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Edinburg EDC: Thousands who attended 12th Annual Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks in Edinburg at H-E-B Park saw first-hand why the community is becoming a "Destination City"
by Legislative Media | Oct 20, 2017 | Politics
Featured, some of the members of the winning teams, judges, and community leaders who participated in the 12th Annual Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks in Edinburg competition held on Friday, July 1 and Saturday, July 2, 2017 at H-E-B Park in Edinburg. The Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, which is the jobs-creation arm of the Edinburg Mayor and Edinburg City Council, was a major financial sponsor of the event, which draws hundreds of visitors to Edinburg. Front row, from left: Proudly sporting their team red outfits are Myranda Johnson with Road Crew BBQ, Lauria Franklin Kelley with Road Crew BBQ; Gary Kelley with Road Crew BBQ; and Ross Kelley with Road Crew BBQ, whose team from Sinton, Texas was the Texas Cook 'Em Overall Champion for 2017; and Jerry Cárdenas with Loaded Smoke of Raymondville, the Reserve Grand Champion for the International Barbeque Cookers Association (IBCA); Michelle Dang, Judge with the Steak Cookoff Association (SCA); and Fred Robles with Rio Valley Meat of Weslaco, Grand Champion of the International Barbeque Cookers Association (IBCA). Featured, middle row, from left: Marty Martin with Rio Valley Realty and Member, Board of Directors, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; J.J. Flores with Chorizo of San Manuel and Member, Board of Directors, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; Ashley Tapia, Assistant, International Barbeque Cookers Association; Judy Tapia, Assistant, International Barbeque Cookers Association; Eddie Tapia, Head Judge, International Barbeque Cookers Association; Letty González, President, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; Ronnie Larralde, Director of Marketing and Special Events, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; Stephanie O. Larralde with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Ambassador, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; Michelle Gallaway, Judge, Steak Cookoff Association; and Sara Treviño, Secretary, International Barbeque Cookers Association. Featured, back row, from left: Martín Rivas, Director of Membership, Edinburg Chamber of Commerce; Imelda Rodríguez, Director of Tourism, Edinburg Convention and Visitors Bureau; Brett Gallaway, Judge, Steak Cookoff Association; Roddy Treviño with Roadster BBQ and 1st Place Winner in the H-E-B Steak Challenge; and Jake Barrera, Judge, International Barbeque Cookers Association.
Photograph By RONNIE LARRALDE
Featured: Joe González, Manager, H-E-B Rio Grande Valley Meat Market, provides expert advice to help contestants select rib-eye steaks for the premier portion of the 12th Annual Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks in Edinburg, held at H-E-B Park in Edinburg on Saturday, July 2, 2017. The steak selection was a process by which the teams chose their meat for the day-long competition, which drew 127 teams from Edinburg, the Valley, Texas and beyond. Initially done by a lottery, the teams then lined up in numerical order based on that lottery and picked their steaks. The Steak Cookoff Association (SCA) is the sanctioning body for the steak portion of Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks in Edinburg. The SCA requires the event to provide the same high-quality steaks for equal competitive opportunities for all the teams.
Featured, Mike Eli, vocals/guitar for the Eli Young Band, performs as part of the final featured act on Friday, July 1, 2017 during the two-day 12th Annual Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks at Edinburg, held at H-E-B Park in Edinburg. An estimated 2,000 people bought tickets to that evening's concert, which included two of Edinburg's own talented musical performers – Matt and the Herdsman (http://www.mattandtheherdsmen.com), and Southern Ashes (https://www.facebook.com/SouthernAshesMusic/). The turnout for the concert that evening does not include people at the adjacent Edinburg Municipal Park who showed up to see the fireworks display during the concert. The following day, on Saturday, July 2, 2017, an estimated 3,000 people bought tickets to see the the world-class barbecue competition, as well as to enjoy many other activities going on that day, including another concert.
Featured: Hundreds of fans of Los Lonely Boys cheer for the San Angelo-based "Texican Rock n' Roll" band, which combines elements of rock and roll, Texas blues, brown-eyed soul, country and Tejano, on Friday, July 1, 2017 at the amphitheater of H-E-B Park in Edinburg. Los Lonely Boys were one of two national acts which performed on the first evening of the two-day 12th Annual Texas Cook 'Em – High Steaks in Edinburg. H-E-B Park opened earlier in 2017. H-E-B Park is described on its web site as "the premiere sports and entertainment destination and focal point for the entire community. H-E-B Park serves as a community hub of outdoor space for active and recreational use including sports, live music, and corporate events." H-E-B Park, which is privately owned and which is located at 1616 S. Raul Longoria Road, boasts a $16.8+ million, 9,735-seat professional soccer stadium as part of the 37-acre site with all amenities, an amphitheater with a capacity of 2,000 people, well-lighted parking, and security and medical personnel for major gatherings. The building permit issued for H-E-B Park represents the initial investment for the stadium, at that time valued at $16.8+ million, but the total financial worth of H-E-B Park, which is the name of the stadium and the fairgrounds with all improvements and assets, now that this outdoor sports and entertainment complex is open, is much higher.
Edinburg EDC: Bob's Steak & Chop House, a world-class establishment, is the latest addition to Edinburg's prestige as a destination city
by Legislative Media | Aug 8, 2017 | Politics
Featured, front row, representing Bob's Steak & Chop House in Edinburg, the Edinburg City Council, and the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, include, from left: City Councilmember Homer Jasso; Juan Luis Mussenden, General Manager, Bob's Steak & Chop House in Edinburg; Peter Higgins, Managing Partner, Bob's Steak & Chop House in Edinburg; Gus García, Executive Director, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation (immediately behind Peter Higgins); Mayor Richard García, who also serves as President, Board of Directors, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation; and City Councilmember Richard Molina. These leaders were among the several hundred area residents who participated in the Wednesday, July 19, 2017 ribbon-cutting of the five-star, multi-million dollar restaurant, located at the Shoppes at Rio Grande Valley. The restaurant is just off U.S. Expressway 281 in the heart of Edinburg. Bob's combines a lively atmosphere, fine wines and large cuts of the finest prime steaks, chops and seafood to make Bob's the best steak house in any town. Known for their prime filets, Bob's only serves prime beef, hand-selected from the top two percent of all beef, perfectly trimmed and expertly grilled. Bob's also offers delicious sides and desserts made from scratch, and included with every steak, their famous pickles, choice of potato and signature big glazed carrot. Letty González, President of the Edinburg Chamber of Commerce, shared community leaders enthusiasm for Bob's Steak & Chop House in Edinburg. "We are excited to welcome our new member to Edinburg," said González. "Bob's is a beautiful and unique dining experience that will be unparalleled in our area. This is just an indication of all the great things going on in Edinburg."
Featured, from left: Gus García, Executive Director, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, congratulates Peter Higgins, Managing Partner, Bob's Steak and Chop House in Edinburg, following the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the restaurant, which took place on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. "Edinburg's restaurants are fantastic, and they serve phenomenal food, great meals, you name it. Now, having an elite restaurant like Bob's Steak & Chop House changes the image for the entire South Texas region. This is the first nationally-recognized five-star restaurant in Edinburg and deep South Texas," said García. "Bob's has a nationally known reputation. By doing well in Edinburg, it will once again prove that our region can support, and deserves, the very best life has to offer." Higgins heaped praise on deep South Texas. "People have asked me several times recently, 'Why Edinburg, Texas?' Well, I'll tell you why. It is a tremendous growth environment," Higgins said. "If you look at the city itself with its growth, a new Hidalgo County Courthouse that will be built, several world-class hotels, a nationally-ranked university with a School of Medicine, and the Bert Ogden Arena and H-E-B Park near our site – well, the list goes on and on."
Featured, from left: Jaime Cazares, District Sales Manager, Ben E. Keith Foods; Debra Stolley; Roger Stolley, NAI Rio Grande Valley (Commercial Real Estate Services Worldwide); Byron Jay Lewis, President and CEO, Edwards Abstract and Title Co., and Peter Higgins, Managing Partner, Bob's Steak & Chop House in Edinburg, seated inside the Lenox Lounge in the multi-million dollar five-star restaurant, located at 591 East Trenton Road in Edinburg, at the Shoppes at Rio Grande Valley. The Lenox Lounge, part of the approximately 9,000-square-foot facility, is named in honor of William "Bill" W. Lenox, former president of the Bob's Steak & Chop House national chain of fine dining establishments. Lenox, who died on Friday, January 20, 2016, was the key player in bringing the restaurant to Edinburg. According to his obituary, published in the Dallas Morning News, "Lenox, known for his entrepreneurial success, generous spirit and engaging character, passed away after suffering a heart attack at his home in Vail, Colorado. He was 70." (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dallasmorningnews/obituary.aspx?pid=183988366)
Photograph By MARCO DAVID SOLIS
Edinburg gives initial approval to provide a maximum of $30 million – to be spread out over up to 30 years without raising city property tax rate – to help in the construction of $150 million Hidalgo County Courthouse
by Legislative Media | Mar 9, 2016 | Politics
Featured, from left: Precinct 1 Hidalgo County Commissioner A.C. Cuellar, Jr. of Weslaco; Hidalgo County Judge Ramón García; Mayor Richard García; Councilmember J.R. Betancourt; and Mayor Pro Tem Richard Molina. This image was taken on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 in the Council Chamber of Edinburg City Hall.
Photograph By MARK MONTEMAYOR
The Mayor and Edinburg City Council on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, gave their initial approval to provide a maximum of $30 million – to be spread out over up to 30 years and without raising the city property tax rate – to help in the construction of a $150 million Hidalgo County Courthouse, the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation has announced. If all goes as planned by the county, construction on the courthouse may begin near the end of this year, if weather permits. The county anticipates a completion date of October 2018. The action took place following a 2 p.m. joint work session with the Hidalgo County Judge and Hidalgo County Commissioners Court, held in the Council Chamber of Edinburg City Hall, and sets into motion a plan that will eventually lead to the construction of a state-of-the-art judicial center, which will be located in downtown Edinburg, next to the current county courthouse complex.
Harvey Rodríguez, Vice President of Edinburg Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, provides insights into operations of key jobs-creation panel and upcoming developments
Featured, from left: Harvey Rodríguez, Vice President, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors; Ellie M. Torres, Secretary/Treasurer, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors; Nelda Ramírez, Assistant Executive Director, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation; and Agustín García, Jr. Executive Director, Edinburg Economic Development Corporation, on Monday, December 14, 2015, when the EEDC hosted a holiday celebration for area residents at its headquarters, located at 101 North 10th Avenue. Photograph By DIEGO REYNA
By his own admission, Harvey Rodríguez, the Vice President of the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, says as a younger man, the thought of serving on a city board was not even a passing thought, even though today, his leadership roles in public service also include his status as chairman of the Recreation and Park Board in Edinburg. "Did I ever feel that I would be 33 years old and be serving on the EEDC Board of Directors? If you asked me 10 years ago, there was no way," said Rodríguez, the youngest appointee on the five-member EEDC Board of Directors. "But I relish this opportunity. I appreciated everyone who supported me through it, and now I have a chip on my shoulder to show that I am extremely capable. I wake up with that attitude every day." The EEDC, of which Agustín García, Jr. is Executive Director, is the jobs-creation arm of the Edinburg Mayor and Edinburg City Council. The EEDC Board of Directors is comprised of Mark Iglesias as President, Rodríguez as Vice President, Ellie M. Torres as Secretary/Treasurer, and Mayor Richard García and Richard Ruppert as Members. The mayor and the EEDC executive director are not related. Rodríguez, selected last May by Mayor Pro Tem Homer Jasso, Jr., for a two-year term on the influential EEDC governing board, said his appointment should serve notice to younger adults in the city that their ideas and experiences are essential to the successful running of municipal government and business development in Edinburg. With more than 50 percent of Edinburg's estimated population of 77,100 aged 29 years and younger as of 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau – and more than 20 percent of the city's population made up of residents aged 18 to 29 years – Rodríguez inspires residents as young as high school students to set their sights high, beginning with becoming involved with as many role models, community leaders, and business officials as possible. "I always encourage every high school student that if you can get a college scholarship anywhere, they have to go," said Rodríguez. "There is a lot more outside of the Valley that I exposed myself to through college and travel, so I always tell people to go out there and meet new people." But don't stop there, his advice continued. "As cliché as it may be, I would tell them not to take no for an answer," emphasized Rodríguez. Rodríguez, whose extensive professional credentials include currently serving as South Texas Operations Manager for CAS Companies, LP, took his experience and insights on behalf of the city to a major convention, held in early November 2015 in Dallas, of the International Council of Shopping Centers. Mayor Pro Tem Jasso, along with City Councilmember David Torres, his wife, Ellie Torres, who is Secretary/Treasurer of the EEDC Board of Directors, as well as Agustín García, Jr., the EEDC Executive Director, Letty Reyes, EEDC Director of Business Development & Public Affairs, Diego Reyna, EEDC Research Analyst, and then-Edinburg City Manager Ramiro Garza, Jr., also participated in the three-day event, held on Wednesday, November 4, through Friday, November 6, 2015. The gathering was billed by organizers "as a great opportunity for owners, developers, retailers, brokers, lenders, municipalities, property asset managers and product and service providers to gather under one roof to exhibit, make deals and form successful partnerships." Edinburg continues to build its reputation as a potential successful market in the eyes of many major retailers, Rodríguez contended, saying he and the city delegation who went to Dallas had more than enough evidence to back up their civic pride. "They know we are a booming market. They know the disposable income (personal income after taxes) in the Valley regardless of the incorrect image that some national news media say about us," he said. But the city's selling points speak for themselves, he added. "The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the UT School of Medicine set to open next fall, our ongoing construction projects such as the Bert Ogden Arena, the 9,400-seat soccer stadium for the Rio Grande Valley Toros professional soccer team, our major transportation corridors including Interstate Highway 69, Tres Lagos, the planned 2,571 acre master-planned community that will be located in the Edinburg school district and which will feature a future campus of Texas A&M University, and more," Rodríguez recalled the growing and long list of reasons why businesses should stay, expand, or locate to Edinburg. "These achievements make it so much easier to show retail developers and other prospective employers why Edinburg is the place to be."


Caren Betlinski showed us the quilt she made in Genesee Valley Quilt Club's workshop by Judi Warren Blaydon.
Caren also completed this quilt she made in a workshop at last summer's Quilting by the Lake.
Charmaine Babineau finished the quilt she made in the 4-square workshop led by Pat Pauly.
And this is Charmaine with the piece she made in the Cynthia Corbin workshop hosted by Genesee Valley Quilt Club.
This is Linda Bachman's quilt from the Cynthia Corbin workshop.
Linda just returned from a Nancy Crow workshop, where she completed this piece.
Janet Root made this large Nine Patch Pizazz quilt for her grandaughter.
Nancy Hicks won a package of blocks at a silent auction, that she later found out were made by Janet Root, and she used them to construct this quilt.
The last two quilts were made by Priscilla Kibbee, who has now officially become an art quilter!


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Doctor Who Magazine 484
Thursday, 5 March 2015 - Reported by Chuck Foster
The new edition of Doctor Who Magazine is out today, in which series lead writer Steven Moffat reflects on last year's series and tells DWM how the Doctor might change in the next season...
We're not bringing him back exactly as we left him, at all, I think that was already evident at Christmas. He's left some of the burden of being a superhero of the universe behind. So I'm pushing him – I'm writing quite funny this year – I'm pushing him the other way...
Also inside this issue:
Paul McGann, the eighth Doctor, gives his opinion on Peter Capaldi's incarnation, and how it's changed how he thinks about the Doctor. Plus, an exclusive preview of the new Doctor Who audio series, Dark Eyes 4, including contributions from Alex Macqueen (the Master).
Bonnie Langford, who played Mel – companion to the sixth and seventh Doctors – in the 1980s, recalls her turbulent time on the show.
Doctor Who's very first director, Waris Hussein, continues his guide to the making of the classic 1964 adventure Marco Polo, with the help of unique documents unseen for more than 50 years.
Discover fascinating new facts about the 1972 third Doctor adventure The Time Monster in The Fact of Fiction.
In a special feature, the Watcher solves the mystery of when the Doctor was first revealed not to be human.
There's trouble in storage for Doctor and Clara in Space Invaders!, a brand-new comic strip written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Mike Collins.
Steven Moffat answer readers' questions – and speculates about the return of the CyberBrig!
The Time Team take a side-step to watch Peter Capaldi star in the dark Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Jacqueline Rayner reflects on fear and terror in Doctor Who in Relative Dimensions.
The DWM Review assesses the very latest Doctor Who audio and book releases.
The Watcher celebrates the man who played the Doctor, William Hartnell, in the latest Wotcha!
The DWM Crossword, prize-winning competitions, official news and much more!
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Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook: 40 Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Recipes
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Who would like to lose his hard-earned money by paying income tax, especially when it can be avoided and saved! A lot of time we end up paying more taxes than we should and this is only because of our lack in knowledge of how the tax system works and what the ways to Save Income Tax. The fact is that there are lots of easy ways by which we can decrease our total taxable amount and thus only pay a small amount of tax. It's interesting to note that these little tips could actually help you in decreasing the taxable amount quite substantially! In this article we will cover the top five ways to save income taxes. So, read it carefully ,understand it and then try to implement it practically and rest be assured that from here on, you will never ever have to pay the lump sum of taxes at any time!
So let's start to discuss the ways by which you can lower your total tax and Save some of your Income Tax.
Note: Taxation rule is different in every country, and in some cases it differs state to state. It also changes year by year, so please take advise of a professional before taking the final decision.
Do you know that we can save tax on an income by gifting it? This is very much legal and is very useful in saving taxes. If you have X amount of money with you on which you are likely to pay tax in this financial year, then you can simply gift it to your close ones and pass the tax liability to them. What it means that if you gift your children X amount of money, then it becomes their money and if they invest it and get a return on it, then they have to pay tax only if it exceeds the tax exemption limit. This works very well if you gift the money to multiple children as in this case the profit (return on income) will be splitted equally among them and they either have to pay no tax or at least pay much lesser tax on the profit. Remember that you can only gift money to your own children. You cannot gift it to your spouse. Also, you children must be over 18 years (adult) to claim the tax exemption.
You can also claim tax exemption on your money by providing interest free loan your major children. This way you still keep the hold on your money and your children too do not have to bear any interest on it. All the other requirements remains the same as stated in point 5.
Many people are not aware that they can claim tax exemption on the stamp duty paid by them while purchasing a house property. Under 80 C, one can claim exemption on the amount paid by him as stamp duty and thus reduce this taxes. The rule for it is that you have to claim in the same year in which you have purchased the house and the house should be under your possession.
Many people are not aware that they can claim HRA and get tax exemption. The amount that can be claimed is the minimum amount out of a) Rs. 2000 per month b) your rent paid – 10 % of your income c) 25 % of your incomes. You can claim for HRA even if you do not get it from your company or if you are self-employed.
If you have made more than one investment or are involved in more than one ventures at a time and have made profit in one and loss in the other, then you can adjust your loss with the profit and pay tax on only the net profit. For example, if you have a total of X amount of profit in a financial year and you has invested in shares in the same year and had lost Y amount in it, then you will only have to pay tax on X – Y amount and not on your entire profit.
Thus, you can see that there are lots of ways by which you can save your taxes. All you need to do is to be aware of them. Taxes rules and regulations keeps on changing every financial year and therefore it is necessary that you keep yourself updated on them. The best part is that these are all legit ways vouched by the law and therefore, by doing things in the right way, you not only save yourself from paying extra money, but also get peace of mind that you have not done anything unlawful to evade tax. It is not difficult to keep the latest news about taxes. In the age of Internet, information is just a click away! So use it for your own benefit and save money! If you are aware of any useful technique to save income tax let us know in the comment section.
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PASADENA – The Madison Heights Neighborhood Association will hold a town forum to introduce the five candidates for the District 7 seat on the Pasadena City Council, at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 in the cafeteria of Blair IB Magnet School, 1201 S. Marengo Ave.
The moderator will be San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group Public Editor Larry Wilson.
The candidate's presentations will be followed by a question-and-answer period with participation from residents.
For more information, call Chuck Livingstone, (626) 641-1264.


Directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Laeta Kalogridis and James Cameron, Alita: Battle Angel stars Rosa Salazar as Alita, a cyborg found in the scrapyard of Iron City by a cyber-doctor named Ido (Christoph Waltz). She awakens in a new body with no memory of who she is, where she is, or what purpose she serves but it doesn't take long for her to discover hints of her past through her impressive fighting skills.
This is a challenging role for Salazar (Bird Box, Maze Runner)—and not just because it's motion-capture, although that is a huge factor. It's admittedly hard, at first, to look into Alita's oversized eyes and see her as anything other than a creepy trip into the Uncanny Valley.
But Salazar makes it work, giving Alita a sweet likability that's paired with raw temper and unfathomable power. Alita grows from a charming and innocent teenager into the strongest weapon known to humankind in the span of two hours, and Salazar brilliantly navigates the character's emotional journey.
Unfortunately, most of the movie fails to meet the standard that Salazar set with her performance. Alita: Battle Angel is both too much and not enough, overstuffing the plot with needless exposition dumps while ignoring actual character development.
If you're only interested in the movie for the special effects, you'll be...somewhat pleased? Some are jaw-dropping — especially the Motorball challenge, which was intense and gripping. But other parts felt tired, rehashed from better things, or doomed to irrelevancy the moment CGI technology surpasses it.
The cyborgs, in particular, felt like digital dinosaurs-in-waiting. Their faces looked plastered on, reminding me of the robots from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, and I also failed to see an in-world explanation why the cyborgs always kept their human faces.
In an effort to flesh out the world, including what felt like two main stories at once (having Alita join the hunter-warriors and become a Motorball player), too much of the movie is spent having characters over-explain things to people — mainly our protagonist.
I get that Yukito Kishiro's original Battle Angel Alita manga is complex, with a rich history that was explored over the course of several years, but the film should have been spent time exploring Alita's life and the world. Instead she ends up standing around like a polite idiot, forced to absorb piles of information that don't really go anywhere.
This reliance on exposition comes at the expense of actual character development, especially in Alita's relationship with Ido. He is supposed to serve as Alita's surrogate father—something the movie parallels with Ido's backstory. Only, instead of giving the two of them moments to emotionally connect, Ido is mainly there to inform Alita of everything she needs to know for her next mission, while reminding her how she's not supposed to do the thing she's clearly going to do.
The actor tries his best — there's a moment with an orange that's pretty cute—but he's not given much to work with. Ido's ex-wife Chiren (Jennifer Connelly) and her boss Vector (Mahershala Ali) fare even worse, shifting around like grains of sand wherever the plot needs them. It felt like a waste of two talented actors.
However, the biggest waste of time is the love story. Yes, there's a love story, and it's dumb and pointless. Right after waking up at the start of the movie in her new body, Alita has a meet-cute with Hugo (Keean Johnson), a scrap worker with a secret. Even though he starts out as her chummy buddy with a bit of sexual tension, the movie decides halfway through to make him the most important part of Alita's life.
She's suddenly no longer tasked with finding her identity or growing as a person, all of her attention is spent on helping this one boy achieve his dreams of making it to Zalem — even going to far as to risk her life for it.
Salazar somehow manages to shine through this drudge of a storyline, but the whole thing feels tired and archaic. It might have had roots in the original manga, but here it comes across as a relic of Cameron's older work, like Titanic and Avatar, stories that simply don't play the same in 2019. As we saw with films like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, you don't need a love story to give a female character motivation to do the right thing.
It comes across as regressive and kind of sexist—especially when at the expense of what should have been the emotional core between Alita and Ido. It also didn't help that Johnson was not the most-capable actor, and his scenes with Salazar had the chemistry of two lab partners working on an experiment about a new type of construction paper. Alita had a better connection with the dog.


Left Hand Side as when you are sitting on the mower on the 92cm decks models. The 98cm deck models have 2 off these spindle kits fitted so same for each side.
Fits the following models listed below, some models may have been missed.


This miniature was commissioned by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, creators of the Fighting Fantasy range of game-books, to commemorate the first Fighting Fantasy Fest held in London in 2014. It was a limited edition casting of 1,000, available for sale for a period of 2 years.
The miniature was sculpted by Paul Muller, based on the iconic drawing by Russ Nicholson. Zagor stands at 32mm tall, and is cast in pewter as a single piece casting with a separate slotta-tab and plastic base.
This miniature is now out of production. However, we hope to add further releases to our range of Official Fighting Fantasy miniatures range in the future.


This was possible in the older version. Aliases show up as regular folders in the browser and I was able to navigate into the folder. Right now, they don't show up at all in the file browser.
I'm hoping this can be made as an available option on the server software.
I don't remember implementing alias resolving in the old one, it's weird that it worked. However I do admit that this needs to get sorted out.
I also would love to see this implemented for Windows shortcuts.
Right now, for example, I have TV shows sorted by Genre, but I also have an alphabetical listing of empty folders that contain the show name and then the genre they are listed under. Same thing with Movies, sorted by Genre, and a directory of empty folders for each movie and the genre they can be found under.
This is perfect! I tried to make a junction point, and it AirVideoHD reads it correctly! Thanks for the suggestion.
As a note, I did use the full path for creating the link.
This is a sorely missed feature for me as well.
Have all TV shows spanned over multiple HDD, aliased to a single folder containing all in alphabetic order.
Any chance this will be corrected soon?
Do you use aliases for this? Symlinks and junction points should work.


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Van Gogh and Britain review – gaslit London inspired his starry night? Come off it!
Tate Britain, London
There's a good show trapped within this flabby blockbuster, which suggests Britain's peasoupers and smoky tube stations inspired Van Gogh's light-filled hymns to life
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Incandescent … Van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888). Photograph: National Gallery, London
I never thought I'd see Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers wilt. Yet, in this exhibition about his relationship with Britain, this incandescent painting is embalmed in a kind of floral chapel of rest. Dull homages to Van Gogh's blooms by such early 20th-century British painters as Frank Brangwyn, Matthew Smith and Samuel Peploe only serve to smother the power and heat of the painting they imitate. How could the curators think this is a good way to show Van Gogh's art?
This version of the Sunflowers normally hangs in the National Gallery, London, where it's surrounded by revolutionary art made in late-19th-century France. That's how we picture Van Gogh, staggering in the Provençal sun with his easel and brushes, in search of his vision. Cézanne is at work a few miles away; Gauguin comes to stay. This exhibition wants to shift that familiar scenery. Forget cypresses waving in the heat haze. Think pea-soupers and smoky underground stations. The curators even suggest Van Gogh's glorious blast of gold and blue, the Musee d'Orsay's version of Starry Night, is inspired by gaslit London. Somehow we're supposed to agree that in 1888, when he painted this ecstatic nocturne of the lights of Arles reflected in the river Rhône under a cloudless southern night that shudders with celestial energy, he was thinking of the Thames embankment. We are supposed to swallow the idea that the true genesis of Van Gogh's art lies in a youthful sojourn in Victorian England.
Celestial energy … Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888). Photograph: Hervé Lewandowski/RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)
Yet, imprisoned in this flabby blockbuster, there's a smaller, more sensitive show struggling to get out. Van Gogh spent three years in southern England at the start of his adult life. In 1873, he travelled to London to work in the Covent Garden branch of the art dealers and print sellers Goupil et Fils. Things quickly went wrong. He fell disastrously in love with his Brixton landlady's daughter, left his job (which he wasn't much good at) and embarked on the restless search for meaning and purpose that was to turn him into a heroically brave painter before his suicide at the age of 37.
Squalor, glamour, wealth and cruelty: the Britain Van Gogh saw and loved
The early part of this show does a good job of immersing us in the mind of Van Gogh. In his 1890 portrait L'Arlésienne, his copy of Charles Dickens's Christmas stories is laid on a table. Van Gogh spent lonely nights in his Brixton bedroom immersed in the novels of Dickens and George Eliot. Dickens had died in 1870 and the English graphic artist Luke Fildes captured the national sense of loss in an engraving called The Empty Chair. Years later in the Yellow House in Arles, Van Gogh would remember this print when he painted his own and Gauguin's empty chairs as symbolic portraits of their absent occupiers.
We see how as a young artist, after returning to the Netherlands in late 1876, Van Gogh tried to emulate the compassionate social vision of Dickens. In an illustration by Charles Stanley Rheinhardt to Dickens's Hard Times, a man sits in despair resting his face in his hands with his top hat on his head. Van Gogh's 1881 drawing Worn Out takes this illustration and turns it into something that breaks your heart. In his version, the old man is alone by a fire, seated in (what else?) a plain straw-seated wooden chair, his body a kind of clay monument of grief from cap to clogs.
Numb desolation … Van Gogh's The Prison Courtyard (1890). Photograph: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Van Gogh in Britain makes you look afresh at Van Gogh in the Netherlands. It's easy to see his early art, which he created back at home after leaving Britain, as a plodding start, in comparison with the light-filled hymns to life he was to paint after moving to the south of France in 1888. This exhibition dwells on the early, socially conscious works because it claims they are influenced by Victorian art. Thus we are told that his 1880 drawing Miners in the Snow is inspired by George Henry Broughton's 1869 painting Pilgrims Going to Church. Come off it. The Victorian picture is prosaic. Van Gogh's drawing is a boldly naive, trenchantly emotional portrait of workers who have a sculptural strength as they struggle through a brutal industrial world. It's a brilliant existentialist cartoon.
Van Gogh's total freedom from rules and conventions gives his portraits of the poor a directness that eludes his supposed Victorian models. His 1882 study In Church homes in on the beaten faces of a sad congregation with a true lust for life. By comparison, its purported inspiration – a Victorian depiction of Chelsea veterans – is heavy and static.
Is there any evidence at all that British art, as opposed to British novels, shaped Van Gogh's vision? That scene of a church congregation obviously owes more to the French artist Daumier than it does to British art. Van Gogh painted one London scene. His 1890 canvas The Prison Courtyard shows men in shapeless trousers and jackets walking in a nightmarish circle in the gothic confines of a deep narrow hexagonal yard, based on London's Newgate Prison. Their blue and yellow faces are masks of numb desolation as they retrace their own steps to nowhere.
It hangs here next to the engraving that inspired it, from Van Gogh's own copy of Gustav Doré's 1872 book London: A Pilgrimage. Doré was French, his engraving an outsider's view of British society. There's a selection of paintings Van Gogh saw in London, but the only one that echoes in his own tree-lined avenues under brooding skies is a Dutch 17th-century masterpiece from the National Gallery, London.
British art was not likely to teach much to a Dutchman whose own heritage included Rembrandt. He could see bleak northern skies at home. It was the light of the south that would blow his mind. And that's where this exhibition goes south. An entire room is dedicated to showing how Van Gogh in Arles met various minor British artists. Then, just when we should be building to the climax of Van Gogh's tragic journey, we are diverted by a section on how the Bloomsbury critic and painter Roger Fry exhibited his art in London for the first time.
After this are even more early-1900s British paintings of France to distract from Van Gogh's might. They look like painting by numbers next to his turbulent revelations. But we do learn something from the contrast. The south is not what made Van Gogh great. He already had a profound vision of human sorrow when he got off the train in Arles. The anguish and tension that's in his drawings of miners is what makes his sun so different from the insipid orb painters like Fry saw. In the end, this exhibition just shows how incredibly un-British this European was.
• Van Gogh and Britain is at Tate Britain, London, 27 March to 11 August.
Van Gogh's gushing letter to art critic goes on show in Amsterdam
In letter artist describes review, one of the first of his paintings, as 'a work of art in itself'
Van Gogh watercolour not as dreary as it looks, Tate discovers
Paint has faded because cash-strapped Van Gogh used cheap pink pigment, conservators say
Van Gogh landscape to be shown for first time in 100 years
Experts expect Le Moulin d'Alphonse to fetch around $10m after research tying it directly to the artist via the records of his sister-in-law Johanna
Van Gogh the preacher? New show to explore artist's life before painting
A Mons capital of culture event will examine the 18 dismal months Van Gogh spent in the tough coalmining region of the Borinage, Belgium, studying the lives of the poor around him, writes Maev Kennedy
How we designed the Van Gogh Museum website
Van Gogh's lodgings become art house – but is anyone at home?
Half a century on, Goldfinger's Van Gogh goes up for auction
Two Van Gogh sunflower paintings displayed together at National Gallery


Being back in the Alaskan Interior at this time of year, I'm starting to notice things beyond the weather, the perpetual sun, and the blackout shades in our bedroom that help us avoid partying all night. Everyone says this is the ugly time in Fairbanks because the snow has melted leaving waves of mud on the dirt roads and endless diapers and plastic bags scattered on the ground or clinging to the bush. Fortunately, this Saturday is annual Clean Up Day so glove-wearing volunteers will be outdoors stuffing their yellow bags with whatever they find.
But I'm wondering where all that trash will go. We drove to the dump this morning with our bags of garbage and the bins were overflowing onto the ground. The landfill appears to be filled, ladies and gentlemen, and the ravens couldn't be happier!
Another thing I've noticed is that when the snow melts, the "MOOSEquitoes," as little r calls them, create a cosmos of buzzing blackness around your head. The first of these bloodsuckers are enormous and slow enough to nail with a clap, a slap or a tennis racket zapper. But their bites are vicious and reindeer dog bar-b-ques inevitably have to be moved indoors. In a few weeks though, these fat vampires will be replaced with smaller, faster swarms of strafe-bombing, blood-vacuuming machines that continue to torment, reaching a peak during August rains and eventually disappearing, thank God, after the first frost.
R wanted to test the effectiveness of our citronella repellent on these bloody terrorists, so he stood out in the backyard near the septic field and waited. About a second later when the unofficial Alaskan State Birds arrived by the millions, he applied bug juice and they fluttered away. 10 minutes later they were back. R applied the juice again, a mass exodus followed, and in another 10 R was pretty much eaten alive. Perhaps 10 minutes of relief is better than no relief, but tomorrow, R's determined to experiment with deadly DEET, plus blended garlic, lemon juice and 1/4 C. squished MOOSEquitoes, if necessary, but I'm not holding my breath. D, our daughter, has promised to purchase two or more wall-mounted electrocution stations by the weekend, so maybe we'll be grilling some frozen moose outdoors, after all.
We gathered a couple of handfuls of fresh spruce tips in a baggie.
Then we washed them in the sink (removing any rocks, cones and creatures our grand-toddler may have tossed into the baggie).
We placed the tips in a medium pot and covered them with water to an inch or two above the tips.
After loosely covering the pot with a lid, we brought the water to a boil, allowed it to simmer for about 5 minutes, then turned off the heat and let the pot cool. The aroma is to die for! A symphony of Greek retsina, pine incense and turpentine. Way resinous, which I love.
Using a strainer, we poured the liquid through and into a large glass pitcher. We tossed the tips into the compost pile.
Lastly we added more water as this is a strong tea, and some maple syrup. We chilled it in the refrigerator and, when cool, served it in small glasses. Everybody but my darling, D, who doesn't appreciate resinosity for some reason, loved the tea, including little r, who begged for another glass.
1. Any evergreen tips will due. Fir is mild, pine is delicious. Spruce is the most exotic and therefore the best.
2. More water can be added, depending on the strength desired.
3. Honey may be added additionally, or ginger, or both.
In the meantime, remember to go out and play no matter how dreary the day!
I have a good Fairbanks story, which I should write about. Fairbanks was my territory as a young architect with IBM. If I don't write it I'll tell you when I see you. I love your tales, am glad they have eeee-lec-tree-city up thar, and can picture the town!
Hi Katie! Did you actually live up here? I can't wait to hear your story.
We haven't been to Alaska and hope to do so. Will ask you for advice when we start to plan. Enjoy your month there!
Thanks, Lisa. Interior Alaska is a unique place in the world, with special light, weather, critters and incredibly unpretentious people who love to sit around and tell stories when they're not out hunting, fishing or getting ready for the next winter.
WHoa! I'm scratching just reading about this.
And I never knew you could make tea from spruce tips. If I had only known so long ago when I lived at home. We had so many blue spruce that I planted as a child.
Sounds like you've having a tale of time in the great state of Alaska!
Not to worry, Jilanne! Just grab those little tipsters off your neighbor's tree or try pine or fir or any evergreen. Yep, being in Alaska is quite an amazing gig. Thanks so much for stopping by.
Love how you change your tone to suit the circumstances–gives me more insight as to the composition of 'your voice.' Really enjoyed this–felt like I got an education—and an invitation.


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package space.hideaway.model.security;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.MessageSource;
import org.springframework.mail.*;
import org.springframework.mail.MailSender;

import org.springframework.mail.javamail.*;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
import space.hideaway.exceptions.UserNotFoundException;
import space.hideaway.model.User;
import space.hideaway.model.site.Site;
import space.hideaway.services.user.UserService;
import space.hideaway.services.user.UserServiceImplementation;

import space.hideaway.services.user.UserToolsService;

import javax.persistence.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.util.*;

@Entity
@Table
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Friday 3.7.2020 in Latest Developments
in Taiwan Country Page
Protests on migrant worker conditions and discrimination against indigenous people in Taiwan
In recent months, there have been protests by migrant workers and migrant rights NGOs against poor working conditions. There were also protests linked to the Black Lives Matter movement highlighting discrimination against indigenous people. At the end of June 2020, one of the few Pride marches was held in Taiwan. The country dropped one place in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index in April 2020
On 29th June 2020, a senior cabinet official reported that the Executive Yuan will release a national human rights action plan that will detail Taiwan's progress on human rights protections, including on how it plans to operate a Human Rights Committee under the Control Yuan that will begin operations in August 2020. On 22nd April 2020, the Transitional Justice Commission, established in 2018 to redress human rights abuses and other atrocities before Taiwan became a democracy, was extended for another year.
Taiwan's handling of COVID-19 has been seen to be exemplary. As of 29th June 2020, Taiwan, with a population of 23.8 million, has recorded only seven deaths linked to the virus, with 447 confirmed cases.The Taiwanese government acted quickly to control its borders. It activated a Central Epidemic Command Centre (CECC) to coordinate cooperation across different government ministries and agencies. The CECC also partnered with police agencies, local officials and telecom companies to enforce quarantine with the support of mobile phone tracking.
Peaceful Assembly
Migrant workers and workers' NGOs protest against poor working conditions
On 4th May 2020, scores of migrant workers and workers' rights advocates protested outside the Ministry of Labour in Taipei to mark International Workers' Day, calling on the government to guarantee safer working conditions for migrant workers.
According to the Migrants Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT), an alliance of migrant workers' groups which organised the demonstration, some employers have barred their workers from going outside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while other workers have been unable to return to their jobs in Taiwan or visit their home countries.
At the rally, demonstrators carried banners reading: "Say no to human trafficking, overcharging, slavery" and "We are workers, not machines". Among the demonstrators' demands were government regulations to ensure the separation of factories and workers' living quarters.
Hope Workers' Centre representative Hsu Wei-tung said the proximity of the two spaces meant that if a fire were to break out at a factory, it would spread to the workers' housing area as well.
As previously documented, migrant workers often face incidents of ill-treatment by migrant brokers and beatings and rape by employers. Derogatory terms have also been used against them. The demands they have previously made are inclusion for caregivers in Taiwan's Labour Standards (ALSA), mandatory labour insurance, inclusion for domestic workers in Taiwan's long-term care system, vacation leave, a ban on illegal charges by third-party brokers, and paid overtime if employees are forced to work for some or all of their scheduled days off.
Black Lives Matter protest highlights discrimination against indigenous people
Nice to see Taiwan starting to have an open dialogue about domestic racial prejudice with its indigenous people and migrant workers.
"Taiwan Black Lives Matter protest gets indigenous twist" https://t.co/7yWhH3iZ7l
— Chen-Ying Tung (@tungchenying) June 14, 2020
On 13th June 2020, hundreds of protesters packed into a park in central Taipei for a Black Lives Matter protest, with a group of indigenous Taiwanese drawing attention to discrimination against them.
The rally, attended by more than 500 people, was peaceful with only a very light police presence. While its main focus was to show solidarity with anti-racism protests triggered around the world by the death in police custody last month of U.S. citizen George Floyd, organisers also wanted to draw attention to some of Taiwan's own problems.
Savungaz Valincinan, an ethnic Bunun from the group Indigenous Youth Front, took to the stage to detail the difficult past of indigenous Taiwanese and called for broad opposition to any form of discrimination. She said that many in Taiwanese society discriminate against them, for example by refusing to rent accommodation to indigenous people, said Savungaz. She added:
"We don't want any special treatment. What we want are the most basic rights that we deserve as human beings. We are coming out today to support this movement not because of sympathy - it is because we have also gone through the hurt of being discriminated against."
As previously documented, Taiwan's indigenous people make up about 2 per cent of its 23.5 million people and have long suffered marginalisation. In an unprecedented move, in 2016 newly elected President Tsai Ing-wen apologised to the indigenous people for "centuries of pain and mistreatment" and promised to improve their lives.
One step was to recognise their ancestral land: in February 2017, the government's Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) issued a regulation declaring 1.8 million hectares – about half of Taiwan's total land area – to be traditional territory. However, this is limited to state-owned land and does not include private land, which the group says denies them a sizeable piece of territory.
Taiwan celebrates Pride Month with march
Taiwan stages LGBT pride parade 'for the world' https://t.co/6WuUtopEgI
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 28, 2020
Taiwan hosted one of the few pride marches around the world on 28th June 2020, as the island's LGBTQ+ community and their supporters took to the streets. Hundreds marched inside Taipei's Liberty Square for an hour as music played and many participants wore rainbow-coloured face masks.
Many of those attending held placards with the names of major global cities that have been unable to celebrate Pride Month this June because of the coronavirus.
Taiwan usually holds its main pride march in October but many in the island's LGBTQ+ community felt it was important to hit the streets in June when so many others around the world could not.
In recent years, Taiwan has forged itself a reputation for progressive politics in a region where LGBTQ+ people still face discrimination and legal barriers. As previously documented, in May 2019, Taiwan's parliament legalised same-sex marriage in a landmark vote that made the island the first in Asia to adopt such legislation. The vote was a major victory for the island's LGBTQ+ community who have campaigned for years to have similar or equal marriage rights as heterosexual couples.
Taiwan drops one place in press freedom rankings
Taiwan dropped down one position and is now ranked 43rd in this year's World Press Freedom Index published in April 2020 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
According to RSF, "political interference is rare and less tolerated, but Taiwan's journalists are suffering from a very polarized media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit". The organisation also noted that "Beijing is exploiting this weakness by putting pressure on Taiwanese media owners, who often have business interests on the mainland. Beijing is also suspected of orchestrating online disinformation campaigns".
Previously in May 2020, RSF urged Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen to undertake reforms to guarantee editorial independence and tackle conflicts of interest in the media.
Christophe Deloire, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-general said:
"When journalists are given sufficient time and resources to adhere to the highest ethical standards and when editorial departments have the ability to reject commercial and political pressure, public trust in the media will naturally improve and manipulated content will fall on deaf ears."
Tags: indigenous groups | LGBTI | protest | refugees and migrants


The enormous bailout of the U.S. financial system at the height of the financial crisis in fall 2008 is on track to cost the federal government $27 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in a report issued Thursday afternoon.
The now-infamous TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is on pace to have disbursed $438 billion of the $700 billion authorized by Congress in October 2008, when panic threatened to bring down the entire banking system. Those funds were distributed to large and small banks, failed insurance giant AIG and automakers General Motors and Chrysler, along with programs aimed at helping homeowners avoid foreclosures.
The total estimate of the budgetary cost of TARP is up $6 billion from last year's mandated report, because of higher anticipated spending on housing programs.
In fall 2008, when Congress passed the bailout package and President George W. Bush signed it into law, the federal government was taking on an enormous amount of risk. A total bill of $27 billion, according to the CBO, would be "near the low end of the range of possible outcomes anticipated when the program was launched." Other assistance to failing companies, including emergency loans from the Federal Reserve, helped limit the costs to taxpayers stemming from TARP.
Most of the $27 billion bill comes from the bailouts of AIG and the automakers, which together will end up costing taxpayers $29 billion, along with the Home Affordable Mortgage Program, which was meant to help loan servicers modify homeowners' mortgages to avoid foreclosures.


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Le Momotombo est un volcan de type stratovolcan situé à proximité de la ville de León au Nicaragua sur la rive du lac de Managua. Il s'élève à  mètres d'altitude. C'est un volcan relativement jeune d'environ  aux éruptions stromboliennes.

Toponymie
Dans la langue des premiers habitants amérindiens, Momotombo signifie le « grand sommet bouillant ».

Géographie
Il fait partie de la cordillère des Maribios dont il est, avec le Momotombito (Petit Momotombo), le volcan situé le plus au sud-est. La cordillère résulte de la subduction de la plaque océanique de Cocos (océan Pacifique), qui passe sous la plaque caraïbe (Amérique centrale, mer des Caraïbes, arc des Caraïbes).

En plus de son cône principal, le Momotombo présente plusieurs cônes adventifs nommés Cerro Colorado, Cerro Montoso et Cerro las Palomos, ainsi que la caldeira Monte Galán et un dôme de lave, le Loma la Guatusa, tous compris entre 320  et 530 m d'altitude. Le jeune cône du Momotombito (391 m d'altitude) forme une île au large du lac Managua par .

Histoire éruptive
 Environ 4500  - Naissance du Momotombo.
 1522 - Activité éruptive marquée.
 1609 - Éruption précédée de nombreux tremblements de terre dans cette région. La ville de León Viejo est endommagée mais pas détruite. Les habitants décident de la déplacer en 1610 à l'endroit occupé actuellement par la ville de León à . Les ruines de l'ancienne cité sont conservées à León Viejo.
 1764 - Forte éruption.
 1870 - Grondements puissants et prolongés.
 1885 - En octobre, beaucoup de fumée et grondements toutes les 15 minutes.
 1886 - En février, un foyer est observé dans le cratère pendant plusieurs nuits. Le 20 mai, le volcan explose, projetant de grandes quantités de fumée et de cendres à l'ouest et de la lave vers Managua. Le 23, les villes de León, Corinto et Chinandega sont complètement envahies par un épais nuage de cendres provenant du volcan en éruption.
 1905 - Après un calme relatif depuis 1886, l'éruption de 1905 émet une coulée de lave qui, aujourd'hui solidifiée, est encore visible.
 1918 - Au cours du mois d'avril, le volcan vomit beaucoup de fumée.
 2005 - Activité sismique, magnitude 3 sur l'échelle de Richter.
 2014 - Activité sismique, magnitude 6,2 sur l'échelle de Richter

 2015-2016 :
 Le , après 110 ans de calme, une éruption libère des cendres, des gaz et de la lave. L'activité strombolienne se poursuit pendant plusieurs mois.
 Le  à  du matin, une explosion de gaz et de matières incandescentes, sans causer de dommages.
 Le  à , une forte éruption ébranle les toits de la ville de León.

Le Momotombo comme les principaux volcans du pays est sous la surveillance constante de l'INETER ().

Activités

Géothermie
Un important champ géothermique est situé sur le flanc sud du volcan. La vapeur du volcan est utilisée pour la production d'électricité grâce aux installations de la centrale géothermique « Momotombo », composée de deux turbines à vapeur de  chacune. Bien qu'une seule turbine soit en service, en raison d'un manque de vapeur, le Nicaragua grâce à cette centrale a abaissé ses importations de pétrole de  par an et a réussi à réduire ses émissions annuelles de CO2 de .

Tourisme
C'est un site touristique très prisé par les amateurs d'aventure extrême, puisqu'il est possible de monter à son sommet et même d'y passer la nuit. Le sommet offre une vue spectaculaire sur l'océan Pacifique, le complexe volcanique du Masaya, le lac Nicaragua et l'île d'Ometepe avec ses deux volcans, le Concepción, actif, et le Maderas, sans activité historique.

Pour gravir la montagne, il faut une autorisation. Après avoir traversé la centrale géothermique, il faut suivre un sentier facilement balisé jusqu'à la limite des arbres. Ensuite, en raison de la nature active du volcan et des glissements de terrain, le parcours de la limite des arbres jusqu'au sommet évolue constamment.

Dans la culture
La montagne est très symétrique et sa forme est un symbole du Nicaragua, qui apparaît aussi bien sur des boîtes d'allumettes ou des timbres-poste, que dans les peintures murales révolutionnaires. Ce volcan était très populaire avant le début de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Victor Hugo a écrit un poème intitulé Les Raisons du Momotombo, inclus dans le recueil La Légende des siècles, où il dénonce la colonisation espagnole des Amériques.

Le poète nicaraguayen Rubén Darío (1867-1916) lui a dédié le poème Momotombo dans son recueil El canto errante.

Le diplomate américain et archéologue amateur Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888) a fait remarquer à propos du volcan Momotombo qu'il « n'avait pas été sanctifié » en gardant son nom indigène.

Pedro Arias Dávila, dans une lettre au roi Charles Quint datée du , l'informe de la fondation de la ville de León et de la construction d'une église dans cette ville, dans la province d'Imabite pour les  de ses environs. Il décrit le volcan Momotombo, son activité, les caractéristiques géographiques et les sources d'eaux thermales.

Références

Voir aussi

 Ruines de León Viejo

Volcan au Nicaragua
Sommet au Nicaragua

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The core of this interactive project is an interactive map and gallery representing oral history interviews centered around Portobelo, Panama's Congo Tradition.
Each of the 93 cards in the gallery or dots on the map represent a segment of a single interview. These map dots do not represent literal location points; rather, they are intended as a figurative spatial representation of the contents of these interviews.
Exploring the Interactive Project
There are three main ways to navigate this interactive digital project: 1) through the concept map, 2) through the gallery view, and 3) through the interview archive. For details about the interactive gallery and map see the sections below.
The interview archive links to the full audio files for each interview. Each page that contains a complete interview will have an embedded media player and corresponding transcript. You can play or pause the audio file as you wish by clicking the embedded red play button (once you begin playing, the button will change to a pause button). The transcript will scroll along in sync with the audio. You can jump forward or backward in the full interview by clicking on any timestamp at the far left of the transcript.
Under each scrollable transcript is a list of related excerpts. Clicking on any of the titles will provide more details about a given excerpt.
Launch the Concept Map | Launch the Gallery View
Map How-To's
Map Interaction: Our interactive map is based on Google Maps technology. It enables the same sort of panning and zooming that is possible in Google. To zoom: double click or use the plus/minus buttons on the top right. To move around the map (panning): click and drag your mouse. To re-set the positioning of the map and the zoom level: hit the reset button (circular arrows) at the top right of the map (under the plus/minus buttons).
Map Dot Colors: Each dot on the map represents an excerpt of an interview. The dots appear in different colors based on the active map legend, which is a filter for visualizing the dots. There are several unique legends to explore, including one for Congo Characters, one about Congo Spaces, and one about various Congo Traditions. Changing the active legend (drop-down menu at the top left of the map screen) will change the appearance of the dots.
In most cases, many of the map dots contain multiple values in any given legend. The first value listed determines the default appearance of the map dot. As you click through individual terms in the legend, map dot colors may change to reveal secondary and tertiary associated terms. Clicking the "Hide/Show All" button at the top of each legend restores all of the map dots to the page.
Map Legends: Clicking on a value in a map legend (either checking the box or clicking on the term itself) will hide all markers not associated with that value. To see markers associated with multiple values, check all of the appropriate boxes. To restore all markers, select "Hide/Show All" (the first value in the legend).
Gallery How-To's
Gallery Interaction: The gallery view is made of topic cards, each corresponding to a marker on the concept map and representing an excerpt of an interview. The cards appear in different colors based on the map legend that identifies by Interviewee Name. You can either sort or filter to identify information contained in each topic card.
Gallery Sort: Clicking on Sort by will give a drop-down menu of unique values that each topic card identifies with including Congo Spaces, Congo Traditions, and Time Period. Sorting topic cards by value will move each topic card to a new location in the visualization. For example, sorting by Time Period will make the topic cards line up chronologically by the time period discussed in each interview excerpt.
Gallery Filter: Clicking on Filter by will also give a drop-down menu of unique values that each topic card identifies with. Click first on a value, then click on "Options" next to the "Filter by" button. This will bring up a pop-up window that allows for specifications of which topic cards to view. Check which values to view, click Apply, and the topic cards will filter out. For example, filtering by Ethnoracial Identity Discussed allows for several options: Afrodescendiente, Afro-Colonial, French Antillean, La Raza Negra, Spanish, or N/A. The topic cards can then be filtered by one or many of these options. To return to a view of all topic cards, click No Filter.
How To's For Map and Gallery
Excerpt Details: Clicking on a map dot or gallery card brings up a lightbox (or info bubble) containing an excerpt of the audio and its corresponding Spanish and English transcripts. You can hit the red play button to begin listening. The timestamp at the left of the transcript will be highlighted, and the transcript will roll along in sync with the audio. Clicking on the green "Read more about this excerpt" button opens to a page with additional information about that chunk of interview. Each excerpt contains a link to the complete interview.
Accessing the Full Interview from the Map or Gallery: Clicking on the green "Listen to the entire interview" button in the pop-up window will open up a new browser tab, where the entire interview and its corresponding transcripts can be accessed. As with the excerpt, you can play or pause the audio file as you wish. The transcript will scroll along in sync with the audio. You can jump forward or backward in the full interview by clicking on any timestamp.
Leaving the Map or Gallery: To exit the interactive project and return to the rest of the site, click the "Home" button above the map. This will close the visualization and return you to the home page.
Please note that the interactive project may not load properly in Internet Explorer; users are encouraged to view the map in either the Firefox or Chrome Browser.
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