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Food safety inspections
We carry out regular checks on all food premises to ensure the public is protected and that high standards are maintained. Visits to food businesses by Environmental Health Officers are carried out without prior notification. Higher risk businesses are visited more frequently than lower risk.
Food safety enforcement policy (PDF, 10 pages, 140kb)
Food Service plan (PDF, 19 pages, 225kb)
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to ensure that food is being handled and produced hygienically
to ensure that food is safe to eat
to look at the potential risk of food poisoning as a result of food contamination
to ensure that food handling staff are trained in food hygiene
to inspect the condition of the premises and equipment
to ensure there are precautions to prevent pest infestation
to ensure that staff are aware of the importance of personal hygiene
in addition to our regular inspections, we also respond to food complaints from the public
The Food Standards Agency have provided information to inform businesses of what to expect when an inspector calls - Food law inspections and your business.
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Officers have a right to enter and inspect premises at all reasonable hours, without an appointment and will usually visit without advance notice. Every attempt will be made to resolve a situation by informal means but if it is necessary to protect the public, officers will resort to formal action:
take samples, photographs and inspect records
detain or seize suspect food
serve Hygiene Improvement Notices where breaches of the law are identified
prosecute the business if the case is serious
in extreme cases, closure of the business
For more information, please submit an Enquiry Form.
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The National Food Hygiene Rating Scheme is a Food Standards Agency (FSA)/local authority partnership initiative to provide consumers with at-a-glance information about hygiene standards in food businesses found during planned inspections. The scheme will give you information about the hygiene standards in restaurants, pubs, cafes, takeaways, hotels and other places you eat out, as well as supermarkets and other food shops.
Under the scheme, each food outlet may display rating information on their door or window. Rating information is also available from the Food Standards Agency where consumers can look up a food business rating online.
Approximately 500 businesses in Ryedale have participated with the hygiene rating applied to inspections undertaken since April 2010.
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Telling consumers about hygiene standards in food outlets gives them greater choice. It also recognises those businesses with the highest standards and encourages others to improve. The overall aim is to reduce the number of cases of food poisoning which currently affects about one million people in the UK every year.
The scheme is being introduced across England, Wales and Northern Ireland so it will help residents and visitors to make informed choices about where to eat out or shop for food not just within Ryedale but also further afield. This will also help ensure that businesses are treated fairly and consistently with local competitors and with their competitors more widely.
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Most food businesses that supply food directly to the consumer are included in the scheme including restaurants, supermarkets, sandwich shops, cafes, takeaways, delicatessens, care homes, hotels and pubs.
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Some businesses are not included, for example child minders as the business information includes personal details. These people will have the opportunity to opt into the scheme. Premises selling only low risk food are also exempted, as are manufacturers who do not supply food directly to the consumer. These businesses are still included in the Council's food hygiene inspection programme even though they may not be part of the rating scheme.
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Each business is given a rating from 0 (the worst) to 5 (the best) following an inspection by a food safety officer. This is based on how well the business is meeting the requirements of food hygiene law at that time. In particular:
how hygienically the food is handled - safe food preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage
the condition of the structure of the premises - cleanliness, repair, layout, lighting, ventilation and other facilities
how food safety is managed and documented - using a system such as Safer Food, Better Business
The rating reflects the conditions found at the time of the last inspection and does not reflect the quality of food or the standards of service the business provides.
All businesses should be able to achieve the top rating of 5.
Where a business does not achieve the top rating, the food safety officer will explain to the person that owns or manages the business what improvements are needed.
We have produced a booklet which gives further information about the scheme including safeguards for food businesses.
Businesses: Good hygiene is good for your business (PDF, 8 pages, 261k).
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In order to ensure that the scheme is fair to businesses, it has been designed to include a number of safeguards. These online applications are:
appeal procedure
request a food hygiene rating scheme re-visit when improvements have been made in order to be reassessed for a new rating. Please note, a fee of £180 is payable at the time of application.
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Following an inspection it may take up to 28 days for the new rating to appear on the FSA's website. You can search for hygiene ratings for local businesses in the Ryedale area and anywhere else the scheme is being operated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Businesses are also given a window sticker and certificate showing their rating and are encouraged to display these at their premises in places where you can easily see them when you visit. Display is voluntary at the moment.
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If you have any queries about the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme more information is available from the Food Standards Agency.
Scheme disclaimer
The food hygiene rating scheme is not an endorsement of current standards but merely reflects the score awarded to a premises at the time of their inspection. Nevertheless, we try very hard to make sure the information available on these pages is correct. The food hygiene rating scheme adheres to the FSA' s brand standard.
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HRU Feedback (2022-03-13)
"Outrage" over Russell Williams' letter
The undersigned feel compelled to express our outrage at Russell Williams' recently published letter to New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania regulators, seeking their investigation into testing integrity at Jeff Gural related tracks (full story here).
All within the industry are well aware of the long standing animosity of the USTA leadership duo of Joe Faraldo and Russell Williams toward Jeff Gural. This Russell Williams letter takes that personal vendetta to a new level, endangering the very industry the USTA is charged to protect. It is maliciously inspired, poorly thought out, intellectually dishonest, and a divisive attempt to add new fractures into an already divided industry.
A few facts….
There would be no harness racing at The Meadowlands, Tioga, or Vernon without Jeff Gural's financial and political intervention to save them.
There would have been no progress in attempts in attempts to rid our industry of beards, blood doping trainers, shadowy and unregulated equine drug chemist, and unethical veterinary practices without Jeff Gural's financial and leadership support of recent undercover investigative efforts that led directly to major indictments and lengthy, deserved jail time for significant offenders.
Any hope that our industry has for follow up indictments and further rooting out of industry bad actors relies on continued undercover work and targeting born out of the fruit of the original indictments.
Drug testing, whether conducted by Jeff Gural's Hong Kong lab of choice or by labs chosen by state regulators, has consistently failed to produce significant actionable evidence with which to effectively proceed against the many obvious industry bad actors still plying their trades within the racing industry.
The Racing Commissions that the Williams' letter alludes to have not been responsible for any effective outing of significance. Their lack of effectiveness is one of the major factors underlying the creation of HISA, which, it is hoped, will better facilitate achievement of industry integrity aspirations.
Russell Williams and Joe Faraldo (USTA management) have aggressively opposed HISA, preferring to rely upon the clearly, historically inadequate state racing commission model of industry integrity management. Their opposition is based on three pillars: claims of HISA unconstitutionality, fears related to enforcement cost uncertainties, and concerns that HISA might lead to banning of Lasix. Note that their opposition on these grounds justifies, in their minds, continued reliance on state enforcement and drug testing that have proven totally ineffective in righting our ship.
Jeff Gural's private ownership rights give him extraordinary, but not unfettered, powers to run his business as he sees fit.
Williams' letter presents no supporting facts for its implied claim that Jeff Gural has engaged in selective enforcement of drug positives. Just as importantly, it neglects the fact that we, as an industry, really have no transparency with respect to possible selective enforcement on the part of state commissions or the USTA. The idea of enabling full transparency respecting all drug testing results is a good one, but it would require creation of an independent body solely authorized to ensure this transparency, and it would need to apply to state commission results no lee than to Mr. Gural's. Certainly the USTA cannot act in this neutral capacity, as evidenced by the personal and biased nature of current leadership's manner of dealing with industry matters.
The notion that Mr. Gural's handling of the Adrienne Hall matter is somehow proof of Mr. Gural's impropriety of bias is unfounded. If the New Jersey Racing Commission would ban her, then her situation would be sealed. We may not agree with Mr. Gural's belief that allowing her to race will lead others to inform, or in the wisdom of allowing an admitted doper to continue competing at his tracks, but as long as state commissions do not ban her, it is a prerogative of ownership for Mr. Gural to act as he is. Industry response may move him to change his policy, but his position is based on his belief that allowing her to continue competing will lead to more disclosures from others believing their cooperation might induce leniency. The implied favoritism suggested by Williams is out of line.
Williams' letter also exposes its hypocrisy and elitist approach in suggesting it is attempting to protect stakes owners expectations for a level playing field. The doping issue is no less pervasive and harmful in non-stakes races, which constitute the vast bulk of our races. Where is USTA concern for their effective supervision?
In closing, it is unbelievable that the USTA would specifically target Jeff Gural for selective enforcement of integrity issues when nowhere else in our industry is there any enforcement of integrity issues. Sadly, the USTA, Russell Williams, and Joe Faraldo have turned a complete blind eye to issues of integrity! Where it not for Jeff Gural's "self-appointed" regulatory efforts, we, as an industry, honest trainers, and owners would be far worse off!
Gordon Banks, George Segal, Steve Stewart,
Steve Head, Myron Bell, Marc Hanover
More thoughts on Williams and Faraldo
Several comments in regard to Paul Fontaine's response (full story here) to Russell Williams' letter stood out (full story here). The reference to Richard Bianca, who has been indicted and will likely be facing jail time, being a trainer of horses belonging to a person who has been at odds for years with Jeff Gural (whom we can safely assume is Joe Faraldo), grabbed my attention. As did Paul Fontaine's mention of Rene Allard and his recent USTA registration of a foal despite his indictment and probable jail sentence.
Williams and Faraldo (full story here) have a nerve attacking Jeff Gural at any level while they have condoned the likes of Allard and Bianca, known rule breakers. Faraldo even employed the services of Bianca, a known cheater. Their nonsensical media letters about Mr. Gural and Adrianne Hall are laughable at best. Two people who stick their necks out to clean up a dreadfully filthy industry, to do what is in the best interest of the horses and the race people that are not breaking rules at every turn or flaunting the rules and the authorities, are the recipients of ridiculous remarks from two men abusing their positions of power. Adrienne Hall did wrong and admitted her mistakes. She has more than made up for those mistakes by collaborating with the FBI to expose so many others who would likely have gotten off scot free — as they have for so many years.
Where is the ire from Faraldo and Williams along with directors and members across the county regarding the names of so many trainers/owners on the list of Fishman's clients? He sure as hell didn't have a reputation for practicing proper veterinary medicine but was well known as a supplier of illegal enhancement concoctions. I was disappointed to see so many of those well-known names but certainly not surprised. His name and reputation in the industry was like honey to the bees. And yet Williams and Faraldo jump all over Gural and Hall. Adrienne will never be able to work in racing in the same capacity as she well knows. I wish her well in her future endeavours to clean up the cesspool that racing has become. As mentioned "they eat their own". I've said for years that they 'chew them up and spit them out' and that applies to humans and horses. Faraldo and Williams need to go to be replaced by those who can put their personal animosities aside, act like adults with responsibilities to their membership, the industry and, most importantly, the horses. Their juvenile, diversionary tactics make them look like irresponsible fools.
Lynne Magee / Wingham, ON
Even more thoughts on Faraldo, Williams and Gural
After reading the published letters of Mr. Faraldo, Mr. Williams and Mr. Gural I had a sense of sadness for our sport and real concern for all of those hard working dedicated people who want and need our sport to survive and prosper. Having been involved with the breeding, raising, selling and occasionally racing this terrific breed of horses I have often wondered with such a great product to present to the public why we have all the attributes of an industry declining toward irrelevancy.
The answer may be the lack of a coordinated focused plan to rally our industry, interest and inspire outsiders and provoke curiosity about and eventual participation in the various aspects of our business. Meanwhile, our leaders engage in petty disputes that can only undermine our sports image. Without a clear charter the role of Industry leader on everything involving harness racing appears to have been assumed by default by the United States Trotting Association even though it is ostensibly a record keeping and pedigree registration organization.
Despite some suggestions in Mr. Faraldo's letter that seem to trivialize the significance of the Department of Justice prosecutions, I am confident that every responsible person in our industry agrees that cheaters in our sport harm the betting public and endanger our horses. As every knowledgeable person knows, the Department of Justice's recently filed Bill of Particulars represents a good faith statement of what the government believes they can prove and should remove among persons of good faith any doubt that the current system is a complete failure with regard to deterring cheating. Under these circumstances it is particularly concerning that the USTA and Mr. Faraldo through his recent letter have appeared to challenge the motives and impugn the integrity of Mr. Gural. Why would they choose this time to attack Mr. Gural when the validity of the Government prosecutions are being publicly confirmed by Guilty Pleas and Convictions and it is common knowledge that Mr. Gural's actions and vigilance has played an important role in getting the Department of Justice involved in helping our industry to address an potentially industry destroying problem? It sends a disturbing message to our membership and might even encourage the cheaters to assume they have friends in high places. This simultaneous attack on the sole individual who seems to be willing to take definitive action to try and save our industry while trying to undo the only federal legislation ever to attempt to solve an issue everyone agrees is prevalent further undermines the message that our industry actually cares to stop the cheaters.
In consideration of Mr. Gural's role in helping to focus the industry on the cheating he should be nominated for USTA Person of The Year or even Decade rather than the object of a public letter from the USTA asking that he, rather than the cheaters, be investigated.
Richard Alan Arnold / Rogersville, TN
Gural needs to be consistent and unbending in pursuit to clean up game
HRU reports Adrienne Hall relinquishing her NJ license (full story here), apparently thinking that doing so relieved her of responsibility to appear before a mandated hearing with the NJ racing commission.
By all accounts Ms. Hall appears to be a responsible person caught up in a hell storm with more people to fall. So I have no interest in seeing her further disparaged. Let's leave that for Jeff Gural who should have excluded her from the grounds based on her initial and pending testimony followed by an additional 60 day exclusion.
By taking no action, and actually defending her, she was put in an untenable position. What Ms. Hall is reported to have said; that is, what are they going to do when the other names surface, is more critical. Here is where Gural's hyper-inflated legacy will be tested. Gural proudly owns his efforts to clean up racing. Shows up in court to bear witness to a man sentenced to years in prison, when questions mount as to whether others are equally guilty. It must be that when the dirt hits the fan all those muddied need to be held accountable. Gural cannot on the one hand fight for racing integrity and then on the other shield known culprits from punishment. Oakes, Pena and others were dealt the Gural wrath while others have gone unpunished or protected from being publicly implicated. Gural should be front and center with the U.S. attorney's office to go full force in furthering its investigation. Don't stop with the few lives destroyed while others continue to enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gains. It is, for example, unfathomable that Gural hasn't grabbed his megaphone to push for an investigation of the driver(s) allegedly paid to not put forth a best effort (as alleged in the Fishman trial). The zeal and publicity for Gural's justice can't punish some and leave others unscathed. Mr. Gural started this pursuit. It's on him to finish it.
Vincent Lee / Chicago, IL
Does post-time drag exist?
I having been reading about the drag time for Meadowlands races and find the whole thing amusing and silly. There is no drag and there never was one. Think of the guy who turns his clock ahead a few minutes in order not to be late. He becomes conditioned to do things with his clock being ahead of time. Obviously, it's just a mental thing. Now think of the Meadowlands race time as seven minutes after the time says zero. Once one knows that's the real race time, it is no longer a drag, it's the real post time and the bettor has the conditioned response to bet accordingly. Most wait until near post time and you know post time is seven minutes after it says zero.
The experiment to go when the clock said zero had to fail. Everyone was conditioned to bet seven minutes later. It's been inbred to them. It would take a considerable time for them to become accustomed to race time being the real time and that would cost the Meadowlands a considerable amount of money waiting for the bettor to be acclimated. Once they all know that betting would go back to normal. So in the end it really makes no difference , just be consistent and the bettor will catch on.
Richard Young / Boca Raton, FL

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The Golden Horde Is Great Television
Tags: Golden Horde, Russian Khanate, Mongol Empire
This beautiful series tells the little-known story of the Russian princes attempting to throw off the Mongol yoke in Russia.
Berke Khan ruled the Golden Horde when he received word that Hulegu Khan was riding against him. The story opens as civil war broke out between him and Hulegu, the Il-khan of Persia.
Berke was the first of the Mongol Khans convert to Islam, and declared war on his cousin for riding against the Caliph of Baghdad, executing him and destroying the city of Baghdad, a center or art, commerce and culture.
The female screenwriter for the sixteen hour-long episodes wrote a very fine palace drama, not intended as straight history. The costumes and sets have won awards, the casting and acting are brilliant. The screenwriter has imagined the love lives and the power plays of the main characters. Great viewing for a binge. Streaming on Amazon Prime.
Before Berke Khan, there was Batu Khan, who founded the Russian Khanate. For this story, how the Mongol Army brought Kievan Russia under its yoke for two centuries, you need my new book Batu, Khan of the Golden Horde: The Mongol Khans Conquer Russia.
The story has been lost to the West for seven centuries. It is available from Amazon and other booksellers, and on this website. My story is the prequel to the events in the series, two generations before, in the generation of the conquest.


It is truly unfortunate that William D. Wallick will have the shortest biography of all the Wallick soldiers. He only served two months before passing away February 26, 1862 in an army hospital at Cumberland, Maryland. It also appears that he was the youngest Wallick to have ever served in the Union Army. Conflicting records indicate that he could have been as young as sixteen but certainly no more than seventeen years old when he signed his enlistment papers. The National Archives state his age as eighteen years old but considering all the other genealogical evidence, that seems unlikely. William joined the army the day after Christmas, 1861, following cousin Henry M. Wallick into the 67th Ohio Infantry (he was actually a first cousin, once removed). Henry was five or six years older than his young cousin and a 2nd Lieutenant in the new company of soldiers from Holmes County. Perhaps this influenced the family's decision to let William enlist. The two families could draw comfort from the fact that their sons would be serving together in the same company and could look after each other. The irony is that neither William nor Henry would survive the war.
Charles Wallick, William's older brother by three years, had enlisted in the 16th Ohio Infantry in September, 1861. It must have pained young William very much to watch his older brother shoulder arms and parade off into military glory while he had to stay home and clean out the barn. Though underage, he was determined to not miss this opportunity of a lifetime. Stretching one's age was done quite often by new recruits and it appears this is exactly what William did.
Many new recruits, such as William, came from isolated rural farming communities and they had little exposure to what we now consider "childhood diseases" like measles, mumps, chicken pox, etc. This made them very susceptible to sickness in general. The miracle drug aspirin was years away from development so the simplest fever was a serious threat. The real life-threatening danger to a Civil War soldier (by a margin of two-to-one) was camp life, not the battlefield . Whereas approximately 200,000 men died in combat during the war, 400,000 were laid waste by disease. Unfortunately, William was one of them.
The Official Roster of Soldiers from the State of Ohio in The War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Roll of Honor, lists William D. Wallick as buried in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland. Obviously, he did not fight in the September, 1862 Battle of Antietam, for he died nine months before that engagement ever began. But the soldiers who were killed at that battle are not the only ones buried in the national cemetery. Many other soldiers who died and were buried in the surrounding countryside were moved to Antietam after the war.
Identification was a real problem during the American Civil War and Antietam has numerous soldiers buried as "Unknown". A total of 4,776 soldiers are interred at Antietam National Cemetery; one-third of them are unidentified. Dog tags were not used by either side during the war. When fierce battles were anticipated, soldiers often wrote their names on pieces of paper and pinned them to their clothing so they could be identified if they were killed.
When there was a major battle with many casualties, the army didn't have time to collect all the dead and transport them to national cemeteries. The fallen were often buried on the battlefield to be re-interred later in the national cemeteries. The same was true with those who died in hospitals when relatives were unable to claim the bodies. William D. Wallick appears to be just such a case in point.
Some soldiers who died at Cumberland hospital were later moved to Antietam National Cemetery. All indications are that William was one of those moved. But if William was buried at Antietam National Cemetery, why is he not identified in the interment records? The obvious answer is that his identification must have been lost when he was first buried or when his body was later moved. Grave markers at hospital cemeteries were not intended to be permanent and one can imagine the problems of transporting hundreds of bodies across many miles to be re-interred. Burial details in Civil War armies were known to be careless and haphazard in their duty, especially after a battle when quick internment was a priority. The labor provided for this gruesome work was not always done by military personnel, but also by hired civilians or ex-slaves. The opportunity for losing a soldier's identity was great. Although the mammoth twelve-volume Official Roster of Soldiers from the State of Ohio is far from perfect in all its documentation, for lack of any other evidence this author accepts, as fact, that William D. Wallick is buried in Antietam National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Maryland, as an unknown.
DEC 26 William enlists as a very young private, the day after Christmas, 1861. He joins 2nd Lieutenant Henry M. Wallick (who enlisted November, 19th) in Company C of the 67th Ohio Infantry.
JAN 2 The 67th Ohio Infantry is mustered into Federal service at Camp Chase, Columbus, OH.
JAN 19 The 67th Ohio leaves for West Virginia.
FEB William becomes ill with measles and is taken to a hospital at Cumberland, MD.
FEB 26 William D. Wallick dies of measles in a Cumberland hospital and is interred in the hospital cemetery. He is eventually re-interred as an unknown at Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg MD .
Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Antietam is like many other Civil War cemeteries where unknown soldiers are scattered among those who have known identities. The picture below illustrates the difference between the two types of memorials. One can immediately identify original Civil War unknown markers for they are only small squares with the soldier's number on top. The word, Unknown, does not appear anywhere on the stone.
marker at Antietam National Cemetery would be similar.
William D. Wallick is buried with 4,775 other soldiers in Antietam National Cemetery.
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Next-gen solution 'Oryxbox' showcased at ISNR Abu Dhabi
The Oryxbox is a plug-and-play aluminium solar trailer that consists of ultra-high performance solar panels, built for quick deployment and storage by one person
Al Masaood Power and Sunstream International officials at the event
A Masaood Power Division, a pioneer in power solutions, showcased Sunstream International's next-generation plug-and-play solar solution, Oryxbox, at the International Exhibition for National Security and Resilience (ISNR Abu Dhabi).
Oryxbox is a sustainable containerised and movable solar panel solution, which can be used in the agriculture, oil & gas, mining, and construction sectors.
Leading national and international companies gathered for the three-day exhibition, which was held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec), to boost business opportunities, enhance industry leadership and showcase innovative solutions.
During the event, Al Masaood Power, a part of the Al Masaood Group – one of Abu Dhabi's leading business conglomerates, highlighted the significance of innovations such as Oryxbox as an important solution, aimed at accelerating the shift towards sustainable energy sources.
Al Masaood Power Division signed a distribution pact with Sunstream International earlier this year to lead the future of solar panel solutions in the GCC region.
Rasso Bartenschlager, GM, Al Masaood Power Division said: "With a massive flood of investment in renewables, especially the solar energy industry, the Middle East is at the forefront of the world's energy transformation. And we as a leading power solutions provider are aware of our role in helping the GCC countries move to more sustainable economies by facilitating their transition to renewable energy sources."
Frederic Bouvet-Haas, CEO, Sunstream International, said: "Our collaboration with Al Masaood Power Division is consistent with our shared objective to ease the transition to clean and renewable energy sources in GCC region. Our most recent invention, the Oryxbox, is a movable, modular plug-and-play solar system that has minimal environmental impact and doesn't require cement or concrete."
The Oryxbox, which was entirely developed and produced in Germany, is the next-generation aluminum solar trailer that consists of ultra-high performance solar panels, built for quick deployment and storage by one person. Due to the trailer's own Lithium-Ion battery system, there is always electricity available even at night or when the sun is hidden by clouds.
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Arnaud Delorme, PhD: Consciousness researcher
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a member faculty at the University of California, San Diego, and a research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. In 2000, Dr. Delorme completed his PhD thesis on visual categorization in humans, monkeys, and machines. Dr. Delorme then moved to the Salk Institute for a post-doc in Terry Sejnowski and Francis Crick's laboratory where he focused on statistical analysis of electro-encephalographic (EEG) signal recorded during various cognitive tasks. He developed the free EEGLAB software for advanced analysis of EEG signals in collaboration with Scott Makeig, software which is now amongst the most used in EEG research worldwide. He was awarded a Brettencourt-Schueller young investigator award and a 10-year anniversary ANT young investigator award for his contributions to the field of EEG research.
Dr. Delorme has a keen interest in the scientific study of consciousness and spirituality. He is a long-term Zen meditator, and has taught in India on the neural correlates of conscious experience in a Master's degree program for the Birla Institute of Technology. Starting in 2002, he started to look at brain dynamical changes underlying extra-ordinary states of consciousness, including meditation, psycho-active agents, and mediumship. He is also investigating the means by which technology, in particular multi-channel neurofeedback, could be used to assist meditation practice.
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1. Penzar B. et al. (1986): Geophysical Institute in Zagreb and the Grič meteorological observatory from 1861 to 1986. Geofizika, 3 (Supplement), 3-134 (in Croatian with Summary in English).
1. This special issue of "Geofizika" marks the 125th anniversary of the Zagreb - Grič meteorological observatory, which was officially named the Geophysical Institute in 1921, after its activities had become widely spread. For about 80 years the Geophysical Institute has been the only institution maintaining its interest in geophysics in Croatia; it has also existed as an autonomous educational facility within the Faculty of Science for the last 40 years, producing generations of trained geophysicians and so covering the needs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia and partly meeting the occupational demands of the whole country.
2. To trace the origins of the Geophysical Institute one should go back to the meteorological station founded in Zagreb on 1st December 1861 as a part of a secondary-school physical laboratory. In the directorship of Ivan Stožir, the physics teacher, the meteorological station developed from 1861 to 1891 into a meteorological observatory with its own publications and with the first seismograph. Within the next 30 years (1892-1921), under Dr Andrija Mohorovičić, a number of significant changes occurred: the observatory turned into an independent institution responsible for the network of meteorological stations in North Croatia; besides the meteorological observatory, a seismological observatory was founded; public time service was updated; geomagnetic measurements of North Croatia were accomplished. The third long-time Head of the Institute was Dr Stjepan Škreb, in whose time the highest standards in meteorological measurements and their processing were set. The Institute attracted a considerable number of research workers whose activities also included physical oceanography. With the Hydrometeorological Service established in 1947, the only meteorological measurements still done by the Geophysical Institute were those on the Grič observatory. In 1951 the Geophysical Institute was amalgamated to the Faculty of Science. After that, the Institute was respectively run by the professors Josip Goldberg, Branko Maksić, Berislav Makjanić and Dragutin Skoko. They all contributed to the booming of geophysics as an academic subject: more prominence was given to seismology, and the Institute outgrew its old building and moved into its new head- quarters on Horvatovac in 1982, with the exception of the meteorological observatory which still remains on Grič.
3. The Faculty of Science was founded in June 1946 with geophysics established as an autonomous academic subject named Geophysics with Meteorology and lectured at the Department of Mathematics and Physics. The present organization of the undergraduate studies stimulates the development of various geophysical disciplines. The first two years of the curriculum consist of courses in mathematics and physics; the third year is devoted to the acquisition of basic knowledge in physics of the atmosphere, the sea and the Earth's interior. In the final, fourth year students may pursue their training either towards meteorology or seismology and physics of the Earth's interior. By the end of 1985, the number of graduates in physics majoring in Geophysics with Meteorology amounted to 182. Well qualified to pursue their academic career, these graduates either start a post- graduate study and conduct scientific research or find the daily routine of their jobs as meteorologists, seismologists or physical oceanographers easy to follow. The Geophysical Institute also takes over the organization of the postgraduate course in physics - geophysics at the Faculty of Science. For their future academic vocation, prospective students are free to choose among physics of the atmosphere (started in the academic year 1960-61), physics of the sea (from 1969-70) or physics of the Earth's interior (from l972-73) Fifteen candidates earned the doctoral degree in physics under the supervision of the Geophysical Institute staff.
4. The scientific work in meteorology primarily comprised the climatic characteristics of the Zagreb area; it was also extended to Croatia, covering the entire region from the Adriatic coast to the Pannonian valley. These works mirrored the general trends in the world climatology, embracing formal researches in periodicity of meteorological time series, climatic factors as defined by Hann, and dynamic climatology which approaches the phenomenon of climate through geographic factors and the general atmospheric circulation. Among many of the Institute's staff devoted to research into climate, Goldberg deserves to be specially mentioned. Solar radiation energy in Yugoslavia, outside and within the atmosphere, as well as at the ground, comprises the second academic field of interest. Applied research into heliotechnics, agriculture, medical meteorology and ecology was carried out. General subjects were covered primarily by Škreb's works published in "Meteorologische Zeitschrift" between the two world wars. These works clarified some notions related to meteorological observations and to the application of some statistical methods to climatology. Besides, Makjanić's models of air flow over mountains are worth mentioning.
'Mohorovičić gave a major scientific contribution to seismology by proving the existence of a discontinuity surface, i.e. the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle. He proved that by studying seismic waves, one could get to know more about the Earth's layer-like structure. He also showed that near and distant earthquakes can be studied separately, and theoretically anticipated the seismogram of deep focal earthquakes. Moreover, Mohorovičić devised the general travel time curves for the Pn and Sn, waves, which were later to be used by Macelwane, Gutenberg and Richter as the basis for their travel - time curves of all the waves spreading through the Earth's interior. Josip Mokrović devised the travel-time curves for the Zagreb area including all the phases of body seismic waves for earthquakes of normal depths; they are used in the analysis of the Zagreb seismograms. Furthermore, a number of methods for locating epicentres, i.e. for determining the basic kinematic parameters of earthquakes, have been developed since Mohorovičić. Papers dealing with the optimum distribution of seismological stations according to the Monte Carlo method are referred to in the international seismological literature. Makjanić's works, inspired by the theory of extremes, contribute to the statistical analysis of earthquakes. In his works particular importance is given to the pro position of the general exponential distribution of intensity or magnitudes of earthquakes, which makes the well-known Gutenberg-Richter's relation a special case. Studies in seismicity, seismotectonic processes and seismic zoning of Croatia and Yugoslavia were developed. Works dealing with analytical definitions of the estimation models of the possible maximum earthquake magnitude based on the given geologic and neotectonic parameters are also worth mentioning. Finally, let us mention the theoretical and empirical research in Love's and Rayleigh's surface waves of earthquakes.
The research in marine physics was primarily concentrated on the Adriatic Sea, particularly its mean sea level, seiches, tides, response to the atmospheric forcing, and, recently, winds driven currents. Goldberg's variant of the method of residue in the research of seiches was internationally recognized, as was the study of the Adriatic Sea seiches by Marijan Kasumović.
Presenting the mathematical solution to the problem of three or more bodies, Radovan Vernić gave a major scientific contribution to astronomy.
The spatial division of the elements of the Earth's magnetism resulted from geomagnetic research in Croatia; temporal changes were followed and the spatial anomalies of declination were explained. In addition, few papers dealing with atmospheric electricity, gravity and the shape of the Earth were published.
5. Besides scientific papers and university textbooks, the Institute members produced a bulk of various technical, popular, historical or occasional publications.
6. The collaboration of the Geophysical Institute with institutions abroad is carried out through the exchange of publications and the regular exchange of meteorological, seismological and tide-gauge data. Furthermore, its staff participates in international geophysical meetings and derives benefit from research scholarships. They also actively participate in international research commissions and in international scientific research projects.
7. The Institute encourages the collaboration with Yugoslav scientific institutions.
8. Providing scientific support to Yugoslav economy, the Geophysical Institute has conducted numerous geophysical expertises, most often dealing with construction problems in seismically active areas.
9. Many of the Geophysical Institute staff was teachers of mathematics and physics. Some of them were authors of secondary-school physics and astronomy textbooks, and published articles in popular science magazines for secondary-school teachers and pupils.
10. Seven of the Geophysical Institute staff was elected to the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences, which should be considered as recognition of their scientific work.
11. Having made various contributions to science, some of the Institute members received public recognitions. Named after its founder, the boundary between the Earth's crust and mantle is called the Mohorovičić discontinuity, and the analytical expression of the velocity increase of the seismic wave "with the depth is called Mohorovičić's law. In 1970, the General Assembly of the International Astronomic Society paid tribute to Mohorovičić by calling one of the Moon's craters by his name.


This thread is for live updates and comments regarding the Rolling Stones Glastonbury Saturday 29-June-2013 show. Please tell us your pre- and post-show thoughts and comments here.
9:30pm UK time, i.e. 22:30 Central European Time, 4:30pm EST (USA East Coast), 1:30pm PST (USA West Coast), lasting for approx 2 hours 15 minutes.
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How should they be introduced Sat night?
Re: How should they be introduced Sat night?
"Everything seems to be ready...is everybody ready/"
"Ladies and gentlemen, as your mum and dad have told you repeatedly...the greatest rock n roll band in the world" perfect.
thing is, the Stones don't like the GRRB thing and haven't been introduced that way since 69. more likely, they'll do the same thing they always do.
It should be like Andy Kershaw introducing Johnny Cash at Glastonbury 1994.
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, PLEASE GIVE A BIG WELCOME TO THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD, THE ROLLING STONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ladies & Gentlemen.....turn up your hearing aids and hold on to your hairhats!
I dont think they put up much of an objection and havent exactly been the most modest bunch ever since, in fairness.
However, the grandkids are in for a bit of a jaw-dropping surprise this weekend.
"Ladies and gentleman, would you welcome please, The Rooollliiinnng Stones!!"
They should not be introduced.
But then the kiddies won't know who's up on stage.
Mick is rushing out a split second later, we are on!
"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones!"
No hype: Let the music supply all appropriate superlatives.
I don't give a damn how they are introduced. I just hope they don't embarrass themselves. And us!
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No introductions on a festival stage. Their music is their introduction.
They ought to leave that idiotic film away.
I think it´s accurate to ask, for Jagger made it clear he wants a total bang for the start. "Strat Me Up" or "Brown Sugar" maybe?
And what effect will it have on the ongoing setlist?
Re: What´s the opener tonight?
Probably Get Off of My Cloud, same as at every show since 11/29/12.


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Titanic Distillers unveils new Irish vodka distilled using the finest hand-picked Irish sugar beet
The Belfast-based Titanic Distillers is expanding its spirits portfolio with the introduction of Titanic Distillers Premium Irish Vodka.
Last year was a huge one for Titanic Distillers with the launch of its Premium Irish Whiskey blend and the approval of plans to convert the historic Titanic Pump-House into a new distillery and world class tourist attraction.
In an innovative twist, instead of being a traditional potato or grain-based spirit, the new vodka is distilled using the finest hand-picked Irish sugar beet from Co Wexford and Co Antrim, and cut with pure local spring water from Co Down.
"Vodka is the fastest growing spirit category on the island of Ireland," explained Titanic Distillers director Stephen Symington, "so we had a look and saw a gap in the market for a premium Irish vodka – created on the island using local ingredients
"It was imperative that we put our own Titanic Distillers stamp on it, as we did with our whiskey, so we decided to distil it in our own way, slowly and with Irish sugar beet. Taking only the best part of the spirit, we cut it with pure local spring water and left it unfiltered to let its raw, distinctive character shine through," he added.
"The result is Titanic Distillers Premium Irish Vodka, a strong, honest brand that is clean and smooth, with a crisp brightness and a sweetness, which can be enjoyed neat, in a cocktail or with your favourite mixer," concluded Stephen.
Titanic Distillers Premium Irish Vodka, available in a 70cl bottle (40% ABV), will be launched exclusively in the On-Trade, to be followed with an Off-Trade launch later in the year.
Future Distillery Plans
Founded by Belfast businessmen Peter Lavery, Sean Lavery, Richard Irwin and Stephen Symington, Titanic Distillers is based at the Titanic Pump-House, a listed building that was first opened in 1911.
The neighbouring dry dock was built to accommodate the massive White Star transatlantic liners Olympic and Titanic, and remains a scheduled monument – within walking distance of Titanic Belfast, the world's biggest Titanic exhibition centre and Northern Ireland's number one tourist attraction.
Work is now underway to convert the Titanic Pump-House into a working distillery and authentic world class tourist attraction with more details and news on a potential opening date expected to be announced soon.
Keep up with the latest Distillery news and shop online at https://www.titanicdistillers.com/
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California To Drive Small Gas Stations Out Of Business.
Mandate could force gas stations out of business – Pasadena Star-News
ARCADIA – Dozens, and potentially hundreds, of gas stations around California are choosing to shut down rather than comply with a state mandate that would require owners to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump.
The requirement, known as Phase II in the state's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program, is set to go into effect in April. It requires gas station owners to individually purchase tens of thousands of dollars of equipment designed to prevent harmful vapors from escaping into the air when gasoline is pumped.
But smaller retailers say that the requirement puts an unfair burden on businesses that don't sell enough gasoline to offset the extra cost – and that don't contribute much to the problem in the first place.
George Fasching, owner of Fasching's Car Wash in Arcadia. (Mike Mullen / Correspondent)first place.
Among them is George Fasching, who after 31 years of selling gasoline at Fasching's Car Wash in Arcadia, stopped in December.
"I came to the decision that I was too small a volume operator to continue on with the expenses imposed by the bureaucracy of the state," Fasching said.
So if you look at who will benefit by this law, you will find that it is the big oil companies.
The big guys can afford to install the equipment and the little guys can't.
That's California, lip service to small business and back scratches for Big Business.
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I was driving when my car broke down, and this nice guy pulled off to the side of the road and helped me push my car a block into a parking lot so that I could await a tow truck. Thanks, stranger.
Yah this one made me smile!! I am going to be trying this one myself sometime.
My sister-in-law made sliders for us to eat during the NCAA final game. It was so fun to come home to dinner already made!
An adorable computer technician, without fuss or fee, fixed my hacked computer! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MEANT TO ME???? It made me feel extremely grateful to rub shoulders with such a good person! It also motivated me to pay this act of kindness forward which I will soon do!!
Mow someone's lawn, when they are away.
UncleEli had a kindness Played Forward.


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This slow method of cooking salmon produces a fish that is very evenly cooked and still moist throughout. The rich sauce with hints of tarragon, lemon and beer adds to the flavour of the whole dish. Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans.
Preheat oven to 225°F (100°C).
Season salmon with salt and pepper and place in an ovenproof baking dish.
Combine beer, tarragon, lemon juice, onion, peppercorns and olive oil in a pot. Bring to boil and reduce by half. Pour over salmon.
Bake for 20 minutes, basting once, or until salmon is cooked but still slightly pink in centre.
Place salmon on serving plate. Pour basting liquid into pot on high heat. Reduce until about 1/4 cup (50 mL) remains. Pour in cream, bring to boil and boil until thickened, about 2 minutes. Drizzle over salmon before serving. Garnish with parsley.


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News Good News Upside-down rhinos and icky chewing gum win Ig Nobel awards
9:23am, Sep 10, 2021 Updated: 12:34pm, Sep 10
Upside-down rhinos and icky chewing gum win Ig Nobel awards
The 2019 Ig Nobel trophy – the awards ceremony has been online for the past two years. Photo: AAP
9:23am, Sep 10
It's safer to transport a rhinoceros upside-down, and beards may be an evolutionary development to help protect men's faces from punches, according to scientific studies that won this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
An annual honour for unusual accomplishments in science and the humanities that aim to make you laugh and then think, the Ig Nobels are presented by Nobel laureates and are usually held at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre.
This is the second year the spoof awards have been issued online due to the pandemic.
See all the awards and watch the ceremony here
This year, each winner was given a paper trophy to assemble themselves and a counterfeit Zimbabwean $10 trillion note, in line with the light-hearted nature of the satirical prize.
"The thing I love about wildlife veterinarians is you guys have to really think on your feet and think outside the box," said Robin Radcliffe, one of the authors of the African study that concluded rhinoceroses are more safely transported on their backs.
"You have to be a genius and creative and sometimes even a little bit crazy to move rhinos this way."
The findings that people might have started growing beards to help cushion the impact of blows was accorded the peace prize. Chewing gum, orgasms and cats' meows were some of the other topics of research awarded Ig Nobels.
Susanne Schotz from Sweden won the biology prize for analysing variations in "purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat-human communication" and even demonstrated some of the noises she had studied.
The ecology prize was given to a group of scientists studying bacteria in wads of chewing gum discarded on footpaths all over the world, and the medicine prize was awarded to research that demonstrated orgasms can be as effective as medication in clearing congested noses.
A team of US Navy researchers won for figuring out a cheaper and more effective way to control cockroaches on submarines. Their 1971 study found using the pesticide dichlorvos was less expensive and more effective than traditional methods.
Marc Abrahams, master of ceremonies and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, which produces the event, had the last word after the show.
"If you didn't win an Ig Nobel prize this year, and especially if you did, better luck next year," he said on Thursday.
Ig Nobel
Search for missing nine-year-old enters fifth day
Former royal guard claims Prince Andrew dated sex-trafficker Maxwell
Barnaby Joyce pops the question to partner Vikki Campion
Overjoyed family hails son's 'miracle' survival
Anne Frank betrayer named in cold case investigation


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About BCID
Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Inc. (BCID) is a non-profit, grass roots organization operated by a majority of people with disabilities for people with disabilities since 1956.
BCID is dedicated to guaranteeing the civil rights of people with disabilities. We exist to to improve the quality of life of Brooklyn residents with disabilities through programs that empower them to gain greater control of their lives and achieve full and equal integration into society. We accomplish this through our services, our advocacy for systems change to remove physical, attitudinal and communication barriers to people with disabilities, and through our education and awareness programs.
Based on a self-help model, our primary services include: disability rights advocacy; peer support; resource information and referral; housing advocacy; independent living skills consultation; government benefits information and advocacy; youth services; as well as information on the civil rights and responsibilities of people with disabilities. Many of our staff members, board members and volunteers have disabilities themselves and, so, are viable role models for other people with disabilites.
As a member of the National Council on Independent Living and the Independent Living Network of New York (ILNNY), BCID is able to advocate on many levels for people with disabilities. Our stature in the disability community, combined with our programs and services designed to educate and empower people with disabilities, places BCID in a unique position to enable people with disabilities to achieve and affirm their independence.
BCID's board
Heidi Hirschfeld, Board President: When Heidi Hirschfeld developed a disease that temporarily meant she had to use a wheelchair, she began to "get a better understanding of disability." As a Brooklyn native, she was then drawn to BCID's long history of advocacy and other work in the borough, joining the board in 2013. She has been an assistant professor at St. John's University, a software developer for Accenture, and a senior programmer/analyst for Hertz Corp.
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Carole Rose, Recording Secretary
Sharon Shapiro, Member: A Brooklyn native and a life-long disability advocate, Sharon Shapiro served as BCID's Executive Director from 1996 to 2001. Her advocacy accomplishments include improving Access-A-Ride by initiating a 1999 lawsuit against the MTA, getting the Disability Rent Increase Exemption enacted, and bringing accessible voting machines to New York State. She now serves as executive director of Yad HaChazakah—The Jewish Disability Empowerment Center. Sharon joined the board in 2010.
Warren Shaw, Member: Warren Shaw, an attorney, also is an historian of the New York City disability rights movement. His parents, Mollie and Julie Shaw, were among the movement's founders. In 2015, in partnership with the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, Warren curated "Gaining Access," the first-ever museum exhibit on the New York City disability rights movement. Warren joined the board in 2010.
Marvin Wasserman, Member: A Brooklyn native, Marvin Wasserman served as BCID's Executive Director from 2008 to 2012. He has spent 40 years advocating for disability rights, including working for accessible taxis as a leader in the Taxis for All Campaign; more accessible subways; and emergency preparedness. Marvin first joined the board in 2007, then returned to the board in 2012.
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NWA Boutique Show — 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 16 & 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 17, Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale. $5. nwaboutiqueshow.com.
Gallery Conversation — With JBU professor and Indigenous printmaker Bobby Martin, 1 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. Free. 657-2335.
Christmas in the City — A "shopping extravaganza," 3-8 p.m. Nov. 16 & 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Nov. 17, Fayetteville Town Center. Free. Email tashajake18@yahoo.com.
Lights of the Ozarks — Lighting ceremony and parade, 6 p.m., Fayetteville square. Free. experiencefayetteville.com.
"Mamma Mia" — The jukebox musical featuring the songs of Abba, presented by Pilot Arts, 7 p.m. Nov. 16; 2 & 7 p.m. Nov. 17; 2 p.m. Nov. 18, Arkansas Air & Military Museum in Fayetteville. $12-$30. pilotarts.org.
"Talking With" — A collection of monologues about the lives of women, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-17, Ozark Mountain Smokehouse in Fayetteville. Free; donations accepted. smokehouseplayers@gmail.com.
Hello Sunshine — X Together Live, a touring collection of stories, songs and laughter, 8 p.m., Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. $25-$43. 443-5600.
"A Confederate Widow in Hell" — A new script by Willi Carlisle and Joseph Fletcher, 8 p.m. Nov. 16-17, Fenix Fayetteville, 16 W. Center St. $15. breakfixer.com.
Shiloh Saturday — Make a holiday ornament, 10-11 a.m., Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. Free for all ages. 750-8165.
Super Saturday — Wild Animals with the Natural History Educational Company of the Midsouth, 10:30 a.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Wool and Wheel Handspinners Guild — 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Ozark FolkWays in Winslow. Free. 634-3791.
Tailgate Party — For the grand opening of Hounds Lounge, 11 a.m., 2407 N. College Ave. in Fayetteville. With football, doggie photo shoots, giveaways & more. 444-8286.
Native American Astronomy — With Caitlin Ahrens and the Museum of Native American History, 12:30 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Li'l Miss Coder — A locally founded organization for girls who want to contribute to technology by learning to code, 1 p.m., Bentonville Public Library. Free for teens and tweens. 271-6816.
Nature Photography — With Tim Ernst presenting a slide program titled "Arkansas: Ten Years of Wilderness Photography," 2 p.m., Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in downtown Springdale. Free. 750-8165 or shilohmuseum.org.
Lighting of the Square — 6 p.m., downtown Bentonville. Free. visitbentonville.com.
Mission Temple Fireworks Revival — Featuring Paul Thorn, Blind Boys of Alabama & McCrary Sisters, 8 p.m., Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. $29-$49. 443-5600.
"Mamma Mia" — The jukebox musical featuring the songs of Abba, presented by Pilot Arts, 2 p.m. Nov. 18, Arkansas Air & Military Museum in Fayetteville. $12-$30. pilotarts.org.
Meet the Artists — A holiday showcase with art, wine, music and a chance to make art, 1-4 p.m., Terra Studios east of Fayetteville. Free. Email create@terrastudios.com.
Drop-In Artmaking — This weekend, patrons will be looking at Nari Ward's "We the People" in the Early American Art Gallery, then drop by Estes Studio to contribute to the community self-portrait mural, 1-4 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. Free. 657-2335.
Figure Drawing — Practice the basics, 1-3 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum. $10. 657-2335.
School's Out Movie — "Teen Titans Go! To the Movies," 2 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Campus Lighting Ceremony — 5:30 p.m., Campus Green at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. Free. 788-7300.
Yoga at FPL — 6 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Teen DIY — Tiny Pots, 6 p.m., Rogers Public Library. For ages 10-18. 621-1152.
Family Story Time — 6:30 p.m., Rogers Public Library. For children to age 12 and their families. 621-1152.
Books on Tap — 7 p.m., Springdale Public Library. For adults. 750-8180.
UAFS Jazz Band — 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20, ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center in the Fort Smith Convention Center. 788-7300.
School's Out Movie — "Wreck-It Ralph," 2 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Teen Movie Night — "Solo," 4:30 p.m., Springdale Public Library. Free. For teens. 750-8180.
Colorin, Colorado — Spanish story time for families, 6:30 p.m., Rogers Public Library. 621-1152.
UAFS Jazz Band — 7:30 p.m., ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center in the Fort Smith Convention Center. 788-7300.
School's Out Movie — "Christopher Robin," 2 p.m., Fayetteville Public Library. Free. faylib.org.
Wednesday Over Water — "Art For a New Understanding" with Case Dighero, 6 p.m., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. $50. 657-2335.


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Officials: G-20 to supplant G-8 as international economic council
Posted byadmin September 25, 2009
Leaders of the G-20 economic summit will announce Friday that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation, senior U.S. officials told CNN Thursday.
The move comes in the wake of a major push by President Obama, the officials said. The G-20 will now essentially eclipse the G-8, which will continue to meet on major security issues but carry much less influence. "It's a reflection of the world economy today and the players that make it up," said one senior official. Nations like China, Brazil and India — which were locked out of the more elite G-8 — will be part of the larger group. The Group of 20 — leaders of 20 countries representing 90 percent of the world's economic output — are meeting in Pittsburgh for a two-day summit, focusing on the financial crisis and how to avoid a future repeat. The gathering is Obama's first time hosting a major international summit. "We're meeting at a time where, for the first time since London, certainly for the first time in a year, we're seeing the first signs of optimism about prospects for global recovery," U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told reporters Thursday. "I think the broad consensus of private economists and businesses are that we're beginning to see growth in the United States, and around the world we see exports rising and forecasts for growth are being revised upwards." "This is encouraging," he said, "but we have a ways to go." He said the leaders are "going to keep working to sustain the progress we've seen. And I can say with confidence, based on my discussions with finance ministers and central bank governors from around the world, there is a common, shared commitment to make sure we're working together to sustain these early signs of recovery and growth." One of the key goals is preventing such a crisis from occurring in the future, he said. "In the run-up to this crisis, many of the world's largest economies depended on the American consumer to buy their exports to drive growth, and we made it easy; for too long, Americans were buying too much and saving too little," Geithner said. "And that's no longer an option for us or for the rest of the world. And already in the United States you can see the first signs of an important transformation here as Americans save more and as we borrow substantially less from the rest of the world." "I think we all recognize that we need to act before the memory of the crisis fades and before the impetus for reform recedes," he said. "And we're trying to bring greater urgency and commitment to the need to act together." The tightening of global financial regulations was expected to top the summit's agenda and comes as some major economies are beginning to recover. Germany, France and Japan have announced that they have emerged from recession, prompting hopes that the worst of the financial crisis may have passed. G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed at a meeting this month not to start cutting back just yet on stimulus efforts. They fear it would put economies at risk for plunging back into recession. However, the economic outlook has improved enough that countries are being encouraged to start working on exit strategies, which will vary by nation. The economic summit marks the third time in a year that the world's top industrial powers have gathered. They met in November in Washington and followed up with an April session in London. A number of protesters gathered in the area, tracked by police. At one point, riot police used pepper spray or tear gas on the protesters. CNN's Brian Todd was one of the people affected by the spray or gas. "It really drove the protesters back," Todd said. "It drove us back. It burned our eyes. It really burned our throats for a while. It got pretty dicey there." Watch Todd's report After that, Todd said, the protesters dispersed somewhat, but police were keeping an eye on the remaining protesters. iReport.com: Pittsburgh braces for protests
Among the protesters was a group of several hundred wearing T-shirts reading, "G20: Free Tibet Before Free Trade." The crowd marched about eight blocks before police blocked their path. Officers allowed the protesters to chant in the street for more than an hour before they walked away. There were no arrests. Others chanted pro-marijuana slogans behind the riot police, and another group took up the stadium chant of "Let's go Steelers."
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The Trouble with Conspiracy Theories
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Samuel Johnson once heatedly remarked to a man he was conversing with in a coffeehouse, "I can give you an argument, but I cannot give you an understanding." There is no evidence that the great sage made this comment to a conspiracy theorist, but I have often been tempted to repeat it when I am talking to one, especially after I have exhausted every argument I can think of to show the conspiracy theorist the error of his ways.
Today I would like to offer Johnson's remark as a word of caution to anyone who has encountered the various conspiracy theories that have cropped up in the wake of the Newtown tragedy. Of these there have been several, but I would like to focus on the theory put forth by James Tracy, a media professor at Florida Atlantic University, who on his website Memory Hole has argued that the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, did not really happen.
Normally when you hear this kind of thing, you are tempted to argue with the assertion, to adduce evidence to show Tracy, for example, that he is wrong. But if you yield to this temptation, you will quickly find yourself at the same point to which Samuel Johnson was driven. For no matter how many arguments you may give him, you cannot give the conspiracy theorist even an ounce of understanding.
The first obstacle you will encounter in your effort to refute the conspiracy theorist is his maddening habit of sly equivocation. Here's an example of what I mean: "While it sounds like an outrageous claim," Tracy writes on his website, "one is left to inquire whether the Sandy Hook shooting ever took place — at least in the way law enforcement authorities and the nation's news media have described."
Please note the force of Tracy's qualifying phrase "at least" and consider how one might apply this caveat to what is among the most uncontested facts in world history, namely, the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in the year 44 BC.
Now the ancient historians have told us that Caesar said to Brutus the famous words "Et tu, Brute?" as his former friend plunged his dagger into Caesar. But suppose the ancient historians got this wrong. It may well be that Caesar did not utter these touching and pathetic words, but something akin to "You dirty bastard! I always thought you were a slimy piece of donkey dung" — except, of course, in Latin. This would be sufficient grounds for asserting that Caesar was not assassinated the way ancient historians have told us — but it doesn't in the least mean that Caesar didn't end up lying just as dead beneath the bust of Pompey as the ancient historians all reported him. By the same logic, both the law enforcement authorities and the nation's media may have gotten many facts and details wrong about the Newtown massacre, but that is hardly reason for concluding that no massacre ever happened.
But there I go talking about logic and reason, which is precisely what the conspiracy theorist wants you to do. Because that is where the conspiracy theorist will trap you. Since this sounds like a bit of a paradox, I had better explain it, and to do this, I will assume the role of Tracy. Ahem.
"You see how much more open-minded and reasonable I am than this Lee Harris fellow, whoever he is. I am more than willing to admit that it might just be possible that people were in fact killed at Newtown, as is generally alleged by the gullible and credulous. Personally, I think they were not, because, after all, I am a professor in media studies, and I know how easily the average American, simple soul that he is, can be swayed and manipulated by the media. My role is merely to get people to think and to question. But people of mediocre intellects and timid imaginations cannot be brought to look critically at their own opinions — and this Harris character is obviously a case in point. He obstinately refuses even to consider my point of view, while I am more than willing to concede that it is entirely within the range of imagination that there really was some amount of shooting and such in Newtown, though I am firmly convinced that the reports have been wildly exaggerated."
Now which of us comes across as more generous and reasonable in this exchange, Tracy or me? Tracy is willing to admit that I might have a point, whereas, by my own admission, I categorically refuse to pay even the slightest attention to any argument that he can put forth, just as I do when I am dealing with people who think that George W. Bush blew up the Twin Towers or that the CIA masterminded the killing of John F. Kennedy. Yes, I am perfectly aware that the proponents of these popular conspiracy theories have mountains and mountains of evidence and facts at their disposal and can point to piles and piles of inconsistencies and contradictions in the conventional accounts of these notable catastrophes. I am also perfectly aware that by refusing even to glance at their arguments I am placing myself in the position of one who is unwilling to listen to "the other side of the question" — the first duty, surely, of anyone who claims to be objective, or even rational for that matter. But if the price of passing myself off as fair and open-minded is to dedicate the rest of my life, which isn't getting any longer, to the detailed perusal and rebuttal of every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike, then I would far prefer to be regarded as a narrow-minded bigot, who would rather spend his declining years rereading the novels of Charles Dickens than tracing the devious machinations of Illuminati from ziggurat temples of ancient Sumer to the soaring skyscrapers of the Trilateral Commission. It just isn't worth it.
Yet how difficult it is to give up an argument, to concede without a fight, especially when you know you are right and that the other fellow is whacko? Which is why, for years and years now, I have failed to follow the good advice that I so freely offer to others. Instead of leaving conspiracy theorists to themselves, the true course of wisdom, I have searched for a knockdown, drag-out argument that would, at one single stroke, cut the Gordian knot that is an apt symbol for all conspiracy theories that have ever been or are likely to be — entangled, intertwined, and convoluted as they all are by their very cabalistic nature. Have I at long last found such an argument? No, of course not — but if conspiracy theorists could in fact be convinced that they were wrong, if they could be given an understanding, I think this would do the trick.
Here's the issue: Why did all the conspirators of the past get caught so fast, even for doing relatively minor acts, like bumping off Caesar, whereas today's conspirators are so much more clever that they can blow up huge buildings, like the Twin Towers, and yet no one be the wiser for it? Is it really possible that today's conspirators are so much better at their jobs than those of old?
The current popularity of the conspiracy theory has caused many of us to forget that history has been replete with real conspiracies. There was the conspiracy, for example, to kill Lincoln, involving John Wilkes Booth and his confederates. Delving a little deeper into history, there was the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in which a group of English Catholic fanatics had secreted 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords, for the purpose of blowing sky high the Protestant King, James I, along with the leading Protestant nobles of the land. This insidious design was fortunately brought to light on the very eve of its execution — a happy stroke of luck that English Protestants would continue to celebrate on Guy Fawkes Night, named after one of the Catholic co-conspirators. (It is still celebrated today, though merely as an opportunity for shooting off fireworks and getting royally toasted, and no longer as an occasion for bashing Roman Catholics or their faith.) And, as previously noticed, Julius Caesar had been the target of a successful conspiracy fomented by his senatorial opponents.
Here we have three sterling examples of genuine conspiracies, whose historical truth has been universally accepted by both historians and laymen. Those who have written about these conspiracies were not called conspiracy theorists, because there was no need to drag in mere "theory" when the facts so clearly spoke for themselves. And the reasons the facts spoke so clearly was that all the conspirators in question were immediately unmasked and identified, leaving behind no question that there had been a conspiracy.
In the case of Brutus and the other assassins of Caesar, the conspirators boasted openly of their conspiracy, explaining that they acted so ruthlessly not out of personal ambition, but in order to save the Roman Republic from Caesar's despotic designs. John Wilkes Booth, who as a Shakespearean actor had perhaps played the role of Brutus once too often, was just as proud of shooting Lincoln as his noble Roman role model had been of stabbing Caesar. Indeed, proclaiming as he fell to the stage of Ford's Theatre, sic semper tyrannis — thus ever to tyrants —Booth made it clear that he shared Brutus's illusion that his own act of tyrannicide would receive the blessings of a liberated nation and earn the respect of future generations. The conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot were more discreet, but several of them eventually confessed to their conspiracy, though it is unclear to what extent either torture or the threat of torture might have inspired them to fully disclose their complicity in the plot.
History records many other conspiracies besides the three I have mentioned, but taken together they all demonstrate two overwhelming facts — first, that keeping a conspiracy a secret, until the time has ripened for its execution, is a damnably hard task, as the perpetrators of the Gunpowder Plot discovered to their cost; and second, that keeping a conspiracy a secret after it has been executed is next to impossible. Of all those successful conspiracies about which there has never been any serious historical doubt, none remained hidden more than a matter of days. Conspiracy will out, far more quickly and vociferously than murder — and the more elaborate and involved the conspiracy, the greater the number of conspirators and witnesses and the worse it will be for the conspiracy, which is why so many never get very far beyond the planning stages. In Caesar's case, news of the planned assassination was already leaking out on that fatal morning.
Yet even as I write these words, I hear a voice inside my head seductively whispering, "Ah, but what makes you think there really was a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar?"
After all, just think about it. (Which is all the conspiracy theorist ever asks us to do.) The ancient historians are forever assuring us how cunning and shrewd Julius Caesar was. No one could outwit Caesar — it was hopeless even to try. And yet, these same historians turn around and ask us to believe that on the day of his assassination this superman, this paragon of intellectual penetration, behaved like such a ninny that he refused to take a bodyguard with him to the Roman senate, despite the fact that he was fully aware of the deep hatred that the Roman senators felt toward him. Is it credible that Caesar could have been such a fool as to walk like a lamb to the slaughter, especially after the soothsayer had gone to the trouble of warning him to beware the Ides of March?
Can any intelligent man believe such stuff and nonsense? It is obvious that there was no assassination on the Ides of March, or any other day. And isn't it equally obvious that the so-called assassination was staged by Caesar himself, along with the aid of his henchman, Mark Anthony? What better to kindle the wrath of the Roman populace against Caesar's enemies in the Senate than to spread the rumor that they had murdered him in cold blood? Furthermore, who benefitted most from the alleged assassination? Certainly not Brutus and Cassius, who ended up dead. Yes, it was reported that Brutus gave a speech after the so-called assassination, acknowledging that he had committed the vile deed, but this report was obviously circulated by the real conspirators and was later repeated by credulous ancient historians duped by the cabal of Caesar and his cronies. Only the mind of Caesar could have devised such a fabulously self-serving coup de theatre.
And what happened to Caesar, you ask? Well, he returned to Egypt where he took Caesarion — his son by Cleopatra — to Palestine, where he taught him how to convince the Jews he was the Messiah and then introduced him to his future wife Mary Magdalene, which brings us back to the Illuminati, via Dan Brown and Signor da Vinci's ingenious code. And so on and so on and so on, which seems to be where all conspiracy theories end up.
If the fool would persist in his folly, William Blake assures us, he would become wise. So perhaps the problem with today's conspiracy theorists is not that they have gone too far, but that they haven't quite gone far enough yet. But, if Tracy is any indication, they are getting very close.


There's no beating around the bush. Much as the MBA qualification is about more than furthering one's career and earning a hike in pay as a result, few applicants and candidates can truly admit that MBA salary levels are not something which motivated them to undertake the degree.
The degree is an investment in a person's professional career, after all, and securing an MBA job with its commensurate MBA salary is an important part of any student's return on this investment.
Below are the 10 countries offering the highest average MBA salary levels, as reported in the newly-released 2014/15 QS TopMBA Jobs & Salary Trends Report.
Please note that these figures represent the average base MBA salary on offer in each country, and that this therefore does not include bonus entitlements (as seen in last year's comparison), whether paid to secure an MBA graduate's services or for end-of-year performance.
The figures should also be treated more as an approximate guide than a general rule, as they are unable to draw upon as many employer responses as can be found in the regional comparisons of MBA salary levels contained within the report's pages. For this reason, year-on-year fluctuations are much more likely to occur than in an analysis of regional salaries.
As can be seen in the table above, the biggest rise in base salaries this year came from MBA jobs reported in the US, which remains home to the world's largest number of MBA employers. Consequently, it is also the country in which one can find the biggest range of salaries in MBA jobs.
Notable increases were also seen in Canada as well as the Western European nations of the UK, Germany and, to a lesser extent, France and Switzerland.
The gains witnessed in 2014 by these traditional markets for MBA jobs represent the realization of last year's prediction that an economic recovery would bring with it a marked improvement, not just in available positions, but also in salary levels.
Switzerland's position at the helm of this table can be partially explained by the number of its financial services companies as well as this year's relocation of important hedge funds and multinational firms from London and Frankfurt as they seek to cut tax bills.
Although Australia and Denmark both reported slight decreases in average base MBA salary levels, the two countries comfortably remain in the top three with averages well in advance of US$100,000.
Australia, meanwhile, continues to lead the way for Asia Pacific – a region still reporting significant salary variation between countries. Although, the rise reported by Japan, another mature MBA jobs market, brings it into close proximity with Spain in 2014.
This last point provides a clear example of a long-term trend in MBA salaries that has been on-going for more than a decade – with an increasingly competitive global market for the brightest MBA talent, salary levels in the countries of differing regions are edging ever closer together.


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Steven Randy Pirko, accused in the 2014 murder of Christopher Ausman. (File photo)
Accused confessed to police he hit murder victim with hammer
Jurors watch video footage of Steven Pirko telling officers about deadly night
Karissa Gall
Steven Pirko admitted killing Christopher Ausman with a hammer in a police video recording watched by jurors on Wednesday, during a second-degree murder trial that began on April 29 in B.C. Supreme Court in Kelowna.
In the video footage from November 2016, after hours of questioning at the Kelowna RCMP detachment, Pirko broke down in tears and told Cpl. Eric Boucher and Cpl. Shane O'Ruairc that he "hit him with the f**ing hammer."
Pirko told the two officers that he and his friend Elrich Dyck were drunk the night of Ausman's death, on Jan. 25, 2014, walking down Highway 33 in Rutland when Ausman ran up to them.
Pirko said Ausman grabbed Dyck and started hitting him repeatedly. In the video, Pirko stood up with the officers to re-enact the incident.
He said he didn't want his friend to get hurt and he had a hammer in his pocket for protection, so he used the hammer to hit Ausman in the leg, to no effect.
Pirko said Dyck then told him to hit Ausman in the head.
"I think once, maybe twice," Pirko told the officers in the video. "Maybe one more time. I don't know."
He said Ausman fell backward to the sidewalk, Dyck hit him in the face a couple of times, with his fist, and the two ran off.
He realized Ausman was dead, he said, when he returned to the scene to retrieve an iPod and saw a lot of blood.
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Pirko also told the officers that he had tried to kill himself three times because of what happened.
Later in the video, after a smoke break, Pirko is left alone in the interrogation room.
"I'm sorry…," jurors heard Pirko say.
The trial continues.
karissa.gall@blackpress.ca
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Portland Paddle's home is at the bottom of Munjoy Hill on the East End. Check out some suggestions below for our favorite places to eat, drink, stay, shop, visit, and adventure in our neighborhood and beyond.
Maine Historical Society and the Wadsworth-Longfellow House - Museum, gallery, tours, and a beautiful public garden.
SPACE Gallery - SPACE Gallery is a nonprofit contemporary art space featuring visual arts, live music and performance, film, artists lectures and more.
First Friday Art Walk - Portland's Art Walk is a free self-guided tour of art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the first Friday of every month from 5-8pm.
Mackworth Island State Park - A 1.5 mile hike offering views of Casco Bay and its many islands.
Summer Feet Cycling - Bicycle day trips and longer tours in Maine and beyond.
Maine Sailing Adventures, The Frances - Weekly 2 hour sails on Casco Bay.


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Fiberglass Camper Reno
Voila- the Little Green Bug, the Aphid, the Ameracauna Egg…
May 20, 2012 Selka	2 Comments
OMG, we got it back! So excited! It looks so good, all shiny and new. I love it one colour and I love the colour. It's bright in the sun and much darker and more olive-y in the shade.
The body shop guy was solicitous, going over and pointing out all the flaws in their paint job, especially the ones they couldn't help. We kept telling him, we don't have a Mustang here, and we certainly didn't pay for a Mustang finish. It was a fabulous job, and we got it for a budget price, no question.
Another thing about painting fiberglass- it has some weird property that it can have micro cracks that only show up when it's painted. They were minor, of course. Our giant side patch turned out so well. I was so proud. It's the largest smooth spot on the trailer now, and it's so close to perfect. At just the right angle with the right light the outline of the former holes are visible. But who cares!
We spent the drive home thinking up names for it and also catching glimpses of it in the mirror and having a jolting moment of "What's behind us?!"
I'm a big fan of the Aphid. It's exactly aphid colour. But it's totally an Ameracauna Egg! It's a fiberglass egg – a green one. Hahaha!
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May 15, 2012 Selka	Leave a comment
After going over every inch of that camper with sandpaper and primer and filler, we knew the features of that shell like skin. There are lots of flaws from the original molding that I'd never seen before. After the intensive body work, though, it looked so much better to me. Primed, as it were, to step into a new stage of life, renewed by paint.
We made one last stop on the way to dropping off the camper to see one more rack of paint swatches. That and we'd run out of primer. We did our final priming and sanding touches in the parking lot of Lowe's.
It was really tough to imagine a tiny square of colour over the whole camper, let alone how it would translate in the sunshine. We were settled on a very tight range of tones in green, but there were still many hesitations. Was it too light? Too pretty? Too pastel?
The cost had made our decision to have it all one colour. It was considerably more to have it two tone, so it was an easy choice to go one colour. It will make it look more like a Boler.
Among the many other things I knew nothing about in the realm of automotive body work was something about paint. Most cars are painted with a two stage process. One stage for colour, then a clear coat. This is more expensive (much more), and apparently it's not the right thing to do on fiberglass. Not everyone does the older style of single stage painting any more, where they mix the clear coat or "glossifying" agent in with the colour. There's more, about matching colour painted on plastic bumpers versus metal, and "side colour", the tone of paint as seen from the side. It's a science. We heard the dramatic price difference and sought out single stage please; one colour, sure.
When we brought it in we got good reviews on our bondo work and were approved to drop it off.
It was a big step, dropping the whole camper off in the back lot of the body shop and leaving it behind. Totally different than leaving the chassis to get work done. We'd spent so much time with it lately, and now we were just going to drive away and wait. On the other hand, it was a relief to stop vacillating about paint colours. We'd cast the dye.
Last look at the camper in its vintage two tone.
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