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2006 transatlantic aircraft plot security reaction
This article details the security reaction to the 2006 alleged transatlantic aircraft plot.
Following the raids, the terror alert level was raised by Britain's Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre from 'severe' to 'critical', signalling an attack was believed to be imminent, although this was only done after the raid.]
Several pilots have complained about the "ridiculous" luggage restrictions that was thought up by "utter morons", the Sunday Herald reported. Carolyn Evans, head of flight safety at the British Airline Pilots Association, said that "the procedures put in place are not sustainable long term, and unless the passengers are treated more reasonably we will not have an industry left". [ [http://www.sundayherald.com/57459 Are we really at risk from snacks on a plane?] , Sunday Herald, 20 August 2006]
"The Times" commented the day after the arrests, that the economic effects were minor and that the FTSE 100 index showed only "mild signs of strain", suggesting that terror was already priced into assets, that the market impact will be contained, and that "what is lost on the swings may be gained on the roundabouts". It observes that the real commercial risk is that "people's behaviour is altered... change may come so subtly and subconsciously that it is hard to see, let alone measure... people may stop travelling for example, not because they are scared of being blown up, but because they are tired of complying with necessary security measures." [ The Times paper edition August 11 2006, p.45, "terror may already be priced into values"]
Estimates have also been made of the cost to airlines of their disrupted business. British Airways had to cancel 1280 flights, at a cost of £40 million. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5316920.stm BBC NEWS | Business | BA says terror alert cost it £40m ] ] Ryanair had to cancel 500 flightsFact|date=February 2007, and are suing the UK government for the £3.3 million the cancellations cost them. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5285102.stm BBC NEWS | Business | Ryanair to sue government for £3m ] ] Easyjet had to cancel 469 flights, at a cost of about £4 million. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5323082.stm BBC NEWS | Business | Security alert cost Easyjet £4m ] ] BAA says the alert cost them £13 million. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5338080.stm BBC NEWS | Business | BAA says terror alert cost £13m ] ]
BA is considering making a claim for compensation against BAA, which operates Heathrow, for its failure to provide adequate security services and shortages of personnel during the crisis.Fact|date=February 2007 The Civil Aviation Authority has just commenced its five-yearly review of operation of the airport, and it is likely that BAA's ability to handle the security alert will now become part of that review.cite web|title=Cost to airlines of disruption|publisher=Independent|accessdate=August 15|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article1219332.ece] Total claim for compensation against BAA has been estimated at £300 million.cite web|title=Cost to airlines of disruption|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=August 17|accessyear=2006|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6016998,00.html]
Air passengers also switched to other means of travel. Sea France ferry company operating from Dover to Calais announced that it had beaten its all-time record for number of passengers carried in one week [ [http://www.seafrance.com/seafrance/opencms/uk/en/passenger/about_us/press/index.html SeaFrance : traversée de la Manche, ferry Calais Douvres - Dover Calais Ferries ] ] , while Eurostar found that at the peak of the alert it was receiving 10 bookings per minute for immediate travel.cite web|title=passengers switching to other means of travel|publisher=Independent|accessdate=August 15|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article1218896.ece]
*BAA advised passengers not to travel to Heathrow unless their journey was "essential", and long delays were expected by outbound passengers. [cite web|author=BBC News|title=At a glance, UK airports|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778771.stm ]
*Houses in and around Walton Drive in High Wycombe, where one house was raided, were evacuated..cite web|author=BBC News|title=Night-time swoops on suspects|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=August 10|accessyear=2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4779539.stm]
*Virgin Trains accepted plane tickets on its London to Manchester and Cross Country routes.Fact|date=February 2007
* Airport security repercussions due to the September 11, 2001 attacks
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Growing Past Guns
It is impossible to engage in a consideration of contemporary culture's continuing preoccupation with deadly pursuit without acknowledging the central place of guns in the process. From my first visitations of the pursuit fantasy as a child my pursuers were armed with guns, specifically handguns. The understanding was when they succeeded in cornering me and capturing me, I would be shot. As I grew older I began to imagine acquiring guns of my own, so I could return fire and defend myself.
The prevailing commercial entertainments pitched to boys in the era of my growing up were cowboy dramas. In uncountable variations the cowboy heroes were threatened, defended themselves, and ultimately prevailed over villainous enemies by being shot at and shooting back. Knives and bows and arrows might also come into play in the cycle of deadly pursuit, but guns were the dominant assurance of lethal force. While the destructive capacity of today's obtainable firearms—Glock rifles and pistols, military assault weapons—has increased dramatically since my boyhood preoccupation with cowboys' Colt 45s and Winchester rifles, the role of firearms in sustaining the deadly pursuit motif has not changed. The cowboy west has not entirely lost its hold on contemporary imagination, but the deadly pursuit motif is more likely to be expressed today in contemporary, futuristic, or fantasy settings: Mafia sagas, Middle East war stories, gritty police procedurals, espionage thrillers, clashes between noble and malevolent superheroes, star wars. The principals are armed. For some of them—hit men, snipers—their command of their weapons and their marksmanship are their defining characteristic.
In sum, there is no useful consideration of the deadly pursuit motif—and certainly no consideration of moving past it—without a frank appraisal of the place guns have assumed in our civic life. Moreover, as can be seen in the aftermath of recent mass shootings in schools, malls, and movie theaters, even to raise the question of guns' place in civic life is to create a virtual Rorschach Test onto which are projected stridently opposed convictions on the part of those outraged by what they consider to be the unacceptable toll easy access to guns has taken on our collective quality of life and those who feel that denying or limiting that access is an intolerable restriction of their autonomy, an autonomy grounded in natural law and guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
At present there is not even a guarded willingness on the part of gun control and gun rights advocates to reconsider their respective convictions about the place of guns in civic life. This impasse is not because those who hold gun control or gun rights convictions fail to understand the validity of their opponents' position; it is because they are unable to feel what their opponents feel. Gun control advocates cite clear evidence that countries that deny or limit citizens' access to firearms record only a fraction of the homicides and accidental deaths recorded in the United States, where such access is arguably increasing. Gun control advocates are incredulous that such statistics are not more compelling. They are beyond incredulous when, in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of twenty elementary school children and six members of the school staff in Newtown, Connecticut, by a deranged young man whose mother hoped to strengthen her relationship to him by maintaining an arsenal of firearms in their home, guns rights activists advocated, with some success across the country, arming more teachers and school staff.
It is useful to ask why guns rights advocates are unmoved by statistics showing a comparatively high incidence of homicides and accidental shooting deaths where guns are readily available, by the succession of highly publicized mass shootings in schools and public places, by the shooting deaths or attempted shooting deaths of beloved celebrities and public figures, by gang-related shooting deaths that continue apace in America's big cities. From a gun control advocate's perspective, and certainly from the perspective of someone who has lost a child or another loved one to gunfire, an unwillingness to restrict the means of such killing seems heartless, monstrous. For them, gun lobby slogans like "guns don't kill people; people kill people" ring false. In the aftermath of a recent, highly publicized supermarket tragedy in which a two-year-old found his mother's loaded pistol in her purse, accidently discharged the gun, killing his mother, a writer friend of mine mordantly commented, "I guess guns don't kill people; toddlers kill people." From a gun control advocate's perspective, the idea of arming more people as a means of combatting gun violence seems nothing short of pathological. But gun rights advocates typically do not regard themselves as either heartless or pathological.
In addition to convictions about their constitutional rights and their preferred means to achieve civic safety, gun rights advocates, including gun owners of my acquaintance, have deep feelings about guns that their adversaries do not feel and to which they thus cannot begin to relate. These feelings are, I believe, preverbal and sub-verbal and thus do not enter into public discourse on the societal role of guns. I believe this because I too, from early childhood through early adolescence, was held in the thrall of guns. These were the guns of the western movies and TV shows produced primarily for me and my male friends during the American 1950s: holstered, pearl handled six guns and pump action Winchester rifles toted stylishly by TV cowboys like Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Palladin, and their like on the big screen portrayed by John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Randolph Scott.
Given strong views and justified suspicions held by my mother and father, it was made clear that under no circumstances was I allowed to own or shoot a gun that fired anything like a real bullet. My almost tearful appeals to have at least a pellet rifle or a Daisy BB gun were curtly declined. "We live in a neighborhood," my mother would say. "Where would you shoot a gun?" My father was more impatient and more direct. "What do you want to do," he would say, "shoot somebody's eye out?" Given the clarity of the family policy, my passion for pistols and rifles—partly esthetic, partly something like (if not actually) libido-- was necessarily diverted to toy facsimiles, the closer to the real thing the better.
Between my fifth and tenth year, I was rarely without a set of mother-of-pearl handled cap guns, holstered and tied down around the thigh of my chaps with a string of rawhide. The charred smell released when the hammer of my cap gun met the tiny bead of gun powder embedded in each paper cap transported me out of my suburban neighborhood northwest of Chicago into a wilder, earlier realm. In my reveries before sleep, I would take cover in a comfortable ditch or behind just the right formation of rock and exchange cap gun fire with unseen, cap gun wielding enemies similarly concealed. In that hazy mental territory between imagining and dreaming, my cap gun would morph into a real gun, and I would feel myself newly arrived in a condition and a place where I had always wanted to be.
Between my tenth year and early teens I found ways to skirt my parents' firm no-have, no-use gun policy. Some friends had been given BB guns, and when out of view of grown-ups, we set up bottles and cans and fired away. A few blocks from where I lived paved streets gave way to double rutted tractor paths leading into vast sweeps of cornfields and grassy meadows. My friends and I referred to this undeveloped territory as "the fields," which I pictured extending westward in an unbroken sweep to Colorado where it erupted into the Rocky Mountains. In my after school and weekend hours my friends and I roamed the fields, climbed trees, built temporary forts. In the course of such outings we would occasionally cross paths with older boys my family and neighbors had told me to steer clear of because they were given to various delinquencies, including vandalism. Two of these boys, brothers, carried pellet rifles when they took to the fields, shooting at birds and squirrels and improvised targets.
I longed to have such a gun. Imagining the heft of it under my arm created a dizzying, almost erotic sense of empowerment, transforming every chirping bird on a limb, every zig-zagging rabbit into a target. I remember one chilly afternoon sitting along the bank of a little creek with a group of my friends, when the older brothers, bearing their rifles, sat down and joined us. They had not been very nice to us in the past, and I was a little uneasy about keeping their company. They were not beyond hurting us. Our talk turned to their rifles, where they got them, birds and animals they had killed. The elder of the two brothers shared a scenario he had been thinking about in which he might break into somebody's empty house and shoot everything up, shoot every lighting fixture and standing lamp, shoot the pictures on the wall, shoot the television screen. I was simultaneously repelled by what he was saying—my parents' darkest nightmare—and fascinated. I could feel the anarchic allure. I could see everything inside a house being a target, everything aimed at and spectacularly shattered.
The brothers left us to look for birds, and my friends and I followed at a distance. I watched as one of them pumped his rifle and fired into the tree line. The dark silhouette of a small bird dropped to the grass. Without deliberation we moved to view the kill. Years later, because I could not put it out of my mind, I wrote down what happened next, an episode recorded in a memoir I called Seeing Things.
We ran to [the fallen bird]. Incredibly tiny, bat-like, its legs drove its injured torso around in a circle. There was a dark red hole at the base of the bird's neck, in which a glimpse of metal pellet could be seen. The gray bird seemed to be skewered to the earth by the pellet. Its bright black eye saw nothing. The bald little legs would grow still, then start spasmodically, driving the damaged torso around the hub of its pain.
"Your turn,"[one of the brothers] said to me. "Kill it." He pumped the rifle and handed it to me.
"Kill it, and it's your bird."
He guided the barrel of the rifle so it rested on the bird's pulsing head.
"Kill it."
I looked into the tree line and squeezed the trigger.
"Bye, bird." Their laughter hung in the cold like pain. One of them made a show of crushing the little carcass underfoot, and they moved on, toward home. They let me carry the rifle.
This troubling episode was no doubt a factor in cooling my ardor to own and to shoot guns, but there were other factors. As I entered my teens, practical matters came to dominate my interior reveries. I still drifted off into occasional fantasies, including gun fantasies and the older fantasy of deadly pursuit, but less often. It became hard to picture any plausible scenario, including a large enough and rugged enough landscape, in which I might be gladly and excitedly armed. A more pressing concern was that I would be included in the right group of friends at school. I was also preoccupied with forging satisfying attachments to girls I liked. Owning and operating guns had no place in these scenarios. I had also begun to surrender to the allure of competitive sports: tracking against bright sky the trajectory of a spiraling forward pass and the gratifying thunk of hauling it under my shoulder pads as I ran down field; the smack of my fast ball—strike!---into the fat cushion of the catcher's mitt; longing throughout dreary school weeks for the release of Saturday morning basketball games, with uniforms, stripe-shirted referees, the satiny, sweaty race up and down gym floors the color of butterscotch, penetrating the blurry thicket of defenders for a banked lay-up, from the far perimeter of play launching a desperate shot, intuiting its thrilling swish.
By mid-adolescence guns, which had so recently beckoned with an almost erotic force, had ceased to beckon at all. Practically, I was still appropriately fearful of firearms, in that I did not want to be shot and killed by one, but I had lost all desire to own a gun or to fire it. Moving past my gun obsession carried with it no special dread or moral censure. As a younger man I cannot remember disapproving of guns or much interest in them of any kind. Only decades later, when I was professionally established as a teacher, would the schoolyard shootings at Jonesboro and Columbine beg a consideration of better laws and policy.
It took only a little dedicated reflection on my part to realize that, with only a minor adjustment of my own youthful circumstances, I could have accidentally, perhaps even intentionally, become a boy shooter and killer. I did not suppress such impulses as a boy, but I did manage to grow through and past them. This is a crucial distinction and one that might help gun control advocates better understand the gun rights adversaries they vilify.
Henry David Thoreau, now lionized for his principled pacifism, knew better. He had owned and discharged weapons. He had hunted in his youth. In his maturity he reflected, "We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected." In my own case I don't know how "sadly" my education would have been neglected if I had not been exposed to guns at all, but I am certain that, as in other critical, if perilous, stages of my early development, the way out was through.
My own boyhood obsession with guns led ultimately to a desire to understand it. For several years I had wanted guns so badly that, while not an especially difficult or disobedient boy, I was impervious to parental and civic prohibitions. If and when I could get my hands on a gun, I did so. But because I managed to grow through the process, by grace not injuring others or myself, I was able to see that my gun obsession was not really about guns. I had projected onto various firearms a more primal yearning, very possibly a call from my evolutionary past. About this realization I wrote a poem.
I dreamed of rifles
On the wall, ownable, heft in my hands,
The shoulder fit of the oiled stock,
An eye down the dull blue barrel.
Cocking one with a clink, I could feel it
Tense inside, over-ready.
Finger joint cool on the trigger's curve,
Fondling, refitting itself,
A certain tickle of control;
The firm pull would be final.
Once there was a rifle, a toy.
A blue tin facsimile.
But I could cock it,
Set a spring and shoot
Hard corks across the living room
Or at the line of plastic crows
Clipped upon a wire rack.
Cork-struck, they dropped
And clicked like plastic on the hardwood,
A slight recognition
In each tinny kill.
So few guns would shoot.
Lightweight pistols lined with flimsy springs
Launched plunger-headed plastic darts
Puckering onto a pane of glass.
Maybe. Maybe at first.
Then the flash and bone of western guns,
Rhinestone-holstered handfuls—
One wide morning in a summer field,
I draw suddenly on something in the treeline
And shoot. A cap cracks the clearness.
The sweet char of its powder
Reminds me of something,
And I pass between the sun and form
Of an old mythic bird,
Dead again in the grass.
Again its stillness startles—
Bone-beaked, feather edges fine as snakeskin:
Prey. I am pre-Indian
Standing over pre-Eagle.
Before bison or bow
I was sinew and spear,
A sense of skull, of flank, of tender throat,
The cat's night eye,
A pounce.
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The family business was founded in August 1973 by Mr. and Mrs. Haverkamp. The name Imatech is an abbreviation of "International Marine Technics". The eldest son, Mr. Erling Haverkamp, performing as Managing Director, took over the company in 2001. The office is located near one of the world's largest ports, Rotterdam.
Imatech signed a contract with MicroSourcing on January 6, 2012, and started hiring data processors to undergo the training. On February 25, the trainees flew to The Netherlands for two weeks of training. They underwent extensive training on how to properly encode Request for Quotations (RFQs) in Microsoft Navision which they receive through email and portal. It was March 12 when regular operations started in our MOA office.
MicroSourcing assigned an operations supervisor who will serve as the point of contact for Imatech. The POC is the one who coordinates with the other departments of MicroSourcing. Among the tasks would be to take the lead in the preparation of requirements in cases of hiring ramps due to expansion and even backfills - this covers recruitment needs, technological requirements, and production performance reporting. The POC does follow-ups when it comes to operational concerns and issues, while results are presented to the clients through email or meeting updates.
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The announcement of this smartphone has been a long time coming, and despite the fits and starts associated with Apple's upgraded cell, the tight-lipped tech giant has finally released some official details pertaining to the long-awaited product.
With the addition of iOS 6, the A6 chip, 4G connectivity, and a larger display (4 inches to the former 3.7) that will allow for an additional row of icons on the screen, the company seems ready to deliver a product worthy of the wait.
And for the preeminent tech geek, nabbing Apple's latest gadget is a must.
Tech hounds on the go are often in search of a charge for their many devices, and if you happen to live in a sunny area a solar backpack or messenger bag is a unique and useful gift.
Voltaic offers a wide selection of products to choose from, including those that are designed to charge small devices like smartphones and MP3 players as well as those that are rated for larger items like tablets and even laptops.
The best part about this brand, though, is that the solar panels are detachable, so users can easily move them from one bag to another depending on what they feel like carrying.
If you don't have the cash on hand to spring for the latest gadgetry to wow your techy friends, opt instead for some cool accessories for the devices they already own.
For those that hold a special place in their hearts for old-school tech like the Atari or Commodore 64, you couldn't do better than the iPad case that mimics the appearance of an antiquated Macintosh computer (complete with a slot for floppy discs).
This will also appeal to Apple fanatics for far less cost than purchasing actual Apple products. And their slogan, "Party like it's 1984"? Priceless.
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DFF 39 opened with a bang. And the appearance of a bona-fide A-lister. Emma Stone, currently considered a frontrunner in the very competitive Best Actress Oscar race for her work in La La Land, lit up the red carpet with glamour and the glow of a star ascending to even higher heights. Stone worked the press line with director Damien Chazelle as a prelude to their luscious film's triumphant bow as the opening centerpiece of the festival.
Even before that happened, the crowd was in high spirits as a host of other players from the festival's robust 200+ title slate walked the carpet, enjoying the energy and the platform for their work. It was a joyous start that set the tone for an exciting festival to come. DFF has a number of other highly buzzy studio pictures, which is a great credit to the festival team, and also a great draw to bring eyeballs and attention to some of the more under the radar pictures on offer.
The fun on the red carpet gave way to a veritable seat scramble inside the towering Ellie Caulkins Opera House and opening remarks from Festival Director Britta Erickson (again, serious props to Erickson and her team for this year's lineup), and a brief appearance from Stone and Chazelle ahead of the picture rolling.
You know we cannot resist the chance to discuss the things we watch at length, so let's divert for a few moments here to get into it, because this picture is flat-out lovely.
B: La La Land has been on my radar for the better part of a year now. I've heard glowing reactions out of TIFF. I drooled over the trailers. And I danced a little dance when it was announced for DFF. Now we've seen it, and it was wonderful. As I really didn't give you much choice in whether or not you actually wanted to attend this movie, we could call this a mini Required Viewing. AM, kick us off. Am I getting carried away with the love here? Was your hype also over 9000 (do you know that nerd reference that I can't properly explain?).
A: I don't know that reference, but I do love musicals. Whenever our Official Top 25 list comes out, you can bet there's at least one musical in there (likely more than one with Muppets as well). It's such an interesting and complicated way to present a story, if you think about it. Not only do you have to tell a fantastic story, you have to have your characters realistically break out into song (songs that rhyme too!) and dance. That's no easy feat, and what a challenge to take on instead of just doing a "regular" drama or comedy. I would say my hype was measured, but I was incredibly impressed with La La Land.
Emma and Ryan are about the most perfect people to play the parts of an aspiring actress and aspiring jazz musician, respectively. Director Chazelle said in the post-film Q&A that he had always imagined those two as his leads, and I believe him. They have amazing chemistry, can sing and dance with the best of them and they have a unique modern-yet-retro look to them. Their whole personas scream "would have made a glorious Golden Age couple" and a film like this brings out the best of that.
Brooke, did this live up to your expectations? No spoilers, obviously, but what did you think of the ending? And having never lived in LA, what did you think of the portrayal of the City of Angels / City of Stars? Would you rather work as a Christmas music-playing pianist in a restaurant or as a barista on the Warner Bros. lot?
B: La La Land 100% lived up to my expectations. The big surprise for me was how easy this movie makes everything that it is doing look. As you point out, AM, a musical is incredibly difficult to pull off because it is so complex. It's incredible that the film feels light and simple when there is actually so much happening. I'll save the belaboring of this point for my review, but suffice it to say this, the more you think about La La Land, the more impressed you'll be.
During the Q&A portion of the evening, Stone was asked about the ending of the film, and I think she gave the perfect answer for why it works so well. She spoke to the fact that in that ending sequence (much like in her favorite picture of all time, City Lights) everything that has happened up to that point is "earned." All of it is paid off and given even more emotional gravity. Not even exaggerating, the ending is perfect and poignant and a result I think I'll enjoy even more so in rewatching this picture.
From what I can tell, the portrayal of LA is pretty dead on, but slightly more romantic. It's all through the lens of Chazelle, who has this reverence of cinema and art that more or less made me fall in love with him on the spot. Yes, there are traffic jams, but there's also singing. Places you love close, but the devotees of the craft still find a way to honor them. I kind of hate saying "the city is a character unto itself," because that gets said a lot, but … in this movie it's true in the most satisfying way. Oh, and I would take barista hands down, because I too would love being across from a window where Bogey filmed an iconic scene.
Let's talk for a minute about Emma Stone. Yes, Ryan Gosling is an incredible partner to her in this movie, but having seen it, I understand why this movie really is her movie. How did you feel about her performance? And Ryan's too, because he's lovely, but are you subscribing to the discussion that's building up around her work here as Mia. As a creative, did you relate to the strife of our main characters?
A: Having lived for a couple years in LA, and fortunately not having to commute for two of those, I can still say that the traffic jams are the #1 real thing about the movie. That and the street parking situation. There's a small inside joke that leads to the progression of the plot around a street sign that Mia doesn't read. It's hilarious and on point and the only thing lacking is the complexity of the sign. The struggle to understand if you're breaking any of the MANY restrictions (cleaning, zoning, resident-only, arbitrary time limits, etc.) is super real in LA. The other thing they properly honor in La La Land is the expansive views you get if you climb any hill or mountain and the many historic and quirky touristy sites the city has to offer. They're beautifully incorporated and they're the type of landmarks that make you feel like you're actually on vacation (even if you really live there). There's sort of an unreal quality to living in Los Angeles if you're not a native, and while I wasn't there to make it in show biz, I certainly felt that and it comes through loud and clear here.
This is Emma's movie, far and away. Ryan Gosling is more than a pretty face of course, as he's got his own great acting chops, but the story and emotion all center around Mia and her decisions and choices. We're seeing this journey from her perspective, even if she's not in every shot. I would also take the barista job, that location would be prime for seeing lots of glitzy celebs and I'm sure they tip no worse than us non-famous plebes.
We could go on about some of the finer aspects of this film, like the striking color palate, wry humor, incredible musical call-backs and references and the fact that John Legend has one of the best voices I've ever heard, but I think we should just encourage people to go watch this. Poignant is the perfect way to describe the end, and Chazelle was so so right when he said that musicals can be super cheerful and tell a fun story, but they're also a fantastic way to tell a more serious and real story as well. La La Land is both of those things.
Now that we've covered the red carpet, the film and the Q&A, let's be Classy AF and discuss the swanky after-party. Which app was your favorite? How fancy did you feel drinking free prosecco? Final thoughts, please!
B: All of the apps at the party were really on point. The presentation of the mini Chinese food boxes was almost too adorable for words, and the fish tacos were substantial, but my favorite of the night was without doubt the Seb's Chicken-on-a-Stick. This offering was a too-adorable-for-words callback to La La Land AND it was delicious. So delicious that well all ate them too fast to take a picture. But imagine this, succulent chicken over a little bed of mashed potatoes and drizzles of top notch gravy. Then put that beautiful little morsel on an adorable little bamboo plate with a bamboo fork and you get the idea. And free prosecco is my favorite prosecco, natch.
Clearly, we had a great night kicking off prestige season and DFF 39 with this incredible picture. See it. 'Cause you know we want to talk about it at so much greater length.


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Keolis and Navya present the first 100% autonomous robo-taxi at CES, Las Vegas
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Keolis Canada gives Santa Claus a helping hand
With Christmas approaching, Keolis Canada is organising an innovative campaign on the streets of Quebec to collect toys for disadvantaged children.
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Keolis and Navya to conquer Canada with autonomous shuttle
Urbis, the public transport authority for the cities of Terrebonne and Mascouche near Montréal, Canada, will soon be offering a new passenger experience to customers. Driverless electric shuttles are set to be integrated into day to day travel as part of a pilot project operated by Keolis Canada and Navya; the first of its kind on the north American continent.
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Keolis, the new transport operator of Greater Bourg-en-Bresse, France
11-27-2018 From 1 January 2019, Keolis will operate all public transport services for the 75 communes in Greater Bourg-en-Bresse (Agglomération du Grand Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse), France. The four-year contract will generate a cumulative revenue of 37.5 million euros. Keolis will review mobility in line with the scale of the new urban area, which since 1 January 2017 includes 75 communes (instead of the previous 15). The two main challenges of this contract will be the integration and management of several dozen school routes within the public service concession and the introduction of an on-demand public transport service to meet the scope of this enlarged urban area.
Following a tender process, the transport authority Communauté d'Agglomération du Grand Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse, awarded Keolis the four-year contract for the management and operation of public passenger transport services in Greater Bourg-en-Bresse in eastern France (Ain department), including bus, on-demand transport, transport for persons with reduced mobility, bike-sharing system, electric shuttles and school transport.
Keolis, the new transport operator of Greater Bourg-en-Bresse, France (pdf) (141.47 Ko)
This public service concession is important for the urban area of 130,000 residents which has grown from 15 to 75 communes on 1 January 2017. It will see a significant increase in the level of mobility for a region that has undergone major expansion.
The current network will gradually evolve to become a more modern, attractive and accessible network. Keolis will introduce a range of enhancements to the passenger experience and support the integration and management of several dozen school routes as part of the concession that were previously managed by the Ain department.
New mobility services
To encourage multimodal journeys in the region, Keolis will deploy several new mobility solutions, including:
The extension of the on-demand transport service to cover the entire Greater Bourg-en-Bresse area,
The creation of an electric bike-share system (100 bicycles - 10 stations),
The introduction of a 100% electric town centre shuttle service.
A 100% connected transport service for better accessibility
A new set of digital tools will be created, including a website and a mobile application. This will enable passengers to find out about network services and book them online, including:
A dynamic carpooling system,
Services in the Cmabulle app. This innovative and collaborative app is provided by Keolis to allow families to share journeys for school runs and extra-curricular activities for their children, with complete peace of mind.
A new image and a dynamic approach to encourage the use of shared mobility
To highlight the attractiveness of public transport and promote the improvements made, Keolis will enhance the image of the network with:
A new name and visual identity,
The launch of both digital and traditional initiatives to promote the network.
Keolis is proud of having gained the trust of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse to help it implement its mobility strategy over an area that has expanded significantly. Working within a tightly controlled budget, this ambitious new contract will enhance the appeal of the network and offer solutions adapted to mobility requirements throughout the region.
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Japan says sayonara to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi next month when he steps down from his post. Now, where will Tokyo go from here?
Consider first the distance it has come in recent years. When Mr. Koizumi took office in April 2001, Japan was literally bankrupt, in currency and in spirit. Japanese banks carried trillions of yen in bad loans; government debt was ballooning; investors were fleeing; and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), hung up on factional, moneyed party politics, and tired of a long "lost decade" of economic stagnation, was desperate for a savior.
In rolled the charismatic Mr. Koizumi, who instituted an American-style, direct form of governance that resonated with the Japanese electorate. He ushered in a smarter team at the Bank of Japan, cut back on egregious public-works spending, and started the ball rolling on the $3 trillion postal system privatization. He embarked on a more muscular foreign policy, cementing Japan's relationship with the U.S., and visited the Yasukuni war shrine regularly -- irritating relations with China and South Korea, but in keeping with a campaign promise. And with his team of "assassins" last year, he succeeded in gutting the LDP of its anti-reform politicians by calling a snap election.
It worked like a charm. Next month, Japan has a good chance of marking the longest economic expansion in its post-World War II history. Wages and bank credit are rising again. Nominal interest rates are in positive territory. The Nikkei is up around 28% over the last year. Even the budget deficit has shrunk a few percentage points. Notably, Japan's foreign policy has taken on a corresponding new confidence: Witness the leading role that Tokyo's policy makers played in the recent United Nations Security Resolution on North Korea in July.
Mr. Koizumi can take most of the credit for Japan's stronger foreign policy, exemplified by his decision to send troops to Iraq. He isn't as completely responsible for all of the economic good news; corporate Japan worked to clean up its balance sheets, the Bank of Japan didn't kill the recovery too soon, and a global economic expansion helped, too. But it's fair to say that none of it could've happened without the can-do, pro-market atmosphere that Mr. Koizumi helped to craft. Because of him, Japan is a (mostly) normal country again.


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Q: Access to homestead host from genymotion How can i access homestead from genymotion emulator ?
i add this line into emulator hosts file, but not work :
192.168.10.10 myapp.app

A: Here's how I did it on Windows 10:
Check if homestead works
My homestead is running on the ip 192.168.10.10 and has multiple sites. Each have been added to my Windows machine's hosts file to be available from specific domains.
For example in my C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file i have added the following lines:
192.168.10.10   app1.dev
192.168.10.10   app2.dev

This means when browsing http://app1.dev in my Windows machine it should be showing my site. If this is not working for you, then check homestead's official docs how to do this properly. The setup will vary on the version of homestead you are using.
Configure adb for Genymotion
I have Android SDK installed and setup on my Windows machine. You need to configure Genymotion for adb to work from the Windows command line. In Genymotion go to Settings > ADB > Use custom Android SDK tools and browse to your Windows machine's Android SDK directory. For me it was C:/dev/tools/android
Edit emulator devices hosts file
As the emulator is accessing the same network as your Windows machine, then your homestead's ip will also be available from the emulator. Thus you can add the same lines as you added in your Windows machine's hosts file.
1.Open the commandline and run the following commands to edit the hosts file:
adb root
adb remount
adb pull /system/etc/hosts hosts

2.The hosts file should now be present in the folder where you excecuted the pull command. Edit the file with a text editor and add the sites you want to access. For example i added:
192.168.10.10   app1.dev
192.168.10.10   app2.dev

3.Send the hosts file back to the emulator
adb push hosts /system/etc/hosts

4.Browse to your site in the emulator browser. For example: http://app1.dev You should see your homestead site now!
What to try if site is not reached from browser
1.Check that you added an empty line after the last site in the hosts file.
2.Close and reopen the emulator browser
3.Restart the emulator

A: Homestead runs using virtual box [or vmware] .I have used oracle virtual box .Just to be clear ,it's ubuntu os running on virtual box .So ipv4 of ethernet adapter for virtualbox host only network will work for you .On windows,
open "cmd" and run :
ipconfig

and search for "Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network"

and then ipv4 pest the ip with port no [8000 default],on your emulator's browser .In my case it's.
192.168.56.1:8000

Note: please check if your homestead environment working properly.
 My genyotion version is : 2.5.4.
I think you have solved the problem but it may help others, Thank you.

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By Shanez'e Johnson Letters to the Editor, Opinions September 26, 2019
Letter to the Editor: More than just displacement: the housing crisis and its debilitating effects
I, like Lauren Dines and many other students at Wellesley, did everything right when it came to the housing process. I had a room selected before I came to campus, and even called before my arrival to confirm the selection. But what if I hadn't? What if I'd forgotten to acknowledge my housing agreement, or forgotten to confirm my room? What if I wasn't sure I was returning to campus, and decided to forgo housing until I was ready? What if I, like several others, had a financial hold on my account that resulted in me being unable to register? In those scenarios, would I be less deserving of a place to live at Wellesley? Regardless of whether or not they did everything right, every single student attending Wellesley College should have guaranteed housing.
Other students received emails alerting them of the housing crisis — but I did not. On Thursday, August 29, two days before I was supposed to move in, I logged into the StarRez portal to check my room number. My portal screen was empty and I could not find a room assignment anywhere. I messaged the Wellesley Res Life & Housing official Facebook page, and an unnamed representative chose a single room for me in Bates. The representative messaged: "Single! You're done! Booked!"
I was not booked — and was definitely far from done navigating the housing process. Soon after, I called the Office of Residential Life only to find out that there was no room assignment for me; I was then instructed to email screenshots of my previous Facebook correspondence to Housing Assistant Director Meghan Todd. I arrived on campus the next day, to get some extra work hours and speak with the clearly disorganized housing staff in person. Within the first five minutes of my shift, Todd walked through the front door.
She informed me that my call was one of the first to alert them of students being unhoused. This, to me, was a huge red flag. The Office of Residential Life and Housing did not know that several students, reportedly 20, did not have rooms — until receiving students' phone calls. Errors with new technology are to be expected and out of human control. What is in human control, however, is establishing a backup plan.
While my call was received positively, other unhoused students who called to check on their status were told they "surprised housing," and were effectively blamed for the department's lack of foresight. If your job is to make sure students are housed, you should be held accountable for not double- and triple-checking that they are. Students should not be made to feel at fault for being unhoused.
As soon as the Office of Residential Life was made aware of unhoused students, they should have cross-referenced enrollment records to confirm that others were not also negatively affected. Even before, though, a concrete alternative plan should have been in place to prevent last minute chaos.
Housing did make an effort to be transparent and encourage open lines of communication with students, but in many ways missed the mark.
The open housing forum on Sept. 2 mentioned in the article was solely advertised to the Class of 2020 Facebook group, excluding many unhoused students. Not every person affected by the housing crisis is a senior, and not all members of the class of 2020 are on or are active on the Facebook group. This forum should have been properly advertised, through email for example, rather than only through one Facebook group. Housing knew which students did not have rooms and should have sent out direct invitations to each of those affected inviting them to the meeting.
When asked why they did not cross check enrollment record, Director of Residential Life Helen Wang claimed it was because they were unable to obtain these records from the registrar. However, if they were unable to access the next semester's records, they could have used the previous or current year's as a place to start. There are many solutions that can be speculated, but the lack of preventative effort remains clear.
When asked about how they would be finding rooms if, according to them, there were no open rooms on campus, housing representatives claimed they were "waiting for the dust to settle." They explained that they were waiting for current Wellesley students to either not show up, or go on leave.
The lack of care with which they spoke to this vulnerable group of students is disgusting. Meghan Todd continued to speak with a lack of empathy when she recounted a time where approximately 50 students were unhoused in 2009 or 2010. Wellesley had to rent out part of a residential building at Regis College to house upperclassmen. She then proceeded to laugh and told us, a group of students that were unhoused and vulnerable, to "trust her" as "things are much better now." When a student shared they'd been sleeping in sweatshirts to avoid unpacking bedsheets, Todd also laughed.
This ordeal must seem comical, as Todd has not been the only person that I have interacted with who made light of the situation. In my first conversation after being introduced to a Wellesley News representative, I was told that the housing crisis was the 'best thing' that could have happened to the representative. These interactions have since become anomalies. The Wellesley community has come together to offer support and even went as far as students opening up their rooms and alumnae their homes.
My mental health started deteriorating while living in the college club, where I stayed for over two weeks. I was unable to focus on anything other than not having a room. I would cry during class and have to leave, or else be so consumed in my own fears and worries that I could not pay attention to my professors. Each day got worse, and there was no end in sight. We never knew exactly when we would be moved to permanent spaces, just that the Office of Res Life was doing everything they could.
I have received a room since the original article was published and am now officially housed. After 18 days of not knowing what was happening, feeling alone, unsafe and unwelcome — like I was not a member of the Wellesley College community — I have been housed. I was able to be placed in a single room, only after a student went on medical leave. The dust finally settled, but the dust was my friend.
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Theft at fallen soldier's memorial benefit
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Postby Tomahawk Leader » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:05 pm
This is a news story from the Sept. 26, 2006 Tomahawk Leader, but we feel it is worthy of public comment:
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department is investigating after the family of a Merrill solider killed while serving in Iraq reported a theft Sunday afternoon.
Family members of PFC Grant Dampier held a fund raiser Saturday at Rock Island Resort on State Road 107 in the town of Merrill. The goal of the event was to raise funds to establish a war memorial in a Merrill city park.
When the Dampier family returned to Rock Island Sunday morning, they found numerous items had been stolen from an outside tent, that included food, cups, plates and raffle prizes which were not immediately claimed. The loss is more than $400.
Also stolen was a four-foot-by-six-foot banner that was made by the Budweiser Corp. with Dampier's picture and the words, "Remembering SPC Grant Dampier."
Anyone with information regarding the crime is encouraged to call the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department at 536-6272 or Crime Stoppers of Lincoln County at 536-3726 or 1-800-222-TIPS.
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Re: Theft at fallen soldier's memorial benefit
Postby logic1 » Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:54 am
It was on the news that an unidentified Wausau subject has put up the amount of the missing funds - that is outstanding. It is a shame that it happened in the first place.
Postby Catfish » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:02 am
What about the banner with Sargeant Dampier's photo on it. That meant alot to the family. That's a memento and money don't replace it.
By the way, now that the the family has been paid it's missing funds, the Lincoln County Sheriffs Department can stop looking for the perp. The family's been paid back. RIGHT????
Postby logic1 » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:28 pm
No, they should not stop looking for the guilty party. The pay back was to help the family, not penalize the memory of their son. The banner is a family momento & yes, the guilty party/parties should still be sought for the crime happening in the first place.
Postby Catfish » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:15 pm
Logic, I was being facetious. Spurred by previous actions of Lincoln County Sheriff's Department.
Postby logic1 » Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:31 am
sorry Catfish.......sometimes I take things to literal....
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Postby abnerman » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:10 pm
Money "Schmoney"... It was a bad idea to leave the stuff there.
It sucks, but don't steal the banner!!
There should be a "drop-off" place designated for the banner where someone could bring it back. Someone SHOULD have a guilty conscience that needs to be cleared.
My best wishes go out to the soldier, Mr. Dampier's family.
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UFC 1: the fighters who were considered
The first ever and original Ultimate Fighting Championship was initially named "World's Best Fighter", then "War of the Worlds" and was supposed to be a 16-man tournament for the prestigious title of "The World's Hand-to-Hand Combat Champion" . But the pay-per-view 3-hour time limit didn't allowed a tourney of that importance. So the number of fighters was reduced to 8.
Art Davie, UFC creator
Here below is the UFC creator, booker and matchmaker Art Davie's search for fighters in the summer of 1993.
Rickson Gracie
Art Davie was 100% sure that Rorion Gracie would choose Rickson Gracie to represent the family at UFC. Rickson Gracie had the look, the skills, the legitimate vale tudo background and was by far the best fighter of the Gracie family. Anything a promoter could dream of! But to his dismay, Rorion picked his younger brother Royce Gracie, a scrawny looking kid???
"There was no doubt in my mind that he (Rickson Gracie) would be my star. The centrepiece of my promotion." -- UFC creator Art Davie
Mike Tyson was the dream entry in the tournament. At the time, Mike Tyson was on top of heavyweight boxing and was one of the most famous and recognized people on the planet. Tyson was any fight promoter's wet dream.
But it was impossible to have him. First he was in jail for the next couple of year (for rape). Second, he made $22 Million to destroy Michael Spinks in 91 seconds. So how he could risk his health and reputation entering a bare knuckles no-holds-barred tournament, having to fight 3 times in one-night for a meager $50,000 for the winner of the entire tournament?? No chance in hell!
Aleksandr Karelin
Widely perceived as the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler in the world. But at the time, Art Davie would had better chance to get Tyson out of prison than Karelin out of Russia.
UFC 1 Fantasy Warfare
Mike Tyson, Rickson Gracie, Alexander Karelin
Action movie star, 41 years old, 6'5", a legit 6th degree black belt in Aikido, first foreigner to operate a Aikido dojo in Japan, and claimed to be one of the world's most dangerous men. Nonetheless, Steven Seagal was out of reach.
The most popular wrestler ever and WWF / WWE main attraction of the last decade. Was Art Davie's first choice for a pro wrestler.
NWA / WCW biggest player for the last ten years. Just like Hogan in the WWE. His second choice.
Haku / Meng
Reputed to be the toughest man in professional wrestling. His third choice based on his fearsome reputation.
Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair in a Steel Cage match
However Art Davie backed off of his plan to use a pro wrestler into his tournament since it would hurt the legitimacy of the UFC. Imagine seeing Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair in a no-holds-barred MMA tournament?!?
The World's Toughest Men... of Wrestling
Mitch "Blood" Green
Poor chump Mitch Green suing Mike Tyson for a punch
and settled for $45,000.
Best known for being a 2-time Mike Tyson's victim (once in the ring the other in the streets of Harlem), Mitch Green asked a five figure appearance fee. The organization wasn't willing and able to pay that much to have his most wanted pro boxer.
Leon Spinks
Leon Spinks in a precarious position vs.
the godfather of hardcore wrestling Atsushi Onita
1976 Olympic Boxing Gold medalist (light heavyweight) and former boxing world champion defeating Muhammad Ali in 1978. However his love for partying and drinking had the best of him and derailed his promising career forever.
Would have fared better in the UFC Octagon
than in a wrestling ring against Terry Funk
40 years old Leon Spinks asked US$100,000 just to compete in the tournament. So Bob Meyrowitz and the SEG gang could stick it with their meager US$5,000 offer.
At this point of his career, with a pro boxing record of 24-14-3, Leon Spinks was nothing more than a freak show fighter and a washed-up inconsistent boxer. In 1992, he was WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion in the Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling promotion for one month. Fighting in all kind of extreme wrestling match. Being in the first ever UFC would have benefit his drowning career greatly.
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
Same as Leon Spinks. Another faded 40 years old ex-world champ boxer with a record of about 34-11-1 and commanded US$100K just to appear in the tournament.
Mark Gastineau
Hall of Fame NFL defensive end for the New York Jets and a pro boxer since 1991. 6'5 1/2" and 36 years old, Mark Gastineau was nothing more than a freak show, can crusher boxer with a padded record of around 15-1 at the time. Nonetheless, he was out of price too.
Peter Aerts
Peter Aerts posing with his World title in 1991.
He was appropriately nicknamed "The Lumberjack" for his tendency
to lumber his opponents' legs.
Devastating Muay Thai kickboxer but would have required a five figure appearance fee.
Ernesto Hoost
A dominant force in K-1 kickboxing but wasn't available at the time.
Emin Boztepe
A Wing Chun Kung Fu fighter and a regular feature in martial arts magazines. Reputed to be invincible, Boztepe challenged the Gracies over the Gracie Challenge in the 90s. But the match never took place and Rorion Gracie didn't want him in the tournament.
Randall "Tex" Cobb
A reputed heavyweight boxer, a former full-contact kickboxer, karate black belt, and a notorious hellraiser turned movie actor. Considered to have one of the hardest chins in boxing history. Most likely unaffordable.
Those who refused...
Benny "The Jet" Urquiquez
Another 41 years old... The legendary kickboxer turned Davie down saying: "these guys are amateurs. I've already proved myself."
Dennis Alexio
5'11", 203 lbs, age 34. He played Jean-Claude Van Damme brother in Kickboxer. Yes, the guy who got paralyzed by Tong Po. In real life, he happened to be arguably the best heavyweight kickboxer in 1993. He blew Art Davie off the phone after five minutes.
Bart Vale
A 6'3", 250 pounds American shootfighter fighting in Japan immediately said 'No' to Art Davie's offer. Ironically, Bart Vale took part of a similar event two years later, the World Combat Championship in October 1995.
Herb Perez
1992 Olympic Tae Kwon Do Gold medalist. Refused to compete despite an "appearance fee".
Alberto Cerro Leon
World Penjak Silat Champion who refused to be on UFC 1 but was on UFC 2 getting crushed by judoka Remco Pardoel.
Art Davie's dream roster wasn't met to be...
Nonetheless, it was great!
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http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/thread/1803375/Eatons-Ultimate-Ultimate-1993-Results-Discussion/?page=1
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Digging your combined drain/path should be a doddle. Be adventurous. Don't build a straight path. Make it wiggly woggly to add some interest. Include a bigger area that you can put a table and chairs on for somewhere to drink your wine! Pile your spoil into little humps that you can plant alpines, shrubs etc, on or make a seat out of.
Draw your plan out on the back of an envelope. All the best garden plans have been drawn out on the back of envelopes first. It concentrates the ideas.
Thanks again Kinder i am going to get Rid of trees at back that is were sun is blocked for a bit in Mid day , as for the Oil Drum i Cant see anyone else on the Estate that has got away with it or maybe they cant be Bother , i like the idea of opening all that up at the bottom, but i also need a compost area were the pallets are the now , and some those trees at back i want to leave for a bit of Shade .
But food for thought , all i can do is plan as the Rain just keeps on Coming , i will eventually have to go out in rain if it dont let up soon .
Thanks pond digger I will put pics up soon of garden as I say it is solid clay under my 2feet of soil so I can't did down as far as the guy in the link you sent me !
I have dug a trench down side and filled with beach stones but it is still a marsh out there .
I'm going to leave this to ponddigger if anyone knows about water and drainage its him.
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A Source Book of Scottish History : in 3 volumes.
By: DICKINSON, William Croft; Gordon Donaldson & Isabel A. Milne (eds).
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Title: A Source Book of Scottish History : in 3 volumes.
Author Name: DICKINSON, William Croft; Gordon Donaldson & Isabel A. Milne (eds).
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson: 1952-54.