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Альбедо нейтронов — вероятность отражения нейтронов в результате их многократного рассеяния в среде.

Физический смысл
При наличии двух сред нейтроны, попавшие из 1-й среды во 2-ю, могут в процессе диффузии из 2-й среды снова вернуться в 1-ю среду. Вероятность такого события характеризует способность 2-й среды отражать нейтроны, она называется альбедо нейтронов для 2-й среды.

Применение
Понятие альбедо нейтронов используется в теории диффузии нейтронов, в нейтронной оптике при рассмотрении взаимодействия пучков медленных нейтронов с веществом. Изучение отражения нейтронов важно для расчёта и конструирования ядерных реакторов.

Литература

 Альбедо // Физический энциклопедический словарь. — М.: Советская энциклопедия. Главный редактор А. М. Прохоров. 1983.

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Small, dingy gray flies, flying around plants aimlessly. Little white worms with black heads in the soil.
Fungus gnats (families Mycetophilidae and Sciaridae) are very common cannabis pests. They show up mainly in indoor and greenhouse grows, but can be found outdoors, too. They are not the most serious or devastating pest you might get, but they are a nuisance and do not go away on their own. In large outbreaks they can cause root damage and stunted plant growth.
Before doing anything, make sure you are dealing with fungus gnats and not something more serious like whiteflies. Fungus gnats are typically grey or black. They are about 2 mm in length and have long legs. They tend to "flutter" around the soil surface erratically but not pay attention to the leaves. Larvae live just below the soil surface. They look like small, nearly-microscopic, white or transparent worms with black heads.
Fungus gnats are attracted to wet soil and organic material that is starting to decay. They love coco coir-based soils and media. They are less common in hydroton- and perlite-heavy hydro systems, but they can settle into those as well if the conditions are right. Females lay several hundred eggs per week in the moist soil surface. Depending on temperature, the eggs usually hatch within two or three days. Larvae that hatch out feed on fungus that grows on decaying debris in the soil. If they do not find enough food, they will eat the fresh young root tips of your plants. This can expose the plant to other diseases. Within about 10 days the larvae will turn into pupae, and about four days later the pupae will turn into adults. A full generation takes about 17 days, depending on temperature, and there can be multiple overlapping generations per year.
Monitoring for fungus gnats will give you an early jump on them if they show up, and allow you to keep an eye on an infestation as you use control methods. Yellow sticky traps and cards are excellent tools. Fungus gnat adults seem to be attracted to them. You can hang yellow traps from lower foliage and even lay them on the soil surface. The adults will get stuck and die, leaving you with evidence of their existence. If you don't have any fungus gnats, keep an eye on your traps so you know if they start to show up. If you already have a problem, monitor the cards to see if the population is increasing or decreasing.
Larvae are attracted to potatoes and can be used to determine whether you have a problem. Cut 1/2" slices of potato and leave them slightly buried or on the soil surface and check after 4–8 hours to see if larvae are present.
Controlling an active fungus gnat population is not hard, but requires persistence. A 1/2" layer of sand or a product such as Gnat Nix on the soil surface will discourage adults from laying their eggs in the first place. Products containing cedar oil have shown some limited control. Products containing Bacillus Thuringensis (or BT) seem to be effective.
Beneficial insects may be preferable, especially considering all the new pesticide regulations on cannabis grown in Oregon. Predator nematodes will attack the fungus gnat larvae in the soil. They are one of the least expensive and most effective controls available. Do a few releases every week or two if you have an active problem, or every four to six weeks for prevention. Fungus gnat predators (Hypoaspis miles, also known as Stratiolaelaps scimitus) can also be applied to the soil surface to attack the larvae.
Fungus gnats are a nuisance that most growers will experience at one time or another. With basic monitoring you can detect them early before they become a serious problem. Have some beneficial predators in the garden to attack them as soon as they show up.
Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of medicine.


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You send in your questions to http://wbztv.com/curious, and those that are selected can get on TV. Even more than that, the WBZ TV news teams researches your questions and finds out the answer. It's like having your own personal investigative news team. In one case the reporter asked the interview subject the exact wuestions that a viewer sent in.
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Connelly: A low-profile Sen. Cantwell tops Hutchison in poll
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Susan Hutchison was a longtime KIRO-TV news anchor before entering politics.
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Into Leon Trotsky's den: Washington State Republican Party chairman Susan Hutchison, center, with executive director (now party chairman) Caleb Heimlich, speak against a Seattle City Council income tax resolution . . . amidst a mob of supporters mobilized by bullhorn-bearing City Council member Kshama Sawant. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Sen. Maria Cantwell: She sweats issues, raises oodles of campaign dollars, and keeps a low profile back home.
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U.S. Senate races in other states are already being fought out on TV screens, with special interests shoveling out money to weaken incumbents. Here, however, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has occupied a cocoon of comfort.
Cantwell hasn't even announced for re-election. She has stayed backstage much of the time, relentlessly raising a warchest that approached $5 million at the last campaign reporting period.
She didn't even have a "name" opponent until ex-State Republican Chair Susan Hutchison filed at the last minute on Friday.
The liberal on-line activists of Northwest Progressive Institute are out with the first poll in the race, taken Tuesday and Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, which managed to contact 675 voters with automated land line calls and in-person cell phone interviews.
The poll puts Cantwell ahead of Hutchison by a 52-36 percent margin. Public Policy Polling has Democratic roots. But it has a record of accuracy, particularly in mapping downturns in President Obama's popularity that hurt Democrats in the 2010 and 2014 election cycles.
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What does the poll show?
Hutchison starts with the Republican "base", which in this state is 35-40 percent of the vote. The 2018 numbers mirror a survey taken in the 2012 election cycle, which showed Cantwell leading GOP State3 Sen. Michael Baumgartner by a 51-35 percent margin. The latest PPP survey has a margin of error of plus/minus 3.8 percent.
The poll tracks with past surveys of President Trump's Washington popularity, which is in the mid-30's. Hutchison has been a strong supporter of the 45th president: At the 2016 Republican convention, she upbraided Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, over his vote-your-conscience speech.
Cantwell went on to take 60.45 percent of the vote against Baumgartner, and had a 10-to-one financial advantage over the challenger.
The challenge by Hutchison will, however, do the public a favor by smoking out Cantwell.
The incumbent has taken to certain issues, as a main sponsor of legislation on the opioid epidemic and a vociferous bloodhound of the taxpayer-financed travels of U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. She fought the Trump administration's back door opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
But Cantwell hasn't been so visible back home. She can be tracked mainly by supporters' Facebook pictures of her fundraising events. In the 2012 cycle, voters here learned Cantwell had been hitting up wealthy Jackson, Wyoming, liberals only when she went out and climbed the Grand Teton.
Hutchison is a former KIRO-TV News anchor, who later brought an age discrimination suit against her former employer. She ran for the non-partisan post of King County Executive in 2009, but lost to Dow Constantine by a three-to-two margin.
The Republicans did surprisingly well in capturing down-the-ballot offices two years ago.
They won county races in Pierce and Snohomish Counties, and piled up victories in formerly Democratic counties in Southwest Washington.
Hutchison quit as party chair earlier this year, and was replaced by executive assistant Caleb Heinrich.
SeattlePI.com writer Joel Connelly can be reached at 206-448-8160 or joelconnelly@seattlepi.com

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Buzzed Honeybees
Caffeinated nectar makes bees more loyal to a food source, even when foraging there is suboptimal.
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Caffeine is found in more than morning beverages—scientists estimate that 55 percent of flowering plants also produce caffeine in their nectar, which draws in consumers like honeybees. In a recent study, nectar spiked with caffeine led honeybees to return—and direct their hivemates—to the food source more often than to an uncaffeinated feeder, researchers reported in Current Biology last week (October 15).
A team from the University of Sussex, U.K., led by Margaet Couvillon, trained honeybees to forage from one of two feeders. One provided an average nectar sucrose solution, while the other was spiked with caffeine (though otherwise identical). The researchers tracked the bees with tiny number tags, and saw that honeybees feeding from the caffeinated feeder returned more often, even when the feeder was empty. "These poor bees came back for four or five days afterwards, and they were kind of desperate," Couvillon told New Scientist. The bees also performed their waggle dance, a behavior used to direct other bees from the hive to the food, more often for the caffeinated feeder.
Caffeine "causes the bee to overestimate the quality of the resource," Couvillon told The New York Times. The compound entices the bees to visit more often—and therefore collect more pollen from the plant—potentially without the plant actually spending energy to create a higher-calorie nectar. "It's presumably cheaper for the plant to produce a small amount of caffeine than a large amount more sugar," study coauthor Francis Ratnieks told BBC News.
"Nature is not big on honesty unless it's somehow enforced," James Nieh, a behavioral ecologist from the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved with the study, told New Scientist. "It's kind of an arms race."
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B.C. colleges rename sports league to PacWest conference
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B.C. collegiate sport fans can say bye-bye to the tongue-twisting title of BCCAA and hello to the much sexier name of PacWest.
The B.C. Colleges' Athletic Association has dumped its former, nerdier sports acronym in favour of the Pacific Western Athletic Association.
The new name represents both colleges and universities in B.C. including the Camosun Chargers athletic teams.
"We feel the PacWest name does an excellent job of identifying who we are and what we do and will give us a significant advantage as we implement our marketing plans," said PacWest president Bruce Hunter in a press release.
A total of 14 schools compete in the PacWest, with the Chargers competing in volleyball, basketball and golf.
The league's website has also been updated to www.pacwestbc.ca.
The new name is borrowed from but shouldn't be mistaken for neighbouring NCAA PacWest conference that includes Arizona, California, Hawai'i and Utah.
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Walks through villages and towns steeped in Mediaeval and Renaissance history, or excursions on foot, horseback and mountain bike through a fantastic variety of natural landscapes.
Cagli stands on the site of Cale, an ancient Roman city situated on the Via Flaminia, the consular road linking Rome to Fano and ending at Rimini. An imposing bridge, the Ponte Mallio on the River Bosso has survived from this period.
Cagli then became an important Byzantine town and, following the Goth and Lombard invasions, it was conquered by the Frankish King Pepin the Short, and subsequently ceded to the Papal States (AD 756).
In 1289 Pope Nicholas IV reconstructed the city after it had been destroyed by an earthquake. The innovative urban design was later to inspire the architect Leon Battista Alberti when he worked on the design of the "Ideal City".
Cagli then became an integral part of the Duchy of Urbino, and Duke Federico da Montefeltro had it fortified (1481) by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the greatest military architect of the age. The imposing elliptical-plan Torrione survives and now houses a centre for contemporary sculpture.
In the same period large-scale redevelopments transformed the Mediaeval buildings, such as the Palazzo Pubblico, now the Town Hall with an archaeological museum, and many palaces, such as the Palazzo Castracane, which houses an art gallery with works from various periods, including drawings by Canova.
The Teatro Comunale is a splendid 19th-century building. In 1901 it was the second theatre to be lit by electric energy after the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro.
Cagli's art treasures, paintings and frescoes from various periods by major artists, such as Giovanni Santi (Raphael's father), adorn the Mediaeval and Renaissance churches.
Today Cagli is still a beautiful town offering visitors the opportunity to explore history, art, architecture and excellent cuisine in the unspoilt natural setting of the some of the finest mountains in the Apennines. Their uncontaminated rivers form natural swimming pools, such as the pools of the River Bosso, providing unforgettable spots for bathing and swimming.
Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino for over forty years, was a paragon of the Renaissance prince. A leading figure in Italian life in the 16th century, he was not only a great military general but also a cultivated humanist. He commissioned the architects Laurana and Di Giorgio Martini to construct his residence – "a city in the form of a palace" – which according to Castiglione was "the finest that can be found in all of Italy" and also the first example of an architectural and urban development harmoniously set in a natural landscape.
The city has preserved all the magnificence of that period and the Ducal Palace testifies to the extraordinary standards that were achieved. The palace has 200 spacious, well-lit rooms designed for "the noblest minds". After the Dark Ages, the palace was built with a new conception of living in a light-filled environment. Today the upper floors of the immense building house the National Gallery of the Marche, which boasts numerous masterpieces from the 14th century on, such as Saint Catherine and La Muta by Raphael, the Flagellation of Christ and the Madonna di Senigallia by Piero della Francesca, the Miracle of the Profaned Host by Paolo Uccello, the Crucifixion and Pentecost by Luca Signorelli, the Last Supper and Resurrection by Titian and many other invaluable works by artists such as Giusto di Gand, Piero Verrughete, Federico Barocci, Giovanni Santi (Raphael's father), Bramantino, Carlo Crivelli and Luca della Robbia.
Raphael, the great painter and architect, was born in Urbino in 1483 to Giovanni Santi and Magia Ciarla and became a leading figure in Renaissance culture together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Now a museum, the house in which Raphael was born is a typical example of 15th-century residential architecture for a moderately wealthy family. Visitors to the house are immersed in the highly stimulating, original atmosphere. The works on show include a fresco with the Virgin and Child, thought to be the young Raphael's first known painting: the face that Raphael gave to the Virgin in his own room may well be that of his beloved mother, who died prematurely.
Raphael's father Giovanni Santi, a greatly esteemed poet and painter at the court of the Montefeltro, introduced his son to the world of art. The other works in Raphael's House include a large Annunciation by Giovanni Santi, a Madonna attributed to Giulio Romano (Raphael's favourite pupil), copies of various works by Raphael, prints, drawings, etc.
Just as Urbino represents the Renaissance, Gubbio is the quintessential Mediaeval city. Rich in history and monuments, it has fascinated writers such as Gabriele D'Annunzio and Herman Hesse, who commented that the town "produced an absolutely astonishing effect and has something unreal and exciting about it". Gubbio has a very ancient history, as evidenced by numerous Bronze Age finds, the remains of a Roman theatre (late 1st century BC) and the Tavole Eugubine dating from the 3rd to 1st century BC. These seven bronze plaques with inscriptions in Umbrian, now in the Civic Museum, are considered one of the most important documents of the Italic peoples.
But today the overwhelming impression is that of a remarkable Mediaeval city, with an urban layout dating from the age of the Communes. The buildings and monuments have survived intact and are totally dominated by one material – stone.
Any visit to Gubbio must take in the magnificent monumental complex of the Piazza Grande (late 15th century), also called Piazza della Signoria, with the Palazzo dei Consoli, an imposing Gothic building completed around 1340, now the Civic Museum, and the incomplete Palazzo del Podestà, now a municipal residence. Commissioned by Federico da Montefeltro, the magnificent Ducal Palace was built to a design by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Other things to see include the six gates in the massive city walls, constructed in the late 13th century, the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo, which can be reached by cable car, and the many churches and palaces making this town quite unique.
Lastly, not to be missed is the nearby Gola del Bottaccione with its historic remains from various periods, the mediaeval aqueduct, the hermitage of Sant'Ambrogio and the church of Vittorina (13th century) which, according to tradition, was built where Saint Francis met the wolf of Gubbio.
The urban layout of Fano still reflects the ancient Roman city, with its massive walls joining up with the Arch of Augustus, the ancient entrance to the city from the Via Flaminia, constructed by the Consul Flaminius. The consular road crossed Fano and then continued to Rimini, thus joining up Rome with the Adriatic and Northern Italy.
Near Fano, along the banks of the River Metauro, in 207 BC Roman legions defeated the Carthaginian army and killed the commander Hasdrubal, who having crossed the Alps with his elephants was attempting to join up with his brother Hannibal.
Fano has some important Roman finds in the Archaeological Museum. The collection of statues, busts and heads includes a splendid female head with an "Ottavia" hairstyle, the Gracchi Cippus and mosaics, such as Neptune and a Panther.
Fano is an excellent seaside resort with long sandy or pebbly beaches. It has won awards for the quality of its bathing facilities, seawater and air. With a large pedestrian precinct and cycle tracks, the whole city is eco-friendly.
Il Pesce Azzurro. Opened many years ago by a fishermen's cooperative with the aim of promoting and cooking pesce azzurro (sardines, mackerel, anchovies, etc.), this self-service restaurant is situated in the port and seats up to 950 people. No frills, plastic cutlery but excellent food. Prices are very economic and all the dishes very tasty.
The Gola del Furlo State Nature Reserve stretches over 3,600 hectares of woods, grasslands and mountains. The River Candigliano flows past the dramatic massive rock faces of the gorge in this genuine paradise with stunning scenery and remarkable species of fauna and flora: golden eagles, peregrines, eagle owls, wolves, wild goats, deer and wild boar.
the ancient stone-paved Via Flaminia was constructed through the gorge. Later Flavius Vespian had a tunnel gouged out of the rocks, completed in AD and still open to the traffic. The Via Flaminia today is a stunning road sunk between towering rocks and running alongside the river, where visitors can enjoy quiet walks or bicycle rides.
The Reserve's Nature Education Centre provides information and excursions (including a route to watch nesting eagles with binoculars).
Although Monte Petrano (1,162 metres) is the lowest of the main peaks of the Pesarese Apennine, it has a fascinating appearance with a plateau of unending grasslands at 1,100 metres up.
From the top of the mountain you can enjoy spectacular views of the whole of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino as far as the Adriatic Sea to the east, Monte Carpegna and the towers of San Marino to the north west, and the wooded mountains of Umbria to the south.
The summit can be easily reached by road from Cagli and offers facilities such as a restaurant, bar and equipped camping area.
Monte Catria (1,701 metres) is the highest peak in the stretch of the Apennines from Monte Vettore (2,476 metres) in the Sibillini Mountains to the south, to the Corno alle Scale (1,945 metres) in the Bolognese Apennine to the North.
The great massif of Monte Catria can be explored on beautiful paths or by going up a road almost as far as the peak, with its vast panorama of central Italy and the Adriatic.
On arriving at the monastery, you are immediately struck by its original architecture, history and beauty in which the dominant note is simplicity. The constituent rock of the building has created a unique habitat and on entering the monastery rooms, spacious libraries, cloisters, gardens and, especially, the monks' cells, you experience a profound silence and an intense spiritual energy.
Today the monastery is home to a small community of monks who will take you on guided tours of the building and the botanic garden.
Monte Catria can also be reached by cable car and has become a remarkable "outdoor gym" for all kinds summers sports: mountain bike, trekking, downhill biking, Nordic walking, etc.
Situated at 1,400 metres up, the Cotaline Mountain Refuge, near the cable car terminus, has an excellent restaurant, solarium, bar and guides for excursions.
The thunder peals below them distantly.
The Frasassi Caves were first opened on 25 December 1971, when the Grotta Grande del Vento was explored. The caves soon turned out be an enormous labyrinth of interconnected underground chambers stretching for over 30 kilometres.
The caves are one of the most remarkable attractions in the whole of Italy. Thought to be the largest underground complex in Europe, they have a set of underground paths covering all 30 kilometres, and are divided into eight different geological levels.
The Frasassi Caves are famed for their stalactites and stalagmites, centuries-old calcareous formations with incredibly varied shapes. They are a very popular destination with speleologists and nature lovers. Only 1.5 of the overall 30 kilometres are open to the public and the temperature is never higher than 14°C.
When visiting the caves you can choose from various paths, classified according to length and difficulty; e.g. a tourist path, a potholing adventure route and a school itinerary. The caves are open all year round.
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Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross. Delacorte., 2013. Currently Available.
Face Value: It's pretty and dreamy, just like the setting of the book. It has the feel of a historical painting. The rumpled sheets and bodice askew make it feel a tad bit like a romance novel, though. The vulnerability of the cover model's pose is in stark contrast to the strong wills of the female characters we meet throughout the book.
Does it break the slate? Smashed, shattered, busted. This book examines notions of beauty at a time when wealth and artifice reigned supreme. Ross developed male and female characters that show the best and worst of beauty. Belle Epoque deftly examines the relative values of external and internal beauty, as well as the concept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Readers are challenged to think about how beauty evolves and changes along with society. It's terrifically thought provoking.
Who would we give it to? Historical fiction lovers are bound to fall head-over-heels for this book. The details of the era are carefully researched and lusciously described.
Review: While reading Belle Epoque, something occurred to me that should have already been totally obvious: setting is important. The Diviners by Libba Bray is captivating not only because it has a fascinating cast of characters, but also because it is set during a time when occultism fascinated the wealthy and intellectual. How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True wouldn't have the same charm if it wasn't set in a quirky, slightly maniacal theme park. The same is true for Belle Epoque. Paris in the late 1800s had just been through serious upheaval, and was easing into a time of increased creativity and innovation. The wealthy classes, shaken by the social change happening around them, clung to everything beautiful and extravagant as a reminder of their place in the hierarchy.
Meanwhile, the Eiffel tower was under construction. Many in Paris saw this tower as a hideous imposition on the skyline and hoped that it would be torn down after the World's Fair. It's jarring to think of this iconic structure, which is now synonymous with Paris, as something that people wanted to get rid of. This juxtaposition of setting with theme is what makes Belle Epoque so effective as a story. As the characters watch the construction of the Eiffel tower and ponder its relative beauty in contrast with the city, they consider their own value and inner beauty.
The book features Maude Pichon at the heart of the story. Maude runs away from her rural Breton village to escape a life of monotony and an arranged marriage. She heads to Paris, where she believes she can immerse herself in the beauty and luxury of European wealth. The reality of Paris, however, is much different. Maude struggles to keep a job. She can barely afford basic needs, much less little luxuries.
Unwittingly, Maude answers a job advertisement for a repoussoir agency. Their business is hiring out plain or ugly women to be "beauty foils" to the wealthy. The idea is that they make their companions stand out as more gorgeous in comparison. Business is booming. Maude reluctantly becomes a repoussoir, even though it means she takes a daily beating to her self-esteem.
Maude is "rented out" to be the client of a duchess who wants Maude as her daughter Isabelle's constant companion. Maude is supposed to be at Isabelle's side, emphasizing her beauty and convincing her to enter into a beneficial marriage with a wealthy suitor. The whole time, Isabelle is completely unaware that Maude has been hired for this job. As Maude begins to befriend Isabelle, the situation becomes tense. She learns that Isabelle has no interest in marriage. Instead, Isabelle is an intellectual, curious about pursuing the sciences and studying at the Sorbonne. Maude admires Isabelle's curiosity and goals, yet she has to encourage a marriage in order to complete the job she was hired to do.
Ross does a marvelous job of crafting Slatebreaking female characters. Both Maude and Isabelle have to weight their priorities – is it more important to have a secure lifestyle in which you feel constantly demeaned, or to pursue your goals with the risk of uncertainty? They muster the confidence to face the people and institutions that most challenge them. I found it inspiring to read the scenes in which these women faced tension. It made me think about my own ideals and whether I'm doing the right things to pursue them.
Belle Epoque is such a refreshing and needed addition to the YA canon. Like The List by Siobhan Vivian, it explores social status and beauty with nuance that young readers absolutely must experience, especially in our appearance-centric popular culture. What makes Belle Epoque so unique is its historical perspective. It shows us that struggles with appearance have long been part of a young woman's experience and reinforces the idea that we have to dig deeper to find meaning in ourselves.
Reviewed from a digital copy purchased at http://www.amazon.com.
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Twelve years in the past, outfitted with nothing more than a YouTube account and a pc application colloquially known as Fruity Loops, Soulja Boy, then 17 years historic, released a tune-and-dance combination that could spark the starting of a new period in hip-hop.
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" is not a particularly complicated tune or dance. And it's not presupposed to be. The tune's attractiveness ― and have an impact on ― lie in how basic yet infectious it is. The tune starts off with a loud "Yuuuuuuuu," the beat drops and Soulja Boy tells you a way to operate probably the most recognizable dance sequences ever conceived.
recent media hits — most principally the rapper's Jan. sixteen appearance on "The Breakfast membership" — have ignited a debate across the extent of Soulja Boy's impact. Some scoff on the theory that the same man who released the absurd "Yahhh Bitch Yahhh" and the ingenious "Gucci Bandana" cleared the path for rappers similar to Lil B, Chief Keef, Mac Miller, Bobby Shmurda and even our liked queen Cardi B.
however here at "Run That lower back," we stand amazing amongst people who believe that y'all should supply Soulja Boy his issues.
"Crank That" dependent Soulja Boy's impact on hip-hop and finalized the blueprint for how a teenager may develop into a rap icon within the digital age. Seeing the profitability of social media — particularly YouTube, where he has posted tons of of movies — he grew to become one of the vital first rappers to promote himself online, garnering tons of of millions of views over the years before most musicians even dreamed of leveraging on-line engagement right into a sustainable career.
In 2008, Soulja Boy became the primary rapper to set a list for probably the most digital downloads within the U.S. with "Crank That" selling over three million contraptions. He created the viral dance conception. He's the fashioned social media influencer.
"Crank That," and his later work, drove hip-hop to evolve. The current iteration doesn't exist without him. period.
On this edition of "Run That lower back," offered to you in a quick 10-minute recording, Taryn Finley and Julia Craven focus on Soulja Boy's impact and the way everybody needs to put some respect on his identify.
Audio produced with the aid of Kenya Downs.
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const angular = require('angular');

const uiRouter = require('angular-ui-router');

import routes from './userCompanyInfo.routes';

import Chart from 'chart.js';

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« Yes, you can have a Jewish destination wedding, in the Caribbean or beyond!
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Anyone with one Jewish parent a has a right to call himself Jewish: Why patrilineal descent is the more authentic tradition
January 14, 2013 by WanderingHebrew
One of the great schisms in Judaism today is what "rules" we follow to define or identify who is Jewish. This may come as a surprise, but this is actually nothing new. We have been trying to keep people out of the tribe for as long as we stopped actively trying to bring people into the tribe.
When and why did such an enormous ideological change happen?
About 2,000 years ago, under the Roman empire and then the early Christian empire, where conversion to Judaism became a crime punishable by death. Up until then, we have evidence that conversion to Judaism was widespread and indeed very simple to do. No one in the Jewish community was trying to make it "difficult" for a person to self-identify as Jewish.
But let me start this story from a different angle: This post is meant to be a passionate argument in favor of a simple idea: Any person who has ONE Jewish parent (mother or father … doesn't matter which), and who chooses to identify Jewishly, has a right to call himself or herself a Jew. The notion that a person can inherit Judaism through either matrilineal or patrilineal descent is known as bilineal descent, as in the Latin root bi = two.
Organized Jewish movements have different official opinions on this matter. Orthodox groups (and there are many different types of orthodoxy) maintain the post-Roman idea that Jewishness only happens through the mother. The Conservative movement also supports only matrilineal descent. Mixed-marriage families who belong to their movement must give their children an official conversion, in the mikveh, if it is the father, and not the mother, who is Jewish.
On the other side of the debate are the Reform, Reconstructionist, Renewal and Secular Humanist movements: All recognize patrilineal descent, and hence, are in support of bilineal descent.
Here is the logic I offer to people who are trying to sort this out. And as you enter the realm of this debate, I have just one request: It doesn't matter "how you were raised" — what movement you attended as a child, or what the official position of your current movement is. I would like to ask you to think for yourself and make your own decision.
The oldest historical way of identifying Jewishly was through the father. Just look in the Torah. Who is Jewish? Moses is Jewish, but his wife is not. Would anyone say Moses' grandchildren weren't Jewish? Of course not. What a crazy thought! What about King David? According to Jewish tradition, one of his descendants will be the messiah — not a descendant of his wife. Would anyone today say HIS children aren't Jewish? Of course not! So, why then, would we say that the child of a Jewish man living today is not Jewish, if that person is choosing to identify Jewishly?
The question of whether we wish to honor patrilineal descent boils down to a simple question: What do you think should determine Jewish identity — Jewish law (halacha) or Jewish history?
Which, do you believe, carries more weight?
A halachic Jew, in essence, the orthodox and Conservative movements, would argue the former. I would argue the latter.
Halachic Judaism — the legalistic Judaism that came up with kazillions of rules such as the Jewish dietary laws and the prohibition of driving a car on Shabbat — was one of many Jewish manifestations that have evolved over the millenia. For a variety of reasons, many of them flukes, this just happens to be the strain of Judaism that those of us living today descended from.
But we have evidence that there have been MANY different expressions of Judaism around the world and over the ages, and in most of those examples, Jews were not obsessively focused on the nuances of arbitrary rules.
Orthodox Jews like to believe that the more you study halacha, the more "observant" you become. For me, education has had the opposite effect. The more I have studied and learned about halacha, the more I have realized the arbitrariness of its logic, and thus the less weight I am able to give it intellectually. Therefore, the less impact it has on any of my personal practices. Becoming learned in halacha has made me LESS halachic, not MORE.
Historically speaking, the shift from patrilineal to matrilineal descent happened around the year zero — in the Second Temple period, the time period when Jesus was living. The Romans were in power and they identified their own citizenry based on the identity of the mother, not the father. At that time period, we see a shift in how Jews began calculating their own people too. Then, when the Roman empire converted, en masse, from paganism to Christianity in 325 CE (by an official edict of the Pope in power), conversion to Judaism became a crime punishable by death. Suddenly, we Jews had a vested interest in NOT letting people willy-nilly join our tribe. Prior to that, we have evidence that Greek pagans were frequently converting to Judaism, and that we were even a proselytizing religion.
To put it bluntly, our switch form patrilineal descent to matrilineal descent is a direct result of anti-Semitism. Why would we, as a people, continue to advocate for ANY position that is a reaction to Anti-Semitism. Isn't it an obvious act of reclaiming our roots and our power to say: No, YOU people are not defining us. WE get define who we are!
Here is yet another reason to accept patrilineal descent: We are a tiny, ever-more tiny group of people. As one of my professors of Jewish history once said: There are more non-Jews walking on the Earth today who have a Jewish ancestor in their past than there are Jews. Take a moment and think about that.
SO many Jews have been lost to history due to the pressures of assimilation and forced conversion that today's world Jewish population of 13.3 million is a mere fragment of what it could have been, had circumstances in our past been different.
Jewish population growth worldwide is close to 0 percent. From 2000 to 2001, it rose 0.3%, compared to worldwide population growth of 1.4%. (An aside: About 37% of worldwide Jewry lives in Israel.) There are so few of us in this tiny tribe.
What I don't understand is why in the world any of us would be trying to make our tent smaller rather than larger?
You have a Jewish parent and you want to come break challah with me at the oneg after Shabbat services? I have just two words for that: Welcome, friend.
Posted in Jewish | Tagged Jewish identity, patrilineal descent, who is a Jew? | 6 Comments
on June 22, 2013 at 9:32 am | Reply Aaron
My father was Jewish. My mother was Catholic but kept a kosher kitchen. I was close to both my parents as I worked with them both all my life. Upon his passing I felt cut off from my Jewish family as he was my only link. Nobody on his side of the family communicates with me. When mother passed away, the rest of my life seemed to have ended. My two best friends are gone. Nobody on her side of the family communicates with me either. Her people are anti-semitic. Gentiles regard me as Jewish. Jewish people regard me as gentile.
These things are said to assure you that your position is correct. There is a lot of suffering going on as a result of man's laws and the color of law.
on August 4, 2013 at 10:45 am | Reply WanderingHebrew
Aaron, I hope you take the time to explore some Jewish renewal, reform, Reconstructionist or humanist Jewish congregations where you live. I'm not sure what resources are open to you, but the Jewish world has broaden so greatly in the past 20 and even 10 years. You might be surprised to find a welcoming and loving community for you. It never ceases to boggle my mind. We Jews are something like 0.01 percent of the world population and look at how much collective energy we spent do keep people OUT. It's crazy! ~~ Many blessings to you.
on August 10, 2015 at 1:34 pm | Reply Liam
Exactly what I'm going threw haha. My angelican mom's side of the family seems to be anti semetic and my dad's seems to not like me because I'm not Jewish according to stupid Jewish law which is not even authentic jewsh law because it goes against the Torah and my dad's mom who is orthodox dosent accept me because I'm not Jewish according to her fake judiaism. Thats exactly what I go threw, Jews treat me as if I'm Christian and gentiles treat me as Jewish. I feel your pain. You got to realize though DNA proves Jewishness is paternal my DNA test proved it. The ironic thing is most Jewish women are descended from converts HA! My DNA goes back to ancient israel and is connected with Yemen Jews. That makes me more Jewish than someone with just a Jewish mother. Thats why I support karaite judiaism they follow the Torah over a rabbi's reform of it. Orthodox are actually reformers.
on August 8, 2017 at 6:18 am | Reply WanderingHebrew
Aaron, I hope you share the post with these family members and give them a history lesson! Given we make up only 0.02% of the world population, it's utterly dumbfounding that we spend any effort at all trying to keep our own family members outside of the tent. Ridiculous. And completely self-defeating. In the United States, 70% of non-Orthodox Jews marry non-Jews, and of those couples, only 14% are raising their children exclusively as Jews. How small does our population have to go before we stop wasting our energy trying to keep people OUT rather than making Judaism warm, interesting and attractive enough for people to want to stay IN?
on November 9, 2013 at 10:35 am | Reply judahlevi
Of all people, the Jewish people should be sensitive and compassionate regarding issues of being subjected to feelings of not belonging. As Jews, we should be the most open and accepting people of any group or religion. The truth, however, is almost the opposite. Jews judge other Jews by whether they had the 'right' parent or from which supposed 'tribe' they came from.
Intolerance of any sincere individual who desires to join the Jewish people is unacceptable. Creating a second-class of Jews is unacceptable. Jewish acceptance should be warm, embracing, and 100%. We know what it is like to be shunned because of how we were born. How can we not be sensitive to those who wish to join us?
on January 8, 2015 at 11:19 pm | Reply Shimshon
Reblogged this on The Messianic Way and commented:
For all those dealing with the issue of Jewish Idenity. Knowledge is power. Know your past, proclaim your future. Be not what you are called, but who you are called to be!
Matrilineal Jewish Identity is not biblical, it's halachic. And taken from Roman culture of the time. When studied one finds a stark contrast between the 2nd temple period historical writtings and after the destruction and establishment of a formal Christian religion of Rome.


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Mengli Ghirai  (în ; n. 1445 – d. 1515) a fost han al Hanatului Crimeii, în trei rânduri (1466, 1469–1475, 1478–1515).

În 1484 participă cu oști alături de armata sultanului Baiazid al II-lea în campania care s-a soldat cu ocuparea Chiliei și Cetății Albe de către otomani.  În 1492 a încheiat un tratat de alianță cu domnul Moldovei Ștefan cel Mare.

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Shaftesbury, Dorset
See also Shaftesbury Abbey
Shaftesbury was founded as a town c. AD 880 by King Alfred the Great. He had in mind a place that would serve as a safe haven for people living locally as well as provide a place of worship. The town was sited on a hilltop that gave good views of the surrounding countryside. It was first recorded in the 'Burgal Hideage', a document detailing the fortified settlements he created as protection against the Danes. He founded Shaftesbury abbey in AD 888 and made his daughter the abbess.
The town grew rich due to the abbey and its royal connections. It was the abbess who owned all the market tolls and court fines, but a mayor and bailiff saw the money was safely delivered to the abbey. The year 1260 saw the town gain a charter to hold a weekly market. After Henry VIII dissolved the abbeys, the government continued to function as before under the new owners of the land. It was Queen Elizabeth I who granted the first charter to incorporate the town; two more were granted, one by James I and another by Charles II in 1665. It wasn't until 1835 that the old system of government was abolished, and the Municipal Corporations Act established an elected town council.
In the 18th century there were five turnpike roads that went through the town. When the railway was built, the roads became redundant, and Shaftesbury lost its importance as a transportation hub.
Tourists are attracted to the town because of its scenic, steep, cobbled street (Gold Hill) and thatched and tiled houses and its abbey. The hill was made famous by Hovis bread television advertisements that showed a boy wheeling a bike with the bread up the hill. The hill also showed up on book covers and chocolate boxes. Thomas Hardy popularized the town in his novels, calling it 'Shaston'. Details of the town's history are found in the Gold Hill Museum behind the town hall. Artefacts in the museum include Dorset buttons (a local 19th century industry), agricultural tools, a 1744 fire engine, and much more. A Gold Hill fair is held annually.
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I once wrote a 20-page paper on how much I loathe the modern paradigm of dating for my couples counseling class in grad school. I wrote it in one sitting, at my kitchen table in my loft apartment in Boone, while eating chicken alfredo and I didn't even edit it. I just hit save and made it APA format and sent that sucker in, typos and all. The only A- I ever made in grad school was from the professor who looked me in the eye one day and told me I needed to leave the program because she thought my mental illness would impair me too much in the field, so that 3.96 was never gonna turn back into a 4.0 anyway, really. Hashtag risks.
My high school friends talk to me all the time about their breakups and love qualms and all of that stuff and something I always say is "hashtag never settle." It is our thing. I tell them all about their value and worth and that this is just the beginning, and they're still learning who they are and what they love and what makes them excited about life. And they mostly think that I do not know anything, but sometimes they listen, because I tell them that when I was seventeen, I was convinced that I was going to end up alone, too.
The same God who was down with all of that – I would LIKE TO THINK that He would like, kinda sorta take into consideration that I need a ride or die companion who will be down for all of that as well. I would like to think that He wouldn't say, "And I'm going to have you end up with someone who just shuts all of that down and tells you to be quiet and tells you that you're pretty a lot." I would like to think that He has cooler plans than that. Doesn't mean He does. Maybe it's a solo hustle. Am not omniscient here. But I would LIKE TO THINK that if all this stuff really is His calling for my life, that He would protect me from things that are going to distract me from it.
This is currently the best logic I can come up with for the whole situation when a guy I really liked asked me out on three dates in a week and then all of a sudden needed to "focus on his career" and couldn't see me anymore because apparently I am a "distraction." Well, okay, if you don't want a distraction, then you don't want me. Guess I can be down with that paradigm.
And trying to find that said companion has been a FRUSTRATING PROCESS. All caps. Yeah. I ate fried pickles the other day in the name of said process. I cannot even. Who am I?
It is not exactly an easy hustle, wanting to be the Oprah of mental health advocacy and grief counseling. But it's my hustle, and I love it, and if I'm not running hard after that, what am I even doing? If we're not spending our lives trying to hone in on what sets us on fire, I mean really on fire, what are we doing here? Taking up space and buying shoes and a doing a lot of stuff that's meaningful, probably, but my life just expanded in ways I never could have imagined the day I finally tapped into my calling. Which actually had to do with dating. I was dating this guy (and I don't even know if you can call it that, because we lived six hours apart and talked for months and then had lunch at Juanita Greenberg's one time and my quesadilla had onions in it and that should have told me everything I needed to know), and he called it quits all of a sudden and I was upset for a while, but then I was like "well, I guess I can write that blog about people judging me for having a mental illness." And so I sat down, in that same loft apartment in Boone, and wrote that blog post in one sitting, and then thousands and thousands of views and a couple of speaking engagements later, I'm working on a book proposal. I never could have pulled that off on my own, for one thing, or if I was still trying to impress some guy with how neat and perfect and not complicated my life is. My life is not neat, and so imperfect, and so seriously complicated, and I am such a drama queen, and maybe I am a distraction, and I think I fall in love after ten seconds sometimes, you guys. I am a mess. But I love me. I love every bit of myself. I love my dreams and my passions and that I cried watching a video of a puppy the other day. I love that I want to talk to strangers on the subway when I'm in New York because I think other humans are fascinating and I want to know their stories. And I love everything I've been through because I think God is redeeming all of it and using every square inch of it to allow me to help other people. Even the worst and hardest and most unexplainable things.
And so I've said before that January was kind of a trial month for me, and that's mostly because I went on 11 dates and spent a lot of time working on my Tinder profile and constructing responses to questions to elicit some sort of appeal and be attractive, and then my friend Michelle made me delete my account at brunch a few weekends ago. But I also just finished this conference, the If Gathering, and one of the speakers just prayed this really great prayer that we would all lean into our enoughness instead of trying to be skinnier or prettier or more accomplished or anything else, and I think that's what I want to start doing. I said I was quitting dating, but instead I re-did my Match.com profile to have fewer selfies and more substance. And turns out the homies on online dating are into that too, so I had a date where we ate fried pickles and talked about our dreams and I didn't worry about if I was a distraction or not, I just worried about the stories the person on the other side of the table was telling. And it was nice, and it didn't make me feel like I was too much or not enough. I didn't use it as a mirror. And if he ghosts after two more dates, I'll apply the same logic I did to the last guy, I guess. And continue to just be me. And chase my hustle. And wear my tank top that says "I just really need to work on myself right now" to the gym. Because I am nothing if not dramatic, and apparently a distraction. Am good with it.


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Game Day Preview #51, Los Angeles Kings @ Nashville Predators
Will this be another 4-3 game? Let's find out!
By Sarah Avampato@WriteSaidSarah Feb 1, 2018, 4:15pm PST
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Preview: Los Angeles Kings (27-18-5) @ Nashville Predators (29-12-7)
Game Day Watch: What to Watch and How to Watch
After a dominant performance against the Stars on Tuesday, Darcy Kuemper says his team is on the verge of taking off. The 100% commitment in Dallas to the good ol' adage of "playing the game the right way" from the whole roster, top line on down, was a promising sign, to be sure.
What's going to be more impressive is if they can do it again against one of the better home teams in the league.
In January, the Predators went 4-1-1 at home, with their regulation loss coming on Tuesday against Chicago. Coming out of the All-Star break, the Predators looked sluggish and disengaged, while Chicago looked like a team fighting to claw its way back into the playoffs. It was an uncharacteristic flop from the Predators, who only have two regulation losses in their last ten games (those losses bookended the month: a 3-0 shutout by Vegas on January 2, and the 2-1 Chicago loss on the 30th).
The Predators should get a boost from Filip Forsberg, who returns to the lineup after missing all of January with an injury. Forsberg has been Nashville's leading scorer, though he got passed up by PK Subban over the past month.
And while he's not in the lineup yet, the Predators have announced that Mike Fisher is coming out of retirement to join the team for the remainder of the season. His return to help shore up the center lineup is as good as any rental depth forward the Predators could have acquired at the deadline, in addition to already being a known quantity and a fan favorite. Fisher's return has got to be a big boost for the team, both on-ice and off, as they gear up for another playoff run.
In two games this season, the Predators have defeated the Kings by a score of 4-3. One of those games featured a patented third period comeback from the Kings, who scored three straight goals to force overtime, including this one from Christian Folin:
The Predators definitely expose some of the Kings' weaknesses, especially when it comes to depth scoring. The projected bottom six for Nashville has combined for a total of 75 points over the season (34G, 41A), while tonight's Kings bottom six have just 59 (27G, 32A), including Kyle Clifford, who plays a ton of hard minutes and only has two points to show for it so far over 19 games. With the top lines expecting to shut each other down, depth scoring may be what wins the battle tonight, so Clifford, Trevor Lewis, Andy Andreoff, et al., may need to step it up a notch.
Jonathan Quick is expected to be back tonight, after nursing his, uh, injury. Darcy Kuemper performed more than admirably in Quick's absence, and all we can do is hope that Quick is back in top shape and ready to perform to help win two very important points.
Projected Line Combinations
Iafallo - Kopitar - Toffoli
Pearson - Kempe - Brown
Clifford - Mitchell - Lewis
Gaborik - Shore - Andreoff
Gravel - Doughty
Muzzin - Martinez
Forbort - Folin
(Kuemper)
Forsberg - Johansen - Arvidsson
Fiala - Turris - Smith
Hartnell - Bonino - Jarnkrok
Salomaki - Sissons - Watson
Josi - Ellis
Emelin - Subban
Ekholm - Weber
(Saros)
Opposing Preview: On the Forecheck


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The Esoterroists (Game Review)
Whht if there were groups of people, so batshit crazy they wanted to bring magic back to the world right now, and the only way to do that is by doing batshit crazy things?
They'd be Esoterroists, "Freedom fighters" for the cause of magic and altering reality.
In this game we played a group working against that, realising that magic is batshit crazy and would drive most people insane, thus it's best kept away from the world.
The game feels like Conspiracy X meets Unknown Armies (World level); you know there is weirdness, you know there are freaks, you know they have to be stopped.
The system is based on Gumshoe, mostly diceless and rather nifty thinking system; rather then having to roll spot you say, "I'd like to use my spot skill" and you spot everything that there is to spot, it takes a bit to get your head around and I think in our first outting into the game low stats made us very wary of doing anything so we probably missed quite a lot, having spoken to the GM we didn't have to worry, it's only when you want something cool your stat drains and we should have paid more attention to that fact.
The actual plot is pretty crack induced, Head of Contacts and Procurement in the CIA has been found killed in a possible ritualistic way, our secret society contacts us and get's us in with the FBI investigation into the murder as Occult specialists and we find the murder scene.
It's totally covered in blood, with a body in the bath; the head, hands and feet of the body however are on the bed.
Our investigation begins...


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A Whodunit About the African American Upper Crust
PW TALKS WITH STEPHEN L. CARTER
By Leonard Picker |
Two minor characters from Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter's bestselling debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), take center stage in his second novel, New England White.
What led you to try your hand at fiction?
Fiction is something that I always wanted to do. When I was a little boy, I used to buy spiral notebooks at the corner store and write little novels in them. From that time, I always wanted to write fiction, and my first novel came about after many years of working on characters and scenes in my mind, and finally, I came up with a story to fit them.
New England White isn't written in the first person like The Emperor of Ocean Park. Was it because one of the main characters, Julia Carlyle, is a woman?
No, the decision to write in the third person came first. The initial version of the plot didn't have Julia in a major role. Writing The Emperor of Ocean Park in the first person was extremely difficult for me to do. Trying to invent a tone of voice and keep that tone going for a whole novel of several hundred pages was really a great deal of work. I found writing in the third person much more satisfying and, in some ways, easier to pull off.
When you wrote your first novel, did you already plan on using Julia and her husband in a future book?
I think so. I had several different ideas as to how I might pursue a second novel, some of them based on characters from the first. Deciding which of those characters to center a story around was a matter of figuring out who made the most sense; I wrote a lot of pages trying out a lot of different things—one reason that it took me several years to finish New England White.
Why have you chosen to write mysteries?
I really like mysteries, not simply for the aspects that make them mysterious, but for the opportunity to take the reader on a journey to places the reader might not have been. My first two novels, set largely in upper-crust African America, have been about an arena that most readers don't know much about. At the same time that I have fun crafting a thrilling mystery, I can also have fun exploring some themes that are independently interesting and even express some interesting ideas.
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East London Advertiser
Die is cast as neighbourhood plan to protect Spitalfields' heritage goes out to the people
Historic Spitalfields struggles to preserve its heritage, cheek-by-jowl with the City skyscrapers. Picture: Jeremy Freedman - Credit: Jeremy Freedman
Thousands of leaflets have been posted through letterboxes across Spitalfields by volunteers asking for public help on a neighbourhood plan being put to a referendum next year.
Every home and business is getting a leaflet and letters are going to anyone who would be affected by the proposed plan one way or another.
It comes from Spitalfdields Neighbourhood planning forum set up by Tower Hamlets Council in 2016 as a "people's checklist" consultative body tackling development issues such as encroachment spilling over from the City.
"It's not enough that people just know about our neighbourhood plan," the forum's chairman James Frankcom told the East London Advertiser.
"It's vital that they tell us what they think. Every piece of feedback will be considered."
Planning Forum chairman James Frankcom... "It's vital that the people of Spitalfields tell us what they see for our furture." Picture: Mike Brooke - Credit: Mike Brooke
The consultation runs six weeks until September 14 when an independent inspector goes through the plan to make sure it conforms in law, then to be sent to the town hall in the New Year for scrutiny by a planning inspector for every dot and comma and to be agreed by the council.
It's back to the people of Spitalfields after that for a public referendum likely to be next May, on the same day as a similar local referendum on the Isle of Dogs which has its own plan.
The Spitalfields Neighbourhood Plan influences decisions affecting the environment and heritage of this ancient patch on the City Fringe.
It aims to maintain limited green spaces by requiring developers to add green roofs and walls and plant trees to any new building, or pay towards greening projects elsewhere in Spitalfields by default. Gardens and other green spaces would be protected against developers "nibbling away at the edges" by defining legal boundaries. This would protect Allen Gardens, Spitalfields City Farm, Elder Gardens, Christ Church Gardens and the Chicksand Ghat.
The plan proposes to quadruple the rent discount from new affordable workspaces from 10 per cent to 45pc in to help small independent businesses.
Historic features would be protected by new structures restricted to the same height, scale and size as surrounding buildings, unlike the domineering skyscrapers along Bishopsgate looking down on the historic Hugonault neighbourhood. New schemes would also follow historic layout of streets and alleys in keeping with the neighbourhood.
Historic drinking water fountains would be restored and lost cobbles once tarred over in the post-War years would be restored, all to make Spitalfields a unique heritage.
Comments can be added online or to info@spitalfieldsforum.org.uk


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Moyes' 'catastrophic' mistake
Richard Keys discusses David Moyes' biggest error as a new manager, and his effect on Man U's reputation.
Tue Apr 22 2014 18:23:16 GMT+0000
David Moyes inherited a Manchester United squad that won the Premier League, but are now currently seventh in the Premier League and will miss out on the Champions League for the first time in 18 years.
Richard Keys discusses the timing of Moyes' dismissal, the key mistakes the Scot made as a new manager and Manchester United's reputation abroad.
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Penguins Should Extend Bryan Rust Soon
August 17, 2021 August 16, 2021 by Wes Crosby
Bryan Rust may not get much play outside of Pittsburgh, but the 29-year-old right-winger is vital to prolonging Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby's prime. Nothing is guaranteed for Rust past this upcoming season, though. The two-time Stanley Cup champion is set to become an unrestricted free agent after the 2021-2022 season, but it shouldn't and likely won't get to that point.
After free agency opened on July 28, general manager Ron Hextall said he would get around to offering contract extensions to Rust, center Evgeni Malkin and defenseman Kris Letang in August. We're now about halfway through the month, which means we should hear some news soon. But while Malkin and Letang have a much higher profile, Rust's potential extension is just as important to the team moving forward.
Outperforming Current Deal
On June 26, 2018, the Penguins re-signed Rust to a four-year, $14 million ($3.5 million average annual value) contract. He was coming off a career year with 38 points (13 goals, 25 assists) in 69 games in the 2017-18 season after scoring 15 goals with 28 points the previous season.
Bryan Rust, Pittsburgh Penguins (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Four seasons into his NHL career, Rust settled into his role as a versatile forward, capable of moving up and down the lineup and with the potential to score 20 goals. That remained true in the first season after he signed his new contract, scoring 18 goals and 17 assists.
However, that changed in 2019-20 when he put up 56 points (27 goals, 29 assists) in 55 games before the NHL shut down because of COVID-19; he was on pace to crack 40 goals and 83 points in a full 82-game schedule. Rust then had 42 points (22 goals, 20 assists) in 2020-21 and joined linemate Jake Guentzel as the only Penguins to play all 56 games.
Speaking of Guentzel, he makes $6 million per year and probably deserves more than Rust because he's three years younger and a proven point-per-game player. Rust averaged .75 points per game last season. However, Guentzel had 23 goals in 2020-21 compared to Rust's 22 goals, so it's fair to say Rust deserves more than $3.5 million per year.
Desire to Remain in Pittsburgh
After the Penguins lost to the New York Islanders in the first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Rust was asked if he was afraid of a possible change and if he would be part of that change after Pittsburgh failed to advance past the opening round in three consecutive postseasons.
Ultimately, Pittsburgh didn't change much this offseason (or at least haven't yet). They've added forwards Brock McGinn, Dominik Simon and Danton Heinen, and they traded forward Jared McCann to the Toronto Maple Leafs before he was taken by the Seattle Kraken at the 2021 Expansion Draft, where he will join former Penguins forward Brandon Tanev. Otherwise, the team looks relatively similar. Still, the potential for change was there, and Rust admitted he didn't want to leave.
"Obviously, I love it here," Rust said during Pittsburgh's locker room cleanout on May 28. "I've been here my whole career. I wouldn't want to go anywhere. I want to win here. I obviously want to be here. This is home for me."
Rust was likely never going to be a casualty of the Penguins' playoff struggles. But, surely he hopes to remain in Pittsburgh past this season, especially after the birth of his first child in late May.
"Family comes first for me," Rust said. "Obviously, have to make every decision with them and for them. Going to do what's best for us. Obviously, anytime you can get a good contract or whatever, it's nice. But I'm just trying to enjoy the family time right now."
Important Part of an Important Line
There wasn't any reason for the Penguins to want to part with Rust. Of the three forwards on the top line, he was the most productive in the playoffs against the Islanders, with three points (two goals, one assist) in six games. That doesn't sound like much because it wasn't, but Crosby and Guentzel had one goal and an assist each.
Montreal Canadiens' Karl Alzner and Pittsburgh Penguins' Bryan Rust (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Gene J. Puskar)
That line as a whole needed to be better. But if there's anything that shouldn't change in 2021-22, it's those three forwards playing together. Crosby led Pittsburgh with 62 points (24 goals, 38 assists) in the regular season, Guentzel was second with 57 points (23 goals, 34 assists), and Rust was fourth with his 42 points, just behind Letang's 45 points (seven goals, 38 assists).
Crosby is locked up through 2024-25, and Guentzel through 2023-24. Rust is the outlier.
Earlier in his career, Rust was known for scoring clutch goals. He did so in the 2016 Eastern Conference Final, scoring each of Pittsburgh's two goals in Game 7 against the Tampa Bay Lightning on their way to winning the Stanley Cup. Again in 2017, he scored one of the Penguins' two goals in Game 7 of their second-round series against the Washington Capitals.
His ability to score in those moments hasn't waned, and yet Rust's consistency has improved. Instead of being a player who comes through in the clutch, he now scores regularly. As his career has progressed, he has become a true first-line right-winger who has solidified his spot next to Crosby. Because of that, Rust has earned an extension that should come soon.
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Islamic banking in Kazakhstan was started in 2007 when the Kazakh regulator promulgated the announcement to issue Islamic securities called sukuk (interest-free bonds) in the local currency (tenge). These developments were part of the Kazakh government's development plans to be financed by Islamic financial instruments.

In cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Kazakhstan became the second country (after Malaysia) to introduce IDB-issued Sharia-compliant securities denominated in national currency.

In 2009 Kazakhstan became the first CIS country to pass legislation about Islamic finance. After this international and local institutions began operating in Almaty and Astana.

The legislation prohibits Islamic banks from profiting from unIslamic business ventures like pornography and charging interest. Under the Kazakh rules each bank must have an independent "Council on the principles of Islamic finance" to issue decisions on the policies and bank transactions. Deposit insurance is not available for Islamic banks.

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Goetz Brewing Company
Michael Karl Goetz was born in Ingenheim, a village in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, a mere 18 miles from St. Joseph architect E.J. Eckel's birthplace of Strasbourg. M.K. Goetz came to America in 1854 and was headed to California when he passed through St. Joseph in 1857. Realizing the potential of this gateway to the west, Goetz settled in St. Joseph and in 1859 he opened a brewery at the corner of 6th and Albemarle Streets along the Blacksnake Creek.
Michael Karl Goetz was born in Ingenheim, a village in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, a mere 18 miles from St. Joseph architect E.J. Eckel's birthplace of Strasbourg. The Alsace-Lorraine region was German speaking, originally a part of the Holy Roman Empire until it was conquered by the French in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The rise of German nationalism in the nineteenth century, however, led to the Franco-German Wars in 1871, regarding disputed territories like Alsace-Lorraine. It became a part of the German Empire but was returned to France after the Great War.
The struggle between German and French nationalism in the nineteenth century led to a mass exodus of German immigrants to America. Seeking similar territory like the fertile land of the Rhine River they were accustomed to farming, many German-Americans settled along the Missouri River in an area which became known as "the Rhinelands." M.K. Goetz came to America in 1854 and was headed to California when he passed through St. Joseph in 1857. Realizing the potential of this gateway to the west, Goetz settled in St. Joseph and in 1859 he opened a brewery at the corner of 6th and Albemarle Streets along the Blacksnake Creek.
Though not the only German brewer in St. Joseph, Goetz quickly became the most successful, incorporating the business in 1895. When M.K. Goetz passed away in 1901, his four sons and son-in-law inherited the business, each holding positions in the corporation and specializing in a facet of its operation. William L. Goetz was brewmaster, Frank Goetz was the mechanical engineer, Albert Goetz specialized in sales, while Henry Goetz was treasurer, and Theodore Benkendorf was director.
In 1919 the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, requiring prohibition to be enforced by 1920. It became illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport alcohol in the United States. While most of the local and national breweries went out of business in the prohibition years, Goetz survived by converting its manufacturing to sell Country Club Near Beer, a non-alcoholic alternative. The M.K. Goetz Brewing Company not only survived prohibition, but prospered and thrived into the mid-century.
William L. Goetz was an active philanthropist and historic preservationist, serving as president of the St. Joseph Museum board from its inception in 1927. Under the leadership of W.L. Goetz, the museum grew from an annex in the St. Joseph Public Library to the A.J. August House. Goetz oversaw the purchase of the extensive Harry L. George collection and the M.K. Goetz Brewing Co. purchased the Wyeth-Tootle Mansion to house the museum in 1947. In anticipation of the centennial of the founding of the brewing company and the centennial of the Pony Express, Frank Goetz established the Goetz Pony Express Foundation to purchase and renovate the original Pony Express Stables at 914 Penn Street. In 1959, the Pony Express Foundation and St. Joseph Museum established the Pony Express Museum.
In the 1960s, Pearl Brewing Company of San Antonio, Texas was seeking to expand their market into the Midwest. Recognizing the outstanding potential of the Goetz Brewing Company, Pearl purchased the company in 1961. The headquarters was moved to San Antonio, but the local plant continued operation until 1976. Pearl Brewing Company was sold to General Brewing Company in 1977. General Brewing then purchased Pabst Brewing Company in 1985, taking on the Pabst name. In 1999, Pabst closed its plants across the country and transferred manufacturing rights to Miller Company.
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