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Filipino photojournalist gets nod from World Press Photo
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Posted at Apr 12 2019 11:33 AM
The body of Michael Nadayao lies in the street after he was shot dead by unidentified men in front of mourners at a wake, in Quezon City, Philippines, on August 31, 2018. Ezra Acayan, World Press Photo
A Filipino photojournalist has won second prize in the World Press Photo Award for his photograph on the Duterte administration's war on drugs.
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Ezra Acayan's photo of an alleged drug personality shot dead by unidentified gunmen in front of mourners at a wake won second prize in the Spot News category, Singles, behind eventual World Press Photo of the Year winner John Moore's image.
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Acayan, whose previous works on the drug war have been recognized by other award-giving bodies, photographed scene of the crime operatives (SOCO) viewing a body in a casket while working on the crime scene of an alleged victim of an extra-judicial killing in Quezon City in August 2018.
The drug war started after the inauguration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in June 2016. Human Rights Watch said over 12,000 people have died in the drug war, which is higher than the 5,176 allegedly killed in legitimate police operations.
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Acayan, whose work has focused on social issues and human rights in the last three years, has won the Ian Parry Scholarship Award for Achievement and the Lucie Award for Philippine Photographer of the Year.
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His photographs of the drug war along with works by other journalists have been exhibited in other venues in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Acayan has done multimedia work for various outfits such as Reuters, European Pressphoto Agency and Agence France-Presse and is a member of the Photojournalists' Center of the Philippines.
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"Lark and Termite," by Jayne Anne Phillips, published by Vintage, is, in a word, superb. The characters are ones never before encountered. With the narrative moving fluidly between locations in America and Korea, the uncertain map of these people's lives brings the reader into contact with new perspectives, tribulations and joys. Phillips handles the demanding intricacies of her characters and the importance of their stories expertly. The narrative is startling and corporeal, even when it crosses the boundaries between the seen to unseen, the proven and the understood. Every relationship in the novel possesses a multitude of gradations. No one is simply a lover, brother, mother or aunt. Philips crafts an incredible connection between Lark and her brother Termite. Lark's affinity for her damaged brother exceeds sisterly bounds; she reads the emotions of Termite without effort. But ultimately her awareness of his conscience merely corroborates his interior; Phillips allows Termite his own lens. The story is measured, and Philips navigates time and her broad array of voices with ease. The reader leaves one character with reluctance, only to be caught up in the intricacies of the next.
View at Amazon: "Lark and Termite (Vintage Contemporaries)".


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National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Announces Two New Members to its Board of Trustees
The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation announces the appointment of Lynn Scarlett and Julian Myers as the newest members of its Board of Trustees.
"We are fortunate to have Lynn and Julian join the Board of Trustees of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation," said Kris Sarri, President and CEO of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. "Both bring a wealth of experience to support national marine sanctuaries through our mission to protect species, conserve ecosystems, and preserve America's maritime heritage.
Former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Lynn Scarlett is Co-Chief External Affairs Officer at The Nature Conservancy and Global Climate Strategy Lead. In these roles, Scarlett directs all policy in the United States and the 70 countries in which TNC operates. Scarlett also served at Interior as the Acting Secretary of the Interior in 2006. While Interior's Deputy Secretary, Scarlett initiated and chaired the Department's Cooperative Conservation Working Group and its first-ever Climate Change Task Force. She is author or co-author of publications on climate change adaptation; ecosystem services; large landscape conservation; and science and decision making. She chairs the Science Advisory Board of NOAA, recently co-chaired the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Council established in 2014 by the U.S. Department of the Interior and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Sustainability Roundtable. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her Ph.D. coursework and exams in political science and political economy.
"Advancing this nation's pioneering history of conservation, our National Marine Sanctuaries sustain marine life, iconic underwater historic sites, and unique underwater feature," said Scarlett. "I am thrilled to join diverse partners who help us protect these places, tell their stories, and secure their recreational, scientific, and economic benefits now and for future generations."
Julian Myers is an avid adventurer whose travel has taken her as high as Tangboche Monastery on Everest and as deep as the North Wall in Grand Cayman. Her love of oceans and marine life comes from living near the sea, whether in her native Japan or on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Julian is a licensed attorney and principal at The Myers Group, LLC, an advisory firm serving clients including health care technology ventures, online health and wellness organizations, national and international medical research firms and senior care companies. Previously, she was Senior Healthcare Counsel for Revolution Health Group and Chairperson for RHG's Health Policy Review Committee. She also served as Vice President and Corporation Counsel for Sunrise Senior Living and Vice President and Associate General Counsel for PHP Healthcare Corporation, a managed care integrated delivery system. Ms. Myers has been associated with several law firms including Epstein, Becker and Green, P.C. and Powell Goldstein (now Bryan Cave LLP).She attended the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program, holds a law degree from Duke University Law School and is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
"In my career in health care," said Myers, "I have seen how critical our oceans and sea life are to advances in human health and wellness. I am very honored to be part of the Foundation's future and look forward to continuing to increase global awareness of our marine sanctuaries."
"Julian and Lynn bring a breadth of knowledge and experiences to the Board," said Bob Trainor, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. "We welcome them and look forward to hearing their unique perspectives on how we can better encourage conservation of our ocean and Great Lakes."


Once again, I'm trying to work on Django/IronPython. This time around, I've finally found a workflow I'm happy with (for now) using MQ. Using MQ is a bit tricky to understand, but it has the distinct advantage that Django/IronPython patches are distinct from normal development and thus much easier to submit back to the Django project – which I also plan to start doing.
Of course, the repo has changed again – it's now django-ipy-patches. It's a patch queue (which bitbucket handles quite nicely) instead of a fork because using a fork mixed the IronPython changes in with normal development and made them hard to find amongst all the merge changesets (and you can't rebase a public repository). Forks are better for very short-lived branches, but I think patch queues are the better option for long-lived projects like this. I'll move the issues from the old repository over and then shut it down fairly soon.
I'll post some instructions soon on how to contribute and use MQ, and an update running the tests.


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ICON (ICX) Partners W Foundation On Global Green Gas Reduction Compensation
Yusuff Olayode Supoto·
· August 30, 2018 ·1 min read
ICON (ICN) has partnered W Foundation, a non-charitable group for environmental preservation and refugee relief. The two signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to apply blockchain technology to the W Green Pay (WGP), a pollution reduction compensation system.
A press statement by ICON revealed the W Foundation has been partnering with government agencies, enterprises, and international organizations since 2012 to operate the 'HOOXI Campaign' to mitigate the release of greenhouse gases.
The foundation has now introduced WGP to incentivize general citizens in addition to the institutions already part of the agreement. WGP is a blockchain-based reward system that rewards individual greenhouse gas mitigation efforts with additional utility as a real-life payment instrument.
The partnership will make ICON integrate blockchain technology into the W Foundation's WGP compensation system.
Meanwhile, different communities in ICON (ICN) ecosystem are enjoined to contribute to greenhouse gas reduction campaigns in conjunction with the practical use of W Foundation's HOOXI Mall, online shopping mall partners, and credit cards. In the same line, this will bring transparency, which is a core advantage of blockchain technology.
YuRi Christine Lee, the CEO of the W Foundation said, "Since W Green Pay is a reward system provided to the people, it is important to have a security system. Through this agreement, ICON and the W Foundation will cooperate to make sure WGP can become a more stable blockchain project."
J.H.Kim, council member of the ICON Foundation, who spoke on the development said, "This agreement applies not only to business, but also to nonprofit areas including natural conservation campaigns. This agreement has great significance as a starting point for changing the world."
The W Foundation (Wisdomforfuture Foundation) was founded in 2012. The non-charitable foundation has sealed different partnerships with respected firms and organizations around the world. They are focused on environment preservation projects and innovations, as well as refugee relief activities related to climate change and natural disasters. The foundation achieves many environmental preservation activities by promoting the HOOXI campaign and operating its own broadcasting studio specialized in nature.
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Did Arminius Think the Intellect Can Know the Good and Direct the Will Despite Sin?
Recently I was re-reading Richard Muller's God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of Jacobus Arminius. Muller is thestellar scholar of Reformed scholasticism whose work, on the whole, has richly informed my thought and for whom I have great appreciation.
Muller's work, however, has emphasized his view that Arminius's theology was a radical departure from sixteenth-century Reformed theology, a view with which I disagree. Unlike Carl Bangs and others who have argued that Arminius fit the description "Reformed," because Reformed theology before the Synod of Dort was broader on the question of predestination than after the Synod of Dort, Muller seems to intimate that the predestinarian Calvinism that characterized Dort was the Reformed theology.
All one has to do to see that this is not the case is to read the Belgic Confession of Faith and the Heidelberg Catechism, to which Arminius proudly subscribed to his dying day. One does not have to believe in predestination, etc., as Calvinism does to love and agree with these Reformed confessional documents. Both "Calvinists" and "non-Calvinists" (in the modern way we use these terms to speak of the doctrine of predestination, etc.) fit within this expression of Reformed confessional theology.
When I was reading Muller recently, I came across an interesting passage. He says that "Arminius's own theological concern for the problem of grace and human ability raised anew the epistemological problem of the relationship of the fall to the human faculties and—against Calvin—Arminius argued the ability of the intellect to know the good and to direct the will despite the problem of sin" (p. 37). After that sentence appears a footnote that refers to Arminius's Public Disputation 11, paragraphs 1, 5, 7, 9, and 10.
The word, arbitrium, "choice," or "free will," properly signifies both the faculty of the mind or understanding, by which the mind is enabled to judge about any thing proposed to it, and the judgment itself which the mind forms according to that faculty. But it is transferred from the Mind to the Will on account of the very close connection which subsists between them. Liberty, when attributed to the will, is properly an affection of the will, though it has its root in the understanding and reason. Generally considered, it is various.
(1.) It is a Freedom from the control or jurisdiction of one who commands, and from an obligation to render obedience.
(2.) From the inspection, care, and government of a superior.
(3.) It is also a freedom from necessity, whether this proceeds from an external cause compelling, or from a nature inwardly determining absolutely to one thing.
(4.) It is a freedom from sin and its dominion.
(5.) And a freedom from misery.
Of these five modes of liberty, the first two appertain to God alone; to whom also on this account, autexousiaperfect independence, or complete freedom of action, is attributed. But the remaining three modes may belong to man, nay in a certain respect they do pertain to him. And, indeed, the former, namely, freedom from necessity always pertains to him because it exists naturally in the will, as its proper attribute, so that there cannot be any will if it be not free. The freedom from misery, which pertains to man when recently created and not then fallen into sin, will again pertain to him when he shall be translated in body and soul into celestial blessedness. But about these two modes also, of freedom from necessity and from misery, we have here no dispute. It remains, therefore, for us, to discuss that which is a freedom from sin and its dominion, and which is the principal controversy of these times.
7. In this state, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace. For Christ has said, "Without me ye can do nothing." St. Augustine, after having diligently meditated upon each word in this passage, speaks thus: "Christ does not say, without me ye can do but Little; neither does He say, without me ye can do any Arduous Thing, nor without me ye can do it with difficulty. But he says, without me ye can do Nothing! Nor does he say, without me ye cannot complete any thing; but without me ye can do Nothing." That this may be made more manifestly to appear, we will separately consider the mind, the affections or will, and the capability, as contra-distinguished from them, as well as the life itself of an unregenerate man.
It is common to modern American religious experience to consider the relationship between the Church and the Academy. Specifically, what is the proper relationship between local churches and Christian colleges, universities, and/or theological seminaries?
I'm often interested to see how people from the past have spoken of this relationship. Sometimes interesting insights come from unfamiliar quarters. Such is the case as I was recently perusing H. Richard Niebuhr's The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry.


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The beautiful story of how Stephen Colbert met his wife
Stephen Colbert with his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, after he won two Emmys in 2013.
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By Jessica Roy
July 5, 2016 6:07 PM PT
A question from an audience member prompted Stephen Colbert to tell a truly beautiful story about how he knew his wife was the woman he was going to marry.
Before "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" tapes episodes, the host comes out for an audience warmup and takes a few questions. On July 4, a member of the audience asked a very personal question.
"When you met the woman who is now your wife, how did you know she was the one?" someone asked.
"Oh, man, I will — how long do we have?" Colbert joked. Then he launched into a story that involved a relationship ultimatum, a heart-to-heart with his mother, an opera by Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg, an out-of-print poet named Chuck Sullivan and Robert Fagles' translation of "The Odyssey."
The story ends happily: Colbert and his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, have been married since 1993. The couple have three children, John, Peter and Madeleine.
Everyone's meet-cute is, by definition, cute. But this one is particularly endearing. Watch:
May all our relationships be blessed by the sneeze of truth.
"The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" airs weeknights on CBS at 11:35.
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WSF & NWLC Letter to President Biden Regarding Athletics NPRM
Issues: Education & Title IX
WSF Letter 8.10 final version
The Honorable Joseph Biden, Jr.
Dear President Biden:
The National Women's Law Center and Women's Sports Foundation, joined by 48 women's rights and gender justice advocates, applaud your administration for releasing proposed changes to the Department of Education's rules implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") on June 23, which was also Title IX's 50th anniversary ("the Title IX NPRM"). By clarifying protections for LGBTQI+ and pregnant and parenting students, and ensuring that schools take meaningful and effective action to address and prevent sex-based harassment, these proposed rules are a critical step towards achieving gender equity in schools. These proposed rules, however, did not address participation in athletics, which the Department indicated it would consider in a separate rulemaking.
We are writing to implore your administration to swiftly release a Title IX athletics rule that would ensure all students, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex students, can participate fully and equally in school sports. This rule should clarify that any policy governing participation should be commensurate with the level of participation with youth, non-elite level sport participation centered around inclusion, access to participation and opportunities, and the educational benefits that sports provide young athletes. This is especially critical as LGBTQI+ students face pervasive discrimination in school, including sexual and verbal harassment, violence, and excessive discipline by faculty. Compounding this is the barrage of vicious legislative attacks on LGBTQI+ students by state lawmakers across the country, including through recently passed state laws that ban transgender, non-binary, and intersex students from participating in sports. Data shows that such targeting of LGBTQI+ students can be deadly: these discriminatory policies have exacerbated the high risk of depression and suicidality LGBTQI+ students already face by singling them out for mistreatment. Without regulations that clearly addresses students' rights to participate in athletics, state lawmakers will only be emboldened to go further in their quest to rob LGBTQI+ students—many of whom are young children—of their right to participate fully and equally in school sports. The Department must make it plain it will not abide targeting LGBTQI+ students. This includes, at a minimum, finalizing a Title IX athletics rule no later than the beginning of 2023, and concurrently with the pending Title IX NPRM. Students are in urgent need of protection from your administration to ensure they can benefit from Title IX's promise of equal access in school sports.
As advocates for gender equity, we are well aware of the significance of Title IX's mandate that all students must be able to access the benefits of an education free from sex discrimination. Promoting the full inclusion of all students in school sports is essential to enable them to fully access the benefits of an education. Students who play sports are more likely to graduate from high school, go to college, and achieve higher grades and scores on standardized tests. Sports participation also fosters in students self-confidence and a sense of community amongst their peers. These benefits are especially crucial for transgender, non-binary, and intersex students, as they can offer a respite from the isolation they often face at school and help alleviate the high risk of depression or suicidality they face. Further, denying transgender, non-binary, and intersex students these benefits because of who they are is impermissible sex-based discrimination under Title IX.
Ensuring that all students, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex students, can enjoy the benefits of sports is essential to achieving Title IX's promise; moreover, discriminatory and intrusive barriers to participation ultimately harm all women and girls. Indeed, allowing transgender athletes to participate in sports correlates with increased participation by all girls. CDC data shows girls' participation in high school sports remained unchanged from 2011-2019 in states that adopted transgender-inclusive policies—but decreased in states with policies excluding trans student-athletes. This data suggests that excluding these students benefits no one, and that there may be a chilling effect from state policies that reenforce overbroad sex stereotypes, including white-centric notions of femininity and the idea that there is something suspiciously masculine about athletic achievement. Sports bans often expressly require "sex verification" procedures, which subjects women and girls to a variety of humiliating, invasive, and unscientific practices for the purported purpose of determining whether they are "really" girls or women, creating new risks for sexual abuse of young student athletes and especially harming women and girls who do not conform to stereotyped ideals about femininity, whether transgender or cisgender. We urge the Department to protect students and ensure that the Title IX rule prohibits efforts by lawmakers to effectuate sports bans, and, by the same token, the idea that it is permissible to discriminate against some students because of who they are or how they look.
This is an opportunity to reverse the alarming trend of lawmakers singling out LGBTQI+ students in an effort to score political points and, moreover, reject the bigoted premise that they do not deserve the same civil rights protections as their peers. In addressing athletics, the Title IX rule should do the following:
Affirm transgender, non-binary, and intersex students' rights under Title IX to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity;
Clarify that state sports bans against transgender, intersex, and non-binary students constitute impermissible sex-based discrimination;
Make clear that sports bans encourage dangerous and unscientific sex verification practices, which especially impacts intersex youth and Black and brown girls;
Clarify that Title IX preempts any state law or policy that bans transgender, non-binary, and intersex students from playing sports on their ability to play sports consistent with their gender identity; and
Clarify that any discussion on youth, non-elite level sport participation should be centered around inclusion, access to participation and opportunities, and the educational benefits that sports provide young athletes; as such, no restrictions of any kind at this level should be permitted.
In short, the administration should make it clear to state lawmakers and decision makers that there will be consequences for effectuating sports bans and other restrictions on the ability of students to play sports simply because of their gender identity—including the potential loss of federal funding.
Despite fifty years of progress towards gender equity made under Title IX, students continue to face discrimination in school on the basis of their sex, with LGBTQI+ students facing increasing levels of targeted hate, often focused on their right to participate in sports. They need the Biden administration's full support and protection—both on and off the field. Thank you for your consideration of our call for the prompt release of an athletics rule protecting students' rights to play consistent with their gender identity. If you have any questions about this letter, please contact Auden Perino ([email protected]) and Sarah Axelson ([email protected]).
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The head coach of Dutch "Vitess" Leonid Slutsky held a meeting with the management of club at which bad results of team in the last matches were discussed. The AD.PO edition of information of a source reports about it, the meeting was planned in advance, however the conversation took place in other key because of problems of Vitess. The club does not win the last four matches (one draw and three defeats) and plays from defense that is not pleasant to the management and fans. Because of it claims were expressed to Slutsky. On teme00:02 — on August 14, 2018 Sohn of komfortaslutskiya already wins against materials with new team. He is helped by Chelsea After the 21st Vitess tour, having scored 30 points, goes the fifth in standings of the championship of Holland. The club took off from a national cup. Slutsky works in the Netherlands since summer of 2018. Brothers Alexey and Vasily Berezutski who played under the leadership of the trainer in CSKA Moscow joined it as assistants. "The film of day" is more than important news in Telegram channel. Subscribe!


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Growing capabilities and challenging opportunities – an interview with Urmil Madan, Administration Manager of Supply Chain & Logistics
Over 26 years ago, Urmil Madan joined the BMMI team as a trainee, never expecting that a temporary position would grow into an almost three decade career. As the group's business expanded over the years, so did her ambition, development and loyalty. Today she is the Administration Manager of BMMI's Supply Chain and Logistics, overseeing services for a number of our diverse and evolving businesses.
What was it like when you first joined BMMI?
I joined the Finance team in February of 1992 for a six-month contract, as a fresh graduate with a degree in accounting. When an opportunity opened up in another division, I was recommended for the role and took it on. It was a challenge for me because I was very fresh and had no experience. Looking back, I appreciate that I had to quickly learn many things. It was a hands-on learning experience and motivated in me a self-driven, learning-by-doing attitude. We were a very small team, and the work volumes were high, but I was always excited by the momentum. Around two and a half years later, I then moved again, this time to our FMCG division, Nader Trading.
How did your role develop then?
Back then, I used to work with administration and warehousing, but our Logistics department as we know it today came into being in 1997, when we moved to the new offices of what is now our Sitra headquarters. It became a centralised operation, with the Beverages admin team also joining the FMCG admin team. The business continued to grow tremendously. Besides FMCG, and Beverages, we were also getting third party businesses and contracts in our newly built, state-of-the-art warehouse. You need to keep in mind that BMMI was one of the pioneers in logistics and a lot of us were learning many new things, fast. Together, we were exploring, developing and achieving a lot in this new field. It was a lot of hard work! We had to set up product masters, understand new systems, deal with suppliers and shippers, and handle much higher volumes. Now, we're dealing with our various FMCG brands, beverages, third-party logistics (3PL), e-commerce, procurement, shipping and more!
What does your average day look like?
Our days are extremely busy because we have several requirements and hurdles that pop up from time to time that we have to sort out from all angles. Keep in mind that we have to deal with health requirements and customs, answer to principals, create reports, abide by our international standards and make sure that stock is available on time. I still find it all very exciting because no two days are the same.
Did you always plan to stay in BMMI for so long?
I honestly never thought I would reach where I am today, nor did I have specific plans that I was going to stay this long. But as the days went by, I kept progressing. I developed a lot in terms of both my professional and personal life. To me, logistics was a totally new field and I still believe I am learning every day because it is such a rich industry. I always remain curious to learn every single thing I can! I found BMMI to be the place for me, from all sides. The work satisfaction is incredible, so are the opportunities to learn, our culture, our advanced policies, and I've always received support from management and colleagues. For me this is the only company - my first and last. With all I've learned, and how much I've grown, I can't imagine working anywhere else.
Do you ever think of getting into a new field?
Honestly, I fell in love with logistics! There's just so many opportunities and challenges. It keeps us busy and we're on our feet all the time – that truly gives us a push. Every day, we have something to sort out. It's not just limited to one area as well, so I never get bored. Witnessing the development of our logistics capabilities is also a great motivation. We started out small, but now we have superior warehousing, systems, procedures, equipment, KPIs and international standards under our Integrated Management Systems. BMMI is unique with what it offers in supply chain and logistics. We're one of the pioneers in the field and as the group's businesses continued to grow, so did the requirements and abilities. Each of our divisions has its own unique needs, and there's a lot of knowledge and technical understanding that goes into that. Logistics is like the engine of BMMI, because without it, we cannot operate or achieve our goals. We're always on call and always ready to go. It's a high energy and active role. As a team, that gives us a bigger sense of responsibility and motivation.
You're in a senior position in what many people describe as a male-dominated field, what are your thoughts on that?
Well, when I first started, I was the first woman to work in the warehousing and admin team of BMMI, and there used to be some questions about 'how will she handle it?' But I took it as a challenge and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I used to go down to the warehouse a lot to understand the products. I used to physically check them and I used to participate in a lot of stock takes. I used to get into the forklift cage and count products. With the passage of time, although some more women joined our team, I used to be the only woman there with all the men for the majority of the time, but it never felt odd. I felt like I was with family, and the team made me feel that way, always helping me to learn. Today, our teams are much more diverse, not just gender wise but also with nationalities, representing how inclusive BMM's culture truly is.
You mentioned that BMMI's culture was one of the reasons you stayed, can you elaborate?
Our culture is unique. First of all, personally, I've always felt a lot of equality and respect for each and every person. I've never experienced any sort of discrimination. To me, BMMI has soul, and I feel it all around me. Our management understands that we're people, and not just workers. Whatever our role is, they understand our needs and that's what makes BMMI different. I've also had a lot of support for training and development, not just in logistics, but in other things too, such as being an internal auditor, for example. It's a great culture to grow yourself in, if you take on the opportunities provided to you. I also try to live our Winning Hearts values every day and instil them in others. I was actually part of the team that helped develop the values and I truly believe in them.
As a long serving and vital employee of an organisation, do you have any advice for those beginning their careers?
I think it's really important that for anyone about to enter the workforce, or even join a new field or industry, to come in with the right mind-set, and that is that they have to work from the ground up. Because only then will you continue to rise sustainably and learn your field from A to Z. Don't limit yourself and say you can't do something. Always think that if someone else can do it, you can learn to do it too! Self-development is also crucial, you must push yourself and continue to learn. You will have mentors along the way, but some of the best learning comes by doing the work, putting yourself out there and trying your best. As they say, hard work does not go unnoticed!


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New Xenoblade 2 Patch Gets Rid Of The Game's Funniest Lines
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The Ardainian Soldier enemies in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 had some weird battle cries in the English voice over. These bloodlusty, passionate shrieks tickled the hilarity bones of many players. The latest patch has bashfully edited these clips into more reasonable exclamations. Hear it for yourself in this brief video.
In the version 1.0 English release, the soldiers yelled, "Think you can take me?" and "Don't forget me!" Their helmets muffled their voices. They screamed as though their thighs were fork-impaled. They sounded mad, and they sounded weird about being mad. They sounded like absolute freaks when you were fighting more than two of them at a time: above the heart-pumping battle theme music, six men repeatedly synchronized screams to "Think you can take me don't forget me don't forget think you can take me you're done!"
The 1.2 patch wholly replaces "Think you can take me?" with "Take this!" Well, that's banal.
They've also clipped the "Me" off of "Don't forget me!" So now they're just saying "Don't forget." Don't forget what? The "Don't forget!" voice sample is clearly the original "Don't forget me!" voice sample with the "me" clipped off. Those wily localizers thought I wouldn't notice. Well, they can't trick me—not after how many thousands of times those soldiers told me not to forget them.
When a soldier says "Take this! Don't forget!" in close enough succession while pointing his gun at you, it seriously sounds like he's telling you to take his gun, because he's worried you'll need it.
In the video, I also show you the Japanese voices, and try to give you a literal translation of what the soldiers are yelling.
Personally, I'm half-devastated that they removed these voices from the game. They were so funny. The magnitude of their hilarity might have been such that it offset every single one of the bad things Jason Schreier picked apart in his review.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: The Kotaku Review
Inelegant and tedious, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the anti-Nintendo game. In a year full of triumphs
Then again, I played the game with the Japanese voices on.
I made my own videos about Xenoblade Chronicles 2 using an advance copy, so I wasn't able to enjoy the Japanese voices until the game's official release and day-one patch. So after capturing footage for my videos, I muted the battle voices. What I'm getting at is, today, while capturing footage for this video, was the first time I heard Tora's battle voices. Wow, man. Just—wow.
And hey! Watch my videos! I didn't dislike the game at all. And if you don't dislike my videos at all, please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel! They've promised me one minute of vacation time for every new subscriber we get in 2018! (Note: they actually haven't.)
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Dear Departed: A Memoir
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Maria Louise Ascher.
Aidan Ellis, 346 pp., £18, April 1992, 0 85628 186 7Show More
Anna, Soror
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Harvill, 256 pp., £7.99, May 1992, 0 00 271222 9Show More
That Mighty Sculptor, Time
Aidan Ellis, 224 pp., £18, June 1992, 9780856281594Show More
Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
by Doris Grumbach.
Norton, 256 pp., £13.95, April 1992, 0 393 03009 1Show More
Anything Once
by Joan Wyndham.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 178 pp., £15.95, March 1992, 9781856191296Show More
Within Tuscany
by Matthew Spender.
Viking, 366 pp., £16.99, April 1992, 0 670 83836 5Show More
Marguerite Yourcenar was a highly honoured French writer, the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française, but her mother came from the Low Countries. The mother died in 1903, eight days after the daughter's birth: her married name was Fernande de Crayencour (from which the pen name 'Yourcenar' was constructed) and her maiden name was de Cartier de Marchienne. In 1974, Marguerite Yourcenar published Souvenirs pieux (the first volume of her memoirs, Le Labyrinthe du monde), but it is a 'memoir' that never deals directly with the author. The book is about Fernande, her family and ancestors, over several centuries in what is now called Belgium. They were people who could take the concept of 'pious memories' quite seriously or, at least, formally.
Yourcenar read and emended eight chapters of this new English version before her own death in 1987, and it was she who decided that the title, Souvenirs pieux, should be rendered as Dear Departed, 'with all its resonant irony'. She might almost have been thinking of the sour, dingy titles of British chuckle-shows in her time. On television we have been offered the 'resonant irony' of Till death us do part and In Sickness or in Health and One Foot in the Grave. There was a show (in the Seventies, I believe) called Valued Friends: it was about property values, home ownership, the housing market. Dear Departed is not such a rib-tickler as these, but it does offer an archaic smile, along with its stoicism. Yourcenar seems determined not to shed, nor to provoke, a sentimental tear. Instead she writes: 'I take issue with the assertion commonly heard that the premature death of a mother is always a disaster or that a child deprived of its mother feels a lifelong sense of loss and a yearning for the deceased.' Fernande had been the second wife of Yourcenar's proud father, Michel de Crayencour: the young daughter subsequently enjoyed sisterly or motherly relationships with her father's 'mistresses or quasi-mistresses and later his third wife'.
As a septuagenarian in 1974, Yourcenar noted that she was more than twice as old as Fernande had been in 1903, and that she could 'look at her as at a daughter whom I am trying my best to understand'. Set against this passage is a reproduction of Fernande's souvenir pieux – 'a small religious card that could be inserted between the pages of a missal', a printed reminder of the deceased, with prayers and texts, which was sent to her Roman Catholic friends and kinsfolk, urging them to pray for her soul, her departed spirit. Such printed pieties may well seem sentimental to outsiders – rather like the halting rhymes we find in the 'In Memoriam' columns of newspapers.
After reporting the death of this young mother, the birth of this child, Yourcenar embarks on a 'tour of the chateaux', the stately strongholds in the neighbourhood of Liège and Namur where members of Fernande's family, de Cartier de Marchienne, had quietly sheltered or sallied forth. All seem equally ancient, equally modern, in Yourcenar's disorienting prose, her glimpses. In 1792, a house of the family was commandeered by the terrible young Saint-Just, commissioner to the armies of the North. Yourcenar admits: 'Like a number of French men and women of my generation, I worshipped Saint-Just when I was very young.' She had liked to fancy that her great-great-grandmother fell in love with the handsome revolutionary: later the author's admiration for 'Robespierre's cruel friend' changed to 'a tragic pity'. In the 19th century, when events and manners seem more dowdy, recent enough to be 'old-fashioned', she detects a sort of fatuity in her forebears' piety: their real gods were all Roman and pagan, Plutus and Terminus, Lucina and, most certainly, Libitina, goddess of burials, 'pushed as far away as possible, but ever-present at family funerals and devolutions of inheritance'. A remembered ancestor, active on the battlefield at Crécy, leads her to quote from Sacheverell Sitwell, evoking 'the shock of the suddenly revealed past' from the effigy, at Tewkesbury Abbey, of another Crécy warrior, a 'man of prey', displaying 'the cruel eagerness of a wild cat'.
There are aspects of all three of the Sitwell siblings in Yourcenar's memoirs, also perhaps a touch of M.R. James: there is always something eerie about her evocation of past facts and probabilities. Her narrative reads like the sober preamble to an unsettling ghost story, a sceptical intelligence pressing on with reasoned discourse, while half-aware of flickering lights and muted voices behind the twitching curtain, beyond explanation. 'The episode that follows is so ugly that I hesitate to write it down': so begins one chapter, concerning a mysterious incident in 1887. A photograph of a character in this story (perhaps the villain) reveals a prosperous gentleman, Yourcenar's grandfather, with a thick imperial covering his lower lip and chin, 'making it impossible to assess the lines of his mouth. The eyes behind the pince-nez are sly and a bit roguish.' (A widower, he kept an unknown mistress in Namur.) Yourcenar remarks: 'I cannot say that I heard the cry of blood when I looked at that photo; in short, it is not the image of a man who would rain blows on someone weak or impaired.' Nevertheless, it may be that this personable grandfather (Fernande's father, remember) must bear the blame for violently killing his feeble-minded son, Gaston the Simple, rarely mentioned in the family circle.
This suspect grandfather had a cousin called Octave Pirmez, to whom Yourcenar devotes a substantial section of her book. She has textual evidence for her speculations here, since Octave was, 'chronologically, the first Belgian essayist of the 19th century'. He wrote, it would seem, the kind of belles-lettres we pass over in second-hand bookshops, dustily undisturbed among the essays of Shenstone and Stevenson, Birrell and Lynd. 'It took me a while, I confess, to become interested in my pale "Uncle Octave",' Yourcenar reports. Nevertheless, she made a little study of this neglected essayist – and of his beloved brother, Rémo, a melancholy young radical who shot himself (to the music of Tannhaüser) in the 1870s, at the age of 28. As with the case of Gaston the Simple, the family kept quiet about the manner of Rémo's death. Octave wrote an affectionate little book about him, keeping to 'the pious lie' (as Yourcenar calls it) that Rémo had an accident: 'he didn't know the gun was loaded.' What kind of radical was Rémo? Would he have been drawn to Fascism or Communism, or both? And what kind of liberal was Octave, so reserved, dreamy and poetical? Yourcenar does not pin them down. Nor does she extravagantly commend their concern for the poor, their pacifism. She remarks that Rémo's 'demagogic rhetoric is worth no more than Octave's doctrinaire eloquence.'
She prints a reproduction (which might be thought rather Gothic) of Octave's souvenir pieux in 1883: an engraving of two feet, savagely pierced by nails, from which great gouts of blood drip into a holy vessel held by a robed acolyte. Beneath is the legend, Voici le calice du salut, with two similar Christian exclamations in English and German. Yourcenar remarks that the engraving is executed 'in that Sulpician style which in those days still bore faint traces of the grand manner of the 17th century', and that the acolyte is evidently St John. All this is a part of the history, the mentalité, of Octave – and so of Yourcenar.
These are all fragments peeled from a few dowdy decades in the centuries rolling past Yourcenar's inward eye. They are so far from everyday conceptions of reality that Yourcenar can imagine Octave confronted, in a numinous seaside village, by a character from her own fiction – the 17th-century mystic called Zeno from L'Oeuvre au noir. 'Time and dates ricochet,' she remarks. 'For Rémo I feel an ardent respect. "Uncle Octave" sometimes moves me and sometimes irritates me. But Zeno I love like a brother.'
In the last section of Dear Departed, we come nearer to living flesh, material reality. Yourcenar's father, Michel de Crayencour, has arrived upon the scene, with the close-cropped hair and the long, drooping moustache that make 'this northern Frenchman look deceptively like a Hungarian magnate'. He is a widower of 46, a brilliant conversationalist, magnificent on horseback (with a photograph to prove it) and 'he glances appreciatively at Fernande's soft, somewhat languid form'. This is 1900 and Fernande is 28: she has read a few advanced books and 'has unjustly acquired a reputation for being a young lady with ideas', declares Yourcenar. The author follows their engagement trip and honeymoon travels, through Central Europe, Italy and France, with an almost envious enjoyment. She seems to want to be 'a member of the wedding'.
Yourcenar knew her father well: she might be thought to have sprung, like Pallas Athene, from her father's head, with no contribution from the faint, evanescent mother. Twenty years later (Yourcenar remarks as if in passing) the father handed his daughter a rather good story he had written, about an experienced, somewhat promiscuous man, wistful on his honeymoon: he suggested that she should revise it and publish it under her own name. Yourcenar did so, and won a literary prize. Earlier in the book, she has remarked that, just as she thought of Fernande, her dead mother, as being her puzzling young daughter, so she thought of Michel, her vivid father, as being her elder brother, strong and lucid. Perhaps this has something to do with the pattern of Yourcenar's life?
Two other recent Yourcenar publications are relevant to her memoirs. One is Anna, Soror, a collection of three novellas, previously published as Two Stories and a Dream. The 'dream' is a strong, persuasive tale about incest in 17th-century Naples, the love affair of a brother and sister, children of the Spanish governor. Another story concerns a 17th-century Dutchman, a versatile but unambitious man who is driven, by the accidents of fate, to travel to London and to thinly settled America, before he meets a lonesome death in the Frisian Islands: the third section is about this man's son, who becomes a boy actor, playing girls on Continental tours of Shakespeare's plays. The plausibility is more than scholarly: it is eerie. The tales read like eye-witness reports by an accomplished correspondent in some little-known territory, like modern Nagorno Karabakh. Yourcenar displays her unaffected sympathy and respect for such dangerous activities as sibling incest and male homosexuality. There are interesting glimpses, in the factual postludes, of Yourcenar's later life, as a resident in the State of Maine. The impressive essays in That Mighty Sculptor, Time, (an apt title, a quotation from Victor Hugo) range from a serious, well-informed study of Tantric Buddhism to a 'prose-poem' of 1931 about the loves of Michelangelo. Many good points are made about her own time (and ours), about feminism and the environment, but more pleasing and eerie is her account of the 'coincidences' that have attended her writing of historical fiction.
When her 70th birthday hit her, Doris Grumbach grimly began Coming into the End Zone. Seventy is a threatening age: three score years and ten. We may try to disregard our decades, believing our lives are divided into seven-year periods: but we are caught both ways by 70. It is, in the cant phrase, a double whammy. Doris Grumbach twice refers to Yourcenar and she quotes one of her aphorisms, as if for consolation: If you can say "mad with joy" you should be able to say "wise with grief".' But Grumbach has doubts: 'I grow more foolish, not wiser, in my grief.' To mark her 70th anniversary, Grumbach moved from Washington DC to the famously restful State of Maine – where Yourcenar had lived so long, on L'Ile des Monts-Déserts.
Before she settles down in the End Zone, Grumbach writes discursively of her griefs in the Inner City, assailed by thoughts of death and ageing. This is a sad account, deliberately saddening. The summer heat of Washington DC 'has increased the number of homicides in this city': her car is stolen and trashed by a young boy and she feels herself 'becoming paranoid and, what is worse, racist'. She takes many precautions against crime, but wonders 'how long will I be able to see some humour in my beleaguered state?' The Washington bookshop she runs, with her friend Sybil, is burgled, again. She feels 'at bay, attacked from within, sure that every passing young black is a threat. I despise the racism involved in this.' As for her men friends, they all seem to be dying of Aids. She has written several novels and a biography of Mary McCarthy, but, in the States, she seems most widely known for her broadcast book reviews on National Public Radio, and elsewhere for her annual contribution to the Britannica Book of the Year. By chance, she meets, once again, the withered near-death Mary McCarthy. 'Hello, Mary. Do you remember me?' 'Unpleasantly.'
For 12 long months she piles on the agony, but at last, on her 71st birthday, she can write: 'No longer am I burdened by the weight of my years. My new age does not worry me.' She has settled down in Maine, with Sybil, they have reopened their bookshop and she reads the lessons at the local Episcopalian church. This is, in the long run, a comforting sort of book.
Joan Wyndham, too, has passed 70. She saw it coming.
11 October 1990. My 69th birthday. Old age – how I hate it ... My head has started to poke forward like a turtle peering from its shell, my front teeth fall out when I sneeze ... How is it possible to go on pretending everything is OK with only ten or fifteen years to go?
Anything Once is more depressing than the memoirs of the other two old ladies, despite Joan Wyndham's skittishness and jollity. The extracts from her youngish diaries are sometimes convincingly happy-go-lucky, but the reminiscences by her older self sound rather as if she is 'pretending everything is OK'. This is the third volume of her autobiography. Both the preceding volumes dealt with her merry young life during World War Two, which she much enjoyed: they have been read aloud as the BBC's Book at Bedtime, to the delight of those nostalgic for wartime and their youth. Rushing through the half century of peacetime that ensued has proved to be less gleeful. It is Book-of-the-Dead Time.
After the war, she seeks out her father, a journalist called Dick Wyndham (he was divorced from her mother when Joan was two). She goes to parties with his rather pre-war friends, Cyril Connolly, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender. She has an affair with Lucian Freud, she visits Oxford, becomes pregnant and marries into a more modern set: her husband, a friend of Ken Tynan and Kingsley Amis, has to be indoctrinated into her mother's religion by the time-honoured Father D'Arcy, S.J. There are many more names, but she is not really name-dropping, in the usual sense: she is 'dreaming all the time of smart literary parties, full of my father's old friends' – especially when her father gets killed in the Middle East. Cyril Connolly and Sonia Brownell invite her round, to receive some of her father's letters: they found them, Sonia told her, 'when we went down to Tickerage to hide the whips ... He wasn't called Whips Wyndham for nothing.' Cyril says: 'My dear, didn't you know that your father was one of Europe's most famous flagellists?'
When her husband takes her to Baghdad, they let their London flat to a Russian, whom she marries on returning to England. She sets up, in Oxford, a coffee-bar for the Fifties, with money from a kinsman in the Tennant family: when it fails, she settles in Chelsea until 'in 1963, when I reached the ripe old age of 42,' as she puts it, 'I lost my appetite for raving.' Seven more riotous years flash by, and she declares: 'I had reached the end of my life as a middle-aged hippie.' Even so, she takes up with much younger men, in Chelsea and Ibiza, and is embarrassed when she meets their mothers: the youngsters are often markedly homosexual. One youth kills himself: she hides away his 'gay magazines', his vibrator and his suicide kit, before the bereaved mother calls. When she hits 56, she is catering for Bent at the Royal Court Theatre, wondering 'what the hell a rather wet Tory like me is doing in this temple to street cred and trade unionism' – but a colleague bolsters her confidence: 'I'll say something for you, Joan. You're a Royal Court person through and through!' Another Tennant kinsman funds a magazine, called the Chelsea Scoop, and she goes to Amsterdam to write about Callboy International, an erotic centre for ladies who have got 'past the grand climacteric'. She explains: 'I'd always been interested in the idea of male tarts for women.' I daresay all this seemed good fun at the time, but I find it too frightening to enjoy – and events move too spasmodically. I would have preferred her memories shaped into fiction by Angus Wilson, or Evelyn Waugh.
Joan Wyndham, it would seem, has found no retreat: she has been so busy skimming the waters of the deep, with youngsters on their first adventures, that she has never settled upon one of those harbours where elderly boats are beached. Her daughter has gone to Tuscany already: as a retirement home for gentlefolk, this region might be compared with the State of Maine. Stephen Spender's son, Matthew, has been living in Tuscany for some twenty years, engaged in agriculture, painting and sculpture. His memoir, Within Tuscany, will not be confused with the Edwardian travel book, In Tuscany (which still lingers in old bookshops, near Try anything once, selected book reviews by Raymond Mortimer). Matthew Spender is really into Tuscany, it appears: he describes curious events and situations, and discoveries of general scholarly interest, as incidents in his everyday life. His children are educated at the village school, he carves a crucifix for the church, he plays clarinet in the village band. He hears, from fellow bandsmen, about the more tolerable aspects of Mussolini's Fascism, he discovers and admires the cartoons of Maccari, an almost acceptable Fascist (sympathetic to the Jews), and he visits Pitigliano, an old-established Jewish town, with a 17th-century synagogue, which was later 'one of the few places in Italy where the Germans had been successful in destroying a whole community': most of the houses seem to be occupied by Germans, for 'there were such a lot of houses for sale, after the Jews had been taken away', as the restaurant-owner explains.
There are more pleasant topics – olives, bees, porcupines and frescoes. He makes little studies of older local history. He recommends the 18th-century writings about the government of Tuscany, made by Archduke Pietro Leopoldo, before he left to become Emperor in Vienna. He investigates the marble quarries used by Michelangelo, and the place where Savonarola is supposed to have met Lorenzo de' Medici and demanded 'liberty' for the people of Florence. Archaeologists have dug up the city square of Florence, where Savonarola was burned, and Spender has enjoyed watching the centuries being revealed. (Since this book was written, the cultural officials, responsible for repaving the square, have received jail sentences for aesthetic ineptitude.) Spender visits the places where Byron riskily intrigued and where Shelley died: he suspects that Shelley was murdered, and that political enemies of Byron were, at the same time, creating 'a vacuum around the victim', detaching Byron from friendly agencies – employing the same methods as those used now by the Mafia. (We might wonder whether the fall guys of the Florence repaving scandal have fallen victim to the same technique.)
'The theme is Tuscany,' Spender says. 'I thought I would take just one or two events in the remote past, or even from my own life here, and cover them well, leaving the readers to fill the gaps.' This is a fair description, though the expression 'cover them well' is ambiguous: the people and conversations he describes are as interesting as characters in good fiction – which they may be, for Spender admits that 'some of the characters are imaginary', others are covered by false names, and some places have been heavily disguised. 'Coverage', in the other sense, is often concentrated, thorough and detailed, whether the subject is the 'undertow of violence' in Dante's work, or the tricky matter of an English girl, a friend of Spender's daughter, and whether she is, or has been, sexually threatened by his satyr-like farm-labourer. 'A young girl, fresh from England': it is as if 'Signor Matteo' were a British Resident under the Raj, deciding between Miss Quested and Dr Aziz.
D.A.N. Jones was formerly assistant editor of the Listener.
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The Spencer Mansion, that place I left behind back in 1996. Many zombies, Hunters and mutated spiders fell to the slugs that spewed out of my Colt Python handgun and ripped their tender flesh to pieces. I played the game so much; I was giving tips to my friends on how to solve this puzzle, where to go next. I was the true Master of Unlocking.
After the inevitable sequels, which were also amazing under Director Shinji Mikami's guiding hand, came the REmake (or REbirth) on Gamecube. That was a game changer. Updated visuals, story changes, new items, new weapons as well as extra unlocks. I didn't play much of the Gamecube version as I didn't own the console right away. I'm glad I didn't play it now as I can now enjoy the newly released HD Remastered version in glorious HD, updated controls, widescreen support, 5.1 surround sound and above all, 60 Frames per Second. It's glorious.
Most, if not all of the areas have been touched up in some way. Some effects and shadows have even been re-done so the old assets don't stick out so much in higher resolutions. The pre-rendered backgrounds still look surprisingly fresh given the amount of time that's passed although there's the odd area that looks a little ropey.
The updated control scheme feels a little unnatural for me; I'm a Resident Evil purist, so tank controls suit me perfectly. It's still a nice addition though and will likely appeal to first time players of the franchise.
Playing the game on PC is a treat. There's full controller support, keyboard and mouse works rather well, lots of bells and whistles to tweak in the option menu. The big change though is the framerate. Playing at 60FPS is butter smooth and really feels awesome. I'm really surprised that Capcom only has this feature on PC, surely the Xbox One and PS4 are capable of running the game above 30FPS. Weird.
The audio is spot on. Haunting musical scores fill your ears with doom and dread as well as the sound of a nearby Hunter, clicking, waiting for its next meal.. the zombies, generic in their moans but still terrifying when you're least expecting it. Then there are the Crimson Heads… the game changing raging counterparts of zombies you thought you'd killed a few minutes before. Use the kerosene on their corpses or take their heads clean off, it's the only way to stop them coming back. An ingenious and downright terrifying addition to the game.
Of all the Resident Evil games out there, this and the original are by far the best. You genuinely have that feeling of tension and dread. Ammo is so scarce that every shot counts, particularly on the higher difficulty settings. The fixed camera angles add a sense of uncertainty and the door loading screens, although not technically necessary; still add a lot of atmosphere.
Now that Capcom have concrete evidence that you can indeed teach an old dog new tricks (recent reports show REMaster is the best-selling digital only title they've produced), perhaps we can look forward to a HD Remaster of Resident Evil 2? It would surely be rude not to.
The King has entered the building, again. Proof that old games are still relevant and that artistic vision and atmosphere are as important than ever. Long live the King.


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Q: Unable to get currentTime proprty from react h5 audio player in react I want to show current time property of react h5 audio player in react html. I tried to use useeffect with dependency  but it is still not updating time with new value. please see below code and attached sandbox https://codesandbox.io/s/list-keepr-app-forked-vhzkyr
import { useEffect, useState, useRef } from "react";
import "./styles.css";
import AudioPlayer from "react-h5-audio-player";
import "react-h5-audio-player/lib/styles.css";
import Button from "./components/Button";

export default function App() {
  const [file, setFile] = useState();
  const [playTime, setCurrentTime] = useState(0);
  const inputFileRef = useRef(null);
  const audioRef = useRef(null);
  function clickHandle(e) {
    console.log(inputFileRef.current.files[0]);

    const filename = URL.createObjectURL(inputFileRef.current.files[0]);

    setFile(filename);
    // console.log();
  }

  function handleTimeUpdate() {
    setCurrentTime(audioRef.current.audio.current.currentTime);
  }
  //console.log(audioRef.current.audio.current.currentTime);
  useEffect(()=>{

    handleTimeUpdate()

  },[playTime])

  return (

      <Button refs={inputFileRef} clickHandle={clickHandle}/>

Current time: {playTime}

      <AudioPlayer
        autoPlay
        src={file}
        onPlay={(e) => console.log("playing")}
        ref={audioRef}
      />

  );

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A Mining Family – Mary Jane Bracken and Grafton Olson Willoughby
By Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research on August 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Mary Jane Willoughby, September 15, 1866 – April 25, 1946. Married Grafton Willoughby in 1887. Brother, James H. Bracken, died on the Titanic, 1912. Crescent Hill (Old Company) Cemetery, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
Ritchey and I visited Crescent Hill (Old Company) Cemetery in October of 2017. The cemetery was small and overgrown, but still quite lovely. It is located in the eastern portion of Muhlenberg County, in the Bevier neighborhood. If you take US431 south from Central City, just past Western Kentucky Parkway, turn left onto Drakes School Road. There are two cemeteries very close, and they may come together at some point. The gravestone pictured above caught my interest immediately. Her husband is listed and a brother, but neither are buried in this cemetery. There was a story to tell.
Mary Jane Willoughby was the daughter of William Bracken and Sarah Morris (as listed on her death certificate). William was born in Tennessee, Sarah in Kentucky. In the 1880 census of Ohio County, in the western portion of Kentucky, William is 39, Sarah 27. Children listed are Mary J., 12; Amanda F., 7; Leonora, 5; and Joseph F., 1. In 1900 the family lived in neighboring Muhlenberg County. Two more children were born in those twenty years – James Herman, 15; and Bertha, 10. Daughter Amanda married a Mr. Neafue, but at the age of 27 is widowed. She and her two children, Lee D., 7; and Annie M., 5; live with her parents.
As per her gravestone Mary Jane Bracken married Grafton Olson Willoughby in 1887. Grafton was the son of Isaac Willoughby, born in Tennessee, and Sally. In 1870 they lived in Butler County, which adjoins both Ohio and Muhlenberg counties. In the census Isaac is 40, Sally, 37. Their children are Sylvia, 20; Elizabeth, 18; James, 12; Squire, 10; Grafton, 6; and Colorado, 2 (male). By 1880 three more children were born – Malcise, 9 (male); Tela E., 6 (female); and Peoin, 1 (male).
As Mary Jane Bracken and Grafton Willoughby were married in 1887, they appeared in the 1900 census of Muhlenberg. Grafton was a coal miner, he was 35; Mary was 31; she had given birth to 5 children and 4 were living. The children were William, 9; Nellie B., 7; James Clarence, 5; and Emma, 11/12. By 1910 two more children were added to the family – Jessie, 7 (male); and Alta, 3. Son William, who was 19, was a coal miner like his father.
In 1912 Mary Jane lost her brother James Herman Bracken to the icy waters of the North Atlantic when the Titanic hit an ice burg and sank. His body was not recovered, and I think it a great tribute to have this information on her gravestone – he will not be forgotten.
By 1920 the family had moved to Pike County – the easternmost county in Kentucky. Oddly enough Grafton was a carpenter. Perhaps he could no longer work in the dusty coal mines. Son Jessie, at 16, was a coal miner. And one additional child, Edward, was 9.
Grafton Willoughby died December 30, 1926, in Floyd County. His death certificate gives kidney failure as cause of death, with asthma as a contributing factor. I feel the last was due to his years working in coal mines. His parents are listed as Bill and Sally Ann Dockery on his death certificate – however from census records we know that to be incorrect. Perhaps that was the maiden name of Sally since I could find no other reference. After much search I found Grafton buried in Estill Cemetery, in Floyd County.
In the 1930 census for Floyd County we find Mary Jane, 63; son Edward, 19; Alta Sykes, 23, her daughter who was a widow; and four Willoughby grandchildren – Gladys, 16; Beatrice, 14; Mary J., 10; and Richard, 5.
1931 was a hard year for the family. 21-year-old Jessie Willoughby, still a coal miner, was 'crushed through his body by falling slate in the coal mine'. This is from his death certificate. He was married to Frankie Arwood and was buried in Estill Cemetery with his father.
The Owensboro Messenger, Daviess County, Kentucky
Saturday, April 27, 1946.
When Mary Jane Bracken Willoughby died April 25, 1946, of tuberculosis, she lived in McLean County. At some point between 1930 and 1946 she moved back across the state from Floyd County to her home area (McLean adjoins Ohio and Muhlenberg). Her death certificate was signed by son James Clarence, who listed his address as Knoxville, Tennessee. For over eighty years she took care of her family until the end. As per her obituary she was survived by three daughters, Nellie Thegley, who lived in Owensboro; Emma Bennett, who lived in Rockport, Indiana; and Alta O'Berry (she must have married again after being widowed so young) of Jacksonville, Florida; and two sons, James Clarence of Knoxville, Tennessee; and William of Livermore in McLean County. There were 22 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. What a wonderful number of descendants!
Every time I write about Muhlenberg County, I think of the song written by John Prine – "Paradise". This song was written for John's father and was recorded on his 1971 debut album. It's about the devastating impact of strip mining for coal, where the top layers of soil are blasted off with dynamite or dug away with steam shovels to reach the coal seam below. It tells the story of the devastation in the area around the Green River in Kentucky because of strip mining. The Green River is the county boundary for Ohio County on the eastern side and Muhlenberg and McLean counties on the west side of the river. The small area called Paradise was about midway of that river boundary in Muhlenberg County. Miners started taking coal from the county as early as the 1880's. Otto A. Rothert's A History of Muhlenberg County, he states that fatalities occurred in all the coal-mining districts of the county. Three disasters were particularly tragic. In the Moody Mines on February 10, 1908, in the South Carrollton district, ten men were killed. In the Browder Mine, 34 were killed February 1, 1910. And 5 were killed on January 17, 1912, in the Central Coal and Iron Company Mine. This did not include various accidents when one or two were killed. Did this have a bearing on the Willoughby family moving to eastern Kentucky?
Paradise – Take me back to Muhlenberg County
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
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Washington, D.C.–The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) urges Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales to comply with the Guatemalan Constitutional Court ruling which overturns his decision to abruptly cancel the mandate of the anti-corruption agency CICIG. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has also called on President Jimmy Morales to uphold the mandate of the CICIG. Unilaterally terminating CICIG's mandate deals a blow to efforts to combat corruption and improve the justice system in Guatemala. CICIG has been effectively working with determined and valiant Guatemalan prosecutors to root out corruption wherever it is found—corruption by organized crime, drug traffickers, businessmen, and politicians. Such corruption drives inequality, sacks government coffers of the funding needed for basic public services and is often linked to serious human rights abuses. CICIG's efforts have offered more than a ray of hope to Guatemalans struggling to build a more just society.
The Latin America Working Group calls on Secretary of State Pompeo to convey clearly to President Morales that the United States government believes that the Guatemalan government must advance in strengthening the rule of law, protecting human rights, and combating corruption, including in its own ranks. He should make it abundantly clear that this includes continuing CICIG's mandate and cooperating with its efforts.
"While President Trump was preparing to go on television calling for building more walls to keep out the caravans of Hondurans, Guatemalans and other Central Americans fleeing violence, lack of opportunity, corruption and impunity in their countries, the President of Guatemala abruptly cancelled his government's agreement with the international agency CICIG to fight corruption. It makes no sense for the United States to fail to react vigorously to this blatant setback on corruption in Guatemala when the corrosive impact of corruption is one of the factors that force Guatemalans to flee," said Lisa Haugaard, director of the Latin America Working Group.


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Sometimes you just gotta take the plunge and wear a dress that will push you a bit out of your comfort zone. This plunge neck dress is perfect in every way, and I was immediately drawn to its super feminine, vintage vibe.
I wasn't sure how I would feel about wearing something so low-cut, but I actually love it! Everything else about this dress is pretty modest, so it balances out the plunge neck perfectly. I don't feel like it's too revealing at all (especially since I don't have much going on up top any way).
This plunge neck dress also comes in a pretty olive green, and I found a very similar Free People dress that comes in blue, black, and ivory. I honestly want them all!
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Геометриза́ція родо́вища кори́сних копа́лин (рос.геометризация месторождения полезного ископаемого, англ. geometrization of mineral deposits) — графічне, аналітичне чи цифрове моделювання родовища комплексним використанням інформації, отриманої при розвідці, розробленні та з урахуванням технологічних вимог експлуатації родовища. Джерелами такої інформації можуть бути геофізичні дослідження, результати розвідувального буріння, геолого-маркшейдерська документація тощо. Результати геометризації родовища використовують для розрахунку запасів покладу, при плануванні й будівництві гірничих підприємств, вони також підвищують ефективність використання вже розроблених родовищ.

Графічна геометризація родовищ корисних копалин полягає в створенні структурних та якісних гірничо-геометричних графіків. В структурних графіках відтворена система вертикальних і горизонтальних розрізів, гіпсометричні карти, плани ізопотужностей та ізоглибин, об'ємні графіки та моделі. Відповідно, розрізи на цих графіках показують будову покладу в горизонтальному чи вертикальному вимірі; гіпсометричні плани відтворюють поверхню покладу, тектонічні зрушення, залягання водоносних та водоупорних горизонтів; плани ізопотужностей показують зміни потужності шарів корисних копалин в будь-якій точці покладу, плани ізоглибин — зміни глибини залягання корисних копалин; об'ємні графіки та моделі характеризують найскладніші геологічні структури.

Аналітичне моделювання при геометризації родовищ корисних копалин також передбачає створення гірничо-геометричних графіків, але полягає переважно у відтворенні ізоліній вмісту корисних або шкідливих компонентів руд, лінійних запасів тощо. Математичні методи, застосовані з використанням комп'ютерів, дозволяють створити цифрові моделі родовища.

Включає:
 обробку структурних особливостей покладу корисної копалини (геометризація форми родовища),
 виявлення основних закономірностей і характеристик розміщення,
 якісних особливостей покладу (геометризація властивостей родовища).

Здійснюється за даними буріння, геофіз. та геол. досліджень, геол.-маркшейдерської документації, вивчення виробок на кожній стадії розвідки і експлуатації родовища. Результатом Г.р. є аналітична або графічна (об'ємна) модель родовища.

Графічна документація Г.р. включає структурні гірничо-геометричні графіки, які складаються з системи вертикальних і горизонтальних розрізів, гіпсометрич. планів, планів ізопотужностей та ізоглибин, графіків ізоліній вмісту корисних або шкідливих компонентів, об'ємних графіків і моделей.

Джерела

Маркшейдерія
Географічні інформаційні системи
Розвідка родовищ корисних копалин

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Lone Star College-CyFair's Noah Miller received the Walter B. Cooper Memorial Scholarship, which he said was a tangible reward for hard work put in on his way to a career in public service.
The $500 scholarship awarded at the recent Phi Theta Kappa Texas Leadership Conference is just another motivation for Miller to keep pushing toward his dream.
The Texas Region Alumni Association presents this scholarship in memory of Walter B. Cooper. He was an advisor for the Alpha Gamma Pi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, who advised students how to become well-rounded individuals in each of the honor society's hallmarks.
Miller began his college journey in 2013 as an LSC-CyFair Dual Credit student making mediocre grades and returned in 2015 where he excelled academically and now works in the Enrollment Management Department as Student Ambassador.
Having taken on a leadership role of Vice President, Honors in Action in Phi Theta Kappa and getting involved in campus life at LSC-CyFair, Miller said he feels he's a part of something bigger than himself. The next step in his journey is to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin.
"Noah is a leader in our chapter and across the campus. I'm constantly impressed with his intellectual curiosity, his commitment to service and his inclusive approach to leadership," said LSC-CyFair's Beta Lambda Mu chapter advisor Dr. Blake Ellis.
Last year's LSC-CyFair recipient of the Walter B. Cooper Memorial Scholarship, Skeyler Aguado, went on to become a Terry Transfer Scholar, said Ellis. This year, two fellow Phi Theta Kappa members, Daniela Markovic and Raven Campos, also earned scholarships at the recent conference, including the Dr. Mary Hood Scholarship and Texas Star Scholarship, respectively.
For information on Phi Theta Kappa at LSC-CyFair, contact Dr. Ellis at Blake.A.Ellis@LoneStar.edu.


Figure skating is driven by determination, dedication and a desire to express yourself with artistic passion on the ice. The Toller Cranston Memorial Fund Athlete Award recognizes these attributes in 14 of the top Next Gen skaters who exemplify this in their sport.
The award honours the late Toller Cranston, a man known for his creativity, freedom of expression and dramatic showmanship. Although he never received an Olympic or World title, his unique artistic vision forever changed the sport of figure skating. For Toller, skating was more than a sport, it was a way to express himself.
Each winner will also receive a free pair of industry-leading boots and blades courtesy of Jackson Ultima Skates.
The awards are presented at Skate Canada Sectional awards banquets by former Olympic competitors, family, and friends of Toller's from coast to coast. The last event this year took place on June 9th.
The Toller Cranston Memorial Fund was established by the Canadian Olympic Foundation shortly after Toller's death in 2015. The fund is a way to show appreciation for the artistry he brought to the world of figure skating and to financially assist young skaters who possess the same artistic values and style as he did.


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Home | Stories | Conductor Leslie Dunner shares his unexpected journey to music and the power of being well-rounded
Conductor Leslie Dunner shares his unexpected journey to music and the power of being well-rounded
By Keegan Morris and Michael San Gabino | October 31, 2018
Dr. Leslie Dunner, the newly-appointed conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and the music director of the South Shore Opera Company of Chicago, never expected to be a conductor or a music educator. He never even planned to have a career in music.
His first foray into music occurred by chance. In his elementary school days, his school administered aptitude tests, and Dunner did well in music, art, and science. He opted to pursue the clarinet, but not for the reasons you'd expect.
Dunner recalls being curious about the clarinet when groups would come to perform at his elementary school. "It had nothing to do with the sound or the desire to be a musician. I was just told I had this aptitude and wanted to find out what this person called a clarinetist was doing."
Though he enjoyed the clarinet, Dunner didn't consider pursuing music professionally. After high school, he matriculated to the University of Rochester on an engineering scholarship. He eventually realized engineering was not for him — Dunner knew he wanted to do something else, but he wasn't sure what.
His mother encouraged him to choose another major in a field that interested and excited him, so he returned to music, and took up the clarinet again for the first time since high school and attended a music summer program in Nice. After a formative experience at the program, Dunner remembers, "I didn't know what I was going to do for a living, but I knew was going to be a musician."
He completed his degree in clarinet performance at the Eastman School of Music and went on to receive advanced degrees in music theory and musicology before landing a conducting position at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was only after a few years conducting at DSO that he realized his music career would be in conducting, not in clarinet. He later received a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of Cincinnati, and he went on to be the music director at the Joffrey Ballet and guest conduct the New York Philharmonic.
Another unexpected career discovery came out of a private lesson with Dunner's nephew, a drummer. Ten minutes into their lesson, Dunner's nephew asked why he wasn't a teacher. Dunner recalls the conversation — "My nephew said, 'I see you light up in a way I haven't seen in years. I hear the excitement in your voice. You obviously love teaching!'"
Dunner's indirect route to teaching and conducting informs his work as the Music Director of the South Shore Opera Company and will guide his approach at Interlochen.
South Shore Opera seeks to train and further the careers of young singers and instrumentalists. "We are an inner-city opera company," Dunner says, "We focus on works of marginalized composers and marginalized performers. Most of our performers are people of color." In addition to promoting lesser-known repertoire from composers of color, South Shore Opera aims to support artists by giving them a path into organizations like the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater.
As the conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Dunner wants to expand the musical base of its students and encourage more collaboration across artistic disciplines. The Interlochen Academy is an arts boarding high school that is also the site of the Interlochen Arts Camp, which hosts the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and has a prestigious reputation for attracting young musicians from around the world.
Dunner shares that he wants to increase the caliber of music performance while broadening the academy's musical repertoire. Their most recent concert boasted a varied program with works by Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, and Alberto Ginastera. Dunner notes, "Faculty members have told me that the students are excited in a way that they haven't seen in a long time."
Dunner is also intent on building interdisciplinary bridges within the Academy. He hopes that this effort will help to encourage a drive for holistic, multifaceted learning among students. "The school is also trying to unite all of our different disciplines including music, drama, comparative arts, literature, and film studies. I want to make sure that my work at the Academy helps to incorporate all of these different facets, so we do work collaboratively. We want people who want to move in a new direction. And we want our students to have a well-rounded background in arts or science. If they want to go on in dance or in film or in literature, they can."
Dunner's multidisciplinary background, which has guided him through his career, informs his advice to young artists.
"Make sure you don't overload yourself so that you're not trying to bring in everything simultaneously. Focus on one or two things at a time. Develop a strong proficiency there and then add something new. Don't limit yourself by saying, 'I'm going to be a dancer, so I'm not going to study chemistry.' You need to be a well-rounded human being. You don't have to be locked in at 20, or 30, or 40. As long as you're living, you have choices. Take advantage of them."
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– japoński aktor głosowy, związany z Aoni Production.

Wybrana filmografia

Anime
 1981: Dr. Slump
 1984: Hokuto no Ken jako Juda
 1985: Kidō Senshi Zeta Gundam
 1987: Baśnie braci Grimm
 1988: Mały lord jako Wilkins
 1989: Księga dżungli jako Nil (a.k.a. Sanjay)
 1990: Tajemniczy opiekun jako Jimmy Pendleton
 1990: Robin Hood jako Mały John
 1991: Krzysztof Kolumb jako Krzysztof Kolumb
 1989: Dragon Ball Z jako Zachodny Kaio
 1996: Dragon Ball GT jako Son Para
 1997: Pocket Monsters jako doktor Akihabara
 1999: One Piece jako Wapol
 2003: Sonic X jako Bocoe, Chuck
 2008: Yes! Pretty Cure 5
 2010: Dragon Ball Kai – jako Bóg (Rola przejęta po Takeshi Aono), Babidi (Rola przejęta po Jouji Yanami) i Zachodny Kaio

Seriale tokusatsu
 2002: Ninpū Sentai Hurricanger

Bibliografia

 Bin Shimada w bazie Behind The Voice Actors
 Bin Shimada w serwisie Anime News Network
 Bin Shimada w serwisie MyAnimeList

Seiyū
Urodzeni w 1954
Ludzie urodzeni w Niigacie


What we should offer as dhana in this Adhika Masa or Purushothama Masa?
Adhika masam or Adhik Masa is an additional month that appears in the Hindu Lunar calendar. A year with an Adhika masam will mean that it has 13 months instead of the usual 12 months. The Adhika masam appears only in calendars that consider it. Hence, the local / regional calendars that are followed in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Bengal and Assam will not have them since they follow the Solar Calendar.
Any Solar calendar has 365 days. However, a Lunar calendar will have 354 days. These difference in the days, over years, make up for the additional month upon which there will be a sync between the two calendars. Generally, an adhika masa comes every years (32 months, 16 days and 8 ghadis to be precise). A ghadi is 24 minutes.
 Offer 33 Books like Lalitha Sahasranamam or Vishnu Sahasranamam or Devi Stuti etc..
Offer these books in the hands of children who are weak in studies for good education or anyone can offer.
 Offer 33 Hanathe deepa (earthen lamps) filled with ghee oil (Thuppa in kannada ; Nei in Tamil). Light any one lamp and offer remaining 32 lamps without lighting to any person.
If you offer lamps, your life will get brighter.
 Offer 33 Apupa (barley or rice cakes deep-fried and dipped in honey) a sweet dish.
This is my opinion (not guruji's) : If you don't know what is Apupa offer any sweet dish.


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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease large rectangular baking sheet. Line with parchment paper and extend paper above sides to you can lift out the entire slice when ready.
For the biscuit base, sift flour and sugar into a bowl. Add coconut and butter and mix together with mixer. Press mixture firmly into baking sheet and bake 10-15 minutes, until golden brown.
To make the caramel, put the corn syrup, butter and condensed milk into a saucepan over low heat until butter is melted. Continue cooking for 7-10 minutes as the caramel thickens and darkens in color. Pour over prepared base and put back in oven for 20 minutes.
Pour the mixture over the caramel and smooth gently over the top. Sprinkle with cocoa powder. Allow to set before removing the whole slab from the baking sheet, then cut into slices.