BMW X1 Boot Space, Size, Seats | What Car?
There's plenty of space for lanky adults to get comfortable, thanks mainly to the generous head room. However, the cabin isn't much wider than that of many standard family hatchbacks, such as the VW Golf, so don't expect the X1 to feel as airy as a Volvo XC90.
There's a pair of cup holders up front that are deep and will hold a large takeaway cup. The door pockets have drinks holders that will keep a 1.0-litre bottle secure, while the small cubby in front of the gearlever is a convenient spot to store items. The centre armrest is a handy place to hide your phone and connect it to the USB input. You can stow a 500ml bottle in there, too.
There's plenty of space in the back of the X1. True, there isn't quite as much head or leg room as in a VW Tiguan, but a couple of six-footers will be more than comfortable on long journeys, especially with the sliding rear seats slid as far back as they'll go.
As is the case in the X1's main rivals, carrying three adults in the back of the X1 is a bit of a squeeze, but it is certainly possible. Three kids in the back will be perfectly happy.
Storage space is pretty good, too; the nets on the backs of the front seats make for convenient document holders, and if you pay a bit extra you'll also get folding tray tables on the front seat backs.
The rear seats split and fold in a 40/20/40 configuration by pulling small levers in the boot, which adds an extra edge of versatility to the X1 that many rivals don't offer. Practicality is improved further by the standard sliding and reclining rear seats.
The latter feature allows you to either prioritise leg room or boot space depending on your cargo vs people-carrying needs. You also have to pay extra for adjustable lumbar support, while a folding front passenger seat is also on the options list, giving you the option to carry extra long loads.
The BMW X1's boot is slightly smaller than a VW Tiguan's, mainly because it's that bit shallower. However, you'll still fit more luggage in an X1 than you would an Audi Q3 or Mercedes GLA, and the load bay is usefully square with a nice broad aperture.
Folding down the rear seats increases luggage capacity considerably, and the extended load area is flat with no annoying steps in the floor. The boot entrance is also flush with the floor of the load bay, so you don't need to negotiate a big lip when loading or unloading heavy items.
Better still, all X1s come with a electric tailgate; to open the boot you just press a button on the key fob and to close it again there's a separate button on the tailgate itself.


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Felix Vernon McLaurin (September 6, 1921 – May 19, 1972) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.

A native of Jacksonville, Florida, McLaurin made his Negro leagues debut in 1942 for the Jacksonville Red Caps and the Birmingham Black Barons. He played for Birmingham for two more seasons, and was the team's starting center fielder in the 1943 and 1944 Negro World Series. McLaurin went on to play for the New York Black Yankees. He died in Chicago, Illinois in 1972 at age 50.

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Call out for injured young walker – Bodfari 4/1/2013
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Callout for injured person – Llangollen 13/02/13
Just after 11am on Wednesday 13th February, NEWSAR was called out to assist an injured person and their colleague on Cyrn y Brain, above the Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen.
At the time the weather conditions were very poor with the heavy snowfall, strong winds and poor visibility potentially making this casualty evacuation difficult. There was also a concern that exposed to those conditions for a prolonged period, the safety of the two people could deteriorate rapidly.
Despite the appalling weather, difficult driving conditions and news reports saying that the Horseshoe Pass was barely drivable, our volunteer team members responded to the callout and made their way to the top of the Horseshoe Pass, before being deployed on the hill.
The location of the two was established and team members made their way to the location. On any other day, our two Landrovers could have driven them and their equipment to the summit of Cyrn y Brain, but the wintery conditions meant that even the four wheel drive vehicles wouldn't make it up the icy track.
An advanced party made a hasty ascent with medical equipment and shelters to ensure that the injured person could be treated as quickly as possible and the second party followed with the 32 kilo stretcher that would be used to carry the injured person off the hill.
Progress was slow and steady but with poor visibility, there was a concern that locating the two people would to be difficult. Fortunately, the two were found and treatment of the injury and exposure to the poor weather began.
The injured person was placed inside a "cas bag" (a type of warm sleeping bag), and put on a stretcher. The second person was able to walk down with the Team. Once the casualty was secured and made comfortable on the stretcher, the evacuation began.
A little less than three hours after the first text message was sent out to the team, the injured person was handed over to an ambulance at the Ponderosa cafe and the Team was stood down.
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The casualties from Wednesdays job at the Horseshoe Pass have been in touch and given permission for us to quote them.
'Hi I would like to thank NEWSAR for coming to our rescue on Wednesday 23th Feb 2013, at the radio station off the Horseshoe Pass. Your professionalism and friendly approach to the whole operation was fantastic. Thanks again from myself and my colleague.'
We have been informed that one of the casualties has a number of breaks in the area around his ankle. The team would like to wish him a speedy recovery.
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Ellen DeGeneres & Kara DioGuardi Promise to Help Former "Idol" Contender Angela Martin
Published Feb 19, 2010 at 8:31 PM | Updated at 11:49 AM PST on Feb 24, 2010
Angela Martin competes with a heavy heart.
Angela Martin was shockingly axed from "American Idol" just one place shy of the Top 24, and on Friday, she opened up about getting cut on "The Ellen DeGeneres" show.
The 28-year-old powerhouse singer revealed that she tried not to cry before meeting with the judges where she eventually learned she didn't make the Top 24 cut.
"I was preparing myself to be strong and talk to you guys, but then I saw the pictures of my daughter and I just fell apart," Angela said, referring to the screen to the right of the judges that showed images of the "Idol" contenders and their families as they awaited their news. "I'm like I failed [her. I was going to have to] tell her mommy didn't make it."
Ellen, the newest judge on "Idol," seemed apologetic for Angela missing out on the reality singing competition, which she won't be able to try out for next year due to "Idol's" age limit.
"Of all years, it is just like — it's a crazy group of people… I don't know, it's my first year and there's a strong group of people," Ellen said.
But Ellen put a positive spin on Angela's departure.
"I have a little surprise for you… Kara DioGuardi… She is going to write you a song, you're going into a studio, she is going to produce a song for you," Ellen said as Angela hugged her and wouldn't let go. "We're gonna get you a record label. See? See how things turn out?"
Angela also gave an update on her missing mother, Viola Martin. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Angela's mother has been missing since Christmas, but she said "America's Most Wanted" helped lead them to a tip, giving the family hope Viola is still alive.
"'America's Most Wanted' called the detectives on the case and the detectives called my older sister and said they found her… on the South Side of Chicago, so we ran out looking for her and a guy at a liquor store said, 'You just missed her three hours ago.' So I'm like, 'My mom's alive,'" Angela told Ellen. "A weight was just lifted off me then and we started looking for her again and we just keep looking."
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Extended Consciousness & Spirituality
Mod+ Mythology of UFOs and Abduction
Thread starter chuck.drake
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I'd like to use this thread to gather, discuss and catalog the mythological aspects of UFOs, aliens and the abduction phenomena. The assumption for this thread is that UFOs, aliens and abduction make up one of our living contemporary mythologies.
First off. This is a MOD+ thread. So we aren't debating the existence of UFOs or aliens or discussing physical proof, etc. This thread is about stepping back and looking at the story behind UFOs, aliens and abductions.
Definitely on topic for the thread is comparative mythology and how the various approaches to comparative mythology relate to this topic.
So in a nutshell:
1. What characters, actions, values, language, ideas, etc. comprise this mythology. How do we categorize them?
2. What is the "meaning" of the mythology? Where does it take us?
3. How does this mythology relate to other mythologies?
Hopefully this can be a fruitful and interesting thread. I know some folks on the forum are strong in comparative mythology studies, so I hope they can guide us in adding some structure to the study.
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I will start by adding some really basic stuff.
Keywords: Alien. Other. Fear. Medical procedures. Paralysis. Genetics. Hybridization. Horror. Sex. Global awareness. Salvation.
Unless you're using "mythology" in a different way. labeling contact experiences as such is tantamount to claiming that they aren't actual physical happenings
Saiko said:
Well. I think that there are definitely people who are experiencing contact with the other. And I also think that there is something at least very like a mythology surrounding the whole phenomena. Can I have it both ways?
EthanT
chuck.drake said:
There was one guy in John Mack's newer book, Passport to the Cosmos, that was a modern day shaman, IIRC. Anyhow, Mack asked him something about whether he thought his abduction experiences were physically real, or just psychological. The guy responded that to his people the distinction didn't really matter. Unlike us, they believe the mental world is as real, if not more real, than the physical world and that the abduction experience bridged both worlds. As does mythology! The distinct dividing line (or chasm, really) the western mind has created between the two is perhaps artificial. So, as nice as it might be to physically prove something is going on, I do think the "mythological", or psychological dimension, is as important, if not even more important to explore, as well. So, cool thread, hope to particpate more later ;-)
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I just got Evans-Wentz's book on the Fairy Faith. As I go through it, I'll keep you updated on the parallels in mythology if I recognize any . . . (I bought it at Vallee's recommendation/mention in Dimensions). I do believe, though, that of all related mythologies there are, I hands down find the parallels between the fairy faith and the UFO/alien phenomena the most intriguing.
Reece said:
Thanks for doing that! I hope to get into this thread this weekend and add some content.
Andrew Paquette
I don't know about that. My three earliest memories are all related to this subject, and whether they are real or dreams, they show precocious knowledge of what you are calling "mythology" at a time when the subject hadn't been written about very much yet and I hadn't been exposed to the ideas. These three experiences were unlikely to have been crafted from ambient exposure to abduction stories for the simple reason that I hadn't heard of them until about the time the movie "Close encounters of the third kind" came out.
Andrew Paquette said:
Maybe this is where Jung comes in handy! He mentions many cases where mythological symbols show up in people's dreams when they really had no exposure to the symbols, or even an educational background to understand the rich complexity of what was coming out of their unconscious each night. They sort of rise out of the collective unconscious, perhaps. So, I think saying something has a "mythological" element to it, doesn't mean it has to have been preceded by an external exposure.
Also, there is a heavy shamanistic element to many abduction encounters. Doesn't get much more mythological than that! Mack kind of makes a good argument that the abduction phenomenon may go back pretty far in history, as well, taking on slightly different forms depending upon the culture and the "mythology" one finds it in.
Maybe I misunderstood where you're coming from, though? I apologize, if so.
I was fascinated to find out that abduction stories came before Close Encounters, as mentioned in Mack's book. I guess a lot of skeptics claimed that abduction stories came after the movie and folks were just regurgitating stuff from that, hence the consistency in the reports. But, turns out they actually formed the details of the story in the movie by interviewing abductees who were geographically disparate but still had consistent stories - enough to make a movie around them! Pretty cool.
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EthanT said:
I was fascinated to find out that abduction stories came before Close Encounters, as mentioned in Mack's book. I guess a lot of skeptics claimed that abduction stories came after the movie and folks were just regurgitating stuff from that, hence the consistency in the reports. But, turns out they actually formed the details of the story in the movie by interviewing abductees who were geographically disparate but still had consistent stories - enough to make a movie around them!.
This was mentioned in this part of the third video Pollux posted in the Mary Rodwell thread (go to exactly 25:00). The shape of the aliens in the film was said to have been modeled on abductee accounts:
Jacques Vallée was the model for the French scientist in the film (played by the extraordinary French film director François Truffaut!)
This is mentioned at the beginning of this interview (0m54s), where Vallée also talks about discussions he had with Spielberg as the film was being made, i.e. his (Vallée) not conceptualizing the aliens as "extra-terrestrials".
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I guess I could have used the term personal narrative. But there are so many more aspects from a gestalt perspective. Many aspects of the phenomena have become deeply embedded in American culture at the very least. The phenomena sometimes ties directly into ideas of Source and certainly has many signifiers that point to a greater reality than our normal daily existence. The phenomena plugs into ideas about the nature of good and evil. The phenomena comes pre-made to fit into certain meta-mythical frameworks like the hero's journey, for example.
So I'm wondering, if we consider the gestalt perspective--the entire phenomena--how do we refer to it collectively as it relates to narrative and thematic interpretation other than a type of living mythology? There are probably terms out there I am unaware of, but I just picked mythology because that was what felt closest to the mark to me.
Keep in mind that I am totally on board with the idea that entities from "elsewhere" may well be the driving force behind these events for many of the experiencers. I'm not denying that.
I'm trying to think of another phenomena that may generate a lot of narratives. Let's say we collect narratives all over the world from people who are mugged. We have an experiencer and an "other". The other is acting against the experiencer. Now if we gathered all these narratives we would no doubt find patterns--people perhaps taking shortcuts through alleys when they normally stick to the lighted paths; fear would be a common attribute; and there would undoubtedly be after effects of anger. But it is unlikely, even if we gathered a million narratives of mugging, when we looked at the entirely of our work that we would see the kinds of attributes we are seeing in the UFO/abduction phenomena, which to me, when considered narratively and thematically feels like nothing so much as a mythology.
I enjoy Jung's work but only because he realized that Freudian psychology was a dead end. His work on symbols is unconvincing to me because he declares too many things to be symbols and loses sight of what a symbol is: a way to clarify and optimize communication. If the supposed symbol is not clear, it does not enhance or optimize communication (by inviting variant interpretations.)
A couple things from "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries." They're short and sweet, but thought I'd go ahead and make mention:
(For those that don't know, these are personal accounts recorded by Evans-Wentz a little over a hundred years ago by what would've generally at the time been considered the old-timers).
This bit about being away for multiple years is hard for me to swallow, by the way. It's the other parts (not remembering and the blank mind, plus the fact that it was considered being either physical or spiritual) that prompt me to share it:
"Persons in a short trance-state of two or three days' duration are said to be away with the fairies enjoying a festival. The festival may be very material in its nature, or it may be purely spiritual. Sometimes one may thus go to Fairie for an hour or two; or may remain there for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years. The mind of a person coming out of Fairyland is usually a blank as to what has been seen and done there. Another idea is that the person knows well enough all about Fairyland, but is prevented from communicating the knowledge. A certain woman of whom I knew said she had forgotten all about her experiences in Fairie, but a friend who heard her objected, and said she did remember, and wouldn't tell. A man may remain awake at night to watch one who has been away with to Fairyland to see if that one holds communication with the fairies. Others say in such a case that the fairies know you are on the alert, and will not be discovered."
Another testimony:
". . . The gentry are the most noble tribe of all; and they are a big race who came from the planets - according to my idea . . . "
I don't think he loses sight of what a symbol is. You're giving the more pragmatic definition of a symbol. I think equating, say, a stop sign to a mandala is missing what a mythological symbol is all about. It's not about communication. Mythological symbols reference the transcendent, the (super/un)conscious and what is just plain beyond words, or communication. As Jung said, "mythological symbols have one foot planted in the finite and the other in the infinite". They're meant to open the mind to greater aspects of awareness and reality. Indeed, they arise from these realms.
Also, Jung's work is complimentary to Joseph Campbell's work, Alan Watt's work, Heinrich Zimmer's work, etc. If we throw out Jung's work on symbols, you kinda gotta disregard a whole body of work within comparative mythology and some aspects of philosophy, because they're all harmoniously consistent with each other to a great extent.
Ian Gordon said:
Thanks Ian. Looks like I got some fun videos to watch tomorrow ;-)
What about the Intra-Earthians known as the People of Light Plasma? I have access to a gigabyte worth of data on them. According to the participants in the sittings where they come through, they have saved the world from the "bad" aliens and CBS or one of the networks affiliates is going to produce a documentary in 2014 on them.
And several other ways.
There is the disinformation campaigns emanating from intelligence arena, their involvement in producing the mental images of these events, lower astral and earthbound discarnates who like a good joke. It's not cut and dried black n white. There are many grey (gray?) areas.
Here is a well researched and detailed discussion if you like.
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I have granted permanent access to the information about the People of Plasma invasion to the author of this thread. If he desires to make that information available, he can. It's his call whether or not it is on topic.
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Biography – BIBEAU (Bibeault), MARIE (Mary), named Marie-Anne-de-Jésus – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
BIBEAU (Bibeault), MARIE (Mary), named Marie-Anne-de-Jésus, first superior general of the Little Franciscans of Mary; b. 9 Oct. 1865 in Sorel, Lower Canada, daughter of Pierre Bibeault, a farmer, and Catherine Latraverse; d. 30 April 1924 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Que.
Marie Bibeau attended the elementary school in her village, where she obtained a basic education, and then worked as a dressmaker. Around 1887 she emigrated to Massachusetts with her family and settled in Manchaug, south of Worcester, where there was a large Franco-American community. The parish priest of Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens in Worcester, Joseph Brouillet, was making arrangements to open an orphanage in a house he had bought. His intention was to found a religious community that would take charge of this charitable work and he persuaded two women teachers, both Third Order Franciscans, and Marie-Louise Rondeau, a student at the convent of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., to form its nucleus. The orphanage opened on 13 Aug. 1889. Drawn to the religious life, Marie Bibeau decided to join the group and she was received as a postulant on 7 Oct. 1889. On 24 November she donned the habit and was given the name Marie-Anne-de-Jésus. The community, which was in the Franciscan spiritual tradition, had three novices and two postulants to take care of some 40 children. They had a great deal of work, and daily appeals for funds, making and mending the children's clothing, and teaching left little time for the religious life.
In the summer of 1890 the sisters had to face the fact that their community was at risk because of decisions made by its founder, who had, moreover, acted without episcopal authorization. Brouillet had accepted too many candidates, they had taken the habit hastily after only rudimentary religious instruction, and the workload had increased substantially following too rapid expansion. In addition, his disagreement with the community's chaplain, the Oblate Zotique Durocher, about the training of novices, as well as his imprudent financial management, had created serious instability. The "nuns," who had "no security, either spiritual or temporal," according to their legal adviser, Ambroise Choquet, took the advice of friends and benefactors and applied for civil recognition under the name of Sœurs Oblates de Saint-François d'Assise on 10 Sept. 1890. They obtained the protection of Bishop Patrick Thomas O'Reilly of Springfield, who informed them, however, that they were not nuns. A lengthy dispute commenced between the Oblate sisters and Brouillet, who spread a rumour that they had been excommunicated and who refused them the sacraments. He even called in a sheriff to evict them from their house in January 1891.
After taking refuge in an abandoned dwelling in Worcester ("the house of misery," as they called it), the 15 "nuns" opened a new orphanage and tried to resolve their problems. They were put in touch with the parish priest of Baie-Saint-Paul, Ambroise Fafard, who had founded a hospice in his parish in 1889 and was looking for a community to manage it. Sister Marie-Anne-de-Jésus and Sister Marie-Joseph (Marie-Louise Rondeau) went to Baie-Saint-Paul to discuss the project and to meet Bishop Louis-Nazaire Bégin of Chicoutimi. They decided to set a new course for their "community" on 13 Nov. 1891, while retaining their orphanage in Worcester. The "Brown Nuns" had now arrived in Baie-Saint-Paul, but they would have to do their noviciate again, since they were not really nuns. Sister Marie-Anne-de-Jésus was closely involved in the many negotiations connected with this difficult beginning, in her capacity as first superior general, an office to which she was elected in January 1892. She described in a letter "the days strewn with thorns on which [the sisters had been] wounded many times."
The Hospice Sainte-Anne in Baie-Saint-Paul did, however, force the "Brown Nuns" to rethink their original mission. Fafard had signed an agreement with the Quebec government to accept 50 insane patients in addition to the 20 or so elderly people already in its care. The superior wrote: "Our idiots are giving us a great deal of trouble." She worked alongside her sisters, and, in her outspoken way, referred to herself as a "stopgap." She organized appeals in the countryside. "We pick up everything: hens, geese, turkeys, sheep, all in the same wagon," she explained. Every year she returned to her home parish to raise funds, an activity at which she was reputed to be effective. As well, she welcomed the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, who came from France in May 1892, seeking to integrate the 11 "founding women" into their congregation. When this merger failed (the constitutions of the French community were not consistent with the charitable work being undertaken), Mother Marie-Anne-de-Jésus had the satisfaction of obtaining, on 7 June 1892, authorization from the diocese to establish the Little Franciscans of Mary and open a noviciate. In 1902 she would ask Franciscan Berchmans-Marie Mangin to help draw up the fledgling congregation's constitutions and provide a Franciscan education for the nuns.
It proved difficult, however, to carry on the charitable work in Worcester. The superior general met with Bishop Bégin of Chicoutimi and his successor, Michel-Thomas Labrecque, as well as with Bishop Thomas Daniel Beaven of Springfield and the apostolic delegate to Washington, Mgr Sebastianni Martinelli, to settle the matter. Abbé Brouillet, "who likes to create a brouhaha," as Labrecque put it, continued to make slanderous comments and tried in every way to prevent the young community from keeping its orphanage in Worcester. The nuns could, however, count on the support of their first chaplain, Father Durocher, of their confessor, the Jesuit Darveni-Hugues Langlois, and of Abbé Fafard. The issue dragged on and was not settled until 7 Dec. 1897. Bishop Beaven accepted the nuns into his diocese, but they would have to turn their orphanage into a home for the elderly, since the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal were already taking care of orphans in Worcester.
After the death of Fafard on 12 Aug. 1899, Mother Marie-Anne-de-Jésus showed the strength of her personality. It was she who completed the extensive projects begun by the founder of the hospice. Taking charge of the construction required by the expansion of the work with the insane, she also undertook the building of the mother house in Baie-Saint-Paul, and negotiated a series of contracts with the government. She managed the community's farm and the electrical company that serviced the hospice, its outbuildings, and the village. As well, she directed the organization of fund-raising appeals and celebrations and the improvement in services to the mentally ill, and she planned the expansion of the community, including the opening of five schools in New England. Her keen intelligence, administrative skill, and bold faith won her the admiration of religious and lay leaders alike. In 1908 the Hospice Sainte-Anne was home to 105 patients (epileptics, idiots, and those "lacking human feelings"), 39 elderly persons, 20 private boarders, and 79 nuns. Of the more than 100 people in the community, only six were laity, and the nuns were regularly called on for such heavy labour as piling bricks, repairing mortar, painting walls and porches, digging potatoes, and crushing flax.
In 1908 Mother Marie-Anne-de-Jésus asked to be relieved of her responsibilities as superior general because of failing health. From then on she played a much less visible role. Her talents as a healer, her marvellous recipes for sweets, and her compassion for her parishioners were highly praised. In 1920 she accepted the office of procurator general (or bursar), which she relinquished in 1923 for reasons of health. She died on 30 April 1924; her last words, according to the superior general, Marie-Claire-d'Assise, were: "I see absolutely nothing in my life that can be considered a work of charity."
For nearly 20 years, however, Mother Marie-Anne-de-Jésus had found her life taken up by the difficult task of managing a Franciscan community. Working with the American founder, Mother Marie-Joseph, as her chief associate in this venture, she was the Canadian founder and carried out the most difficult negotiations.
Micheline Dumont
ANQ-M, CE603-S7, 10 oct. 1865. Arch. des Petites Franciscaines de Marie (Baie-Saint-Paul, Qué.), Album-souvenir des noces d'argent de l'hospice Sainte-Anne; Annales de la fondation de la communauté; Dossier personnel de mère Marie-Anne-de-Jésus. Michelle Garceau, Par ce signe tu vivras: histoire de la congrégation des Petites Franciscaines de Marie (1889–1955) (4e éd., Baie-Saint-Paul, 1989). Marguerite Jean, Évolution des communautés religieuses de femmes au Canada de 1639 à nos jours (Montréal, 1977), 121–24. Petites Franciscaines de Marie, Notice sur l'Institut des Petites Franciscaines de Marie (Baie-Saint-Paul, 1916; 2e éd., 1927). Margaret Porter, Mille en moins: histoire du centre hospitalier de Charlevoix (1889–1980) (Baie-Saint-Paul, 1984).
Occupations and Other Identifiers
Medicine – Hospital administrators
Religion – Roman Catholics
Region of Birth
North America – Canada – Quebec – Montréal/Outaouais
Region of Activities
North America – United States of America
North America – Canada – Quebec – Québec
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Micheline Dumont, "BIBEAU (Bibeault), MARIE (Mary), named Marie-Anne-de-Jésus," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 18, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bibeau_marie_15E.html.
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Once Again, a Reporter Can't Find Any Reason Why a Local Atheist Group is Featured on the AFA's Bigotry Map March 8, 2015 Hemant Mehta
Once Again, a Reporter Can't Find Any Reason Why a Local Atheist Group is Featured on the AFA's Bigotry Map
A few days ago, I wrote about how a Philadelphia Weekly reporter searched for all the groups in the area that made the American Family Association's "Bigotry Map"… and couldn't find a single instance of a group that was "anti-Christian" or hateful or bigoted in any sense of the word.
Now, a reporter in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has done something similar. But Nathan Bergstedt is genuinely trying to understand why the Grand Rapids Atheists and Freethinkers would be included on the map:
When asked if GRAF had done anything that the AFA would consider bigoted toward Christianity, [President and founder Ken] Eck said that they have recently been involved with a situation at Robert J. Elkington Middle School, when it was brought to their attention by a student that there was a sign for a prayer meeting at the school. With it being unclear whether this was a school sponsored prayer group or not, though the sign suggested as much, members of GRAF contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) regarding the "prayer time," since it is illegal for public schools and teachers to promote religious activity.
In other words, GRAF was trying to make sure the government remained neutral on matters of religion.
And for conservative Christians, neutrality is somehow anti-Christian. (Eck later said they probably made the list because they're a chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.)
It gets better, though. Check out this testimonial:
"We were actually approached by members of [GRAF] to enter dialogue, so that shows me… how can you label someone 'anti-Christian' when they want to have conversations with Christians?" said Kimbrel Johnson, Pastor at Community Presbyterian Church.
When local Christians can vouch for you, there's really no reason for you to be on some anti-Christian hate list.
Bergstedt tried to get AFA to explain its inclusion of GRAF on the map… and, as usual, AFA had nothing to say:
The Herald-Review made numerous attempts to reach AFA for comment regarding their inclusion of the local atheist group on their list, but they were unavailable for comment as of press time.
Don't hold your breath.
I'll say this again: The Bigotry Map is just a tool to play up the Christian Right's persecution complex because 1) They can't find any actual instances of anti-Christian bigotry in the U.S. and 2) Their donors are too ignorant and gullible to ask any tough questions about why these groups are on the map.
It's an attempt to extract money from paranoid Christians who think the AFA's bullshit smells like roses.
Michigan Mayor Whose Promotion of Christianity Cost Town $100,000 Will Now Give Out "In God We Trust" Posters
March 8, 2015 New York City Just Expanded Its Recognized Religious Holidays For Schoolkids. Here's Why That's Wrong


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Q: Change text direction for all pages I am working on a web project that can be in multi langauges, i have done all of that, i still have one thing.
the pages when shows in english is from left to right.
some languages on my website needs to be from right to left
Note please, my question is about the whole page not the text in fields.
how can i do that please?
I am using this code for launching threads for many languages.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(CultureName);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

I don't know what i think that the previous code could be helpful in order to achieve my goal.

A: bool Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.IsRightToLeft

See as example: http://afana.me/category/Website-Optimization.aspx?page=2
To flip the whole page use either HTML tag attributes
<body dir="rtl" align="right">

or CSS properties on body tag
direction:rtl; text-align:right;

Direction is to control BiDi for the language script.
Align is used to control visual display alignment.

A: You can use this code in _Layout to Change text direction for all pages:
in body tag
<body dir="@(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.IsRightToLeft? "rtl" : "ltr")">

A: I found this, hope it helps:
http://fortysevenmedia.com/blog/archives/styling_right-to-left_text_with_css_on_a_multi-lingual_site/
...and the site they made:
http://musicthoughts.com/
try the language links at the bottom.
They make use of the dir="rtl" attribute with some other minor changes to their css.

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Janine Antoni: Turn
By Brian Karl March 31, 2015
Anthony Meier Fine Arts
February 27 - April 3, 2015 Solo Show
Upon entering Anthony Meier Fine Arts to view Janine Antoni's exhibition Turn, visitors are confronted first with a single small drawing set high on the wall above eye level. Floating in a modestly framed large white field of paper, the drawing Corona (2015) depicts a curled-up homunculus figure—a mature-looking fetus—its head set in front of detached pelvic bones, hovering as if they were a pair of wings. Their positioning creates a halo effect around the head of the figure, appropriately introducing the show's theme of birth crowning—when a baby's head starts to emerge and is surrounded by the mother's birthing body.
This small yet richly exquisite initial gesture fits the physical context of the Meier interior especially well. Unlike the grander scale of many contemporary gallery settings, the several adjoining spaces within the gallery are modest in size, though there remains a rarefied atmosphere in the immaculately renovated rooms, originally designed for residential use in San Francisco's well-heeled Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Janine Antoni. Corona, 2015; graphite, crimson acrylic, and 14-karat gold on paper; 30" x 22". Courtesy of the Artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Photo: Keith Petersen.
The gallery is located in Tobin House, designed in 1915 by Willis Polk in the Tudor Gothic Revival style, and it is worth noting that Polk's restrained use of decoration was an attempt to lessen a perceived architectural chaos stemming from San Francisco's late-19th-century streetscape. The exceptionally clean spaces of the gallery's converted rooms suggest the denatured and unsullied environment of a laboratory—a project space par excellence—which makes Antoni's explorations of birth and the relationship between birthing mother and being-born child both fitting and simultaneously disruptive.
Turning the corner from the antechamber where the drawing is located, one flows into a small hallway in which ceramic sculptures stand on three pedestals. Titled Rosa (2014), Mary (2013), and Hearth (2014), these pit-fired vessels' conventional forms are—like the initial drawing of Corona—partially framed by and welded into representations of different fragments of the pelvic bone. Antoni used an actual bone to draw out, from each of the primary clay forms their unusual biomorphic extrusions. These more organic yet irregularly shaped elements both metaphorically echo the vessels' latent potential functionality and intervene in their tendency toward more regular shapes. Antoni thus translates and extends the experience of childbirth and related human female anatomy to generate customized, formally spare, and performative takes on the classic forms of fired ceramic sculptural vessels.
Top to bottom: Janine Antoni. Rosa, 2014; pit fired ceramic; 18" x 13 ½"; edition 2 of 3 with 2AP. Janine Antoni. Mary, 2013; pit fired ceramic; 14" x 7"; edition 3 of 3, with 2AP. Janine Antoni. Hearth, 2014; set of three pit fired ceramic vessels; 4 ¾" x 6 ½"; 4 ¾" x 7 7/8"; 5 1/8" x 8"; edition 2 of 3, with 2AP; installation view at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Courtesy of the Artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. Photo: Keith Petersen.
As in Antoni's earlier works, which were frequently made from commercially and industrially produced materials such as lipstick, chocolate, soap, and lard, the various elements in Turn contain layers of gendered significance in their social incarnations. And, recalling her prior sculptures, these pieces make visible what is often hidden—signs of the body, of "femaleness"—while also revisiting and interrupting the tropes of prior art-world generations, ranging from gestural expressionism to minimalism.
The pieces at Meier also echo earlier, process-based performativity in her work, where the ambivalent relationship of the artist to classical forms, to her materials, and to intimacy itself is embodied in her partial destruction of the figures she generates in the first place. Previous examples of this include Gnaw (1992), in which Antoni chewed away at large minimalist cubes of chocolate and lard; Lick and Lather (1993), in which she cast forms of herself in chocolate and soap, then blurred the outcomes through similar manipulations; and Loving Care (1993), where she smeared the surfaces of various floors by applying dye directly with her hair.
Janine Antoni. Crowned, 2013; plaster molding with plaster pelvic bones; installation view, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Courtesy of the Artist and Anthony Meier Fine Arts. Photo: Keith Petersen.
She also pursues this process-based orientation and demonstration of ambivalence in the third and final component of the exhibition at Meier when she messes with the regular forms of a rectilinear salon or drawing room of the former private residence. In this main gallery room, where the viewer is disgorged after earlier encounters with the objects and images in the hallway settings, Antoni has created a bare yet immersive setting titled Crowned (2013), produced by dragging a pair of pelvic bones to recut the molding in the midst of the room's restored antique details.
One primary artifact of the artist's intervention in the space is a significant amount of sloppy traces from the process itself that she leaves visible—thickly dried drips and smears running down the previously pristine walls from hip height, at which she embossed the plaster surface. In an inversion of the conventional woman's usual role of furnishing the domestic interior, this room has been left otherwise empty, and Antoni, in what has conventionally been a male role, has taken charge of the final refinishing of the details of the architectural space.
The result is at once stark and evocative, minimal and sweeping. It manages to exist as refined in itself while also interfering with the drawing-room refinement of the original bourgeois dwelling and its meticulous renovation. It does so with the final gesture of inserting a more palpable presence among the handful of other details from the original architectural design: the pelvic bones themselves, which confront and implicate any viewer who steps into the room.
Janine Antoni: Turn is on view at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, in
, through April 3, 2015.
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Last weekend, nine of our students attended a Model United Nations conference at St Paul's Boys' School, beginning Friday afternoon and concluding Sunday.
There were over 200 delegates from schools across London, including Eton, Westminster, Godolphin and Latymer, Merchant Taylor's and City of London. Five of our delegates represented the Ukraine (Daisy Pope, Nina Mattinson, Kaisha-Wade Speid, Evie Winter and Katie Charlton) and four represented Venezuela (Olympia Agapiou, Eleanor Press, Olivia Snaith and Zehra Sami).
All of our girls gave an excellent account of themselves and did themselves and the school proud. Congratulations, however, must go to Olivia Snaith (year 11), who won an award for most accurate representation of her country, and to Zehra Sami (year 12 ) who won an award for being the best novice speaker in her committee. These awards are a real accolade since out of over 200 delegates, only about 15 are awarded and Sydenham High pupils were awarded two.
Well done to all our delegates who were outstanding ambassadors for the school and who worked so hard for the event. Thank you to Mr Stevens and to Mrs Saunders who gave so generously of their time to support this conference over the weekend.


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Athletics Facilities - Kamphuis Field at Liberty Softball Stadium
Recognized as one of the top collegiate softball facilities since its opening in 2015, Kamphuis Field at Liberty Softball Stadium provides softball fans a great venue to watch high-quality softball action. The stadium includes 1,000 chairback seats, home, visitor and umpires' locker rooms, team room, situation room, coaches' offices, indoor batting tunnels, two full bullpens and an expansive athletic training room.
The state-of-the-art pressbox houses all game operations, home and visiting radio booths, TV booth and President's suite. The stadium is prewired for broadcast, as most home games are broadcast by LFSN.
On April 3, 2015, the field was named after Dwayne Kamphuis, a legendary fast pitch softball pitcher and financial supporter of Liberty University and the softball program. Kamphuis traveled the world playing in exhibition softball games as part of the renowned "King and His Court" team, headed up by Eddie "The King" Feigner.
Stadium Quick Facts
Name: Kamphuis Field at Liberty Softball Stadium
Opened: January, 2015
Capactity: 1,000
Playing Surface: AstroTurf with natural clay infield


Women with bigger waists relative to their hips are at more risk of heart attacks than men of a similar "apple shape", research from the George Institute for Global Health says.
The study showed waist-to-hip ratio to be a better heart attack predictor than general obesity – 18% stronger than body mass index in women and 6percent in men.
The report found a high BMI was linked to heart disease risk in both sexes.
The researchers interviewed nearly 500,000 UK adults aged 40 to 69.
The research has been published in the Journal of the American Heart Association and used the UK Biobank resource.
She said that "looking at how fat tissue is distributed in the body – especially in women – can give us more insight into the risk of heart attack than measures of general obesity".
The report said that body composition and fat distribution differed markedly between the sexes, with women having a predominance of fat mass and subcutaneous fat and men having lean mass and visceral fat.
It added: "Our study has several strengths, including the prospective design, large sample size, and direct measurement of general and central adiposity on all participants.
Ashleigh Doggett, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "Considering the large amount of UK participants, this is a very interesting study which highlights that obesity remains a risk factor for heart attacks in both men and women.
"Interestingly, it suggests that those of us who are 'apple' as opposed to 'pear' shape, especially women, may be at higher risk of a heart attack.
"We know from previous BHF research that women are often misdiagnosed initially when having a heart attack so how we store fat and our body shape may be an important factor for medical staff to consider when making a diagnosis.
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The Simulation and Optimization of Greenhouse Microclimate for Energy-efficient Production
L-Y. Li and J.H. Lieth
Greenhouse crop production involves high rates of energy input to implement a greenhouse microclimate that results in high productivity levels, correct crop timing, and desired product specifications. Producing quality crops while maintaining low energy consumption is achievable through improved crop management and environment control strategies. In this study, greenhouse crops and their microclimate were treated as an integrated system that was driven by solar radiation and external energy input. A set of simulation models were developed to describe the greenhouse climate, the crop, and their dynamic interactions. The temperature and light regimes were simulated using the greenhouse energy budget under typical weather patterns. The crop model simulated growth and development of several ornamental greenhouse crops. Coupling the crop model with the greenhouse energy model resulted in a system that allows determination of optimal strategies for crop management and environmental control. This greenhouse/crop system can be used to assist growers with formulating strategies of greenhouse production management.
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620 Testing Neem Leaf Extract to Control Contamination in Guava Tissue Culture
J.L. Robbins, X.Y. Li, and A.K. Yadav
Shoot tip explants from field-grown guava (Psidium guajava L.) trees, which frequently show a high rate of contamination, were cultured on the MS medium with neem leaf (Azadirechta indica L.) extract in H2O. Ten grams of neem powder prepared from crushed dried leaves was made to 200 mL aqueous solution and was left on a laboratory bench for 24 h. The amber-color neem extract was filtered to separate and discard solid. The liquid was refrigerated until needed. To 950 mL basic medium in deionized H2O containing 25 mL macronutrients, 5 mL micronutrients, 5 mL vitamins, 5 mL EDTA + Fe, 2 mL BA, 30 g sucrose, and 7 g agar, 50 mL neem extract was added either before or after autoclaving. No neem extract was added to the control. Medium was adjusted to 5.7 pH. Unused medium was refrigerated. Shoot tips from actively growing young twigs of field-grown L-49 guava trees that showed variable contamination in previous studies were harvested during midmorning hours. Samples were washed in running water and disinfected with 15% Clorox solution with few drops of Tween-20 for 15 min. There were 20 explants in each treatment. Explants were subcultured a week later. None of the four test studies showed contamination-free cultures from field trees. There was no consistency due to autoclaving neem extract. The neem leaf extract did not show complete elimination of contamination, although it delayed it for few days. It was concluded that neem extract was not effective at concentrations used in getting rid of contamination. Therefore, further investigate effect of neem for this purpose higher concentrations need to be examined.
A Heat Unit Model for Tracking the Development of Geranium
L-Y. Li, J.H. Lieth, R.H. Merritt, and H.C. Kohl
A heat-unit model was established for tracking the development of geranium, based on experimental data collected at UC Davis and Rutgers Univ. The temperature thresholds for initiating development and heat-unit benchmarks needed to accomplish each phenostage are parameters in this model. The methods of estimating these parameters were proposed and tested with the observed data. The model worked well during either vegetative or reproductive stages, but failed to predict the initiation of flowers, suggesting that factors other than only temperature drive the flower initiation process. With this model crop development characterized by a series of specific morphological events can be tracked and predicted under various temperature regimes, so that crop timing can be more precise.
361 Effects of Fertilizer Rates on Fruit Quality of `White Marsh' Grapefruit in a Sandy Soil
Z.L. He, D.V. Calvert, A.K. Alva, and Y.C. Li
Fertilization is among the most important factors influencing fruit quality of citrus. Effects of Individual element such as N, P, or K on fruit quality have been well-documented. Much less has been done on the interactions of N, P, and K in relation to citrus fruit quality. A field experiment was conducted from 1994 to 1999 in a commercial grove on a Riviera fine sand (Loamy, siliceous, hyperthermic Arenic Glossaqualf) to investigate the effects of fertilizer rates and sources on fruit quality of 26-year-old `White Marsh' grapefruit trees (Citrus paradisi Macfad.) on Sour Orange rootstock (Citrus aurantium Lush). Fertilizer was applied as water-soluble dry granular broadcast (three applications/year) at N rates of 0, 56, 112, 168, 224, and 336 kg/ha per year using a N;P:K blend (1.0:0.17:1.0). There was a quadratic relationship between fruit weight or peel thickness and fertilizer rates. Fruit weight per piece increased with fertilizer rates from 0 to 168 kg N/ha per year, but decreased from 168 to 336 kg N/ha per year. Fruit size was small at zero or low fertilizer rates due to nutrient deficiencies. Large fruit sizes of `White Marsh' grapefruit in the sandy soil were achieved at fertilizer rate around 168 kg N/ha per year. Increasing fertilizer application rates higher than 168 kg/ha per year greatly increased the number of fruit per tree, but decreased the size of fruit. Peel thickness, which is related to the fruit size, declines at higher fertilizer rates. Increase in fertilizer rate from 0 to 336 kg N/ha per year increased solids content and fruit acid concentration of the grapefruit. Fertilization rate effect on fruit Brix concentration was more complicated. Brix concentration was not affected by increasing fertilizer rates from 0 to 168 kg N/ha-per year, but was increased at higher fertilization rates (168 to 336 kg N/ha per year). As a result, the Brix/acid ratio was, in general, decreased by increasing fertilizer rates.
Validation of a Model for Simulating the Effect of Daminozide Application on Chrysanthemum
J.H. Lieth, L.R. Oki, P. Ng, M.C. Garcia-Navarro, S.H. Kim, and L.-Y. Li
Daminozide is a growth retardant used in potted plant production as a foliar spray to inhibit shoot elongation. It has its greatest inhibitory effect immediately after application, becoming less pronounced thereafter; continued retardation is accomplished by reapplication at 7to 14-day intervals. A model for this retardation effect is useful in developing decision support tools, as well as in optimizing (perhaps minimizing) the use of this growth retardant. Such a model, as developed and described earlier, simulates the effect of a foliar spray application of daminozide at various concentrations on various days during the production cycle. The objective of this work was to validate this model for various varieties of chrysanthemum. Using the model to simulate the effect of one application of daminozide resulted in predicted plant heights very close to the observed heights for most of the varieties tested. Of four methods used to implement the multiple-application effect, two resulted in very good simulation of the observed plant heights. In summary, the model was shown to be valid for all the varieties of chrysanthemum tested.


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"He scratched at his beard because it itched."
"I scratched my arm on a rose bush."
"The cat scratched her leg with its claws."
"The dog scratched at its wounds."
"The boy scratched his chin."


If you happened to miss it, we already posted up 743 photos from the 2017 Carlisle (PA) Ford Nationals, which can be see here. Since it's hard to see everything, we also enlisted the help of John Machaqueiro, who walked the show and captured additional footage – that's 253 more photos to dig through! There's plenty to look over, including different angles and a few things we didn't catch the first time around. Check it out and you may even find your ride in the mix.


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Addressing the constitutional flaws in the EU Withdrawal Bill: The view of the Constitution Committee
Posted on January 30, 2018 by The Constitution Unit
Today sees the start of two days of debate in the House of Lords as the EU (Withdrawal) Bill has its second reading stage. Ahead of that debate, the Constitution Committee of the House of Lords has produced a report on the legislation. In this blogpost Baroness Taylor, who chairs the committee, explains that the Bill as currently constituted has major flaws that could cause serious constitutional problems if left unamended.
Brexit presents an unprecedented constitutional challenge for the UK. In order to achieve a smooth departure from the European Union, it is essential that there is legal certainty and continuity on exit day. The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (the Bill) is the government's attempt to achieve this. It attempts to deliver certainty by preserving existing EU law as it currently applies in the UK and converting it into domestic law. This is a legal undertaking of a type and scale that is unique and it poses significant challenges for both parliament and the government.
The House of Lords Constitution Committee gave early consideration to these challenges in its 'Great Repeal Bill' and delegated powers report and its interim report on the Withdrawal Bill itself. We are disappointed that the Government has not addressed our earlier concerns and recommendations and, as it stands, the Bill raises a series of profound, wide-ranging and interlocking constitutional concerns. The Committee's latest report, published yesterday, explores the constitutional deficiencies of the Bill in detail, and offers a number of constructive solutions to improve this essential legislation.
At present, the Bill risks fundamentally undermining legal certainty in a number of ways. The creation of 'retained EU law' (existing EU law in a new domestic form) will result in problematic uncertainties and ambiguities as to what it contains and how it relates to other domestic law. The Bill fails to give sufficient clarity and guidance to the courts as to how retained EU law is to be interpreted after the UK leaves the European Union and it seeks, unsuccessfully and erroneously, to perpetuate the 'supremacy' of EU law post-Brexit. Continue reading →
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill: constitutional change and legal continuity
Posted on July 18, 2017 by The Constitution Unit
The long-awaited 'Great Repeal Bill', to be known officially as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, was published last Thursday. The bill is a complex mix of constitutional change and legal continuity. Jack Simson Caird highlights some of its main elements.
Nine months after Theresa May first announced that there would be a 'Great Repeal Bill', and three and a half months after triggering Article 50, the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (EUW Bill) was published on 13 July 2017.
Constitutional change
The EUW Bill repeals the European Communities Act 1972 (ECA) (clause 1). The ECA provides the 'conduit pipe' through which EU law flows into the UK, and represents a central component of the UK's current constitutional architecture. The key provisions of the EUW Bill replace the ECA with a new constitutional framework. The main constitutional changes in the EUW Bill include:
the creation of a new distinct body of law known as 'retained EU law';
broadly-framed delegated powers for government to alter this body of law;
new instructions to the courts on how to interpret retained EU law; and
amendments to the legislation that underpin devolution.
Legal continuity
The government's position is that the primary purpose of the bill is to provide a 'functioning statute book', ensuring legal continuity after exit day. The bill's most-far reaching provisions, in terms of their direct legal effect, are those which retain existing EU-derived law (clause 2) and convert most directly-applicable EU law (clause 3). However, the continuity provided by these provisions must be seen in context of the reality that leaving the EU will also require major constitutional and policy changes in a relatively short, and currently uncertain, time frame.
Balancing continuity and change
Since the announcement of the intention to convert the acquis (the entire body of EU rights and obligations) 'wholesale' through this bill, the government has claimed that the general rule is that the 'same rules and laws' will apply on the day after Brexit. While a significant proportion of EU law will be able to be preserved, this general position masks the complexity of legislating for Brexit:
the delegated powers in the bill will be used to amend retained EU law in significant ways, notably to reflect the withdrawal agreement;
a proportion of EU law will no longer apply once the UK is outside the EU;
the government is bringing forward a number of bills to make substantive policy changes in areas currently covered by EU law; and
preserved EU law will function differently as retained EU law than it did as EU when the UK was an EU member state and subject to the full force of EU law.
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Ask the Experts: Legal and Constitutional Implications of Brexit
On 13 June UCL Public Policy and the House of Commons Library jointly hosted an 'Ask the Experts' event on the legal and constitutional implications of Brexit. The panel consisted of specialists from both institutions. Marc Phoon reports.
The possible economic and social consequences of Brexit were central features of the referendum debate and continue to be discussed widely. However, of equal importance are the legal and constitutional implications of Brexit, which may very well underpin the long term outcomes of the Brexit negotiations. 'Ask the Experts: Legal and Constitutional Implications of Brexit', an event jointly hosted by UCL Public Policy and the House of Commons Library on 13 June, aimed to provide some clarity on this matter.
The panel consisted of staff from both the House of Commons Library and UCL. Vaughne Miller is the Head of International Affairs and Defence at the House of Commons Library and an EU law specialist. She was joined by two of her colleagues, Arabella Lang, a treaty specialist and Jack Simson Caird, a constitutional law specialist and UCL alumnus. Ronan McCrea, a Senior Lecturer from the Faculty of Laws and Christine Reh, Reader in European Politics from the Department of Political Science, both based at UCL, completed the panel. Meg Russell from the Constitution Unit chaired the event. In introducing the panel, she emphasised the high-quality, reliable and digestible briefings publicly available from the House of Commons Library, as well (of course) as the materials available from the Constitution Unit, the UCL Brexit Hub and other UCL experts.
Vaughne Miller
Vaughne Miller kick-started the discussion by offering an overview of the differing approaches taken by the EU and the UK government ahead of the Brexit negotiations. The EU, through the European Commission and European Council, has already set out its priorities for the negotiations. It is particularly concerned with issues related to EU citizens' rights post-Brexit, the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the so called 'divorce bill' – i.e. the financial settlement between the UK and the EU. She noted that the EU has a clearer position than the UK government because of the EU's laws on transparency, which mean that the majority of the negotiation guidelines coming from the EU will be publicly available.
Miller went on to explain that it is not yet clear how the UK parliament is going to be kept informed about the progress of Brexit negotiations. The government has indicated that the UK parliament will be kept at least as informed as the European Parliament. Nevertheless, MPs have signalled their expectations on this matter through a report published by the European Scrutiny Committee. Furthermore, because of the general election and summer recess, there are concerns about whether there will be adequate parliamentary scrutiny of the early stages of the negotiations. Notably, select committees in the Commons which scrutinise government departments are not likely to be properly established until September this year.
Posted in Europe	| Tagged Arabella Lang, Article 50, Brexit, Christine Reh, Great Repeal Bill, Jack Simson Caird, Marc Phoon, Miller case, Ronan McCrea, Vaughne Miller | Leave a comment
Taking back control? Initial thoughts on the Great Repeal Bill white paper
Posted on April 3, 2017 by The Constitution Unit
In the newly published Great Repeal Bill white paper, the government makes much of the theme 'taking back control'. But the paper's content does little to alleviate the fear that it is the executive, not parliament, that will benefit from the Great Repeal Bill process. The Hansard Society's Ruth Fox has five initial questions raised by the white paper.
1/ When will the parliamentary votes on any Brexit deal be held?
The white paper seems to reveal confusion in the government's position regarding the timing of the votes that it has promised both chambers of parliament on the Brexit deal. In the Prime Minister's Lancaster House speech and at the start of the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill second reading debate on 31 January the government said that the votes would be held before the deal 'comes into force'. By the second day of the bill's committee stage on 7 February, the government said that it would bring forward a motion to approve the deal 'before it is concluded'. In the Prime Minister's statement yesterday and her foreword to the white paper today, she reverted to the original 'before it comes into force' position. But paragraph 1.19 of the white paper reintroduces 'before it is concluded'. This may be carelessness, but the two phrases could mean very different things. Parliament now needs urgently to clarify with the government when exactly in the process it plans to put any final Brexit deal to the vote.
2/ Is the government's description of the delegated legislation process accurate?
On page 23 of the white paper, the government states that parliamentary procedures allow parliament to scrutinise as many or as few statutory instruments as it sees fit, and notes that parliament can and regularly does both debate and vote on secondary legislation.
What the white paper omits to mention, however, is that secondary legislation subject to the negative scrutiny procedure (the majority of this type of legislation) can only be debated if an MP 'prays' against it via an Early Day Motion (EDM). Even then, whether it is debated lies in the hands of the government, not parliament. Paragraph 3.21 states that under the negative procedure members of either chamber can 'require' a debate and if necessary a vote. In fact, they can 'request' these, but they cannot 'require' them. The government controls the parliamentary timetable in the House of Commons, and it must therefore agree to grant the time for any debate. In the last parliamentary session, MPs debated just 3 per cent of the 585 negative instruments laid before them. And although the Leader of the Opposition and his front bench colleagues tabled 12 prayer motions for a debate, just five were granted.
Sometimes the government doesn't prevent a debate but runs down the clock and builds in delays that minimise the ability of MPs to revoke a regulation. In the last week alone, the opposition had to secure an emergency debate under Standing Order 24 in order to debate the new Personal Independence Payment Regulations. 179 MPs from eight different parties prayed against the SI via an EDM, but the government only scheduled a debate for 19 April, 16 days after the 'praying against' period would have expired. This makes revocation difficult. The emergency debate was a means to air the issues before the annulment period came to an end, but it had no force, as there was no substantive vote on the regulations.
Posted in Europe, Parliament	| Tagged Brexit, Great Repeal Bill, Hansard Society, Henry VIII powers, House of Commons, House of Lords, parliamentary scrutiny, Ruth Fox, secondary legislation, statutory instruments | 1 Comment
Why parliament needs a 'good Brexit'
There are two scenarios for the way in which parliament's handling of Brexit affects its position in the UK's democratic system – one in which Brexit strengthens the executive, and one in which parliament emerges enhanced. Which of these prevails could have an effect long after the UK leaves the EU, writes the Hansard Society's Brigid Fowler. If parliament has a 'good Brexit', it could strengthen its standing in relation to both the executive and the public.
The UK's vote to leave the EU was 'a vote to restore … our parliamentary democracy', the Prime Minister declared in her January 17 Brexit speech. Theresa May suggested that the UK's possession of 'the principle of parliamentary sovereignty [as] the basis of our unwritten constitutional settlement' was among the reasons the country decided it cannot continue to operate inside a supranational framework. And yet this reaffirmation of the traditional role of the UK parliament, delivered as part of one of the most important prime ministerial policy announcements in a generation, was delivered in a building managed by the Foreign Office, not at Westminster.
The irony has not been lost on many politicians and commentators reacting to Mrs May's speech, including the Leader of the Opposition. The disjunction seemed to encapsulate one of the central tensions in the Brexit process, namely its potential to either expand or undermine the role of parliament in the UK's democratic system. Especially now that the arguments about process that surrounded the Prime Minister's speech have been followed by the Supreme Court's ruling on the scope of the government's prerogative powers, they have refocused attention on the implications of Brexit for the legislature.
Regardless of positions on Brexit, and the type of Brexit the Prime Minister has now said she will pursue, the EU referendum and withdrawal process represents a significant challenge to the UK's traditional system of representative democracy. The UK is now embarked on one of the most consequential policies of its post-1945 history without this ever having been the policy of a government formed as a result of a general election. Before the referendum, EU withdrawal was the official policy of only two of the ten parties represented in the House of Commons (not counting Sinn Féin), mustering nine MPs between them (eight DUP and one UKIP). Taking Conservative, Labour and UUP splits into account, only 158 of 650 MPs – 24% – are reckoned to have backed 'Leave'. The proportion of peers backing Brexit was probably even lower.
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Colorado River megadrought got you down? Feel hope with TikTok's 'WesternWaterGirl'
By Luke Runyon
Published September 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM EDT
Luke Runyon/KUNC
Teal Lehto uses TikTok to comment on the West's water scarcity crisis.
DURANGO, Colo. — Teal Lehto honed her short, snappy explanations of the West's complex water problems guiding rafting trips down the Animas River in her hometown of Durango.
She often had lulls of a minute or less in between shouting paddle commands to the tourists in her boat — squeezing in a tidy explanation of how water rights work before yelling "all forward" to her boatmates to keep them from ramming into rocks.
After running the same stretch of river a few times a day for months, the timing became second nature.
"You get to the point where you're like, 'OK, I know I'm going to need to call a command in exactly 45 seconds. Like, what story can I tell in the meantime?' " Lehto said while sitting along the Animas on a rainy August morning.
"I'll tell you, the better stories you tell, the better tips you get," she said.
That same formula works on TikTok, just trade the tips for likes and followers.
On the app, Lehto goes by "WesternWaterGirl," and her clips regularly garner hundreds of thousands of views. Since joining the app in April, she's amassed nearly 48,000 followers who tune in for her fast-paced, snarky and often profanity-laced takes on the West's water crisis.
@westernwatergirl Reply to @vkurtisw #greenscreen yeah so it turns out that egregiously overallocating the CO River was not a good idea. Who would've known? #fyp #learnontiktok #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #climateanxiety #megadrought #coloradoriver #water #waterislife #watercrisis #todayilearnedthis ♬ original sound - WesternWaterGirl
In her videos, the 25-year-old Lehto — with her straight brown hair and cat-eye makeup — sits in front of the camera, news anchor style. Photos of the Southwest's shrinking reservoirs and screengrabs of the latest scientific articles on Colorado River management pop up behind her. So far, she's tackled reservoir management, agricultural irrigation efficiency, cloud seeding and hydropower.
The region's water infrastructure, and the problems that come with managing it, is confusing. Water in the arid West is plumbed long distances to irrigate lawns and crop fields that would wither without it. Layer on the legal frameworks and political landscapes, and it's an issue that can feel impenetrable for most people, even if they have a desire to learn more, Lehto said.
She learned about water as an environmental studies major at Durango's Fort Lewis College and started a student group that took field trips to water-specific infrastructure nearby. Most residents of the West aren't getting the same crash course.
The Colorado River has been a focus since she started making videos earlier this year. Tens of millions depend on the river, and it's facing a serious shortfall in supply. The concepts can be hard to grasp at first, which is why Lehto said she tries to avoid the jargon that comes with the heavily engineered systems used to plumb the arid West.
Or, if it's warranted, she jumps into the jargon full-speed, like her 90-second explainer of why large volumes of water are measured in "acre-feet" (that one currently has 215,000 views). Or her critique of proposals to supplement the West's water supply with a pipeline from the East (that's at 209,000 views).
@westernwatergirl Replying to @j2cee #greenscreen there is plenty enough water in the west to survive if we just use it more sustainably and focus on efficency for ag. #fyp #viral #learnontiktok #coloradoriver #watercrisis #water #coloradorivercrisis #climatechange #climate #colorado #newmexico #utah #wyoming #california #nevada #lakepowell #lakemead #grandcanyon #durango ♬ original sound - WesternWaterGirl
"I get comments that are like, 'Wow, you just connected a lot of dots for me. Like, I understood pieces of this, but you're the first person who explained it in terms I can understand,' " Lehto said.
Formative moments
Lehto grew up rafting the streams of southwestern Colorado with her family. But a couple of events, in particular, changed how she saw her hometown river, the Animas, and its role in the larger Colorado River watershed.
The first came on an August morning in 2015. She was working at a local rafting outfitter when the sheriff's office called.
"They said, 'I don't know what you're planning on doing today, but you're not going to be able to go rafting,' " Lehto recalled.
A plume of neon orange wastewater released from the Gold King Mine into the Animas was making its way toward Durango. The river was closed to recreation because of it. As the news spread, Lehto, 17 years old at the time, found herself fielding calls from journalists all over the world wanting to hear how locals were reacting.
"I had no idea the scale of the issue nor what to say to those people," Lehto said.
A few years later, as a college student, Lehto watched as the 416 Fire burned more than 54,000 acres in the forests surrounding Durango. Again, the Animas felt the effects, as monsoonal rain storms swept ashen debris and scorched sediment into the river, nearly wiping out the river's fish population. She recalls guiding trips down the river shortly thereafter and seeing dozens of dead fish caught in eddies.
"It was such a visual and visceral example of the river ecosystem dying," Lehto said. "And those two experiences made me really feel the need to jump into protecting the river that I live on."
Around the same time, Lehto was putting more of her energy into competitive raft racing. From 2017 to 2019, Lehto's junior women's team competed in Japan, China and Argentina. Using Google Translate, she was able to connect with members of the other teams, and the one thing they all had in common was a love of rivers.
"It made me realize that it doesn't matter where you are, what government you live under, or what language you speak, whatever river you live near has some kind of issue that's facing it," Lehto said. "And everybody is a member of a watershed community whether or not they know it."
'Screw this. I'm going to make my own platform'
Lehto came to TikTok after feeling shut out of more traditional forums.
After being rejected in early 2022 for a county-appointed seat on the Southwest Basin Roundtable, a watershed group focused on her local rivers, she went searching for other ways to be heard. TikTok rose to the top of the list.
"I was like, 'Screw this. I'm going to make my own platform with my own voice, and I can say whatever I want,' " Lehto said.
She quickly picked up the tone and style that the TikTok algorithm rewarded. Videos in which she spoke quickly did well. So did those in which she reacted to other users' clips of declining reservoirs. Videos in which she teases a revealing tidbit in the first 20 seconds but then holds off on the answer until the end of the clip also garnered views.
The app's users appreciate straight-talk about niche passions, Lehto said. And that's exactly what she's serving up. So, she said, what started as a place to vent frustrations quickly became a place where Lehto could be heard by an audience more than twice the size of the city she lived in.
TikTok can be easily dismissed as "that dancing app" by those in the water management community, Lehto said. But she said those making decisions should be paying attention to what she and other social media influencers are saying.
"A lot of what's happening in the water conservation world is happening in an echo chamber. They're just talking to themselves and the general public is not hearing it or what they're hearing is just little snippets, so they don't understand it," Lehto said.
Since going viral, Lehto's TikToks have caught the attention of others in the world of water. Bronson Mack is a public information officer for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and helps manage the agency's social media. He and others at SNWA came across Lehto just by scrolling.
"More than anything, the impact that we saw with that is how direct and accurate the information was," Mack said.
As the Colorado River's water shortage pops up more in national headlines, Mack said he's seen an increase in misinformation. He recently got several calls from concerned residents about a train allegedly taking water to Nevada's desert communities. No such train operation exists.
Lehto has taken to the platform to debunk conspiracy theories as well. When real-world explanations can be nuanced and complicated, she said it's understandable that people gravitate to the simplest message.
"They're receiving this misinformation in really easy to understand terms," Lehto said. "And the real information is not being explained and super easy to understand terms. And that's where I like to step in."
TikTok can become a career path for would-be influencers, a label Lehto is still apprehensive about adopting herself. More water agencies and environmental groups are reaching out to her with offers to collaborate — turning her hobby into a money-making opportunity. The timing is right, she said, because she has already found an audience.
The Southwest is reaching a moment of reckoning on water management, she said, and finding a good solution will require everyone to know how it works.
"The people who are so close to this problem, they have tunnel vision," she said. "They're not able to take a step back and be like, 'Well, this whole system does not make any sense.' They're just like, 'We have to keep using it this way. This is how we've always done it.' "
@westernwatergirl #duet with @Jacob Orth bad news: we have now passed the window of opportunity to creating collborative solutions to this crisis, and now we enter the enforcement stage. So we are all at the mercy of the BOR and the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation. Lord help us. #fyp #ReTokforNature #viral #learnontiktok #water #climate #watercrisis #waterislife #coloradoriver #lakepowell #lakemead #coloradorivercrisis #climatecrisis #environment #climateemergency #climatechange #megadrought ♬ original sound - Jacob Orth
In one of her latest clips, Lehto zipped through the most recent news on the river, that the Colorado River basin states missed a federal deadline to commit to conservation. But rather than just leave it there, she issued a call to action on the platform:
"If enough of us are talking about it, then water managers and elected officials in the Southwest might feel pressure to actually change the system."
This story is part of ongoing coverage of the Colorado River, produced by KUNC in northern Colorado, and supported by the Walton Family Foundation.
Luke Runyon
As KUNC's reporter covering the Colorado River Basin, I dig into stories that show how water issues can both unite and divide communities throughout the Western U.S. I produce feature stories for KUNC and a network of public media stations in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada.
See stories by Luke Runyon


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Watch: The Boy, His Bike and The Map
A short film by Gan Siong King about Jeffrey Lim's bicycle map project. By Poskod
We first met Jeffrey Lim back in 2012, when he presented his idea for a bicycle map of Kuala Lumpur at Poskod Talks. Three years on, we're delighted to see that this map has not only been published, but also paved the way for a cycling lane in Kuala Lumpur.
In conjunction with Merdeka Day, artist Gan Siong King has produced a compelling, beautifully crafted film that documents Jeffrey's process of designing and sourcing data for the map. The 18 minute film takes us on a journey both through Jeffrey's mind and the streets of Kuala Lumpur – from the bright lights of Bukit Bintang to the lesser known paths. As Jeffrey himself explains, cycling is not just a form of transportation – it's a way to get to know the city.
The video, co-produced with Ronnie Khoo and Jeffrey himself, is the second in Gan Siong King's series about art practitioners in Malaysia. His previous essay-films have been about Ong Chia Koon, a contemporary calligrapher.
Read our interview with Jeffrey Lim here
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While one of the incidents occurred at Baga beach in North Goa, the other happened near a rocky outcrop at Sinquerim beach.
Post mortem examinations in both cases have been conducted and the bodies will be handed over to their relatives soon, the police official said.
On June 11, a group of 14 tourists from Akola had arrived in Goa by a train around 4 am, Calangute police inspector Jivba Dalvi said.
Despite specific signages that were put up along the shoreline warning people against venturing into the sea, the group went in at 6am, Dalvi told the New Indian Express.


I've always been curious about this. I heard Aldrin's relationship with Maribelle is analogous to Suzaku's and Euphemia's if you get my drift!
Ending on the third volume? Hmm, so an opportunity for a one-and-done omnibus release. Hopefully that won't be too hard to find a domestic publisher for, since Bandai is no longer in the game.
Actually, I believe they've already released four volumes of this new Code Geass manga so far. Which means the upcoming ending should be collected in either volume five or volume six, depending on exactly how those chapters are being compiled. Not a bad run for something that's just a tie-in manga for an anime property that's not currently airing.
As for the odds of seeing a domestic release...I wouldn't think so. Former Bandai staff did say the Code Geass manga line did pretty well for them at the time, but if nobody has picked them up thus far, I presume it would lack the necessary momentum right now.


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