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Poffy The Cucumber July 27, 2020
Bringing the sexy back.
James Bond 007 is back, with a savage demeanor, a rocket-shooting car, a KGB plot, an illegal arms deal, a beautiful blonde, an even more beautiful secretary, and a double double-cross. THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS takes its title from Ian Fleming's 14th book and final collection of Bond short stories published in 1966, Octopussy and The Living Daylights. A new opening gunbarrel sequence; the rifling is now tinted gunmetal blue, and a new Bond dynamically fires on us—
new bond: dalton, timothy dalton
39-year-old Briton Timothy Dalton was approached to be Bond way back ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE in 1969, but felt he was too young at the time (around 23) – and he only came onboard for this movie because Pierce Brosnan was fucked over by the producers of his TV series REMINGTON STEELE who, overjoyed that Pierce was chosen to play Bond, decided to squeeze more STEELE episodes out of him to cash in on his higher profile.
But Bond producer Cubby Broccoli said Fuck You to the STEELE producers and hired Dalton instead.
After Dalton turned down the 1969 offer, he busied himself with TV movies and TV series, and in a way, it's fortunate that he never hit big with any of them, or this second opportunity may not have arisen.
Dalton signed for three Bond films, but after this film's sequel, LICENSE TO KILL, legal issues between Cubby Broccoli's EON Productions and United Artists held up production of the third film for nearly 5 years; by the time the court battles ended, Dalton had lost the taste for Bond, and let his contract expire, never to renew it.
"Wait, Mr. Dalton – I'm not the gunbarrel sequence—I'm your spotlight operat—agh!"
Timothy Dalton was truly the precursor to Daniel Craig. The hawk eyes, the dashing figure, the lean towards cruel action rather than suave quipping (although he does get his fair share of quite humorous quipping in), and he brings a welcome upgrade in energy to Moore's doddering, e.g. that scene where Dalton guns down a man from an opera balcony and then turns like a striking cobra to shoot at the spotlight suddenly aimed at him, looking like he's doing the gunbarrel opening sequence for real. Also, Dalton did most of his stunts, really putting his back and blood into Bond.
Cold open. Head of MI6, M (Robert Brown) sends three double-oh agents on a mock parachute mission, all clad in black Archer turtlenecks. After two double-ohs are killed by a guy who looks like young Anthony Hopkins, Bond finds himself smack in a real mission, on the roof of a truck barreling down a cliff-edge road, being shot at through the roof. And we suddenly realize how integral soundtrack is to the Bond series (or, I presume, any branded franchise), because when Connery was infiltrating the castle in the opening for NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, there were no Bond themes allowed in that production, so it felt surreal, "non-Bond"; but here, with Dalton battling Hannibal Lecter with the Bond Theme backing him – well, how could he lose?! Though we've never met this Bond before, we immediately identify with him, due to soundtrack alone. We feel more of a kinship with Dalton in his 1st film than Connery in his 7th!
Truck goes off cliff with dead Hannibal and live Bond in it – he deploys a parachute; as it burns, he lands on a yacht in the bay, pleasantly surprising the bikini babe onboard, who was just on the phone, craving man-meat. What are the odds?! Bond snatches her giant cellphone to call HQ, introduces himself to her offhandedly as "Bond, James Bond," and tells HQ he'll be there in an hour [woman holds out a champagne glass]… "Make that two hours." Ha! I love this Bond!
And with that terse quip, Dalton's ownership of the character is complete. Throughout this movie, he proves time and again why many hardcore Fleming fans consider him The Best Bond.
The limp disco of A-ha's The Living Daylights opens the film. It's of apiece with Duran Duran's View To A Kill; the 80's day-glo dance era spawning thin synth-based plop like this. After their gargantua 1985 hit Take On Me, this would probably be the only other time the Western world would hear this Norwegian one-hit wonder. There is an outro song as well, "If There Was A Man," performed by The Pretenders.
The plot (written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson) is intriguing and well-constructed: After a plot by a Russian defector is proven to be a scam to entice the British to assassinate the Russian KGB leader, the KGB teams with Bond to uncover arms and drug deals by the defector and an ex-patriot American general.
Bond aids a Russian defector (Jeroen Krabbe as Koskov) to get a secret list to MI6, that targets British agents for assassination, including Bond. Koskov says the list is sanctioned by KGB Russian leader Pushkin (John Rhys-Davies), but Bond has his doubts about the list, especially when Koskov is snatched back by the KGB hours afterward.
Without warning, the new Miss Moneypenny comes onscreen, and without warning, I come on screen. Glowing, luscious, bespectacled blondette, the absolutely delectable 26-year-old Caroline Bliss (in name and nature), spars coquettishly with the handsome new Bond, rekindling that sensual thrill that sparks so naturally between two young, hot people, rather than us being forced to watch Moore and Maxwell spar like our grandparents. Lois Maxwell, though a classical beauty when young, overstayed her post as Miss Moneypenny, through three Bonds, from DR. NO (1962, when she was 35, still looking like an aunty) to A VIEW TO A KILL (at 58, looking like an uncle).
Unfortunately for Bliss (and the male world populace), she was also an indirect victim of Broccoli's legal Bond battle; by the time pre-production was ready to start on the next film, she had aged five years – and that's way too long for a woman in the movies to be a sex object. Just ask Lois Maxwell.
Q (Desmond Llewelyn) seems content as a pig in shit designing man-eating couches and ghetto blasters (that really blast ghettoes); his role is expanded past weapons quartermaster, basically doing any task that keeps him onscreen as an agent, the producers realizing his comedic utility at last. The main gadgets are a key-fob explosive that reacts to whistling, and a tricked-out Aston Martin, with so many weapons, I lost count. (A tech who tricked out the Lotus Esprit in SPY WHO LOVED ME once remarked that with the mechanics required to include this many devices in a car, you wouldn't have space for the engine.)
While helping Koskov escape a sniper, Bond (using a techno sniper rifle bigger than anything Connery or Moore ever used) defies orders to kill the sniper, because a) he can tell she is no professional, so wings her gun instead ("Whoever she was, I must have scared the living daylights out of her!"), and b) she's the cellist he just noticed playing in the opera house, and c) she's hot. Bond makes contact with her, and discovers she is Koskov's girlfriend, Kara (Maryam d'Abo)! Then why was she sniping at Koskov?!
Plots within plots, as Kara relates how Koskov himself set her up to snipe at him, with dummy bullets. Then why did Koskov employ Bond and MI6 to kill his sniper?…
Bond poses as a friend of Koskov's, empowered to take her to him. A strange dynamic develops, as Bond and Kara roll through a montage usually played to denote a couple growing closer to banging (on the run, visiting a fair, bodies touching innocently, meaningless laughter) – but she believes she's on the way to her boyfriend, so why is SHE getting so chummy, like a schoolgirl in love?
Bond even gets a little p-whipped by Kara, maintaining they should NOT go back for her cello – CUT TO: the wahp-wahp-wahp moment of waiting outside her apartment while she retrieves her cello. (Maryam does a good job miming the instrument, with a noticeable vibrato. As a violinist once told me, "Try and get a string player NOT to use vibrato." It's such an inbuilt mechanism that it's easy to spot any actors who are mining, because they usually can't or don't do it, but Maryam pulls it off. There is even a pure Bond-ian use of the cello case in a chase scene, used to escape henchmen by sitting in it and sliding down the snowy hill.)
Bond's gentlemanly interaction with Kara differentiates Dalton as the guy who did, in fact, read the Fleming source material diligently – and applied it – making his Bond more human than caricature, so whereas Connery and Moore would have already banged Kara, this Bond is sincerely trying to get a lead on Koskov by Friend-Zoning himself, and later cautiously falling for Kara like any Cary Grant or Hugh Grant. If the screenwriters are playing it this way, it can only mean Koskov is gonna end up dead or treacherous, so that these two can bonk in good conscience.
Sure enough, we discover Koskov poolside, kissing and groping many chicks at once – the lame filmic device that informs us he's a Villain. No decent man would kiss and grope this many chicks – at once… forgetting that the hero of this series is as big a cad as this villain. Also, Koskov arranged for MI6 to kill his "sniper" because he wanted Kara out of the way! So now it's only a matter of time before Kara applies her tremolo guilt-free to Bond's skin flute.
Set around Tangier and Eastern bloc countries, the plot unveils Koskov in cahoots with ex-pat American general Whitaker (Joe Don Baker, as repulsive as fried butter), who supports dictators, tyrants and Confederates, neck-deep in arms deals, drug deals and fried butter. Whitaker's number one hitman is a Nordic chiseled blond named Necros (Andreas Wisniewski), whose oomph Bond gimmick is exploding milk bottles, who totally looks like that blond terrorist in DIE HARD… Waitaminute–he IS! Next year, he would be killed by John McClane, who would write on his sweater, "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
Bond discovers that Pushkin knows nothing of the double-oh assassination plot – it's a set up by Whitaker to get Pushkin killed by MI6. Thus the two Cold War enemies – Britain and the KGB – team up to smoke out the Even Badder Villains, the fried butter general, the womanizing perve and the Die Hard milkman.
Virginia Hey appears as Pushkin's girlfriend – one of the most striking Australian beauties (she was the Warrior Woman in ROAD WARRIOR), unfortunately with no lines – but who needs lines with side-boob like that?!
John Terry plays a new Felix Leiter, Bond's CIA pal, who is after the same villains. (I've totally lost count of Felixes – why couldn't they ever get an actor to reprise the role?!) And Walter Gotell squeezes in a cameo as Russian General Gogol during the final minutes…
Virginia Hey's nakedness causes man-battle.
Bond publicly shoots Pushkin as a ploy to smoke out Whitaker's plot. When Bond is captured by Whitaker, there is a compelling reason not to kill him: Whitaker, always the opportunist, wants to score points with the Russian authorities by turning Bond over to them for murdering their leader.
The jail scene is more compelling than it needs to be, as the sadist Russian jailer-bear buries himself in the role, looking like he's really going to beat Timothy Dalton to death and rape Maryam d'Abo. Escaping the jail, Bond and Kara also free another entertaining prisoner – the great Art Malik as Mujahideen freedom fighter, Shah, who is a big man in his village, elbows deep in opium deals with Whitaker.
Shah helps Bond bring down Whitaker, after Bond explains that his opium deals end up funding more weapons for the Soviets. This was back in the day when the Mujahideen were still considered America's pals (America supplying them with arms to beat back the Soviets; in 1998's RAMBO III, the Muja rode by Johnny Rambo's side).
On the opium transport plane, Bond sets a bomb timer for 10 minutes, which takes the whole third act to explode. And later, when Bond finds he and Kara's only escape is to liftoff in the plane, he doesn't RUSH back to the bomb like a man who set a 10-minute timer at least 20 minutes ago – he saunters back – only to be accosted by Die Hard out of nowhere after we thought he was dead. (See? It runs in his family!) Why Bond doesn't scream at him, "I am trying defuse a bomb, you idiot!" is beyond me.
Plane runs out of fuel, glides into a mountain, as Bond and Kara dive into a Jeep and roll out the back cargo bay. (Should the plane really make such a big Pretty Orange Explosion when it crashes? I mean, the thing IS empty!)
Separating himself from previous Bonds, Dalton's final prurient encounter is with Kara in a private room, no chance of being discovered by MI6 or Q; a more "romantic" ending, not a stray bang. It's the second-best debut film of any Bond (ceding first place to Daniel Craig's perfectly formed arse in CASINO ROYALE).
The same team responsible for the shoddy A VIEW TO A KILL made this exciting film. Maybe it was action man Dalton that inspired Glen, Maibaum and Wilson to bat their A-game – or maybe it was something else… Albert R. Broccoli's daughter, Barbara, was brought onboard as executive producer (taking this role in every successive Bond production to this day). I believe with this passing of the torch from Cubby to Barbara, her input enabled us to cleanly delineate the "cartoonish" Bond films from the tonally realistic ones, and this movie, THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, is that dividing line. Yes, there will always be fan service callbacks to the old Connery and Moore flummery (Brosnan para-sailing a wave, harking back to Moore snowboarding a cowabunga chase scene; or Craig in a plane chopped smaller and smaller, like Moore in a car chopped smaller and smaller; or Halle Berry tied to a table with lasers threatening her, like Connery tied to a table with a laser inching toward his nuts) but the overall tenor of the New Generation Bonds (Dalton, Brosnan, Craig) has been one of hyper-world fiction rather than schoolboy tall tales.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS grossed more than Moore's last two Bond films – $191 mil worldwide (the 4th most successful Bond film at time of release), which also means it grossed more than many of Connery's Bond films! Not bad for a guy who said he didn't want to take over from Sean Connery way back in '69 because "Sean was far too good."
Seeing those grosses must have scared the living daylights out of Roger and Sean.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS (Jul 1987) | PG
JAMES BOND #16
EON PROD: #15
Director: John Glen.
Writers: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Ian Fleming.
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Barbara Broccoli, Tom Pevsner, Michael G. Wilson.
Music: John Barry.
Starring: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe, Joe Don Baker ,John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, Andreas Wisniewski, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, Caroline Bliss, John Terry, Virginia Hey, John Bowe.
Word Count: 2,500 No. 1,551
"The Living Daylights" ♦ A-ha (music video)
Tags:A-ha, Action, Adventure, Albert R. Broccoli, Andreas Wisniewski, Art Malik, Barbara Broccoli, Caroline Bliss, Desmond Llewelyn, Geoffrey Keen, Ian Fleming, James Bond 007, Jeroen Krabbe, Joe Don Baker, John Barry, John Bowe, John Glen, John Rhys-Davies, John Terry, Maryam d'Abo, Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum, Robert Brown, The Pretenders, Timothy Dalton, Tom Pevsner, Virginia Hey, Walter Gotell


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What is wrong?

A: The content model defined in the schema for the <bean> element appears to be completely unrelated to the content you are trying to produce. This suggests something is grossly wrong: you've configured Eclipse to validate with the wrong schema, you're using the wrong namespace, or something like that.

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Robert C. Irish January 7, 2022 8 min read
Shreveport – A memorable season awaits the Centennial Gymnastics Program.
The Women begin their 2022 campaign on Friday night with a tough test against fifth-seeded LSU in Baton Rouge, will travel to Alaska and the East Coast during the season and host three home games.
Head coach Jackie Fain will coach his 11e and the final season for the Women alongside new head coach Brittany Harris, who was hired in November. Centenary offers a good mix of veteran experience with youngsters and aims to navigate a tough schedule, starting with the double encounter at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center against the talented Tigers. Friday's meet will be televised live on the SEC network, giving the ladies a chance to shine in the national spotlight.
The Centenary roster is marked by the return of four All-Americans – seniors Kendall Sanders (Spring Branch, Texas) and Xian Baumgartner (Albuquerque, NM), and juniors Taylor Ann Wilson (Memphis, Tenn.) And Kendall Huff ( Riviera, Texas). Four freshmen will seek to make their mark with 10 other returnees.
"We are returning four All-Americans this year and the experience of those four athletes gives us some immediate depth at the start of the season," said Fain.
"Kendall Sanders has been a rock-solid performer from the start of her freshman year, competing in all but one competition during her career at Centenary. She is a strong leader on the competitive field as well as her coaches and staff. teammates trust her performance.
"Our other two seniors (Baumgartner and Kendall Knaps (Prairieville, Louisiana) are both coming out of preseason injuries and will be starting a bit slow, but they are on the mend and you should watch them to have a big impact on their. events. They have both been consistent contributors throughout their careers and I know they are thrilled to end their college careers on a strong footing. "
"Other notable performers in the preseason would be junior Lacey Wedge (Belle Chasse, Louisiana) who missed her freshman and sophomore years with injury and a case of mono. She has done extremely well. performed on floor and vault and we can't wait to see how she performs as the season progresses. Juniors Rose Deshler (Hastings, Minn.) and Leilani Johnson (Wichita, Kan.) are coming out of preseason injuries, but are licensed and ready to start the season. Both should be strong performers on their events this year. "
"New recruit Emma Lavelle (Madeville, Louisiana) has constantly improved and is going to have a huge impact right off the bat. She is a workhorse and has been consistent throughout the preseason, I would expect her to be. 'she's competing Our other freshmen, Chlore Armentor (Harvey, Louisiana), Carissa Martinez (Albuquerque, NM) and Mylia Vidtor (The Colony, Texas) are coming and should bring real depth to our training. "
Sanders was named a member of USA Gymnastics' USA Gymnastics first all-star team in both floor and all-around as a junior last season. She was also named an All-American by the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association as she won her honors on beam (9.681), floor (9.700) and all-around (38.519). Sanders took top all-conference honors after an impressive performance at the annual MICs as she placed fourth in the all-around with a score of 38.650 to take second-team all-around honors and also earned the recognition of the second ground team with a 9.700. She posted a new career high of 9.825 on floor at the USAG Championships on April 10.
Baumgartner was named to USA Gymnastics' First All-America Team by USA Gymnastics in the all-around last season after a strong performance at the 2021 Women's College National Championships. She competed on floor for the first time in her championship career and earned a 9.550. Baumgartner also set a new career high in vaulting at the event with 9,525.
Wilson made history by winning the individual title on bars at the 2021 U.S. National Women's Gymnastics Championship in April in Cape Girardeau. Mo. She scored a stellar 9.875, a new career record, to put an exclamation mark on her season which can only be described as unlikely. Wilson became the National Champion just a day after making her college debut in the event. She made history as the first centennial gymnast to win an individual title at the USAG National Championships in the Division III era (2012-present).
Wilson was named to America's First All-Star at Bars following her historic performance. She was also named a Corbett Award finalist last July by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, which honors "Outstanding Amateur Female Athlete from the State of Louisiana."
Huff appeared in eight games last season and competed on bars, floor and vault. She won second-team All-MIC honors in vault with a new career record of 9,800 and has competed in vault in all eight games of the season, floor in seven of eight games, and made his season debut on bars at the USAG Championships in April. 10. Huff also set a season and career record on floor scoring 9.725 on floor at the USAG Championships.
Fain was named the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association Regional Coach of the Year in 2020, earning the honor following a vote from her fellow head coaches. The award is the second major honor Fain has won during her tenure with the Ladies as she was named the 2013 Midwest Intercollegiate Conference Coach of the Year.
She arrived at Centenary ahead of the 2011-12 season and wasted no time in putting her mark on the program as the team's regional qualifying score of 191.355 was the highest in four seasons. The ladies also qualified for the American National Gymnastics Championships (USAG) as a team, bringing together four All-American gymnasts. She led the Women to their highest team score (193.975 in 2013) since the 2005 season.
During Fain's superb decade at Centenary, she mentored 16 different student-athletes to 39 All-American honors by the USGA and the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA). 18 all-conference honors and two USAG national team appearances while in Centenary. Fain also mentored assistant Morgan Leachman for the 2016-2018 season. Following the USAG Championships in April 2018, Leachman was named USAG Assistant Coach of the Year.
Harris comes to Centenary from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, where she has spent the past three seasons as a first assistant coach. Lindenwood, a Division II school, is a member of MIC with Centenary. Harris is only the fourth African-American female gymnastics coach in the NCAA and is reportedly the first in DIII. She is the daughter of former NBA basketball player Steve Harris and Harriet Harris.
In 2019, Harris helped lead the Lindenwood Lions to a record breaking season as they were only the third Division II team in history to advance to the NCAA playoffs, entering the tournament's first round. from NCAA to LSU. The Lions ended their historic year winning both the MIC Championship and the United States Collegiate Gymnastics National Championships. Lindenwood also walked away with the 2021 MIC Championship. Harris was named the Women's Collegiate Coaches Association (WCGA) Division II Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2019 and 2021, along with several other coaching accolades.
"It has been a pleasure working with Brittany," said Fain. "We have corresponding philosophies so things have gone really well so far in her transition to Centenary. Brittany loves the family atmosphere we have at Centenary and embraces our culture. The Ladies have quickly adapted to her training. and really enjoy her! She's a breath of fresh air in the gym, bringing new energy and ideas to our practices. Having a full staff for the first time since I've been here has been amazing, and I love collaborate with her and Wendy Carey, our assistant coach. "
Centenary will travel to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on Jan. 14 after Friday's season opener to take on foe Midwest Independent Conference SEMO in a double meet scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
The ladies will make their home debut on Sunday, Jan. 23 against the Air Force in a double meet scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Gold Dome. The ladies then hit the road again to face MIC member Texas Woman's University (TWU) in Denton, TX on Jan. 30 at 2 p.m. ET. Centenary will spend the entire month of February on the road, starting with a pair of meetings in Alaska-Anchorage. February 11 and 13.
The Women will face the University of New Hampshire and the University of Long Island in a triple meet on February 25, then finish the weekend against Springfield College, Rhode Island College and Southern Connecticut State in a quad encounter. February 27 in Springfield, Masse.
Centenary returns home in March for their last two home games of the season, March 4 against SEMO and then March 12 against TWU. The March 4 meet is the annual "Sylvia Keiter Memorial Gather" and March 12 will be the senior night and the final home meet for women's head coach Jackie Fain who will be retiring at the end of the season.
"The Ladies are looking forward to our two big trips this year; in Alaska and east to the University of New Hampshire and Springfield College," Fain said. "We were supposed to compete in Alaska last year, but we couldn't due to COVID restrictions so it will be great to be able to experience such an amazing place and be able to compete while we're there!"
"Our trip to the East will also be exciting as one of our alumni, Sierra Ponder is the Graduate Assistant at Springfield College. It will be fun to see her in action in her new coaching role and a new experience for the ladies to face their former teammate. "
"We will end our regular season with two home games, which will be a nice break after a busy month of February. Our two home games will be exciting as our meeting on March 4 will be a tribute to our former Lady Sylvia Keiter. It will also be the alumni evening and the celebration of my retirement. March 12 will be designated as our senior evening, which is always a great meeting! "
Check out the full Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/gymnastics/2021-22/schedule
Live stats and live video are available for all home fixtures.
Admission is FREE to all Centennial home sports contests, but be aware of current COVID-19 protocols for fans. Updated COVID-19 information is now available at www.GoCentenary.com.
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Captain's Log, Part 1
lcmm June 14, 2013 Lois McClure
At 10:00 a..m. on May 31st, the tug C. L. Churchill towed the replica Lake Champlain Canal schooner Lois McClure, with the outboard-powered, inflatable boat Oocher standing by, out of her narrow berth at Perkins Pier in Burlington harbor. We were getting underway for the schooner's tenth voyage, a four-month trip carrying a cargo of history on a tour of New York and Canadian canals, canals that, as we pointed out on the cover of our visitors' brochure, were "born of the War of 1812." The McClure is embarked on a three-year project to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War and to celebrate 200 years of ensuing peace. But she is a cargo-carrier, not a warship, so we make the connection via the historical fact that both New York's Erie Canal and Canada's Rideau Canal were inspired, in part, by the two countries' perceived need for internal waterways on which to move military forces and supplies in the event of recurring hostilities after the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. Happily, the heavy traffic on these canals has been commercial.
Under tow, headed out of Burlington (photo: Tom Larsen)
Our first port-of-call would be Plattsburgh, New York, where we would be the only floating one on a tour of local museums. We towed out through Burlington harbor on a short towline, for good maneuverability, and, once outside the breakwater, lengthened the hawser out to its full 200 feet and headed north on Lake Champlain. In open water, like the broad part of the lake, where it can get rough, we separate tug and tow, while in protected water, we tow with the tug snugged up on the schooner's hip. Hip-towing gives us much better maneuverability, but wouldn't do if waves were big enough to make the boats roll against each other. Once well up into Cumberland Bay, we did put the Churchill on the hip and went in to tie up at Plattsburgh's big stone pier, Wilcox Dock. The landing was made with Erick Tichonuk, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's co-director, who had wisely traded his desk for the schooner's deck for the day, at the conn. The next day, the thunder squalls held off until after closing time, so that not one of our 150 visitors got wet. And the following day's 150 didn't even have to worry about rain.
On June 3rd, we towed back south on the lake to our second home port, North Harbor, the Museum's waterfront at Basin Harbor. The advantage of towing on the hawser was demonstrated as the northwest breeze came up to fresh, about 20 knots. Art Cohn (he's the man who runs this cruise as the Museum's Director of Special Projects) and I were in the tug's wheelhouse, and one roll sent the helmsman's stool flying. Off Essex, we had to slow to let the two ferries from and to Charlotte both cross ahead of us. A rare coincidental timing of our passage had put us nearly on a collision course with both vessels.
The LOIS MCCLURE backing into her slip in North Harbor (photo: Carolyn Kennedy)
As you may remember from previous logs, the schooner's berth at North Harbor is complicated. We moor her to a floating dock across from the Philadelphia II, the replica of one of Benedict Arnold's gunboats of 1776. We hold the McClure in position against the float with one mooring line, an anchor planted off the bow, and two or three long lines to trees, then tie her up to the float with the usual dock lines. This day's mooring operation was further complicated by the unusually high water in the lake. The floating dock had to be way up in the head of the cove so there would be access to it, but that meant that there wouldn't be depth enough for the Churchill to bring the schooner alongside it. So we picked up the outside mooring and sent the tug safely to another mooring. Luckily (luck is a huge factor in seamanship), the wind was still in the north and had gone downa lot. We used it to let the schooner's stern swing round toward the floating dock and then blow us slowly right in alongside it, with help from the Oocher pushing and pulling on the stern as needed.
The next two days at North Harbor gave the crew the chance to move their gear on board for the four months' trip. Let's see: foul weather clothing, including the big boots; clothes to keep from sweltering in an Upstate New York heat wave and from getting hypothermia in a cold rain on the Richelieu River in September; Museum semi-uniforms for acting as docents serving our floating museum; four months' worth of books to read in off-hours; and, yes, computers and I-pads. I understand that some of the younger crew members even brought tiny, portable telephones that can double as cameras! And we loaded plenty more ship's gear on board: firewood for the cabin stove; one more small, and thus readily portable, anchor; sandwich boards to advertise our presence in our ports-of-call; display panels and brochures for visitors, to tell our story of the War of 1812 and of the role of a sailing canal boat of 1862.
On June 6th, we were ready to cast off. A new crew member was on board for two days, Sarah Harris, a reporter for Vermont's North Country Public Radio. She prowled the schooner from end to end, on deck and below, microphone in hand, recording not only our answers to her questions, but also the sounds of a vessel underway. By now, perhaps you have heard her program about the Lois McClure. She was a good shipmate.
The lake was as calm as a clock, so we towed on the hip across to the Westport Marina, where we tied up to pump out sanitary tanks and fill water and fuel tanks. Then it was south on the lake for an overnight stop at Crown Point. I've waxed somewhat poetic about this lovely, protected berth in previous logs, even pausing to try to describe it by moonlight, but on this night, there was no moon to be seen.In the morning, we continued south to Whitehall in a light drizzle. North of Larrabee's Point, we passed a large snag, apparently most of a tree, with one end struck in the mud 25 feet below the surface and the other end barely showing. It will probably be there for awhile, so we marked it on the chart for future reference. If it becomes a semi-permanent fixture, it will show up on all charts.
When we got to Larrabee's Point, sure enough, there was the cable ferry coming across exactly on a collision course. So, again, we slowed to let him cross our bow, giving him extra room because of the cable hanging off his stern. Off Fort Ticonderoga, we met the tour boat Carillon returning from Whitehall to her dock at Larrabee's Point, Shoreham. She is a wonderful-looking craft, long and slim, and, as usual, she was running fast and leaving little wake. We exchanged whistles with her skipper, Paul Sanger, and waves with her happy passengers.
Rain in the Dresden Narrows (photo: Tom Larsen)
The south end of Lake Champlain is spectacular in any weather. On this misty day, with low clouds obscuring the higher elevations, it was eerily beautiful. When we got to Fiddler's Elbow, we slowed off the late Cora Archambault's house and gave the memory of that great lady respectful, loving music from the tug's horn. After being lifted through Lock 12 at Whitehall, the first of many locks on this trip, we made a nice, soft landing on the wall by the Skenesboro Museum, with First Mate Tom Larsen at the conn.
Docked in Whitehall (photo: Tom Larsen)
On June 8th, the citizens of Whitehall turned out in force as they always do for our visit to their historic town (Skenesboro, birthplace of the U. S. Navy, is the claim), and, as always, enlightening discussions reverberated in the cargo hold. The visitors included Bob Dollar, a longtime Museum volunteer who is an expert on rope and ropework and is responsible for our heavy-duty rope fenders on both the schooner and the tug.
The next day, we started south on the Champlain Canal toward an overnight stop at Schuylerville. Anyone looking for an apt definition of an "obstacle course" could do worse than offer the comparison to a canal. June 9th provided an example. At Lock 11, the light was red and the lock keeper reported on the radio that an essential part needed to be replaced. The delay turned out to be only an hour.
A very full narrow channel (photo: Tom Larsen)
Then, after Lock 7, it took time to negotiate our way through the huge dredging project downstream of Fort Edward, where General Electric is cleaning out mud contaminated with pcbs, including meeting a big barge in the narrow approach to Lock 6. He needed most of the channel, so we eased to a stop way over in the trees, where, luckily, there was deep water. One of my favorite things about living on a boat is not having to rake leaves, but I found myself on this day doing just that. Off Lock 5, we stopped briefly to let Bob Foster's stern-wheel tour boat, the Caldwell Belle, exit the lock and head upstream. Tied up to the approach wall to Lock 5 at Schuylerville just after 6:00 p.m. After supper on deck, all hands turned in early.
Docked above C5 in Schuylerville (photo: Tom Larsen)
On June 10th, the obstacle course turned into a race course. The trip down to Waterford is mostly in the Hudson River, with minimal canal work. There had been a good deal of rain up river, so we had a favorable current of up to two knots. You wouldn't think that it would feel much different traveling at 7 knots instead of at 5 knots, but it does. Instead of "When are we going to get there?" it's "Are we there already?" As we approached Lock 2, we heard from the keeper that he was just lifting some boats coming up, so it would be 20 minutes before he'd be ready for us to enter the filled lock. So, to avoid being pushed too close to the lock by the current, we chose to turn into it, using the Oocher to shove the bow round while staying in the channel, and then just headed up into the current at idling speed, which kept us about stationary in the river. When we saw the lock gates open, we Ooched back around and headed in.
Safely above E2 in Waterford (photo: Tom Larsen)
By 2:00 p. m., we were all the way down to Waterford and turning into the port. We went right into Lock E2, the first lock on the Erie Canal. And moored to the wall just above the lock. We would have tied up down in the port, but John Callaghan, Deputy Director of the New York Canal Corporation, warned that there was a forecast of heavy rain in two days and that the canal might have to shut down. In that case, we'd be best off separated from the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers in spate by Lock E2.
It's now two days later, and we haven't moved an inch. The Erie Canal is shut down due to high water and heavy current in the Mohawk. And this is before the big rain due late tomorrow. We are standing by, waiting to see how much flooding there may be and how soon we can resume our journey. Meanwhile, we are in a perfectly safe berth, and the Canal Corporation folks and local citizens are committing random acts of kindness. Mercy!
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Ep 142: The Song of Witness – Deuteronomy 31:14 – 32:47
Deuteronomy 32 contains a song. A song that is unique in all of Scripture. It is a song that is to act as a witness against the people when they will eventually break the covenant, but it is a song
Ep 141: Witnesses of Life and Death – Deuteronomy 30:15-31:13
One thing that every Suzerain Vassal Treaty contained was a list of those who acted as witnesses to the ratification and terms of the covenant. Those who existed outside of the covenant, but who would look in and act as
Ep 140: Remember Your Training – Deuteronomy 29:1-30:14
The blessings and the curses of Deuteronomy take up quite some space in the text, and the discussion of these topics does not end when the explicit recounting of the various curses ends. Rather, the text then moves on to
Ep 139: Blessing and Curse – Deuteronomy 27-28
Every Suzerain Vassal Treaty of the historical record contains a section that outlines a series of blessings and curses that were to be enacted against the signatories of the treaty. Blessings for conformation to the treaty and curses for breaking


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Le tourisme en Grèce est un pilier de l'économie nationale. La Grèce fait partie, au même titre que la France, l'Italie et l'Espagne, des destinations les plus touristiques en Europe depuis les années 1960 et 1970. La richesse de sa culture et l'héritage historique du pays ainsi que sa géographie et son climat méditerranéen expliquent que la Grèce compte quelque 18 sites recensés au patrimoine mondial de l'humanité par l'UNESCO.

En 2018, la Grèce a accueilli 33 millions de visiteurs, contre 24,2 millions en 2014, faisant du pays l'un des plus visités d'Europe et du monde. Les lieux les plus visités sont la ville d'Athènes, les îles cycladiques (Santorin, Mykonos) ainsi que Hydra, le Dodécanèse (Rhodes), la Crète (Héraklion, La Canée) et Corfou.

Le tourisme en Grèce prend des formes multiples, eu égard à sa diversité culturelle et géographique : tourisme culturel (visite des sites antiques comme le Parthénon ou le sanctuaire d'Apollon à Delphes), tourisme balnéaire (notamment dans les Cyclades, en Ionie et dans le Dodécanèse), tourisme montagnard (Mont Parnasse, Mont Pélion), tourisme rural (à travers la Grèce continentale : Édesse, Kalambaka et Thessalie), et depuis quelques années maintenant le tourisme religieux (Mont Athos, Météores). En outre, la Grèce est historiquement une destination prisée des touristes homosexuels et LGBT, avec Mykonos, Lesbos et Skiathos. De manière générale, la politique grecque en matière de tourisme est très ouverte et favorable aux communautés LGBT.

Attrait géographique
Article détaillé : Géographie de la Grèce.

La Grèce est un pays d'Europe du Sud, au climat méditerranéen : doux en hiver, et chaud en été. Le pays est divisé entre une partie continentale (Péloponnèse, Macédoine, Épire) et une partie insulaire (Dodécanèse, Crète, Égée). La Grèce continentale est essentiellement montagneuse (Mont Cyllène, Mont Olympe, Pinde). Le climat contribue à rendre le pays très attrayant et façonne durablement le « mode de vie grec » : siestes, vie nocturne animée, repas frais à base de légumes et fruits très variés (comme le tzatziki), comparable à celui des espagnols, des italiens ou du Levant.

Attrait culturel

La Grèce attire par son passé antique mais elle dispose aussi d'un passé byzantin, ottoman et moderne. C'est l'héritage grec qui permet de construire une nouvelle Grèce au  grâce à l'action de Lord Byron, Chateaubriand, Jean-Gabriel Eynard et Catherine II. La redécouverte en Occident de ce glorieux legs fascine et suscite l'admiration : c'est le philhellénisme, l'« amour de ce qui est grec ». La Grèce est aussi bien Socrate, Sappho et Hypatie que Nikos Katanzakis, Mélina Mercouri que Costa-Gavras.

Visiteurs

Nombre de visiteurs
En 2009, la Grèce accueille 19,3 millions de touristes, un chiffre en augmentation par rapport aux 17,7 millions de touristes que le pays accueillait un an avant, en 2008. La plupart des touristes sont des ressortissants européens (12,7 millions), suivi des touristes venus des Amériques (0,56 million), d'Asie (0,52 million), d'Océanie (0,1 million) et d'Afrique (0,06 million). Pour l'année 2007, ce sont les Britanniques qui ont visité le plus le pays (2,61 millions au total, une augmentation de 15 % sur les années précédentes). Également, les Allemands figurent en deuxième position avec 2,3 millions de touristes.

Visiteurs par nationalité

Politique culturelle
Le gouvernement hellénique soutient activement le tourisme qui représente le quart de son produit national brut.

La Chine est devenue ces dernières années un partenaire très important avec qui Athènes à de très bons rapports. En 2010, le ministre du tourisme Aris Spiliotopoulos annonce l'ouverture d'un office national du tourisme à Shanghai pour la fin de l'année. Il existe d'ores et déjà un site à Pékin.

Poids Économique
Voir économie de la Grèce.

Le tourisme représente 17, 7 milliards de dollars USD en 2000 et n'a cessé d'augmenter de manière considérable : en 2004, il représentait 29, 6 milliards de dollars USD. Pour la même année, le secteur du tourisme regroupe à lui seul 16, 5 % des emplois dans tout le pays.

Différents types de tourisme
Compte tenu du cosmopolitisme culturel et de la diversité géographique, on trouve toute sorte de tourisme en Grèce. Le pays s'est doté d'infrastructures pour accueillir les visiteurs à partir des années 1950 et 1960, prémices du tourisme de masse contemporain.

Tourisme balnéaire
Le tourisme balnéaire est la forme de tourisme la plus répandue : le pays bénéficie d'un climat clément et de paysages attractifs. Les régions les plus prisées sont la Crète (Héraklion, La Canée, Ierapetra), le Dodécannèse (Rhodes mais aussi Kos), la Macédoine (Chalcidique) et les îles Ionniennes (Corfou, Céphalonie, Zante). L'ensemble du pays compte 51 marinas dont les plus importantes sont celles d'Álimos et Flisvos, au sud-est d'Athènes.

Il existe 752 sources thermales en Grèce. La plupart d'entre elles sont exploitées depuis l'Antiquité.  Avec l'essor du tourisme bourgeois durant la Belle Époque, des infrastructures plus modernes sont construites autour de ces centres thermaux très prisés de la bourgeoisie européenne et levantine. Le tourisme moderne leur a donné un nouveau dynamisme.

La Grèce a connu quelques cas extrêmes de , dénoncés par les adeptes d'une gestion plus durable du tourisme dans les territoires insulaires de la Méditerranée, l'exemple le plus souvent cité étant le dème de Chersonissos en Crète. Les dèmes d'Héraklion et d'Agios Nikolaos, également situés dans l'île la plus vaste de Grèce, affichent aussi un profil touristique très affirmé très tôt grâce à une clientèle très internationale.

Dans cette île, les grands voyagistes d'Europe du Nord sont parfois dénoncés pour leur  sur le secteur du tourisme car ils contrôlent aussi bien l'arrivée des flux touristiques, concentrés sur des créneaux bien précis, via les vols charters, que la plus grande part de l'hébergement et des services, via la vente des services en formules tout compris dans les hôtels-club. Le résultat est une répartition jugée globalement assez inégale des bénéfices générés par le tourisme, la société locale crétoise et ses entrepreneurs locaux n'en captant qu'une petite part.

Une consultation de l'OCDE sur les produits crétois servis dans le secteur du tourisme en Crète a montré aussi que la politique d'approvisionnement des hôtels et restaurants ne favorisait pas forcément les producteurs locaux. Une enquête réalisée auprès d'une centaine d'eux qui ne servent aucun plat surgelé ou précuisiné a révélé que la moitié des produits utilisés ne portent pas de marque et que 50 % des professionnels de l'échantillon sont prêts à payer 20 % de plus pour de l'huile d'olive crétoise. Mais ce pourcentage chute à 40 % pour les légumes, jus de fruits frais et même le vin. Si l'île compte environ 600 producteurs de fruits et légumes biologiques, répondant à l'aspiration à une gestion durable du tourisme qui monte chez les visiteurs, la moitié sont réunis dans la
préfecture d'Héraklion et surtout pour l'essentiel concentrés sur le produit vedette à forte notoriété qu'est l'huile d'olive biologique.

Les littoraux septentrionaux de la Crête sont globalement très touristiques, notamment dans les districts régionaux de Rethymnon et de Chania, avec les sites touristiques célèbres de Kissamos, Platanias, Chania, Apokoronas, Rethymnon, Mylopotamos et Malevizi. Ils ont vécu un développement touristique particulièrement accéléré au cours des années 1990 : entre la fin des années 1980 et le début des années 2000, le nombre de lits pour 1000, unité de mesure de l'activité la plus répandue dans le secteur touristique y a été multiplié par trois, avec pour corollaire une pression foncière sur les zones littorales jugée très importante.

Tourisme culturel
Le pays est riche en culture antique (temples et sanctuaires), vestiges byzantins, monuments néoclassiques et modernes. Une partie importante des sites les plus spectaculaires de la culture antique grecque, notamment les grands temples, est cependant située en Sicile.

Sites antiques

À Athènes, les sites les plus remarquables l'Acropole avec le Parthénon, l'Aréopage et l'Odéon d'Hérode Atticus, le temple olympien de Zeus, la Tour des vents, l'Agora romaine, la Bibliothèque d'Hadrien, l'Académie de Platon et l'Ancienne Agora, entre autres. Dans la région de l'Attique, le Temple de Poséidon au cap Sounion est le site le plus célèbre.

Dans le Péloponnèse le site de Sparte, avec la tombe de Léonidas ; des villes comme Corinthe, Mycènes et le Sanctuaire d'Asclépios et théâtre d'Épidaure sont incontournables. La ville de Lykosura en Arcadie, avec un temple dédié à Déméter, est présentée par Pausanias comme la « ville la plus ancienne du monde ».  La région de Messénie, au sud-ouest de la péninsule, propose les ruines du palais de Nestor témoignage de la civilisation mycénienne. Enfin, Olympie, berceau des jeux olympiques, regorge de monuments : temple de Zeus, temple d'Héra, Palestre et Léonidaion.

Ailleurs, on trouve Thèbes, en Béotie. Delphes en Phocide est connue pour son temple dédié à Apollon où la Pythie transmettait ses messages énigmatiques. Les Thermopyles ont été rendus célèbres pour la célèbre bataille entre coalition hellène ( hoplites, dont 300 Spartiates) et soldats perses bien plus nombreux dirigés par Xerxès.

Les îles grecques ont de nombreux sites historiques qui leur sont propres. Délos est une île inhabitée de l'archipel des Cyclades, célèbre pour son site archéologique où se trouvent la Stoivadeion, le temple des Déliens, la Terrasse des Lions et la Maison des Dauphins. À Santorin, se trouve l'emplacement de l'ancienne cité de Théra, une ville antique sur une crête de montagne haute de 360 mètres.

Monuments byzantins et ottomans

La période médiévale n'en est pas moins riche. La Tour blanche de Thessalonique est une ancienne fortification byzantine, reconstruite par les Ottomans et devenue l'un des symboles de la ville. La ville a été un centre commercial de première importance durant l'époque romaine qui a laissé par exemple l'Arc de Galère construit en l'honneur de l'empereur éponyme. Beaucoup d'églises de Thessalonique datent de l'époque byzantine, comme l'Église de la Panagia Chalkeon et la basilique Hagios Demetrios. Le site de Philippes, fondé par le Macédonien Philippe II, fut occupé par les Byzantins et déserté à partir de la conquête ottomane.

L'urbanisme grec contemporain garde encore des traces de ce passé ottoman que l'historiographie grecque, pour des raisons politiques, occulte : le quartier de Monastiraki a échappé aux politiques d'hellénisation menées par le gouvernement grec d'Othon puis de Georges . C'est d'ailleurs à cette époque que l'idée de reconstruire le Parthénon naquit mais ne fut jamais véritablement concrétisée, faute de budget et de véritable volonté. Le passé ottoman est peu exhibé au détriment des ruines antiques : néanmoins, Athènes a su conserver des traces de ces quatre siècles d'histoire commune entre Grecs et Turcs : le Bain des Vents ou les Bains Turcs se trouvent dans le quartier de Plaka. Les forteresses de Ioannina ont été construites par Ali Pacha à la fin du  pour protéger la ville.

Monuments néoclassiques
La Grèce ottonienne, c'est-à-dire la période allant de l'indépendance du pays aux années 1860 avec la déposition d'Othon et de la reine Amélie, a entrepris d'effacer méticuleusement toutes les traces des quatre siècles précédents. Les bâtiments construits par le nouveau royaume reprennent strictement les règles de l'architecture néoclassique : l'Université Nationale, l'École Polytechnique, le Zappéion et l'Observatoire en sont de très bonnes illustrations. Le Jardin National d'Athènes et le Jardin des Héros de Missolonghi sont deux exemples de l'aménagement néoclassique de la faune et la flore.

Étant donné leur situation géographique occidentale par rapport au reste de la péninsule, les îles Ioniennes ont été sous influence vénitienne, brièvement française pendant la Révolution et la période napoléonienne puis enfin britannique. Elles ne sont rattachées au Royaume de Grèce que le . Le Vieux Fort de Corfou, qui surplombe la vieille ville, a été construit par les Byzantins. Les Vénitiens ont ensuite en grande partie remplacés par des fortifications de leur propre conception. L'église Saint-Spyridon est typique des influences italiennes de l'île. Les résidences néoclassiques de Mon Repos et l'Achilleon, respectivement résidence estivale de la famille royale hellène et demeure de l'impératrice Sissi. Enfin, le palais de Saint-Michel-et-Saint-Georges fut construit par les Britanniques comme siège du protectorat.

Architecture contemporaine
Dans les années 1920, les architectes cherchent l'inspiration dans l'art byzantin et populaire : le quartier d'Exarcheia témoigne de cette période. Dans l'entre-deux-guerres, la mode architecturale n'échappe pas aux influences du néo-baroque et art déco alors très en vogue. Avec l'achèvement de la reconstruction d'après-guerre, les urbanistes et les architectes sont libres de se concentrer davantage sur la forme que sur la fonction : le style Bauhaus fait son apparition en Grèce avec la reconstruction du Conservatoire Municipal d'Athènes. Achevées en 2016, le nouvel opéra et la nouvelle bibliothèque nationale, œuvres de l'architecte italien Renzo Piano, ont contribué à faire entrer de plain pied le pays dans l'architecture moderne : un bâtiment de verre et de béton où se reflètent le soleil et la lumière, un canal qui constitue une extension figurative de la mer adjacente agrémenté d'un grand jardin méditerranéen.

Tourisme naturel

La Grèce compte des paysages favorables à la randonnée, l'escalade et les promenades, en plus de tous les sports aquatiques.

Les rivières Achéron et Voidomatis, dans l'Épire, sont très appréciés pour pratiquer des sports nautiques tels que le rafting. La voile est très pratiquée dans les Cyclades. L'Attique et la baie de Salamine compte parmi les meilleures endroits où pratiquer la plongée sous-marine : de la préhistoire au début de l'ère byzantine, de nombreux sites antiques submergés ont été récemment découverts. La Grèce centrale et la Thessalie sont particulièrement renommées pour leurs paysages montagneux accessibles en randonnée (Météores). La Grèce, connue essentiellement pour être une destination estivale où il fait chaud, n'a rien à envier aux Alpes puisque le pays compte de nombreuses stations de ski. Durant la période hivernale, les sports d'hiver peuvent être pratiquées sur le Mont Parnasse ou le Mont Pélion.

Bibliographie

Articles connexes

 Économie de la Grèce
 Liste du patrimoine mondial en Grèce

Références

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Q: I dont know what module I'm missing Okay so here's my code:
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const discord = require("discord.js");
const config = require("./config.json");
const colors = require("colors");

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    username: config["minecraft-username"],
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{
  "name": "discord-hypixel-bridge",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "Squag",
  "license": "GPL-3.0",
  "dependencies": {
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    "mineflayer": "^2.40.0",
    "colors": "^1.4.0",
    "follow-redirects": "^1.13.1",
    "safe-buffer": "^5.2.1",
    "nearley": "^2.20.0"
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}

Here's the error that I get:
Check /app/package.json: command not found. Is a start script missing?
Can someone help me with this?

A: In order to use npm start to run your project, you need to add the scripts object to your package.json. Also, your file is currently called package.js, so make sure to rename that to package.json.
{
  "name": "discord-hypixel-bridge",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "Squag",
  "license": "GPL-3.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "discord.js": "^12.5.1",
    "mineflayer": "^2.40.0",
    "colors": "^1.4.0",
    "follow-redirects": "^1.13.1",
    "safe-buffer": "^5.2.1",
    "nearley": "^2.20.0"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node ."
  }
}

More info on the npm docs.


Male Heptagenia adaequata Mayfly Spinner View 0 PicturesCollected near the Columbia River at Pasco, WA.
Male Paraleptophlebia falcula Mayfly Spinner View 0 PicturesTwo males were collected at 3300' elevation. No photos were taken of this rare species. The adults are quite small and look very similar to P. memorialis but smaller.


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Star-Banner's No. 1 story of 2012: Dan Kuhn resigns amid sex scandal
Joe Callahan Staff writer
In early October, five weeks after sheriff candidate Dan Kuhn won the GOP primary, the race was thrown into turmoil.
On Oct. 3, Melissa Cook, the married head of Hale Academy, revealed she had an affair with Kuhn.
And when she revealed some of the trysts happened on Sheriff's Office grounds, and that she was given secret codes to access the property, Kuhn quickly resigned.
That left local GOP officials just a few weeks to pick a person to replace Kuhn. In the end, Chris Blair, a former Sheriff's Office investigations administrator who narrowly lost to Kuhn in the GOP primary, was tapped to face Constitution candidate Bernie DeCastro. Blair won the general election in a landslide.
But on the day Blair was to start his transition to becoming the county's top law enforcement official, retiring Sheriff Ed Dean received a tip. It stated that Blair may have violated the use of campaign funds. Dean referred the case to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Last week, FDLE wrapped up its Kuhn investigation and a special prosecutor said he would not bring charges. Meantime, Blair has started his transition and will officially take office in a few days.
The Star-Banner staff voted Kuhn's rise and fall as the top story of 2012.
Here's a recap of the remaining stories, as voted on by the newsroom staff.
2. MENINGITIS: Three Marion County residents died and 18 others were sickened from tainted pain injections supplied by the New England Compounding Center.
3. WATER: Drought leads to low lake levels; Silver Springs water quality debated; Adena Springs cattleman asks to pump millions of gallons daily.
4. ECONOMY: Marion County's unemployment rate drops to 9.1 percent. While home sales are on the rise, so are the number of foreclosures.
5. MUNROE: Voters reject the Marion County Hospital District's request for a new hospital tax to combat declining revenues; trustees seek new operator.
6. I-75 ACCIDENT: On Jan. 29 on Interstate 75 at Paynes Prairie, 11 people were killed in a multi-vehicle pileup in smoke and fog.
7. STEARNS: U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, who served 12 terms, was upset in the August primary election by Ted Yoho, a veterinarian and tea party favorite.
8. JACKSON KILLERS: Four of the five suspects in the 2011 killing of Seath Jackson were sentenced to life in prison.
9. VOLLEYBALL: Vanguard High became the county's first high school volleyball team to win a state championship. CF volleyballers also won a state title.
10. DE SOTO: An archaeologist found physical evidence that explorer Hernando De Soto traveled through Marion County in his exploration of the New World.
11. DONKEY: Carlos R. Romero pleaded no contest to having sexual contact with a donkey named Doodle at an area farm.
12. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: There were 11 domestic violence deaths — eight women and three men — reported to Ocala police and the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
13. BUS BEATING: Seven Liberty Middle School students pleaded no contest to beating a fellow student on a bus. The incident was caught on a surveillance tape.
14. FRANCK'S: Franck's Pharmacy closed its doors in July after the compounding facility was blamed for 33 cases of fungal eye infections earlier this year.
15. EDC/CHAMBER: The chamber and the Ocala-Marion County Economic Development Corp. merge to become Ocala-Marion County Chamber and Economic Partnership.
Online No. 1
In recent days, with 186,932 views, the story "Donkey-sex suspect in protective custody, wants animal back" overtook the story "Charges unlikely against man who shot robbers" involving an Internet cafe patron who shot two men trying to rob the business, for the No. 1 spot. That story had 173,510 views.
No, we didn't make this up
ALL IN THE FAMILY: A February headline sums up a deputy's wacky arrest: "A foot chase, a pit bull, a brawl, a Taser and a bystander stabbing himself, twice."
ROLLING DOWN ... : In June, a semitrailer's tire barreled into The Sons of Confederate Veterans' meeting at the Ramada Inn on U.S. 27.
WHOOPS, WHERE'S THE BABY?: In July, a teen mom was arrested after leaving her infant in a Walmart buggy while fleeing security during a retail theft attempt.
TOPLESS DRIVER: In August, a woman was arrested for leading deputies on a car chase because she was driving topless on her way to surprise her boyfriend.
ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS: In September, the Ocala City Council decided to use the game "rock, paper, scissors" to break ties when such a rare vote occurs.
GIANT MISTAKE: Early this month, a New York Giants fan cited a Monday Night Football loss, in part, for shooting at Marion County sheriff's deputies.


These efforts are intended to facilitate greater understanding of current business conditions and promote closer collaboration and a stronger relationship between the regulator and the industry players.
With the growing diversity of businesses on offer in Labuan IBFC also comes a greater need for talent development in the jurisdiction, especially in the area of technical competency.
To address this, Labuan IBFC has taken the initiative to engage with associations and training institutions in providing professional certification and training programmes with the objective of enhancing the knowledge and technical skills of professionals in Labuan IBFC.


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Ulrich Schreck est un fleurettiste allemand né le  à Tauberbischofsheim. Il est l'ex-mari de la fleurettiste Monika Weber-Koszto.

Carrière

Ulrich Schreck participe à l'épreuve de fleuret par équipe lors des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1988 à Séoul et remporte avec ses partenaires ouest-allemands Matthias Behr, Mathias Gey, Thorsten Weidner et Thomas Endres la médaille d'argent. Il termine quatrième de l'épreuve individuelle. Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1992 à Barcelone, il est sacré champion olympique, sous les couleurs de l'Allemagne unifiée, dans l'épreuve de fleuret par équipe avec Thorsten Weidner, Udo Wagner, Alexander Koch et Ingo Weißenborn. Schreck termine dix-huitième de l'épreuve individuelle.

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Why are robots taking over the world?
Prosperity insights and analytics
Robots and automation are not "taking jobs" in this latest economic downturn, but instead doing the work few people want to do – from weeding to cleaning floors to stacking bins. And automation helps in more complex ways, too, like helping doctors make faster and more accurate diagnoses, helping banks detect fraud, or untethering supply chain logistics.
In this interview, we speak with Kevin Dunlap, Managing Partner at Project calibrationAbout the future of robotics and automation, why businesses need automation to survive tough economic times, and how this will lead to more prosperity for people, not less.
Gary Drenick: In the second quarter of 2022, according to New report More robots have been sold than ever before, surpassing every other quarter. Why are bot deployments growing so quickly and what does this mean for human labor?
Kevin Dunlap: We're getting to a point where robotic automation makes economic sense outside of the very standard, static applications it initially occupied, such as automotive and manufacturing assembly lines. At Calibrate, we see that the "deep tech" aspects are now able to deliver true ROI for enterprise customers. We see enterprise customers in many industries looking to improve safety, productivity, accuracy and reliability with bots. The return on investment for customers to implement automation systems is here and I doubt it will slow from now on. Why is ROI finally here? First, we've seen a huge increase in wages in the past two years, with more and more people disinterested in doing unfulfilling or dangerous jobs. According to another Prosperity insights and analytics In the survey, 28.5% of Gen-Z workers plan to look for a new job in the next six months, showing how turnover has become the norm. In a volatile job market like the one we've seen over the past few years, it's becoming clear that robots can do the boring, dirty, and dangerous jobs people don't want to do effectively, reliably, and affordably.
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Drenick: In light of the pandemic-induced labor shortage and major layoffs, what are the ways in which automation technologies are being deployed today that differ from what they were a few years ago?
Dunlap: The disruptions to work that began during the pandemic had already been underway for several years; People want to do meaningful and interesting work, and the pandemic has highlighted this trend. In the US, 26% of Gen Z workers and 21.5% of Millennials are unhappy with their jobs, according to Prosperity insights and analytics. Companies have had to start looking for ways to creatively and proactively solve labor problems, and provide workers with the benefits they want like working from home, flexibility, and better training.
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Overall, 45% of Americans would prefer to work for a company that allows them to work from home, and that percentage rises to 56% for millennials, who make up the largest percentage of the workforce, he says. Prosperity insights and analytics. Companies are also beginning to seriously look at automation as a long-term solution to employment, manufacturing, production, logistics and other ongoing challenges. But what's different now is that automation has become much more sophisticated, allowing companies to use bots in high-mix and low-volume manufacturing. Robots are now intelligent and autonomous enough to perform highly complex and diverse tasks – rather than just one repetitive motion on an assembly line.
Prosper – It is preferable to work for a company that allows you to work from home
Drenick: Which industries are deploying bots the fastest and why?
Dunlap: Some of the sectors that have taken a big leap forward towards robotic automation in the last couple of years include agriculture (weeding, harvesting, spraying, vertical farming, and food processing); Construction (independent excavation, surveying, 3D printed structures, drywall hanging, surface treatment); warehousing and logistics (mobile autonomous robots and exoskeletons used in warehouses, bundling and routing, picking and packing, autonomous yard trucks and forklifts, and drone delivery); security (border control, firearm detection, intruder alarms, home security monitoring); and Health & Wellness (Robotic Wet Labs for Drug Development and Surgery Robots).
Most companies use automation to improve efficiency. Companies that move quickly to implement automation will be able to reach full capacity in their factories to better meet customer demand. Of course, great work isn't about 100% efficiency, but increased efficiency helps companies ensure that their customers receive quality products on time and at a fair price.
Drenick: How do robots today help workers rather than replace them, and how will this human-robot collaboration help companies survive the downturn and emerge stronger on the other side?
Dunlap: The vast majority of robotic applications perform functions that humans do not want or should not do for safety reasons. For example, repetitive sanding jobs lead to carpal tunnel syndrome and workers inhale harmful particles; We invested in a company called Gray Matter whose robots sand the shop floor with great precision. Or in food processing, few people want to stand in cold damp environments packing protein for consumers for hours on end. Another company we've supported, Soft Robotics, has robotic hands that can locate, sort, and select soft objects like chicken breast on processing lines and is used by Tyson and other large food companies. As far as "bots take jobs," I don't think it will impact as ominously as some expect. Humans are smart, creative and flexible and will find ways to create new technologies that grow the business sector. This evolution has happened many times before, including with cotton gins, telephone operators, word processors, and mass food processing, resulting in more jobs in general.
Automation can help the US economy recover more quickly from the current downturn. The United States has a higher cost of living and a higher cost of employment than many other countries, so if manufacturers are not able to find ways to improve productivity and control costs, they will not be able to compete globally in the years to come. American consumers currently rely on a number of foreign countries to produce everything from toys and infant formula to mission-critical semiconductors and medicines, and automation can help bring manufacturing back to the United States in many sectors.
Drenick: Which areas of robotic automation are most exciting to you as an investor and why? Why will these areas make the biggest impact in the near future?
Dunlap: At Calibrate, we're very excited about robotic solutions that can thrive in changing environments, not just ones that perform a single task on a manufacturing line. Artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning—as well as the emerging fields of synthetic data and quantum computing—allow robotic systems to digest extremely large amounts of data and then adjust their actions based on that input. We see robots succeed in changing environments in manufacturing, food processing, healthcare, logistics, and transportation.
Drenick: How can we ensure that robotic automation supports human workers rather than replaces them?
Dunlap: Not everyone needs a computer science degree to succeed in the economy of the future. Bots need maintenance and training for specific tasks. There will also be many human jobs being augmented by collaborative bots, so workers will work alongside bots and gain new technical skills in supervising and interacting with them. Companies need to provide training to employees, so that they know how to work alongside, repair and maintain robots. Companies can offer coding bootcamps and other technical training to some employees, too, to help them move up the skills ladder. Technical degrees are in high demand, so colleges can expand their computer science, engineering, science, technology, engineering, and math departments. And on the other hand, a lot of the colleges that keep offering them aren't necessarily relevant anymore, and they don't provide an economic return for students, so they can streamline some of the departments. However, the humanities and social sciences are still important. The tech workers of the future will need to think creatively and collaborate with others — not just robots — so there can be more STEM interaction to create new degrees for our future world.
Drenick: Thanks, Kevin, for sharing your insights into the exciting world of robotic automation.
#robots #world


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Willard Lane: 'Have I been lucky? No, I've been blessed!'
Dr. Willard Lane clutched a copy of Wilmington College's 1942 Wilmingtonian yearbook during one of his recent visits to WC's campus.
PICTURED: Willard Lane, who attended WC in 1941-42, reflects upon how Wilmington College proved monumental in his life.
He leafed through the well-worn pages, pointing out photos of the basketball and tennis teams — there he is as a teenager. In the autograph section, he read an entry addressed to "Dear Willie." "That's what they used to call me," he said, as he began reading — with a sparkle in his eye — a girlfriend's fond recollection of the fun they had at a Gamma Phi Gamma/Delta Omega Theta dance at Snow Hill Country Club — followed by their 2:30 a.m. swim.
The 95-year-old Lane attended Wilmington College for only his freshman year, 1941-42, yet those connections made and his experience in an extraordinary period during World War II played a recurring role and helped set the stage for, literally, a wonderful life.
"I don't know where I'd be if not for Wilmington College," said the now-retired, long-time Wilmington dentist.
Lane shared insight into his nearly 10 decades, which have featured a 65-year marriage to his beloved Ruth, a 39-year career in dentistry, designing a golf course, being an acquaintance of Arnold Palmer, marching to "Script Ohio," military service during two wars, learning hypnosis and embarking upon a new avocation as a writer at 90.
Attending Wilmington College was a natural choice since Lane was literally on the campus every day as a boy delivering the Wilmington News Journal. "My route was the area around Wilmington College; therefore, I knew a lot of faculty members," he said, mentioning such classic WC professors as Oscar Boyd, W. Russell Pyle, Helen McCoy and Ellen Wright among his customers.
"Knowing all these people made it easy for me to make up my mind."
Wilmington College in the fall of 1941 hosted 188 students, 70 of whom were freshmen with 20 from Wilmington, according to Lane. The campus consisted of College Hall (what he referred to as "The Main Building"), Denver and Bailey halls and the now departed Whittier Court, Twin Ash and South halls, plus a running track with a covered grandstand.
Lane, who had classmates with familiar local names like Buckley, Swindler and Terrell, pledged Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity because "all the big business people I knew in Wilmington were Gobblers." He recalled playing basketball before capacity crowds at Whittier Court — those pre-television days attracted a large number of townspeople — as his four-win team played the likes of Cincinnati, Dayton, Cedarville and Otterbein.
"Games were slow compared to today with no shot clock; there were scores like 35-30 and free throws were shot underhand," he added.
Students attended mandatory chapel services on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 8 a.m., and tuition was $80 a semester. "My dad was in the poultry business and he convinced the bursar to cover my tuition with chickens and eggs — no money ever changed hands," he said.
It was during that fall semester when the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor propelled America into World War II. "We were in a car driving through town near the General Denver Hotel when I heard about Pearl Harbor," he noted. "Of course, this concerned us all and led to a lot of decisions about our future."
Before the military caught up with Lane, he had his own summer of '42, three months that proved a seminal part of his education and personal growth. Lane took the train to Detroit, where he successfully interviewed for a job as a traveling salesman selling flower and garden seeds.
His territory covered eastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, Delaware and into Virginia. "My dad said, 'You're going to learn more about hard knocks in one summer than you would in four years of college.'"
Lane stayed in boarding houses and YMCAs to stretch his $75 a month salary made selling and maintaining seed racks in stores located in towns like Hazeltown, Pa. He recalled a sales call he arranged with an executive at the DuPont Paint Co. headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Upon his mentioning, "I go to Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio," the intrigued interviewer asked if the young salesman knew an acquaintance of his from the community. He did. "I never even made a sales pitch and got an order for 32 stores!" he said.
Thus, his Wilmington College affiliation began paying off in the most unexpected ways.
Lane shared the story of taking a train that summer from Allentown, Pa., for a weekend in New York City. "I got a room at the Roosevelt Hotel and saw Joe DiMaggio play at Yankee Stadium and, the next day, watched (tennis great) Don Budge at Forest Hills," he said. "For an 18-year-old kid to do that!"
Once back in Wilmington, Lane decided to continue his education in pre-dentistry at Ohio State University, where the former high school band member was among 80 trumpet players trying out for the OSU Marching Band. Rejected, he auditioned again, this time as a tuba player — and, possessing little prior experience with that instrument, he was selected as a member of the "Best Damn Band in the Land." In fall 1942, he marched at 120 steps a minute as the great brass and percussion ensemble performed "Script Ohio" at Ohio Stadium for the Buckeyes' national championship season under Coach Paul Brown.
Since OSU has a long tradition that only senior sousaphone players enjoy the honor of dotting the "i" in "Script Ohio," that was an opportunity Lane didn't get to realize because Uncle Sam's Christmas card to him was a draft notice ordering that he report for induction into the U.S. Army in January 1943.
Lane was assigned to a medical detachment in which he would become a surgical technician. Intent upon pursuing his chosen field of dentistry, he persuaded the military chain of command to reassign him for training in pre-dentistry pending that he could prove within three days that he would be a suitable candidate. He contacted Wilmington College for help.
"I got an appointment with the general, who said, 'Dr. (Frank) Hazard gives you a very high recommendation,'" he said, noting his former biology professor at WC expedited a glowing reference that won over the general and landed Lane at the University of Illinois, where he was sent for testing in pre-dentistry.
It was there he experienced the most serendipitous moment of his life.
"On July 8, 1943, at 4 p.m., I walked out the front door of the library to take a break," he said. "Walking up the steps was a young coed I couldn't take my eyes off."
He asked Ruth, then a senior, out for a date and the couple began 65 years of marriage two years later in 1945. "If not for Wilmington College, I would never have met my wife!" he said.
Following the extensive testing at Illinois, where he lived with 600 other guys in a dormitory at the university's ice rink, he needed acceptance into dental school within two weeks — or he'd he sent back to his original Army unit. Enter Wilmington College, again. He called WC requesting that both transcripts and another letter from Hazard be sent to a doctor at the University of Louisville. Days passed without word on his dental school admission. He was literally waiting for the bus to return him to his initial medical detachment in Springfield, Mo., when he received a telegram stating: "You are bona fide accepted to the School of Dentistry at the University of Louisville."
The acceptance was pending completion of pre-dental studies at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. "It was like Wilmington with small classes, compared to Ohio State with 300 students in a class," he said, noting at W&L, included in his studies, he learned hypnosis, which he later used in his dental practice.
By fall 1944, when Lane started at Louisville, the war was "waning" so the Army canceled its program in dentistry, however, he was able to cover tuition through benefits in the newly instated G.I. Bill for military veterans. Ruth found a job as a librarian in Louisville and they were married in February as he continued in dental school.
"We didn't have a car for three years," he recalled in telling the story of purchasing, for less than $100, a large supply of military surplus dental equipment. There were enough instruments to outfit his future practice and for him to divide the rest into kits he sold to fellow dental students. "I made enough money that I could buy my first car."
Upon his graduation, he and Ruth returned to Wilmington, where he set up his dental practice on North-South St. and they began their family that eventually grew to include five children, 10 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Thinking his days in the military were behind him, Lane was drafted to serve in the Korean Conflict in 1951. He held the rank of captain as a dental officer at an Air Force base in Wyoming. He enjoyed taking advantage of such western sporting activities as fly-fishing and hunting deer and antelope, but Wilmington was his home and they returned following his military service.
Lane continued for decades with his successful dental practice while serving the community as a Rotarian and member of the local school board. He complemented his lifelong interest in golf by playing some of the most famous courses in the nation. He still laments three-putting hole 16 while still shooting an 84 at Augusta National in 1964.
Lane enjoys telling the story of following Arnold Palmer at the 1956 Masters in the days before Arnie's Army, when he was among a handful of fans walking alongside Palmer on Augusta's fairways. This was the era before the sport's popularity forced sequestering the gallery into corralled spaces. Lane, a member of golf's Pro-Am Committee, reconnected a dozen years later with the then-superstar Palmer at the inaugural Heritage Tournament in 1968. The charismatic champion recognized Lane and extended to him the greeting: "Dr. Lane, it's good to see you."
"He remembered me!"
Golf continues to hold a special place for Lane, who this past October, at 95-years-old, landed his drive four feet from the hole for a tap-in birdie on number 6 at Snow Hill Country Club.
In the late 1980s, around his retirement in 1987, Snow Hill called upon Lane to head the construction that expanded the course from nine to 18 holes. He re-designed much of the original course in adding the new holes, creating one of the area's most scenic golfing venues.
Upon his retirement, Lane engaged in a voluntary service, arranged through Rotary International, in which he provided dental work at a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines. He was asked to provide a report to the United Nations and Rotary's top brass upon completing the five-week mission.
He and Ruth enjoyed years of travel, social events and spending time with their ever-growing brood of grandchildren. Sadly, Ruth passed away in 2010, yet Lane continues to embrace life.
Never one to fear exceeding his comfort zone, he has preached sermons four times at the Lutheran Church and performed, a few years ago, in Wilmington's popular version of Dancing with the Stars at the Murphy Theatre. Lane is a regular at the College's basketball games — plus a faithful supporter of WC — and he engages in an impressive fitness regimen that includes walking laps daily at Kroger and working with a personal trainer to hone his core strength and flexibility twice a week.
Hearkening his OSU band days, he can still march at 120 steps a minute for an hour — and he'd be happy to show you! Lane believes in keeping busy and, as he says, "I am living for tomorrow." He proves it with a positive attitude and positive actions.
In the months before his 90th birthday, Lane decided to get serious about writing, an ability on which former WC English professor Helen McCoy complimented him more than 75 years ago.
He produced a book of writings for his grandkids in which he shares his philosophy on life, while also addressing such virtues as love, joy and kindness. The chapter on love featured a snapshot of "Willard + Ruth." He also wrote about these for his church's periodic newsletter.
Lane's writings also include his "10-Year Plan," as he looks forward to his 100th birthday in 2023. In reflecting upon living for nearly a century, he mentions seeing "the long path behind me" and asks, "Where's life gone? It's gone so fast." Yet, his focus continues looking at not only his yesterdays but also today and tomorrow.
"Always, I can see tomorrow loaded with dreams and new possibilities, … my best friend, my future." Lane said. "The past has been awesome. Have I been lucky? No, I've been blessed."
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Facebook bans half-dozen Canadian pages under extremism, hate policy
Stewart Bell GlobalNews.ca
April 8, 2019 11:37 am
WATCH: Far-right radicalism and extremist views are festering in chat rooms, on social media and across the internet. They're presenting false narratives as objective reality, and some mainstream political leaders are implicitly endorsing them by looking the other way.
A half-dozen Canadian Facebook pages were taken down Monday as the social media company said it was enforcing its policy on extremist content and hate groups.
Faith Goldy, Kevin Goudreau and the Soldiers of Odin (Canadian Infidels) were among those who Facebook said were "banned from having any further presence on Facebook and Instagram," a spokesperson said.
Also banned were the Canadian Nationalist Front, Aryan Strikeforce and Wolves of Odin. The company also said it would "remove affiliate representation for these entities, including linked pages and groups."
Facebook, Instagram ban white nationalism as part of expanded definition of hate speech
"Individuals and organizations who spread hate, attack or call for the exclusion of others on the basis of who they are have no place (on) our services," the Facebook spokesperson said.
"The individuals and organizations we have banned today violate this policy, and they will no longer be allowed a presence on our services."
In the wake of the New Zealand mosque attack, Facebook has faced increased pressure to remove pages that promote hate and extremism.
WATCH: Global National's Dawna Friesen talks with McGill University's Taylor Owen on what can and should be done to stop the spread of false information and hate online.
The company announced in late March that it would ban "praise, support and representation" of white nationalism and separatism.
"We've been calling for Facebook and other social media platforms to take action against white nationalist propagandists," said Bernie Farber, chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
"Facebook has been true to its word," he said. "They're taking this quite seriously, and it's very much to their credit."
The organization had specifically called for bans on most of the groups listed. The anti-hate-network continues to urge Facebook to remove the Yellow Vests Canada page.
Facebook begins removing comments from Yellow Vests Canada group following talk of killing Trudeau
WATCH: Controlling the spread of online hate and violence
Goldy responded on Twitter by directing followers to her website, writing: "Our enemies are weak & terrified. They forget most revolutions were waged before social media!"
Goudreau, who has a swastika tattoo on his chest and heads the Canadian Nationalist Front (formerly the White Nationalist Front), called the announcement "fake news because I was never banned!"
Minutes later, his Facebook page went down.
He then blamed a reporter for the loss of his account and said getting banned was "irrelevant" since he had a "backup account," which he declined to identify.
Facebook said it followed an "extensive process" to determine who to ban, and considered "a number of different signals" such as whether groups have called for violence based on race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
Stewart.Bell@globalnews.ca


PHUKET – The 2nd meeting of the Asia-Pacific Council for Juvenile Justice (APCJJ) will contain a session designed specifically for 10 Asean nations as part of their preparation for regional integration, said Deputy Permanent Secretary for Justice Chanchao Chaiyanukit.
"We need common strategies as the regional integration involves mobility. It is possible that Thai children may be in conflict with laws in other Asean nations, or vice versa. We also need preventive measures, which require cooperation from families, educational institutes, communities and religious centres," he said yesterday when the four-day meeting started.
An issue to be discussed is the minimum age of children liable to legal punishment, which differs from country to country in Asean. In Thailand, only children aged above 10 would stand trial, while in some countries the minimum age is 7 years old.
He added that Thai children's No.1 conflict with law concerns drugs. Most of them are aged 15-18 years.
Experts on juvenile justice from over 70 countries gathered at the meeting.


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Travelers arrive in US to hugs and tears after ban is lifted
DENISE LAVOIE and WILLIAM MATHIS
Associated Press February 5, 2017
BOSTON (AP) — Travelers from the seven predominantly Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump enjoyed tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. on Sunday after a federal judge swept the ban aside.
Airlines around the world allowed people to board flights as usual to the United States. One lawyer waiting at New York's Kennedy Airport said visa and green-card holders from Iraq and Iran were encountering no problems as they arrived.
"It's business as usual," said Camille Mackler, of the New York Immigration Coalition.
Fariba Tajrostami, a 32-year-old painter from Iran, came through the gate at Kennedy with a huge smile and tears in her eyes as her brothers greeted her with joyful hugs.
"I'm very happy. I haven't seen my brothers for nine years," she said.
Tajrostami had tried to fly to the U.S. from Turkey over a week ago but was turned away.
"I was crying and was so disappointed," she said. "Everything I had in mind, what I was going to do, I was so disappointed about everything. I thought it was all over."
Tajrostami said she hopes to study art in the U.S. and plans to join her husband in Dallas soon. He moved from Iran six months ago, has a green card and is working at a car dealership.
Similar scenes played out across the U.S. two days after a judge in Washington state suspended the president's travel ban and just hours after a federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's request to set aside the ruling.
The U.S. canceled the visas of up to 60,000 foreigners in the week after the ban on travel from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen took effect, according to the State Department. Trump also suspended nearly all refugee admissions for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
The order triggered protests and a multitude of legal challenges around the country and blocked numerous college students, researchers and others from entering the U.S.
Mahsa Azabadi, 29, an Iranian-American who lives in Denver, was forced to put her wedding plans on hold after her fiance, Sorena Behzadfar, was turned away when he tried to board a plane to travel from Iran to the U.S. on Jan. 28.
Over the weekend, though, Behzadfar was cleared for travel and was expected to arrive at Boston's Logan Airport on Sunday afternoon.
"He got the visa, so I was planning the wedding. Then all of a sudden, it stopped, and I didn't even know if he'd be allowed to come here. It's been a really tough week to figure out what will happen to us," said Azabadi, who has lived in the U.S. for 11 years and is now a U.S. citizen.
The couple are hoping to keep their wedding date of May 12.
"Seeing the support from the lawyers and different people trying to help, it was really nice," she said. "We want to be the best and do the best for the people and for this country. We would love to have the opportunity."
Iranian researcher Nima Enayati, a Ph.D. candidate at a university in Milan, was prevented from boarding a flight to the U.S. on Jan. 30. He had a visa to conduct research on robotic surgery at Stanford University.
On Sunday, he said his check-in went smoothly on a flight to New York, where he was expected to arrive Sunday evening.
At Cairo Airport on Sunday, officials said a total of 33 U.S.-bound migrants from Yemen, Syria and Iraq boarded flights.
Lebanon's National News Agency said airlines operating out of Beirut also began allowing Syrian families and others affected by the ban to fly. Beirut has no direct flights to the U.S.; travelers have to go through Europe.
Mackler, the immigration attorney, enjoyed what she saw at Kennedy Airport.
"This is what it should be. You sit in an airport day in and day out, and you see all these moments of great joy and unification," she said. "It was so sad to see that and know some people weren't having that. Now it feels good."
Mathis contributed from New York City.
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