a traditional salon dance. It is recognized as Cuba's national dance, although no official documents appear to exist...
Daniel Sheehy
...Population: 549,500 (2003) On his initial expedition of Mexican conquest in 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés founded the first municipality of the Americas, Villa Rica de la Vera...
Chachachá
Liliana Casanella Cué
Grizel Hernández Baguer
...Chachachá (or cha-cha-chá) is a genre of dance music developed in Cuba in the mid-twentieth century. Its creation is often credited to a single individual – composer, violinist and orchestra director Enrique Jorrin – and although much...
Biguine
Dominique O. Cyrille
...The biguine is the most renowned dance music of French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique, three overseas departments of France located in the Caribbean. In this region, the term 'biguine' denotes an urban song of social comment and dance...
Michael Marcuzzi
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Jan Fairley
Olavo Alén Rodríguez
...Population: 2,192,321 (1998) As capital of the Republic of Cuba, La Habana (Havana) is the island's largest city and most important economic, political, social and cultural center. Founded by the Spanish on 16 November 1519...
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Mauricio Sánchez Patzy
...Music for bandas de bronce (brass bands) is found in many town squares throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, for example in Mexico, Cuba, Peru and Bolivia. Many of the bands are municipal bands, such as Mexico's Zapotec...
Mark Pedelty
...Population: 3,677,531 (2000) 'Guadalajara on a plain, México City in a lake.' That is the opening line of 'Me he de comer esta tuna,' a song made famous by Jorge Negrete (1988). Indeed, Guadalajara sits in the middle...
José Juan Olvera Gudino
...Population: 3,400,000 (2003) Monterrey is the capital city of Nuevo Leon, a state located in the northeastern part of Mexico. The city is an important commercial, financial and industrial center...


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Q: Cannot define user defined literals I was reading about user-defined literals, and I came across this snippet, but I got compiler error when I tried to use it.
int operator ""_fix(long double d)
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It says Error : Expected an operator. I am on Visual STudio 2013, which I believe has good support for C++ 11. Any ideas what is going wrong?

A: Remember that there must be a space after "" and before the suffix.
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First 'round 3' wind turbine installed in UK at Westermost Rough
The UK's first commercial 6 megawatt (MW) wind turbine has been installed at the Westermost Rough wind farm, in a new landmark for renewable energy.
The next generation machine, designed by Siemens and erected by DONG Energy, is the first of 35 at the 210MW North Sea project.
It is hoped that the 'round 3' turbines, with their greater output, will help cut costs for the offshore wind sector.
Duncan Clark, Westermost Rough programme director for Dong, said, "This is a major landmark in the construction phase of this project and its achievement is a great credit to the DONG Energy team and our supply chain partners.
"This is the first time we have installed the Siemens 6MW turbine with a 154m diameter rotor on a commercial scale following smaller demonstration projects, and it represents a step change in our ability to provide more energy output from fewer turbines."
Siemens Wind Power CEO Michael Hannibal added, "We are very proud to achieve this milestone on the way to enhancing efficiency and lowering the cost of offshore wind energy with our innovative direct drive technology."
The Westermost Rough project is 50% owned by DONG Energy, whilst the Green Investment Bank and Marubeni revealed this week they are to refinance part of their 50% shareholding. It is due to be completed in 2015.
According to the PA Consulting Group's Energy Investment Map, published in June, the UK is a top performer in attracting wind energy investment, ranking sixth out of 30 nations.
The government has, however, been criticised for proposed policies causing uncertainty amongst renewable energy investors.
Photo: Dave Laister via Twitter
Green Investment Bank refinances UK offshore wind project
Centrica backs out of giant £40m offshore wind project Celtic Array
Green Investment Bank announces major investment in UK offshore wind
Green Investment Bank to launch £1bn offshore wind fund
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Q: Rewrite and redirect this url using htaccess I would like to rewrite and redirect the following url:
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to
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I tried the following, but its not working for me.
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/display/([0-9+]) /display/([0-9])/([^/]+) [L]

Redirect 301 /display/([0-9+])/([^/]+) /([^/]+)/display/([0-9+])

A: You can do something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^display/([0-9]+)/([A-z\-]+) /$2/display/$1
Redirect 301 /display/([0-9+])/([^/]+) /([^/]+)/display/([0-9+])

And, an image as tested on htaccess tester.