This page attempts to give an outline of the development of the Robins' Review, the matchday programme of Altrincham Football Club, and its untitled predecessors. Web-space considerations limit the amount of illustrative material on this page but it is hoped to reproduce here changing representative images of the programmes issued over the last sixty years. In time, too, features will be added on famous Altrincham games, home and away.
I am most grateful to Terry Surridge for permission to reproduce his four articles on the evolution of the Altrincham F.C. programme from the Robins' Review of 1986-87.
from the Robins' Review matchday programmes of January to February 1987.
Right: A programme from 1947/48 season.
Pre-War Altrincham programmes are scarce. The oldest I have seen is for the game against Stockport County Reserves on 27th October 1934. This game is of particular interest as it was played on a Wednesday afternoon (early closing day) in the hope of attracting a large crowd. The 1934-35 season programme had eight pages and cost two old pence. All profits from programme sales went to the club's Building Fund. The club name was clearly positioned across the front cover, together with a list of directors and club officials and the date, but not the name of the opposition. However full details of the next home game are included. I suppose that as supporters who purchased the programme were already at the game and knew who the opponents were it was therefore more sensible to advertise full details of the next game! Page 2 carried the editorial chat. This particular issue made a strong case for either exemption from some of the early qualifying rounds of the F.A. Cup. or at least permission to play them in mid-week. This followed Altrincham's very easy wins against Timperley (6-2), Barnton (8-2) and Moulton Verdin Institute (9-0). The editor concluded that such games did not attract as large a crowd as the normal Cheshire League games that had to be postponed - shades of recent seasons when Cheshire Senior Cup matches caused postponement of important league games.
Advertisements fill page 3. It is interesting to note that for 15/- (75p) you could secure one season's advertising in the programme. The centre pages carried the team line-ups, displayed within the usual border of adverts. The penultimate page has the Building Fund notes and details of the social committee's forthcoming events. Apart from the weekly whist drives and social evenings, tickets were still available for the Annual Picnic to Blackpool. They cost 7/6d (37 and a half pence) and included high tea or dinner.
Programmes for seasons 1935-36 to 1937-38 are very similar. They were the same size and same price and, although the front cover design was slightly changed last season, it contained the same information. Adverts have always bean an important part of a football programme. There were, and still are, essential to help subsidise the printing of the programme. Advertisements in pre-War Altrincham programmes included Bowlands', Regent Road (opposite the hospital), with all your needs for home decorating. Who can remember such wonderful names as Cebino (a new ceiling distemper), on Radiolin (a gloss paint) and Tredonit (the paint for floors)?
Unfortunately I have not seen programmes from the 1938-39 season or the 1939-40 Wartime leagues! I would be delighted to hear from anyone who has programmes from these seasons.
Altrincham did not play in the first post-War season, 1945-46, when Moss Lane was used by a newly formed team, Altrincham Amateurs. Can anyone tell me whether they printed programmes?
Unfortunately, I have no Altrincham programmes from the 1946-47 season. Programmes from the following season [pictured right] were smaller than pre-War issues. They still cost 2d. and had eight pages with plenty of advertisements. The 1949-50 programme introduced the front cover drawing of Moss Lane. Apart from a certain amount of artistic licence (showing terracing where none existed), the drawing gives a general impression of the ground and was to become a familiar cover through into the 1960s.
For 1952-53, the programme became one large sheet, folded into three to give six pages. The following season saw a price increase of 1d. to finance a lucky number competition in which the winner received a season ticket. Unfortunately that competition was short lived as the police soon stopped it and the programme immediately reverted to 2d.
The programme for 1955-56 was reduced to four sides, and increased in price a year later to 3d. 1959-60 and 1960-61 programmes are very scarce - the club's fortunes hit rock bottom, the ground had deteriorated, results were bad and the Robins had the humiliation of seeking re-election to the Cheshire League in 1961. The club's low fortunes were reflected in the few programmes that I have seen. For the game against Wrexham Reserves on 12th December 1959, the programme was a four-sided issue, costing 3d, and apart from the teams it contained only adverts.
As is well known, 1961-62 saw the start of the rebuilding of Altrincham Football Club and the programme was seen as important. It became very informative, excellently printed on a better quality paper and echoed the professional approach of the new management. In the programme for the opening game of that season the new Chairman, Mr. Peter Swales, said: "The months of hard work by staff and supporters are on show today...a new look ground and a new look team... We think Altrincham F.C. has gone a long way to being rebuilt in the last three months".
It is interesting that the drawing of the ground used at that time was identical to that used in 1949. Included in the first issue of 1961-62 is a photograph of the Karl Denver Trio, visitors to Moss Lane over 25 years ago. Can anyone remember them now?
Left: Programme for a pre-season game in 1962-63.
The Robins' programme grew in size from eight pages in 1961-62 to twelve the following season and sixteen in 1963-64, which was the last that the drawing of Moss Lane featured on the front cover. 24th August 1964 heralded the first home game of a new season and saw a new programme design which lasted only twelve issues, before the game against Sankeys on 12th December brought another cover design and a change of printers to John Roberts and Sons of Salford.
There was little change in the design over the next four seasons, but the programme on 4th May against Witton Albion marked a special occasion for the Robins with the first home match in the club's history to be played under floodlights. The present title of 'Robins Review' was introduced in 1967. During 1967-68, a different player's photograph featured on the front cover of each home programme. Inside, details of the opposition appeared and have remained as standard features since then.
A change of league in 1968-69 did not bring a change in programme design, apart from the absence of front cover photographs. The layout remained basically the same throughout most of the Robins' days in the Northern Premier League. The early 1970s saw an increase to 20 pages, accompanied by the usual price increase, to 9d, and then, in 1971-72, to 5p. The club's last season in the N.P.L. was marked by, for me, the best programme layout up to that date. The words "Robins Review" appeared vertically between red and black vertical stripes, which on the white background emphasised the club colours. A different photograph featured on the front cover of each match programme. Understandably the opening issue saluted the Wembley success of the previous season. John King was shown receiving the F.A. Trophy after the Robins' 3-1 success over Leatherhead.
The cover photograph on the cover for the match against Boston United is one for the scrap book as John King, Barry Howard and a very smart Stan Allan posed with Spurs' Argentinian World Cup stars Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles after the clubs had met in the F.A. Cup at White Hart Lane. Those old programmes can certainly bring back memories!
Since the inaugural season of the Alliance Premier League in 1979, each season has seen an equally impressive, yet different, cover design. Inside, action photos from previous games were introduced and have remained a popular feature.
1980-81 saw a price increase to 20p but after five issues with an increased page size, the programme returned to its present A5 format. Duplex came and went during 1981-82. Despite the eye-catching full-colour front cover and the increased content with the 'On Target' insert, for me, the individuality of the traditional Robins' Review was lost. One half of what I read in Altrincham's programme one week, I could read again in Boston United's or Kettering's soon afterwards. After 22 issues, the Duplex firm closed down and the final ten issues of the season were all four-page, typed emergency issues. Unfortunately, these included the F.A. Trophy semi-final against Wycombe Wanderers.
The past four seasons (1982/83-1985/86) have maintained a balance between information, statistics, photographs, articles and, of course, advertisements. Unfortunately, the price has increased considerably - reflecting the ever rising costs of printing.
I would like to thank those readers who have contacted me about the articles on programme collecting in general and Altrincham programmes in particular. For those supporters trying to collect complete seasons and wanting to know if a programme was printed for a particular game - especially friendlies and postponed matches - I will compile complete lists, season by season, later in the year and let you know through the Robins' Review when they are ready.
Generally, until recent seasons, there was usually a normal programme for friendly games, and interesting examples are from games against Northern Nomads (26th September 1953) and Rochdale (5th August 1968).
Finally, for my own research, I am still desperate to find programmes from 1938-39, 1939-40 and 1945-46 (when Altrincham Amateurs played at Moss Lane), if they were printed in these seasons. Information on any programmes from 1959-60 and 1960-61 would also be very welcome. I can be contacted by post, care of the Club, if anyone can help me out.
When Terry Surridge wrote the above articles in 1986-87 season, the programme was typically 24 pages in size and cost 40p; it went up to 50p in 1988-89 and increased in size the following season to 32 pages. Another price rise, to 60p, came in 1990-91 and a year later the cost went up again, to 80p, and by 1992-93 it cost £1 for the same 32 pages. Paul Brady, who had edited the programme so well for a decade, handed over to Mark Harris and Terry Surridge from 1991-92. The pagination grew to 36 for 1995-96 but 1996-97 saw a radical change, with a larger format, a larger price of £1.50 - and larger print! Relegation from the Conference in 1997 saw a reversion to the former A5 size for the UniBond Premier season of 1997-98 and a price-cut to £1.20. As well as cutting the price, the new editor Robert Muir also enlarged the publication to 40 pages. The current editors, Grahame and Terry Rowley, took the helm from 1998-99. The price rose to £1.50 (for 44 pages) for the one-season return to the Conference in 1999-2000 and remained at that level until the 2005-06 season, despite becoming a virtually all-colour production in the interim. In 2005-06, with promotion back to the Conference National, the price went up to £2, a price it still retains in 2011-12. The Robins' Review received deserved recognition by winning the Wirral Progamme Society award as the best programme in its division five years in a row (2000/01 to 2004/5).
Don't forget that you can buy old Altrincham programmes (home and away) from the Robins' Shop at Moss Lane!


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Welch was hired by the shipyard Harland and Wolff to take photographs of the constructions of  and . William Alfred Green, another noted Belfast photographer, was an apprentice of Welch, and photographed many of the same subjects and sites as his mentor.

Throughout his life, Welch received numerous commendations for his works and contributions. In 1904, he was elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy for his contributions to the field of photography. The series of photographs that Welch took of life in the West and Northwest of Ireland for the Congested Districts Board in the late 1880s, led to his being bestowed upon a royal warrant by Queen Victoria upon her visit to Ireland in 1900. This was one of four royal warrants granted to Irish photographers during her reign, making Welch one of only ten photographers outside the British Isles to receive a royal warrant. In 1923 Welch was awarded an honorary Masters of Science degree by Queen's University Belfast.

Welch's life was marked by his contributions to photography, ecology, geology, archaeology, anthropology and the environment. He served as a member and for a time, as president of both the Belfast Naturalist Field Club and the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

When Welch died in 1936, he was remembered in obituaries written by other influential naturalists, photographers, and organisations, notably: the Ulster Tourist Development Association, Robert Lloyd Praeger, Alexander Hogg, and Arthur Stelfox. By the time of his death, Welch had taken thousands of photographs. A collection of roughly 5,000 of his glass plate negatives, lantern slides, prints, diaries, field notes and annotated maps were acquired by friends and family after his death and presented to the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, now the Ulster Museum. A permanent exhibition at the Ulster Museum now features twenty enlarged photographs for public display. The glass negatives of the photographs Welch took for Harland & Wolff are featured in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

An Ulster History Circle, also known as a Blue plaque was unveiled in Welch's honour on the 26 March 2010, at the home in which he was born in 19-21 Main Street, Strabane, County Tyrone. Welch was also featured in an educational BBC programme, Ulster In Focus.

Featured work
Some books featuring his works and contributions include:
 'Framing the west: images of rural Ireland 1891-1920'
 'A list of the photographs in the R.J. Welch collection in the Ulster Museum'
 'Ireland's eye: the photographs of Robert John Welch'
 'A history of the land and freshwater Mollusca of Ulster'
 'Official guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains.'
 'Sister Ships Olympic and Titanic, March 6, 1912'
 'Photograph album. A collection of views taken mainly in Belfast and Ulster c.1870-c.1890.'
 'A list of photographs in the R.J. Welch Collection in the Ulster Museum. Vol. 2: Botany, geology, and zoology.'
 'Praeger, Robert Lloyd, M.R.I.A. (1865-1953): collection of photographs relating to R.L. Praeger, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy.'
 'Album of Belfast views.'
 'The Gobbins cliffs and caves, Co. Antrim'

Gallery

References

External links

Robert Welch, photographer of Ireland, birmingham.gov.uk; accessed 27 July 2015.
Robert John Welsh Countryside and City, irelandseye.com; accessed 27 July 2015.
Biodata, culturenorthernireland.org; accessed 27 July 2015.

1859 births
1936 deaths
Irish people of Scottish descent
People from County Tyrone
Place of death missing
19th-century Irish photographers
20th-century Irish photographers

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"I totally fell in love with linguistics and uncovering the reality of this place I called home—a home that has such a vexed and complex history."
Discovering the scope of BC's language diversity
When Aidan Pine's interest in Indigenous languages was piqued in a linguistics elective course at Concordia University, his professor asked him, "What are you doing in Montreal?" If Aidan wanted to pursue this field, his professor thought he should be studying in British Columbia, where 34 First Nations languages are still spoken.
At the time, Aidan was unaware of the immense scope of language diversity in his home province. There are at least 93 different dialects spoken within 34 Indigenous languages, all of which are endangered. National Geographic named the Northwest Pacific Plateau one of the top 5 "language hotspots" in the world.
Aidan took his professor's advice and returned home to enroll in UBC's linguistics program, where his interest in Indigenous languages grew steadily throughout his degree. "I totally fell in love with linguistics and uncovering the reality of this place I called home — a home that has such a vexed and complex history."
Although there were several sophisticated dictionaries available for specific Indigenous languages, few were affordable. Many of the available online Indigenous dictionaries were created by for-profit companies who charged as much as $50,000 to develop them. "That irked me," says Aidan. "You look at a company and see how many dictionaries they were making at that price, essentially re-using the same code that they had written. It's another form of exploitation, unfortunately."
A model of ethical partnership
Aidan wanted to find a way to use technology as a tool for ethically partnering with Indigenous people. "We (settlers) can really only work on the margins," he says. "But if I can develop a tool that amplifies rather than drowns out Indigenous efforts, that's an effective strategy."
So he set to work building the technology that would become Mother Tongues, a suite of dictionary applications for web and mobile platforms that is free for anyone to use.
The beauty of the Mother Tongues software is its flexibility. It's open source so anyone can adapt it, and if you want to add words and definitions to the dictionary, you can simply enter terms into a spreadsheet. No coding knowledge is required. It can be used for any language, and is available on both Android and iOS, which means it's available to 99% of smart phone users.
Before graduation, Aidan managed to build a working prototype. Within a few years, users across the globe—from Canada to Japan to Nepal—have added an estimated 100,000 entries to the platform.
"He went from a thought project to an implementation project in the course of one year," says Mark Turin, who co-supervised Aidan's work while serving as Chair of the First Nations Endangered Languages Program at UBC. The speed and scope of what Aidan accomplished as an undergraduate still gets Mark excited. "He's an incredibly talented young man." By the time Aidan graduated, the tool was ready to be used. Now he needed partners to build out the Gitxsanimx̲ dictionary.
Aidan Pine collaborated with Gitksan speaker Thelma Blackstock on his language revitalization projects.
Collaboration with the Gitksan Community
The summer after Aidan graduated from UBC, he travelled to Gitanmaax (Hazelton) to board with Thelma Blackstock, a pillar of the Gitksan community. They quickly became friends. Aidan grew up without knowing his grandmothers, and Thelma filled that void. They'd been introduced by Jeanne and Barbara, Thelma's sisters, who worked with the UBC linguistics program to research and document the Gitksan language in writing.
Jeanne and Thelma's childhoods were a picture in contrasts. Growing up in the 1930s and 40s, Jeanne witnessed English teachers suppressing the use of Gitxsanimx̲ in class, punishing classmates who showed defiance. She resolved to comply, and it cost her not only her ability to speak her language, but her pride. "You don't know how to speak our language," her Gitksan classmates taunted. "You're broken. Broken Gitksan!"
Thelma, on the other hand, was kept out of school by a host of illnesses throughout her childhood. Cared for by her grandmother, she learned Gitxsanimx̲ through conversation. Years later, she taught her sister how to speak the language, and later Aidan too.
But more than teaching Aidan the language, Thelma helped him make connections for collaboration. Dictionary projects are massive undertakings that can stretch on for years. The Oxford English Dictionary, to use a famous example, took 70 years to complete its first volume, and is continually updated. With the Mother Tongues technology in place, a team was formed: three Gitxsanimx̲ speakers in Vancouver (including Jeanne and Barbara) working with a UBC research group, and another half a dozen speakers in Gitksan territory actively contributing.
Gitxsanimx̲ is particularly complex. Gitksan literally means "people of the Skeena River," and the Nation stretches over 33,000 square kilometres of territory surrounding the river and its basin. With the Gitksan people spread over such a vast region, a continuum of dialects formed over time.
While the dictionary continues to be a work in progress, a preliminary version has now been published through Mother Tongues, which, thanks to its open-sourced flexibility, is now being used in over thirty different languages, including more than 15 BC First Nations languages. It's since been adopted by FirstVoices, an online suite of tools aiding the revitalization of BC's Indigenous languages, which are at a crucial crossroads: native speakers like Thelma are aging. The United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages to draw attention to "the urgent need to revitalize and promote them at national and international levels." If the next generation is going to inherit and renew these languages, they will need tools to help them.
Supporting a New Generation of Speakers
After publishing the initial offering of the Gitxsanimx̲ language dictionary through Mother Tongues, Aidan was recruited by the National Research Council to research and develop digital tools for language revitalization as part of the Indigenous Language Technology project. Following his ethical principles, he made clear his desire for any technology he helped build be open source. They readily agreed. He also initiated the forming of an Indigenous Advisory Committee, which now has 12 Indigenous members from across Canada who advise and direct the project. Through that council he met Tessa Erickson, one of the committee's first Youth Ambassadors.
Tessa is a member of the Nak'azdli Whut'en First Nation, but she isn't fluent in Dakelh, their Indigenous language. Fluent speakers are rare in her community, but her father taught her what little he knew. Now 17, Tessa is taking matters into her own hands. In addition to using the language tools provided by FirstVoices, she helped instigate work on a Dakelh dictionary app, using the skills she learned through a coding boot camp organized by the First Nations Technology Council.
When skeptics say that this generation isn't interested in learning Indigenous languages, Aidan points to Tessa. "Here's somebody who's spending her summers, for free—not being paid to learn how to do this stuff, because she recognizes the power in language, and the power it has in her community."
Tessa sees the technology that Aidan and the NRC are developing as a bridge to learning language. "I feel like targeting a younger audience using technology to pique interest is going to encourage new speakers," she says.
But confidence can be a huge barrier. "I was scared of messing up or saying something wrong so I just chose to not speak," says Tessa. Apps like Mother Tongues work at first to build up a learner's basic knowledge to the point where beginners like Tessa are confident enough to have conversations with language mentors. Then, for more adept speakers, apps serve as an archive of the language. With so many learners living in diaspora, app dictionaries can help fill the void that distance from community creates.
In addition to her work on the Dakelh dictionary app, Tessa is coordinating summer camps where students are immersed in their native language, in hopes that they "will encourage a generation of new speakers." It's one of many examples of the language revival happening across Canada. Aidan rattles off half a dozen examples that refute the notion that these languages are "dying": there is rapid change stirring within Indigenous communities to restore and revitalize these languages. And the data backs it up: the 2016 Census shows a rise in Aboriginal language acquisition as a second language, up to 26% from 18% in 1996.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
In the summer of 2018, Aidan once again found himself in Gitanmaax living and working with Thelma. In exchange for accommodation, Aidan was tasked with the cooking. But often, he would emerge from his bedroom in the morning to find she had made him eggs, toast, and tea instead. "Guu wok̲ 'niin!" (sleepy head!), she would say.
"Thelma was truly one of the most genuine, inspiring and kindest people I've ever met," says Aidan. "I loved her very much, and I felt very loved by her as well."
"She thought the world of Aidan," says Jeanne. "She loved his cooking too."
That summer, at the age of 90, she passed away. As the funeral preparations were made, Aidan helped however he could. "He did everything a Gitxsan person would do," says Jeanne. "He was at the graveside. He had big tears for Thelma too… and he was grave digging as well." She pauses to wipe away tears.
"I miss her," she says. "She was a role model for everybody."
This work can't be done alone. "When you're contributing to a project like this, you're standing on the shoulders of giants" says Aidan. Thelma, a living dictionary of the Gitxsanimx̲ language, a giant in her community, has passed away. But the tool she helped build for the next generation lives on.
Aidan Pine is currently looking for developers and funding partners to help grow Mother Tongues and provide more educational materials. To learn more, contact Aidan at info@mothertongues.org.
Learn about the UBC First Nations and Endangered Languages Program.
Learn about the UBC Department of Linguistics.
This story was originally published on UBC's Faculty of Arts website at https://students.arts.ubc.ca/ubc-linguistics-grad-develops-dictionary-app-to-support-indigenous-language-revitalization/

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PHOTO: REUTERS
LAFARGEHOLCIM, the world's biggest cement maker, on Thursday announced a US$3.4 billion deal to buy Firestone Building Products from Japan's Bridgestone Corporation in its biggest acquisition in more than a decade.
The purchase of the roofing products business is the biggest under chief executive officer Jan Jenisch, who since taking over in 2017 has focused on paying down debts, quitting less profitable markets and smaller bolt-on deals.
It will help LafargeHolcim tap increasing demand for roofs that generate solar energy and cool buildings, with cities such as San Francisco requiring solar panels on new buildings.
Mr Jenisch said his company's focus was now on growth, with plans to roll out Firestone Building Products beyond the United States, where it currently generates nearly 90 per cent of its US$1.8 billion in annual sales.
"We said we wanted to have a fourth leg for our company - building solutions and products - for this we need a bigger acquisition," he told reporters.
"We needed a platform which had technologies and an innovative product range to kick start this fourth segment and this is exactly what this Firestone business is offering to us."
The Tennessee-based business generated an operating profit of US$238 million in 2020.
LafargeHolcim said it expects the deal to be earnings accretive from its first year, with mid-single digit percentage organic sales growth.
Mr Jenisch said there was scope for rapid growth in the US$50 billion global market for flat roofs, which he expects to reach US$65 billion by 2027, noting increasing demand for roofs that generate solar power and increasing urbanisation.
"We want to become the market leader in flat roofing systems. We are currently number four in this fragmented market," he said.
"We will be significantly increasing the business, we have a lot of opportunities in the core market of the US and then we will expand rapidly into Latin America and also accelerate our business in Europe."
The deal was also a sign of confidence in the construction industry, which was battered early last year but which has since recovered, he added.
"No one thought back in April and May when we were all in the coronavirus shock and sales dropped, we could not see the amazing recovery especially in construction and for LafargeHolcim.
"We couldn't imagine making such a deal, but we made it. Now it is time for us to consolidate this and also to start the growth plans in the US and also outside." REUTERS
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It's a very small, sleepy, crime-free town. But yes, it was a tragic fiasco. And, no, they were not masterminds.


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Master's Degree in Law
Legal Studies ›
Interdisciplinary Law ›
The University Master's Degree in Law is regulated by Law 34/2006, of October 30, developed by Royal Decree 775/2011, of June 3. In congruence with this, the Faculty of Law of the University of La Laguna - in collaboration with the Bar Association of Santa Cruz de Tenerife - starts, from the academic year 2014/15, the necessary training to facilitate the graduates in Law the exercise to the profession of lawyer, once passed the corresponding state test of aptitude.
This responds to the demand of society to provide qualified training to those who will be fundamental partners in the delivery of justice, for the quality of the service they provide, which directly results in the effective judicial protection that our Constitution guarantees to all the citizens.
This Master qualifies for the exercise of professional activities according to Royal Decree 775/2011, of June 3, which approves the Regulation of Law 34/2006, of October 30, on access to the professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts.
Justification of the title
In accordance with the provisions of the Statement of Motives of Law 34/2006, of October 30, the regulation of the regime of access to the profession of lawyer in Spain is a requirement derived from articles 17.3 and 24 of the Spanish Constitution. In the field of comparative law, professional training to act before the courts of justice requires prior accreditation of graduates in legal sciences. Likewise, in Spain, the requirement for such training has been a constant requirement of the professional associations in the last three decades.
In the same sense, the White Paper on Justice presented by the General Council of the Judiciary in 1997, as well as the X Conference of Deans of the Faculties of Law of Spanish universities held on June 28, 2004. Also, From the political perspective, the State Pact on Justice of the year 2001 was pronounced in the same direction.
That is why the aforementioned law regulating access to the profession of lawyer was enacted, which together with its Regulation of development through Royal Decree 775/2011, of June 11, require for the access to the profession of Lawyer a process of professional training based on three basic pillars: the completion of training courses, a period of internships and a test of professional aptitude.
According to art. 4.1 of the aforementioned law, training courses and external internships constitute specialized training that allows the student to choose the national assessment, and such training may be taught in accordance with the regulations governing official postgraduate university education. For its part, the Regulation that develops the law, in its art. 4.1, a) establishes that public or private universities can provide training within the framework of the teachings leading to the obtaining of an official Master's degree.
Consequently, the studies of Degree in Law - and Law Degree -, from the entry into force of the aforementioned regulations - October 31, 2011 - do not enable, as up to now, to directly access the exercise of the profession of Attorney, becoming the University Master of Law in the way that would provide the necessary training to university graduates who intend to practice that profession after also passing a national training test, taking into account that the intervention of professionals of the legal profession is essential for the proper functioning of the Administration of Justice that undergoes a continuous expansion and specialization. In short, the title is proposed to comply with the training requirements established by the regulations governing access to the legal profession.
Therefore, the Faculty of Law of the University of La Laguna promotes the organization of studies leading to the title of Master in Advocacy with the participation of the Illustrious Bar Association of Santa Cruz de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the exercise of their social responsibilities as institutions linked to academic training and professional practice, for which the agreement required by art. 7 of the Regulation of access to the professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts.
Description of the internal and external consultation procedures used to prepare the curriculum
The Faculty of Law of the University of La Laguna is in the process of implementation (4th year) of the Degree in Law as well as the extinction of the Bachelor of Laws degree, constituents both of qualifications for access to the Master's Degree in Advocacy.
Entry and exit profile
Admission profile
Regarding the profile of recommended admission, it must be taken into account that this Master is aimed at those who wish to access the profession of Lawyer of the Courts, and its main objective is to improve the professional training of the lawyer as relevant collaborators of the administration of justice in order that the citizens have guaranteed a legal advice, a legal defense and a quality technical representation as essential elements for the exercise of the fundamental right to effective protection. Therefore, the law establishes a system of training in excellence whose basic pillars are the realization of this master, where the student will acquire a set of specific professional skills, the development of a period of external internships and the realization of an evaluation. of the professional aptitude that culminates the process of qualification with previous character to the inscription in the corresponding professional school. Hence, not only should we go only to Royal Decree 1393/2007, modified by Royal Decree 861/2010, in its art. 16 establishes that to accede to the official teachings of Master, but also to Royal Decree 775/2011, of June 3, which approves the Regulation of Law 34/2006, of October 30, on access to professions of Lawyer and Attorney of the Courts, that establishes that the student body must have a title in which it has acquired the following legal competences:
a) Know and understand the elements, structure, resources, interpretation and application of the legal system and interpret the sources and fundamental legal concepts of each of the different jurisdictional orders.
b) Understand and understand the mechanisms and procedures for resolving legal conflicts, as well as the legal position of individuals in their relations with the Administration and, in general, with the public authorities.
c) Know and know how to apply the priority criteria of the sources to determine the rules applicable in each case, and especially the compliance with the rules, principles and constitutional values.
d) Interpret legal texts from an interdisciplinary perspective using legal principles and social, ethical and deontological values and principles as analytical tools.
e) Set out with a convincing legal argument on a theoretical issue related to the various legal matters.
f) Resolve practical cases in accordance with the current positive Law, which implies the prior preparation of material, the identification of problematic issues, the selection and interpretation of the applicable positive data and the argumented exposition of the subsumption.
g) Handle with skill and precision the legal language and terminology of the different branches of law: write legal documents in an orderly and comprehensible manner. Communicate orally and in writing ideas, arguments and legal reasoning using the appropriate records in each context.
h) Use information and communication technologies to search for and obtain legal information (databases of jurisprudence legislation, bibliography, etc.), as well as work and communication tools.
Graduation profile
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Information management skills (ability to search and analyze information from different sources)
Basic knowledge of the profession
Capacity for analysis and synthesis
Ability to organize and plan
Oral and written communication in their own language
Critical and self-critical ability
Ability to apply knowledge in practice
Ability to adapt to new circumstances
Know and know how to identify the classes, value and effects of documents
Know how to write different writings before the different judicial instances
To know the techniques directed to the investigation and establishment of the facts in the different types of procedure, especially the production of documents, the interrogations and the forensic tests.
Possess, understand and develop skills that make it possible to apply the specialized academic knowledge acquired in the degree to the changing reality that the lawyers face to avoid situations of injury, risk or conflict in relation to the interests entrusted or their professional practice before courts or public authorities and in the advisory functions.
Know and be able to integrate the defense of the rights of clients within the framework of national and international jurisdictional protection systems.
Know the different techniques of composition of interests and know how to find solutions to problems through alternative methods to the jurisdictional way.
Know and know how to apply professional deontological rights and duties in the attorney's relations with the client, the other parties, the court or public authority and between lawyers.
Know and evaluate the different responsibilities related to the exercise of the professional activity, including the basic operation of the free legal assistance and the promotion of the social responsibility of the lawyer.
Know how to identify conflicts of interest and know the techniques for their resolution, establish the scope of professional secrecy and confidentiality, and preserve the independence of criteria.
Knowing how to identify the requirements of provision and organization that are decisive for legal advice.
Know and know how to apply in practice the organizational, management and commercial environment of the legal profession, as well as its associative, fiscal, labor and personal data protection legal framework.
Develop skills and abilities for choosing the right strategy to defend the rights of clients taking into account the requirements of the different areas of professional practice.
Know how to develop skills that allow the lawyer to improve the efficiency of their work and enhance the overall functioning of the team or institution in which it develops through access to information sources, knowledge of languages, knowledge management and the use of techniques and tools applied.
Know, know how to organize and plan the individual and collective resources available for the exercise in its different organizational forms of the legal profession.
Know how to expose orally and written facts, and argue argumentative legal consequences, in response to the context and the recipient to which they are addressed, according to the case with the specific modalities of each procedural area.
Know how to develop professional works in specific and interdisciplinary teams.
Know how to develop skills and interpersonal skills, which facilitate the exercise of the profession of lawyer in their relations with citizens, with other professionals and with institutions.
Orientation and mentoring
From the point of view of the information on the Curriculum, the Faculty of Law has a web page where the student will be able to find all the information related to the Master of Access to the Law.
For personalized information and support, the student has other elements:
The School of Law has a POAT (Tutorial and Action Plan Tutorial) where the students of the Faculty are assigned a personal or curricular tutor who accompanies them throughout their stay in the Faculty and who guides and supports them in his academic career.
The Secretariat of the Center is the window of the management team of the center responsible for the title. The student can go to the secretariat of his center to resolve issues related to the teaching of the degrees, claims about teaching matters, transfers of files, etc.
Graduate Studies Bureau: you can obtain all the information and advice related to the graduate degree in question, as well as matters related to the central services of academic management.
In addition, the University of La Laguna has the Information and Guidance Service (SIO) which is the office designed to inform, advise and guide the university community in general, referring students to the corresponding offices, depending on their interests. The SIO has an information area that responds to the demands of academic and administrative information of the ULL: information about scholarships and grants, procedures, rights and duties, deadlines and procedures, transfers of academic records, simultaneity of studies, regulations of permanence, etc.
The professional associations also have their own Web pages where students can consult information of interest and where, in their day, the information of the Master of Access to the Law will be incorporated.
External practices
Practical application of all the contents of the master's degree in a real situation of professional practice. Particularly in the knowledge of the organization and operation of the professional office, deontological and responsibility issues. The type of professional activities in which the student will intervene, will depend on the matters managed in the entity, requiring insertion in the work dynamics of the position of destination, assumption of the working environment of the entity and assigned role.
In accordance with the provisions of art. 16 of RD 775/2011, of June 3, the students will be supervised by a team of professionals at the head of which a lawyer who has practiced the profession for at least 5 years will be appointed. The students, in the development of their practices, will have the right to interview with the members of the tutoring team that they have assigned. Each tutoring team, made up of at least 3 members, will have a maximum of 6 students. In case the designated tutor can not carry out his work with the student, the tutor in charge of the tutoring team will designate a new one, in accordance with the provisions of the Management Regulations of the External Practices of the University of La Lagoon.
The tutoring team must prepare a report or report every six months that accounts for the activities carried out during the performance of their duties.
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In the external Practices, the student must, in the hands of the internal tutor, put into practice the knowledge acquired throughout the program. The student may attend trials, draft legal documents, participate in the knowledge and resolution of cases as well as everything that is required by the entity that receives it according to a plan previously agreed by both tutors and known by the student at the time
of its incorporation.
b. Development places
The practices may be developed, according to the provisions of Article 15 of RD 775/2011, in courts or tribunals, prosecutor's offices, companies or professional offices of lawyers, penitentiary institutions, legal departments or human resources of Public Administrations, institutions
officers or companies.
c. Duration of the internships
The practices, according to article 14 of RD 775/2011, will suppose 30 ECTS additional to those indicated in article 12 of the same legal text.
The internship will cover a total of 740 hours that will take place during the three semesters of the Master.
d. Expected results
With the module of external practices students will learn to:
Integrate their theoretical and practical training through active participation and the relationship with professionals who work in different development areas.
Develop human qualities and technical skills to respond appropriately to the demands of professional practice.
Exercise the advisory function of the lawyer, configuring legal relationships that avoid legal conflicts.
Act before the organs of the respective jurisdictional orders that will allow it in the future to carry out the procedural actions of the lawyer.
Intervene as mediator in legal conflicts, to procure extrajudicial solutions.
This work is oriented to the evaluation of the competences associated to it and its function is to encourage the student to face specific legal problems that can be found in his professional practice and that can also be associated with research in the legal field on a subject of present. For each academic year the Academic Committee of the Master will publish before the beginning of the enrollment period a list of possible topics of the Master's Thesis. At the beginning of the corresponding semester, each student enrolled must choose one of these topics and communicate it to his / her tutor, who must be a Master's Teacher, to guide him / her in the preparation of the Work and to whom the student will present the project. Before his defense, the student will deliver the Final Master's Project in triplicate, in PDF format and without exceeding 60 pages, in the Secretary's Office of the Law School together with a mandatory report from the tutor, a requirement without which will admit the deposit. Each tutor will have a maximum of 4 students in each academic year.
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Schumann in Heidelberg
View of Heidelberg, 1837, only few years after Robert Schumann's stay as a student
Robert Schumann spent 16 months in Heidelberg. On 21 May 1829, he came here as law student and left the city on 24 September 1830 with the decision to become artist. Inbetween he spent a lot of time on journeys.
The decision to study law was required by the mother. The first study place was Leipzig (1828/29), which he left with enthusiastic hopes towards Heidelberg. The law school first definitely appealed to him. Among the students he found friends, and his law professor Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut invited him to his legendary singing circles. The landscape around Heidelberg and the drinking habits of the Pfalz impressed him.
Schumann's main interest was music. He sat at the piano every day. The correspondence displays the priority of music in the literature needs. Schumann took part in Thibaut's singing circle and attended concerts in the city and the surrounding area. He played piano in some private houses and had on 24 January 1830 his last public performance as a pianist in the concert hall of the museum society, where he played Moscheles' Alexander variations. And he started to compose: The Abegg Variations Op. 1, the Papillons Op. 2 and the Toccata for Piano Op. 7 were started in Heidelberg.
On 30 July 1830, Robert Schumann wrote from Heidelberg to his mother: "In Leipzig, I drifted along unconcerned in some life plan ... here I have worked more, but here and there I always sticked intimately and closely to the art. Now I am standing at the crossroads and frighten ask myself the question: Where to? I follow my genius, it directs me to the art, and I think it is the right way."
A stroll through Heidelberg's old city center would have to stop at at least six stations related to Robert Schumann's academic year:
After his arrival in May 1829, Schumann put up at first at the "Badischer Hof", one of the biggest hotels this time, which extended to several houses (today: Hauptstraße No. 113, No. 113a and No. 115).
At the Universitätsplatz the today called "Old" University is relocated, which was back then the only central building of the university. Here was the registration into the Matriculation book, and in the Pandektensaal of the today's great hall, Thibaut gave his lectures. The auditorium was redesigned into the style of historicism on occasion of the jubilee in 1886.
On the south side of Universitätsplatz is the New University of 1931. Before that there was standing the house of the museum's society built in 1828. This association aimed the promotion of cultural and social life of upper middle class. Schumann was a frequent visitor here and was also performed publicly as a pianist.
Schumann's first address was at Fuhrmann Panzer. The proximity to the insane asylum and the sound of the Catholic bells however bothered him. Instead of the former apartment building is now the former municipal court and present Roman Department of the University (Seminarstraße 3).
He found his final residence in October 1829 at the merchant Ritzhaupt, the hotelier of "Zu den drei Königen" in the Hauptstrasse. Schumann was allowed to play indefinitely the piano and gave piano lessons to the son of his landlord. At the "Drei Könige", also Mozart, Goethe and Tieck already put up. Today a plaque on the facade refers only to Robert Schumann (Hauptstraße 160).
Schumann often participated in the famous singing circle in the house of the lawyer Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, where in the spirit of Romance old music was discovered and practiced; Palästrina and Händel were Thibaut's most preferred composers. Schumann admired Thibaut as lawyer as well as music-lover, without sharing his rejection of contemporary art. The baroque building was demolished in 1961. In the new building is nowadays located the faculty for deacony studies of the university. (Karlstraße 16).
Literature (selection):
Joachim Draheim: Robert Schumann in Heidelberg, in Susanne Himmelheber, Barbara Böckmann (ed.): Musik in Heidelberg 1777–1885. exhibition catalog, Heidelberg 1985, p. 144–180
Akio Mayeda: Schumann in Heidelberg. Eine Skizze über den Komponisten, ibid. p. 181–188
Jürgen von Esenwein, Michael Utz: Folg ich meinem Genius … Gedenktafeln berühmter Männer und Frauen in Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1998, p. 99–105
Heidelberg is the former residence of the Prince-electors and the Count Palatines of the Rhine, today famous for its castle ruins and the university. Heidelberg is after Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, with 145.000 inhabitants the third major city in the metropolitan region Rhine-Neckar.
Heidelberg has a rich cultural life. The Philharmonic Orchestra of the city performs at the operas of the municipal stages and in own concerts. The International Music Festival "Heidelberger Frühling" outshines far beyond Heidelberg every year. The urban music and singing school is one of the largest facilities of its kind in Baden-Württemberg.
The musical life of the city is also supported by a large number of other orchestras, ensembles and choirs, which perform partly professional, partly as laymen under professional conduction. Among others are The Klangforum, the society of music and art lovers, the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, the Bach Choir of Heidelberg, the student choir, the Cappella Palatina and many others. Other festivals are Enjoy Jazz, LINKS. Heidelberger Biennale für Neue Musik, "Heidelberger Kirchenmusiktage" and the Chanson festival "Schöner Lügen".
Among academic institutions are the Department of Musicology of the University and the College of Church Music. Many of these institutions will participate in 2010 with concerts, events and projects at the Schumann year.
Cultural Office of the city of Heidelberg
Haspelgasse 12
Dr. Andrea Edel
www.heidelberg.de
Tel: (06221) 58-33000
Fax: (06221) 58-33490
kulturamt@heidelberg.de
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View from the Dreikönigstraße (until 1832 Judengasse) to the Hauptstraße 160 (Photo: Stefan Hohenadl)
The former hotel "Zu den drei Königen" (Photo: Stefan Hohenadl)
The commemoration plaque (Photo: Stefan Hohenadl)
(Hans-Martin Mumm, translated by Katharina Ma)
Gabriele Dörflinger: Robert Schumann in Heidelberg


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Chinatown Market and basketball are meant to be together
Chinatown Market is a brand born without presumption and is now a streetwear giant. Basketball is one of the brand's main inspirations, a bond that has grown over time thanks to collaborations with Kelly Oubre Jr., NBA2K and LeBron James. That's the story of this relationship.
When Michael Cherman founded Chinatown Market, he wanted to represent the crazy soul of New York, its excesses, its uniqueness and the visual power of Canal Street. It cannot be said that he did not succeed. Few brands have had the impact that Chinatown Market has had in such a short time, making it to collaborate with international symbols, top tier musicians and iconic sportsmen of the caliber of Mike Tyson and LeBron James. The connection with basketball has always been fundamental for the brand and its iconic Smiley, which has always been present on balls, backboards, shorts, t-shirts and much more.
Once the father of the streetwear phenomenon ICNY and an integral part of KITH's growth, Michael Cherman founded Chinatown Market in late 2016. Prior to that, Cherman was working with laser printers for Nike's influencer marketing section, and here was able to understand what athletes and musicians really wanted. When that section closed, Cherman bought those same printers to start ICNY, and later Chinatown Market, maintaining the usual mindset of strong aesthetics and speed of execution. In fact, no one is as quick to produce and present new looks as Chinatown Market is, and their Instagram profile can testify it.
The history of the smiling yellow face of Chinatown Market actually starts from even further back, when Michael Cherman was Mikey Merchandise, as he was called in high school due to the constant sales of t-shirts he made. Again, it all began thanks to basketball. In fact, Cherman played very seriously but he broke his hand in his junior year of high school and had to stop. At that moment, he realized that designing clothing was his way.
Now that Chinatown Market is a big name in global streetwear, it's not strange to see the Smiley on characters like Mike Tyson, one of the last people to collaborate with the brand through its foundation, but basketball has always had a special place in the hearts of Chinatown Market. As mentioned, Cherman was a player, and among the first accessories ever made by the brand we find the iconic yellow ball, then evolved in a thousand other ways, and the backboard with its basket, as well as clothing that easily recalls the basketball world, characterized from long-cut t-shirts and baggy shorts.
Canal Street is New York's street shopping Mecca, a place where to find cheap deals but also lots of counterfeit goods. Chinatown Market is inspired by this world, the so-called bootlegs, or rather new products that take full advantage of other people's logos, symbols and styles, mixed together. The "stolen" aesthetic also won over LeBron James who arrived in the Game-2 of the 2018 NBA Finals with the Converse Chuck Taylor enriched by a digitally printed Swoosh, a product that Chinatown Market made for him, without ever selling it.
From that moment on, the relationship between basketball and the Los Angeles-based brand has been growing, which is not strange when you can count on the support of the most dominant and iconic player of this generation. In December 2019, the Chinatown Market clothes were also made available for purchase on NBA 2K20, the video game, his latest collaboration with PUMA was launched at the All-Star Weekend and during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael Cherman's brand has teamed up with Klutch Sports, the agency that represents LeBron James, to launch a collaboration that includes clothing and masks to raise funds in support of essential worker.
Chinatown Market has thus become a constant in the NBA world, with appearances in the Instagram feed of various accounts such as @LeagueFits or others which follow the looks of the players arriving at the arena. The Canal Street-inspired brand has been seen more recently collaborating with Kelly Oubre Jr. and BR Kicks, and then also appearing in the Orlando Bubble totally covering LeBron James, precisely with the collaboration with the legendary music group Grateful Dead.
From New York to Los Angeles, from the streets to the NBA arenas, Chinatown is now also at Airness, in our stores and online. From now on, Airness will always have new products made by Michael Cherman and his team. Remember what was said before, the strength of Chinatown Market lies in the speed and frequency of creation, so never lose an eye on Airness profiles and sites.
Click HERE to see Chinatown Market products now available.
Allen Iverson and the Georgetown Hoyas: wins, losses and a cornerstone for black culture
Allen Iverson began writing basketball history with the Georgetown Hoyas, under the guidance of coach John Thompson. In those two seasons, Iverson and Thompson were responsible for a manifesto for basketball and Black Culture.


The idea of, essentially, drive-up alcohol and liquor pickup was discussed for about 45 minutes at last week's city council meeting.
The conclusion: There's no need to ban it. It's already illegal.
A proposal by a city council member was to ban the practice of, for example, a grocery store that sells liquor, having an employee bring alcohol purchased online — perhaps with other groceries — out to a customer's vehicle.
Businesses in La Crosse already have to apply for a liquor license to do this.
City council president Martin Gaul pointed out the current statute in the city.
The practice is growing throughout the state and some communities have banned it, while others have allowed it.
La Crosse Police Chief Ron Tischer said the decision to allow the practice would open up Pandora's box.
Those in favor of the ban warned of the potential dangers of underage teens being able to purchase alcohol easier.
Gaul took objection to that idea.
The council ultimately voted the proposal down 6-5.


Lots of noise in the press the last few days that the recession has officially hit the search marketing world.
ComScore recently released January stats showing flat growth in paid clicks via Google year over year. The news sent investors scurrying and Google's stock dropped about 9% -- which translates to billions in market cap.
It seems this data reflects that consumers, armed with less discretionary income, have curtailed their online spending and thus… no, wait a minute... the comScore research says nothing about reduced spend or lower conversion rates for search marketers. It just says people clicked on less ads.
Pardon me, but what does a recession have to do with people clicking on ads? Spending less, I'd understand -- but clicking less? They've already performed the query. They've already stated they are interested in X product, Y service, or Z information. Is something happening while they're navigating the SERP reminding them they don't have the money so they better not click on that ad? I think not.
And it's not like search volume is down. Per Compete, the number of queries on Google in January was up 50% year over year.
Additional ammo against the search-sky-is-falling camp comes from Hitwise. They point out that traffic from Google to retail sites is actually up year over year.
And Tech Crunch notes that Yahoo paid clicks are up 15% year over year. Surely, you can't say that the recession is affecting Google users but not Yahoo's?
Google provided rationale for lower paid clicks in its Q4 earnings call, citing weeding out of low quality advertisers and reformatting AdSense placements to reduce accidental clicks.
However, there's one contributing factor that has not been alluded to in the press -- outside of my last Search Insider column, that is. The continual roll-out of Universal search on Google could very well be reducing the number of clicks on SERP paid listings.
With the eye drawn to images in the middle of the natural results, people no longer consume SERPs top down. Instead, they start in the middle of the page and sniff around from there. So it's a lot more likely they'll get diverted before making it to the sponsored listings at the top or on the right.
What does this mean for paid search marketing? For one, it means clicks on paid listings should be more qualified. If someone took the time to scan past the images and the natural results surrounding them and made it to the paid ads, they must really want that product/service/information.
At the end of the day, savvy search marketers know the click is not the end-all-be-all of campaign performance. It's all about post-click activity that ultimately leads to revenue -- online and/or offline. Let's hope investors pick up on this and start using the same metrics to evaluate the health of our industry.


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Emilia Segunda Antuerpiana de Orange-Nassau (Amberes, 9 de diciembre de 1581-Obermoschel, 28 de septiembre de 1651) fue condesa de Nassau por derecho propio y condesa del Palatinado-Zweibrücken por matrimonio.

Vida
Fue la sexta y la hija más joven de Guillermo I el Taciturno, príncipe de Orange, y de su tercera esposa, Carlota de Borbón
. Emilia Antuerpiana fue la última hija sobreviviente de su padre. Emilia fue apodada Secunda (la segunda) para distinguirla de su hermanastra mayor, Emilia. Más tarde la llamaron simplemente Amalia. Emilia pasó su infancia en la corte de La Haya y Delft bajo el cuidado de su madrastra, Luisa de Coligny.

Después de que su hermana, Luisa Juliana, en 1593 se hubiera casado con el elector palatino Federico IV, ella fue a Heidelberg. No era hermosa ni tenía dinero, por lo que permaneció soltera hasta una edad más avanzada de lo normal para las princesas de la época.

Matrimonio e hijos
El 4 de julio de 1616 se casó en Landsberg con Federico Casimiro, conde palatino deZweibrücken-Landsberg (1585-1645). La pareja tuvo tres hijos:

 Federico (1617-1617) murió un día después del nacimiento.
 Federico Luis (1619-1681), casado con Juliana Magdalena de Palatinado-Zweibrücken.
 Carlos Enrique (1622-1623) murió de niño.

En 1622, Emilia Antwerpiana y Federico Casimiro tuvieron que huir de Landberg hacia Estrasburgo durante la Guerra de los Treinta Años, huyendo de las tropas imperiales del conde de Tilly al castillo de Montfort, cerca de Montigny-Montfort, en Borgoña, que había recibido a Emilia de la posesión de su padre. La fuga le provocó problemas económicos de larga data, y durante muchos años trató de acceder a su herencia y pidió dinero a sus hermanos.

En los años siguientes en Montfort tuvo que luchar con considerables problemas financieros. En los años 1633-1634 negoció con sus cinco hermanas y su hermanastro, Federico Enrique, por la herencia paterna. En 1638, Federico Enrique pagó a sus hermanas. Insatisfecha con la suma, negoció más con Federico Enrique y exigió más en años de correspondencia. Además, Emilia tuvo que lidiar en un proceso en París con las demandas de los parientes franceses por el patrimonio de la Casa Chalon, incluidos los condados de Montfort y Charny.

Después de una objeción de la ciudad de Amberes, Federico Enrique pagó una vez más a Emilia, pero en una carta en 1648 reafirmó su profundo empobrecimiento. Viuda desde 1645, pasó sus últimos años de vida principalmente en su residencia de viuda, el castillo de Montfort.

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Nacidos en Amberes
Casa de Orange-Nassau
Condesas Palatinas de Zweibrücken


Miss J's Forum » Facial Cosmetic Surgery » Things you find on Real Self and public places » is this the best you can do without surgery?
is this the best you can do without surgery?
Omg that was one of my childhood dermatologists. My experience with her is that she was wacky and had bad bedside manner. Practiced in my hometown.
Yeah, I've gathered. She makes her living primarily from being a corporate shill. They pay her to do studies showing that their products are effective and she does it. But aside from that, she has written some interesting papers.
She sounds extremely conversant in the field of skin care. Her CV is uber impressive with LOADS of contributions to the advancement of COSMECEUTICALS. Of course someone of her capacity will be sought out as a consultant for cosmetic companies. I'm really IMPRESSED. But I disclose I'm impressed by extremely knowledgeable and intelligent women who get by on their smarts and not their looks.
She may be conversant and have lots of info but I know personally that many would not go back to her for care. Eventually she only saw people as part of clinical trials. She really is not a doctor with good bedside manner at all and is quite off-putting. IQ is one thing, but EQ is another and she lacks it. I would like to add that I see another female derm in my state who has an equally impressive CV and is a contributor to the field and her bedside manner is 100% different. She has a huge practice and contributes to research. I would say she has EQ and IQ.
I like to see intelligent, accomplished women, too. But I have an issue with this one when she takes money to say this product is effective when her clinical trial has the control group as nothing instead of the vehicle.
With a lot of these trials you could use vaseline as control and get the same if not better improvement.
Not sure I would think of it as 'taking money to say product is effective' because that is what a MODEL or CELEB would do in an advertising and marketing campaign. She's not getting paid to promote a product. She's being paid to do research on it.
I'm not in position to opine on her bedside manner. I'll take your word for that. I'd be more inclined to buy a cosmetic that she was consultant for though than I would, for example from a famous PS or Derm who just slapped his name on it because he/she was TV famous.
IDK, she seems to be the type of person I would get along with well. Don't know that for sure because I've never had personal experience with her. But I did get a good impression from her presentation. But that's just me.
She claims she's an expert in skin and hair but looks like she needs expert guidance on the subject.
Why....because she's not surgically enhanced to look a lot younger via secret face lifts, lasers, fillers etc. Would she have more 'credence' with some of you IF if she got a boat load of surgery and then attributed all to skin care products?
I think she looks great for an unaltered 60, which is why I started the topic.
People forget what 60 looks like on most people.
Where I live, mid 40s can be a disaster.
Take a look at these befores, at about the same latitude as where I live.
I am not a fan of this guy's work but I give him props for using 1-year post op photos and being forthright about all the adjunct procedures.
I find it refreshing that she does not feel a need for surgery. I wish that I felt the same way.
Ya, she looks pretty good for post meno where all sorts of terrible things happen and I think her look in the video does basically show the LIMITS of skin care alone. The sun can really do a number on the skin and the area most forgotten to put the sunblock is what she says which is the neck.


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More reasons to quit cigarettes: new cancer study shows effects on women smokers
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the birth of revolutionary cancer researcher Sir Richard Doll, new results underline the links between smoking and cancer. In particular, it emerged that life expectancy can be drastically improved for women who stop smoking before the age of 40.
Suggestions for reducing eye strain
Are you working with tiny objects or sitting at a PC all day? Learn how to lessen eye strain with these tips
What you need to know about conjunctivitis
What is conjunctivitis and how should it be treated?
All about Crohns disease
We look at the causes, symptoms and treatment of Crohns disease
The symptoms and treatments of endometriosis
Endometriosis is still ill-understood but there are plenty of ways to alleviate symptoms
All you need to know about bacterial vaginosis
What is bacterial vaginosis, what causes it and how can it be treated?
What is ophthalmology?
Ophthalmology is a speciality branch of medicine that focuses on the eye. Learn more here
What is SARS?
There's been a lot of media hysteria about SARS. But what should the public really believe?
The whooping cough vaccine
We consider whether the whooping cough vaccine is safe for pregnant women
What you should know about flu symptoms
Influenza is extremely infectious. Most of us have experienced the classic flu symptoms of fever and fatigue. But is there are way of preventing them?


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New York International Air Show Will Go On With Major Changes
The New York International Air Show is still being planned for this summer, but with some major changes.
On Monday, Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus confirmed officials are planning to host the 2020 New York International Air Show.
"We are trying to plan a successful air show," Neuhaus said during a COVID-19 briefing on Facebook. "We believe that we can do it safely."
The show is scheduled for the weekend of August 29. In years past the airshow has been held at Stewart Airport in Newburgh. There have been reports that the airshow's venue is being moved. Neuhaus hasn't confirmed a new location but added the New York International Air Show will be held in Orange County, but its ground location might be moved.
"We are planning on moving forward with the airshow," he said "The stuff you're reading in the news isn't 100 percent accurate. The locations and the times and some of that stuff may be different."
Neuhaus believes fewer people will be allowed to attend and it will most likely be in a drive-in theater-like setting.
"The numbers would be reduced from the past. We're trying to make sure we can put that together on a safe way for you to go to it and almost like a drive-in theater type thing. So you wouldn't be interacting with people," Neuhaus said.
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Colgate-Palmolive Company announced that Noel Wallace has been elected president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors effective April 2, 2019.
Mr. Wallace, Colgate's President and Chief Operating Officer since July 2018, joined Colgate in 1987 and progressed through a series of senior management roles around the world.
In 2002, Mr. Wallace became President and General Manager of the Global Toothbrush Division.
Mr. Wallace then led Colgate Mexico and Colgate U.S. and, in 2010, became President Colgate North America, also leading Colgate's Global Sustainability strategy.