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Diverse Countries Do Better with Female Heads of State
Lisa Wade, PhD
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Countries with a lot of ethnic diversity generally show weaker economic growth than homogeneous countries. A new study, however, discovered a variable that strongly reverses the trend: women leaders.
Management professor Susan Perkins and her colleagues compared the economic growth rate of 139 countries over 55 years. They found that diverse countries did significantly better when a woman was at the helm. The more diverse the country, the stronger the effect.
Perkins and her co-authors cautiously attempt to explain their data (here), but think that it may have something to do with leadership style. Female leaders have been shown to be more collaborative and non-authoritarian than men. Co-author Nicholas Pearce speculates:
In countries with a lot of internal conflict, oftentimes people are looking for signals that the person in charge is going to be collaborative and not dictatorial or self-interested. Women's gender role is symbolic of collaboration, that they're going to empower marginalized voices.
Because of gender stereotypes, then, women may seem more trustworthy. Meanwhile, real differences in leadership style may affirm those expectations and be more effective in practice.
Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 4 to 5 October 2019.

Summary

Background
Defending champion Great Britain was back with two members of their winning team, taking the qualifying heats with a world leading time.  South Africa set the African continental record as they qualified winning the other heat.  In a familiar situation, despite having the gold and silver medalists on their team, USA struggled with their handoff, completing their handoff at the end of the third zone and missing disqualification by inches or a favorable judge's decision.  USA was the slowest qualifier into the final, just .08 ahead of Italy setting their national record in the adjacent lane.  Because of the poor qualification position, USA drew lane 8.  Instead of a substitute anchor runner, they went with their "A" team, putting in 200 meter champion Noah Lyles.  Lyles spent the 2019 season coming back after slow starts, essentially demonstrating his superior top end speed.  In a relay with a rolling start, his slow starts are negated. USA put the fastest starter, now the fastest man in the world, Christian Coleman in the blocks running against GBR's fastest turn runner Adam Gemili.

Race
Coleman did his part, gaining rapidly on China's best starter Su Bingtian to his outside.  With a smooth handoff, as Justin Gatlin took his first step, he was ahead of China meaning USA would have no traffic interference for the rest of the race.  One lane inside of Coleman, Gemili also did his job, keeping GBR close.  Shuhei Tada for Japan also gained on World Relays champion Brazil.

On the second leg, Gatlin separated from Xu Zhouzheng and Zharnel Hughes also lost a little to the Olympic champion, but USA was right where GBR could watch them.  Mike Rodgers had to hesitate to get the baton from Gatlin, but with USA's history, there was no disaster.  GBR's handoff was also hesitant, with Richard Kilty having to decelerate to not run out of the handoff zone, but Japan passed quickly to former junior world record holder Yoshihide Kiryū to keep them close.  Through the turn, Rodgers separated from Kilty, Kiryū also gained with Japan passing in second place and South Africa was pulling close to Brazil to create a traffic jam.  USA handed off cleanly to Lyles, as if they had practiced the handoff in advance.  Japan handed off to their national record holder Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, GBR handed off to Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, South Africa gave it to #6 on the season Akani Simbine and Brazil had Paulo André de Oliveira.  And they were off to the races.

With a metre and a half advantage, Lyles expanded it to three metres by the finish.  Lyles crossed the line holding the baton in the air in victory.  Mitchell-Blake gained slightly to battle Brown for the medals, taking silver by a half a metre.  Behind them de Oliveira came back on Simbine to nip South Africa at the line.

USA's 37.10 tied Jamaica's rescinded Usain Bolt/Asafa Powell powered 2008 Olympic team for the third fastest ever and the American record.  Great Britain's 37.36 tied two more Bolt led Jamaican World Championship teams from 2013 and 2015 for the sixth best ever and the European record.  Japan's 37.43 moved them into #14 in history, #4 as a country and the Asian record.  And Brazil moved to become the #8 country, just behind South Africa's now #7 place from their faster race the trials and set the South American record improving on the one they tied in the trials.  In all four continental records and nine national records among the 16 team event.

Records
Before the competition records were as follows:

The following records were matched or set at the competition:

Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Results

Heats
The first three in each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Final
The final was started on 5 October at 22:15.

References

4 x 100 metres relay
Relays at the World Athletics Championships

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OG Believes Overwhelming Fan Support Kept Her from Being Pushed off 'Basketball Wives'
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OG had a lot of drama on the recent season of "Basketball Wives."
"Basketball Wives" has been a controversial show since season one. However, the most recent season may have been one of the most controversial yet. And OG became a huge topic on social media. One of the first things people couldn't stop talking about was the fact that OG revealed Byron Scott is not Thomas Scott's biological father. She did so while she was in the middle of an argument with Kristen Scott. After Kristen came for OG's boo Kwame Alexander, OG decided to get even by telling the group and viewers that Thomas was actually adopted by Byron. This devastated Kristen and a lot of the other women told OG she crossed the line.
Then OG got into a nasty feud with Evelyn Lozada. They were already in a rocky place after Evelyn made fun of OG's toes. She even nicknamed OG "Toe-G." So after Feby Torres told Evelyn that OG was bragging about being friends with Chad Johnson on Twitter, Evelyn wanted to get revenge.
She reached out to Chad to get "receipts" that were supposed to show that OG was not Chad's friend, but a "groupie" who tried to pursue him. However, OG came with her own receipts that showed Chad was actually the one who pursued her romantically.
OG accused other cast members of colorism.
By the time the reunion rolled around, a lot of the women refused to film with OG. And they said OG was too aggressive and they were afraid she would get violent.
OG said this was colorism. Although Shaunie O'Neal and the others disagreed, a lot of the viewers didn't. Recently, OG agreed that the support of the viewers is the only reason why what seemed as an attempt to ice her out failed.
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Oh Shaunie was definitely about to get OG up out of there. It's messed up too because everyone knows Evelyn is the most violent person there. And shoot, Malaysia just threw a table at Jenn a year ago. They need to stop with the double standards.
Bull crap OG was always telling everyone what she would do to them. She's there because she played the Black card. In truth OG is insecure about the other ladies that's why shes always going after everyone. I wish she hadn't come back.
Sorry sis, but throwing a wine bottle at someone and chasing someone down with a bamboo stick is way more violent than telling someone what you will do to them. Evelyn is the most violent one on the show. That can't be disputed. Malaysia is in second place since she threw a table at Jennifer. 🤷🏿♀
It's pretty obvious I think. OG was on her way out but the backlash kept her from being fired. Shaunie had already started the narrative about how OG was the outkast and she needed to make some changes to the group.
Margaret Parker
You can say what you want but OG's first appearance, turned me against her. She started out pissed because Tristian left her party. She felt it was her place to
make Tristian feel bad for leaving at which point Tristian stated she had a husband to go home to.
OG was extremely abrasive at the start, before even knowing any of the ladies and for no reason, this is most likely why all of this controversy erupted. Why have so much pride in talking to one of the ladies exes when you have a whole man who won't even commit to you after several years? How about fix that situationship… Then, why would you out a private family dynamic in the middle of an argument, mostly because she was about to lose that argument. It's clear she was looking foolish and used that information as a weapon. Her behavior was classless throughout most of that season. I can handle pushback, drink throwing, even being chased with a bamboo stick, but when you start praying about peoples v-ginas, using the gods for wickedness and talking about breaking every single persons jaw, yea you are just WACK and LAME to me. I will tell you this, ANYONE who ever says to ME that they can kill me with their bare hands but don't feel like it, IS NOT LEAVING THAT ROOM UNTIL I'm DEAD….That's a "Brooklyn Born and Raised" fact. Picking on little 100 lb Feby does not make you gangsta, it makes you a LAME BULLY. I hope everyone refuses to film with Toe-G, cause in all actuality if she is so dope and has all of this going for her and doesn't need to be around ladies she has previously accused of colorism, then why is she back on the show? I'll tell you why: cause even after all the talking and all the bashing, that girl STILL NEEDS THE MONEY. Otherwise, keep "your integrity" and don't be on the show. It's that simple.
Beez
I agree completely with what you said. If she has so much going for her, why would she want to work with people she knows truly doesn't want to be around her? She should leave the show, I know I will not watch it again if she's on it.
I agree with you wholeheartedly Miss T. Plus I feel that OG, because of her Nigerian Birth, thinks this makes her better than other Blacks or she would not keep bringing it up.
You Evelyn stans need to cut the sh-t. Y'all are seriously on here clutching pearls about what OG has done yet in the same keystrokes, downplaying all the violence Evelyn has done on the show. It's pathetic. OG is far from perfect but y'all really need to stop insulting people's intelligence on the internet. There is nothing that OG has done that has been worse than what Evelyn has done. There isn't a petition to remove OG from the show because she's too violent. OG isn't the one who nearly got the show canceled because sponsors thought they may need to back off because people were calling for a boycott. Those who have been watching since season one know that Evelyn and Tami have both nearly gotten this show canceled because of their actions. People wanted Tami gone when she stole that woman's purse. People wanted the show canceled after Evelyn threw a whole wine bottle at a black woman. Evelyn is out here being racist but it's OG who you're offended by? Stop with the bullsh-t. I surely hope it's not black women on here wearing a cape for Evelyn. You lack self love and common sense if that's the case. And I know y'all aren't saying OG needs the check and can't leave when Evelyn has been around for YEARS. She had to come back after the baseball player didn't work out, too. Stop getting on here and playing stupid. To make a big deal out of OG's words and downplay Evelyn's actual violence just gives the colorism claims more validation.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 You are absolutely correct!! Evelyn has jumped over tables, been in a fight every season she was on and so much more. Evelyn was scared of OG because she had finally met her match and wanted to paint her as being violent, no ma'am OG has never physically attacked anyone. I agree with the above comment, I really hope black women are not being fooled by EvilLyn and her BS. Now all of a sudden she's "Afro-Latina" 🙄 the only thing "African" about her is the men in her bed. She's a snake and mean girl, Shaunie is not far behind and should be careful surrounding herself with the likes of that bully!!

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Q: Random password generator only generating limited amount of characters I am learning Python and today I decided to try and have a go at creating a random password generator. The code generates a random amount of letters, then numbers, then symbols, (based on the amount the user specifies). These values are all stored in a list where they are each concatenated with one another. From there the values are all re-randomized to produce a final password.
If I try to use large numbers as input (above around 40) it errors. It also doesn't always produce the specified length. If I input 30 letters, 30 numbers, and 30 symbols, for example, the final password is short of 90 by about 10 if I remember correctly. Any help would be appreciated--I think the fix is simple just having trouble finding it.
Here is my code:

import random
import itertools

# lists
chars = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
nums = ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9']
syms = ['!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','+','_']

# inputs
print("Python Password Generator : \n")
charAmount = int(input("How many letters would you like to have in your password? : "))
numAmount = int(input("How many numbers? : "))
symAmount = int(input("How many symbols? : "))

# random num/sym/char

randomNum = ""
for num in nums :
  if int(num) < numAmount :
    randomNum += nums[random.randint(0,9)]

randomSym = ""
for sym in range(0, symAmount):
  if sym < symAmount :
    randomSym += syms[random.randint(0,9)]

randomChar = ""
for char in range(0, charAmount) :
  if sym < charAmount :
    randomChar += chars[random.randint(0, 25)]

# Final Password generator
generatorList = list(itertools.chain(randomNum,randomSym,randomChar))

Password = ""
tot = len(generatorList)
for word in generatorList:
      Password += generatorList[random.randint(0,tot)]

print(f"Your new password is : {Password}")

A: There's two issues with your code:

*

*The if statements aren't necessary, because the number of iterations is limited by the for loop already.

*random.randint() has inclusive arguments on both sides. So, in this code snippet:

Password = ""
tot = len(generatorList)
for word in generatorList:
      Password += generatorList[random.randint(0,tot)]

.randint() can return tot, which is out of range for the generatorList.
Here is a code snippet that resolves both of these issues:
import random
import itertools
# lists
chars = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']
nums = ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9']
syms = ['!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','+','_']

# inputs
print("Python Password Generator : \n")
charAmount = int(input("How many letters would you like to have in your password? : "))
numAmount = int(input("How many numbers? : "))
symAmount = int(input("How many symbols? : "))

# random num/sym/char

randomNum = ""
for num in range(numAmount) :
    randomNum += nums[random.randint(0,9)]

randomSym = ""
for sym in range(0, symAmount):
    randomSym += syms[random.randint(0,9)]

randomChar = ""
for char in range(0, charAmount) :
    randomChar += chars[random.randint(0, 25)]

# Final Password generator
generatorList = list(itertools.chain(randomNum,randomSym,randomChar))

Password = ""
tot = len(generatorList)
for word in generatorList:
     Password += generatorList[random.randint(0,tot - 1)]

print(f"Your new password is : {Password}")

Those fix your immediate issues, but there's also a few extra improvements we could make:

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*Rather than list out the lowercase characters and digits, we can use constants from the string module.

*Repeated string concatenation is inefficient. Use .join() instead.

*Use random.choices() to pick the characters to add to our password, then shuffle them all at the end.

With all this in mind, we get the following:
import random
import string

chars = string.ascii_lowercase
nums = string.digits
syms = ['!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','+','_']

print("Python Password Generator : \n")
char_amount = int(input("How many letters would you like to have in your password? : "))
num_amount = int(input("How many numbers? : "))
sym_amount = int(input("How many symbols? : "))

password_characters = random.choices(chars, k=char_amount) + random.choices(nums, k=num_amount) + random.choices(syms, k=sym_amount)
random.shuffle(password_characters)

password = ''.join(password_characters)
print(f"Your new password is : {password}")

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| Professor accused of harassment
Raymond Carlson
Professor accused of harassment
Raymond Carlson 12:00 am, Apr 16, 2008
A faculty member in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8.
The accusation will likely be handled internally by Yale Graduate School administrators, YPD spokesman Sgt. Steven Woznyk told the News on Tuesday. The YPD and the Graduate School have agreed to try to resolve the harassment complaint without formal police action, Woznyk said. Despite the confirmation of the report, administrators within the department and Graduate School remain tight-lipped, and the accused faculty member — whose name the News is withholding because no formal charges have been filed and no finding has been made by the University — denied the accusation to the News.
Currently, the case is dependant on the "perceptions of different actions," and the YPD is gathering information to help the Graduate School make a decision, Woznyk said.
"We certainly took the report, but now we're just trying to work with the school," he said. "Hopefully … [the Graduate School is] going to come up with some kind of a quick resolution."
Woznyk said he had strong reasons to believe that no criminal charges would be pressed regarding the incident.
Graduate School Dean John Butler declined to comment for this article, as did the Chair of the NELC department, John Darnell.
"I'm afraid I really can't say anything," Darnell said in a phone interview Friday.
In a phone interview Tuesday morning, the faculty member accused of harassment denied the allegations and knowledge of the alleged incident.
"You are incorrect," the faculty member said. "If I were harassing someone, I would know."
The faculty member did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment — which included the information that the YPD is involved in the case — later Tuesday morning.
An insider with knowledge of the case working in the NELC department said the faculty member asked a lector to purchase cigarettes from Walgreens and bring them to the faculty member's residence. The professor then refused to pay back the lector, the insider said.
"There was a condition for [the lector] to pick up the check," the insider continued.
The lector rejected the condition and left the residence immediately, the insider said, and the nature of this situation made the lector very uncomfortable.
The faculty member returned to the NELC department on Tuesday, April 8 — the day the case was filed with the YPD. According to the insider, the faculty member called the lector into the hallway at the beginning of a class the lector was teaching and proceeded to yell at the lector in the hallway, insisting that the lector take the money for the cigarettes.
"Everybody was uncomfortable," the insider said. "All the students were scared because of the way [the faculty member] was talking and the way [the faculty member] was making noise in the hallway."
There were roughly 20 students in the classroom at the time of the incident. A student in the class confirmed the information relayed by the insider, which was shared with the class on Thursday.
The insider said the loud conversation outside the classroom hinged on discussion of the cigarettes and the money.
"Everybody was wondering what happened," the insider said.
Graduate School administrators did not inform the News of any timeframe for their decision-making process.
—Bharat Ayyar contributed reporting.


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How To Get Tickets For 'Magic Mike Live' London Because Channing Tatum's Show Is Selling Out FAST
By Sophie McEvoy
Following the announcement of Magic Mike Live coming to London during the Britain's Got Talent final on June 3, it's no surprise that as a nation we all lost our damn minds. If you have your eyes set on seeing it ASAP, you'll want to know how to get tickets for Magic Mike Live London because — understandably — the tickets are selling faster than the guys took their shirts off on BGT.
Ticketmaster have got you covered, with tickets starting from a heavenly £29. If you're wanting to see the show the month it debuts, you're outta luck. Around 15,000 tickets were sold within the hour that they went on sale, according to the Evening Standard. So, it's no surprise that November has already sold out (Magic Mike Live's official site, they are listed as "limited availability").
February through to April has the best availability, while January has "great midweek availability," and December is now limited. If you have the patience of a saint, the 2019 shows will be just right. There are also package deals that are available, which include group tickets and an opportunity to meet and greet the cast.
Sadly, there's still no word as to whether Channing Tatum will officially make an appearance during any of the performances. Whilst shooting some promotional photos for the show this week in Piccadilly Circus, Tatum did hint at the chance of being a part of it to the Evening Standard:
"If I ever get in shape again then I'll definitely do it," he said. "I got to do a movie that'll make me get in shape again and then I'll do it. I would love to come to London. If I dance in Vegas, I'm definitely going to dance here."
Grr, Tatum. Just come out and say it already. At least if he doesn't show up to any of the London performances (my bet is that he will), we'll still forever be able to watch him do his thing in Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL.
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Although by the look of the cast, the will he/won't he regarding Tatum will be an afterthought. There's still no word as to who the cast officially is — other than Dreamboys star Lotan Carter. That uncertainty is certainly not going to stop the UK— and David Walliams — from watching that BGT performance repeatedly whilst we wait for more info and the previews to start.
Even though Magic Mike Live seems to only be running from November 2018 to April 2019, there is no doubt in my mind that it's going to outlast it's forecast residency. If Magic Mike Live Las Vegas is anything to go by, Leicester Square's Hippodrome will be Magic Mike's home for not just months, but years. Looking at the booking rates on Vegas.com, the original incarnation is pretty damn popular and in very high demand for a show that began two years ago.
It's even been hailed as a "feminist anthem" on Hypable, where the show is said to be better than Britney's residency and Cirque De Soleil (now that's an amazing feat.) There's also the fact that the MC of the show is a woman, who is "awesome and delightful and thinks the guys are just as hot as we do." There's no doubt that Magic Mike Live London will emulate similar feelings of passion.
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Acts range from throwback soul singers like Leon Bridges to Gainesville art-rock band Hundred Waters. Toronto talent of all genres has been represented well in performances from hip-hop emcees like Toronto's Raz Fresco and R&B band Bernice. Festivals such as North by Northeast, Canadian Music Week and more have brought artists such as Prince Innocence, Ginla and more to the hotel's stage.
The building that houses the Drake was built in 1890. Then known as D.A. Small's Hotel, the building became known by its current name in 1949. Since then, its stylish décor and trendy happenings have made it a fixture of the west end's nightlife. With its lounge, rooftop patio and restaurant, a visit to the Drake is bound to be eventful, no matter how long you stay.


Local teenagers Jayden Watts (left) and Ayden Lonnie are excited by the proposal to build an ice sports and entertainment facility as part of the City of Playford's CBD of the North development.
THE residents of Playford have given a very warm welcome to news that an ice-sports arena is to be built at Elizabeth.Cruachan Investments, which will build the facility under the name Ice Rinks Adelaide, announced in September that it would be launching a $35 million investment into a sports, entertainment and dining facility as part of the City of Playford's Smart City development.The double-rink facility is proposed for the corner of Main North Road and Philip Highway and will seat up to 3200 spectators for ice hockey, or up to 3900 for major music concerts.The centre also features a 450-seat restaurant and 400-seat function room and the highest rock-climbing walls in Australia Local teenagers Jayden Watts and Ayden Lonnie are excited about the proposal, which they believe will have benefits for many within the community.The Northern Adelaide Senior College students have been involved in the Ice Factor program, which helps students develop vocational and life skills in a team.Ayden continues to play the sport for the Blackhawks and described the proposed facility as an amazing opportunity to bring a new recreation choice to the region."I think it would be good, because people who want to ice skate, their parents might have an issue with them going into the city alone, I think if they're close to home, it would be better," Ayden said.Jayden also added that the opportunities for jobs and entertainment in the northern areas of the city will be welcomed by young people, as well as their families.
Community excitement Cruachan Investments director Stephen Campbell said the community was excited by the proposal.Following the announcement of the facility, a 10 Eyewitness News story posted online has been immensely popular."The fact that we had more than 71,000 views online shows that there's considerable interest in Playford and across the state," Mr Campbell said. "I think this is just the start of the interest."Mr Campbell said the facility will be a great entertainment focal point for the north and is expected to attract national and international sporting events, including world championships in ice sports and rock climbing."People are starting to realise that it's not just an ice rink," Mr Campbell said. "It's a significant building, which will be more than rock climbing and ice sports, it will be the second largest multi-purpose facility in SA, behind the Entertainment Centre."Mr Campbell said the City of Playford's CBD of the North proposal is very exciting and is going to produce significant benefits for the area and the state.It is hoped the sports and entertainment arena will be opened in March, 2018.


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Damien Echols and Domini Teer at the roller rink.
Damien Wayne Echols
Central to the story of the investigation of the murders of the children is the enigmatic figure of Damien Echols. Eighteen years old at the time, he became a key suspect early in the investigation. He was visited by the police the day after the discovery of the bodies and brought in for questioning on Monday of the following week. He was arrested subsequent to Misskelley's confession, convicted and sentenced to death. He has been on death row for twelve years.
Often dressed in black, sometimes sporting provocative self-drawn tattoos or sharpened fingernails, Damien Echols was into heavy metal music and nihilistic poetry. After the case became notorious, he became a cause celebré, and was romanticized as a loner, an outsider, a victim of a small town's demonization of rock and roll.
Damien's dress and behavior, his interest in the occult and Wicca, and his love for heavy metal represented to many in the community iconic symbols of the devil. These beliefs are hardly relegated to West Memphis. Recent polls from Gallup and Harris have found six in ten adult Americans believe in the existence of the devil and four in ten believe in demonic possession. Damien played to these fears. He would later described himself as a candidate for the local boogeyman.
At least one aspect of this claim was undeserved. Even though he was alleged to have frequented the victims' neighborhood and one would suspect he would have been a memorable presence, he seemed to have gone unnoticed. One of the questions in the door to door interviews asked about suspicious people in the area. Out of the hundreds of interviews, with repeated references to mentally ill neighbors, transients, suspicious vans, a blond kid on a bike, and even John Mark Byers, there was a single reference to someone who perhaps was Damien Echols:
". . . there used to be a young w/m approx mid-20s straight stringy dark hair - carried a long staff - slim build was very strange - have not seen him the last year. . ."
Although not often among the recollections of the neighbors, at least among children, stories circulated around Echols. The police spent considerable time chasing rumors told by children regarding Echols.
Those closer to him, knew he had a history of mental illness and hospitalizations. His parole officer, Jerry Driver, was convinced he was part of a satanic group. In contrast, Damien repeatedly stated he followed the Wiccan faith, a pacifist nature-based religion. As Kris Kristofferson said about another man in black: "He's a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. . ."*
Even his name became a matter of controversy, with some believing Damien chose his name after the antichrist character in the Omen films. Born Michael Wayne Hutchison on December 11, 1974, he changed his name to Damien Wayne Echols in his early teens after being adopted by his stepfather Jack Echols, a strict Catholic. He stated at trial he chose the name Damien because he had for a brief period explored Catholicism, and he was fascinated by the saint, Father Damien, who had worked with lepers, eventually becoming infected with the disease. This was confirmed by his father and by his nemesis, Jerry Driver. Driver, a member of the parish, said he spoke with Damien's priest, although Driver intimated that Damien's only interest in the Catholic church was to infiltrate it in order to steal the eucharist for satanic ceremonies.
. . . he [the priest] said that Damien came to church I think he had came that previous um, that winter or fall and had professed a great interest in the Catholic religion and um had convented and had his name changed um, and then had quit coming and he related to me that right after he quit coming someone tried to broke into the sacristy and he had always wondered if. . ., if he had anything to do with it, of course that's one of the things that those guys do that's kinda modus operandi, their go to the Catholic church and find out as much as they can, break in to the sacristy, steal the host and the lunette. . . (Jerry Driver, interview with police, December 1993. Note - with all quoted documents I have tried to maintain the wording and spelling of the original documents and will not include the term "sic" unless a phrase or word seems particularly out of place.)
In the book, Devil's Knot, the author Mara Leveritt, contradicts this claim, saying she spoke to the priest who said there was no attempt to break into the sacristy.
Jerry Driver, 1992. Now serving parole
in Florida for grand theft.
As part of an extensive interview with the police, Driver stated, ". . .Mr. Echols said to both of us that he was involved in the occult, but not as a devil worshiper as such, he said he was a gray witch." Driver went on to say that Echols, Misskelley, Baldwin and Echol's girlfriend Domini Teer all always denied being involved in Satanism. This didn't prevent Driver from making elaborate claims about Damien. Driver presented nothing to support his charges beyond suspicions, secondhand stories, and interpretations of cryptic comments and scribblings.
Probably the most extravagant claim by Driver was that Echols and his girlfriend had planned to have a baby and sacrifice the child to the devil. This was based on the interpretation of a drawing and "confidential informant people."
. . .[Damien] and [ex-girlfriend] Dianna was trying to conceive a child and that child was to be sacrificed and we. . ., we got that information from informants and from some drawings that we um, that we had confiscated from. . ., from Damien at the time and I think you all have those, uh, one which had four tombstones and a baby's foot from behind it and a rattle and power emanating up into the moon or something, and they always denied that, and they always denied that, they always said no that's not he case, but several people very close to them, confidential informant people said that's what was going on. . . (Driver, Dec. 1993)
Driver went on to say that although he had referred his informants on to the police, they told the police different stories. When asked if Driver knew who were the 10 to 15 people in the cult, he says, "I have suspicious you know, and several of them I think we've have already give to you all to talk to um, but they don't say the same things to you all that they say to us." (Driver, Dec. 1993)
As odd as these claims were and as shaky as the evidence was to support them, Driver was willing to pass along these accusations. In August of 1992, shortly after Echols had moved with his family to Oregon, supervision of his probation was transferred to the local authorities. The probation officer contacted Jerry Driver and took these notes.
Mr. Driver made the folowing comments:
a) Damion and several others of his associates are involved in a satanic cult.
b) Damion and his girlfriend were both placed in a psychiatric hospital, in that the two of them had made a suicidal pact with one another.
c) Damion threatened to kill his girlfriend's parents.
d) Damion claims he is a witch.
e) Damion and his girlfriend were planning to have a child, so that they could offer it as a sacrifice to Satan.
f) The authorities in Arkansas suspect that Damion's parents are involved in this satanic belief system. (Exhibit 500, p. 467-8)
In spite of these inflammatory allegations, the Oregon probation officer recommended minimal supervision. Nevertheless, Damien had demons, although not the kind Driver claimed.
Continued in Damien's Demons, Part One
*Kris Kristofferson, The Pilgrim, referring to Johnny Cash. Also used to describe Travis Bickle in the film, Taxi Driver.
The "Four Tombstones" drawing. Interpreted by Jerry Driver to represent a Satanic
sacrifice of Damien's first born.


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Colorado pops Cal, opens door for Washington's Pac-12 title
By Tess QuinlanFeb 26, 2012, 8:36 PM EST
Colorado spent this season as the wrench in the Pac-12 race. Sunday was no different.
A 70-57 win against league-leader Cal Sunday night vaulted Washington (20-8, 13-3 in Pac-12) into the conference lead and dropped the Bears (23-7, 13-4) into second with one week remaining in the season. Cal closes with Stanford on March 4. Washington travels to the L.A. schools.
A tie is probable, but the Huskies now have a clear-cut shot at the crown. Maybe they'll send a thank-you card to Colorado.
The Buffs (19-9, 11-5) opened 3-0 and stayed relevant in the race, but seemed destined to fall short of more talented teams such as Cal and Washington.
But thanks to solid games by Austin Dufault and Spencer Dinwiddie, the Buffs can still earn a bye in the Pac-12 tournament. Not bad for their first season in the Pac-12.
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When I was asked to design the World of Dinosaurs stamp issue (1996), I painted two panoramic settings for the individual stamp subjects. The top one was Jurassic and the other was Cretaceous. I keyed the colors differently to separate them.
I developed the design in a charcoal comprehensive drawing that I showed to the various paleontological consultants for their input and approval.
It was vitally important that the dinosaurs, insects, and plants in each panorama were all known from the same geologic formations and so would have lived together in the same time and place.
Having worked out the plan in charcoal (bottom), I felt a lot more confident when I went to the final oil painting (top). In most natural science illustration, it's essential to present the art in a comprehensive, intermediate step that is sent out for approval by the scientists.
This was probably the only final stamp artwork that was ever worked on en plein air. I had to go outside in the forest to paint the ferns, because I discovered that cut ferns wilt too fast. The painting was less than 24 inches wide and painted on flexible Bristol board so that it could fit on the drum scanners of the time.
For for a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at how I do paleoart, check out my new DVD "How I Paint Dinosaurs" from Kunaki.com.
I had those stamps, and thought they were the coolest ever. Unfortunately they were used for what they were intended for, the mail. Wish I kept a set intact. I bet stamp collectors love them.
Hey James, what type or brand charcoal pencil did you use for the drawing? What do you use now?
Joel, yes, that was the idea, to sell stamps that no one ever used. It made such commemorative sets quite profitable for the USPS.
ERC, when I was an art student I got my hands on a couple big boxes of General's charcoals, Medium and Soft, and I'm still trying to use them up.
This is my favorite set of stamps ever. I re-did my office but I still had to hang them up because I love them so much and admire their individual compositions as well as their WHOLE composition so much - Here's a pic of them hanging - Thanks so much for the fun information on them, Jim!
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing the photo, Robb.
I recognize the Ceratosaurus in the top panorama. It's on a mousepad I have!
I bought the autographed stamps in a custom mat from the Post Office's catalog at time of their release - it's one of my prized possessions!
What a coincidence, I've just received that stamp set in the mail last week for my collection!
I still have the set I bought!
Who's that young guy at the easel?
Great stuff, James. Thanks for posting!
I just finished watching your painting video and I have 2 quick questions? Do you prime your illustration board with gesso before you draw or is the matte medium enough to prevent absorption? Also, how do you prevent warping?
No I don't prime the board first. I like the way the illustration board takes the pencil. It doesn't warp because I'm using a heavyweight board. If you do get warping, do the same thing to the back that you do to the front, or even just wet the back (don't do an 'X' as some people recommend because that makes a different kind of warping).
Thanks. I'll definitely try your method on my next painting.
If I ever get back to charcoal drawing I use the Generals also. During the 90s when i use to take classes everybody used the RITMO charcoal pencils.
They were smooth, silky and easy to erase. I think towards the end of the decade they changed ownership and the quality wasn't the same imo. If theres anyone out there who can make charcoal just as smooth please do.
Jim - Have you seen that "First Day Cover" stamp of the brachiosaur before? And did you also design that? Very cool looking, either way - Thanks again for this great post!


Global Hope is a small and relatively new operation, and so we rely on our volunteers and donors.
We have several volunteers who live with us and assist in the running of the center, incuding administarative tasks, supervision and extra curricular teaching. We also have volunteers who have traveled from aroud the world to come and stay with us. If you have questions for anyone in particular, please feel free to get in touch! They would be more than happy to share their experiencs with you.
Field Logistics Manager He has been a volunteer at Global Hope in the same capacity since June 2013.He is a former street boy whom through proper care and love, got reformed and later becoming a responsible person ewspecially in child care management.
Volunteer Staff in charge of co-curricular activities and information technology Hillary lives at Global Hope and helps Joseph run the center. He supervises the boys in the evenings and encourages them to pursue their interests. He helps to organize and choreograph the dance troupe. Hillary is also a student at Mount Kenya University.
Visiting Volunteer Denmark March-May 2016 & October-December 2016 Andreas first visited Global Hope while he was working for a different children's home. He was inspired by Global Hope and the work they did, so after returning home, he fundraised on their behalf. He came back just a few months later and bought the center it's first water tank. He also set up an initiative for adults living in the streets. He teaches them basic life skills so that they can escape from the cycle of poverty they've lived in their entire lives.
Visiting Volunteers Canadian August - October 2016 Brock and Molly joined us for 6 weeks in 2016. While they were here, Brock started a KOBO e-reading program for the boys as well as sponsored our volunteer, Hillary, to go to University. When they arrived, our boys still didn't have beds to sleep in. They slept on mattresses on the floor, so Molly's family donated the money and she initiated a project to build bunk beds to fill our home. She also took on a sponsorship of our Joshua.
Volunteer, Member of Trustees, From Denmark. She first came at our centre in early February 2017 and volunteered for four month. She fundraised for the library project and in May she started to build up the project together with Joseph and the boys at Global. She is equally involved in the running of the projects while in both Denmark and Kenya.


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Shakespeare's Window into the Soul: The Mystical Wisdom in Shakespeare's Characters
By Martin Lings
Publisher : Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
ABOUT Martin Lings
Martin Lings (1909-2005) was a renowned British scholar who taught at several European universities and the University of Cairo. He was the keeper of Oriental manuscripts in the British Museum and the British Library and the author of numerous books on religion and spirituality, including More...
A study of the mystical, spiritual, and profound visionary wisdom contained in Shakespeare's plays
• Reveals the significant mystical symbolism in ten of Shakespeare's later, more mature, works including Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Tempest
• Shows the progress of Shakespeare's own spiritual development through comparison of his earlier and later plays
The plays of William Shakespeare are considered among the greatest dramatic works ever written because they transcend both age and time in the truths they convey about human nature. But Shakespeare's plays, argues author Martin Lings, concern far more than the workings of the human psyche; they are sacred, visionary works that, through the use of esoteric symbol and form, mirror the inner drama of the journey of all souls.
In Shakespeare's Window into the Soul, Martin Lings provides an in-depth study of Shakespeare's later, more mature plays, such as Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. By revealing the mystical meaning of these works, Lings not only conveys the dramatic artistry of these masterpieces, but also leaves readers with a deep and lasting impression of the playwright himself and his keen understanding of the passage the soul must make to reach its final sacred union with the divine.
Praise and Reviews
"A book I found hard to put down. [Provides] the meaning of the symbols Shakespeare uses to describe the inner drama of the journey of the soul contained within the earthly drama of the plays."
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". . . an in-depth reading of some of Shakespeare's later plays, from Henry IV to The Tempest, that explores how Shakespeare followed a more medieval tradition of the sacred, rather than the Renaissance trend toward humanism . . . . worth picking up if you are a true disciple of the Bard and want to read as much scholarship as possible."
Karyn Johnson, Curled up with a Good Book, Dec 2006
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Films to lift your Christmas spirits!
At Christmas, there's no better way of relaxing than sinking back into the sofa and sticking on a festive film with friends and family. Here are some of my favourites to watch this season, including a few that are technically not Christmas films at all.
This comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as workaholic Howard Langston remains one of my favourite Christmas films (despite its terrible rating on Rotten Tomatoes). To make up for being an absent father, Howard promises his son Jamie the toy that every child is after: Turboman. Anyone who has ever left their Christmas shopping to the last minute, or got caught up in the mad rush on Christmas Eve, can sympathise with Howard's increasingly frantic search for the figure. Jingle All the Way may be critiqued for its silliness and unevenness, but with plenty of slapstick humour and a poignant message about the importance of spending time with your family, it is a perfect choice for some light-hearted fun.
Jumangi is not a Christmas film is any traditional sense of the word – in fact, it only contains one scene that features Christmas – but its focus on friendship and family amidst the carnage created by a supernatural board game imbues the film with the spirit of Christmas. Second to curling up in front of the television during the festive period is undoubtedly a good board game. As heated as family games of monopoly risk becoming, these look tame in comparison to the waves of destruction that Alan, Sarah, Peter, and Judy unleash by playing the game. Their only hope to reverse the destruction is to see it through to the very end. Robin Williams' comic genius is put to brilliant use here.
Remakes of classic films often get a bad rap, but the 1994 release of Miracle on 34th Street (the fourth incarnation of this classic Christmas treat) is a heart-warming delight from start to finish. Kris Kringle (Richard Attenborough) is hired by Susan's mother as the new Santa Claus for the department store Coles, but the people's belief in Santa Claus is threatened when Kris is arrested. Mara Wilson is as charming in the role of Susan as she is in Mrs Doubtfire and Matilda.
The opening of Home Alone perfectly captures the chaos created by large family reunions at Christmas, as Kevin McCallister is accidentally left alone when his family leave for the airport without him. The film follows his parents' attempts to return to their stranded son and Kevin's struggle to defend his home from criminals Harry and Marv. The booby traps that Kevin rigs to stop the burglars liberally stretch the bounds of what an 8-year-old can reasonably construct, but if you can ignore your disbelief, then Home Alone will have you laughing harder than you've ever laughed before.
The number of different stories that Richard Curtis manages to pack into Love Actually is impressive, particularly because it never feels overcrowded. If you are a fan of romantic comedies, then Love Actually is the perfect choice – the film is full of humour and emotionally engaging stories that may even bring a tear to your eye. It combines one of the greatest soundtracks of any Christmas film I've seen with an all-star cast, including Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, and Keira Knightley. Hugh Grant gives a wonderful performance as Prime Minister David (and if you're a fan of his irresistible onscreen charm, then I'd recommend also trying to fit About a Boy into your schedule). Red Nose Day Actually, released in 2017, is also worth a watch to find out what happened to its interlocking characters.
Though watching the Harry Potter franchise is not limited to the festive season, a marathon at Christmas will only emphasise the magic of the films. Seeing the Great Hall decorated for Christmas in The Philosopher's Stone and the beautiful scenes of Hogwarts in the snow in The Prisoner of Azkaban are bound to get you in the holiday spirit.


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The Kelantan floodgate: Part II — Isham Jalil
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Source: NST Online
BY ISHAM JALIL
NST file pix — A villager evacuating her home in Rantau Panjang early January 2017. In the two recent floods in Kelantan, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and homes were destroyed. Bernama Photo, taken from NST Online.
THE Kelantan government is still in denial that logging and land-clearing activities have caused or worsened floods, even after the 2014 flood, which was the worst the country has ever seen in almost half a century.
The state authority reiterated that logging did not cause the floods but rain did, and that the floodwaters did not come from the logging areas, but from the national park. Unfortunately, pivoting the rhetoric isn't going to solve the problem, nor does it relieve the suffering of Kelantan people affected by the floods each year.
Despite the denial, several experts from various fields, including meteorology, forestry and sustainable development, have highlighted overwhelming evidence linking land clearing and worsening floods in Kelantan — such as alluvial deposits as far as 1,000m from riverbanks seen post-flood, formation of acres of sandbars in Sungai Kelantan due to accelerated erosion upstream, and countless satellite images showing soil erosion from cleared forest.
The United Nations has stated that deforestation may be one of the principal causes of severe flooding. This is evidenced by the floods in Bangladesh in 1998, Haiti in 2004 and Mexico in 2007.
Experts say soil eroded from cleared land flows into adjacent rivers, causing siltation and shallowing of the riverbeds, hence, worsening the flood.
It is estimated that the amount of soil loss from cleared forests in Kelantan over the last two decades is more than 15 million cubic metres.
This is enough to raise the riverbeds of the entire 517km stretch of the three main rivers in Kelantan — Sungai Kelantan, Sungai Lebir and Sungai Galas — by more than five feet (1.5m) of silt and sediments.
Experts allude to large-scale land clearing precipitating more rainfall, hence, floods. According to a study by the Institute of Infrastructure Engineering and Sustainable Management (IIESM) of Malaysia, massive land clearing affects the hydrologic cycle of rains, hence, causing an unusual increase in rainfall.
This explains why in the 2014 flood, 40 per cent of the annual rain fall came down within 10 days in Kelantan, which corresponds to tens of thousands of hectares of forest cleared in recent years prior to the flood. It is impossible for floodwater to come just from the national park as suggested by the state authority; instead, the floodwater came from the Kelantan highlands, including much from the forest farm and its adjacent areas, as recorded by rain stations across the state.
In 1989, Thailand issued a logging ban following the worst flood the country had seen in nearly a century.
In 1998, China banned logging after floods near the Yangtze River killed more than 3,000 people. In 2011, the Philippines banned logging after 70 people died following a flood caused by unusually heavy rainfall.
Perhaps, the suggestion by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim last Tuesday for the government to ban logging for 10 years to mitigate the flood doesn't sound so bad after all.
After the 2014 flood, forest farming could have been stopped. But, it wasn't. Land-clearing activities kept going on. If this persists and land clearing is left unchecked, flooding in Kelantan could worsen in the coming years. A big flood may not happen every year, but it will probably happen sooner than we think and more often than we want. The massive land clearing from forest farming could open a floodgate of water no dams or bunds in Kelantan can contain.
In the two recent floods in Kelantan, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and homes destroyed.
Many people, especially women, children and old folk, suffered in the cold and wet condition.
Considering this, perhaps, the revenue from logging is not worth it.
Alas, the past is the past. We learnt from history but we must move on.
So, what do we do about it now? According to experts, at least three things need to be done:
FIRST, the land-clearing activities need to stop or at least be controlled; logging, if not banned, must be done in a sustainable manner;
SECOND, water containment infrastructure needs to be built upstream to hold the water during heavy rainfall and the monsoon season; and,
THIRD, the de-silting and deepening of rivers downstream needs to continue aggressively. It is critical that efforts are targeted at both the upstream and downstream levels of the Kelantan river basins.
Downstream efforts, such as desilting at the delta of Sungai Kelantan, will be ineffective without requisite work done upstream because the silt and soil will otherwise just keep coming down.
Flood mitigation requires the cooperation of both the Federal Government and state government. The state government doesn't have as much resources as the Federal Government, and the Federal Government doesn't have as much jurisdiction on land matters as the state government. But both can complement each other with a common goal to help Kelantan folk.
And unlike the administration in the 90s, the federal administration under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has been supportive of Kelantan, allocating more than RM30 billion for the state for operational and development expenditure as well as financial assistance in the last five years.
Thus, if the Kelantan government and Federal Government want to cooperate, this would be a good time and platform to do so, putting political expediency aside for the benefit and wellbeing of Kelantan folk.
Human beings may have made floods worse, but human beings can also make it better. As the old saying goes, "Buang yang keruh, ambil yang jernih. Baru teguh peribadi" (Let bygones be bygones; take the good and throw away the bad).
Isham Jalil has has experienced the floods in Kelantan since the 70s. He is the president of Sukarelawan Malaysia, which has helped flood victims in Kelantan over the years, including by rebuilding homes destroyed in the floods. The writer holds a Master of Public Policy degree in politics, economics and law from Harvard University.
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The FDA is responsible for the approval of both human and animal drugs, and it enforces comparable standards for safety, efficacy and quality and uses similar procedures during the review and approval process. All drugs must demonstrate they are safe and effective for the labeled indication(s), must be properly labeled, and must be produced under good manufacturing practices.
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Q: Could I save Postgres transaction and continue work with db within it later I know about prepared transaction in Postgres, but seems you can just commit or rollback it later. You cannot even view the transaction's db state before you've committed it. Is any way to save transaction for later use?
What I want to achieve actually is a preview (and correcting) of some changes in db (changes are imports from csv file, so user need to see preview before apply it). I want to  make changes, add some changes later, see full state of db and apply it (certainly, commit transaction)

A: I cannot find a very good reference in docs, but I have a very strong feeling that the answer is: No, you cannot do that.
It would mean that when you "save" the transaction, the database would basically have to maintain all of its locks in place for an indefinite amount of time. Even if it was possible, it would mean horrible failure modes and trouble on all fronts.
For the pattern that you are describing, I would use two separate transactions. Import to a staging table and show that to user (or import to the main table but mark rows as "unapproved"). If user approves, in another transactions move or update these rows.
You can always end up in a situation where user can simply leave or crash without clicking "OK" or "Cancel". If what you're describing was possible, you would end up with a hung transaction holding all these resources. In my proposed solution you end up with wasteful rows in "staging" table that you may still show to user later or remove.
You may want to read up on persistence saga. This is actually a very simple example of a well known and researched problem.
To make the long story short, this pattern breaks down a long-running process like yours into smaller operations that are applied and persisted in some way in separate transactions. If any of them happens to fail (or does not occur as expected), you have compensating actions that usually undo what the steps executed so far have done (e.g. by throwing away stale/irrelevant data).
Here's a decent introduction:

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*https://blog.couchbase.com/saga-pattern-implement-business-transactions-using-microservices-part/#:~:text=The%20SAGA%20Pattern,completion%20of%20the%20previous%20one.

*http://vasters.com/clemensv/2012/09/01/Sagas.aspx
This concept was formally introduced in the 80s, but is well alive and relevant today.


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The paper talks about the event that was conducted in two days by an organisation where volunteers and the group members conducted advertising in campus.
a.	A description of the event and the impact it had for the organization and/or the community it served.
It was done in two days that is 15th march from 4-7 and 16th march from 1-4.It was conducted in the campus, where every member of the group and volunteers participated in advertisement by going around the campus or standing in front of the table with brochures motivating the instructors and students to donate for Downtown Eastside Women's Center. Names of the donors and the amount they donated were written on the receipt. The donated clothes were organized by two volunteers, pictures of the event were taken and serving of food such as cheese pizza, coke, cookies, tea and Arabic coffee. The minimum contribution was $ 2. This event had an impact for the organization since it was a success in that the goal or mission of the project was attained and many people were able to donate money or goods……………………..
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There were some written objections from those living nearby, who saw this as quite a drastic change that could impact on infrastructure and increase traffic congestion.Cllr Arshad Mahmood abstained when voting on the application due to the level of affordable housing, which is around nine per cent, something he said could be "better".
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We was in Greece, and we come back home for two days ago.
This post was also how we spent every day in Lefkada, but this pictures was taken in Sivota, 130. km away from Lefkada.So we are enjoying some beach time in Sivota only one day!
But I'll show you more pictures as soon as I can!
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Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 140 million records worldwide. The supergroup is known for its music, and for its wild ways off stage, too. Now in a new memoir drummer and bandleader Mick Fleetwood looks back at a long journey.
For nearly 50 years Mick Fleetwood has provided the beat and backbone for one of the world's most successful bands.
At just 15 years old, Fleetwood left home for London to become a drummer. There, he met bassist John McVie, forming a lifelong friendship and the band that would bear their names.
For eight years, through drugs, discord and affairs, they endured a constantly changing lineup.
They finally struck the right chord with McVie's wife, Christine, and Americans Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
While their hard-partying became the stuff of rock and roll legend, it was their infamous love affairs that inspired "Rumours." The 1977 album sat at number one for 31 weeks and is the ninth best-selling album of all time.
Hits like "Go Your Own Way" captured their turmoil, which ultimately proved to be too much.
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In April, 2013 New York Times Author Anthony Bozza began working with legendary drummer Mick Fleetwood on his life story, which will span the entire history of the band that bears his name.
In this candid, intimate portrait of a life lived in music, Mick Fleetwood sheds new light on well-known points in his history, including many incredible moments of recording and touring with Fleetwood Mac, as well as personal insights from a man who has been a major player in blues and rock 'n' roll since his teens.
The group Fleetwood Mac has sold over 140 million records worldwide, and they continue to attract a huge following, selling out their biggest arena tour ever in 2013, decades after their debut. Finally, the group's admirers will have a unique portrait of what made Mick and the rest of the group tick in the midst of their massive success and personal trials.
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In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac's epic, platinum-selling double album, Tusk, producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio trying to follow up Rumours, the biggest rock album of the time.
Following their massive success, the band continued its infamous soap opera when its musical leader and guitarist, Lindsey Buckingham, threatened to quit if he didn't get things his way, resulting in clashes not only with his band but especially Caillat, who had been essential to the band's Grammy-winning sound.
Hernan Rojas's story recounts a young man who leaves Chile after General Pinochet's coup to seek his future in the music industry of Los Angeles, where he finds success at one of the hottest studios in town. When Fleetwood Mac arrives, Rojas falls in love with its star singer, Stevie Nicks, and the two of them become romantically involved.
Throughout the book, both Caillat and Rojas detail not only the trials and sacrifices they made to finish the album, but also triumphs of musical inspiration and technical innovation that have made Tusk the darling of music critics and indie rockers today.
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Political dynasty gestates as Jokowi's 'sons' lead regional polls
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Jakarta / Thu, December 10, 2020 / 10:15 pm
Gibran Rakabuming Raka (center), the eldest son of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, speaks to his followers to garner support for his bid to run in the Surakarta mayoral election on the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) ticket, at the party's Central Java office in Semarang. Gibran's father won the same mayorship in 2002.(JP/Suherdjoko)
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo could be the first Indonesian leader to have two "sons" as mayors, as the 2020 simultaneous regional elections look likely to pave the way for a nascent political clan. Two pollsters, Charta Politica and VoxPol Center, found on Thursday that Jokowi's eldest son Gibran Rakabuming Raka and his running mate Teguh Prakosa were leading the race for mayor and deputy mayor of Surakarta, Central Java, with over 86 percent of the sampled votes. The provisional results were similar to those of the General Elections Commission's (KPU) real-time vote database, Sirekap, which had compiled 54 percent of the votes in the city, suggesting that Gibran was likely to beat his opponent Bagyo Wahono in the contest. Gibran is backed by a broad coalition of parties, including the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which c...
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A Min Áigi ("A mi időnk") egy északi számi nyelven hetente kétszer megjelentő újság volt. Kárášjohkában (norvégul Karasjokk) adták ki. A Min Áigi a Sámi Áigi ("Számi idők") újság jogtulajdonosa és folytatója volt, mely 1989-ben csődbe ment. A Min Áigi első száma 1993. május 22-én jelent meg. Bár az újság legtöbb szerkesztője norvégiai, az újság a többi országban élő számihoz is kívánt szólni.

A Min Áiginak több kirendeltsége volt: Deatnuban (norvégul Tana), Guovdageaidnuban (norvégul Kautokeino) és Johkamohkában (svédül Jokkmokk).

A Min Áigi OS társaság fő részvényese a Finnmark Dagblad, egy másik regionális újság volt. Emellett részvényese volt még többek között Kárášjohka városa, a Norvégiai Számi Szövetség, a Samenes Landsforbund és a Davvi Könyvkiadó. Az újság főszerkesztője Svein Nordsletta volt.

Összeolvadás az Áššuval

A két konkurens számi nyelvű újság, a Min Áigi és az Áššu 2007. augusztus 27-én bejelentette, hogy
Ávvir név alatt egyesülnek, új főszerkesztővel. Ez az egyesülés volt az egyetlen esélye annak, hogy nagyobb példányszámban, jobb gazdasági körülmények között tudják folytatni egy számi nyelvű újság kiadását. Az Áššu is és a Min Áigi is 33-33%-ban részesedik az új újság tulajdonjogából.

Az Ávvir első példányát 2008. február 6-án adták ki.

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Nemespanni Krajcsovich Kálmán Tódor Edmund (Verbó, 1843. október 6. - ?) bölcseleti doktor, ügyvéd, bécsi lapszerkesztő.

Élete
Szülei Krajcsovics Antal és Ocskay Ottília voltak. Előbb a papi pályán (1860–1863) képezte magát, majd jogira tért és 1872–1879-ig nyitramegyei tisztviselő volt, részben Pozsonyban élt. 1879-ben saját kérésére törölték a pozsonyi ügyvédi kamara ügyvédi névjegyzékéből. 1880 után azonban kizárólag az irodalomnak élt, majd Bécsben tartózkodott. 1882-ben a győri ügyvédi kamara is törölni akarta a névjegyzékéből.

Munkatársa volt a Neues Pester Journalnak és az Oedenburger Zeitungnak, kiadója a bécsi Honi Hangok szépirodalmi képes havilapnak. 1892-ben adakozott a felvidéki szegények javára.

Művei
 Das Geheimniss von Tisza-Eszlár. Budapest, 1881
 Der Antisemitismus in Ungarn. Budapest, 1884
 Non possumus. Budapest, 1886
Szerkesztette a Feuerbend és Lustige Blätter című lapokat és 1888-ban alapította a Wiener illustrierte Kinderzeitungot és Der Schulfreundot; Szerkesztette és kiadta a Kurgastot, kiadta a Katholische Festklänge és Vaterländische Literatur című munkákat Bécsben. Kiadta a Magyarország uralkodói egy évezreden át c. kőnyomatú képet, illetve főmunkatársa volt A Magyar Katholikus Hierarchia – Magyarország Főpapjai szóban és képben c. kiadványnak.

Jegyzetek

Források

Horváth Ignácz Könyvészete 1884.
Eisenberg. Ludwig. Das Geistige Wien. Wien, 1893. I, 282.
Kürschner, Deutscher Litteratur-Kalender. Leipzig. 1898, 711.

Verbóiak
1843-ban született személyek


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