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lawyers graduating from the University of Montana School of Law in 1975. He founded the Crow Tribal Court. Her mother is the activist and fashion designer Marjorie Bear Don't Walk. She received her Masters in Public Administration (MPA) and Juris Doctor from the University of Montana School of Law. She achieved a Legal Masters (LLM) from the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ in 2013.
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some thirty six screenwriters made sure that the plot of the film is lame , original characters one-dimensional , and many elements of the story , like embezzlement and inter-office politics , totally incomprehensible for the little children , the main targeted audience of this film .
result is almost unwatchable mess , occasionally saved mostly by excellent acting ( elizabeth perkins was right on mark as wilma ) and one of the classic example of mortal hollywood disease known as " high concept " .
after great hype , movie quickly sank into oblivion and the fans of the show returned to the animated version .
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Ivanka Trump reportedly used her personal email account to reach a government official after her father became President. Veuer's Natasha Abellard (@NatashaAbellard) has the story.announcements during the Spike TV PS4 All Access show, which we’ve posting below. Get excited!
The Last of Us: Left Behind is Naughty Dog’s first ever single-player DLC. Bruce, Neil, and the rest of the team are getting close to wrapping work on this new campaign, which will meet the quality and gameplay what you’ve come to expect with The Last of Us, along with a few surprises.
She’s back! Ashley Johnson reprises her role as Ellie in The Last of Us: Left Behind single-player DLC. Left Behind takes place while Ellie is attending a military boarding school in the Boston quarantine zone, prior to meeting Joel and the events in the main campaign of The Last of Us.
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her career in the equitation and hunter rings. A horsey friend sparked her interest in riding early. Her parents bought her an Appendix Quarter Horse named Okie Dokie when she was 12. She remembers, “He was really green and nothing fancy. I had to get a ladder to bridle him because he was a little bit ornery.”
But Lauren’s greatest passion as a child and teenager was soccer. “I was on high school and travel teams, ran indoor track to get fit for soccer and spent time in the gym.” This left very little time for riding, so Okie Dokie became a pasture pet for several years. By Lauren’s junior year of high school, though, soccer had become more work and less fun. She decided to quit and turnstrike force calls for prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office and Cook County State's Attorney's office to work closely with city police and federal agents on developing a prosecution strategy for targeting repeat gun offenders.
The idea of a strike force was developed by Celinez Nunez, the special agent-in-charge of ATF's Chicago office, after Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson met with Justice Department officials earlier this year to seek assistance.
Chicago recorded more than 760 murders last year, more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
The first-half of 2017 has been nearly as difficult with the city recording 320 murders and 1360 shooting incidents through Thursday, according to police department data. At the same point last year, the city had tallied 322 murders and 1584 shooting incidents.
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on Chicago for its handling of the violence, referring to the situation as "horrible carnage" and "out of control." He's also previously warned without any specificity that he'd "send in the feds" and "solve the problem for them" if city officials didn't take action.
Joel Levin, the acting U.S. attorney for northern Illinois, said his office prosecuted more gun-related crimes in 2016 than anytime in the last decade. Federal prosecutors have already exceeded last year's federal gun prosecution tally in the first half of 2017, he said.
Even before Friday's announcement, the ATF announced they had dispatched a mobile high-tech ballistics lab to Chicago that allows analysts to test fire guns and analyze shell casings at the scene of a crime.
The new tool, known as the NIBIN (National Integrated BallisticsInformation Network) van, is still in the test phase and is set to leave Chicago at the end of July. But Chicago ATF officials say they are lobbying to keep it here, where it has already been used 96 times since arriving in early June.
"I am working on a briefing paper to see if we can get the justification to allow it to stay," said Timothy Jones, assistant ATF agent-in-charge.
Chicago officials welcomed the creation of the strike force and added ATF agents, but seemed reluctant to credit Trump.
Chicago Police First Deputy Superintendent Kevin Navarro noted that city officials began engaging the Justice Department in the final days of the Obama administration about the possibility of bolstering the ATF's presence in the city.
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law legislation in Illinois that would stiffen gun crime sentencing guidelines to a minimum of seven years from three years for repeat offenders and require judges to put in writing their rationale if they depart from the new guideline.)
The White House on Friday pushed back against the notion that Chicago's murder problem has to do with easy access to guns.
"I think that crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else," said White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Follow USA TODAY Chicago correspondent Aamer Madhani on Twitter: @AamerISmadfrom a difficult start to the David Moyes era in which only one point was taken from early season fixtures with Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Tuesday's goalless draw at Real Sociedad extended their unbeaten run to eight matches and Rooney said: "We're obviously capable of beating Arsenal, we've done it many times in the past."
The Gunners, who have not won a major trophy since 2005, are unbeaten in the league since a 3-1 home defeat by Aston Villa on the opening day of the season, winning eight out of their subsequent nine league encounters.
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Buttimer, A. 1983. Creativity and context. Lund Studies in Human Geography, Ser. B, No. 50.
Buttimer, A. 1983. The practice of geography. London: Longman. (Russian. 1990)
Buttimer, A. and D. Seamon. 1980. The human experience of place and space. London: Croom Helm Publishers.
Buttimer, A. 1976. Grasping the dynamism of lifeworld' Annals of the Association of American Geographers 66: 277–292.
Buttimer, A. 1974. Values in Geography. Washington, D.C., Commission on College Geography.
Buttimer, A. 1971. Society and Milieu in the French Geographic Tradition. Chicago: Rand McNally. (Spanish, 1971)
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Category:Members of the Royal IrishOct 26, 2016; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Indians former player Carlos Baerga throws out the ceremonial first pitch before game two of the 2016 World Series against the Chicago Cubs at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports | {
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This month marks the first anniversary of the election of the 20th Knesset. The next election is beyond the so-called hills of darkness, in three-and-a-half years, if held on schedule. But the political arena is seething and sizzling, with just one topic on the agenda: how to put an end to the lengthy rule of Benjamin Netanyahu, how to make his fourth term his last.
Every senior politician in the coalition and opposition alike is busy trying to crack the nut of Netanyahu’s decade in power. Conversations I have had with several unnameable sources turned up one element of agreement: the need to create an alignment.
The consensus is that Netanyahu cannot be ousted so long as the current political order remains intact, since it will only ensure his victorya Palestinian state in the West Bank and predicted the inevitable collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
One shouldn’t overstate the influence wielded by Elkin on government policy. But still, besides being a member of the security cabinet, he is a senior figure in the ruling party, close to Netanyahu, and an articulate spokesman of the mood on the right. In a climate that lacks even the semblance of an effort to renew talks with the Palestinians, Elkin’s words could be an incentive for the international community to turn urgently to the United Nations Security Council to discuss ways to forestall the PA’s implosion.
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Social Groups in Front of the Camera
In this era of general entertainment, the power of celebrities in popularizing fashion trends can be hardly be overemphasized. Musicians and actors have great influence on the way people might dress, especially younger people. But beyond musicians and actors, many social groups presented through multiple media channels such as music videos, movies, TV series, interview programs, and photographs have become the highly visible and influential “new” elite. Who are the groups that receive most of media attention? Here are three of the most influential social groups today.
Of course WAGs, the acronym used to describe the wives and girlfriends of professional footballer players, stole attention of the entire British media during the 2006 World Cup in the German town of Baden Baden.Today is the day all restaurant rumors come true. Deana Saukam of East Side King confirms the mini-chain will open a new location in The Domain. The project is still in the early stages with no confirmed new menu details or opening date.
The Domain will be East Side King's third non-trailer location in Austin, and fifth in total. Shake Shack is also headed Domain-ward in 2015, which combined with East Side King suggests a more casual dining direction for the fancy outdoor mall.
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on 60-second clips of audio recorded by the Royal Society.
The first – Moving Pictures – involved audio taken from talks given at the RSA. I was one of the judges in this category, alongside Andrew Park (founder of Cognitive Media, the animation company behind the RSA Animates series), filmmaker Paul Wyatt, Susie Hewson from category sponsor Natracare and the RSA’s Mairi Ryan.
Entrants could pick from one of two audio clips: Everyday Sexism author and founder Laura Bates describing just how pervasive misogyny is, or Sam Conniff Allende enthusing about how young people are taking control of their own lives and the world around them – which he describes as being “more pirate”.
We whittled down almost 100 entries from institutions as far afield as Limerick School of Art &Design, Edinburgh College of Art and Arts University Bournemouth to a shortlist of seven. From here we selected three winners, which you can see below. The full shortlist can be seen on the RSA YouTube page.
Leanne Dooley: Limerick School of Art & Design
Illustrator and animator Leanne picked up the Natracare award, which comes with a prize of £1,000 – as well as being picked by RSA staff for an additional award of £500.
It’s a film all of us judges could agree was an outright winner. Leanne's use of colour, texture and form is accomplished – and the film makes great use of visual metaphor without just representing the words directly.
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her website.
Arthur Kearns: Birmingham City University
Arthur's film is full of energy and character. Although fully engaging with the darker parts of the audio, its roughly rendered world where colours bleed outside the lines feels alive and really human.
Julen Goni: Edinburgh College of Art
Julen has a brilliant grasp of how to portray emotion and character using only a few lines. The pacing – building to a really effective climax – is also wonderfully done.
Other winners
The funny, touching film created by Emma McKell from Arts University Bournemouth that won the Living and Dying Well category prize can be watched below.
Away from animation, prizes also went to students who had created projects including a bowl to help people with ADHD eat more easily...
... a design language for people with hidden disabilitiesL.A. City Attorney Files Charges Against 5 Casting Workshops in Pay-to-Play Scam
After an investigation begun last year, the Los Angeles city attorney says that five workshop companies and 25 individuals are facing criminal charges for an illegal pay-to-play audition scheme.
The Los Angeles city attorney cracked down on Hollywood's pay-to-play casting workshop scene on Thursday, announcing cases against five prominent casting firms and 25 individuals allegedly involved in schemes that violate the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act, a rarely enforced state labor law.
City Attorney Mike Feuer's ongoing undercover investigation became public in July 2016 after the Casting Society of America told its members in an email that colleagues had been contacted about their participation in workshops.
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the alleged pay-to-play schemes, the city attorney's office used an undercover professional actor, who attended 13 casting workshops. "This investigation was conducted very thoroughly," Feuer said. "It was conducted by an investigator who was actually an undercover informant for this office. This informant attended 13 workshops by five companies. The results were then verified by an independent expert."
The prominent casting workshop companies — Actors' Ally, The Actors Link, The Actor's Key, Your Studio Productions and The Casting Network — were named. (The Actors Link is now known as Ace Studios.) The owners and operators of each of these businesses were charged, as were casting associates who work with them.
When reached by The Hollywood Reporter after the press conference, Richard Hicks, president of the Casting Society of America, offeredthe following statement: "The CSA fully supports the work of the city attorney's office. Along with SAG-AFTRA, CSA stands in support of treating actors with dignity and respect, and those CSA members who teach should do so only with workshop companies which are fully compliant with both the workshop guidelines and the Krekorian Act. CSA members who teach workshops are expected to adhere to the workshop guidelines and the Krekorian Act. Members who are found to be noncompliant will have their membership status reviewed. CSA has been proactive on this issue, including holding a town hall meeting last year to which it invited all of its members to learn about the guidelines and the law, as well as providing the resources and tools for their operation and management."
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action comes 10 months after THR first brought renewed attention to the pervasive and persistent if previously neglected issue. (While exchanging money for the prospect of employment is illegal in California, there had been no prosecutions against workshops under Krekorian since it was enacted in 2009.)
In the ensuing tumult, one prominent practitioner left his post on CBS' Criminal Minds the day after THR's investigation was published, then later closed his own workshop business; a longtime Vampire Diaries casting director canceled his classes under scrutiny; and the CSA itself set up a blue-ribbon panel to self-scrutinize. By this past September, Will Stewart, who most recently booked parts for Scandal, had sworn off the practice, claiming, "Workshops are dying."
Indeed, a statistical comparison by THR between the same monthlong period atMILPITAS, California, USA—After having most of his programs in the Bay Area cancelled last week, Kumar Vishwas issued an apology for his remarks against Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. In 2015, Vishwas had referred to Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale as a bhasmasur (demon).
An Aam Aadmi Party founding member, Vishwas is also a Hindu nationalist. Sant Bhindranwale, often termed as the greatest Sikh of the 2oth century, led the Sikh struggle seeking equal rights for the Sikhs during the early 1980s. The same struggle later became known as the Khalistan movement in which Sikh freedom fighters tried to liberate Punjab from Indian occupation.
In his video apology, Kumar Vishwas stated –
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of the Referendum 2020 campaign carried out a protest against Vishwas at the University of Silicon Andhra in Milpitas, California. Protesters raised anti-Vishwas and pro-Khalistan slogans. The program was disrupted however police was called in, which asked protesters to carry out their protest outside. Protesters also threw water bottles at Vishwas as he raised pro-India slogans.
Vishwas later spoke about Shaheed Bhagat Singh during his event.
https://youtu.be/6declzqt4pIA hugely successful Chelsea face Newcastle this weekend after cruising to victory against Tottenham on Wednesday.
The match may have something of a physiological edge for Chelsea, who have never won at St James' park. However, the London team have remained unbeaten over their last twenty-two games and Jon describes them as a juggernaut of a team.
QPR are set to face off against Burnley, which is an important match for both sides. Both badly need a win and the outcome of the match may lay the foundation for one team avoiding the relegation zone.
Harry Redknapp - or is that Ebenezer Redknapp? - revealed he is no fan of Christmas parties. If he has his way, footballers would avoid them altogether.
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this weekend. It's a crucial match for Palace, who have been on poor form lately and may slip further and further down the ranks.
In rugby, Ireland announced a united bid for the 2023 rugby world cup. They described it as "impossible to resist."
We also hear about Ronnie O'Sullivan's impressive 147 in his recent 8-2 win over Anthony McGill at UK Championship, moving him into the semi-finals of the competition.Eric Holder: biography
Eric Holder is an American attorney, who dedicated his life to his country. Although his parents were immigrants from Barbados, Holder worked as a public servant in the U.S. for more than 40 years and gained much recognition being the first African-American U.S. Attorney General.
Childhood and youth
Eric Holder was born on the 21st of January, 1951, in the Bronx, NYC. His parents are of Barbadian decent; however his mother, Miriam, had American citizenship since her birth and was a daughter of immigrants. As an adult, Eric visited his homeland a couple of times.
Attorney General Eric Holder
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of transferring to a prestigious school offering specialized accelerated education, Stuyvesant High School, which the East Village of Manhattan. As a gifted student, he successfully graduated in 1969 and enrolled at Columbia University to study American history. During his first year, Holder also had enough free time to play basketball and was quite good at it. Eric even dreamt of a professional career but continued following his path, since his life goal was working in the public sector. He was deeply inspired by John Kennedy’s inauguration speech, that cherished the liberties and justice America had, so a young boy decided to protect them being a qualified lawyer.
Attorney General Eric Holder
So, a future attorney realized that B.A. wasn’t his limit and he required a J.D. to become a practitioner.He attended Columbia Law School and graduated in 1976. While receiving an education, he started getting some skills in the field. Holder worked for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a law firm, that originated from a legal department of an organization which was established in order to provide defense for African-Americans. He spent his second summer in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, so he basically covered two different areas of the law.
Attorney career
After completing the education in 1976, Holder remained at the Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, that dealt with political corruption. The most famous cases he worked on were a John Jenrette’s bribery scandal, a «Capo» trial, which was a criminal group operating in Philadelphia, and a case of the State Treasurer | {
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of Florida.
Holder had to quit in 1988 since he was assigned a position of a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by Ronald Reagan, who was in charge of the country at that time. Eventually, it turned out that Holder was the first African-American taking such a place.
Bill Clinton and Eric Holder
In 1993 he was elevated by Bill Clinton and became the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, who was supposed to represent the federal government of the state in the U.S. District Court. And again, Holder repeated his record of being the first African-American in the office.
In 1997 he gained another promotion and took the office of Deputy Attorney General. Holder’s major areas were budget and personnel ones; he managed conflictsbetween the heads of various departments and also had time to participate in high-profile investigations such as drug trafficking and corruption cases.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder
Eric Holder also held credits for developing a bill on protecting children from violation and, besides, took part in creating a draft that made possible bringing the CEOs of corporations to justice.
Even before becoming an Attorney General, Holder had an opportunity to get acquainted with the strains of the job, when he preceded John Ashcroft as an Acting Attorney General. It was predicted that he might have become an actual Attorney General in case of Democrats winning in 2000 and 2004, but it was the time of a Republican ruling the nation.
Eric Holder with Barack Obama
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a leak investigation. When the case took a weird turn, he confessed that he wasn’t involved in the prosecution; however, some journalists thought that he lied under oath.
Operation Fast and Furious
However, even such a talented professional may suffer from being out of luck. In May 2012 the majority of members of The United States House of Representatives held Holder in contempt of Congress since he refused to provide classified details on Operation Fast and Furious. It was an unsuccessful operation aimed at finding the way of how the firearm was transported from the U.S. to Mexico. There was a strategic plan that involved placing tracked guns secretly and trying to follow them. Unfortunately, the holes were not found, the smuggling went on, and more than 2000 weapons fellinto the hands of Mexican drug gangs.
Eric Holder
Holder resigned in September 2014, due to some personal reasons, but it was only after his successor was found and installed. He didn’t have to look for a new job and quickly returned to the private practice he held before.
Personal life
Holder is married to Sharon Malone, a surgeon specializing in gynecology. Eric considers his wife to be his leading advisor and he even confessed that he wouldn’t run for 2020 presidency in case she opposes his decision.
They have three children together and a couple of well-known relatives. Sharon's sister is famous for being the first African-American woman in the University of Alabama, who enrolled and graduated against the will of the State Governor.
Eric Holder with his wife Sharon Malone
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in Washington, D.C., which is very convenient for the attorney.
Holder’s net worth equals to $11.5 million, and he has almost 500 thousand followers on Twitter.
Awards
In 2008 Legal Times magazine considered Holder to be one of the best lawyers in Washington in a span of 30 years, and then The National Law Journal also honored him including on the list of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. He was mentioned especially for his work during Obama’s campaign and his overall contribution to civil defense.
Eric Holder speaks on stage after receiving an award
Holder gave commencement speeches in various universities all over the country starting in 2009. An abundance of seniors kicked off their adult life after listening to the famous attorney. He was also chosen as a Classin the performance of divested businesses. The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.
The second category is legacy factors from whose impact the business can only escape slowly. For example, a divested business may inherit assets and capabilities that have been starved of investment by its former parent. Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked.
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Carter Hart's season is off to an obvious slow start, but we've seen the same story for Carey Price and Marc-Andre Fleury – two star goaltenders in a similar situation as Hart. There's nothing to worry about yet in Philadelphia.
It was just last season that Carter Hart took the NHL by storm. Thrown into the fire by the Philadelphia Flyers with the goaltending carousel spinning out of control, Hart stepped into the spotlight and thrived. At 20 years and 127 days old, he became the fifth-youngest goaltender in the past 20 years to win in his first NHL start, he finished with 16 wins, the ninth-most of any teenaged goaltender across the past 40 years, and closed out the campaign by finishing ninth in Calder Trophy voting.
But whatSP declining to a well-below-average .905. That was followed by a 2009-10 campaign in which Price lost the starting job to Jaroslav Halak by season's end, with the Slovakian netminder putting on a playoff performance for the ages and leading the Habs to the Eastern Conference final. At that point, all confidence in Price's abilities looked shot. Fans were calling for Halak to stay and for the team to move on from Price. Instead, Halak was moved to the St. Louis Blues, where he eventually settled in as one of the league's best backup goaltenders. Price? He had 38 wins in 2010-11 and has been a top-five goaltender in the NHL ever since, winning the Vezina Trophy and Hart Trophy in 2014-15.
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1 pick in 2003, made the Pittsburgh Penguins straight out of the draft, but he likewise took a few seasons to settle in. His first two campaigns were nightmarish from a statistical standpoint, too: he had just 17 wins over his first 71 games, and his minus-5.38 GSAA and .898 SP in all situations were among the worst by a starting goaltender in 2005-06. As Pittsburgh improved, though, so did Fleury. In 2006-07, he recorded 40 wins for the first time in his career and was pivotal in the Penguins' run to the 2009 Stanley Cup. He's since moved on from Pittsburgh and now resides in the blue paint for the Vegas Golden Knights, but at 35, Fleury is playing some of the best hockey of his career.
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Life Begins in CollegeThe Ritz Brothers play three goofballs working their way through college by putting in time at a tailor shop. The college football team's star player is Nat Pendleton, a wealthy Native American who has donated a large amount of money to the school. As long as Pendleton is able to play, the football coach (Fred Stone) feels safe in putting the Ritz boys in the game at the last minute, when their zany antics can't possibly effect the final score. In Jim Thorpe fashion, the Indian student is disqualified when it is learned he once played professionally. Thus the coach is forced to utilize an untried player(Dick Baldwin) in the Big Game--and when that player is injured, it's the Ritz Brothers to the rescue. Life | {
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This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. On Thursday, March 27, Future Tense and New America’s Breadwinning and Caregiving Program will host From Nowhere to Nobels: Pathways to Success for Women in STEM in Washington, D.C. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website.
In the mid-’70s, I was a graduate student at the University of Alberta and attended my first mathematics conference. It was a special two-day session on the geometry of Banach spaces—truly fascinating stuff. Each speaker talked for 20 minutes followed by a 10-minute break when everyone in the (mostly male) audience chatted. Everyone except me because I knew no one—and worse, I was convinced that everyone could tell that Idancers, and football players to enter, succeed, and persist in all areas of science and engineering. The field I’ve spent the most time on is computer science, partly because it, together with mathematics, is my discipline, and partly because it’s the only area of science and engineering where participation by women has significantly decreased during the last 30 years.
I’ve been giving talks about strategies for increasing the participation of women in computing and technology careers for a long time. Sometime in the mid-’90s I started including information on the impostor syndrome. The first time I did, a very successful computer scientist in her 30s came up to me after the talk to thank me—she thought she was the only person who felt that kind of gnawing self-doubt. As | {
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I asked the Mudd first-year students to raise their hands if they already had had some doubts about whether our admission staff had made a mistake in admitting them. Well over half raised their hands. Afterward, a female senior student thanked me for talking about the impostor syndrome each year—because, she said, every year she felt like an impostor at Mudd. And of course she is doing just fine.
Perhaps my favorite experience involving impostor syndrome was the impostor panel at the 2010 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. “Hopper” is an annual conference run by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (this year it will be in Phoenix from Oct. 8–11), that brings together about 3,000 women (and 50-100 men) at different stages in technologyBen Bernanke
By Michael GrunwaldWednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
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A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. He doesn't have a commanding presence. He isn't a mesmerizing speaker. He has none of the look-at-me swagger or listen-to-me charisma so common among men with oversize Washington offices. His arguments aren't partisan or ideological; they're methodical, grounded in data and the latest academic literature. When he doesn't know something, he doesn't bluster or bluff. He's professorial, which makes sense, because he spent most of his career as a professor.
He is not, in other words, a typical Beltway power broker. He's shy. He doesn't do the D.C. dinner-party circuit; he prefers to eat at home with his wife, | {
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zero; lent to mutual funds, hedge funds, foreign banks, investment banks, manufacturers, insurers and other borrowers who had never dreamed of receiving Fed cash; jump-started stalled credit markets in everything from car loans to corporate paper; revolutionized housing finance with a breathtaking shopping spree for mortgage bonds; blew up the Fed's balance sheet to three times its previous size; and generally transformed the staid arena of central banking into a stage for desperate improvisation. He didn't just reshape U.S. monetary policy; he led an effort to save the world economy. (See pictures of the Federal Reserve Bank's history.)
No wonder his eyes look tired.
The last Fed chair, Alan Greenspan, inspired an odd cult of personality. Bernanke hoped to return the Fed to dull obscurity. But his aggressive steps toavert doomsday and his unusually close partnerships with Bush and Obama Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner have exposed him and his institution to criticism from all directions. He's Bailout Ben, the patron saint of Wall Street greedheads, or King Ben, the unelected czar of a fourth branch of government. He's soft on inflation, bombarding the country with easy money, or soft on unemployment, ignoring Main Street's cries for even more aggressive action. Bleeding-heart liberals and tea-party reactionaries alike are trying to block his appointment for a second four-year term. Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul is peddling a best seller titled End the Fed. And Congress is considering bills that could strip the Fed of some of its power and independence. (Watch the video "Why TIME | {
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better than where we could be." (See pictures of Ben Bernanke's office.)
Bernanke also has thoughts about the economy's future and we'll get to them soon. First, though, we should explain why his face is on the cover of this issue. The overriding story of 2009 was the economy the lousiness of it, and the fact that it wasn't far lousier. It was a year of escalating layoffs, bankruptcies and foreclosures, the "new frugality" and the "new normal." It was also a year of green shoots, a rebounding Dow and a fragile sense that the worst is over. Even the big political stories of 2009 the struggles of the Democrats; the tea-party takeover of the Republicans; the stimulus; the deficit; GM and Chrysler; the backlash overbailouts and bonuses; the furious debates over health care, energy and financial regulation; the constant drumbeat of jobs, jobs, jobs were, at heart, stories about the economy. And it's Bernanke's economy.
In 2009, Bernanke hurled unprecedented amounts of money into the banking system in unprecedented ways, while starting to lay the groundwork for the Fed's eventual return to normality. He helped oversee the financial stress tests that finally calmed the markets, while launching a groundbreaking public relations campaign to demystify the Fed. Now that Obama has decided to keep him in his job, he has become a lightning rod in an intense national debate over the Fed as it approaches its second century.
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the insights we seek WITHOUT being inundated with more data dumps and analysis paralysis, or in plain English, too much information with only a small percentage being useful.
Dev Das has a 20+ year career which has spanned the biotech, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods industries. Immediately prior to creating Expleo Insight, Dev built the Strategic Insights & Analytics function in Auxilium Pharmaceuticals. As Group Director, he successfully managed the market research, analytics/forecasting, and competitive intelligence needs for the company portfolio. Prior to Auxilium, Dev led the market research efforts for several early and late-stage opportunities within Virology, Immunology, and Cardiovascular/Metabolics areas at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dev started his career in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry with market leaders, Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods, which gave him a solidgait ataxia.
The patient was sitting around the bonfire to beat the extreme cold when he started to have dizziness and urged his wife to take him inside the house. When he came in and lay down he developed severe vertigo and his relatives noticed difficulty in understanding his speech with hoarseness of voice. When offered water he had choking sensation with nasal regurgitation of the water. He later felt weakness on left half of body and could not stand without support. There was no associated facial weakness, difficulty in chewing or moving the food bolus in the mouth or any evidence of tongue weakness. There was no unconsciousness but there was alteration of sensorium transiently at the onset of symptoms. There was no urinary incontinence, seizures, visual difficulty, | {
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diplopia or ptosis. There was no evidence of headache or vomiting and there had been no fever during the period of illness.
He had a past history of transient visual loss two months back which was bilateral and recovered within a few mins. He had a CT scan done at that time which was normal. He had been a chronic smoker and smoked around 24 bidis a day for more than 30 years. He was right handed, educated till class VIII and had no history suggestive of Diabetes mellitus, hypertension or heart disease. There was no history of stroke or risk factors in any family members. Prior to admission at our center he had received antibiotics empirically as he had some aspiration during trials of feeding.
When we examined thepatient, he had a pulse rate of 96/min and was afebrile. He had a blood pressure of 150/90 mm Hg in supine position and a respiratory rate of 14/min. He was conscious and oriented. He had dysarthria with a nasal twang and hoarse voice. His cranial nerve examination revealed a left sided Horner\'s with miosis and absent sweating on left side face. His visual acuity fields and fundus were normal. He had a gaze evoked nystagmus with fast phase to left side and a torsional component more pronounced on looking to left side. The uula was deviated to right side and there was absent gag on left side suggestive of IX and X nerve palsy of left side.
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dysphagia and left sided Horner\'s syndrome and hemisensory loss for pain and temperature on right half of body and sensory loss over left half of face which was characteristic of lateral medullary syndrome. However, he also had a left side weakness with hyperreflexia and extensor planter response because of which the diagnosis of Opalski syndrome was made.
In the original description by Opalski in 1949, two patients with lateral medullary infarcts of undetermined etiology were described with mild hemiparesis and same sided hyperreflexia and Babinski\'s sign, along with features of the lateral medullary syndrome.\[[@ref1]\] In 1954 Cywinski\[[@ref3]\] and colleagues described two more patients of the similar type due to atherothrombosis and they had selective facial sensory loss of V1 and V2 in one patient. Around 30 years later, Dhamoonhis mother and because, upon returning from that period of leave, he requested additional leave to care for his mother further. DCHFA has moved for summary judgment on all of Butler's claims [# 17]. Upon consideration of the motion, the opposition thereto, and the record of this case, the court concludes that the motion should be denied.
I. BACKGROUND
Butler began working for DCHFA in 1981. By 2006, when the events that gave rise to this litigation took place, Butler had risen to the position of Director of Business Services. In this position, Butler's responsibilities included managing the cleaning and repair of the DCHFA facility and overseeing all ancillary services associated with the facility. Butler was also responsible for coordinating inspections and certifications, maintaining DCHFA vehicles, and handling the security | {
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and telephone systems. Important to this litigation, Butler directly supervised the employee responsible for opening the facility each day ("Ulmer"). In Ulmer's absence, it fell to Butler to either open the facility himself or to make arrangements for someone else to do so.
In June 2006, Harry Sewell was appointed Execute Director of DCHFA. During his first ninety days on the job, Sewell assessed the performance of the three employees who reported directly to him: Butler, Harry Alexander (General Counsel), and Francis Dyson (Executive Assistant). Concerning his evaluation of Butler's performance, Sewell testified that he considered the condition of the building, attendance at meetings, completion of assignments, and other similar items. In September 2006, Sewell provided each with an oral performance review.[1] Sewell gave Alexander a positive review, butButler and Dyson received negative reviews.[2] Specifically, Sewell told Butler that the facility was not sufficiently clean and that Butler's performance had been unsatisfactory during the preceding three-month evaluation period.[3] Around this time, Sewell also discussed with Alexander that he was "was going down th[e] path" to terminate Butler because of his unsatisfactory performance and requested legal advice concerning that termination.
Sewell's dissatisfaction with Butler came to a head less than three weeks after Butler's performance review. On October 13, 2006, Butler planned to open the DCHFA facility himself because Ulmer was unable to do so. When Sewell arrived at DCHFA that day, however, he found a line of employees outside because neither the gate to the parking lot nor the building itself had been unlocked. Sewell unlocked the | {
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facility. According to Sewell, Butler's failure to open DCHFA for business that day was the "straw that broke the camel's back," and he immediately decided to terminate Butler's employment.[4] When Butler *64 did arrive at work, Sewell told him that they needed to discuss his failure to open the facility that day, but they could not discuss it at that time because Sewell needed to attend a meeting. Butler sensed that Sewell was displeased with him.
Later that same day, October 13, Butler left early for a pre-planned period of leave. The facts surrounding Butler's leave are in dispute. Butler submitted a leave request that did not mention his mother's illness, and it is unclear when that request was submitted and approved.[5] Additionally, Butler contends that he left Sewella voicemail explaining that he was taking leave beginning on October 14 to care for his sick mother. Butler contends that he gave a similar message to Sewell's assistant, inperson, and that he mentioned his mother's illness to Sewell earlier that day. Sewell, however, asserts that Butler never informed him of the leave request and that he had no idea Butler was taking leave to care for his mother. Sewell did not speak with Butler while he was on leave. After twice extending his leave, Butler returned to work on the afternoon of October 23. Because of these extensions, however, Butler missed a meeting he previously had scheduled with a vendor causing Sewell to attend the meeting alone.
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October 25. During that conversation, Butler asked Sewell about the vendor meeting that he had missed. Sewell did not provide him with details and told Butler that he would handle it. Butler again sensed that Sewell was displeased with him. The following day, October 26, Sewell sent Butler an email asking him to confirm whose responsibility it was to open the parking lot and building each morning. Butler responded that he was ultimately responsible. That same day, Butler submitted a request for an additional 25 days of medical leave to care for his mother to the Human Resources Director ("Thomas"). Butler did not discuss this request for additional leave with Sewell. Thomas, however, transmitted the request form to Sewell for his approval later that same day.
The following morning,October 13 and did not return until October 23. DCHFA also contends that Sewell needed to confer with Alexander concerning the legal nuances of Butler's termination and the preparation of a termination letter. Finally, when Butler did return to work on October 23, Sewell did not see Butler for two days, and, in any event, Sewell had decided to wait until a Friday afternoon, October 27, to terminate Butler. In short, DCHFA contends that Butler's termination was inthe-works beginning on October 13, which, based on the undisputed facts of this case, was before Sewell could have learned of Butler's protected leave.
Butler counters that he may defeat summary judgment for two reasons: first, because of the close temporal proximity between his protected leave and his termination;[13] and second, because | {
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there are *67 genuine issues of material fact concerning whether Sewell knew of his protected leave before deciding to terminate him.[14] With respect to Sewell's knowledge, Butler testified that before taking leave on October 13 he: filled out a leave request noting "sick" as the reason for his absence;[15] mentioned his mother's illness to Sewell; left a voicemail for Sewell explaining that he was taking leave due to a serious illness in his family; and left a similar message with Sewell's assistant. Butler also points to Thomas's testimony, in which Thomas stated that he delivered Butler's additional leave request to Sewell on October 26, one day before Sewell terminated Butler. All this, according to Butler, is sufficient to support an inference that Sewell knew of his protected leavebefore deciding to terminate him.
Further, Butler points to various evidence, which he claims casts doubt on Sewell's credibility and thus calls into question whether Sewell decided to terminate Butler on the morning of October 13 and whether Sewell's account of subsequent events is accurate. First, Butler contends that if the October 13 incident was the last straw, Sewell would have fired him immediately rather than waiting two weeks. Second, Butler contends that the October 26 email he received from Sewell confirming that it was Butler's responsibility to open the facility each morning proves that Sewell had not made a final decision to terminate him yet. Third, Butler contends that Thomas's testimony that he delivered Butler's leave request on October 26 refutes Sewell's testimony that he lacked knowledge of | {
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Butler's protected leave before deciding to terminate him. Fourth, Butler highlights Alexander's testimony that he was unsure of the exact dates on which Sewell discussed the termination with him or instructed him to prepare a resignation letter. Fifth, Butler points out a purported conflict between his testimony and Sewell's testimony: Sewell testified that he informed Butler during his evaluation of numerous deficiencies in his performance relating to problems with cleanliness, pests, the roof, the elevator, and the garage; whereas, Butler testified that Sewell mentioned only cleanliness generally. Sixth, Butler contends that failing to open the facility is an insufficient basis for immediate termination under the Employee Handbook and thus creates an inference that Sewell was merely looking for an after-the-fact justification for his termination. Finally, Butler contends thatprotected leave to Sewell. In that regard, DCHFA contends that neither Thomas's testimony nor Butler's requests for leave prove anything. Nor, according to DCHFA, is the fact that Butler was not terminated until October 27 of consequence because, as set forth above, Butler could not have been terminated much sooner, and Sewell had discretion to wait until the first Friday that Butler was in the office following the October 13 incident to terminate him. DCHFA also points to Alexander's testimony that he discussed Butler's termination with Sewell as early as September 2006, as evidence that Butler was well on his road to termination by the time of the October 13 incident, and therefore his termination had nothing to do with his protected leave. Additionally, DCHFA explains that the | {
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not done any interviews with CNN or MSNBC since August and May of 2016, respectively.
Cavuto's ratings have considerably increased in 2020, with "Your World with Neil Cavuto” averaging 1.7 million total viewers in January in the 4 p.m. slot, a 15 percent rise from the previous year for the same month while topping his CNN and MSNBC rivals. The program also averaged 282,000 viewers in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers seek to reach, marking a 13 percent increase from January 2019.
In February 2020 thus far, Cavuto's "Your World" is the eighth highest-rated cable news program in total viewers, delivering an average 2.25 million total viewers, a 45 percent increase from the same time last year. In the younger demographic, Cavuto's numbers are up 41 percent fromLIVE OAK — The Santa Cruz County Coroner’s Office is investigating the cause of death for a 54-year-old San Jose man who died while surfing Saturday in Pleasure Point.
Richard Herrin was celebrating graduating with a degree in engineering from San Jose State on Thursday, after eight years of study, said his wife, Rita Herrin. He was declared dead on a beach at the foot of 37th Avenue, at East Cliff Drive, after emergency responders were unable to resuscitate him, according to Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, Sgt. Brian Cleveland.
“He was one of the highest he could ever be, at that point, with school. I’ve never seen a smile so big, on graduation day,” Rita Herrin said of her partner. “He texted everybody that he was going to | {
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go surfing. He was so excited. And I’m sure he’s still excited.”
The couple had ties to the Santa Cruz area through family members living in the area. In the mid-2000s, they sold clothing items such as board shorts locally through their former California Surf Designs company — including a one-time contract with the junior lifeguards, Rita Herrin said.
Rita Herrin, describing her husband as “a fish, a Pisces” who loved and respected the ocean and went to yoga every other day, said it had been a while since Richard Herrin had last gone surfing. The couple, both furthering their education as “older” adults, were “go, go, go, studying all the time,” she said. After passing the milestone of graduation, Richard Herrin finally was able to grab a new neighborhim rock climbing or cooking.
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Toba Capital was founded by Vinny Smith | {
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clans and become an entity apparently so frightening that the entirety of Japan, save my one ally, had formed a coalition to keep me (the mighty Hōjō clan) at bay. For better or for worse, I was hooked. The Sengoku-era strategy sim had its claws in me, and what had once seemed so daunting was now second nature.
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A March for the record books
What a month! More temperature records were broken this month than in any month since the Dust Bowl Era of the 1930s. Within the United States it is estimated that over 6,500 daily high temperature records were set or tied during the month of March.
Across Minnesota climate stations 424 new daily high temperature records were set and 327 new daily warm low temperature records were set in March, including 8 new statewide daily high temperature records, and for many observers, the earliest date for an 80 degree reading (March 17). In addition many observers reported the highest dewpoints ever measured in the month of March, some even in the 60s.
University of Minnesota meteorologist Mark Seeley discusses the weather with Minnesota Public Radio's Cathy | {
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Penn State has added a ninth commitment to its Class of 2015, landing a verbal pledge from Ashburn (Va.) Briar Woods wide receiver Brandon Polk. The junior prospect returned to campus on Tuesday after visiting over the weekend.
The 5-foot-9, 160-pound Polk chose the Nittany Lions over offers from Stanford, Virginia Tech, Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin and more.
Polk was a first team all-conference selection as a junior. He caught 36 passes for 549 yards and five touchdowns.
He carries a three-star, 88 rating from 247Sports and is a four-star prospect according to the 247Sports Composite. The 247Sports Composite rates him as the No. 13 player in the state of Virginia and the No. 33 wide receiver nationally.
The junior prospect was a teammate of Penn State Class of 2014 quarterback signee TraceSimon Grayson is 'safe pair of hands' that can stabilise Sunderland, says Marco Gabbiadini
Simon Grayson has been appointed Sunderland boss on a three-year deal
Ex-Sunderland striker Marco Gabbiadini has described Simon Grayson's appointment as manager as a "relief" and he believes the 47-year-old will bring much-needed stability to Wearside.
The Black Cats appointed Grayson on a three-year deal from Preston North End on Thursday following a protracted search for David Moyes' successor that was complicated by a potential club takeover.
That takeover has been shelved by current owner Ellis Short and although Gabbiadini admits Grayson is not the "sexy" signing fans may have wanted, he believes he is the right one in the club's current predicament.
Marco Gabbiadini was a striker at Sunderland between 1987 and 1991
Gabbiadini told Sky Sports News HQ: | {
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As last summer proved, if you don't get your pre-season work right it's very difficult to get a season together."
Sunderland were relegated to the Sky Bet Championship as the Premier League's bottom club, ending a 10-year stay in the top flight in which they had flirted with relegation in nine of them.
The club's finances are not on secure footing, with the owner keen to sell, and Gabbiadini is concerned they are not in the right shape to be able to bounce back at the first time of asking.
"One thing Sunderland have been good at over the last decade is getting promoted out of the Championship," he said. "They'll be looking to do that as soon as possible.
"But, talking to fans, they're worried that might not happen this time.The goal of the University of Pittsburgh Obesity and Nutrition Research Center (ONRC) is to develop more effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity. This focus is significant since there are 34 million Americans who are obese, and current efforts at treatment and prevention are only moderately successful. The University of Pittsburgh is uniquely qualified to focus on intervention research, since the Director and Associate Director, Drs. Rena R. Wing and Leonard H. Epstein, are internationally known for their research on this topic. Currently, there are more than 50 NIH-funded research projects at the University of Pittsburgh related to obesity and nutrition. These projects are being executed by researchers in the Departments of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Psychology. An ONRC at the | {
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Los Angeles police shot and critically injured a man armed with a knife Tuesday near USC’s South Los Angeles campus, authorities said.
About 4:45 p.m., two LAPD officers assigned to the LAPD’s Southwest Division conducted a traffic stop near Magnolia Avenue and 27th Street, about four blocks north of the University Park campus, Det. Meghan Aguilar said.
An altercation broke out between the officers and the vehicle’s sole occupant, described as a man in his 30s who was armed with a knife, Aguilar said.
At some point during the struggle, police shot the man, she said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and was undergoing surgery, she said. His identity was not released, and police said there’s no indication he is enrolled at USC.
Interested in the stories shapingand Fike also appeal their convictions for violations of the Eagle Protection Act, 16 U.S.C. Sec. 668 et seq. (1982). We affirm Ellison's conviction on all counts but reverse Stenberg's. We reverse Fike's conviction on the count involving guiding services and affirm his conviction on the remaining four counts.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Operation Trophykill
2
These three cases arose out of an undercover investigation by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) into the illegal taking and sale of wildlife in interstate commerce. The investigation, known as Operation Trophykill, lasted from November 1981 to October 1984 and covered six states and several foreign countries. FWS Agent John Gavitt was the lead investigator in Operation Trophykill. Under the name of John Cummings, Gavitt acted as the | {
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business manager of a taxidermy operation located in Colorado. Operation Trophykill was extended to Montana after Gavitt received information from a local FWS agent and others, during the Fall of 1982, that protected wildlife was being sold and guiding services were being provided in and around Yellowstone National Park and the Livingston, Montana area.
B. Ellison
3
Gavitt first became aware that Loren Ellison might be involved in illegal activities as a result of a conversation with a man in Montana named Larry Myers. Gavitt had contacted Myers after receiving information that Myers was a "middle man" in the sale of elk antlers to K.L. Kim, who allegedly purchased the antlers for sale in the Orient. On November 3, 1982, Myers had told Gavitt that he knew ofWhen Gavitt asked if Ellison would be willing to serve as a hunting guide for some of Gavitt's "clients" who did not have hunting licenses, Ellison expressed interest. As a result of several more exchanges, Ellison and two of his associates guided FWS Agent Adam O'Hara on an illegal elk hunt in January 1983. During the hunt, O'Hara killed a bull elk, and Ellison shipped the cape to Gavitt in Colorado.
5
Also in January 1983, Ellison accompanied Gavitt on a trip to Ennis, Montana, where Gavitt planned to sell a load of elk antlers. During the journey, Ellison stated that he had a reputation as a stealer of elk antlers from Yellowstone National Park, which fortunately kept the authorities from focusing on his wildlife hunting activities, | {
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and that he had made over $30,000 from selling antlers. He claimed that in one transaction two years ago he had sold over eight tons of antlers to K.L. Kim; he also said that in the most recent year he and his partners had taken over one ton of antlers from the Park. Ellison further told Gavitt that five years previously he and a friend had killed twenty-one mule deer and that such deer were his "specialty."
6
At the end of January 1983, Ellison contacted Gavitt and stated that he had recently killed two big horn sheep. Gavitt initially said he was interested, and during the next few weeks a possible sale of the sheep was discussed several times over the telephone. Ellison latertold Gavitt he had sold the sheep to someone in Billings, Montana. At the trial, a Billings resident named Morris Nielson testified that he purchased one sheep's head from Ellison in February for $350. The sheep were killed out of season and Ellison had no license to kill them.
7
On August 30, 1983, Gavitt met Ellison at his trailer just as Ellison was leaving for an off-season, and therefore illegal, elk hunt. Ellison told Gavitt he would sell him the antlers and cape if he killed an elk. The hunt proved unsuccessful, but on September 2, 1983 Ellison sold Gavitt two sets of velvet antlers that he had acquired during previous illegal killings. Ellison told Gavitt he had originally intended to sell the antlers | {
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illegal wildlife transactions, and through him Agent Gavitt was introduced to many others engaged in similar activities.
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Ellison was indicted for felony and misdemeanor violations of the Lacey Act and the Eagle Protection Act.2 Before trial, Ellison moved the court to dismiss all the charges against him or, in the alternative, to bar prosecution on the ground of excessive and outrageous government conduct during the course of the investigation. The court denied the motion. Ellison renewed this motion following the government's presentation of its case-in-chief and at the close of trial, and the court denied the motion each time.
14
Ellison contended during trial that he had been entrapped, and the issue was submitted to the jury. The jury found Ellison guilty of the charges relatingto the sale of two sets of velvet antlers on September 2, 1983, the sale of fourteen eagles between February 28, 1984 and June 5, 1984, and the sale of one set of velvet antlers on July 20, 1984. The jury deadlocked on the charges relating to the hunt with Agent O'Hara in January 1983 and the sale of two elk capes in December 1983. The judge sentenced Ellison to consecutive prison terms totalling fifteen years and to five years of probation to be served at the expiration of the prison term.
C. Fike
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as a guide for an out-of-state client beginning January 9, but that he would be free to work for Gavitt after January 15. In addition, Fike stated that he had recently killed three mountain lions, although he usually had killed twelve by this point in the season,3 and that two days earlier he had sold the skin from one. When Fike asked if Gavitt were interested in purchasing the remaining two skins, which, Fike warned, were untagged and therefore illegal, Gavitt said yes. Gavitt then proceeded with Fike and Ellison to Fike's house, where Fike produced two rolled-up lion skins and two skulls. He also produced the pelt of a mink he claimed to have killed that day; he said he had hiddenthe pelt because he believed that mink season had ended.4 Fike initially asked for $1000 for the two skins and two skulls, but, after negotiations, eventually agreed to accept $600 for the skins, the skulls, and the mink pelt.
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In the ensuing weeks Gavitt and Fike talked several times over the phone, and Fike agreed to take one of Gavitt's clients on a mountain lion hunt and ship Gavitt the skins of any lions killed. During one conversation Fike stated that on the preceding day he had served as a guide for a Canadian man who killed a mountain lion but had no tag. The planned hunt with Gavitt's client never took place because of lack of adequate snow cover.
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of shipping the cape and horns to Gavitt.
18
In November 1983 Fike initiated contact with Gavitt and informed him that he had a mountain lion skin for sale and that he needed money badly. Gavitt initially offered $275, but eventually acceded to Fike's request for $300. Gavitt wired the money, and Fike shipped the skin, without a tag, to Colorado.
19
After December 1983, Gavitt had no contact with Fike until the two met accidentally in June 1984. During that meeting Fike offered to sell Gavitt the skin and skull of a mountain lion, which he stated had not been tagged, for $500. While this transaction was being consummated in Fike's cabin, Ellison arrived with some eagle parts he intended to sell to Gavitt. Later thatday Fike stated that he had not known Gavitt was interested in eagle parts, that he had sold twenty eagle carcasses to someone several years ago, and that he killed 5 to 7 eagles per year. Fike then sold Gavitt one bald eagle tail fan, two golden eagle tail fans, and twenty-five eagle talons for a total of $200.
20
Fike was indicted for violations of the Lacey Act and the Eagle Protection Act based on the following transactions: the sale of two mountain lion skins, two skulls, and one mink pelt in January 1983; the sale of guiding services for the hunt in which a goat was killed in September 1983; the sale of one mountain lion skin in November 1983; the sale of | {
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one mountain lion skin and skull in June 1984; and the sale of various eagle parts in June 1984. Before trial, Fike moved to dismiss or bar prosecution on the ground that the government's conduct was outrageous. His motion was consolidated with Ellison's and was denied. At trial, Fike claimed that he had been entrapped. The jury found him guilty on all counts. He was sentenced to consecutive five year prison terms on each of the first two counts to be followed by five years of probation on the remaining three; the court imposed additional prison terms on the last three counts but then suspended "imposition" of sentence.
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The facts alleged by the government in Stenberg's case, and which he concedesdeter her from her dreams to be a boxer.
"A lot of people gave me a lot of reasons why I shouldn't get into the ring – they said "women shouldn't box" and I just started a business of my own and was expected to head in that direction," she explained.
Despite the hindrances, Laila rose to fame, not only as the daughter of the boxing legend, but also as an ace boxer and won the IBA Female Super Middleweight title, IWBF Female Light Heavyweight title and WBC World Super Middleweight title during her career.
In 2012, she received the AOCA Awakening Outstanding Contribution Award in acknowledgement of her achievements as boxer.
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Shown Here:Introduced in House (12/10/2008)
Establishes in the Senate and the House of Representatives the Joint Select Committee on Reorganization and Reform of Foreign Assistance Agencies and Programs which shall investigate: (1) the organization of the various federal agencies and departments that oversee and implement U.S. foreign assistance programs; (2) U.S. foreign assistance program objectives, staffing and funding levels, and performance; and (3) legislative procedures and organization related to the authorization and appropriation of funding for and oversight of U.S. foreign assistance programs and agencies.
Terminates the Committee 30 days after filing the report required under this Act or upon the expiration of the one-year period beginning on the date of the adoption of this resolution, whichever occurs earlier.DjangoCon US 2017
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DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.
DjangoCon US has something for everyone, from the person who develops Django applications for a living to the person who just tinkers in their spare time. You'll discover details about a range of diverse applications that people from all over the world are building with Django, get a deeper understanding of concepts you’re already familiar with and discover new ways to use them, and have a lot of fun! | {
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moments that filled us with yearning, desire and the strength that it took to leave it all – families, friends, a country, a life – behind to pursue those dreams.” Now, after ten years of performing in the U.S. and playing a leading role in the development of timba, a heavily percussive- and horn-driven Cuban dance music (música bailable), it’s likely that Tiempo Libre’s latest timba is among the tunes beaming through one of those secret, rooftop radios somewhere in Havana.
The group’s new album My Secret Radio, a reference to those clandestine radio transmissions that marked the group’s adolescent years on the island, releases on May 3rd. Following on the heels of three Grammy nominations, the band’s fifth studio album chronicles both sides of the immigrant experience –of FELA! the Broadway musical opening in Lagos.
The hottest place on the planet this week, theatrically speaking, was not in New York or London but in Africa. FELA!, the Broadway musical about the life of Afrobeat pioneer and political rebel Fela Kuti, began an historic and groundbreaking series of performances in Lagos, Nigeria, Fela's home city.
Produced by a Nigerian Production company, Broken Shackles, with the assistance of the Lagos State Government, the entire Broadway production, consisting of over 80 cast members and crew, as well as 19 tons of equipment, were transported to Lagos to present the show. According to Stephen Hendel, the originator and producer of the original Broadway production, this is only the second time in the history of Broadway than an entire Broadway cast has | {
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been transported to a foreign country to perform a show, and is the first time a Broadway cast has performed in Africa.
Femi Kuti with the cast (Photo by Niegel Smith)
After a single performance last week of a concert version of the show at the New Africa Shrine, where they were joined onstage by Femi Kuti, Fela's eldest son and Afrobeat bandleader, the full version of the Broadway show opened on Thursday night at the Eko Center, a conference hall converted to a theater for the purposes of the show. Closer to the size of Madison Square Garden than to a Broadway theater, the Eko Center was filled almost to capacity for opening night. Many luminaries were in attendance, including Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Former Governor of LagosState, Ahmed Tinubu, his Excellency Babatunde Fashola, the current governor of Lagos State, and many other Nigerian politicians and members of Nigeria's musical, artistic, and fashion communities. In remarks from onstage before the show, Governor Tinubu spoke of how he became absolutely determined to bring the show to Nigeria after seeing the show on Broadway on Broadway in New York. He also commented that he thought it was reason for great optimism that a show such as FELA!, which in parts is openly critical of the Nigerian government and power structure, could be presented freely and openly in Nigeria, particularly as it opened just days after the Nigerian Presidential election.
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the audience was not a New York or London audience. Being more familiar with Fela's life-story and music, they joined in on many of the songs, picked up on many of the jokes quickly, and seemed to particularly empathize with those parts of the dealing with Fela's struggles with the government. Lillias White, who plays Fela's mother Fumilayo in the show, was moved to tears when, within one bar of starting to sing Fela's song "Trouble Sleep", the whole audience joined in and sang the entire song with her. Many members of the audience also expressed astonishment that the American musicians in the show, many of whom are from the Afrobeat band Antibalas, could perform Fela's music with such skill and passion.
Of course, much of the audience's reactionto the show depended on their response to Sahr Ngaujah who played Fela. Whatever skepticism they might have had about a non-Nigerian playing the role of their national hero seemed to vanish with the first "Yeah Yeah", and at the end of the show he was greeted with a standing ovation. One member of the audience, a man known as Captain, who had been a close friend of Fela's, told me "Now in my life, I have witnessed two Felas - Fela, and Sahr/Fela." For many of the cast members, variously of African-American, African living in America, and Afro-Caribbean descent, performing in Africa and in Fela's hometown of Lagos was a tremendously emotional experience with many of them describing it as one of the most moving events of | {
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their lives.
After opening night, Kevin Mambo alternated in the role of Fela with Sahr Ngaujah. The outpouring of support and the sharing of emotion that continued between the audience and the cast was overwhelming and is best summed up by Kevin Mambo's statement after his first show:
"Wow. first performance in Naija! They laughed and cried with us. A boy came to me during the walk-around and asked me to return from the dead with tears in his eyes because Naija needs me, and after the show during "Gentleman", the audience mobbed us with love love love. Words can never express. Diaspora touching and sharing together. How could we be so fortunate? Humbled and exhilarated."
FELA! will continue to run in Lagos through the Easter weekend. If you missed it,Studios has opened up in Harare, becoming one of the only commercial music cassette production facilities in the world.
Bouba's music store in Dakar - Barrie McClune
For years, audio cassettes have been one of the most popular formats for music on the continent, and around much of Africa, tapes still sit alongside CDs in music stores. Artists such as Youssou N'Dour who make albums specifically for local markets will often have great albums that can only be found on tape rather than CD, let alone mp3.
Luckily for us, there is someone trawling through the mountains of musical cassettes from Africa and making them available online for us – Brooklyn's own Brian Shimkovitz. If you haven't discovered it yet, take time to look through the amazing library of music Brian | {
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dock workers.
Enrique Collazo
The concert at Old Town was ample evidence that the introduction was no exaggeration. Each performer contributed masterfully to weaving a magical musical spell of delicate and rhythmic texture, practically a Cuban sonic landscape. It was also impossible to sit still, and with encouragement from the band, the audience was frequently on its feet, shimmy-ing and shaking as much as was allowed by the bench formation of Old Town School´s auditorium. Each instrument was played in a way that one could easily focus on its melody and beats individually. Vocals harmonized, the tres’ delicate and intricate lacework of melodies coursed through the room, the trumpet blared golden, the guitar moved it along, bongo punctuated and maracas shimmered.
Dagoberto Sacerio Oliva
We heard the classic “Echale Salsita” (Piñeiro wasthe first to mention "salsa" in that song in 1933), participated in the call and response of some of the songs that displayed their Afro-Cuban roots most markedly, and even danced slowly to a couple of boleros. It was a night to remember!
Small wonder that the Septeto is recognized as Patrimonio Nacional de la Cultura Cubana (a national treasure of Cuban culture). In 2009, they were the first Cuban musicians to receive visas from the State Department after no Cuban musicians had entered the U.S. in a six-year period. They came to Chicago that year, and we are privileged they came to visit us again to share the exuberant joy of Piñeiro's Cuban son.
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ongoing concern, one that is playing into the unrest and change sweeping the region. Afropop checks in with Berber music on many fronts on this week's broadcast. We have links to great resources on Berber music, and also excerpts of interviews with some of the major artists. In preparing for this show, we spoke with a number of sources. I had a particularly interesting conversation with Moh Alileche, a composer and singer from Kabylia, Algeria, who now lives in San Francisco. Moh's music was featured in the first Berber Rising program in 2002, and has been heard on other Afropop broadcasts.
Moh follows the struggles of the Imazighen (Berber peoples) around North Africa, but especially in Algeria, where the cultural oppression has been intense, outdone perhaps only by theKhadafi regime in Libya. When we spoke, Moh said that the situation in Algeria has not improved significantly since the "Berber Spring" uprisings in 1980. "Thirty-one years later," said Moh, "nothing has really happened in a positive way. In fact, it has deteriorated." Nine years ago, Moh was also not optimistic, despite positive statements made by the Algerian government at that time. "I said they were trying to eradicate [Berber culture] completely. Now they are approaching success. They have surrounded the Kabyle region with 100,000 military. They say it is to protect against terrorists, but it's the opposite. They will crush any Berber organization immediately."
The optimism of that era was based on the designation of Tamazight, the Berber language, as a "national language." But as Idir notes in | {
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He has been paying close attention to the plight of Berbers in Libya, where just before the uprising, two Berber singers were jailed after one performed at a Berber festival in Morocco. "If you sing in Tamazight in Libya," said Moh, "you are in trouble." Moh is working on a new song about what is going on at present in North Africa. The working title is "It started in Tunisia." It's his first song in English, and he shared with us his lyrics, still in progress:
It started in TunisiaA struggle with Zin AbidineYouth wanted a new eraAnd toppled the old regime
Spirit rising in the airQuickly embraced in CairoPeople of Tahrir SquareForced Mubarak to go
Wind blows into LibyaBringing hope and libertyForty-one year old juntaIs wanted in Benghazi
People of otherdeath of UK reggae singer, Smiley Culture. 'Smiley' died from a single stab wound to the heart during a police raid at his house. Police state that the wound was self-inflicted, but as the crowds of protesters demonstrate, many believe there is more to the story than the official version. His death is being investigated.
Smiley was a big name in the UK, paving the way for much urban music today. He had success both for his DJ work with the Saxon Soundsystem and for his hits as a solo artists. His first single 'Cockney Translation,' aimed to help the Jamaican communities to understand cockney London talk. The themes of this song also signaled the growing connection between working class and Caribbean immigrant communities in inner cities of UK, | {
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and nodded to the increasing influence of Jamaican patois on English language. Smiley's most successful single, 'Police Officer,' told a humorous story of police taking his weed, but the underlying message told of prejudice amongst the UK police in their treatment of black people.
At the march, instead of holding a minute's silence for Smiley, 'Police Officer' was played over a sound system while the crowd danced and sang along.
There are now plans to re-release this song, and hold a concert in the name of all those who die in police custody. Word has it that David Bowie, Sade, Nas, and Damian Marley are all in talks to be involved. Watch this space, and take in Smiley's tune:
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Afropop film contributor Erich Woodrum recently spent some timein Belize at Stonetree Records interviewing and filming Aurelio Martinez, producer Ivan Duran and the scene at the Stonetree compound. What he brought back is a real gem documenting the current state of Garifuna culture and some great exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage of Aurelio in his element. This footage is truly unique.
More than a year before Egypt’s inspiring revolution, Afropop began planning a research trip to the country as part of our ground breaking Hip Deep program series. The plan is to travel to Egypt this summer to gather material for four radio programs, and a variety of web offerings, including videos, blog posts and social media outreach.
The programs are:
• Cairo, Part 1: A Musical Portrait: A history of the city told through music
• Cairo, Part 2: The Seduction | {
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of Production: How Cairo became the region’s music and film production capital in the 20th century
• Cairo, Part 3: 21st Century Underground: From Sudanese hip hop to heavy metal, a behind the scenes look at the city’s contemporary scene
• Egypt: Living Legacies of the Past: Sufi festivals, wedding bands, cultural revival in Port Said, the epic poets of Luxor, the music of Ramadan, and the way the past inhabits Egypt’s fast changing present
Through our radio show and our multi-media website, Afropop will bring you aspects of Egypt you won’t find anywhere else. Programs will sample Cairo’s heavy metal scene, its Sudanese enclave with hip hop stars and mystical healing ceremonies. We’ll spend time in recording studios taking the pulse of new music for a new nation. And alongwill be Egypt as only Afropop Worldwide can reveal it. Become a part of Hip Deep in Egypt. Become a part of history!
About Afropop:
Afropop Worldwide is a syndicated public radio program introducing listeners to the music and culture of Africa and the global African diaspora. Hosted by veteran Cameroonian broadcaster Georges Collinet, the program started in 1988 and is now heard throughout the United States on public radio stations. It is also distributed in Europe, and heard globally via the companion website www.afropop.org. Afropop’s website began in 1997 as one of the first dedicated to African music. The site has kept up with changing technologies and remains one of the richest African music destinations on the internet.
Since 2004, Afropop has produced a unique set of Hip Deep radio | {
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programs, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Hip Deep programs use music to explore important chapters of history, from slavery and colonialism, to diaspora communities and the rise of today’s hip hop generation. Hip Deep in Egypt extends the reach of this ground-breaking initiative both geographically and thematically. It will also make extensive use of original field work by the Afropop team, a new emphasis in the Hip Deep program series.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Last week, two Afropop veterans gave remarkable performances in New York. On Sunday and Monday, Johnny Clegg played the City Winery, with his lean new Johnny Clegg Band. Then, on Saturday, Salif Keita returned to the Apollo Theater with his absolutely unique African traditional rock band. Both artists gave fully committed performancesAmerica. We'll be looking at the ongoing histories of the AACM, streaming a few tracks from George Lewis' recommended list of recordings, and looking at ideas of African identities in American jazz through Art Blakey, the AACM's concept of Great Black Music, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
First up, George Lewis and the AACM:
George Lewis plays a crucial, innovative role in the development of American music. He is known for being a composer, performer, improviser of music; professor of American Music at Columbia and director of its Center for Jazz Studies; and prolific writer on music. He has been a member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) since 1971, and has recently published a widely acclaimed book on the history of the AACM: A | {
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Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
In their own words, the AACM is 'a collective of musicians and composers dedicated to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music.' While many have interpreted the AACM as promoters of free jazz, or even as a jazz ensemble, the Association was founded to provide creative musicians with a forum, the support, and the means to compose and perform original compositions. George Lewis sees it as coming “out of necessity,” as the name itself hints at. George talks of the discussions surrounding the choice of the name AACM (Association For the Advancement of Creative) itself in the interview with Simon:
Someone said, "Is it musicians or is it music?" There seemed to be arguments onboth sides. So one person – I think it was Phil Cohran, who was one of the founders, a trumpeter in Chicago-- said that basically we were here to advance the creative musicians because the music had been advanced for a long time but nobody was advancing us.That seemed to make a lot of sense because, it was basically referring to that history of exploitation of black music, which advanced the music to be sure but the musicians were kind of left behind.
While it is an ongoing, dynamic organization, the AACM grew out of a specific context: Chicago's South side in the 60s, after the Great Migration. Coming out of such a space and time, it is inevitably tied up with the civil rights movement. A striving for | {
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freedom and mobility lies at the heart of the organization, and George Lewis believes this is why the composing and performing of original music has been so important for the AACM, for 'original music is a sign of self-determination'. Rather than playing the standards for easy-going jazz audiences, or having to perform to the whim of whoever holds the money in his hand, the AACM created a space where musicians' own voices could be heard. George Lewis expands on the importance of original music, and the connection of the AACM with the civil rights movement in his interview with Simon:
Simon: Do you also think this creating original music also goes hand in hand with African-Americans trying to get their equal rights, to be completely free in America?George: Boy,music they are pumping out and we wanted to give a quick shout-out to them in case any of you out there have yet to check ‘em out.
Robert Randolph’s meteoric rise to the status of “jam-band/blues cult hero,” as Timothy Finn put it, is astonishing, especially considering that he began life as a musician in a black Pentecostal church and spent the majority of his adolescence entirely unaware of what was going on in popular music.
With so much buzz circulating around this virtuoso of the pedal steel guitar, I took my seat at the Trustees Theater last Friday night early, not wanting to miss a single note. Maybe it was the noticeably younger, jam-band revelers, who made up a significant portion of the audience that night, or maybe | {
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have addressed the African roots of their music, focusing in on Duke Ellington, Jim Crow, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Jason Moran, and the AACM (the Art Ensemble of Chicago).
Here, we've picked out three tracks for you: Duke Ellington's awesome 1927 recording of 'Black and Tan Fantasy' with trumpeter, Bubber Miley; Art Blakey's 'Lamento Africano' from the 1958 Holiday For Skins which he recorded after his travels in Africa and is filled with West African and Latin rhythms; and a video clip of the AACM in the 1970 French film Les Stances à Sophie. The AACM performed an amazing soundtrack for this rare classic of the French new wave that was out of print for thirty years and has recently been re-released – definitely worth checking out.
Lastnight, Cuban musicians from both sides of the Florida Straits came together to share the stage at the Savannah Music Festival. The legendary rumba group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, who are on a one-month tour across the U.S., and the Miami-based timba band Tiempo Libre, represent, in many ways, two very different sides of the Cuban musical spectrum. Los Muñequitos are a virtual Cuban institution, an extended family of performers known both at home and abroad as a living repository of Afro-creole music and tradition spanning everything from rumba to the hallowed rhythms and cantos of the island’s many African-derived religions. Unlike many folklore ensembles, Los Muñequitos’ sound is neither entirely scripted nor vapid; they somehow manage to push the envelope while remaining firmly anchored in the African | {
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no such diplomacy was necessary. Members of both groups mingled freely, told jokes and stories, posed for photographs, and engaged in intense discussions regarding the fate of so many popular Cuban musicians who have immigrated to the U.S., only to then fall short of revamping their music and careers. “El Médico de la Salsa,” Manolín, was a name that kept popping up in the discussion. There a few Cubans who do not know Manolín’s story; he was blacklisted in Cuba for singing a song in which he declared his intention to build a bridge between Havana and Miami, “so that the people of Havana can come, and the people of Miami can go.”
Los Muñequitos played two impressive 50-minute sets, each one followed by Tiempo Libre and their polished,stage and grabbed guiros, congas, and, every now and then, the microphone, accompanying Tiempo Libre on a conga and a timba called “La Llave” that had the whole place jumping. The night ended with enthusiastic embraces, hearty pats on the back, and promises to keep in touch. Not only was it a great show but a striking testimony to the power of music to bring people together, nourish and sustain a sense of community, and transcend the polarizing ideological divides that characterize so much official political discourse on U.S.-Cuba relations.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Opening the New York African Film Festival last night were two films about music, featuring hip hop in the Bronx by way of Tanzania, and classical music in the Congo. The term 'African music' can cover | {
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a lot!
The eight minute Bongo Barbershop began the evening. Filmed in a matter of hours in the Bronx, it gives us a little insight into the African diaspora here in New York. Director Charlie Ahearn recreates the arrival of a Tanzanian citizen who is looking for 'the real hip hop' and ends up in a barbershop in the Bronx. Like a streetwise musical, the barbershop becomes a performance space as the US and Tanzania challenge each other to rap. Short in time and budget, the film is more of a lyrical styling around an idea than a fully fledged film, but it had the audience at the Lincoln center wooping. Check the whole film on youtube:
The opening night feature, Kinshasa Symphony, is a gem. Stories from the Congousually reach US screens through news reports of civil war, rape, mass migration, and poverty. Kinshasa Symphony brings a very different story to the global stage: a documentary on the city's Symphony Orchestra as it prepares for its biggest concert yet in Kinshasa. In spite of a total lack of funding, instruments and, for many members, musical experience, the director pushes the orchestra on with determination. Watch on as classical music takes over Kinshasa!
The film is a joy to watch, with intriguing characters and hilarious moments. It is beautifully shot, and worth the price of a ticket for the images of Kinshasa and the orchestra alone. Of course, the soundtrack filling almost the entire film is a welcome bonus! From Beethoven on a bus to Congolese soukous in | {
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the streets, music drives the film forward.
We highly recommend Kinshasa Symphony and urge all those in New York to see it this Friday.
You can watch the trailer below, but be warned of spoilers!
Check out the rest of the New York African Film Festival program here.
And don't forget that the New York Havana Film Festival is an all this week too, including a salsa film or two. Check out their program here.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
At Afropop we are always receiving interesting music, project and emails. Recently, we received information from Stuart Hyatt of Team Records about a project called Acholi Music Project.
The endeavor captured the unique singing of tribes in northern Uganda through the extensive field work of anthropology graduate student Adrian Yen. Hyatt was kind enough to sharesome of the tracks captured with us which you can listen to below.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
This past weekend two African jazz singers--one from Morocco and one from South Africa--performed a unique tribute to Miriam Makeba at the Apollo Music Cafe, a sweet new venue at the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Malika Zarra opened with a spare trio consisting of only cajon percussion a saz and Zarra herself. Zarra's roots are with the Berber (Amazight) people of Morocco--often called the original North Africans. But she became a jazz singer in Paris, and brought her career to New York City a few years ago. Zarra usually fronts a larger band, as on her new CD Berber Taxi. But it was a treat to experience her in this stripped-down format. | {
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seemed completely comfortable with her backing quartet, which she unabashedly told the crowd had learned her songs just the day before. They did beautifully, but this was Klaasens' show, and as moving as her evocations of Makeba's delivery and style were, her sassy stage banter was almost as good. She coached the band, teased the audience, told humorous stories, and imparted fascinating insights into Makeba's songs: "Pata Pata? Means 'touch touch' by the way. Yeah! You didn't know that?" Klaasen let us know she had had a lifelong dream of performing at the Apollo, and while this was not the big stage, it seemed quite enough to fulfill that dream for her.
No surprise, both singers did a take on Makeba's signature song (though not her composition) "Malaika." Zarra'sEric Trump said "we're doing great in all of our assets" for the Trump Organization. | Getty Eric Trump will share business updates with father 'probably quarterly'
Eric Trump will keep his father, the president of the United States, abreast of the family business profits.
Opting against selling his business or placing it in a blind trust, President Donald Trump left management of the Trump Organization in the hands of his older two sons, Eric and Donald Jr.
In an interview with Forbes published Friday, Eric Trump described the setup as “kind of a clear separation of church and state that we maintain.”
“I am deadly serious about that exercise,” he said. “I do not talk about the government with him, and he does not talk about the business with us. That’s | {
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EFIM General Assembly - Thursday 1 September 2016, Amsterdam
Thursday, 1 September, 2016
We would like to thank all the members who joined us at the General Assembly in Amsterdam.
This year’s General Assembly was held on 1 September at the Beurse van Berlage in Amsterdam, in conjunction with the 15th European Congress of Internal Medicine, the first ever congress entirely organised by EFIM.
65 Board members, young Internists and members from 25 EFIM member countries were present at the EFIM General Assembly. The meeting started off with a warm welcome to the participants by the EFIM President, Dr. Frank Bosch. The Treasurer, Antonio Martins Baptista, presented the current financial affairs where EFIM accounts for 2015 and the budget for 2017 were approved. The next item on the agenda was | {
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election of Treasurer and President-Elect. Antonio Martins Baptista was unanimously re-elected to the position of EFIM Treasurer for a further 2 years. Dr. Baptista thanked the General Assembly members for the trust given.
Prof. Nicola Montano, the only candidate for the position of President- Elect, was unanimously elected and joined EFIM Executive Committee. Prof. Montano is a past director of ESIM Summer and a former member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine. Next, the EFIM President, Frank Bosch handed the presidency to Runolfur Palsson reflecting back in EFIM history by conveying a word of gratitude to all Past Presidents of EFIM, who devoted time and effort to shape and promote the organisation through the years. Runolfur Palsson, the new EFIM President, acknowledged the greatcontribution of Frank Bosch, to EFIM as well as stressing the need for further development and progress.
Frank, Runolfur and all the EFIM members congratulated Nica Cappellini for the dedication and support she has given to EFIM over the past 6 years as she left the her position of Past President.
Prof. Pier Mannucci, Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Internal Medicine, presented the progress of the Journal during the past year and informed the members about the decrease in the impact factor to 2.591. EJIM now ranks 30th of the 153 journals in the category Medicine General & Internal. Dr. John Kellett informed the members about the success of the European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine. Applications to host EFIM winter schools were received from three national | {
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societies, those of Slovakia, Greece and Finland. Despite strong presentation from all candidates, the overwhelming majority of votes went to the Finnish society of Internal Medicine. EFIM would like to congratulate Kim Petterson- Fernholm for presenting a great bid on behalf of the Finnish society and is looking forward to attend the winter school in Lapland. Numerous additional items were discussed and presented during the General Assembly, including the progress of the European Curriculum Project and future EBIM activities. Prof. Serhat Unal presented a progress report from the ADVICE working group and encouraged more members from EFIM to participate. Progress reports were presented for the upcoming summer and winter schools as well as the activities from the FDIME and the Young Internists. Nica Cappellini gave a brief overviewon the development of the 2017 European Congress of Internal Medicine in Milan, inviting members to mark the dates and encourage attendance to the congress through their societies.
The General Assembly concluded with the announcement of the next General Assembly in Milan in conjunction with the congress and EFIM Day that will be held in Brussels on 17 March 2017.
Finally, the EFIM General Assembly members gathered for a boat dinner and a wonderful cruise enjoying beautiful Amsterdam
Minutes:
Minutes:
Minutes of the General Assembly that took place on Thursday, 1 September in Amsterdam during the ECIM 2016, are available for download below: | {
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Michael Wang. Michael Wang The US Supreme Court's ruling in favor of affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin last Thursday likely further validated the use of race in admissions policies around the country.
And for the Asian-American students and organizations who feel that discrimination runs deep within the college admissions process, the ruling has fueled dismay.
"I feel disappointed with the court and what they're trying to do because I feel like they are just trying to avoid the issue of dealing with affirmative action right away," Michael Wang, a rising senior at Williams College, told Business Insider.
As an Asian-American, Wang has a personal interest in the issue of affirmative action. With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, he applied tooutside the Supreme Court in Washington on October 10, 2012. Associated Press When he applied in 2013, Wang suspected that his race might work against him. But he was still shocked when he received rejection letters from Stanford and every Ivy League school except for the University of Pennsylvania.
Wang says that he worked incredibly hard and excelled in every area possible, but it still wasn't good enough.
"There was nothing humanly possible I could do," Wang told Business Insider last year, adding that he felt utterly demoralized after his rejections.
He has yet to receive a response from the Department of Education.
"Still no updates on that — complete quiet," he said.
Wang isn't alone in his belief that the Ivies discriminate against Asian-Americans. A coalition of more than 60 Asian-American groups | {
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legal experts have opined that the ruling will certainly affect other affirmative-action decisions.
That decision "makes it less likely that [other] affirmative-action policies will be struck down by the courts," including Harvard University's policy, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler told Business Insider last week.
"The fact of how Fisher came out really does impact the [Harvard] case significantly," Winkler said.
Wang's credentials are impressive. Academically, he was ranked second in his class and graduated with a 4.67 weighted GPA. He scored a 2230 on his SAT, placing him in the 99th percentile of students who took the exam.
He also stressed that he was not just academically driven, but also a well-rounded applicant who maximized his extracurricular activities. He competed in national speech and debate competitions and math competitions. He also playsthe piano and performed in the choir that sang at US President Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration.
For now, he's enjoying his time at Williams College. And while Williams consistently ranks near the top, if not at No. 1, in US News & World Report's rankings of liberal-arts colleges, Wang still feels as if he was unfairly rejected from the Ivies.
"I think I deserve better than what I got," he said. | {
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being treated with marijuana from trying Avidekel. About 10 patients began using it in the past six months, Klein said.
"The cannabis plant, enriched with CBD, can be used for treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, colitis, liver inflammation, heart disease and diabetes," she said, adding there were no side effects.
"It's a huge advantage," said one 35-year-old patient who asked not to be identified, "I can smoke during the day, function with a lot less pain and still be focused, work and drive. It is a great gift."
The woman began suffering chronic pains after a tumour was removed from her spine. She began treatment with regular THC-containing marijuana eight months ago. Two months ago she started smoking Avidekel.
"The difference is huge. Before, I would only smoke at the end ofareas (OFRA -- German name of the program: 'Trittsicher durchs Leben') is a large health care fund driven program to improve safe mobility and reduce the risk of falls and fractures in older people living in rural areas. The health care fund (Sozialversicherung für Landwirtschaft, Forsten und Gartenbau - SVLFG) is both a health insurance and an accident insurance which is compulsory for people working in agriculture, gardening and forestry. For OFRA the health care fund cooperates with the 'German Association of Rural Women' (LandFrauenverband - dlv), a volunteer organisation of women living in rural areas, the German Gymnastics Association (Deutscher Turnerbund - DTB) and the Robert Bosch Gesellschaft für Medizinische Forschung, Stuttgart (RBMF).
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DXA measurement. If required, they will also give recommendations how to increase safety in the nearby living environment. In few cases the approach can be also by telephone instead of a visit at home. The 'prevention managers' are usually well known by the insured persons since they visit the farms regularly as part of their daily work for the agricultural accident insurance. The 'prevention manager' gives feedback about the insured person's preferences to the tele-center. In case of interest the staff of the tele-center tries to refer the insured person to one of the 'Trittsicher'-mobility and falls prevention classes taking place next to the people's homes. The persons receive a final report in which their preferences regarding the components of the program, dates and arrangements are summarized. Thebased on the figures received so far.
Mr Akufo-Addo’s main campaign theme was that his New Patriotic Party (NPP) could better manage an economy that has slowed since Mr Mahama took power in 2013.
The former foreign minister (72), also said his party had also picked up 49 seats in parliament. The ruling National Democratic Congress says it has lost its parliamentary majority.
Ghana had one of the most dynamic economies of Africa for years but GDP growth slowed in part due to lower global prices for the country’s exports of gold, cocoa and oil.
The government is mid-way through an International Monetary Fund programme to restore fiscal stability in the face of an increased budget deficit, high public debt, inflation and a currency that has halved in value since 2014.
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supported the IMF programme and has presented detailed plans for the country in line with its free market and conservative ideology. These include giving each district about $1 million per year to spend on development projects. – (Reuters)In 2015, a pair of economists received widespread attention for their study showing that since the late 1990s the death rate has been rising for middle-aged white Americans.
Now a new analysis by the same Princeton University team has identified which part of that population was driving that trend: people without college degrees.
For the record: In an earlier version of this article, these quotations from the authors’ study were not quoted accurately: “A long-term process of decline … began for those leaving high school and entering the labor force after the early 1970s,” and “traditional structures of social and economic support slowly weakened,” the authors wrote.
White men and women in every age group between 25 and 64 who did not have college degrees saw their mortality rates increase between | {
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a high school education or less now fare worse than blacks as a whole — a reversal of the situation in 1999.
Blacks and Latinos have seen steady improvement in mortality rates as whites without college degrees have been going in the other direction as a result of drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide and a recent halt in a decline in deaths due to heart disease. The nation’s opioid abuse epidemic played a major role.
But the authors said an underlying culprit is the widespread erosion of institutions that provided stability in American life for much of the 20th century: the manufacturing industry, the church, unions and stable marriage.
“A long-term process of decline … began for those leaving high school and entering the labor force after the early 1970s,” andChristina Fallin, Governor's Daughter, Defends Indian Headdress
Christina Fallin, the daughter of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, is standing by the controversial photo of herself in a traditional Native American headdress, saying she meant do disrespect to the culture.
The 26-year-old found herself in a firestorm of outrage after she posted a photo of herself in the red- and white-feathered headdress on Instagram Thursday. She tagged the image "appropriate culturation" and indicated that it was taken at Remington Park, an Oklahoma racetrack and casino owned by the Chickasaw Nation, The Associated Press reported.
"Growing up in Oklahoma, we have come into contact with Native American culture institutionally our whole lives — something we are eternally grateful for," Fallin, who also plays in a punk band, said in the statement. "With age, we | {
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Movie Reviews
Poor quality, but O'Connor's story is faithful from beginnin
fra7299 | California, United States | 07/12/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I guess there are two ways to view this DVD. From a literary standpoint, this is almost a flawless version of Flannery O'Connor's short story, as most characters and situations are exactly the same as the story. However, from a film viewing standpoint, it could have been better. The film's quality definitely seems dated, and seems to have a low budget quality about it. It's ironic because the film's poor quality blends in right with the dreary mood of the story.
However, I found the DVD quite worthwhile because I found the story interesting enough and it seemed to follow right along with O'Connor's tale. In "The Displaced Person", Mrs.McIntyre, who owns land in Georgia after World War 2, goes against the grain by allowing an outsider, a foreign man and his family, to come in and work on her farm. Immediately when he comes, the place seems to be disrupted. While Mrs. McIntyre loves Mr. Guizac's (the displaced person's) work ethic, others, such as Mrs. Shortley, resent that a foreigner can come in and "mess" things up. Harmony is not easy to achieve once McIntyre allows his family to stay, and eventually this leads to Mrs. McIntyre deciding to ask the Shortleys to leave. However, Mrs. Shortley, overhearing this, decides to have her family leave. This leads to more turmoil and Mrs. McIntyre must deal with the conflict of keeping or firing the Displaced Person. This | {
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A historic amendment to British law will now allow hundreds of Jews who escaped Nazi Germany as children on the eve of World War II to receive German National Insurance pensions.
"After many years of struggle, we have solved the legal entanglement that prevented [those who were part of the] Kindertransport from receiving the payments," Herman Hirschberger, 82, of London, who spearheaded the campaign, told Haaretz last week. "It's a breakthrough. Justice has prevailed."
Following a Haaretz query, the German government is now checking to see whether the several hundred Jews who left Germany with the Kindertransport and who now live in Israel will also be eligible for German pensions.
The Kindertransport ("children's transport" in German) was a rescue mission that brought about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, out ofNazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to safety in Britain on the eve of World War II. The children, aged 3 to 17, left their countries, homes and families and sailed to Britain between December 1938 and September 1939, where they were received by Jewish organizations.
Britain's Jewish leaders had obtained Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's consent to take them in, provided they paid for the refugees' travel and absorption expenses.
Until now, people who left Germany as part of the Kindertransport could not receive full German pensions, because they stopped paying German National Insurance fees upon arriving in Britain.
The German government offered compensation only for the years spent in Germany before the escape.
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been persecuted, they would have remained in Germany and been eligible today for full National Insurance pensions.
Following the amendment to British law, some of the National Insurance fees the Kindertransport members paid Britain will be written off retroactively. Germany agreed to consider this period as one in which the survivors paid German National Insurance fees - and will increase their pensions accordingly. The average German pension is four times greater than the average British pension.
This breakthrough followed a long persistent struggle Hirschberger launched 15 years ago.
"Most of the time I was alone. Everyone had given up and thought it was impossible. Even my wife told me it would never happen," he said.
Hirschberger arrived in Britain from Germany in March 1939 at the age of 13. His parents, whowere stuck in Germany, were murdered in Auschwitz.
"We're doing justice to this group of people, many of whom lost their families in the Holocaust and survived only because they were brought to Britain as children," said Mike O'Brien, British Minister of State for Pension Reform. The legislation is expected to be approved by the Queen in the next few months. With its enactment, the members of the Kindertransport will join other organized groups, such as former inmates of forced labor camps, who demanded and received pensions from Germany for the time they spent in labor camps out of Germany as well.
An estimated 150 people who came on the Kindertransport are still living in Britain. The government will act to locate them and has set up a hotline - | {
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wake of the British amendment, they are now wondering if they, too, might benefit from the increased German pensions.
Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East. Haaretz.com provides extensive and in-depth coverage of Israel, the Jewish World and the Middle East, including defense, diplomacy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the peace process, Israeli politics, Jerusalem affairs, international relations, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Israeli business world and Jewish life in Israel and the Diaspora.head and pulling the trigger in an intense Russian roulette scene. Critics were upset because there are no documented instances of the Vietcong using Russian roulette with POWs during the Vietnam War, while others were insistent that the movie was inspiring real-life suicides. The latter turned out to be true. The Louisville Courier-Journal found that close to 40 boys and men accidentally shot themselves during “Deer Hunter”-inspired games of Russian roulette.
2. Shirley Eaton Died During the Filming of “Goldfinger”
(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Many believe that actress Shirley Eaton, who starred in the 1964 James Bond installment “Goldfinger,” accidentally died from asphyxiation after being completely covered in thick gold paint. This legend is FALSE. In the 1960s it was wrongly believed that humans breathed through their skin, and that a | {
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was actually born a man. This legend is 100 percent TRUE. Caroline Cossey was born as a man in 1954. Cossey changed her name to Caroline in the 1970s and was cast in “For Your Eyes Only” a decade later. She only appeared on screen for a few seconds, credited as “girl at pool,” but that was enough for British tabloid News of the World to rip her apart. Cossey’s acting and modeling career suffered greatly as a result.
The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast.Last updated on .From the section England
Sam Allardyce's best Premier League finish is sixth, with Bolton in 2004-05
Sam Allardyce will be named as the new manager of England, with confirmation expected on Thursday.
He will leave Sunderland after nine months at the Premier League club.
Allardyce replaces Roy Hodgson, who quit in June after the surprise defeat by Iceland in the last 16 of Euro 2016.
The 61-year-old, who has also managed West Ham, Newcastle, Bolton and Blackburn, spoke to the Football Association last week and has been chosen ahead of Hull's Steve Bruce.
The only remaining issue to be settled is compensation to Sunderland, with Allardyce having a year left on his contract at the Stadium of Light.
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correspondent
Allardyce was interviewed for the England job following Sven-Goran Eriksson's departure after the 2006 World Cup but Steve McClaren was appointed.
His first competitive game in charge will be a World Cup qualifier in Slovakia on 4 September.
Allardyce will become the 14th permanent England boss, the pinnacle of a managerial career that started at Blackpool in 1994 and has taken in 467 Premier League games.
Only Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Harry Redknapp have managed more games in the top flight.
Allardyce has never won a major trophy but did secure promotion to the Premier League with both Bolton and West Ham.
He also won Division Three with Notts County in 1998.
As a player, Allardyce started at Bolton in the 1970s before spells at Sunderland, Millwall, Coventry, Huddersfield, West Brom, Irishclub Limerick and US side Tampa Bay Rowdies. He ended his career at Preston.
Allardyce in the Sunderland dug-out for the friendly against Hartlepool on Wednesday
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe and USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann had also been linked with the England job.
Allardyce has been chosen by a three-man FA panel of chief executive Martin Glenn, technical director Dan Ashworth and vice-chairman David Gill.
They said they were seeking a strong-minded, tactically savvy manager who could build a clear team identity.
Glenn also told BBC sports editor Dan Roan the new manager would need to "build resilience" in players so they are able to deal with criticism on social media and the pressures of an "intensely passionate" English media.
Allardyce's departure means Sunderland will now be looking for a ninth permanent manager in | {
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as Blackburn boss in September 2010
"Maybe my external look isn't to everybody's liking. It was the right time and the right job for me but not from the FA's point of view" - in 2009, on missing out on the England job three years earlier
Analysis
BBC Radio 5 live football correspondent John Murray:
"It is a realistic appointment based on England's performance at tournaments. Constant disappointment, getting so far and no further.
"I think Martin Glenn, in the aftermath of Roy Hodgson stepping down, gave a clear idea and indication that when it came to the salary for the new manager, it would be heavily performance-related. I would expect that to be the case."
Reaction
Former Norwich, Blackburn, Chelsea and Celtic striker Chris Sutton:
"I'm delighted because I've been fed up with fantasy football.up properly and give the players a chance."
Hull City player Alex Bruce
Allardyce was assistant manager at Preston North End when Kevin Kilbane was in the youth team at Deepdale
An Allardyce starting XI? England's next fixture is their opening World Cup 2018 qualifier against Slovakia on Sunday, 4 September. If Allardyce is in charge, who would be in his starting line-up?
Select formation Confirm team
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113 F.Supp. 933 (1953)
D'ARGENTO
v.
DULLES, Secretary of State.
Civ. A. No. 814-53.
United States District Court District of Columbia, Washington, D. C., Division.
July 24, 1953.
*934 Jack Wasserman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.
Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., Ross O'Donoghue, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendant.
MORRIS, District Judge.
This is an action, brought February 21, 1953, by the plaintiff against the Secretary of State, seeking a declaratory judgment that he is a citizen of the United States, pursuant to Title 28, U.S.C. § 2201, and for review of administrative action, pursuant to Title 5, U.S.C.A. § 1009. The plaintiff was born in Italy in 1903, came to the United States, was lawfully admitted for permanent residence in 1921, was naturalized as an American citizen in 1927, returned to Italy withan American passport in 1933, and has not since returned to the United States. It is alleged that, while he was inducted into the Italian Army, and was required to take an oath of allegiance to the King of Italy, serving in that army from 1935 to 1936, and again in 1939, he did not do this voluntarily; and that, while he voted in Italian elections in 1946, he was required by law to do so, and did so in ignorance that it might result in his loss of American citizenship. It is stipulated that a certificate of expatriation of the plaintiff has been approved by the Secretary of State, and that the plaintiff is presently outside of the United States in Windsor, Canada. The contention of the | {
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or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right or privilege by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States, such person may institute an action under the provisions of section 2201 of Title 28, United States Code, against the head of such department or independent agency for a judgment declaring him to be a national of the United States, except that no such action may be instituted in any case if the issue of such person's status as a national of the United States (1) arose by reason of, or in connection with any exclusion proceeding under the provisions of this or any other act, or (2) is inissue in any such exclusion proceeding. An action under this subsection may be instituted only within five years after the final administrative denial of such right or privilege and shall be filed in the district court of the United States for the district in which such person resides or claims a residence, and jurisdiction over such officials in such cases is hereby conferred upon those courts.
"(b) If any person who is not within the United States claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such right or privilege by any department or independent agency, or official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United States, such person may make application to a diplomatic or consular officer | {
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of the United States in the foreign country in which he is residing for a certificate of identity for the purpose of traveling to a port of entry in the United States and applying for admission. Upon proof to the satisfaction of such diplomatic or consular officer that such application is made in good faith and has a substantial basis, he shall issue to such person a certificate of identity. From any denial of an application for such certificate the applicant shall be entitled to an appeal to the Secretary of State, who, if he approves the denial, shall state in writing his reasons for his decision. The Secretary of State shall prescribe rules and regulations for the issuance of certificates of identity as above provided. The provisionsof this subsection shall be applicable only to a person who at some time prior to his application for the certificate of identity has been physically present in the United States, or to a person under sixteen years of age who was born abroad of a United States citizen parent.
"(c) A person who has been issued a certificate of identity under the provisions of subsection (b), and while in possession thereof, may apply for admission to the United States at any port of entry, and shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act relating to the conduct of proceedings involving aliens seeking admission to the United States. A final determination by the Attorney General that any such person is not entitled to admission to the United | {
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States shall be subject to review by any court of competent jurisdiction in habeas corpus proceedings and not otherwise. Any person described in this section who is finally excluded from admission to the United States shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act relating to aliens seeking admission to the United States."
Unless preserved by the savings clause of the Act, there cannot reasonably be any question that the intention of the Congress was definitely to withdraw the right of a person who is not within the United States, and who claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States, to prosecute an action in the federal courts for a declaratory judgment, or for a review of administrative action, except as such question, andor parts of statutes repealed by this Act are, unless otherwise specifically provided therein, hereby continued in force and effect. When an immigrant, in possession of an unexpired immigrant visa issued prior to the effective date of this Act, makes application for admission, his admissibility shall be determined under the provisions of law in effect on the date of the issuance of such visa. An application for suspension of deportation under section 19 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended, or for adjustment of status under section 4 of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended, which is pending on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be regarded as a proceeding within the meaning of this subsection.
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established in the manner and by the head of any Federal Agency as specified in that Act.
"(e) This Act shall not be construed to repeal, alter, or amend section 231(a) of the Act of April 30, 1946 (60 Stat. 148; 22 U.S.C. 1281(a)), the Act of June 20, 1949 (Public Law 110, section 8, Eighty-first Congress, first session; 63 Stat. 208), the Act of June 5, 1950 (Public Law 535, Eighty-first Congress, second session), nor Title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (Public Law 78, Eighty-second Congress, first session)." 66 United States Statutes at Large 280, quoted in part in 8 U.S.C.A. § 1101 note.
My main message to convey or share with others is ‘spirituality in-out’ by which I mean ‘the experience and understanding of God, human beings and nature and integrating them into our-lives and contribute for the betterment of each other
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God calls each one of us with a mission which we are aware of. Some of them are namely authors, care takers, doctors, guardians, scientists, social activists, farmers, masons, priests, parents and many others. God created us in his image … Continue reading →
God created the world out of His love. He fashioned us to praise, revere and serve Him. He shared his love with the creatures and takes care of them. What we see around us namely the variety of plants … Continue reading → | {
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problems. To resolve many of these
issues work on version five started, and resulted in IETF RFC1510 in
1993. Since then much work has been put into the further development, and
a new RFC will hopefully appear soon.
This manual manual page is part of the Heimdal Kerberos 5 distribution,
which has been in development at the Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, Sweden, since about 1997.
HEIMDAL September 1, 2000 HEIMDALI borrowed this from the library because I read and enjoyed Lindqvist’s debut novel, Let the Right One In, a while back and was interested in reading more of his work. Here is the summary from the Kobo store: In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.This | {
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of health, even though the specific ratios of humors or qualities may fail to conform to the ideal. In that respect, the concept of complexion embodies a paradox similar to the one at the heart of IV.26: such men's healthy condition is unhealthy. As when he speaks of men's "unnatural nature," Pietro is explicit about this group's physiological imbalance, saying that "their complexion [is] by nature excessively hot and dry." In an aside, fortified by references to three ancient authorities, he points out that men who are too hot to produce semen when young may grow out of their condition. In all of these cases, the natural operations of heat in the body give rise to an unnatural state of affairs, and it is for this reason that_problema_ IV.26, a fuller discussion is located below. But the significance of Evrart's reference here to "the misfortunes of the heavens" is that it confirms the difficulties posed by what he calls "the evil disposition that nature has given them from the beginning of their gestation." Nature can and often does produce outcomes that are not only defective but even bad.
The logic of monstrosity does little to clarify Pietro's taxonomy of failed males. On the one hand, he has taken pains to specify that not all those defective at birth, only those with no possibility of release, suffer the frustration that gives rise to insatiability. On the other hand, the natural history of monsters would seem to apply to those with partially as well as fully blocked vessels. | {
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anus and putting the penis in it as it is put into a vagina [ _vulvam_ ]. And Aristotle's discussion seems to be more about such men." The passage contains a wealth of information about the way Pietro understood and viewed male homosexual behavior. Having announced that the term "sodomite" referred to those guided by a habit, he portrays the "sodomitical act" in active terms; the person to whom the thighs and the anus/pseudo-vagina belong is not the subject of the verbs here. And one scribe preferred the even more explicit term "act of the sodomites" to "sodomitical act." This perspective is consistent with an earlier passage, in which Pietro had attached condemnatory language to the active partner in contrast to the one with fully blocked pores, sayingquestion enjoy what they do and thus desire to do it. He does not clearly specify which role they take and which they then seek to repeat, but a century and a half later a critic took him to task for suggesting that the result might be "doing" in an active sense. Theodorus Gaza speaks more explicitly: whether they are the ones who do the bearing or the ones who act, they are capable of emitting semen, and desire to behave on the basis of their experience. Both express in the grammatically active voice what the men involved end up desiring—they want "to do" or "to act." Acknowledging these difficulties, Pietro had offered two different paraphrases:
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intercourse, which is why they so adamantly seek it—or something like it; men who are already "effeminate" face the paradoxical danger of becoming "womanly."
The attention given to the comparison of the men of IV.26 with women varies from one textual setting to another. Although it adds milk to the list of natural superfluities, the Erfurt _Problemata_ omits any mention of women, even where the ancient original had explicitly set up the connection. And a bowdlerized copy of the Prague text records nothing but the comparison between the ordinary manifestations of sexual pleasure in women and men—with no hint of the original role played by that point in the full version of the text. But in their views of causes and in their choice of language, other short renditionsalso closed, it does not quickly emit seed.
Here Pietro confirmed his conviction that the insatiable women mentioned by Aristotle were adolescents. Here too he explained the relevance of madness: although insanity always implies the loss of reason, this specific form manifests itself as a frenetic quest for sexual gratification—enhanced by the very impossibility of attaining it.
Like the real Albertus Magnus, who had written about the sexual physiology of adolescents a few decades earlier, Pietro saw their desires and behaviors as distinct from the procreative process. He thus assumed that, for those who have not yet attained full reproductive capacity, intercourse and masturbation were functionally equivalent. Just as he observed that the "sodomitical act" could be performed in any one of several ways, he likewise presented friction by intercourse | {
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centers significantly increased EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization). CiToxLAB Group now employs more than 850 people.
According to the 2012 CRO Industry Update from equity research company William Blair, the market for outsourced preclinical development activities grew by only 7 per cent in 2012. Within preclinical services market, the toxicology segment grew by an even more modest increase. One reason for the 25 per cent growth obtained by the CiToxLAB Group is that clients’ projects can now be carried out both in Europe and North America. CiToxLAB Group saw increased revenues in all market segments: big and medium pharma, biotech companies, chemical and agro industries. In geographical terms, Europe was as active as North America. Asia, where CiToxLAB operates through representatives in Japan and South Korea,company for over ten years and often more. He also indicated that the five CiToxLAB sites have been inspected by the competent regulatory authorities in 2012 and were given renewal of their full GLP, ISO or GMP compliance.
In 2013, the company anticipates an increased demand in the field of highly innovative therapeutics, in particular for the development of biologics. This includes prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines, antibodies and other types of large molecules, in which CiToxLAB is recognized as having relevant know-how and strong experience. The company has provided safety testing in Non-Human Primates (NHPs) for several decades and more recently has validated models for the assessment of reproductive toxicity in NHPs. CiToxLAB, through its centre in Denmark, historically known as Scantox, is the world leader in the field | {
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overlapped and joined together to form a flat hollow tape. Under pressure, the tape opens out into a generally cylindrical form to provide a main conduit for irrigation water flowing to the irrigation areas. The drip irrigation tape also includes a much smaller secondary conduit, usually located along the seam formed by the overlapping edges of the plastic strip. The smaller conduit is connected to the main conduit to form a narrower passageway for the water flow, reducing the rate that water is released into the soil.
Typically, the drip irrigation tape must be installed in a particular orientation. In most systems, the performance of the drip irrigation system is optimal when the drip irrigation tape is installed with the smaller conduit oriented at the top of the tape,Archaeologists have learned a great deal about “the Huarmey Queen” in the five years since they discovered the tomb at El Castillo de Huarmey in Peru and found her body inside.
They’ve learned that she was from the pre-Incan Wari culture and she lived about 12 centuries ago.
They know that she lived past the age of 60, and that though she was just one of 58 noblewomen — including four queens or princesses — who were found in the remarkably untouched tomb, she was clearly special among them.
3.6-MILLION-YEAR OLD HUMAN SKELETON FOUND, SHOCKING SCIENTISTS
Her body, surrounded by jewelry, gold ear flares, a copper ceremonial ax, a silver goblet and weaving tools fashioned from gold, was found in a private chamber.
Her skeleton revealed that she had a strong upper body | {
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and spent most of life seated, indicating that she had been a weaver — a position of great renown among the Wari, who revered textiles more than gold and silver.
But they had no idea what she looked like.
Now they know that, too.
Early this year, National Geographic archaeologist Miłosz Giersz, who co-discovered the tomb with Peruvian archaeologist Roberto Pimentel Nita, asked Swedish archaeologist Oscar Nilsson if he could reconstruct the Huarmey Queen’s face.
TROVE OF STATUES DEPICTING LIONESS GODDESS DISCOVERED IN EGYPT
And Nilsson could. After creating a 3-D printed model of the woman’s skull, he used known datasets to estimate the thickness of the muscle and flesh atop the bone. Then, working with photographs of indigenous Andeans who live near the ancient tomb, he rebuilt her face by hand. Hewhile back in the 80's, and spawned the career of Bill Nye. The humor was quintessentially Northwest, a bit odd, a bit quirky, and very self-deprecating -- with characters like Speed Walker, Seattle's own superhero, and Uncle Fran, the bitter, disgruntled divorcee with a public access kids show. Very similar to the goofy, sincere humor of the Science Guy show, but with an adult edge.
Well, I still get to enjoy the humor of at least one cast member, f not in a sketch format. Pat Cashman is doing voiceovers for Jerry's, Home Improvement Center, a local two-store chain that outperforms AND outclasses national chains like Lowe's and Home Depot. And the humor, while it's only in thirty-second snippets, has Almost Live's fingerprints all over it. The commercials take | {
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James Zenker never imagined his young son would battle for his life at just two-years-old.
"It's affected his kidneys; they shut down," Zenker said. "It affected his intestines; he couldn't digest any of his food and its affected his brain — he has a substantial brain injury."
His son William got E. coli after drinking raw milk linked to French Broad Farm. Zenker said a nutritionist recommended the raw milk to help William fight allergies.
"He's not able to speak and not able to do the same activities as before he was ill," Zenker said.
A total of 15 cases of E. coli were reported, and William is the last one left in the hospital. His father said East Tennessee Children's Hospital saved his son's life.
The Knox County Health Department said anand Želimir Galjanić, 2005) and Janko Polić Kamov, Dora Maar i hrvatska avangarda (Janko Polić Kamov, Dora Maar and Croatian Avantgarde, 2006).
Many of his essays and studies concerning the topics from the contemporary Croatian literature, especially studies of writer Janko Polić Kamov (Rijeka 1886 – Barcelona 1910), his life and work, have appeared in various American and Croatian periodicals. In collaboration with Dolores Čikić and Boris Zakošek, he explored Dora Maar's genealogy for the Parisian Andriveau, also publishing the findings in the Croatian daily Večernji list, as well as in the book Dora Maar - zatočenica pogleda (Dora Maar: Prisonniere du regard) by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (Zagreb, 2004).
Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York City), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today | {
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Road rage killer dogged by the call of justice
There was a $US120,000 ($A230,000) bounty on the killer's head. The police began a hunt and someone put up the money to hire a private investigator.
18 June 2001Audrey Gillan, Washington
There was a $US120,000 ($A230,000) bounty on the killer's head. The police began a hunt and someone put up the money to hire a private investigator.
Then a website appeared.
As the case gained more notoriety, there were magazine and newspaper articles and the grieving "mother" appeared on television, including a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey talk show.
Now a trial is under way in San Jose, California. Not for murder but for animal cruelty, for the victim in this case was a 10-year-old bichon frise dog called Leo, who was thrown intooncoming traffic by a motorist apparently consumed by road rage.
America has been gripped by the trial of Andrew Burnett, who could be jailed for up to three years for killing the dog in February last year.
Every day the media benches of the court have been jammed with more than 20 reporters.
Last week the trial was postponed after Mr Burnett admitted throwing the dog on to a busy road.
His lawyer argued that it was "the dog's own darn fault" that his client had picked Leo up and dropped him when the dog bit him. He said Leo ran in front of traffic of his own accord.
Then a witness came forward and said the dog had done nothing wrong; it had not bitten anybody.
Leo belonged to another driver on the | {
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road that day, Sara McBurnett, who called Leo her "baby", and said "the dog was my precious little boy who I loved with all my heart".
She claims that while she was stuck in traffic, she could not help bumping into a big black sports utility. She just "tapped the bumper".
The driver got out and stormed up to her car. As she wound down the window he grabbed Leo, who had jumped into her lap. He threw the dog into the traffic and made off. She ran after him but Leo was hit by a car. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the vet.
For months there was no progress in the case. The website ran a sketch of the alleged killer with a goatee. Pet owners sent donationsto help catch him.
As the case began to gain attention, clues to the identity of the man driving the black vehicle with the Virginia licence plates began to appear. Someone even named Mr Burnett and said he had a nasty temper.
Detective Sergeant Phil Zaragoza of the Santa Clara police spent 250 hours investigating Leo's death. More used to investigating murder, kidnapping and sexual assault in his 27 years with the force, he has a habit of keeping a picture of the victim in the case he is currently investigating. This time the face was that of an eight-kilogram dog.
"This helpless fluffy white animal was viciously attacked and thrown into traffic," Detective Sergeant Zaragoza said. When Leo was snatched, "a part of Sara McBurnett's psyche" was taken too, he | {
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ostensio reliquiarum whose aim was a mere presentation of relics and their veneration by the faithful. No matter whether the ceremony of ostensio or the transfer of relics was held publicly or in a narrow circle of the clergy (5), it constituted the visualisation of spiritual contents directed at God, saints and people. Both the major celebrant - usually a bishop - and members of the community worshipping the relics, performed a number of symbolic gestures during the ceremony, ascribed to them in ordo translationis or ordo ostensionis, which brought a clear ideological message. The so called Ordo of Saint-Amand (Flanders), one of the oldest preserved liturgical texts of this sort (approx. 691/692) (6) which may have been written for the needs of a re-elevation to the altarand transfer of St. Amand's relics to a new reliquary, serves as an example of an early ritual formalisation of the ceremonies accompanying the veneration of relics in time of their transfer and ostensio.
Even a superficial look at ordo of Saint-Amand makes it possible to notice that the ritual of transfer described there constitutes a sort of religious theatrum where none of the acted gestures and ritual practices is meaningless but they visualise the sense of performed prayers and songs or harmonise with them. After the relics had been taken out of a sepulchre, martyrium or an old reliquary, they were handed over to the bishop who was celebrating the liturgy, and the cantors who were singing the antiphon Ecce populus custodiens iudicium. After the antiphon, the bishop | {
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touched the relics through white silky canvas and at the same time raised them for a while so that the convent could see them, and next, he placed them wrapped in a piece of silk on a paten. Those practices were accompanied by further singing Psalm 86 (87): Fundamenta eius in montibus sanctis, which referred to the foundations for God's church to be built - in this case it was undoubtedly the relics which were to serve as the foundations. Next, the bishop, assisted by the two deacons who were holding his arms, raised the paten. At the same time God was being worshipped through the singing of Gloria - - sicut erat in principio, and after that the cantor expressed the joy of good Christians, singing versus(tropus): Sicut laetantium omnium nostrum, based on the final verse of the psalm which started the liturgy, sicut laetantium omnium habitatio in te (Psalm 86 (87): 7). Next, carrying the relics which, wrapped in white silk, were still lying on the paten, the bishop conducted a solemn procession around the church, with incensing and candles, which was being joined by the secular faithful, who had gathered earlier in front of the church, waiting to join the ceremony at that particular moment. In the meantime the cantors were singing the antiphon which expressed the joy of the faithful Cum iocunditate exibitis (if the procession lasted longer - a Psalm with the antiphon) (7). When the relics had circled the church in procession, the bishop stopped all, handed over the | {
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relics to the friars and began the litany to All Saints. Also, during the litany the saint present in the relics was being honoured through incensing. The crowd, in their response to the invocations, which were said by the bishop in the litany, appealed to the saints for their intercession in Heaven - and it was, like the participation in the procession, the prayer preparation of the faithful for their further contribution to the transfer. Next, the priests sprinkled holy water on the faithful in order that they were symbolically cleansed and sanctified before entering the church. After the door was opened, the procession, still reciting the litany, entered the church. After the litany, the cantor began the antiphon Sacerdos magne, pontifex summi Dei, ingredere templum Domini ethostias pacificas pro salute populi offeres Deo tuo. Hic est enim dedicationis sanctorum Domini Dei tui, which was directed at both the bishop and the saint who was present in the relics. Next, the cantor, chanting Psalm 32 (33): Gaudete [Exultate] (8), iusti in Domino, turned to the crowd, and later the Holy Trinity was worshipped again and Gloria - - sicut erat in principio was sung. At that time the relics were again handed over to the bishop, who showed them to the crowd once more and next put them in a reliquary; the cantor was then singing the antiphon Sub altare Domini sedes accepisti, intercedite pro nobis per quem meruisti, in which the faithful turned to the saint, who received the place of residence sub altare | {
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Dei, for his intercession. After the antiphon, Psalm 118 (119) Beati immaculati was chanted, which praised the Lord's people who obeyed God's Law; on account of the fact it was a very long Psalm, it was only sung as long as the relics were being put in the reliquary or martyrium.
Thus, a sort of theatralisation of the above mentioned liturgy became a feature of the ritual of transfer of relics, described in Ordo of Saint-Amand. This is, of course, not a sacral theatre sensu stricto, but the theatralisation of the liturgy understood in a way that actions and gestures performed by the participants make a visual unfolding of religious symbolism of the ritual, included in the texts of prayers, chanted and recited, which were easily understood by themembers of the clergy but not necessarily by the secular faithful. The whole ceremony bears the signs of a religious theatrum: each participant in the ceremony performs the role ascribed to him in ordo - on his own, like the bishop who conducts the liturgy - or in a group, like the other members of the clergy and the secular faithful who took part in the ritual of transfer. The circling of the church with relics in the procession, the litany in which the faithful turn to saints for intercession, the sprinkling of holy water on the crowd by the priests and together with the clergy, the joint introduction of the relics into the church, all these visualise the bond which was being created during the liturgy of | {
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transfer between a local religious community and the saint who was becoming their patron. Even more vivid is the link between the meaning of the prayers and liturgical chanting and the functions of the celebrant - the bishop, whose gestures visualise the sense of liturgical texts: when he receives the relics from friars, the antiphon Ecce populus custodiens iudicium sounds; when, conducting the procession, he re-enters the church, the words Sacerdos magne, pontifex summi Dei, ingredere templum Domini et hostias pacificas pro salute populi offeres Deo tuo are heard. The role ascribed to the relics themselves should be discussed separately. They themselves are the centre of a religious theatrum, but they only seemingly constitute the subject of actions taken by the people participating in the ceremony. Both themediaeval piety and the teaching of the Church assumed the actual presence of the saint in his relics, so before the transfer was completed and the bishop put the relics in the reliquary which was either in front of the altar or inside it, he performed the gesture, which in a mystical and material sense reflected the words of the antiphon that was sung then: Sub altare Domini sedes accepisti. The relics were put in the reliquary with the bishop's hands, yet it was the saint himself who, through the agency of his relics, found this way his due place on earth, which visualised his transcendent status. Another issue is to determine to what extent liturgical actions and gestures, performed during the ceremony of transfer, inspired the selection | {
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as the evidence of the theatralisation of the cult of relics. In 868, during the transfer of the relics of St. Maurus, the disciple of St. Benedict, to the abbey of St. Peter and Paul situated in the valley of the Marne (later Saint-Maur-des-Fossées), a solemn introduction of the relics to Paris was performed on the first Sunday of Lent. The Bishop of Paris, Aenas, decided then that from then on, on the first Sunday of Lent, that is on the anniversary of the arrival (adventus) of Maurus'relics to Paris, a procession with the relics of the saint should be performed in town on a yearly basis. Aenas most likely drew his inspiration from the tradition observed at the same time in the abbey of Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Fleury) where,according to the evidence of contemporary Adrevald of Fleury, the procession with the relics of St. Benedict was held twice a year: on the anniversary of the relics' arrival in France (anniversarium adventus s.Benedicti) 11th July and 4th December - on the anniversary of putting the body of the saint in a tomb-reliquary in the abbey's church (anniversarium tumulationis). It is not only the solemn liturgical setting of the ceremony - bell ringing, the procession of the crowd or the monks with twigs or palms, candles and incense - that deserves to be called theatralisation, but also the whole ritual. A solemn, processional, welcoming of the relics of saints, which were arriving in town or monastery, is the repetition and imitation of David's departure to meet the Ark | {
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of the Covenant and Jesus' entering Jerusalem. Also, another aspect matters: adventus reliquiarum, that is to say a historic and religious event which had already happened, is repeated every year, somehow ritually performed.
Every transfer of relics was a great holiday for the church which held it, and it is hard to call the liturgy of transfer an everyday practice in the religious life of the Middle Ages: yet it was a relatively common phenomenon. Ordo of Saint-Amand serves as an early example of the text which formalises this sort of liturgy; the very fact it was written down proves that the transfer of relics already acquired the status of a ceremony that belonged to frequent, formalised religious practices, which survived in a slightly changed form until modern times.Even a superficial analysis of Ordo of Saint-Amand let us notice the visualisation of the ideological message of the ceremony of the transfer of relics. The ritual depicted in Ordo of Saint-Amand was constructed as an ideal model of the transfer of relics, independent from historical circumstances of the ceremony. However, we know that relics, or perhaps the saints present in them, appeared in mediaeval people' s mentality as active participants of social life, actively supporting the community under their patronage - and they interfered in worldly affairs almost every day. It was not only the secular faithful but also the representatives of the educated clergy who expected that the saints they worshipped would engage themselves in worldly affairs, as they perceived the doctrine of the intercession of | {
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