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Artist biography George Lawrence Stone
George Lawrence Stone (1886-1967) was an influential American drummer and author. He wrote the books Stick Control for the Snare Drummer (1935) and Accents and Rebounds for the Snare Drummer (1961). Among his students were Joe Morello, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, and Vic Firth.
George Lawrence Stone was born in 1886. He was the son of drum teacher and manufacturer George Burt Stone. George Lawrence learned drums and xylophone from his father and also helped out in his shop, where the elder Stone tucked drumheads, turned drumsticks, made wooden foot pedals and sold violins.
In the November 1, 1946 bulletin of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers, George Lawrence wrote: "If I have had my share of success in teaching others, its origin was in the way my father taught me, and in his counsel, so often repeated: 'If you accept a pupil you accept a responsibility. In one way or another you've got to go through with him. There's no alibi if you don't."
George Lawrence Stone also studied with Harry A. Bowers and Frank E. Dodge, learned timpani from Oscar Schwar of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and studied music theory at the New England Conservatory of Music.
George Lawrence Stone joined the musicians union at age 16, becoming its youngest member. In 1910 he was a xylophonist on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit, and he played timpani and bells with the Boston Festival Orchestra. Stone played in the pit of Boston's Colonial Theater under the baton of Victor Herbert, and was a member of the Boston Opera Orchestra for five years.
After George B. Stone's death in 1917, George Lawrence ran his father's drum factory and became principal of the Stone Drum and Xylophone School in Boston. He also wrote articles on drumming technique for International Musician and Jacob's Orchestra Monthly. Stone was a founding member of the National Association of Rudimental Drummers (NARD) which began in 1933, and served as its president for fifteen years. The publication of Stick Control made Stone even more in demand as a teacher, and drummers such as Gene Krupa, Sid Catlett, George Wettling, and Lionel Hampton sought out Stone's expertise.
Jazz drummer Joe Morello started taking lessons from George Lawrence Stone when he was sixteen. Morello: "Every lesson was a joy to go to. If you did something wrong, he had a way of letting you know about it, but without belittling you. He was a very gentle kind of man, and he had a good sense of humor. He had a way of bringing out the best in me."
George Lawrence Stone, in turn, was inspired by Joe Morello, who would add various accents to the exercises in Stick Control. Stone incorporated some of Morello's ideas into his book Accents and Rebounds, which he dedicated to Morello. And some of the exercises Stone wrote out for Morello appeared in Morello's 1983 book Master Studies.
As George Lawrence Stone's renown as a teacher increased, the George B. Stone & Son drum manufacturing business began to decline. The factory closed in the late 1930s and the equipment was idle until 1950 when Ralph Eames purchased it, using it to make Eames rope-tensioned parade drums. Today, some of Stone's equipment is still used by the Eames Drum Company in Saugus, MA, in the manufacture of its drum shells.
George Lawrence Stone continued to be active as a teacher through the 1940s. One of his students during that time was Vic Firth, who recalls: "Mr. Stone was a droll Yankee type, but a very sweet man. He was probably one of the first technique builders of the teachers, and he felt it was terribly important to make music. His theory was that you can be a sculptor by virtue of owning a hammer and chisel, but you don't really sculpt anything until you have the technique to do it. Likewise, before you can do anything 'shapely' in music, you've got to have the hands to do it with."
George Lawrence Stone died at the age of 81 on November 19, 1967. His wife died two days later, and his son, George Lawrence Stone Jr., died thirty-two days after his father. Eulogizing his friend in The Ludwig Drummer, William F. Ludwig Sr. said, "George was always helpful to everyone - his motto was 'Service before self.' May he rest in the satisfaction that he did his best for the percussion field for many, many years."
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Drammens Tidende 14/07/1998
SEXUALLY HARASSED FOR 16 YEARS
For 16 years Heidi Schøne from Solbergelva has been pestered and followed by a mentally ill Englishman. In only the last year the man has sent more than 300 letters to Heidi and made numerous phone calls
The Muslim man has been obsessed by Heidi Schøne (34) since she was 18 years old. His long time pestering of Heidi and her family has been a huge strain. DT-BB first covered this case three years ago. Still, the family is being badgered by the same man.
Want to be left alone
"All we want is to be left alone. This man is very ill and his countless letters and phone calls put an enormous strain on us all" says Heidi's husband Runar Schøne. For years the Schønes have been living with a string of secret phone numbers and addresses, but each time the man manages to find them and the terror continues until they manage to hide themselves away again.
"Reports"
In the course of the 16 years this man has sent out many "reports" to Heidi's family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and a number of strangers. These reports are grossly defamatory and the information listed has no basis in reality. Once again, many people from Drammen have received "reports" about Heidi in their mail box. The reports are modelled like answers for questionnaires from Drammens Tidende, VG and Bergens Tidende, but none of the newspapers mentioned have ever asked for such a report.
"I do not know who Heidi Schøne is and I didn't understand anything when I opened the envelope containing pictures of Heidi Schøne and her husband together with revelations of filth, I have never seen the likes of. It must be awful for the Schøne family to be exposed to something like that. The entire letter reeks of extreme evil" says Per Leiblein from Konnerud who received a letter on Monday.
The harassment has been reported to the police. Nedre Eiker Constabulary has been investigating this case for three years.
No extradition
The problem is that the circumstances this man is being charged for are not enough to have him extradited from England. He has on the other hand been clearly told that he will be arrested if he comes to Norway, says local policewoman Torill Sorte Kjennås at Nedre Eiker Constabulary.
Screening Mail
To protect Heidi and her family, all their mail is screened at the Constabulary. So far this year Sorte Kjennås and her colleagues have dealt with more than 300 letters from the man. The family has got a secret phone number, and Telenor have been notified by the police that the number is confidential and is not to be given out to anyone, no matter what the circumstances. The family's address is secret and is barred from disclosure by the National Registration Office (Folkeregistret).
"In spite of all this the man has nevertheless managed to trace us down a couple of times, and when he does, the phone terror starts again. The man spends all his time tracking Heidi and passes himself off as different persons in order to get hold of our number," says Runar Schøne. The man has previously threatened neighbours of the family with lethal force to know where they have moved.
Drank tea together
Heidi Schøne met the Muslim man when at the age of 18 she was in England as an au pair. She regarded the man as a friend and drank tea with him on a couple of occasions. They have never had any relationship, but for 16 years the Englishman has been obsessed by the idea of marrying Heidi. For a long period he hired a private investigator to follow Heidi's every move. The harassment increased nine years ago when Heidi got married.
Psychiatrists believe the Englishman suffers from an extreme case of erotic paranoia.
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For years Heidi Schøne and her family have lived with a number of secret phone numbers and secret addresses. But a mentally ill Englishman has time and time again traced their address and is sending harassing letters.

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Police are seen in Kerala, India, on August 31, 2021. Journalist Avinash Jha's body was recently found in Bihar state. (AP/R. S. Iyer)
Indian journalist Avinash Jha's body found in Bihar
November 16, 2021 8:57 AM EST
New Delhi, November 16, 2021 – Indian authorities must conduct a swift and transparent investigation into the death of journalist Avinash Jha, determine whether he was killed for his journalism, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Jha, a reporter with the local news website BNN News based in the village of Benipatti, in the eastern state of Bihar, went missing on the night of November 9, according to the news website The Wire, which said he was last seen at about 10 p.m. at a medical clinic he owned in the town.
On November 12, Jha's family members found the journalist's body about 5 km (3 miles) outside Benipatti, according to multiple news reports, which said the body was severely burned.
"Authorities in India's Bihar state must thoroughly investigate the death of journalist Avinash Jha, determine whether he was killed for his work, and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice," said Steven Butler, CPJ's Asia program coordinator, in Washington, D.C. "The Bihar state government must ensure that journalists can do their jobs safely, without threat to their lives."
Jha, also known as Buddhinath Jha, also worked as an activist who investigated local private medical clinics, according to those news reports.
BNN News chief editor Kanhaiya Kashyap told CPJ over phone that Jha both reported on those clinics for the news outlet and filed complaints about them with authorities. On November 7, Jha announced on his Facebook page that he would initiate a new campaign against illegal clinics on November 15, Kashyap said. CPJ was unable to immediately locate that Facebook page.
Yesterday, police arrested six suspects in the killing, identified as Roshan Kumar, Bittu Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Manish Kumar, and Purna Kala Devi, according to India Today and Jha's cousin B.J. Bikash, who spoke to CPJ in a phone interview.
In a statement, police alleged that Jha had met with Devi at a local clinic on November 9, where five men abducted the journalist. CPJ was unable to find contact information or public statements by Devi or the other suspects.
Police have also claimed that Jha might have been killed due to a conflict surrounding an alleged "love triangle," according to India Today. However, both Kashyap and Bikash told CPJ that they doubted that theory, noting that it was not mentioned in the public police statement; they both said that they believed Jha was targeted for his journalism.
CPJ texted Satya Prakash, the police superintendent for Madhubani district, which is overseeing the case, for comment, but did not receive any reply.
In August, journalist Manish Kumar Singh was also killed in Bihar, as CPJ documented at the time.
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Since the Unheard Beethoven site opened earlier in 1999, we have been greeted with artistic contributions as well as many kind emails. Among these are paintings and MIDI files. Rather than keep these contributions to ourselves, we are making this space available for any artistic contributions of any kind related to Ludwig van Beethoven. Music, painting, sculpture, verse, etc. will all be considered, so long as they clearly relate to Beethoven or his works.
Our first notable contribution is the completion in MIDI form of the Scherzo to the Tenth Symphony from Beethoven's sketches, Biamonti 838. Gerd Prengel is the author of the completion and the MIDI file, as well as the descriptive text.
Gerd Prengel has also given us two movements for string quartet based upon Beethoven's themes for the first movement and the finale to the incomplete String Quintet WoO 62, which was the last major composition Beethoven worked on before his death. They're quite interesting and make good use of Beethoven's vigorous themes.
Below are two oil paintings contributed by Leon Krejci. Click on the image for a much larger version of the painting.
The portrait is 16″ x 20″ (oil on canvas panel) and was painted in 1972-3 after a photo of Beethoven's life mask.
Beethoven at his Broadwood piano is 32″ x 42″ (oil on canvas) and was painted in 1995.


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By Dan Graziano
Google earlier this month reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2012, topping Wall Street's estimates. The Internet giant also announced plans to create a new class of non-voting capital stock that would effectively create a 2-for-1 stock split. As a result, Google would be able to issue new shares of stock for acquisitions and employee compensation without diluting the 56.3% voting stake the company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin control. Not everyone is happy about the planned split, however, and a shareholder has sued the company and its board in an attempt to block the plan. The class action lawsuit is being put forward by the Brockton Retirement Board, which has accused Google of breaching its fiduciary duty to the company's shareholders, Reuters reported on Monday. The complaint states that Page and Brin "wish to retain this power, while selling off large amounts of their stockholdings, and reaping billions of dollars in proceeds." The Brockton Retirement Board asked a Delaware judge to block the plan and award unspecified compensatory damages.
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In Oct 2011 Dr. Odaibo's cornea paper was chosen by MIT Technology Review as one of the best papers from Physics or Computer science submitted to the arXiv. In that paper, he provided the first quantitative demonstration of non-paraxial light bending in the human cornea.
Clinically, Dr. Odaibo focuses on caring for patients with macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions, retinal tears, and localized retinal detachments. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a Fellow of the American Society of Retina Specialists. From 2015 into 2018 Dr. Odaibo was in retina practice at the Medical Associates Clinic in Dubuque Iowa. Of the many awards Dr. Odaibo has won in his life, one of the most meaningful for him were the tears shed by many of his patients and their families at the news that he was leaving his retina practice in Dubuque to focus more on Research & Development.
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Nearly one in four people planning to retire this year do not feel ready to stop working completely.
Research by Prudential also shows that 13% of those scheduled to retire have chosen to delay. Class of 2014 is Prudential's seventh annual study tracking the future plans and aspirations of people who plan to become new retirees this year.
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The Director of the Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism of the Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Ljupco Janevski and Mr. Nikola Shalvarinov, Director of the Agency for Emigration, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, which confirmed the desire for a proactive approach of both institutions in the area of tourism.
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Belur Math () is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. It is located on the west bank of Hooghly River, Belur, West Bengal, India. The temple is the heart of the Ramakrishna movement. It is notable for its architecture that fuses Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian art and motifs as a symbol of unity of all religions. In 2003, Belur Math railway station was also inaugurated which is dedicated to Belur Math Temple.

History
In the beginning of 1897, Swami Vivekananda arrived at Baranagar, Calcutta with his small group of Western disciples. Two monasteries were founded by him, one at Belur, which became the headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission and the other at Mayavati on the Himalayas, in Champawat District, Uttrakhand, called the Advaita Ashrama. These monasteries were meant to receive and train young men who would eventually become sannyasis (religious ascetic) of the Ramakrishna Mission, and to give them a training for their work. The same year the philanthropic activity was started and relief of the famine was carried out.

Swami Vivekananda's days as a parivrajaka (wandering monk) before his visit to Parliament of Religions, took him through many parts of India, and he visited several architectural monuments like the Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri palaces, Diwan–I–Khas, palaces of Rajasthan, ancient temples of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and other places. During his tour in America and Europe, he came across buildings of architectural importance of Modern, Medieval, Gothic and Renaissance styles. It is reported that Vivekananda incorporated these ideas in the design of the Belur Math temple.

Swami Vijnanananda, a brother-monk of Swami Vivekananda and one of the monastic disciples of Ramakrishna, who was, in his pre-monastic life, a civil engineer, designed the temple according to the ideas of Vivekananda and Swami Shivananda, the then President of Belur Math laid the foundation stone on 13 March 1929. The massive construction was handled by Martin Burn & Co. The mission proclaims the Belur Math as, "A Symphony in Architecture". The Math can be reached by direct EMU train services from Howrah, ferry and by road.

Campus

The  campus of the Belur Math on the banks of the Hooghly includes temples dedicated to Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda, in which their relics are enshrined, and the main monastery of the Ramakrishna Order. The campus also houses a Museum containing articles connected with the history of Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Several educational institutions affiliated with the Ramakrishna Mission are situated in the vast campus adjacent to Belur Math, including Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira. The Belur Math is considered one of the prime tourist spots near Kolkata and place of pilgrimage by devotees. The ex-president APJ Abdul Kalam regarded Belur Math as a "place of heritage and national importance."

Sri Ramakrishna Temple

The design of the temple was envisioned by Swami Vivekananda and the architect was Swami Vijnanananda, a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna. Sri Ramakrishna Temple was consecrated on 14 January, the Makar Sankranti Day in 1938.

The Ramakrishna temple at the Belur Math is designed to "celebrate the diversity of Indian Religions" and resembles a temple, a mosque, a church if seen from different positions. The architectural style and symbolism from a number of religions have been incorporated into the design of the temple at Belur Math, to convey the "universal faith" in which the movement believes. The temple is considered a prime example of the importance of "material dimension" of religion.

The main entrance of the temple, has a facade influenced by Buddhist styles in the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi & the main entrance of the Ajanta Caves. The structure which rises over the entrance is modelled on the Hindu temples of South India with their lofty towers. The windows and balconies inside the temple draw upon the Rajput (Hindu) and Mughal (Islamic) style of north India. The central dome is derived from the Renaissance architecture of the Duomo of the Florence Cathedral. The ground plan is in the shape of Christian cross.

The height of the temple is  and covers a total area of . The temple mainly is built of chunar stone and some portion in the front is of cement. The high entrance of the temple is like a South Indian Gopuram and the pillars on both sides represent Buddhistic architectural style. The three umbrella-like domes on the top built in Rajput-Moghul styles give an idea of thatched roofs of the village Kamarpukur.

The circular portion of the entrance is an intermingling of Ajanta style with Hindu architecture and within it, placing the emblem of the Order, is a representation of beauty and solemnity. Just above seen is a replica of a Shiva lingam. The natmandira, the spacious congregational hall attached to the sanctum, resembles a church, especially of St Peter's Church in Rome. The pillars in a line on its both sides are according to Doric or Greek style. The beam above is held by decorative brackets similar to the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai in Tamil Nadu. The elaborate designs on the pillars resemble the Orissa style.

The hanging balconies above the natmandir and the windows show the effect of Moghul architecture used in the Fatehpur Sikri. The broad parikrama path for doing circumambulatory rounds on all sides of the garbhamandira (sanctum sanctorum) are built like Buddhist chaityas and Christian Churches. The lattice work statues of Navagraha figures are etched on semi-circular top of outside the temple. The golden kalasha is placed on the top of the temple and has a full-bloomed lotus below. The architecture of the big dome and of the other domes show a shade of Islamic, Rajput, Bengal terracotta and Lingaraja Temple styles. The entrance doors on both east and west of the temple having pillars on both sides are like the elegant gateways of the Manmandir in Gwalior Fort. Ganesha and Hanuman images, representing success and power, are carved above them.

The statue
A full size statue of Sri Ramakrishna is seated on a hundred petalled lotus over a damaru shaped marble pedestal wherein the Sacred relics of Sri Ramakrishna are preserved. The swans on the front represents Paramatman. The statue of Sri Ramakrishna was made by the famous sculptor late Gopeswar Pal of Kolkata and the decorations of the temple were conceived by artist late Sri Nandalal Bose. The canopy above the deity and all the doors and windows are made of selected teakwood imported from Myanmar.

Swami Vivekananda Temple

The Swami Vivekananda Temple stands on the spot where Swami Vivekananda's mortal remains were cremated in 1902. Consecrated on 28 January 1924, the temple has in its upper storey an alabaster OM (in Bengali characters). Beside the temple stands a bel (bilva) tree in the place of the original bel tree under which Swami Vivekananda used to sit and near which, according to his wish, his body was cremated. On 4 July 1902 at Belur Math, he taught Vedanta philosophy to some pupils in the morning. He had a walk with Swami Premananda, a brother-disciple, and gave him instructions concerning the future of the Ramakrishna Math. He left his body (died) in the evening after a session of prayer at Belur Math. He was 39. Vivekananda had fulfilled his own prophecy of not living to be forty-years old.

Holy Mother's temple
The Holy Mother's temple is dedicated to Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of Ramakrishna. The holy mother's temple is right at the entrance of Belur Math. The temple is over the area where her mortal remains were consigned to flames. The temple of the Holy Mother was consecrated on 21 December 1921.

Swami Brahmananda's temple

Another temple dedicated to Swami Brahmananda—a direct disciple of Ramakrishna and the first president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission—is situated near Holy Mother's temple. The temple was built on the place where Swami Brahmananda was cremated. Swami Shivananda dedicated this temple on 7 February 1924.

Ramakrishna Museum

The famed, two-storey Ramakrishna Museum hosts artifacts used by Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, and some of his disciples. These include the long coat worn by Vivekananda in the West, Sister Nivedita's table, and an organ of Mrs Sevier's. The museum chronicles the contemporary growth of the movement, and the Bengalese.

The museum has a realistic recreation of the Panchavati – the clutch of five sacred trees of the Dakshineswar Kali Temple where Ramakrishna practised sadhana (spiritual disciplines). The black stone bowl from which Ramakrishna took payasam (a sweet Indian dish) during his final days, while suffering from throat cancer, and the pillow he had used, in the house in Calcutta where he spent his last few months, are on display. Ramakrishna's room in the house, where he distributed ochre clothes to 12 disciples anointing Vivekananda (then Narendranath) as their leader, has also been shown with a model of Ramakrishna bestowing grace on his disciples, and the footwear used by Ramakrishna has been put on the model. The room at Dakshineswar where Ramakrishna lived has been recreated with display of clothes and other objects used by him, the tanpura used by Vivekananda to sing to his master, and the copies of two charcoal drawings sketched by Ramakrishna are on display.

Sarada Devi's pilgrimage to Chennai, Madurai and Bangalore has also been exhibited, along with items used by her then, in 1911. The museum showcases a huge replica of Swami Vivekananda in the front of the Chicago Art Institute, where the famous Parliament of the World's Religions was held in September 1893. Alongside the same display, is a letter by Jamsetji Tata, Swami Vivekananda's co-passenger on the trip, that reveals an important and well-known work of Tata's, which was inspired by Swamiji: the founding of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore.

The wooden staircase and the lotus woodwork of Victoria Public Hall in Chennai, where Vivekananda gave inspiring speeches to a large congregation, have been brought over. A few displays away from this is a show on Miss Josephine MacLeod, who met Swamji in the U.S. in 1895 and served India for 40 years thereafter. She played an important role in the Ramakrishna movement. At this enclosure is a crystal image of Swamiji that was done by Paris jeweler René Lalique.

Activities
The Belur Math conducts medical service, education, work for women, rural uplift and work among the labouring and backward classes, relief, spiritual and cultural activities. The center also celebrates annual birthdays of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Sarada Devi and other monastic disciples of Ramakrishna. The annual celebrations of Kumari Puja and Durga Puja are one of the main attractions. The tradition of Kumari puja was started by Vivekananda in 1901.

Visiting
Belur Math has been opened for visitors and devotees from 18 August 2021.

Timings : Morning: 8.00 to 11.00 am | Afternoon: 4.00 to 5.45 pm

It was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from 22 April to 17 August 2021, and earlier from 24 March 2020 to 9 February 2021, with a brief opening during the phased unlock process from 15 June to 2 August 2020, and from 10 February to 21 April 2021.

Presidents
 Swami Brahmananda 1897–1922
 Swami Shivananda 1922–1934
 Swami Akhandananda 1934–1937
 Swami Vigyanananda 1937–1938
 Swami Shuddhananda 1938–1938
 Swami Virajananda 1938–1950
 Swami Shankarananda 1951–1962
 Swami Vishuddhananda 1962–1962
 Swami Madhavananda 1962–1965
 Swami Vireshwarananda 1965–1985
 Swami Gambhirananda 1985–1988
 Swami Bhuteshananda 1988–1998
 Swami Ranganathananda 1998–2005
 Swami Gahanananda 2005–2007
 Swami Atmasthananda 2007–2017
 Swami Smaranananda 2017–Incumbent

See also
 Kalighat Kali Temple
 Dakshineswar Kali Temple
 Gazi Pir
 Baranagar Math
 Baranagar Ramakrishna Mission

References

Further reading

External links

Buildings and structures in Howrah
Headquarters in India
Hindu monasteries in India
Hindu pilgrimage sites in India
Hindu temples in West Bengal
Ramakrishna Mission
Swami Vivekananda
Tourist attractions in Howrah district

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Coroner rules black man shoots self in chest while handcuffed
A 22-year-old African-American shot himself in the chest when his hands were cuffed behind his back, a coroner has ruled.
Victor White III died in March while restrained in the back of a deputy's car at the sheriff's station in New Iberia, Louisiana.
Louisiana State Police initially reported that Mr White shot himself in the back when his hands were cuffed behind him.
But this contradicts the final report of the Iberia Parish coroner, released six months later, which states that Mr White was shot in the chest, not the back.
He and a friend, Isaiah Lewis, 24, were searched by police at around 11.30pm on March 2.
After officers found cocaine and marijuana, Mr White was transported to the patrol centre to be questioned by narcotics detectives.
He died of a gun shot wound after a bullet entered his right chest, perforated his left lung and heart and then exited under his left armpit, the coroner's report states.
Mr White was left-handed, according to family members.
A forensic pathologists found gunshot residue in the wound and cuts were seen on Mr White's face.
Dr Carl Ditch ruled that White shot himself, and declared his death a suicide on Monday.
In a statement, he said: 'Although the decedent was handcuffed at the time with his hands to his back, due to his body habitus (type), the pathologist and investigators agree that he would have been able to manipulate the weapon to the point where the contact wound was found.'
Dr. Maranda Kles, a forensic expert with UL Lafayette reviewed the autopsy and coroner's statement.
She explained the bullet entered on the right lateral or side part of the chest and exited on the left.
When asked, how it might have been possible for White to manoeuvre and retrieve the gun, she said: 'If there was some give in those handcuffs that allowed for movement in the arms over to the side, movement of the hands it could have been possible.
'The further the gun is away from the body, the larger the spread of that pattern. If you have no stippling, it typically means you have a very close or contact wound which means the gun was pressed against the skin or in very, very close proximity, millimeters from the skin.'
Mr White's father, a Baptist minister and former substance abuse counselor, has expressed anger at the verdict, which he believes is physically impossible.
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Upon traveling to Jerusalem, the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahadlearned that Basilisk was the Templar commander in the region, and that he held one of the three keys to the Temple of the Sand. Believing the Chalice to be held within the Temple, the Assassins infiltrated a party, hosted by the King of Jerusalem, where they knew they would find Basilisk.
Altaïr and Basilisk faced off against each other, and the Assassin eventually managed to best the Templar leader. While Basilisk managed to escape soon after, his key was lost to the Assassins.
With all three keys now in his possession, Altaïr traveled to the Temple of the Sand and managed to infiltrate the room where the Chalice was kept. However, he only found Lord Basilisk standing besides an empty chest. Basilisk started taunting the Assassin, also hinting that the Chalice was not an object but a woman. He then left the Assassin within the Temple, which soon started collapsing.
The next time the two men met was in the Templar stronghold in Tyre, where Altaïr and Basilisk faced off once more; the Assassin managed to wound Basilisk badly. The Templar leader was forced to reveal that the Chalice was in fact in Jerusalem, and that his forces were besieging Acre. The Assassin then burned all of his ships, delaying Basilisk's journey to Jerusalem.


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Historians with an interest in material culture deal with the physical manifestations and traces of the past, from wooden legal documents and stone inscriptions to maps, art, clothing, and statues. What can bindings tell us about texts, paper about the development of legal precedent, the plans of houses about social rituals? The study of goods, objects, and the built environment focuses attention on practices of consumption, trade, and the intimacies of daily life. Objects, distributions of remains, and spatial configurations all contribute to our understanding of the past, and their study is part of the crafting of new questions and the increasing interdisciplinarity of historical study. Historians in the Corcoran Department with these interests also tend to be active in the events and programming of other departments (such as Art History) and national organizations that are not specifically historical, such as the Archaeological Institute of America. The visualization of this evidence also leads us to be very active in various digital humanities initiatives, supported at the University of Virginia by the Scholars' Lab and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
Paul D. Halliday
Julian Bishko Professor of History, Professor of Law
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Themes: Empire & Colonialism, Legal History, Material Culture, Transnational and Diplomatic History


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Why we deserve $500M
ABC Watch
Home Australian politics Blair Cottrell has had his bank account closed
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Blair Cottrell has had his bank account closed
David Hiscox
Blair Cottrell.
The globalists never stop. They are psychopaths who brook no dissent and will destroy you if you pose a threat to their system. Hell, it's likely they do this just for kicks.
Blair Cottrell has had his Westpac bank account closed. Here is what he wrote on Gab:
"Lol world-communism in effect. They're closing my bank accounts now too and won't even tell me why:
"We hope you will appreciate that we are not able to provide you with any further information about our commercial imperatives".
"But we already know why, don't we. It's because I know the truth about the international ethnic-genocide of white people, I know who's doing it and why. I know the truth about recent history, I know why they're pushing your kids to be gay and transgender, I know the real purpose of feminism. I just know too much.
"They'll have to think about how they're going to kill me though because this really won't affect me much."
Here is a photo of the letter shown by Blair:
He has followed up with this post:
"It's interesting to note that in 2015, Julie Hoskins of a local community group in Bendigo, Victoria had her Bendigo Bank account closed while challenging the local government's planned Islamic Mosque, school & housing development at court.
"I am currently engaged in a legal battle against the State & it's Attorney General for "intent to incite ridicule of Muslims on Facebook" and my bank just closed my account as well. Also considering the slander coming from the mainstream media, is financial/social terrorism a government response to any individual who stands up to it?"
You can make a complaint to Westpac in writing here or call them on 132 032.
Blair Cottrell is a charismatic figure and powerful public speaker who has been an important leader in the Australian nationalist movement. Footage of him confronting a disgusting, half naked street performer in Melbourne went viral last year, and earlier this year he was a keynote speaker, along with Fraser Anning, at a political meeting in St Kilda to bring together Australians concerned over the growing African Gangs crisis in Melbourne.
Several years ago he spoke at a Reclaim Australia event in Melbourne which was marred by violence committed by Antifa terrorists, and he is a former leader of the United Patriots Front.
Naturally, he has been demonised in the mainstream media as a so-called "neo-nazi". A common tactic is to superimpose the image of a swastika behind Blair's face, even though he does not use national socialist imagery. Australia's corrupt legal system has also worked hard against him in order to drain his time and resources.
It must be understood that what has happened to Blair will eventually happen to any conservative who openly challenges the globalist system and opposes replacement level mass immigration into Australia. The Liberal-Labor uniparty needs replacement level mass immigration because the artificial GDP growth it produces helps keep Australia (officially) out of recession. Globalist crony capitalists need mass immigration because it helps keep wages low and profits up. Far left useful idiots need mass immigration because they have been brainwashed into hating themselves, and they consider it the ultimate virtue to erase their own genetic code and the genetic code of their kin. Finally, globalists need replacement level mass immigration because they genuinely hate white people and have been working for centuries to eliminate us from the planet.
This attack on Blair Cottrell is an act of war because it is an attempt to make it more difficult for him to earn money and thus eat. They are literally trying to starve him. However, Blair's last line is crucial:
"This really won't affect me much."
The globalists want us to think that we need them but the reality is that they need us.
Because they are parasites.
Once we have removed ourselves from the globalist parasites' reach and no longer have anything whatsoever to do with them, we will have cut off all supply to the globalist parasites and they will shrivel up and die.
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Civil rights groups sue Betsy DeVos over sexual assault policy
A group of civil rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Education Department and its secretary, ...
Posted: Jan 25, 2018 11:11 PM
Updated: Jan 25, 2018 11:11 PM
A group of civil rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Education Department and its secretary, Betsy Devos, challenging the department's move last year to roll back Obama-era guidelines on how colleges and universities should handle sexual assault and sexual violence.
In 2011, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said that colleges should use the "preponderance of the evidence," the lowest standard of proof, when judging sexual violence cases under Title IX, the federal law that protects people from sexual discrimination in education or other programs receiving federal aid. In September 2017, the Education Department said that colleges and universities could abandon that guidance and use a higher standard, "clear and convincing evidence."
The groups say the department's guidance under DeVos had produced a "chilling effect" on survivors coming forward
In September 2017, DeVos reversed an Obama-era policy on how campus violence allegations are handled
At that time, the Education Department said that the Obama-era rules "created a system that lacked basic elements of due process and failed to ensure fundamental fairness."
In a press conference outside the Department of Education on Thursday, leaders of the groups challenged the change, saying that the Obama-era policy included critical protections for survivors of sexual assault, and that the Department's guidance under DeVos had produced a "chilling effect" on survivors coming forward.
Stacy Malone, the executive director of the Victim Rights Law Center, said that before Obama issued the 2011 guidance, sexual assault survivors "did not feel like they had a voice on the own campus." Since the Education Department rescinded that guidance, she said, survivors are back at square one.
"They fear they are no longer able to get a fair shake," she said. "Their reports will not be taken seriously because survivors will be dismissed as women who had drunk regret sex as opposed to who they really are, victims of sexual violence."
The lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, lists DeVos, the Department of Education and Candice Jackson, the top civil rights official at the department, as defendants. Jackson came under fire last year for saying in a New York Times interview that '90 percent' of sexual assault allegations come after drunken hookups. She later apologized.
In the lawsuit, the groups allege that the Education Department's new rules surrounding sexual violence on campus were built on "unfounded generalizations about women and girls, particularly their credibility regarding reported experiences of sexual harassment, including sexual violence." The groups are calling for the Trump administration's Title IX policy to be vacated.
The Education Department did not immediately respond to request for comment, but previously said it plans to enact new rules after a public comment period.
In September, DeVos's move to scrap the Obama-era rules was cheered by advocates for accused students, who said that campus judicial proceedings were biased in favor of female accusers and that the accused students -- mostly men -- were unable to get a fair shake.
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Q: Comparison of WMS and WFS services I am writing my thesis about WMS and WFS services. I would like to compare these two services.
Can you suggest factors on which I can do this comparison?  (In my mind I have: functionality, fastest data transmission.)  Maybe you can also advise me about any good literature where I can find appropriate information?

A: You are really comparing chalk and cheese. WMS serves up raster tiles of data that have been created by a WMS server. This data can originally be vector or raster data and will have been drawn with style, but by the time it gets to your client it is just a raster image. WFS on the other hand, serves up vector data.
Good places to look are the OGC website which has the standards documents as well as overview documents for the various services. This would be a reference to put in your bibliography. MapServer and GeoServer have lots of documentation on the way each of them deals with WMS and WFS. And of course, there is Wikipedia which has short but generally accurate pages on both, but I suspect you would lose marks if you actually cited the site in your thesis. Best just use it to get an overview.
With something like these geospatial web services, it usually pays dividends if you actually install a server and play around with creating maps. There are plenty of tutorials out there, and there are lots of previous posts on stackexchange.
My undergrad thesis is on the use of web mapping for the archaeology industry, and I have a virtual machine (VBox running JeOS Ubuntu 10.10) that runs mapserver and tinyows that I can connect to like a "real" server, and test what I'm writing about.

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When Armenia's foreign minister visited Turkey in August, it looked like both countries might be thinking about trying to mend their troubled relationship. In an apparent reverse, the Armenian president is now calling time on a historic deal with Ankara drawn up in 2009 but never ratified.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, President Serzh Sargsyan said his government might withdraw from the accords signed in Zurich almost exactly five years earlier.
The president said the Turks had since added a new, wholly unacceptable precondition – that Nagorny Karabakh must first be ceded to Azerbaijan.
Karabakh has been controlled by an Armenian administration since open warfare with Azerbaijani forces ended in a truce in 1994.
"In Armenia and Artsakh [Karabakh], ordinary people often respond to such preconditions by saying, 'To hell with your ratification!'" he said.
Armenians would never bargain away their lands, he said.
"Under these circumstances, Yerevan is seriously considering whether to recall the Armenian-Turkish protocols from parliament," Sargsyan said.
Turkish-Armenian relations are clouded by two giant issues. First, the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman authorities in 1915. Armenians describe this as genocide, and have lobbied world governments to do the same. Over 20 countries including France, Russia, Sweden and Germany have officially acknowledged the killings as genocide, but Turkey continues to reject the term.
Second, there is Nagorny Karabakh. Two decades of negotiations have failed to make progress because Yerevan and the Karabakh administration see independence as the end goal, whereas Azerbaijan hopes to regain its lost territories.
As an ally of post-independence Azerbaijan, Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 because of the Karabakh conflict, thus greatly restricting Yerevan's external trade opportunities.
The 2009 accords would have eased relations between Armenia and Turkey, and reopened the border. They were the result of an unexpected rapprochement begun when the then Turkish president, Abdullah Gül, visited Yerevan for a football match between the two national sides in 2008. The process became known as "football diplomacy".
Armenia formally ended the ratification process in 2010 after accusing Turkey of seeking to include new conditions.
Speaking to journalists after the president's UN speech, Armenian foreign minister Eduard Nalbandyan was unable to say whether the president really planned to withdraw from the agreements.
"The president said what he said, and I have nothing to add for the moment," he said.
Members of the president's Republican Party welcomed his comments.
"We witnessed the performance of a strong president, built on clear and indisputable arguments," Republican parliamentarian Karen Avagyan wrote on his Facebook page.
However, Giro Manoyan of opposition Dashnaktsutyun party doubts that the president really means what he says.
"All this means is that the protocols could be dropped from parliament's agenda," he told IWPR, adding that if Turkey were to ratify the accords at some point, Armenia could still do so as well.
"The president continues to believe that these protocols should play a positive role for Armenia," Manoyan said.
Dashnaktsutyun has been critical of any effort to improve relations with Turkey.
Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, a senior academic at the Armenian Institute of Oriental Studies, believes that with so little progress made since the accords were signed in 2009, the president's speech marks the end of the process.
He warned that the president would need to follow up his statement with actions if he wanted to be taken seriously.
"Over the past five years… Armenia alone has repeatedly raised the issue of ratifying the protocols, whereas Turkey has continued to take the same unchanging approach to the process," Ter-Matevosyan said.
Political scientist Sergei Minasyan, who is deputy director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, believes there is still a chance the agreements could be revived.
He said the comments served two purposes: to send a warning to Turkey on the highest international stage and to attract political support at home.
"It was simply a warning to Turkey," he told IWPR, adding that it also served a second purpose – pleasing Armenians both at home and abroad.
"Any tough statement directed at Turkey is perceived as very positive in Armenia and among the diaspora," he explained.
In reality, he said, any future attempt to improve relations with Ankara would have to be "founded on the logic" of the 2009 agreements, which represented "the sole result of mutual concessions made with extraordinary difficulty".
Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Centre, an independent think tank in Yerevan, regretted what he saw as a missed opportunity for that Sargsyan to use the UN stage to move beyond historical problems and present Armenia in a more rounded, forward-looking way.
Yekaterina Poghosyan is a reporter for Mediamax.am in Armenia.


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Il singolare dell'ATP Tour World Championships 1996 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte dell'ATP Tour.

Boris Becker era il detentore del titolo, ma Pete Sampras lo ha battuto in finale 3–6, 7–6(5), 7–6(4), 6–7(11), 6–4.

Teste di serie

  Pete Sampras (campione)
  Michael Chang (round robin)
  Evgenij Kafel'nikov (round robin)
  Goran Ivanišević (semifinali)
  Thomas Muster (round robin)

  Boris Becker (finale)
  Andre Agassi (round robin, ritirato)
  Richard Krajicek (semifinali)
  Thomas Enqvist (round robin)

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Finale

Gruppo rosso
La classifica viene stilata in base ai seguenti criteri: 1) Numero di vittorie; 2) Numero di partite giocate; 3) Scontri diretti (in caso di due giocatori pari merito ); 4) Percentuale di set vinti o di games vinti (in caso di tre giocatori pari merito ); 5) Decisione della commissione.

Gruppo bianco
La classifica viene stilata in base ai seguenti criteri: 1) Numero di vittorie; 2) Numero di partite giocate; 3) Scontri diretti (in caso di due giocatori pari merito ); 4) Percentuale di set vinti o di games vinti (in caso di tre giocatori pari merito ); 5) Decisione della commissione.

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#ad#But Richardson's ethnic background is certainly not all he has going for him. He also has a national image as a moderate on fiscal issues, which will be very helpful in a run for national office. Can we call Bill Richardson a fiscal conservative? Not so fast.
This was high praise, indeed, and at the time the numbers backed it up.
Of course, future elections will not be decided on 2004 data. And with Richardson running for reelection this year and planning a bid for the presidency in 2008, his less-than-stellar fiscal record since 2004 bears noting.
Though Richardson did cut New Mexico's top income-tax rate — something his predecessor Gary Johnson had tried but failed to do because of a hostile legislature — his well-publicized cuts were more than offset by increases in other taxes and fees. In fact, overall tax-policy changes under Richardson have resulted in a net tax increase of some $174 million through fiscal-year 2006. Richardson should not be denied credit for reducing income-tax rates because of the salutary economic impact of such reductions, but calling him a "tax cutter" is not entirely accurate.
Aside from cutting income taxes, Richardson's fiscal record fails to live up to his reputation. First and foremost, spending has risen dramatically during his time in office. Under Gary Johnson (1995-2003), general fund spending grew by a modest 5.2 percent annually. Richardson, on the other hand, has boosted spending an average of nearly 7 percent per year. This trend to spend shows no sign of slowing since the just-passed fiscal-year 2007 budget will grow by more than 8 percent.
More, in the aftermath of this year's legislative session, taxpayers in New Mexico will be on the hook for several projects that will cost millions of dollars in coming years. The state will spend $318 million to create a new commuter rail project, for which only $1 out of every $10 will come from passengers. While gleefully throwing taxpayer dollars at 19th century transportation technology, Richardson also convinced the state legislature to subsidize 21st century transportation. Thus, $100 million in tax collections will be used to construct a first-of-its kind spaceport that will theoretically become the home base for future private space flights.
While spending hundreds of millions of dollars on special-interest goodies is bad enough, Richardson would have done far more economic harm if he'd succeeded in his attempt to push through a 46 percent increase in the state's minimum wage. This legislation was thwarted at the last minute by a handful of senators from Richardson's own party. Had it succeeded, it would have raised the minimum wage in low-cost, low-income New Mexico above that of high-cost, high-income states like New Jersey, New York, and California. Richardson, however, has vowed to continue trying to pass a massive hike in the mandated wage, and he may yet call a special legislative session to do just that.
The 2008 elections are still a long way off, but at this point Richardson's income-tax cuts appear to be an aberration. It will be interesting to see how the governor positions himself over the next two years, and whether he shifts back to the right or continues moving left.
– Paul Gessing is the president of New Mexico's Rio Grande Foundation.


A seasonal malt blend of fresh picked pumpkin, nutmeg and finishing notes of fermented warm vanilla.
COMMENTS: Works well. Very strong scent.
COMMENTS: I like the scent but it doesn't seem to have any lager type scent.
"Great Scent but best with Hot Process"
COMMENTS: I absolutely love this scent. I do mostly Cold Process but with this fragrance (and most beer/ale type scents), I use hot process and it is so worth it. My customers love the scent and it sells all year long. I am planning on trying it in candles.
COMMENTS: This fragrance will almost immediately SEIZE your soap! Words of advice: Divide your oil and lye. Add your colors FIRST and wait until the absolute last minute before adding the f.o., adding to each color individually and pour IMMEDIATELY. Don't expect any pretty swirls with this one. Best for layers or color blocks. Oh, and don't forget your vanilla stabilizer...this one WILL turn brown. My first attempt was a disaster. I will try again though and implement the above suggestions for my next batch because I love the scent. It is a strong scent and I can't imagine it will fade quickly.
COMMENTS: I was hoping for a little softer scent. This is strong to me and not sure if customers will like it. Be warned that this will turn your soap a caramel color if you do not add something to stabilize it.
"Amazing Smell.....literal Nightmare to CP Soap wit"
COMMENTS: I swear this formula has been changed. I had huge success with it a couple of years ago. First off, I soap with room temp oils and lye. I experienced all of the soaping nightmares in one five pound batch. It accelerated, riced, I had to push it into the mould, it separated, it geled WAY before it's time and the grand prize winner was .....the oil pooled to the very top of the mold, yikes! I can say I experienced it ALL with this one batch. Totally bummed, it smells great and used to be a great seller.
COMMENTS: This is an amazing scent, but it's taking a while to kick off. Now that I only have a few bars left, the orders are coming in ??
COMMENTS: I like this as a mixer or alone but not as a lager. Think I will need to mix it with an oil that has more of a yeast smell to have it resemble a lager.
"This is my favorite fragrance for the fall season."
COMMENTS: This is my favorite fragrance for the fall season.I love how it smells and it behaves very well.
COMMENTS: This has become a customer favorite in men AND women. It is clean and hits the spot. I can't stop smelling the soap. Great scent and holds!!!
"Pumpkin Lager Fragrance Oil 663"
COMMENTS: Fantastic smell!! This will really draw you in and put you in an Autumn mood, but CP soapers be careful. This brought immediate trace to my batch. Well worth it, though. Good seller!
COMMENTS: Love the scent, it held up well in oven processed soap, but seized instantly! Will continue to use for candles and tarts, but cannot work with in soap.
"Used beer with this scent in cp soap. Behaved well"
COMMENTS: Love it. Smells wonderful.
COMMENTS: This is one of my favorite winter beer soap fragrances, strong but not over-powering. My customers look forward to September, when I make the first batch of the season and sells out at almost every show. I use it in hot process soap. It behaves nicely and turns the soap a rich dark reddish brown, very pretty.
"What soaping nightmares are made of!!!!!!!"
COMMENTS: Don't do it. Just don't. I was warned about this particular FO by two other soapers and I didn't listen. Oh boy do I regret it. When I finally was able to smash it into the mold it began to bubble and gurgle. Just don't do it! And it doesn't even smell that good anyways. WSP has some way better pumpkin fragrances.
COMMENTS: I just made a 5lb loaf of melt and pour beer soap and it smells wonderful. My husband loved the scent so much he wanted to drink the soap (He didn't of course lol). It has just the right amount of beer scent that makes it perfect. My husband said it smells like the perfect pumpkin beer. I cannot wait to cut into this and test it myself. Next will be to make shaving cream to go along with it.
COMMENTS: This was purchased based on all good reviews..before the poor review was posted. Did you change the formulation? I used in a tried and true CP recipe and it seized immediately! Then to double check I used a very small quantity in again and it also gelled immediately..looked like panna cotta. I do not recommend this.
COMMENTS: DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT FOR COLD PROCESS SOAP! I have been soaping for YEARS and have never had a fragrance oil seize so badly. It also riced, and gelled in the mold (definitely must have had a reaction to heat it with the fragrance oil, as I was soaping at 100 degrees).
COMMENTS: This fragrance has been very popular for me. There is subtle beer note which is nice. It's not your typical sugary or coffee pumpkin which I think helps with its popularity. It works well in a variety of products too.
COMMENTS: This is my favorite scent ever. Can be used for so many things. Amazing.
COMMENTS: This is one of my favorite fragrances to soap. I make my soap hot process and with real pumpkin and pumpkin ale. The scent is wonderful, does not accelerate. Don't stop selling it!
COMMENTS: I use this in my Fall Soap Line, it is very popular. It does discolor some, although if you are using beer that will make it discolor too, you just have to plan for it.
COMMENTS: I made some cold process beer soap and added this fragrance. My beer loving husband LOVED it. Gives just a subtle hint of a beer smell, and the pumpkin smell is heavenly!
COMMENTS: I've never smelled a pumpkin like this. To me I'm not picking up the lager part.... Smells like a buttery pumpkin.
COMMENTS: When I opened this bottle I fell in love. People love this fragrance.
"Perfect Pumpkin Lager fragrance !!!"
COMMENTS: Made CP Pumpkin Lager Beer soap for the fall, and this fragrance was perfect !!!!
COMMENTS: Smells really good, I use it in my men's beer product line. Everyone really likes it, I prefer the Pumpkin Spice, but this one's a close second.
COMMENTS: I purchased this fo to add different aspects to my line of soaps and for the fall holidays. Love this scent in cp and m&p so much I just ordered more. It has a spicy smell to it and makes a great air freshner also! Will be keeping this on hand!
"Pumpkin Lager Fragrance Oil "
COMMENTS: This is a beautiful fall fragrance. Not beer smelly at all, perfect for my MP soaps.
COMMENTS: I used to order this fragrance from another supplier who discontinued it. I was so happy to see it in WSP's catalog since this is one of my top sellers. The WSP version is a fuller, richer pumpkin scent with the essence of spice and malt notes that resemble the same aromatic notes in my favorite seasonal micro-brews. On the downside, CP soaping with this fragrance is really tricky and not for the faint of heart. It accelerates quickly and overheats easily. But I found it soaps easily if you lower usage rates, hand stir and don't insulate.
"Love scent but don't use in CP!"
COMMENTS: Totally riced/seized in a proven CP recipe. I beat it into submittion & managed to pour into molds. Checked on it a couple hours later & it is completely floating in oil! What?! What a waste. Ten pounds of soap for the trash. Eight more ounces of FO sitting here without a job.
COMMENTS: I mixed this with some apple and pumpkin pie fragrance oils and it turned out very nice.
COMMENTS: This is the best smelling, most awesome FO! I used it in a batch of hot process soap made with pumpkin lager and pumpkin puree. It turned out fabulous and the scent...Wow! I kinda want to eat it...well, no, but you know. ;) This is definitely going to be a staple scent in my collection.
COMMENTS: The scent throw was good and strong. It didn't have a harsh beer scent which is what I liked. It almost could pass for a nutty pumpkin bread type but with a dash of malt beer. I think this was the best lager out there that I tried.
COMMENTS: It's a great fragrance..BUT, it DOES turn your soap brown so use a color stabilizer! You don't need that much as it's a bit strong in the finished product.
"Trace very fast and rice in CP"
COMMENTS: I used this in your Detergent free Goat's Milk Melt & Pour base. I added ground oat scrub and ground all spice for a little color and visual interest. It smells GREAT! And the best part about it is it didn't take a lot of fragrance oil, I used 1 tablespoon in 21oz of Goat's milk base. I think this will be a great seller for fall!
COMMENTS: This fragrance smells great. It does however cause severe ricing. It would perhaps be better for wax tarts or candles.
COMMENTS: This is going to be a great fall scent! I also use pumpkin molds for these M&P soaps!
"Strong and truly shows warmth of holidays. "
COMMENTS: Used in CP soap and found it to be quite strong for the recommended "medium" scent. Cut the FO in half in next recipe and it was perfect. Not so much a beer smell, but color change is perfect in CP and scent is great. Will continue to use this, thanks.
COMMENTS: This is a great scent! I love the pumpkin part of the scent but I cannot smell the lager side of it.
COMMENTS: I use this for my hot process beer soap and it is always a huge hit! It is a wonderful fall scent and appeals to both men and women!!
COMMENTS: This was a great smelling fragrance but everything I'd read about accelerating trace proved to be true even though I worked very quickly.After pouring it in the mold it then began separating. I was able to pour it back in the pan and turn it into HP which saved the batch and it's now curing a chocolate brown with no evidence of the trouble it caused me. Great scent but a lot of work!
COMMENTS: I smell a bit of a malt scent OOB but not in the soap. I made a HP beer batch and the fragrance developed into a wonderful spicy scent. I don't notice a particular dominant spice - it just seems well balanced. I really like it but I was surprised by how much other people loved it. I had intended to use this just for fall/harvest but some people might like it year round if they like spicy scents. The remaining soap is 4 months old, I only used .6 oz ppo and the scent doesn't seem to have faded at all. I could probably have used less and still have had a strong fragrance. It discolors to a dark brown but I thought it was the perfect color for the name. I 'painted' some gold mica to highlight the pattern on the soap. It's a nice effect if you like to make soap look fancier.
COMMENTS: I love pumpkin scented anything and this scent was perfect for our soap!
COMMENTS: I made a CP beer soap using Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale I added the Pumpkin Lager Fragrance Oil. WOW, love the scent, it's been over a week and the scent hasn't faded at all. Love the combination of the spices and pumpkin, all of the scents come through very nicely. Definitely would purchase again and recommend to others.
COMMENTS: When I opened the bottle, I immediately loved the fragrance. It wasn't overpowering, but yet it has the scent of pumpkin, clove, nutmeg but yet a touch of ale. The color is a perfect shade of pumpkin. This fragrance brings back memories of baking pumpkin pie, or sipping my favorite pumpkin latte and yet it celebrates opening the first bottle of pumpkin beer.
"I noticed in the last par of the recipe that this contains vanilla. I was wondering how much stabilizer you have to add to this full recipe of 18 bars."
Staff Answer The "learn to use directions" for the Vanilla color stabilizer direct you to use 1 part stabilizer to 2 parts fragrance for fragrances containing 9.9% or less vanilla. This fragrance has an 8.9% vanilla content. Since the recipe calls for 1oz fragrance you would need to use .5oz Vanilla Color Stabilizer to prevent the color change.


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Both you and I have fulfilled out military obligation to this great nation, and now during this time of crisis we must unite in solidarity, at this, the time to come together!!
We, as members of different labor unions must unite together as one rock solid organization, which represents hundreds of thousands, and more, of individual workers in all walks of life. We must labor together, not just for our own lives, but we must always think of our families, communities, our unions, and nation… FOR THEIR GOOD!
We must work with our elected government officials, union leadership, and senior management to initiate and implement legitimate change in a successful manner.
We, as individual labor unions must work together as one solid movement, and we, must work to develop new ideas, theories, practices, and systems to help this great nation initiate and implement successful change.
I feel strongly that through, "Strength in Unity", we achieve solidarity.
Solidarity is a powerful force of a united group whose sole wish is to assist in helping to affect transformational change, in a legitimate manner that will benefit all of our fellow American citizens.
So, let us work together as a team, to achieve "SOLIDARITY". To put it as simple as possible, "In union, there is strength"!!
We must dedicate ourselves to achieve positive change for the good of all.


Fact Check: Do the Obamas say 'merry Christmas' on their holiday cards?
The New York Posts says President Barack Obama has refused to mention the word 'Christmas' on his annual holiday card.
WHO SAID IT: New York Post.
THE FORUM: Article posted Dec. 12.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT: Whether the word "Christmas" has appeared on a White House holiday card during President Barack Obama's two terms in office.
ANALYSIS: The parsing of the White House holiday card has become ammunition in the nation's culture wars.
Fox News' reportage on the "war on Christmas" is an annual staple at the cable news channel.
The New York Post story on the First Family's 2016 holiday card continues this thread of reporting on perceived slights to the holiday marking the birth of Jesus Christ.
So have the Obamas ever wished recipients of their holiday card a Merry Christmas? Or have they instead exclusively used "happy holidays" or "season's greetings," which many defend as a way to include non-believers and Americans of other faiths in such wishes?
An online photo gallery of the White House holiday cards during the Obama administration shows no mention of Christmas. The messages on the 2009, 2010 and 2012 cards, however, are not visible in these photos.
News accounts about the Obamas' cards during those three years indicate they also did not mention Christmas.
A Chicago Tribune article noted the absence of "Christmas" on president's first holiday card, in 2009. "May your family have a joyous holiday season and a new year blessed with hope and happiness," the card stated.
And USA Today detailed how the 2012 card, which prominently featured Bo, the family dog, also omitted the word "Christmas." "This season, may your home be filled with family, friends, and the joy of the holidays," it read.
The Obamas' cards are a contrast to some previous presidents. President George W. Bush, for example, included Bible verses on each of his Christmas cards. President Dwight Eisenhower is often credited with sending the first White House Christmas card.


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The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry
Author: Richard Dawkins
Category: /
BIC Subject: Religion & science
Published By: Random House Australia
Published: 19-Feb-2019
Format: Hardback, 176 pages, 0x0mm
Known as the 'four horsemen? of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights - about religion and atheism, science and sense - speaks with urgency to our present age. Questions they asked of each other included- 'Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the religious? Are there any truths you would rather not know? Would you want to see the end of faith?? The dialogue was recorded, and is now transcribed and presented here with new introductions from the surviving three horsemen. With a sparkling introduction from Stephen Fry, it makes essential reading for all their admirers and for anyone interested in exploring the tensions between faith and reason.Known as the 'four horsemen? of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights - about religion and atheism, science and sense - speaks with urgency to our present age. Questions they asked of each other included- 'Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the religious? Are there any truths you would rather not know? Would you want to see the end of faith?? The dialogue was recorded, and is now transcribed and presented here with new introductions from the surviving three horsemen. With a sparkling introduction from Stephen Fry, it makes essential reading for all their admirers and for anyone interested in exploring the tensions between faith and reason.
Richard Dawkins (Author) Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale, The God Delusion, and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford and both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world?s top thinker in Prospect magazine?s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.Sam Harris (Author) Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will and Lying. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Dr. Harris is cofounder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Daniel C. Dennett (Author) Daniel C. Dennett is the University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of numerous books including Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained.Christopher Hitchens (Author) Christopher Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media in a career that spanned more than four decades and made him a prominent public intellectual, and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. His books include The Monarchy; Blood, Class, and Nostalgia; No One Left to Lie Toand God Is Not Great. He died in 2011.
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"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you". (John 14:26 NKJV).
"My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands; For length of days and long life And peace they will add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart, And so find favor and high esteem In the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones". (Proverbs 3:1-8 NKJV).
The Power of God's Word in us.
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, because, when all of you received the Word of God which all of you heard of us, all of you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in TRUTH, the WORD of GOD, which EFFECTUALLY WORKS also in you who BELIEVE.
Effectual: capable of producing all intents and purposes.
•The WORD of God in us is Alive, Active, Operative, Energizing and Effective. It is capable of producing all the intents and purposes of God in us and through us.
•When we take man made medication we have no issues expecting the intents and purposes the medication is to produce.
•How much more then shall we expect the Word of God to produce in us the intents and purposes of God.