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Canadian oil investment to see uptick in 2021 but 'lot of unknowns' clouds outlook
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Varcoe: Trans Mountain record against legal challenges now at 16-0 but more cases await
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The streak continues.
For Alberta and Kinder Morgan, the legal hurdles to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion continue to be slowly cleared.
Two key British Columbia court rulings went in favour of Trans Mountain on Thursday, in cases that legal experts say could have implications in the broader dispute between Alberta and B.C. over the $7.4-billion pipeline project.
The Supreme Court of B.C. ruled against the Squamish Nation and City of Vancouver in their attempts to quash an environmental assessment certificate for the pipeline's expansion issued by the B.C. government.
For Kinder Morgan, it's the 16th straight time the courts have ruled in favour of Trans Mountain during various challenges of the review process and decisions related to the project.
Thursday's victories put two more in the win column.
"This has been an extraordinarily in-depth process and as much as people are trying to knock holes in it, it's been rigorous and lengthy — and painful for all concerned," said Nick Schultz, general counsel for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, which backs the development.
"But it is standing up to a lot of tire kicking."
The case dates back to early 2017, when the B.C. government of former premier Christy Clark issued an environmental certificate to Kinder Morgan for the oil pipeline.
The green light came several months after the National Energy Board and the Trudeau government had approved the development.
The City of Vancouver, which opposed the project before the NEB, then headed to court, arguing the province acted unreasonably and failed to follow proper process when it gave the project an environmental licence.
Separately, Squamish Nation argued the province failed to properly consult it before issuing a certificate to the Trans Mountain expansion (TMX), which would triple the amount of oil it could ship from the Edmonton area to Burnaby.
Justice Christopher Grauer dismissed both petitions while pointing out what the issue was essentially about.
"This case is not about whether the (project) should or should not go ahead. It is not about whether the TMX is in the national interest, or presents an unacceptable risk of environmental harm," the judge wrote in the Vancouver case.
"What this case does concern is whether British Columbia complied with administrative law principles and its own legislation."
The province "can have no impact on the decision of the federal government that this project shall proceed, other than delay," he added.
The wording is key.
While the decision to approve Trans Mountain is unpopular in some corners of British Columbia, the judge wasn't ruling on the NEB's process or whether this energy infrastructure is in Canada's interests, something Ottawa has already determined.
The judge clearly noted the NEB is the primary regulator of cross-border pipelines, such as this one.
While a provincial government can impose appropriate conditions on the project, the B.C. government can't withhold a permit from Trans Mountain.
"Ultimately, they were obliged to issue one," Grauer said.
The Squamish Nation had asked the B.C. Supreme Court to quash the environmental licence, contending B.C. failed to adequately consult it over the potential impact of the pipeline.
But it was reasonable for the province to rely on the NEB's assessment, and "the consultation that took place was adequate," he added.
"The takeaway is the province did an adequate job of consultation," said Nigel Bankes, chair of natural resources law at the University of Calgary.
"It's another victory for Trans Mountain and Kinder Morgan."
That point wasn't lost on project proponents, as well as the Notley and Trudeau governments, which are pushing to see the pipeline built.
"It's good news for the Trans Mountain expansion because it gives a little bit more certainty," federal Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr told reporters in Ottawa.
The twin rulings remove another potential barrier for the project, but other potholes remain in its path.
A judicial review of the project's approval by the NEB and the federal government is now before the Federal Court of Appeal. Fierce opponents aren't going away, either.
"Kinder Morgan still faces insurmountable challenges to building this pipeline," said a statement by Tzeporah Berman of Stand.earth., former co-chair of the Alberta Oil Sands Advisory Group.
However, there were hopeful signs for Alberta contained within Thursday's rulings.
University of Calgary law professor Martin Olszynski noted the Vancouver decision uses the word "comprehensive" six different times to describe the NEB's assessment of the project.
Such thinking could have ramifications for B.C. Premier John Horgan's reference question to the courts about his ability to restrict bitumen shipments into the province.
"It's another pro for the province of Alberta and others who support the pipeline, that ultimately B.C.'s attempts to impose additional terms, conditions and regulations will not be successful," said Olszynski.
But 16 straight legal victories won't mean much if the federal and provincial governments don't reach a speedy conclusion with Kinder Morgan before the end of May to derisk the project from further delays.
The company has suspended all non-essential spending as negotiations with the two governments continue behind closed doors.
As Schultz pointed out, it's a welcome sign to keep winning in the court of law. Yet, if other delays keep popping up, the project — and Alberta's ability to move more oil to the west coast — will be in jeopardy.
"Delay is the enemy here," he said. "There are a lot of obstacles still to be addressed."
Chris Varcoe is a Calgary Herald columnist.
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Augustus Tolton one step closer to being first black American saint
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Chicago, Ill., Feb 20, 2019 / 05:49 pm (CNA).- A Vatican committee has unanimously voted to send the sainthood cause of Father Augustus Tolton, a former runaway slave and the first African American priest in the United States, to the next stage.
Tolton was born into slavery in Monroe County, Missouri in 1854 and escaped to Quincy, Illinois with his family during the Civil War. He studied for the priesthood in Rome because no American seminary would accept him on account of his race. He was ordained in 1889 and served for three years at a parish in Quincy, eventually accepting an invitation to come to Chicago where he led St. Monica Parish until his death in 1897.
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A nine-member theological commission at the Vatican voted unanimously Feb. 5 that Tolton's sainthood cause, which began in 2010, be moved forward and presented to the Ordinary Meeting of Cardinals and Archbishops, the archdiocese of Chicago announced last week.
There the members will take a final vote before presenting a Decree of Heroic Virtues to Pope Francis for approval.
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Father Tolton would receive the title of "Venerable" after that decree's approval, which indicates he "lived the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance at a heroic level," the archdiocese said.
Tolton will be declared "blessed" once it is confirmed that one miracle has been granted by God through his intercession. A second miracle is typically required for canonization.
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Stella Walsh: A Documentary | The tragic story of the greatest female athlete in the world, her murder and the gender controversy that followed . . .
The tragic story of the greatest female athlete in the world, her murder and the gender controversy that followed . . .
Never say never! "Stella" will screen again on October 5, 2016 at the Out on Film Festival in Atlanta, GA. See "Screenings" for details.
This is it . . . this is more than likely the last "Stella Walsh" festival screening. August 13 and 14 at the North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival. It's an honor. I wish I could attend. Thank you for inviting me.
I thought "Stella Walsh" had its final public screening, but I was wrong! It will screen on July 9 at the qFLIX Film Festival in Philadelphia.
Here's a friendly reminder that "Stella" will screen on January 30 at the Bloomington Pride Film Festival in Indiana.
Thank you so much to the Side By Side Film Festival for screening "Stella Walsh" in St. Petersburg, Russia, and for mailing a film festival catalog and t-shirt! It's so cool to see the film's description in Russian type. Please read this fascinating article about the festival in The Guardian.
"Stella Walsh" has been accepted to the Dayton LGBT Film Festival and the ReelQ Film Festival is Pittsburgh!
Cincinnati and Global Peace, here we come!
"Stella Walsh" has been accepted to both the Cincinnati Film Festival and will be returning to Orlando for the Global Peace Film Festival! I will post screening dates and times as soon as they are available.
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Oliver Harris
Oliver joined 30 Park Place following the successful completion of his pupillage in September 2017.
Oliver has developed a busy mixed practice and accepts instructions in all areas of Family and Civil, as well as regularly appearing in the Immigration and Employment Tribunals.
Oliver studied Law at Durham University before attending Cardiff University to complete a Master's degree in Law. Oliver remained in Cardiff to complete the Bar Professional Training Course.
Prior to the commencement of pupillage Oliver worked as a support worker for young adults with autism and as a paralegal in a Nursing Care Department where he represented clients at NHS Review Panels.
Oliver is noted for his personable approach and sensitive manner with vulnerable clients. He is driven to secure the best possible outcome and to ensure his client's voice is heard.
Away from work Oliver is a keen sportsman and currently holds welsh swimming records.
Oliver has extensive experience acting for local authorities, parents and children's guardians at all stages of public law proceedings. He has acted in cases involving significant neglect, domestic violence and sexual abuse. Oliver has also acted on behalf of local authorities in cases involving designated local authority arguments.
Oliver has become popular in private practice and acts for both mothers and fathers in cases involving relocation, allegations of adult and child sexual abuse, domestic violence, implacably hostile parents and issues relating to the child's religion. In addition to this, Oliver has acted on behalf of Rule 16.4 Guardians and in matters involving applications for occupation and non-molestation orders.
Oliver accepts instructions in matrimonial finance matters following relationship breakdown and continues to develop his practice in this area
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Oliver acts across a range of Immigration and Asylum matters.
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San Diego, CA, May 14, 2012 / --Technology Integration Group (TIG), a leading global IT solutions provider, launches TIG Cloud, the first public cloud computing centerin Jiangyin,China, one of the fastest growing, high-tech cities in the Jiangsu Province. TIG Cloud is a joint venture with Longsky Software Inc., a woman owned company that maintains solid expertise in application development and business process outsourcing (BPO). TIG cloud will build strong, strategic partnerships with clients focused in education, enterprise and government entities in China.
"Located near Shanghai, in one of the most important transport hubs on the Yangtze River, Jiangyin has consistently been ranked the largest GDP among county-level cities for the past nine years.TIG Cloud plays a critical role in accelerating the city�s transition from a manufacturing hub to an innovative Smart Jiangyin. We welcome TIG Cloud in partnership to provide technology enablement in our schools and enterprises" said Mr. Jiang, Secretary General of Jiangyin municipal government at the TIG Cloud opening ceremony.
"TIG brings years of experience in technology and expertise in building a secure cloud infrastructure. I am honored to partner with TIG and offer practical solutions to the China market as well as support our global customers", said Chen Wu, Chairman and CEO of LongSky Software.
"China has a growing demand for the next generation of computing platforms, high-performance infrastructure and cloud ready architecture. This joint venture partnership is a commitment to grow our presence in China. TIG Cloud represents a key milestone in that commitment, enabling TIG to further expand our reach�, said Bruce Geier, TIG President and CEO. �Chen Wu is an inspirational visionary and I look forward to our common goal for its success".
The opening ceremony for TIG Cloud had attendance in excess of 170 prominent leaders including government officials representing the city of Jiangyin and the Jiangsu Province. Local industry leaders, enterprise CEO�s, Principals and IT Directors from area school districts, national and local media outlets, as well as representatives from Microsoft Corporation, Dell Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. were also in attendance.
TIG is a premier ISO 9001:2008 certified, full-service IT systems integrator with 31 years of experience providing end-to-end technology solutions. Financially stable, TIG has remained profitable every year since the company�s founding in 1981 with 350 Million in revenue for 2011. TIG is a Certified Minority Enterpriseand a Corporate Plus�member of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). In addition to the company�s headquarters in San Diego, TIG has 23 offices located in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boise, Denver, Detroit, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Irvine, Fort Walton Beach, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Mobile, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Richmond, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Tampa, and Shanghai, China. For more information visit www.tig.com.
LongSky is a leading application development and BPO services company offering comprehensive solutions that streamline and maximize client resources, reduce cost and improve business performance. With revenues reaching 1 Billion RMB (US $157 million), LongSky is rapidly growing, providing information technology services onshore and offshore. LongSky is a woman owned company based in the Jiangyin Software Park of Jiangsu Province of China, with wholly owned subsidiaries in the US and Japan. For more information visit www.longskysoft.com.


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Jakob Ohme is a postdoctoral researcher in the Digital Communication Methods Lab at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark, where he was part of the Centre for Journalism. In his thesis, he investigated the effects of digital media use on political participation and democratic citizenship. His research interests center around political communication effects, the impact of the digital media environment on political behavior and attitudes, and the development of new methodological approaches in political communication research. In the Digital Communication Methods Lab at ASCoR, Jakob focuses on effects of mobile media exposure by employing mobile methods, such as experience sampling studies, mobile eye-tracking and the use of specific survey apps. Prior to his work in Denmark, Jakob earned a Master degree from the Department of Media and Communication at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany.
About CPC
The aim of the Center for Politics and Communication is to provide a forum for scholars, journalists, political actors and others interested in political communication.
Director of CPC is Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam). The board consists of Frank Esser (University of Zurich), Rens Vliegenthart and Magdalena Wojcieszak (both UvA).
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Q: Mock responses are working but verification fails I am trying to use Moq to mock an HTTP response in a unit test. I've set up my mock like below:
var mockHandler = new Mock<HttpMessageHandler>(MockBehavior.Strict);

mockHandler
    .Protected()
    // Sets up mock for the protected SendAsync method
    .Setup<Task<HttpResponseMessage>>("SendAsync", ItExpr.IsAny<HttpRequestMessage>(), ItExpr.IsAny<CancellationToken>())
    // Prepare the expected response of the mocked HTTP call
    .ReturnsAsync(new HttpResponseMessage() { StatusCode = System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK, Content = new StringContent("{\"stuff\":[\""+expectedstuff+"\"]}"), })
    .Verifiable();

I then create the httpclient:
var client = new HttpClient(mockHandler.Object)
{
    BaseAddress = new Uri(expectedRequestUri),
};

I then post to the client:
var response = await client.PostAsync("/path", new StringContent(""));

When I deserialize the response, it matches the mocked response I set up in the Setup step above exactly, and everything appears fine. However, in the last step I encounter an issue which throws an exception (below)...
mockHandler
    .Protected()
    .Verify(
        "SendAsync",
        Times.Exactly(1),
        ItExpr.Is<HttpRequestMessage>(request => request.Method == HttpMethod.Post && request.RequestUri == new Uri(expectedRequestUri)),
        ItExpr.IsAny<CancellationToken>());

Error:

Moq.MockException: Expected invocation on the mock exactly 1 times, but was 0 times: mock => mock.SendAsync(It.Is<HttpRequestMessage>(request => request.Method == HttpMethod.Post && request.RequestUri == new Uri(.expectedRequestUri)), It.IsAny<CancellationToken>())

I have no clue why it's reporting 0 times, as the response I get matches the mocked response so it appears to be functioning. Any thoughts from the community would be helpful.

A: In situations like this you have to check the expression used in the Verify.
It apparently does not match what was invoked.
If the base address of the client is expectedRequestUri
var client = new HttpClient(mockHandler.Object)
{
    BaseAddress = new Uri(expectedRequestUri), //<--
};

and the Post is done with /path
var response = await client.PostAsync("/path", new StringContent("")); //<--

then the request url would be a combining of the two.
But in the verify you check
request.RequestUri == new Uri(expectedRequestUri)

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Bilaterally : English Word Search - You Go Words!
Bilaterally is a 11 letter word, used as a adverb, and has the letters aabeilllrty (abeilrty). Starts with b, ends with y, seven consonants, four vowels and five syllables.
You can use bilaterally as a adverb in a sentence.
A 5 syllables adverb and 11 letters with the letters a, b, e, i, l, r, t, and y, 7 consonants, 4 vowels and 5 syllables with the middle letter e. Bilaterally starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters b, bi, bil, bila, bilat, and the ending characters are y, ly, lly, ally, rally, . Bilaterally is also a double consonant (ll) word. View the double consonant words list.
In a bilateral manner; "they worked out an agreement bilaterally"
Bilaterally in Pig Latin is said as "ilaterallybay or ilaterallybway".
There are 1 words that have the opposite meaning of bilaterally.
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There are 1 anagrams from bilaterally.
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Mukasey, Congress tangle over tapes
By Mercury News | themerc@bayareanewsgroup.com |
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department moved Friday to delay congressional inquiries into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying the administration could not provide witnesses or documents sought by lawmakers without jeopardizing its own investigation of the CIA's actions.
Congressional leaders from both parties alleged that the department is trying to block their investigation and vowed to press ahead with hearings.
A pair of letters from the Justice Department and CIA officials to leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees intensified the conflict between the Bush administration and Congress, which is seeking to force current and former CIA leaders to testify as early as next week. The lawmakers want CIA officials to account for the decision to destroy tapes that depicted the use of harsh interrogation tactics on terrorism suspects.
The growing feud is the first major confrontation with Congress for new Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who was narrowly confirmed last month amid controversy over his refusal to describe waterboarding – a severe interrogation tactic that simulates drowning – as torture.
"We fully appreciate the committee's oversight interest in this matter, but want to advise you of concerns that actions responsive to your request would represent significant risk to our preliminary inquiry," Kenneth L. Wainstein, assistant attorney general for national security, and CIA Inspector General John L. Helgerson wrote in a letter to House intelligence committee leaders.
The top Democrat and Republican on the House intelligence committee issued a joint statement that labels Justice's advice to the CIA witnesses an effort to obstruct the congressional probe.
"We are stunned that the Justice Department would move to block our investigation," Reps. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, and Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said in the statement. "Parallel investigations occur all of the time, and there is no basis upon which the attorney general can stand in the way of our work."
They vowed to "use all the tools available to Congress, including subpoenas" to compel the CIA to produce documents and require key officials to testify about the tapes.
The exchange followed a letter earlier in the day from Mukasey that rebuffed congressional demands for details about the joint Justice-CIA inquiry into the tapes' destruction and rejected calls for the appointment of an independent prosecutor. Mukasey said that providing the information to Congress would make it appear that the department is "subject to political influence."
"At my confirmation hearing, I testified that I would act independently, resist political pressure and ensure that politics plays no role in cases brought by the Department of Justice," Mukasey wrote in a letter to Sens. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman and ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee.
In recent weeks, lawmakers, primarily Democrats, have showered the Justice Department with demands for investigations or information on topics including baseball's steroids scandal and allegations of rape by a former military contractor employee.
Mukasey replaced Alberto R. Gonzales, who left office in September after the furor over his handling of the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and allegations that he misled Congress in sworn testimony.
The CIA disclosed last week that it destroyed videotapes in 2005 depicting interrogation sessions for alleged Al-Qaida operative Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, commonly known as Abu Zubaida, and another suspect, later identified by officials as Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Administration officials have said that lawyers at the Justice Department and the White House, including then-Counsel Harriet E. Miers, advised the CIA against destroying the tapes but that CIA lawyers ruled their preservation was not required.
CIA officials said the agency's director, Michael V. Hayden, is prepared to cooperate with all investigators.
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Assam MLA bats for talks to ensure border peace
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"Development at Balakhowa benefits people of both states"
By Special Correspondent On May 16, 2019
GUWAHATI: West Guwahati MLA, Ramendra Narayan Kalita has appealed to both Assam and Meghalaya governments to initiate talks on all border-related issues to ensure peace in villages near the inter-state boundary.
Condemning the recent violence at Balakhowa (near Jirang-West Guwahati border), Kalita maintained that people of both the states have had a peaceful co-existence in the area for decades and that it was a shame that the recent incident was triggered by the activities of a few elements.
"Balakhowa is not a disputed area and development activities by Assam have been carried out since decades now, which benefits people of both states. Nevertheless, both the states should start talks on any border-related issue and ensure peace once and for all," Kalita told The Shillong Times on Thursday.
The house of the secretary of Hima Nongspung, Michael Warjri, 76, was ransacked by a mob on May 7, allegedly on the pretext that Warjri had opposed a road project at Balakhowa.
Warjri, who was arrested by Assam police on May 7 and later sent to judicial custody, was released on bail secured by the Federation of Khasi Jaintia and Garo People (FKJGP) from Guwahati central jail on Wednesday.
Assam police sources said his arrest was made on the basis of a case registered at Palasbari police station by the driver of a vehicle carrying a hydraulic tank for bridge repair in the area. Warjri had allegedly stopped and threatened the driver not to pass by that road. Police say that he had also attacked a person among the mob (which ransacked his house) with a "khukri" and threatened them with his single barrel gun.
The West Guwahati MLA, who had visited Balakhowa on May 11, however said that there was ample "proof of Warji putting out extortion letters to contactors engaged in road construction under PMGSY in the area."
"He had even demanded Rs 8 lakh and Rs 12 lakh through such letters besides demanding tax from truck drivers and contractors. A bridge at Muduki had to be repaired to keep communication on as non-repair would affect several hundreds of residents. But Warjri had objected to such work," Kalita said.
The MLA further said that he had even written a letter to former Meghalaya chief minister, Mukul Sangma, about three years back, for cooperation in regard to the PMGSY road construction by Assam as commuters of both the states would be benefitted.
"In fact, Mukul Sangma had admitted that there was no dispute in the area and that such development work was carried out by Assam over the years," Kalita said.
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How to Have A Love Affair?
"There are," said Rossano Brazzi, "comparatively few unhappy marriages in Italy. I believe the reason is that Italian wives are wise enough to realize that simply because a man is married does not mean he automatically loses all interest in the opposite sex. And if a husband flirts a little now and then—where is the harm in that? Unless, of course, some busybody takes something innocent and blows it into something big. Then someone gets hurt. That is bad. Very bad.
"It is also," Rossano announced flatly and firmly, "foolish and unnecessary."
The place where this conversation occurred was perfect for such talk. It was a comfortably furnished living room in a small London town house, located almost within the shadows of Buckingham Palace. The room bore the unmistakable signs of a woman's touch, a woman's occupancy—the richness of the pale blue drapery fabrics at the tall windows, the flowers atop the mahogany piano, the delicate Venetian glass and crystal that graced table tops and man tel. The woman who was responsible for these touches, however, was nowhere in sight. Rossano Brazzi lounged back in a deeply upholstered black leather chair. He wore a dark red smoking jacket and black patent leather slippers. He sipped at a Scotch and soda in the manner of a "Man of Distinction." He inhaled long and deeply on a strong French cigarette—and they are, by the way, the strongest in the world. He was the picture of a true sophisticate, handsome and debonair.
He also looked happy, contented, at ease. And he was.
"Please understand me," he said, with a trace of anxiety in his low, deep-timbred voice, leaning forward and looking very sincere, "I am not advocating the double Standard. I am not suggesting that married men should flirt. I am only saying that if a man flirts, he should not permit his wife to be hurt by his foolishness. Take me, for example. I love my wife. We have been happily married for seventeen years. But," he set his drink down with a gesture of vehemence, and a note of defiance crept into his voice, "why should I not have the pleasure of looking admiringly at another woman—even, on occasion, of taking her to dinner? Should such a simple thing bring on tears? Recriminations? Should it send my wife rushing to the divorce court? Should it ruin our happiness?" He answered his own questions with, "Nonsense!"
I agreed. However, didn't his attitude, while sensible in theory, require a certain amount of trust and understanding on the part of the wife? Any wife?
Rossano nodded. "But," he went on, "actually, I do not believe it is the harmless little flirtation itself to which the wife objects. It is the way in which it is handled. You see, as I said before, the important thing is to handle it all in such a way that no one is hurt. How does a husband take some other woman out to dinner without hurting his wife? Why, by being careful to see to it that she does not know about it."
Joan Crawford & Rossano Brazzi
And if his wife should happen to ask where her husband was until eleven o'clock that particular night?
"Ah, but that is just it. She doesn't ask. At least," and a fond, warm look came over his handsome Latin face, "my wife doesn't. My wife is a wise woman. A very wise woman. For instance—"
He leaned back, stretched his legs out in front of him, and lit a new cigarette with a small gold monogrammed lighter. His every gesture was charming, smooth, dramatic. Almost too smooth, too dramatic. Did he really mean these things he was saying, or was he kidding? It didn't really matter. They still made good listening.
"First of all," Rossano continued, "let us suppose Lidia, my wife, expects me home for dinner at seven o'clock. Let us also suppose that somewhere in the course of the day, I have met a woman who intrigues me—who, for any one of a half-dozen reasons, I would like to know better. I ask her to dine with me. She promptly says, 'But you're married.' I promptly answer, 'But of course I am married.' She then says—and you would be amazed how consistent women are in their replies to these things!—'Then how can you have dinner with me?' My reply is always the same. 'My dear,' I assure this young woman, 'I did not ask you to marry me. I merely asked you to dine with me this evening.' "
It was now my turn to lean forward. "And then?"
"And then," smiled Brazzi, looking like a cat who has eaten a particularly tempting canary, "I call Lidia. I am careful to call her in plenty of time so that I am not ruining a meal which she has gone to particular pains to prepare. I am very polite, naturally. And regretful; also naturally. I casually mention a script conference, a rehearsal. I tell her exactly what time I shall be home—and I am always home within halt an hour of that time."
But if this charming little flirtation is to remain charming, if it is to remain in the memory of both as a delightful interlude, everything must be carefully planned and nothing left to chance. Where, for instance, will they go for dinner?
"Someplace out of doors, if the weather is nice. In Rome," he sighed, remembering, "the weather is almost always nice. Blue skies, whitewashed buildings, a little restaurant atop a hill, perhaps one overlooking the Mediterranean. At such a place," he said, "there is almost no possibility of encountering someone I know who might later tell my wife and, of course, make quite a story out of something that is not at all important unless someone chooses to make it so."
Rossano returned to his drink. He sipped it thoughtfully. "There are many ways of handling these situations, but the best rule always is, quite simply, to use good taste."
Again I had to mention that it seemed to me these arrangements always required cooperation. Granted, Rossano's wife was most cooperative in not asking questions. Now supposing this young woman, with whom he wanted nothing more than a pleasant evening of talk, should impulsively lean forward, as he was bidding her good night, and leave a smudge of lipstick on his collar? There have even been times, I mentioned, when women have been known to do such things quite deliberately, in order to disturb exactly the kind of happy and understanding marriage which Rossano Brazzi unquestionably enjoys with his Lidia.
June Allyson & Rossano Brazzi
Rossano put down his glass with a clatter. He looked at me angrily, as though I had been guilty of such a breach of romantic ethics.
"A man is a fool to get himself into such an untidy situation! Lipstick on a handkerchief? Throw the confounded thing away. Lipstick on a collar? I carry an extra shirt with me at all times. Sometimes, quite innocently, finishing up a love scene with a leading lady or something, she leaves such a smudge on my collar. I change my shirt. If necessary, I would throw away the shirt. I would never come home to my wife with powder on my collar or a blonde hair on my lapel." Instinctively, he reached up and brushed his lapel on this last remark.
"And if your wife should, ask you, when you get home, whether you had been out with another woman?"
Brazzi's eyebrows shot up abruptly. "Lidia would not dream of doing such a thing. A clever wife—and my wife is very clever—does not ask her husband if he has been seeing some other woman. She might think it, but until he tells her so, she doesn't know it. If she does not ask, he cannot tell her. A wife must trust her husband implicitly, and he must know that she does."
Trust, Brazzi declared gravely and seriously, is the most binding and enduring quality in any marriage. "The very first minute a woman starts doubting her mate, the union is over. And jealousy!" Rossano threw up his hands. "Jealousy can kill a marriage in one blow. But always remember, it takes two to start jealousy." He leaned back, looking very wise. "A sensible husband never gives his wife a reason to be jealous."
To illustrate his point, Rossano described a typical evening out with his wife. He and Lidia might be dining at a smart restaurant. Perhaps there is a striking, magnificently dressed beauty at the next table. Brazzi sees her—out of the corner of his eye—but that's all! At all times, he shows the utmost consideration for his wife. He never, never smirks and remarks, "Boy, what a gorgeous dish!"
He raised a forefinger. "That," he declared, "is where my wife is clever. She is the first one to draw my attention to the attractive woman. She is the first one to comment, 'Isn't she lovely!' " Rossano shrugged. "What can a man say then?"
Rossano said that he met Lidia when they both were sixteen, attending the same school in Florence. At twenty-one, they were married. Rossano studied law and began practicing in Rome. Then one summer he appeared in an amateur theatrical production, a film producer noticed him and signed him to a movie contract, and he has been an actor ever since.
If Rossano has off-screen romances like these onscreen with June Allyson and Joan Crawford, wife Lidia refuses to believe it, merely laughs it off
"Suddenly, I was thrust into a business where I saw dozens of exciting women all around me. Naturally, like any red-blooded Latin, I was tempted. But Lidia is not, somehow, the kind of wife to whom one is unfaithful. She is too intelligent, too understanding. By giving me the little freedoms she keeps me happy, content. And I think if I were to start my life over again and marry again, I would still choose Lidia."
"Because Lidia is the perfect wife," Brazzi answered promptly. "She manages the home beautifully. My breakfast is ready on time. My shirts, ties, suits are always clean and in order. She takes down my telephone messages, reads my Scripts with me, discusses contracts. She praises me only when I deserve it. She never gushes. She's real. She's honest."
We began comparing the average Italian wife to her American counterpart. We discussed a fact Rossano had brought up earlier, that there are so many more divorces in America than in any country in Europe. Brazzi thought this was partly because American husbands and wives, though they loved each other very much, didn't respect one another as European husbands and wives do.
"That is," he said, "they do not respect one another's right to privacy, to having a little part of themselves that belongs to no one else. A little room, shall we say, marked, 'No admittance.' "
On the other hand, Rossano said he was sympathetic toward American marital troubles, because he feels the United States, compared with Italy, is still an infant nation. "We've had centuries of experience," he philosophized. "Italian men and women are born with a talent to cope with these problems."
But doesn't Lidia ever phone to say she won't be home for dinner? That she's playing bridge, say, or its Italian equivalent, as American wives sometimes do?
"Never!" replied Rossano emphatically. "Oh, she may do those things during the day—by the hour, in fact—but she's home in time to prepare a good dinner. The house is always in order. Fresh flowers are on the table. When I walk in, I have the feeling she's waiting for me. That's one of the most important things in marriage—to know that someone is waiting."
There are other things, too, in the Brazzi match which make it a happy union—in spite of what Rossano insists on confessing is a slightly roving eye. Money, for example. Rossano said his wife never has to ask him for enough cash to get through the day. They have a joint bank account, and Lidia writes a check whenever she needs to. He spends what he likes. "I make the money," he declared. "But it's ours"
And then there is thoughtfulness. If Lidia has stitched up a new slipcover for a chair, Rossano notices it as soon as he enters the room. He remarks about the slipcover, praises his wife, gives her a big hug for making his home more attractive.
"Anniversaries and birthdays are not forgotten, either," Rossano smiled. "As a matter of fact, we celebrate our wedding anniversary for a whole week. One night, we have a big party at our house. The next night, we may go to the theatre. The third night, we go to a friend's home. And finally, on the last night, we have our own private celebration just by ourselves." In spite of seventeen years of married life, Rossano said he and Lidia seem to have retained the same romantic feelings they had for one another the first day they met.
"Above all," Rossano admitted with a somewhat sheepish grin, "when a man feels he is free to flirt, it is surprising how much of the fun is taken out of it!"
Drawing on his own experience for an example of this, he told about his trip to the United States a couple of years ago. "The studio asked me to go over to make personal appearances, publicizing 'Summertime,' " he recalled. "They wanted me to come alone, feeling I'd make a more romantic impression without my wife."
Rossano said he discussed the proposed jaunt with Lidia, and she very wisely left the decision up to him. "I decided to make the trip," the actor continued. "Of course, in the back of my head, I was thinking, 'Oh, this is going to be great! Traveling all around—free—a bachelor.' "
Full of anticipation, a gleam in his eye and a selection of natty new suits in his trunk, Rossano boarded a liner for New York. He was going to have himself a hail! Well, it all started out fine. Every afternoon, he sipped cocktails with the loveliest ladies on shipboard. Every evening, he dined and danced with a different beauty. He was the charming, beguiling Latin lover, the darling of the female passenger list, the romantic Rossano Brazzi, who left each girl palpitating and breathless. But what happened to Rossano?
"A week later," he declared, "I arrived in New York. Do you know what?" He sighed heavily. "I was homesick! I missed Lidia so terribly much, I started phoning her every night."
And then, like the well-trained actor responding to a cue, Rossano asked if I'd like to meet Lidia. I instantly said, "By all means, yes!"
He opened the living room door and called upstairs. A pleasant, easy feminine voice called down in Italian to say that she wasn't properly dressed. Her husband assured her it didn't matter. This was a friend, and female. In a minute, Lidia appeared, pink and plump and bubbly, in a frothy, lacy negligee. I explained that we'd been discussing her marriage. Naturally, I didn't want to leave without meeting her. She beamed happily at her husband.
"We have a wonderful life," she declared. You could tell at once by her calmness and by her smile that here was a wife who understood her husband thoroughly and enjoyed him thoroughly.
"Mrs. Brazzi, how do you feel about his leading women? Are you ever jealous, say, of your husband's love scenes with them?"
"Nonsense!" said Lidia, much as her husband had said half an hour before. "I love his leading women. Rossano is working no w with Joan Crawford in 'The Golden Virgin.' Miss Crawford is sweet and intelligent. I admire her greatly."
The next question was such a bold one, I all but trembled when I asked it. "What would you do if you ever found out there was another woman in your husband's life?"
The room was abruptly filled with peal after peal of resounding laughter. "Another woman? Ridiculous!" Lidia was rocking with merriment. "Oh, he looks! What Italian doesn't? But anything serious?" She was still holding her sides. "Oh, no—not Rossano! When a man is happy at home, he stays there. And Rossano is happy—very happy."
"Then your marriage has been successful?"
"The best!" said Lidia, her hands in the air in a typical Italian gesture. "We are—how you say?—compatible. We have fun. Rossano brings home little presents to surprise me. I cook his favorite dishes. In our apartment in Rome, we are always planning parties. We go motoring in Italy—all over. We enjoy doing everything together."
Rossano was looking a little wistful. "I would hate to think what life would be without my wife," he declared, his voice strangely low. "We have grown together. You might almost say, grown up, together."
"Then there never could be a separation or divorce for the Brazzis?"
Rossano shook his head, not only to make a negative gesture, but to indicate his wonderment, his puzzlement at such a question. "You Americans," he said, "you do not understand love. Maybe, once in a while, I flirt. Maybe, even," with a wink in her direction, "Lidia flirts. What has this to do with a happy marriage? Divorce? Never!"
Rossano drained the last of his drink, as though to toast his pledge—and the woman he married who still acts like a bride. An aromatic scent of tomato sauce and garlic came floating through the living room. I mentioned something about dinnertime and said I'd better be leaving.
Rossano Brazzi saw me to the door. "I'd like to ask you something," he said, speaking quickly and quietly. "My studio wants me to come to America on a personal appearance tour for the new picture. Do you think I should go?"
'Without Lidia?"
Rossano nodded. Then he caught my thought, and the hopeful look slowly faded from his face. "You are right," he said, resigning himself to it once more. "it wouldn't really be any fun without Lidia. Married men," he said, "they never learn!"
We shook hands. The door closed softly behind me and I walked out into the gray, penetrating London fog. Oddly, I felt lonely, for no special reason. It had something to do with the smell of dinner cooking, with a woman's warm, rich, happy laughter, with a feeling I had that, behind that closed door, two people in love had already gone into one another's arms. I somehow knew that at this moment Rossano would be kissing his wife tenderly, laughing softly down into her upturned, worshiping face.
People have said, "How can a woman like Lidia, who is charming, yes, but who makes no effort to be svelte or stylish, continue to hold the love of a man like Brazzi—a man who, as an actor, is constantly exposed to some of the most beautiful women in the world?"
I knew. Lidia knew. She is always there, waiting for him, and he knew it. And, "When a man is happy at home, he stays there."
Maybe men never learn. But women do. I did.
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Unexplained Skulls
Skulls are humanity's foremost symbol of death, and a powerful icon in the visual vocabularies of cultures all over the globe.
Many strangely "deformed" hominoid skulls have been discovered in Mexico and Peru. One of them, the Starchild skull found in Mexico, is currently the subject of scientific scrutiny and DNA testing.
Thirteen crystal skulls of apparently ancient origin have been found in parts of Mexico, Central America and South America, comprising one of the most fascinating subjects of 20th Century archaeology.
The Starchild Project
The following text is © by Lloyd Pye.
Reprinted with permission.
In the 1930's, in a small rural village 100 miles southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico,
at the back of a mine tunnel, two mysterious remains were found: a complete human skeleton and a smaller, malformed skeleton.
In late February of 1999, Lloyd Pye was first shown the Starchild skull by its owners. Nameless then, it was a highly anomalous skull. He initially felt it would prove to be a rare genetic deformity of some kind. This skull's symmetry was astonishing, even more so than the average human. In fact, all of its bones—most of which had human counterparts—were beautifully shaped. But shaped like what? Solving many questions that this unusual skull presented became his challenge.
Front view of the Starchild skull (on the left) and the human skull (on the right).
Compare striking differences between depth of eye sockets and shape of temporal
area just behind outer edges of eyes.
Skull Discovery
Sixty to seventy years ago an American girl of Mexican heritage in her late teens (15 to 18) was taken by her parents to visit relatives living in a small rural village 100 miles southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico. The girl was forbidden to enter any of the area's numerous caves and mine tunnels, but like most teenagers, she went exploring. At the back of a mine tunnel she found a complete human skeleton lying on the ground's surface. Beside it, sticking up out of the ground, was a malformed skeletal hand entwined in one of the human skeleton's upper arms. The girl proceeded to scrape the dirt off a shallow grave to reveal a buried skeleton smaller than the human one and also malformed. She did not specify the type or degree of any of the "malformations."
The girl recovered both skulls and kept them for the remainder of her life. Upon her death they were passed to an American man, who maintained possession for five years before passing them to the American couple who now control them.
The Mystery Skull
Skull suturing and baby teeth in a detached piece of maxilla (upper jaw and palate) indicate death around 5 years of age. The face is missing from the upper bridge of the nose to the foramen magnum (the hole where the spine enters the skull), but the cranium and most of both eye orbits (the external parts of the sockets) are intact.
This skull's degree of humanity is at issue because several aspects of its morphology defy categorizing as genetic defect (inherited), congenital deformation (birth defect), or inflicted deformity (cranial binding).
The Human Skull
A human skull assumed to be Amerindian (an Indian from North or South America) because the rear of its cranium exhibits the flattening that results from being carried in infancy on a cradle board. Tooth wear suggests age at death
was around 25 years, plus or minus five. Its smallish size and other reduced points of reference indicate it will likely prove to be female.
Experts suggest the child's high degree of occipital (rear-skull) deformity would most likely have resulted from the cranial binding practiced by primitive cultures around the world. However, such binding never extends below the inion (the bump at the back of the head) because the human neck begins just below that point. Furthermore, squeezing a skull's upper bones out of their natural shape leaves them permanently separated, which results in a life-long "soft spot" at the top of the head.
The child's skull is well-sutured (no soft spot), with none of the distortions normally caused by binding. Furthermore, the extent of rear flattening extends well past the inion, which has become slightly concave. This indicates a strong force other than binding (i.e. pathology or a natural design) must have caused the occipital's extensive deformation.
Brain Volume
Though markedly different in shape, the skulls are roughly the same size. However, they exhibit a stunning difference in brain volume. The average volume for a human brain is 1400 cubic centimeters (cc). The volume of the human skull is 1200 cc, typical for a small human. In contrast, the volume of the child's skull is 1600 cc, which is 200 cc beyond the average for adult humans. And had it lived to become an adult, its brain capacity would have grown to 1800 cc or more, well beyond the human average.
The Starchild's brain volume, contained inside a cranium the size of a smallish human's,
is 1600 cc. A normal human skull has a brain volume around 1400 cubic centimeters.
In paleoanthropology (the study of ancient animals) a 200 cc increase in brain capacity of a human type creature warrants the naming of an entirely new species. Homo Erectus averages 200 cc more than Homo Habilis; Homo Archaic is 200 cc more than Erectus; Neanderthal is 200 cc more than Archaic. Thus, this child might well represent an unknown species of human-like beings.
An average human skull weighs 2.2 pounds (lbs.). The adult's skull (which is missing its lower jawbone and teeth) weighs 1 lb., 13.4 ounces. Including the child skull's piece of detached maxilla (upper jaw), it weighs only 13.5 ounces. Because it is roughly the size of the adult skull, its bone has to be significantly lighter than typical human
The child's skull has a high degree of symmetry (similarity on both sides). Usually cranial pathologies will cause differences in degree on either side of the head, along with other distortions. Thus, it is highly unlikely a cranium so clearly aberrant would exhibit such startling symmetry throughout
A CAT scan has shown that none of the sutures between the bones in the child's skull have sealed themselves off from further growth. Nearly all examples of congenital deformity exhibit some degree of premature sealing of cranial sutures. This makes it highly unlikely, if not virtually impossible, for the child's skull to be the result of deformity. It seems to have grown naturally into the shape is had taken.
The Eyes
Normal human eye sockets have a recessed (5 cm) conical shape with optic nerves and optic fissures at the inner rear quadrant of the cone. The child's eye sockets have a shallow (3 cm) scalloped shape with optic nerves and optic fissures moved down and away to the inner bottom. Also, the inner surface of both sockets have incredibly subtle terrain shifts that are impossible to explain in any way other than genetic design.
The shape and width of the eye orbits (the outer edges of the sockets) are equally divergent. The adult's have the vaguely rectangular shape of normal humans, while the child's are shaped like a lopsided oval. The adult's are typically rounded along the top of the rectangle, while the upper part of the child's oval has a clearly definable edge.
The child's ear canals are clearly visible on both sides of its skull. They seem normal in shape and size and angle of entry, but a recent CAT scan revealed that they are larger and have more depth than normal human inner ears. There is no way to know if an external ear was present or what it may have looked like.
The Sinuses
The child had small maxillary (cheek) sinuses but no trace of frontal sinus cavities. While extremely rare, this condition is supposedly known among both humans and primates.
The Foramen Magnum
The foramen magnum is the hole at the base of the skull where the spinal column connects with the brain. In normal humans the foramen is positioned slightly rear of center to balance the hollow-filled front face against the brain-filled occipital area. The extensive reconfiguration of the child's skull has somehow caused its foramen magnum to be shifted to a central point that provides much better balance between its rear brain area, and its face and forebrain.
The Necks
Typical human neck attachments begin at the inion, the bump in the middle of the occipital bone, and sweep out in a semicircle that reaches to just behind the ears and converges at the foramen magnum. The distance from any part of the semicircle to the foramen opening averages 5 to 6 centimeters.
In the child's skull a shallow arc extends about 3 centimeters from the foramen hole, while the inion has somehow become slightly concave. Such a drastic reduction in attachment area means the neck supporting the child's head must have been from 1/2 to 1/3 that of a normal human. Such thin necks are consistently described as hallmarks of certain alien types (Grays), and of Gray-human hybrids.
Chewing Muscles
In the child, the area available for attaching chewing muscles is every bit as reduced as the attachment area for its neck muscles. And though they are called "chewing" muscles, they are actually used for connecting and holding the lower face to the skull. Based on such a reduced connection area, the amount of mandible (jawbone) these muscles could have secured must have been greatly reduced.
Human-Alien Hybrids
Many abductees and contactees allege that aliens (most often "Grays") are conducting genetic experiments that produce hybrids between themselves and humans. The results of these unions are consistently described as looking far more human than alien, but with stark bulges in the parietal bones; shallow eye sockets; a greatly reduced lower face; a thin neck able to easily support a well-balanced head; and ears seen as markedly lower and smaller (or missing entirely) relative to human ears.
The eyes of Grays are consistently described and depicted as large black teardrop shapes that wrap horizontally across the middle of the face. If those large orbs are indeed their visual mechanisms, it would argue against the child's eyes being related to them. However, in the "Alien Autopsy" film the alien being dissected has the "standard" Gray eyes until the doctor performing the autopsy lifts them off and shows them to actually be dark, flexible coverings like large contact lenses or shades. Underneath those lenses were round, bulging eyes with plenty of white showing around dark irises. Those eyes would fit quite well in the reduced eye sockets of the child.
The Star Being Legends
These are well-known, well-regarded legends with roots spreading throughout Central and South America. They are pervasive and long-standing (two centuries or more), and in general state that on a regular basis "Star Beings" come down from the heavens and impregnate females in remote, isolated villages. The women carry their "starchildren" to term, then raise them to age six or so. At that point the Star Beings return to collect their progeny and remove them to places, and for purposes, not clearly outlined in the legends, though improving a stagnated gene pool is often mentioned as a motivation.
The Non-Traditional Scenario
Many "intuitives" and "sensitives" feel the adult skeleton was a female and the child was hers, a human-alien hybrid created by a union between her and a Star Being. Some feel the mother had learned the Star Beings were returning to take her child from her, which she refused to contemplate. Panic-stricken and filled with dread, she took her child and fled her village, seeking refuge in the hidden mine tunnel. There she killed it and buried it in a shallow grave, leaving one of its hands out of the ground to hold onto. Then she took a fatal dose of poison and lay down beside her child to die.
Inside the nucleus of human cells is found nuclear DNA, which is a combination of both parents. Floating outside the nucleus in each of our cells are tiny bits of stray DNA called "mitochondria." Because mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) passes solely through females, the first test of the child's mtDNA will provide a genetic snapshot of its mother. If she was human, that snapshot will say "human." However, since the test says nothing about the father, that does not preclude it being a human-alien hybrid. Furthermore, testing might indicate an utterly non-human origin, either by having entirely absent mtDNA or by having a structure markedly different from human mtDNA.
Nothing is likely to be definitive about the origin of the child's skull until its nuclear DNA can be tested. Because the skull is considered technically "ancient" (over 50 years of age), recovering nuclear DNA will be difficult and costly. Luckily, we have what is most required for such a test, which is teeth. The pulp in teeth resists deterioration better than any other part of the body, so that is where we must look for nuclear DNA.
Worldwide there are only a handful of laboratories capable of sequencing ancient nuclear DNA, and all such processes are time-consuming, highly technical, and very expensive. Thus, we cannot contract to have this testing done until funding is available to pay for it, but we will announce all such results as soon as they are available.
Check the most recent results of DNA testing.
Mainstream Position:
Pathology–genetic (inherited) or congenital (birth defect)–is the standard explanation for any human-like skullb that does not fit the "normal" human mold.In the hands of scientists dedicated to pounding square pegs into the round hole of conventional thinking, pathologycan be made to cover virtually any deviation.
In truth, a unique combination of extraordinary pathological disorders is a possible explanation for the many aberrations evident in the child's skull. Absent overwhelming evidence to the contrary, mainstream science will insist the skull has resulted from nothing more than multiple pathological defects.
This opinion will always dominate any others because of the combined academic credentials of those who will profess it.
This is reality; we all know it.
Points Supporting Non-Earth Origin
The long-standing Star Being legends of Central and South America provide a plausible mechanism for how a highly abnormal skull (relative to humans) might have been biologically created rather than genetically or congenitally malformed, or physically manipulated by deliberate deformation (binding).
Such immense deformation across the entire occipital (rear) and parietal (upper side) areas of the skull could not result from binding without deformation being visible in the frontal area, which is not evident.
Birth defects across the entire occipital and parietal areas, while not impossible, seem highly unlikely because of the remarkable symmetry exhibited in all areas of the skull, including those effected by the deformations.
The terrain of the bone in the eye sockets contains incredibly subtle indentations and ridges that are perfectly symmetrical in both sockets, which simply have to have been formed by genetic directions rather than by deformations.
The rear deformation extends from the crown to very near the foramen magnum, an area impossible to reach by any binding device due to the thick neck muscles (even in a child) that surround and support the skull-spine connection.
Head binding cannot extend below the inion (the bump at the back of the head).
Head binding leaves a gaping opening at the top where skull bones fail to fuse.
The bottom line is that even though the skull's highly unusual characteristics demand an open-minded approach to it, mainstream science will reject it outright until forced by DNA evidence to do otherwise. Indeed, it could turn out to be nothing more than a butt-ugly kid with an extraordinary combination of cranial deformities never seen before. But it could also have been the result of a human-alien union, or an outright alien with no connection to humanity at all.
Only time and testing will tell which possibility is correct.
For more information visit: A Detailed Analysis of Two Unusual Skulls of Uncertain Origin on the STARCHILD PROJECT Data Site.
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Deformed Ancient Skulls
Many strangely "deformed" hominoid skulls have been discovered in Mexico and Peru. Other such skulls have been found around the globe, but this is the first time that the diversity of skulls within a small area (in this case the Paracas region of Peru) has been examined. Some of the skulls are very distinct, as if they belong to entirely different species, remotely similar to genus Homo.
Unusual Paracas skull supposedly deformed by binding the growinghead of an infant. The resulting domed head was considered beautiful. Photographed in the Museo Regional de Ica.
The majority of people assumed that they represented an example of binding of the head, well known to be in fashion in ancient Nubia, Egypt and other cultures. But anthropologists have admitted that the shapes of the Peruvian skulls is unlike the deformity caused by binding.
Any conjectures that what these specimens represent are simply deformations or pathological cases can be hardly substantiated. Also, it is necessary to keep in mind that any pathological growth of the cranium has dire consequences for the afflicted individual at the early stage of the development, practically without exception. Nature is very unforgiving in this respect. All the specimens presented here were mature individuals.
Photographed in the National Museum of Archaeology,
Anthropology, and History of Peru
Deformed skulls photographed in the Museo Regional de Ica.
Is there any correlation between Peruvian and Mexican skulls and similarly distortedEgyptian heads?
Busts have been found of two of the six female children to Nefertiti and Aken-aten.
One might be of Meritaten, the eldest. The unusual family traits are obvious.
Photographed in the Cairo Museum.
Textbooks' oldest date of appearance of humans in North America is about 35,000 BC and much later for South America, based on the diffusion theory assumptions. Only humans with modern types of anatomy can comfortably be placed Peru. These types of skulls simply should not exist.
Skulls from Ica, Peru and Merida, Mexico
The following segment is ©1996 by Lumir G. Janku.
These skulls were photographed by Robert Connolly on his trip around the world during which he was collecting materials about ancient civilizations. The discovery of unusual skulls was thus an unintended "spinoff" of his efforts. Robert Connolly published his photographs on a CD-ROM, titled Search for Ancient Wisdom in 1995.
The data about the skulls is incomplete, and that makes the correct assessment of their age, context with other hominids, as well as placement of their origin extremely difficult. Some of the skulls are very distinct, as if they belong to entirely different species, remotely similar to genus Homo. The first thing that attracts attention is the size and shape of the cranium in all the specimens. There are 4 different groups represented in the pictures. As a matter of convenience, I labeled them "conehead", "jack-o-lantern" or "J" and "M" based on the shape of the skull, except the first and possibly earliest type of skull, which I call "premodern".
When some of these pictures (the first two) were posted on CompuServe more than year ago, the majority of people assumed that they represented an example of binding of the head, well known to be in fashion in ancient Nubia, Egypt and other cultures. The problem with this theory is that the inside of the cranium of the mentioned skulls, although elongated and with a back sloping, flattened forehead, have the same capacity as normal human skulls; the only difference is the shape achieved by frontal and side deformations. They are actually more similar to the first type of skull (premodern) with the rounded back, than the conehead type. The cone-shaped types of skull are not found amongst the usual skull-binding samples.
The first skull presents problems of its own. The frontal part of the skull seems to belong to an individual of the pre-Neanderthal family, but the lower jaw, though more robust than modern human type, has a modern shape and characteristics. The shape of the cranium does not have any comparison with the Erectus, Neanderthal types, nor the modern human type. Some minor Neanderthal characteristics are present, as is the occipital ridge on the bottom back of the skull and the flattened bottom of the cranium, other characteristics point more tovards Homo Erectus. The angle of the cranial bottom is, though, unusual. We cannot exclude the possibility of a deformed individual in this case, but it is highly unlikely that the angle of the frontal part would require a modification of the lower jaw in the process of growing to resemble modern human types with their projected chin rim. The answer seems to be that the skull belongs to a representantive of an unknown premodern human or humanoid type.
As is obvious from the comparison with a modern human skull, the cranial capacity lies within the modern human range. This is not surprising, since the late Neanderthals and early modern humans (Cro-Magnon) had larger cranial capacities (both roughly 1600 ccm to 1750 ccm) than modern humans (av. 1450 ccm). The decrease of the cranial capacity (sudden at that — the specimens of modern humans after about 10500 BCE have smaller craniums) is a puzzling matter, but that's another story.
No less puzzling is what a representative of a premodern human type is doing on the South American continent. According to the orthodox anthropology, this skull simply does not exist, because it cannot be. Textbooks' oldest date of appearance of humans in North America is about 35000 BCE and much later for South America, based on the diffusion theory assumptions. The only accepted human types entering the continent are of the modern anatomy. There are some other sources that place all types of human genus in both Americas at much earlier dates based on numerous anomalous finds, but the academe sticks to its preconceived notions, no matter what. It's safer.
PremodernThe "premodern" skull and the following three specimens were found in the Paracas region of Perú. It does not necessarily mean that they are related. There is some possibility that the "premodern" is in fact a precursor of the "conehead" type, but since we do not have any dating analysis at hand, we may only speculate in this regard.
The "conehead" type is very unusual because of the cranial shape. Here we have three specimens, which exclude the possibility of random or artificial deformation (the already mentioned Nubian deformations had quite a number of individual variations). They have individual characteristics within the range of overall morphology. There is no doubt that they are closely related and possibly represent quite a distinct branch of the genus Homo, if not an entirely different species.
The comparison of the C1 with a modern human skull has slight inaccuracies, caused by a degree of distortion when rotating the skull shape into position. As is obvious from C2 and C3, the angle of the bottom part of the cranium does not deviate from normal. However, the general proportions are correct.
Figure C1The enormity of the cranial vault is obvious from all three pictures. By interpolation, we can estimate the minimum cranial capacity at 2200 ccm, but the value can be as high as 2500 ccm. The shape of the skull may be a biological response–a survival of the species mechanism–to increase the brain mass without the danger of relegating the species to extinction and keeping a viable biological reproduction intact. However, since we do not see the representatives of the "conehead" type in modern population, something prevented the type becoming as widespread as it is in the case of present-day moderns.
Figure C2
The "J" type of skull presents different sets of problems. It is an equivalent of the modern type of skull in all respects, with only several factors out of proportion. Less significant is the size of eye sockets which are about 15% larger than in modern populations. More significant is the enormity of the cranial vault. The estimated cranial capacity ranges between minimum of 2600 ccm to 3200 ccm.
Again, the age of the specimen is unknown and so far I am not aware of other specimens of this type. The variation on a theme may be the "M" type of skull which is even more bizarre than all the previous skulls.
Type "J"The "M" type of skull is incomplete, as the lower part of the facial area is concerned. What is apparent from the remnants of the facial portion is that the characteristics are entirely within the range of a normal human skull. The cranial vault, on the other hand, is the largest amongst the displayed specimens. Also, the two protruding "lobes" are highly anomalous. The cranial capacity can be estimated safely above 3000 ccm mark.
Type "M" Both "J" and "M" types are bordering on biological impossibility. The only explanation I can imagine for the specimens to be naturally born is if the neoteny (the ability of the species to prolong the growth period before maturing) of both groups had been expanded beyond the range for a modern type of human, for the skull to grow to such a size. That may also mean the average life span of these specimens may have been substantially longer than the average for the modern human type.
Any conjectures that what these specimens represent are simply deformations or pathological cases can be hardly substantiated. Anomalous types of growth or shapes appear from time to time in the modern human population, however, these occurrences are still within the range of the given species. The largest skull documented in the medical literature had the cranial capacity of 1980 ccm, however, the shape of the skull was normal. Also, it is necessary to keep in mind that any pathological growth of the cranium has dire consequences for the afflicted individual at the early stage of the development, practically without exception. Nature is very unforgiving in this respect. All the specimens presented here were mature individuals.
The capacity of the cranial vault (and thus the brain mass) and intelligence is not necessarily indicated by the other. The individual with the largest skull, already mentioned above, was a retarded man, while Anatole France with his 1100 ccm was quite a brilliant writer.
©1996 Lumir G. Janku.
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October 26, 2017 by itscrochetoclockLeave a Comment on WIPS that aren't really wipping..
Yall… This is what my at work work in progress (WIP) is looking like these days. I admit that I've been rather lazy with my lunch time crochet. Truth be told I've been stuffing my face and diving right back into my paperwork which has put me very far behind in the project. Crocodile stitches take a great deal of time. Yes, those are supposed to be crocodile stitches but they are folding over on top of each other giving a wave effect instead of a scale. I am not loving them. I was trying to mix two different patterns together to get an effect that I want but it's not working out in my favor.
At this point I am thinking I am just going to frog it and start new with something different. I do know that I need to get it figured out though because my goal was to have this toddler sized mermaid tail and a toddler sized dragon tail done in time to ship back east for Christmas presents. I don't know that I'll get them done in time. Lets be real here. If I don't get my act together they won't even make it back east before the weather starts warming up. I need a fire placed under my hind parts is what I need. Oh, and in case you're wondering that is a Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in the Wildflower colorway. It's incredibly soft and squishy. I really love it and I am not a fan of variegated yarns.
The at home WIP is coming along nicely which makes me happy. I am thinking maybe another week on it and I'll be done with it. I reached the end of my first cake of Mandala last night so tonight I'll be moving onto another. Issue with that? I am going to have to cut the yarn again I think. The ending color is a dark grey and the start of the new one is grey as well but noticeably lighter. I won't be able to take it. Toilet paper rolls to the rescue. Am I the only one that winds their yarn on toilet paper or paper towel rolls?
I have to admit that at the start of the project I was not liking the color combination as much as I thought I would when I bought it. Okay, I wasn't liking it at all but I am glad I stuck with it because I think it's turning out nicely.
My house is infected with strep, yet again. Two of the four of us have it. I want to buy a bubble suit for myself. I don't see that actually happening so I am barricading myself in the bedroom with my crochet and Gossip Girl which I just started watching last night. Oddly enough I am already completely engrossed in the story line of it and I am only at episode three. Blake Lively playing one of the main characters I think is helping. I love watching anything with her in it.
Okay enough rambling here. I am off to watch tv, relax and crochet!


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"People will always be considered before numbers"
Paulig Group CEO Rolf Ladau thinks leaders should try to find solutions rather than culprits. According to Ladau, the Finnish leadership culture has recently discovered a better balance between fact-focused and human-oriented approaches.
Coffee stirs up memories of childhood in Rolf Ladau. The smell of coffee makes him relax and feel at home. He also values good food, which offers him a way to wind down. No wonder Paulig CEO is so excited about the business of the company he is heading, as it "resonates so strongly in people's lives".
"Coffee and meaningful culinary moments are a part of both humdrum everyday life and more festive moments – they are present in both joy and sorrow," Ladau explains.
The development of the food industry, as well as products and brands becoming a more integral part of people's lives have also affected employee motivation. People are genuinely proud of Paulig's history.
"The great atmosphere and the employees' commitment to the company are tangible."
Paulig brings values and people together
Ladau started his work as Paulig Group CEO in the beginning of June, before which he was the Managing Director of Fazer Confectionery. Before returning to Finland a few years ago, he spent two decades abroad, working in managerial positions at various global enterprises, such as The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gable, Gillette, Unilever and Kellogg Company.
After such a long period abroad, he now has an outsider's perspective to leadership culture in Finland. What is it like? How has Finnish leadership changed in his view?
"The traditional strength of Finnish leadership is that it's focused on facts. However, you should never forget the real people when looking at numbers and processes. I have noticed that Finnish leadership culture now has a better balance between factual and human approaches."
In general, current trends in leadership include valuing teams and people, as well as maintaining a conversational culture. At Paulig, respect for individuals is demonstrated by the fact that employee training is found at the core of the corporate culture.
So what is the greatest difference between working for a listed company compared to a family-owned company?
"Values are very close to the people here. What is written on paper and how people carry out their lives are pretty much the same here. The company has strong roots, and when you look at its history, it's clear that Paulig's values have always steered its business."
A leader cannot communicate too much
Let's talk a little about what Ladau is like as a leader. Approachable is the first adjective that he uses to describe himself. In addition, he believes that he is a leader with clear communication and a strongly goal-oriented mindset.
"I'm sure people have felt that it has been easy to come to me with their ideas. I also try to ensure clarity – both in the organisation and in the actual activities. We also establish challenging objectives to people and then try to tackle them together. I always offer employees support and tools to reach these objectives," Ladau says.
He emphasises the importance of communication in leadership work.
"Discontent is the result of lack of communication in the company. It is important that the leader asks questions, talks to people and gets to know them."
One of the most important mottos or instructions that Ladau wants to implement in his work is "find solutions rather than culprits".
"Nobody makes mistakes on purpose. It is precisely the leader's job to help find solutions and remove problems."
Success can be found in the answers to open questions
Ladau's strong background in marketing is also visible in his work at Paulig.
"Everything we do in the market must be based on real consumer insight. What are the needs and consumption situations that Paulig's brand is uniquely tailored for? Why would a consumer choose or not choose our products? Creating in-depth consumer insight is difficult, as it requires both time and the ability to correctly interpret data that can come with several layers of nuances. But often it's nuances that matter, and building this kind of analytical ability is crucial. This is one of the tasks that I want to support at Paulig," Ladau explains.
Innovation is a big word
What will Paulig look like after a few years of Ladau's leadership? The new CEO wants to see the company more involved in shaping opinions on what good coffee and food look like in the future.
"We are respected because we are forerunners. We are constantly becoming more and more involved in people's daily lives, and that is why we understand what their needs are now and in the future.
Innovations play a great role in shaping Paulig's future. However, innovation does not necessarily have to be completely new.
"Innovation is a big word. It is important to create an operational culture of constant improvement, a genuine interest in our work that ensures regeneration instead of repetition," Ladau states.
He is fascinated by trends in foods and beverages. The current trend of mixing different product categories is especially interesting for Ladau.
"What will happen to ready-to-drink beverages, or when Cold Brew Coffee is mixed with different types of juice? How and where will people enjoy their meals as eating and snacking outside the home become more and more common? What kind of status will vegetarian food gain in people's lives as values become an increasingly powerful factor in determining what you buy?" Ladau elaborates in his well-lit office – and he seems genuinely enthusiastic.
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