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Я́куб Яси́нский (; 24 июля 1759 или 1761, Венглев около Пыздр, Познанское воеводство — 4 ноября 1794, Прага, Варшава) — один из руководителей восстания 1794 года под предводительством Тадеуша Костюшко, лидер радикального «якобинского» крыла повстанцев, сторонник идей французской революции.

Во время восстания был комендантом Вильны, генеральным командующим повстанческими войсками в Великом княжестве Литовском. Отозван из Великого Княжества Литовского из-за обвинений в «литвинском сепаратизме». Погиб при обороне Варшавы.

Биография
Родился 24 июля 1761 года (по другим данным, двумя годами ранее) в Венглеве около Пыздр в Великопольше (по данным его биографа Генриха Мосьцицкого). С 12 лет учился в Варшавской рыцарской школе (кадетском корпусе), основанном королём Станиславом Понятовским. Имел склонность к общественным наукам, увлекался идеями просветителей; особенно сильно на него повлияла философия Жан-Жака Руссо. Окончив обучение в 1783 году, получил чин подбригадира и после двух лет службы вернулся в кадетский корпус в качестве преподавателя инженерного дела.

В 1789 году по протекции генерала артиллерии Великого княжества Литовского князя Казимира Сапеги король назначил Ясинского старшим офицером инженерного корпуса литовского войска в звании подполковника. Возглавляемая Ясинским инженерная служба армии состояла из 42 офицеров и солдат, в том числе из 20 минёров, и входила в состав созданного в 1780 году в Вильне корпуса артиллерии и военной инженерии. 13 января 1792 года Ясинский получил звание полковника инженерии и был направлен ревизором на строительство связывающего Пину и Мухавец Королевского канала (между городами Пинском и Кобрином).

Война с Россией 1792 года
После подписания либеральной партией Конституции 3 мая ситуация в стране резко обострилась. Часть шляхты, считая, что Конституция попирает её сословные права, была недовольна. Сторонники отмены Конституции приняли решение создать конфедерацию и выступить совместно с русскими войсками против Сейма. Однако русская армия была занята в войне с Османской империей, и Екатерина II не решалась одновременно начинать войну в Речи Посполитой.

После заключения Россией мира с Османской империей представители от недовольной шляхты Потоцкий и Ржевуский прибыли в Санкт-Петербург и заключили с императрицей тайный договор о совместных военных действиях. 18 мая 1792 года в Речь Посполитую вступило четыре колонны российских войск под начальством генерал-аншефа Михаила Васильевича Каховского со стороны Бессарабии и 32-тысячная армия под руководством генерал-майора Михаила Кречетникова с востока. В тот же день в местечке Тарговица противниками Конституции была сформирована конфедерация.

В начавшейся войне Ясинский командовал инженерным корпусом, который мог выставить максимум тысячу солдат. 10 июня 1792 года он участвовал в битве под Миром, где проявил героические качества. Битва была проиграна, а вскоре Ферзеном без единого выстрела был взят Несвиж, над фортификацией которого безрезультатно трудился Ясинский. Польская армия была сосредоточена у Бреста, где 23 августа состоялось генеральное сражение. Ясинский разработал план обороны города, благодаря которому битва была выиграна, за что полковник был награждён Кавалерским крестом Virtuti Militari. Между тем, исход кампании был уже предрешён: под давлением Екатерины II король принял решение перейти на сторону конфедератов и 22 июля отдал приказ о сложении оружия. Ясинскому пришлось подчиниться.

Подпольная деятельность
После позорного для Речи Посполитой Гродненского сейма 1793 года значительная часть шляхты, в том числе и многие высшие армейские чины, выехали за границу. Ясинский остался в Вильне, пытаясь реорганизовать инженерный корпус. Известно, что он придерживался радикальных («якобинских») взглядов: выступал за отмену крепостного права и восстановление Речи Посполитой в границах 1772 года. Однажды он даже высказал мысль, что страну нельзя спасти без того, чтобы не вырезать всей шляхты.

С осени Ясинский приступил к конспираторской деятельности, направленной против российских оккупантов. Подпольный штаб Ясинского находился в карточном салоне его адъютанта Ходкевича. Игра в карты серьёзно помогала в пополнении кассы. Время от времени Ясинский занимался поэзией; впрочем, сам он достаточно скептически оценивал свои таланты. В начале 1794 года о подпольной деятельности Ясинского стало известно пророссийским властям. Он вынужден был покинуть Вильну и уехать в Вилькомирский повет, где его ожидали верные войска.

Восстание Костюшко

В ночь с 22 на 23 апреля 1794 года Ясинский возглавил восстание в Вильне. Повстанцы быстро обезоружили российский гарнизон, взяв в плен 1012 человек. 23 апреля на рыночной площади был провозглашён «Акт восстания Литовского народа». 25 апреля за измену Родине по инициативе Ясинского был казнён глава местной администрации гетман великий литовский Шимон Мартин Коссаковский.

3 мая Наивысшая Рада Литовская провозгласила Ясинского главнокомандующим Литовских повстанческих войск. Между тем, его радикализм сильно пугал шляхту, а польское руководство восстания считало Ясинского «литвинским сепаратистом». В качестве главнокомандующего литовскими повстанцами Ясинский руководил организацией новой армии, с целью расширения социальной базы восстания писал рифмованные прокламации к крестьянам.

11 мая 1794 года Костюшко назначил Ясинского генерал-лейтенантом. Однако уже 4 июня Ясинский был отстранён с поста главнокомандующего Литовских войск, передав полномочия генералу Михалу Вельгорскому. 10 июня приказом Костюшко Наивысшая Рада Литовская была распущена и заменена на гораздо более консервативную по своему составу Центральную депутацию Великого княжества Литовского.

В это время стычки между повстанцами и российскими войсками не прекращались. На территории Великого княжества Литовского кроме Ясинского действовали генералы Гробовский и Хлевинский. Первое сражение Ясинского под Неменчином закончилось поражением. 7 мая состоялось второе сражение — под Полянами, которое также было проиграно. Ясинский счёл необходимым укрепить обороноспособность Вильны, но новый комендант Вельгорский принял решение отвести войска в Лидский повет. Ничего не зная об этом решении коменданта, Ясинский дожидался его в лагере под Солами, где прежде было уговорено соединить войска. Потеряв много времени на безрезультатное ожидание, Ясинский с 4000 солдат предпринял отчаянную атаку на корпуса Зубова и Бенигсена (около 5000 солдат при 16 пушках). Сражение состоялось 26 июня под Солами и стало одним из самых кровопролитных боёв всей кампании. Ясинскому пришлось отступить, хотя и не нарушая боевого порядка. Во время отступления погиб брат Якуба капитан стрелков Юзеф. Ясинский выехал в Варшаву.

Пережив тяжёлую депрессию по поводу военных неудач и смерти брата, 17 июля Ясинский принял командование над нарвенским фронтом. Для пополнения войска он направился в Брест, оттуда в Бельск, как раз в это время, во второй половине августа, его достигло известие о падении Вильны.

По прибытии в Гродно Костюшко, больше не опасаясь сепаратизма Ясинского, наградил его перстнем с надписью: «Родина своему защитнику» и передал под его командование одну из литовских дивизий. Командиром наднарвенской дивизии Костюшко назначил Юрия Грабовского. Тем временем в России постановили решить исход кампании одним стремительным маршем Суворова. Неутомимый Суворов, с ходу беря города, одержал важные победы в сражениях у Крупчиц и под Брестом. 10 октября повстанцам было нанесено решающее поражение под в битве Мацеёвицами, Костюшко попал в плен.

20 октября Ясинский прибыл в Варшаву и попросил нового диктатора восстания Томаша Вавжецкого назначить его в предместье Варшавы крепость Прагу, которая должна была стать центром обороны города. У защитников крепости уже не оставалось надежд на победу. Существует мнение, что в это время Ясинский предложил казнить короля и всех пленных, что, разумеется, сделано не было. Ясинскому с корпусом в 4000—5000 солдат было поручено оборонять левое крыло крепости — Таргувек, представлявшее собой северный фронт обороны.

3 ноября российские войска под командованием Суворова начали обстрел крепости, а на следующий день в 5 часов утра начался штурм. Примерно через полчаса линия обороны была прорвана, в предместье началась паника. Люди рвались к мосту — единственной связи с Варшавой. Ясинский был среди тех, кто оборонял отход людей к мосту. Здесь, около Бродна, он и погиб. Как и другие защитники Праги, Ясинский был похоронен на Камёнковском кладбище.

Творчество
В ранние годы творчество Ясинского развивалось под влиянием сентиментализма. С середины 1780-х в его творчестве начинает преобладать социальная тематика, а произведения приобрели политическую окраску. О своей литературной деятельности сам Ясинский говорил: «Пишу то, что хочу, и о том, что меня интересует, похвалы не ищу…».

Из-под пера Ясинского вышли ироикомическая поэма «Споры» (1788—1792), поэма «Тянтя». Стихотворение Ясинского «О зрелости: к польским изгнанникам» было отдельно издано в Гродно в 1793 году. Писал поэмы сатирического и сказочного характера. Некоторые романтические песни Ясинского в своё время были очень популярны.

Ясинский часто высказывал радикальные взгляды в своих поэтических произведениях, в связи с чем современники видели в нём представителя «якобинского» направления в польской поэзии. Его симпатии к революционной Франции и Американской революции нашли отражение в поэме «К Народу» (1794).

Произведения Ясинского изданы в 1869 году в Варшаве.

Память

 В 1994 году в Белоруссии была выпущена почтовая марка, посвящённая Ясинскому.
 Именем Ясинского названы улицы в городах Польши, Литвы и Белоруссии (список, возможно, неполный):
  Польша: Варшава, Гливице, Зелёна-Гура, Иновроцлав, Краков, Лодзь, Люблин, Пшемысль, Радом, Руда-Слёнска, Тчев, Хожув, Ченстохова;
  Литва: Вильнюс;
  Белоруссия: Молодечно.
 Кроме этого, имя генерала Ясинского носят:
 «» — один из фортов Варшавской крепости;
 II Иновроцлавский инженерный полк (с 1995 года);
 III сапёрные полк в Дембице (расформирован в 2002 году);
 Высшая школа офицеров военной инженерии во Вроцлаве (действовала до 1994 года);
 Гимназия и школа в Варшаве, лицеи в Варшаве и Вроцлаве;
  в Варшавской Праге и Серпце;
 Конкурс патриотической и любительской поэзии в Праге (Варшава).
 В 1974 году на территории Высшей школы офицеров военной инженерии во Вроцлаве был установлен памятник Якубу Ясинскому (скульптор: Константы Мохарский). В 1978 году им же была создана копия этого памятника для вроцлавского Лицея имени генерала Ясинского.
 Фигуре генерала Ясинского посвящена неоконченная трагедия Адама Мицкевича на французском языке «Якуб Ясинский, или Две Польши».

Примечания

Литература
 Грыцкевіч А. П. Паўстанне 1794 г.: перадумовы, ход і вынікі // Беларускі гістарычны часопіс. — 1994. — № 1.

 Юхо Я., Емельянчык У. «Нарадзіўся я ліцьвінам…»: Тадевуш Касцюшка. — , 1994.
 Keler J. Poezja Jakuba Jasińskiego. — Wrocław, 1952.
 Land S., Plewkiewiczowa M. Portret Jakuba Jasinskiego. — Książka i Wiedza: 1964. — 202 s.
 Leśnodorski B. Polscy jakobini. — Warszawa, 1960.
 Libera Z. Jakub Jasinski // Pisarze polskiego Oswiecenia. — Warszawa, 1994. — T. 2.
 Mościcki H. Generał Jasiński i powstanie kościuszkowskie. — Warszawa, 1917.
 Mościcki H. Jakub Jasiński. — Kraków: M. Kot, 1948. — 236 s.
 Sułek Z. Sprzysiężenie Jakuba Jasińskiego. — Warszawa: MON, 1982. — 280 s.

Ссылки

 Libera Z. Jakub Jasiński Warszawie // Rocznik Warszawski. — 1993. — T. 23. — S. 39—46.

Польские поэты
Поэты Польши XVIII века
Военачальники Польши
Предводители восстаний XVIII века
Польские повстанцы 1794 года
Участники Русско-польской войны 1792 года
Генералы I Речи Посполитой
Умершие в 1794 году
Выпускники Варшавской рыцарской школы

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Snowboarder Jeremy Jones Ventures to Earth's Far Corners for Conservation
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Gregg Treinish founded Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a nonprofit organization connecting outdoor adventurers with scientists in need of data from the field. He also organizes his own expeditions, contributing to research on wildlife-human interaction, fragmented habitats, and threatened species. In that spirit, his blog posts appear both here on Explorers Journal and in Beyond the Edge, the...
National Geographic Emerging Explorer Gregg Treinish founded Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a nonprofit organization connecting outdoor adventurers with scientists in need of data from the field. He also organizes his own expeditions, contributing to research on wildlife-human interaction, fragmented habitats, and threatened species. In that spirit, his blog posts appear both here on Explorers Journal and in Beyond the Edge, the National Geographic Adventure blog.
Video interview by Jordan Holsinger.
My organization, Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation (ASC), has always been concerned with connecting the adventure and science communities. Both communities are very diverse, and from an adventurer's point of view we've worked with the entire spectrum.
Although we think that weekend warriors and average Joe's can (and do) make an enormous impact, we've always been drawn to getting elite athletes involved as well because they not only bring years of skill and expertise, but their celebrity can provide an excellent platform from which to educate others.
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"If I can help bring back information from these untouched, untravelled places then I'd love to do more" – Jeremy Jones
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He started a non-profit organization, Protect Our Winters, to mobilize the winter sports community to make changes in response to the threat of climate change and has changed the way he plays outside, now relying primarily on human power to access his turns using a splitboard rather than helicopters.
He even started his own snowboard manufacturing company, Jones Snowboards, that focuses on building high quality and high performance snowboards and splitboards with minimal environmental impact.
Slowing down and using his own power access powder stashes and big lines has given Jeremy a closer connection to the mountains and has led to a revolution in the snowboarding world for which he was named one of National Geographic's Adventurer of the Year in 2013.
Jeremy Jones collecting samples in Nepal. Photo credit Teton Gravity Research.
Because of Jeremy's passion for the environment and particularly the effects of climate change on mountainous environments we connected him with our glacier snow and ice sampling project.
For this project he collected snow and ice samples to help researchers understand the extent of glacier thinning and his samples from such a remote corner of Nepal are a valuable addition to the dataset.
"My high school science teacher would be shocked and proud" – Jeremy Jones
Thanks again to Clif Bar for their support of ASC and connecting us with Jeremy. Be on the lookout for more about Jeremy from ASC and Clif Bar soon! In the meantime check out the trailer to "Higher" and keep an eye out for its release next year. You never know, you may see ASC in there.
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Gregg Treinish founded Adventure Scientists in 2011 with a strong passion for both scientific discovery and exploration. National Geographic named Gregg Adventurer of the Year in 2008 when he and a friend completed a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes Mountain Range. He was included on the Christian Science Monitor's 30 under 30 list in 2012, and the following year became a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his work with Adventure Scientists. In 2013, he was named a Backpacker Magazine "hero", in 2015, a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur and one of Men's Journal's "50 Most Adventurous Men." In 2017, he was named an Ashoka Fellow and in 2018 one of the Grist 50 "Fixers." Gregg holds a biology degree from Montana State University and a sociology degree from CU-Boulder. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2004. Read more updates from Gregg and others on the Adventure Scientists team at adventurescientists.org/field-notes. Follow Adventure Scientists on Instagram @adventurescientists, on Facebook @adventurescientists, and on Twitter @AdvScientists.


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Leila is a talented young actress who has just successfully completed her time at The Drama Centre London. Whilst at school she underwent the rigor of Drama Centre Methodological training and is always looking for opportunities to put these hard won skills into practice.
Earlier this year Leila worked on the short film Dire Night for Orphee Productions writer by award winning writer Freddie Syborn (My Funniest Year, Hit the Road Jack). During her last project at the Drama Centre Leila was also lucky enough to work with esteemed television director Richard Standeven (Cracker, Robin Hood.) He was kind enough to say her performance "captured her innocence in the first scene and her pain in the second excellently".
Leila is now looking forward to her first year in the business as a trained actor. She is thrilled to have been cast as Romeo in Smooth Faced Gentleman's all female Romeo & Juliet. She is pleased to be working on the project with such talented actresses and the award winning Three's Company.
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Having shared a house with a trainee barrister they have fed off each other in their interest in Human Rights issues across the world. Most of all however, Leila is passionate about people from different eras, backgrounds and cultures, and what in turn motivates them in their lives."
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Smooth Faced Gentlemen are the UK's only all-female Shakespeare company. Formed in 2012, this female ensemble perform fast-paced, dynamic productions of Shakespeare's much-loved classics. Thier approach, which marries tradition with innovation, seeks to dismantle the audience's preconceptions of the Bard's work. Through the prism of an all-female cast Smooth Faced Gentlemen examine the mastery with which Shakespeare pictures humanity - a humanity which an actor can explore and share whether male or female.
This year Smooth Faced Gentlemen set sail on thier maiden voyage - a production of Romeo & Juliet - helmed by the award-winning Three's Company. Shakespeare's greatest love story was faithfully and provocatively retold by the exceptional all-female cast at the Buxton Festival Fringe, July 2012. This bold production of the classic tale of love and rage met with critical and popular acclaim and went on to win the festival's Best Production award.
Building on this success, they now feel it is time for the company's immediate and timely work to reach a wider audience. They are planning to mount their first season in London, which will include a full run for the award-winning Romeo & Juliet. If you would like to help them to start this process, they are hosting an industry launch night at a top London theatre. They say that the night will be an opportunity for them to promote the Troupe to potential, sponsors and associates. The event will take the form of a performance of Romeo & Juliet followed by a drinks reception, giving interested parties a chance to find out more about their exciting young company.
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All's Well That Ends Well **
The Winter's Tale *
Pericles, Prince of Tyre * (not included in the First Folio)
The Two Noble Kinsmen * (not included in the First Folio)
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 1
Troilus and Cressida **
Cymbeline *
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I just watched the dietary documentary Fat Head yesterday and I have to say, it was pretty phenomenal.
Basically, it's sort of a direct response to Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me, and seeks to demonstrate to viewers that the crusade against eating meat and animal fats is entirely fallacious and in actuality is causing the obesity crisis in America.
The basic premise is that ever since meat and saturated fat became vilified by the government and others in the mid 20th century, the go-to healthy food has become whole grain based products. Stuff like bread, cereals, etc. What the film reveals however is that these carbohydrate loaded foods actually spike your blood sugar, leave you feeling hungry all of the time, and damage your arteries, which eventually leads to heart disease.
To prove this, the film's enigmatic narrator and creator Tom Naughton guides the viewer through his own month long journey of eating nothing but fast food. Instead of gorging on excessive amounts of foodstuff like Spurlock, he instead eats only around two thousand calories a day. This two thousand calorie allotment can include double bacon cheeseburgers or grilled chicken sandwhiches; indeed, anything can be eaten as long as the daily limit of two thousand calories is not breached, too many excessive carbohydrates are not consumed, and soda consumption is reduced.
To this end, Naughton chooses to not eat any french fries or drink any soda (sticking to either diet or iced tea) throughout the duration of the film's experiment. At the end of the thirty day fast food marathon, Naughton returns to his doctor to see any potential damage he has done (much like Spurlock in his documentary). To the doctor's surprise, Naughton actually lost twelve pounds, improved his cholesterol, and lowered his percent body fat. And he did this while eating double cheeseburgers for lunch and dinner everyday, with the only limitations being the ones listed above.
What do I make of this? It seems there is a lot more to eating a healthy diet than just cutting out all meats and turning into a vegan. Indeed, much of the evidence from this film implied to me that saturated fats and animal meat are far better than whole grains and vegetable oils in terms of helping you lose weight and keeping your blood sugar down.
Of course, this doesn't mean that you get to eat McDonald's all day every day and say you are getting healthy. I mean, you could, but you would need to not eat fries, drink water instead of soda, and make sure that what you are eating throughout the day leaves you with a calorie deficit and not an excess. This is where I think most Americans fail; they can't resist the fries or the coke, nor the ice cream or other deserts when they make it home.
If people cut down on the needless and pointless calories contained in sweets, french fries, soda, and the like, I feel like this country would be much healthier and in far better physical shape. For that to happen though, people need to take responsibility. If they can do that, then this film has revealed that it's ok to eat a cheeseburger as often as you want as long as you aren't constantly snacking on sugary junk and drinking empty, destructive calories.
For changing my point of view in terms of the effects of meat, saturated fat, and carbohydrates on my overall health, I have concluded that Fat Head is a must-see documentary. It might not turn diehard vegetarians into meat eaters, but it just might make them think twice the next time they turn down that nice, juicy steak in favor of something loaded with whole grains and carbohydrates.
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The Current Situation of Science in Chile: The Need for State University Support
By Maria Cecilia Hidalgo, Professor of the University of Chile, PHD in Science, Recipient of the National Award for Natural Sciences
Translated by Anthony Rauld
In 2015, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) concluded that Chile had to advance towards becoming a knowledge-based society in order to maximize its social and economic development. In this article, I put forward my vision for how the current situation in relation to science in our country serves to restrict our progress, and how state-owned universities can contribute to the solution of this problem.
Scarce Researchers. Our country currently has seven times less researchers per million inhabitants than the average of the OECD countries, where researchers are defined as those who create new knowledge and share it via publications. This dearth of researchers, which is even more serious in the social sciences, the humanities, and in the arts, limits the production of knowledge, lacking the necessary critical mass to generate the knowledge that our country requires in order for us to contribute to its development. It is therefore urgent and indispensable to implement measures in order to increase the number of scientists who work in Chile. This would contribute to a more inclusive and equal model of development, not focused solely on economic aspects, since it is essential to be able to generate new knowledge with regards to social and cultural aspects, allowing us to eliminate the considerable economic and social inequality that our country exhibits.
A logical and effective way to increase our small scientific community would be to incorporate those scientists formed in the country and recover those that have left the country to perfect themselves abroad, and whom are financed by programs like Becas Chile (Chile Scholarships). Although this program has made it possible for many young Chileans to enjoy opportunities abroad to complete their postgraduate studies in prestigious universities, a parallel program like Reinsertion Chile, capable of reincorporating scholarship recipients into the country, was not considered. As a consequence, we are losing, and run the risk of continuing to lose, an entire generation of talented students who have excellent training, and who we need urgently in order to propel our development. The state-owned universities combined could play a decisive role in the incorporation of young scientists, trained in Chile as well as abroad, especially if the new state university law contemplates the creation of the Council for Coordination. The insertion of new researchers into this network by way of a well-designed reinsertion program would allow for the broadening and sharing of scientific activity in order to generate new knowledge, and encourage innovation.
The Under-Appreciation of Creative Scientific Practices. In my opinion, as a society we do not value the activities that are important for us to achieve development, because we end up under-appreciating our scientists, our educators, and our technical experts. We know that making quality education, preferably public education, accessible to our population is a proven method to achieve the cultural, social, and economic equality of our people, and this also propels the development of future talent in the sciences. If we do not change this paradigm, it will be difficult to count on both the professors that we need in order to train our future researchers, and the people with quality training that are essential for the effective technical support needed for the production of knowledge.
Lack of Economic and Institutional Support for Creative Scientific Practices. There is a general consensus that all developed countries, with no exceptions, are characterized by their strong support for science, and when I talk about science, I include all of the disciplines that create new knowledge. Our country, which has a solid tradition of scientific research centered primarily in a few of its universities, has advanced significantly in the last 30 years despite the dearth of public and private financial support, and despite having a small number of national researchers. The quality and international impact of Chilean academic journals, which stand out in comparison to those of other Latin American countries, led to a special mention by Nature Index's Rising Stars 2016, which singled out Chile as one of 10 countries in the world, and the only country in the Americas, that displayed a notable advance in its scientific development—primarily in astronomy and, to a lesser extent, biological sciences—despite having low levels of investment in science, technology and innovation.
Despite this, the development of science and technology is today facing a profound crisis, due to a harmful national, economistic science policy, which lacks vision and has been incapable of promoting the development of science and ensuring that the knowledge generated by our scientists can really have an impact, and contribute to the development of the country. This ideology, which has benefited applied science to the detriment of pure science, omits the important and beneficial effects that science can have on society in terms of education, culture, and innovation. To underestimate science's role in the development of the country is disastrous, since it weakens us as a creative country, wasting talent and opportunities to apply our knowledge in order to achieve the integral development that we desire.
Chile's current investment rates in science, technology, and innovation, which approach 0.38% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), are way below the rates of the other countries of the OECD, which are on average higher than 2%, and are in fact below those of other countries in Latin America, like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Furthermore, the institutional structure of science in Chile is somewhat fragmented, and this produces a massive dispersion of the public funds that are allocated for research and development. As a result, a new institutional structure is urgently needed, a system that can represent the interests of scientists when decisions are made with regards to the development of science in the country. The President of the Republic, Michelle Bachelet, announced the creation of a Ministry of Science and Technology in January of 2016. The scientific community hopes that the creation of this ministry, which also incorporates innovation based on scientific knowledge, can help solve the urgent problems that I have mentioned in this article; having said that, there is concern that this ministry will become just another state institution, with limited capability, and with scarce resources.
The Invisibility of Scientific Activity. Finally, another challenge we face is that, because scientists in Chile are few, it is difficult to carry out our work when as a community we are in debt to our society. We have to explain and convince the population that the production of knowledge is key to securing our development. Consequently, we have to respond convincingly and clearly to the question: why is doing science important for Chile? The state-owned universities have an important role to play in this context, especially if the proposed Council for Coordination materializes, since they have demonstrated, despite the limitations of the system, that they are capable of generating research knowledge applicable to the development of the country and to the well-being of its inhabitants.
The role of science cannot limit itself to the current development model, which seeks only to strengthen technology and innovation in order to improve the natural resource productivity of the export sector, as well as other strategic areas of the economy. On the contrary, we must encourage a wider concept of scientific development that can help foment research motivated by curiosity and application, in all disciplines, with ample resources, and with a long-term vision. In this way, we can transform our current development model into a model that can ensure the well-being, education, and health of all of our inhabitants, and can generate solutions to the challenges of today and tomorrow. We have the essential: a community of scientists who are well prepared, active, and connected to the world; they are committed to their work, and they want to work in Chile to generate new knowledge that can tackle the multiple challenges we face as a country, and as the inhabitants of this planet. The country must support its scientists if we want Chile to be a developed country. If the current political situation does not radically change, if state and private support for science does not increase significantly, including strong support for the production of knowledge within the state universities across the country, then we run the risk of losing everything we have accomplished in these last three decades. In particular, we run the risk of losing an entire generation of researchers who have spent their lives preparing inside the country, as well as abroad.
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Chile, a Secular Country
Oscar Contardo, writer and journalist. Author of the books: Siútico: arribismo, abajismo y vida social en Chile and Raro: una historia gay de Chile (Queer: the gay history of Chile), among others.
Translated by Natalia Tranchino
In 2014, amid the great fires of Valparaiso, I noticed that something had changed. After hours of special radio and TV broadcasts, interviewing victims and different political authorities, there was something lacking. At another time, one not far distant, the figure of the regional archbishop would have occupied an important place. However, this time nobody asked for him. In the country where I had grown up, whenever there was a tragedy, next to the voice of the political authorities there was always the voice of a priest, generally the bishop. However, during the days in which a vast majority of the hills of Valparaiso were burned, the media did not feature the representatives of the catholic hierarchy. It was a sign of the times.
During the last decade, the figure of the priest has been vanishing as an authority with political influence, a place he had occupied not too long ago. The turning point was not a change driven by the State or demanded by the more liberal political parties, but rather it was a logical consequence of the crisis produced by the sexual abuse cases, which positioned the Catholic Church at a global level next to suspicious organizations and criminals. In Chile, up until then, and in many different contexts, politics was carried out only after previous consultation with the Church. Whether it was the Right or the Left, the one or ones consulting with the ecclesiastical hierarchy were the ones who gained prestige and power.
For a recent study, I had to search through political magazines that were in opposition to the dictatorship. Several issues. In almost all of them, so as not to say in all, there was a priest featuring either as interviewee, column writer or reliable source of some news article. There were both liberal and conservative priests, priests on TV and the right-wing press. There were gutsy, friendly and severe priests appearing as protagonists, protectors or mediators. Even the most renowned literary critic of the time was a priest.
During the first decades of what we Chileans call the transition period, that scenario did not change. The Catholic Church voiced its opinion and made itself heard when it came to stopping policies ranging from public health programs to laws and bills. Moreover, the priests in the media were consulted as moral experts. They knew the way in which the citizens should lead their private lives. They even got to give interviews on the inconvenience of listening to certain rock bands or seeing certain films. Nowadays, the figure of the omnipresent cleric has disappeared. What still remains is the popularity of certain priests who, given their progressive standpoint and thanks to their charity work combined with a knack for public relations, manage to get the attention of certain complacent bourgeoisie. Priests who draw sympathy from the media and popularity in certain circles of influence. But in general, the catholic hierarchy has had to give up to its retirement, which has undermined its power.
Does this mean that we live in a country with a secular state, in a culturally secular country? The answer is no.
The change has not implied a total retirement. In fact, in Chile the Catholic Church holds a power even more extended than that of the priests in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The processing involved in the legalization of abortion in three causes was the best example of that dense, interweaved network of influence. A project supported by an overwhelming part of the Chilean population was persistently boycotted by religious groups, but not from the pulpits, not even by priests, but by institutions or groups related to the Church. The role taken, for example, by the director of the Catholic University was remarkable: he achieved the recognition by the Constitutional Tribunal of the existence of the institutional conscientious objection. Such change allowed him to not abide by the law and promote the institutional objection to abortion in the hospitals run by the university. Thus, it is possible to track that power -emanating from the private religiousness which affects and determines the public- between the most privileged sectors of the society and in the schools where the elite is educated: the great majority of those institutions provide a self-centered, religious education which is acritical, and afraid of social changes.
What would happen if we found out that the founder of a secular school is a child molester? Surely that school would collapse and its students would flee. Curiously enough, that did not happen to the schools from the Legionaries of Christ network when it was discovered that its founder Marcial Maciel not only was a sexual predator, but he also led a double life and even molested his children.
To a certain point, these cases -the opposition to the bill on the part of a university rector and the subsistence of the schools in spite of the criminal behaviors of the man who inspire them- reveal a cultural matrix much more vigorous than we imagined, impervious even to the most evident facts and related to class origin. This is the same matrix that at the beginning of the 20th century encouraged the most conservative and wealthy groups to be against the expansion of public education, stirring suspicion on its morality. That ill will towards public education would finally find a great ally almost a century later, when the dictatorship began to dismantle, first, the state universities and soon after the public schools through subsidization. Later, the transition governments would worsen the change with the creation of the co-payment. Most of those institutions with co-payment would be religion-oriented, that is to say, they would have a certain assured indoctrination. Even the sole idea of an establishment ascribing to a certain faith works like a certificate of morality in a culture where "moral values" tend to be synonymous with "religiousness". It is enough to remember that in Chile the idea of an "agenda of principles" -installed by conservative political sectors- was created to talk about civil rights reforms.
On the other hand, there is the increasing influence of the Pentecostal Evangelical world, a form of extremely conservative Protestantism, which has gained immense power in the United States, Brazil and Colombia and that in Chile has supported the agenda of extreme right politicians like Jose Antonio Kast. The harshest expression of this power was this year's staging of the so-called Te Deum. The ceremony was one long succession of hostilities against president Bachelet, whom some faithful even insulted at her arrival to the venue. The reason? She had pushed a series of political reforms that, from their point of view of private religiousness, not only did they consider mistaken, but downright diabolic. The situation brought about the questioning on the necessity of this type of rituals; nevertheless, it is probable that many politicians do not dare to finish with the evangelical Te Deum for the same reason they do not dare to manage an agreement to end the catholic one: the most religious voters. There are zones where the Pentecostalism is getting stronger and stronger; areas in which the Left had formerly prevailed, but where now religious conservatism has taken over. I believe that the reason behind this phenomenon can be summarized in one word: abandonment. These are areas where the poorest people seem to have found in a hard and phobic religion both a lifeline and a way to be part of something, of a community. The latter is a need that before could have been fulfilled by Catholicism – which retreated from a vast area of the popular world- or by politics, but which nowadays finds fulfillment in these new churches that in Brazil for instance, have turned into a faith industry.
Against Neoliberalism and Privatization: State Universities Must Recover their Mission
By Naín Nómez, Philosophy Professor of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Master of Arts from Carleton University PHD from the University of Toronto
The truth is that it is hard for me to even conceive of a university that is not state-owned and public. I studied philosophy and literature in the old Pedagogical Institute, which really was a school for reflection, imagination, and community. Then I worked at the State Technical University, where pluralism and diversity came together in a national and future-oriented project, which ended abruptly, but whose relevance for a country that still believed in utopias was not diminished. And finally, after returning from a prolonged exile, I came back to my alma mater, which the dictatorship transformed into the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. The University of Chile was founded in 1842, and the State Technical University was founded in 1849 as the Escuela de Artes y Oficios; then it became the Instituto Pedagógico Técnico in 1944 and in 1947 it became the State Technical University. In 1981, under the dictatorship, both national universities were stripped of their regional campuses and were fragmented into multiple entities that became independent universities, leaving them only with their campuses in the capital. This brief depiction reveals the importance of the history of the state universities in the country, and their diminished role assigned to them by the dictatorship, not just in the academic realm, but also in terms of their political, economic, and cultural influence in Chile.
Definitively, with the political repression and the economic changes ushered in by the obedience and homage to neoliberalism, the state universities were reduced to their most minimal expression, to basic programs of study that were articulated as "hard sciences"; every other commitment to society, politics or to critical artistic creation was wiped out. On the one hand you had the fragmentation of the state university system, and on the other you had an empire of terror echoing through the halls, along with the eradication of all thought transgressive to the savage modernization goals of the new institutional structure imposed by the dictatorship and by the Chicago Boys. In this same context, the military government's support for a few private universities linked to the church led to a bonanza that allowed them to increase their influence and develop direct and indirect economic incentives, which positioned them as a relevant force within the national education system, with all of the restrictions that characterize it today.
Beginning in the 1990's, the situation for the state universities did not improve, but in fact, it got worse. Globalization and the commodification of culture were definitively crowned, and private universities sprang up like mushrooms in search of consumers. The two large national universities were broken apart into 18 universities during Pinochet's dictatorship, 16 of which were regional campuses. This system also incorporated the nine traditional private universities that existed before 1973. Between 1990 and today, 34 new private universities were created, most by businessmen who had already consolidated themselves by creating for-profit primary schools. The Chilean higher education system, then, includes 61 universities, making Chile one of the countries with the most universities relative to number of inhabitants. As we all know, a major reason for our substandard quality of education has to do with the privatization and mercantilization of the system, which produces economic and social segregation. Until now, it has been very difficult to establish universal quality parameters for institutions that function according to the law of supply and demand, market fragmentation, profit maximization and the massification of demand, without effective control from the state, which chooses to invest in client-students and ignores the quality of the educational programs.
What we have today is a "pool" of institutions with monumental differences in terms of orientation, budget, student/faculty quality, enrollment system, competitiveness, and educational project. The explosive growth of student coverage, which might be considered a merit of the system, has converted: a large mass of students into illiterates with diplomas, our directors into marketing specialists, and our faculty into writers of useless, albeit indexed, articles. We are faithful disciples of the global north, which extols a standardized global system of higher education in which the state disappears, while the programs and courses are modeled after the market.
In a system that emerged as an appendage of the law of neocapitalist competition, the state universities were left over as an anachronistic expression of free thought, universal tuition-free education, and the university as a place for reflection and societal contribution. With less than 15% of direct state funding, universities decreased their number of students and had to survive by competing for enrollment and limiting undergraduate and graduate programs, especially in the social sciences and humanities, which were the historically less competitive ones, but the most fundamental for articulating the kind of country we want.
What is at stake today is whether or not, after almost 45 years, our state universities can recover the essence of what they are as educational projects: public, universal, tuition free and pluralist. No university limited to only one vision, whether it be confessional, sectorial, or part of a political grouping, is really in a position to implement a project that benefits society in the fields of culture, research, or for the advancement of democracy; nor can it be a factor in promoting equality in a society so discriminatory like our own. In this sense, the state university must return to the promotion of culture, and to the generation of contemporary ideas, and ideas for the times to come. This is why it is not only research in the "exact" or "hard" sciences that we need, but also the renovation of the fields of social science and humanities; we must ensure that our students learn not only how to work with machines and technology, but also how to think and create in a world that has been amplified, but also atrophied, by the virtual. The market-university is not a university, it is a flea market. To create and to innovate in an era of images and of information overload must be understood as a challenge more than a problem. But for this to happen, we need a state that is able to get behind our universities, politically, economically, and culturally, and not continue to abandon them to the whims of the neo and post liberal market.
State Universities: Construction of Knowledge in Alliance with Citizenshipby Palabra Pública / noviembre 14, 2017
Against Neoliberalism and Privatization: State Universities Must Recover their Missionby Palabra Pública / noviembre 14, 2017


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Magnet-Controlled Robotic Sperm Is Now A Thing That Exists In The World
By Joelle Renstrom | 7 years ago
When I first saw a headline about robotic sperm, I thought it was somehow related to the #Yesallwomen phenomenon. For whatever reason, I imagined scientists trying to figure out some way robots could knock up women, cutting men out of the equation entirely. That just goes to show you I've been spending way too much time on Twitter, and that I shouldn't assume too much from a headline. The MagnetoSperm is actually a new gadget about six times the length of a human sperm, and it can be used for medical treatments and even for manufacturing. Oh, and it's controlled with magnets.
While it isn't quite lab-grown, MagnetoSperm was produced in a lab. Researchers at the German University in Cairo and the University of Twente in the Netherlands, designed the device using a strong, elastic polymer to form its body, and painted its head with metal via the electron beam evaporation technique. In an article in Applied Physics Letters, the researchers demonstrate the ability to steer the robotic sperm, which mimics the movement of its real counterparts, which are propelled by flagellum. Like conventional sperm, the movement is generated by a tail that flaps in response to a change in the electromagnetic coils, and the sperm's magnetic head keeps it oriented in a particular direction. A similar process has been used to steer red blood cells and bull sperm encased in nanotubes.
The MagnetoSperm is, however, slower than real sperm. It's six times as long, but it only moves a distance that is roughly half of its own body length per second. Huuman sperm on the other hand, covers its body length several times over in the same span. Still, it's the precision that's so impressive here. By changing the magnetic field, researchers can accurately guide the MagnetoSperm wherever they want, which is what opens up its potential applications. Obviously, this can be used for in virto fertilization, or to deliver drugs to specific regions of the body. It could also be used in nano-manufacturing to deposit materials in particular areas.
The teams plan to continue working with and refining the MagnetoSperm by making it smaller, faster, and able to navigate more complex environments.
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One of Andrew's favorite places was Florida and most of all Disney World. Andrew was granted a wish through Dream Factory for our trip to Disney World. We stayed at "Give Kids The World" and went to all of the theme parks during our stay. Below left is a photo of the first ride we took at SeaWorld. If you zoom in, Andrew is in the red poncho next to me. Look at the fantastic smile on his face. All the others, including me, have the look of horror. All he said when we got off was, "let's go again". And that's what we did, over and over. You see, with the "dream pass", you just go to the front of the line, no waiting. I guess that's the point-you are supposed to get a life time of memories on the trip and that happened.
The Andrew Olson Foundation has granted some wishes including sending a boy and his family to Disney World. Zack, shown below, with Spiderman during breakfast just before they left for Florida, was the first child Andrew's Foundation sent to Disney. In honor of Andrew's 13th birthday on January 29, 2013, we were able to send 2 more children to Disney World all due to your generosity. Your support is greatly appreciated!


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Joe Biden spoke on George Floyd's death trial: "I pray the decision is the right one."
The president said that the evidence presented in the trial against Derek Chauvin is "overwhelming." The jury is assembled, and to convict the former police officer, must reach a unanimous decision.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for the verdict to be "correct" in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd, calling the evidence "overwhelming."
Biden told reporters, I am praying that the decision is correct. The proof, in my opinion, is remarkable. He also clarified that he only spoke openly because the jury has been isolated in a hotel and is incommunicado while deliberating.
Biden also said that he has spoken with the family of Floyd. The death in May 2020 of the latter went around the world thanks to a video that showed Chauvin pressing his neck with his knee for more than 9 minutes. The president added that he could not even "imagine the pressure and anxiety felt" by Floyd's relatives and stressed that they "are asking for peace and tranquility, whatever the verdict."
The restlessness outside the courtroom is palpable in the streets of Minneapolis, besieged by the presence of thousands of soldiers from the US National Guard and other security forces, awaiting the result.
The case comes amid growing tensions in the country following the death of African-American Daunte Wright, 20, in a police shooting in Brooklyn Center (Minnesota) and Adam Toledo, 13, in Chicago, both occurred in recent weeks.
On Monday, the Minnesota State Attorney's Office and Chauvin's defense presented their final arguments for about four hours in front of the jury, which will now have to debate the case and reach a unanimous verdict. After hearing the arguments of both sides and the instructions that the judge has given them for their deliberation, the jury members, six white people, and six black people or of other races, isolated themselves and locked themselves in a hotel to review all the evidence presented. At trial and reach a sentence.
Judge Peter Cahill reminded those concerned of the necessary consensus of his decision and asked them to base it entirely on the evidence presented at the trial. They must be absolutely fair," Cahill told them.
The jury deliberates whether or not Chauvin is guilty of the three charges he faces: murder in the second degree, punishable by up to 40 years in prison; murder in the third degree, with the highest penalty of 25 years. And killing in the second degree, which carries up to 10 years of deprivation of liberty. But, as he has no illegal record, he could only be punished to a maximum of 12 and a half years in prison for the first two charges and four years in prison for the third.
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In the Pride Lands of Africa, Mufasa, the lion king, rules over the other animals. There is much celebration over the birth of Mufasa's son, Simba, who will one day take over as king.
However, not everyone is happy. Mufasa's younger brother, Scar, is very jealous. He wanted to be king. And now, Simba will be the heir to the throne, not him.
As Simba is growing up, Scar plots to get rid of him. He conspires with the hyenas to provoke a large herd of wild beasts into stampede into the gorge where Simba is. When Mufasa finds out about the stampede, he rushes to rescue Simba, bringing him to safety. But when Mufasa tries to climb up the gorge's walls himself, Scar throws him back into the stampede, killing him.
Stricken with guilt, Simba runs far, far away from home, collapsing in a desert from exhaustion. He is found by some jungle animals who take care of him and becomes his friends, and they lived a carefree life together.
Years later, Simba is now an adult. One day, Simba meets Nala, a lioness from his father's pride. She tells him that Scar has ruined Pride Lands, and begs him to return as king. However, Simba still carries the guilt over his father's death. He prefers to stay in his cosy life in the jungle instead of returning to be king.
Simba sees a vision of his father, Mufasa. His father tells him to remember who he is — the true king of the Pride Lands — and to take his rightful place.
Simba then realizes that he can no longer run from who he really is. He goes back home, faces his past, disposes of Scar and his lies, and becomes king of Pride Lands.
Like Simba, sometimes we forget who we are. We act and behave in a way that does not reflect our true identity. We need to remember WHO WE ARE and WHOSE WE ARE.
Simba is the son of King — the heir to the throne at Pride Rock. He is the beloved child of his father, Mufasa, who loves him so much and will do anything to protect him.
Similarly, when we believe in Jesus, we become children of the King. We become His heirs. God is the God of everything, and everything He has, He wants to give to us as our inheritance. We, His children, are to reign in life and to show the world who God really is.
Simba thought his father was dead and gone; he thought his father had left him. But he didn't realise that his father lived on in him. Similarly, Jesus died, rose again, and returned to heaven, but His Holy Spirit lives in us forever and ever — He is the mark and guarantee of who we really are.
Simba was deceived by Scar and tricked into running away out of guilt over his father's death.
The devil is the father of lies. He likes to trick God's children into thinking that if we have done something wrong, God will judge us and bad things will come near us. This causes many of God's children to run away and hide from God.
How do you see your Daddy God? Is he judging you when you make wrong decisions or choices? That is not true. Today you have the gift of no condemnation because of Jesus, the son of God was condemned for all your sins (Romans 8:1).
Just as Mufasa gave his life to save Simba, Jesus gave His life to save you. Jesus was judged in our place for every one of our wrong action, thoughts and words.
Be careful who listen to — the devil, the roaring lion? Or Jesus, the Lion of Judah!
Let me tell you about another young prince who tried to run away from his destiny. The young man grew up in the greatest palace in a land called Egypt. His name was Moses. He was supposed to be killed as a baby boy, but God saved him … so that one day, he can lead God's people out of Egypt.
One day, Moses tried to save a Hebrew slave from being beaten by an Egyptian. In the end, he killed the Egyptian. Guilt-stricken and afraid, Moses ran away in to the wilderness. He lived for many years taking care of sheep, with his wife and child.
Moses was a prince living as a shepherd in the desert. He may have forgotten who he was and what his calling was. But God didn't forget him. God appeared to him in a burning bush and reminded him that he is supposed to lead God's people out of Egypt.
Despite Moses' many excuses and trying to run away from his true identity, God used him to deliver His people out of slavery in Egypt to the Promise Land.
We are children of the King. We have a destiny in Jesus. And we can live as who we truly are!
I can live as a child of a King.
Get into small groups. Get the children to profess their identity in Jesus and to pray for each other.


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Pre-procedural imaging with cardiac CT or MR has become popular for guiding complex electrophysiology procedures such as those used for atrial fibrillation ablation therapy. Electroanatomical mapping and ablation within the left atrium and pulmonary veins (LAPV) is facilitated using such data, however the pre-procedural anatomy can be quite different from that at the time of intervention. Recently, a method for intra-procedural LAPV imaging has been developed based on contrast-enhanced 3-D rotational X-ray angiography (3-D RA). These intraprocedural data now create a compelling need for rapid and automated extraction of the LAPV geometry for catheter guidance. We present a new approach to automatic intra-procedural generation of LAPV surfaces from 3-D RA volumes. Using model-based segmentation, our technique is robust to imaging noise and artifacts typical of 3-D RA imaging, strongly minimizes the user interaction time required for segmentation, and eliminates inter-subject variability. Our findings in 33 patients indicate that intra-procedural LAPV surface models accurately represent the anatomy at the time of intervention and are comparable to pre-procedural models derived from CTA or MRA.


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Melton Mowbray Tennis Club bid to win back county cup
Melton Mowbray Tennis Club will be hoping to go one step further than last year's Mercury Cup semi-final EMN-190618-172351002
Melton Mowbray Tennis Club are gearing up for a busy weekend starting with a chance of silverware.
The club entertain Charnwood A team in the final of the Sports Mercury Cup on Saturday (2pm start) at the Melton Council's Sports Village Courts, on Burton Road.
Melton will be trying their utmost to get their hands on the county's most prestigious trophy which they won in the club's debut season in 2017 before crashing out in the semi-finals last year.
Visitors Charnwood will consider themselves favourites with county men's champion Rob Leck in their line-up alongside ladies' county stalwart Emily Rodbourne.
All visitors are welcome to watch some top county mixed doubles, and refreshments will be available.
Before the final gets under way, the club's juniors will be having their First Fun morning of the season from 9am to noon.
All mini's, juniors, friends and parents are encouraged to go along.
On Sunday the club will then host a Disability Tennis Open Day from 11am to 1pm.
The club will be opening its doors alongside Melton Rugby Club and Melton Hockey Club to promote disability sport.
Tennis sessions are open to all ages with equipment supplied.
For more details, call Brent Horobin on 07903 046086.


The philosophy of Peppertree Schools of Los Gatos is that our children's concepts of self, individuality, independence, and confidence are first developed at home with family, then school, and then in their community. Our loving staff excels in implementing ways of developing and strengthening these areas in our students. Teaching the children about the values of patience, compassion, understanding and forgiveness help our children build stronger relationships as well as reduce frustration and aggression between classmates. With their teachers' help our students learn how to effectively communicate with each other and learn the importance and impact words can have. It is extremely rewarding to watch two children engaged in conversation when they have been taught respectful ways to communicate with each other for optimum results.
Our combined academic and developmental teaching approach has proven to be the most effective way for our highly educated staff to inspire their students to advanced levels of learning. This enables our students to receive a greater academic base without dismissing the importance of creativity and individual expression through art, drama, music, exploration, and free play. This solid foundation leads to future successes in school and throughout life.
We encourage our families to get involved with their child's development, education and school experiences. Peppertree provides many resources and opportunities for increasing family involvement, which enhances the sense of security and support in the students: the sense that family, school and community are working together as a team for their benefit.
Providing a comfortable setting where cultural diversity is respected and honored is so important in the family, school and community concept. Peppertree welcomes a culturally diverse teaching team as well as student base. We enjoy learning about each other's cultures, languages, and holidays. We celebrate different cultures all throughout the year and at our Winter Pageant with a multicultural potluck in December.
We believe that a balanced approach to education is the most fun for children, and happy children are more receptive to learning.


Okay, yes, I'm on a storage kick these days. Have I mentioned that our house is kind of small? With very few surfaces on which to put stuff? I bought a much-needed jewelry box the other day, and when I got it home I realized there was no place to put it. Seriously. The only real surface is our dresser, which is now in the baby's room serving as a changing table. So I started thinking about alternatives, and came up with an idea for the jewelry frame, above. I found an old frame at the Alameda Flea Market, and bought the other supplies at our local hardware store: 1/2 plywood backing cut to size, hooks and screw eye hooks, a couple screws, 1/4″ wire mesh and wire cutters, stapler, gorilla glue, some scrap molding for the box and white paint.
I started by measuring out the layout, considering the length of the necklaces I had, how many earring hooks I wanted, and where I wanted the mesh screen placed.
Then I screwed in the hooks, staggering the earring hooks and necklace hooks so that they wouldn't interfere.
I made a little box for post earrings and rings out of the scrap molding, and glued it together with gorilla glue and clamps. Then I screwed it to the backing. The screen was stapled to two small strips of the molding and then glued to the backing (I painted underneath the screen area first).
I glued the plywood backing to the frame using the gorilla glue, and then painted the whole thing white. I really like the way it turned out, and now I finally have a convenient, accessible place for my jewelry that doesn't take up surface area!
that is awesome! I've seen them with just mesh but I think this looks nicer and offers storage for more than just earrings. I will be making this soon!
this has to be the best jewelry frame i have seen yet. thanks so much for sharing. i think i'm going to have to try it out when i get a chance.
This is one of the best jewelry frames I have seen. It's very beautifully designed. You find enough space to store your jewelry. Thanks for sharing the idea of how to design it. I am surely going to make it soon then share my experience with you.
Great job! As a jewelry designer I'm always looking for new storage ideas for my clients. I've pinned this to my Pinterest and plan on making one in the future! Thanks for posting!
Oh my gosh, this is the best diy jewelry holder ever! It includes every aspect of holding your jewelry, unlike most wall hanging options. LOVE it!!! Can't wait to try it out!!
Oh my. Yours is lovely. I used an antique stand-up frame (no paint). Instead of board, I used a piece of rigid foam. The thin kind with a sticky back. Leaving the backing on, I poked holes the size of my post earrings. Works great and the frame is a great match with my antique dressers. Mesh is a great idea.
Love your idea of using the rigid foam. Can you tell me how thick yours was and where purchased it? Thanks!
This is fabulous! It looks so cute 🙂 I need a new jewelry storage of some kind, and will definitely give this a go 🙂 thanks for posting.
I thought this was so cute…I made one and I get a lot of compliments!
Thanks so much for posting so I could copy such a cute idea!
I am currently working on constructing this as a Christmas gift for my sister. I found that it was difficult to paint after inserting the screws, so I used white spray paint instead of regular paint. Worked like a charm!
certainly going to make this very soon! very neat and stylish!
I may be dense, but I can't figure out from the instructions or the pictures where or how you use the wire mesh. It seems like with the hooks and screw-eyes you wouldn't need it. Help me out here.
I used a strip of mesh raised on little wooden strips as a surface to easily hook earrings. It's at the top of the frame, and you're right, I didn't picture it being applied. I glued the wood strips (just about 3/8″ thick) and then stapled the screen to those. You can also hook them through the actual hooks, but with the mesh you can store a lot more of them, and you don't need to be as precise when hanging them. Not necessary, of course – just an easy alternative to more hooks.
Hi Jennifer! I love this simple idea! The white is so bright and doesn't distract from the pretty jewelry. Perfect. I included this project in my 15 DIY Jewelry Organizers and Displays. http://www.missloviecreations.blogspot.com/2014/01/15-diy-jewelry-organizers-and-displays.html I hope you'll come check it out and grab a button if you like. Have a great rest of your weekend!
This is so great! I am definitely going to make one for my girlfriend's birthday! i have a question about screwing in the hooks and eye hooks.. do i need a drill to put them in or is the plywood soft enough for me to just hand screw them in? Sorry, just haven't made any projects using them before. thanks!
Hi Shannon – you should be able to just tap them in with a hammer and then twist. The hard part is just getting them started, but it should just take a few twists by hand once the teeth catch.
Thanks for your sharing to make jewelry storage. It is very nice and easy to create it. I am going to make it later with your guide for little girls.


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Enhle Mbali to take legal action regarding threats
Enhle Mbali shared screenshot from a conversation she had with an unknown number threatening to expose her alleged nudes. The person claimed to be in possession of sexy pictures Enhle apparently exchanged with a man named Peter but judging from the conversation, she knows nothing about this. In the message, Enhle asks why is the person speaking of Peter.
"Why are you telling me about Peter?" she asked.
"We have the sexy pics you sent each other that will get more views," reads the message.
Enhle then responded by saying, "What do I have to do with this Peter? You uses my name to lie. Thanks for admitting you illegally tapping phones. What happens in the dark comes to light."
She then received a threat saying, "You have been warned we also have rights."
Enhle responded by saying she does not appreciate the threats and told the unknown person to "keep digging this whole."
She captioned the post with a quote which reads, "Ain't I a woman?" A pertinent question asked by Sorjourner Truth, when her truth was being surprised. I spoke up last night against the evil and gaslighting that has tore mented me into a psyche ward, because how dare recognize #AmaLungelo that women such Sojourner fought for. All because I fell outside of a cabal! #SonkeSinamaLungelo
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She previously went on Instagram live to speak about this and said she is tired of people lying on her name time and time again.
Enhle explained that she first got a call from a journalist named Theo who asked her about her relationship status.
"He said, 'hey, I heard you broke up with your boyfriend,' and I was like 'what boyfriend, Theo?'"
Theo then asked her out to which she refused. Enhle has also identified the culprit who splashed her business to the media.
It was not only Theo who asked her about this as she claimed she got a call from a different person.
Enhle said she was tired of dealing with this, time and time again. "I know where things surface and I'm so tired of watching the same pattern happen to me. Lie after lie after lie…"
Enhle is busy promoting her upcoming film Four Walls set to premiere in November at the North East Film (NEIFF) and the Buenos Aires International Web Series (BUEIFF) Festivals.
Speaking to IOL, Enhle said, "Almost every single day a South African woman suffers some form of abuse. So this is me telling the stories of the women I've spoken to, through the Enhle Cares Foundation. I took from all of those women's experiences and tried as best as I can to create a story that's truthful, a story that represents women who are going through the most concerning GBV," she told the publication.
Enhle recently shared a post about Grace and said, "Allow me to introduce Grace Molotsi. According to her Grace is a woman at her wits end who has her house invaded by two thugs on the run from the cops after a cash in transit robbery gone wrong. The helpless woman is taken hostage by the thugs whilst they're planning their next move. What the men don't know is that Grace has a secret of her own. This is gonna need amazing#FOURWALLS #simplylive #simplywork #EmpressEnhle creating awareness on GBV and how far it can push those affected.


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Cheerleading camp at The Joe from 3:15-5:30 before the game that night. Performance will be between JV boys and V boys game.


Joseph E. Berberich is the most senior member of the firm. He joined the firm in 1969, and has been practicing law for over 40 years. At one time he, DeWitt Manning, George Leaver, and Walter Bruder were all partners, and thus the name of the firm, Manning, Leaver, Bruder & Berberich.
Throughout his years of practice, Mr. Berberich has been engaged in all areas of the firm's practice. In addition to being counsel for many California new car dealers, Mr.Berberich is counsel for the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA) and affiliated entities, the Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association, the Southern California Chevrolet Dealers Association, and the Southern California Chevrolet Dealers Local Marketing Association.
Mr. Berberich has, for over 35 years, had an AV (highest possible) peer review rating in the well-known and highly regarded Martindale-Hubbell legal directory, which means that his peers have spoken and accorded him with the highest rating standard, signifying the greatest level of professional excellence for legal knowledge, communication skills and ethical standards.
Mr. Berberich was one of the originators and current editor of the California New Car Dealers Association Dealer Management Guide, an over 600 page book which is revised frequently, published by the Association and distributed to its members, and which covers a multitude of legal topics affecting dealers. He is also the author of the California Auto Dealer Advertising Law Manual and co-author of the Callifornia Auto Dealer Finance and Insurance Compliance Manual. He has presented many seminars on advertising law to California automobile dealers.
Mr. Berberich is well known throughout California for his expertise in representing buyers and sellers of automobile dealerships and has handled a large number of those transactions during his career. He focuses his practice in the areas of general civil law, automobile dealer law, business purchases and sales, association and commercial law, real estate sales and leases, probate and estates, and business law.
Mr. Berberich is the father of four sons, and he is proud to say that he survived a period of time when all four of them were under age four (there was one set of twins). He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the National Association of Dealer Counsel (NADC), and has been involved in various civic, community, and charitable organizations. He is a director of The Fred and June MacMurray Foundation, a private charitable foundation, and an advisor to and supporter of The National Veterans Foundation, a crisis hotline support for veterans.
...take or threaten to take any adverse action against a dealer pursuant to an export or sale-for-resale prohibition because the dealer sold or leased a vehicle to a customer who either exported the vehicle to a foreign country or resold the vehicle in violation of the prohibition, unless the export or sale-for-resale prohibition policy was provided to the dealer in writing prior to the sale or lease, and the dealer knew or reasonably should have known of the customer's intent to export or resell the vehicle in violation of the prohibition at the time of sale or lease. If the dealer causes the vehicle to be registered in this or any other state, and collects or causes to be collected any applicable sales or use tax due to this state, a rebuttable presumption is established that the dealer did not have reason to know of the customer's intent to export or resell the vehicle.
This is an article by Joseph E. Berberich which discusses representations and warranties typically made in an automobile dealership buy-sell agreement.
This is an article by Joseph E. Berberich concerning the importance of knowing about factory plans or possible other points in a dealership's geographic region.
This is an article by Joseph E. Berberich concerning the way in which COBRA insurance factors into buy-sell agreements.
We are the authors of The New Motor Vehicle Board and Dealer Franchise Laws publication which is on the California New Car Dealers Association website. This publication covers the workings of the California New Motor Vehicle Board and dealer franchise laws. The New Motor Vehcile Board is an admistrative forum where dealers can enforce their rights in various area, particularly in dealership termination proceedings and the adding or relocating by manufacturers of dealerships in a dealer's market area. The publication also discusses many of the dealer rights franchise laws. See the link below to view a detailed table of contents for this publication.
We have authored the widely used California Auto Dealer Finance and Insurance Compliance Manual. The manual was extensively updated in 2012 and now includes The Reynolds and Reynolds Law California F & I libary of forms with detailed explanations of how to use them. The manual is divided into five sections, Intake and Credit Processing, Deal Negotiation, Deal Documentation, Post-Contract Issues, and F & I Policy Considerations. This publication is a valuable tool in training F & I personnel and in complying with the numerous intricacies of California law in the vehicle sale and leasing process.


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The UK must accept its human rights responsibilities
Professor Alan Miller, Chair of the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions and Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission has made the following comments in response to remarks given by Prime Minister David Cameron at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (read the Prime Minister's speech here).
Professor Miller said: "David Cameron sets out a strong case for the value of an effective regional human rights system, but he is wrong about the way forward for the Court. The European Convention on Human Rights is built upon the shared responsibilities of States within the Council of Europe. The current pressure on the Court is a result of failure of States to properly meet those responsibilities.
"The European Court of Human Rights is already well underway in its process of reform and is delivering results. Despite a rising number of cases before it, the Court is keeping pace and is reducing the backlog of cases in an efficient way. In fact, it is estimated that the backlog of inadmissible cases will be cleared within four years. It is premature to call for additional reforms just as we are starting to see the positive effects of the latest programme of change.
"The European Convention on Human Rights, with the Strasbourg Court at its heart, is one of the most effective systems of human rights protections in the world. The unfounded attacks on the Court's interpretation of ECHR by UK Government Ministers in recent months can hardly help the UK's efforts to influence its peers, and in fact gives the UK a poor reputation amongst our international colleagues. It is worrying when States, such as the UK, try to narrow their accountability in relation to human rights protection. Not only does it reduce the protection of human rights in Europe, but it leads to a reduction in human rights protection across the world as other countries use that undermining of human rights protection as an excuse to do the same.
"The way to reduce pressure on the Court is not to restrict access to it, but rather to ensure that everyone is educated about their human rights and the ways in which they can claim their rights. States need to ensure that legislation, policy and practice are in compliance with international law, to ensure effective domestic remedies, and to ensure that judgments are implemented. This would surely be a more practical and positive way forward.
"The UK can and should be more constructive and have a longer view when discussing major human rights systems and issues on an international stage."
As the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) recognised in its resolution yesterday (read the resolution at this link), the ECtHR has made an 'extraordinary contribution' to the protection of the human rights in Europe, however the primary responsibility to promote, protect and uphold human rights rests on the State.
Professor Miller added: "The Government should be focussing on ensuring that they meet their responsibilities in terms of protecting, respecting and promoting human rights for everyone in the UK, and building a positive discussion about the benefits of human rights protection. The UK must accept its responsibilities domestically, in Europe and in the wider world."
The Scottish Human Rights Commission currently holds the role of Chair of the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions. This regional group represents 36 human rights commissions, ombudsmen, and other national human rights institutions across Europe.
The Commission is also one of two Scottish representatives on the Advisory Panel to the UK Bill of Rights Commission, which is charged by the UK Government to examine the future of the Human Rights Act.


Recycle the Empties, or No Beer For You!
In Germany, preserving the environment is just as important as drinking beer. So please, bring your bottles back to the brewery where you received them! In Germany there are about 4 billion beer bottles in circulation that usually get filled up about 30 times in their lifespan thanks to recycling! When patrons go to the local convenience store or brewery, they pay a small deposit on each bottle that they purchase. When the bottles are brought back to the store, they get their deposit back! The problem is, with the heightened consumption of beer, and lack of empties being brought back, Germany is running out of beer bottles!
In Germany, there is a brewery in every village, of every city all with different branding. Years ago, different breweries would all use the same bottles, but change the label. Nowadays since there is such high competition in this industry, breweries need to stand out. Not only are the labels different, but bottles and crates are now unique to different breweries. They cannot share. This means that bottles need to be returned even faster than before – especially with a spike in consumption.
Recyclable cans make up only 7% of Germany's beer market, which is completely dominated by glass bottles. So why not start canning more beer? Frowned upon. The Germans believe that cans are not the answer to a friendly environment, and also, they do not prefer drinking beer from a can. But, Thomas Tyrell, master brewer at Stone Brewery says cans are environment friendly! Cans also carry a deposit and 98% of cans get recycled!
Although the 7-cent deposit may not entice you to bring back your bottles, it's for the good of the beer industry and community! Do a good deed and bring back your empties!