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I was brought up in Cyprus, and was 9 years old when the island became independent. Archbishop Makarios's name was known to me, and I was aware that he'd been exiled to an exotic sounding place called The Seychelles. The rival slogans of the Greek community and the Turksih community were familiar. My father was staunchly pro-Greek, and my mother had good Turkish friends. I think, looking back, that most of our British friends were spies! I returned to Cyprus this April. Its divisions pain me but are not surprising. I wandered along either side of the Green Line that separates the Greek and Turkish communities in Nicosia. Large oil barrels or sandbags close off short streets. Idle soldiers sit at vanatage points supposedly on guard. And then there are the crossing points where anyone with an i.d. card or passport can wander over. I choose the Ledra Palace Hotel crossing as I'd seen on the BBC that there was a cafe jointly run by Greeks and Turks sitting in No Mans Land. I popped in for a coffee and rejoiced at the sounds of Turkish and Greek being spoke at adjacent tables. The piped music was English! As I was given my very good latte I made sure to say thank you three times: in Greek, in Turkish and in English. I was staying in the northern/Turkish part of the city, but had a lunch date in the southern Greek half. Late in the afternoon, my hosts' daughter took me to see the Greek side of the Green Line. She led me into a house (see image) which has stood empty since 1974. We crept upstairs, skirting rotten floorboards and peered out through sniper holes in the sandbagged windows. I was looking at the Turkish defensive positions, but it could have been the other way round. Later I went to lunch with an old Turkish friend whom I have known for 60 years. She told me that the next day she'd go and see her doctor, a Greek, whose surgery is in the Greek south. I shifted to Kyrenia, the town where I lived until I was nearly ten. Settling down to supper in the harbour, I asked the waiter where he came from: Pakistan came the answer. And the answer was the same at my next stop for coffee. The island is seeing some sort of net emmigration, and the vacancies are being filled by people from the Philipinnes and Pakistan glad to work on this lovely island. What strikes me is that the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots have much in common. Less separates them than divides them. The division of the island into two federations 'works'…well just works! Each side is bolstered by the mainland states of Greece and Turkey, but the arrangement runs the danger of being backdoor colonialism. And in this divided state, each side can have fantasies about the other. Both the Greeks and the Turks I met asked me about the 'other side', even though there are no barriers to prevent them from crossing. Those who do cross over find that they are welcomed. To hear Greek voices strolling around 'Turkish' Kyrenia Harbour, or Turkish voices shopping on Ledra Street in Greek Nicosia gave me enormous hope for the future.
Lament for Palmyra by Simon Loftus
In 2006, Simon Loftus travelled with Rufus Reade to Syria.
Palmyra, a lament
In the Tower of Elahbel, in the Valley of Tombs, it was cool and dim, with only a shaft of sunlight slanting across the threshold. Tall pilasters crowned with fronds of acanthus (waving in a phantom breeze) framed stone shelves on both sides of the chamber. I reached into the dark recess above one of those shelves, stretching towards the fragment of a pale bowl. It was almost weightless, smooth and rounded on the outside, delicately fissured within. With a sudden shock I realised that the bowl was bone, the crown of a skull. Gently, carefully, I placed it back where I found it, deep in its slot in the wall, and made a wordless prayer for the dead.
The tower originally contained three hundred of these funerary pigeonholes, each of them designed to hold a single corpse - a condominium for the departed. One of many such towers on the edge of this ancient city, it was built two thousand years ago as a place of eternal rest for the wealthy citizens of Palmyra. Their rest was disturbed many times - robbed of jewellery and other valuables, long ago - and then the archaeologists arrived and looted the sculpted portraits (which had once sealed each slot) and sent them to museums around the world. But that fragment of a skull survived through the centuries, until the tower was blown apart in August 2015, less than ten years after my visit.
Palmyra had a long history of devastation, being attacked and ruined, re-built and shattered by earthquakes, before eventually it was abandoned to the winds of the desert, which covered much of it in sand.
It was 'rediscovered' towards the end of the seventeenth century by English merchants based in Aleppo, and a panoramic engraving of the ruins was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1695. The leader of this expedition, William Halifax, described his first sight of the place, gazing down across Palmyra from an Arabic castle on a high crag to the northwest – as I did three centuries later, looking over his shoulder from the castle, with the setting sun throwing long shadows across the sand dunes, of colonnades and towers and a jumble of honey-coloured stone – a deserted city, silent, empty, breathtakingly wonderful. The next day at dawn (with a pale moon in the sky) I explored the ruins alone, and imagined I was the first for a thousand years.
Later, as the sun rose and a few boys with camels arrived and sellers of souvenirs, the illusion faded, but the sense of time foreshortened persisted. The 12th century Arab walls surrounding the sanctuary of Bel seemed a barricade against imminent attack, with sections of Roman columns hastily piled on rubble from the ruins. The sanctuary itself (dedicated to a Mesopotamian god in 32 A.D.) was later used as a church, and then as a mosque, and the pattern of its coffered ceiling (published by Robert Wood in 1753) served as a model for some of the great houses of 18th century England. On fallen stones nearby, carvings of vines and leaves, crisp as if done yesterday, evoked an immediate delight in fruitful abundance, while an image of veiled women following a camel laden with a small palanquin (also heavily veiled) was resonant with mystery. On the walls of the Tomb of the Three Brothers names of the deceased were painted in red, in fluent brush strokes that resembled Japanese script. It was in fact Aramaic, a 'dead' language that I had heard spoken as a living tongue in the hill village of Maaloula, two days earlier, when I bought a couple of bottles of sweet red wine from the local priest, Father Toufic. Made from semi dried grapes, the wine was a distant cousin of those enjoyed in Palmyra, in classical times.
And then there were the date palms.
The Roman name Palmyra, and its older name, Tadmur, hint at the palm trees that surrounded this oasis, four or five thousand years ago, and still do today. Hidden springs gave water and the dates provided sustenance for caravans carrying goods across the desert, on trade routes from the East to Rome. Palmyra acted as host and entrepot, and levied taxes on everything that passed. It grew enormously rich, and powerful enough to defeat the Persian emperor. Then its queen, Zenobia, challenged Rome itself. She was forced to surrender in 273, taken captive and died in exile. The city declined, new caravan routes were established and the trade on which it had prospered dwindled and vanished. But the dates survived.
Carrying his nargileh (water pipe) - as he did wherever we went – our bus driver Adnan shouted for us to follow as he roared off on the pillion of a motorbike, steered by a local date farmer. The farmer's brother led us along a dusty track, between crumbling mud brick walls that bordered the patchwork of small plots which subdivided the palm groves. Eventually we arrived, to discover Adnan seated in the shade, smoking his pipe (tobacco scented with rose petals) beside a trestle table laden with sacks of dates, a few of the twenty different varieties cultivated at Palmyra. Each was named as we tasted it, and then a small boy was sent to shin up a nearby tree and cut down a bunch from the golden clusters that gleamed above our heads. These, we were told, were Ibrahim dates – lighter in colour than most, slightly less sweet, but with a delicious nutty flavour that I preferred to all the others.
I bought a bag of them, munched them throughout the rest of my time in Syria and took some home to Suffolk. The taste of these dates was what I remembered most vividly from Palmyra. That distinctive flavour, with a hint of the dry desert air, seemed a direct link to the ancient past of this city, alive, evocative, cutting through history. It was the taste of the caravanserai, when Palmyra was young.
Then came news of the catastrophes that overtook Syria, the destruction, the killings, the savagery of fanaticism and its repression. So now, when I think of Palmyra, I remember the Bedouin woman (two small children clutching at her skirts, and pregnant with a third) who tried to sell me souvenirs at the Tomb of the Three Brothers, and our driver Adnan with his water pipe, and the date farmers. And I wonder with dread what happened to them.
And I think of the old barman at Baron's Hotel in Aleppo, and the hotel itself, almost unchanged since T.E. Lawrence shot wildfowl from the terrace - where I drank whisky, sunk in a leather armchair, dreaming of a past that I never knew. And of the family celebrating a wedding in a famous restaurant in the city, who invited me to join them and plied me with wine. And the Druze children, waving to me as I strolled through the Roman city of Shahba. And the young bakers at Deir es-Zur, on the banks of the Euphrates, who gave me a taste of unleavened bread, blistered by the heat of the oven, late at night. And the veiled girls, graceful as gazelles, harvesting cotton stalks in a field near Halabiyeh. And the baby asleep in an improvised hammock, slung from an olive tree outside the 'dead village' of Kfer al Bara, as three generations of her family gathered the olives and piled them into sacks. And the men travelling to work in the back of a builder's truck in Damascus, who grinned as I passed, early in the morning on my first day in Syria. And Yusef the shoeshine boy, who haggled with me for quadruple his usual fee, as he polished my shoes on the pavement, on my last day.
In all that destruction, did they survive?
The young woman selling postcards at the Palmyran Tomb Tower.
Burnt to a cinder
On 10th August 2018, a wooden church at Kondopoga in Northern Russia was burnt down in what appears to have been an act of madness by a teenager. The church sat on a low promontory on the shores of Lake Onega. It was built entirely of wood and without nails. Its wonderful proportions, a tall elegant spire are now reduced to a pile of ashes. The Russians of Karelia know how to build in wood, so hopefully a church will be built to replace it. The inside of the church was blessed with the most wonderful painted dome, which my composite image tries to convey. I was prompted by the tragedy of the fire to write, by email, to the Russian Consul General here in Edinburgh to offer my commiserations. His deputy was kind enough to write back 5 minutes later. Hopefully a fund will be created to rebuild this lovely church which dated to 1774, when it was built in memory of the victims of an uprising, brutally suppressed by the Czar. There has been a sad history of those seeking fame by committing such appalling acts, as my friend Warwick Ball pointed out, when I wrote to tell him the sad news. Herostratus burnt down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus so that his name would become well known: 'Herostratic fame'. The Temple of Artemis had been called one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, by among other people the historian Herodotus (484 – ca. 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca. 305–240 BC). This church of the Dormition has rightly been called 'the most beautiful wooden church of Northern Russia". Its survival through the Soviet period was all the more remarkable.
A real gentleman of Swat
There was that poem about the Akond of Swat by that prince of the absurd, Edward Lear. It was his ear for the good rhyme which must have led him to write a poem full of questions about a character who must have seemed almost mythical. In 1989 I travelled to the Swat Valley in Northern Pakistan, and you may be amused by an encounter I had. I was travelling around in search of stock for my shop Out of the Nomads Tent, and trying to work out if I should bring a group to this beautiful part of the world. I decided to stay in the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation hotel in Maidan. As I was costing out a tour I was keeping a close eye on expenses, to get a full understanding of how to price a tour. I was shown my nice bedroom and told the time for dinner. In due course I made way over to the dinning room and after a good meal I asked for the bill. The waiter apologised, saying that bills were normally only presented when guests left the hotel. I made a bit of a fuss and insisted that a bill be brought. The pound signs began to stack up in my imagination and I could see my costs spiraling out of control. Eventually the manager was summoned and politely asked what the matter was. I once again asked for the bill for my supper. He too repeated the mantra that bills were normally presented on departure but he said he'd prepare a bill immediately if I wanted one. In due course a waiter appeared bearing my bill for the equivalent of 75 pence. I felt so ashamed that I'd made such a fuss for a bill that amounted to less than £1. I settled up. I checked out of the hotel and went off to Baltistan (Devla Murphy wrote her account of that place in Where the Indus is Young). After a week away I returned to Swat and checked into the same PTDC hotel. The following day I checked out and when I cam to pay my bill I could see that the cost of dinner the previous night had been omitted. I pointed this out to the man at the reception desk who explained that dinner had been their gift to me!
In due course I did bring a group to Swat and you can guess where we stayed. As we were leaving after a lovely couple of days in this very special valley, the same manager, Mr Habib Afridi invited the group to a corner of the garden to formally plant a tree in memory of our visit. I was handed the spade and unaccustomed as I am to planting commemorative trees, solemnly put the soil onto the roots of the sapling.
A few years later, I was at home in Edinburgh when got a phonecall from Mr Afridi to say that he was in Vienna and would like to fly over for a night: could he come and stay? I made him welcome and in due course he arrived. He only with me for one night and during the following day I showed him round Edinburgh. I could see that he was unexcited about all that I could show him. We walked past the museum in Chambers Street, and then along George IV Bridge. Still nothing made him enthuse. I could see that as a tour guide I was failing. At the end of George IV Bridge, right next to the magnificent Bank of Scotland building we leaned on the railings and looked north over Edinburgh. It's a magnificent vista, but Mr Afridi was unmoved. And then suddenly his eyes alighted on the trees that cover Corstorphine Hill and he exclaimed 'Trees', and I realised I'd have done much better if I had taken him to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
It's nearly 30 years since my first visit to Swat, and I am still in touch with Mr Habib Afridi via his nephew, who rang today from Peshawar with Eid Greetings. What gentlemen.
Playing chess in Kathmandu.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was kidnapped?
In May 1979, I was travelling around Nepal. I decided it was now time to leave Nepal and re-enter India. I caught the bus from Kathmandu to Darjeeling.
The road runs on a raised dyke west to east in the south of the country, much of it across a relatively flat landscape. I had an aisle seat towards the back of the bus. I was the only foreigner on board. I was travelling very lightly, surviving for 9 months out of an ex-army knapsack (but managing to include two cameras).
We left Kathmandu in the early morning and we'd been travelling for a few hours when we found our road blocked by a lorry whose load of huge logs lay across our path. Young men with handkerchiefs drawn up over their faces approached from several sides and explained to the driver that we weren't going anywhere, as a protest against the Old-Etonian King Birendra: King Birendra was subsequently assassinated along with many other members of the royal family (on my 50th birthday). Just to dissuade us from turning back, they explained that they had just set fire to the bridge behind us.
Travelling as I had been (mainly walking in the Himalayas) I had been unaware that a government minister had been held incommunicado for 10 hours only a few days earlier. He had been freed when the police turned up firing live rounds. In our situation, the police also turned up firing their guns, but a better organised force of student demonstrators had circled behind the police and set fire to their headquarters. My neighbour on the bus explained that the smoke we could see was what was left of the police station.
The police realised apparently that they'd been out manoeuvered and withdrew. Meanwhile I was itching to get out and take some photographs but I thought I should keep a low profile. My neighbour explained that the students were likely to hold us until their conscripted brethren in the army were sent to fee us at which point the students would withdraw, and we'd be free to go on our way. I thought it an unlikely scenario.
In fact the army never appeared, but as night fell the driver realised that our captors had all disappeared so he could resume the journey. We crept around the fallen logs, and continued to the border check-point with India at Simana Basti. It was midnight when we arrived, so the customs post was closed. I stretched out on the concrete slab (where the customs officers opened bags) and fell asleep. At dawn, I was gently prodded awake by a customs officer who wanted me off his work bench, but at least I was first in line to have my small bag checked. So I entered India. A year later the students' demands were met with a referendum to decide if a multi-party system should be introduced (though the majority vote was actually for the old system). As we now know, the Nepalese monarchy would be destroyed from within (royal massacre of 2001) as well as from without. In 2008 the last king, Gyanendra was deposed, and the monarchy abolished.
Looking for bears in the Carpathians
The Carpathians snake through Europe, from southern Poland where they are called the Tatras through to the Alps. A friend of mine who cycled from London to Delhi seemed to mainly remember steep climbs into the Carpathians when I told him I was visiting Romania! I was there in search of brown bears. I had heard that the largest concentration of bears in Europe is in Romania. The story, as you might imagine, is a mixed one! Bears are iconic, but close up they are very dangerous. They don't like being surprised! So singing loudly as you walk through the beech woods is recommended. I saw the bears from the safety of hides. Some hide owners feed the bears with so much food that the bears alter their lives in light of reliable feeding. The males who are normally solitary will allow other bears to share their territory. Bears who get habituated to regular food (for example the rubbish bins in Brasov) may become dangerous when humans gets close. Where hide-owners are less generous in the food they put out, visits by bears may be fairly regular, but the small tit bits won't alter the bears behaviour. In the fading light of an October evening I photographed this bear who'd be lured to the hide by maize. The debate about bears is highlighted by the desire of some people to shoot this 'trophy' animal which can earn the landowner £25,000 per head. Paying to visit the hides seemed to me the better option.
Meditation on Raqqa
The Syrian news may not get the front page as often as it used to. But the fall of Raqqa is widely heralded as the last stand of the odious forces of a barbarous so-called caliphate: if only life could be that simple. I've only been to the city of Raqqa once. Although today in 2017 largely abandoned it used to be the 6th largest city in Syria, situated in the very east, on the banks of the Euphrates, 300km from the Mediterranean. It reminds of me of a time when the border of the Roman world butted up with their rivals, the Persians. In those the days the major centres of the world were Rome, Byzantium, Baghdad, Ctesiphon, Alexandria. My suspicion is that ISIS/ISIL/Daesh seized the city because of its remoteness from Damascus. Over the last two thousands years it has been captured, devastated and seen an unfair amount of warring nations: Romans, Persians, the Omayyads, and the Abbasids. When the Mongols sacked the city in the 13th century, they destroyed a remarkable ceramics tradition. I am grateful to the distinguished potter, Laurence McGowan, for pointing this out when we were there: he told us that the term Rakka or Raqqa ware is still used to describe the distinctive pottery which was once produced there with lovely examples in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. It was a sad city when we were there in 2006 with very high levels of unemployment, though we were warmly greeted by school boys in their blue uniforms. Some of the kids who were not in school clambered up the brick walls of the Baghdad gate, as you can see in my photograph. The city's capture/liberation in October 2017 by a combined Kurdish/Syrian Arab force supported by the USA will I am sure now open another can of worms, since no doubt the Assad government supported by the Russians will claim that it should be governed from Damascus. Pray for the people of this sad city.
Swimming Red Squirrel
Spotted in the Highlands: a swimming squirrel
Courage in the face of enormous adversity
A rug hanging in the current Dovecot Festival exhibition "Daughters of Penelope" (Edinburgh Fringe 2017) is described as dedicated to Irina Sendler, a name I'd not heard of before. The name sent me scurrying off to look her up and the most moving account of the 2500 babies she and her team smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. The story is an incredible one of courage, as every day under the guise of a health worker looking for typhus she took out babies in the bottom of tool boxes, or concealed beneath the stretcher of the ambulance. The ambulance driver had taught his dog to start barking to cover up the cries of the babies, which in turn set off the barking of the guard dogs. Irina Sendler hid the names of each child and the foster family in a jar which she buried beneath an apple tree so that after the war there was a chance of reuniting the babies and their families. Tragically most of their parents in the ghetto were killed. To learn more about this incredibly plucky woman see http://www.irenasendler.org/facts-about-irena/
Fifty times more visitors
We may think we are travellers and other people are tourists but the truth is that we are all part of a huge surge in people who travel abroad. A quick look at the figures tells the story; as the cold war ended the worldwide figure for people who travelled was 25 million a year. By 1995 the figure had risen 20 fold, and the figure has since more than doubled. This year 1.2 Billion people crossed international boundaries. That means that nearly 50 times as many people travel today as did 30 years ago. FIFTY TIMES…
Much tourism seems to a few places: people continue to pile into the favourite cities. Barcelona, Berlin, and Paris come to mind, and Dubrovnik and Venice see too many cruise ships (the locals say). Some economies depend on the very thing that bites: tourism makes up 12 per cent of Spain's economy. Biting the hand that feeds is not a recent tendency. Growing up in the Channel Island of Jersey in the 1960s, I was used to locals referring to tourists as 'groccles'.
Since tourism employs more people than any other single industry in the world, decisions about limiting visitor numbers to Barcelona or Venice or Edinburgh need to be done thoughtfully. I have two concepts known as the 'Triangle' and 'The other side of the river'. The Triangle is the idea that much tourism concentrates excessively on something like three sites in a country. Think of 'London, Oxford and Stonehenge'; or 'Delhi, Agra and Jaipur'. 'The other side of the river' is the observation that something over 6 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. It is one of the great buildings in the world. But it is also lovely to see it from across the River Jumna. I have never known more than a handful of people on the opposite bank.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but certainly I increasingly aim to lead tours away from areas of mass tourism: we've just travelled in northern Russia where there were no crowds in May, where the museums have beautiful displays, and where we always felt safe.
The other answer may be that high pressure areas will need to levy a charge on each bed-night to pay for the services (litter collection and subsidised public transport?) that tourists demand, and discourage the very large numbers that are overwhelming the locals, and which is driving up rents through services such as Air B'n B.
Observers of Bhutan suggests that this lovely country got it right many years ago when they imposed on foreign tourists a minimum spend per day. It was said that they had seen what uncontrolled tourism had done to Nepal. Backpacking tourism from the 1960s onwards is said to have brought drugs, sex and rock 'n roll to the Nepalese capital, threatening its fragile Buddhist and Hindu culture. In Bhutan the high daily levy limits tourist numbers and a third of this levy goes towards the government's budget for education and health care.
Here we are in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival, with pavements overflowing onto the streets, and the whole city energised by its very welcome visitors (both performers and audience). We mostly benefit from the street performers, the range of entertainment, thought provoking talks at the Book Festival and a boom month for those looking for a temporary job. Unlike tourism which concentrates everyone into a tight squeeze, the Edinburgh Festival/Fringe often crowds people into little used spaces, so the effect of so many people is dispersed through the city. The flip side must be the inflated rents, and those locals who cannot afford somewhere to live. A city without affordable rents will eventually get into a terrible mess…no teachers, no rubbish collectors, no skilled craft workers, no one to mend the fabric of the city…the list goes on. The onus is now on governments (local and national) to thoughtfully approach this hot potato and not get their fingers burnt.
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Serial PEF measurement is superior to cross-shift change in diagnosing occupational asthma.
Park, D and Moore, V C and Burge, C B S G and Jaakkola, M S and Robertson, A S and Burge, P S (2009) Serial PEF measurement is superior to cross-shift change in diagnosing occupational asthma. The European respiratory journal : official journal of the European Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology, 34 (3). pp. 574-8. ISSN 1399-3003.
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Have some down-on-the farm family fun while picking fresh apples and pumpkins at area apple orchards. Pick out your own jack-o'-lantern or find the perfect apple for your pies at the wide range of farms offered in and around the La Crosse area! Find the freshest fruit right off the tree or vine as you enjoy the outdoors, the fresh air, and the sunshine. Whether you want a hay ride, a cup of fresh-made cider, or a delicious caramel apple, there's an orchard for you!
Southwind apples are grown on the choice hillsides of a broad, deep valley near the town of Dakota, which nestles on the banks of the Mississippi River. Here, their roots lie deep in the wind-driven loess soil that blankets a deep deposit of limestone rock. Kissed by the dew and mist from the Mississippi, they spend long hours bathing in the sun, gently ripening to full-bodied goodness.
Near the border between Wisconsin and Minnesota is the wonderful La Crescent, Minnesota. Leidel has been in the family for 6 generation (since 1854). They offer a wonderful selection of caramel apples, locally grown apples, and sweet treats at their stand.
Located just five miles east of La Crosse, Wisconsin on Highway 16, Hidden Trails Corn Maze is just a short drive from anywhere in the tri-state area. Getting lost in the maze is fun, but there is also plenty of other activities that include pumpkin patches, wagon rides, farm animals, and more!
Enjoy a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch, great photo opportunities, games, and crafts for kids. We also have a small farm store where we have products from our farm like goat milk soap and lotion, honey, and eggs. See the website for fall hours.
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For over 20 years, Van Lin has served the wonderful La Crescent community with their wide variety of apples. During Apple Fest in La Crescent, Van Lin offers apple orchard tours. In September, you can see how they pick, package, and store their apples.
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A traditional holiday with a twist! Take a thrilling Airboat Ride and explore Lake Jesup and Bird Island. Remember your experience with a photo session with a live alligator. Afterwards, you can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at our on-site Black Hammock Restaurant or a drink at our lakeview The Lazy Gator Bar!
Black Hammock is a lakeside attraction like nowhere else! Located on Lake Jesup which is widely known for having the LARGEST alligator population in all of Florida! Venue includes a lakeview bar, airboat rides, full service restaurant with the BEST gator tail in town, free wildlife exhibit and more! Just a stone's throw away from Orlando's busiest attractions.
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Reginald is a man of many dreams out to serve the masses. In fact, he has a mission to teach men, fathers, and husbands how to seek excellence, respect, and value every day (SERVE).
Reginald grew up in Baltimore and despite the odds of being a black male in the inner city raised in a single parent household, he started to surround himself with positive people. To date, Reginald is married to his beautiful wife, Hennither, and they have a beautiful family and amazing children. They are Reginald's reasons as to why he needs to keep serving.
Reginald holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Baltimore and is very active in the community. As an Author, Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, and member of Black Speakers Network, Reginald loves to educate, inspire, and equip others through personal development, professional development, training/workshops, or speaking. .
Reginald has served as a mentor in many different organizations and is now the leader of the Men's Ministry at his home church in Randallstown, MD. As a business owner who gives back, he is very active in working directly with non-profits such as Black Professional Men (BPM), Maryland New Direction (MND), and other organizations.
Reginald has authored two published books "Serve Yourself to Greatness" and "Serve Your Children to Greatness" which can both be found on Amazon.
SERVE is a movement that touches, impacts, and elevates men, fathers, and husbands back to their rightful places in their homes, businesses, and communities. The greatest among us are those who SERVE!
SERVE is an organization deeply driven to make this world a better place by men restoring manhood and the way men view themselves and their roles in society. Men were created to be the Head, not the tale, Above and not beneath, and First, not last, but somewhere along the line this got lost in translation and reality.
In other words, we help men SERVE themselves to greatness and walk in their calling by fulfilling their Sense of Purpose!
"SERVE to be a Blessing to others"
Serve Your Teen to Greatness is the third in a series of books of affirmations by Author, Speaker, and Business Owner, Reginald Gant. We all know that the teen years can be some of the most difficult years of our lives. Puberty, social acceptance, self-discovery, and so much more are just some of the battles our teens face. In a world that is oftentimes uncaring and selfish, Serve Your Teen to Greatness provides the confidence and affirmations needed to boost the morale of your teenager. This book takes them on a 30-day journey to break some old bad habits and helps them to develop new, positive habits.
What does it mean to SERVE? Are we supposed to serve God? What about our spouse and family? Are we expected to serve our customers or client base? Well, the answer to all of these questions is yes, of course!
Expect life-changing possibilities after going through this 41 day journey! The author, Hennither Gant, goes through declarations that will begin to alter your day and your life! If you've ever experienced any strongholds, this is one of the steps that you can take to be set free!
"I invited Reginald to speak to the students in my class at Coppin State University. The topic he spoke on was Branding. He is an excellent facilitator and masterful presenter. I've seen Reginald in action on many different occasions and always enjoy his energy and passion for what he does. My students were still talking about his presentation and the value it added to their lives weeks after he was gone" - Curtis Black, Executive Director and Founder for Angels Helping Angels, Inc.
I met Reginald a few years back and was instantly impressed with this young man. He was a mentor and always sharp and willing to lend a helping hand. I invited him to speak on the topic of Professional Development to some of my youth and he did a phenomenal job reinforcing some of the things I had been saying to them already. His vast knowledge of his subject matter tied with his ability to relate and connect with his audience is a sheer joy to witness. I hope to have him back in the near future. The youth really learned a lot from his workshop. - Duante D.
SERVE facilitates or partners with other organizations to provide workshops, training or speaking engagements.
1. Inspiration - We've authored several books of affirmations and declarations that cover you, your children, and spouse or significant other. Purchase your copies today!
2. Protection - We provide legal services and identity theft protection that men, fathers, and husbands must have! What's worse than building an empire or legacy only to have it unprotected and at risk because, as men, we have failed to do our job? Learn more here!
3. Opportunity - We provide opportunities to bring in extra forms of income. Whether it's through starting your own home-based business, getting plugged into our network, or utilizing our resume services to increase how you look on paper, SERVE can help.
4. Services - We partner hand in hand with one of the best HR firms in the area to provide a host of products and services that can get you to the next level whether you are a career seeker or business owner. Ask us about how we can serve you in this capacity.
SERVE directly connects interested individuals to weekly luncheons and weekly learning seminars that are open to the public intended to enhance the personal and professional development of all participants. Contact SERVE today so we can share more information on these very important services that participants, their families and guests can attend for free weekly.
SERVE participants will have various opportunities to volunteer in efforts that heighten their awareness of the needs of the community. We will provide direct access to non-profits and other organizations where you can plug in to serve and make a meaningful difference.
SERVE provides a host or workshops and training that cover Career Development, Professional Development, and Personal Development. Contact us today to learn more!


Get Even is an odd game to describe. It's first person and there is shooting but it doesn't really fit the FPS genre. The game is more about the narrative and is unlike anything I have ever played before. Thankfully, it's not just different, it's also really, really <i>good</i>. You play as Cole Black, who must find evidence of what really happened to a teen girl he tries to save, but dies horribly in the game's introduction. To do this you must collect evidence from Cole's memories using a device called the Pandora (as in, that box you just don't want to open... gettit?).
I don't want to say much more about the story its one of the main reasons why this game is so good, but I will say that it's a tight psychological thriller that deals with a number of pretty heavy subjects. As with any story that's predominantly about the mind, the game raises a number of philosophical questions related to thought, memory, and technology's role in all of that, and does so in a way that feels very modern and topical. It's also done in such a way that the game's simply filled with twists and turns that will keep you on edge throughout.
The game plays much like a thriller movie you start off with not really knowing what's going on but as you play you find evidence in each level that helps you piece together the story. Once you start understanding things you won't want to stop playing, because the investigative process itself is just so much fun. One of Cole's main tools is a phone. With this phone you can scan evidence, look at a map that shows enemies and their line of sight, texts, and pictures, you also get a inferred app and flashlight that also acts as a black light to find blood and footprints. It's important to carefully gather evidence, because in Get Even, the decisions you make have consequences, and you don't want to be making uninformed decisions. Every action Cole makes can have a consequence all leading to one of two different outcomes to the game. Both endings are decent, and do a good job of wrapping up the story, while also giving you the feeling that you had agency over it all.
Another one of Cole's tools is the corner gun. As the name implies you can use it to shoot around corners or even just to observe enemies. The cell phone Cole uses attaches to the gun and lets you scan evidence without having to switch from one thing to another. Now like I said earlier it's not really an FPS as in the game would rather you use stealth than just going in guns blazing. As the game tells you killing will change how others perceive Cole Black, and we do like games that encourage you to think twice before killing at DDNet.
Being a thriller there are some creepy moments in the game but nothing too bad. I'm a pretty big wimp myself and I could handle this game just fine but there are a few moments of uneasiness. If you didn't find all the evidence in a level you can go back to the memory to try to find what you missed. Each level has its own evidence board that shows what you have and how many things you are missing. If you find all the evidence you will receive a code for a locked door in that level and you can unlock more of the story and also get a new gun - yes, the idea of a gun as a reward in a game that discourages shooting confused us a bit too, but then this game is about messing with your head.
Cole can not take a lot of bullets one to three hits will kill him. All that being said, if you want to play the game as an FPS and shoot your way through the game you can and the gunplay is satisfying and with the corner gun, it gives an extra level of uniqueness to the combat. He can also use stealth to take out his enemies, which adds to the strategy, but it would have been nice to be able to use stealth to simply incapacitate the enemies, rather than kill them and add to that kill count.
Get Even may not be the best looking game on the market but with a story as well written as it has and with an atmospheric sound design it is hard to remember that you're playing an indie game. The score by Olivier Deriviere is so good and always fits the mood the game is trying to set with that and the sound effects all working together. The voice acting is also spot on some of the best for this type of game I have heard.
The mystery solving the tension the edge of your seat storytelling and of course, the sound design all make this one hell of a ride. It's a great feeling when you finally start to figure things out and you can't help but go aha that makes sense now! Like most movies of the thriller genre when you go and replay the game you will likely find things you missed and understand things a lot more but even if you play it only once it does a good job of explaining everything and has a very satisfying ending (regardless of which one you end up getting).


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What is the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of 1, 1, 25, and 35?
Are you on the hunt for the GCF of 1, 1, 25, and 35? Since you're on this page I'd guess so! In this quick guide, we'll walk you through how to calculate the greatest common factor for any numbers you need to check. Let's jump in!
First off, if you're in a rush, here's the answer to the question "what is the GCF of 1, 1, 25, and 35?":
GCF of 1, 1, 25, and 35 = 1
For 1, 1, 25, and 35 those factors look like this:
Factors for 25: 1, 5, and 25
Factors for 35: 1, 5, 7, and 35
As you can see when you list out the factors of each number, 1 is the greatest number that 1, 1, 25, and 35 divides into.
Prime Factors for 25: 5 and 5
The final method for calculating the GCF of 1, 1, 25, and 35 is to use Euclid's algorithm. This is a more complicated way of calculating the greatest common factor and is really only used by GCD calculators.
Greatest Common Factor of 1, 1, 25, and 35
"Greatest Common Factor of 1, 1, 25, and 35". VisualFractions.com. Accessed on January 16, 2021. https://visualfractions.com/calculator/greatest-common-factor/gcf-of-1-1-25-and-35/.
"Greatest Common Factor of 1, 1, 25, and 35". VisualFractions.com, https://visualfractions.com/calculator/greatest-common-factor/gcf-of-1-1-25-and-35/. Accessed 16 January, 2021.
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Obtaining valid documentation and properly monitoring its validity is the key starting point for compliance with the different IRW regimes, FATCA, CRS and US domestic backup withholding rules. Every year new issues and questions arise that can have a profound impact on the withholding agent's compliance with the rules. The panel will discuss issues that continue to challenge the industry in its efforts to comply with the complex rules associated with the various regimes.
Just when you think that you have mastered reporting, new developments prove you wrong! Hear from this panel on the many new developments affecting Form 1042-S reporting which seems to just get harder and harder with every passing year! The panel will present mocked up Forms so you can learn about potential pitfalls and potential errors that can directly affect your compliance.
The section 871(m) requirements, along with the related Qualified Derivative Dealer regime, continue to present a distinct challenge to those charged with implementing these difficult rules. On top of that, QDD certifications are down the road and withholding agents must prepare for IRS audit activity. The panel will provide a general update on these rules and how to successfully navigate the perils of compliance.
Responsible Officers (ROs) worldwide were recently required to certify compliance with FATCA (by December 15, 2018) and QI requirements (by March 1, 2019) through the IRS portal. Hear firsthand from the IRS as to their views on how that process went, what lessons were learned, and what withholding agents should consider about their next steps to ensure full compliance.
The IRS recently updated its Internal Revenue Manual, the Bible for Auditors, regarding Non-Resident Alien (NRA) withholding audits. So what did the IRS change and what are the key points to know about how the IRM is directing IRS personnel to conduct these audits of direct interest to every withholding agent? This panel will ensure that a working knowledge of the key IRM provisions.
One cannot emphasize enough that bad data quality can sink both a successful reporting season and certainly a robust audit defense. Do you feel confident that you have a good handle on the data quality in your organization's systems? How can you make this determination? This panel will provide very practical tips on how to prepare for FATCA and CRS audits by focusing on a realistic assessment of your data quality and other key foundations for successful compliance.
Across the world, Responsible Officers ("RO") can breathe a sigh of relief that they have now successfully filed their first certifications with the IRS regarding their QI and FATCA compliance. Or can they? This industry roundtable will discuss some of the many issues that perplexed ROs as they made their certifications and identifies what ROs should consider for a smoother certification process when the next certifications come due.
This session will start with a dialogue with the IRS on how the IRS is administering the various IRW regimes under their jurisdiction. You will hear directly from the IRS officials on their administrative challenges, observations and how they intend to ensure compliance. This is also an opportunity for the IRW community to explain how these regimes are working on the ground and what might be considered by the IRS to be mutually beneficial.
The industry always values the change to hear updates and ask questions regarding the status of guidance from the Office of Associate Chief Counsel International at the IRS. What regulations are pending? What legal issues remain unresolved? Are formal and informal guidance projects on the table? Hear directly from those charged with helping the industry to understand the IRW rules.
The industry is now well aware of the complexities and difficulties of complying with the various CRS regimes around the world with regard to its due diligence requirements and the sheer volume of the reporting obligations. On top of that, we have all been following the continuing development of the OECD proposal on mandatory reporting. The panel will provide updates on both of these important regimes.
IRPAC constitutes an important link between the IRS and the financial community and allows the two to both learn and react to relevant issues. This panel will provide an update on which issues are being discussed with the IRS and any prospects for their resolution.
1:45-3:00 PM | A GRAB BAG OF IRW TAX TECHNICAL ISSUES THAT YOU MUST BE AWARE OF!
Everywhere one looks, new IRW issues seem to spring out of nowhere and they can cause serious compliance hazards. Witness the Burden Reduction Regulations and the requirement that certain CFCs suddenly are withholding agents for Form 1099 reporting (welcome to the club!). Or the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) which ushered in its own set of changes to the IRW rules.


We picked up our trucks in Concord, North Carolina yesterday and this morning. These poor old trucks have been rode hard. A couple of them have one million miles on the odometers.
We went through the Great Smokey Mountains today. I-26 and I-40 in North Carolina and I-40 through a bit of Tennessee. Beautiful country.
They are called the Smokies because of the cloud cover and ground fog that tends to happen in these densely forested areas with high humidity. Similar to our recent travels through West Virginia yesterday morning. These photos are from West Virginia.
In North Carolina and Tennessee the twisting and winding roads scare the bejeebers out of me the first time I drove them.
My mouth so dry the mucus membrane of my cheeks stuck to my teeth. Breathing through my mouth for 70 minutes on a ride through hell dried the roof of my mouth, my tongue, and my esophagus. So dry I could not even work a tiny bit of spittle to get my cheeks off my teeth.
My hands clenched so tightly to the steering wheel I did not dare let loose even for a refreshing sip of water.
Joe, calling to me over the CB radios we used to use, checking on my progress through the nightmare eventually brought this kind and sweet soul out from the depths of my carefully controlled emotions.
Had to borrow that one from Facebook.
Several more trips through that beautiful country I have grown accustomed to the turns and steep grades. Enough so I could take a few pictures.
If you are thinking of a trip this summer with your family, consider the Great Smokey Mountains.
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Gleaning: To gather left over grain, produce or fruit after harvest.
Gleaning in your community prevents food waste, and it also provides you and your family with healthier food choices. Join The Hunger Coalition Gleaning Groups, together we will harvest fruit and veggies for your family and local food banks.
If you would like to join us on our next gleaning adventure, we are currently seeking able-bodied people.
Contact Brianna Shrofe at 509-821-8040 or gleaning@newhungercoalition.org.
We will glean for you!
You can help feed the hungry families in your community, and earn tax deductions. Give us a call today to schedule your gleaning event!
Stay up-to-date on Harvest Club events. Join our mailing list today!
Do you want to get more fresh vegetables in your diet and enjoy the outdoors? Consider joining a community garden. Many of these projects offer gardening tools and other resources to anyone who rents a plot.
Plant-A-Row… no produce left behind!
Join the fight against hunger in northeast Washington. Plant-A-Row is a national campaign to bring more fresh fruits and vegetables from home gardens into food pantries and soup kitchens. A few small seeds can make a big difference in the overall health of a community. Support your local food bank by growing and donating extra food from your own garden.
Learn how to start a Plant-A-Row campaign in your own community, better under the movement's history, and see what's going on nationally with this great resource from the Garden Writers Association.
Seven years of experience at 25 different Harvest Against Hunger sites are available in this valuable resource guide from Rotary First Harvest out of Seattle, WA.
The group that started the Grow A Row movement offers tips on everything from starting a garden to building a campaign in your own community with this invaluable online resource.


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Sebastian from Datamatics named Game Changer – 2014 by Workforce Magazine
Aug 11, 2014 10:00:00 AM
Mumbai, August 11, 2014: Sebastian Rodriguez, General Manager – HR at Datamatics Global Services Limited (DGSL), has been recognised as a 2014 Game Changer by the Workforce magazine. Sebastian is among 30 young HR professionals under the age of 40 chosen for the award.
This award recognizes the next generation of innovative, dynamic leaders to watch in human resources and workplace management. The winners are all rising star, who are making their mark in human resources and other areas of workplace management. The 2014 Game Changers, representing some of the best HR practitioners and strategists under 40 years, hail from a highly diverse set of trades and backgrounds and cut a broad swath across HR.
Rahul Kanodia, Vice Chairman & CEO - DGSL said, "We believe that our people are our greatest assets and a great emphasis is laid on ensuring that the right set of people join our team. Sebastian's dynamic and innovative approach has been playing an important role in ensuring that talent and skill is made available as per our business requirements at all times. His contribution to the business growth has been commendable."
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Fifth Harmony: From the mall to the Tobin
Arts & Entertainment // Music & Stage
Ally Brooke Hernandez to sing, eat, visit loved ones
Hector Saldana July 30, 2015
1of30Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui, (from left) Ally Brooke Hernandez, Camila Cabello, Normani Kordei and Dinah Jane Hansen perform at Freeman Coliseum in 2014. The Tobin Center awaits them Sunday.Photo: Express-News file photo
2of30Lauren Jauregui ( from left) Ally Brooke, Normani Hamilton, Dinah-Jane Hansen, and Camila Cabello of the musical group Fifth Harmony arrive at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 17, 2015, in Las Vegas.Photo: Eric Jamison /Associated Press
3of30Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke performs with the group Friday July 25, 2014 at the Freeman Coliseum.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
4of30Fifth Harmony members (from left) Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke and Normani Kordei appear on NBC's "Today" show during the Toyota Summer Concert Series on July 10, 2015, in New York.Photo: Charles Sykes /Associated Press
5of30MIAMI, FL - JULY 16: Fifth Harmony performs onstage at Univision's Premios Juventud 2015 at Bank United Center on July 16, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images For Univision)Photo: Rodrigo Varela, Stringer / Getty Images For Univision
7of30Fifth Harmony members, from left, Normani Kordei, Lauren Jauregui, Camila Cabello, Dinah Jane Hansen and Ally Brooke perform on NBC's "Today" show during the Toyota Summer Concert Series on Friday, July 10, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Photo: Charles Sykes, INVL / Associated Press
8of30Fifth Harmony members, from left, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen and Camila Cabello perform on NBC's "Today" show during the Toyota Summer Concert Series on Friday, July 10, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Photo: Charles Sykes, INVL / Associated Press
9of30Fifth Harmony members, from left, Dinah Jane Hansen, Normani Kordei, Camila Cabello, Ally Brooke and Lauren Jauregui perform on NBC's "Today" show during the Toyota Summer Concert Series on Friday, July 10, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)Photo: Charles Sykes, INVL / Associated Press
10of30NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Ally Brooke of Fifth Harmony performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Plaza on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)Photo: Stephen Lovekin, Stringer / Getty Images
11of30NEW YORK, NY - JULY 10: Normani Hamilton of Fifth Harmony performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Plaza on July 10, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)Photo: Stephen Lovekin, Stringer / Getty Images
12of30Fifth Harmony, performing on their Reflection Tour at The Ballroom at Warehouse. (For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain, March 5, 2015)Photo: Gary Fountain, Freelance / For the Chronicle
14of30Album cover for "Reflection" from girl group Fifth Harmony.Photo: courtesy photo
15of30Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke performs with the group Friday July 25, 2014 at the Freeman Coliseum.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
16of30Fifth Harmony's Dinah Jane Hansen (from left), Ally Brooke, Normani Hamilton, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui perform Friday July 25, 2014 at the Freeman Coliseum.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
17of30DALLAS, TX - DECEMBER 02: (L-R) Recording artist Ally Brooke of Fifth Harmony, radio personality Cruz and recording artists Lauren Jauregui, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen and Camila Cabello of Fifth Harmony backstage at 106.1 KISS FM's Jingle Ball 2013 American Airlines Center at on December 2, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)Photo: Rich Polk, Stringer / Getty Images for Clear Channel
18of30DALLAS, TX - DECEMBER 02: Recording artist Ally Brooke of Fifth Harmony poses backstage at 106.1 KISS FM's Jingle Ball 2013 American Airlines Center at on December 2, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)Photo: Rich Polk, Stringer / Getty Images for Clear Channel
19of30Recording artist Ally Brooke of Fifth Harmony performs onstage during 106.1 KISS FMs Jingle Ball 2013 at American Airlines Center on Dec. 2, 2013. in Dallas.Photo: Christopher Polk /Getty Images for Clear Channel
20of30NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: (L-R) Singers Camila Cabello, Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui (2nd from right), and Normani Hamiltonnof the group Fifth Harmony pose with Vice President and General Manager of Lord and Taylor Brooke Lawson (C) at the Lord & Taylor Flagship Holiday Window Unveiling on November 13, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Lord & Taylor)Photo: Jemal Countess, Stringer / Getty Images for Lord & Taylor
21of30NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: (L-R) Singers Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui and Ally Brooke of the group Fifth Harmony perform onstage at the Lord & Taylor Flagship Holiday Window Unveiling on November 13, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Lord & Taylor)Photo: Jemal Countess, Stringer / Getty Images for Lord & Taylor
22of30Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke (from left), Normani Kordei, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, and Dinah Jane Hansen perform Friday Aug. 9, 2013 at The Shops at La Cantera.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
23of30Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke (from left), Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui, Camila Cabello, and Normani Kordei perform Friday Aug. 9, 2013 at The Shops at La Cantera.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
24of30Fifth Harmony fans react as the group performs Friday Aug. 9, 2013 at The Shops at La Cantera.Photo: Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
25of30Ally Brooke Hernandez from the band Fifth Harmony takes her photo with fans after performing on NBC's "Today" show on Thursday, July 18, 2013, in New York.Photo: Charles Sykes /Associated Press
26of30This undated publicity image released by Epic Records shows members of Fifth Harmony, from left, Normani Kordei, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, Ally Brooke, and Dinah Jane Hansen. Fifth Harmony is one of a new crop of girl groups currently on the music scene. (AP Photo/Epic Records)Photo: Associated Press
27of30San Antonio singer Ally Brooke appears on "The X Factor" before becoming part of the girl group Fifth Harmony.Photo: Fox
28of30THE X FACTOR: Simon Cowell chooses his final 4 groups to advance to the live shows on THE X FACTOR airing Wednesday, Oct. 17 (8:00-10:00PM ET/PT) on FOX. Also pictured: Fifth Harmony (formerly 1432 and Lylas) / CR: Ray Mickshaw/ FOXPhoto: CR: Ray Mickshaw/ FOX
29of30THE X FACTOR: TOP 16: Fifth Harmony (formerly 1432 and Lylas) performs live on THE X FACTOR, Wednesday, October 31 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. CR: Ray Mickshaw / FOX.Photo: CR: Ray Mickshaw / FOX
30of30THE X FACTOR FINALIST PARTY: Finalists (L-R) Ally Brooke, Camila Cabello, Normani Hamilton, Dinah Jane Hansen and Lauren Jauregi of 1432 during arrivals for THE X FACTOR FINALIST PARTY Season Two at The Bazaar at The SLS Hotel Beverly Hills on Monday, Nov. 5 in Beverly Hills, CA. CR: Frank Micelotta/FOXPhoto: CR: Frank Micelotta/FOX
It wasn't that long ago that one could have seen Fifth Harmony perform at The Shops at La Cantera.
The hit pop/R&B all-girl group, which includes San Antonio singer Ally Brooke Hernandez, arrives Sunday for a fun, hair-shaking gig at Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
Just a few years ago, Hernandez was singing in the choir at Oak Hills Church. She's still that sweet kid.
"I love my San Antonio," said Hernandez in a telephone interview from New York. Her family is still here (the young singer relaxed in town earlier this summer), but she's a globetrotter now working with the likes of Meghan Trainor.
"She's so, so talented, her writing, her singing," said Hernandez, who met Trainor at a recording session. "She just had this really fun, chill personality, really easy to get along with. It was such a great experience to have worked with her."
Simon Cowell of "American Idol" fame and executive producer and star of Fox's "The X-Factor," put Fifth Harmony together in hopes of creating a female version of One Direction. He succeeded.
Who: Fifth Harmony
When: 7 p.m. Sunday
Where: Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle
Tickets: Sold out
For openers
Natalie LaRose: Young singer from Amsterdam first made her mark as a dancer in music videos. The Flo Rida discovery's singles include the Whitney Houston-inspired "Somebody" featuring Jeremih and the exotic, slinky pop R&B "Around the World" featuring Fetty Wap.
Bea Miller: Young actress and singer who appeared on season two of "The X Factor" is promoting her debut album "Not an Apology," which combines indie-rock sensibility and Katy Perry gloss with huge Disney-worthy pop hooks. "Fire N Gold," "Young Blood" and "Open Your Eyes" are perfect examples.
Debby Ryan: Actress and singer-songwriter is known as one of the stars of Disney's "Jessie" series. She's popular fodder for Teen Vogue; her songs include an ultra-fun cover of the Go Go's "We Got the Beat" and the uplifting pop ballad "Open Eyes," which recalls the gentle chime of the Cranberries' "Linger."
Hector Saldaña
Fifth Harmony's debut album, "Reflections," debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 early this year. The single, "Worth It" featuring Kid Ink, is at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"It's crazy," said Hernandez. "Three years ago to now, has been insane, meeting so many great artists that we admire and love. And we have fans that truly love us and feel so passionately about us. I couldn't explain it even if I tried."
The group — Hernandez, Dinah Jane Hansen, Lauren Jauregui, Normani Kordei and Camila Cabello — scored a Billboard Hot 100 hit with the single "Miss Movin' On" as well as with the platinum-selling single "Worth It." Fifth Harmony now has three platinum hits. The girl group is back.
Hernandez and company have lived up to the hype since winning an MTV Video Music Award as an artist to watch and have achieved global sales topping 4 million units.
"It's just insane. It's awesome. It's pretty phenomenal," said Hernandez, who agreed that Fifth Harmony stands out because they're not just another solo act.
"Yeah, for sure. Groups are coming back. The fact that we've been so well-received so far as a girl group, the fact that we're five females who are (friends)."
The young R&B divas ended up coming in third place during season two of "The X-Factor" with fans voting via Twitter, Facebook, apps and by calling in. Cowell loved it.
"Simon is such a sweetheart," Hernandez told the Express-News in December 2012. "At first, you're intimidated by him. But he's really very kind and open to our input."
Her impression of him hasn't changed.
"Simon is very involved. He has such a big heart," she said.
"He has just been the sweetest, the most kind man in the business. He really cares about people, his artists and us. He told us we're definitely a priority to him. He just believes in us, and he wants to make sure that we're happy with what we're doing and that we have a say in what we're doing."
Of course, Hernandez is a true blue San Antonian. What does she miss the most? Here's a hint: She'll leave the Whataburgers to teenage heartthrob Austin Mahone.
"I miss the Mexican food. Oh, yes. I miss the tacos. I miss going to Mama Margie's and Las Palapas. I miss my friends and family. I miss them so much," she said.
Mahone has his Mahomies; Fifth Harmony has its Harmonizers. "It's so special to be able to hug a fan in person, to say, 'Thank you so much,'" Hernandez said. "The thought of helping them through a problem or to love themselves is such a beautiful, powerful thing."
Hernandez will be right at home at the shiny new Tobin Center for the screaming lovefest.
"It's just gorgeous inside, beautiful," Hernandez said. "You got to remember, we started outside the mall at La Cantera, you know? So from there to the Tobin Center is crazy. I'm so excited. My gosh. It's totally an honor."
hsaldana@express-news.net
Hector Saldana
Hector Saldaña is a San Antonio freelancer and the former music writer for the Express-News.
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Five is a 2016 French comedy film, written and directed by Igor Gotesman and starring Pierre Niney.

Plot
The film is about a group of five childhood friends who take up the opportunity to live together in an expensive Paris apartment. In order to fund the group's lifestyle, Pierre Niney's character, Samuel, becomes a drug dealer.

Cast

 Pierre Niney - Samuel
 François Civil - Timothée
 Igor Gotesman - Vadim
 Margot Bancilhon - Julia
 Idrissa Hanrot - Nestor
 Pascal Demolon - Barnabé
 Michèle Moretti - Madame Simone
 Bruno Lochet - Gérard
 Lucie Boujenah - Maïa
 Lise Lamétrie - Chantale
 Fanny Ardant - Herself
 Louise Coldefy - Emilie

Reception
The Hollywood Reporter compared the film's humour to that of recent American comedies, calling the film "a lively and often rather funny affair, dishing out oodles of sex, drugs and hip-hop, with plenty of below-the-belt humor a l'americaine. Indeed, Five simply wouldn't exist without The Hangover, Neighbors and Superbad," and adding, "Five never manages to convince in the plot department, though it moves so fast we barely have any time to think about it."

The film has received mixed reviews in the French-language press. L'Obs criticised the film's casting and its crass humour, while Les Inrocks criticised the film for its attitude towards the characters' lifestyle and for its consumerism. Télérama, by contrast, described the film as well written, singling out the performances of Pierre Niney and François Civil for particular praise; L'Express likewise praised these two actors, stating that Civil was the revelation of the film.

References

External links

2016 films
2016 comedy films
2010s French-language films
French comedy films
Films about drugs
2016 directorial debut films
2010s French films

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Biserica "Sfânta Treime" din Cernăuți este un lăcaș de cult ortodox din lemn construit în anul 1774 în orașul Cernăuți (pe atunci în Principatul Moldovei) pe cheltuiala episcopului de Rădăuți, Dosoftei Herescu, și a fratelui său, starostele Ilie Herescu din Cernăuți. Ea se află actualmente într-un muzeu etnografic din Liov.

Istoric
Biserica "Sf. Treime" a fost construită în 1774 în satul Mahala de la periferia orașului Cernăuți, pe drumul spre localitatea suburbană Roșa, astăzi cartier al Cernăuțiului. Strada care trecea prin dreptul bisericii a fost denumită ulterior Strada Sf. Treime (astăzi Bulevardul Bogdan Hmelnițki, la sud de Palatul Mitropolitan). La 12 octombrie 1777 episcopul Dosoftei Herescu a primit aici jurământul solemn de credință a boierilor, a mazililor și a clerului bucovinean față de noua stăpânire habsburgică.

Între anii 1781-1864, Biserica Sfânta Treime din Cernăuți a îndeplinit rolul de catedrală a Episcopiei Bucovinei. În anul 1864 a fost sfințită o nouă biserică-catedrală.

În anul 1876 biserica de lemn a fost mutată în cartierul Clocucica de la marginea orașului Cernăuți. La mijlocul anilor '60 ai secolului al XX-lea a fost transferată la Muzeul arhitecturii și traiului popular "Dumbrava lui Șevcenko" din Liov, ca monument reprezentativ al arhitecturii religioase de lemn din Bucovina.

Printre preoții care au slujit la Biserica "Sf.Treime" din Cernăuți a fost pr. Mihai (Miron) Călinescu (1837-1912). Acesta a slujit aici în perioada 1860-1877, devenind apoi profesor la Facultatea de Teologie din Cernăuți (1877-1881), decan al Facultății (1879-1880), consilier mitropolitan (1881-1905), arhimandrit mitrofor (1892) și vicar general al Eparhiei Bucovinei (1905-1912).

Legături externe
 Imagini actuale cu biserica, pe al treilea amplasament, în orașul Liov (Ucraina)

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My family is under debt, lost sole source of income: Jahangirpuri resident Raheema
The residents mostly Muslim are being targeted by Hindutva government demolishing their houses and properties in Jahangirpuri area of New Delhi.
According to Kashmir Media Service, a Muslim family said that they have no other source of income to build their house.
"Please open my door, please stop them, please ask them to at least allow me to take my belongings," said Raheema, owner of a cold drink booth, which was being razed to the ground in front of her eyes as her family was caged inside their house during the demolition drive.
Utter scenes of chaos prevailed in Delhi's Jahangirpuri as bulldozers trampled down the constructed houses and structures, just four days after severe communal (Hindu-Muslim) clashes took place in the area during a procession in connection with the Hindu festival Hanuman Jayanti on April 16.
The inconsolable Raheema told media men that since April 20 morning, she kept asking everyone there – be it the media persons or the police personnel – whether her booth will be demolished or not. "None was able to give an answer. However, someone told me that only the scrap and trash which is lying on the road will be taken away. They assured me nothing will happen to your booth," she said.
The booth was located just 100 metres away from the mosque and the Kushal Cinema hall. The road in front of them became the epicentre of the violent clashes. Raheema's house was just behind the booth. Her family members were seeing the demolition from their balcony.
The media persons contacted Raheema at the same time when her juice-cum-tobbacco booth was being razed down by the Municipal Corporation. At the time of the process, two Indian CRPF personnel, including one woman, were stationed atop her house.
"My family is under debt. We have taken a Bandhan loan of Rs two lakh from the bank. Every month we are supposed to pay a monthly installment of Rs 12,000. From where will I bring the money. The fight was between Hindus and Muslims, what it had to do with my booth, it was neither of them," Raheema said, continuously crying on the phone.
Raheema, who was born in Jahangirpuri area, has a family of four members – her husband and three sons aged 2, 12 and 16 years. She said this cold drink shop was the only source of income for her family. "No warning was given, no notice was served. They could have informed us earlier, at least we could have secured the things – cold drinks and cigarettes inside the booth. See there, everything is lying strewn on the road. Let me pick it up," she added.
Asked whether any member of her family was involved in the April 16 riots or did the police question them after it, Raheema said, "All my kids are very small. We had nothing to do with the clashes. I have been living peacefully here for the past 30 years."
Even as a reporter continued speaking to the crying woman, suddenly the news of the Indian Supreme Court ordering 'status quo' over the demolition drive broke out and the bulldozers were halted to further carry out the demolition.
Raheema was informed about the development, however, the damage was already done and no words could provide solace to her.
Disclaimer: My family is under debt, lost sole source of income: Jahangirpuri resident Raheema - Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do not necessarily reflect Latheefarook.com point-of-view
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