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Sevierville if often billed as "Your Hometown in the Smokies." Sevierville is a great place to vacation in the Smokies, offering plenty to see and do. The town has a healthy choice of accommodations, ranging from independently owned hotels and motels to award-winning national franchises. Near town, as well as in the outlying areas, are numerous resorts and cabin rentals. For great shopping you can visit Tanger Outlet, and when you are hungry there are a dozen good restaurants close to the Outlet. NASCAR Speedpark is next to the Outlet and across the street you can zip, do a ropes course or horseback ride. The Sevierville Events Center hosts a variety of events throughout the year and the Tennessee Smokies play ball in Smokies Park.


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Крия Вриси () е населено място в Република Гърция, дем Гревена, област Западна Македония.

География
Крия Вриси (в превод "Студен извор") е разположено на няколкостотин метра югозападно от края на село Зякас. Практически е част от това село, макар понякога административно се смята за отделно населено място.

История
Селото е основано след края на Гражданската война в Гърция в 1949 година. Регистрирана е като селище в процес на изграждане в преброяването от 1961 годна, а в тези от 1971, 1981 и 1991 година е регистрирано без жители.

Бележки

Села в дем Гревена

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Large townhouse in the centre of guaro with 6 bedrooms and lots of outside space, a GARDEN even. This impressive looking double fronted townhouse needs some reforming but has so much potential to be a fantastic property in the centre of a typical Spanish village. Downstairs is a living room, bathroom and two bedrooms. The kitchen has access to the downstairs outside areas that include a patio and a pictoresque garden. Upstairs are a further four large bedrooms that need some TLC. Come and see this property for youself. Guaro is a modest white village, located on the edge of the Sierra de las Nieves natural park. Thanks to its elevated position, at over 350 metres above sea level, the village offers privileged views across the surrounding countryside. The area is known for producing almonds and olives, which is an important part of the local economy. Guaro has it ́s own olive mill, where locals have their harvests pressed. The village of Guaro is also used as an Eastern base for access to the Sierra de las Nieves, were you have stunning nature hikes and adventurous activities. It is the ideal spot for outdoor lovers, which also offers a few famous cultural activities like the Luna Mora festival in September. Like many white villages in Andalucia, the village dates back to the Arabic occupation of Spain. Luna Mora, translated as Moorish Moon is an historic celebration with arts, crafts and music in the open air amphitheatre of the village. Throughout the evenings of the festival, there is a Moorish style street souk, and the entire village is illuminated by over 20.000 candles which is truly beautiful to experience! Each July the village celebrates its annual pilgrimage parade or 'Romeria' terminating at the tiny chapel of 'Ermita del Santuario del Puerto'. Another typical Andalusian event, where everybody is welcome to join in. The village of Guaro is located 55 minutes (50 km.) from the city of Málaga and the airport and the beaches of the Costa del Sol (Marbella) are only a 35 minute (24 km.) drive away!


Drawing and painting has always played an important role in my working life.
Penguin. and chinaware for Royal Doulton.
panels using the traditional methods of paint, stain and enamels.
I have now ceased this activity to spend all the time I can painting and drawing.
Surrey Figurative Artists and Surrey Hills Plein Air Painters.
I regularly exhibit at the Denbies Wine Estate Gallery with the Dorking and North Weald Art Groups.
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
The Royal Society of British Artists 300th Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
The Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters 125th Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries.


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With the inter-agency leverage proposal, the ignominy of the biggest banks is complete. For all the talk of their vaunted prowess and the "watered-down" rules that do their bidding, I see nothing in the final Basel III rules that meets the biggest banks even half-way, with insult added to injury in the form of the new G-SIB leverage proposal. If big banks want to make a dent in the next round of costly new rules, they'll need to make it far more clear to skeptical policy-makers that the new rules are bad to someone other than big banks.
How to do this? It's been done before – see for example significant changes to come in the U. S. version of the Basel III liquidity rules reflecting hard-nosed analytical work. This didn't argue that banks might not lend as much or fall prey to foreign competitors; instead, it showed that key assumptions in the proposal were factually flawed and had perverse market consequences. And, the tough FRB single-counterparty credit limit proposal is now on indefinite hold because banks proved that it might well accomplish one Fed goal, but only at grave cost to another (central clearing for derivatives). The CFTC concessions on extraterritoriality are also a significant, hard fought win.
Even those who argue that these revised rules are testament more to lobbying than logic have to admit that it's a scant crop. As required by Dodd-Frank – a law that shows little sign of heavy hitting from big-bank battalions – U.S. regulators are moving ahead with a panoply of standards that will substantively restructure the industry in ways not one single big bank welcomes in anything more than rhetorical fashion. Three years post Dodd-Frank, the rules are slow in coming – perhaps the only "victory" one could attribute to the behemoths – but the full scope of all the structural changes is in view and, with it, shock and awe. If you want to see real lobbying firepower at work, take a look at the biggest insurance companies. They got themselves out of the U.S. Basel III rules and only one big firm, Prudential, is so far sanctioned as systemic. Yes, we know AIG is similarly dignified, but given its role in the financial crisis, that was foregone from day one. Another formidable foe to costly regulation — asset managers — have distinguished themselves not just by staying out of every grasp the FRB would like to lay for them, but also wholly out of potential systemic designation. FSOC was so off put by asset managers that its long-delayed systemic-designation rule doesn't even apply to this sector. Too hard to think now about them, so said FSOC.
Are the arguments of big insurers and asset managers substantively better than those of big banks? Not a bit – how for example to protest systemic designation of asset managers with $3-plus trillion in their hands when BHCs tipping the scales at $50 billion are being defenestrated? One important reason for the success of the mega non-banks is that they muster counter offers to problematic proposals very, very early in the decision-making process. One major failing I've seen over the years is unwillingness of big banks to believe anyone would do anything they don't like until they read it in a final rule. Perhaps trained in a sales culture still anathema to many bankers, non-bankers have far less trouble hearing footsteps in the under-brush.
So, now what? In the face of the new leverage standard, I doubt complaints about credit availability will do much to quell the opposition. This was the argument marshaled against the Basel III risk-based standards to no avail. The strategy didn't work then because Congress doesn't trust big banks to lend even if they promise to do more of it and I doubt it will fare better another time around the Capitol. Similarly, complaints about competition – that is, U.S. banks will be beaten sideways by foreigners – haven't shown traction. One reason for this is that foreign-bank rules are not exactly an example of prudence. The FRB's FBO rule is also supposed to settle the score at home and, as far as doing business overseas, most Members of Congress aren't so sure they want big banks there anyway.
At this point, a lot of tough rules are so far out of the gate that they'll be hard to stop. Which if any should be stopped is a subject for another day – I think several of the new, costly proposals are long overdue. But, if big banks want to win for a change, the story has to change to one skeptics will, if not believe, at least respect enough to consider with an open mind. From that, a more balanced approach that weighs rules for banks against risks in the shadows could begin.
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Posted on February 26, 2020 March 6, 2020 Categories Presentations
On Tuesday, 25 February, at the invitation of the campaign to save St. Raphael's estate from demolition by Brent council, Architects for Social Housing gave a presentation to residents of the estate. At the start of the meeting we asked for a show of hands, and we counted 64 residents from St. Raphael's estate present, although more arrived over the next two hours. In addition, we had with us the following work group:
Geraldine Dening, architect, Architects for Social Housing
Simon Elmer, researcher-writer, Architects for Social Housing
Julika Gittner, architect and researcher, Architects for Social Housing
Leonie Weber, architectural assistant, Architects for Social Housing
Ben Corbett, architectural technician, Architects for Social Housing
Professor Murray Fraser, professor of architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture
Dr. Eva Branscombe, teaching fellow, Bartlett School of Architecture
Andreea Vasilcin, architectural assistant, Architectural Association
Tiffany Hoi Man Cheung, researcher, Architectural Association
Janusz Moore, architectural assistant, Leicester School of Architecture
Dr. Adriana Massidda, researcher, Leicester School of Architecture
Raha Farazmand, architect
Jack Sweet, architectural assistant
Sonia Theodosiadi, landscape architect
Joseph Asghar, filmmaker
Alessia Gammarota, photographer
Unable to attend the meeting the evening, but working with ASH on this project are:
Nick Jewell, architect and researcher, Bartlett School of Architecture
Gabu Heindl, architect and tutor, Architectural Association
Olande Onitiju, researcher, Leicester School of Architecture
Robert Wills, architectural assistant
Isabel Why, environmental designer, Model Environments
In addition, we had testimony about the South Kilburn estate redevelopment from:
Pete Firmin, Chair of the Alpha, Gorfield, and Canterbury Tenant and Resident Association
The slides published here were presented on the night. As we explained throughout our presentation, this information, which has not been made available to residents of St. Raphael's estate by Brent council's contractors, has been researched from the following sources:
Brent Council
Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA)
Public Participation Consultation and Research (PPCR)
Deloitte financial services
Strutt & Parker estate agency
UK Government National Statistics
Government Building Standards Regulations
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
The Housing Act 1988
The Housing and Planning Act 2016
Greater London Authority
Brent & Kilburn Times
Hackney Gazette
Architects' Journal
At the meeting, the Chair of St. Raphael's Voice — the resident/ leaseholder/stakeholder board appointed by the council to push through the demolition and redevelopment of the estate — and a resident employed by Karakusevic Carson Architects to record events, did their best to disrupt our presentation by accusing ASH of 'scaremongering' and inventing facts. Where applicable, therefore, we have provided a link to the source of the information under each slide, so that it can be corroborated, defended and used by residents, campaigners and all those who wish to see the best future for the 793 households living on St. Raphael's estate.
ASH's design work can be viewed here: Knight's Walk, West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates, Central Hill estate and Northwold estate.
Karakusevic Carson Architects's infill workshops can be viewed here. Brent council's decision to reduce the 'regeneration' site from A, B and C to just A can be viewed here.
These reasons for demolishing the estate, presented to Cabinet in November 2019, are from Brent council's report St. Raphael's Estate – Housing Options Appraisal.
These maps are from the Government's National Statistics on English Indices of Deprivation, 2015 and 2019. The figures on child poverty in London are from the Child Poverty Action Group.
The definition of anti-social behaviour is from the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The re-routing of the 206 bus from St. Raphael's estate can be read about here. The social rent levels for residents of St. Raphael's estate are from the residents themselves. The increased rental costs for affordable housing are from the Greater London Authority, on London Affordable Rent, on London Living Rent. The dangers of shared ownership schemes can be read about here, here, here and here. Market rents in Brent can be viewed here.
The surveyor's report on the condition of the housing stock on St. Raphael's estate can be read here (paragraph 3.6). The map of the age of dwellings in the area around St. Raphael's estate can be viewed here.
The Government's Building Standards on the design-life of buildings can be viewed here. The financial viability assessment for Areas A, B and C of St. Raphael's estate can be viewed here.
The council's current estimation of compensation for leaseholders and freeholders can be viewed here (paragraph 5.8).
The estimated property prices on the redevelopment of St. Raphael's estate are calculated based on the figures in Brent council's financial viability assessment here (paragraph 5.9). The actual property prices for the redevelopment of South Kilburn estate are from the financial viability report by Deloitte, which has been removed from Brent council's website, but which we have downloaded to our website and can be read via this link.
The buyer profiles for the South Kilburn estate redevelopment are from the development report by Strutt and Parker. This too has been removed from Brent council's website, but can be read in Appendix 4 of Deloitte's financial viability report.
The statistics on housing completion in London by tenure type are from the Mayor of London's London Plan Annual Monitoring Report 15, 2017-18 (October 2019). The loss of homes for social rent and their replacement with affordable and market-sale housing can be read about here for the Heygate estate, for the Woodberry Down estate, and for the Colville estate. Brent council's statement on segregated entrances and facilities on the South Kilburn estate redevelopment is from Deloitte's financial viability report.
The segregated facilities on the Lillian Bayliss School redevelopment on the Ethelred estate can be read about here. The poor quality and dangerous conditions in the Bridport House redevelopment on the Colville estate designed by Karakusevic Carson Architects can be read about here and here. Like Brent council, Hackney council has removed all reference to these defects from its website.
The poor quality and dangerous conditions in the redevelopment of the South Kilburn estate can be read about here. The figures on carbon produced by the construction industry and the environmental damage caused by demolition can be read about here.
The London Mayor's statement on climate change can be read here. Brent council's declaration of a climate and ecological emergency can be read here. UK Architects declare climate and biodiversity emergency can be read here. The Architects' Journal retrofit campaign can be read here. The Public Sector Equality Duty is in Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010. This is Brent council's (lack of a) Equality Analysis of the impact of demolishing and redeveloping St. Raphael's estate.
This preliminary analysis of the housing on St. Raphael's estate is by ASH. Our feasibility study report for West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates: New Homes and Improvements without Demolitions, was published in May 2016.
The current timeline for the resident ballot is from Brent council's website page (Appendix A). The statement about the Council and Cabinet making the decision to go forward with the redevelopment option before the resident ballot is from an earlier timeline. Another timeline, dated August 2019, states that before the resident ballot: 'Depending on community preference this period will either focus on preparing for ballot or starting developing more detailed designs for infill.' Taken from the website of Karakusevic Carson Architects, this timeline can be viewed via this link.
The contract values for the consultancies employed by Brent council were provided in response to a Freedom of Information request. The Cabinet decision in December 2019 to commit an additional £300,000 to the budget can be viewed here (paragraph 2.7). The statement about ASH by PPCR was sent to residents of St. Raphael's estate by Asif Zamir, the Chair of St. Raphael's Voice. The facts about ASH's work on Central Hill, including the two-dozen endorsements it received from politicians, architects, senior academics, housing lawyers and campaigners opposing estate demolition, can be read in our report, Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration.
The resident ballot for phase 4 of the demolition and redevelopment of the South Kilburn estate in Brent, and the details of the landlord offer to residents, is from South Kilburn Landlord Offer: Our promise to you, published in autumn/summer 2019. The facts contradicting these promises are from the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (Part 4, Chapter 6. Secure tenancies, etc), the Housing Act 1988 (Section 35), the London Mayor's figures on London Affordable Rent, and from testimony by residents on the earlier phases of the South Kilburn estate redevelopment in the Brent and Kilburn Times (16 May, 2019).
The footage of residents on the Colville estate redevelopment produced by Karakusevic Carson Architects is from the Brent council webpage. The footage from the BBC report on the Colville estate was recorded by a resident, and can be viewed here. The difference in access to green space for residents on St. Raphael's estate compared to the average resident in Brent was calculated by us.
At the end of the meeting we held a vote on whether residents wanted ASH to go ahead with our proposal. The Chair of St. Raphael's Voice and the resident filmmaker tried to disrupt the vote with shouting and accusations. Despite this, all the other residents in the room voted unanimously 'Yes' (below).
Given this mass of documentation for everything we presented to residents at this meeting, it can be seen that it not ASH that is lying to residents; it is Brent council and its paid consultants that are deliberately withholding this information from them. Until this factual information about the consequences of redevelopment, as well as the alternative to demolition ASH is designing, is made available to the residents, any ballot vote on the future of St. Raphael's estate is invalid, and can only be regarded as a product of the estimated £1 million Brent council is spending to convince residents to vote for the demolition of their own homes. To counter the enormous resources Brent council is employing to buy a vote for redevelopment, please help to share this information with as many residents as possible before the ballot in October 2019.
At the request of the residents after the meeting, we are publishing these slides as soon as possible; but we will publish further documentation of the meeting as it is made available. If you would like to read more about ASH's advisory work with the residents' campaign to save St. Raphael's estate from demolition, please read our article The Campaign for St. Raphael's Estate: Fighting a Social and Environmental Disaster. And if you would like to get involved with helping the campaign fight this disaster, please write to us at: info@architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk.
P.S. Below is footage of the first hour of ASH's presentation.
P.P.S. Below is footage of Pete Firmin, Chair of the Alpha, Garfield and Canterbury Tenants and Residents Association, talking about the difference between what Brent council promised residents on the South Kilburn estate before the ballot, and what they delivered after residents had voted for redevelopment.
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In response to a meeting with residents, who asked us whether they would have secure tenancies on the new development, we clarified that — for the residents offered the tenancies for London Affordable Rent, and who are able to afford the 60 per cent increase in their rent and the ongoing increase in service charges — the new tenancies would be with a housing association (either an existing company such as Network Homes or a new, council-owned company) and these would therefore at best be assured tenancies (misleadingly called 'lifetime' tenancies). However, following the Localism Act 2011 and the Regulatory framework for housing published in 2015, even an assured tenancy is no longer guaranteed, and housing associations are now free to offer tenants fixed-term tenancies of no more than a few years.
The statements by Brent council on their private development partners can be read in the report titled St. Raphael's Estate – Housing Options Appraisal (paragraphs 5.4 and 5.16-5.19). The legislation on assured tenancies can be viewed in the Housing Act 1985 (section 35). The legislation on housing associations being able to offer fixed-term tenancies can be read in the House of Commons Library summary of the legislation on 'Social Housing: flexible and fixed term tenancies'. The figures on the number of homes for social rent lost to demolition and conversion by housing associations is from the Chartered Institute of Housing.
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I was seven and my dad took me karting. I was immediately hooked and, several sessions later, I was given a kart for my ninth birthday. Then, when I was 11, I started racing competitively at junior level. I often went to circuits in those days, as my dad was a partner of a team in the Renault 5 GT Cup and later in the Renault Alpine V6 Cup, and my uncle, Jeroen, was starting his competitive career.
It was in karting, in the Dutch junior championship. I started 26th, and after one lap I was in the top five – only I hadn't realised that there were two formation laps!
I made my car racing debut in 1999, in Formula Arcobaleno. At the end of that same year, I also took part in the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Cup.
Without question, it's Spa-Francorchamps. I have fantastic memories of winning both races there this year. But the best crowd is undoubtedly at the Hungaroring.
I check my emails, plan my week, relax and watch some football.
In Formula One, my favourites are Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher.
I like a bit of everything when it comes to musical styles. So when I switch on the radio, I'm happy with whatever's playing.


Can You Guess Which Department Store Ranks Highest in Customer Satisfaction?
And last place is eye-opening as well.
The entire traditional retail sector saw a decline in its customer satisfaction rating in the American Customer Satisfaction Index Retail Report 2014.
Retailers saw their collective score drop by 1.4% to 76.8: the first time it has fallen in four years. Aside from Internet retailers, which bounced back from their depressed score in 2013 when winter storms caused delivery delays, "all retail categories show weakening or flat customer satisfaction," according to the report. "Higher prices contribute to the downturn, with the strongest impact on retailers that sell non-discretionary products".
ACSI also cited the rising cost of food and other staples as a downward drag on supermarkets and drugstores, while noting that department stores and specialty retailers were less affected. The report also noted a 2.7% drop in consumer satisfaction with gas stations, but expects a rebound in 2015 due to lower prices.
What about department and discount stores?
Department and discount stores remained unchanged from the previous year as a category, putting up a score of 77: slightly above the overall retail average. This was the only brick and mortar retail category in the report that did not post a decline. That's a positive, but the news was not all good for every company in this segment.
"Foot traffic and sales dropped by 8% on average for big box retailers during the 2014 holiday shopping season, which should have translated into an improved shopping experience and higher levels of buyer satisfaction due to better service in less crowded stores," the report said.
That did not happen, but some companies fared better than others. While the overall department and discount store segment remained flat at an ACSI score of 77, some individual players posted big gains and drops.
Which department store has the highest customer satisfaction?
Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) stands as the big winner, topping the category and raising its score by 4% from an already impressive 83 (making it the top player in 2014) to an 86. That puts the company well ahead of its nearest competition, Dillard's, which was flat with last year at an ACSI score of 81.
With its customer satisfaction at the lowest level since 2007, Wal-Mart also posts its weakest annual sales growth in five years. The company's ACSI score is now well behind national rival Target (NYSE:TGT) (80) and regional chain Meijer (78). Wal-Mart also lags Sears (73) by a wide margin, but Sears is struggling too -- falling 5% for customer satisfaction while closing more of its Kmart stores and spinning off the Land's End division.
However you parse the data, there's nothing positive to be said for Wal-Mart, which shares the bottom of the list with Exchange.
While Wal-Mart has nosedived, Target's recovery after its credit card hacking scandal shows that rebuilding consumer confidence is possible. To do that, the struggling but still gigantic retailer would likely have to make major changes -- it sits at the bottom of the rankings despite actually delivering the three things customers say are most important.
It's hard to fault Wal-Mart for convenience of store locations or its hours, and the company has frequent sales. It also has a pretty impressive variety of merchandise, meaning it checks off the top three categories from the chart above. That means that the beleaguered retailer has clearly done something else to lose the public's confidence, and winning it back will require more than just opening more stores.
Nordstrom -- which is not cheap and does not offer a lot of sales -- has clearly resonated with consumers by delivering a pleasant, high-end shopping experience. The company shows that it's not all about offering heavy discounts or cheap merchandise. At some level, customer satisfaction comes down to offering quality service, which is something Nordstrom does and Wal-Mart could do a lot more of.


That's a dead end. culberro actually has the mold for the hoods now.
I do, I just need to find the infinite time it would take to reprep the molds, buy new resin and cloth, layup the hoods, install all the mounts, etc etc.
Then everyone would want a show quality part for $400, and complain when the resin yellows from UV exposure.
Dickman is doing the body kits. Not sure why he doesn't want to jump on that hood mold for that extra cheddar.
Thanks for the info. Does anyone remember where that article on mix-n-match 240 body panels was written? I thought it was on Matthew Hyde's site but I'm not seeing it there.
Also, online store with no DNS/ ip only - lol - how fast can I send them money??
That was spelled out real clearly above. Shipping on a hood would be in this $500-$600 range. That rules out everyone on turbo bricks.
Any EXTRA money on TB?
^ and this always THIS!
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not much more to ship the hood if it's still attached to the car.


The Medical Readiness Assessment Tool (MRAT) is a cloud-based, three-applications-in-one electronic decision support and screening tool that allows U.S. Army clinicians and non-clinician leaders to more proactively maintain Soldier readiness.
The primary objective of the MRAT is to provide timely holistic assessments and interventions to preserve unit readiness to at-risk Soldiers. Within the constraints of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and privacy rules, the MRAT provides leaders and clinicians a powerful tool for mitigating factors that threaten individual medical readiness.
The program office responsible for the MRAT, the OTSG/MEDCOM, G-8/9, Innovative Clinical Analytics (ICA) team, has developed a fully operational tool and a sustainable process for ensuring high quality information is displayed in the MRAT. This includes the processing of 28 million rows of data using 10,000 lines of code to clean the data and calculate Medical Non-Deployment risk for all active component Soldiers each month.
The ICA team developed a complete training package, including a 94 page How-to handbook and highly rated instructor-led, hands-on learning. Finally, the ICA team has rolled out the MRAT to Army Medical Department (AMEDD) leadership and clinical staffs at 15 Army installations.
Finally, the ICA team has rolled out the MRAT to Army Medical Department (AMEDD) leadership and clinical staffs at 15 Army installations.
The MRAT team will complete a preparatory rollout of the MRAT to AMEDD leaders, clinicians, and support staff of Medical Readiness Platforms at 17 installations using mobile training teams from third-quarter fiscal year 2015 to first-quarter fiscal year 2016. Army-wide release of the MRAT will occur in conjunction with the Medical Readiness Transformation initiative scheduled for release Q3FY16 using a combination of instructor-led and computer-based training.
The MRAT improves leader insight on unit-level medical risk and enables clinicians to efficiently provide accurate individual-level readiness assessments to commanders.
The MRAT supports Army Medicine's transformation from a healthcare system to a system for health by identifying at-risk Soldiers earlier than previously feasible, improving evaluative quality, and enabling clinicians to better engage patients.


It's crazy to think that Chief Keef is only 23-years-old. He's been in the game for years at this point, experiencing the ups and downs of the life of a successful musician. During the "Love Sosa" era, Keef was at the top of his game. He's been trying to grasp onto that same type of hype but it just hasn't recreated itself in recent years. While he still releases plenty of music on a yearly basis, the Chicago rapper makes more headlines for his dramatic legal happenings.
Christmas is over and everybody is slowly getting back on their petty grinds as one of Chief Keef's baby mamas has aired him out on social media today, throwing dirt on his name and accusing him of neglecting their son. On her Instagram story, Mila Budhan wrote that Keef has been telling people that his son Hasan isn't actually his. The comments irked Mila so much that she decided to blast him on social media, leaking their private text messages and telling her followers that Keef actually told the judge he makes only $9K per month. That amount is more than enough to live comfortably on but most rappers, Keef included, front as if they're making the big bucks.


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With all due respect
With all due respect is an adverb phrase used to signal that you are about disagree with someone or criticize them. Usually, with all due respect is intended to soften the effect of disagreeing or criticizing someone. It is a polite idiom that is intended to show esteem for the individual while still pointing out his wrong-thinking.
With all due respect has become an overused phrase, it is now often used sarcastically to mean the exact opposite of what it states. Political debaters and others may preface a rebuttal to an argument with, with all due respect. In this case, a subtle disrespect is intended.
In Britain, the phrase with all due respect is often shortened to the phrase, with respect.
In 2008, the Oxford dictionary compiled a list of the most irritating phrases in the English language, the phrase with all due respect came in as the fifth most irritating phrase in the English language. Perhaps because of its changing function from a phrase meant to mitigate hard feelings to a phrase that allows a subtle disrespect, cloaked in courtesy.
He said, "With all due respect to the court, it did not define marriage, and therefore is not entitled to redefine it." (The Lacrosse Tribune)
With all due respect to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US isn't going to be attacking Iran anytime soon, especially after negotiations over its nuclear program. (The Jerusalem Post)
Brady's agent, Don Yee, said on Thursday morning that the report "with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment." (The Wall Street Journal)


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Oleg Safaraliev: Goodbye, Southern City (Әlvida, cәnub şәhәri, Azerbaijan and Russia, 2006)
reviewed by Thomas Welsford© 2007
As W.H. Auden famously observes, one man's suffering usually "takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." Oleg Safaraliev's Goodbye, Southern City illustrates this point beautifully, situating the everyday dramas of a community in 1988 Baku against the distant backdrop of inter-ethnic war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Frequently imperfect, occasionally even clumsy, Safaraliev's film is nevertheless one of the most exciting surprises to have appeared in the last year or so and it suggests that some day soon the Azeri film industry may be capable of producing some truly great cinema.
In Goodbye, Southern City, Alik is our protagonist. Played by shaven-headed Tim Roth look-alike and Moscow-based Azeri actor Timur Badalbeoly, Alik is a—well, that's the point. A what? Job descriptions mean little here. Alik has a truck and he shuttles people off to work the oilfields; but he also has a gun and is the one who comes knocking on the door when workers fail to turn up for duty. You might call Alik an enforcer, perhaps, were it not for the term's implication of some recognizable chain of authority, something that is signally absent here. Perhaps fixer is better. Alik fixes things. When he is not tracking down his disaffected colleague Rza, Alik is busily wheeling and dealing back in the leaf-dappled courtyard complex where he lives with his mother, sister, and nephew amidst a community of friendly grotesques. In these circles, Alik is a man of honor. When a neighbor confesses the fear that he will die too overweight to be carried down the stairs for burial, it is Alik who promises to hire a crane for the occasion; when his nephew expresses readiness to undergo circumcision, it is Alik who assumes paternal responsibility and sets about finding a barber with a sharp knife.
The one person to challenge Alik's privileged social function here is Fariz (Fuad Polotov). Sour-faced Fariz has only recently arrived at the apartment complex after fleeing to Baku from the conflict out west. He has evidently seen things, and he has little time for the petty social niceties that ordinarily bind a group together. Fariz is a figure of unimpeachable virtue, his very presence in a room sufficient to upbraid the room's other occupants. "It's not for me to be telling you," he says to a group of local musicians whom he has caught playing Glenn Miller songs over a boozy dinner, "but don't you see what's going on? The city is full of refugees with nowhere to live, while you sit here eating, and drinking, and playing jazz." Most people in the room timidly submit to this harangue. Alik does not. Alik does not like the tone of Fariz's voice. He does not like what Fariz says next: "And get out of the basement where you rehearse. We don't need that jazz-shmazz now. Got me?"
Much of the rest of the film hinges on the fate of this basement. Alik is determined that the property continue to serve as a local congregation point, while Fariz insists that it be repossessed for housing fellow refugees streaming into town from Karabakh. Not only does Fariz seem to enjoy the moral high ground, but the authorities quickly prove sympathetic to his demands. "There was nothing I could do, Alik," says the basement owner, admitting that he has handed the property over to refugees after being dragged off to the police station. Willful Alik, however, remains defiant. When a crowd of men comes to take possession of the basement during a musical practice session, Alik pulls his gun on them and forces them to withdraw; a short-term victory but a long-term miscalculation it transpires, as Alik thereby precipitates a showdown with his rival that culminates in Fariz having him arrested and convicted on trumped-up drug offences. The film's opening and closing sections relate what happens when Alik comes back to Baku after twelve years in jail to find the apartment complex fallen into disrepair and Fariz, now a successful businessman, still livid at Alik's behavior a decade earlier. As Alik will learn to his cost, in 21 st -century Baku it is a dangerous business being enemies with men in suits.
The success of Goodbye, Southern City lies in the acuity with which it depicts a community in crisis. At one point in the film, Alik tracks down the persistently work-shy Rza, who is drinking in a late-night beer shack. It is late, Alik tells him. Late for what, asks Rza's drinking companion. Late for the night shift, Rza replies. "Oh," says the companion, as though surprised. "Do you work?" There is a pause before the two drinkers burst into laughter, as though at the absurdity of such a suggestion. As Rza staggers into Alik's truck, he taunts Alik for the pettiness of his endeavors. "Do you think," he asks, "that if I carry one or two barrels anything will actually change in this world?" Rza is not the only person adrift and aimless in this stagnating environment—hot and dusty and thousands of miles from Moscow. In Alik's communal courtyard, a uniformed policeman sits endlessly around cooling his feet in a basin, reading the newspaper, and occasionally polishing his ever-stationary squad car, while out in the oil fields a site manager is more concerned to sunbathe than to clock employees in for work.
Thus the war of 1988-1994, one might think; thus the disenchantment and myriad petty resentments that might lead people to seek a cause, to assume a rallying-cry, and to march into battle. If that were to make for a bleak picture of human motivation, however, Goodbye, Southern City makes for an even bleaker one. Most of the characters in Goodbye, Southern City regard the prospect of war as an opportunity not for redemption but for self-enrichment. Informed that a curfew will prevent people across Baku from buying alcohol after 8pm, the local policeman quickly sees an opportunity for peddling late-night moonshine on the side; other unscrupulous types, meanwhile, start leaning on property-owners, demanding that they sell their homes at knockdown prices on the supposed grounds that these properties will otherwise be forcibly requisitioned for refugees. The rot runs deep here. It emerges that even thin-lipped Fariz is given to some sharp practices of his own. Far from reflecting any kind of humanitarian concern, Fariz's eagerness to evict the musicians from the basement stems from the fact that he has business plans, first of which is to establish his own restaurant there. War, and the suffering caused by war, provides the opportunities and the pretexts with which these characters set about the grubby business of making a living.
This is bold. To this day, most Azeris regard the events and outcome of the Nagorno-Karabakh war as a national tragedy: a litany of suffering with the only glimmer of light coming from the solidarity displayed by fellow countrymen in the face of common danger. Safaraliev and Ibragimbekov shoot this tragic narrative to pieces. They depict a world where the war actually suited various people's darker purposes and where success today may have been founded on the sufferings of other people yesterday. Is there a political allegory at work, perhaps? Might we see in Fariz, the Karabakhi in-comer, glimpses of Armenia's current leader, Robert Kocharian, who in the late 1990s capitalized on his experiences in war-torn Karabakhi Stepanakert as a means of building a hard-line consensus in Erevan against the accommodationist incumbent Levon Ter-Petrossian? Or even of Azerbaijan's apotheosized late president Heydar Aliev, the Nakhichevani native who built his Baku political fortune from the events of the war?
Of course, one might complain that any such resonances are glib, and that Safaraliev and Ibragimbekov are merely being cute. A drama about people exploiting a distant conflict is all very good and well, but Baku in 1988 had its own fair share of inter-ethnic violence, and many Azeris in the city would already have had blood on their hands. One of the first confrontations in the course of the war took place not in Nagorno-Karabakh itself, but in Sumgait, a small town near Baku on the Apsheron peninsula, where hundreds of Armenians were massacred in a semi-organized pogrom that February. To anyone objecting that it is myopic to have a drama revolving around the fate of Azeri refugees without a single glimpse of the conflict's myriad Armenian victims, however, one might reply that this is missing the point. Goodbye, Southern City is not a record of the war. It is not even an account of the war such as it occurred in Baku. It is a story about how people in Baku made sense of the war such as they chose to perceive it . Dreadful things are happening around us, but the only person to acknowledge this is Liusia, a middle-aged woman who finds herself under pressure from heavies to move out of her apartment. "What am I going to do to you?" threatens one of the thugs. "What can you possibly do to me?'" replies Liusia haughtily. " I'm not Armenian. I'm Russian ." Many others, we realize, would not have been so fortunate.
There is much that is wrong with Goodbye, Southern City. Elements of the narrative are unclear—who exactly is doing what to whom, we occasionally wonder—and the tendency of individual characters to fade in and out of view suggests that the film may have been pruned a bit too rigorously in the editing room. A romantic relationship between Alik and a nightclub chanteuse weighs down the film to little effect, and when an assassin turns up at the end, his identity sits uneasily with what has hitherto transpired. But the compensations here are ample. There is a real sense of sweaty listlessness throughout the film as the camera endlessly idles its way around the apartment courtyard. As people fan off the heat while sitting on the stoop, the filmmakers evoke shades of a Spike Lee long, hot Brooklyn afternoon in August. Indeed, one wonders whether Safaraliev and Ibragimbekov may have profited from Spike Lee's example more generally, for the jazzy ease with which they depict communal ennui turning nasty. There are echoes of Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and more particularly of Summer of Sam (1999), as a coterie of elderly musicians—Azeri versions of Danny Aiello or Ben Gazzara, perhaps—shoot the breeze over zakuski while ugly off-screen headlines begin to intrude on local lives. Elsewhere, too, there are elements that resonate for the Western viewer: one would hardly have guessed that, seen in the yellow morning light, Baku's salty, derrick-strewn landscape might so strongly resemble the toxic New Jersey marshes, replete with their associations of low-rent criminal thuggishness. The location work in the film is superb, evoking Baku as a dreamy combination of Atlantic City, an Islamic kasbah, and a stuccoed Rothschild-era ghost town. Watching Goodbye, Southern City , one realizes what an opportunity Michael Apted wasted in opting to abjure proper location work for The World Is Not Enough (1999) and what a pallid account of this strange place Gary Shteyngart offers in his recent novel Absurdistan.
This inspired locale and camerawork should not overshadow the film's other merits. The hitherto little-known Safaraliev proves himself an intelligent director, possessing an impressive visual economy: as a synecdoche for Alik's hours and years of judicial torture and abuse, he uses little more than a single overturned chair in a police interview room. And the actors are superb, with the dead-eyed Fakhratdin Manafov (playing Rza) in particular giving the single best performance you are likely to see in any film this year. Taken together with the sheer forensic sharpness of Ibragimbekov's screenplay, these contributions render Goodbye, Southern City a triumphant evocation of a community waiting for the barbarians.
Thomas Welsford
Harris Manchester College, Oxford University
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Images courtesy of Oleg Safaraliev.
Goodbye, Southern City, Azerbaijan and Russia, 2006
Director: Oleg Safaraliev
Scriptwriter: Rustam Ibragimbekov
Cinematography: Murat Aliev
Art Director: Mais Agabekov and Aziz Mamedov
Cast: El'mira Shabanova, Fuad Popadov, Fakhraddin Manafov, Timur Badalbeili, Tofik Mirzoev, Gadzhi Ismailo, Mekhriban Zeki
Producers: Rustam Ibragimbekov
Production: Azerbaijanfilm and IBRUS (Russian Federation)
Oleg Safaraliev: Goodbye, Southern City (Әlvida, cәnub şәhәri,, Azerbaijan and Russia, 2006)
Updated: 02 Oct 07


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Q: Find last item in a difference list I'm trying to find the last item (all numbers) without "ruining" the list.
What I currently have is this:
max([_|Xs]-Xs,R):-
Xs \= [],
max2(Xs,R),!.
max([X|Xs]-Xs,R):-
    R = X.
max([]-[],99999).

Max2 is a function that finds the last item in an ordinary list:
max2([X],X):-
    number(X),!.
max2([_|Xs],R):-
    max2(Xs,R),!.

When I try on a list with one item, it works - otherwise fails:
max([22|X]-X,R)
R = 22

max([22,27|X]-X,R)
Stack limit (0.2Gb) exceeded
  Stack sizes: local: 0.2Gb, global: 21Kb, trail: 3Kb
  Stack depth: 1,560,328, last-call: 0%, Choice points: 1,560,312
  Probable infinite recursion (cycle):
    [1,560,328] max2([cyclic list], _1452)
    [1,560,327] max2([cyclic list], _1484)

I tried other ways, but then when I gave it a list with one item, it converted it:
max([22|X]-X,R)
X = []
R = 22

So I couldn't keep using the X as a free variable.
I hope I wrote it clearly.
Many thanks in advance.

A: In the Logtalk library, I use the following definition:
last(List-Back, Last) :-
    List \== Back,
    List = [Head| Tail],
    last(Tail-Back, Head, Last).

last(List, Last, Last) :-
    unify_with_occurs_check(List, Back-Back).
last(List-Back, _, Last) :-
    List \== Back,
    List = [Head| Tail],
    last(Tail-Back, Head, Last).

Sample calls:
?- last([22|X]-X,R).
R = 22 ;
false.

?- last([a,b,c|X]-X,R).
R = c ;
false.

?- last(DL, Last).
DL = [Last|_1648]-_1648 ;
DL = [_1652, Last|_1648]-_1648 ;
DL = [_1652, _1664, Last|_1648]-_1648 ;
DL = [_1652, _1664, _1676, Last|_1648]-_1648 ;
DL = [_1652, _1664, _1676, _1688, Last|_1648]-_1648
...

This definition is quite general as it also works with lists of variables. For example:
?- last([X,Y,Z|Tail]-Tail, Last).
Z = Last ;
false.

In your case, if you can ensure that the difference lists are always well formed and their elements are ground, you can simplify the definition.

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Anthony Hutchens Charged In Grace Ross Murder
Anthony Hutchens the fifteen year old boy from Indiana is now facing adult time for the murder of six year old Grace Ross. According to police reports Anthony Hutchens allegedly molested and murdered the six year old girl at a wooded area behind the New Carlisle apartment complex where they both lived. Anthony Hutchens mother believed that her son was involved in the murder and would notify police. Anthony Hutchens would be charged with murder and child molestation.
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Nearly a year after 6-year-old Grace Ross was found dead in a wooded area near a New Carlisle apartment complex, a judge ruled that Anthony Hutchens, the boy accused of molesting and killing her, will be tried as an adult.
The ruling by St. Joseph Probate Court Magistrate Graham Polando comes after recent hearings where doctors, probation officers and Hutchens' mother testified to whether he should remain in juvenile, or probate, court.
In a written order, Polando concluded several factors suggested the teen's case would best be handled in adult court. Those factors included:
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Taking steps to hide evidence such as his bloody clothes.
The time it would have taken to both molest the girl and kill her.
The likelihood, even if small, of committing similar offenses in the futer.
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The very serious nature of the crimes alleged.
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The Tribune did not name Hutchens in previous coverage of the case, but is doing so now that he has been waived to adult court.
Polando also ruled that Hutchens will be detained in an adult correction facility while awaiting trial, and that he will be held without the possibility of release on bail.
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The boy's mother, believing her son may have been involved in the girl's death, came forward to police after Ross' body was found.
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Since then, proceedings were delayed as doctors and psychologists interviewed Hutchens to assess his ability to stand trial. After the teenager was deemed competent, prosecutors asked for the case to be moved to adult court due to the severity of the crimes and reports that Hutchens has a violent "mindset."
At a Feb. 23 hearing, Craig Redman, a juvenile probation supervisor, testified that Hutchens has made several disturbing comments, including references to killing and torturing people
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During the same hearing, Hutchens' mother said he is on the autism spectrum, has ADHD and a sensory disorder and is "very immature for his age."
Indiana law states a probate, or juvenile, court shall waive jurisdiction to superior, or adult, court in felony cases, "unless it would be in the best interests of the child and the safety and welfare of the community for the child to remain within the juvenile justice system."
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Der Akademische Alpen-Club Zürich (AACZ) ist ein Schweizer Akademischer Gebirgsverein mit Sitz in Zürich.

Tätigkeiten und Geschichte
Unternommen werden Kletter-, Hoch-, Ski- und Trekkingtouren sowie Expeditionen. An traditionsreichen Anlässen wie dem wöchentlichen Stamm, der Semesteranfangs-, der Semesterschlusssitzung, dem Stiftungsfest, der Weihnachtskneip und dem Rehschnitzelfrass wird ein ungezwungen-geselliges Clubleben gepflegt.

Der Verein wurde 1896 von Studenten der Zürcher Hochschulen gegründet. Die meisten von ihnen waren bereits Mitglieder anderer alpiner Vereine, hatten aber den Wunsch, mit gleichgesinnten studierenden Kollegen in die Berge zu gehen – und nicht, wie damals fast ausschliesslich üblich, am Seil professioneller Bergführer. Die "Vereinigung der Bergsteiger an der Alma mater Turicensis" hatte zu Beginn den doppelten Charakter eines Alpenclubs und einer Studentenverbindung: Dazu gehörten etwa Bräuche wie der "Clubcantus" oder die "Weihnachtskneipe", aber auch die Unterscheidung zwischen "Aktivmitgliedern" und "Altmitgliedern". Der Club liess in dieser Tradition auch Couleurkarten herstellen.

In dieser Phase der Pionierzeit des Bergsteigens in den Schweizer Alpen gelangen den Mitgliedern des AACZ zahlreiche Erstbesteigungen und Erstbegehungen, vor allem in den Glarner und Urner Alpen. So bestiegen Wilhelm Paulcke und Victor de Beauclair am 5. Januar 1896 mit dem Oberalpstock zum ersten Mal einen Schweizer Dreitausender mit Ski. Rudolf von Tscharner und Ulrich Wieland führten am 19.–21. April 1924 die erste Skitraversierung des Mont Blanc (mit Skidepot im Col du Dôme) durch. Ueli Campell gelang die erste Ski-Gesamtüberschreitung des Mont Blanc (1930) sowie jene des Monte Rosa (1931) einschliesslich 15 Viertausender-Gipfel.

Die Mitgliederzahlen sind eher klein und lagen zwischen 1920 und 2012 bei ca. 100–120 Mitglieder. In den letzten Jahren stiegen die Mitgliederzahlen auf 162 Ende 2020. Studierende, Doktoranden und Postdocs können als Aktive in den Club eintreten und bleiben als Altmitglieder dem Club oft ein Leben lang treu und unterstützen ihn. Ein fixes Tourenprogramm existiert nicht. Die 125-jährige Tradition des selbstverantwortlichen "führerlosen Bergsteigens" hat sich erhalten. Traditionell ist der AACZ ein sehr internationaler Club, sowie Mitglied in der Fédération des Club Alpin Académiques de Suisse (FCAAS).

Hütten
Im Besitz des Vereins befinden sich die Mischabelhütte (erbaut 1901/02) oberhalb von Saas Fee im Kanton Wallis und die Windgällenhütte (erbaut 1908) im Maderanertal im Kanton Uri. Beide Hütten sind öffentlich zugänglich und bewartet. Sie bilden Ausgangspunkte für Hochtouren im Mischabelgebiet und für Klettertouren und Wanderungen in den Urner Alpen. Des Weiteren gehört dem AACZ eine Selbstversorgerhütte im Fondei zwischen Davos und Arosa, die nur den Mitgliedern zugänglich ist.
Der AACZ gehört der Fédération des Club Alpin Académiques de Suisse (CAA) an, welche wiederum in der Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA) vertreten ist. Mit diesem Anschluss ist er gleichberechtigt mit den Mitgliedern anderer alpiner Vereinigungen und seine Mitglieder geniessen das Anrecht von reduzierten Taxen. Im Gegenzug gewährt er in seinen Hütten den Mitgliedern der anderen Alpenvereine vergünstigte Übernachtungstarife.

Publikationen
Von Mitgliedern wurden mehrere Kletterführer verfasst, so z. B. der Clubführer Bündner Alpen 7: Rätikon oder der Alpin-Wanderführer Nordbünden, beide von Paul Meinherz. Der erste Clubführer der Urner Alpen wurde 1905 vom AACZ veröffentlicht. Dieses Gebiet wurde bis 1989 vom AACZ bearbeitet.

Der Schweizer Dichter Hans Morgenthaler verarbeitete einige der Bergerlebnisse im AACZ in seinen Büchern.

Expeditionen
 Hoher Atlas (Marokko) 1934
 Grönland 1938
 Cordillera Blanca (Peru) 1948
 Dhaulagiri 1953
 Ostgrönland 1964
 Hindukusch 1972
 Denali 1979
 Minya Konka (China) 1981
 Aksay (Ost-Pamir, Xinjang, China) 1998
 Drohmo (Nepal) 1999
 Kyashar (Nepal) 2003
 Rolwaling (Nepal) 2005
 Batura II (Karakorum) 2006
 Loinbo Kangri / Phola Kyung / Nyainqêntanglha (Tibet) 2006
 Xuelian (China) 2009
 Revelation Mountains (Alaska) 2017
 Im Jahr 2021 ist zum 125-jährigen Bestehen des Clubs eine Jubiläumsexpedition geplant

Bekannte Mitglieder
 Eduard Wagner (Eintrittsjahr 1896, Gründer)
 Robert Helbling (Eintrittsjahr 1896, Gründer)
 Hans Brun (Eintrittsjahr 1896, Gründer)
 Wilhelm Paulcke (1897)
 Victor de Beauclair (1899)
 Theodor Herzog (1900)
 Jules Jacot-Guillarmod (1868–1925, K2-Expedition 1902)
 Willi Rickmer Rickmers (1902)
 Heinrich Spoerry (1905)
 Alphonse de Kalbermatten (1906)
 Rudolf Staub (1908)
 George Finch (1909)
 Hans Morgenthaler (1911)
 Hans Lauper (1924) (Erstbegeher der Nordostwand des Eigers "Lauper-Schild", 1932)
 André Roch (1926)
 Otto Coninx (1938)
 Frédéric Marmillod (1949) (Erstbegeher des Südwestgrats des Aconcagua "Ibanez-Marmillod Route", 1953)
 Hermann Wäffler
 Alfred Zürcher (1953)
 Alfred Kölz (1964)
 Walter Giger (1965)
 Roman Boutellier (1971)
 Gregor Benisowitsch (1979)
 Eduard Imhof (1982)
 Bruce Normand (1996) (Preisträger Piolet d'Or 2010)
 Emil Zopfi (2011)

Literatur
 Dhaulagiri-Expedition 1953: Berge der Welt. Das Buch der Forscher und Bergsteiger. Herausgegeben von der Schweizerischen Stiftung für alpine Forschungen. Band 9. Zürich, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1954
 Ostgrönland-Expedition 1964: Akademischer Alpenclub Zürich: Ostgrönland-Expedition AACZ. Juli – August – September 1964. Zürich 1964
 100 Jahre Akademischer Alpen-Club Zürich 1896–1996: Eine Festschrift, verfasst von Ruedi Kaiser. Zürich 1996

Weblinks
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Einzelnachweise

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ETH Zürich
Sportverband (Zürich)
Gegründet 1896
Studentenorganisation (Schweiz)
Hochschulsport (Schweiz)
Wandern (Schweiz)


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Eastern Khampa in China PRINT VERSION:
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Tibetan, Khams
Buddhism (95.00%)
The Khampa have a fearsome reputation as the most hostile and violent of Tibetans. "Tall and well built men, fearless and open of countenance, they resemble Apache Indians, with plaited hair hanging from each side of well modeled heads."
The Khampa have a long history of conflict with the Chinese, who annexed most of Kham Province to Sichuan in 1720. "No Chinese dares to enter the territory for fear of being murdered." Military clashes between the two groups occurred in 1918, 1928, and 1932. In 1950 the Chinese captured the town of Chamdo without firing a shot. The Khampa fled in terror when the Chinese set off a huge fireworks display on the outskirts of the town. In late 1955 the Chinese authorities ordered the monks of Litang Monastery to produce an inventory for tax assessment. The monks refused to oblige. In February 1956, the Chinese laid siege to the monastery which was defended by several thousand monks and farmers. Litang and surrounding areas were bombed by Chinese aircraft. In 1959 the Khampa in Lhasa organized a revolt against Chinese rule. "The fighting lasted three days with the Tibetans caught up in a religious fervor, not caring whether they lived or died."
Sexual immorality among the Khampa is considered normal behavior. A 1950s survey "found the rate of venereal diseases was 40% in peasant areas and 50.7% in pasture areas."
The Khampa, like all Tibetan groups, are devout followers of Buddhism.
Catholic work among the Khampa commenced in the mid-1800s. The Catholic mission at Batang Township was demolished in 1873 and 1905 - after two priests had been killed and converts who would not deny their faith were shot. By 1924 the mission numbered 2 bishops, 15 French missionaries, and 4,800 baptized converts of whom "about two-fifths were Tibetans." Today there are 200 Khampa Catholics near Kangding and some near Batang and Yajiang. Protestant work among the Khampa commenced in 1897. The missionaries ran hospitals, schools, and orphanages, but saw little fruit. By 1922 the Protestant station at Batang had won ten converts.
Scripture Prayers for the Khampa Eastern in China.
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The Khampa Nomads
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People Name General Khampa Eastern
People Name in Country Khampa Eastern
Natural Name Eastern Khampa
Pronunciation Kum-ba
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Alternate Names Kam; Kang; Kham; Khamba; Khampas; Khams; Khams Bhotia; Khams-Bhotia; Khams-Yal; Konka; Konkaling; खमपा, ईस्टर्न
Affinity Bloc Tibetan-Himalayan Peoples
People Cluster Tibetan
People Group Khampa Eastern
Ethnic Code MSY50r
Region Asia, Northeast
Location in Country Approximately 1.2 million Khampa Tibetans speak the Eastern Khampa language. They inhabit a vast area but are primarily concentrated in western Sichuan Province as far east as Kangding, a large portion of eastern Tibet, and parts of southern Qinghai Province. The Eastern Khampa town of Litang lies 4,700 meters (15,400 ft.) above sea level. Chamdo is another important town - at an altitude of 3,200 meters (10,500 ft.). The Chamdo Monastery was built in 1473 and now houses 2,500 monks. Other main towns include Bayi, where a massive textile and carpet factory employs 1,300 workers, and Batang, which is 2,700 meters (8,856 ft.) above sea level. Source: Operation China, 2000
Location in Country Approximately 1.2 million Khampa Tibetans speak the Eastern Khampa language. They inhabit a vast area but are primarily concentrated in western Sichuan Province as far east as Kangding, a large portion of eastern Tibet, and parts of southern Qinghai Province. The Eastern Khampa town of Litang lies 4,700 meters (15,400 ft.) above sea level. Chamdo is another important town - at an altitude of 3,200 meters (10,500 ft.). The Chamdo Monastery was built in 1473 and now houses 2,500 monks. Other main towns include Bayi, where a massive textile and carpet factory employs 1,300 workers, and Batang, which is 2,700 meters (8,856 ft.) above sea level.. Source: Operation China, 2000
Primary Language Tibetan, Khams (1,618,000 speakers)
Language Code khg Ethnologue Listing
Primary Dialect Eastern Khams
Dialect Code 11923 Global Recordings Listing
People Groups Speaking Tibetan, Khams
Primary Language: Tibetan, Khams
Bible-Portions Yes
Bible-New Testament Yes (2016)
Bible-Complete No
Film / Video Jesus Film: view in Tibetan, Khams
Text / Printed Matter Tools for faith conversations
Primary Religion: Buddhism
Religion Subdivision: Tibetan
Photo Source COMIBAM / Sepal
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